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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Baltimore Dicks Try to
Railroad Young Worker
o Jail by Threat Note
(By a Worker Correspondent)

Wy worker correspondent
BALTIMORE, Sept. II. - On
Thursday, Sept. 18th, member of
the Young Workers League of Balti-
more was cordially visited bv gentle
men of the Burns Detective Agency
and was escorted from his place of
work to the agency in a car. After
arriving at the headquarters, he was
put thru a two hour grilling. Be-
sides such questions as age and
birthplace, he was asked if he was
a member of any organization that
met at the Labor Lyceum. (He was
informed by the detective ouizzing
him that they know he belongs to
an organization there). The COM
rade answered that the name of the
organization is the Young Workers
League.
The next question is the most in
teresting they asked if he had writ
ten letter to the mayor of Balti-
more telling his Honor" what he thot
Of him. OF course, he answered to
the contrary. The detectives then
told him to sit down and for an hour
and half tested his penmanship but
could not in spite of all attempts find
similarity between our comrades
handwriting and that supposed to have
been sent to the mayor. Finally he
was told by the detectives, that tho
they, the detectives, believed the
handwritings resembled each other.
they would not prosecute him.
Before he was dismissed, however.
he was asked not to tell any public
official about this ATTACK" Natur-
ally-they were afraid that the news.
should reach the workers and that
they would protest against such at
tempts at railroading.
When the comrade was told to 90.
he demanded pay for the time lost
from work-they told him that the
trouble was his own fault and instead
Of this offered him ten cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
RAILROAD ROLLER BEARINGS AND OTHER DEVICES
TO DEPLACE MANY WORKERS; MINERS AFFECTED

,motive This would mean saving the
wages of an engine crew and of a
conductor, even granting that the
number of ticket collectors and pas
senger brakemen remains the same.
Miners To Lose Jobs.
At the same time the coal consumed
per passenger coach is materially cut,
throwing miners out of employment.
Less coal means fewer coal trains
for railroad use and consequently re-
duced freight service personnel. The
new device also lessons the wear and
tear on rolling stock, making pos
sible a smaller payroll in the rail-
road shops. 1t practically eliminates
hotboxes on freight trains with
further labor economies, further in
creases in speed of trains and les
sening demand for train and engine
service labor.
The roller bearings are easily in
stalled in existing cars. They are
made with piece of felt wedged in
to act automatically as wick and
pump for the oil with which they
are fabricated. After being sealed
they normally require no more at
tention for year.
The Bazaar! Are You Preparing
For 1t?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
By ED FALKOWSKI.

/ SHENANDOAH, Pa. (FP)-Sept.
21-The cruel success of modern ma
chinery is evident in the click of pool
balls and the slap of celluloid cards
on railroad ties, where groups of idle
! men gather to kill the useless hours.
| Entering an anthracite town the
stranger would imagine the collieries
were idle as he takes in the knots of
gossipping men whose cheeks bulge
with stable hunks of cutplug; who
suck slow mouthfuls Of smoke out
of corncob pipes.
Many years ago the collieries never
had enough men. The chronic short
age of help compelled many to put
in long hours of overtime. Men
actually slept in the breakers, and all
but lived in the mines. BOYS were
dragged out of school on forged age
certificates, and given to breaker bos-
ses who put them to roofing out the
slate from chutes of ground coal If
one lost job in the morning, one
could get another without going home
at ali, by merely stopping at another
one Of the 20 collieries. in the i'm
mediate vicinity.
Machinery Changes All.
But those We're the good old DAYS
that even young men look back upon
with regretful sigh. The increeping
OF improved machinery has done
away with hundreds of men. Break
ers operate almost automatically. and
three slate-pickers do the work that
formally was done by 20. Great
bumpers driven by electric motors
have done away with lokies and
squads Of 20 men whose job was to
dump the small cars which once
hauled the rock from the breaker to
the edge of the culm bank.
Timber banks where huge oak
sticks are cut to the sizes required
by miners for their gangways and
breasts, and loaded into cars for in
side use, once swarmed with men
who unloaded timber, rolled it to the
sawmill, loaded it into the minecars,
it, etc. One gigantic crane
was installed, and that great crowd
of busy men vanished, with only 8 /
or a remaining to give touch of life |
to the old timber pile. The crane
3 great sticks at one time.
and transports them directly to the |
sawmill. The crowd of men once
here is no longer needed.
In the mines compressed air engines
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
CANNOT DEPORT FOREIGN BORN STRIKERS WHO
VIOLATE INJUNCTION, IMMIGRATION MAN SAYS

