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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
BRITISH TORIES BREAK WITH SOVIET UNION
No Work for Hundreds
Lured to Canada; Many
Starving in Calgary

CALGARY, Canada, May "a
Hundreds of immigrants are
starving here. Their resentment
against the government is increas-
ed over the lying propaganda that
was responsible for bringing them
here.
Local authorities are doing moth
ing about the glutted labor mar
ket. At least II months work had
been promised by the government,
and no attempt has thus far been
made to fulfil this promise.
The majority of the workers
who have been lured here by the
government and transportation
companies are Slovaks and Hun
garians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
NimnlO, PGrSGCutOT
Of Textile Masses
in Strike, is Dead

PASSAIC, May 24-Sheriff George
p. Nimmo, who won national motor
iety in last years textile strike by
using gas and machine guns on the
strikers, is dead here, Nimmo was ac-
tive in Garfield and East Paterson,
using his sheriff's power in every pos
sible manner to help the employers
and beat the strike. His reading of
the riot act was held to be the climax
of the walkout.
Nimmo's violence against newspa-
per reporters won the hostility of
many of the New York papers, which
swung sharply over to the strikers
side for the time being His ruthless
suppression of free speech brought
him into active conflict with the
American Civil Liberties Union and
liberal forces the nation over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
PLUMBER NOT
SERVICE MAIN
aim OF RING
By ROBERT MITCHELL.

The state transit commission hear
ings got under way Monday with
something of an explosion. Hardly
half an hour had elapsed before two
outstanding facts were revealed to the
small group of Traction Brains"
which attended the sitting.
First, practically all, about SO per
cent of the stock Of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company is held in the
form of voting certificates by Wall
Street brokers.
Second, and even more significant,
the directors of the company hold
practically no stock in the INTERIOR
ough.
The meeting got under way prompt
ly at 1890 A. NJ. Assembled in the
spacious headquarters of the transit
commission on tie tenth floor Of 270
Madison Ave. were the legal and bust
ness representatives of apparently all
the railroads and transit lines this
side of the Mississippi River!
Rough Stuff" Quakenbush was
there representing the Interborough.
Quackenbush appeared to be entirely
superior" to a proceeding of such
minor Importance. Nothing short of
strike and the importation of Chi
cago scabs and strike-breakers hits
this gentleman as being worth while.
Miller Eyes Crowd.
Former Governor Nathan I. Miller
was on deck with cane and a hand
shake for all, glancing furtively in
every direction with shifty eyes. Sam
uel Untermeyer with the face of an
aged polly and the sharp eyes of an
eagle, flower in his button hole, ap-
peared as if dressed for a wedding.
Previous to the formal opening of
the hearings, statement was read
by Untermyer reporting that John
Delaney, chairman of the city trans
portation board, has telephoned de-
Ginning the commissions invitation to
be present. Delaney claimed illness as
an excuse. The reason for this signifi-
cant fact will be explained later.
The hearings were opened promptly
on the appearance of the three tran
sit commissioners, Chairman John F.
Gilchrist, Leon G. Cooley and Charles
C. Lockwood. Untermyer, special
counsel for the commission, who is the
main figure in the hearing, began
with the reading of a long prepared
statement calculated to set at rest
anyone who might presume to ques-
ton the propriety or the intention of
the proceedings. The commission
would listen to all and view all evil
dence impartially. The commission is
Continued on Page Fivc)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
State Cops Track
Labor inspector
In Massachusetts

BOSTON. May 24.-State police
were set on Mary Donovan, former
state labor department inspector, it
was revealed in hearings here yester-
day. Miss Donovan, member Of the
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee.
was discharged recently by General
Sweetser, commissioner of labor. and
she is seeking to regain her position.
In the course Of testimony, the gen.
eral, whose notorious anti-labor record
fitted him for the job as labor commits
sioner in the eyes of Calvin Coolidge,
then governor of Massachusetts. adj
mitted that he had asked the state
police TO shadow Miss Donovan.
Ethel NJ. Johnson, assistant commits
sioner of labor, testified on behalf Of
Miss Donovan. She herself testified
of the gross negligence in the hand
ling Of cases against big employers
caught violating the labor code. In
one case, she said, three complaints
had been entered and hearings were
to be held in few days when Sweet
ser suddenly filed the entire subject.
A big crowd of labor people and So
cial workers are following the hear
ings carefully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25

