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Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20
Thursday, May 20, 1926

of the former inhabitants to WI
tors.
Twelve miles from the Lost City
tlc direction of Las Vegas ~ II
.'N:llcv of Fire. - This strange N
impressive area is a basin about
urlcs long and three miles wide WI
II rough floor and Jagged walls
blood red sandstone.
The rock walls are weather bca
on and worn and assume fantaslI
shapes, and many places are cy
cred with pctroglyphs Inscribed
the early inhabitants of the scct'd
After visiting the Black canyi
dam site on the Colorado river viii
is about 20 miles from Las Ncga
and which is recommended by 4
government engineers rs the bd
site for the Boulder dam, we rctu
Cd to FL Crntro via Needles haviI
thoroughly en- ioycd our four-dl
iaunt to the country that means &
future to Imperial Nallcy-whcn 4
Eouldcr dam and the All AmcricI
canal ar" built.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20
FOLLOWERS THINK
EVANGELIST DEAD
Continued from Page y

after she had been reported drown
ed. and the time was said to have
conflicted with the time when she
left the Ocean View hotel for her
dip in the ocean.
A pail of gloom hung over Ange-
lus temple, the magnificent taber-
nacle supported by $4,000 followers
of Aimee Semple Mcpherson.
Mrs. Minnie Mother Kennedy,
the evangelist s mother. was near
collapse today from the strain of
the tragedy. She wept bitterly as
hundreds of disciples of the -Four.
Square Gospel called at her luxur-
ious home adjacent to the huge tenn
pie TO console her.
While this scene was being en-
acted, additional hundreds of wor-
shippers filed into the church to
pray Outside the home, curious
members walked back and forth.
LOS ANGELES, May 2O.-Hun-
dreds of devoted disciples of Aimee
Semple Mcpherson, missing evange-
list, joined with police and life
guards today in a renewed search
for her body along the ocean shores
at Venice, where she was believed
to have drowned Tuesday.
{ Not trace Of Mrs. Mcpherson
has been found, and the search was
! ordered continued indefinitely.
Scenes of near rioting occurred in
front of the Ocean View hotel
where thousands of morbidly curious
men, women and children, many of
! them followers Of Mrs. Mcpherson,
4 gathered TO aid or watch in the
! search.
! Some expressed doubt that the
/ evangelist had been drowned, ad-
! vancing the theory she may have
! left the beach to carry out plans
unknown to her secretary and fam
lily. This invariably precipitated
an argument with worshippers of
/ Mrs. Mcpherson.
Successor Is Picked
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of
the missing evangelist, has called a
meeting of the board of trustees of
Angelus temple for this afternoon
when plans will be made TO carry
on Aimee IS religious work. a daugh
ter, Roberta, l5. has been picked to
succeed Mrs. Mcpherson as the spir-
itual leader OF the many thousands
who support the million dollar "soul
factory and radio station.
Mrs. Kennedy has offered a $500
reward for the recovery of Mrs.
! Mcpherson 5 body, and has engaged
Burns detectives to aid in the search,
and investigate the apparent drown
ing.
Several followers of the evangelist
recalled today that she may have
had premonitiOn Of death when
she broadcast her regular sermon
Sunday night
Almost Forgot Collection
IF anything should happen to me,
how many of you would carry on,
she broadcast, while the congrega-
tion at Angelus temple, kneeling,
responded in chorus:
- will, sister. Praise God. -
Mrs. Kennedy is conducting the
daily services at Angelus temple.
Aimee is dead, asleep in the arms
Of Jesus, she told the congrega-
tion. Il must do as she wished
carry on-and you must, too. i al
most forgot to take up the collec-
ton
''Praise God, - the congregation
s0bbed, many of them weeping un-
ashamed whenever the name Of
Aimee was mentioned.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

