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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
NHITEWASH co.
IN QUARRY BLAST
Four Workers Dead in
Explosion

NORTH BERGEN, N. j., June 5
North Bergen officials today
whitewashed the Belmont Gurnee
Stone Co, declaring the bosses ''free
of all blame" in the explosion of 44C
pounds of dynamite which killed
four workers and wounded fifth
in the Belmont quarry here Tues
day. 81
Investigation of the explosion
has revealed no criminal negli-
gonce," Detective William J. Char
lock, representing Hudson County
Prosecutor John F. Drewen, said
today, and asserted that determine
ton of the cause of the blast is sim
possible inasmuch as all those near
enough to have known what hap
pened were killed."
Attempting to whitewash the
bosses by stating that all witnesses
Of the blast were dead was the
course chosen by the police officials
Other workers near the scene of the
explosion stated that lack of proper
safety precautions, on the part of
the Belmont-G urnee Co., caused a
premature explosion of the huge
quantity Of dynamite.
J. Palmisano and his brother,
Peter, both of this city, were two
of the workers killed by the blast.
While tamping dynamite into drill
hole, the brothers were blown dis
lance away and killed instantly.
John Cicati, another worker on the
job, was SO badly injured that he
died a few hours later. The bodies
of the Palmisano brothers were bad
ly nangled.
In the North Hudson Hospital Ja-
cob Quodora, thirty-three, Ga Ber-
genline Avenue, Gutenberg, died
from injuries.
The police of this city accepted
the version of John Denato, the fore
man, and of company officials, on
the cause of the blast, and an
nounced the quarry company "blame-
less" The Bell-Gurnee Co. is one
of the largest crushed stone manu-
featuring firms in New Jersey, and
the quarries are extensive. Over rs
workers were close by at work when
the blast occurred. The workers are
all unorganized, and receive miser-
able wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
Pope Plus Is Sore at
Mussolini: Wants to
Bar Free Discussion

ROME, June 5.-Pope Plus Xl
took issue today with recent decla-
rations of Premier Mussolini in con-
nection with the position of the
church and state under the I.ateran
treaties, characterizing the pre-
mier's statements as painful set
back" to worldwide rejoicing
over settlement of the Roman ques-
ton.
sour expectations are completely
disappointed" said the pope in 9
published letter to Cardinal Gas
parri, his secretary of state. eve
lea$t Of all expected heretical state
mepts and even worse than heretical
statements on the essence of Chris
tianity and Catholicism"
Specifically, the statements which
the letter answered were in regard
to the governments attitude. This
favored freedom of religious speech
in ITALY and did not favor church
control Of education of children.
1T is not admissible that there
shall be absolute freedom of discus.
siGa," said the pope's letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
BANANA STRIKE
PICKETS STAND
TRIAL june "A
Philadelphia Workers
Defended by LID.

PHILADELPHIA, June g.
Charges against picket leaders ar
rested at the United Fruit Com
pany's wharves during a demonstra-
ton voicing solidarity with the re-
cent Columbia banana plantation
workers strike will be heard in court
Friday, June IA. The cases will be
defended by the local International
Labor Defense.
"Inciting to riot" was the charge
on which the William Lawrence,
Frank Mozer and other pickets were
held on $500 bail. Fifty had been
arrested in the first instance, AZ of
them being held five or six days in
Jail, to which they were sentence by
the women Judge Fahnestock, notori-
Gus for her anti-working class pre-
JUDGES. Ignoring the evidence sub
mitted by pickets who proved that
the protest had been conducted in
orderly fashion, Fahnestock had ac-
cepted the testimony of police lieu
tenants and captains who had broken
up the demonstration.
Lawrence faces the second court
hearing in three days. On Tuesday,
June II, he stands trial on charges
of sedition arising from his arrest in
political campaign speech in which
he had denounced the then president
Coolidge as IAN errand boy of Wall
Street" This charge will also be
defended by the International Labor
Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
COMP ROMISE IN
CHICAGO STRIKE
Iron Workers Obtain
81 Day Raise

