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Evening star., 1928-10-22

q. am in the Government service
III Washington and have a vote in New
Jersey in a municipality with a popu-
latlon OF less than $4,000. My name
was not given to the canvassers by the
relatives from whose home I vote. l
have been informed that 1 may call at
the polling place and have my name
entered on the register Immediately.
prior to voting. Is this correct? I can
iind nothing to this effect in copy of
the New Jersey election laws, which I
have consulted.-W. t.
A. You have been correctly informed.
Q. Please give information as to
method of voting by mail at James,
town, r. 1T. j. K.
A. There is no provision in the cleo
tion laws of Rhode Island for either
registering or voting by mail
Q. 1 was born in Elkhart, Ind, Sep
tember, 1894: lived there until my mar
riage in September, 1918, when my
husband and moved 70 Williamsport.
Pa. He voted there in the State cleo
tion in 1917, but I have never voted.
My husband has never voted since we
moved to the District Are either of us
entitled to vote. and what must we
do?-Mrs. H. E. M
A. judge, from the lapse of time
since your husband voted in Williams
port, that you have both lost your resi-
dence in that State. This will depend
entirely upon whether or not he left
Pennsylvania to enter the Government
service and has been in Government
employ ever since, but, granting that
you are both still residents of Pennsyl-
vania, you are too late to qualify for
voting in the November election, as the
law requires that one must have paid
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years next preceding the election which
was assessed not later than go days and
paid not later than 80 days before the
election
Evening star., 1928-10-22
CURTIS TO SPEAK "
IN UTICA TONIGHT
Enters New York in Final
Two Weeks Drive, Facing
Strenuous Tour.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
EN- ROUTE WITH SENATOR CUR
tbs TO UTICA, N. Y, october ga
double-headed Republican attack for
New Yorks Is electoral votes today
brought Senator Curtis, the partys vice
presidential nominee, into the Upstate
sector while Herbert Hoover was in New
York City.
Senator Curtis speaks tonight at
Utica. Wednesday he speaks at Roch-
ester. This is his second sally into
Upper New York. He appeared at the
State Fair in August at Syracuse.
The Senator has objected to going
into the official home city Of the
Democratic presidential nominee, say
ing it is against his way of campaign
ing, but it is planned for him to have
luncheon at Albany at noon tomorrow
with party leaders.
Opening the final two weeks drive
of the campaign. the 68-year-old NOM
inee came into New York State today
facing steady grind from now until
election day, but he pronounced him
self fit and ready to 60" He rested
in Hartford, Conn, yesterday. He is
due in Utica by midafternoon.
Senator Curtis has abandoned writ
ing his speeches in advance, but he in
dicated today he would discuss the
tariff and Gov. Smiths tariff views on
his campaign in New York. He has
gone in entirely for extemporaneous
speaking of late
He goes to Ohio for speeches in Akron
and Columbus on Thursday and Friday
nights, respectively, and then to De-
troit for Saturday night. The last week
will see him fastening again through
the farm belt. with appearances prob
ably in Indiana. Wisconsin, South Da-
kota. Iowa and Missouri before he
winds up in Kansas on election eve.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
PREDICTS RECORD VOTE.
Good Says Hoover VIII Win After
Calm" Campaign.

