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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
NEW YORK CITY
YOUTH ENDORSES
MAY DAY Meeting
Food and Shoe Workers
Pledge Support

Further labor support for the May
Day celebration to be held at Madison
Square Garden May / by the Work
ers (Communist) Party was pledged
yesterday at the Party office by the
Amalgamated Food Workers, Local
1914, Anton Folders, business agent;
Stitchdown and Slipper Workers, Hy-
man Levine, business agent; Unity
Workers Cooperative, David Siegel,
secretary, and the Young Workers
(Communist) League, Will Herberg,
district organizer.
Letter of Endorsement.
In endorsing the meeting, the Young
Workers League said:
"For the toiling youth May Day
1928 is day that carries even more
meaning than for the adult workers.
"The preparations for new world
war, a war upon the Soviet Union, or
an peiialist war with England, hit
the youth directly and hardest of all
Tie sharpening depression, the wave
Of severe unemployment, finds its
worst victims among the young work
ers whose resistance is so much more
easily broken down and whose reserve
SO quickly exhausted. In the bitter
struggles in which the American work
crs are engaged at the present time
especially the miners struggle-the
youth is playing more and more
outstanding part.
Grows In Importance.
"The need of the entire working
class in face of the attacks of the cap
italists is becoming more and more
obvious to the young workers and
so May Day is beginning to assume
greater meaning. The intensification
of the economic crisis is beginning to
produce a noticeable movement among
the young workers; it is beginning to
deflate the grotesque illusions of patri-
otism and democracy. 1t is hard to
feel patriotic to a government that
lets you starve on the streets, it is
hard to believe that you have the
same rights and privileges as the boss
WIZ JilIOWS YOU OuI O1 WoIh 10 TOI.
Yes; May Day is beginning to mean
more to the working youth.
Fight Milifarism.
"That is why the Communist youth
is throwing every ounce of their en-
cr2y into the task of rallying the
young workers Of New York and vic
nifty to participate in the great May
Day demonstration in Madison Square
Garden.
"Our slogans are: No work on May
Day-No school on May Day. Down
tools to show your solidarity with the
whole working class in the struggle
for freedom! Against the war dang
er. Against capitalist militarism.
Against the exploitation of the youth.
Against the discrimination of the
trade unions against the youth.
Demand effective unemployment
relief for the, youth! Demand the or
ganization of the unorganized youth!
Defend the Soviet Union: One solid
front-workers, young workers, work
ing class children in the struggle
against the bosses!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
MINERS CHOOSE
THEIR LEADERS
Brophy, Toohey, Watt
Head Committee