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June 5.-Follow-
ing a compromise with the bosses,
1900 structural iron workers re-
turned to work today after a strike
which lasted four days. The bosses
have agreed to grant an increase of
81 over the old scale of $12, the
workers original demand having
called for an increase from $3.50 to
S1.62 an hour. The strike started
Saturday, on which the wage scale
contracts expired.
The labor faker chiefs in the
Building Trades Council raised no
demands for the unorganized. Thus
the compromise is gotten at the ex-
pense of the thousands of unorga-
nized workers in the industry.
At the same time, however, 1900
architectural workers who walked
out at the same time as the struc-
tural workers remained out. The lat
ter struck Saturday despite the ex-
istence of an injunction issued by the
notorious Judge Dennis ("Injunc-
ton Denny") Sullivan. During the
four days of the strike the air was
filled with fulminations and threats
from the bosses who announced that
they would break the strike with
court orders if the workers failed to
return to the jobs.
The strike temporarily tied up
construction of S2S7 100000 worth of
building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
repare for Imperial
Transatlantic Flights

OLD ORCHARD, Me-, June g.
After reports of rapidly clearing"
weather over the North Atlantic,
four transatlantic aviators PLAN
ming flights to boost ,iniperialist
aviation. Today made tentative
plans for starting their long delayed
flights overseas tomorrow.
Both the Green Flash and yell
low Bird were tuned for their long
grinds towards Rome and Paris, re-
spectively, and their crews were
ready to start within few hours
after receiving word that the
weather was right. The former will
make a flight to boost fascism, the
latter to boost French imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
ON
UMWA BALLOT
Court Judges Between
Two Corrupt Gangs
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tape provided for handling ballots
and election reports by the U. M.
w. A. constitution, the nominations
are not void. Cappellini's name will
go on the ballot as a nominee for
district president, running against
Boylan. Thomas Lavelle goes on
for secretary-treasurer.
No such ruling as this was ever
possible when the Lewis administra-
ton or its district subordinates
ruled progressive opponents off the
ballots.
But when it is only a fight be-
tween two reactionary groups, either
of which will equally we'll sell out
the members to the employers, the
courts can afford to indulge in a
certain amount of common sense.
Cappellini and the Boylan gang
fight each other with hired gunner;
the sort they have both used against
the membership when in power.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
Another Clinic Blast
Victim Dies: Militarists
Still Exploit Disaster

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June g.
Victims of the Clinic explosion, for
which the hospital officials were
criminally responsible, continue to
die even while experts from the
Chemical Warfare Service of the
war department are busy on re-
search work in an aim to get the
deadly secret of the gas for use in
the next imperialist war. The death
of Barbara Merwin, a clinic secre-
tary, brings the total death toll to
1875.
She had been discharged after two
weeks treatment at Massillon City
Hospital, but was forced to return to
the hospital several days ago for
further treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
FERRARI SLIPPED
WARDER $4,000
Bank Probe Reveals
More Graft
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page OneJ
den death Just before the collapse
Of the bank led expert medical men
to voice the opinion that the death
was not entirely due to natural
causes"
More light on Warder's plans to
cross to Europe were revealed by
the banking department clerk, who
said she had seen Warder's passport
shortly before he resigned as bank
ing superintendent when confronted
with an discriminating network of
evidence. sit might make trouble"
Warder had said when the clerk told
him that Paola had planned to make
q "clean breast of things to the dis
trict attorney"
Prominent Tammany leaders and
tie editor and publisher of the fas.
cist newspaper, GIL Progressc," are
already implicated in the swindle,
while new developments dragging in
others high up in the city admins
tration may leak out in spite of the
protection of certain leaders behind
the probe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
AIM FOR GREATER
SCHOOL CONTROL
Power Trust Plots in
Convention

