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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Lejeune Talks
on God, Guns
andMcanQgua

MILWAUKEE, Wis, May g.
IVA Goods ways in Nicaragua were
explained to the American Legion
byaMajor General Lejeune of the
United States marine corps last
night.
"The Nicaraguan people need
help" said the distinguished major
general. The audience, which had
just finished large supper in Mil
waukee, did not smile any more
than did the general.
"The marines are not, the major
general went on, that lump of
pathos beginning to rise in his
throat, "the marines are not in Mic
aragua to take the widows mite"
And, as the expectant audience
awaited his alternative report on
the canal railroad and mining
concessions they would take, the
pious devil-dog, having in mind the
story of the man who fell among
thieves, suddenly lept to this para
BILE. "The Nicaraguan people need
help, and the Marines" he voci-
ferated, raising one hand to heaven,
"are doing gods work in playing
the good Samaritan in Nicaragua.
The American Legion continued
to applaud him after he had sat
down.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Calf. Youth Organize
To Fight Militarism

BERKELEY, Calf, May 6.-Fol-
lowing a conference Of about 80 labor
and student delegates called to fight
against military training, definite
steps have been taken to organize the
California Council Against Military
Training. The organization has
adopted program against all forms
of militarization of the American
youth, including the Reserve Officers
Training Corps, the Citizens Military
Training Camps, the National Guard
and state militia. An executive com.
nittee of is was elected, some of
whom are prominent unionists
and campaign will be carried on
chiefly among workingclass organiza.
tions against militarism. In addition
state advisory committee is being
formed to include prominent anti
militarists throughout the state. At
tempts will be made to establish a
branch Of the organization in Los
Angeles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
KNAPP DEFE:NSETO
CONTINUE TODAY
More Relatives Testify
About Graft

ALBANY, N. Y, May 6.-Wit-
nesses propped up on pillows while
''too ill' to testify in court are be-
coming the fashion nowadays in trials
Of corrupt officials. Yesterday
Charles H. Smith, brother of Mrs
z. S. Knapp, former republican sec
rotary of state on trial here for grand
larceny of census funds testified in
his room at the Hotel Hampton.
Got Nothing, He Says.
The sum of SAIL was paid to him
according to the census records. But
on cross-examination he testified that
despite the fact that his name was
endorsed to the checks, he did not get
a cent of the proceeds.
The same procedure, apparently
had been followed in the case of sew
eral other relatives who testified
earlier in the week. Thus far, it has
been revealed that out of $4,000 in
checks made out to relatives, none
of whom performed any service in the
census, at least $4,000 of this sum
found its way to Mrs. Knapp.
One character witness testified for
Mrs. Knapp after the defense opened
late yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Terror Fails to Stop
Picketing by Miners
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
a number of scabs. The men are be-
ing forced to clean out their own
dead-work, lay their tracks and put
up their own props without extra pay.
The operators believe that they have
found the most effective way to wipe
out the union.
General attempts to expel all those
miners who went as delegates to the
Save-the-U Union convention in Pitts
burgh have failed, but president and
secretary of the Orient Local have
been ousted, together with the remain
ing delegates to the April l confer
ence. In spite of the. theft of the To-
cal charter and seal by the sub dis
trict and the forced election of Lewis
henchmen support Of the progressives
by the rank and file has paralyzed
the Fishwick gang so that they have
not yet dared to call meeting.
Attempts to expel the whole local at
Wilsonville, with a membership of
1000, which also sent delegates to
the Save-the- Union conference, have
completely failed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
REVEALS CRAFT IN
STREET CLEANING
Mcclellan Suppressed
Facts, Is Charge

