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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-29
NORRIS GIVES
dual REASON
TO ELECT AL
Smiths Stand on Farm
Relief and Power Caused
His Switch.

OMAHA Neb., Oct. 29.-Water
power plus farm relief form the
chief reasons for his support of
Governor Albert E. Smith, was the
declaration of United States Sena-
tor George w. Norris of Nebraska,
progressive Republican, in a speech
in Omaha, Neb., Saturday night.
In explaining his reason for being
a "turncoat," during the final cam
paign days, to back the Democratic
nominee, he let it be known that he
did not favor Smiths stand on the
prohibition question.
He added, however, that it was
his belief that Governor Smith
would enforce the dry laws.
Likened to Teddy"
1.-THE most important question now
before the American people is the
preservation of our natural re-
sources and this brings us to the
power question" he averred.
1.-THE present power trust is the
most monopolistic organization de-
yised by human ingenuity.
Governor Smiths attitude" he
continued, ION this question places
him side by side with the great
father of national conservation,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Shall
we be so partisan as to refuse to
follow the only leader who affords
us an escape from this water power
trust?"
Senator Norris said that Hoover
after seven years inaction has come
forward with three solutions for the
problems of the farm, namely;
tariff, st. Lawrence canal and a CO.
operative organization.
Fights Dry Law Repeal
. sand he declares all three as I'M
practical and noneffective in help
ing the farmer" the senator de-
clared.
Norris cited Smiths stand on the
principle involved in the NIcNary-
Haugen bill in his Omaha address.
"The only reservation was as to
the machinery, and want to say
that you Republicans who have adj
vocated the McNary- Haugen bill
haven't leg to stand on unless you
come out in this contest and support
/ Governor Smith"
! The senator asserted he would
fight any attempt 70 repeal the Vol
stead act.
"But the Governor says he will
enforce the law, and that's some
thing that hasn't been done during
the past seven years." continued
Norris.
He denounced Hoover for giving
a need of praise to the last seven
years Of Republican administration.
"I cannot forget" he said, that
the men who opposed any probe,
the men who defended Daugherty,
Fall, Sinclair, Forbes and who de-
Tended Miller, are in the main the
men backing Mr.. Hoover for the
presidency"
He answered criticisms Of his
turning to the Smith banner by cit
ing that Senator Curtis of Kansas
supported a Democratic nominee for
the senate in his own state, and
that Hoover held office under a
Democratic administration and was
advocated for election as a Demo-
cratic congressman.
He termed Tammany a white
robed saint" to the Ware machine of
Pennsylvania"
An attack on religious intoler-
ance closed his address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
II. S. Faces Crisis on Ne1U Year
As Coolidge prosperity" Fades

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.--The one
outstanding fact in the realm Of eco
Monies is that America is entering
crisis. The year comes to close
with industry at lower level than
at any time since 1920-21, with the
army of unemployed even exceeding
any after-the-war year and the bread
lines reaching the proportions Of
1913, year Of industrial depression
that heralded long downward trend
that was changed only because of
the outbreak Of the world war and
the consequent demand for American
industrial products.
In spite of the general downward
tendency, emphatically marked at
the close of the year, the politicians,
the so-called statesmen who are en-
gagged in systematic Justification
Of statistics in order to perpetuate
the myth of Coolidge prosperity, are
proclaiming that 1928 will be another
boom year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
WOMEN TO AID
Penn STRIKERS

EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 2.
The Miners Relief Committee of
East Pittsburgh, has issued call to
all women's organizations, auxiliaries,
clubs and societies, to a conference for
the purpose of orgaAizing a Women's
Auxiliary of Miners Relief Commit
tee.
There are tens of thousands of min
ers' wives and children on the verge
of starvation, and many more thous-
sards face the bitter cold of the win
ter in wooden barracks with insult
ficient clothing and shoes. The COM
mittee is of the opinion that every
one is aware of these facts, and feels
that all women and their respective
organizations are duty-bound to help
their sisters in distress from eight
long months of strike.
Send Delegates.
All women's organizations of Will
(Contanued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
MINEOLk HEARING
COMES UP JAN. 5

