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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
BY ALBERT WEISBORD.

(This is the first of series
of five articles on Mexico by Al
bert Weisbord, who has just re-
turned from Mexico City, where
he went as a delegate from the
4 t. U. E. L. of the United States
to the Unity Conference Of Work
ers and Peasants. The second ar
ticle, to be published tomorrow,
viii deal with political conditions
in Mexico ard its relations to U.
S. imperialism.)
One travelling through the mid
south and Texas on the way to Mex
leo must be impressed with one out
standing fact-the tremendous mis-
cry of the masses. As the train
whizzes by one can see the shacks,
one room, one window, clap-trap
boards, implanted, open toilets, home
of pig and chicken, where those who
toll from morn TO night must live.
l was shocked oy the SIMILARITY of
these conditions to those OF The peas
ants Of Poland, They looked ike the
same kind of shaczs, only here was
even more terribly severe exploita-
ton.
| began to see more clearly than
before that truly there was q sort
of inner Imperialism in The United
States, where the agrarian masses
of the mid-south had already been
driven down practically to the level
of the European peasant. | am sure
that no one knowing this part of
the mid-south can claim that condi-
tons are better in this part of
American than in Europe.
This tremendous facC has not been
utilized at all by the Plrty. Have
we not always taken for granted
the fact that the agrarian toilers
were better off in America th-n in
Ell rope? Let US turn our spotlight
on this part of the country, Texas,
Mississippi, Alabama, ETC., and
there will be revealed conditions
that will act as an electric shock to
the whole labor movement and to
the Party, showing to the Party
more clearly than before the basic
conditions of the masses and the
tasks and opportunities before it.
In this connection it should be said
that a great deal Of material was
missed during the last Mississippi
flood. Our Party did something to
expose the conditions, but what a
wealth of material could have been
revealed!
Can anyone maintain that masses
undergoing such terrible oppression
are not effectively ready for revolu-
ton? To anyone who SCOTS at this,
| say to him, go down yourself and
try to live under such conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Dangerous Thoughts Tn the Carpenters Union

Frank Kempf, lesser bureaucrat of the Hutchinson
machine writes The Carpenter journal of the United Brother
hood Carpenters and Jones of America to exu his
success in preventing the membership of Local 298 from
hearing the side of the progressive carpenters expelled by the
u. B. c. J. of A. Lakeland Convention recently held He
says:
"a motion made and unanimously carried that we
tear up the communication rom Rosen) without reading it!
And happened that recording secretary of local
it gave keen pleasure to comply with this motion Drastic
measures? No. Just merely self-preservation :.
We know all about those unanimous motions motions
passed with Hutchesons ukase of disciplinary
against any who sympathze openly with the pogessves
But what fury what fear that the membership might find
out something about the case! MISREPRESENTATION for
Kempf.
This shows again, farther down in Kempfs letter. when
he all members of the union to listen to anything
the progressives say for fear they will be convinced
"Oraory is one of the chief weapons which the Com
munist Brothers! beware the glib tongue of this
body of Trade Educational Leaguers!"
This is the voice of who knows his weak
Those he wishes to keep ignorance will find way to learn
and aye ready to help them
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15

"greasers" as they are. Their fierce
rebellious spirit has broken out
again. They are potential force
to be feared in the mid-south and
southwest.
Highly Strategic.
One Of the best ways of attack
ing Wall Street is through the mo-
bilization of the colonial, semi-col-
onial and anti-imperialist masses. In
America the most powerful anti
imperialist force is concentrated in
just those industries most necessary
for U. S. imperialism (oil, railway,
rletal, mines, agriculture, etc. 1t
is this Fact that makes the winning
Of the Mexican masses in the U. S.
of the highest strategic Importance
for our Party. We owe this to our
selves and to the movement in
Latin America.
Further it is not beyond the
realms of possibility that U. s..
troops will invade Mexico in a short
time. Should the revolutionary
movement in Mexico advance much
further than it is advancing today,
intervention is a surety. If in New
York City we will pass resolutions
against such intervention, the great
mass of Mexicans concentrated along
the border will be ready to carry
out those resolutions. Border work,
frontier work, must occupy the at
tention of our Party far more than
before. And for this work the win
ming of the Mexican toilers is of
paramount Importance.
Finally I shall venture one fur
Their idea as to the great Importance
of the Mexican worker in the U. S..
to us, and that is his relationship
with the Negro. | would like to
throw out the thought that the Mex
lean worker can help win the Negro
masses far more easily than the
white. The deep prejudices that ex-
list between white and black, does
not exist between the oppressed
Mexican and Negro masses. They
are bound together economically and
even socially. There is no reason
why the closest revolutionary ALI
ance could not be made between Mex
lean and Negro. The Mexican there
fore becomes vital link in the chain
of solidarity, binding the entire
American proletaEian and agrarian
toilers together.
American Imperialism is begin
ming to realize the menace 100000
Mexicans means to its power. Upon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
3 Young Workers in
Cleveland Jailed for
Distributing Leaflets

