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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Cooperative Course Is
To Be Conducted at
Workers School Branch

Those interested in the co-opera-
tive movement who want to have a
better understanding of its work,
will be offered an opportunity by the
cooperative branch of the Workers
School in the coming spring term,
when a course in "The Cooperative
Movement" will be given by George
Halonen, one of the leaders of the
cooperative movement in America.
He is head of the educational de-
partment of the Co. operative Central
Exchange, member of the executive
committee of. the Cooperative League
Of America and delegate to the re-
cent International Cooperative Con-
gress.
This course will consist of three
lectures to be given on Thursday and
Friday evenings and Sunday after
noon, Feb. IL, Is and Is respectively,
at the headquarters of the Corpora
tive Branch of the Workers School,
200 Bronx Park.
Other courses to be given in the
spring term of the Cooperative
Branch are six classes in elementary,
intermediate and advanced English,
with Sonia Ginsburg and Fanny Rep
lansky as instructors, course in
fundamentals Of Communism" and
one in the "history of American la
bor."
Those who wish to register for any
these courses, or for the lectures on
the cooperative movement, may do
so at the office Of the school, at the
Bronx Park address.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
FASCISTS DOOM
$500 TO EXILE

Despite statements of the Italian
fascists that there are only few
hundred exiles on the Lipari Islands,
recent reports from Italy estimate
that the actual number of political
prisoners banished to the archipelago
is at least 1900. These are by no
means all the Italian political pris-
oners who are suffering for the
"crime" of attacking the dictatorship
OF Mussolini. At least 10000 are re-
ported to be suffering in the fascist
jails.
Conditions on the islands are de-
scribed as unspeakable. There is no
drinking water, meat or vegetables.
all of which have to be brought from
the mainland. The exiles are housed
in ohlong barracks, containing in some
instances from fifteen to thirty pris-
oners. All quarters are terribly
cramped.
Prisoners may receive and write
only two letters month and these
are subject to the censor They are
permitted to read only fascist news
papers and literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30


sentatives of the All-India National
ist Congress, the National Liberal
Federation, the National Home Rule
League and the Hindu Sabha.
A suggestion was made at the Con-
ference that an Indian Commission
consisting of elected members from
all the legislatures, be appointed to
parallel the Simon Statutory Com
mission. 1t was proposed that the
Commission travel turnout India, as
sembling information which it would
report to the All-India Nationalist
Congress
The All-Party conference recon
venes at Delhi on February ~, for
the purpose of calling an All-India
Convention.
The ferment is great thruout India
as the date of the arrival of the
Simon Commission draws nearer,
Despite the threat of the govern
ment that it will tolerate. no strikes
for political purposes" plans are be-
ing actively carried forward for a
general strike when the Commission
lands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
WAR LORDS SHIP
GRAIN ABROAD AS
PEASANTS STARvE
Lives of -Four Million
Endangered in North

CANTON, Jan. 29,-Communist
troops with the aid of armed peasants
have taken two villages on the north
ern border of Kwantung, according to
reports received here.
The Communist troops marched
south from Human province, the re-
ports state.
TSING-TAO, Jan. 29.-With four
million peasants in Shantung and
Chilli on the verge of starvation, the
militarist authorities are do
ing nothing to remedy the situation
for which they are generally regarded
as being primarily responsible.
At Dairen in Manchuria (Which is
but twenty hours from this port) are
huge cargoes Of grain destined for
Japan and Europe. These shipments,
if diverted to this port, could keep
alive thousands of dying peasants,
The food shortage in Shantung is
generally attributed to excessive
taxation by the militarists andeto the
confiscation of crops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
PILSUDSKI FEARS
LEFT SUCCESSES
Wholesale Arrest of
LODI Workers

