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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Blind Zoo Ostrich To
Have Exclusive Suite

Al month from now the big Somali
ostrich, presented to the National
Geological Park by President Roose-
welt. who had received it as a gift
in 1904 from King Menelik of Abyss
sinia, will have the present bird
house to himself. BY that time
the new birdhouse will be completed
and all but Sir Ostrich will be re-
moved to the new quarters.
The Somali ostrich has gone blind
from old age and the keepers at the
Zoo fear that IL he is moved it
will kill him. Now he knows where
everything is located In his cage as
if he could see the objects well.
New surroundings might cause his
injury or death, they fear.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
100000 Girls Under
20, At Work in Country

Mrs. Mary Anderson, director Of
the Woman's Bureau OF the De-
partment of Labor yesterday stated
that nearly 2,0O0.O 900 girls under 20
years of age are working for q
living in the United States.
These figures were announced in
connection with the issuance by
the department of q poster called
Daughters Of America" The poster
shows q group of factory girls,
in the noise and stir of the work
room, with distant windows sug-
costing the freedom of the out.
doors and ends with the question
They have youth--have they
opportunity
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Baldwin Plan Sends
Rubber Price Down

LONDON, April 5.-The rubber
market was further depressed today
as a result Of Premier Baldwin's
announcement that the govern.
ment's restrictions limiting rubber
production in Malaga and Csylon
will be lifted on November I.
Rubber opened at nine and one
quarter pence per pound, the lowest
price since 1922.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
TROTSKY SHOT
BY ACCIDENT,
IS LATEST
-
~ 1nternatlonal Sow service

LONDON, April 5.Despite en-
phatic denials by the Soviet govern.
ment that Leon Trotzky, deposed
Russian leader. had been shot, an
exchange telegraph dispatch from
Helsingfors today stated that Dip
lomatic circles at the Finnish cap
ital were informed that Trotzky
had been accidentally shot while
on q hunting trip.
The exchange dispatch stated that
the bullet which struck the Boil
sheyist leader was accidentally fired
bv q companion of Trotzky on the
trip.
The Russian legation at Helsing-
fors refused either to confirm or
denv the report but 1t was gener-
alIN credited by Communist circles
there, according to the dispatch.
Trotsky Shooting Denied
MOSCOW, April 5.-The Soviet
foreign office today continued to
1env all reports that Leon Trots1xy,
deposed Russian leader, had been
shot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Doris Stevens to Head
WOman's Study Board

Miss Doris Stevens has been
made chairman OF the commission
q international action Of the
National women,s Party, represent.
Ing the United States, to study
the civils ana political status OF
women and recommend measures
fc the next Pan-Arnerican Con-
ference looking to their equality
with men before the law.
The commission has representa-
tlvNn froy, 3 seven Pan American
republics and the United States.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05

Today's Times and Herald ciassineM
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Anti-Plane Lights In
Test. Planned for Fall

Special tests to determine tne
.practicability Of anti-aircraft search
lights and sound locators IN re.
vealinE enemy aircraft will be held
At Fort Humphreys, Va. next fall
according to a War Department
announcement yesterday.
The tests viii be the most
extensive ever held and results are
expected to aid in the development
A improved methods Of aerial de-
tense. Efforts win be made %
coordinate the use Of anti-aircraft !
guns with the searchiights ana
sound locations.
THE tests will be made by Battery
4. sixty First Coast Artillery
which win march overland from
Fort Monroe to Fort Humphreys
a special board OF officers VIII
supervise the tests.
Todav,a Times ana Herald classified
ada effer many ideal furnished 81 I'M
es.rmsnl,nd nmnPfmemfa tor rent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Pharmacists Everywhere In
America Recommend This
inexpensive Remedy.
Just Rub It On.

