The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1929, Page 1

y CO n, he nt d, te ess ger, wn age ing ek The ong. ame tiona’’ talis: of the es the | RALLY TOPIGHT TO ELEVEN M % THE DAIBY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workés-Farmers Government | To Orgasize the Unorganized Again® Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week aily Botered as sec FINAL CITY EDITION Publisheé daily except 8: Company. Inc.. 26-28 Uni Vol. VI., No. 212 by The Comprodaily Publis! SUBSCRIPTION RAT ‘ES: In New Yor Outside New York. by mat}. 86.00 ver year. 7 mail, $8.00 per year. ins Square. New York City, N. ¥.©@2>2 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1929 “Armistice Day” Is’ Today is Armistice Day. Throughout the whole capitalist world the occasion is being used < the most intensive propaganda for the purpose of ‘preparation for the new oncoming world war. But they all talk “pacifist?” Exactly this pacifist curtain is the most necessary instrument for every im- perialist state in its own war preparations. While they talk in the best style of the “pacifists’”—they increase | their armament in the best style of the military experts. In all of the capitalist countries the war equipment is greater than before the last war, and rapidly increasing. The imperialists ’own estimates of the man-power now under arms—inclusive of thoseamong the reserves who are classed as “active”—is thirty million men. (Although the imperial- ists’ estimates include a maliciously exaggerated figure in regard to the reserves of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, they underrate the reserves of the imperialist powers). This figure is about ten million more than the total number of men under arms before the world war. Besides this, there are enormous “unofficial” fascist troops. An immense amount of lying will be done today, in each capitalist nation, in furtherence of the war preparations of each imperialist power. When thousands of high-salaried preachers, priests, rabbis, politicians and bankerg today flood the capitalist countries with lies about the “noble aims” of their particular states in entering the last world war, they will be of course, working merely to make easier the deception of the masses for the next holocaust of imperialist war. Are there any government in entering the world war in 1917 were those that were given by Woodrow Wilson? Wilson himself, in an unaccountable mo- ment, admitted after the war that the aiths of all the capitalist gov- ernments were “commercial.” The United States entered the war for precisely the aims which were attained. The hegemony of the Wall Street bankers in the whole world of capitalism was attained. Half of the gold supply of the world, the conquest of new spheres of influence for American capitalist ex- ploitation, the position of imperialist overlord crushing out the in- dependence of all of Latin-America, afavorable position for the con- quest of Asia and the Pacific Ocean, the securing of its loans and in- bestments throughout the world—and an advantageous position for the coming war with the next biggest Power, Great Britain, for the mono- polist domination of the whole world, for the seizure of a vast colonial empire at the expense of its war-weakened “enemies” and “allies”— these are among the war aims of the United Stats in the last world war. One notable aim of the United States in the vast war was not at- tained. It was not an accident that the United States entered the war three weeks afterthe revolutionary overthrow of the czarist government of Russia. And to the first purpose of counter-balancing the weakening of the Allied side was soon added the “great” purpose of crushing the revolution as soon as the Russian workers and peasants had overthrown the capitalists and had brought into history the first proletarian state. This aim of the United States government was not attained. In the failure to drown in blood the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Wood- row: Wilson, and his successors, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, have consistently recognized the greatest “loss” of the world war. Indeed the rending of one-sixth of the whole world out of the framework of the capitalist wrold-system on November 7, 1917, constituted the colossal failure of the imperialist powers in the world war that is past. It also stands today as a failure which they, one and all, hope to remedy in the coming second world war. They call Armistice Day the anniversary of the “end” of the last world war. In fact the Armistice of November 11, 1918, only opened up a new phase of the period’of world war and revolution which began in 1914. The “little”? wars which are still intermittenly breaking out, represented today particularly by the imperialist war now being waged against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics on the Chinese front, will absolutely certainly lead sooner or later to the second open world “war