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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
RAILMEN DEMAND
SIS 0 90 0 90 0 0
WAGE INCREASE
M i d west Conference
Opens Here

Executives of the principle mid
west railways and representatives of
the railway trainmens and conduct
ors' unions will meet today in the
transportation building to discuss
wage increases. William G. Lee of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and L. G. Sheppard Of the Order of
Railway Conductors will talk on be-
half of their unions.
S50o,ooo,ooo Increase.
1t is estimated that wage increas-
es demanded by the two organizations
will approximate a $5OO,0OO,OOO boost
If it is applied to all roads. The pres
ent conference will be followed by
others to be held in various divisions.
Farmers Present.
For the first time farmers and man.
ufacturers will take part in wage dis.
cussions between the railroaders and
executives at this conference. The
farmers and manufacturers, of course
will oppose wage increases on the
ground that they will lift freight
rates. The union representatives will
counter by denying this and saying
that increases can very will be taken
out of the enormous profits of the
roads.
The United States railroad labor
board has placed on its docket for
next Monday a hearing of petition
by firemen and engineers of the To
ledo, Peoria and Western railroad for
an increase which would bring their
wages up to the standard of other
roads.
1t is expected that if the wage
negotiations are not concluded by
Monday, the hearing Will be post.
poned until after the conferences are
ended and the conductors and train
mems case settled, referred to the Ia
Dor board or submitted to arbitration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Greek Parties Boycott
Postponed Elections
Especial to The paIIy workerl

ATHENS, April The united
parties, political coalition of all op-
position parties except the Communist,
will boycott the elections. This deci-
sion is due to the governments post
ponement of the general elections in
twenty-three Of the thirty-ive Greek
provinces to April II.
Pangalos, the dictator of the coun-
try, secured the postponement in order
to be able to prevent a parliamentary
overthrow of his government. Under
the new order, If he does not secure
a large enuf majority in the twelve
provinces in which election remains
at the date originally set, he can find
some excuse for calling off or securing
a further postponement or establish
ing new regulations to ensure his
supremacy in the rest of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
SILK WORKERS
MASS MEETING
LAUNCHES DRIVE
Organize $4,000 Silk
Workers, Is Plan
Especial to Tho Daily Worker,

N0pCStdt TO lU0 OgUl NSOrNoTl
PATERSON. N. j., April 6.-Unhon-
ization Of the $4,000 workers In all
branches OF the silk industry at Pater-
son is the goal Of the Associated Silk
Workers, Secretary Fred Hoelscher
told the mass meeting called to begin
the organization campaign. First
steps are being taken to organize silk
dye house workers who do $50 Of the
silk dyeing of the country.
The union is also consolidating its
organization of broadsilk workers
preparatory to presenting demands for
a higher wage scale at the opportune
moment The industry has suddenly
slumped so that the union is not ready
to make it's demands.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Carlo
Tresca and Giacomo Artoni, Anal
gamated Clothing Workers organizer,
speaking at the mass meeting urged
complete umionization of broadsilk,
ribbon and hatband and dye house
workers. The speakers mentioned the
S-hour day and higher wages as gains
Of present organization and predicted
greater benefits as unionization in
creased.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Religious Outbreak
In Calcutta Outlets
Down After Rioting

Especial 10 the Daily Workerl
LONDON, April 6-The situation In
Calcutta, where there has been serI-
Gus rioting between the Hindus and
Moslems, has become quiet, according
to dispatches received here late today.
British soldiers now control the troub-
led section of the city. Three hun
bred arrests have been made. Martial
law has been declared.
Another outbreak OF Hindu-Moslem
riots in Calcutta resulted yesterday in
the death of so persons and the injury
Of 900 Others. Feeling between the
Hindu and Moslem population Of
Calcutta is running high.
An outbreak on Saturday resulted
in the death of IL and the injury of
$50, and the burning of Hindu tenn
pie and Moslem mosque.
1t is not clear at this time Just
what caused the trouble. 1t has been
always the British policy to split the
people on religious lines and it is pos
sible the outbreak was caused in this
way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Charge Army Preacher
Lied About Relations
with Beauty Shop Girl
tspeeIaI 70 rhe Daily warker,


SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, April g.
Court-martial proceedings against
Capt. Orville l. Clampitt, 30, army
chaplain and married man, charged
with having made false statements in
connection with an alleged romance
with Lucille Swallow, % year old
beauty parlor attendant, were to be
resumed at the preside here today.
Both prosecution and defense prom
Use surprises. The case was put over
several weeks ago to allow the gather
ing Of affidavits from persons in cities
turnout the United States. Defense
counsel promises mystery witness"
who will clear Clampitt of the charges
against him.
Charge Forgery.
Lucille Swallow, pretty Kansas
beauty parlor attendant, was charged
with forgery when the court-martial
Of Captain Orville l. Clampitt was re-
sumed today at the preside. Miss
Swallow had said that Clampitt had
written her letters in which he prom
Used to "stand by her" and had sent
her money for an illegal operation.
The charge of blackmail had pre-
viously been hurled by the defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Editor Himself Sells
Prescribed Magazine
on Streets of Boston
Especial to Tho Daily worker)

BOSTON, April B-Henry L. Memo
ken, famous editor, defed the police
and ]. Frank Chase, head of the
Watch and Ward Society, today by
selling copies of his magazine, the
American Mercury, at 1.-THE corner of
fremont and Park streets. He had a
city hawkers' and peddlers' license in
his pocket.
With bundle of the April issue
under his arm and accompanied by
Arthur Garfield Hayes, attorney for
the American Liberties Union, Memo
ken cried out his magazine which had
been taken from news stands at the
request of Chase on the ground that
an article called "Hatrack" was i'm
moral. Mencken made a bitter at
tack against Chase who, he said, was
trying to get back at the Mercury
for publishing an article on Chase en-
titled Puritan Pure" in the Septem-
Der issue.
Mencken courted arrest, hoping to
establish test case in the courts.
The police accomodatingly obliged
him by placing him in custody, with
the result that he is to appear in
municipal court today on a charge of
selling impure literature. The main
event, however, of his bout with j.
Frank Chase, head of the Watch and
Ward Society, will be held in federal
court, where Mencken has brought
suit against chase for $4,000 charging
that the latter interfered with the
editors legitimate businesses.
Judge to Read Story.
Judge James P. Parmenter of NUM-
cipal court is going to read the story
"Hatrack" in the American Mercury
and decide whether 1t is fit litera-
allure. The Judge today postponed un-
til tomorrow the case against Henry
L. Mencken, editor of the magazine
after hearing statements by Mencken,
by Henry T. Asbury, New York, the
author of the story about a fallen wo-
man in country town, and by attor-
neys for the editor and ]. Frank
Chase, secretary of the Watch and
Ward Society, who had the issue sup
pressed.
Asks Injunction.
Mencken today filed in federal court
a bill asking an injunction against
Chase and certain magazine distribut-
ing companies from interfering with
the sale of the mercury. Damages
estimated at $4,000 had been done,
the bill asserted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Barcelonians Renew
Move for independence

BARCELONA, Spain, April - The
Spanish governments "exile" OF the
board Of directors Of the Barcelonian
law college because of the publication
of their official list two years ago in
the local Catalonian tongue instead Of
Spanish has only intensified the move
ment for the establishment of Cata-
lonian republic in this northwest por-
tion of the country.
The people of the province produce
over third of the wealth Of Spain
and also pay about the same proper
ton of the total taxation but get lit
tie, they claim in return. The Rifian
war is also very unpopular in this sec
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL
CHILDREN MUST NOT
: WRITE ON COMMUNISM
Especial to Tho Daily wOrker)

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, April g.
U. 8. Webb, states attorney gen
eraI, has handed down an official de-
cIslon that children in the public
schools Of California cannot be
asked by their teachers to write es-
says on the subject Of Communism.
He explained that It would be I'M
possible to compile such an article
without a study Of the subject.
The only logical inference from
this extraordinary ruling Is that the
business interests Of the state,
whose mouthplece the politicians
are, fear even to let little children
Investigate the matter, so appre-
hensive are they that it would make
them sympathetic to the movement.
It seems that California is deter
mined to rank along with the reac-
tionary south In keeping all knowI-
edge Of vital character along poIit-
lcaI and economic lines from her
citizens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
German Croesus Dies,
Leaving Power to Son

