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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04

PITTSTON, Pa, Dec. 3.-"The
sort of questions they asked me in
Wyoming barracks of the state po-
lice indicated that the charge against
me was a frame-up which even the
police do not believe, and also why
the frame-up is being perpetrated,"
said Anthony Minerich, national exc
cutive board member of the National
Miners Union, now out on bail,
charged with attempting to blow up
church.
"They asked me-" said Minerich
after his release, what would do
if were an official of the National
Miners Union, completely organized
in America, and the miners of
France went on strike, whether, if
coal were being shipped from Amer
ica to France, and could call a
strike here, l would do it."
"And 1 told them," said Minerich,
chat I would just like to have a
chance like that"
/. L. d. Gives Bail.
Anthony Minerich is out on $1,000
bail, furnished thru Attorney Shep-
rovich, representing the Information
al Labor Defense, 799 Broadway,
New York. He was taken from
Wyoming barracks, Company B of
the Pennsylvania state police) for a
hearing before an alderman in Pitts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
ANTI IMPERIAL
LEAGUE EXPOSES
HOOvER'S PLOT
Protest Tomorrow at
Irving Plaza.
Hall
Asks Aid for Victims
Points to War Danger
in u. S. Policies

The All-America Anti-Imperialist
League today issued from its ma
tional headquarters here a state
ment sharply condemning President.
elect Hoover's trip of conquest
through Latin America and point
ing to the growing war danger. The
League is holding a mass member
ship meeting tomorrow night at If
wing Plaza Hall, at which we'll
known speakers will further analyze
the situation. The Leagues state
ment is as fellows:
The dominating policy of the
United States government today is
the increasing aggression to extend
its domination of the world market
in the struggle against it's imperial
list rivals, chiefly British imperial
ism.
This imperialist aggression is
clearly revealed by Hooyer's trip to
Latin America, Coolidge's Armistice
Day speech, plans for new naval
construction and other war prepara-
tions, the open and defiant nature
of militant propaganda, etc. The
danger of world war is no longer
subject for theoretical discussion
but is an immediate problem facing
the masses of this country.
On an international scale, the
rivalries of imperialist powers lead
inevitably to another world war.
At the same time the imperialist
conspiracies against the Soviet
Union continue. To this the imper-
ialists are moved by their common
hatred and fear of the Soviet Union,
which has become an inspiration to
the colonial masses as result of
it's policy in giving up all special
privileges in China and the grant
ing of complete autonomy to all ma
tionalities within the Soviet Union.
The danger of war against the
Soviet Union by the imperialist
powers is thereby made more i'm
minent.
Conflict in Latin America.
In the struggle between the lead
ing imperialist powers for control
of the world markets, Latin Amer
lea has become a center of this con-
flict, especially between the United
States and Great Britain. The
United States today is the most ag-
gressive of all imperialist countries.
Great Britain is the main rival of
the United States, and Hoover's
trip to Latin America has as its
chief purpose the complete destruc-
tion of British competition in that
as in other fields. This makes the
Continued on Page TtUo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
'Mimewch Is Questioned by
Police on Union POAcy,.
Labor Defense Balls Him

ton, Friday. This hearing was mere
ly for the purpose of arranging de-
tails about bail. Merit Friday there
will be regular preliminary hear
ing. According to the local news
papers, which are furnished with in
formation by the police, the regular
hearing was scheduled for last Fri
day, but was postponed "to afford
more time for investigation"
Minerich tells of events following
his arrest at the close of the free
speech mass meeting in Pittston,
Tuesday, Nov. 27. Four state police
made the arrest, telling him nothing
except that it was not for holding
TIE meeting, but On another charge
The attorney for the Civil Liberties
Union, who attended the meeting,
was told by the police that the
charge was the dynamiting of d
church.
Accused of Killing.
Minerich was taken first to the
office of the chief of police of Pitts
ton (the local police) and held a
couple of hours, then transferred to
Wyoming barracks.
Minerich was not questioned in the
police chiefs office, but after being
taken to Wyoming barracks, Cor
poral Santelli came in and sald
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
TOOHEY FACES OLD LAW
Archaic Tang to Charging of 'Yeoman'

