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Evening star., 1928-12-16
CUT ON HAND KILLS
MONTGOMERY FARMER
Clifton Nicholson, Brother of
Chevy Chase Club Leader, Sue
cumbs in Washington Hospital.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Nd, December 15.-
Blood poisoning which developed from
a slight cut on the hand sustained
while he was butchering hogs at his
home at Potomac two weeks ago. re-
suited in the death, in a Washington
hospital, last evening OF Clifton Nichol-
son, one of the county's best known
farmers, aged SIS years. He is survived
by his widow, formerly Miss Margaret
Lucas of this county, and eight chill
dren, Mrs Rebecca Cave and Mrs.
Maude Brown of Washington. Mrs
Margaret Mcbride of Philadelphia and
Misses Ella, Jessie and Jennie Nicholson
and John and Lloyd Nicholson of Po-
tomac He was the brother Of Jesse
w. Nicholson of Chevy Chase. Fahrney
Nicholson of Washington and Dorsey
W. and John R. Nicholson of this
vicinity. The funeral will take place
tomorrow at pm. from the Methodist
Church at Potomac.
Mr.. Nicholson was a son OF the late
John T. Nicholson of ClarkSburg and
q lifelong resident Of the county.
Louis Gray of Potomac, who cut his
hand slightly while assisting Mr.
Nicholson with the hog cutting. has
been critically i'll at the hospital where
Mr.. Nicholson died. as result of blood
poison which developed from the cut,
but his recovery is now looked for.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
VALUATION PARLEYS.
BELIEVED FAILURE
Compromise Necessary to
Reopen Hearings Appears
to Be Distant.

Negotiations between lawyers repre-
senting the Washington Gas Light Co
md the Public Utilities Commission
looking toward resumption OF the COM
pany's valuation hearings before the
commission, appear to have failed, ]:
was learned authoritatively yesterday.
The hearings on the company's case.
which began October 6, came to an un-
expected halt December 5 when the
commission upheld motion by Peoples
Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty to suspend
the case until the company'S appeal
against the commissions previous val
uatlon order is settled. The appeal has
been pending in District Supreme Court
since 1917.
When the commission made its an
nouncement, 1t was determined that m
formal conferences should be held
among representatives of the company
and the commission to determine Wnat
concessions the commission would grant
in the conduct of the present valuation
case in return for the company's enter
ing dismissal in its court case.
Two Conferences Held.
Two such conferences have been
held. the matters discussed in each
having been guarded with the closest
secrecy by both sides At meeting OF
the commission Thursday, Swager
Sherley. one of counsel for the company.
announced that no terms had been
reached
information obtained from reliable
source yesterday was to the erect tnat
no compromise Is in sight. ms Is eH-
pected to be confirmed at the meetlng
of the commission at 10 am. tomorrow
Should no agreement be reacneo, tne
scene of operations will be shifted from
the District Building. where the valua-
tion hearings have been proceeding .1or
the past nine weeks, to District Su-
preme Court, where the ll-year -old ap-
neal will be fought out. Whatever the
result of the court fight 1t will have
material bearing on the subsequent
valuation proceedings before the COM
mission.
Incorrect Theories Claimed.
The appeal was based largely, on the
ground that the commission had used
Incorrect theories in arriving at valu-
alton of the company'S property 1or
rate-making purposes. While the pres
ent valuation is being made on the So
called reproduction theory" contended
for by the company in its appeal, there
are several other legal bones of con-
tention to be fought out
One of the most interesting OF these
relates to the attitude of the commits
sion in declining to include sum for
the value of Analostan Island, in the
Potomac, bought by the company years
ago with the expectation that the de-
velopment of the Rock Creek Potomac
parkway would compel them to remove
some of their structures from the
present West Station The commission
held out this value on the ground that
the island was not used and useful
in the public service.
Evening star., 1928-12-16
PENALTIES NET 81, ,426.
November Report of Prince Georges
Clerk Made Public.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. ;.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, December
ia total of $2,426.05 was collected
In fines and costs in the Prince Georges
County Police Court In November ac-
cording TO a report of Thomas r.
Hensult, clerk of the court, OF this
amount, $l,140.55 was turned over to
the county commissioners. A total of
$l225 was turned over to the State on
account of fines imposed for violations
of the State motor vehicle laws. The
county gets only the costs in these
cases The county received an addi-
tional $l00, representing costs IN civil!
cases
During the month 81 cases were
cocketed in the Upper Marlboro branch
of the court, 80 at Hyattsville, Is at
Laurel and at Capitol Heights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
CLOAK COUNCIL
MEET TOMORROW
N. o. C. Committee
Issues Farley Call

