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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
BY JOHN STEUBEN.


JUST as the Kellogg Pact, the Stimson note
and the Hoover Armistice speech, under the
cloak of peace constituted a declaration of
policy of imperialist on the part of the
U. 5. government, so is Hoover's statement
on the Young Communist League declaration
OF war against the Communist movement and
the Young Communist League in particular.
1t was the first time that the president of
the United States issued public statement on
the Young Communist League. Behind the
typical American demagogy and hypocrisy con-
tanned in this statement of Hoover, there is an
expression of deep fear on the part of the ru,
ing class. 1t is no accident that this statement
came about as result of our active partcipa-
ton in the demonstrations on the streets of
New York, San Francisco and Washington for
the defense of the Soviet Union and against
the marine rule of American imperialism in
Haiti and in other colonial and semi-colonial
countries 1t is no accident that this statement
is made at time when the process of radical
ization within the ranks of the working class
youth is developing daily and already the
young workers make up mighty force in the
struggle against capitalist naturalization and
the war danger.
The ruling class is fully aware of the fact
that it is the Young Communist League in this
country that will lead the young workers
against capitalism. Hoover is quite aware of
the role of the youth and knows very well that
the future depends upon the road the working
class youth will choose. We can already state
today that due to the process of naturalization
and the burden of capitalist militarism a
complete turn is taking place in the life of the
toing youth. This turn is towards the class
struggle. Gastonia, Marion, Elizabethton and
the Illinois coal strikes are good examples
of the role in the class struggle of the youth
who make up one of the most militant sections
of the working class.
In order to weaken the developing militancy
and the solid front of the toiling youth, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

state began campaign Of repression against
the Young Communist League throughout the
country. On and since Red Day august 1,
1920, hundreds of League members were ar
rested. In Gastonia, five of the seven textile
workers convicted are young workers, most of
them active members of the Young Communist
League
Only few days ago our Cleveland District
Organizer at the League was convicted on a
criminal syndicalist charge and sentenced from
five to ten years and $4,000 fine.
Our District Organizer in Pittsburgh is now
serving 30-day prison sentence.
Many comrades are now upon trial on the
"sedition" charge.
John Porter is still in prison for his splendid
anti-mitarst activity.
Hundreds of young miners are now being
jailed on the battle field in the Illinois coal
strike.
The resolution introduced by McNutt Com
mander of the American Legion and adopted
at its last convention asking for an investiga-
ton by the United States Senate of the Young
Communist League and Young Pioneers, as
well as the present campaign of the entire
bourgeois press against our movement, shows
very definitely that the ruling class is trying
to drive the Young Communist League under
ground. Hoover's statement is therefore a
camouflage in order to blind and deude the
working class youth, and at the same time
further to increase the drive of terror against
them and the Young Communist League
Hoover considers the Young Communist
League as misguided youth calling themselves
Communists"
What hypocrisy and nonsense!
1t is precisely the Young Communist League
which makes up the advance guard of the toll
ing youth in this country who not only cease
. be misguided" by the Hoovers, but which is
fully aware of the economic and political posi-
ton of the toiling youth and knows how to
struggle against the present horrible conditions
as well as against the entire capitalist system
Hoover gave the signal and the next day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
By /. AMTER.

BY /. AMTER.
THE International Ladies' Garment Workers
Union is i company union led by social
fascists
1t is union that works with the manufac-
turers to Establish conditions in the indus
try" Each party to the agreement is mutual
ly concerned about the welfare of the other
The employers will leal with the Union "pro-
vided it represents the majority of the work
ers" O. and the workers, through their social
fascist leaders will do everything to "help the
manufacturers organize their association"
$50 goes the talk of the soca-fascist COM
pany union)
Not only that-the ILGWU, which is calling
a fake strike" on Dec. 81, says it will take
the workers out with the sanction of the
employers This was stated at the conven-
ton in Cleveland on Dec. 8.
The convention which greeted by Gov
ernor Cooper of Ohio, and Mayor Marshall of
Cleveland and received message from Gov
ernOr Roosevelt of New York, through that
representative of finance, Lieutenant Governor
Lehman, "dwelt at length on the public spir-
tied and friendly attitude of Roosevelt and
Lehman" (This is the organization which,
according to the report of the General Execu-
tive Board, "has emerged strong and militant
again to take it's place once more in
the front ranks of the labor unions of Amer
ica.")
That was not enough Mayor Jimmy Walker
sent his congratulations to the convention as
surfing his interest. This is the Jimmy Walker
whose police crack the heads of the workers
who fight for decent conditions! This is the
Jimmy Walker who represents the most cor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
For New Dues System.
By JACK DONALD

