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SIIMS0N STAYS IN HIDING WHEN WAR PLOT IS EXPOSED
Bosses Press Turn 0AFL IN Effort to Kill Charlotte Conference
Right Wing Behayers
Watch Struggle OF DAILY

READER who sends in contribution tells the right
wing leaders watch closely the fight that is being waged
by the Daily Worker keep alive They held conversation
the that overheard by reader. They
preparing to raise funds to start daily official of
treachery and betrayal of the working class the moment
suspend
Thus far have been able to defeat their hopes We
will leave the field free to these agents of the employers
if it is at all possible to avoid it.
But must admit that results yesterday not of
nature to continuation of the Daily. Only 500
in when at least $500 must in daily to meet the
present difficulties.
We perfectly frank with readers and supporters
We would consider it crime not to tell the actual facts
Over-optmism the illusion that the Daily pull through
how caused suspension Another such
will be fatal to the paper and will give the enemy the
opportunity they waiting for
We know that many of you have contributed your share
Those of you who have given all should get others
to do likewise Those of you who have not done should
contribute at Aid at this critical time is helpful
than when in better condition.
Act today because tell you plainly that tomorrow may
be too late.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
Soviet FLIERS
take OFF TODAY
Fascists Slander Crew
Lies Nailed
BULLETIN.

MOSCOW, Aug. S.-The big
twO-mOtOred airplane Land of
Soviets" departed early today for
Omsk, en- route to New York by
way of Alaska.
The plane, manned by four Sow
let fliers, left the military flying
field at 2:50 a. m. (7:50 p. m.
Wednesday, est.).
The departure for Omsk, on the
Irish River at the confluence of
the ON River in Akmolinsk prov
ince, was delayed so minutes past
the scheduled starting time due to
last-minute preparations of the
fliers.
As it happened, the four Soviet
aviators got away on their pro-
jected trip of some 12,400 miles
only some four hours earlier than
the German dirigible Graf Yep
peGn was due to depart from
Lakehurst, n. j., on its imperiaIist
flight around the world. The dir
igible will follOw--in a general
way-the scheduled path of the
Land of SOviets" across Siberia
and the Pacific Ocean to America.
The scheduled route for the
flight calls for trip of some r.
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

conduct an inquiry into the dis
pute between China and the
Soviet Union as a basis for
propaganda against the U. S.
S. R. and a preliminary to
armed assault upon that coun-
try.
But Stimson's subordinates at the
state department offices refused alb
solutely to say where he was. They
admitted they were under orders to
conceal his whereabouts.
Admit Secret Note.
The under officers left at the state
department insisted they had moth
ing to say, officially, but unofficial
ly, they admitted that note sug-
gesting joint action in the Man
churian situation was given the am
bassadors of the great powers, in
the presence of the Chang Kai-shek
minister, when they were called to-
gether at the office of the secretary
of state, July 25. They stated, of
course, that the exposure of it
printed in Moscow papers was
"garbled."
At the time of the conference with
Stimson, the press took notice of the
delivery of secret note, calling it
an "aide men1oire -
lsvestia Scores Intervention.
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. T.
In addition to- the exposure of the
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
8 KILLED when
india STRIKERS
BATTLE POLICE
Lancashire Strike May
Spread to Woolen Mills

CALCUTTA, India, Aug. I'm
fierce battle between mass pickets
numbering thousands and the British
police and jute mill company watch
men at Naihati, near Calcutta, eight
we're killed and several score wound
ed.
The strike of 100000 jute mill
workers is growing. The workers
are fighting the so hour week and
reduction of wages.
MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 7.
The strike of the half million
British cotton mill operatives is still
solid, with nearly 1000 mills tied
up, and the reactionary officials of
the Amalgamation of Cotton Spin
ners and Operatives (the union)
baked in their plan to accept five
per cent wage cut instead of the
twelve and a half per cent ordered
by the bosses. The workers stand
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
.HAckME:N CALLED
TO REAL FIGHT
Taxi ChaUffeurs Union
Warns Of Boss Outfit

