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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
Books for Prisoners Of the
Class War in Jails of q. S.
By WALT CARMON.

TUE to their activity in the class
y war, AZ innocent workers sit be-
hind prison bars. Some of them for
months, some for years-some of
them for life. Until the workers
come to their rescue, they car only
wait and think-and read. They read
everything. In Jail there is much
time for this. While they were active
in the labor movement there was
little time for study. They were
usually busy fighting, organizing,
working.
But some Of these men will come
out of prison more valuable members
of the labor movement. Men who
have studied the history, principles
and practice of revolutionary labor
in the workers university" Many
noted figure in labor history in the
last fifty years had received good
deal of his knowledge in prison.
The International Labor Defense,
looking after the comforts of these
prisoners besides helping their families
and supplying legal aid, has asked
the AZ prisoners what books they are
reading or would like to read. The
response was: books on sociology,
economics, labor history, fiction. 4.
They have noted almost every new
book of interest to workers that has
been issued. They keep up with every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24

lished publisher. Individuals cannot
send books direct. Any funds sent
to the International Labor Defense
at 80 E. 18th St., New York, will
help to supply forty-two class war
prisoners with material to better fit
them for the struggle when they are
with US again.
These words or appreciation from
some of the prisoners for books re-
ceived will indicate the gratitude OF
our comrades behind prison bars
Claude Merritt writes: at strength
ems ones determination for the better
things of life knowing that the work
ers do not forget those who have
made a struggle and are paying fo1
their protest against conditions"
Leo Ellis, I. w. w. prisoner at San
Quentin, adds: II wish to express my
gratitude to the noble work the
l.. d. is doing among class war pri-
soners and for supplying them with
reading material that is worthwhile
l hope you will receive the support
of the masses that you deserve"
These are words from the men be-
hind prison bars because of their
activity for labor. A book to these
men, as Joe Neil writes from Ian
sing, Kansas, Prison, is worth more
than all the gold in the world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
The Brass Check
On Display IN the
Literary Market
BY SAM GARRISON.

IMPERIALISM is still functioning at
= the old slave market. This time
it has put on the block most boldly,
for every one to see, that shameless
old harlot. literature This rare virgin
Of the fine, the CLASHES" arts, is up
for sale again.
We say this in reference to the
new $4,000 War Novel Competition"
announced by the Houghton Mifflin
Company and the American Legion
Monthly. (See the New York Times
Book Review Section, March II. 1928,
where it is given half-column of free
advertfsing.) The statement an
nounces that: "The sum mentioned
above will be paid for the best novel
dealing with the period Of the world
war and having the war as its back
ground" The judges, it is stated
further in the article, will be Alice
Duer Miller, trash producer par ex-
cellence for the Saturday Evening
Post; Major Gen. James G.. Harboard,
U. S. A., retired, prominent literateur
who already has written his name at
the bottom of monthly pay check
besides producing his masterfut Gun
ners Manual; Richard Henry Little,
columnist for the yellow Chicago Tri-
bune; and, last but surely not least,
John t. Winterich. editor Of that soul
satisfying organ, the American Legion
Monthly.
That literature should prostitute it.
self is no cause for shudders from
Marxists. Those of us who remember
the veritable deluge of war literature
that flooded the country before the
U. S. entered the world war will rea-
lie that this shameless intellectual
prostitution is perfectly normal in
capitalist society on the eve of new
imperialist war. But the thing that
lis most significant about this war
novel competition is that it comes
precisely at the time when the oil
soaked government is shouting loud
ly for peace, is passing meanless
treaties to France, and when the lib
erals are sitting back, content with
tie great talk of peace and satisfied
that they have managed to "slice"
the navy bill. Another significant
point is that this comes in the great
tidal wave Of war propaganda that
has been sweeping the country for
the last two years. Pictures like
"Wings" and "West Point, kept for
long runs in the smaller moving Pfc
ture houses in the working class Sec
lions Of the cities, are part and parcel
Of that propaganda.
Another and even more significant
fact to note is that there is direct
connection between the imperialist-
militarists and the publishing houses
here. What was prophesied in a
Daily Worker editorial few months
ago in connection with the merger
Of Doubleday ard Doran is coming
true with different concern, and will
undoubtedly prove true about Double
day, Doran and Company.
The aforementioned form of intel
lcctual prostitution presents to Amer
lean Communists and all honest revo-
lutionary intellectuals the task of
building more vigorous cultural ma
chine that will help to organize the
working class against the imminent
imperialist war, for the smashing Of
imperialism, and for the crushing Of
Its miserable literary" excrescences.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
THE LOoTING OF NICARAGUA
By Rafael Nogales. Robert Mcbride
Co. $3.50.
Reviewed by HARRY FREEMAN.

