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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
P president
PARDONS BIG
BOOTLEGGER
Criminal Never Served
Day In jail

WASHINGTON, April 2o.-
President Coolidge pardoned a
Chicago saIoonkeeper charged
with violating the VoIstead act
after the late President Harding
had twice denied cIemency in
the case, James A. Finch, par
don attorney in the department
of justice, today told the Senate
Daugherty investigating COM
mittee.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Lands. now car of organized
baseball, who sentenced Philip
Grossman, the saloonkeeper, to
a year in Jail, was Immediately
subpoenaed by the committee.
Harding Denied Plea.
Altho Grossman lost his appeal to
the higher court, Finch said. the sa-
loonkeeper never served a day in jail
Two attempts were made to get a
pardon for Grossman. Finch said. The
late President Harding. in July, 1928,
wrote on the papers in the case that
no consideration could be given the
case until after part of the sentence
was served. he declared.
Later. Finch said. Attorney General
Edward J. Brundage of Illinois wrote
to Attorney General Daugherty on
Cheeseman's behalf. stating that the
complaining witness in the case had
been discredited and Grossman should
not serve his sentence.
A letter was also written for Gross
man by C. w. Middlekauff. special as.
sistant to the attorney general, Finch
said.
rs Middlekauff the man who was
protecting the brewers and bootleg
gers in ChicagoT asked Wheeler.
II do not know about that" replied
Finch.
Finch produced a petition for Gross
mans pardon signed by Fred Upham.
treasurer of the Republican national
committee. and Homer Galpin. chair
man of the Cook county Republican
organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
Sunny California"
Gloomy-Business
Hurt BY Quarantine

LOS ANGELES, Gail, April 29-
According to the latest Dun report,
California Banks are showing a
slight tendency toward contraction. Z"
Real estate has fallen off tremendous
ly, building is on the downgrade and
retail trade is punk" The long ex-
pected hard times" have set in.
Thousands are out Of work and the
Chamber of Commerce is so worried
that they are trying to smuggle work.
ers to other states on the plea that
there is work elsewhere. The "hoof
and mouth" disease is helping to
throw the 'hibbie jibbies' into the
business men Of this golden state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
MANY PROBLEMS
UP TO CONGRESS
OF COM|NTERN
The Main Questions For
Discussion Announced
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

ASPeciat 10 Inc lazy Workcrl
MOSCOW, April 29.-The questions
to come before the Fifth World Con-
gress Of the Communist International
have now been agreed on. They have
been announced as follows:
1. Lenin and the Comintern.
2. The general economic question.
3. The report Of the activities and
tactics Of the Comintern.
4. World Program.
s. Tactics in Trade Unions.
6. The National Question-(the
position of the Communist Party on
the National problem, the revoluti-
onary movement in the Orient, and
the Negro problem in the colonies.)
Z. immigration.
s. Fascism.
9. The question regarding the in
tellectuals.
10. The Farmers.
III. The International and the
Youth Movement.
IL. The question of the individual
sections.
10. Election of Executive Commit
tee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
Georgia State Is
Made Big Prison
For Working Class

WASHINGTON. April 30. - The
Georgia state federation of labor. in
convention, has protested against a
recent Georgia law forbidding the
workers in that state from leaving
It except when the state labor com
missioner is officially informed that
this labor "can we'll be spared"
No direct move to repeal the law
or to defy It was made by the conven-
tion; II simply denounced the law as
vicious attack on the liberties OF the
people. The organized labor movement
In the state Is extremely weak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
INJUNCTION
LAWYER OUT
OF HIS JOB
Association Economies
By Canning LeBosky


