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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Strike When
flicker" Cuts
TelegYabhRay

Most of the 22O telegraph oper-
ators of Logan & Bryan, stock
exchange brokerage office, went out
on strike yesterday, against further
naturalization of their trade.
When six new "ticker" machines
were installed in the company's Of
fices, of which it has network over
the larger cities of the country,
workers went out in New York and
Chicago, and others are expected to
follow. The entire New York force
of 80 men is striking.
The machines reduce the wages
of some cf the telegraphers, and
threw still others out of work alto
gether.
Cut Wages. +,
Several months ago the company
installed two machines, and at first
kept the regular operators on their
jobs. Soon, however, as the ma
chimes demonstrated their ability 10
do the work, the company began to
replace the $75 a week Morse oper-
ators with "printer operators" at
$47.50 a week.
The Commercial Telegraphers
Union of North America is in charge
of the struggle, which it declares to
be the concern of commercial tele-
graphers all over the U. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
TAMMANY CHIEFS
FIGHT FOR RULE
District Leaders Unite
Against Smith, Walker

The war dance in Tammany circles
continues, with the "third party"
stepping high, wide and handsome.
They are looking for a successor to
Olvany, the head of Tammany Hall
who has just resigned. The "third
party" is composed of the district
leaders opposed both to Mayor
Walker and his publicity-hound fol-
lowing, and to former Governor
Smith and his "New TammanyP
Of course Walker and Smith are
rot yielding So easily. Each has a
faction of ward bosses, etc, who feel
that their best chances for political
and other profits are to be obtained
under the leadership they have Sc
lacted, and each has certain big COM
mercial, financial and other en-
ployer interests back of him, for
perfectly good reasons.
Can't Agree.
The district leaders are not ex-
&ctly united among themselves,
either. Collectively they seem to be
strong enough to say to Smith and
Walker, as they did in the word
passed out from their councils yes
terday, "No outside interference, the
next Tammany leader will be one OF
the district heads"
But which district head? Each
of them seems to want to be master
of patronage and all the income that
goes with it.
John F. Curry, of the third dis
trict, seems pretty close to the job.
Another candidate is Martin c. Nc
Cue of the twelfth district.
But there have also been men
toned for the coveted place: Ed J.
Ahearn of the fourth district;
Christy Sullivan, of the second dis
trict; Peter Hammill, of the first
district; William L. Kavanagh, of
tie third district; Stephen Ruddy,
Of the sixteenth district; Michael
Cruise, Of the twelfth district; War
rem Hubbard, of the eighteenth dis
trict, and certain others.
There was time yesterday when
all factions seemed agreed on
Thomas Foley, Surrogate. But he
spoke at a meeting of the School
for Politics, and told them he
wouldn't accept.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
four YEARS FOR
QUEENS BRIBERS
Judge Says Berg, Levin
injured No One"

Frank H. Berg, campaign man
ager of Queens, Borough President
George U. Harvey, and Albert L..
Levin, political boss, were SEN
fenced to from four to eight years
each in Sing Sing prison yesterday,
by Judge Adel. A stay of execution
until April 1 was allowed to pre-
pare motions for certificate of reas-
enable doubt.
Berg and Levin were convicted
of carrying a $4,000 bribe from
Angelo Paino, sewer contractor and
papal knight, to Harvey. They say
it was only a campaign contribu-
ton.
The judge said the attempt to
bribe, injured no one, but coming
as it did so soon after the sewer
scandal, it injured the fair name
of the county"
The sewer scandal to which he
referred was that of former Pres
ident Connolly and his gang, con-
victed of grating some $30,000,000
and sentenced, but not yet in jail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
2 Negroes Dying; We're
Made to Rum Gauntlet
OF Pistols and Shotgums

variation on the usual methods that
they did not insist on finally killing
the men on the spot, as was in
tended. They permitted the uncon-
scious and mutilated bodies of the
two Negroes to be carried from
where they finally fell and dumped
into hospital at Earle, where they
are expected to die from their many
wounds.
The usual excuse, always avail
able when the southern ruling class
desires to commit an act of terror
on it's Negro workers and rent farm
ers, is that they "insulted white
woman" A certain A. L. Cockerell
and his wife allege they were cat
tackled" by Negroes. James and
Robertson were convenient, though
probably any other Negroes would
have served the mob's purpose as
well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

