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‘ __ Page Two i Voslies aig ey ae es Oe | , PT BEE Or eae PLANE IN DETROIT om. red the in re- rk labor er, A ients- among nd 96 children— — were reported for 103 of those killed. Thousands Turned |_A helper, 20, was electrocuted apes while wiring a panel; a utility man in Chicago shop was crushed when a crushed hen he lost control of a loaded flat truck on an , this month, of the 168 workers were inued from Page O in construction work while transporiation took 26. * * * if, N. C. PELLAGRA DEATHS MOUNT. IGH, N. CG. ellagra, the d ht tion disease, were ecorded in Sep- temb ear than any previo Ser North Carolina’s hi tory, the state board of health. ictims were mostly cotton mill workers and poor tobac- co farmers. Poor crops and bad prices for tobacco accounted in part for the rise in the plague. JOBLESS RAIL MAN KILLED. BOSTON (FP).—Out of work for three months, Peter W. Gordon, 64, ~/and married, of Fitchburg, was struck by a locomotive in the Boston & Maine y A veteran employe, G a large number of oth laid off about four} months ago and was unable to get steady employment because of his ge. He «as attempting to gather : bits of scrap wood, when the engine great re- ree boy Watuke | ee ‘ go workers have; 4 GENERAL STRIKE THREAT| 00 for tractors “Wing FOR PHILA. MUSICIANS. nted to the| “PHILADELPHIA—4J. J. Shubert 5 of the Sovict | averted a tieup of his 50 theatres | “COMMUNISTS IN PITT, ELECTIONS “C] flig reception w » Friends of the tion that he crowd lit- 1 with enthusiasm ared on the ros- gave s Against Class” Their Banner PITTSBURGH, Oct. 28.—Fight- under the revolut banner against class” to pave the i to the Workers and Farmers’ nment, the Communist Party s'has entered Pittsburgh municipal , elections with a militant challenge republicans, democrats, so~ 1 other agents of the The program adopted singles out Pittsburgh as a center of war indus- | »/try and “bhe of the main strong- @ elements respons- Pieable hoax of Sun- war production. Rationales | d-up, wage-cuts, — efficiency hemes and the resulting unemploy- part of the war prepara- whose main features are the ngthening of the imperialist at- k on the U. S. 8. R. srris of Neb: an ovinion th struggle the s election leaflet points out. Similarly, the A, F. of L., built > of unorganized workers. the leaflet -| Co. and many others found the po- > {0in a ntala of. ork- or 2 ich, Wed- and noon the ‘fierce wave of class struggle jwhich is sweeping Pittsburgh as |elsewhere in the U. S, A. | 30 P| ‘The Party similarly points to the * | prafting, trikebreaking character of jection 1. Unit R2 y meeting Wednesday, 7 i ‘th St Unit 12F, Section 2. capitalist class government, its op- netionaries must meet Wednes- pression of the Negroes, and housing 6:00 p. m., at 26 Union Square, conditions for whic hit is respon-| j sible. | unit} ,The genera Idemands are for the | | six-hour day, social insurance, no | ~ coal and iron police against work- lers, abolition of all Jim-Crow laws, | 1 205. * * * Unit 16F, Section 2. Wednesday; 1 meets y night. * w. Mee: 00 sharp, at 23: ‘tal sath ion Be “pistriet | recognition of the U. S. S. R., and Plenum. Unit B, Section 4 “not a man, not a cent, not a gun| nh » Section 4. | A jalist wars.” \ Selabational sheeting Wednakday, |" “PETIA | :30 p.m. t Hungarian Workers! Home, 359 st. Com. Green- | baum wit speak on the s-year plan. | Labor and Fraternal ° Oxganizations Volunteers Wanted. | Ushers atid _usherettes wanted for Register | Unit 1F, Section 6. activization meeting today, at 56 Manhattan Ave. Roll Special 6.80 p. m., call. ee ie om ae reception, to. Soviet, fliers. Unit 1, Section 4. at Fe 8, U. office, 175 Fifth Ave., room | Hdueational meeting ‘Thursday, 8:30] $11, p. m., at 3, 103rd St. Discussion | ‘ee | be national and district’ plenum, led] Youth Needle Workers’ Dance. pyr dintrict ‘speaker. e Youth Section of the Needle | * Th ee Trades Worker Union will | Section 6. Tra Workers Industrial Un! | give a Thanksgiving Eve Dance on Me rship meeting Thursday, 6:00|the night. of Nov. 27 at Webster p. m,, at 66 Manhattan Ave. | Manor, 11th St. and 3rd Ave. John oo |C. Smith's Orchestra, All welcome, Y. C. L., Attention. | ee Factory kate. meeting today, 5:20 p.