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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-20
RIVER FORECAST

The river will continue ta fall
very slowly from about San Bcnito
down and remain practically sta
tionary elsewhere during tie neat
few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Workers Party Achievements and Weaknesses Reported BY Jay Loo

age not more than 65 to 70 per cent
of the active Party membership is
paid up in it's dues. l say we would
not exaggerate. considering the I'M
employment situation. For instance
take the Cleveland district with the
heavy cut in our ranks there; in so
far as dues payment is concerned,
the Cleveland district shows only II
exempt stamps. There are several
hundred Party members in the Gil re-
land district who are not registered
as exempt stamp buyers--yet are
just as good active members as the
others but whom we can not and will
not, and never will drop as members
merely because they are not taking
dues stamps. They are unemployed.
"This strengthening of the Party
apparatus is shown also in the I'M
provement in the center thru it's in
creasing direction of Party activities
and attention to details--yes, the
smallest details of the Party work.
Secondly, the labor party and cleo
tion campaigns. Here we may say
that in certain districts the Party
has shown increasing vitality. Take
the situation in the New York eltc-
tions. Also, the fact that for tie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

first time the Party here ran in the
industrial section of the New York
district, the most industrial section,
New Jersey. The situation in San
Francisco where our Party received
vote bigger than the socialist par
ty must also be cited. Take the stu
alton in Minnesota where our Party
is the driving force in the labor party
movement.
Thirdly, substantial Roadway has
been made in the trade union work.
With the help Of the Party there was
held a national conference Of the left
wing for the first time in five years
in the United States. The resistance,
successful resistance, and fighting
power of the left wing in the needle
trades is due primarily to the direc-
tion and activities Of the Party. The
improvement of the Party work in
the trade unions is further indicated
in the Improvement Of the trade
union press.
"A few words about the mining
campaign. This is the basic trade
union campaign Of the Party. The
Central Committee considers that no
resources are too great, no sacrifices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

"With this as a background what
has the Party done? What are the
tasks of the Party? l do not desire
to elaborate at length. You comrades
here being the most active forces in
the Party know very well of the re-
cent activities Of our Party. | want
merely to enumerate them.
First of all the strengthening of
the Party organization. The Central
Committee considers it a task of
major Importance to build and
strengthen the Party apparatus. If
we do not utilize this present oppor-
tunity we certainly will not be able
to do it when the attacks against
our Party will be of much more
fundamental character. In this res
pect the strengthening Of the Party
apparatus is indicated in the follow
ing ways;
despite severe unemployment and
the lockout of the miners we have
today close to 10000 dues paying
members in the Party, or larger
number than those in our Party when
we first went to the job Of reorgan-
izing it on the basis Of shop and
street nuclei.
st is my opinion that on the aver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

are too great for us, in mobilizing
the Party to the fullest extent in the
mining campaign. Already we have
a new period in the mining struggle.
Comrade Foster will analyse this at
length in his report, but let me state
that our Party is showing increas-
ing results in the miners union.
I'm Colorado we have not only
checked certain dangerous policies
on the part of the dominant /. w. w.
leadership but we have also laid the
basis for the first time of building
Party units there.
"A few words about Russian recog-
milton and defense. The trade union
delegations which have sailed from
this country do not compare with
the German or British delegations
but certainly the objective conditions
in the American labor movement are
not comparable to the conditions and
the degree of class consciousness in
Germany or Great Britain. Our Par
ty has been an instrumental force
in driving the progressives and the
left wingers to make success out
of the moves for delegations and
has in this fashion served to make
the question Of Russian recognition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

and the popularization Of the Soviet
Union a basic, living force in the
trade union movement.
Unemployment: In certain local
tiles we have done well. For instance,
in the Cleveland district:
Fighting the war danger; in the
case of Nicaragua and in the case
of the protests against the massacres
in Canton our Party has achieved
some results.
'The Young Workers League, with
the help of our Party, is today,
positively on the road of constructive
and effective mass work. / cite it's
anti-militarist activities and partic-
ularly its activities in the mining
campaigns.
"The foreign born, the women's
work, the Negro work-here we have
certain small achievements.
"In the fight against injunctions
the Party has responded well. as has
been indicated by resolutions adopted
in many local unions and in the dis
tribution Of a half million leaflets.
"The theological Strengthening of
the Party must be emphasized not
only In the effective campaign
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
SEVENTH INSTALLMENT.
CONTINUED from Yesterday