Louvain in the midst of the ruins
of Dublin that Shaw proved invalu-
able to the British government
England expects every man to do
his duty"
The charges against Shaw were
made by Maurice Colburne, now ac-
ting Shaw plays in Canada. After
denying that he was actually men,
Der of the secret service Shaw
states:
"When am Employed, am en-
Iployed for the sake of my publicity
in obscurity I should be of no use
whatever. Colbourne is thinking OF
Continued o. Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
APoL 0GIzE, But
LOOT GERMANY
Dawes Board Experts
Blame Each Other

PARIS, March 1S.-The Dawes
board Of reparations experts" in
rienary session here this afternoon
began a discussion on the amount
Germany should pay annually in
settling her war debts, it was Off
cially announced.
Probably the first plenary discus
sion of the annuities will occur We'd
nesday, to which date the conference
adjourned when the afternoon ses-
sion was concluded.
Sir Charles Adds, one of the Brit
ish alternates and foreign director
OF the Reichsbank, will leave for
Berlin tonight with DR.. Hjalmar
Schaeht, German delegate, &c talk
with German government officials.
Both will return for the Wednesday
session.
The allies are determined that
Germany shall pay enough each
year to cover their debts to the
United States. Both Morgan, the
American banker deputy, and the
French and English representatives
are trying to throw the blame on
each other.
Morgan tells the Germans that
the United States would like to see
reduction of the indemnity, but he
says the European countries demand
the high payments; the latter says
that the refusal of Morgan TO cut
the war debt held in the United
States forces them to tighten the
screws on Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
|SHAW'S WAR RECORD
Not in Secret Service, But Aided Govt.

LONDON, England, March 1e.-
The war services to the British gov
ernment of George Bernard Shaw,
celebrated Fabian socialist and buff
foon, came to light today in a denial
that he had been in the British Sec
ret service during the world war,
while he admitted that he had rem
dered the government assistance in
Ireland and Africa.
His quarrel with the British gov
ernment, he points out, is not in
what it does but the way it does it.
1t is in putting over the refinement
of capitalist deception, in urging
the Irish to remember the ruins Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
NEEDLE union IN
PHlLA. STRIKE
Right Wing Tries to
Provide Scabs

PHILADELPHIA, March 18.-
Because of an attempt to challenge
the authority of the new Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union by
discharging seven of its members,
the Rapp Dress Manufacturing Co.
now finds itself strike-bound.
The Left wing organization de-
cIared the strike against the firm,
and is now demanding not only the
unconditional reinstatement of the
workers Disseminated against, but
is demanding the inauguration OF
full union conditions.
AS usual, the yellow socialist In
ternational Ladies Garment Work
ers Union is trying to break the
strike by providing the boss with
scabs.
Even in this role the Right wing
union is a failure. In the mean
time the workers have carried
through an enthusiastic picketing
demonstration on the first morning
after. the strike, under the leader
ship of the Industrial Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

MARION, Ark, March 49,
Southern plantation owners and
business men, tired of the ordinary
burning and hanging of Negroes, to
whom they wish to "teach lesson"
of intimidation, developed new and,
to them, fascinating game here
today, when they took William
James and T. B. Robertson, Ne
groes, away from officers and forced
them to "run the gauntlet" of re-
volver and shotgun fire.
Cheers and shouts of laughter
arose from the white terrorists as
the Negroes, forced to start on a
line and run in a certain direction,
stumbled through a veritable hail of
Lullets and shot, stumbled and rose
again as they were hit again and
again.
The mobsters were in such good
humor over the success of their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
EX-S SOLDIER RILES TORY
IOynsOn- Hicks LaudS British Socialists

The home secretary, who has been
responsible for raids on militant la
tor organizations, Communist Party
offices, and also led the raid on
ARGOS, the Soviet trade delegation
offices, said that 81 never will say,
and never did say that the Labor
Party is not sincere"
Again boosting the labor takers
who pose as friends of labor" while
fetraying the workers, the home Sec
retary said he "hoped nobody would
run away with the idea that the So
cialists we're playing game and
did not mean to put their plans and
ideas into practice" ..,s..s.,.....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
PLACE FLOOD
DEATHS AT 100,
MAY Be MORE:
No Count of Negro
Workers, Farmers
Left to Drown
Mississippi Also Rises
Expect Repetition of
1927 Disaster

