The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 1

i : THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party Daily Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. under the act of Mar Published Pubi Vol. V., No. 269 al Dally Worker NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, HILFERS IS STILL Babson Finds TRYING MICHELIN. 27s Ave Bad, But Continue |an economist and statistician, prove |hefore the Good Will Congress of| ‘Atta |the World Alliance for International | A ck Young ‘Worker | ihe Word hesceh ‘tis “Ghirches,| at Meet to Betray | that he may be a-statistician, He Struggle |had figured it out and declared that | | the wars of America to date had Exclude All Militants Michelin Bosses: Assist 3, Faker s Treachery | points, all moral; 1. It is misuse of | | 2. Crime waves follow | cost $44,000,000,000, that also other} (Special to the Daily Worker) ,emotions; jwars; 8. War nullifies democracy; MILLTOWN, N. J., Nov. 12.—|1*"} ; rf Unable to get more than a handful| § Wo", realizes anarchy and un-| of Michelin rubber strikers to his|¢,) ans Bots Syatvil Ghotaon | aoe 3 ;,|throws justice; 6. War is the oppo-| meeting in South River today until |, ty truth, mercy and lov | they were herded up in the bosses’) ” rie chairm Ps h ta cars, Harry Hilfers, American Fed- | ,,; Bo i a ime a y Miia | William Prendergast, who spoke on| eration of Labor organizer for New | nilitarism, noting shat white: Soy- Jersey, vented his frustrated fury of |i6 Russia had decreased her armed | teventeen-year-old ‘young’ Worker | pores 60 per cent as compared to! clared that the cause of war is eco- nomic. There his analysis ended. Babson condemned war on six whom he attempted to beat up, The nations were equally losing great) sums of money in war; then he de-| TURNOUT TO SILK Demand Porter Release STRIKERS PARADE ony WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 12.—,ers of this country to support the Threats of contempt proceedings by | fight to free John Porter, which is Jolice Judge Hitt failed to quench |led by the International Labor De- the spirit of the thirty-two men and|fense, and to struggle against the 5 ’ j women members of the Workers| preparations for a new capitalist Wor kers International (Communist) Party, the Young|war. John Porter, who was organ- Relief Steps In to Workers League and other militant |izer of the Y. W. C. L. in New Bed. iabor organizations, who again to-| ford, represents the’ spirit of our or- day demonstrated for the release of | ganization when he declares: ‘I am John Porter, militant leader of the|sorry I deserted the army, I wish New Bedford textile strike, jailed|I had remained in the army to win in Leavenworth prison, following|other soldiers for the cause of the \ $ 2 their fining by the courts here. | working cla: brag ecg! Jom Big Defy Court “The fact that John Porter was | are aturday z ; .;,.,/made an honorary member of .the _, The strikers denounced capitalist | presidium of the World Congress of (Special to the Daily Worker | Justice and sang the International | t,¢ Communist Youth International PATERSON, N.~J., Nov, 12,—|2Nd militant songs after six of their| snows the international significance From indications the 8-Hour Day "Umber had been fined $100 and the| o¢ this case. Parade which the Associated Silk|’¢™#ining 26 fined $50. The fines] “statements denouncing the impris- Workers Union has called for Satur-| “¢T€ Imposed in connection with the | onment of John Porter and demand- day afternoon will be a huge success |Atmistice Day demonstration which | ing his release have also been issued both numerically and as a demon-| ‘h® Workers ‘carried on against im- by the Young Pioneers, the Amer- stration of the strength and soli-|Perialist war, for the defense of the | ican Negro Labor Congress and the darity behind the strike of the silk S°viet Union and for the release of | National Textile Workers Union. workers here. |John Porter. Placards carried dur-!' ‘The complete text of the Ameri- The parade arrangements com-|in& the demonstration called for the Aid Fighters Drive Opens at Once) 1928 (NAL CITY _ rker Oren | SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York. by mail, 85.00 per year Outside New York, &y mati, $6.00 per year. 3 Cents PROMISE OF HUE Communists Defy Judge: ISSUE CALL FOR 350 LOST WHEN “VESTRIS” CONVENTION OF SINKS IN MID-ATLANTIC; NEWGLOAKUNION 91 WORKERS