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New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
COURT REVERSES
 JUDGES DECISION
Editors Need Not Go to Jail for
 Editorial Against Judge

Cleveland, O., March 6 tP)- peals today reversed contempt of court sentences imposed by Com mon Pleas Judge Walther upon Louis E. Seltzer and Carlton K. Mat son, editor and chief editorial writer of the Cleveland Press.
 Judge WaIther sentenced SeltZer and Watson to jail for 30 days each and fined them $500 each last sum- mer after the defendants had written and published an editorial in the press criticizing the judges action towards horse racing.
 The ruling was regarded as cs- tablishing a new principal in the handling of contempt actions. Chief Justice Willis Niclcry. who wrote the opinion, said Judge Walther had abused his discretion in sitting in trial in the case in which he himself was involved.
 The editorial had criticized Judge Walthcr for issuing officials of Thistlcdown race track, q writ en- joining the sheriff of the county from interfering with betting at the track.
 The opinion also said that "thc judgment was manifest1y against the weight of evidence and contrary to law and the penalty mctcd out is in excess of that allowed by statutc."
 Although he sat as trial judge in the original case of contempt of court he brought against the cdi- tors, the judge refused to be repre- scntcd at the hearing of the appeal on tho grounds that such representa- ton would be "uncthical"
 'Ilc should have referred the case 10 an associate and have given his statement as q witness rather than as q judge from the bcnch,' said the opinion.
 We live in an age of pitilcss publicity, an ago when freedom of speech and a free press are a paramount issue. People should be allowed to say what they please and newspapers to print what they please, always making themselves liable under the laws of islander or the laws of libel"
 The court declared that the in junction issued by Judge Walthcr, which was criticized by. the Press editorial, was of such a nature that not even the person violating it could be found guilty of contempt
 Because a man gets on the bench, it does not necessarily mean that he has changed his temperament or his liability to get cXcitcd,' the court said. ''and if he could set himself above the rest of mankind and sit in judgment on grievances in which he is the injured party, he would establish dangerous precedent.
 Tt is better for a judge to be ruftlcd and agitatcd than it is to close tho mouth of the speaker to the public,
 "ln other words, it is better that inc press be free, speech be free. the right of assembly be free and the right to air views be free, rather than that they be uttered in fear and trembling.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
QUESTION FAUbEL ON LOBBY OFFICE
Report Says He Has Space in
 Senator Grundy's Quarters

Washington, March R}-Arthur L. Faubcl, of New York, secretary of the American Tariff league, was summoned today by the senate lobby committee for questioning in regard to reports that he had established headquarters in a room in the senate office building assigned to Senator Grundy, republican. Penn.
 Senator Walsh, democrat. Mon tana, directed that Faubel be sum- moncd.
 It was reported the office also was occupied by John Lerch, of New York, attorney for the league, and editor of the Manufacturer, publish cd by the Pennsylvania Manufactur- CTS Association of which Grundy is a former president.
 Faubel has been questioned by the lobby committee concerning the ac- tivitics of tho tariff league.
 Before his appointment as scna- tor to succeed William $. Narc Grundy. then vice president of the American Tariff league, was qucs- tioncd at length before the lobby committee. He had been character izcd on the floor of the senate as "thc biggest lobbyist in Washing ton.
 Grundy startled the lobby commit tee by saying that he believed that some of the states had more repre- in the senate than they de- served and also gave out his famous list of backward states among which he included Arkansas, the home state of Chairman Caraway Of the lobby committee.
 The Pennsylvania senator testified frankly that he worked for protective tariffs on Pennsylvania products and was severely criticized in a report to the senate by Chairman Caraway.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06

serve board is participating in the formation of the bank of interna- tional settlements.
 Official American participation in the creation of the international bank, designed to handle rcpara- tions payments under the Young plan, has been opposed by Chair man McFadden of the committee.
 The two resolutions, both intro duccd by McFaddcn, would require that all information availa blc show ing what part the reserve board, federal reserve banks, or private taken in organizing the settlements bank.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
Sl Profit Made on Game
 Between HI. s. and A1umni