FINALLY, in speaking of bourgeoi-
sification we must have in mind not
only its material but also its ideol-
ogical expression. theological bour-
geoisification is very great in the
United States. Not only the labor
aristocracy, but the overwhelming
majority of the American working
class is ideologically bourgeoisified
BY the effects of Imperialism. Notice
the big mass following Of a working
class character that the republican
and democratic parties have. Notice
the weakness of the labor party
movement. Notice the weakness of
our own Party.
"But the outlook for the effects
Of imperialism, continuing the way
they have in recent years, is not as
bright as it previously was. America
Today is not alone in the world mar
ket as England was. There are also
increasing revolutionary movements
amongst the colonial masses. And we
never can overlook the basic effect OF
the existence Of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
BANK BUSINESS
SINKS rapid Y

The condition of $40 reporting
member banks of the Federal Reserve
System for the week ending Febru-
airy 8 shows decreases for the week
Of $61 100000 in loans and discounts,
of $22,000,000 in investments, Of
5000, 100000 in net demand deposits
and of 100000 in demand deposits,
indicating a general slackening of
business from the previous week.
At the same time, however, Dor
rowings from the Federal Reserve
increased by S42,00O.0OO above that
of the week ending February /. the
principal increases being $13,000,00O
p~~+.,- 7i~fri"t and S11 ,000. 900
each in the New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia districts, which indicates
that although there is marked de-
crease in loans from the member
banks, the economic situation Of the
country is such that many banks are
preparing to meet any excessive de-
mands for withdrawal of deposits in
case of panic that may produce runs
on the banks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Wilbur Fights for Four
Billion : 2llayflNavy Plan

and that Immediately after the Gem
eva conference we were called upon
TO determine and to declare naval
policy. This declaration wassmade at
the Black Hills, IS. D., latter a con-
ference with Coolidge) following the
Geneva conference"
Chewing Gum Gag Revived.
During She course of his speech,
Secretary Wilbur fell back on the
old debating gag of comparing "pre-
paredness costs" with expenditures
for chewing gum, etc, going the high
school debators one better by COM
pairing the new navy program with
the sum Of s75o,0o0,O00 spent during
1925 for candy in the United States,
and the $1,S25, 100000 spent for cos
metics and other Identification dur
ing the same year, adding that there
are times when gun powder is more
valuable than face-powder
The secretary failed however to
quote the comparative figures as TO
the proportion of the national income
spent for war preparation, as against
the small sum spent for education.
The secretary Of the navy ended
his speech with illusions to the, great
wealth of the United States which
must be protected, with a boost for
Hoover as the next president, and a
final argument for competitive naval
building with Great Britain in the
statement:
"The British rubber monopoly would
have taken 81 ,O0O, 100000 from us in
the last two years if it had not been
for our secretary of commerce"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

