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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-06-27

MUSIC FOR THE IDLE
W SAHD!FF' Wales-A fund Of SOS :
OoO has been raised 70 provide M
SIC for the unemployed miners 4,
South Wales. iS q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
REICH DELEGATE
IN BELGIUM DEBT
Morgan Gets His Last
Point Put Across

PARIS, June 3.-News from Ber-
lin announced today that DR.. Ritter,
of the foreign office, is leaving for
Paris to take up the question of re-
endorsement for the Belgium francs,
the only point to be settled now be-
tween the PREPARATIONS delegates be-
fore the plan of j. P. Morgan, Owen
D. Young and other Wall Street
leaders, is finally accepted
The Belgium delegate, strongly
supported by the French delegation,
has refused to sign the pact until
this question is settled. He may be
induced to wait on the promise of
the Reich government that the mat
ter will be settled before September
l, when the agreement b supposed
to go into effect.
With the PREPARATIONS question set
tied according to the wishes of J.
P. Morgan, the tie between the Ger
man and American capitalists is
further strengthened in the rivalry
against the British and French i'm
perialists, and at the same time the
Yankee bankers have basis for de-
handing the payment of the war
debts due them from the former al
lied imperialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Ask Disbarment of
Lawyer Who Helped
in Murder of SaccO

BOSTON, June 3.-Supreme Court
Justice George A. Sanderson today
began hearing on a petition calling
in effect for the disbarment of
Arthur K. Reading, former attorney
general of Massachusetts, who was
active in the murder of Sacco and
Vanzetti.
Reading resigned as attorney
general last year in the face of i'm
parchment proceedings that followed
the disclosure that he had been paid
a $4,000 retainer by New York
concern which had been under in
vestigation in this state.
Frederick w. Mansfield, president
of the Massachusetts Bar Associa-
ton, presented the case today. He
told of Readings alleged affiliation
with the L. A. w. Acceptance cor
poration of Worcester. Readings
powerful connections are expected to
halt the disbarment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Le1Ois Posed as Progressive
IN Battle for Illinois District

the U. M. w. A. Lewis further
claims that he placed this case in
the hands of Demcan, Mccormack
and Hefferly for investigation. This
committee reported the charges
proven and asked that the case be
placed in the hands of the states
attorney for action. The truth is
Fox, Cobb and Lowden must go, not
because they stole money and prop
erty, but because they are support
ers of Fishwick. Lewis wants the
Illinois check-off for himself, and,
at the same time, he hopes to stop
the N. NJ. U. Lewis will try to re-
place the Fishwick gang with
Lewis agents, Sneed, j. T..
Jones, Bill Hogan of Zeigler and
others Of that kind. Will the trick
work? Of course not! Fishwick
will fight back and in the fight be-
tween the fakirs the N. M. U. will
take over the field.
CofDISnley Hits Both.
Last week some of Lewis boys
gathered together and sent a tele-
gram to Lewis pledging their sup
port to his campaign against Fox,
Cobb and Lowden as the only means
Of stopping the n. M. U.
Henry Corbishley, secretary of the
Illinois section of the N. NJ. u, in
terviewed today, stated: Lewis
may fool a few miners with his
latest dodge, but it won't be for
long. Sneed and Hogan have rec
crds just as rotten as Fishwick and
Cobb and no miner will support
them. Let the takers ffght-we are
Eusy building the National Miners
Union, and, at the present rate of
progress, we will have 100 per cent
organization by fall. We will, how
ever, keep a close watch on Lewis
and his crooks and will expose all
their moves. The best answer to
give is-organize, organize, organ
ize. Every available man to work.
Every local union on the job. And
we will soon be through with the
takers and have only their masters,
the coal operators, to fight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
NELL ON Gives
MORE MILLIONS
$4,000, from U. S.
Treasury to Trusts