Yes, Sir! Here's a home-rolled ciga-
rette you can brag about. One right after
the other that's the way you'll roll
'em. This friendly tobacco can't bite
the tongue or parch the throat. The
Prince Albert process fixed that for all
time. Try this better cigarette tobacco.
If you have never been able to smoke
a pipe successfully, try it again with
P. A. You'll stick this time! Pull that
cool, fragrant smoke up the pipe-stem
and see what beautiful world it is after
all. Try Prince Albert-today!
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

Fresno reports that England con-
sumed twice rs many Sun-Maid raj
sins in 1925 rs in 1924.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

The crop Of Ti]ton apricots in
Kings county promises TO be an cX-
ceediugly good one.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

More than 300 cars of Valencia
oranges will be shipped from Tu-
larv county this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

Speaking Scotch is much more
difficult than drinking it.
on a new charter in August.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

In the season just closed, Sanger,
Fresno county, received more than
100000 for its citrus crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-05-20

Marysville, Yuba county, is
building a $4,000 swimming pool.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
This Weeks Prizes!
MINERS WILL VOICE GRIEVANCES
UNDER THE SLAVE CONTRACT THRU
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS PAGE

grievances are going to find their way
into the correspondents page of The
DAILY WORKER. Too many of them
cannot be sent in Room for all Of
them will be found somehow. The coal
miners, the progressives, who inspire
the militant struggle and carry the
burden Of the wrath of the Lewis
czardom, have pledged themselves to
Write as They Fight"
They are going to tell OF their ex-
periences, and the experiences of
their fellow workers in the mines un-
der the five-year slave contract. When
their stories appear. they are going
to get bundles of that issue and pass
out the copies among the miners,
many of whom, too many, do not know
the cause of their woes, altho they
all have many bitter complaints. Let
workers in other industries take a
tip from the militants in the coal in
dustry to write for the worker cor
respondents page.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Democratic Illusions
Shattered by Liaptchev

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 21-The H.
lusions that Bulgaria would become
a democracy due to the change OF
government, are thoroly destroyed by
the statements of Liaptchev himself
In an interview Liaptchev said to the
editor Of French paper:
I'VE are very satisfied with all po-
lice institutions which have led the
struggle against the elements of re-
volt. We thank them for II. And we
ask them to continue their work"
One can hardly say It more clearly.
The Bulgarian hangmen who have
murdered and tortured on a large
scale, receive the promise that moth.
ing will be done by the new" system
against them on account OF their past
crimes and that they have the duty
to continue their work also under the
new government against the impris
oned workers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
BY J. LOUIS ENepAHL.

THE coal miners in the anthracite
have pledged themselves to be-
come loyal supporters and constant
contributors to the worker correspond
ents' page.
They admit they are going to have
much to write about in the days ahead.
The BLACK Friday" agreement has
gone into effect, the men have been
sent back to "the mines" and are
faced with their old enemies-the
mine barons-who are at their old
game of bleeding the workers at every
pore. sr
Huge volumes would not be large
enough to contain all the grievances
growing out of the Surrender agree
ment" of President John l.. Lewis,
under which the mine workers were
delivered, bound and gagged, into the
grip of the coal profiteers.
But the stories of many of those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
CARPENTERS OF
TWIN CITY ASK
FOR INCREASE
Also Plan for Vigorous
Organization Drive
Hy a Worker correspondent

