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A TN a oe ! Se | & } 2 , Pittsburgh, Pa, will hold a dance at I, OT ETE EL 8 Te NE TTT A. OOOO TE STE TCE TT TELE | YY —_ ATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 oo een = LN ry NR SPT TET ET TAR, Page Five Ar fa ob a “PEAGE AN GEL” STIMSON LEADS FIGHT FOR MORE WAR CRUISERS Delegation of Imperialists Meets in Washington to Plan Struggle For More Armaments at London Naval Conference WASHINGTON, Dee 12.—The American delegation to the race-for- anmaments conference to be held in London, January 21, met here to- day. They mapped out plans for their fight for bigger, better and more cruisers. Two meetings were held under the -leadership of the world-renowned “peace angel” Hen- ry L, Stim: The de! es attending the two meetings were Henry L. Stimson, ry of State, who is to be n of the delegation; Charles Francis Adams, Secretary Navy; Senator Pennsylvania, Senator Robinson of Arkansas and Dwight W. Morrow, Ambassador to Mex Ambassador Morrow was accom- panied by George Rublee, New York lawyer, who will go to the London conference as Mr. Morrow’s personal adviser, As pointed out in the Daily Work- er heretofore, the main question to come up at the London conference is that of scrapping worn-out cruis- ers and building new ones more ad- aptable to modern warfar The United States milita’ twenty-one 10,000 ton cruisers, and will not agree on less than eighteen. The British imperialists insist on fifteen new cruisers to use against Hindoo and Arab workers as well as against the Soviet Union. They like- wise insist on a cut in U. S. cruisers. The sharpest fight at the confer- ence will be between the two lead- ing capitalist powers.on the number of cruisers each will add to their navy. In cruisers of the eight-inch gun type the United States has 23 built, building and authorized, with a ton- nage of 230,000; Britain, 18, with a tnonage of 176,800; Japan, 12, with a tonnage of 108,400; France, 6, with a tonnage of 60,000, and Italy, 6, with a tonnage of 60,000, and in ad- dition 2 of the ten-inch gun type, of the} David A. Reed of! Joseph T.) contemplated. The total cruisers of the powers in numbers and tonnage are: 62 of 401,791 tons; tons and Italy, 21 of 131,041 tons. ers to rush aginst rebellious colo- nial peoples. cruisers. | ron of cruisers to Manchuria. TUUL Dance to Help Get New Headquarters A dance to aid the Trade Union Unity League get new headquarters to enable it to carry on its program of organizing American workers along the lines of the class struggle in revolutionary unions will be held Saturday, Dec. 21, at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave. Arranged by the Metropolitan Afea T.U.U.L., the event will be the first of its kind since the historic Cleveland Convention. Greetings from the striking miners of Illinois will be brought by an linois N.M.U. delegation. the bourgeoisie that bring Not only has forged the weapons death to itself; ft has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern with a tonnage of 18,585. None of ] ILLINOIS } Chicago Working Women Meet. All Chicago organizations of work- ing women and working-class house~ wives are urged to send dele; the annual conference of the Chicago Federation of Working Wormen’a Or- ganizations, to be held Sunday mor- ning, December 15, 10 a, m. at the People's Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. v Chicago I. L. D. Bazaar. The International Labor Defense annual bazaar will be held at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 West, Chicago Ave., Dec, 13—14—15. ‘There will be music dancing, excellent entertainment and prizes. All workers from the trade Unions, fraternal or other working- class ofganizations are invited to par- ticipate. For information as to ad- mittance, tickets, etc., call Interna- tional Labor Defense, 23 So, Lincoln St, Seeley 3562. Pd Chicago WIR School Concert Sunday, December 22, 3 p. m. the ‘Workers ‘International ‘Relief School | of Applied Arts will hold a grand concert at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. The Red Pioneer Orchestra of Gary, Wyzanski’s Ballet, and solos by Manys Maller, Fred | Glatzer and other artists will be| featured, e Chicago Pioneers Dance. The Young Pioneers of District § are opennig their Fourth Annual Dis- trict Convention Friday, December 27 with @ concert, dance and graduation to be held at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. Peppy program followed by a dance, * 3 Chicago T. L. Ball, | The annual masquerade ball of the | Trade Union Unity League will be eld on Saturday evening, D 8 at the Ukrainian Workers Home, 57 Chicago Ave. ¥ hi Chicago