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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
FERGUSON SAYS
CRITICISM OF
FIREMEN UNFAIR

Some slight criticism heard abont
the city today because the FL Cen
tro fire department refused to res
pond to calls for help during the
fire at Plaster City last night, was
declared unfair today by Charles
+. Ferguson, former chief of the
local department and president of
the Imperial Valley Firemen s AS
ISOLATION,
Owe did get two calls for help
from Plaster CITY last night, and
much to our regret were compelled
20 decline to 90 out to the fire,
Ferguson said. "This action was
taken because the FL Centre fire APP
paratus is paid for and owned by the
people Of FL Centre and is to serve
them. The firemen s association has
cndeavorcd in the past two years to
reach some sort of agreement with
the county supervisors whereby
city apparatus could answer a call
for help from the country districts,
but without success.
" Early last year one Of our trucks
responded to call for help from
The county farm. This was the see
ond or third call from that place.
The truck was wrecked on the way
to the fire and one Of our men was
badly injured. The supervisors re-
fused to aid in defraying the cost
of repairing the fire truck or as
sumo a portion of the injured fire
man s expenses. 1t was following
this that we tried to make an ar
rangement with the county but were
unsuccessful. 1t was necessary to
, adont rule that our apparatus
would not be sent into the country,
much as we regretted to take such
a step. With us it was strictly n
business proposition. The taxpayers
pay for the apparatus and II should
not be exposed 50 damage except iii
their service.
This is the reason we did not
90 to Plaster City last night. As a
matter of fact, the long run out
there and the proportions of the fire,
with no adequate water supply on
hand, would have made it impossible
for us to be of much assistance,
hut it was not because Of this fact
that we were compelled to turn
down the appeal for add
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Dynamite Found
At Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES. Aug. ll.-Autho-
to check up the ownership of a
quantity of dynamite found late
Yesterday in a field in Vernon, fol-
lowing mysterious telephone tip.
The explosives included two
boxes of dynamite and two electri
cal batteries, such as could have
been used to construct a time bomb,
police said.
The dynamite, when found by
notice. was in child's plav wagon.
Investigators learned that two
children had found the explosive,
and carted il home. Their mother,
on noting what it was, made them
return it to nearby vacant lot.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Veteran Slayer
Pleads Guilty

LOS ANGELES, Aug. ll--Joseph
F. Hordeman, SO, veteran Of the
Spanish American war, pleaded
guilty here today to Staying his
elderly sweetheart, Mrs. Victoria
Wood, of Venice, last May 90.
Although Hordeman had promised
attorneys that he would plead guilty
June 80, when arraigned on the muir
der charge, at that time, he sudden
ly changed his mind and demanded a
jury trial on the grounds that a
secret organization was plotting to
send him to the gallows.
Hordeman hit Mrs. Wood over
the head with piece Of gas pipe
after slashing the tendons in her
ankles $50 she couldn't dance any
more"
Date for sentence will be set lat
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Erwin Will Not
Be Disqualified

DALLAS, Tex, Aug. ll.-W. F..
Easterwood, IT.. donor of $4,000
nrize for three stop flight from
Dallas to Hongkone. today said he
would not disqualify Captain Will
liam P Erwin because of Erwin g
forced landing AT Beaumont. Cal.
Easterwood offered to make the
concession inasmuch as Erwin also
n'anned to comnete in the Dole
fliuht contest from San Francisco
to Honolulu. If he was required to
return 10 Dallas for another start
in the Easterwood contest he would
be unable to reach California in
time to hop off in the Dole flight.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
SHIPS COLLISION HELD
TO BE ACCIDENTAL

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ll,--No-
BODY was to blame for the recent
collision of the dynamite laden
etnor, schooner Northland and the
British motorship Pncifi" Trad"r
inst outside the Golden Gate, the
federal steamboat inspectors an
nourced todav, closing their inves.
tigation. They held the crash due
to dense fog and a current that
drew the vessels TOGETHER. The
Nor'hland was abandoned for n
while, hut was later beached ana
the explosive cargo salvsged. '',
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
LEVINE ENTERS RACE

