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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12
ROOM 40 CHIEF
TELLS STORY
BY CHARLES A. SMITH
International News Service

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Heretofore I'M
known ramification of the famous
Room 4O' frequently described as
s'the best kept secret of the World
War" were disclosed at Edinburgh
by Sir Alfred Ewing, who in 1914
was in charge of the room.
Room 40' was a department at
the British admiralty known to very
few persons. It's business was to
decipher German radio messages,
and, as a result, every movement
by German warships was known in
advance to the British government.
AS an example Of the informa-
ton thus obtained, the British navy
was enabled to go out to meet the
Germans in the battles OF the Dog
ger Bank and Jutland.
Room 40'' also deciphered the
message from the German U-boat
which sank the Lusitania, and it
revealed the German intrigue with
Mexico that brought the United
States into the World War.
Relating his fascinating story OF
espionage and counter espionage,
Sir Alfred Ewing said that at the
outbreak of the war he was direc-
tor of naval education. At that
time there was no department for
dealing with ciphers, and he was
asked by the Government to un-
dertake the work.
I got a few friends to come and
help me-" Sir Alfred said. I'VE
worked hard and had remarkable
luck. The staff of cryptographers
was gradually increased until it
numbered so. Numerous listening
stations were set up at which the
German fleets signals and other
messages were Systematically taken
in and from which they were tele.
graphed to the admiralty to be de-
ciphered. When the work had
passed its initial stage. as many as
1000 intercepted messages were
dealt with in "a hours.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12
Three Cases of Liquor
Stolen From Drug Store

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-THE
drug store of F. r. Perry, Beech
wood Street and CheIten Avenue,
was entered shy thieves who stole
three cases of liquors and escaped.
The ROBBERY was discovered by
PatroIman Gerhart who passed the
store at 2:30 a. M. and noticed
that a rear window had been
forced open. Further investigation
showed that the thieves had broken
the rear door.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12

To make this possible an amend
ment to the "act for making fur.
Their and more effectual provision
for the national defense" is neces-
sarv. and this is provided in the
proposed measure.
Bandmasters of less than five
years service would hold the rank
of second lieutenants. and those Of
longer than five years that of first
lieutenant. by the bill.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12
AIibi for Labor Man
Results in Freedom

NEW YORK, Jan. IL. David
Gingold, of Brooklyn. manager Of
the raincoat makers union, was
discharged as a fugitive from
justice in Jefferson Market Court.
Gingold was arrested December 5
at the request of Chief Gallatin Of
Elizabeth, n. T.. who said Gingold
was wanted on a charge Of assault.
Governor Smith refused to sign
extradition papers when an alibi
was established.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12
find WILD WEST.
IN EUROPE
nv International News Service

LONDON, Jan. IL. - A European
mystery land has been discovered
a great Wild West more romantic
and more uncivilized than the ones
shown by a thousand American
films
Open spaces roamed by cattle ana
wild horses-open spaces wild and
dangerous, q desert of no-mau's
land in the heart of Central Eu.
ropes broiling nations. It lies
"only a few hours journey from
Budapest"
Cowboys (Chicos they are called
wear black "10-gallon" hats with
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12

with trained skill on offense and
on defense. He can catch and bind
pig, sheep or other small animal
at will with his whip. A savage
cast and the lash coils about the
animals body.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12

Sights that have been invented
to enable telescope to be pointed
at an object or light at night
quickly are made of quartz rod
tips. which are illuminated by q
concealed flashlight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-01-12
New Bill Would Give
Rank to Band Masters

1t takes a good man to lead the
American Army and Navy bands.
So thinks Senator Bingham R9,
of Connecticut. who has introduced
in the Senate q bill providing that
bandmasters hold commissions in
the Army and Navy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
SONGS AND DOLLARS
Latin american Regimes Honor Stain

