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The Washington times., 1928-12-19
GARPR0DUCTI0 ION
DROPS LIT Tie

DETROIT. Mich. Dec. 19.-Pas-
senger car production during the
current week has shown a slight
decrease. although it is, at the
present time, at practically record
levels for this time of the year,
according to b. H. Cram. president
OF Grams Automotiye Reports, Inc.
industry authority.
Unless operations are suspended
FOR a longer period Of time at the
holidays than is now anticipated,
output for December will be ma
feriaIly ffghez. than for November,
The current weeks production is
per cent below the output tor last
week and about 66 per cent above
that OF the CORE p0ndlns week
last year.
Manufacturers OF ali classes OF
cars are exceedingly optimistic over
the outlook for the early part OF
1929, and are making every effort
TO get under way In as heavy a
volume as possible in order to meet
the demands of the market.
In some cases, manufacturers
that were originally scheduled to
get under way on new models
toward the end of the month will
begin operations week to ten
days earlier than was originally
planned.
Sales are holding up well for this
period of the year. and it Is ex-
pected that final figures for the
month will show volume Of busi-
ness never before equaled.
The response of the retail market
to both new and current models
furnishes the basis for the con-
fidence which Is being expressed
regarding next year.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Young Morgan Named
To u. S. Steel Post

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 d.N. -
Junius $. Morgan, jr., Of ]. r.
Morgan and Company, and Walter
Clifford. president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
were elected directors of the United
States Steel Corporation yesterday.
Thomas W. Lamont, of the Nor.
gan banking house. was elected a
member of the finance committee Of
the steel corporation.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Assistant Purser Lost
On Trip From Argentina

NEW YORK, Dec. ~ u.Ns.l.--
When the Munson Liner American
Legion doclxed at It's Hoboken pier
here after 4 trip from Buenos
Aires, George Adt, of Loudenville.
N. Il. assistant purser on the ship,
was among the missing.
He is thought either to have
jumped into the sea or to have been
washed overheard when the ship
was three days out OF the Argen.
tine capital.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Intruder Frightened
By Rnse of Woman

FRANKLIN, Pa. Dec. ia. The
cry of dad, yet your gun, thcuxh
her father was not AZ home, routed
burglar from the second fio0r ~
the Al. r. sutter residences here. The
young woman, who screamed when
she saw 4 man II her room was
Miss Margaret sutter.
The man, who had entered by =
second.fIoor window, went out the
same way. dropped to the GROUND
and fled.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Nursemaid Saves Baby
When Home Catches Fire

DENVER, Colo, Dec. ~ d.N.S.l.
Jennie Romero, 21, nursemaid, was
made a heroine here last night Wheh
she rescued Ruth Gothesman, =
from a burning bedroom, where the
baby lay asleep.
Miss Romero smashed glass in 3
window from an outside porch when
she discovered the door was blocked
by flames. The baby's brother, Azel,
S, escaped uninjured. Their parents
were away.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Woman Hit by Train
Is Awarded $87, 900

NEW YORK, Dec. ID U.N.S.l.--
A verdict OF $4,000 damages. one
of the largest OF its kind, has been
awarded Miss Lulu Mae Shields in
her suit against the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for injuries received
in a crossing accident, it was an
nounced here in Federal Court.
Miss Shields sued for 800 900.
The woman testified that while
she was riding in an automobile on
the Lincoln Highway, near Linden.
n. j., the machine was struck by
an engine at an unprotected cross.
ing. causing injuries that crippled
her permanently.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Eastern Dramatists
FlOcking to Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 u.N.S1.-
Hollywood is The magnet drawing
dramatists from the East. The
latest arrivals are Willard Mack,
Eugene Walker and Dorothy Par
kerr
S. s. Dine, master of murder
mysteries, also is among those
present.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
BANDITS GET $4,000

PENNS GROVE. N. j., Dec. ~
u.N.S. S.).-Seveil masked and armed
men robbed 81 persons of about
$4,000 last night in an alleged gam
bling house near here.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Bill to End Death Penalty
Will Be Urged in Georgia

ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 10 Q.N.S0
The next Georgia legislature will be
asked to abolish capital punishment.
Representative Dowden Cd, OF
Ware. announced today he would
sponsor an anti-capital punishment
bill.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Truck Traffic Gain
C0n1peLs WderR0ads
BY e. E. DUFFY