against the Trotsky Opposition, but
also in the setting up of workers
schools, the national training school
and the growth Of the number of
open forums turnout the districts. I
think that our Party can be very
proud of the fact of not only tho
overwhelming majority but almost
unanimously the Party has been on
the side Of the Central Committee Of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, has followed the Comintern
line against the anti-Leninist, Men
shevist, Trotskyist line.
"In agricultural work we have
made slight Roadway in improving
our organization and propaganda
helping to change the monthly into
weekly organ.
PARTY unification: Great Roadway
has been made by the Party in con-
solidating its forces and unifying its
ranks on the basis of the resolution
of the last convention. In the center
the tendency of disappearance Of old
group lines has been marked. The
process Ii not complete. The pro-
cess has to be pushed with increasing
vigor.
TIE - ssatinued.)
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is characteristic of how closely the
proposed program is following the
British building.
'"The 5-5-3 ratio already gives to
us the striking power. estimated
to be the exact equivalent. :. of the
striking power of Great Britain's bat
tie fleet. 1t is superior to the strik-
ing power of the battleships, or CAPT
tai ships of the japanese fleet in the
ratio of 5-5-3. .on this side of the
Atlantic or on this side of the Pa
cific, the battleship power or the
capital ship power of America would
be superior to Great Britain or ia
pam"
at is not in striking power that
we are deficient, but in VISION" Will
bur went on to say, referring to the
building of scouting cruisers, airplane
carriers and submarines, which is the
field in which the secretary stated
we are weaker than Great Britain.
Geneva Conference Snag.
AS further evidence that the entire
program is competitive one with
Great Britain, Wilbur stated that it
was the extension of the building in
these auxiliary crafts "the eyes of the
navy" which had been the basis for
the Geneva conference, and evidently
also the snag which broke it up:
"The Geneva conference was called
by the president of the United States
for the express purpose Of extending
the treaty ratio to auxiliary craft,
cruisers, destroyers and submarines"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
TRIAL IN INDIANA
FURTHER EXPOSES
XII KLUx POLITICS
McCray Got Parole to
Keep Still

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. ID. - Halt
ing of the testimony of ex-dragon
Stephenson of the Indiana Klan after
he was already in the witness stand,
ready to substantiate charges against
his former friend. Gov. Ed Jackson,
who he helped to elect to office, was
accomplished today by the defense in
the bribery trial of the Indiana gov
ernor.
Further sensational developments
in this trial involving vacated pub
lie office, Ku Klux Khan politics, and
the silencing of former governor,
were promised in the announcement
that former Governor McGray is ex-
pected to testify against his successor.
Indiana Dictator Takes Stand.
D. G. Stephenson, former Grand
Dragon of the Khan, who is now con-
fined to life Imprisonment for the
murder of an Indianapolis girl, took
the stand today to testify against Gov.
Jackson, who Stephenson has charged
used his money and car in 1924 in a
successful race for governorship.
The former Khan leader and car
Of Indiana politics was only allowed
to make few short answers to ques-
tons by the prosecution when the de-
tense stopped further testimony by
charging that he was not competent
to testify against alleged conspiracy
to bring about the appointment, thru
bribery, of Games E. Mcdonald, Khan
favorite, as Marion County prosecu-
tor.
This vacated office is the basis of
the states charges, the allegation be-
ing that Gov. Jackson attempted to
buy the office from former Gov Nc
Cray, for $4,000 in 1928, and the
stopping of the testimony by Stephen
son expected to substantiate this
charge is considered serious blow
to the prosecution.
Expose More Corruption.
Great interest is centering around
the expected appearance of former
Gov. McGray on the sand, since one
of the charges by the state is that
fear kept McGray silent about the al
legged bribery in 1928. The State.
charges he feared the power of the
Khan.
The testifying of this former gov
ernor against his successor, will be
especially revealing as to corrupt Ku
klux politics, since it is claimed that
MeGray was kept silent for years I'M
der threats by Gov. Jackson that he
would not grant his parole from the
Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta where
he was serving term for corruption
at the time.
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4, 10000 Estimate of q. S.
Unemployed; Crisis Sharpened

former supplies only one meal in the
evening, yet more than double the US
ual number Of hungry men waited all
day.
The waterfront sections have been
particularly hit by the crisis. At the
Munson Line at the foot of Wall ST.
and East River fully eight hundred
workers waited for part time jobs.
The usual number is about fifty or
one hundred. At the United Fruit
Lines, pier Is, East River more than
thousand men crowded the docks
for a chance at some employment.
New Jersey Workers.
Even worse is the condition at the
Jersey side of the Hudson River. At
the docks of the Dollar Line in Jersey
City, fully 5000 men yesterday morn
ing besieged the offices for work
which would enable them and in the
majority Of cases, no doubt, their
children and families to obtain food.
The New York Council for the I'm
employed announced yesterday that
plans are being perfected to force at
tention to the crisis which is becoming
nationwide. An unemployment mass
meeting under the auspices of the
Workers (Communist) Party will be
held today at 101 West 9th St. H.
M. Wicks, of the DAILY WORKER
will be the principal speaker. The
meeting is called for 2 p. m.
Announcement was made by the
Hotel and Restaurant Workers branch
of the Amalgamated Food Workers
hat it was calling large, unem-
ployment and organization meeting to
day at 2:30 p. m. at 113 E. 14th ST.
Good speakers in English and in Ger
Esata1a viii address the meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
MINEOLA APPEAL
HEARD in COURT
Defense Counsel Claim
Prejudice

