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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
industrial equip. and raw materials
Pageant to Feature
Pioneers Convention

A living newspaper" with several
hundred children participating will be
the feature of the Welcome-Conven-
ton meeting of The Young Pioneers
of America, District 2 convention,
which is to be held Friday. Saturday
and Sunday, April IS, IA and Is. This
preliminary social meeting, which will
take place next Friday evening at
Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th ST.,
will be attended by the parents and
friends of Pioneers as we'll as the
Pioneers themselves. Souvenir pro-
grams with many greetings will be
distributed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
COMPANY union
FOR WAGE CUT
Textile Workers Urged
to Speed Production

MANCHESTER, N. H, April s.
A typical example of how employers
utilize company unions to smother
and gloss over any dissatisfaction
among their employees was demon
strated by the results of meeting of
the workers Congress-" of the
Amoskeag Textile Manufacturing
Company held here yesterday.
Boss-picked representative" of
the 1000 workers employed by this
company met and decided to table
the question of the 10 per cent wage
cut recently enforced, and instead
voted for a resolution which calls
upon the bosses, and the chambers
Of commerce to convince merchants
and landlords to reduce the cost of
living.
Have Speeded Up Work.
eve, the employees, have cooper
ated cheerfully, and to the fullest ex.
tent in increasing production, by do
ing more work, thereby materially
reducing the cost of manufacturing,
the resolution reads, ending with the
statement that it would be to the best
interests of landlords and others to
cut the cost of living.
The company union u It'll now was
proclaimed by the mill owners as
having an agreement" on the cues
ION of W. rking conditions. Now,
towever, the employers do not see the
necessity of giving their instrument
a bona-fide trade union complexion.
The question of renewing the agree
ment was therefore also tabled.
The workers in the mills are not
paying the slightest attention to the
mass meeting of the congress-" nee
delegates to that meeting were not
chosen by them, being mostly fore
men or straw bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
BY LELAND OLDS,
Federated Pr 7~s).

The threat of chron unemploy-
ment grows more serious. Govern
ment statistics prove it in spite Of
the emphasis of the U. S. department
of labor on February employment
gains. The significant facts for Feb
ruary, as shown by the departments
| Of commerce and labor, are that
while factory production was only
l1%o behind February 1927 and 71a 60
above the 1923 average, factory en-
ployment was down So from Feb
ruary year ago and 141a9o below
the average for 1928.
Gain Insignificant.
Such facts far outweigh the small
gain of 11hGt in factory employment
between January and February.
What's more, figures for the preced-
ing years show that this is no more
than the usual seasonal gain which
has never interrupted the steady
downward course of employment re-
sulting from power machinery and
other mass production methods.
The average factory employee in
February. produced about Sc more
than in February 1927 and fully
1850 more than the average for
1928. This extraordinary 4-year gain
in productivity is forcing men and
women out of jobs by tens and hun
dreds of thousands.
Auto Sales Lower.
The decline of GO in EMPLOYMENT
the past year is far more serious
than that of 1870 from 1926 to 1927
This year every one of the IL major
groups of industry shows a falling off
compared with the previous year
while az of the 81 separate indus
tries report fewer NSlployes. The
situation would be even worse if the
automobile industry had not employed
$40 more workers this year than
in February 1927.
That the auto industry is not likely
to keep the present pace for many
months is suggested by federal re-
serve board figures which show that
although auto production is running
ahead of last year, sales are lower
and stocks on dealers hands higher
than year ago. Automobile manu-
facturers are simply preparing for
the cutthroat competition which will
develop as Ford production returns to
normal.
Decreases by Industry.
Significant decreases in employ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Pittsburgh DAILY"
Agents to Meet Sunday

The special May Day edition of The
DAILY WORKER, the drive for free
subscriptions for the miners and other
important matters will be discussed
at meeting of all DAILY WORKER
agents and active members of District
g, Workers (Communist) Party, to be
held in Pittsburgh Sunday afternoon
at the Labor Lyceum, IS Miller St.
John Kaspar, DAILY WORKER
agent of District 5, and A. Jakira,
district organizer, will be the chief
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
British Naval Junkers
Spike MutinOus Officer

