davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
BATTLE EXPECTED
SOON; THUGS TO
RAID WIR STORES
Horrible Conditions in
Illinois Pits R ally
Many to Real Union
Young Workers Meet
Arrange Lenin Meets
in Mine Towns
BULLETIN.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-THE
district conference here today of
the Trade Union Unity League
gave a great ovation to Freeman
Thompson, leader in the Taylor
vile section, where the strike
registers greatest success, of the
Illinois mine strike. The striking
miners sent IL delegates; II came
from the steel and metal indus
tries. There were nine Negro dele
gates, and IS delegates altogeth.
err, representing 45 organizations.
The feature of the conference
was its fighting spirit, especially
that Of the miners.
There was drastic self criticism,
of mistakes and weaknesses. The
reports of National Assistant
Secretary-Treasurer Schmies, and
of Nels kjar of the building
trades section, were unanimously
adopted. The convention sent
fraternal greetings to Henry Cor.
bishley in prison and to the I'm.
perial Valley agricultural strikers.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 49,
The coal mine territory to the soutf
of here is alive with a leftwart
swing of the miners, brutally ex-
plotted by employers and the United
Mine Workers of America. The
fight in the courts at Springfield
between the factions led by Inter.
national President Lewis and Harry
Fishwick, president of the UNIV.
Illinois administration, has exposed
further the graft, corruption of the
ballot, and sell-out by both these
agents of the coal operators.
Threats of the UNIV. and COM
pany gangsters to raid and burn
the two International Workers Re
lief stations distributing food that
comes under Workers Guard by
truck from Chicago, have not yet
materialized in action, but such &C
ton can be expected any time. At
tacks on the stations will meet with
resistance from the Defense Corps
An enthusiastic meeting of strik-
ing miners greeted the opening of
the Taylorville relief station of the
Workers International Relief. Min
ers throughout this section brought
their children through the snow on
sleds to the meeting. Many of the
children had no shoes. Despite the
threats of the sheriff to paddock the
store, food and clothing will be
distributed every day. Funds for
relief should be sent to the W.I.R.
national office, 999 Broadway, New
York.
Lenin memorial meetings are
being arranged throughout the min
ing area, including a meeting of
the farmers in Saline County. Five
Communist Party mine nuclei have
been organized.
These meetings, held under the
auspices of the Communist Party,
mark high point in the present
EContinted from Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

was arrested and flung into jail at
the instance of Mussolini's agents.
So flimsy is the evidence against
Berneri that the Belgium police are
dropping the charges against him
ard are attempting to hush up the
matter.
The Belgium anti-fascist organi-
cation declares it has documentary
proof of the frame-up perpetrated
by the fascists on the occasion OF
the visit of the Italian Crown
Prince Humbert previous to his tie
up with her royal nibs, Princess
Marie Jose.
The Independence Beige, petty
1our~eois newspaper, publishes the
ID .tails Of the fascist irame-up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

after the first of the year, the basic
industries of U. S. Imperialism sink
deeper into the mud of critics.
The steel industry, where the pol
icy of wage slashes and speed-ups
has already been inaugurated,
founders in nigh sea Of capital
list depression.
In the Annalist Jan. 10, 1930,)
a good picture is given Of the ex-
tremely diseased state of this most
basic industry:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
ALL BASIC INDUSTRIES SINK DEEPER IN CRISIS
Steel Production and Building Expose Employment in ~

All along the line capitalism is
showing its inability even to put a
weak brake on the continuing severe
decline in production in every in
dustry in the United States.
Latest information from capital
list sources show that in spite of
Hoover's council Of leading imperial
lists, the promised program of in
tensified building, especially of pub
lie works, end the various sickening
,slop about immediate prosperity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Bloody Machado Deboyts 3
Chinese Workers to Death
at Hands OF Chang Kal Shek
u. S. Federation Authorities Cooperate with
Butcher Machado in Deportation Scheme
Labor Defense Fights Death Sentence on
Chinese Revolutionists; Hold Mella Meeting

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 12.-Three
Chinese workers who have been held
for months in the Infamous prison
boat Maxim Gomez" at the order
of Wall Street controlled President
Machado, have been deported to
China.
Immediately upon their arrival at
New Orleans on the ship Heredia,
United States federal authorities,
cooperating with the bloody Ma
chado regime, put the three Chinese
workers on board a Southern Pa
cific train bound for San Francisco,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

