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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
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Lynch Mask Shows
Thru Classy Gazette
Santa Claus Outfit

GASTONIA, N. c., Dec. 31.-The
Gastonia Gazette, or the "Gassy
Gazette" as the mill workers scorn-
fully call it, tried to substitute the
garb and long whiskers of Santa
Claus for the lynching mask this
Christmas, 'and aid the mill bosses
through its empty Stocking Fund"
designed to fool the mill workers, n
large part of whom are unemployed
and starving.
1t scattered crumbs With an air
of doing wonders for the self-same
workers families, whom it had aided
in reducing to starvation by SANDER
ing the workers efforts to organize
under the N. T. for better condi
tons. w
In a recent issue, the Classy Ga
zette" admitted that over a quarter
of million workers in North Caro-
lima were unemployed.
With pride, the Gazette, instiga-
tor of the murder of Ella May,
writes, at may be of interest to the
public to know that a representative
of The Gazette yesterday carried
Christmas cheer, food, fuel and
clothing to survivors of the Ella
May Virgins family
And as a cheerful New Year
thought it declares, Zone of the
first resolves this community should
make right here and now, is to per-
NIT no more meddling around here
by these Communists and National
Textile Workers Union trouble
makers. They are threatening to
come again in the spring. What will
this community do about it,"
The Classy Gazette" has taken off
its Santa Claus uniform and put OIL
its lynching mask. 1t carries again
its gun in hand-the gun that killed
Ella May-and it threatens to con-
tinue its work of death again if the
textile workers try to better condi-
lions so as not to be reduced to ac-
cepting the empty Stocking Fund"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
GEN. CROWDER IN.
TARIFF c R AT T
On Sugar Barons' Pay
Aided by Machado

WASHINGTON, Dec. 91.-Gen-
eral Enoch H. Crowder, former
American Ambassador to Cuba, was
revealed to be on the payroll of
the sugar robber lobbyists, headed
by the Cuba Co. Hoover .was i'm
plicated in the graft of his personal
attorney, Edwin Shattuck, who re-
ceived $4,000 for getting Hoover's
aid for the sugar barons.
Crowder was recommended for
the sugar lobby by President Ma
chado, of Cuba, the murderer of
Mella and hundreds of other mill
tant workers. Aurelio Portuondo,
of Havana, an official of the Cuban
Trading Co., disclosed the fact that
Crowder was on the sugar lobby
payroll in a letter to Lakin, presi-
q Mt of the Cuba Co. The letter in
part reads:
81 am sorry to trouble you, but
| do not know which mills are pay
ing Crowder. If the mills can do
nothing, l shall try to get money
somewhere, because / know Crowder
could not afford to work three or
four months without pay, though he
would be patriotic enough to Cuba s
cause to do so.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
SHOE WORKERS
WIN VICTORY
Court Forced to Civ e
Up Injunction Plan

Effort to obtain an injunction
against the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union, to OUTLAW" any aid
directly or indirectly, to these strik-
ers by the union, failed in court
when Judge Callahan failed to grant
one.
The militanacy of the shoe work
ers and their declaration that they
would violate all injunctions the
court might issue convinced the au-
thorities that injuctions would not
defeat the shoe workers of force
the union to make any retreat in
the struggle, and that the courts
would only expose themselves more
openly as tools of the bosses.
The attack on the Independent
Shoe Workers Union is being con-
Quoted directly under direction of
the Department of Labor of the u.
S. government. "Conciliator" Wood
of the Department, in a letter to
the shoe companies, definitely in
structed them to break their con-
tracts in an effort to destroy the
union.
Instead of being driven back to
work without union conditions, the
workers rallied more energetically
to the union when the hand of the
government in the lockout became
obvious, and soon the courts were
convinced that injunctions could not
break the militant spirit of the
workers
Camp Nitgedaiget is coming to
the aid of the shoe workers, and
last week began to tax its visitors
fifty cents a week to help the strik-
erS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
10000 GERMAN JOBLESS
ASK RELIEF; FIRED ON
BY "SOCIALIST POLICE
Cologne Demonstration Attacked; Many
Wounded; 100 Arrests Include Reichstag
Member, Communist
Document Exposing"
Now Admitted Forged
(Wireless bu It,precorrl

