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, 1928-05-01
In the District Court Of The Virgin Is
lands Of The United States.
Sub Judicial District Of ChriStianSted,
IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT ES-
TATE OF EDGAR MEYER, DECEAS-
ED, AND SURVIVING WIFE ROSA
MEYER.

NOTICE is hereby given. that the IL
d%ersIgned administrator of the above
entitled estate, having filed in the
District Court Of the Virgin Islands of
the United States, the final statement
of his administration of the estate. the
hearing of same has by Orde. Of the
Court, made under date of 18th April
A D. 1928, been fixed for MONDAY
THE 9TH DAY OF JUNE 1923 at
10 O'Clock in the forenoon Of that day,
at the Office of the Judge of the said
Court, in the Town Of C~hristiansted,
Island Of St, Croix, and all persons in
terested in the said estate are hereby
notified then and there to appear, and
show cause, if any they have, why the
said account should not be settled and
allowed.
Christiansted, St. Croix, this Both day
of April 1928.
A. E. STAKEMANN,
administrator.
, 1928-05-01
EDITORIAL.

The poor people about tOWn making
a few cents bread to earn a hand to-
mouth existence during the hardest times
in the islands history are now being re-
CURED to buy licenses to carry on their
honest and laudable efforts to keep out
of the poorhouse. Many of them are
without advice and will no doubt make
sacrifices to meet demands not under
stood or explained. For the sake OF
clearness and in the interest of all con-
cerned the following is cullad from the
Ordinance concerning trades n occu-
pations in ST. Croix, of July IL, 1911"
the only guide on the subject:
Par. 1O:-''No burgher Orief or grant is
required to carry on in the towns a retail
trade in ones own residence with bread,
fruit vegetables, cakes, syrups, sweet
meats, prepared food, non spirltuOus
drinks. eggs, milk. irewood and char
coal, also the products of ones own home
industry"
We would like to know where the autho-
rity is found TO require any one making
bread under the circumstances plainly
set forth in the foregoing, to buy a
license. Yet it is declared that the pO-
lice are gong aroun5 making such de-
mands on the pe0u'e VINO are upset
about it, and given we would say unneces-
sary annoyance. We wish the authori-
ties would look into this and protect
those who are exposed to such intrusion
on their rights.
, 1928-05-01
Corresponds ace

MIR. Editor:-
With regard to the rattle l woaId
suggest that each 800 be placed in a box
the blanks of course with one marked
prize. draw one from each box until a
number meet along with the one marked
prize.
Last rattle a gentleman had some 20
chances and if in this case | understand
9 numbers will b. drawn out Of the 600
and it should happen that someone had
many chances and his many still would
be left in the box it would appear as II
he had had no chance 10 win 10 spite OF
the many chances he had.
n number blank
another h''"N
another prize,
Yours,
GAM }aER.
, 1928-05-01
FUNERAL ADMIRAL OLIVER
Is HELD AT JAMES
RIVER HOME.
Noted Naval Officer Accorded Full Naval
HOnOrs at Shirley. Ancestral
Home of Carter Family.

Shirley on the James, Richmond April
7.-(APt-The body of Rear Admiral
James Harrison Oliver, famous G.r2tau
and first American go |ernQr OF ~ Vic.
gin Islands, was laid to rest TODAY 10 the
family cemetery at Shirley" ancestral
home OF the Carriers OF Virginia, over
looking Ia, james river.
Jhittee0 guns doomed a full Davl sal
ute from the mine sweeper RObll r..
chOred in the river and echoed Gown l5e
valley as the hour of the funeral ar..,CG.
Rear Admiral K. E. CoOntz, and \ r.
Cole, commandants, respectively of the
9Th. naval district and the Hampton
Road navy yard, headed the navy's Off
ciaI representation, which included the
firing squad and pail bearers.
Many distinguished Virginians attend
ed the funeral Of the officer, who in his
long record Of service, counted his friends
by the thousands, from the officers and
enlisted personnel 1t was in tribute 10
his worth as an officer that his ship y:-
came known to navy men as the Rap
py Ship"
Shirley" inherited by the widow of
the admiral, who VAS Miss Marion car.
ter, had been his home since his retire
ment in 1921 at the age of 65. He -IeW
old gracefully, entertaining his friends
who came to hear his tales of the navy in
his day.
How the ad .niral was deprived Of his
sword for a year and a half, acquitted
with honor at a court martial, on J >
break his sword across his knee .aGi
throw it into the sea when it was return
ed and be congratulated on the acti - by
President Roosevelt is related by .-iat-
, 1928-05-01

