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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
CONGRESS- PLANS
Quiet ADDITION
TO ARMY, NAVY
Big Barracks; Dry Law
War Ships; Mobilize
All Industries
Sure to Vote Cruisers
"Give President More
Power Than a King"

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. - AS
sured that the cruiser bill, for fifteen
new 10000 ton warships for U. S.
imperialism's war fleet, will pass
Monday or Tuesday, all branches
of the Congress settled down today
to the task of sureptitiously increas-
ing the striking power of Wall
Streets mailed fist in other ways.
The army housing bill was favor
ably reported, by the senate mill
tary affairs committee. This means
that in the guise of providing more
comfort for the soldiers, barracks
for an enormous conscript army will
be erected.
Two bills provide for an auxiliary
navy behind the recognized battle
fleet and for mobilization of all in
dustry, under orders of the general
staff.
Coast Guard Navy.
A five year program providing
for complete modernization OF the
U. S. coast guard theoretically for
prohibition enforcement but actually
as an auxiliary in the coming i'm
perialist war was submitted to
Secretary Mellon today by Admiral
F. 0. Billiard, Commandant.
Increases in officer personel, re-
placements of the older destroyers,
and additions to the cruisers and
tugs of the coast guard fleet, are
major phases of the new plan. This
is one of Secretary MELONS substi-
tutes for the $24,000,0O0 proposed
appropriation opposed in congress.
Adding Desiroyers.
Transfer from the navy of about
26 of the 200 destroyers now laid up
at various navy yards is suggested
in the report. These destroyers
would be available to the navy in
event of war.
1t is planned to submit the re-
port to congress at the next regular
session opening next December.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02

called Socialist Party receive literally hum
dreds of thousands of dollars year from
business relationships with the employers
who understand that it pays them to main
tain those anti working class organs which
pretend to be of ''labOr" character.
The Daily Worker is willingly and in
evitably shut off from all such sources of
income 1t is the revolutionary organ of
class struggle on behalf of the working class.
1t fights AGAINST the employing class in
EVERY struggle of the workers, and there
fore it expects and receives absolutely no
help from the enemies of the workers. The
Daily Worker can expect no help from any
source other than the workers themselves
and a very limited number of sympathizers
with the workers cause
Yet the plain fact is that the workers
are NOT responding sufficiently to keep the
Daily Worker alive in this crisis.
Will the workers respond? We think so.
But, Comrades, the danger is that you may
not realize in time that your Daily Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
HylQu Plans
Campaign to
Dust Walker
By HARRISON GEORGE.

"You see," said John F. Hylan
former mayor and aspirant for tha
office in the November election, "it'.
this way. A new gang has got holc
of the democratic party" Such was
the way Hylan, the Tammany Hal
out" stated the fact that the
Walker Gins" are at war for the
mayorship.
Did Hylan back Bird S. Coler
who is retiring from the city de-
partment of Public Welfore? Well
not exactly "back." Coler's revela-
tlons that appointments supposed to
be made by him for political Jobs
that were worth over $3.50 a year,
were made by Judge Olvany of
Tammany Hall, and were given to
incompetents, merely, it seems,
came along to substantiate Hylan's
general assault on the Walker for
tifications of the columbus Club
which is the other name for Tam
many Hall.
Coler, said Hylan, was an expert
in humanitarian work for the
poor" So it seems there are "poor."
Just why, Hylan was too busy to
explain.
"It is of first Importance at all
times that appointments be made
from the City Hall, and not from
some political organization" was
the profound remark of Hylan in
comment on the Coler charges
against Tammany appointments.
From which we gather that he es-
Inmates that the city government is
supposed to be "above classes" al
though politics comes from the
struggle for power between contend
ing economic classes. Hylan's class
is not the wokring class, though he
issues, as Smith did in the last cleo
tion, string of reformist catch
phrases to trap workers to vote for
him.
The best labor angle on the Daily
Worker interview with Hylan was
with the elevator man who works in
the swell office building where Hy-
lan's sumptuous offices are located.
"Well, it's the last of ten hours" he
remarked wearily, as he threw the
motor lever to down" A ten hour
day here in the capital of the most
prosperous country on earth, while
in the Soviet Union workers like
him are working only seven hours a
dayi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
SPEED PLANS FOR
GENERAL STRIKE

