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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Dunno at Scranton
Miners Mass Meet

This coming Sunday, May is, at
3 p. M, a mass meeting of miners
will be held in Scranton, Pa, in the
Workmen's Circle Hall, sos Lacka-
wanna Ave.
Bill Dunno, one of the leaders Of
the copper miners in Butte, Mon
tana, in 1917, and at the present
time T. U. U. L. representative to
the National Miners Union, will adj
dress the hard coal miners. Other
speakers will be Louis MeLaugh-
lin, one of the Gastoria defendants
for the l. L. D. Dan Singer, an
thracite organizer of the N. M. u,
will expose the recent treachery Of
the takers (U.M.W.A.) convention
IN Hazelton, Pa. Comrade Frankfeld
organizer of the Communist Party,
will act as chairman.
The meeting is being held under
the united auspices of the interna.
tional Labor Defense branches, the
N. NJ. U. locals, the Trade Union
Unity League and the Communist
Party, plus other workers organ
izations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
TEXTILE WORKERS
ALL FOR POW Frs
Charlotte Mass Meeting Protests
Plot to Electrocute Two.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., May ia
The textile workers here are rally
ing to the defense of NJ. H. Powers
and Joe Carr, Communist organizers
who go on trial for their lives in
Atlanta, Ga, on May 81. They are
also demanding the release OF all
other class-war prisoners.
Meetings of textile workers are
being held in and around here. every
day. All the mill towns are being
covered by speakers of the Inter-
national Labor Defense, National
Textile Workers Union and the
Trade Union Unity League.
A very successful meeting was
held here which irritated the cap
italist politicians, who organized a
counter meeting, which was COM
plete fizzle. Several workers went
to the politicians platform, but left
within a few minutes 70 return to
the mass meeting Of militant work
ers. Resolutions demanded the re-
lease not only of Powers and Carr
but of Foster, Minor, Amter and
Raymond in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
STIMSON BUSHES
NAVY WAR PACT
Ratification Fight in
Senate

The first step in the fight over
the ratification of the London Naval
Arms Treaty, which sanctions the
arms race between the imperialist
powers, was taken yesterday with
the appearance of Secretary of
State Stimson before the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Stimsoil, who was chairman of the
Wall Street delegation, explained
the provisions of the agreement
and pushed the appropriation of a
billion dollars for naval construc-
ton.
Naval officers and Representative
Britten, big navy champion and
chairman of the Committee on
Naval Affairs, demand that Amer
lean imperialism break the 6-inch
gun cruiser provisions of the treaty.
They raise the demand for 8-inch
gun cruisers.
While Stimson made every at
tempt to represent the treaty as a
step toward "peaee," he said nothing
about the clause permitting the
powers to build to the sky when
they consider it necessary" He
admitted, however, that the treaty
was an expression of Anglo-Amer-
lean rivalry when he said that the
pact was designed to obtain parity
with England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
ARREST CUBAN STRIKE
LEADER; FEAR DEATH
AT HANDS OF MILITARY
Police in Mexico City Expel Soviet Commercial
Agent
Excellent May Day Demonstrations in Many
Mexican Cities

Soviet trade organization, Fred
man, has, according to the press,
been officially given eight days to
get out of the country the govern
ment (much after Whaleh's style in
New York-Editor) declaring
without proof-that he was zen
gagged in Communist propaganda
and was giving Moscow money" to
the Communist Party of Mexico.
There were excellent May Day
demonstrations in the cities of Pu-
ebla, Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Tampico,
Laredo, Tamauhpas and Guadala-
jara. At the latter place the Com
munists upset a celebration of the
fascist government and its follow
ers. Some of the workers were
jailed.
Many workers remain in Jail in
Mexico City from the May Day dem
onstration, some brutally beaten up
and otherwise maltreated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
STIMS0N WANTS PACT AS
AID TO WAR PROGRAM

