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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
IL. D, FIGHTS
SEDITI0N LAW
Phila. Dist. Conference
Plans Attack

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 26.
"A struggle to be waged nationally
against the sedition laws operating
in 35 states which are being used
in attacks on militant workers and
against the proposed federal sedi-
tion laws was launched during the
first district conference of the In
ternational Labor Defense held in
the East at Philadelphia Sunday.
The fight which must penetrate
into the factories and labor organ
izations in every section Of the land
to ward off the peril confronting ali
militant workers, was started at the
Philadelphia district when 73 dele
gates from shops, trade unions,
fraternal organizations, from the
Hungarian conference, from the
Communist Party and Young Com
munist League, met at the Grand
Fraternity Hall.
The sedition laws will be fought
b. the LID. on a national scale
as part of the Gastonia appeal and
the struggle to save Accorsi from
the electric chair. The Philadelphia
district conference dealt principally
with the Flynn sedition law of
Pennsylvania, known as the most
atrocious of all state acts. 1t has
already sentenced to prison three
woodlawn workers for five years
and threatens Bill Lawrence, a
Philadelphia worker, as well as Bill
Murdoch, Bill Brown and Anna Bur-
lax in the Bethlehem case. The
LID. was able to defeat the charges
brought against Dave and Fannie
German at Wilkes Barre last week
1t was pointed out by j. Louis
Engdahl, national secretary of the
International Labor Defense who at.
tended the conference that the wal
on the sedition laws must be nation
wide, and he told of the 10-year sen.
tences confronting the Martins
Ferry, O., workers, the five womer
workers of Los Angeles sentenced
to as high as ten years, the % work.
ers threatened at Chicago with sim
liar law through their legislation al
North Carolina during the coming
Continued ON Page Tt0cJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
RAID SAN PEDRO
SEAMEN; BOSSES
FEAR MILITANCy
Trial of Seattle 81
Workers for Anti
War Meeting
Seamen Defy Terror
"Red Squad" Ransacks
M. w. L. Quarters

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 26.-
Workers of Seattle, deeply interest
ed in the proceedings, packed the
court room in which 81 members of
the Communist Party and other
militant workers are being tried, for
having taken part in an anti-im-
perialist war demonstration on Arm
istice Day, Nov. II.
In order to keep threats of Jail
terms hanging over the heads of
the 81 workers a little longer, the
judge held his decision until Dec. 2.
The 81 were arrested when police,
with great brutality, broke up a
demonstration of hundreds of work
ere on Armistice Day. The arrest
ed were Stein, Perl, Levitt, and
Laurie, chairman of the nti-Im-
perialist League.
Half of the defendants are men,
bers of the Young Communist
League, and many sympathizers
with the Communist Party are
among them.
SAN PEDRO, Calf, Nov. 90
Continuing the reign of terror
against all militant sections of the
labor movement in California, the
notorious anti-labor "Red Squad"
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
Cal. Worker Foxgoes Needed
Suit to Rush DQilies South
81 Want Other Workers To Be Inspired by
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
265 MORE SHOE
WORKERS STRIKE
6 Injunctions in Court
Today; so Cases Soon