Most striking among these
records (of the crisis), undoubt-
edly, was the marked decline in
the December rate of steel ingOt
Production. As reported in the
Iron Age this week the daily rate
was 1881 tons This is a de-
crease frem the November rate of
nearly 10000 tons and was the
lowest sinsc October, 1924. The
estimated sate of operations for
December ii reported ash 50 per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
ASK STILL MORE
WAR CRUISERS
Powers Raise Demands
For ArmamentS

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Lord of the
admiralty, A. V. Alexander, in a
speech here Friday, declared that
British imperialism would insist on
a bodybuilding program bringing
the cuisers up to so.
While this is a tremendous in
crease over the temporary "agree-
ment" between Hoover and Mac
Donald, various British imperialists
are demanding even still greater
war preparations. Vice admiral j..
E. T. Harper declared: SIS it right
for an empire, such as ours, to rely
on any paper agreement without
maintaining a sufficient force to
maintain the agreement? Our
strength in cruisers should be gov
erned by our needs, not our de-
sires."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The
sudden demand for further naval in
creases on behalf of the British is
embarrassing the Hoover admins
tration, which is trying frantically
to cover the war maneuvers under
pacifist phrases. U. S. imperialism
is demanding an increase of 81 49,
000-ton cruisers. 1t is already ac-
tually building Is. The British who
already have a larger number than
the United States were going to
disarm by building Is more.
The whole matter of increased ma
val ornaments is now thrown open
with no limits set. A ferocious
struggle will go on for rapid in
crease of cruisers to war strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

cent of capacity and the Iron Age
records the expectation, on pres
ent indications, that January pro-
duction may approach S. per cent
of capacity. from the present start
of SO per cent. The rate of opera
tions in January, 1928, was slight
ly more than So per cent. This
sharp fall in the rate of ingot
production will have considerable
effect in the direction of carrying
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
BELGIAN plot
A FASCIST FAKE

Dispatches f.om Brussels reveal
that fascist provacateurs were re-
sponsible for the wholesale arrests
on framed-up charges of anti
fascist workers living in this city
on the flimsy charge of a "plot
against the lives of the Belgium
royal family
Berneri, a prominent anti-fascist,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

there to await deportation to death
at the hands of Chang Kai-Shek.
The three Chinese workers are Kee
Chang, Fang Tsu and Kuan Kuan.
They were held in the Infamous ma
val prison, Maxim Gomez" for
months and were tortured by the
Machado agents. Only the sharpest
protest of the American masses will
prevent the murder by Chang Kai
Shek of these men. An attempt to
have them sent to Colombia from
Cuba failed.
The International Labor Defense
will fight deportation in San Fran
cisco. The deportation of these
workers is in line with the reign of
Wall Street in Mexico today, where
scores of workers have been tor
tured, many murdered, others de-
ported and some sent to out-of-the-
way prisons to mould the rest of
their lives away.
Efforts are being made by the
International organization of the
Labor Defense to have the deported
Chinese revolutionists sent to the
U.S.S.R.
Hold MelIa Mass Meeting.
Friday night mass meeting at.
tended by over 200 workers was
held to commemorate the first ami
versary of the death of Julio Mella,
murdered in Mexico at the behest
of Machado, president of Cuba
Resolutions were passed to organize
resistance TO the present fascist
terror of the Rubio- Gales Hoover
Mexican government.
The speakers were Engdahl, Alex
ander, Ii, Sanchez, Ruiz and Pas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

At Jacmel and Archaic the reg
istration lists were stolen by the
official candidates in order to fore
stall the election entirely.
The spirit of the masses in these
municipal elections shows the revo-
lutionary fervor which animates
them. All the polls were filled with
armed members of the Rationale
Garde and marine to see to it that
the votes were cast properly.
While dispatches from Haiti do
not state what officials were voted
for it is very clear that the cleo
lions were for minor village Off
Gals. Evidently every attempt was
made to keep the masses from ex-
pressing their utter discomfort with
the Borno-Wall Street rule. No
national elections have been held in
Haiti since U. S. marines in 1915
murdered 1000 Haitian workers and
peasants. Borah is calling for a
marine controlled national election
in order to give the Wall Street
candidate who undoubtedly will win
unless the masses by the revolution
airy action are able to prevent it,
in order to give the imperialist
bloody rule in Haiti some shreds of
legality"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

