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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-24
ALIBI IS ARSON DEFENSE
Samuel WithrOw and Relatives
Testify at Newport.
BIZ Times Special


Testify at Newport.
By Times Special
NEWPORT, Ind, Sept. 24.-Trial
of Samuel Withrow, former kligraph
of the Parke County Ku-Klux Khan
entered on its second week in YER
million Circuit Court here today
with testimony of an alibi before
the jury. 1t is believed. the case will
go to the jury Tuesday.
The defendant; his wife, Mrs.
Blanche Withrow, and their daugh-
ter, Mildred, IS. from the witness
stand declared he was at home
suffering from headache the night
in September, 1924, when SchoGE
building at Bridgeton was burned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-24
Loses SEQ Rings

While moving to her new home
at GA E. Twenty-Second ST., Mrs.
Eva Baker reported to police she
lost travelling bag in which were
two rings, one a diamond and
sapphire, valued at $3.50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-24
B'NAI BIRTH TO MEET
Fall Lodge Season Will Be Opened
Tuesday Night.

An open meeting of the B'nai
Birth will be held at 8 p. m. Tues
day at the Kirshbaum Community
Center opening the fall season of
the order under the direction of Sol
Schloss, president,
A memorial service will be held
for Adolph Biccard, a member of
the lodge and one time president.
Rabbi Milton Steinberg of Bethel
Temple and Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht
will speak.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-24
U. S. WOMAN IN CRASH
Escapes Injury When Plane Falls
in Trees Near Vienna.

III ITttS NtdT FItnnd.
BIZ United Press
VIENNA, Sept. 24.-MrS. Nathalie
Rogers, New York society woman,
was among the passengers in an
airplane that crashed into tree
today near Eyetk, Hungary, a dis
patch from Budapest said.
The passengers we're unhurt. The
plane, en- route from Budapest to
Vienna, landed in the tree and hung
suspended. The wings of the plate
were shattered and its windows
broken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
One Of the Major Tasks of the Party Has Been
Realized

advanced with the work and the
comrades had gathered many sigma
lures, the political character of the
task became quite evident.
Had To Fight To Get On.
Almost in every state the Party
had to fight to get on the ballot.
in New ENGLAND, the Partys par
ticipa5ion in the New Bedford strike
led the authorities to challenge our
petitions, disqualifying large num-
bers. In the mining regions, be
cause Of our activity during the min
ers' strike ard the building of the
new miners union, the comrades
had to overcome great difficulties
before the Party was placed on the
ballot in those states.
All along the line, reactionary or
CARNATIONS, such as the Ku Klux
Kan, the American Legion, employ
ers' organizations and labor takers.
combined with the state authorities
in the attempt to keep our candi-
dates off the ballot. The Party is
still fighting in Nebraska and Okla
homa to stay on the ballot.
Gain Political Experience.
The signature gathering campaign
to place our Party on the ballot, not
only helped us to expose American
democracy and the nature of the
capitalist state but has also given
US great many additional exper-
fences of political character which
justified the position of the C. E.
c. that the placing of the Party on
the ballot was a major political
task.
The fact that the Party has
reached new areas heretofore un.
trodden, that it enlisted in this cam
paign not only the Party member
ship but large numbers of sympa-
thetic workers who gathered sigma
lures for the Party, that the sigma
ture campaign was particularly
successful in those sections where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
Putting Communist Party on y. S. Map
By Fred Ellis

the Party participated in the strug-
giles Of the workers needle trades,
mining, textiles, etc.), that Negro
workers enthusiastically responded
to our appeal, and that the contacts
established thru signature gathering
led to the enrolment of individual
members and the establishment of
new units in sections where the Par
ty didF not exist before-all these
facts and experiences of the COM
rades and the Party as a whole have
rot only proven of inestimable value
already but will count considerably
in the development of our parlia-
mentary work and the extension of
the Party on a national scale.
While an election campaign is
only one of the campaigns of a
Communist Party, our Party has
made the most of the present cleo
ton to the best of its abilities in
reaching the masses with the Com
munist message, in making our class
struggle platform known among the
workers and exploited farmers, in
spreading the influence of the Par
ty, in establishing our Party as a
class party of the workers, the on
ly political party which has the
right to claim the support and al
legiance of the working masses OF
the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
Com munlsts
Fig hit for the
Negro Worker
BY OTTO HUISWOUD.

