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WALTER S. WARD,
PLUTE BAKER, IS
HIDING IN WEST
indicted Years Ago for
Killing Sailor

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Walter S.
Ward. missing millionaire bakers son,
is living in hiding on the Pacific coast,
according to copyright story in the
Daily Mirror.
He is wearing shell-rimmed glasses
and has dyed his hair, the story says.
Detectives located Ward thu clues
given by beautiful Broadway blonde,
Phyllis Ann Keenan,, who had been
seen in his company, according to the
story.
When Ward Disappeared.
Walter Ward disappeared five
months ago. His automobile was
found abandoned at Trenton, N. j.,
with the windshield broken and a
stone found in the car. 1t was feared
by his relatives at the time that he
had met with foul play and constant
search has been made for him.
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AIMEE SWITCHES
her RADIO ONTO
GODS ENEMIES

LOS ANGELES. Oct. 5.--After a re-
cess over the week end. during which
time Aimee Semple Mcpherson, wo.
man evangelist, with the aid OF her
followers at Angelus Temple, por.
trayed the March of the Martyrs
a tableaux Of religious persecution
which she claims is parallel to hei
own case, the preliminary hearing OF
the evangelist, her mother Mrs. Min
ME Kennedy. and Mrs. Lorraine Wise
man-Seilaff, all charged with conspir-
acy, was scheduled to get under way
again today.
An overflow crowd was on hand
last night at Angelus Temple to watch
and applaud Mrs. Mcpherson as the
principal character in the various cpl
sodes depicting religious persecu
ton"
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HOOSIER SCRIBES
P UT ISSUE u P
TO THE GOVERNOR

vINCENNES, Ind, Oct 5.-Thomas
H. Adams, Vincennes publisher and
chairman Of the probe committee of
the Indiana Republican Editorial As
ISOLATION investigating the political
control alleged to have been exercised
OF the republican party in Indiana
by d. c. Stephenson, former grand
dragon OF Indiana ku klux khan, now
serving life sentence in the Michi-
gan City prison, today appealed to
Governor Ed Jackson for special per-
mission to interview Stephenson at
the state prison.
Demand on Governor.
Adams sent the following telegram
TO the governor:
"As chairman OF the probe commit
tee l appeal to you for sweeping
order on Warden Walter DAILY OF the
Michigan City prison for the privilege
OF confidential or public conference
with ID. G. Stephenson. / desire to
take with me six senators whom had
before me Saturday and the six mem
beers OF the probe committee. Mr..
Stephenson has indicated to me that
he desired to meet the newspaper men
represent. II is no attack on jus
tice for a penalized prisoner to be
allowed to tell the truth"
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A. F. OF L. CONVENTION VOTES
SUPPORT TON. Y. CLOAK MAKERS

labor chautauqua to assist organizing
work in the south; denouncing the
company union menace; reaflrmin9
protest against modification of fedora
law excluding aliens ineligible to citi
zenship; request for appointment OF
American members of joint commits
sion to consider problem of Mexican
immigration to this country; covering
the jurisdiction struggle between the
painters and electrical workers; pledg-
ing support to the bakers union in
its war against the bread trust
May Help Porto Rico.
Others proposing creation of a COM
mission by congress to investigate
conditions in Porto Rico; to favor the
transfer Of government administration
of Porto Rico from the bureau of in.
sular affairs to a civil government,
and to continue assistance to organ
lied labor in Porto Rico.
Further resolutions are proposing
that women's label leagues have equal
representation with trade unions in
central bodies; proposing amendment
Of existing laws to require that con
tracts for work done for the United
States shall provide that American cit
liens be given preference TO employ
ing labor at the scale of wages, hours
and working conditions prevailing in
the community within which the work
is performed, this being an attempted
blow at the employment of non-union
alien labor.
Ask o. K. for Smith.
Delegate ]. NJ. O'Hanlon of the New
York State Federation OF Labor In.
troduced resolution urging endorse
ment Of Tammany Hall Governor Al
Smith for election to the presidency
of the United States. Other resolu
tons oppose any further increase in
postage rates on printed matter, con
tinued effort to secure enactment OF
longshoremen's and harbor workers
compensation act, reaffirming adher
ence to the principle OF an inherit
lance tax and opposing legislation for
the registration and finger printing
of aliens.
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w ork ers Party
Candidate Only
One For Masses
CONTINUED from page u

