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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-02

Mrs. Henry D. Ralph of Forty fourth
street entertained eight at luncheon and
bridge at her home yesterday wnen her
guests were Mrs. Norman Baxter, Mrs.
Mormon Pond, Mrs. Arthur Crawford,
Mrs. Charles Weston, Mrs. Edwin
Gableman, Mrs. Elliot Thurston and
NEre Clen rT11nker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18

between Machado and the nation
alists." His purpose is to strength
en- the fascist regime and direct its
full force against the rebellious and
impoverished workers and peasants.
Drop in Sugar Price.
The severity of the Cuban crisis
has its origin in the tremendous
drop in the price of sugar. All
Cuban economy revolves around su-
gar production. The great bulk of
the sugar industry is in the hands
of U. S. bankers. Most of the sugar
centrals are closing down. A slight
tariff increase on Cuban sugar COM
ing into the U. S., plus the world
agrarian crisis and low prices, has
all but wrecked the Cuban sugar in
dustry. The plantation workers and
laborers in the sugar centrals have
had their wages cut. They face
unemployment and starvation, as
there is a big surplus of sugar. In
fact, the only country that is buy
ing sugar in any quantities from
Cuba is the Soviet Union.
In this situation the big bankers
and imperialists are taking a deter
mined hand, which will spell more
misery for the Cuban masses. A
story in the New York Times aug.
g states:
"With the support Of powerful
Wall Street and Canadian BANKING
interests, a determined effort will
be made to eXtricate the Cuban SUI
gar industry from it's present acute
position. Thomas L. Chadbourne Of
Chadbourne, Stanchfield and Levy,
announced last night that represen-
tatives of the Chase National Bank.
the National City Bank, the Royal
Bank of Canada, Hayden, Stone and
Co., executives of American-owned
companies having production in
Cuba, and representatives of the
Cuban-owned estates, had formed a
committee to find and apply rem
edies for the present deplorable sit
uation.'"
These imperialist remedies" mean
more wage cuts and misery to the
Cuban masses.
Machado attempt to clear the
way by arresting 800 workers. He
is deporting to his fellow-murdernr
Chang Kai-shek, all Chinese work
ers arrested in Cuba for revolution
airy activities. Dozens of working
class leaders are under Indictment.
awaiting trial. The situation is
growing tense. 1t is to help out
American imperialism that Iturralde
and Siegle, nationalist leaders, come
to Washington, begin for interview
ton, and the opportunity to take
Machedo's place as more faithful
tools of American imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Chicago, Ill.

Chicago, Ill.
Daily WORKER
In the machine shop where l work
the foreman is very strict. The
shop has rules and regulations Tor
the workers. If anyone is a few
minutes late to work he is docked
for half an hour, or fired alto
gether. If I'm unemployed worker
comes into the shop to ask fol- q
job he is not allowed 70 walk up to
any worker or to talk to anyone
but the foreman.
A few days ago, at noon tine,
the foreman told US that tomorrow
there is coming TO the shop rep
resentative of the Railway En-
ployes Benefit Association to talk
to us. We were surprised, as usu-
ally no agents, peddlers or others
are permitted into the shop.
Workers Must Pay.
The next day a well-dressed gen.
tleman came to us and gave us a
"life insurance talk" He told US
how the railway workers organized
themselves into an insurance COM
pany, how they help their members
in case of death and sickness, ETC.,
and urged us to join their associa-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
k.F.L. CRATER
SPENDS $4,000
Mccarthy H elped in
Framing Mooney

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Up.
H. Mccarthy, A. F. L. state build
ing trades car for many years until
his retirement in 1928, has pur-
chased an estate in the hills near
Los Altos, for $4,000. at is worth
at least twice that" says Mccarthy.
Where did Mccarthy get the mo-
ney?
$4,000 at least came from the
public utilities. About eight years
ago a state senate investigation in
to campaign funds caused the pres
ident of the Pacific Gas and Elec-
trio Company to admit furnishing
Mccarthy with $4,000 to oppose a
state amendment.
Mccarthy had long been known
as "P. G. & E. man." In 1910 he
was elected mayor of San Fran
cisco on the union labor ticket. Dur
ing his term he appointed Gus
White, an office employee Of the
P. G. G. E. chief of police. Gus
White was later to frame Tom Moo
ney.
Ordered Mooney Arrest.
Two years after Whites appoint
ment, P. G. & K. electricians went
on strike under the banner of the
electrical workers international
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Boss Becomes Liberal Letting Agent Talk In
surance to Men