The hearing on the appeal of nine
furriers who were convicted at Min
cola, L. l., for their strike activities,
will come up in the Brooklyn Supreme
Court in Part 2 of the Court of Ap-
peals Thursday morning.
The hearing has been postponed
several times at the request of the
district attorney of Nassau County.
If the appeal is granted new trial
will be obtained for the nine furriers,
who have been sentenced to serve
from 21a to 5 years in state prison.
Two Acquitted.
The right wingers in the Furriers'
Union helped the prosecution at the
trial by appearing as witnesses
against the defendants in this case,
which came out of the successful 1926
general strike.
Altho IL were tried, Ben Gold,
manager, and l. Shapiro, chairman of
the Joint Board, two of the defend
ants, were found not guilty.
Want 44-Hour Week.
An open declaration has been made
by member of the Associated Fur
Manufacturers that the policy of the
employees is to reinstate the 44-hour
week in the fur industry.
This statement was made last Fri
day by Morris Wissof, a manufac-
turer of 90 East Broadway, on the
witness stand of the Municipal Court.
The court had ordered him to pay
Jack Gilman, worker, for the extra
four hours he had refused to work
when Wissof announced a 44-hour
schedule in his shop last week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
I'VE Were Chased Ont of Our
Homes, Say Miners Children

When nine-year-old Eddy Busulo-
vich told how he and his six brothers
and sisters, together with the other
children of the striking miners Of
Harmarville, Pa, were "chased out
of our houses because our Dads
wouldn't go scabby," adding, eve are
hungry, we need clothing and food,
will you help us win the striker" 300
representatives at a Children's Con-
ference for Miners Relief meeting
pledged to do their part in feeding
the children of the strikers yester-
day afternoon at Irving Plaza, 18th
St. and Irving Pl.
Strike Children Whipped.
Emma Sjever, who also lives in
the barracks Of Acmetonia in the
outskirts of Harmarville, told how at
first her schoolmates tried to con-
vince the children of scabs to make
their fathers stop scabbing.
"They didn't stop and we have to
fight them," she said. "The principal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
MORE LOSE JOBS
AS FERRIES QUIT

JERSEY CITY, Jan. 2.-An al
ready bad unemployment situation in
Northern New Jersey is being height
ened by continual curtailment of
Hudson River ferry service due to
the recently opened Holland vehicular
tunnel. The Lackawanna r. R. ferry
between Hoboken and Christopher St.,
New York, now follows the lead of
the others plying the Hudson, and
beginning Jan. 8 will operate only be-
tween 7 A. M. and 9 P. Nj. weekdays,
stopping entirely Sundays. The num-
Der of workers made jobless is not
stated. Several hundred have been
laid off on the other ferries. Recent
ly several ferrymen who lost their
jobs were arrested for telling tuprsi
employers in Jersey City ths1 ths
tunnel air was poisoned and th& ~
had better quit their jobs. h1aI
officials hastened to deny the yss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
CHARGES l. R. 7.
JUCGL.ES FIGURES

The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company will not be able very much
longer to use it's claim of poverty as
an excuse to delay improvement in
service, according to an announcement
issued yesterday by Samuel Inter
meyer, special counsel for the Transit
Commission.
"With it's constantly growing prof
it's" Untermeyer charged, "its plea
of poverty will be shown to be down.
right untrue" He further charged
that the Interborough Figures have
been alarmingly juggled to make it
appear poor"
These disclosures are part of the
facts which have come out of the hear
ings now being conducted by the
Transit Commission to compel the In
terborough to improve it's service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03

