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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
Many Meetings Want
Freedom of Centralia
Boys; Roberts Is Held

Mass meetings all over the state
of Washington, demanding imme-
date freedom for the Centralis
prisoners have been called by the
International Labor Defense, "Moth-
err" Ella Reeve Bloor, l. L. D. or
ganizer, announces.
Loren Roberts, one of the Cen
tralia boys, has been found sane
by a jury and although no sentence
or prison term was ever legally
passed on him, was shut up again
in Walla Walla prison without an
iota of legal procedure" she de
clares.
Seattle, Wash, I. L. D. distric
conference held recently was at
tended by 8 delegates from Aber.
deem. delegate from Juneau
Alaska, l from Portland. from
Everett, 2 from Mt. Vernon, 2 from
Sedro Woolley. l from Anacortes. !
from Youth Committees, Is from
Seattle and the Wesley Everest
branch; z from the Caucasian
branch; ! from the South Slav
branch, 8 from the Finnish Work
ing Women's Club, and two from
Tacoma.
. Criss, of the Farmers Local, of
Slagit County, reported that mem
bers of his branch ride from farm
to farm on the membership drive,
enlistir" manv farmers of that dia-
trict.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
Employment Lowest
Since 1914 in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard

Employment at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard is the lowest since the crisis
of 1914, it was officially announced
today at the yard. Fully one-third
of the working force had either been
laid off or fired since last July, said
Captain Paul DUNCAN.
This by no means indicated that
navy war building is the least in
terfered with. Dozens of contracts
have been given out to private ship
yards for whole slew of 10,000-ton
cruisers, and plans for further war
building will come up just as soon
as Stimson and his gang of i'm
perialist bandits return from Lon
don.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
Ten Miners Held in
Cheswick Cases Come
Into Court April 9th

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 2.-The
Cheswick cases, dragging on more
than two years, since the day Sacco
and Vanzetti were executed, have
been called again on April 9. Ten
miners face prison terms on charges
of assault and battery" and "illegal
assemblage."
The brutal Pennsylvania State
Police and Coal and Iron Cops, who
were cheated of their prey in the
case of Salvatore Accorsi, Cheswick
miner, several months ago, by the
International Labor Defense, which
modified mass protest over the
country, are now out for revenge
on these 10 miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
COSCRAvE AGAIN
SERVES EMPIRE
Irish Capitalists Could
Not Agree on Another

DUBLIN, Ireland, April will
lam T. Cosgroye, who has been run
ming the Irish Free. State for the
benefit of British imperialism and
native capitalism since 1922 was re-
elected president tonight by the
Dali. He had been out of office for
five days, having lost vote of con-
fidence over the old-age pension act.
Cosgrove had opposed extension of
the act. Enough of his opponents
were sufficiently afraid Of being
unpopular to vote him down. How
ever, the imperialist and capitalist
combination could not pick out an
other man for the job, and after De
Valera and O'Connell were voted
down, the Dali voted, 80 to 65 to
put Cosgrove back in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
HOLMES, PELTz
FACE 20 YEARS
Found Guilty for Job
less Activity

PHILADELPHIA, April 2.-Pelt2
and Holmes were found guilty by
farmers jury today on the charge
of sedition and face a 20-year jail
term. The "crime" of these tWC
workers is their activity among the
unemployed workers, distributing
leaflets and speaking in front of the
Ford and Viscos plants, in Chester,
where thousands of unemployed
workers gather.
They are both members Of the
Communist Party and Trade Union
Unity League. The international
Labor Defense through it's attorney
Immediately demanded new trial.
The judge set the hearing for a
week from Friday and would not le,
Peltz and Holmes out on bail. They
are in Jail pending argument for
new trial. The case will be ann -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
CAN'T CRUSH PIONEERS
Workers Children Greet Eismau

"They cannot crush the Pioneer
movement" was the message the
Pioneers of Hurley, Wis, sent to
Harry Eisman, sentenced to five
years in the reformatory at Haw-
thorne, N. Y, for taking part in
the March 6 demonstration. The
letter follows:
"Comrade Harry Eisman: We
have seen in the papers that you
have been arrested on account OF
having taken part in the Unemploy.
ed demonstrations and maybe you
will be sent to Roumania. We
as a Pioneer group of North Hurley
congratulate you on your wonderful
work that you have been doing to
bring new and better government
in the United States. We are going
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
UNIONS, job EsS
RALLY FOR MAY I
Many Organizations in
Conference Tomorrow

