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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
ZOO WORKERS AT
BUFFALO MEET
Big Crowd for Foster
in Spite of Terror

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. 28.-In spite
of the fact that the Buffalo repub-
lican party city administration initi-
ated a terror campaign against the
Communist Party which eliminated
in the rail on the Party Headquarters
the day previous to his arrival, hun
dreds upon hundreds of workers
came to the meetings to hear the
message of the Communist Party
through the Communist candidate
for Governor, William z. Foster.
Over TOO workers participated at
the two meetings, at which Foster
pointed out. THE Socialist Party is
the third Party of capitalism, serving
the interests of those who are ex-
plotting the working class, who are
throwing millions of workers on the
streets to starve.' Workers UNDER
stood that not only the Republican
and Democratic Party, but also the
Socialist Party is their enemy. They
demonstrated and cheered the Soviet
Union, and showed their readiness to
not only vote Communist on Nov. 4.
but also to follow the leadership of
the Communist Party in the fight and
for Unemployment Insur-
ance, higher wages, shorter hours,
and against evictions, race discrimi-
nation and mass unemployment. land
to organize and strike against wage
cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
ORDER SERIO TO
DEATH IN ITALY
us. to Hand Him Over
to Fascists

NEW YORK. Oct. 28.-The De-
partment of Labor has ordered the
deportation of Guido Serio to Italy
by refusing to grant a voluntary
departure. This decision by the
immigration officials spells a GER
tain death for Serio because of his
activity in. Italy in the militant
movement against the fascists. The
pressure to deport him from the
United States has been brought to
bear by Mussolini and every move
made by the International Labor
Defense in behalf of Serio has been
carefully watched by the Italian fas-
cists.
Carol Weiss King, acting in be-
half of the LID. is going before
Federal Judge William Bondy and
demand a writ of habeas corpus
which was instituted two weeks ago
but delayed by the judge on the
ground that the immigration de-
partment should "use common sense"
in such cases and permit voluntary
departure, meaning that Serio can
go any place he chooses, but must
leave the United States.
The LID. will demand his i'm
mediate release from Ellis Island
so he can depart to whatever coun-
try he chooses to go in order to
avoid a certain death at the hands
of the Italian government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
% Miners Entombed
Thru Gas Explosion
in McAlester, Okla,

McALESTER, Okla, Oct. o.
Twenty miners are buried alive
and may still be alive in the lower
levels of Wheatley No coal mine
since an explosion last night. There
is practically no hope of saving them,
because the gas is so thick rescue
crews were driven out entirely today.
Several rescue workers were over
come by fumes One, John Moore,
was carried out unconscious. Before
they had to leave, they saw four
dead bodies on the sixteenth level.
One man. William Donnelly, was
killed at the head of the shaft by
the explosion which entofnbed the
90 Others
This is but another of the perpet-
ual slaughters of miners by greedy
employers who forced than to work
in gassy mines, in constant danger
OF death. One of the main points
i'll the demands of the Mine. Oil and
Smelter Workers Industrial Union is
safety underground
The United Mine Workers of
America agrees with the bosses to
keep conditions dangerous in the
mines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
Workers Starve, Officials Lie High
on Cruise OF Booker I. W0shlugtOu

In his vicious exploitation of the
Negro workers In his employ, his
bafefaced robbery of their wages,
his utter disregard of their COM
fort, his policy of starving them
rather than spend one dollar If he
could help 1t, there is not one bit
of difference between Marcus Gar
vey, the "liberator" from their
money of the Negro masses and
the most vicious Negro hating
white capitalist exploiter.
No wonder the Negro seaman
author of this series of articles
is disguised with his "over-fat,
paunchy" appearance, his POM
posity and pretense. No wonder
the Negro masses are turning from
this adventurer as it daily becomes
clear that he has betrayed their
struggles against imperialist OPP
preston, that instead Of militant
struggle against the imperialist
enemy. he breaches loyalty to all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
Only Communist Party
Really Fights for
the Unemployed

