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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-05
WASHINGTON Letter
BY HERBERT C. PLUMaIER

WASHINGTON. Aug. 5.-Not since the Gam al
fair has Washington tea table gossip been 50 lively
as now.
For the capitals haute monde has been a victim
Of a fast one-in fact. one Of the fastest ones that
has been pulled in quite a while. No one seems to
know the victims. All know that there were VICTIMS
And each suspects the other.
Here are the details:
Into Washington recently there came a man with
supposedly unquestioned integrity. He made his
home at one Of the exclusive hotels where social lead
ers are wont to gather.
Little by little he gained the confidence of all.
And then he sprung his idea.
What washington needed. he said. was a social
register that contained only the names Of those who
had a right to social recognition. There was no such
publication now in existence.
True. there was a book that purported to list those
in the capital who could rightfully claim social rank
but Il didn't amount to much. Any one who cared
to pay IS or $40. and could get the endorsement OF
another whose name was already in, would have no
difficulty in getting in himself.
ONLY $50
The newcomers Blue Book" would contain the
name Of no one whose social standing could be ques-
toned. And the cost-only $50 a name.
The idea met a generous response. Checks came
in from some Of the most important people in the
SOCial ana IIlCl HE Vi lHC IaEtboA. RAAA eANA N
author was jailed suddenly, charged with fraud.
In vain did the authorities seek for witnesses. No
one was willing TO admit that he had purchased
social recognition" at the price of $50.
Finally one woman was found who was willing
to testify against the accused. She barred the whole
scheme.
But as far as is known her name is the only one to
be made public.
THE TICKET LURE
Washington perhaps holds the record of being the
greatest ticket-buying city in the country.
There is 6 continuous round OF benefits. social ba-
zaars and the ike sponsored by the capitals social
leaders. With a few rare exceptions they are all well
patronized.
Many and ingenious are the methods employed to
dispense with tickets for these events.
There Is one man who makes good money by OPP
Grating a ticket-selling agency which handles moth
ing but pasteboards for social benefits. The sponsor
turns ever the bulk Of the tickets to him. He in turn
calls in a number Of women who have access to tele-
phones. The entire telephone directory Of hte Dis
trict Of Columbia is divided between them. Call after
call is made BY these women until their portion Of
the directory is exhausted.
Another favorite method is to mail tickets to prom
inent people with a note that If the tickets are not
used they should be returned in an enclosed stamped
envelope. Unless they are returned--and more than
likely they are not-payment is demanded.
To avoid unpleasantness the victim usually pays.
The Island Of zap with a quota of 100 immigrants
n the limited States hasn't sent In a single one.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-05

A diet expert suggests the juice Of an orange and
a slice Of bran bread in the morning. but doesn't say
whether 1t IS to be taken before or after breakfast
Fresno Republican
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-05

The Island Of zap with a quota Of 100 immigrants
to the United States hasn't sent In a single one.
That's al right. This country has enough yaps al
ready.-winston- Salem Journal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Fear Cuban Students
Seized i'm Mexico May
Be Killed by MachadO

Several Cuban students living in
Mexico have disappeared" accord
ing to information received in New
York yesterday from Mexico, which
though lacking in sufficient detail
states that these students, who were
interested and active in the All
American Anti-Imperialist League
in Mexico, have undoubtedly been
seized by collision of the Mexican
lackeys of Yankee imperialism and
turned over to the assassins of the
Cuban government.
Three of those taken are: Rogelio
Querbe Tolon, second named
Betancourt, a third named Cascade.
Others are mentioned but not
named as having fallen victim to
Yankee Imperialism. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense is striving to
locate these students and do all pos
sible to save them from Machado's
vengeance. Those who wish to aid
this cause send contributions to the
l. L. D., Room 402, 80 East 18th
St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Collect Relief for
Striking Miners