The entire crew in the La Vale
Shoe Co. shop here struck in body
when the company refused their de-
mands to stop the firing of workers
doing week work and that the COM
pany stop insisting that they go on
piece work. The workers demand
ed reinstatement of all discharged.
This adds 265 union members more
to the over 1000 already either on
strike or locked out. The Independ-
ent Shoe Workers Union of Greater
New York is leading the struggle
of these workers against the en-
ployers' policy of union smashing,
breach Of contract, piece work, dis
elimination and worse conditions.
Active picketing is under way, in
spite of a continual series of in
functions obtained from the bosses
courts.
Today applications of six shoe
companies that temporary injunc-
tions be made permanent will be
argued in Part ! of the Superior
Court before Judge Dunn. The COM
panies are Septum, Bressler, Colo
NAL, Elbee, Refined and Diana. The
union attorney is Jacques Buiten-
kant.
Two more applications for injunc-
tions will be in court next week, ap-
piled for by the Schwartz & Benja-
min Shoe Co. and the Tados Shoe
Co.
so in Court Next Week.
Next week, also, 80 cases of pick
cts arrested for violation of injunc-
tions against picketing will be tried.
The enlarged executive of the
union is considering ways and means
for the proper carrying on of the
struggle. A large mass meeting of
organized and unorganized shoe
workers is scheduled for the near
| future.
The union urges that all en-
/ ployed workers send in contributions
to the strike fund, directly to the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
16 West 21st ST., New York.
Joseph Fontana, militant shoe
worker picket, appeared before Mon
days meeting of the union council
and was given a great reception
Fontana has just finished seven
months sentence for his activities in
strike. Ut was enormously stated
in yesterdays issue of the Daily
Worker that Fontana had just beer
sentenced to seven months for this
strike.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
700 MINERS IN
TAMAQUA VOTE
AGAINST LEWIS
Hundred Join National
Miners Union at Big
Anthracite Meet
Button Day Stunt Fails
r e fuse Assessments,
Dues to Misleaders

TAMAQUA, Pa, Nov. 26.-Seven
hundred miners attended the second
mass meeting called here by the Ma
tional Miners Union and the Trade
Union Unity League. Over a hun
dred more miners signed up IS men,
bers of the N.M.U. at this meeting.
Before the meeting began, Kelly,
UNIV. sub-district president, and
Boner, another United Mine Work
ers faker, and a few more, stationed
themselves in front of the hall and
tried to keep the miners out of the
meeting. The miners thought that
the U.M.W.A. misleaders would try
to break up the meeting and inn
mediately formed squad to defend
and protect it against attack.
All Voted Against Lewis.
A vote was taken at the mass
meeting. All the miners present
voted against getting UNIV. but
tons on "button day." 1t was a
unanimous vote against the Lewis
leadership. 1t was huge vote-in
favor of the N.M.U.
Henderson spoke for the N.M.U.
Zaldokas spoke for it in Lithuanian.
P. Frank spoke for the T.U.U.L.
Miscavage, a local miner, acted as
chairman. A series of mass meet
ings have been arranged thru the
Panther Greek Valley for the N.
M.U. and T.U.U.L.
Button Day." so-called, was yes
terday. The U.M.W.A. officials are
trying to gouge the miners by fore
ing them to take out and wear UNI.
WA. buttons. The U.M.W.A. is
trying to force the miners in the
Panther Creek Valley to rejoin the
corrupt old union, but they are so
thoroughly disgusted with the lead
ership of the Lewis and Heartneady
machines that they refuse to pay
either dues or assessments to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
FARM CRISIS is
INTENSIFIED BY
INDUSTRY SLUMP
Interests Of the Poor
Are Attacked
BY ALFRED KNUTSON.

Alexander Legge, chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, the 100000 a
year darling of the International
Harvester Company, is the one
chosen by Hoover and Wall Street
to "solve" the agricultural crisis for
capitalism. 1t is said by farm lead
ers" like Huff, Reno and Thatcher,
etc, that he is the best man for the
job. He is good for the capitalists,
it is true, but complete fake as
far as the poor farmers and agri-
cultural workers are concerned.
Legge senses the problem, the
great crisis now facing finance
capital in agriculture. Speaking
before a conference of big business
chiefs in Chicago, recently, he
Continued on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
Textile Workers Honor
Old Unionists; Cheer
for Beal and Nicholson

Over 100 textile workers in New
York gathered at Unity House to
pledge their support to the National
Textile Workers Union and to greet
Clarina Nicholson, the new district
organized of the union for New
York.
One of the special features of the
occasion was the presenting of a
banner to the National Textile
Workers Union, New York district,
by John Apt, textile worker who
has been active in the labor move
ment for 40 years. He stated he
took out his first union book in
1889 and had belonged to 13 differ
ent textile organizations. "But in
this past year," said Fellow Worker
Apt, "when | have been in the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, my
revolutionary spirit has made me
20 years younger. | pledge my full
support to this union" Many work
GiS WIN WCIC dCClNG III IOi hiSA
strike struggles and union work
were present and pledged their help
in building the union in the future
and taking an active part in the
present organization drive.
Fred Beal, Southern strike leader,
and Jim Reid, national president of
the union, greeted the new York tex
tile workers. Songs were led by
Pauline Rogers. After short talks
by silk, knit goods and other textile
workers, the whole gathering formed
a picket line, led by Beal and Mich
elson, and marched around the hall,
singing Solidarity" the workers
song for One Big Textile Union.
The rest Of the evening was spent in
dancing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
Building Service Meet
to Form New Union Is
Postponed Till Dec. 9Th