Workers! This Is Your Paper.
Write for 1t. Distribute It.
Among Your Fellow Workers! ),
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
Dbless and
Steel Workers
Join the Rdyt)

Recruiting of members in the
Communist Party, especially in the
basic industries and among the
mass of unemployed workers is pro-
ceeding at a more rapid rate. One
Steel worker from Pennsylvania
writes in:
81 am very glad to forward my
inquiry for further information
about the Communist Party. l am
employed by the Bethlehem Steel
Co. Have never worked more than
two days here in the company's
mines, but nevertheless, | owe it to
everyone who labors to seek men,
bership in an organization of, for
and by labor. From what / can
understand the Communist Party
stands back of every man who
works. You can count upon me
as a strong supporter"
Mass Unemployment in Many
states.
At every unemployed meeting
held by the Communist Party ap-
plications for membership in the
Party have been received. Unem-
ployment is growing, and with it
the drive for membership among
the unemployed, with special stress
laid on recruiting Negro workers.
Severe Unemployment in New York.
ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. 12.-The
severest unemployment since 1920 is
shown for the state of New York
by the figures of the state labor de-
partment. The drop for November
was 4 per cent. This follows de-
cline in October of per cent. These
figures are from 1900 factories
representing all important indus
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
5000 MORE Get
READY TO join
CAL.FARM STRIKE
Mexican Governor to
Aid Bosses Against
Field Strikers
TUUL Organizers Held
Recruit Thugs From
American Legion

"Victory is yours if you move
in solid and organized ranks" says
a cablegram of greetings to 5000
Imperial Valley, Cal, agricultural
workers, from the international
Propaganda Committee of Land and
Forest Workers, office in Moscow,
U.S.S.R., affiliated to the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions. The
telegram, received at the national
office of the Trade Union Educa-
tional League says:
'Pleave wire the striking agricul-
tural workers in California as fol-
lows: THE Revolutionary Agricul-
tural and Forest Workers Propa-
ganda Committee, in the name of
the agricultural workers of all
countries, sends fraternal greetings
to the strikers. Your struggle is
the beginning of the fight of the
agricultural workers army, 100000
strong, in North America. Victory
is yours if you move in the solid
and organized ranks of new revo-
lutionary agricultural workers
union in United States of America.
"Signed on behalf of the secre-
tary, Vinnichenko.
Especial to the Daily Worker.)
BRAWLEY, Cal, Jan. 1.-THE
close cooperation of the Mexican
puppet government of Wall Street
Imperialism, with the American
capitalists has been shown here in
the strike of the 5000 Imperial
Valley agricultural laborers, when
the new Mexican governor of Baja
California (Lower California in
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13
JOBLEss FLOOD TEXAS

DALLAS, Tex. (By il).-Three
or four men are waiting for every
job here, the local Craftsman
reports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-13

Governor Roosevelt Promises to Spend
$475,000,O00 on Public Works! Tam
many Contractors May Smell Some
of it, but not the Unemployed
Building Workers! Organize the
Unemployed!
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
DOCTOR CALLED
SELF SLAYER
KELLEY

A certificate of suicide was
issued yesterday by Acting Coro-
ner Joseph D. Rogers, in the
death of DR.. Luther Buehler, 1915
Eye st. N. W., who shot and
killed himself while seated in
his automobile at Fourteenth and
Monroe Streets Northwest.
DR.. Buehler was formerly a
George Washington University
student and later was employed
as city chemist in Philadelphia.
He attracted considerable att9n-
ton when, after testifying in a
number of liquor cases, he re
fused to attend any more hear
ings. telling the court that he
had destroyed suppoenas served
on him.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
ANT|WAR PLEA
SENT HOOVER

