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Putnam patriot., 1928-02-16
NEW FILM PLAY
 FULL or ACTION
"The Blood Ship" Thrills With Vivid Victory of Life On Clipper Ship

Adventure, mutiny, the rough-and ready life of the sailor before the mast, and a haunting romance are the ingredients worked into 'AThe Blood Ship" Columbia Pictures spe- cially produced drama about those who went down to the sea in clipper ships. in the days when ''hell ships" were a reality. and a captain admit ted no higher authority than himself. This pretentious picture, which had it's world premiere at the Roxy Thea Ire in New York City, comes to the Bradley Theatre on Friday and Satur- day. It boasts superlative cast headed by Hobart Bosworth, Jaeque- line Logan and Richard Arlen, the latter having been loaned" to Colum bia Pictures for the part by Para mount Famous Lasky. George B. Seitz. known best for "The Vanishing American" directed.
Putnam patriot., 1928-02-16
Tapestry Warp

Usunlly the warp in tapestries i, of hemp. The pattern is usually mads of colored wool threads. although threads of gold and silver are some times added to give richness. silk is used ln China.
Putnam patriot., 1928-02-16

The city council of city in India has prohibited the killing of mad dogs, on the ground that they are the same as human lunatics and must be put in asylums.
Putnam patriot., 1928-02-16
Judicial vs.seance

In Abyssinsa mnrderers are exc cuted in little hut wherein they are lffed 10 post. rifles are trained on them through tubes in the wall and 'th ar ed by relatives of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

The case of Peter Muselin, Milan
Resetar, and Tom Zema is now on
its way up to the supreme court
of the state of Pennsylvania. Read
ers of The Daily Worker will recall
that this is the case of a group of
workers arrested in Woodlawn, Pa.
at the instance of the Jones and
Laughlin Steel company, located in
Woodlawn and Pittsburg. In the
trial in the lower court in Beaver
county before a hand picked jury
and servile judge of the Steel com
pany, four of the workers were held
on a charge of sedition.
/. L. D. Protects Workers
In the recent review of the case
by the superior court no evidence
was found on which to hold Steve
Brattich, one Of the defendants who
had been sentenced to two and one
half years in the Allegheny County
Work House. Yet the tool of the
Woodlawn steel company had not
only held him but had already sen
fenced Brattich to two and one
half years in the Work House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

(Communist) Party, the Young
Workers League and the Young
Pioneers to be located on the second
floor. Vi Elore will also be on this
floor.
The editorial office of The
DAILY WORKER will be on either
the third or fourth floor, the busi-
ness and circulation departments
on the second floor. While the
composing room will be on the third
floor, and the press room will oc-
cupy one-half of the basement.
Big Improvements in DAILY
WORKER
Many improvements are con-
templated in The DAILY WORKER
when it moves into the new build
ing in order to make it better and
more powerful organ of the militant
workers of this country. The size
of the pages will be increased to
the standard newspaper size, in
creasing from seven to eight col
umns, and modern telegraph news
service will supply the Daily with
news from every part of the world,
including the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics. Yet, with all
these very substantial improve
ments in quality, there will be GER
tain economies enabling the publica-
ton of our paper at the same or
less expense.
The Board of Directors of the
Workers Center consists of: Alex
ander Trachtenberg, chairman;
William w. Weinstone, secretary;
Joseph Brodskv. treasurer; Jack
Stachel. Bert Miller. Harry Blake
and Phil Aronberg, trustees, and P.
Amron, manager.
The Workers Center does not yet
belong to the revolutionary move
ment. But as this May Day comes
to the workers of New York, they
have already taken a great step
forward towards the acquisition of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
The Frame Up IN Woodla1On

j, Steve Brattich has been freed
thru the fight Of the International
Labor Defense. 1t now remains for
the workers thru their solidarity
to free Muselin, Resetar and lima,
the other defendants in the now
celebrated Woodlaw case.
A Decisive Test
In this case the right of the
Workers Party to function in the
open, and as a legal party is at
stake. If the sentence of the
Beaver county court is upheld by
the superior and supreme courts of
the state and the United States
where we must take it next if the
supreme court of the state con-
firms the judgment of the lower
courts, then the right of the Work
ers Party to function openly is
wiped out and we are driven under
ground.
In this fight the International
Labor Defense is playing an impor-
tant role.
w. J. White.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