Young Communist League Organizer, Dist. 4.
The new dues system is another of the long
chain of changes which our Party must under
go in the process of the Bolshevization of our
Party, in the process of making our Party
worthy of being section of the Communist
International But as usual when the Party
undertakes to make certain changes in the
methods of carrying on Party work there are
always those who predict that it will fail and
that it is no use to try to even put it in eff
feet.
This is not all, even some of our district
organizers have shown resistance to these
changes, instead of winning over the member
ship for the policy of the C. E. C. Some dis
trict organizers went to the extent of saying
that if the Geo. receives opposition on this
question from about fourteen bureaus, that the
Gee. would after reconsider the dues sys-
tenn This, for example, was done in District
Four at meeting Of the district bureau where
this question was being taken up
After a discussion the district organizer of
District Four succeeded, instead of winning
tn. bureau for support of the GEO. on this
question, succeeded to win the majority of the
bureau members for opposing the Gee. policy
of changing the dues system.
Comrades, the new dues system will more
than do its share towards the sterilization of
the financial situation in the Party. The new
dues system will make it easier for the men,
bersh:p to pay up its dues. 1t will take away
the money collecting system which has long
been hindrance to our work. 1t will relieve
the membership of the great financial burdens
which have long discouraged new members
from coming to Party meetings after being
there for the first time and seeing that all
that's done is money collections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

the capitalist press thruout the country speaks
of our cheap martyrdom" The Hoovers and
Mussolinis cannot stand the firmness, the de-
cisiveness, and the fighting ability of the Young
Communist League throughout the world. They
cannot stand the devotion and loyalty of the
Young Communists who, throughout the world
face the firing squads, the gallows and life
environment with smile on their face, being
fully convinced that their death is for great
cause, for the proletaran revolution.
AT the present time more than 5000 young
Communists are IN prison in Poland; thou
sands of young workers in Bulgaria have been
killed by the fascist government.
In Jugo-Slavia three leading members of the
Young Communist League have been brutally
killed by the police. The streets of Berlin,
Warsaw, Shanghai and Canton have often been
drenched with the blood of the best proletaria1
fighters of the toiling youth.
Hoover can speak about "cheap martyrdom"
but the young workers find out more and more
tn, t it is the Young Communist League that
is capable of leading the young workers in their
struggles
Let Hoover bark, let the capitalist press
rave; will go on and will further intensity
our work. Nothing will stop us from organic
ing the masses of young workers for the de-
tense of the Soviet Union. Even the capitalist
New York Evening Post has to admit that the
young Communists are hard to deal with"
This is quite correct we have proven on Red
Day, we have proven it in the South and we
have proven this, only the other day, when
we were not "cheap martyrs" but on the con-
trary batted with the police for more than an
hour the streets of New York when they
attempted to smash our demonstration.
We will not at all be surprised that the next
statement of the President will be that the
Young Communist League is "endangering the
republic Our answer to Hoover is that we
have only made the very first beginning in the
struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union
and against imperialist wars. We will yet see
who is mised and who will lead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
''Walk-Out Has Employers Sanction"