Party Membership Meet. A special mobilization membership meeting of all Party members in Chi- cago will be held Monday, December 15, 8 p. m., at the Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave. The two main points on the agenda will be the Miners’ Strike in, Southern Illinois and the Party Recruiting Drive. Every Party member must absolutely be present. PENNSYLVANIA } Russian Revolution Youth Celebra- tions in Pittsburch District. EAST PITTSBURGH—Friday eve- ning, December 13.. Workers Hall, Electric and North Aves. Musto and proletarian play by Young Pioneers, peakers, e Ss Scranton ©, P. Dance. The Scranton unit, of the Commu- nist Party of tne U.S A, is arranging an affair and dance, Saturday, Dec. 4, The dance will take place in the ‘orkmen’s Circle Hall, 508 Lacka- wanna Ave. This affair will be used © recruit new members into the ranks of the Communist Party. There will be a good jazz band, and a good pro- gram arranged. Philadelphia T, U, U. TL. Conference, The TUUL Philadelphia District Conference will be held Saturday and Sunday, December 14 and 15 with a banquet on Saturday evening at the Grand Fraternity Hall, 1626 Arch St. with Jack Johnstén and # lecture on Sunday evening at the same hall with William F, Dunn. ad Philadelphia N, 't, 1. U. Banquet. Banquet for Needle Trades Indus. trial Union Saturday evening, Dece' ber 21 at Boslover Hall, 701 Pine Seranton Recrulting Drive Dane: Tn connection with the Party Re- eruiting Drive the Scranton unit has arranged dance to help build the Party. Dance will he held Saturday, December 14 at Workmens Circle Hall, 668 Lackawerna, v Pittsburgh Workers Forum. A. Overgarrd, national secretary of the Metal ‘Trades Workers Indusirial League will sneak on “Revolutionary Industrial Unionism ys. ALF. of T. Craft Unionism” at the Pittsburgh Workers Forum, Sunday, Deo, 15, at 8 p.m. , 220 Stanwix St., Downtown, teh, ? Fast Pittsburgh Y. C. L, Dance. On Saturday, January 11, 8 pom, the Young Communist League of B. Workers Hall, Wleetric and North Ave. Admission is 35c. All sympathiz- ers are urged to attend. OHIO — Cleveland FS. U, Celebration, The Cleveland Friends of the Bo- viet Union will end its 4xive for trie. tor and truck frras ter the USS. “* + celebration at Moose Hall, Dec. december | —— 22, 22, at 2:30 p. m, A film record of the “Tand of the Soviets” flight will be shown, Pd Cleveland Press Costume Ball, New, Year's ve the annual costiime ball of the entire left wing press will be celebrated at the Public Hall of Cleveland, Tuesday, December 31, 1929. Music by fine union orchestra, solos by members of the orchestra.’ Valu- able prizes will be given for the best costume, cy Cleveland Daily Worker Ball International Costume Ball on New Year's Eve, Tuesday, December 31, 8 p, m. till midnight at Public Aud: torium, Lakeside entrance. Pris Thurtson’s Novelty Orchestra. Au: pices Daily Worker and Party Pre: Tickets on sale at Daily Worker of- fice, 2046 E, Fourth St. and Freiheit office, 13427 Kinsman Road. Youngstown Metal Workers Affair. The Youth Section of the Metal Trades Industrial League of Youngs- town has arranged a monster affair for December 14 at Workers Hall, 120 Wick Ave. The program will include boxing, chain breaking, dancing and refreshments. Also prominent speak: ers will speak on coming Youth Co! ference for December 22 and the or- ganization of the young’steel workers, All steel workers are asked to sup- port and atend this affair. [= NEWYORK STATE _| Bufallo ¥. ©. L Dance. An entertainment and dance under | the auspices of the Young Communiat League will be held Thursday eve., at 159 Grider St. Buffalo. Dec, 19, good music, refresh- Fine program, jments, Tickets at the door 50 cents, in advance 40 cents. For the benefit of the Young Communist League, the powers except Italy has cruisers of the ten-inch gun type built or United States, 33 of 300,500 tons; Britain, Japan, 33 of 206,815 tons; France, 16 of 130,707 Cruisers are a type of craft es-| pecially valuable to imperialist pow- The cruiser Wright which was sent against the Haitian | masses is a good example of the use to which the imperialists put their All the imperialist powers have a number of cruisers now in Chinese waters supporting the reactionaries. MacDonald rushed a squadron of cruisers against the revolting Arabs. And both MacDonald and Stimson intended to back up their war threat against the Soviet Union by a squad- ne | WORKERS CALENDAR | Schlessinger Meets With Bosses in Plan Representatives tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ |Union met with a bunch of garment |day in an effort to crush the grow- ing militancy of the needle workers. Garment