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Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
PERSONALS

b. Bird Hobby left for San Di
|pday, where she plans to spend
ek with her daughter, Lena
who is attending school there.
planned to motor by way Of
side, on account of the con-
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

residents Of Chicago, who came to
California this fall to make their
home.
B. d. Button, Ell Centre mana
ger of the Pacific Telegraph and
Telephone Company, returned to
this city last evening, after a three
days trip to Escondido and San Di-
ego on company and personal bust
ness r..
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
TRAFFIC vIOLATORs FINED

Only four traffic cases had been
brought before Judge I. Mayfield
in traffic court thus far this week.
A total of $75 in fines was col
lected, three penalties of $25 each
being imposed. One plea of guilty
was entered to charge of reck-
less driving, while the remainder
of the cases were of more minor
nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

I. Mayfield this morning. Laing
was charged with failure to pay
wages when due, the complaint be-
ing entered by r. V. Johnson
Laing asked for a jury trial which
request was granted and the ease
placed on the calendar for trial
for Monday, February %.
Residence and Farm Loans. Ed
gar Bros. Realty Co. Phone 100. COS
Main st. adv
DR.. Amy lyous, Osteopath, 7O4
So. Fifth St. Phone 744, adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
NEWS BRIEFS
from City and County

Marcels SOC; Shampoo SOC; Trim
soc; Manicure soc. Vera Rodri-
guez, Casa Rey Hotel, No. II. Phone
ll6. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
WILLIAMS RELEASED

G. l.. Williams has been released
from charge of unlawful posses
sion of intoxicating liquors. Will
Jams was arrested last Saturday
when a quantity of alleged intoxi
cants was found in his machine. An
investigation was conducted in his
ease by Chief Oswalt and he was
ordered released.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
Choice Seats Held-C'hoice o

esats for FL Centre Music and Arts
Association presentation of Prin-
cess Tsianina and Os-ke -non-ton,
Indian singers, Palace theater, Mon
day evening. February 81, available
for holders of receipts for tickets
fer the Ukrainian chorus. Tickets
may be obtained at Valley Drug Co.
today and tomorrow, prior to gener-
al seat sale, which opens Friday
morning. ADJ
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

WILD MALLARD Duck eggs for
Matching. Orders taken. 425 State
st, mon we'd fri
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
ASKS FOR JURY TRIAL

S. d. Laing entered plea of not
guilty when arraigned before Judge
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
LOCAL RESIDENT DIES

Charles F. Davis, aged "a, died
at his home in Ell Centre yesterday
afternoon following a short illness
Funeral services We're held at 3
o clock this afternoon at Lemons
funeral chapel on State street un-
der the direction of the FL Centre
Lodge, b. =. O. f., with Rev. c.
A. Hartman officiating. Mr.. Davis
has resided in Ell Centre for about
four years.
Sweet or Buttered popcorn, tn.
best you ever tasted, at Paul s
Lemonade Stand. Pickwick Stages
Dept adv
DR.. A. B. Hanson, Dentist. Ex.
Waction specialist. Davis Bldg.
evenings by appointment. Phone
3W. adv
Residence and Farm Loans. Ed
gar Bros. Realty Co. Phone 160. COS
Main st. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Chickens Bought and sold. Dress
ed or undressed. Phone 966 for
prices. 1852 Woodward. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Shelled Bltck Walnnts. Sailed
Almonds, Sailed Peanuts. Shelled
Pine Nuts. A. NJ. Williams. Phone
653. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

I. v. Academy of Music offers
superior advantages to students Of
piano, voice. pipe organ and dra-
matte art. 632 Olive. Phone 466J.
After 6 p. M, 466W. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Princess Tsianina and Os-ke-non-
ton, Indian singers, Palace Theater
Morday evening, Feb. 91st. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

DR.. J. F. Foncannon, Osteopathic
Physician. Strictly Osteopathic.
Room 26, Davis Bldg, corner Fifth
& Main SITS. Office Phone 81. Home
Phone 100. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16
DANCE AT MT. SIGNAL

Announcement has been made
that a benefit dance will be held
at the Mt. Signal school house on
Friday evening, February 8. Good
music has been secured to play
throughout the evening. Dancing
will begin at o clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Money to Loan on Automobiles.
Sterling Securities CO., Inc, Fred
r. Cross, Mgr, 660 Main ST. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Wooda Blesy Dance Studio. 70
Orange. Phone 411W. ad
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-16

