The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 1

4 { \ a ee te ld s- ts is od he ad ld to WORKERS! DEMAND RELEA ie (THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week rrily TONIGHT! FINAL CITY EDITION Entered. as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ne w York, N. ¥., under the act of March 3, 187! Published dally except Su Vol. VI, No. 216 Square, y by The Comprodaily Publishing New York City, N. ¥. 24 Company. tne. 26-28 Unto To the Rescue of Humpty {NDIANA, PHILA, Dumpty Yesterday was field day for “all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men” who are trying to put the Stock Exchange together again. Rumors spread about, the day before, that Rockefeller had posted $50,000,000 to buy Jersey Standard stocks at $50. The medicine men of the New York Federal Reserve Bank yesterday afternoon reduced the rediscount rate from 5 to 41-2 per cent. Only two weeks before it was cut from 6 to 5 in a vain attempt to stop the first smash. But the chief stimulant administered by the rescuers of Humpty Dumpty, was the announcement at Washington that the Treasury Department would propose a tax cut on incomes. While Secretary Mellon quite freely admits that the tax cut an- nouncement was made purposely in the hope that it would check the slump in the stock market, capitalist financial reporters slyly convey by talk of “coincidence” the fact that all three of these attempts from various angles to stop the panic, were undertaken as a single and con- sidered maneuver to come to the aid of the stock market. Incidentally, this again proves how closely interwoven is big finance capital with the powers of government. But there is more to be said. A It was announced that the difference on government revenue which the cut would amount to, would be $60,000,000—a mere bagatelle for a bourgeoisie that has seen $50,000,000,000 and more evaporate from stock prices (they wrongly call them “values”) in two weeks. But its importance is greater thah its size because it is an assurance from the Hoover administration that, when finance capital through its control of industry tries to stabilize the stock prices by a wide wage-cutting, intensified speed-up and general attack on the workers—the govern- ment will stand behind capital 100 per cent in forcing the working class to surrender even its present conditions. Stocks, it must be understood, have no “value.” They are pieces of paper supposed to represent the tangible, physical value of the equip- ment of industry, as certificates of ownership of such values. But in reality an enormous amount of stock is issued far in excess of such value. This is what is commonly called “watered” stock. But that is not all. If, and when, capitalism is in its “normal” state of development (a time that is past) and prospects of profits to be gained, not only cur- rently but in the future by the exploitation of labor-power from which is taken after wages are paid, seem bright, capitalists begin to boost the price of stock which holds such rosy promises of future dividends, and a regular gambling game is indulged in on the stock market, a gamble as to whether much or little may be wrung in profits from the working class. What has happened, then, to wither the roses of capitalist dreams of future profits? While that renegade from Communism, Mr. Love- stone, was painting bright pictures in the sky for American imperial- ism, which he depicted as something immune from the decay of and contradictions ‘in world capitalist economy, these weaknesses of world capitalism were more and more involving and affecting the stability precarious. Coneretely, we will state just a few factors. dise of wage slavery in the South was upset by strikes. workers generally began resistance to further rationalization. The prospect of dominating China was upset by British and Japanese im- perialisms’ armed maneuvers based on—it must be noted—the resent- ment of the Chinese masses to the attack on the Soviet Union in Man- churia. But, while this may serve as a lesson for those who attack the Soviet Union, the outstanding factor is the attack of the Soviet Union on world capitalist economy by industrialization, by socialization of agriculture and a planned socialist economy, the successful advance of which is a shattering blow to capitalist anarchy with its working class misery throughout the capitalist world. The socialist advance of the Soviet Union is the most significant of all factors, as it means an advance on a world scale of the proletariat against the world bourgeoisie in the struggle for power. For this rea- son the danger increases daily of imperialist war against the Soviet Union, and against the working class in the imperialist countries. The war on the working class here in America