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Evening star., 1928-11-21

Office clerks; William M. Collins, presi-
dent of the Railway Mail Association;
Henry W. Strickland, industrial secre-
tary of the Railway Mail Association;
Fred S. Walker, secretary of Typo
graphical Union, 101; President Leach
Of the Typographical Union; N. P.
Alifas, president Of District A, Govern
ment MachiniSts; George j. Simmons,
representing the printing pressmen, and
Thomas A. Franklin, president of the
pressmen'S union.
United Support Foreseen.
The legislation was unanimously re-
ported by both the House an1 Senate
civil service committees and comes be-
fore the House with more united support
Evening star., 1928-11-21

Japanese sericulture experts are In
vestigating the possibilities of produc-
ing silk in Australia.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Penitent Waiter Sends
Back $1,476 to
Employer

NEW YORK. Dec. 21.--Willle
o'Dowd, Jersey City restaurant
man. received s1.47s in bills,
which came with a letter signed
"A Friend" The writer explained
the sum represented the amount
he had stolen, plus 6 per cent
interest for five months. O1o"o
said he believed 1t came from q
former waiter who disappeared
some time ago with the WeeK'ehu
receipts. ,. p.a
O'Dowd added this waiter nau
stolen small amounts at othei
times but always made gooo.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
POST Graduate Student
Kills Himself by Gas

PROVIDENCE, r. T., Dec. 21.--
George Raymond, "a. of Olivet.
Mich, a graduate student at Brown
University committed suicide by
inhaling illuminating gas in a
rooming house. No reason was ad.
vanced. His body was found by a
fellow student.
Physicians worked over the body
an hour in an effort to revive him.
He graduated from a university in
Michigan last June and entered
Brown for postgraduate work this
fall.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Society Man Accused
Of BigamOus Marriage

DANBURY, Conn. Dec. II :.
Homer Myers, prominent socially
arrested here, is held on a charge
of bigamy.
Myers is charged by his first "
with deserting her in 1922 in sa,
vannah, Ga. and leaving her PENN.
less. The Fl. t Mrs. Myers alleged
that her husband married Mrs. Her
bert B. McChesney. a wealthy widow
whom he met at Palm Beach. Sne
said she had just discovered his
whereabouts.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Hunter Stuck in Mud
Dies After His Rescue

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 21.-fIis feet
stuck in mud and his head barely
above water, Ernest Kiesel. 50. was
held fast in the Missouri River. after
! boat capsized. so long that he died
Of exposure ;oon after a farmer res.
cued him.
His brother, Louis. 10, and Her.
man wolfe, Is, are believed to have
arowned They lnting ducks
when the boat turned over.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Women Sent to Jail
For Fraud In Election

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 21.--Among
eight Pittsburgh election officers, in
the latest group to be sentenced to
prison for making fraudulent re-
turns OF the vote in the September
primary of 1927. were two women,
the first of their sex In Allegheny
county to suffer the jail penalty
They were released after three days
of imprisonment, but the fact that
they were actually locked up for
their offense established a prece-
dent.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Dapper Bandit Seizes
$500 In Theater Safe

JACKSONVILLE, ria, Dec. I'll.
Police are seeking q dapper bandit
who. unnnasked, looted the safe Of
the Imperial Theater here and
made off with $500.
Charles Morrison manager Of the
theater. was held at the point Of
4 gun IN his office during the
robbery and was later bound,
al messenger boy who entered
the office during the hold-up was
also tied. Authorities were with
out clues as to the bandits iden-
tity.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Portes Gil Names is
Supreme Court Judges

MEXICO CITY, Dec. q Q.N.S.l.-
sProvisional President Portes Gill yes.
sterday named is new supreme court
magistrates subject to ratification
by the senate.
Four judges were reappointed,
Including Salvador Urbina, who rep
resented Mexico in the Pan Ameri.
can conference and in other inter
national assemblies.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
Telephone Denied Him,
Prisoner Uses Pistol

ATLANTA. Dec. 21 Angered BE-
cause 1aiI attaches would not NJ
low him to use the telephone
spurgeon cowart held On oharae
Of drunkenness, attempted 10 shoot
his way out
TRUSTEES rushed to Cowart's cen
after he had fired several shots
and removed the pistol. which the
jailer had overlooked IN searchinR
him.
The Washington times., 1928-12-21
FRENCH LAWYER SHOT

