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Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
22PERS0NS
LOSE LIVES
BY VIOLENCE
Nine Are Killed in Traf-
fic Mishaps on Pacific
Coast, Survey Reveals.
81 SUSTAIN HURTS
Majority of Accidents this
Weekend Were Near
Bay City District.
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BY United Press Leased Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 49,
With the automobile continuing the
leading death dealing agency, IA
talities along the Pacific coast over
the weekend reached a total of 22,
according to United Press compil-
alton today. Nine Of those whose
lives were snuffed out were killed
in automobile accidents.
The northwest was unusually free
from tragedy deaths.
Harry Noble, 10, of klamath
Falls, died from injuries received
when he fell from p horse, and W.
E. Coatney, %. was killed in an
a,st stomobile accident near Rremer'
ton. Wash No other sudden deaths
in that section were reported.
The toll in and around San Fran
cisco incuded:
Stephen Becker, IS, dead from in
iuries sustained when a toy pistol
exploded.
Dies Of Gas Poisoning
Mrs. Effie Shaugnessey. monoxide
gas poisoning.
Joseph Ruiz and Thomas Williams,
IA. hit bv automobile.
Edward Millette, 90, struck by
street car.
Mrs. Anna Paul shot to death at
San Jose.
J. R. Downev, her sweetheart
held for investigation.
Forbes Wheeler, killed by auto.
mobile at. Reno.
Liberio Gutierrez, Mavfield
ranch hand, died from wounds sus-
tanned when gored by bull.
Ten Die in L. A. Area
Ten were killed in or near Los
Angeles, including:
Mr.. and Mrs. Fren CARROT. ma
chine collided with electric train at
Glendale.
August Frederick. 60, run down
by electric ear at Watts.
s. L. Ortega, killed when>his ma.
chine skidded at Santa Barbara.
Frank J. Kuentz, killed in an
automobile accident at. Acton
James B. Scasselle, 46, and Sam
Lipoff. 80, suicides by poison, while
an unidentified man slashed his
throat and died at Long Beach.
Woman Burns to Death
Mrs. Ella Riley. sc, was burned
to death at Glendale.
DR.. Charles j. Ellis, of Fredonia
n. Y, died from injuries sustained
in the New Years grandstand crash
at Pasadena.
I'm San Diego, Mrs. H. Anderson
60. was killed by an automobile
driven by DR.. w. H. Potter. Miss
Vira Lockwood committed suicide
because of i'll health.
There was the usual run of in.
juries, mostly sustained in automo.
bile accidents.
Twenty were hurt in or near San
Francisco.
Cop Is Shot, Wounded
Patrolman f. J. Carroll was shot
and seriously wounded by a youth
in parked automobile, who claim.
ed he thought the officer a holdup
man.
Two were run down and hurt in
San Diego while five were injured
in Los Angeles and three in Saera-
mento.
Marshal George Robinson of Pat,
terson. Calf, was shot and pain.
fully injured by four highwaymen,
after they had committed robberies
in Newman, Crows Landing and
Patterson, San Juoquin Valley
towns. The quartet escaped in the
direction of Stockton.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
MEXICO ANSWERS
u. S. PROTEST ON
ALIEN LAND LAW

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SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 49,
President Callie has formulat-
ed plans for calling confer
ence of foreign oil interests in
Mexico to discuss relations Of
Article 81 Of the Mexican con-
stitution, according to Ser
vando Barrera Guerra, MeN-
can counsel here.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 1S.-Mexi-
CO.'S answer to the United States
protest on her latest oil and land
laws as they affect American inter
ests was delivered to the American
embassy today, according to an an
nouncement from the spokesman of
the foreign office.
The government plans to issue to.
night a statement outlining Mexi
CO.'S position on the American OBJ
jections.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
WHAT'S DOING
TONIGHT


