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> 5,000,000 Workers Jobless. Bosses Cutting Wages. Bill Green Sa Rely on the F “New Sense of Responsibility” of the Bosses. We say: Organize the Un- \4 / NATIONAL EDITION " ae eee ar = Css employed! Build the Revolution- oe < ary Unions! Fight Wage Cuts < 7 eo Se and—Bill Green! } { ft ° Beat Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥. under the act of March 3, 1879. 4 % oe = = = eee — — = ———— = : = = ——— ee === ay eee EAE oF Poblishee dai! es Sunday by T! v ‘odaily Publi y TES: in 88.00 year. seb ‘ | Vee te. ©, + 257 Company. tec. 26-28 Palo Square, New York Okt, N. Ya NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1930 Ne Tere tak: Gouin teeree: ae Pricé 3 Cents ¥, — ——— oe a = = % ave aes — qi ° 3 . e e x bi | | Driv 3 | | 5 Md | Driv *s. Imperialists Out SECOND CLASS Bosses Admit |NDIAN MEETING Today Js 10th MORE ILLINOIS . hi ° ° ’ pe ae 5 of Philippines! POWERS ANGLE Sharp Crisis. CARRIES GHANDI Anniversary f i { . | ° “You, who have tears . . .” / ‘ | Co | § ‘4 STRIKE » : igererare te shee Hee with the New York Times over the question FOR COLONIES ming Year FAKE PROPOSAL of ‘Red Raids 0: ilippine independence. ar ; The “question,” of course, is not difficult to resolve. The United | |, American capitalist economy ‘en- t | Ten years ago, on Jan. 2, 1920,| N M U ere cooly soteelty took the Philippines thirty years ago, and spent | ters ey limping very badly on the| ‘ over 2,500 workers were arrested in e o Ve Beery att ious Fics ae ee La eye lerutches of Hoover's “grand fascist | « ; : the “Red raids” in 33 cities and ; conned of U. 8. Yeupernity” that even vow 0 ivine mee (Spain and Italy Make oni.” It is usual at the end ot Liberty Without Fight towns, under the div ston of At nie fenauest”? for Hdepeniience by an apologetic statement of “erati. andectar lthe year, for the bosses to look * anit orney General A. Mitchell Palmer, !q.. 17s 2 a d tude forall the benefits” American rule ia'allehed to have Rca Demene ee back upon their profits wrung from 7 Eutile “Bare Sey jin the U. 8, woverntuent’s effet « EYranklin County Miners Joining Walton fale jutside of jazz, movies, and municipal sanitation (the last of which very. he working class and to contem- easure opter destroy the Communist e¢ Up Fi ) representa a tax burden weighed with graft that Ronefite ihe American | — pppoe tne curare: hla yencan Sue 2 ate raids tok place at nigh [Mo eh Carer eee | mdholders), any tangible “benefits” are hard to find in the lives of <] A ° e frosting of optimism which | qe ers were taken out of bed, hurried % 5 é the great mass of Philippine people. To the sons of the native bourg. |O* 5+ Wants All Samoan. capitalist newspapers decorate (SIKHS Not Yet Won to jait, where they were subjected |LJ.M.W.A, Company Union Trying to Gather |” party eoisie, it is true, the American government gives the wonderful oppor- tunity of using the latest hair-pil, studying law i loyal lackey of the Governor General in Island pol » underling for a Yankee plantation own tion of lackeys and the market price is ‘way down. | training to be a , or a technical But there is an over-produc- Would Kindly Relieve Britain of Colony show that fas- Madrid dispatch the growing crisis, the fundamental | facts are clear and undeniable. | The best that some of the capital- list economists hope is that the pre- jsent deep-going crash in capitalist | economy ¢o the most brutal tortures. Ma were held incommunicado for da and even weeks, and any friends ISe bs; Fi Ghandite Misinterprets Communist Views so at the risk of being imprisoned \Shoulder to Shoulder! Indian dispatches state that the , themselves who made inquiries about them did| Negro, White Workers, | hting Spirit Grows Against Fascists rhs, WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Jan. 1 —With nearly a thousand more min ers walking out on strike, the battle As for the masses. Manila is second only to Calcutta in deaths | a0" © : will continue not longer from tuberculosis and beri-beri, a malnutrition disegse, takes fearful | °i8t Spain is speaking up on the re-ithan the severest declines suffered |bourgeois National Congress has) The first wholesale raids took! of the coal miners is spreading and toll. The masses are in ever deeper misery. The peasantry are being | S0uPing of fighting forees pre- by capitalism in the United States|carried the principal resolution “for | place on Nov 7, 1919, in 11 cities. the fight between the workers and : | paratory