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Evening star., 1928-04-02
See Bigger Freight Bin.
Wall Street Briefs

EMPLOYMENT SITUATION.-A sur
vey on the employment situation by the
National Association OF Manufacturers
covering % classifications Of industry
brought reports from ]. .078 manuiactur-
ing concerns in 80 States and shows
slight increase In employment. These
companies are now employing 663, 30
persons, against 655,0i5 at this time last
wear. an increase Of l.24 per cent.
when any considerable typical group
OF manufacturers In all parts OF the
country report that they are operating
with more workers than last year and
when that same group is producing at
rate OF 87.5 per cent OF their highest
possible maximum production, ! cannot
see where we have any cause for undue
alarm over the employment situation OF
ITSELF" said John E. Edgerton, president
OF the association.
AMERICAN SERVICE Co.--Consol-
idation of 30 companies operating 81
ice plants In 8 States has been effected
through the formation Of the $4,000 900
American Service Co. which will supply
ice 10 % cities In Iowa. Kansas. Ar
kansas. Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee:
Oklahoma and Texas. The plants VIII
have daily capacity of 1000 tons OF Ice.
Public offering OF $780, 600 first mort
gage per cent notes VIII oe mace
shortly by A. b. Loach Co.
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. - Review
ing economic conditions, the National
CITY Bank OF New York. largest finan-
ciai institution In America, says the
month OF March has witnessed furtner
Improvement In. the condition or gen.
eral business, but favorable and unfa-
yorable influences continue so mixed
that business men are still In a good
deal of n ouandary as 10 the trend. The
steel and automobile industries have
had a good recovery and building Is be-
ina projected in large volume through
out the country, but thus far there has
not been the foliow-up in other lines
that was hoped for by this time. An
expansion of commercial borrowing at
banks and increasing employment are
underlying evidences OF general better
ment.
BOTANY CONSOLIDATED MILLS.
Marked Improvement In the financial
condition of Botany Consolidated Mills.
Inc. and Its subsidiary. Botany Wofsted
Mills, is shown In the report for 1927,
Gross income, exclusive of depreciation.
was 1857 ,745, against net loss OF so, ,a9t :
664 In 1925. After interest, depreciation
and other charges, the company closed
the year with u deficit Of $6i5.9i8,
against deficit OF $2.9i0.0G0 the year
before.
MORTGAGE BANK or COLOMBIA.
| Offering OF 10000 American shares Of
| the Mortgage Bank OF Colombia Is being
made at $40. 10 yield more than per
| cent at present dividend rate, by BAKER
Kellog AZ %. Participation certificate
! In $4,000, 900 b-year per cent note Of
the Provincial Bank OF Westphalia also
are being offered by International Ac-
ceptance Bank at 07s4, 10 yield more
than $50 per cent.
| NATIONAL DAIRY PRODUCTS
CORPORATION Combined net earn-
ings of National Dairy Products Cor
poration and subsidiaries for 1877, after
taxes, interest preferred dividends and
S9.7e7,T ,T44 for depreciation, maintenance
and repairs, amounted 10 4g,6aa. .2ga, nI
s6,g2 a share on the eomon stock. sales
for the year were sl4b, aa0,0Ap, against
tl34.blp.eio In ip2e.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
PANHANDLE PRODUCING.

NEW YORK, April 2 Np,~~Pan-
handle Producing " Refining reports
net loss Of $4,000 for 1927. against net
profit OF s32b,lb4 In 1926, or tii.bg a
share on the 9 per cent preferred ON
which no dividends have been paid
since July, 1919, Profit for 1925 In
Guided s4o7,sss on property sold and
retired.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
COTTON GOODS STEADY.

NEW YORK, April 2 (speciaIJ Gut.
ton goods markets were quist BE the
new week started, snd prices were un,
changed. Print cloths were quoted al
7Es for 61xG0s and ~ ssk for 6sE72s
The raw elk market was active Al un'
changed pFlcss.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK. April 2 1p - Flour
steady: Spring patents, 74aa7 85; soft
Winter straights, 7aha7 as; hard VIM
ter stfaights, 720a7,65, Rye Arm: No
q Western, i.36as fob, New York and
! .aAAa elf. export. Lard steady; Mid
die West. IL 200ai2i0, Tallow barely
steady, special loose, 8as extra, ala,
Evening star., 1928-04-02
POTOMAC EDISON EARNINGS,
neclal nlsnnleh to The SUE.

