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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
Greek Political
Prisoners Starve
on Island PrisOn

ATHENS (By Mail) the 10th
of May, the Greek section of the
International Red Aid received de-
spairing telegram from the depor-
tees in the concentration camp on
the island of los. The telegram de-
clares that the deportees are prac-
tically starving and that the au-
thorities are sabotaging the payment
of the support sent by the Red Aid.
The deportees request the Red Aid
to take energetic steps Immediately
to force the authorities to pay out
the sums as otherwise the deportees
will not accept responsibility for
what will happen. The telegram is
signed by Waits in the name of 16
deportees. The Greek authorities
are not satisfied with dragging
workers away from their homes
and putting them on lonely islands,
but they torture them there with the
pangs of hunger and subject them to
all forms of petty persecution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
MINING BOSSES.
IN WACE-CUTTINC
DRIVE IN PENNA.
Wyano Miners Angered
at Slash
BIZ a Worker Correspondent

by w OTheF COTTeSpOHueHC
YUKON, Pa. by MaiD.-A wage
cutting campaign started by the
scabby Pittsburgh Coal Company in
the middle of April has reached the
Osborne coal mine of the Yougho-
gheny and Ohio Coal Co. at Wyano.
Seven hundred miners were affected.
Motormen were cut from $5.65 to
$5.25 a day, machine leaders cut
from SO to At cents ton. The
cut was taken with great dissatis-
faction and many miners quit.
Many of the men here are from the
coke region.
This mine at one time was under
union conditions. The company re-
pudiated the contract in 1926 and
opened up an open shop. The mine
was "picketed" for more than a year
by some Lewis horse traders who
never worked in time. They "pick-
eted" until the U. M. w. A. treasury
went dry-then they went back to
horse trading.
The Irwin district, except for
Wyano mine, has not been cut yet
but big cut is expected any time.
The miners better get chip" to them
selves and join the National Miners
Union, fight these wage cuts, or
else we will be further reduced to
slavery. This cut here is the second
since the mine resumed operations
about 10 months ago. Yukon, al
though unorganized, responded to a
man when the Save the Union Com
mittee issued its april 1928 strike
call-YUKON MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
TRIPLE PROGRAM AT FILM
GUILD CINEMA SATURDAY

Starting this Saturday, the Film
Guild Cinema will present triple
feature program: The first Ameri-
can presentation of "The Prince of
Rogues," drama of the exploits of
the German robin Hood known
in his native land as "Schinderhan-
nes." The period of his activities
was during the invasion of Germany
by Napoleon. The leading role is
played by Hans Stuwe.
A revival of Lubitsch's $50 This
is Paris" with Florence Vidor, Lii
yam Tashman and the flower-hurl-
ing Andre Beranger; the Life of
Beethoven" enacted in the locale of
the Master Composer. Fritz Kort-
ner plays the chief role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
Over 1000 Indian
Tin Workers Strike

BOMBAY (By MaiD Over a
thousands workers in the tinplate
trade are involved in a strike at
Jamshedpur, which has already been
going on for more than eight weeks.
The strike started early in April, the
main reasons being bad working
conditions, low wages and the
wrongful dismissal Of trade union
members. The men are organized
in the Tinplate Workers Union. The
management refused to interview
their representatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
Magyar Imperialist
Near Assassination

VIENNA, July 23.-An alleged
attempt to assassinate Streeuwitz,
the imperialist chancellor, was frus-
trated today on the steps Of the
chancellory.
A. Leitner, an unemployed jour
neyman blacksmith, is said to have
drawn a revolver and run toward
Streeuwitz as the latter emerged
from the state building. A police
man snatched the gun away from
the worker, it is claimed, and ar
rested HIM.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial starts July 20! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison terms, Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 3! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
International Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
Build shop committees and draw
the more militant members into
the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
"A FAKE SETTLEMENT"
What Occurred IONA Carpenters Raise

year, and of course it was great
victory for the A. F. of L. diplomacy
but, 10 and behold, Mr.. Klinger and
Co. ceased to pay the raise after
just two weeks and the union never
even registered kick until this
spring, when they made exactly the
same demands again and they went
on strike (Which was nice, peace
able affair." on June /.
Now they have the same kind of
settlement with no more assurance
of its being lived up to. They are
sold until December 81, 1881, that
is, if the contractors are willing to
pay the extra few cents until that
time.-CORRESPONDENT.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
MACHINISTS STRIKE.