PARIS, Aug. ll.-Charles A. Lev.
inc today entered his Bellanca
monoplane Columbia in the race for
the $4,000 prize offered for a
trans Atlantic flight to Philadel-
plia and announced that the depart
ure might take place tomorrow
at 6 0 clock.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Coalinga Fights
Serious Blaze

COALINGA, Cal, Aug, ia
rrass fire which has already burn
ed over strir of grazing lord five
rilps in 'enoth bv three wide. wos
blazing fur'ouslv todav despite the
efforts of 100 fire fighters.
The fire started Yesterday in the
Warthau CANYON, 90 miles west Of
here. A small area of grain fields
has been burned. $
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Pasadena Has
Bomb Explosion

PASADENA. Calf. Arg. l1.-An
explosion at the Pasadena Golf
Club. believed to have been bomb,
late last nicht, was under investi-
cation, Pasadena police revealed to.
dav.
The blast was heard by J. w. Bur
ton, nightwatchman. who hurried 70
the scene and found a grass fire
near a dormitory. II is believed
that a dynamite attack was direct
ed against the dormitory but fell
short and set fire to the grass.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
mo PARKING" SCHEME
FOILED BY POLaCh
nv United Press Leased Wire

Merchants in small eastern city
rNentlv attempted to discourage
parking by placing dummy fire
hvdrants in front of their shops
bur the police soon foiled their
scheme by confiscating these DUN,
my hydrants. Many advocates OF
liberal regulations to relieve the
auto marking situation are to be
found points out the Automobile
Mnb of Southern California safety
Apartment, but they invarlaoiy
fAaor parking everywhere except IN
frMt Of their own place Of business
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Falls Over Cliff
On Ridge Route

NEWHATL. Calf, AUG. IL
James F. Newton Of A,hambra wNS
in Nowhal, hosn;tal with serious
injuries todav, followi"r 500 foot
hinge in his automobile over n
Ridge Route nmhankment.
Newton suffered q broken collar
hone and wrenched back when the
cor went out of control after he doz-
cd at the wheel.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Permits Required
To Land in Japan

WASHINGTON, Aug. ll.-Trans.
Pacific flyers must obtain permits
to land in Japan through official
channels, the state department an
nounced today.
The American embassy at Tokyo
gave the department this word in
reporting receipt of requests from
private individuals for landing
permit for the proposed Griffin
Henley flight from San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11
Elevator Holds
Bank Director

PASADENA, Aug. II. - After
having been imprisoned for more
than an hour, DR.. John Willis Baer,
director Of the Pasadena Branch of
the Pacific Southwest Trust and
Savings Bank, was freed shortly
before noon today.
The automatic elevator which DR..
Baer was operating at the time
stuck and he was forced to wait un-
til mechanics could open a door.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11

DUBLIN. Aug. 1l.---N"mon ne
Valera and his fianna fail fon""''
ers who were eleetra :" 'hn -"
visited The DAT, o'Hrr % eff'ee today
ord took the oath Of allegiance to
King George.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11

San Mateo county has refused to
grant a franchise for bridge
across San Francisco Bay from
Candle Point to Alameda. ...
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-08-11

L r. C. Hess, Healdsb"r~ Sonoma
COUNTY, has an even 100. grand.
children and great grandchildren.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
UNIONISTS
BACK FROM TOUR
PRAISE u. S. S. R.
8 of Delegation Land at
New York

Eight members of the second
American trade union delegation to
the Soviet Union returned last night
on the Cunard Liner Berengaria with
praise for the achievements of the
Soviet republic.
The boat locked at Pier "a, Hudson
river and 14th St.
All of the delegation are rank and
file workers.
Names of Delegates.
The eight delegates are: William
Watkins, chairman of the delegation
and president of the Switchmen's
Union, Local FOG, Minneapolis; Peter
Jensen, secretary Of the delegation,
of the Machinists' Union, Chicago;
Ben Thomas, Machinists' Union, Phil
adelphia; William G. Hearing, SIAM
ford, Conn; William Mckenzie, Car
penters' Union, Stamford, Conn; Ed
ward Romese. United Mine Workers,
Nanticoke, Penn; Edward Stock,
Electricians Union, San Jose, Calf,
and E. P Cush, Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Steel Workers, Pittsburgh.
The delegates viii report ON their
trip at a meeting Wednesday,, Dec.
q, at Cooper Union, under the aus
pieces of the New York committee of
the American Trade Union Delega-
ton. Henry T. Hunt, former mayor
of Cincinatti will preside.
The other members of he delega-
ton are expected to return to the
United States Dec. 81. The delega-
ton not only visited the industrial
centers and agricultural regions but
witnessed the celebration of the tenth
anniversary of the Russian Revolu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Social-Democracy in Denmark

