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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
u. S. Captain, Attached
To Legation in China,
Captured by Bandits

pEKING, May 19-Captain Thomas
]. Belts, u. S. A., attached to the
American legation as language Of
ficer has been made captive by BAN
dts in Yunnan province.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
Police Riot Squads Jail
~ Men in Strike Trouble
1Ru Dispatch A. 2. wirel

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.-Police
riot squads. with drawn revolvers. ar
rested AZ men during the progress
here today of the most serious out
break which so far has marked a
strike of union carpenters and ioiners.
The battle was precipitated when q
mob of approximately 800 mon, said
10 be strikers, attacked Is non-ua!on
r,en employed on a building in an
a5artment house district. Pedestrians
f,ed to cover and alarmed residents
sen. in pleas Tor police aid.
The non-union workers were re-
treating in shower of rocks and
blocks of wood thrown by the strikers
when the police surrounded the
strikers. Many of the latter broke
through the Gordon of officers and
fled in automobiles. The AZ men who
'wrt. detained were taken to police
station and charged with i.,turpir g
the peace and rioting.
.er.1 *. / ester, an executive f the
Industrial association, IS which is spcI :
sor for the open shop plan o. en-
plcymcnt hich has caused the car
pcaters to strike, said today that un-
less the po,ice can control tE4 situa-
i, II thc Ell. ployers might be com
PEELED to invoke federal aid.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
Jinx Seems to Be Sitting
In Yunpa's Sunnyside School
District; Several Flakes

~ UNA, May 10. Patrons Of the
Sunnyside school district in this coun-
ty are beginning to wonder if the VOC
doc god is taking a hand in school
affairs. The most recent of a series
of delays in starting construction of
the proposed new school building oc
Cured when the Yuma county board
Of supervisors, through error opened
the bids at 10 a. m. instead of at II,
as specified in the advertisement.
1T appears that the board will have
tc advertise again for bids rejecting
all that had been submitted. And un-
less Frank Connor, local contractor,
withdraws his bid, there will be anoth-
or delay of 40 days in order to follow
legal requirements to advertise anew.
1t is now more than year since
he SunnMsida school project was got
ten under way. Due to error, the bond
election hlA To be held a second time,
and at the fest opening IF the bids,
there was an error in the time of pub
lication CT aivcr; isemert.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
Jury Chosen to Sit In
Case of University Man
Charged With a Holdup
lny Dispatch A. 2. wirel

NEW YORK, May 19.-selection of
a jury was completed Tuesday to try
Alexander Hodges, former University
of Kansas and California athlete, and
alleged cigarette pistol robber.
Thirty-seven talesmen were examined.
Testimony will begin in the morning.
During examination of prospective
jurors it was known that the defense
will be that Hodges was under men
tai strain at the time because he was
out of funds.
He is charged with taking $24O
from the restaurant after holding up
the proprietor with a cigarette case
shaped like a pistol.
Hodges mother arrived from Kan
sas City today and conferred with
her sons counsel concerning his de-
fense. While the jurors were being
selected, Hodges was the center of a
group of college friends who have
been with him whenever he has ap-
peared in court since his arrest.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

OMAHA.-"Pa" Locke. sire of Ro-
land Locke, famous Nebraska sprint
er, wasn't much of ans athletic star
or if he did shine as an athlete it
was only at races staged during fam
lily picnics. So declares his son in
denying report that attribute his
prowess on the cinder path to the
fact that his parents were athletes
before him..
PARIS. When the sleek haired
movie hero quaffs a potion, the
French workman, sitting in the audi
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
DAVIE Acquitted OF
MURDER BY GLOBE JURY