GIBRALTAR, April Capt. Ken
meth G. B. Dewar, former commander
of the battleship Royal Oak and one
of the principals in the so-called
Jazz mutiny" on board that warship,
today was found guilty by a court
martial of committing an act sub
versive of naval discipline.
He is the second British naval Of
ficer to be found guilty Of similar
charges by the same court, the for
mer being Commander H. L. Daniel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Joint BOARD TO
FORM CONVENTION
PLANS AT MEETING
Right Wing Split Grows
In Cloak Union

A shop delegates conference is to
be held in the near future to discuss
the coming convention of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, which will be held in Boston
on May 7. This announcement was
made yesterday by q spokesman for
the impartial committee of so cloak
makers, which was elected at a huge
2-day cloakmakers' shop chairmen
conference held several months ago.
Joint Board Maps Plans.
While the date for this conference
has not as yet been set it is believed
that it will take place prior to the
elections which the left wing Joint
Board will hold on April II for dele
gates to the convention. The commit
tee of so met Wednesday evening to
discuss and map out plans to make
this conference a success.
The convention, dominated by the
right wing officialdom of the Inter
national union, will be the scene of a
bitter struggle between the forces of
the right wing led by President Sig
man and the other reactionary group
led by former President Schlesinger.
In spite Of the fact that both of these
forces will unite to fight the dele
gates demanding unity in the union,
the left wing has decided to send
full delegation to the convention,
where they will fight for the right
to take their seats as the true repre-
.sentatives of the membership.
Split in Right Wing Grows.
Although the fight between the
.Schlesinger and the Sigman forces for
the presidency and control of the In
ternational is becoming more intensi-
fled than was generally expected and
they are both expected to be bitter in
their opposition to a united and
strong union.
The sentiment among the member
ship in New York and other markets
of the International is such, however,
that the reactionary groupings and
Icliques in the right wing machine will
not find it at all easy to refuse to
consider the question of unity on the
convention floor, it is pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
ARREST PICKETS
IN BIG BUILDING
TRADES STRIKE
Salvation Army Sends
Jobless to Scab

A strike of over LOO housewreck-
ers, members of Local 95 of the
Housewrockers' union, has resulted in
practically tying up demolition work
in New York City. The strike began
Monday, when after the bosses had
refused to rescind their demand that
the workers accept a wage slash of
from SIPS to S1.15 an hour for bar
men, and from 95 cents to IS cents
an hour for laborers. Negotiations
for an adjustment of the wage ques-
ton between Local 95 and the bosses
were brusquely broken off Monday by
the latter. The members of local 95
were then called out, responding to
q man.
Scabs are being obtained by the
wrecking bosses thru the agency of
the so-called charity" missions, which
have sent unemployed workers seek
ing relief on the missix breadlines to
scab on the strikers. Union officials
specifically charged che Salvation
Army with sending scabs from it's
Bowery Mission breadline at 225
Bowery..
The usual police terrorism has been
made use of by the wrecking bosses
in an attempt to cow the members of
local 95 into submission, but these
tactics have resulted in the strength
ening of the strikers spirit, the pres
ident of the local said. Since the
strike was called; A pickets have been
arrested All of them except one, J..
I.esuik, of 116 E. 4th St., are out on
bail. Lesiuk was held in the Tombs
on a trumped-up charge of felonious
assault, following an attack made on
him and another picket by scabs on
Volk Co. job at Fifth Ave. and 54th
Street.
Ten independent housewrecker
bosses have signed up with the union,
according to the union officials. The
Housewreckers' Association, league
Ct the bosses, has prevailed on the
BrickhandleTs' Association, owners of
the brick trucks, 70 stop deliveries to
the bosses who have signed up, the
Union officials charged.
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100 Union House Wrgckes Tie Up Demolition Work Fight Pay CT
WORKERS PARTY
ACTIVITIES
NEW YoRK-N w JERSEY