Special nisnntch 70 The Star
FREDERICK. Md, April 2,~~dross
earnings of the Potomac Edison Co,
leading power producer of western
Maryland, for the past year were So
8aS, ,46B ~. according TO a statement ilst
mailed to stockholders, This Is an in
crease OF $370,343i5 over the previous
wear.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
CURTIss RIGHTS OFFERED

NEW YORK, April tR)>~f5toek~ =
holders Of Curitss Asr0plsne ~ Motor
Co are being offered rights W sub
seTtbe To additional common shares,
one for every three owned. st S52 q
snare. The current market price il
around sec D share
Evening star., 1928-04-02
PROFIT SLUMps.

NEW YORK. April 2 tApl.-s sloss-
aheflield steel earned s6aa share on
the common stock IN 1927, after pres
ferred dividends, In contrast to sid,37
a share In lea6, Net proht declined to
ei,ibi 800 from s2.i06,Tbp,
Evening star., 1928-04-02
WHEAT HAS ADVANCE
IN TODAY'S DEALINGS
Unofficial Crop Reports Prove Bull
ish-Corn and Oats Firm
in Chicago Market.

By the Assoeisted Press.
CHICAGO, April with unofficial
monthly crop reports proving even
more bullish than expected. wheat to-
day showed an early upward trend. Ac-
cording 20 one leading expert the pres
ent prospect is for q domestic Winter
wheat crop $4,000. 900 bushels less than
last year. Opening unchanged to II
higher, wheat reacted little and then
scored a general advance. Corn, oats
and provisiors ESQ developed firmness.
corn S.-7iing unchanged TO Il OF and
Subsequently showing gains all around.
Evening star., 1928-04-02
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received By Private Wire Direct to The star Once

Following Is a list of stocks and
bonds traded In on the New York Curb
Market today:
The Washington times., 1928-11-26
WlNf1llM SHADES

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win not curl KLEERLATT 18th and Il
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The Washington times., 1928-11-26
Motor Coach Schedules

WINCHESTER. via Alex. MiddIeburg and
& UnuerviNe Valley line connections leave
~ 40 q. M 10 noon. 4 80 o. M 9th Pa.
Ave. n W. NJ. 0493. Net. bSl4-
The Washington times., 1928-11-26

1915 f4TE5 ST. ~. w.
Attractive apartment. 2 rooms, kit =
D. amt. $40 mo Mr. Howard N $500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
Who Will Nab the Bad
Rothstein Murderer?
Oh! No! Not Tammany

The Tammany comedy between
Jimmie Walker and Police Commits
sioner Warren played with the
Rothstein murder case as back
ground became slap-stick farce
yesterday as the police head sat
down in conference with the jazz
mayor just before the zero hour
struck yesterday and admitted ira
gically that nothing, absolutely
nothing, had developed in the case.
The murderers are still at large.
They refuse, politely but firmly to
give themselves up and be scorched
to death in the patent chair which
the state supplies for the purpose.
Of course, everyone knows that
Tammany is only joking and does
not really want to scorch the polite
murderers, dope pedlers and silk hat
gamblers who are behind scenes.
And the mayor gave the police
commissioner (all in the most SER
ious manner) twenty-four more
hours to find the murderers-or
there will be the most shakable
shake-up of the police department
ever. Maybe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
FLOODS IN WEST
CAUSE II DEATHS
Mississippi Rises;Far
Lands Inundated

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 19.-Raging
streams were overflowing their
banks today in five states, destroy
ing lives and homes of poor farmers
and workers caught in the path of
the torrent. The Mississippi itself
had overflowed its banks along the
borders of Missouri and Illinoi~.
Many Negroes are reported to have
been killed.
Rainfall aggravated the condition,
many inches falling in the llocded
areas, raising the level of the al
ready-overflowing streams. his
condition, it was pointed out, could
have been avoided completely had
the relief activities of the last great
Mississippi flood been properly
handled.
With three more deaths in Ken
lucky and two additional deaths Il,
Kansas, the total number of lives
lost in this flood is now placed at
II. The land of hundreds of poor
farmers has been inundated, with
water flowing fiercely through tn
faulty levees and breakwaters. Com
plete property damage was estimated
late tonight at $10,O0O,000.
PINEVILLE, KY, Nov. 10 (UP).
The Cumberland River overflowed
its banks yesterday. drowning three
miners at Telijay, KY, and forcing
( r1any workers families to abandon
their homes in surrounding towns.
Z The miners were drowned while
crossing a bridge which was car
ried away by the river. The nearby
town of Middlesboro was sur
rounded by the flood and in Pines
vile and Harlem many miners
families were forced to flee from
their homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
GREEN PLEDGES
A. F. |. SUPPORT
TO AMERICANISM
Makes Vicious Attack
on Communism at
Convention
Proud of War Record
Repeats Fake Slogan
to Fool Unorganized
Proud of War Record