PARIS. Dec. 81 u,N.S.l.-Former
States Attorney Fachot, who prose.
scuted the Alsatian alltonomists at
Eolmar last May, was shot twice in
the abdomen today at the threshold
of his home. The would-be assas-
sin. q professional bell ringer, es-
capped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
CravingRum, Ex-Grand
Duke Will Tour u. S..
Talk of Spirituality

Complaining a little because he
has been in the habit of drinking a
lot of wine which he is afraid he
can't get in America, ex-Grand
Duke Alexander Michaelovich, eou-
sin and brother-in-law Of the late
car Of Russia, landed in New York
Saturday and gave an interview to
the reporters, in which he repeated
for the ten thousandth time during
the last ten years that "The Boil
sheviki are lettering in Russia"
The present theory of the ex-Duke
is that new leader will arise from
the intellectual classes" and that a
Spiritual revolution" will bring
back the capitalists and landlords
to the country in which the workers
and peasants overthrow them.
The Grand Duke added his part
to the quarrel over the pretendef,
Grand Duchess Anastasia," raging
among the earistocrats who fled
the workers of Russia, by contra
dieting his rich American niece,
Mrs. William B. Leeds, former
Princess Xenia.
The Duke is going to pick up a
little money lecturing on Spiritual
ity."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
GERMAN EhTHE:p
WORKERS STRIKE
Demand Pay Increase
Piece Work Abolished

BERLIN, Dec. Protesting
against piece work in the big Alse
Repair Shops, several hundred
leather workers yesterday streamed
out of the factory in a walk-out that
is expected to have a profound eff
feet upon the entire leather indus
try throughout the country.
Besides their demand that piece
work be abolished, the workers also
insist upon an increase in wages.
They point out that it has been q
consistent policy of the leather fac
tory owners to cut down on wa%e-
and increase production iii u
plants and state that they are de
termined to stop the practice By
their strike.
Leaders of the strike report tha
the men are enthusiastic and thu
there is an excellent prospect for
successful struggle against the
leather bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
VeO Bedford Textile Union Mobzes TO Fight Attempt to Jail Leaders
NEW SCHEMES TO WIRING
LAST CENT FROM MINER

bathhouse paid. Although educa-
ton is supposed to be free in most
communities, at the Nellis mine EN-
ployes find part of their wages
checked off for the company union
devoted to paying school expenses.
This eases the tax burden and makes
American Rolling Mill stock jump on
Wall Street by increasing profits.
No Baths.
To operators, the miners shack
is as much of the mine as the tip
Pile itself. Each house must "pro-
duce" so many tons of coal day.
One big operation has attained a
high figure of 16 tons day for
each four-room house. This is at
tanned by examining the coal miners
shack with boarders, in addition to
his own family. The average is ID
tons of coal for each shack.
Four rooms, each 10 feet square,
are enough. A miner, his wife, two
or three children and at least one
boarder-sometim a relative-live
in the typical four-room house.
Negroes" the mine architect says,
"as rule are satisfied with smaller
houses and are not $50 particular
about yard"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. 2
In West Virginia hustling mine
operators are unloading more of the
burden of the company town on the
miner. In former years, the opera
tor who picked out hillside miles
from the nearest settlement as a
mine site had to build a town to
house his miners.
Today, boasts Charles w. Con-
nor, general superintendent of the
Nellis mine of the American Roll
ing Mill Company, the miners them
selves are being forced to pay for
town buildings. "It's the finest
thing l have ever SEEM" he boasts,
at gives the men a chance to take
and it gets away from the paternal-
istic idea"
CheckOff Dues.
Mine workers are forced to be-
long to the Armco Association, a
company union in which the mine
manager and bosses are directors.
One dollar is checked off each
month from the miners wage as
dues, and the company adds an equal
amount.
From this fund church has
been built and the attendant at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
CITL-OW EXPOSES
Aft. CONVENTION
Tells Forum Of Its Re
dictionary Role
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
and lockouts, the rest for salaries,
etc.
The viewpoint of the labor bureau
Gratis, Gitlow showed was based
upon preparations for the next war.
Green's opening speech Indignantly
disputed with the manufacturers
association the claim to greater pa
triotism. McNutt, of the American
Legion, urged the passage of a uni
versal draft law, Colonel Ross, Of
ficially there from the U. S. army,
asked for support for the war pre-
parations the army and government
were engaged in, and Secretary of
Labor Davis requested industrial
compliance through naturalization,
peace in industry, and full support
of the strikebreaking president.
mist were in evidence at all times,
Gitlow said. The USSR was this
time attacked somewhat indirectly,
by reputation of Professor Dewey
for his endorsement of the Soviet
regime. The socialists supported the
takers 100 per cent. The National
Executive Committee of the Social
list Party, meeting after the conven-
ton, showed it's complete support Of
all the actions of the A. r. of L.
misleaders, urging friendly relations
with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

