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Evening star., 1928-05-14
MAY RENEW RAILS
ON NH|CHWAY BRIDGE
Trolley Company Officials
to Confer With Utilities
Board Wednesday.

The Mount Vernon, Alexandria &
Washington Railway Co, probably will
be required to renew Its rails on High
way Bridge when the bridge floor is
reconstructed In the Summer, 1t was
indicated today at the Public Utilities
Commission.
The question was discussed at con-
ference between officials of the COM
pany, attaches of the commission and
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst. Assistant En-
gineer Commissioner, who has super
vision over the Highway Department.
AS a result. the company officials were
invited to confer with members of the
commission Wednesday, at which time
the company is expected to submit an
estimate of the cost of the work.
If the rails are renewed during the
repairs to the bridge floor, Capt. White
hurst advised the commission that the
contractor would lay the track and
bolt 1t to new steel girders that are to
be used to replace the steel bucket
plates, which have been found to be
too weak to support the heavy traffic
which crosses the span.
The District has planned to spend
$4,000 in reconditioning Highway
Bridge Aside from replacing the
Evening star., 1928-05-14
l. S.-BR|T|SH PACT
DECISION DELAYED
Treaty Does Not Meet All
English Requirements,
Says Chamberlain.
pv me Assoeiaroa Press.

Py the Associauod Press.
LONDON. May i4--Sir Austen Cham
heTlaia, British foreign secretary, told
the House Of Commons today that the
draft arbitration treaty to replace the
.Anslo-Amcrican arbitration treaty of
1913. which has heen communicated by
tAe United states Government. did not
IL all respects meet the particular re-
oGiremeuts of The British government.
In view Of the complexity of the
questions involved and the necessity
fer consulfiu2 the dominions he said
tha; further time "o oul6 be required be-
fore decision could be reached and
the proposal answered,
In THE circumstances ii had been
suggested TO the 6ominionS, with the
copniEance Of the United States Gov
eminent. that the present Root-Bryce
treaty should be extended temporarily.
although there was some doubt whether
she United States Senate would be able
30 consider The question before the
forthcoming recess,
Evening star., 1928-05-14
CONSENTS TO VERDICT.
steamboat Company Compromises
Suit Based on Death.

The Washington Colonial Beach
Steamboat Company today consented
10 q verdict against It for s1,375 for
the death Of Washington Garnett, an
employe, who was reported by the
police 70 have been electrocuted at
the ccmpany's wharf July 81. 1925.
The coroner's verdict was death from
heart disease. p c. Waring, as admin
istrator Of the dead man, brought suit
for s35000 and the case was about TO
be called for trial before Justice Bailey
and q jury In Circuit Division 2, when
the compromise was effected. Attorneys
Lynham. Larson and Bogley appeared
for the administrator, while the COM
pany was represented by Attorneys
Clep1a ae. Lsfsmer e. Hall.
Evening star., 1928-05-14
JAPAN ANXIOUS TO NEGOTIATE.
Foreign Office Declared Willing TO Dis
cUss TSinan Affair.

TOXIC. May IA 1P.--An official
spokesman said today that the foreign
Office was anxious 70 open negotiations
for the settlement of the Tsinan affair,
but did not contemplate combining 1t
with settlement Of the Marking Incl
dent.
The spokesman added that If it were
true that the Nationalist government
intended to dismiss Gen. Flo Yao-Tsu
because of the Tsinan incident this
would greatly facilitate negotiations
Japan. he said. was not at present
considering sending communication
TO the League of Nations on the sub
ject He tntimated. however, that
Premier Tanaka might discuss the ad-
visibility OF doing so.
Evening star., 1928-05-14
BURNED CLEANING DRESS.
Woman Hurt as Gasoline Ignites,
Setting Fire to House.

Mrs. Neal Diggs, % years old. s125
Nichols avenue southeast, was burned
on the face and hands yesterday. yhen
basin OF gasoline that was being used
to clean a silk dress became ignited in
some unknown manner and set fire to
the house. She was treated at homo
ana her condition pronounced not
serious.
The blaze was confined to the kitchen
and caused damage estimated al Sa0o
Members of No. IS Engine Connnanv
responded to an alarm.
Evening star., 1928-05-14

"Yes, it is very bad
taste to accept a per-
sons last cigarette, +"
wrote the lady expert
on etiquette.
She might have
added especially if
it's a Yorktown.
No one wants to
be deprived Of his
favorite cigarette.
Smokers have told
us again and again
that Yorktowns,
blended from seven
friendly tobaccos,
make the perfect
anokc.
Have you bought
yours?
Twenty for 15c.
I4&faa, Richmond. Virginia
Evening star., 1928-05-14
ADMISSION SERVICE HELD
New Members Received Into Girls
Friendly Society.

