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Evening star., 1928-04-29
PRELATE NEAR DEATH.
Bishop Valdezpino, Exiled by Mex
leo. Is in q. S. Hospital.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 28 Glp).--
Right Rev. Ignacio Valdezpino, exiled
Catholic Bishop of Aguascalientes. Mex
ico, was near death in a hospital here
today Physicians said life was being
maintained only with the aid of stinu-
lantS
Bishop Valdezpino became seriously
III week ago on his return here from
a trip to Cuba
Evening star., 1928-04-29
TWO HURT IN WRECK.
Trainmen In juTed When Landslide
Causes Derailment.

EUFAULA, Ala. April % O49.-Two
trainmen were seriously injured today
when landslide, attributed TO recent
torTential rains, derailed a Central Of
Georgia Railway passenger train at
Hatchers Station, Ga.
Lewis Raines, Montgomery, Ala. eZ-
press messenger, and Jim Aiken, negro
porter, Macon, were injured when the
baggage car overturned. No passengers
were hurt.
Evening star., 1928-04-29
Harris F. Mires Nominated.

Harris F. Mires OF Tacoma, Wash,
was nominated yesterday by the Pres
ident to be assistant TO the Commissioner
Of Internal Revenue. to succeed Charles
r. Nash, who has resigned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
S. P. BETRAYS LABOR
Workers Party Scores Socialist" Meet
On the of opens today York
C the Workers (Communs) following

ImoHLs
On the occasion of the national con-
vention of the Socialist Party of
America, now in session, the Work
ers (Communist) Party of America
once more addresses itself to the
workers, exploited farmers, and all
those oppressed and prosecuted by
American imperialism on the vital
need of uniting their ranks for COM
mon struggle and of combating more
intensely all those who parade as So
cialists, but in reality serve as sup
porters of capitalism and Imperialism.
We address ourselves particularly
to those of the toiling masses in the
United States who may still enter
tain the wrong and harmful idea that
the Socialist Party of America is a
working class party, deserving of
working class support. To all these
we say: Examine the actual record of
the socialist party and its leader
ship. Observe how completely the
Bergers, Hillquits, Oneals and Thom-
ases have abandoned the platform of
the working class. See how steadily
this so-called socialist party is
evolving into a political club of mid
dle-class reformers, detached from
the masses and their struggles, al
lied with the corrupt and reactionary
trade union bureaucracy, and fight
ing against every effort of the mill
tant and progressive elements in the
labor movement to strengthen the
working class against the capitalist
class.
In word: Convince yourself from
the actual facts of the class struggle
that the Party which calls itself the
socialist party of America is no lon
ger working class organization but
one which is opposed to the working
class. Hence, the sooner this organ
ization and the illusions that it
spreads are defeated in the labor
movement the stronger will be the
working class in its struggles against
the capitalist exploiters.
Betrays Industrial Struggles.
What is the record of the socialist
party in the great miners strike ?
Here is historic struggle of tens of
thousands of workers in a basic in
dustry, in a union which was once the
backbone of the American Federation
of Labor, struggle for the very ex-
istence of hundreds of thousands of
workers and their families against
the brutal offensive of the coal mag
Continued on Page T1oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
MINERS FAMILIES
MAINTAIN FIGHT
Repudiate Lewis-Faga
"Yellow-Dog"
By T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

AVELLA, Pa, April IL (By Mail }.
Not having received a nickefs
worth of relief in two weeks and con-
fronted with the decision of the repre-
sentatives of the official machine of
the United Mine Workers of America
that no relief will be given unless
repudiate their progressive
policies, nine hundred families in this
mining town are today looking star
walton in the face.
The entire community with the ex-
ception of a few followers of the
Lewis -Murray-Fagan machine turned
out today at mass meeting to pro-
test against the starvation policy
which waves the sword of hunger over
the heads of the embattled miners and
their heroic women, who have stood
steadfastly by their union and their
principles despite the worst terror
that could be let loose among them
by the agents of the coal operators,
coal and iron police, state troopers,
deputy sheriffs and agents of John
L. Lewis.
President Pagan of district five in
sists that unless the progressive
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
DU BOIs SCORES
EMPIRE IN HAITI
Protest To Be Held on
Sunday Afternoon