AS the strike of the taxi drivers
which started in the Bronx Mon
day night spread yesterday, the Taxi
Chauffeurs' Union of Greater New
York issued a call to the men warn
ing them that the aim of their
leaders, working with the small taxi
owners, was to form a company
union At the same time, they urged
the drivers to organize garage COM
mittees for a real struggle against
the small as well as the large fleet
owners.
Taking advantage of the genuine
grievances of the taxi drivers, the
call said, the sponsors of the new
so-called union were attempting to
utilize the fighting temper of the
men for the purpose of preventing
the building up of militant organ
ization.
Tie up 500 Cabs.
The strike which yesterday had
tied up over 500 cabs, particularly
in the Bronx and upper Manhattan,
has affected the Paramount Cab Co.
garage, at 1341 Garrison Ave; the
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
HARLEM HOUSING
CONFERENCE ON
Many Delegates Speak
at Tenant League Meet

Three hundred and forty delegates
representing the Communist Party,
the American Negro Labor Labor
Congress, the United Councils of
Working Class Women and many
other labor and fraternal organiza-
tions last night opened the confer
cpce on rent and housing called by
the Harlem Tenants League at St.
Luke's Hall, 1876 w. 130th st.
The response to the conference
call was such that the enthusiastic
meeting determined to call a mon
ster mass meeting at the same place
at 1880 o'clock tonight.
AT the same time the conference
issued an urgent plea for volunteers
to distribute papers and handbjlls to
broadcast the announcement and
purpose of tonight's mass meeting.
Resentment of thousands of Ne
gro and white working class tenants
of Harlem against boss greed, in
the form Of grinding rents and mis-
cradle treatment in overcrowding
Continued on Page Fiue)
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new NATIONAL
AUTO union TO
Be EFoRMED SOON
Detroit Conference to
Send Delegates to
Cleveland Meet
"Speed-up, Wage Cuts"
Workers Are Resisting
Boss Offensive
"Speed-up, Wage Cuts"
Especial to the Daily Worker.)

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. THE
call for the preliminary conference
for the organization of a National
Auto Workers. Union is being cir
culated by the thousands by the
Auto Workers Union, Local 127,
and the Trade Union Educational
League. This conference, which
win be held Saturday, Aug. "a, at
1 p. m. in the Auto Workers Hall,
1882 Woodward Ave, Detroit. will
elect delegates to the Trade Union
Unity Convention in Cleveland Aug.
81 to Sept. 3.
The Detroit conference is one of
q large number being arranged
throughout the United States. 9th
ers include conferences of metal
miners, marine transport, textile
and workers in various other indus
tries.
Destroys Workers.
Pointing out that a fierce COM
petitive struggle between the giant
automobile corporations for the con-
troll of the auto market brings
about a merciless onslaught on the
conditions of the workers, with
speed-up, wage cuts and labcr-dis-
placing devices, the call declares
that the automobile industry is one
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
THOUSANDS Will
PROTEST ATTACK
Great Mass Meeting at
Ashland Auditorium

CHICAGO, Aug. Thousands
of workers will attend huge mass
meeting of Chicago workers Fri
day which will be held to pro-
test against the police brutality
shown at the anti-war meetings here
last week. The meeting will be
held at Ashland Auditorium, Ash
land and Van Buren,. Many work
ingclass organizations, including
unions and the Chicago Federation
of Working Women's organizations
have called on their members to at
tend the meeting. Speakers will in
clude Jack Johnstone, organizer for
the Trade Union Educational
League, who was arrested in West
Frankfort, ILL.,, on Aug. 1 while
speaking at an anti-war meeting,
and Clarence Hathaway, also of the
7. U. E. L.
The workers in shops and fac
tories are discussing the brutal at
tack against the workers at Union
Park on August 1st demonstration.
This second attac' in the last few
weeks, was arranged by the Chicago
police against the workers. The Chi
cago police are determined to break
up ever street meeting and demon
stration arranged by the Commu-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