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 10,
Tuning up the reactionary
A. F. of L. band of machine
picked delegates to the we'll
known note of denunciation of
the Communists, William Green,
president of the Federation, today
opened its 48th annual convention
in session here with the expected
blast against all things progressive
and militant.
Seeking to prove that the Off
cialdom of the Federation was the
greatest force for Americanism in
the country, Green in his opening
address before the convention, de-
Tended the organization against the
usual attacks made by the National
Association of Manufacturers.
GLORIOUS" Was Record.
"We are not a menace to Amer
lean institutions" he said, pointing
to the GLORIOUS" war record of the
A. F. of L. during which the labor
bureaucrats became one of the lead
ing arms of the U. S. war machine.
while we were fighting to uphold
American institutions, some of the
manufacturers were profiteering,
he ended in an outburst of patriotic
fervor.
The Communists, he said, were
the greatest menace to these insti-
tutions, and the A. F. of L., in car
rying out an uncompromising policy
of expulsions of the militants, was
the greatest bulwark of American
ism.
In his speech Green continued
the emphasis laid on the slogan of
organize the unorganized contained
in the report to the convention of
the Executive Council. Double the
union membership in the next year."
he said, "is our watchword." In
the same breath, lest this phrase be
taken literally by the labor move
ment, he warned the delegates
against any display of militancy.
Labor must cooperate with indus
try" he said. at must bear in mind
that discussion and conference are
better than a fight"
Fake Slogan.
Careful observers at the conven-
tion have remarked that the stress
placed on the phrase, "organize the
unorganized" is the response of the
A. F. of L. bureaucracy to the or
ganization drives launched by the
Continued en- Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
YOUNG WORKERS
DEMONSTRATE AS
ENVOY STARTS
H ED Incommunicado
as Proconsul Boards
Maryland"
First Stop Is Corintt
Hoover to Clinch Plans
for Nicaragua Canal

SAN JOSE. CAL, Nov. 49,
Following a demonstration BY
members of the Workers
(Communist) Party and the
All-America Anti Imperialist
League against American i'm
perialism in Latin-America.
Dresident-elect Hoover set sail
for the southern continent
aboard the battleship Mary
land.
Six destroyers surrounded
the battleship on its outward VOYAGE.
from the harbor while the rest of
the fleet Joined in 21-gun salute.
Besides, the president-elect and
his wife, the Maryland also carries
35 members of Hoover's encourage.
Demonstrate At Station.
The anti-imperialist demonstra-
tion occurred as the Hoover party
boarded their special train at Palo
Alto at 1880 last night.
Four young workers, V. V. Dart,
of the district executive committee
of the Workers Party; James Jones.
of the Young Workers League and
John Arneth, forced their way thru
the police lines towards the Lresi-
dent-elect, who was surrounded by
secret service. newspaper and col
lege men. The workers bore pia-
cards calling on the imperialists to
&c out of Nicaragua and urging the
| American workers to read the Daily
Worker.
Secret service men Immediately
sprang at the young workers. seizing
the placards and hustling them out
of range of the president elects
person.
The young workers are being held
incommunicado while arrangements
for bail are being made. The prison
ers pleaded not guilty to charges of
disturbing public assembly. Their
trial has been set for Friday.
In an attempt to play the mag
unanimous hero, Hoover today wired
the mayor of Palo Alto that he be-
lieved the demonstration calling for
the withdrawal of United States
armed forces from Nicaragua "a
college boy prank" He urged that
it be not taken seriously.
At the same time, the man who
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
FORCE vESTRIS
CREW TO SILENCE
Workers on Stand Are
Intirnidated

