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Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Wash. Gas 6s A--$1 500 at 1852.
Wash. Gas 6s B-S100 at 1862.
Pot. Elec. 512eo pfd.--10 at 108s.
Fed Storage pfd-7 at 100. 10 at 100.
Lanston Monotype-9 at 1l812, l at
1872, 10 at 118, 10 at 117A, 80 at
11712, 10 at 11712.
Mergenthaler Linotype-20 at 104, 10
at 104, 90 at 104, at 104.
AFTER CALL.
Wash. Gas $500 at 10312.
Cap. Tract. $500 at 1037s.
Cap. Tract Colo at LOG, 19 at 106.
Pot. Elec. IS $500 at 1912.
Wash r. g. E. 4s-$1 900 at 90.
Wash. r. 81 E. com.--1 at 428.
Wash. Gas 6s A--$300 at 104.
Wash. Gas IS B-$500 at lot.
Chestnut Farms Dairy pfd.--5 at 1864
Chevy Chase Dairy pfd.-30 at 1864.
Peoples Drug Store pfd.-10 at 127.
Merch. Tfr. SS Stge. com.--6 at 100.
Merch. Tfr & Stge. pfd-3 at 108.
Riggs Natl. Bk--2 at $50
Pot Elec. 512eS pfd-2 at 1887.
D. G. Paper pfd.-10 at SO, Is at So.
UNLISTED DEPARTMENT.
Chapin-Sachs 80 pfd.--5 at lot.
Bid and Asked Prices.
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Tobacco.

YORK, Pa.-Local manufacturers are
waiting with anxiety the result OF the
hearings on the proposed tariffs on
tobacco imports from Sumatra and Java
which will be held in Washington
January %. The cigar makers here
declare they are vitally affected.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Consolidation Approved.

NEW YORK, December 19 Lp).-Di-
rectors of Arctic Dairy Products Co. OF
Detroit have approved consolidation
with National Dairy Products Co. of
New York.
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Commodity Notes
Steel.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19.--
The iron and steel industry is expand
ing manufacturing facilities on the
coast to take care of increasing demand.
Profit margins are being enlarged by
increased use of by-products.
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Coal.

WILKES BARRE, Pa.-Shipments OF
anthracite in the last month have been
about $40 900 tons heavier than In the
corresponding period Of last year.
Evening star., 1928-12-19

A plan for broadcasting In the Irish
Free State with one high-power station
is to be placed before the government.
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Live Stock.

CHICAGO.-Range reports indicate
that cattle are going into the Winter
| in good flesh, although they are
thinner than a year ago west Of the
continental divide.
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Nearly 1000 girls went from Scot
land to Yarmouth, England, to help
during the present dsh-curing season.
Evening star., 1928-12-19

There is a movement on foot for a
Federal department of fine arts.
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Turkeys.

PORTLAND, Oreg.-The turkey mar
ket is sagging, with a record made OF
birds shipped east from the Willamette
Valley. Most birds are being sent on
consignment with 80 to 80 cent a
pound guarantee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
UNEMPLOYED PLANNING
NEW RELIEF CAMPAIGN

At the headquarters of District 2
of the Workers (Communist) Party
which has been active in the move
ment to secure immediate relief, at
tention was called by VIM. w. Vein
stone, organizer, to the attack on the
unemployed which was launched by
Joseph M. Ryan, president of the
Central Trades and Labor Council.
Shameful Attack.
"The attack on the efforts of the
unemployed workers of the city to
secure relief for themselves and their
starving families is the most shame
full episode in the long record OF be-
trayal which has been built up by
Ryan and the group in the American
Federation of Labor with which he
is allied. Even the police with their
long history of brutality did not ven-
ture to attack the workers who had
assembled before the labor depart
ment to report their suffering. The
admission by Ryan and Sullivan that
they had not been concerned with un-
employment which according to Sui
livan's own words affects 40 per cent
of the organized workers, is the best
commentary of the role that these
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
ANTI-STR|KE LAW
MEET is CALLED
TUEL Sponsors Labor
Opposition