away from the left wing union
and towards the A. F. of LIS
United Textile Workers. At
the same time there is an effort
made to obscure all issues raised by
the Bessemer Conference by blam-
ing the republican administration
for bad conditions and "inhuman
and archaic" practices of the mill
owners.
Speeches praising the American
ideals of democracy and christian
ity" of the A. F. of L. and appealing
for class collaboration, made by
Jett Lauck before the Institute of
Public Affairs now in session at the
University Of Virginia, are featured
at great length in the Gastonia
Gazette and the other Southern
: papers.
Oehler pointed out that the mill
owners and the capitalist class gem
orally are turning to the A. F. of
J.. to save them from the militant
left wing unionism which threatens
to organize all the textile workers
in the South in strong movement
to abolish present conditions.
Organizers On Tour.
William Murdock, together with
the local organizers, Stevens, Phifer,
Rich and three others, left today to
tour South Carolina and Georgia.
They will do the pioneer work in
many mill towns, organize locals
and secure delegations to the con-
ference to be held in Charlotte, N.
c., Oct. IL and 13.
They will mobilize the mill work
ers in these states for the general
movement of struggle which will be
launched at the Charlotte confer
ence.
At the same time they are rally
ing the textile workers to the sup
port of the defense of the 23 men,
bers of the National Textile Work
ers' Union, warning the workers that
a change of venue does not mean a
fair trial, but is merely a gesture
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
U.S.S.R. WORKERS
DO MATE WAGES
TO 5-YEAR PLAN
Use Church Holiday
For Industrialization
(Wireless BIZ "Inprecorr")

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. T.
Yesterday was Industrialization
Day, in accordance with the decision
Of the Soviet Union labor unions,
which decided to make this church
holiday into useful demonstration
for the Five Year Plan of Indus
trialization.
Work was carried on in all fac
tories, shops, mines, and transpor-
tation systems throughout the coun-
try, and the workers donated their
days wages to the industrialization
Of the country.
All reports show that the work
was conducted everywhere with the
greatest enthusiasm. Only in very
isolated cases was the labor disci-
pline infringed.
In the evening meetings were held
at which the speakers described the
significance of the Five Year Plan,
pointing out that its purpose is to
make the Workers Socialist Father
land a really industrial country, to
make possible the reduction of hours
of work still farther, and to in
crease wages, as well as the supply
of goods needed by workers and
peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
Young Communist
In term a tiOnaI
A ssails Rig h t

The following cable has been
received from the Young Com
munist international by the
Young Communist League of
the United States, dealing with
the anti -Comintern opposition
in the League and the anti
Party and League statement
presented by Rubenstein, Silvis,
Lurye and Welsh on the c. l.
Address and Lovestone's expul-
sion:
"We consider the intolerable
struggle against Comintern de-
cisions and will aid new meas
ures carrying them out. We
propose NEG put categorically
question to supporters docu-
ment signed Rubenstein, etc,
because support of document
Incompatible with League
membership"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
WILL BUILD NATL
SHOE union SOON
Big Conference Here
Saturday, Sunday

Delegates from shoe factories in
Buffalo, Binghamton, Rochester,
Philadelphia, Boston and other east
ern cities and from many shops in
Greater New York will be present
at the conference Of shoe and leather
workers, to be held this Saturday
and Sunday in Irving Plaza, 18th st.
and Irving Pl. The conference is
being called by the Independent Shoe
Workers. Union of Greater New
York and vicinity, in cooperation
with the Trade Union Educational
League.
Build Industrial Union.
This conference will lay the basis
for the building up of fighting,
industrial union in the United States,
Continued on Page FiUe)
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MOOnlite Cruise Tomorrow to
Swell $4,000 Campaign Fund
Pleasant Duty of Every Revolutionary Worker
To Buy Tickets, Help Save the Daily

joint campaign with the Communist
Party for $4,000 emergency fund.
Of this sum less than $4,000, one
half Of which goes to the Party, has
been collected to date.
Instead of the $1,000 daily set
as the minimum figure required to
save the life of the only English
language labor newspaper, we have
been forced to scrape along on ST.
900 week, or not enough to meet
the ordinary expenses of the paper,
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
RUMANIA MINERS
HOLD ELECTRIC
PLANT ALL NIGHT
Shut Off Lights; Stop
Pumps, Cut Power
To Mine Cages
More Troops Rushed In
1000 Strike Against
Wage Reductions
(WireLess BIZ InprecOrr"l