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April A (By
MaiD At the first meeting after
the adjournment of the National Save
the Miners Union Conference held
here late yesterday by the newly
elected National Save-the-Union Com
mittee of that organization, officers
and an executive committee were
chosen and the necessary organiza-
tional steps taken to put into effect
the decisions adopted by the confer
ence.
John Brophy was reelected chair
man of the Save-the- Union Commit
tee, John Watts of Springfield, Hi
nois, vice-chairman, and Pat Toohey,
executive secretary.
National Executive.
Powers Hapgood, Anthony P. Min
erich, Vincent Kamenovitch and c..
Fulp, Negro delegate, were chosen
to serve as active national executive
committee, in addition to the execu-
tive officers. The district Save-the-
Union Committees will elect represent
tatives on the national executive
board, to be called to Pittsburgh when
necessary.
The first business transacted at the
meeting was the sending of three
speakers to address meetings of I'M
organized miners in western Penn
sylvania who struck Sunday around
Midlands and Houston near Canons-
burg. This is not the strike of unor-
gained called by the Save the Union
Committee in Westmoreland, Fayette.
Somerset and Green counties, but
spontaneous uprising of other unor-
ganized outside that territory, in an
swer to the word filtering through
the coal fields that the U. M. w. of
A. is soon going to be an organiza-
ton worth joining. AS soon as the
men struck, they sent word for Save
the-Unio Committee Representatives
to come and address them.
Relief Stressed.
Alfred Wagenknecht, relief director
of the Pennsylvania Miners Re-
lief Committee was invited to address
the meeting on the question of broad
ening out the relief work and organ
lzlng it on national scale. His re-
port was enthusiastically received
the delegates paying tribute to the
work of the Pennsylvania Ohio Min
ers' Relief Committee in helping the
miners win the strike with food and
clothing.
The executive committee was in
structed to organize Save-the- Union
Committees in every mining district
in the United States, including Wash
ington, Wyoming, Colorado, Iowa
West Virginia, Nova Scotia, Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma, Arkansas and west
ern Canada.
The committee was instructed to
issue an appeal for funds to help
carry on the work of organization.
The appeal will be sent to the gen
eral labor movement.
Prepare for Strike April 16.
Plans to perfect arrangements for
the coming strike in the unorganized
fields of western Pennsylvania on
April 16 were thoroughly discussed
Monster mass meetings in all the
mining areas were planned and an
army of speakers representing the
Save-the- Union Committee will be
modified to bring the progressive
message to the rank and file and or
ganize them for the winning of the
strike and the ousting of the Lewis
machine from control of the union.
The threat Of explosions made by
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houses at 10 p. m. of raw April
night and drove LOO jobless men
into the streets.
"Does the health commissioner
think it is more sanitary to spend the
night under the pillars of the elevated
railway structure 2" one of the I'M
employed victims of the raid asked.
Tammany Explains"
But Louis Harris, health commits
sioner, remembering Tam1nany's bid
for the White House, was panic
stricken when the public growled at
the treatment of unemployed men. He
explained that he turned them out of
their shelters into the biting cold in
order to arouse public sympathy.
Conditions in some of the e
Places" he said, "were such as no
decent person should tolerate. Ger
tainly the most unfortunate of men
are entitled to a decent place to
sleep. They should not have to sleep
roosting on benches, packed in so
close that their elbows touch. l
want to ask those who pirate of the
brotherhood of man if a cot is too
much to ask for these homeless men,"
Jobless Are Bitter.
The dislodged voorhees, were bitter.
"Why doesn't the city give US poison
so we could put ourselves out of the
way?" asked one as he shivered,
leaning against cold elevated pillar.
"Do they think it is better for US to
freeze to death than to sleep in a
flophouse? 2"
An atheist society had complained
to the health commissioner that the
missions, despite liberal financial sup
port, were making a miserable job Of
caring for the homeless. Summing
parties are routed through the flop
houses to give the well-to-do a SILVER
Vt delightful horror, the atheists said
Bosses Moralize.
Despite the Holy Name Missions
confident expectation that unemploy-
ment is here 20 stay, by its announce
ment of new S50O,O00 mission on the
Bowery to accommodate 700 sleepers,
the anti-union National Association
of Manufacturers, after an exhaustive
national survey, asserted there is no
serious unemployment problem"
Unctuous moralizing is the American
Bankers Associations contribution. In
a press release, the bankers contrasted
the long bread lines of New York
with the happy, contented files Of
bank depositors. No method was out
lined for the jobless to save money.
Foreign-Born Hard Hit.
The Y. w. c. A. attaches reported
only Is per cent of foreign-born job
applicants placed because bosses pre-
fer the native-born. Porto Rican
women, driven from their island by
economic conditions, are es-
pecially hard hit here, the Y. w. G.
A. says. 10000 pounds of matzoth,
Passover bread, will be
among hungry, jobless
Jewish families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
S ESCAPE PENITENTIARY.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, April 5.--Fiye
prisoners made daring break from
the Onondaga County Penitentiary at
GAINESVILLE this morning. The prison
e1s who made the break were Jean
Decrisci, 30, of New York City; Dom
mick Neal, 81, of Owego; Thomas
Dwyer, 20, of Syracuse; Frank Blu
terra, %, of Utica, and Walter Hall,
70. Of Herkimer. Hall was captured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Book Reviews, Essays,
Sketches, in Special
T e a ture Pa ge Sat.

