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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-12
Suggestions Behalf Farm Relief
THE MINNESOTA PLAN

THE MINNESOTA PLAN
Believing gained developing work
proposals sentiment national poll
agriculture and believing that the time
thought rather than assertion and
political maneuvering the undersigned suggest aen
on to the and for such general
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l. DEVELOPMENT of Mississippi and St. Lawrence waterways
approved by disinteresed engineers and
Delegation of the Interstate Commerce
Commission permit northwest railroads compete with the Pan
Canal for western traffic.
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need maadustmen between acts of
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imported farm products with native far possbe
the other the possibilities of drawing increased mater
ials for our industries from American farms
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tending unfairly with continentalfar
ing Development of Inland Empire be
policy.
steps shift government
from reclamation of land reorestation and grazing
efforts pro-
prices
markets be held possible Along this line there
boys and club work and all those other
calculated improve business of the farms
of a federal farm board with wide assist
advise without determine prices make
tuary rules Such board be established at
framed with relation the length Of in farm
TO- Provision for continued SUPPORT aid
Of marsas % as n msns & OF TIN the o met re n
fertilizer produce At and
national farm policy
B. Marsh. Editor Redwood Falls Gazette
T. 'fss Benshoef @ Editor Detroit Lakes Record
Rahlaust It Editor Thief River Falls Times
GnIn Rss E5;tse 5Ss1r Nosts Sss Esssw News
IA Res;@an Editor Grand Tgi Rapids HsraldReview
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Grace A Dunn. Editor Princeton Union
Grove Wills Editor Eveeh Clarion.
p. w. Kemp, Editor Argyle Banner.
L. Putnam, Editor Granite Falls Tribune
J. Iverson. Editor Hutchinson Press
j. C. Morrison Editor Morris Tribune.
B. K Savre Editor Glenwood Herald.
Asa M. Wallace, Editor Sauk Center Herald.
C. w. Carlson. Editor Melrose Beacon
S. M. Rector Editor Deer Creek Mirror
George E. Erickson. Editor Branerd Tribune
L. A Bradford. Verndale Sun.
Chase, Editor Anoka Herald
d. E. Ward, Editor Hubbard County Journal
Paul Kinney, Editor Alexandria Ctizen-News
Ed Vandersluis. Editor Sauk Rapids Sentinel
E. o. Qualey, Editor Menahga Messenger
A. H. Langum Editor Preston Times
A. M. Weles, Editor Worthington Globe.
C. A. French Editor Monticello Times.
P Warren Sheaf.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-12
University Law Student
Locates in ReduoodFa

Attorney Thos. F. Reed, Jr., son of
Thos. F. Reed, Sr., who located in
Redwood county back in 1896, has
opened offices in Redwood Falls to
practice law. He will have office
quarters on the ground floor of the
Granite Block, formerly occupied by
the Southern Minnesota Joint Stock
Land Bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
HAIL WORKERS
PARTY SUCCESS
French Communists
, Greet Convention
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
against class Fight against the OPP
preston and exploitation of the whole
world, especially on the American
front at this time.
"The eyes of the international pro-
letariat are upon you, the hearts of
workers everywhere are with you.
Forward, bravelyW
The following message, greeting
the Workers (Communist) Party
Convention has been received from
the French Communist Party.
"On the eve Of the presidential
elections, the French Communist
Party sends fraternal greetings to the
American workingclass and its van
guard, the Workers (Communist)
Party. The French Communist Party
hopes that the masses Of American
workers will rally under the banner
Of the Comintern borne by the Work
ers (Conmunist) Party
ITO the American workers the
presidential election ought to be only
an episode in the struggle against the
imperialist plutocrats and their
agents, the reformists in the labor
movement. 1t should be one means of
rallying the revolutionary proletarian
forces for direct American capitalists
a battle in which the heroic Pennsyl-
vania miners are taking such SPLEEN
did lead.
Long live the Workers (Commun-
ist) Partyl Long live the proletarian
struggle of the American workers
against imperialism and the reform
list traitors! Long live the Commun-
list International"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
MASSES CHEER 4
AUTONOMISTSAT
COLMAR TRIAL
Hundreds Burst Into
Court Room