to the coming war. Al-lin its entire history. complete independence” with only six |In December of that year the ship official U. M. W. A. fascist gun- robbed of great areas of land. dares to strike. Filipinos, the international cons ence at this time (always it will now—Ed. Daily Worker) can only be viewed with profound ap- Labor is paid starvation wages for long hours and “brutally beaten down b: But all this the New Yor With the armed forces of America sitting on the Filipinos’ nei Times says that if they were independent they would be “defenseless.” How so more than at present? The Times tells us: “Without discussing the effects of the internal affairs of the police or constabulary if it Times blithely waves aside. the equences of Philippine independ- be fine some other time, but not though it is not asking to join the “five-power” naval conference (which seems to have shrunk to a “four-power” conference with the French refusal to allow this confer- ence to fix any limit on French naval strength), Spain takes up the alternate proposal brought forth by France for a “Mediterranean Con- ference.” The New York Times points out that the various crises of capitalism from 1893 to 1920 lasted for about a year or more on the average. Re- ferring to the 1914 crisis the N. Y. Times gleefully points out that this |severe crisis was overcome by the onrush of the world war. “After August 1, 1914,” says the votes against in the open congr While the resolution is “for” in-|with 249 deportees. The thr dependence, the methods adopted are |jmprisonment and torture for citi- inherently futile to attain the end:!zens and deportation for foreign The methods are for “non-violent” |born workers was used by the goy- methods and the “completeness” of |ernment in an effort to crush the irdependence to be “gradually at-|Communist Party. The steel strike tained. |had taken place in 1919, and the By a vote of 897 to 816, the con- | growing militancy of the workers at | “Buford” sailed for Soviet Rus men intensifies. At the Stiritz mine of the Cos- grove company, three hundred and fifty men, and at the Taylor No. 5 imine in Franklin county, five hun- dred men, are now out on strike against wage reductions and for the femands of the National Miners Union. prehension. ... The Javanese would feel they and other Malay ech eR ie -|Times, “something like a paralysis|®"¢S* {ter @ reported bitter debate, |that time was shown in strikes thru- | | About a thousand militant min- peoples shuld be freed from European control. ‘In,India, like. | 4, /T*uce’s idee im this is to Teeter trade cozsinned for eight montis; /Recrs, Chanal a Bet tepolution com Jout the country. The Russian Reve. | ers in Taylorville, the center of hot- wise, Philippine independence would be seized by local Eastern | iog sod the Nose Kast just as it|but in April, 1915, the European |S™atwlating the | British Viceroy, jjution was an ineradicable night-| a) |test struggle, and) some four hun- agitators as a new reason for att ti tot Eng- | : ‘ rey 5 vi ‘sins A We ae oes : rape Bhd e|mare to them. The capitali | 4 rm i Zei re i isecrim- empting to throw out the Eng- | jg “with Italy wanting a. lot of|war orders instantiy changed the| crvosed bowbihe of hig tratn dred in Zeigler, are being diserim lish. the Japanese. the islands by thousands.” One can but feel a bit doubtful how many tears would be shed for Britain by American imperialism, were India to be pried loose from | British grip by other than “local services are busy right now weaving a web of Yankee influence around “ndia against England, though it is “Local Eastern agitators” of the Communist movement. But the effort of the Times to squeeze out a few tears for other | imperialists who might feel grieved if the United States retired from Especially so, as it brings up the whole the Far East is amusing. The Koreans would take fresh heart in their opposition to | The Chinese would at once begin to move into Eastern agitators.” American spy true that both join together against . things France is now sitting on. The Spanish ambassador at* Rome, Count de la Vinaza, has had long secret conversations with the Italian foreign office, and Spain’s \.an- nouncement demanding to be in- cluded on any Mediterranean con- | ference, and that Spain not be aa | subject to an agreement by Eng- land, France and Italy, sheaf!” be understood as meaning that Italy and Spain have agreed on certain situation.” | War is always a door through which imperialism looks for a solu- tion