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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
N, C. STRIKER Is
INSPIRED BY lid
FIGHT FOR NEGRO
Struggle Against Race
Discrimination at
Convention

What impressed Louis McLaugh-
lin, one of the Gastonia seven, about
the International Labor Defense
Convention just ended in Pittsburgh,
was the splendid fight made by the
l. L. D. against racial discrimination,
"The spirit of the Negro and white
workers there was fine" he said.
"The convention of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, where was
delegate, showed me clearly what
the l. l.. D. stood for. 1t showed US
that it was for the interests of the
working class of people. We went
to a hotel and there were some
Negro comrades in the bunch. Anc
the hotel manager said that he
couldn't have Negro folks in the
hotel. So we then decided to have q
demonstration and we all came from
the convention to the hotel in line
We all went in the hotel. The Negro
comrades asked them to give then
room. The management refused.
$50 right there in the lobby Of
the hotel we had wonderful mass
meeting. Then we all went marching
out and going up the street. Every
body on the street got in line anc
went to the convention and there
was a lot of them joined the |. L. D
after, thew saw IL was for the work
ing class of people.
"The spirit of the Negro an
white workers at the convention
was fine. And they learned some
thing at the convention they will
never forget in all their lives. l
was the spirit of workers. solidarit.
regardless of race, color or ma
tionality. 1t was a wonderful con
vention, the best l saw-and th
best the l. L. D. ever had"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
BYERS SAYS BACK
IN u. S. SAME AS
B 4 C K IN JAIL
Byers Praises Condi-
tons in the Soviet
Union

NEW YORK. Jan. 2,-"Coming
back to the U. S. A. is like coming
back to Jail after being in the
Soviet Union"
That's the impression K, 0. Byers,
20-year-old Gastonia striker, had
when his ship passed the Statue of
Liberty" yesterday upon his return
from three months trip to the
U. s. S. R., Germany and England.
"They wouldn't let me off at Eng
land. They get q Labor government
there under Ramsay Macdonald.
He's just like the A. F. of L. A
faker. Call itself Labor government
and won't let worker off the boat. "
Byers, with years of mill-slavery
in his short twenty years, was help
less when he tried to describe the
U. S. S. r. in comparison with Gas
tonia-or the rest of the U. S. A.
"Why it's 1000 per cent better
there" he said, "You can't COM
pare it."
He told of seven and six hour days
in the textile mills of the U. S. S. r.
"Why the unemployed workers there
get more money from the govern
ment and the union, than we do in
Gastonia for working twelve hours
day."
Byers is one of the Gastonia strik-
ers Originally held under first degree
murder charges. He was freed at
the beginning of the second trial.
"All over the Soviet Union" he said,
"they knew about Gastonia and the
Black Hundreds"
The Soviet workers pressed Byers
with the question, "When are you
going to have the revolution in
America so you can live like us
here?"
81 told them," Byers said, "we'd
have the revolution just as soon as
we could"
Byers went to Europe under the
auspices of the International Labor
Defense and the National Textile
Workers Union. 'I'm going back
South and let all my fellow workers
know what it is like in the Soviet
Union. I'm going to wave the Red
Flag right in front on the Loray
mill"
Byers stated he will speak
throughout the South and the coun-
try IN the campaign of the Inter
national Labor Defense to free the
remaining seven Gastonia strikers
who face as high as twenty years
Imprisonment.
Free the Gastonia Strikers!
GAIL the workers in Europe want
to know why we don't get the seven
strikers freed. Not only that" he
said, "but they kept asking me when
we're going to make the revolution"
SIN Gastonia | worked II hours a
week, and 60 hours at the minimum.
In the U. S. S. r. they work seven
hours a day. In Gastonia they have
speed-up so terrible one worker has
to tend 100 looms. In the U. S. S. r.
one worker only tends four looms.
They got more working, there, and
no unemployment at all like in the
United States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Metal Workers NJ e e t
in Philadelphia, Mon.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. g.
A mass meeting to which all ma
chine shop, foundry, electric appli-
ance, radio, boiler shop and ship
yard workers are especially invited,
will be held as part of the organi-
cation campaign C the Trade Union
Unity Metal League, Monday, Jan.
6, at 8 p. M, in Odd Fellows Hall,
Kensington Ave, Cumberland and
A st.
The principal speaker will be An
drew Overgaard, national secretary
of the T. U. U. L. Metal League.
Low wages, cuts, longer hours and a
speed up program of the bosses
that is burning up all the strength
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