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. g.
The medieval nature of the law un-
der which Toohey is to be tried is
exposed by the solemn indictment,
which reads like chapter dropped
out of Mark Twain's Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
but is being used in dead earnest by
the very modern coal company capi-
talism in Mr.. Melons state.
The indictment, published below, is
particularly noteworthy in that it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
URUGUAY PRESS
SCORES HOOVER
Trip a Bluff Which
Deceives Nobody

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 8
Not only the people of Uruguay
but all Latin America, whatever
may be the polite nothings with
which Hoover is greeted, feel in
suited by his trip to their lands as
conquered subjects of American i'm
perialism, is the sense of. the
"Diario del Plata" one of the fore
most newspapers of the great re-
gion of the La Plate river.
Yesterdays dispatch to the Daily
Worker briefly reviewed an edi-
torial in the "Diario del Plata
which also comments:
"Hoover is representative of that
COLLECTIVELY whose effrontry has an
gered all the rest of the continent.
Hoover is the successor of the spirit
which is contrary to all Latin Amer
lean sentiments; successor of Cool
idge, who had the sorry idea of pre-
senting himself in the Havana con-
ference with Napoleonic pose and
power that meant the absolute dis
regard of the psychology of our
peoples, unable to yield to force,
much less the spectacular exhibi-
tion of force.
"We are sure" the paper adds,
"that we speak the sentiments of
Spanish America in saying that we
had an aversion to Coolidge and
cannot believe in Hoover.
Sweet Words Can't Fool Them.
I Hoover, it is true, may be able
to win the sentiments of those peo-
pie who let themselves become cap
tivated with extreme ease, but which
lose desire to become so when they
understand deeply the spirit of the
peoples to whom Hoover comes in
turn to take peek, say good day
and repeat the empty phrases of
good will that were already used
by Coolidge and Hughes at Havana,
meanwhile they were carrying out
the most shameful outrage against
the Spanish American nation of
Nicaragua.
"No, this voyage will deceive no.
body. 1t is nosanore thsn an addi-
tional bluff, like the bluff which
arises from Pan-Americanism.' And
both bluffs signify no more than
the contempt held by the leaders of
the U. S. republican party for our
peoples"
The journal alludes to Hoover as
the spokesman of the republican
party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
WeinstOne to Discuss
World Congress Today
Before Sections 2 and 3

William w. Weinstone, organ
izer of District 2, who was dele
gate to the Sixth World Congress
and also member of the Program
Commission, will talk before a COM
bined membership meeting of Sec
tions and 3, at driving Plaza, to-
day at $3.50 on "The program of the
Communist International" Vein
stone will present the various as
poets of the Program and the sig
nificance of the Program for the
Communist movement of the U. S.
and for the entire world A discus
sion will follow.
All unit meetings of Sections 2
and 3 scheduled for tonight are
called off in order to make possible
a full attendance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
POLICE DISRUPT
POYNTz MEETING
IN PHILADELP PHIA
Captain Charges Used
"Seditious Language"
About Coolidge
Grafters Rally to Cal
Hustle Crowd Hearing
Election Analysis

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 3.-Tak-
ing time off from til, daily toll of
collecting graft from bootleggers
srd gamhicez WAC have piled up an
estimated SiS,C3o,GG1 in bank de-
pcsits hore, the rcii1Y changed their
routine loEg cnrugA last night to
break &p meeting .; .ho Workers
Forum. at ,rhich Juliet Stuart
Poyntz was speaking on "The Prob
lens of the Working Class in hmer-
lea Today
The meeting was held at the
Grand Fraternity Hall, 1926 Arch
St. Before the meeting began about
six police were seen lettering sus-
piciously about the entrance. They
entered when the meeting opened,
and about 20 minutes later were
joined by 20 more, some of them
being plainclothes dicks.
Charge Sedition.
Poyntz had just launched into her
speech and was analyzing the recent
elections, in which she character
lied Coolidge as ga messenger boy
of Wall Street." and Hoover as a
Servant of American imperialism"
when the police made a rush for
the platform.
"You are using seditious Ian
guage," clustered a police captain.
"Such attacks on government Off
cials are sedition!"
The police then declared the
meeting dissolved and drove the au-
dience out of the hall into the street,
manhandling many of them. They
took Poyntz to the police headquar-
ters under arrest. ~
Forced To Free Poyntz
She was held there for three
hours, with the police officers try
ing to force replies as to whether
ior not she had said that Coolidge
was "a weak-minded puppet," to-
gether with other alleged "seditious
expressions" Poyntz refused to
answer questions without the adj
vice and presence of counsel, so
after three hours of head-scratch-
ing, the police were forced to re-
lease her without filing charges.
The attack on the meeting is part
of the campaign of the Philadelphia
police against the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, carried on during
and since the elections, as a result
of which many militant workers
have been jailed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
DAILY OPENS CAMPAIGN
FOR 5TH ANNIVERSARY

