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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Chinese CITY
Is Captured By
20 m m IL WlStS

Shanghai dispatches Wednesday
reported that the U. S. destroyer
MacLeigh was speeding to Hollow,
the port city of Hainan Island, to
suppress a reported Communist re-
volt there, the Communists having
seized the city.
The excuse is made that the fif-
teen Americans in the city need
protection" although the report
sent by wireless from them stated
that foreigners were not harmed,
though there was much disorder"
Communists are said to have held
the inland part of the island for
years and now have captured the
city. They are probably mostly
peasants, mixed with Communist
worker refugees from Canton.
The U. S. destroyer was sent from
Swallow, by order of Rear Admiral
Charles McVey, commander of the
U. S. fleet in Chinese waters. The
cooperation of the white terror gov
eminent of Chang Kai-shek was OBJ
tanned, the Canton government send
ing five gunboats, which, with the
aid of American irnperialist armed
forces, are to seek to regain the city
of Hollow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Today, Thursday, at noon, the
workers of this city will demonstrate
in front of the Monroe Cafeteria,
9th st. and Fifth Ave-, in support
of the Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe
terra Workers Union, which is con-
Quoting a strike at this place. This
strike has been going on for some
time, and militant demonstrations
have taken place, and the food
workers are determined to keep up
the fight till the boss signs up.
This fight is not against the
owner Of the cafeteria alone. Be-
hind him stand the Restaurant
Owners Association, the reactionary
A. F. of L., the socialist party, all
the gangsters that they can muster,
and, Of course, the entire city gov
eminent machinery.
All members of the industrial
unions all fighting unemployed
workers, members of the Communist
Party, International Labor Defense,
Young Communist League are
asked to come out in support of the
fighting food workers. Show your
solidarity and fighting spirit!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
CONN, JOBLESS
| DEMONSTRATE
Unemployed Grow in
All Parts of u. S.

NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Jan. Is.
Three hundred employed workers,
many of them young workers, dem
onstrated before the City Hall, un-
der the leadership of the Young
Communist League, in a demand for
relief The city officials tried to
-appease these workers by promising
a few jobs, and even this had not
materialized for a week.
When two members of the Young
Communist League exposed this fake
promise, and put forth militant de-
mands for the unemployed, such as
unemployed insurance, 5 day week,
7 hour day for those employed; G
hour day, 5 day week for those un-
der IS; abolition of speedup and
wage cutting; the unemployed re-
sponded to the demands enthusias.
tically. This city is known as the
Hardware City, Thousands of the
workers are unemployed Although
police have refused permits for un-
employed mass meetings to the Com
munist Party, T.U.U.L. and Y.C.L.,
the meetings will be held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
SEVENTH miner
DIES IN BLAST
AT ALABAMA PIT
Terrific Exploitation
by Bosses; Force Men
to Work in Danger

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. b.
The seventh man in the explosion
at the Straven mine yesterday, died
in the hospital today. This was jim
Chesser, who was working near the
six instantly burned and blasted to
death when spark from their saw
ignited the explosive gas into which
the employer had forced them to
go or lose their jobs.
The utmost Indignation prevails
among miners, not only at the cal
lous greed of the employer who
made the miners in other parts of
the mine keep on with their work,
not even stopping them when they
heard the explosion, but at the ex-
tortion practiced in Alabama mines
in general.
Wages, operators claim, are 81 q
day, but this average is struck by
including the pay of mine contrac-
tors and those holding preferred
jobs. Men are working three days
week, at an average of $3.50 a
shift. Some of the company" men
say the get $2.24 for the nine-hour
shift. A motorman gets 1914. A
machine runner receives Sc and his
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Union in this strike were contained
in the report to the Trade Union
Unity League district convention
held here today. Thompson APP
peared with a body of striking
miners, and received great ova-
ton from the 70 delegates repre-
senting all Chicago industries. Part
of his speech is printed below:
In the Staunton District, Mt
Olive, White City, at the Consolida-
ton Mines, previous to the rational
ization and installing the loading
machine, 1,150 men worked at this
mine. A little more than a year
ago the conveyor was brought to
the mine. 1t remained in the mine
less than a year, but became out of
date; it was taken out and removed
and room made for what is known
as the big hog loader
Today out of the once 1850 men
there are less than 200 men en-
ployed, getting the same amount of
dumps as was previously brought
out by the 1850.
These men fought back, demand
ing equal division of work. The
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
FOR
MILITARY DRILL
IN ALL SCHOOLS
Communists Issue Call
for Fight Against
New War Move
Answer Bosses Attacks
Expose Justice" of the
Capitalist Courts

