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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-30
TOWN DROPS CURFEW
Citizens Protest Whistle as Slumber
Disturber.
By United Press

BIZ UNtteu PT6SS
MARIETTA, Pa, Aug. 30.-Cur-
few is not ringing in Marietta any
more After hearing protests from
residents of the borough that the
curfew whistle disturbed their
slumbers the borough council de-
cided to discontinue it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Airplanes Rushed to
Locate Gold Prospect

MONTREAL, Que, July 18.-A
few days ago Indian trappers came
back from Chesterfield Inlet with
word of rich gold prospects being
found there. Their word spread
with the rapidity with which news
of gold has spread since the earliest
times.
Then two we'll financed mining
companies became interested and
yesterday found them engaged in a
two-sided gold rush, with airplanes
instead of burros and icebreaking
steamships instead of covered wag-
ons as the means Of transportation.
On Monday another started from
Winnipeg, piloted by Stewart j.
Cheeseman Of the Northern Aerial
Celebrations, Ltd, which is one of
'wo companies engaged in the
race.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
WHITE TERROR IN
BULGARIAN PRISONS

were destroyed during the recent
earthquake in Bulgaria, the prison
directors held the political prisoners
in the prison buildings throughout
the whole of the earthquake, despite
the protests of the prisoners them
selves and the indignation of the
workers all over the country. Doubt
less the authorities hoped that the
prisons would collapse and bury
them all beneath the ruins.
Removed to Other Prisons.
AS a result of the refusal of the
pardon, many political prisoners
were removed from one prison to the
other in order to make it difficult
for them to be visited by their rela-
tives, or receive packets of food or
secure the washing of their clothes.
Further, on such transports the
danger is great that the prisoners
are set upon and murdered by the
so-called irresponsible" elements.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
By M. MICH.

The widespread campaign in Bull
garia for a full and unconditional
amnesty for all political prisoners is
being answered on the one hand by
complete ignoring of the campaign
and on the other hand by attempts
to cause trouble between the prison
ers themselves by promising some of
them the pardon of the king and ig-
noring others. This sort of pardon
has been offered to the prisoners on
a number of occasions, however, the
offers have always been rejected and
then new reprisals have invariably
followed.
The recent pardons at easter time
were also rejected by the political
prisoners. These prisoners published
an appeal in the working class press
in which they refused holiday mag
nanimity" and expressed the firm
determination to fight on for a full
and unconditional amnesty for all
political prisoners and for the aboli-
ton of the white terror. At easter
1928, 80 prisoners were "pardoned,"
but not one of them accepted the
freedom offered to them. The am
nesty was taken advantage of by
the criminal prisoners alone who are
then usually used by the authorities
for services in the secret police or
for the murder of revolutionaries.
Placed in Solitary.
In consequence of the fact that
the political prisoners refused the
pardon so magnanimously offered to
them by the king and because they
had celebrated the first of May in
the prisons, 30 prisoners in the Gen.
trail Prison in Sofia were put for
one month in solitary confinement
E. Dilkov, M. Alexov, St. Atanassov
Ivan Papcov and W. Philippov were
terribly maltreated before being
placed into solitary confinement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
By HARVEY O'CONNOR
Federated Press).