their deportation. But mere recon
mendations" from federal Judge
asking deportation would not receive
the serious attention of immigration
authoritiesk
Nevertheless Judge Houghs threat,
illegal though it may be, may have
some influence in terrorizing the for
eign born workers who are quite
numerous in eastern Ohio. This min
ing district fronts on the Ohio river,
which separates it from feudal West
Virginia. Italians and Jugoslavs are
numerous throughout the district,
which is but an extension, indust1i-
ally and geographically of the Pitts
burgh district,
Fight In Congress.
Hough's added threat that deporta-
ton would be recommended for strik-
ers who could not speak the English
language was waved aside by Hus-
band as not meriting comment.
One of the big fights in the COM
ing session will center on the whole
question of immigration. Reaction,
led by Congressman Albert Johnson,
chairman of the house immigration
committee, will press for even more
stringent laws against foreign born
workers while liberal forces are
known to be preparing for a general
fight on the terroristic methods used
against aliens by judges, employers
and the department of justice under
the cloak of the deportation act.
The Bazaar! Are You Preparing
For Tf3
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
MACHINES SCRAPPING HARD COAL MINERS

and electric motors are making the
mule drivers a thing of the past
In former days mule driving was 9
profession, and one who made gooc
at it was known throughout the re-
gion, and was sought after by bosses
who had humpy and difficult gang
ways which only experienced drivers
could manage with team and a
trip of loaded cars.
But one motor or compressed air
engine eliminates these old heroes of
long and treacherous gangways.
Only in very deep and small gang
ways where it would not pay to in
stall motor can you still find the
swearing dri'er prodding his stub
b, mule alfTg the slush and wet of
On all sides plans are Matching
how to eliminate the human being
from anthracite production. Mean
while population is expanding, and
the communities are becoming satu-
rated with surplus help. Boys break
ing through the shell of high school
find their mastery of algebra and
Latin quite worthless before the
foremen's whitening "Nothin' DOM"
as they tremblingly approach that
august gentleman for job. There
is decided tendency to drift to the
cities, searching for something "bet-
ter. But hundreds spend their days
whiting sticks, whistling snappy
tunes, and making the rounds of all
the collieries once a week, looking
for something to turn up.
Old men are sent to the "gob pile.
After man reaches so, he is due
for lay-off at the first opportunity,
his reward for long years of SER
vice underground or in the breaker.
This apparently is the brightest pros
pect the anthracite offers for adj
Yet it is swarmed with
applicants who seem to want moth
ing more than this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
SIeuth Who Jailed
LatinS in Frane-up
Promoted by Warren

Despite the fact that the frame-up
against the six Latin American work
ers who are being held in $4,000 bail
in connection with the explosion near
the Brooklyn court house on Sept. 5
is not yet complete, detective who
helped the case has already been
promoted
Yesterday Police Commissioner
Commissioner Warren announced
that Michael Falvey, of the Butler
st. station, Brooklyn, who arrested
the defendants, has been promoted to
a second grade detective at salary
of $4,000 a year. He now gets ST.
600.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Eleven Turkish Tobacco
Workers Imprisoned for
Communist Activities

CoNSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 81. -
Eleven tobacco workers of factory
in Bosphorus have just been jailed
charged with distributing Commun-
list propaganda" They are further
accused of possessing placards con-
tanning the words, "Hurrah for Len
in Another crime with which the
workers are charged consists of al
legged refusal to contribute to the
lingo aviation campaign being con-
Quoted by the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Worker Arrested After
Bomb Explosion Is Let
Go in Magistrate Court

Lester Strauss, member of the
|. W. W. arrested August g. at l a.
m, shortly after the subway explo-
sion in the 28th street station that
night, was discharged when he APP
peared before Magistrate Brodsky in
the Jefferson Market Court yesterday
morning.
Strauss was taken into custody on
the charge of walking within police
and fire lines. He was severely beat
en- and then placed under arrest. He
has been out on $1,000 bail furnished
by the international Labor Defense
that has been handling the case.
Carol King was the attorney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Discriminating