An appeal for new trial for the
nine leading members of the Joint
Board, Furriers' Union, who were
sentenced at Mineola, l.. l., last
spring, to serve from two and half
to five years in prison was heard
yesterday in the Appellate Division
Court, Part 2, Borough Hall Build
ing, Brooklyn. The decision is to be
handed down in the near future by
the five judges of the court.
The attorneys for the union, Frank
P. Walsh and Henry Uterhart, in
asking the court to reverse the deci-
sion of the Mineola courts, based
their arguments on the prejudiced
atmosphere under which the original
trial was held. They pointed out the
manner in which the jury was
charged, the methods employed by
the Judge in preventing Walsh from
conducting certain cross-examination
made by the defending counsel.
False Testimony Admitted.
The district attorney admitted that
Barney Bassof who turned states
witness, repeatedly gave false testi-
mony at the trial.
This case grew out of the general
strike conducted by the Joint Board,
Furriers' Union in 1926, thru which
the furriers succeeded in winning
the 40-hour week.
In the original trial there were
eleven defendants. Ben Gold, man
ager of the Joint Board, and Isadore
Shapiro, chairman of the Joint Board
were acquitted.
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states, have found it impossible to
obtain employment"
From the west coast come reports
equally alarming. General vice-presi-
dent of the International Association
of Machinists, ]. T. Thorpe, has an
nounced that on trip which he has
just completed on the west coast fully
80 per cent of skilled workers were
found to be idle. Among unskilled
workers, the conditions are even
worse, he states. That his picture is
not exaggerated is indicated from the
fact that in addition to those men
toned thousands are working only one
or two days per week.
The central labor union at Boston
recently reported over a hundred thou
sand out of work among It's affiliated
membership. Baltimore reports an
unemployed army of over 100000. In
the railroad industry, which is usually
slow to respond to unemployment
changes, figures chow large number
of idle especially among shop work
ers and maintenance of way men.
New York Suffers.
One of the most severe sections to
suffer is New York City. Over five
thousand sought help from the mis-
sions on the Bowery within few
blocks yesterday. One line a block
long before the Bowery Mission, 227
Bowery, contained more than thou
sand men. At ten o'clock over two
hundred were already in line waiting
for lunch although the doors do not
open until 1880 p. m. An equal num-
Der were stationed before the Hadley
Mission and the Holy Name Mission,
near First st. and the bowery. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
SANDING BROTHER
GUEST AT ANTI
| mp { RIAL MEET
u. S. Latin American,
Asian Labor Unite Sun.