/ GLOBE, May 19.-W. L. Davie Of
Globe was acquitted by jury in su-
perior court here at. 6 o'clock this
evening of the charge of murder in
connection with the death of Edward
Brown of Winkelman, who was hit
on the head with a sledge hammer
handle by Davie at the plant of the
American Smelling and Refining COM
pany at Hayden at o'clock on the
morning of April 16, last, Brown dy-
ings in a Hayden hospital four days
after he was hit by Davie. The jury
deliberated less than two hours.
Jrou Iuor+ Add Pacl11+o Phopo 81 or 80
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
Two Mexican Bandits
Executed; Capture OF
Is Others Imminent
(By Dispatch =. p. wiro)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 19.-Two
bandits have been Killed and the cap
ture of 13 others implicated in the at
tempted payroll robbery at the camp
of the Durango Turpentine company
at Coyotes, Durango, Mexico, on the
night of April 80, is imminent, e. G.
Gay, manager of the Mexican division
of the company, said today.
Cay, who arrived from Mexico to-
day. and three other Americans, were
among the $50 men, women and chill
dren rounded up by the bandits and
marched around the camp for three
hours while the bandits attempted tc
find payroll of $500 pesos which
they enormously believed had beer
brought into camp.
His companions were r. w. Ham.
mill of Chicago, vice president of the
company, who was there for a visit
of inspection; w. E. Montgomery ol
Columbus, Ca, auditor, and J. p
Rogers, superintendent of production
After falling to find the payroll
the population was lined up ant
searched, the bandits obtaining abou
450 pesos They looted the camp o1
considerable merchandise and drove
off the horses and mules, Gay said.
] Most of the loot has been recovered
''No Breakfast Complete Without
The DiSnatch -
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

Posting of the. Suduffco at Lloyds
means that all hope for the safety OF
the vessel which left Port Newark,
N. j., on March 10, has been aban-
doned by the underwriters and thai
losses will be paid.
The Suduffco, with general cargo
valued at $50O,OO0, carried crew OF
2S under Captain T. Turner of
Holmes, N. Y. She was bound for
San Francisco and other Pacific ports
via the Panama canal. She was last
heard from on March Is, when heI
noon position was transmitted by
radio to her owners.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

For Want Add Results, Phone 81 or 50.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

LOS ANGELES. Americans take
more baths because of the movies.
Motivated by the sight of sumptuous
laving parlors in the movies, the
average citizen has better equipped
his bathroom and spends more time
in it, plumbers attending the state
convention here maintain.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

Carl Chindbolm, Illinois, in the
house: Our government Indebtedness
is now approximately $2O,O0O,OOO,O 900;
about one-half of that was expended
for our own military operations, our
own cost of war, and about one-half
is represented by loans made to f)r-
eign governments.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

ence, passes it off with the current
Partisan for "so's your old man." This
is deduced from the assertion of Pro-
fessor Liable, of the Academy of Med
icine, that movies, coupled with inn
proved housing conditions, have been
potent factors in decreasing alcohol
ism among native workmen.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

KANSAS CITY.-Waldo Robey, 25-
year-old flying school pilot, amused
himself while in the clouds by tossing
a fox terrier pup out of his plane.
humane officers declared in request
ing a warrant for his arrest.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
American Freighter And
Crew of 28 Posted As
Missing by Lloyd Firm
(By Dispatch A. p. wire)

LONDON, May LITTLE American
freight steamer Suduffco, owned by
the Trans Marine corporation, was
posted at Lloyds today as missing.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

No country can keep out undesir-
ables without the hearty cooperation
of the stork.-Jersey City Journal.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20

Captain Belts is one of several
army Officers attached to the Peking
legation for the study of the Chi
nese language. Yunnan, in the eN-
treme southwest of China, has been
for years practically independent of
the Peking government and has suf-
tered especially from the scourge of
banditry which afflicts most of the
,Chinese provinces. 1t, adjoins French
Indo- China and Burma.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-20
ODD BITS OF NEWS
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

NEW YORK.-Osborne c. Wood, son
of Major General Wood, is going to
work. He says So Coming ashore
from steamer after five months
vacation in Cuba, young Wood
said he didn't know whether or not
he'd try Wall street again and then
philosophical that one must have
money to make money and "to get
money one must work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
RAKOSI, VAGI AND S. OTHER
HUNGARIAN WORKERS ON TRIAL

MOSCOW u s. Ma-The executive Of the Interna
ona Red Aid has issued calling
rally to the support of the before Hun
court
Among those that being Rakos whom the
Horthy murder for being
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
SOVIET RUSSIA
TO REAP BUMPER
CROP THIS YEAR
Farmers to Have Large
Grain Surplus