| Plumbers Helpers’ Gastonia Meet. m., before Independent Laundry,| Under the auspices of the American and Livonia Aves. Take J, R.| Association of Plumbers Helpers, a T. to Saratoga Ave. mass meeting to protest against the imprisonment of the 7 Gastonia de- fendants will be held Friday evening Jat the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 229 Organize and Fight! |Sackman St. Members must attend; building trades workers invited, * * * Plumbers Helpers’ Office. The office of the American Assocl+ ation of Plumbers Helpers is now lo- cated at 648 Broadway. All communt- cations should be forwarded to this address, Auctive forces of the Soviet Union, through rapid industrialization land steady strengthening of the socialist elements in national,economy, is that of attaining and surpassing the eco- nomic level of the advanced capital- ist a Na ape of ber ey ersy the * a8 umph of the socialist economic : “ystem.. Hear the details of the Five Workers Laboratory Theatre. Year Plan in the U.S. SR. at the| Membership meeting Thursday, 8:00 ‘th Aniiveranry Célebration of the} p. m., at 80H, 11th St. Room 337. Russian Revolution and Communist | Rehearsals Monday, Friday and Sun- Hection Rally nt Madison Square|day at 7:30 Au den, Sunday, November 3, at 2 p.| wish to Joi tour the U., for membe: P no 1 (WLT or Workers se application | later than Nov, ‘chool), | m, ———— Down with the “Labor” Imperial, fam of the MacDonald Governmen whic! fumes the Tory pre tions = Mage against the USSR— hursday evening at the Workers ok ‘bh its impertalist colonial eBook Agitprop representative will nnn DEL present. * Drama Fraction. cal program and motion pictures will holds of United States Imperialism.” | “The steel mills are turning out/ i against class” is the slogan of the “In the fact of the increasing class | fighting working class of Cleve-|Womer cialist party is openly /Jand,” declares the Communist Party |‘“ctiminal _ syndical playing the game of the bosses,” the |in entering the municipal elections |2bout the Soviet Union at a summer under that challenging slogan. the struggles of the working | italist class, represented by the re- is now an open strikebreak- | publican, democratic and socialist agency, which ignores millions | parties, and the working class re- ‘presented by its class party — the/| sed for yeats to do any-'/Communist Party,” the Party pro- zation of the|gram adds. aling for continued in, ¢, licemens’ clubs being used to smash | ning conditions of the workers, the the | them,” the Party shows in proving | lessons of Gastonia, A. F. of L. fak- ~ NEGRO WORKER in New York, Chicago and olse- where threatened to go into effect Oct. 21, when he granted an $8 a week to Philadelphia musicians, on strike since August. Threat of the stage hands union to join the musi- ians in a general strike on Shubert brought about his capitulation, The Philadelphia Shubert theatres will) Demonstrate for reopen immediately. ANNIVERSAR MOLDERS’ STRIKE GROWS. | CHATANOOGA, Tenn, (By Mail) Many molders who were brought in| as strikebreakers against the strike of the Herron Stove Co, molders have refused to scab and have joined the strike. Negro and white work- ers are fighting side by side. SALARIES. (Continued from Page One) against all forms of Jim Crowi: | Negroes, against discrimination taurants, theatres, etc. FAKERS RAISE Howard graphical Union, (the Printers) tution, is#¥es which Norman Tho Union), have been increased from (as, socialist candidate for mayor, 000 to $7500 per year ance with the reactionary mislead-|and fascist terror, condemned ers’ decision at the recent conven-| “alien to the spirit of the South.” tion in Seattle. Amalgamation of | the printing trades unions was de- sian Revolution and the great Five- feated at the convention, thru the|Year Plan of Social Construction which is strengthening the defense \of the Soviet Union also have a spe-|organized in the Window Mouhat- | cial meaning. Just as the Negroes | PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (By Mail). are oppressed in the United States today because of their race, so var- ious races and nationalities were op- pressed and persecuted in the Russia fakers steamroller methods. a + # PHILA. KNITTERS STRIKE. Knitters of the Northwood