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WILL SPEND s4O.OOO.OO0.

MINNEAPOLIS, January IS Esp.
ciaD.-About $40. 900, 900 will be spen.
by this State on roads in 1927. Tn
state now has S12 miles OF pave,i
highway and $3.50 miles of graveled
roads. All income from automobiIr
licenses and the cents q gallon "a
ollne tax go for road CONSTRUCTION
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MUCH. GASOLINE BOUGHT.

BATON ROUGE, La. January ]
(SpeciaD.-This State in the last Yea
collected $2,6S8,0OO from users OF ga,
oline in this State. indicating a con
sumption of 1874, 4O4, 900 gallons. Tn
State auditor estimates the averal
cost for gasoline per vehic-
at $123.30.
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BUYS CAN COMPANY.

NEW YORK. January 10 Op). Co.
tinental Can Co. has acquired lh
capital stock of the Eastern Can e.
of San Jose, Calf, the third plan
bought by Continental on the Paciti
Coast in recent weeks. The other
were the Los Angeles Can Co. and thu
Seattle Can Co.
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POTOMAC LAND BANK REPORTS
YEARS BUSINESS GRATIFYING
Annual Statement of Capital Traction
Company Shows Net Income of $780,
1924, Increase of $l4,396. 80 Over 1926.

praised value of S262, 4S0. The actual
sale value of the farms was $22l,fZo'
thus showing the ratio OF loans 10
appraised value of only SO per cent
and the ratio of loans to sale value
of only 46 per cent. President Harris
stated that these figures reflect the
stability of farm lands in this district
as % basis for loans.
1t was announced that new issue
of Federal farm loan bonds would
be offered by the bank about rep
ruary l.
Capital fractions Yearly Report.
The annual report Of the Capital
Traction Co. for the year ending on
December 81. 1926. was made today,
the figures revealing total net m
come OF $500 1924, Il gain of VIA
5000 over 1926. The gross income
showed an increase OF more than
$24, 900 in comparison with the pre-
vious year. The complete summary
OF operations for the year follows;
Change
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RIGHTS EXPIRE SOON.

NEW YORK, January 13 R.-Ttc
New England Public Service Co. an
nounces that rights to no par value
common stock, share for share, at So"
a share, expire next Saturday and sub
scriptions must be made before pm.
at 317 Water street, Augusta, Me.
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POTATO MARKET STEADY.

CHICAGO, January 10. R.-Pota-
toes-Receipts, So cars; on track, 1871;
total u. $. shipments, 695 cars: de-
mand and trading slow. market about
steady; Wisconsin sacked round
whites, 2.25a2.40; mostly 3.S0a2 80
bulk, 2.35a2.40. Idaho sacked, russets,
2.75a3.00; mostly 2.S0a2.90.
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DISCOUNT RATE UP,

LONDON. January Is up. The
rate of discount of the Bank of India
was raised today from to 6 per cent.
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ON NEW YORK BONDS STOCK EXCHANGE
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

go This table carries quotations
received up to 3:15 pm. A com
plete table will be published in
the $50 Edition.
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BY EDWARD G. STONE.

The stockholders of the Potomac
Joint Stock Land Bank held their an
nual meeting at the Citizens National
Bank, Alexandria, Va, yesterday
which resulted in the election of the
following directors for the ensuing
year:
There was one vacancy on the board
to be filled, and G. +. Summers was
elected to this place. Mr.. Summers
Is active vice president of the Central
Trust Co. of Frederick, Md.
The report of the secretary-treas.
urer of the years business showed
capital. surplus and profits in excess
OF $4,000 and resources in excess
of $5.475 900. Among the interesting
statistics was the report of the mum
her of farms sold during 1926 by the
owners in the usual way on which the
bank had loans. The report stated
that % farms in the State of Vir-
ginia were sold on which the bank
had loaned $101.900 based on an ap-
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The volcano StromboIi Ia In . con'
tinuaI state Of eruption.
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Civic Federation Labor Leaders Come CrOpper.

