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Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-05
HOLDS UP CAFE

LOS ANGELES, May 5.-Nine
patrons and employees were forced
to stand against the wall with their
hands above their heads while an
armed bandit extracted 500 from
the cash register of the Stillwell
Broiler Cafe early today.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-05
BABE CREEPING UP ON
HIS RECORD FOR 1927
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK. May 5.-One home
run in the next five games played
by the Yankees will put Babe Ruth
ahead of his 1927 record. The Babe
hit No, 6 off George Cox of the
White Sox yesterday and it was not
until May 10, last year, that he had
made No. :.
He hit his fifth and sixth home
runs last year ON May l off Quinn
and Walbcrg of the Athletics.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-05
TO RESUME TEST TRIALS
FOR PLANE CARRIER

SAN PEDRO, Cal, May . The
test of the So, 100000 aircraft car
rier, L. S, S. Lexington, will be re-
sumed off here May IA, it was an
nouneed today.
The speed trials were halted last
week by shattered turbine blade.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-05-05
What's Doing
TONIGHT

1ON10I1I
Valley Theater: Circus Rock
les. -
Palace Theater: Rough and
Ready
Brunk's Tulane Theater: I'm
the Wrong Bed
Radio: KGEN, s to 10 o'clock.
TOMORROW
Services, all churches.
Palace Theater: 1.-THE Es-
cape
Valley Theater: Ramona.
Radio: KGEN, 1880 to 300
o'clock.
MONDAY
Twice Told Tales section, Ten
Thousand Club, Mrs. E. o. Car
ter.
Radio: KGEN, IL to l O'Clock
Masonic luncheon, Hotel Bar
bara Worth.
F. E o. meets with Mrs. L. G.
House, $50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
USSR to Make Clocks

MOSCOW. U. S. S. R., July 4. =
The Supreme Council of National
Economy CT the USSR has recognized
it necessary to establish new fac
tory for the manufacture of time
pieces in the Moscow district. The
production of this new plant is cal
culated at first to reach Is million
ordinary clocks, 100000 alarm-clocks,
$4,000 electric clocks, $4,000 regula-
tors, etc. per year. Besides, these
works will, for the first time in the
USSR, manufacture watches, begin
ming with yearly production of
about one million pieces.
A special commission is being de-
tailed to Germany, Switzerland and
America to study the latest methods
of production and ascertain the pos
sibility of entering into an agreement
with the respective foreign firms con-
corning technical aid in establishing
the production of watches in the
USSR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
Progressive
Miners Thank
Daily Worker

by q Worker Correspondent
YORKVILLE, o. (By maiD IL
wish you would publish these few
lines in our wonderful newspaper,
The DAILY WORKER. l want to
thank our many good and kind
friends in Canton, especially Broth
err Carl Guillod, members of the
Fleet Foot Tribe of Red Men, the
Lodge of Engineers, the ladies of
the Loo Moose, and our many 9TH
er friends in Canton, and also
Cleveland, Akron, Ohio, New Bos-
ton. Ironton, Cincinnati, Beech
Bottom, Baltimore, Md, for their
generous assistance to the cause
of the progressive striking United
Mine Workers of America.
We surely appreciate everything
they have given and are still send
ing to us, and may they still con-
tinue with their untiring efforts to
send and give aid to the needy
miners wives and families till we
win our strike.
We must win.
We must fight on.
JACK BELL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05