Terrorism! This is the answer of
the capitalist class to the campaign
for the mobilization of the workers
for struggle against capitalism by
the Workers (Communist) Party.
In all sections of the country, the
workers are being attacked, meet
ings broken up, speakers arrested,
The American legion, ku klux khan
and other terrorist organizations
have united their forces in an at
tempt to prevent the Communists
bringing the message of labor soli-
darity to the masses, black and
white. The forces of reaction are
aroused and are leaving no stone I'M
turned to stop the party from reach
ing the Negro workers with it's
slogan-"Full economic, political and
social equality for the Negro race"
Reaching Negro Masses.
The vicious and brutal attacks
launched against our party, particu-
larly in the south and southwest, are
indicative of the effectiveness of our
campaign in those sections of the
country. That the Party is penetrat-
ing the "solid south" and is doing
effective work among the Negro
masses is attested by the fact that
every issue of the southern Negro
press is filled with news-matter con-
corning the stand taken by Commun-
lists on the race issue.
Not only this, but Negro workers
are responding and attending the
meetings at which the presidential
candidates and other speakers of the
Party appear.
In Houston, Texas, where Negro
visitors to the democratic conven-
ton were cooped up in a wire cage
and where Robert Powell was
lynched few days before that con-
vention, a meeting of the Workers
(Communist) Party at which it's
vice-presidential candidate, Benjamin
Gitlow, was to speak, was raided by
the police. The reason given for this
raid was the invitation extended to
Negroes to attend the meeting and
the fact that they would be seated
in the same hall with the white work
ers. A successful meeting was held,
however, in another hall with white
and Negro workers present.
The distribution of thousands of
leaflets condemning lynching in the
south is nightmare that disturbs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
For V.-President

Gomez of Venezuela, Legufa of Peru, and
Ibanez of Chile.
CD Abolition of all extra-territorality prvi-
ieges of the United States in South and Cen
trail America
90 Abolition of the present mercenary army
and navy and state militia, and struggle for a
tolers militia; selection of officers by the
soldiers and sailors. Full right to vote and
hold office for the members of the military
forces.
CD Fight for the abolition of the whole
system of infamous imperialist peace treaties"
Down with the Dawes Plan! Down with the
Kellogg Treaties Cancellation of all debts
of the last imperialist world war. Immediate
withdrawal from the World Court and refusal
to enter into the League of Nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
money before it can obtain this op-
,,rrt177,sf4y
Various Obstacles.

money before it can obtain this op-
portUnity.
Various Obstacles.
Election laws differ in different
states. In York the Party had
to file 23,500 signatures to place the
presidential, state and some local
candidates on the ballot. In Ohio,
over $4,000 signatures were filed to
insure that state on the ballot.
While there are states where only
thousand signatures are necessary,
it was just as difficult to secure this
number Of signatures in these states
as it was to secure many thousands
in other states, because of their
size, the weakness of our Party in
those states, and the limited time in
which these signatures had to be
secured.
A Special Obstacle.
A particularly democratic" pro-
vision in some states is one requir-
ing that the total number of neces-
sary signatures be gathered by
counties, wards, assembly districts,
ETC., and not merely at any one
point in the state, which precludes
the possibility of gathering sigma
lures among working class citizens
in shops or at meetings in the large
industrial centers of the state where
our Party could easily secure the
total number of signatures required
for the whole state. Over 100000
signatures were required to place
the party on the ballot in the "a
states.
Realizing the enormous difficulty
with which the Party was faced if
it wanted to be on the ballot in at
least 80 states, the c. E. C. declared
the gathering of signatures major
political task of the Party. This
was also necessary lest some COM
rades might think that the gather
ing of signatures was purely a cler-
ical job. Before the Party was well
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
Arrests at Wilmington.