PARIS, May 25.-Violent scenes
followed the sentencing of four of
the Alsatian autonomists on trial at
Colmar when thousands of men and
women, who been massed around the
court house four hours in expecta-
ton, burst into the court room to
shake the hands of the convicted men.
Court guards and police attempted to
break up the spontaneous demonstra-
ton and blows ensued.
The, four convicted men are DR..
Georges E. Ricklin, the reputed direc-
tor of the autonomist movement, Paul
j. Schall, former editor of the Zu-
kunft, an autonomist paper, Joseph
V. Rose and Joseph Faschauer.
81 implore you, Ricklin do not judge
France by this verdict" some one
cried over the heads of the throng.
Andre Berthon, Communist deputy,
sprang to the window of the court
house and urged the masses to drape
their houses in black as a protest
against the ubiquitous verdict"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
NOMINATING MEET
is OPENED HERE

Continued from page one)
delphia, Baltimore, and Boston plan
to attend all the sessions of the con-
vention.
The program of the Hungarian
Workers Symphony Orchestra, con-
sisting of so pieces, was received with
tremendous enthusiasm.
In addition to Lovestone and Fos-
ter, the speakers were Ben Gitlow.
member of the Secretariat of the
party; B. H. Lauderdale, of Texas;
Senator Charles E. Taylor, of Mon
tana; James P. Cannon, Scott Near
ing, Anita C. Whitney, William F.
Patton, Lovett Fort Whiteman, w.
w. Weinstone, Tom Rushton, Stanley
Clark and Scott Wilkins.
Immediately after the conclusion of
the convention "Red Welcome Fest"
will be held tonight in honor of the
delegates. The affair, which has been
arranged by the Party members of
District 2, will be held at o'clock at
the new Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square.
The sessions of the convention will
be continued at Central Opera House,
9th st. and Third Ave., today
and Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

man to death in some tight corner.
That is the way it come to George
Navitsky, a lifelong miner, who was
caught between the cylinder of an air
"lokey' and the timber as he was
standing on the side of the gangway
track to let the '1okey" pass. He was
crushed, dying few hours later at
the Shenandoah City Colliery.
A more dramatic death was that of
Adam Evanovsky, 55, of Minersville,
who was killed when caught in an ex-
plosion in breast No. 3 of the Lytle
Colliery. He was preparing the shot
and had set fire to the fuse. A de-
feet in the explosion caused it to
backfire. The force of the explosion
caught the man and hurled him down
the face of the breast, killing him
outright.
Mining is a constant game with
death, with the miner playing to out
wit it at every point. 1t becomes
grimly humorous after a time. The
miner whose head is famed by lump
OF rock that just missed crushing him.
will let loose few hot words, and
laugh. Missed me that time!" he
says. But he knows that some day it
won't miss him. eff it gets me, it'll
be just too bad," summarizes his at
titude.
Day after day with heart sickening
regularity ambulance bells clang as
some fellow is being hauled home
from the colliery. Women grow hys-
terical, fearing it may stop at their
home. AS it passes, their tears dry.
and they resign themselves to the
tragic recurrence of death. "It's Just
a part of life," they whisper, as they
shrug their shoulders and put pepper
in the soup for the men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Frat Boys Get
Spanking for
Going Dance

Because they violated a rule of the
college in attending a dance, 81
"young men students" of Upsala
College were indefinitely suspended
last Tuesday, it became known today.
Three others, theological students,
were let off with severe reprimands
and told that they would have no
more ice cream for the remainder of
the semester. All the suspended stu
dents were members of students
organization called the Improved Or
der of Exalted Ululae.
The dance was held in the Hotel
Montclair, Montclair, N. j., and was
given by the female progenitor of
one of the naughty students. When
interviewed by reporters, the sobbing
mother said that the college was edo
ing my son wrong" and that "none
of the poor children deserved such
cruel punishment"
Upsala College is a coeducational
institution maintained by the New
York and New England Conference
of Evangelical Augustana Synod. The
no-dancing rule was put into effect a
year ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
FREE DAILY SUBS
NEEDED BY Miners
400 Join Workers Party
In Six Weeks

