The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1928, Page 5

abd + & & 2 & DAIL Y WORKER, EW YORK 8 TURDAY, DE EMBER 29, 1928 kage have _ASPHYXIATED BY DEADLY FUMES IN A SQUALID ROOM, Other Tenant Discovers Both on Floor, Dead Oscar Sundquist, and John Dahlquist, 45 years old, | two Scandinavian workers employed as laborers in Manhattan, were found dead yesterday on the floor of the room at 300 E. 49th St., in which Sundquist lived. Dahlquist, a fellow-immigrant of Sundquist, had entered the room the night be- fore. Both had been asphyxiated. Both workers had been seen last at 6 o’clock on Wednesday evening. About 9 o'clock yesterday morning, Esther Sandell, another tenant in _the same house where the two dead kers roomed, smelled gas in the Calling the proprietor of the hall. building upstairs, they traced the fumes to the door of Sundquist’s room. It was after the door of the room had been forced open that the bodies of the two workers were found on the floor. Sandell said that their attitudes indicated that they had been overcome by the escaping gas while talking, and had suc- cumbed before they could realize what the danger was. Investigation revealed the fact that a gas pipe in one corner of the room had been thoroughly corroded through failure of the owner to re- pair it in time, and that the rust had gradually bored its way through the metal, leaving a small hole, through which the gas had escaped.’ If it had not been for the timely discovery of the fumes by Esther Sandell, all the people in the house might have been asphyxiated, ob- servers said. The house is occupied entirely by workers and poor labor- ers employed in the vicinity. DON BASIN IS DEVELOPING Rapid Growth in Coal Fields (Special to the Daily Worker) KHARKOV, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).—Rapid development and con- struction in the coal fields of the Don Basin, one of the main indus- ‘vial centers of the Soviet Union, is t present taking place. Seventeen new shaits, completely mechanized and electrified, contain- ing all possible safety measures, are now in the construction. In addition 14 old shafts are being completely rehauled and reequipped. All these undertakings are being carried out by Soviet engineers with the excep- tion of a few shafts which are being constructed under the supervision of the German firm, “Tissen.” Over 38 million rubles will be as- signed for the enlarging of old shafts and the construction of new ones during the current year as against 27 million in 1927- In the near future the Soviet trust “Donugol” intends to start the construction of a series of new phafts, similar to the most powerful shafts in Europe and in America. "vhey will yield about 15,000 tons of coal per year. The best scientific specialists from Germany and Amer- ica, besides Soviet specialists and the Institute “Hyproshakhta,” will be invited to aid in the preparation -of plans and in the construction of these shafts, Anti-Hoover Meeting at Irving Plaza Hall Next Friday Evening | The anti-Hoover demonstration arranged for Friday, Jan. 4, at 8 p. m., at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place, will prove a rallying call to the workers to at- tend the meeting to denounce the imperialist war excursion of Hoover, ae is scheduled to return to the ucry. The workers of New York are) urged to turn out in a mass protest | lf Two Workers WORKERS CALENDAR |EADER TALKS 47 years old,} | Jan. | 1626 Arch St. . Boston Workers School. BOS'TON, Mass.—The Workers Scheo! ‘of Boston announces the open- ing o fits school on January 7, 1929 One of the most important courses will be Trade Union Theory and ‘Tactics. Come and learn the prob- lems, the role and the policy of the left wing. You can register now at 8% Causeway St, Hach course 1s $2.50 per term. Chicago Lenin Memorial. The Lenin Memorial meeting Chicago this year will held on Sunday afternoon, Jan, 20, at Ashland Auditorium. An’ especially striking |dramatic program is being arranged. Among other features will be pre- sented a stage spectacle entitled “Lenin,” which is being adapted from the famous mass spectacle “Lieb- knecht, Luxemburg, Lenin” by the German dramatist, Hans Lorbeer. All possible measures are being taken to make this year's Lenin Memorial celebration in Chicago one of the most memorable ever held. mec ee Milwaukee Lenin Memorial. The Lenin Memorial meeting in Milwaukee will take place on Sunday afternoon, Jan, 20 at the Liberty Hall, Bighth and Walnut Sts. Every effort is being made to make this meeting a succcess. Sympathetic or- Newark Y. W. L. Dance. The Young Workers (Communist) League will hold its sixth annual dance on Jan, 5, at the Ukrainian Labor Hall, 57 Beacon St. Newark. Tickets are 50c including a free sub to the Young Worker for three months, All sympathetic organiza- tions are asked not to arrange affairs | on the same date and to help us make this affair a success. New Year's Eve. In Milwaukee. A New Year's Eve Party for the members of the Milwaukee local of the Party and sympathizers will be given New Year's Eve on Dec. 31, at Party headquarters, 502 National Ave. The affair promises to be a lively one and attendance is expected to break all records, A beautiful hall lamp will be given to the winner of the lucky number. The proceeds will be divided equally for the up-keep of the headquarters and the work. shop oi ae Yearly Milwaukee Banquet. MILWAUKEE, Wis, — A yearly banquet of the Workers (Commun- ist) Party in Milwaukee will take | place on Feb. 3, at Harmony Hall, First and Mineral, An elaborate pro- gram is being prepared for this year- ly event that will bring together hundreds of Party members and sym- pathizers, A children’s banquet is being arranged as a part of the gen- eral banquet with the Pioneers pro- viding the program, All sympathetic organizations are requested to reserve tables for their members and ar- rangements will be made to sit mem- | bers of these organizations at special assigned tables, * ee @ Philadelphia Liebknecht Meet. The Young Workers (Communist) | League of Philadelphia will hold a Liebknecht Memorial meeting on at Grand Fraternity Hall, * * Philadelphia Camaraderie. A camaraderie and get-together Is by the Young Workers (Communist) League of Philadelphia, to be held at the district headquarters, 1214 Spring Garden St. Phila, "Affair. The Young Workers (Communist) League is arranging one of the largest affairs ever held in the city of Phila- delphia, on Friday evening, January 25, 1929, Other organizations are requested to take note of this fact by not ar- ranging any other affair that will conflict with this date. Other announcement will be given out soon by the District Executive Commitee, District No. 3, as to the nature of the affair and the place. Watch the Daily Worker for further announcement. s 8 8 Detroit, Attention! Liebknecht Memorial Meeting will be held on Sunday, January 6 Dom. at New Workers Hall 1343" ri Ferry. A mass tableaux on “Life of Liebknecht” will be given by the Young Workers (Communist) League, Come and bring your friends. Chicago T. U. E. L. The Chicago section of the Trade Union Educational breiont Be will run its 9th annual affair on New Year's Eve., December at Mirror Hall, 1136 North Western Ave., near Di- vision Street. St. igus Opens Forum. An Open Youth Forum holds dis- cussions and debates every Sunday afternoon, 2:30 p. m. to which every one is invited to come, Meetings are held at the Main Public Library, 14th and Olive Streets, at Room No, 3, 3rd floor. Some of the subjects which are arranged, are: Negro Youth In demonstration against the war plans | of the imperialist Wall Street ad-| ministration. Speakers at the pro-| test meeting will be: George Persh- | ing, Scott Nearing and Robert Min- ov. Robert Dunn will be chairman. An expose will be made of the. imperialist maneuvers behind the | Bolivian-Paraguay hostilities and the negotiations of the Pan-Ameri- can conference. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the New York branch of the All-Amer- iea Anti-Imperialist League, 799 , Broadway, Weisbord Will Speak at Forum of Workers School Sunday Night Albert Weisbord, secretary-treas- urer of the new National Textile Union and leader of the Passaic strike, will be the speaker at the Workers School Forum, 26-28 Union Sq., 5th floor this Sunday evening, Dez. 30th at 8 p. m., on the subject “Textile Industry and the New Unionism.” | U.S. during the first week in Jan- | of in| ganizations are urged not to arrange | affairs conflicting with this meeting. | . . being arranged for New Year's Eve) , America. Christianity and the Youth. | Debate: American Democracy versus Russian Dictatorship, Labor Sports. | Abraham Lincoln and the Negro. | Washington and 1776. Child Labor. These Open Youth Forums are con- ducted by the Young Workers “ munist) League of St. Louis. | Youngstown Workics School. ‘The Young Workers School 3 Youngstown, will hold a New Years Bye. Party on December 31, in the | Workers Hall, 869 E. Federal. Every- body invited. ° Calif. T. U E L. The ‘Trade Union Educational League of San Francisco, Calif., is giving a New, Year's Dance at 1212 Market Street. Everybody in- vited, vant Sed Cleveland Y. W. The Young Workers (Communist) { League of District 6 will hold a Lieb- knecht Memorial Mass | Sunday, January 6, at 2 p. m., at Pythian Temple, 919 Huron Road, | Cleveland, Ohio. ' Prominent, speakers | will address the meeting. Admission 25c. Buy your tickets at the League | zegnauerters, 2046 E. 4th St, Cleve- lan L. en ok Conneant I. L. D. The Conneant I. L. D. will give an Jentertainment on January 6, 1929. All are invited. ¥ * Milwaukee Y. OnDiaeaky, Janoaty 20, at 8p. Jat the South’ Side Turner Hall, ria National Ave., the Milwaukee’ and West Allis units of the Young Work- jers (Communist) League, Sub-District of Wisconsin, will hold ‘a huge anti- war demonstration. Efforts are being put forth to make this the, largest | mass demonstration ever held of youh in Milwaukee in protest against | jimperialist wars. Besides speakers, |the play “Defend the Soviet Union” will be staged and excellent music has been attained, Admission is 15 cents. All sympathetic youth asked to attend, are . Boston Camp Nitgedaiget- Costume Ball, January 25th (Fri day), at Elks Ballroom, Elks Hot | Tremont Street, Boston. Tickets 75c at door $1.00. Valuable prizes will be given most original costumes, San Francisco “Daily.” |_A Daily Worker Birthday Party |will be held in San Francisco on Saturday evening, January 12th, at 1212 Market Street. There will be a jreal proletarian ‘supper, speeches, |daneing and musical entertainment. [Everyone is invited to attend and celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of “Our Daily". Admission 50c including supper, 2 * Daily Worker Builders Club. The Daily Worker Bullders Club is| going to have an international musical program for the benefit of| the Daily Worker on Sunday, Jan. 1929, at 8 p. m. at 369 East Federal; Campbell, Ohio. ‘Freiheit ~ Chorus Will | [Give Yiddish Premier) \of Mendelssohn on Sat. The first performance in Yiddish of Mendelssohn’s celebrated oratorio |“Walpurgis Night” will be given at | the concert of the Freiheit Singing | Society at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. and 7th Ave., Workers of New York, to whom this opportunity presents itself, can obtain tickets in advance at the} Freiheit office, 30 Union Sq. Accompanying the chorus will be a symphony orchestra conducted by | Lazar Weiner. | ———— | PHILADELPHIA, PA, DANCE and FROLIC (New Year's Eve.) at Progressive Library 4035 GIRARD AVE. pace will be followed up by a banquet arranged in the RED Restaurant of the Western Phila. Workers’ Club Rooms. 50 cents, including wardrobe. Arranged by the W. P. Workers Club. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION the Daily Worker at LABOR INSTITUTE 8TH and LOCUST STS, PROGRAM: J, Fischerman, Pianist, just arrived from the Soviet Union will play the latest Revolutionary compositions of Soviet Russia: “October,” “1917,” and others. Beniamino Jarboni of the Grand Opera Co. of Phila. in a rectial of English, Spanish, Italian and Russian songs. Jeanette Wolfe, Famous Concert Singer. the Meeting on| tomorrow night. | MONDAY, DEC. 3lst, Admission | ON NEGRO WORK INLOS ANGELES Hall to Address Many | Meetings (Continued from Page One dications and the universal interest | manifested both in the Negro section and among the white workers, the |success of all these meetings is as- sured. 