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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-03-25

Mrs. R. f. Horn entertained the
Thursday Bridge Luncheon club at
her home on North Fifteenth street
Thursday. The personnel included
Mesdames Alex Woodbridge, James
Glasscock, r. v. Stevenson, Houston
Jones. Everett Moore, Nap Clark Of
Birmingham. Ala, and Miss Eva
Woodbridge OF Lynchburg, Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10
Class Analysis of Elections

sives," such as Senators Norris,
Blaine and LaFollette, Jr., it was
unable to take the farmers away
from Hoover. A section of the big
bourgeoisie, under the leadership of
Raskob and DUPONT, took charge of
the democratic campaign, but that
was not enough to convince Wall
Street that it's interests would not
be in safer hands with Hoover.
AL Smith announced a complete
reversal of the democratic policy on
tariff, and came out for nigh pro-
tective tariff. He declared himself
against the revision of the prohibit
ton of immigration. But this
change Of policy came too late, re-
manned uiconvincing and was in
capable of taking away from Hoover
the firm support of the bulk of fl
nance capital. Smith promised
Eight wines and beer" to the masses
of the working class and was able to
swing the largest portion of the
working class votes, but substantial
sections of the labor aristocracy
went for Hoover, whom they con-
sidered better champion of high
tariff, prohibition of immigration
and prosperity"
AL Smith tried to appear as lib
eral and progressive as possible,
using all the obsolete phrases of
Roosevelt and LaFollette, but he did
not dare go as far as they did, be-
cause he did not want to lose his
economic basis, the support of the
big manufacturers and bankers. The
strategy Of the democrats was to
win the industrial states of the east
and north, but that very policy an
tagonized essential sections of the
solid south.
Small Towns-Big Cities.
An analysis of the votes-which
cannot be complete and thoroughgo-
ing as yet-shows that Hoover car
ried the northwestern farming
states, although Smith received the
bulk of the LaFollette votes there,
Hoover had the support of essential
sections of the big businessmen,
manufacturers and bankers in the
big cities, and at the same time re-
ceived the overwhelming majority
of the votes Of the petty bourgeoisie
of the small towns and the rural
districts of the east and north.
Smith was able to pile up thu votes
of the bulk of the petty bourgeoisie
and the working class of the big
cities. 1t was not an accident that
Smith carried New York City by a
majority of almost half a million,
but that Hoover carried upstate
New York with it's rural and petty
bourgeois population. Smith was
able to carry Massachusetts,, because
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10

erto the undisputed domain of the
democrats.
The republican party is the party
of the trusts, the political organ
ization par excellence of finance
capital. 1t was created as a party
of the bourgeoisie. 1t is the tradi-
tional champion of high protective
tariff. The democratic party was
historically the political organiza-
ton of the big plantation-owners of
the south and fought industrial high
tariff in the interests OF the agra
rian elements. The republican party
has been able to maintain its power
by bloc of the eastern bourgeoisie
and the western farmers. The dem
ocratic party has always been a
coalition of the southern plantation
owners and the city petty-bour-
geoisie of the east, with the support
of large sections of the working
class under the treacherous leader
ship of the American Federation of
| Labor.
Strategy of the Capitalist Parties.
In the present elections the main
issue of the republican party was
prosperity" Its chief promise to
the masses was determination of
poverty within the next few years.
The whole strategy of the repub-
lican party was to appeal to all the
conservative instincts of the farm
ers, petty ourgeoisie and labor aris-
tocracy-who are afraid of losing
their so-called American high stand
ard of living, who are afraid of any
change, who don't want to touch
high tariff or prohibition of immi-
gration-and to keep them under the
leadership of the big bourgeoisie.
The democratic party's main stock
in trade was the promise of the re-
vision of prohibition of. liquor. 1t
tried to play with the slogans of
farm relief. Its speculations aimed
at splitting the discontinued farm
ers Of the northwest from the re-
publican party, the winning of the
so-called progressive" LaFollette
vote, the rallying to its banner of
the petty-bourgeois and working
class masses of the big cities. At
the same time the democratic party
tried to maintain it's grip on. the
solid south. And, to make the in
ner contradictions of the democratic
strategy complete, the democratic
leadership worked overtime to try
to convince big business that it was
al least as "safe and sound" for
capitalism as the republican party.
The results of the elections show
that the speculatiOns of the demo-
cratic party failed utterly. Despite
the support of the most influential
leaders of the so-called "progres-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10
Hoover, President of the World.

