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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
FALLS CHURCH PLANS
LETTER CAMPAIGN
Towns Red Cross Chapter to Adopt
New Method This Year
to Raise Quota.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, october 26.-
Falls Church Chapter, American REQ
Cross, met yesterday afternoon at the
home of the president, Mrs. William F.
Calendar, to plan for the Red Cross roll
call drive starting November IL. The
chief problem stressed was one con-
fronting all suburban chapters through
loss of members because of drives In
washington stores or departments.
It was decided to conduct a letter
campaign this year instead of the
house to- house campaign methods of
the past, in this letter putting especial
emphasis on the necessity for Washing
ton subscribers giving their local Vir-
ginia addresses in order that the SO
cents which the national Red Cross al
lots for local relief work may be re-
turned to Falls Church instead OF used
in the District of Columbia. These let
tiers will also list some of the main
items for which local Red Cross funds
have been expended in the past, and will
stress the importance OF Falls Church
raising the quota 1t has pledged toward
support of the Fairfax County health
unit.
Preparation and distribution of these
letters has been placed in the hands OF
the executive committee, Mrs. w. F.
Calendar, Horace Brown, Mrs. Virginia
Quick, Mrs. George HauIhurst, 9. "
Shreve and Mira. 8. 3. CMAe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
COMPLIMENTS MISTAKEN
AS WITNESSES AT TRIAL
Man Ayers Those Appearing
Against Him Were to Testify
for Him,
BY a staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, October
26.-Frank Young, colored, was arrest
ed by Constable A. c. Thompson on
four warrants, obtained by civilians.
but apparently the prisoner did not
know who the compliments were
against him.
Arraigned before Judge J. Chew
Sheriff in Police Court and asked II he
had any witnesses, the man replied
that he had.
Where arc they?" Clerk Thomas r.
Henault inquired.
Right here" said Young, pointing
to Joseph Edelen and w. E. Thomas,
the compliments.
After due hearing the colored man
was fined a total of $85 for carrying
concealed weapon, reckless driving
and operating without a permit, on the
testimony of "his" witnesses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
TWO OF ROCKVILLE
WRECK VICTIMS BURIED
Funeral Services Held at Homes
and Interment Is Made in
Gaithersburg Cemetery.

and Interment Is Made in
Gaithersburg Cemetery.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, October 26.-The
funerals of two of the victims of the
railroad accident near the Baltimore g.
OHIO depot here early Wednesday morn
ing. when an engine ran into a work
truck, fatally injuring four young sec
ton hands and more or less seriously
hurting three others, took place yester-
day.
Services for Willard ]. Mobley, 81, Of
Gaithersburg, were held in Epworth
Methodist Church, Gaithersburg, this
morning and early yesterday afternoon
the last rites for Marion Selby, IS, son
of Sharles w. Selby, supervisor OF the
Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore
81 Ohio Railroad Co., we're held at the
Selby home in Gaithersburg. Both
burials were in Forest Oak Cemetery,
Gaithersburg.
George Thomas Poole, 81, of Rock
vile, will be buried this afternoon,
the services to be held at the Methodist
Church at Derwood, and the funeral
of William E. Thompson, 26, of CATH
ersburg, will also take place today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
Warrenton Officer Dead.

WARRENTON, Va. october Is (Spe-
ciaD Richard T. Hedgpeth, 35 years
old, town sergeant of Warrenton and
State prohibition officer, died Thurs
day morning in Emergency Hospital,
Washington, from tumor on the brain
He went to the hospital about two
weeks ago. He came to Warrenton
from Richmond, Va, in May, 1927. He
leaves a wife and four children
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
PUMPER ARRIVES.
New Fire Engine Reaches Claren
don Volunteer Fire Department.