Trucks with their slow speed and 30passenger busses with
their great width multiplying rapidly that in many
instances two-lane road widths being abandoned.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19

An opportunity to own home Of
,onr avn presents itself to you In
i"sIay's Classified Real Estate for Sale
columns.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Greater Beauty Larger Bodies
in complete line Of FOurs and Skies

Sweeping beyond all accepted ideas
ofight car beauty and performance,
the new Superior Whippet sets ad-
vanced high standards of its own
The Superior Whippet is distin-
guished by grace of line, richness of
color and artistry of finish such as
have never before been associated
with inexpensive cars
With longer bodies, higher radiator
and hood, sweeping full crown, one
piece tenders, new artistry of finish
and perfection of detail, the Superior
Whippet definitely establishes an
uItra-modern style trend for Fours
and light Skies.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Faster-IiVelieF-
more powerful

Mechanically as we'll as artistically
the new Superior Whippet is SO far
ahead that it s1rpasses even its own
predecessor. A higher compression
engine gives more than 2OR added
horsepower, with far greater speed.
Higher second gear speed gives faster
pickup. Low consumption of gas
and oil, and dependable perform
ance, result I'm marked operating
economy and minimum service costs.
Order now for early delivery.
The Washington times., 1928-12-19
Bigger bodies
more comfort

Maximum riding and driving COM
fort in the new Superior Whippet is
assured by more spacious interiors,
with 5 inches added leg room; wider
seats, heavily upholstered, with inn
proved contours conforming with
natural body curves, longer springs
both front and rear, full balloon
tires and snubbera.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
ware, MELLON IN
ELECTION FRAUD
Two Machines in Vote
Stealing Role

WASHINGTON, May %. - The
Ware machine in Philadelphia and the
Mellon machine in Pittsburgh were
guilty of cheating and vote stealing"
at every election in Pennsylvania
since 1922, former Governor Clifford
Pinchot testified today at hearing
by the senate elections committee on
the contest of William B. Wilson, (D)
to unseat Senator-elect William S.
Ware (R) of Pennsylvania.
Pinchot said his charges of fraud
were based on what he was told by
election officials, what he read in
newspapers and my general knowl-
edge of election conditions in Penn
sylvania," His testimony frequently
provoked arguments between Roland
B. Mahaney, counsel for Wilson, and
Francis Skunk Brown, Ware attorney.
Scores of objections, raised by Brown,
were sustained by the committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
4 Communists
Face Death to
Flee He'll Hole

The distance tf 800 miles of the
stormy stretch of the Pacific Ocean
between the Masafuera Islands and
the Chilean mainland was braved in
an open rowboat by four Communists
who preferrd to risk death than to re-
main in that hell to which the Span
ish dictator, Ibanez, has sent about
300 Communists and other militant
workers.
The four used for their escape a
boat which capsized and was shat
tered on the rocks of the islands when
a party of gendarmes rowing toward
the island from a transport ship were
drowned. The four Communists re-
paired the boat and ventured out into
the open sea without sufficient pro-
visions and with no knowledge of
navigation. Nothing has been heard
of them since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
SIGMAN, BANKRUPT, OFFERS BARGAINS
Attempt to Resume Business Is Met BY Workers. Offensive