for which all are preparing, and which all know is coming. The “peace” maneuvers are ‘a good barometer of the nearness of the imperialist war. The Kellogg pact is “smokeless powder” for the guns of war. The “socialist” parties are doing their best to prepare the masses to be tame cannon-fodder, The Young Plan is imperial- ist strategy which brings the war to a nearer stage and guarantees its involving many countries at the outset. How many more “Armistice Days” will be celebrated—if any— before the next world war? There will be a big difference in the coraing imperialist war: the existence of revolutionary Leninist Communist Parties in all capitalist countries, the already partially accomplished disillusionment of the masses of the future conscripted soldiers will be quicker,—and one of the armies in the corhing war will be the Red Army of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which will surely be attacked by the im- perialists. Millions, tens of millions of the conscripted soldiers in the coming world war will go over to the side of the Red Army. Make use of this “Armistice Day” of the imperialist liars to prepare the working class to transform the ‘ext imperialist war into the proletarian revolution—and especially to defend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which is already marked by the imperialists as the center of attack. Democracy And Death Under Dwight Morrow | In Mexican Election Portugese Workers . Organize in I. L. D. Portugese workers in Newark, nearly al employed in the heavy MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10.—Three dead, fifteen wounded in a 30-minute battle in the cente.rof Mexico’s cap- ital, was the result of a little elec- tian argument over which lackey of Yankee imperialism is going to take its orders as president of the “re- public” today, when from 10,000 to 15,000 “followers of Jose Vascon- celos and Ortiz Rubio—the lackeys above mentioned—staged a fight in front of Rubio's headquarters, It could not have been arranged better to make thé Mexican masses think that there is some difference between the two. Vasconselos lead- ers marched their followers up to Rubio’s headquarters and got them to shouting “Assassins!” Rubio's henchmen, to prove that the Vas- conceloists were totally wrong, be- gan pouring rifle-fire into the crowd. The Vasconcelists showed their faith in democracy by shouting back. The firemen came to drench the crowd with water, but changed their minds. Then the troops, came to add thei rbullets and rifle butts, Fin- ally th eVasconcelists had a bright idea of “protesting” to President Gil. Gut the troops wouldn’t let them get near him. So everybody went to the cafes and had another glass of tequilla. industries, have organizeed a branch of the New York District of the International Labor Defense, with an ittitial membership of 35. “Antonio Samero, a leader of the New Redford strike last year, is organizer. A new braitch has also been or- ganized in the lower Bronx with 30 members. The organizatiop of new I. L, D. branches is proceeding fast in campaign for 8,000 new I. L. D. members in the New York District by Janvary 4. Railroad Economist Admits More Employed Stuart Chase, speaking to- the Women’s City Club Saturdey ad- mitted that the continual influx of machinery into industry had created an army of permanent unemployed, and that only shorter hours and higher wages would alleviate the trouble. “Inventions and new processes in manufacturing, mining, railway transportation and farming produc- eda production increased 2 per cent, Chase said. The harm of group in- surance and old age pensions in private corporations, he explained, was that employers hired only young men and women who could be ¢x- pected to work through the whole pension period.” Build Up the United Front of the Working: Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! net shginkage of 2,300,000 | workers from 1920 to 1928, while; | | July 4, 1922, such native fools as still believe the war aims of the United States | New Evidence EXCOMUNICATION | Zour Shows US'RIORDAN SUICIDE'40,000 Give Imperialist War Day of Frameupon _ Tom Mooney Death Bed Confession | Is Made Fresh evidence that Hom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were fram- ed up on charges of murder by the | Merchants and Manufacturers As- | Sociation of San Francisco thirteen | years ago is contained in affidavits | just appearing that a certain Lewis | Smith, of Cleveland, actually set off the preparandness day bomb, for which the two labor organizers were convicted. Frank O. Stevens, of the National Soldiers Home in Dayton, Ohio, ears that Smith told him this, when they worked together in the mines of Pipe Creek, Ohio. He states that Smith died in Cleveland, and made a death bed nm to the same story, and ister can bear witness. Confirms Report. Mrs. George Monroe, sister of Lewis Smith, now in Bellaire, Ohio, when questioned, admitted that the statement of Stevens was correct, and