BERLIN, April 6.-The mantle of
August Thyssen, Oldest and most pow
erful Of German industriahsts, today
descended upon the shoulders of Fritz
Thyssen. his 55-year-old son, when the
iron and steel magnate died yesterday
at the age of 81, of complications pro-
duced by an attack Of pneumonia.
The elder Thyssen was born in
poverty and achieved his fortune,
estimated at s1OO,OOO,OOO, by his great
ability as a labor exploiter and his
willingness to crush his competitors
by any and all means.
He was reported never to have
spent more than $40 for a suit of
clothes and his automobile was a 1909
model.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Impeached Judge Will
Dispense Usual Justice
Especial to The DaII~ workarl

DANVILLE, ILL.,, April 6.-Altho i'm
peached by the house in Washington
on charges that may result in his re-
moval from the bench, Judge George
w. English, of the U. S. district court
for eastern Illinois, intends to hold
the April session.
At the request of attorneys, the
court session which was to have open
ed at Cairo, ILL.,, this week, was post
poned because OF the township and
city elections scheduled for the dis
trict next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Passaic Strikers
Must Scab to Get
Relief from Legion
Continued from page u

Continued from page u
them are constantly on the inside of
the store-but no strikers come in.
A few relatives of legionnaires enter
from time to time but they are not
strikers. The real strikers stand on
the streets and boo and boot at them
as they go in and out.
Mill Owners Desperate.
With the strike now in its eleventh
week and the. lines still holding firmly
the mill owners are becoming desper-
ate as they see their fall orders of
woolens and worsteds being diverted
to other places. Unless they yield to
the strikers within few weeks they
will lose the seasons profits, while
their former workers will be living at
least as well, on strike benefits, as
they ever did while working in the
mills.
In a desperate effort to break the
solidarity of the strikers the Passaic
chamber OF commerce committee on
information announced that even tho
the strike were soon settled the ma
jority Of the strikers could not be put
to work because Of the depression in
the industry.
The strikers know that this is plain
bunk and the bosses in the mills ad-
NIT that it will require every avail
able worker to get out even a portion
Of the orders available after the strike
is settled.
Knowing the desperate condition of
the mill owners the strikers are more
determined than ever to stay out and
fight until their demands are won and
their organization is recognized by
the mill owners.
Don't waste your breath, put II on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
LINK MEXICAN CAPITAL,
CHICAGO AND new YORK
IN AIR MAIL CIRCUITS
Especial to Tho DAILY Worker,

MEXICO CITY, April 6 - The
Mexican capital will be Joined in
an air mall circuit with San Anto-
Mo, Chicago and New York as soon
as plans being made by the govern
ment can be carried out.
The route from here to San An
tonic has already been mapped out
and trial trips made. The 1900 mile
jump should be made in 10 hours,
according to these tests. The dis
lance from San Antonio to Chicago
would be made overnight, making it
possible for letter mailed here to
reach Chicago in a little over "a
hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
DON'T FORGET THE
I. U. E. [. MEETING
TONIGHT AT 8 P. M.

The local general group Of the
Chicago Trade Union Educational
League will meet tonight at North
west Hall, North and Western AYES.
at 500 p. m.
The speakers will be Manuel
Gomez, II. v. Phillips, Ida Rothstein
and Arne swabeck. All trade union
lists are invited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
Asks Injunction.
PAUL CROUCH

wishes to thank the following com
rades (besides the few he has been
able to answer) for their letters to
him: Alma Polkoff, Louis Hochheim,
Elmer Gertz, Rosa Eisenberg, OF Chi
cago; Maurice Goldin, Denver; T. j..
Lewis, San Francisco; Thomas r.
Mountfield. Canada, and w. r. Burns,
Berkeley, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
14O OUT OF 400
ILLINOIS Mines
STILL OPERATING
Many Miners Work on
Part Time Basis

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April cor the
400 Illinois coal mines only lao are in
operation and most of these on part
time. While the smaller mines were
shut down first quite number of the
large ones have also suspended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS,
ATTENTION.