An admission service OF st. Marks
branch of the Girls Friendly Society
was held at ST. Marks Church, Third
and A streets southeast, yesterday
morning.
The following, presented by Mrs.
Charles G. Lawson. the branch secre-
tary. we're admitted by the rector, Rev.
william Henry Pettus: Mrs. Anita
Nichols, Mrs. Thomas Treynor and Mrs.
Williams, as associates: Martha Geor-
gius Mary Treynor, Hazel De Lozier,
Ruth Kaldenback, Helen Randall and
Gertrude Padgett. as juniors. and Daisy
Winifred Robinson, as senior.
Evening star., 1928-05-14
RESORTS.
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Evening star., 1928-05-14
Portuguese General Dies.

LISBON. May II P).-Gen. Ber-
nardo Faria, who commanded the artil-
lery of the Portuguese expeditionary
forces in the World war, died here yes
terday
Evening star., 1928-05-14

bucket plates with steel girders, q
laminated wood floor will be laid and
on 1t will be put new asphalt surface.
The repairs will start as soon as Con-
gress passes the regular District ap-
preparation bill.
Evening star., 1928-05-14
LAST OF UTILITY
D. CASES IS SETTLED
Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania
Railroads Pay $12,616 for
Benning Road viaduct.

Corporation Counsel William W.
Bride today cleared his docket of the
last OF the long pending utility corpora
ton cases when the Baltimore e. Ohio
the Pennsylvania Railroad Companies
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 22.-
Twelve strikebreakers were trapped
and killed in the Kinlock mine of the
Valley Camp Coal Company when a
tremendous gas explosion wrecked
The pit on the night of February 21,
burning and poisoning the doomed
men and burying them in the womb
of the devastated mine.
Can't Determine Number.
The company now states officially
that twelve men were underground
when the fatal blast shook the neigh
borhood. But the striking miners
who gathered in groups at a safe
distance from the small army of state
troopers and coal and iron policemen
that stand with arms prominently
displayed at the gate, opening on the
company property, shake their heads.
Who knows how many men were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
a. HOURS threat
TO CLOAKMAKERS
Boss Spokesman Hints
at Injunction

The 44-hour week in the cloak in
dustry will be installed after June il
the threat of Samuel Klein, manager
of the Industrial Council of Cloak
Manufacturers, is carried out.
Never has the industry been in such
"a chaotic condition, the manufactur-
ers' manager boasted at a member
ship meeting of their association re-
Gently.
This verification of the left wing
charge that the Sigman machine has
betrayed the 40-hour victory when
taken with Klein's confirmation that
the Sigman dual union has really no
control of the industry, is considered
of the greatest Importance at this
stage in the consolidation of the left
wing forces in the needle trades.
Klein in referring to the unemploy-
ment insurance, and the 40-hour a
week clause, both of which were to
have become effective at the end OF
June stated as follows: "Your board
is determined that unless these great
burdens can be equally apportioned
over the entire industry, your board
will in an orderly and dignified way
appeal to established authorities to
save you from an unequal burden
This is interpreted as threat that
an injunction will be sought by the
manufacturers.
Leaders of the Joint Board, when
asked at their headquarters to make
a statement on Klein's declaration,
said that the statement contains moth
ing new.
eve always knew that the price for
the bosses aid in the campaign of
the right wing to smash the workers
unions, has been paid for with the
gains rung from the employers in the
bitterly fought general strike" they
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
CANNON STARTS
NATIONAL TOUR