They call this successful prepare.
tion "Joint-Ease" because the man
who turned the trick. worked for
years TO perfect some low-priced
remedy that should really benefit
the millions Of people who have one
or more joints that need helpful at
tention.
- "Joint-Ease" is prepared for
peopie who have swollen. painful,
iAfIamed joint, whether in knee, Ell.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
Clarence B. Gasch Off
To Serve 3-Year Term

Clarence b. Gasca, former cashier
of the National Bank Of Hyattsville.
is en- route under guard Of Federal
officers for the Atlanta penitentiary,
where he was sentenced for three
years for misrepresentation of the
bank funds.
Gasch left for the South in COM
pany with 10 other prisoners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-05
SON or VETERANS

j. Clinton Hiatt was chosen last
night as the representative OF Will
liam =. Gushing Camp, No. 80, Sons
OF the Union Veterans of the Civil
War, at meetings of the Grand
Army Of the Republic Memorial
Day COMMITTEES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10
Is the Revolution "ThY0ugh".?

The clash between Egypt and Great Britain the rejection
of the mperast treaty giving British Imperialism the right to
garrison Egypt with and police the country with it's
spies and bureaucrats together with the blazing of civil
in Arabia against the British Imperialism
1t is the position of the social democratic agents of the
ast system that the period of world revolution
But the careerst leaders always look upon the revolution
respectable thing that passes the borders of highly
veloped European and American capitalist countries
enn tore the mask off of the hypocres who help
revolutions of colonial and semoona peoples under the
that such peoples ripe for socialism, The
International broke down for the workers of the world the illusion
by Imperialism in the of ts own workers. that
the revolution has nothing do with socaed inferior peoples
enn pointed out to the workers of the world the great
MARKHAM truth that ASIA with it's population of than half
inhabitants Of the world breaking history
to play big role in the overthrow Of imperialism.
Those who to u the working sleep pretenses
eli the possibility of under capitalism that feverishy
preparing for another wordwar depend for the
lying keeping the of the blinded
tons and national which prospect the
continents of Asia, Africa and Latin~America.
the world whole has been no peace since the
treaty of Versailles There will be and be peace this
period is the period of the decline of capitalism and of
proearian revolution which and will Joined the
volts of the colonial slaves of Imperialism
The revolution which began in the victorious establishment
of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics hrough-t
proceeding and will only in its worldwide victory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

icy makes it impossible to conduct
struggle of the workers on all fronts.
Another illusion of the /. W. W.,
which has had consequences for work
ers under their leadership is the fall
lacy that having been defeated or
having made little progress in an
open strike the strikers can return to
work and continue the strike con the
job"
The impossibility of slowing down
on the job effectively for any length
of time in highly organized machine
industry, or even in coal mining,
which is backward industrially COM
pared to other industries, is apparent
to every miner. In addition such slo-
gans tend to. confuse workers, tend to
make them depend upon individual ac-
ton rather than upon centralized,
militant and disciplined organization.
The /. w. w. require as basis for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

closed with the sheriff in charge.
The workers had shaved week, were
due to be paid the following day, and
had received no word that the place
would not be open. Many of them
had worked in the Knickerbocker for
years. The total amount these work
ers were cheated out Of by the Globe
Catering Co., owners of the Knicker-
booker, appropriated $4,000.
The workers in the Clayton Cafe
terra, SO3 W. 125th St., owned by B.
Goldberg, recently found themselves
in the same boat as the Knicker-
booker workers. Wages in both these
places averaged about SIS to $40.
Thousand Unemployed
The hotel, restaurant, and cafe
terra workers have been among the
hardest hit by unemployment in re-
cent months. Many thousands of
food workers are out of work in this
city alone and the number increases
rapidly. Every employment agency
on Sixth Ave-, Third Ave, Seventh
Ave-, and the Bowery where most of
them are located, are jammed to the
doors. The majority of the food
workers now working have part-time
jobs only.
One practice of the employ
ment sharks is to send a half dozen
or more workers to one job, collect
ing large fee from each in advance.
The law allows the agency to col
lect 10 per cent of months wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

the national left wing movement and
the fight against reaction in the
United Mine Workers.
This at once gave the strike a mar
row base and deprived it of support
it would otherwise have obtained.
Even on the issue of organizing re-
lief the l. w. w. insisted at the be-
ginning in making the collection %
strike relief for Colorado separate
from that of relief for the strikers of
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Of equal immediate Importance, and
far more important potentially, were
the illusions spread by section of
the l. w. w. leadership among the
rank and file miners as to the rule
of the state government.
1t was apparent from the very out
set that the full force of the state
government was to be thrown against
the miners. But even those who know
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