The owner, fearing the destruc-
ton that the gunner might cause,
ard fearing that the organizers
would defend themselves, refused
permission to have the lynching
start in his hotel, but gave permits.
sion for a committee of the mill
owners gunner to camp all night
in the lobby of the hotel and wait
for the organizers in the morning.
In the morning Summey and
Totherow went into cafe. Snmmey
remained elere, and Totherow went
for the baggage, Totherow was
TO rthe baggage, Totherow was
ierked into big car by a group OF
thugs and was "taken for a ride. .
A few hours later, a worker came
to Summey and reported that the
Youth Organizer was taken on a
ride by the thugs. By this time the
mill bosses henchmen were swarm
ing around Summey in the effort to
get him, too.
Won't Stop Union.
However, Summey walked up the
street, armed only with short
stick, and with the aid of workers
and a swift car, finally r.lnaged
to elude the gang and to report this
entire story to the district office
where he stayed last night.
Summey says; II won't rest until
Totherow is found and until the
union is carried on successfully in
Lumberton. The Gastonia thugs,
eangsters, police and bullets
couldn't stop us. The Lumberton
thugs and the whole machinery that
is controlled by the Ex-Governor
Mclean, big mill owner, won't
stop the workers from organizing
The National Textile Workers
Union is mobilizing all available
forces to locate Totherow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Exploited Farm and Mil
Workers OF South Learn
to Fight Back at Bosses
Farmers Face PeOnage; Driven to Mills in Vain
Effort to Improve Conditions
Communist Party Must Organize Negro and
White Agricultural Workers
sleeping quarters.


The troopers, during the period
that they are raising a crop, are
furnished with the necessary work
animals by their landlords. These
are fed out of the employers feed.
The landlords advance credit, at s
per cent interest, to purchase seed,
fertilizer, ginning ,bagging, etc. The
landlords also advance sums in
amounts of So to SO per week to
meet living expenses. When the
crop is sold the cropper receives
half the sale price Of what he has
produced, minus the advances which
have been made to him by the land
owner.
The Southern workers have fight
ing blood in their veins and they
are learning to hit back at the
capitalist dilemma which confronts
them. The National Textile Work
ers' Union has found that it can en-
list these Southern workers in the
Union as fast as it can send organ
izers into the field. The Commu-
mist Party and the International La
Dor Defense are also making giant
strides forward in this hitherto al
most untouched section of the coun-
try. The next task of our Party in
it's Southern work is to follow up
it's successes on the industrial front
with an agricultural program of ac-
ton. The exploited Negro and
white agricultural workers must be
united with the Negro and white
industrial workers in their common
fight against capitalist exploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

services in the past to the cause Of
Labor can wipe out this scabbing at
Collinsville - confessed scabbing,
though he hates the sound Of the
word.
The I.W.W. fought for the Amer
lean workers for years. In the course
of that fighting, it received mortal
wound, it had inflicted on it an
anarcho-syndicalist philosophy, and
from this wound it has died. J It's
corpse is still above ground, but it
smells bad. 1t has a kind of life,
the life that goes with putrefaction.
This rotteness is no good to anyone
not rotten too, it is of use only to
the rotten capitalist system. Give
this body decent burial. Let all class
conscious, all militant workers in
the I.W.W. join the class struggle
unions of the Trade Union Unity
League. Let all real revolutionaries
in the I.W.W. join the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
CRISIS INCREASES
PLANS FOR WAR
Continued from Page One)
eral Reserve Board.