away our signs. In the meanwhile
about 800 people had gathered about
the demonstrators. The same thing
happened to the other groups that
arrived. Then about 1000 people
gathered there.
A meeting was opened by some of
our comrades. A hundred or so work
ers grouped about us. Two policemen
and several detectives broke up the
meeting.
There were some German seamen
from the Init Seamen Club. They
protected our group of Pioneers.
When the dicks" took away our
signs we went over to the debris on
Broad St. and started to hold meet
ing. A whole lot of clicks" came
over, big tall fellows, and started to
chase the little people away from the
meetings, they didn't go near the big
people. These seamen came over and
they wanted to protect the meeting.
One of them, a readheaded fellow,
Went over to the detective, the big
gest enc, and gave him such a sock
in the jaw and another in his nose,
that he lost a couple of teeth and his
nose started to bleed After that the
dicks didn't bother our meeting any
more. The people listened with much
more attention. All the office boys
were laughing at the dicks and he
said he would arrest them.
More meetings were begun and
similarly broken up by the police and
the detectives. The Pioneers were the
most harassed because the brave po-
lice thought they were more danger
Gus than the grown-upsl And the
seamen were always on the job; al
ways ready to protect US.
One huge seaman punched the big
gest detective in the jaw and nose so
that the latter lost a few teeth and
bled at his nose. But the representa-
tives of claw and order" didn't bother
us any more. When the cops took
away our signs we went over and or
gained meetings on the rails that
were lying in the street. They thot
we were just bunch of kids and they
didn't bother us much. We had about
4 meetings. The dicks didn't bother
US after the seamen beat them up.
The pioneers gave out the Party leaf
let's in the meanwhile.
CHARLES WILSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
THREATEN TO CUT
WAGES OF 100000
IN COKE MINES
Progressives Forming
Strong Union
(By a Worker Correspondent


UNIONTOWN, Pa, July 4.-The
H. c.. Prick Coke Co. threatens to cut
the wages of almost 10000 morgan
Ized coke miners in Fayette and West
moreland counties. Notices have al
ready been posted at the mouths OF
each of their mines. Almost every
day miners are killed or permanently
crippled in coke mines. Elmer Will
son was burned from his neck to the
soles of his feet in coke oven at a
mine near here, only few days ago.
Rank and file progressive miners
are secretly organizing coke workers
in all four unorganized counties of
Pennsylvania. Miners from Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and Illinois are organic
ing the coal diggers of West Virginia,
Kentucky, Kansas, and other unor-
ganized mine fields into strong I'M
ION which will not only fight wage
cuts but demand better wages. The
National Miners Relief Committee is
doing its share by supplying relief
to the families of thousands of miners
who are striking for union working
conditions and living wage. All
funds sent to their headquarters at
GIL Penn avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa, are
used for this purpose.
EDGE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
NEW WAGE SCALE
FOR STAGE HANDS
AND USICIAN IS

The International Theatrical Asso-
citation through its Labor Committee
is about to begin negotiations with the
local stage hands union for a new
wage scale. The present scale ex-
pires September 1. So far no definite
plans or demands have been made by
the local union body.
Negotiations are also going on with
the American Federation of Musi-
clans for a new wage scale for the
road musicians.
Both the musicians union and the
stage hands organization are strongly
organized in this part of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
More Jewish Settlers
Colonized in U.S.S.R.

KHABAROVSK, u. S. S. R., July
4.-Up to $4,000 Jewish families are
to be settled in the vacant area of the
Birsk-Bidjany district in the Amur
zone, according to the plan approved
by the Soviet government. This meas
ure will make it possible to establish
in this region a Jewish national adj
ministrative community.
From the beginning of spring, there
have arrived to the Birsk-Bidjany dis
trict about 600 Jewish settlers who
have been settled, partly, in the Brisk
test field and, partly, in the rice fields
of the Ekaterino- Nikolsk district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
CHILE FASCISTS
EXILE 40 MORE:
Over 300 Now on Mas
Afuera Islands

LIMA, Peru, July 4.-Forty more
men have been deported by order of
the Chilean dictator Ibanez to the
Mas Afuera islands, where 800 Com
munists and anarchists were deported
after the coup d'etat by which Ibanez
established his dictatorship of Chile.
Repeatedly news comes from Chile
that the deportees have been allowed
to return, but actually permission to
return has been granted only to those
renegades among the labor leaders
who promised to support Ibanez.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05

LAKEHURST, N. j., July 4 (UP).
The navy dirigible Los Angeles left
today for a training flight off the
Atlantic Coast. Lieut.-Commander
Charles E. Rosenthal said he expected
to return by sunset.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05