MOSCOW, .. S. S. R., July 2S.-Ac-
cording to estimate made by the Cen
trail Statistic Bureau, Soviet Russia
will have grain harvest Of $780,
100000 bushels of grain as compared
with 2,5OS,OO0,OO0 of last year.
This estimate made on June Is
shows an increase of 1919 over last
year. Still later figures disclose that
the harvest will be close to 3,000,000,-
900 bushels
Based on the conservative estimate,
there will be a surplus of from $780,
100000 to 60O,O00,O00 bushels over that
needed by the farmers, their families,
cattle and seed reserves. 1t is de-
clared that this figure is very low and
that as many farmers still have grain
of the previous crop on hand that the
surplus will be close to 7OO,OO0,00O
bushels.
A program to solve the problem Of
marketing this bumper grain crop is
being worked out by the central COM
mittee of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union so that the farmers
would not suffer from falling level of
prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
TEAR GAS FOR STRENGTHENING is
BIG FEATURE OF POLICE CONVENTION

you see a cop handling fountain pen
shut your eyes quick. The Blind-X
Gas fountain pen is the same size,
shape, and weight and looks like an
ordinary red-lacquered fountain pen.
1t is fitted with a clip for carrying in
the vest pocket. The pen discharges
by releasing a trigger with the thumb
and instantly renders its victim help
less at a distance of IL to 10 feet or
less.
1.-THE user" says the demonstration,
"can be handling this device and point
it towards its victim without arousing
suspicion that it is a weapon at ALL
The pen costs $12 and extra shells
81 each. Hand grenades cost Sc
apiece. Gas riot guns cost $50 but
extra gas charges for them only Sc.
In Many Forms.
Tear gas can be thrown, pumped,
electrically discharged, released by a
trigger or with fuse. II is put up
not only in fountain pens and gren-
AIDES but inside police bililes, in con-
trivances looking like fire extinguish-
ers, in receptacles that break auto
matically when a vault or room is
broken into, in autos for carrying
money, etc. where they sometimes look
like the hand horns that were recently
a novelty, in brief cases, valises and
many ingenious devices for banks,
prisons, factories, etc.
The Lake Erie people very obliging-
ly sell antidotes for their poisons in
the shape of Anti-Blind-X ointment at
So tube. The federal people, how
ever, refuse TO cheaper the effective
ness Of their output and claim that no
antidote can be found for It. To use
the ointment you simply squeeze out
little from the tube, thoroughly rub
in to cover the entire eyeball and
after a minute you can enter any tear
gas without extreme pain or effect,
the Lake Erieites guarantee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30

their wages and working day; they
are defending the interests of the en-
tire English working class and the in.
terests Of the workers in all coun-
tries, for the capitalists are waging an
offensive against the workers all over
the world. Defeat or victory of the
British miners means the defeat or
victory of the workers of the world.
viii Help While Fight Lasts.
The workingmen and women of the
Soviet Union have helped the strikers
materially since the beginning of the
strike and no threats of Chamberlain
and Churchill were able to prevent
this. The workers OF the Soviet I'm.
ion know what fighting against CAPT
talists means, how much support is
required in this fight, and the workers
of the Soviet Union will help the min
ers of Britain as long as their strug.
! gle aasts.
The Central Council of Trade I'm
ions Of the Soviet Union transmitted
| another installment of 100000 roubles
to the Miners Federation of Great
Britain out Of the sums. recently col
lected and calls upon the working
men and women of the Soviet I'm
ion to continue their donations in aid
of the strikers. The Central Council
calls especially for support of the
newlyformed committee of Working
Women for the Aid of Strikers
Families.
The British miners shall realize
that the proletariat of the Soviet I'M
ion will support them to the very end.
Long live the fight and victory OF the
British miners! Long live the frater-
nal bond of the workers Of the Soviet
Union and Great Britainl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
N, Y. TECHNICAL
men DECIDE TO
ORGANIZE union
Board of Transportation
Employees Act
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NEW YORK, July 2S. - A good
portion of the more than 1000 men on
the technical staff of the Board of
Transportation of Greater New York
have made a decision to organize and
affiliate with the American Federation
of Labor. After a meeting that was
addressed by Organizer Hugh Frayne
and officials Of the international Union
of Technical Men, the members of the
technical staff who are supporting the
move for a union endorsed the follow
ing statement of their ways and means
committee:
1t is because the Commissioners of
the Board of Transportation have time
and again refused to listen to our
just grievances that we engineers have
found it necessary to form strong
organization to look after our own vel
fare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
Local Window Washers
Talk of New Contract