PATERSON, N. j., July 49,
Silk workers Of Paterson, their
minds bearing deep the imprints of
heroic struggles for bread and
union, watch carefully bosses cease
less efforts to destroy the S-hour
day and break down wage standards
Now they are girding for another
battle, around the rallying cry of
the 8-hour day.
Little by little conditions won in
the memorable strike of 1918, which
ranks in labor history with Lawr-
ence and Passaic, and in other strug-
giles of 1916 and 1918, are slipping
away. Here an INSCRIPTIONS boss
squeezes in the 10-hour day, across
the street a small mill gets by with
a 10 per cent wage cut.
691 Firms.
Union silk workers admit they
have been unable to keep tight
rein on the industry since postwar
deflation. Paterson has 10000 sin
workers, and yet sol firms compete
bitterly with each other in this one
silk center. A few concerns are
large, but hundreds employ only a
handful of workers.
A petty employer with but loom
or two will keep his entire family
busy, day and night. In homes, little
children toll far into the night, du-
plicating notorious sweatshop condi-
lions that once characterized New
York. Over this myriad of small
shops the union finds it difficult to
exert control. The bigger shops are
better, particularly the ribbon mills
where the Ribbon Viewers Union
has strength. But dame fashion has
dealt cruel blows to ribbons, and
work is slack in that branch of the
industry.
Worst of all is unemployment. As
ISOLATED Silk Workers officials es-
innate that 5000 are jobless and an
other 1900 on part time.
Undismayed, the union is re-
doubling efforts to organize work.
ers. Special efforts are being made
to get dyArs and finishers into a
union. In this branch small firms
have made great inroads, tearing
down labor conditions. Along with
merger moves among many firms.
the union hopes to get a strong local
organized
Significant Strikes.
Shop meetings are being held in
union mills. Members in non-union
mills are working quietly among
their shopmates. Language group
meetings are arousing foreign-born
workers.
Look, the union organizer says to
these groups. Last year your boss
put you on the 1O-hour day. And
now he is in Europe with his family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Gary Negroes Fight
im-Crow High School

GARY, Ind, July 1s.-The an
nouncement that the city council
had approved the erection of the
Roosevelt School, which is conceded
to be a colored school, has aroused
the ire of Negroes in this city, and
they are girding themselves for bat
tle-and a finished fight.
1t is believed that if the separate
school is erected, the time will be
short before Negro high school
will be established, and Jim-Crow
schools will be the order of the day.
Attorney Robert Bailey, counsel for
the parents who opposed the orig
inal effort to establish Jim-Crow
schools, states that he has no knowl-
eye of this new effort, but that it
will be vigorously fought by the
Negro population in Gary, and that
he will be on the firing line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
CZECH POLICE IN
DRIVE WORKERS
Try to Prevent Mass
"Red Day" Meetings

PRAGUE, (By MaiD In order
to prevent mass demonstrations of
workers on the "Red Days." the 5th
and 9Th of July, the Department
Of the Interior had sent secret or
ders to the police. A military rule
was set up all over the country. All
the leaders Of the Communist
Party were to be arrested. On the
18th and 9Th of July no automobiles
were allowed in the streets unless
they had special permits from the
police. The same applied to pas
sengers on the trains. After every
station the number of passengers ON
the trains were counted and checked
up. All sorts of Communist propa-
ganda was entirely banned.
Terror Increases.
A few days before the Red Days
the police terror in Prague tight
ened. There was police raid on
the Secretariat of the Communist
Party and on the home of the secre-
tary, Janek. Some bundles Of the
"Prukopnik Svobody," the Czech or
gan of the Communist Party Of
Austria, were confiscated. All the
homes of the Communist function
aries were raided in the search for
July Day leaflets. None were
found.
The Communist Newspapers
"Munkas" and "Pravda" which had
issued special numbers for July Day
were confiscated.
Raid Party.
In Budweis there was a raid on
the Secretariat of the Communist
Party which lasted for three hours.
The police confiscated leaflets and
handbills for Red Day.
A raid on the Communist news
paper "Nudy Vychod" was carried
out with the hope that leaflets
would be discovered. The police
exerted themselves in vain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
SILK WORKERS PREPARE
FOR BITTER STRUGGLES

while you sweat through hot sum-
mer months with no vacation, except
the one you don't want-when the
shop closes down.
Small strikes characterize the in
dustry. Sun Silk Co. workers walked
out when the boss tried to tack an
extra hour on the day. AS a COM
promise, workers were forced to take
a per cent wage cut. At the Hell
lawel Warping and Winding Co., the
whole shop went out against a cut
from $50 to S18 with 80 per cent
speed-up in the machines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Cancer Conference
Is Opened In London