eyes and has completely dispelled
their false hopes. These workers are
now looking in another direction for
the solution of the problems facing
the union.
To Drive Out Takers.
While the pogrom chiefs were con
spring under closed doris to 1efraud
and further enslave the workers, the
unseated delegates representing the
locals and Joint Boards of New York
Chicago, Los Angeles and other cen
tiers, as well as the delegations sent
by the various groups in the union
which have been striving to bring
about unity for the purpose of rebuild
ing our shattered organization, sat in
conference earnestly celebrating on
the problems confronting the workers
in our industry today. One after an
other these workers from shops arose
on the floor of the conference to re-
late their tale of woe and oppression
both from the employers and their
agents, the union bureaucratic.
These delegates sounded forth the
call for unity Of action to rebuild the
organization. to which they had de-
voted the best years Of their lives
There was unanimity of opinion on all
the measures adopted toward raising
the union from its present chaotic
condition. The delegates present were
aetuated by one central thought, one
aim--to unite the workers and begin
the work of reconstruction. Toward
this one goal all hearts beat in unison.
Honest Elements United
The conference considered the eco
homie conditions in the industry as
we'll as the question Of internal admin
istration. 1t was decided that as a
first prerequisite for the rebuilding of
our union it was necessary ior al!
constructive clements to unite into
one mighty front. 1t was necessary
to bring about fundamental changes
that would widen the foundation of
the organization and draw into active
participation the largest number of
workers from our industry.
Accordingly, the conference decided
to initiate a national movement for
the organization Of the shop chair
man councils as permanent institu
tions to serve as the direct contact
between The central body and the
workers in the shops. 1t was decided
to organize rank and file organiza-
ton committees whose duty will be
to take up the task of organizing the
thousands of workers who have been
forced into the open shops as q re-
suit of the pogrom. The conference
clearly analysed the causes of the
present breakdown of conditions and
decided that only thru unified ma
tional organic atior campaign can the
workers hope to re-establish the gains
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
CHARGE FASCISTS
QUASHED FACTS
Arms Shipment Finding
Suppressed

PARIS, May %. - Reports that
Italian initiative caused the pigeon
holing of the findings of committee
sent to investigate the shipment of
arms from Italy to the Hungarian
government, are being widely circulat-
ed on the Continent. While no Off
cial statement can be adduced it is
understood that responsibility for the
suppression did not originate in Buda-
pest.
The report is of the investigating
committee to go before the League
council in June. The suppressed re-
port was to have come up for consid-
GRAFTON in March.
Considerable stir was created in
Central Europe several months ago
when a shipment of arms, labeled
agricultural instruments, was discov-
cred on the Austro- Hungarian from
tier, 400 miles off the route of ship
ment. The arms had been sent from
Verona, Italy, and were alleged to
have been captured from the Austri-
ans during the war They were des-
tined for the Horthy regime in Hun
gary, it is charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29

secured in past struggles and to
forge ahead to new victories.
The conference of delegates rep
.resenting the rank and file Of our
union elected National Organization
Committee under whose guidance and
leadership the workers of our industry
viii take up the struggle not only
against the bureaucrats, but against
the bosses who are today the main
support Of the ciiques. With the spirit
of courage and determination CHAR
acteristics of the fighting workers of
cur trade, the conference decided to
make immediate preparations to put
these plans for the reconstruction of
our union into effect. The conference
decided that the 40-hour week, the in
crease in wages, the unemployment
insurance fund and other gains of the
workers must be restored to them and
that only the workers themselves
thru their own organized power can
enforce these gains The conference
expressed solidarity with the heroic
striking miners, textile workers and
al other workers who are struggling
to organize and save their unions from
the onslaughts of the bosses and the
reactionary cliques It issued call
to all workers to unite and organize
themselves not only on the economic
field hut on the political field as we'll.
The conference took cognizance of the
fact that if the needle trade workers
are to fight effectively for the inn
provemcnt Of their conditions this
cannot be done unless all the branch
es are united into one powerful,
amalgamated union of needle trade
workers.
To Fight On.
The word and sentiments uttered by
the delegates at this conference found
an echo in the hearts of the thou
sands of workers Of our industry who
are today shaving in the sweat-shops
throughout the entire country. 1t was
a challenge to all the forces of dark
ness, that regardless of the obstacles
in the way, regardless of the suffer-
ing, the misery and prosecutions, the
workers of our industry, who in the
past had distinguished themselves by
their militancy both against the en-
ployers AMI their agents, are deter
mined to take their destiny in their
own hands. With the same spirit with
which they fought and won the strike
of 1910, that signalled the birth of
our organization, they will 60 forth
to the great task Of rebuilding our
Union so that it may once more stand
in the forefront of the American trade
union movement and thru it's mil
itancy pave the way for a strong and
powerful labor movement that will
fight for the emancipation of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
PROTEST THRUOUT
SOVIET union TO
RESCUE bella KUN
Mass Meetings to Fight
Against Extradition