Scott Nearing's "Whither
China ?" will be reviewed on the
weekly feature page in tomorrow's
issue of The DAILY WORKER.
Other interesting articles include
"The Crowd" by Robert Wolf; an
essay of Wilhelm Liebknecht and
distinctive sketches and reviews.
Order an extra copy of Satur-
days Daily" in advance and give
it to your shop-mate or friend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06

Lewis and his henchmen was met
with the decision that the local unions
should refuse to recognize legality of
the expulsion of any member of the
union for his activity in the fight
for stronger union and militant
leadership. George Voyzey voiced the
sentiment of the delegates when he
stated that the local unions must
fight back and kick out the traitofs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Business Falling Off

While planning a campaign for
bigger and better Sunday schools and
church membership drives the Metho-
dist church announces with alarm thai
only 10000 new members were added
to its rolls. This does not averag
even one soul saved by each minister
since there are $4,000 ministers in tn
Methodist. church organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
Life for $3.50 Theft

Accused of forging checks totalling
$160, James Z. Jones, 80 years old, a
Negro of Fl McComb Place, Man
hat an, faces the possibility of being
sentenced to prison for life since, ac-
cording to police, his record shows
six previous convictions for burglary
and petty larceny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
STUDENTS OPPOSE MILITARIsM

BERKELEY, CAL, April 5. (FP)-
Students at the University of Cali
fornia have formed a club to protest
against compulsory military training
The authorities are pulling the usual
hisstatement that military training
is obligatory under the charter,
though Wisconsin proved it is not.
The embattled students have issued a
pamphlet and arranged for meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06

since the mines have been closing down increasing numbers
similar distribution being planned in other districts
Free distribution of The DAILY WORKER will bring pa
to thousands of workers in industrial thruout
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
UNIONS WIN RECOGNITION

MASON CITY, OPP April 5.-A
strike of union musicians and movie
operators of the Mason City motion
picture houses, on since last August,
has ended in a closed shop victory.
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Missouri and Kansas workers. according Hugo OhIer
ganzer of the emmunist} Party that territory
Hundreds Of copies of the paper will be distributed the
miners of Kansas and Missouri Many of the miners
strike in this region and it planned give them many
copies of the possible Many nearly destitute
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-06
LOO UNEMPLOYED MEN
TURNED INTO STREETS


Sleeping Bowey floors while hanging swaying
ttchng chairs
minions health
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zce Savehe Union Delegates Lead Fight Against Leuls 1pache

The free distribution of 5000 copies of The DAILY
WORKERS May Day edition is contemplated as part
tric Tens share in the national subscription drive add
10000 readers to the paper by the first of May
The distribution of the papers is recognized the
most effective for spreading The DAILY among the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-02

may voluntarily merge under an act
of Congress, approved March 4, 1925.
The procedure may be by purchase,
lease or the formation Of new cor
poration.
A majority vote of the stock is
required under the act.
Any merger plan must be ap-
proved by the Public Utilities Com
mission of the District of Columbia
and later by a joint resolution by
the Senate and the House.
AS soon as the proposed merger
plan is submitted to. the Utilities
Commission public hearings will
likely be called. 1t had not been de-
terTnined today whether Today or
3O-day publication period would be
observed.
Harley P. Wilson has held to the
belief that the plan should go direct
to Congress. be enacted into law and
then submitted to the stockholders.
Since the special committees now
sitting in the conferences on a
merger represent in some cases
majority of the stock of the COM
panies affected. 1t is believed that
whatever merger plan they agree on
will meet with little If any opposi.
ton.
Under the law the new corporation
will be required to operate under a
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-02
Army to Name Officers
To Welcome Frenchmen

Assistant Secretary Of War II.
Trubee Dawson today directed the
commanding general at Kelly Field,
Texas. to designate three Army
Air Corps officers to represent the
War Department. at the reception to
the French transatlantic fNers,
Lieut.. d. Costes. of the French
army reserves and Comdr. Joseph
Lebrfx, an officer of the French
navy, when they arrive at the Alvin
Calender Field, New orleans.
The Frenchnnen left Paris, October
10, 1927, and since then have visited
many. South and Central American
cities. Since the start OF their flight
they have covered about 10000
miles. Upon arriving in this coun-
try they contemplate visit to
washington.
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NEARLY AGREED
ON MERGER
CONTINUED from First Page.)