Preparations for active opposition
to the American Bar Association-Mat-
thew Woll anti-strike law now being
sponsored by the combined forces of
labor reaction and the open shoppers
of the country were announced here
yesterday by the national office Of
the Trade Union Educational League.
A mass meeting for Wednesday at
p. m. at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66
E. 4th St., is being called. Invitations
and announcements are being sent to
all labor and sympathetic organiza-
tions.
For Labor Unionism.
The meeting will call on organized
and unorganized workers of Greater
New York to rally to defend the trade
union movement, the right to strike
and the right to organize.
1t will be addressed by William q.
Foster, national secretary of the
league; Ben Gitlow, member of the
central executive committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party, and
others. John J. Ballam, local secre-
tary of the league, will preside.
Expressions Of opinion by the rank
and file will be welcomed at the meet
ing, according to Ballam. Coming as
it does on the eve Of the approaching
Bar Association hearing Thursday
the meeting is expected to bring out
many thousands of workers and SYM
pathizers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
DENY CITY MOVES
TO SAVE &c FARE
Officials Avoid Real
Action

Announcement by city officials
Saturday that plans were being con-
sidered to "seize" the lines of the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
should that company persist in its in
tention to increase the fare have met
with considerable scepticism over the
week end.
Under the provisions of the so-call-
ed dual contracts under which the
lines are being operated by the I. R.
T., notice of twenty days is required
before seizure process can be insti-
tuted. In the meantime, the railroad,
by carrying out its threat to obtain
an injunction, observers state, can
prevent the city from taking steps
against it.
The city's present plan, it was
stated at the City Hall, is to turn
the lines over to private operator
Continued on Page Fivs)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
MILL STRIKE SOON
If DEMANDS LOSE.
Rank and File Force
Union Action

FALL RIVER, Mass, Feb. 12.-
The Fall River Textile Council met
last Saturday with the executive COM
mittee of the Cotton Manufacturers
Association and asked for the elm
nation of the 10 per cent reduction
in wages which became effective Jan.
goth. The textile council officials had
gone to the manufacturers with this
demand when they were instructed to
do so by the membership meetings of
the union affiliated with that body.
Action Forced.
Since the strike vote, taken several
weeks ago, and obviously engineered
by the textile council leaders had
failed by being eleven votes short of
the two-thirds majority, the officials
had demanded, the resentment of the
workers against the wage cut has
CONTINUED on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
imp ARTIAL" R. R.
JUDGES SELL
OUT TRAINMEN
Utter Futility Of Plan
Now Clear

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Consid-
cradle bitterness is being engendered
here over what is considered typical
betrayal of the workers interests by
so-called impartial judges in an arbi-
tration decision on the railroads un-
der the Watson-Parker Law
Arbitrators in the Engineers re-
quest for a wage increase on the
south eastern lines, according to the
understanding of the labor represen-
talives, were last week we'll agreed
on 71a per cent increase in pay.
Although the rank and file of the
workers were dissatisfied with this
proposed award, the leaders of the
Engineers, it is understood, had
agreed to accept this small increase.
What Happened at Lunch Time?
Six arbitrators handling the case,
it is reliably reported, held a final
and satisfactory session last Saturday
morning. At this session, the repre-
sentatives of the union report, an
agreement was reached for tx per
cent increase. On departing for lunch
the representatives of the union,
Grand Chief Engineer Alvanley
Johnston and Assistant Grand Chief
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

IS in office as beneficiary of the
Teapot Dome oil graft shared in by
his former cabinet member, Albert B.
Falls the scandal which hangs
heavy over Washington today.
The sensational realization has hit
Washington that the moment, several
months ago, when Calvin Coolidge is
sued his statement that he "did not
choose to run" for reelection was ex-
actly time when the exposure of
the connection between his election
and the oil graft seemed imminent;
that Coolidge again left his candidacy
open to probability at time when
the graft cases Jagged, but that he
made his decision not to run final just
as it became certain that the connec-
tion would be exposed
The plunging of Coolidge and the
entire Republican National Committee
into the oil-graft scandals yesterday
came thru the tracing of .25 Liberty
Bonds. of a face value of 81 900 each,
thru their serial numbers, the bonds
having been a part of the "Continen-
tai" steal and having been given over
by Harry F. Sinclair to Will Hays,
who was national campaign manager
Continued on Page TWoJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