IN CREW To Establish National Amalgamated Union in December Delegates to Be Chosen|Last Radio Message From Sinking Ship Sent s : Out Shortly After 1 O’Clock |Needle Trade Workers Evasion i Hail Vital Move No trace of the 350 persons that make up the crew and ——- passenger list of the liner ‘“‘Vestris,” reported to have sunk An official call for the establish- | Soe otha é early yesterday afternoon 300 miles off the Virginia coast in jment of a national union of work- A , ° : lurk inthe ladles! aeietent wanufiac: the Atl antic, has been found by any of the rescue ships that turing industry was issued. yester- = *rushed to its aid in response day by the National Organization MORE RED VOTE to the S. O. S. calls sent out Rescue Vessels Arrive on Scene But Find No Trace of Eleven Lifeboats |Committee, from its headquarters by the floundering vessel dur- Jat 16 West 2ist St. i ing the early morning and af- Convention To Make History. a ’ ternoon yesterday. Long in preparation, the conven- a Je |tion of the new cloakmakers’ union Of the 350 aboard the vessel at the time the lifeboats were manned, young worker was _ distributing copies of the Daily Worker at the gates of the meeting which Hilfers, with the assistance of the Michelin bosses, had called to betray the strikers and smash the week old struggle of the rubber workers. Handful At Meeting. The meeting which Hilfers called for 9:30 in the morning showed énly a handful of workers in the cold and dirty back yard of a remote store in South River at ten o'clock today.. — Prominent in the little knot, which the labor faker had called to- gether for the alleged purpose of deciding whether or not the strik- ers should return to slavery in the Michelin mill, were the skulking, but well dressed, figures of Hiifers’ lieutenants in misleading the strik- ers. They were busy scurrying among the line-up of thugs, notable among whom was the tall fair-haired gor- illa who helped slug Samuel Brody, labor organizer, and A. Hoffman, militant picket, last Friday. A num- ber of fresh thug recruits were also present, apparently to herd the strikers into the yard for this spe- cial occasion. 1915, the forces of Europeas a whole | \had decreased only 10 per cent; and| that 11 countries show a total in- crease of from 1,488,500 men under arms in 1913, to 2,255,500 in 1928. Prendergast declared this is a con- | dition provocative of danger. William Green of the A. F. of L. also spoke, but nobody paid any mittee announced today that by to-|immediate evacuation of Nicaragua morrow morning they will be able to| PY the United States marines and issue for publication a list of the|@emanded that John Porter be freed. trade unions and fraternal organi-| In pursuance of plans to make the zations that -have accepted the in-|°@™Pagn for the release of the im- vitation of the strikers to join up | Prisoned former soldier, who left the with the Saturday march thru the| United States army to take up the town. fight for his class, the Young Work- ers (Communist) League, through can Negro Labor Congress state-|will stand out as the most impor- ment follows: tant single event in the garment Negro Labor Congress. | workers’ struggles since the declara- “We, the Negro work of the|tion of a general strike in 1926. United States of America, repre-| The workers in that industry, in sented by the American Negro La-|reaching this period of their his- bor Congress, protest against Amer-|toric fight, will look back on the ican imperialist aggression in Haiti, |past few years as a time when their Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, China,|powerful organizations were Children to March. The strikers’ children’s organiza- | tions, which are actively participa- |ting in strike duties, yesterday made formal application to the arrange-| |ments committee for permission to} | ] jmarch in the parade as an inde- BIDDING er section with their own slo-| gans and banners. These children’s! organizations are self governing bodies that have contributed much to} the spirit and morale of the strike! Ignore Own Laws to | of their elders. The Youth Section Refuse eee Rise jof the Associated is expected also to ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 12. jeeps for a separate march division Locked-out metal workers and police | °™°!T°W: clashed today when police attempted| ‘The whole attention of the com- mittee arranging the parade is just to