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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Still Grinding Jingo
Propaganda From Graf
Flight; Whalen Aids

More air propaganda will be
ground out of the Graf flight to-
day when a network of radio sta
tons broadcast the New York re-
ception to the crew and passengers
of the German dirigible at both the
Battery and city hall. Jingo speeches
at the orgy to be staged for the
city's guests" in the Hotel Astor
will also pollute the air. Gorgeous
Grover Whalen is in charge of the
reception.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
BY LISTON OAK.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. l.
The following telegram was sent to
the Trade Union Unity Convention
yesterday, signed by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Southern Dis
trict, Gastonia Defense Committee:
Greetings to the Trade Union
Unity Convention from the work.
ers of the South, struggling
against persecution, terrorism and
lynch law in the stronghold of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

cerated in Jail due to the machina-
tions fthe textile mill slave driv-
ers. Your crime in their eyes is
that you fight in the workers. cause
with us. This is your crowning
glory. You shall all be free. This
is the determination of the textile
workers in the north and south bull
warked by millions of workers in
other callings. Long live the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union"
Volunteers for the Gastonia Joint
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
YCL GIRLS BEAT
MILITARY POLICE
Attacked in Anti War
Meet, Defy Arrest

An inspiring display of working
class solidarity which wrung from
case-hardened jingoes the exclama-
tion, "Jeez, those girls got CUTS"
yesterday saved young woman
worker from Imprisonment when
military police, acting on the orders
of their officers, attacked an anti
imperialist war demonstration held
under the auspices of the Commu-
mist Youth League at Camp Smith,
N. Y.
Twelve New York girls led t h e
meeting, one of series being con-
Quoted by the League to open the
eyes of the national guardsmen now
encamped there to the fact that
they, members of the working class,
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
By SENDER GARLIN

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept. L.
Droning voices of the lawyers re-
peat the same set of questions a
hundred times. This is the third
day of jury-picking in the Meek
lenburg county court house, and
when the session was over Thursday
at $50, total of six jurors had
been selected:
Court opens at $50. In fifteen
minutes two jurors are placed in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

Home.
Bronx-1330 Wilkins Ave, Work
ers Center; 2700 Bronx Park E.
United Workers Cooperative; 1851
Fourth Ave-, Bakers Local.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Workers
Club, I. 0. G. T. Hall, 65th Street;
Lithuanian Workers Club, 46 Ten
Eyck ST.; Finnish Workers Club,
764-40th Street.
Williamsburg-56 Manhattan Av-
enue Workers Center.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

The Gastonia Defense and Relief
Campaign Committee at 80 East
18th St., Room 402, N. Y. City, calls
on all workers to make success
of the tag days on August 30, 81,
September l and Labor Day, by
winding up this period today with
great collections, house to house,
street, and in the various amuse-
ment and recreational centers
where workers gather. Collect
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
GastOnia Defense Greets the
TUUC in End Week of Trial
Questions Asked Jurors Prove Prosecution Is
Out to Smash UniOnsm in This Trial

capitalist reaction. The textile
bosses are trying to utilize the
Gastonia trial to smash militant
uionism by railroading N. T. w. u.
organizers to prison and electrocu-
tion and destroy the workers right
to organize, strike, picket and de-
fend themselves. The National
Guard has been sent into Marion
to break the ranks of the strikers
and cover betrayal of Hoffman,
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

Defense and Relief Tag day today
in New York are asked to report
for collection boxes, credentials and
instructions to the following sta
tions:
Downtown-27 East Fourth St.,
Workers Center; rs Union Square,
Workers Center; 799 Broadway,
ILD-WIR room 237; 81 East Tenth
Street, Shoe Workers Union; a w.
S7th St., Millinery Workers Local
43; Is East Third St., Window Clea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

funds while you are on vacation.
Tho rapidly mounting expenses of
the trial will not permit delay.
money must be brought in to meet
the bills.
Go OF the beaches, to the parks,
to the camps and collect funds to-
day. You can make this weekend
period successful by big drive to-
day.
The second week of the trial be-
gins today You can see by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
EMgies of Gastonia Bosses
Burned by British Workers
Swell international Protest Against Manville-
. Jenckes Justice of Carolina Prosecution

