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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Recruiting Officer
Says Communications
on u. S. Armed Forces

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April g.
Army recruiting officers here admit
that Communist propaganda among
the unemployed workers and in the
armed forces are creating dissatis
faction with the imperialist war ma
chinery.
"In years gone by" said Lieuten-.
ant Leonard C. Parker, head of the
navy recruiting station here, "a man
would try to join the service if he
couldn't find a job. Red organizers
have planted seeds of dissatisfaction
in the fertile ground provided BY
the unemployment situation and have
succeeded in convincing many that
the United States government is run
by the big bosses and that members
of the military service are but tools
of the capitalists"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
MEXICAN MASSES
PROTEST TERROR
Angered at Jailings Of
Leading Workers

Reports from Mexico, written in
the capitalist press best hysterical
red scare" style, tell of the
"thwarting,' on Sunday, of "red rev.
olution' by raids on Communist
headquarters at Vera Cruz. Orizaba,
Cordoba and Jalapa, with great mil
itary activity and the arrest of
known radical leaders" The 50
hunger-striking workers imprisoned
before March 20 were released on
March 10 only to be rearrested that
day in unemployment demonstra-
tons at Mexico City.
These workers, among them Vale
tin S. Campo, leader Of the revolu-
tionary trade unions, Immediately
resumed their hunger strike and the
present "plot" is undoubtedly the
mass protest of the workers called
for by the Communist Party to de-
mand the release of the imprisoned
workers. Even the capitalist press
admits that despite the heavy troop
mobilization, sizeable demonstra-
ton occurred in Mexico City, "signs
of disorder in Vera Cruz, and "vir-
tual martial law" in all affected
centers. Of course the government
claims the Communist international
was behind" the movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
HOLD DISTRICT
Mine CONVENTION
Will Take Up National
Convention Matter

ZEIGLER, ILL.,, April 6.-With
seventy-five delegates already pres
ent, representing twenty five locals,
the District Convention of the Ma
tional Miners Union opened here
yesterday. This is one of series
of twelve district conventions in all
mining fields in preparation for the
national convention of the National
Miners Union, for which at least
1000 rank and file representative
delegates will be modified.
Freeman Thompson opened the
district convention. Winigar was
elected chairman, BRONX, vice chair
man and Groves, secretary. Gerry
Allard was elected on the credentials
committee and Cali on the resolu-
tons committee.
A report ON the new leadership
and mobilization for the National!
Convention and the May Day strug-
gle will be made by Stuart. The
agenda also contains reports on the
Trade Union Unity League; report
on unemployment in the mining
field by Thompson, as we'll as re-
port on the national situation. Gerry
Allard will report on the district
and the youth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
LYNCH NEGRO
WORKER IN GA.
Bosses and State Put
on Mystery Air

LOTUST GROVE, Ga. April g.
What is clearly another lynching of
another Negro worker here was re-
vealed when j. H. Wilkins, Pullman
porter of the Southern Railway was
found with his neck tied to a small
tree, and his knees touching the
ground. Wilkins skull was frac-
tured in two places. Bruises and
cuts on his body showed that he had
been tortured and then lynched.
Railway officials and Georgia gov
eminent authorities are trying to
hide the whole affair under the guise
of mystery in order to cover up the
brutal lynching of a Negro worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
PROTEST CREETS
FASCIST Filler
Anti-F Workers
dubbed and Arrested

The Hungarian fascist, Alexander
Magyar, who is on a flying propa-
ganda tour for the Horthy govern
ment, was received with boos and
a protest demonstration by a large
group of Hungarian workers from
the Anti-Fascist Federation of
America Saturday afternoon at the
Newark airport.
The workers, carrying placards,
"Fascism Means War and Murder"
"Fascism Means Unemployment"
eve Don't Want Horthy," "Down
With Fascism," ETC., were provoked
by fascist thugs and the police, who
naturally cooperated with the fas-
cists.
A serious fight started when one
of the welcoming committee" or
gained by the fascists, savagely
crashed a cane across the head Of
an Anti-Fascist worker. Although
the policemen on the scene were do
ing their best in helping the fas-
cists they did not use their night
sticks at the beginning, because, as
the reporter of the Herald Tribune
observed, they were afraid of "mis-
taking a member of the welcome
committee for an Anti Fascist
rioter."
The Anti-Fascist demonstrators
were dispersed only after additional
police forces arrived on the spot.
Although the fight was clearly pro-
voked by the fascists, the police ar
rested eleven men and women Anti
Fascist workers. Many workers
were wounded in the fight by fas-
cist thugs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
FASCIST VETS TO
ALTER MAY 1PLAN
Ask Patriots for Help;
Have 200 Thugs