Continued from Page One)
eral Reserve Board.
More light is thrown on this point
by P. w. Garrett, financial editor
of the N. Y. Post:
Actually definite turn in
business started three months be-
fore the (stock) market gave evil
dence of disturbance. The mar
ket's decline did not bring on the
business recession"
Nowhere in current capitalist
economic literature will there be
found the tribute to the fundamen-
tai strength and powerfulness of
U. S, imperialist economy that one
meets in the pages of the Counter
Revolutionary Aid"
The capitalist class madly organ
ICES it's forces to pull its industry
out of the most severe depression in
so years by a smashing attack
against the standard of living of
the American workers.
Every indication points to fur
Their sharpening of the crisis, and
especially mass growth of unem-
ployment.
The net earnings of all railroads
dropped % per cent in November,
indicating a severe interruption in
the production and movement of
commodities. The Pennsylvania Rail
road for the week ended Dec. %
handled 10000 cars less than the
preceding week and $4,000 cars less
than in 1923.
The Department of Labor, always
months late in its reports on unem-
ployment, and most often suppress
ing the facts of unemployment, has
to admit what every worker in the
United States not only knows but
feels-that there is growing mass
unemployment.
During the past few months"
says the Department of Labor, "in-
dustry receded and unemployment
became pronounced toward the close
of the year."
Not one word on the number of
unemployed! Is it 100000, 6,000,-
900 or 100000? None of these
figures are unlikely.
The workers are assaulted by un-
employment by double-edged
sword: first, drastic, increased
speed-up-less workers for the
same amount of work-secondly,
fifty per cent stoppage in nearly
every basic industry in the country.
In this situation, the big imper-
ialists are strengthening their war
machinery for a gigantic battle for
the world markets. Says the Wall
Street journal: president Hoover
has rightly said that foreign trade
is the backlog of our national sta
bility. j.. If it has been a sta
bilizer in the past, it gives promise
of still greater aid to industry in
the future"
This means not only the usual
wage cuts that capitalism is pre-
pairing to transfer the effects of the
crisis to the backs of the workers,
but drastic campaign of general
slash in the standard of living of
the American workers so that U. S.
imperialism can begin it's dumping
process on the world markets. With
this goes the rapid war prepare
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04
Millinery Workers
Endorse Womens' Anti
War Meet Tomorrow

In a letter addressed to the Dis
trict Women's Committee over the
signature of Sylvia Blecher, secre-
tary of the Millinery Handworkers'
Union, Local 43, in regard to the
Working Women's AntiWar Con-
ference to be held tomorrow tells
of the enthusiastic response OF
these workers to the call for the
conference. The millinery workers
realize that they are being exploited
now more than ever before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

Send Greetings to the Workers
in the Soviet Union Through the
Special Printing of The Daily
Worker in the Russian Language!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

in the bodies of the mtal worker
are causes of much dissatisfactio
here, and many workers. will follow
the leagues plea to organize an
fight for the 7-hcur day and 5-da.
week, highr wags, no speed-up,
discrimination against Negro, youn
and women workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

has simpIifi,d class antagonismH
More and more. society IL splitting
up into two great hostile camps,
into two great and directly contrn.
p0sed classes; bourgeOisie and pro-
tetariat Marx.
Our own age. the bourgeois age
IN distinguished by this--that II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

MOI only has the bOUrgeotsis
forged the weapons that bring
death to itself; IL has also called
into existence the men who nre TO
wieid those weapOns--the modern
working cIass--the DrOlctnri1ns.--
Karl Mara Comm uDisr manitestaI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-04

Build The Daily Worker-Sen
in Your Share of the $4,000 New
Subs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
PAY INCREASE BILL
AGREEMENT REACHED
Senate and House Ready to Ap-
prove Identical
= Measures.

The way has been cleared for final
approval of the police and fremen's pay
increase bill, with the Senate and House
ready to approve an identical bill which
has been compromised so as to meet
with a complete agreement. Chairman
Simmons of the House subcommittee on
District appropriations ha6 hoped to Of
fer unanimous consent request to send
this bill TO conference with the SEN
ate, but, owing to the Speaker having
a crowded program, he was unable to
make the arrangements today. Chair
man Simmons expects to be recognized
by the Speaker tomorrow for this pur-
pose.
All parties Of interest have agreed
on the wording of the bill that is to be
finally enacted. This will contain only
one change from the bill as it passed
the House. That change allows the
District Commissioners to compute the
retirement pay so as to give police and
firemen on the retired roll the benefit
of the new pay schedules adjusted to
correspond with the seriousness of their
disability.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
MORE VIRGINIA BANKS
USE SERVICE CHARGE
Claims Made That Considerable
Work Has Been Performed
at an Actual Loss.