Disclosure of the next step to be
taken in the "Sandino stamp" cam
paign of the All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League, is promised as part
of the program at the New York
delegate conference of the league
which meets next Sunday, 1:30 p. M;
at the Labor Temple, 243 East Saith
Street. The conference is called "to
consider ways and means of meeting
the Nicaraguan situation and to set
up permanent New York branch
of the All-America Anti-Imperialist
League Omitted States Section).
Sandino's Brother Guest.
Socrates SANDING, brother of Gen
eral Augusta G. SANDING, Nicaraguan
revolutionary leader, will be the guest
of honor.
The conference is unique in that
invitations to send delegates are ex-
tended not only to all American la
Dor, liberal and anti-mihtarist or
CARNATIONS in New York but also to
organizations of Latin-Americans,
Filipinos and Chinese. This is in
keeping with the program of the
All-America Anti-T m erialist
League, which is an international or
ganization with national sections in
a number of foreign countries where
American imperialism penetrates,"
as well as in the United States.
According to statement issued
yesterday by the U. S. Secretary
Manuel Gomez, at the u. S. head
quarters, 39 Union Square, the con-
ference on Sunday will not debate
the rights and wrongs of the invasion
of Nicaragua, but will proceed from
the assumption that it must be
fought and will take up practical
measures for fighting it effectively.
Announce New Stamps.
AS previously announced, signers
of the call for the conference include:
DR.. Edmund Chaffee, director of the
Labor Temple; Darcy Milliken Of
Typographical Union No. 6; Morris
Green, president of the Woodcarvers'
Union; Sam Friedman, president of
Carpenters Union No. 1000; DR.. w.
E. B. Dubois of the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People; Freda Kirchwey, managing
editor Of The Nation, Arthur Garfield
Hays, counsel American Civil Lib
critics Union; Arthur G. Calhoun,
Brookwood Labor College; Scott
Nearing, and Capt. Paxton Hibben.
The conference will be open to the
general public without charge. 1t
is announced that the Nicaragua pro-
test stamps, whose circulation Tor
use on mail the U. S. Postmaster
General has declared render .sthe Of
Tending party" Aiable to $4,000 fine
or five years imprisonment, will be
on sale in the hall. The new edition
of these stamps is now ready, the
price of the new stamps being one
dollar for a sheet of 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
WESTERN IRIS TO
FIGHT AWARDS


CHICAGO, Feb. IA (FP).-Con-
trary to expectation the western rail-
roads are continuing the legal fight
against the arbitration award last De-
cember which gave their locomotive
firemen and allied workers substan-
tial increases in pay. Hearing has
been set for Feb. "a in the u. 8. cir
cult court of appeals in Chicago
against the decision of Judge Car
penter that the arbitration award of
Dec. II was binding.
The railroads contend that the
board lost jurisdiction over the wage
case by publishing its inability to
agree before the final decision was
reached. The circuit court of appeals
will not pass upon this contention.
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deficit that the democratic party faced
at the end of the 1920 campaign. This
debt was suddenly reduced by APP
proximately $4,000 in 1924 with
out any record as to where the money
came from, much in the same way
that the republicans wiped out some
thing like 100000 from a 100000
deficit without saying how.
Seen sa Counter Move.
While this move by Sen. Nye does
much to expose the corruption of the
two-party system, it is also seen as
counter-effort to prevent the
democrats from pushing the investi-
cation into the 1920 campaign funds
of the republicans to embarrassing
extremes. The fact that Harry F.
Sinclair stated in 1923 in the Teapot
Dome inquiry that he had contributed
year previous to the campaign
funds of both parties is believed to
show that bonds from the Continen-
tai Trading Co., already traced to
Hays and the republican campaign
debts, also found their way into the
democratic party Golfers. Senator
Nye admitted that Investigators in
New York already had information
which was expected to involve the
democrats in the Continental bonds.
Another disclosure on which the
Public Lands Committee is working,
but which may be evaded by the shift
ing of the inquiry to the democrats,
is that the midwest oil group which
furnished the money for the republi-
can campaign out of the secret Con-
tinental proceeds underworld the re-
publican debt at the famous "hotel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
u. S. NAVAL PLAN ALARMS POWERS;
INVENTOR TELLS HORRORS OF NEXT WAR

without av:ators sowing pestilence
and chemicals to destroy crops. Field
warfare would be carried on in ma
chimes inpervious to gas and machine
gun bullets.
He added that: when the next
great struggle begins the belligerent
nations will not have any scruples re-
garding treaties. They will consider
them scraps of paper and enter the
war without even formal declara-
ton of hostilities. In so far as the
last war was to end war, it was fail
ure. and the attitude of the world
today is not in favor of world peace"
The general who invented the new
horror of the last war, spoke in OPP
position to further disarmament.
PARIS, Feb. IA wave of indig-
nation questioning the reasons for the
$4,000,0o0,00o navy planned by the
United States, and further charging
Imperialism" against America, is the
result of the announcement as to the
new building program here.
Stephen Lausanne, writing in the
conservative newspaper "Matin" ques-
lions the justification of such an ex-
penditure, asking: IF an adequate
defensive fleet costs SO much, one
shudders to think how many billions
would be needed for an offensive
navy"