County Y. w. G. A. banquet,
10000 club, z p. m.
Imperial county council Boy
Scout banquet, Brawley high
school.
F. and A. M. No. 3S4 meets.
''Why Married Men Le,"
Brunk's tent theater.
COBRA" Palace theater.
What Happened to Jones'"
Valley theater.
Foreign night school class,
Lincoln school.
TOMORROW
Methodist Mems luncheon,
Oregon cafe, 1915.
Ladies day, Il Centre Golf
club.
Mrs. Hrrlburt's Bible class
meets, Mrs. A. L. Lackey's, all
day.
Emmanuel Circle meets with
Mrs, r. T. Estes, $50.
Methodist Missionary Society
meets with Mrs. +. G.. Havens,
2:30. as N
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
DIRECT ENVOY TO PROBE
ATTACK ON u. S. CITIZEN

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. - The
state department today directed
American Minister Laughlin at
Athens, Greece, to make representa-
tions to the Italian minister in
Greece over the reported assault up,
on an American citizen by the Itaf
ian consul at Athens. ts s
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
DEATH TOLL NOW
FIVE IN PASADENA
STAND COLLAPSE
BY United Press Leased Wire

PASADENA, Calf, Jan. IS
Death toll in the grandstand col
lapse here on New Years day dur
ing the Tournament of Roses parade
stood at five today.
The fifth victim was DR.. Charles
j. Ellis, 72, retired dentist of FIRE.
donia, New York. He died Sunday
from internal injuries.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
BY Unfted Press Leased Wire

by Un'ted Press Leased Wire
ATLANTA, Ca. Jan. 18.-
Edward Young Clarke, whose
advertising genius introduced
the modern Ku Klrx Klan to
the American people five years
ago, today headed a new move
ment designed to bring back
"the honesty and simplicity of
the religion of Dur forefathers."
The movement had its incep-
tion at a meeting of fundament-
alists here Sunday afternoon.
One of the main features Of
the new organization, as yet
unnamed, will be to secure the
dismissal Of school teachers who
teach evolution and profess
Atheism in the schools and col
leges of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
U.S.. DECLINES
TO RECOGNIZE
NEW DICTATOR
by United Press Leased Wire

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s. The
United States does not recognize the
regime of General Emiliano Cham
orro, who is now acting rs president
of Nicaragua, it was officially said
at the state department today.
Information to the department
states that the Nicaraguan legisla-
ture has refused to accept the resig-
nasion of President Solorzano, but
has granted him a leave of absence.
Chamorro has assumed the presi-
dency following the withdrawal of
Solorzano "while on leave,' accord
ing to state department reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
GREEKS ASK MORE
COIN PREPARATORY
TO DEBT FUNDING
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The
Greek debt commission today in
formed the American debt funding
commission that it has no author
ity to make funding. agreement
unless the United States advances
Greece $33,000,000 more on its orig
inal credit Of $48,000,000.
The American commission refused
to consider loan Of the sum and the
Greeks withdrew to communicate
with their government.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
Death Toll Now
Four in Wreck
by United Press Leased Wire

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 1S.--The
death toll in the disastrous street
car accident at Fleming Park bridge
near here yesterday mounted to four
today when another body was found
in the Ohio river near the spot where
the ear plunged over 40 foot en-
bankment.
The body Of d. II. Shell, conductor
Of the car, was found today. Three
bodies were recovered yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-01-18
MARCHIONESS rs MARRIED
TO EMINENT CANADIAN

LONDON, Jan. 18.-Sir James
Dunn, prominent Canadian, and the
Marchioness of Queenbury were
married today in Paris. Lord Beav-
erbrook, English publisher, made a
special trip from Nice to be present
at the ceremony.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
YOUNG PIONEER is SUSPENDED FROM
SCHOOL HERE FOR DOUBLING HISTORY
TEACHER AND NOT SIGNING "PLEDGE''

to apologizing, by recounting all of
the "glories that your wonderful
country has and the opportunities
that every one has in America" He
told Vetold that he should be proud
of the country that gave him such
fine schools. But when Vetold, I'M
afraid, answered him the same way
he did hts teacher, and told him that
the schools were merely tools of
the capitalist class" the school off,
cial became angry and attempted to
force Vetold to retract. He quizzed
him about the Pioneers and demand
ed who told you all that stuff? And
who is behind that organization"
He said that Vetold could remain
in school only on condition he sign
ed the. pledge of allegiance. When
Vetold said he could not, because he
thot it was wrong, he was suspend
ed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08

