The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 26, 1929, Page 3

ER 26, : DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY. NOVEMB RENEWING IMPERI CHACD REGION DISPUTE AGAIN RILES BOLIVIA AND PARAGUAY .Bolivia, Pushed by U.S., Opens Old Row With | ALIST CLASH, Attack on Paraguayan Claims Arbitration, Capitalist Even Fixed Subject BU new diplomatic outbreak between Bo- | livia and Paraguay distinctly shows that the cause of the clash a year ago over possession of the region known as the Chaco Boreal, is not settled, never was settled and is a source still for a sharper fight than before to determine whether or not he American Standard oil interests ran seize the Chaco region against British position to, open oil transport from Bolivia down the Pileomayo river to the world market via the La Plate riv Bolivia, which represents the in- terests of American imperialism in this affair, and Paraguay which, as the hinterland of British influenced | Argentina, claims the Chaco “since| time immemorial”, after an clash on the more or less indefi frontier a year ago, agreed to let the | Pan-American Union then in session at Washington, arbitrate. But now it turns out that nobody knows just exactly what is to be arbitrated! Bolivia and Paraguay are both members of the League of Nations, yet at first Bolivia rejected the League’s “hints” to settle the mat- ter through its agency, in fact it ignored all agencies. At the time,! NOS AIRES, Nov. 25.—The! , cates that American imperialism is “War Cure,’ Has Not) to Arbitrate head-on into the Monroe doctrine of | American imperialism. Accepting the idea that America | was not ready to bring the issue! to the point of war, the league laid | down a line that challenged America | to immediate conflict, threatening ‘armed intervention and moving its headquarters from Geneva to Paris, whereupon the U. S. required Bolivia ‘Give Year in CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. 25. — Under a caption, “Gregory Gets His in Court,” the Charlotte News |exults over the use of the bosses’ | courts to smash a witness who knew too much about the murder of Ella May to suit the Manville-Jenckes Co. Gregory is sentenced to serve 12 months unspeakable torture on It happened this way: Gregory’s wife left him five years ago. that he did not have to pay her was done, by the league, would run, anything, although he offered what | the “ he could spare from his meagre earnings. He has lived in Char- lotte until January of this year, then took a short trip hunting work into Pennsylvania, then returned in June to Gastonia; hardly acting like a fugitive from justice. But then in Gastonia he saw something of the murderers of the Loray Mill who killed Ella May, | Serpenter ealled him over: “Ar the stand against Thompson and | Fowler, two of our Loray boys?” he | asked. “Yeah, I sure did,” replied Greg- ory. “Uh, huh,” said Carpenter, “Yates Gamble told me all about | the Mecklenburg county chain gang. ! you.” | A few minutes 1. | fies you one of the witnesses who took | Yates Gamble is ancther Loray | British “labor” A | gunman, one of the gang that killed knew jcourt has ruled, several years ago | Ella May. Chain Gang to BRITISH AIMED Witness Against Mill Thugs ATCOMMUNISTS IN PALESTINE Secret List Backfires- at Social-Fascists LONDON, Nov. ~That government not only full well thot the recent and j continuing rebellion in Palestine was 1 es later, Judge Shaw, ‘not a religious affair, but also wa i upright judge” who disquali- | secretly aiming at inciting the reli- America and the world, I am a cot- s atheists from testifying, and) gious extremes in order to use Solicitor Carpenter, the lynch gang pression of “religious clashes’ up- ” asa the | 192: IN ff HE S mt Page Three HOPS Old Chained Georgia Textile Workers to Mill Slaverv (By a Worker Correspondent) ATLANTA, Ga, (By Mail).—My subscription to the Daily Worker ex- |pired Nov. 3. Am so sorry I have not even two dollars to carry it an- other three months. It is a great instrument in shaping the history of ton weaver and know all the tor- tures of these cotton mill hells, I jleader who pretends to prosecute |cover for suppression of the Com- keenly feel the sufferings of Beal jhis associates, and does prosecute | munist Party, and the Arab peasant- 2nd the other brave comrades. innocent textile sti |Gregory on the chain gang for a | year, for “nonsupport.” As the Charlotte News “Gregory got his.” porter makes it clear that Gregory says, to retreat, accepting arbitration, but | #"d in the fake investigation staged | was not in danger of the chain stating that it had “reservations”, | the nature of which Paraguay now | declares Bolivia never officially dis-| closed. The present outbreak began with a statement issued by the Bolivian | minister in Argentina, which indi-} again on the