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Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-28

the bride and among the other fea-
lures will be q wedding march,
throwing of rice and the tossing of
the brides boquet.
Both Miss Norton and Root are
popular residents of Brawley. The
later has achieved considerable re-
pute for his ability to strum ban
10 and it is expected that a record
crowd win attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-28

New York states attitude has al
ready been demonstrated in the
friendly attitude of Senator Royal
S. Copeland, Democrat, from that
state.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-28

The avocado variety committee
of the Ventura county farm bureau
occasionally spends an entire day
in visiting orchards TO determine
the best varieties for that county.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-28

Arizona has appropriated $4,000
to aid in eradicating scabies in live
stock in Navajo and Coeonino coun-
lies.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-09-28

Woodville, Tulare county, shipped
20 carloads of spring potatoes.
The Washington times., 1928-04-13
NOPOLITANS
PLAN FETE

Plans for a ladies' night at the
Carlton Hotel, tomorrow night, were
discussed by the Cosmopolitan Club,
at it's weekly luncheon meeting in
the Lee House, yesterday.
Capt. Bert Emerson, local lawyer
and former assistant District At
torney, as Cosmopolitan of the day,
related q number of anecdotes of
the local courts.
Changes in the clubs bylaws,
sponsored by Harry Hobart and
Laurence e. Rubel, were approved
by the club. The weekly attendance
prizes, donated by Frank Driscoll
and Walter DUNCAN, were awarded
to Harry Hoffman and Michael ID.
Schaeffer. Edwin A. Rule presided.
The Washington times., 1928-04-13
D. c. MAN To co
WITH BYRD

Charles E. Lofgren, 904 Kearney
81. n. L., has been chosen by Com
mander Byrd as super.cargo and
secretary on the coming South Pole
expedition of the famous flyer.
Lofgren served in the Navy for
is years, part OF which time he was
attached to the Bureau of Naviga-
ton, and before that as chief
yoeman on the u. s. S. Arkansas.
He left the Navy Department to
become national organizer of the
Fleet Reserve Association, with Of
fees in the Earle Building.
The Washington times., 1928-04-13
Bandits Take Youths
Clothes And Turn
Him Loose
~ InternationaI News Service

CHICAGO, April 1S.--strppeo
to his B. V. DIS by bandits, ana
not a barrel In sight, Miller Long
well, Oak Park High School stu
dent, early today sprinted to the
police station and told this story
1.-TWO bandits overlook me on
the street and forced me into thelr
car. They robbed me or my
money and watch. and then one
of them decided he liked my hat.
t'Imagine m Y embarrassment
when the other bandit took a
fancy to my suit"
The Washington times., 1928-04-13
Noted Banker,
SuccumbS I'm London

LONDON, April 1S.-Isaac selig-
man, noted banker, is dead here at
the age of "a.
He is a son of the late Leopold
SeIigman. who founded the Sehgman
firm in New York city.
The Washington times., 1928-04-13
CHURCH AND STATE

LONDON, April 13.-The, Turk
-ish National Assembly has passed
a bill separating the church and
the State, according to q dispatch
from Constantinople.
day.
The Washington times., 1928-04-13

Give your children q hack gard ~
.hsir own--and your wife q home Of
her OwD--seleCt IL through louas :
hes and herald classified real estate
cnlumua.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03

during the present acute situation,
the International Labor Defense, New
York district, gladly endorses the
May First meeting in Madison Square
Garden called by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party as a demonstration of
labor solidarity.
''In carrying on the work of de-
fense of political prisoners against
the White Terror of the capitalist
class, the l. l.. D., without the soli-
darity of the working class behind
it, could never become the driving
force of such mass movements as the
zetti, the liberation of Greco and Car
heroic attempt to save Sa,co and Van
lilo, the steady agitation to free
Mooney and all the other hostages of
labor in the prisons of the ruling
class.
Therefore the [. L. d. heartily
joins in this huge demonstration on
May First in Madison Square Garden
"a demonstration which will shake a
powerful fist in the faces of the capi-
talist class, who are trying to dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
TheNINERS'
PROGRAM
Adopted by the National Union Pittsburgh

