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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
CHINESE RED ARMIES
CAPTURE VIDE AREA
IN HUMAN PROVINCE
u. S. Gunboats Attack Workers and Peasants
At YochOw on the Yangtse River
Red Army Captures Yochow; Answer Fire and
Kill One u S. Marine

Chinese Red armies gained con-
troll Of the entire area along the
Wuchang- Changsha railway, a line
running north and south and con-
meeting Hupeh and Human pro-
vinces, according to capitalist press
dispatches from Hankow. Human
lie the province where the agrarian
revolution has taken deepest roots.
The same reports indicate that
Yochow, 100 miles above Hankow,
was also captured by the Commu-
mist armies. Villages west of Han
kow have also been penetrated. The
capitalist press is resorting to its
old tricks of referring to the Red
armies as bandits" in order to
diseredit them.
The Navy Department of the
Wall Street bankers received a re-
port from its Asiatic fleet stating
that Samuel Elkin of Brooklyn, a
sailor on the American gunboat
Guam at Yochow, on the Yangtse
River, was killed during a fight
with Communist forces. The report
claims that the Communists at
tackled the gunboat. The important
fact, however, is that the U. S.
gunboat was at Yochow. Without
openly admitting it, the American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
NJ 0BILIzE FOR
NMU CONVENTION
Union Issues Special
Lists and Buttons
Young Pioneers of

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 6.-The
National Miners Union, which calls
a great mass rank and file conven-
ton of coal and metal miners to
meet here July 26, has issued cir
cular to all locals and committees
explaining the purposes of the con-
vention. A thousand delegates are
expected. The union states:
Credentials are arriving from
the metal mines in Minnesota,
bituminous mines in Central and
Western Pennsylvania, the hell
holes of Southern and Northern
West Virginia. These delegates
are coming from mines that are on
strike at the present time; mines
that are preparing to strike; mines
that have been shut down for few
months and few years, mines that
work one and two days in the month
and a greater number of these dele
gates will have to be fed, housed
and brought to the convention by
the national organization as they
have no way to finance themselves.
"In order to make it possible for
these delegates to appear in the
convention, to help formulate de-
mands, develop program, broaden
the present strikes and establish or
ganization, the miners who are
working and the working class in
general, must give the N. NJ. U.
financial support.
1.-The national organization has
issued special Convention Button
and Special Convention Collection
List and at the last meeting of the
National Borough set aside the II,
IL and 13 of July as Special Con-
vention Mobilization Days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
MINERS STARvE;
UNIV. CRAWLS
Send Letter to Hoover
About 12-Hour Day

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, July 6.
The convention of District No. 81,
United Mine Workers of America,
has voted to address a letter to
President Hoover pointing out that
the coal companies have abolished
safety and other regulations, are
working the II hour day, and that
wages are continually being cut.
The resolution says:
"Men go to work without dinner
buckets, for they have nothing to
put in them. In one school twenty
eight out of forty-two pupils were
sent home by the teacher because
they were undernourished."
1t is characteristic of the U. M.
W. takers that they sense the deci-
sion of the miners to fight, and try
to turn this militancy aside into the
harmless channel of an appeal to
Hoover.
In northern West Virginia the Ma
tional Miners Union now leads
strikes in Cassville mines.
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imperfalists are intervening in
China against the workers and
peasants armies, attacking them
wherever they can.
Elkin, the sailor who was report
ed killed, had himself written to
his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Teitel-
baum, who lives at 2845 West seth
St., Coney Island. She told re-
porter from the Daily Worker, that
he had shot at and killed six SOL
diers in the Chinese Red Army. He
also said that more gunboats were
coming from America. This alone
shows to what an extent the Wall
Street imperialists are attempting
to deal death to the workers and
peasants armies in China.
Elkin, who was % years old when
he was killed, spent two years on
American gunboats in China. He
was an electrician, but was lured
to join the army at the age of 16.
Later he decided that he wanted ITO
see the world" and so he joined the
American imperialist navy which
shipped him to China to protect
Americ.a capital and to shoot down
Chinese workers and peasants who
are fighting against native and i'm
perialist exploiters and oppressors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Vamzetti Case To Be
Screened By S0Ukin0 In USSR