Pointing out that the state gov
eminent of New York is proceeding
with the war plans of the United
States government and now is mill
tarizing the school children, the Dis
trict Buro of the Communist Party,
District New York, has issued the
following statement:
"The United States government is
determined to militarize every man
and woman in the country. Not sat
isfied with this step the government
of New York is now militarizing the
school children. In the state assem-
bly, and senate there has been intro
duced bill, known as the Coughlin
bill. according to which all school
children from 10 to IS years of age
will be given military training in
the schools every day of the week,
and will also get boy and girl scout
training. The state will provide
uniforms at cost of $40.
Prepare War Against Soviet.
This is another move of the gov
eminent to prepare for the coming
war against the Soviet Union. This
is to train the young children, and
particularly the older boys and girls
to be good cannon fodder. While
the workers of the city and state
tramp the streets looking for work,
while hungry children are working
Continued on Page TaUoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
POCKETS DEFYINC
DRESS SHOP COPS
Huge Mass Meeting at
Cooper Union Tonight

Militant picketing of dress and
hat shops, featured yesterdays
strikes in the intensified drive of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union for winning of union
conditions, abolition of sweat shop
practices, shortening of long hours
and putting an end to the speed-up.
There were attacks on the picket
lines alu number Of workers ar.
rested.
The Industrial Union is holding.
tonight, at Cooper Union, s st. and
Third Ave, monster mass meet
ing to which all dressmakers,
whether working in union or open
shops, whether registered or not reg
istered, are urged to come.
Starts Mass Organization.
Leaflets distributed far and wide
among dress-shop workers say:
This mass meeting will sound
the signal for the mass organization
campaign to bring the thousands of
unorganized dressmakers into the
ranks of the Needle Trades Work.
ers Industrial Union and establish
union conditions in the dress trade.
"At this meeting the leaders of
the Industrial Union will expose the
fake strike maneuver of the COM
pany union, which is nothing but a
conspiracy on the part of Schles-
niger and the bosses to further en-
slave the dressmakers and maintain
low wages, long hours and miser-
able conditions in the dress trade.
The bosses, together with the
Schlesinger company-union, are
making an effort to fool the dress
makers into the company union in
order to prevent the workers from
organizing and building their class
union"
Gives Decisive Answer.
The Cooper Union meeting, says
the N. T. w. I. u, must be the
rallying point for all workers in the
dress trade. at must give the de-
cisive answer Of the thousands of
workers to Schlesinger and the
bosses. 1t must express the united
will and determination of the dress
makers to fight for union condi-
tions, to fight for the 40-hour, 5-day
week, minimum wage scale, equal
division of work, no discharge, rec
ognition of shop chairmen and COM
mittees, sanitary conditions and hui
man treatment. nnd all other union
conditions. under the leadership of
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
GRAHAM FACES
Death IN EXILE

NORFOLK, Va, Jan. Is.
Stephen Graham, T.U.U.L. organ
izer, faces execution in fascist Jugo-
Slavia where the Federal authorities
plan to deport him, following his
acquittal here yesterday on the
charge of "inciting the Negroes t.
instruction"
Immediately after his acquittal
he was rearrested by the immigra
tion authorities to be held for in.
vestigation, and is out on $1,000 bail
furnished by the LID. which dc.
Tended him in court.
Graham was arrested last October
after he had spoken at a meeting
to Negro and white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
TRY TO HUSH UP
ROTHSTE|N CASE

The long awaited statement of
District Attorney Grain, who came
into office with the Mayor Walker
administration, on the Rothstein
case, appeared today. Grain had
promised that he would clear up
the mystery of the death of the
famous gambler, who was known to
have been connected with prominent
political leaders in New York.
In his statement yesterday, Grain
officially hushed up the case, de-
claring that the murderer is un-
known" and that he will move for
dismissal of indictment Of Hyman
Biller, who is charged with the
killing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Food Clerks Picket 2
Markets; NotDismayed
by Arrests; Good Meet