that Smith had previously told her, also. City Treasurer Duncan Matheson of San Francisco, who was the cap- tain of detectives most active in rail- | roading Mooney and Billings at the | time of their arrest, now says that the Smith confession explains the bombing s: ‘actorily, and is in ac- cord with his theory that an out- sider set off the bomb, though he says he never heard of Lewis Smith. Superior, Judge Franklin A. Grif- fin, who, after presiding at the Mooney trial, saw the entire list of prosecution witnesses exposed as perjurers, and who has repeatedly appealed for a pardon for Mooney and Billings, yesterday repeated his opinion that they are both entirely innocent. ILLINOIS MINERS RALLY AT MEETS 4 Separate Conferences Vote Militant Drive WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Nov./ 10.—The miners of Illinois today rallied in four great sub-district con- ferences, called by the National } | tile strikers, . the uae af teligion ter drive workers 4ALAVINE VV OV REY |the seven Gastonia defendants at a | Workers Eager for the TUUL BS . \Steel Needs Immediate | /Attention, Says Foster | The general secretary of the | Trade Union Unity League, William | |Z. Foster, just back at the national office o fthe League, 2 W. 15th St., from a very successful speaking and |organizing tour of the principal in- dustrial cities of U. S., states that everywhere the most important thing noticed by everybody was the fine spirit of enthusiasm and re- _|bellion on the part of the masses of the workers. There was gener- ally the same splendid intensity |show at the T, U. U. L. Convention | September 1 in Cleveland. ‘ All the meetings in the steel and coal towns were particularly en- couraging. The steel workers of Gary, Indiana Harbor, Cleveland, USED BY CHURCH IN MILL STRIKE |Preacher Expels Every | Striker Who Refuses to Surrender Jimison Seizes Bail ‘Will Whitewash Gang Leader Carpenter | CHARLOTTE, N. C.,, Noy. 10 The Leaksville Woolen Mill str 1s_ still goin on, with full picket | lines, and the bosses’ have given up j hopes for the moment of working | with scabs, and announce the clos- ing of the mill. < The East Baptist Church in Marion, | through letters sent out by S. J.j McAbee, the preacher, and A. R. | Buffalo and Youngstown, and the Black, the church clerk, both of them | Miners of Southern Illinois showed in the pay of the Marion Manu-|@ real new. spirit, determined to facturing Co., has excommunicated | struggle against the increased e- ebout a hundred of the Marion tex- Continued on Page Three) This, the workers are beginning to submission to their bosses, and | for strike breaking purposes. Reli- Leagu é Ca lls gion has played a peculiarly unsav- | (Continued om Page Two) _ ‘Gult Meeting West Coast Conference Already In Session ‘Organizer Disowns Bosses’ Fake Silk Union. Joins NTW (Special to the Daily Worker.) ALLENTIWN, Pa., Nov. 10.—| | The Allentown organizer of the} Associated Silk Workers, fake! The National Secretary of the Marine Workers League, George ink, states that due to favorable Hs a * | |developments in the South, where, Progressive outfit, publically an-| | it) New Orleans as a basis the nounced at a mass meetin gof the x «| {organizers of the M.W.L. have been National Textile workers Union carrying on a successful organiza- here today that he is quitting the Stan legmpat 9 ities . paign, it has now been A. S. W. because of its failures deemed advisable by the League to and soming-over to. the N.T.W.U.|....an-a°Guif Coast ‘and Southern C Rapes: ee ts r (ea jon- His resignation met with great! | porence of marine workers, to meet acclaim here as preparations for} at 308 Chartres St. (New Orleans the'strike go op. The mass meet-| j headquarters of the M.W.L.) Janu- ing was a complete success. Many new members were gained. begat 2 ¢——___—_,——_________9| The conference will have repre- Welcome “Gastonia 7 sentation from Mobile, Houston, Galveston, Port Arthur, Gulf Port, At Mass Reception Charleston, Savannah and New Or- leans. of I. L. D. Nov. 15 | Representation will be from thel M.W.L. local organizations, from New York workers will welcome ship and dock committees, (Continued on Page Two) mass reception in New Star Casino, Miners Union, to carry out the poli- cies of struggle and organization de- | veloped at the recent state conven-| tion held in Belleville. In Harrisburg, Staunton, Belle-| ville and Springfield, in the face of} every provocation and attack by in-' junction, threats of gangster terror, | and arrest, they gathered, represent- | atives of the N. M. U. locals and of the U. M. W. A. locals that have" (Continued on Page Three) | BELGIAN IMPERIALISM’S REVENGE. (Wireless By Imprecorr) KINSHASA, Belgian Congo, Nov. | 8.