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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
HOLD 5 DETROIT
men IN PRISON
Workers Arrested for
Organization

DETROIT, May 4.-Officers of
the Balkan Committee were arrestd
here last Saturday and held in prison
until Tuesday, charged with "illegal
entry into the United States and
with conducting Communist propa-
ganda," at the instigation of agents
Of the immigration authorities.
They were arrested at Serbian
Hall, 1914 F.. Frederick St., shortly
before they were to speak at mass
meeting called to organize the Bal
kan workers of Detroit into the COM
mittee.
Several minutes before the meeting
IS patrolman and 20 federal depart
ment of justice agents entered the
hall and arrested the five workers.
They are Charles Novick, secretary
of the committee, Nick Dunitru,
Theodore Tsekoff, S. Balueanec and
S. Maravic
When brot before a judge the five
workers were released, however,
when the immigration authorities
were found to have no evidence
against the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
COAL DIGGERS ALWAYS FACE DEATH
DYNAMITE RockFals Gas and Rotten 1iubes Take Toll

for their coal deposits. These creak-
ing places are supported by rotting
timber. Dangerous roofs, pockets
of gas, dynamite, add further to
the miners dangers.
CAFETY devices have not taken
y away the element of risk ever
present. The slow and careful
miner usually paid on the piece
work basis, often faces starvation.
A miner makes as much as he has
the courage to earn. Some miners
knock out hundreds of dollars a
month; others crouch somewhere
near starvation point. Some miners
actually owe the company money.
The element of gamble is greater
here than probably in any other in
dustry.
Daring miners take numberless
chances at their work. They bring
down a coal-top by flinging up
dynamite wrapped with string and
carefully timed in the throw to ex-
plode the moment it hits" the roof.
They enter breasts which crack and
threaten to swallow them. There
they bore their holes, and pack
them with "dooley." But such is
the miners, life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
FACTORY BLAST
INJURIES five

A woman employee and a foreman
were hurt and sixty girls and score
Of men fled down stairs to safety
Thursday when a fire followed the
explosion of a gelatine tank in the s.
story factory of H. Planter and Son,
makers of gelatine capsules at 1896
Henry St., Brooklyn.
: Fireman Charles Lawson suffered a
severe cut in the left hand in at
tempting to raise a window that
cracked with the heat.
The employees were huddled togeth-
er in group near the fire. They
refused to answer questions and any
inquiry was met with, ''the boss told
us not to talk"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

them to the sources of information,
in the event that SUCH information
was not available in the center.
"Your District Committee has al
ready started on the job to collect
signatures. In the collection of sig
natures, we can be successful only if
we will draw in the membership to do
this job. The units thruout the Party
must organize house collections of
signatures, must gather signatures in
the factories, at factory gate meet
ings, and open air meetings arranged
in the city. The districts have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

fused to vote for the Socialist Party
and LaFollette, who could not vote
for our Party, believed that they
were fulfilling their duty by voting
for the Socialist Labor Party. We
must give the workers of this country
an opportunity to vote for our Party
ticket, vote for the only proletarian
party of class struggle. It is there
fore our revolutionary duty to get out
and to get on the ballot in as many
states as possible in order not to
disfranchse the workers and to give
them an opportunity to register their
protest vote against capitalism and
for the proletarian class struggle.
Campaign Committee.
"The machinery to conduct the
election campaign must be instituted
at once. The CEC has already Sc
lected a National Campaign Com
mittee and National Campaign
Manager. The districts are proceed.
ing along the same lines and most
districts have already selected cam
paign committee and campaign man.
ager. In every other division of the
Party, all localities, cities, sub-dis
tricts, sections, sub sections, as we'll
as in every Party shop and street
nucleus, campaign committee must
be selected and campaign manager
also. In scme of the smaller units,
is will be. sufficient to select cam
paign manager who must work in
the closest contact with the Agitprop
committee or if such committee does
not exist, with the Agitprop director
of the factory or street unit.
"Fraternally yours,
"JAY LOvESTONE,
Executive Secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Marshals Will Now Be
Careful For a While