70,000 Negroes in City. In this city there is a Negro popu- lation of about 70,000, the over- whelming majority of whom are workers. These Negro workers are \largely employed in the lowest paid |positions, such as street workers, garbage collectors, ete., and the white chauvinism of the A. F. of L. jhas been instrumental in keeping |them outside of the ranks of organ- | jized labor. Not only do they find | themselves, along with thousands of local white workers, victims of Cool- | lidge “prosperity,” but they are also | lconfronted with special problems | arising from chauvinism and racial | | prejudices. | Race Discrimination. It is needless to say that socially, the status of the Negro worker in! Los Angeles is on a par with his economic situation. Residential re- 'strictions make it impossible for the Negroes to either buy or rent a heme in sections other than those that now |keep him in virtual segregation. As ja result they suffer from consider- | able overcrowding and poor housing | | facilities, The fact that Hall has recently re- |turned from Soviet Russia where he |spent three years in earnest study jof racial and colonial problems and | their successful solution in U. S. S. R. undoubtly qualifies him to deal | jwith his subject, |promises to, be momentous im- portance to both Negro and white| oe of the city. FAIL TO BREAK RECORD. | EL CENTRO, Calif., Dec. 28 (U.P). —The monoplane Albatross i in which | pilots John Guglielmetti and Charles | Rocheville took off today, in an at-| |tempt to break the sustained flight | | record, was reported to have made| {a forced landing at Frink, in the remote inland country. (Pershing to Speak in | Washington on U.S. in Latin America Sunday | WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 27. —George Pershing, former soldier in the United States Army, sta- |tioned in Hawaii with Paul Crouch jand Walter Trumbull, who were sent \to prison for organizing a Commu- nist League, will speak here Sunday night December 30, at 8 p. m. Hoo- lver’s jaunt as part of American im- perialism’s attack upon Latin-| | America. | Prshing, who is a cousin of the |Jingo general, “Black Jack” Persh- ing, will speak at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 1814 WN St., N. W. The meeting will be held under the aus- pices of the All] America Anti-Im- perialist League and the Workers (Communist) Party. Admission Mes be 25 cents. TO SHOW GREAT MINE FILM HERE “Shanghai Document” on Bill Also Sunday When the mine explosion in | Mather, Pa., wiped out the entire | working population of the town, a | strict police ban and constant guard- |ing were instituted, to prevent “un-| pleasant publicity,” for one thing. |How it was accomplished is not |known, but in the remarkable film |called the “Miners’ Strike!” the | Mather mine disaster is shown in all its tragic action. Despite police | surveillance, the actual scenes are shown here, of the mine disaster |from which not one of the hun- dred ninety-seven miners came thru alive, The special performance of the Miners’ Strike film, combined with the Shanghai Document, depicting the revolutionary struggle in China, will be given next Sunday, Decem- ber 30, at 2 p. m., at the Czecho- | | Street. All workers and workers’ organ- | izations are urged to see these re- markable motion pictures. Admit sion will be fifty cents and the pri |2eeds are to go for the benefit of | the textile workers. The perform-| nee is being given under the aus- |pices of local New York, Workers | nternational Relief, 799 Broadway. | We demand th recogn! tion of Soviet Union ty he Garted States government! CELEB. RATE! DAILY WORKER BIRTHDAY PARTY ‘Five Years Old and Going Strong” | 1212 MARKET STREET San Francisco PHILADELPHIA, PA, Daily Worker Anniversary Meeting Sunday, December 30, at 3 p. m. CONFERENCE FOR OF THE FIFTH AN wlil be 1214 SPRING GARDEN STREET All Daily Worker Agents, Fraction Secretaries and Delegates from Labor Organizations are asked to be present and help