All worker correspondents OF our
foreign language press are urged to
send In their names and addresses sta
ting for which paper they write. II Is
very important.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08
ARMORED TRAINS
HALTED BY GUNS
OF KUOMINCHUN
Armies Maneuver for
Picking Attack
Continued from Page y
thing. They should, however, not be
credited unless officially confirmed.
rive out American GodoloaIsts

Drive Out American GodoloaIsts
HONGKONG, April 6 - A crowd of
Chinese attacked the American Bap-
list mission hospital at Wu-Chow,
hurting stones thru the windows. The
inmates escaped by a side door, Sew
eral sought refuge aboard an Amer
ican gunboat anchored in the river.
Some time ago the missionary in
charge of the bookstore at the insti-
tuition was requested to carry books
on economics and history. He refused
haughtily, claiming the volumes asked
for were "Bolshevik." This aroused
the students, and combined with the
growing sentiment against the foreign
exploiters, led to the attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-08

Don't waste your breath, put II on
paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02
Ell CENTRO PROGRESSING

Readers of the Press urged to make second
reading of the article in yesterdays ISSUE regarding
building permits issued in Ell Centro during the first
10 months of the year
Figures are uninteresnng to most of US but these
particular figures the best possible barometer Of
Ell CentroS prosperity.
The total amount of permits thus far this year
ceed by $72000 the previous high total for entire
year.
There has been a steady substantial growth in Ell
Centre in the past three years, and there is
why this condition should not continue. There has
been forcing of real estate booms, and this city
does not face the possibility of sudden collapse in
building activities
Three years ago there plenty of vacant stores
in the business district and quite few residences idle
At present store is at premium and houses
Best Of all, Ell Centre people building perTna-
nent homes This shows faith in the future of the
city that is gradually replacing the old ideas of
porary homes Each year we learn little more about
being comfortable here the year round and the ncon
veniences of the pioneer stage rapidly passing.
We all should have faith in FL Centre. It is our
city homes here and interests are here.
When you go outside the valley and look around you
cannot help but get the thought that Ell Centro is
mighty fine town. We all help to make it better
and that should be the purpose Of every resident here
Every citizen should take interest in community
activities, become inbued with the welfare of Cen
tro and # he has not already done convince himself
that FL Centro Is the best town IN southern California.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02
BEAUTY CONTEST
Is FEATURE OF
ARMESTICE DAY

Gi.!s from all parts OF the valley
ayr entering the Miss Imperial
Valley" contest 10 be held in FL
Centre Armisticc Day unucr thr
auspices Of the American Legion
and American Legion Auxiliary.
Het1cl S photo shop has attractive
photographs cf several entrants
which viii be published i'll The
Press the lattcr part Of the week.
he committee III charge urges
every city ana larm district n The
vale. /, choose lis pretu,s, girls
sad enter them, fer someone IS go
.ag to win the e" Miss Imperial
,ontost' represent the valley in
ttc Miss California contest and
perhaps 90 To Atlantic City as Miss
America. It is not merely n
pretty girl contest but is to be con
ductol according to the Miss Cali.
fornia contest rules which include
measurements and persona .t,.
therefore, the gisi who rcp. 5 nts
tLo NaLcT must be atJr, .ctjyc
,..ough III every way to take hrr
lace with The highest type % girls
from all parts of the United States.
The contest viii be held al the
Armistiee Ball and applications
MAJ be obtained at the American
Legion office, 5Ac State street, I'll
C,ntro. Applicants are to wear 4
bathing Costume at the contest and
no one under Is years may enter.
Mrs. Bcss Mitchell, county school
nurse, has been appointed by TIE
American Legion Auxiliary to Wis
II the various high schools ot the
valley 70 se. in touch with gg's
"Lo would liko - enter and 10
meet the mothers OF girls ia-.-cst-
I'd. Ms. Mitchell viii also furnish
application blanks to those who
wish - enter.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02
Representatives
From II Nations
Meet in Japan

TOXIC, Nov. >. Representatives
IL seventeen countries ere meeting
nero il q twelve day Pan Pacific
scientific conference wLich will for
mulat~ concrete scheme for study
~ pacific scientifjr Problems.
Among the nations represented
are the Cnircd States. England,
taaada, China, France, Holland,
hu-tiaiia. Soviet Russia and Jap
an. Hawaii, tac Philippines and
= eua arat -opsoao1-a,iyos.
Subjects 10 Lr discussed include
oooanography Of the Pacific, as
troaamy ~,tIs .pcria. reference to
countries bordering on the Pacific,
various problems regarding move
.ecnts Of the Garth and san, and
ji4t If some t"cntr other miscellan-
eoua topics.
At tac conclusion W. tle confer
encc, Gu Nov. il, the delegates are
H. tour japan and onjoy various
eaj known beauty pots under the
eu.d1nce Of the japanese Commit
tcc in char. Of arrangements.
Prince Kotochito Kan.iu is pres.
.,eu, of session aud Premier Wax
alauki II honorary chairman. For
.,pn Ambassadors and ministers IN
Tokyo h4>e been named yice-chair-
tl0o.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
NOvnr,a lNer . 1Q11