break up a demonstration in front | 4 |of the town hall, where the alderman |W concentrated on the question of | discussed relief measures for the PUblicity for the parade in order to Continued on Page Five attention to him. HOOVER TO SAIL’ MINERS VOTE T0 Mexico and other countries, and |smashed by the socialist officialdom against all capitalist military ag-|and the bosses and will look for- gression which is leading us into an-|Ward to the building up of a new other imperialist war, We know that | powerful union that will have the in all such wars, we Negroes, rep-|task of organizing a severely de- resenting the most persecuted and |Moralized industry. Continued on’ Pabs Thraw Cloakmakers, Furriers To Join. The call for the convention was ~ |issued by the National Organization Committee, which has already laid the ground Work for the new cloak- makers’ union. The call is signed by Louis Hyman, chairman, and Rose Wortis, secretary. As part of the formal call for the election of delegates to the conven- tion is the declaration that the cloakmakers’ convention will join in amalgamation with the new fur- riers’ union, whose cénvention will probably take place the same week. The furriers’ union has already pub- lished a formal reply, accepting the amalgamation proposal. its National Executive Committee, yesterday issued the following statement: Young Workers’ Statement. “The Young Workers Communist League calls upon the young works WITHIN A WEEK MAINTAIN FIGHT Latin American Trip)Minerich Calls for All Set Militant Battle PALO ALTO, Cal., Nov. 12.—Be-| (Special to the Daily Worker) hind the menacing guns of the bat-) PITTSTON, Pa., Nov. 12.—Five| tleship: Maryland, Herbert Hoover, | thousand anthracite miners, reject- DUISBURG, Germany, Nov. 12.— Labor Court, an independent judi- cial body, returned a verdict today in The arrival of four militants with copies of the Daily Worker of Nov. 11, exposing Hilfers as a faker,/favor of the employers in the Ruhr aroused Hilfers, who had been! metal industries lock-out, in which quietly powowing with the strikers |220,000 workers are involved. and having things all his own way.| The court’s decision annulled the| Take Daily Eagerly. arbitrator’s award of Oct. 30 which “The strikers eagerly took the|granted che unions a three to four Daily Worker ffom the hands of the per cent wage increase. The action distributors, Harry Hilfers himself |of the court is taken to be open co- leaving the shelter of the fenced|operation with the employers, re- Wall Street's incoming agent at the out. Seven were injured. SOVIET OPENS GREAT FACTORY October Anniversary Hailed Everywhere (Wireless to the Daily Worker) | Wall ; ing the weak-kneed policies of the White House,-will: sail from San futile McGarry leadership, voted | Pedro next Monday to tour the Latin unanimously to stay out on strike ; American provinces of the United/against the Pennsylvania Coal Com- | States. |pany at a meeting held at Brown- «Detailed plans for the tour were) town, near here, this afternoon. The worked out after Hoover had an-| miners are striking against the vi- nounced that he would make every cious contractor system and other | effort to push trade and investments | grievances. in Latin America and other lucrative | | fields for the expansion of big busi- iness. The aggressive policy an- Standing out solidly against the |maneuvers and tactics of the Mc- The call, after recalling the his- Later Returns Show Communist Trend Significant gains for the Workers (Communist) Party, particularly in the west, continue to be shown in the partial election returns reported during the past 24 hours. Unof- ficial figures sent in from Burleigh County, North Dakota, in which the city of Bismarck is located, give the Foster and Gitlow vote as 82, Thomasy 8. The Communist candi- dates secured 14 votes in this county four years ago. Double Vote. Indications are that the Red ticket will poll at least twice as many votes in North Dakota as it did in 1924, despite the Smith illu- sion which affected a considerable number of the workers and poor farmers. In North Dakota, which Hoover carried by about 30,000, a political turnover has taken place. Maddock, a republican and Leaguer, who ran for governor on the democratic ticket, has been de- feated by George E. Shafer, “inde-| two chtters were Nonpartisan | 210 were workers, members of the ship's crew. Ship after ship, called