WARSAW, (Bv Mail).--With the
approach of the Polish general cleo
ton, Marshal Pilsudski, the fascist
dictator, is beginning to show that
he is mindful of the big successes
wen last year in the municipal cleo
tions at Warsaw, LODI, and other in
lustrial centres, by the militant
workers Left" Party.
In every big working class area
t actually beat the old-established
polish Socialist Party" Up. P. 81,
which, itself a bulwark of Pilsudski
and fascism, is at the same time one
of the leading parties of the Second
International.
After last years elections, Pilsud-
ski showed his fine freedom from
democratic "prejudices" by simply
declaring null and void the votes cast
for workers Left" candidates. In
preparing for the general elections,
he is trying to anticipate matters by
suppressing all forms of agitation
against the MISUNDERSTANDING,
not only the working class move
.ment, but the peasantry, the subject
peoples of Poland, etc.
Thus, 20 workers-many of them
youths under 10 years of age-have
been tried at LODI on the charge OF
constituting a local group of the
Young Communist League (which is
illegal in Poland) Three have beer
sentenced to 10 months, eleven to Il
months, six to years Imprisonment
Voyevudsky, former peasant M
p, has had his house raided, and al
copies of the election manifesto is
sued by new Peasant League seized
Numerous students of Warsaw Uni
versity have been arrested and trans
ported, in chains without trial, to the
fortress of Czenstochowa. Other ar
rests-on the charge of distributing
Communist election leaflets-take
place in Warsaw daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
AUTO PLANT LAYS
OFF 40 WORKERS

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 29.---Be-
tween one hundred and one hundred
and twenty die and pressmen have
been laid off at the Studebaker Au Q
Plant No. 8 as a result Of the intro
duction of new machinery. The new
machines which are part Of the
naturalization" process in the
Sludebaker plants, enable two men to
do the work which forty We're en-
ployed to do before.
The workers who have been laid off
by the Studebaker plant can be seen
tramping the streets of Detroit as a
new contingent in the army Of the
unemployed that is daily growing
larger as factory after factory "econ-
omizes" by cutting down its workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
BOMBAY textile
STRIKE SPREADS
May Involve 10000,
Report Says

LONDON, (By Notwithstanding
to reports from the Indian News Ser
vice the strike of Bombay textile
workers is spreading rapidly and is
likely to involve the 10000 workers
in Bombay textile mills. A number
of cotton bales stored up by mill own
efs in anticipation of the strike have
been mysteriously set on fire.
The strike started as the result of
the attempt of the employers to in
tensify the speed up system. British
police broke up workers demonstra-
ton soon after the outbreak of the
strike.
The employers have been planning
wage reduction for some months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
10TH BIRTHDAY
OF USSR UNIONS

MOSCOW, Jan. 29-The tenth an
niversary of the Central Council of
Soviet Trade Unions was celebrated
on Sunday.
Trade union papers published ar
ticles and statements from most
prominent trade union leaders en-
phasizing the role of trade unions in
the task of construction in the Soviet
Union which make the Soviet trade
unions one of the principal supports
Of the proletarian dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Sentence Kiev Prior
For Organizing Plot
Against Soviet Union

MOSCOW, Jan. 29.-Found guilty
of espionage for Poland, Theophile
Skalsky, prior of the Kiev Cathedral
was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Among the charges made against
Skalsky was that he had sheltered
Polish spies in the Kiev Cathedral
who has crossed the frontier with
military information. He was also ac-
cused of having aided in the organi-
cation of secret group of Polish in
tellectuals in the Ukraine whose aims
were hostile to the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
May Stop Ship "Gifts"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The Sen
at has voted, 81 to 25, to require a
vote Of the U. S. Shipping
Board membership before any sale Of
government vessels to private in
terests should be legal. This rollcall
ended a long and heated controersy
over the Jones Bill, which was de-
signed to stop the virtual giving away
of government shipping at the order
of President Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Workers at Gibraltar
Strike Against Wage
Cut; Tie Up Vessels

LONDON, (By MaiD ALL coal la
borers at Gibraltar went on strike
yesterday, following the post g by
the Gibraltar coal merchants Of no
tees that wages of coal-heavers would
be reduced from February 1, says the
Central News.
Steamers in the port are conse-
quently unable to bunker, and depar-
lures may have to be postponed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
100000 FIRE NCH
TEXTILE: WORKERS
JOBLESS OR idle
EmployersBreak 8-Hour
Laws; Slash Wages