Herbert Hoover, secretary of COM
merce, and one Of the outstanding
presidential candidates for the repub-
lican nomination for president of the
United States, distorts facts to per-
petuate political illusion. He is held
to be the logical successor to Coolidge
and will probably receive the official
blessing Of Andrew w. Mellon, the
real head of the Coolidge administra-
ton, hence it is imperative that he
join in the chorus of optimists.
Democrats Are Critical.
The facts in the economic situation
that refute the Coolidge prosperity
myth are being used by some Of the
democratic politicians and it is prob
able that the prosperity talk will be
pretty much discredited before the
campaign is well under way.
One of the New York Tammanyites,
Representative William A. Oldfield,
chairman of the democratic congress
Continued on Page Ta0o)
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whips US for it, but it doesn't hurt
much and we've got to win! Some of
these kids are ashamed of their faith
ers," she added.
About 300 Representatives of
unions, schools, Pioneers, Young Peo-
pies Socialist Leagues and other
children's clubs decided to print meal
tickets to sell at 10 cents each to
help feed the children of the striking
miners of Colorado and Pennsylvania.
Milka Sablich Talks.
They also agreed to call large
mass meetings, section conferences
mass meeting, section conferences
in about four months to check up
on the work done.
Milka Sablich, Colorado strike lead
er, told how 2 children joined their
mothers and fathers in the picket
line before dawn. "One boy about 8
saw guard push his mother back
from the line" she said. "He grabbed
Continued ON Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
Unemployed in Work
Demand on Broadway

While Broadway was celebrating
the arrival of the New Year Satur-
day 800 unemployed workers lead by
"Mr. Zero" appeared on the scene to
demonstrate in a body the significance
of New Years Day to them.
Starting at the Bowery and st.
Marks Place, the army of unemployed
marched to 59th St. and Columbus
Circle, turning southwark then to the
New York Public Library and thence
to the Bowery, where they spent the
night in Zero's Cub"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
Miners RELIEF
DRIVE BACKED AT
BIG LABOR RALLY
Story of Brave Struggle
Is Related

The attack on the coal miners II
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado waF
described as general offensivc
against the whole American labo7
movement by speakers at the frs
large-scale mass relief meeting II
New York which last night filled tht
Central Opera House, 9th st. ant
Third Ave.
The meeting was enthusiastic ant
militant.
Demands for militant support were
enthusiastically accepted at the meet
ing, the first of series to aid the
struggle of the 10000 miners now
On strike.
Rockefeller Blamed.
The responsibility for the murder
Of the six coal miners by company
thugs of the Columbine Mine in Colo
rado was laid at the door of John u
Rockefeller last night by A. 5. EN-
bree, Colorado strike organizer, who
was one of the speakers.
"The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co
advanced money to the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Co., the owners of the Co
lumbine mine," Embree charged
"This money was transferred for de-
velopment work on new coal lands
1t is thus easy to see how pressure
was brought by the Rockefeller inter
ests against the Rocky Mountain F'ueI
Co. The latter company was used by
the C. F. & l. to precipitate the call
ing out of the national guard by the
shooting at the Columbine NINE"
Milka Speaks.
FLAMING Milka" Sablich, 19-year-
old girl strike leader, told of the part
Of the women and children in the
present struggle.
Other speakers were William F
Esssne, of The DAILY WORKER;
(ContinueG ON Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
DEFENSE BAZAAR
MARKS new YEAR

The nine day bazaar of the Joint
Defense Committee, Cloakmakers and
Furriers, ended early Sunday morning
with thousands of workers in atten-
lance at the final ball at Grand Cen
sral Palace, Lexington Ave. and 46th
st.
The climax was reached at IL p.
m. Saturday, when Calogero Greco
and Donate Carrillo, anti-fascists, re-
Gently discharged from fascist
frame-up in the Bronx County court,
entered the hall.
The workers Immediately set up
mighty cheers of "Long live Greco
and Carrillo p and "Down with fas-
cism!" and surrounded the two work
ers.
Remember Prisoners.
Louis Hyman, manager of the Joint
Board, Cloak and Dressmakers'
Jnion, then escorted the two workers
30 the platform while thousands of
workers cheered again.
Greco then addressed the assembled
.,'orkers. He reminded them that
other class war prisoners are still in
prison and urged his listeners to use
her power to secure their release.
"We must intensity our campaign
4ree our fellow workers, who have
1een imprisoned by frame-ups, insti-
gated always by the bosses and their
official or unofficial agents." he said.
Carrillo spoke next. He thanked
the workers for their support in the
movement for the release of Greco
and himself
give months in jail" he added,
twill not stop me from continuing
my fight against fascism wherever I
see il"
Guests At Banquet.
Later in the evening the two work
ers were guests of honor at a ban
quet given to them in the Italian res
taurant on the balcony.
Early Saturday afternoon the main
floor was cleared of booths to give
the merrymakers more room for dane
ing. AS result Of this move, thou
sands of additional workers were able
to welcome the New Year at the cos
tune ball.
Settle For Tickets.
An appeal to settle for tickets for
the bazaar was issued yesterday by
the Joint Defense Committee, Al
Union Square. They point out that
the forthcoming appeal on the Min
cola cases and the contempt cases
against the leaders of the Joint Board,
Cloak and Dressmakers' Union, con
stitute an immediate problem for
which thousands of dollars are needed
at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
W. Green DEGREES
union SURRENDER