Kindling Wood For Sale. Phone
241. Valley Lumber Co. adv
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
League of Nations to
Admit Fascist Unions
To Its Labor Bureau

ROME, Jan. 24.--The labor bureau
Of the League of Nations has de-
oided to recognize the Fascist trade
unions in preference to the general
conference of labor. it was learned
here today.
Albert Thomas, representing the
labor bureau established at Geneva
by the League Of Nations has been
having conferences with Edmond
Rossoni, spokesman for the black
shirts who smashed the bona fide
trade unions Of this country and es-
tablished in its place organs for the
advancement of fascism parading
under the name Of Fascist Syndicates.
When Mussolini more than year
ago made the general confederation
of labor an illegal organization and
notified the employers that only the
Fascist Syndicates could deal with
them, the labor bureau of the league
cf nations continued to recognize the
former. Therefore, the change Of pol
icy in Geneva at the present time is
cf major Importance.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
To ElevateIBig Guns
On u. s. Battleships

Washington, jan. 24.-Elevation of
the big guns on I'll American battle
ships was recompended today by the
house naval affairs committee, in vio-
lation of the understanding between
former Secretary Hughes and Great
Britain.
This came in a aIrevised report to the
house providing Tor funds to modern
ize the battleshiIs Oklahoma and Ne
vada. The big guns would be ele-
waited from Is id grees to so degrees,
to equal the rangI of the biggest guns
in the British flbet. Today's action
carried authorization only for work
on. thu ,e,nr-~st9 "a Ao,ra NTa.,nda h,,t
Tecofffnenced fsvsti0n on tfie oUitei
big ships.
Some years ago, great Britain pro-
tested elevatih of the guns and
Charles L. Hughes, then secretary of
state, came to an understanding with
the British state department, grant
ing the English protest. By this ac-
ton, the understanding is considered
in official circles here to be abro-
gated.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
"Passaic" Means Strike


ed 70 cut aid cut wages be-
low the starvation level; what could
he do to make his working condi-
tons decent SO that he might keep
from disease and premature old age?
There was no answer to this prob
lem until suddenly the Botany work
ers walked out on strike, and the Pas
sale textile union started.
Since the Passaic strike began, the
furriers have had long and bitter
battle, the cloakmakers have had a
strike of months, the paper box MAX
ers have been for Is weeks meeting
the clubs of the New York police on
the picket line, yet Passaic is still
carrying on. Remembering all they
have endured, remembering the cour-
age and determination in those faces
at mass meetings, one knows that they
win continue until every one of the
mills-the last to strike as well as
the first, which has already settled
,--agrees TO recognize the workers
union and its chosen representatives.
As they sing and shout at passaic,
Solidarity forever, for the union
makes US strongl"
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
McNary -Haugen Farm
Relief Bill Must Not
Be Republican Football
By j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THE New York World sums up
4 two possibilities confronting the
McNary-Haugen farm relief meas
ure now before congress as follows:
IF it passes Lowden will get the
credit; if it is defeated Coolidge will
get the blame"
The only inference that can be
drawn from this declaration is that
the measure is being used as a poll
tical football to determine who is
to be the presidential nominee Of
the republican party in 1928.
With little more than a month re-
naming of the present session Of
congress, it would be easy for Pres
ident Coolidge to prevent the pas
sage Of the measure. In the
words of The World, "That might
aid him in the east, where his
strength already lies, but it can
only injure him in the west"
The injury in the west is ex-
pected to rebound to the benefit of
Frank 0. Lowden, the multi-mil-
lionaire, who is expected to catch
the republican unpopularity created
by Cal Coolidge and turn it into the
republican popularity that is neces-
sary to retain the rule of Wall
Streets pet party in Washington.
The problem before the workers
and farmers, therefore, is not only
to rap Coolidge on the knuckles,
forcing him to drop his grip on
Wall Streets ruling class sceptre in
Washington, but also to give Low
den the boot so that in his gyra-
tions he will miss the White House
by many mile.
The McNary- -Haugen legislation
has been the central rallying point
for agrarian discomfort for several
years. That discomfort has been
growing, contrary to the deep ex-
pectations and the fond hopes of
the leading reaetionaries of both
the old parties that conditions
would improve. Low prices, how
ever, hit the cotton and corn belts
especially hard, while little inn
provement was shown in other crop
producing sections of the nation,
with the result that even the staid
and reactionary Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON, let loose some radical ut
terances, even declaring that it is
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
American Admiral Placed to
Lead Invasion Of China