NEW YORK, Nov "a (U.SO
President Hoover was asked to.
day to join another movement
to "delegalize" war. 1t is proposed
to call a congress of nations and,
as far as possible, legislate war
out of existence.
The existence of such a move,
ment was revealed when the text
of a letter was made public.
The leading signer of the letter
is Samuel Colcord, official League
of Nations propaganda N 5hls
country.
New Peace Gesture
It is apparent that signers Of
the letter wish the President to
initiate another international
peace gesture through the De-
partment of State. The proposal
Is defined in the letter, as follows:
"TO delegaIize war by making
its prohibition a basic principle
Of international law by an en-.
actment-nOt a treaty-accOm-
pliShed either by a conference
or negotiation or by congress
Of nations with the particIpa-
tiOn of enough nations to make
it binding upon the world, with
the later sanction of all civilized
nations that may be brought
into it,"
NOtableS Sign
Other signers included Senator
Henry j. Allen, of Kansas; Bishop
Francis j. Mcconnell. of the Fed
eral Council of Churches; j. C..
Penney, chain store magnate; f.
Fulton Cutting, president of
Cooper Union; the late Maj. Gen.
Henry T. Allen; John Grier Hib-
ben, president of Princeton Uni:
versity; William Lyon Phelps, OF
Yale; the Rev. S. Parker Cadman,
Congregational radio preacher:
DR.. Christian F. Reisner. Of Broad
way Temple; Joseph Daniels, for.
mer Secretary of the Navy, ana
Matthew Woll, vice president
American Federation of Labor.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
FATHER SM|T H
HITS SHAMS

political hypocrisy has come
close to undermining the conf
dence of our people in demo
cratic government and is
rapidly drawing the nations
into other wars. Religious hy-
pocrisy is developing a nation
of atheists and infideIS."
With this statement, the Very
Rev. Ignatius Smith, o. p. noted
Dominican preacher, launched an
attack upon hypocrisy and sham
in his address on the Washing
ton Catholic radio hour over
station VOL yesterday. Father
Smith attacked sham of all sorts,
in business, politics and
religion.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
ATTEMPT 7
SHOP ROBBERY

It had the elements of a
comedy, but there was a great
deal of tragedy in the police call
to the Leroy Toy Shop, TOO block
D st. N. W.. last night.
A pedestrian saw shadowy
forms moving inside, and notified
police. Squads of police arrived
before the lookout could warn his
pals. and the desperate trio Of
robbers was taken.
The lookout, who burst into
tears, was 8-year-old' Jimmy Cal
oueris. His pals were his broth
ers, william, IL, and John, 13. No
money for Christmas toys was
the reason given for the attempt
ed robbery. ;,
The boys were taken to the
House of Detention.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
So Week End Arrests
Made bv Vice Squad

Members of Washington's spe-
cial vice and liquor squad put in
the busiest weekend since that or
ganization was placed under In
Spector Thaddeus r. Bean.
Details from the squad started
out Saturday morning and in 48
hours had made a total of SO ar
rests throughout the city.
Raids were staged on places sus-
pected of permitting gambling,
blind pigs and places of question
able repute. This was the open
ing gun in a campaign to rid the
city of such places.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Working Wives Seen
As Bio Child Problem

One of the greatest problems
faced by this country is that Of
the children of working mothers,
Miss Mary Robinson, delegate to
the White House Conference on
Child Welfare, declared yester-
day.
Miss Robinson pointed out
that little effort is made to pro-
vide adequate supervision during
the mothers absence. About one
third of all the children whose
mothers work are less than 6
years old, Miss Robinson said.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Three Grand JUries
Snt N. Y. "RacketS''

NEW YORK, Nov. "a Q.N.SO q.
The committee Of public safety,
making a drive against racke-
teers, will sit with the grand
jury tomorrow. District Attorney
Grain announced today three
grand juries will handlc racke-
teer cases this month and four in
December.
Warden Lewis e. LaweS, of
Sing Sing prison, said there were
more than 10000 racketeers of
all kinds operating in New York.
He suggested deportation of alien
criminals.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
G.. A. G. Wood Speaks
At Ad Club Session

The Thanksgiving meeting Of
the Advertising Club Of Washing
ton will be held at noon tomorrow
in the National Press Club audito-
rum.
George A. G. Wood, president
of the Washington Gas Light
Company, will be the guest
speaker, telling Of merchandising
methods. His theme Is Building
and Rebuilding"
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Radio Interference
Made MiSde0meGnOr

