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Evening star., 1927-11-28
CAROLINA CITY TO UNVElL
TABLET TO LA FAYETTE
Program Commemorating First
Landing in America Set
for Wednesday.
Nv the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
GEORGETOWN, S. c., November
Ss.---A tablet commemorating the first
handing of the Marquis of Lafayette
IN America will be unveiled here at
noon Wednesday.
Speakers on the program include
Brig. Gen. Frank Parker, U. S. A.;
the French consul general at New Or
leans, Rear Admiral Newton A. Nc
Gully, Thomas r. Waring, Charleston
editor, and the Rev. II. d. Bull. rector
Of the Church of Prince George, Win
yah. Mr.. I2rr is chairman Of the com
n1lrtee on ay fangements.
Two United States destroyers will be
In the hartor for the occasion, while
The Marine Band from Paris Island
will participate in the ceremonies.
The flag covering the tablet will be
drawn aside by two little girls OF
French descent. Miss Caroline Bull
and Miss Margaret Stau. A parade
Nill precede the unveiling.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
HEADS EDITOR GROUP.
c. J. Wilkinson Named by Fra
ternity Magazine Body.

Cecil J. Wilkinson. editor Of the
magazine of Phi Gamma Delta, with
national headquarters In Washington,
was elected president of the College
Fraternity Editors Association at the
closing session of its annual conven-
ton in New York City yesterday.
Other officers chosen were: George
Banta, jr.. Menasha, Wis, editor or
the Scroll of Phi Delta Theta. vice
president; DIR. George Starr Lasher,
Ohio University, editor Of the Rattle
of Theta Chi, secretary and treas
urer; Leland r. Leland, Minneapolis,
editor Of the Teke of Tau Kappa Ep'
siion, and J. Harold Johnston OF New
York, editor of the Shield and Dia'
mond OF Pi Kappa Alpha, members
Of the executive committee.
The association il composed oi
editors Of the magazines of "a Greek
letter fraternities for college men.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
STATE SENATOR TRlCKED.
Indiana Lawmaker Said to Have
Been Defrauded Of $4,000.

CHICAGO. November 28 R.-The
police yesterday disclosed that State
Senator Joseph ]. Nejdl of Whiting.
Ind, Republican floor leader Of the In.
diana Legislature, had been mulcted
of about 5000 recently.
Herman Lowenthal and Homer
Bales, both of Chicago, forged checks
on the Senator. the police said, through
an arrangement made by Bales. an
accountant employed by the Senator.
who is a wealthy contractor. Both
men are under arrest.
Bales. the police said. adjusted the
Senator's accounts 30 that Lowen.
thai could cash the checks. Lowen'
| thai was taken into custody when he
attempted to cash a check cor $1.osl.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
R. H. ALC0RN ORDAINED.
Becomes One Of Elders Of Metro
politan Presbyterian Church.

With other elders ordained and in
stalled at the service of the Metropoli.
tan Presbyterian Church, Fourth and
B streets southeast, yesterday morn
ing. was r. Fl. Alcorn, who for sew.
eral years has been chairman of the
joint conference on retirement Of civil
service employees Of the United States.
At recent congregational meeting of
the church, Mr.. Alcorn was promoted
to the session from the hoard Of dea.
cons. where he had served.
Other elders are CO. Bohrer, III. G..
Hickman and G. B. James. The fol.
lowing deacons were installed: Charles
Hart. j. c. Newell. W.. III. Pyweil, G..
G. Wise and G.. Thomas Boul.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
HOLD-UP VICTIM DIES.
Man, 81, Shot When He Refuses
to Surrender Money.

Frederick Thomas, colored, "a years
old. 1917 Corcoran street, who was
held up Saturday evening In an alley
near North Capitol and N streets by
two colored men and shot through the
body, died at F'reedmen's Hospital
yesterday morning.
Thomas, employed at 1929 North
Capitol street. was returning there
when the two bandits held him up and
demanded his money. Instead of COM
plying with their request. Thomas Of
fered resistance and was shot.
Members Of the police murder squad
are conducting an investigation. They
have not succeeded in apprehending
either bandit.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
Beatrice Lille Hurt in Crash.