IN Wednesday afternoon when this
v review was written) Senator Edge
Of New Jersey introduced bill pro-
viding for survey to determine the
hest route for canal thru Nicaragua.
The proposal, he said, has the approx.
al of the State and Navy departments.
The same afternoon United Press
despatch from Managua reported that
United States marine aviators had
bombarded the little town of Murra
and killed more than three hundred
Nicaraguans.
These events express the aims and
the methods of United States imper-
ialism in Nicaragua. The American
enrpire needs canal thru Nicaragua;
United States marines indiscriminate-
ly slaughter three hundred men, wom-
en- and children in Nicaraguan town.
The detectives of the United States
in Nicaragua are well known. They
have been frankly stated by the gov
errors and proconsuls of the American
empire. United States imperialism
needs another trans-Isthmian canal to
defend the empire which it has carved
out in Latin America, to round out its
militarist preparations for the strug-
gle in the Pacific, to promote trade.
In addition, United States bankers
have found Nicaragua small but
very lucrative field for investments,
and discovered Nicaragua rich in min
erals, coffee, fruits and timber.
The methods that the United States
has used in attaining these detectives
have been wildly told by Rafael de
Nogales in this book. Nogales, him
self a Venezuelan, traces the ruthless
exploitation of Nicaragua from the
American-financed revolution against
Zelaya in 1909 tc the American pur-
chase of General Moncada in 1927.
In attaining it's ends, United States
imperialism naturally murdered thou
sands of Nicaraguans, financed a
number of revolutions, sucked millions
of dollars out of starving poems in
the form of interest, low wages, ETC.,
set up puppet governments, etc. Some
times the United States has openly
used military force, at others it re-
sorted to camouflage. The coming
ELECTIONS will not be the first to be
supervised" by United States ma
rines. American marines guarded the
polls in 1912 when Adolfo Diaz was
elected president. In that election
only so of the $4,000 inhabitants of
Leon were permitted to vote.
The betrayal of the Nicaraguan
struggle against American imper-
ialism by General Moncada and to a
lesser degree by Juan B. Sacasa Is
described by Nogales. In relating
the beginning of the most recent
struggle of the liberals" against the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
SLAVES
By JOSEPH FREEMAN.

Again the grinding of the iron gods,
The old familiar fury of the a0heels;
Again the accustomed cIamor of the rods,
The giddy betting, and the room that reels;
The dim light dancing, and the shadoa0s shaking,
The little sudden pains, the mate despairs,
The patient and the aOeaqy hands; td a0aking
At dusk, aOe tumble doa0n the crazy stairs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
Publishers on Trial

The trial of Horace B. Liveright
and his firm, Boni and Liveright,
charged with "obscenity" in publish
ing "Replenishing Jessica," by Max
well Bodenheim, is expected to end
today. Bodenheim and Thomas r.
Smith, literary advisor to the pub
fishers, have been acquitted. The
case is being tried in Judge Knoth's
court
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
AMERICAN EMPIRE
|CRUSHES NICARAGUA

conservatives, who had seized power
Nogales says:
while DR.. Sacasa remained in
Washington one month after humbly
begging the favor of the Coolidge
admins ration which 'jollied' him
along land Sacasa well knew it!)
by promising to exercise moral pres
sure ON Chamorro, something extra
ordinary happened. The Nicara-
guam constitutionalists, tired at last
Of Sacasa's begging took the law
into their own hands and, headed
by General Luis Beltran-Ssndoval,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24
By SHACHNO EPSTEIN.
Translated from the Yiddish by
A. B. MagiD.