of crisis. ‘But the present crisis is far more Widespread and far more deep- going, with the perspectives much (Continued on Page Three) FIGHT MEXICAN Ghandi himself spoke for this resolution, and while students waved red flags and shouted protests, An- sari, a Ghandite, tried to answer objections to the resolution by say- ing that “Communist people do not believe in individual violence, but in mass violence,” which is correct, but neither do Communists feel called upon to congratulate oppregsors of the masses, nor assume a moralist position such as Ansari did when | seriously alarmed. | | The raids begun in No ‘| and repeated on a, large Jaa. 2, 1920, were continued through the winter and spring. About the| first of March, Andrea Salsedo, a (Continued on Page Three) | | it SMUTS, ENEMY OF A worker correspondent tells in today’s Daily of the attempts of the inated against by the operators in league with the U. M. W. A., which is mobiljzing scabs for the big Pea- body compan: At Valier, 25 miners were forced, at the point of fascist guns, to re- pudiate the National Miners Union. But the fighting spirit of the min- ers only grows under such black re- action, and these miners and all others against whom the operators’ tools of the Lewis-Fishwick fascist question by saying that: demands for colonies as against w Norfolle; Virginia bosses to. keep the |ranakines tavti-tecte 4ethan anesthe “ ilippi ivoreed from their surround- |he termed the alleged bomb an “out- ob Nr ea aores ean ae e turn th 8, e ings. Pe oe Warn vert at the Fae, Bast: ineeccetly niece too, has long demanded Yjrzze:” LL 5 i RSAC i Ge Pacatibibar sl et: hen eee evel to: adhere ‘to the connected with the march of Asiatic events So. long as ‘e ce ag yaa oe Tia ee sp Developments indicate that the iuhiien ic0nk ee a aiiotad. va ale a eee sonia ; of #80 long as * chunks of North Afriea "where cis are not vc #tligiron: aver. t9 ee white workers are ifvited. This| ‘The two graft leaders of the com- nited Stites remains on the Islands, peace and stability in that France dominates. Now its note, este the Congress, their leader Kharah|Talks Fairy Stories sows, theaction of the Trade pany unionized U. M. W. A. Fish- Be. s alry x K region of the Pacific are assured.” The fact is that, far from the United States being a factor for “peace” it is one main present incitment to war in the Far Oh, is it? handed Briand, “requests a declara- tion by the powers” on the pro- posed Mediterranean Conference and Cuban Revolutionists Face Death Singh arguing with them all day. The mass of them left in the eve- Ining, leaving a committee with Union Unity League in Norfolk in holding joint meetings for the Ne- ite workers, as a result About War Possibility: gro and w | wick and Lewis, are still quarreling {in the Sangamon County courts for jcontrol of the check-off, which ca nn 9 say be a World War. Much more truthful is the | Spain’s participation, insisting on |Khatah Singh to continue argument | General Jan Christian Smuts, gf iol the bosses are planning to |means $300,000 a month pure thiev- cue ciety wut ano vas gut bitte. | ? Pils 2 ta Ta end E with Ghandi, . While dispatches |former premier of South Africa, and |"@ilroad Stephen Graham, T.U.U.L. |ery for them, while the miners are e islands are potentially rich but are as yet but little = | Washington, meanwhile, having| — pelegate. to. the Montevideo .-\leave the questiay in the dark, the|one of the most rabid. supporters | 7@@mscr |starving. Discontent is growing, developed. .-, . They have large deposits of coal and other min- erals.” read the French note which gave the London naval conference such We do not understand why the Times was so bashful about going | a black eye, finds that sinée it was Congress. Sandalio Junco, Secretary of the colors on the national flag and such |Sikhs are demanding more than | Photo illustrates tite solidarity of Negro and white workers of the ‘outh. It shows Negro and white of British imperialism against the | Negro masses, arrived on the Beren- geria for a two weeks tour of the| land the miners are deterraned to |make an end to the check-off and to both Lewis and Fishwick. Pott ead mentioning. the possibilities of rubber, fiber and cocoa. | addressed to England and the U'S,|ceTibbean Sub-Committee of the/intangible tRings. They want land, |quria for & Se Uy Gatti aa ETE But onl and ghinerals are enough to start it in objecting to any with- | received it “as a communication,” |U@tin American Trade Union Fed- which