by the radio messages of the Lamport and Holt liner “Vestris,” has arrived on |the scene of the disaster without being able to locate either the ship or the members of the crew and | passengers who left the sinking ves- sel early yesterday afternoon. A little after 1 p. m. yesterday, N. Laughlin, radio operator aboard |the floundering ship, sent out his last S. O. S. call with the message that all on board were leaving the ship in lifeboats, and that help must arrive immediately. As this edition goes to press, none of the odd score of vessels which have set out to rescue the 350 mem- bers of the crew and. passengers of the ill-fated liner have been able to find them. Several ships have reached the spot from which the last radio S. O. S. was sent, and re- port they can find no trace of either the vessel or survivors. The fear is growing that all on board have gone to their deaths in the heavy seas. * * * WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 UP)— Two Coast Guard destroyers and steaming under tory of the last two years of strug- gle against the union ‘bureaucrats and the employers, details instruc-|League in this state. tions to the locals thruout the coun-} pendent.” This is but another blow | forced draft through high seas to- lat the rapidly dying Nonpartisan | night to the rescue of 350 passen- | gers and crew from the disabled I information from Ypsilanti, Mich- | “emPor® and Holt liner Vestee am Continued om Page Two OIL PERJURER yard, guarded by his thugs, to re- | ceive one. The interest of the strikers en- raged the labor faker, who sudden- ly sprang at Ben Intrator, member of the Young Workers League, and the youngest worker present and grabbed hinWby the neck. Hilfers is a six footer, a mature and heavy set man, while Ben Intrator is a youth, but the young militant stood his ground until his opponent was dragged off by another dis- tributor. Infuriated at the realization that his action was cowardly and ridicu- lous, and by the open disgust of the strikers, Hilfers ordered a group of young American workers from the Michelin plant, as well as his thugs, to rush the militants off the sidewalk where they protested they had a right to stand. “Drive them out, you, drive them out of here, they’re no damn good to you,” Hilfersy shouted, pointing to the militants, trying to push his thugs forward while the four militants stood quietly waiting for what would happen. But the thugs showed up better than their faker _master and merely stood still. The American workers began to smile at the odds, four to twenty. Michelin Aids Hilfers, At the same time, a number of the strikers, disgusted, broke from the meeting and left to discuss the situation on a nearby street. Hilfers immediately telephoned for aid to prevent his meeting from melting away under his eyes and automobiles, belonging to depart- ment heads and foremen of. the Michelin plant, were quickly pressed into service to rush every available striker from Milltown to the South River meeting. While Hilfers’ thugs stood along the inside of the fence and called to whatever strikers appeared on the street, “Come in, boys, come on in, boys,” every worker who en- tered the fenced yard was compelled to show a brass disk, issued thru an understanding between Hilfers and the Michelin bosses. These disks were presumably is- sued to every worker in the Mich- elin tire plant, but the thugs at the gate refused admittance *to A. Hoffman, militant picket, and other Greek and Spanish strikers who were suspected of understanding the scheme of betrayal with which Hilfers preparing to smash the rubber workers’ strike. _ _ Exclude Michelin Workers. These excluded strikers a again made efforts to. gain ite admission, as Michelin toa seeing called to con- ilfers finally’ versing the decision of the govern-| _ ment, which had approved the ar-|tinues the celebrations of the} bitrator’s meager award and de-| Eleventh Anniversary of the October) clared it legally binding on the em-| Revolution with the opening of a ployers. . |yarn factory with 28,000 spindles, Workers Become Militant. |run by electricity, with the most | At the same time the court recog- | modern equipment and on the seven- nized the employers’ right to lock-| hour day. This factory cost 5,000,- out the workers, in face of the -ar-| 000 roubles ($2,500,000), but will bitration law which terms this action | 54V¢ that sum every year which was illegal. | hitherto spent on importing foreign In face of this further indication |Y@™MS- that the courts will circumvent all| | Reports‘coming into Moscow from MOSCOW, Nov. 12.