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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

missariat for Health and the Commissariat
for Education. They organize wide variety
of cultural activities and schools, and carry on
an extensive journalistic and publishing
work. They aid and assist the consumers
cooperatives
In addition to these functions the Russian
unions carry out the same line of routine ac
tivity as do progressive energetic unions in
any capitalist country-with this major dis
tinction, they pay much greater attention to
production and the development of industry
On this point the interests of the unions and
the interests of the Soviet government are
practically identical.
The total number of members in all the
Itwenty-three national unions is now over g.
1927, 900. The largest group is industrial;
next in line is the group working in govern
ment, public and trading institutions. Those
following are, in order, transportation work
Iers, agricultural and forest workers and
those engaged in tie building trades.
In order of affiliated membership, the fol
lowing unions stand at the head Of the list:
II. Land and forest 2. Civil service and COM
mercial employees 8. Railroad workers. a.
Metal workers s. Textile workers. 6. Educa-
tional workers. and T. Building workers. The
first two have each over 100000 members.
The great majority of the union members
! (7,045 5000 live in Russia proper Or. S. F. S..
r. nearly 100000 live in the Ukraine, and
much smaller numbers in the less industrial
districts.
The latest figures show that 92.7 per cent
of all the eligible workers of the country are
in the unions Possibly so per cent of land
and forest workers are in the union. namely,
1 100000, but the total number of such work
ers hired by the individual farmers turnout
the country is not definitely known.
/ The highest percentage of organization OBJ
tains among the art workers. the printing
trades and medical workers Comparatively
small unions), while the commercial workers
paper workers, leather workers and catering
and hotel workers all have IS per cent or over
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

legal right to strike, that there is no anti
strike law, and nothing resembling American
injunctions to curb strikes and the activities
of the unions. The hiring of breakers
is prohibited by law Anti-labor judges,
courts and government officials are naturally
unknown, since the officials are also workers.
However, strikes are not frequent. This is
because, as one of the workers told us, I'VE
see no reason for striking against ourselves"
From the general union point of view it is
naturally desirable to avoid disputes when the
costs are so clearly borne by the workers
themselves The Soviet government is a work
ers' regime, and trade unions participate in
the government. The leaders are able to look
upon strikes not as a weapon OF class con-
flict, as in other countries, but rather as a
Warming signal that the unions are not re-
spending to the desires of the workers. When
a strike occurs, they quickly see to it that
conditions out of which it grew are remedied
and that where the local trade union officials
are responsible for the situation they are
either severely reprimanded or removed from
office.
Of course strikes in privately owned indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
The Soviet Unions Report
of the Fiscal Year

by the government in aid of the I'M
employed in the form of organizing
labor collectives and in the form of
public work.
A part of this fund was spent in
the form of partial help to unem-
ployed, such as the supply Of cheaper
food, housing, railroad fare, etc.
An important measure in the strug-
gle against unemployment is the vo-
cational training of unemployed by
the Central Labor Institute which
trained 10000 unemployed workers
this year. Many of these have been
sent to various factories.
General Vocational Training.
In the new economic year 132,000,-
600 roubIes will be assigned for the
material support of and finding work
for the unemployed.
1t is planned that 10000 workers
should be daily occupied in public
work.
One million roubles will be spent
in giving the unemployed vocational
training.
The number of peasant mutual aic
societies in the U.S.S.R. is 76,500.
The peasant mutual aid societies
embrace an average of 500 of the
peasant population enjoying The
rights of suffrage. In some pro.
vinces, as for instance Pskov, Voron
ezh and Saratov, almost the entire
population is organized.
Own Seed Reserves.
10,26S committees already have
their own seed reserves which ar
distributed to needy members. To
. wards the end of the year there wer'
664,616 pools of grain in that reserve
The committees have at their dis
posal 1888 enterprises with 3,758,S6
roubles.
The peasant committees have 16,
200 big agricultural machines, 1,41
of which are tractors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Witnesses Testify
PetIura Murdered
Ukrainian Workers

PARIS, Oct. 81. Statements
made by White Guardist witnesses
that he was acting as an "agent of
the Soviet Union" when he killed
General Petlura, counter-revolution-
airy bandit, were flatly denied and
branded as ridiculous by Samuel
Schwartzbard, Jewish worker, on
trial here for killing the White Guard
leader.
Schwartzbard, who admitted shoot
ing Petlura, declared that he did so
to avenge the thousands of Jews
murdered in the Petlura pogroms in
the Ukraine. Petlura killed thousands
of Ukrainian workers and peasants
during his reign of terror.
Many witnesses Of the White
Guard massacres will testify at the
trial which is expected to end within
a day or two.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
German Ignite Mine
Strike Spreads as
Negotiations Fail

BERLIN, Oct. 21.-Thousands OF
workers in central Germany are join
ing the strike of the $4,000 Ignite
miners, who walked out when their
demand for a 6 IL per cent wage
increase was refused. Altho the Ruhr
anthracite miners have not yet gone
on strike, walk-out is likely within
a few days.
An extension of the strike to other
industries particularly the railroad
and chemical industries, is also re-
garded as probable. The long hours,
low wages and speed-up that followed
the introduction of decentralization
have led to a wave of strikes, most
of which have been won by the work
ers.
An attempt on the part of the Ar
bitration Commission to settle the
strike proved futiles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Industrial Achievements.