rupt political machine in the world
Schlesinger- Walker Roosevelt Lehman and
the manufacturers, behind whom stand the
banks of New York.
This is the social-fascist aggregation, which
claims to promote the organization of the
needle trades workers
This is the union which sends telegram
to Hoover demanding that scab manufac-
turer be removed from the committee of seven
ty-two keymen, since his (Mr. Herf-a manu.
facturer) appointment was resented by both
organized labor and the organized manufac-
turers!" One might be inclined to ask how
Schlesinger knows that the manufacturers re-
sent it? But knowing the character and func-
ton of the social fascists today, one is not
surprised at the language Of Schlesinger-Du-
binsky nor at the character of the decisions
made by the Cleveland convention of the l. L.
G. w. u.
The convention, which was meeting of the
officials of the company union decided to tax
the membership $1,000 0O-a fund to help the
workers put strong chains on themselves.
These preparations are being made with the
sanction of the manufacturersv'
William Green was essential to complete the
fascist character of the convention. Fat and
sleek, he stood on the platform and talked
prosperity" about the 'boom in the building
industry" which would be among the "accom-
paniments of the coming new era of prosper
ity!" Hoover is worried about the situation
Green is at the height of his optimism!
Why not? A million dollars stolen from the
workers for fake "strke" Sanctioned by
the employers" is a rich morsel for Schlesin-
ger, Dubinsky and Green The social-fascists
do not serve the manufacturers for nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

When pledging the cooperation of labor not
to seek for wage increases, Green put forth
his hand for "his." What he got, we do not
know, but it surely pays the bosses to give
him his reward The workers, on the other
hand, are mulcted on the excuse of a "strike"
sanctioned by the employers-and 81, 100000
is not to be laughed at.
William Green naturally spilled his venom
on the Communists, and declared that IAN
other deadly influence must be completely
dest- yed, namely Communism in the labor
movement" ("Dead?" The needle workers
will show themD
Green is haunted by Communism, and for
gcod reason. Wherever this social-fascist
turns, he is confronted with Communists who
routing him from unions, bull ling up fight
ing industrial unions and exposing Green
Schlesinger-Dubinsky and the remainder of the
paid tools of the capitalists as being social
fascists and traitors of the working class.
Communism is dead say Green and Hill
cult. Then why worry?
There is goo, reason, for the new struggles
in New York and the rest of the country are
bein led by the Communists The miners.
shoe workers, food workers, textile workers
have Communists in their leadership. IRE
Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has
Communists in the front-and now they are
preparing the workers for d., annie offensive
against the manufacturers-no sanctioned by
the employers!
Are the needle trades workers to be organ
lied to e:Ght? II they are, they must have an
industrial union, fighting leadership, militant
policy. This the needle trades workers Of all
DEPARTMENTS recognize, and the united front
OF the state, the manufacturers, the A. F. Of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19

the socialist party, the Mustetes and Love-
stonetes cannot turn them from their course.
The fake "strike" of the company union, the
scab |. l.. G. w. U. is a sheer buff--and the
officials know it, for it has the Sanction of
the employers" 1t is fake stoppage on the
score of which $100O,OOO as graft is being
raised 1t is a stoppage by which Schlesinger
intends to turn the workers over to the bosses.
The policy of lie Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union must be absolutely and radi-
caly different from the policy of these takers.
1t must be fighting policy to strengthen the
position and to fight for improvements for the
worke-s. The organization drive conducted by
the industrial union must be made more and
more intensive. Shop after shop is being taken
out C strke-both l. L. G. w. u. and nom
union shops-both shops being the same as far
as conditions concerned. Wherever manu-
facturers refuse to put into real practice the
conditions of the industrial union, the shop
must be struck. The Industrial Union is out
to organize the dress and needle industry,
fully conscious what the odds are.
The Industrial Union knows that the fascist
social-fascist aggregation will resort to the
s-->t violent methods with the aid of the lowest
gansterism, to prevent the workers from or
ganzing. The workers, at the proper time,
will answer with the general strike and with
their organization well knit together on the
shop delegate basis, with militant leadership
and policy, they will face this aggregation in a
struggle NOT sanctioned by the employers.
Workers were never organized for an i'm
provement of their conditions with the "sanc-
ton of the employers" To obtain conditions,
the workers must Highland those whom they
must fight are the employers, the state and
all their allies, the social-fascists. Hoover,
Roosevelt Lehman, Walker--the manufacture
ers, the A. F. Of L., the socialist party, the
Musteites and Lovestoneites--a somewhat i'm
posing combination. The same combination
the fighting workers. today have to face on all
hands, Against this the workers pit their
organized strength, built into industrial unions,
their fighting spirit and their fighting lead
ership which must eliminate in a general
strike when the workers so decide.
Is this Communist policy?
1t is-and it is this policy that is winning
the southern workers for Communist leader
snip and the class struggle, and is, spreading
the spectre William Green and the rest fear
so much.
with the sanction of the employers"-te
hell with it. We fight!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
Village Schools and Company
Welfare Work.
By MYRA PAGE.
(Continued)