or struck in tho candidacy Of the
Workers (Communist) Party. thru
Louis j. Engdahl, who has collected
enough names to entitle him to get
on the ballot provided the names look
good in the eyes OF those who have
the power to say yea and nay. II the
names OF Louis j. Engdahl appears on
the ballot, then the voters will have
the opportunity to vote for a man
whose palms have not been either in.
sullated by insult or rosined by Ros-
enwald. iE
All the other candidates, wet or
dry, pure or sullied stand for the
capitalist system. Engdahl's program
aims at the overthrow of the present
social order.
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INVITE A. F. OF |.
TO MEET |. 1T. u.
AT MEXICO CITY
Amsterdam Uses 'Crom'
as intermediary
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. FP)-
Through the Mexican Regional Con-
federation Of Labor (the Crom), the
executive council Of the American
Federation Of Labor has been invited
to meet the representatives Of the In
ternational Federation Of Trade I'm
ions, in Mexico City late this month.
Negotiations for the re-afiliation Of
the A. F. Of L. with the l. F. r. U,
whose headquarters are in Amster-
dam, have been carried on with vary.
ing prospect of success for the past
sixty years.
Pan-AmerIcan Federation
Announcement.
Announcing the Mexican invitation,
the Pan-American Federation OF La
Dor says that President Green is asked
to send full delegation ito great the
representatives OF the National Fed
Grafton of Labor from Holland, Eng
land, Belgium, Sweden, France, Den
mark, Austria. Poland, Germany, Italy
and Spain who are going to meet in
Mexico City the latter part of October.
The Mexican Federation of Labor is
very anxious to have the American
delegation in said gathering, which
is not in any sense labor conven-
ton or congress.
Various Unions Re.Affillat-
Three years ago John Brown of the
headquarters STAFF at Amsterdam visit
ed the Portland convention Of the
A. F. Of L. and then went to Mexico.
He made report urging that efforts
be made to get the Mexican labor
movement to affiliate with the I. F. It.
U. Later, when Ramsay Macdonald
took a hostile attitude toward the
obregon government in Mexico,
Brown stood by the Mexicans.
In recent months the Brotherhood
Of Carpenters have affiliated with the
Wood Workers section of the /. F.
T. o., and the machinists have re.
newed their affiliation with the Metal
Workers Federation of that interna-
tional. The United Mine Workers are
affiliated with the Mine Workers Fed
Grafton and various other bodies in
the A. F. Of L. have begun or re-
sumed relations with other sections
of the Amsterdam group.
A. r. of L. Reservations.
The two main points on which
direct negotiations between Amster-
dam and the A. F. Of L. have failed
are the matter of per capita tax and
national autonomy. The A. F. of L.
has refused to pay as large a per
capita tax as the Europeans demand.
And it refuses to agree to obey any
order-such as that for a general
strike or the circulation OF an appeal,
to which 1t may be opposed-that the
majority may favor.
If an A. F. Of L. delegation goes to
Mexico to meet the leaders of the
|. F. T. U. it will be to thresh out
these differences
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-07
BY }. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
(speclal 70 The Daily Workerl