will manifest itself by a wide wage-cutting drive, intensified speed-up, an enormous growth of unemployment. Only yesterday the southern textile mills announced a curtailment of production of 27 per cent. The tax cut announcement by Hoover and Mellon is an assurance to the bourgeoisie that the gov- worse conditions of life. class. American proletariat. Daily Worker South.” of the Daily Worker each day. the Daily Worker each day. The Communist Party accepts the challenge. Leninist knowledge of the historic finale and the strategy of revolu- tion, with Bolshevik determination it has ¢ast out and will continue to cast out doubters and opportunist compromisers, and stands stripped for action as the advance guard and leader of the American working And “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” cannot and shall not put the Stock Market together‘again at the expense of the ernment will use its coercive power to force the working class to bear With Marxist- 3 More Units Join Soctalist Rivalry to Rush ‘Daily’ South Other Workers Groups Must Take Up the Challenge Three Communist Party units in Section 1, New York City, have entered into the spirit of Socialist rivalry in the “Drive to Rush the Unit 2R has pledged $1.50 a week to see that the mill workers of Elizabethton, Tenn., the rafon workers who have been thrice betrayed by the United Textile Workers Union fakers, receive at least 15 copies Unit 4F has pledged $1.50 a week so that the textile mill workers of Kannapolis, N. C., can be assured of receiving at least 15 copies of Unit 8F has pledged $3.50 a week, which assures the mill workers of Spartansburg, S. C., of receiving at: least 35 copies of the Daily Worker each Day. There are over 5,000 workers in the rayon mills of Elizabethton and its twin mill town Johnson City, Tenn., where the Glanzstoff and Bemberg rayon corporations drive the workers. Fifteen copies of the Daily can hardly begin to fill the absolute necessity for all the rayon workers of these towns to have the Daily Worker. And so from Unit R2 goes a challenge to other workers’ groups— not only Communist Party units but all workers’ organizations—to share in adopting Elizabethton and Johnson City. (Continued on Page Two) Propaganda Comm. of Needle . Trades Meets A meeting of the propaganda com- mittee of the cloakmakers, dress- makers, furriers and millinary work- ers will be held at the office of the Union, 181 W. 28th St. at non Sat- urday. JUGOSLAV TERROR SENTENCES (Wireless By Inprecorr) ZAGREB, Nov. 14.—Five work- ers have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for Communist activity. Herberg and Vranes got 12 years each. Two others accused got five yrses each. All at hard labor. Dnieprostroi-Giant Hydraulic Station-Feat of 5 Year Plan MOSCOW (By Mail)—It is signi- ficant that the first plan which re- ferred to a lonver period and sought to map out the main direction and of American imperialism, Future profits were and are becoming | The capitalist para- | American | | WORKERS FIGHT TERROR REIGN 2 Incommunicado Gary After They Are Jailed | Workers Leave Plant 40 Needle Pickets in} Phila. Arrested GARY, Ind., Nov. 14.-The spread of the nation-wide reign of terror against militant workers to Indiana | |was marked by the arrest of Ethel | |Stevens, Young Communist League organizer for Gary, and Sam Chap- |pa, in front of the Queen Anne \Candy factory at Hammond, In. \diana. The two arrested were dis-| tributing leaflets for a meeting of | the workers, called by the ie | in| Communist League. The police were on hand at the} request of the company. The wo! lers of the plant, the great major‘ jof whom are young workers, spon-| taneously left the factory to attend |the meeting despite the attempts of the bosses to keep them inside the gates. The workers jeered the police on the arrest of Stevens and Chappa.| They demonstrated their support for the speakers and the two arrested Y. C. L. members by their militancy against the police. court against Stevens and Chappa. A heavy bond is demanded for their (Continued on Page Three) Joseph Pacheco, Freed, Recalls Joh n Porter Held Incommunicado on Same Charges “I'd give my right arm to see my buddy, John Porter,” Joseph Pa- checo, arrested primarily for his ac- tivities in the New Bedford strike, was released from 10 months mil tary prison yesterday, but his |thought, as he sat in the Daily Worker office, went out to his com-| worth penitentiary for the same crime, fighting for his class against | capitalist oppression. Secretary of the New Bedford branch of the International Labor Defense, member of the stri @ com- mittee and militant picket captain, Pacheco was three tin arrested dufing the course of the great tex- tile struggle. the army, like John Porter, and} like John Porter, left