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23.-The first
meeting in the national tour of James
P. Cannon, national secretary of the
international Labor Defense, against
the frame-up system, will be held here
at the Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St.,
next Wednesday.
Special significance is attached to
this meeting, opening in the most inn
portant industrial center of Pennsyl-
vania, because of the numerous i'm
portant cases that have been fought
in this state by the International La
Dor Defense.
The I. L. D. also was the organ
ization primarily occupied with the
defense of the steel workers arrested
in Farrell, who were charged with
membership in the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. 1t is now taking spe-
cial interest in cases of the members
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea in the anthracite coal region.
From Pittsburgh, Cannon goes to
Cleveland, where he will speak at a
mass meeting March /, and then to
Flint, Mich, for a meeting the next
day. The Flint meeting will be fol-
lowed by three-day program in De-
troit. From the auto city Cannon will
visit the main cities in the central
west and west.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
FURRIER TO Be
FREED TUESDAY
Sam Gold Framed Up on
Assault Charge

After having completed more than
five months of a six months sem
tence, Sam Gold, active member of
the Joint Board Furriers Union, is
to be released from the New York
State Penitentiary on Harris Island
next Tuesday afternoon.
Gold who was sentenced last Sep
tember together with Sam Kurland,
the latter serving a five-year prison
term in Sing Sing, were sentenced
after they were both found guilty on
framed up charges of assault during
the 1927 furriers strike.
The Joint Defense and Relief Com
mittee of the Cloakmakers and Fur
riers, has been supporting the de-
pendents of the two militant fur
workers, both of whom are married
men and fathers of small children.
A vigorous campaign is being car
ried on for the release of Kurland.
The Joint Defense COMMITTEES,
which is now in the midst of cam
paign to sell 5000 ten-dollar loan
bonds for the purpose of raising
enough money with which to fight
further frame-up attempts of the
right wing in the needle trades
unions, stated that they have as yet
made no definite plans for a recep-
tion to Gold
the purchase of a bond also
entities one to membership in an or
ganization called "The Workers Self
Defense" The bonds can be bought
at the headquarters of the Cloak
makers Joint Board, 16 w. 21st St.;
the Joint Board Furriers Union, %
E. 22d st. or from the headquarters
of the Defense Committee, Al Union
Square.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
SHAM REDUCTION
IN NAVY PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. - The
immediate building of fifteen ships is
the so-called compromise naval pro-
gram authorized by the House Naval
Affairs Committee today.
gram is the one which The DAILY
WORKER predicted would be author
lied in previous reports on the discus
sions in the committee.
Altho this program has won the
support of the pacifists, it means no
substantial reduction as claimed, since
the entire fifteen ships and one air
craft carrier are ordered laid down in
three years and completed in six, while
there is every indication that they
will actually be laid down in one year
and completed in three, as proposed
by Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
DECORATE THOSE
Who SET EXAMPLE
DEFENDING U.S.S.R.
Celebrate in Army Units
and Shops
(By Cable)

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 23.-
The Central Executive Committee OF
the Soviet Union adopted a special
resolution today on the tenth ami
versary of the existence of the Red
Army, providing a number of new
facilities and privileges for former
Red Army fighters and red Guard
lists.
In addition ten million roubles was
assigned for cultural and educa-
tional needs of the Red Army by the
commanding staff, including the
further improvement of the everyday
conditions of army life.
Masses Celebrate
The entire working population has
entered into the jubilee celebration,
which is being carried on in all Red
Army units as well as thru official
meetings in factories, mills and
mines.
The press is publishing a series of
articles dealing with the history of
the development of the Red Army
and it's heroic struggles, including
memoirs of some Of the most active
fighters.
Decorated For Defense.
The Presidium of the Central Exec
utive Committee decorated the Baltic
Fleet with the Red Banner order for
outstanding services in the defense
of the revolution, and also decorated
with the same highest order merit
those who directed the defense of the
country, inspiring the Red Army, in
cluding: Rykov, Kalinin, Petrovsky.
Also many of the most heroic par
Elephants in the civil war were
decorated, including Mikoyan, I'm
schlicht and Vacetis.
The special privileges granted to
former Red Army fighters and Red
Guardists in addition to the funds
for improvements included special
facilities for the education of their
children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

namental iron firms. His duties are
to be concerned largely with fighting
the labor forces for these organiza-
tions. For this reason he is still
maintaining his connections in the la
Dor movement.
Corruptionist.
Brandle is one of the most re-
dictionary job holders in the A. f. of
L. He is member of clique in New
Jersey which has ruled labor unions
in this state with an iron hand. He
has been staunch advocate of char
mony between capital and labor" and
is identified with the Green-Woll re-
dictionary regime. Another member
of the same clique in New Jersey
labor is Henry Hilfers, secretary of
the State Federation of Labor, who
at the last conference of the state
federation was shown to have re-
ceived 100000 in bribes from the
Continued on Page Tsvo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Will
DEBATE TONIGHT
Revolution" Topic Of
Contest with Lawyer