Effigies of the mill owners of
Gastonia were burned at a mass
meeting of several thousand British
workers in Tower Hill, England,
when a resolution demanding the
freedom of the % Gastonia strik-
ers was sent to this country.
Together with the English mes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
F'rancO-Turk Treaty
IA Step in Plans for
Attack on the USSR

PARIS, Sept. IA new COM
mercial treaty has been signed be-
TWEEN France and Turkey, which
grants huge decreases in the tariffs
OF both countries for the signers of
the treaty. The treaty is a step in
the shifting of Turkey by Kemal to-
wards the imperialist powers which
plan to use Turkey in the attack on
the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

progress of choosing the jurors, how
charged with prejudice the air is
in Charlotte, N. C.
Only by the mass activities of the
workers will the Gastonia strikers
be freed. Follow the lead Of the
New England conference Of cotton
mill workers, which has sent the
following telegram from New Bed
ford to the strikers on trial:
Working class greetings to you,
valiant union members, now incar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
$4,000 Is Quota Set by
DgtY0ltAu Workers for
Gastomia Defense Fund
collect Until They're Free" Is Slogan for Tag
Days for Gastonia Class War Prisoners
Workers Youth Conference to Mobilize ir
Unions to Aid Defendants

Detroit, center of the greatest in
dustry of America, the manufacture
of automobiles, and center of the
speed-up, comparing only with the
Southern textile districts, has
pledged itself to raise $4,000 within
the next few weeks for the defense
of the Gastonia strikes.
This word was received today at
the national flee of the Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

ners Local 8; 131 w. 28th Street
Needle, Trades Workers Industrial
Union; sc E. 4th St., Ukrainians
Club.
Harlem--143 E. 103rd St., Work
ers Center; Is w. 126th St., Finnish
Workers Club; 1900 Seventh Ave-,
Unity Cooperative 1873 w. 51st ST.,
Hotel, Restaurant and Cafeteria
Workers Union; 347 f. 72nd St.,
Czecho- Slovak Workers Home; $50
E. s1st ST., Hungarian Workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

sage of solidarity came cablegrams
from more German working class
organizations, received at the ma
tional offices of the Gastonia Joint
Defense ard Relief Campaign Com
mittee, 80 East 18th ST., N. Y. City,
now conducting drive for funds
Continued on Page Five)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
TRAIN YOUTH FOR WAR

CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 1. -
Bradford Wiles, 14-year-old Chicago
school boy, today held for the second
straight year the championship in
the Class B event of the prone
sitting-kneeling Junior Rifle Corps
matches here. Wiles scored 281.
The event is part of the plan to
train youth as cannon fodder for
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
R. R. CLAIMS ANOTHER

OSSINING, N. Y, Sept. 1.-The
dismembered body of a man about
forty years old was found on the
tracks of the New York Central
Railroad here today. Apparently he
had been struck by more than one
train. One cent and bunch of keys
were found in his pockets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Sixth Dead in lingo
Air Meet; Sacrificed
In War Preparation

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. ]. -
Thomas Reid, trying for a new solo
endurance flight record, crashed to
his death early yesterday morning
after 38 hours in the air, and
brought the fatalities of the ma
tional air races and aeronautical ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
ACCUSE MINE FAKER.

CARTERVILLE, Ill. (By MaiD D.-
John Terry, former president and
three former officials of United
Mine Workers Union local IL near
here are accused by witnesses in
court of receiving money on death
claims outlawed by union rulers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

From factories, mills, mines,
railways, oil fields, stock yards
and canneries, docks and ships, Ne
gro and white, men and women,
young and old, came from every part
of the United States to help build
the Trade Union Unity League.
Seven hundred workers, predomin-
antly from the basic industries of
the country, burst into spontaneous
and familiar songs of the class
struggle. Unlike the convention of
the American Federation of Labor,
which is undistinguishable from a
convention of the National Business
Mems Association, the distinct prole-
tartan character was obvious from
the start.
When B. J. Byers, leading tex
tile organizer and father of one of
the Gastonia prisoners now in the
shadow of the electric chair, mount
ed the platform Hold the fort!"
rang through the house. Daisy Nc
Donald, wife of another defendant,
and Binnie Green, the 14-year-old
textile delegate from Charlotte, told
about the trial now in progress and
reiterated their determination to
continue to struggle against the
mill owners. The Charlotte confer
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
BLEAT PATRIOTISM"