Word comes from Leningrad that
Sovkino will undertake the screen
ing of the famous Sacco-Vanzetti
case at an early date. The film will
trace the life of the two Italian
workers and will be based on the
book, "The Life and Death of Sacco
and Vanzetti," issued here some
years back.
According to the report in Vari-
ETY., Eugene Lyons, United Press
correspondent in Moscow, has signed
a contract giving Sovkino screen
rights to his book. Lyons several
years ago translated it into Ger
man, Russian, Italian and other
languages.
From Berlin comes a news item
that Schwedschekoff, head of the
Soviet film industry in Russia, is
now in that city, planning an in
tensive campaign to distribute the
films made in the U. S. S. R. He
will establish film exchanges in
Berlin and in the principal cities of
Austria, Hungary and Germany. In
the last few years Soviet pictures
have proven very popular with the
masses in Germany.
The Hippodrome this week is fea-
turing the following vaudeville acts:
Demo and Rochelle, Alexandria, OIL
sen, Chevalier Brothers and Rogers
an Donnelly.
At the 81st st. Theatre the fea-
ture photoplay is Helen Kane, in
Dangerous Nan McGrew. Vaude-
ville-The Four Diamonds, Don Ze-
laya, Arthur Petley and company
and others. Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday-Photoplay, Charles
Buddy Rogers in safety In Num-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
UNEMPLOYMENT
PLENTY IN TEXAS
12-Hour Chain Stores
"Organize" Slaves

DALLAS, Tex, July 6.-Jobs are
scarce down here in the southwest
and workers cheap. From Ell Paso
800 miles west to this city of sky
scrapers in the heart of the cotton
belt the highways are crowded with
out-of-work men signalling for
rides. Every new oil field whether
in Texas, Oklahoma or New Next
co is over-run with thousands seek
ing employment. Wages are lit
lie better in such areas than in the
cities though the cost of living is
higher. Nearly all oil companies
now use steel towers which can be
erected very quickly. Rig builders
and drillers usually get, $12 for
12-hour day. Common labor re-
ceives from $3.50 to SIS for hours
and in some cases bunkhouses are
furnished.
In this city, which is rs miles
from the nearest field, the general
rate for pick and shovel work is
$500 for eight hours. Negroes are
usually found in such jobs, and since
there is no organization frequently
the pay is less than this. Building
laborers, also Negroes, and not
unionized, sometimes get as much
as Csc an hour. The skilled build
ing trades unions have separate
agreements with certain contract
ors but the open shop movement is
sufficiently strong.
| Milk wagon drivers and other
teaming crafts are practically I'M
organized. The former, as one driv-
er stated it, "begin early and work
until we get through and the COM
pany tries to let us off one day in
seven" The wage for beginners is
usually $25 week.
However, this is one city where
upon entering chain grocery stores
one is greeted with the unusual
sight of the union shop card of the
A. F. of L. retail clerks prominently
displayed. Piggy Wiggly, Helpy-
Selfy and Clarence Saunders have
adopted this policy while the A. &
p. with numerous fine establish
ments will have nothing to do with
the "union."
The state managers of the now
"fair" chains came to union head
quarters and asked to have their
employees unionized. AS Constan-
tine made Christians of all his sub
jects, so the chain store bosses made
union members of all their work
ers. They still work the 12-hour
day, from z to 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
GEORGIA JUDGE
Vents PREJUDICE
Six To Be Executed If
Workers Don't Act

ATLANTA, Ga, July 6.-What
the six Communists now facing a
death sentence under an 1861 insur-
rection statute may expect from the
Georgia supreme court, should they
be convicted and appeal, is indicat-
ed in a speech by S. Price Gilbert,
supreme court justice, before the
Georgia Cotton Mfrs. Assn.
According to the employers or
gan, Textile World, Justice Gilbert
urged Georgia manufacturers "to
adopt such measures as may be nee
essary to successfully combat de-
structive forces, such as the doctrine
of Communism" AS a justice, it
appears he will be about as impair
tial as Judge Thayer in the Sacco-
Vanzetti case.
This is only another proof to the
workers that the lesson they should
have learned in the many such legal
lynchings in the past holds good
here. 1t is vitality important to
mobilize all possible strength at the
very beginning, and win the first
trial. Juries when they feel the
mass pressure of organized work
ers, sometime hesitate, no matter
how carefully picked, to actually
kill a worker whose offense is that
of organizing other workers. A
professional capitalist judge never
hesitates unless the organization is
simply overwhelming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
MANY LID. BRANCHES
WILL MEET THIS WEEK

