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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17
AIRING ON HAS
SEWER ROW

ARLINGTON COUNTY, Jan. A.
railing to reach an agreement on
the proposed additions to sanitary
district No. I, to include sections Of
Ashton Heights and Lyon Park, the
hearing before Judge Howard ".
smith for the purpose OF establish.
ing boundaries has been postponed
until the February term OF the
Arlington county circuit court.
Herbert Ward and Hugh McGrath
represented the residents OF Lyon
PARK and Ashton Heights, seeking
the proposed additions. Hugh Reld,
who prepared the petition for SAM
tary district No. /, was unable TO
accept the plan, declaring it should
be left to the engineers.
jefferson high school and Madi.
son elementary school at Fails
Church have been closed on the
recommendation of DR., G. A. RAN
som, school physician. according
To announcement today By Horace
d Brown, chairman OF the schooi
board. This action was taken,
said Brown, following an 1nVestl.
CATION showing that more than ~
per cent of the pupils at both
schools were i'll at home.
The annual meeting and election
Of officers of the Organized
Women Voters of Arlington county
win be held at noon, "Wednesday,
January %. at the Central Metho-
dist Church, Ballston. Luncheon
viii be served.
The congregation Of st. Georges
Episcopal Church last night elected
As vestrymen: III. G. Gilbert, w. M.
stone. Dilman Marks, Mr.. Taylor.
Dr.. W. C. Welburns c. p. Oliver.
n. A. Meade, E. X. Kloman, D. II.
Rhodes, Fred johnson, B, Anderson
and Al. T. stone.
Marriage licenses we're issued to
Albert M. Bender and Helen l..
Kinhart and Irving S. Hudson ahj
Myrtle w. Cooke yesterday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17

With more than 125 alleged vic.
lators Of the Virginia tag law
hailed into Arlington county police
court, the tag war was on in
earnest today with Police Judge
Harry r. Thomas presiding.
While many who were called at
the opening OF the court attempted
to show the cars were the property
of their employers in Washington,
little consideration was being given
that claim by the court The law
states that any person operating
an automobile IN the State and
keeping 1t in the State 80 days or
more must display Virginia
license plate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17
Woman Asks $4,000
For Injuries in Fall

Charging Emile II. Dorer with
negligence in allowing ice to ac-
cumulate on the sidewalk in front
Of the Chelsea Inn last January 80,
causing her to fan and receive
severe injuries, Mary ". Morgan,
200 block Pennsylvania Ave. N. w.
brought suit for $40, 900 DANA ges in
Circuit Court Yesterday. Attorneys
Newmyer and King appear for the
plaintiff.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17
CRAIG Staying
HEARING PUT
OFF WEEK

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 17.--Poiice
court hearing In the case Of Marion
L. Craig, Is years old. who married
the widow Of william r. Logon
less than q month after he was
drowned on August II last, has been
postponed another week at the re.
quest Of Dave E. satterfield, Com
monwealth's attorney.
Satterfield said he wished to go
over the evidence gathered by de-
tectives in their recent investigation,
and that ne would know by January
% what course he would pursue.
Craig is held on warrant charg-
ing him with being a suspicious
character. suspected Of the murder
=of Liggon.
Hit With Stick
The prosecution grew out Of cir
cumstances attending Ligg o ms
drowning in James river here when
boat containing Craig and him
capsized. Examination Of the body.
which was recovered three days
later, showed laceration on the
scalp caused by blow on the head.
Craig admits he nit Llggon with a
stick. but maintains that he did so
after both were in the water and
Liggon had fastened his arms about
his companions neck with grip
that threatened to prove fatal.
Less than a month after the
tragedy. Craig married Mrs. Zillah
Liggon in Washington, and the
pair have since then lived at the
same address on Parkwood Avenue,
here. Police became interested in
the case two weeks ago, when per.
sistent reports reached them re.
garding the matter.
Bail at $500
When Liggon's body was taken
from the river, It was viewed BY
the late DIR. E. g. Hill. then acting
coroner, who rendered a verdict OF
death by drowning.
However. the undertaken who pre-.
pared the body for burial is re-
ported to have made the statement
that there was ne water in the
lungs. Between now and next Tues
Gay, it win be decided If the body
viii be exhumed for more
thorough examination.
At the request of Leith S. Bren
ner. counsel for Craig, Police jus
tice John J Ingram has fixed $2,50C
as bail bond.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17
TALK on IMMIGRATION