The great Illinois mine strike is
on. The start of the strike means
increased activity for the Workers
international Relief Store, at 542
Brook Ave, near 149th St., New
York City.
Clothes are badly needed by the
Illinois strikers and their families.
All workers and sympathizers are
urged to donate as much as they can
spare. The store is also aiding the
Leaksville, S. c., wooden mill
strikers, as we'll as donating cloth
ing to workers on strike in New
York City and other parts of the
country.
The following stations for the re-
ceipt of clothing are now open: w.
I. R. National Office, $40 Broadway,
room 512; w. l. K. Local Office, 1893
Broadway, room 221; Hungarian
Workers Home, $50 East 81st St.;
Unity Cooperative, 1900 Seventh
Ave-; w. I. R. Store Annex, 2315
Second Ave, corner 10th ST.;
tailor store, 1861 Townsend Ave-;
United Workers Cooperative, 2700
Bronx Park East; 349 Bradford ST.,
East New York; barber shop, 249
Brighton Beach Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
DEFY CAL. POLICE
in MEETING; FOR
HAITIAN WORKERS
Six Held; Threaten to
Deport

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec, II.
San Francisco workers defied the
police to hold a mass open air DEM
onstration in the Japanese section
against the imperialist war plans
and for the defense of the Soviet
Union and the Haiti revolution.
Six of the workers were arrested,
three of whom were released on bail
and three of whom are being held
by the immigration authorities, with
threats of deportation to the fascist
terror in Japan.
The police used openly fascist
methods against the demonstrating
workers. Among the japanese work
ers still being held are Kanamatsu
and Full. The workers arrested
and later released on bail are Iguni,
Schneidermann and Little, of the
Young Communist League.
San Francisco militant workers,
led by the Communist Party, are
determined to defy the police and
the bosses courts to hold further
demonstrations for the defense of
the Soviet Union and for the Haitian
workers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Imperialism in
Forced Retreat

Continued from Page One)
that Chinese and Soviet forces are
in conflict in northwest Manchuria,
but only to show that this rumor
was the excuse used by Chinese
military to prevent further travel
westward of the international
train" from the station of Mientuho,
Manchuria. There is no evidence
that the rumor has the slightest
foundation in fact.
Apparently, the imperialist med
dlers who expressed great concern
over their nationals in the west
Manchuria region, turned back their
train, but not because of supposed
fighting" but because they were
afraid they would find that their
nationals were perfectly all right in
the zone occupied by the Red Army.
This would take away all reason to
be alarmed at the Reds" and de-
tract from the continued anti-Soviet
propaganda which is the purpose of
the trip.
The Rengo (Japanese) news
agency reports from Harbarovsk in
Soviet Siberia, that the Soviet Gov
eminent had demanded of the Muk-
den ENJOYS, that the two govern
ments settle the question of dam
ages in the occupied zone without
foreign interference" and that the
ENJOYS had urged Chang Hsueh-
lang, Manchurian governor and
tool of Japan, to block the interna-
tional train imperialist provocation.
The firm attitude of the Soviet
Government seems to have produced
results, even Japanese officials adj
hitting, according to Toxic dis
patches, that japanese civilians in
the occupied territory are being
well treated by Soviet forces and
that Japan was mistaken in think
ing its consul at Manchuli was pre-
vented by the Soviet from COM
municating with Japan.
Shanghai reports state a disbe-
lief at that place in rumors that
Chang Fa-kwei, leader of the
"Ironsides" in the attack on Can
ton, has committed suicide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
BehrmQn,s Meteor" at Guild
---LMnt and FOnt0nae IN Cast

The cast for S. N. Behrman's
play, Meteor" which the Theatre
Guild will present at the Guild
Theatre will include Alfred Lunt,
Lynn Fontanne, Douglas Montgom-
cry, Lawrence Leslie, Edward
Emery, Shirley O'Hara, Martin
Berkeley and Leonard Loan. The
play is now playing at the Hollis
Street Theatre in Boston.
"The Game of Love and Death"
now at the Guild, will transfer on
the same evening to the Biltmore
Theatre.
Lee Shubert will present at the
Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Thurs
day evening, December 26, death
Take Holiday" adapted by Walter
Ferris, from the Italian of Alberto
Casella. Philip Merivale is featured,
and the cast includes James Dale,
Rose Hobart, Wallace Erskine, Ro-
land Bottomley and Martin Burton.
John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand"
now playing at the Barrymore, will
move to the Theatre Masque, Mon
day, December %.
William Hodge in Inspector
Kennedy" a new play by Milton
Herbert Chopper and Edna Sherry,
will be seen at the Bijou Theatre,
beginning Saturday evening. This
play has been serving Mr.. Hodge
since the beginning of the season
when it was known as Homicide"
Two casts are now rehearsing for
the annual holiday matinees of the
Junior Players of the Neighborhood
Playhouse, which will be given this
season at the Booth Theatre, Fri
day, December 27, Sunday, Deem
Der 20, Monday, December 80 and
Tuesday, December 81 and Satur-
day, December %. The young play
ers will give the dance pantomime,
LA Boutique Fantasque."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Strike Kills Bender Co.
a in Court on Contempt

