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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
S5O,OOO PAID TO
SEWER Pipe KING
BY CONTRACTOR
Phillips Split Graft
With Connolly Gang,
Jury Hears
Work Under Cover
"Blue Ribbon" Jury Is
Called "Safe"

Fifty thousand dollars paid to
"See Jack" Phillips, late Queens
sewer pipe king, enabled contrac-
tor who previously had been turned
down by the Queens political ring
to secure the work, it was revealed
yesterday at the trial of Maurice E.
Connolly, former borough president,
and Frederick B. Seeley, former
borough engineer, indicted in the
S30,000,000 Tammany graft case.
John M. Phillips, the sewer pipe
contractor, the cause of whose re-
cent death has never been fully re-
vealed, was the real power behind
the Tammany Hall politicians in
control of Queens Borough, the evil
dence showed. AS far back as 1917,
it was disclosed by Thomas M. Pur-
cell, bonding agent and the first
important witness for the prosecu-
ton, Phillips was able to have bids
by contractors accepted or tossed
out" at will. The contractors in
variably had to "See Jack" Phillips.
The graft was shared with the
Queens Tammany politicians. In
the contract awarded them was al
ways specification naming a par
ticular kind of pipe manufactured
only by Phillips. The pipe king sold
this pipe to the contractors at two,
three, four and five times its actual
value.
Only a Gesture.
No one who is at all aware of
what is taking place behind the
scenes believes, however, that there
will be any real prosecution of the
Tammany grafters now on trial OF
that they will serve prison terms
Yesterday a so-called "blue ribbon
jury composed exclusively of bust
Continued on Page Ttco
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
U. S. SENDS NOTE
TO GREAT BRITAIN
Await Note of America
With Concern

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. (UP).
Americas replies to Great Britain
and France on naval arms questions
were sent to the American embas-
sizes IN London and Paris today, it
was learned authoritatively
The replies will be delivered to
the foreign office of the two gov
ernments shortly after they are re-
ceived by the embassies
LONDON, Sept. 26.-No denial
has been made here of charges that
Great Britain had negotiated a Sc
cret air pact with France in addition
to formulating a naval agreement.
According to reports widely cir
culated in semi-official circles the
agreement permits France to build
any number of aircraft, while France
has agreed not to proceed with the
construction of a series of aerial
bases along the British channel
coast. Great Britain, it is said, will
also be permitted to use the French
air bases near the German frontier.
The arrival of the American note,
which is expected to protest against
the Anglo French agreements, is
being awaited here with a great deal
of concern.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
SPURN MORCAN'S
SHYLOCK LOAN
Interest Is Too High,
Says Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 26 (UP).
President Alvear signed a decree
today instructing the Argentine en-
bassy at Washington to cancel the
100000 peso loan which falls due
Thursday and which J. P. Morgan
and Co., and the National City Bank
had offered to renew for six months
at seven and one-half per cent.
The decree stated that such high
rate of interest was not justified by
Argentina's present credit standing
and that the renewal of the loan
therefore was impossible. The
statement added that President AL
wear considered the present a con-
venient time in the interests of the
country to liquidate the whole debt
and consolidate it with another fund
or substitute short term notes for
it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Paddy Connolly, Head
of IRT Company Union
Is Named New Director

Old Paddy" Connolly, head Of
the Interborough Company Union,
strike breaker, caller of the famous
1919 fake company strike for fare
increase, scab whose record dates
back to the 1905 strike during which
time he was imported as a "fink"
from Chicago Patrick J. Connolly
is now a director of the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company
and will sit beside Frederick H.
Ecker, multi-millionaire vice presi-
dent of the scab Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company, an organiza-
tion close to the heart of j. P. Nor
gan himself
Connolly was named to the direc-
torship of the company at meet
ing held last night at which time
Frank Hedley, president of the COM
pany announced that the move is
"to promote full cooperation between
the company and it's employers"
Connolly's last act was to help break
the recent union of the Amalga-
mated.
The election of company union
official to the directorship of
open-shop firm marks new wrinkle
in the technique of union prevention.
In this case, the move is not cx-
pected to be very effectual due to
the fact that Connolly and the COM
pany union have been connletely
discredited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Young Worker League
to Rally in Signature
Campaign in the Bronx