MOSCOW, (By MaiD.--In all the
factories Of Leningrad diimertlme
meetings were held to protest against
the danger of extradition hanging
over Bella Kun. The resolutions which
were adopted demanded energetically
the release of comrade Bella Kun.
In Kiev and other places in the
Donetz Basin mass meetings of the
workers have taken place against the
arrest and the possible extradition
of Bella Kun. A great meeting OF the
Hungarian workers living in Moscow
was held and protested against the
arrest of Bella Kun. The meeting APP
pealed to the world proletariat to use
all its forces to secure the release OF
the leader Of the Hungarian revolu-
ton.
The meeting sent telegram OF
protest TO the Austrian governments
The Executive Bureau of the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions has adj
dressed an appeal to the workers Of
all countries calling upon them to
organize a protest action of solidarity
against the danger of extradition
hanging over comrade Bella Kun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
Continued from Last Issue.)


The dramatic gesture in issuing the
manifesto to take in the expelled pro-
viding they pay up their dues on
which they had laid so much hope,
has passed without even as much as
ripple. The cliques stand fully ex-
posed before the workers, who know
that this manifesto which takes fer
granted that Sigman and the "For-
ward" are the bosses and sole rulers
over the cloakmakers who must bow
in submission to their orders, is but a
new fake maneuver to press money
from the workers to continue the pog-
rom anG perpetuate the cliques in
power.
The warning of President Green,
under whose leadership the Miners
Union has been forced into life and
death struggle and the entire trade
union movement reduced to mere
she'll, to the effect that if the workers
exercise their right to rule over their
own destiny and choose leaders in
whom they can place their confidence,
their charter would be revoked, DEM
onstrates that the reactionary bureau
cYacy feels that it has lost it's hold
over the workers and can only main
tain itself in power by force and vio-
]ence.
The final deal for the division of
spoils. patched up by Hiilquit, which
makes room for Schlesinger and one
other vice president, may for time
appease the Schlesinger opposition
and give Dubinsky, the champion of
democracy, who has concluded this
deal even behind the backs of his own
delegates, the courage to face the
members of his local, the sum total
Of his accomplishments being the 8.
day tax on the membership and the
addition of two more vice. presidents.
We can expect that in the very near
future screaming headlines will appear
in the Forward" describing the
enthusiasm with which the members
of Local 10 accepted the report of
Dubinsky. However, this deal will
undoubtedly be short lived as is al
ready indicated by the prediction of
Leary of the World" who is good
authority on matters of internal dis.
pute within the ranks of the cliques.
It is no idly prophesy to state that
they will be at each others throat
again
At the first contact with the work
ers, on their return from the fake con :.
vention the cliques will find that the
day Of their domination has gone by;
that if there were any workers who
up till now had harbored any illusions
as to the possibility of building 4
union With Sigman and Schlesinger,
the fake convention has opened their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29

american" British mining syn
dictate. has been carrying on extensive
explorations in the interior of Pana-
ma, in preparation for military oper-
ations against the Canal.
According to this newspaper, the
British company, Panama Corpora
lions, Ltd, holds concessions of $500
square miles in Panama, has spent
millions of dollars in the past four
years on extensive surveys and ex-
plorations, without producing any
ore or other tangible results. The
Panama Corporations, Ltd, is under
the control of Duncan Elliott Alves,
former member of the British par
lament.
The American newspaper says:
This British territory constitutes
more than one seventh of the total
area of the Republic of Panama. The
Alves British Panama Corporation
controls eight times as much of Pana-
mas territory as the United States
occupies in the Canal Zone. ~. II
the purpose of these alleged mining
operations was to acquire a military
knowledge of the Isthmus of Panama
and the canal defenses, the damage
has already been done"
The same paper accuses the British
lof having influenced the Panamar
Parliament to reject the recently pro-
posed treaty, enlarging American con-
troll of Panama, and with having Sc
cured the passage Of laws hostile to
American interests. 1t asserts that
the British company proposes to con-
struct a road for motor-truck trans
portation across the Isthmus in com
petition with the Canal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
fASCISTS CAUSE
DISORDERS IN
DALMATIh TOWNS
Treaty's Unpopularity
Is Widespread

