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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Chi. TUUL Conference
Plans for Carrying
Out Important Tasks

CHICAGO, Jan. An agenda of
utmost Importance to all workers Of
this district will feature the Chicago
District Trade Union Unity Con-
vention, to be held Sunday morning,
January IL, at the Peoples Audi
forum, PAST West Chicago Ave. A
call urging them to be represented at
the convention has gone out to all
local unions affiliated to the TUUL,
industrial leagues, shop commit
tees and all sympathetic A. F. of L.
and independent local unions or left
wing minorities.
The adoption Of a program of ac-
ton for the organization of the I'M
organized, plan for work among the
Negro workers, the establishment
of a Women's and Youths Depart
ment, the miners strike and the
needle trades workers struggle will
be taken up.
The basis of representation will
be:
All groups Of less than ten mem
bers, one delegate; ten to twenty
members, two delegates; twenty-five
to fifty members, three delegates;
fifty to one hundred members, four
delegates; one delegate for each ad-
ditional one hundred members; two
delegates for all unaffiliated bodies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
MORE ILLINOIS MINERS
STRIKE AGAINST WAGE
CUTS UNDER The N.M.U.
Franklin County Miners Joining WalkOut; Take
Up Fight Under Banner and Demands of NMU
U.M.W.A Company Union Trying to Gather
Scabs; Fighting Spirit Grows Against Fascists

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Jan. 1
With nearly thousand more min
ers walking out on strike, the battle
of the coal miners is spreading and
the fight between the workers and
official U. NJ. w. A. fascist gun
men intensifies.
At the Stiritz mine of the Cos
grove company, three hundred and
fifty men, and at the Taylor No. 5
mine in Franklin county, five hun
dred men, are now out on strike
against wage reductions and for the
demands of the National Miners
Union.
About a thousand militant min
ers in Taylorville, the center of hot
test struggle, and some four hun
bred in Zeigler, are being discrim-
mated against by the operators in
league with the U. M. W. A, which
is modifying scabs for the big Pea
body company.
At Waller, 25 miners were forced,
at the point of fascist guns, to re-
pudiate the National Miners Union.
But the fighting spirit of the min
ers only grows under such black re-
action, and these miners and all
others against whom the operators
tools of the Lewis-Fishwick fascist
machine turn their guns, are more
than ever resolved to adhere to the
National Miners Union.
The two graft leaders of the COM
pany unionized U. M. w. A., Fish
wick and Lewis, are still quarreling
in the Sangamon County courts for
control of the check-off, which
means 100000 a month pure thiev-
cry for them, while the miners are
starving. Discomfort is growing
and the miners are deterrdned to
make an end to the check-off and
to both Lewis and Fishwick.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Gen. CR0WDER IS
7 AR|FF CRATER
Hoover Helps Friends
Earn Big Graft

WASHINGTON, Jan. I. - The
sugar lobby graft investigation,
which engulfs President Hoover,
now vomits up General Enoch Crow
der, former ambassador to the
bloody Machado regime, as one of
the boys who was pocketing money
for his work for the sugar trust.
Crowder handed the Cuba Co. U.
S. War Department secrets on mill
tary tactics in the next war. Now
he is exposed as being on the sugar
lobby payroll. This was revealed
in a letter to Lakin, president of the
Cuba Co., which said:
Il have before me your letter of
the 5th inst, in reference to the SER
vices of General Crowder in Wash
ington and the advisability of ex-
tending his retainer up to November
or December of this year. :.
Eyes, it was me that spoke to you
about the arrangement which Ger
tain mills have with the General,
and | agree with you in all you say
regarding his usefulness in Wash
ington in connection with the tariff.
"Since / received your letter |
have been endeavoring to see Presi-
dent Machado (for it was through
his good offices that this arrange
ment was made), so as to put your
suggestion before him; but owing to
his absence from Havana to rest
from the festivities of May 20, and
having been very busy since his re-
turn with political conferences, it
has been utterly impossible for me
to see him, and l am afraid l shall
not be able to approach him at all
for the next week or ten days, as ]
am leaving for Camaguey tonight
and will not be back in Havana until
the latter part of the coming week.
municate with you, giving you the
outcome of interview with him"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
CLASS
POWERS ANGLE
FOR COLONIES
and Italy Make
Demands for More
in Mediterranean
u. S. Wants All Samoa
Would Kindly Relieve
Britain Of Colony