An enormous number of prisoners
and quantities of enemy munitions
were taken along with recording wire
from military mOn at the front.
Cut Off Retreat.
The victory was achieved by Cen
erals Tang Seng-chi and Chang Fa-
kwei, cooperating with the forces of
General Feng Yu-hsiang, the two
bodies advancing from the south and
from the west. The maneuver forced
the withdrawal of the Mukden army
to avoid being cut off from its base
on the south bank of the Yellow
River. Utter rout resulted when the
Fengtien (northern) commanders
realized the danger of being cut off
from the Yellow River bridge which
is the only way to retreat.
In military circles here it is pre-
dicted that a drive will be launched
by Yen Hsi-shan, the governor of
Shansi Province, toward the Shansi-
Chilli border with Pactingfu as the
goal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Fascist Announce New
Cut in Pay of Italian
transportation Workers

ROME, May 24.-In conformity
with Mussolini's Charter of La
Dor" directed at smashing all YES
tiges of workers organizations in
Italy, an 10 per cent. reduction in
wages for the federation Of land,
transportation and internal navi-
cation workers will go into effect
in gradual stages between June
l, 1927 and May 81, 1928.
Despite increasing discomfort
among the rank ad file of the
workers technical acceptance" Of
the cut was made on behalf of the
organization by its officials. The
wages of the workers affected by
this cut were already on the mere
subsistence level.
A general 10 per cent. cut in the
wages of workers engaged in
manufacture had previously been
effected through same procedure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Woman Teacher
Fights Legion In
New Jersey Town

WOODBURY., N. J., May PA
national civil liberties case may de-
velop out of the persecution here of
Mrs. Rachel Davis Dubois, civics
teacher in the Woodbury. High School.
Mrs. Dubois is being bounded by the
American Legion for having taken a
"slacker's oath" and for lecturing at
liberal school in New York City.
But Mrs. Dubois says she was
never near the liberal school and that
being a Quaker, she could not take
an oath of any kind. She demands
public hearing on the Legion
charges.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Labor COnfab At Hankow.

HANKOW, May 24.--Pointing out
that the object of the Pan-Pacific
Labor Conference is to unite world
labor in a fight against q new inn
-perialist world war, Su Chao-chen,
Nationalist minister Of labor, adj
dressed the conference which opened
here last Friday.
Attending the conference are dele
gates from Java, Korea, Japan, the
Soviet Union, the United States, Eng
land and France. Delegates from
Australia were unable to attend be-
cause they had been refused visas by
their government, while number of
japanese delegates were placed under
arrest and prevented from leaving
Japan. The American delegates at
the conference are Earl r. Browder
and Harrison George, both members
Of the Workers (Communist) Party
Plan Imperialist War.
"The imperialists plan a second
world war in the Pacific by crushing
the laboring Masses" Su declared.
"They have gathered gunboats and
soldiers in China and are waiting for
a pretext for military action. This
conference was called for the purpose
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
FAKE DOCUMENTS
USED AS PRETExT
by TORY CABINET
USSR Boycott to Send
Trade to U. S., Germany