When 43 garment strikers
face Judge Charles II. FoelI in
Superior Court on Injunction
proceedings this morning they
will miss the familiar figure of
the Chicago Association of ORES
Lee LeBosky, prosecutor for the
Chicago Association of Dress
Manufacturers.
LeBosky, former attorney for
former union manufacturers, is
largely responsible for the pres
ent strike by the pressure he
brought to bear on his clients
to abandon their agreement.
Since the strike began he led his
clients into the anti-labor asso-
citation and was rewarded by
Dudley Taylor with the lucrative
job of injunction attorney.
Association Short of Funds.
Now Taylor has been compelled to
drop LeBosky. Association expenses,
some of theemployers admit, have be-
come too heavy. The strike is harder
than they were led to expect by Lee
Bosky. 1t is costing them too much
and there is no sign of the workers
being defeated.
Injunction hearings will continue
with a crippled legal staff. Dudley
Taylor will have to handle the work
himself. This in spit of the fact that
the work is becoming harder than
ever; 43 cases coming up tomorrow
and dragging out through the week.
In addition Their is the work framing
up arrests of pickets.
Assaulted Daily Worker.
LeBosky has been vicious foe of
every force behind the strike. In
recent injunction hearing he took up
much of the session in attacks on the
DAILY WORKER. Every striker who
appeared before him was asked re-
garding his reading of the DAILY
WORKER and his connection with the
labor paper.
Before the strike, vice-president
Perlstein said, LeBosky as attorney
for nine union manufacturers received
a fee of 5000 each from them, totally
$1,000 year. Not satisfied with
those modest returns LeBosky led his
clients into the sthike. When the
union made its demands on the non
union manufacturers LeBosky persu-
AIDED his clients to refuse an agree
ment: then obtaining an injunction
from Judge Sullivan he became such
a shining open shop figure that the
new Chicago Association of Dress
Manufacturers, founded in March thru
the offices Of Dudley Taylor and the
Chicago Employers Association, re-
Continued on page two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
PIT MOUTH
YIELDS ONLY
DEAD BODIES
Women, Children Wait
in Rain in Vain
lspseIaI . The oaIIy worker

BENWOOD, w. VA, April %.
Mo hope was held out today
for rescue alive of the ia min
ers entombed in the Benwood
Mill mine of Wheeling Steel
Corporation "a hours ago by a
terrific gas explosion that tore
down mine supports, letting
loose tons of earth on the trap
ped men.
Officials of the mine admitted
that it would be a miracle
should any miner be rescued
alive.
Fifty-four crushed and burned
bodies were brought to the surface to-
day from the workings. One of them
was identified as the body of George
Holiday, Jr., son of the mine super
intendent.
Brothers Die Near Exit.
Clasped arm in arm, the bodies Of
Rocco and Michael Capabianco were
found near the Browns Run air shaft
today. The two brothers had escaped
the roof falls and fire that followed
the blast, only to be overcome by fire
damp within a few hundred yards of
fresh air.
Isaac NJ. Scott, president of the
open shop Wheeling Steel Corpora
ton, today issued statement saying
Continued on page two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
N. Y. Bakers to Strike.

AUBURN N. Y. April 2S.--Auburn
bakers ven walk out on May 1, if their
demands for salary increase are not
met. Bakers demand an increase Of
81 to So week. They are now getting
s35 week. Some foremen are receiv-
ing $40 and S45.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30

Labor agents and otilclalS or
Detroit, Mich; Columbus, Ohio;
st. Louis, Mo-; Cincinnati, Ohio;
Lockport, ILL.,; Davenport, Iowa,
and many other places, telling
them on their word Of honor that
there was no labor trouble of any
kind.
The Pullman plant showed its
first signs of weakening under the
splendid picketing Of the strikers,
when officials tried to entice the ream-
ers to desert the strike by offering
them almost their complete demands.
The reamers decided at yesterdays
strike meeting, that any reamer who
goes back to work is a scab, and the
reamers will not go back to work I'M
til the strike is completely won.
Late yesterday more than one
hundred policemen, clearinghouse
guards, private Pullman Company
thugs, and plain clothes men came
out in autos and threatened strikers
who were selling the DAILY WORK
Err with arrest.
The case of Nick Spynow, who
Monday was fired on by a drunken
policeman, officer Minton, who threat
ened to hit children who were play
ing in the streets, was set for jury
trial May Sth, in Municipal Court
Rropoh 90 ATinton xb0co ,.,,,,l,o,-
is 1854, turned up drunk. His clothes
were bedraggled and torn, and police
men around the court room said he
had been out BOOKING and JOY riding
and had upset in his fiivver
Alderman Sees Policeman Fired
Alderman Sheldon w. Govier read
the circular entitled "The Kept Gov
eminent of the United States" and
said there was no cause to arrest
man for distributing this hand-bill.
Alderman Govier declared that, in
his belief, Nick Spynow was within
the law, and that if Spynow is found
not guilty in the trial, officer Min
toms is very likely to find himself on
an involuntary strike.
mo Strike" Says Agent
Five men from Detroit, told the
DAILY WORKER that man named
Baxter, who has Offices in the Front
enac Hotel, Detroit, assured them on
his word of honor that there was no
strike or no labor trouble of any kind.
Thomas Doig and Archibald Caldwell,
two of these men, signed afidavits
declaring that the Pullman Company
had under false pretences made them
pay their own transportation to the
plant from Detroit They have given
these affidavits to the strikers, and
legal action will be taken. The mat
ter will probably be brought before
the corporation council by alderman
Govier.
Wait All Day For Fare
The men were kept waiting the
entire day for their transportation
money, and late yesterday, after fail
ing to get it, put the matter in the
hands of lawyer. These two men
addressed the strikers. They said
that in the steel shop, which ordin-
arily mans over 700 men. less than
40 are at work, and these aren't doing
anything.
Ryan, the steel foreman, assured
these men that they would be pro-
tected by city policemen, that they
would get two dollars a day more
than the strikers demand, and that
they would be supplied with boarding
houses. One of these boarding
houses is on Cottage Grove Avenue.
near 93rd Street The strikers have
served notice on the boarding house
keeper that he must kick out all scabs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
CAL TRADED
DAM SITE TO
FORD FOR AID
kilograms Are Said To
Be Startling