the first step in a sweeping at
tempt to suppress all militant
workers organizations, accord
ing to the plans of the instigators.
The Investigations reveal highly IN
tricate, countrywide spy system,
semi-military in character, founded IN
the name of "Americanism and patrl-,
otism," which aims to establish ab-
solute censorship and suppression OF
all anti-capitalist criticism as eff
ciently as an army, and the agents
are even termed civilian G2 men just
as the army intelligence men are
termed military G2s.
Prominent among these military
and patriotic groups are the American
Legion, the Reserve Officers Assocl-
alton, the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
the Military Intelligence Organlza-
tion, and particularly the Keymen OF
America.
In recent circular sent by the
Reserve Officers Association to all
reserve officers of the United States
army, it was announced:
National headquarters has per-
fected arrangements by which it can,
and does, supply voluminous and au-
thentic information of the leaders and
organizations identified with the
Communist revolution movement in
this country, and is now waging a
Continued on Page TEo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
MINERS DEFEAT
ATTEMPTED COUP
Ohio Officials Jeered by
Progressives

LANSING, o., Feb. 12.-Frustrat-
ing renewed campaign against the
progressive miners of Ohio, 500 strik-
ing miners at a mass meeting here
jeered at reactionary officials of Dis
trict and Sub-district 5 and forced
them to retire from the hall.
The meeting was called by the dis
trict and sub-district officials without
the knowledge Of the local officers.
The rank and file learned, however,
that the district and sub-district Of
ficials and several of their henchmen
under authority from International
President John L. Lewis planned to
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
POLICE ATTACK
PHILA TOILERS
Smash Meeting; Arrest
Dozen Workers
Especial to The DaiIn Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-Police
this afternoon broke up meeting
and demonstration Of unemployed
workers and arrested dozen demon
strators including Herbert Benjamin,
district organizer of the Workers
(Communist) Party, which has been
active in the movement for the re-
lief of the unemployed workers In
this vicinity.
First Attack.
The police were stationed before
the entrance to Machinist Temple,
18th and Springgarden Sts., at which
an unemployed meeting had been
scheduled for 2 o'clock this afternoon
and prevented the workers from en-
tering the hall, although permit for
meeting had been secured from head
quarters.
About five hundred of the crowd
after having been driven off reas-
sembled before the headquarters of
the Workers Party at 521 York Ave.
Here again the police lined up be-
fore the doors and prevented the
workers from entering the Party
headquarters.
Arrest Workers.
Speakers then addressed the crowd
from open windows. AS the meeting
got under way, the police entered
the quarters and arrested dozen OF
those present. Among these are
Herbert Benjamin, district organizer
Mike Toohey and George D. Evans
active in the work of the district
They were taken to the Fourth and
Race Street station at which place
they are now being held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
LARGE ESTATES
TAKEN over BY
LAND LAbORERS
Report Whole Province
in Revolt Soon