All members of the Communist
Party, all left wingers in the labor
movement and all sympathetic work
ers are to be mobilized around the
Fifth Anniversary Campaign of the
Daily Worker and make the occa-
sion a spring-board for higher cir
culation and more mass influence
for the daily" if the urgent de-
mands contained in a letter sent by
the Daily Worker to it's agents in
the Party units are fully carried
out.
Special greeting lists have al
ready been distributed among the
units and. it is expected that many
working class organizations will
show their appreciation of the Daily
Worker by substantial greetings.
The lists are expected to be SO heavy
that workers are urged to call at
the business office of the "Daily"
as soon as they have collected a
number of greetings and contribu-
tions.
After indicating the role of the
Daily Worker in the struggles of
the American working class the let
ter sent to the units outlines plan
of activity which is expected to be
highly productive. The plan is as
follows: At unit meetings, specially
devoted to the daily campaign,
the plan of action must be worked
out and the workers modified.
Every worker is to equip himself
with a list and Immediately go after
his friends and shopmates and make
them come across with greetings
for at least 81 each. Besides this
attack upon individuals a great part
of the unit activity should be di-
rected at all left-wing and sympa-
thetic workers organizations, which
are to be visited, talked to and made
To send in greetings, either as a
body or as individuals.
The letter also points out that
neighboring stores and businesses
must not be neglected and made to
advertise in large spaces. A great
part of the activity is to center
about the shops and factories,
where mass distributions are to be
made. To check up on the "Daily"
activities of every unit member and
to see that they are a daily
Worker Daily" in this mass cam
paign. every unit will elect re-
sponsible committee, which is to be
the Control commission" of the an
niversary campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
PRISON BANS DAILY"
Letter Tells of Censorship Behind Bars

The complete restriction exercised
by the state authorities over the in
mates of prisons in an effort to pre-
vent them from learning the truth
about the present social order is re-
vealed in a letter that New York
worker confined in the New York
State prison at Auburn, N. Y, wrote
to a friend. The brutal treatment
accorded prisoners throughout the
country is known; repeated protests
and strikes of prisoners have been
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
Bulletin on King
George Shows Old
ReactiOnary Sicker

LONDON, Dec. 3.-Many indica-
tions exist today that King George
is worse. The official bulletins no
longer give accurate diagnosis of
his present condition, and there is
rumor that special commission
has been appointed to. take off his
hands the heavy duty of signing oc-
casional state documents. 1t seems
that the official tyrant of hundred
different subject copies is about to
make way for his heir.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
HOME CITY Halls
PORTER HEROISM
Observation-Disclosures
Election Rallies