LONDON, July 1S (UP).-The
failure to do more to educate the
public regarding cancer is "little
short Of scandal" DR.. M. Donald
sonu, well-known British physician,
declared in an address before the
initial conference Of the world can
Ger conference today.
Twenty-Five nations are repre-
sented by the delegates to the con-
ference. Sir John Bland Sutton,
Britisher, is presiding.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
German Exploiters In
South Africa Growing


CAPE TOWN, South Africa,
July 18.-German colonists are COM
ing into South Africa in such great
numbers that they have the ma
jority in all governing bodies and
make up a considerable portion of
the foreign population. The Bri-
fish residents view this influx with
alarm, fearing that their own con-
troll will be seriously challenged.
After the German troops were
defeated in South Africa in 1895 by
the British most of the Germans
left the colony. Since the war, how
ever, they have been settling in
greater and greater numbers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Labor" Secretary
Distorts Figure s
On Unemployment

WASHINGTON, July 18.-In a
transparency misleading announce
ment Secretary of Labor Davis to-
day heralded "a distinctly favora-
BILE" outlook for both employers and
employees this summer and fall.
He called attention to the fact
that employment in factories was
greater in June than in May for
the first time in five years, but the
republican politician failed to ex-
plain that the slight increase is only
of June over May while general en-
ployment levels are lower than any
year since 1921.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
u. S. S. R. FINDS
ITALIAN GRAVES

ROME, July 18 (UP).-The So
Wet government has perfected ar
rangements by which relatives of
italian soldiers killed at the Rus
sian front during the World War
may obtain photographs of their
graves, many of which have been
traced.
Most of the men killed were from
districts which were under Austrian
.ule in wartime. The italian am
bassador at Moscow has sent word
that graves of SO Italians from
Trent have been located.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Unions to Stop Work
If Refused Demands

BOSTON, July ia strike for
S1.37la an hour and for five day
week has been voted for 7 to l by
eight thousand carpenters. Union
bricklayers will go out also If their
demand for $3.50 is not granted.
Structural iron workers have quit
for $3.50 an hour Three hundred
iron workers have already won their
demand for Is per cent increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
English Miners Jailed
For Work I'm the Army

LONDON, July 18.--In Hamilton
four Young miners. John Ballantyne
Graffen, George Teesdale, Patrick
Allan and Robert Graham, were
sentenced to one month in prison be-
cause they distributed leaflets
among the soldiers of the garrison
stationed there.
The leaflets called upon the
soldiers to form a soldiers union
that would feel its solidarity with
the: other working class organiza-
lions. and also set forth some of the
demands of the soldiers for better
conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Radio Stations Plead
Cases At Commission

WASHINGTON, July IS (UP).-
Protests against cancellation of
licenses on 10 stations occupied the
Federal Radio Commission hearings
today. Hearings were given sta
tions WMBD. Peoria, ILL.,; WAY,
Cleveland; WINDS, Harrisburg, Pa:
WCLS, Joliet, Ills; WEDC, Chi
cago; WNBA, Forest Park, H.;
WKBV. Brookfield, Ind; WCLB,
Long Beach, N. Y; WFAN, Phila-
delphia, and WMBG, Richmond, Va.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
1,800 Workers Strike
At Increase Betrayal

MONTREAL, July II. - 1900
workers of the Dominion Rubber
Company have gone out on strike
again. This is the second strike
they called in two months.
Because the company took no ac-
ton on the agreement made with
the strikers in the last strike, that
of favoring wage increase, t!c
girls working for the company called
the present strike. The entire strike
is being led by girls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Keep Up the Sgge Anhzulbna League Urges General Saudiuo
PRESIDENT-ELECT
SHOT FOR CHRIST
SAYS CHURCHMAN
Counter Revolutionary
Agent, Belief

Continued from Page One
result of Gen. Alvaro Obregon's as
sassination.
Apparently there is no provision
for procedure in the event of the
death of a president-elect, and in
Mexico there is no vice-president.
Obregon was elected president
July for six-year term, the
term having been extended from
four years a few months ago. He
was to be proclaimed president by
congress at it's September session,
and was to take office December /
as successor to President Gales.
Gales May Serve ConditionaIly
Mexican law provides that in
the event of the death of a presi-
dent during the first two years of
his term, congress may name pro-
visional president and arrange for
new election. 1t was regarded as
possible that this method might be
used, Gales acting professionally as
chief executive.
1t is stipulated in the constitution
that though a president may serve
two full terms, they must not follow
one another directly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Worker Dies In Blast
In Peru HOOdOO Mine

