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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
IN THE SHOP S
Food to Punish
DeSeytexs Jailed IN Army

from the Inspector generals depart
ment inspected the prison. He was
also to inspect the dining room at
dinner time. Because of that, we
had steak for dinner.
l was told once, that general pris-
oners according to army regulations,
are to get a food allowance, even
more than men IN the service be-
cause of their hard labor.
The officers, who were stationed
at the prison, 1 believe made plenty
of money out Of the food they de-
prived US of.
The poor food ruined our health,
decaying our teeth. Nearly all the
prisoners confined there and at all
army posts are in for desertion or
ABSENCE without leave. Many de-
sert because of the inhuman condi-
lions in the service.
The army law book is filled with
laws, to bind us to blind obedience.
For the least offence one is put in
the guardhtuse and tried. Many
also desert because they see they
have small chance to learn a trade,
about one chance in several hun
dreds. next to poverty due to I'M
employment, low wages, a desire tc
learn trade is the second major
reason why men join the army.
| EX-SOLDIER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

by an Er-Soldier Correspondent
This is the conclusion of letter
from a former military prisoner,
who tells of the brutality at the
Governors Islarl detention bar
racks.
l worke don the coal pile in win
ter. We shoveled coal in canvass
bags which was put on motor truck
and delivered by US into the boiler
rooms of the officers homes.
General prii ~ners can't get a cent
of pay for their hard labor. In civil
life, for the same work, we'd get
about SIS a day. The food served us
was very poor in quality. We were
fed about twice a day on Stun
(stew). We sure got tired of it so
often. When we'd get scrambled
eggs for breakfast we'd only get a
tablespoonful of it.
Often we'd get a change in menu
from stew to hash. When they
served dessedt at meal it usually
was something that did not cost
much, such as stewed prunes.
I'll never c~orget one day for sup
per we had hash. At about a. M,
at the same time, all of us were
stricken with ptomaine poisoning
caused by the hash we had eaten.
Once, while I was there, an officer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
SOCIALISTS IN
BIG SWINDLE OF
MUNICH AL BANK
Workers to Dig Into
Socialist Graft
wireless to I,,precorr.)

BERLIN. Oct. 7.-Concerning the
million mark swindle of the Berlin
municipal bank by the brothers
Sklarek, the Communist organ,
"Rote Fahne" publishes disclosures
proving that socialists introduced
the Sklareks into business and facili-
tated their swindles.
The "Rote Fahne" proves that the
socialist, Kieburg, director of the
Municipal Clothing Utilization COM
pany, deliberately permitted the
Sklarek firm to deliver shoddy in
the year 1921, whereby the COM
pany went bankrupt with a deficit
of 100000 marks.
Kieburg then was promoted to the
post of director of the All-Berlin
Clothing undertaking, where Kieburg
and the Sklareks continued the
game, with the result that this sec
ond company went bankrupt, with
100000 marks deficit. This second
company was deliberately bank
rupted in order to permit the
Sklareks to buy the business cheap
ly.
This socialist, Kieburg, also COM
mitted forgeries of large bills of ex-
change, but socialist authorities
hnshed the matter up. Many other
socialists are involved, and the social
democrats are moving heaven and
earth to stop the "Rote Fahne" ex-
posures, having prohibited the past
ing of "Rote Fahne" posters on
billboards.
The Communist Party, plus other
workers organizations, have formed
proletarian committee for investi-
cation into the Sklarek scandal in
order to find answers to the follow
ing questions;
Who brought the Sklareks into
business? What politicians and Of
ficials were constant guests of the
Sklareks at races, hunting parties
and banquets? Where are the
stolen millions?
wireless by Inprecorr)
BERLIN, Oct. 8.-The disclosures
in the Communist paper "Rote
Fahne" concerning the Sklarek
swindle is causing a panic among
the socialists. The paper today pub
fishes a report of the persons who
received presents" from the Sklarek
brothers, among whom is Berlin's
mayor Herr Boess, at present in
New York City, and number of
other prominent socialists.
Liebert, a prominent socialist and
director of the big Berlin municipal
undertaking, is now suspended fol-
lowing the disclosures in the "Rote
Fahne" accusing Liebert of gigantic
swindles with the Sklareks.
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ACT OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST "a. 1912.