ADELAIDE, Australia, Sept. l.
Australian toadies of British imper-
ialism are trying to have the "Song
of Australia" declared the national
anthem in order to lash up patriot
ism" and offset the rising tide of
militancy among the workers and
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

tional Labor Defense, 80 E a S t
Eleventh Street, N. Y. c., Room 402,
mobilizing the masses of workers to
save the Gastonia strikers from the
electric chair.
Detroit, as many other cities rails
ing funds and protest, held pre-
liminary Gastonia Defense and Re-
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
They're All Guilty. Is Cyv
OF One Charlotte Veuixeu1Qu
Sidelights on Great Trial Show How Mill Boss
Press Has Reused Opinion Against Prisoners

the box; J. G. Campbell, 40, news
vendor of Charlotte, and C. w. Mar
tin, carpenter who is a member
of the American Federation of La
Dor.
Campbell swears on the bible that
he is a Baptist, and believes Sin
nothing but the law and the good
God"
81 believe all the defendants are
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
Charlotte Court Cuts
the Scope Of Questions;
No New Jurors Picked
Venire Admits Would Like to Kill Unionists
Charlotte Mass Meeting for Union and Defense
Daily Worker Reporter Pledges Aid

CHARLOTTE, N. c., Sept Court will start tomorrow,
which holiday North Carolina and continue the
naon of members of the second vene of prospective uymen
in the trial of the 6 Gastona strikers and organizers
additional accepted in the session Saturday There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
3 ARAB ARMIES
FIGHT TO GUST
BRITISH RULERS
Trans Jordania Seized
BY Revolt; Invasion
Of Palestine Soon
Warship Shells Village
Non-Zionist Jews Unite
With Arabian Forces
BULLETIN.

BAGDAD, Iraq, Sept. 1.-The
Arabian independence movement
is seething in this British protec-
torate. There were ten casualties
today when police and British
troops clashed with an Arab dem
onstration in the streets. The
Arabs were protesting the Brit
ish troops in Palestine.
BEIRUT, Syria, Sept. 1.-Three
separate concentrations of. Arab
and Druse tribesmen who have de-
nounced the British mandate and
declared their independence are I'M
der way. Two are in Southern Sy-
ria, and will march on the northern
border of Palestine in a few days.
One is in Trans Jordania, whose
Emir, lAbdullah Ibn Hussein, has
sold out to the British, but who can
not control the Bedouins determined
on overthrowing British imperialism.
The British have practically lost
control of Trans Jordania, and are
hoping for the moment merely to
hold the line of the Jordan river
against the Bedouin attack.
The Syrian-Palestine border is
guarded by both British and French
troops, but it is long and irregular,
and it is expected that when the
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02

Bath Beach, Bay ST., Workers
Center.
Brownsville-153 Watkins Street,
Workers Center.
Borough Park-1S73 43rd Street.
Workers Club.
MINE WAGES DOWN.
PITTSBURGH (By MaiD The
volume of wage payments by an
thracite collieries in Pennsylvania is
II per cent less than year ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-02
THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS

For Workers Farmers Government
To Organize the Unorganized
Against ImberiaList War
For the 4O-H0nr Week
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
FIVE Counties join
IN GARDEN PROJECT
Expansion Of Vegetable Diet
Planned; 600 Women Enter;
Prize Tour Is Feature

To stimulate interest in the use Of
more vegetables In the diet. both
from health and economic stand:
points, is the purpose Of a garden
project in which 600 farm women who
are members of homemakers cluba in
five counties of the state are enrolled.
This new project has been worked
out by Letitia Jones and Mildred
Tackaberry. field agents In food from
the North Dakota Agricultural col
lcge, and county extension agents in
the five counties are helping the
homemakers clubs in carrying out the
plan. Counties involved are williams,
Mclean. Steele, Nelson and Noun
trail. 4
Six monthly lessons arc given to the
club members, at which they receive
instruction in the planning, planting
and care Of the garden. and in stor-
age Of fresh vegetables and canning.
They are being encouraged to try in
small way at first vegetable varieties
not ordinarily grown in the farm
garden such as Chinese cabbage, eel
cry. Swiss chard and spinach.
A county garden tour is planned for
late In july in each Of the counties,
and prizes will be offered for the best
gardens. Emphasis is placed on the
selection of varieties to cover the
season and to meet the family needs.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
Bridge for Wahpeton
Reaches Stage Of Plan
On Part of Minnesota