Terms of new contract are being
discussed by members of the Chicago
Window Washers Union, Local "a,
Building Service Employees Interna-
tional Union. The present contract
calls for 81 an hour and a 44-hour
week with $3.50 for overtime and SO
an hour for Sunday work. The 300
window washers in the union are
about 500 of the Chicago workers in
the craft.
Negroes are admitted without ques-
ton. A number of the window wash
ers, union men say, are hard to or
ganize because they work on their
own. The union supplies union work.
ers both to contractors and direct to
building managers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30


reports is true.
Support Continues.
The relief campaign is being con-
tinued with undiminished enthusiasm
in all the Soviet republics. In all fac
tory meetings resolutions are being
passed enthusiastically, pledging to
continue the donation of part Of
wages as long as the strike lasts. The
artists union will stage performances
in all the theaters of the Soviet Union
for the benefit of the strike fund dur
ing the next few days.
Today the Central Council of Trade
Unions of the Soviet Union issued an
appeal to all trade union members
calling attention to the heroic strug-
gle OF the British miners, now in its
tenth week, and to the increase of suf-
fering and need. All the forces of the
bourgeoisie and its state organs are
proceeding against the strikers in a
resolute united front.
Amsterdam Grudginu.
The appeal also points out that at
the same time the leaders of Amster-
dam, a large part of the trade union
leaders and the international fedora
tions are following a passive and at
times reasonable policy towards the
strikers. The import of coal into Eng
land and its transport in England are
taking place unchecked. The finan-
cial aid of the reformist trade unions
for the strikers is ridiculously scanty.
1t is just at present, when the mine
owners and the government are en-
deavoring to make a breach in the
united strike front, that immediate
aid is needed, for insufficient assist
ance may bring about the defeat of
the strike.
The miners are defending not only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
BY CARL HAEssLER,
Federated Press Correspondent.

All the latest chemical devices for
dispensing strike meetings, making la
Dor and other halls uninhabitable and
putting police departments and state
troopers at the service of the employ
ers were enthusiastically demonstrated
at the exhibitions of the 33rd annual
convention, International Association
Of Chiefs of Police, held in Chicago
July 10 to %. Naturally the tear gas
in its many forms is used also against
bandits, lynchers (sometimes) and the
like, but each exhibitor specifically
in his talk or in his literature.
Thus the Lake Erie Chemical Co.
Of Cleveland includes industrial
plants" as proper users. 1t urges its
Dispers-X irritating gas and smoke
against Strike mobs containing wo-
men and children" II recommends its
Blind-X-Riot gun as an ideal weapon
for defending industrial plants" etc.
It offers its Exile-X chemical to make
sure that the same den will not be
used for meeting or living quarters for
long time, probably one month"
This company uses an ex-army Of
ficer to train state constabularies and
police forces in the use of the gases.
The effect Of the gases, 1t says, are to
blind and cause TO sneeze whomever
1t reaches putting them in such in
tense pain that they lose all interest
in external affairs" but without per-
manent injury.
KNOCK Out Whole Family"
The exhibitor of another gas con-
Germ, the Federal Laboratories inc. Of
Pittsburgh, mentioned with pride the
use Of tear bombs against the textile
strikers of Passaic. He waxed elo-
quent. why you can knock out a
whole family, from father to baby with
one Of our gas grenades," he said,
then walk in and grab the man and
let the rest recover at leisure. They
won't be permanently injured but II
hurts lot while II lasts"
In proof he let me sniff at a tear gas
cartridge. IL had a severe burning
smell like ammonia, intensely irrita-
ting TO the nose and biting the upper
lip like acid, but the quantity was 80
small that In a minute or two the
effect had disappeared.
Poison Gas Pen.
They come In every imaginable form
sod ga cempesatixely cheap, When.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30