Unable to arouse much support
within their own ranks among the
workers, many of whom are unem-
ployed, tramping the streets facing
starvation, the fascist officers of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars have an
nounced that they will call on other
patriotic organizations to get up
some kind of demonstration for
Union Square on May l, in order not
to give the Communists meeting.
Publicity Agent Charles S. Penn
burn, after an alleged meeting Of
various organizations on Friday de-
clared that half-hearted measures
we're taken to go ahead with the
parade. In fact, said Pemburn there
has been an element of doubt in our
plans"
All plans of the clustering eVt.
Grams of Foreign Wars to show their
strength on May have dwindled to
the point where the entire program
for the demonstration has been
changed
The parade and meeting, if they
can get enough supporters for it,
will be under the auspices of non
existent organization named on the
spur of the moment the American
Pay-triotic May Day Rally"
Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
author of a bill against militant
workers, is scheduled to speak at
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
VIM, Green SLAPS
parker ON WRIST.
Green's Henchman Did
Support Parker

WASHINGTON, April CIVIL
liam Green. and the takers in the
American Federation of Labor, who
support the Hoover regime against
the workers, who let reactionary
Hughes be ~. on the bench of the
U. S. Supreme Court as chief JUS
tice by Morgan and Hoover. now
raise a small cloud of dus: over the
threatened appointment of another
reactionary, Parker, to the Supreme
Court.
Parker lad already received the
support Of the Georgia Federation
of Labor, and only when Green
gave The signal that some sort of
attack would have to be made, did
the president of the Georgia. A. F.
of l.. write a half-hearted letter
mildly berrating his close friend
Parker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Today in History of
the Workers

April Z, 1772-Charles Fourier,
French utOpian socialist born at
Besancon. 1871-Paris Commu-
nards burnt the guillotine, SYM
Dol Of monarchist and bourgeois
rule. 1920-Coal miners Of Kan
sas struck against state industrial
commission law forbidding rikes.
1920-Anti.Socialist bills intro
duced in New York legislature.
1928 - Indictments against 76
Herrin, ILL.,, coal miners dropped
after second trial acquitted five of
strike deaths. 1925-Paul Crouch
and Walter Trumbull. United
States soldiers at Hawaii, SEN
fenced to prison for Communist
activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07

worker, with the objective Oh oU,UUO
new readers by June LIST.
"The first steps in the mass cir
culation drive for the Daily Work
err have been taken. A quota of
$500 consisting of 800 new SUBJ
scribers, and the rest through fac
tory gate sales and delivery sales
was set and plans were worked out
by the District Bureau. Each street
nucleus adopted factory where the
Daily Worker is to be sold before
the gates. A revolutionary compe-
tition has been started between the
nuclei and individual comrades.
"The Daily Worker drive will be
made a success in the Philadelphia
District"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1880
London Meet
Fl0bs Again.:
BylQudLeQUeS

LONDON, April 6.-The slender
threads which held the five-power
conference together have again
snapped. Premier BRAND, delegate
for French imperialism, left for
France Saturday, with no inten-
tons of returning to discuss arma-
ments or security pact This
leaves the talk of the imperialist
bandits at London high and dry.
The French leave-taking is just one
feature of the antagonisms which
were sharp before the conference
met and have been sharpened since
its meeting.
The smoke-screen pacifist struc-
ture that Hoover, Mcdonald and
Stimson have been building up to
cover the rapid war preparations of
the imperialist robbers has col
lapsed like a house of cards. Be-
hind it the masses can now view the
rapid war moves of the imperialist
powers.
"Only a miracle can save the con-
ference now" declares one London
correspondent for a capitalist sheet.
However, the imperialist powers do
not believe in miracles for war pur-
poses but construct more cruisers,
battleships and airplane carriers.
The American delegation is
booked to return on April 22nd.
Their wives have already left. Talk
about disarmament" left long ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
FUR
WORKERS MARCH
All Workers Called to
Market Tomorrow