LONDON, May 24.-The Bri-
fish die-hard government will
sever diplomatic relations with
the Soviet Union and will break
the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agree
ment, Premier Baldwin official
" announced in the House of
Commons this afternoon.
Using mysterious "subversive Sow
let correspondence reminiscent of
the notorious forged "Zinoviev letter"
as pretext for the break, Premier
Baldwin announced that vote on the
question would probably be taken in
the House of Commons on Thursday.
A substantial tory majority in the
house, however, insures the confirma-
ton of the decision.
Documents" Manufactured.
That the mysterious documents to
which the premier frequently referred
are absolute frauds manufactured by
the die-hards is the opinion of poll
teal observers here. The action of
the tory cabinet is interpreted as
new move in its unofficial war against
the Soviet Union, in which it has en-
ployed every conceivable weapon.
The tory government will make no
representations to the Soviet Union,
it was officially stated, in ending re-
lations. The British trade delegation
and the British diplomatic mission
will be withdrawn from Moscow,
however.
Bid For L. S. Support.
Making an obvious bid for the sup
port of the United States, Premier
Baldwin said: Evidence is in the
hands of the authorities which proves
that both military espionage and sub
versive activities thruout Great Bri-
tain, North and South America, were
directed and carried out from the
Soviet House"
The British tory government is
making every effort to secure the
support of the United States in its
campaign against the Soviet Union.
Hints about "letters of instruction to
American Communists" were also
made for the benefit Of the state de-
partment at Washington.
Need USSR Trade.
The decision of the cabinet was
only reached after a bitter internal
struggle. Members of the cabinet
who realize the Importance of the
trade Of the Soviet Union to the tot
tering industrial structure of Great
Britain fought for maintenance of the
trade agreement, it is stated.
That a section Of the die-hards
realize the necessity Of Soviet Union
trade to Great Britain was indicated
by the premier's declaration that "the
decision of the government will not
affect the ordinary trade facilities
between the two countries" The
Soviet Union will not consent to trade
Continued on Page Tico)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Children Of British
Workers Plan Visits
To the Soviet Union

LONDON, May 24.-ArTange-
ments are now being made for a
delegation Of workers. children to
visit Soviet Russia. In response
to a letter from the Moscow Young
Pioneers, A. J. Cook, secretary of
the miners federation, writes that
at is project which should be
supported by all trade unions and
cooperative societies."
The first group will leave on
June IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
NATIONALIST TROOPS ROUT MUKDEN
ARMY, NORTHERNERS IN Wild FLIGHT
Pan-Pacific Labor Conference Plans Fight
Against New Imperialist World War
(By Nationalist News Agencyl

HANKOW May PA spectacular victory in the north has
Dukden troops the northward along the Peng
Hankow railway The defeat which started two days has
become rout The entire line of defense extending twenty miles
either side of the railway is completely crushed that the
defeated troops of the north scattering all directions
stead of withdrawing along the railway To depth of hun
ded miles this side of Chengchow junction point of the Knhan
and Lungha railways the Mukden line in utter confusion,
offering practically resistance to the advancing Natonas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
LOCKOUT NEAR IN
DISTRICT z, UNIV;
BOSS WANTS CUT
Entombed Workers Still
Try to Get Pay

PHILADELPHIA, May "a (FP)-
Wages of $4,000 union coal diggers,
in the Pennsylvania Alleghanies, are
at stake in a conference going on now.
Led by Charles O'NeiH-once a vice
president of District 2, United Mine
Workers; now president of the Assoc
citation of Bituminous Coal Operators
of Central Pennsylvania-th employ
ers are demanding large reductions in
day pay and tonnage rates.
District Lockout.
The conference is of national i'm
portance. Central Pennsylvania has
not yet Joined the national strike and
lockout. Since April / it has been on
truce with the operators. in accor-
dance with the policy of international
president John L. Lewis, permitting
any coal group to continue at the
Jacksonville rates during the nation
al suspension. But now the central
Pennsylvania operators are talking
of district shutdown unless their de-
mands are granted.
But a lockout is not so terrible a
threat as might be supposed. So many
of the miners are already idle. James
Mark and the 20 other members of
his scale committee, have come from
field where 5000 of the $4,000 at
work March 81 have lost their jobs.
Most of the rest are on part time.
Non Union Mines Close.
Depression in the coal trade has af-
fected the non union-as we'll as the
union--companies in Pennsylvania.
The scab Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burgh r. r. coal subsidiaries, employ
ing some 5000 men in boom times,
are on three days a week. The Erie
R. R., whose 8 central Pennsylvania
mines are operated by the Peabody
Coal Co., is down tight. The Erie
Peabody group broke away from the
union last summer, but after a strike
returned to the agreement. Along the
main line of the Pennsylvania r. r.
are most of the union companies of
District 2 but few of these are very
busy now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Britain Names Lords of
Admiralty to Argue for
Big Navy at Conference

LONDON, May 24.--The 1T. Hon.
William Bridgeman, First Lord Of the
Admiralty, Visccunt Cecil and Sir
Friedrich Cecil will represent Great
Britain at the Tri-Partite Naval con-
ference at Geneva, it was announced
today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Disnnssess Sick Miner.

