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| Double t» Readers jof Your “Daily” Get Twice As Many Subscribers for Your Valiant Fighter in the Class Struggle CAMPAIGN is announced, STARTING TODAY, for the doubling of the number of readers of the DAILY WORKER. It is planned to make the subscription list of “YOUR DAILY” twice as large as it is at present; this goal to be achieved by MAY FIRST, INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAY. You may say this is an ambitious project. It is! But i it is absolutely necessary to carry it out to the full if the | DAILY WORKER is to meet satisfactorily.the tremendous demands made upon it. The DAILY WORKER is the best weapon in the whole armory of American revolutionary labor for fighting the ever-growing war danger; for speading the agitation in fac- tory, mill and mine for building the new revolutionary trade union center at the convention to be held in Cleve- land, June First; for voicing the grievances of labor in the ever-rising strike movement, especially sweeping through the highly rationalized new industries in the South; for building the New Unions, carrying the message every- where of the National Miners’ Union, the National Textile Workers’ Union and the Needle Trades Industrial Work- ers’ Union; the ground breaker for the organization of, the unorganized millions in the basic industries; the builder of the International Labor Defense, the Workers’ Inter- national Relief, the American Negro Labor Congress, the United Farmers’ Educational League and the Anti-Im- perialist League, the challenging voice of the Communist Party of the United States, Section of the Communist In- ternational. Now in its Sixth Year, the DAILY WORKER moves forward to greater efforts, greater triumphs. The very fact.that it is the only English language Communist daily in the world, signifies that’it is a pioneer, cutting through new and difficult obstacles. The road along which it has come has always been rugged and uphill. But it has ever moved ahead. The DAILY WORKER is a better, abler, more successful battler in the class war than at any other time in its whole history. But it will be made better, it will be improved and strengthened as part of the cam- paign to win twice as many readers, to DOUBLE THE) NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS. Last Friday an anti-militarist section appeared for the first time in “YOUR DAILY.” It will henceforth ap- pear regularly in the WAR AGAINST WAR! Although our funds are low a special staff writer has been dispatched into the Southern strike zone to rush back all the latest news from the very front of the new battle lines being thrown up by the aroused workers in the South. Co- operating with the officials of the National Miners’ Union and the Workers’. Internatienal Relief, the DAILY WORKER arouses not only the coal miners, but all work- ers to the real meaning of the Kinloch mine disaster in Western Pennsylvania, that took nearly 50 workers’ lives, leaving their families destitute. Collaborating with the International Labor Defense, The Daily Worker has un- masked the new menace to all foreign-born workers in the revocation of the citizenship of John Tapolcsanyi, a Hungarian worker at Pittsburgh. The DAILY WORKER gives to the American working class the facts about the Chinese revolution and the rising revolutionary wave in India, as well as the truth about conditions in Mexico, where the struggle for a workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment and militia, and the immediate organization where- ever possible of workers’ peasants’ and soldiers’ councils, are on the order of the day for our Mexican Communist Party. With the American Negro Labor Congress, it fights for the Negroes, and in support of the United Farm- ers’ Educational League it battles fake farm relief meas- ures and urges the unity of farm and city labor. The DAILY WORKER pledges itself to battle more energetically than ever in the future for the daily needs of the workers, constantly raising the questions of wages, hours and conditions of toil, protection against old age, sickness, disability, death, unemployment, occupational diseases and other ills arising out of capitalist industry. It will more militantly raise the importarft issues arising in every municipality over housing, transportation and other local evils. At the same time, more and better features are plan- ned. More proletarian fiction. Better pictures. Harder hitting special articles, editorials and news stories. In all a more powerful broadside against the capital- ist class, to be fired daily by the working class, gaining strength and volume as a result of the increasing number of its readers. DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS OF THE DAILY WORKER! This is the task of our readers for the month of April. Thousands of more readers on our mailing lists for the summer months ahead, the dull summer months when it is more difficult to get subscrib- ers, when financial support falls abruptly. Prepare against this slack period ahead by crowning this subscription cam- ] . 