Active plans are now being made
for the conference of both organ
lied and unorganized building serv-
ice workers that will form a new
industrial union in the building
service industry. This conference
was originally scheduled to be held
Friday night, but in order that the
preparatory work may be thorough
ly done, it has been postponed a
week till Friday. Dec. 6. The place
and time will be announced later.
The conference will witness the
merging of two militant unions, the
Window Cleaners Protective Union,
Local 3, and the Amalgamated
Building Service Workers Industrial
Union. Delegates representing
workers from the reactionary Amer
ican Federation Of Labor locals, as
well as from unorganized buildings
and apartment houses, will also at
tend the conference and lay the
basis for building a strong indus
trial union embracing window clean
ers, porters, floor scrubbers, fire.
men, engineers, ianitors and other
building maintenance workers.
While going forward with plans
for the Dec. 6 conference, the win
dow cleaners union is continuing it's
strike despite the Grass betrayal of
the right wing A. F. of l.. clique
that is now openly operating as a
company union. Discomfort among
the window cleaners is widespread,
and large numbers of them are
looking toward the new industrial
union for leadership in their strug-
giles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
NANKINC ASKS
MPERIAL!STS
TO FIGHT USSR
After Provocation on
Frontier, S ee k to
Start World War
Red Army Halts Drive
Stops 50 Miles Over
Manchurian Line

Reports from Harbin late Tues
day explode the story of alarm at
the. alleged invasion" of the Red
Army into Manchuria, Harbi
sources acknowledging that the Red
Army troops stopped only thirty
eight miles over the frontier, in pur-
suing the Chinese forces that had.
melted by imperialism, continually
been raiding across the border into
peaceful Soviet villages, killing
Soviet citizens and forcing them to
abandon their homes. After vici-
Gus raid of this kind on Nov. II, the
Red Army Of the Far East was or
dered to make a general counter-at-
tack to punish and disarm the raid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
HOFFMAN SAYS
DIDN'T PICKET
BULLETIN,

MARION, N. c., Nov. 26.--A
16-year-old girl striker, Mouser
English, testified today in the case
of Hoffman and three strikers ac-
cused of rioting, that she was
severely injured by Constable B.
l.. Robbins at the August 80
picketing of scab's house. Hoff-
man himself stated that he Of
fered the union platform to Sher-
iff Adkins to say whatever he
wanted to the strikers.
MARION, N. c., Nov. 26.-Alfrec
Hoffman, United Textile Worker
Union organizer testified for him
self on the stand today. He is ol
trial with three strikers, the charge
against them being that they par
ticir ated in restraining Sheriff Ad
kins and his deputies from placini
taok into company house strike
breakers furniture that had bee,
thrown out by the strikers.
Hoffman promptly separated him
self from the rset of the defendants
He swore that he was not with ther
whcr the incident happened, and ha
always told the strikers to be SUI
seTvient to the mill owners law i
North Carolina.
Yesterday, Lawrence Hogan, al
other of those on trial testified a
to just how far Hoffman went in hi
trike-breaking tactics. Hogan tol
of Hoffman's saying at strik
meeting: "For Gods sake quit cal
rying sticks and start carrying bill
les and hymn books"
This advice caused the death @
six pickets before the Marion Mani
featuring company's gates littl
later, when they stood there dc
fenseless and Sheriff Adkins and hi
deputies massacred them with vo
leys from their guns.
Hogan testified that when he wa
trying to help one girl striker wit
blood running down in streams fror
a wound inflicted by one of Adkins
deputies, he was stopped by tn
troops, and that then he "lost hi
head"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
|LCW TRIES TO
FOOL NEGROES
Jim Grow YMCA and
Bosses for Fake Union