NEW YORK, November % R.-
Beatrice Lille. English actress, who
IN private life is Lady Peal, suffered
q fractured rib. contusions Of the
forehead and was badly shaken up
when an automobile in which she was
riding was struck by another car
sarly yesterday. Whalen Schols. OPP
cratic tenor, who also was in the
automobile. was uninjured. Miss
Lille was attended by a private ply
kician at her hotel. ..-
Evening star., 1927-11-28
Man Inhales Gas.

Chester A. Merriman, 26 years old,
was found in a room at 355 Pennsyl-
vania avenue early today, suffering
from the effects of illuminating gas,
having attempted suicide. according to
the police. The young man. patient
at st. Elizabeth's Hospital, was re.
turned to that institution after mem
Department had restored conscious
mess and he was given additional treat
ment at Emergency and Gallinger
HOSPITALS.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
AUTO LISTED AT $50, 0,208.
Artists Said to Have Studied Birds
and Fish for Color.

NEW YORK, November % @.--
Tho highest priced car at the auto
mobile salon. which opened yesterday
at the Hotel Commodore. is listed at
$20,2QS. Artists are said to have
studied precious stones, flowers, birds.
butterflies and deep-sea fish to achieve
some of the striking color effects at
this exhibition of the best custom
body work of American and foreign
coach builders.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
Recluse Uses Body
OF Dead Companion
As Distress Signal
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. =, ..
BRANDON, Manitoba. November
%. Using the body of his dead
companion as a distress signal, an
aged and crippled recluse was res.
cued yesterday from possible starv'
alton when passersby found the
corps on a snow-covered roadside
near the shack where the men had
lived.
Man Edy, who said that his
friend. James Ketchen, had died two
days ago, told his rescuers that.
facing death by neglect, he labori-
ously had rolled Ketchen's body
over the snow to the roadside and
left 1t as a signal for help. .Exami-
nation showed that ketchen had
died of natural causes.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
Freighter Sinks; 27 Saved.

KEY WEST, Fla, November 2S (P1.
After six-hour battle to stem a
rush Of water through the torn plates
in her bottom. the freighter Rose Muir
ply sank in the Gulf Stream 90 miles
from here yesterday. Her crew of q
was saVe6
Evening star., 1927-11-28
THOUSANDS OBTAIN WORK.
Gratifying Results Announced by
u. s. Employment Bureau.

Gratifying results were obtained by
the United States Employment Serv-
ice of the Labor Department during
the last fiscal year, Secretary Davis
declared today in a section Of his an
nual report.
Seventy temporary field offices were
maintained for an average period of
43 days and thousands of men were
placed at work.
Evening star., 1927-11-28
PHILIPPINE GOLD. STRIKE.
Ore Near Baguio Said to Assay $40
a Ton.

MANILA, p. l., November % R.-
A dispatch to the Manila Bulletin says
that big gold strike has been made
about six and a half miles. from Ba.
guio. capital of Benguet Province.
Sample ores run $40 q ton. Six mines
are operating.
Evening star., 1927-11-28

Raguio is approximately 100 miles
northwest Of Manila and on the same
island. Luzon, principal island Of the
Ph1lfppines NJ n nsniuaau..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
POLISH WORKERS
PROTEST AGAINST
WHITE TERRORISM
Extort False Evidence
By Torture; Bar Marx

WARSAW, Poland, April 1.-THE
ruthless cruelty with which Marshal
Joseph Pilsudsld has attempted to
crush opposition to his reactionary
government is indicated in resolu-
ton adopted by the Polish Federation
of Labor.
"Citizens are robbed of their rights
in manner which makes the guaran-
tees provided by the Constitution a
mockery. 1t is despicable that citi-
zens should be arrested and kept in
Jail for their political convictions, for
their membership in a party or for
having paid party fees or sold litera-
ture. Even worse, things happen.
agent provocateurs are employed
for the discovery of offenses. Sus-
poets are held for months in prison,
and there often subjected to un-
mentionable torments, only to be
finally released, wrecked and ex-
hausted for want of proof.
Bar Marx.
Newspapers such as the Robotnik
and Kuriet Poranny, works such as
Capital and Communist Manifesto
of Marx are prohibited.
Prisoners in the outer districts
of Poland are exposed to maltreat-
ment. At the preliminary examina-
tions confessions are extorted by
physical terrorism, by blows and
sometimes by elaborate cruelty. In
this fashion there is often extorted
false evidence whereby fresh victims
are then drawn in.
"To all the above must be added
the activities of the courts of law,
with their Incredibly harsh sentences
in political cases, sentences which are
only founded on the evidence Of
spies. By such sentences there are
often sent to prison adolescents who
have perhaps committed some trif-
ling offense."
Ask Amnesty.
The appeal ends with the follow
ing demands:
Amnesty for political prisoners,
especially minors, above all when they
have been sentenced for merely be-
longing to a party.
"More lenient sentences, especially
for young offenders.
Abolition of the prevailing meth
DDS of police investigation, Of the
system of police spies, etc.
"Strict supervision by the prison
staff of the treatment of prisoners.
Energetic resistance to all attacks
on the rights of citizens.
"Compuls Dry consideration, il the
sentence, of the period of detention
on the remand in all political casesp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
March 18th, 1927.