The economic year OF 1926/2f IN
the U.S.S.R. came to close on Sep
TENDER Both of this year. The in
dustry of the Soviet Union has again
achieved considerable successes.
According to the preliminary fig
ures, the gross output of industry has
increased 1870 compared with the
year before.
The coal industry shows particu-
larly high mark, an increase of 1850
Exceeding the 1913 output; the oil
industry shows gain of 229o, the
metallurgical industry $40, textile,
17%, etc.
Last year marked further increase
in the productivity of labor. Wages
have increased 1850 as compared
with the preceding year.
Wages in 1926-27.
Thanks to the higher buying ca
pacity of the rouble and the continu-
Gus decline Of prices, wages have for
the first time increased simultaneous
ly both nominally and actually.
Nominal wages have increased by
121A9s and real wages 11a8o.
Another achievement of last year
is the fact that the wages of un'
skilled workers have considerably in
creased. The wages of some groups
of unskilled workers have increased
in various branches of industry.
On the whole, wages in 1927 are IL
most branches of industry above thu
pre-war level.
Together with the allowances tina
are made for insurance, for the i'm
provement of the living conditions o
the workers, etc, wages in 1862
are an average of 1850 of pre-wa
throughout the U.S.S.R.
Struggle Against Unemployment.
The U.S.S.R. labor exchanges ha'
on September list 1,127,000 unem
ployed on their books. This consti
tutes $4,000 less than on April Isl
The drop in the number of unem
ployed is due in the first place to tn
extensive building activities which en-
gage this year about 100000 people.
The overwhelming majority of un
employed are unskilled workers most
; ly coming from the villages. Abou
300 Of them have never worked be
fore and offer their services for tn
first time.
! About IS million roubles were spen
} last year on various measures in tn
struggle against unemployment. 0
! this at least 70 million roubles wer
paid by the social insurance organ
l as unemployment doles.
About / 5 million roubles were spen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
To Censor Cabinet Members.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.--Every
address made by cabinet member,
general admiral or other official
henceforth must be carefully weighed
ard considered before delivery, 1T was
learned here today.
Iris form of censorship has been
imposed, it became known, as result
Of the recent controversy between
General Summerall and the White
House which led to his peremptory re-
call from western speaking trip IN
which he was exposing the uncredlta-
BILE housing quarters of American
soldiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Penny More Means S18.OOO. Goo.

each one cent over five cent
fare on New York lines means $1S,-
100000 a year in net profit" accord
ing to a statement yesterday by Sam
uel Untermyer, special counsel for
the transit commission.
Untermyer was visibly vexed when
asked for comment upon the publish
ed replies by Major Charles Edward
Smith to criticisms Of his seven cent
fare plan. He said he would like very
much to get the official report of
Smiths, copy of which he under
stands is in the hands Of BIN. 7. Of
ficials. He believes, however, he
must wait until Monday for this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Italian Labor Exiles
Meeting in Paris For
Discussion of Fascism

RARIS, Oct. 81, (FP).-For discus
sioM of the situation of the Italian
trade union movement, a conference
has been called to meet Oct. 81 in
Paris, under the auspices of the init.
Federation of Trade Unions.
EMiled and refugee leaders of the
italian working class, in addition to
the Italian trade union center which
has been located in Paris for some
time past, will take part in the meet
ing. Delegates will be present from
the international secretariats, and
from centers in which there are large
numbers of Italian workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

tons or departments of plants and represent
ed the protest of workers against certain con-
ditions peculiar to the craft or department.
The union, of course, had always tried to set
tie the strikes, and had succeeded in IS per
cent of the cases. The remainder were settled
Through direct understandings between the
strikers and the arrangements of the enter
prises involved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Falls In Furnace; Dies.