WASHINGTON, Jure Con
gressmen were still talking in tones
of respect and admiration of the
Sublime nerve" Of Andrew Mellon,
secretary of the treasury, who
agreed sometime ago to publication
of all gifts from the treasury to
trusts in the form of tax refunds,
attachments, credits, etc, amounting
to over 100000 an item.
The first published statement
after the new policy went into effect
showed a total of $18, 345, 534 handed
tack to taxpayers, many of them
zig corporations owned or partially
owned by Mellon and his immediate
family, during a period of Al days
since April 20.
Of this sum, $10,42S, OPS was a
clear gift in the shape of alleged
tax refunds" The average of TIE
last Al days, if not exceeded, indi-
Gates that the treasury will report
$100,000,000 or more by the end of
the year, given back to trusts.
This is mere pittance compared
with the $30,O00,0OO refunded the
steel trust by Mellon, during the last
few years, evidence of which was
disclosed at the time of the agita-
ton against him by his enemies in
congress.
Mellon appears, says congress
men who helped to show him up for
several billions given back during
his previous eight years in office,
to be playing with the record, by
agreeing to a statement of how
much he returns during a period i'm
mediateIy following the one in
which he made the big killing.
The largest single item in the
present period is $4,635,530 to the
estate of John Jacob Astor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Thuringia Tries to
Ban Red Front League

BERLIN, (By MaiD.-In accor-
dance with the decision of the con-
ference of German Ministers of the
Interior under the craftsmanship of
the social democratic Reich Mini
ster of the Interior Severing, Thu
ringia has now also prohibited the
Red Front Fighters League. In
Hamburg the coalition government
has refused permission for open
air meetings of the Communist
Party at Whitsun. These meetings
of the Party were to have been held
instead of the parade of the RFFL
which was to have taken place in
Hamburg. Wurtemberg and the
Free State of Lubbock have also
prohibited the R.F.F.L. in SUIT
CART all open-air meetings ETC., of
the Communist Party for Whitsun
have also been prohibited. 5's. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Release Haines, Who
Killed for Fascists

BERLIN, (By Mail) The Penal
Senate of the Stettin Court has re-
leased ex-Lieutenant Heines on bail
of 5000 marks. Heines was sent
enced to 10 years hard labor in the
first instance and to 5 years i'm
prisonment in the second instance in
connection with the notorious Feme
murders of the German nationalist
fascists. Hundreds of proletarian
political prisoners who have not
committed murder are still in prison
and the idea of releasing them on
bail would be greeted by the ma
tionalist judges with roars of laugh
ter. According to the reports of the
bourgeois prless, during his impris-
onment Heines enjoyed unheard of
privileges which practically made
his Imprisonment a farce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
LABOR SPORTS
GROW IN Mich,
Auto Workers Joining
Sports Union
By JOHN MARI. &

The Labor Sports Union" has
very great prospects in building and
developing its organization among
the young workers in this district.
The young workers here desire
very much an organization of their
own. This is best expressed by the
organization of a club of about
twenty young workers called the en-
formation Stars" of whom twelve are
young workers of the Ford Trade
School.
The Ford Trade School has in the
past controlled such organizations
within it's school. 1t has however
disbanded all of them under the pre-
tense of avoiding accidents, but in
reality, to draw them more into the
production of autos. This club was
organized independently of IN e
school, and intends to remain that
way.
The club has organized baseball
team within it's ranks, and has al
ready played and won eight games
straight.
The "Auto Workers Union" also
has team which is already affilia-
ted to the "L.S.U." The building of
the union which is being done by the
issuance of the "Auto Workers
News" factory bulletins and the sue
cessful open-air meetings in front
of factories during lunch time, will
inevitably result in the building and
organizing of other and varied teams
which will be affiliated to the 81.
S. u" Daissa "
There are many other clubs con-
nected with this movement and
preparations are being made to
further and broaden it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, June
3.-In an attempt to stem the tide
of revolt and stop the rapid advance
of the National Miners Union, John
l.. Lewis is playing new role, that
of Savior" and cleanser" wedding
out crooks" and eliminating cor
ruption" The miners here have
stopped reading the comic strips
since they heard of this. John L.
Lewis cleaning out grafters, chas
ing out vote-stealerz, removing "bull-
dozers"! That's joke enough to last
any miner a month.
Having failed by jailings, by
clubblngs, expulsions, black-lists,
ETC., to stop the rapid rise of the
N. M. u, something new had to be
done, and now we have it. A move
has been started, with the aid Of To-
cal fake progressives, to fool the
miners into following the man who
more than any other is responsible
for the corruption, graft, wage re-
auctions and company union condi-
tons which the miners suffer I'M
der.
Two Machines Collide.
Down here in Sub-District No. 8,
U. M. Nv. A, where Lon Fox, D. B.
Cobb and Lowden have ruled with
the aid of police and gangsters for
the past ten years, ruled with the
aid and support of Lewis, Sneed and
Fishwick, we have had more graft,
more corruption, more bull-dozing of
than anywhere else in IL
linois.
Now we have a change. With the
union a wreck, due to his betrayals,
Lewis has thought of this new
scheme to regain the support of the
Illinois miners. Under their usual
1un of graft. the sub-district Off
Gals here, Fox, Cobb and Lowden,
so Lewis charges, fraudulently took
possession of and sold for their per-
sonal gain certain parcels of land
in Benton, Illinois, the property of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
MORROW UNITES
i'll AND CHURCH
IN FASCIST TIE
Vatican Settlement Is
Near, He Says