and Vagi, the leader of the group that
split from the social democrat party
and formed the socialist labor party.
The appeal of the international Red
Aid follows:
The Horthy government which
cold-bloodedly murdered more than
ten thousand workers and peasants.
confined more than twenty thousand
in concentration camps and rendered
more than eighty thousand judicial
verdicts, is continuing it's bloody work
with this new trial of So proletarians
THE Rakosi case is now linked
with the trial of the Vagi group
against which the charge is made that
the socialist labor party of Hungary,
which it founded and directs. serves
as a cloak for Communist propaganda
These workers are guilty of hay
ing created their own labor party
after the betrayal by the leaders of
the social democracy. The Horthy
government cynically accuses the Vagi
group of having led the opposition to
the social democracy. Thru this trial
the Hungarian government is repay
ing the services of the social democ-
racy and is honestly settling with the
latter by prosecuting its opponents
in the labor movement.
"The responsibility for the verdict
OF the royal court Of the Hungarian
republic" will rest on the leaders of
the Hungarian social democracy no
less than on the Horthy-Bethlen gov
eminent.
The executive of the International
Red Aid calls on all those who toll.
in whom the feeling of respect for
the most elementary rights of man,
which are trampled on in the most
savage and monstrous manner in fas-
cist Hungary, is still alive, to parti-
cipate in the protest campaign against
the judicial farce in Budapest.
Raise your voice to protect the
victims!
"Stigmatize the shame Of the hand
full OF oppressors Of the Hungarian
toilersl
Social democratic workers! Raise
your voices in protest against the trial
of sincere proletarians which is being
organized by the Hungarian bour-
geoisie with the direct support Of So
cial democratic leaders!
"RakosL Vagi and their comrades
must be torn from the hands of the
hangmenp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
ITALIAN TRADE
UNIONS EXPOSE
FASCIST REGIME
Unions Suppressed by
Fascist Violence
GEO. BERNARD SHAW

AMSTERDAM, July 2S.-While the
central bureau of the Italian Fedora
ton of Trade Unions is not now en-
tirely suppressed by the fascist dicta-
torship, it is really only head with
out body, says the International Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions. 1t is still
able to inform the world that trade
union liberty no longer exists in Italy.
Actually, however" the !. F. T. U.
bulletin on the situation continues,
every trade union in Italy is subject
to the surveillance of the fascist po-
lice, who obstruct every activity. The
leading fascist organizations empha-
size that under the new trade union
law, the "super-fascist" law, every pos
sibility OF. revival of the trade unions
will be destroyed. Hence acts of fas-
cist violence and boycotts will be su-
perhuous. In fact, however, the vio-
lence and boycotts go on just the
same"
1t is pointed out that the fascist in
control of the employment exchanges,
maintained at the cost of all workers,
have been notified that non-fascist
workers have no right to get jobs; if
they get them it is an act of charity
and generosity.
In general, the I. F. T. U. finds that
the central council of the fascist party
is the only power in Italy's govern
ment and industry. and it is bitterly
hostile to the freedom of the workers
to speak for their own industrial
rights. 80
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Worse of.

And because we realize that our
interests are bound up with those of
all organized labor, we have decided
to become a part of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. Whatever economic
advantages we may have enjoyed at
one time have now disappeared entire
ly and we are not as well off today
as the skilled worker in an organized
trade.
The Board Of Transportation has
taken undue advantage Of the fact that
there has been no all-inclusive organ
ization in our department; that there
have been field men and inside men,
tenn porary men and permanent men.
Low Wages.
Our wages are lower than in other
city departments and they are entire
" incommensurate with our RESPONSE
bilities, and with the preliminary train
ing and experience required Of us.
This was acknowledged by everyone
at the last budget hearing where
members Of the technical stan appear
ed to present their case; but nothing
has been done about it,
Increase Hours.
In fact the only action the commits
sioners have taken lately in regard to
the engineers has been to make an
increase Of POO in the working hours
of about half the force. During the
summer months we are working an
hour more than any other city depart
ment.
Long hours in addition to low wages
and the fact that so-called temper
airy men at a lower salary scale are
not being allowed to take examina-
lions and get into the regular sched-
ule- has made us decide we must
take matters into our own hands. We
know that we can only make our
selves heard when we speak as we'll
organized group of technicians with
common grievances. We feel conf
dent that our organization will be all
the stronger for being part of the Fed
Grafton of American labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-30
WORKERS OF SOVIET UNION SEND
MORE FUNDS TO BRITISH MINERS;
AMSTERDAM PASSIVE, AID SCANTY

MOSCOW July By Mai)Reports circulating the
concerning alleged impending relief
the Soviet frbddg
for the benefit the strikers issued the
infamous provocative lies designed confusion
nnars Not lin haaaA