TROY, Ala, March 18.-The gov
ernor's representatives here an
nounced today that the death toll
(of white residents, for the Negroes
are not counted) will be over a hun
dred. So far, only II bodies have
teen recovered. People are cling
ing to trees and house tops.
The flood waters have receded
slightly, and the greatest danger at
present seems to be from disease.
The concentration camps, into which
starving families are crowded with
out any pretense at sanitation, have
already developed some cases of
typhoid fever. Pneumonia, starting
from exposure, is increasing.
Mississippi River.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, March 49,
Menacing Mississippi continued its
slow rise toward levee tops from
Cairo to Vicksburg today, causing
alarm among lowland residents.
Along the 4O0-mile front, which
bore the brunt of the 1927 flood, the
river already was from four to six
feet above flood stage and within
from five to six feet of the 1927
crest.
No Prevention.
The 1927 floods, which killed
many and ruined farmers through
out the lower Mississippi Valley, were
made possible by the collapse of the
antiquated levee system, maintained
by the U. S. war department be-
cause of the vested interests of gen.
eral construction contractors and
grading contractors. All European
engineers condemned the levee sys-
TEN, and proposed instead an i'm
pounding system for the head waters
of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

LONDON, (By Mail) A disabled
ex-soldier interrupted Sir William
!oynson- Hicks, reactionary home
secretary and foe of militant work.
crs, by shouting at conservative
Irleetirg, II lost leg, what did you
lose?" The tory was nettled and re-
sorted to strong" language. II do
rot use strong language often, but
J have been challenged. No disabled
soldier who lost limb is being de-
prived of the proper pension"
The soldier was able to prove the
tory liar, but needless to say was
mot allowed to do SO. .ss,.zi.s..s,..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
RAYON STRIKE
SPREADS; $500
join STRUGGLE {
Bemberg Corp. Plants
Emptied; $500 Now
in Wage Fight
Ignore AFL Restraints
Prepare the Way for
Calling Militia

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, March
1S.-The rayon workers strike
against the American Glanzstoff
Corporation today spread to the big
factories of the American Bemberg
Corporation, also located in Happy
Valley.
All but G5 Of the $500 workers
in the Bemberg plants failed to show
up for work this morning, having
joined the strike of the 1000 CLAM
stoff workers in common struggle
for more wages and less hours.
In going out on strike, the thou
sands of Bemberg workers demon
strated the insignificant influence
which the agents of the United
Textile Workers of the A. F. of L.
here are welding. In numerous
statements and declarations to the
capitalist press, the U. T. W. organ
izers had reiterated their condem-
nation Of rumors that they contenl-
plated spreading the strike, spiking
them as "malicious."
Defy Betrayers.
Despite the U. T. w. attempts to
l-eep the Bemberg workers from go
ing on strike, which were reinforced
hy special measures and special
pressure exerted by the Bemberg
bosses, the entire productive force
Of the plant joined the strike.
The strikers fighting the CLAM
stoff bosses today completed the or
ganization of their picketing plans,
which are meant to successfully
Continued from Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Eight Workers Killed
| in Coal Mine Fire at
Halesowen, England

HALESOWEN, Worcestershire,
England, March 18 (UP).-Eight
miners died here today when they
were trapped in a colliery fire.
A ninth was saved.
The British coal mines have
recently piled up a notable record
for accidents. From the safest
mines in the world they have
since the lengthening of the work
day and naturalization. dis
charges of men, etc., become some
of the most dangerous.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
5 BRITISH BY.ELECTIONs

LONDON, England, March Is.
Five by-elections will be held in
England during this week, three of
them in agricultural districts. The
labor party will try to contest two
Of these farming districts, new
departure for it. Lloyd George is
emphatic in stating that he will not
work with the labor party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
Report $1,5OO, 100000
Bank Merger Is Ready

A merger of the Irving Trust Co.,
the Manufacturers Trust Co., and
the Public National Bank of New
York, which would form a $780,
100000 concern, the second largest
bank in the world, has been decided
upon, Wall Street heard yesterday
The new colossus will be called,
"Irving Trust Co." The air is thick
with rumors that other banks will
merge soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
final Donations
IN DAILY drive:
Last List Of Workers
Who Aided Paper