—Moscow con- | Garry misleaders, the miners to a man repudiated their advice of re- urning to work. Before the meet- ing a committee of miners had laid down an ultimatum to Frank Mc- Garry that he would either lead the coal diggers militantly or they would call upon the new National Miners’ Union to do so, nounced by Hoover promises to) sharpen Anglo-American relations already somewhat strained by the Anglo-French alliance. A warm recepton is being planned for Hoover by the militant workers} |of Latin America, it is believed, in |spite of the preparations which the) puppet governments of a number of TRIES BRIBERY Rockefeller Official “Approaches” Juror WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP). —What appeared to be an attempt , to. influence the jury panel in the! Latin American states are making "Cheer National Union. verjury trial of Robert W. Stewart, | | for his reception. Anthony Minerich, member of the | Standard Oil magnate, was revealed | The luxurious Admiral’s cabin on| Executive Board of the new mine ‘day in the examination of Robert |the Maryland is being prepared for/union and one of its leading fight-| Caldwell, a prospective juror. | ‘over. ers, took the floor at the meeting, Caldwell said he had been ap. Fletcher. Goes Along. and called upon the coal diggers to proached by a man who identified | WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP)— join their forces with the bitumin- himself as “Maginnis” and asked Henry B. Fletcher, ambassador to|°US miners in a common fight him if he would “hold out.” Justice ‘Italy, will accompany President. |@Bainst the coal operators. Con- Bailey excused Caldwell when de- | | elect Hoover on his South American Siderable enthusiasm and applause fense attorney Hogan challenged | |tour as representative of the State|Steeted the remarks of Minerich, him “for here ‘ f |Department, the White House an-| The strike was called Be McGee An_ investigation of Caldwell’s , . story was begun by Assistant U. S.| | nounced today. |T¥, who is attempting to organize Tinted Adlopiey ar pean igan, indicate that 1,100 out of 4,300 votes cast here were neither for the republican nor democratic tickets. | Boss Press Silent. ‘The capitalist press, however, con- sistently continues to pass over this without giving the facts as to who got these votes. The prohibition party in the field may have secured some of them, but undoubtedly the Workers (Communist) Party made a good showing, and for this reason, it is said, the information is not dis- closed. Reports from Rushin, Florida, show that the Red ticket in this small town received 10 votes. Smith received 45 and Hoover 86. Thomas, socialist, also received 10 votes. 18 OF GREW LOST WHEN SHIP SINKS Ifeboats 300 miles off the Atlantic | Coast between Norfolk, Va., and |New York. The Vestris was abandoned at 1:25 p. m. today after water was pouring Continued on Page Two HOOVER TO CALL “NEW ARMS MEET |More Pressure Against European Rivals WASHINGTON, Noy. 12.—Re- newed pressure against the Euro- pean imperialist rivals of the United States through the medium of an- other “disarmament” conference, will be among the first steps in the Hoover program when he~becomes president next March, it was learned here today. From unofficial but unquestion- able reliable sources it was ascer- - eepes, Puke a separate anthracite mine union, Fletcher, representative of Amer-/#bout a week ago without prepara- ican big business at the court of the Continued on Paye Five fascists, who have continued their "5 . tained that other steps in the pro- gram will include refusals to extend further loans to Europe to help meet the increased obligations of the Dawes plan for Germany and a more stringent policy on war debt collec- tions. All of these will be a means of forcing Europe to bend more Easy for Rich. Stewart's perjury indictment grew out of his testimony before the Sen- Cape Hatteras ate Teapot Dome Committee in its belie inquiry concerning $750,000 in Lib-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U.P).