To prepare for the mass political
strike on May Day, conference of
labor organizations will take place
at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th
St., tomorrow at p. M, under the
leadership of the Communist Party.
Credentials have been received
from 35 delegates of the Central
Council of the Unemployed. Two
delegates are also being elected by
each local council. The Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
elected ten delegates. Each shop
is electing delegates separately.
The Joint Council of the indie
pendent Shoe Workers Union
named five. A number of shops
have sent in credentials. -'
The Hotel and Cafeteria Work
ers' Union elected two. Each shop
is now electing its own quota. Gre
dentials have also been received
from the United Council Of Work
ing Glass Women, from various la
Dor and fraternal organizations,
Negro organizations, etc.
Organizations which have not yet
sent in their credentials to the May
Day Conference Committee, 26
Union Square, New York City,
should do so Immediately. Organ
izations which did not elect dele
gates in time to mail the creden-
tials should send. delegates with
credentials to the conference itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
MELLON BLOCKS
JOBLESS CASH
FOR WAR Vets
Communists Mobilize
for Mass Political
May Day Strike
Fight Mass Wage-Cuts
For Defense of USSR
for "Work or Wages"

While the bosses in New York are
attempting to mobilize the world
war veterans against the mass May
Day demonstration, secretary Mel
lon, who made millions out of the
war, announced yesterday that he
would block attempts to pay world
war veterans Is per cent of the face
value of their adjusted compensa-
ton certificates in cash, as So
called partial remedy for unemploy-
ment. At the same time, the bosses
want these unemployed war veterans
to attack their fellow workers wto
are fighting for unemployment in
surance, under the leadership Of the
Communist Party. Many working
class servicemen are rallying behind
the Communist Party in their de-
mand for the workers right to the
street and Union Square in New
York.
Call Mass Political Strike.
The Communist Party is calling
for a mass political strike on May
Day to demand "Work or Wages"
and against the wage-cuts and speed
up being instituted by the bosses to
throw the burden of the present
severe crisis on the backs of the
workers against imperialist war and
for the defense of the Soviet Union
50 Per cent Wage Cut.
In every industry wage-cuts are
being slapped against the workers.
A worker correspondent in the Sim
mons Bed Co.; for example, writes
that in one department piece rates
have been cut 40 to so per cent.
"The men who refused to accept
the wage cut" he writes, "were
fired. New girls were hired instead
at 25 cents per hour"
1t is to fight against these whole
sale wage-cuts, and for work or
Wages" for the growing army of
unemployed workers, that the mass
political strike is being called for
May Day.
May Day is a weapon of political
class action in the hands of the
working class against capitalism.
This May Day definite preparations
are being made, through a broad
united front to mobilize, under the
leadership of the Communist Party,
masses of workers, first, on the i'm
economic demands Of the
workers, such as. work or wages, so
cial insurance, linked up with the |
struggle for the general slogans of
the Communist Party: Against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of
the Soviet Union.
The outstanding slogan is: Make
May Day political mass strike!
Concrete preparations are being
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
CREEN'SLY|NCH|T
|BY REAcT|oNARY
Facts Smash His Talk
of Recovery"

Following the Hoover policy of
lying about the growing crisis of
American Imperialism, William
Green, fascist president of the
American Federation of Labor, in
an article in today's World, tries to
mislead the 100000 unemployed by
declaring that though slow, Ameri-
can capitalism is recovering" This
is Green's method of trying to stave
off the growing fight for work or
Wages"
In contrast to Green's smoke
screen, in the very next column of
the issue of the World in which
crasn's article appears, ali open.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
Today in the
DaiIu a Worker

Program of the National Unem-
plOyment Conference. Page 3.
"The Menace of Russian Steel"
Page 4.
Natic..al Unemployment Confer
cnce Looks West. Page A.
TOMORROW.
Preparing the Marine Workers
Convention.
The Les of Mayor Macl,ey of
Philadelphia.
The Fall OF Ia OH Oak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03

to stand on your side that you would
not be sent to Roumania. We know
that the American capitalist class
will try to crush the Pioneer move
ment. We are going to rise and
protest on May Day against the way
the capitalists are terrorizing the
workers in all capitalist countries.
Our Pioneer group congratulates the
International Labor Defense. Long
live the Pioneer Movement! Long
live the Young Communist Interna
tional.
(Signed by the committee).
oliver Hillila, DIVA Jarvi and
Veikko Jarvi.
"P. S.--Remember we are on your
side, They cannot crush the Com
munist Movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03

reactionary, Magnus w. Alexander
president of the National Industrial
Conference Board, says:
''No one would venture to pre-
dict any definite time when bust
ness may resume its normal
stride
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
ON THE DOCKS
IobleSS LoneSh0ygmen Flock to Piers