The financial report of the New Britain High Alumni game was is- sued today. The profit from the game was $1, each teams share be- ing 50 cents. Seventy tickets were sold at 25c each, bringing in s17.5O, and the expenses were: $1O for an orch estra, s3.50 for police, and SS to the ticket taker. Although no money was made on the game, the school authorities said that they were satis- fled that they met expenses.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
Miss Schilling On List
 Of Sage CO]lege'S Dean

Miss Marion Schilling. daughter of R. & Schilling of Warlocll street. has been chosen as one of the 45 girls of Russell Sage college, Troy, N. Y, whose names arc on the deans list which is composed Of those who have honor grades in their work at the college.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
BANKING COMMITTEE
 ASKS FOR INFORMATION
Wants News on Federal Reserve Connections With IntCrna-
 tonaI Bank More.

Washington, Mar. 6 (P) - The house banking committee today unanimously approved two resolu- tions calling on Secretaries Simson and Mellon for information as to the extent to which the federal re-
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
McAIURRAY PLEADS GUILTY

Fitchburs. Mass. March P- Thomas F. McMurray. variety store owner, today pleaded guilty in dis trict court to a charge of promoting a lottery and was fined s100. His arrest followed a raid on the store in which police seized 1000 tickets of the so-called treasury balance lottery.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06

Rubber consumption in foreign countries during 1929 showed a re- narkablc increase of 2. per cent, world production at the same time reaching the highest level in his tory.
New Britain herald., 1930-03-06
lights and Fools"

Starting Saturday the Capitol will offer the new "Phantom of the Opera in talking, singing. and sound and with Lon Chaney in the featured role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
Vol. "a So
Six \ Of Struggle But
the ) IBIS Just Started

January the month Anniversary founding
the Daily Worker organ Communist Party of the
has been maintained by
is proof that it is needed by those workers
The fact that it has been able mperast
capitalism, the United States of America exist clear
Communist platform, reflect daily struggles
ana g Tor te OF the capitalist system ITSELF evidence
of the vitality of Communism America another that the
workers of America not essentially anagonsc
as has been many times charged by their enemies and pseudo friends
1t proves the will to struggle of the working class
The struggle of the Daily Worker merely
chance to do its Communist work. has been Outside of
actual the and
all Communist has had its editors arrested and sentenced
to prison. has been sued for libel by Socialist leader who
distributors have been beaten by police and by capitalist thugs
has been formally barred from various countries 1t has had
financial
But in extremity Worker been able
to appeal to the working class of America and the workers have raj
lied its support saved it. 1t has survived the attacks
police the u the labor aker the socialist party and
all of the enegades from Communism. 1t is here to stay
Though with pride successful struggle for
vva do not disguise from the workers that the Daily has yet
begun sufficiently to fulfill the real which founded
1t do this when it the daily not only of few
thousand of the of militant labor the millions of the
working class itself The Daily Worker today the position of
having successfully defended itself and maintained the position of the
Communist Party for Now the time, with militant
worker assisting make This the workers
Every worker should send it the of his immediate ug
gother workers hear about Every worker should sub
scribe for it. Every militant worker should that Daily Worker
club grows up IN ms own shop committee to buy and distribute
sell bundle of the Daily Worker Every worker should that
his neghbor knows of the Daily and has subscribe
the political
practical by day labor of numbers of
subscribe to it.
beginning with the of January the
nversary the Daily Worker special edition of
million copies greatly enlarged size with special articles
struggle of the workers here and abroad with the Communist
Interpretation of principal event and grievance Of the workers
Let worker who wants to fight capitalism get back OF the Daily
Worker by helping to ccuarze this first mass edition OF the Daily
Worker in 1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
TELLS OF
LIFE IN U. S. S. R,
Gastonia, N. c.. Striker
Praises Soviet Union