bourbons.
Arrests at Wilmington.
In Wilmington, Delaware, William
T.. Foster, Workers (Communist)
Party candidate for president and
four other workers were arrested
and their meeting broken up by the
police when they exposed the ex-
ploitation and subsection of the Ne
gro workers under the rule of the
capitalist parties. The reasons given
for stopping the meeting was that
the Workers Party distributed leaf
let entitled abolish Lynching,"
which was forbidden by the police.
Suppression, violence and persecu-
ton are not unknown to the Negro.
At the polls he is brutally beaten
when he makes a determined at
tempt to vote. On the plantation he
is driven under the lash so that he
may give his last drop of blood for
the enrichment of the master class.
Killed for Talking Back"
On the slightest pretext-"ta talking
back to white folks" for instance, he
is lynched and burned at the stake.
To hold him in abject slavery, to
make him "hewer of wood and
drawer of water" to keep him in
a condition of poverty and servitude,
to make him docile slave, this is
the program of the ruling class, sup
ported by the republican and demo-
cratic parties.
In spite of all these acts of ter
rorism and violence, resorted to by
the lackeys of the ruling class, the
Negro workers are more and more
lending willing ear to the Commun-
list program. Meetings of the Work.
ers (Communist) Party throughout
the country are drawing ever larger
numbers of Negro workers. In Kan
sas City, 400 Negro workers at
tended a mass meeting held by the
Party. Everywhere Negro workers
are drawn into the ranks of the only
Party that fights against segrega-
ton, Acknowledgement, lynching and
for the organization of the Negro
and white workers on a basis Of
equality.
Join Us In the Fight.
Negro workers! Your place is
within the ranks of the Party that
fights your battles. Join in the
struggle for the emancipation of the
working class. Only through unity
of the black and white workers in
common struggle can you hope to
break the chains of slavery.
Rally to the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party! Vote the Communist
ticket! Join the Workers (Commun
ist) Party Of America! 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
Fascists Sentence
Communist Editor
To z Yrs. In Prison

ROME, Oct. 26.-Francesco LIE.
one, worker of San Paulo, Brazil
was today sentenced to seven years
and seven months Imprisonment by
the fascist court on charges of "dis.
sembling anti-Italian propaganda
as editor of a Communist newspaper
published in Italian in France. Leone
was arrested in Italy.
Fear is fe..t for Leone's life, due
to the fact that many Communists
have mysteriously disappeared fol.
lowing their Imprisonment by the
fascist govern cllt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
Hoover, Exploiter of Coolies, Serfs
and Slaves

John Sullivan, President of the New York
State Federation of Labor, has issued state
ment sponsoring grave charges against
Herbert Hoover
He piles up whole series of facts to prove
that Hoover got his millions out of the most
ruthless exploitation of Chinese coolies, In
dian slaves, and Russian half-serfs.
In India, Hoover, as chairman of the Burma
Corporation, Ltd, employed 10000 men,
whonSDfficial British documents called com
pulsory free labor
In China, mines operated by Hoover forced
100000 coolies with the bayonets and soldiers
of your partner, the Empress of China, under
conditions of semi-savery.'
In Tzarist Russia, Hoover was engaged in
the operation of railroads, copper and sulphur
mines, and fifamong the number of employed
some 10000 of them were serfs and convicts
with cossacks using the whip and rifle to
force compulsory employment in the financial
interest of you and your partners, the
Romanoff royal family"
These charges put forward by Mr.. Sulli-
van are very serious, and throw powerful
searchlight on the activities of the presi-
Dental candidate of finance capital
But Mr.. Sullivan, as an experienced and
notorious labor, faker, does not tell the whole
truth. He keeps quiet about the following
fundamental facts:
l. That not only Hoover as an Individual
but the whole American master class is en-
gagged in the same kind of ruthless exploita-
ton of coolies in China, peasants in Latin
America, and half-slaves in the various
colonies.
2. That Hoover and the whole capitalist
class of this country is exploiting not only
Chinese coolies and Burmese slaves and Mex
lean peasants, but are with all their force
and strength for the perpetuation of wage
slavery in the United States and for the
maintenance in virtual slavery of the Ne
groes of the South.
3. That Al Smith, Mr.. Sullivan's favorite
candidate, is by no means better than
Hoover; that he, just as Hoover, stands for
the exploitation and oppression of the toilers
here in America.
A. That Mr.. Sullivan and his labor-faker
colleagues, the mole American Federation
of Labor, are not putting up any resistance
to defend the colonial peoples or the workers
of this country against exploitation and op-
preston.
5. That there is only one political force,
the Workers (Communist) Party of Am En-
lea, which fights for the liberation of the
colonial peoples, for the overthrow of cap
italism, for the abolition of wage slavery,
for the emancipation of the Negroes
Workers, Vote Communist! Send your
contribution of at least one dollar today d.
rect to the National Election Campaign Com
mittee, Workers (Communist) Party, 43
East 10th ST., l5ov York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27

the peace of mind of the southern
bourbons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
u. S. MOVE TO AID
NANkINC IS Seen
MacMurray to Leave for
Shanghai Soon

PEKING, China, Feb. 14.-That the
United States is seeking even closer
relations with the Marking govern
ment that it has maintained was seen
today when John Van A. MacMurray,
United States Minister, announced
that he would start next Monday on
a trip to Shanghai and Hankow.
MacMurray expects to confer with
leading members of the Marking
Government.
The recent attacks conducted by
the Marking Government on militant
arade unions, the execution of work
er and peasant leaders and the break
with the Soviet Union have aroused
favorable comment among United
States citizens here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
CONVICT KOREAN
REvOLUTIONISTS
"a Sentenced After 3
Years Trial

TOKYO, Feb. 14.-After a trial
lasting three years, the Seoul Dis
trict Court today convicted 81 per-
sons of participating in an alleged
plot for nationalist uprising, accord
ing to reports received here.
The Japanese authorities in Korea
have long feared nationalist revolt.
Recently Seoul police altering con-
Quoting house to house search ar
rested a number of men and women
on the charge of possessing revolu-
tionary literature.
Unrest turnout Korea has been
stimulated considerably by the devel-
opments in China in the last two
years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
speeches and declarations about
continental solidarity"

continental solidarity"
1t is doubtful that the American
delegation, which is led by the Wall
Street spokesman Hughes and the
Standard Oil Co. man Fletcher (for-
merly ambassador to Mexico), will
have a plain sailing in Havana.
1t is very disagreable for American
imperialism that in the eleventh hour
resistance should come from such an
unexpected quarter in the congress
which will be attended by President
Coolidge himself By her political
solidity and economic development
Argentina is recognized as the pre-
nlier republic of Latin America. An
opposition to American Imperialism
led by her will be supported by other
Latin American governments thus
putting the question of Latin Amer
lean alliance in the realm of practical
politics.
In Mexico.
Mexico, which owing to close prox-
unity bears the brunt of American
imperialist aggression, has always
been the champion of Latin Amer
lean alliance against the United
States. But it always lacked the
power and prestige to command the
adhesion of all the other republics
to its strivings. Owing to the lack
of this general support, the govern
/, ment of Gales recently capitulated
to American demands after a resist
ance of several years. Indeed, the
struggle between Mexico and Wash
ington over the Mexican oil law dates
from 1917 when after the overthrow
of the Wall Street protege Victoriano
Huerra from the presidency, a new
constitution was adopted embodying
the principles of the revolution of
1911. The article q of the new con-
stitution has ever since been the bone
of contention. By this article all sub
soil riches were declared to be prop
erty of the nation. The meaning of
the article was naturalization of
petroleum and other mineral deposits
which had all been leased out to for
eign capitalists, particularly Amer
lean and English by the Diaz govern
ment, of course, was met with un-
dying hostility of the imperialist
powers who refused to recognize the
CGrranza government until the arti-
Gle q was removed from the consti-
tuition.
A reactionary in internal questions,
Carranza stubbornly refused to abide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
MILLIONS USED
TO END PROBE

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA. - Pro-
ponents of the proposed senatorial in
vestigation of public utility interests
charge that a $17000,0O0 "power
lobby" is operating in Washington to
kill the latest pretense at an investi-
cation of the power trust being made
by Sen. Walsh of Massachusetts. On
the floor of the senate yesterday
Walsh demanded that lobbyists be re-
quired to disclose the names of their
employers and all other information
about activities in favor of pending
legislation.
Vice-president Dawes, supposed to
name the senators to conduct the
proposed investigation in case the
resolution carries, revealed ON the
floor that he is personally interested
in some Of the companies to be in
vestigated," and that he chopped some
other method would be followed in
naming the committee of inquiry"
An amendment was therefore offered
for the election of the committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
SEvEN-HOUR DAY
IN PRACTICE IN
USSR FACTORIES
Moscow Textile Mills
Start New System

MOSCOW, by "Vparied"
was the first textile factory of the
Moscow gubernia to introduce the
7-hour day, The factory started work
on the new system on the 18th of
January, others began on the 18th.
The introduction Of the 7-hour day
was preceded by extensive rationaliza-
ton of the working process and in
PRODUCTION of machinery. On the 1st
Of February the factory will start
working in three shifts and the num-
Der of workers viii increase by 20
per cent.
The average worker produces 900
boxes in the 7-hour day and earns
roubles, IS kopecks. Before the war
worker produced in the course of
8 hours only $40 boxes and earned
so kopecks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

by the wishes of the foreign powers.
and for the first time sought to unite
all the Latin American republics in
a common resistance to the northern
giant. Failing to bring the Carranza
government to terms by open armed
interventions, American imperialism
fell back upon the effective method
of fomenting civil war.
Obregon, who with the help of the
United States overthrow Carranza in
1920, for four years carried on a
policy which was calculated not to
annoy the powerful northern neigh
Dor. In 1924 the United States tried
to prevent the election to the Mexican
presidency of Gales who was then
notorious for his radical inclination.
But supported by the workers and
peasants, Obregon defeated the re-
bellion OF the American nominee de
la Huerta and secured the election of
his candidate, Gales.
The Oil Law.
The struggle over the oil law re-
vived.
To break the deadlock on the pet
roleum question, which deprived the
Mexican government of a rich finan-
cial resource, the Gales government
amended the article 81 of the consti-
tuition of 1917 making the law not
retroactive. 1t was provided that oil
leases granted before 1917 could be
renewed for not more than so years
on the application of the lease-hold-
ers.
Even this did not satisfy the Oil
kings who wanted the renewed lease
to be perpetual which would render
the disputed article 27 practically null
and void. At last on the eve of his
exit from office Gales has given in
American imperialism has triumphed
and the Pan-American Congress in
Havana is to be staged as a demon
stration of American hegemony over
the New World. This is the first
time that all the Latin American re-
publics will be represented at the Pan
American Congress. But in the
eleventh hour comes the note of dis
cord from Argentina, which is sure
to crystalline the resentment of the
little republics coerced by the Wash
ington policy of "big stick" in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
800 GUATEMALAN
WOMEN HAIL Cen.
SANDING AS HERO
Send Letter Urging All
Latin Unity

General SANDING! Victorious or
defeated you are great hero" says
a letter from five hundred Guata-
malan women to the leader Of the
struggle for Nicaraguan independ-
tnce. The text of the letter (Which
was sent to SANDING from Guatemala
City on January 28th) was made
known here yesterday.
After informing General SANDING
that the letter has been sent him by
the "Guatemalan woman as testi-
mony of their pride and admiration"
it goes on to attack those Nicaraguan
natives who "did not hesitate to ask
for Intervention and in doing so
thrust into the hands of the North
Americans the brutal whip that
would lash the face of towards"
The letter continues:
Conquered, you will have the
world for your country and will be
accompanied by glory wherever you
go; victorious, you will be acclaimed
with respect; dead, you will have i'm
mortalized yourself!
"The mothers of the present and
the future will tell their children of
your Napoleonic heroism and
will cite you as the noble Central
American who knew how to carry
the flag of his country to the heights.
IF, unfortunately, you should die,
your tomb will be the symbol of the
honor Of Nicaragua and, in it's SOL
emn silence, will teach future gen
erations to defend national integrity
General Sandino Receive for
yourself and your valiant men the
enthusiastic ovation of the women
who admire you, and for all the men
of Central and South America the
appeal we are making for the uniting
of all the nations of Latin America
in supreme effort to show the
world that death is preferable to
slavery"