PARIS, Jan. 29-"Le Chomage"
has French textiles in its grip. 1t is
unemployment, and at the Paris head
quarters of the Unitary Textile
Workers Union they tell you that
: 100000 are jobless and an equal num-
Der on short time.
The union, which embraces textiles
and all branches of the clothing in
dustry, with 100000 workers, has
10000 organized. The conservative
union has from $4,000 to $4,000, de-
pending on the source Of information.
The Christian unions claim about the
same
French employers are playing havoc
with the legal 8-hour day. Inspectors
fail to notice that women work 8
hours a day Labor rules are openly
violated Wage reductions are re-
ported from the important northern
textile area on the Belgian side, from
Lyons, the great silk and rayon cen
ter, and in the wool regions, although
spinners average but dollar a day
and weavers 80 cents.
After metallurgy, textiles and
clothing constitute the biggest in
dustry of France. More than mill
ion workers are employed in and
around Paris in the service of world
fashion. Although the workers who
are organized are split into different
unions, employers by no means follow
their example. Cotton, wool and silk
manufacturers have their powerful
syndicates embracing nearly every
spindle and loom in France. These in
turn are grouped in such national or
CARNATIONS as the General Confedera-
ton of French Production and the
Federation OF Industry and Com
merce.
report Organizers.
r'raGci, u:lion problems bear a
superficial resemblance to Americas
i'll the presence OF large numbers OF
foreign workers. Tens vi thousands
Of Polish and Italian workers find jobs
in frenct, textile mills anu employers
do not hesitate &c take advantage OF
their ignorance Cf French conditions
to use these workers against the ma
tives. AS III America, uniCn ''aglta-
tors" among Poles anc Italians are
ruthlessly deporttd and in times Of
depression ultra-patriots join with
some more conservative unionists te
make life miserable for the "furrin-
ers"
Textile and clothing unions affilia.
ted with the Unitary Confederation Of
Labor merged three years ago ant
have found added strength in united
forced. Their main problem is to or
ganize their industries. The union is
at the head of scores of strikes each
year in defense of the S-hour day anc
wages. In Algeria, Frances rich
African province, the union is organ
izing colonial workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

refused by the president of the Amer
lean Farm Bureau Federation, who
was defending the company's bid as a
boon to the farmers. Norris offered
to amend his proposal in such a way
that the Cyanamid Co. would have
control of the nitrate plant while
leaving the power control for later
divvy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Norris Offers Muscle
Shoals to Cyanamid Co.
Free for Fifty Years
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-The sell

out of anothersena-
tor and the show
up of another cor
poration are sus-
pected in Senator
Norris proposal to
give the American
Cyanamid Co. a
fifty year f r e e
lease provided they
really manufacture
the cheap nitrates
they are promising
t h e farmers if
their M u S c | e S
Shoals bid is ac-
cepted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Toledo Has Two Lenin
Memorial Meetings

TOLEDO, Jan. 29.-Two Lenin
meetings held here during
the last week netted the Party sew
eral new members and considerable
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

sales of The DAILY WORKER and
Communist literature.
One meeting was held in Bulgarian
language, the other in English. Both
were well attended by an enthusiastic
crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30

out India on Febru-
airy 3rd when the
Simon Commission
lands in Bombay
was voted by an all
party conference at
Denares under the
aus p C e c of the
Working Committee
Of the Indian Ma
tionalist Congress.
The conference was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
IBANEZ DEAD.

MENTONE, France, Jan. 29.-Vin-
cente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish writer
and politician, died here yesterday of
pneumonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
INDIAN CONGRESS-
VOTES ST0PPAGE

LONDON, Jan. 10 (By MaiD.-A
complete cessation of all work thru
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
Arrest of Turkish
Workers Continued
LONDON (By maiD-The arrest of

workers and intel
lectuals C h a r G e d
wit h Communist
sympathies is be-
ing continued by
the Turkish Gov
eminent, Mustapha
Renal is making
an effort to halt
t h e growing in
fluence of the left
wing in industrial
centers.
The wave of ar
strike of CONSTANT
who re-
e a days wages to
fund
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15
TO FIGHT
EXTRACTION
Times staff Photo