SHARING in the blistcring sum
IN the South, neuer less than ten
hours day, carrying the heaviest
loads, into the rottenest holes, as
ing the most dangerous machinery,
the Negro longshoremen, getting
IS cents an hour or less, are the
most bitterly exploited of the toll
ers of the sea-" said George Mink,
secretary Of the Marine WORKERS
League. u, describing the condi.
tons of the dock hands.
The longshoremen? A sailor writ
ing in the Marine Workers Voice
puts it this way; "The steel rails
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
.ELECT|NC TODAY
in ANAL CAMATED
Vote for Those Who
Are for TUUL Plans

Today is the election of the exec
utive board and delegates to the
ninth convention of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers. Hilman's
agents in Local have refused to
put on the ballot any Trade Union
Unity League members. Unem-
ployed tailors are ruled off the bal
lot because mot in good standing"
However, there remain on the bal
lot rank and file members who are
supporting the program of the T.
U. U. L., and all tailors are urged
to vote for the following as men,
bers of the executive: M. Schneid-
erman, I. Casper, M. Kwitt, M.
Zaltzman, NJ. Keil and Kesslers. For
delegates to the convention, all
should vote for S. Passikoff, M.
Schneiderman, M. Kwitt, and N.
Bail.
Their Platform.
These candidates have declared
for program Of struggle, for the
4O-hour and 5-day week, increase in
wages, class struggle against class
collaboration, rank and file control,
unemployment insurance to be con-
trolled by the workers, work or
wages for the unemployed, rein
statement of expelled members,
unity with the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union.
Hilman said yesterday that moth
ing could be done to improve con-
ditions because the bosses were suf-
fering too, and that 1920 will come
back only when we have another
war;"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03

that you slowed in the ship bottom,
| have seen put ashore in Darien
by Chinese coolies. The agricultural!
machinery you lead up in Brooklyn,
we see it handled again in Aus
tralia."
Yes, and the explosives and NUM-.
tions for the bosses wars are un-
loaded by the longshoremen as well
as other dangerous cargo.
Speed-up, the watchword on the
ship, also applies to the longshore.
men.
II is not so much that the ma
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03

ELDORADO. ILL.,, April Six
hundred miners, including 70 min
ers' wives and children, fought for
nearly an hour against 40 police
and deputies who attacked the I'M
employment meeting here yester-
day. The demonstration of the
wives and children against starva-
ton and in protest against the po-
lice attacks on March 6 brought out
the whole town.
The police attacked with great
brutality, smuggling and beating men,
women and children. The defense
of the unarmed miners was very
vigorous, however, and the Young
Pioneers, led by Ellen Gwaltney,
Pioneer director, continued singing
revolutionary songs throughout the
battle. Gwaltney herself was badly
beaten up by the police. Nat Ross,
Communist Party secretary for
southern Illinois was dubbed, and
arrested, held incommunicado with
out bond, and charged with incite-
ment to riot. Jim Turney,
miner in the demonstration was ar
rested, charged with assault, and
released on bonds. Ben Gray,
Young Communist League organ
izer was. beaten up.
Bosses Fear Organization.
The authorities and the United
Mine Workers of America are maxi
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
Workers Mllltancy IN the
Work or Wages" Fight Is.
Basis f0yMass Circulation.
Toledo Workers Support Demonstration for
Daily Worker
BULLETIN.