Hoover was elected president-but presi-
dent of what?
One would think, from the utterances of
the capitalist newspapers of European coun-
tries, that the fat office-boy of the biggest
New York bankers was elected president of
the entire world.
French German, British, Italian capitalist
papers are commenting with fear and trem-
bling before this new Caesar-some with OBJ
sequious congratulations, some with uncon-
cealed dread, but all with that attitude
which slave takes when a master appears
with whip-which is called respect"
Says the London Daily Mail:
1.-THE British people will tender their
spectfuI CONGRATULATIONS to Mr.. Hoover, the
new president of the United States. They
in him a man who is familiar with our life in
these islands, since for some considerable time
he lived in our midst in Hampstead. He has
Travelled practiced his profession in many
parts of our empire, including Burma and
Australia"
The Paris Temps fears the whip but hopes
the new lord of the world will be a good
master. 1t says
at is a natural deduction that the presi-
dency of Hoover will be logical continue
ton Of that of Coolidge and that the doc
trines of Coolidge debts, disarmament,
organization of peace and interference in the
affairs of the states of Latin America will
prevail tomorrow they did yesterday.
I'VE must await the acts of Hoover to form
IN idea Of his foreign policy. But we do not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10
Bill Haywood Comes Home"

Forty-one years ago four leaders of the ia
nous strike in the Mccormick Harvester
works-and leaders in the eight-hour move
ment-were hanged in Chicago.
The four courageous men who died on the
gallows of the capitalist state of Illinois, and
the one, Louis Lingg who took his own life in
the death cell to cheat the gallows, are re-
membered by the working class of the entire
world as heroes. They were pioneers in the
giant movement which is today marching to-
ward the victory that will transform the en-
tire human civilization.
When Parsons, Engel Spies Lingg and
Fischer were murdered, boy in a western
mining camp was among the tens of thou
sands of the working class to whom the saw
age crime of the ruling class spoke louder
than the voices that were strangled" at Chi
cago. William D. Haywood, youthful wage
slave Of the mines, became conscious of his
class and was started on the road toward
leadership in the struggle.
Bill Haywood himself became a fiery
leader who carried forward the fight in
which Parsons and Lingg and their COM
rades of 1887 died. And when Haywood
score of years later faced the capitalist
courts that wanted him strangled on the
galloWs, the Haywood case" in turn aroused
more tens of thousands of workers to con-
seriousness of their class and the meaning of
its struggle.
When Bill Haywood died, one-sixth of
the surface of the world had already been
won for the revolution of which the martyrs
of Chicago dreamed He died in the Union
= oil Of
ashes was buried in the Kremlin wall among
the remains of those who died fighting in the
Revolution. The other half was brought to
America by his wish, to be buried beside the
grave of the martyrs of 1887.
This is a fitting chapter of American and
world history The Haymarket martyrs
symbolic in the minds of the workers that
early stage of the worldwide fight in which
they blazed an American trail. Haywood
symbolizes the transition of that struggle
to a higher, more mature stage-the stage
of worldwide organization, the stage of
scientific, iron-disciplined heroism, and the
stage of the first victories.
The Haymarket martyrs were known as
anarchists AS Joseph Dietzgen, friend of
Marx, pointed out their anarchism was the
expression of the division and confusion then
existing where cowardly opportunism in the
socialist movement was pitted against the
courageous proletarian revolutionary spirit
which, in protest, at times took cover in the
confused petty bourgeois philosophy of an
other class.
Haywood died Communist, member of
the big, pulsing world-movement organized
into the battering-ram of revolution, the
Communist International This is the con-
tinuation of the heroic traditions that Lingg,
Parsons, Spies, Engel and Fischer died for.
Bill Haywood, dead, comes home as a
handful of ashes in an urn. But the putting
of this urn in the ground by the side of the
dead bones of the Haymarket martyrs means
much for the living traditions which he and
they have given us.
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Tribune:
"The moral for the nation looks
afar. America stands at the thres-
hold of new era. Already rich in
the promise of welfare for all it's
citizens at home, the country turns
overseas to the markets of the
world for its future growth. 1t
must SO turn or fail, and upon the
cooperation of its Federal gov
eminent depends in large measure
the success of this new develop
ment.
at would have been a tragic
blundcr if at this critical moment
the country had been confused by
the appeals of Governor Smith and
turned aside from its great future
to wrangle bitterly over minor is
sues and partisan problems"
(Our erhphasis.)
Hoover's election marks a new
era in the imperialist policy Of the
United States. Increased reaction at
home increased aggressiveness on
the world market-this is the out
come of the elections. A sharpening
of imperialist relations, growing
war danger, and sharpening of
inner class relations, growing reac-
ton against the working class--this
is the perspective of the near fu-
ture.
The tremendous triumph of capt.
talist reaction already contains in
its womb an increasing resistance
against itself. A big responsibility
rests on the Communist Party in this
situation. To utilize the increased
possibilities for work, to transform
the growing discomfort, which must
inevitably arise on the basis of the
sharpening of the class struggle, into
class consciousness and revelations
airy struggle are the basic tasks ri
the Communist Party today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
New Compensation
Laws Ready for Defeat