Bronx Package Party and Dance.
Branch 3. Section will hold a pack
age party and dance tomorrow at
2o75 Clinton Ave, the Bronx.
Spring Dance.
Red Spring" entertainment and
dance will be given by Branch 4, Sec
ton s, Saturday, April IA at 2O75 Clin-
ton Ave.
Brownsville Y. w. L. Dance.
The Brownsville Young Workers
League win hold a dance for the bene-
fit of the young Worker" tomor-
row at 8 p. m. at Premier Palace,
suffer and Hi9sdal. St. Brooklyn.
Branch @. Section 5.
Branch 6, Section 5 will hold an af-
fair tomorrow at the Coopera-
tive Colony, 200 Bronx Park East
The program will INCLUDE a talk by
ton in the Soviet Union" Russian and
Yiddish folk-songs by Rose Cohen, So
prano, and numbers by a three piece
band.
Section 5B4 Affair.
Section 7B4 will hold concert and
dance for The DAILY WORKER to-
morrow at 1910 Benson Ave-, Brook
Ign.
OO"hAO"H H We LIE Lecture
The Downtown section of the Young
Workers League will hear the second
lecture in a series of educational and
social evenings, at 60 St. Marks Place
Sunday. The subject will be I'm
employment and Its Significance to
Youth"
Open Air Meetings.
Today-110th st. and Fifth Ave.
Tomorrow-First Ave. and 18th st.
X
Morning Branch Meet
A social meeting of the Morning In
ternational Branch will take place
today at 1903 East 14th Street at 1890
a. m. All members are urged to be
present as important matters will be
taken up.
If I'D Meet.
Unit IF I'D will meet Monday at
$50 p. m. at go St Marks Place. A
discussion will be held on "The Elec-
ton Campaign of 1925"
Branch B, Section Dance.
A Red Spring Festival and Dance
will be given by Branch 8, Section 5,
at 2075 Clinton Ave-, tomorrow eve
ming. The Silver City Band will play
Admission is rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
ARREST WINDOW
CLEANER PICKET

Alex Stechko, a member of the
Window Cleaners Union, was arrest
ed yesterday morning while picketing
in front of the Mutual Building, at
Nassau Street. The Mutual Building
is one of the large office buildings
that have contract with the Beaver
Window Cleaning Co. which employs
non-union men. Stechko was taken
to the First Magistrates court where
he was later dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Marshal and District
Atty. Named in Quiz

An assistant district attorney OF
the Bronx and city marshal have
been accused of illegalities by wit.
ness appearing before Chief Magis.
trate McAdoo, who is conducting the
loan shark investigation.
The assistant district attorney is
William G. Kier and the city marshal
is Bernard Rosenfeld.
Jay Green, the witness, told how
Rosenfeld had charged him $25 for
his services as city marshal whereas
the legal fee should rot exreed So.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Street Cleaner Killed

James Ward, 80 years old, of 1923
1l9th Ave, Jamaica, Queens, an en-
ployee of the Department of Street
cleaning is dead as the result of fall
ing off street cleaning truck at Ber-
gen Landing Road aid Old South
Road, Jamaica. His skull was frac-
tured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Two Democrats Going
Southwark for Votes

ALBANY, April 5.--In an attempt
to breeE down the remaining resist
ance to his nomination for president
by the democratic convention, mani
Testing itself in the south, Gov. Smith
will leave for visit to Asheville, N.
c. early next week.
Mayor Walker will leave New York
for Atlanta, Ca, Sunday morning to
deliver an address at the unwilling of
the Stone Mountain Memorial Mon
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Labor and FTateymal
Organizations
Nearing To Lecture in Yonkers.