Continued from Page One)
scabs, but they couldn't do the work.
1t tried making a poor grade shoe,
and they couldn't even do that.
Injunction Case Trial.
Yesterday 40 police flocked down
to the special term of Part 2, su-
preme court, to keep interested
workers from hearing the argu-
ments in the trial for violation of
the Bressler Shoe Co. injunction.
The workers on trial were: Samuel
Julian, Angelo Mamo, Benjamin
Felischneider, and Carl Blum. At
torney for the boss was Milton
Eisenberg, and for the workers,
Jacques Buitenkant.
The defense did not deny the shop
was picketed, but forced the bosses
to try and prove it.
The company put up four wit
nesses, bosses and bookkeeper.
The decision was postponed, and
the defense attorney demanded and
secured the right to present a brief,
arguing the case, on Monday.
Other Contempt" cases were to
come up, but are put off until Dec.
10.
Judge Callahan heard the case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Greet ACCORSI
AT MEET DEC. 10
Mass Celebration at
Central Opera House

Several thousand New York
workers will welcome Salvatore Ac-
corsi, his wife and three children
at huge demonstration Thursday
night at 1880 in Central Opera
House, 67th st. and Third Ave.
Snatched through the efforts of the
International Labor Defense and
the Communist Party from the
shadow of the electric chair in
which the Pennsylvania coal bosses
were trying to burn him on a
framed charge, Accorsi will bring
militant message to the workers
of this city.
As a result of this campaign in
his behalf launched by the |. L. D.
and the Communist Party, Accorsi,
who was accused of killing State
Trooper Downey when the troopers
made a brutal attack on a Sacco-
Vanzetti demonstration in Ches-
wick, Pa, on August %, 1927 was
acquitted in Pittsburgh last Friday.
The New York District of the In
ternational Labor Defense, with the
support of many affiliated organ
izations, is arranging the welcome
for Accorsi. In addition to Accorsi
and his wife, those who will speak
include Fred Beal and Clarence
Miller, two of the Gastonia defend
ants, ]. Louis Engdahl, national
secretary of the I. L. D.; I. Amter,
district organizer of the Communist
Party; Bill Dunno, of the Trade
Union Unity League; Otto Huis-
wood, of the American Negro Labor
Congress, and Louis Candida, or
ganizer of the Italian section of the
l. l.. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Spend Millions
FOR NEXT WAR
Bosses Ask for More
Wage Cuts

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Bills
for S255, 100000 We're passed for
public works" by Congress. A big
share of this is for war prepara-
tions. The capitalist newspapers
try to give the passage of these bills
the color that they proceed from
Hoover's plan to override the grow
ing depression.
The big capitalists favor immedi-
ate wage cutting and do not approve
increased building projects. The
"Wall Street Journal Dec. IT,
1920, says:
at is easy to go too far in devils
ing means to keep employment high
and to prevent decrease in pur-
chasing power of the workingman.
President Hoover has long ia
vored construction of public works
in times of a threatened let-up in
business. But it is one thing to
wait for a period of general bust
ness slackening to construct works
actually needed or likely to be need
ed in the immediate future, and an
other to go to extremes to think up
ways of spending public moneys on
improvements which cannot be util-
lied for years, or to construct ships
far beyond immediate needs and
likely to be a heavy burden on the
public treasury"
The capitalists, who got a reduc-
ton of $160,O00,000 in taxes, do not
want money spent for ether than
immediate war purposes.
They openly announce that they
want "a decrease in the purchasing
power of the workingman," which is
a soft-soap phrase for drastic wage
cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
(Continued.)
More Chance to Live.