Special Dispatch to The Star
CLARENDON, Va, October 26-The
new pumping fire engine ordered by the
county board of supervisors for the
Clarendon Volunteer Fire Department
arrived Thursday. This addition to the
departments equipment gives the COM
munity two modern pieces of re-f1ght-
ing apparatus.
For the present the new apparatus
will be housed In the departments tenn
porary quarters, in the old Community
Building, and until the new engine
house being erected at Taylor and Lor-
ton avenues is ready for occupancy.
A special meeting of the department
is announced by Chief Herbert Smith
for tonight, at which plans will be made
pletion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
BOY WHO GAVE QUEEN
FLOWERS HELD IN THEFT
Shirley Togans Accused by Hotel
of Stealing Blanket Found Under
Him After Accident.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, october 26
(SpeciaD Shirley Togans, bellboy at
a local hotel, who was selected by his
mates to present a bouquet to Queen
Marie of Rumania upon the occasion OF
her short stop here during trip around
the Shenandoah Valley when she Wis
tied America several years ago, was in
custody today, charged by the hotel
manager with having stolen a 81 blan-
ket from the hotel.
Togans says he found the blanket
under him following recent automo-
bile accident in which he was injured.
He thought friends had put 1t there,
and he did not bother to return It,
keeping it in his automobile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
Motors Company Workers, 1000 Does Are Strike Be1os Aires
Anti Fascist Congress
and Social Democrats

The following article, 101'itten By
the secretary of the Anta-t'dsciSt
Alliance of North America, exposes
once more the utter bankruptcy of
the socialists. In opposing the pro-
posaI of a united front to combat
fasciSm, to be formed at the coming
International Anti-Foscist Congress,
the socidl-democrats, an their official
statement, base themselves on the
argument that any action suggested
by Communists l0iU make no at
tempt to combat faScism for the
purpose of re-estqblishment of bour-
geois democracy; therefore the So
ciaIists openly oppose the united
front of the aoorki'ag class for the
combating of fascism.
In uieio of the coming lOorld lgar,
IN qohich fascism 1oiH play a lead
ing role, and in vieaO of the activities
of the fascist countries IN the gen.
eral mobilization against the Soviet
Union, the International Anti-Fds-
cist Congress is of particular I'M
porta11ce at this time. Mario Lu-
cano, in the follo1Uing article, ably
analyses fascism, and the role which
the social democrats are playing Ia
the efforts to combat it.-EDITOR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
Contention Delegate Tells
OF Trip Across Continent

After trip that lasted 10 days
and during which they covered
$500 miles, seven Seattle delegates
and alternates to the Sixth National
Convention Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party arrived in New York
fresh for further work. The dele
gates are Alex Narol, an agricul-
tural worker; John Laurie, a boiler
maker and Ed Levitt, window clean
er. The alternates are James Buch-
valid, painter; Charles Reynolds,
lumber worker; John Christensen,
marine worker and Al Schaap, of
the Young Workers Community
League.
James Buchwald yesterday de-
scribed the trip across the continent
in an interview at the Daily Worker
office. Starting from Seattle,
Wash, in an old delapidated 1924
model open touring car on Jan. 26,
the group of Communist delegates
were forced to stop at almost every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

garage on the way for repairs.
eve arrived at Phoenix, Arizona"
said Buchwald, land before crossing
the desert had a chance to look
around bit. The conditions of the
workers there are terrible. Three
thousand are unemployed, and the
entire working class population
manages to struggle along on the
most meagre of wages.
From there we went to FL Paso,
and then to Dallas, where we slept
in a 25-cent-a-night flop house. On
the desert in Texas we ran into a
snowstorm that almost ruined our
car for good.
In spite of the trouble they had
in crossing the continent, the seven
delegates are happy and fresh for
more work. "We had one of the
best trips Of our lives" said Buch-
wald, "and enjoyed every minute of
it. Well probably do it again
sometime"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
B0RAH DECLINES
POST FOR OTHER
Feels Certain He Will
Be Rewarded

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.--Sen-
ator William E. Borah, chairman of
the senate foreign relation commit
tee, declined the Encouragement
ship in the Hoover cabinet, feeling
certain that he will be rewarded in
other ways for his servile activity
for the Wall Street government.
Borah, who nominated Curtis for
vice-president on the republican tic
ket and who was prosecuting at
torney against William Haywood,
has made it clear, it is said, that
he wants to hold his present posi-
ton as head of the foreign relations
committee where he will be no less
useful to the imperialist policy of
Hoover. Borah is also notorious for
his support of the same policy in
Nicaragua and in Latin America.
1t is believed here that Henry NJ.
Robinson, Los Angeles banker md
close friend of Hoover, had been
asked to take the att1rreysgen
ship during a lengthy conference
with Hoover today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
CANADIAN EDITOR
OF CO NJ M u MIST
PAPER is jailed
6 Months May Mean 2
Years for Finn Leader