WASHINGTON, April 2o.-
Chairman Norris of the Senate
agriculture committee promised
today to produce more startling
kilograms bearing on Henry
Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals
nitrate plant.
Norris has a half dozen more
messages that passed between
James M. Miller, former en-
ploye of the Dearborn Indepen-
dent" Ford's publication, and E.
G. Liebold, the auto magnate's
secretary, and w. G. Cameron,
an employee of the Independent.
Norris refused to say what the
messages contain.
LieboId Has kilograms.
Liebold, who was subpoenaed Sat
urday, has been ordered to bring with
him all correspondence relating to
Muscle Shoals, Norris announced.
He explained that Miller was no
longer on the Ford payroll Miller,
Norris said, had several differences
with Ford and was let out. He now
has suit in the courts for recovery
of salary due.
Pinchot Hits Ford Scheme.
Agriculture and industry in the
south would be "hamstrings" if Henry
Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals was
accepted, Gov. Clifford Pinchot of
Pennsylvania, told the Senate Agricul.
ture Committee today.
Pinchot said Muscle Shoals "is the
key to the farm and industry situation
in the south" and should not be turn.
ed over to Ford because "his offer
guarantees nothing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30

Workers. Farmersl Demand;
The Labor Party
Amalgamation
Organization Of Unoraanized
The Land for the Users
The Industries for the Workers
Protection Of the Foreign-Born
Recognition Of Soviet Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30
Exposing $6O,OOO,OOO Fish
Steal SCareS Hoover Into
Weak Denial Of Charges

WASHINGTON, April 2o-Secretary Of Commerce Herbert
Hoover has made general and unconvncng denial of the
charges that he has assisted the Salmon Trust stealing the
$6o000,000 yearly fishing rights the Alaskan
Hoover pleads that the big salmon companies operating
under privileges obtained during former administrations
he has authority practice conservation and to safeguard
labor conditions He pleads that he is trying
which will give his department. such authority
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-30

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
HUNGARY DEBT
PLAN REACHED
Would Pay Back Loans of U.
S. in 81 Years

Washington, April 26.-The Ameri
settlement for funding the Hun
gsrian debt to the United States
and the president Immediately sent
i; to Congress for ratification.
The agreement, which covers the
first half of the relief loans made by
the United States, provides for re-
payment of the $1,939,753, principal
and interest, over a 62 year period.
A cash payment of S753 is arranged
and the remainder will be retired in
annual installments with interest at
percent over the first ~ years and
1-2 percent thereafter.
Introduced into this funding set
tlement, the third to be consG mated
by the commission, is Pc 'is'on
designed to clear the way for iiota-
ti0n by Hungary Of q national loan
fors reconstruction. purposes. The
agreement accords the secretary ct
the treasury the authority to release
Hungarian national assets from the
priority of first lien by the United
States, provided other nations hold
ing Hungarian Obligations agree to
cooperate likewise.
Release. of the Hungarian assets
from the first charge of the Ameri-
cap debt is regarded therefore as
likely to lead other governments to
take similar steps and probably
make. the fiotation of the proposed
loan q success.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
SCIENCE WORK
OF US. BACKED
BY PRESIDENT
New Sun Rising For Scientific
Research, the President
Asserts