At least million Twantung
peasants, fishermen and salt-makers
are in open revolt against the Canton
reactionary government and have es-
tablished their own district Soviet in
the territory around Hiechechin and
Honghai bays, dispatches from Can
ton admit.
The movement of the Communist
peasants, fishermen and salt-workers
is drawing new thousands into it
weekly, the reports state, and is driv-
ing the landlords out of the territory
controlled by the peasants and work
ers. Titles to the estates are being
wiped out and the property of the
wealthy landholders is being taken
over by the peasants in the name of
the Soviets.
The rapid growth of the peasant
movement is threatening to carry
with it all the neighboring districts
and the Cantonese authorities are re-
ported to be in CONSERVATION at it's
progress.
Scores of missionaries, fleeing from
the territory now under the peasants
and workers Soviets, are endeavoring
to spread tales of outrage which con-
sist in the taking over of the evacu-
ated missions by the local peasants
and workers patrols.
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Active preparations for the organi-
zation of forces to secure immediate
relief for the four and one-half mil
lions of unemployed workers have
been speeded up during the past two
days following the exposure Of the
fact that Governor Smiths survey,
now being conducted by Industrial
Commissioner James A. Hamilton, is
not manifestation Of any intention
to bring about a remedy.
Plans Under Way.
Plans not yet fully completed are
about to be announced by the New
York Council for the Unemployed, 1t
was learned yesterday, as result OF
which the movement will take up on
nationwide scale the task of fore
ing attention to the increasing seri-
BUSINESS of the crisis now facing the
country.
at is becoming clear" said John
DiSanto, secretary of the Council,
yesterday, "that only the organized
pressure Of the unemployed them
selves with the cooperation of the
rank and file in the labor movement
will be able to force action on the
part of the politicians of the old par
ties. Whatever moves these politi-
clans will make are intended merely
as disguise to hide inaction. They
are looking to the 1928 elections and
are afraid to turn down the demands
Of the unemployed altogether"
The Unemployed Council yesterday
denounced the move of the Smith sur
vey as "plain fraud" and called
attention to the willful exclusion Of
its representative from the hearing
on Friday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
SUE VI ELORE FOR DISCLOSING FAKES
Ho,tly Forgery is Peext in Plot to Wreck Labor Press

of the Hungarian white terror to
stop the publication of the "Uj Elore",
which is the most powerful enemy
of the Horthy regime in the United
States.
1t is further significant that this
action is taken simultaneously with
an attack by the U. S. Government
upon "Uj Elore" for anti-militarist
propaganda. However, the Hungar-
ian workers are solidly behind their
paper, and these attacks will only in
crease their support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Iron Workers on Strike

An important meeting of the Archi-
tectural Iron, Bronze and Structural
Workers Union will be held tomorrow
evening at the Rand School Building,
7 E. 18th St., at o'clock sharp. In
addition to report of the strike in
the Gormen Iron Works, report will
be rendered on attempts by other
employers to lay off union men for
replacement by non-union help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

Nosovitzky for which services he was
promised 100000, thus unfolding the
claim of "Uj Elore" and The DAILY
WORKER that the Hungarian min
lister in Washington was buying
forged documents here to help rail-
road workers in Hungary to prison.
The bringing Of charges against
"Uj Elore" at this time, in face of
admissions that they served as link
between Nosovitzky and the Horthy
representative in Washington, is seen
as move on the part of this agency
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

Admitting that they were hired by
the Horthy government to buy docu-
ments from the international spy and
forger, Jacob Nasovitzky, the Kron
Detective Agency has brought suit
against the "Uj Elore" for $4,000 be-
cause Of its exposure of their activi-
ties in the United States.
In the writ of charges, Kron admits
hat he was employed by Count
Szechenyi to buy documents from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Dressmakers Active

A meeting closely related to new
developments in the union and indus
try will be held today at 1880 p. m.
by the Dressmakers' Local % section
of the Trade Union Educational
League, the Progressive Workers
Centre, 103 e. 18th st. Rose Wortis
and others of the Joint Board will
report. A discussion will follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

president and vice.
president of the
United States in
1920 wit h ''ex-
pense" money, a
part of which came
out of a fund of a
quarter of a mill
lion dollars stolen
in the g i e a n t i C
swindle thru the
fake Continental
Trading Co." !" and
that thus the pres
ent president of
+ha TTpito,l C+a+oe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
REVEAL COUNTRY
WIDE CONSPIRACY
TOWRECK DAuY"
Fascist Organizations Disclosed in Spy Plot to
Suppress Militant Labor
Regular Military System Pevails in Network;
Work Together With Industrialists

That an organized nationwide system nstigated the
present attack on DAILY WORKER Investigations carried
months have now completely disclosed This attack is only
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Chinese Peasants Set Lb Soviets; Movement Spreads
CONTINENT"
ELECTED HARDING
And CAL COOLIDGE
Senators Kneel to J. d.:
Whitewash Standard

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. = That
Warren G. Han ling and Calvin Cool
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BELASCO-"Lady, Be Good"