Possibility that q contract for the
bridge across the Bois de Sioux river
between Wahpeton, N. D., and Breck-
enridse. Minn., will be let Is advanced
In letter received 1t the state high
way department from M. J. Hoffman,
bridge engineer Of the Minnesota de-
partment.
Plans for the bridge are being
drawn by the Minnesota department
and q preliminary draft has been
submitted to Clifford johnson, bridge
engineer OF the North. Dakota de-
partment, for examination. It is
probable that temporary bridge will
be constructed north Of the perman-
ent structure 50 Is not to block traffic
while the new bridge Is being built.
It would provide two-way roadway
for vehicles and one sidewalk for.
pedestrians.
Hoffman suggested that bids on the
bridge be received at Wahpeton or
Breckenridge late In May or early in
June. representatives Of the two de-
partments to meet there for that
purpose.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
FERTILIZER TEST
ON SPUDS PLANNED
Armours Supplying Phosphate
for Treating Two Acres in
Mckenzie County

Potato growers Of Mckenzie county
will know next fall whether m appli-
cation Of artificial fertilizer would
have increased their yields. The
Armours Fertilizer company has
agreed to supply free Of charge
enough fertilizer to cover two acres.
g. A. Stenehjem. Arnegard, will pay
the freight and supply the land and
labor. The test will be conducted un-
der the supervision Of County Agent
Siemens.
A uniform field Of three acres will
be planted to certified potatoes and
divided into three equal portions Of
one acre each. The one acre will
then receive. an application Of 500
pounds Of fertilizer Of 6-l5.0 analy-
ses; the second will receive IN ap-
plication OF 500 pounds Of 3-15.l2
analyses: the third acre will receive
no fertilizer. Each acre will Be dug
separately in the fall and the yield
for each determined.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
The baby bed

OF $l,045.64 was for travel and ex-
penses The over-run was one year
and 10 days The total cost per
mile was $2,95e.lO OF which the con-
tract cost was $2,323.52 per mile.
"Pembina county, U. s. No. 81, Ham,
ilton south, lS miles. Engineering
$2o6.l7 per mile or 7.3 per cent.
Again construction engineering ex-
pensc runs up to $l,724.22 or 41.0 per
cent of the total construction en-
ginecrtng charge. The over-run was
one year eight months and twenty
seven days.
1T will be noticed that in most
cases where the engineering per cent
Is low the over-run also is low. ex-
cept In the last project. This proves
the wisdom OF requiring contractors
to complete their work within the
time specified in the contract. Prob
ably another saving might be affected
to both contractor and the depart
ment II contract awards could be so
arranged as to permit construction
work to be started and completed
within the same year. Besides, the
inconvenience to the public by reason
Of a partially completed road would
be greatly decreased. Every wide
awake highway department In the
country Is exerting itself to serve the
travelling public satisfactorily during
the time when roads are under con-
Struction.
May respectfully suggest that the
commission should be advised cur
rcntly by the submission Of similar
data, so that 1t may have more than
mere surmise that the department is
operating efficiently and cconomi-
cally. The public is entitled to
know. and, certainly the commission
ought to know the accomplishments
Of Its departmental employees"
In addition to a consolidated state
ment showing all available data on
construction and engineering costs,
Ermatinger presented detailed analy-
ses of each project. showing the total
cost. engineering expense and the
amount Of the engineering expense
chargcable to salaries and to expenses.
Under the general heading or travel
expense come actual travel allow
ances, money spent for meals and
hotels and an allowance to resident
engineers inspecting construction
work.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
DENTAL CONVENTION
TO FEATURE CLINICS
Nationally Known Experts Will
Appear Before the State
Meeting at Forks

