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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
WATERS REUSED
over SELL OUT
Rank and File Calls
Mass Meet Monday

NEW YORK.-The members o
Local l of the A. F. L. walters an(
mattresses union held on Thursda!
the first meeting in a year, and go
their first chance to pin some o,
their reactionary officials to The
wall.
The local has been under re-
Ownership" by the International
and one. of the demands Of the mem.
bers was for autonomy.
Some questions asked Lehman
secretary of the local, were:
"Why did the officials take re-
duction in wages in the Goldman
place?
why does the new contract made
at the demand of the bosses allow
the bosses to control the conditions
of the workers and the workers have
nothing to say?"
He Lost" the Books.
Lehman wouldn't answer because
he said, he had 'lost the records"
The workers know that Lehman
McDavitt (the receiver) and Gen.
eral President Flore have sold out
the workers, and that the walters
and mattresses will have trouble UNI
til they throw out all of these and
their clerks from the United He
brew Trades and bring the walters
into the Food Workers Industrial
Union.
The Rank and File Committee OF
Local 1 is calling a meeting of all
walters and mattresses, both mem
bers of Local / and the morgan
lied, to a meeting Monday, Aug
%, at 8 p. M, in Bryant Hall, where
the facts of the whole sell-out and
the making of the contract will be
exposed, and plans made to fight
for something for the workers
themselves. Mike Obermeir, gen.
eral organizer of the F. w. 1. u.
recently come from Cleveland, will
tell of the International officials
corrupt alliance with the bosses
there.
Where Is the Money?
The leaflet distributed calling
this meeting tells of the disappear
ance of $1,000 from the local treas
ury in the last two months, with nc
organizing done on which it could
have been spent. According to the
takers it seems to have cost $1,000
a block to move the office from
29rd st. to 28th st.
The Rank and File Committee
proposes demands for the eight
hour day and five-day week, wage
increases, and unemployment insur.
ance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
ELECTION DRIVE
ON IN DETROIT
Our C a n did a tie May
Soon Be On Ballot

DETROIT, Mich.-Despite the or
gained silence of all the capitalist
sheets here and the intimidations
and tricks to keep the Party from
participating in the special cleo
lions for mayor on September 8, the
Party has succeeded in getting
10000 signatures by Saturday morn
ing. The law requires that $4,000
signatures be filed for candidate
This must be done in the short
period of IA days.
Although faced with tremendous
difficulties through interference of
police who took away signed petit
lions and the demagogy of Judge
Murphy who with fake promises for
unemployed relief" has succeeded
in temporarily fooling many work.
ers, the bosses were unsuccessful to
hinder our activity. On Friday night
a worker out to get petitions was
attacked by hoodlums, connected
with the purple gang" on Oakland
Ave. and severely beaten. However,
the gang did not succeed in grabbing
the petitions from him.
Final Drive-All Workers Must
Bring in Petitions Latest
Tuesday Night.
The last three days it is neces-
sary for US to intensity the drive
to get the required number of sigma
lures. We must still get 5000 to
1000 signatures. This can be done
if we continue to receive the full
support of all sympathizers. We
urge every Party member as we'll as
sympathizers t ocome to the head
quarters, 1867 Grand River, or hall
nearest to your home and get petit
lions. All workers having signed
petitions are urged to bring them
Tuesday night.
A committee of so is now being
organized to file the petitions at
City Hall, on Wednesday, at 2 p. m.
Representatives Of the Auto Work
ers' Union and other sections of the
T.U.U.L., also of the A. f. of L.,
besides representatives of the Com
munist Party, will comprise the
committee,
The District Committee of the
Communist Party calls upon all its
sympathizers to be at the city hall
at the time of the demonstration.
This is the first time in Detroit
that the Communist Party is placing
its candidate for mayor on thu
ballot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