The official call of the New York
Local Committee of the National
Organization Committee of the
Cloaknakers International Union for
the first monthly conference of shop
delegates was issued to the workers
in the industry yesterday. 1t stresses
the need for the cloak and dress
mske to be represented 100 per
cent at the conference. 1t declares:
Tomorrow at o'clock, represen-
tatives of the cloak and dress shops
of New York will assemble in Web
ster Hall for the first monthly con-
ference of the Council Of Shop Dele
gates to discuss the activities of the
past month and lay down plans for
future work.
"The cloak and dress season is ap-
proachingl The bosses of our in
dustry are eager to continue the
chaos, the sweat shop system, the
long hours and the starvation wages
so that they may make millions of
dollars profit from our labor! The
leaders of the Company Union"
(the agents of the bosses) will once
more raise turmoil about organiz-
ing the trade and establishing union
conditions. But just as during the
past four seasons, this is only fake
slogan through which the clique will
seek to maintain it's domination over
the workers, thus increasing the
chaos and Generalization in the in
terests of their allies, the bosses, at
whose mercy their Company Union"
exists!
"The last Shop Chairmen's Con-
ference, held on June the End, has
laid the basis for making an end
to the present situation by uniting
all the constructive elements for the
purpose of building the Union. A
mass organization committee was
formed and plans for an organiza-
ton campaign worked out. The
united front of all constructive ele-
ments is living fact today. Hun
dreds of passive cloak and dress
makers joined the ranks of the Ma
tional Organization Committee dur
ing the past few weeks. Now is the
time to take up the great task of
building the Union with all our
strength.
"No shop chairman or shop COM
mittee can afford to stay away from
great moment. No one must be
main passive or Indifferent at this
grerat moment. No one must be
under the illusion that the work will
be done without him. Let us get
together to build the Union. Let us
through our united strength make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
MOSCOW PLANS
BIG CELEBRATION
Anniversary of USSR
Constitution

Especial Cable to the Daily Worker.)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July TO-
A delegation comprising six hundred
Kharkov workers arrived here yes
terday to participate in the celebra-
tions on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of the proclamation of
the U. S. S. R. constitution.
They were cordially met by work
ers of Moscow, when they arrived at
the railway station. The celebra-
ton, according to reports received
here so far, and according to the
spirit and overwhelming enthusiasm
that the Moscow workers are show
ing at present, seem to be a certain
indication that the jubilee will be
one of the most impressive and joy
GUS demonstrations held here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
STRIKERS FINED
IN SCAb FRACAS
Say Milliners Broke
Umbrella Over Head

Despite testimony favorable to the
defendants brought out by their at
torney's examination of a policeman,
Magistrate Jean Norris, in Jefferson
Market Court yesterday fined Betty
Newman and Francis Schwartz,
striking miliners, five dollars each
for allegedly breaking an umbrella
over the head Of strikebreaker.
The two workers have been strik-
ing for many weeks against the at
tempt of several employers who have
united with International President
Max Zaritsky in a campaign to de-
stroy their union, the Millinery Band
Workers Union Local 43 of the Cloth
Hat Cap and Millinery Workers In
ternational.
The policeman testified that the
disputed umbrella had been not in
the hands Of either of the defen-
dants, when the arrest was made,
but in the hands of the husband of
the strike breaker. The workers were
arrested last week at Both St. and
Broadway.
The right wing clique in the Cloth
Hat Cap and Millinery Workers
Union have again demonstrated that
they will stoop to any terrorist meth
ods in order to quiet the protest of
the membership who see their union
being wrecked by the zaritsky gang.
In the offices of Local "a worker
was brutally assaulted yesterday by
a hired thug acting as a guardian"
of the officials.
J. Rosen, one of the many unem-
ployed workers who congregate at
the union headquarters was assault
ted with blunt weapon welded by
Sam Blechman, a paid escort of
scabs sent to work in shops in the
officials fight against Local 43.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
ASSAILS BROTHER
IN CAFE STRIKE.
Sazar, Left Winger,
Will Picket