Retailers of America, an- together in order to organize them against competition and against the workers. Benjamin Schlesinger, at the collaboration meeting. He said that the I. L. G. W. U. was coming to the conclusion that they would not strike against the manu- facturers but might strike against the retailers. The answer of the dressmakers to Schlesinger’s and the bosses in his fake strike call is intensive mobilization for an immediate struggle under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union. Shop strikes on a large scale to unionize the dress trade is the an- swer to Schlesinger’s collaboration with the bosses and the Tammany Hall politicians, SHASH ATTACK ON HAITI, USSR Mass Meets Mobilize Against Imperialism | Tonight in six great demonstra- tions the New York workers will |protest against the butchery of |thousands of workers in Haiti and China and will denounce the Ameri- jcan government, which is mobilizing | all its forces for war against the | |Soviet Union, Fatherland of the workers of the world. Meetings will be held at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 West 180th St.; Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East Fourth St. Speakers, H. Benjamin, Anna Daman, George Siskind, James Mo. Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. near 42nd St. Speakers, I. Amter, Max Bed- acht, Harriet Silverman, Joseph Boruchowitz, Alexander Trachten- berg, T. H. Li, Sam Darcy. Rose Gardens, 1347 Boston Rd., Bronx. | Speakers, Bill Dunne, T. Y. Hu, |Leon Plott, G. Green, H. Sazer. 818 Grand St. Brooklyn. Speaker; J. L, Engdahl, Rose Wortis, J. Will- iamson, Y. Y, Hsu. Hopkinson Man- sions, 428 Hopkinson Ave., Brook- lyn. Speakers, M. J. Olgin, Otto Hall, T. P. Hu, Gertrude Welsh. Bo- hemian Hall, Second and Woolsey Aves., Astoria, L. I.» Speakers, A. Markoff, Richard Moore, Tong Ping. Tomorrow afternoon at 1:15 New York workers are urged to gather at Park Row ‘and Broadway in front of the Federal Building to demon- strate against Wall Street’s oppres- sion, aided by the Washington Ex- ecutive council, of the colonial and American workers and its attacks on the Soviet Union, Dozens of organizations will par- ticipate in these demonstrations, At the Bryant Hall meeting, which takes place at 6 o'clock instead of 8, as at other demonstrations, lead- ing members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union will speak also on the organization |movement among the dressmakers land the false strike of the I. L. G. W. U. [CONNECTICUT] New Haven YCL Inter-racial Dance, The New Haven Unit No. 2 of the Young Communist League will hold its first_inter-racial dance at the Masonic Hall, 76 Webster St. on Jan. 11. All workers invited to attend, All organizations are urged to keep this date open. | MICHIGAN fj DETROIT Special Notice; Reserve the following Dates! Christmas Bye, Tuesday, Dec. 24— The Daily Worker affair at 1243 E. Ferry Avenue, New Years Eve, Tuesday, Dec, 31— Communist Party’ Concert and Dance, New Workers’Home, 1343 B, Ferry Avenue, v Detrott Workers Forum, ‘To be held Sunday nights at 7-30, Workers Center, 3782 Woodward. Dec. 15.—George Powers—"The Role of the New Unions in Organizing the Unorganized.” .... sees eens oe sees Dec, 29—Jack Stachel—"Com: ism, Social Reformism and the for the Masses." un= Fight v Detroit Daily Worker Ball. Big Daily Worker concert and ball on Christmas Eve, December 24 at the New Workers’ Home, 1343 Hast Ferry. ° WASHINGTON. Dance in Senttle, An entertainment and dance will he given by the Seattle Working Wo- men's Council, December 27, st the Polish Hall. isth and Madison, for the Dally Worker benefit. Program will include Lithuanian chorus, South Slavic Cirildren's Orchestra, Pioneer Chorns, Cauensian dance and music, and Russian Piroshki, WISCONSIN "J Milwaukee “Baloon Dance” Hall, 473 National Doors open at 8 .e. Collection, ‘The Internatio: bor Milwaukee will have its to-house collection for the Ga are to and December 15 and all Spmrade report at 10 a. m. at the club rooms of the Fret Arheiter Club, Bianth and Walnut Sts. for their supplies and instructions, Milwaukee I. L. D. Di iter Gets Suy.tats ri Ww: 0 the dale v. or “uestay: ‘pecember aid le mania f fall, corner good pr pas. uegn, ocrer ‘gel a tho ir tiekets from Be of the T. L. D. at 302 Room 2 Aid Haiti Revolt, ANLC Urges in Call to Tonight’s Meets In spite of the lying reports in the capitalist press which say that everything is quiet in Haiti, news leaks through the rigid censorship informing us to the contrary. In to- day’s “Times,” we learn that 15 Haitian workers were arrested for violating the “curfew law,” a law compelling all Haitians