ATLANTIC CITY, June 5.-Fur-
Their plans for the control of public
opinion" by power interests were
pushed at the convention of the Ma
tional Electric Light Association
here in a program submitted today
calling for the encouragement OF
measures aiming at free publicity
from educational administrators OF
national prominence and standing
and the approval of guiding prin-
ciples to control future cooperative
activities involving educational in
stitutions."
The program aimed to meet the
Criticisms leveled at the electric in
dustry during the last year." The
criticism referred to emanated from
the Federal Power Trust Commits
sion, where it was disclosed that
power trust representatives turnout
the country had been making deals
with newspaper publishers which the
power trust tried to pass off as "a
means of ensuring an outlet for
newsprint." The international Pow
er and Paper Company had secretly
bought controlling interest in many
newspapers and it had been admitted
that at least one editorial attacking
public ownership in a Boston news
paper had been written by power
trust publicity man.
Other measures planning for
closer control of educational insti-
tutions under the plea of "coopera-
ton" were urged by delegates.
Even while greater control of the
channels was being planned by the
power interests, the Senate today
passed weak resolution transmit
ting to the attorney general for
"such action as may be appropriate
the ownership statements filed by
Is newspapers mentioned in the
Federal Trade Commissions inves-
tigation.
Even the mild resolution was
passed to quiet the rising tide of
protest against the activities of the
trust.
No concrete suggestion is adj
vanced in the resolution, which
vaguely requests appropriate ac-
ton" and asks "what legislation, if
any, is necessary to make complete
ly effective the provisions of the
postal law requiring the newspapers
to file statements revealing their
owners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
Actors Equity Moves
to Organize Talkies

An attempt to apply the union
shop policy of the legitimate stage
to the field of sound and talking
motion pictures will be started by
the Actors Equity Association, the
labor union Of theatrical perform
ers.
Frank Gilmore, president of the
Council Of Equity, announced yes
terday that a new policy Of the
council, which goes into effect i'm
mediately, is that Equity members
will sign talkie contracts only on
Equity contract blank forms and
will prohibit members Of the organ
ization from appearing in sound and
talking voice productic'- .--'ess all
members of the G. y to
Equity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
AWAY Split on Probe.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June g.
Further delays in the "investiga-
ton" of southern textile conditions
appeared likely when the senate COM
nlittee on manufactures submitted
two reports on it.
The majority report, six mem
bers, calls for the investigation to
Id conducted by the federal trade
commission and the tariff commits
sfpn, on the far-fetched and mani
testify absurd grounds that some of
the Carolina strikes might have
been started by northern manufac-
turers.
The minority report, of five men,
bers, calls for the senate to make
the investigation.
Can Easily Stop.
"A large section of the senate will
oppose any investigation, and the
careful and nearly equal division of
tie committee opens the way fo1
postnonements that can kill it alto
gather. The investigation. like the
senate probe of the mining strike,
is-intended to afford an opportunity
for praising the employers and con-
Genning militant action by the
strikers. But some senators doubt
the advisability of even this tao
tic, and would disregard starvation
in the south altogether.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
Court Nullifies Law
Prohibiting Negroes
Voting; Prefers Rope

RICHMOND, Va, June 5.-The
Virginia primary law, which bars
Negroes from voting in democratic
primary elections, was ruled uncon-
stitutional by Federal Judge d. Law
rence Groner today.
Judge Groner held the law was
contrary to both the 14th and 18th
amendments to the federal constitu-
ton.
The regular way to prevent Ne
groes voting in the south is to let
them know that they will be lynched
IL they try it, or to use some round
about way like lteracy tests, grand
father clauses, etc.
No republican administration, with
tariff rates in its power, will allow
such tactless statute as the legis-
laturc passed. The federal courts
have seen the need for using cam
ouflaged measures against Negroes,
while the republican pprty is build
ing a machine amon- them.
For Four Wee or
Xn,~,.Sv W-~l o~us
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
'PICKETING CROWS
tho FOOD STRIKE
Leaders JAILED
Furriers Send Greeting
to Men in Prison