/ That gigantic system of fraud in
the New York street cleaning depart
ment has existed for years is charged
by William ]. Lougheed, who was re-
Gently suspended. as foreman of the
street cleaning garage in the Bronx.
Over S10,000,000 of the city's money
has found its way into the pockets of
grating job-holders in the depart
ment, no says.
In statement made at the office
OF his attorney, |. M. Sackin.
Lougheed charges that District Attor-
ney Mcclellan of the Bronx refused to
listen to details about the whole net
work of graft and corruption prevail
ing in the street cleaning department
and lost interest as soon as he sue
ceedd in getting Lougheed indicted
Soon he will publish affidavits
Lougheed says, that will reveal graft
ing "in the removal of refuse by the
street cleaning department trucks
refuse which should be removed by
private trucks; thefts Of money from
the city through fraud in the delivery
of gasoline to the garages, shake
downs of persons who would save
money by having their ashes and
other waste removed by street
cleaning employees"
Lougheed says there is dummy
list" of DOVER 100 names which are
used for padding the payrolls in the
street cleaning department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
WILL INTENSITY
GREATEST DRIVE
EVER UNDERTAKEN
Formerly Pennsylvania
Ohio Organization
Special to The DAILY woRKEKo

Especial to The DAILY WORKEH.D
PITTSBURGH, May 6. - Duncan
Macdonald, former secretary-treas-
urer of the United Mine Workers Of
America in Illinois; James B. Mac
Lachlan, for several years leader OF
the Nova Scotia miners; John Brophy
for ten years president of District 2
Central Pennsylvania, and several
other well-known figures in the trade
union movement, head the executive
committee Of the National Miners
Relief Committee, formerly the Penn
sylvania- Ohio Miners Relief Commit
tee. The National Miners Relief Com
mittee is now giving relief to ESQ
local unions whose members are on
strike in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
West Virginia and Kansas, as well as
to striking unorganized miners.
The change Of name and the broad
ening out of the relief work was
decided at a recent meeting of the
executive committee of the Pennsyl-
vania- Ohio Miners Relief Committee
Great Need.
Alfred Wagenknecht, relief direc-
tor of the committee, in public in
terview, stated that the addition of
thousands of striking miners to the
number already out in Pennsylvania
and Ohio has made the enlargement
Of the relief committee necessary.
Wagenknecht was in charge of relief
for the great Passaic strike which
lasted over a year and during which
half a million dollars was raised to
feed and clothe the striking textile
workers and their dependents.
Powers Hapgood, John Watt of Illi-
nois, Davey Jones of Bicknell, In.
diana, Ben Davis of Bicknell, Indiana
and William Boyce of Clinton are
among those who have agreed to
serve as members of the executive Of
the National Miners Relief Commit
tee.
Wagenknecht declared that the
present relief needs activity are the
most widespread ever undertaken in
American labor history.
All workingclass groups will be
called on to render the utmost assist
ance to the striking miners. Women's
relief committees, youth committees
children's committees, Negro commit
tees, shop and factory committees and
collection groups in local unions Of
the American Federation of Labor are
included in the program of the Ma
tional Miners Relief Committee.
The number of organizers in the
field will be increased ten-fold Wag-
enknecht says and hundreds of addi-
tional striking miners will visit var
ious cities to assist. in tag days and
in house-to-house collections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
What If KNAPP
Took a Little
Honest Craft?

SOLIDARITY of sex was vigor-
ously advocated at a recent
meeting of the Women's Division of
the First Assembly District Of
Brooklyn called for the purpose of
giving financial aid to Mrs. Flor
ence E. S. Knapp, former repub-
lican secretary of state, who fell
from the paths of rectitude.
She is on trial in Albany now
charged with merely using part of
the S1,200,000 census fund of 1925
for her own uses.
Refreshments were served at the
meeting which was presided over by
Mrs. Bessie Crater, chairman of the
women's division. Speakers at the
meeting, according to fugitive re-
ports, quoted the Bible and other
historical documents to prove that
Mrs. Knapp was victim of cir
cumstances.
In fact, one of them declared, it
was because of her unfamiliarity
with public affairs and not because
of dishonesty that she got into a
jam.
Some of the members seemed to
think that there was no more graft
in the work of the census than in
many other political positions" said
Miss Charlotte E. Leavett of so
Pineapple St., tolerant lady who
spoke. "Some of the members even
asserted that if Mrs. Knapp got a
little honest graft it was nothing
more than most politicians of the
male gender get" Miss Leavett
said, citing mitigating circum-
stances.
At the conclusion of the meeting
it was voted to send $50 to Mrs.
Knapp for the purpose of cheering
up her lawyer. A series of card
parties are being planned by the
Brooklyn ladies to help the defense
fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
By HARVEY O'CoNNoR.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May
N(FP) Rarely have textile barons
presented poorer case for" wage
reduction than in New Bedford,
where the manufacturers associa-
ton is trying to force a 10 per cent
cut on 10000 fine goods cotton
workers. Whatever may be the fl
nancial position Of the coarse goods
mills throughout New England, suf-
fering from southern competition,
authorities are well agreed that
there is no economic justification
for the New Bedford mill owners
savage slash at workers living
standards.
Labor Bureau, Inc, has made a
study of the local industry. This
investigation shows that 1927 was
the banner year for the city's fine
cotton cloth outputs hirtings, nov
city weaves, cotton-silk and cotton
rayon mixtures-and that 10 per
cent increase in output had been
registered over 1918, the previous
record year.
State labor department statistics
told the story of low earnings,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
'"CHARITY RELIEF"
OF LABOR Takers
TO CLOSE DOORS
Mill Committees Extend
Aid to More Strikers