The National Conference of
the Save the Union Committee
of the U. M. w. A. made up of
1125 delegates representing the
overwhelming sentiment of the
masses of organized and unor-
ganized miners in this country,
was called to take measures to
meet the life and death crisis in
which the miners find them
selves. Wage cuts, unemploy-
ment, evictions, jailing, starva-
tion are the order of the day in
the mining districts. Betrayed
by their reactionary union lead
ers, the miners are facing a gi-
gantic conspiracy of the big coal
operators, the powerful railroad and
financial interests, backed fully by
the federal and state governments.
The issues at stake are of profound
Importance not only to the great body
of miners but also to every worker,
organized and unorganized in this
country.
The Crisis in the Coal Industry.
The coal industry of this country,
like that of other producing coun-
tries, now finds itself in deep crisis.
Various factors contribute to this
over-development of the industry by
the opening of many new mines in
the war time; the introduction of sub
stitutes for coal, such as oil, water
power, ETC.; the more economical
methods of utilizing coal; the falling
off in the demand for coal due to the
general depression in industry; the
introduction of machinery and speed
up systems upon an unprecedented
scale; the anarchic chaotic status of
the coal industry. All these things
tend to make the productive capacity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
/. L. ID. SUPPORTS MAY DAY MEETING
F1e,s, Cloak Workers and Many other Labor Unions Aid

Following the endorsement by the
Joint Board Of the Cloak and Suit
Makers Union, the Joint Board of the
Furriers' Union, and other labor or
ganizations, of the Joint May Day
mass demonstration to be held in
Madison Square Garden under the
auspices of the New York district of
the Workers (Communist) Party, the
international Labor Defense, speak
ing through Rose Baron, district sec
retary, has pledged it's support.
Local 35, International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union, Joseph
Gcretsky, manager; Local 2, /. L. G..
w. u, Joseph Borochowitz, manager;
Retail Grocery and Clerks Union,
David Vacker, organizer, and the jew
ish Workers University, J. Minded, di-
rector, have also sent in their en-
dorsements for the united demonstra-
tion.
The statement of the 1. L. D. fol-
lows:
"In full realization of the need for
complete unity of the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
WORKERS SENDING
SUBS FOR MINERS
Push Drive to Give Coal
Diggers "Daily"

Free subscriptions for striking min
ers have begun to come in from
various parts of the country in an
swer to appeals of The DAILY
WORKER. The campaign to place a
copy of the paper daily in the hands
of every miner is being carried for
ward with increasing energy as re-
suit of the opening of the great Save
the-Union Conference in Pittsburgh.
The enthusiastic manner in which
the distribution of about 1900 copies
Of the DAILY" was greeted by the
delegates at the opening session Sun
day was proof of what The DAILY
WORKER means to the miners in
their present struggle. More copies
of the paper must be distributed so
that every striking miner may re-
ceive regularly the Daily which is
helping him in his heroic struggle
against the threefold attacks of the
coal barons, the capitalist courts and
(Con:in:.ed on Page Thrge1
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of the industry far outrun the de-
mands of the market.
Consequently, with mines standing
idle, unemployment spreads like a
dread plague among The miners. For
the past three years this unemploy-
ment, often running as high as so per
cent, has been entirely without pre-
cedent. The great body of miners,
organized as well as unorganized, are
being rapidly forced into the depths
of poverty. Today, the coal mining
camps of this country, those that are
working as well as those that are on
strike, are saturated with misery and
suffering, often verging into actual
starvation. They are living refuta-
tons of the lies about prosperous
America" spread so energetically by
employers agents of all stripes.
The Employers Proposals.
AS a remedy" for this situation,
the coal operators, many of whom are
even now reaping large profits, pro-
pose to sink the miners into veritable
SCl1uOlil. lHGy SpSC4di RON-
ernmental support to wipe out compe-
tition among themselves and to estab-
lish monopoly conditions. They de-
mand the destruction of the union and
the establishment of the open shop so
that they may have a free hand to in
troduce their whole program of cut
ting wages, lengthening hours, speed
ing up production, and the elimination
of safety devices, acknowledgment and
many other job projections estab-
lished by the miners after genera
ton of struggle. To the unemployed
they brutally declare: "There are too
many miners; 25O,000 of you must get
out of the industry" The semi-slave
camps of the southern coal mining
districts are an indication of what,
conditions the mine operators seek to
force upon the whole body of miners
The autocratic proposals are receiv-
(Continued on PAGE Tuo)
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"Save-the-Union" Meet
Greeted by fuckers,
Pleaters, Hemstitchers

