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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
u. S. Manufacturers
Compete in Soviet
Union Tractor Test

Products of over a score of Ameri-
can manufacturers of tractors and
tractor implements will participate
in the international Tractor Tests to
be held in the Soviet Union during
August and September, according to
announcement by the Amtorg Trading
Corporation, 165 Broadway, New
York
The tests will be held in the North
ern Caucasus. Both field and labora-
tory tests will be made to determine
the types of machine best suited to
conditions in the Soviet Union, Trac-
tors will also be tested for highway
construction. The American equip
ment will compete with machines sent
from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Swe-
den and otheaS countries. The Ameri-
can tractors Srnd tractor implements
have been shipped by the Amtorg.
American aachines to be shown
come from the following: Yuba
Manufacturing Co., Caterpillar Trac-
tor Co., Monarch Tractor Co., Emer-
SON Brantingham Co., Allis-C Chalmers
Mfg. Co., international Harvester,
Cleveland Tractor Co., Ford Motor
Co., Advance Rumely Co., Moline
Plow Co., Gallon Iron Works, Case
Threshing Machine Co., Roderick
Lean Co., Killefer Mfg. Co., Western
Wheeled Scraper Co., Pickering Gov
ernor Co., Kingston Governor Co,
Detroit Harvester Co., La Crosse Plow
Co., Cleaner Combing Harvester
Company.
Last summer six American firms
exhibited tractors at the Tiflis Ex-
position. Up to three years ago the
tractor was a novelty in the Soviet
Union, but now about 10000 are in
use, mostly of American manufac-
ture.
This years tests are held under of
fetal auspices and as a result stan
dard tractors and tractor implements
such as plows, drills, threshers, har-
rows, etc., will be chosen for import.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
OPENING OF The ALL China LABOR
Federation CONGRESS- At HANKOW

agricultural provinces being absent
Hammer and Sickle.
The great hall looked like a christ
mas tree, strung with red banners
and paper festoons of all colors, hung
from wall to wall. The "blue sky
and white sun" of the Kuomintang
was everywhere in evidence, as were
the hammer and sickle of the Soviet
Union, here adopted as the symbol of
the union of all toilers. Great wood
en- fans whirled from the ceiling
stirring the air above the sweltering
delegates. None the less, as we sat
quite still we could feel drops of
sweat gather and roll down our
backs. Hankow is no summer re-
sort.
Children Pioneers formed a guard
of honor at the gate. In tan suits
and red neckerchiefs, with long
batons, they were drawn up in mill
tary order.
16 or more organizations sent
greetings which consumed 5 hours
and gave a realization Of the COM
pick social life now forming in Ma
tionalist China. There were repre-
sentatives from the All-China Stu
dents Federation, from the All-China
Peasants, from the Nationalist gov
eminent, from the Kuomintang Par
ty, from the Communist Party of
China. Foreign delegates also
brought greetings, Lozovski for the
Red International Of Labor Unions,
Roy of India for the Communist In
ternational and a Javanese for the
labor movement of Java.
Task To Lead"
At the presiding table sat Su Chao
Jen, seaman, and now president of
the federation, and Ii Ii San, for
mer student and today secretary Of
the federation. All delegates includ-
ing those on the platform turned to
the portrait of Sun Yat-sen and the
chart of his last will and repeated
the will solennly. After this there
was silence for several minutes, Sin
memory of our revolutionary dead"
Cheers and slogans rent the air
with some frequency. The Chinese
have an effective way of thrusting an
arm in air with clenched fist to en-
phasize a slogan.
Roy of India struck keynote when
he declared: "The three former con-
crosses had the task Of organization
and propaganda. This congress has
the task of leading the workers of
China in the revolution. The out
come of the Chinese revolution will
decide the fate of the world revolu-
ton in the present epoch of history"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
Australian Customs Ban
Workers Party Organ
To Subdue the Workers