CONTINUED from Page Ome)
clared that all it had in the treasury
was $65.25.
The Relief Station of the Textile
Mill Committees, are daily increasing
the amount of relief given out, to a
continually larger number Of strikers.
Picketing of the mill gates by hun
dreds of strikers still continues under
the leadership Of the Textile Mill
Committees. The Textile Council
heads are still refusing to permit
picketing of the mills despite the
fact that the mill committee pickets
prevented a small force of strike
breakers from entering the Whitman
Mill to complete a special order for
the mill owners, as they stated later
20 local papers.
Children Participate.
The strikers children organized in
to the Childrens' Strike Clubs are
participating daily in the picket
demonstrations. The Childrens' Clubs,
organized by the Mill Committees
and the Workers International Re-
lief, are receiving the whole-hearted
endorsement of the adult strikers.
They realize that children not under
standing the meaning of the strike,
and suffering from hunger, can be
one of the greatest forces for shatter-
ing the morale of a strike. Or
gained into clubs where, they are
taught class consciousness thew can
be just as great a power to maintain
solidarity. Especially as the schools
the children attend continually tell
them to tell their parents to stop
striking, as some of the children re-
ported at their clab meetings." the
childrens' parents point out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07


Broun, Pulitzer said that this "dis-
loyalty makes further association
with the World impossible"
This is the second time that Broun
has fallen out with his boss. The first
time occurred during the height of the
Sacco-Vanzetti agitation when the
World refused to print one of his
articles. On January 1, however,
Broun, unable to resist the $500 week.
~ which the new contract provided
returned to his desk. He received the
promise that his stuff would not be
censored Except where general poll
cies of the paper were concerned
Yesterday Broun in statement
ruefully complained that when he
tried to resign last August following
his Sacco-Vanzetti articles 'they
spoke to me of the sacredness of con-
tracts. Now the World, without no :
tice, has gruffly torn up the scrap OF
paper on the charge OF 'disloyalty'."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
Oil Magnate Excused" in Gigantic Oil Bribery

Harry f. Sinclair,
millionaire oil mag
nate, a0as recently
freed on charges Of
conspiracy after ecu
deace IN connection
avith the lease of Tea
pot Dome had piled
up against Tim. Photo
shows him Leaving
senate office building,
Washington, d. c.,
Nth one of his loa0-
gers, after testifyimg
before the Sc n at e
public lands commit
tee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

scription to the textile strikers of
New Bedford. The greatest effort
must be made to bring the unusual
cut rate offer which the DAILY
WORKER is making to bring the
workers press within the reach of
all the workers. The one dollar
subscription brings The DAILY
WORKER to every striker for two
months. Send a subscription to a
textile striker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
N. 7. Factory Payrolls
Hit Record Low Mark

ALBANY, N. Y, May 6.-Weekly
payrolls in the factories of New York
state were'lower during the first three
months of this year than for similar
period of any year since the industrial
depression of 1922, according to sta
tistics made public recently by State
Industrial Commissioner James A.
Hamilton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
1al Miners Relief Committee Aids 800 Local Unions in Coal Fields