Lady, BE Good" the outstanding
musical comedy hit by the great master
of jaZz-George Gershwin-will be the
New Year weeks presentation of the
Savoy Musicomedians at the Belasco
Theater, opening this evening. After
record-breaking runs in London and
New York, this will be the first time
that up-to-the- minute musical show
will be presented here at stock prices.
istic operetta, involving two orphans,
who have been inattentive to their
creditors, and are turned out into the
world, penniless, by heartless land
lord. Their laugh-provoking efforts to
extricate themselves from this uncom-
Portable predicament are the basis of
the plot. There is missing heir, a
Mexican senorita who pretends to be
his widow, subtle and slightly dishon-
est lawyer (the Catlett role, played by
Robebrt Capron), an English detective
(played by Eddie Morris) and
scheming heiress.
The book is by Guy Bolton and Fred
Thompson, the lyrics by Ira Gersh-
win, and George Gershwin supplied the
music. Robert Capron is said to be as
good in the Catlett role as the origi-
nator. Thelma Parker and Frank CAL
lagner appear III the parts HldQe famous
by the AstaireS Reenee Hamilton'S
beautiful voice will be heard in two or
three fine numbers. Jack Closson is the
vagabond hero. Edward Metcalfe, Rosa
Snowden, Vance Leonard. Robert Bur-
ton, Bruce Terrence, Elaine Capron
and the gorgeous garden of the girls
will do their brilliant best.
In addition to the regular Wednesday
and Saturday popular-priced matinees,
there will be an extra matinee New
Year day.
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Vitaphone's $ Big Challenge.

TN no picture yet made, so Holly
wood holds, has there been more
convincing demonstration of the un-
canny power of vitaphone than is shown
in "On Trial." the all-talking picture
now at the Metropolitan Theater.
Produced with the new screen tech
nique this picture is destined to show
the strides made in the endeavor of
the screen to "hold the mirror up to
nature"
Jack Warner has said the novelty
of the screen would soon be the silent
picture, meaning, of course, that 1t was
passing out of sight. And that the
passing of the silent picture will be
due to the growing effectiveness of
Vitaphone in bringing the human voice
to the screen.
The courtroom scenes of the great
murder trial in ION Trial" around
which the story revolves, present COM
plete picture of the proceedings. This,
it is thought would have been impos-
sible in a silent picture without the
intrusion of long succession of printed
pletely slow up the action of the story.
With the Vitaphone, however, 1t is
claimed every word plays its part in
heightening and speeding the interest
In the scenes, and in presenting to
theatergOerS a trial which is full of
surprises of dramatic value.
"On Trial" Is based on Elmer Rice's
famous play, and the screen version
features Pauline Frederick, the well
known actress of the legitimate stage.
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NATIONAL-"The Wooden Kimono."

A wind-swept night, fitful streaks of
lightning, deserted inn nesting on
the edge of cold and lonesome lake
pistol shots, silence. Into this atmos-
pheric scene come strange characters,
each motivated by different purpose,
and each of whom weaves through the
mazes of the mysteries which abound
in THE Wooden Kimono," which is to
be seen at the National for a weeks
engagement, beginning tonight.
A famous writer of detective stories
a detective from the city, a sheriff from
the village, a physician, maniac, his
strange and foreboding wife, keeper of
the sometime inn; a New England spin
ster of peppery personality, courage
Gus heroine, and many others make up
a large number of characters. Scenes
Of amazing mystery, packed with un-
expected thrills, and sharply punctuated
again and again by comedy situations,
it is announced, assure an evening of
fascinating and breath-taking enter
tainment.
1.-The Wooden Kimono" played
whole year at the Fulton Theater, New
York: then followed long runs in Chi
cago, Boston and other cities. London
is now the scene of duplication of the
New York success of this latest mystery
play. The entire original production is
being brought here, with cast of
Broadway players.
The heroine is depicted by May
Ward, well known English actress, who
was brought from London to play the
part. Other important members of the
cast are Edmund Dalby, George Bogues.
Elizabeth Dunno, Vera Temple, Thomas
Collins, Richard Beach and William
Balfour. A special technical staff is
carried for the management of the in
tricate lighting and other effects, and
the play is to be presented here with all
the detail which characterized its New
York run