BALTIMORE (By MaiD.-Ma-
chinists in the Flynn and Emerichs
and in the Monumental Iron shops
are on strike to establish the 81 an
hour union scale. Wages in these
shops are as low as 65 cents an
hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
By a Worker Correspondent

N "a ~ w OTheT Correspondent
N SIOUX CITY, Iowa (By MaiD -
The carpenters here have just been
granted raise of 6A cents, from
81 an hour to s1.06A an hour. That's
If the contractors pay it.
In 1928 the carpenters demanded
I. the same raise, 1914 cents, and the
|.3merican Federation of Labor sent
a representative here to negotiate
with the contractors, so W. A. Kiln
ger 1.-THE chief of the contractors),
drew up contract and of course the
\ A. II. of L. tool signed and the
boys went to work at 1861
On hcur the first year, s1097ss the
second year, and s1.12h the third
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
TAKERS MEET IN AUGUST.

ALBANY (By MaiD The New
York State Federation of Labor has
decided to hold its annual convention
in August. No program for the I'm
employed is planned, and no plans
for organizing the unorganized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-24
The Gastonia Textile Workers,

The Gastonia Textile Workers
trial starts -ly %! Twenty-three
workers face electrocution or
prison termsl Rally all forces to
save them. Defense and Relief
Week July 27-August 8! Sign
the Protest Roll! Rush funds to
international Labor Defense, 80
East 18th Street, New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
Why No War?

Why isn't the world going to war this week? Like
it did just fifteen years ago?
There is as much cause now to 1ght-more. There
are the same kind of political disputes in Europe the
same plng up of huge armies and munitions with one
nation holding military sway the continent There
is the same naval rivalry. The have changed.
France instead of Germany is military master. The
United States instead of Germany challenges Britain
as mistress of the seas.
Under the political and armament rivalry the
same economic conflicts, the same struggle for raw
materials for foreign markets for financial dominance
the same and tariff battles.
Morel For the conflicts of today are multiplied by
the ruins of that war There are more national mi
nortes now striving for liberation than when the
Serbian nationalists murdered the Archduke Ferdi-
nand. Foreign troops now occupy-in the Rhineand-
the territory of one of the great powers provoca-
ton of hatred and revenge which did not exist that
other week
Payment for that other war, reparations and debts
load new burdens on the workers and farmers OF
Europe and America.
The worlds problems are more difficult now, the
conflicts wider.
And yet we are not going to war about it.
Perhaps it is because the people are war weary.
But that is not entirely true For new generation is
growing up, which does not know what price glory
Doubtless if the censors and propagandiss and draft
boards turned to this afternoon the end of the week
could bigger mobilization of the worlds patriotic
youth than before.
Isn't it rather because those who govern and those
who mold our thought known a way not known ff-
teen years ago-that war does not pay. that nobody
wins, that all lose?
The difference is not in intention but in intelli-
gence Governments are no more idealistic now than
then; they realistic. Statesmen and business
men have discovered that there is more prosperity and
profit peace than in war.
The pacihst of that other day was the occasional
preacher The pscis of today is the average business
man, the efficiency expert the engineer.
That is why Herbert Hoover is in the White House
That is Why he dares cut the navy and army.
That is why capitalist Britain is supporting soca-
list Macdonald why nationalist France is supporting
BRAND, why defeated Germany is supporting Stresse-
mann N their efforts to find substitute for war.
Human nature does not change, the mitarsts say.
They are right.
But human intelligence does. It already has
changed enough to keep the world from war this week
when there are more causes than fifteen years ago
And intelligence continues to grow there will be no
war in the next fifteen years. Nor ever!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
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| ANNIVERSARY.
ALABAMA SAILS FOR .. S.
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July 90