united front and prepared for a well
aimed and crushing blow to labor At
exactly hours before the time set
for the walkout the final link of the
chain of betrayals was forged.
Mysteriously, a delegation of the
Hartford local claiming to represent
the majority sentiment of the local,
suddenly appeared before the head
quarters in New Haven, and notified
the international officials, who were
evidently waiting for such a delega-
ton, that the Hartford local, the big
gest in the state, would not strike!
They claimed that the men did not
know what they were voting for at
the time, and that the whole business
was misunderstood! This was evil
IDENTIFY very clever trick. But it was
bombshell for the rank and file and
caused a great convulsion.
This also made it obvious that there
would be no strike, and the interna-
tional officials perfected the way out
OF this situation by Fastening to an
nounce that the strike was called off
and that there would be another vote
taken on the question the following
week. In the meantime the propa-
ganda against the strike was inten-
slfied turnout the entire capitalist
press, strongly emphasizing the fact
that the men misunderstood the whole
procedure of the vote and, anyhow,
this, that or the other local was not
in favor Of walkout. This propa-
ganda resulted into a confusion of the
worst kind. Locals were pitched
against each other, each blaming the
ether for causing the calling off of
the strike. Besides this, there was ac-
tually a terror prevailitg and the sit
uati9n created as the result was not
the best for vote in favor of a strike.
And no sooner were the ballots dis
tributed and long before the vote was
| completed, the press thruout the state
carried the story to the effect that
the men had voted almost two-thirds
against the strike. The leaders. of
course, welcomed it and without anv
announcement of any kind went away.
leaving the workers to the mercy of
the company officials.
And SO ended another tragic episode
of the American Labor movement
TROLLEY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
Observation-Disclosures

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., July 4. =
The Ekonomitcheskaia jim publishes
information on the contracts for cot
ton purchases, according to which on
May 18th there was contracted
throughout the USSR 995,3o9 hectares
of cotton area, as against 978, 400
hectares provided for by the plan.
Last years plan of contracts, which
was by IL percent smaller than this
year, had been executed by May 18th,
1927, only in the limits of 80 percent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
WINDOW CLEANER KILLED

Maurice Nelson, of Brooklyn,
window cleaner, fell to his death
while cleaning a window on the
fourth floor of building when his
safety strap broke.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
Union Officials Wrecked Connecticut Strike Traction Correspondent Say
MA
'fGlocondG" to LnaMguyate Free
ObenQ Season at Starlight Park

Cobbey, Ora Hyde, Yolanda Renaldi,
Julia Benson, Olga Muscat, Mar
guerite Speaks, Agnes Hennessy and
Pauline Kittner; contraltos, Martha
Melis, cara Jay, Ada Paggi and
Euine Harper; tenors, Vincent Carelli,
S. Sciaretti, Julian Oliver, F. Bertini
F. D'Angelos and G. Cavadore; bari
tones, Giuseppe Interrante, Giuseppe
Maero, L. Dale Molle; bassos, Mar
tin Horodas, Miguel Santacana and
E. Palazzi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05
AID IN WALL
ST. DEMONSTRATION
(By a Pioneer Correspondent

The demonstration reached Broad and Wall ST.
@ line consisted OF of members of the
mun League and Of the Young Pioneers Immediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05

Arrangements are now being made
to give New York another season of
free opera, to be presented every
Thursday evening at Starlight Park
Stadium.
The season will start tonight with
a presentation of the opera LA Clio
conda" and will continue with the fol-
lowing repertoire: July IL, "Rigo-
letto"; July 10, "Cavalleria Rustl-
cana" and "Pagliacci"; July 26,
Faust; August 2, aida; August
9, Lucia di Lammermoor"; August
16, I'll Trovatore'; August %, LA
Traviata"; August 80, Carmen;
September 6, gala night, with acts
from different operas.
Among the young singers with
whom Captain Whitwell is now nego-
tiating are: sopranos, Marguerite
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05