The workers on strike for the rec
ognition of their union against the
owners of the True Food Vegetarian
Restaurant, 44th St. and Broadway,
received new encouragement yester-
day when the brother of the restau-
rant owner issued a statement de-
nouncing him for his anti-labor
stand and agreeing to go on the
picket. line for the workers on
strike.
Henry SAFER, himself the leader
Of the left wing in the Cloth, Hat,
Cap and Millinery Workers Union,
yesterday condemned his brother,
Benjamin SAFER, who, he said, had
made all his money out Of the pa
tronage of union men, and declared,
"I always stand ready to help my
union brothers, even if it means to
assist in fight against my own
brother"
SAFER further explained that his
brother and his partner, Tofilofsky,
had always posed as a semi-radical
in order to retain the good will of
his customers. His brother, he said.
is still member of the Jewish Ma
tional Workingmen's Alliance, a
socialist-controlled organization. He
also stated his intention to picket
the restaurant in order to assist the
strikers.
Particularly emphatic was Sazer's
condemnation of his brother, who
on the one hand can pose as "sym-
pathetic to labor and on the other
hand can order the arrest of pick
cts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
NOTED ARTISTTOAPPEAR
Volbe and IheyeMin Prepare PROGRAM

"One of the foremost of American
conductors" has been the practically
universal comment of critics con-
cerning Arnold Volpe, who will con-
duct an orchestra of 30 picked mu-
sicians at the great concert to be
given at Coney Island Stadium Sat-
urday for the benefit of The DAILY
WORKER.
Volpe was the founder and first
conductor of the Lewisohn Stadium
symphony concerts and last summer
acted as guest conductor at these
concerts. He has also been the
founder and conductor of number
Of other well-known orchestras in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
AUTO CARAVANS
TO Mine FIELDS
Prepare For Defence
Week July 22-29

Especial To DAILY WORKER0
PITTSBURGH, July 10 IN
preparation for the Miners Defense
Week July 1929, a caravan of auto
mobiles carrying relief workers and
sympathizers direct to the industrial
battle front in western Pennsyl-
vania will leave every city and town
east of Chicago where there are re-
lief committees or international La
Dor Defense branches, this Friday
The New York City National Min
ers' Relief Committees are arrang-
ing the caravan; participants will
take care Of their own expenses.
Those who go will see the mount
ed state troopers and coal and iron
police patrol the roads. They will
see the scab patch, where imported
strikehreakers live, hemmed in by
high walls.
See Scenes of Attack.
Renton, scene Of the Infamous at
tack of the state troopers upon men,
women and children pickets who
gathered along the road to keep the
first shipment of scabs from enter
ing the coal pits, will be one of the
first camps visited. Thirty mounted
Continued on Page T1Oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
BISCUIT SLAVE
URGES UNION
Hot Weather Adds to
Misery in Plants

(By a Worker Correspondent
The other day l read in The
DAILY WORKER about the miser-
able conditions in the National Bis
cult Company.
Being an employee of that plant
myself, not only approve of the
statement, but also want to add
that it is even worse. The speed-up
system of the place is almost in
tolerable. New machinery is being
brought in practically every day.
which means that less workers are
employed and the employed are
therefore driven to do more work.
And if anyone complains, the bosses
have quick and ready reply: "If
you don't like it you can look for
another job"
During the summer the heat in
the National Biscuit plants are un-
bearable. There are no electric fans,
and sometimes the workers are COM
PEELED to close the windows which
are slightly opened because of in
reference with the work. The fore
men in their palm beach suits have
made an art of slave-driving.
l want to say to the fellow-work-
ers in the National Biscuit plants
1t is about time that we realized
what is happening about US. 1t is
about time we organized a union
to fight for us and protect US. We
cannot expect anything from the
company. The company is organ
lied against us.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
OFFICIALS BLOCK
NECKWEAR union