The Food Clerks Industrial Union
of the AmalgamateG Food Workers
yesterday again picketed the Miller
Market, 161st St. and Union Ave.
The bosses gangsters and the police
attacked the picket line, and ar
rested one picket. There have been
many arrests here, but the strikers
are determined to go on with their
picketing.
There was picketing yesterday
also at the new market on strike,
at 2311 Avenue U.
The food clerks mass membership
meeting Tuesday night was an en-
thusiastic one, with a good attend
ance, and plans to speed the organ
ization drive in many shops. The
food workers endorsed the Lenin Me-
mortal and Anti-Imperialist War
meeting. s
~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

lice thugs who sought unsuccess-
fully to smash the demonstrations
Demonstrations were held stimuli
taneously in Berlin, Chemnitz,
Madgesburg and other cities.
Berlin is virtually an armed camp.
The capitalists and their social-fas
cist henchmen fear the revolutionary
spirit of the growing army of uns
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
MEET TO FIGHT
COPS BRUTALITY
/. Miller Shoe Workers
Reused Over Wage Cut

A mass demonstration is being ar
ranged by the Independent Shoe
Workers Union against the brutal
ity of the police and to protest the
injunctions granted Brooklyn shoe
bosses by Judge Dunn. Some of the
injunctions were granted before the
lockout took place. The lockouts
were instigated directly by letter
from Commissioner Woods of the
III. S. Department of Labor.
"Your right to organize is being
threatened; come in masses to Boro
Hall Saturday afternoon at 2 p. M,
sharp; well-known speakers" says
the call for demonstration.
The case of Hyman Levine, bust
ness agent of the union, came up
today, and he was handed over to
special sessions. He is out on 81 900
bail. Levine, while visiting strike
headquarters, was seized near the
Gilmore Shoe Shop and arrested after
terrific beating by police. He is
charged with assault.
Mass Meeting.
A mass meeting of exceptional i'm
portance to all unorganized shoe
workers is being held tonight, at
Amalgamated Temple, 81 Arion Pl.,
Brooklyn.
The John Reid Branch, l. w. c.,
gives a concert Sunday at p. M,
at Bath Beach Workers Center, 49
Bay 2Sth St., for the strike.
Bronx Workers Club gives con-
cert Saturday at Bronx Center, 1870
Boston Rd., for the strike.
Workers Cooperative of the
Bronx is conducting a literary eve
ming and dance at the Auditorium,
2700 Bronx Park East, on February
Is; proceeds to the striking shoe
workers.
Cut In !. Miller.
Today, workers of the I. Miller
Shoe Co., with the largest shoe fac
tory in the city, are preparing a
struggle under the leadership of the
Independent Shoe Workers Union.
The I. Miller Company has cut the
wages in the heeling department
again. The union defeated the
bosses attempt to cut wages in the
factory some weeks ago, when pick
cts before a nearby shop and dis
tribution of leaflets among the 1.
Miller workers frightened the en-
ployers into a retreat.
The union has now issued another
leaflet to the workers, pointing out
the necessity of organization into
the fighting Independent Shoe Work
ers, to actually and permanently put
an end to the schemes of their en-
ployer to reduce them to less food,
cheaper or no lodgings, poorer cloth
ing, and general misery.
The demands Of the union are
~iven as: The eight-hour day. and
five-day week, week work and not
Piece work, higher wages and no
overtime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Workers.! Demonstrate Clarence Miller Talks
at Monroe Cafeteria Tonight on Plans for
Show Your Solidarity! NY Textile Convention

Clarence Miller, sentenced to 20
years in the Gastonia case, and sec
retary-treasurer of the national ex-
ecutive board of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, will speak at
the membership meeting of the New
York District of the union, at Is
West 21st ST., today at p. m.
There will be discussion of the
final plans for the New York dis
trict convention which will be held
Feb. 16.
A representative of the Labor
Sports Union will also speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
National Training
School of Party to
Open February 10