BERLIN, Dec. 31.-Yester-
day evening 10000 unemploy-
ed demonstrated before the
City Hall at Cologne, in sup
port of the proposal of the
Communist fraction in the City
Council to grant special winter
assistance to the unemployed.
The police, under direct lead
ership of the Socialist police
chief, dubbed the jobless work
ers but without dispensing
their demonstration.
The socialist" then orders
the police to fire, and many of
the workers were wounded. A
hundred were also arrested, in
Guiding the Communist men,
Der of the German Reichstag,
Kollwitz. The City Council re-
jected the Communist proposal.
The German capitalist press has
published an alleged "secret" circu-
lar of the organization bureau of
the Communist Party, signed by the
name "Obuch', providing for a gen.
eral alarm and Communist courier
service on January 18th. The Germ
an CommunisS Party has no "Org-
bureau" and the Prussian Diet mem
Der Obuch never signs circulars.
The document is, of course, a cldm-
sy forgery.
The capitalist paper "Tempo" adj
mits the supposed "secret Com
munist circular" is forgery.
Reports from Moscow quote the
"Pravda" as declaring that such
forgeries always crop up immediate
ly prior to climax of capitalist
attack on the workers. The Social
lists" needed some color for excuse
for the new exceptional law and to
prepare the public opinion for out
having the Communist Party.
Capitalist figures show that Ger
many's unemployment has now
reached the two million mark. Ber-
lin alone has 100000 unemployed
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
Y.C.L-. members
EXPOSE court
Berate Class Justice of
Vicious Judge

David and Miriam Weiss, men,
bers of the Young Communist
League, who have been the object of
a lot of liberal bosh in the capitalist
press because of threats of violence
against them by Judge Sylvester
Sabbatino, were interviewed by the
Daily Worker on their Jail expert
ence.
"We were collecting funds for
striking shoe, mine and needle
trades workers On the B. M. T. SUBJ
way" said Miriam Weiss. eve had
just started when Patrolman Robert
Cotter tried to stop US. We showed
him our credentials, but he insisted
on taking us to the police station.
son Tuesday we came before Sab
batino. Sabbatino was not interested
in the reason we were arrested but
was irked over the fact that we were
both members of the Young Com
munist League. He flared up de-
nouncng the Communists. When he
heard we were Communists, he sent
us back to Jail, threatening us with
deportation, despite the fact that we
are citizens of the United States.
eve were held incommunicado,
not even our parents were permitted
to see us.
Friday we again appeared before
the Judge and he said he was sorry
he could not deport us. He threat
Continued on Page TtUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
TIE SMITH With
TAMMANY-THUGS
Tammany Split Rumor
in Vitale Case

1t is only through the dispute now
said to be raging between two fac
tons of the Tammany Hall organi-
cation for control of the rich plums
to be gathered in graft, that has
made possible the revelations of
close connections of Tammany mag
istrate Vitale Nth gangsters, it was
indicated yesterday.
WHALE is the fascist and bitter foe
of militant labor, whose party was
held up some weeks ago by seven
gangsters, and who later returned
a gun to Tammany detective from
whom the stick-up men had taken
it.
In the investigation" of the hold
up, further connections between Wit
ale and the gangsters seem to have
Continued on Page TUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
CHANDI LEADS
INDIA CONGRESS
AGAINST ACTION
Vote Down Only Move
Meaning a Fight
for Freedom
For Non Violence Only
C h ar di Turns Over
Men for Punishment

Lahore, India, dispatches indicate
that the native bourgeois National
list Congress is backing the "holy"
faker Ghandi in the votes taken so
far in the open assembly. Previous
E, the reported actions we're all in
committees.
The assembly voted down an
amendment proposed by Subash
Bose for complete severance from
Great Britain and the establishment
of a Nationalist Government of In
dia. This was an amendment tQ
Ghandi's treacherous proposal for
gradual attainment" of independ-
ence by "non-cooperation" and mon
violence. This amendment was the
only vital thing the congress could
have done-but it did not do it. The
presiding officer did not allow a
count on the vote.
The congress reflected the inner
ent cowardice of the bourgeoisie, in
going out of its way to condemn
the recent (ands probably framed
up) bomb attack on the train of
the British Viceroy, Lord Irwin, the
resolution on this point actually con-
graduating this murderer of the In
dian people on his "escape'S When
one of Ghandi's disciples, Ansari,
spoke for this resolution, students
in the enclosure waved red flags and
shouted protests.
The NatiQpalist volunteers" who
broke the arm of a secret service
spy who tried to arrest one of them,
were turned over osthe police by
"Ghandi's order, though the volun-
teers prepared to resist arrest.
At Madras, the National Liberal
Federation frankly endorsed i'm
perialism, referring in humble tone
to the promise made of dominion
status, and agreeing to participate
in the London "round table" con-
ference.
(Qther Indian news on Page g.
Editor.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
lid CONFERENCE
OUTLINES WOR X
Prepare M a SIS Fights
on Growing Oppression