The traction workers likewise had
the support of the Party directly
and indirectly. The Party was the
only force that showed the traction
workers the way out of company
unionism, low wages and long hours.
But with the betrayals by Coleman
and company, the brutality of the
Walker machine and the terroriza-
tion and tyranny of the traction
barons it did not succeed in break
ing ground sufficiently to organize
these workers. The lessons of the
past two years of A. F. of L. man.
euvers have demonstrated that the
only hope for the traction slaves lies
in the program of the left wing and
the Communists.
The activities of the Party in New
York City have eliminated in the
establishment of the Workers Center
which is the fruit of its mass work
as well as its intense internal, or
ganization activities. 1t is the ex-
preston of the steady growth and
influence of the Communist Party
amcng the working class, of its &C.
tivities in the trade unions and In
other labor organizations. This
achievement can be properly esti-
mated only, when it is borne in mind
that labor is on the defensive under
the attack of the big business in
terests. TIE Communists in the es-
tablishment of the Workers Center
show the daring and courage that
characterize the Party in this conf
dent move forward to establish
greater organization to be able
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

Sbuilding soundly the foundations Of
mass Communist party. More at
tention to our mass work and at the
same time more attention to our
Party organization itself are neces-
sary for our Party to grow and win
the masses Of workers to the banner
of Communism.
On May Day, 1928 the working
class finds itself In the midst of an
economic depression and in the grip
of increasing political reaction. The
workers are showing in the case Of"
the miners, textile and needle trades
that they will fight against having
the burdens Of this depression
thrown upon their shoulders. In
order that they may fight and de-
feat the campaign Of the employers
for low wages and for destruction
of the unions our Party must grow
stronger, its membership larger and
still more Bolshevist and rounded
out with complete understanding
of the policies and tactics of the
Communist Party.
The spirit Of May Day for the
working class is the spirit of class
struggle. On May Day 1928 our
Party in New York pledges itself
to carry the struggle for the over
throw of capitalism with increased
energy and more and more victories
against the imperialist masters Of
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
NeWParty Unit
In VlneIQmd

A new organization of the Work
ers (Communist) Party has been
formed in Vineland, N. J., only last
week. Along with industrial work
ers in the big glass factories in
Vineland, farmers Joined the Par
ty. This is a sign Of the growing
strength Of the district, which can
be seen in other towns Of the dis
trict. Thus, in the city of Chester,
the Party membership has almost
doubled in the last months. The
present crisis in industry is making
the masses more responsive to the
leadership of our Party. 1t shows
also that the farmers, not only of
the middle west, but also the east
ern farmers are beginning to feel
more keenly than ever the price
cutting lash Of the monopolist buy
ers of their crops.
The small farmers are being
robbed mercilessly. They have these
alternatives: they can sell their crop
to the agency at the railroad sta
ton, or to the New York agency, or
not at all. Sending it to the New
York agency is sometimes worse
than not selling it at all. One of
the farmers sent two barrels of po-
tatoes to the New York selling
agency, and received 5S cents by
check for it. This was about one
half of the cost Of his barrels and
freight. Another one had about the
same luck-getting $2.40 for ten
bushels of potatoes. Still another
farmer got back only a bill for
freight.
With conditions like this, the
farmers are organizing. For the
first time, with the organization of
Party nucleus in this section, hun
dreds of copies of The DAILY
WORKER and the United Farmer
will be distributed amongst the
masses of small farmers.
We call upon all readers of the
Party press in the Vineland to sup
port this new unit in its work, to
join the Party, and help the Workers
| (Communist) Party ts.ke leadership
of the masses of workers and poor
farmers in this part of New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

better to serve the interests of the
working class.
But while we note our progress, at
the same time we must take stock
of the shortcomings of our move
ment. We have not yet reached out
to the workers on the waterfront,
the shoe workers, the food workers.
Tens of thousands of these workers
in New York City are unorganized,
demoralized by low wages, long
hours and the bitter slavery of the
big trusts. Our daily work, in
tensive as it is, has not yet the
quality which Communist work must
have in, order to bring the greatest
results. In our trade union work we
are learning to increase our activity
but not yet to the extent that is
necessary if we are to win the or
ganized labor movement to our poll
cies and program. Our trade union
fractions do not meet regularly
enough nor do they take all steps
necessary to establish a left wing
within the trade unions. In some
instances we find errors are made
in the united fronts Gas in the case
of the Amalgamated) because the
program of the left wing is not
clear-cut enough and because the
face of the left wing is not demon
strated sufficiently before the
masses.
Spread Communism
Our literature work, while con-
stantly growing, still is not as ex-
tensive as is necessary. In New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
u Y. IN BIG DRIVE FOR RED WORKERS CENTE