Suddenly these hypocrits all dis
cover an emergency. Just before
Election Day! They used to answer
the workers demand for Unemploy-
ment Insurance by saying: mo char
ity; no dolel"
But now, when they are forced to
say something to catch votes, all
they promise even now is rotten
chcarity; soup kitchens, bread lines;
beds in jail, part time work at part
time wages. All they promise even
now is hunger, misery and starvation
With millions jobless for year,
all the foke socialists" propose is
what amounts to not more than $40
a week for only IS weeks and the
employed workers must pay even
that!
Only the Communist Party de-
mands, and will fight after the cleo
ton, in Congress and outside Con-
gress, for real relief, for Unemploy-
ment Insurance paying not less than
S25 week, with IS additional for each
family dependent, and the entire
cost must be paid by taxes on the
rich-all funds administered by
workers only!
Workers! Be warned against capt.
talist election promises! Only Com
munists will fight for Unemployment
Insurance and real, immediate re-
lief, after the election! Just as they
fought for it before elections, Vote
Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
200 Districts to Meet at China
SoViet Congress on December Ii
To Represent Population of 3OOOO,O0o Red
Army, With 100000 Advances
All Along the Line

SHANGHAI, Oct. 28.-The First
Congress of Soviets of China has
been called to meet on December H.,
the anniversary of the Canton Insur-
rection of 1927 Originally called for
May 30th, the delegation from all
the Soviet districts could not get to-
gether at that time, and the May
30th meeting was turned into a pre-
paratory Conference. At present the
Soviet Power has been established in
200 districts, comparable with what
are called counties in America, with
population of 80 millions, with
Red Army of more than 100000, and
connections between these districts
are rapidly being set up and per-
fected. Imperial intervention against
the Soviet forces has failed to stop
their growth, proving equally futile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
HOOVER CALLS MILITIA
TOPREPARE FOR ATTACK
ON JOBLESS WORKERS
Legion Wants Jobless
Forced Into Army
for Next War

NEW YORK. - Revelations are
coming out of what is going on be-
hind Hoover's hunger committee
headed by the former police chief
and clubber of workers, Col. Woods.
While Woods fills the capitalist press
with a lot of bunk about organiza-
ton for relief in case matters get
worse" the Hoover government is
mobilizing its police and military
force against expected "bloodshed
and rioting" this winter when
100000 jobless men and women will
face starvation and death by freez-
ing,
A dispatch from Washington by
the United Press correspondent Cor
neliu Vanderbilt, Jr, writes:
1T is understood, in fact, that
adjutant generals of the National
Guard have been advised to be in
readiness to cape with any mass
activities savoring of subsersive
propaganda. (Such as demands
for real unemployment insurance
to be paid out of the bosses
profits. i am informed that these
orders were sent from Washington
to the governors of all the states"
This is the policy that is being
consistently followed by the Woods
committee. On the surface it pre-
pares for longer breadlines, and be-
hind the scenes it strengthens its
police and military force to be ready
not only with blackjacks and clubs
for the unemployed who refuse to
starve but with plenty of bayonets
and bullets.
The American Legion in Milwau-
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
Vote as You Fight! Against Hunger!
Class Against Class! Vote Communist!
Sudden Discovery of
Unemployment Just
Before Election

Workers. Jobless and employed!
Have you noticed the SUDDEN aston
ishing interest which all the capital
lists and their political parties have
suddenly taken in you-just as Elec-
ton Day nears?
Up till the midle of October, not
one of these liars but what what
tried to hide the number of the I'M
employed. Tried to lie to you. Tried
to kid you along that prosperity"
was coming back.
Only the Communists told you the
truth. Told you that this depression
J is different from others. Told you
that it may go on for years. Told
you and still tell you that little
prosperity there ever was for you
will never come back as it was before
so long as capitalists rule.
| Suddenly Hoover discovers an
Unemployment emergency which
he has all along denied existed
Sliddenly-the Tammany democrats
begin making funny noises about Gre
lief" Sudenly-the fake socialists"
trot out a fake proposal to prevent
workers from fighting and voting for
the Communist proposal for real, for
substantial relief and unemployment
insurance.
But you will remember, workers,
that only the Communist Party be-
gan fighting, has fought and will
continue to fight for jobless relief.
That only the Communists have
taken the clubbings of the police to
get bread, clothing, shelter, for the
unemployed
Remember March 6thl The Com
munists led the fight for Work or
Wages" Remember the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29