CLEVELAND, (By MaiD.-Three
young workers, members of the
Young Workers (Communist)
League, were arrested here for dis
tributing leaflets exposing the con-
ditions in the L. A. Young Spring
and Wire Company. They are
charged with deceptive advertising"
and have received summons to APP
pear in court for violation Of city
ordinance.
Those arrested are Phil Bart, dis
trict organizer of the League, Leo
Orsag and Svante Kalistaja. They
are being defended by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Leo Orsag
was arrested a few days ago for
distributing the same leaflets, a
part of campaign to organize the
workers of the plant. AT second
distribution to protest the arrest,
the other two workers were arrested.
The Young Workers League declares
that it will not be intimidated by
the police and will continue to or
ganize the workers in the plant.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES;

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
NO SCHOOLING FOR POOR.

HARRISBURG, Pa, by MaiD D.
Employment certificate reports SUBJ
mitted to the department of public
instruction by the various school dis
tricts of Pennsylvania show that
during last year 27,260 minors be-
tween Ia and 16 were forced to
leave school by poverty and to seek
work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15

the representatives Of the WIN. at his office on
March fourteenth. WIN was represented by Presi-
dent Meyer and myself, with John Murphy. The at
mosphere heavy with antagonism. There
not man there who was not bitterly opposed to the
WIN. MacNeil dapper little man, the quin-
tessence of the capitalist class, who had never
in his life spoken to workingman except to give
orders. He had the air of having been dragged in
by the hair of the head to a meeting to which he
was opposed before it started. Fullerton of the
Teluride mill was of the same trne hut vn1nper and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
Haywood i'm an Arbitration Conference;
MacNeil, Hard boiled Manager;
Making a Strike Spread

Hayoood has a0tm previously of has boyhod the Nor
MONS miner and cowboy IN the old d 0e his early
the Western Federation of Miners the
standing leader the W. NJ battles for miners and mnng-
Colorado he telling the vvd story of the strike md
martial a0 at Colorado City, oh Governor Peabody actively sap
porting the mill managers. Now reading.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
POLICE FIGHT GYPsIEs.

GAMBACH, Germany, (By MaiD.
Special police recruited from the
surrounding territory are bounding
down about hundred gypsies who
were forced by starvation and the
extreme cold here to break into
houses for warmth and shelter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
By WILLIAM ID. HAYWOOD.
PART XXXVII.

THE could longer maintain his that there
Public sentiment became
bringing together parties the
controversy called meeting the mill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-15
OPEN NEW U.S.S.R. RAILWAY.
TASHKENTT. U.S.S.R.. (Rv MaiD

The opening of service on the
northern section Of the Turkestan-
Siberian Railway was inaugurated
on Dec. Is. Freight transportation
has been established between Semi
palatinsk and Sergyopol, a distance
Of 337 kilomctcr5.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