to be off the streets by nine o'clock in the eve- ning. This law does not apply to the imperialist lords of the island. The struggle against. American imperialism conducted by the Amer- ican Negro Lebor Congress, is meet- ing with great response from the black and white American workers. The white workers have gone on record in expressing their solidarity with the revolutionary struggle of the Haitian workers. Tonight’s meeting promises to be one of the largest mass protest meetings ever held in Harlem. All workers and sympathizers with the cause should make it their duty to be early to secure seats, This meeting will begin promptly at 8 o'clock at St. Luke’s Hall, 125 W. 130th St., New York City. Labor Athletes Called to Haiti Demonstration. The Eastern District of the Labor Sports Union of America calls upon all L.S.U. members and workers ¢|sportsmen to actively participate in the mass demonstration to smash the attacks of U. S. imperialism on Haiti and the U.S,S.R. The demonstration is to take pla: Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1.15 p. m, at the Federal building, Park Row and Broadway. Every member of the Labor Sports Union must be present and actively participate. Eastern District, Labor Sports Union of America, iny hola machinery, and wield it for fts own purpone..,,Thin news Commune (Parle june) breake the modern state Fee MOR, Eon: wane to Fight Workers, of the Interna- | |bosses and Governor Roosevelt to- | Franklin Simon, president of the | nounced he will call the retailers | president | of the I. L, G. W. U., was present | meeting 1 *|trade unions, fraternal and mass jcity on Sunday, December 22, in the MOBILIZE FOR, DEFENSE OF USSR. AT CONFERENCES Michigan Workers to Fight War Plans DETROIT, Dec. 13.—The District Bureau of the Communist Party of | the Michigan District (No. 9) at its | Thursday, December 5, laid down a program of activity for | the mobilization of the workers inj the state of Michigan in defense of | the Soviet Union, | The Bureau considered the seri- ousness of the situation as devel- oped recently as shown by the re- newed open attack of United States imperialism against the Soviet Union in connection with the Rus- sian-Chinese situation. The Bureau also had before it the copies of the local press here, that in the last few weeks has been print~- ing the most provocative articles, editorials and cartoons against the Soviet Union. One of the papers here, openly called for war on the Soviet Union, stating that “these semi-barbaric” people must be talked to in a different language than the United States has spoken thus far. capitalist press here is so provoca- tive against the Soviet Union. They saw the readiness of the workers here to defend the Soviet Union; the broad sympathy for the Soviet Union as expressed by over 15,000 workers that gathered to greet the Soviet Flyers, and the thousands of others who could not gain admission to the halls. They also know that side by side with the growing radi- calization of the workers in Detroit, as a result of the intensification of rationalization, wage cuts and un- employment, there is a growing sympathy for and understanding of the Soviet Union where the workers have made the greatest gains in the last year in building socialism. | | The program of activity as lai down by the District Bureau in- cludes the following: 1. A Party Conference—Consist- ing of representatives of all factory and street nuclei, section executives, fractions in trade unions, fraternal organizations, co-operatives, auxili- | aries, etc., including all members of | the district executive committee. | This conference will be held Satur- day, December 14, at 2 1967 Grand River. 2. The organization of five mass meetings in the various parts of the | p. m., at | afternoon with the main issue the defense of the Soviet Union. 8. The sending of speakers to all organizations to discuss the defense of the Soviet Union, 4. The sending out of a resolu-| tion to all trade unions and mass organizations, condemning the at- | tack of United States imperialism | and pledging the defense of the So- viet Union. 5, The printing of a special leaf- let exposing the role of United States imperialism and the attack of the local press. 6. Discussion in the’ party units of the present situation and the at- | tack on the Soviet Union. | 7. The building up of the Friends | of Soviet Union into a real mass | organization. To instruct the party | fraction in the Friends of Soviet | Union to give all assistance in the building of this organization. 