NJ. AID Ms. Daa Leonard are
today moving into their handsome
new cottage or Holt Avenue Yves. OF
seventh street, which has just been
completed by Contractor Travers.
Following Gov. EscudoIa's ) string
cnt orders effective November !. a
4" clean up j. in progress in Mexi-
eel. TIE governor has ordered a
reduction in thr number of drink
ing places aud the suppression of
houses Of vice. The slot machines
art also Il be put out Of commission
and poker games are taxed 50 Leav-
ily as TO make maintenance of a
poker joint practically impossible
Orders have also been given for the
removal OF saloon property from the
territory adjacent to the new plaza
that IS being created along the IN
-.r1,a tfar.,l b2upIarz- limo
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02
THEATERS


The Valley theatcr offers gigan-
tie double feature program for We'd
ncSday, Thursday. The fisrt of two
big features is Norma Shearcr S new
picture "The Waning Sex" with
Conrad Nagel, which is warning to
men.
The Waning Sex" directed by
Robert z. Leonard for Metro Gold
wyn-Mayer, shows just how clever
these young widows are in laying
Snares for the unwary male.
When Mary Booth, played by
Mary MeAllister spills bowl of soup
into Conrad Nagel's lap everything
looks innocent enough. But when
she asks him to slip on bathrobe
while she presses and dries his
trousers the plot thickcns. A bachc-
'or with out his trousers in a wi
dow 5 cottage? Rather compromiS-
ing, what? Supposing somebody
should call! Somebody does call,
bat the convicting trousers suddenly
disappear, making an hilarious angle
to the story. The supporting east
of the picture includes George X
Arthur, Charles McHugh and others.
Mysterious land wildly filmed, in
-" siberia, - the second of the big
features that appear ON the double
bill.
The most mysterious country in
al the universe is depicted with
singular fidelity in Siberia, - Fox
films version of BARLEY Campbell s
unforgettable play. Victor Schert.
ginger who directed this great mas
tcrpiecc has developed humor, pathos
Imperial Valley press., 1926-11-02

Gle Wiggily had two oranges, what
would that make!" and Miss Mouse
nodded to the Rabbit gentleman
who was sitting in her chair.
Let me see. " sad Bunty slow
", counting on her dress Uuttons,
If / had tArec oranges Why
that would make peach short cANs.
On, ism { number work ioIIy?' ana
81 laughed IL gioe.
No, No, 8un.y,' squcaked Miss
"ouSe. Three oranges end tHo
more oranges NroulGn { make =
peach ShorJcake, even il YOU don =
know your numbers. How could
anyone make 4 peach shortcake OF
orangcS?'
"Oh, YOU d be surprised at what
Nurse cane can make. laughed
Blnty. ">he lnaGr cottage p1a
ding the other day and there was
not a aiHg.2 co:5Lgc i'll it, Oh, shc 5
NlaAtrr1m!
Oa, u,lr. sighed Miss Noysc.
" Bunty Will never know her mum
hers.
Let me try, - said Jncle Wig,
sly, so he took some eranberrieS
o.lt of Tao bag and put seven of
them on one side Of the desk and
thrcc on the other side. Now.
Ruury, he asked, "wlat do seven
cranbcrucs and three cranbcrrics
l.ake3"
"Way thcv mahc.'' suddenly
cri"l the llt5lc orphan girl, "tl2t
make tan hard things to throw az
tse TUazv FeX! And as the bad
,hap i&st then tried to jump in
tie open doc9 Bun,y threw the ten
hard craRberries at him, hitting the
foX ou the nose er-hunko-cEgnkl
Oh, m shot with red bullets, -
how.eI the bad chap, and away he
IAN and every one said Buntr was
te-v hravr. And that is how she
learned that seven and three make
tea. SO ii the gold fish will knit
>"n'c Stockings 10 keep warm the
aGs Of he chair, IN tell you nevt
.h9at tnc." #iggilv and tie esten
iea:.