fined $40 by Judge Cole for SELL
ing The Daily Worker to a crowd
of workers in front of a store, the
Unemployed Council, with large
banners on their backs, staged
demonstration calling on the work.
ers to support The Daily Worker,
and denouncing the boss courts.
The workers marched in front of
Krecges slave stores. Hundreds of
Daily Workers were sold to the
crowd of workers who massed
around the demonstrators. Nu-
merous donations were received.
Especially the plan for big cities,
of establishing carrier rates for The
Daily Worker, with subscriptions at
Is cents week, not only will bring
in large numbers of readers but can
give each and every member a task
of great political Importance" said
I. Amter, District Organizer of the
New York Communist Party, and
member of the unemployed commit
tee elected by 10000 workers on
March 6, discussing the drive for
10000 new readers for The Daily
Worker by June /.
$4,000 by June /.
The subscription drive began on
April 1 and will last until June l..
By six months after April l the goal
is 100000 new readers for The
Daily Worker, especially in the basic
industries" Al the same time by
June l the various districts have
been assigned quotas to finance the
totalling $4,000.
"The establishment of The Daily
Worker, as the organ of the masses
Of workers of this country" con-
tinued Amter, "is a major task of
the entire Party membership and
every worker.
"The drive for The Daily Worker
promises the best results. The adj
.alization of the masses as evidenced
n the March 6 demonstrations gives
/ sound basis for the drive. 1t is.
rue that unemployment and wage
make it difficult for the
TO take annual subscrip-
ions. That is why the plan of 18
:ents a week must now be stressed.
"The New York District will mob
lie thoroughly for The Daily
Worker campaign"
Revolutionary Competition.
The Philadelphia district has al
eady challenged the Cleveland Dis
riot in every phase of this work,
md has already gotten busy to
,rove its challenge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
BLDG. MAINTENANCE UNION
MEETS

A mass meeting of the Building
Maintenance Workers Union will
be held Sunday at p. m. at the
Ukrainian Workers Club, t041 Third
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
600 MINERS, 20 WOMEN,
CHILDREN, FIGHT POLICE
HOUR AT DEMONSTRATION
Eldorado, ILL.,, Jobless Refuse to Starve in
Quiet; Ross, Allard, Others Are Jailed
Protest Movement Grows Against Rairoading
of Delegates of the Unemployed
BULLETIN.

Committee of IS elected by the First
Preliminary Conference Unemployment here Saturday
Sunday public yesterday the full of action
Page of this of the Daily
The and its bureau and national secretary Pat
actively demonstrations
strikes They call for 10000 delegates the national
ventio o unemployment July As in Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
CHECKMATING THE
RENEGADES.

(Wueless by Inprecorr.)
PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia, April
2.-The renegades from Commu-
nism having stolen the German
language organ, "Vorwaerts," pub
lished in the town of .Reichenberg,
the Communist Party of Czecho-
Slovakia, is issuing "Red Vor-
waerts", in that town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
PAINTERS FRACTION MEETS.

There will be a meeting of the
Communist fraction in the Painters
section of the TUUL tonight at 8
p. m. at Is West 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03
BERLIN TAILORS SPREAD
STRIKE.

(Wireless By Inprecorr.)
BERLIN, April 2.-The tailors'
strike is extending. There are now
$500 workers on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-03

Secretary Mellon Opposes Paying Unemployed
War Veterans Part of Their Insurance;
Secretary of War Hurley Recently Said That
the Government Won't Listen to "COm-
plants of Loafers Who Don't Try to
Find Work.; the Capitalists Ask These
Ex-Soldiers to Breakup May-Day
Demonstrations!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
DE LASFIMUTT'S RISE IS RAPID
IN DISTRICT BANKING FIELD
Vice President of U. S. Saw
ingS Started His Career
in Baltimore.
Has Varied Financial Inter-
eSts in Local and Near
by Institutions.

One of Washington's most capable
bankers, who happens to be outside of
the heart of the financial district, is
william r. De Lashmutt, vice president
and cashier Of the United States Saw
ings Bank at Fourteenth and u streets
northwest. Mr.. DeLashmutt is extreme
ly active in this institution which pays
the highest dividend on its stock of
His career reveals nothing but hard
work in the banking profession. Born
In Frederick, Md, April 10, 1881, he
attended the public schools and was
graduated from the Charlotte Hall
Military School in 1900, attaining the
rank of captain. He had leaning to-
ward finance and obtained his first
position with the National Mechanics
Bank in Baltimore, where he was en-
ployed from 1901 to 1905. BY his ability
and wide reading along financial lines
he pushed himself forward rapidly In
the Baltimore institution.
Coming to Washington in 1906, he
became cashier of the Fourteenth Street
Savings Bank, which was then located
across the street from the United States
Savings Bank. In 1912 this bank was
sold to the United States Trust Co.
and operated as the Fourteenth Street
Branch, Mr.. De Lashmutt being made
manager. Local banking history was
written pretty rapidly in those days.
and In 1914 the United States Trust
Co. was taken over by the Munsey
Trust Co. and the branch sold to the
United States Savings Bank.
The consolidation resulted In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
BUILDING RECOVERY
TO BE ENCOURAGED
Conference Will Discuss Methods
of Making Credit More Easily
Available.