ALBANY, n. Y, Sept. 21.-Repre-
sentatives of Yonkers came to the
capital this afternoon prepared to in
sist that their city was Disseminated
against in the tax equalization table
OF 1924 and that the city has paid
100000 more than it should have
paid in state and county taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
Governor Smith Barely
Escapes Injury When
His Car Hits Taxicab

Gov. Alfred E. Smith narrowly es
capped injury when taxicab in which
he, Mrs. Smith and two friends were
riding. was in collision with another
taxicab here Monday night, it was
learned yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

n connection with the preparations being made for
= the celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the
Russian Revolution, and the establishment of the
First Workers and Peasants Republic The DAILY
WORKER has decided that the name of each new
reader will be sent to the committee in charge of these
Preparations, in the Soviet Union, as revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
STRIKES --- INJUNCTIoNs
THE TRADE UNION PRESS
LABOR AND IMPERIALIsM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22
ORGANIZED LABOR-TRADE UNION ACTIVITIES

Nh wB AND 90 M n BNT
ABoR EDU ALTON
LABOR AND GOVERNMENT
TRADE UNION PoLTTTCs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

Negotiations for a S70,000,o00 loan
to the Polish government have just
been concluded by Blair & Company
and the Bankers Trust Company
group, it was announced yesterday.
The negotiations have been going on
for more than a year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

The Bazaar! Are You Preparing
For 1t?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

The Bazaar! Are You Preparing
For It?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-22

greetings from the workers of America and as an ex-
preston OF the fact that the workers of America are
ahgning themselves alongside of the Russian workers
and peasants in their struggle against the nterna-
tiOnal imperiasts
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
B0RAH, BUTLER
WILL DEBATE
PROHIBITION
Tickets Are as Scarce as at
Football Classic Specu-
latOrs Ask $40 Each

Boston, April S.--(P,-Tickcts for
tOnight's debate on prohibition be-
tween Senator Borah, Idaho, and
Nicholas Murray Butler at the Re
publican club, Inc, were as scarce
as for IL football classic while some
active spectators were asking $50
ticket.
Tickets for the debate were avail
able only to the clubs 1000 mem
bers. The club, Republican organ
ization. was founded shortly after
Theodore Roosevelt's death. Payment
of annual dues Of 81 entitled mem
bers to two tickets each. 1t was an
nounced the speakers had waived ex-
penses.
The question is:
Should the Republican national
platform Of 1928 advocate the repeal
of The 18th amendment" ?"
There will be no official decision.
DR.. Butler will be given Is minutes
for the presentation Of the affirm
ative, Senator Borah will follow with
60 minutes discussion of the mega
tive and rebuttal and DIR. Butler will
have Is minutes i'm which to close.
The debate will begin at 8:l5 p. NJ.
with radiocasting by WNAC Boston,
43O meters, and WEAN, Providence.
4. l.. 367 meters.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
Former Bismarckan
Dies in Portland

Warren F. Thayer, 6S. former resi-
dent of Bismarck, and father of Mrs.
Earl Baker Of Mcnoken, died in
Portland, Ore, Of a paralytic stroke
March 25, according to word received
here. Funeral scvices were held ut
Portland and intermcnt made there
Mr.. Thayer came to North Dakota
in 1907, settling at Glencoe. Four
years later he moved to Hettinger
and later came to Bismarck. About
six years ago he moved 10 Portland
Mr.. Thayer was born May II, 1859,
in Chautauqua county, New York. and
was married to Florinda Campbell at
Taylorville, Fayette county, Iowa.
He leaves his widow and six chill
dren: Mrs. Earl Baker of Menoken,
Mrs. John Fife of Highmore, S. D.,
Mrs. Oscar Walters of Boring, Ore;
Lee and Margin Thayer Of Alexan-
dria, $. D., and Roscoe w. Thayer Of
Mckee City, Wash.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
Man MUST die
FOR KILLING
DR.. PEND0LA
Found Guilty Of Stabbing
Physician Following Death
Of Son From Diphtheria