PERU, ILL.,, July 1s. - Anton
Shimkus, one of the few men in
duced to work in the mine shaft
here, died of injuries he received
after discharge of dynamite shot.
The explosion caught Shimkus and
buried him under several tons Of
coal. Shimkus was 45 years of age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
d etrOit Steamfitters
Win 1907 Closed Shop

DETROIT, July IS. - Steam
filters of Local 636 have won new
agreement with Detroit bosses pro-
viding for 100 per cent closed shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Censorshin CLAIMED On

Censorship Clamped On
NOGALES. Sonora, Mexico, July
10 (UP).-Censorship of press dis
patches over the Mexican telegraph
lines, imposed late yesterday at
Mexico City, had not yet been ex-
tended to this port of entry today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-19
Miners IN new
URGENT APPEAL
Defense Week Begins
July 20

Continued from Page One
camps. Typhoid fever often results
from lack of sewage systems. Food
is becoming scarcer daily.
The Pittsburgh office of the Ma
tional Miners Relief Committee re-
ceives visits daily, it is declared,
from intercollegiate from camps
miles away, who come with har-
rowing tales of need and virtual
starvation, tears in the their eyes,
begging some food "for the kids"
Always these miners carry on
in face of evictions, hunger and dis
ease, they tighten their belts an
other notch and fight on against the
understanding drive of the oper-
ators.
eve want to bake a little bread
for our hungry children" is the
plea they make. Gust a little
flour!"
AS great as is the need for re-
lief funds, just as pressing is the
immediate necessity for raising mon
ey for the defense of miners who
are in jails on various framed-up
charges-the sole reason being their
activity on the picket lines,
Here are just a few of the hun
dreds of victims of the frame-up
and prisons of the operators. Tony
Minerich, strike leader, sentenced to
Imprisonment in Ohio by Judge Ben
son w. Hough, author Of the in
famous injunction Minerich urged
the miners to defy. An appeal is
now being made to a higher court.
Case of Women.
Mother Guynn, 63-year-old strike
leader, and so other women of st.
Clairsville, Ohio, were tricked into
jail. The fines and court costs of
SO pickets of Yukon, Pa, amount
to more than five hundred dollars.
The Zeigler, H., mine leaders, led
by Henry Corbishley, must serve
long sentences. Other cases, far
too numerous to list. The Ameri-
can classic, the frame-u2, has been
planted in the mine fields on scale
unsurpassed anywhere.
For relief, for defense, hundreds
Of thousands Of dollars are imme-
diately necessary. During the Ma
tional Miners Relief and Defense
Week, all workers-as an act of
self protection-must help. Send
all donations to National Miners
Relief Committee, Gil Penn Ave-,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Perth Amboy Responds.
A mass meeting in Perth Amboy,
N. j., this Saturday night, July 81,
will start the drive for National
Miners Relief and Defense Week,
July % to 20. This meeting will
be held at 308 Elm Street, Perth
Amboy, at o'clock. A Hungarian
worker, miner for years, who has
been on strike for the past fifteen
months, will picture the epoch MAX
ing struggle.
This will be followed by a report
by E. S. Stanley, relief organizer
for New Jersey, on the progress of
relief work in that state.
The workers of Perth Amboy and
of New Jersey as a whole have
shown in the past that they realize
the Importance of the struggle of
the striking miners by donating over
$4,000 in the past few months to
support this struggle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-30