Hosiery Mills struck against a 10 to 20 per- cent slash in wages. mk: oe S of the Czar. But the Russian Revo-| will head the union spokesmen. | der and t o ipping the MANY AUTO WORKERS ~ | tution and the establishment of the| Negotiations were also scheduled | workers, the workers ‘leaders being ede JOBLESS. i |first Workers’ and Peasants’ Re-|to start with the other boss group, |@hot down and imprisoned for long PONTIAC, Mich. (By Mail). —| public freed all these oppressed na-|the Manhattan Window Cleaning |terms; the swift leftward swing of Steadily growing unemployment due | tionalities and gave them complete to big lay-offs in the auto industry, with 2000 workers and their families to | omy, leave this auto center in a month.| What the Five-Year Plan mea: The Trade Union Unity League has| 5. the Negro workers, what ¢ social, and political equality, made Pontiac one of the bases for| communist election program means for them, the necessity of all Negro militant organization of the auto workers. Celebrate Twelfth | toilers rallying to the defense of t by the leading candidates of t Anniversary at Big |Communist Party at Sunday’s rally. ; Among the speakers will be Otto Chicago.Mass Meet |" Communist Negro candidate CHICAGO, Oct. for comptroller. 25. — Chicago | ments of the Soviet Union at a mass | i celebration cf the Twelfth Anniver- | “monsttation. sary of the October Revolution, on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2 p. m, at Ashland | Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren Sts. The celebration of the Twelfth Anniversary finds militant Chicago workers active on all fields, engaged in a struggle against a reig nof terror designed to destroy the Communist Party and all mili- tant labor organizations. the speakers will be Robert Minor, land Workers Bookshop editor of the Daily Worker. A musi- | Square. is being arranged |band and mass singing. fice of the Communist Party, also feature, (Continued from Page One) tion.” They were arrested two yeai |party. Some literature found at the 52 W, Sth St, (Bet. 5th and 6th Aves.) AT CLEVELAND ‘home was the basis for the charges FILM GUILD CINEMA Continuous Daily—Noon to Midnight : ‘pressed by the Jones-Laughlin steel Direction: Symon Gould SPRING 5095—5000 CLEVELAND, Oct. 28. — “Class | Company. This fact, in addition to Special Forenoon Prices: Weekdays 12-2—35¢; Sat. & Sun, 12-2—50c women workers syndicalism” seven Gastonia strikers, teh arre! “It is a struggle between the cap- | of terror raging in this country. “War stares the working class in| tral Palace, 83 Forsyth St., and t declares in ° Ww, A otok | eta ee " respi their right to self-defense. exposes the anarchy of capitalism| Richard B, Moore and Fred Bieden- | THE STREET SINGER {24 ST. & B'WAY 1739 Strikers ot the Liberty Dairy, ‘vith its cut-throat competition for | kapp will apadte | wo enlevewertel Produce Workers, the Allis mers ‘the benefit of the capitalists.” ANDREW TOMBES baa 5 alll Fo at War against the U. S. 8. R., wors-| The workers of the Soviet Uni jof the 1913 pre-war production. Th ers’ aid to the capitalist class, race | over hae pe aresnt teats LA Eves. 8:50. Mats, Wed, & Sat, 2:30 “) Sat : jpercent electric ftnternal combusion discrimination—these are some of | engines and 186.6 percent.agricultural JOHN | Comedy BIRD Ps HAND the points covered in the demands machinery. | Hear fhe eniey greater DRINKWATER’S [tiondsco 1 PRESENTS—., voiced in the program. Fee ee ene ee an ne uate. Colen | GT en ee SCO THEATRE Plan at the 12th Anniversary Cele- bration of the Russian Revolution in| EULTON W. 46th st. Bves. $:60/) seh St, West of Broadway Anniversary, November 2rd, Square Garden, ORGANIZATIONS! HOLD YOUR BALLS, DANCES, CONCERTS AND BANQUETS AT Rockland Palace WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN THE LARGEST HALL IN NEW YORK ° READILY ACCESSIBLE Conveniently located at 155th Street and Eighth Avenue, the Rock- land Palace is easily accessible from Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Yonkers and all outlying sections of the city over the following transit lines: 6th and 9th Avenue “L” (station at the doors) Lenox Ave. and 7th Ave. (Broadway) Subways 8th Avenue Surface Cars—5th Avenue Buses 155th St. Crosstown Line—New