22 | Vol. VI, | | CAFETERIA UNIO CALLS MEETING ~ ON YELLOW DOG’ Will Fight the Vicious Contract Proposed by Food Bosses To Plan General Strike | Needle Workers Offer | Their Support The drive of the Hotel, Restau- rant and Cafeteria Workers Union to organize the exploited cafeteria ers has met with such enthusi- response that the bosses, slarmed at the growth of the union forces, has resorted to an attempt to force the workers to sign a yel- low-dog contract. The union, learn- ing of this move, has immediately ; taken steps to prevent its being suc- cessful even to a minor degrce. A leaflet is being distributed to- day to all cafeteria workers through- out the city, warning them against ing any agreement with the | bos es, exposing the yellow-dog con- |tract so that no worker will be mis- led by fake promises, and calling them to a mass meeting. This April 8, at Bryant Hal!, 42nd . and Sixth Ave., at 8 p.m. All cafeteria and restaurant workers are strongly urged to be present, as is will be an important meeting. Plans For Strike. The mass meeting will be, not only a protest meeting against the llow-dog contract, but the union about plans being matured to call a — Daily meeting will be held next Wednes- | Entered as second-class matte! NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929 ——— | Britain’s Atlantic Flee | | | U. S. imperialism is building | British ship you see above, in the forthcoming war between the two imperialisms for the control of the capitalist world, at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. Worker SUBSCRIPTION RAT St Outside New York, by mail, $600 per year, Im New York, by mail, $3.00 per year, FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents t Trains for U.S. War (GASTONIA MILL | | STRIKE IF BOSS FIRES WORKERS | °Textile Union at Great Meet | Sixty Face Evictions |Beal, of New Bedford Struggle, Speaks s voted the tt National y an en- eee thusiastie ting of approxi- gee eee y 1,000 wor in the I - t of the Manville-Jenck he event that the mill owners riminate against any worker for ining the union. The meeting was held late Saturday afternoon. It was the first open-air meet- |ing yet to be held here and the tex- 15 new battle cruisers to sink the Ambassador Herrick Dead; Hated USSR, PARIS, March 31.—U. S, Am- bassador Herrick, probably the _ most vocal of the rabid reactionaries |in the American diplomatic service, died at the American Embassy at p. m. today, after a brief illness, said to have resulted from a cold ,contracted while participating in |the Foch funeral ceremonies. leaders will also tell the workers) French workers will shed no tears} over his demise. Herrick was one | general strike in the garment sec-|of those who campaigned for the |tion in the near future. The ealling| U. S. entry into the war during the of a general strike to win union con-| 1914-1917 period. He had been ap- |ditions and abolish the |slavery, the miserable wages, that go with the open shop has become jan absolute necessity. Only by this | means can the cafeteria workers im- | prove their conditions. The time is \ripe for this move. All forees. must. be mobilized to assure the maximum success, The date for the general near future. All Workers Must Aid. The union appeals to all class laid of the cafeteria workers, A | victorious conclusion of this strike will be of great importance to the to organize the unorganized. The |wholehearted support of the Nee- |dle Trades Workers’ Industrial 12-hour} | strike will be announced in the very) |conscious workers to rally to the| | entire labor movement, and to the| campaign of the left wing forces) pointed ambassador to France by | President Taft in 1912, and was re- | appointed by Harding, but stayed in Paris during the war. Hated Workers. He was a bitter enemy of the Soviet Uriton, his ‘speeches made on every possible occasion invariably repeating all the most ludicrous slanders such as “nationalization }of women,” etc. He worked cease- lessly for a break in diplomatic re- |lations between France and the U. S., and made the U. S. embassy a | meeting ground for Russian mon- jarchist plotters, and a place for |them to meet American millionaires who might possibly finance their schemes. He was a personal friend of the late “Grand Duke” Nicholas. When the Sacco-Vanzetti case came up, Herrick bluntly told dele- |tile workers refused to be terrorized |by the threat of dismissal and lflocked to the meeting. Hundreds Sacco, Vanzetti * ly joined the Manville Jenckes of the N. T. W. at the meet- rs : a Ready to Fight. | | In ° of the mill officials on the dismissal of 60 union m-mbers nd the eviction of their families m_ their further dis- joined the homes, or DE BRAGGA MEN Battle Over Patronage |cided. Splits Queens Machine | uniike jouthern textile s the t open strug- gle of enslaved mill workers under union lead ip. That astrike inevitable is generally believed, of the mill of: 1s’ action ing out and evicting the 60 diately ar of workers at the meeting de- Strike Inevitable. George U. Harvey, borough presi- | dent of Queens, yesterday announced that he vould not recognize as head fof the republican organization in his borough the man elected by the local ward bosses some time ago. | That man is a certain Joseph De|union f Bragga. Organizer Fred E. Beal, a leader De Bragga has answered that hejin the great strike of. the. New Bed- is It, and will continue to dispense ford patronage in Queens. Most of the local bosses agreed. But Harvey, altho he cannot ef-} fectively interfere with state or na-| tional patronage plums going where} PA, SILK STRIKE workers, and Organizer Ellen |. Dry Caught “f | | ‘REBELS’ ATTACK FEDERAL FORCE IN NACO BY AIR Gov’t Cavalry Fighting Skirmishes with Escobar Rear Federals ‘in Mazatlan ‘Rebels’ Score Morrow in Statement NACO, (U.P).