"There has been no more disgrace
full episode in the history of modern
imperialism than the occupation of
Haiti" declared w. E. B. Dubois,
editor of "The Crisis" in commenting
yesterday on the report on Haitian
conditions recently presented by Gen.
John H. Russell, high commissioner
to Haiti.
A mass meeting to protest against
the American occupation of Haiti and
to demand the immediate withdrawal
of all marines, at which DR.. Dubois
will speak, will be held at the En-
bassy Mansions, 20 w. 115th ST., Sun
day at 2:30, under the auspices of
the All-American Anti-Imperialist
League.
Among the other speakers at the
meeting will be Robert Minor, edi-
tor of The DAILY WORKER; Henry
Rosemond, of the Haitian Patriotic
Union; L. T. De Becker, secretary of
the Committee on Haiti, and Richard
D. Moore, of the American Negro La
Dor Congress. Harriet Silverman will
be chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
HOLD Miners
CONCERT SUNDAY
Coal Diggers Troupe on
Program

The five Illinois striking miners of
the National Miners Relief enter
tainers will arrive here this morning.
The act of this troup, to be pre-
sented at the Miners Varieties" the
benefit variety show to be given to-
morrow afternoon at Central Opera
House, 9th st. and Third Ave, is
expected to be the high light in an
exceptionally interesting program.
Others to be presented are Eugene
Helmer, well known pianist; Dorsha,
interpretive dancer; Jules Bledsoe,
the famous Negro baritone, and the
colored cast which will present the
one-act play aftermath" dealing
with the reaction of South Carolina
Negro to the World War.
While the workers have responded
generously to the appeal of the Penn
sylvania-Oh Miners Relief Commit
tee for funds and clothing to aid the
striking miners, the need for relief
will becoms more acute when the
10000 unorganized miners join the
strike on Monday, Fanny Rudd, sec
retary of the Relief Committee, an
nounced yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
STRIKERS BREAK
FRUIT BOSS RANK

With the approaching end of the
first week of the general strike of
the retail fruit store clerks in the
Bronx comes the announcement that
the backbone Of the newly formed
bosses association has been broken
by the capitulation of it's largest
member who reached a settlement
with the strike leaders last night.
Large Firm Yields.
The firm of Mason and Forman,
operating 6 retail fruit and vegetable
stores thruout the Bronx, and en-
ploying 35 workers, signed check
If $1,000 to be deposited as a Sc
curity that the agreement signed with
the Grocery, Fruit and Dairy Clerks
Union shall not be violated.
This firm had settled with the
union several days prior to the start
of the general strike, but broke the
tContinued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
FIGHT ON WAGE
CUT IN 27 NEW
BEDFORD MILLS
Bote Overwhelmingly in
Favor of Walk Out

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, April 13.
Thirty thousand textile workers in
27 New Bedford mills will go on strike
against the 10 per cent wage cut made
by the Cotton Manufacturers Asso-
citation when the reduction in pay goes
into effect Monday morning.
By an overwhelming majority, the
membership of the 7 textile workers.
unions affiliated with New Bedford
Textile Council demanded a strike for
Monday morning, according to strike
returns made public yesterday The
vote shows Is favoring a strike to
every one opposed.
To Strike Despite Officials.
The frantic attempts of the union
officialdom to avert a walkout by
offering to withhold the counting Of
the votes, if the manufacturers
agreed to postpone the wage cut for
a week. were fruitless when the mill
owners refused to concede to their
request.
Only the overwhelming indignation
of the membership at this attempt at
stopping the strike finally compelled
the council officialdom to allow tabu-
lation and publication of the strike
vote returns. The sentiment of the
workers organized and unorganized
is such as to make it very difficult
for further attempts to stop the strike
to be successful.
Won't Delay Cut.
Before the strike vote began late
Thursday night the mayor of the city
came to the union leadership with an
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
JOBLESS Meet IN
RUTGERS SQUARE
Workers Child Starves
To Death