offensive, the minister saying that there is still a big row | to be settled, that just what is to be arbitrated must be determined, but that in any event Bolivia will | never stand for “Paraguay’s unlim-}| ited aspirations in the northern part | of the Chaco.” Paraguay has replied agreeing that an agreement to arbitrate made a year ago, must indeed require a subject to be arbitrated, but hotly the league smelled a war brewing| rejecting the idea that the Chaco in South America which would either| region can be the subject as it is go against British interests if some-| Paraguayan without question. So the thing was not done, or if something | whole conflict is open again, British Coal “Peace”! U. S. Chemical Trusts Suddenly Given Black Fight for Control of Eye by German Ruling World Markets | LONDON, Nov. 25.—No sooner’ Increased competition of the| ad the “labor” government and!United States chemical industry | reacherous heads of the Miners’! with its European imperialist rivals | ‘ederation succeeded in swindling | was stressed by W. A. Dyes, Berlin | the miners out of the restoration of |correspondent of “Industrial En- | the seven-hour day—promised them | gineering Chemistry,” the journal of | before election by MacDonald, than|the American Chemical Society. | Britain’s coal industry got a blow! “The American chemical industry,” | from Germany, which suddenly in-|said Dyes, “commanding large funds creased the freight rates on foreign |for research, protected by high! coal, duties, and last year having to face | Yorkshire operators particularly, imports from the German chemical are very Suet, as hen say they | industry valued at only $28,500,000, | were increasing sales to German/'S considered in Europe with certain | buyers by leaps and bounds (which | #Pprehension, provided the intended | is precisely why the increase was increase of American chemical ex-| made). Now the operators face a|Ports to European countries should | sudden end of that trade. While the | materialize.” Pana. | Germans innocently declare the same| The growing crisis will push the | rate is made on all foreign coal, the |¢xportation of American chemicals | increase hits British coal most|in European markets, far beyond | markedly. the expectation of Mr. Dyes, with the | resulting sharpening of antagonisms “1 . bet: the European and American Militant Chinese ieiperiatlet powiee Workers Attack a White Guardists Arab Rebels Fight French Imperialists BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 25.— Six Chinese workers made a militant attack upon the counter-revolution- in South Algeria ary official representatives of Chiang) ALGIERS, Nov. 25.—Arab rebels | Kai-shek here, at the Chinese Lega- |have been putting up a stiff fight tion. against French imperialist troops in ao. ae ae the regions of Southern Algeria. The | low workers who were arrested dur- |With rifles of the latest makes. : Aiba |F; h imperialist airplanes, sent to| ing a demonstration in front of the | French impe aD anes eee ng a Beuen Ante |attack the rebels, Chinese Legation last week. jlocate them, and are not able to stop | While demonstrating against the the attacks of the rebels. ‘The rebels | white terror in China several of the | oy so securely intrenched that they! demonstrators were arrested, and it| cannot be bombed by airplanes. was to force release of their militant comrades that the Chinese workers; Build Up the United Front of | attacked the bloody Chiang Kai-shek | the Working Class From the Bot- official. ' tom Up—at che Enterprises! ROCKINGHAM, N. C., WORKERS READ by City Solicitor Carpenter, he tes- tified against them. Class Justice. One week later he was in court. National Miners Union Convention April First (Continued from Page One) rest periods every hour, no check off from the miners wages for pay- ments of “dues” to the U. M. A,, ete. (The N. M. U. does not col- lect dues through any check-off. The Illinois members of the board reported that there is a rapidly growing sentiment among the min- ers there for strike action centering around the local demands but con- nected with the general N. M. U. demands. Members were present also from Colorado, West Virginia, Ohio, In- diana, Western Pennsylvania and the anthracite districts. 