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

erful weapon III the hand of the
bosses and is used against the mill
tant miners who are victimized at
every turn.
To understand the extreme i'm
portance of this industry on the
Mesaba Range, one need only know
that three fourths of the total iron
ore production in the country is
mined there,
AS basic industry the bosses are
using every means to keep the work
ers employed in it away from or
ganization. To further this the COM
pany in many sections refuse houses
to foreign born workers, and try
to use the native workers against
them. In the struggle of the work
ing class for the Defense of the
Soviet Union and Against Imperial
ist War, the organization of the
metal miners plays an important
role.
Enemies of Labor.
In Minnesota and Upper Michi-
gan, whilst not going any organiza-
ton work, the A. F. L. betrays the
miners through the Farmer Labor
Party. Every move for struggle is
met by pessimism and sabotage. A.
f. L. leaders like Mr.. McEven, edit
or of the Labor World, Duluth, uses
his paper openly as an instrument
TO the steel trust against the miners.
Chauncey Peterson of Duluth,
Farmer Labor legislator and A. +.
L. stalwart, was recently exposed
as a stool pigeon in the pay of the
steel trust. This rat has been an
obstacle in the way of organization
for some time.
The I. w. w. in the metal mining
fields has degenerated into one of
the worst obstacles in the organiza-
ton drive. Every move for organ
ization is opposed by them unless
directed towards the stagnant /. w.
w. Existing as it does on its past
fighting record, the I. w. W. is
Quickly breaking up for want of a
concrete organizational program.
Standing out as the only force
able and willing to organize the
metal miners is the National Miners
Union. This militant union has led
heroic struggles in the coal fields
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

all industries, automobiles, textile,
metal, coal, needle trades, farmers,
co-operatives, ETC., to select one or
two delegates to participate in this
Twelfth Anniversary Celebration.
The only expense for each delegate
will be steamer from New York to
the Russian border and return, which
will amount to 5000. Our aim is to
acquaint the workers with the facts.
Workers who are not yet convinced
about the Soviet Union should go
and see with their own eyes. Shops
and factories where the workers are
interested in sending delegates
should write to US at IT'S Fifth Ave-.
Room 512, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

tense and Recognition, and which
aims to educate the workers and
farmers of this country about the
achievements Of the Fiv e-Year Plan,
has undertaken to conduct this dele
CATION.
"The workers will visit the most
important centers, Leningrad, Mos
COW, Dnyeperstroy, Tiflis, Rostov,
etc., and during the six weeks will
be guests of the Russian workers
and peasants, with free food, lodg-
ing, entertainment, an dtransporta-
ton. We will have special English
speaking guides to lead the delega-
ton.
eve urge workers from shops of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
CAN'T FIND EDITORIALS.