With men waiting in line for soup,
bread or shelter still crowding the
sidewalks of New York, the New
York Council of the Unemployed has
announced a protest mass meeting
for Rutgers Square at 1 p. m. today.
John Di Santo, secretary of the
council, and dshers will voice the
demands of the thousands of unem-
ployed men and women in the New
York district for relief.
A large number of unemployed
workers assembled at St. AIMS Ave.
and 138th ST. Thursday night to hear
speakers affiliated with the New
York Council.
Baby Dies of Hunger.
The four-months' old baby of
Joseph Blandino is dead at his home
"a Starr ST., Brooklyn. The child
died Of starvation resulting from the
fathers three months unemployment.
Blandino's wife and three other
children were also starving when dis
covered at their home. He said he
had not been able to find work for
the last three months, coming here
at that time from Wallingford, Conn,
where he was unable to find a lob.
Neighbors, in circumstances not much
better than Blandino and his family,
bought groceries, giving them the
first real meal they had in weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
CAP joint BOARD
RAPS union HEAD
Chicago Local Demands
Return of Salzburg

CHICAGO, April 13.-Despite the
threats of International President
Max Zaritsky that their decision would
be overruled, the Chicago Joint Board
of the Cap and Millinery Workers
Union voted overwhelmingly to re-
woke the decision of the national Gen
eral Executive Board that their man.
ager, J. Salzburg, be removed from
the leadership of the four month old
strike and from the leadership of the
union.
Zaritsky came to the meeting of the
Joint Board, which was held here
Thursday night wi the decision of
the general executive, and instructed
the delegates to endorse the boards
decision. Almost unanimously the
members of the Joint Board vehe-
mently attacked the action of the pre-
Continued on Pugs TqUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
S0FT-pEDAL FALL
CRAFT IN SINCLAIR
CONSPIRACY TRIAL
Judge Grants Objection
to Damaging Evidence

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The
special government prosecutor in the
Harry F. Sinclair oil conspiracy
trial now politely refers to former
Secretary of the Interior Albert B
Fall as having been "in corrupt
state of mind" when he took $304,00C
in Liberty Bonds from Sinclair and
100000 from Edward L. Doheny
lessee of the Elk Hills oil reserve.
The conspiracy charge against Fall
who is now vacationing in California
has virtually been dropped.
Object to Evidence.
The Sinclair defense objected to the
introduction of evidence that Doheny
gave Fall 100000 and that Sinclair
moreover, gave him an additional
$4,000 for a trip to the Soviet Union
as an oil agent in 1923. Justice Jen-
nings Bailey was inclined to agree
that this testimony should be ex-
cluded.
81 am trying to show that Fall was
in a corrupt state of mind" Prose
cutor Owen j. Roberts explained
Justice Bailey took the defense's 'ob-
lection under advisement.
simultaneously with the announce
ment that E. L. Doheny, Dr., son OF
the oil magnate, had been summoned
as a witness in the Sinclair trial, il
was announced by the government
that the bribery Indictment against
him in connection with the leasing OF
the Elk Hills reserve through Fall
had been nolle pressed.
Government Won't Prosecute.
1t was the younger Doheny who de-
livered the "little black satcheP' with
100000 to Fall.
1t is certain now that the govern
ment does not intend to prosecute
Fall for his part in the oil conspiracy
which followed the slush funding OF
the republican party in 1928. And il
is more and more apparent as the
trial proceeds that "a way out" is
being sought for Sinclair also.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
WILL PROTEST
SOzzI MURDER
Anti-Fascists Will Meet
Tomorrow

Anti-fascists here will hold a pro-
test meeting at Tammany Hall, 145
E. 14th St., tomorrow at which the
Italian Mussolini government will be
denounced for the murder of Gastone
Sozzi, 23-year-old anti-fascist and
labor leader, who was killed at the
Perouse prison, near Rome, on the
night of February Z.
The speakers will include DR.. Nitti,
son of the former Italian premier, DR..
Charles Fama, Carlo, Robert Minor,
William w. Weinstone, Norman
Thomas, Moissaye Olgin and others.
Norman Hapgood will be chairman.
The meeting is scheduled to begin
at 2:30 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Pioneers Hear
Lonesome Talk