Continuous work in industry de-
mands that work in administrative
and other institutions also be adapt
ed to the new conditions, so, that is,
that shops, theatres, cinemas, ETC.,
should also keep on working. For
this reason the continuous week will
be introduced not only into indus
trial plants, but into all other insti-
buttons whatsoever. In their case
the general rule will be to establish
a five-day week. But to prevent
any raising of expenditure on the
upkeep of the machinery of State
and industrial administration and
distribution, the introduction of the
continuous week, it is stipulated,
must on no account involve an in
crease in staffs to any considerable
extent over the ordinary. Expert
ments have shown that this is quite
a feasible proposition. In this way,
and without any noticeable increase
in non-productive expenditure, the
whole population can have all its
needs seen to on every day of the
year in all clerical and commercial
establishments in the country, start
ing from the cooperative store and
finishing with the editorial offices
of the different papers (Which will
also appear on $50 days of the
year,, and with their respective
trade unions.
Role of Uniins.
New and fairly complicated tasks
now face the trade unions in con-
nection with the introduction of the
continuous week. Besides the fact
that the machinery of the union or
CARNATIONS will have to transfer
to the new working week and carry
on every day of the week, it will
be up to the unions to adapt their
activities to the need for looking
after the masses and their require
ments under the new conditions that
will be now brought about. 1t is
particularly important to cope with
the new conditions imposed by the
greater scope of cultural activities
among the workers. 1t is essential
that the workers should be regu-
larly provided with the possibility of
having their needs satisfied in re-
gard to political and cultural food,
and that, too, without any lowering
of its quality. All the activities of
our clubs, Red recreation corners,
and so on, will have to be reorgan-
lied so that on every day of the
week the workers can get the most
out of these institutions that they
can. The unions have already set
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
The FIve-Day Working
Week IN Soviet Union

to work on the practical hammer
ing out of the questions involved
in the transfer to the continuous
week and the resulting change of ac-
tivities in the trade union organiza-
| tions,
In drawing towards the end of our
article, we may state that this re-
form is not being carried through
in the form of ukase from above
by no means. Even the law regent
ly promulgated by the Government
on the matter has been submitted
to the consideration of the working
masses. And if as a result of this
discussion the necessity for this
change or the other is brought to
light, it will be Immediately enacted
by the Government. The continuous
week is being introduced with the
full endorsement and support of the
millions of our workers at bench
and desk.
The continuous week will be in
troduced first into those branches
of industry experiencing no diff
culties in regard to raw materials
and which have every chance of
marketing the extra production they
will turn out. This means that
certain number Of plants will carry
on production on the old system.
But there is no doubt that before
the end of 1880 the whole reform
will have ben effected in its totality.
Already in the present year-solely
owing to the introduction of the con-
tinuous week-we will be able to
raise industrial production by about
80 per cent instead of the "a per
cent of last year. Every increase
in the volume of production in Soviet
Russia opens up avenues for the fur
their improvement of the position
of the working class, for speeding
on our work of Soviet construction
and Fastening the process of indus
Trailing the country and recon-
structlng production.
The introduction of continuous
weeks bears open witness for all to
see of the tremendous advantages
planned economy contains within it
self and what enormous potential
tiles lie in the Socialist organization
of production. The new reform
shows that we are moving forward
to Socialism much quicker than we
ourselves thought we could do. And
if the Five Year Plan for develop
ing our country's industries offered
hitherto incredible rates of develop
ment, under the continuous week
even those high rates of develop
ment, it will be found, will be con-
siderably outstripped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
u. s, LABOR DEP ARTMENT HAS TO
ADMIT Mill WOMEN'S PAY FALLS
Average 10 Per Cent Reduction in Two Years. New England
Bosses Try to Cut to Alabama Scale of $11SS Week

Women textile workers wages
dropped Is per cent from 1926 to
1928, according to a report just
issued by the Women's Bureau of
the Department of Labor. This
governmental bureau is not in favor
of raising wage scales nor in the
habit of furnishing material for
union organizers, so if it is forced
by facts to admit as much the real
ity must be worse.
The government reports say the
average women textile workers
wage per week is $11.SS in Ala
bama; $12,32 in South Carolina;
$12.77 in Georgia, and $1462 in
North Carolina. The New England
wage was higher, the very highest
being $20.31 in New Hampshire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
Acc0rsi Case Not the
Only One in Pa; s
Miners Face Jail

