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Spanish and really know the Spanish
Americans, their needs and their prob
lems Then, when they return to the
United States they can talk Of pan
Americanism with real knowledge, and
contribute something to the solution OF
existing differences. And also a great
many people from the South coming to
the North, to learn English, to study
the opinions and modes of thought Of the
Saxons, to attain an understanding OF
the aspira tons Of this people, its ideals
and to understand that 1t Is not alone
commercial or business interests which
impel them to seek the friendship of
Latin America. To this end, to achieve
this interchange, Of transcendant i'm
portance for the success OF pan-Amer-
! icanisTn, better systems Of comunica-
tions are the first necessity.
The Pan-American Union, an insti-
tuition founded for the purpose of pro-
noting American good relations,
has been working for some time on the
plan for a great central highway,
which running through the hemisphere
from North to South, would join the
Latin American capitals with the i'm
portant cities of the United States. At
the last Pan-American Conferences the
construction of the Continental High
way has been the subject of much dis
cussion and the governing board Of the
Union has carried on negotiations with
the various American nations to obtain
their cooperation in this plan for the
solution of the road problem.
All the Governments have responded,
Of course, that they would cooperate
in carrying out this great work, and
some of them, among others the United
States, have completed that part Of the
highway through their territory. What
is necessary now. is to go ahead with
| the construction of the sections lacking
Through some Of the other countries,
and then unite the various sections 80
! as to form, at least. that great highway,
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ton with the public and private agen-
cies engaged in child welfare work.
The bureau has done a good deal Of
pioneer work in developing scientific
method Of collecting and analyzing the
basic facts. Its first comprehensive
study-that OF infant mortality-illus-
trates the method used. When this
survey was started the Bureau of the
Census had not yet established the
birth registration area" In only eight
States was there a reasonably complete
system of registration. In less than half
the States were death statistics avail
able. Under these conditions 1t was i'm
possible to discover how many children
were born in a year In this country or
how many Of these died during the first
year of their life.
Miss Julia Lathrop, the first chief Of
the bureau, told a congressional COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21
Retailers in England
Fight Vending Boxes

Retail tobacco dealers are worried
about the growing practice of INSTALL
ing automatic cigarette mac2.Ses out
doors where 40 rent or rates are re-
qulred.
Its unfa'fness was discussed at a
meeting OF the Tobacco Trades Fed
Grafton. in London recently.
Under present regulations there are
many legal sites for a slot machine,
the only expense being the cost of the
license Of about 81. So seriously Is
che question considered that cigar store
owners have decided to leave the matter
for decision until the annual meeting
in June.
But they are not the only merchants
who are concerned. Dealers in other
goods capable of being sold in auto
matte machines are also agitating for
some method Of equal treatment"
At first clerks protested that the de-
n1and for tobacco, candies and other
"leisure-time" wares forced them to
long hours.
The "automats" seemed to solve the
problem, as they entailed no work for
any one and the public could be served
at any time. But the retailers suffer,
30 that the issue has become vital
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accidents and diseases of children en-
ployment and legislation affecting chill
dren in the several States and Terri
tories"
The constituency Of the bureau. there
fore, Is a vast one. There are about
43, 900 900 children in the United States
under 18 years Of age, and the 1880
census may bring the number close to
50,000,000
Activities Of Bureau.
In the II years since its establish
ment the work of the bureau has fallen
under four main heads-the collection
and analysis of facts about children
gathered by first hand investigation and
by library research. the dissemination
Of these facts through various channels
to the people of the country, co-opera-
ton with States and finally co-opera-
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IN HE calling by President Hoover
of a national conference on
child welfare serves to direct
attention anew to the work
which the Government has been
doing toward building higher standards
for the care of the children in this
country. The conference will meet
early in 1880. the date being set far
enough ahead to permit careful and
thorough preparatory work.
1t will be the first national review OF
the subject held since President Roose-
welt issued a call for similar gathering
in 1909. In those 20 years the Govern
ment, through the Children's Bureau.
has been active in many fields OF child
welfare work.
The United States was the first coun-
try to create a government bureau de-
voted entirely to the interests OF chill
dren. The bureau was established in
1912. Congress gave this bureau wide
range of duties.
THE said bureau" reads the act.
shall investigate and report upon all
matters pertaining to the welfare o.
children and child life among all classes
OF our people and shall especially inves-
tigate the questions of infant mortality,
the birth rate, orphanages, juvenile
courts, desertion. dangerous occupations,
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mittee that at least 100000 babies less
than a year old died each year in the
United States and that. in her opinion,
half of this number could be saved.
Then the bureau launched a survey,
conducting 1t under an entirely new
method. Instead of starting with the
deaths of the babies, as had previous
surveys, the bureau began with the
births, traced the babies through their
first year and analysed the conditions
surrounding the babies that lived, as
well as the babies that died.
The survey included babies in rich
as we'll as poor families. 1t covered
factors heretofore neglected, the ma
tionality OF the parents, the earnings
of the father. the hteracy of the
mother. the housing of the family and
the general sanitary conditions that
prevailed In the community. The study
covered $4,000 babies in IL cities.
One of the important conclusions
reached was that the economic condi-
ton Of the family Is an outstanding
factor In the child's chance to live.
OF the babies of the most prosperous
families in Baltimore, for example.
only one out OF every ~ died. Among
those Of the poorest families, on the
other hand. one out Of every seven died.
CONTINUED on Fourth Page)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
SHOW jim CROW
R.O.T.C. TACTICS
Negroes Join Chicago
Communist Fight

