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The border vidette., 1927-11-05

concrete sidewalk on each side.
The total length of the roadway
slab is 139 feet.
Three hundred and sixty thous
and pounds of structural steel,
Sc, 900 pounds of reinforcing steel
and 800 cubic yards of concrete
will be used and the old struc.
ture will be removed.
The border vidette., 1927-11-05

uCoOdS l. . - D"0IO IOSns 0loUO
Master of the Pacifco lodge OF
Mexico; ;Alonzo Castaneda, grand
secretary of the Pacifico lodge;
w. A. Summers of st. Louis and
J. S. Dale of Minneapolis. Next
week Col. A. J. Dougberty will
talk to the Hirams club on his
recent visit to the American LIE
gion convention in Paris.
At the election last Saturday,
of a member of the board of
school trustees of Nogales Dis
trict No. /, Victor J. Wager, for.
mer county assessor was unani.
mously chosen to fill the vacancy
of DR.. w. f. Chenoweth, who
was not a candidate. Out of
1913 votes cast, 1872 were for Mr..
Wager and one ballot was blank.
Not a dissenting vote was cast
against Mr.. Wager. DR.. Cheno
weth, who has served on the
board of trustees for more than
thirty years, announced before
the election that be would not
be a candidate for re election.
The term of Mr.. Wager will be-
gin January 1st. The members
of the board of trustees, com
mencing January 1st, will be
composed of Mrs. Anna B. Ack.
ley, j. G. Tovrea and Victor j.
Wager.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

workers to the support of American
domination.
The Executive Council proceeded
by extending offers of material and
other practical assistance to Santiago
Iglesias in his efforts to organize the
workers, and creating labor organ
ization whose avowed aim would be
to strive to eliminate the semi-feudal
condition which oppressed the masses,
and raise the standard of life of the
Porto Rican masses to that of the
American workers on the continent.
The American authorities cooperated
with the A. F. of L. in offering
Iglesias protection in his mission, a
thing of which Iglesias speaks with
sentiments of almost childish CRATE
fulness and admiration.
Thus, by such methods of bribery
the American rulers won over the
leader of the workers movement and
the masses of workers. Iglesias to
this day is an ardent exponent Of
American democratic" institutions,
preacher in Latin America of Com
perism and the good intentions of the
Yankees. The following shows how
Iglesias bows until his nose touches
the tips of the Yankee boots; thus in
upholding American administration
he speaks to workers in Porto Rico:
"In office where questions affect
ing laborers are to be passed on, we
need Americans who are accustomed
to treat laborers like people, not
caciques (native bourgeoisie) who be-
lieve laborers to be inferior beings"
Union Obrero March Is, 1929
Hence followed the creation of the
Free Federation of Workingmen of
Porto Rico, affiliated to the A. F. of
L., whose policies are dictated by the
A. F. of L. executive council and adj
ministered by Iglesias and his gang
of retainers.
The workers of Porto Rico, how
ever, took the organization of the
Federation Libre seriously, consid-
cred it as a means by which they
could organize and struggle for bet
ter conditions. Thus the workers rail-
lied around the Federation Libre, I'M
til it's ranks in 1867 counted $4,000
members, and, during the war years,
Porto Rico became the scene of great
mass strikes in the sugar, tobacco,
and all other industries on the island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
American Doctor In
Soviet Union Finds
Health Bureau Good

LENINGRAD, July 31.-Dr. w.
Horsley CAN'T, a physician of Char
louisville, Va, has just finished a
large two volume work on his medi-
cal inspection of the Union of Social
ist Soviet Republics. Can't finda
that while there is an increase in the
number Of cases of tuberculosis and
trachoma, and a wave of malaria is
just now sweeping the marshy re-
gions, other diseases show a marked
decrease, due to continual improve
ments of the methods of the public
health departments. The diseases
thus markedly reduced are especially
smallpox, typhus, cholera, and influ-
enza.
Infant mortality is reduced to III
deaths per thousand births, a point
much lower than in the United States,
The Moscow birth rate is thirty a
thousand and the New York rate is
twenty-one per thousand
DR.. CAN'T has the highest praise
for the State Health bureaus of the
Soviet Union and for the Individual
physicians who work for the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Prison Made Shoes
Stamped as Munson
Last Army Product