SYDNEY, Australia, July 28.-
British imperialism's fear of the
"Red peril" may be gagged from the
act of the Sydney customs in confis-
eating the entire April shipment of
the Communist" the monthly organ
Of the American Workers Party, rs
copies in all. Early in April, Com
rade Wheelock of the Literature De-
partment Of the Australian Party was
informed that customs was holding
the March issues pending official de-
cision. When the April copies came
through the customs authorities act
ed and seized the issues. Although
the Communist" is now contraband
in Australia, and there is fine of
100 pounds for selling one in the
commonwealth, Australian comrades
are planning to receive individual
copies in an effort to outwit the Gus
toms officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
Ninety Days Prison
For Indiana Editor
Who Attacked xxx,
BY CIVIL LIBERTIES BUREAU.

by CIFIL' LIBERTIES BUREAU.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 28.-Trust-
ees of the Indiana state farm, who
recently heard pleas for clemencv
for George r. Dale, Muncie editor
and anti-Klan publisher, have taken
the case under advisement and are
expected to report shortly to Gov
ernor Ed Jackson.
The trustees heard the pleas of
Dale himself and of four other men
who sought to save him from serv-
ing the ninety days sentence imposed
by Judge Clarence w. Dearth of the
Delaware County Circuit Court.
According to Thomas V. Miller,
Muncie attorney, who has helped
Dale for almost four years, the diff
ference between Judge Dearth and
Dale which resulted in the latter's
sentence were the outgrowth of at
tacks made by the editor on the
Khan. Common justice demands
that Dale be kept from serving a
single day of the sentence" Miller
said. Dale was convicted of CON
tempt Of court after he had referred
in his paper to Judge Dearth as a
Klansman. When he criticized his
conviction he was tried and sentenced
a second time
Dale, publishing and editing a pa
per which was formerly very success
full, waged a bitter fight against the
Klan from the time Of its inception
losing practically all of his advertis-
ing and circulation and virtually
bank1upting himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
LABOR PARTY ON
.ASCE NDENT IN ;
.PENNA. COUNTIES
Expect Several Trade
UniOnists to Win

HARRISBURG, Pa, July q (FP)
With President James H. Maurer
Of the state federation of labor one
of the standard bearers, the Labor
Party campaign is rising on a strong
tide in three populous counties q
the Keystone state and several trade
unionists are expected to win office
in the November elections.
Six thousand workers crowding
the grounds at a Reading picnic
started off the campaign in Maurer's
home town. ]. Henry Stump, presi-
dent of the Federated Trades Coun-
ell, is running for mayor, with Maur-
er and George Snyder for city coun-
ell. BY the trade unions endorsing
the socialist ticket complete unity has
been gained.
Labor Runs Well.
Labor always runs strongly in
Reading Maurer was sent to the
Legislature in the past and minor Of
fees were won. Unfair taxes, bear.
ing down most heavily on working
mems residences, and the open shop.
are campaign issues. Victory will
aid the unions in driving into the
iron and steel and hosiery industries.
Freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti;
curbing of injunctions and evictions
by law and support for the United
Mine Workers program for the ma
tionalization Of the coal industry
were among the planks unanimously
endorsed at the annual convention of
the Cambria County Labor Party at
Portage.
Opposes Fingerprinting. Z
The Labor Party has prestige in
this coal and steel county. Last year
two Of its representatives sat in the
state legislature and others in local
burgess and police chief offices. Can
didates for city and county posts
were nominated at the convention.
Jeanette Pearl, field organizer for
the National Council for the Protec-
ton Of Foreign Born, gave q stirring
address on the need for labor solidar-
ity in fighting the anti-foreigner
bills coming before the next congress.
These bills would require foreign
born workers to be registered and
fingerprinted so that they might
be blacklisted, she said.
Miss Pearl has held a series Of
fourteen big mass meetings in the
Central Pennsylvania field with the
cooperation Of district board men,
bers of the miners union. A state
senator, county Judge and county
commissioner are on the committee
conducting the meetings.
Organize In Brownsville.
In western Pennsylvania the
United Trades Council of Brownsville
is circularizing local unions of the
miners, building trades and other
unions for the purpose of getting
large delegations to the Washington
County Labor Party conference in
Bentleyville, Aug. IA, when candi-
dates will be named.
Brutalities by sheriff's deputies
during the coal strike are lending
fuel to the coming campaign fire for
a labor government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
ALL UNION CENTRAL COUNCIL or
TRADE UNIONS URGES SUPPORT OF
Revolt TIONARy FORCES IN CHINA