Kanchow, where Red leaders are
trained in modern warfare"
United States Consul General
Frank P. Lockhart, at Peiping, is
peddling a series of stories of
bandits holding foreigners for ram
some" as preliminary to a greater
drive of armed intervention by the
imperialist powers.
The onward drive of the Red Army
in China shows the growing strength
of the Communist movement. which
is not only consolidating its power
in the wide territory already under
Soviet rule, but is making rapid
progress in every direction. The
Red Army is growing in unity, equip
ment, military experience and effec-
tiveness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29

flags under which Negroes live"
and gratitude to "our imperialist
friends"
Negro workers! Repudiate the
misleaders! Smash the treacher-
Gus influence of the opportunists!
Join the Communist Party in a
real struggle for liberation! Sup
port the struggle for the right of
the Negro masses of Africa, of the
West Indies, and of the Southern
Black Belt, for their own govern
ment! Demand full political,
economic n d social equality!
Smash the lynching terror of the
bosses! Vote Communist on No
vember 4.
BY Seaman on the Cruise of
the Booker 7. Washington"
In the city of st. Andrews,
Jamaica, British West Indies, there
stands very imposing mansion.
Even casual observer will note that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
By ]. BARNETT

Who is Col Woods that Hoover
picked to lead the bosses fight
against the 100000 unemployed fac
ing starvation this winter? Woods
is an experienced police clubber of
strikers. He has long. experience in
falling unemployed workers. His ex-
perience fits right in with the Hoover
policy of "blackjacks, bayonets and
breadlines" for the starving workers.
In the great transit strike of 1916
Woods aided the bosses in bringing
loads of strikebreakers from all over
the country, A New York Times
item of this period states: Scores
of men were knocked down by the
police with their clubs and several
arrests made" They (the strikers
were charged repeatedly by the
policy All this was on orders from
Woods. and with his knowledge. At
one time Woods had 6,7oO cops on
strike duty, with orders to club and
arrest wholesale.
In the 1914 crisis, Woods showed
what his policy is toward the unem-
ployed. He arrested all unemployed
he could lay his hands on for "vag-
rancy," A few he turned over to the
welfare agencies" Others he
ordered out of town, with threats of
a Jail term-for being out of a job.
He believes in fingerprinting all
workers
Woods is not only an experienced
slugger of workers, but is one of the
leading parasites who fatten on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29

the natives passing by will all stop
and point their fingers at this house
as if in awe of the house itself or
OF the occupant therein. In fact.
from the actions of the natives one
would imagine that the house was
occupied by an ogre, dragon, or
some other mysterious being.
Over-Fat and Paunchy.
If the observer should larry awhile,
his patience would be rewarded by
the appearance of huge, prosper
Gus locking individual who bears all
the remarks of an easy and comfort
able life. But let us stop for a
minute and give this individual the
once-over. AS we look on we notice
that his stomach is over-fat and
paunchy. That alone explains to us
that he has never done days work
in his life. His huge jowls hang
loosely on both sides of his face
From this we learn that he is a
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
JOBLESS WORKERS CALL
TO SUPPORT THE M.W.I.U.

NEW YORK.-The Down Town
Council of the Unemployed meeting
yesterday at 81 East Fourth ST.,
passed resolution declaring soli-
darity with the Marine Workers
Industrial Union as the only organ
ization in the industry organizing
the workers there to fight against
unbearable conditions of wage
slavery, boss rule and resolving also
that the Unemployed Councils joins
the fight not only for better condi-
tons but for the ultimate overthrow
of the system by which workers are
enslaved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29

with the Kuomintang bloody terror
against the workers and peasants.
Today both Kuomintang and the i'm
perialists openly admit the forward
sweep of the Soviet movement and
growth of the Red Army, and are
fearfully modifying all instruments
of mass murder. Workers of the
United States must rally their forces
for joint struggle with revolutionary
Chinese workers and peasants. Hail
the Chinese Soviet!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29
Seattle Police Try
to Prevent Ded Ex-
posture of Capitalism

SEATTLE, Oct. 28.-Several work
ers were arrested here last night for
giving out leaflets announcing a
Communist election campaign meet
ings.
After spending % hours in Jail,
the workers we're dismissed, the pros
ecuting attorney not being sure about
the Flaw" by which the bosses courts
we're trying to hamper the Commu-
mist election campaign. The confis-
Gated leaflets were not returned.
however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-29

dubbed by police in Democratic New
York. Tear-gassed in Republican
Washington, D. c., right at the door
of the White House! Blackjacked
and Jailed in socialist" Milwaukee,
The workers led by the Commun-
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
COTTON PRICES
STEAD|ER