The fuckers, Pleaters' and Hem
stitchers' Union Local al of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union have sent a telegram of
greetings to the "Save-the- Union"
miners conference now in session in
Pittsburgh.
The message follows in part: "You
are entering a new era in the strug-
gle of the miners against their
bosses and their corrupt leadership.
In this struggle we members of Local
al extend to you our hearty congrat-
ulations and wish you success"
The fuckers, Pleaters' and Hem
stitchers' Local Al will hold a dance
and spring frolic this Friday at 8 p.
m. at Webster Mansion, Third Ave.
and 18th st. Admission is 30 cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
PUSHES
Piece WORK PLAN
Appoints New Strike
Committee at Meet

CHICAGO, April AT a mass
membership meeting of the striking
capmakers of Local of the Inter
national Cloth Hat, Cap and Millin-
cry Workers Union held here Satur-
day, Max Zaritsky, national presi-
dent, again showed, as clearly as
when he deposed the militant lead
ership several days ago, that he is
playing the role of agent of the en-
ployers, who are trying to install the
piece work system.
He declared to the assembled
workers, who have been on strike
against the piece work system for II
weeks, that the reason for removing
the leadership was because he want
ed to wait until the workers were
less determined to make no conces-
sions to the bosses. After. seventeen
weeks he is certain, he said, that the
workers feel differently about the
strike situation, and that is why he
acted now.
The right wing emmisary sent to
Chicago by the general executive
board then launched into an attack
on local manager Salzburg, also a
member of the general executive
board, for issuing statement to the
locals exposing the sabotage and
traitorous activities of the national
office against the Chicago strike.
In answer to this attack, Salzburg
pointed to the public declarations in
favor of piece work made by the
union president Zaritsky, while the
Chicago capmakers were in bitter
struggle against this vicious speed-up
system. The membership also re-
minded Zaritsky of the fact that
Percy Ginsburg, manager of the en-
ployers' association had used these
statements as an incentive to make
the bosses lock out the workers.
At the end of the meeting Zaritsky
announced that whether the member
ship likes it or not he has decided to
appoint new strike committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
GROWTH OF LEFT
WING MAKES STEP
VITAL NECESSITY
Building Will House
Party, Daily School

Initiating a new period in the
growth of the left wing and Com
munist movement of America yester-
day was made of plans for the en-
largement of the activities of District
2 of the Workers (Communist) Par
ty, the largest section of the Party.
and of the removal to new and en-
larged quarters by The DAILY
WORKER.
The building, in addition, will house
the Workers School, the Workers
Bookshop, the Young Workers
League, the Pioneers, and other labor
organizations, at 1928 Union Square,
The new home of the militant labor
movement is to be known as the
Workers Center.
The building has been purchased
in order to establish a center large
enough to accommodate thousands of
militant workers daily, which will
enable the organizations housed in it
to take care of their increased ac-
tivities. For long time the various
organizations which now find space
in the new building have been look
ing for a place to enable the various
left wing and Communist activities
to be concentrated in one center. They
have succeeded in finding aspiace next
door to 80 Union Square, the home of
"The Freiheit."
The Proletcos Restaurant, which at
the present time is located at 30
Union Square, will move into the new
building and take the ground floor so
as to accommodate three times its
present capacity. The DAILY
WORKER, which up to the present
time had its local and national of
fices separated in two different build
ings, will now be able to look after
its increasing subscribers and news
Continued on Page Three
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Fire on Sixth Avenue Il