GRAYSTONE BALL ROOM, DE-
TROIT, Mich, Oct. 5.-The 10th An
nual Convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is now in session.
It opened with the delegates stand
ing while a dance orchestra played
the Star spangled Banner,
But the American flag was missing
from the decorations. Frank X Mar
tel, president of the Detroit Federation
of Labor, apologized to the delegates.
He stated this oversight would be
remedied Immediately. Sure enough!
While President William Green was
making his opening speech great boxes
of The Stars and Stripes" began ar
irving
peace" is supposed to have been
patched between the recently warning
labor" elements in the republican
party when Mayor John w. Smith, of
Detroit, appeared before the A. F. of
L. convention and delivered his adj
dress of welcome. Smith who claims
that labor votes elected him and who
says he is a member of the Letter
Carriers Association, was on the side
Of the Governor-Elect Green crowd in
the recent internecine strife in the
Wayne County (Detroit) convention Of
the republican party. Frank X. Mar
tel, president of the Detroit Federation
of Labor, was with the Governor
Groesbeck outfit that failed to capture
the convention against their Green op-
ponents. The local kept press, thru
the appearance Of both Mayor Smith
and Martel on the platform at the
opening Of the convention, declare that
peace and harmony" has again been
re-established within the Wayne Coun.
ty republican party, the republican
party that is dominated by the Coo
lidge-Mellon crowd that speaks thru
the Detroit Free Press that threatens
the delegates to the convention not to
tamper with the satisfactory" work
ings of the American Plan alias "Open
Shop" Plan in the city of Detroit. II
is sufficient to quote the old saying
Politics makes strange bedfellows"
Morris Hillquit, the New York so
cialist, was one of the early arrivals
on the first day, Monday. He was in
Detroit, Sunday, for a lecture and
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Brownie and his colleagues with us
this morning"
1t was far different last year at At
lantic City when Fraternal Delegate
Purcell threw down the gauntlet to
the A F. of L. delegates on the
question of international labor solidar-
ity including the workers of the
Union of Soviet Republics resulting
in lengthy and bitter speech by
Green in reply.
viii Smother Mexican Issue.
The regular fraternal delegates to
the A. F. of L. from Great Britain,
Canada and Mexico will make their
speeches tomorrow. Efforts are being
made to smother any controversial
issues that the Mexicans might raise.
German Urges Unity.
Joseph Siemann Of the German
Shoe Workers Union VINO is in this
country studying conditions for his
organization also addressed the con-
vention urging greater unity be-
tween the workers of the world I'VE
must unite together internationally
to get better wages and conditions, {"
he said.
Vernon E. ziegler, a law student
from the University Of Chicago, an
nounced as representing the federal
council of the churches of christ,
pleaded for a better understanding
between American student elements
and the working class.
Students Interested.
He said there is growing number
Of students in the colleges and uni
versities Of the country who are show
ing a genuine interest in the prob
lens of labor and industry. He said
special efforts were being made to
persuade students not to allow them
selves to be used as strikebreakers.
The first bid for next years A. f.
of L. convention hasteeome from st.
Petersburg. When the invitation was
read off by Secretary Frank Morri-
son no mention was made of the state.
rs that st. Petersburg, Russian"
called out Delegate Max Hayes of
the printers delegation.
Ask Andy, He Knows.
ooh, you're behind the times, Max"
chimed in Andrews Furuseth, the head
of the seamen's delegation. Don't
you know that st. Petersburg, Russia,
has been changed to Leningrad?"
This voluntary information from
Furuseth put the convention in an up.
roar OF laughter. The invitation was
from the Rotary Club OF st. Peters
burg, Florida.
Porto Rico Labor Has Strike.
Greetings we're received from the
organized workers Of Porto Rico call
Ing attention to the two months
ltrike Of 5000 tobacco workers on the
Stand.
Many Resolutions.
Resolutions have been introduced
aillng for aid to the Passaic textile
trikers; also for assistance 10 the
axtile workers lighting the wage re-
uctlon inaugurated by the American
bread Company OF willlmantic,
lonn.; urging the establishment OF a
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18th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
MEETS WITH NO FLAG In SIGHT