Scott Nearing will lecture on What
Is Happening Today in CHINA ana
Soviet Russia" at the workers Coop
erative Center, 252 Warburton Ave-
Yonkers, on Friday, April 20, at p.
m. The lecture will be given under
the auspices Of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, and the proceeds will go
for miners relief.
Bronx Miners Relief Meet Put Off.
The Bronx Branch of the Miners
Relief Committee will hold its execu-
tive meeting Wednesday, April II. at
8 p. m.
Ware Mt workers Forum.
Harold Ware, head of the Russian
Reconstruction Farms, Inc will lee
day at l0S Il. 14th St His subject viii
be Impressions of an American Farm
er in the Soviet Union"
League for Mutual Aid.
The League for Mutual Aid Will hold
a Spring Revel, Friday, April 10, at
Beethoven Hall, 210 E. Fifth st,
Friends of Nature Hike.
The Junior Section of the Friends
of Nature will hike Sunday to
School has arranged a hike for
1900 7th Ave, today, at $40 p. m,
and the fares will amount to 4oe.
workers School Hike.
The Student Council of the Workers
School has arranged a hike for this
Sunday. All those desiring to join in
the hike should meet at 10S L. 14th st.
at $50 A. NJ.
Dunn Course Postponed.
The final session in the course in
Present Tactics of Employers, given by
Robert w. Dunn viii be held Wednes-
day, April Il, at $50 p. IN. at the
Workers School, los E. 14th Street.
Labor Unity out.
All literature and Labor Unity
agents should call at 101 z. 14th St
for their bundle of the April issue of
Labor Unity and also settle for the
Unity Arbeiter Cooperative Forum.
The next topic for discussion at the
Unity Arbeiter Cooperative Forum,
1900 18th Ave, today, at $3.50 p. m,
VIII be Russian and the Trade
Unions An entertainment will fol-
low the lecture.
Wolfe Course at Workers school.
Bertram D. Wolfe's course in Marx
ism and Leninism" will be given to-
night at the Workers School, 107 E.
l4th St at $50 p. m.
Plumbers Helpers Mass Meet.
A mass meeting of the Plumbers
Helers' Union will be held on April IL
at Manhattan Lyce.gm. 6 E. 4th St.
LABOR
George Powers will lecture on THE
Crlsls in the American Labor Move
ment' at 252 Warburton Ave, Sunday
at p. m.
WOrkfngcIaSs Housewives Ball.
The United Council of Workingclass
housewives, Councils l, 2 and g. will
hold concert and ball Friday, April
a. at 1892 Third Ave, near 103rd St
The proceeds will be donated to min
ers relief.
Bessarabian Branch /. l.. ID.
A meeting of the Bessarabian l. L. D.
branch will be held tonight at p m,
at 60 st. Marks Place.
brownsville JobIess Meet.
An open air mass meeting for the
brownsville unemployed workers will
be held tomorrow a s D. m. at Pitkin
and Bristol SITS, Brooklyn. Speakers
will be NJ Taft, L. Baum, H Blum
c. Sklar and L. Refs.
Lower Bronx Forum.
A. Markoff will lecture this Sunday
at p. m. at us e. 13Sth ST His sub
ject will be Communism and Anar-
chism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
TO HEAR EX-KLAN LEADER.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 5.-The In
diana Supreme Court today set April
"a as the date for oral arguments on
the appeal Of D. C. Stephenson, i'm
prisoned former grand dragon of the
Indiana Ku Klux Klan, from his con-
viction at Noblesville, Ind, Oct. q,
1925, of the murder of Miss Maude
Oberholtzer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06

SHENANDOAH, Iowa, April s.
Telephone poles were blown down,
farm buildings demolished and some
livestock killed late yesterday when a
small cyclone swept a 5O-foot swath
near here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
MAY FREE BOOTLEG KING.

COLUMBUS, O., April 5.-The
Ohio supreme court this afternoon set
next Tuesday morning as the date for
hearing Of oral argument relative to
the application for release, on bail,
Of George Remus, now confined in the
State Hospital at Lima, Ohio.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Is MORE KENOSHA
STRIKERS TO FACE
Contempt CHARGE
Child Picketing Follows
Mass Arrests

KENOSHA, Wis, April 5.-Twen-
ty-six more strikers against the open
shop plant Of the Allen-A Hosiery
Company here have been served with
charges of contempt of court for VIC
lating vicious anti-picketing injunc-
ton.
The contempt papers command
those served to appear in Milwaukee
Federal Court today to answer the
charges brought by the mill owners.
The attorneys for the union will prob
ably ask for trial by jury, as was
done in the cases of the 10 leaders of
the strike, who will come up for trial
shortly.
Organized Terror.
Nearly all the leading participants
in this bitter struggle against police
and legal terror are now under some
charges. The workers, however. are
holding out to q man, in spite of the
importation of armed thugs by the
mill owners.
KENOSHA, Wis, April (FP).-
Following the arrest of half a hun
bred pickets in front of the Allen-A
Co. open-shop hosiery plant in Ken
osha a demonstration by children Of
the locked out workers and their
! playmates materialized. Several hun
bred kids took part.
Import Armed Scabs.
Leaders of the American Fedora
ton of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Work
ers, which is conducting the fight
against the speed-up and open-shop
are protesting to the Wisconsin at
torney- general against the company's
importation of professional strike
breakers and gunner from Pennsyl-
vania. The company is pushing pros
ecution of 10 of the leaders for con-
tempt of a federal injunction. This
is a conspiracy to deprive the work
ers of their leaders, the union replies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
JOB SHORTAGE GROWS:
MILLIONS ARE NOW IDLE

ment and wage totals compared with
a year ago We're:
Years decline from
Feb. 1927 employ Employ Pay
ment and payrolls ment rolls
Building materials G. equipment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06

Significant decreases in employ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
lower Bronx Forum,

A. Markoff will lecture this Sunday
at p. m. at us e. 13Sth St His sub
ject will be Communism and Anar-
chism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06

lding materials G. equipment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23

OF WORLD join
IN CONVENTION
Meet Thursday to Discuss
General Problems of
Church.