The huge naval program, the oil
swindles, and the widespread unem-
ployment thruout the United States
will come up for spirited discussion
when Jay Lovestone, executive Sec
retary of the Workers (Communist)
Party, meeting George Hiram Mann
in debate at the Irving Plaza, 18th
st. and Irving Place, tonight.
Mann, lawyer, has been active
in the National Security League.
Lovestone will argue the affirmative
on the topic, "Does America Need a
Revolution" while Mann will assert
the negative.
Bertram D. Wolfe, national agit-
prop director of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and director of the
Workers School, which arranged the
debate, will act as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
OF
CANTON FAIL TO
HALT BIG DRIVE
$4,000 Communists Are
Beseiging Kweilin

CANTON, Feb. 23.-The fall of
Kweilin, old capital of Kwangsi
Province, into the hands of Commu-
mist troops is expected daily, accord
ing to reports received here. Four
teen thousand we'll armed and we'll
drilled troops, under Communist
leadership, are besieging the city
after a victorious march from
Human Province.
The worker-peasant armies pushed
their way to Kweilin after taking a
number of towns in southern Human
and northern Kwangsi. Soviet gov
ernments have been set up in the
captured towns.
The Cantonese authorities are
rushing all available troops to Kweil-
in in an effort to stem the advance
of the worker and peasant troops.
Few troops are left in Kwangtung.
Canton Revolt Likely.
The reduction of Kuomintang for
ces in the vicinity of Canton, exposes
the city and the surrounding terri
tory to new worker-peasant revolt,
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
BRONX COOP WILL
HOLD CELEBRATION

The United Workers Cooperative
Association Will celebrate the open
ing of its second block of houses at
$500 Bronx Park, with a concert and
pageant at the Central Opera House,
9th st. and Third Ave-, on Sunday
at 2 o'clock.
With the opening of the new apart
ments there will be total of 7c0
workers families living in the cooper
ative colony. The third and fourth
blocks are now being built while
land has already been secured for a
fifth and sixth.
These projects are being financied
solely by the workers themselves
thru their organization, the Con-
sumers' Finance Corporation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
MELLON FORCES
LABOR PEONACE
INQUIRY SHOWS
on-Union Miners Live
Amid Horrors

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 23.-Non-
union miners employed as strike
breakers by the Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Corporation, told sub-commit-
tee of the United States senate to-
day that their wages after paying
their bills at the company store aver
aged from $40 to SIS week, that not
irfrequently they found themselves in
debt to the company on pay day, and
that they were quartered in filthy
houses, swarming with vermin.
In spite of the fact that the primary
purpose of the investigating commit
tee is to secure political capital for
itself, it's members were forced to
take account of these fearful condi-
ions.
Evidence that the Pittsburgh Ter
minal permits speakeasies and houses
of ill-fame to operate at its camps
for the entertainment of the strike
breakers, was developed by the sub
committee in a tour of the mines.
Reveal Horrors.
The four senators of the sub-com-
mittee, Frank R. Gooding of Idaho;
mittee visited numerous camps of the
Pittsburgh Herminal Coal Corpora
tion and the Pittsburgh Coal Co.,
the two largest operators. They en-
tered the barracks of the strikers
crude makeshift shelters, where thou
sands of men, women and children are
forced to live.
Soon after their arrival J. D. A..
Morrow, president of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Coal Corporation, called on
the senators and served notice that
they objected to their being accom-
panied by officials of the miners
union.
Bosses Interfere.
In questioning the strikebreakers
concerning their wages and living
conditions, the senators several times
met with interference on the part of
;oremen and minor officials of the
companies who sought to influence
the answers.
The hunks, it was declared, were
alive with vermin. Andrew Koska,
another strikebreakei whom the SEN
ators interviewed, gave them the ad-
dresses of two bootlegging establish
ments, charged the company with
cheating the miners in computing the
amount of coal produced, and told of
maltreatment which he said he had
received at the hands of the bosses.
At the strikers barracks the sem
ators found numerous cases of fam
lilies of eight or ten persons living in
three or four small rooms. At one
of the refugee camps they inquired
sanitary facilities and
found them almost wholly lacking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
CALL CONFERENCE
TO TAKE ACTION
ON U Ne MPL0YED
City Wide Meeting Will
Be Held March II