— aited rebel ° pian, garrison Representative William M. Mor- | jn aaa Re ade gan of Ohio, one of those who lea. yon neinflaw ovebuthentowl in the railroading thru Congress } and dropped four Sean 6 of the bill to give dry law v ctims | which exploded but dame five years in prison. Then of ficials age. f say they caught him smuggling | “The feder ined aes thee four bottles of whiskey into New posts in t sunding the York. from Panama. border port on three s several thousand rifle shots at the ip, which was flying low and slowly. | * e 8 “Rebels” Camp Near Naco. ON FAKE WRIT NACO, March 31—The “rebel” army is encamped miles south see waiting until “holy week” Mrs. De King Killed on False Evidence Il., M AURORA, rch 31-—Boyd ild, “my: 'y stigators,” tonight admitted he had sworn to , a false affidavit to obtain the war- ned by county officers in the id which resulted in the Lillian DeKing. Mr DeKing was shot dead at her din- ner table by Deputy Sheriff Roy Smith, Mrs, DeKing’s 12-year son then got a gun and shot Smith in the leg. rant i a Fairchild’s story was reported to be as follows: Just Perjury. He was driving past the DeKing home witha man he knew only hen he suggested they buy a drink. Fairchild said he told his companion he was not known at| the DeKing’s and that the latter took $5 from him, went into the house and came out a moment later with d before attacking. ctionary religious nature of the “rebel” soldiers is working |to their disadvantage here, because while, with the exception of a few American mercenary airmen, they refuse to fight during the Easter holidays, the federals in Naco are busy digging trenches. + * * Skirmish With “Rebel” Rear Guard. M CO CITY, March 31.—The Presidencia announces here that the |federal advance guard of cavalry has caught up with and is fighting a series of skirmishes with the re- treating rear guard of the reaction- ary army of General Escobar. Es- cobar himself commanded the “rebel” forces in the first fight scuth of Jiminez, and was the first \to flee the field. -His- men-followed, land the complete evacuation of | Jiminez is expected. Military observers say that the Escobar strategy is to retreat along the railroad to prepared positions, probably at Bachimba Pass, 120 miles north of his present position. Union to the strike movement has) 4 : gations of French workers, protest- been pledged. This help will be of} ; i i: 4 ascen of ing to him against the murder of abe seporroace ¥ the cafeteria | the two innocent workers in Massa- workers’ union, as the cafeterias in| chusetts, to “mind your own busi- De Bragga decides they should, de-| clared that not only would he 4 regard candidates for borough office discharge immediately every man| friendly to De Bragga and not pro- j tected by Civil Service rules. | “I told De Bragga before election | to give what aid he could to the| minor candidates and to let me alone. He contributed only $500 to my campaign and got me only $500 more from the organization and I suggested by De Bragga, but would) ® | ers. | All cafeteria workers who want to abolish forever the 12-hour day, union conditions, are urged by the junion to attend the mass meeting next Wednesday at Bryant Hall | without fail, and prepare for a de- termined fight against the bosses. Articles on Penn. Mine Conditions Start Tomorrow Louis Gibarti, International Rep- resentative, Workers’ International Relief, has written a series of four articles, the first of which will ap- pear in tomorrow’s Daily Worker, on conditions in the Western Pennsyl- vania coal fields. The other three articles will ap- pear, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Don’t miss these important articles by a student of international affairs. They will appear only in the Daily Worker. |the garment section are, patronized| \largely by the needle trades work- don’t owe him a thing. “All persons he recommended and | whom I appointed to offices not un- der Civil Service will have to go] tomorrow.’ . ness, this is an American affair.” The French demonstrators _practi- ‘cally captured by assault the Amer-| ican embassy on the day of the exe-| cution, and Herrick fled to a coun-} |tion of Labor starvation wages, miserable work-| ing contlitions prevailing, and win} try home. Craved Front Page. | Alwe- on the look-out for pub- \licity for himself, Herrick forced his way into the Lindbergh flight incident, took possession of Lind- bergh, who at that time was not particularly a militarist here, and surrounded him with the luxury and temptations of his ambassadorial palace. He is credited with doing much to seduce the callow young | pilot into his present role as ad- | vance guard of American imperial- jism. Before going to Paris, Herrick was a Cleveland banker. He was a republican party machine politic- ian, and was for one term governor of Ohio, with Harding as lieutenant governor, at the time the “Ohio | gang” organized itself. ¥ Of all the classes that #1 |to ince with te bourge the pro-etariat alone renlly revo- lutionary eclass—Karl Marx (Com- munist Manifesto). 