The keynote of the convention O.
the Young Pioneers Of America, Dis
trict 2, at their gala welcome Con
vention" meeting last night at Man
haitian Lyceum, &c E. 4th ST., wa'
struck by Jay Lovestone, genera
secretary of the Workers (Commun
ist) Party, who greeted the conven
ton in the name of the central exc
cutive committee of the Party.
"The Young Pioneers are fighters
of today, not tomorrow" said Love
stone. "They are active participant:
in the class struggle side by side
with their parents. The activity Of
the children in coal strike regions is
one of the outstanding indications Of
this"
He congratulated the parents there
for encouraging the youngsters tt
join the ranks of these fighters fol
working class freedom.
The Pioneers themselves presented
a living newspaper depicting vividly
on mass Scale every phase Of
Pioneer life.
Among the other speakers were
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, who represent
ed the United Council of Working
Class Women, Miriam Silverfarb, dis.
trict Pioneer leader of New York, and
Charles Wilson of the Young Pion-
eers. Bessie Bogarad, a Pioneer,
acted as chairman.
The convention acknowledged greet
ings from the Workers (Communist)
Party, the Young Workers (Commu-
nist) League, the Workers Library,
the Workers School, the Mexican
Pioneer League, the Philadelphia
Pioneers, and vi Elore, the Hungar-
ian Communist daily.
The convention proper will con.
tinue this morning with a regula.
oa mess session at 101 w. 9th St
and tomorrow at 10S E. 14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Women in Workers
Party Meet Today

A general membership meeting of
all women members of the workers
(Communist) Party of the New York
district will be held at 1880 p. m. to-
day at 108 East 18th st.
The order of business will be dis
cussion of plans to mobilize all work
ing women in the campaign for re-
lief of the striking coal miners and
the building of the New York Fed
GRAFTON of Working Women.
The District Women's Committee of
the Party issued statement last
night pointing out the Importance of
the meeting and requesting that all
women Party members be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
BOSSES GUNMEN FAIL IN TAXI STRIKE
Mistaken for Picket Beaten by Newark Scabs

tempted to identify his assailants.
When he failed in this an effort was
made to frame-up strikers and blame
the assault on them. But the evidence
proved zoo thin for this.
The strike of 500 taxicab drivers
against the Yellow Taxicab Co. and
it's subsidiary, the Brown and White
Co., is proceeding with increased en-
ergy, strike leaders report. The
Continued on Page Seven)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
"Tammany Hall'' Forum
Topic Tomorrow Night

William w. Weinstone, organizer
Of District 2, Workers (Communist)
Party will speak on "The New Tam
many Hall" at the open forum of the
Workers School, 10S E. 18th St., to-
morrow at p. m.
The Tammany Hall of Tweed,
Croker and small business will be
contrasted with that Of Olvany, AL.
Smith apd finance capital, it is an
nounced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

speeding in an effort to get ahead of
him. He followed the cab into the
Yellow Garage, at Is Sussex Ave, and
was preparing to arrest the speed
ing driver when be was pounced upon
by group of strikebreakers who mis-
took him for one of the pickets.
Frame-up Attempted.
After being released from the hos
.tal, Finnegan went back to the gar
age with several detectives and at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

NEWARK, N. j., April 13.-Strike-
breakers of the Yellow Taxicab Co.
in Harrison near here mistook po-
liceman for striking cab driver to-
day and beat him up so badly that
he had to be taken to the hospital
Three stitches were made in cut
lear his eye.
The policeman is Joseph Finnegan.
lie was driving his car in plain clothes
when ne observed a Yellow taxicab
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
BREMEN" LANDS
IN NEWFO FOUNDL. AND
German Transatlantic
Flyers Unhurt

The monoplane Bremen" which
left Ireland Thursday morning with
Baron Won Huenefeld and Herman
Kohl aboard, landed on Roe Island,
Newfoundland, last night. The fliers,
who were long overdue, were reported
unhurt.
The report was made here last
night by the Radio Marine Corpora
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
SHOWS HOW They
.bETRAY MINERS; ;
ASKS ACQUITTAL
Jury Out Since Thurs
day Afternoon
Especial to The Daily Worter.)