CHICAGO, (By Mail).-Jim Crow
tactics of the R. O. T. C. were ex-
posed by the Communist Party and
the Communist Youth League at a
dance given by the Crane College R.
G. t. G. following the military man.
elvers.
When it became known that
Negroes would not be admitted,
Communist students at the school
l,ported the matter to the local
League and Party. A leaflet calling
en- mass student attendance at an
sfter-school meeting was circulated
which exposed the real purpose OF
the R. 0. T. c. and it's incidental
Jim Crow practise. Three students
distributing the leaflets were ar
rested by police summoned by the
high school principal.
Police squads guarding the side
walk and entrance of the hall for
babe all to enter on threat of arrest
Communist students in the College
report a favorable reaction to the
leaflet among the Negro students
They plan further propaganda and
Organization work in the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
MINERS AID
VISIT TO UsSR OF
u. S. CHILDREN
Other Unions Also
EndOrSe1It

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 10
The National Miners Union, thru its
National Secretary Treasurer, Pat
H. Toohey, has endorsed the cam
paign to send children's delegation
to the Soviet Union. This campaign,
begun on the initiative of the Young
Pioneers of America, an organization
of workers and farmers children, has
already received the endorsement
from many trade uni>ns and other
labor organizations.
Toohey declared that the miners
children would be in the forefront in
support of the delegation. The
miners children have gone thru many
strikes and know what it is to strug-
gle against the bosses for better
conditions for the workers. They
know that in the Soviet Union there
are no longer any bosses, there is
no more child labor, children, in
stead of starving and living in
novels, receive the best possible care
and treatment.
The children of the American
workers are sending delegation to
the Soviet Union in order to estab-
lish solidarity with the children and
workers in the Soviet Union, in
order to learn and tell to the Ameri-
can children about the conditions of
the Russian children, and in order to
DE able to fight better for the Soviet
Union if the capitalists attack it.
Pat H. Toohey is the chairman of
the National Labor Committee which
is conducting the drive to send a
childrens' delegation to the Soviet
Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Lewis THUGS
ADMIT ASSAULT
ON MILITANTS
National Union Won't
Ask Court Aid