Emil Mitchell, liking" of the
Mitchell gypsy tribe. arrested in
Providence, r. l., last night at the
request of local police, announced to.
day he will fight extradition proceed
ings, according to a telegram re-
ceived at police headquarters.
Mitchell is charged in warrant
held by Washington police with hav-
ing abducted his daughter, Mrs.
Julia Mitchell Osborne, of the 1900
block of Shannon Pl. N. f.
After being arrested in Providence
Mitchell consulted an attorney, and.
upon his advice, informed police he
would not return voluntarily to
Washington. Local authorities were
asked not to send an escort for
Mitchell until the extradition ques-
ton Is settled.
This is the latest development in
the stormy love affair of William
Osborne and the gypsy kings pretty
daughter. They were married sew.
eral months ago, over king"
EmiPs violent objection, and have
resisted the chiefs efforts to have
the marriage annulled.
The king and his tribe left Wash.
ington several days ago. and at the
same time Mrs. Osborne vanished
from her husbands home. Osborne
told police the gypsies had threat
ened to abduct the princess who
had violated tribal law by marrying
outside the gypsy clan. He OBJ
tanned a warrant for Mitchell's ar.
rest.
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overturned.


The two brothers, Frank, %, and
Charles, 1S, who lived in the 400
block of Elliott st. N. W., and four
companions, had spent the afternoon
rowing up and down the river in a
hired skiff. The party had gone to
Chain Bridge, where, it was said,
some of the party had gone in swim
ming.
Thrown Out OF Boat
On the return trip to Fletcher's
Boat House, about a mile below
Chain Bridge, and the place where
they had rented the boat, the six
youths began the age-old game OF
rocking the boat" Suddenly, the
boat gave a violent lurch and sent
it's six occupants into the cold waters
of the Potomac.
Cries of help were heard as far
away as Conduit Road. Four of the
boys-Clarence Ware, of the 1900
block of Thirty-fourth st. N. W.;
Arthur Davis, of the 5000 block of
Cambridge Pl. N. w.; Milton Gar
rison, of the $500 block of M st. N.
W., and William Dunningan, of the
1000 block of jefferson st. N. W.
had no trouble getting themselves
to safety. The Bromley boys sank
from sight.
Charles body was found about 20
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15

Fort Stanton, situated on the
heights beyond Anacostia, was one
of the principal forts in the chain
Of forty-eight which formed the de-
lenses OF Washington during the
Civil War.
1t commanded the approach TO
the Navy Yard. Arsenal and the
Anacostia and Pennsylvania Avenue
bridges. 1t was built in September
of 1851 and materially strengthened
after the Battle of Bull Run.
The old revetments and the bomb
proof tunnels are still there. The
site is partially occupied by the
wooden church and parish school of
the Catholic church of Our Lady Of
Perpetual Help. A baseball field
now occupies the old parade ground
The ridge on which it stands is 800
feet above Washington IT was
named in honor of r.. NJ. Stanton
Lincoln's secretary of war.
The fort which was once con
sidered impregnable would now he
as nothing for the airpIanes which
soar above it from Boiling Field,
preparing for the next war. During
the Civil War 1t was equipped with
thirteen smooth bore guns, one
rigled gun and two mortars.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15
ESI[ENT
EXPECTED
SIGN


After many years Of con.
rOversy with employers, Dis
trict employees are about to get
The protection Of d workman :
eompensation law.
The Blaine Compromise
W orkman i Compensation Bill
rs awaiting President Cool
lge i signature today, follow
ing its passage late yesterday
by the House. The bill has
already been passed BY the
Senate.
The Blaine bill is q compromise
between the Well-known Underhin
md Fitzgerald measures, which have
Baked each other for e. period Of
several years.
The bill provides that the Long.
Hi10remens Compensation Act OF
1927 shall apply in respect to the
eakh or injury OF any employe OF
Mn employer In the District, irre-
pective of where the. injury or
heath occurs.
Insurance Privately Held
The provisions OF - bill will be
administered by the United States
Employee Compensation Commits
Eei0El3 and che insurance will be held
bv nrivate Insurance. companies
pIoyers yielded IN their desire
a. have the act administered BY the
District superintendent BIZ Insurance.,
and the employees yielded IN their
desire to have the Insurance fund
held BY the Government. rather than
Dv private companies.
Provisions Of the bill win not apply
10 injury or death Of railroad en-
1Dioyes, crews of vessels, Federal em-
pI0ves or employees engaged In agri-
cultural or domestic work.
Effective July
IL President Coolidge signs the
kaneasure as he Is expected to do, the.
bin viii become law July j.
It was brought up In the House
yesterday, under suspension OF the
rules. BY Representative Charles il.
|UnderhIll OF Massachusetts, and.
passed without discussion. Repre-
tentative Underhill Is author Of the
biIl bearing his name, which gave
way To the compromise measure.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15