WASHINGTON, July 81 (FP)--
Shoes made in the Indiana state PEN
itentiary are being sold on the mar
ket as United States army Munson
last shoes, asserts the federal trade
commission in ordering the Common
wealth Manufacturing Co. not to
place the letters gu. S." on its prod
ucts. These shoes, made by forced
labor of unpaid prisoners, compete on
the open market with union-made
shoes, depriving unionists of work and
adding to the glut of footwear now
congesting the market.
The Commonwealth firm, whose
stockholders profit from prison labor
and fraud, is also ordered not to rep
resent itself as a manufacturer" to
hide the fact that it's shoes are pris-
on-made. The firm merely acts rs
wholesaler. The Commonwealth
prison shoes are greatly inferior in
quality and workmanship" to the
army shoes they are made to initiate,
the commission states.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Amsterdam Disliked
By Iglesias, But One
Delegate Will Risk 1t

WASHINGTON, July 31.-Sam-
uel 0. Yudico, who has been acting
as member of the Mexican delega-
ton at the Pan-American Federation
Of Labor convention here, has left
for New York, whence he is to
embark for Amsterdam, as a fra
ternal delegate to the forthcoming
congress of the International Fedora
ton of Trade Unions. Yudico is a
member of the Mexican chamber of
deputies, and also a member Of the
executive committee Of the Mexican
Confederation of Labor &C. r. O. M
The departure of Yudico for Amster-
dam recalls the fact that Santiago
Iglesias, Spanish-language secretary
of the Pan-American Federation of
Labor and right-hand man of Presi-
dent Green in Latin America, has
frequently of late expressed to news
paper men his displeasure with what
he calls "the manipulations of the
Amsterdam International on the
American continent"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
SENATOR IGLESIAS OF PORTO RICO,
TOOL OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS

fell into the hands of American and
other foreign corporations, who de-
voted these lands to large agricul-
ture, sugar, tobacco and coffee cul-
tiYation. The thousands appropriated
were forced into wage slavery, to
labor in the plantation sugar mills
and tobacco factories. Porto Rico
then became the scene of the most
brutal exploitation of workers; hours,
sunrise to sunset; wages 60 cents per
day, together with the plundering of
the wealth created, by the stockhold-
ers, coupon clippers, in the form of
profit and earned" dividends.
Exploited Workers Revolt.
Such conditions did not long pre-
vail without creating feeling of re-
volt among the masses of exploited,
which gave birth to the desire for
workers organization. This move
ment for workers. organization came
under the leaderhip of Santiago
Iglesias, an anarchist emigre from
Spain, who because Of his experience
in the anarchist movement in Spain,
and wider experience in work of
agitation among the masses, became
outstanding in the workers move
ment in Porto Rico and was trusted
by the workers to lead them.
American economic and political
rule in Porto Rico is not entirely free
from resistance on the part of the
Spanish and native capitalist class.
On the contrary, the resistance Of
fered the Americans by the native
bourgeoisie, primarily of a political
nature, was one that worried the
American authorities. Thus the out
standing political leader of the Porto
Rican and Spanish bourgeois, Luis
Munoz Rivera, fought the American
political administration, demanding
political independence for the island,
until 1915, when he capitulated to
American political rule. The Amer
lean rulers sought means to over
come this resistance on the part of
the bourgeoisie and prevent any mass
movement coming to the support of
the "independendistas" lat that time
the unionist partly 1900-1915. And
here is where Sam Gompers came to
the assistance of American imper-
ialism.
Gompers Bribed Iglesias.
The A. F. of L., thru the good
graces of Gompers, became interested
in the workers movement led by the
anarchist and militant Santiago lyle
sias, who rallied workers and peasan-
try to organize and fight their ex-
ploiters, both foreign and native, and
who therefore was constantly perse-
cuted and jailed by the local authori-
ties and his life threatened.
Gompers saw in the movement led
! by Iglesias an opportunity of win
ming mass support away from any
independence movement led by ma
tive bourgeoisie and bringing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Starvation for Workers
AS Japanese Seek Cheap
Labor Supply in China