it when he| came to see in it the tool with which | the American capitalists oppress | the workers at home and_ strug- gle against competing capitalists | abroad. During the New Bedford arrests, the police took Pacheco’s finger | (Continued on Page Two) | Develop Organization | of Furniture Workers at Meeting Tomorrow New York upholsterers and furni- ture workers are determined to end | their “48-hour week slavery under | j deplorable conditions and low wages forced on us by the bosses.” Led by | militant workers organized in the Furniture Workers’ Industrial League and affiliated to the Trades Union Unity League, they will meet | to hasten steps for greater organ. ization at a meeting at 2 p. m. to-| morrow at 26-28 Union Sq. | “Existing unions, affiliated to the | A. F. of L, are only a hindrance to the organizing of the unorganized | furniture workers,” the League call | declares. “Besides, they are also | co-operating with the bosses, who refuse the working conditions of the organized workers.” economic system. The main lines of this plan proved to be correct. The production of electrical energy | in 1927 was already two and a half ti Charges of riot were made by the CALL At seventeen Pacheco had joined, |ment of the New York Dis | woman. SUBSCRIPTION RA’ THEY FLEW THE Six women leaders of the Ce the terror of the capitalists and over a Pion camp. Cutler, Bella Min right, are Yetta Stromberg, Emy NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929 In the top row from left to right are Sara : and Esther Carpiloff. RED FLAG IN CAL. ‘GASTON BOYS BE. | FREED TONIGHT Workers Here to Hold Huge Demonstration for Prisoners |Three Prisoners Talk | | | i | Dunne and Jim Reid to | Address Crowd ilifornia working class, who defied their state by flying the Red Flag In the lower row, left to ma Schneiderman and Jennie Wolf- 4 z e i Several thousand New York work- son. All received sentences of from six months to five years, except | or< will Lehi dmmaandetie retort Yetta Stromberg, who got from one year to ten years, and Sara | o¢ the seven Gastonia defendants at Cutler who was dismissed. a mass welcome for Fred Beal, K Y. (Red) Hendryx and William Me- | Ginnis, just re ed on bail in time J Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. UNION AT MEET “Urge Fight on Open Stock Crash Echoes Shop, AFL Traitors Hundreds of workers expressed their eagerness for unionization of the open shop cafeterias by joining the Cafeteria Workers Branch of the Amalgamated Food Workers at their organization meeting last night at Bryant Hall, the first open meet- ing since the general garment sec- i ke last spring, when the ‘or the union was established. workers are continually How coming to the union asking leader- ship for a struggle against the 12- hour day and intensified speed-up was brought out by organizer, M. Obermeier. “We workers must especially be on our guard against the American Federation of Labor officialdom, and all the company unions and employ- ment agent sharks, who make food ; workers their special firey,” he de-/5 to 10 points—nowhere near the clared. “Intensified bos: a ies of ing. mood of the workers for a fight against their terrible exploitation. The A. F, of L., and other fascist traitors to labor, try to crush | workers’ radicalization by sidetrack- jing it into company union, strike- breaking organizations. is makes it all the more vital that workers be mobilized into an rade still behind the bars of Leaven-|industrial union, based on principles (Continued on Page Two) WOMEN TO CELEBRATION Marks Sixth Year of United Councils Hailing the role of the United Council of ‘Working Women in the struggles of the workers, Olga Gold, secretary of the Women’s Depart- rict of the Communist, Party yesterday is- sued a call to all working women to attend enmasse the Council’s sixth anniversary celebration Friday eve- ning, November 22, in Stuyvesant Casino, 2nd Ave. and 9th St. , The statement declares: “The sixth anniversary of the United Council of Working Women is an event for every working class It marks not only the end of six years of working class _activ- ity, but, we feel sure, the beginning of greater and broader activity for (Continued on Page Two) ILGWU Officials Bar Militants’ Nomination to Coming Convention “Boycott the fake elections!” is the advice of the Progressive Group to their fellow-workers in Local 38 of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. The elections take place today. When the progressive, Don Wish- nevsky and Nat Wilkes were nomi- nated for election as delegates to the International Convention, they were summoned before the Election and Objection Committee. “Do you still hold the same views with regard to the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union