MOSCOW July 28In the ong
delegation from the All Union Central Council of Trades Unions which
Pacific AChna
calls
suppressg
tiOnary
THE Chinese countereyouon declares the appeal with the
ssance Of the mpe1asts has resolved destroy the
and the revolutionary unions During the last three months within
oe occupied by the Marking Wuhan
workers and have been bay
brutal of the Chinese bourgeois marst
ted without being
executed 1t the olers of the world
guard of the Chinese proleara and peasantry"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
"There Is No Peace;
Old War Shell Blasts
Monument at San Juan

HAVANA, July 28.-The bronze
tablet, containing the names of the
American dead at San Juan Hill, has
been almost entirely destroyed by a
bomb which exploded under the
peace tree" on that historic spot.
The Diario Marine, a Spanish
newspaper, suggests that the explo-
sion was caused by dead she'll which
had been left in the ground after the
battle of San Juan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
British Give Stowaway
Harsh Sentence; Exile

LONDON, July 28.-Stephen Mar
tin, of Port Road, Tuxedo, New York,
has been sentenced to 81 days at
hard labor and recommended for de-
portation for slowing away on the
Caronia f->m New York to London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
Current EUents
Continued from Page One)


M course Jack Dempsey will not
v desecrate Soldiers Field in Chi
cago. He will fight there and the
business gentry of the Windy City
will take in hundreds of thousands
of dollars for hotel reservations,
bootleg liquor and the other comforts
THAT can be had in any city if one
has the money. The patriots will
blow off their bazoos and get some
publicity out of it and then they will
turn around and buy tickets for the
show if they have the price. And it
would not surprise me to learn that
the loudest of the shouters against
Dempsey are shouting with the OBJ
iect of jimmying few ringside seats
out of the fight promoters.
WE HAD almost forgotten about the
" victims of the Mississippi flood.
Herbert Hoover the Bankers Friend,
says that it will cost $310,000,000 to
prevent recurrence of the flood and
to develop the rivers transportation
possibilities. That's lot of money.
Big enough to make the mouths of
contractors and pork-fed politicians
drip so much water that another flood
may result. The poor victims of the
flood will get little of it. The CAPT
talists do not believe in spelling the
workers and farmers with paternal-
ism.
CHARLEY BTPGER, q notorious
gunman-m was convicted of
killing a mayor Of an Illinois city
few days ago. He will hang if the
law has its way. But most likely he
will not. He is not a labor organ
izer Birger was lined up with one
or another of the various factions in |
Illinois politics and until he commit
ted the crime of laying himself open
to conviction he was safe, provided /
he wore bullet proof vest Birger's !
organization controls a number Of /
votes and during election periods votes
are precious. God was on the side /
Of the heaviest artillery in Napoleons |
days and he still is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
Morrow, Key to the Mexican Middle

Dwight Morrow, ambassador to Mexico
City, has reached his post.
Morrow will begin study of the entire Mexican
situation in so far it affects the United States.
He probably will spend several weeks months,
in study before he makes any important moves, says
the United Press.
In which Morrow show himself as different from
the average American ambassador. Too often they
assume the attitude of professional lion tanner
entering the arena prepared, whip and all, to make
the animals Jump through the hoop.
Ambassador Morrow would seem to have some
what different conception of his job. Instead of
mencng by informing Mexico where to head in he
to want to know what the shooting is all about
and sets himself the task of understanding the prob
lens with which he will have to DEAL All of which
sounds very much if he really wishes to end the
Mexican American squabble on a basis fair to both
sides.
The new ambassador faces of the hardest jobs
an American diplomat has undertaken in years. In
side Mexico there native interests which do not
wish him to succeed. They do not want the Gales
regime to stand. possible, they would overthrow It,
And there are certain American and other foreign
interests inside and outside Mexico which do not want
him to make good. These, too are opposed to Gales
and to General Obregon, likely to be Mexicos next
president. They know that Morrow's failure would
PROBABLY mean increased 1r1ctOn between Mexico and
the United States and to play into their hands
Add to all this the fact that during the next ten
months Mexico will be in state Of unrest aad anxiety
incident to presidential campaign south Of the Rio
Grande and it will be clearly that the oppor-
tunity for mischief will not be wanting Thus Nor
row becomes the key man upon whose acts Mexican
American history will likely depend for long time
to come
But far more depends upon Morrow's success in
Mexico City than is apparent on the surface how
ever important Mexican American relations undoubt-
eddy are. All Latin America will watch the outcome
just has been watching events for the past sew
eral years. vast amount of suspicion is aimed at
us not only in Mexico but from all along the line
Our policies particularly since Secretary Kellogg has
been at the helm in the State Department have been
regarded as tradictory waverng, provocative and
intended to foster conflict for selfish and sinister
purposes.
Settlement Of the Mexican American muddle and
restoration of friendly relations thus would be ire
mendous feather in the cap of any man who can
bring it off. We hope Morrow can manage it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
Better Barracks