7,500 Refuse Lewis Dues. It was reported to the board that a general revolt is growing among the miners in the anthracite. There are 12 locals of the U. M. W. A. with 7,500 members around Tama- qua who are not paying dues to the Lewis machine, and have not been paying any since August. The |N. M. U. national board outlined its preparations to lead the strug- gle anticipated on the expiration next year of the U. M. W. A, agree- ment for the anthracite. The oper- ators are certainly planning a wage cut, and the U. M. W. A. as cer- tainly planning to sell out the min- ers. The N. M. U. convention will prepare for a national movement to support the anthracite strikes next year. The national executive board of the N. M. U. unanimously accepted and endorsed the decisions of the Illinois state convention called by the N. M. U., which met Oct. 26 in Belleville. Watt is Out This means that besides the gen- eral demands mentioned above, and | the declaration for a tri-district con- vention in the near future to rally the unorganized miners back of the N. M. U. for a ctruggle on a na- tional scale, the national board agrees with the Illinois miners in regard to Watt. John Watt, national president of the N. M. U., was charged at the Belleville convention with violat- |ing the orders and policy of the Na- tiona] Miners’ Union, refusing to do the work assigned to him as part of the duties of his office, building a personal machine at Staunton local, appointing organizers and sending them to other districts, carrying out {treasonable dealings with the fake |progressives, Howatt, Brophy, Hap- good and others, scheming to use the check-off in Indiana, instituting a “red hunt” and trying to have mili- tants in the N. M. U. expelled, and trying to split the Belleville con- vention and the union. Took Lewis Money. The board found that Watt, at a recent meeting in Staunton, Ill., was forced to admit that he had taken }, mill workers and the simi \ DAILY, BUT CAN NOT GET ENOUGH Workers’ Groups Must Adopt Mill Centers Where Tcilers Demand Daily Worker (Continued from Page One) Daily Worker that come their way—and demanding enough copies of the Daily to reach all of them. A little over a month ago they had never heard of the Daily Worker or the N. T. W. Now, getting ready for the great struggle against slavery and terror, they are demanding that their fellow workers in other parts of the country send the Daily to them. What workers’ group will adopt the mill workers of Rockingham and send the Daily Worker to them regularly? Or will the militant American workers allow the appeals of the Rockingham mill workers for the Daily & be made in vain? . * Daily Worker: ‘ 26 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. n’t allow the appeals of the Rockingham from mill workers in scores of other southern towns and villages to go unanswered, Here’s my contribution to the “Drive to Rush the Daily South.” \NAMC sccscorenceeeusvesccesesacseeteoneeseenseeeesesegeeeeeneeees Address ceesecerecesecsenserecnseeteresaeseeeeseeesseseseenenenees City ..cccsccesecevcosccserceees® StMO sevceccecccccccscececscecs Amount $. FOR ORGANIZATIONS (name of organization adopt a mill village, and see that the workers there are supplied with the Daily Worker regularly. Olty and State sccocccoccecvccccevecsccteatecasegaccecscveccvvcceces le . money from John Lewis, interna- tional president of the U. M. W. A., while he, Watt, was president of the N.M. U. The board removed Watt from office, and adopted a sharp statement criticizing him and his policies as against the interests of the mi Watt was characterized by the board as a splitter and an ally of the Fishwick machine, and of the fake progressives. The board also sharply criticized Tom Myerscoff, an official in the Pennsylvania district of the union, for deserting his post, to which the union sent him, in the anthracite, Myerseoff is a follower of the Love- stone group, whose policies are inimical to the proper functioning of the union. Myerscoff’s case was re- ferred to the executive board of his district for final action. The national board of the N, M, U. took action, after hearing full re- ports from all the districts, to build the union on a substantial basis, with close cooperation of all the dis- tricts and locals, and decided upon a national drive to double the cireu- lation of the N. M. U. official organ, the Coal Digger. TO BUILD WAR CENTER. WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—A new building for the War Department to | »; centralize the present war prepara: tions of United States imperiali is planned here. A board of mili- tarists has been appointed to draw up plans. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom. Up—at the Enterprises! | gang until he appeared as a frank | and willing witness to say what he Saw on the afternoon Ella May was brutally murdered. Mass Picketing Reply to Leaksville Bosses (Continued from Page One) j eee, tried with Alfred Hoffman, la U. T. W. organizer, on charges j of rioting and resisting an officer, is being rushed through, Judge G. V. Cowper announced today that he would hold night sessions of the court to finish before Thanksgiv- ing day. The specific acts charged are that the strikers on August 30, threw a scab’s furniture out of a house from \which a strikers’ family had been |evicted by the Marion Manufactur- ing Co., and that they attacked a party of sheriff’s