Partly as reaction against the
overbearing attitude and the imper-
ialist encroachment of the "Anglo-
Saxon" United States, sentimental
declarations about the common
Latin origin, race and history with
the "mother country" Spain, have
become in the last few years more
and more frequent in most of the
Latin-American countries, although,
only a few decades ago, Spain was
the enemy, the oppressor from whom
the American republics had freed
themselves by long and bloody rev.
olutions.
In all the national songs of the
friendly references to Spain have
or was-the tyrant and oppressor.
In the last few years these I'M
friendly references to Sain have
been removed from the songs of a
few countries. Spain has become
again the beloved mother coun-
try"
These sentimentalities were &C
companied by more material PROPOSE
tons and in fact during the last
few years several large loans were
negotiated between Argentina, Para
quay and Spain. In 1927 Spain
granted Argentina loan of 100,-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

100000 pesetas (about $4,000, O00),
and a few days ago the Argentina
government opened a credit of 50,a
100000 gold pesos (about S45,O00,-
00O) to Spanish ;ndustrialists for
the importation of Argentine prod
ucts, hides and cereals. In return
the Spanish government has amend
ed the law which stipulated that
only 30 per cent of all grain ground
in Spanish mills could be of foreign
origin and has increased the figure
to so per cent in favor of the Ar
gentine grain.
In Cuba, the dictator, Machado,
has decided to erect a statue to the
Unknown Soldier" of Spain who
fought twenty-five years ago in
Cuba against its independence and
for the continuation of Spanish rule.
Machado announced that he is will
ing to contribute half of the ex-
penses Of this monument out of his
own pocket. This generosity of
Machado may be explained by the
announcement from Spain that, in
appreciation of the "chivalry of the
Cuban people" which erects monu-
ment to the former enemy and op-
pressor, a statue will be erected in
Spain for Machado.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
REPORT TRIBES
IN REVOLT IN
French ALGERIA
Moroccans Capture a
Troop Patrol

COLOMBO ECHAR, Algeria, Dec.
i2.-Five French soldiers were
killed when a party of French off
GERS in armored cars were recon
noitering near the Algerian Moroc-
con border and clashed with a Mo
roccan tribe in revolt against the
French.
The arrival of Pierre Bordes,
French governor general of Algeria
at Fort Taghit, between Colomb-
Bechar and Beni-Abbes, to take per-
sonal charge of the offensive against
the rebelling tribes, leads to the be-
lief that more native tribes have
joined the movement against the
French and that natives on both
sides of the border have united in
the campaign against French rule.
Additional troops have been sent
TO the region, but they are unable,
according to reports, to capture the
fleet 'ribesmen. Airplanes have
been dispatched and armored cars
and tanks are being held ready, it
is reported here.
Well-armed tribes are reported to
have been sighted somewhere in the
vicinity of Igli, near the Moroccan
border. Troops have been sent
against them, but no report of the
results has as yet been received.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

the Soviet fiscal year 1929, end
ing September 80, 1928, were 515,-
100 metric tons, amounting to only
21.4 per cent of the grain exports
for the preceding year.
On the other hand, exports of
meat products for 1929, valued at
16,G72,O00 rubles, gained 1853 per
cent; exports of eggs, valued at 49,
100000 rubles, increased 1877 per
cent; poultry exports gained SOB
per cent; butter 14.3 per cent and
fish products 63.4 per cent.
Of the non-agricultural products
oil exports increased 31.8 per cent
in tonnage and 1876 per cent in
value, furs 68.3 per cent in value
and timber products II per cent in
value. Total Soviet exports across
all frontiers for the fiscal year
1928 amounted to 778, 100000
rubles, an increase of 100000 ru-
bles over the preceding year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
100000 SLAVES
OF RAYoN TRUST
so Percent of These
Are Women
(Bu Federated Press)