Plans for the general strike in the
dress trade are going forward at an
increased tempo. The new Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union is
continuing its arrangements for the
struggle that will strike a mighty
blow for the emancipation of not
only the dressmakers, but of all
needle trades workers, from the un-
bearable swaatshop conditions that
now prevail.
Things are humming in the office
of the new industrial union. Many
more applications for settlement
were yesterday received from firms
whom the strike spirit of the work
crs has impressed with the strength
Of the new union. The office was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02

the response Of the workers to the
strike preparations, are also busy
organizing the strikebreaking ma
chinery. The heavy-salaried union
wreckers are crawling on all fours
before the bosses in efforts to ex-
tricate them from their predicament.
Cooperate With Bosses.
Yesterdays Women's Wear, organ
of the employers, carried story
that dress jobbers are concentrating
their work in shops affiliated with
their company union, the Interna-
tional. This statement came, not
from the dress jobbers themselves.
but from Julius Hochman, head ok
the International Dress Council.
which Schlesinger recently created
when he found the dress situation
becoming too much for him. The
story in Women's Wear continues:
"Officials of the Joint Board of
the Cloak and Dressmakers' Union
are visiting all dress jobbers and CO.
operating with them in all measures
being taken to avoid interruption of
work."
Hard in Hand With Tammany.
The Socialist" company union Of
ficials have also given evidence that
they will likewise cooperate with
the Tanmany police department in
and arresting strikers and
in attempts to hamstring the indus
trial S,nion with injunctions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02

also filled all day and night with
dressmakers, cloakmakers and fur
riers who came to take out mem
bership books, pay dues and buy
bricks" for building the union.
Many OF the workers also volun-
teered for the Organization Com
mittee of 1000 that will play the
leading role in the strike.
Install Joint Board Officers Today.
Today at l p. m. the newly
elected officers of the New York
Joint Board will be installed at a
meeting in Webster Hall, 119 E.
18th st. At this meeting the Joint
Board will officially constitute it.
self the General Strike Committee
to conduct all the strike activities.
While the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union is busy organ
izing the struggle against the open
shop and for the establishment of
real union conditions in the New
York market, the officials of the
scab international Ladies Garment
Workers Union, panic-stricken by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
;r0wder to Speak at
Workers School Forum
tomorrow Night at s

Earl Browder, secretary of the
an-Pacific Trade Union Secre-
riat, who has recently returned
ON China and the Soviet Union,
here he spent the past year, will be
e lecturer at the Workers School
,rum, 1928 Union Square, 9Th
,or, tomorrow at s p. m. The SUBJ
ect of his talk will be "The Rise
4 the Pan-Pacific Labor Move
snt."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
Daily" Office Open
TODAY and Tomorrow
or Donations, Aid

The business office of the
Daily Worker. rs Union Square.
Room 201. will be open all day
oday, and from 10 a. m. to 5
}. m. tomorrow to accept con-
ributions to the emergency
kive to save the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
RECEIPTS FRIDAY.

RLGLlI . II MIA L.
Ukrainian Labor Club, N. Y. !
F. H. Sanderson, Cleve. O.. .
Section 8, International Br. /,
Brooklyn, N. Y. ........
H. Colodny, (collected), Wash
ington, D. G.. ..........
Cook e. Broiler Union of N. Y,
Local 719 ..............
D. Young, Cleveland, Ohio ;.
Jap. Labor Asso., N. Y. 49,.
M. Kalogrides, Cleve., O. =.
A. L. d. L. D., Dist. 3, New
Britain, Conn. ..........
j. Mallos, Detroit, Mich. 80.
Russian Educational Society,
Worcester, Mass. ......
T. Yhdistys, Scotia, N. Y.....
Br. 5, Sec. 5, Bronx, N. Y. :.
A. Gotkis Hartford, Conn. :.
M. Pfeil, New York ........
J. Georgoules, Detroit, Mich. +.
Polish Fraction, Cleve., 0. ;.
S. Fuld, Phila., Pa. .........
M. Lerner, Worcester, Mass.
]. Katchmar, Watersliet, N. Y.
w. H., Glen Cove, L. /. N. Y.
Paul Skers, Worcester, Mass.
R. A. Wetzel, Mount Vernon,
New York ..............
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
MAIN BURSTS; s WORKERS DIE.