HONOLULU, July 31.-Declaring
that the United States is working
against Japan through China and
that Japan is no longer antagonistic
to the Soviet government, Yusuka
Tsurumi, Japanese political orator,
jolted the imperialists assembled at
the Institute of Pacific relations
yesterday, by announcing that Japan
intends to hold the lease of the
Kwantung peninsula and the South
Manchurian Railway zone and de-
mands its right to own and lease
land in any place not decided on,
while Japanese are to have full right
to travel, reside and trade in Man
churia. He further insisted on the
joint Sino-Japanese operation of the
Hanyan Pinnan mines.
He frankly states that Japan's i'm
perialist policies in China are die
tated by Japanese need for raw ma
terials and announced the natural
rights" of peoples to seek the best
means of livelihood.
While admitting that the "stabil-
ization" Of China and it's penetra-
ton by Japanese imperialism would
create desirable and unlimited
source of cheap labor, Tsurumi stated
unemployment was acute in Japan
and the poverty of the people would
be further increased by Japanese i'm
perialism in China.
DR.. Shiroshi Nasu Of Toxic Uni
versity addressed the conference on
the Japanese cooperative movement,
producing figures showing that there
are now $4,000 cooperative locals in
Japan with membership of 3,000,-
600. The peasant organizations mum
- d000 with 100000 members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Big Croton Dam Overflow.

CROTON, N. Y, July 31-Never
before in midsummer has there been
an overflow Of water at the big Cor
nell dam of the New York City's
chain Of reservoirs in Croton, but to-
day waterfall three inches in depth
is flowing over the wide spillway of
the dam and being lost in the gorge
of the old Croton River bed $50 feet
below. The daily water loss is about
500,000,000 gallons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
By ]. Nevarez, Organizer, Commun-
list League of Porto Rico.


list League of Porto Rico.
Santiago Iglesias, honorable SEN
ator and leader of organized labor in
Porto Rico, shares with Don An
tonic Barcelo the political leadership
of the island. In Porto Rico, Sena-
tor Iglesias is hailed as Barcelo's fu-
ture rival for the office of governor
should the colony. be granted political
autonomy (Which the two above men
toned are jointly campaigning to Sc
cure from congress) or as the logical
senator from Porto Rico, should the
impossible happen and Porto Rico be
admitted to statehood. In the con-
vention of the Pan-American Fed
Grafton of Labor, however, Iglesias
presents a pitiable picture, meek
and most perfect flunkey of the lead
ers of the American labor bureau
cracy, an interpreter for President
Green to whom he bows with meek
reverence at the slightest nod.
1t was at the last convention of
the Pan-American Federation Of La
Dor that Iglesias was given the post
of Spanish secretary to that body, q
job which he deserves for his serv-
ices to American imperialism in
Porto Rico. Iglesias has proved his
ability to stem the tide off anti
imperialism developing in the labor
movement of Latin America.
Faker Betrays Latin Labor.
The island of Porto Rico, the first
of the colonies secured in the war
with Spain, to be completely subju-
gated to the will of Wall Street
served as sort of experimental
laboratory for the American imper-
ialist. With Gompers' aid, the scheme
was conceived of bringing the labor
movement of Latin America under
the domination of Wall Streets labor
lieutenants. Santiago Iglesias is a
by-product of this experiment staged
in Porto Rico, and the organization
in 1918 of the pan-A. F. of L. is
the result.
Porto Rico, previous to the Yankee
invasion, was a country of small, di-
versified agriculture, the land being
for the most part in the hands OF
small land owners, with large fam
lilies and tenants depending on them
The semi-feudal social forms of ole
Spain prevailed there.
With the American invasion in
1898, the change from a colony OF
semi-feudal Spain to that of mod
ern highly developed imperialist
power, effected an immediate econo-
mic revolution in the island The
immediate penetration of American
finance, thru the National City Bank
of New York and others, led to the
hasty appropriation of thousands Of
landowners, estimated to date al
about 10000 titleholders plus then
dependents. Thousands of the is
lands besa and most fertile acreage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Hays in Radio Talk
Says Legion Leads
Attacks On Liberty