Especial to the Daily Worker
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. 8.
local elections set for to-
morrow, two large and enthusiastic
mass meetings held Sunday by the
New Bedford Local, National Textile
Workers Union, endorsed the Work
ers (Communist) Party mayoralitS
ticket. In addition to Fred E. Beal,
as candidate for mayor, Corriea. a
textile worker, is candidate for coun-
cillor and Corrigan, a building
trades worker, is running for alder
man.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Dec. 3.
Fred E. Beal, candidate for mayor
on the Workers (Communist) Party
Continued on Page Three
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dignifies Toohey with the ancient
title of "yeoman," and speaks deli
ciously of Toohey's speech inflicting
"great terror and disturbance on the
good subjects of the said citizens of
the said Commonwealth there pass
ing" before the hall in which Too
hey and Brophy spoke. These terror
lied passing and repassing Sub
jects" may have been the Is state
troopers gathered there to beat up
Continued on Page Fivs
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ruthlessly crushed. The workers
letter shows how the state attempts
to keep workingclass prisoners faith
full to capitalism with a strict censor
ship over all the reading matter in
prison.
There must be no militant or
workingclass note in any of the
prisons reading matter. This is
strictly enforced. Among the papers
which come under the ban, according
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
Congress Earns Days
Pay With Hours Work

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Con-
gress met for about an hour today,
and adjourned "out of resrect to
the late Senator Gooding of Idaho"
If Goo ing hadn't conveniently died,
it would have adjourned ort of re-
spect to something else. Only the
roll call and other formalities were
undergone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
HOOVER WARSHIP
ON WAY TO PERU
British Good WIFI Hop
to Offset u. S. Tour

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. s.
Reports from the battleship Mary
land, carrying Herbert Hoover on
his Latin American tour, today an
nounce that the American president
elect spent several hours in serious
conference with President Ayora of
Ecuador.
The nature of their discussion
was not revealed, though it is as
sumed to heve had reference to
American naval necessities in the
southwest PacifiA Guayaquil, the
principa, port Of Ecuador, though
shallow, is one of the passable har-
bers on the barren west coast of
South America.
The status of the present govern
ment, it's strength and it's relations
to the American state department,
are also believed to have formed a
feature of the conference.
Hoover is reported to regard the
president of Ecuador as one of the
outstanding figures in Latin Amer
lea.
To Visit Peru Next.
4 wireless received today from
the Peruvian government, where
Hoover will next visit, announced
that the Almirante Grau, flagship
of thn par1viap fleet will accom-
pany the Maryland on its trip to
Callao. From there the Hoover
party will motor inland to Lima,
the Peruvian capital.
The Peruvian government, which
is in the control of the notorious
dictator Leguia, is making all prep
srations to receive the Hoover
party,a Leguia is expected to make
bid for further support from the
United Stat, s at this time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
British Countermove.

RIO DE JANEIRO. Dec. 3.-The
reaction of Europe to the trip of
Hoover to Latin America has awak-
ened great interest in the press
here, which says that the indirect
publicity given by the trip to U. S.
products is troubling European eX-
porters.
The "Jornal do Brazil" for ex-
ample, says that the news from
London that a fleet of airplanes
will soon make good will' flight
to South America, is the first Euro
pean step to counteract the effects
Of Hoover's visit and call attention
to British products.
The paper adds that the recent
flights and demonstrations of North
American aviators in South Amer
ica also appear to be reason for
the proposed flight of British planes
to Latin America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04

The Workers tCommunIst) Party
fights for the enactment of the 40
hour. 5-dny week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
$4,000 Austria Govt
Employees Walk Out in
HigherWagesDemand

VIENNA, Dec. 3.-Fifty thou
sand erlplos y C ttay- government
telegraph, teleph,, \.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-04
BEST

service walked oil hoi se4.o j.
night for an per uil
wages. Is r y L
The workers declare 1pEcct
of living in Austria incft
per cent since the war,
their wages have been at s.
still.
The reformist leaders of the
workers, instead of calling for
militant struggle, have issued the
slogan Of "passive resistance
which leaves the way open for {e-
trayal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03
WINDHAM NEWS


