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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-21
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BY ROBERT s. THORNBURGH
international News Service

3W&EEMGNADhAMA
Experts Of the United States Pub
lie Health Service will study the re-
suits Of the influenza epidemic in 10
or IL large cities, scattered through
the country, and in one rural dis
trict, probably Missouri, it was an.
nounced today.
Passed It's Peak
Plans for the nationwide survey
were rapidly taking shape as reports
reached the Public Health Bureau
Indicating that the flu epidemic has
passed its peak. Officials were hope
full that statistics received this week
would show a still further decrease
In the new cases and deaths.
Surg. Gen. Hugh s. Cummings Sc.
Iected DR.. M. v. Veldee, specialist in
epidemic diseases, as the chief CO.
ordinator for the field operations.
DR.. A. M. Stimson is in charge of all
research, while DIR. G. w. Mccoy
will direct the laboratory studies OF
influenza. in connection with the
field studies
Since the corps of experts, to con.
sist of about II physicians, each
with a half dozen or more special
enumerators as assistants, will not
begin operations In any district until
the epidemic has definitely passed,
it was expected that the initial
studies would be made in California
San Francisco, Los Angeles, or
both.
Every phase OF the epidemic will
be investigated and catalogued. All
data compiled by State and munich.
pal health officers viii be recorded.
House.to-house canvasse are
planned to determine the approx
mate percentage of the population
affected, the cycle of the disease
as to individuals and communities,
the symptoms Of patients. age
groups attacked, severity Of the
disease and after effects
The information compiled viii be
interpreted by Public Health ex-
perts, while an effort viii be made
to obtain all data resulting from
private studies OF flu In progress
by medical experts, large hospitals
and universities.
The laboratory studies will be
directed chiefly at the effort TO
isolate the influenza germ, never
specifically identified. Little head.
way can be made in development
Of preventative or curative vaccines
until the flu germ Is identified,
according to experts.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-21
SALLIES' itch I
FACES DELAY

LONDON. Jan. II u.N.s.l.--Court
action on Gen. Bramweli Booths
Injunction restraining the Salvation
Army high council from acting
upon its resolution declaring him
unfit to continue in office, today
was postponed until Friday.
The injunction continues in effect
until after the court hearing. The
council, therefore, win be unable TO
select successor to the general
until after the court renders q
decision on the injunction Friday.
Counsel for the Salvation Army
told the court they desired time to
prepare an answer TO the evidence
offered BY Gen. William Booth 8
lawyers
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-21
HAYES Captive
WIFE FEARS

FLINT, Mich. Jan. Fl u.N.s.l.--
Although police express their
doubts, Mrs. VIVA Hayes. wife OF
Luciua Hayes, missing Flint CON
tractor. insisted today her husband
Is being held BY gangsters of
Cicero, III.
Since the disappe arance Of Hayes
last December. authorities have
been at q loss As TO his where
abouts. Mrs. Hayes says she re.
ceived q letter from Chicago last
week which stated the contractor
had been kidnapped and imprisoned
by Cicero ganssters.
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Record List of Drunlxs
Admitted to Bellevue

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.Adnait-
tances to the alcoholic ward Of
Bellevue Hospital have reached the
greatest number for any 24.hour
period since the beginning Of the
year. Twenty-eight men were taken
in. Their ages ranging from II
to IS years.
s'Cold weather causes people to
drink more for warmth. said Chief
Medical Examiner Charles Norris.
That may be the cause Of the IN.
crease.
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OLD FLooR DOOMED

ALLENTOWN, Pa. Jan. z1.--Be.
cause August S. Hohl. one of the
Prothonotary's clerks, developed
rheumatism from the damp floors
Of slate. liz years old, workmen
today tore the ancient stone away
and will lay wooden floors in this
section Of the courthouse
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
COAL COMPANY CARELESS OF
WORKER LIVES; SEVEN ARE DEAD
4 Rescuers Gased; Brother of Faker Lewis
Is State Mine Director; Will Clear Boss