A c~anepiece fire in which some II acres
of inferior cane land were burnt off by
the Armstrong; at Estate Grange, attract.
ed some attention early yesterday even
ing as the smoke was observed in town.
The fire was contiaed to the particular
section.
The schnr. Resolution" sailed in the
mail service yesterday afternoon with the
following passengers. Vincent Gibbs,
Daisy Murrey, Francis Ford, Elizabeth
Paulus and Helen David.
Mr.. w. Soderberg, manager of the
Merwin Electric Power Plant, has pur-
chased estate Richmond. The price paid
is reported as So, 200.
The 5. 5. Dominica" from the States
is due at Frederikstcd some time today.
, 1928-05-01
In The District Court of the Vir-
gin Islands of the United States,
Sub Judicial District Of ChriStianStGd.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF CHRISTIAN HENRY, DECEASED.

AYOTICE is hereby given, that the
undersigned executor of the above
entitled estate, having filed in the
District Court of the Virgin Islands Of
the United States, the final statement of
his administration of the estate, the
hearing of same has by Order CT the
Court made under date of 18th April
A. D. 1928, been fixed for MONDAY
THE 18th DAY OF JUNE 1928
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of that
dS", at the Office of the Judge of
said Court in the Town Of Christansted,
Island of st. Croix. and all persons in
terested in the said estate are hereby
notified then and there to appear, and
show cause. if any they have, why the
said account should not be settled and
allowed.
Christiansted, St. Croix, this 3Oth day
of April 1923.
JOHN MOORHEAD,
ETecutOr.l
, 1928-05-01

The municipal committee held an even
ing session in government house last
night until 10 80.
, 1928-05-01
OCA

Street vendors selling bread report
that they are questioned by the police as
to whose breau they are selling, What
is this information for?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
FRENCH RAILROAD
WORKERS SUPPORT
LEFT WING union
Election Victory for
Militants

PARIS, (By MaiD revolu-
tionary Railwaymen's Union affii-
ated to the Unitary Confederation Of
Labor (the Red T. U. c., itself af-
filiated to the Red Information Of La
Dor Unions) has scored a big success.
Elections have taken place on all
railways for delegates who will them
selves elect a National Railway
Council" which negotiates with the
government on behalf of the railway
men.
Out of 49, 800 railwaymen, 352,5oO
voted And nearly half of them
,600-voted for the "Red" candi-
dates, as against $4,000 who voted
for the yellow" or reformist candi-
dates. 131 Red delegates, az against
As reformists, have been elected.
The remainder of the votes-about
00,000-were cast in the main for
candidates of the Catholic Union. On
the two biggest lines, the revolutions
airy candidates received an absolute
majority of the votes cast.
These elections are useful index
to the support of French workers for
the French Communist Party, whose
members supply the leadership for
the Unitary Confederation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
MACHADO KILLS
z COMMUNISTS
Were Jailed for Attack
on Wall st.

HAVANA, (By Mail).-Two mem
bers of the Cuban Communist Party,
Claudio Bouzon and Nuske Yalom,
were arrested on the 14th of January
for distributing a manifesto against
U. S. Imperialism The following
morning they were removed from the
prison and nothing has been heard
of them since. The party and the
left wing have conducted a thorough
search and they are convinced that
these two workers were murdered by
Machado's police.
The Central Committee of the
Party has issued manifesto to the
other Communist parties. of North
and South America and to the mill
tant workers of both continents urg-
ing them to protest against this new
offensive of Machado against the
militant workers of Cuba.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Latin America Spurns
Monroe Doctrine, Says
Argentina Diplomat