New York. April 8.--lP,--A father
Of five, who stabbed to death a physi
clan he believed responsible for the
death Of his six-year-old son, must
die in the electric chair.
francesca Caruso. 35. an illiterate
longshoreman. threatened to kill DR..
Casper f. Pendola who injected anti
toxin into the boy. critically i'll with
diphtheria, should the boy die dur
ing the night and Caruso. awaiting
the arrival Of the physician the next
day, killed him in the belief that
the antitoxin had caused the boys
death.
The jury deliberated more than six
hours when it returned verdict late
last night of murder in the first de-
gree.
Judge Mclaughlin, who said sen.
tence would be pronounced April Is,
declared the verdict "a just one
which will make for law and order"
The sentence carries mandatory
death in the electric chair.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
DE PINED0 TO
STAY EAST OF
MISSISSIPPI
Italian Filler AbandOns Plans
For Covering Western Part
Of United States
ACCEPTS FIRE STORY
Young Boatman Confesscs He
Dropped Lighted Match
on Oil.cOvered Water

Phoenix, Ariz., April S.-LR-Com-
mander Francesca de Pinedo announc-
ed late last night that he had aban-
doned plans for including any points
west of the Mississippi river in his
schedule for the continuation Of his
four-continent tour.
II will 60 on q circle tour Of the
eastern and middlewestern sections
of the country, but will not again
come west of the Mississippi river
he said.
Phoenix. Ariz., April s. tR-Con-
fession Of a young boa.man that he
started the fire resulting in the dc.
struction Of Commander Francesca de
Pinedo's senplane, the Santa Maria,
today stilled echoes of an anti-fas-
cist plot rumor against the Italian
flier.
Reiterating statement shortly
after the plane burned at Roosevelt
Lake near here Wednesday. de Pine
do said there could be no doubt that
the fire was set accidentally. He said
he accepted the confession Of John
Thomson, 17-year-Old Phoenix youth
that the boy dropped a match on the
oil covered water as the plane was
ready to take off for San Diego, as a
full explanation of the affair.
Thomson. employed as boat ten
der at Canyon Lake, Arizona, con-
fessed to newspaper reporter. He
then signed a statement in the pres
ence Of Commander de Pinedo and
others who had conducted an investi-
cation at Roosevelt Lake. De Pinedo
presented with the original copy of
the confession said he would for
ward it to his government as final
proof Of the origin Of the fire.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
2 NEGRO BOYS
TELL POLICE
OF KIDNAPPING
Despite Confession, Officers
Plan to Try Man and Woman
on Abduction Charge

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 8.--(R--
Two negro boys, II and II. have con
fesSed to kidnapping Virginia 10
Frazier. two-year-old daughter of
City Commissioner and Mrs. Fred b.
Frazier. but the police plan to place
on trial man and woman charged
with the abduction.
Lewis and Arthur Willis. brothers,
told the police they engineer red plans
by which they took the baby from
her crib on the evening of March %
and kept her until $3,333 ransom
was paid.
Deputy Charles Taylor found in
the negroes home 5000 only $3.50
less than the amount paid over to
q negro boy by Mr.. Frazier.
Despite the negroes explanation
the police are holding Frank Bas-
kett. AZ, former policeman, and
Mrs. Annie ThOmason, both of whom
deny any connection with the
abduction.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
GIRL
TRIES TO HELP
EARL CARROLL
Asks Judges Assistance in
Winning Pardon For The
atrical Producer

Chicago, April S-(R)-Thc Chicago
Journal said today it had learned
from an authoritative source that
Joyce Hawley, the "bathtub GIRL" is
in seclusion in New York and
plans to attempt to see Attorney Gen.
eral Sargent and even Pres idcnt Cool
idge IN an attempt to save Earl Car
prison term.
information concerning her plans
came to friends here, the Journal
said, as result Of a visit she made
Wednesday to Federal Judge Goddard
in New York. She was said to have
asked the judges assistance in win
ming a pardon for Carroll on the
ground that the story Of the bath
tub wine party on Carroll's stage was
"all wrong"
Carroll's sentence Of year and "a
day was imposed on charge of per-
jury growing out of his testimony in
the trial Of the bathtub case in which
Joyce testified.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
aimee SEMPLE MCPHERSON MAY LEAVE
Los ANCELES-OTH CITIES CALLING
Evangelist and Founder Of
Angelus Temple Leaves
kennedy-McPhersOn Home,
Together With Children
and Secretaries-NOw Re.
siding in Former Nat Good
win Home at Santa Monica