March 18th, 1927.
As / mentioned in my last letter,
the Commonwealth Arbitration Court
decided that "A hours per week would
be the standard hours for workers in
the metal industry of Australia. All
of the unions in the metal industry are
now preparing their cases for the
variation, which will give them the re-
duced hours of work
Last year the metal unions in N.
s. w. won the 44-hour week by the
strike method, and they lost A hours
pay.
1t is the 4 hours pay that they are
after now. The fact that the metal
workers in N. s. W. already had a
44-hour working week was big fac
tor in the recent 44-hour case in the
Commonwealth Court. 1t is known
that n. S. W. ironmasters were anx-
ious that similar hours should prevail
in each state, so that employers in
some states would have no undue ad-
vantage Of those of other states.
Fear American Methods.
There is a grave danger that Amer
lean methods are about to be intro
duced into the factories Of Australia,
Sometime ago, delegation was dis
patched by the Commonwealth gov
eminent to America for the purpose
of studying speed-up methods, bonus
systems, co-partnership, etc, and last
week Chief Judg Dethridge made the
following very clear remarks.
1.-THE forty-four hour week is pos
sible only if the workers in every
way work up to their limit to keep up
to the collar all the time. No court,
no parliament, no power on earth can
get forty-four hour week for the
workers if they do not do their best.
It means that payment by results will
have to be recognized as legitimate
thing. It does not matter about union
rules. Payment by results must come.
If It does not come the forty-four
hours will have TO CO."
Fight Piece Work.
, We shall see. Some of the unions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Worry Over KELLOGG.

WASHINGTON, April 17.-Presi-
dent Coolidge was nettled today over
recurring newspaper reports of splits
and possible designations in his
cabinet.
The presidential spokesman declar-
ed there wss no disagreement in the
cabinet over the administration Chi
nese policy. He particularly made
the point that Secretary of Commerce
Hoover approved all steps taken by
this government in China.
The White House knows of no in
tention of Secretary of State Kellogg
to resign, it was said. Even if KEEL
logg should retire, the spokesman de-
clared that Hoover would not be APP
pointed to the post.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
No busting Without Union.

NEW YORK--Less blood on the
coal if mines are properly rock busted
The American Association for Labor
Legislation points to two recent mine
explosions III Pennsylvania-at Ehren-
field and near -Washington-where 700
lives were saved because the mines
had been rock busted AT Ehrnefeld
only four died and 800 were saved.
Rock busting prevents the coal dust
in the mine air from retonating.
Twenty bituminous coal states still
lack rock busting legislation, says the
association. Only Indiana. Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Utah and
Wyoming require it by law.
Rock busting is somewhat more eX-
pensive, on the whole, than merely
paying little compensation for men
killed in deadly explosions. Therefore,
there is, in the opinion of miners, very
little possibility of getting any eff
ficient busting, with or without laws,
unless there is strong union organiza-
ton to enforce regulations for dust
ing. Recent terrific explosions in non
union mines have resulted from the
failure to effectively rock dust the
mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Berger Asks Mercy
For HOrthy Victims
In Cable to Regent

Victor L. Berger, socialist con-
gresham from Wisconsin, has just
sent cable to Regent Horthy of
Hungary under whose direction a
reign of terror is being made
against all liberal and labor ele-
ments in the country. The pro-
test is made by Berger especially
because of the court-martialing of
Szanto and 30 others who face
possible execution because of pro-
labor activities.
Berger's cable, a copy of which
he sent to the International Labor
Defense says: Remember MAJ
zini and Kossuth were considered
dangerous radicals by the rulers
of their day. Therefore heed his
tory. Be merciful and prevent the
murder of your radical country
men,"
VICTOR L. BERGER, Member
of Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Exposes
Security League
Strike Breakers
(By Federated Press)