GENEVA, Feb. %. - Senior Can
tito, of Argentina, told the League of
Nations Security Commission today
that "the Monroe Doctrine has never
been recognized by any hatin-Amer-
lean country"
"The Monroe Doctrine" said the
Argentine delegate, "is solely a po-
litical declaration and is unilateral in
character"
This was the first time that the
Monroe Doctrine has been brought
up in the deliberations of the secur-
ity commission, which is debating the
best means of maintaining the integ-
rity of boundaries. The Argentine
government leans towards Great
Britain rather than toward the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
metal WORKERS
Meet IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, Feb. 28.-The eighth
congress of the Metal Workers Union
Of the U. S. S. R. opened today at the
Moscow Trade Union House. The
meeting was attended by 581 dele
gates, representing 905,000 organized
metal workers. Delegations from
Czechoslovakian, Norwegian an
Finnish metal workers attended the
session.
Thaelmann, who greeted the con-
gress in the name of the executive
committee of the Communist Inter
national, Kuibichev, who represented
the Central Committee of the All
Union Communist Party and Tonnski
who spoke for the central council of
the U. S. S. r. Labor Unions, pointed
out the importance of the metal work.
ers in the building up of Soviet indus
try.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
COMMUNISTS or
URUGUAY MEET


MONTEVIDEO, (By Mail). =
Resolutions urging the industrial
unionfsm, the abolition of child labor
in hazardous industries and the sup
port of the United Labor Bloc (the
recently formed organization which
includes almost all of the trade
unions in Urugary) were adopted at
the fourth convention of the Young
Communist League Of Uruguay which
just closed.
A campaign for the organization
OF unorganized workers in all Of the
industries was also urged Resolu-
tons were also passed for reorgani-
cation Of the Lenin School, the in
Classification Of the work on factory
newspapers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Italy ConciliatOry
In Austria Dispute

ROME, Feb. ga more concilia-
tory tone has been adopted by Italy
towards Austria, especially on the
part of the fascist press, and surface
indications today were that diplo-
matte rupture between the two coun-
tries over the Tyrol question would
be averted.
Another conference between Pre-
mier Mussolini and Signor Auriti
Italian minister to Austria, was held
today.
Premier Mussolini was to have ad.
dressed the chamber this afternoon
upon the Austrian situation, but he
may not speak until tomorrow OF
Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
PRAvDA PRAISES
COMINTERN MEET
Points Out Importance
of Decisions

Especial Gable To DAILY woRKER.)
MOSCOW, Feb. 28.-The interna-
tional significance of the resolutions
of the plenum of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist information
al are pointed out in an editorial in
the Pravda. The editorial declares
that the resolutions on the French
British and Chinese questions are
particularly important.
Objective conditions favor the Com.
munist movement, the Pravda points
out, and the Communist parties Of
all countries must proceed to com.
pletely realize the decisions Of the
plenum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Factory Committee the
Key to Russian Unions

les. The production committee aims
to Improve the technique of the works,
prevent waste, and enlist the invent
i've talents of the workers. 1t is in
terested in greater productivity but
not through speed-up systems which
rob workers in other countries.
The cultural-educational committee
provides the most diversified forms
of education and recreationaI activ-
tiles for the workers-clubs, sports,
lectures, classes, radio, movies.
Free Speech.
bove the factory extends the YER
ticsl union organization corresnondine
usually to the geographical divisions
of the country, to American
county, state and national groups. At
each stage the horizontal or inter
union bodies suporvize and CO.
ordinate the work of the 90 separate
industrial unions. The highest BODY
is the Central Council of Trade Unions
70. c. T. u, which corresponds in
general way to the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor However, it is
elected ct congress of delegates
from all the lower state, not national,
congresses Of the separate unions.
Just as if delegates to the A. f. Of
/. conventic IS came from state con-
ventions Of textile workers and metal
workers rather than from the ma
tional or international union conven-
tons. This RI sian system gives a
much greater opportunity for the
rank and file to be heard.
As for free speech in trade union
meetings and congresses all visitors
to Russia have commented on the
atmosphere of unlimited criticism
that pervades them. When the pres.
ident of the union, local or national,
finishes his report to the workers
there are usually scores and often
hundreds of delegates who want the
floor to discuss it. And workers who
go the limit are not gavelled down
VI slugged out of the room as. for
example, was Powers Hapgood at the
last convention of the United Mine
Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
JAPANESE LETS
BEAT Up POLICE
Defend Themselves as
Cops Suppress Meet

TOXIC, Feb. -Infuriated Japan
csc. workers attacked police who at
tempted to suppress left wing
meeting today. More than a hundred
workers were arrested.
The riot occurred when a detach-
lnent of police suppressed several of
the speakers at a proletarian meeting
and attacked large number of work
ers who attempted to enter the hall
The police used their clubs freely and
injured number of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
CHINA VILLAGES
SWEPT BY FLOOD