To fight against speed-up and un-
employment, against the reactionary
bureaucrats of the right-wing union,
for unemployment insurance, the SIX
hour day, five day week in the fur
trade, the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union is calling for a
demonstration of employed and I'M
employed fur workers this Tuesday,
at noon, in the fur market, on 9Th
Ave. and 2Sth St., and calls upon all
needle trades workers to participate
in this demonstration and report for
it at the union office, 131 w. 2Sth
st.
The Trade Union Unity League
has endorsed the demonstration and
appeals to all workers to help the
furriers> in their fight for better
conditions and to come to their DEM
onstration tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07

at the meeting was the japanese
vice-consul who talked about "un-
employment insurance and the saw.
ings."
Immediately following his talk. a
number of militant japanese workers
began to distribute leaflets and de.
manded the floor. Officials in
charge of the meeting suddenly turn
ed off the light and the police and
thugs began to beat up the workers
The cooperation of the American
government with the japanese bosse,
in depressing the workers was very
clearly brought out in this case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
POLICE BREAK
TEXTILE meet
Many Workers j Join
the Union

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 6.
Police broke up the second meet
ing of the National Textile Workers
Union, after Fillmore and Sameiro
had spoken for over one hour at
Taunton. Many workers joined the
union.
Leaflets were distributed to the
Fall River strikers by the National
Textile Workers Union. They were
received with enthusiasm by the
strikers. After seeing the National
Textile Workers Union leaflet ex-
posing the misleaders in the Asso-
ciated Federation of Textile Opera
tives, the strikers booed Mcnamara
of the A. F. T. o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
us. DICK KILLS
AN ANTI-FASCIST
WORKER AT MEET
/ S Into Crowd Of
1000 at Peaceful
Meeting
Dicks Aid MussOlini
Bellutzi and Another
Worker Shot

An Anti-Fascist worker was
killed by federal immigration de-
tective when group of government
gunner, working in the interest of
Mussolini, broke into an Anti-Fas-
cist meeting of 1000 workers at
Cooper Union yesterday. A debate
was on over the question what will
replace fascism in Italy after it's
overthrow ?"
Another worker, Bellutzi, is ex-
pected to die as a result of the
shooting. The dead worker has not
yet been identified.
The murderer is Thomas A. Lii
lienthal of the Mercer st. Station,
one of Whalens cossacks, who take
especial delight in shooting at work
ers. Lillienthal fired point blank
into the crowd of workers.
At five o'clock fifteen detectives
rushed to the platform in an at
tempt to arrest Borghi, one of the
speakers, representing the anar-
chists. The other speaker, Vacir2a,
represented the socialist party.
Borghi jumped into the crowd and
one of the detectives rushed after
him, drew his gun and fired into
the crowd of workers. The bule.
passed through the side of Bellutzi
and hit o1otba1, ,ryorl-or in tho hoo r,
Both were rushed to the st. Marks
hospital. Men and women were trar.-
pied by the panic caused as a result
Of the shooting by this Whalen thug.
The meeting had proceeded in q
quiet, orderly fashion and has just
been concluded when the detectives
jumped for Borghi. Borghi's where.
abouts are unknown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
HIT JAPANESE TOILERS
Fohce, Boss Thugs Unite In SLueeiug

a number of japanese workers be
longing to the militant japanese
Workers Club in New York were
thrown out from meeting of the
Labor" Department of the japanese
Association by policemen and hired
thugs and were beaten unconscious
on the sidewalk Saturday evening.
The meeting which was held at
the japanese Church, East 57th ST..
was a deliberate attempt on the pars
of the bosses to soften the growing
discomfort of the Japanese workers.
The chief spokesman for the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
WAR A N D TIL E Sc A
Rapid Aiming of Merchant Ships

the government, under the White.
Jones bill, is in reality a part of
the war expenditures of the bosses
under the guise of subsidies for
merchant ships.
The 1922 Washington naval con-
ference, in considering war naval
ornaments provided that the imper-
ialist bandits could see to il that
the decks on merchant shius were
so constructed that they could
mount guns of 6-inch calibie.
AT the London race-for. AIMS
Continued on Page Thrce)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Member Meeting of
Party and League