METZ, France, (By MaiD Five
workers were found dead from gas
poisoning in the Rue du Pont Mo
reau, Metz, and sixth may die.
The gas escaped from bursting
main.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02

Total received to Friday night S247642
If the Daily Worker does not appear
Monday, this will be the reason.
The yellow Daily Forward, the Milwau-
kee Leader and other organs of the So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02


All Units of the Party,
All Militant Workers,
All Readers of the Daily Worker.
Comrades:
1t is possible that the Daily Worker will
not appear Monday. If it should happen that
we are unable to publish our revolutionary
paper on Monday, there would be no other
means of communicating with you, and
therefore we take this occasion to say the
following:
Ii the Daily Worker should fail to appear
Monday, it would not mean that we have
given up the fight! The Daily Worker is in
desperate situation but we are fighting
with our backs to the wall, determined to
win-determined to keep our fighting Boil
shevik paper alive at any cost. If Mondays
Daily Worker does not appear, we hope
nevertheless to publish again on Tuesday
morning, or at the latest Wednesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1929
"DAlLY" My CLOSE MONDAY UNLESS AID IS QUICK!

The reason for any possible suspension,
if it OCCURS, will be the failure of our read
ers to help the Daily Worker sufficiently i'm
this crisis.
The total received from friends of the
Daily Worker Friday was only S57S.S5.
This means that hardly more than half of
the amount considered to be the lowest
minimum with which we could meet the de-
mands on Saturday have been received.
After comforting with creditors, the mini
mum was fixed at $4,000 for Saturday. Yet
the total received in is only $2,476.42 up to
Friday night. Here is the list:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
EMERGENCY FUND

is. Stechera, New York ...... 5.O(
F. Espanola, New York $3.50. 5.0(
Jack Feurer, Bronx, N. Y. ;. SOC
Anonymous, New York ...... 5.O(
|. Hagorian, Providence, R. 1. 5.O(
A. Murphy, Brooklyn, N. Y. >. SOC
G. L. Spencer, Prov. r. I..... SOC
f. Stern, Philadelphia, Pa. :. SOC
z. Alderman, Buffalo, N. Y... soc
j. A. RIMS, Washington, D. C. SOC
Chas. Jareich, Whiting, Ind... SOC
E. Mendelson, Bronx, N. Y. :. SOC
Lewis, 5F, Sec. 6, Brooklyn,
New York ............. SOC
s. Holmoff, New York ...... SOC
X. Pilleris, Centreville, Md. SOC
F. Dluhoseh, Chicago, Ill.,. 4.0C
L. Katz, Ithaca, N. Y. ...... 3.0C
M. Grossman, Coney Island ;. 3.OC
H. Schulman, Worcester, Mass 800
Young Defender, N. Y. ...... SOC
M. Zieper, Worcester, Mass. 800
M. Marks, Chicago, Ill. 80. SOC
}. Ginsburg, Worcester, Mass. 3.cC
G Burns, Brooklyn, N. Y. :. 300
w. Prusicki, Newark, N. J. :. ESQ
M. Prozor, Newark, N. J. -. $50
A Friend, Washington, D. C. zoo
j. Baltueses, Chicago, III. !. 1.0O
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-02
CAN DAILY SURVIVE?
Funds Vital it Oy Press is to Llue

Respond Immediately to the appeal of the Daily
Worker for aid in it's present crisis.
The Daily Worker, 1928 Union Square, New York.
After reading the for aid in Daily
ing the enclosed amount $......
Names of contributors will be published Daily"
delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-11
Homes Need So Many New Things
When Autumn Comes Around ;.