81 wish | could live in the Soviet
Union all my life," declared K. ..
Byers, young southern textile work
er, who returned yesterday from the
Soviet Union. "There is no
'stretch-out' system as in the United
States, textile workers have a six
or seven hour day, a months vaca-
ton with pay, and their homes
compared to the houses of workers
in the South-are like palaces"
Feared By Macdonald.
Byers was refused permission to
land in England by the Macdonald
"lahor" government, and after being
held on board ship at London for
three days was finally taken under
guard to Liverpool and placed on
the S. S. Megantic for New York.
The British visa given to Byers
was cancelled and he was told:
Don't put one damned foot on
shore; we know who you are" They
were afraid that he might speak to
British textile workers and tell them
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
UNEMPLOYMENT
INCREASE in 1880
Department of Labor
Tries to Hide Facts

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-"Unem-
ployment became pronounced toward
the close of the year," reported
Francis |. Jones, director of the I'M
employment service of the Depart
ment Of Labor.
After detailing mass unemploy-
ment in the basic industries, Jones
fills his report with the Hoover
bunk on expected prosperity in 1880.
"While there was some curtail-
ment in production and unemploy-
ment nseveral major industries
during the closing weeks of 1929"
says Jones, "an upward trend is
expected in the early months of the
new year"
This statement of Jones and the
Department of Labor is tissue of
falsehoods. 1t is a part of the
Hoover propaganda to slough over
the growing crisis.
When Jones says there has been
"some curtailment in production,
he overlooks the fact that the steel
industry is running at so per cent,
and the automobile industry is at a
virtual standstill.
The prospects of unemployment
for the future are better outlined
by statements emanating from CAPT.
talist industry heads. The steel eX-
ecutives, in burst of enthusiasm,
say production in 1880 will be cut
only Is per cent below 1929. The
automobile bosses say production
will be cut about one-fifth, or about
100000 cars.
This presages growing mass un-
employment. The 100000 unem-
ployed at the present time will be
greatly swelled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
GRID FQD BOSTON.
NEEDLE STRUGGLE.
In d u S trial UNion in
Call for Conference

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 2.-The
Trade Union Unity League, in con-
junction with the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, has is
sued a call for a mobilization con-
ference of all labor and sympathetic
organizations for Sunday, Jan. 10,
at 10 a. m. at Union Hall, % Harris
son Ave, Brooklyn.
All trade unions, Trade Union
Unity Leagues, and fraternal organ
izations are called to be represented
at this special conference, at which
measures will be proposed to enlist
the support of the labor movement
for the struggle of the Needle
Trades Workers under the leader
ship of the Industrial Union.
Salient points in the call are:
among the workers struggles,
the one conducted in the needle in
dustry for the last several years has
been particularly fierce and bitter.
The needle workers have been the
target of the most vicious and con-
centrated attack of all enemies of
the working class. The needle
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
RUDIO TO Give
L.ANDL- ORDS Cash
y. S. Land Robbers in
Mexico Favored

While militant workers in Mexico
are being clapped into Jail for their
exposure of the Wall Street umbili-
cal cord that nourishes the growing
terror of the Ortiz Hubio govern
ment, Rubio continues his negotia-
tions with the U. S. imperialists for
further exploitation of the Mexican
masses.
The Commercial & Financial
Chronicle announces that Rubio.
while herex promised the large Wall
Street owners of Mexican land that
they would be paid cold cash, in the
event any of their land is taken.
This land was robbed from the MeXi-
can peasants by foreign Imperialism.
Says the Chronicle:
"The legislation, now pending be-
fore the Mexican Congress, would
provide for cash settlement for all
lend appropriated in the future
under the agrarian policy of the
Mexican Government. Enactment of
this proposed legislation would mean
the end of the syste mheretofore
pursued of paying for appropriated
lands with Mexican bonds of dubious
value. Improvement in this aspect
would remove one Of the chief re-
naming causes of friction between
the Washington and Mexico City
Governments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
Cuban Workers Fight Mexico
White Terror Deportation

situation in Mexico, which appeared
exclusively in the Communist press.
The correspondence of the mill
tant organizations is censored.
Much of it disappears. The work.
ing class revolutionary organiza-
tions (The Communist Party, Young
Communist League, Confederation
Sindical Unitaria, International Red
Aid, Workers and Peasants Bloc,
etc., are prosecuted and declared
illegal officially in many states of
Mexico.
The military authorities, who
swallow up third of the national
income, are particularly furious
against the young Communist and
proletarians, who, with their anti
militarist propaganda, have opened
the eyes of the soldiers. Many
young Communists have been ar
rested and beaten for their ac-
tivitics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
Mil Thugs Kidnab TotleyoV
Mellon Rushed
Machine Guns
to LID. Meet
Workers Spirit Keeps
Cops from Assault