Verdict Ordered For
Man In $4,000
Love Suit

Justice jennings Bailey In Cir
cult Court today directed the jury
to return a verdict in favor Of
james I. Fowler, of the 400 block
OF M Street Northwest. who had
been sued for $4,000 damages by
Mrs. Anna C. Koontz. Of Bedford,
Pa. for an alleged breach of
promise to marry her.
Through Attorney Need h a. m
Turnage. Fowler had contended
that at the time of the alleged
proposal on which the breach of
promise action was maintained,
he was a married man living with
his family. and that the plaintiff
was a married woman at the
time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15
Mrs. Fitch to Give Sons
Wrench to Navy Museum

The wrench with which the late
Lieut.. Graham N. Fitch. 81 vic
tim. tapped messages to those at
tempting to recue him and five
sailors In the torpedo room of the
sunken submarine. will be pre-
scented Thursday by his mother.
Mrs. Graham d. Fitch of this city
to the Naval Academy Museum.
Annapolis, Md. The wrench was
recovered from the submarine when
1t was raised from Provincetown
Harbor. Mass. where it was rammed
and sunk December II by the
United Coast Guard cutter Pauld.
ing
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-15
PROBE IN DEATH.
OF D. c. Filler

Al board Of investigation today
probably will Investigate the death
yesterday Of Lieut.. Frederick Row
land Buse. naval aviator, who
plunged into the Potomac River, off
the Naval Research Laboratory,
Bellevue, ID. C..
Lieutenant Buse. flight officer at
the Naval Air Station. Anacostia,
was on practice flight, when, ac-
cording to eye-witnesses. his plane
dropped flat onto the water from a
height of about 100 feet. while
travelling at high rate of speed.
Privates G. M. Birligt and G. r..
Spring, of the Harbor Police.
dragged for the body and found 1t
near where the plane had struck
the water. The body was taken to
the norgue, and the wrecked plane,
its engine missing, was towed to
the air station.
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TON Pl1I tn AID I'D T. WORKERS TwoGn
Fid fo
.WOGirlS in
Fight for
Love of
One Man

Cav Leonard, young, beautiful,
spoiled darling Of fortune 10
loved By Alan POmer0y, worth
while young man. She ID fasci.
mated. however, by Jerry Davis,
q young man Of doubtful reputa.
tion. Jerry, although attracted
ia GAY, falls in love with Dolly
Quinn, who has taken q job In =
cabaret to earn money for art
lessons. Dolly despises both her
lob and Derry, and finally obtains
. position ushering In q tbeater.
There she meets Nick Standish. .
young newspaper reporter. Dolly
cOnfides her love Of art to Nick.
and the reporter promises to help
her climb the ladder Of success.
Nick. however, warns Dolly that
ne Is married to the Paris fashion
correspondent Of his paper. In
the meantime, Gay has been
wInisked away from the fast set she
travels. with, and has left for
Florida with her parents.
Dolly II persuaded by Nick to
enter the Atlantic City beauty
contest. She is selected ~ Miss
Manhattan"
Gay returns North and goes to
Atlantic City, where an ultra
modern" house party is staged.
Dolly also goes tn Atlantic City 20
participate In the beauty contest.
NOW CONTINUE
The candidates went up in
groups of ten or a dozen at
a time. There was a New York
group, a New England, q
Middle Atlantic, a Western
and a Southern group. Dolly's
division was summoned first.
In the midst of what seemed
to her a painful, deadly hush,
they mounted the steps to
the platform and filed into
the wings to shed their
wraps.
Two minutes Of intensive
Drinking. Two minutes Of
low, imprisoned argument :.
"You go first. - "No, you'll,
We'll, somebody's got tor
why not Miss Bronx, she s
done this before.
Then they filed back.
Each girl was arrayed in a
fitted, knitted bathing suit,
long stockings and high
heeled slippers, and each
wore her ever-present white
satin ribbon, slung from her
shoulder to her hip. There
were black suits and white
suits and yellow and blue
and red. There were white
legs and black legs and tan
legs. They were curls and
hobs and braids and locks
flowing free. The heels of
"a marching slippers ex-
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