PARIS, May 28.--Outbreaks against
the Italian populations of a number
of Dalmatian villages and cities have
broken out with unusual violence, re-
ports from Trieste state. The Italian
consulate in Spalato is reported to
have been stormed and the Italian
flag torn down from the steamship
offices at Pola. Crowds of Italians
are said to have provoked the Slovene
population in several smaller towns.
Spalato is Dalmatian port with a
considerable Italian settlement. Pola,
at the tip of the Trieste peninsula, is
a former Austrian naval base.
The outbreaks are said to have
taken place as result of the wide
spread unpopularity of the Nettuno
Treaty by which the Jugo-Slavian
government guarantees special priv
ileges to Italians living in Dalmatian
villages. The government is expected
to ratify the treaty within the next
few weeks.
Ratification is expected to be the
issue in the Jugo-Slav parliament soon
when the opposition will maintain
that the treaty places the Italian
business men in a privileged position
thruout Dalmatia. The government
asserts that the floating of a loan is
impossible while the tension with
Italy continues.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
Austrian Trade Union
Membership on Increase

VIENNA, May % (FP).-Trade
union membership is again on the in
crease in Austria, after years of post
war depression, during which the total
membership reported to the national
trade union center has alarmingly
fallen off. In 1920 the full-paying
membership was reported at 777,000;
in 1921 it was only $4,000; in 1922
it rose to $4,000, and in 1926 it had
fallen again to $4,000. Last year it
was 100000, and now it is probably
near $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
|. ARCER PROFITS,
MORE WORK, BUT
SMALLER WAGES
New Figures Show How
Speed-Up Operates
By LELAND OLDS.

WASHINGTON, May 28.-More
production with fewer workers and
reduced payrolls is the record of
manufacture during the first quarter
of 1928, according to federal reserve
board figures. The board shows that
the displacement of labor which. has
been strikingly characteristic of the
years since the war is still in pro-
gress. Automatic machinery and
speedups have not yet taken their
full toll of American productive
workers.
Factory production for the first
quarter Of the year exceeded the same
period of 1927 by IL per cent, but
working forces were reduced on the
average Al per cent. This means
that the average factory worker pro-
duced 6 per cent more in the first 3
months of 1923 than in the same
months of 1927. AS wages remained
practically stationary the factory
owners get about 6 per cent more
production for each 81 of wages.
treating production and employ
ment in the first quarter of 1927 as
100 per cent, the figures for 1928 in
the industries for which they are
available are:
In iron and steel, food products,
lumber products and the cement brick
and glass industries production per
worker this year increased 10 per
cent or more over the LIST quarter of
1927. Leather production per worker
was up 6.3 per cent, tobacco As per
cent and paper and printing "A per
cent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
Cop Runs Amuck, Kills
Taxi Driver, Wounds 2

An excited Tammany Hall patrol
man, visualizing a citation from
above and his photograph in the
Graphic, shot and killed an innocent
taxioab driver, shot and wounded a
second and with his club struck and
seriously injured third here early
yesterday after a holdup in the Act
ors' Inn, 81 East 7th ST. The drivers
We're bystanders. The bandits had
fled when the officer arrived. The
officer is Patrolman Victor Hertz.
The dead driver was Louis Nishkin,
1140 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
Isidor Temes, 1908 Church ST., Brook
Ign, the second driver, is in Bellevue
Hospital, probably fatally wounded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
Senate to Continue Its
Session Indefinitely

WASHINGTON, May %. - The
senate today defeated motion to adj
journ Congress tomorrow at five pm.
The vote was 40 to 40 and vice presi-
dent Dawes broke the tie by voting
against the resolution.
The action was finger in the pie
for supporters of Boulder Dam Legis-
lation who, under the leadership of
Senator Johnson of California, have
demanded that the senate remain in
session until vote is granted on the
Swing Johnson bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-29
CLEVELAND PLANS
HAYWOOD MEET
Communists to Speak
On Public Square

CLEVELAND, May 2S.-Memorial
Day in Cleveland will be used by the
workers to commemorate the memory
of William D. Haywood. A mass
meeting has been arranged for this
purpose, to be held on the Public
Square here beginning at 2:30 p. m.
Outstanding leaders of the Work
ers (Communist) Party of this city
will address the meeting. Among
these will be l. Amter, district organ
izer of the Party, Sadie Van Veen,
Elmer Boich, John Foley, and leaders
of the Young Workers (Communist)
League.