PASSAIC, N. Misunderstanding
methods of the National Security
League are being exposed by Jack
Bryan, former mill spy and agent
provocateur employed by the Botany
mills during the 1926 textile strike.
Bryan's letters to the Passaic Daily
News accuse Robert J. O'Brien-
lately. of the National Security
League-of framing up Albert Weis-
bord, strike leader, last summer.
O'Brien, he says, was we'll paid for
the work, getting an initial retainer
of $1,000 and more later.
According to Bryan, OBrien direc-
ted the raid on the office of the Uni
ted Front Committee at Passaic last
April. He helped the grand jury
frame up the evidence" in the in
dictment on which Weisbord is still
held under $4,000 bonds. o'Brien
also, in a flippant mood, tossed off
the figure of 100000 as the amount
Of Moscow gold' which he declared
was behind the strike. Senator Ed
wards of New Jersey used this figure
in his speech in the U. S. Senate de-
Tending the mill owners.
O'Brien is now reported to be
operating another League for the
Constitutional Defense" at 300 Fifth
Avenue. Within the last 10 years he
is said to have founded at least q
score of these leagues, devised solely
for the purpose of raising money
from the bosses to line his own poe
kets. In Norman Hapgood's forth
coming book on professional Pa
triots" (Boni Bros.) Mr.. O'Brien will
receive honorable mention" as one
of the worlds foremost inventors of
names for patriotic" leagues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Our Australian Letter

realizing that a good attack is the
best defense, are already taking steps
to circumvent the intentions of the
employers and are carrying on a cam
raign against piecework.
Labor Party Fight.
There is terrific fight being waged
in the N. S. w. branch Of the Aus
tralian Labor Party at the present
time. BY various methods the officials
of the Australian Workers Union, led
by j. Baily of ballot box fame, have
gained control of the executive of the
A. L. p, and have postponed the An
nual Conference from Easter until
June. They know that if the confer
ence is held at Easter they will lose
control, because at Easter, on account
Of the holidays, rank and file dele
gates can attend. On the other hand,
if the conference is held at June, only
the officials will be able to attend.
This decision has aroused storm Of
protest throughout N. S. W.
The president, Mr.. Scale, took mat
tiers into his own hands, and has called
the conference for Easter. For doing
this, Mr.. Scale has been suspended
by the executive, and it is quite pos
sible that the Easter conference win
be declared bogus. Nevertheless, l
am convinced that the rank and file
will rally to Scale, that the conference
will be held at Easter and that the
Baily faction will be defeated
Building Workers Out.
Active preparations are being made
among N. S. w. unions to send dele
cation to the Pan-Pacific Congress to
be held at Canton on May 4th. We
hope to send five delegates.
The building workers Of Brisbane,
Queensland are still being locked out
because they refuse to work more
than 40 hours per week. The Labor"
government is still doing all in its
power to defeat the workers, but the
men are still solid Notwithstanding
that they have been locked out for
two months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Coal Miners Prepare
For Unemployment
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train pulled out. The first soldier to
jump down at the station was re-
quested to hand over his gun. The
same with the next, until all had given
up their guns. Then they marched
out and we saw no more militia until
the strike was Won"
Operators Warlike.
The Illinois situation begins to look
warlike, they report, but all the pre-
parations seem to be On the operator
side. The big No. 9 mine of the Pea
body Coal Co. at Iaylorvile has set a
war precedent by completely fencing
in its property. a proceeding hitherto
unheard of in the easygoing Illinois.
district. A 5-foot fence of closely
woven wire strung on iron posts set
in concrete is surmounted by 4 strands
of baroed wire Before the shutdown
every miner had to enter through a
guarded gate which was in constant
telephone communication both with
the mine bosses underground and with
headquarters. The face bosses car
ried revolvers on the hip. Peabody's
No. and mines are reported to con-
template similar measures.
"The bosses learned at Herrin in
1929 that Illinois miners have a lot
of fight left in them" the lnipers con-
Guided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
REPORT 100000 CHINESE WORKERS WILL STRIKE
IN SOUTH CHINA TO PROTEST RAIDS
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vicinity of Marking sweeping the
Nationalist and ---orthern troops with
she'll fire. The number of Chinese
killed by American and British guns
has not yet been determined. The
destroyers Preble and Ford and the
cruiser Cincinnati were the American
vessels taking part in the lombard
ment.
Enter, Standard Oil.
The firing began when a Standard
Oil vessel was accidentally hit by
Chinese gunfire. The Ford and the
British cruiser, Emerald, immediate
" opened fire with their four-inch
guns. The Preble, on its way up the
river to Hankow, seat of the Ma
tionalist government, opened fire on
Nationalist troops who were en-
trcnched on the north bank of the
river.
Nationalists Take Yangchow.
Dispatches received here state that
the Nationalist have captured Yang
chow, about fifty miles northeast of
Marking. 1t is also stated that the
war lords have been driven back to
Pengpu, in Anhwei Province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Thousands Are Homeless
As Result Of Floods In
Southern Part Of U. S.