the British, with the acquies- | United States. a picnic given by the Workers In- drawal of U. S. naval bases and military. “Where, then, would be | therefore Washington is “not re-|¢ration, has been in jail in Mexico |cence of the Congress, have denied} Smuts is trying to spread theo national Helteh dattag the: toitite the peace of the Pacific?” it asks. | quired to answer,” Which is a neat about a month, awaiting deportation |them. Pee = tatty tale about the impossibility of Has e luring , Where, indeed, we rejoin, is it today? Is it “peace” when the | way of closing one’s eyes to a biff|*, Cuba, which will mean long im- The Congress leaders are report-|war. The most peculiar part of his |‘ i | s s | prisonment and probale death. ed to have been disturbed by news | statement was that he said that Dutch massacre Javanese by the thousands and exile tens of thousands | Is it “peace” when England slaughters | in the jaw. France, on Dec. 31, to show she Junco was a leader in the bakers’ |from Madras that Sir Tej Bahadur | wars were impossible be; isto antares ee Chi. TUUL Conference ause world TARIFF GRAFTER to vile tropic prison camps? lead A . 4 4 1 ; co wo . and starves millions of Indians? Is it “peace” when Japan plunges | meant “good will” to everybody in|Uion and active in strikes of the |Sapru ee eee ee eee ee becoming greater and/Plans for Carrying its knife into the heart of countless Koreans? Is it “peace” when the | the new year, ordered the creation| Working class of Cuba. He is one of | Party Rie ahes ound eee aes eee ie Task massed of China are butchered nonchalantly by every imperialist power | of permanent naval squadrons in the|the ablest revolutionary leaders of | Congress Pe srprig eeet oun ct tumvenialiet ware. J8. elven’ (Dy Out Important Tasks) 3 . = | sey, Fy :. i ric: a a 01 ys y els s reason at there will a Tar ~ that chooses? Was it “peace” when American troops almost wiped out | West Indies, right in Uncle Sam’s|the Latin American Labor move- table’ conference aes ‘eee he | Smuts as his reason that there will | Hoover Helps Friends m Dusen, and now. holds down 12, | backyard, off the west coast of{ment.. He was a delegate to the| British “labor imperialists, nother /be no w CHICAGO, Jan, 1—An agenda of the Filipino population of Norther 000,000 Filipinos to miserable lives ended only by disease and starva- tion? Is it “peace” when every day the imperialist powers are arming Africa, in the Indian Ocean and in the Pacific. Fourth Conugress of the Red Inter- national of Labor Unions, and to the leader, Dr. Varadarajulu Naidu, has demonstratively resigned from the British imperialism 1 arms utmost importance to all workers of this district will feature the Chicago | Meanwhile, |prepares for big na in- | Earn Big Graft j | Vashi iram| Montevideo C ie oe e | Congress in protest at the “complete |-rcaces. The five-power London| District Trade Union Unity.Con-| WASHINGTON, Jen. 1. — Th ‘i i ther ii Far East? | At Washington, Senator Hiram| Montevideo Congress of the Latin |° ’ : | crease \ re-] Lon rics Trade Union y C SHINGTON, Jan. 1. — The Fgh tind Bere coins of “pease” for impe m, perhaps, but | Bingham calmly suggests that since| American’ Trade Union Federation; independence” resolution. naval meet is admittedly the battle | vention, to be held Sunday morning, sugar lobby graft investigation. sed masses of the Orient. | British New Zealand has been hav-|also to Buenos Aires Conference of ground for the struggle for more| January 12, at the Peoples Audi-|which engulfs President Hoover, not for the world proletariat nor the oppres There will be real peace only when the imperialists G the Philippines by the mass rising of workers and peasants, aided by the American revolutionary working class. i ation, the American workers must direct their efforts if they would have peace either in the Far East or in America itself. own emanci| A.F.L. AIDED BY ‘SOCIAL-FASCISTS are driven out of To this, coupled with their (ALL PROTEST ON MEXIGAN. TERROR ing some trouble oppressing the na- tives on the west end of Samoa Is- | land, that New Zealand should turn it over to the United States, who runs the east end with U. S. Mar- ines as an absolute despotism. Eng- land will doubtlessly be happy to do the same for the United States in Haiti, citing the fact that the Bri tish have no trouble with Jamaica, while American continually is shoot- ing Haitians. Scandals of Boss’ the Communist Parties of Latin America, in May and June of 1929. On his