The striking miners in the Pitts
burgh district are "strong" for The
DAILY WORKER. This is the gist
of the report of John Casper, DAILY
WORKER agent in District 5 to the
business office of the Daily. Casper
arrived in New York yesterday to
attend the National Nominating Con.
vention of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
Hundreds of striking miners have
come to me and told me how much
The DAILY WORKER means to
Them" Casper said. "Most of them
had never read the Daily before and
were eager to get it regularly. But
they had no money to subscribe. AS
soon as this strike is over, we'll sub
scribe to The DAILY WORKER out
of our first pay many of them told
me. It's the best paper in the world
During the past six weeks more
than 400 of these miners have Joined
the Workers Party. Every one of
them needs The DAILY WORKER
every day. If the readers of the Daily
only realized this, Pm sure that many
more would provide these striking
coal diggers with free subscriptions"
Workers, the miners are fighting
for all of US. Help their fight with a
free sub. Send it in at once to the
office of The DAILY WORKER, SO
First St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Marine Terror
IN NICARAGUA
Tortured Civilians, Says
Correspondent
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
body was found shortly afterwards.
''In January John Bolton, an Amer
lean, was murdered near Bluefelds.
The marines brought in seven natives
who were alleged to have confessed
Before a judge, one man, Escobar,
said the confession was extracted
from him by torture. The proceed
'ings were Immediately interrupted
and the prisoners were marched back
to the barracks. Escobar refused to
Renter his cell, made a dash for the
gate and was shot and killed. Later
it was proved that he had nothing to
do with the murder.
"In another instance a religious fes-
tival was taking place in an Indian
village north of Bluefelds. Many of
the Indians were drunk and marines
appeared to restore order. They turn
ed on machine gun, killing four and
wounding five. The Nicaraguan mil
itary commander on refusing to sign
the marines report was brought to
Bluefelds and ill-treated until he con-
sented to sign dictated statement"
Workers Aid SANDING.
Virtually every Nicaraguan worker
and peasant is a SANDING sympathiz-
er, the article says. In spite of the
terroristic methods employed by the
marines, the writer declares that the
SANDING nationalists can hold out al
most indefinitely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

The miners of Hooking Valley con-
tinue their fight to save their union
against tire m end ous odds. Oral
Daugherty, former sub-district Off
cial who was expelled from the mine
workers union when he advised the
strikers to go back to work for what
ever they could get, is attempting to
smash the union by advocating a
separate union of Ohio coal diggers.
Starvation Stalks Land.
Scarcity of food is creating the ap-
pearance of extreme famine in many
coal digging communities on strike in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Engineer vo1ve in Sabotage Conspiracy to Wreck Douetz Mines


on the picket line was the most seri-
ously injured, according to report
of the affair relayed to the National
Miners Relief Committee.
Chargs of shooting to kill have
been filed against Louis Powell, mine
superintendent, who is said to have
produced shot gun and fired on
the pickets when they approached the
group Of scabs who were about to
enter the mine. Powell was disarmed
by the strikers. The charges against
him are filed by Ed Jones, Paschal
Jones, John Gail and Pearl Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
BNtQlnS Lone
the Queen But
Need the Cash

IOVE for the British Empire on
~ the part of Englishmen living
in the United States is apparently
extremely low. Yesterday was
Empire Day." observed thruout
England and all its colonial pos
sessions" on the anniversary of the
birth of the portly Queen Vic
toria, and plans had been COM
pleted for the annual Empire Day
dinner, scheduled for Thursday
night at the Waldorf. Speakers
were to include Sir Esme Howard,
British ambassador and other mon
ocled celebrities.
LACK of interest" however,
prompted the sponsors of the cele-
bration to call the dinner off, it has
just been learned. For when the
anxious Britons took inventory they
found to their great chagrin that
only 103 out of more than 5000
accepted the invitation to honor the
dead queen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
SPEED-UP CROWS
IN FORD PLANT
Continued from page one)

