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Opina un intelligence que ell
match White ominguez, sena-
lado para efectuarse hoy en- la
Arena del Circulo, Sc "distingui
ra" por los frecuentes aga
rraos".
Y por ell aumento de precio5,
que muchos fanatics" esti
man injustificado.
Tn veterano contra un prin-
cipiante-aumento de precios.
Damon Runyon sustenta el
criterio de que 81 no Sc pone ter,
mino a las victorias y derrotas
por foul, ell pugilismo mort
RAJ, asesinado por los que debie
ran eStar mas empenadoS en- SOS
tenerlo.
Runyon propuso para ell bout
understanding: Poner Qua
tro Juices; Gallon blanco y
| guantes negros O guantes blan-
cos y calzon negro. Oar 80 minu
tos de descanso al que recibiera
ell golpe de foul y I'm examen de
tres medicos los cuales dirian
81 ell hombre podia continuar c
no.
De Glen que reciben golpe de
foul, seg1n Runyon, ninguno
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29
The Story of III Capone?5 Climb to
.Undereoorld Pogoer, the Terrible
St. Valentine 5DayMassacre
of1229and Other Daring
Gang Exploits Told in
Detail.

who had been right in the touring car with 'en1,
got up and testified that they couldn't identify
the men who had held them up!
Influence? Naturally. O'Banion had more
pull than you could shake stick at. Some
body reached those drivers and told them how
TO testify. And the judge? Well, the American
legal theory is that all judge has to do is hear
evidence y and when presented
was with the Federal men at that time. and
we kept after the case. We finally got OBanion
into Federal court and tried him. The first
time there was hung jury, IL to for convic-
ton. We backed up to try it again-but on the
morning of the trial O'Banion was murdered
Weiss and Mccarthy, incidentally pleaded guilty
and served six months.
Then Chicagos era of ruthless gang wars
really got started.
THERE was at that time three brothers-
Mike, Tony and Angelo Genna-who had a
South Side gang. They were allied with the
Capone outfit; that is they had sort of work.
ing agreement under standing with Canope
On the whole. though, they were fairly inde-
pendent Well, one of the Gennas dropped
$35 900 in a gambling house that was run by
O'Banion's outfit--dropped it, and then welshed
on it and wouldn't pay up.
OBanion went around to see about it. He
called on the Gennas personally and got pretty
hard-b boiled and abusive; called them a bunch
of cheap. lousy wops and told them to come
clean. and come clean quick. That little bit Of
oratory cost O'Banion his life.
On the morning that O'Banon was TO go to
trial for the second time gang came into his
flower shop-that was the blind behind which
he ran his business-and put in big order for
flowers. AS OBanion came out from behind the
counter to FIX the order they pulled their guns
and let him have it. That the end Of
O'Banion. The end of O'Banion and the be-
ginning, as I said, of the gang wars.
1t was the Genna outfit, of course that got
O'Banion. And back of the Gennas was the
Capone gang. So the North Side gang, which
was O'Banion's, prepared to get even. They
gave OBanion an elaborate funeral-no doubt
you remember reading about it, with the $4,000
caSket, the 500 automobiles in the funeral pro-
cesSion, the thousands Of dollars worth OF
flowers. and all that-and then they got ready
to retaliate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-29