school bulletins have been given out
in the two junior high schools, the
Roosevelt on Brock Ave, and the
Normandin, on Tarkin Hill Road.
These children played an active part
in the strike. In this enlightened
state of Massachusetts corporal
punishment is legal, and every
month the school heads report to
the superintendent of schools how
many children have been hit that
month.
Women Meet.
The Women's League, under the
direction of local women who were
active in the strike, has frequent
meetings. Weekly classes in Eng
fish are conducted. Large groups
of Pioneers meet each week. Every
Saturday night dances are held in
the north and south ends of town.
On Thanksgiving evening there
were two special dances. One of
the strikers kids who said she was
going to the dance was asked what
she had to be thankful for, if any
thing. "Sure," she said, "Thanks-
giving's all right. We've got the
union"
Fred Beal, organizer of the N.
T. w. Union in New Bedford, who
is running for mayor on the Work
ers (Communist) Party platform is
conducting lively campaign.
Daily noon meetings are held at the
mills. Two big rallies will be held
Sunday, December End, at the Com
ique Theatre and at Monte Pho Hall.
Maria Correia, textile striker, is
also on The Workers Party ticket,
running for common council. Thorn
as Corrigan, painter, is candidate
for alderman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Will. CUT WAGES
OF WORKERS TO
BOOST GRAFTERS
Socialist" Milwaukee
Scene of Maneuver

MILWAUKEE, Wis, (By MaiD
"A sweeping reduction in the
wages of the lowest paid county en-
ployes, in order to provide for
boosts in the salaries of those hold
ing high-salaried political jobs, will
soon be made, in this socialist-con-
trolled county, as a result of the
recommendation of a Chicago firm
Of so-called efficiency experts.
The Chicago firm, the Griffen-
hagen Co., calling itself payroll
surveyors" will cut down the wages
of clerks by $25 month and coun-
ty laborers and other non-office
workers will also suffer consider
able slashes, the amount of which
has not been made public.
Among those to get boost in
salaries are such political office
holders as the county hospital .su-
perintendent; head of the civil serv-
ice commission; the entire list of
assistant district attorneys; the cor
poration counsel, and the manager
e county institutions, who gets
$4,000 a year and dwelling and
maintenance for a family of IL
members. The latter is recommend
ed for an increase to $4,000 a
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
TROTSKYZSM
AND RIGHT DANGER