— erty bonds which he received from|The schooner Jacob William Hook, the Continental Trading Co. Georgetown, S. C., bound for Balti- | Only 4 Rescued Off so-called laws in order to clear the 21! over the world show that cele- ai held in many capitalist countries. jtrust, comprising all the members of Polenl aud Lattlc. Continued on Paye Three | In Warsaw, and other Polign in- | arranged by the Communist Party. | Many arrests were made by the Pil- : | sudski dictatorship. celebrated the anniversary by par-| /and hoisting of red flags. | China Celebrates. May Be Move in World- | At Shanghai, the celebration was| | tion of leaflets denouncing the Kuo-! |mintang white tefror, advocating | Elements of a significant char- acter in the world-wide fight over oil_ may be contained in the an- way for Germany’s largest business brations of the *anniversary were | dustrial centers demonstratiois were ‘ Latvian towns, Riga and others, OIL HOLDINGS | tial strikes, distribution of leaflets . & accompanied by widespread distribu-| Wide Oil War | nouncement that Edward L. Doheny, of Teapot Dome fame, has sold his holdings in the Petroleum Securities | Company to a syndicate of Wall Street bankers. | danger and declaring for defense of | | the Soviet Union. e |the resumption of relations with the) Soviet Union, combatting the war | reign of terror against workers in the United States and other coun-} Cooper Union Rally to tries as well as in Italy, was chosen Mexico and Lithuania. Mobilize Workers In Lithuania, the celebrations were followed by arrests of persons sus-/| pected of belonging to the Commu- nist Party. The penalty for perjury—two to |more, sank today 150 miles south- ten years in prison—is more drastic east of Cape Hatteras, coast guard than in any of the previous six oil trials resulting from the senate’s Teapot Dome invéstigations. The crime charged is more diffi-|a cook. Continued on Page Three headquarters were advised. The Clyde Line steamship Huron rescued the mate, two sailors and No information as to the fate of the captain and approxi- humbly before American power. In the first message which Hoo- ver will send to Congress, he will advocate the increased cruiser pro- gram which Coolidge initiated im- mediately following the failure of the recent Geneva conference called [the , Just what forces are behind the! | Move is not yet clear. The bankers; behind the deal are J. and W. Selig- |man and Co., and Blyth, Witter and| | Company. In some quarters it was stated) that British oil interest’ which are now bitterly opposing American in- terests are behind the move. This could not be verified, but it is known} that William C. McDuffie, a former | official of the British Royal-Dutch| Continued on Page Two The celebrations in Mexico were} of a mass character, arranged by| the Communist Party, the Young | Communists, the Peasants’ League) and the League Against Imperialism.) The German Communist- Party) sent a telegram congratulating the} Russian Communist Party on its an-| niversary. | | We demani tion of all the immediate ab. erancy lawns prot tion of unemployed workers from arrest on charges of vagrancy. TRUMPETERS OF WAR Coolidge, Aides in Propaganda Blast The New York Times yesterday| President Coolidge brazenly calls looked like a virtual declaration of|for a larger navy and demands war against any government that naval parity with England, while dared to oppose United States in-|but a few inches away, Secretary terests in any part of the world. | Kellogg, pleading for his Paris pact, Turning over the pages of the) attempts to counteract the possible Times the reader would have been| efforts of the president’s speech by impressed with its resemblance to| denying that the pact entangles the the pages of the same paper during| United States in possible war align- the great war, ments. On the very fitst page, in one, Coolidge’s speech was an open of the most prominent headlines at/declaration of the aggressive im- disposal of the printing plant, Continues, on Page Thies as Hoover's right-hand-man in Hoo- ver’s imperialist mission into South America from a score of other elig-! ible jingoes. € It is considered a curious coinci- |dence that Fletcher, who with Hoo-| ver will pave the way for continued! and increased imperialist suppres-| First direct preparatory steps aiming at the organization of the dress manufacturing industry thru a general strike have already been taken with the calling of the mas meeting of New York City’s dres: jinakers on Thursday evening, im- mediately after ‘work, in Cooper sion in the South American countries, is the same