Textile Mill Committees who are
organizing them for aggressive ac-
ton against their class enemies in
the strike, in spite of the attempts
of the corrupt union officialdom to
crush the workers spirit by re-
fusals to picket and failure to give
aid.
"The DAILY WORKER has been
a constant source of encouragement
and militant guidance to these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

strikers" the appeal goes on. "The
striking textile workers know that
The DAILY WORKER is the one
English labor daily which defends
them and their interests. They are
learning that their national labor
daily is fighting side by side with
them in their struggle against the
bosses.
Especial efforts must be made TO
bring the special one dollar sub
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

mills have been on strike for three
weeks" the appeal states. "These
workers are carrying on a most
militant struggle against the ten
per cent wage cut which the textile
barons have attempted to force
them to accept.
"Men, women and even the chill
dren have shown themselves one
hundred per cent solid behind the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

A special appeal for an energetic
drive for subscriptions to The
DAILY WORKER has just been re-
ceived from organizers among the
striking textile workers in New
Bedford.
Thirty thousand textile workers
from scores of New Bedford textile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07

him a special de-
livery letter Satur-
day telling him SO
a f t er he r e a d
Broun's w e e k ! y
article in The Ma
ton in which he
urged the estab-
lishment- of "a libe-
raj paper'and criti-
cized the World
for its vacillating
editorial policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
POPULATION OF CANADA.

OTTAWA, May 6.-The population
Of Canada was 9,519,000 on June 1,
1927, according to an estimate made
by the Dominion Bureau Of Statistics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-07
BROUN Gets THE
CATE ONCE MORE
World Says S500-a- Week
Writer Is "Disloyal'

Haywood Broun, columnist for the
New York World has again lost his
job. Ralph Pulitzer, his boss, wrote
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Ell COMANCHO'S CAMPFIRE
STORIES.


Perhaps you have heard. either dur
ing the day or, more likely, at night,
the gable of flock of wild geese high
up above the world, flying north or
south. Have you ever wondered-as
most persons have-how these geese
find their way across thousands of
miles of sky and never miss their
destination?
These Spring and Autumn flights
of the birds, north In the Spring and
south in the Autumn, are the regular
yearly migrations between their VIM
ter quarters in the South and their
breeding grounds in the North, with
two or three thousand miles in be-
tween. Many people say that lin
stinct" Is what guides the flocks, but 1t
is hard to give good definition OF in
stinct unless you just call it sense"
which means very little.
Birds are no fools, and they have
lot more common sense than most
people give them credit for, as men
who spend their lives studying nature
know from their observations. The
facts Of these yearly flights are as fol-
lows, taking the wild goose as an
example of what all migrating water
fowl do.
Let us look in on the tide flats at
the mouth of the Yukon River, where
thousands of geese nest every year,
and where the young geese learn to
fly before they start south in the Fall.
This northern country is very cold in
Winter, and has a short, hot Summer,
so that vegetable life gets late start
in the Spring and must grow very
rapidly to blossom, seed and ripen be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

fore the early frost kills it and ends
the yearly cycle. The young geese
are Matched here early in the season,
so they are ready to eat the green
sprouts of the river delta vegetation
by the time it has pushed through the
sun-warmed mud.
The young birds are great eaters,
and they grow very fast, soon learn.
ing to associate the smell Of hot mud
with the smell and taste of their food.
Almost before you know 1t they are
beginning to use their wings and are
able to fly short distances for food
which is beginning to be less plentiful
by this time. Then every day haStenS
the end of the season, while food be-
comes scarcer and Scarcer and the
birds must fly farther and fartlmr to
find it.
By the time they can fly well,
frost comes to the Yukon fats and
food is almost at the vanishing point.
Then comes day with warm south
wind, bringing the old, familiar smell
of hot mud, which the geese asso-
ciate with the idea of food. And they
are hungry. So they rise into the air
and travel against the wind to find the
place where that good hot mud and
food smell is coming from, and keep
going south until they find 1t.
When the cold follows them south.
they repeat their southern flight, end
at last reach their Winter quarters,
where there is a supply of food that
will last through the cold weather.
And that's all there is to it!
(Read the ways of Mica, the coyote,
in FL Comancho's next story
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