Afraid that the British imperial
lists may put one over on Secretary
of State Stimson, Wall Streets big
navy men are grillirg the chairman
of the United States delegation to
the London naval conference with
regard to the contents of the Lon
don treaty.
Stimson insists that the pact
guarantees Anglo-American naval
parity" and furthers American i'm
perialist war plans. The members
of the senate foreign relations COM
who are conducting the in
quiry as a preliminary to voting on
the ratification of the treaty, in
sist, on the other hand, that the ac-
ceptance of 6-inch rather than
8-inch gun cruisers and failure to
the fighting value of the
British merchant marine represent
a victory for MacDonald's imperial
list masters.
Meanwhile, reports from Wash
ington announce that Hoover will
review the fleet off the Virginia
Capes next Tuesday. This is to be
the largest naval display since 1927.
Most of the ships now anchored on
the Hudson will participate in this
review. A mock battle will be the
final feature of the review, as if
to symbolic the war for which all
Wall Street is feverishly preparing
Such are the signs Of Stimson's
"peace.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
OHIO COMMUNIST
CONVENE MAY 50
Fight on Hunger and
Syndicalist Law

CLEVELAND, O., May 14.-The
state election committee of the Com
munist Party of Ohio, has issued a
call inviting many hundred working
class organizations to the ratifica-
ton convention which will be held in
Cleveland, May 30, at Workers
Unity Center, 1904 Schovill Ave.
Hundreds of thousands of work.
ers in the State of Ohio are starv-
ing.
All maneuvers and conferences Of
the leading bankers and industrial
lists, called by Governor Cooper, were
so many hypocritical gestures to
fool the workers.
Against c. S. Law.
This ratification convention OF the
Communist Party will rally the
workers against the government OF
hunger, war and white terror. The
repeal and smashing of the Grim
inal syndicalist laws, which are be-
ing used to railroad workers to five
and ten years to the penitentiary
will be major issue in the conven-
ton, and of the election campaign
as whole.
The election campaign committee
convention call analyses the crisis,
the role of the capitalist parties
which rule the workers from the
seats of government and do nothing
for them, and of the capitalists So
cial fascist henchmen, the leaders
of the ALL. and of the socialist
party.
Each organization participating
in the convention will have two dele
gates, and one additional for every
30 members over 100.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Today in History Of
the Workers

May Is, 1525-Battle of Fran.
kenhausen, capture of Thomas
Munzer, end of German peasants
revolt. 1S4S--Second insurrection
in Vienna forced calling of con-
stituent assembly. 1SS6-Women
laundry workers at Troy, n. Y,
struck for higher pay; $4,000
Knights of Labor members locked
out for supporting them. 1919
General strike at Winnipeg, Can
ada, in support of locked-out union
machinists and building trades
workers. 1922-United States
Supreme Court declared second
child labor law unconstitutional.
1925--British Trades Union Con.
gress delegation to Soviet Russia
reported Zinoviev letter a forgery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
|, |. D. BATTLES
LYNCHING WAVE
S harp Statement on
Sherman Murder

The outrageous and fiendish muir
der of George Hughes, Negro work
er. at Sherman, Texas, by mob of
white ruling class bloodthirsty
lynchers. is clear evidence of the
means which the boss class and its
agents are utilizing in their attempt
to suppress the struggles of the
Negro masses.
This brutal lynching follows very
closely the lynching of Wilkins,
Dave Harris, Allen Green, Laura
Wood, Jimmie Levine and others
within the past few weeks.
General Campaign.
The International Labor Defense
points out that this bloody massacre
of Negro workers is part of the
whole vicious campaign of murder
ing, legal. lynehing and persecution
conducted by the plundering boss
class against the whole working
class. This is very clearly illus
trated in the legal lynching process
against two militant white workers,
NJ. H. Powers and Joe Carr, in At
lanta, Ga. Mcpherson Anderson, a
Negro worker in Crescent Springs,
Kentucky. and the wholesale brutal
attacks upon the workers through
out the whole country.
The International Labor Defense
holds the government of Texas and
the Federal Government responsible
for the shedding of the blood of
Hughes. The governor of Texas
will readily send his troops to rain
bullets into the bodies of workers
striking for better conditions, but
for these same troops to protect the
life of Negro worker from the
fiendish lynch gang, he gave the
order hold them if you can, but
don't shoot anybody"
What Troops Are For.
This is the use of the government
of the ruling class, not to protect
the lives of the workers-Negro and
white-but as an agent for muir
dering and prosecuting workers.
The international Labor Defense,
denounces in the most categorical
terms this barbarous lynching of
Hayes, ami holds the government
responsible for this bloody crime in
the eyes of the toiling masses, Ne
gro and white The /. L. D. calls
upon all Negro and white workers
to increase most theoretically the
fight against lynching, to organize,
to unite, and to carry on fierce
struggle against lynching and the
whole lynch law system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
SEE WORKING OUT
OF 5-YEAR PLAN
u. S. Dele ga tt lon of
Workers in USSR
(Bu .SDecin1 Wire.)