return from South Amer- ica, he was faced with one of the greatest difficulties — persecution and lack of money to carry on work. He was always eager to have closer connections between the workers of the United States and Latin Amer- ica. In a letter dated October 10th, he wrote to the writer: “I am glad that you are concerning yourself with in- |forming the workers of the United States about the results of the Mon- 10 Cent Fare Steal inEffectinN.J.; TRENTON, N Jan. 1- 10 cent fare steal by the Public Service Corp. of N. J. was success- fully put into effect beginning to- day, when Chancellor Walker re- fused to review the ruling that the court had no jurisdiction to issue a restraining order until hearings and arguments had been heard. Under the new deal between the Communists Score It The | torium, 2457.West Chicago Ave. A call urging them to be represented at the convention has gone out to all local unions affiliated to the TUUL, industrial leagues, shop commit- tees and all sympathetic A. F. of L. ndent local unions or left |naval armaments among the leading |imperialist powers. | War preparations are being speed- Jed up by every capitalist nation, with the United States leading in the money spent for this purpose. and inde} Chicago Negro and wir White Workers Mass The adoption of & program of ac- fe tion for the organization of the un- Meeting on Jan. 3rd organized, plan for work among the | CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Negro Negro workers, the establishment of a Women’s and Youths’ Depart- | white workers are to hold a mass 8 1 ment, the miners’ strike and the {meeting this Friday, Jan. 3, needle trades workers’ struggle will now vomits up General Enoch Crow- der, former ambassador to the | bloody Machado regime, as one of | the boys who was pocketing money |for his work for the sugar trust. Crowder handed the Cuba Co. U. S. War Department secrets on mili- |tary tactics in the next war. Now lhe is exposed as being on the sugar lobby payroll. This was revealed in a letter to Lakin, president of the Cuba Co., whieh said: “I have before me your letter of | the 5th inst., in reference to the ser- |vices of General Crowder in Wash- ie EN Sports Exposed in Suit) tevideo Congress.” He called atten- | th veen the |, 'm., at Conway, Hall, Western and | he taken up. » Hipgton” ag ihe), adtiiabaieg GS eine Thomas, Horthy, Mass Demonstration! tion to the need of carrying on ac- |t#te, officials and the Public Serv: Take St., under the auspices of See-/ The hasis of representation will | tending his retainer up to November on Saturday Some of the graft behind the|tivity among the Mexican workers | [0tDs there Wee ee oe ot | tions 4 and 5 of the Communist) | or December of this year. ae eee ee eee fee S : | “Yes, it was me that spoke to you Q. K. MacDonald Dr, Harry W. Laidler, and Rev. Norman Thomas, social fascist lead- ers of the League for Industrial The District Executive Committee | of District Two, Communist Party of U. S. A., is calling a mass pro- scenes of capitalist sports are being made public as a result of Francis X. MeQuade’sgsuit to compel the National Exhibition Company, own- who are in the U. S. He pointed out that despite diffi- culties, the Mexican Trade Union | Confederation is developing, is grow- street car tokens at 10 for 50 cents. * * The Communist Party, local, in a statement it has issued * Paterson Party and the Young Communist | League, in a demonstration of soli- jdarity for the Haitian workers Negro and white speakers will ad- dress the worker All groups of less than ten mem- bers, one delegat ten to twenty members, two delegates; twenty-five to fifty members, three delegates; jabout the arrangement which <er- tain mills have with the General, and I agree with you in all you say regarding his usefulness in Wash- test demonstration on Saturday, |er of the “New York Giants,” to fe-|ing and meeting with response from Pitty * ts Democracy, an appendage of that | jan 4, at 3 p. m. at 110th and 5th | instate him as treasurer. Financial|the militaht Mexican workers. He |Chavacterizes the New Jersey fare — | fifty to one hundred members, four | ington in connection with the tariff. third capitalist party, temporarily |'4¥¢, intrigues on each'side are exposed|asked especially that we inform|Steal as another attack by capital: /payi, UNION FAKERS DINE|{: “6% 03) one vt eae ae bere: twol, Since I received your letter I L. I. D. declared it would campaign of the A. F. the South—this campaign the workers which