—Many natives are being arrested | here in reprisal for the ‘efusal of | the native population to pay taxes. |New York District of the Tnterna- ‘5 More Gastonia Prisoners 107th St. and Park Aves. Friday evening, Nov. 15, at 8 o’clock. The reception is being arranged by the CAFETERIA UNION TO START DRIVE | Th emost enthusiastic meeting of the year of the Cafeteria Workers other five in time for them to at-| Branch, Am. amat-" Food Work- tend the mass reception. » |ers’ Union, i expected tonight at The welcome for the defendants | headquarters, 133 W. 5ist St., to will also be a militant demonstra-|make final preparations for launch- tion for their permanent release, and |irg th enew cr ‘ior campaign the New York workers will be ral-| to continue the fight for union con- lied behind the ILD campaign to] ditions in New York’s slave-driving, snatch them from the jails where | open-shop cafeterias. the mill dwners are trying to im-| Reports will be given from’ the prison them for long terms. shop delegate committee of fifty, = jelected . > weeks ago to draw up a progarm o faction. Plan sfor the jmass meeting o fall cafteria work- jers on Thursday, November 14, at : Bryant Hall, 8 o’clock, will be com- |pleted. The order of business will tional Labor liefense. Already released on bail, two of the defendants, fred Beal and K. Y. (Red) Hendryx, =1e in New York. The International Labor Defense is now trying to raise bail for the SCANDAL SCARES TAMMANY, HALL Raskob Rushes Cash'to Bank to Halt Another City Trust Case Officer Hides News| { Banker, Smith Partner | Caught In Stock Crash “Tt’s terrible” murmured Governor Franklin D, Roosevelt, when told publicly of the suicide of James J. Riordan, Tammany politician, treas- urer of the Smith campaign funde, and president of the County Trust Co., a bank of which former Gov- er nor Smith is one of the directors. Smith himself gave out news that he was prostrated, and the greatest uneasiness prevails in Tammany and up-state democratic party circles. The suicide was deliberately and a dmittedly kept from publication for about 20 hours by Dr. Charles Norris, chief medical examiner, as he says to save the bank. . While the depositors were being deluded by the silence of the medical commissioner, John J. Raskob, Smith’s campaign manager prac- erash from exposing the generally rotten Tammany and financial scandals concealed in the affairs of the company’s officials, The usual booster talk about the bank’s unusually strong condition js goin on. But the official reason given out for Riordan’s sudden (Continued on Page Three) Winston-Salem Toilers | Celebrate Birthday of | Bolsheyist. Revolution | WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Nov. | 10.—The Twelfth Anniversary of the | Bolshevik revolution was celebrated here at a mass meeting at *Pope’s Grocery Store Nov. 7, at 7:30. ° Workers who have had no organ- | izationa! experience whatever and | who have been saturated with funda- mentalist religion and boss patriot- ism listened for an hour to a speech which connected the struggle of the southern workers for better wages with the struggle of the workers generally against the offensive of the imperialist war-makers who are | lowering wages. George J. Saul, the speaker, con-! cluded with an appeal for the de- fense of the Soviet Union, the} fatherland of all workers. United Textile Toilers Offer to Co-operate on Wage With Mill Bosses | * SPARTANBURG, S.C., Nov. 10.—| Thomas F. MacMahon, president of | the United Textile Workers, ap- pealed to the Southern Textile Asso- ciation (the bosses’ organization) to | co-operate with them in “arranging wages,’ it became known here Fri- | day, when the letter of the Associ- ation refusing his invitation was published. The U. T. W. officials have sold out every strike they were in lately, but apparently this time tically seized the bank, and rushed | ;funds into it to prevent a spectacular | {dow Cleaners Fliers Rousing N.Y. Reception Triumphs of Socialist Construction Hailed | “If Osoaviakhim could have fore- seen the splendid receptions given to us by the American working class, it would have sent along not only good fliers but good speakers, able to express our deep gratitude to you,” Boris Sterlingov, navigator of the Land of the Soviets, told 40,- 000 Mew York workers massed at the Polo Grounds Saturday night to pay tumultuous homage to the So- vie tworld fliers and the socialist |fatherland they represent. The mammoth demonstrations of solidarity with the workers and peasants of the U. S. S. R., which ambassadors in Seattle, San Fran- ¢isco, Chicago, Gary and Detroit, reached a climax in the vast New York oval when Shestakov, Bolotov, Sterlingov and Fufaey marched down the jade-green field to the speakers stand at 8:30, three giant searchlights playing on them while \the proletarian audience gave voice |to a stentorian roar of acclaim which boomed and re-echoed for squares | around. The worker. ,who began to swirl into the grounds late in the after- noon, were keyed up to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. At 6:45, when the stands were already two-thirds {full of their 60,000 capacity, the jflaming red flag of’ the Soviet Union, emblazoned with a gold ham- mer and