person who has allowed Wall Street Goes Mad as Hoover Boom Rages Union, Highth St. and Third Ave. The meeting, called by the Na- the black hand of fascism to reach across the sea to America to snuff! out the lives of anti-fascist workers without even a gesture of protest. The wildest scramble on the New tional Orgazrization Committee of York stock exchange that ever oc-/the Cloak and Dressmakers Union, curred in any exchange in the/is the beginning of the mobilization world’s history hit Wall Street yes-| activities of that militant union for terday as the Hoover bull market |{he abolition of almost complete went into unheard of hejghts. open-shop conditions in the indus- Brokers who had spent their life try. The decision to call a general jon the exchange, where only a few ‘strike in the trade was recently months ago a whole day that saw/ passed at the conference of shop a one change hands, | representatives here. gasped for breath when orders N Jnii etree douoptel back Vea a od omy petite : Me enae oid oo SEY | distributed by thepthodsands in the afternoon the ticket was 72 min- |°" ; betas utes behind the market, a record, |@"¢SS manufacturing districts of the At the rate of the first two hours, |Cit’, frankly declares that through if held to, the total for the day was |* general strike alone will the Work- reckoned to be nearly 6,000,000 |in& conditions of the workers be im- shares. Clerks are working alJ|Proved and only through this night to clear up the transactions, | ™¢thod will they be organized into Orders came from far and near,|# Strong and powerful umon from every little town in America The organized dressmakers, w'th and from foreign centers, Thirty |* long history of struggle against sues hit new high records, Continucu on Page Pwo o Se ee, aE of | the | ostensibly for the limitation of arma- crew was contained in the brief | Oste?® Volunteers Needed for message. The schooner was owned nS The move for a new disarmament conference is seen as an attack on the political field against the Euro- pean rivals of Yankee Imperialism, while at the same time it will be used as a maneuver to force in- creased armaments at homie. The by R. B. White of Crisfield, Md. W. I. R. Tag Days Soon Local New York, W. I. R., is in NEW JINGO FLIGHT. urgent need of volunteer workers to WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UP).— help in preparation for the drive for | Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, of the funds and membership to beg'n with|Colombian Army, flying the Curtis Tag Days on Novy. 17 and 18. Please | Falcon seaplane “Ricuarte,” in which report to Room 226, at 799 Broad- he will attempt to fly to Bogota this. way, Stuyvesant 8881, any time dur- | week, hopped off from naval air sta-| ing the day, or between 6 p. m, and/|tion, Anacostia, here for Rockaway Tp. m. Long Island, this afternoon. exposed as unwilling to disarm, a fact which is, of course, true. At the same time the U. S. Imperialists willbe able to come before the American people and proclaim the. necessity of increased armaments. due to the European menace. 5 Need Funds at Once to Defend 32 Workers — ae ae urgently needed { defend the 22 workers arrested the Washington demonst Saturday which protested ag: the imperialist war and dem: the release of John Porter, tant textile leader and You Workers League organizer 1 serving a sentence of two half years. Workers are urges send funds immediately to 1: Spring Garden St., PI phi District Executive PEASANTS LOSE HOMES ‘Mt. Etna Lava Flow Spreading Ruin : (By United Press.) lover the entire course of the lava} CATANIA, Sicily, Nov. 12.—A stream, said that the eruption ap-| leloud of thick, black smoke hung |parently had: reached a turning| lover the summit of Mount Etna to-|point and might be expected to. night as experts predicted that the abate steadily. The heavy black | |disastrous eruption, which had car-|smoke emitted from the wide cra-| ried ruin to the Nunziata Valley, |ters of the mountain were a good. might subside within the next few indication, he pointed out. days. Meanwhile, thousands of peasants Although it was admitted that|in the valley region were making | “the mountain of fire” obeyed no /plans for a return to their former set rules, Professor Gaetano Ponte, homes if the eruption ceases. Many | ‘ef the Etna Observatory, who tiew | Continued un Page Three | European countries will again be , Fs