Madrid dispatches show that fas-
cist Spain is speaking up on the re-
grouping of fighting forces pre-
paratory to the coming war. AL
though it is not asking to join the
give power" naval IN f er n e
(Which seems to have shrunk to a
"four-power" conference with the
French refusal to allow this confer
ence to fix any limit on French
naval strength), Spain takes up the
alternate proposal brought forth by
France for a Mediterranean Con-
ference"
Frances idea in this is to freeze
the colonial situation in North
Africa and the Near East just as it
is-with Italy wanting lot OF
things France is now sitting on
The Spanish ambassador at Rome
Count de la Vinaza, has had long
secret conversations with the Italian
foreign office, and SPANS an
nouncement demanding to be in
cluded on any Mediterranean con-
ference, and that Spain not be made
subject to an agreement by Eng
land, France and Italy, Should be
understood as meaning that Italy
and Spain have agreed on certain
demands for colonies as against
France.
Spain, too, has long demanded
chunks of North Africa where
France dominates. Now its note,
handed BRAND, requests declara-
ton by the powers" on the pro.
posed Mediterranean Conference anc
SPANS participation, insisting or
equal place.
Washington, meanwhile, having
read the French note which gave
the London naval conference such
a black eye, finds that since it was
addressed to England and the U. S
received it "as a communication
therefore Washington is mot re
quired to answer" Which is a nea
way of closing ones eyes to a bif-
III the jaw.
France, on Dec. 81, to show she
meant good will" to everybody il
the new year, ordered the creation
of permanent naval squadrons in thS
West Indies, right in Uncle Sans
backyard, off the west coast Of
Africa, in the Indian Ocean and il
the Pacific.
At Washington, Senator Hiram
Bingham calmly suggests that since
British New Zealand has been hav-
ing some trouble expressing the ma.
tives on the west end of Samoa Is
land, that New Zealand should TURF
it over to the United States, who
runs the east end with U. S. Mar
ines as an absolute despotism. Eng
land will doubtlessly be happy to dc
the same for the United States in
Haiti, citing the fact that the Bri-
fish have no trouble with Jamaica
while American continually is shoot
ing Haitians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
SHUTS, ENEMY OF
NEGROES, IS here
Talks Fairy S tories
About War Possibility

General Jan Christian SHUTS,
former premier of South Africa, and
one of the most rabid supporters
of British imperialism against the
Negro masses, arrived on the Beren-
geria for a two weeks tour of the
United States.
SHUTS is trying to spread the
fairy tale about the impossibility of
war. The most peculiar part of his
statement was that he said that
wars were impossible because world
trade was becoming greater and
more widespread. The very basis
of imperialist wars is given by
SHUTS as his reason that there will
be no wars.
Meanwhile, British imperialism
prepares for big naval arms in
creases. The five-power London
naval meet is admittedly the battle
ground for the struggle for more
naval ornaments among the leading
imperialist powers.
War preparations are being speed
ed up by every capitalist nation,
with the United States leading in
the money spent for this purpose.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
ALL. AIDED BY'CALL PROTEST ON
SOCIAL FASCISTS MEXICAN. TERROR
M a SIS Demonstration
on Saturday

The District Executive Committee
of District Two, Communist Party
of U. S. A, is calling a mass pro-
test demonstration on Saturday,
Jan. a, at 8 p. m. at 10th and 9Th
Ave.
This demonstration is called
against the bloody terror ruling in
Mexico. Scores of Mexican revolu-
tionists, includih., Communists and
leaders of the revolutionary trade
unions, have been thrown into
prison. The reactionary Gales Gil
Rubio government, acting as a tool
of American Imperialism, is at
tempting to destroy the working
class movement.
While the reactionary president
elect, Rubio, is being received by
the fascist president of the United
States, Herbert Hoover, his puppet
government of Mexico is torturing
the best fighters of the Mexican
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
INDIAN MEETING
CARRIES CHANDI
FAKE PROPOSAL
Liberty Without Fight
Is Futile Pacifist
Measure Adopted
Sikhs Not Yet Won
Ghandite Misinterprets
Communist Views

