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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

Six years have passed since the
news of Lenin's death spread to the
oppressed and exploited in every
corner of the earth. Millions of
hearts weighed heavy with mourn
ing. Lenin was dead. The great
leader of the revolution had died ON
January 81, 1924.
Slaves the world over, in the shops
and fields, and the whip-lashed colo
MES knew that a great leader had
gone. He was no tty-bourgeois
Lincoln driven into the role of
great emancipation" by the revolu
tionary pressure of history. He was
no herald of bourgeois society free
ing" Negro chattels for the wage
slavery of capitalist society.
Lenin expressed the deepest hopes
and yearnings of all those who toll
and suffer under the yoke of capt.
talism; he organized vast revolu
tionary army to fight against the
oppressor and to establish the rule
of the workers throughout the
world. He stood at the head of the
Continued on Page Three)
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|. |. D. FIGHTS
TO Save z|N|CH
Radnik Editor on Ellis
Island, Faces Death

The International Labor Defense
is making every effort by applica-
ton for stay of deportation and by
a writ of habeas corpus yesterday
to save the life of Steve Zinich, edi-
tor of Radnik, Jugo Slax language
Communist paper Zinich is on Ell
lis Island, where he arrived yester-
day, having been taken up at the
request of the Jugo-Slav fascist gov
eminent by United States imnigra-
ton agents a week ago.
He was arrested five years ago
through stool-pigeon work Of reac-
tionary elements among the Jugo-
Slavs in Chicago. The dictatorship
of King Alexander and his white
Hand" gang of murderers want to
kill him for his revolutionary and
union activities in Serbia shortly
after the world war. He has been
very active for the workers since
coming to America. His deportation
case has gone through many courts.
The LID. demands, on the prece-
dent set IN the Gilletti case, that
Zinich be allowed to leave the coun-
try voluntarily, and has wired to
Mopr, the international Labor De-
tense organization, to arrange for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
WOMEN RALLY TO
WIN SHOE STRIKE
Union Will Attend the
Lenin Memorial

The women's department of the
Independent Shoe Workers Union
calls women's shop delegate con-
ference for Monday, February 3, at
16 West 21st st. They have sent
out instructions to all shop chair
men to make immediate efforts to
elect women delegates from their
respective shops. In their call for
this conference they state that wo-
men must take a direct and active
part in the unions struggle for the
4O-hour five-day week and the aboli-
ton Of the slave system Of piece
work.
Attend Lenin Meeting.
The union reports that its men,
bers are organizing to attend the
Lenin Memorial meeting in mass ;
they will meet at the headquarters
at p. m., where tickets will be dis
tributed. From there they will
march to Madison Square Garden.
Morris Book, striking shoe worker,
was arrested yesterday morning
Continued ON Page TWoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

A resolution on the immediate
program Of action for the Trade Un-
ion Unity League, in Greater New
York and New Jersey was adopted
at its pre-convention Metropolitan
Area Conference held Dec. 21-22, in
Irving Plaza Hall, New York City.
Representation from all the prin-
cipal industries Of the area was
present and the delegates came
from the shops.
The resolution is based on self
criticism and outlines corrections in
the policy to be followed and tao
tics to be used in the future. 1t
analyses the immediate tasks and
the opportunities for organization.
1t reviews the work of the T. U. U.
L., and the struggles and numerous
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
Bolivia Counters to
Charge Of Paraguay;
a World Oil Conflict

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 20.-In re-
ply to the charge Of the Paraguayan
government that Bolivian soldiers
had attacked an outpost in the
Chaco and killed one Paraguayan
soldier, the Bolivian foreign office
has issued a counter charge, alleg-
ing that it was the Paraguayan
troops which did the attacking, and
that one Bolivian soldier was killed.
The allegation by Paraguay, that
the attack was made to stir up and
unite Bolivia back of the present
president in seeking reelection, is
sarcastically denied. "Such things
could happen only in Paraguay"
The whole affair indicates a re-
opening Of the conflict between the
two nations, over the Chaco terri
tory, behind which lie the rival i'm
perialisms of the United States, on
Bolivia's side, and England, the sup
porter Of Paraguay. The clash is
over great oil fields in the Chaco,
and more particularly, the route to
the sea through Chaco from the
Standard Oil holdings in Bolivia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
Shoe Workers Fight Against
Union Smashing by US. Govt
To Answer Intimidation Campaign of Bosses
Tools With Greater Militancy