deputies who tried to replace the furniture. Hoffman is not accused of com- mitting this act, but is included in |the case by the employers of the South, part of whom wish not to have any union, not even the sell- | out organization, the United Tex- tile Workers, and part of whom wish a few U, T. W. officials prosecuted to lend some weight to the theory they wish to propa- gate, that the U. T. W. is really trying to do something for the workers: The really serious charge against Hoffman, “rebellion and in- surrection,” was dropped a_ short time ago, Among those testifying against the strikers is Sheriff Adkins, who led the posse that killed six pickets before the gates of the Marion Man- ufacturing Co., after the incidents for which the present group is being tried. Fifty more strikers are still held | for trial and a bit of brazen legal maneuvering by the prosecution saved Hoffman from this later trial, Though the courts simply refused to include Sheriff Adkins in any trial for murdering the strikers, eight of his deputies will be white- washed soon at_a trial in Burns- Ville, Yancey county. Build Up the United Front of the Working Class From the Bot- tom Up—at the Enterprises! A. F. of L. Foe Killed by Machado Bullets (Continued from Page Qne) paign to whitewash Cuban fascism, is the A, F, of L, and various Cuban organizations controlled by class traitors as well as other organiza- tions that exist only on paper. These traitorous outfits have made declarations as Machado desired— that “everyone is satisfied” with Machado, ete. To protest against this was the “crime” of Santiago Estaban Brooks. This new assassination by Machado has the same character as those carried out before, as in case of Julio Mella, but with this added element, cynically shameless, of ar- resting the executive of the labor organization to which Brooks be- longed, thus obstructing the indigna- tion and protest at the crime, and trying at the same time to color public opinion with the intimation that this union executive is the body responsible for the assassination. Now that Machado has adjusted the differences with American im- perialism which gave rise to the Senate resolution, around which dif- ferences bourgeois rivals to Machado were building hopes to replace his dictatorship with their own under the same imperialist masters, a new wi of terror against the workers is signalized by this murder of San- tiago Brooks. But the part of the A. F, of L. in this murder is the outstanding proof that fascism in Cuba and Machado as its head, has the full support of Green, Woll and Co, | Another Machado Victim HAVANA, Nov. 25.—Recently the Machado di ictatorship, fearful of tion not dominated by ‘ins, has begun crim- inal proceedings against Sport and Cultural Clubs of working class youth, as well as against trade union militants. One worker, Busebio Ver- decia, is in jail accused of “Commu- propaganda” in Camajuani, the lack of evidence being made up for by not allowing the accused man to have a lawyer to defend him, ENGLISH MINERS KILLED. DURHAM, England (By Mail). Two miners were killed and two in- jured when a fall of stone trapped them in the pit here. rs, had got | ry, robbed of their land by the Zion- s, is shown in the arres lice corporal in Jerusalem. Police Corporal Marlik is accused of a po- The News re-|of having revealed a secret blacklist of the government, a list of people it regarded as dangerous to it—not to the masses of Palestine — who, upon the outbreak of any sort of “trouble,” should be put out of the way by imprisonment or execution. Known leaders of the Communist Party made up most of the list, but |the name of the Arab Moslem mufti | of Jerusalem was also included. | A correspondent of the soci | cist Jewish paper in New Yc | ewis, Wes Fowler and Lawrence |“Forward,” while on a drunken spree with Corporal Karlik, is said to have gotten the list and photoed it, the New York “Forward” publishing it with the provocative interpretation that, because the British had Com- munists on a blacklist, that therefore the Communists were those who in- cited “pogroms” against Jews, when as a matter of fact the Communist Party was calli:.g on both Jewish and Arab workers and peasants not to kill each other, but to drive out the British imperialists and their serv- ants, the Jewish capitalists and Arab landlords. Big Business in State Role (Continued from Page One) American capitalism as a result of the rupture in production. William Butterworth, president, and Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce, have assumed important governmental functions in the present crisis. These two leading capitalists are organizing 200 of the foremost im- perialists in the country to act in |behalf of Hoover and the United States givernment, They will un- dertake the nation-wide wage slash- ing