A call for a city-wide conference to
act on the unemployment crisis was
issued last night to trade unions, fra
ternal organizations, committees of
unemployed workers and other work
ing class groups by the New York
Council of the Unemployed, with tenn
porary headquarters at 60 St. Marks
Place.
The conference will be held Satur-
day, March II, at Webster Hall, 119
E. 18th st. at p. m. The call was
signed by John Di Santo, secretary
of the New York Council.
According to authoritative gov
ernmental reports, there are approx
mately 100000 workers unemployed
in the United States at the present
time," the conference call says.
Involves All Labor.
"In addition to the direct suffering
which this situation has brought to
the unemployed and their families,
there is a definite danger involved to
the labor movement as a whole. The
employers are utilizing the fact that
millions are jobless and suffering in
order to make an attack upon the
trade unions and the standards of the
workers. Wage cuts, longer hours
and more intensive speeding up of the
workers is the order of the day. 1t
therefore becomes essential for the
labor movement as whole to take
up the question of relief for the un-
Continued ON Page Fave)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
CONFIRM DETAILS
OF FARE STEAL
Hylan Booster Shows
Tammany Game

On the surface "the great fare
steal" and all the forces which are
operating to put it across are quiet
But underneath the waters are flow
ing rapidly in their predetermined
course.
Charges of this nature have been
made on all sides without bringing
any denial from the city officials who
are behind the increased fare deal
The DAILY WORKER nearly two
years ago revealed>the details of the
agreement by which the traction in
terests agreed TO support both AL.
Smith and Jimmie Walker in return
for their consent to raise the fare.
Everything Fixed
These charges were yesterday con-
firmed by David Hershfield, former
commissioner of accounts under
Mayor John F. Hylan In a news
release to Hylan, Hershfield writes
as follows:
"You want me to inform you of
the transit situation in New York,
particularly with respect to the fare
proposition. There is no doubt but
that the fare will be increased to
seven cents, in accordance with the
alleged agreement in 1925 between
Walker, the Democratic city and state
leaders and the traction interests.
"You will recall that in the sum-
mer of 1925 It was said that the
Democratic leaders with Walker met
the traction representatives and that
it was agreed between them that if
(Contanued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

IOuIlCeu ldSC IllSIlL.
Flight the War Danger" and
."Build the Party Drive" will be
the two slogans to be raised. The
campaign to obtain 5000 new mem
bers for the Party and 10000 ad-
ditional readers for The DAILY
WORKER will also be intensified
during this period, Stachel stated.
Arrange Meetings.
Plans for these meetings are now
being made in New York, New Ha-
ven, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago,
Boston, San Francisco and other large
industrial centers. The New York
meeting, which is to be held at Cen
trail Opera House, 9th St. and Third
Ave-, March IL, will be addressed by
Bertram D. Wolfe, William z. Fos-
ter, Jack Stachel and William w.
Weinstone.
Leaders To Speak.
The New Haven meeting is an
nounced for March 2; meetings in
Cleveland end Detroit will be held
April /, and will be addressed by Jay
Lovestone, executive secretary of the
Workers (Communist) Party. Robert
Minor, editor of The DAILY WORK
Err, and Max Bedacht will speak at
the memorial meeting to be held in
Chicago on March 4th.
The Philadelphia meeting on March
3 will be addressed by Lovestone,
Herbert Benjamin and C. Miller.
Dates and speakers for meetings in
other cities will be announced later,
Stachel stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Booth for Benefit of
Children at Bazaar

A booth for the benefit of the chill
dren of the striking miners will be
conducted by the Workers Interna-
tional Relief. l Union S., at the an
nual International Labor Defense
Bazaar, which will be held March 7
to II at New Star Casino, 10th St
and Park Ave.
The booth will contain miscellane-
Gus articles of every kind and all the
proceeds will go to the children of
the striking miners. Contributions
for the booth are requested to be sent
to the office of the Workers Inter-
national Relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

And they know that the paper is a
powerful weapon of our party to
rouse the masses to struggle. They
know that it is thru it thai we are
gathering, mobilizing, and organizing
our forces to defeat them. 1t is quite
natural, therefore, to expect that in
their efforts to destroy the organized
labor movement, in their efforts to
prevent the organization Of the un-