Ivan e. Goodner, manager of the
washington office Of the Los
Angeles Chambers Of Commerce.
will address the washington Open
Forum, sos I st. n. w, Sunday
AFTERNOON at o'clock !. on Cali
fornia's immigration Problem" The
address viii be illustrated with mo.
tion pictures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-01-17

Marriage licenses were issued to
Albert M. Bender and Helen l..
Kinhar1 and Irving s. Hudson ah5
Myrtle w. Cooke yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
The Social Democratic Government Germany Drafts NeV Anti
FASCIST BOMBS,
STREET FIGHTS
USED ASExCUSE
Ludendorf, Reformists
effectively Cooperate

The interior ministry of the Ger
man Republic, it was announced by
capitalist news agencies there yes
terday, has taken advantage of the
series of bombings of public build
ings by fascist organizations to pre-
pare new repressiye law. 1t will
be called Legislation for the protec-
sion of the republic" and will omit
all those clauses in the old law of
similar title which require a two
Thirds majority in the Reichstag for
passage. The old law, used extern
sively against workers, failed to be
continued into effect after it lapsed
this summer, because of the two
-Iirds requirement in the constitu-
ton.
Harsh Penalties.
The new bill will be submitted to
the cabinet next week. 1t provides
severe punishments for defamation
of republican institutions" which
will undoubtedly be interpreted as
a right to attack all Communist
demonstrations, and probably the
Communist press. 1t can also be
interpreted to prohibit strikes, if
they "endanger good order"
The fascist movements in Ger
many work hand. in hand with the
social democratic party government
against the workers, as is proved by
the use of fascist outrages for re-
pressive legislation and police or
Sers, which then are not enforced
against the fascists but against the
working class.
Release Fascists.
When members of the Stahlhelm
or other fascist movements, led by
HITLER or Ludendorf, do get them
selves arrested they are soon re-
leased by general amnesties" which
fdo not affect Communist prisoners.
The drafting of the bill was
Jspeeded because of increasing resis-
lance to reactionary organizations
by The workers. Wednesday night
one man was shot and seriously
wounded in clash between Com
munist workers and fascists in the
Schoenburg suburb, the fighting
being largely conducted with stones.
A former police officer arrested
for fascist bombing in Itzehde, has
been carried away to Hamburg for
investigation, and his name is with
held, which will make his release
easier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Aid GastOnia Defense
Through Conference in
Philadelphia, October 4

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.-Fur-
Their intensifying it's work in the
defense of the Gastonia strikers, the
Joint Gastonia Defense and Relief
Committee, Philadelphia District,
has called Gastonia conference for
October A. At least 500 letters will
be sent out to working class organ
izations here to mobilize workers
behind the Gastonia battle. Similar
conferences will be held throughout
the district. The committee will hold
a tag day in Baltimore on Saturday,
September IA. In Washington, on
the same day there will be house
toulouse collection. The Philadelphia
section Of the Trade Union Unity
League established at Cleveland is
sending out instructions to its sec
lions to elect delegates to the De-
tober conference and to see that its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12