stocks.
When last October's crash came
it was reported that many high of.
ficials of the A. F. of L. unions in
Washington had been playing the
stock market with their trade unior
funds. Up to now they have man,
aged to get away with it, because OF
the general policy of the banks tc
allow borrowers against stocks hello
as security" to just go along, al
though the stocks have become
worthless so far as being sold for
enough money to repay the loan
The banks do this in hopes that the
stock prices will go up again. But
with the crisis getting worse there
had to be an end of this "generos-
ity." Hence the banks with frozen
assets are going under, the little
ones first.
Wednesdays N. Y. Times also ad-
mits that the Brownsville, Pa,
Trust Company bank was closed on
Tuesday, with deposits of over $780,
600.
The Negro workers of Chicago re-
Gently lost their savings when banks
known as Negro banks" went bank
rupt. The suffering that follows
this new development of the crisis,
showing that even in the habit of
saving there is no security for work
ers under capitalism, again empha-
sizes the great need for Workers
Social Insurance, to be paid for by
the capitalists only and used as COM
pensation for all unemployed, dis
abled and aged workers.
In view of the suffering caused
by this wave of bank failures,
sweeping away the workers little
savings, the workers should rally
to the demonstrations in all parts
of the country on Sept. 1st around
the demand for unemployment and
other social insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
Church Authorities
Try to Bride Children
Away From WIR Camp

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 24.-The al
lance between the church and the
public school authorities against the
Workers International Relief Chill
dren's Camp mas been exposed here.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
Union attempted to bride a member
of the Young Pioneers to attend its
so-called Espworth Fresh Air Farm
on condition that she would leave
the Young Pioneers.
after attending the w. l. R..
camp and learning of the class
struggle" said Anna B. Charnay,
81 am more than ever convinced
that it is the best organization for
me. III the w. /. r. camp | had a
good time. There was no race dis
elimination, white children and Ne
gro children play together. I will
try to help prevent other children
from being bribed by the Methodist
Episcopal Church CT Pittsburgh like
it tried to bride me-"
Funds for the development of the
w. I. R. camp in the Pittsburgh dis
trict, the camp at Van Etten, N. Y,
recently attacked by the Ku Klux
Klan end the American Legion and
others throughout the country
should be sent to the national Of
flee, W. l. R., 94) R'ral way, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
THE 9th Guest" OPENS
Tonight Hopkins Play Wed.

This evening at the Eltinge
Theatre, A. H. Woods will open his
new season with "The 9th Guest"
by Owen Davis, from an unpublished
novel of Gwen Bristow and Bruce
Manning. The play is described as
mystery-melodrama. In the cast
are Allan Dinehart, Berton Chur-
chill, Brenda Dahlen, Grace Kern,
That's Lawton, Frank Shannon,
William Courtleigh, Owen Davis,
Jr., Edwin Stanley, and Robert
Vivian.
Arthur Hopkins announces the
opening of his first production Of
the new season, Torch Song" a
new drama by Kenyon Nicholson,
at the Plymouth Theatre on
Wednesday evening. The cast is
headed by Mayo Methot, Dennie
Moore, Henriett Kay, June Clay
worth, Aphie James, Pearl Hight,
Reed Brown, Jr., and Guy Kibee.
The settings for Torch Song" were
designed by Cleon Throcmorton.
Hopkins is staging the play.
A third production announced for
this week is due on Thursday eve
ming, when William A. Brady pre-
sents Cafe" This is comedy by
Mary Names, and will be seen at
the Ritz Theatre. Some twenty-five
players have speaking parts in the
play.
apron Strings" will wind up its
seven months run at the Forty
Eighth Street Theatre Saturday
evening. 1t will then depart for
Boston, opening at the Plymouth
Theatre on Labor Day. jefferson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
MANY BANK FAILURES
BUT BOSS PRESS HIDES
THEM FROM WORKERS
Four Gary Banks Shut; Labor Bank Goes
Under AS ALL Fascists Gamble in Stocks
Negro Banks in Chicago Close; Workers Are
Hard Hit By Failures

NEW YORK.-That the N. Y.
journal of Commerce was correct in
stating recently that the banks Of
the United States were in "a dan
gerous condition" is proven by the
wave of bank failures which is be-
ing deliberately concealed by the
capitalist press.
The Federal Reserve Board on
Aug. 81 published the fact that dur
ing the first six months of 1880, AL
banks failed. Deposits involved
amounted to over $210,S81, 00n,
Mainly workers and poor farmers
were hit, This places thousands
more closer to the starvation line.
There are thousands of other banks
that are weak and on the brink Of
collapse.
This report by the Federal Re-
serve Board was not published in
the capitalist press at all. The boss
press wants to hide the full extent
of the crisis from the workers, and
the fact that millions in savings de-
posits have been lost.
The news of the failures, when
given, is published in small type in
obscure pages so as not to alarm the
depositors. On Wednesday for eX-
ample, the N. Y. Times on page 25,
publishes under a headline or one
line in no larger type than that
used in which this article is written,
the news that the fourth bank 10
fail in Gary. Indiana, has just
closed its doors.
This Gary. bank, the fourth to
90 bankrupt within a week, was the
Labor" Bank, one those wonderful
schemes which, according to A. F.
of L. reactioaary bureaucrats, was
going to make all the workers CAPT
talists. The result is that thou
sands of workers are losing their
life savings, while the labor takers
became bankers and dabbled in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
DETROIT BOSSES
SLASH WAGES
Leading Campaign On
Workers Wages