Defective wiring started a fire
that destroyed an old wooden car,
the last of a seven-car southbound
Sixth Avenue elevated express at
Cortland Street in the morning yes
terday, Fortunately the last Of the
passengers had just been discharged
but the train crew and firemen were
endangered. Traffic between Frank
lin st. and South Ferry was tied up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
14OO BARRIERS GO
ON STRIKE TODAY
Fight Wage Reduction
by Bosses Association

Over 1400 BARRIERS in Jamaica,
Richmond Hill and Brooklyn will go
on strike at 10 a. m. today to fight
a wage reduction of S5 week-from
$35 to $30-by the International
Master BARRIERS Association. The
strike was decided on at mass meet
ing last night of Local 913 of the In
ternational Journeymen BARRIERS
Union at Brooklyn Labor Lyceum.
The wage cut by the association
was in direct violation of an agree
ment with the union, according to Of
ficials of the union. Altho the work
ers' wages were cut the master bar
ber did not reduce prices, the Off
cials pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
JOBLESS WORKER
HUNGER VICTIM
Union So. Mass Meet of
Unemployed Today

Unemployed for over four months,
not having had more than several
cups of coffee in the last ten days,
and with his nights spent in trying
to sleep in an abandoned coal yard
on w. 18th St., William o'Brien, 81,
collapsed yesterday afternoon at 5th
St, and Third Ave, while making
fruitless rounds Of the employment
agencies in the neighborhood.
After several policemen called by
pedestrians had excused themselves
by saying that that corner was not
in their beat; an ambulance was fin
ally summoned, which took the victim
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
AMERICA AUTHOR
SENT TO PRISON
Daily Worker Must Pay
$500 Fine

Dragged from the University of
Wisconsin, where he was scholarship
student, David Gordon, 18year-old
author of the poem America" which
was. made the pretext Of a CONCERTED
attack by the capitalist courts on The
DAILY WORKER, was yesterday sent
to the city reformatory at Welfare
Island.
This is in accordance with a ruling
last week by the New York State
Court of Appeals, confirming the con-
victions Of The DAILY WORKER and
Gordon, together with Gordon's SEN
tence and fine of $500 imposed on
the paper.
Gordon, who has for several years
been active in the Young Workers
League, will have to serve three years
Continued on Page 1'hree)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
ANGELO, ON WAY
TO MEET,IS HURT
Second Injury During
Campaign
Especial to The Daily Worker.)

~ d~~''~S ~ 4 f"V A~UttB ~ DfhEF.y
SPRINGFIELD, H., April 2.-Joe
Angelo, secretary of the district IL
Save-the- Union Committee, according
to a report, was badly hurt in an
automobile accident about forty miles
out of Pittsburgh. He was hurrying
in car to attend the Pittsburgh con-
ference. Details are lacking as to
the extent of his injuries, but he is
said to be determined to continue on
into Pittsburgh and speak at the COM
ference anyway.
This is Angeles second injury DUR
ng the present miners campaign;
only few weeks ago he was at
tackled and beaten up by gang Of
thugs in Springfield. The machine
gangsters were led by Joe Loda, a
former progressive who has changed
his coat after being elected in the
1925 elections to a sub-district office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03