The Weekly People, organ of a
counter-revolutionary sect known as
the socialist labor party, states that
the Daily Worker, reduced to four
pages, has ceased publishing editor
ials. Being an imitator of the
American capitalist press, both in
content and makeup, the ignorant
editors have not perceived that our
editorials hava been transferred to
IL, lef.-hand side Of the first page.
whtsS major political questions arc
snalyxed each day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
'CANNERY SLAVES
WELCOME T.U.U.E.
Oakland Workers Have
Enough of Slavery
(By q Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
OAKLAND, Cal. (By MaiD.-
Sevenu truck drivers were fired re-
Gently for sympathizing with the
striker sin August and this created
bitter feeling against the COM
pany.
Workers shop committee issued q
bulletin, which was welcomed by the
workers. All took the bulletin eager
ly an dopenly Haunted it in the face
of the bosses. The forelady ran out
of the cannery trying to claw the
distributors of these bulletins, but
the workers only laughed at her and
cheered the distributors.
Two T. U. U. L. members came to
speak at the cannery gates recently
during noon hour. The enthusiastic
workers rushed out to hear them,
hut the boss got ahead and locked
the gates, commanding the women
to return to their work. The speak
ors were arrested an dheld incom-
municado without any charges
against them till next morning, when
they were released. The women
throughout the plant were indignant
and showed it in their remarks.
One woman worker rushed out
crying: Let's see what it is about;
let's protest against this Others
grabbed the leaflets through the
windows and fence. General COM
motion existed for an hour. The
boss fired the worker who shouted.
He narrowly missed a walkout in
his plant.
The A. F. Of L. labo rfakers did
not see the need to organize this
industry and the T. U. U. L. is OPEN
ly welcomed here.-Anne Alden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
CASTOR WITNESS
CoNFESSES BR!BE
Ford Admits Killings
Previous to Raid

Continued from Page One)
arrests. He did admit to "helping
to kill one man."
"Did he die?" asked Attorney
Unison of the defense.
'He shore did," Hord answered
with pride.
This killing, Hord said, took place
in South Carolina, where he was not
all offiser, and he had no warrant
ffor the mans arrest. Hord also
KILLED a boy a few years ago, but
twas acquitted.
The courtroom went into an up
.oar when Hurd admitted that he
was indicted in Cleveland County
for disorderly conduct, when he rode
his horse into church.
"But I have stopped drinking"
said Hord, in extenuation.
Hord contradicted the other wit
nesses when he said he had given
Ferguson, another of Aderholt's fol-
lowers in the attack on tn tent col
ony a rifle when they got out OF the
auto there.
H. c. Jackson, another of the
policemen VIII accompanied Adler
holt, admitted, under cross-exami-
nation, that he did not make any ar
rests in the afternoon when the Lo-
ray thugs tried to break up a meet
ing by throwing eggs and stones at
Beal, attacking Clarence Miller, one
of the workers on trial and firing a
Sshot. He denied using brutality IN
breaking up picket lines just before
1.-THE police went down to attack the
union headquarters to disarm the
guards in preparation for the muir
derous assault of the Manville
Jenckes Committee of 100.
Attorney Unison brought out
clearly that Jackson, like other wit
nesses, found it convenient to forget
everything said at the strike meet
ing except what the prosecution al
leges Beal said, and which they think
will incriminate him. When Jlmi-
son made sarcastic remarks about
Jackson's poor memory, and conven-
lent forgetfulness, Jackson invented
a story about writing down BeaPs
alleged statements in little red
book. Howe, II, he chad forgotten
to bring this book to court"
There will be a mass meeting next
Saturday at the old City Auditorium
in Charlotte, as part of the program
of the Southern Textile Workers
Conference. The speakers will be
George Maurer, fthe International
Labor Defens; James Reide presi-
dent of the National Textile Work
ers' Union; Hugo Oehler, southern
organizer of the N. T. W. u;
Tetherow, an dthe released defend
ants nthe Gastonia case; Russell
knight, Delmar Hampton, X. o.
Byers, and Sophie Melvin.
4 The Scuthern Textile Workers
Conference sarts Saturday, Oct. IL,
1 in Charlotte, and is assured large
delegations from N. M. U. locals
mill committees and organization
group sail over the textile belt, and
some delegates from locals OF the
United Textile Workers Union,
locals which do not agree with the
sell-out policy Of tn U. I. W. Of
ficials.
On the 18th, there will be in Char
lotte the Southern Convention OF
the Trade Union Educational Leageu
with representatives not only from
text, mills, but from all the other
industries of the South, to lay broad
basis for organization work.
The results of these two confer
ence will be the stimulation Of
active resistance, on wide front
against the speed-up, the low wages
and the bad onditicns Of Southern
factory work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