unions endeavoring to keep the
workers from organizing into fight
ing unions.
The shoe manufacturers in an
effort to destroy the Independent
Shoe Workers Union have applied
TO the courts for injunctions which
ha e been freely used against the
uni,n. with the result that today in
% shops the workers have been
locked out and are fighting mill
family on the picket lines. Scores
Of arrests have taken place, but
this has not affected the vitality
and militancy of the workers who,
through mass picketing and demon
strations, are fighting to build up
their union.
The shoe manufacturers have
sent letters to their workers de-
Continued on Page T,Uo)
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IT, U.L. Discusses Program
of Action Before Convention
Lays Basis For Coming Struggles in Many
Industries in N. Y. Area

strikes in this area. 1t lays the
basis for development and general
offensive.
At this conference the Lovestone
renegades appeared with a right wing
resolution, attacking the militant
policy of the great majority of the
T. U. U. l.. members, but after a
thorough discussion, they were so
badly beaten that they did not even
dare vote for their own resolution
and the one printed below was
adopted unanimously.
The T. U. U. L. conference pro-
poses that all local unions and shop
committees read and discuss this
resolution as a basis for the cleo
ton of delegates to the T. U. u. L.
for Greater New York
and New Jersey, to be held March
Continued on Page T,0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

The Independent Shoe Workers
Union is conducting a struggle to
organize $4,000 shoe workers in the
city of New York. The shoe work
ers of New York have built up
fighting organization through
struggle, enrolling 5000 Of the best
fighters Nevertheless a big field
is still to be covered. In this strug-
gle it faces not merely the manu-
facturers, both big and little, the
Board Of Trade, the police and the
city government, but also the State
Labor Department and the United
States government as represented
through the Federal Department of
Labor.
The Independent Shoe Workers
Union has also to fight the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union ard the
Protective, which are open company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

Tomorrow night, Wednesday,
January %, at 7 p. M, the monster
memorial meeting for Comrade
Lenin takes place in Madison Square
Garden, 50th St. and Eighth Ave.
1t is expected that 10000 workers
will gather in a demonstration of
solidarity under the slogans of: The
London Naval Conference is prepar-
ing war against the Soviet Union.
Demonstrate against imperialist war
preparations at the Lenin Memorial
meeting. Organize to fight against
unemployment, wage cuts ard speed
up! Demonstrate against the gov
ernment's reign of terror against
the working classi Demonstrate for
full social and political equality for
all racesI Greet the Colonial up
risings! Demand complete indie
pendence. of all colonial and semi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
TWO STRIKES IN
COKE COAL FIELD
NMU Calls All To Get
Behind Union
BULLETIN.

BECKLEY, w. Va, Jan. 49,
Eight men were killed and two
were injured today in an accident
in No. / mine of the LillybrOOk
Coal Company, at Lillybrook, near
here. Six of the eight were
Negroes.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 20.-The
coke region miners are striking
against wage cuts. In Bittner and
Waltersburg the men came out when
wages were reduced from $3.50 a
day to S3.7S for day work, and from
80 cents wagon to rs cents.
The Bittner strike is 100 per cent
strong.
The National Miners Union has is
sued a leaflet to these miners stat
ing:
"Now is the time to fight. You
must fight against wage cuts, un-
employment, speed-up, bad condi-
tons, and against discrimination of
the Negro miners, by joining the
fighting National Miners Union.
"The National Miners Union is
leading the miners in struggles in
every district. In Illinois where
Continued on Page TUo)
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AIRS
HYPOCRISY AT
LONDON MEET
Discloses No Change
Made By Macdonald
Trip to y. S.
Talks Rule
Soviet "Izvestia" in
Scathing Analysis