Recently New York City en-
ployment agency sent a jobless cook
to a cafeteria on Greenwich ST., for
a job. The agency forced the cook
to put up $40 in advance.
When the cook reached the adj
dress given him by the agency he
found not a cafeteria, but an empty
lot. He walked around the neigh
borhood, thinking the employment
agency might have made a mistake
in the address. But the cafeteria
which the agency had named did not
exist.
John c., another cook, was sent
out by another employment agency
to a $200-a-month job. He was
forced to pay $40 in advance before
he could even see what the job was
like or learn whether the job ex-
listed. This was 20 percent of the
months wage-twice as much as the
law allows. John went down to the
restaurant, looked the place over, and
decided he did not care to work I'M
der the foul conditions he saw there.
He returned to the agency for his
$40 He had receipt for the money.
The agency told him to return the
next day. He returned the next day
only to be put off again. After this
had occurred several days in success
sion, he placed the case in the hands
Of the Amalgamated Food Workers
Union in whose lawyers hands it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

that this would happen did not antici-
pate to the full extent the terror
campaign that would be organized by
the Rockefeller interests and their
state government.
Proceeding on the theory that the
governor was neutral" the |. w. w.
leadership even entered into an agree
ment with the military representa-
tives of the governor to stop picket
ing. At other times dependence was
placed in the fairness" of the state
industrial commission.
Their contempt for politics" and
their belief that the new society can
be built up within the shell of the
old" and combat with the state power
of the capitalists thus avoided is ex-
pressed in denunciation of all political
activity. They make no distinction
between working class political par
ties and capitalist parties. This pol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

The strike of Colorado miners, last
ing some four months, has been called
off under conditions unfavorable for
the miners. This is true in spite of
the fact that the strike must be given
credit for the 81 wage raise and the
efficient preliminary organization
work done by Embree and others.
Organized and led by the l. w. W.,
the Colorado miners fought militantly.
So did section of the l. w. w. lead
ership. The strike was marked by
mass murder of strikers at the Column
bine mine, by mass arrests and wide
spread brutality on the part of the
state authorities.
The Colorado strike, especially be-
cause of the Rockefeller ownership of
the state and the militant traditions
of the miners, aroused nationwide
sympathy and support. The miners
fought with the greatest militancy
and determination and the Mexican
miners, something like go per cent of
the strikers, covered themselves with
glory. So did the Negro miners.
But the calling off of the strike
after four months while the Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio miners are showing
increased determination and militancy
after IL months of persecution and
semi-starvation, as well as the fact
that only minor gains were made, cer
tain fundamental mistakes committed
by the leadership in Colorado require
some comment.
The chief weakness of the Colorado
strike was the inability and unwilling
ness Of the |. w. w. leadership to
make the struggle an integral part of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10
Agencies Fleece Jobless Food Workers

The agency sharks find it easy TO
circumvent the law. Another trick
is to merely clip want ads out OF the
papers, and send several workers to
these Jobs. Of course fee Is col
lected in advance from each.
Agency Takes Last Cent
A trick which inflicts severe hard
ship on the unemployed hotel and
restaurant worker is played on hun
dreds Of jobless men every Saturday.
The worker is sent by the employ
ment agency early Saturday morn
ing to a job which the agency knows
has been filled. The worker finds
no vacancy and returns to the
agency for a refund. He finds the
agency closed, being after IL by this
time. This often means no food and
suffering in the streets for the work
er over the weekend. The agency
is protected by law, which allows 1t
to hold the deposit three days.
A Progressive Union.
Altho the restaurant, cafeteria and
hotel workers are poorly organized,
the Hotel and Restaurant Workers
branch Of the Amalganated Food
Workers Union is making rapid
strides, according to Pascal P. Cos
grove, its secretary. Among services
it has rendered the hotel and restau-
rant workers are, free employment
service and free legal aid in such
cases as those just described.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10
The LWW. Leadership and the Colorado Mine Strike