Sent in by Comrade T. Wasyle-
wich, Minneapolis, Mimi
John Bortuick, 81; John Kos
tive, ST.; H. Kallsky, 81;
Mary Anolerla, 81; John
Hetry. 81; A. Matanchuk,
81; M. Swyryd, Soc; ellie
(orbett. Soc; A. Hawreyliw,
soc; M. Lozecka, 5Oc; 7.
Wasylewick, ST.; Mike Korns,
81: II. Hanson. M. Wasyle-
wich. 81; H. Chyladen, 81;
f. Hensbourg, Soc; J. Ty-
mochko, 81; M. Dubetz, Soc;
A. Havreliw, soc; 0. Dede-
lux. a5c: A Friend, Soc. ISL
Collected by M. Malk, Bloom
Vile. Wisc.--A. Kealer, 81;
C. Sarring, 81; L. Belum,
SO; C. Wesner, 81; J. Per-
kon, 81 ..................
Sent in by comrades from
Belgen, N. DIV. J. Husa,
So; E. Hietala, $1.50; G.
Hirt. So; G. Hpsa, 81; p.
A Stemood, 81; G. Miemi-
talo, so
Sent by E. Miller, Toledo,
Ohio-John Elsey, $5; r.
Topping, SIS .............. ]
Sent in by w. Ostrow, Chicago.
Continued on Page Ffvs
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Evacuate Torreon at Dusk.

MEXICO CITY, March 1S (UP).
Juan Almazan, federal
military commandant, telegraphed
from San Pedro De Las Colonias to-
day that rebel forces, "panic strick-
en-" evacuated Torreon at sunrise
today.
Almazan is the leader of one Of
the four columns which had concen-
trated on Torreon, where General
j. Gonzales Escobar had attempted
a stand with a force estimated at
between 1000 and 5000 men.
Federal cavalry under General
Benigno Serrato will occupy Tor
reon at 5 p. m. today, official in
formation said.
Escobar at Escalon.
With the Revolutionary Army,
en- route to Escalon, Mexico, March
A(Continued from Page Three 4
-. =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
U. S. Platoon Marches.

WASHINGTON, March 1S (UP).
"A platoon of United States cav
airy has been ordered to Columbia,
N. NJ, from Fort Bliss, Tex, and
Brigadier- General George Moseley,
commanding the first cavalry divi-
sion at Ell Paso, has gone there to
examine conditions, he informed the
war department today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
2 WORKERS HURT

BALTIMORE, Nd. (By MaiD.--
William Harris, 43, and Will Bwers.
10, were seriously injured by cable
attached to cement mixer on which
they were at work. They are en-
ployed by the Consolidated Engi-
neering Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
|'REBELS' RETREAT
100 Miles FROM
TORRE ON FORTS
Fierce Rear Guard War
as Federals Attack
During Pursuit
u. S. Mobilizes Troops
Possibility They Will
Intervene in Force
y. S. Mobilizes Troops

DURANGO, Mexico, March 1S.-
Gulf. 1.-THE rebel army which is in
retreat from Torreon has been sur
rounded on three sides to cut off
the only means of escape of General
J. Gonzalo Escobar, the rebel leader.
The rapidly advancing federal forces
of Gales, Juan Almazan and Sat-
urnino Cedillo, have invested the
rebels from the south, west and east
and are driving in.
NOGALES, Ariz., March 49,
Catholic and large landholder re-
dictionary forces today indicated that
they would send a strong force
against Mace, Sonora. 1t is said that
Fausto Topete, governor of Sonora,
would attack with 25,000 men, many
of them Yaqui Indians.
Naco is held by General Augustine
Olachea, who deserted the insurgent
ranks when left in charge of the
town, which he claimed for the fed
erals.
Contradic.ing federal reports that
the insurgent drive in Sinaloa had
broken down, reports from the in
surgent headquarters today an
nounced that General Ramon Iturbe.
insurgent, would attack the port of
Mazatlan within few hours. They
forecast that the town would yield
without battle. At the same time
they admit that their advance has
slowed down due, they say, to des-
truction of bridges.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 18.
Through conflicting claims of vic
tory by the Portes Gil government
and the reactionary catholic and big
landholder insurgents, the fact of
the evacuation of Torreon by the
latter was fairly well esraDAsAoe.
tonight. Gales, minister of war, an
nounces that he will occupy the city
tomorrow night.
Latest reports state that the in
Isurgent commander Escobar has re-
treated to Escalon, 100 miles north
of Torreon, where he established
headquarters. Of course the troops
do not travel as swiftly as the re-
treating commanders and troops of
stragglers were reported a short
distance north of Torreon late this
afternoon, insurgents claiming they
had the better of the fighting.
Sporadic Fighting.
Engagements between reactionary
insurgent troops and the federals
are taking place during the retreat,
which the insurgents refer to as a
strategic withdrawal"
A general engagement is forecast
in the neighborhood of Chihuahua
City, 300 miles away.
simultaneously reports of fresh
American troop movements on The
border has again given rise to the
rumor that the United States gov
ernment may take advantage Of The
Mexican situation to intervene,
probably on the plea of Safeguard
ing" the lives and property of Amer
leans making livings in Mexico or
in reprisal for Americans who may
be killed by chance shots in border
fighting as at Ell Paso.
The war department report that
Brigadier-General George Moseley
had gone in person from Ell Paso to
Fort Bliss to look over the ground
caused especial alarm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