LONDON, Jan. 20.-After
meeting the king today, the
Naval Conference delegates, at
a banquet given by the British
'labor' government, listened
to a speech by Secretary Slim
son, mostly blah, but contain
ing two points worthy of note.
The first point, that the
real aim of the meeting, ac-
cording to Stimson, "is to re-
move the secrecy, rivalry and
mutual irritation" is notable
for it's rank hypocrisy, since
the first act of Stimson on
landing in London was to have a
three hour conference with Mac
Donald of which he refused to
speak, the second act, conference
with the French of which he refused
to speak (but of which the French
spoke in a way that showed that
they certainly regarded London as
a rival to Geneva and were "irri-
tated" at it), while the third act
was another secret conference with
the Italians, about which all Slim
son would say was that he was their
"disinterested friend" both words
being false.
The second point of Stimson's
speech was a disclosure, among
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
TODAY IN THE LABOR
STRUGGLE,

JANUARY 21.-1924: Vladimir
Ilyitch Ulianov (Lenin), leader of
Bolshevik Revolution and first
Prime Minister of Soviet Russia,
died. 1928: $4,000 German metal
workers locked out in struggle for
higher wages. 1921: Italian Com
munist Party organized at Leghorn.
1921: Spanish sydnicalist leader,
Hermene Gildo and three comrades
shot by troops. 1919: $4,000 dress
and waist makers in New York be-
gan general strike. 1870: Alexander
Hertzen, prominent early Russian
revolutionist, died. 1893: Louis XVI
of France executed by revolutionary
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
PICKET MILLERS
MARKET AGAIN.;
COPS SLUG TWO
District Swarnns With
Police, Use Lead
Pipe on Strikers
Union Wins 2 Markets
Protest Meeting Today
to Plan Self Defense

Undaunted by the police bullets
which swept the street at Miller's
Market last Thursday, and put
Steve Katovis in the hospital where
his life was still in grave doubt at
a late hour last night, the Food
Clerks Union of the Amalgamated
Food Workers yesterday picketed
the place again. Millers Market,
161st st. and Union Ave, was
struck some time ago because the
boss discharged his union workers,
and signed up with the United He
brew Trades to furnish him scabs
at a much lower wage than he was
paying for real workers.
The U. H. 7. lawyer, Solomon,
who is socialist party candidate for
alderman, got the boss the injunc-
ton, under which Katovis was shot,
probably fatally.
Lousy With Cops.
The Miller's Market section has
been practically under martial law
ever since, with armed gangsters,
plain clothes police, and patrolmen
thick for blocks around. Yesterday
Tammany plain clothes police ar
rested two pickets after brutally
beating them with lead pipes. They
are on $500 bail charged with dis
orderly conduct, and their case
comes up tomorrow in the Sixth
Magistrates Court, 161st and Third
Ave.
Today, at 8 p. m, at union head
quarters, 16 West 23rd ST., there
will be a general mobilization meet
ing to protest the shooting of Ka-
fowls, and to devise ways and means
of defending the strikers against
further brutalities by the Tammany
police.
Takers Provide Scabs.
Two pickets arrested at the public
market butcher shop at 2311 Ave.
U, Brooklyn, are held under Para
graph 600, violation of an injunc-
tion," the injunction being one OBJ
tanned against the Progressive
Butcher Workers, though the strike
and the pickets belong to the Food
Clerks. The boss and the United
Hebrew Trades, which furnishes the
scabs for $50 a week are pressing
the charge. The boss had to pay his
union men $40 week. The U. H. T.
came in after the strike had been
on week.
A new shop was struck by the
Food Clerks yesterday, at 272 East
10th st. One picket was jailed in
the first mornings picketing,
charge, "disorderly."
Win at Shops.
The Food Clerks record some vic
tories yesterday in its persistent
campaign to organize the morgan
lied and compel union conditions.
The public market butcher shop at
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
SOCIALISTS AID
BOSS WAR MOVES
Thomas Prays for Navy
Race Success