and will lead the struggles in the
metal fields.
The Miners Industrial Confer
ence, together with the N. M. U.
Executive Board meeting at the
Trade Union Unity Convention in
Cleveland, concretely laid down
plans for the organization of the
Iron and Copper Miners into the
National Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09
MAITANTS STRIVE TO BROADEN
WALKOUT or 800 WHO STRUGGLE
AGAINST Mates vICTIMIzATION
Union Officials DenOunce Strike as Work of
National Minority Movement
Men Persist in Struggle Despite Orders by
Officials to Return to Work

ordering the workers to return to
work. Militants are striving to ex-
ten dthe strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-09

LONDON, Oct. S.-Five hundred
London busmen are striking despite
orders of the trade union officials
to return to work. The strike COM
gnenced Saturday in the London SUI
burE of Barking, owing to the dis
charge of two conductors who re-
fused to use the time-recorder be-
cause the latter was dangerously
placed.
The union executive issued pub
lie telegram denouncing the strike
as the work of the National Min
GRITTY Movement Cleft Wing) and
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
DOWN

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3. Appendage.
4. English school.
5. Group.
6. Doctrines.
z. Tatters.
8. Letter S.
9. Engaged in.
10. Tried out.
IL. Evil spirit.
13. Underground parts.
19. Strives against.
21. Pertaining to Spain.
%. Deletes.
25. Famous fabulist.
q. Soak.
90. Young dog.
50. Means Of defense.
SO. Closed vehicles.
24. Stings.
35. Hindu title of respect (pl.).
So. Defeated.
81. Sailing ship.
40 Siamese coin.
43. Come to earth.
ID. Crystallized precipitation.
~. Human beings.
48. Intercollegiate Prohibition
Association (ab.).
81. Typographical Engineer (ab,).
So. Comparative suffix.
The Washington times., 1929-03-05
ACROSS

1. Comparisons.
g. Furnish refreshments.
Il. Argue.
IL. Christian festival.
Ia. Prefix: out of. "
Is. Material removed by making
holes.
Il. Thus.
The Washington times., 1929-03-05

418. Vigor (scotch).
20. Baseball teams.
81. Japanese statesman.
%. Made cold.
"a. Entomology (ab.).
%. Encourage and support.
26. The vanquished.
2s. Proceeds swiftly.
80. Island (French).
81. United States Revenues (ab.).
50. Items of value.
35. Loot.
38 Allows.
80. Cry of cat.
Al. Bucket.
AZ. Unit of germplasm (pl.).
: 43. Strips of wood.
45. Noncommissioned officer (abO.
46. Collegiate degree (ab.).
Al. Kind of rapid-fire gun.
49. Prize-fighting title.
so. Purpose.
50. Character in Mother Goose,
81. Dispatches.
So. Turf.
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16
MAN DIES ON CALL0WS;W|FE
 NEAR IN CELL
First Time in History Man Executed with Wife
 in Same Prison

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Feb. 16- While his wife lay in a cell 200 yards distant in a state of collapse Edgar Lapierre, convicted slayer of an Oakland policeman, went to death on the gallows with a firm step and carefree laugh today He ran quickly up the 13 steps to the trap and while the guards fumbled with the moose and black cap, asked; Make it snappy."
 Lapierre was pronounced dead in 13 minutes after the trap had been sprung.
 Mrs. Lapierre is serving 10 years for complicity for the same crime.
 Before leaving his cell, Lapierre handed the warden note, direct ing that his heart be removed and sent to his brother-in-law, N M Wheatley, in Oakland, flor having caused the death of better man than himself"
 Wheatley testified against La pierre at his trial.
 This is the first time in his tory that a man has been executed with his wife in prison at the same time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16
ATTACK TRAIN;
 MANY KILLED
Mexican Insurgents Dyna- mite Train and Attack
 's Escort