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31.-The
| fourth national conference of the
international Labor Defense sum-
med upon today with discussion and
resolutions. The discussion showed
that the |. L. D. was developing in
to a mass defense organization in
the revolutionary movement,
All the Negro delegates, and
workers from many industries par
ticipated in the discussion, and the
framing of the resolutions. A course
was laid out for mass defense work
in this period of greater struggles.
A resolution for a broad drive to
save the seven Gastonia defendants
and intensity the drive against the
terror of the bosses throughout the
land was passed. A resolution
against lynching and discrimination,
and for Negro and white workers
defense committees was passed. Re-
solutions were passed on the war
danger, International white terror,
fascism,, unemployment, Accorsi,
Foreign born workers, the youth,
women, the Shifrin case, the Labor
Defender, Daily Worker, and against
police terror, scoring the coal and
iron cops, criminal syndicalism, Lat
in America, the Mineola case, and
Haiti.
A resolution was passed sending
greetings to all class war prison
ers. Greeting were sent to the fam
lilies of the murdered Marion work.
ers, to the Meerut prisoners in In
dia, and many other class war VIC
TINS.
Much cheering, singing and en-
thusiasm marks the proceedings of
the conference. Special conferences
were held on different subjects.
The conference adjourned at p.
m. with Daisy Macdonald, Southern
delegate, and Negro workers sing
ing mill songs written by Ella May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
The Red Flag Rises in India

News dispatches from India with alarm the fact that
the students waved red flags and shouted protests the policy
Of the leaders of the Nationl Congress.
This incident like all the happenings the AInda National
Congress at Lahore of deep significance The waving of the red
flag and the slogans of Down Imperialism long
revolution the that the broken with the
render policy Of the Indian bougeo True the have
hsr representatives the Congress-
Today try keep their hold the by gestures
d1hHng which they will abandon battle
NE dangerous enemies of the revolution these
NOT bind the historical
Cong taking place under pressure
y ne Congress.
70 Lahore taking place prelude revolutionary struggle
spod from London by the United Press correct namely
resolution independence merely political gesture
political which
n - he really r~~f~ r-rA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
STRIKING MINERS
NEED RELIEF TO
CARRY ON FIGHT
S tern Resistance in
Face of Terror of
Bosses and State
Open Relief Stations
Pit Committees Pr e SIS
Demands of Strikers

WEST FRANKFORT, H., Dec.
31.-As the year closes, the mine
strike continues in a stubborn fight
against the coal bosses. Picketing is
being systematized in the face of the
armed guards of the coal bosses, the
state militia and the gunner of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Attempts at terrorizing the
miners, with their traditions of
struggle at Wren and Herrin, are
failing. The National Miners Union
is determined to win its demands.
The main support that the work
ers in other parts of the country
can give to the striking Illinois
miners is relief funds.
Pat Toohey, William Boyce and
Freeman Thompson, three of the
leaders of the National Miners I'm
ion, have appealed to the workers
everywhere to support the campaign
for relief of the strikers now being
conducted by the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, with offices at $40
Broadway, New York City, Room
949.
Recently, the National Miners I'm
ion wired to the w. I. R.: "Scores
of families are hungry and practi-
cally destitute. You must act quick.
This situation is growing worse as
the strike stretches out and the
miners dig in for battle.
Relief stations are actively at
work in the main centers of the
strike. The first relief station was
opened at Eldorado. Another is
being opened in Christopher. This
will be the center for Coello, Buck
ner, Herrin, Ziegler, West Frankfort,
Benton, Orient and other point ~,
Franklin County.
D Rank and file pit committees is
being stressed by the union leader
ship. The local strikes, as struggles
of the rank End file, are founded
on pit committees. These consist of
the most militant workers, elected
by the striking miners.
In the face of the strong mobiliza.
ton of the strike-breaking forces,
the courage and determination OF
the miners is great, and the strike
is being conducted on a scale that
has aroused the operators and their
labor agents in the United Mine
Workers of America.
The main demands of the strike
are the 6-hour day, and the 5-day
week, and for the abolition of the
check-off; -or a $35 minimum wage.
for bigger crews on the machines,
and rest periods every hour; against
penalties and discrimination; for
equal treatment of youth and Negro
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
Walker Signs Bill
For His Salary Raise