80 we're not going to stand
for that. The other towns would
I'm and clean out CASTOR. l told
them served IS months for this
country and I did not propose to
be treated that way.
Attorneys Lead.
"John Carpenter and Major Bull
Wrinkle stood in the yard at 512 West
Airline Ave. They were in the first
cars that drove to the union head
quarters and wrecked it."
The following statement was is
sued by the defense counsel as a
whole, thru the I. L. D.
"The mistrial granted is a blow
to the defense. The state had fired
its best guns against the defend
ants, and they failed to make out
the slightest case. The state has
offered absolutely no evidence of
any conspiracy and has failed to
build up any case against the de-
PENDANTS. The states own witnesses
contradicted each other. They def
initely established that the workers
had maintained a GUARD" to pro-
tect their lives and property after
their first headquarters and relief
store had been destroyed and after
they were brutally beaten and gem
orally abused by the police. With
out witness for the defense heard,
the state established beyond every
reasonable doubt that our clients are
innocent of murder as charged.
"The delay occasioned by the mis-
trial harms the defendants in many
ways, Our witnesses, most of whom
have been blacklisted and unable to
find employment, must be maintain
cd Undoubtedly, number Of them
will leave for parts unknown. Be-
sides, cur clients, whom we know
to be innocent, must stay in Jail,
for at least two months longer. For
q week the press has been publish
ing the fake stories of the states
witnesses. Undoubtedly, til e e
stories will have sor1e effect on
prospective jurors and the picking
of new jury will be even more
difficult.
"But the spirit of our clients, the
spirit Of innocent and wronged per-
sons, is marvellous. We feel sure
that they will bear this suffering
as they already have, and continue
their fine spirit. In spite of the
handicaps due to the mistrial, we
feel that the rights of these workers
to organize and fight for better liv-
ing conditions, and the right of these
workers to d lie f e n d themselves
against the brutal assaults of mill
hirelings and homicidally drunken
police, will be definitely established
in North Carolina. This is what
ultimate victory in this case means"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Mass Meets in Michigan.

bargains with the British, French
and American imperialisms. Strese-
man lin the name of Germany, and
in a speech to the League of Ma
tons assembly, approves of the
BRAND plan for a confederation of
Europe against the U. S. S. R., and
against Communism.
The German attitude at the
Hague conference, recently ended,
showed that some sort of bargain
had been worked out between the
German government and its imper-
ialist creditors by which part of
Germany's payment consists of sup
port of their line against the U. S.
s. r. In connection with this, it
is remembered that it was SEM.
tionally exposed at the time of Inc
meeting Of the Dawes IL ard of ex-
perts, preceding the Hague confe--
ence, that German and Allied mill
tary and f,rrrciai experts held a
secret meeting to work out the gen
eral plan for an invasion of the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
through German territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Men IN Harris
Co mtYaCttng
Human Cranes
by Worker Correspondent

by q Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO (By MaiD.-Here is
a little job news in brief about
Chicago and about one slave
driving company in particular. l
have just quit the Harris Broth
ers Co. on 35th ST., near Ash
land Avenue.
This outfit was formerly
housewrecking company but is
now mostly contracting COM
pany to build garages and to do
mill work.
The big pay is four bits, fifty
cents an hour to start and it
takes quite a long while before
this company will give a worker
an increase in wages, so l was
told by the other slaves.
They work their men the hard
est of any place I've shaved for
in many a year. They are not so
speedy but they believe in every
man lifting for all he is worth.
1t is a very common sight to see
one man carrying a big garage
door or window, or lifting long
heavy planks alone.
Also there is much roofing
paper and some drain pipe and
all these things are loaded onto
a wagon or truck to be shipped
out where the garage is to be
built.
The pay days are two weeks
apart. Only straight pay is paid
for overtime. When a man quits
he has to wait two weeks for his
money. There are about 300 men
working for the Harris Brothers
Company. There are all kinds of
natiOnalities and few Negro
workers too.
AS for employment conditions
in Chicago in general, they are
very poor. / have been out of
work for over a month and have
been looking around a great deal.
Very little hiring is being done
| anywhere.-J. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Shoe Takers IN
FAKE ELECTION
Henry-Meade Outfit
Rule by Gangsterism
(Bu a Worker Correspondent