ROSTOV-ON -THE-DON, May IA.
The American Workers and Farm
ers Delegation to the Soviet Union,
which is here under the auspices of
the Friends of the Soviet Union,
United States Section, WISH 4 Stall
ingrad, INSTRUMENTATION, Souehoss
and the great Soviet collective farm
Gigant. Everywhere they were met
by thousands of workers and Red
Army troops, the strains of the In
ternational and other revolutionary
songs mihgling with the cheers of
the wildly enthusiastic throngs.
The delegates were amazed at
the tremendous construction work
being carried on in Stalingrad
where a new socialist city is being
built even larger than the old. indi-
eating the enormous strength of the
proletariat.
At the State farm Gigant they
saw hundreds of thousands of hec-
tares Ia hectare is PAT acres) sown,
a tribute to the overwhelming sue
cess of the Soviet agricultural pol
icy.
Crowded meetings were held with
the metal workers of the Rostov
factories, the enthusiasm reaching
such a height that the workers
lifted the American delegates to
their shoulders and carried them
around. The delegates pledged that,
on their return to the United States,
they would work with tenfold ener-
gy to arouse the American masses
to defend the peaceful socialist con-
struction of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Talk Peace Mean War
So MussOlini Admits

In an interview with THEODORE
Wolff, Chief Editor of the Berliner
Tageblatt, Mussolini said, II desire
good relations with Germany, and
there are admittedly questions on
which we can stand together. Dis
armament, as an example, ID 4 ques-
ton of colonial mandates"
The last sentence is particularly
significant. Fighting for the re-
division of the world, fighting for
colonies--this is the principal reason
why the race for ornaments IL in
evitable and the talk about disarm-
ament is a smoke screen for the
preparation for war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations

Plumbers TJUL
All plumbers. helpers and SUPPLY
me1r meet THURSDAY; May IL; P. nj
workers from the trade.
womens Council.
All members of the United Council
Of Working. Women are Galled upon up,
Tag Days Friday. Saturday. sunday.
May 1s to Is. II your council has
not yet got the boxes, call for them
at once.
Harlem Progressive Youth Club.
Lecture on revolutionary movement
in India. Friday. $50 p. M, 1892 Mad
ison Ave. Admisisn free.
wlilismsburs LID.
Thursday. 6s Whipple. st.
Nnt Turner LID.
Thursday, $50 p. M, S,01 Lenox Ave.
Labor Defender Photo Group.
Printing and developing demonstra-
ton BY ] Burmat, Of Russ Art Studio.
Thursday 7 p l4th St.
Lower Manhattan Daily Worker
Headers.
Conference. Thursday at 81 Z. 4th
t,.a Council II. 49,.
BROOKLYN. Rehecca Kaplan on Work
ers Children and Their Bringing Up.
Labor Defender Night.
Saturday. May II. &c Union Sd So
vet moyies, Gropper cartoons; LID.
band sub drive prizes. admission Csc.
workers school sports rIub.
:. sunday. 9.fj Il. Ill. Pelham Bay sta
dium.
Labor sports Union.
Function9ries meeting of all East
ern D'strist,, clubs, Saturday. May II,
4 p. m. 2'W. 18th st.
WOners Council No. I.
Tea ana pancake Party. SATURDAY..
% Z. i03rd St. $50 p. m. Admission
rs cents.
Prospect Workers Club.
FRIDAY, $40 p. m. $50 Westminster
Ave. Comrade Mo on China and India.
Wonens Council 7 and workers Cinb
Brownsville. 11S Bristol St. Frids y
evening. N. Gorelieh on Cement"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Word has been received that the
leader of the great March 20
strike in T. lie, Cuba. one of
Cuba's principal ports, has been
arrested by the military and his
felluw-workers are unable to as
certain his whereabouts. The
victim is Caesar Vilar. one Of the
mast loyal working-class leaders
Of that section of Cuba.
MENICO CITY.-On April so the
building which previously was oc-
cupied by the Soviet Ambassador
was raided by the Mezican police
and all the functionaries and en-
ployes remaining since the ambas-
sador's expulsion were arrested.
Some of the employees are NexicanS,
among them Jorge Diaz Ortiz and
Juan Gonzalez.
The Commercial Agent Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Walters Called to
Meeting in Bronx