That at least nine of the many
city marshals are mot fit to hold Of
flee" has been admitted by Commits
sioner CT Accounts Higgins, who will
recommend that Mayor Walker dis,
miss them. Up to the present time
the leaders of Tammany Hall have
carried these lesser fry of the organ
ization on the administration rooster
without criticism. Many have CO.
operated with loan sharks, using the
seal of Tammany Hall instead Of
gun to hold up workers for loot in
the form Of usn1ious interest CIR for
feited" property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Morrow PLAYS
Pirates EUen
on Holidays

THERE'S the story about the fire
man who spent his holiday run
to fires.
But that bird has nothing at all
on Dwight w. Morrow, Wall Street
envoy to Mexico, who, laid up with
slight case of grip, is spending his
time reading bloody thrillers about
burglars and piracy on the high
seas.
When told by his physician to re-
main in bed, Morrow ordered his
secretaries to bring him all of the
detective stories that they could
pick up in Mexico City.
After long and faithful service
in the House of Morgan, Morrow
ought to find tales of piracy ex-
tremely tame.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Former COP Secretary Admits Forgeres During Trial

An admission of
eighteen forgeries
avas made By the
defense at the trial
of Mrs. Florence
E. s. Knapp, for
mer republican sec
rotary of state. Her
grand daughter
testified that nu-
neroas he G. $
made out IN her
name qOere actually
caShed By Mrs.
Knapp. The trial
is revealing the
graft, theft, and
corruption typical
of both capitalist
political pGrtie 8.
Mrs. Knapp is
shoaO1s taking notes
The spirite d
looking gentleman
in the center is
Mrs. KnGpp's la1o-
yer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

Comrades, the next few weeks
must be utilized for getting the Party
ticket on the ballot. In the last cleo
ton, we were on the ballot in nearly
fifteen states. This year we are work.
ing in order TO get on the ballot in
forty states. The Importance of get
ting on the ballot can be seen from
the following: The Socialist Labor
Party, in the 1924 elections, received
something like 5000 votes in the
State of Michigan. Our Party was not
on the ballot. They received these
votes because t:se workers who re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
JURY is HEARING
CRAFT EVIDENCE
Mrs. Knapp HoldsThreat
Over Party Leaders

ALBANY, May 4.-Evidence con-
tinued to mount today bearing on the
administration of the 1925 state CEN
sus fund in 1925 by Mrs. Florence E.
S. Knapp, on trial here for alleged
grand larceny and forgery in graft
ing from the fund. Evidence has
been introduced showing she pocketed
thousands of dollars realized on
checks made payable to relatives she
had placed on the state payroll.
She is said in one instance to have
deposited $2,975 draft made payable
to her step-daughter at the Edwards
department store in Syracuse in part
payment of a $4,000 bill. The step
daughter, Clara Blnache Knapp, tes-
titled she did no census work, did not
know her name was on the payroll
and did not authorize Mrs. Knapp tc
endorse her checks.
Mrs. Knapp threatened to involve
other republican and democratic par
ty leaders in the wholesale graft ex-
posture if Gov. AL Smiths democratic
administration went so far as tt
bring her to trial in its effort to dis.
credit the republican party fol
Smiths campaign purposes. She has
not yet taken the stand.
After leaving her job as secretary
of state she continued to be dean Of
the home economics department a
Syracuse University until the grant
jury returned several indictments
against her. Two janitors from Sy
racuse are expected to testify to he
J burning census fund records.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

directed to print petitions. The pc
titions thus far bear the names of
Nm. z. Foster for President and
Benjamin Gitlow for Vice-President.
"In order that our campaign shall
be as intensive as possible, we must
not limit ourselves to the nomina-
ton of national candidates alone. We
must in all states, cities and local
tiles, place as many candidates on the
ticket as possible, and also in the con-
gressional districts, and the various
local legislative districts ASSEMBLY,
ward).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Rome's Fascist Mayor
Gets $4,000 Reception
lContinued from Page ono

Continued from Page One)
thus clasp a hand stained with
Matteotti's blood" Tresca said.
Prince Potenziani, Casalini and
the rest of the delegation will be
similarly received, with the official
blessing of the Coolidge republican
administration, at the White House
in Washington May 10, it was an
nounced here last night.
AS one mayor to another, the
name Of the fascist mayor of Rome
is con the list" of the fascist mayor
of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
FLYERS GREETED AT CAPITOL