stayed over for the start OF the con
vention. Hillduit was busy presenting
Tony Sender, the socialist woman
member of the German reichstag now
touring this country, to the various
delegates.
Christian M. Madsen, former social
list state legislator in Illinois, is in the
delegation of the painters union. He
promises to remain quiet.
William Brandt, St. Louis socialist,
is here as delegate of the St. Louis
central labor union. Frank ]. Weber
and Henry J. Oil, Jr., both Wisconsin
socialists, are here for the Milwaukee
central labor union and the Wisconsin
state federation Of labor,
Frank Duffy, of the carpenters I'M
ion, vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, and not First
president James Duncan, Of the
Granite Cutters, who has for years
performed this ceremony, presented
the report of the Executive Council.
He gave merely summary, however.
The 6O-page report, in printed form,
was turned over to the delegates.
Statistics as to the number of dele
gates who actually read the report
would no doubt furnish interesting
revelations.
John Bromley, one of the fraternal
delegates from Great Britain, got the
floor ON the first day to present Presi-
dent William Green with an inkstand.
He said it was the gift Of the workers
in the British railway industry who
have just been celebrating the 101st
anniversary of the running of the first
steam train in the British Isles. This
is the Bromley who received rough
treatment at the hands of coal miner
delegates to the recent British Trade
Union Congress, who charged he had
aided the employers attack on the
strike. 1t was only after an adjourn
ment and a reconvening of the con-
gress that Bromley was able to get
the floor and make his address.
Rabbi Stephen L. Wise, of New
York City. is coming to Detroit to
address the delegates on the Passaic
textile workers strike. He has taken
an active part in this struggle. Ellen
Lawson, one of the Passaic strikers,
will also address the convention.
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CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
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is not content with making life miser.
able for the girl but insists that she
must grab of everything in her i'm
mediate vicinity that Is not nailed
down. This is what a London cor
respondent has to say about this re-
markable girl: when Eleonore is
present. It is said, money disappears
mysteriously from peoples pockets
and rings from their fingers. Some
times they do not return. The girl
herself however is the principal suf-
ferer. Needles from nearby work
baskets are reported to stick them
selves in her arms and hands and
even in her face and her cheeks are
sometimes smeared with color from
red or blue pencils"
THERE is a lot more to this but
= enough for the nonce. Eleonore
got a trip to London out OF It and a
corps Of bewhiskered scientists are
analysing the phenomena. Let us
hope she is good-looking. Again we
say that the opportunity to make
good in this world is no more rare
today that one hundred years ago. In
fact II is quite the other way. In all
probability II Eleonore lived a few
hundred years ago the evil spirits
would be saved the trouble OF stick.
ing needles in her anatomy. Some
quite earthly person would jab a red
hot poker into her on the ground that
she was in open and remunerative
competition with the state god.
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frame-up agents-the BRIBE! Here
was Kelley's threat and offer:
"Now, II you do this (sign the af-
fidavlt), you know what It will mean
to you" declared Kelley. "As un-
derStand you, you have never been
mlxed-up In any serious crimes, only
hauling whIskey or bootleggIng.
YOU HAVE EVERY CHANCE FOR
COMPUTATION OF YOUR SENT
ENCE."
1t will be remembered that Weeks
was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Here was chance to Join the
frame-up gang and win his liberty.
But Weeks showed that there is
more honesty and decency among
convicted criminals that among the
frame-up agents of the department
of justice of the United States gov
eminent, and its allies and lackeys.
Weeks showed this when Kelley,
the prosecutor, seeking to win his
favor and weaken his opposition,
gave him (Weeks) a cigarette. and
then asked whether. anything had
been offered Weeks for making
statement. Weeks defiantly replied:
"No, not as much as this
cigarette has been offered to
me by anyone concerned in
the Sacco-Vanzetti case"
Even that didn't floor the frame
up agents. Weeks said that Mr..
Kelly and Mr. Fleming threatened
him that if he signed a statement,
It would put the state and the police
to plenty Of trouble, and that he
himself would be in fine fix If they
were to indict him for being on the
South Braintree job in 1920, and
also indict him as an accessory to
the shooting Of the woman in the
North End of Boston, of which Ma
deiros had told Weeks.
It has not been shown anywhere
that Weeks had anything to do with
the South Braintree affair. Weeks
retorted to the government officers
that he could easily prove where he
was on both Of these occasions. He
said Fleming then remarked that
he, Weeks, was inside and that
Fleming was outside; that Fleming
could look up plenty of things and
that Weeks would have fine time
trying to prove where he was.
In other words, the police threat
ened to use the frame-up against
Weeks, the convict, as they had
used it against Sacco and Vanzetti,
to advance the interests of the cap
italism that they served.
In further attempt to puncture
the affidavit OF. Weeks, the police
officers asked Weeks If 'Madeiros
had ever told the story he had told
Weeks in the presence of others,
and Weeks replied that Madeiros
had told about different parts of the
affair in the presence of Steve Ben
kosky at Lime Rock Inn, six miles
outside OF Providence. Weeks said
Joe Morelli owned various cars, in
GLIDING a large Cole. 1t was Cole
car that carried the license plate at
New Bedford, few days after the
same plate had been attached to
Buick car in South Braintree, a
Buick car having been used in the
South Braintree crime.
Thus the visit of the frame-up
agents with the convict, Weeks, in
the Massachusetts, state prison
came to nought. Will they succeed
elsewhere?
Tomorrow:-Other attempts by
the prosecutors of Sacco and Van
zetti to keep the frame-up ship
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DISTRICT 8, U. M. w., TO
HOLD CONVENTION At
MOUNT CARMEL, OCT. %