York Central Railroad Apply to ROCKLAND HOLDING CORPORATION 14831 Broadway 280 West 155th St. Telephone: Penn, 0952 Telephone; Hdgecombe 2653 MAKE YOUR BOOKINGS NOW WILL CELEBRATE the | Communist Platform and segregation, again landlord rob-| unnecessary by the police, 200 of | \bery of and discrimination against |hom were |trade unions, schools, hospitals, res- It was the Communist Party alone | |that raised the issues of social, ra- The salaries of President C, P./cial and political equality for Ne- and Secretary Woodruff | grocs in the South where race per- Randolph, of the International Typo- | Secutio nand lynchings are an insti- in accord-|line with all the forces of reaction For the Negro workers the Rus-|ing about 180 men, have now signed | workers in this gigantic plan which nter nearing, has led over | wel] as national and cultural auton-" |Soviet Union and fighting against imperialist war will be pointed out . ‘ | Three of the seven Gastonia de- workers will celebrate the achieve-|¢ondants will also appear at the| A brilliant entertainment program including the Freiheit Gesangs Verein, a 75-piece Tickets should be bought in ad- vance to avoid the rush, They are} on sale at the New York district of- Union Square; Freiheit, 30 Union | Square; Needle Trades Workers’ In-| Among dustrial Union, 181 West 28th St.; 30 Union| \Explain Terror at Meet! lyears in prison charged with “sedi- |ago on Armistice Day at a birthday \the five-year sentence of the five in California for (talking |camp, the 20-year sentence of the of 28 workers in Chicago charged |with sedition for belonging to the Communist Party prove the reign Other Communist election rallies | will be held Friday night in Manhat- |tan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St.; at Cen- produced 122.5 percent over the coal) ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATRE | produced 123.7 petroleum last year Madison Square Garden, November 5 ai 5 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1929 g) Police Frame Foor DEW FORUM AT (Continued from Page One) Frame Jeers, hissing and booing followed Ye police as they marched their victims to the station. A fifth striker, ohn Saluk, was ar- jrested in connection with the same | a charge, while walking the street. at Olgin to Speak on the |5th St. court, he was released on " }$1,000 bail for a hearing next mace 5 Year Plan The pressing demand for the open- day. ing of this year’s forum at the Workers’ School made by hundreds sm) Warrants, of course, were deemed s retained for special) thi has in strike-breaking service by Commis- | finaiy TSuMAT batiatce SUN ake. date sioner Whalen directly, 2,000 men) ar Ce began the walkiut October 16 jnite announcement of the first lec 7 ‘ture for Sunday, Nov. 10th, at 8 p. minimum wage from $45 to $4060; cen cone rah Maes Pala proper safety devices and adequate | Sef 7 ‘ compensation insurance carfied with | Olgin on Five-Year Plan. a solvent company, The first lecture will be given by Six more independent firms sur-|Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the rendered to these terms yesterday, |Morning Freiheit, on “The Five-Year as|Harry Feinstein, union secretary, | Plan in the Soviet Union.” In view ’ |reports. Forty-three firms, employ-|0 fthe intense interest displayed by wel iny up, he adds. has just passed its first year, this Powerless to break the strike in| lecture promises to be one of more spite of thugs and police, employers than timely importance, Foster to Speak. tan Cleaners Protective Association.’ Qn November 17, William J. Fos- asked for negotiations with the | ter, National Secretary of the T. U. union. These will begin at a con-/ yj, L., will talk on “New Methods ference at 11 a. m. today at the| of Class Struggle.” The conflicts Broadway Central Hotel. Feinstein | raging in the South, the reign of Employers’ Protective Association. ‘the masses today gathering memen- as} An attempt by the association t0/|tym, ae subjects of burning interest choose the union’s committee and|to all active trade unionists and to | keep off Peter Darck, former secre-| the working masses. tary and active in the present strike, | brought from the union a firm re- re i; : 4 fusal to proceed with the negoti-|Militant Picketing in ations. * . “Darck is one of our leading mem- \FourWeeks Milk Strike bers,” Feinstein said yesterday. Our membership would turn down flat; KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 28.