Certain reactionary organizations,
including the American Defense So
ciety and the National Security Lea
que were attacked as "unpatriotic" by
Arthur Garfield Hays in a radio ad-
dress broadcast Monday night by
Station WPCH at Park Central Hotel,
New York City.
Mr.. Hays, who is member of the
Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, also
branded the American Legion, Wo-
mans Temperance Society and Ku
KluX Khan as censorship organiza-
tons"
Losing Liberties.
Little by little the liberties of
American citizens are slipping away"
said Mr.. Hays, "and the process is
so gradual as to be hardly noticeable.
However, we are gradually losing
even the fundamental rights of free
speech, free press and free assem-
blage.
"You can speak and write on any
subject you please in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and New Jersey, I'M
less, perchance, the subject concerns
unionism in time of strike.
an California the 1. w. w. are
jailed for expressing their views. In
Tennessee, you can talk, l presume,
on any subject except that which is
closest to the hearts of the people
to wit, religion.
No Refuge Here
Freedom of residence is a funa-
mental right and yet in 1925 DR.. Os-
sian Sweet and ten other Negroes in
Detroit were put on trial for murder
for defending themselves against a
mob of white men who tried to force
them from their homes.
1--WE are no longer the country of
the oppressed of other nations. Oar
immigration laws bar out the seekers
Of opportunity in America. We are
not even the country of political re-
fugees. we send anti-Fascisti back
to Italy, sometimes to Jail and tor
ture.
Legion Worst
Unfortunately, during the last
year, the American Legion appears to
have been a fairly active agency Of
intolerance and oppression. Twenty
seven states report that they were
worse than the Ku Klux Khan. An
exception of course must be made in
favor Of the Willard Straight Post
and few others which regard them
selves as American first, to whom
intolerance is more hateful than
radicalism. But many Of our former
soldiers regard themselves as poten-
rial guardians whose duty to protect
present conditions is more important
than the obligation to defend eternal
principles"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

| ''IiIlI'|
Thirteen years ago
the workers
Of the world
were confronted
with the terrifying
prospect Of a
World War.
This war lasted for
three long years,
which cost US
millions of dead
and wounded, and
heavy financial
burdens placed upon
the working class.
August 4th
has burned a lesson
deep in our hearts.
We have resolved
that there shall
never again be
another August 4th,
that never again
shall the workers of
the world become
cannon fodder
in the interests
of the J. P. Morgan,
John D. Rockefeller
and the rest Of
that pirate crew.
The drive for
Five Thousand
New Readers for
the Daily Worker
is one effective way
to fight against
the danger of
another August
4th, which is
daily and hourly
threatening us.
Already our
g'unboats are
in China.
Already our marines
are in Nicaragua,
Already the clouds
Of the capitalist
offensive against
the Soviet Union
are gathering.
We must build
our army
for the fight.
We must spread
the knowledge of
the new disaster
which threatens
to overtake us.
We must do this
by securing 4.
Five Thousand
New Readers for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
SOME Girl UNIONISTS OF China

Asked what they expected from the
Nationalist government and from
their union four or five contributed
parts of the answer:
From the Nationalist government
we get the union, for without it the
unions are always suppressed and
the leaders shot. The union is all of
us, so it fights for what we need.
We expect an 8-hour day and better
wages. This is specially needed for
women who are most oppressed of
all human beings. Not only must the
woman work long hours in the fac
tory, but she must wash and sweep
at home and also comb her hair and
such things. We expect the Nation
alst government to make the facto-
ries have schools for us to learn
things. And also a special room tc
feed babies in. And also hospital
care when we are sick, because we
are all too poor to pay for doctors
care. And also vacation with pay
before and after babies are born.
Also to abolish all cruel and shame
full punishments."
Chang Kills Girls.
Cruel and shameful punishments
they defined as being shut in a lit
tie wooden cage all night that you
can't lie down in, for making a mis-
take"
All of these girls face capture and
death if they return to Shanghai
where Chang Kai-shek has been eX-
ecuting hundreds of workers for al
legged Communist tendencies. They
smile. 1t is evident that they are too
full of life to take the thought of
death seriously Yet girls as young
as these have already gone bravely
to death at the hands Of the counter
revolution in China's coast cities.
They all send greetings to Amer
ica's workers. 1t would be incredible
to them if I should explain that mil
lions of American workers are not at
all interested in world revolution. l
do not tell them. l smile back and
convey their greetings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