The Associated Rayon Corpora
ton, incorporated in Maryland with
assets of S60,000,000, will hold
shares in the leading rayon COM
panies of the world. Vereinigte
Glanzstoff Fabriken and Bemberg
companies of Germany, Glanzstoff
of Austria, the Snia Viscosa of Italy,
the Asahi of Japan, the Enka of the
Netherlands, American Glanzstoff
Corporation and American Bemberg
and American Enka Corporation.
These companies are connected
with the international rayon cartel,
dominated by Courtauld's of Great
Britain. This cartel was recently
described in special report on car
tells put out by Julius Klein of the
bureau of foreign and domestic
trade. 1t is more nearly an interna-
tional trust than any other Euro
pean cartel.
The rayon trust presents the Gu
rious picture, julius declares, OF Eu-
ropean capitalists capturing Amer
lean production and the American
market. He says they showed con-
siderable ingenuity and enterprise
in doing so. He might have added
that they also showed considerable
ingenuity in choosing southern
states where they could get low
paid workers for longer hours than
in the north.
The Glanzstoff and Bemberg COM
panies, connected with the rayon
trust and operating in America, en-
ploy already about 100000 workers
in their Tennessee plants. New
rayon plants under construction in
Virginia and Tennessee will employ
as many more workers within the
next three years. About 90 per
cent of rapon workers are women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
STATE OF SIEGE
fEICNS THRUOUT
FACTORY SUBURB
Five Workers Killed;
Many jailed

BOMBAY, Dec. 12.-Mill strikers
clashed with the police in Parel, in
dustrial suburb of Bombay, today
when police and thugs attempted to
break up their picket lines and dem
onstrations. Five workers and three
policemen were killed, many seri-
ously wounded and mass arrests of
strikers were made.
After the clash, in which the DO
ice were defeated, reinforcements
IF heavily-armed police corps were
sent into the area, made raids into
he homes of the workers and made
Wholesale arrests.
The police, however, met with in
er ;asing resistance. The workers,
oriS strike against the unbearable
conditions in the mills, put up Wig
5rous fight rather than be arrested
and tortured in the jails. Fighting
continued throughout the day, and
the workers only retreated after
numerous police reinforcements,
armored cars and motorcycles were
sent into the region.
At present all shops are closed
and the suburb represents a battle
tield, with police patrolling all the
streets in large groups for fear of
future attacks.
The brave struggle of the strik-
srs has aroused a wave of solidarity
and militancy among the workers
Who have already been aroused by
he presence of the Simon Commits
sion, which is supposed to make in
resignation into the ability of India
20 govern itself. Police and troops
k up close guard in all industrial
b ,es to prevent the recurrence of
h IS demonstrations of protest
against British Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
EXPECT BIG VOTE
IN ELECTIONS IN
RUMANIA TODAY
Communist Party Wins
Right to Campaign

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. IL
Having won the right to place
their ticket on the field by numer-
Gus mass demonstrations and pro-
tests directed at the MANU- govern
ment, the Communist Party of Ru-
mania is for the first time openly
participating in the general cleo
tions today and expects to draw a
large percentage of the workers
votes.
Manu- is assured a majority in
parliament by his prediction
agreements with the social-demo-
Gratis, the German and Hungarian
minority parties. Despite the fact
that the Manu- regime still keeps
the class war prisoners Of the Bra
tianu government in the jails and
is still pressing the trial against the
Unitary Trade Unions in Buchar-
est, the social-democrats have
agreed to support Manu- in return
for seats in parliament.
Forecasts of the elections predict
that the government coalition will
win by about a two-thirds major
ity and that there will be number
of Communists in the chamber. The
Communist Party comes out openly
against the coalition of Manu- and
the Socialists" and demands in one
of its election planks immediate and
complete amnesty to political pris-
oners and the suspension of the
charges against the Unitary Trade
Unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
obQy Mill Strikers Defeat Police Clash Heavy ReimtOb Raid Homes
GRAIN REQUIREMENTS,
u. S. s. K. EXPORT GROWS

Purchases of grain, exclusive of
oilseeds, from peasants by Soviet Of
fetal procuring agencies for the
month of November amounted to
986,436 metric tons, according to
cable reports received by the Am
torg Trading Corporation yesterday.
Grain procurements in November
were 44.5 per cent smaller than in
the preceding month but were &c.,
976 metric tons or 37.6 per cent in
advance of those for November,
1927.
Total procurements for the first
five months of the Soviet agricul-
tural year beginning July l, 1928,
amounted to 4,S00,837 metric tons,
an increase of 1873 per cent over the
corresponding period of the preced-
ing year.
Soviet exports of grain and OIL
seeds across European frontiers for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
New Haven to Organize
Anti Imperialist Work
at Conference Friday