ton. In spite of the fact that we
are not railway workers they will
accept our cash and US as members.
The boss agrees to deduct our in
itiation fee of SIS and our dues from
our pay, said the organizer Of the
railway insurance business.
Boss a Liberal"
We began to see the light as to
the reason why this guy was al
lowed to ok to US in the shop. The
boss turn'd out to be quite liberal
with our cash. We could uot see
why the railway workers are anx-
ious to organize even non lilway
workers into an insurance company
while they reei,ct to org nize even
the railway workers intp a fight
ing union. As it is vel known
there are at present 16 different
unions or brotherhoods on the rail
ways, and when some of them are
on strike the rest of them are scab-
bling against them, Most of the
workers in our shop know about
this. None of the workers in the
shop joined the outfit. The union
insurance peddler left the shop
empty handed.
-TOOLMAKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Expose Labor
Payty'S Shiny
Work IN Egypt

BERLIN (By MaiD A mani
festo of the International office OF
the League Against Imperialism ev-
poses tire inperialist role of the
Macdonald regime in Egypt. The
manifesto declares:
"In the suppression of the anti
imperialist revolt of the Egyptian
people, the Labor Government is
playing the same dastardly role as
is ha, been playing in Indian and
in Palestine. 1t has sent warships
to Alexandria while making a hypo-
critical declaI alton of neutrality and
has given military and moral sup
port to its feudal vassals in Egypt
to prevent The further development
Of the revolutionary movement and
to protect the interests of British
imperialism. At the same time the
Labor Government has been continu-
ing its negotiations with the Wafd
leaders in whom it rightly sees the
men that will finally and inevitably
make the desired compromise with
British imperialism.
"The League Against Imperialism
while giving it's wholehearted sup
port to the Egyptian masses in their
struggle for national independence
and social freedom, deems it neces-
sary to warn them against the
treacherous tactics of the Wafd lead
ers, which are similar to those Of
the Indian National Congress and
which must be clearly exposed to the
masses of workers and peasants, as
we'll as to the students and urban
poor that constitute the rank and
file of the Wafd Party and among
whom there are sincere anti-imper-
ialist elements. The League wishes
to make it clear to them that their
condition can only be improved by
carrying on an uncompromising
struggle for the complete overthrow
of Imperialism and its feudal and
SoPlS1lloC G6OLlOo aiming IllC CSy Dl-
ians; and for the establishment of
full national independence. This
struggle cannot be carried on under
the domination of leaders whose in
terests demand a compromise with
imperialism, but only with a clear
program that corresponds to the real
economic and political interests of
the broad MASSES.
"The League Against Imperialism
calls upon all truly anti-imperialist
elements in Egypt to unite their
forces and bring into being a strong
anti-imperialist mass organization
that shall coordinate the struggle
for Egyptian independence in Egypt
itself with all the anti-imperialist
for es of the world and thereby en-.
sure The complete victory Of tha
Egyptian masses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Cuban ''Opposition'' Offers
Itself to Wall Street Bankers

There is a severe political and
economic crisis in Cuba. Machado's
bloody regime is being shaken to it's
foundations. In this midst of the
growing mass discomfort of the
Cuban workers and peasants, the
fake, petty bourgeois leaders of the
nationalist party are trying to gain
advantages for themselves. They
are openly offering themselves to
American Imperialism as instru-
ments to betray the masses in the
present crisis.
A Washington dispatch dated
Aug. 18th to the N. Y. Herald Trib-
une says that, "Some of the leaders
in the opposition nationalist party
to President Machado plan visit
to this country to lay their cause
before the State Department and
members of the Senate"
For some time, Opposition" lead
ers in Cuba have been visiting New
York and Washington trying to con-
vince American imperialism and par
ticularly the National City Bank of
New York, the leading exploiter in
Cuba-owners of billions Of dollars
OF Cuban property-and Secretary
Of State Stimson, Senators Borah,
Nye, King and Norris, that they
can do Wall Streets work better
than Machado.
Asw Wall Street Elections.
The latest plea of the national
lists" is that American imperialism
supervise the fall elections, under
the Plat amendment, so that they
might have a chance to carry on
Machado's fascist rule. They frank
ly point out the growing mass dis
content. They state that unemploy-
ment is greater than ever before
in Cuba's history. They prove that
Machado has been totally discred-
tied. The great mass of people are
taking up the fight not only against
Machado, but his hackers, American
imperialism, and its chief Cuban rep
resentative, the National City Bank.
In this situation, the nationalist
Opposition" maintains that Wall
Street needs their help. Therefore,
it should send it's marines and
cruisers to Cuba to put them into
office.
Heretofore, Stimson and others
have told the opposition" that they
were perfectly well satisfied with
Machado's handling of Wall Streets
affairs. Stimson pointed out Ma
chado's enviable record of list of
hundreds of murders of revolution
airy workers and trade union lead
ers. In fact, at the present mo-
ment, U. S. Ambassador Harry F.
Guggenheim, now in Havana, is try
ing to patch up the differences"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
TO FIGHT EXTRACTION
OF NEGRO TO ALABAMA