BIZ UHitcd Press
TULSA, Okla, May %. Two
thousand ministers and laymen of
the Presbyterian Church will meet
here Thursday in their 140th gen.
eral assembly.
Empowered as the supreme trib-
unal of the faith, the assembly
represents 9,497 churches and ap-
proximately 100000 members in
this country, and American branches
abroad.
Revision of precepts in the church
canons, review OF progress, future
trends and administrative policies
for final action and selection of
officers for the coming year are in
Guided in the scope Of the confer
ence functions.
Many Matters on Agenda
Question of possible unif1cation of
the Presbyterian Church with a
kindred denomination, proposals for
stringent divorce code, disciplinary
action on unorthodox offerings, and
possible reorganization of the con-
troll board of Princeton seminary,
chief Presbyterian school in Amer
lea, are more particular matters ex-
pected before the assembly.
Championship of more rigid di-
,vorce ethics is accredited to DR..
Clarence Mccartney, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Aim at Radical
Adherents to fundamental ortho-
doXy are reported to have levelled
their guns against the Rev. Charles
G.. Fuller, young New York State
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operetta, voice; Leslie D. Hanson,
B. S., director of public school music,
Canton, Ohio, public school music,
appreciation; Clayton G.. Quasi, De-
troit Conservatory of Music, voice;
John Browning Sapp, Mus. BAG,
Drury College, violin; Marshall
Howenstein. De PAW University,
violin; Francis Moore, pianist;
member of faculty of New York
University, New York City, settle
ment music school, Philadelphia;
Katherine Carmichael, graduate
Kroeger School of Music, piano;
Esther Alice Green, Mus. BAG,
Drury College, piano; Medford Max
well, De Paw University, brass in
struments, leader of band; Ruth
Rooney, Mus. BAG, secretary and
registrar.
Other theaters today offer:
Dressed to Kill" at the Circle; THE
Crowd" at the Palace; Easy Come,
Easy Go" at the Apollo; double
movie bill at the Ohio; pitfalls of
Passion" at the Bandbox; the Wat
son Sisters at the Lyric; Saturdays
Children" at Keith's; "a Prince
There Was" at English's and The
Play Girl" at the Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
ELEPHANT FOR SALE

Baby sport MOdeI Pachyderm IN
Siam Wants Home
BIZ United Press
BANGKOK, Siam, May 23.-Who
wants a snappy little 1928 sport
model elephant?
He's on sale here and guaranteed
to be full of accomplishments.
Among other things he can blow a
trumpet with his trunk, walk on his
knees, roll on hsi back, walk on
two legs, and salute for a piece of
sugar.
Best of all, he is only IL years
old and a mere seven feet high.
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-23
FARM RELIEF
RIDERS TO TAX
BILL DEFEATED
Alternative Proposals to
MCNary-Haugen Draft
Killed in Senate.
BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING

WASHINGTON, May 23.-Hope
for farm relief legislation has gone.
Although the Senate earlier in the
session passed a resolution favoring
tariff reduction in favor of the
farmers, it refused to tack on to the
tax reduction bill, tariff debenture
riders proposed for farm products
by Senators Reed, CMo), and Blaine,
.(WiS).
Both Senators characterized their
amendments as alternative plans to
the McNary- Haugen bill, passed by
Congress but facing a sure veto at
the hands of President Coolidge.
McNary- Haugen advocates do not
intend, it is understood, to attempt
to pass the bill over the expected
Coolidge veto. Neither in House
nor Senate, do they have the two
thirds vote reSuired, and the
strategy of the midwest farm group
from the start has been to press a
bill which Coolidge will veto, then
go to Kansas City convention de-
manding candidate in favor of the
McNary- Haugen form of legislation
Notice has been served on the
Senate by a resolution of the farm
States conference which has been
backing the bill that "a million
farmers" will leave the Republican
party should candidate of this
type not be selected.
Reeds rider to the tax bill would
have permitted tariff exemption for
importers up to 25 per cent of their
imports, provided they exported
farm products of the same value.
Blaine's would have allowed free
import of materials used on the
farm up to $4,000 value in every
shipload, provided the importers
promised to export the same value
of farm products within thirty days.