ON July %, 1862, the Alabama, -
" the second cruiser built in
England for the Confederates, sailed
from Liverpool, despite protests by
United States representatives.
The cruiser was of 900 tons bur
den. $50 feet in length, 80 feet in
breadth, 20 feet in depth, and drew.
when provisioned and coaled for
cruise, fifteen feet of water.
The ship was built and launched
at Liverpool and Immediately be-
came an object of suspicion with
the consul of the United States at
that port. He finally succeeded in
obtaining proof of the violation of
the foreign enlistment act, but be-
fore the British authorities took ac-
ton, the cruiser had sailed away.
The Alabama" equipped with a
300-horse power engine, large fore
and aft sails and carrying eight
guns, proceeded to the Azores, where
she took on additional supplies and
men.
She then made a flying trip to the
United States and cruising up and
down the Atlantic seaboard, sank
a number of federal gunboats.
The Alabama" was finally sunk
by the federal steamer "Kearsarge, .
a short distance of the coast OF
France.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29

chloroplasts green and it may be removed from them
by putting the leaf in alcohol in which the chlorophy
IS soluble.
After the chorophyll is dissolved the chloroplasts
in the cell but they coorless and the leaf
white yellowish instead of green"
As rule plants do not develop chlorophyll unless
exposed to light
Thus when potatoes sprout in dark cellar the
sprouts are white.
The process py which plants manufacture food,
that is turn the carbon dioxide of the air into the
sugars and starches of their cells, is known as
photosynthess
The Greek word photos" means light Photosyn-
thesis. therefore. is putting together of synthe sis
With the aid of light
The process gets this name because it occurs only
when the leaf of the plant receives sunlight.
The process of photosynthess keeps all of us alive
since our food consists of plants of animals which
II their turn live plants.
The chemical reactions which take place in photo
,ynthess are not yet understood completely.
They are exceedingly complex. Many studies are
being carried on TO understand them
One hope of scientists is that eventually il might
Ne possible duplicate the process in factories thus
-reeing mankind from his dependence upon the cycle
Of the soil
Dr. T E. SlosSon. famous scientists and writer and
director of Science Service, summed up the hope of
the scientists in this field once when he exclaimed
IF We only knew as much as q tree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
IT SEEMS TO ME By H BToUS

MARION, the cat, has come back,
w and I don't know exactly what
to think about it. Since she is
about to give hostages to fortune,
can't say exactly that I am glad
and yet she arouses my admiration.
Not because she is going to have
kittens. In the feline world such
accomplishments are both common
and casual, but I must say that she
does know her way around the big
city.
One week ago 7 appealed to q
soft-hearted female and said, Take
that cat away from here or I will
do her violence
AS q matter Of fact, / really didn't
intend to do anything more to the
cat than tell her, Wont you please
get out of here?" However, my dis
play Of masterful ruthlessneSs was
sufficient to impress the soft-hearted
female and she went away with
Marion in her arms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29

cause she doesn't know my name.
In fact, there is no definite evil
dence that she is aware of the fact
that 1 write a newspaper column.
Nevertheless, she seems to have
some intuitive realization of this
circumstance. In her mind she is
entitled to salmon and cream for
life because 1 once wrote a column
around her.
It seems to be her notion that
the kittens will be welcomed into
the house as additional sources of
copy. But there is a flaw in this
facile and feline reasoning.
She has forgotten the law of
diminishing returns or unearned in
crement or whatever it is called. 1t
sounds alright to say if one cat
yields two columns, six kittens are
good for twelve. But that is putting
the job of column conducting upon
much too mechanical a basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
The Oil Merger