Mote: On March 29h the 6Oth
birthday of Ma1im Gorky, qoho Of
Russian aOriters has been most iden-
titled with the struggles of the reUo-
lutionary lOorkimg class, will be cele-
6rdted throughout the SoViet Union.
Only a fen a0eeks ago the thirty-f3th
anniversary of his literary activity
aoas observed, for a0hich occasion Cor
ky returned to the land of has birth
from his home IN Italy, 1Ohere he has
been Icing because of il-health. HIS
lifelong devotion to the toiIing masses
and his frequent defense of the U. S.
S. r. haze raised Gorky to the pro-
portions of national hero.--A. B.
NJ
L.
IN the eighties Of the last century
A the Russian intelligentsia passed
through profound inner crisis. This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24

crisis came as a
result of the COM
plete collapse of
the Populist move
ment, which had
raised the slogan
of "going among
the people,"
It was the aim
of the Populists to
bring about a freer
social order in
Russia. The revo-
lutionary w i n G
among them, with
SIC portxr Narod-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-24

Nogales takes the story of the loot
ing of Nicaragua thru the "sur-
render" of the liberal forces to Slim
son and the beginning of the strug-
gle of the genuine nationalist ele-
ments under General SANDING against
the marines. He presents a good deal
of material, available for the first
time in English, which sheds much
on the situation in Nicaragua.
Nogales, however, is naive in GER
tain respects. He is extremely sur
.prised, for instance, that number of
cables sent by Nicaraguan labor lead
ers to Sam Gompers five or six years
ago describing the loot of Nicaragua
and urging a protest against the i'm
perialist policy of the United States,
did not receive any answers.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-27
BELAKUN IS GIVEN
3 MONTHS IN JAIL
communist Has Served Two
Thirds of Sentence in
Vienna Conviction.

ny the SSSQClateQ fTeSS.
VIENNA. Austria. June 81. - Bella
Kun. Communist, who inaugurated a
reign OF red terrorism while ruling Hun
gary, today was under sentence of three
months imprisonment, He was con-
Victed of belonging to a secret society
and falsely describing himself on The
passport by which he entered Austria.
Kuns secretary, Miss Ilona Greur.
was sentenced 10 one month In Jail.
The two months Kun and Miss Greur
spent III custody awaiting trial are to
be taken into account in the serving OF
their sentences. Miss Greur Will
therefore be freed at once and Kun has
only one month To serve. Afterwaro
he will be deported to Russia.
Georges Mayerhofer. with whom Kun
lived. was acquitted. All three
were tried on the passport charge. al
though the authorities charged them
With being implicated in a con munist
plot against Hungary.
1t seemed likely for time Fiiat the
cabinet would fall as resuls of the
Kun case. Refusal of Franz d llghofer.
minister of Justice. TO extradite Kun to
Hungary brought so much criticism that
he was forced to resign
The fall Of the cabinet was averted
when Dinghofer accepted the post of
president of the supreme court. Prime
Minister Seipel agreed TO take over the
duties of the minister of justice in adj
dition to his work as federal chancellor
and minister of foreign affai :,
The handling of the t.un case
pleased neither of the extre hes of po-
litical opinion.
Kun made bold fight tc save him.
self from further imprisonment.
Arguing with the judges ard shouting
at them, he maintained that his COM
munist activities we're not secret and
criminal but purely political. He ac-
cused the judges of bullying him. He
insisted that many of the documents
put in evidence we're forged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-27
"PEAcHES" BROWNING
WINS RIGHT TO SUE
VIII Seek to Estab fish Dover
Rights in Husbands Estate.
Alleges Fraud in Transfer.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 2T.---Mrs. Frances
Peaches Heenan) Browning was grant,
ed permission yesterday by Supreme
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w. Browning. her husband, to estab-
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ing On the date of my marriage and
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Counsel for Mrs Browning said that
the real estate alleged To have been
fraudulently conveyed had an esti-
mated value of 81 900 0oU. to one-third
of which, under the Law. the wife would
be entitled
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-27
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-12
DELAY TRIAL OF
OEHLER GROUP TO
AID IN FRAME-Up
Prosecutor Seeks Time
to Strengthen
Case
Hand of Armour Co.
Criminal Syndicalism
Is Charge
Hand of Armour Co.