All members of the Young Work
ers (Communist) League units in
the Bronx are being mobilized for a
special mobilization this Friday
night at 6:30 p. m. and Sunday
morning at 10 a. m.
These two days of intensive sig
nature collections is expected to
raise the remaining 500 names
necessary to put Frankfeld on the
ballot in the Third Assembly Dis
trict in the Bronx.
The League to date has raised
over 500 signatures in the Third As
sembly District in this manner.
During this last week OF the sigma
ture drive every member is in
structed to report for duty TO the
Bronx headquarters, located at POTS
Clinton Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
FASCIST ATTACK
/ ON U. S. NEGROES
Mussolini in Speech
Calls Them peril

ROME, Sept. 26 {UP).-The
dwindling birth rate in large cities
was deplored by Premier Benito
Mussolini today in an article writ
ten for the press in defense of in
creased populations.
Mussolini spoke of the growing
number of Negroes in the United
States, and warned the occidental
white races that they are menaced
by the black and yellow tide be-
cause of their failure to increase
their populations. Mussolini criti-
dxed the modern tendency to drift
towards the cities.
"That which happened once can
happen again, not only as between
the city and country but in greater
measure-namely, the occidental
white races can be submerged by
the colored races, which multiply at
rate unknown to us. The black
and yellow races are now at our
gates, not alone because of their
fecundity, but also because of their
race consciousness and their dreams
of the future.
while the whites of the United
States have a miserable percentage
of births-which would be even
worse without the injection of Irish,
Jews and Italians-the Negroes of
the United States are extremely
fecund, reaching total of 14,0OO,-
COO, or one-sixth of the population
of the republic"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
FARMER LABOR
DEAL is SCORED

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Sept. 26.
The withdrawal of George Cash
man, democratic candidate for u. S.
Senator in the interest of Henrik
Shipstead, nominee qf the so-called
Farmer Labor Party in return for
which the local machine is to sup
port AL Smith for the presidency, is
characterized here as one of the
most flagrantly treacherous polit-
ical trades in the history of the
state.
That such a trade was being con-
sumated has been known for some
time by close students of the local
situation. Shipstead, the candidate
of the so-called Farmer-Labor pro-
gressives is a careerist who would
do anything to obtain office. Ernest
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
49 COMMUNISTS
IN FINLAND Get
LONG JAIL TERMS
Govt Fears Growing
Influence of Party

Especial Cable to the Daily Worker
HELSINGFORS, Sept. 26.-
Forty-nine Communists have been
sentenced to long Jail terms for revo-
lutionary activities, it was learned
today. Taimi, Communist leader,
has been sentenced to Is years; Tuo-
minen to five years, Vuori to four,
and Halle, Enne and Latva to two
and half years each. Only three
of the Communists tried enmasse
were freed.
The government has been alarmed
by growing militancy of the work.
ers and peasants. The recent agree
ments between Finnish and Soviet
trade unions is believed to be partly
responsible for the vicious govern
ment campaign against the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