| dred and sixty thousand dollars
| ($360,000) for additional buildings to
carry on the county's business, to say
nothing OF the amounts for roads and
schools in all parts of the county.
II have voted both in the finance
| committee and on the floor of the Sem
ate during the Ritchie administration
to keep down appropriations so that the
State tax rate would be reduced. 1t
has been reduced and the State has
progressed very materially in schools,
roads. the preservation of health and
! many other ways.
why cannot this county's tax rate
be lowered without interfering with its
progress and prosperity? I believe it
can. How? BY close scrutiny of all
appropriation bills and requests for
funds which may be asked of us during
the coming session of the Legislature,
and careful consideration of the real
necessity of such measures.
Il am going to begin this session bv
opposing this extra bond issue of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
($150,000) because + do not believe it
is necessary, and 1 shall endeavor to
treat all other requests for more bond
issues the same way, if in nv iudr u
ment they do not appeal to me more
strongly than the proposition we have
before us.
I'm taking this stand for a reduc-
ton of taxes I am reasonably sure the
majority of taxpayers of this county are
in sympathy with me, because, after all,
1t is not question of how much gain
we may or may not have in the taxable
basis of the county, for an increase in
the basis does not always mean reduc-
ton In the rate.
What the average taxpayer is con-
cerned with Is the amount of taxes he
has to pay out of his yearly earnings.
"DR. EUGENE JONES,
- State Senator"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
DEMOCRATS LAUNCH
INDEPENDENCE MOVE
Six Smith Opponents in Recent
Election Named on Committee at
Alexandria Meeting.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, January S.
About so men and women, old line
Democrats who voted against Alfred E.
Smith in November, met at the George
Mason Hotel Thursday evening for a
discussion of whether there should be
formed an organization in the eighth
congressional district OF virginia for
taking concerted action in future politi-
cal controversies, county, State and ma
tional
Frank Lyon of Fairfax County was
elected chairman and Miss Mary Evelyn
Bell of the same county, secretary of the
meeting Expressions were given by a
dozen or more of those present, and
they we're unanimously for maintaining
an independent organization so they
would be free to cast their votes for such
candidate as seemed to them best fitted
for Office The following resolution was
unanimously passed:
Resolved that a committee of IL be
appointed, three each from Arlington,
Fairfax and Prince William Counties
and from Alexandria City, to meet with
like committees from other counties in
the eighth congressional district, to con-
slider the organization of an independ-
ent body of electors to be designated the
independent Democratic party or such
other appropriate name as may be
deemed advisable by the general COM
mittee thus created"
The full committee has not been COM
pleted, but John P. Lyons and w.
Thomas French of Arlington County, C.
H. Brown of Alexandria. w. S. Athey of
Prince William and Joseph E. Berry and
Frank Lyon of Fairfax County have
been named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

BY the Associated Press.
SPANS influence through four GEN.
turtles of agricultural development in
America will be revealed by an elaborate
exhibit the United States Is sending to
Seville for the Ibero-American Inter-
national Exposition March IS to
October IS.
Under direction of Frank L. Coll, the
display will be arranged as picture
story Of the part live stock introduced
by Spanish explorers has played in the
civilization of the Western Hemisphere.
The exhibit will be conducted in the
United States Building. which has been
erected among other edifices to be used
by Spain and the countries she helped
colonize at the zenith of her power.
Historical Events Portrayed.
Intricate miniature reproductions of
historical events bearing on American
agriculture will tell of the first live
stock brought to America from Europe
by Christopher Columbus, under the
flag of Spain, in 1893, and depict
Coronado, in 1910, introducing sheep
and cattle into what is now the United
States.
One of the most interesting facts to
be brought out in the exhibit is that in
1735 the King of Spain sent to George
Washington a fine Spanish jack and
two jennets, stock the latter used for
breeding purposes at Mount Vernon
and which has had a profound in
1uence upon the producing in
dustry of this country, the animals of
which now have value of a half
billion dollars.
To add realism to the story, the De-
partment of Agriculture is preparing
miniature sceens of Spanish explorers
landing in the New World. Every re-
production is from authentic data, even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
u. S. WILL ACKNOWLEDGE DEBT
TO SPAIN THROUGH EXHIBIT