MORGANTOWN, w. Va, June 10.
The Lewis thugs, who were in
dicted by the May Grand Jury here
some time ago, have all confessed
to the charges against them ana
will come up for sentence some time
later. This is all the more signifI-
cant when considering that the Ma
tional Miners Union, in accordance
with its policy, refused to send its
members who had been slugged to
testify against the Lewis thugs.
The sluggers were indicted as "a
result of their efforts to break up
a mass meeting of the National
Miners Union at which Pat. H. Too
hey, National Secretary Treasurer,
was to speak. Louis Sass, chairman
of the meeting, and Albert Kowal-
sky, president of the local union,
were beaten up. Sass was struck
over the eye with a bottle, and was
so seriously injured that for time
there was danger that he would lose
the sight of his eye.
In spite of repeated requests from
the District Attorney, the National
Miners Union refused to send its
members as witnesses. The Ma
tional Miners Union is willing to let
the miners decide as to whether they
prefer the Lewis sluggers, or the
militant National Miners Union. The
miners are already deciding this by
following the National Miners Union
in it's fight against wage-cuts and
unemployment.
This confession from the Lewis
sluggers is proof that the only stock
in-trade of the corrupt and bankrupt
Lewis machine is thuggery aid init
midation; the Lewis machine is 100
per cent part of the machinery of
the operators against the miners.
fights for the miners and deserves
fight for the miners and deserves
their support.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
FARMERS co TO
LEAGUE SCHOOLS
Superior District to
Teach Them

SUPERIOR, Wis, June 19.-Two
Communist Youth League summer
schools will open today in the Su-
perior District. One of these schools
will be held in Superior, Wis, and
the other in Negaunee, Mich. Abou.
80 young workers, young farmers
and working class students will at
tend these courses. Among the stu
dents there will be young miner,
young lumber workers, and Others
from important industries in the
district. This is considered very sig
nificant for us here, as it will help
to orientate the whole League to-
wards the industrial youth.
The 1929 courses will be differ
ent in many respects from the
courses held in previous years. The
schools will last six weeks each, and
an entirely different curriculum has
been prepared for this year than in
previous years. Among the SUBJ
jects that the students will be taught
will be: Political Elements, History
of the International Labor Move
ment, History of the American La
Dor Movement, Trade Union Work,
and others. Special emphasis will
this year be laid on the question Of
"Our Tasks" which was not given
sufficient attention previously. There
will be two instructors in each Of
these schools. Besides there will be
special lectures given by the League
district organizer and other leading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
BLACK Haiti, Unique
Narrative, Starts in
Daily Worker Monday

Next Monday the Daily Worker
will begin printing one of the
most unique features it has ever
offered its readers. Jacques
Dicharson, a seaman who has
been an active fighter for the
working class for many years,
has written ar account of his
experiences in Haiti. In vivid
and pungent style, lit up by
flashes of ironic humor, Dichar-
son tells how he left the S. S.
Seatonia after being beaten I'M
conscious by the first mate, how
he looked for job in Port all
Prince, Haiti, the people he met,
his experiences with the flunkeys
of the ruling class, etc.
Throughout this narrative,
which is fact, not fiction Though
it is as fascinating as novel;,
Dicharson lays bare the brutal
enslavement of the natives of
Haiti by American imperialism.
"Black Haiti" as this unique
narrative is called, has been
written for and will be printed
exclusively in the Daily Worker.
1t starts next Monday and will
be completed during the week.
Don't miss it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
Southern Kluxers for
Jim Crow Rule; Want
BOne-Dry Democrats

ROANOKE, Va, June 19.-The
southern rebellion of bone-dry big
OTIS against Tammany AL Smiths
leadership of the democratic party
took on the nature of a stampede
away from the brown derby here
today, when the anti-Smith conven-
ton voted to appoint a committee
with headquarters in Washington to
cooperate with Ku Klux groups in
other states. That the convention
is an outgrowth of the capitalistic
Klux movement was plainly be-
trayed in plank unanimously
adopted by the delegates, which
''unalterably pledges the anti-Smith
democrats to racial integrity and
condemns social relations between
the white and Negro races"
A college professor, William Mos
ely Brown, was nominated for gov
ernor of Virginia and selected to
lead the Kluxers in their efforts to
wrest control of the state machine
from the regular party hacks.
The platform demanded the resig-
nation of John J. Raskob as chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee and denounced the state
leadership as "most dangerous
despotism."
S. HOWE Williams, a lyncher
from Lynchburg, spoke on the dam
nable liquor traffic" declaring that
the democrats had conducted two
faced campaign in 192s.\
The convention does not, Of course.
object to Smith and Raskob being
Wall Street servants. What they
want are bone-dry, Ku klux Khan
Wall Street servants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
w. l. r. Conference in
New York June q to
Plan Textile Tag Days