ALBANY, Feb. 22.-Six amend
ments, designed to improve the Work
mems Compensation Laws of the
state were again proposed yesterday
in the state legislature. The amend
ments aim to. lessen the long periods
of litigation necessary before a work
er, injured in an industrial accident,
can hope to obtain the small allot-
ment allowed by this law. They also
want to include among the "bene-
ficiaries" of this law those suffering
from industrial diseases.
Various improvements to the Work
mems Compensation Laws have been
regularly proposed from year to
year, and have just as regularly been
defeated. Sufficient opinion has al
ready been registered to definitely
show that no better fate awaits this
years offerings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Propose immigration
For Selected Nations

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Box
bill, which seeks to extend the quota
laws to immigration from Canada,
Newfoundland, Cuba, Haiti, the
Dominican Republic, the Canal Zone
and Mexico, is now before the house
of representatives. The bill was as
sailed insofar as it applies to Can
adam immigration, Rep. McGregor
(R, N. W, who stated that it would
interfere with our $600,000,OO0 an
nual trade with Canada" McGregor
did not oppose the barring of Mexican
and West Indian immigration how
ever. Henry D. Ward, a lobbyist
representing the immigration Re-
striction Committee of Boston, urged
the adoption of the bill in as far as
Mexico is concerned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
ARGENTINE PRESS
ATTACKS HAVANA
CONF ABB AS FARCE
Sees Wall st. Policies
Completely Barred

BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 22.--That
the Havana conference clearly exposed
the imperialist policies of the United
States, is the concensus of editorial
opinion here.
Commenting on Saturdays debate
on the question of intervention, LA
Pfensa" declares, "If in forty years
the Pan-American Union has been UNI
able to consecrate the fundamental
principle of international law, which
is the sovereignty and independence
Of nations, then the conferences can
only show up the iniquities committed
on the continent"
The press representing opinion
further to the left is even more d.
rect and bitter in its attacks on United
States policy. The conference, it is
charged, was a farcical attempt to
cover United States imperialist poll
cies in Latin America
X
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 22.-1ntervention
is openly supported in a statement
issued by President Liguia, whose gov
eminent is strongly under the influ-
ence of the United States. The PERU
Wan representative at the Havana
delegation, Dr.. Maurtua, was one of
Hughes staunchest supporters. Sup
porting United States poecy, Liguia
said: 81 cite the cases of Panama.
Porto Rico and finally the Philippines,
where the United States is found to
be preparing countries that may be
able to govern themselves, demon
strating, as Mr.. Hughes assures, that
she seeks no territorial extension
from any countries in America"
4
(The Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey and the Anaconda Copper Com
pany are heavily interested in PERU
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
HORTHY DESTROYS
ST. eOTHARD GUNS
Tries to Do Away With
Evidence of Guilt

