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New Britain herald., 1928-02-16

continued to tsy to attract the at- tention of these hurrytnk for doors until the curtain vas lowered but before this could be done the flames had shot into the audience and hun. dreds were killed by sunsaation. burning and trampling.
 Gtvcs soo to Attendant
 When the Are started Foy eutrust- cd his son. six years old. to tAs care of a stage hand. and when he at last left tho stage. he rushed from the stage door. uncertain wheeler the lad had been carried to safety. He found the boy safe with the stage hand.
 New York. Feb. l6 tUP)-Eddie Foy didn't come back to Broadway. after all.
 At the Lambs club. where he had been . member B years, regret at the comedian's passing was accen- tuated by the thought that Foy was denied an ambition of years stand ing-to return with his children to stardom at a Broadway theater.
 On the stages of thousand vau- deville houses he sang:
 "Oh. it's to the grave together. it's to the grave together, and we don't give 2 darn how we get there"
 But they didn't go to the grave together-Papa Foy and the seven little Toys. The kids got tired.
 Lost 41S,OO0
 In 1925 Eddie and his children made one last venture for the Rial to's favor. That was in play call ed "The Casey Girl" It wasn't q good show and it flopped after try out on the road. Eddie lost $1s,000, but he grinned. He always managed to grin at everything. his lips mak- ing an ascending arc until his right cheek puckered deeply and the myriad lines around his eyes creased and crinkled.
 But after that failure the Foy family disbanded.
 Eddie, Jr.. Mary. Madeline and Irving made up a quartet for a vaudeville tour. Charles struck out for himself in vaudeville. Bryan and Dick went to Hollywood.
 Leave Father
 There was another disturbing fac tor. In 1923 Foy married for the fourth time. The children were op- posed to the match and the wife. formerly Mrs. Marie Combs of Be- dalia, Mo-. was unable to effect a reconciliation. So the children. whose mother was the third wife, Madeline Morando. lived apart from the father.
 Papa Foy went on tour but as he daily performed before audiences who were surprised at the vitality of 73-year- comedian. he planned for a return to Broadway. In his mind the lights that spelled Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Toys" were still twinkling.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
Believe Nancy Ann
 Miller to Marry Hindu

Colombo. Ceylon. Feb. 16 UP) The former Maharajah of Indore and his iiancee. Miss Nancy Miller of Seattle. left today for Bangalore. h. Gia by special train.
 Their departure came soon after the arrival of Hindu priest from Poona. who was 10 convert Miss Miller to Hinduism prior to their marriage.
 There was no indication here that Miss Miller and the former Nahara- iah had abandoned in the face Of heated protest, their plan to marry
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16

Harry F. Sinclair. oil multi-million- atre. testified in his own deferDe in the Sinclair Burns contempt trial today that he and Sinclair employed detectives to shadow the Fall-o otn. clair jury because they feared olu. clair's enemies might influence the jurors.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
EDDIE fOY FOUND
 DEAD IN KANSAS
 CITY HOTEL TODAY
(Coatinusd from First Page.) )
.ne Through Life"

''Clovnine Through Life"
 Arrangements were made to send the body today to New Rochelle. N. r., for burial
 MT. Toy was a member of the Lambs club in New York. the Ma tional Vaudeville Artist association and the Elks.
 The sketch in which MT. Foy made his last appearance depicted the thing that Foy often expressed himself as wishing to avoid-a fallen star who had only his mem- ories to cheer the fading years of his life. He loved to act. his manager said.
 Wanted to Dio in Harness
 MT. Munnis said Mr. Foy always dreaded the remainder of hts life in retirement. "He often told me he wanted to die in the harness, on or near the stage he loved." Munnis said.
 With Mfr. Foy and Mir. Munnis. Miss Helen Skelly of New York. was playing in the act
 MT. Munnis said that MT. Foy frequently had slight heart attacks. but that within the last four weeks hts condition had greatly improved and he had suffered no serious ill., ness.
 Interviewed in Hartford . few months ago. Eddie Foy said that he would never retire from the American stage. He was of the opinion that he would never grow 30 old as to mako that necessary. "Ill die in harness on the stage," he said.
 Chicago, Feb. 16 R-When fire in the. Iroquois theater here killed hundreds :t years ago, Eddie Foy. who died today in Kansas City. was the last person to leave the stage.
 Heads With Audience
 Toy was appearing in "Mr. Blue- bird" when | gauzy bit of stage drapery caught ire during the bar gain matinee on December 30. 1903. Tho flames shot over the heads of the audience and into the gallery and in . moment a wild stampede for exits was under way with the hoarHe shouts of men and the screams of women and children mingling with the cracking of the flames.
 Toy, the comedian, rushed to the front of the stage with the flames roaring above his head. As burning embsrs fell about him he pleaded with the audience not to give way to panic.
 The comedian in his tights. smock and wig, stood, a grotesque figure amid the blazing scenery and his appearance apparently arrested for moment the mad scramble for doors. He urged the orchestra to play. and eight girls on the stage at his direction went on with a dance. Those on the stage. directed by Foy.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
MRS. CLARKIN DIES