May Day, 1928, finds the mill
tant workers of New York in the
midst of one of the greatest tasks
they have ever undertaken - the
campaign to establish a Workers
Center on Union Square. This
Workers Center which is located at
1928 Union Square, is to be the
home of the revolutionary move
ment of New York City and yr'cin-
ity, the conrete expression OF the
class aims and class activities OF
ths workers.
In the Workers Center there will
be gathered under one roof the
leading organizations Of the revo-
lutionary movement of New York
and some institutions of national
scope. The building will become
the home of District 2, Workers
(Commuaist) Party, the editorial
and business offices of The DAILY
WORKER, The Workers School, the
Young Workers League and the
Young Pioneers of District 2, as
well as vi Elore, Hungarian Conn
munist daily, the Cooperative Res
taurant and the Workers Bookshop.
Centralize Activities
The need for such a centralizing
building has long been felt. The
Workers Party, the Workers School,
the Young Workers League and the
Pioneers at present occupy two
floors of an old, dilapidated build
ing on E. 18th St. The facilities
here are worse than wretched and
the general atmosphere is cheerless
and uninviting. The Workers
School, which has grown so rapidly
since its establishment in 1924,
finds itself particularly cramped.
There are not enough rooms for all
the classes, the auditorium is too
small to hold the crowds that at
tend the forums and the school is
now faced with the vision Of being
compelled to turn away hundreds of
workers eager to be trained for the
class struggle.
New Home of DAILY WORKER
The DAILY WORKER is func-
tioning under even worse conditions
in a inadequate building far away
from the center of trade union and
workingclass activities. In this
building is also located the Ell Elore,
the organ of the militant Hungarian
workers.
Thus our forces have been scat
tered. We were not strong enough
in the past, we had not grown suf-
ficiently, our power was not felt as
it is today. Now, wherever workers
are exploited, wherever they are en-
gagged In bitter struggles against
the bosses and the betrayers, there
Communists and the left wing are
found. Shall we at this time, when
the tasks of the revolutionary
movement are greatest, paralyze
our own strength, blunt the force
of our blows merely because we
lack a center that will permit US to
organize our forces properly and to
grow.
The workers Of New York have
already begun to give an answer to
this question. Many were skeptical
when the drive for $4,000 to pur-
chase and finance the new Workers
Center was launched. 1t was
pointed out that at a time when so
many workers are on strike or un-
employed, when the left wing is en-
gagged in a life and death struggle
on so many fronts-the miners
union, the needle trades, the textile
workers-at such a time cam
paign to raise $4,000 among
workers could never be successful.
But The workers are giving the
lie to these skeptics and prophets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

their center and are steadily push.
ing forward.
This is the first May Day since
the murder by the capitalist class
of Sacco Vanzetti, the first May
Day since Union Square shook with
the mighty voice of thousands OF
workers lifted up in anger and pro
test. 1t seems fitting that in this
center of the best traditions of the
labor movement of New York,
should be located this institution
which is an expression of the living,
indestructible power of the workers
Forward to secure the Workers
Center for the revolutionary work
ers of New York!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
By WILLIAM W. wE1NsToNE

May Day Is the day for drawing a
balance sheet for the year of the
victories and defeats of the working
class In its struggle against its op-
pressors. On this day the Com
munists review their work for the
year, to note their progress and
shortcomings and to grid themselves
for greater efforts to realize the
needs Of the working class.
The Party in New York since last
May Day has been involved in great
struggles. In the Sacco and Van
zetti demonstrations and political
strikes affecting tens of thousands
Of workers the Party was the heart
Of the united front that was estab-
lished In New York City which drew
in workers who had been apathetic
and Indifferent before into the mill
tant struggle of Labor.
IN the battle of the needle trades
which has been going on for eighteen
months the left wing has been able
to withstand the assaults of the
capitalists and the bureaucracy and
remains undaunted and stands out as
the only power that can re-establish
union in the industry.
A widespread campaign for the
relief Of the miners has been con-
Quoted in all sections Of the city.
The New York workers, while they
have had many demands made upon
them for the support of the needle
trades workers and for other i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