campaign. It will be one of i their tasks to flood the world mar- ket with American commodities in order to attempt relief from capi- talist overproduction, thereby in- creasing imperialist world antagon- ism, and sharpening the war dan- ger. In a letter to the executives of the biggest scab corporations in the country, Barnes and Butterworth, with the authorization of Hoover, point out to the leading enemies of labor, that business is openly tak- ing over the function of the gov- ernment in the present economic smash, The letter wed by them today says, in part: “This conference will be opened by President Hoover and is the out- growth of a conviction on his part that American business is so organ- ized as to be fully capable of mob- ilizing its forces in cooperation with government. “It is gratifying that from such high authority should come this high recognition of the efficiency and trustworthiness of business or- there is now a responsibility upon us to discharge this trust with sober devotion and practical efficiency.” The chags in production is so widespread, and unemployment in- creasing so rapidly, that Hoover has authorized the Chamber of Commerce, as a first step to col- lect detailed ‘information on the sub- jest. The capitalists being organized are called upon “in preparation for practical steps based on accurate information we would like to have an analysis of the strong and weak spots in your own field, both as to the present situation and the next six months.” USSR Scientists Find | Mathematical Genius in Moscow Girl, 22 MOSCOW, Nov. 25.—Examined by a commission of Soviet scientists, Nina Glagoliva, 22 years, has been declared a mathematical prodigy with powers greater than those of the famous Arago and like genuises. She does in her mind, in from two to twenty seconds, intricate mathe- matical problems which require hours for experts to do in the or- dinary way with pencil and paper, extracting the root in the ninth de- gree of numbers with as many as twenty digits. Besides her amazing powers of lightning-like mental calculations, she possesses an extraordinary mem- ory. Before the commission she re- peated, without a single mistake, long lists of words read to her not only in the Russian language but in tongues which she does not know— Greek, Chinese, ete. SEGREGATION IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO (By Mail).—Sixty business men met at the Blue Island Church here to discuss methods of keeping Negroes from moving into the Blue Island section, 4 Would that I could add the wee | “might of my feeble strength to the advancement of the workers’ cause. But I am placed in a delicate po: tion which forbids even an effective word or act, because my family, {consisting of a wife and four girl (children, are at the merey of the mill owner. Briefly, my position is one of ab- solute dependence on the mill here, \I am 50 years old, obtained “leave of absence” from the weavers’ room | for a month of rest, and now I can’t | get back to work because there are |too many weavers, The stretch-out |has thrown hordes of hungry weav- ers on the market. My wife is also a weaver—her wage pays for our bread. We live FIGHT “CHARITY” tin a company house and were the least inkling of my activities in any labor cause to reach the listening ears of the boss you may easily guess where I and my family would land— | we would be kicked out on the streets, of course, in this, the ap- | proaching winter season. So I have | to keep quiet. | I am busted; no job and don’t | know what moment they may send my wife home—hell? You bet it is. I came to Atlanta in 1919 to help | get dear old Gene Debs out of stir. | Since his release I have become en- | meshed in the mill again. Thus at | present my hands are tied—I am | bound hog fashion as tight as those dear comrades who lie chained to | the floor of the prisons. All I can say is “Dammit.” I have slipped each issue of the Worker during the past two months to other slaves and they are com- | ing. Am sorry I can’t renew for the Worker, but am not able. Well, here’s hoping hell breaks loose in Georgia with a bang. Please omit my name, for heaven’s sake, should you print any of this letter. With a hopeful heart, I am ever for the |Red Flag of Rebellion. RED ARMY IN ROBBING TOILERS COUNTER ATTACK CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. (Continued from Page One) Militant workers of Cleveland are by raising an alarm about the Soviet becoming more and more disgusted punitive measures against white with their victimization by the boss- | guard and Chinese attacks in Man- es here, in which they are forced | churia, to hold on to some shred of 25.