PEKING, Feb. 2S.-Eighty vii
lagos We're Inundated and 10000 per-
sons were made homeless when the
Yellow River OVERLOADED and burst
its banks at Listing in the northeast
section Of the province of Shantung,
according to dispatch received to-
day from the International Famine
Relief Commission.
This latest catastrophe added to
the horror and suffering of residents
in the province. Four million Shan
tungese are now starving from recent
droughts and falmines, it is reported
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
WILL GIVE MEET REPORT.

DETROIT, Feb. 2S.-Delegates tc
the recent convention of the Michigan
Federation of Labor will report to the
members of the Air and Foundation
Workers Union, No. 692 at its next
regular meeting which is to be hello
in the Labor Temple, Wednesday
March z, at s pm.
The proposed legislation intending
to protect the caisson workers of the
state will be handled thru this section
Of the A F.. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
1880 Marines, Twelve
Planes Are Maintained
In Northern Nicaragua

MANAGUA, Feb. Unit
States marines are establishing
patrol posts close to the Honduran
frontier to prevent the smuggling of
arms into Nicaragua for the Nation
alist troops under General Augustine
SANDING. The entire border cannot
be covered owing to the small num-
Der Of marines available for the
work.
Small bands of nationalists opera
ting in the Neuva Segovia have taken
number of villages.
More than 1900 marines and II
United States airplanes are now on
duty throughout northern Nicaragua.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
BY ROBERT DUNN.

"Show me the way to the factory
committee" is the request the foreign
visitor makes when he enters the dool
or gate of Russian factory. To
study the trade union movement in
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies you begin with the factory COM
nittee. It is the basic unit in the
Union organization. It's chief func-
tons are, in brief:
l. To safeguard and protect the in
terests of workers in the enterprise
2. To do everything within its
power-and it has broad powers guar
anteed under the labor code of the
land--to improve the social and ma
terial conditions of the workers.
8. To represent the workers in Their
bargaining relations with their en-
ployer Estate or private) but also in
relations with the government and
various public authorities.
a. To supervise enlistment Of the
members in the union, to collect dues
and to carry out all other duties COM
'loiiy pcllOIHiSo w PRIMARY utllOIl
,rgans in other countries.
Workers Committees.
The number of workers elected to
cheese committees, at general cleo
tion meeting of all workers, varies
from 3 to 20, according to the size
Of the plant. Important subcommit.
tees through which much. of the
practical service is rendered are cal
led the cultural-educational commit
tee, the production committee, the
protection of labor committee and a
Joint committee of management and
workers known as the wage-conflict
committee. It's functions are to work
out wage scales, set norms of pro-
duction, classify jobs, devise factory
rules and take up disputes.
The protection of labor committee
helps in the enforcement of labor
legislation, the prevention of acct
dents and the provision of health pro-
lection for workers. 1t supervises
the expenditures for factory housing,
lanndries naths. hospitals and nurser-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
RE:lCHSTAC FIGHT
REACHES CLIMAX

BERLIN, Feb. 28.-The struggle
between president Won Hindenburg
and members of the Reichstag who
9re opposing his legislative program
approached a climax today.
Announcement was made in behalf
# the president that an omnibus
Measure will be introduced forthwith
providing for the following impera-
i've bills:
l. The 1923 budget.
2. The agrarian "relief' bill.
3. War compensation measure
or the liquidation of war damages
Members Of the Centrist and
Bavarian peoples party gave notice
that they would oppose part of the
program.
The Communists are also certain
to attack the government measures.
President Won Hindenburg is de-
termined that the program be enacted
before the Reichstag is dissolved. In
any event a general election will be
held on or about May 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Want Mexican Labor

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-A flood
of protests against the Box immigra-
tion bill which seeks to place Mexican
immigration under the quota law has
poured into the house and senate
Most of the objections come from
ranchers in California, Wyoming and
the states along the Mexican border
These have stated that the Mex
leans are needed seasonally as la
borers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
LABOR BLOC OF
ARGENTINA Wins
Elects Councillor Under
Communist Leadership