filing of the Communist ticket
is a direct challenge to the
open-shoppers of a state in which
the trade union movement has been
so weakened by the attacks of the
bosses and the treachery of the la
Dor bureaucrats that the American
Federation of Labor in Connecticut
is now merely a shadow of what it
was in former days.
Connecticut is the twenty-second
state in which the Communist ticket
is on the ballot. The other states
are:
File Complete Ticket.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,,
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Texas, TENNESSEE
Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Ne
braska, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico,
Arkansas, New Jersey and Arizona.
In addition to Foster and Gitlow,
the national standard bearers, a
complete state ticket has been filed.
The following are the candidates for
state office:
William Mckenzie, a carpenter,
for governor; R. S. King, machin-
list, for lieutenant governor; Conrad
Laske, painter, for United States
senator; Gertrude Puel, stenograph-
er, for secretary of state; Edward
Mrasko, painter, for state treasur-
er; John CONDOS, for state COMP
troller.
Expect Big Red Vote.
The willingness of the workers to
sign the Communist petitions is in
dicated by the success in collecting
5000 names, or approximately more
than twice the number required.
This is the first time that the Work
ers (Communist) Party has been
placed on the ballot in Connecticut.
The splendid response of the work
ers to the signature drive indicates
a heavy Communist vote in Novem-
Der. The metal, textile and rubber
Continued on Page Three
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that has kept 56 mills closed
for "a weeks, the mill owners
association yesterday an
nounced their willingness to
"cut wages only five per cent, "
and requested of their A. F. of
L. allies that the question be
put up to their membership at
meetings. d.
Again displaying this hypocrisy
which the workers charge to be
preparations for an elaborate strike
breaking attempt, the mill owners,
and their mediator" tools continue
in their attempt to ignore the real
leaders of the strike, the left wing
Textile Workers Union. A true
picture of the sentiment with which
this latest proposal was received,
however, can be seen by the decision
of a huge mass meeting of the left
wing union held yesterday afternoon
in Public Park.
Workers Reject Plan.
To the query of speaker at this
mass meeting, which was also at
tended by large numbers of British
workers, whether the workers would
even consider the acceptance of a 8
per cent reduction, forest of hands
shot into the air when "noes" were
called for.
The proposal to cut wages only
per cent was made this time by the
State Board of Arbitration and by
the Citizens Mediation Committee
both creatures of the employers, anc
was allegedly accepted" by the ad
visory board of the bosses organi-
zation. After the ceremony of "ac.
ceptance" was made, Batty and his
crew of officials were asked to ac-
cept. The union takers, however
knowing that the thousands OF
strikers are practically unanimously
against any concessions, declared
that they will bring it before their
membership which consists of ,
small group of skilled workers, who
it is believed, will reject the COM
promise.
Next will begin, according to the
opinions of the workers, the final
stage of the sell-out performance
This means that the employers may
announce that they are willing tc
rescind the 10 per cent wage cut pro.
vided they get the Freider speed-ur
system. The Textile Workers Unior
is preparing the workers for this
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
PROFS AIDPOWER TRUST
"PMbhc Pays EXPENSE, Magnate Says

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.-That
the power trust has brought up
three more professors in it's propa-
ganda campaign in the schools and
colleges was revealed today at the
Federal Trade Commission hear
ings.
Another feature Of the hearing
was the introduction Of speech in
which M. H. Aylesworth, former
head of the National Electric Light
Association and now president of
the National Broadcasting Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
Weinstone to Speak at
AgitprOp Saturday

William w. Weinstone, organizer
of the New York District of the
Workers (Communist) Party will
speak at the next conference of the
Agitprop, Saturday, p. m. at the
Workers Center. on the Socialist
Party" and "Our Next Steps in the
Election Campaign"
All candidates, all open air speak
ers, all Agitprop Directors, Election
Campaign Directors, and Organi-
zers must attend this conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
BARE FRAME-UP
UPON SCH|FFRIN
Right Wing Witnesses
Tell Conflicting Tales

Testimony rendered by witnesses
during the first day of the hearing
in the homicide case against Will
liam Schiffrin, left wing worker,
established beyond all doubt the
bankruptcy of the right wing frame
up machine.
All the witnesses testifying at the
hearing, which came up before
Magistrate Dodge in the Bronx
Homicide Court and which lasted
until 4:30 in the afternoon, were
subpoenaed by the district attorney,
and, on their evidence alone, either
sharply contradicted the contentious
of the right wing or proved frank
witnesses for the defendant.
So glaring were the contradictions
of those who tried to testify against
Schiffrin, and so convincingly simple
was the evidence of the. disinter-
ested eyewitnesses that the magis-
trate was compelled to say toward
the close of the hearing "If were
to have motion to dismiss | would
reserve my decision" This motion
was promptly Forthcoming from the
defense attorney, Henry 0. Kahn.
and the case will go on today in the
same court After hearing the few
witnesses for the defense the Judge
is to rule on the motion to dismiss
the charge of homicide.
The district attorney was assisted
in the preparation of his case by
the official lawSer for the right
wing in the Jewish labor movement,
the notorious Samuel Markewitch,
who has participated in cases that
have sent many left wing workers to
long jail terms In making up the
list of witnesses the prosecutor de-
cided to call four eyewitnesses and
the arresting detective besides the
five men, who with Harry Silver,
made up the squad sent to attack
Schiffrin with knives. Silver was the
one fatally wounded by Schiffrin,
while the latter was defending him
self.
Tell Conflicting Tales.
Of the four eyewitnesses and the
detective, three swore that they did
not see the fight at all, while the
detective and the other eyewitness
gave description of the scene that
caused the judge to make his state
ment The five "squadmen" in their
testimony told blatantly conflicting
stories.
"A closed car. containing six men,
stopped on Beck ST., five men
jumped out and rushed at the de-
fendant, who was standing across
the street." With this simple state
ment. Andrew Jensen, a repair man
for the Central Union Gas Co., who
testified that he was directly across
the street, while the fight was GO
ing on, completely shattered the
framed up story offered by the right
wingers. They previously on the
witness stand had sworn that Schif-
fr'n had rushed at. their car, stab
hing two as they were getting out
to "picket" the butcher store from
which the dispute developed. The
right wing tried to remove left
winger from his job there, after ex-
pelling him from the union for urg-
ing that union finances be investi-
gated.
Straightforward Story.
Jensen then told the court that he
saw Silver and Burus, whose arm
was cut in the fray, rush at Schif-
frin, brandishing knives. "Schiffrin
Continued on Page Ttoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
TAXI "CZAR" is FETED
Employers Meet for Welfare Efficiency