Continued From Page One.)
Of L. is shown by the recent forma-
ton in Bakers Local s, Brooklyn,
of a Brotherhood Protective So
ciety," to attempt to save the Of
ficials, Burkhardt, Gundt and Freid-
lein, from being ousted. Freidlein,
with a gun on his hip and accom-
panied by a strong" committee,
goes from shop to shop enlisting
members in the protective" at the
price Of 81 each. The avowed pur-
pose of the B. P. S. is to fight the
Trade Union Unity League.
The Industrial Union goes right
on with its drive for 5000 new
members. The latest new head
quarters to be set up is at 16 Ora
ham Ave, Brooklyn. The main
headquarters is at 16 W. 21st St.,
Manhattan.
Again Attack Shifrin.
The A. F. of L. Bakers Union,
Local 500, comes out with pathetic
appeal to the inhabitants of Al
lerton Ave" to help the boss and
the A. F. of L. takers break the
bakery strike there. led by the In
dustrial Union. The appeal again
tries to make out that Shifrin was
guilty, although all the liars of the
A. T. of L. and of the bosses failed
to convict him of the murder
charge they placed against him
when he successfully defended him
self against some Hebrew Trades
gunner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
5 Cops Keep Workers
From Reading Daily

Comrades Miller and Baker, a
committee of two from the Young
Communist League selling Daily
Workers to those coming from the
job at the Gotham Hose Shop, 33rd
ST. and First Ave, found such a
state of terror and espionage pre-
vailing that the employees were
afraid to buy or even speak to the
committee.
Four cops and sergeant ere
there, and the workers looked
around for stool pigeons and spot
tiers when they were spoken to.
The sergeant and one policeman
told the committee to "beat it il
they knew what was good for them"
Pickets were arrested here May /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

started work on a series of indus
trial films: "Electro Energy" "Glass
and Cement" Sugar" "The Poly
graphic Industry" Means of Com
munication" and the following
prophylactic films: "Down With
Smoking" "Teeth, the Mouth and
Good Health" A. Vinnitzky, pro-
Queer, together with the operator,
Egerzk, is completing at the Kiev
plant a school culture film, "The
Wind" on the subject of exploit
ing the wind power for the needs
Of the people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
80 Days for Urging
Angeles School Strike

LOS ANGELES, Cal, May a.
Five workers, one woman, who
called on students at the Roosevelt
High School to strike and join the
unemployment demonstration April
25 were sentenced today to 80 days
each. The charge owas disturbing
the peace. The International Labor
Defense is appealing the case. Bonds
are set at $500 each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Daily Worker
Dance Friday

A Daily Worker entertainment
and dance under the auspices of
Section 2, District of the Comrdu-
mist Party will be held this Satur-
day evening at 26 Union Square.
The Amkino movie EVIL Spirit will
be shown. A snappy jazz band will
provide the dance music. Admission
so cents. All proceeds to the Daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Vufkm OPENS New Theatre OF
Cultural Films IN the Ukraine

Vufku has organized a special
cinema theatre in Kiev for the
special showing of the cultural film
among the working class. This
cinema theatre is situated in the
Great Hall of the Kiev Labor Palace
and seats 1,40O people. The en-
trance price is very low. Every
showing is accompanied by a lee
ture. There is a special exhibition
in the foyer of the hall. The thea
tire is very popular and is always
crowded.
At the Kiev cinema factory
prophylactic film called "Typhoid
Fever and Dysentery" has been
completed and is now being shown.
The Cinema Studio has also
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Narlusf Lecture i'm Hrnoislyn.
"Auarrhsm. Socialism and Comnln-
nism." Thursday. $50 u. m. l313 4Jr
st Auspices Unit 2. Section a.
Plumbers ana HELPERS Fraction.
of all Party and League members
IN that trade, Friday. u. M. at the
Center Absentees will go before the
Control Commission.
On May Day,
A comrade who bought some litera-
ture didn't get his change. Hell get
It II he calls at the Daily worker
office
Section Open Air Meet.
Tonight, l3Sth and Brook. $50 y. IN.
Factory gate meeting THURSDAY,
$50 D. m open air meet also FIJI
day at 163rd and Prospect.
section Three ProIetar;an Bnli.
Friday $50 p. IL. at Harlem Casino.
116th St ana Lenox Ave. John e..
Smiths band Admission 90 cents.
section One.
DailN WORKER readers conference,
Thursday at .27 e. Fourth st. All
comrades 10 be present without fail
Painters Fraction.
Saturday. ] y. IN. 3 W. lltt st.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Build Camp for
Workers Children