! Grafton of Womens Clubs, is shown
| by the fact that at it's last biennial
! convention, held in Atlantic City, May
! 24-June 5, 1926. the Louisville Won
/ ans Clubs motion to resclnd the West
| Baden councils action on the subject
! was lost by a vote so overwhelmingly
| against it that only the II affirmative
votes were counted.
| 5. Following the West Baden coun-
Gil meeting. the Louisville Woman
| Club, at a meeting April u. 1926,
| adopted the following amendment to
the bylaws: THE club shall not be
bound by any action of the Kentucky
| Federation of Women's Clubs or Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs un-
til such action shall have been duly
ratified by the members of this club
at "A meeting called for the purpose. "
OF the 200 members of the club 334
voted, 254 in the affirmative and so in
the negative.
This action of the Louisville Wom-
ans Club has given rise to scattering
bat persistent articles publishing mis-
| leading charges, some of them being
as follows:
Charge l. That individual clubs are
not consulted before the Inner cote
rie" of the federation commits the
| General Federation to political meas
ures, and that Endorsements are forced
through without being understood Dy
the delegates.
Answer: One of the first acts Of the
president, Mrs. John d. Sherman. on
taking office two years ago. was TO
point out the need of more time Tor
consideration of resolutions indorsing
legislation with the result that at
the board of directors meeting. Janu-
airy, 1924, three months time was re-
uuested. and it was finally voted that
resolutions must be in the hands OF
the resolutions committee six weeks
before the meeting at which they are
to be voted upon and, furthermore,
that they must be sent to State fed
Grafton presidents for study and con-
sideration in the State federation.
Charge 2. That the Louisville Club,
because they demurred to the auto
cratic domination of the oligarchy,
were not permitted to lay their case
before the convention, and that the
convention was not permitted to con
slider it.
Answer: The Louisville Woman's
Club failed to send in its resolution
to rescind the West Baden action in
time to receive consideration by the
convention in accordance with general
federation rules. During the conven-
ton. delegates from the club presented
their resolution to the resolutions
committee as an emergency" resolu-
ton. This committee and the board
of directors voted unanimously that
the resolution was not of an emer-
gency character. and SO informed the
Louisville Club delegates-With the
added statement from Mrs. Sherman
that "a motion to rescind the action
of the council at West Baden. fr~tn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-20

without representation" and that the
Louisville club OF 700 members had
no more votes than the smallest fed
Grated clubs.
Answer: Up until few years ago,
outside of the biennial convention,
only the board of directors had power
of action. Matters could only be rec
commended by the council meetings
In order to make the council. with its
large and more representative mem
bership, more significant, the biennial
convention OF 1922 so amended the
bylaws that the biennial council was
given power to act on all matters ex-
cept the amendment of bylaws and
the election of officers. These two
functions, most important Of all, still
rest solely with the biennial conven-
ton, which is the chief legislative
body of the General Federation. In it
each federated club or kindred or
ganization of 100 members or fewer
shall be entitled to be represented by
one delegate: for each additional 100
members, one additional delegate.
At the last biennial convention the
Louisville Woman's Club sent five ac-
credited delegates, more than any
other club of Kentucky and five times
as many as most of them.
The bylaws governing representa-
ton, as they now exist. have been
built up by the membership of the
general federation, the Louisville
Women's Club taking its part with
the others in amending them from
time to time as occasion arose. II the
present system Is not satisfactory, the
simple and straightforward way for
any club to show it's dissatisfaction Is
to propose a revision of the bylaws.
It Is neither the presidents duty nor
In her power to change the method OF
representation.
In summing up. the federation has
for years attempted to spread knoWl
edge, through it's departments. of the
important questions Of the day and
through it's legislative program to
register the opinion of Its members.
When any one says first that ma
the federation rules "a powerful lobby
methods" and finally that the fedora
tons Endorsement is really worthless
because it does not represent its mem
bers, it naturally raises the question::
Who wants to destroy or discredit the
value of the general federation's in
dorsement of Legislative measures and
on what legislative measure Is the
action of the general federation
feared?
Signed by Mrs. John D. Sherman,
Mrs Edward Franklin White, Miss
Florence Dibert. Mrs Grace Morrison
Poole, Mrs H. G.. Reynolds, Mrs. John
F. Sippel, Mrs. j. e. Friend, Mrs.
Henry Taylor. executive committee.
X x x
MEMBERS of the special delegation
AVA from the National Woman S