Continued from page one)
cent Of the men have been laid off.
And in the hood painting depart
ment of the same plant they used to
turn out 16 jobs day. Now SO are
required. And of course several
men were fired"
At the Ford plants, most famous
Al for their race track speed, the
soldering department has increased
production from 35 to 80 pieces per
hour in one year. At one of the
Fisher Body plants where they used
to make $50 to 1G0 bodies a day,
they now finish from 235 to 240
with the same number Of men on
the job. At the Hudson plant they
more than doubled the output for
the same number Of men in one
year, at the same time reducing the
wage an average of 10 cents an
hour
The worker is of course not per-
mitted to organize to stop this in
creasing application of speed-up.
IF the worker cannot keep up with
the pace, he is recommended for
a transfer" writes a Detroit work.
er. This means that he is sent to
another department where he or
dinarily cannot last week."
Some workers contend that the
bosses are really unnecessary, ex-
cept to check on quality or perform
ance. Said one, "The machine I'm
on goes at such a terrific speed that
| can't help stepping on it in order
to keep up with 1t. The machine is
my boss" And the new machine
may be the boss that fires him from
the Job altogether.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
WORKERS TESTIFY
ENGINEERS aided
WHITE GUARDISTS
Technician Admits He.
Receives Brides

MOSCOW, U. S. S, R., May Is
The trial of the conspirators in the
Don sabotage plot proceeded yester-
day with the examination of Samoilov,
who described the hostility Of the en-
kineers to the Soviet Government.
~ Foreign engineers, Greiling, ar
Englishman, Rooster, a German, and
Murphy, an American, nourished a
hostile spirit among the engineers, it
was revealed.
Samoilov testified further that the
former mine-owners were kept in
formed about the activity of every
engineer. He referred to mine which
sabotagers blew up.
Often Struck Workers.
Witnesses among the Donetz work
ers, then examined later, testified
that Beresovsky, Samoilov and Ko-
Iodub, who had exploited workers be-
fore the revolution, had often struck
workers and had neglected the Sc
curity measures which might have
prevented accidents.
During the occupation of the Don
Basin by the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
the engineers gave the White Guards
a list of Communist workers who
were then executed.
Babenko, a renegade of peasant ex-
traction, also technician was then
examined. He admitted that he had
participated in the sabotage plot and
that he had personally received 49,
500 roubles for flooding mines. Dom
etz workers who were then examined
testified that before the revolution
Babenko, Kolodub and other were hos
tile to the workers. Babenko, they
charged, abused and even beat work
ers, while Kolodub denounced work.
ers to the czarist police and caused
their arrest.
Brutality Charged.
The evidence of the two old Donetz
miners which made deep impression
charged Babenko with brutality to
workers before and after the revolu-
ton. They charged that he had flood
ed the mine of Novosovsk.
Faced with this testimony Babenko
was compelled to admit his guilt.
Another worker, Limarov, who as
a Red Guard had been taken prisoner
81 the White terrorists and forced to
1rk IN the mines, declared that Ba-
oenko had treated the workers bru-
tally and had threatened to have
workers shot by the White Guards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
FLOOD THREATENS
FLEEING WORKERS
Collapse of Utah Dam is
Expected Momentarily

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May %.
"A repetition of the St. Francis dam
break resulting in the death of over
400 is feared here. More than 5000
men, women and children of three cen
trail Utah towns were encamped on
mountain side here today as water
rushed thru a break in the tip of the
sixty-foot Pleasant Valley Dam, near
Castlegate, threatening collapse of
the structure.
A force of five hundred men work
ed throughout the night plugging the
leaks and bolstering the dam with
sand bags, cement and earth with the
result that the eroding effect of the
accumulated material was checked.
The breakdown Of the st. Francis
Dam resulted from faulty construc-
ton approved by corrupt officials, it
has been revealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Making the World
Safe For Democracy

"The marines are stationed in var
ious navy yards and posts in the
United States, and also in Haiti, Mic,
aragua and China. The location of
the above units is in accordance with
the government policy"
This was the reply of Allen C. Far
quhar, of the navy, to recent re-
quest for information concerning the
location of American marines. Fur
Their details given by Farquhar we're:
% ships of various sorts and SUBJ
marines in Haiti, about the same
number in Cuba and nearly dozen
in different parts of China. One of
these navy units is 1,100 miles up the
Yangtze River.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