— to contribute to the Community Fund, a pet “charity” scheme of the bosses used as an atempt to pull the wool over the workers’ eyes. As part of the bosses’ elaborate campaign for the Community Fund, workers in most of the big open shops and in organized shops are being forced to hand over part of their wages to the fund. But resist- ance to this robbery is increasing. Especially is the Communist Party fighting this robbery of the already bitterly exploited Cleveland workers. Even in A. F. of L. unions, the rank and file is demanding a fight on the fun, The last meeting of the Molders Union Local 127, affiliated |with the A. F. of L., a motion was passed that the members refuse to |donate to the Community Fund. | A typical example of how the bosses are bludgeoning the workers into supporting their “charity” scheme which is used against the workers, is shown by the action of the Cleveland Cooperative Stove Co. in first making the workers donate part of their wages for the fund, and then announcing a wage cut. Mit- chell, manager of the company, de- manded a contribution of not less than $5 from each worker. National Textile Union Convention Dec. 21st (Continued from Page One) The crisis in America, the Wall St upon American productive forces and markets and especially upon the standard of living of the Amer- ican working class compels the N.C. ganizations in this country, and @®° prepare the textile workers for a general struggle against the in- tense rationalization, the growing unemployment, and the attacks upon our standard of living.” The action of the A.F.L. in the textile industry and the action of the A.F.L, in agreement with the capitalists and their government to prevent any struggle for wage in- creases clearly indicates its part in opposition to stem the tide of the growing revolt and prevent the or- ganization of the workers into in- dustrial unions. role of the reformists and growing radicalization of the textile workers makes it essential to prepare a mass convention in order to definitely launch these growing numbers of workers into the class struggle. “This postponement has been made necessary by the strike situa- tion ih the South, in the Anthracite, and a prospect of an immediate gen- eral strike in Paterson. These con- ditions compel us to organize our forces and to carry through a muck wider mobilization of our. entire union than would be possible by the date originally set for the conven- tion, To do this an exhaustive re- view of the situation in every local of the union and in every textile center is to be made, and an immed- iate program of action drawn up. “We call upon all mill locals of the N.T.W.U, to intensify their ac- tivities and to elect delegates to the national convention. This second convention of the union must have delegates elected from every textile from the mill elected from newly | formed mill locals and groups of | workers who have now been drawn | into the struggle against rationali- zation for the first time must elect delegates. The districts of the N.T. W.U. must see to it that this con- vention shall be a mass convention representative of the entire indus- try, able to mobilize the workers and the Trade Union Unity League | crash, the industrial depression set- | | ting in with deep growing effects The treacherous | center in the U.S. Workers direct | authority. This undoubtedly is the desire of his chief imperialist back- jer, the United States, hence Nan- king’s fictitious and sudden claim that “China is unified against Red j invasion” finds warm welcome in | American capitalist papers. The New York Times, for all its jfeaturing of Nanking’s claims and alarms on the front page, on the {seventh page gives a Mukden dis- |patch stating that “The western |front of Manchuria remained quiet, but reports of activity came from the eastern front, where airplanes dropped bombs on Mishan and | Moulin.” | Tokio dispatches indicate that | with the first counter-attack of the Red Army the Chinese soldiers went over en masse to the Soviet side, leaving only the Russian white guard and what forces that could be dominated by them and Chinese officers in demoralized retreat to- ward Harbin. In addition, Chinese workers and peasants throughout Manchuria appear to be aiding the Red Army by cutting the Chinese Eastern Railway to block retreat of | the imperialist mercenaries, circum- |stances that indicate that, if what |Chinese authority that exists in Mukden is not overthrown soon by the Chinese workers rising to es- tablish their own Soviet power in Manchuria, the Mukden “govern- ment” of Chang Hsueh-liang must {be compelled quickly to come to terms and agree to abide by the treaty it violated by seizure of the Chinese Eastern. Railway. Chinese, particularly Nanking, claims of “unity against the Reds” cai. be discounted, not because of any friendly feeling among either of the. murderous military cliques toward the Soviet Union, since they are one and all enemies of the Soviet Union. But at this moment when Chiang Kai-shek’s “government” at | Nanking is rocking with the blows of rival reactionaries, agents of rival imperialisms, these rivals | would be manifesting an adherance | to principle strange to their nature to agree to congeal matters at the status quo with Chiang Kai-shek maintaining authority and U. S. im- perilaism. Hence the “official announce- | ments” that Yen Shi-shan is “again” ‘supporting Nanking and that Feng | Yu-hsiang’s armies are back-march- | ing to Shensi, anc. that Wang Ching- wei has ordered Chang Fa-kwai to | cease fighting for Canton, is so much Kuomintang boloney, REFORMIST COOK WOULD “AVOID STRIKE.” LONDON (By Mail).