corning the miserable conditions I'M
der which they worked Cor, rather,
starved) in the picture industry
ruled over by Will Hays who, as a
flunky of Wall Street, helped to make
Harding president and Daugherty and
Fall cabinet members. Some of the
girl were very militant at that time
and started near riot in the cham
Der Of commerce building. But all
they got out of it was the "honor" of
being called "artists" instead of sex
tras"-something they neither de-
manded nor cared for. In the opinion
of most empty stomacks, fake honor
is POOR substitute for bread, any
how.
LOOp-HOle in Law.
The apprenticeship clause in the
minimum wage law is the loop-hole
through which many employers escape
the responsibility of paying the mini
mum wage, SIG week, to women and
girls. They do it by discharging the
workers as soon as their apprentice
ship period of months is up. Then
they hire "green" hands to take their
places. This has been done in laun-
dries and other lines of work in this
city and state.
Mrs. Edsen says "that it has been
I most difficult" for her department to
locate violators of this law. Why? 1t
it because they are employers? Work
ers, who are wanted, are generally
easily caught by the authorities.
Jewish Girls Not Wanted.
Jewish women and girls are not
popular in the eyes of wage-cutting
slave drivers of this city. Employment
sharks have orders to turn them down,
according to an article in a morning
paper. not SO long ago, by Jewish
girl in behalf of a number of female
workers of her own race and class.
Why do the open-shoppers of this
burg act that way? Is it because the
Jewish women generally are more
radical than the rest of their sex?
1t is suggested that Mrs. Edsen hire
few militant workers to catch vio-
lators of the minimum wage law.
L. P, RINDAI,.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
EXPLOITING CHILD
LIFE
By G. E. BOLTON

Some children in the United States
are not in schools because of the
necessity of their seeking employ
ment in order to keep alive.
In fact, there are 100000 of them
between the ages of ten and fifteen
years employed in industrial occupa-
tions. In the textile industry occu-
pations. there are $4,000; messenger
boys and girls, $4,000; child servants,
41,500; $4,000 in steel mills, almost
10000 in clothing factories and shirt
shops; 10,500 in lumber mills and fur
niture factories; $500 in shoe factor
les; $500 in coal mines; sales boys
and salesgirls in stores, 10000; other
child clerks, 22,500; insurance boys
20,700; and there were 162,700 chill
dren in other miscellaneous occupa-
tions.
There is likely to be much more OF
this sort of thing in the next few
years. Women representing a large
national organization of progressives
recently approached a governor of a
southern state asking his assistance
toward getting some child protective
measures through the next legisla.
ture. Unhesitatingly he told then
that he not only would not assist
them, but that he would oppose such
legislation, and if any child labor
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
measures were adopted he would

measures were adopted he would
promptly veto them.
The explanation was that he wanted
the textile industries of the country
to center in his state and that without
cheap child labor, without unrestricted
conditions as to wages, hours, safety
devices and sanitary surroundings,
capital could not be attracted to open
cotton mills in his state.
This was putting it truthfully and
candidly, if somewhat brutally.
The governor wants capital and in
dustries and payrolls and prosperity
built on child labor or based on any
thing at all that will bring the money.
All this is reversal Of the form
the people of this country were run
lining in few years ago. A social
atavism-reversion toward savagery.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
COMBATING UNREST

The solemn looking man in the COM
partment remained silent for many
mile. Finally, however, he touched the
man opposite and remarked: There
is much unrest in the world just now,
my friend, much unrest"
you're quite right"
81 hope you are not unmindful of
the fact that we all have duty to
perform. We must combat this un-
rest"
'I'm doing my very BEST" said the
other.
"How?"
II manufacture mattresses"
White lies may be all right, but they
show up so plain on black conscience.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31

Wife: "Wire you insulate? Watts
the matter?"
Husband: "Fuse where / was you'd
be late, too"
Wife: "This is positively shock
ing. If it happens again, I'll get a
switch and socket to you. conduit,
too."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31

Nice Old Lady: Don't you know you
shouldn't play strip poker?"
Sweet Young Thing: ooh, it's per-
fectly all right. It's not really gam
bling"
"What!!"
"No; you see we get our clothes
back. Judge.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
A Steady Patient

Young Observation-Disclosures news,
Ethel! / have a practice at last!
His Wife-What has happenedf
Young Physician-I treated man
with the seven-year itch today and
ha is to call twice a week until cured.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
OUerinformed

"In short time," asserted the ener-
getic statesman, "weIl have some
further Investigations"
"Good heaven!" sighed Senator SOr-
ghum. Don't we knSw enough ?"-
Washington Star.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
Rules of the Game

"Where is the car l left parked
here?"
81 can only tell you where part of
II Is"
Quick Tell me-"
"a cop came by and took the num-
ber."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31
COMPOSITION

The superintendent of schools of
Spokane, Washington, wishing to test
the powers of composition existing
in a class of eight-year- request
ed that three sentences be written,
each containing one of the three
words "bees," "boys" and "bear." A
small girl laboring concocted the fol-
lowing sentence: Boys bees bare
when they go in swimming"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-08-31