HYMIE WEISS took O'Banions place AL
Capone was the man he wanted to get for
it. But getting Capone wasn't such an easy
job. It never has been and It never VIII be-
For this reason. Capone hasn't got the nerve
that the other gansters have had. That's why
he's outlived almost all of them. He hasn't got
the nerve, or else, maybe, he's got more sense
But, anyway, Capone never sticks his nose out
of doors without a gang Of 10 or IL gunner
clearing the way for him. The other gang
leaders would go out alone now and then, but
never Capone. He always laid low.
But Weiss wanted to get him, anyway. Ca
pone at that time was living in hotel out in
Cicero. So one morning in broad daylight five
automobile loads of North Side gangsters drove
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out to Cicero They drove around and around
Capones place, Kidding it with machine-gun
bullets as they drove. They made mess of the
place and they pretty nearly killed Capone's wife
and kid but they didn't get Capone. AS I say
he was lying low
They didn't get Capone, but the war was on
The South Side outfit-CaponeS gang-accepted
the challenge and set out to get Weiss. They
got him, too, but it took some watchful waiting
DO do it.
How they did it was simple enough at that
couple of them went down and rented rooms
in place right across the street from OBan-
ions flower shop, which was still the head
quarters of the North Side gang. They took
machine gun and revolvers in there with them
and sat down to wait day after day, for their
chance.
Weiss being careful, of course But
sooner or later they were bound to get him
and they did. They got him as he strolled
calmly out of the door of the flower shop.
THEY simply turned loose their machine gun
and riddled him. They also got one or two
others who happened to be with him at the time
and they wounded w. w. O'Bricn prominent
attorney
Bugs Moran took Weiss place as North Side
gang leader, and he still has the job.
Meanwhile there was a certain West Side
gangster named Klondike ODonneIl who was
aSSocldCeo WIN Cne - banlon crowd and KlOn-
dixie figures in one of the most sensational and
2uzzling of all the Chicago murders-the murder
of William McSwiggin an assistant States at
tornly, who was famous the Hanging prose-
cutor" of Cook County because of the number
of men he'd sent to the gallows
McSwiggin's murder was a tremendous mys-
terry and it caused tremendous lot of talk
Not all the talk was very complimentary to
McSwiggin since he was shot down while in the
company of Jimmy Doherty q rotorio,s heor
runner, while coming out of a Cicero saloon
But I don't believe that McSwiggin was in
volved in anything he shouldn't have been in
My conviction IS that McSwiggin was being
duped. He was being used for a purpose he
knew nothing about-and it cost him his life.
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This Klondike ODonnen had political inf11.
ence in big way. OF course, all the other
gangSters did, too, but Klondike at that time
was Boosting that he had a direct pull with the
States attorneys Office, and he let it be known
that he was going to get the beer privileges in
Cicero because of this influence.
Cicero, of course, was Capone,S greatest
stronghold then as now. And Klondike you re-
member was allied with the O'Banion gang
Capones sworn enemies. So Klondikes state
ment about getting the Cicero beer privileges
was carrying the war into the heart of the
enemy'S country.
McSwiggn, I believe, was being duped.
Doherty, vino was one of Klondikes men, sim
ply invited him out for an evenings drinking
and sightseeing. McSwiggin accepted, thinking
It just harmless evenings outing But Doherty
took him through the Cicero saloons a. a
'front.'; that IS he wanted the Capone crowd to
see McSwiggin, the assistant States attorney
IN his company. That, according to Klondike
ODonnelrs strategy, would convince them that
ne (Klondike) had real influence.
RUT it didn't work. Capone had q man shad-
owing the party. They went into saloon
Tor a few drinks, and the man phoned head
quarters. Ten minutes later when Dohertv and
McSwiggin and another chap came out. thev
stepped into round of machine gun bullets.
That's the famous McSwiggin murder case
as see it. don't think that Mcswiggin was
up to anything he shouldn't have been. except
for the fact that it's mighty bad business for
an assistant States attorney to run around ON
a drinking bout with gangsters. But 7 don't
believe he was crooked.
At all events the killing of McSwiggn sem
sationai &c it was was only one incident in the
long gang war, or series of wars that made
Chicago's history turbulent for many years.
From the time that O'Banion was murdered the
rival clans have fought There have been truces
now and then. There was one recently, but it
was broken a month ago by the murders at
Fox Lake of the remnants of the Bugs Maroon
gang. Always the truces break down sooner or
later. ...-.
The expression taken for ride" which has
become popular by-word since the Chicago
gangs introduced it, reminds me that a great
many people do not understand just how the
underworld operates when it takes man for
ride.
In the first place. the victim IS always led 10
his death by some one whom he regards as his
closest friend-always But he never knows it,
for by the time he realizes what is being pulled
of he's dead.
Coupled with that, though, is the fact that
the men who actually shoot him are always
strangers.
Perhaps I'd better explain it in detail:
SUPPOSE you and I are gangsters. Suppose
you have done something that makes the
boss decide to put you out of the way You and
Continued Thirteenth Page l.
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ROCHE
for States Attorney,
County, Ill.
BRUCE CATION.