to the rolling of the sea and the char
acter of the terrain.
Other exhibits will include corn, cot
ton. tobacco, wheat, sheep and wool,
protective and sanitary measures against
livestock diseases, dairying, poultry
and roads. The poultry section will give
prominence to chickens of Mediter-
ranean origin-Leghorns, Anconas, Mi
norcas, Black Spanish. and Blue Anda-
lusians. In the sheep and wool exhibit
the great influence which Spanish
merino sheep have had on the wool
industry will be shown. The first
merinos were imported into this country
in 1898.
Exhibit Is Friendly Move.
Spain has been interested in activities
of agricultural experiment stations. and
the exhibit will reveal some of their
work. There will be comprehensive
display on general production and mar
keting of agricultural products.
Held under auspices of the govern
ment of Spain, the exposition is for the
purpose of strengthening the bonds of
amity and understanding between Spain
and the countries discovered or colon
lied through Spanish enterprise. The
Congress of the United States appro-
priated $750,000 for Federal participa-
ton, two-thirds of which is to be used
in erecting the United States building,
which at the close of the exposition will
become permanent quarters for the
consulate at Seville
To direct American participation, the
President appointed a commission of
five members, with Thomas E. Campbell,
former Governor of Arizona commits
sioner general. Other departments of
the Government will have exhibits.
Coll, who will represent the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, is senior physi-
ologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
ELKS OPEN EXERCISES
OF Defeating HOME
Party From Washington Led by
Representative Zihlman Attend
Cumberland Ceremony.
Special Dispatch to The star.

CUMBERLAND. Md, January S.
Exercises attendant upon the dedication
of the new $4,000 home of Cumberland
Lodge, No So, Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks. began here this after
noon, with Murray Hubert of New
York, grand exalted ruler, in charge
of the initiation of Is candidates into
Cumberland Lodge. The work was done
by the degree team OF Towson Lodge,
which won the State championship
prize Lawrence Ensor. district deputy
grand exalted ruler, accompanied the
TowSon team here and is paying the
lodge an official visit. Representative
Frederick N. zihlman. a member of
the local lodge. arrived with a party
of Washington Elks to take part in the
event Tomorrow afternoon the public
dedicatory exercises will take place.
when addresses will be delivered by
Grand Exalted Ruler Hubert and Chief
Judge d. Lindley Sloan and Associate
Judge Albert A. Doub. who are MEM
bers of Cumberland Lodge. Tomorrow
night the grand exalted ruler will be
the guest of Frostburg Lodge at a re-
ception, and he will deliver an address
in the Lyric Theater.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
By the Associated Press.

LA MALMAISON, France. January
5.-This is the city of the living dead.
Light and gay, even frivolous at times
in those days of the First Empire, when.
Josephine, Napoleon'S vivaciouS creole
Empress, held court here. it has be-
come under the Third Republic, the
refuge of harasSed and broken down
politicians and statesmen, the Pan
theon for former great Frenchmen still
alive"
The war which on the fields of
battle moved down 100000 men in the
prime of life, the flower of France, also
levied a terrific toll among its states
men, who wrestled with the problems of
the rear and lived the hours of anguish
when the enemy hammered at the
gates of Paris and the cancer of treason
was gnawing at the country's Vitals
from within.
The former lost their lives with a
smile, but the minds of the latter foun-
dered in the gloom with the rictus of
terror or vacancy on their faces.
Four former leading statesmen OF
France broke down mentally since the
Armistice. They were all informed in
La Malmaison. To have since died.
Paul Deschanel, President of the
French republic, and Rene Vivianl.
French premier at the oeClaTaClOIl Ol
war, came to La Malmaison and left 1t
only to go to their graves.
PichOn Is Inmate.
Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign
affairs in Clemenceau's war cabinet, and
more recently Lucien Klotz, minister
of finances in the same government are
still inmates of the sanatorium.
Situated in magnificent park ar
ranged by Napoleon for Josephine, the
immense building, surrounded by fioS-
ers even in the coolest days of the Win
ter. gives one the impression of an arti-
fetal paradise, for which it was in
tended, rather than house of gloom.
The greatest secrecy is maintained by
the attendants concerning the actions
of the patients.
A pretty nurse, still young, but on
whose features sad experience has al
ready traced the imprints of age told
the correspondents inquiring after M
Klotz: This is private sanatorium;
no one here will speak to YOU"
Yet it could be learned that when
poor ex-President Deschanel lived here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