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. 10. -
Members of the Twin-City District
Carpenters Council have voted almost
unanimously for an increase in pay
The increase asked is from ninety
cents to S1.121a per hour for an eight
hour day, wage of SO per day.
Eighty-eight per cent of the mem
bership voted in the referendum. Out
Of 1881 members, 2,072 were in favor
Of demanding an increase in pay, and
1856 against. The majority of those
voting favored the continuance of
the S-hour day and the 44-hour week.
Some voted for a 6-hour day and
5-day week
In the meeting Of Local No. 7 in
Minneapolis at which the increase
was discussed and voted upon, the
business representative Of the district
made a plea which did not change
the desire OF the membership. He
thought that a dollar an hour would
be enough II II could be gotten, that
many contractors would lose money,
and that a big increase in pay would
be hard on the fair employers. The
sentiment was overwhelming against
him and there was threats OF remov.
ing him from the arbitration board.
Members of the council said that
the reports are that the contractors
will ask 9-hour day. This may mean
fight. The left-wing in the organiza-
ton has the opinion that all non.
union carpenters must be brought into
the organization. This can only be
done by lowering the initiation fees
for a period OF ninty days and con.
Quoting vigorous campaign for mem.
bership. All leaders that are prone
to show any hesitancy should be
watched and replaced II they do not
conduct a determined fight for this
Increase in pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Russia Legalizes
Abortions as Step
In Eradicating Evil

MOSCOW, -(Tass) Feb. 21-The
conference for the safeguarding of
motherhood and infants has devoted
serious attention to the question of
birth control d. Genss, an instruct
or Of the Moscow health department
for the safeguarding of motherhood
and infants, has delivered an extern
sive report on that interesting ques-
ton. He showed the steady growth
of abortions in the bourgeois states,
disregarding the law against it. In
Germany the number of abortions in
the last year has increased by 10 to
Is per cent. Seven thousand women
die yearly from secret abortions. Tens
of thousands are yearly being crippled
for life thru them, or contract chronic
diseases.
The decree legalizing7 abortions in
the u. S. s. R. has in view two aims.
The first is to take them from the
underground and thus safeguard the
health of women. The second aim is
to get the possibilities Of studying the
social and economic conditions of the
women that are undergoing the OPP
Grafton in order to introduce the neces-
sary social measures for the diminish
ment of the need for obortions.
The legalization of abortions, stated
DR.. Genss, has at the beginning met
hostility of the majority of Soviet
physicians.
DR.. Genss insisted that the legaliza-
ton Of abortion is the only right
method to protect the women from
the results of underground abortions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
BY A Worker Correspondent.


NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-That the
party recognized on the basis of the
shop nucleus makes units function
better and with greater results can
be seen from the following:
Unit 5B2F held its regular meeting
last Monday at six o'clock with 100
per cent attendance. TIE nucleus has
IL members and Tie entire IL were
present-and osse new member was
initiated int9 she party.
The following was some of the or.
der of business discussed: 1. Issuing
of now books; 2. Ways and means to
increase the circulation of the DAILY
WORKER; 8. The question of mem.
bers joining the unions; 4. Labor par
ty campaign, etc.
On point No. 1, new books were is
sued to all members.
Boost DAILY WORKER.
Five DAILY WORKER sub cards
were sold. All members of the nu-
cleus are either subscribers or are
buying the Daily regularly on the
newsstands.
1t was decided to solicit and find
more newsstands for the Daily. In
view of the fact that great number
of newsstands are situated in this fac
tory district, the entire nucleus con-
stituted itself into number of COM
mittees each one to visit at least one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Horthy Calls Bank Note
Forgers National Heroes

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Feb. 81 -
Despite all affirmation that the bank
note forgery will be treated as a pure
ly criminal affair (Which would enable
the Hungarian counter-revolution to
hide the political background Of the
forgery the supporters of the Horthy
regime are working hard to glorify the
criminals. The counter-revolutionar
Hungarian press honors the forgers
as "revengers" for the Trianton peace
treaty.
Other papers begin to understand"
the motives of the criminals and stress
their highly patriotic" character.
While the police in Hungary treats
revolutionists with the most brutal
tortures, the counter-revolutionary
criminals enjoy the most polite and
amiable treatment For hours the
police and the accused discuss what
they should admit and what they
should hide-in the interest of the
Hungarian nation" In prison they en-.
joy special rights. The furniture of
the princes sleeping room was trans
ported in the cell" of Prince Win
dischgraetz on the excuse that prison
regulations allow prisoners to have
their own bed linen"
In the bourgeois press and in
some democratic organs the claim is
being raised that the main accused,
the former chief of the Hungarian
police, Nadossy and Prince Windisch-
graetz are well known as "neurotics"
AS people who cannot be made fully
responsible for their actions. Prepare
tons are already being made to re-
lease the Heroes of Hungarian free
dom" as martyrs from their prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
NEGLIGENCE ON PART
OF COMPANY CAUSES
DEATH OF TWO MINERS
BY Worker correspondsnt.