National and State banks in Winches-
ter and Frederick Counties, Va, are
among the last in the State to levy
service charges. They will become eff
fective July /. The banks claim that,
while the expense of conducting bust
ness has increased greatly, the income
from money loaned has remained the
same, and that considerable of the
work has been performed at an actual
loss.
A fee of Is cents will be charged
for collecting notes left for collection,
or any renewal thereof. A charge of
SO cents a month will be made on
balances less than $50. A similar
charge will apply to savings accounts,
but no charge will be made unless the
depositor draws more than five checks
monthly.
There will be a minimum fee Of SO
cents for discounting any note. No
savings checks will be paid unless the
deposit book is presented. A charge
viii be imposed for issuing cashiers or
certified checks. A fee of Is cents will
be charged on each check drawn
against insufficient funds, and So
cent fee will be charged for each 10
Adays or fraction thereof that any note
IS carried past due. in addition to the
interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
TRADING IN SMITH
BONDS RESULTS IN
BROKERS' ARREST
Gustav c. Hertz Is Accused
of Falsely Representing
Securities Prices.
WILDWOOD HASTINGS
Is NAMED IN WARRANT
Defendant Surrenders Books, Let
tiers, Records and Documents to
Custody of Government.

Charged with a conspiracy to sell,
buy and trade in bonds and stocks at
rnisrepresented prices, Gustav c. Hertz,
president of the North American In
vestment Bankers, Inc, was arrested
this morning at his offices, 1l08 Invest
ment Building, and his records seized by
the Government in a raid conducted by
Nugent Dodds, special assistant to the
Attorney General.
Mr. DoddS said that the company was
trading in F. H. Smith Co. securities
and was dealing with the customers Of
that company.
Another official of the company, Well
wood F. Hastings, was named also in
the warrant, which had been issued by
United States Commissioner Needham
Turnage. Hastings, however, was not
in the Office today and was said to be
in Virginia. Mrs. Hastings, who was
an employe of the company, according
to Mr.. DoddS was in the Office at the
time of the raid
The raid was conducted by Mr.. Dodds,
end the arrest was made by United
States Deputy Marshal j. w. Clarkson.
Hertz, when advised of his arrest,
voluntarily surrendered all of his books,
documents, letters and records, which
were taken into custody of the Govern
ment.
Hertz was arraigned. before Commits
eioner Turnage and planned to make
bond.
Held in $4,000 Bond.
When arraigned before Commissioner
Turnage, Hertz was held in $4,000
bond at the request of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Neil Burkinshaw, who
insisted on that figure, despite plea
by Hertz for smaller amount.
The defendant already is under bond
of $500, growing out of an indictment
for perjury returned against him in
May. 1929, by the District grand jury
Hertz, formerly an accountant for the
Hamilton Hotel Corporation, was in
dicted for perjury after he had testified
in the Hamilton Hotel bankruptcy case
His home is in Falls Church, Va.
Hertz asked Commissioner Tlrnage
10 drop the charges against Hastings,
explaining that the latter was merely
an employe In his Office and knew
nothing of the alleged criminal trans
actions. "I am willing to assume full
responsibility for whatever criminal
acts, if any. were committed Hertz
told Mr.. Turnage.
Agents Probe for Months.
Agents of the Department of JUS
tice have been investigating Hertz
activities here for about six months.
They charge in the formal complaint
against him that he would buy Up
good Smith company securities at
prices far below their real value, and
:, that he would buy securities of less
actual value for low prices and sell
them by means of fraudulent advertis-
ing, at figures far in excess of their
true value. The complaint cites three
specific instances in which it is al
legged persons in Richmond Va. and
Newport, r. L, were solicited by Hertz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
CHURCHES APPROVE
PLANS FOR MERGER
Presbytery Now Must Act on First
Presbyterian and Cove
nant Union.