Washington, April 2s.--(By the A.
P.)-Setting anew the governments 5
"stamp of approval" on the work of
the National Academy of Sciences s
and the National Research Council,
President Coolidge, speaking today
at the dedication of the new home
here Of the two organizations pre-
dicted the coming of ga new day in
scientific research"
"a new sun is rising" he said.
at is destined to illuminate the
scientific world by illuminating this
hall.
The President traced the intimate
relationship which from the days of
Benjamin Franklin have existed be-
tween science and the American gov
ernment and declared that "if there
be one, thing in which America is
pre-eminent it is disposition to fol-
low the truth"
Pointing to the declaration of
Washington in his farewell address
for promotion of constitutions for
the general diffusion of knowledge,
President Coolidge said:
"The beginnings of our government
therefore, had to do with the incep-
ton of scientific research in the
United States. f' ." ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
WEAT
ACREAGE WILL
BE MUCH LESS
Delay in Seeding to Cut Acre.
age Less Than Intentions
on March l, Estimate
TWO 100 PER CENT
Richland County, N. ID. and
Clay County, Minn., Report
Full 100 Per Cent Crop

Minneapolis, Minn., April Is
photographic reports received
April 23 from bankers in nineteen
representative counties having al
most one-fourth of the acreage Of
the 1928 spring wheat crop in our
four states, indicated that in two
thirds of the spring wheat producing
territory practically four-fifths Of
the acreage to be devoted to wheat
had already been sown,r~ says the
, monthly summary of business condi-
, tions in the Ninth federal reserve
district. issued by John H. Rich,
agent.
Clay County. Minnesota. and Rich
land County, North Oak ota were the
only two counties to report 1924
| acreage 100 per cent of 1923. Clay
County, Minnesota also reported an
actual increase in hard red spring
wheat, but corresponding decrease
in durum. Brown County, South
Dakota reported decrease of 35 per
| cent in hard red spring wheat but
only Il | 5 per cent decrease in durum
pears that there will be a slightly
greater proportional decrease in dur
UNI than in hard red spring wheat.
Seeding Delayed
Unfavorable weather conditions
have delayed seeding in the north
ern tiers of counties in Minnesota
and North Dakota and in Montana.
Several reports were received from
these sections stating that 70 per
cent or less had been sown, and
others ranged from 40 to GO per
cent. The weather had become more
favorable by April % however, and
| If it continued it was estimated that
| seeding would be complete in week
or ten days. In the west central
section Of Minnesota, southeastern
North Dakota and northeastern
South Dakota, wheat was practically
all sown, and the soil in excellent
condition. Winter wheat in Fergus
County, Montana was reported to be
in excellent condition.
The marketing of agricultural pro-
ducts in March showed mixed ten
dencies. There was an exceptionally
large rpm of hogs we'll above the
ten ycaH average and one-fourth lar
ger than a year ago, and there were
indications of small reduction in
foundation stock in this district.
Grain receipts declined, except
! wheat and barley, and terminal
Stocks were larger than year ago
at the end of the month. The price
| OF livestock advanced except for
calves, while the majority Of grains
declined, together with dairy prod
ucts. Apparently the cash realiza-
ton from livestock during khe
month was very substantial
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
HOME REPORT
PRESENTED
Florence Crittenton Home
Aids Many During Year

Fargo, April 28.-Reports presented
at the annual meeting of the Flor
ence Crttenton Home Association
here showed there have been one
hundred and six \girls in the last
year, Of whom ninety were mothers
and sixteen delinquents. There were
eighty-four children cared for, the
average number of the family being
scventy-five. Number of meals serv-
ed in the dining room 52,360 and to
the larger children in the nursery
1909.
ty-two Eastern Star chapters, nine
teen from the w. c. T. U. organiza-
tions and fifty from the clubs of the
state, also gifts from the Elks lodge
and Masonic Order.
The field secretary, Rev. E. J..
Bechtel, reported he had travelled
1886 miles, visited one hundred
and thirty-six towns, and addressed
one hundred and one high schools.
The officers which were reelected
are Mrs. H. L. Bolley, president;
Mrs. F. G. Gardner, first vice pres
ident; Mrs. NJ. A. Baldwin, second
vice president; B. G. Tenneson. sec
retary; H. W. Gearey, treasurer;
Miss Lillian f. Van Horn. financial
secretary; Mrs. Addiea NJ. Brooks,
superintendent, and Rev. +. J. Bech-
tel; field secretary.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
RESCUE CREWS
ARE WORKING
FRANTICALLY
Women Stand on Slopes of
Mine as Effort Is Made
TO Free Them
LITTLE HOPE is SEEN
Feared That All Of the Miners
Will BE Found Dead
When Reached
LITTLE HOPE is SEEN
$50 THOUGHT LOST