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 7.
Reports from the Lubeny mining
district show that the movement
there was very militant. Over a.
900 miners struck on Aug. 5 against
the new scale of wages, which in
volve a reduction. They occupied
the electrical station all night, and
held the district without lights. They
stopped all the pumps and the cages
in the shafts by cutting off the
power.
Troops sent from outside the dis
trict occupied it yesterday and by
a series of aggressions provoked the
collisions during which many miners
were killed and wounded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
dies OF
ACCIDENT injury
Famous Right Winger
In Socialist Party

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, August T.
Victor Berger, recently defeated
vixen he ran for Congress on the
socialist ticket, died today as the
result of injuries received in car
accident three weeks ago.
Berger was born in 1860 in Aus
tria, was educated in Vienna and
Budapest, came to America and be-
came a store keeper. After the So
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

Active members of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
will meet tonight in Webster Hall,
11th st. and Third Ave, to map out
plans for the forthcoming organiza-
tion drive among the dressmakers
and also to take steps to meet the
gangster attacks being. launched by
the international" the company
union of the manufacturers, against
workers enrolled in the Industrial
Union.
The latest victim of Schlesinger-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
Active Members of Industrial
Union Hold Meeting Tonight
Assault on Jacobs, Organization Drive of
Dressmakers Will Be Taken Up

Dubinsky gangsterism is Jack ia
cobs, the cutter whose skull was
cracked following an attack upon
him last Friday At Bellevue hos
pital yesterday it was reported that
Jacobs was verse than he had been
the day before, and that it was still
doubtful whether he would live.
Hearing Today.
The two thugs who were arrested
following the attack upon Jacobs
will come up for hearing in Jeffer-
Continued on Page Fipe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
PORTER WRITES
FROM HIS CELL!
Halls Castor Prisoners
From LeavenWOrth

The brutalities he has suffered
in LeavenwOrth Prison, Kansas, :
have not been able to dim the
fighting spirit of John Porter, the
young soldier who fought in the
vanguard of the New Bedford tex
tile strike last year. The follow
ing is letter from him: I
Dear Comrades:
My long silence was due to the
fact that l have been carefully
watched and, therefore, was unable
to write. By no means does this
long silence constitute the right for
you all to think that this was due
to lack of militancy, for it was not.
Will Never Desert Workers.
Dear comrades, forever l shall
maintain class solidarity. l would
rather face firing squad than to
give up my fight for the emancipa-
tion of the toiling masses. The first
attempt of the authorities here to
compel me to yield was to club me
but realizing this brutality was con-
tested by the working class and due
to the demonstrations held in Wash
ington, D. c., they decided that il
would be advisable for them to dis
continue brutal efforts to force me
to become capitalistic patriot.
Brutality in Jail.
Their second attempt was to
frame charges against me and inju.
diciously take away 10 days Of my
good conduct time. Seeing that this
less brutal attempt failed, on Feb.
21 they framed more charges and
Continued on Page -Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
zEP FLIGHT is
BLOW AT BRITAIN

Preparations for the dirigible
Graf Zeppelin's round the world ad-
vertising flight include active par
ticipation of the U. S. navy, it was
made known yesterday, just before
the ship was to take off from Lake
hurst for Friedrichshafen. The ship
will be moored in Los Angeles at
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
MEXICAN SENATE
HITS At LABOR
Pass GiPs Amendment
To Centralize Power

MEXICO CITY, Aug. THE ma
tional senate yesterday passed the
vicious Capitalization bill for the
Portes Gil government, giving it the
right to form a labor code that
would supersede and nullify the
state laws, many of which are
rather liberal.
The Mexican constitution at pres
Continued on Page FiVe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
CRAvEDICCERS TO
PICKET CHURCHES

Picket committees were selected
at meeting of Calvary cemetery
strikers held yesterday afternoon in
McGarry's hall, Queens.
Four will picket in front of St.
Patrick'sS cathedral, Fifth Ave. and
50th St., and four others at the
Calvary executive offices, Park Ave.
and Sind st. The cemetery is un-
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
One day to go!