-
G. McAdoo and Brice Claggett;
Eugene E. Thompson, president of
Crane Parrish Company, Washing
ton representative of the North
American Company, and Mr.. Ham,
That the conference has agreed
on a $5O,OO0,000 valuation for the
merged corporation is known.
The matter of the guaranteed re-
turn while still in doubt has viz.
tually been abandoned. The ma
jority of members of the conference
do not favor the per cent guar
antee originally proposed but are
willing for the new company to
operate and take. it's chances on
earning a fair return.
Agreement is understood to have
been reached on such matters as
| the division of securities and bene-
| fits among the three companies
| it is proposed to consolidate. Also
| it is believed the plan calls for
! a board of directors that will in
! clude three members to represent
| the public. Each company It was
understood when, the meeting began
| today. would have six members.
making a directorate OF fifteen
members altogether. How. the pub
! TIC = representation on the DOafu
would be selected was not suggested
All Objections Discussed
At yesterdays conference most
of the differences that have kept the
companies from voluntarily, merging
| in the past were ironed out, and OBJ
| jections of the public to suggested
| plans were discussed.
Hanna declared that most of yes
| terday's discussion was OF interest
| to the companies involved, and of
| no public interest whatever. He
said this intere1t of which the pub.
lie has no concern was largely how
large share IN the proposed con.
solidation each company would get.
There is some speculation as to
| just what part the w. r. Z. com
pany will play in the agreement il
one is really reached. Harley p. Wit
son, it is recalled, is the owner Of
record of the bus line, although the
real owner is said to be the North
American Company, OF New York,
which also owns a a1ority OF the
Washington Railway and Electric
Co., through Wilson.
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District Of Columbia charter.
Under the merger act no reference
is made to preferred stock. The
Potomac Electric Power Company
has preferred stock. and this situa'
ton may furnish a difficult one be-
fore the final merger agreement is
signed by the representatives OF the
several utilities affected.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-02
Third Marine Plane
Hons for Nicaragua

Another marine transport plane,
with Lieut.. George H. Towner ct
the controls. hoped off early today
for Nicaragua. A stop win be made
in Miami late this afternoon,
1t ii the third large plane to be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-02-02

sent 10 Managua Al two mpnthn.
III win IS used 70 transport supplies
from marins headquarters 10 field
troops fighting General SANDING.
Lieut.. j. b. McEIugh. radio officer.
and Corp Robert wenc, mechanic,
accompanied Towner. The plane
carries three machine guns.
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Merger Plan Must Be
Approved by Utilities
And By Congress Action
The local transportation companies
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-28
WOLVES THREATEN
 NOME REINDEER HERDS

Last Saturday (April D Sam Niupok, Native hunter who lives on the Sand Spit, killed q large gray timber wolf on Sinrock riv- CT. He brought the animal to town and it created quite little excitement. Sam said that this particular wolf killed eight or ten reindeer the day he killed it. He would kill one deer and then, without eating a bit Of it, would go and kill another, apparently for the pure fun of killing. The wolf measured six feet three in ches from tip to tip before he was skinned. The deer killed, Sam says, belonged to the Douglas herd.
 This is the first wolf to be killed in this section for a long time. It is feared that they will come to this section in bands like they are doing in other sections of Alaska, and if they do they will play havoc with the reindeer herds eabouts.-e( Nome Nugget).
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MOOSE BENEFIT LAST
 NIGHT SUCCESSFUL