The United Neckwear Makers
Union, 11,016, will limit itself to
legal" means, it was learned yes
terday, to fight the strangling in
junction issued against it by Su-
rreme Court Justice Arthur. Tomp-
kins of Nyack, who held that pick
citing activities of the union had
"unlawfully obstructed the side
walks" before the shops of the
bosses.
The decision to carry on a purely
illegal" fight against the injunction
which is one of the most drastic on
record, is understood to have fol-
lowed the policy adopted by the
leaders of the union on the advice
of their attorney, Louis Waldman,
former socialist assemblyman of
New York. On his advice the neck
wear workers officials adopted a
policy of making test case" of
the issue, it is reported. No mass
picketing or violation of the injunc-
tion first issued last November was
permitted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11

CHICAGO, July 10. - Mildly
denouncing both the republican and
democratic parties, delegates to the
"Farmer-Labor" convention assem-
bled here today to choose presi-
Dental candidate.
While Herbert Hoover, republi-
can presidential nominee was men,
toned in the keynote speech of
Laura Hughes Lunde, of Chicago,
no direct reference was made of
Gov. AL Smith. Hoover was re-
ferred to as "a member of that
cabinet which knew what was go
ing on" a timorous hint of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
EXECUTE FIVE
DON PLOTTERS
Commute Sentences of
Six Others

MOSCOW, July 1y,s1O.-Five of the
eleven conspirators who were SEN
fenced to death for organizing the
Donetz coal conspiracy were ex-
ecuted today. Examinations of
sentences had beea recommended
and granted in the Gases of the six
either conspiratsrs. Those executed
were Budnev. Eriffs sFskv Gor-
lietzky, Yusewitch and Boyarinof.
The trial of the conspirators,
which lasted a mcnth, revealed the
existence of an imperialist plot to
wreck the economy of the Soviet
Union. Foreign official, as well as
private capitalist enterprises, were
involved in the plot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
LE Wis MACHINE
MOVES TO BREAK
Miners STRIKE.
Orders $500 Coal Dig
gers Back
Especial to The DAILY woRKER)

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
MAUCH CHUNK, July 10.-
Further striEe-breaking activities
on the part of the John L. Lewis
machine were disclosed here when
Andrew Matty, district president of
the United Mine Workers, ordered
$500 striking coal miners back to
work.
The miners went out last week
on a sympathy strike when the Le-
high Valley Coal and Navigation
Company, by whom they are en-
ployed, locked out a number of its
workers in other pits in direct vio-
lation of the existing agreement.
Considerable resentment has been
aroused among the miners of the
anthracite over the establishment
of the contractor system and the
failure of the Lewis machine Off
cials in all districts to fight against
this and other evils.
The attempt by Matty to break
the strike of the Lehigh Valley coal
workers will, it is expected, meet
with the firm resistance of the
rank and file. The progressives,
under the leadership of the Save
the Union movement, have endorsed
the strike and are fighting for the
elimination of the existing evils in
the anthracite and against the
Lewis machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
SOVIET VESSEL
NEARS ITALIA"
"Krassin" Only 2 Miles
Away

VIRGO BAY, Spitzbergen, July
10.-A radio message from the Rus
sian icebreaker Krassin said today
that the ship was only two miles
from the dirigible Italia ice camp
off North East Land.
The same message said that one
Of the Italia survivors, apparently
mentally deranged, had wandered
away from the camp.
Within sight of land on melting
icefloe four members of the crew Of
the dirigible Italia, headed by Lieu
tenant Alfredo Viglieri, today were
reported in dispatches from the
north as losing hope of rescue.
Latest dispatches from the Arctic
area told how the men were under
nourished, unkempt and suffering
acutely from cold and exhaustion.
Their plight is pitiful, dispatches
said, because the ice is melting so
swiftly that it is next to impossible
for plane to land. Captain Thorn
berg of the Swedish expedition
messaged that relief must be car
ried to the men within few days,
otherwise they must be abandoned
to their deaths.
All hope has been exhausted for
saving six other men-three mem
bers of the Italia group and the
Captain Sora relief expedition of
three. They can not be found and
probably died on North, East Land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
Drive for Red Election Fund Under Way
CONTRIBUTIONS
POURING into
PARTY OFFICE
Over $4,000 Already
Received