HARTFORD, Aug. 17.-John Will
liams, a Negro worker, was arrested
here in an attempt to have Gov
ernor Trumbull sign extradition
papers to Abbeville, Ala, where he
is charged with murder on Dec. IL,
1928. Sending him back to Alaba-
ma would mean certain lynching, or
at best a farcical trial.
The American Negro Labor Con-
gress and the International Labor
Defense are staging protest DEM
onstration demanding his release.
The demonstration takes place Fri
day 7 p. m. at Windsor and Main,
Hartford.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
shown it's traitorous role when, in
bailing him out, they promised that
they would safely deliver him over
to the Alabama authorities on de-
mand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Wilmington, Del.

w lliIlllIB GOll, OSls
Daily Worker:
Wilmington, Del, is one of the
oldest and most reactionary cities in
the U.S.A. Conditions in shops is
on the lowest grade.
The average workman's wage is
from $13 to SIG a week.
Work in the shipbuilding COM
panies is speeded up by piece work
but still they can't make much more
than the average workman.
Overtime Building Ship for War.
The bosses of the Pusey and Jones
Co. (shipbuilders) give the workers
the privilege" of coming 2 hours
before starting time to work and
working 3 to A hours overtime on
piece work, and the man who don't
want to work with such a speedup
is laid off.
Wages for the women that scrub
floors in the offices of Dupont are
81 for six nights work or $1.16 a
night.
Every woman must clean 60 rooms
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
DETROIT T0ILERS
PLEDGE SUPPORT
TO CHINA Revolt
Marking Flirts With
Japan Seen

Continued From Page One.)
ed workers and peasants. Concern
ing the situation in the whole prov
ince, the capitalist papers have to
admit that "the situation was not
so favorable to the government"
1t is well know that Japan prac-
tically controls the situation in
Shangtung. How is it possible that
Japan, while supporting the North
ern coalition, should allow Chang
Kai-shek to reap a victory at the
present moment?
1t is possible that Chang Kai-
shek, in a moment of desperation,
temporarily disregarding his old
master, the United States, is indulg-
ing in some costly flirtations with
Japan with a large offer of special
privileges and so on. Always TAX
ing advantage of new and better
offers, the japanese imperialists
might very likely have allowed
Chang Kai-shek to win victory
in Shangtung, thus also putting
little pressure on the scared North
westerners in order to get more con-
cessions from them.
The big noisy slap in the face
which the American imperialists
gave to Chang Kai-shek on Satur-
day by refusing to allow the Du
Pont Company to deliver contracted
ammunition to Marking can be con-
sidered as a good evidence support
ing this Interpretation.
This flirtatious adventure of Chi
arg Kai-shek and Japan, of course;
cannot yet be considered as the be-
ginning of any durable alliance.
But the filtration as a temporary
maneuver certainly cannot be ex-
cluded as an impossibility. Events
move very fast in China and scenes
change very frequently. When con-
ditions in the country are so I'M
stable, the realignment of forces are
possible almost at any minute.
These maneuvers also indicate the
intensified conflicts of the different
imperialist powers in China. While
all imperialist powers are sending
gunboats and armed forces to China
to try to suppress, the revolution,
conflicts among themselves are also
intensified as the struggle becomes
more severe. Conflicts among the
imperialist powers themselves and
militant protests and struggle
against Intervention by the working
class all over the world will eventu-
ally defeat the boss policy of inter-
vention in China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
MOBILIZE SEPT.1
DEMONSTRATION
FOR JOBL-ESS BILL.
Unemployed Councils
in Active Fight