CHICAGO, October % (P).-James
w. Good, Republican Western campaign
manager, declared yesterday record
breaking vote November would fol-
low a campaign which "as a whole
mas been singularly featured by calm
ness"
1t Is not as a partisan but as an OBJ
server OF facts" said Good in a state
ment issued from his office, that say
In my Judgment the counting of this
unprecedented vote will elect Mr..
Hoover. The people are hiring an ex-
ecutive Tor the most important, re-
sponsible, difficult job in the world
There is widespread evidence that
the people have seen a marked con-
trast In the availability of applicants
Tor the job. Mr.. Hoover has been
recognized as great constructionist
organizer and leader, skilled in the
science of business and government
certified as to qualifications by rec
ora OF achievement as few men in
PUBIC life have ever shown.
Gov. Smith has tried variety OF
issues, not very successfully, / think
ana by no means consistently or logical
ly. Public addresses bristling with
charges have left the impression oi
a prosecutor, striving TO win a point on
some one of many counts in broad
side indictment, rather than of pros
pective President of the Nation, demon
strating reasons why Ahe should be
chosen to that exalted yace."
Evening star., 1928-10-22
THOMAS ASKS LIBERALS
NOT TO VOTE FOR SMITH
Effort Will Be Wasted, for Demo-
crat Cannot Be Elected,
Socialist Declares.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
READING, Pa. October 22.-Norman
Thomas, Socialist presidential candi-
date, in an address here last night ap-
pealed to liberals and progressives not
to throw away their votes" by casting
them for Gov Smith, who almost GER
tainly cannot be elected"
Everything Hoover has said and
DONE he declared, makes it clear that
he will be on the side of special privi-
lege Contemplating this spectacle,
some of our progressives are ready to
throw away their votes on the Demo-
cratic party. Almost certainly they
can't elect Smith. Certainly they can't
rehabilitate the Democratic party"
The Catholic Church is more solidly
behind Smith than the Protestant sect
are behind Hoover, Thomas said, add
ing that "only the Socialists have really
opposed bigotry by insisting that ques-
tions of religion and race do not belong
in partisan politics"
Evening star., 1928-10-22
Mad Man Declared
Taken From Engine
Of Smith Train
Bv the Associated press.

ALBANY, N. Y, October o.
The Knickerbocker Press today
said that man. reported to be
mad, was taken off the front of
the engine which hauled Gov.
Smiths special train from SYRIA
cuse to Albany yesterday, after a
hand-to-hand encounter on the
cowcatcher with New York
Central Railroad policeman.
William Keith. the policeman,
the newspaper said, was sent to
the Albany Union Station after
word was sent from Utica that
the man was aboard the train.
Neither the governor nor men,
bers of his party knew of the in
cident. Keith jumped on the
cowcatcher as the engine slowed
down at the station and arrested
the man, who said he was Lester
Skinner, %, who had escaped
from the State Hospital at West
boro, Mass, three weeks ago.
Evening star., 1928-10-22

gram which I had brought to your
attention.
II know of no other public document
so deceitfully conceived as this speech
of Senator Borahs."
On the tariff question, Mr.. Raskob
referred DR.. Work to Gov. Smiths
Louisville Speech and said he desired
to commend it to your candidate as
much-needed example of man TAX
ing a definite stand on a political
question"
Il can see no useful purpose in con-
tinuing the discussion between us" he
concluded. II am willing at any time
to meet and discuss issues on accurate
and clear-cut statements of fact. but /
cannot do so on the basis of such mis-
quotations and misstatements as have
uniformly charaSefized your side Of
this corresponden{e9
Evening star., 1928-10-22
DO You Know How to
VOTE BY MAIL?

WashingtOnians who hope 10 vote
by mail this year, but who are
doubtful concerning the laws of their
home States ON the subject, may re-
ceive the necessary information by
directing INQUIRIES to The Evening
Star, rs follows: Voting Information,
care News Department, Evening Star.
The questions and answers will be
published each day.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
Tax Decision Reversed.

A State may not tax a resident
beneficiary of trust beyond his in
terests outside the State where the per-
son creating the trust and the trustees
are not residents of the State, the Su-
preme Court decided today in reversing
the decision of the Supreme Court Of
Appeals of Virginia in the case of Rich
ard Crane VS.. Charles County, Va.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
Socialist Candidate
Asks Five-HOur Day
And Five-Day Week
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. October a.
A five-hour day and five-day week
for workers we're advocated by
James H. Maurer, Socialist vice
presidential candidate, in cam
paign speeches in Pasadena and
Los Angeles yesterday.
He declared that the unemploy-
ment situation was the chief issue.
Both the Republican and Demo-
cratic platforms are nothing other
than lot Of slogans" he said,
expressing the opinion that both
might have been written by the
same man.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
Factory Fire Damage $375,Ooo.

DETROIT, October % R.-Fire
which originated in the boiler room
swept through the plant of the Ajax
Bolt SS Screw Co. here early today,
causing damage estimated at S275, 600.
Evening star., 1928-10-22
PLANS ELECTION PRAYER.
Or. straton's Church to Ask "Tri-
umph of Righteousness"


NEW YORK, October % (P).-Cal-
vary Baptist Church, of which the Rev
Dr. John Roach Straton is pastor, voted
yesterday to set aside Sunday Novem-
Der 4, as special day of prayer for
the triumph of Righteousness and the
defeat of the forces of evil" in the
forthcoming election. The members
also will fast on November 4.
The church invited other Baptist
churches and other denominations
throughout the United States to join
In the day of prayer
DR.. Straton is conducting an anti
Smith campaign in the South.
Regular air service is to be- estab-
nshsd between Teheran andm Bushire,
FeEsaA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
And vote Communist.

Whatever the hardships of the struggle of
the workers today in this imperialist country
no one can say that the events of the struggle
are not interesting. Alvan T. Fuller, governor
of Massachusetts, but better known to the
workers of the entire world as the murderer
of Sacco and Vanzetti, is seriously put forward
as arbitrator" of the strike of $4,000 heroic
textile workers of New Bedford.
This little joke of history ought to provoke
much thought among the textile workers and
among the members of the whole working class
This is not just a joke. Nor is it an accident
that the bourgeoisie put forward classic
hangman of the working class as symbol of
the "impartiality' of the State as an instru-
ment with which they pretend to reconcile the
struggling classes.
Fuller, who lied and swindled in score of
ways in pretending to investigate the Sacco-
Vanzetti case only to allay the suspicious of the
working class, while the eectrocution pro-
ceeded with swift certainty, is an excellent
example of the nature of an arbitrator between
capital and labor. That's what "arbtrators" are
-hangmen in disguise.
The $4,000 textile workers are fortunate in
the clumsiness of the stoggy Massachusetts
mill barons who knew no better than to put
forward a transparent fraud.
Try again, Old Man Butler Seek out as your
swindling arbitrator" one who is a scker
scoundrel than the threadbare Fuller Try to
find sleek friend of labor to put over the
fraud of "arbitrating' the textile workers into
defeat
But the textile workers must learn not to
fall for the next arbitrator" either. Continue
the picket line. That is what is winning the
fight. The mill barons are trying to lure at
tention from just this point of pressure. Stick
to your picket line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
The Steel Trust Enslaves It's Workers

enough. No man can get job in
the mill unless he has references
from some member of the Ku Klux
Khan, or a business man. He must
be a member of a church and if his
record in the church is doubtful, i'm
mediately he is surrounded with a
squad of spies from the company
who watch his every step. The spy
system in the mill is beyond descrip-
ton. No one knows who his neigh
Dor is.
Like Prisoners.
The workers toll under the guard
Of company police just like prison
ers. There is a policeman in each
department who watches the steel
slaves. Over these policemen there
is a sergeant who watches the po-
licemen. All this does not include
the whole gang Of foremen and
other watch-dogs that the workers
are faced with. The men work ten
and twelve hours a day for the
starvation wage of 40c and 44c an
hour. The speed-up system in the
mill is fearful. All kinds of schemes
are in force.
One Of their schemes is to lay off
some workers from a given depart
ment for a few days. When these
workers return to the shop they
must work double speed to catch
up with the back work to supply
material for other departments, as
well as each days need.
There are also many young work
ers employed in the mills. These
young workers get 22c an hour in
spite of the fact that they produce
with the aid of machines just as
much as the older workers.
A special club is organized in the
mill for the young workers. The
president of this club is one Of the
board of directors members and he
sees to it they are given the Fright
education"
4 The work in the mill is hard, un-
healthful and dangerous. Many are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18

states, and the farmer labor parties
in few other states, are recognized
under the law as legal political par
ties. ('Legal" is here used in the
sense of a party which is auto
matically entitled to place its can
didates on the ballot. Other par
ties while not illegal" political par
ties may and do exist without be-
ing unlawful or illegally
The following extracts from the
laws of some of the states will give
a good picture of the difficulties
faced by the Workers (Communist)
Party in the struggle to place it's
candidates officially on the ballot.
These must be prefaced by a few
explanatory remarks.
In practically every state, a poll
teal party is legal only when it
receives a certain proportion Of
votes in the elections. AS a rule
the states require from three to ten
per cent of the votes.
MANY states require flllng ices,
ranging generally from ten to one
hundred dollars for each office.
In the, figures here given, the
number of signatures noted is the
minimum required by the law. AS
a large number of signatures are
generally voided by the state Off
Gals, at lease one-third above the
minimum amount given must be fur
nished in every case. In Califor-
MIA, the number of signatures
thrown out is from 40 to 60 per
cent.
AS a general rule, signatures of
voters who have participated in the
primaries are not valid.
Another point that must be borne
in mind is that most states do not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
United States Election Laws