everything on the North Side. O,Banion was
killer. And he had inluence-political nfiu-
ence III tell you q little anecdOte to show you
how strong it was
O'Banion had two chief ieutenants-Hymie
Weiss and Dapper Dan Mccarthy. Weiss had
risen in the booze racket with OBanien, and
Mccarthy had been a labor union slugger. Well.
a matter of six years ago or 50 the three Of
them got wind of big Chicago warehouse
where a lot of bonded liquor was stored. The
owner of this booze had to move 1t to Peoria.
he got Government permit and set out to
make the transfer with feet of trucks.
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nBANION. Weiss and Mccarthy, as I say,
got wind of it. They laid for one of the
trucks that was carrying load to the railroad,
seized it, drove it away and kidnapped the two
drivers. The police caught them with the two
men IN their car. The trio were arrsigned in
Police Court next day on charges of kidnapping
and robbery
An open-and-shut case, you'd Say-caught
with the goods. if any men ever were But that
trial lasted only one minute, and ended with all
three men being discharged. The two drivers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

In this period of the great crisis
of capitalism, with mass unemploy-
ment everywhere, the International
Labor Defense is fighting the great
danger to the progress of the Ameri-
can working-class movement in the
form of the swarm of proposed and
present sedition and criminal syndi-
calist laws sweeping the country.
The growing rehabilitation of the
working masses has caused. the boss
class to take the sharpest of meas
ures. The emergency" war laws,
foremost of which are the criminal
syndicalist and sedition, have been
revived.
This is clearly seen in the arrests
under the criminal syndicalist law
of Michigan, of II workers in Pom
tiac, held under $4,000 bail, fol-
lowed by the arrest of six more
workers in Detroit at protest
demonstration against the Pontiac
arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
THOMPSON Missing

ss:P ITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. IA. -
FREEMAN Thompson, acting prcsi-
dent of the National Miners Union,
and Lii Andrews, one of the young
workers convicted of criminal syndi-
calism in Ohio, out on bonds, and
active in the present strike of COO
workers at Powhatan, are missing
They were on their way by auto
from BelIaire to Powhatan to lead
the picket line at the Stewart mine
where 200 more joined the strike
today. 1t is feared by National
Miners Union officials here that
they have been arrested and are
held incommunicado by the police.
Bellaire Youth Conference
A broad conference of all active
miners is being arranged for this
Sunday morning, Feb. 16, in Bohe-
milan hall, Bellairc Ohio, where
plans will be laid to spread the
strike to all mines in the Panhan-
die section Of West Virginia and in
Eastern Ohio.
Charles Guynn, acting secretary
treasurer of the N. M. U. will speak
at two mass meetings of strikers
this Sunday, Feb. Is. In the after
noon he will speak in Powhatan, and
in the evening in Moundsville.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
WHATCAUSES THE FURY
OF WORLD CAPITALISM
AGAINST THE SOVIETS|
German Peasants in Soviet Union Socializing
Agriculture; Kulak Emigration A Boomerang
Found Out Poor Peasants Glad to See EN- Co!
Technical Experts Strong for Soviet

peneti te into the collective under
akings and get the upper hand here.
Technical Week" in Leningrad.
Technical Week in Leningrad
ended with a great demonstration
before the Uritzki palace yesterday.
Engineers, technical workers, poly
techlnc students, members of the
"shock brigades," professors of the
technical s;h schools ard colleges,
members and co-operators of the
Academy of Science took part in the
demonstration under banners bear
ing, among others, the slogans,
"The Five Year Plan in Four Years!
Down Wit.l Political Indifference
Amongst t ,gineersI Neutrality
Is Impossible! Those who are not
with us are against us! Engineers
join the fr-1t ranks of the Struggle
for Socialism," The demonstration
was tremendously enthusiastic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
ATTACKS ON WORKERS
BY BOSSES GROW IN
SHARPENING CRISIS
international Labor Defense Mobilizes to Fight
Increased Suppression
Capitalists Revive Old Criminal Syndicalism
Laws Against Unemployed

"These increasing attacks on the
working class now definitely assume
the form of seeking to drive into
illegality, if not to destroy the class
struggle organizations of the work.
ers, the main attack being against
the Communist Party" the national
executive committee of the LID. to-
day declared. "This attack is also
directed against the new industrial
unions, against the International
Labor Defense, in fact against. all
the organizations of labor based on
the class struggle"
1t was pointed out that the sedi-
ton law in Michigan, is the same
law that was used in 1922 in the
attack against the Communist Party
convention at Bridgeman, as re-
suit of which c. E. Ruthenberg was
sentenced to 10 years Imprisonment.
The following table indicates the
extent to which the bosses have gone
under the criminal syndicalist and
sedition laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