NEW Y0RK.-Branches of the
International Labor Defense in
various sections of the city will
meet to take up the special prob
lem of the l. L. D. Excursion to
Hook Mountains, on Saturday, July
10, as follows:
Tuesday, July s; Julio Mella,
Bath Beach branch at AZ Bay %
St., Brooklyn, German Ridgewood
at Queens Labor Lyceum, 1856 For
est Ave-, Yonkers Branch, at Work
ers' Center, 252 Warburton Ave.
Yonkers.
Wednesday, at s P. NJ; Santiago
Brooks, at Spanish Workers Center,
26 W. lis St., Hungarian York
vile, at $50 East 81 St., Williams
burgh, at 81 Whipple St., Brook
Ign. Brownsville, at los Thatford
Ave.
Thursday at P. M; German
Yorkville at the Labor Temple, 81
and Second Ave. Yorkyille English
at BAT East 72 st. N. Y. C. Joe
Hill" at the Workers Center, 1l79
Broadway. ELLA May, Boro Park
Brooklyn, at 1878 43 st. Brooklyn
MAT Turner" Harlem Workers
Center, 308 Lenox Ave.
Workers wishing to join the
I. L. D. are invited to attend the
meetings of the l. L. D. in theil
respective sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Again Charge
Bu1IQR With
State Seditl0u

CAMDEN, N. j., Julp 6.-Anna
Burlak, Arthur Brown and Charles
Miller have been charged with sedi-
ton, which carries a ten-year SEN
tence i'll New Jersey. They were
arrested here July for taking part
in an International Labor Defense
meeting called to protest the police
attacks on the unemployed before
the R. c. A.-Victor Co. a few days
before, and to protest the ''incitment
of instruction" charge under which
Burlak and five others face electro
cution in Atlanta.
Bu-Iak was on $4,000 bail on the
Atlanta charge at the time of her
arrest in Camden and was on tour
for the |. L. d. to rouse mass sup
port for the Atlanta defendants.
The meeting was held indoors,
and permit had been issued. There
will be hearing Tuesday.
BOSTON, Mass, July "a thou
sand workers gathered in the /. L.
ID. protest demonstration here at
Parkman Bandstand todap denounc-
ing the attempt to murder through
the Atlanta, Ga, courts of six work
ers whose offense consisted of Or
ganizing Negro and white workers
there on terms of social equality for
the common struggle against low
wages, unemployment and lynching.
Speakers were Charles Alexander,
Negro worker, and Harry Canter.
Thore will be a great defense con-
ference July 8 in fremont Temple,
Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
FEDERAL SPY IN PUBLIC MORALS
SCRANTON CASES WORRY THE S. P.
Workers Rally to Aid
Of Party, Union

SCRANTON, Pa, July 6.--Sedi-
tion cases against Communist Par
ty, Trade Union Unity League, Ma
tional Miners Union and Interna-
tional Labor Defense members ar
rested here last week in raids on
the Communist Party offices have
been postponed to Saturday. The
office was raided again last night.
The meeting of Lithuanian workers
Saturday was smashed by the po-
lice of Wilkes Barre. Philip Frank
field, Of the Communist Party, was
arrested on the streets of Wilkes
Barre. It is not known yet what
charge has been placed against him.
Federal Dick Present.
A U. 8. government secret service
man Is here helping the state
prosecutors.
joe fash. district youth organ
izer Of the National Miners Union
and Sylvan Pollack, representative
Of the I. L. D., are both still held
in Jail.
Many workers organizations are
rallyihg TO the support of the Com
rnunist Party and the National
Miners Union, both of which the
employers and their state and fed
erAl officials are trying TO drive out
Of existence. The bosses fear the
organization of the victimized, Bit
terly exploited or unemployed
masses Of anthracite miners here.
Two hundred militants at the
Underwood Colliery at Jessup are
being victimized as result of the
strike,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Capitalism to Probe
Itself in New York