The Secretariat of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of the U. S. A., has set February
10th as the opening date of the Ma
tional Training School of the Com
munist Party. The school will con-
tinue for period of six weeks, with
about forty students attending. All
leading comrades of the Communist
Party win teach in this school.
District committees and language
fraction bureaus of the Communist
Party are requested to utilize the
remaining month mil the or1ning
1T the school to raise funds,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Mass German 7Obless Army
Fights Police; 5 Killed, 20
Wounded; Crisis W0ysens
Z0ergiebel S0cial-Fascist Thugs Fire On Job
less; But Can't Break Ranks
German Unemployed More than 100000
Bosses Fear Spirit Of Communist Led Move

BERLIN, Jan. 15.-Mass demon
strations of unemployed workers,
whose total number has swelled
above 100000, under the auspices
of the Communist Party. demand
ing unemployment relief, resisted
the attacks of the Zoergiebel social
fascist police, in an attempt to break
their ranks. Five are dead and 20
wounded, among which are the po-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Lenin Memorial Meeting
Will Initiate ". Y. Cambalgn
Against Big Unemployment
Communist Party Calls for Struggle Against
Bosses Attacks on Working Class
Over Million Unemployed in New York Area
4 Now Are Facing Eviction and Starvation

nection with the growing unemploy
ment. According to figures issued
by unofficial agencies, unemploy-
.ment in the U. S. has passed the
figure of five million and, over 90
per cent of this is in the New York
metropolitan area.
The Students Council of the
Worhrrg SrAoo]'c to-day $3.50 'nced
(ContuYed on Page T'col
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
ALL Faker Asks Boss
to Discharge Militant


j. Effrat, manager of the Clean
ing and Dye House Drivers, Local
1856 of the International Brother
hood of Transfers, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor
has written an official letter to the
Norman Cleaners and Dyers, 260
Norman Ave-, Brooklyn, seeking the
discharge of worker who is active
in the Cleaning and Laundry In
dustrial League of the Trade Union
Unity League. Effrat sets a date,
January II, by which time he de-
mands this worker be fired.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
go to Miners,
Need UniOn".
SAYS Thompson
Tells TUUL Activity
Is Basis of Success

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. Is (By MaiD.
Conditions against which miners
of Illinois are on strike, some of the
important lessons learned from the
first weeks of the strike and dis
cussion of methods for improving
the tactics of the National Miners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

In statement issued yesterday
by the Communist Party thru its
District Organizer, I. Amter, plans
were outlined for the development
of the struggle against unemploy.
ment, and the utilizing of the Lenin
Memorial Meeting on Jan %. We'd
nesdav everin. at 7 y. m for III
ti~t'..n 80 o,,..ro ~ ror ITO H..
mands Of the working class Ia con
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Zoergibiel Rouses Workers Anger
(Wueless bg Inprecorr.)

VWeteSS Uy IHpTeCOTT.J
BERLIN, Jan. 15.-Zoergibiel, the
socialist" chief of police of Berlin,
has prohibited today's demonstra-
ton concentrating Liebknecht and
Luxembourg 1.-TWO revolutionary lead
ers killed in 1919 by another go
cialist" police chief.-Ed.). The
workers are angry, expecting that
Zoergibiel is organizing a second
wholesale bloodbath with subsequent
outlawing of the Communist Party.
The workers are demanding protest
strikes. Zoergibiel has ordered a
general alarm and modified $4,000
police. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Notorious Fascist in Office.
Wireless bar Inprecorr,)

BERLIN, Jan. 15.-The announce
ment of the composition of the new
cabinet in Thuringia, one Of the i'm
portant German states, shows that
the notorious fascist tricks is min
lister of the interior. tricks led the
forgers' office in the Munich police
presidium, providing fascist muir
derers with false passports for es-
cape. He participated in the Hitler
"putch' of 1923 and was sentenced
to Is months in prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
International
Wireless
News
German Workers Thrash Menshevik
(Wweless BIZ Inprecorrl

German Workers Thrash MenshevIk.
wireless By Inprecorr)
BERLIN, Jan. 15.-Following yes
terday's session of the anti-Soviet
forgers' trial, Karumidze, the Georg-
ian Menshevik counter revolutions
airy, was recognized when leaving
court by workers outside. A worker
spat in his face, and a general
tumult ensued during which Ka-
rumidze was soundly thrashed. There
was no session today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
WORKER KILLED AT GRAND
CENTRAL.