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. Gas
bombs and machine guns were rush
ed to the scene of the demonstra-
ton at the Monongahela Hotel when
white and Negro workers demanded
race equality, last Sunday, at the
International Labor Defense conven-
ton, it was learned today.
The workers, delegates at the
Fourth National Convention of the
LID. marched through the streets
singing the International, and held
a mass demonstration in the lobby
of the Jifil-Crow hotel, which boast
ed an "Abe Lincoln room.
"The spirit and determination of
the workers caused the police to
hesitate in training their machine
guns on the demonstrating workers. .
j. Louis Engdahl, national secretary
of the LID, who left Pittsburgh
for New York today, declared.
"This was the most historic con-
Vention since the LID. founded
he said. "The powerful demand of
the delegates for race equality, their
courageous and instantaneous pro.
test against the Jim Crow laws-the
extent of their determination to
fight for all class-war prisoners,
was unbeatable. And its evidence
halted the police tools of Andy Mel
Ion who rushed to the scene in their
pa trolls full Of machine guns and
gas bombs. 1t is common knowledge
among workers here that the police
would have resorted to the greatest
terrorism if they had not been dis
couraged by the militancy and spirit
of the delegates"
The Convention was attended by
1872 delegates from every part Of the
country. Thirty of them were Ne
groes, who were the most active ele-
ments at the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
FRANKLIN COUNTY STRIKE
SPREADING; Miners WILL
BATTLE IMPORTED SCABS
Situation Tense at Taylorville; Lewis-Fishwick
Gang Send Special Train of Strikebreakers
National Mine Union Leaders Rush to Critical
Points; WL.R in Conference; Opens Station

WEST FRANKFORT, H., Jan.
Meetings are being held in
Franklin and Christian Counties to-
day to, spread the strike of the
Illinois miners. The $50 miners at
the Stiritz mine and the 500 at the
Taylor No. 5 mine who walked out
yesterday, joining the struggle
started Dec. 9 at the call of the
National Miners Union for redress
of many grievances: against the
fines and penalties, against the long
hours, against unpaid dead work,
against the "bug light" and danger
Gus conditions underground, against
the check-off swindle, against dis
elimination practiced on young
workers and Negro miners, are
standing fast, and9 calling on all
other miners to join their struggle.
U. Nj. w. Scab Train.
In Taylorville the situation is ex-
tremely tense. The United Mine
Workers of America and the coal
operators have united openly to
rush in a special train from Girard
loaded with scabs. The strikers
have decided to oppose the scabs,
and there is open talk of a clash
when they arrive.
/ Feeling is high among all the
miners against the strikebreaking
activity of the U. NJ. W. official
dom, both the faction led by Inter
national President John Lewis, and
that by District President Harry
Fishwick. al ...-,~-a
The district leaders of the N. NJ.
U. left West Frankfort today for
Taylorville to meet the situation
/ there.
! The miners are in great need of
food and clothing. Over 500 miners
in the midland tract have been dis
eliminated against in innsbruck
mines, and 500 others throughout
the state are blacklisted.
The Workers international Relief
is raising money for food and cloth
ing for these striking and black
listed miners, and is today holding
local conference in Taylorville.
The W. l. R. has just opened up a
second relief station in TaylorvilIe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
WORKERS
DEMONSTRATE
To Defy Police in
Indiana Harbor Meet