Continued From Page One.)
council has staged several demon
strations against evictions.
On the occasion, the police re-
sorted to shooting into a demon
stration, against the eviction of
worker for non-payment of rent.
Since this time, the council has
grown tremendously, and now the
police are further trying to stop
activity in the struggle for the
Workers Social Insurance Bill. The
RED" squad will not succeed in its
efforts. The workers called an
other meeting for the following day.
September list Meet in Detroit
In Detroit on Sept. LIST, Labor
Day." at Cass Park, at l p. M, the
Trade Union Unity League and the
Unemployed Councils are holding a
big mass demonstration against I'M
employment. All workers-unem-
ployed, employed, Negro, white,
native, foreign-born are urged to
take part. This demonstration as
part of the struggle for the enact
ment of the Workers Social Insur-
ance Bill comes in the midst df the
Detroit mayorality election cam
paign.
AS the unemployment increases,
over 100000 are jobless now in De-
troit, the bosses are putting for
ward self proclaimed friends of
labor" with their fake relief pro-
posals to divert the attention of the
suffering workers from the only
program which offers real hope for
conditions, the program of
the Trade Union Unity League and
the Unemployed Councils who are
fighting for the enactment Of the
only real Workers Social Insurance
Bill. The fake bill is full of "jok-
ers" such as the exclusion of agri-
cultural workers from any benefits,
giving the bosses state department
of "labor and industry" complete
power to formulate rules and reg
ulations for the unemployment in
surance fund" and the limitation of
benefits to 40 per cent of usual"
wages for only IL weeks with no
provision for unemployed workers
and their families after that time.
Due to the mass activity of the
Communist Party, and the T.U.U.L.
in the shops and factories, the
socialist takers are coming to the
help of the bosses with fake din
surance" bill, which tries to put the
burdens on the shoulders of the
workers so that the bosses profits
will not be interfered with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Gain For Red Union
Leadership in German
Pit Council Voting

BERLIN, QPS).-The pit coun-
ell elections in Langenbrahm, a
stronghold of the Christian trade
unions, have resulted in a note
worthy success for the revolution
airy trade union opposition. The list
of the latter organization received
495 votes as compared with 308 at
the last elections. The Christian
trade union list received 401 votes
against 456 votes. The reformists
1876 as against 286 votes. AS the
Christian unions have more men,
bers than they received votes it is
obvious that some of their members
voted for the list of the revolution
airy trade union opposition which
now takes the place of the Christian
unions as the strongest organization
in the pit councils. The great drop
in the reformist poll is also inter-
esting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18

available facts are quite to the con.
trary, and ably expressed in the
case of Lincoln by the fearless Ne
gro revolutionary, Frederick Doug
lass; and in the case of Roosevelt
self-exposed in some of his letters
published since his death and before
that event in his attitude on British
rule in Egypt.
1t is to be noted, too, that these
same Negro bourgeois papers in
spreading infamous lies and ilIu.
sions about the friendship" for the
Negro masses of such imperialist:
as Roosevelt, ETC., have no word to
say of the Communist Party and It's
struggle against lynching and Ne.
gro oppression.
Seeking crumbs from the masters
tables they dare not identify them.
selves with the enemies of these
masters even though they realize
that these masters are the oppres.
sors of their racel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Try Drive Negroes
Off Atlantic Beach

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 15.-Un-
der the pretense of affording Negro
bathers capitalist protection"
against insulting remarks by white
-passers-by, police here are engaged
in an. attempt to discourage Ne
-groes from using even the Jim-C Grow
section of the beach. This morn
ing the section given over to Me-
.groes was thickly populated by cops
who kept everybody on the move.
Inquiry among the Negro popula-
ton developed that nobody had re-
quested police protection" against
Insulting remarks, that as a matter
of fact nobody had ever heard any
insulting remarks. 1t developed,
however, that the rich guests of
two exclusive hotels, directly back
of the Negro section of the beach.
have objected to "having to look out
,pon Negroes enjoying Themselves
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
Longshoremen Will Fight Cut
Wilmington Jobless Arrested
For Crime of Being Jobless;
Fight For Social Insurance!