all the officers in British uniform, read
lily gave the news.
THAT rebel Paul Jones Is expected to
land every day." said the pilot. HE
Is the greatest pirate that ever was,
and ought to be hanged"
"And where would you hang me?"
asked Jones.
The pilot, suddenly sensing the truth,
dropped to his knees and begged for
his life.
Get up" said Jones. II won't hurt
you We've got better use for you"
On September is the American
squadron was seen from Edinburgh as
it sailed into the Firth. Visiting in the
town was lad who witnessed the fright
of the inhabitants In later years he
was known as Sir Walter Scott A new
panic had seized Scotland, and White
haven was now certain it would not
survive second raid.
The Earl of Sandwich, the English
Admiralty's Jenny Twitcher," dashed
this note off to Capt, Francis Reynolds:
For Gods sake get to sea instantly
If you can take Paul Jones you
will be as high in the estimation of
the public as If you had beat the COM
bined fleets"
But gale arose, against which the
little ship beat in vain and which sank
one of Jones prizes. His associate
captains took alarm. They pointed out
that the whole country was now
aroused, they were laden with prison.
ers, and they must get back to their
prizes. Jones yielded and in disgust
shaped his course southwark for the
Texel He steered directly for Flam-
borough Head. which had been given
as rendezvous to the Alliance and
Cert. This headland projects far out
from, the east coast of England. On its
north side rests the port and town Of
Scarborough, which did not again see
an enemy squadron until a German
one bombarded it In the course OF the
World War in 1915.
Jones ships chased and took sew
eral prizes, and then on quiet after
noon they sighted large feet of mer-
chantmen coming from the Baltic.
These fed disclosing heavy ship of
war and an armed sloop. Jones at
once made for the large ship and
drove the Bon Homme Richard be-
tween her and the land. 1t was EVIL
dent there was going to be battle, and
crowds hurried to the shore to see 1t.
In this northern latitude the dusk fell
slowly and the evening was clear, lu-
cent and tranquil. ..,
(Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11
Subtracting Easy.

The mind reader, who can tell your
name by merely seeing your initials
on a paper, has nothing on the person
who Is able to pull this clever subtrac-
ton stunt. Rarely can an audience
tell how it is done, and when you
work it they'll all think you have a
magical mind.
Show the group you wish to play
the stunt on how they must do their
subtraction problem. Write a number
on chart or blackboard and under
meath it the reverse of the number
1t may be anything less than thou
sand, but should have three digits
Should the reverse be larger than the
first number. put it above. At any
rate, subtract the smaller from the
larger.
Then tell each in the group to take
q different number, subtract the re-
verse and then tell you the last digit
in the number, which Is the answer
You will Immediately be able to tel
them the entire answer.
Here is the solution to the trick
When a reverse number is subtractec
from its original the middle digit OF
the answer is always nine. The sum
of the first and last digits also is nine
Given the last number, you can easily
tell by subtracting what the first is
Try some numbers and you'll md Il
always works.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

Soldering today isn't the messy job
It used to be. Now we can go to the
hardware store, buy a small can Of
wire solder with the fiux already inside
and with 1t do all sorts Of soldering
without danger to clothes.
In fact, you can accomplish the work
with nothing more than match, but
small torch will be better. For in
stance, If you can get an old brass
shotgun shell this viii be ideal. Fill
the inside with a thick wick (rolling q
do nicely, then soak it with alcohol
This will burn for quite a while.
One of the first things to make will
be some toy, because you can use old
cans for the purpose. The drawing
shows one toy that is easy to make
Get picture of rabbit or some other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

Here's simple little puzzle that you
can make in about two minutes.
Take piece of cardboard and cut
out the letter z. Then cut it into five
pieces on straight lines. and shuttle up
these pieces. The trick is to try to
put them back together so that they
form the letter again. 1t sounds easy,
doesn't 1t? But 1t may not seem so
easy when you try it!
If you don't wish to use the letter q.
try any other letter, cutting in the
same way. Some of the letters, you
will find, are much easier than others,
but you can have real fun with A, M,
w, N and few more if you cut them
right.