Frederick P. Roma, worker at
the Grand Central railroad station,
was killed instantly by the explo-
sion of an oxygen tank, which he
was helping to unload.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Detroit Communists Expose
Mass Unemployment.

DETROIT, Jan. 15.-In leaflet
entitled Unemployment Grows in
Detroit" distributed among many
thousands of jobless and employed
workers, the Communist Party here
points out that there are lover 15o.,
900 workers unemployed in the city
of Detroit. The city govern
ment thru Jos. E. Mills announced.
I'VE can do nothing to relieve the
present unemployment situation
The leaflet calls for an organ
lied struggle for unemployment re-
lief on the basis of full wages pail
by the state, at the same time point
ing out that "the capitalist system
cannot solve the unemployment prob
lem. The program of the capitalists
to meet the growing crisis of unem-
ployment is further wage-cuts and
increase the speed up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Under Protection Of Foreign Troops.
(WireIess bu Iuprecorr,

BERLIN, Jan. 15.-On Monday,
at Worms, in the area of Germany
under occupation by troops of the
former Allies, the police organized
a bloody attack on the unemployed,
killing a sixteen-year- youth and
wounding many jobless workers.
Many passersby were also beaten
up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
100000 J0BLESS
IN N. Y. STATE
Expose Lies of State
Labor Commissioner

As an example of how severe I'M
employment is all over the United
States, the facts revealed, even by
the lying labor commissioner of the
State of New York, are typical.
First, a long statement was is
sued, declaring that there was just
seasonal unemployment" Later
the figures were published which
exposed the existence of mass job
less army in the State of New York.
Even one of the leading journals
of the bosses in New York had to
point out that unemployment was
extremely acute, and that the State
officials were deliberately lying. The
Annalist Jan. 10) said on this
point:
Factory employment, contrary
to unofficial statements made pub
lie from some official sources in
New York, showed in the latter
State widespread losses during
December, when employment in
the factories of the State at large
declined almost 4 per cent, fol-
lowing 2 per cent drop in No
vember."
While the State Commissioners
report covers some 1000 factories,
the unemployment figures apply to
all of the more than 100000 work.
ers in the State of New York.
The normally" employed workers
in New York, according to the cen
sus for 1920, in round numbers, are
divided as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
I 500 Paterson Workers Fired.

PATERSON, N. j., Jan. 15.-Six-
teen hundred men were laid off re.
Gently by the Wright Aeronautical
Corp. They were told they would
be taken back, but they have not
got their jobs again. Women are
being hired at s14 per week for the
work in place of some of the men
who were getting so cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Industry No. of Workers.
Industrial plants $50. 100000
Transportation ........ 100000
Mines 5000
Department stores, ETC.. 100000
Public service (wOrkers
in public utilities) :. 100000
Domestic and personal
service walters. etc.,. $4,000
Office workers ........ 100000
Total .............. 3,65S,0O
With the growth in population
since 1920, the usual" average num-
Der of workers employed during
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
crisis THROWS THOUSANDS MORE ON
STREETS; BIG RAIL MERGERS TO MAKE
100000 IDLE, LABOR TAKERS ADMIT
in Conn., Leads Unemployed Workers
Demonstration Before City Hall

Detroit Communist Party Fights for Full Wage Relief Paterson
ers Fired Mass Army of obess Negro Workers in South
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16
Steel Workers Jobless.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 15.-
The National Tube Company, Lead
ing finished steel plant here, adj
mits that only 40 per cent of its
usual force is working. The Edgar
Thompson works of the U. S. Steel
Company, is on half time. The West
inghouse plant is practically shut
down. Only few departments are
working with skeleton forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-16

Negro, White Workers in
South Unemployed.
DURHAM, N. c., Jan. 15.-Thou-
sands of jobless workers are flock
Continued on Page Three
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
Simplicity Is Noticeable
In Easter Footwear

The smartest Easter footwear is made on beauti-
fully arched lasts-simple in line. but with exquisite
details We've illustrated the three shoes that are the
choice of every seven out Of ten women now selecting
their Easter footwear-plan opera pumps. slippers
trimmed with genuine snake. the new cocoa tan shoes.
and black mat kid!
Shop-SecOnd