MEXICO CITY, June 3.-Exiled
Mexican bishops are expected 70 re-
turn here in the next few days as
a result of the lifting of the ban
on the Catholic Church by President
Portes Gil. Bishop Francisco Uranga
" Saenz has already crossed the Dor
der from the United States and is
on his way to the capital.
Bishops Return.
The return of the bishops of the
fascist church is expected to be com
plete by July 1, when the agreement
between the vatican and the Mex
lean government, brought about by
Dwight Morrow, Yankee imperialist
ambassador, is expected to be rati-
fled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Miners of Norway
Pledge Friendship
for USSR Workers

OSLO, Norway, (By Mail.-The
Norwegian Miners Union has de-
cided with an overwhelming majo-
rity of the votes of it's members to
conclude an agreement of friendship
with the miners of the Soviet Union.
Previously these miners had made a
similar agreement with the Swedish
miners. This new decision represents
q victory for the supporters of ira
de union unity over the Amster-
banners, because the union off
Gals had done everything in their
power to sabotage the agreement
with the Russian union. However,
they were compelled to give way
under the pressure of their mem
bers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
Morrow Pulls Strings.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-Dwight
Morrow, former Morgan partner and
Yankee imperialism's ambassador to
Mexico, is playing the major part in
bringing about an agreement be-
tween the roman catholic church.
now openly allied with fascism, and
the Portes Gil government, now an
open tool of Wall Street.
With the interests of the Yankee
eXploiters uppermost, for VIII c h
peace" is needed in Mexico, Morrow
on his return here is acting as the
official delegate between the Portes
Gil government and the exiled Mexi-
can bishops, a task which he has
taken upon himself and which the
state department characterizes as
entirely personal, not official"
Pope's Man in Mexico City Soon.
Leopoido Ruiz y Flores, head of
the catholic church in Mexico, has
already been appointed apostolic
delegate to Mexico by the vatican,
and will shortly proceed to Mexico
City, on the invitation of Portes Gil
after confidential exchanges" to
make a settlement between the
fascist church and the reactionary
government, which is now carrying
on a campaign of terror against the
Mexican workers and peasants, the
very ones who put down the clerical
feudal revolt.
On his arrival here, Morrow had
stated to archbishop Ruiz, in the
presence of an official of the state
department, that now the way was
open for discussion between the
church and the government. He did
not rush to deny that he himself was
the one who opened the way.
Part of Anti-Labor Drive.
Under the constitution won by the
Mexican revolution and now scrap
of paper in the hands of the traitor
Gus government, church property
had been appropriated by the state
and restrictions has been placed
upon the catholic church which was
acting as a center of concentration
for all the forces of reaction. If a
new agreement is negotiated, it
would mean the replacing of the
church in its strategic position, to
which both workers and peasants are
opposed, and the returning of all or
a part of the church property.
Both Gales and Gil have already
admitted that they were only waiting
for an opportunity to do both. Now
with the aid of Yankee imperialism
they hope to suppress revolutionary
labor enough to enable the compile
ton of this agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
NMU CONVENTION
DEFIES THEPOLICE
At zEIGLER, ILL.
1000 Miners Meet in
Zeigler for New Union