where there were the greatest number
of unemployed members. The Eek
traordinary" benefits were somewhat
smaller than the general benefits.
At present, the Madsen-Mygdal
Government decided to cancel the Tex
traordinary" benefits as from October
LIST, 1927. A great mass of unem-
ployed, having exhausted their or
binary benefits, are now deprived of
all means of existence.
Under pressure of the workers, in
dignant at the attack on the unem-
ployed, and also under direct pres
sure from the unemployed, the Trade
Union Council of Denmark on Septem-
Der 23rd convened a National Trade
Union Conference in Copenhagen to
discuss the problem of the economic
crisis and unemployment.
The conference was attended by COO
delegates representing IS TT a d c
unions and small organizations with
total membership of 312,044 IN q
word, practically all the organized
workers Of Denmark were represented
at this conference. The social demo-
Gratis being immensely influential in
Denmark and the Opposition ex-
tremely weak, this conference should
and did have the character of a polit-
ical demonstration in defence of the
election programme Of the social
democrats, delivered pompous
speech, in which he pointed--to the
general reasons of the economic crisis
and unemployment. lie called upon
those present to struggle for the vic
tory of social-democracy at The next
elections. Johannsen, treasurer Of the
trade union centre, analysed the Act
on reduced benefits to the unem-
ployed. After this q resolution OF
protest against the activities Of the
government was passed, the activities
of the social-democratic parliament
tary fraction were approved and Sc
on. Besides this formal part, the
conference, nevertheless, had another
feature: the really desperate position
of the unemployed was discussed
representatives from the locals came
forward proposing measures f I
struggling wv i t h unemployment
Speeches were also made by the OPP
position. Thus, the representative OF
the furriers' and saddle-niakers
Union, Jensen, and delegate from
the electro and gold platers' union,
K'rsch, proposed that 24-hour gen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
ReaCtionary Band
In Mexico Attacks
Train; Beaten Off

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14.-Counter-
revolutionists, attacked southbound
passenger train at Los Salas, south
of Aguascalientes, last night, but were
driven off by federal troops.
A War Office statement says that
reactionaries headed by the Chieftain
Gorostisa were defeated at Hidalgo
on the Jalisco-Zacatecas boundary,
after seven hour fight in which the
reactionaries lost 120 men.
An intensive drive against the
counter-revolutionary bands has been
announced by the War Department.
Especially efforts are being made to
stamp out counter-revolutionar ban
dts who are concentrating in Michoa-
can.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Japan Has No Designs
On China, Says Lamont
Who Put Thru Fat Loan

Japan has no imperialistic designs
on China declared Thomas w. Lamont
at dinner given by the Institute of
Pacific Relations Tuesday night. La
mont, who is partner in J P. Nor
gan and Company, helped negotiate
the proposed $40,000,000 loan to the
South Manchuria Railway, which is
being strongly protested by the Chi
nese on the ground that 1t is further
ing Japanese imperialistic aims in
Manchuria.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Norwegian Labor
Refuses 10 Join
Amsterdam Until

OSLO, Dec 14.-The Norwegian
Trade Union Congress moved defin-
itely to the left last night when it
refused to affiliate with the Amster-
dam international.
The Congress moved closer to-
ward the Red International of Labor
Unions when it invited Soviet and
Finnish Trade unions to conference
for the purpose of summoning a
world trade union congress con the
basis of the class war"
A number of Norwegian unions
have signed pacts with Soviet trade
unions pledging mutual aid and a
joint struggle for international trade
union unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