~ ~ " " wv wv 20 PNftNpft'/
BOSTON (By Mail) The Henry
Meade leadership of the United
Shoe Workers Union have again
shown that they are following in the
footsteps, of the discredited Boot
and Shoe Workers Union. This is
proven by the fake elections that
they have carried through in the
stitchers local. This happened after
the meeting was broken up by a
strong arm guard because the two
progressives, .Krantz and Klarfield,
have refused to withdraw their
names from the ballot.
After this meeting the so-called
and self-elected President Henry
appointed a committee of his own
gang to carry through the fake cleo
tions. In spite of the protest from
the membership that the elections
are not legal, the comedy was car
ried through by IA votes out of a
total of 1900. The rest of the mem
bership did not know where and
when the elections were held.
This proves again to the shoe
workers what we progressives have
said, that the Henry Meade outfit
is of the same type as that of the
Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
Workers are recognizing that the
the strike has been failure be-
cause of the right wing policies pur-
sued by the present officialdom.
Workers are rallying around the
leadership of the shoe and leather
workers organization committee.
This is shown by a big meeting of
the progressive shoe workers, af-
filiated with the organization COM
mittee. Definite plans were worked
out as to how to proceed in organ
izing shop committees on the in
dustrial basis. Also delegates were
sent to the T.U.U.L. convention in
Cleveland.-SHOE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
TELL FIRST HAND
STORY OF RAID
Must Redouble Efforts
for Defendants

Continued from Page OneJ
office, get Bill Dunno and break in
to the Jail and get that red-headed
bastard Beal and lynch them
Phones Oehler.
"On the way to Charlotte, they
kept threatening me. They stopped
at a filling station and at the point
of guns made me telephone to Och
Ter. Tell him to meet you at the
corner of College and Trade Sts.'
I told Oehler to meet me at the
corner of Tryon and College. There
is no such corner. By this and other
means managed to convey to Och
Ter that there was something wrong
so that they could get away before
the gang arrived.
"They threw me back into the car
They showed me a rope and said
they were going to lynch me with it.
They asked me how much it cost
the LID. to knock Campbell crazy.
I told them that, was ridiculous.
Then they blackjacked me and I
was. unconscious for over an hour.
Beat Wells.
"The next thing / remember, we
stopped at the side of lonely road
the other side of Concord. They got
out and I saw Saylors and Lell who
were in the other cars. Most Of the
cars had left us in Charlotte to go
to raid the LID. office there and
try to get Dunno and Oehler and
the others. They forced me to I'M
dress.
First they tried to make Saylors
and Lell beat me with belts. Then
the leaders seized sticks and hit me
all over the body. Then someone
shouted, The laws acoming.' They
drove off and started to run. After
running about so yards, I collapsed.
Saylors and Lell found me after a
search. The approaching auto that
they had seen was party of pos
sum hunters.
"We walked to Concord, about
eight miles away. We couldn't get
medical care, so we went back to
Charlotte on the a. m. train. AS
soon as / am able, I intend to go
back to Gastonia and go on organ
izing."
Saylor's affidavit corroborates
Wells statement and adds consid-
erably more detail.
"On, September 8, John Carpenter
and Major Bulwinkle lined up a mob
in front Of his office. They put
Charles Ferguson, speed cop, in
front with his motorcycle.
"They passed 512 West Airline
Ave. with 105 automobiles. I count
ed the cars.
I'm about is or 20 minutes they
same back to 512 West Airline Ave-,
surrounded the house, and filled the
house full of men. They came into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
RAIDERS IN USSR
BADLY Defeated
proof to Militarists
of Soviet Ability"
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
report the ATROCITIES admitted by
Japanese and British journalists"
Isvestija affirms: "The German
press fails to recognize the gravity
Of the problems connected with the
endangering of the lives of citizens
Of country entertaining friendly
relations with Germany"
The C~~.nan rote in answer to
the communication of the Peoples
Commissariat Of Foreign Affairs
giving details of many atrocities
practised on Soviet Union workers
in Manchuria and numerous inva-
sions was cynical and denied in eff
feet, the truth of most of the well
authenticated U. S. S. R. charges
against the war lords of China.
Yield to French.
1t is clearly seen by the Soviet
Union workers that the social demo-
cratic government in Germany has
been adopting for some time now
steadily more hostile attitude toward
the U s. s. r., in conformity with
its western orientation' based on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
.CHRySLER co.
CUTS WAGES
Huge Profits for Auto
Bosses
(Bu q Worker Corespondent)

(BD q W OTheF COTTeSpOHueGCJ
DETROIT (By MaiD More
wage cuts and further speeding up
continues to menace the workers in
the Chrysler plants. From all de-
partments workers report shrinking
wages accompanied by greater pro-
duction. In some cases the methods
may be different but the results are
the same. In Department 10, Chrys-
Ter jefferson Ave. Plant, workers
earning 65 cents per hour and bonus
| (Which bonus amounts to next to
nothing) were laid off and new ones
hired at 81 cents per hour and bonus.
The profits of the Chrysler Corp.
for the first four months of 1929
are $8,838,176 compared with $4,-
| 702,466 for the same period in 1928.
The workers are not going to see
their wages being cut, conditions
made worse and the vitality sapping
speed-up system increased without
a struggle In the face of increas-
ing competitor among auto manufac-
turers, plant executives are talking
of greater production economies u
Chrysler workers are talking of or
ganization. Many of them have al
ready joined the union. A Chrysler
shop committee is now active. Even
though the company has attempted
to stop organization work from 60
ing on, more Chrysler workers are
joining the union. Through the shop
committee the workers are learning
to build up their organization in
spite of all that the company and
its stool pigeons can do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Use Sedition Charge
In the Chicago Case

Continued from Page One)
object of which is to advocate the
overthrow of government by vio-
lence."
The crime is considered felony
entailing Jail terms of one to ten
years and heavy fines.
Those on trial are J. Louis Eng
dahl Cat the time of his arrest editor
of the Daily Worker), Carl Sklar,
Paul Cline, Clara Cline, Ethel
Stevens, Irving Herman, Sylvia
Wichtman, Max Melz, Jack Childs,
Anna Leggett, Edward Stevens,
Anthony Bimba, Theodore Asnes,
Lydia Bennett, Carl Carlson, Char
lotte Melamed, Mary Dizoff, Jack
Mineau, Alise Nasrak, Anne New
hoff, Morris Fem, Benjamin Horo-
WITT, Lydia Hidden, John Hacker,
George Repressas and Sandy Viii
1arns.
Fears Communism.
III ui BihS INV tllctI Ses, ASSlSOdIil
States Attorney Everett o. Hutchins
declared, "the United States was be-
ing imperilled by Communism" as
sorting that "Stalin is the actual
head of millions of Communist fol-
lowers in this country.
Although there have as yet been
no raids on the local Party head
quarters, the prosecution has as
sembled a formidable array of Com
munist literature, including a file of
the Daily Worker containing all
material growing out of the publica-
ton of the Open Letter and Ad-
dress of the Communist Irterna-
tional.
He quoted from this extensively
and went into the details regarding
the life history Of various defend
ants. Even D. ]. Bentall, Interna-
tional Labor Defense lawer handling
the defense, was denounced by the
prosecutor as a member of the Com
munist Party and threatened with
arrest.
!. L. ID. Plans Fight.
The international Labor Defense
is planning broad campaign to re-
sist the attempt to virtually illegal
ize the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
Huge Power and Fuel
Combine Presages the
Coming Imperial War


TROY, N. Y, Sept. 11.-More
than 80 per cent of the stockholders
of the Hudson Valley Coke and Pro-
ducts Company, voted in favor Of
merging with the Niagara Hudson
Power Corporation, here yesterday,
it was announced. The Coke Com
pany, which sells gas to the New
York Light and Power Corporation.
subsidiary Of the Niagara Hudson
has holdings of $S,OO0,OO0. The
merger is part of series in power
and fuel. in preparation for the
coming imperialist war, in which
these industries will be key indus
tries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
BERRY 'H0N0RS'
Jim ME WALKER
Make Mayor Member
of Pressmen's Union

Major George L. Berry, president
of the International Pressmen's
Union made Mayor James J. Walker
an honorary member of Local 2,
New York, yesterday at a ceremony
at City Hall.
This is move on the part of
Berry, who has always been active
in democratic party politics to mob
ilize support for the Tammany can
didate for mayor. However, Berry's
record of strikebreaking is so we'll
known to workers in New York and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-12
w. Va. Rail Merger
Part of War Plans

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11-Per-
mission to purchase the Wheeling
and Lake Erie Railroad for 1872, ILL.,
656 was sought from the Interstate
Commerce Commission today by the
Pittsburgh and West Virginia Rail-
road in an amended application. This
planned merger is one of a long
recent series of rail mergers, in pre-
paration for the coming imperialist
war.