Plans for the merger of the Church
of the Covenant and the First Presby-
terrain Church which has been discussed
for some time were announced today,
subject to the approval of the Presby-
terry of Washington City some time dur
ing the current fiscal year of the
churches. The new church will be
known as the Covenant and the First
Presbyterian Church.
The congregation of the First Church
held a special meeting last Monday
night, when 1t unanimously approved
the articles of agreement, and the con-
gregation of the Church of the Gov
enant, at a special meeting last night,
also approved the agreement.
BY the terms of the agreement DR..
Albert Joseph Mccartney, pastor of the
Church of the Covenant, will be pastor
of the new church. while DR.. Newton
p. Patterson, pastor of the First Church,
will be the associate pastor.
The union of the two churches was
brought about by the Governments
purchase of the property of the First
Church on John Marshall Place for
100000. The First Church owns also
a valuable piece of property on Massa-
chusettS avenue, corner of Garfield and
Thirty-Sixth streets, on which chapel
has been erected.
Meanwhile, until the merger becomes
effective. the two churches will worship
together at the invitation OF the Church
Of the Covenant.
1t is the consensus of opinion in the
membership of the two churches and
among churchmen throughout the city
that the merger of these churches con-
stituteS a splendid gesture toward &c
clesiastical cooperation, efficiency and
strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
CROSBY OBSERVES
COURT WORK
Explains object Of Visit Is to
FamiIiarize Himself
With Situation.

Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby
spent the morning yesterday in Police
Court observing the workings of the
court. He was accompanied by Corpo-
ration Counsel William w. Bride and
spent most of his time in the District
branch with Judge Isaac r. Hit.
The object Of the visit, Commissioner
Crosby explained today, is to familiar
ize himself with the situation in the
court. He has executive charge of the
Police Department and the corporation
counsel's office. the law-enforcing
agencies of the District, and has spent
much time visiting police stations 20
see how things work cut there. He said
he would visit other courts later.
Many complaints have come to his
desk, he pointed Sut, dealing with sub
jects over which he has charge, but
with which he is a complete stranger.
He intends to spend much time seeing
how his law-enforcing agencies work in
the field, as well as keeping remote
control from his office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-20
COMMUNITY HELP
. FOR JULY 4ASKED
Citizens Groups Co-operat-
ing With Committee on
City Observance.

Plans to aid in 100 per cent COM
munity participation" in the events Of
July 4 in Washington were announced
today by DR.. George c. Havenner, chair
man of a subcommittee of the Inde-
pendence day executive committee.
The subcommittee has offered its as
sistance to every community interested
in participating in the city-wide fes-
tivities. Numerous civic organizations
have been urged to sponsor ceremonies,
Arrangements were made for the Bur-
roughs Recreation Center to conduct an
all-day celebration; Wesley Heights will
have a flag-raising program, athletic
games and a community dance, while
digger and better" celebrations have
been arranged for Petworth and Ia
koma Park.
The Mid-City Citizens Association
will cooperate with the general COM
mittee in illumination and decoration of
the city, acting in conjunction with a
subcommittee headed by Charles W.
Darr, president of the Chamber of
Commerce. Assistance also will be
given by the Women's City Club. the
ClClzenS Forum OF CoIumpla helgnCS,
the Kalorama Citizens Association,
which has offered the aid of its COM
mittee on public celebrations, of which
Theodore P. Moves is chairman, and
other organizations.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. director of
municipal Fairgrounds, has offered to
cooperate with any community desiring
playground for celebration. Miss
Sibyl Baker, director of the Community
Center Department, has offered to aid
any community desiring the use of a
school building for the day.
for a horseshoe contest. the Takcma
Park Playground for community cele-
bration and the Plaza, RoSedale and
, Iowa Avenue Fairgrounds for base ball
games. Among the schools to be the
scene of exercises are those of Takoma
and Barnard.