alton and a demand for a nation
fields, featured the second day
of the great national miners
Save-the-Union conference in
session in this city.
Amid enthusiasm and deter
mination which has not been
equalled at any workers conference
in a generation, the twelve hundred
delegates assembled here at times
cheered and thundered their applause,
at others listened in almost breath
less silence as speakers recounted the
struggles and sacrifices of the mine
workers or the betrayals of the Lewis
machine officials.
The announcement that the Illinois
miners were out again in support of
the Pennsylvania-Ohio strike was met
with the greatest acclaim. A demon
stration was caused by the news that
the strike of the coke miners in the
four Pennsylvania counties betrayed
by Lewis in 1922 would come out on
April 16.
Unanimous Support.
All resolutions of major Importance
were passed unanimously. The call
for a strike Of the Indiana, Kansas
and Southwest districts, was submit
ted as were three other resolutions
by subcommittee Of the southwest
districts, and was adopted unani-
mously. The resolution call for an
immediate strike. All mines will be
struck irrespective of whether the
Jacksonville agreement is claimed to
be in force or not. Organizers of the
Save-the- Union Committee of the
districts will be sent out into the
field to organize the activities in con-
nection with the walkout.
Support Negro Miners.
The conference adopted three
amendments to the general program
recommended by the program COM
mittee. The first is a resolution on
Negro miners. The resolution con-
demns the Lewis machine for dis
eliminating against Negro miners and
demands equal pay for equal work for
all workers, the acceptance of col
ored and white workers on an equal
basis. At the conference, six Negro
delegates were asked to come to the
platform and act as the representa-
tives Of all the Negro miners in the
industry.
A second amendment referred to
the young miners. Protection against
the exploitation of the youth was de-
manded. Another resolution provides
for the organization of the women.
The wives of the miners bear the
brunt of the sacrifices, the resolution
points out. Women must be drawn
in in the support of the strike, the
resolution demands.
Against High Salaries.
Other resolutions condemned the
high salaries of the Lewis officials
and their excessive expense accounts;
it advocates that in the future
salaries of officers be based on the
pay of the miners. Another provides
that no more International organi-
zers or executive board members be
sent as representatives of local unions
to conventions. This means that only
direct representatives of the unions
will be able to speak for the miners.
Two big mass meetings in Illinois
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
PROGRESSIVE FORCES WILL
TRANSFER FIGHT TO LOCAL
UNIONS in ALL DISTRICTS
Organizers Will Be Sent to Kansas, Indiana,
Missouri, Arkansas and Other Fields
Delegates Lay Plans to Spread the Illinois
Strike;" Form New Committees
(Special to The Dnilu Worker. J

PITTSBURGH, April "A call for general strike Of the
Indiana Kansas and Southwest districts to take effect immed
ate support extension of the Illinois already in oper
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
Party Membership
Meeting on Friday

A general membership meeting of
the Workers (Communist) Party will
be held this Friday night at 8 p. m.
at the Irving Plaza, Irving Place and
18th st. Matters of great Importance
will be taken up. All other Party
meetings have been called off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03

rupt the labor movement and victim
ize the militant workers.
Success to the united demonstra-
ton on May First!
"Pack Madison Square Garden to
capacity!
(Signed) Rose Baron, Secretary,
New York District, International La
Dor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-03
OPERATORS BEGIN
WAR IN ILLINOIS
Boss Paper Indicates
Policy

CHICAGO, (FP) April Bitter
and perhaps bloody mine warfare may
begin in the rockribbed Illinois dis
trict of the United Mine Workers of
AYnerica if oElinoas Indications con
tinue to multiply. The Chicago Jour
nal of Commerce, a financial paper
close to the Illinois coal operators,
openly foreshadows trouble. Dis
cussing the failure of wage confer
ences between the union and the
operator association the Journal con-
cludes March 30):
"Some of the members may at
tempt before long to operate their
mines at less than the Jacksonville
scale Notwithstanding the handicap
caused by the fact that no miner may
be hired who does not possess a
certificate of competency under the
Illinois law, which, being administered
by union-dominated commission,
has granted such certificates to
none but union men,"
Declare war.
This is an even palmer declaration
of war on the union than preceded
the Herrin battle of 1922. Prepara-
tions for the conflict have been made
for some time by the larger operators,
notably the Peabody interests. Pea
body first fortified themselves by
buying huge non-union areas in other
states, then corrupted Frank Earring
ton, former president of the Illinois
union, and then built mob-proof
stockades around some of their prop
critics, notably at Taylorville, with a
regular military sentry and telephone
system.
But to Judge by the semi-official
pronouncements from the other side
and by their actual preparations it
looks as though Illinois, the keystone
of the bituminous division of the
union, is to undergo a decisive test
this year.