8, To organize anti-war commit- | tees in the factories, and working | towards an anti-war conference in | the near future. | 9. To utilize the campaign in de- fense of the Soviet Union for the organization of auto workers, the | building of the T. U. U. L,, the or- | ganization of the council of unem- | ployment and for the recruiting of new members into the party. 10. That the entire campaign for | this period be linked up with the | preparation for the Lenin memorial | to be held January 19, which must | be converted into one of the largest | demonstrations in the history of | Detroit fo rthe defense of the Soviet Union, The District Bureau is aware of the danger of an immediate attack against the Soviet Union. The Dis- | trict Bureau feels confident that the Detroit workers in large masses will stand ready in defense of the Soviet Union in the event that the Ameri- can imperialist government dares attack the Soviet Union, the father- land of the workers of the world. Build the United Front of the Working Class From the Bottom Up—in the Industries! Gastonia Verdict Hit from ClassWar Front of Australian Toilers The New South Wales Labor Council, representing 130,000 work- ers, ha& cabled a protest on the Gastonia case to Governor 0. Max Gardner, of North Carolina, a let- ter received today from Sydney, Australia, by the International La- bor Defense announced, Inclosed in the letter was a pro- test list signed by. many workers. The letter, from the International Class War Prisoners’ Aid of Aus- tralia, declared that the Gastonia case revived much publicity in the working class and capitalist press of Australia. The letter declares also that due to the big class conflicts in Australia, over $1,000,000 was spent in conducting the recent tim- ber strike and the defense of vic- {tims of police frame-up. jpowerful coal |many a struggle between wor! Win Fight for Hail in Pittsburgh for Defense Convention Refusing to take “no” for an an- swer, the International Labor De- fense finally pushed through to vic- tory in the struggle to secure the North Side Carnegie Music Hall for a mass meeting Saturday night, December 28, opening the fourth national convention, lasting three days. The battle for the hall was waged against Pittsburgh’s most and steel reaction- aries. | Carnegie Music Hall, scene of and agents of Andy Mellon for years, was at first denied the I. L. D. as a meeting place. Included among the speakers will be Yetta Stromberg, . 19-year-old Los Angeles militant, sentenced to a term of one to ten years for vio- lating the “red flag law”; Fred E. Beal, leader of the Southern textile strike, whose sentence to 20 years in prison is being fought by the I, L. D.; Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, beloved battler for labor for many years; Charlie Guynn, a miner, sen- tenced to five years for criminal syndicalism in Ohio yesterday; K. Y. |“Red” Hendryx, |Frank, Negro worker and member of the Labor Jury at the Gastonia trial; Henry Corbishley, militant Illinois miner, who served several It is no accident that the local /years in prison as a result of the| | Ziegler frame-up; Louis Nyman, |president of the Needle Trade Work- jers’ Industrial Union; J. Louis Eng- |dahl, national secretary of the In- \ternational Labor Defense; Pat Toohey, secretary of the National Miners’ Union, and others. District conferences, drawing many ‘delegates from hitherto un- reached sections of the working class continue to be held throughout the country, leading to the national con- vention, The successful conference held last Sunday at Charlotte, and at Chicago, will be followed this Sunday by Cleveland, New York and San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, Detroit and other | large centers have already held their sessions and elected delegates. In addition to these, conferences have been held and are continuing on behalf of Accorsi by the Italian and other foreign-born ‘workers. The New York conference last Sun- | |day will be followed up throughout | Pennsylvania and other sections of | the land. A mass meeting for Accorsi will be held in New York at Central Opera House, December 19, it was announced today. Workers! This Is Your Paper. Write for It. Distribute It Among Your Fellow Workers! SUBWAY DIGGERS UNION IN GAINS Negroes Join It; Meet Sunday to Push Fight The marked success of the subway construction workers’ fight against A. F. of L.. officials who are openly allied with contractors and city gov- ernment to tie the men to the job instead of fighting against scab wages will be expressed at a mass meeting of the diggers at Stuyves- ant Casino, 142 Second Ave., Sun- day afternoon. The meeting is called by the Sub- way and Construction Workers’ In- dustrial Union, a fighting organiza- tion. It was formed