1t was a swell luncheon. And
swell people were present. Big
chiefs in the taxi industry, men of
brains and vision, devoted to the
ideal of Service" gathered osten-
sibly to honor Fourth Deputy Police
Commissioner Nelson Ruttenberg,
Gear" of the Hack License Bureau.
There they were, some $50 self
styled leaders of the taxi industry,
with well-fed florid faces and port
ly bodies, at the Hotel Astor yes
terday, pouring sweet words into
each others ears and planning how
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

pany told power company execu-
tives at a conference:
"All the money being spent is
worth while. And may leave this
thought with you executives: Don't
quit now. At the next convention
have your young ladies here so as
to do the job right and let off more
men from the departments so they
may come here. Don't be afraid of
the expense. The public pays the
expense. Let US continue with big
meetings."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

to Improve" the industry.
Chief of ceremonies was none
other than H. A. Innes Brown, taxi
editor, strike-breaker, under cover
man for the open-shop Yellow Taxi
cab Corporation, above all "impar-
tial" and interested only in the well
fore of the industry which in his
paper, "The Taxi Weekly he tries
to make out is the welfare of the
exploited drivers.
The real purpose of the meeting
was best revealed in the words If
Continued on Page Two "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
OIL CRATER FILES APPEAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 W,D.-
Attorneys for Henry M. Blackmer,
missing Teapot Dome witness now
in France, filed an appeal today
with the United States Board of Tax
Appeals requesting a re-determina-
tion and check of taxes assessed
against Blackmer totalling SS,49S,-
935.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
WORKERS PARTY GOES ON
BALLOT IN CONNECTICUT.
BIG OPEN SHOP CENTER
Expect Big Red Vote as Metal, Textile, Rubber
and Tobacco Workers Rally to Party
1000 Negro Workers Have Signed Communist
Petitions for Ballot
By CHARLES MITCHELL.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Sept. 26.-The Communist ticket
has been placed the ballot the industrial of
Connecticut with the filing 5000 certified signatures with
the secretary of state at the in Hartford
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
WOMAN SETS SWIM MARK.

LONDON, Sept. 26 UR.-M Miss
Joyce Cooper, of the Mermaid Swim
ming Club, set new record of
1867 3-5 for the 300-yard free-style
swim today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
TEXTILE BOSSES FRANTIC,
MAKE new FAKE OFFER TO
BATTY SELL-OUT BROKERS
Huge Mass Meeting of Militant Union Votes
Unanimously to Reject $50" Scheme
Murdoch Arrested on Picket Line; Workers
Give Mother Bloor Ovation

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Sept 26-Entering new
stage in the plans of the mill Textile Council
offcaldom to sell out the textile workers strike but never
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27
FUR REPAIR SHOP
AT HUGE BAZAAR
Women's Council, Knit
Goods Meets Tonight