What is more natural for the
third capitalist party, which hides
it's carcase under the name of $50
cialist party" than to wish and work
for the success of the armament
moves of the imperialist powers?
Rev. Norman Thomas, the very
first thing in his weekly screed in
the New Leader for Jan. 10, asks
benediction on the war prepare
tions of the imperialist bandits
meeting in London. In blessing the
war moves of the capitalists, the
social-fascist sky-pilot says: ITO the
London Naval Conference we wish
success"
The same prayer is on the snarl-
ing, imperialist lips of Hoover him
self. Stimson, Wall Streets own
secretary of state, is striving for
that identical end. Here is the
united front of all the imperialist
agents preparing for the next world
war-and for war against the So
Wet Union.
To adj support to their policy of
supporting the imperialist attacks
on the Soviet Union, end the war
preparations Of the imperial;st rob-
bers, the sane issue of the New
Leader prints a diatribe by Rafael
Abramovitch enemy of the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics.
Abramovitch links up the inter-
national struggle of the social
fascists against the workers and
peasants of the Soviet Union.
He says: "We, the Russian Social
Democrats, members of the socialist
and labor international, together
with Macdonald, Henderson, Her.
man Mueller and the others in the
socialist international are against
the Soviet government. ;"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
Crippled old
Worker Sends
All to Miners

o. S. Curtis, of Newhall, Cal, is
a crippled old worker, but is one of
those who have not been deaf to the
appeal of the Workers International
Relief FOR funds to furnish relief for
the striking and victimized Illinois
miners. This is the letter he has
sent.
Il wish / could help those strik-
ing miners a whole lot, but being
an old cripple in the mountainous
hills here, can do but little to help
the poverty of those miners and their
families. But have just received a
little money from relative back
East and am enclosing So to help
the striking miners.
"From a poor old hermit,
20. S. Curtis"
"How many workers have made
even a fraction of the sacrifice of
this destitute old MANI" says the
W.I.R. Reports from Southern IL
linois indicate that the plight of
thousands of miners and their fam
lilies grows steadily worse. Funds
are needed at once to save them
from starvation and enable them to
continue their struggle. Rush con-
tributions to the National Office of
the Workers International Relief,
949 Broadway, room 512, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
U, S. SET BACK
AT HAGUE meet
"Izvestia" Comment on
Preparations Meet

THE HAGUE, Jan. 20.--The IS
i.Ations which signed the revised
Young Plan today have the credit
of putting over the customary
agreement" which means that
after time its impossibility of
working will lead to another confer
ence. This was rather frankly the
expressed hope of the Germans, who
are smarting under being whipped
into line by France on the matter of
Sanctions" the French insisting on
the right to invade German soil if
Germany does not pay reparations
as agreed.
This is particularly hard for the
Germans to swallow, since France,
when the Young Plan was first
Continued on Page TWo)
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GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY
BATTLES FOR LEGALITY.
(Wireless by lnprecorr.)

(Wfetess 0y lnprecorr.)
BERLIN, Jan. 20.-On Saturday
morning the offices of the Commu-
mist paper, the "Rote Fahne," wers
again raided and Saturdays issue
confiscated. The bourgeoisie and
the socialist press are conducting a
furious Indictment campaign to Sc
cure the suppression of the Commu-
mist Party. The Reichstag has re-
jected Communist proposal to
withdraw the general prohibition
against open-air meetings. On Sat-
urday, prohibiteI demonstration
were held at Essen, Hamborn, Rort-
mund, Duisberg, Bochum and
Hernes. The police attacked these
and there were many violent COLI
sions and many wounded, with mass
arrests. There were also collisions
at Koenigsberg, Gumbinnen and
Beuthen, where police attacked
workers leaving indoor meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

Ferocious competition for the
world markets for automobiles is
developing as result of the severe
economic crisis in the United States.
The automobile industry is hit
worst of all with production now 60
per cent below the average Of 1929,
and mass unemployment and drastic
hge cuts facing the workers. All
tie American. automobile bosses
agree that they must make terri
fic onslaught on the world markets
in order to attempt to avert even
a sharper crisis.
The automobile capitalists OF
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium,
Austria and Czechoslovakia have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
EXPECT 10000 AT LENIN
MEET, MADISON SQUARE
GARDEN, WE'D. NIGHT
To Mobilize Workers Against Unemployment
Wage-Cuts, Imperialist War Danger
Urge Members to Push Party Recruiting Drivc
to Quota of $50 At Lenin Meet