Because he disagreed with his his
tory teachers ideas on the Ameri-
can government and refused to sign
the "pledge Of allegiance" demanded
of all Chicago public school children,
11-year-old Vetold Laemont member
of the Young Pioneers of America,
was suspended from the Sumner
school here Monday Vetold was told
by Principal Trout of the school that
he could not come back until he con-
sented ito abide by the rules of the
school," which meant retracting his
statements on the government and
submitting to signing the pledge. We
told was in the fifth grade.
The wrath of the school first de-
scended on Vetold when he told his
history teacher that he didn't believe
the things she told the class about
American ideals of liberty and just
ice and equal opportunity"
Teacher Mortified.
The teacher was Mortified when the
young student pointed out to her that
the way newsboys and bootblacks had
to slave didn't coincide with what the
textbooks said. Vetold was made the
subject of cross-examination on his
ideas in front of the class, and each
statement she made in defense Of cap
italism was refuted by Yetold. Final.
ly the teacher thot that II vetold was
made to write out the pledge of allie.
glance that would cure him. She told
him to do so.
Instead of writing: II pledge my
allegiance to the flag Of the United
States and to the republic for which
1t stands, one nation, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for ALL" Vetold
wrote: II pledge my allegiance tc
my flag, and the cause for which Il
stands--one aim thruout my life, free
dom for the working class"
vetold was then ordered to see the
principal of the school. Principa
Trout attempted to weedle Vetold In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Miners Hear Brophy
AS Big Strike Looms
Continued from page D

lINNu PaSN ~
men they could not hold their position
if the bituminous miners were further
weakened.
At Hazelton Brophy quoted Secret
airy Kennedy's report for the first six
months of the year showing less than
one third of the bituminous miners
paying dues into the union. How long
can such losses continue?" he asked
William ]. Brennan, candidate for
secretary-treasurer against Kennedy,
assailed the anthracite arbitration
agreement.
He said he had been called a ''red"
because he kept company with mill
tant fighters for the union. II would
rather be the friend Of these men than
the friend Of the M. A. Hanna inter
ests," he said.
Paul Fuller, director workers edu.
cation, Central Pennsylvania, made an
eloquent talk. He will stay In the
district several days after Brophy
leaves.
Try to Stop Brophy Meetings.
Warnings against plans to steal the
election we're made by several speak
ers. Alex Campbell denounced the in
timidation used to Brighten men from
the Brophy meetings.. Guns are used
in the threats. Campbell's own house
was bombed two years ago. Last week
the district union and the Penn
sylvania Coal company refused TO &C
cept him as checkweighman, after he
had received an overwhelming major
ity. Honest weight was the issue
Brophy's last two meetings are at
Scranton, and Wilkes-Barre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
POLICE ATTACK
Girl PICKET IN
CARPET STRIKE
3 Strikers and Brutal
Officers Arrested
BY J. o. 5ENTALL.
IananIal IN This naiIv Workerl