5,000 MEET FOR LASS PRIS SEATTLE, Wash. The biggest labor meeting since the general strike was heid here on March 17, with 5,000 participating, on behalf of the Centralia case vic- tims, The Communist Party, Inter- |national Labor Defense, A. F. of L. | trade union locals, Seattle Labor College, I. W. W. and many other organizations joined together, un- eer the name of the Centralia Lib- cration Committee, in making the demonstration a huge success. Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn, of the I. L. D., and Elmer Smith, lawyer for the Centralia prisoners, were among the speaker Workers Int’l Relief jhere, the A. F. of L. offic AQ Be ls Agents, Sent Tn, Fear Left Union (Special to the Daily Work LKES-BARRE, Pa., March 31. ite a heavy concentration of s of the American Federa- 10 lend respecta- breaking efforts bility to the strike’ of the police here, the striking silk workers of the Wil arre Wea ing Co. are holding firmly to their demands for better conditions and recognition of their union, the } tional Textile Workers’ Union. Frightened by the possibility that \the left wing textile workers or- \eanization would get a foothold Is are plotting to betray the strike. American ‘Federation of Labor sincerity was tested here Saturday, when the Strike Committee vo'.d to send a letter by Organizer Clar- ina Michelson, to the neighboring (Continued on Page Three) Green Admits U.S, Has ‘Some Unemployment,’ | But Cheers Big Profits As soon as a wave of strikes in the textile industry started and spread through the hitherto docile south, American businessmen brought out their reliable friend, William Green, president of the | American Federation of Labor, and jhad him declare for continued pros- |the DeKing home “from a woman jabout 50 years old.” a pint of liquor and §3 in change. 4, his army retreats by rail, small Fairchild then made an affidavit /rorees are left behind to delay fed- that he had purchased liquor from cont muvenit by tearing up the rail: road tracks. Mrs. DeKing was only 38 and the only woman Walstals Seter Matin who resided in the house. March 31,—Federal George Stafford, a witness to the | troops, numbering, about 5,000 have shooting, said that Mrs. DeKing| entered this city and are resting was seated in a chair, holding atele- jreparatory to a campaign against phone in her hands when the shoot- |the retreating “rebel” army to the ing occurred. |northward. There are reports of SPEER HES |dissension among the revolting com- CHARGE MELLON reer eee ders, and great discontent among their troops over their bloody re- pulse from Mazatlan. Article Tomorrow on Mexican Uprising S DISTILLER ‘Senators Flay Morgan Man in Treasury On page 6 of tomorrow’s issue of the Daily Worker will appear an article on the reactionary insurrec- tion in Mexico, entitled, “The Up- WASHINGTON, March 31,—Ef- rising in Mexico,” by Bertram D. forts to oust Secretary of Treasury | Wolfe, which should be of interest Mellon from the cabinet will be re-| to our readers. It analyzes the back- sumed at the special session of con-|ground of the uprising, the crys- gress next month, The senate judi-| tallization of cl fo and the ciary committee is to make an in-| position of American and British | vestigation in accordance with a re-| imperis solution adopted the day after Pres- ———- 27 Miners Killed \ident Hoover’s inauguration. This resolution, by Senator McKellar BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 31 (U.P)—An explosion of fire | (Dem.), Tenn., recited charges, made frequently by McKellar, that Mel- damp in the Andre Duont coal mine, near Genck, Belgian Lim- lon is interested in liquor concerns and thus is holding office contrary burg, cost 27 lives, a check showed tonight. |to law, and also questioned the The explosion occurred Satur- \right of President Hoover to with-| hold the nomination of Melloneftom day night. Bodies were removed all during the night. They were the senate. badly charred and were identified !committee opposed the McKéellat-re-_ Calls Meet on Mine perity. | solution on the ground a senate in- Chairman Norris of the judiciary | only by their metal miners’ tags. paign with success. This triumph will be the greatest as- surance of victory for labor’s many new battles develop- ing every day. Green begins by admitting in @ | vestigation would prejudice possible nice_ manner that “The people of | impeachment proceedings in the| the United States suffered to some (Continued on Page Two) The dead included two rescue workers crushed by a fall of coal, and one injured miner who died. EXPLOITERS ON EXHIBIT Situation Wednesday, In a circular letter signed by its notorious editor, the infamous James Oneal, and addressed to possible capital- ist ,advertisers in its May Day Issue, the New, Leader, organ of the openly counter-revolutionary socialist party, declares that “its circulation is chiefly among the liberals, progressives and radicals.” Here is