organization, support Of their own
wrong social theories and organiza-
tional forms from workers who are
bound together only by the expression
of a common enemy. They do not see
that the union is only means to an
end, that it is the mass weapon of all
workers regardless of political, social
or religious theories and that only in
a working class political party which
workers join because they subscribe to
it's program, can there be complete
agreement on theory.
The l. w. w. has never been able
to build permanent mass organization
because Of its theoretical and tactical
errors. 1t can not lead workers ex-
cept to defeat and in spite of it's mill
tant struggles and the undoubted
courage Of its membership, the I. W.
w. must be considered as an organi-
cation whose activities, especially in
this period Of great concentration of
capital, huge combinations Of capital
lists and Capitalization Of govern
mental power, the main weapon of the
capitalists, create confusion and divi-
sion in the ranks Of the working class.
The militant labor movement in the
United States is in process Of being
built but the l. w. w. is not building
it. The l. w. w. learns nothing and
forgets nothing.
Only the program Of the Save-the-
Union committee will save and build
the miners union into a powerful in
strumsnt of the 100000 coal miners.
-Rep1rnted from the Coal Digger,
March 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

meager wages when fortunate
enough to have a job, and the prey
of dishonest employment agencies
when unemployed, no worker is ex-
plotted more thoroughly. 1t is COM
mon sight to see a restaurant or
hotel crew totter off duty after II
hours of drudgery in a hot kitchen
and almost fall to the ground in
front of the restaurant with ex-
haustfon from the hard work in in
tense heat.
SIS for "a Hour Week
Wages paid these workers are:
busboys, average, SIS week; dish
washers, average, SIS a week; coun-
termen, average, $25 week; cooks,
average, $50 week.
Little or no wages is the lot Of the
walters and mattresses. Forced to
depend for living on the whims of
the customers to tip them, the wait
ers and mattresses are paid less than
So week on the average, many of
them receiving no wage at all. Ex-
ploitation cannot descend to lower
level than in the case of the dining
room workers. In many of the re-
staurants, cafeterias and hotels, the
head waiter takes the tip returning
only a percentage to the waiter or
waitress. There are no laws to pro-
tect the food workers.
February "a, the 60 workers of
the huge Knickerbocker Grill, Broad
way and And ST., found the doors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10

now is. This worker had been forced
to give his last cent to the agency
and suffered severe hardships as a
result.
Send Another Worker
Another cook was sent out by the
same agency on the same day for the
same job. The agency sharks COL
lected $40 from him also, by the fol-
lowing means. Instead of giving the
second worker a receipt for the en-
tire $40 the agency gave him two
receipts, each for 500. One look at
the so-called restaurant the agency
had sent him to was enough to drive
him away. He too returned, like the
first cook, to the agency to get his
$40 back.
"What $40?", shouted the employ
ment agent. "You didn't give me
$40, you gave me $20!"
A policemen was called. The work
er showed his two $50 receipts. "One
of them's a duplicate, said the
agent. The policeman pushed the
protesting cook out of the agency
after he had been given $50 of his
$40. He too went away with no
more job than he had before.
Slaves Totter Off Duty
These are everyday occurrences in
the lives of the hotel, cafeteria and
restaurant workers in New York
City, and, in fact, all over the coun-
try. Forced to slave II hours a day
under the foulest conditions for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-10
Score Lewis
for Murder
Of Campbell
Especial to The Daily WOrbsr.)