Especial TO The Daily Workerl
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 6--
Three strikers and one cop were ar
rested, the strikers for having walk
ed too briskly on the picket line, and
the cop for having broken the jaw of
an eighteen year old girl striker Of
the Philadelphia Carpet company,
where a strike has been on for ten
weeks.
Hit For Boarding Car.
The girl striker attacked by the
cossack in this brutal manner com
mitted the crime OF wanting to board
street car for her home after her
work on the picket line had been fin
ished. It happened that some of the
scabs went on the same car and 1t
seems to be against the law Of the
cops to let pickets use the public
transportation If the scabs want them
Tor their private purposes.
Policeman Richie struck the girl on
the jaw and sent her staggering to
the ground. Stunned for the mo-
ment the girl was unable to make fur
Their attempt to board the car. This
was crime number two, and the cop
promptly arrested her. Fearful of
the consequences Of his smuggling, the
cop began to talk incoherently to the
girl, saying, Now you know didn't
hit youse. Don't say that hit youse.
wouldn't hit youse and didn't
crack your jaw. 1t wasn't cracked
and you know l didn't crack 1t for
youse," and lot more blabber.
Then the union got on the job. The
case against the girl was dismissed,
and the union had the cop arrested
for assault and battery. The judge
set the bail for the cop at $500.
The three strikers arrested for
walking too fast on the picket line
were held in $500 bail each. The ex-
cuse for the speed-up on the picket
line should have been valid since the
thermometer was flirting with zero
and the wind was pacing along like a
loom shuttle. The pickets simply
wanted to keep warm and had never
heard of any speed limit on the pick
ct line.
The strike is stiffening up in the
breeze of the December weather and
the tomfoolery of the bosses and their
temporary tools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Cantonese Close In on
Northern MiIitarists
CONTINUED from page ~

CONTINUED from page H.
by the national peoples armies under
General Feng HUI Hsiang in the north
and other Cantonese generals in COM
mand OF troops pushing up from Can
ton. The city of Foochow, farther
down the Yangtze than indicated by
the line on the map, fell on Friday.
This puts the Cantonese in possession
of the railway to Shanghai and places
their armies in the Yangtze delta for
a concerted drive on the city. The
population of Shanghai is decidedly
sympathetic to the Southerners and
it is expected that the Shanghai gar
rison will join the nationalists when
they approach the city.
The northern war lords have COM
bined under the leadership of Chang
Tso Lin, the Manchurian dictator to
stop the advance of the nationalists.
The Cantonese have declared their in
tention of marching on north to the
capture of Picking and the militarists
are uniting in veritable panic to stop
them. The eastern provinces under
Marshal Sun Chuang Fang are all but
in the hands of Canton and the best
part OF his armies routed or deserted
to the southern cause.
The capital of the nationalist gov.
eminent has now been moved to WI.
chang across the Yangtze from Han.
kow. The map shows Wanhsien where
British blue jackets massacred five
hundred Chinese In an unprovoked
bombardment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Strengthen the Bond of
the Working Class With
the Class War Prisoners
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

DRISONS have been likened to
= tombs. Prisons are inhabited
by the living instead Of the dead.
But the living dead in prisons only
live because of the thin thread
connecting them with the world
outside" For many that thread
has been completely broken. The
will to establish that slender COM
munication and to strengthen it, be-
tween the whole working class and
all the class war prisoners, until it
becomes a powerful, unbreakable
bond Of unity should be the ire
sistible driving force behind the
National Christmas Fund Drive Of
the International Labor Defense.
Look into the prisons,
1t is late at night. The United
States marshal arrives with his
prisoner sentenced to ten years be-
hind the bars. The warden has
waited up. He wants to take a
look at the new convict. The pro-
cedure is just the same as for all
the rest. High on the third tier.
in the north block, the empty cell
awaits. The new convict is told to
enter; the heavy, iron barred. door
closes upon him. Then silence re-
turns to the vast cell house, except
for the jerky coughing here, there,
everywhere, thruout the living
tomb, the coughing Of prisoners,
victims of, or rapidly succumbing to
tuberculosis. Thus Eugene V. Debs
entered upon his ten year sentence
at the Moundsville, West Virginia,
prison. Yet the outside world
never forgot Debs. In this he was
fortunate.
It is different with those who
have few friends, or none at all, on
the outside" The convict was sit
ting at high-power sewing ma
chine in the huge garment factory.
within the walls of the Jefferson
City, Mo-, penitentiary. He was
sewing button holes. That was all.
Just button holes. Thousands of
theml Tens Of thousands Per-
haps hundreds Of thousands! Thru
the days, the weeks, the months,
the years! Just button holes until
death came to release him, for he
had been sentenced to life impris-
onment. But across the front of
the little box on his machine, that
held thread and needles and other
bric-a-brac, were carved the three
letters, 81. w. W."
Hes Just 'Wobbly!'" exclaimed
the guide, who came along to see
that no one spoke to the prisoners,
or got into communication with
them in any way. An unknown
"Wobbly," because l had never
heard of his case before. His
touch with the outside world had
been destroyed. He was among
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
Canton ENJOYS Watch
Sessions of League
CONTINUED from page y