GREENs5URe, Pa, Feb. at.-Ne.
glect Of the Mt. Pleasant C onneIls-
vile Coal and Coke company 70
properly examine the elevator
which hoisted the men from the
mine, resulted in the death Of two
workers, John skos and Robert
Russell. Almost every bone In
their bodies was broken.
Four other workers narrowly es-
capped death when the elevator fall.
ed to stop at the top and Il the
frame work. These men were
thrown from the elevator to the
platform and were badly bruised.
The elevator after hitting the tin
broke from the cable and was plunq-
ed 400 feet to the bottom Of the
shaft.
The accident was witnessed by rs
miners who we're waiting al the
bottom Of the shaft to be hoIsted
up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23

Commenting on the resolutions of
the congress of the Russian party,
Aurora" writes:
After nearly two years extremist
policy of the government in the ques-
ton of the relations to other states,
the Russian Communists have ad-
mitted that they find themselves on
the way of decline and have now made
halt. They have made halt rather
late after they have admitted that
they have melted Morocco to riot, that
they have taken part. in the provoca-
ton of the rebellion of South Bess-
arabia. :"
The organ of the government vii
torul" s9atches that comment of "Au-
rora" and declares that "the organ
of the Zaramists is now acknowledge
ing, that the Soviets have been agitat-
ing in Tartarbounar, what they have
been denying up to now"
BY it's new attitude the peasant
party acknowledges expressively that
the policy of the government in the
question of the relations to Soviet
Russia and in the Bessarabian guess
ton was correct"
Answering the conclusions of vii
torul," Aurora" writes in it's issue of
Jan. IL:
1--WE have always said that the ex-
tremist policy of the Soviets and their
continuous interference with the in
ner questions of other states can find
nobody's sympathy. We have never
denied that in Tatarbounar an inter
ference of the Soviets has taken place.
Our attitude towards the Soviets has
always been the attitude of the entire
western democracy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
Office Workers Union
Plans Campaign to
Organize Unorganized
By a Worker Correspondent

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. q -
Jealous effort is being displayed by
the youthful members of the book
keepers, photographers and office
workers union to reach the masses of
Office workers who are exploited daily
in Minneapolis.
This Organization, altho only some
three years old. has increased it's
membership by goodly number since
its inception The members are young
trade unionists. who are alive to the
problems Of the working class, and
knowing that they are an intrinsic
part of that class, have shown a desire
to participate in all of it's struggles.
We are right now engaged in plan
ming an energetic, city-wide campaign
for membership. The committee in
charge is drawing up a circular letter
in which they set forth the needs for
organization among the under-paid
office slaves of Minneapolis. The mem.
bership in general has signifed it's
Willingness Incorporate in every way
to make this campaign a success.
To.save as much expense as we can.
we are going to put on a regular old
fashioned corn husking party at which
all the union members will contribute
the labor necessary to address, fold
and seal the circulars.
Not only is the Bookkeepers, Steno-
graphers and Auditors Union busy
building up its own organization. but
it is closely cooperating with the
trade union movement in Minneapolis
At its last meeting the union voted to
buy two shares of stock in the Labor
Temple Association.
We have live educational commit.
tee, toe. Whenever possible we invite
outside speakers to come in and tell
US of the struggles and successes of
the trade union movement. All office
workers of the Twin Cities, are invited
to come in and help us build a union
that will become a powerful force in
the struggle toward working class
emancipation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
HOw One Party Nucleus Functions