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, May a.
Theodore Miller, a miner here, sick
and without means, was living with
his family in house owned by the
Hecla Coal and Coke Co.
The miners Of this vicinity are talk
ing strike, and Miller was one of the
miIitants. He went on April /, even
tho sick, to the monstrous miners
parade.
On April 2, he received a notice to
get out Of the company house within
ten days, as the company desires to
repossess the same"
Miller did not move on April ~. On
the nineteenth, the notorious sheriff
of Fayette County, Mr.. !. @. Adams,
a faithful servant of the company, told
Miller's wife that if he did not move
by the twenty-fifth, he would have
him thrown out Of the house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Pennsylvania Labor
Feels JObless Pinch

HARRISBURG, Pa, May 2a.--Clo-
thing, textiles, transportation and
silk continue to report low employ
ment to the state labor department.
Employment generally is far below
normal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Scranton Labor Asks
Review of SaccO Case

SCRANTON, Pa, May 24.--The
Central Labor Union here has asked
Governor Fuller to make a full re-
view Of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
Affiliated locals are advised also TO
send protests to Fuller against the
execution Of the two workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Three Miners Killed
In POttsville Blast

louisville, Pa. May "a
Three miners were killed in pre-
mature explosion at the Bell colliary,
near Tuscarora. They are Steve
Sabo, Vincent Terrazi and James
Jacobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Feng Takes strategie Center.

SHANGHAI, May Wireless
dispatches received here from mill
tary headquarters in Hankow assert
that General Feng Yu-hsiang, who is
allied with the Hankow Nationalist
government, has captured Chengchow,
in north central Honan. Chengchow
is an important strategic position and
was one Of the detectives of Feng's
twofold drive against the Mukden
troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25
Entombed Miners Ask Wages.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 3D.
The demand of five miners who suf-
fered underground buried alive in one
of the terrible mine accidents so COM
mon lately, to full pay while immured
in darkness and danger of their lives,
is still before the Cancellation board.
The men were imprisoned for PIC
hours, in the Tomhicken mine last
November. The company argues that
it will pay for 78 hours only, eight
hours per day for each of the five days
the men were below. The superinten-
dent insists that the men might be con-
sidered as putting in a shift, every
day, since they could not come out of
the mine, but they were resting all
the time anyway. The fact that in
such accidents in other industries the
workers would have claim to heavy
damages for risk to their existence
and for damage thru exposure, means
nothing to the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
The board is still arguing as to
whether there is really an agreement
for a check-off in this district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-25

CALVIN COOLIDGE is opposed to
v calling a special session Of congress
to consider ways and means OF re-
lieving distress in the flood regions,
Coolidge fears that some hardy
wight might throw some light on the
the great congressional pork barrel,
colossal graft that has flowed out OF
Appropriations for rivers and harbors
has been velvet for our lawmakers
Most of this money has gone into
the pockets Of contractors and there
is reason to believe that some OF
It stuck to the fingers of the solons
Anyhow little of it was used to pro-
tect the people along the Mississippi
Continued on Pare Three)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-02
LIBERAL CHIEF
OF NICARAGUA
FOR U. S. CANAL
Editors Interview Reveals
Facts Denying Secret
Gales Agreement.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Foreign Editor, Scripps- Howard Newspapers