BUENoS AYREs, (By MaiD.-
The Labor Bloc of Argentina has
won its first victory in the province
of Santiago de Estero. For the first
time a worker was elected Councillor
from this province.
AS the initiative of the Communist
Party Of Argentina labor bloc was
formed there consisting of railway
workers. Chauffeurs, bricklayers
and other unions. This block asked
the Socialist Party to join it, but
the S. P. refused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Fight to Save Borghi
From Death at Hands
Of Italian Fascists

To aid the fight against the de-
portation of Armando Borghi, the de-
Tense committee of his friends has in
terested Clarence barrow. Borghi
would be killed if returned to Italy,
because Of his anti-fascist activities.
His son is held hostage and his home
las been burned. The Italian consul
n Boston confiscated Borghi's pass
,ort when he presented it for extern
ion of time.
Borghi himself and number of
prominent liberals are speaking at a
netting in the Rand School tonight
por@hi's defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
us. Whitewashes Movie
Monopoly, Is Charge

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. = TIL
department of justice has white
washed the movie monopoly in this
country headed by viii Hays, and it
is impossible to obtain any relic
from the czaristic tactics Of Hays and
the movie magnates whose tool Hay
is, it was charged yesterday in tn
senate by Frank Rambusch, repre-
senting the smaller movie producers
The charge was made at a hear-
ing on the Brookhart bill which seeks
to prohibit the blind booking and ar
bitrary foisting of copyright motion
picture films on exhibitors by the
movie trust of which Hays is the die
tator.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

"There is still a slight misunder-
standing Minister BRAND said. The
minister's statement, which was is
sued following the cabinet meeting
follows:
81 received Secretary Kellogg's re-
ply this morning and read it to the
members of the cabinet. It's tone is
very conciliatory, but there still re-
mains slight Misunderstanding in
phraseology. The governments prob
ably will authorize publication stimuli
taneously in America and France to-
morrow" ...e.. ,.. "..,,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Fascist Troops Kill
Natives i'm Cyrenaica

ROME, Feb. 28.-Several hundred
Arabian tribesmen have been killed
IN the recent campaign Of the colonial
fascist troops in Cyrenaica. As a re-
suit Of the campaign Italy has ex-
tended its control as far as the Lib
yam desert.
The tribesmen have been fighting
against Italian aggression for several
years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Big Loan to Norway

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 28.--An Of
fer of a $3O,0oo,OOo loan has been
accepted by the Norwegian govern
ment from syndicate comprisinr
the Guaranty Trust, Dillon, Read &
Company, of New York, and the First
National Bank of Boston, and Ham
bros Bank, of London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

Chas. Lindbergh, or d a, to the
Wall st. envoy Panama Canal.
Cuba already has
begun a survey for national air
mail service extending from tip to tip
Of the 600-mile island Porto Rico,
Haiti and Cuba have consented" to
support an inter-island passenger and
mail service over a 800-nile route
The inter-island route would connect
with the all-Cuban mail route al
Santiago, and the all-Cuban would
converge with the Havana-Key West
lines at Havana, thus bringing the
two new lines into direct contact with
the United States.
Panama has. expressed "sympa-
thetic interest" in a project to con
meet the Caribbean Island route with
Panama City, which would connect
North and South America by air for
the first time in history. Service al
ready exists between Panama and
Colombia, and between Colombia and
the principal east and west coast
cities of all South America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
CHILDREN HURT IN CRASH,

ROCHESTER, Indiana, Feb. 28.--
Eleven children were seriously in
jured, some of them probably fatally,
and Is others We're hurt when a fast
Erie freight train demolished a school
bus which was carrying about 40
children to a school at Letters Ford
near here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
To Sign Tangier Treaty

PARIS, Feb. 28.-According to re-
liable reports here a Franco-Spanish
accord for the reorganization Of the
international control of Tangier will
probably be signed bf the end of this
week
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
Blast Kills 6 Workers

BERLIN, Feb. 28.-Six miners
were killed in a factory explosion
near Duren, according to reports re-
ceived here today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29

terence Jne dlplO-
m a t ic conversa-
ions between the
United States and
france regarding
t h e so-ca II e d
peace" pact were
esumed today.
S ecre tary of
State Kellogg's re.
ply to the French
note of Jan. q was
deceived by the
French foreign Of
lice this morning
and was immedi-
ately considered by
1t aL:.o+