Continued from Page Ono)
ton as unorganized workers in open
shops. This has been the policy OF
Lehman since the beginning of the
! strike.
After an hour and one-half of the
demonstration, Lehman finally dared
to emerge, but only after calling a
strong police guard to escort him
through the ranks of the indignant
cafeteria strikers who booed him as
he took a taxi and reiterated as
rapidly as possible out of sight.
Furriers Greet Jailed Leaders.
A telegram of greeting to Michael
Obermeier, organizer, and Sam
Kramberg, secretary, of the Cafe
terra Workers. Union, who are now
in Jail following their refusal to pay
a fine for violating an anti-picketing
injunction, was sent by thousands of
fur workers who jammed Cooper
Union Tuesday night at the last
mobilization meeting prior to the
calling of the general strike in the
industry.
Signed by Irving Potash, chair
man of the organization committee
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union, who acted as chair
man at the enthusiastic demonstra-
ton of the furriers, the telegram
follows:
"The thousands of fur workers as
sembled in mass meeting at Cooper
Union to make their final decision
on the general strike send THEN
heartiest greetings to you comrades
who have been imprisoned for youl
militant struggles against the vi
cious injunction practices and fol-
the right of the workers to strike
and picket"
l. L. d. Hits failing.
At the same time the New York
section of the international Labor
Defense issued a statement denounc-
ing sharply the Imprisonment OF
Obermeier and Kramberg. Signed
by Rose Baron, secretary of the or
| ganization, the statement says:
"Unable to break the heroic strike
of the cafeteria workers by the var
ious devices used thus far, including
police terror and the most drastic in
junction in the history of American
labor, the employers courts have de-
prived the strikers of their two chief
leaders in the hope that this would
break their spirit. Thus the courts
add one more strikebreaking act to
their record, one more act showing
that they are owned body and soul
by the bosses.
"But the fond hopes of the cafe
terra bosses and their faithful tools
are doomed once again to disap-
pointment. This will only steel the
determination of the strikers to
fight on until they win their de-
mands. The New York District OF
the International Labor Defense
which is giving the cafeteria strik-
ers every possible aid in their fight
against the capitalist courts, pledges
to continue this support and calls on
the workers to ansTcc the falling of
their leaders by in.snsifying their
courageous struggle. Your fight is
the fight of all workers and neither
court injunctions nor police and thug
terror can crush it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
CREW LOST IN SHIP.

TOXIC, June 5.-It was reported
without confirmation today that the
steamer Ugo Maru, carrying a group
of fishermen, was burned while on a
voyage to Kamchatka, with great
loss of life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06


GASTONIA, N. c., June s.
"Red" Hendricks, a striker from the
Loray mill, was blackjacked and Sc
riously injured after speaking at
last nights meeting. Although
badly hurt, and in danger of being
murdered, Hendricks today declared
that he would be back speaking for
the strikers soon.
An enormous mass meeting at the
mill gates last night heard him APP
peal 70 those working in the mills
to- come out on strike, and not to
help take bread out of the mouths
of their fellow-workers.
Ambushed by Police.
AS Hendricks was on his way to
8 house where an important union
meeting was being held he was way
laid by Tom Gilbert, a cast-out po-
liceman whose anti-union violence
had been notorious, and who had
been warned away from the strik-
crs' tent colony several times in the
last week along with other providers
sept there by the mill companies.
With Gilbert were other mill own
ers' thugs. They caught Hendricks
at a dark corner of the road and
called to him to come over to their
ear.
Hendricks said; "Do you want to
arrest me-"
NO" replied Gilbert; God damn
you, / want to kill you'll"
Gilbert then jumped out of the
car and seized hold of Hendricks,
while some of the thugs black
lacked him and others kicked him.
Tried to kidnap.
Then they attempted to drag him
into their car, accompanying their
actions with threats to commit muir
der upon him.
People coming down the street
frightened them off, however, and
Gilbert dropped Hendricks in the
road and left in his car.
Hendricks has been splitting blood
from internal injuries all night,
After the beating, he returned to
the union lot and rested, then went
on to the meeting to which he had
been going when attacked.
Need More Relief.
A membership meeting of the
Gastonia Workers International Re-
lief Committee is scheduled for to-
morrow in the relief tent.
sFunds are needed more than ever,
with the spread of the strike in the
Carolinas and the necessity for car
ing for many sick, also for purchas-
ing more clothing and shoes for the
strikers, who have had no chance
to buy any since they left the mills.
Money for the textile strikers should
be sent to Workers international Re-
lief, l Union Square, New York
City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06

After every revolution marking a
progressive phase I'm the class strug-
gle, the purely repressive character
OF the State power stands out In
holder md holder relief.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06