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-What is
being characterized in some labor
circles as further step in the policy
of progressive surrender to the en-
ployers, is seen in the New Years an
nouncement by VIM. Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor.
Throwing himself, figuratively
speaking, into the very arms of capi-
talism, Green proclaims again the
gospel of industrial peace" and "good
will" which he is nevertheless forced
to admit is not being accepted by the
employers. The announcement saws:
Upon the very threshold Of the
New Year organized labor in the Uni
ted States challenges the owners and
management of industry to cooperate
with it in the establishment and main
tenance of sound economic standards
and industrial peace.
Offers to Speed-Up Workers.
1--WE welcome the opportunity of
giving our collective skill, training
and technique to the development OF
industrial and individual efficiency
We believe that American living STAN
dards and national prosperity can be
fostered only through the main
tenance of high industrial produc-
tlvity level and still higher mass pur-
chasing power.
The real problem of the New Year
VIII be that of financing commodity
consumption. Not only must the con-
sumlng mass of people be encouraged
CONTINUED on Page Two)
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adopted IN regard TO 1undamenIal
problems of external and internal pol
icy of the Communist Party and the
new tasks of economic construction.
After summarizing the congress de-
cisions about the Opposition, Rudsu-
tax in reply to question stated that
so far Kamenev, Zinoviev, Yevdoki-
NOV, and other members of the OPP
position, had made individual applica-
tions asking reinstatement, while the
Trotsky group is still silent.
Approve Congress.
In this Pudsutak warned the OPP
positionists aligned with Trotsky that
the proletarian state would not tole-
rate any underground attempt against
the Soviet Union.
The meeting adopted a resolution
approving in full the decisions of the
Fifteenth Congress of the All Union
Communist Party.
The resolution notes the growth of
the revolutionary movement in Europe
and the new revival of the struggle
of the oppressed people.
Must Lead Struggles.
Recalling the imminent danger Of
new imperialist war, the resolution
declares that the Communist parties
must lead, the class struggle in all
countries and engage in a fight
against the social democrats, who are
supporting the imperialists and the
Trotskyists and who are making COM
mon cause with the social democrats.
The resolution calls upon all Party
members to work for the realization
of the directions of the Fifteenth Par
ty Congress, for the enhancement of
the industrialization of the country,
for the development of rural economy
on collective basis and for the par
ticipation of large masses in the work
of the Soviets, the trade union, the
cooperatives, etc.
The resolution notes with satisfac-
ton the final liquidation of the OPP
position by the Fifteenth Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
BOSSES COUNSEL
ADMITS LAWS NOT
0bEYED AT Mines
Proof Of Dangerous and
Unhealthy Conditions

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 2.-lncreas-
lg pressure which was brought to
ear on Governor Adams by labor
Mons and liberals finally compelled
i'm to release Frank Palmer and
Adam Bell, Colorado mine strike lead
RS who were being held as military
prisoners.
The two mine leaders were arrest
ed by military force when the gov
ernor had issued an order that state
of insurrection existed in two North
ern Colorado counties. Following the
Columbine massacre. The courts had
ruled that prisoners who were taken
by the military authorities had no
redress from the law.
Columbine Leader.
Adam Bell, one of those released,
was the leader of the Columbine min
ers on the fatal morning of the mas
sacre. After having beaten him al
most to death, the state police had
finally released him, only to be i'm
mediately rearrested on the COVER
nor's order, and held for forty days
in Greeley Jail without charges.
Frank Palmer was arrested at a
mass meeting held in Longmont on
December Is and was also held with
out charges in the same Jail until
yesterday.
The courts had refused to interfere
in spite of the lack of charges say
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
Cost of Police, Cor
Double i'm Past 10l