Committees must eliminate "circu-
lar" leadership as far as possible
and give detailed personal attention
to every lower organization.
/ The bureaucratic red tape of hold
ing up applications for membership
for weeks must be overcome, and
the work of accepting applicants
through the nuclei speeded up
This in no way means overlooking
careful examination of each appli-
cant.
4. Particular attention must be
given to the new shop nuclei organ
lied Already there are So of such
new shop nuclei, the overwhelming
majority of which are in basic in
dustries. To the extent that we
base our Party on shop nuclei will
we proportionately increase manifold
the effectiveness Of our agitational
and organization capacity. This
necessitates very detailed and care
full attention to each shop nucleus.
Under no circumstances must we
send instructions telling the shop
nuclei to do such and such a thing"
without accompanying such instruc-
tons with detailed advice how to
carry out the proposed activity or
campaign.
5. The tendency displayed in re-
cent weeks of. lessening our activity
in recruiting the Negro workers
must be examined by every district
buro, and the necessary steps taken
to check and correct this.
6. With the strengthening of the
Party must go Simultaneous mani
fold growth of the, revolutionary
unions and the TUUL. Not only
must every ,new Fartynplember. be
enrolled into the revolutionary
unions, but through these contacts
we must increase the U.U.L. mem-.
bership many times over 5, 600 The
recruiting drive must also be util-
lied to extend and broaden our
Party base within the revolutionary
unions. ~ ts&~1H 5000 ~
The entire Party and particularly
the District and Section leaderships
are called upon to energetically car
ry through these directives of the
ConGntern. The renegade Love.
stonites have been categorically de-
feated on alIasf.rents. AFhergrowiHg
economic crisis with all its ..conse
quences smashed to smitherines, for
even the most backward worker,
the right-wing Lovestone theory Of
exceptionalism and the Victorian
age" of American Imperialism. The
PartyS success in the recruiting
drive, with 5000 new proletarians
added to our ranks--is the best an
swer of the workers to the renegade
Lovestonites and Cannonites.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
4G0 Strike at Sparta

BELLEVILLE, H., Feb. IA. -
The Sparta mine of the Noffat Coal
Co. is on strike; its 400 men arc
half of them Negro miners. The
company has another mine at Nof-
fatsville, Ala. The strikers heAe
are meeting Monday with National
Miners Union speakers. The COM
pany and the United Mine Work
efs of America want to put the men
back to work, with 800 eliminated,
including most of the Negroes.
The officials of eleven locals of
The u, M. W. in Franklin county
have come out for Lewis against
Fishwick, in the struggle. between
these two gangs of reactionaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
BY S. D. GOLDBERG.

In the latter part of last summer,
the "conciliator" Of the U. S. de-
partment of labor, Charles Wood, at
the request of the New York and
Brooklyn shoe manufacturing, sent
out letter to all shoe manufactur-
ers who had agreements with the
Independent Shoe Workers Union,
urging them to break their contracts
with the union, because of its Com
munist leadership. T.. 5,.
This letter was received by the
bosses when the season was in full
swing, but the shoe manufacturers
did not dare to break the agreement
then, They merely showed it. to,
some of the workers whom they
though loyal to them or whom they
thought could be instrumental in
their maneuvers. But the bosses
soon found that the letter had no
effect on the workers. The workers,
on the contrary, answered that they
would under all circumstances strug-
gle for union conditions in the shops
under the honest leadership of ttf
Independent Shoe Workers Union. "a
Registration. e..
The labor department then called
upon the New York police to regis
ter all the shoe workers who are.
working in union shops controlled by
the Independent. The workers were
questioned as to their names, ad-
dresses, birth place, religion, po1iti-
cal affiliations and whether their
children belong to any OF the Com.
munist organizations, etc. As" soon
as this was reported to the union.
Instructions We're Immediately issued
to the members not to answer the
questions. A protest was raised in
the press against the union breaking
activities of the U. S. department Of
labor. The N. Y. World and Times,
inquired through their Washington
reporters whether the federal gov
eminent had any knowledge of
Woods letter. 1t denied having any
thing to do with the letter. The
N. Y. World and Times at That time
printed articles in the name of the
labor department denying the
charges made against it. This was
before the election when the workers
are usually lulled by sweet prom
ises of the politicians and their
agents as being "fair to labor" etc.
Wage reductions are given the shoe
workers also in the socialist party
city of Redding, Pa.
What the Press Is for.
| have before me the court rec
ords of the injunction case of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