The Civic Federation frame-up against the Of
Joint Board of the Furrers Union has
had another bodyow dealt recent developments in the n
vestgaon" charges police bribery which procured
reading of the garbed reports published in the capt.
taist press relative Ben Colds testimony and that of the
stenographer Board whose certified notes contained
the charges in contrast to the doctored of
F. committee will convince anyone that Vol Frayne
and assistants stopped the lowest methods of oopgeon
dscredt Jail political opponents and smash the Fur
riers Union.
1t is opinion that the frameup has failed 1t has sue
ceeded convcng nine innocent fur workers but failed
get" Gold and Shapirothe Joint Board officials whom the
right wing its Civic Federation hackers desired ardent
ly to jail
The main task of the militant trade unionists who have
weathered this despcabe attack to strengthen the unon de-
feat the bosses who have been taking advantage of the right
wing offensive to and working conditions smash
the right wing completely free the who
raroaded expose before the whole labor the
labor character of responsible heads of the labor like
Green Wo Frayne and their allies in official socialist circles
There is further since the trial of the
Mineoa and the debace of the Investigation evidence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
ImperiaIistc FashOn-Kiling Chinese Communists

Chang To Lin has become hero again in mperiast circles
He stranged death "a Chinese Communists the other day
workers had taken refuge in the Soviet Union embassy
o captured there by troops of Changes whom
the impera powers had permitted and aided to raid in viola
ton of all international law.
The blood of these "a lovers of and fighters for liberation OF
the Chinese the hands of Chamberlain Baldwin,
Churchill Kellogg and Coolidge.
No protest will be made by the American state department
against these coward and brutal murders Coolidge and KEEL
ogg and their Wall Street masters only too glad that there
"a Communist workers less in China If is to
bloody of of the most besa bandits of
whom history has any record then this too will be done
Shameen Shanghai Marking, Peking-he list of Chinese
cities where Communist workers have died that China and the
may be free grows steadily longer 1t is their blood that
waters the sturdy plant of the liberation movement
1t is fashionable today in almost all countries to kill Com
muns workers That they Communists sufficient excuse
day passes but that the services record the
slaughter Communistether the battle line of the class
struggle, in prison cells on the galows.
In Russia also fashionable to kill revoutionistsa
audabe and profitable occupation 1t is different today
Will the imperiaist press the mperas robber band and
the caque of hangrson be just compasant when the scale
and the mureers of the brought to the bar
of revolutionary justice?
makes difference The slaughter of Communists by
Chang Lin will Imperialism from the of
the teemng millions it has outraged.
today CImand of Hands Off China raised by Com
other workers in America like knife in the heart
of Wall Street Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

THREE hundred thousand coal
miners are striking to save their
union and their wages and working
conditions.
This struggle alone gives the lie
to the labor leaders who put forward
the theory that American capitalism
has become benevolent and that not
to struggle against it but coopera-
ton with it is the correct line for
the labor movement to follow.
The coal barons are determined to
smash the United Mine Workers of
America-the strongest and most
important union affiliated to the
American Federation of Labor. (Only
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
is numerically larger than the
UMWA.)
THE Lewis machine which rules the
= UMWA has for six wears
systematically tried to stamp out of
the union all vestiges of the class
consciousness and militancy which
made the record of the UMWA stand
cut first in the history of the strur-
giles of American workers.
Prosecutions, explosions of indi-
vlduals, of local unions and of whole
dlstricts-and cooperation with the
government authorities to iail mill
tant miners as in the case of Alley
Howat in Kansas) have been resorted
20 IN a shameless manner. President
Lewis and Searles, his man FRIDAY
who edits the United Mine Workers
journal, have shown new tricks to ex-
attorney general Palmer and William
). Burns in their "red-baiting" CAM
paign.
EVILS, in 1923, allowed Searles TO
pay $4,000 for a series of cred
exposures" which the union was
made to sponsor officially. De-
veloping with an ever increasing
Tempo the drive against the militant
rank and file was halted temporarily
by the anthracite strike of 1925
which was lost, due to the "expert"
and conservative leadership of John
L. Lewis, who finally surrendered the
check-off and agreed to compulsory
arbitration-abandoning the principle
for which he had always fought-for
direct dealing with the coal operators.
FOLLOWING the anthracite strike
the war on the left wing was re-
sumed with new vigor and at the In
dianopolis convention the U. M. w. A.
constitution was stripped of all demo-
cratic provisions, the officials took
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unlimited power, raised their already
huge salaries and eliminated every
thing from the law and procedure of
the union which could be said to be
in any way tinged' with radicalism.
The coal Earons were given all the
proof possible that the U. M. w. A.
was ready to do business-not as a
union WITT tradition of fighting
past but as a 1927 model of 100
percent American union such as Mr..
Dooley once described wages,
no working conditions, no dues, no
officers and damn few members"
WITH the constitution of the UMWA
" revamped into thoro responsibility
the next step was to peddle the union
to the coal barons.
The first inducement offered the
coal barons by John l.. Lewis was a
decision to call no national strike
pending negotiations following the
expiration of the Jacksonville agree
ment.
The coal barons laughed in Lewis
gihle exceptions, remained adamant.
Lewis's next bargain-counter pro-
posal was for district agreements in
stead of one national agreement-a
voluntary division and disruption of
the union without precedent in the
history Of the American labor move
ment.
FOR the United Mine Workers of
4 ficialdom to make such proposal
as this before there had been a single
test of strength was the same as sur
rendering without firing a shot-or
calling out one coal digger.
The coal barons Laughter in Lewis
face. They closed their mines and
stated publicly that they would never
reopen except when a reduction Of
wages had been accepted and working
conditions adjusted"
In return for the Shiny trucking
to the demands of the operators,
which is what war on the Communists
and the left wing has been from the
very beginning, in return for the sys-
tcmatic failure to take up the thou
sands Of grievances which had been
allowed to pile up under the Jackson
vile agreement, in return for Lewis
support of Coolidge in the last cleo
tion-the coal barons laughed in his
face.
NOT even his offer of a commission
~ OF experts" to increase production
IN the industry met with considera-
ton. The coal barons had their own
ideas IS t. how to increase profits
and probationary smashing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
Official Labor Reaction Meets Political Defeat
John Lewis Kneelng by BarOns)