Hartford, Feb. 16 Rt-Mrs. Della F. Clarkin. wife of James H. Clark in. for 25 years owner of the Hart. ford baseball club. died at the Hart. ford hospital Wednesday afternoon as a result of injuries received two weeks ago when hit by an automo- bile.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
"Shampoo" Is Hindoo
 For Massaee

The secret of beautiful hair is in the word Shampoo" In Hindoo t means massage; in English, thorough cleansing of hair and scalp. Frequent cleansing with antiscptic pine tar soap, which banishes germs, tones and stimulates - together with vigorous exercise of thc soalp-keeps hair and scalp healthy. Hair specialists usually recommend Packers, the standard brard of tar soap for $ years. for the sha .'poo. At all drug and depart meut storeG
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
NSSINEC nVTVES

Bari. Feb 15 UP)-rhe new board of administration Of Adria'ic university today assumed it's dlti"s at d formal ceremony. over which the prefect presided.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
10 JNJCRED

Caltanisetta, Feb. 16 UP)-Nine- teen workers were injured, four seri- ously, when dynamite exploded pre- maturely at a sulphur mine at Ira bia-
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
RADE FAREWELL

Rome, Feb. IS (UP) - FaAcist Deputy Manfredo chostri has bad, farewell to the king. preparatory to sailing to assume his duties as con sul general at Porto Alegre, Brazil.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16

The reason side whiskers are known as sideburns is because they were named for General Ambrose E. Burnside of the federal army.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16
FITS PFaef PRaf:

If you have Epilepsy. Fits. Faliug Sick ness or Convulsons-no matter how had write me today without fail. Attacks stopped over night in many eases. NO NARCOTICS no harmful drugs. Satisfac- ton or money hat k.
 DIR. (. Y. SIMPSON O.,
 1919 W. filth st., Cleveland, o.
New Britain herald., 1928-02-16

NO SHADOWING Washington, Feb. 16 (UP)-Henry Mason Day. international agent for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
WIR PLEDGES AID
TO FRUIT STRIKE
To Start Nationwide
Campaign

The National Office of the Work
ers International Relief, / Union
Square, last night sent a cablegram
to Colombia, pledging support to
the 10000 workers who are on
strike on the banana plantations
owned by the United Fruit Co.
The cable reads as follows:
eve pledge support to 10000
banana workers striking against
United Fruit Co., which is controlled
by Wall Street. Relief funds for
strikers and dependents being raised
in nationwide appeal. American
workers will support your struggle
for better conditions and urge you
continue until victorious"
The cable is signed by Fred G.
Biedenkapp, executive secretary of
the W. l. R.
A communication was yesterday
sent to the secretaries of the Work
ers International Relief branches
throughout the country instructing
them to Immediately open a drive
in their territory for the strikers
and their families.
,Biedenkapp stated that further
activities will be announced shortly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
FURRIERS Launch
.S5DUES CAMP AIGN
Continued from Pare One

Continued from Page One
season. The five-dollar plan is
principally a mobilization slogan for
the coming struggle.
The leaflet distributed by the
scab union officials in the fur dis
trict yesterday provoked much
laughter. tinged with bitterness.
With great glee the leaflet an
nounced that Eat last we have one
union in the industry" and with sar-
donic bitterness furriers asked Of
each other: when the bosses as
sociations merge in recognition of
the A. F. Of l.. scab union, does
that mean that we have one union?"
1t is characteristic of the company
union chiefs to consider an alliance
of the bosses as their own victory,
the workers declared. This leaflet
contained many other silly state
ments, such as that the Joint Board
allowed union conditions to deterior-
ate in the shops of the Fur Trim
ming bosses. If chat were so, the
furriers point out, how does the
scab Council explain the fact that
these same trimming bosses refuse
to renew the agreement with the left
wing onion and grant it to the A..
Z. of l.. Council?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15