by members of Local 63 of the International Tun- nel, Compressed Air and Subway Workers when they split away from the corrupt A. F. of L. local in pro- test against its continued sabotage of the rank and file strike activities. “Sentiment is growing in favor of the new union, pledged to a program of class struggle instead of class collaboration,” Marcel Scherer, or- ganizer, said yesterday. “In our campaign we have exposed the A. F. of L. officials as agents of the contractors. Our series of mass meetings as pavt of the organ- ization drive will aim especially at organizing men on Long Island and Brooklyn jobs. “Negro workers are showing a particularly lively interest in our campaign work,” Scherer added, “and they are demonstrating their eagerness to wage a united fight with their white fellow workers in their service on leading committees, Our headquarters are continually visited by Negro and white workers anxious to join up and get behind the fight. Four Negro workers will be dele- gates at the Metropolitan Area Trade Union Unity League Confer- ence Dee, 24. The union’s demands include rec- ognition, control of the job condi- tions through councils including representatives of all workers on the job, and these wage scales: Laborers and muckers, $7.50 a day; timbermen helpers, $8; blast- ers’ helpers, $9.50; carpenters, $13} blasters, $15. The men are also fighting for abolition of Sunday work, compul- sory insurance paid by the city against accidents and sickness and an unemployment fund controlled by the workers. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. Write About Your for The Daily Worker. Worker Correspondent, Conditions Booogie a | WORKERS’ WAGES BY GRUDE TRICKS Organize, Exploitec Toilers Write (By a Worker Correspondent) In the November issue of the} “Bellas Hess Worker,” a shop paper sued by the workers of the Na- | tional Bellas Hess Company, a work- er depicted how the workers are being cheated out of their first day | jor half day’s pay. The bosses do this through a con- | fusing system of paying off Friday | | with the week ending on Wednes-! day. I don’t believe one of us knows | ‘exactly when the week begins—| | whether on Wednesday, Wednesday afternoon (as the time cards are | being collected on Wednesday after- }noon) or Thursday morning. I did | not know when the week begins until I read the article on this in |the “Bellas Hess Worker.” On the ; x, sentenced to seven | first day of employment the fore-| the jyears in the Gastonia trial; Charles | women are not instructed to explain | y | when the week begins—(or I should |say are instructed not to explain), |they hand over a temporary time | |card and tell us to punch it the next | morning, and they are supposed to| Okay it for the first day—but some- | how the cards are not being Okayed, and since we do not know exactly when the week begins, especially so when we are new, we never know whether we get full pay for the first | week or not. The worker who wrote the article | | in the “Bellas Hess Worker” relates | that he began working on Monday and on the following Friday got paid for only two days. When he! inquired about it the fore-woman explained that “they probably do} not pay for Wednesday,” and that | Wednesday, she supposes, goes on| the next week. After working there for three months he discovered that | the week begins on Thursday morn- | ing. This particularly helps the bosses as in the busy season they employ many girls, and when the rush is off all extra help is fired. Saving a day’s wages on several] thousand girls a year is not a bad income at all for the bosses. This is just another instance} where the bosses are taking advan- tage of the workers because we are not organized. The bosses of the| National Bellas Hess Company meet every week to discuss how to im- prove their business and make more money—the Board of Directors meets every month to discuss how to exploit the workers more, how to make more profits. But the workers of the National Bellas Hess, Com- pany do not meet to discuss their problems and for this reason do not | know how to -run their business. | Fellow workers! Learn from the} bosses. They are organized and for that reason are strong. Only by organization will we workers be able to fight against the treacherous schemes of the bosses. Organization is strength! Workers of the National Bellas Hess Company! The next number of the “Bellas Hess Worker” is now being prepared. Rush your articles to the “Bellas Hess Workers,” 26-28 Union Square, Room 202, in time for the next issue. 70 AT CHARLOTTE: LL.D. CONFERENCE | Cheer Negro Delegate; Important Decisions CHARLOTTE, N. C., Dec. 13.