The so-called socialist" party
yesterday being alarmed at the way
the working class is learning that
the government is a class govern
ment, and wishing to "clean it up"
SO that it would not appear so dirty,
even though just as much a bosses
government as ever made a united
front with the republican capitalist
party, to petition the N. Y. State
governor, a democrat, to "investi-
gate" the democratic (Tammany)
capitalist government of New York
City.
The Socialists" back the minor
ity republicans in the state legis-
lature in their demand for "probe"
of New York City's democratic ad-
ministration, on the ground that
corruption in government" is tex
pensiye." Also that it is "destruc-
tive Of public morals"
There is no doubt of the corrup-
tion of officials in New York City.
1t is capitalist government and
being based on robbery Of the
workers is a government of rob-
berry and murder of the workers.
But the socialists are not worried
about that.
But being so flagrantly corrupt
as to steal openly is an aid in
opening the eyes of the workers as
to the governments class charac-
ter, like the socialist" city govern
ment of Berlin. So capitalism is
asked to investigate itself before it
is 10 late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
rr:tich Bosses Move Against u. S. "Invasion"

LONDON, July Elm a desperate
effort to secure and guarantee the
British dominions and colonies as
markets for British goods, and to
fight against American Invasion"
of the British empire, as we'll as to
maintain their hold on the world
market, the biggest chiefs of British
finance capital have signed resolu.
luton, suggesting that urgent
measures" should be adopted by the
British government "for the promo
ton of inter-imperial trade" so as
ito secure and extend the market
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

for British products both at home
and through the export trade" "
While advocating "free trade" with
in the empire, the resolution pro-
poses ito impose duties on all i'm
ports from other countries"
Tn e resolution was signed by
Reginald McKenna, former chancel-
lor of the exchequer and now chair
man of the Midland Bank, the d.
rectors of the other four banks of
the "big five" and also the direc-
tor of the Bank of England. The
resolution was made public Thurs
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Seipel and "Rumor" of Hungarian Restoration

VIENNA QP.S.).-The conflict
between the Heimwehr fascists and
their hostile brothers of the Aus
trian Landbund often reveals inter-
esting items for the outsider. For
instance, the too energetic demands
Of the "Reichspost," the organ of
the Christian-Social Party (Seipel
group). that the material, if any,
against Major Pabst should be pub
lished, has called forth a long and
mysterious article threatening SEN
sational exposures concerning the
happenings of recent months in the
camp of the legitimists from the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
z WORKERS ARRESTED
AT NEGRO MEETING

HARTFORD, Conn.--At an open
air netting held here Tuesday night
under the auspices of the American
Negro Labor Congress, Comrades
Bill Taylor and Richards were ar
rested for speaking to the assem-
bled workers, Negro and white, who
were angry and resentful at the ac-
ton of the cops. Bail was set at
$1,000 each, which was raised by
the International Labor Defense,
and they were ordered to appear
Thursday for trial.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

"Extrablatt," the organ of the
Landbund. Seipel's. visit to Luxem-
burg, his visit to Budapest and va
rious other secret discussions have
not yet been sufficiently exposed,
says the "Extrablatt" darkly. The
article ends with reference to the
untiring intrigues of the Ex-Kaiser-
ess Zita and the secret courier SER
vice between Vienna and her house
in Steenockerzel. This revelation
is especially interesting in view of
the persistent "rumors" Of the plot
to bring Prince Otto back to the
throne of Hungary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Stain Proposed for Lenin Order

MOSCOW Q.P.S.).--The Presi-
dunn of the Central Committee of
the Metal Workers Union of the
S. U. has addressed a letter to the
Presidium of the Central Executive
Committee of the Soviet Union pro-
posing that the Lenin Order should
be awarded to Comrade Stain at
the coming XVI Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

bers." Vaudeville-Anderson and
Burt, Billy Glason, Four Peaches
and Jay, and others.
Victor McLaglen, star of What
Price Glory" and "The Cock Eyed
World" is now at the Roxy Theatre
in the stellar role of "On the Level"
The story is by William K. Wells,
author of "The Cock Eyed World
with the adaptation by Dudley Mich
OILS and dialogue by Andrew Ben
nison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

Union as mark of recognition for
his great services in the building up
of socialism, for his efforts for the
consolidation of the proletarian
dictatorship, the industrialisation
of the Soviet Union, the socialist
transformation of agriculture, the
theological and organisational unity
of the Communist Party and the
destruction of the last roots of CAPT
talism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Australian Communists Clash With Police

SYDNEY UP.S.).-The Commu-
mist Party Of Australia has put for
ward its own candidates in the
municipal elections in Sydney
against the Labor Party candidates
for the first time. The elections
take place on Wednesday, June 10,
1880.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