as you did last year?” I. L, G. W. U. vice- president Harry Greenberg asked them, They were {mmediately ruled out movement of the economic system | times as great as in 1913, and by When they assured him of their even of the Soviet Union was the electri- the end of the Five Year Plan it is firmer belief in a fighting, indus- fication plan of 1920. always stressed the great impor- tance of the electricfication plan as a lever for the socialist transforma- tion of the econbmie system includ- fore the war. The largest of the electrical power stations being built in the Soviet Union is the tremendous hy- ing agriculture, termed this plan draulic power station on the Dalene) the general plan for the national! . Continued on Page Three) “ Lenin, who |to be over 12 times as great as be- trial organization against company unionism of the I. L. G. W. U. UNEMPLOYED COMRADES. All unemployed comrades should report to the District office at 11 a. m, teday without fail! these es’ fake-labor organizations to- |day is an indication of the increas- the The ome has b by the New York District International Defense and the National Textile Workers’ Union. While the other are still kept in jail | mill owners’ any but cash bail, Beal and Hendry | will speak in the name of their com- rades, will des the stirring events in the South and will call on the workers of New York to get jbehind the campaign of the Inter- national Labor Defense to free all the victims of mill owners’ justice. Two other noted leaders of work- 8 o'clock arranged of the y OLD PRICES five because the courts refuse to accept | in London, Paris Most extraordinary measures, such |as have not been used tefore in the ,history of the stock market, tempo- rai checked the slide downward of prices, A statement by President Hoover and Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon Wednesday that income taxes) ing class struggles, Bill Dunne, edi would be cut another hundred mil- tor of Labor Unity, and James P. |lion, an announcement that Rocke- | Reid, president of the National 7 feller was flipping $50,000,000 on tile Workers’ Union, both of whom \the board to peg up Standard of|have recently returned from the New Jersey, support from the Fed- | South, will also speak. Greetings from the striking win- jeral Reserve banks, a cut of half a| brought by per cent on rediscount, all combined |with the hurried buying of a num- ber of speculators who were selling |short, and who became afraid that prices might rise. This produced an actual rise in prices of 36 leading stocks of from dow cleaners will be Thomas Owerkin, president of the Window Cleaners Protective Union. J. Louis Engdahl, national secre- tary of the International Labor De- |fense, will be chairman. The New York District of the I. |, D. urges workers to help bail out the other five Gastonia defendants by sending contributions and loans |at once to 799 Broadw Room 422 prices of day before yesterday, which in turn were very much lower than those of a week ago. It re- mains to be seen whether the arti- ficialestimulus given the market to- day will last cver until tomorrow. * e.* T.UULL WARNS SUBWAY DIGGERS London Bankers Fail. LONDON, Eng., Nov. | 14.—The banking firm of J. Horstman & Co., of Bishopgate, suspended payments | today as a result of a little too much \confidence in continued prosperity. defendants | in New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York. by mail, $6.00 per yea’ rice 3 Cents Corp. Potsons Unborn Babes Mothers, Tots Doomed to Agony NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 14.—The United States Radium Corporation has doomed to slow and hideous death not only the five working women who slaved in its Orange plant, whose case has become fam- ous, but has also doomed to a life of torture three children of two other woman workers of the same company. For radium poison has | been discovered in these tots, poison transmitted to the children before their birth, Four women, Mrs. Quinta Me- Donald, Mrs, Albina Larice, Kath- erine Schaub, and*Mrs. Edna Huss- man, were poisoned by pointing with their lips as they painted lumi- nous watch dials. They are all on the verge of death, the end being WILL DEMAND 7 U. S. Radium GREEN TELLS HIS TEXTILE MEETING TO STOP STRIKES “Mustn’t Leave Looms Before Organized;” Hard to Betray Marion Jury Indicts 57 Strikers Charged With Attack on Sheriff , Nov, 14.