worked through the hazardous deb
ris. Progress was halted, due to
the blown-out brattices that had to
be rebuilt. Gases and the danger
Gus "black damp" suffocating
fumes further handicapped the work
of reaching the stricken area.
Five of the bodies were not
brought to the surface until late
Sunday morning. The body of Nc
Dermott was found and brought to
the surface late in the afternoon.
The body of James Tabor has not
been discovered, due to the absence
of roof supporters, it is thought by
rescue teams that Tabor's corpse is
buried under hundreds of tons of
rock that fell after the blast.
Four Overcome.
During the rescue work four
miners were overcome by the deadly
fumes, the gases and smoke. They
were rushed to the hospital for
treatment; their condition is not
definitely known.
A, D. Lewis, brother Of President
John L. Lewis, Of the United Mine
Workers, by the way, and director
of mines and minerals in Illinois,
has arrived prepared to make an
investigation" 1t will be recalled
that Lewis acquitted the coal COM
pany of all responsibility of the ex-
plosion that occurred two years ago
at No. IS, Peabody. The disaster
at that time killed II coal miners.
Mr.. Lewis made the statement.
MY opinion is that the explosion is
purely a gas explosion" He de-
clined to make any statement as to
what were the exact reasons for the
disaster.
The National Miners Union
issued a statement that the coal
company's negligence of the air cir
culation as well as the general con-
dtion of the mines was responsible
for the death of the seven miners.
"The speed-up system, the bug
light which enables the company to
neglect the proper circulation of air,
and the so-called efficiency the
lowering cost of production are re-
sponsible for the victims. Only
through the organization of the
coal miners in the National Miners
Union, where the miners will fight
to perfect working conditions to
their own satisfaction, will mine
explosions ever be prevented" the
statement continued.
The National Miners Union will
hold memorial services in an open
mass meeting, where the fatal neg
ligenee of the coal company will be
exposed.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

ist, will again be the soloist, play
ing the Liszt Concerto in E flat
major. The Casar Franck Sym
phony and the Tchaikovsky Romeo
and Juliet" Fantasy are also on the
program. For next Sunday after.
noon at the Metropolitan Opera
House. Mengelberg has prepared
the Brahms Symphony No. l, the
Prelude and Finale from Tristan
and Isolde" and Stravinsky's Fire
Bird
At the last Junior Orchestral
Concert next Saturday morning at
Carnegie Hall, under the direction
of Ernest Schelling, the program
will include George Gershwin as So
loist in his Rhapsody in Blue"
Other numbers will be Loeffler's
Memories of My Childhood" Schel-
ling's Victory Ball, Delamarter's
Dance of the Sweethearts, and
Skilton's War Dance.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
defend The
SOVIET UNI0N''
N. Y. Communist Mass
Rallies Workers

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the revolutionary movement in
China that is mobilizing against the
Stimson threat and against Chang
Kai Shek's puppet Marking rule.
A tremendous ovation greeted the
appearance of Clarence Miller, one
of the Gastonia class-war prisoners,
VIII ospoke at the meeting.
Other speakers were NJ. j. Olgin,
editor of The Morning Freiheit;
Robert Minor, editor of The Daily
Worker; ]. Doonping of the Chi
nese Workers Alliance.
There will be a series of six other
meetings to mobilize against Wall
Streets war preparations against
the Soviet Union. These meetings
will be held on Friday night, De-
cember 10, at the following places:
Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East
Fourth St., Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave-,
near 42nd ST.; Bronx, Rose Garden,
13b Boston Rd.; Williamsburg, Mil
ler's Grand Assembly Hall; Astoria,
L. l., Bohemian Hall, and another
meeting will be held in Brownsville.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
FORM Bull DING
Service union
Conference Starts Big
Organization Drive
Continued from Pane One }

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Union Unity League. Feinstein told
the story of the betrayal of the
window cleaners strike by the A. F.
of L. clique and showed the neces-
sity of organizing on an industrial
basis under militant, rank and file
leadership.
Biedenkapp, in a stirring speech,
described the struggles of the shoe
workers against the combined forces
of the bosses, the capitalist govern
ment and the labor betrayers. By
graphic illustrations he showed the
urgent need of unity of all the
workers on an industrial basis in
the fight against their enemies.
Biedenkapp pointed out the role of
the T. U. U. l.. and declared that it
would give militant leadership to
the struggles of the building service
workers.
Launch Organization Drive.
A resolution was unanimously
passed showing the necessity Of or
ganizing the new industrial union
and announcing the immediate
launching of a three months drive
to organize the thousands of unor-
ganized building maintenance work
ers throughout the city. A commit
tee was elected to take charge of
this organization campaign.
The following officers of the new
union were elected: president, Pinto;
vice president, Doyle; recording
secretary, Moore, a Negro worker;
secretary treasurer, Feinstein; or
ganizer, Rickert; sergeant-at-arms
MASTERPIECES; trustees, H IN ! a k
Hackenberg and Schneider. Thomas
Owerkin was chairman of the meet
ing.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
Z CASTOR Defendants
at Banquet Dec. 13