WASHINGTON, May A. = The
Bremen. transatlantic fliers, Baron
Won Huenefeld, Captain Koehl, Ger
man monarchists, and Major James
Ftizmaurice, Irish, made their first
public bow to the capitol at Boiling
Field yesterday, where they were Of
ficially greeted by Secretary of State
Kellogg and other government Of
fieials. President Coolidge received
them at noon, and later lunched with
them in the White House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

Mitzok, are in a critical condition.
These men were all contract
miners, and are survived by widows
and children.
MANY gas explosions have oc-
li Cured recently, burning several
miners very seriously. 1t does not
look as if efficiency means fewer
funerals, or fewer hospital cots
filled with victims in the hard coal
fields.
With a production of 100000
tons under the 1926 output of an
thracite coal, the fatality toll in the
industry was 491 lives, an increase
of SO, according to 1927 figures just
released by the bureau of mines.
This high accident rate is interest
ing in view of the cutting down in
the labor forces. Nearly 1000 men
were dropped from the payrolls Of
the hard coal companies during the
year, as efficiency progressed.
Slack time means more accidents.
Miners become anxious to make
enough to live on while the col
lieries operate. They take risks
which, in normal times, would seem
senseless. Old workings are tapped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

Connecticut success in the coal
fields.
Anna Herbst will throw all her
energy and every resource at her
disposal into the tremendous task
of spreading The DAILY WORK
Err among the thousands of miners
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

Intensification of The DAILY
WORKER subscription activity in
the Anthracite has begun with the
arrival there of Anna Herbst, for
merly subscription agent for the
paper in the New Haven district,
who is expected to duplicate her
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Lewis Machine Puts Over Sbdb Agreement Canadian Nine
ANNA HERBST TO AID DAYS SUB DRIVE IN ANTHRACITE REGION

Thousands Of miners are eager
to subscribe to their fighting press.
The special one dollar subscription
rate which brings the paper within
the reach of the poorest coal miners
is designed to enable all to have
their Daily Worker, and will aid
materially in the subscription drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Of Course

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May A.
Employe management of the Ameri-
can Cast Iron Pipe Co., as provided
in the will of the late John J. Egan.
has been hampered by the fact tina
the board Of trustees has usurped con-
troll of the company, and that many
provisions of the plan have not beer
fulfilled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
DELAY SPANISH FLIGHT

SEVILLE, Spain, May 4.--Con-
tinued unfavorable weather made it
appear unlikely today that the Span
ish aviators, Jimnez and Izlesias
would be able to start on their con-
templated long distance flight until
the early part of next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

the remotest districts in the coal
regions.
The great success of the former
organizer of The DAILY WORK
Frs activity in the Connecticut
area will be reproduced in the An
thracite regions, it is confidentially
predicted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Tax Vote Demanded

WASHINGTON, May Al
though in disagreement over the IL
nit OF tax reduction to be allowed,
republican and democratic leaders
Joined today to force final vote on
the new tax reduction bill by the
Senate within a week.
The democrats held out foc a
1896 100000 tax slash while the re-
publican plan called for only
5000. 0O0. 0N0 reduction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

who are carrying on the class strug-
gle on the hottest front in the
United States.
Distributing thousands of free
copies of The DAILY WORKER
thruout the mining centers, spe-
cial effort will be made to bring
the workers fighting paper to even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
Birth Control Urged

Voting in favor of birth control,
the New York Federation of Women's
Clubs yesterday at its convention
adopted a resolution urging passage
at the earliest possible moment of a
state bill permitting physicians to
give contraceptive to married per-
sons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
REACTIoNARY is SICK.