—“We want to avoid a strike or lockout,” A. J. Cook, reformist leader of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, told a capitalist press agency. “We believe the government’s proposals open up a new era in the coal industry.” | COME IN COSTUME Dance Until 3 A, M. MINGLE WITH ARTISTS, WRIT ERS, TEAMSTERS, PORTS, PLUM BERS. .THE GAYEST, MADD! AFFAIR OF THR YEAR Wi ALL OF NEW YORK BOILS OVER Tickets at Workers Bookshop NEW MASSES into the growing struggles for our demands.” 112 E, 19M ST, (ALG. 4445) UMWA FLUNKIES STOOLS FOR COAL BOSSES IN W. VA Report Everettsville Militants to Co. (By a Worker Correspondent) MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (B) Mail).—I went to see a member of the National Miners’ Union in Eve ettsville, W. Va. and asked hi about working conditions in t mines there now. “There’s no such thing as working conditions in Everettsville he said. ‘I have eight children and I work now every day from nine to fourteen hours, and I am doing good if I can bring a little meat for my children three times a week. I don’t know what will become of us min. ers in northern West Virginia if something’s not done about it now. The miners are very bitter. “We must be very careful how we talk about unions in this mine Flunkies of the U. M. W. spring on us, and as soon as they find any miner joining the National Miners’ Union they report him to the mine foreman. If he doesn’t get dis- charged at once, they lay him off for 30 days for ‘dirty coal’—because if they discharge the miner here at once they must pay him off. “But if they lay him off for ‘dirty coal’ for 30 or 60 days the miner must leave anyway. If he has any money coming, he must trade it out in the coal company store and move away broke. “This is the way the coal opera- tors lay miners off—thus to dis- charge him, “The mine foreman comes to me every day asking if I know any mi ers that join the National Mine Union. He says he heard that there were miners working in Everetts- ville Mine No. 3 who belong to the N. M. U., but they don’t discharge any miner there who belongs to the United Mine Worker: “Why? Because we all know that this United Mine Workers is noth- ing but a coal company union whose leaders are controlled by the North- ern West Virginia coal operators. And the mine foreman goes around the’ mine searching the miners pockets for N. M. U. letters.” To stop these outrages now com- mitted @n the Northern West Vir- ginia miners by the mine bosses and the U. M. W. A. we miners must act as one under the leadership of the National Miners Union.—W. Va. Miner. DePriest Rejects the Equality of Negro and White; Boss Fires Both BUFFALO,, N. Y., Nov. 25.— Negro workers here are outraged by the complete sell-out talk here last night by the reactionary Negro Con- gressman, Oscar DePriest who spoke at the Jim Crow Michigan Ave. Y. M. C. A, The misleader was driven about town in a big car decoying a thousand Negro workers and petty business men to the meeting. He was introduced by the “liberal” at- torney, Clarence Maloney, N graduate of Syracuse Unive which will not permit Negro stu- dents to live with white students in the dormitories and is noted as be- ing anti-Semitic. He opened the meeting with the usual prayer service by the sky-pilot Dr. J. Edward Nash, president of the Ministers’ Council of Buffalo. Unemployment. While DePriest was telling the audience that social equality is not necessary, and that.he doesn’t de- sire it, the workers, white and Negro were alike being thrown into unem- ployment. More than 2,000 Negro workers have been turned out of the steel plants along with thousands of white workers during the past three weeks. Among these plants are Ford, Donner Steel, Bethlehem, and Lackawanna Steel. The rail- roads have reduced their forces in and the chemical plants Falls have turned thous- ands away during the past week. Thousands have been let out in Detroit and vicinity, and Hankin, the Lovestone agent here will have it demonstrated to him that the ped- dlers will not have much to sell to these starving and jobless workers. It is reported here that 4,000 Du- pont rayon mill workers are to be let out this week. Sf eStEs BALL