night which, makes less than two
cents room.
Arrest Jobless.
All streets in Wilmington are
guarded by strong police forces. The
New Castle workhouse is full with
unemployed workers who are arrest
ed for no other reason than that
they are unemployed. But the mag
istrate finds them guilty of differ
ent "crimes."
Some of them were arrested for
walking on the railroad when are
looking for work. Others for stay
ing on the street corner in the eve
nings.
/ heard one case like this. One
Negro worker was arrested when he
walked on the state highway. When
the magistrate asked him what he
was doing he answered that he was
looking for work. The magistrate
then said. 81 can't give you work,
but can give you ten days in the
workhouse."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
NOW DISCOVERS
TAFT AS ENEMY!
Negro Misleaders Are
Surprised!


The Negro petty bourgeois press,
which serves the imperialist oppres-
sors of the Negro masses by ped
ding illusions about capitalist dem,
ocracy and capitalist justice and by
trying to direct the resentment of
the Negro masses against the white
race as a whole instead of against
the white capitalist class which ex-
ploits both Negro and white work.
ers, is now pretending to have just
discovered that Taft was an enemy
of the Negro masses.
The Whip (Chicago) in it's cur
rent issue carries story in which
it naively relates that letters of the
late Major Archie Butt, Taft aide,
written to his sister during the Taft
administration, indicate that "far
from being merely disinterested in
the Negro Taft was actually hostile
to them and wanted to eliminate
them from politics." The Whip then
goes on to quote in shocked surprise
several ISLANDERS made by Taft
against the Negro race, as we'll as
several expressions of out and out
hatred of Negroes. The story is
also carried in other Negro papers.
These same bourgeois Negro
newspapers, expressing so much sur
prise at this further proof of Taft's
notorious antagonism, as an agent
of United States imperialism, to the
Negro victims Of that imperialism,
are the same papers that euloei7e
Ahraha", Lincoln and Theodore
Poc-ovc'l ~ f~;erde a,d "hc,of"n.
tors" Of The Negro masses. although
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
pHILA. MWIU EX-
POSES lila, |WW
AS BOSS TOOLS
Bakers Racket About
Over
Philadelphia, Pa.


Daily Worker:
The Philadelphia longshoremen
lnder the leadership of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union have CAPT
talist ship owners and stevedores
scared stiff; and as the workers
know that the LILA. of Polly Bak-
er's, the ]. WV. and the rest of the
bosses tools and takers will not dare
fight against their masters (like
Murphy Cook Co., Jocko and other
stevedores).
The VOL kers realize that the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union can
not be bought and that it is organ
izing the workers for strike against
WAGE cut, the cutting dowr of
gangs, and for a standard scale of
wages. for all the longshoremen in
Philadelphia.
Low Pay.
Now the coastwise men get from
20 to 10 -ynts an hour. Jocko pays
whatever he damn pleases and as
low as 40 cents an hour, LILA. but
ton or not. The men cannot get
hired unless they buy moonshine for
the bosses and Polly Baker and his
gang slugs the workers when they
protest.
At Spreckels and the American
line the workers must bride the boss
as to hire them.
Rotten Slings.
Rotten sings are used to haul
drafts aboard ship injuring and kill
ing the workers in the holds Of the
ship. The men are forced to board
drafts.so damn big that the winches
can't Pull them. The speedup is so
great that thousands can't get work.
Most of the men can't make enough
70 feed their wives and kids.
Workers Will Fight.
Yet these greedy bloodsucking
capitalist shipowners are out again
to give a wage cut and the bosses
realize that their damn bosses union,
the LILA, can no longer fool the
workers because the leaders win not
fight for the workers but slug and
spy upon and blackball the workers
if they complain,
JOE GRALICH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-18
,Jobless Worker Sees Need
For Pushing Fight For Bill

Bronx, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker:
AS a worker who has a family to
support, | have been out of work
for the last six months and to get
anything to do seems hopeless. If
it wasn't for little savings 1 have
| would be starving in the gutter.
l realize that there are thousands
and thousands like me.
Hoover and Barnes, his publicity
agents, talking glibly about pros
perity is a lot of lies and bunk.
Only the majority of the workers
of this country really know and feel
the need and want of food and shell