A city conference of the Workers
International Belief to prepare for
tag days for the relief of the Cas-
tonia textile strikers will be held at
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
ST., on Thursday, June ~ at z p. m.
Delegates from trade unions, shops
and labor fraternal organizations will
be present. The conference will also
take up other plans for aiding the
striking textile workers.
The tag days will take place on
June 20 Ind June 80. An organi-
cation conference to prepare for the
tag days will be held Monday at &
D. m. at the office Of Local New
York, Workers International Relief,
Room 221, 1893 Broadway.
The w. I. R. Local New York, an.
nounced yesterday that registration
for the W. I. R. Children's Camp
takes place daily from l to 6 p. m.
at the local office of the w. I. R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
New Mongol Tribe Is
Discovered in USSR

LENINGRAD, June ia Mon
gol tribe numbering about 1000
people has recently been discovered
on the bank of Lake Issyk-Kul, near
the town of Karakol in district of
Semirechye. The Mongols belong
to the western branch of Oirats.
Apparently they migrated to the
banks of Issyk-Kul not later than
the beginning of the 17tf century
Gradually they became intermixed
with the Semirechye aborigines, the
kaisak-Kirgees race, taking over
from them the Moslem religion but
retaining their own language and
some of their customs.
The Academy of Sciences of the
U. S. S. R. is keenly interested in
the discovery Of this new tribe and
has sent the well-known student of
the Monaghan race, Burdukov, tc
study it on the spot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
European Steel Trust
Cartel to Continue;
Naturalization Grows

PARIS, June 19.-The European
Steel Cartel meeting in Paris de-
cided today after two days debate
to continue the Cartel under the
agreement which expires September.
The Cartel decided to increase its
steel production for the third quar-
ter by million tons, making total
production 32,2955,77O tons.
The agreement to continue the
Cartel was unanimous. Details of
the duration of the agreement are
to be settled at the next meeting in
Vienna.
The Cartel enslaves hundreds of
thousands of steel workers thruout
Europe, and the workers will be
orced to bear the burden of the in
crease production, thru the
naturalization plans adopted by the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
M0NTEvID0 MEET
Cement WESTERN
WORLD WORKERS
Sign Solidarity Pact;
Hawkins Returns

The representative of the T. u.
E. L. at the Conferencia Sindical
Latino Americana, I. Hawkins, has
just returned to New York from
Montevideo, where the epoch-mak-
ing conference convened on May 18,
and announces that the work went
forward with triumphant success,
binding still closer the workers of
the South and North American con-
tinents. Sixty-five delegates from
Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Columbia,
Ecuador, Peru and Brazil took part
in the eight-day proceedings, which
were attended by thousands of ma
tive workers.
Every question affecting the
masses Of Latin-An1erica was thor
ouehly thrashed out; the agenda in
Guided a report on the general sit
uation, one on the Pan-Anlerican
Federation Of Labor, and others COW
ering "socialistic," fascist and gov
ornamental trade unionism, condi-
tons facing the agricultural work
ers, the Negroes, working youth ana
women. The Indian problem also
came in for debate, while imperial
ism and the war danger, correctly
recognized as the most important
issue before the toiling masses to-
day, was analysed with all the seri-
BUSINESS due to it.
The discussions, participated in by
all delegates, brought out an unre-
1enting anti-imperialist stand.
Hawkins addressed the congress
on the Negro question and his fell
low American delegate, w. Simons,
representative of the N. T. w. u.
spoke on the general report of the
secretary and also on the struggle
against imperialism. The browning
event of the c. S. L. A. was the
signing of the Solidarity Pact, in
troduced by Comrades Simons and
Hawkins during the closing session,
acting in cooperation with the R.
/. L. U.
Complete reports of the congress,
made out in Spanish, are now being
translated, and will be presented to
the workers of the United States
within short time, together with
the draft of the Solidarity Pact.
Simons has left for Buenos Aires
to cover the railway workers meet
there and will return to New York
early in July.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
POPE WILL BLESS
new SELLOUT OF
MEXICAN MASSES
u. S. Completes Union
of Church and State