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. a.
In spite Of the more extensive pre-
parations Of Great Britain, an Amer
lean naval officer is now in charge
Of operations Of the allied navies in
Chinese waters.
Full responsibility for the protec-
tion of all foreigners in China has
been placed on the shoulders Of Adj
miral c. S. Williams, Commander-in-
Chief of the American forces there, It
was learned today.
AS ranking officer over either the
British or japanese commanders, he
can give the necessary orders to the
allied armada now gathering, it was
stated.
AT the same time it was learned
that Admiral Williams report to the
state department was so "full OF
dynamite" that its publication was
suppressed so as not to unduly alarm
the public.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
New Mexican Crisis
Arises Over Land Law

MEXICO CITY, Jan. PA new
crisis is forcing the issue between
the Mexican and United States gov
ernments over the application Of the
la@s for carrying out article q Of
the 1917 constitution. The crisis is
seen in the action of the Mexican
government in cancelling the drilling
permits granted last year for lands
for which the companies failed to ask
"confirmatory concessions" under the
petroleum laws before January /.
Managers in the Tampico field are
in direct communication with their
principal offices in New York rels-
tive to the coure of action to be pur-
sued to meet the situation.
The cancellations thus far made
extend as far back as last autumn
and affect such companies as the
Huasteca Petroleum. Transcontinen-
tai Petroleum, and the Mexican Gulf,
owned by the Standard Oil, as we'll
as other powerful United States in
terests.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
LANSBURYS WEEKLY Is ANTI COMMUNIST, BUT AMAZED
AN DEOCY OF "PICKLINC Committee"

know that trad unionism is forbid
den in great SECTIONS of the United
States engineering trade? There are
ample tasks for them there.
"The only man who is secure from
Communist or other attacks is the
steady and reliable fighting official,
who cannot be suspected of trucking
to the employers. If American "sane
leaders" had little more backbone
they would be less scared of the Com
munists. A league for more ginger
in the American unions is what they
need more"
This is considered here the judg-
ment Of the rather conservative
groups in British trade unionism on
the fantastic adventure of the re-
dictionary elements in American
unions.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25

time for closer contacts with the
workers in the cities. The St. Louis
joint gathering Of the cotton and
corn growers was an historic event
in itself. Everywhere that farmers
gathered, the Coolidge Mellon adj
ministration was damned, along
with the Wall Street financiers and
the profit-gorged industrialists.
II is easy to understand that, I'M
der this mounting storm of pro.
test, the senate committee on agri-
culture under the chairmanship of
McNary, "should add another bram-
bic in the administration bed of
thorns by unanimously voting a
favorable report on the McNary-
Haugen bill" The World adds that
this bill "is much nearer passage
now than at any time during the
three years it has been before con-
gress."
Whether the bill passes or not,
it should not be a case of "hate
Coolidge" and Glove Lowden," but
= rather of turning the wrath of the
farming population against both
these birds of feather" who prey
on the whole working class.
Great beginnings have been made
i'll the cluster Of states that ex-
tends westward to the Pacific
co.st from R'namcta.
Uere the farmers say, "Let us
take tie McNary- -Haugen farm re-
Lief bill il that is the hest we can
g"t no~- Hut 1t srroiy does not
satisfy our needs. We are going
to keep on fighting, however, until
we get what we want"
This spirit finds it's reflection in
the staunch attitude of the city and
land toilers in Minnesota in support
Of their farmer-labor party. It was
expressed in resolutions adopted at
the first convention of the progress
sive farmers of America, when
resolutions were adopted declaring
for the labor party. The growing
reply to the Coolidge Mellon admin
istration, that refuses relief to the
farmers and that fights the indus
trial workers with every weapon at
its disposal, is independent political
action through the labor party,
raising the call for "the Labor
Party in the 1928 Elections"
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Oil Land Owners to Get
$lOO,O 900, From U. S.;
Result of Court Ruling