Representatives of the construction
industries and mortgage and finance
concerns will meet In Chicago Marcn
~ for the purpose of discussing ways
and means of making capital more
readily available for prudent building
activities during the early Spring,
This announcement was made mere
today by Fenton B. Turck, chairman OF
the building survey conference organ
lied TO stimulate all kinds of construc-
ton work in furtherance Of President
Hoover's business sterilization program.
The Chicago meeting" Mr.. Turck
So SAID today. will concern itself primal
lily with encouraging prospective build
ers everywhere to begin their opera
lions little earlier than usual this
year Operations started in the next
90 days will greatly help the employ
ment situation in the construction In
dustry. We expect to be able to secure
the cooperation Of real estate dealers,
financial organizations, building and
loan associations, insurance companies
and other organizations interested in
the construction industry. The easier
condition of the money market is sure
TO be rejected in making larger volume
OF capital available for prudent con-
struction plans. "A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
MERGENTHALER LEADS
ON LOCAL EXCHANGE
Peoples Drug Stores Preferred Also
Quite Active in Weeks
Final Trading.

Merganthaler Linotype, selling ex-
dividend, was the most active stock
on the Washington Exchange yester-
day, with Peoples Drug Stores preferred
also active. Sales follow:
Merganthaler Linotype at 1861,
6 at 1861, 10 at 1861, 10 at 1861, 10
at 1863, at lot. 5 at lot.
Peoples Drug Stores pfd.-5 at 1851,
5 at 1851, 10 at 1882, 10 at 105ss.
Real Estate Mtge. & Guar. pfd.-8O
at z.
Security Storage Colo at IFS.
The Carpet Corps at IS.
Washington Rwy. g. Electric as
$1,000 at 81, 1000 at 81
Potomac Electric 51aqo pfd.-17 at
1o8H.
Riggs National Banks at 525.
Potomac Electric go pfd.-a-2 at Il13z.
In connection with Peoples Drug pre-
ferred, it is interesting to note that the
common stock on the New York Curb
has been jumping around very freely
recently. On Friday the stock gained
10 points, reaching a high of 81 and
closing at go. It closed in New York
yesterday at 56h.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23
GAIN IN COMMODITY.
PRICES REVEALED.
Price Cutting Stopped During
Week and Most Groups
Advance.
BY H, C. McGnL.

Editor McGill Commodity Service.
AUBURNDAIIE, Mass, March % up.
Price cutting stopped suddenly last
week, and the commodity price level
is slightly higher, the first definite up
turn in many weeks. Last week, out
Of is individual commodity induces, z
groups advanced, 6 were unchanged
and 7ere slightly lower.
Business activity held about per
cent under normal The upward mo-
mentum so pronounced a month ago
has been followed by a definite side
wise movement.
All Commodities.
Higher quotations prevailed for agri-
cultural products, live stock, building
materials, non-ferTous metals, paint
materials, textiles and vegetable oils.
Industrial Prices.
A survey of raw material inventories
compared with last October, when
financial collapse took place, shows an
increase rather than decrease.
Agricultural Products.
A favorable rebound was registered
lIlB J1AC Pdob WCCh' AAAS a. SOOA ~
is still considered handicap in nor
NAL distribution of agricultural prod
uctS The carry-over of American and
Canadian wheat will prove unusually
high, in view of theoretical world
shortage.
Textile Prices.
Largely due to the 1"-cent increase in
cotton, these prices were higher. Egg
card sales In the Far East estimated
4 per cent higher than o year ago,
pointing to another large silk crop.
Non-ferrous Metals.
Silver and tin were slightly higher.
To date the sharp cut In raw material
production of all non-ferrous metals is
not excessive enough to reduce inven-
tories.
No change was shown except in
nails, which advanced moderately.
Total building should show a marked
increase during the second quarter, as
large capital expenditures by the rail-
roads, utilities and Federal, State and
city governments are expected to ma
terialize.
Other Commodity Groups.
Industrial, chemicals, hides and
leather, ferrous metals, paper and
coarse textiles held steady during the
past week. The two which were slight
iy lower were live stock and fuels.
Most important price changes: