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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
USSR TRADE With
U. S. SHOWS GAIN
Totals S80,O0O,OO0 For
Six Months

Americana Russian trade reached a
total of $80,000,000 for the six months
ending March 81, 1928, as compared
with $59,000,000 in the preceding half
year period and $34,000,00O in the
corresponding six months last year,
it was announced yesterday by the
Amtorg Trading Corporation.
This volume of trade which is the
largest transacted in any six months
between the United States and Russia
compares with total of S48 ,00O, 900
Or the entire year 1913. The un-
adorable balance in Soviet trade with
she United States became more pro-
bounced during the past half wear
md reached S40.000,000, giving rise
serious problems in adjusting the
balance.
"The earlier expectations as 70 +ba
results OF the first half of the Soviet
nave been more than justified bv the
fIseal year 1927-1928, beginnino
october l, 1927" stated Mr.. SAM e
Bron, Chairman of the Board If
directors of the Amtorg. Purchases
OF goods for shipment to the Soviet
Union for the past half-year. ner;od
amounted to $65,469, 1879, undoubtedlv
record figure for Soviet-American
trade. Sales of Soviet products here
by the Amtorg and by the Centro-
soyus and the Selskosojus, represent
ing SOVIET cooperatives in this conn
Try, amounted for the six months 10
So'l4o,829. Estimating the value Of
manganese exports from Russia into
TINS country and of sales of Soviet
furs by American companies unie1.
special contracts at over $4,000 GOO a
total Of $80,0C0,00O for Soviet Anari
can trade is obtained"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
LEWIS THUGS
BEAT MINERS
Six Taken to Hospital,
Many More Injured
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failed to interfere and the thugs were
permitted to carry on at will None
Of them were arrested.
Lewis Officials. Scab Herders.
This mornings attack under the
direct leadership of an official of the
Lewis-Fishwick machine has exposed
;hese men as ordinary scab herders for
the operators, the miners declare.
Loda formerly posed as progress
sive."
Miners and their wives in discuss
ing the affair indicat c that in spite
Of the increased terror nothing could
stop their efforts to advance the
cause of the union. The greatest sac
rifices have already been made for the
union, they declared. This is the
spirit in which the Save-the- Union
forces are carrying on to build again
the fighting organization of the mine
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
SANDING OUTWITS
U. S. TROOPS BY
EAST COAST DASH
R Amy Season Hats
Pursuit Plans

MANAGUA, April 24.-Admissior
that General Augusta SANDING, leader
of the Nicaraguan army of independ.
ance had completely outgeneralec
them was made by the officers of the
United States marine forces invading
in Nicaragua with the announcement
that General SANDING is heading fol-
the Atlantic coast of his country and
that it will be next to impossible to
pursue him owing to the approach Of
the rainy season.
The announcement is believed to be
of special significance since the
stronghold of SANDING sentiment in
Nicaragua has always been along the
Atlantic coast. 1t was from this So
called Mosquito Coast that the ragged
poems streamed north to join SANDING
at the time he was defending Ell
Chipote against the first major
American offensive.
The region thru which the army of
independence is forced to make it's
route is rich in gold mines, many of
them controlled or owned by Ameri-
can and other foreign interests and
it is believed that, as at the La Luz
mine, General SANDING will be able to
replenish the resources of his army
from these mines.
The latest tactical triumph of the
Nicaraguan leader follows a long
period during which the whereabouts
of SANDING and his forces have mysti-
fled the invaders from the United
States. Distress calls from wealthy
plantation owners in all parts of the
country, who feared that their poems
might rise to join the ranks of the
army of independence as soon as San
dino and his men appeared in their
vicinity have kept the American in
vaders on the jum
Reports that two or more foreign
prisoners have been taken by San
dino in the capture of La Luz and
other mines, have not yet been con-
firmed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
|, |. D. DENOUNCES
BONITA DECISION
Urges Workers to Save
Framed-Up Miners

The conviction of Sam Bonita, mil
liant young miner, on charge of
n1anslaughter is denounced by the
New York Section of the international
Labor Defense, 799 Broadway, in a
statement issued yesterday through
Rose Baron, secretary Of the sec
ton.
"The conviction of Sam Bonita,
militant Pennsylvania MINER" The
statement says, "is one of the most
blatant examples of class justice since
the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
A jury, composed largely of business
men, was practically ordered by the
judge to return a verdict of man
slaughter, by which this progress
sive young miner will be compelled
to spend from to IL years behind
the bars.
Capitalist Justice.
"This decision only serves to un-
mask once more the leering face of
capitalist justice. Bonita, president
of Local 1903, was one of the leaders
of the progressive movement of the
miners union, that movement which
is feared and hated SO much by the
coal barons and their allies, the cor
rupt Lewis machine. The evidence
proved conclusively that he had shot
in self-defense when he killed Agati,
one of the petty lackeys of Lewis, who
had grown rich on the blood and
sweat of these whom he called broth
ers.
"Yet despite this, the Jury was
kept locked for more than 40 hours,
and when it returned verdict of
involuntary manslaughter', the judge,
doing the bidding Of the bosses and
the union bureaucracy, ordered the
verdict changed to 'manslaughter.'
Save Bonita, MENDOZA, Moieski.
But Bonita can still be saved. The
protest of the workingclass must
spring to life to reverse this vicious
class decision and to see to it that
he, as well as his comrades, MENDOZA
and Moleski, are freed.
"The International Labor Defense
calls on all class-conscious workers to
support to the utmost the fight tc
free these victims of the capitalist
courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25

BIRKENHEAD IN
BERLIN TO FORM
ANTI-USSR BLOC
Urges Military Attack
on Soviet Union

BERLIN, April 24.-Lord Birken
heads visit to Germany, ostensibly
for "health," was made for the pur
pose of sounding Germany on thu
question of military alliance agains
the Soviet Union, it was revealed to
day. Altho Lord Birkenhead announ
eed that he had not notified the Brit
ish foreign office of his intention o.
playing golf in Berlin" it is gener
ally supposed that he had conferred
with Sir Austen Chamberlain, for
eign secretary, and other members
Of the cabinet.
According to the local press, Ar.
mold Rechberg, head of the German
potash trust and notorious for his
campaigns against the Soviet Union
admitted that he and Won Kuhlmann
at one time foreign minister under
the kaiser, had conferred with Lore
Birkenhead
Rechberg has openly admitted that
he is exerting every effort to form
an international capitalist offensive
against the Soviet Union.
Il do not wish to conceal the fact
that | believe united European cam
paign against the Bolsheviki is i'm
perative. In the case of England, a
military attack against the Soviet
Union is necessary on financial
grounds alone"
France, Rechberg stated, would
certainly side with England in any
offensive against the Soviet Union,
while Germany will ultimately find
herself in alliance with England
"Germany's trade with the Soviet
Union," he said, "is only matter of
millions; our investments in Franco
German industries alone reach bill
lions. Germany's alliance with Great
Britain and France in a campaign
against the Bolsheviki is inevitable y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
FUR WORKERS Win
RIGHT TO APPEAL
Militants Were Framed
In MineOla

Permission to appeal their SEN
fences of from two and half TO five
years has been granted the nine mem
bers of the Joint Board Of the Fur
riers' Union, convicted in a frame-up
case in Mineola, L. I. Judge Lehman,
of the Court of Appeals. yesterday
made public his decision, at the same
time raising the bail from $1,000 to
$500.
The Appellate Division, in its deei-
sion endorsing the sentences, had adj
mitted that the Mineola Judge had
committed many errors at the Long
Island trial.
"Now that the right to appeal has
been won by the Mineola frame-up
victims, it does not mean that we
are at all certain of winning their
freedom" the Furriers' Mineola De-
tense Committee declared in a state
ment yesterday. 'Now begins the
real fight to raise funds to carry on
the fight for their release"
The conference called by the Joint
DeIenSe ana heIleI COMMITTEES oA All
sympathetic organizations, which is
to be held tomorrow night in the Of
flee of the Cloakmakers' Joint Board,
IS w. 21st ST., shows indications of
being representative of wide masses
of workers, according to the creden-
tials already sent in, was the an
issued by the committee
in charge. All labor bodies not meet
ing in time to elect delegates, are re-
quested to send their officers to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
CELEBRATIONOF
MAY DAY BARRED
BY KU0MINTANG
Fear Demonstrations
Against War Lords

SHANGHAI, April 24.-The Kuo-
mintang government at Marking has
issued an edict strictly forbidding the
celebration of May Day by workers
in territory in it's control. The au-
thorities fear that demonstrations
against the kuomintang may be held
on May Day.
Whereas the northern expedition
has gained victories, but is still in a
critical stage, it is the duty of the
government as we'll as of the people, -
the resolution says, ito consolidate
their force to keep peace, to carry out
the spirit of the resolution as passed
by the government in order that our
brothers at the front may not be
troubled with any unfortunate oc-
currences at home.
MAY Day is approaching The
government knows well that day is a
labor day and should be celebrated
by the workers, but regrets that the
celebration should be postponed until
next year, when we shall have com
pleted our campaign against the
north. Therefore it has been de-
cided that there should be no demon
strations of any kind except those
which are sponsored by the proper
authorities and held indoors. This
resolution must be carried out
strictly"
xThe Kwangtung provincial govern
ment has issued decree forbidding
demonstrations of any kind on May
Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
Business Still ''Gains"

MONTREAL, April "a. ~ Corpor-
atoms and big business generally are
still boasting about the prosperity
Of 1927. Even the Canadian Pacific
Railway which feared that certain
small wage increases conceded during
the latter part of 1926, would spell
ruin for the stockholders, managed
to make net profit of IL per cent.
Other corporations reaped greater
gains. The Azitib Power and Pulp
Company whose common shares in
January, 1927, sold for $87, sold for
S154 in January this year. Steel of
Canada shares of stock jumped from
sl18 to $187, gain of so per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
PULLMAN HEAD
BIG BISCUIT BOSS
Workers Tell of Ba d
Conditions in Plant
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born. During the war hysteria Of
1917 Governor Lowden, boss of the
republican party in his state, showed
his attitude toward the foreign-born
workers. He appointed State Coun-
ell of Defense, with politicians like
the notorious Roger Sullivan and big
business men like Samuel insult, trac-
ton magnate, at the head. insult
contributed thousands of dollars to
both the republican and democratic
candidates from Illinois for the
senate. Insults candidate Smith was
twice rejected by the senate for slush
funding.
Lowden's Terror Reign.
This council in large measure
ruled the state, using the powers of
the state in instituting a reign Of
terror against those who did not APP
prove of the war. The foreign-b born
workers suffered outrages, arrests
and persecution.
Lowden is also leading figure in
the Pullman Company, long known
for its exploitation of its workers,
particularly Negro porters, who are
forced to depend mostly on tips. Low
den is an avowed enemy of union la
Dor. This is the type of men who are
Offered up to the exploited workers
and poor farmers as candidates for
positions of power on election day.
The jobs to which they are elected
give them control over the police,
state troopers and the army.
The exploited workers of the Ma
tional Biscuit Company are talking
more and more about Joining unions
and about joining their fellow workers
also in the formation of a Labor
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
GUATEMALA FIGHTS LocUsTs

GUATEMALA CITY, April a.
Fear is expressed here that the en-
tire Guatamalatan crops may be serl-
ously injured if the plague of locusts,
which have appeared over the richest
AGRICULTURAL districts of the country
cannot be stopped within the next few
davs The farmers and poems are
dicoine trenches and building wire
Instructions to halt the advance OF
the pests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
GOMEZ SHUTS UP
MILITARY SCHOOL
AS UNREST CROWS
Venezuela Dictator
Fears Outbreaks

CARACAS, April 24.-Evidence of
slipping control, characterized by
wild repressive measures, is seen here
in the closing of the National Vene-
zuelan Military School by president
Gomez on the grounds that it has be-
come a center for unrest against his
dictatorship.
The National Military School where
officers for the Venezuelan army are
trained has been a focal point for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
IN
Prison Mutlmy

KATTOWITZ, Polish Silesia, April
24.-Thirty workers jailed for Com
munist activities mutinied in the local
Jail today.
Singing the International and o.her
class songs, they attracted several
hundred workers who threatened to
storm the jail to free them. Guards
fired over the heads of the demon
strating workers in an effort to dis
perse them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
Find Violations of
Nashville Labor Laws

NASHVILLE, Tenn, April "a
Workers of Nashville are demanding
that the city supply additional in
spectors to supervise woman and child
labor. Present factory inspectors
have found that many children be-
tween the ages of IA and 16 are work
ing without certificates full days and
are not attending schools at all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
PERU WORKERS DROWN

LIMA, Peru, April "a. - EIGHT
WSorkmen and an engineer were
drowned in the collapse Of a bridge
on the Chimpote-Recuay railroad over
the Chuguicara River, according h q
despatch from the interior. None If
patch said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
RRIANn Ill.

PARIS, April 24.-Although bulle-
tins concerning the illness Of Foreign
Minister Aristide BRAND are optimis-
tic, some anxiety was expressed to-
day over the inability Of the attend
ing physicians to reduce his fever.
M. Brands attack was diagnosed as
grinne.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
REED TO ENTER PRIMARY

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Sena-
tor James A. Reed CD Of Missouri.
Will enter the West Virginia primary,
and present complete slate of dele
gates, it was officially announced
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
PARTY MADE Is
per Cent Gain
IN FRENCH POLL
Autonomous Candidates
Win in Alasace

PARIS. April 24-Polling more
than a million votes, the French Com
munist Party gained approximately
Is per cent in Sundays elections over
that of 1924, according to the Off
cial returns made public today. The
Communist Party polled 1,064,000
votes compared with $4,000 votes
for 1924.
The socialist vote was approxi-
mately the same as 1919.
STRASBoURG, France, April "a.
Victories of the autonomous candi-
dates in the national elections showed
an even wider sentiment for the auto
nomy of Alsace than had been ex-
pected All of the autonomous candi-
dates are now in Jail on the charge
of plotting against the security of
the state"
A coalition between Communist and
autonomous candidates which is ex-
pected in the second ballot to be cast
next Sunday is expected to return a
large number of autonomous candi-
dates to the Chamber of Deputies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
HE'S NOT IN OFFICE NOW.

America was urged to drop It's
perverted patriotism" and conception
of the United States as Gods own
country by William c. Redfield' for
merly secretary of commerce, speak-
ing at a meeting of the Economic
Club at the Hotel Aston
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25

MEXICO CITY, April 24.-Two
hundred counter-revolutionis were
killed and unknown number wounded
in an engagement with the second
regiment of the Presidential Guard
in Jalisco, a report from the interior
states.
Another report announces the de-
feat of 300 reactionaries in Colilna.
No statement of casualties was made.
Priest Leads Attack.
MEXICO CITY, April PA hand
full of police and volunteers yester-
day stood off new attack by insur-
gent conservatives at the town of
Cueramaro, report from the interior
states. The insurgent guerrillas led
by Aristeo Pedroza, rebel priest, be-
gan the attack at midday. They were
routed by the arrival Of a detachment
of federal troops, who killed 40 of
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25
WILL REDUCE TAXES OF RICH.

WASHINGTON, April "a. - A
$21O,O00,000 rich mans tax reduction
bill was presented to the finance
committee today by administration
senate leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-25

student unrest since the recent street
outbreaks in the streets in which the
students took prominent part in re-
sisting the government oppression.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-11-09
POWER SOLVING THE FARM
PROBLEM

The problem of farm labor short
age which is said to have troubled
agriculture in some parts of the
country, will be solved by increased
use of power on the farm, in the
opinion of E. A Stewart, division OF
agricultural engineering, University
If Minnesota.
While we may have six times the
poulation in 1850 as in 1850, it is
probable that the decrease in farm
workers, which begun a number of
years ago, will continue until by
1850 no more farm workers will be
necessary to supply food for popu-
lation of $50 million than were nee
essary in 1850 to supply sustenance
to 25 million, according to Mr.. Ste
wart.
Use of mechanical power in agri-
culture he said, lis so modern that
still more than two-thirds of the
worlds total food supply is obtained
by man power only, and less than
Ave per cent by mechanical power.
Only baby, power farming is re-
garded by many with the lndiffer-
ence that greeted the advent of ma
hine farming. But, what machine
farming has done for this country
in the last century will be more than
duplicated by power farming in the
Goth century.
The same change is coming over
agriculture that has been effected
in modern industry. The future
reEd will no longer depend on a
arge labor supply, that of necessity
IS expensive, slow and, in compari-
,on with power operated equipment,
Inefficient and wasteful.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-11-09
China,aan First to
Put Out Dictionary

The first extended dictionary Of the
English language was published In
1855, representing the monumental la
Dor of Samuel Johnson, who died De
cember IL, 1884
Doctor Johnson's dictionary, which
occupied many years Of his life, was
the most remarkable work of its kind
ever produced by a single person.
Noah Webster's American dictionary
was first published in 1928, and Wor.
cester's English dictionary appeared
In 1880.
The first dictionary compiler was
Pa-Out-She, scholarly gentleman of
Cathay, who fiourished about 1000
B. @. He perfected a standard die.
tionary Of the Chinese language, the
same containing about 10000 charae-
tiers.
One Julius Pollux compiled Greek
dictionary about A. D. 1T, and pre-
vious to this date (about 100 B. O.
one Varro made up Latin one. A
polyglot dictionary In eight languages
was compiled about 1900 by Calepini.
Venetian friar. Vauglas edited the
first French dictionary, issued by the
French academy In 1894. A Spanish
one was issued in 1925, an Italian in
1923 and Russian one in 1889.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-11-09
Big Executives Haze
Their OtOn Troubles

Amos r. Bump, assistant general
sales engineer of the Killzem Rat.
Trap Associates, Inc, was concentrate
ing. Upon his nice, clean desk was a
nice, clean pad, and upon that pad In
a nice, clean hand Mr.. Bump was writ
ing. He paused and surveyed what ne
had written. Then he wrote again.
Miss Vince, his secretary, padded
into the room.
''Mr. Schimmel, of Schimmel, Schim-
mel, Schimmel & Schimmel, is here"
she whispered. HE has a luncheon
engagement with you"
Mr.. Bump groaned. He hated hav-
ing a train Of thought derailed.
"One interruption after another" he
growled. GLOW is man to find time
to solve his problems?" And he
stamped out to greet Mr.. Schimmel.
Upon that desk, on that nice, clean
pad, exposed to the gaze of those who
cared to observe, lay the fruit Of Mr..
Bumps morning endeavor. And this
was the message, reading from left to
right: "Amos R. Bump-A. r. Bump
"A. Remington Bump"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-11-09

$500 pounds of Seal Sale supplies
to be used in the coming Tubercu-
losis Seal Sale were received at the
Offices of the Maryland tuberculosis
Association in Baltimore several
days ago, according to information
sent to this paper by officials OF the
State Association.
The sale will begin on ThanKs-
giving Day and will continue until
Christmas. All affiliated gu n
branches of the State organization
are now making their plans and or
ganizing their workers for what is
expected to be the greatest Seal
Sale ever held in the State OF Mary
land.
Maryland's allotment of seals
number 100000. II they were
placed end to end, they would reach
from Baltimore to New York City
and return. If they were placed as
a blanket over the ground, they
would cover an area Of nearly forty
acres.