Especial to the Daily Worker
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. IL
In an obvious effort to get more
time to strengthen its flabby case,
the prosecution today asked for a
postponement of the trial against
Hugo Oehler, Workers Party dis
trict organizer, and seven workers
held on a charge of having violating
the state criminal syndicalist law.
They were arrested upon the instiga-
ton of the Armour Company here
at Sacco-Vanzetti memorial
demonstration on Aug. %.
The defense has already presented
it's case, and with the prosecutors
request for the delay having been
granted, he will present his argu-
ment on Sept. "a. Lawyers for the
defendants today put in motion
to dismiss the indictments on the
ground of insufficient evidence, and
Judge Gates took it under advise
ment."
The prosecution introduced in
evidence copies of the Workers
(Communist) Party platform; "The
Life and Death of Sacco and Van
zetti," by Eugene Lyons; severa
copies of the Labor Defender
a leaflet, "We Stand Firm" ISSUED
by the Communist nucleus at the
Armour plant; and copies of the
Daily Worker containing special ar.
ticles and photographs on Sacco anc
Vanzetti and speech by Bukharin
Two witnesses are being depended
upon by the prosecution in its
frame-up of the militant workers
These are Capt. Beety, of the Kan.
sas City police, and R. Rs Maiden
formerly second in command to the
chief of the Colorado state police
Maiden is now a federal prohibition
agent and strikebreaker. He came
to Kansas City to help the Armour
interests in their fight against the
growing influence Of the Workers
Party in the west.
These two worthless, together with
other company and state stool
pigeons, are exerting all efforts tx
railroad the eight workers to Ions
prison terms Workers thruout this
city, whose Indignation at the bruta
police attack on the Sacco- -Vanzett
meeting has not yet subsidized, ar,
incensed at the arrest of their com
rades and have started wide pro
test movement demanding that the
eight workers be freed. The Inter
national Labor Defense is defending
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-12
FURRIERS ISSUE
DUES MANIFESTO
Held Membership Meet
Last Night

A manifesto was issued by a
membership meeting of the fur
workers held last night in Irving
Plaza, 18th Street and Irving
Place, which was addressed espe-
cially to all workers who were COM
PEELED to register with the scab A.
F. of L. Joint Council, but who are
anxious to resume membership in
the Joint Board. A great obstacle
to the joining of such workers has
been the problem of becoming in
good standing by payments of back
dues.
The manifesto, voted for unani-
mously by the enthusiastic gather
ing, announced to the registered
workers that the Joint Board is
ready to cancel all arrear dues and
that an up-to-date book can be OBJ
tanned upon payment of the S25 tax
levied by general decree soon after
the big 1926 general strike.
All fur workers not yet members
of the Joint Board are called upon
to join up so that a more effective
drive can be launched for the or
ganization of the trade thru the new
national union planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-12
RIGHT WING THUGS
HELD IN STABB!NC
Gangsters Who Slash
Butchers Under Bail

The holding of William Schiffrin
without bail on a charge of homicide
and the continuation of the hearing
of witnesses till Friday in 161st ST.
Magistrates Court We're the latest
events developing out of the bloody
battle between five right wing thugs
of the butchers union and Schiffrin
which ended in the death of the thug
leader and the wounding of a second
of the underworld squad, when
Schiffrin fought back his assail-
ants.
Testimony rendered by eye-wit-
nesses who included passersby
neighborhood residents, ETC., was SC
overwhelming that Magistrate
Dodge decided to hold three of the
right wing thugs, who were caught
on the scene of the battle with
drawn knives, under bail of $1,000
They are Louis Katzman, Louis
Posner and Hyman Zlotnikovitz
Two companions of Schiffrin, Max
Kluger and Dave Newberg, who
were isolated from him when the
thugs attacked were also held under
the same bail, to testify in Fridays
hearing.
Events leading up to and includ-
Continued on Page Taoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-12
WORKERS CHEER
FOSTER AT MEET
S165 Is Collected in
Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Sept. IL
Five hundred enthusiastic workers
listened intsntly while William z.
Foster, Communist presidential can
didate, called on them to support the
election campaign program of the
Workers (Communist) Party at
Balm Frei Hall here last night.
Fosters appearance in the hall
was the signal for a tremendous
demonstration which lasted several
minutes. The workers responded
generously to an appeal for con-
tributions to the Communist cam
paign fund and $165 was collected.
A large number of Party platforms
was sold and several membership
applications were filled out.