other Clemenceau cabinet member
Pichon, is doomed to end his days in
the sanatorium.
Sturdy as an oak. at the age of 81
the Old Tiger himself who has seen
much younger colleagues carried away
in the maelstrom of life, looks forward
to his approaching fourscore years and
ten with the clearest of minds and
the healthiest of bodies
Even his bitterest political enemies,
and they are many, have to admit: La
Malmaison will never open its gates to
let the Old Tiger in"
And then they add:
Malmaison cabinet"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
WAR-BROKEN STATESMEN FIND
REST IN NAPOLEONIC PALACE
Deschanel, Pichon, Vivian and Klotz Sent
to Magnificent Solitude to Recover
Mental Poise.

his intellectual fatigue, the result of
overwork and anxiety during the war,
was of the mildest character. He was
the first of the quartet of great French
men to be stricken down, few months
after he had achieved his lifes ambi-
ton and reached the highest honor
which the republic can bestow, the
presidency of France.
He wandered through the large park,
his unfailing good hun1or and impeach-
able politeness never failing him, but he
had to be watched lest he enter into
one of the ponds that glisten in the
beautiful sunlight. II have seen too much
blood and fire" he would say with a
sad smile when warded off the water,
as if waking from a dream.
/ He died in 1924.
Viviani Mildly Deranged.
Viviani, the greatest orator that mod
germ France has produced, was wont to
launch out into imprisoned TRADES, as
if once more addressing the chamber,
/ which he had so often dominated by
1.-THE charm and warmth of his oratory.
All of the retired statesmen were trou-
bled with mental arrangements of the
. mi1dest and most inoffensive sort. Their
! lights simply went out Viviani died
in 1926.
Strange it is that Pichon's decisions,
he who handled Frances foreign affairs
throughout the dark year of 1918, with
the Germans at Chateau Thierry and
scissors, should revert to the early days
of his career. when as minister for
France to Picking he lived through the
siege of the city by the Boxers. M
,Pichon never talks of the late war, but
he sees Cinnamon bounding him con-
tinuouSly His health is good.
Former Minister Klotz. the last to
join La Malmaison colony, has been
removed temporarily to the infirmary
of FrcSnes Prison. An effort is being
made to transfer him to La Sante
Prison. He is not a direct victim of
the war, but has suffered financial
troubles, in which the fortunes of his
mother and his wife were involved. He
was caught in the last slump of the
New York market and is reported to
have lost heavily at the races and bac-
caret
The doctors say that a few months
rest may bring the former Clemenceau
minister back to normally, but the
same men of science aver that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
FOX HUNT LICENSES
URGED IN MARYLAND
Necessity of Restocking Birds and
Rabbits Each Year Cited by
Advocates of Law

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 5.-A move
ment to require licenses for fox hunters
has been started in Maryland. Rabbits
and birds need to be restocked each year
by the State from funds provided by
tneir license fees and yet the fox hunter
pays no fee.
I'VE don't want to do anything that
will hurt fox hunting said one of the
license advocates. Its one of the
9randest sports ever known. But we do
feel that the fox hunter ought to pay
for his fun just as we pay for ours.
THE license is only $5.25 and / never
heard of any fox hunters who couldn't
pay that.
What we pay goes to restock the
covers with the game we shoot, but
they wouldn't need so much restocking
if the foxes didn't kill more than the
hunters"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
HEADS COMMUNITY BODY.

T. U. AuBustIne EIecIed by AsSO-
citation in Seat Pleasant.
Special Dispatch to The Star
SEAT PLEASANT, Nd. January S.
F. G. Augustine was chosen president
of the Seat Pleasant Fire and Com
munity Welfare Association at the an
nual election held in connection with
the last meeting. Other officers named
were: r. J. Panholzer. vice president;
H. F. Rudolph, secretary; l. I. Main.
treasurer; H. E Dom. chief j. E.
Farr, assistant chief; c. G. Penkert,
captain; George Cady. first lieutenant,
and Frank Duvall, second lieutenant.
Clarence Mace was named trustee for
three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
Hagerstown Schools to Open.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. January S.
Schools will reopen Monday after six
days delay due to the prevalence of
influenza, 1t was announced today by
superintendent Byron j. Grimes.