union which they had watched Lewis
and his henchmen weaken over
three-year period.
The Lewis machine had made no
real attempt to organize West Nlr-
ginia and other rich non-union fields
and it watched complacently while
the operators mined and stored mil
lions of tons of coal in preparation
for stoppage of production the first
of April.
THE policy of the Lewis machine has
been a suicidal one for the union.
1t could have been followed only as
policy designed to appeal to the coal
barons--to placate them, convince
them that the UMWA was a good"
union with which they could deal in
safety to which no possible objection
could be raised on the ground of radi-
calism or militancy.
This was the policy. The result is
before the whole labor movement.
The coal barons are out to smash
the miners union in spite of the fact
that Lewis tried to give it to them
their pleasure and profit.
THE task of the left wing in the
miners union is to see that every
miner understands that Lewis has led
them into fight badly prepared
from the standpoint Of finance and
orcanizational morale for the reason
that he was willing to give away the
union to avoid a militant struggle
and preparation for militant struggle
which would have brought him into
disfavor with the capitalists to whom
he kowtows. Then the left wing
must organize to save the union
The coal barons have wiped their
shoes on John L. Lewis-the blatant
apostle of efficiency unionism for the
mining industry.
The miners must make sure that
the coal barons do not wipe their feet
on the union or kick it to pieces.
GLASS collaboration works badly at
y all times but it is a complete
failure so far as the Lewis type of
labor leader is concerned when the
bosses refuse to do any collaborating
in spite of abscene appeals to their
humanitarian" instincts and grossly
criminal neglect of the welfare of the
union.
The right wing in the miners union
particularly and in the whole labor
movement generally has had a crush
ing political defeat handed it by those
upon whom it depends for approval
and support of its drive against gem
uine trade unionists.
(To Be COntinued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
The Soviet Union at Geneva

Switzerland has apoogsed agreed to make what PREPARATION
possible the cowardy murder of Vorov and the Soviet
Union will be represented officially the Geneva Economic Con-
ference.
idea the critical condition of international
be gathered the that the mprat have
been willing force Switzerland apologize to the greatest
enemy of world capitalism in order that with the Soviet Union
attempts be made to harmonic the chaos that
exists in the fields of production and exchange
At Geneva the Soviet Union representatives will speak from
straegicay placed that the whole world will hear
struggle against world Imperialism will be carried
by different methods but methods that deadly in their effect
The Soviet Union representatives will point out for instance that
workers and peasants republic ALONE of all the Euro
countries the standard of living the rises steadily
This point enough make millions of workers ponder
the wisdom submission to capalsnwhich the Russian
masses conquered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
May Day in the American Labor Movement