The furriers will have repair
shop at the big National Daily
Worker-Freiheit Bazaar at Madison
Square Garden Oct. a, 5, 6 and Z,
it was announced yesterday. This
will be in addition to their regular
booth where fur coats and other fur
articles will be sold.
The repair shop will be complete
and the best craftsmen in the Fur
riers' Union will be on hand at all
times to repair and renovate articles
at low prices. Those workers who
have any articles to repair are asked
to wait until the bazaar and have
it done by experts while you wait"
Turn in Money.
With the great bazaar only a
week off, the National Daily Work
er-Freiheit Bazaar Committee
stresses the Importance of intensity
ing activity. All money for greet
ings and for names for the Red Hon
or Roll that will be included in the
souvenir program must be brought
into the office of the committee, 80
Union Square, not later than Sat
urday, the committee states. Other
wise it, will be impossible for the
program to go to press. All col
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-27

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNoRGANZED
FOR THE 4o-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-30
BANKERS AID
AMBITIOUS MEN

More than 81 500 is being contrib
uted by the North Dakota Bankers
association this year to aid in edu-
eating young men and women to be
bank officials. w. c. Macfadden, Sec
rotary Of the association, said to-
day.
The American Bankers associa-
ton foundation for education is pro-
viding a fund of 100000 for the
purpose of making loans to selected
young men and women desiring q
thorough education in banking.
The maximum loan scholarship
awarded to any student in one year
is S250-s15O payable at the begin
ming of the school year and $100 on
the first school day of the following
January. If the students scholastic
record is unsatisfactory. however
between the beginning Of the school
year and January l, no second pay
ment will be made.
Interest at the rate of five per cent
is charged for the loan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-30
FLOWER PLOTS
PAY FOR CARE
So Says Charles kavaney,
Caretaker of the Most Beau
tiful Garden in Bismarck

Though flower gardens demand
great care, they are worth the labor
when the plants begin to blossom.
That is what Charles kavaney,
caretaker Of the most beautiful
flower and plant plot in the city.
says. His flower garden is on the
north portion Of the st. Mary
parochial school property at Thayer
avenue between Ninth and Tenth
streets.
Almost two dozen rectangular and
circular beds Of roses, tulips, pansies,
geraniums, lilies, asters, peoples.
grapevines and oleanders are now
in bloom.
June storms broke many stems
and killed many flowers but they
cid not kill the beauty of the plot.
Trees which have been planted on
the grounds are Black Hill spruce,
Colorado Blue evergreens, weeping
birch, elm and mountain ash, a type
Of ash which is free from the insect
which destroys trees of that family.
| Chinese elms have been planted
on the boulevard and are growing
rapidly. according to kavaney. One
bed of Gamma lilies is particularly
beautiful. Persian lilacs are also
blooming.
The garden, little over a year old,
is we'll developed and bordered with
spirea hedges.
A tennis court will soon be built
in the northeast corner Of the prop
erty for the use of students at the
school. They are not allowed on the
garden property.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-30
DIXIE FOLKS TO
VISIT BISMARCK

A gesture Of friendliness to the
people of North Dakota-200 citi-
zens Of Mississippi will visit Bis
marck Saturday, August IL.
The Know Mississippi Better"
train is designed to bring about bet
ter understanding among the peoples
Of the country, L. A. Wilson, editor
of The Richton Dispatch, Richton,
Miss. said here Sunday. Mr.. Will
son is advance agent for the train.
The train leaves Jackson, Miss,
August and will visit 95 cities in
13 states and one province OF Can
ada in the course of a 16-day tour.
Under the auspices of former Gov
ernor Dennis Murphree, the 1928
special is the fourth tour Of its kind.
The train will carry eight Pull
man cars. two dining cars, two car
loads Of exhibits of the products Of
Mississippi and one office car.
Entertainment features aboard the
special train are-the State Teach
ers College band GA women, IA
mem; male quartet; orchestra; eight
negro artists who specialize in
Southern melody and merriment, a
corps of speakers.
In addition to Governor. Murphree
and Mr.. Wilson, other officials are
DR.. F. J. Underwood, executive of
ficer, state board Of health; w. F.
Bond, state superintendent Of edu-
cation; R. S. Wilson, A and NJ. col
lege; j. Edward Ruff; J. c. Iloltcn.
commissioner of agriculture and
commerce; and Sam E. Woods