Contributions to the Communist
Campaign Fund are already pouring
into the national office of the Work
ers (Communist) Party at 43 E.
125th st.
Over $4,000, in amounts ranging
from SIS to $500, has already been
received.
Bishop William Montgomery
Brown, the hereto of Gallon, o., and
an international figure thru his war
on the superstitions of the church
and his espousal of Communism,
leads off with contribution of
$500.
Other Contributions.
Other contributions are: Albert
Gerling, Madrid, Iowa So; T. Ger
lach, $25; Benny Smith, Charlotte,
N. c., $5; I. Haberman, Minneapolis,
SO; Hyman Slomberg, McKeesport,
Pa, $5; Alice MacFadlin, Luscon
City, Ariz., $40; collected at Mecca
Temple mass meeting, S1,662.37; COL
lected at convention banquet, $74.68;
S. Rubin, Minneapolis, S25; julius D.
Lore, Philadelphia, $50; Stavros
Heas, High Coal, w. Va, $40; M.
Eisenstat, Endicott, N. Y, S15;
Branch No. 80, Philadelphia, SIS.
Candidates Jailed.
Several candidates of the party
are in New York jails for having
participated in an anti-imperialist
demonstration in front of J. P. Nor
gan's offices in Wall Street.
The capitalist press is filling it's
pages with drivel about the virtues
of the two sets of capitalist candi-
dates. While some papers support
one set against the other, there is
no hard feeling This furnishes ad-
ditional proof of the Communist con-
tention that there is no difference be-
tween the two parties, except the
rival ambitions of the respective
political leaders.
The Doodle of the employing
classes will be poured into the treas
uries of both parties. This money
will be used to drive the workers into
a frenzy over AL Smith "who started
life as a newsboy" or Herbert
Hoover who was born in shack
in the west.
Same Old Hokum.
The worker who does not realize
that class struggle exists and who
sees nothing in this campaign ex-
cept a struggle between personalities
will be confused by this propaganda.
1t is therefore extremely urgent that
the Workers (Communist) Party
should be in position to publish
literature to counteract this political
poison of the capitalist parties.
The raising of funds for the Com
munist election campaign is now in
full swing. Money is needed at once.
One dollar now is better than three
later on in the campaign. Every
worker who can spare dollar should
mail it at once to the National Cam
paign Headquarters, 43 E. 125th ST.,
New York City, Alexander Tracht-
enberg, treasurer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
FARMER-LABOR' MEET ON
Lawyers, Businessmen Are Delegates

oil scandals and corruption in the
Harding administration.
Four men appear outstanding
candidates for the presidential
nomination, according to the United
Press. Among them are former
senator George w. Norris, of Ne
braska; former governor Clifford
Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Gov.
Sweet of Colorado. The fourth is
dry southern democrat whose
name was not revealed.
The majority of the delegates are
small business men, lawyers and
other professional men and a scat
tering of gentleman farmers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11

this country. Volpe is a former
pupil of the famous Leopold Auer,
teacher of Mischa Elman, Jascha
Heifetz and other leading violinists
of the world.
To Play Famous Overture
A program of some of the best
known symphonic selections is now
being rehearsed by Volpe and his
orchestra. One of the numbers will
be Tschaikovsky's famous 1872
Overture" written on the defeat of
Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
The Roxy Ballet is also rehearsing
its program under the personal
CONTINUED oh Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
Want 500 Volunteers
At Center Tomorrow

Five hun d r e d volunteers are
wanted at the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square, tomorrow evening at
7:30 for important organization
work in connection with the concert
at Coney Island Stadium Saturday.
All volunteers are asked to report
on the fourth floor. Proceeds of the
affair will go to The DAILY
WORKER.