MOSCOW (By Inpreeorr Service).
The movement g the COLLECTIVE
zation of agriculture is growing IA
p : amongst the German peasants
and landworkers in Soviet Ukrain;a.
In the last few weeks the German
colonists have organized no less
than iiv agricultural collective I'M
dertakings. One hundred German
land workers of the Nikopolye col
ony have organized an agricultural
commune with the name, Red Star"
The German Kulaks have aban-
doned their e. grafton agitation,
first of all, because the reception
given to them abroad was very I'M
satisfactory, and secondly, because
the emigration of kulalls s looked
upon rather with satisfaction than
concern by the poor and middle
peasants. The kulaks have altered
their tactics and Ire now trying to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15

object. The growing army of un-
employed are showing their militan-
cy. They are joining in the fight
for work or wages, and it is TO iore-
stall the rapid mobilization of IN
employed Councils to force the cap
italist government to pay unemploy-
ment insurance that Davis issues
his honeyed words to attempt to
cover the growing bitterness and
misery of the unemployed.
More than ever it is necessary to
mobilize for the international DEM
onstrations for work or wages on
International Unemployment Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
How Different for Workers Is Poland Than
Is the Land of Soviets

WARSAW, Poland by Inprecorr
.Service).-The note of No-Confi-
dence put forward by the Commu-
mist fraction in the Polish Seym
against the Bartel government was
rejected. The Communist fraction
and a section o. - Ukrainian depu-
ties voted in favor of it.
Comrade Rossiak spoke in favor
of the motion and exposed the fas-
cist system in Poland. He declared
that the appointment of the former
minister of the Petlura government,
Jusefski, as Minister Of the Interior
in the Bartel government, was a sign
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
French Socialists Keen for War on Soviet

PARIS (By 1nprecorr Service).-
The opening of the French socialist
Party congress was Immediately
followed by a clever maneuver of
the right wingers under Renaudel
and Boncour, who demanded that the
pa-sy congress should first Of all
define its attitu; towards the ques-
lions of bolshevism and national de-
Tense.
The seer larry Of the party, Faure,
willingly azs~-c1 lie right wingers
that the party would continue its
merciless struggle against bolshe-
vism. and that in the question of
national defense it stood where it
always had, lie, fully in favor of
the prin-iple Of the License Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-15
GOVT LIES TO
FOOL WORKERS
But Starving Millions
Organize to Fight
(cout;1,,,pd from pooe Oue)

Continued from Page One)
dustrial establishments were curtail
ed and employment reduced. :"
But for each of these statements
he has a remarkable excuse, name
ly, weather conditions are bad"
Certainly the weather will not help
the fact that building permits and
contracts for building during Janu-
airy, 1880, dropped 81 per cent below
1928.
All Rigkt-"But"--
The chief liar of the department
of labor was forced, much against
his will, to admit that production in
automobile industry is down pretty
steeply, that radio plants are prac-
tically closed. and that many work
ers in all industries are working
on part time basis.
In order to get around the figures
from the state of New York, which
is a key-industrial state, and from
whose figures the national figures
on unemployment never vary more
than fraction, Davis rushes to the
weather for a saving straw, and
claims the decline is due to seasonal
operations. But he still admits that:
part time employment obtained in
several industries q out of ~ and
a number of plants and factories
operated with reduced forces"
And at the bottom Of his state
ment he casually mentions the fact
that unemployment increased among
all classes of workers, skilled and
unskilled, and that the slight Furry
in production in steel and automo-
biles have not materially affected
the unemployed army of over T.
100000.
Ell Remember This, Mr.. Davis!
Fools step in where angels fear
to tread" and Davis rushes in to an
nounce that employment viii be nor
NAL within 60 to 80 days.
Even the most optimistic capital
ist economist in his drunkest mo-
ment never claimed that employ
mcnt under any condition could
reach the early figures Of 1929 OF
the average figures of 1928.
Why Davis Lies
The Davis statement has definite