Indian dispatches state that the
bourgeois National Congress has
carried the principal resolution "for
complete independence" with only six
votes against in the open congress.
While the resolution is "for" in
dependence, the methods adopted are
inherently futile to attain the end.
The methods are for "non-violent"
methods and the completeness" of
Independence to be gradually at
tanned"
By a vote of 697 to SIC, the con-
gress after a reported bitter debate,
passed Ghandi's pet resolution con-
graduating the British Viceroy,
Lord Irwin, on MS escape from the
supposed bombing of his train.
Ghandi himself spoke for this
resolution, and while students waved
red flags and shouted protests, An
sari, a Ghandite, tried to answer
objections to the resolution by say
ing that Communist people do not
believe in individual violence, but in
mass violence" which is correct, but
neither do Communists feel called
upon to congratulate oppreSsors of
the masses, nor assume a moralist
position such as Ansari did when
he termed the alleged bomb an "out-
rage"
Developments indicate that the
Sikhs are not yet fully won over to
the Congress, their leader Kharah
Singh arguing with them all day.
The mass of them left in the eve
ming, leaving a committee with
Kharah Singh to continue argument
with Ghandi. While dispatches
leave the questioy in the dark, the
Sikhs are demanding more than
colors on the national flag and such
intangible things. They want land,
which the British, with the acquies-
cence of the Congress, have denied
them.
The Congress leaders are report
ed to have been disturbed by news
from Madras that Sir Tel Bahadur
Sapru has persuaded the Liberal
Party Conference to condemn the
Congress and endorse the "round
table conference" proposed by the
British "labor" imperialists. Another
leader, DR.. Varadarajulu Naidu, has
demonstratively resigned from the
Congress in protest at the complete
independence resolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
TIL o m as, Horth y
@. X. Macdonald

DR.. Harry w. Ladder, and Rev.
Norman Thomas, social fascist lead
ers Of the League for Industrial
Democracy, an appendage of that
third capitalist party, temporarily
called the socialist party" met
yesterday with the executive direc-
tors Of the L. I. D.
The L. l. D. declared it would
support the campaign of the A. F.
Of L. in the South-this campaign
Of misleading the workers which
has the support Of the southern mill
bosses is now backed by the social
fascists.
MacDonald's imperialist govern
ment was given hearty endorse
n,ent. The policy of the "labor"
party is called victory for the So
cial fascists. The support of the
Macdonald government by the
League for Industrial Democracy
follows in the footsteps of white
dictator and murderer Of the Hun
garian workers, Admiral Horthy.
When it comes to praising Mac
Donald and his fellow betrayers of
the "labor party" Horthy, Ladder,
Thomas, Hillquit & Co. shake
hands. Says Horthy of the Mac
Donald Government QUOTED by r.
P. Dutt. Labor Monthly, Dec,
1920:
IF from the ranks of our work
ing class there could arise Hun
garian Macr aald, Henderson or
a Snowden, men of culture, knowl-
edge, wise outlook and stable char
acter, men at one with the nation
,in all our national interests and ma
tional sorrows, men filled with pa
triovic sentiment and determination,
like Athese leaders Of the English
Willing class. then one need haze
4 NO, }jalms in letting such men take
4 nA in the government"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Bosses Admit
Sharp Crisis
Coming Year

American capitalist economy en-
ters 1880 limping very badly on the
clutches of Hoover's "grand fascist
council" 1t is usual at the end of
the year, for the bosses to look
back upon their profits wrung from
the working class and to contem-
plate the future. This year, in spite
of the frosting Of optimism which
the capitalist newspapers decorate
the growing crisis, the fundamental
facts are clear and undeniable.
The best that some of the capital
list economists hope is that the pre-
sent deep-going crash in capitalist
economy will continue not longer
than the severest declines suffered
by capitalism in the United States
in its entire history.
The New York Times points out
that the various crises of capitalism
from 1898 to 1920 lasted for about
a year or more on the average. Re-
ferring to the 1914 crisis the N. Y.
Times gleefully points out that this
severe crisis was overcome by the
onrush of the world war.
after August !, 1914" says the
Times, something like paralysis
of trade Cu..-tinued for eight months ;
but i'll April, 1915, the European
war orders instantly changed the
situation"
War is always a door through
which imperialism looks for a solu-
ton of crisis.
But the present crisis is far more
widespread and far more deep
going, with the perspectives much
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Scandals of Boss
Sports Exposed in Suit