Yesterdays session of the "in-
vestigation" into the causes of the
sinking of the Vestris, held under
the supervision of U. S. Attorney
Tuttle, definitely revealed the act
that the crew of the ill-fated vessel
has been browbeaten and intimidated
by the agents of the Lamport and
Holt Company until many are afraid
to uphold the charges that they
made when the investigation was
first begun. These charges, when
first made, fully laid the blame of
the wreck at the doors of the own
ers of the ship.
When it was discovered, sever i
days ago, that a radio message had
been sent to the L. and H. offices,
advising them about the bad condi-
tion of the Vestris, and that the COM
pany had wired back to the Vestris
an order that no S. o. S. call be sent
out in order to save the salvage
costs, the seamen and radio opera
tors had been definite in their ac-
cusations against the Lamport and
Holt Line. But yesterday the work
er-witnesses could mot remember"
or had forgotten" In the interval
since the disaster, it was poiated
out, the company agents have had
ample time to close the mouths G
the workers.
Issue Fake Statement.
In the lack of any charge from
the intimidated workers, the 'in-
vestigation" has issued a statement
saying that it has been proven that
no message was sent by the Vestris
to the owners. This has en-
seconded by David Cook, senior Off
Ger of Sanderson and Co., agents
here of Lamport and Holt. He has
flatly denied that any MESSAGE was
received from the sinking ship; d
with the seamen intimidated into
silence, this statement will stand as
official"
The deck has been cleared by the
moneyed interests that control this
so-called investigation; the crew has
been silenced; the complete white
washing of the company guilt hat -
most been accomplished. From now
on, the investigation will attempt to
put the final touches on its frame-up
Of the workers.
Safety Costs Money.
Other Investigations. however, not
under the control of the U. S. Gov
ernment, continued to pile up the
Continued on Page Five
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20

That the Lamport and Holt
steamship company is hiding the log
of the Vestris which would reveal
the guilt of the company and the
captain in the loss of III lives, is
the charge made by sailors at the
Marine Workers Progressive League
in the Seamen's Club at % South
Street.
A fireman from the rescue ship
American Shipper" declares that
when survivors were picked up by
that ship, the chief officer of the
Vestris. Frank w. Johnson, and the
third officer, came aboard with two
brief cases which have since been
missing.
Where Is the Vestris Log.
AS it is customary for all ships
officers to take the log (the ships
documentary chronicle of every
thing that happens on board) when
any ship is deserted, sailors are GER
tain that the missing brief cases
are deliberately concealed and the
log of the Vestris declared lost with
the ship, in order to conceal the
guilt of the company.
This story gains in credence from
the fact that Chief Officer Johnson,
after landing in New York, hid
away for two days with the Lam
port and Holt lawyers and mana
gers before going on the stand at
the polite invitation of U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Tuttle.
"Where is the Vestris log?" asked
the sailors. "And if it was not in
those brief cases, what was in them
to cause them to be concealed from
investigation" ?"
Investigation" Shelters Company.
These questions, which are equal
to accusations by seamen who know,
alternate with angry ridicule at the
"four-flushing" U. S. district attor-
ney who is Investigating" the dis
aster from the point of view that
the Vestris crew must be made to
tell "why they are alive"
There is no mystery in arv so'
or's mind as to why the Vestris
sunk, there is only marvel in their
minds that she didn't sink before.
A Simple Case.
The case is simple. The Vestris,
like all the Lamport and Holt ships,
was an old tub that was so rotten
she couldn't float any longer. "Don't
tell me that there was any storm to
amount to anything" says a sailor
Look at the picture in the Times
Sunday edition, showing the Vestris
fitting over few minutes before
she went down. A big stretch of
sea is shown, but no waves, let
alone no big combers. If there was
ground swell, that couldn't sink
any ship"
"The story that makes out that
there was a storm is plain lie. The
Vestris was leaking when she left
port and simply got worse and
worse until she went down! Storm!
That's all in your eye, buddy!"
Criminal Inspection Practice.
Steamboat Inspection" The sail.
ors snort at the. phrase. "No steam.
er is inspected according to law.
land the law is loose enough" they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
NApoLI SCORES
SCAB NEWSPAPER
Communist Assails III
Nuovo Monde"