Especial to The Daily Worker.)
WILKES-BARRE, April 13.-The
jury in the case of Sam Bonita, young
Pittston mine leader, on trial here
in connection with the shooting of
Frank Agati, contractor and Cappe-
lini henchman, was still out last night
after a whole night and day.
Charges to the jury were made late
Thursday. At 4:30 the jury was locked
up and has been in session ever since.
Appeals For Bonita.
In presenting his argument to the
jury Chief Defense Counsel, Thomas
Dando, spoke for two hours, making
fervent, sincere appeal for the life
of the man whom he said he had
come to love in the days when he
visited him in Jail.
Dando is an Irishman from the
patch," formerly mine worker; at
one time an attorney for the United
Mine Workers. His address at times
was florid, patriotic, and religious
but seemed to make an impression on
the jury. He hammered hard on the
salient points of the case, that the
officialdom of the United M n c
Workers, particularly the officers ir
District 1 of which Rinaldo Cappelini
is president were the witnesses
against this humble rank and file
worker, now president of local 1908
Pittston, and devoted fighter fo1
his 100 members.
Dando stressed the fact that of the
33 witnesses called by the prosecu-
ton, IA were members of the police
force, or detective bureau, none of
whom were eye-witnesses; five others
were called, including employees OF
the Miners Bank Building in which
the union office is located, and the
rest, some Is in number were all Off
cials of the union.
"Such a procession of officials, as
were in that office" said Dando
"such a procession that took the
stand, international organizers, or
Continued on Page Sevem)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Pennsylvania counties is here in the myster
radio which have been made recently dec
strike postponed until April 20 That o
of the LewsFagan machine of District the coal oner
both behind the attempt to stem the rising sentiment
among miners for complete wakOut appears GER
tain from evidences at hand.
strike NOT been postponed but will take place Mon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Lewis he deliberately left out these 100000 union
agreement It has since been shown that doing
the demands Of the steel companies by whom
these employed As result Of this great betrayal
the refused later strike call from
Lewis They however the call of the
Committee and all facts show that there will be
a 10O96 wakout Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14


Organizers of Lewis machine and professional stool p
in the pay the coal touring Somerset
Wesmoreand counties seeking confuse
the unOrganzed miners the date of the wakout.
The miners the four counties who called Mon
day support the other miners
strike settlement made by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
Especial to The DAILY WORKER)

PITTSBURGH April 13.-Preparations by the Saye-the-
Union Committee for the strike of the Pennsylvania
unorganzed fields tremendous speed Over
100000 miners will walk April 16 the scheduled date
An attempt confuse the this great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
FOR THE "DAILY" DEFENSE.

FUK 7 HE DNIL1 DEF I'm o1-
Friends and sympathizers of The
DAILY WORKER will attend con-
cert and vetcherinka given by Local
Z Of the United Council of Working
class Women at 122 Osborn ST.,
Brooklyn, tonight. All proceeds will
go to the defense of The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

Upper photo shoWs of the German JTer nonopane Br
Badomn adom Dublin Ireland Just before left Thurs
morning. upper right that of Baron Gener Huene
field right Herman Koeh flyers who attempted to make the
the Atlantic Like the spectacular flight
of Lndbergh the American imperials for
gamd purposes Latin America the present Venre of the Jumker
the the Hndenberg
to their imperial poOer.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-13
Sunlight Baths Aid
English Mine Workers

London BY taking holiday In
Switzerland and sitting in the sun five
pit-boys from the mines of Mansfield
have demonstrated the value of light
baths for men and boys who work I'M
derground. report of the commit
tee which has been testing the useful
ness Of light in Industrial hygiene has
just been published.
Following the Swiss experiment with
sunlight baths, clinic was opened
and so volunteers from the mines,
fourteen to seventeen years old, have
been given ultraviolet light baths sew
eral times week for three months.
At the end of the time the boys had
gained in weight an average of more
than four pounds. Boys of the same
ages who did not get the light baths
gained little over two and half
pounds during the same three months.
The boys who had the light baths
gained in height more than the boys
who did not.
The clinic will be continued, and
the committee report recommends that
wherever pithead baths are installed
light baths should be established with
them. The report warns, however, that
artificial light baths should be given
only under medical supervision.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-07-13
Norway's Idle Ships
May Get an Indemnity

Copenhagen.-One of the greatest
problems in the Scandinavian coun.
tries is the ever increasing number of
idle ships.
Admittedly, says the Scandinavian
Shipping Gazette, is Norway worse off
in this respect. Proportionately she
has more ships laid up than any other
nation In the world. Denmark and
Sweden also are hard hit and every
week brings sorry tidings of further
laying up of tonnage.
The latest relief theory is an or
ganized laying up scheme in connec.
ton with mutual insurance system
paying indemnity on fixed scale to
owners of idle ships 1t Is of Nor.
wegian origin and has won recogni-
ton among Norwegian owners, but
must have international cooperation.
From Scandinavian point of view
all such theoretical projects, even If
carried through, are mere makeshifts.
providing no sound basis for exist
ence or growth of a national merchant
marine.
Shipping men say world tonnage
is much bigger than the demand, and
that 1t is idle to dream of better con-
ditions for long time.