The I. L. G. W. chiefs, always on
the outlook to utter fine phrases, but
never doing anything actually for
the workers, h,ve discovered" that
there are 1000 Negro needle trades
workers in New York, most of them
women drawing about SIS week
and putting in Sc hours for it.
The misleaders took advantage of
this by calling conf ice which
met Monday and included I.L.G.W.
officials, representatives of bour-
geois women's clubs, members of the
Urban League, of the Y.MC.A., and
of the craven bureaucracy in the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
> conference decided to make
itself a permanent committee for the
organization Of Negroes"-into the
company unionized I.L.G.W., and in
sured the bosses interests complete
ly by making Josephine P. Holmes,
secretary of the Jim Grow Negro
Y. NJ c. A., the secretary of the
committee.
Would Handcuff Negroes.
The I.L.G.W. officialdom has
never lifted a hand to aid the Negro
workers, but now on the eve of its
own fake stoppage, and of the mill
tant organization and strike cam
paign of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Unic makes a des-
perate effort to hoodwink these
workers and keep them from lining
up in their own union, the N. T. w.
| /. U.
The N~~dle Trades Workers IN
dustrial Union, with its policy of
real struggle, instead of the right
wing unions program of cooperation
with the bosses and assisting the
exploiters by company union, is
the hope of the exploited Negro
workers of New York. The N. T.
W. I. U. has no Jim Grow provisions,
and does not use the religious dope
of the Y.M.C.A. or the policy of
cringing and begging for favors that
the Negro business men advocate,
and that white business men and
their I.L.G.W. union officials de-
mand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
AUSTRIAN CONFLICT GROWS
(Wueless By Inprecorr)

Nv WHetVSS by INpFec0TTJ
VIENNA, Nov. 27.-Today's issue
of the Communist paper "Rote
Fahne" has been confiscated for
"high treason" This is the 18th
confiscation since the accession to
power of Schober in the fascist gov
ernment. This also makes the
seventh time arrest warrants have
been issued against the editor in the
same period. The last number of
the young Proletarian" has also
been confiscated and the editor ar
rested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
ANOTHER VICTIM
OF H0RTHy DIES
Fritz Ruck, Prisoner,
Hunger Striker, Dead
wireless By Inprecorr)

(WirelesS By Inprecor)
VIENNA, Nov 26.-Reports from
Budapest state that one more poll
tical prisoner, Fritz Ruck, has died
in the prison hospital as result
of ill-treatment and punishment in
flicted by prison authorities on him
during the last hunger strike of the
political prisoners.
The Hungarian fascist minister
of "justice" promised to cancel or
ders for punishment against the
politicians, if they abandoned the
hunger strike, but the promise is
still not kept. A further hunger
strike is possible because of the bit
terness among the prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
TOMBSTONE IN CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Nov. 26.-In connec-
tion with the drive of the Trade
Union League in this district, Jack
Johnstone, national organizer of the
TUUL will be in Chicago district on
December 3, 4 and for organiza-
tional work. The TUUL has now
established permanent headquarters
at 23 South r'~coln st. telephone
Seeley 3562).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
BIG TRUSTS GET HELP; SMALL
FELLOWS JAIL.

Sixty-six poultry dealers, bunch
of small fry violaters of the Sher-
man Antitrust law, are coming up
for sentence before Judge Knox Of
the Federal court, Thursday. Mean
while, Hoover, Lamont and Co. push
the mergers of the big fellows, while
the penny monopolists get the bars.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
GUST FAKE "LEFTISTS"

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 26.--The
Communist Party of Holland has
expelled the Trotskists, Manoury
and Carelsen, for factional disrup-
ton activity in the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
UNDER BENIGN LABOR Gov
ERNMENT.