VIENNA, May 4.--Count Albert
Apponyi, celebrated Hungarian reac-
tionary is critically i'll, according to
reports from Budapest. Apponyi is
83 years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
T. M. c. ACTS TO
SPREAD STRIKE
Mcmahon, Batty, Dis
cuss per Capita"

Continued from Page One)
that they are compelled to make some
public announcements sidestepping
denials of a possible strike in Fall
River.
These statements are made prim
arily by the leaders of the United
Textile Workers Union, who, al
though not having any membership
in this region have entered the situa-
ton with a proposal to the Textile
Council heads that the whole Ameri-
can Federation of Textile Operatives
make out application for membership
in the U. T. W., which is the A. F.
of L. union.
Mass Picketing.
Mass picketing in New Bedford is
becoming a daily routine despite the
activity of the council leaders to him
der it. Special children's groups are
being organized to participate in
picketing and other strike activities
Hundreds of children of striking
workers have their own organizations
already. They hold regular meetings
and are known as the Childrens
Strike Clubs. Elizabeth Donnelly, in
charge of fthe Workers International
Relief station here, is leading the or
ganization of the children.
Increase Speed-up.
WOONSOCKET, r. l., May An
spite of the growing general strike
sentiment among the hundreds Of
thousands of New England textile
workers, the mill owners are continu-
ing their program of intensified ex-
ploitation in all centers.
The latest report from this section
is that the Lonsdale Manufacturing
Company, owners of a number Of
mills here have announced that their
plants will begin operation on 81
hour week basis. This company has
mills in the towns of Lonsdale, Cum
berland, North Smithfield, Lincoln
and Berkeley.
For the past few months the COM
pany has been operating it's mill on Q
part time basis of three days week
thus attempting to depress the re
sistance the workers may offer to the
increase of hours. They had inaugu-
rated the part-time schedule with the
pretense that there wasn't sufficient
work for full time operations. After
starving the workers families for
this period they suddenly discovered
enough work to enable them to re
sumo production on a 54-hour week
schedule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

''In order to conduct the election
campaign properly, we must get on
the ballot in as many states as pos
sible. We can get on the ballot in
most states only by securing the
necessary signatures legally required
In only q few states we can get on
through state convention.
Already, the National Office,
through its campaign committee, has
taken the necessary steps in furnish
ing the districts with material and
information regarding the require
ments in their states, and directing
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22
Satisfactory Means of
Eradicating CutWorms

If one cutworm in the garden cut
only one plant and ate that plant. the
damages would not be so very great
But the worm is not satisfied with one
plant. 1t usually follows one row and
cuts as it goes. In this way one cut
worm will do great deal of damage.
The cutworm is nocturnal in its
feeding habits. It usually starts to
feed late in the afternoon and con-,
tinues throughout the night. The
knowledge of this habit is very essen
tial when the worm Is to be poisoned.
Two satisfactory control methods
are: first, place collar Of cardboard
or tar paper around each plant. This
should extend to depth Of two or
three inches in the soil. The second
method of control is probably the
most satisfactory. This control is the
use of, poison bait. The bait should
be scattered late In the afternoon, at
feeding time, and near the plants. The
poison bait consists of wheat bran. %
pounds, paris green, one pound, and
three oranges or lemons. This mate
rial should be thoroughly mixed and
brought to a consistency Of a thick
dough by adding l0w-grade molasses.
with water when necessary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22
Number of Apple
Trees Declining
No Shortage of Fruit Has
Developed and Produc-
ton Increases.