NEW HAVEN, Dec. ia New
Haven branch of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League will be or.
panized at a conference which will
be held Friday night at 8 o'clock
at the Trades Council Hall, 215
Meadow st. The call for the con-
ference was sent out by R. S. King
of the Machinists' Union of New
Haven, the provisional secretary OF
the New Haven branch of the
League.
Paul Crouch, national secretary OF
the United States section of the
League. will speak at the confer
ence, outlining the feverish arma-
ments race of the imperialist pow
ers, their war preparations, and the
program of the League for organic
ing the struggle against imperial
ism and the threatening war danger.
The call sent out for the confer
ence brands the Latin American trip
of Hoover as an imperialist mis-
sion, designed to further enslave
the workers and peasants of these
countries, as we'll as to strengthen
the strategic war position of United
States Imperialism on the Pacific.
All working class organizations
are asked by those calling the con-
ference to send delegates and to
help build a powerful branch of
the Anti-Imperialist League in this
city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
Man Named Maloney of
Atlantic City Says He
Knows ROthstein Killer

Yesterday one Leo Maloney, living
luxuriously at the Ritz-Carlton hotel
in Atlantic City, got rather drunk
and announced to various people
that he knew all about who killed
Rothstein, the gambler murdered a
month ago at another hotel for rich
men in New York City, and EVIL
IDENTIFY a member Of a billion dollar
drug ring which has been operating
under protection of the Tammany
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
Over 100000 New Cases
of Influenza Recorded;
Epidemic Coming East

WASHINGTON, Dec. IL U.H.-
A total of 40,960 new cases of in
fluenza in the week ending Dec. 8
have been reported to the U. S.
Public Health Service.
Figures on new cases for some
additional states received today
were as follows: California, 1926;
Indiana, ST; Missouri, 40; Nebras-
ka, 1854; Virginia, $50; South Caro-
lima, 5,145; Georgia, 900; Colorado
1896.
Health officials said the figures
probably represented but a fifth OF
the total cases that developed dur.
ing the week. The reports indi.
Gated, it was said, that the disease
is spreading rapidly eastward and
soon may be conferred on the east
ern seaboard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
HOL. D BIC SILK
RALLY IN JERSEY
Foster and Weisbord
Urge Strong Union
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
PRODUCED by Organizer Cnernenko,
chairman, both before and after they
had spoken. Workers rose to their
feet and cheered as the national
leader Of their union and Foster
were introduced. Bill Siroka spoke
for the youth in the industry.
Foster on New Unionism.
Foster spoke on the new unionism
fast developing among the American
working class. He traced the devel-
opment of the A. F. of L. from the
time it was a militant organization
down thru the days of it's craft
unionism till the time the "back Of
craft unionism was broken, between
the period of 1919 and 1922"
He told of the policy of the fight
ing unionists, who demanded the or
ganization of industrial unions to be
able to cope with the big trusts, how
instead Of being needed, they were
expelled by the labor takers. and
how these takers have already
reached the stage where they are
the open agents of the bosses in
the ranks Of the workers.
After branding the reactionary
union chiefs as manufacturers of
company unions, Foster showed the
rapid development of new militant
unions in three important industries.
These are the mining, textile and
needle trades. He concluded by call
ing upon the workers to adhere to
the heroic traditions of the fighting
textile workers and build their
union around these traditions of
struggle.
Weisb0rd on Local Situation.
Weisbord discussed chiefly the To-
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cal situation, linking it up with the
general struggle of the textile work
ers thruout the country for strong
organization that will win better
working standards for the textile
operatives.
He took up the vicious charges
made by Louis Stein, a right winger,
that the Passaic strike had harmed
the Paterson workers. Weisbord did
not dwell long on the treacherous
slarders on the heroic Passaic fight
ers, but instead showed that every
struggle of textile workers, no mat
ter in what out of the way part Of
the country, has an immediate and
direct influence on all textile work
ers.
Weisbord described the heroic role
played by the workers in Passaic
and New Bedford, who had to fight
the bosses and the A. F. Of l.. takers.
Urges Workers to Build Union.
After telling the workers that to
tuild powerful labor organization
years of struggle are necessary, the
speaker called on the workers to
build their union.
At the right wing meeting rene
gades from the militant labor move
ment, such as Lore and Salutsky,
who were expelled from the Com
munist Party several years ago,
frothed vituperation against the left
wing. They were accompanied by
speakers from the socialist party
and the socialist labor party.
So much hot birthstone came from
the lips of the traitors that the
workers were unable to endure the
salty atmosphere and after half of
the hall had been slowly emptied,
the remainder got up in body and
forced an adjournment while the
"trunp-card" of the Associated
Louis Stein, was preparing to speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13
COL OMbIA FRUIT
STRIKERS FIGHT
Report Battle With
Federal Troops
Continued from PAGE One