recognize the signatures of citizens
as such. One must be not only a
citizen, but registered voter.
When the following figures are
considered, it must be noted that
the highest vote cast by the Work
ers (Communist) Party in 1924 was
8244 in the state of New York.
Tasks of Party.
In the case of practically every
generalization made above, there are
grotesque exceptions here and there.
NEW YORK. Population 1920
census, 10,450,718. 10000 sigma
lures are required to place the state
, ticket on the ballot. These must
include at least 80 valid signatures
from each of 60 counties and so sig
natures from the other two coun-
ties of the state. To place it's can
didates for office in some of the
more important sections in the city
of New York, thousands of addi-
tional signatures are required of the
party by the state. 1t must be
noted that a minimum of one-half
the area of the state lying north of
the Erie Canal from Albany to Buff
falo is a country in every respect
as backward as the state of Vermont
on which it borders and in which
we have not even single member
at-large. All signatures must be
witnessed by a notary public. In
New York state signatures cannot
usually be gotten otherwise than by
house to house canvas as the sigma
lures must be obtained within and
by certain residential districts. Up
state, where the object is to get on
ly about a hundred in each county
signatures can be gotten in factor
les or at open air meetings. This
provision is general throughout
practically all states but applies in
most instances only to local or dis
trict candidates.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18

injured. But the government in the
steel region is directed by the steel
trust. They actually laugh at the
so-called compensation laws which
exist only on paper. When a worker
is injured and remains out of the
mill over 80 days because of illness,
he must, on his return, pass a
physical examination. In case the
company doctor finds the productive
power of worker has been rninim-
lied because of his injury, he is not
taken back in the mill.
An insurance system has been es-
tablished in the mill under the su-
pervision of the company. Every
worker must be insured. The cost
of the insurance is taken out of
the workers pay. The worker gets
nothing when injured; but only when
he is "killed to death" The advan-
tages of this insurance lies in the
following: First the company gets
a big percentage of the insurance;
secondly, the insurance payments
show that the workers are willing
to pay, so why have compensation
laws at all?
No one dares to mention any form
of workers organization in the mill
If any worker attempts it, he is
Immediately reported to the mill
foremen.
In spite of all these chains put
upon the steel slaves the steel trust
feels that he is still not secure and
various other means are utilized
For instance, lately it has even taken
off the doors Of the lavatories and
company policemen watch all day
long so that no papers or leaflets
or anything in the form of propa-
ganda shall be left in these lava
tories. In brief, it can be said that
the whole mill is great prison
and so is the town--one big prison
The despotic rule of the middle ages
is nothing in comparison with the
plutocratic rule of the steel trust
(To Be Co7tinued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
Ask Allie Knows