Working women representing all
the leading industries of New York
met Thursday evening at the Labor
Temple at an industrial conference
called by the New York Working
Women's Federation to discuss the
organization of unorganized women.
This conference, which is the first
of several delegate conferences to
be held very soon for the purpose
of organizing working women,
showed the interest, enthusiasm and
keen desire on the part of women
workers for organization, so that
they may be in far better posi-
ton to fight the battles of the en-
tire working class.
About fifteen rank and file
women workers, many of whom had
never spoken in public before, re-
ported the conditions in the shops
and factories of their various in
dustries. Many others could not re-
port for lack of time. The delegates
from the milliners' union, the food
workers, the Amalgamated, the
shirt workers, white goods workers,
dressmakers, knitgoods workers, UNI
brella makers, cap makers, told of
the exploitation of women and chill
dren and showed how women work
ers slave longer hours and get lower
wages than men for the same work.
The miserable and inhuman condi-
tions in department stores of New
York were also described.
Some of the most vital reports
were those of the Negro delegates,
who showed how Negro women have
actually been forced out of indus
try because they are exploited even
more than white women.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, chairman of
the New York Working Women's
Federation, lead the discussion on
the organization of women. She de-
seribed the intensified exploitation
which comes from wage cuts, the
speed-up system, the frightening of
hours, unemployment and a drive
of the bosses to smash trade union
Working women must
join in the labor struggle and fight
against the war danger side by side
with their sisters and brothers in
other countries, and especially with
women and men of Soviet
Russia"
Rose Wortis, militant leader in
the struggles of the needle trades of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
ENDING OF RENT
LAWS OCCASION
FOR RENT RAISES
Hundreds of Families
Face Eviction

A monster tenants mass meeting,
to be held Monday evening at 8
o'clock at the New York Public
Library auditorium at 103 w. 135th
ST., has been called by the Harlem
Tenants League.
In the announcement of the meet
ing, the Harlem Tenants League is
sued circular which called on the
tenants of Harlem to unite.
"The emergency" it said. "of
which we warned is here! Land
lords are taking advantage of the
expiration of the rent laws and are
raising rents from $50 to $500. Hun
dreds of families have been served
dispossesses! The tenement house
bill is being killed, too! Learn
what you can and must do to save
your homes and families!" The call
ends in an appeal to all Harlem
workers to attend the mass meeting.
Among the speakers at the meet
ing will be Arthur c. Holden. Mrs,
Florence Kicks. Juliet Stuart Poyntz
and Richard B. Moore. Admission
to the meeting will be free. All ex-
plotted workers and tenants of Har-
lem are urged to attend en- masse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
SCHLESINCER IN
FAKE DRESSPACT
Tries to Head Off the
Strike Sentiment
Continued from Page One

ON''N''EeSNNN
wholly open shop industry since the
union was broken, employs work
ers who are anxious to strike for
the unionization of their trade
Schlesinger wants to conclude 6.
months agreement in order to give
the impression that his company
union will then take radical mea-
sures to organize the trade. The
excuse he gives is that he wants
this fake agreement with a few ir-
responsible racketeers, who call
themselves an employers associa-
ton" to expire at the same time as
his fake agreements with the cloak
manufacturers.
Provini, that it is an open fake,
that Schlesinger's only purpose in
signing this fake pact is to stem
the strike sentiment, the columns of
the employers journal, the "Wom-
ems Wear" declares: Both sides
following the conference seemed
not to fear the possibility of much
trouble at the conclusion of the
contract"
The announcement of an agree
ment in the dress industry, how
ever, is also intended as an addi-
ton to the hypocritical trade pro-
gram and peace plan" which the
workers in the industry are still
ridiculing. In this program" he
proposed that all workers register
in his company on payment of nine
months dues. The most important
measure in his program for the
trade was a proposal that "union
certificates" be given scab contrac-
tors, who do work for jobbers. Thru
this beautiful possibility of graft
machine, Schlesinger proposed to
identify sweat shops that are al
ready union houses"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
MISUNDERSTANDING
Convention Delegates
at Membership Meet

