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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-25
UNIV ExPELS 1853
in EFF 0 R 7 TO
B R { AK STRIKES
Labor Defense Calls on
Workers to Defend
H. Corbishley
II Years for Striking
National Miners Union
Asks for Strike Fund

WEST FRANKFORT. ILL.,, Dec.
24.-The United Mine Workers of
America continues by threats and
abuse, as we'll as by supplying
strikebreakers and gunmen to attack
the Illinois miners, who are or
strike in many localities throughout
the fields. One of their latest
tricks is to go through the form OF
expulsion of those who have left the
U.M.W.A. for a union of their own:
the National Miners Union.
The Fishwick administration OF
the Illinois district of the U.M.W.A,
announces that it has expelled" 169
miners in Franklin county since the
present strike started. In Benton
local, "Old Ben, No. II mine," 21
members have just been expelled by
edict of the Fishwick gang.
Will Spread Strike.
"Spread the strike" is the way to
NlSCOly' IG ullitSlS dlS COilNluNSN
that nobody can endure the present
situation in the mines, with speed
up and constant danger from disas-
ter as a result of neglect by the
boss of safety regulations, with the
miners still swindled by the check
off to the U.M.WA.
Twenty-Five thousand leaflets
issued by the Illinois district of the
N.M.U. are to be circulated in ter
ritories where the miners have not
yet struck, and new mass picket
lines formed, with rank and file
strike committees in all mines to
lead the struggle there.
1t is announced at Taylorville
that the. militia sent there is to be
withdrawn. Their places will be
taken by the deputized gunmen of
the operators and of the United
Mine Workers of America. The Ma
tional Miners Union is appealing to
the rank and file of the militia,
pointing out that they are workers,
too, and that they also suffer from
the abuses of their officers, who
Continued on Page Three)
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BLOCK MEETINGS
IN NEEDLE TRADE
Shop Chairmen Mon
to Broaden Struggle
BULLETIN.

Saturday afternoon at p. m.
there will be conference of dele
gates of local unions and all fra
ternal organizations at Irving
Plaza Hall, to discuss the needle
trades struggle and mobilize all
Left Wing forces for the winning
of union conditions.
In connection with the organiza
tion drive in the dress trade, the
Joint Board Needle Trade Workers
Industrial Union is beginning to
arrange block and building meetings
! in order to extend the rank and file
organization committee and draw
every union worker into activity.
The following schedule of meet
irgs has been arranged so far:
Thursday, Dec. 26: Workers ir
shops in the building 260-261 West
36th ST., will meet at the office of
the union, 131 West 2Sth St., on the
III ob IloOi, IOOilo anu Iu.
1 Monday, Dec, 80; At the same
place, workers in the shops in the
building 13S4-1935 and 1912 Broad
way.
| Thursday, Jan. q At the same
place workers in 315, 1923, and BAT
! West seth st.
Friday, Jan. 8: The organized
building committees of 347 West
seth st. and $40 West 35th ST., will
meet at the office of the union to
prepare the work for the coming
week.
Struggle Broadens.
| The season in the dress trade is
fast approaching, and with the in
crease of work the campaign for the
organization of the unorganized will
be extended on a wider scale. The
best and most effective way of
breaking the conspiracyAof the boss
es and the Schlesinger clique to COM
pany-unionize the dress trade, says
the N.T.W.I.U., is for every worker
(Contanued on Page TaOo)
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Unemployed Walters
ASK for Work But AFL
Officials Beat Them Up

The gangsters of the notorious
takers, Lehman and of McDevitt,
who rule against the wishes of the
membership in Walters Local, No.
1, of the A.F.L., brutally assaulted
a number of unemployed walters
who came up to the union offices
at 23d st. and Third Ave. One
worker, Yosefowick, the father OF
two children, who had been discrimi-
mated against for so long that the
mother of the children had died
from poverty and whose children
were sick, had just demanded work
from the ruling clique, when the
assault took place.
Windows were broken and chairs
smashed in the fight.
This Lehman was once driven
from office by the votes of the men,
bership, Tut was reinstated by the
international.
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Shoe Strikers Give
Rousing Welcome to
Picket Just Released

A large delegation of his fellow
workers in the Independent Shoe
Workers Union greeted Max Cohen
when he left Jail yesterday. He has
just served a Today sentence and
was fined for picketing the Brook
lyn Shoe Co. He was escorted to
union headquarters, where $50 more
shoe workers gave him an enthusi-
astic welcome.
Three shoe strikers were arrested
near the Mackay Shoe Co., lit Grat-
tan ST., Brooklyn, for picketing.
They are out on bail, and their case
comes before the night court.
The unions entertainment COM
mittee reports that tickets are SELL
ing we'll for the concert to raise
money for strike relief. 1t is be-
ing held under the auspices of the
union and the Workers International
Relief, at Central Opera House,
January 5.
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Deport II Communists
to MachadO in Cuba

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24.-Eleven
Communists were deported into the
hands of the bloody Machado by
Portes Gil, president of Mexico.
This follows the conference of Ortiz
Rubio with his Wall Street masters.
Deportation to Cuba means long
Imprisonment, torture and perhaps
death for the Cuban Communists. A
reign of terror against the Mexican
workers and peasants is under way
in Mexico. The Mexican rulers are
trying to prove their abject servility
to United States imperialism in
every way they know how.
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WHITE HOUSE OFFICES BURN.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.--The
executive offices of the White
House were destroyed by fire. This
should give Hoover a big splurge in
his building program as a means of
solving the growing crisis. Law
renee Richey, one of Hoover's secre-
tries. blames short circuit. Hoo
ver and his wife enjoyed Christmas
eve by watching the flames.
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EIGHTY-HOUR WEEK

MT. HOLLY, N. j., (By MaiD =
Workers in the oyal-Pilkington
and other upholstery mills here are
working from 70 to 80 hours a week.
The mills run Saturdays ana Sun
days besides week days,
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Industrial Organizers,
Fraction Secretaries,
Meet Friday a. s. M.

The Organization Department Of
District 2, Communist Party. U.S.A.,
calls all section and unit industrial
organizers and secretaries of trade
union fractions to special meeting.
Friday, Dec. 27, at s p. M, at the
Workers .Center, 1928 Union So.
All must be on time.
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wage cuts, speed-up, unemployment
and the Prospect of new imperial
list war. Only by organization and
militant struggle under the leader
ship of he Communist Party will
the workers be able to escape such
gifts"
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MORE WORKERS LAID OFF.

MIDDLETOWN, N. Y, Dec. 3D.
The Christmas "gift" 500 employees
of the Ontario g. Western Railroad
received today was notice that they
had uecn laid OIL.
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IN THE ERA OF PROSPERITY.
Los ANGELES (By MaiD.-
Penniless, unemployed and starving,
W. Stevens, 65, laborer, hanged
himself.
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OTTEEN

Corinne Griffith goes Hungarian
but not hungry in her newest pic
ture, Prisoners" the Ferenc Molnar
story laid in Budapest, now show
ing at the Queen theater. Miss
Griffith plays a waitress in a bak-
ery-cafe where she drinks huge
tankards of beer with the actor-stu-
dents who frequent the place and
encourages them to buy quantities
of Hungarian pastries by flirtations
with them at the tables. The great
round loaves of bread in Kore's ship
measure a foot wide by a foot long
and She dainty First National star
in addition to eating great chunks
Of this fattening staff of life also
has to consume untold quantities
Of buns and rolls.
Kore, the pastry cook and pro-
prietor, is played by Baron Won
Hesse, a comparative newcomer to
Hollywood, who traces his lineage
from a long line Of Austrian and
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MANY REFORMS
FOLLOW TRIAL
Protests Against Sentence
Of Child Bring About
Revelations

PAINTSVILLE, KY, July 4.-P'
Public interest in the case OF Sarl
Mahan, 6-year-old slayer of his
playmate, Cecil Vanhoose, may bring
to Kentucky something besides the
scores of letters regarding the case.
The sentence of nearly Is years
in the reformatory passed on the
Mahan child brought a challenge OF
the jurisdiction Of the court which
tried him, and also a number OF
criticisms and defenSeS of the Ken
lucky court system.
Carl killed his eight-year-old
friend May Is, during a quarrel over
a piece of scrap iron they intended
to sell at a PaintSville junk yard.
The child admitted he wrestled for
possession of the piece of iron when
Cecil took it from him, and that
he got his fathers shotgun and
fired it at the VanhooSe boy.
At the arraignment in juvenile
court before County Judge John
Butcher, the boys attorney demand
ed a Jury trial. The jury found
him guilty and the boy was SEN
fenced to the reformatory at Green
dale.
Attorneys for the Mahan family,
denied a motion for a new trial
were granted a writ Of prohibition
to restrain Judge Butcher from car
rying out the judgment.
The plea for the writ was sup
ported by the contention that since
the defendant is under seven years
of age, Butchers court had no juris-
diction; that the jury's verdict was
not supported by competent evi-
dence; and that since the child wa
charged with murder and not de-
linquency, the case should have beer
transferred to the circuit court.
Then the protests began to come
in. Some critics attacked the syS-
tenn. which does not require that a
county Judge be a lawyer. Judge
Butcher is not a lawyer, but is a
mountain farmer and Baptist min
lister.
Clarence Darrow, Chicago lawyer,
said the Mahan case was a throw
back to medieval times and that
anyone with intelligence should rec
ognize the responsibility OF anyone
of Mahan's age. A Daytona Beach,
Fla. woman, a native Kentuckian,
wrote if "the state of Kentucky per-
mits a six-year-old baby to be con-
fined in the reform school. when
all he needs is loving, intelligent
Christian care. then I denounce my
Kentucky heritage" The letter bore
the name of Elizabeth W. Browc-
hurst.
Circuit Judge Bailey, In granting
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the writ of prohibition, replied to
the Darrow charges and said Sucn
interviews were the cause or mucr
crime. He stated that he believed
that Judge Butcher and other
Paintsville officers had administered
justice as they saw it.
Albert Vanhoose, father of the
slain boy, testified at tie trial c:lac
three weeks before the fatal shoot
ing the Mahan child struck a man
with a club, and that once he threw
a knife at M of the Vanhoose boys.
He said the Mahan boy was 'incor-
rigible."
w. j. Goodwin, prosecuting at
torney of the Louisville police court,
said he considered the verdict and
sentence just, on the ground that
the boy probably would be q menace
to the community if set free.
Many other Kentucky attorneys
and those from other states, how
ever, expressed opinion that the
sentence was unjust. The case now
is on appeal.
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Agitation Brings New
Law Problems, Chief
Tells Lawyers Meet

parable to which the Apaches Of
Paris are models of civic virtue.
They have been designated as The
Racket The merchant in Chicago
whose place of business was recent
ly dynamited expressed surprise for
the reason that he was paying trib-
ute to every racket which had So
licited him. The competition among
the rackets has resulted in whole
sale killings. We console ourselves,
perhaps, with the thought that the
homicides are confined principally
to the racketerS themselves, but it
is not ~infrequent that some faithful
servant Of enforcement and agent
of law and order has his life taken
only because he has tried to do his
duty. The example set cheapens
human life. Constitutional rights
are set at naught. The late sue
cessful candidate for president, rec
ognizing the demand of the people
for efficient law enforcement agen-
cies, incorporated a declaration in
his platform for election. The fact
that the people placed him in office
by the heaviest vote in American
national elections is at least sug-
gestive that the great majority Of
our people are still loyal to the con-
cepts of freedom and its concomi-
tant privileges Of f-determina-
ii \. The legal profession should
as a matter of pride, initiate and
support movements for the observ-
ance Of the peoples will. If they
fail to do this they may pay the
penalty in outraged public senti-
ment."
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VICTIM
BEING SOUGHT
Start Hunt For Football
Coach Who Is Missing I'm
Mountain Crevasse

PARADISE INN, RAINIER MA
TIONAL PARK, Wash, July 4.-(P)
The ice slopes of Mount Rainier
were searched today for Forrest
Greathouse, Seattle high school
football coach, who with five others
plunged down a crevasse at the 49,
600 foot level Tuesday.
Edwin Wetzel, young Milwaukee
attorney, was killed, and Great
house was believed to have lost his
life. Three Of the remaining four
were injured. The four who es-
capped death are L. H. Brigham of
Seattle; Robert Strobel of Tacoma;
d. Yancy Bradshaw of Cambridge,
Mass, and e, p. Weatherly OF
Kansas City, Mo.
First news of the tragedy came
here when Strobel reeled into a
camp at Muir. Charles Brown,
government rancher, set out alone
from Paradise Inn and located
Brigham, Weatherly and Brad
shaw. Wetzel's body was located
by mountain guides and brought
down with great difficulty.
Brigham said he and the five
others had climbed to the peak of
Rainier, 14,408 feet above sea level,
and were coming down the noun
tain tandem fashion, each tied to
a single rope. The accident occur
red when all six were creeping
along a treacherous icy trail. Stro-
Der slipped, then Wetzel, who had
collapsed on the ascent. Then the
entire party was pulled over a ledge
and fell several hundred feet down
the crevasse.
Strobel managed to catch and
cling to a ledge about 80 feet above
the others but the line holding
Wetzel broke and he rolled about
half a mile down the frozen steep
Greathouse fell below the other
four and was crushed by a huge
piece of ice.
Brigham said he and the other
three men Don recovered from the
fall, and that he chopped Great
house free of the ice, but the latter
seemed to have been dying. Strobe,
finally got a foothold in the ledge
above the main party and made hi:
way back to the trail. The rescue
operations started when he reached
Muir.
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sport. The carefree, debonair Dix
is, of course. particularly suited to
a role of this type. AS a matter
Of fact, he's uproariously funny as
he extricates himself more or less
gingerly from a series Of. embaras-
sing situations; for the price Of a
lie is $4,000.
Audiences everywhere can appre-
ciate Dix predicament. For as the
24-hour dead line draws ominously
near, the man Dix has bet, one Of
which, by a stroke of fate, is the
father of the girl he loves, the en-
tire situation becomes exciting and
even more hilarious than ever. The
manner in which Dix plots to win
the bet and the girl he loves is de-
veloped with a keen sense of humor,
supplying this picture with a thor
oughly enjoyable climax that should
win the favor Of audiences every
where.
Helen Kane, one of the stars of
the stars of the musical comedy
Good Boy" now playing on Broad
way, and a popular Victor recording
artist, plays her first role in mo-
ton pictures and acquitS herself in
splendid fashion. She also sings
a new number, do Something"
that is sure to become a prime ia
vorite during the coming season.
Others in the cast who do good work
r Louis John Bartels, the star Of
the legitimate success, THE Show
Off" and Dorothy Hall, a new and
charming leading lady. Nothing
But the Truth" for which William
Collier, ST., wrote the dialogue and
which Victor Schertzinger directed
comes to the Capitol theater on
Thursday.
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CAPITQL,

Richard Dix makes his debut on
the audible screen in the gay COM
edy, Nothing But the Truth" the
all-talking screen version Of the
well-remembered play Of the same
name. In this latest Paramount all
talking picture. Dix bets $4,000 of
somebody else'S money that he can
tell the truth for "a consecutive
hours. Now, if anyone believes that
telling the truth under all circum-
stances is an easy task; something
to be dismissed as an every day oc-
%currence, they ought to try it some
time, in the spirit of good, clean
fun. They're apt to find it an ideal
ly absorbing and dangerous indoor
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ideal. Parked D. Cramer is CO.
pilot and navigator.
Wood previously had radioed that
if weather conditions were found
favorable upon the planes arrival
in Great Whale, a small trading
post in the Hudson Bay country, an
attempt probably would be made
to reach Greenland late tonight.
BERLIN, July 4.-tP-Fascinat-
ed by the Untin Bowler's slogan:
Berlin or Bust, Germans are
eagerly following the big amphi-
bans initial hops, and preparing
to give the plane a royal reception
when it reaches German territory.
The Lufthansa is already making
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Western Forest
Fires Continue
Destruction Path

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July A.
(P)-The fire demon continued to
feast today upon the choice scenery
and pretty homes Of Mill Valley
and upon ranches, forests. and
grain fields elsewhere in California
and Arizona.
In two placeS-in the canyons and
ridges above Mill Valley and in he
Apache Indian reservation of &aSt-
ern Arizona-the demon stiILIwEte
greedily. The Mill Valley fire was
believed to have been diverted from
the town and surrounding residen-
tial districts but was crawling up TO
the wooded slopes Of Mount Tam
alpaS to die.
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+ MOuE !
aSlDEIlGHRS \
EXA

A picture Of powerful appeal,
great magnitude, brilliant acting,
flawless direction.
That is a terse description of
1.-THE Trail Of 49, the big Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer film epic which
opens at the Texas theater today.
Ralph Forbes, Dolores Del Rio.
Harry Carey, Karl Dane, Tully Mar
shall, George Cooper! All stand
out in the gigantic cast Of so which
was assembled to portray the char
acterS in this great film story.
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Russian noblemen and who was, be-
fore the war, a Chief Magistrate in
Moscow.
Ian Keith, who was formerly as
ISOLATED with Miss Griffith in The
Divine Lady in the role of Gre
vile, now plays a young lawyer as
her leading man in Prisoners"
Others in the distinguished cast are
Otto Matiesen, Bella Lugosi, Julanne
Johnston, Anne Schaeffer, James
Ford and Jean Laverty. William
Setter directed and Forrest Halsey
is responsible for the adaptation and
dialogue.
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v o SAN BENTTO

The William Fox Movietone Fol-
lies Of 1929 is the first musical re-
vue ever presented on the speaking
screen.
It has been made at tremendous
expenditure of time, talent, labor
and money. Production was started
in October, 1928, and was not COM
pleted until the middle Of April,
1929. During that time many num-
bers were staged and filmed, only
to be discarded because they did
not meet the high standard set by
William Fox for the movie worlds
first serious challenge to the ia
NOUS musical comedies and revues
of Broadway.
The Fox Movietone Follies was
conceived and executed with the
idea of making available to towns
and cities the country over the elab-
crate kind of entertainment COM
mon to New York, but Of which
many other places have been de-
prived because Of the prohibitiev
costs of transporting companies.
A $40 show of Broadway at movie
prices on Main Street-that is the
achievement which the Fox Movie
tone Follies represents.
Before undertaking to carry out
such a project, Fox Movietone Off
Gals secured the country for the best
available singers, dancers, comedi-
ans. directors, composers and tech
nicianS.
The principals, choruses, ballet
and speciality dancers; the musici-
ans and all others who appear in
the follies, constitute a Blue Book
of the entertainment world, while
the production staff, consisting only
of the most noteworthy names, has
Joined with the entertainers to Gre
ate the supreme example Of the art
Of the speaking screen, now playing
at the Rivoli, San Benito.
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CHICAGO, July 4.-P-Two ra-
dio messages told the Chicago Tri-
bune today its amphibian plane,
the 'Untin' Bowler, had taken off
from Remi Lake, Ont, which it
reached yesterday, for Great Whale
River, about 400 miles north, on
the second leg Of its projected
flight to Berlin.
The first message, signed Wood,
stated the takeoff was at 5:58 a.. m.
Robert Wood, aviation editor of The
Tribune, is a passenger on the
flight. The second message, timed
GAS a. m. and signed "Cramer",
said the flying conditions were
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every preparation at Tempelhof
air field, where the Untin Bowler is
expected to land. All air stations
are being advised to keep a lookout
for her as well as to listen for sig
mails. The Hamburg American and
North German Lloyd as well as
smaller shipping companies have is
sued similar instructions to their
respective fleets, and the wave
length and call letters of the plane
have been made public so radio fans
throughout the country will be able
to adjust their instruments accord
ingly.
The newspapers prominently dis
play all possible news Of the big
SikOrSky'S flight.
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vice president OF the concern.
Jones and Jensen were trapped on
the top floor Of the building along
with three other workers who es-
capped with their lives. One of the
three, William Foil, 10, was burned
slightly before firemen could reach
him.
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Two Killed When
Fireworks ]
Wrecks Building

OMAHA, July 4-(P)-Two per-
sons were killed III a fireworks ex-
plosion and fire which wrecked the
four story building of the Brinn
and Jensen wholesale paper and
notions company late yesterday.
The dead are Myron Jensen, 18,
son Of j. p. Jensen, president OF
the company, and Harry Jones,
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CONVICT PEER STRICKEN

LONDON.-Lord Terrington, con-
victed Of fraud in 1928, is seriously
i'll in the hospital Of Parkhurst
prison.
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S40.OOO q NTIRSE

LONDON.-Lady Constance Ev-
ersley bequeathed $4,000 to her
nurse, Mrs. Annie Mullings.
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DOG ADOPTS KITTENS
RACINE, visa bulldog with
two pups owned by r. G. Kendall
has adopted two motherless kittens.