SUDBURY. Ont, Feb. Gloon
victed OF sedition on account of his
editorial in the Vapaus, daily news
paper Of the Finnish section of the
Communist Party of Canada, Arvo
Vaara was yesterday sentenced to
q prison term of six months and
81 900 fine, with the proviso that the
sentence, which is being appealed,
will be extended two years if the
fine is not met.
Led by the Finnish and English
sections of the Communist Party,
labor organizations in Sudbury have
been conducting protest meetings
condemning the Dominion officials.
the local capitalist press. which de-
manded the expulsion of the "for-
eigners," and demanding the imme-
diate release of Vaara.
Resolutions condemning the frame
up against Vaara were passed by
large meetings, especially in the
Sudbury nickel mining area, where
thousands Of Finnish workers are
exploited in mines largely controlled
by Mond of Great Britain.
In Toronto, where Philip Hal
perrin, editor of the Yiddish weekly
newspaper, "Der Kamp," was ar
rested for violating local ordinances
which forbade speakers to address
meetings in other than the English
language, the Vaara case is being
made the central issue in free
speech fight. Jack Macdonald, sec
rotary of the Communist Party of
Canada, has been nominated as can
didate for the Board of Control in
the Forthcoming elections. A Free
Speech Conference, composed of 70
labor organizations, is backing the
candidature.
Under Police Chief Draper, who
directed Halperir's arrest, which
was later dropped by the crown au-
thorities, a police edict has been is
sued which forbids the use Of local
halls for protest demonstrations.
Vaara's editorial, which was Incl
Gentally an attack on the British
King George, as the crown attor-
ney sought to prove, was primarily
an Indictment of the British conser-
vative government in England, I'M
der which thousands of workers are
starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
Ford States USSR Will
Accept His Plan for
Large Tractor Plant

FORT MEYERS, Fla, Feb. 21.-
Henry Ford stated today in an in
terview with United Press report
err that he felt certain the Soviet
Government would accept his re-
vised scheme for the construction
of a plant in the Soviet Union for
the manufacture of tractors and
automobiles.
A first draft Of his proposal had
been rejected by the Soviet Gov
eminent. 1t is the custom OF the
Soviet Government to grant conces-
sions, to foreign investors for GER
tain term and under Soviet regula-
tions. Ford stated that his plan
also includes the opening OF mines,
highways and quick development of
other untouched resources.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
Marines Loose Again
in China to Scab on
Striking Policemen

PEKING, Feb. 21.-Again the
U. S. Marines have flown to the
"rescue of civilization" from a
strike, this time strike of police
men of Peking's International Set
tlement.
The police had struck after MAX
ing demands on the Settlements
administrative council, foreigners,
among the demands being one for
an increase Of wages. The police
men are Chinese.
The U. S. marines at once started
scabbing on the policemen, going on
guard at the four gates of the Set
Element nearest the U. S. legation.
Other gates were guarded by Bri-
fish and French troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
FORUM ASSAILS
CAP union HEADS

Members of Capmakers Local l
of the Cloth Hat Cap and Millinery
Workers Union gathered in open
forum meeting yesterday and dis
cussed the outrageous mishandling
of their unemployment fund by the
right wing union officials. The
meeting was held in Ukrainian Hall,
Is E. Third st.
Many of the workers took the
floor and recited innumerable con-
crete instances where the unemploy-
ment fund was squandered and
where the jobless workers and their
families were deprived of the pit
lance that helps sustain them during
the sevcre unemployment in the
trade which the officials themselves
helped create.
Tens of thousands of dollars are
due the union from the bosses who
fail to give theii. share to the
fund" The officials, fearing
trouble with the boss, never collect
this, thus impoverishing the fund
and weakening the entire union, the
meeting disclosed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
COMMUNIST SUSPECTS"
Chinese Students from USSR IrQcted

care of at special reception hotel,
where they are subject to a close
examination by Kuomintang offic-
ials, and they are not to leave the
hotel until they have been given cer-
tificates. They are to report their
doings to the central committee one
year following their return. The
regulation further states:
"All returned students from Rus
STA, who were formerly Communists
but have since confessed their guilt
to the central party headquarters,
shall be dealt with in accordance
with the regulations governing the
treatment of repentant Commun-
lists"
The Kuomintang butchers cut off
the heads of all Communists they
can lay their hands on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
State Trooper Given
Only 5-Year Term for
Murder of Farm Girl