Continued from Page One
shaw, Colombian agent for United
Fruit, is bitterly condemned, with
lis native aides who have called for
strikebreakers from all districts Of
Colombia.
The 1924 agreement, signed by
)iogenes A. Reyes, then minister of
industry; Claude D. Boswell, of
lited Fruit, and Jose M. N. Roca,
! vernon of Magdalena province,
hide these provisions:
United Fruit, in return for the
light to exploit the provinces ba-
iana resources, was to provide IL
legation for small farmers tilling
heir own soil as well as for those
working directly for the company.
t was to advance credit to enable
he farmers to finance themselves
While preparing the banana crop; a
bigger hospital in Santa Marta and
! new hospital in another center, to-
,ether with adequate medical aid,
we're to be provided; workers were
o be paid Individually and not
through padrones; better living
quarters We're to be built by tearing
Town old slums and erecting sani-
airy dwelling houses.
United Fruit Domination.
United Fruit evaded most of these
responsibilities, the Magdalena
Workers Union charges. 1t applied
,ressure on independent formers to
'orce them to sell their land TO the
:ompany. 1t leased land to Ameri-
ans who in turn sub-leased it to
natives. 1t established company
II pres, to the dismay of the native
II hall merchants, who are backing
n e strikers.
Back of the United Fruit policy
the desire not only to depress
wages and banana prices, but to
Iispossess the native cultivators.
Wages for day laborers and pay
nent for crops are made partly in
ash and partly in scrip drawn on
he company stores.
SO aroused are the Colombian
armers and workers that their
trike has taken on the aspects of
! revolt against United Fruit DOM
nation. Thousands of soldiers have
,een poured into the province,
flashes have been frequent and a
GORE Of strikers have been killed,
according to censored cables. The
United Fruit Company is relying on
he Colombian government to break
he strike.
U. S. Domination.
The government itself is appa-
lently a creature of United Fruit
d the big American oil COM
mics. Much of the cash revenue
u the government comes from taxes
md excise levied on these COM
,anies, which demand in return sup
,ort against Colombian workers
md farmers.
The United States government it.
elf recently paid over $4,000 900 to
he Colombian government for
.laims arising out of President
3oosevelt's forcible seizure of the
,ich province Of Panama in 1904,
,rior to the building Of the Panama
canal. Since then the Colombian
government has been quite respon-
i've to state department sugges-
ions, as we'll as to direct pressure
applied by the fruit and oil COM
oanies. Among them is the oil COM
aApy dominated BY the Melons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

The program Mt the 9Th Ami
versary Celebration of the Daily
Worker Mt Manhattan Opera House
consists of the 1sadOra Duncan
Dancers of Moscow u. s. 8. II. In
N special program of Revolutions
AIRY Dances. symphony Orchestra.
Speakers. Tickets 81. S1.50. 81.
$3.50 now on sale mt Daily Work.
err office All seats reserved.
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Organize the unorganizedi Or
gnnize new unions in the morgan
lied Industries:
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COURT HITS COMPENSATION
ACT.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, (By MaiD.
The Wisconsin state compensation
act does not give the state industrial
commission power to award COM
pensation to the widow of a work
er killed while working as steve
dore on vessel locked in Lake
Superior, the U. S. Supreme Court
has decided. These accidents come
under maritime law, it was ruled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-13

JCBLESS. TRIES TO DIE.
BUTTE, Mont, (By MaiD.-
Jalmer Mattson, % year old job.
less miner, attempted suicide here.