—At the A. F. L. textile President the keynote and sell out. WASHINGTO. very outset of the conference here William Green struck of A. F. L. betrayal In a long speech on the Southern ;situation, he complained that in most of the Southern strikes the workers “left their looms before they were today, a matter of a few weeks, it is said. |properly organized.” This meant The workers were made victims|that the United Textile Workers in the capitalist courts, which |Union might have to stand by and worked with the radium bosses|watch them get a victory, or still when the suits of the workers were | | settled. Eight hundred dollars a} ear for life, this was the miser- | |were inveigled into settling. | Mrs. Helen Puck of Red Bank and Mrs. Ethelwynne Metz of Newark are the two women workers whose |children have been found to be suf- | fering from radium poisoning trans- |mitted to them before their birth. The three afflicted children are Walter Puck, years; Harold Puck, aged two, and Edward Metz, |six years old. | Doctors who have examined the children state positively that the poisoning is a direct result of the mothers’ slavery in the U. S, Radium plant, and that the children’s dis- ease is incurable. The children are |pale and anaemic, the joints being sore and stiff, the preliminary mptoms of radium poisoning in most malignant form, when the ues and bones are being gnawed |away by the radium in the blood. | Mrs. Puck and Mrs. Metz were poisoned in the radium plant in 1919. CLEANERS FIGHT BETRAYAL PLANS Jable pittance for which the women | The firm made a specialty in buy- ing acceptances, that is to s: “Mass Strike Alone) TUUL Rallies Workers| Wins Demands” j|Against A.F.L. Fakers ‘|for the injunction are the Setum, speculating on American prices. had a capital stock of $5,000,000. Prices fell today, beginning with American issues, and spreading to | Yo | It | You Only by extend- “Subway-diggers! want | union wage-scales. English and Continental stocks. -A ing your strike into a mass tie-up general uneasiness prevails. will you gain them and your other PD Mabaen | demands.” French Chamber Worries. TH ai de tho alias Po bed uae PARIS, France, Nov. 14.—An Rozen cate (BOM AG aroun beet. Yes: ooh |terday by the Building and Con- argument developed in the French : s pemicuen, Workets ction of the chamber of deputies today between Deputy Chastanet and Finance Min- lister Cheron, as to whether the French treasury investments abroad were safe, in view of the collapse lof prices in New York. The gov- ernment shows some discomfort, but {maintains an outward show of con- | | fidence. way, Tunnell and Compressed Air | § | NU C 0 !Workers of America. Q | The union men demand | |day for laborers, $9.50 hd drill runners and from § for timbermen and shorers. Trade Union Unity timbermen, and drill run- ners who struck yesterday against state-encouraged scab subway ex- tension in the Bronx. shorers Five hundred men working at the 14th St. and Eighth Ave. B. M. T. construction were still on the job yesterday, although they were an- nounced to join the strike by Loca and 753 of the’ International Sub- Oa for Bots Shop Delegates Asses Selves for Big Fight Scab wages in force now are $4.80 to laborers, $6.90 to drillers and about $7-$8 for timbermen and shor- ers. The men also want union The Independent Shoe Workers.) "cognition. “Your demands cannot be en- |Union* of Greater New York has) | received information that the eight forced by one section’s staying on | shoe companies who have been con- the job while fellow-wor ducting a lockout against them for the T, U. U. L. held in the last several weeks are applying | ment. | for an injunction to try and prevert| It denounced the action of the A. |picketing and to interfere with the F, of L. unions which persisted in | Struggle the union is carrying on. |Jocalizing the strike to the Bronx | The shop delegates’ conference gangs. | meeting last night in Union Head-| “Because your o Is ‘are op- | quarters, 15 W. 21 St., has pledged | posed to the move for the 100 per full support to the organization in |cent strike,” the League warns the |this struggle, and the delegates men, “you must organize your own | have assessed themselves a percert- committees of action.” lage of their wages, to be deducted | __. | | League to 800| | Mobilized by the Window Cleaners | Section of the Trade Union Unity League, a crowded meeting of Local 8 Building Service Workers Union, last night made plans to fight the treachery of the A. F. of L. in its attempts to split the union and be- More than 22 workers were pres- ent at the meeting. After explaining the organization |work the T. U. U. L. is doing for |the workers, Henry Sazar, of the | | Metropolitan Area T. U. U. L. stated that the A. F. of L. has come into \the window cleaners’ strike in order |to try to split the ranks of the | strikers. | He urged them to drive out these fakers, to stand united and sptead tke strike, and to join the T. U. | A lively discussion followed from |the floor, many questions concern- ing the T. U. U. L. and its activ- ities, which Sazar answered. | A group of right wingers who {came to make talk for the A. F. of L. fat boys failed completely. Gilbert Lewis, Negro window cleaner, was chairman of the meet- ing. LABOR UNITY AGENTS ORGANIZE. | A committee of 100 Labor Unity Agents will be organized at a meet- ling of Industrial Organizers of the Communist Party and Labor Unity ' Agents in left-wing unions at the {offices of the Trade Union Unity League, 26-28 Union Square, at 8 o'clock tonight. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! | weekly and added to the organiza- | tion and strike funds. The information of the use of the Tammany courts against this union has not terrified the members, on the contrary, the reaction is an an- nounced determination to fight more vigorously than ever. The companies which have asked By JACK JOHNSTONE. (National” Organizer TUUL.) ailroading to prison of our Gastonia comrades for from five to twenty years, emphasizes more than anything else the needs for organiz- ation. This crime against the work- jing class was only possible because the workers are not yet organized {enough to stop it. These workers, |some of them in their first. strike, will remain in prison unless released |Colonial, Diana, Refined, Elbee, |Bressler and two others. SEE WINTERBOUND NOV. 22. The Progressive Group, Local 38, are holding a theatre affair Nov, 22 |to see Winterbound at the Garr RS, All planning to see the Cheatre. play should do so that evening to help out the group, a iain sitaeaieaalcas by the organized power fo the work- | Need Organization to Stem Bosses’ Terror, Says TUUL ‘s. An appeal will be made to a |higher court, that is the necessary legal end of it, but this is not a legal battle, it is class war, and while legal defense is necessary now, capi- talist courts only turn working class victims back to the ranks of the workers because mass working class pressure forced them to yield. This Is Boss Justice. | The conviction of our seven mar- ‘tyred comrades, is a conviction (Continued on Page Three) worse join with the National Textile Workers Union, which is now lead- ing the battle for better wages, hours and conditions in the South. Wherever the U. T. W. has got control, as at Elizabethton and Marion, an arrangement between U. T. W. officials and the bosses has always been reached, to send the men back to work without gains, and usually with a blacklist. Campaigns for Probe. Green spent little time in his opening speech today dealing with the evils of twelve-hour days, child labor, discrimination, low wages, (Continued on Page Two) ‘HIGHLAND PARK MILL T0 STRIKE Mill Committee Asks 8-Hr. Day, 5-Day Week CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 14.— The Highland Park Mill No. 1 mill committee has served notice on J. F, Williamson, superintendent of the mill,* that on a ballot circulated among the workers by this commit- tee, an overwhelming majority voted for strike for the eight-hour day and five-day week. The mill committee, in its letter |to the superintendent, remarks, “We are taking the liberty of giving copies of this letter to the workers. Kindly take the proper steps to make them aware of your answer to this request.” tat ates Greenville Supports I. L. D. GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. 14.— The Greenville district of the N, tional Textile Workers’ Union ha adopted a resolution to send dele- gates to the International Labor De- fense First Southern District Con- ference to be held in Charlotte, Dec. 8 and has endorsed the call of the I. L. D. for’ this conference, which points out the necessity for united action on a broad front against the bosses’ reign of terror in the South. Rapid organization work proceeds throughout the Greenville section. ILD T0 HOLD 1ST BIG MEET SOUTH District Conference in Charlotte, Dee. 18 The first district convention of the International Labor Defense ever: held in the South will take place in the National Textile Work- jers’ Union Hall, C&ldwell and Bel- mont Sts., Charlotte, Stnday, Dec. 8, at 10 a. m. Other district conferences have already been called in Boston, Seran- ton, Detroit, on Dec. 1; in Philadel- phia, Nov. 24; in Chicago, Dec. 8; in New York Cleveland and Pitts- burgh, Dec, 15; in Los Angeles, urday and Sunday, Dec. 21 and The growing capitalist terror has found all districts ready to fight back by means of strengthening the International Labor Defense. Dele- gates are being elected for the Fourth National Conference of the I. L. D. in Pittsburgh, Dec. 29, 30 and 31. The I. L. D. Castonia and anti- terror drive for 50,000 new members and for $50,000 by Jan. 15, when the appeal comes up for the Gas- tonia prisoners, will be one of the chief topics at the conference. M. E. Taft will tour the following districts for I, L. D. organizational purposes: Connecticut, Nov, 16, 17} (Continued on Page Phe: