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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-19

Who am 4? What was my former
Nance What position does my faith
cr hold7
10 established the first police
or c%onstabulary force in Lordon?
What was Scotland called in an
cient times?
What II John wilkes Booth sup
posed ~ have cried out when he
shot Abraham Lincoln
There is no peace. saith The Lord.
unto the wicked. Where - this
passage found IN tie Bible
Today's Horoscope
Persons horn on this DAY arc Fl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-19
Today in the Past
A Daily Thought
Jimmy JAMS

OSWALD SHTS DON'T
KNOW WHAT'S ~ THE
lBl6lE 1UT | DO - n LOCK
/ or NJ HAIR WHEN WAS
! - pABT 10 m IT - -
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-19
SENATE CLASH THREATENS
WHEN PEACE PLAN COMES
UP WITH CRUISER BILL

WASHINGTON. Nov. l9-The Ma
tional Council for the Prevention Of
War has the pacific reputation
which its name suggests.
The Navy League Of the United
States Is warlikc. by repute.
Yet. at least U 10 a certain point,
Executive Secretaries Frederick j.
Libby Of the National council and
William NJ. Calvin Of the Navy
league. speak in fashions not at all
unlike.
The council. rs Secretary Libby
puts il, is not fighting so much for
an immediate reduction in Amer
ica's armament as 70 prevent It's in
rcase
The leagues aim. as Secretary
Calvin explains il. is by no means
a vast American armament. hut
simply "a keen n from Laying I'M
daily behind the other world pow
erS'.
Almost III the same words. "Our
own generation has had more than
its fill of war" agree the two see
retaries. land wants no more Of IT,"
But how about the next genera
tom"
And each shakes his head pessi-
mitsically-if our w%ar-ignorant chill
dren are left to pick their own path
way. its pitfalls unmarked by their
parents Of today who found them
by falling in.
Secretary Libby is more emphatic
concerning the duty Of the present
generation 10 provide the world ma
chinery. which future generations
can use. for the peaceful settlement
OF international disputes.
II Is ar urgent duty upon this
generation. he points out. because
this one knows the need Of il rs
future generations will not-unless
they learn II in the school cf war.
And ther. he adds. II will ne too
DISQUALIFICATION cannot survive am
other great war.
Secretary Calvin. in fact. sug-
gests no peace machinery ut all.
Nevertheless. he does rot decry
inter- ational arm~ment limitation.
On the contrary. he discusses IL as
a practical possibility. down 20 but
little more than q police force basis
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-19
Other Papers
OUT GOES vICTOR BERGER IN COMES A
~REACTIONARY
birmingham News.

d H"TT W
The apparent defeat Of Victor Berger, Milwaukee
scialist. by q republican conservative gives some idea
~ the force Of the movement that swept Herbert
Hoover into office. IL isn't, Of course, Mr.. Berger's
s;rst defeat. He has had his ups and downs. And II
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
Finds
com NueTCe IN
Soulful Mood

WASHINGTON, May %. = The
" remarkable discovery that Amer
lean business lis developing a con-
science" has just been unear5hed by
Sen. Capper, Republican, of Kan
sas.
Extreme modification over the
results of the oil Investigations is
cited by the senator for his feeling
in the matter.
Heading his statement "big bust
ness feels disgraced," Capper, some
times humorously described as an
"insurgent" referred to resolution
adopted by the United States Cham
Der of Commerce convention calling
on the business profession to purge
itself of "those who would deal dis
honestly with the Government"
The senator was further reas-
sured by the fact that storm of
applause followed the adoption of
the resolution. Capper has not as
yet officially announced his candi-
dacy for the presidency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
New York Workers To
Hold Haywood Meet
Continued from Poae Ome)

(Continued from Page One)
ed would follow the dying down of the
poisonous fever of war-frenzy.'
Expect Great Demonstration.
Speaking of this fever, Comrade
Haywood wrote two years ago, From
this the workers are speedily recov-
ering. There will be strikes of metal
workers, lumberjacks, oil workers,
coal miners, agricultural workers,
textile workers, the men on the range,
the packing house workers and the
women and children in the cotton
mills -
eve expect that the Haywood
memorial meeting will be one of the
largest demonstrations of that nature
that we have ever held"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
WHITES AND NEGROES SUFFER IN SOUTH
Jobess Textile Workers and Poor Farmers Facing Hunger

workers in better times and dom
mates the town, is assuming no re-
sponsibility for the suffering of it's
people. 1t passes the buck for ad-
ministering relief to the local
charity agency supported by the
Community Chest to which the
workers have to contribute.
A by-product of the drop in en-
ployment is the slump in the earn
ings of the local streetcar COM
pany, which gets most of it's fares
by hauling the workers from home
to mill and return. In an effort to
get business from a different class
of customers the cars now carry
this slogan in big letters: 'Park
Your Car At Home and Ride the
Street Cars"
In Lynchburg, 65 miles to the
north, times are nearly as bad for
the employees of the shoe and gar
ment factories, and the tobacco
farmers who sell to the local ware
house owners.
Of all the farmers in the United
States, these Virginia tobacco
growers, who raise what is known
as the "dark-fired" variety, are al
most the worst off. The bright leaf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
REPORT new Mine
TAG DAY PROCEEDS
Total Goes Beyond the
$4,000 Mark

Since the itemized report of the
tag days drive was made public by
the National Miners Relief Commit
tee of 1919 Broadway, several addi-
tional relief stations turned in their
collection proceeds, bringing the total
collected by the National Miners Re-
lief Committee, the Youth Confer
ence for Miners Relief and the Chill
dren's Miners Relief Committee to
above the $4,000 mark.
The International Branch No. l of
the Workers Party collected and turn
ed in $50.68, the station at 3451 Giles
Place turned in an additional $25.56,
the Unity House at 1900 Seventh
Ave. accounted for another 1924,
the Workers Club at 101 West 9th
Street reported $40.59 more, Women's
Council No. 2, at 1400 Boston Road,
collected $68.71 more, and the Fur
riers' Council No. 1, at 1868 Vyse
Ave-, turned in S136.01.
The Negro Committee for Miners
Relief collected $45,87, which the or
ganizer, Harold Williams, turned in
to the Miners Relief Office
The collection made by the station
of the Ukrainian Miners Relief Com
mittee, at II East 3rd St., was $75.33;
the reported collection of $775.33
made by that station, was due to a
typographical error.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
BY ART SHIELDS.

hANVILLE, Va, (FP) May 23.-
~ travelling thru the red clay foot
hills Of the Blue Ridge mountains,
from Charlottesville to Danville, $50
miles, the visitor finds the general
complaint that times are harder
than any that this region has seen
in years. Low tobacco prices for
the farmers, and unemployment and
part time in the factories are rife.
In Danville, near the North Caro-
lima border, a cotton mill city of
more than 10000 if its industrial
suburbs are included, the local
charity agency, the community
welfare association, admits that
only fraction Of the local distress
is being relieved.
"The mill workers had nothing
saved up, they were living from
hand to mouth before the depres-
sion," a charity worker stated.
"Now with so many laid off, and
the rest on four days week, there
is much hunger. If the mill shuts
down for two or three months this
summer, as we fear, / don't know
what the people will do"
The Riverside and Dan River
Cotton Mills, which employs $500
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24

growers to the south, who produce
for the cigarette plants, have their
prices fixed by the trust, it is true,
but at least their product is in de-
mand. But the dark fired" weed
is back number, not wanted much
any more though farmers continue
to grow it, not knowing what else
to do.
This "dark-fired" tobacco, so
named for its color and curing, was
formerly exported in quantity to
Italy, where it went into the strong
cheap cigars of that country. Now
that the Italians are raising much
of their own smoke material they
buy less here. Little of this leaf
is used at home.
"This whole country" said one
farmer, sis overridden with debt,
both white and Negro The Negro
tenants live in squalor in one or
two-room log cabins, often with
dirt floors. Many of the Negro
farmers have given up the struggle
on the soil and have gone into the
northern industrial centers. There
are more white than Negro grow
ers. The white men, subject to the
same economic laws, are little if any
better off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
Begin Drive to Start
Strike i'm Fall River
lContinued from paae onel

(C0ntlnned from page one)
A previous strike vote held at the
time of the wage cut was announced
to be several votes short of a two
thirds majority by the union heads.
"Organize!" Slogan.
While Weisbord was telling the
workers to begin the organization of
mill committees in each factory to
fight against the wage cuts, and to
rally the Fall River workers to active
support of the New Bedford strike.
j. L. Campos, an official of the Tex
tile Council tried to halt him by
heckling the speaker. Not only did
Weisbord's sharp attack on Campos
and the other officials, effectively 81
lence the heckler, but the growing
anger of the workers attending quick
ly convinced Campos that to subside
into silence would be the healthiest
thing for him to do. He did it.
Nearly all the workers attending
the meeting took application blanks
for membership in the T, M. C. After
signing up themselves they will re-
cruit workers in their particular mills
to form committees in each mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
Gin Raid MAY
Halt Big Meet
of Democrats

HOUSTON, Tex, May 23.-Gnash-
AAing of teeth, wringing of hands
and other manifestations of great
sorrow on the part of delegates to
the Forthcoming democratic conven-
ton here followed the announcement
that $4,000 worth of rich liquor
has just been seized at Seabrook,
near here.
So hard is the blow considered
that it is said that a clamor has
arisen for the postponement of the
convention or, as mild alternative,
its transfer to some other city
known for its wet proclivities.
The advance guard of the liquor
fleet was heavily loaded. Booze
was piled so high on the ships that
the deck houses were hidden from
view and gunwales were awash in
a stiff southwark breeze. The deck
cargo was good, foamy beer, enuf
to slake the thirst of the entire
Tammany delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
TRY TO SETTLE
DENTAL STRIKE
Labor Department Men
Here for Farley"

Representatives of the Depart
inent of Labor both at Albany and
Washington have come to New York
to confer with the leaders of the Dem
tai Mechanics strike, in an attempt
to bring about a settlement between
the striking workers and the Dental
Owners Association.
P. Pascal Cosgrove, organizer of
the strike, informed them that the
bosses have thus far refused to nego-
tiate.
The recent overwhelming wall-outs
are almost certain indications, accord
ing to the union, that the Dental Own
ers' Association will be broken. Sew
eral members of the association tried
to effect individual settlement, but
were repulsed by the union, which said
that it would deal with no single
boss, but with the entire association
as a whole.
The fact that the Department Of
Labor has seen it necessary to send
representatives to the union indicates
that the employers are hard hit.
At meeting held yesterday at the
Labor Temple, the strikers decided
to hold "Victory Ball" as soon as
the association meets their demands,
which they think will be soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
LAUNCH drive FOR
FEDERAL JOBLESS
INSURANCE FUND
NY. Unemployed Coun-
Gil Starts National Drive

Continued from page one)
ance because he is an alien or be-
cause of race or nationality.
Section 2. Amount of COmpensa-
tion--Full wages for entire period of
unemployment, the maximum to be
$50 per week. Payments shall be due
from date of unemployment. Persons
with incomes from sources other than
manual, clerical or mental labor ex-
ceeding $1,000 in one year shall not
be entitled to unemployment in
surance.
Section 3. Who Shall Be Considered
Unemployed and Eligible For Insur-
ance-All persons capable of and
available for employment regardless
of whether they were residents of the
particular locality where last en-
ployed and unable to obtain suitable
full employment.
No worker shall be disqualified
from receiving unemployment insur-
ance because he refuses work at
wages below what he was formerly
receiving or below the prevailing
trade union rate in that vicinity, nor
shall he or she be disqualified for re-
fusing to work because of strikes or
unsafe or unhealthful working con-
ditions.
than the usual trade union standards
in the particular trade and locality.
Section A. Creation of Unemploy-
ment Insurance Fund-There shall be
created an Unemployment Insurance
Fund, fifty per cent to be contributed
by the employers and fifty per cent
by the state. The amount contributed
by the employers shall be made up of
payments for each worker normally
employed by them on the basis of
the average number of workers en-
ployed in each establishment for the
past two years or less, if the estab-
lishment has been operating for a
shorter period.
Section 5. Administration of Act
There shall be created for the ad-
ministration of this act, Federal,
State and City Unemployment Insur-
ance Commissions, composed Of repre-
sentatives of Trade Unions, Organiza-
tons of the Unemployed and Factory,
Mill, Shop and Mine Committees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
AT
WORKERS CENTER
ARE BEING MADE
Party Units Urged to
Hasten Drive

Alterations are proceeding rapidly
on the second floor of the Workers
Center, 1928 Union Square, and this
floor will soon be ready for occupan-
cy. Two of the leading organizations
that will be housed in the new build
ing will be located on this fIoor-Dis-
trict 2, Workers (Communist) Party
and The DAILY WORKER. The edi-
torial business, circulation and COM
posing departments of the Daily will
be on the second floor, while the press
room will be in the basement.
The, Young Workers League and
the Young Pioneers of District will
be on this floor. District 2 is already
preparing to move in and the change
Of quarters will probably be effected
next week. The Workers School will
also move soon and occupy the entire
fifth floor of the Center.
The drive for $4,000 to establish
the Workers Center is drawing to a
close, with only a little more than a
week left till the great concert and
dance Saturday evening, June 2,
which will wind up the drive. All
units are urged to secure their final
contributions and collect all pledges
during this time, as there will be no
hangover of the drive after June 2.
Section / leads all other sections by
wide margin and has almost raised
its entire quota of $4,000. In the
time that remains all other sections
must raise their assigned quotas and
turn in all collection lists, whether
filled or untitled, by June 2.
Plans are now being worked out to
make the June affair one of the
most interesting proletarian events
that have ever been held in this city.
Arrangements for the concert and
dance are in charge of Leo Hofbauer,
organizer of Section 1, and B. Rosen-
berg, of the same section. They an
nounce that among those who will
participate in the concert will be N.
Nazaroff, famous tenor of the Lenin-
grad Opera Co.
A feature of the affair will be- the
presentation of red, revolutionary
banner to the unit making the high
est totals in the drive. Tickets are
now on sale at 1928 Union Square.
They are so cents in advance and rs
cents at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
Shoe Workers to Hold
Second Open Forum

Open forums recently begun by the
Associated Shoe and Slipper Workers
are being well received by the shoe
workers of greater New York.
The first of these held last Sunday
in Brownsville has convinced the or
ganization that that is what the shoe
workers want.
The second one of the series will
be held next Sunday at IL a. m. at
20 Graham Ave-, Brooklyn.
All shoe workers are invited to at
tend. Active members of the union
will discuss the conditions in the trade
and report on the developments in
the union. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
MANY RED POETS
TO READ TONIGHT
Freeman, Gold, Gordon
on Program
fConttnned from paqe "a

Union, is looked upon as a forerun-
aer of closer relationship between
the revolutionary writer's and their
workingclass readers.
The poets who will read will be of
all ages, from 19-year old David Cor
don, who will read some of the poems
he wrote while at the Tombs and the
New York County reformatory, to
53-year old Abraham Raisin, who has
been writing for IS years and is the
idol of the Jewish workers thruout
the world.
Besides to these two, other noted
poets who will take part include:
Michael Gold, Joseph Freeman, Gene
We've Taggard, James Rorty, Adolf
Wolff, Henry Reich, Jr., Robert Wolf,
A. b. Magil, Martin Russak, Edwin
Rolfe, the well-known Yiddish poets.
H. Leivick, B. Fenster and Aron
Kurtz, the distinguished Hungarian
poet and playwright, Lajos Egri, the
Ukrainian poet, Tarnowsky, as well
as poets writing in the Russian, Chi.
nese, German, Italian and Spanish
languages. NJ. J. Olgin, editor of
The Hammer, will be chairman of the
evening.
An interesting feature of the pro-
gram will be number of American
cowboy songs, sung to banjo accom-
paniment by Margaret Larkin.
Tickets for Red Poets Night should
be secured at once as only limited
number can he seated. They are on
sale at 90 cents at the local office
of The DAILY WORKER, 10s E.
18th St.; the Workers Bookshop, 26.
% Union Square; the international
Labor Defense, 700 Broadway, Room
d22, and the New Masses, 80 Union
Square,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
BETRAY STRIKE
OF OIL WORKERS
Company Union Dele
gates Throw Over Fight
(Continued frcm paqe one)

Continued from page one)
of the overflow crowd waited outside
on the streets, the company union
committee of u placed before the
striking workers a recommendation
to return to work on the basis of 5
so-called concessions" made by the
company.
When the vote which would decide
whether the workers would accept
these five demands, came up, Edward
Foerst, chairman of the meeting, adj
vised the men to return declaring that,
'"Being brave in this strike will not
pay for your board. Think it over"
Harping continually on the fact that
if the workers voted to accept the 5
points out of 7, a victory would be
assured, Forest continued the we'll
planned act of betrayal.
Three times there were cries of
eve want union" and "sell-out,"
but these were Immediately silenced
by the company union delegates.
Three votes were taken during which
Foerst again and again advised the
men to accept the company's terms.
Finally the workers becoming dis
couraged, voted blindly to accept the
terms, altho at least 300 still dis
sented and many more did not vote
at all. A fake congratulatory address
was made by several of the delegates
who commended the good sense of
the men,"
Traitors Speak.
In the evening another meeting was
held. There the mayor, the chief of
police and all the petty bureaucrats of
the city administration occupied the
platform with the company hired
workers council. One of the delegates
in addressing the workers, spoke of
leaflet issued by the Progressive
Oil Workers of New Jersey and vi
cinity, the most militant group in the
strike, and said that it had been is
sued by the "disgruntled element" and
was "only misleading propaganda"
and was mot to be taken seriously"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24

urgently needed. In Pennsylvania
the strike spreads slowly into I'M
organized territory, calling for more
tents and food, In Kansas 5000
miners families are reduced to
grinding up wheat husks and bran
"shorts"-waste matter-to take
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
IANG EXPOSED BY
'ROCRESSIvES AS
'OOLS OF LEWIS
,ave-the-Union Forces
Issue Warming
Especial To The Daily Worker

Especial To The Daily Worker
SCRANTON, May 23. - Expulsion
f George Papcun, prominent progress
i've delegate and general attack on
ank and file measures marked the
econd day of the special convention
f District l in session here.
The convention started its meeting
It the Regal Hall, Scranton, Pa, Mon
lay at 10 o'clock. The Harris and
Brennan forces are in control. Forty
light local unions are represented to-
.aling one hundred and eight dele
rates.
Only Talk.
The Brennan forces have shown
heir weakness in the fact that the
first day of the convention nothing
occurred but talk. Harris, chairman
If the resolutions committee, brought
in a resolution early Monday that the
convention be adjourned for the day
to bring in more delegates. The next
morning, there were 81 local unions
represented Three more. The Bren-
nan-Harris forces have also shown
their treachery in trying to get Cap
pellini or some of his Executive
Board to come to the meeting, failing
in that they sent wire to Secretary
of Labor Davis, well known strike
breaker, and to the reactionary Presi-
dent Green Of the A. F. of L.
On the second day of the conven-
ton in the afternoon a bomb-shell
was thrown into the convention when
one of the rank and file distributed a
resolution earlier adopted by Local
Union 1917, calling upon the dele
gates to GUST the treacherous Capped
lini machine officials from district l.
Brennan Alarmed.
Immediately the Brennan machine
became alarmed, introduced a motion
that George Papcun, the secretary Of
the tri-district, Save-the- Union Com
mittee be put out of the hall on the
ground that he was responsible for
the resolution.
The resolution is supported by the
tri-district Save-the-U Union Committee
and knowing that the resolutions COM
mittee which is controlled by Harris
Brennan would not bring it into the
convention despite that it was sent to
the resolution committee by Local
Union 1917, precautions were taken
and the resolution distributed turnout
the convention. Papcun was escorted
by the sergeant at arms from the con-
vention. The resolution was enthusi-
astically accepted by most of the rank
and file delegates of the convention.
The motion to exclude Papcun was not
passed but the convention broke up
in an uproar before a motion was
made to adjourn.
At the afternoon session, some of
the delegates read the resolution and
demanded to know why the resolu-
tions committee had made no report
on the resolution. Many delegates de-
clared themselves in favor of the res
olution, stating that no matter where
it came from it was the correct thing
for the convention to adopt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24

PITTSBURGH May Winters
scourge of cold and pneumonia
has given way to summers threat
of typhoid in the barrack colonies
of striking mine workers. Hunger,
the unseen enemy in every strikers
shack, draws sharper lines, all the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24
David Gordon to Speak
at City College Today

David Gordon, young Communist
poet, will talk on "The Youth Move
ment" before the Social Problems
Club of City College today a, 1915
Gordon was recently released from
the New York Reformatory to which
he was sentenced to serve three
year term for writing satirical
poem, America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-24

while, about the faces of women
and children.
In eastern Ohio the national
guard has cut off food relief.
School children who in other years
hailed the advent of vacation time,
now wonder whence daily rations of