GENEVA, Feb. 22.-The destruc-
ton of the Fascist shipn mt of
machine guns at st. Gothard by the
Hungarian Government is regarded
here as an attempt by the Horthy re-
gime to destroy the evidence of the
violation of the Treaty Of Trianon.
The arms were shipped from Fas-
cist Italy several months ago and
were the object of note of protest
from the Little Entente to the League
of Nations. The consignment of
machine guns which came in cars
marked vegetables, was only one of
large number of arms shipments
made by Italy to Hungary.
The destruction of the guns by the
Horthy government, which had previ-
ously denied that the shipment was
intended for Hungary, is now re-
garded as evidence of Hungary's
guilt. Reports received here state
that the arms were destroyed at the
request of the Italian government
which has long been suspected of
sending arms to Hungary and other
semi-fascist countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23


In letter to Rose Baron, secretary
Of the New York section of the In
ternational Labor Defense, with
headquarters at 799 Broadway. Mann
praises the work that the organiza-
ton has done in defense Of victims
of capitalist Justice" throughout the
country and points out the inn
portance of the annual bazaar as the
chief source of funds with which
this work is carried on.
Message of Greeting.
II occasionally see reports of the
excellent work you are doing in the
United States" he writes. "Allow
me to congratulate you and your COL
leagues engaged in this work as
am sure it results in relieving the
suffering of hundreds of thousands
of the victims of capitalist tyranny,
and gives them some hope for the
future in spite of the terrible ex-
periences they and their loved ones
have had to undergo. We, in Britain,
have an organization working on
similar lines known as the Interna-
tional Class War Prisoners Aid, and
it has been Of very real service to
the workers.
Lauds I. L. ID.
II understood that your annual
bazaar will be held soon. feel that
the militant American workers can
help themselves best by helping you
make this bazaar an overwhelming
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

In reply to the protest of United
States oil firms and the state depart
ment, the Colombian government bu-
reau Of information issued a state
ment here yesterday declaring that
only those titles found to be defective
will be ordered void United States
oil interests which have acquired
shady titles to rich oil lands in Colom-
bia have protested to the state de-
partment against the new Colombia
oil regulations.
"The Ministry can only declare
when titles are found defective, that
the oil lands will be considered by the
nation as its property, where the
judicial power does not decide other
wise. This right will not conflict with
any legitimate rights"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
WORKERS GAIN in COLOMBIA SCORES
JAPAN ELECTIONS u. 5. OIL SHARKS

TOXIC, Feb. pa victory in the
Japanese general election for the
government party (Sekuyukai)
seemed assured upon the basis of re-
turns tabulated up to midnight to-
night. With less than 100 consti-
tuencies missing the government
party had IT'S diet seats won against
III for the opposition party Min
seito). Proletarian party candidates
had captured eight seats and scat
tered minor parties, Is seats.
Returns from the rural districts
were running strongly in favor of
the government party indicating a
victory for that faction, as the OPP
position strongholds had all reported
by midnight.
Crowds stood before newspaper
bulletin boards all day and up to a
late hour tonight cheering as the re-
turns were posted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Senate Body Delays
Coal Field Probe

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. The
senate subcommittee to investigate
coal strike conditions will leave We'd
nesday night, instead of Tuesday as
originally planned, to start in it's
first-hand survey of the strike area
in the Pennsylvania and Ohio soft
coal fields.
Headquarters will be established
at the William Penn Hotel in Pitts
burgh, Senator Gooding (R), com
mittee chairman, announced. The It'll
nerary of the trip will be arranged
later, probably after the sub-com-
mittee arrives at Pittsburgh.
The survey will precede the senate
investigation of the strike situation.
Senator Gooding of Idaho is chair
man of the subcommittee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
WORKER AND FOUR
Chill DREN BURN