— Seventy delegates, Negro and white, from workers’ organizations and branches of the International Labor Defense in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee met in the Southern Conference of the I, L. D, here. A great ovation was given a Ne- gro delegate from Georgia. The conference elected a delega to the national convention of the I, L. D., which meets in Pittsburgh, December 29-31. It elected a South- ern district executive committee of 23, passed resolutions denouncing the murder of workers in Haiti, de- nouncing the Gastonia terror cam- paign and boss class verdict in the Gastonia case, voted to support the defense in the Accorsi case, sent greetings to the Illinois miners and the Leaksville strikers, demanded the release of Mooney and Billings, Centralia boss, Porter, and other class war prisoners in America, and passed a resolution demanding full social and political equality for Ne- gro workers. Write About Your Conditions for The Daily Worker. Become a Worker Correspondent. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Her- bert C. Lakin, president of the Cuba Co., which has $170,000,000 in- vested in Cuba, and is connected with the National City Bank of New York, today testified that he tried to enlist Latin-American govern- ments to bring pressure to bear on Washington in favor of the sugar trusts, Lakin said, Hoover told Shattuck, who got $50,000 from the Cuba Co. to enlist Hoover's aid, that Hoover was very favorable to the sugar barons. Shattuck got a lot of encouragements from Hoover in a conversation with the president in Miami. Fight Provocations on U.S.S.R. at Meet; Chinese, Russian Talk SHOE WORKERS PLAN WIDE DRIVE perialist_ government’s intervention| Defeat State Aim to in the Manchurian situation. The i ee meeting is called by the Friends of | Crush “Union the Soviet Union | Other spe; will be Robert] “Organize the unorganized” is W. Dunn, of the Labor Research|the aim of the drive planned by the ssociation; Roger Baldwin, of the | Independent Shoe Workers’ Union American Civil Liberties Union, | of Greater New York and announced and Henry Hunt, ex-mayor of Cin-}at a mobilization meeting called by cinnati, chairman. |the General Strike Committee at A feature of the meeting will be | union headquarters last night. the film, “The Flight of the Land| Giving the main committee re- James Mo, a Chinese worker, and K. Radzie, a Russian worker, will be among speakers at a mass meet- ing Tuesday night, at 8 o’clock, at of the Soviets.” Macahdo, Killer of Mella, Works With U. S. Sugar Barons WASHINGTON, Dec, 13.—Bloody Machado, the puppet governor of Cuba who has tered hundreds of workers, was proved to be closely connected with the Cuba Co., and ational C: Bank of New ‘ork, in their sugar tariff lobby. The Cuba Co. has $170,000,000 in- vested in Cuba and is the real gov- ernment. Machado has acted as the hangman of the militant workers in behalf of his imperialist friends. The sugar barons lobby for lower tariff rates reaches from Hoover, through his personal attorney Shat- tuck, who got a $50,000 present for his work, to Governor Machado. Every department of Machado's government has been enlisted in the service of the sugar robbers. More startling revelations were il- licited from Herbert C. Lakin, presi- dent of the Cuba Co., in his testi- many before the senate investigat- ing committee. Lakin testified that the Cuba Co. got Hoover's approval in their tariff lobbying. Machado was kept in close touch with the activ ies of the} |port, Fred G. Biedenkapp, union |general manager, told how wide- ;spread protest against the state to smash the union because of communist leadership” forced ntatives of the state Labor Department to deny all knowledge of the union-breaking letter sent by Conciliator Charles W. Wood to em- ployers having agreements with the “Independent.” | However, while official disclaim- ers are made, bosses are attempting to act on the government instruc- tions, se shops the main activi- ties and will develop its mass tie-up through progress made in these fights. | A membership meeting of the Ridgewood section will be held to- morrow at headquarters of the Mackay strikers at 28 Porter Ave. corner Grattan St., Brooklyn, at 2 p.m. Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. PHILADELPHIA Patronize the Di Worker Adverti! Buy all your sup and other re SLUTZKY’S sugar trusts and their lobby. He| was informed of Shattuck’s working with Hoover. Delicatessen Store BOURTH 4ND PORTER BETS PHILADELPHIA The work we make 1s good, Or- Sanizations’ work—our specialty. Spruce Printing Co. 152 N, SEVENTH ST.. PHILA.. PA. 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