ZEIGLER, III. (By MaiD.-Dele-
gates streaming into the National
Miners Union District Convention in
Liberty Hall here were frisked by
cops and deputies sent by the city
administration at the insistence of
the sheriff. Billie Hogan, with a
number of other gangsters and stool
pigeons were busy all morning and
afternoon taking down car numbers
-endeavoring to intimidate lone
delegates and trying in all possible
ways to scare away delegates and
visitors.
At p. m. the miners of Zeigler
gave their answer to the takers.
1000 men and women passed thru
the gangsters' line and thru the
police lines and crowded Liberty
Hall to capacity to listen to short
speeches by leading members Of the
National Miners Union. Watt,
Thompson, Davy Jones, of Indiana,
Gerry Allard, Dan Singer of In
diana and others.
A new note was struck by Fanny
Rudd of the Workers International
Relief as she told of the work of the
W. l. R. throughout the country. Her
speech was greeted with prolonged
applause and at it's conclusion steps
were taken for the formation of d
w. l. R. branch in Zeigler. Mrs.
Mae Gwaltney of Eldorado, secre-
tary of the Elderado Women's Aux
iliary of the N. M. U. spoke on the
need for strong women's auxiliaries.
Nels Kjar of the Trade Union
Educational League, Chicago Sec
ton, spoke on the work of the Trade
Union Educational League and the
organization of the Trades Union
Unity Convention. A collection of
$106 was taken up.
For Mooney and Billings
A resolution endorsing the work
of the International Labor Defense
and calling for the release of Mooney
and Billings and all other class war
prisoners were passed by the con-
vention unanimously.
The convention called for the for
nation of labor party to take up
the battle of the workers on a ma
tional scale. This resolution called
for lengthy discussion and brought
out the fact that sentiment for politi-
cal action was unanimous. Resolu-
tions endorsed the T. U. E. L.;
the Trades Union Unity Conference;
the W. l. R. and its work in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio and elsewhere; the
formation of youth sections, the Or
ganization of Negro workers, and
against the coming imperialist war.
The closing session on Sunday
elected the new officers. The fol-
lowing were elected: President:
George Voyzey; Secretary, Henry
Corbishley; President, Luke
Coffey, and as district member of
the National Executive Board-Free-
man Thompson. Short talks by the
newly elected officers concluded the
convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
HOOVER SW|PES
DISkRM STAGE.
FROM MACDONALD
Talks Reduction While
Building Cruisers

WASHINGTON, June 3.-With
Ramsay Macdonald as the next
prime minister of English imperial
ism, President Hoover is already
proceeding to set up a smoke screen
for the continuation of the naval
race between the two imperialist
governments.
With the construction of fifteen
Se,oo0-ton cruisers, provided for by
Coolidge when he left office. now
being prepared by Hoover, Charles
Dawes, former vice-president, is be-
ing sent to England to the tune of
inspired press releases from Wash
ington that Hoover and MacDon-
aid are starting on a disarmament
race"
While the air, it is announced, is
"being charged with the feeling of
an impending bold stroke" Hoover
is preparing to beat Macdonald to
it in playing the old disarmament
fake song. 1t is reported that
Dawes will have in his pocket a
"yardstick of reductions" that same
mythical yardstick without measure
ment and without beginning that
has been talked at the last Geneva
conference. when he arrives in Lon
don, and that he will also have all
thority to open negotiations with
the new administrators for British
Imperialism.
At the same time especial pains
were taken by the government to
make it clear that the Is cruisers
end one aircraft carrier, provided in
the last war bill, will be continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
800 WORKERS IN
CIGAR CO. STRIKE
Demand Higher Pay,
No Longer Hours