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 22.--
konstance Kozcheiwicz, a 45-year.old
worker and four Of his children were
burned to>,d death yesterday in their
home here. The firemen were pre-
vented from reaching the flaming
building until an hour after the alarm
was turned in, because the streets
were covered with ice
While the mother was visiting a
friend, Steven, 10, Philip Is, Mildred,
II and Stanley, her 7-year-old daugh-
ter were killed together with her hus-
band and her son Louis, 81. was seri-
ously burned. On the floor below, a
family of seven and few boarders
escaped with the aid of the firemen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Cop Shoots Without
Cause; Is Ex0nerated

Martin Fay, 20, is in critical con-
dition as result of being shot by a
policeman Sunday mornings Fay was
walking near Fifth Ave. and 49th
ST., when he was suddenly stopped
by Patrolman McQuillen of the w.
57th st. station.
The policeman questioned Fay, and
suddenly opened fire on him shooting
him in the back and chest. McQuil-
len stated that Fay chad made a
motion toward his hip, as if to pull
gun" No weapon of any kind was
found on Fay when his clothing was
later examined, but the policeman
was exhonerated from any blame by
Captain McLennan, who ated that
tho Fay was wearing derby he also
had cap folded in his pocket. Fay
is not expected to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

independence forces, was lauded by
speakers as a leader of the fight
against United States imperialism.
Marching from the Avenida
Juarze, the students paraded thru the
principal streets of the city, shouting
Down with Yankee Imperialism,
Long Live Sandino." Large demon
STATIONS were held in front of hotels
frequented by Americans. The stu
dents halted in front of Sanborn,s
restaurant, one of the largest in the
city, and booed American business
men who were having late meal.
The demonstrators carrying pla-
cards and banners, were driven from
the Avenida Juarez by the police.
They demonstrated in other parts of
the city.
The parade which was particularly
directed against United States policy
in Nicaragua was one of the most en-
thusiastic ever held here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Davis Unemployment
Talk Is Solemn Bunk

WASHINGTON, Feb. % (FP).--
Secretary of Labor Davis, speaking
before the Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal Association, in national meet
ing in Washington, has deplored the
failure of modern industrial society
to provide new jobs for men dis
placed by machinery. He said society
"owes solemn duty" to the workers,
to see that they are not scrapped.
However, Davis offered no motion to-.
ward bringing about this solemn duty.
He offered no plan for bringing jobs
to the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

Sandlno as a
particularly large following on the
Caribbean coast, in which direction he
is reported to be moving. SANDING is
known to have passed thru Pena
Blanca, in the department of Jino-
tega.
Marines fear that SANDING may at
tack one of three points on the coast
--Cabo Gracias, near the Honduran
border, Rio Grande or Puerto Cabezas.
Sympathy for SANDING is strong in
all three centers.
That attachments of SANDING
troops are operating about fifty
miles northeast of Jinotega was evil
dent when marine scouting plane in
the region was fired on by rifles and
machine guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Machinists tO:Meets

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. = The
executive council of the International
Association of Machinists will meet
here tonight to determine where the
coming convention of the union will
be held. The decision to call the con-
vention, which will open on the third
Monday in September, was made when
a big majority of the union members
demanded il by vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Bosses Break Contract

HAMILTON, Ohio, Feb. 22.--Un-
fair treatment of workers 81 charged
against the Estate Stove Company of
this city by the Stove Mounters'
Union, Local s. The estate Stove Co.,
manufacturers of parlor heater
known as the Estate Heatrola," has
deliberately broken its agreement
with the union by discharging union
workers and taking on low-wage I'M
skilled .non-union labor. The union
charges that the company is now at
tempting to deceive the workers by
placing its furnaces on the market
under different trade. name, the
Barry Furnaces.