The oil industry, once split up by court decree
under antitrust laws. is uniting again.
The latest projected merger recalls the DAYS of the
old Standard Oil trust Standard of Indiana, which
during recent years has made such fabulous profits
proposes TO take over the Pan-American Petroleum
and Transport Company. in which it already owns
control of voting stock. but not majority of all
stock
Back in 1905. the Standard and subsidiary CON-
panies produced II per cent of crude oil according
TO the American Petroleum institute But the Stand
ard did IS per cent Of the marketing refining. and
transporting Of oil
Business methods Of Standard and charges of
monopoly brought federal suit and a decree Of
dissolution, which entered in 1911
Between then and now there have been periodic
assertions that the dissolution was more pretended
than real and charges that the Standard group still
retained its old monopolistic powers.
About year and half ago, however the Federal
Trade commission reported to congress in response
70 resolution, that the controlling ownership OF
the several Standard Oil companies. which, after the
dissolution decree was put into effect in 1911 rested
in the hands of three or four individuals has been
dispersed widely So far as this factor is concerned
there no longer IS unity of control through COM
1unity of interest"
The commission found also that various Standard
nits we're in competition in several sections, although
the Standard marketing companies continue in gen.
ral TO conre their tank wagon sales to retailers and
heir filling station business 70 the separate territories
assigned TO them before the combination vas dis
solved"
According to the petroleum institute, the old
Standards 1927 produced about Is per cent OF
the countrys petroleum and handled about IS per cent
Of IT, 1t is apparent that competition had increased
largely
Now the pendulum swings the other way. Stand
ard of Indiana with assets of half billion dollars
several years ago acquired partial interest in Pan
American. with assets half great from E. L. Do
heny and now will swallow the smaller company.
Standard OF Indiana already owns the Midwest,
and has half interest in the Sinclair Pipe Line Com
many and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company.
Psn-American in turn owns the Mexican Petroleum
Company and the Lago Company. This subsidiary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
Bars Cat Comment

TT is entirely possible that I shall
4 never write another cat column
in my life. If the kittens want sup
port and publicity they must earn
it by indulging in provocative
pranks of one sort or another.
They must be as lively as Marnon
Motors or I shall pass them by and
tell why I gave up Standard Brands
and decided to support the Sagging
Motors.
She is a nuisance. MY impend-
ing responsibility for new arrivals
fills me with terror and yet if a
cat selects this single apartment
out of all New York as just the
proper influence for impressionable
kittens, must admit that the COM
pliment is received gratefully.
A cat is nobodys fool and if Mar
ion feels that this place has pros
poets and that I am q promising
young author, you can't expect me
to set her straight.
Copyright. 1929. for The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
HEALTH IN HOT WEATHER.
T0nsils Often Cause of Heart Disease

ISOLATED with 207, decayed and in
fected teeth with 1853, syphilis with
1872, scarlet fever with rs, measles
with 81. diphtheria with At, whoop-
ing cough with IA and chorea
with 7.
Obviously, there we're multiple
causes in some of these cases, but
again and again analyses of the
cause of heart disease bring TO Eight
the existence of the conditions that
are here mentioned
When the 1856 soldiers with heart
disease were studied, rheumatic
fever, infectious diseases and syphilis
again appeared among the chief
conditions associated with the de-
velopment of disturbances of the
heart.
Where direct connection can be
shown between the infection in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
Fruits of Organization

THIS trial at Gastonia is one Of
L those peculiar to an age of or
ganization, and in which the tech
nical charge is overshadoWed by a
larger issue.
individuals have been indicted
because our legal system knows no
other way, and individuals will pay
the price If a verdict Of guilty re-
suits.
The real object, however. is not
to find out who actually killed q
human being, but to tag an up
heaval with radicalism on the one
hand, or to vindicate it as justified
on the other.
In fundamentals it is the Mooney
case over again. or that of Sacco
and Vanzetti. in which q conflict
Of sentiments makes personal JUS
tice we'll nigh impossible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29

tonsil and the disturbance of the
heart. removal of the tonsils during
a quiet stage is sometimes of benefit.
However, the decision must be made
by the physician in each case &C
cording to the conditions he finds at
the time of his investigation.
One of the chief problems which
the Veterans Bureau has to con-
slider in this connection Is the
amount of compensation that is to
be given to the soldier in the light
of the impairment, of his ability to
obtain employment and to do full
work.
The average monthly compen-
setion of persons with various forms
of heart disease varies from SO to
$40 a month and represents part
of the cost of the war of which few
people have an actual cognizance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
ENGLAND S Problem