Wheeling, w. Va, April 2S.-
(By the A. PD-One hundred and
fifty miners were believed to
have been lost by an explosion
and fire in the BenwOOd Mill
mine of the Wheeling Steel Cor
pOratiOn at BenwOOd. a few miles
down the Ohio from here.
After struggling for more than
six hours to overcome falls of
rock dirt in the drift mouth Of
the mine, rescuers gained ac-
cess to the wrecked underground
passageway by way OF air shafts.
Four bodies, all burned, were To-
Gated within few minutes. Two
Of these miners were alive when
found but they expired before
they could he brought to the
surface.
Experts Of the H. s. Bureau
of Mines sent In rescue car
from Pittsburgh but held little
hope for any Of the entOmbed
men. These who escaped the
explosion and fire could not hope
to win out in the deadly after
damp.
Wheeling. West Virginia, April 20.
-(By the A. P.)-MOre than 100
miners were entombed by an explo-
sion in the Benwood Mill mine Of the
Wheeling Steel CSl<ltion at Rem
wood, near here, a few minutes af-
ter they went to work this morning.
All entries to the mine were blocked
by fails of rock and dirt.
Four hours after the blast came,
volunteer rescuers, hurriedly assem-
bled, had heen unable to gam en-
trance to the underground passage
ways. .....
Little hope was entertained for the
trapped miners, for the mine was on
fire and checked with deadly fumes.
At the mine it was reported 125
men went to work and that nine had
escaped. The state bureau of MINES
at Charleston, however. announced
that its report showed 1e? men en-
tombed.
lie SoIlDIHcd IIl1lt rescue DOWEIa
of the United States governments and
the state of West Virginia was rush
ed to the aid Of the stricken COM
in the hope that some Of the
miners would be brought out alive.
The United States Bureau ct S.:acs
sent car from Pittsburgh and was
prepared to order in car from
Maryland and another from southern
West Virginia. The state rescue
car also was sent TO the scene.
The explosion occurred about three
miles back from the drift mouth.
Scores of men, women and children
soon gathered on slope facing the
entry. They stood in Il drizzle Of
rain, spurring on the rescuers, who
were digging frantically at the mass
of rock which blocked the way into
the mine.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
NEW SOLDIERS
BON us BILL IS
BEFORE PARLEY
Senate and House COnferees
Meet to Iron Out Their
Differences

Washington. April 2S.-Senate and
bonus bill met today to iron out the
differences between the bills passed
by the two Chambers, with prospects
Of an early agreement and report of
the measure, to President Coolidge
The Senate made more than score
of minor changes in the bill as pass
ed by the House, but the main pro-
visions were kept intact. Both
chambers voted for cash payments
to veterans not entitled to more
than $50 and 20-year endowment in
surance policies to others.
Some discussion is expected over
the amendment made by the Senate
on motion of Senator Walsh, Dem
ocrat, of Massachusetts, postponing
from January |, 1925, to July ], 1925,
the date of issuance of the Insult
ance policies. The amendment, how
ever, would make cash payments al
lowed by the bill immediately avail
able instead of nine months after
the date of enactment.
senator WalSn ekpialned tnat MS
proposal was intended to allow time
for new Congress to amend tn,
bill after it became a law to include
an option giving veterans the right
to choose full cash payment. Dem
Ocratic leaders served notice they
would make Il fight for such an
amendment after the bill becomes Il
law, which leaders of both parties
expect regardless of whether Pre-
ident Coolidge gives it his approval
or returns it with Il veto.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-04-28
.ORRIN PRIEST
DIES IN MINOT'

Minot. April 2s.-Thc Rev. An
thony j. Shcmmef, G3, pastor of the
Catholic church at Orrin, n. d., died
at local hospital following Il pro-
longed illness brought on by II com
plication Of disease including diabe-
ties and high blood pressure. He
came from Orrin 10 Minot last De-
cember and since that time had been
confined in the aospital wnere every
attempt possible was made to stay
the progress of his ailment. For the
last month his condition had been
very serious with small hope held for
recovery.
Before coming to North Dakota a
few years ago, Father Shemmel was
located ut Bancroft, Iowa, is the di
ocese of Sioux City, where the sreat-
er part of his life work was spent.
He is survived by several brothers
and sisters and other relatives who
reside in Iowa.