DETROIT, Aug. 24.-The Detroit
auto magnates are in the lead in
the national wage-cutting campaign.
The Chrysler Automobile Company
has officially announced a wage-cut
of 10 per cent for all workers still
employed in the plant. Briggs fol-
lowed Immediately with a new
wage-cut of 20 per cent and in
some departments the wages have
been reduced as much as so per cent.
In speaking about the wage-cuts,
the Detroit capitalist papers do not
make secret of the fact that this
campaign of the bosses to reduce
the wages of, the workers is only
in its early stages and that other
Manufacturers will follow the lead
ership of the Briggs and Chrysler
manufacturers. This new wage
cutting on national scale, in adj
dition to the constant lay-ofis and
increased unemployment, are means
of the bosses to put the burden of
the present economic crisis on the
shoulders of the workers.
The Detroit capitalist press
speaks openly Of 'readjustment to
a new scale of prices being newt
able" and that many industrialists
ARE faced with the alternative of
reducing wages or leaving their en-
ployees without work"
The workers of Detroit feel how
.er, tnat both things occur at the
same time, lay-offs and unemploy-
ment increase which have affected
10000 workers. and sheir depend
ents already at the same time as
wage-cuts for those who are still
working.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
BOSS THEORY OF
INTERVENTION
Latin America Called
y. S. Mandate

WILLIAMSBURG, Mass, Aug.
24.-The class nature of interna-
tional law and the fact that the
so-called jurists are tools and apollo
gists for the boss class are clearly
revealed in recent discussion on
the question of intervention in in
ternational law in the Williamstown
Institute of Politics.
During the discussion a professor
from Princeton University by the
name of Phillip Marshall Brown
pronounced theory of Intervention
in international law which would
consider Latin America as IN i'm
piled mandate under the control of
Yankee imperialism and would also
give full legal sanction to imperial
list interventions.
In regard to Latin America, he
says shamelessly: "The United
States is in the curious situation of
having virtually assumed, because
OF its long experience, peculiar in
terests and immediate responsible
ties, an implied practical mandate
in the Western Hemisphere"
In regard to the question If in
te1vention in general he upheld the
right of intervention in the affairs
of a nation whose sovereignty has
been impaired. His definition fer a
nation having impaired sovereignty
is state which is not able to full
fill its international obligations. He
also maintained that single state
has the right to uphold international
Law in cases where all nations or
even a small number could not reach
an agreement to act together.
1t is clear that the theory of in
tervention," formulated as a ge
law, is not only intended to justify
American interventions in Latin
America, but also provides a ready
excuse and legal justification in i'm
perialist interventions against the
Soviet Union and the Chinese Revo-
luton.
Academic utterances such as the
above has considerable political sig
nificance. AS unofficial theoreti-
clans and propagandists of the boss
class, professors of the type of
Brown usually make utterances that
clearly reflects til stand of The boss
class. 1t is Wall Street talking
through the mouth of Prof. Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
Vote Communist!
Communist Activities

Unit Organizers, Section 4
Will meet Monday, Aug. rs at z
y. m at sos Lenox Ave.
Unit z, Section 3
special meeting will take place
tonight at 8 ?. m. at headquarters.
Unit =. Section 3
VIII meet tonight at p. m. instead
of Tuesday. Everyone must attend.
II
Unit ID, Section ).
Meets tonight instead of Tuesday.
All must attend.
Il
Units 1 and 3. Section (
Meet tonight at s y. m. at 1900
Seventh Ave.
&
Units and Z, section 4
Meets tonight at S y. m. at sos
Lenox Ave.
i s.
Unit II, Section 1
Meets tonight at 81 Il. Fourth ST.
Discussion will be held.
Hotel aud Restaurant Workers
OF the F.W.T.U. will meet tonight
at p. IN. at Bryant Hall. All mem.
bers must attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
TELLS MAN Who
FRAMED MOONEY
More Proof Of Bosses
Prosecutions