Los Angeles, Calf. April 8.-R)--
Indications were given today by Mrs
Minnie Kennedy, mother Of Aimee
Scmple Mcpherson, evangelist and
founder Of Angclus Temple here
that the two had come to a parting
Of the ways and that the cvangc st
might be leaving Los Angeles per-
manently.
Mrs, Mcpherson yesterday left the
Kennedy Mcpherson home adjoining
Angelus Temple and took up her
residence in the former Nat Good
win home at Santa Monica. With
her went her two children. her private
secretary. Emma Schaffer. and two
other secretaries, Mae WaldrOn and
Lois Ayrcs.
The Mothers Statement
Mrs. Kennedy said in regard to the
'evangelst's departure that "whilc we
would love to keep her here. she has
made a great sacrifice for her peo.
pie and. while we hate to lose her
we must bear our loss.
"iou know the people of New York
want to build a temple for sister,
Mrs. Kennedy continued. MANY cit
les are calling her and she will,
fear. have to answer the call"
Reports emanating from the evan
gelist's press agents were to the ef-
feet that she planned to continue ION
the road conducting revival services
such as she engaged in during her
recent tour Of the country. At the
conclusion Of that tour. Mrs. Me-
Phcrson announced that she had ac
ceptcd an invitation to conduct an ex-
tended service in Chicago in June.
1t was said that she would remain in
her newly taken Santa Monica home
until she departs for Chicago.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
SILENCE IS
MAINTAINED
BY KELLOGG
Department Refuses to Com.
ment on Fresh Reports
Over Mexican Situation

Washington. April 8.--(PY-Fresh
reports that intrigue and diplomatic ic
pilfering have been involved in the
mystery sh hrouded relations between
Washington and Mexico City failed
to move the state department today
to lift even one corner Of its veil OF
official silence.
In response to inquiries, it was
given out that the department "had
no comment to make" on story
published by the New York Times,
saying that about 800 documents be-
longing to the United States govern
ment, some of them of confidential
characte, had been stolen and de-
livered to President Gales Of Mex.
leo. When Gales discovered what
he had, the story said, he returned
the documents to the American state
department.
Similar silence has been observed
in regard to other published reports
of forgery and theft Of American
diplomatic documents nor has the
department made any comment on
the many rumOrs that enlivcncd
diplomatic and congressional circles
in the wake of the recent exchange
Of mystery notes" between thu
United States and Mexico. Some
time ago there were indications that
Secretary Kellogg might be on the
point Of telling the public the inside
official story Of this incident, but
the forthcoming statement, then
limited at, never appeared.
Uses Courier Service
1t has been an open secret 70,
many weeks that instead of relying
on the usual sealed diplomatic pouch
for transmission of dispatches be.
tween Washington and the American
embassy in Mexico City, the stat,
department had established a courier
service and that the couriers were
selected with great care in order that
they might be men unknown as hav-
ing any connection with the Amer.
lean foreign service. Extraordinary
precautions also have been taken to
prevent even the contents of depart
mental waste paper baskets from
reaching unauthorized persons, and
on at least one occasion detail of
government detectives were called in
to watch certain important files in
the department overnight. The rca.
son for these precautions never was
disclosed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-08
PEOPLE
SERIOUSLY I'LL
FROM POISON
Corn Meal in Which Rat Poi.
son Had Been Mixed Used
For Food By Mistake

Poisoned when some self-embalming
rat poison was accidentally mixed
with their food yesterday four peo-
pie are at local hospital. with their
chance for recovery uncertain.
Those poisoned were: Emil Kaiser,
81. employe at the postoffice, Mrs.
Emil kaisep and two children: Rob-
ert, 8, and Kenneth. 4.
The kaisers were taken ill yester-
day noon Immediately following lunch
and doctors were at first unable to
discover the cause, but members Of
the family recollected that some corn
meal, with which was mixed the rat
poison, had been placed on Il shelf
in rear shed.
Discovery WAS then made that Mrs.
Kaiser, preparing the MONDAY meal,
had found the cornmeal in the box
and had used it to make gravy for the
meal. The box had no label on it to
identify its contents as poison, it is
said.
The Kaiser baby was not fed the
gravy and Ermagenc. thrcc-year-old
daughter, escaped poisoning when,
testing the gravy, she declined to eat
it.
The four were taken to the hospi-
tai last night where antidotes were
administered and today they were
s@id to be getting along we'll, al.
though doctors declared that several
days must elapse before recovery can
be deemed. complete.
The poison was composed mainly of
arsenic.