MEXICO CITY, June 19.-The
terms of the new alliance between
the Mexican government and the
reactionary catholic church are now
in the hands of the pope at Rome
and await his official approval.
The final details of the agree
ment were worked out on Monday
in conferences between U. s. AM
bassador Morrow and President
Portes Gil and Morrow and Arch
bishop Leopoldo Ruiz Y Flores and
Bishop Pascual Diaz of Tabasco, the
papal emissaries. Thus Wall Streets
man, VINO was responsible for I'M
tiating the secret negotiations, was
present till the end to see that the
wishes CT Yankee imperialism were
carried out.
The betrayal by Portes Gil Of one
of the most important achievements
of the Mexican Revolution-suppres-
sion of the counter Revolutionary
catholic church-bears a two-faced
character, the announcements indi-
cate. Fearing the wrath of the
masses, who have suffered under
the oppression of the church, Portes
Gil did not dare to make any open
changes in the religious laws. In
stead the new agreement is said to
embody a more liberal' interpre-
tation of them. The result is the
same: the church will now have a
free hand and official sanction.
At the same time that he was
conducting the secret negotiations
with the papal representatives,
Portes Gil intensified the persecu-
ton of militant workers and peas
ants and their organizations. The
headquarters of the Communist Par
ty was raided, its central organ,
Gel Machete," suppressed, and
workers and peasants leaders ar
rested and some of them shot.
Despite these prosecutions, the Mex
lean masses are rallying their
forces for intensified struggle
against the U. S.-controlled bour-
geoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
WORKERS CHIEF
HEAT VICTIMS
Beaches Grabbed by
the Rich

New Workers. sweltered without
hope of relief yesterday with the
thermometer at SO at II a. m. and
a Weather Bureau prediction of 95
degrees before nightfall. The chief
victims were of the workingclass.
Many collapsed at work.
The II o'clock reading was one de-
gree higher than Tuesdays CORE
spending temperature, which rose to
SO before the day was out and caused
four deaths in the Metropolitan area.
The Weather Bureau said there
will be thunder showers today, pos
sibly.
Workers children continued to
swelter on the city streets-there are
no beaches for them except the over
crowded and polluted Coney Island.
The best beaches are private pre-
serves of the wealthy.
At s a. m. temperatures through
out the sweltering area were soaring
as they did yesterday when in New
York City 93-year-old June heat
record was broken with % degrees.
Yuma, Ariz., was the hottest spot
in the country yesterday, theremo-
meters there registering 104 degrees.
Phoenix, Ariz., had 100 degrees, Ell
Paso, Texas, SO degrees and several
cities turned in Gas.
The coolest town was Northhead,
Washington, with the mercury
slumbering at Sd degrees.
The territory west of the Rockies
continued to remain proportionately
cooler than the eastern and mid
western sections of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
STEAMERS COLLIDE

LISBON, Portugal, June TO-
The French steamer Cap Alprecht
and the Italian steamer Doride col
lided in a fog near the Berlingas
Isles, off Peniche, today. Both
ships were damaged. The passcn-
gers Of the Doride, including the
British consul at Gibraltar and his
wife, were safely transferred to the
Gap Alprecht, which was towed to
Cascaes, where the passengers were
landed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
SEE BREAK IN HEAT.

WASHINGTON, June 10. = A
break in the heat wave that has
scared the east for four days was
forecast for tonight by the U. S.
Weather Bureau today.
Showers and thunder storms will
relieve the heat in the New England
and Eastern states tonight, the
Bureau said.
"There is no relief in sight for the
Middlewest," Workers have suf-
fered heavily in the heat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

Not only has the bOurgeoisis
Forged the weapons that bring
death to itself; it has also called
INTO existence the men who are to
WELD those weapOns-the modern
working class--the proIetariuns.-
Karl Marx Communist Mnnifestol,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

League members in the district.
The schools this year, as in pre-
vious years, were made possible
thru the support and cooperation of
the different working class organ
izations in the district, such as the
Workers Clubs, Coop. Societies,
.Women's Sections, and others. IL