Mayor Walker yesterday signed a
municipal assembly bill increasing
his salary from $4,000 to $4,000
a year, and then was sworn in for
four more years as mayor. Other
Tammany officials share the raise
with Walker, and even the Borough
Presidents will get $4,000 year,
not inclusive of graft from many
sources.
The salary increases for Tam
many officials comes at a time when
wages of workers everywhere are
being cut and thousands thrown out
of employment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01

bourgeose leaders made the prepare
a betrayal.
headline in the capitalist yesterday that powers
Worry Over New Year News
While they of and joint actions
crush the revolution they
anohs troubles this exempfed yesterday the
of Senator Blaine of Wisconsin, who announced that when
he will present resolution for recognition the independence
of India Ys is another political gesture which intended
be followed by action but has its significance revealing the joy
of mpeaist insanother troubles
striving for united front against the revolution.
The red flag Lahore and the cheers for the revolution
sparks from the flame that the India
will blaze forth in revolutionary actions Lahore only the
meter registering in distorted the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01

mering for nearly two years, and
the present sharp decline in produc-
ton in all the basic industries, with
the growing mass unemployment
for the workers, is not a sudden
movement.
All the advertisers of U. S. i'm
perialism tried to mislead the work
ers about prosperity. For instance,
the Journal of Commerce refers to
what the capitalist press has usual
ly termed the long period of pros
Continued on PAGE Thrss)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
CAPITALISM MAKES
PROSTITUTES

DETROIT. (By Mail.) - Two
working women charged with ac-
costing told in court here how I'M
employment caused them to turn
to prostitution. One was the moth
er Of a starving childreN; the other
was long unemployed waitress
who was starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
Mass Unemployment and
Class Battles Grow IN Crisis

Of particular interest in the pres
ent sharpening crisis is the an
nouncement by Carl Snyder, chief
statistician of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, that the rate of
expansion of capitalist economy in
the United States during 1927 and
1928 was below the average of the
last Is years.
The sharp economic crash in the
last part of 1929 brings the rate
of expansion still lower.
In short, the crisis has been sim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
~ CHILDREN DIE IN MOVIE
FIRE

Seventy-two children were killed
and over $50 more injured in ma
ton picture house fire in Seary,
Scotland. The fire started in the
projection booth and quickly spread
to the auditorium where over fifteen
thousand children were packed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
ENJOIN RAIL STRIKERS.

PEORIA, Ill. (By D.-The
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway
management has obtained from
friendly court an injunction against
the 600 striking shop craftsmen ON
the road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
LOvEsToNEITES CALL POLICE

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 31.-The
Lovestone renegades called the po-
lice to their aid at banquet held
by few petty bourgeois individuals
at a Chinese restaurant last Satur-
day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot.
tom Up--at the Enterprises
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.-Unem-
ployment all over the country is
rapidly becoming very severe, with
the likelihood that it will extend
over period of ten years, said ex-
perts Of the American Economic
Association, who discussed the SUBJ
ject at their closing meeting today.
Robert B. Warren of Case, POM
eroy e. Co., pointed out that unem-
ployment was becoming a very seri-
Gus problem in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
UNEMPLOYMENT
INCREASES IN US
Capitalist Experts See
Increase for 10 Years

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec.31.-The
Westinghouse Electric Co. has laid
off $4,000 workers. Unemployment
in the steel mills is especially Sc
we're, with 40 per cent of the usual
number of workers unemployed.
The large steel mills are running
at about 60 per cent of capacity,
with some of the smaller mills as
low as 30. A number of mills are
completely cut down.
In order to hide unemployment,
the bosses have evolved a scheme
in the steel industry of alternating
shifts from week to week. The
workers left on the job work one
week and are now off the next. Thus
their actual pay is cut in half. This
is preparation for wage cuts, and is
a Screen to hide the mass character
of the employment in the steel
industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01

1880 Dawns III Flames of Class Struggle
Throughout the World; the Red Flag
Already Raised i'll India: tie First
Workers Republic Speeding Ahead;
Imperialist War Preparing. New
Soviet Republics Are To Be
Born!
La gaceta., 1930-12-02
TEATRO CASINO

Muchas naciones estan repre-
sentadas en- ell reparto del miste-
rioso drama de espionaje, Three
Faces East, que sera exhibido
hoy solamente.
Desempenan los PARTICIPATES
papeles Eric Won Stroheim y
Constance Bennett.
Won Stroheim naci6 en- Vie
ma, Austria, Constance Bennett
en- New York, Crawford Kent
y Anthony Bushell en- Inglate-
IRA, William Won Bricken en- A
lemania y Arthur Hurni en- Sui
"a. William Courtney, otro de
los prominentes actores, naci6
en- Estados Unidos. Roy de Ruth
dirigi6 la obra.
Los criticos afirman que
La gaceta., 1930-12-02
NOTICIAS DE
INTFRES LOCAL.