Village schools are established on the prin-
ciple that mill hands children will also grow
up to be mill hands, AMI the schools job there
fore is to fit them for their future work. In
both content and extent, the school curriculum
is geared to this end.
In the early days of mill development many
companies built grammar school in each vii
lage, hiring the teachers and paying all ex-
penses. At the beginning, little attention had
been paid to the question of education for
mill hands children, but management soon
discovered that a machine operator who could
not read write and do simple problems of
arithmetic was a business handicap. In gen.
eral, arrangements preferred to build and con-
troll these schools, rather than have to deal
with outside interference and school taxation
problems. In most of the southern states, as
in South Carolina, the majority of village
children still go to such company owned
schools. There is one outstanding exception in
this rule, that of the Parker District surround
ing Greenville, S. c., but company influence
still predominates here as WE'LL In North
Carolina only one-fourth of the 119 schools
for village children now owned by mill
companies, but company control is maintained
by the practice of mill officials serving on
school boards and, in few cases, acting as
superintendent. In this way the schools are
doubly secured as an agency of company
propaganda.
The amount of education which mill viii
layers receive is meager. Those above four
teen years of age have had, usually three years
of schooling, while only one-fourth have gone
beyond the fifth grade. Nearly one-fifth of
them are illiterate. This rate of illiteracy is
extremely high, being two to three times the
rates for the southern population as whole.
The younger generation is receiving slightly
more schooling than their elders did, never
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
n. Y. Membership Meeting
Start Drive

The New York District has begun its men,
bership drive with tremendous enthusiasm In
a series of membership meetings called in all
sections the spokesman for the various units,
almost unanimously, urged increase of their
quotas. The amounts assigned to each section
Is as follows:
Section 1-150 new members.
Section 2-150 new members.
Section 3-150 new members.
Section 4-150 new members.
Section 800 new members.
Section 6-75 new members.
Section 80 new members.
Section $50 new members.
Section $50 new members.
New Jersey-100 new members.
Staten Island-10 new members.
yonkers-25 new members.
Poughkeepsie-5 new members.
Beacon-10 new members.
All the leading Communist Party fractions
IN the trade unions have been assigned quotas
of new members to be obtained as follows:
Building trades-50.
Food industry-50.
Launey-25.
Leather and shoe-50.
Marine transported.
Metal industry-20.
Needle industry-150.
The Workers School with its many hundreds
Of non-Party students is fertile recruiting
ground for members for our Party These
students are young proletarans who look to
the Party for leadership and now must be
enlisted in our ranks. The district has as
signed the Workers School minimum of 100
new members.
The district is procuring $4,000 of the $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
European Auto Trusts Fight
u. S. Competition.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 18.--European automobile
makers met in executive session today working
out plans to keep American cars out of the
European market. With the slump in automo-
bile production in the U. s., the European auto
capitalists know that international compet-
ton will be more severe than ever before in
the history of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
PARTY RECRUITING DRIVE

pamphlets being printed by the Party. In adj
dition there are a number of pamphlets cost
ing from ten to twenty-five cents which should
be secured by the section bureaus for use dur
ing the Recruiting Drive. Every comrade dur
ing the drive must be supplied with application
blanks Tin New Jersey, Daily Worker subscrip-
ton blanks), pamphlets, leaflets, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-19
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party U. S. A.
43 East 125th Street,
New York City.
I, the undersigned, want osjoin the Commu-
mist Party. Send me more information.
Address ................... City,.
Mail this to the National Office, Communist
Party, 43 East 125th ST., New York, N. Y.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
IS COPS MOVED
BY HESSE