ment of France which eliminated in
1871 in the establishment of the
Paris Commune, the labor movement
OF the United States way back in
the seventies and eighties of the
last century was the most militant
in the world. The great strike of
the railroad workers, in 1877, in
which many workers were slaugh-
tered in cold blood by the federal
troops and state militia, was the
greatest labor upheaval at the time
in the entire labor world. The Amer
lean bourgeoisie was struck with the
greatest fear, lest the history of the
glorious Paris Commune would be
re-enacted on this continent. 1t mo-
bilized all of it's forces to crush the
strike. And it succeeded.
AFTER the defeat of 1877, the labor
- movement, for the time being.
seemed to be entirely exhausted and
turned its attention to the co-opera-
tive movement and to financial re-
forms, as expressed by "Greenback-
ism" of the seventies. With the be-
ginning of the eighties we see a re-
awakening of the militant labor
movement. The formation of the
Federation of Organized Trades and
Labor Unions of the United States
of America and Canada, the fore
runner of the present American Fed
Grafton of Labor, in 1881 was the
signal on the part of the workers
that they are rallying their forces
once again for the future battles.
In the same year the Order of the
Knights of Labor came out into the
open and plunged into many militant
strikes, though very often against
the will and best desires of its Off
cial leadership. This was an indi-
cation that the great masses of work.
ers were moving forward to take
their proper place in the American
society. The Federation embraced
the skilled workers, while the I'M
skilled and semi-skilled rallied I'M
der the banner of the Knights of
Labor.
TIE eliminating point Of the Amer
lean labor movement of this per-
iod was reached in the general strike
for an eight-hour system on the First
of May in 1886. This strike gave
birth to the celebration of the First
OF May as the labor holiday, as the
day for the workers, by the workers
and of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
BY Az BIMBA.

AGAIN millions of workers all over
a the world join their hands on the
First of May-the International La
Dor Day. The First of May is a
great day. 1t belongs to the work.
ing class. 1t is ours-we who work
and toll, who produce the necessities
of life and at the same time live in
constant need and poverty.
The imperialist world is trembling
before the rising of the new sun in
the East. Even its mighty machine
guns that guard its greedy interests
IN Asia cannot save it from shud-
dering with fear. The "stabiliza-
ton" of capitalism is in great dan
ger. It's very foundation is shaking
as if from a mighty earthquake. The
world proletarian revolution which
started in 1917 with the overthrow
of the bourgeoisie in Russia is again
in eruption.
| HAVE wandered away from nv
: subject. But can help it? Can
we talk of the First of May with our
eyes closed to the greatest fight that
the oppressed have ever been en-
gagged in or, for that matter, will
ever be engaged in? Nay, we can
not. The First of May, if it is any
thing to us at all, symbol of strug-
gle. 1t is a holiday to us in the
sense that we, on that day, stop
shaving for the master class, solidify
our ranks, prepare ourselves for the
next move in the great arena of the
class struggle. 1t is a day in which
we issue a challenge to our enemies.
This is the real meaning of the
May Day to the revolutionary work.
ers of the United States-the Com
munist and their sympathizers.
THE labor movement in America is
l very weak organizationally and in
fighting spirit, proportionally weak
er than in any other capitalist coun-
try. Today when the American war
ships are bombarding the industrial
cities of China and slaughtering
thousands of innocent men, women
and children, our official labor move
ment does not even raise voice Of
protest against the government.
But was the American labor move
ment always so backward and con-
sentative?
What does its history show? It
shows exactly the contrary to that
which we see today. With the ex-
ception, probably, of the labor move
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BroadWGy Briefs

The Theatre of the Dance under the
direction Of Dorsha will open tonight
at the Grove Street Theatre, present
ing three new ballets: 1.-THE Legend Of
the Phoenix" set to Stravinsky's
"Firebird Suite" Earth Fire" to
Brahms Hungarian dances and "The
Immortal Lover" The Oriental suite
Will include THE God Breaker" sug-
gested by Roerich's painting, "Mys-
terry"
Cherry Blossoms" the musical
play current at the 44th Street The
atre, will move Monday to the Co.'S
mopolitan Theatre.
At the Palace Theatre this week are
the following: Irene Bordoni; Janet
Beecher and Crane Wilbur and Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
~ DRAMA III
"Oh Ernest" Coming to
Royale Theatre, May 9

Among the openings for the week
after the coming one will be "Oh
Ernest" which will have its premiere
at the Royale Theatre on Monday
evening, May 9th. This is the must
cal comedy version of Oscar Wilde's
"The Importance of Being Earnest"
which is being produced by p. T..
Rossiter, Francis De Witt wrote the
book and lyrics and Robert Hood
Bowers the music. The production
will be tried out in Ford's Opera
House, Baltimore next week.
The cast is headed by Marjorie
Gateson, Hal Forde, Harry Nc
NaughtOn, Dorothy Dilley, Ralph
Riggs, Katharine Witchie, Flavia Ar
caro-, Barbara Newberry, and Vivian
Marlowe.