Last night the police attacked
and broke up a Communist propa-
ganda demonstration here and 81
Communists were arrested, includ-
ing the Communist candidates for
the municipal elections. Sharp col
lisions occurred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
Buffalo Police Make
Arrest of Communists

BUFFALO, N. Y, July Com
rades Chief Thundervoice, Loft, and
William Guette, were arrested here
at an open air meeting of the Com
munist Party. The charges against
them are resisting an officer"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07
ROOMS

1913 Fast 10TH ST Furnished
roomsj ali improvements, near sub.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

Fight for the seven-hour day,
five-day week,
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-AMu(E "A En- TS>
ARTISTS AND MODELS

Paris-aiviera Edition of 1880
Thea. 44th ST., w. of
B'way. Ewes. at 500
Mats. Wed. and Sat. at 2:3O
THEATRE COOLED TO 100
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-01
B. Y. P. U. Notes

The executive board of the Senior
Federation will meet Tuesday at 8
o'clock at the Central Union Mission
Building.
The board meeting of the Intermedi-
ate B. Y. p. u. Federation will be held
Friday at Central Union Mission.
The B. Y. P. u. Federation will give
O comedy-drama February IS.
Miss Louise Newkirk and the devo-
tional life commission win present the
program tomorrow at Bethany, No /.
Philip England. director Of the stew
ardship commission, will have charge OF
the program tomorrow at Bethany
No. 2.
The service commission, under the
leadership of Miss Mary Pullin, will
present the program at Chevy Chase
tomorrow.
The program at East Washington
Heights B. Y. P. U. tomorrow will be
presented by Wilton Smith and his
group.
Fifth B. Y. p. U. will have charge of
the services at the Home Of the Aged
tomorrow at 8 O'Clock.
First will have a penny social We'd
nesday evening, which will be preceded
by its business meeting
The program at Fountain Memorial
B. Y. p. U. tomorrow will be in charge
monthly business meeting will be held
Wednesday evening.
Miss June Best and group will pre-
sent the program tomorrow at Grace.
Miss Ruth Neal and the service COM
mission will have charge of the program
tomorrow at Highlands
Group No. 8, under the leadership OF
Leroy Greer, will present the program
at Kendall tomorrow.
Miss Catherine Snyder will conduct
the devotional meeting tomorrow eve
ming at Metropolitan B. Y. P. u.
National Baptist Memorial viii have
charge Of the services tomorrow at 2:3C
o'clock at the Home for Incurables
William Wolfrey and group 3 will have
charge Of the social at O'Clock. The
devotional meeting at o'clock will be
conducted by Miss Dorothy Smith and
group No. 4. The business meeting will
be he'd Wednesday.
The devotional life commission, with
Fred Braugh. director, will have charge
of the meeting tomorrow at Temple.
Miss Gladys Rielding and the servicC
commission will discuss the topic How
May We Find Our Life Work." at Ia.
koma Park B. Y P. u. tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-01
REFORMED CHURCH
IN ANNUAL MEETING
Ladies Aid Society Serves Dinner
to Congregation Before
Session.

The annual congregational meeting of
the First Reformed Church, Thirteenth
and Monroe streets. was held wednes-
day night Dinner was served bv the
Ladies' Aid Society, followed by the
business session, presided over by the
pastor, DR.. James d. Buhrer. Fave r
Palsgrove, Frank A. Loefler, August w
Schickler and w. Harvey Horning sue
ceeded themselves, and one new deacon.
Victor LIE Clair, was elected. Annual re-
ports were made by Frank A. LoefIer.
clerk of the congregation; Mrs. Louise
R. Stambaugh, secretary Of the finance
committee for the Sunday school. nm
der the leadership of Robert s. Regar:
the Ladies' Aid Society, with Mrs. Jar
rell as president; the Woman's Mission
airy Society, with Miss Pauline Holer as
president. and the Christian Endeavor
Society, with Edward G. Knouse as pres
ident. The Mems Community Service
Club, with H. H. Moore as president.
was represented by Ralph H. MCCARTHY.
The consistory for this year is as
follows: Elders, George G. Blacksmith.
president; Faye E. Palsgrove, Henry G.
Nau and Charles G. Wenrich; deacons.
Frank A. Loeffler, August w. Schickler,
w. Harvey Hornig, Edward G. Knouse.
William G. Strauss, G. Ernest Moore
and Victor lie Clair, and trustees, Chris
topher Rammling, Ralph H. MCCARTHY
and Edward w. Sanders.