CHICAGO, Jan. "A huge dem
onstration against the white terror
in Mexico, and the mass arrests of
workers there, is planned by work
ers of Indiana Harbor, Indiana, this
Saturday night. Indiana Harbor is
the biggest Mexican center in the
Chicago district.
The demonstration will be held
under the auspices of the Commu-
mist Party of the U. S. A., District
g. In preparation for it, leaflets in
English and Spanish have been dis
tributed to the workers at the steel
mills and cement plants in the dis
trict.
The city police threats to crush
the demonstration have made the
workers more than ever determined
to turn the demonstration into a
real blow at the American and Mex
lean terrors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
TIDAL WAVE OF
INDIAN MASSES
WORRIES LONDON
A dmits Round Table
Conference is Now
Ineffective
Demonstration Jan. 2f
Masses Going Further
Than Lahore Congress

Lndon dispatches revea. grow
ing anxiety under the surface of
imperialist poker faces" as to the
developing revolution in India. While
the British "labor" imperialists re-
gard the Indian National Congress
with contempt, and correctly esti-
mate its methods adopted as futile
so far as in themselves meaning any
fight, it is admitted that the masses
are astir and that the Congress, by
making its gesture FOR complete in
dependence, Undoubtedly has pulled
all Indian opinion in a tidal wave
into it's wake, os that Britain must
offer greater concessions than a
year ago"
British Worry.
White this British statement puts
the point wrong end foremost, since
it is the mass of India which has
pulled the Congress in its wake
rather than the other way about, the
tidal wave of mass demand for in
dependence is real enough, to cause
the British to worry.
Hence, it is admitted that while
the British will use "firmness in
maintaining ORDER" it is going to
be hard or even impossible to make
the advertised "round table confer
ence" at London between Indians
and British a success, since any con-
ference "held at this time has no
prospect of unitign Indian opinion
behind its decisions" Hence it is
lamented that the idea was not car
ried through year ago.
May Surprise Ghandi.
AS to the program of the Con-
gress, British comment says that
"some comfort is derived" from the
fact that, although the Congress
(Contmued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03

MEXICO CITY, Jan. -Four
Cuban workers, one Spanish and
one Argentionian, arrested in the
white terror raids of the Ortiz Ru-
bio, Wall Strict government. have
been ordered deported.
They will be put on the first
ships available, according to infor-
nation, according to information
from government authorities.
The Cuban comrades are fighting
the deportation order vigorously,
and the Communist Party, the
Young Communist League, and the
revolutionary trade union center,
are organizing mass protest meet
ings against this move, which
means the outright murder Of the
Cuban workers by the Machado
dictatorship in Cuba.
The working class revolutionary
press has been suppressed. AL the
bourgeoisie fear the truth of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
Detroit Workers
Aid Mine Strikers

DETROIT, Jan. 2.-Hundreds OF
workers, among them a large num-
Der of Negro workers, gathered at
the two meetinks organized by the
Detroit section of the Workers In
ternational Relief, to demonstrate
their solidarity with the Illinois
mine strikers. Bill Gebert, organizer
of the National Miners Union, spoke
at meetings held at Workers Home.
134S E. Ferry and at International
Workers Home in Hamtranck. Over
$50 was collected for relierf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-03
SILK STRIKERS
CALL IN N. 7. ".
IS Textile Workers in
Lumberton Join Union

The National Textile Workers
Unions general office, 104 Fifth
Ave, yesterday received an appeal
for thirty-four striking workers of
the Edna Silk Mill at Allentown,
Pa, to send them an organizer. They
have kept the mill closed, with a
strike of both night and day shift,
for a week. The majority of the
strikers are young girls and women.
They came out against cut Of two
and half cents pere yard, piece
rates. The organizer will leave for
Allentown today.
Struggle Will Grow.
This silk strike, the union points
out, is further evidence that the
silk workers conditions are un-
bearable, and that everywhere they
are ready to respond to the call of
the N. T. w. for a national strug-
gle against the wage cuts, long
hours and piece rates. A national
silk committee is working out the
strategy of this larger struggle.
Organizer Fred Tetherow also re-
ported to the general office that
since his arrival this week at Lum-
berton, N. c., sixty-five more mill
workers there have joined the union.
Last week, at Lumberton, the N. T..
w. local secretary, 7. M. Candle,
successfully defended himself with
a revolver against lynch gazing Of
125 of the mill owners thugs.