If there are any honest members of the
working class still left in the socialist party
they should read carefully the document sent
out by their" party demanding from Al Smith
an investigation of the administration of
Jimmie Walker In this set of charges against
the Wall Street henchmen operating in the
city, there is exposed-without the formality
of an investigation-all that has been said by
the Communists about the so-caed socialist
party.
It is not necessary here to elaborate on the
utterly. treacherous notion which the socialist
petition Intentionally conveys, the illusion that
the workers have anything to gain from Gin
vestgations" into capitalism by the henchmen,
who are paid to do the bidding of their masters.
No need accuse the socialists of having had in
view any gain for the workers. Besides they
would, no doubt, declare that the move is in
tended merely as a vote-catching maneuver.
The five-cent fare, the symbol of popular gov
eminent, seems doomed, the socialists charge.
The symbol of popular government!
Let the socialists explain to the workers Just
what they mean when in 1928 they speak of
the popular government, which they declare
Jimmie Walker is desecrating
When the socialist party wakes indignant
over the Queens sewer graft scandal, it is be-
cause sixteen millions of dollars have been
mulcted from Queens taxpayers" and their
concern becomes never so acute as when they
fear that "the Tammany administration has
granted valuable franchises to the Equitable
Bus Company, revealed as a corporation with
out capital" The half million unemployed
workers in New York will no doubt share this
deep concern.
Not word in the charges against the Tam
many administration for its strike-breaking
activities against practically every strike
which the workers have fought in the city No
mention of the Tammany gangster police
attack on the traction workers, against the
teamsters, and, of course, no criticism of the
Tammany methods against the needle trades
workers The New York socialist party leaders
are too grateful to their police partners in the
sordid crimes of strikebreaking during the past
two or three years.
This is indeed a remarkably illuminating
document which the socialists have put forth
to catch the votes of the dissatisfied little shop
keepers squirming under the increasing pres
sure OF the big business neither and upper mill
stones, and to catch such workers only who
are not class-conscious but think with the
minds of the petty shop keepers And to prove
that it is not the workers whom the socialists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
Framed by the Capitalists to Keep Working
Class Parties Off the Ballot

teen times on thirteen separate
sheets.
The case was taken to the state
supreme court but the ruling of the
officials was upheld against the La
Toilette crowd in spite of clause
in the law which reads as follows:
eff on or before a date which
shall be the seventy-fifth day be-
fore any primary election, there
shall be filed with the secretary of
state petition signed by registered
qualified electors of the state, equal
in number to at least three per cent
of the entire vote of the state at
the last preceding November cleo
ton, declaring that they represent
a political party or organization the
name of which shall be state therein,
which party said electors desire to
have participate in such primary
election; such petition to be circu-
lated, signed, and the signatures
thereon of the registered electors
certified to and transmitted to the
secretary of state by the county
clerks substantially as provided in
section five of this act, for the cir
culation, signing, certification, and
transmission of nomination papers
for state officers; providing, how
ever, that no electors or organiza-
ton of electors shall assume party
name or designation which shall be
so similar to the name Of an exist
ing party or organization as to mis-
lead voters.
This statute shall be literally
construed, so that the real will of
the electors shall not be defeated by
any informality to comply with all
the provisions of this law"
The socialist party in few
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18

mean to enlist in their campaign their petition
to Al Smith, idol of the Morgans and duPonts,
ends by calling upon the upright citizens of
New York City" to join with them in the great
crusade to make this town fit for little law
yers, little merchants, little politicians, to
live in.
The working class has nothing to expect of
the socialist party, except further strike
breaking and continued sabotage of the labor
movement, while spreading illusions in sup
port of capitalist "Al Smith" democracy
Workers, join your own class party 1t is
the Workers (Communist) Party, section of
the Communist International
And vote Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-18
(Continued.)
BY THURBER LEWIS

A sensation was caused when the
name of William Bouck of Wash
ington, nominated with Duncan
Macdonald for vice president and
president in 1924 by the Federated
Farmer-Labor Party in st. Paul, was
placed before the convention as a
running mate for Norris. David
McVey, a labor man who, however,
did not represent any labor organ
ization in the convention, called
Bouck Communist. He went into
his version of the Chicago and St.
Paul conventions of 1924 which, he
said, were completely dominated by
"the Foster Ruthenberg combine of
Communists"
McVey blamed the Communists
for the bad state of the farmer
labor movement. Joseph A. Poirier,
assistant county attorney of Hem
nepin County Minnesota, represent
ing a farmer-labor ward organiza-
ton in Minneapolis, also took lick
at Bouck. He was later elected ma
tional chairman and thought this
would be a good campaign speech.
He said that 100000 was spent by
the Communists to control the
farmer-labor movement in order to
wreck it. He said Bouck, at the
st. Paul convention, took orders
from Foster and Ruthenberg and
was, in fact Communist. He end
ed his fifteen minute TRADE against
Bouck and the Communists and then
walked promptly to the press table.
There he singled out the CORE
spondent of the Federated Press and
pleaded with him not to quote him
on what he had said of Boack and