— any attempt to open negotiations un- | Militant picketing, dumping of milk less he were present.” |into the road, and injury to trucks jcarrying scab milk, marked the be- The Soviet Government will spend| ginning of the fourth week of the $6,00,000,000 in construction of farms | Kansas City milk strike. Auae°the rest of the ive Year pian | There is no present indication of Hivoteaty Celebration of tne Husain | ® settlement. Revolution and Communist Wlection Rally at Madison Square Garden, Sun- day, November 8, at 2 PB. M. geois Party! Vote Communist! *AMUSEMENTS>* NOW PLAYING! First Showing in America “SCANDAL?” (The Latest SOVKINO Film) revealing for first time powerful conflict between the old and the new generations illustrating the new SOVIET MORALITY SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! Latest Russian News Reel Showing Remarkable Views of the dad RUSSIAN FLIERS Now in America and also of the Red Army ns he he he ‘The Socialists nre the Third Bour- 26 A tremendously vital and unconventional tragicomedy of Modern Youth in Russia! STARTING SAT., NOV, 0 the U “Ten D: World—hatléed as the eq That Shook the 1 of “POTEMKIN” “ARSENAL” st The Theatre Guild Presents KARL! ANNA 8:50 CASINO seta rede Be ae ke FRITZI VICTOR “MLLE. SCHEFF in HERBERT’S MODISTE” Evenings and Saturday Mat. $1,to $3 Wednesday Matinee $1 to $2 Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 30 at NOW on RASPUTIN PRINCE OF SINNERS ex ‘7th St. W. of B'way. Chick, 9944 Or COHAN $0) |mves, 8:50. Mate, Wed. & Sat. 2:50 HORGE M. GAMBLING The Talk of the Town! "re REPERTORY hives, 6:40, Mate, Wed, Sat, 2°30 8, 8:30. Mate. 'e i ies 50c, $1, $1.50 EVA Le GALLIENND, Director Renigyt soe Tom, Mat—“THE SEA Tom, Night—‘MLLE. BOURRAT” es, Inc, Sun, 8:45; Mats. Sat. and Sun, 2:45. FORD 9923 Orchestra 50c, 75c, $1.00 American Premiere of Ostrovsky's Greatest Comedy, four at random. They are Peter i Hooluk, John Majerek, Paul Yakus, 0 | jand A. Calle, | i iForm Big TUUL Union of Theatrical Worker: The Theatrical and Art Workers ndustrial\Union, a section of the |Trade Union Unity League, was formally brought into being at an organization meeting at 133 W. 51st St. last Thursday afternoon. A pro- visional committee of seven was elected to work out plans for organ- izing the motion picture operators, camera men, fair, carnival and park workers, worl: in the legiti- mate theatre, including foreign language groups, ete. Pointing out that the so-called decline of the theatrical industry, re-| sulting in steadily wor: x condi-! tions for the workers, is as much due to the existing “unions” which do not defend their interests as to the mechanization of the theatre, the delegates called for a militant or- ganization of all workers in the in- dustry to fight the magnates. | talism in many ¢! feat of attemp tion by Soviet SUPPRESS RED YOUTH PAPER. VIENNA, (By Mail).—The offi- |cial organ of the Young Communist |League, “Lie Proletarierjugend,” (The Proletarian Youth) was con- fiseated by the police for alloged in- citement to mutiny. Partial talism. Ri economy. Gro pik ence of the Co Expose the hypocricy of the Mal broad masses, Donald-Hoover gas attack of ‘pence? phrases, which covers the prepara- tions for war! - 3 The fight in Defense of the Soviet ion insures the realization of the Five-Year Plan of socialixt con- xtruction! ALL OVER THE WORLD ALL Decay of capi stabiliza- WORKERS ietiinn, Fre oat la le WANT TO KNOW Soviet Union. Sharpening ¢ YOUR EYE p ON 330s FURNISHED ROOMS Now is your opportunity to | | get a room in the magnificent Workers Hotel Unity Coonerative House 1800 .SEVENTH AVENU OPPOSITE CENTRAL PARK Cor. 110th Street Tel. Monument 0111 Due to the fact that a number | | of tenants were compelled to leave the city, we have a num- ber. of rooms to rent. No w security necessary. Call at our office for further information. About the Five Year Plan Cooperators! Patronize SER Y CHEMIST 657 Allerton Avenue Estabrook 3215 Bronx, In the Soviet Union ed * About the N.Y. 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