AUTUMN is just around the corner.
School opening. Social activities begin
ming in earnest once more. All this
means . score Of new needs about your
home. The Bedroom. as we'll as the
downstairs should get some attention.
Our Department Of interior Decoration
i. svsiIsbIe at all times, without charge,
to assist you with your selections.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
BY BROOKS

AUSTIN, july 2O.-Upon the
meaning a Williamson county jury
gets-from a blurred X-ray photo
graph. and the measurements of a
mental yardStick applied by pSy-
chiatrists of the Austin state hos
pital the jury this week will de-
eide whether Harry j. Leahy shall
go to the electric chair at Hunts
Vile, or shall spend the rest of the
days Of his life in an insane asylum.
Leahy, held in Travis county Jail
awaiting the sanity hearing at
Georgetown Monday which snatch
ed him from the chair a few min
utes before he was to have gone
to his death a week ago, holds little
hope that the sanity hearing will
save him. But he is calm and cheer
full, just the same.
The giant six-foot-six cattle
trader Of Live Oak county, who
gambled with his life for freedom,
and lost, has gone under the sci
entific measuring stick of the men
tai specialists this past week. His
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
TOtaIC Concrete Road
Paving in Cam r
County 1877 Miles

Viii two-thirds Of a Sc ZOO 600 road bond issue voted In 1925 ex-
pended, Cameron countys total mileage Of concrete pavement is 1877 SO
not including paving done within the corporate limits of cities In the
county. In addition, the county has laid some two miles Of paving in
the city of Brownsville for which the city paid, giving a total of approxi-
mateEy 100 miles completed under the supervision of the county in the
past two years.
approximately 100000 still is available for work and 1t 70 esti-
mated that with the preliminary work already done, 100 more miles OF
hard surfaced roads a total of almost 800, will be completed with the
bonds voted.
Cameron countys improved graded roads, some of which will be
paved with the remainder Of the present bond issue, totals 36209 miles
Some of this mileage is ready for hard surfacing now, and other parts
will be as soon a ste grade settles. This includes grades under present
pavement. Thus after the entire present bond issue is expended, there
still will remain probably rs miles of graded roads in the county ready
for hard surfacing.
Statistics in the office of the county engineer show that with the ex-
cepton of Highway II, all of this grading has been done since 1927 All
but "a miles has been completed in the last three years.
1t is the same in the case OF pavement. Excepting the state hgn-
way, which was built between 1921 and 1924, all Improvements nave
been made in not quite three years Of work.
Most of the surfactng is Of standard 18-foot width TWO short nine
foot stretches are along the Paroles line road and the old Alice ROAD.
Details follow:
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22

tense, were called to testify in the
hearing, granted only a few hours
before the scion of a pioneer south
west Texas family vas to have died
at Huntsville for the murder of DR..
j. A. Ramsey, aged Mathis phySi-
clan.
Leahy's battle with the state has
been a long one. He originally was
sentenced to so years Imprisonment
in GeorgeweSt, Texas, but he ap-
pealed, the conviction was reversed
and a subsequent trial here brought
him the death penalty.
1t was the states claim that
Leahy killed the elderly doctor and
t-'ed the body in a shallow grave
for pecuniary gain.
Judge j. d. Moore Of Austin pre-
siGcd the sanity hearing. Judge
Harry Dolan having ---n 6isQuali-
fled.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
Pupils Taught byMan so
Years Ago Hold Reunion

PEACHTREE VILLAGE, Tyler
County, Texas, July 22.-(P)-Sur-
viving pupils Of the country school
conducted in this community so
years ago by F. +. Grow, Of Hous-
ton, have returned their homes
after a threJ-day golden ami
versary celebration at which their
old schoolmaste was the guest OF
honor.
John Henry Kirby, millionaire
Houston lumberman, was the host
for the occasion. Grow could not
be here for the opening of the six
months school in 1879 and young
Kirby, a little in advance of his
cronies in the matter of schooling,
took the teachers place and gave
out the lesson.
Kirby, who is still in business in
Houston though ) years old, spoke
in ar improvised canvass-covered
auditorium in a beautiful oak
grove. Nearby wae a log corn crib.
= that remained Of the old Bu;:-
ton house, which served as the
school building a half a century ago.
The crib was built of logs from the
old cchoolhouse.
About three 1ousand persons,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
Leahy Making Final
Play In Death Game
AS Insanity Studied