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 16 yivcrs of a. train attack in which approximately 50 probably per- ished, are enroute to Mexico City from Yurecuaro near here, where the attack occurred.
 News of the attack received here said the entire military es- eort of the train, usually between 30 and 30, and its engineer and fireman, were killed.
 The train was dynamited by the insurgents and then the es- cort was attacked. The escort fought until ammunition was ex- hausted. The train was burned.
 Several members of the train crew detached the locomotive from the train and taking some of the passengers, ran through the insurgents lines to Zamora
 The entire garrison at Zamora has been sent in pursuit of the insurgents.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16
CAPT. WILKINS RETURNS FROM
 SOUTH REGION
Explorer Reaches Chile and Tells of Results of
 His Expedition

TALCAHUANO, Chile, Feb. Is.
 Capt George H. Wilkins arrived here yesterday on his return from Antarctic Air exploration from his base on Deception Island. He said he encountered a wholly unexpect- ed menace in the Southern lati- tudes.
 "The plane, on numerous occa- sions was hampered by immense flocks of birds which flew into the path of the machine in such num- bers that hundreds were killed by the propeller. Luckily the plane was not damaged" Wilkins said.
 Capt. Wilkins is returning to New York to plan another expedi- ton.
 Results of Flight
 Capt. Wilkins described the re- suits of his flight over the frozen south as follows:
 'I succeeded in establishing the existence of more than 1000 miles of coast line in the region west or Weddel Sea. named it Bowman coast in honor of the distinguish ed director of the American Geo graphic Society, of New York.
 Struggling against one thousand natural obstacles, could hardly arrange with my companion a single place to land during one aerial trip of more than 5000 miles when I might have made in teresting discoveries which per haps will have an enormous in fIuence in connection with the geo graphy of these places.
 For example. Graham l. an d, which figures on all maps as part of the Antarctic continent is oniy a series of islands separated by canals and by a strait which l named Stefansson Strait in honor of one of the first explorers in an enterprise of this character .'
 AIaskans Praised
 Capt. Wilkins praised the work of his chief assistants, Lieut.. Ben Eielson and Joseph Crosson, pi- lots, and both Alaskans, and Or vile Porter, his mechanic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16
GIRL SEVERELY
 BURNED;UNDER
 INVESTIGATION

CHICAGO, H.. Feb. 13.-An- other self-immolation, strikingly suggestive of the Elfrieda Knaak case, is under investigation at Evanston, a suburb.
 Miss Helen Friedrich, aged 22 years, was severely burned al- though not fatally in the fur mace at her home, much the same as Elfrieda Knaak.
 Miss Friedrich stuck her head and shoulders into the furnace and over red hot coals. The pain, however, forced her to fall back and her screams brought her father to her side.
 She cried: T am too much of a coward. I cannot go through with t."
 The girls hair was burned to her scalp and her shoulders were scared After treatment she was removed to a hospital.
 The girls father said she had been i'll and was apparently dis couraged by reason of an ear ail- ment. Physicians believe she was delirious when she went into the furnace room-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-02-16
KODIAK BEARS MAY BE SHOT
 SAYS JARDINE
Agricultural Secretary Re plies to Petitions
 of Alaskans

WASHINGTON. Feb. i6.--Sec- retary of Agriculture William M.' Jardine, in answer to a petition from citizens of Kodiak and Afog- nak islands, presented to him by Delegate Sutherland asking that all protective regulations against Kodiak bears be removed, inform ed the Delegate that the present regulations permit all that Ko- .Giak residents ask him and at the same time preserve the unique wild life species.
 The residents of the two AL aska islands, in petition to the Secretary of Agriculture, told the Secretary big brown bears were Ia constant menace tc human life, also destructive to livestock and agriculture.
 Secretary Jardine said there was an open season on bears from September 1 to June 20 and present regulations allow them to be killed wherever threatening livestock or humans or whenever they were discovered within half a mile of human habitation. He said he thought it best to allow the present regulations to stand although there might be a possibility of modification later.