Grand Forks, N. D., April 26.-(RH
A record attendance iS expected at
the annual convention of the North
Dakota state dental association to
be held here May II to 10. accord.
ing to DR.. l.. I. Gilbert, Of Fargo.
secretary Of the organization.
Three days Of lectures, clinics. dis.
cussion ana entertainment will pro.
vide instruction as well Is anause.
ment for those who attend. Seventy.
five per cent Of the dentists Of the
state. are listed on the association
roster and majority OF these are ex-
pected to be on hand.
The convention will be held In the
new Methodist Educational building
here and facilities have been provided
for more clinical demonstration than
have ever before been attempted at
q convention In this state. A greater
array Of nationally known clinicians
also will be on hand to demonstrate
the latest methods in dental practice.
Opening with registration and q
business meeting. the clinical work
will start on the opening morning OF
the convention. They will continue
with few Interruptions for three
days.
Special entertainment features have
been planned for the wives Of dem
fists attending the meeting.
Dentists from neighborine states
and Canadian provinces who are in
good standing In their state associa-
tions are invited to attend.
DR.. r. w. rote, Fargo, Is president
Of the state association and DR.. r. A.
Ogilyie, Grand Forks, Is chairman Of
tho executive and convention ar.
rAngements committees.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
State Road Grading Costs Shown to Average $645 Per Mile
Tree Planting Party
In Mckenzie County to
Show Farmers Method

Trees planted the right way grow
and provide excellent shelter and
shade under Mckenzie county condi-
tions, according to H. ]. aiemens.
county extension agent. To give
every farmer chance to learn how
trees should b planted, . tree plant
Ing demonstration has been ARRANGED
for by County Agent siemens. 70 be
held at Arthur Nelson's farm, five
miles north Of schafer. May 1. start
ing at 8 .. m. Lewis Mathews, from
the state forest nursery at Bottineau,
will be In charge Of the demonstra-
ton.
The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-26
cent. The ovcr-run on contract time
wss only thirty -cight days.

cent. The 0vcr-fun on contract time
wss only thirty-eight days.
valley City Division: Stutsman
county, state highway No. 0. Court
enay west, 1913 miles. The engineer
ing average Is l09 per cent or $302.7l
per mile with about 80 per cent Of
engineering going for travel expense.
The over-run was ten months and
IS days.
Devils Lake Division: Benson
county, state highway No. 81. Fort
Totten west, . miles. Engineering
per mile cost $4,000 or IA per cent.
of which 26 per cent was for ex-
penseS and the balance for salaries.
The over-run was eight months.
Nelson county. state highway No.
Is, Neville east. 10.7 miles. Engineer
ing per mile $268.46 or 7.3 per cent.
Expenses. however, represent 40 per
cent Of the engineering cost; rather
high. The over-run was only 48
days.
"Minot Division: Mountrail coun-
ty, state Highway No. %, sanish west,
10 miles. The engineering cost $875.25
per mile or 1904 per cent. but travel
expense at 80 per cent seems quite
excessive. Three months and 19 days
was the over-run.
"Renville county. state highway No.
S. west Of Mohall. 118 miles. En-
gineering $36397 per mile or III per
cent with travel at 231 per cent of
engineering cost. or $990.3l in money
for expenses other than salaries or
about 800 per mile. The over-run or
delay in completing the contract
within specified time. was nine
months.
Dickinson Division: Hettingcr
county. state highway No. Il. Mott
east. 8 miles. Engineering $555.55
per mile or ll.2 per cent Of the total
cost. Nine months and 6 days over
run. Thirty-six per cent Of the
construction engineering or $1.323ll
was for expense or travel. The con-
tract work cost $40.94l.67 and engi-
neering $5.O7l.29. Preliminary enei-
neering cost 4l51.l7 per mile while
construction supervision put the
state back 34O4.30 per mile.
Grant county. state highway No. 81,
New Leipzig east, A. miles. Engi-
neering &653.20 per mile or l46 per
cent. Construction engineering $lOO.25
per mile, Of which AIS per cent was
for expenses. The overrun was nine
months three days.
Grand Forks division, Grand Forks
county, U. 8. No. 2, Larimore east, 81
miles. engineering $635.58 per mile,
or 22.5 per cent. Out of a total of
$A,l11.63 for engineering 81 ,l0005 was
paid to private engineers whose work
was later discarded and a re-survey
made. This accounts In part for the
high cost. but AS per cent Of the
total construction engineering total