Some of the graft behind the
scenes of capitalist sports are being
made public as result of Francis
X. McQuade's ssuit to compel the
National Exhibition Company, own
er of the New York Giants" to re-
instate him as treasurer. Financial
intrigues on each side are exposed
to the other. Judge Lands. official
baseball dictator, is involved.
Professional sports are manipu-
lated by cliques and stock in the
controlling companies is sold at
high prices. The capitalist sports
are being promoted to keep the
workers attention away from the
class struggle.
The workers must build up their
own labor sports organizations to
fight agar It the corrupt capitalist
sports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02

A 10orker correspondent tells IN
today's Daily of the attempts of the
Norfolk, Virginia bosses to keep the
Negro and 1vhite Workers divided
By holding dances to 7Ohich only the
'ohjte Vorkers are i,spited. This
foLo0s on the action Of the Trade
Union Unity League IN Norfolk in
holding Joint meetings for the Ne
gro and 1Vhite 1vorkers, as q result
of 1Ubich The bosses are planning to
railroad Stephen Graham, T.U.U.L.
organizer.
Photo illustrates the solidarity of
Negro and avhite aoorkers of the
South. 1t shows Negro and Unite
5Vorkers of Gastonia taking part in
a picnic giUen by the Workers IN
ternational Relief during the te1tile
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
w YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1880
Today Is 10Th
ANN1UeYSQYv
OF Red Raids

Ten years ago, on Jan. 2, 1920,
over $500 workers were arrested in
the "Red raids" in 33 cities and
towns, under the direction of At
torney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
in the U. S. governments effort to
destroy the Communist Party. The
raids took place at night, and work
ers were taken out of bed, hurried
to Jail, where they were subjected
TO the most brutal fortunes. Many
were held incommunicado for days
and even weeks, and any friends
who made inquiries about them did
so at the risk of being imprisoned
themselves.
The first wholesale raids took
place on Nov Z, 1919, in IL cities.
In December of that year the ship
"Buford" sailed for Soviet Russia
with 249 deportees. The threat of
imprisonment and torture for citi-
zens and deportation for foreign
born workers was used by the gov
eminent in an effort to crush the
Communist Party. The steel strike
had taken place in 1919, and the
growing militancy of the workers at
that time was shown in strikes thru
out the country. The Russian Revo-
luton was an ineradicable night
mare to them. The capitalists were
seriously alarmed.
The raids begun in Nov 7, 1919
and repeated on large scale on
Jan. 2, 1920, were continued through
the winter and spring. About the
first of March, Andrea Salsedo, a
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
World Crisis OF CAPITALISM TO
Sharpen in 1880, Facts ShoW

World capitalism is faced with a
severe crisis for 1890. IL is very in
tresting to note how the capitalist
press tries to gloss over the facts Of
sharp declines.
The New York Times prints these
glowing headlines about the econo-
mic situation of European countries.
1929 happy year for United King
dom; France faces year with bright
hopes; Reich faces 1880 with new
courage, and Italy faces 1880 in new
confidence"
Certainly this is a picture to glad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Chi. Needle Trade
Industrial Union
Mass Meeting Jan. 8

CHICAGO, Jan. plans for the
extension of the fight by the mill
tant needle workers on the right
wing and the bosses thugs and wage
cuts will be taken up at mass
meeting of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union of Chicago, on
Thursday, Jan. 8, at 5 p. m. at
Mirror Hall, 1136140 North Western
Ave. All needle trades workers and
class conscious workers from all in
dustries are urged to attend. The
Industrial Union is at present lead
ing a strike against 80 millinery
manufacturers who locked out the
workers who refused to sign yell
low dog agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Chicago Negro and
White Workers Mass
Meeting on Jan. Bird

CHICAGO, Jan. NEGRO and
white workers are to hold mass
meeting this Friday, Jan. 3, at $
D. m., at Conway, Hall, Western and
Lake St., under the auspices Of Sec
lions and 5 of the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League, in a demonstration of soil
darity for the Haitian workers.
Negro and white speakers will adj
dress the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02

and the Confederation Syndicalista
Unitaire Mexicana.
Article 33 of the Constitution is
being modified in order to make
deportations of militant workers
easier. A number of Cuban revolu-
tionists have already been deported
to the jails of bloody Machado
president of Cuba.
At the close of the fake election
in which the Wall Street tool. Ortiz
Rubio, was put in the presidential
chair, a reign Of white terror was
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
Cambalgn OF Terror IN Mexico
GT01Us,, More Lars