sickle, was hoisted above the speakers stand, and was the sig- (Continued on Page Three) BUILDING SERVICE WALKOUT STARTS Lead Window Cleaners T. U. U. L. Strike “Join the struggle for the eight- hour day,” is the strike call being distributed today to thousands of building service employes by Win- Protective Union, | Local 8. Building Service Worker I. U. The call,is the opening gun in the campaign to organize porters, floor scrubbers and other building service | workers into one powerful union. With the issuing of this call, the trike of 2,000 window cleaners which the union has been leading snice October 16, is extended to in- clude thousands of other building maintenance workers who are among*the most exploited in the} city. fi | “We are exploited by the same bosses,” the call states. “Let’s unite to end slave conditions! The bosses are trying to get you to act as strikebfeakers against the striking window cleaners. Re fuse to wash windows! Refuse to scrub floors! Refuse to work in a building on strike. Do not scab! Join the struggle for improved working, con- ditions under the militant leadership of Local 8 of the Building Service Workers’ Union.” There are m-re than 200,000 build- ing service workers in the city. The~ the *osses decided to go, (Continued on Page Two} have been staged for their flying |! By FRED BEAL. “Comrades and fellow-workers of America: I have been saved from the electric chair by the mass protest of the workers of America and the world. I am up here now in New York thanks to your resistance to the capitalist ex- ecutioners. Red Hendryx and I have already been released on bail by the International Labor Defense, which rallied to the workers of the world to save our lives. “Now, today, I wish to urge all you work- ers to get my comrades out of prison there in Mechlenburg County jail, Miller, McLaughlin, McGinnis, Carter-and Harrison, three facing 20 years in prison and two 15 years, are looking eagerly every day to you to get them out. “Remember, fellow workers, they have been in prison since last June. Remember, they « have faced first electrocution, then lynching, then life-imprisonment, and now they face ter- rible long sentences. They have until April 1 when the appeals will be filed. They could be out doing great work, organizing, raising mass protest to save us from dreadful punishment for helping workers to geanize against ter- rible conditions. “Tt is up to you workers to help them. The assignment of the task of raising bail to the various districts of the International Labor Deferfse has already been made. It is as follows: New England (Boston) dis- trict; to zaise $2,500 necessary to secure the release of William McGin- nis; New York District; to raise $5,000 demanded for Clarence Miller; Philadelphia District; to raise $5,000 dem&nded for the release of ‘Joe Harrison. The anthracite district will cooperate. Pittsburgh and Cleveland District: to cooperate to raise the $2,500 to free William McLaughlin; Detroit District: to raise the $5,000 to free George Carter. The Minneapolis and the agricultural district will co- operate in this effort. ‘ os “T understand there will be a mass reception for us in New York, November 15, at Star Casino. .We must get our fellow workers out by that time. You have saved us from the electric chair. Now show the capitalist class from whom you wrested our lives, that you can get all of us our gn bail. ‘" ’ Wait ‘tor Freedom;’ Says Beal also include election of delegates to the national A. F. W. convention to begin here December 7. | “Today morc than ever, the union jm’ “ight a> * -t the speed-up, and ‘for higher wages and a shorter | workday, as the necessary means ‘of combating w-~* cuts and unem- | ployment,” declares M. Obermeier, ; organizer of the cafeteria workers’ branch. “Especially must the work- ,ers inside the chain cafeterias join in th estruggle. In many of the chr‘s, for inst-~ >, the places pf countermen are being taken by girls who work 11 hours a day for $15 a week, These women workers must , fight for equal pay for equal work a fuse t» let thes:selves “. used as tools of the bo ses to reduce the standard of living. They must or- | ganize toge!’. > with men workers | to win union conditions.” \Meet to Organize the} |Office Workers Tonite Through the distribution of 10,900 leaflets over the week-end, Wall | St. office workers have received a | call to attend a special meeting of the Office Workers Union tonight at Labor Temple, 14th St. & 2nd | Ave., at 6:30 P.M. The 18-20 hour day forced on Wall Street clerks as a result of the | Stock Exchange crash, low wages, | the insecurity of their jobs, and | other problems will be discussed by the Union in its intensive drive to organize office workers, and to Fred Beal Calls on Workers to Rush Daily Worker South Tells of Role of Fighting Paper In Struggle on Slavery and Terror ° $ Fred Beal, facing 17 to 20 years in a North Carolina prison for his part in leading the Gastonia textile mill workers in