Jeffrey: $50 your son has been in
jured and is coming home from col
lege?"
Briggs: eyes, he sprained his uku-
lele finger"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01
STOPS BOOZE SALVAGE
DR.. Doran Orders Process Taking
Lees of Whisky From
Empty Barrels

Prohibition Commissioner James M.
Doran has issued an order modifying
regulation with reference TO used whisky
barrels that has been in force for long
time. Heretofore used whisky barrels
were purchased by bootleggers and others
to extract the liquor that has soaked into
the wood. The market value of
whisky barrel before it has been used is
eight to ten dollars, and after the con-
tents have been drawn off the barrels
frequently sell for twenty to twenty-five
dollars each. Whisky extracted from
used barrels often is enough in quantity
to yield large profits. The modified
regulations with regard to used whisky
barrels read:
1.-The casks or barrels must be
thoroughly rinsed with water, preferably
with hot water or steam. which water Or
as much of it as required must be used to
reduce the proof of the spirits to 100.
The water not so used to reduce the
proof of the spirits should be poured on
the ground or in sewer. In addition
to rinsing or steaning the barrels, they
should be filed with water and permitted
to stand seven days before being re-
moved. The water so removed must be
poured on the ground or into a sewer"
When it comes to salvaging the whisky
soaked into the wood of an old barrel it
is certainly an indication of more aridity
than the vets are willing to admit. Pro-
hihition is prohibiting.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01
VETS INCONSISTENT
Their Arguments Against Protibi-
ton Cancel Each Other; Some
Examples Cited

1T would like to see somebody offer
$4,000 prize for a valid objection to the
Eighteenth Amendment, barring from the
competition the real reason of the vets,
which they do not mention however that
1t makes beverage liquor difficult 10 OBJ
tain and denies the brewer and dlstiller
license to exploit the appetites of their
fellows for personal profit" said Dr.
Ernest II. Cherrington. director of the de-
partment of education OF the hnti-Saloon
League of America, in recent interview.
He continued:
During the past eight years tie foes Of
this policy have not offered single rea-
son why the Eighteenth Amendment
should not be effectively enforced nor why
1t should not be recognized as the most
beneficial social legislation.
THE liquor group make pleas which
cancel each other They declare that
they oppose prohibition because it makes
it impossible to obtain liquor even for
medicinal purposes and in the same
breath, assert that plenty Of liquor can be
obtained anywhere at low cost. They
blame prohibition for disrespect for law,
while they themselves broadcast state
ments which they seem to hope will bring
the law into disrepute. They assert that
prohibition has failed without producing
any evidence of that failure and urge a
agreeing on any substitute. Processing
an opposition to the saloon which they
never revealed while the saloon was With
lis, the alternatives to prohibition which
their leaders seem 10 favor would bring
back the saloon under a different name
while some of their suggested programs
would make the government itself bar
tender.
1.-THE inconsistency of the wet group is
evidenced by its libels upon youth of to-
day which, it insists. is led to drink to eX-
cess because of the prevalence of drinking
in the home, while in the same breath
these wet leaders urge modification of
the law that would bar public drinking
while it encouraged consumption of lq
uors in the home only.
1.-THE real reason why the vet groups
fight the Eighteenth Amendment and its
enforcing acts is that it does prohibit, far
more successfully than they will ever ad-
NIT, the legal sale Of beverage alcohol
which they, themselves desire either for
the qualification of an appetite or else for
the profit from its sale to exploited con-
Sumers, to the detriment of the nations
economic and physical Well-being."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-09-01

A prize Of $4,000 for 'the best and
most practicable plan to make the Eight
zenith Amendment effective" has been
offered by w. C. Durant. motor car mag
nate and capitalist. In statement is
sued from Mr. Durant'S New York Office,
according to an Associated Press dispatch
of August 26, he said:
I'VE are imperiled by the widespread
violation of the liquor law embodied in
the Eighteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, the highest
law of the land
Big business leaders VINO have the
largest stake in law enforcement, publicly
and privately violate this law and coun-
tenance its violation by Others Instead
of using their wealth and influence to
create public opinion demanding law en-
iorcement, our business men of character