Single and double breasted models for men
and young men, beautifully styled Of Worsteds,
Cassimeres and Cheviots, in every favored
color of the season. The popular Herring
bones and Shadow Stripes in every shade.
We've even included the new Double-breasted
Vest Suits. Sizes to fit every man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

fired, In two minutes there were
fifty armed rangers, some running
into the alley behind the hall and
fired point blank into it thru the back
door and windows.
when the shooting ended we found
enc miner shot stone dead on the floor
of the hall, one shot but not dead in
the street, an IS year old boy drilled
with an army rifle bullet across the
street. This boy is expected to die.
1t was plain cold blooded murder,
even more SO than the shooting in the
north, for the miners were on the
federal highway No. 85, and the ex-
cuse of private property won't hold
this time.
II suppose the papers say that the
miners started the shooting but that
is not true because a ranger came
INTO the store and I asked him wheth-
er the miners did any shooting and
he said no. He was in front of the
hall all the time.
"The town is shrouded in gloom.
All theatres and pool rooms are
closed. The streets are deserted. Yet
behind the gloom, behind the terror
there is the grim determination of
the miners to continue the fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

hours ago. Some of you may have
read it in the DAILY already, but
believe that the young workers should
get more of details.
"The miners organized in line of
march to parade to the Walsen mine.
AS they started three rangers with big
army guns blocked the cross streets
and wouldn't let them turn into side
street-so they marched right ahead
The same thing happened at every
street intersection, so. they turned
around and started back to the hall.
Details of Massacre.
"The parade was the biggest ever
seen in the town; besides the men
nearly all the miners wives and chill
dren were in it. All was in order until
the miners reached the hall. Sud-
denly an uproar of high-powered
army rifles broke the air with sound
that threw the town into an uproar.
Rangers came running from every
street with rifles and automatics
which they fired upon reaching the
corner Of the l. W. w. Hall A car
load of guns was brought and ma
chine gun was set up. The parade
broke up but the miners were so de-
termined that they would not run.
They stood still while the rangers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
IS THIS THE STORY?
AN IMAGINATIVE ELABORATION ON AN ACTUAL NEWS
WHICH APPEARED RECENTLY IN A NEW YORK
NEWSPAPER
NEWSPAPER.

after all you helped to save
Democracy. :"
Damn these ever same phrases!
Tom rose in despair and slammed the
door after him.
Late at night the streets were more
kind. More peaceful. The pain in
Toms chest became easier. The throb
in his head lessened and nearly van
ished. He walked down Woodward
Avenue toward the Ford plant. In a
black frame, it's blue-whte lights were
weird wizardly of some other, strange
world. Thru the windows he saw
rows upon rows of moving machinery.
Little human ants stood at the mach
ines, walked around them. Overhead,
visible for greater distance, were
myriads and miles Of revolving belts.
A dim figure at Toms elbow
wanted match. The flame revealed
a pre-maturely aged face.
Damn interesting 2" the man VEN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

the workers form at least 85 per cent
of the group. The other strata are
petty-bourgeois. This makes the
struggle from our side in the Ian
guage groups easier than in the Amer
lean organizations, but as soon as we
shall have succeeded in Americana
ing" these organizations in one way
or another the resistance will grow,
but at the same time our possibilities
of mobilizing bigger masses for ac-
tivity will have grown stronger,
through bringing these language or
CARNATIONS in closer contact with the
decisive American masses.
The points stressed above are a few
of these that should be considered in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
THE FOREIGN BORN WORKER AND
THE LABOR PARTY

our work for a labor party. But con-
corning only the foreign-born work.
ers, they are a secondary part of our
activity for uniting the forces of
American labor against American in
dustrial and financial capitalism. The
main field of our work is in the trade
unions.
But if we understand properly how
to use all our connections with the
foreign-born workers, then we will
more easily put through our program
in the trade unions. And last but not
least, through such a policy we will be
able to give considerable momentum
to the organization of the unorganized
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

NEWS Item: Continued.
g. In any event, Parsons en-
gagged room on the sixth floor
and at lis a. m. jumped to his
death from the window Of his
room to courtyard.
The night manager searched the
hotel when several guests heard
the sound Of falling body and a
cry, but failed to discover Par
sons body. 1t was not found I'M
til z o'clock this morning."