NEW YORK. Dec. 20 GN.S0.
The New York cotton market
was Steadier during the early
trading today in response to
firmer Liverpool cables than ex-
pected, pre-holiday covering and
q general scarcity Of contracts.
There was little change in the
general situation, but the market
was believed to be in firm
technical position while the South
was selling a little.
Trading was moderately active
and mixed with most of the
transactions in the distant
months. The trade bought spar
ingly. Shorts made covering pur-
chases and wire firms and COM
mission houses bought. Spot
firms bought January, March
and october.
There was scattered selling
from Liverpool and the continent.
Wall Street sold to take profits.
At midday. December new sold
at 9.73, up 8; January new at
9.77, up q; March at 1904, up 2;
May at 1892, up 8: July at 1854,
up 8; and October at 1919, up 5.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
Building in NeIU York
ShOws Biz Decline

Awards for new construction Of
all types in the metropolitan area
Of New York during the week
from December 8 through Decem-
Der 10 totaled $e,192,1OO, accord
ing to F.. w. Dodge Corporation.
This brought the total for De.
eember to date to $l7,252,500,
which was at the rate Of $780,.
400 per business day. In Novem.
'ber the daily rate was 50. 800
while in December, 1929, the rate
of contractletting was $4,243, 500
per business day.
Tie contract record for the
first IL business days Of the cur
rent month showed So, ,832, 900 for
new residential buildings: $5, ,439,.
900 for non-residential structures,
and Rl,981, 500 for public works
and utilities. For the year to
date contracts awarded for new
construction Of all types in this
area amounted to $993. $50, 900, as
compared with $1,196,57S, 500 for
the corresponding period ended
December 13, 1929.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
WASHINGTON PRODUCE

Butter = one-pOund prints, A04sci
Eggs-Hennery. s5ossc; current re-
Pouitry-Alive: Turkeys, prime. 500
S2c; small and thin, 1s@ 20c: spring
chickens, large. 10000; medium. 1sc;
small, 1sc; fowls, large. 1sc; medium,
i6c; leghorns, fowls. 12@13c; ducks 15c;
ROSTERS; l2c; keats young and large.
S5@3ac; spring chickens, large, 221 23c
medium. 20@22c: small. 2702sc: fowls,
large, 29c: medium. 20c: leghorn fowls,
10000; ducks, 24025c: keats, young,
7o@s0c; old 400 45c
Meats-Beef, 1s@23c: veal, 1870 23c:
lamb, zoo 2Sc: pork loins. csc: fresh
hams 22c; fresh shoulders. 2ec Smoked
meats-Hams, 25c; shoulders 1Sc:
bacon. s!c; lard. in bulk lac; in pack
Truits-Honeydews, S175o22O. Honey
pals $3.50: Persian melons. $1256
liz casabas. $1:250I.76, Oranges,
California, $S.50D10; Florida, S2,5O0
$50. Lemons. $2.5003.5O.5 Lines, Per
Loo. s1-76. Grapefruit, S2.50@S.2S,
Plneapples, IS 5@5.50. Persimmons 81 q
S.26. Tangerines, 81. Grapes, alicante,
H91.2b; cornichons, s0c0$1; malaga,
M.s0; tokays. s1@1.25; muscats. 81;
Thompson seedless, s1.5001.75; zinfa-
esis; u.lO; Pears. Bartletts. per box,
snjoG. snsSi isesis:; :sSs,ss per Ou'heI 'seAso;
esetables--Potatoes. 15O-pound sacks.
5@s25: Idaho, bakers. 1oO-pound
sacks, s2.7SG3. sweet potatoes, per
barrel. S2@2.SO Cabbage, %.
CalvesT-Top grades, 10c.
Lambs-TQp grades. SC.
, 1aobita-No. !. 36e; Nc. & Ice.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
DULL,
TRADING IS
!: !. IRREGULAR
Proximity Of Christmas HoIi-
day Aids in Shrinking Sales
!. of Listed Securities
BY w. S. COUSINS

NEW YORK. Dec. 22.-The
leading industrial stocks and utili-
ties at the start Of the new week
rose fractionally today above
: Saturdays closing level, but a
fresh break in the wheat market,
carrying July to 651a cents q
bushel, helped to unsettle other
important markets. Selling Of a
few of the investment favorites by
the professionals was promptly
resumed and the market as a
whole was irregular but dull.
8 Proximity of the Christmas holi'
day and the smaller attendance
Of day-today traders in the brok.
erage houses accounted for good
part of the shrinkage in the
volume Of business. The next i'm
portant event is the annual auto
mobile show, in preparation for
which the big motor companies
have been shining up their new
models, while motor stocks have
been in slightly better demand.
Coppers Under Fire
The copper stocks and the Spe-
cialties were under pressure in
the second hour. Eastman n
Kodak sold off points and Au-
burn Auto 212. American Smelt-
ing led the reaction in the cop
pers and sold off 1A at Al.
United States Steel revolved
within a narrow range Of lao.
and American Can, Westinghouse
etc., sold in small volume.
Industrial news Of the day was
unimportant. Steel mills opera
tions will be cut down during
the holiday period, but will be
resumed on a larger scale after
the year-end. Good results are eX'
pected from the conference Of
railroad presidents beginning to-
morrow. Call money was in sup
ply at Q per cent. -.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
Chairman Names
Banquet Committee