Major Edwin B. Hesse. chief Of
police. today will give his force
slight shaking up. Thirteen police.
men will be transferred or given
promotions.
Policeman Raymond Carroll. of
the Second precinct. will be pro.
NOTED to precinct detective. he
will take the place of Policeman
Robert Manning who has been as
signed to foot patrol duty in the
Eighth precinct. Carrolls place AS
prohibition enforcement officer in
the Second precinct will be taken
by Policeman James ]. TOlson and
William +. Laflin will become Lro-
hibition enforcement officer in the
Eighth precinct.
Other changes follow: J. A.
Fleischhauer, patrol driver. Second
precinct, transferred to duty as
foot patrolman, Seventh precinct:
}. l.. Preinkert, motorcycle patrol
man. Fourteenth precinct, assigned
to drive patrol Seventh precinct;
F A. Davis, patrol driver. trans.
ferred from the Seventh to the
Second precinct; Raymond E.
Maust, patrol driver. Second pre-
cinct. shifted to foot patrol in
same precinct: w. H. Williams.
patrol driver, Eleventh precinct, to
change places with A. +. Claggett,
foot patrolman. Eleventh precinct:
Fred f. Patnode, foot patrolman
Seventh precinct. to motorcycle
duty, Ninth precinct, and II o.
Tut, motorcycle patrolman. Ninth
precinct. transferred TO the Four:
teenth precinct.
The changes will become ef
fective today, Major Hesse an.
nOunced
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
8 FROM D. c. ON
NEGRO HOUR

Prof Alain Locke OF Howard
University: ]. A. Jackson. of the
Bureau of Domestic Commerce, and
J. Finley Wilson, head ut the coll
Ored FIlks. will be among the dozen
speaE Eers to be heard during Negro
Achievement Hour. 10 20 y. Ianu-
AIRY H. in New York CITY, broadcast
from station WABC
What the race has dome during
the nast year. in medic:ne. educa-
ton fraternalism. Journalism, huSi-
ness. Insurance literature, music.
etc. will be briefly told by the
speakers.
Pecause of the illness of Mr..
WiISGn, in Detroit he may be ren-
resented by Robert J Nelson. di-
rector of the Civil Lfhc"tice League
of the Elks
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
New D. C. Trash Plan
Will Cost S9O2, 900

A new trash disposal system for
the District is proposed in a bill
sent to the Budget Bureau yester.
day by the District Commissioners.
An immediate appropriation Of
1895, 900 to start work on the pro-
ject Is asked in the bill. The total
cost of carrying out the project
will reach 1902 900. The measure
provides fc~ the constructio of two
new incinera tors. One will be
located near the gas plant on the
Anacostia River. and the other at
the foot of Thirty.fourth Street in
Georgetown
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
CITIZENS STAGE
FRACTIONAL :.
DRYF|GHT

A finish fight will be staged by
twL dry factions in the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association when a
resolution recommending drastic
changes in the Volstead act is
brought up at the next meeting of
the organization.
Members of the two factions served
notice on each other at a meeting of
the association last night that they
would be prepared for a battle at the
March meeting.
DissensiOn centers around a reso-
luton introduced last night by
Charles r. Clayton. which proposes
to change the present dry law so as
to permit the issuance of search
warrants for private dwellings be-
lieved to be used for the manu-
facture of liquor, the establishment
of additional flying police squad
rOns. and the swearing in of all
policemen in the city as Federal
enforcement officers.
The resolution was tabled last
night but will he brought up for
discussion in March.
The Washington times., 1929-01-09
Death of N. J. Man. 60.
Here. Believed Accidental

investigators believed today that
the death Yesterday by gas of
George Kelly, 80 of Jersey City.
n. j.. in a rooming house in the
900 block of | St. y. w, was
accidental.
Kelly came here to visit his son,
Henry F. Kelly. stationed at tie
Naval Air Station. He had been in
ill health several months.