ID AMSAY MAC DONALD. pre-
N mier of Great Britain, thinks
that We should not only accept such
things as a part Of industrial Or
ganization. but recognize them as
the greatest problem We have to
face
Within ten years, he says, the
world will be carved into great eco
nomic territories for purposes of in
naturalization, controlled by gigan-
tic syndicates which admit no
boundaries except those of the mar
ket and which will be able to de-
termine the destiny of millions.
What may be called material
ism" he declares, "is growing vigor-
ously. and during the next ten years
it will become increasingly a prob
lem for those who care about indi-
Yidual liberty"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
T0iIerS Provide Yacht

TXTHILE a half million English
w textile workers go on strike.
rather than consent to a, 10 per
cent reduction in their wages. while
Gastonia and some other southern
communities seethe with discon-
tent. and while people of many an
eastern mill town wonder how they
can keep body and soul together.
julius Forstmann textile manufac-
turer of New York, buys the largest
motor yacht in the world-3,000
tons of sheer luxury, driven by
Diesel engines. and boasting eleven
cabins. each with private bath.
No one begrudges Mr. Forstmann,
or any other textile nagnate a
vacht-even enough yachts to go
sailing awav while strike Is in
nrogress. as once happened in New
England.
But it does seem that while en-
loving themselves In that way, they
mioht give thought to ways and
means of improving conditions for
those who toll in their mills-as
much thought. perhaps, as they give
to beating strikes. or trying to prove
that everv demand for more pay
has a Red tint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-29
Unpaid Bonds


The professional bondsman has always been
problem But professional bondsman who
does not pay when the man for whom he gives
bond ought not to be much of a problem.
In this county it is now revealed that the
professionals who make living by securing
liberty for men and women accused of crimes
have failed TO pay something like $4,000 to
the state
The purpose Of bond is plain. It is re
CURED in order to make sure that those ar
rested on charges Of crime viii be on hand for
trial
Presumably, those who give bonds do so on
the theory that they are innocent and do not
fear the outcome Of trial before jury. There
Is also the presumption that the payment Of the
bond would he of such grave importance that
the accused would hesitate between the pay
ment of the bond and the penalty that would be
fixed if conviction resulted.
That is the reason that very high bonds are
required when the offense carries with it
severe sentence and low bond when the pen
atty is not so severe.
The law gives every accused person, pre-
sumed to be innocent until convicted, the
right to give bond, except in charges of muir
der, where no amount of money loss would
hold person who feared death penalty or
life sentence
The bonding laws presumed that the bonds
men would be personal friends Of the accused
men who knew the character and reputation of
the accused, and who were ready to pledge
their own money to the courts in his behalf
In early days this worked we'll In simpler
state Of society, every man had friends who
were ready to give him chance
In the present days, the bonds are given by
professionals and it has become quite an in
dustry At times there have been suggestions
that there has been connivance between bonds
men and officials, whereby frequent raids on
nuisances, rather than criminals, were made in
order to make business brisk.
At other times, there has been suspicion of
an alliance between bondsmen, officials and
certain lawyers whereby the criminal law be
anne game, rather than purpose These are
wills Of system that do not enter into the
resent question.
The giving Of bond is right. The purpose
plain and clear. 1t rests on the theory that
he money loss to bondsmen will make them
mite as Jealous in producing accused persons
n court as are officials.
They make their money by betting that the
accused will not run away. The professionals
usually protect themselves in advance. Where
this is done their business is hardly necessary.
For those who can protect bondsmen by de
livery Of property or guaranty by others should
be able to do the same thing in open court.
But where these bondsmen take chances,
they ought to pay. Permitting bonds for those
who disappear to remain unpaid is only an en-
couragement to more crime.