Leaders of the revolutionary
movement will be among those pres
ent at the big Gastonia and Anti
Terror Banquet that has been ar
ranged by the New York District
of the International Labor Defense
and affiliated organizations on Fri
day evening, December 13, at 1880.
The banquet will be held at Stuyve-
SAINT Casino, 142 Second Ave.
j. Louis Engdahl, national secre-
tary of the International Labor De-
fense; Robert Minor, editor of The
Daily Worker, and I. Amter, organ
izer of the New York District of the
Communist Party, are some of the
working class leaders who will at
tend the banquet.
The guests of honor will be the
seven Gastonia defendants, Fred
Beal, Clarence Miller, X. Y. Hen
dryX, W. NJ. McGinnis, Louis Nc
Laughlin, Joseph Harrison and
George Carter. All of them will
speak. A unique entertainment
program is also being arranged.
The banquet will also celebrate
the opening of the District Conven-
tion of the I. L. D., to be held Sun
day, December Is, at 10 a. m., in
Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Pl.
All tickets must be reserved in
advance as none will be sold at the
door, They are on sale at the office
of the New York /. L. D., 799 Broad
way, room 422.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
The Directors TiewbOlmt--
NeW BABYLON IN the MAKING

There was a good deal of advance
discussion, if not publicity, in
Soviet circles concerning New
Bablon," while the film was in the
process of making. The fact that
the ultra-modernist "Feks" group
was producing a film about the
Paris Commune, a theme, held vital
from the revolutionary point of
view, was in itself enough to rouse
both curiosity and misgiving among
those who take the film products
seriously, which is the rule with
Soviet leaders, educators and intel
lectuals. IN the mass of advance
items on this film we find a joint
statement by its producers, G. Ko-
zintsev and L. Trauberg. This is
what they have to say:
New Bablom is a melodrama-
tic narrative Of the Paris Commune.
1t is narrative of distant days
which we attempted to present in
the language Of our day.
"The theme of the film embraces
the period between tn fall of the
Second Empire September, 1870)
and the fall of the Paris Commune
MAY, 1870. The heroes of the
film are a stolid Versailles soldier
who came to realize the meaning of
the current events as a result of
the horror produced by the whole
sale execution Of the Communists;
and a poor driven salesgirl of a de-
partment store who sacrificed her
nameless life on the barricades of
Paris.
THE night life Of Paris, the fall
Of the Vandome Column, the Pere
La Ohaise cemetery, the wall of
the Communards-all this was
filmed IN Paris. The hill of YER
sailles and the barricades were
filmed in U. S. S. R., also the mob
scenes of the sale in the department
store and the hill.
During the many days in the
Latin Quarter as we elbowed our
way with the camera among French
workers. wearing velvet trousers,
even as their fellows 60 years ago.
During our departure from the
acknowledgements principles of the
Soviet cinematography, as we
brought together him and her, the
stolid soldier and the salesgirl of
the department store-as we brought
them together in the thick smoke of
honest battle.
During cur fumblings, with the
obsolete cannon dragged from its
resting place in the museum in
order once more to shoot down the
rain-soaked Communards.
eve were awars of something we
had not experienced during the
making of any Of our earlier films;
For the first time we were very
eager and impatient to see the film
we were making. We are burning
with curiosity to see the film called
"New Babylon"
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
BY GERRY ALLARD.