Michael O'Meara, so, of 1913 Elev-
enth street, Long Island City, Queens,
Johns hospital, Long Island City, as
stoker, died early yesterday at St.
result of burns received Wednesday
when he fell into the furnace of the
city's incinerating plant on Belts
avenue, Winfield, Queens.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22
Strikes and Disputes

THE first questions asked by labor men on
J. arriving in Russia are: do the workers
have the right to strike? How are labor dis
putes settled?"
We are satisfied that the workers have the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-22

The following is the second nstalment of the re-
port of the first American Trade Union Delega-
ton to Soviet Russia in the words of the delega-
ton. The report will be published in The DAILY
WORKER in successive issues until completed.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27

tact with criminals turned pale as
they read it, Hickman related how
he cut up the body of the girl
while it was still warm, washed
each piece and wrapped it up in
newspapers.
The torso, the confession related,
was redressed, the face was powder
ed and the hair was combed with
care.
Hickman said he iammed the
'0rso into a suit case, hid the s'''-
case in closet and went out and
mailed the third letter to Marion IS
father, demanding ransom money,
along with a letter Marion wrote
lust before she was choked to
death.
After mailing the letters, Hick-
man returned to the apartment and
carefully cleaned it. The actual
murder was done in the living room
of the apartment and the body was
dismembered in the bath tub, the
confession said.
81 cleared everything up just as
clean as l could Hickman con-
tinued. "Then l went out to a
movie. I didn't like the picture
and it made me cry, thinking of
Marion.
~ left the show and returned to
my apartment about $50 o o'clock
Saturday afternoon. I put all the
pieces of her body, wrapped In
newspapers, in my auto with the
exception of the head and torso.
Shows Extreme Cunning
"I drove over the Elysian Park
and threw them out at the side of
the road when nobody was near.
Gas I was driving back home, /
thought Mr.. Parker might want to
see the face of his daughter before
he paid me the $500 l had demand
ed.
''I got a needle and some piano
wire and sewed the eyes open just
like she was looking at you and
used more wire TO hold the head M
so it wouldn t droop over on her
chest.
l'ilOHf'i the 90 li'-' anu - an
ed that meeting Saturday night. ]
put the body out of the car n short
distance up the street where l col
lected the money.
~ drove the car awav. parked i
and went and got a good meal,
vas hungry. I spent one of the $40
bills he gave me.
"I4ater I went to a show and went
home and slept sOundly. I was Up
early the next morning stole a
car and drove on TO San Francisco.
7 was there Sunday night at the
Her1ld Hotel and then I drove on
north.
'SI don't know Just whv 7 kill
ed the girl. Ia always want TO cuc
up n body and I inst had the desire
to kill her. 7 used a pocket knife
to cut IN tho body as it served the
purpose well.
81 d-qined the blood ont of each
piece into the bathtub bcfor" !
wrapped it up in newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
HICKMAN TO
BE ARRAICNED
NEXT THURSDAY
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
Fux replied, his eyes downcast.
''Of course | regret what | did
TO Marion but I know | will get a
far trial. he said in reply to
questions as to whether he felt any
reinoIse.
That he has little hope of escap-
ing the gallows was indicated in his
tuerv to an officer.
"How long will | have to stay
Ire before | go north?' he asked
Undersheriff BiscailluZ.
To Keep Strict Watch
\ 24-hour watch will be kept
over Hickman with officers work
iHg on eight hour shifts. Deputy
Sheriff William Wierick was the
first to take his post outside of cell
number /. Other prisoners in the
same tank crowded around and gaz-
Cd curiouslv at Hickman as he sat
cn a cot in his cell.
All fear of lynching, which
rompted officers to take Hickman
from the train at a littleusea
freight station in the lower section
of the city, and sped him to the
county Jail in haste, is now passed.
His cell is on the twelfth floor
Of the Hall of Justice and the Jail
is only accessible by elevators
which are easily commanded by Il
heavy force of officers now on
guard.
A large crowd was still gathered
outside the Hall of Justice several
hours after Hickman had passed
safely through its doors while 9th
crs milled about the corridors, as if
they would do something, but lack
ID leader and definite plan OF
attack.
hIckman will not be permitted
to see visitors for the time being
nor will he be permitted the priv
ilcge of receiving his meals from
the outside.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
Crew OF Sub"
Declared Dead

WASHINGTON, Dee. 81. = The
men of the wrecked submarine ST.
today were proclaimed dead official
ly.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur is
sued an order by which the deaths
of 34 Officers and enlisted men on
the submarine were set officially
as December II, the day of the
crash with the coast guard destroyer
Paulding and the deaths of the six
men in the vessels torpedo room
as December 81.
Wilbur sent the order to the navy
bureau of navigation and sent mes
sages Of coincidence to the next of
kin of each of the men.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
Exposure Kills
Two Children

Exposure. developing pneumonia,
was the verdict returned by cor
onnr's iurics in the death of tv~o
"hi'dr"u in the valley over the
weekend.
The first death occurred Mt the
tent-home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jos"
Acosta in the Calipatria district
Saturday afternoon when their in
fart daughter. Maria, died.
The second death was at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Gus
man of the McCabe school district,
when their eioht months old son,
Manuel, passed away.
In both cases il was pointed out
that the infants had been exposed
to the cold. pneumonia resulting
and the deaths following.
A short funeral service was held
in Lemons funeral chapel yester-
dav afternoon for the Acosta child
and burial was made in Evergreen
cemetery. The Gusman child was
buried today.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
Popular Artists
To Be On Program