The hypocrisy of the fake peace
plan offered by Benjamin Schles-
niger, president of the company
union in the cloak and dress indus
try, is exposed by Incidents occur
ring in every branch of the union.
The scab dual union operated by
him in the tucking and pleating
trade yesterday ordered a worker
fired from his job for refusal to
drop membership in the left wing
union, while the Schlesinger mani
festo calls for peace in the indus
try. This occurred in the shop of
J. Eisenzweig, 1926 W. 37th st.
The left wing fuckers, Pleaters'
and Hemstitchers' Union yesterday
announced that their election and
objection committee had passed on
the candidacy of the six members
nominated for delegates to the con-
vention.
These delegates were chosen at a
membership meeting Thursday night
in the headquarters of the Joint
Board, Is w. 21st st.
The six nominated, who are to
be voted on by the membership at
official elections some time in the
near future, are Morris Taft, man.
ager, A. Olinger, L. Stone, S. Ru-
bin, Molly Schechter and P. Philbin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
FOOD WORKERS TO
EXPOSE PRIVATE
JOB AGENCY GAME
For Workers Control
of Bureau

The Executive Council of the
Culinary Trades for the Abolition of
Private Employment Agencies has
called mass protest meeting to
be held at Bryant Hall, 9th Ave.
and 41st St., Tuesday afternoon,
Dec. IS, at 2:3o p. m. The COM
mittee will report to the meeting
on the proceedings of the State In
dustrial Commission on private
agencies.
Ten Amalgamated Food Workers
and A. F. of L. local unions, and a
number of fraternal organizations
in the culinary trades are working
jointly in this committee.
The Hotel and Restaurant Work
ers' Union of the A. F. W., in
announcing the mass meeting,
states, men and women in the food
industry, we must impress upon
you that you cannot expect any
changes or improvements from the
city officials. There is only one
way to improve our conditions and
get rid of the agencies, and that is
by joining and helping to build one
powerful union of all culinary
workers"
1t goes on to show how the graft
ing scab agencies charge for non
existent jobs, how the workers go
from one so-called job to another,
paying ten per cent of their wages
for jobs lasting only week or
two.
The first mass meeting in connec-
ton with this campaign was held
in October, and a resolution was
adopted unanimously for the aboli-
ton of private employment agen-
cies, and for a labor bureau under
the control of the unions. "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15

access to it's better ports further
south, but the Bolivians want the
whole Chaco region clear down to
Asuncion, Paraguay's capital. He
don't understand why. 1t is a
Bolivian Caprice"
A 100000 Acre Reason.
We show him the terms of the
contract between the Bolivian gov
eminent and Wall Street bankers.
We point out to him and Senior
Rameriz that the bankers have alb
solute power over the Bolivian gov
eminent. We draw attention to the
fact that, even if there be no oil
in the Chaco, there is lots of it just
over the line in Bolivia, where the
Standard Oil owns 100000 acres.
We also use the map. 1t is i'm
possible or impossibly expensive,
for Standard Oil to get petroleum
from southeast Bolivia over the
Andes Mountains to the Peruvian
coast. But if Bolivia held the
Chaco, pipelines can cut across it
anywhere, and especially down the
Pilcomayo river, by water grade to
good ports near Asuncion, and
thence to the Atlantic.
Senores Ayala and Rameriz agree
that Bolivian Caprice" seems to be
well oiled. We grant that Boil
VANS may, for the sake of argu-
ment, be capricious, but bankers are
not. And we again show that Dill
lon-Read, bankers of New York,
can veto any war of Bolivia, and
must have hand in the present
conflict.
Hughes Hand Appears.
Senior Ramirez recalls the actions
Of Charles Evan Hughes at the
Havana Conference. Hughes had
begun with categoric insistence
that the conference could not
change international law. 1t was
fixed. 1t was inviolable. 1t was
sacred and holy. 1t must not be
touched.
But, when Bolivia proposed a
change in international law, which
put Bolivia in position to make war
with advantage on Paraguay,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
Wonder If There Are Any Tickets Left?D

The youAg yorker IN the above
picture tCds found standing in his
neW lotnter coat outside the Wor';ers
Center, hesitating TO ascend the
stairs to the business office of the
Daily Worker for fear that he gould
be told that all tickets for the Daily
Worker-Freiheit ball tonigh4 haze
been sold Luckily, shortly after
the picture was taken, A. r witch,
business manager Of the Daily
Worker, come along, carried the al
ready scrii-unconscious Uorker up
stairs and revived him Nth the sight
of t,oo precious pasteboards. Hurry
up, fellolo-a0orkers, there are still
few lefti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15