Contrary to common belief,
bloody Cheswick did not end with
final victory over the Andy Mellon
gang in tearing Salvatore Accorsi
from the electric chair, for there
are still ten miners out on bail
ranging from $500 to $4,000 facing
a penalty of s years Imprisonment.
The International Labor Defense
which took up the fight for Accorsi
from the very day of his arrest, de-
clares that the fight against the
coal and iron thugs of Pennsylvania
has merely begun with the freedom
of Accorsi.
The ten miners who face trial
are charged with unlawful assem-
blage, melting to riot, and resisting
an officer. They were arrested
during and after the Cheswick dem
onstration on behalf of Sacco and
Vanzetti, August %, 1927. Their
cases have not yet come to trial.
The state cops and the yellow
Dogs" (iron and coal cops) savage
at having lost Accorsi, are deter
mined to vent their fury on the re-
naming ten miners.
"The fight to save Accorsi has
ended in victory" said ]. Louis
EnSdahl, national secretary of the
l. L. D. "But the fight against the
coal and iron police and the state
police has begun with Accorsi's
freedom. The l. L. D., which was
successful in rallying the masses
to such protest that the Pittsburgh
tools of Mellon were forced to re-
lease Accorsi, must now continue
the fight to Internationally free the
remaining Cheswick miners. The
protest must continue"
Build Up the United Front of
the Working Class From the Bot
tom Up-at the Enterprises!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

ties (Watt) are the bosses allies,
are the same fascists gangsters and
strike breakers, only covered under
different names.
The American working class as a
whole must rally to the support of
the heroic struggle of the miners.
This strike must receive more sup
port than any ether strike in the
history of recent years. Rush all
your relief to the Workers Interna-
tional Relief and send your money
to the international Labor Defense
to defend those arrested fighting in
the miners army of Illinois. The
workers of Illinois and throughout
the country must arrange mass
protest demonstrations against
using the militia, and sheriffs in an
attempt to break the strike. The
role of the state as a strike breaker
must be fully exposed and lesson
drawn showing clearly that the gov
eminent is the government of the
bosses and their instruments in
breaking strikes. The workers must
rally around the Trade Union Unity
League and the vanguard of the
working class, the Communist Party,
as the only forces which leads the
workers of this country in their
everyday struggle.
The miners are determined to
carry their struggle to victorious
end. But this can be done only
with the support of the American
working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18

However, the fall in wages be-
tween 1924 and 1928 was greater in
New England than in the South,
and the department had to say:
This lessening of the differential
between the two sections by de-
cline in the North instead of an ad-
vance in the South worked to the
great disadvantage of women's earn
ings in the industry as whole,
since the Southern scale itself was
at lower level at the end of the
four years, and, according to the
classes of 1920, more women were
employed in the North than in the
South"
The greatest wage reduction was
in Massachusetts,, where there was
an Is per cent wage cut in the four
years under consideration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
New Years Ball for
Miners Relief Funds

A great New Years Eve Miners
Solidarity Ball has been arranged
by the New York local of the Work
ers International Relief, to be held
in Rockland Palace, 155th st. and
Eighth Ave. All the proceeds will
go for the relief of the striking H.
linois miners.
An entertainment program with
many unusual features is being ar
ranged for this ball. Tickets are
on sale at the office of the New
York W.I.R., 1893 Broadway, room
221. They are rs cents in advance
and so cents at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-18
SANDING Lives Quietly
in Mexico but People
OF Nicaragua Fight On

MERIDA. YUCATAN, Mexico,
Dec. 16.-The once upon a time
chief of the Independence Army of
Nicaragua, Augusta SANDING, is now
living TRANQUILITY in country house
in the suburbs of this city with his
wife, son and three personal COM
panions who came with him from
Nicaragua when he departed from
the struggle.
He rarely visits anyone, but at
times journeys to the interior of this
state, where he is said to be inter-
ested in buying some land. Every
indication is that SANDING has taken
up permanent residence in Yucatan.