Seven coal miners were blown to
death in terrific explosion Decem-
Der / at Old Ben, No. s mine, at
West Frankfort, III. Old Ben has
some Is large mines concentrated
mostly in Williamson and Franklin
counties. The explosion was caused
by gas pockets that had accumu-
lated, due to lack of proper ventila-
ton. The blast gained greater
impetus through cold dust that lies
along the entries, and with cyclic
mic force rocked the four corners of
the pit.
The victims of the catastrophe
were blasted beyond recognition,
Identification being possible only
through numeral checks on their So
called safety" bug-lights that
miners wear to work by in the
mines.
The victims Of the disaster are:
Jewel Baker, 81, survived by wife
and two bableS.
Dewey Baker, 20, brother, sur
vived by wife and also two babies.
Henry Isaacs 25, survived by wife
and seven months old infant.
E. E. Bearden, "a, survived by
wife and two children.
Veto Gerirdini, so, survived by
wife and one child.
Thomas McDermott, 60, single.
James Tabor, missing as yet, al
though it is considered virtually
certain that he also lost his life.
More Might Have Died.
The blast occurred during the
night shift, where maintenance
crews work keeping the mines in
shape for the day shift that en-
ploys some 500 men. The company
announced that % men were in the
mines at the time of the explosion.
Fifteen miners narrowly escaped
death.
In spite Of the cold blistering
winds that swept through this Sec
ton, with four inches of snow, hun
dreds of miners with women and
children watched for hours the hoist
ing of relief crews.
The grim, tough faces of the
miners, the whimpering sobs of
women and childrei., created a mel
ancholy picture familiar to all coal
diggers in hundreds of other such
catastrophes. The officials of the
coal company quietly whispering to
one another added to the cold, bitter,
gloomy drama.
Rescue teams, composed of coal
miners from Benton, Herrin and
Johnston City, slowly but bravely
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
More Subway Pickets;
Mass Meet Tomorrow

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sending men with union cards to
scab at Grand Concourse.
At tomorrow's meeting there will
be speakers from the strike commit
tee, from the Trade Union Unity
League, and from the American Ne
gro Labor Congress.
Demands.
The strike committee has adopted
the following demands:
Laborers and muckers to get $3.50
day (they were getting $4.40);
timbermen helpers to get So (the
bosses are paying $4.4O); rock drill
ers and timbermen to receive $3.50,
instead Of $6.40; carpenters to get
$13 instead of $12; blasters to get
SIS instead of $12. The eight-hour
day, instead of the present 14-hour
day, is demanded, and the 44-hour
week, with no Sunday work, and
time and a half for overtime, in
stead of the present straight time.
The demands include: steam heated
dressing rooms, with lockers, for
changing clothes and adequate sani-
tary facilities, also hot and cold
water.
The strike committee demands
compulsory insurance payments in
case Of injury or death, to be paid
for by the employers and admin
istered by the workers, and inspec-
tion of all structures put up by a
union committee which will select
competent engineers. This is to
avoid the present terribly high rate
of accidents, which result in many
serious injuries and deaths.
Recognition of the new industrial
union, and establishment of job
committees is provided for in the
demands.
Concentrate On Strike.
The strike committee is concen-
trating especially now on the Bronx
job in order to pull out the 800 men
who went back to work after the
strike started, and while the A. F. L.
misleaders were in control of it. Re-
viving of the strike in the Bronx
will be a signal for spreading the
strike to other sections, where work
ers are anxious for the strike COM
mittee to come in and lead them in
struggle against the low wages and
bad conditions.
The Workers international Relief
continues its kitchen at strike head
quarters.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
MENGELBERG TO CONDUCT
BEETHOVEN NINTH
SYMPHONY

Willem Mengelberg conducts the
Ninth Symphony of Beethoven next
Thursday evening and friday after
noon at Carnegie Hall. The Phil
harmonic orchestra will be assisted
by the Schola Cantorum and by
Jeanette Vreeland, Nevada Van der
Veer, Fred Patton and Richard
Crooks as soloists. The program
will be completed by the First
Symphony of Beethoven.
Tomorrow afternoon at Carnegie
Hall, Jose Iturbi, the Spanish pian-
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
Midnight Performance OF singing
Aid Pioneers Build
Mass Organization
At Center Tomorrow

The first of a series of confer
ences to line DIP workers. organiza
tions in support of the Young Pho.
neers will be held by the New York
District of the Young Communist
League, cooperating with the Pio-
neers, at the Workers Center, 2S
Union Square, at p. M, tomorrow.
Specific problems of the workers
children and the building of the
Pioneers into mass organization
are among queStions for discussion.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
DRIVE OF FOOD
WORKERS union
A. F. w. Campaign
Makes Big Progress

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industrial union. A system has
been worked out which provides
special organization committee for
each separate chain store such as
Childs, Automass, etc. A special
committee for The hotels and restau-
rants, also committees to tackle the
problem of the organization of the
women, youth and the Negro work
ers in the industry.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
GRETA GARBO AT
PARADISE THEATRE