WASHINGTON, Jan o. = co.
of police departments and criminal
courts has practically doub b in the
past 10 years. In survey of finan;
cial statistics of cities just made pub
lie by the Census Bureau, figur ss
show that the expense of these prni-
tive departments has increased from
$500 per capita in 1916 to $5.7O in
1926.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
BOMBARD QUILALI
FROM AIRPLANES;
RAvAGE COUNTRY
Army of Independence
Repulses Marines

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Ar attack
marines was repulsed by liberal forces
under General Sandino yesterday, ac-
cording to a report received at Marine
Corps Headquarters this afternoon
The number of Nicaraguans killed is
unknown. One sergeant in the mar
inc detachment was killed.
Following the news of the liberal
victory, planes and marine reinforce.
ments were rushed from Managua to'
Quilali, in northern Nicaragua, where
the skirmish took place.
The latest attack took place yester-
day, two days after the battle in
which the little band of liberals fought
off marine detachment, killing five
and wounding twenty-four.
At marine corps headquarters to-
night it was stated that orders had
been issued to troops in Nicaragua to
prosecute a vigorous campaign
against General Sandino and his fol-
lowing. The marines have been or
dered to follow Sandino until theyT
either capture him or force him to flee
the country.
! MANAGUA, Jan. 2.-Reinfarce-
ments of U. S. Marines and Mica :
raguan constabulary are being
brought up today for new attack
upon the army of Nicaraguan inde-
pendence under General Sandino.
MANAGUA, Jan. 2-hians Nieas
raguafN are reported to have been
killed and scores more were wounded
when an army of United States ma
rines supported by bombing planes
attacked Quilali, occupied by Liberal
troops, the army of independence un-
der General Augustine Sandino, on
New Years Day. Five of the marines
were also killed during the engage
ment and twenty-three wounded.
Sporadic fighting is still continuing.
Subduing Nationalists.
Fighting began last Friday when
an army of United States marines
and Nicaraguan national guards COM
menced their unsuccessful attempt to
capture Sandino. Due to Sandino's
superior tactics the marines were sur
prised by the Liberals in the noun
Continued on Page TsOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
Army to
Try to Save Village

The Salvation Army has its work
cut out for 1928. 1t has made New
Years resolution to save Greenwich
Village. Salvation Army Colonel A.
T. Brewer has announced for a ten
week revival campaign in this city,
the Army's entire forces in New York
City will be concentrated in the evil
lage."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
DISREGARD CLEMENcY PLEAS

ALBANY, Jan. Hundreds Of
pleas for clemency for Ruth SNYDER
are flooding the office of Gov. Smith.
Most of the appeals are written by
women. The governor has announcsa
that he will grant a hearing to friends
of the condemned Observation-Disclosures
on Thursday. 1t is not expected that
ne will intervene with plans for her
execution, together with Judd GRAY.
during the week Of the eighth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
ClOakmakers Contempt
Hearing Next Friday

The Appellate Division Court will
hear Louis B. Boudin, attorney for
the Joint Board Of the Cloak and
Dressmakers' Union, ask for a rever-
sal Friday of the verdict of Supreme
Court Judge Erlanger, which orders
18 leaders of the union to pay $4,000
in fines and damages for violating an
anti-picketing injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03
Rank and File Communists
of USSR Laud XIV. Congress

MOSCOW "A meeting Moscow of active members
OF
Fifteenth Party emphasizing the Importance Of the resolutions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-03

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-29
CZECH ENVOY HERE
SHIFTED TO BERN
DR.. Fierlinger, Now on Leave, to
Be Replaced in q, S. by Min
lister to Switzerland.

Dr. zdenek Fierlinger. Czechoslo-
vakian Minister here since October
1925. and now at Prague, on leave
is to be transferred to the diplomatic