the support of the southern mill snow backed by the social- MacDonald’s imperialist govern- "ment was given hearty’ endorse- ment. The policy of the “labor” is called a victory for the so- cial fascists. The support of the MacDonald government by the League for Industrial Democracy followa in the footsteps of white dit and murderer of the Hun- garian workers, Admiral Horthy. When it comes to praising Mac- Donald and his fellow betrayers of the “labor party,” Horthy, Laidler, Thomas, Hillquit & Co. shake hands. Says Horthy of the Mac- Donald Government (quoted by R. P. Dutt, Labor Monthly, Dec., 1929): , “If frdm the ranks of our work- £ \ se leaders of the English This demonstration is _ éalled | against the bloody terror ruling in Mexico. Scores, of Mexican revolu- tionists, inecludin, Communists and! leaders of the revolutionary trade unions, have been thrown into prison, The reactionary Calles-Gil- Rubio government, acting as a tool of American imperialism, is at- tempting to destroy the working class movement. While the reactionary president- elect, Rubio, is being received by the fascist president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, his puppet government of Mexico is torturing the best fighters of the Mexican working class. ‘Campaign of Terror in Mexico Grows; More to the other. Judge Landis, official baseball dictator, is involved. Professional sports are manipu- lated by cliques and stock in the controlling companies is sold at high prices. The capitalist sports are being promoted to keep the workers’ attention away from the class struggle. The workers must build up their own labor sports organizations to fight agaizst the corrupt capitalist spcrts. Send Greetings to the Workers in the Soviet Union Through the Special Printing of The Daily Worker in the Russian Language! ' Laws | MEXICO CITY, Jan, 1—The| |campaign of reaction is intensifying. | the penal code is directed against | and the Confederacion Syndicalista Unitaire Mexicana. in, which the Wall Street tool, Ortiz them about the Gastonia case, since they wish to carry on extensive agi- tation among the organizations of Mexico and the Caribbean countries of this case. Junco is'an internationalist, recog- nizing the need of suporting the struggles in this country. We, as workers in the imperialist country, must at least do what the revolution- ary workers of Latin America have done for Gastonia. We must carry on a nation-wide campaign against the white terror in Mexico; against the suppression of the Communist Party; against the murder of Com munist and Trade Union revolution- lary workers; against the deportation jot revolutionary workers to Cuba, ‘and Italy, which .means_ sending them to their death; against Amer- ican imperialism, which is demand- ing the heads of the revolutionary workers in Mexico, to prevent re- sistance to the domination of Amer- ican Imperialism over Mexico, A nation-wide campaign of mass meetings to save Junco from death at the hands of Machado! half of the working class prisoners ism on the working class. It points out that the capitalists are not satis- fied with the ‘uts, but are at the same time in- reasing the cost of living. It points out also that the A. F. of 1., which recently betrayed the traction workers who favored a strike for better conditions, now endorses the fare grab by the com- pany. “The A. F. of L. definitely skows itself a tool of capitalism in endorsing the fare raise,” the statement reads. e is TUUL BRANCH IN DENVER. DENVER, Colo., Jan. 1—Denver workers have orgenized a branch of the Trade Union Unity League. The chairman, William Snider, and L. W. Lang, secretary, are both window cleaners working at their trade. Meetings will be held every second and fourth Friday evenings of the month at I, L. D. Headquarters, 1645 Lawrence St. N. €. BOSSES WANT VICIOUS ANTI-LABOR LAW. —+——_—_4. speed-up and wage SHOPPER. | BAL TIMOR Mae es Mail) — | delegates for all unaffiliated bodies. j Arrangements are being made un-} der the auspices of the misleaders Railroad Labor BEDACHT LECTURE of the Standard IN PATERSON, Unions for a testimonial dinner for| PATERSON, N. J., Jan. 1.—Pat- the notorious open shopper and | erson workers will hear Max Be- jmore and Qhio | dacht, member of the Secretariat of Willard, with | the Communist Party of the U. S. |A. lecture on “The Fight of the 3 is the date set. |Communist Party on Reformists Ge cael Set “and Opportunists in the Labor LAW NOT FOR BOSSES. | Movement,” Friday, Jan. 3, at 8 DENVER, Colo. (By Mail).