For many years Army chiefs and war secretaries
have been complaining that housing conditions at
many of the Army posts are intoerabe. They have
told of the deplorable surroundings in which officers
and men and their families are compelled to live
while serving Uncle Sam.
For and another the protests and de-
mands have been Intellectual Nothing has been done.
Recently General Summerall, chief of staff, made
speech in Western city and in the course of it he
said some of the same things he had said before and
which other Army heads had been saying for a long
time. He didn't put the matter any strongly
if as strongly as it had been put in the past.
But, by chance the Summeral speech attracted
the attention of President Coolidge. General Sum-
neral was recalled to Washington to explain the
President meantime allowing it to be known that he
considered Summeralls picture of conditions to be
exaggerated. The President was really exasperated
It is told that he kept Sumera cooling his heels for
three days in Washington after the general had
hurried thither at the Presidents command.
The Presidents annoyance has had an interesting
result It has caused the pouring into Washington
Of vast amount of information supporting Summer
aIl's complaint. 1t has made real issue of Army
housing conditions
And the prediction is now freely made that the
coming Congress will move to provide better quarters
for the Army folks "a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
ia Porte Argus HeraId)

(kepublcan)
OeCrolCS mayor, who wants to be reelected, mas
taken the bull by the horns and announces that he
doesn't believe in the prohibition law, doesn't keep
the law himself and does not and will
The Tee7,e not try to enforce it. This statement
in o, one ~ ~ Se I,o -, HOB
DetfOW public office in this country.
If John w. Smith were merely
candidate for the Office and not the present mayor his
defiance of law would not be so unseemly But Smith
now fouts the fact that he has violated his oath OF
Office and intends to continue to do so. He makes
such dangerous statements the public has vetoed
the prohibition law, therefore why should try to
enforce it."
This is new philosophy of government, one which
borders closely on anarchy Smith proposes to sub
stitute mob rule for government by law Whatever
the public" wishes at the moment will become the
fundamental rule, Smith making himself the arbiter
as to what is wanted at the time
The Detroit mayor believes the people as whole
don't want the prohibition amendment, and acting on
that belief he refuses to live up to his oath of Office
Imagine the chaos every public official acted on the
same impulse; government by law would disappear
amid riot of opinions and untrammeled actions
Mayor Smith has adopted one of the most dangerous
policies that be conceived in a democratic gov
eminent; namely, that laws are made by the public
whim and not in orderly, sane way in legislative
halls and he thinks he has interpreted the public
WliIn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
Fireproof Town Urged