A very enjoyable time was had by the large crowd that attended the Moose Benefit Social last night in the Moose Hall The pro- gram, made up of group of songs by the Misses Evelyn Jud son.. Henrietta Sully, Belva Will Hams, Irene Burke, Ruth Krug- ness and Margaret Peterson, and a monologue by Fred Sorri was extremely well presented. A good bst of hilarity was furnished by the two reel comedy shown through the courtesy of the Coli scum Theatre, which donated the film. The Palace Theatre loaned the screen. sH t7t st
 After the program there was lively bidding for the many at tractive baskets and a satisfac- tory sum of money was raised for the needy family for which the social was given.
 Dancing was enjoyed from II until a. m. for which excellent music was furnished by a six piece orchestra made up of E. P. Curtis, Miss Mae Pauly, Elmer Friend, Mrs. Howe Vance, Ray Stevens and Harry L. Rust, the majority being Spickett's Palace theatre musicians.
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1 can Not understand why Jin is slipping away from me- sait cornelia. in ane of her moods oi seeing things s they are, not a. she would have them.
 His friends 1 hardly know. And my own son-well I knox the real Jim-less. All my lift I've been making friends, thinking of him, hoping that the sons and daughters of my friends would be his companions, but now there isn't a boy in his crowd where parents l know. The other day I remarked on all this to Jim.
 But Mums,' he protested, l know every mother of the bunch. They're all fine! They're all pals with us'."
 All pals with usi" cut in the always-wise and understanding Aunt Emmy-Lou. There you have it, Cornelia. You have not lived with Jim. You've lived above him.
 Perhaps" admitted Cornelia, wistfully. "I have been so inter. ested in making him thorough bred, an intellectual. maybe I've forgotten the human side of my boy. l had, not thought of that before. Just the other day he said to me. .'Jim's mother is back. He tells her everything, Nuns things that l expect would shock you And I replied, I cant see why a clean young fellow need have anything shocking to tell' And he just walked out of the room with oh, Nuns, you don't get me- l see now that he only meant silly foolish things that boys like to tell to someone"
 My dear" Aunt EmmyLou re- piled, "if you're going to be easily shocked you'll never hear any. thing. Don't you know that boys and girls during the adolescent age may be frightened away from their parents by an over-sensi- tiveness, fear of being criticiz- ed?"
 "Yes, Aunt EmmyLou, you're right. And why should l criti- cize Jim's friends so long as they are manly boys? guess-well, what I need to do is to be friends myself with J.n-to walk, talk and play with him. guess have been living above him. i Why"
 But just then a voice called down the stairs, Pm going to the basketball game tonight, Mother That's fine, Jimmy. l think I'll go too'
 There was surprised silence and then, "Oh, gee. Nuns. that's great Ned's mother is a regular fan. She never misses a game" | Tears filled Cornelia's eyes and she smiled with a great joy light ing up her face, as she nodded. ''The beginning of new relation
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Az they look forward to the next voyage their con- |versation runa something like this,
 ''lt is just two years aimee we went. on our sscond ,heneymeqn, isn't it, Jim 2" said Mrs. Stillunan. 'Yes, it was on the Olym. pic. rsnember 2" That was . reconciliaticn party, but there is nothing to
 reconcile this time" And Mrs, Saillnan sr lied upon tAe visleor. Then she re- viewed ' stha fs@ops case
 keiol 5H9 - I.1I| <... |s |
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.
 which left Seattle this morning on i the way north.
 Passengers leaving Seattle on the Aleutian enroute to Juneau include J. w. Woods, insurance salesman, who recently left the Territory for trip to California.
 Harry I. Lucas, local Ford ceal- CT, who has been south in con nection with the delivery of the 1928 Fords, is homebound on the Aleutian. Mrs. Lucas is accom- panying him.
 Miss Gladys Forrest, who left here for her home in Portland, Oregon, several weeks ago, and who has been under medical care
 while in the south, is passenger for Juneau aboard the Aleutian.
 After a trip to New York City and return, Charles Goldstein is returning to Juneau on the Aleu- tian.
 George B. Rice, local plumbing,
 heating and sheet metal works
 shop proprietor, left fer Wrangell
 on the Yukon on a snort busi.
 ness trip. He expects to return Tuesday.
 Chief John Newmarket and Capt. George H. Whitney left on the Yukon for Wrapgell to inspect one of the river boats of the Bar. rington Transportation Company.
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stlie association. A committee con ssisting of Romeo Hoyt, Arthur Hines and J.. M. Perl has charge of arrangements.
 Dealers who will have cars on. display include the Northern Com mercial Company, Samson Hard- ware Company, Service Garage Company, Standard Garage Com pany, Fairbanks Agency Company, Fred B. Johnston, Galen & Shel- don and Leo w. Rogge.
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Christian Science Church


 Sunday services VIII be held at II a. m in the Church of Chris tian Science Society of Juneau OH Fifth and Main Streets. The sub ject will be: Everlasting Pun ishment"
 Sunday School at 12:15 D. m.
 Wednesday, S:00 D. m.-Testi- monial meeting.
 Christian Science Reading Room in church building. This room is open to the public Wednesday afternoons from z:3o to 4.
 The public is cordially invited to attend these services and visit the reading room.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-28
WEDDING AT FAIRBANKS

Miss Fac Christie Lowell. sister of Theodore Lowell of Fairbanks, who has been a resident of Fair banks since last June, and Arthur V. Holcomb, several years a resi- dent of Fairbanks. where he is connected with the Alaska Road Commission. were recently mar ried. They will make their home at Fairbanks.