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 81 (UP).
Three years Imprisonment on a
manslaughter conviction and two
years. additional Imprisonment on
a charge of assault and battery
were melted today to Alfred X. Lar
sen, former state trooper, on
charges growing out of the attack
by state troops upon the Meany
farmhouse in Jutland, N. j., in De-
cember, 1926. Larsen was also
fined $1,000.
During the attack, Beatrice Meany
was slain and her brothers. Tim
othy and James, were injured.
Daniel F. Rogers, lieutenant OF
state troopers, was convicted OF
manslaughter, and is now serving a
five-year sentence. He was also
fined $1,000. Matthew A. DAILY, cor
poral in the police department,
found guilty of assault and battery,
was sentenced to servs two years
and fined $1,000. Sentences to both
Rogers and DAILY were upheld by
the Supreme Court recently.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
| m p erialist Lackey,
Leguia of Peru, Once
More Breaks a Strike

LIMA, Peru, Feb. 21.-Again
President Leguia, lackey of Yankee
Imperialism, has broken a strike,
this time of the Lima street car
workers, who returned to work at
six o'clock this morning.
The government declared that Gin
view Of the street car workers not
observing the law against strikes"
the government would give them
three days to return to their posts
or the government would assist the
company yankee capital) in in
stalling scabs.
The scabs, however, were already
working, as the police were acting
as conductors and motormen. By
his agents among the workers, they
were compelled to return to work
and, worst Of all, leave their cause
for arbitration" in the hands of no
other but Leguia himself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
ANTI-FASCIST
CONGRESS TODAY
Delegates to Meet at
Labor Temple at 2

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personal contribution and which the
congress great success. With red
greetings,-P. S. Don't use my
name"
Many workers organizations have
elected delegates, ard the confer
ence has every prospect of being a
success. 1t is open to the public and
everyone is invited.
The International Congress
Against Fascism will be held in Ber-
lin on March 9 and 10, under the
Craftsmanship of Henri Barbusse,
well-known French writer active in
the labor movement. The agenda of
the International Congress includes !:
l. Fascism-Imperialism The
War Danger.
2. Fascist Terror land oppres-
sion of national minorities).
5. The condition of the working
class, peasantry and the intellectuals
in the fascist countries. Condition
OF the trade unions.
4. How to conduct the interna-
tional fight against fascism.
America will probably be in a
position to send three delegates,
which will be chosen at today's con-
ference.
Information concerning the con-
ference today, or the campaign as a
whole, can be obtained at Room 604,
l Union Square, Algonquin S04S.
Rallying to the call of the Pro-
visional Committee, the Anti-H orthy
League, in a statement issued yes
terday, assured the provisional COM
mittee of its endorsement and sup
port for the international fight
against fascism.
"We call upon all workers or
CARNATIONS to send delegates to the
conference today. Let US fight
against fascism internationally"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
MINERS STARVING
IS DAYS, SAVED
Train Breaks Thru a
Snow Wall to Town


SILVERT0N; Cole, Feb. 81 W.P'
Eighteen days of Imprisonment
for the 1900 residents of this min
ing town were ended late today when
railroad workers finally battered
their way through huge banks of
snow hurled down on the Narrow
Guage railway in Animas Canyon by
mountain snowslides.
At $40 p. m. a 36-car train,
pulled by two engines, steamed into
Silverton, closely followed by an
other train, bearing food and fuel
for the relief of the winterbound
town.
The town had been without dairy
products and fresh vegetables since
February 3, when snowslides blocked
the Denver and Rio Grande western
tracks, seven and one-half miles
south.
The blockade was not broken
without extreme difficulty, and one
near-tragedy. Engine No. 4 of the
Silverton Northern Railway, carry
ing crew of six men, left the tracks
near Elk Part, and toppled down an
embankment into the Animas River.
L. H. Myers, master mechanic Of
the Silverton Northern, was severe
ly injured. The other members of
the crew jumped in time to escape
injury. Myers was brought to Sill
verton for medical attention on the
engine of the first train to arrive.
The severe cold, which caused the
rails to spread, was blamed for the
accident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
To Discuss Calverton,
Gold in Joint Talk at
Workers School Forum