the Section Executive Committee, all
Unit Organizers and the representa-
tives of the two Y. w. L. branches
in the section.
"Section Four Executive Commit
tee whole heartedly endorses the
policies and statement of the Central
Executive Committee of the Party
on the expulsion of Cannon, Abern,
and Shachtman from the Party be-
cause of their Trotskyist activities.
We call upon every member of the
section to give full support to the
Central Executive Committee, to
help eliminate the danger of Trot-
skyism from our Party, to unitedly
fight to build and strengthen our
Party in support of the Comintern
and to fight every attempt of any
member to introduce Trotskyism or
factionalism into the section. We
pledge our full support to help carry
out unreservedly all decisions of the
Comintern and the C. E. C.
"We ask all comrades to under
stand that Cannon, Abern and
Shachtman, because of their anti
Party activities, are enemies of the
Party and should be treated as
such"
The vote on the resolution follows
For-Nemser, Lloyd, Paivio, Hirsh-
man, Hagen, Briggs, Dungee, Mark
off, Moreau, Thompson, Lamport
and Gerson (YWL) Maslow unit
p Burtan UNIT 81, Ginsbert and
Reemar. Refused to vote: Miletti,
Italian Unit Organizer. Voting
against: Reiss, Braverman and Fish
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
BOSSES, ALL.
ATTACK FURRIERS
Combination Will Find
Workers Ready
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
Board. And the employers, faced
with being compelled to give in to
union conditions if the left wing re-
gained. control of the industry, read
lily assented to the Joint Council.
The plan then was to get the smaller
association, which was in contrac-
tural relations with the Joint Board,
to come in on the fight.
Workers Will Fight.
After more than a whole week of
secret conferences the plot was
finally Matched. In statement to
the press, Ben COLD, manager of the
Joint Board, announced that al
though he has as yet received no
official communication of the de-
cision of the small association to
break its contract the union is in
formed of the planned offensive and
that mobilization of the workers for
a struggle is already under way.
The bosses are soon to see who is
the real power in the situation, they
and the impotent A. F. of L. Off
Gals or the fur workers and their
representative-the Joint Board,
Gold declared, adding that the union
is developing strength sufficient
enough to be able to teach anewthe
lesson given the manufacturers in
the general strike of 1926.
Can't Pay Thugs.
That the scab union of the So
cialist party and the Matt Wolls
is on the point of evaporatihg into
thin air, is proven by the fact that
their agents and hired gangsters
are no longer seen in the fur mar
ket. They have even lost the power
to have the employers force their
workers to pay dues to the scab
council, thus being left without the
"wherewithal" for the hiring of un-
derworld thugs.
The same degeneration has also
developed in the ranks of the right
wing union in the cloak and dress
making industry. They, too, joined
the bosses in a last effort to stem
the tide of the masses, who were
joining the left wing union. Their
attempt, too, was uncovered before
it could be put into effect and is
now collapsing.
Both the fur workers and the
workers in the ladies' garment in
dustry are to hold national con-
ventions to establish independent
unions. At the close Of these con-
ventions, which will take place sim
ultaneously, complete amalgamation
will be affected. This is a primary
factor forecasting defeat to the new
offensives against the left wing
needle trades unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
BRITISH TEXTILE
SPEED UP is on;
WAGE CUT seen
Trade Union Misleaders
Aid Huge Trust

LONDON, Dec. 2.-The British
cotton employers are now carrying
on their plan of naturalization at
full speed. James Rushton, lead
er of the Barnoldswick Weavers'
Association, and of the Cotton
Workers Minority Movement de-
scribes the speed-up thus:
"The bosses are forming huge
trust to control output and prices,
speeding up machinery, and using
inferior grades of cotton, attempt
ing to reduce wages and lengthen-
ing the working week. Ten months
ago, when the employers put for
ward their demand for IL IL per
cent reduction in wages and for a
52-hour week, due to some slight
internal differences amongst their
organization, their attack was not
followed up. But now, with their
amalgamations, and the cotton
trade union misleaders cooperating
with the employers, they find them
selves in position to make new
demands on the workers"
Attempts were made to introduce
the 6 a. m. start at individual mills,
but these attempts failed due to the
vigilance and fight of the Commu-
mist weavers and the Cotton Work
ers' Minority movement.
The bosses are again attempting
to get wage reductions, and they
succeeded in the Hebden Bridge
Mills with the assistance of trade
union officials, whom the Commu-
nists and Minority Movement are
fighting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
MORE DAILY
READERS, GOAL
To Reach Masses in
New Campaign
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
election campaign showed that real
effort in such a distribution resulted
in big improvement in sales there
after in that section. Regular fac
tory gate distribution, and the same
at union meetings, ETC., would have
similar results. With 125 Foreign
language workers clubs in this city,
and numerous sympathetic unions,
cooperatives, Workmen's Circle and
Freiheit Singing Society branches,
q large number of Daily Worker
agents were needed to visit their
meetings to get greetings for the
fifth anniversary editions, as well
as personal greetings from the in
dividuals present. The business Of
flee staff which has started this
work, was unable to carry it
through alone.
The fifth anniversary edition Of
The Daily Worker, Harry Fox, cam
paign manager, told the agents,
would be a 100000, 32-page issue,
half of which would contain greet
ings from Communist and left wing
organizations all over the world, and
the remainder special feature ar
ticles, and items of great interest re-
lating to the past five years strug-
gle of the Daily Worker, as well as
many articles on the labor, $50
cialist," Negro and capitalist press
in this country, and the interna-
tional Communist press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