Joe Reynolds, Powell's assistant,
faces charges of assault and battery.
He attacked several strikers without
provocation after the superintendent
had ordered the charge on the picket
line.
Overwhelmed when the union
miners turned on them, the attacking
scabs summoned Sheriff McNabb and
several deputies who beat back the
strikers though he failed to make any
arrests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

the Hooking Valley. Bread is at pre-
MUM. Milk, even for infants, is a
luxury no longer thought of by
mothers. Coffee, canned milk at best,
but usually not milk at all, and little
bread is the daily ration of children
who are hardly old enough to walk.
Undernourishment has Slapped the
vitality of many towns to the point
where only an insuperable fighting
spirit keeps mass picket lines going
daily. Only relief sent by the Ma
tional Miners Relief Committee is
keeping these miners alive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Special to the Daily Worker3

NEW LEXINGTON, Ohio, May 25.
Skulls were cracked and shots
fired when scabs under the direction
of their superintendent attacked a
picket line of striking miners who
marched on the Mid-Hocking mine of
the Sunday Greek Coal Company near
here, Wednesday. A 14-year-old boy,
son of a striker who joined his father
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
$50 Answers One Ad

MINNEAPOLIS, May 25. = The
Minneapolis Journal boasted recently
that one of its ads was answered by
$50 girls in single day. One hun
dred and forty-nine Of these job
hunters were turned down by the
Sheltering Arms, charitable institu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
CREED OF COAL
BARONS CAUSES
MINE MISRAPS
Speedup Renders Safe
ty Devices Useless

by LELAND OLDS, cred PreSS).
The probable death of more than
100 coal miners in the explosion at
the the non-union Mather mine near
Waynesburg, Pa, emphasizes the
criminal folly of leaving safety pre-
cautions to the mercy of profiteering
owners. Only when the miners union
has voice in every mine in the
country will the hazards be reduced
to the minimum.
Inadequate busting.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines reports
that although 463 mines operated by
239 coal companies were being rock
busted in 1927 it is improbable that
even 30 of these mines were
adequately rockdusted. Few of the
mines were found employing adequate
measures to ascertain whether their
rockdusting would prevent or limit
explosions.
In all coal mines not decidedly wet,
says the bureau, "all open accessible
parts should be kept rockdusted to
such an extent that any dust to be
found on ribs, roof, floor or timbers
will have an incombustible content of
65 per cent or over. There should
be systematic periodical sampling
OF dust from mine surfaces with
prompt determination of the incom-
bustible content and with subsequent
redusting where analytical work in
dicates incombustible below SIS per
cent. In general surfaces should be
sampled at least monthly, but samp-
ling should be done more frequently
where there is reason to suspect high
combustible."
"Rockdusting to be effective" saws
the bureau, must be made an in
tegral part of everyday mining opera
lions; this means that mining COM
panies must rockdust in essentially
the same manner that they timber,
blast, ventilate and haul. Where rock
busting becomes daily routine work
its cost will be nominal and seldom
should exceed 1 per cent per ton of
coal produced. Until rockdusting be-
comes part of routine daily coal
mine operation, it will remain more or
less ineffective and the coal mines
will continue to be subject to wide
spread explosions"
No Safety Measures.
One cent a ton to protect coal
miners against such tragedies as that
which just snuffed out 100 lives at
Mather, Pa. And yet the profiteer-
ing operators fail to carry out safety
measures worked out years ago in the
experimental mine of the government
bureau. According to the bureaus
report rockdusting has been extended
to mines employing 100000 under
ground workers or only about 21 per
cent of the U. S. total. These mines
produce about "a per cent of the
country's bituminous output.
Early evidence suggests that the
Mather explosion was caused bv
sparks from an electric cable whose
Insulation had been severed by a
cutting machine used in modern
machine mining. If SO the tragedy
was closely connected with the speed
ing up of production in this non
union mine. The sparks ignited coal
dust insufficiently mixed with the in
combustible rock dust which would
otherwise have rendered the subse-
quent explosion unlikely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
DEATH HOLDS STAKES
IN GAME WITH MINERS

SHENANDOAH Pa, May 25Death compete
companies increased
explosion simply the pathetic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Victim of Tenement Fire and Rescuer

Victim of a
fire-trGp tene-
ment at 261 Nc
DougaJ St., Hell
en- Monaghan is
IN the hospital
t cd az recoVer-
ing from burns.
She is Sho2ON
U6TG GOGtU Tue
fireman ~ h 0
rescued her. He
formed part of
a h@man chain,
riskjng his life IN
the swing to the
q0indoa0 aObere
the trapped no
man stood.