of despair. The capacity Of the
working class for heroic sacrifice
and self-denial is being once more
displayed. Because we are engaged
in so many bitter struggles, be-
cause the capitalists, in collabora-
ton with the high-salaried takers
and traitors, are trying to crush US
on so many fronts, are trying to
make the workers docile subjects
for greater and greater exploita-
tion, we must have the Workers
Center! We must have this strong
hold of our class that we may be
better able to fight our enemies.
And the workers have plunged
into the campaign to raise $4,000
with real proletarian enthusiasm.
Already substantial part of that
sum has been raised. Throughout
New York City, New Jersey and in
the outlaying sections of District
2, workers have during the past
few weeks been busy gathering
funds, canvassing their friends,
their clubs and fraternal organiza-
tions, giving as much as they could
out of their own pockets. And in
a short while the Workers Center
will belong to the militant workers
of New York City and vicinity.
A few words concerning the
building itself.
The $4,000 will not buy the
Workers Center. But it will secure
title to the building and permit the
necessary alterations and improve
ments to be made. The rents will
be sufficient to run the building and
to gradually liquidate the mort
cages without the workers ever be-
ing called on again for contribu-
tions. Eventually, too, all the or
ganizations will be able to occupy
the building rent free.
The Workers Center is a six
story and basement building. Next
door is al-'esdy located the Freiheit,
Communist daily in Jewish az so
Union Square. The new building
has a frontage of so feet on Union
Square and q depth of 100 feet.
The ground floor will be occupied
by the Cooperative Restaurant con-
Quoted by "Proletcos" which has
already become a center for militant
workers. The restaurant will have
two and a half times as much space
in the new quarters as it has in it's
present quarters next door. One
half of the basement will also be
occupied by "Proletcos" as locker
and storage rooms.
The Workers School will occupy
the entire fifth floor. Here the
school will have nine classrooms, all
larger than the present ones, an
office, a library. study room and
a student council. At present the
school has six classrooms, an office
and a library. Six Of the rooms in
the new bIilding will have sliding
doors, enabling them to be con-
verted into an auditorium seating
between 500 and 600.
The Workers School, which in
four years time has grown from So
students to 1900, is now the largest
Communist school outside the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics, and
it is largest workers school in the
United States. In the new building
the capacity of the school will be
increased 100 per cent and regis
tration Of 1000 is expected for the
fall. In addition, the sixth floor of
the Workers Center, which is now
occupied by private tenant, will
also become available for further
expansion of the school.
Tentative plans call for all the
departments of District 2, Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

York, as in the country as whole,
there is an urgent need for spread
ing the fundamental principles of
our Party in the campaign to win
the workers over to our full pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01
May Day. 1923 Records Achievements Workers Communist Party

gram. Campaigns for immediate
needs Of the masses without the
carrying on at the same time of
extensive propaganda for our funda-
mental program are insufficient for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

campaign and are largely responsible
for the success of the drive for re-
lief. The Party also responded in
stantly to the support of the Colo
RADIO miners when it led demonstra-
tions in Wall Street and in Union
Square against the murder Of the
Colorado miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-01

>portant activities of the revolution
ary movement, have responded
wholeheartedly to the call of the
"Save the Union Committee" and
of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Min
ers Relief Committee. The members
of the Workers (Communist) Party
have been the most active in this
The Washington times., 1928-10-26

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ploy sheep TO keep the grass clip
ped. instead of using cutting ma.
chimes
The Washington times., 1928-10-26
FIGURE IT OUT

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squad OF ~ players weighs approx.
mately four and one-half tons.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-16
M'GREW MAY USE orr AS REGULAR;
 0DOUL ON BENCH

NEW YORK, Jan. 1e-The legs of a twenty.year-old boy may make a world of difference in tae plans of John ! MeGraw and his Giants in the season of 1928. If Melvin Ott of Gretna. La, can stand the gaff of playing major league ball every day in he week. one of the marrying wog. ries of MeGraw will be set al rest. If he cant. why MeGrae ' will have to count on Lefty O'Doul to starr the season in Jeff field with Art Jahn. once with the Cubs and more recently on the Pacific Coast in reserve.
 O'Doul will swing against right. handed pitching. while Jahn. . right-handed batter. will face the southpaws. This, sof course, 's conditional upon O'Doul's ability to smack the southpaws. Offlaal we would say that player wbo shoots .3f5 or thereabouts. playing every day in the week, need feas no pitchers That's what o'Doal did out there in sunny California.
 Ott last year broke down early in the season. He developed series of charley horses in dis conraging succession and WIS used chiefly as q pinch hitter. He did play a number of games. ne- tably when Eddie Roush's legs gave way. But chiefly Ott servel as a pinch hitter and bench warIn- CT. According to McGraw. Ott is too big for his legs. He weighs about 1S0 pounds, and at nineteen his legs would not stand the ban : ing of every day baseball.
 Last fall when the train dis banded for the year, MeGraw told Ott to spend as much time as pos sible hunting and walking through woods. Ott promised to do so. but thus far he has not bothered sending any letters to headauar- ters and the gray-haired chieftain of the Giants K without facts an his case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-01-16

and the giant Dane IS by all odds the most important pugilistic at traction now on the calendar. It will settle the real status of the current black menace
 Hansen is the best opponent Godfrey has been asked to meet In his last New York bout. Han sen knocked out Phil Scott. heavy. weight champion of England.
 May Enter Running
 Should Hansen defeat Godfrey. Rickard will be forced to enter ,knute in his elimination tourna- ment, although he is not consid- ering him at the present time.
 On the other hand, should God frey stop Hansen. Riekard will be in more embarrassing predica- ment than ever. and he is annoy ed enough right now.