troops have been routed from three of
the five eastern provinces, is the main
contender with the Cantonese at pres
ent. His complete defeat is a matter
OF time and will be signalized by the
fall OF Shanghai, his. last remaining
stronghold. Then will come the ad.
vance to the north against the com.
bined forces of the northern militar.
lists under Chang Tso Lin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08


Here comes a woman. She
fought in the ranks Of labor. She
is paying the, price. She marches
single file, lost in her prison uni
form among the rest. They are
coming into the prison chapel, a
bare, hard room. It is Christmas
Day. The thunder of the orthodox
god is hurled at them by a preacher
from the city. They are all forced,
willing or not, to sing the orthodox
hymns Of the hypocrite world that
has made felons of most of them
because they would not conform to
its orthodox edicts. Thus things
as they are" seek to maintain or
to develop its Stacking influence
even over those It has put away.
Somewhere else, in a dark dun
geon. shackled by the wrists and
strung up to the ceiling until toes
barely touched the floor, some re-
bellious prisoner of the class war
is suffering because of a slight in
fringement Of the prison rules.
Thus the wrath of the oppressors
follows its victim into the death
chamber of the living.
Or. somewhere another prisoner
sits in solitary. all light shut out, to
live on bread and water for as
many days as the iailer demands.
There are so of these class war
prisoners in these capitalist United
States today. The story of each
and everyone of them should be
written and blazoned to the entire
working class as part of the cam,
paign of the International Labor
Defense to raise it's Christmas
Fund that has three vital pur-
poses:
First: To supply the class war
prisoners with some of the COM
forts that are denied them in
prison, to let those on the inside"
know that they have not been for
gotten by those on the outside"
Second: To provide for at least
some of the needs of the depend
ents, wives and children especially,
left without support when the
prison gates closed inward upon
the breadwinner of the family.
Third: To provide adequate le-
gal defense for the many workers
who are now being threatened with
Imprisonment.
The many thousands Of readers
and sympathizers of The DAILY
WORKER will surely respond,
quickly and substantially, in such a
cause. All workers must help build
the International Labor Defense as
a more powerful "Shield of the
Working Class" Here is an OPP
portunity to do so.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-08
The World Unity of
Labor Moves Forward
Continued from page y


tanned an office there for months,
the secretary struggling to hold to-
gether the disappearing trade union
groups. But no word has been heard
from the Office lately and Fimmen
fears it has been broken up. The
Italian seamen's union head, recently
arrested, was wise enough to hide
safely the 100000 lire his union had
accumulated, but the fascist charged
him with embezzlement to mask their
attack. The Italian workers lost an
opportunity in not striking strongly
when Dictator Mussolini's government
was so weakened by the murder of
Giacomo Matteotti, socialist deputy,
Fimmen thinks.
Russian Solidarity.
The Russian workers contributions
to the British mine strikers have made
wonderful demonstration OF the feel.
ing Of international solidarity among
Russian unionists, Fimmen reiterated.
Stories that the money came from the
government are false, he stated. He
has noted in the last few years that
Russian workers have an increasingly
greater influence on their leaders, that
Russian trade union officers are more
responsive TO their memberships than
In most other countries.