 WINDHAM. .ssaska. March 31 Mrs. Otto Wilde of Entrance Island. was guest of Mrs. Yates week ago Thursday. At the present time they are getting their mail through this office. They tried to get in Sunday but the bay was still frozen, it open ed on the 22nd
 Windham sems to have had more than her share of snow as there are 20 inches on the Chuck Flats. While Juneau re- ports flowers in bloom, this win ter there have been thousands of canaries. the woods have been full of music, so we had something to make up for the snow.
 Edward Patten is busy repair ing cabin at the townsite, which he located. sse
 Mir. Gotch has just completed his assessment work. He struck some very nice looking ore, with galena in 1t.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03
WORK BEGINS ON PORTL. .ANDCANAL
 RAILROAD LINE
Engineer Arrives at Stew art to Rehabilitate Old
 Donald Mann Road
t1Iyder Herald

s. F. Workman, construction en- gineer for, the Canadian North eastern Railway, arrived from Vancouver last week, to commence local activities in connection with the rehabilitation and extension of the long disused railway line running north from Stewart.
 w A. Lewthwaite, who with Hon. II. II. Stevens, M. P., pur- chased the old railway from Sir Donald Mann and brought the re- construction project to it's present stage. accompanied Mr. Workman but remained here only a few hours before returning south.
 MT. Workman, who was former ly connected with the Canadian National Railways and other Ca nadian lines, is already hard at work on the preliminary arrange ments preceding the commence ment of actual construction.
 As reported earlier, the plans of the company for the present year include the rehabilitation of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03

the future need not be subject to any of the accidents that have made aviation thought of as dan geraus.s
 "The commercial company he says, will have the best modern equipment; highly trained fliers and mechanics; careful and com petent inspections; sufficient landing fields along the route or multi-engined planes until there are sufficient landing fields; ade. quate night lighting of fields; ef- ficient meteorological service; perfect radio communication be. tween field and plane: radio bea- con to direct the plane on its course, etc" a
 The book also outlines Byrd's plans for his proposed expedition to Antaretica.
 We anticipate no immediate gain,' he writes, unless it is from our meteorological inyestiga tion, no application of our discoF- cries to commerce. For my South Polar trip our justifiable tn- centive is that we shall add to mans store of knowledge in the abstract if only by gazing upon and photographing a. portion of the 4,000.000 square miles of Ant. arctic territory as yet unseen by human eye"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03

nit him to defer his departure from Anchorage until he could dispose of his business and make the other necessary preparations to establish a new residence for himself and family in San Fran cisco. His new orders require him to report for duty on April 15.
 MT. Vogt had long wanted to quit the barbering business but he was not prepared for any other line of work. Five years ago he decided to study higher account ancy.
 MT. Vogt has sold his Empress barber shop and beauty parlor to c. Buell., and will leave for the states next week to enter upon his new duties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03

II miles of railway between Stew art and American Greek. and the construction of an extension up Bear River as far as the George Copper property. A small saw mill for cutting ties and bridge timber for use in the construction work will also be established at Bitter Creek. With the comple- tion of the road as far as Bitter Creek. the company proposes to install sawmill of 25.000 feet daily. capacity at Stewart for com mercial operation.
 Several hundred men will be employed in the various activities. which also include the reeonstruc- ton of the old railway dock and approach to deep water on Port land Canal.
 During his stay MT. Lewthwaite affirmed press reports from the south to the effect that the com pany is not only planning to ex- tend the road to the Groundhog coal fields, 90 miles cast of Stew art. but is also considering ulti. mate construction into the Peace River section.
 MT. Lewthwaite said every eff. fort will be maae to reach the Groundhog section by the fall of 1929 Later the road will be ex- tended to Finlay Forks, to which point the project is fully financed, and thence to the Peace district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03

New goods for Easter Suits have arrived. F. WOLLAND. adv
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03
ANCHORAGE BARBER
 IN REVENUE SERVICE

Two hours of study daily, under the direction of one of the leading correspondence schools of the country, enabled Ralph c. Vogt, of this city, to pass successfully the difficult civil service examina- tion required by the bureau of in ternal revenue. and today his name is enrolled on the books of that important department of the government as auditor, with lu- crative position awaiting him at San Francisco. He was ordered to report almost Immediately fol- lowing his examination, but through the help of Delegate Dan Sutherland, he was able to per suade the bureau heads to per
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03
Weather Conditions As Recorded by the U 5.
 Weather Bureau

Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning today: Cloudy and tonight Wedaesuas probably rain mod W.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-04-03

NoTE-observations Dutch IIarbor. Kodiak Juneau, Prince Seattle Portland m. and 4 p. Juneau time.