TULSA, Okla, Jan. 24.-The de-
cision OF the U. S. circuit court Of
appeals in Philadelphia that federal
income taxes cannot be levied against
profits from development of re.
stricted Indian land. will mean that
stockholders of midwestern oil COM
panles can recover something like
S1OO,oOo,OOO from the government.
This is said to be the sum already
paid by owners Of oil land on the
Usage Indian reservation in this
state.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25

LONDON. January "a. - Lans-
bury's Weekly, representing Sec
ton of British labor unionists, anti
Communist in policy, discusses the
American COMMITTEE for the Pre-
servation Of Trade Unions" under
the title Of "a Strange New League.
Lansbury's goes on to say Of the
movement of Sigman, Hillman and
certain reactionary A. f. L. chief
tains:
"And from what are the American
trade unions TO be preserved? Is it
from the savage brutality of the
ironmasters and coalmasters Of the
United States? Or from the more
insidious slave-driving of the Henry
Fords? From neither. This impos-
ing organization, which claims, and
probably possesses, the allegiance Of
the rank and file of the workers
generally, as well as Of the right
and center leaders. exists for moth
ing else but to fight the Workers
Communist) Party"
After a review OF the publlshed
statement Of "The Committee for the
Preservation Of Trade Unions" and
statement against Communism,
the editorial continues:
Therefore we are not likely to be
suspected Of partially when we say
that the new organization is the sill
liest Of which we have heard for
years. Any trade union leader,
whether it is Mr.. Jones, Of York
shire, or Mr.. sigman, Of New York,
who spends his time in organizing
heresy hunt against section OF
his own members is playing the fool
and befriending nobody but the
capitalists. Have the American lead
ers never heard Of the conditions in
their own steel industry? Don't they
know that their own miners will soon
have to fight the heaviest struggle
az their whole career? DO they not
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Insurgent Republicans
Vote With Regulars
On Lausanne Treaty

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The
Ratchet that administration and in
surgent republicans have welded
Upon each other ever since 1912 was
buried in a flower-strewn plot be-
had the capitol during the recent
vote on ratification Of the Lausanne
Treaty.
The insurgents forgot their differ
cnces and voted as a man alongside
their regular brethren to support the
treaty. It was the first time since
Theodore Roosevelt made. his historic
bolt from the party in 1912, accord
ing to senate historians, that the two
groups voted solidly side by side
against the democrats on a major
political issue.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Success To Daily
Says Manager Local 2

Class conscious workers and COM
rades of New York: Let us greet the
coming of The DAILY WORKER to
the City of New York, the city that
has Of late become the battlefield Of
the progressive workingmen's move
ments, and where at the present time
the greatest struggle the labor move
ment has seen is taking place.
At this moment, when the Sigmans,
and Beckermans, aided by the dis
credited press of the S. F., and with
the aid of the bosses have begun the
campaign TO dominate or to ruin and
to break up the unions, the coming Of
The DAILY WORKER is surely an
omen Of hope to the English reading
masses, and with the truth and sharp
language with which The DAILY
WORKER represents the American
masses the fight Of the progressive
workers in these labor organizations
viii be aided tremendously.
We, the Needle Workers, particu.
larly, greet the Daily Worker, for we
well remember how very struggle
that we have partaken in was the
struggle Of the Daily Worker, and
the nearer our friends are to US the
more courage to our fight for the
preservation Of our unions, ruled and
controlled by the rank and file of the
working class.
Let us all strive together to make
the Daily Worker the paper of the
masses. Success to the Daily Work.
or. for the success OF tho working
masses. JOSEPH BouCHowITZ
Monager Cloak Operators Onion
Local No. ?. I. l.. g. W. Z.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Negro Colonization
Project III Michigan
Ends in Disaster

IRONWOOD. Mich, Jan. "a 49,
More than 200 Chicago Negroes
were preparing today to return to
Chicago with funds raised by the
Ironwood County board following the
failure of their colonization project.
All Of the occupants of the suburb,
Elmwood. were described as desti-
tute today and authorities were seek
ing the promoters who sold them the
property with the alleged promise
that the heavy stand of spruce would
make them wealthy. The settlement
was established last summer.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25