MANY KILLED IN LONDON.
LONDON, (By MaiD.-More than
three persons were killed daily last
year in London street accidents. In
the last quarter of the year 365 were
killed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
ADOPT CHANGED
PLAN FOR court
England Modifies Root
Proposals

GENEVA, March 13 (UP).-The
Root-Hurst revised text of the 1926
protocol of the World Court was
unanimously adopted today by the
commission of jurists meeting here
to consider the revision of the sta
tutes of the court.
Elihu Root and Sir Cecil Hurst
had worked on revision of the stat
utes for several days. Purpose of
the revised draft is to make possible
the acceptance of United States res
ervations to the World Court.
The text of the protocol will i'm
mediately be sent to all signatories
Of the World Court for approval.
Struggle Over Entry.
The entry of the U. S. into the
World Court is somewhat condition
ed on the U. S. senate reservations,
which demand guarantee that tho
the U. S. will sit as a judge over
all other nations, America shall be
able to refuse to have any interna-
tional question, in which she is in
volved, brought before the court.
The task of the league experts,
who are dominated by British i'm
perialistic needs, is to so modifv the
Root plan that the United States
will be brought into the court, with
out such an advantage as the senate
proposes.
Can Wreck Court.
The scheme on which they hope
to compromise with the U. S. pro-
vides for the practical wrecking of
the court, if the U. S. refuses to con-
duct a case which the state depart
ment considers affects the interests
of the United States"
The mechanism provided in the
amended statutes is lin Article s. a
provision for the secretary general
to notify U. S. of all cases requir-
ing advisory opinions, for the U. S.
to notify the League if any are OBJ
jected to, and for (Article 81 the
withdrawal at any time of the
United States," and for the revoca-
tion of the protocol bringing the u.
S. into the court within year after
two-thirds of the signatories with
draw their acceptance"
The senate reservations are for
mally accepted in the first article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19

Christian Socialism f. hut the holy
xxnter with which the priest cOnse-
crntes the heartbu' ninEs OF the nris-
sorrsh-Karl Marx Communist MANI
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1929-03-22
FRIEND OF FORESTRY

Another good friend of forestry,
Herbert Hoover, took the oath of Of
fee as President of the United States
on March 4. That we are to have a
forestry minded president is, impor-
tant says the Forestry News Digest.
The Minnesota Reforestation Com
mission has just reported a forestry
program for the state and a commits
sion in New York State has reported
a constructive program.
Mr.. Hoover approaches forestry as
he has approached many other prob
lens essentially as an engineer,
says the American Tree Association,
Mr.. Hoover as Secretary of Com
merce has actively interested him
self in the problem of. saving trees
by avoiding waste. He feels that
with the passing of abundant and
cheap timber supplies it is high time
that extravagant national habits
should also pass. So he has work
ed steadily and successfully to cut
down avoidable waste in wood use.
Realizing that We are only using
about one-third of the wood in every
tree we cut, Mr.. Hoover has pointed
out that to decrease this drain on
our timber resources would be a
strong impetus toward commercial
reforestation for the simple reason
that timber crops would then in
crease in value. Increased value OF
trees means greater incentive to
plant them. To his mind one of the
great practical answers to the ques-
ton of safeguarding the future of
our forest resources is through clos
er wood utilization. His is the
broad conception of an attack to
eliminate waste and to obtain great
er efficiency from the existing pro-
ducts of the forest.
"The welfare OF the nation is to a
large extent dependent on the per-
petuation of our forests In this
clear-cut statement Mr.. Hoover has
placed himself on record as reaIiz-
ing the vital character of our forest
problem. And his hope of perpetu-
ating these forests lies, in large, de-
gree, with the great cumberland own
ers of the United States.