While in the publicity given to
the Daily Workers moonlite cruise
and costume ball we have played up
the hilarious time which will be had
by the workers who board the
steamer Peter Stuyvesant at the foot
Of West 42nd st. tomorrow night,
there is serious side to the affair
that should not be overlooked.
1t is almost two months since the
Daily, suddenly brought up against
a financial cris :, began waging a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

District the
International Relief and the National Textile
The three women who originally charged with
murder have been released against
them having been changed second coming
north for tour various cities in behalf the
pMgn q the L p Other cities in which they will speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

William T. Foster, secretary of the Trade Union Educational
League, who has just returned from will be
speakers who will greet Vera Bush Melvin
the three defendants in the big
being for them
Monday night The welcome will be held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

Washington Friday Aug 9; Philadelphia Saturday 10
Bedford Sunday Aug H. Lawrence Tuesday
son. j. and Providence R. Wednesday, Aug IA Pasa j.
and Allentown, Pa, Thursday Aug. Is.
Other speakers the big demonstration New in addition
to Foster and the three defendants will j.
secretary Of the l. d Jslss Reid president ef the National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
CATHOLIC DUTCH GOVT.

AMTERDAM, (By Mail) The
Catholic leader Ruys has formed
government based upon a coalition
of the confessional bourgeois parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
WON'T Be QUESTIONED ON
SECRET NOTE TO POWERS
TO INTERVENE IN U.S.S.R.
Proposal Was to Seize Chinese Eastern, and
Then "Investigate' as Excuse for War
Underlings Admit Secret Note Handed to Five
Ambassadors: Isvestia Scores Scheme

WASHINGTON, Aug 7-Secretary of State Stimson
tnued remain in hiding today Newspaper correspondents
wished question him about the note he sent to England Ger
France Italy and Japan suggesting joint action to in
tevene Manchura place direct representative of foreign
impriasm in control of the Chinese Eastern Railroad and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COSTUME
READY FOR THE M0ONLITE
CRUISE?

Textile Workers Unon Louis Hyman president of the Needle Workers
Industrial Union; Ludwig Landy national organizer the Workers
international Relief Charles Alexander Negro director of the Young
Communist League; and member of the Young Pioneers.
The meeting will also protest the Imprisonment Harry
Eisman 14yearod Pioneer remaoy because he pscpated
in demonstration against the Boy lcous, kRX - ~ ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08
SCORES OF MASS and union
LOCAL MEETINGS PREPARING
FOR CHARLOTTE conference
Conference Inaugurates Great Drive to Fight
Slave-like Conditions, Raise Wages
Hundred Thousand Leaflets and Ten Thousand
Stickers Distributed Broadcast
Special To The DAILY WORKER.)

GASTONIA, N. c., Aug. 7.-Organizer Hugo Oehler
pointed today conference of the local Youth Section
of the National Textile Workers Union that concerted eff
being made in the Southern press divert the union
and rising activity among the textile workers
to put an slaveke conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-08

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For Workers. Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Against ImteriatiSt War
For the 40-H0ur Week
The Washington times., 1929-11-11
BLACK CROWS
IN FINAL
WEEK

Charlie Mack and George
Moran continue their cinema
invasion Of Washington this
week by packing in the crowds
at Loew's Columbia with why
Bring That Up?"
1.-THE Two Black Crows" it
would appear from the Para
mount vehicle, long have been
1nseparable companions. That
is, according to the story, with
the exception Of one instance
when q beautiful woman inter-
Vened to increase the CON-
plexities of life for George.
Then there are complications,
all highly humorous.
Evelyn Brent plays the
woman, while Harry Green,
turns in a fine bit of work as
manager Of the 1.-TWO Black
Crows" Bert Swor, Eddie
Kane and Charles Hall also
are seen in the supporting
cast.
The Columbia's added trim
mings include a Gus Edwards
technicolor picture, "Mexi-
cana" produced by Metrotone;
Frances White, In three popu-
lar song numbers and the
Hearst Metrotone news.