colonial countriesi Unite all worl
ing-class struggles into one move
ment against the capitalist class ar
its government! Only by fightin
under the banner of Leninism ca,
the workers emancipate themselvel
Join the Communist Party!
Tomorrow night, at Z p. M,
Madison Square Garden, all Ne
York workers will join their strul
giles in a common demonstration fc
the defense of the Soviet Union an
against American imperialism. Com
and bring all your fellow worker
with your banners and demand
against imperialist war and for be;
ter conditi~~~ to the Lenin Memoirs
meeting, at Madison Square Gardel
Wednesday evening, January %, q
Z p. m.
A splendid program has been al
ranged with many workers organ
lZatlOnS participating.
The Communist Party yesterda.
announced that it is within $50 mem
bers of filling its quota of $50 u
to the Lenin Memorial meeting. ]
is hoped that by tomorrow nigh
another $50 workers will have joine
the Communist Party in the Ney
Yor' District thereby filling tn
quota. The installation of Commu
mist recruits which will take plac
will be one of the best demonstra
tions of the solidarity of the work
ers of New York against the bruta
attacks of the bosses, the police, tn
(COufinue1 on PAGE TU0)
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No Masks; Two TOilers
GaSsed As Main Leaks

Two employees of the Brooklyn
Union Gas Company were overcome
by gas yesterday when wadding
blew out in a six-inch gas main
which they were repairing. The
men are Matthew Gibbons, 81, of
439 18th St., Brooklyn, and Patrick
Mally, 81, of $50 Park Pl., Brooklyn.
They were calking leaks in the
main. Gas masks had not been pro.
vided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
International
Wireless
News
CONNECT LENINGRAD CZARIS1
WITH BERLIN COUNTER
FEITERS.
(Wireless bu Inpreeorr.l

IV H6ttS0 Uy INPTecUFT.J
BERLIN, Jan. 20.-On Frida.
the trial of five monarchist ex
officers commenced before the su
preme court of Leningrad. They ar.
charged with espionage and passing
FORCES chervonetz (Soviet paper
money-Editor). The chief of the
accused was staff cavalry captain
Albert Schiller, now supporter Of
the spurious Car Cyril. The forg-
cries found on Schiller are declared
by experts to be exactly similar to
the forged chervonetz made in Ger
many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
POLICE UNEMPLOYED OVER
COME POLICE.
Wireless By Iuprecorr)

(IVirelesS By Inprecorr)
WARSAW, Jan. 20.-Two thou
sand unemployed have demonstrated
at Vloklavek. The police broke up
the parade three times, but the
workers succeeded in reaching the
city hall and demanded work or
maintenance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
AUTO Bosses SHARPEN World
Market right; u. S. Crisis
Deebey Admit Capitalists
Expose the Fake "Prosperity" Propaganda Of
Hoover, Green, Lamont, Barnes
Big Unemployment Shown By Latest Facts
From Ohio Industries

united against the threatened dump
ing on American automobiles. Pro-
duction of automobiles in Germany
and Italy have dropped in the past
year, with drastic unemployment in
these industries.
Now the British automobile manu-
facturers, through their organiza-
ton, the Society of Motor Manufac-
turers and Traders announce that
they will increase their efforts to
Continued on Page Three.)
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his entry into the union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
The charge against Zinich is a
trumped up case of "illegal entry"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
UNEMPLOYED MEMBERS OF
PARTY.

All unemployed members of the
Party are instructed to be at 1l79
Broadway at Z a. m. without fail.
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j0BLESS PLAN
BUFFALO MARCH
Organize Mass Meets
and Demonstrations

BUFFALO, N. Y, Jan. 20.-The
Buffalo Unemployed Workers Coun-
Gil, with headquarters at 200 Eli
colt ST., is reaching out to all the
unemployed workers in the outlying
industrial districts as well as in
Buffalo itself.
The Black Rock section of the
Buffalo Unemployed Council has
affiliated with the Trade Union
Unity League, and accepted its
leadership.
Last Friday a successful meeting
was held by the unemployed work
ers at Liberty Hall. Plans were laid
for another mass meeting of the UNI
employed workers within the next
few days.
On Friday, January "a, the work
ers will assemble in mass meetings
in various parts Of the city and
march to the City Hall, where. they
will put forth the militant demands
for the unemployed made by the
T.U.U.L.
LOG Delegates at Unemployed con-
ference.
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 20.-The
conference called by the Provisional
Committee of the Unemployed
Council with the support of the
Continued on Page Three)
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