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 1.-The
campaign of reaction is intensifying.
This is shown by the mass arrests
Of members of the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party. and
Young Communist League, as well
as by the wholesale threatened de-
portations against Cuban and other
trade union leaders.
The fascist labor laws, as we'll as
the penal code is directed against
the working class, ard especially its
advance guard, the Communist Par.
ty, The Young Communist League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
FIGHT MEXICAN
Terror REIGN!
Cuban Revolutionists
Face Death
BY WILLIAM SIMONS.
Delegate. to the Monteyideo
Congress

congress.
Sandalio Junco, Secretary of the
Caribbean SUBJ Committee of the
Latin American Trade Union Fed
GRAFTON, has been in jail in Mexico
about a month, awaiting deportation
to Cuba, which will mean long i'm
prisonment and probate death.
Junco was leader in the bakers
union and active in strikes of the
working class of Cuba. He is one of
the ablest revolutionary leaders of
the Latin American Labor move
ment. He was a delegate to the
Fourth Congress of the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions, and to the
Montevideo Congress of the Latin
American Trade Union Federation;
also to Buenos Aires Conference of
the Communist Parties of Latin
America, in May and June of 1929.
On his return from South Amer
ice, he was faced with one of the
greatest difficulties persecution
and lack of money to carry on work
He was always eager to have closer
connections between the workers of
the United States and Latin Amer
lea.
In a letter dated October 10th, he
wrote to the writer: 81 am glad that
you are concerning yourself with in
forming the workers of the United
States about the results of the Mon
tevideo Congress" He called atten-
ton to the need of carrying on ac-
tivity among the Mexican workers
who are in the U. S.
He pointed out that despite diff
culties, the Mexican Trade Union
Confederation is developing, is grow
ing and meeting with response from
the militant Mexican workers. He
asked especially that we inform
them about the Gastonia case, since
they wish to carry on extensive agi-
tation among the organizations of
Mexico and the Caribbean countries
of this case.
Junco is an internationalist, recog-
nizing the need of supporting the
struggles in this country. We, as
workers in the imperialist country,
must at least do what the revolution
airy workers of Latin America have
done for Gastonia. We must carry
on nationwide campaign against
the white terror in Mexico; against
the suppression of the Communist
Party; against the murder of Com
munist and Trade Union revolution
airy workers; against the deportation
of revolutionary workers to Cuba,
and Italy, which means sending
them to their death; against Amer
lean imperialism, which is demand
ing the heads of the revolutionary
workers in Mexico, to prevent re-
sistance to the domination of Amer.
lean Imperialism over Mexico.
A nationwide campaign of mass
to save Junco from death
at the hands of Machado,
A nationwide campaign to help
the struggles OF the Latin American
workers and peasants against Amer
lean imperialism!
A nationwide campaign in sup
port Of tho growing Communist
Parties of Latin America!
A nationwide campaign on be.
half of the working class prisoners
N Latin America,
Let us show that we understand
,ur duty as revolutionary workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02

den the capitalist heart. But on top of
this the very same issue of the Times
destroys the whole illusion by the
announcement of Further reaction
is foreseen; European markets CON
slider events as marking the termi-
nation of trade BOOM"
Gable dispatches from France.
which heretofore has been considered
as the most favored Of capitalist
countries in the present world crisis
say: "Still, though the general eco
nomic situation, especially in France,
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
RAIL UNION FAkERS DINE
OPEN SHOPPER.

BALTIMORE, Nd, by MaiO -
Arrangements are being made I'M
der the auspices of the misleaders
of the Standard Railroad Labor
Unions for a testimonial dinner for
the notorious open shopper and
company union Baltimore and Ohio
r. r. head, Daniel Willard, with
whom the rail union misleaders CO.
operate. Jan. 13 is the date set.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
TUUL BRANCH IN DENVER.

DENVER, Colo, Jan. denver
workers have organized branch of
the Trade Union Unity League. The
chairman, William Snider, and L. w.
Lang, secretary, are both window
cleaners working at their trade.
Meetings will be held every second
and fourth Friday evenings of the
month at l. l.. d. Headquarters,
l643 Lawrence st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-02
p. BOSSES WANT VICIOUS
ANTI-LAEOR LAW.

GASTONIA, N. G. (By MaiD -
Following the railroading of three
Ohio Communist workers to long
prison terms under criminal syn
dicalist law, the mill bosses papers,
the Gastonia Gazette and Charlotte
Observer, have set up a howl for
such law too.