prepared BY the United states Department
of Agriculture.)
Although the number of apple trees
in the United States has been declin-
ing since 1910, no shortage of apples
has developed and commercial produc-
ton is increasing. The crop of 1926
was the largest produced In many
years. This apparent paradox is ex-
planned by an increased output per
tree and by the fact that the reduc-
tion in the number of trees has taken
place largely in scattered family or
chards and id the less favorably stu
ated commercial areas. Apple pro-
duction for the market has been in
creasing materially in some areas
through better orchard management,
better selection of varieties, and In
creased bearing capacity resulting
from an increase In the age of the
trees.
Decrease In Trees.
For each 100 trees In the country
in 1910, there were 10 and GA re-
spectively in 1920 and 1925, according
to the census. In round figures the
decrease from 1910 to 1925 was about
10000 900 out of a total of 217,00O.00O
trees reported in the former year. The
significance of this decline Is modified
by the fact that In the boz apple
region of the Mountain and Pacific
states no less THIN 55 per cent Of the
trees were not of bearing age In 1910.
BY 1920, the percentage of nonbear-
ing trees had fallen to 10, and the
same percentage is reported by the
census for 1925. It would be dis
tinctly <unfavorable augury for the ap-
pie industry had paintings from 1910
to 1928 been large enough to prevent
a decline in the proportion of trees
not of bearing age.
Present conditions In the apple In
dustry are in marked contrast to those
that prevailed eighteen years ago. In
1910 there were 15.000.0O0 trees not
of bearing age in the box apple regions
of the Mountain and Pacific states.
AS these trees cane into bearing, the
producing capacity Of the region in
creased enormously. In 1920 the
region had It's trees of bearing age
for each 100 reported in 1910. From
1920 to 1929, however, the number de-
creased and in 1925 stood at ISL for
each 100 trees of bearing age in 1910.
App, Tree Planting.
In recent years paintings of apple
trees have been to a large extent in
the eastern apple region and have
been chiefly concentrated in the coBi-
mercial areas. Most areas of heesJ
concentration of trees are now in
regions adjacent to the larger con-
Stunning centers. although there are i'm
portant areas in the West which, be-
cause of favorable natural features.
successfully produce fruit far from
consuming markets. In the states
north of the Cotton Belt and east Of
the Great Plains, farm orchards are
fairly evenly distributed. In the west
ern states, scattering of trees through
out extensive areas. In the manner
typical of the farming regions of the
East, is not found.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22
Short Farm Notes

The silo stores feed in one-third the
space required by hay in the barn.
For the first week. baby chicks
should have liquid skim milk instead
of water.
Alfalfa contains the protein needed
to balance the silage while the sllage
supplies succulence.
Sweet clover should be used as a
green pasture crop and as soil build.
err rather than for the production of
hay or silage.
The ideal incubator cellar or room
is one in which the air is constantly
changing without varying perceptibly
the temperature Of the room itself.
No stalks remain In the way of farm
implements and none are left in feed
racks and hangers to be thrown out
and wasted when feed is stored In
siIo.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22

USE any fruit you wish-the
one that failed before. Add
Pexel to the juice and bring TO
boil. Then add sugar. Bring
to full boil again. Skim. It's
finished. Pour into glasses.
You've made the most deli
cious jelly in all your expe-
rience-and it nil jeH BY the
time it IS cold.
In addition to making jelly
jell, Pexel is economical and
saves time. Cuts out the long
boil. Makes more jelly because
fruit juice, sugar and flavor
don't go off into steam. Time
and fuel are saved. Countless
tests show that Pexel repays the
Doc it costs from one to three
times.
Pexel is different too!
Made entirely from pure
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22
Good Reason,

He-So you've been in Egypt; did
you see the pyramids?
She-Well, ! should say ! did;
climbed TO the top of one and drove
golf ball Off.
"You don't say! How far did IT
>go?"
why, don't know
"How fast did it go?"
"Wfy. how should ! known
"Oh. / see; you wanted tn find out
how long it would take to reach the
ground"
Certainly nOt-doh't be silly"
'But why. did you do it, then?'
"What! Didn't you see Il picture
of me doing 1t in last Sundays pa
per?s
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22
His Viewpoint

"A very promising young man." we
said. HE will do big things"
ave have too laundering many
'going-to-doers' now" said old Festus
Poster. what we need are not men
that are going to do, but those that
have already done-we need bidders
not 'going-to-doers' or 'might-have-
doners!' Hurrumph kansas City
Star.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-06-22

fruit. Tasteless, colorless,
odorless- absolutely. A pow
der-not a liquid. Keeps I'M
definitely. Equally effective
with bottled fruit juices or UNI
sweetened canned fruits.
Get Pexel from your grocer.
Only 3Oc. The recipe booklet
in every package gives easy-tc-
follow directions and accurate
tables. The Pexel Company,
Chicago, iii.
- a fer examples of how
much jelly Pexel makes:
Az cups strawberry juice, Pexel, s
cups sugar make IL glasses jelly.
~ cups raspberry juice, Pexel, 8
cups sugar make IL glasses jelly.
6 cups crlrrant juice, Pexel, 10 cups
sugar make II glasses of jelly.
AZ cups grape juice, Pexel, 2 cups
sugar make 10 glasses Of jelly.