head has been X-rayed, his body
measured, and his mind given that
uuantitative measurement which
psychiatry has developed as its
test Of normality.
P~OcahOntaS
Leahy was given a 45-year SEN
tence in Live Oak county for the
Staying of DR.. j. M. Ramsey, aged
Mathis physician, whose body was
found in a shallow grave, convicted
on testimony Of a Mexican boy who
claimed to have witnessed the doc
tors murder. He won a ley trial
and at Georgetown was given the
death penalty.
A modern Pocahontas, in the
person of Miss Amanda Davidson,
a Taylor telephone operator, is re-
sponsible for Leahy'S being alive
now. After visiting him at Hunts
vile, she made an affidavit of be-
lief that he is insane. Dist. Judge
Harry Dolan at Georgetown, as re-
quired by law, then forbade his
scheduled execution and ordered
him back to Georgetown for a SAN
ity hearing. Dist. Judge j.. d.
Moore of Austin accepted Judge
Dolan's invitation to sit in the SAN
ity hearing. Leahy was brought
here Thursday, and examined by
mental specialists Thursday and
Friday, and is to be taken to
Georgetown Monday morning, when
- 9,rrx- mill Lnnr %hn nnaio1icfc' tOc-
timony, look upon Leahy's face, and
decide whether he is sane or insane.
The last hope for life, except the
verdict of this jury, has been taken
away from Leahy by Gov. Dan
Moody's refusal to intervene in the
case.
Leahy Is under the constant
watch of special guards in Travis
county jail.
Leah's gamble with death, in de-
manding a second trial, has likened
his whole case to a grim turn Of
the cards. He lost the final play.
Had he accepted his first sentence,
imposed on him in the county ad-
joining his home, h would have
D66I1 III pLIoOl1, 1oCA1lS I4iC PAOoPCOt
of possible freedom before old age
overlook him. But he asked a new
trial, won it, was sent to George
town, and there received the death
penalty, which was affirmed.
Bonham Is Lawyer
Leahy, contrary to claims that
have been made for him, did not
conduct his own defense in his trial
at Georgetown. He had four law
yers, headed by former Rep. H. S
Bonham of 3eeville.
During his trial, the cattle trad
er attempted to cross examine the
widow of DR.. Ramsey, but was de-
MED that privilege.
Attorney Bonham, who recently
pleaded in vain with Gov. Moody
for communication OF the sentence to
life imprisonment, likely will assist
him in the final round Of courtroom
procedure that will determine
whether he shall live or die.
In the sanity proceedings, Leahy
will play another round with fate,
with the preceden+ e-ually for
and against Linn.
An ironic aspect Of his case is
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22

Justice w. M. Boring at Del Vale,
Travis county, adjourned court to go
out and settle a swarm of his bees
that had left their hive.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22

tinony from experts, may contrib
ute to Fastening the 6a7 -~hcn Tex
as abandons the practice of killing
men for crimes.
Leahy will so to the Georgetown
courtroom Monday to play his final
hand against fate, and apparently
not caring greatly whether he wins
or loses. And a jury must ponder
those imponderableS of mental
quirk and complexity, Of the strange
terms of the psychiatrists, and the
new measurements Of the psychic
yardstick Of the scientists, in saying
'Leahy must die" or "!eahy shall
live"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22

inc from as far away Is .1s An
geles, attended the celebration.
Among them were scores of children
and grandchildren of Crows stu
dents. About 20 persons who learned
heir three RS under Grow min
gled with the crowd in ! : old ia
miliar surroundings.
Descendants of the Iniians who
gave this village its name Joined
in the celebration. The Indians
now live near Livingston in Polk
county. There va speechmaking,
singing, preaching, feastin and
dancing.
Bill johnson, 97-yea--old ex-slave,
who has lived in this section all of
his life, had charge Of the barbeAcue
pits.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
Leahy Sanity Trial
Scheduled to Begin
Monday; 100 Called

GEORGETOWN. Texas, July %
j. Leahy's last defense
the insanity plea-against a death
sentence for murder was ready for
presentation to district court here
today.
More than 100witnesses, including
alienists for prosecution and de-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22
SPEC o IN v
RACE AT

NATCHEZ, Miss, July 22.-tP)-
The speed boat "Bogie" piloted by
DR.. Louis Leroy Of Memphis reached
Natchez at 6 a. m, today. and left
at ITO in its race to St. Louis with
the expires cruiser yacht, Martha
Jane" owned by George M. Cox, Of
New Orleans. which had not reached
here at 9 o'clock.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-22

Mas" Secretary Writes Book on
W0man'S Sphere-Justice Adj
journs Court to Swarm Bees
Why Gin Mating Law is Weak
Burglars Thwarted by Fiat
Tires.