Thursday night s special Q to 10
radio program over kGEN this
week viii feature the Imperial Sing
e's Male Quartette, Mrs. Berniee
Scott, soprano and pianist, DR.. Ed
win o. Carter, eornetist, and John
Canton, tenor.
Light opera and musical comedy
numbers will be given and Mr.. Gan
ton will be heard in favorite Irish
ballads. Nina Canton will accom-
pany the quartet, DR.. Carter and
Mr.. Canton. Mrs. Scott will play
her own accompaniments.
The program is being presented
by the station and participating
musicians for the Imperial Valley
Press.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
DETECTIVES FINCH WHILE
READING AWFUL CONFESSION

how she had been kidnapped. -
Hickman drove to Pasadena with
/ his victim and sent one telegram to
her father. Marion waited in the
ear while he was in the telegraph
office.
Went to Movies
From Pasadena Hickman drove
/ TO Alhamhra and sent the second
] telegram to Perry Parker.
/ For hours Hickman drove about
/ in the vicinity Of Los Angeles with
i the girl and on Thursday night they
] went to a movie in South Pasadena.
The picture interested Marion
and she made no effort to call for
! help while they were in the theatcr,
! Hickman 5 confession related.
Hickman returned with Marion to
! the Bellevue Arms apartment in
Los Angeles about 10 O clock Thurs
day night, He went up the stair
way first to make sure they would
not be observed and Marion follow
ed him.
She slept on a couch that night
! and Hickman slept on the bed. He
said the girl slept soundly but the
next morning was worried and had
little appetite.
Hickman bound Marion to the
kitchen table and went out and
mailed a letter he had written and
the one she had written to her
father. Then they went for an au-
tomobile ride, driving as far as
San Diego, where "filling station
attendant looked at rs queerly and
we started back for Los Angeles.
Hickman told Of sending further
messages to her father and of driv-
ing out Friday night to meet Mar
ions father and collect ransom
money.
He became frightened and drove
hastily back to his apartment when
he saw two police ears following
that driven by Marion s father, the
confession said.
"Marion cried and wanted TO 60
to her father Hickman declared.
''But l shut her up and drove away
before they could spot me-
On Saturday morning Hickman
wrote another letter to Marion's
father and she again wrote. He
bound her to a chair and gagged
and blindfolded her.
Details Revolving Crime
"Then while was putting the
blindfold on her, l was seized with
a sudden desire to kill her. Hick-
man said. ~ don't know why l
did. The desire was so strong that
| could not help myself.
81 walked over and got a towel
and slipped up behind her while
she sat there, not suspecting any
danger.
~ threw the towel suddenly
about her neck and twisted it tight
before she had a chance to scream
out. l held that towel just as tight
as / could. There was no sound.
There was only a slight gurgle at
the start.
"In two or three minutes she
was dead. l cut the ropes holding
her to the chair and she fell to the
floor. 1 carried the body into the
bathroom and undressed it all but
the underwear.
II hadn't intended to kill her. /
liked her and didn' want to do her
any harm. 1t was just that sudden
mad desire to choke her that over
powered me-
Hickman told of cutting hole
in the throat.
In details so grewsome that de-
tectives hardened by years of con-
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
STORK ON JOB HERE
FOR CHRISTMAS DAY

A Christmas gift Of unusual in
terest, which may have been left by
either Santa Claus or the stork. ar
rived on Christmas day at the home
If Mr.. and Mrs. L. Kirkland. of 712
Broadway. The Young ladv. who
weighed nine pounds at birth. Is
said to have registered slight annoy
ance at arriving too late in the dav
70 herself receive a share of Santa s
plunder. but is looking forward TO
celebrating her first birthday next
Christmas.
Both mother and daughter are re-
ported TO be doing well
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-27
kidnapping Case
Stirs Oakland

OAKLAND, Cal, Dec. 27.-With
a warrant charging child stealing,
Oakland police searched today for
Robert MeClelland, 27. former
convict and IL year old Wilhelmina
Evelyn Smith, lured from her par
ents in east Oakland Sunday.
McClelland, according to police,
lured the girl from her parents when
he posed as "Good Samaritan -
who wished to aid the family. He
asked that the girl be allowed to
90 with him to Pasadena TO join
his wealthy mother"
McClelland was convicted of
forgery in Tulare county and served
a sentence in Folsom, officers said.
A college girl had 5000 guests Mt
l,er wedding. What'll she do with
all those candlesticks?