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j., June g.
A spontaneous revolt of a small
section of the workers of the Gen
eral Cigar Company here on Friday
spread today until every one of the
800 workers were out on strike. The
revolt came in answer to an attempt
on the part of the company to
lengthen their already long hours
and as a protest against the miser-
able doles that are the wages of the
workers.
Most of the strikers are young
and girls predominant. Driving them
from 7:15 in the morning until $50
in the evening, the company still
wasn't satisfied with the profits it
was wringing from their toll. The
effort to make the working hours
from 7 a. m. to 6 p. M, brought
out the determination of the work
ers to fight against their slavery.
Demand Wage Increases.
The strikers are also demanding
wage increase from 10 cents per
thousand for machine workers to rs
cents, and from &C IL cents per
hundred for hand workers to 70
cents. At present, the strikers de-
clare, they are unable to average
more than from $3.50 to SO day, no
matter how hard they work. The
strikers are also protesting at being
made to clean their machines dur
ing the three-quarter hour lunch
period, which cuts their actual lunch
time in half.
The fighting spirit of the strikers
is running high. A successful meet
ing was held today at the Hungarian
Workers Home, IL Plum st. All
the strike leaders spoke and they
were enthusiastically applauded, the
workers expressing their determin-
alton to fight on until they win all
their demands.
T.U.E.L. Representative Speaks.
The meeting was also addressed
by a representative of the Youth
Section of the Trade Union Edu-
cational League. He pointed out the
necessity for organization, urged
the immediate formation of shop
and strike committees and called on
the workers to spread the revolt to
the other factories of the General
Cigar Company in Perth Amboy, N.
j., New York City and Philadelphia.
The T.U.E.L. representative also
strongly emphasized the necessity
for a united struggle of all the
workers in the factory and warned
against the efforts of the bosses
to break the strike by dividing the
machine and the hand workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
S11.621 TO WARDER
FROM CITY TRUST
Prove More Forgerles
on Bank Grafters

One of the easy methods whereby
Francisco M. Ferrari, late president
of the defunct City Trust Company,
slipped casual sums of thousands OF
dollars into the pockets of his close
friend, Frank H. Warder, was to
sanction the issue of checks marked
cash." q, but notated 'redraw''
(8Warder" backwards) and 81. W."
Checks thus notated, totalling in
all 1,62150, were introduced into
the Moreiand Act hearings yester-
day, where Commissioner Robert
Moses is completing evidence on the
relations of Warder, in his capacity
as state banking superintendent,
with Ferrari before the death of the
president of the City Trust and al
lied institutions led to the collapse
Of the bank and the hurried resigna-
tion of Warder to escape from the
cntangling scandal.
Got Other Big Hauls.
The cryptic "redraw'-Wa rder's
name spelled backwards, has figured
in the evidence before. A lump sum
of 100000 had been pocketed by the
ex-state banking superintendent, the
little red book which mysteriously
disappeared after being seen for the
last time in the drawer Of Warder's
office disclosed,
The checks were signed with Fer
raris name, although handwriting
expert testified that others implica-
ted in the gigantic swindle signed
many of them.
Blame All on Dead CRATER.
While it is common knowledge
among those close to the inquiry that
the graft was shared by Tammany-
fascist clique, there is strong at
tempt on the part of those already
implicated to saddle every check con-
veniently on the president whose
startling death is considered by ex-
pert medical opinion to I've been
too sudden to be due entirely to
natural causes"
Other checks introduced added to
existing evidence showing Ferrari's
lavish generosity to Warder's wife
who also died suddenly on the eve
of her appearance at the hearing a
few weeks ago.
A $4,000 check to cash on the
City Trust on the account of Byerle
and Livingstone, notated ST. Red
raw" was a deliberate forgery, the
handwriting expert charged.
Warder, in return for Ferrari's
many gifts, had connived at his sys-
tenn of bank entries-made in the
name of real and fictitious organiza-
tions-with which he cleared thou
sands of dollars of loot in an alliance
with New York fascist organizations
and Tammany Hall politicians. These
include Edward Glynn, nephew of
former Gov. Smith, Judge Francis
X. Mancuso and his father, Pas
quale Mancuso, and Warren c. Hub
bard, Harlem Tammany leader. G..
Pope, millionaire contractor and
owner of the fascist newspaper, I'll
Progresso," is also implicated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-04
COnsumptives Aid
Textile Strikers

DURANTE, CAL, (By MaiD .-Un-
able to take an active part in the
strike of the Southern textile work
ers, patients Of the Sanatorium of
the Jewish Consumption Relief As
ISOLATION. here, showed their class
solidarity by collecting a sum Of
$12.55 for strike relief. The sum
was sent to the national offices of
NE Workers International Relief, l
Union So, New York City.