newsstand and report to the next
meeting as to the prospects of the
placing of The DAILY WORKER on
them for sale.
1t was decided also that as soon as
a newsstand is found for the Daily,
the Office be Immediately notified and
comrade placed in charge of it.
Join Trade Unions.
In view of the campaign of the party
to have every member join the union,
all those who are not members as yet,
promised to make applications and
one comrade reports he had tried
three times to join and each time he
was refused, on the ground that he is
employed in non-union shop, but
promised to try again.
1t was decided that next meeting be
devoted to the discussion on "why a
labor party" One comrade was asked
to prepare and lead the discussion and
at the same time each comrade of the
nucleus was instructed to procure and
read the pamphlet on the labor party
so that all could be prepared for a
lively discussion at the next meeting.
1t was also suggested that all the other
campaigns of the party be treated in
the same manner.
There were many more things taken
up at this meeting but the above will
suffice to show to other nuclei how
one nucleus is working under the new
structure of the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
MAGNATES
HIRE new BOSS
FOR SPEED-UP
Straw Bosses Dropped
In Rank
BY a Worker correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 21-Speed
up is the slogan of H. D. Williams,
new president of the Pittsburgh Steel
company. AS soon as he received his
position he began dropping workers.
Many carpenter gangs were done
away with and naturally that left some
extra bossesl These bosses received
orders, either to become carpenters
again or quit
One carpenter boss who has been
with the company for the past fifteen
years. being alscab and company man,
took it so hard that he became sick
from worrying over the job he lost.
This should be lesson to him and
other workers. This worker has given
his time to the steel trust instead of
the workers cause and his reward was
to be lowered in his position.
The first to be fired were the union
coal miners.s Perhaps he was guard
ing against the miners talking union
ism to the other workers. And il is
likely that it was put up job to force
the miners to accept the coal barons'
conditions.
The same H. D. Williams was the
honored speaker of the Monessen
board of trade banquet this year. He
predicted a prosperous year in the
steel industries and we are prosper
ing on three days week work. But
since he is the henchman of the capt.
talist class the only prosperity he can
think of is the company's prosperity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-23
FORD BOSSES
DRIVE WORKERS
With SPEED-UP
Klansmen Aid Detroit
Flivver Magnate
BY WILLIAM QUEALY,
Worker Correspondent.

DETROIT, Feb. 21.-The slave driv-
ers at the Ford plant in Highland
Park are experts at handing out pun
ishment to the workers who must toll
under them.
In order to hold a job one must
actually be a sucker. The way to be
sucker is to work like the devil and
every time that the form of the boss
shows itself-and save us from the
superintendent-you must cringe and
let them see that you consider your
self an inferior being. They seem to
like it and it makes them feel all
the more important. The straw boss
is somewhat of a sophomore gentle
man wearing an imitation diamond
ring. From that gentleman you get
most Of the orders. The sucker who
sets the pace must take care that we
turn out the production.
Workers Burn Self.
Eleven other workers besides my
self worked on. emery grinding stones.
The stuff that we worked on came red
hot from an electric furnace. Tho
they are red hot you must handle
them as best you can with your as
bestos gloves. 1t is not an unusual
happening to get burned, particularly
around the wrists and elbows from
flying sparks and grit.
Every hour the straw boss and suck
er marks on the blackboard with
chalk the amount produced by each
man to get the different fellows to
speed-up to show they are better
slaves than the others in the same
department.
No matter how hard they try, the
workers are never able to beat the
pace-maker that is set among them.
KIansmen Enemy Of Workers.
In the Highland Park plant there
are a lot of the klansmen from the
south. These klansmen are the great
est menace to the workers in this
shop and they are the greatest dan
ger to the American labor movement.
They always act as the spies Of the
company telling on the men who see
the need Of union and who carry on
union agitation in the plant.
Conditions in the Ford plant will
never be much better until the work
ers recognize their identity of in
terests and join the unions and fight
for better conditions.