1t 10 the ultimate aim Of this
work ("CnpitaI") to reveal the
economic law of motion Of modern
sOciety.-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-06
$500 S TRIKE IN
CAROLINA; UTW
TRIES TO BETRAY
A. F. L. Officials Busy
Ordering Men Back

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are the Anderson mill, 1900, and
mills at Whitmire, where $500 are
oIt to enforce the demands of the
speeders who have taken the often
sive and demand a Is per cent wage
increase.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
RICKETS HELD TO FOLLOW
TOO MUCH CEREAL IN DIET
Scientists Revise Views on Causes,
Following Experimental
Feeding.

And now, q great victory for the
baby! For years the baby has been
urged to eat more cereal In order
that he might grow big and strong
like daddy. Every spoonful was repre-
sented as contributing just that much
more toward this presumably desirable
end. Now we are told that 1t Is pos.
sible to have too much Of such a good
thing. But let us tell the story as
we have it. The children affected
cannot read anyway, so it viii give them
no advantage.
I'VE have become used to the idea
that ricketts, is a vitanlin deficiency
condition, and yet there are several
facts which initiate strongly against
complete acceptance Of this hypothesis.
The most important consideration Is
the fact that ricketts, can be produced
experimentally by feeding with excess
of cereals" says L. Mirvish, in Nature,
London. "It will be remembered that
before the demonstration that ricketts,
could be induced In puppies by o diet
devoid Of what we now know 70 Be
vitamin A, one theory OF the etiology
of ricketts, In infants attributed the dis
ease to the well known excessive earbo-
hydrate, or to be more accurate, cereal,
intake of the children.
"E. Mellanby, Hoist and Green have
followed up this interesting observation,
and their recent investigations have
shown even more concluSively that
typical ricketts, can be induced In grow
ing puppies and rats by feeding with
excess Of cereals or by adding extracts
of cereals to diet, which does not pro-
duce ricketts, in control animals"
We may have to revise some Of our
ideas as to the cause Of ricketts,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
STAYS ; IN FAMILY
TO SETTLE GRUDGE
California Truck Driver Ad-
mits Killing Mother, Father
and Three Children.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 5.-Hav-
ing confessed that he killed five men,
bers of one family to satisfy an "old
grudge," Armando Boltares, 24-year-old
San Fernando, Calf, truck driver, to-
day was held in the county Jail for trial
on charge of flrst-degree murder.
Boltares, arrested yesterday, confessed
to Capt. William Bright of the sheriff S
homicide division that he had beaten
to death with club Mrs. Helena Al
varez- Garcia, her son, Charles Alvarez,
Is, and two daughters. Carmelita, IL,
and Elisa, 6, and then decapitated their
bodies and buried them in shallow
graves in Pacoima Canyon, near san
Francisco.
He asserted he later traced Luciano
Garcia, head of the family, to AzuSa,
Calf, shot him, and buried the BODY on
the ranch, where he was employed as
laborer.
Picnickers Find Grave.
Although the mother and three chill
dren were killed on october and the
husband on October IA, the slayings
did not come to light until Thanksg1v-
ing day, when picnickers discovered
the grave Of Charles Alvarez.
The graves of Mrs. Garcia ana the
two girls were found next day, and Gar
cia's grave was discovered by hunters
after police launched search for him
on the theory he might have slain his
wife and stepehildren.
Boltares, who confessed soon after
his arrest, said the killings were the
result of an old grudge. He said Mrs.
Garcia two years ago induced him to
draw 81 900 from his bank account and
since then had been trying to poison
him to get the money. He also SAID
the woman tried to come between MIN
and his sweetheart, Dolores Guichapa.
Takes Sweetheart to Spot.
The suspect said he killed Mrs.
Garcia and the children after taking
them for a ride in his truck. Five days
later he located Garcia and shot him.
He said he took his sweetheart to Azusa
and showed her the grave where he had
buried Garcia.
Miss Guichapa, who is being held as
a material witness, admitted Boltares
had taken her to AZusa and pointed
out q spot of newly-spaded earth ne
said was GarciaS grave.