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. "a
Maxwell McNutt, attorney for Tom
Mooney and Warren X. Billings, con-
fronted the California supreme
court with the story of who fas-
tened the Preparedness Day bomb
explosion on his clients. The court
is conducting hearings on Billings
application for a pardon.
A day or two after the bomb ex-
plosion, McNutt met the late Martin
Swanson, Pacific Gas and Electric
detective. Swanson as good as told
him they were framing Mooney and
Billings for it and intended to hang
Berkman, too. Swanson had threat
ened to get Mooney after the Mar
tinez dynamiting episode, when two
juries disagreed on convicting
Mooney and third freed him. Nc
Mutt had told Mooney that if he
did not lay off the strike against
the street car company, with which
the P. G. and E. was closely asso-
ciated, he would get into trouble.
Swanson also said, McNutt testi-
fled, that he had both Mooney and
Billings under surveillance all Of
July %, except that he lost Billings
for a few minutes in the morning;
so if Swanson were alive and could
be forced to tell the truth, he could
prove Billings alibi. Tom Mooney
and his wife Rena had gone to Nc
Mutt to complain of Swanson's con-
slant surveillance of them, telephon-
ing to them, etc. This testimony of
McNutt's was given in the original
trials of Mooney and Billings, but
the jury chose to disregard it in
view of Moneys radical pro-labor
record.
Police lieutenant Reavis showed
by the book of the Richmond police
station that Billings had been the
only prisoner in the station when
Mcdonald, degenerate and self-con-
fessed liar, was brought out to
identify" him. Officer Smith of the
city station testified to a camera
having been found in Moneys stu
die and another in MONEYS pos
session when he was arrested. The
prosecution claims that Billings
called on Mooney just before July
%, not to deliver a borrowed cam
era, as ne and Mooney both assert,
but to deliver some part of the al
legged bomb.
The entire court has now gone to
Folsom prison to interview Billings,
and the San Francisco hearings will
be resumed thereafter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
W.I.R. HOLDS DANCE.

The Workers International Re-
lief will hold Seashore Dance on
Sunday evening, Aug. 81, at Casa
D'Amor Hall, Mermaid Ave. and
". 3lst ST., Coney Island, Beatrice
Carlin, local secretary of the W. J..
r., announced last night. The fea-
ture of the program will be Chill
dren's Pageant, in which 100 chill
dren will participate. Admission
will be so cent? in advance, rs at
the door and children free. Tickets
can be secured at the district office
Of the W. |. r., 10 =. 18th St., New
York City. ---ssszss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
Hold Anti-War Meets in Latin America

BUENOS AIRES (By MaiD.-
Twenty thousand workers in Buenos
Aires took part in the anti-war
demonstration. Similar demonstra-
tons also took place in the prov
inces in the Argentine, for instance
in Rosario, where 5000 workers
demonstrated, and Cordoba, where
1000 workers demonstrated.
In Montevideo 1000 workers took
part in the anti-war demonstration.
There was a strike of the building
workers, the leather workers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
BOSS GETS YACHT; WORKERS
STARVE.

FLINT, Mich.-While the recent
strike at the Fisher Body Co. was
IN progress Frederick Fisher, one
OF the owners, purchased a new
steam yacht, the Nakhoda. The
pleasure ship" cost $1,5OO,000
The workers struck because they
we're unable to exist on the pay
they received!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

the printers, so that no newspapers
appeared. In the province of Uru-
quay demonstrations also took
place.
The anti-war demonstrations in
Brazil were prohibited, but demon
strations and meetings took place
in Rio de Janeiro, as a result of
which collisions with the police took
place.
Bolivia reports q fine demorstra-
ton in La Paz and other demon
strations in the provinces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
FOR MORE EFFICIENT KILLING

WASHINGION. = BattIeShlpS
Wyoming, Utah and Florida will be
strapped this year. Under the cloak
of saving four million dollars by
scrapping these ships, the bosses
government will replace them with
more powerful engines of destruc-
ION with which to shoot down work.
ers in the looming imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

The socialists" work hand in
glove with the Tammany judges.
The CRATER, Ewald, has sent hun
dreds of left-wing furriers to
prison at the instigatiOn of the
socialist" company union-vOte
Communist!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
s150,000 FOR EX-WIFE.