I. j. Roberts of the Riggs Ma
tional Bank. chairman Of the
general committee in charge of
arrangements for the annual
Washington's Birthday banquet
Of the Washington Chapter of
the American Institute of Bank
ing, has announced the appoint
ment OF the following chairmen
Of subcommittee:
Aubrey o. Dooley, vice chair.
man; Winifred S. Burwell, decora-
tionS; Richard A. Norris, dinner:
Willard G. Barker, entertainment;
Mabel v. Royce, floor: J. Fred
English, invitations; Henry r.
Kimball, publicity; T. Hunton
Leeth, reception; James A. Soper,
seating. There are about so mem
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

Hogs-Receipts. $1,000; market steady.
Top. ss.16; bulk, S70S; heavy weight.
$L6s@7.9o: mediugh weight, TT6@
7.sO; light weight. S7.s69G1O; light
7.25; pigs $7SO0s.1O: holdoysrs, 1000.
Cattle - Receipts $4,000; market
strong Calves: Receipts, 1000; mar
ket steady. Beef steers: Good and
choice, $109125O; common and medium,
$7@s.50: yearlings, $7913S0. Butcher
cattle: Heifers, S5@12: cows, s4@7.6o:
bulls S50T.5O: calves, &7@1O; feeder
steers, $6@s.75: stocker steers, $500
$50; stocker cows and heifers, $407.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000: m {
steady. Medium and choice lambs,
.$7.5Ohs25; culls and common. S5.50W7;
yearlingG 36S006.TS; common ana
choice ewes. S2037S: feeder lAmbA
$3.50 07.So.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
Man Held in DenUer
MiSSinU 4 Months

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 r..N.S0.-
Charles Kenner, known in New
York as Charles w. Campbell,
who faced extradition proceedings
today in Oencer where he was
arrested Saturday, has been miss
ing from his Riverside Drive
home here since August 16, it
was said today at the offices of
the State Bureau of Securities.
Campbell was temporarily en-
Joined from alleged fraudulent
dealing in securities here by the
supreme court on August 20, fol-
lowing an investigation by the
bureau of securities. it was stated.
The Washington times., 1930-12-22
Believe Drop Over

While there are a number of
Wall Street followers who look
upon the recent upturn in the mar
ket as but a temporary bulge In
the course of a bear trend, this
opinion Is not shared by stu.
dents who have made a close
study Of preceding price swings.
Commencing with 1887, there
have been IL bear barkets, not
including the present, during
which the average number Of
months between the start of inn
portant declines in business
activity and the beginning of the
following bull market in stocks
has been 10. The 1929-1930
general business decline has now
run II months, which with the
exception Of the 1895-1897 decline
is longest on record.
Viewing the matter from an
other angle, over the period from
1884-l924, a bull market in stocks
has always set in within year,
usually within a few months
after decline in interest rates
began.
The 1s2s-3o decline in interest
rates has now been running for
IA months, or six months longer
than the average.
Steel Watched
According to usually well-in.
formed quarters, the chief hope
for any important and sustained
price improvement within the
coming month seems to rest on
the prospect of revival in steel
operations during January and
February. Between now and the
end of the year, steel production
may go down to the 35 per cent
level or below, but in January
and February, a pronounced i'm
provement almost always occurs.
A quick advance to so per cent
Of capacity or better would not
be out Of the ordinary. This
would furnish the stock market
with the first real bullish amnu.
milton that it has had in months.
Copper Gains
Careful study Of the NovembeT
copper statistics, by trade sources.
reveals that in reality an i'm
provement was made during the
month as a result Of the curtail.
ment program. In 80 days, the
refinery statistics should reflect
the full effects of the smaller
mine output, and during this
period there should be a steady
cutting down of the copper in
process" and to this extent the
potential supply of merchantable
metal. With this situation in
mind, one authority says that
there is no sound reason for the
disposal of copper shares at cur
rent Levels.