TILMANSTONE, England, (By
Mail) .--One-third of the miners
wages here go for rent for the coal
company shacks. After the check
off, $5.25 is the sum one miner had
left to keep his family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
REWARD BRITISH IMPERIALIsT

LONDON, (By MaiD D.-Lord Car
son, devout imperialist and one-time
leader of the Ulster Volunteers or
ganized to make Ireland safe for
the British Empire, has been grant
ed life annuity Of $18,750.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
Bukharin, Rykov
and TOmsky Admit
They We're Wrong
(Wireless By l1precorr)

(WtFeIesS By INpFec0fFJ
MOSCOW, Nov. 26.-Buch-
arin, Rykov and Tomsky have
signed declaration admitting
their errors and accepting the
policy of the Communist Party
completely, promising to fight
with the party against all de-
viations from the line of the
Central Committee, particularly
against the Right wing and con-
ciliatory dangers in the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
FIGHT SOCIALIST" TERROR.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Nov. 26.--
Milwaukee working class women are
continuing the fight for the rein
statement of Joel Schneider, Young
Pioneer suspended and transferred
from his school for his activity as
Pioneer. The persecution of MEM
bers Of the Young Pioneers comes
at the hands of Socialist" school
board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
"12TH" YEAR IN ANTHRACITE.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Nov. 90
Workers of the Anthracite, center
Of the growing struggle of the silk
workers against slavery, and of the
bosses terror against militant work
ers, celebrated the Twelfth Anniver-
sary of the October Revolution at
two big mass meetings, one in
Wilkes Barre, and the other at
Scranton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27

Build Up the United Front OF
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up--at the Enterprises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27

Build Up the United Front Of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up--at the Enterprisesl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27

ernlnenJ is reported as SUNG Tor
peace.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 26.-The Nam
king government" has sent an ap-
peal in identic language to both the
League of Nations and the sigma
tories of the Kellogg Pact asking
these imperialist nations to inter
yene to take appropriate steps to
stop and punish" the Soviet Union
for making an end to the continual
attacks on the Soviet frontier by
Chinese troops by pursuing the in
vaders into Manchuria.
Although the Nanking govern
ment has acknowledged the respon-
sibility for violation of the treaty
of 1924 by its seizure of the Chinese
Eastern Railway last July-which
it followed by up continual invasions
of the Soviet frontier with both
Chinese guard Russian
counter it hypocriti-
cally S, Il that it has
always rem. nA the defensive"
The reported 'ut unconfirmed
unity 4" riven in Chinese
dispatch de 'oes not seem
to have a1fcc. ID oting in the
southern part of China. since Tues
day dispatches speak If lombard
ments of Wushow near the Kwangsi
border by Marking airplanes. While
Hankow reports that Marking gen
erals have returned there from the
fronts in Hupeh and Honan. was
said to indicate that fighting chad
ceased" whether there is an agree
ment patched up between Marking,
based on liberal use of money" as
stated in a Shanghai message, or
whether one side or the other (of the
Kuominchun or Marking armies)
has been defeated, is still uncertain.
The Marking authorities do not re-
veal any de- tails.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up--at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-27
(TireLcss BIZ hnprecorrl

MOSCOW, Nov. 26. - Reports
from the east state that the counter
offensive of the Red Army troops
pursuing invaders of Soviet soil back
across the border into Manchuria
is everywhere successful, Further
thousands of Chinese have surren-
dered and great quantities of war
material taken. The Chinese troops
not surrendering are fleeing in
great disorder. The Mukden gov
ernment is reported as suing for
peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-24

Let the snow man stand in a
prominent place. "a dress form
makes a good foundation for the
snow man, and may be covered with
cotton batting sprinkled with
"snowfakes.") The snow man holds
in his battered hat the programs or
TALES for dance, cards or games.
The table may be made festive
with a snow scene as a centerpiece,
using the usual cotton batting for
snow. Make an Eskimo igloo or hut
from some heavy paper, covering 1t
with the cotton. Pose little doll
dressed like an Eskimo outside the
igloo, with sled on which are the
figures 1880.
A small green pennant from the
top of the igloo wishes every one,
"a Happy New Year" At each place
is a cotton SNOWFALL with the place
card attached, while the favors are