CHICAGO. - While Montgomery
Ward " rkers being laid off,
speeded up and having their sal
aries slashed,e Gordon D. Thorne,
son of one If the founders of Mont-
gcmery-Ward Co., is getting cut of
divorce entanglements by paying h'J
first wife the sum of $150,00O!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
Urge General Strike in Toulon, France

French arsenal urging the workers
to strike. The report also states
that several Communist meetings
were broken up by the police.
Twelve workers were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

A United Press report from
Toulon, France, states that the rev.
dictionary unions and the Commu-
mist Party is calling for a general
strike in the Toulon district. Agi-
tation is being carried on in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
! .abOr and Fraterna

Hotel and Restaurant Workers
or the F.W.LU. meet tonight at s
p. m. at Bryant Hall. All members
must attend.
Workers EN-Servicemen
VIII hold a meeting tonight at cor
ner of Tenth st. and Second Ave.
Printers Attention:
All members of the Printing Work
ers Industrial League will meet after
work at 10 w. 18th st. for importan,
work.
Workers Laboratory Theatre
VIII meet tonight at 3 y. m. at 800
T.. 18th ST.. apt. IL to take up worn
OF Summer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

)e Angels will be starred on the
road tour.
Jay C. Flippen has been added to
the cast of the Second Little Show
which has been held over for third
week in Boston. New material is
still being added to this revue. The
New York premiere will take place
Tuesday, September 2, at the Royale
Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

BOSSES EXPLOIT THE BLIND.
VANCOUVER, B. C.-B i n
workers in the broom factory Of the
National Institute of the Blind here
have been subjected to severe wage
slashes and greater speed-up. Their
week has recently been increased
from five to five and one-half days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25
WORKERS EX-SERVICEMEN'S
LEAGUE.

See the Daily Worker of tomor-
row, Tuesday, Aug. 26, for full
schedule of Workers Ex-Service-
mems street meetings for this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-25

Strike Agains. Wage-Cuts!
Demand Unemployment Insurance..
The Washington times., 1930-07-21
.FRENCHNETMEN
|. PRIME FOR j. 5.

Frances tennis champions rolled
up their sleeves today and appre-
hensively sized up the American
challengers who will face them
here Friday, Saturday and Sun
day in the finals for the muchly
coveted Davis Cup.
The interzone finals, a tug-of-
war between the United States
and Italy for the right to chal-
lenge France for the trophy.
ended yesterday with a record of
four victories and one defeat on
the American score card.
It was a well-deServed bit of
consolation for italy when it's
brilliant ace, Baron Humbert L.
De Morpurgo, swept down the
erratic Wilmer Allison. of Austin,
Tex, in the last round. De Nor
purge defeated Allison by Us,
GO, So, Ga.
George Lott, of Chicago,
however, uncorked an almost
inspired game of tennis
against GiOrgiO de Stefani
and with the assurance of a
victor vanquished his hand
some opponent in straight
sets, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3.
Lott played his smooth and
steady game with an agile ease
that left no doubt in the gal
lery's mind as to the outcome,
while his countryrnan returned
an uncertain game against the
flashing racquet of the italian
that rendered Allison's opposition
practically hopeless. The Ameri-
can, however, made several ef-
forts to rahy.
France, looking forward to the
opening challenge round, viewed
that event with renewed interest
today on the announcement that
William T. Tilden would be in
the challenger's lineup, along with
Lott. Allison and John Van Ryn,
of East Orange, N. j.
Jean Borotra and Henri Co
chet, French aces, it was re-
ported, have been perfecting their
onslaught quietly on secluded
courts.
The Washington times., 1930-07-21

Gilbert Hunt right, IA years
old, has been boys District
runner.up two years in sue
cession, being defeated by
"JOck" Mclean for the title
in 1929 and 1880. His greatest
achievement this year was
reaching the final round of the
Middle Atlantic boys cham
pionships at Richmond, losing
to Barcley, of Baltimore.
Byrd FerneyhOugh Neftl, 16,
has made good showingS in the
City of Washington and
District of Columbia tOurna-
ments i'm the past two years.
His game Is improving rapidly.
The Washington times., 1930-07-21
TRADED TO SENATORS

Mike Maloney, who came to
Miami from Hollywood a month
ago, was traded to the Phoenix
Senator'S for Outfielder. Al Mccoy
and C&cher Onnie Lundgren.
Maloney was with Hollywood all
last year.