Madsen-Mygdeps liberal govern
ment, which came to power with the
slogan of Regime of Economy"
fiercely began to cut down those
items of the State budget relating to
social insurance and pensions. Bene-
fits for aged, invalids and unemployed
were cut down by tens of millions of
kroner. In cutting down the benefits
for unemployed, the government went
the limit; it decreased the State sub
sides to the trade union unemployed
funds by 10 million kroners by an
act of parliament it abolished the
system of the so-called extra
ordinary" benefits to unemployed.
To elucidate the significance of the
adjustment of the system of extra
ordinary benefits" we must note
that the Client system on unemploy-
ment benefits has been adopted in
Denmark. According TO this system
special insurance departments with
funds by 10 million kroners, by an
set up by the trade unions.
The insurance departments Of the
unions carry on the work of insuring
the unemployed, collect dues, main
tain registers of unemployed and pay
out benefit. The government and
municipal departments, for their part,
substitute these insurance funds of the
unions, according to the amount Of
cash in them. According to the
rules of these insurance agencies, the
unemployed may receive daily bene-
fits Of from to kroner. The I'm
employed, however, receive benefits
only for period of from 30 to 100
days during the year.
In the last few years unemployment
in Denmark is Of a specific character.
In summer months it falls to about 40
to so thousand, while during winter it
increased to so to 100 thousand. Ii
we bear in mind that there are alto
gether little over 100000 organized
workers in Denmark, we may state
that every fifth worker is unemployed
during the whole year. While thou
sands and even tens of thousands Of
workers as result of this stable I'M
employment are unable to find any
work during the whole of the year,
they receive benefits only for three
or four months.
This altogether impossible position
led to the setting up of "extraor-
binary" benefits. Parliament assigned
special sums to those trade union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Palestine Workers
Starve While Big
Profits Made Here

While workers who were inspired
by zionistic ferver to emigrate to
Palestine are starving there, it was
disclosed through Jacob Adler's suit
for S53,635 as his share Of the profits,
that huge profits are being earned by
the stay-at-home investors.
The complaint was filed by Adler
against the American Zion Common
wealth, Of i'd Fifth Ave, in the Su-
preme Court Monday. Adler claims
that this organization purchased the
stock of the Meshek Palestine Build
ing Corp, of which he owned a third
interest, and the new corporation was
to pay Adler the amount which he
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
300 MIC ARACUANS
KILLED BY u, S.
FIGURES REVEAL
Don't Include Bandits"
Killed by Marines

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ia. - ''Paci-
fication" of Nicaragua is proving
about the hardest job the United
States marines have ever tackled. De-
spite the saguine statements issued
from time to time by state and navy
department officials the northern half
of the Central American republic is
still, after a seven-month campaign,
seething with insurgency and general
disorder.
800 Nicaraguans Killed.
To date the pacification has cost the
lives of more than eight hundred Mic
araguans, according to figures COM
piled today from official reports,
while several hundred others have
been seriously wounded in clashes
with American interventionists and
native guards. In the last month there
have been at least SO known deaths
among the natives.
Based on announcements by the ma
rine command in Managua and by of
ficials here, minimum casualty figures
show that ia Nicaraguans have been
slain, 1872 killed or wounded and 220
wounded in the period from May Is to
December IL. At the same time seven
marines and six native guardsmen
have been killed and two marines
wounded.
No Medical Aid.
Recorded casualties among the Mic
araguans, who have been called "ban-
dts" by the state department, are not
complete. Upon several occasions,
after skirmishes with the insurgent
natives, the marine command has de-
clared that the extent of the casual
ties among the bandits" could not be
determined. Nor do these figures in
clude the number of Nicaraguars who,
lacking medical attention, nave died
from their wounds.
Early in October the casualty fig
ures showed that upwards of $40 Mic
araguans had been killed, on Novem-
Der Is the toll was 62S killed, 1877
killed or wounded, and 1872 wounded.
Since then the following clashes be-
tween natives and marines have taken
place: Nov. 81, near Telpaneca - 3
Nicaraguans killed; Nov. %, Somoto-
a Nicaraguans killed; large number
wounded; one marine wounded; Nov.
25, Laguna - Nicaraguans killed;
7 wounded.
Nov. 26 - Elchipote-37 Nicara-
guans killed; unknown number wound
ed. Originally four natives were re-
ported to have fallen in this engage
ment, but that figure later was Off
cially corrected by Col. L. NJ Gulick,
marine commander)
Dec. 5, Between Jicaro ana San Fer
nando - Number of Nicaraguan cas-
ualties unknown; native guardsmen
killed.
Murders Listed.
Dec. 8, Antigua 20 Nicaraguans
killed; 20 wounded.
Dec. 10, FL Potrero-5 Nicaraguans
killed; several wounded.
Dec. II, Santa Rosa - 3 Nicara-
guans killed; Wounded.
Dec. II, Telpaneca - Nicaragu-
ans killed; several wounded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Charges France Censors
News SentFromC Country