In a scathing denunciation of tie
s'rikebreaking and scab-herding tao
tics of the Italian socialist paper, "Il
Nuovo Mondo," which has locked out
its union printers and is now engaged
in an attempt to operate open shop,
Nicola Napoli, editor of the Italian
Communist paper, al Lavoratore, +"
yesterday called upon the militant
Italian workers of the city to demony
strate their %opposition to these
strikebreaking activities by boy
cotting the paper and refusing it
any further support.
"The is ue in this case is a clear
one," Napoli declared in an interview
for the Daily Worker. "There is no
question here of any anti-fascist
fight as the officials OF the scab-
herding socialist paper pretend. 1t
is case of workers in union fight
against boss who is trying to break
the union and institute the open
shop. All workers will recognize
the Importance of this challenge and
will unite to stifle the poisonous rep
tile which many of them have helped
to nurse"
Tresca Denounces Scabs.
Further developments in the case
during the past "a hours were mark
ed by a spirited attack on the al
Nuovo Monde" strikebreaking tac-
tics, by Carlo Tresca, well-known
Italian radical and editor, who de-
nounced the papers open-shop meth
ods, and called upon the workers to
boycot it.
"This stand though somewhat be-
lated" Napoli said, "is certainly well
come.y We are glad that Tresca now
sees that we were right, the position
we have maintained for over two
years."
Declaring that the "Il Nuovo
Monde" was assuming a "reformist,
reactionary stand which is against
the elementary principles of any re-
Continued OIL Page Tico
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
SILK STRIKERS TO
MEET THURSDAY
Membership Will Have
Say on Clusters
Especial to the Daily Worker


PATERSON, N. j., Nov. 49,
With the declaration: 81 don't give
a damn for your majority" Fred
Hoelscher, secretary of the Asso-
ciated Silk Workers Union, and
chief of the clique that is trying to
oust the constitutional Strike Com
mittee because of its militancy, this
morning tried to disrupt the strik-
ers' mass meeting by ordering Ger
trude Mueller, left wing chairman,
off the platform.
Despite the fact that the official
dom had come to the meeting rein
forced with a gang of strong-arm
men, the determined stand of the
overwhelming majority of the MEM
bership forced them to allow the left
wing leader to make her statement
in the name of the strike committee.
Membership Meet Thursday.
+ After giving an account of the ac-
tivities of the strike committee, of
how it was functioning as the rep
resentative of the silk strikers even
in the handling of complaints in the
shops where fake settlements were
concluded thru the officialdom's pol
icy, Gertrude Mueller, announced to
the crowded hall the call to men,
bership meeting this Thursday night
at o'clock in Turn Hall. This was
in direct defiance of tho decision Of
the officialdom to call no more men,
bership meetings, for fear of having
their expulsion plans vetoed by the
highest authority in the organization.
The strike committees decision
goes further than that, according
to it's official reporter. 1t makes a
demand on the Joint Board to see
TO it that no violence occurs at the
meeting and that Hoelscher as sec
retary stand instructed to send out
mail notices to all the members Of
the union to come to the meeting.
Thursday night" Mueller declared,
"the membership will have chance
to discuss and officially decide
whether the action of the officials in
dissolving their strike committee was
arbitrary or not and whether THIS
act was one of a strikebreaking
character"
At the same time she warned the
officialdom that the workers are
well able to maintain orders at their
own meetings and that strong arm
methods will not be tolerated.
Hoelscher in Hypocritical Talk.
Hoelscher then took the floor to
deliver a speech in which he alter
nately cringed in defense and threat
ened further suppressive measures
against the left wing strike commit
tee. First of all he declared that
there will be no membership meet
ings and that the dissolution was
final. He then apologized for the
attacks on the militants by whining,
IL am no leader, 1 am only secre-
tary." He then launched an unprin-
cipled and hypocritical attack on the
left wing leadership of the heroic
Passaic and New Bedford strikes.
After announcing, "They said that
Hoelscher can't fight, I'll show them
that Hoelscher can fight" he imme,
diately proved it by peddling a SIAN
derous lie that even the bosses hesi-
tated to use against the left wing
strike leaders in those great strug-
Continued ON Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20
NEW ATTACK ON O'BRIEN
Would Dust Ark. Militant from Union

the labor movement, and has brought
the matter to his local, No. 1889 of
the Brotherhood. During the recent
election campaign, O'Brien defied
the reactionaries among the local
patriotic" business men and labor
takers, and insisted upon the right
of Communists to hold street meet
ings and present their issues to the
workers Of Arizona. He was arrest
ed number of times for speaking
n defiance of the authorities and
;arrorists, but succeeded in having
Zen Citlow. communist vice-presi
dental candidate, speak in Phoenix.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-20

PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 19.--Wil-
liam O'Brien, candidate for governor
of Arizona on the Workers (Com-
munist) Party ticket in the recent
elections, is facing expulsion from
his union, the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners, because of
his fight against he Ku Klux Klan
and American Legion, and for the
right of the Communist Party to
hold meetings in his state.
The International union, one of the
most reactionary in the American
Federation of Labor, has ORGANIZED
this plot to expel militant from