Svoit against the Manville-Jenckes Company, knows, as few others know, what the southern mill workers are thinking, and what they need in their strug- gle against slavery and terror. Beal was released on bail the other day, over two weeks after he and six other Gastonia workers and National Textile Workers Union organizers weve railroaded to long prison terms. One of*Beal’s first messages to the American workers is to urge them to answer the appeals of the southern workers that the Daily Worker be rushed to them, and that it be kept coming to them always, Here's Bes sees to the militant American workers and work- ers’ organizations, on the immediate necessit: suuthe beve Re 'y of sending the Daily “ “They've got to get the Daily at once. “They're being flooded with the capitalist papers—the mill boss- es’ Jying sheets—and we can’t allow the mill workers’ minds to be poisoned any longer by the capitalist Papers, “Every mill worker I’ve talked to is ready to grab the Daily every time he sees it. “The great eagerness for the Daily Worker shown by the south- ern mill workers is reflected in the way in which the mill bosses’ sheets are attacking the Daily Worker constantly. . “That shows that the mill bosses are scared of what a fighting Daily will accomplish in the hands of the southern mill workers, “In time the southern mill workers themselves will support the Daily. “But right now it's imperative th&t the militant workers of the United States see that they get the Daily regularly. mobilize those in the Wall St. dis- trict to join the Union, * “I think it’s a great idea for workingclass groups {o adopt C (Continued on Page Three) “ms COMMUNISTS HIT IMPERIALIST WAR ARMISTICE DAY Capitalist Powers Prepare Orgy of Jingo Talk, “Peace” Coated Pres, to Demand Navy Will Support Kellogg Pacts Against League The dawn of Armistice Day, th: eleventh annivers: of the las world wide war, saw two force struggling over the advent of a new r. In eve ountry, and particu in Ameri fist disguised dr , the poisonous paci e for military pre parations and for a strong foreigr policy leading directly to a fresh im perialist crash, was carred on b spokesmen of the capitalist govern ment, and by such white guard or ganizations as the American Legion In every country, the sections o the Communist Inter onal have prepared mass meetings of protes against the coming war, for the de fense of the Soviet Union, and tr explain to the workers the meaniny of the camouflage of “peace” use by all oppre_sive governments. It was learned yesterday that ow ing to the lack of responsibility to th ecall of patriotic organizations for the celebration of Armistice Day, no parade will be held on Monday However, in all schools, soldiers barracks, etc., it is intended to hol meetings of a jingoistic characte: in order to develop a movement ir support >f the tremendous prepara tions now being called on by the American government. Response to the counter-demon trations o fthe Communist Party ai th e10 central concentration point: continues to grow, Pinal_arrange ments announced at the Districi Headquarters yesterday est the fo! lowing halls as gathering points foi (Continued on Page Two) WOMEN SECTION IN STATEMENT Warn of War Danger on Armistice Day In a statement issued last night by the women’s department of th New York District of the Commun ist Party, all New York ing women are called upon to join ir the anti-war demonstrations or Armistice Day, to be held at a series of out-doors meetings the evening of November 11. The statement follows in part “Working women of New York must join with the entire conscious working class to renew their pledge to fight against imperialist war on November 11, the day when the im perialists hypocritically try to hide war preparations by gestures of peace. “The true working women must in particular realize what the prep arations of war mean to them. In 1914 and 1918, they were drawn from their homes into industry to replace the men driven to the bat- tle fields. Since then, the numbers of women in industry have steadily increased. Women have been used to displace men workers thrown out of’jobs by the introduction of new machinery and at much lower wages. More women driven into the shops (Continued on Page Two) CROWD BOSTON’S TH MEETING Labor Jury Member on Tour Speaks BOSTON, Mass. (By Mail). Comparing the terror of the mill bosses against the southern work- ers with the conditions of the work- ers in the Soviet Union, Sol Har- per, Negro member of the Gastonia labor jury, and Juliet Poyntz, for th el. L. D., spoke at the 12th anni- versary celebration of the Russian Revolution here Thursday night at 60 Belmot Snt. The meeting was crowded. At the anniversary meeting in Worcester, besides Harper, Buckly, a shoe worker, also spoke, New members were gained. Monday night Harper speaks. in Philadelphia under the joint T. U. U. L. and I. L. D. auspices. Next Sunday aHrper will invade Binghamton, N. Y., stronghold of the Ku Klux Klan, mt wu