WASHINGTON, April 17.-Suf-
fering from the flood in the vicin-
ity of Natchez, Miss, and Wick
life, KY, is rapidly growing more
serious, according to dispatches
received today by the American
National Red Cross, it was an
nouncah
National headquarters of the
Red Cross reported that a conser-
vative estimate Of the number OF
flood refugees in the four states
east of the Mississippi affected by
the floods is:
Kentucky 1000, Tennessee 1000,
Mississippi 5000, Louisiana 1000;
a total Of 5000.
Other thousands have been driv-
en- from their homes in states i'm
mediately west of the Mississippi
River.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

In addition to the Chase National
Bank the Metropolitan is interested
in the following banks and trust COM
panies: Adirondack Trust Company,
Royal Bank of Canada. Bankers Trust
Company, Central Union Trust Com
pany, Chatham Phoenix National
Bank, Chemical National Bank, Equit-
able Trust Company, Farmers Loan
and Trust Company, National City
Bank, New York Trust and the
Croker National Bank.
It has been shown in previous ar
ticles that If the big Four" are "mu-
tual," the industrial poicyholders
do not benefit by this mutality.
Important figures on the Board Of
Directors Of the Metropolitan are Jo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
British Want War.

That the British die-hard govern
ment favors an ultimatum to China
is reported in dispatches received
here from London. Chens request
for an international investigation of
the Marking affair strikes Austen
Chamberlain as unsatisfactory, re-
ports state.
Scores Press Reports.
Rear Admiral Billiard, retired,
chairman Of the Federal Radio Com
mission, who has just returned to
Washington after a trip to China,
criticized the news about China that
has appeared in the American press.
81 do not see how newspaper men
could be in contact with what is go
ing on" he said. "They get the big
events, but / don't know how they
could get general news on what is
taking place, except from travellers
who come back. The spheres are so
big they must take another's word to
get information"
MOSCOW, April 1.-THE Execu-
tive Committee of the Communist In
ternational has issued an appeal to
workers thruout the world and to all
colonial and oppressed peoples to
help avert new world war
The appeal declares, Workers,
demand the withdrawal Of troops
from China. By all means prevent
the transportation of troops and
arms. Down with the imperialist
provokers of a new world war. Down
with the ilnperialist henchmen of the
Chinese people. Down with Chang
Kai Shek and other deserters, traitors
and organizers of massacres of work
ers. Long live the workers of Shang-
hal. Long live the revolutionary
Kuomintang. Long live the Com
munist Party of China"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Most Lawyers Ignorant,
Columbia Dean Asserts

Declaring that most lawyers were
ignorant Of social and economic prob
lens, Dean II. W. Jervey, of the Col
umbia Law School, in letter to the
New York City Bar Association, adj
vocatcs higher standards for admis-
sion to the bar
Jervey declared that lawyers
should be better trained to think about
the world in which they live before
they even come to law school.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18

WASHINGTON, April 17.-What
action the state department will take
with regard to the conciliatory note
of Eugene Chen, Nationalist foreign
minister, is unknown Secretary KEEL
logg is spending his Easter vaca-
ton" at Hot Springs, and action on
the notes will be delayed until his re-
turn.
It is understood that the domineer-
ing attitude adopted by the state de-
partment in its identic note on the
Marking "outrages" has met with the
opposition of certain members of the
cabinet