A general membership meeting
of Party and YCL members will
be held at Central Opera House,
9th st. and 3rd Ave, on
Wednesday, April 9 at 8 p. m.
Every member of the Party
and YCL is instructe to be pres
ent. There will be no admittance
except to members with mem
bership books.
Very important questions will
be discussed, and no member
should fail to appear.
District Buro, New York Dis
trict. Communist Party of
U. S. A., Young Communist
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Sham Battle in
Chic rimaries

CHICAGO, A Tuesday the
primary election for senatorship will
take place here with Ruth Hanna
Mccormick, of the International
Harvester bosses and the rabidly re-
dictionary Chicago Tribune, and
Charles S. Deneen, representing the
same group Of bosses in Chicago
both favoring the Hoover imperial
ists--ir a sham battle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
By HARRY CANNES

Every merchant ship that goes
into drydock these days comes out
with a gun deck" This is how a
sailor summed up the rapid war
preparations on the sea.
In war time, the merchant fleet
becomes definite part Of the navy.
More and more the merchant ships
are being linked up with the war
preparations of the imperialists.
Merchant ships hre officially
recognized as naval reserve.
The $3.50, 100000 being spent by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Meet of Local 43
Milliners Is Called

A meeting of all chairladies of
Local As, of the Milliners, on the
ways and means organization cam
paign will take place Monday at
$3.50 p. M, at the office of the 131
W. 28th st.
There will be a general meeting
Of milliners on Tuesday night at
Bryant Hall, 42nd and 9Th Ave.
There will be report on various
activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
Today in the
Dailu q. s2z luorker

"Our Answer to the Crusade"
Page 4. Glass against Glass in the
South, Page 4. Economic Crisis in
Egypt, Page A. Significance of
Revolutionary Songs, Page 4. New
Haven Promises Gas Bombs to job
less, Page 8.
TOMORROW.
How Frisco Workers took care of
Hoan. The U. S. at the London
Naval Conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
NEEDLE TRADES FRACTION
TONIGHT.

A meeting of vital Importance of
all Needle Trades Workers in the
Party and League will take place
tonight, s p. m. at 26 Union Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
STEvEDORES STRIKE

BUENOS AIRES.-The extension
of the coal stevedores' strike to in
clude all stevedores has tied up port
shipping here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
philadelphia Workers TO
Push Factory Gate Sales
of Daily Worker IN Dwve
Street Units Adopt Factories in Revolutionary
Competition
Goal Is Mass Circulation With 10000 New
Readers by June LIST

PHILADELPHIA Pa April 6The Philadelphia District of the
learned realize during the Recruiting Drive and the
Daily Worker
for the revolutionary movement said E. Gardos
speaking circulation drive of the Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07

SCHOOL TEACHERS JOBLESS.
NEW YORK.-There are about
3,431 unemployed school teachers
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
7-HOUR DAY IN U.S.S.R.

MOSCOW.-The seven-hour day
has been established on the four
chief railroads of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07
BAKERS LOCAL ;
FOR MAY | STRIKE
Union City Ba k ers
Mobilize for TUUL

With only three voting against,
Bakers Local 3, Amalgamated Food
Workers, at a membership meeting
attended by many hundreds Satur-
day afternoon in Brooklyn, voted to
send 20 delegates to the shop con-
vention called by the food workers
section, Trade Union Unity League,
for Sunday, April Goth, at Manhat-
tan Lyceum, to set up a New York
food workers industrial union.
A motion was also passed that
this Monday the executive board
work out ways and means for par
ticipating in the general strike for
May LIST, called by the Communist
Party, together with the Trade
Union Unity League and other la
Dor organizations based on the pro-
gram of class Struggle.
Saturdays vote Of the Local 3
membership proves overwhelmingly
the right wings treachery and takes
the ground from under Burkhardt
OFFICIAL" figures that the T.U.U.L.
only obtained 1873 votes out of 1.5OO
cast by Local 3 in the recent refer
endum.
UNION CITY, N. j., April c..
Delegates are being modified in
North Bergm and Union City for
the shop convention called by the
Food Workers section of the Trade
Union Unity League, April 20. A.
F. of l.. workers will be represented.
At a meeting Of Bakers Local
of the Amalgamated Food Workers,
held on Saturday, there was one of
the usual fake elections staged by
the bureaucracy of the local for
general secretary. An election COM
mittee Of two bureaucrats, elected
at a meeting of the executive board,
where only five members were pres
ent, were in charge. This commit
tee never reported the results of
the election and the ballots have
mysteriously disappeared up to to-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07