Hughes found that, after all, inter-
national law could and should be
changed in this Exceptional case"
The proposal was that, in case of
war, neutral countries must be COM
PEELED to permit transit of NUM-
tions thru it's territory to 'land-
locked nations"
Mask War Move as Peace"
Since Bolivia is the only land
locked nation in the whole CONT
nent, and as Peru voted for this
proposal, Bolivia surely did not ex-
pect to attack Peru expecting to
get arms thru Paraguay, and it is
clear as day that Bolivia's proposal
was a war move lat a peace con-
ference) against Paraguay.
Upon that significant. proposal,
Hughes, attorney for Standard Oil
and U. S. delegate, led the fight for
Bolivia's war step, supported by
Peru and all the native satraps who
betray their peoples in Central
America and the Antilles. Against
the proposal were Paraguay, Ar
gentina and Chile.
Hughes, Standard Oil lawyer, the
most brass-faced imperialist hypo-
critic in the Western Hemisphere, is
responsible for the blood shed by
workers and peasants in the wilds
of South America, and will be re-
sponsible, with Yankee imperialism
as a whole, for any war arising out
of it.
British Imperialism is also inter-
ested in oil and in Latin America,
and a step is made toward a new
world imperialist war. Only the
unity of the exploited toilers of
North America. in a real fighting
front with the peoples of Latin
America oppressed by Yankee i'm
perialism, can defeat war and de-
stroy imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
larn Tenants Will Protest Aboiuabh Exploitation Workers by Landlord
~ Y. Working Women Meet
for Organization of Unions

New York urged the working women
Of the Federation to rally to the
support of their sisters in the dress
making industry. "They are in the
rnidst of life and death struggle
with the bosses, the right wing lead
ership and Tammany courts, and
they are on the eve of a strike.
Working women must help in estab-
fishing a strong, powerful organ
ization of women, which will lead
in the organization of women
workers." Wortis said.
"a victory for the dressmakers,"
she continued, will mean a victory
for all working women"
Others who participated in the
discussion were Vera Bush, Kate
Gitlow, Rebecca Grecht and Pauline
Rogers, all of whom have been very
active in the building of the Fed
Grafton.
Ray Ragozin, secretary OF the
Federation, closed by saying that
the conference was the first step to-
ward the organization of the unor-
eanized women. Future conferences
would be arranged. some of which
would be held in the sections, and
of separate industrial groups She
urged the delegates to take the mes
sage of the conference back to the
shops, and in this way help to
broaden our conferences and lay the
basis for real mass movement of
women workers that will be an eff
fective force Of the class struggle
of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
VIVA SANDING"
CREETS HOOVER
The Police Ride Down
Demonstrators
Continued from Pare One

continued from rage one
all the facilities for grain export
and splendid opportunities for bust
ness, previous to his conversations
with president Irigoyen and other
government officials which are
scheduled to take place tonight.
Not even all the bourgeois papers
were united in unadulterated praise
of the imperialist envoy. The
British-owned Evening Standard"
congratulating the government on
the precautions that have been
taken for Hoover's safety" launches
into an attack against the United
States under the veil of half
column of humor. 1t mentions no
names, but it's meaning is clear as
an attack upon Yankee Imperialism
by British imperialism.
The newspaper ia Prensa" said
today in an editorial that "Pan-
Americanism could never prosper as
long as those who should foment it's
spirit virtually undermine it's basis
Of mutual cooperation"
Adhesion to the interventionist
policy of the United States by the
heads of certain American states,
especially in the case of the state
which has been the object Of the
latest intervention, cannot justify
such abuse, still less pacify the dis>
contest aroused thereby" La Prenza
said.
At the same time "La Prensa"
does not lose the opportunity to take
the side of the Argentine exporters
against the United States business
men, criticising the United States
tariff policy as directed against Ar
gentine products.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
Worker. Name Hidden
Killed by Live Wire

While splicing a live wire at a
building at Bronx Boulevard, be-
tween 239th and 239th Sts., a
worker whose name the New York
Edison Company, his employers, re-
fused to divulge, died following a
shock from 42,000-volt current of
electricity.
The industrial victim, who leaves
wife and six children to be pro-
vided for, was taken to the hospital
by ambulances from the Mt. Vernon
and Bellevue Hospitals, but doctors
reported that his death was instan-
taneous.