LONDON, Dec. ID. - Charges that
France maintains strict censorship
over all news dispatches to foreign
countries were made yesterday by one
of the editors of the Evening Stand
ard
Doubtful" or harmful" messages,
he charged, were sent to the Minister
of interior for approval before being
permitted TO pass over French wires
News is in this way often delayed in
transmission, he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Charge Levine Skipped
Telegraph Bills; Force
Prague Workers to Pay

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Dec.
Id. - Claiming that Charles A.
Levine, American transatlantic
flyer contracted large telephone
and telegraph bills in Prague,
which he failed to pay before his
departure, the Prague post office
today forwarded a bill to the
Czechoslpvakian minister at Wash
ington for collection.
If it is not paid, it was stated,
the telephone and telegraph clerks
handling the messages will have to
make good the loss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15

eral strike of protest against the
governments activities be declared.
! Delegates from other unions seconded
their proposal. The Opposition pro-
posal was, however, defeated by a
great majority of approximately 600
against 1915 votes.
After the conference the trade
unions sent a special delegation to
the government for negotiations. The
delegation pleaded that the law can
ceiling Extraordinary" benefits be re-
pealed. What was the answer re-
ceived?
The Prime Minister Meteorological
read them the answer which stated
that the main cause Of the present
economic crisis lies in the high level
of wages High wages also result
in more unemployment. The govern
ment, therefore, proposes that the
trade unions consent to a revision of
the existing collective agreements
with view to reducing wages.
Should the trade unions agree to this,
the government is willing to act as
mediator between the workers and the
employers, and to assign 10 million
kroner for the unemployed
1t must be added that two or three
days before the joint conference be-
tween the government and the trade
union representatives, the President
Of the Danish Employers Association,
I Langkjer, invited C. Madsen, chair
man of the Danish Trade Union Coun-
Gil, and proposed that he agree to a
revision of the collective agreements
and to reduction Of wages, promis-
ing to petition the government for a
subsidy for the unemployed.
4 q
Thus the government and the en-
ployers' association proved to the
whole country that they are close al
lies. They came out openly, bringing
all possible pressure to bear upon the
/ trade union representatives in order
to get them to agree to lowering Of
wages. 1t has now become clear that
the cutting of unemployed benefits,
the cancelling of extraordinary
benefits, and the "regime of economy"
in general of the Danish liberal gov
eminent was decided upon in order to
lower the workers wages and to in
crease the profits of the Danish capt.
talists. Such open struggle against
the working class by the government
has never yet been seen in demo
cratic" Denmark.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
U. S. Air Pr0cOnsul to
Hunt for Plane Routes

PANAMA, Dec 14.-With the in
tention of making study of the prin-
cipal ports and inland cities of Cen
trail America with a view to the es-
tablishment Of commercial air line
thru Central America, James D. Sum-
mers, United States Trade Commits
sioner of Aeronautics of Panama, left
this city today,
Summers will first go to Costa
RIGA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-15
Ban what Price Glory"
For Allied" Armies
Occupying Rhine Valley

COBLENZ, Dec. 14.-The Amer
lean motion picture film, what
Price Glory" has been prohibited
in all theatres in the Occupied
Area" of Germany by order of the
"Interallied Rhineland Commits
sion." It is feared that scenes in
the picture might cause general
unrest among the "Allied" troops
occupying the Rhine valley, many
of whom who are reported to be
discontented.