"The Kiss" a French drama,
starring Greta Garbo, comes to
Loew's Paradise Theatre for the
week beginning today. Jacques
Feyder, noted French director, ham
died the megaphone. Conrad Ma
gel cast opposite the star. Others
in the cast are Anders Randolf,
Holmes Herbert, Lew Ayres and
George Davis. Dave Schooler will
be master of. ceremonies. The bill
also includes a number of specially
acts.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

The Workers Laboratory Theatre
will give an all revolutionary pro-
gram at the Workers Center, rs
Union Square, Dec. s, at S.30 p. IN.
There will be two one-act plays
Marching Guns" and white Trash"
Negro spirituals. The Ferrer Dancers
in the 'Internationar' and music by
the Prolet Music Club. There will be
cts so cents at the Workers Bookshop
and Workers School. Seventy-five
cents at the door.
Working Women's Council .. Bronx
A banquet and concert to celebrate
the fourth anniversary of the Work
ing Women's Council 2, Bronx, will
be held Saturday evening. Dec Z. at
400 Boston Roard;
Italian Workers Ban.
a Grand Ball will be given by the
S14 f. 1O4th St. Saturday, Dec. Z.
at s p. m C~7tri'''tio~ 50 cents.
Textile Bnil Tickets.
Settle up for Thanksgiving Eve
Textile Ball tickets at once. N. Y.
Local. WIR.. 100 Broadway, room
Emergency Conference STRIKERS Aid.
Saturday, Dec. Z, / y. m, Local New
York, W.LR., 100 Broadway, room
221 Workers organizations and
unions should send representatives.
%
Volunteers Wanted, N.TW,U
Volunteers for technical work
wanted al once at the National Tex
tile Workers Union. Comrades should
report for work during the day time
or in the evening.
Nidn;uht Daxe(
A midnight performance will take
place on Saturday, Dec. Z, at II D. M,
at Allerton Theatre. near the Cooper
ative Colony. The Sovkino movie.
Seeds of Freedom" will be shown,
accompanied by so singers.
Midnight Performance OF singing
Society.
A midnight performance of the
Freiheit Singing Society arranged by
the operative section of the Sing
ing Society VIII take place tonight
at IL p. m. at the Allerton Theatre
near the Cooperative Colony Good
program.
To All Labor Unity Agents.
This weeks Labor Unity Is off the
press. All Labor Unity agents are
70 get their amounts from the dis
trict T.U.U.L. office.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
Labor and Fraternal
Organizations
T.C.W.W. Celebration.

Council 5 of U.C.W.W. viii cele-
brate its 9Th anniversary by having
a splendid supper and entertainment
on Sun. Dec. 22, at 2901 Mermaid Ave.
Coney Island
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

meeting Of the New Jersey Sec
tion Executive Committee Will be
held Sunday, Dec. s, at Workers
Center, SO Mercer St, Newark, N j..
beginning 10 d. m. sharp. A program
of work for the section will be work.
ed out. A district representative will
also be present. All members of she
Section Committee must attend and
be on time.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

A ball will be given by the N z.
Scandinavian Workers Clubs at Her
max Hall, 9th Ave. and First ST.. Sat
urday, Dec. 7. S p. m. Music will be
supplied by the 10-piece Normandie
Orchestra. Boxing exhibitions will
ho eri1
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

All industrial organizers and all
section organizers are instructed TO
complete the registration of all Party
members. Those who are not as yet
registered should do so Immediately.
This registration is of utmost import
ance in the building of the T.U. Ill
District Industrial Department.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

has arranged a lecture by Comrade
NJ. ]. Olgin on "Zionism and Commu-
nism," Sunday, Dec. s, at 3 p. M" in
Rose Garden, 1347 Boston Road. Ad-
mission 20 cents.
The daily worker., 1929-12-07

Build Up the United Front of
.fS Working Class From the Bot
om Up--at he Enterprises!
The daily worker., 1929-12-07
Clnss in Trade Unien Problems.

The symposium conducted every
Monday night at p. m. at the Work
ers School, 26 Union Sd. by Comrade
Robert Dunn under the title Amer
lean Trade Union Problems will have
for this week the subject Social In
surance in the Trade Unions" and is
TO be given by Comrade Grace Burn
ham. Admission is 25 cents. All
workers interested in organiza tional
problems should attend.