STURGIS, Mich, Nov. "a Il.
NS0.-Determined to do away
with all reasonably preventable
radio interference. the Sturgis
city council drafted an ordinance
making such interference illegal
between the hours of 6 p. m,
and midnight.
. Violation of the ordinance pro-
vtdes a fine Of $50 or 80 days in
jail, or both.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Chinese GuiLtLeSs
Of Red Acts, Claim

MORRISTOWN. N. j., Nov. "a.
The Rev. Robert H. Glover said
here that missionary work should
continue in China despite the
anti-C Christian uprising there.
DR.. Glover said:
1--WE recognize the peril of
banditry, militariSm and boil
shevism in China, but we do
not exaggerate their Importance
as the masses have no part in
them except as victims"
Shops in every section Of the city are
advertising their Christmas Gift
Suggestions" feature Of tOday's ClaSsi-
fled Ads.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Innocent BystGnder
MnuLed at Football

CHICAGO, Nov. "a GN.SD
Football can be just as rough a
game for a bystander as for a
player, Joseph Alfano was ready
to admit today at Belmont Hos
pital.
While standing on the sideline
watching a game yesterday Alta
no who is IS, stepped forward for
a better view and got in the way
of two tacklers. He emerged from
the scrimmage with a fractured
leg and other injuries.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
LOUed His Dog More
Than Wife, She Says

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 24.-Her
husband loved his dog more than
he did her and he refused to
kiss her, Hannah G. Finney told
Judge Rowland in Common Pleas
Court, testifying in the divorce
proceedings she filed against Rob
ert F. Finney. The wife teSti-
fled:
"He treated his dog better
than he did me. He had not
kissed me in five years."
Mrs. Finney was granted a di.
V0rcp
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
so KILLED IN QUAKE

TIRANA, Albania, Nov. "a
GNSD.-Fifty persons were
killed, 200 seriously injured and
thousands rendered homeless by
an earthquake that devastated
the Valona region in the southern
part of Albania, a check-up yester-
day revealed.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
Spurned by Bachelor,
She Hikes 80 Miles
ToFire His Home

TOWANDA, Pa, Nov. "a q.
N.SO.-Because Ivan HakeS, a
bachelor, spurned her advances,
Mrs. ]. Harold Bennett set his
cottage afire, she explained to-
day, in pleading guilty to an
arson charge.
Mrs. Bennett, who is married,
said she hitch-hiked 80 miles to
set fire to HakeS' home.
She was held under $1,000
bail.
The Washington times., 1930-11-24
RED-WINGED HAWK CAUGHT

MERCER, Pa. Nov. PA red
shouldered hawk caught If trap
on the Gerrett farm, nea~ here,
was presented to Earle Hogue,
local merchant by County Treas
urer c. R. McQuiston.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1930-03-01
HEADS OF PREPARATORY SCHOOLS
TELLS OF BENEFITS OF PROHIBITION
Challenge Prohibition Increases Drinking Among You'll
Promptly by Letters Received and Published by the
christian Science Monitor

because of the use of liquor. It is usually
an isolated case, however, and does not
worry us, for we know that SO per cent of
our boys are clear OF any suspicion of the
use of liquor. "-CHAs. w. NEwHALL, Head
master Shattuck School, Faribault, MINI.
There is not as much drinking among
boys of academy age as formerly. I have
been connected with this academy over a
period of more than Is years, and know
positively that the drinking problem has
been reduced almost to extinction in our
school life."-HARLEN N. WooD, Acting
Master, Western Reserve Academy, Hud-
son, Ohio.
"There is less drinking and less talk
about drinking among the preparatory
school boys that I know than there was
when I was high school student myself
80 years ago, and less than when was in
public high school work Is years ago.
T. w. WATHAM, Headmaster, Tilton School,
Tilton, N. H.
"There is no drinking at all among the
boys on Our campus, while they are in the
school, and from my knowledge Of the
parents of the boys do not believe much,
if any, when they are at home."-DR.
CHAs HERBERT Young, Rector, Howe
School, Howe, Ind.
LESS DRINKING
st believe there Is less drinking in the
average American preparatory school to-
day than before prohibition. I believe
this statement would reflect the opinion
of the majority of school teachers. =
JAMES l. WENDELL, HeadmaSter, The Hill
School, PottStown, Pa