1 have no disposition to be I'M
fair to the lumber trade, I realize
the difficulties it faces because of
the substitutes for lumber that
constantly are making their ap-
pearance.
Insofar as a wider lumber mar
ket for employment, profit and re-
forestation, I am for 1t. Insofar
as it depends on the construction
of houses, especially in large
towns, which increase the fire
hazard, insurance rates and which
involve avoidable loss of property
and life I am against it.
The fact that cities have been
obliged to enforce f1reproof con-
struction and that business inter-
ests have found substitution Of
fireproof materials desirable, in
dicates more emphatically than
anything I might say the tendency
to do away with lumber structures.
I believe this is wise tendency
not only from the standpoint of
safety, but from the standpoint of
economy.
I am for the f1reproof town, the
lasting structure, the lower insur-
ance rate, less taxes for the main
flamenco of fire departments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
Lac, and Justice
BY Dexter NJ. Keezer

man made an agreement to sell his farm which
contained no provision concerning insurance
policy covering the buildings Before the property
was transferred, the buildings burned. The buyer
claimed that he entitled to the insurance the
buildings of which he said he had become the owner
when he had agreed to buy the farm. The seller con-
tended that he was entitled to the insurance on the
buildings. He said that the man who had agreed to
buy the farm had done SO subject to the risk that
the buildings might burn and was not entitled to any
insurance payments resulting from a contract to
which he was not party.
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Supreme Court of Iowa
decided that the who had agreed to buy the farm
was entitled to the insurance on the burned builA~
ngs. The court said that when the sale agreement
was made he had become the equitable" owner of
the buildings, and so was entitled to the insurance
payments resulting from this destruction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
Jim Watson On Hoover

Jim Watson, professional politician de
like gives an interview in which he indicates
that he will be for Dawes in 1928.
During the interview he turns for mo-
ment to Hoover, saying
s'I consider Hoover man with marvellous
mind My contact with him causes me to be-
Ieve he knows more about more things than
probably any other man in the country. He IS
human encyclopedia of information. Indeed, he
knows about most everything under the sun,
save one, that Of politics. His lack Of under
standing about politics makes it difficult for his
friends to convert sentiment into delegates"
We have never been impressed with Jim
Watson's ideas in matters of real statesman
ship. On the contrary, far from it. But when
it comes to vote-getting and delegate-getting
and convention-engineering, and other things
having to do with attaining and holding
choice stand at the public trough, he is past
master. Otherwise, he'd have been retired to
private life long time ago.
And what he says about Hoover's handi-
cap is Just about 100 per cent true.
Hoover's abilities lie along lines other than
practical politics. That fact constitutes both
q Recommendation and warning; a recon-
mendation for Hoover as a statesman, and
warning to all those who realizing his qualities
in that regard, lull themselves into the belief
that such qualities alone will assure him the
Republican nomination in 1928.
If Hoover is nominated, it will have to be
through political guidance other than his own
And it might as we'll be understood at the
outset, that such nomination, if accomplished,
will be against the combined opposition of the
Jim Watsons and the others of his kind, to
whom skill at professional politics is more high
" rated than all the other knowledge in the
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
SAYS:

On Friday, Oct. IA, I made some
rather enthusiastic observations
with regard to the possibility of
steel houses and some which were
not so enthusiastic with regard
to lumber houses.
have received several letters of
protest, the ajority of which ap-
pear to come from paid publicity
men of the lumber trade.
What is more to the point,
Robert P. Scripps, editorial
director of the Scripps- Howard
organization, was sent telegram
which, after lodging a similar pro-
test, suggested THAT you kill this
article in other Scripps-Howard
newspapers and syndicate papers
if not too late"
One of the letters which I re-
ceived explains that the lumber
trade is launching a five-year
campaign to extend its business,
in which $1,0OO,OOo will be spent
annually, "a large part of it in
advertising"
I not only marvel at the
efficiency of these gentlemen in
tracking down copy which fails to
coincide with their views, but I
confess to a feeling of elation that
my modest efforts should be taken
so seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-26
'Retraction' Provided

One writer was kind enough to
provide a carefully written out
"retraction," which I could have
incorporated in this column with
out too much humiliation. except
that it, too, referred to the trade
extension campaign and to the
large sum of money that would go
for advertising.
Though such suspicion may be
entirely groundless, as I very much
hope, it is hard to escape the
thought that someone is trying to
influence the Scripps- Howard
newspapers and discipline Tracy
by waving an advertising contract.
Just as a matter of information
not only to the lumber trade, but
to anyone else who may enter
tain similar Illusion, the
Scripps- Howard newspapers are
not run on that theory. Neither
is this column.