Fl iuez Tedder, de Fort Lau
derdale, rehus6 aver guitar ell
difunto Banco de los Ciudada-
nos de las manos de Ernest A.
mos, Intervention, y John A.
News0me, liquidador, a menos
que Sc muestre en- los procedi-
mientos que este es necesario
para la protection de los depo
sitantes.
En- una decision dada al p1-
blico en- el momento en- que ell
liquidador pagaba Ell dividen-
do de 81, ell juez deneg6 la
moci6n presentada en- favor de
Amos, Newsome Y ell tesorero
Knott, pidiendo ell sobresei-
miento; declare sin lugar OBJ
ieciones de Newsome sobre Ell
escrito de queja pidiendo ell
n0mbramiento de un recibidor;
declare sin lugar otro escrito
presentado en- favor de todos
"Three Faces East es ell mas
emocionante drama de espiona-
ie de la guerra mundial.
La gaceta., 1930-12-02
CHUNCAS Y NO CHUNGAS

juez Alderman, en- honor a la
sincera amiStad que lie profe-
samos, que en- Ybor y West
Tampa no hay ''rojos," no hay
agitadores comunistaS.
Los eXtranjeros que aqui re
siden aprecian. EN- 10 mucho
que vale, la hospitalidad anne
ricana, y no reparten "procla-
mas" en- contra de los Mucha-
chos Exploradores.
Sobre esas proclamas y mani
fiestos a que Sc refiere ell recto
magistrate, nosotros hicimos
una investigation,
Hemos p~reguntado en- Ybor y
West Tampa, en- los hogares de
los obreros, Sobre 81 han viStO
los ''papeles" de los Young Pho
neers. Y Sc nos ha conteStado
''que NADIA saben de tai cosa'.
lQui6n traio a Tampa esas
"hojas', una de has cuales lego
a poder de Mr.. Akerman? No
10 sabemos; p3~o podemos afr
mar que la tan necia propagan-
da fue repartida por enemigos
de los trabajadores, con la in
tenci6n de periudicar a estos, de
hacer Greer que en- los barrios
extranjeros Sc conspira contra
la tranquilidad p1blica.
Tiene ell partido Comunista,
en- toda la naci6n, $4,000 MEM
bros.
lCuantos "rojos" de csc Con
tingente' hay en- Tampa?
Creemos que ninguno. 81 al
guno hay Sc 10 tiene tan callado
que nadie 10 sabe.
Aqui Sc ha empezado a Yer
"roio'', no sabemos con que pro
p6sito, aunque ESQ del comunis-
mo ha ilegado cuando Sc trata
de convencer a los torcedores
para que acepten un "reajuste'
en- los jornales.
iDecentes, honrados y sensi-
bles son los obreros eX~tranjeros
de Tampa y podemos afirmar,
rotundamente, que figuran en-
tire los fieles depositarios de los
principles reH.esentados por
nuestro gobierno y la Constitu-
,ci6n de la repdblica.
Ellos no agitan para derribar
NADIA de 10 que ha sido legitima-
mente edificado; eilos han re
clamado SUI derecho a organi-
zarse-que no Sc les Ia querido
conceder-y a defender 10 que
consideran mas it'll para ell
mantenimiento de la paz en- la
industrial 1abacalera: Ell Conf
tie Nivelador y ell Cartab6n.
Por los sensatos obreros de
Tampa no Sc ha ~repartido esa es
tGpida propaganda q. Mr.. Aker-
man, con toda su autoridad,, e
nergicamente ACADIA de anatema
tia.
Y mucho nos place que Ell illus.
ire 6l haya repetido que nuestro
gobierno es del pueblo, por el
pueblo y para el pueblo, no del
capitalismo.
Tendran mas Influenza los
poderosos, pero Ell pueblo puede
confiar-se en- los hombres que
como nuestro juez federal, ba-
san sus actos en- un claro con
cepto de la igualdad y la justi-
cia.