Is V. F. Calverton Marxist lit
erary critic?
This question and many others
will be raised by Sender Garlin, Of
the editorial staff of the Daily
Worker, in talk on "Some Bour-
geois Literary Critics" at the Work
ers School Forum this Sunday night
at o'clock.
A. B. Magil, of the Daily Worker,
will also speak the same evening
on Modern Revolutionary Poetry"
Garlin will discuss not only Cal
verton, but the entire group of pre-
tentious "Marxists" gathered around
the Modern Quarterly. Among other
American literary critics to be in
cluded in his talk will be Mencken
Broun, Sinclair, Lewisohn, Hansen,
Brooks and Carl Van Doren..
Magil will discuss the class char
acter of poetry and the revolutions
airy aspects of the work of a num-
Der of contemporary poets, includ-
ing Michael Gold, Sandburg, Clio
vannitti, Chaplin, Hill, Mckay
Hughes, Biloxi and others.
The following Sunday evening
Pat Toohey, secretary-treasurer OF
the National Miners Union, will
speak on "The New Miners Union
at the Workers School Forum
Toohey, one of the leaders of this
union, will discuss the historic
events that led to it's formation as
well as recent developments in the
struggles of the coal diggers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22

NANKING, (By Mail) The fear
with which the Kuomintang Of
ficials regard Communists and their
extremely unstable relation to the
masses of China are wildly brought
out by the regulations in regard to
students recently returned from the
Soviet Union, which have been
adopted by the central committee Of
the Kuomintang.
According to these regulations all
returned students from the Soviet
Union must report to the central or
the municipal party headquarters
within one week following their re-
turn and, if they fail to do so, are
to be regarded as Communist sus-
pects' and Immediately arrested.
After they have reported their ar
rival the students are to be taken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
M OBILIzE FOR
DRESS STRIKERS
DEMONSTRATION
Organize Picket Lines
at Today's Meet

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forcing the employers to sign two
years agreement on union condi-
tions. The three shops are as fol-
lows: Sam Kutrick, at 1913 Seventh
Ave-, Ray Cutt, and Portman and
Schneider at the same address.
The shop of 1. N. Blumgarden
against which a strike was called
today, is an especially important
one. 1t is large shop, and had
fake agreement with the right
wing union, the Joint Council of
the International Fur Workers
Union, an A. F. of L. company
union. Due to the fact that the fake
agreement was not enforced, sweat
shop conditions exist in the shop. A
speed-up system, under which there
is a check-up of the workers pro-
duction every hour and other condi-
tions, resulted in revolt of the
furriers who could not stand these
conditions any longer and came in
body to the new industrial union. A
strike was then called.
Ben Gold, secretary of the N. T.
w. l. u, said today that while the
union is preparing for general
strike of all furriers in April or ear
ly May, the union will not tolerate
such atrocious sweat shop conditions
in the meantime ard will continue
to call strikes against individual en-
ployers to check the development of
this evil.
An excellent demonstration of A.
F. of L. company unionism was
given by the takers controlling the
decrepit International Fur Workers
Union. An agreement was signed
between them and the fur manufac
turers of Montreal legallizing the
open shop.
The agreement reached between
the scab international union, which
is now replaced throughout the ma
ton by the Furriers' Division of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, allow the employers the
right to hire whomever they please,
if only the bosses would give pref
erence" to their own members.
This market has been open shop
since the old right wing administra-
ton of the A. F. of L. union mis-
conducted strike that lasted more
than a year and which was led to
defeat by the right wing takers after
many tens of thousands Of dollars
of the union funds had been squan-
dered to the great relish of the Of
ficials, local and national.
The reason why the employers
suddenly decided to resume relations
with the old union is: The open
shop market of Montreal is being
threatened with unionization by the
militant Canadian Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union, which
has the closest relations with the
Industrial Union here.