Especial to The Daily Worker.)
PHILADELPHIA, March 9. - The
Young Workers (Communist) League
of District yesterday issued the
following statement:
"The murder of the two leaders Of
the miners, Campbell and Reilly by
the murder machine Of Lewis and
Cappelini is a challenge to the whole
working class. These two martyred
heroes were a symbol of the struggle
that is raging inside of the Miners
Union against the 1ackeys Of the coal
barons-the Lewises and Cappelinis.
1.-THE young coal miners are taking
their place In this struggle to regain
the Miners Union its role as a mill
tant union in the class struggle. Tho
young miners who are In the fore
front Of the struggle both In the an
thraeite and In the strike region viii
now redouble their efforts to carry
on the work Of Campbell, Reilly and
Lillis who were murdered a few
weeks back by the same murder ma
chine.
Support Urged.
"Ths Young Workers (Communist)
League calls upon the young coal
miners to join the building Of rank
and file committees to save the union
and fight for the liberation of Bonita,
"The Young Workers (Communist)
League pledges itself to rally the
young workers in all trades and in
dustries to come to the support OF
the mine workers in their struggle
against both the coal barons and their
stool-pigeon in the ranks of the
United Mine Workers Union.
&C. MILLER, district organizer"
New Britain herald., 1928-12-18

Greet letter-writer to duel. Everyone
thought, Of course, that the duel itself
was an utterly untenable idea, but thew
could understand the youths Indignation.
This question of skirt length is ono
which has vexed the custodians of public
morality these many years. When is .
skirt not skirt? Some might answer:
when it is on a modern girl"
But tolerance in such matters seems to
be a rather elastic thing When the
frisky breezes of 1895 rustled the skirt
hem Of "ne belle dame Of that period
disclosing two or three millimetsrs Of
ankle, quick flush would spread over
her face and her eyes would be hastily
cast down
However, by 1910 the hem had been
definitely divorced from the instep and
by 1918 it had assembled merrilly to Just
below the knee. After that it had to pro-
coed, of course, with some caution, but
proceed it did, possibly because kness an
shapely, and deserve a place in the sun.
And today the ladies Of fashion
throughout the world would feel positive
ly "tacky" with long skirts, although it IL
true that in recent months there has been
a slight trend downward again-though
not. optimists predict, for long. At any
rate people have ceased to comment on
the scantiness of female apparel, except
in isolated instances, like the one related
here.
Meanwhile, no reply has come from the
cleric to the challenge-and there may be
no duel But no more articles have ap-
peared criticizing the dress Of Princess
Astrid. either.
of the princess wishes to reveal . few
inches of shapely limb, like any other
lovely lady, why then, let her do IT," runs
New Britain herald., 1928-12-18

Nuptlals for Crown Princes are imnor-
tant and pressing rites. And then there
must an heir to the throne, Of course,
moreover, friendship between nations are
sealed by the intermarriage Of their ruling
families. 'N''"e
Love seldom plays a very striking role
in such matches. Yet Leopold and Astrid
were in the extremely lucky position of
belng in love with each other and at the
same time of being excellent cementer,
Of International accord.
There were two ornate and spectacular
ceremonies performed to clinch the troth
OF Astrid and Leopold, one in Sweden be-
fore the civil authorities, and one in
Belgium before a priest.
The couple set up housekeeping to-
gether almost as any other loving pair
would do-except, of course, for the fact
that they enjoyed an allowance from the
Government of $4,000 on which to
worry along, and for the additional fact
that they were photographed and cheered
whenever they peeped out-of doors
The young wife and queen-to-be de-
cided to be mate in the old-fashioned
sense and Immediately took course in
domestic science so that the princely table
might be graced by delicacies confected
by her own hands.
After year Princess Astrid presented
her husband-and the Belgian people
with a nine-pound daughter, and it was
we'll known that the company of nurse
maids in the household had little work to
do, because the young mother tended her
first-born as assiduously as the most
domestic of wives.
Belgium, and indeed all Europe. re-
membered these things. and sympathy
was quick to range itself on the side Of
the young man who challenged the "indis-
New Britain herald., 1928-12-18

allowed q few inches
leeway in skirt short
ness, without criti-
cism because Of her
lovelinegs and royal
parentage?
These speculations,
while interesting,
scarcely seem Of life
and-death importance.
In Belgium recently,
however, they became
lust that. They in.
New Britain herald., 1928-12-18

termed his impunlty-
thus creating an ex-
traordinary and alarm
Ing situation that i'm
mediately became the
talk of the boulevards
and salons.
The young princess,
who has been called by
many the loveliest Of
living royal women,
was probably more
surprised than anyone
else when the whole
distressing affair began