an open confession of the socialists that they cannot attract workers. The appeal of The DAILY WORKER is to the work- ing class; to labor in industry and on the land. Our sub- scription campaign will be carried forward and its success brilliantly achieved in the workshops and factories, in mills, mines and on the railroads. Join in the start TODAY! With Revolutionary Greetings, J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Actitfg Editor. * * * NOTE:—All Communist Party members must study the immediate dasks in this campaign, outlined today on Page. Three. Make use of the Haywood book as a premium. ' ’ All New York’s millionaires, and those exploiters of labor whose busi- ness requires that they pose as friends of Morgan and Rockefeller, put on their gayest spats yesterday and went to church. It was Easter Sunday, and the day on which those who take a leading place in the stock market come out leading along their fur bearing wives and size each other up for probable credit chances. The reasons for the occasion be- ing what they were, the men rather outshone the women. noon, the churches that line Fifth Ave., disgorged their crowds, and these perambulated up the sidewalk, it was seen that many fat stomachs bulged over grey striped trousers and swayed below cutaway coats, grey vests, glistening shirt fronts with a small fortuge in studs stick- ing in them, and loudly checked When, about; Banker and Job Shark Swank on Easter silk ties. The so-called “conserva- tive dignity” of man’s formal dress \vas absent. When a pawn broker has to put up a front, there’s no pledge in the shop too good for him. Silk hats were thick on the Fifth Ave. sidewalks yesterday. Not many of the proletariat were there. Urban Ledoux (Mr. Zero”) par- aded his handful of ragged rien in hone: of his soup kitchen. But the proletariat had no inter- est in the spectacle. They know that the rich are getting richer. They knew it because of the con- stant attempt to cut wages. And they didn’t have any money to buy orchids at $10 a flower, or “silver fox and tight Egyptian hats,” or silk hats with crepe de chene tops, or chic blue ensembles with which Easter lillies are car- Fledy aca ctea ds atid etm A mobilization meeting to discuss | the miners’ situation and prepare for the New York tag days, April 12, 13 and 14, will be held at the Irving Plaza, Irving Pl., and 15th {St Wednesday, at 8 p.m. The |meeting has been arranged by Local New York of the Workers Inter- national Relief. extent during the year 1928 from unemployment, but, he says, “the causes are unknown for part cf this,” and anyway: “The basis of our industrial struc- ture is fundamentally sound, conse- quently the outlook for the remain- der of the year 1929 is most reas- suring. The building ind i active and because of great acti FREIHEIT JUBILEE SOON Features at Rally of Communist Daily What is the extent of the indus-| by ers and peasants throughout All trade unions, workers’ clubs, in both private and public polatrae: labor fraternal organizations and tion the indications are that heavy women’s councils are urged to be| demands will be made upon both represented at the meeting, where skilled and unskilled workers asso- the destitute conditions of the Brit- cjated with the building industry. ish and American miners will be ‘his applies not only to the work taken up in detail. The speakers at /of constructing buildings, but also the meeting will include Albert '(o the industries which supply build- Weisbord, secretary-treasurer, Na- jng materials.” tional Textile Workers Union. and! his in the face of government Anarchiam and opportunism are swo and twelve injured seriously when a re er ose seemerts se, to| bus drove off a hill on the outskirts a coal miners report on the Kinloch figures showing building off about | trialization of the U.S.S.R.? What |are the achievements of the work- ‘ers and peasants of the Soviet Union (in the field of collective agriculture? How does the Soviet worker spend leisure hours at the end of the seven-hour day? The answer to these questions will be graphically illustrated in a Sov- iet newsreel which will be the cen- tral feature of the seventh anni- versary celebration of the Freiheit, Yiddish Communist daily, to be held the Soviet Union, and pictures of Moscow life are only a few of the shots which make the film one of the most remarkable cinemato- grahic interpretations of the life of the U.S.S.R. ever shown to an | American audience. | Other contributions to the anni- |versary celebration program will come from Nicholas Karolash, Anna Sovina, and Ivan Walkikinoff, Sov- iet Union artists, and selections from the Freiheit Gesangs Verein Chorus. explosion will also be given. ie per cent. Anarchism wax often a kind of BUCARAMANGA olombia, Mar.| punishment for the opportunint sinx|31 (U.P).—Hight persons were killed Som*'of Bucaramanga, ... sucislniiun, |and play, the rest homes enjoyed at New York Coliseum, 177th St.) Although tickets for the event have and Bronx River, at 8 p.m. next) begn selling rapidly, there is still, Saturday, The Red Army at work | tiyle to secure reserved seats at the |ottice of the Freiheit Union-Sa en y ee

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