HOW ABOUT THE
DEAD AND CRIPPLED?
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The cost
of the last world war for the United
States has been computed at $751;
400,0O0,000 (fifty-one billions).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-07

Speaking at Chamber of Commerce meeting,
Chief Cossack Whalen Referred to the Police
as Your Hired men, Such as the Present
Speaker" Workers, Answer the Ex-
ploiters and Their Hirelings by the
Mass Political Strike on May LIST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
is METHODS USED
TO FIX AUTO FEES
Weight Is Registration Basis in
Majority of States, Accord
ing to A. A. A.

Sixteen different methods are used
by the States to Ak registration fees for
passenger automobiles, and weight is
used in the largest number of Common
wealths, according to the American
Automobile Association.
The national motoring body said that
weight is used as the basis of fixing
fees in total of 20 States, while horse
power Is the basis in IS States. Other
methods used are: Flat rate, three
States; cost of automobile, three States;
horsepower and weight, five States;
value, one State; fiat rate and weight.
two States; value in weight, one State,
and cubic inch displacement, one State.
Car owners paid total of 1914, 1884,
953 in registration and license fees in
1929, says the A. A. A., on a total Of
23,542, 108 passenger cars.
Registration of motor cars, which is
preliminary to the securing OF. license
tags. is now required in every State.
While the majority of States issue
license plates through State officials,
some are issued through county and
local officials.
Generally it Is required that the reg
istration certificate shall accompany the
car at all times, but IN Alabama. Geor-
gia, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Montana, New Mexico, Ohio and
Tennessee 1t need not be carried.
In several of the States a car cannot
be registered until @ certificate of title
is furnished showing that it is owned
by the registrant. This latter law has
done much to curb the movement OF
stolen automobiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
CONGRESS HELPS
U. S. MOTORISTS
Legislation Passed During Present
Session Benefits Drivers,
0ffutt Says.

Motorists of the country have been
greatly benefited by legislation passed
at the present session of Congress-
while other important measures are
still pending, according to George Of
futt. chairman Of the advisory board
for the District OF Columbia DIVISION
of the American Automobile Assocla-
ton.
The two outstanding accomplish
ments, brought about through the
united support Of organized motor
dom, said Mr.. Offutt, were the passage
of the bill increasing Federal aid APP
preparations from $75.000,O0O to $l25,-
600 900 a year and increasing the an
nual Federal funds for forest roads
from $7,5OO,000 20 $12,500,0OO.
He pointed out that provision was
also made for increasing the per mile
limit on Federal aid roads from $751;
600 to s25, 900 in States where the orig
inal 2 per cent system has been
completed.
While the pending measures prin-
cipally affect the Western States, said
Mr.. Offutt, they are of Importance to
all car owners. These are:
Legislation authorizing the Federal
Government to build and maintain
roads through the unappropriated and
non-taxable lands in the public land
States. This measure has already been
passed by the Senate and is now on
the House calendar.
Legislation TO assure the construc-
ton and maintenance of roads in the
national forests Is . means OF pro-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08

Profitable farming is dependent upon
good highway transportation: and the
better the roads the more profitable the
farming, according to E. E. Duffy high
way educational writer. This is the
conclusion reached in a recent survey
conducted by the Agricultural Expert
ment Station of Cornell University.
Fewer motor trucks are owned by
farmers living along dirt roads, the sur
vey reveals. Only one-half of the
farmers living along dirt roads own
trucks in New York, while three-fifths
of those along pavements operate them.
The farmers near hard surfaced pave
ments drove their trucks an average Of
725 miles more year than the farmers
served by dirt roads.
This indicates that the rural districts
served by pavements have been able to
market their produce farther away
from home, thereby obtaining better
prices. The Cornell survey points out
that the farmer living along the dirt road
can only economically deliver to the
local market. Farmers on paved roads,
however, have their choice of three
markets; city markets, local markets or
shipping points, or buyers who come to
the farm.