make this affair a success. SATURDAY EVE., JANUARY 12TH PROLETARIAN SUPPER! — MUSIC! — ENTERTAINMENT! | Admission 50 Cents. COME AND HELP US CUT THE BIRTHDAY CAKE! Including Supper. THE PREPARATION NIVERSARY AFFAIR held at DETROIT MASS BANQUET TO CELEBRATE THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY DAILY WORKER WILL BE HELD JANUARY 6, 1929 WORKERS AUDITORIUM, 1343 Ferry St. OF THE | field. | drought. |Temple, 14th St. |Jan. 12, at 8 p. m. |the brutal oppri and his visit! sioyvak Workers House, 347 E. 72nd | ‘Hawaii by American imperialism, will (and offe SOUTH AFRICAN MINE WORKERS, POLICE IN CLASH Are Killed When Gas Escapes trom Leak in Pipe in Rooming House ie she Three Children Drown tae Ga While Skating on Ice i GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass,, Dec. 27 (U.P).—While attempting to| hour later. rescue their brother, Edna Grom-| - ae elski, 14, and her sister, Mary, 13,| Nee rag, fs : drowned with him yesterday after] SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Dec. he had gone through the~ice while |27 (UP).—A unique funeral will be skating on the Housatonic River. |given John P. Hews, 27, of Brook- Edna succeeded in bringing her|lyn, N. Y., who was found dead in were recovered half an Gov't Guards: Diamond | brother, ‘John, 10, to the surface but a local hotel. Mine Fields CAPETOW. outh Africa, Dec. 27.—Two hundred police today were patrolling the diamond fields of Namaqualand, where diamonds were recently discovered, to protect the British diamond industry and pre- {vent the half-starved workers, who had been laid off, from rushing the Clashes between the police and the workers, who have been reduced to desperation by unmployment, and pasants in the nity whose crops had been ruined by prolonged It is impossible to obtain full information here. At a recent meeting at Port Nol- loth of some 2,000, it was demanded that the government throw open 34 acres of state diggings or else em- ploy additional diggers. It is re- ported that unless these demands were not met by Friday the diggers would rush the fields. Labor Conference on War Danger Jan. 12! Plans for rallying New York la- | Lor on a mass scale to the struggle against American imperialism will be formulated at the first labor con- ference to fight the war danger and |the new offensive of American im- perialism of the New York branch of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, to be held at the Labor | and Second Ave., Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Worker; Robert W. Dunn, noted | economist and author, and George | Pershing, who as a soldier witnessed ssion of workers in |be among the speakers. PHILADELPHIA, PA. “PHILADELPHIA DAILY WORKER OFFICE 1214 SPRING GARDEN ST. A. SOKOLOV, Mer. Accepts Subscriptions, Ads and Bundle Orders, PHONE: POPLAR 0837 The work we make is good. Or- ganizations’ work—our speciality. Spruce Printing Co. |] 162. N, SEVENTH ST., PHILA., PA. hsell—Market 6383 Union Keystone—Main 7040, Printers. |! PHILADELPHIA, PA. PARK DAIRY RESTAURANT N. E. Cor. 32d & Diamond Sts. GIVE US A TRIAL AND DECIDE FOR YOURSELF. 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Division St. BOSTON—3S8 Causeway St. PHILADELPHIA—1214 Spring DETROIT—1967 Grand River Ave. Garden St. PITTSBURGH—S05 James St. N.W. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 4th Annual Symphony Concert given by the FREIHEIT MANDOLIN CLUB, Los Angeles, Calif. SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1929 at the Cooperative Center, 2706 Brooklyn Avenue. UNIQUE MUSICAL PROGRAM — ROBERT ASHMAN, Conductor Piano Solo by noted Vienna Pianist. MORRIS WOLFSON, Mandolin and Guitar Solo. — Admission 50 Cents. 1925 1929 Los Angeles oTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of the DAILY WORKER will be held Sunday, Jan. 13, 1929 MUSIC ARTS HALL, TICKETS ON SALE AT PARTY HEADQUARTERS, 145 S. SPRING STREET, ROOM 234 233 So. Broadway BOSTON, MASS. NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE BENEFIT “Daily Worker and Freiheit” Monday, December 31,1928 NEW INTERNATIONAL HALL 42 Wenonah Street, ROXBURY —Checking One Dollar,