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Oct. a. -
tFP)-plstrlet Q, United Mine
Workers Of America, will hold It's
22nd constitutional and fifth bien-
NAL convention at Mount Carmel
for three days beginning Oct. 20.
Chris Golden 10 president Of the
district. one Of the three anthracite
ones.
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corn Rulned hv Blood

DANvILLE. ILL.,. Oct. 5.--More than
1000 acres Of sugar corn had to be
abandoned in the fields by the Mil.
ford Sugar Corn Co. on account OF the
rains and water which has covered
the fields. The corn has passed the
stage when IL is fit toi be "a whole
some human food but can be saved
for fodder for animals this winter.
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Convict Rejects Offer
of u. S. to Aid Betrayal
of Sacco and Vanzetti
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE frame-up of Nick Sacco and
4 Bartolomeo Vanzetti at its pres
ent stage is like sinking ship. 1t
has been shot thru and thru with
broadsides OF repeated disclosures
that have revealed to the world the
rotten hulk of the case manufacture
ed against these two italian work
ers by the United States govern
ment, thru its department of justice,
in collaboration with the local pros
ecutors in the Commonwealth Of
Massachusetts,"
This frame-up of the capitalist
government was again raked fore
and aft by the terrific attack of SO
truth-teliing afldavits presented in
one court by Attorney William G.
Thompson and supported in argu-
ments by him before Judge Webster
Thayer at Dedham, Mass.
The truth is so overwhelming that
even a six-year-old child could con
fidently declare for the innocence of
Sacco and Vanzetti, not knowing
one word of the law. But not so the
court and the lawyers for the prose
cution, bolstering the rule of the
electric chair against the working
class.
The prosecution has not run up
the white flag Of surrender. 1t does
not admit the very evident nature
of it's frame-up. 1t is still struggling
to put Sacco and Vanzetti to death.
1t is carefully and deliberately pro-
ceeding with the task of plugging
up all the leaks in its frame-up,
fighting off the scuttling of it's case
as best it may. 1t clings to its
charge of guilty." against Sacco
and Vanzetti, 1t still seeks their
lives.
These tactics of the prosecution
were well revealed in the insidious
efforts made by the prosecution to
get James H. Weeks, the pal of
Celestino Madeiros in the Wrent-
ham National Bank robbery, to re-
pudiate his admissions made to the
Sacco-Vanzetti lawyers, in which he
corroborated many points brought
up in the confession by Madeiros
that the South Braintree job was
the work. of the Morelli gang of
Providence, Rhode Island.
1t was on May 9th, this year,
that Attorney Thompson visited
Weeks in prison, where he is serv-
ing life sentence. Weeks told
Thompson that after making an af-
fidavit for Sacco and Vanzetti on
May 25th, and before signing it, he
was visited by Michael Fleming of
the state police and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Kelley, of Norfolk
county, with stenographer. This
was the frame-up supporting trio.
AhAs II lCnilASy w tchS bdlut uTSL
talked with him alone, saying he I'M
derstood that Mr.. Thompson had OBJ
tanned from Weeks full confession
in regard to the South Braintree
hold-up. Weeks told Fleming that
he had made statement but had
not yet signed it. Fleming, the cum
ming, asked If any inducement had
been offered and Weeks told him
moi" Fleming and Weeks were
then Joined by the others.
Mr.. Kelley, the assistant prose-
cutor, part Of the staff organized to
put the frame-up over, asked about
the statement and finally said, ''Mr.
Thompson will be out shortly with
an afidayit and will ask you to
place your signature on it,"
Then the spokesman for the hang
men Of the working class in Mass
achusetts used the familiar lure Of
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That worker next door TO you
may not have anything to do to-
night. Hand him this copy Of the
DAILY WORKER.
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Send us the name and address Of a
progressive worker TO. whom we can
send sample copy Of The DAILY
WORKER.
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Walter S. Ward, son of William
B.. Ward, bakery king" has al
ways had more money than he
knew what to do with Il. Several
years ago he was implicated in
brawl that resulted In the death Of
a sailor. He is also given to mys-
terIous disappearances. This last
time he vanished In New Jersey
several months ago and has only
now been found disguised, with his
hair dyed, and wearing tortoise
shelIed glasses on the Pacific coast.
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