A camp for workers children at
Beacon, N. Y, is the goal of cam
paign started by the Workers In
ternational Relief, Local New York.
In order to make this camp reality
a children's conference, called by
the w. |. r. Relief Scouts, will be
held Saturday, May II, at 10 E.
Nth St., at p. IN. All children's
Stubs, language schools and sport
veams are urged to send delegates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
PLUMBERS MASS MEETING
TONIGHT.

The Plumbing Section of the T.U.
I'LL. Building Trades League is
holding a mass meeting of plumbers,
helpers and supply men tonight at
8 D. M, at 81 w. 18th st. All work
ers in the plumbing trades are urged
to come and bring as many fellow
workers as possible with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Detroit Workers Will
Protest Murder,

DETROIT, Mich, May IA
mass protest meeting against the
lynching wave that spreads over the
country now, and especially to con.
denim the burning to death Of q
Negro worker in Sherman, Texas,
last Friday, will be held here May
2s. The place and speakers will be
announced later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
World Tourists Book
Jubilee Trip to USSR

The first agency in America for
sending tourists to the Soviet Union,
the "World Tourists" at IT'S Fifth
Ave, New York; is celebrating its
fourth Jubilee at the end of this
month. A jubilee group, for which
bookings are still open, will sail for
the Soviet Union on May %.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
BUILD COUNCILS
IN H|LADELPHIA
Jobless Organize As
Jobs Decrease

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May IA
Tomorrow and the next day, Pat
Divine, national secretary of the
Councils of the Unemployed will be
here. to lead in organization work
and preparation for the campaign to
send large delegation to the great
national Unemployment Convention
in Chicago, July AS. The quota
from Philadelphia and vicinity will
be zoe delegates, with $3.50 to be
raised locally for the convention ex-
penses. Divine goes to Buffalo for
Saturday and Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
JEWISH LUCK" AT IND AVE.
PLAYHOUSE.

"Jewish Luck" is continuing to
be shown for third week with
great success. Another interesting
feature is the showing of a news
reel of the life of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
Figures Blast Hoover.

Figures D'GSL ElOUNeE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May IA
Even the U. S. Department of La
Dor figures give the lie direct to the
Hoover propaganda about his econ
onic conference stopping wage cuts,
Since the conference met, the de-
partment of labor reports IA es-
Establishments cutting wages of IS,
900 workers, and admits that these
facts are fragmentary. They should
be regarded only as symptoms of
what is going on in the rest of the
industry.
Figures drawn from government
sources, according to Secretary of
Labor Davis made as optimistic as
possible, are that:
Wages Falling.
Wages of factory workers dropped
4 per cent between April of last year
and this year. The heaviest losses
were felt in mems clothing, hard
ware, brass, bronze and copper prod
ucts, furniture, machine tools, shirts
and collars, wooden, worsted and cot
ton goods factories. Wage increases
in the 12-month period were less
in volume and restricted to a feH
isolated industries in which a small
er number of workers are normally
engaged"
In the same period the number Of
jobs declined per cent: Only paper
and printing, of II groups, reported
more jobs, and it was a fraction of
one per cent. Autos slumped 1875
per cent, metal products 1913 per
cent. lumber 10 per cent, textiles,
8 per cent.
All Production Less.
New York figures, always more
accurate, but still very optimistic
show a ten per cent reduction in
jobs.
The drop in building is larger than
in 1923 and in 1920-21. In the ac-
emulation of stocks-which buyers
can't buy because they have no jobs
the curret depression equals that
of the disastrous postwar deflation.
Stocks bullying the wholesale ware
houses and retail shelves are meas
ured now at 1853, compared with 100
last June, rise of about 80 per cent.
The actual volume of department
stores also fell at least as severely
in this depression as in any other.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Demand the release Of Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter and Ray.
mond, in prison for fighting
for unemployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Write About Your Conditions
for The Daily Worker. Become a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Forward to Mass Conference
Against Unemployment. Chicago
July 18th.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15

Fight for work or wages.s