— |p. m., at Union Hall, 205 Pater- Contractors are ignoring a wage |son St. award of $5 a day to building and | common laborers handed down last June by the State Industrial Com- re" fon. World Crisis of Capitalism to _ Sharpen in I 930, Facts Show | { company union Balt R. R. head, Daniel whom the rail union misleaders co- Build Up the United Front of | the Working Class From the Bot- ' tom Up—at the Enterprises! World capitalism is faced with a| den the capitalist heart. But on top of | severe crisis for 1930, It is very in-| this the very same issue of the Times have been endeavoring to see Presi- dent Machado (for it was through his good offices that this arrange ment was made), so as to put your suggestion before him; but owing to |his absence from Havana to rest jfrom the festivities of May 20, and |having been very busy since his re- jturn with political conferences, it j has been utterly impossible for me |to see him, and I am afraid I shall not be able to approach him at all for the next week or ten days, as } jam leaving for Camaguey tonight and will not be back in Havana until the latter part of the coming week. |municate with you, giving you the outeome of © y interview with him.” Chi. Needle Trade Industrial Union | Mass Meeting Jan. 9 CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—Plans for the extension of the fight by the mili- tant needle workers on the right wing and the bosses thugs and wage ing class there could arise a Hun-|This is shown by the mass arrests| Article 33 of the Constitution is ion-wid i GASTONIA, N. ©, (By Mail).— ‘ i ue of ‘euts will be taken up at a mass pees ee ii se Mavlersonl ox ot meribers.of the CentrgiOammit- toate’ Modified in Wider to. cake i ylides . reep tay) he oele Pollowithithe railsiading of three ening to note how the capitalist | destroys the whole illusion by the meeting of the Needle Trades Work- a Snowden,’men of culture, knowl-|tee of the Communist Party, and /deportations of militant workers | workers and peasants against Amer-|Qhio Communist workers to long ied a ies to gloss over the facts of | announcement of “Further reaction ors Industrial Union of Chicago, on edge, wise outlook and stable char-|Young Communist League, as well jeasier. A number of Cuban revolu- | ican imperialism! prison terms under a criminal syn-|SM&tP declines. , is foreseen; European markets con-| Thursday, Jan. 9, at 8 p. m. at avter, men at one with the nation|as by the wholesale threatened de- |tionists have already been deported| A nation-wide campaign in. sup-| ‘icalist law, the mill bosses’ papers, The New York Times prints theso| sider events as marking the termi-| Mirror Hall, 1136140 North Western _ vin all our national interests and na-|portations against Cuban and other |to the jails of bloody Machado. |port of tho growing Cobseiunteé the Gastonia Gazette and Charlotte | S!0Wing headlines about the econo-| nation of trade boom. ‘Ave. All needle trades workers and tional sorrows, men filled with pa-|vevolutionary trade union leaders. | president of Cuba. Patties of LetitAsnerica! Observer, have set up a how! for nla. Saab: of European countries: | Cable dispatches from France,| class conscious workers from all in- trio\iec sentiment and determination,| The fascist labor laws, as well as| At the close of the fake election; A nation-wide campaign on be. |SUCh & law too. ss 1929 a happy year for United King-| which heretofore has been considered | dustries are urged to attend, The dom; France faces year with bright} as the most favored of capitalist! {dustrial Union is at present lead- class, then one need haxe ‘the working class, and especially its | Rubio, was put in the presidential alms in letting such men take advance ruard, the Communist Par-|chair, a reign of white terror was ity, the Young Communist League | in the government.” (Continued on Page Three) in Latin America! Let us show that we understand our duty as revolutionary workers, to the struggles of the colonial peo- ples, especially those under the heei of Amevican Imperialism. + | hopes; Reich faces 1939 with few) countries in the present world crisis | courage, and Italy faces 1930 in new| say: “Still, though the general eco- j confidence.” | nomic situation, especially in France, Certainly this is a picture to glad- (Continued on Page Three) ing a strike against 30 millinery manufacturers who locked out the qrorkers who refused to sigu a yel- low dog agreement, .

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