BY WILLIAM PHlLlP SIMMS
Foreign Editor, Scripps- Howard Newspapers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. "The
Nicaraguan Canal, owned and con-
trolled by any other country than
the United States, would be a mem
ace to all Central America.
81 will go even further than that.
Any but a United States proprietor
ship over any Central American
canal connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific, would threaten the SOW
ereignty of every Latin American
country, because it would menace
the United States, whose protec-
ton we need.
Urges Early Construction
"rhese are some of the reasons
why I not only favor the inter-
oceanic waterway across southern
Nicaragua, as planned by the United
States, but would like to see it be-
gun at the earliest possible mo-
ment."
The above quotation is taken YER
batim from notes made last Janu-
airy after an interview with DR.. Juan
Bautista Sacasa, president of the
liberal government of Nicaragua and
head of the revolution against
Ado1fo Diaz, whom the liberals con-
slider illegal president of the country.
republish what Sacasa said be-
cause it is in direct opposition to
charges now being published that
Sacasa was in secret agreement
with President Gales of Mexico to
block the United States canal
plans.
The interview took place in the
Liberal leaders ten-by-twelve ex-
ecutive Office and revolutionary
headquarters in Puerto Cabezas, on
the eastern, or Mosquito coast, of
Nicaragua. Stories had been cir
culated in the United States before
left linking Sacasa with Mexi-
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ington, 81, of 2125 N. New Jersey
ST., from her home, followed by
burial at Hartford City, Ind. She
was the widow of Emsley Brew
ington, broker, and had lived in In
dianapolis fifteen years. Mrs. Brew
ington, born in Montpelier, Ind,
died Friday. She was q member of
the Central Ave. M. E. Church.
Surviving her are three daughters,
Misses Lucy and Frances Brewing
ton, and Mrs. A. N. Reynolds, and a
son, Robert, all of Indianapolis.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

many times greater than the ex-
pense involved"
Dawson reported progress in car
rying out the five-year army avia-
ton expansion program, but de-
plored housing conditions Of the
air corps and urged speedy solu-
ton of the inadequate promotion
problem.
ut is estimated that the first in
crement (of the f1ve-year program) F,
as laid down in the War Depart
ment plans, will be substantially
completed on June 80, 1925" Davi-
son said.
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Good Will AIR
TRIP PRAISED
Foreign Flights Beneficial,
Says Aviation Head.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Foreign
flights by army aviators were
recommended as War Department
policy by F. Trubee Dawson, assist
ant Secretary of War for aviation,
in his annual report today.
"I believe that flights such as the
Pan-American flight should be en-
couraged," he said. 1.-THE value is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-12-02

foreign minister at Puerto, Cabezas.
He said much the same thing, add
ing a few reasons of his own why
the liberals desire the United States
to cut a canal across their country.
at would make Nicaragua a cross
roads of the world" he said, land
bring us some very much needed
prosperity"
The Mexican embassy in Wash
ington dubs the documents, pur-
porting to connect President Gales
and Sacasa with a plot to block the
canal, forgery. I know nothing
about the papers In question. But
do know, from having frequently
talked with him on the subject, that
Sacasa was well aware that the
United States and only the United
States would ever dig canal across
Central America.
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can plot of the kind described. /
asked him about it. point blank.
His reply came as he looked me
squarely in the eyes, without an
instant of hesitation.
Afterward had several long con-
versations with DR.. ESpinoSa, liberal
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PAGE IS

George L. Macintosh, president
emeritus of the college.
Prominent alumni are here from
various parts of the country for the
observance.
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FUNERAL HELD TODAY

Body of Mrs. Emma BrewingtOn
Taken to Hartford City.
Funeral services were held at 1920
a. m. today for Mrs. Emma Brew
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founding with a program Saturday.
Founders day exercises include
breaking of ground for new $780,
600 chapel building. The address
of the day will be delivered by DR..
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WABASH TO CELEBRATE

College Will Observe Ninety Fifth
Anniversary Saturday.
BU Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 2,
Wabash College will celebrate the
ninety-fifth anniversary of its
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Your credit is good. Phone your
want ads. Main $500.
, 1927-09-16
Annual Educational Day Cele-
bra1IOn.
BETHEL A. ". Z. CHURCH,
Sunday September r8II2, 1927.

THE Educational Day Celebration of
the Bethel A. 81 e. Church, Chris
. ~tiansted, St. Croix. will be held on
next Sunday Sept 18th. The Theme of
education will be emphasized with a view
of heipfulness in general. Christian Ed
ucation viii be brought forth as a great
power in the world by a drama. The
following is the tentative program for
the Days Celebration; we hereby *
tend an invitation to all.
Educational Sermon 10 80 q. n.
Presiding Elder Robinson.
Young Church ID Education Exercises,
$50 p. m.