Returns from various units which
have acted on the Central Executive
Committee statement regarding the
expulsion of Cannon, Abern and
Schachtman and the right danger
in our party indicate that the COM
rades in the district have been
thoroughly aroused by the attempt
to attack and spit the Party
Of the renegades now congre-
staining 1.
The returns for Section 8
(Brownsville), a thoroughly prole-
tartan territory, are as follows: In
ternational Branch l, for the c. E.
c. statement %, with reservations 7,
opposed 3; International Branch 2,
for Section Resolution supporting
c, E. c. and d. E. G. statement II,
for minority resolution 5; Fac
tory District Unit for Section rese-
luton Is, with reservations s, alb
The following resolution wa s
Section BRONX sends in the
following returns: Branch l Lower
Bronx, II for the c.. E. c. statement,
10 abstaining; Branch 2, for the
c.. E. C. statement 10, abstaining q;
Branch 8, for the c. E. G., statement
IL, for a minority resolution contain
ing certain reservations IL; Branch
4, for the c E. C. statement 81, alb
staining 9; Branch 5, for the C. E..
C. statement 81, abstaining IL;
Branch 6, for the c. E. C. 33, voting
for minority resolution containing
certain reservations SO. The section
executive had voted previously on
this matter. II being for the C. E.
C. statement and abstaining.
The first returns from Section 6
are from Shop Nucleus No. l which
voted unanimously with all IL mem
bers present for the C. E. C. state
ment, with a resolution reading in
part as follows: "We congratulate
the G. E. c. on its Bolshevist watch
fulness of the interests of the pro-
letariat and of the party. We in
dorse without any reservations the
actions of the C. E. c. in expelling
Cannon, Schachtman, Abegn and
their associates from the ranks of
our Party. We demand from the
opposition to leave the slippery path
of reservations" in accepting Com
intern decisions"
The Section Executive Committee
of Section Z, South Brooklyn, voted
on the C. E. C. and D. E. c. resolu-
ton as follows: For - Minkin,
Schwartzberg, Gencharko, Mitchell,
Gorbaty, Kakounin, Maxi, Berlinsky,
Desarso, and Saffron (alternate)
F. the resolution with reservations !:
Chalupski, Gcherer, Weitz.. Alter
nate A. Scherer.
The following resolution wa S
adopted at special meeting of the
Section Executive Committee of Sec
ton Four (Harlem and Yorkville) of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
called for the purpose of discussing
the declaration of the C. E. G.. on
the struggle against Trotskyism and
the right danger. The meeting was
attended by all but two members of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Millions FROM
FIvE-CENT FARE
Sideways Make Huge
Net Profit
Continued from Page One

=
an increase of 76,700,0OO over the
number carried the previous year.
Of this total, 1921 100000 were
carried by rapid transit and surface
lines, 112,500,00O by the Hudson
tubes, S6.1OO,000 by bus companies
reporting to the commission, and
approximately 97,750,0O0 by munich
pal bus lines.
And the nickels which these work.
ers had TO throw into the little boxes
at the turnstiles amounted in cold
profits to a net $2,7O1, 900, says the
Transit Commission. On the sub
ways, which are most used, the
profits were SS,s32,00O, and that
would have been the figure for the
stockholders to play with, over and
above all manner of padded eX-
pense accounts and with everything
imaginable charged to operating ex-
penses, had not the managers, in
their desire to make a clean-cut
monopoly of the thing, taken on
some bad paying concerns, espe-
cially the elevated railways of Man
haitian, which cut down the profit
on the whole to the nearly three
million figure.
The Transit Commission reported
also that companies, in stating their
case to the courts. included in the
SUM of legitimate operating eX-
penses S1,374,311 spent in fighting
unionization on the roads, and pre-
venting a strike of the men, who
wanted to raise their miserably low
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
SOVIET AVIATION
AIDING PEASANTS
Carries Out Important
Scientific Work

MOSCOW, (By MaiD. - Soviet
civil aviation, in addition to trans
porting passengers and goods, is
doing important scientific work. In
1929 Dobrolet carried out exper-
mental work in aerial photography,
and it photographed 27,000 kilo-
meters. This work has been in the
interest of the mapping of little
known regions, land utilization, for
astry, industrial construction, and
for statistical purposes. Much i'm
portant work has been done in the
determination of crop and forest
pests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
Mourn Death of
Stukas, Member
of Workers Party

Lithuanian workers in Brooklyn
are mourning the death of V. Stu
kas, member of the Workers
(Communist) Party, Section 6,
Roro Hall Nucleus in Brooklyn, who
passed away at 8 p. m. Saturday.
lie had been ill only one day and
was operated on for appendicitis
Friday. Stukas was well known
among the Lithuanian workers in
Brooklyn and was very active in the
recent election campaign. The
funeral will be held from his late
home, 215 Sand St., Brooklyn, on
Tuesday.