nv rrFS 49,
Great events like great people are
usually born in obscurity. When they
have become famous it seems impos-
sible that there could have been a
time when they were unknown, "How
strange" we say, shat no one realized
that on this day history was being
made and the course of the world
changed"
Today it is hard to believe that a
year ago when the workers of the
Botany Worsted Mill at Passaic
walked out on strike, with Gus Deak
at their head, almost no one knew
about it. Very few paid any atten-
ton to it. Even the labor world did
not realize that one of the greatest
events in Americas union history had
begun with this defiance Of few
thousand unorganized workers in a
New Jersey mill town..
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Frame Up Four Miner
Union Delegates
lContinued irom paee y


for a week. He represented the gang
sters. The judge set it for Friday.
1t is reported from administration
circles that if Hapgood is not fright
ened out by this, or kept in Jail
on charges Of battery, an attempt
viii be made to bar him from the
floor when the convention starts.
Lewis has issued a statement that
the convention Will consider a new
wage contract, to- take the place of
the one which expires on April /.
But he has carefilly avoided stating
whether his polty involves a re-
duction Of wages.
Unorganizel Must Strike.
The militants Are determined not
to take a reduction, but realize that
Lewis policies hRe so weakened the
union, that stike in only the or
ganized fields fith sixty-five per-
cent of the coal production already
coming from Il E non-union fields,
could not win. their fight will cen
ter on action to force the Lewis ad-
ministration to place in the unor-
ganized fields TIE vast arm.- of "in-
ternational organizers" now held al
most entirely in union fields where
they take part in union politics to
keep the international and district
machines in power.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Freiheit Recognizes an Ally

We greet The DAILY WORKER
and recognize the great help it will
be to the struggle now being conduct
ed by the Jewish and other language
press Of the left wing in the New
York unions against the destructive
tactics Of certain reactionary leaders
The DAILY WORKER deserves the
utmost support Of all working men,
--MELECH EPSTEIN, Editor Frei-
heit.
The daily worker., 1927-01-25
Workers Rally
To Save Union
L.L.G.W.Fund
Bond Issue Going Over,
Said Joint Board Head

Thousands of workers thruOut the
country and hundreds of Organiza.
tons are carrying on an energetic
campaign to make the "Save The
Union" bond issue of the New York
joint board of the /. l.. G. w. L. a
success, according TO Julius POrtnOy,
secretary of the joint zoard
in special interview to The DAILY
WORKER yesterday.
WOrkmcns Circle Branches.
There are already "a Workmen
Circle branches that have contribu-
ted to the loan from their treasures
and there are active committees in
i5O braGcnes Of that organization
working to put the loan across"
Active work is going on in the
Independent Workmens' Circl e
branches. in hundreds Of unions and
other workers organizations, com
rade Portnoy declared, giving the
names of a few:
Organizations Assisting.
The Upholsterers' Union Phila.;
The Progressive Carpenters, .niIa.;
Textile Workers, New Eondon; Cap
makers, Rochester; Capmakers, Los
Angeles; Capmakcrs, Boston; Work
ers Cultural League, Worcester,
Mass; Ladies Educational Club, Den
yer, Colorado; Mothers League of
New England; Vacationists at Camp
Nitcedaitd (Co-op.); Lithuanian
Workingelass Women; Workers Dra-
matte Studio; Workmens' Circle AS
sociation, Dallas, Texas; Women's
Progressive League, Bridgeport,
Conn, and progressive workers in
the following unions:
MillinecT, furriers, capmakers,
shirt ironess, Amalgamated Clothing
Workers All others.
Tho following contributions were
received from out-of- town points dur
ing the past three days:
Workmens' Circle, branch GIG,
Omaha, Nebraska, s325; Branch Asa,
st. Joseph, Miss, 500 cash and $500
pledged; from Philadelphia AZ addi-
tional 5000; from Worcester an addi-I
tional S400; Cleveland forwarded an
other contribution of 1915; Los An
eeles added $3.50 more to its contri-
button and Youngstown, Ohio, $500.
Success Is Assured.
Comrade Portnoy stated that there
were q number Of subscriptions re-
1eived from several organizations
and individuals in New York City
and other places.
The complete amount Of $250,000l
viii be undoubtedly raised" said
Comrade lutnoy, 'but it Is Of the
greatest Importance that the COM
plcte issue should be subscribed at
the earliest moment, The full conf
dence Of the workers in the joint
board is hing demonstrated every
day. The determination of all the
workers to defeat Sigman's pogrom
plan is as firm as ever, which is only
what could be expected from those
who know only too we'll, Sigman and
Eis clique"