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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-13
By The POLITICAL ANALYST

AuC
AUSTIN, Dec. 13-While investi-
eating committees are exclaiming
at the virulence and alleged insidi-
.ousnesS Of lobbying on a nation
al scale, Texas appears to be ex-
tremely different In the type OF its
legislators toward them.
Even in Texas in the past. the
suggestion Of lobbyist had some
thing about it limiting Of devious
ways and peculiar power 70 get
things done. While the craft Of
lobbying az Washington may carry
all the guile Of old, il Texas it has
come 70 be a very much OF an
above-board matter. with the prin-
clpal lobbyists men OF high stand
ing, regarded as good personal
friends by the legislators and men
against whom no suspicion Of
high pressure" methods or shady
conduct has ever rested.
Take some OF the names. They are
lobbyists. since they are with the
legislature when measures affect
ing them. their interests Or their
clients are up for action.
In the main. these people are
here 70 furnish the legislature with
facts as they e them. 70 advocate
or oppose measures openly.
julius Germany was long a IA
miliar figure here. until his re-
cent death, representing the oil
business. Most OF the legislators
called him by his first name.
Then there Is John A. Glen. rail-
road superintendent. representing
the General Managers association.
Pres. II. Y. Benedict every two
years IS a lobbyist In looking af-
ter the interests Of the University
Of Texas. and the presidents Of
other state schools likewise appear
before the committees and work
with the legislature on needs OF
their schools.
Dayton Moses, one Of the out
standing lawyers Of the state. often
Is here in legislative times. looking
after the needs OF the Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers asso-
citation. a maj intimately known
and well-liked by all the legisla-
tors.
H. NJ Garwood. one OF Houston's
most renowned attorneys and
of Texas highest type Of men. was
here for weeks II past sessions.
when income taxes were discussed.
Lynch Davidson. former lieuten-
and governor. has not heSitated to
20 before the legislature opposing
road bonds and the income tax.
Former Pres. Slater Of the Tex
as Federation Of Labor is a con-
sistent lobbyist az Austin.
The INT themselves have been
represented in a thorough going
lobby. Mrs. Jane ". MCCallum. now
secretary Of state. was first execu-
tive secretary Of their group. Other
club women and leaders IN the
cause Of women's political rights
have taken part IN the work OF
this organization. The Parent-Te7-
cher organization IS particularly
strong in this work.
Mrs. Claude De Van Watts. state
president of the Women's Christian
Temperance union. works vigorously
for and against measures pending
in the legislature.
These aren't 81 the lobbyists. but
these are typical Of the people here
representing themselves and others
before the Texas legislature.
In truth. lobbying IS something
different from what IL has appear
ed 10 be IN Washington where
matters affecting great wealth and
power have been the object OF az
gressive action by the third house"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-13
Flashes of Life

CARLISLE. Pat will be worth
$4,000 to Mrs. Samuel Temple OF
Boston 70 take an oath TO stop
smoking cigarettes. The viii OF her
aunt. IIiss ner NJ. Groome.
makes a conditional bequeSt. Miss
Grocme was an instructor in art
III state schools Mrs Temple IL an
artist under her maiden name Of
Ruth Anderson
NEW YORK-Winifred Sackville
Stoner. once a child prodigy. IS
seeking annulment OF her marriage
to Count PHILIPPE Clinic De Bruche.
whom she thought dead until SIZE
ran into him In a hotel lobby in
New York recently. When II IN
1921 she eloped with the Count. In
1922 she was advised he had been
killed in an accident. IN 1925 she
eloped with Louis Lyman. They
were divorced in 1927.
los ANGELES-Mr. and Mrs
Townsend Netcher are that and
not Mr.. and Mrs. Constance Tai
madge. That's what the bride in
dictated on her return from a honey
moon. adding. Il am not going
70 make any more pictures. I am
through with Hollywood"
NEW YORK-One thing seems
quite essential for a bar. John
RoSsi was IN a Brooklyn federal
court. The prosecutor said his es-
Enlistment was a speakeasy. since
II had a bar. The defense attorney
said II had no bar. merely q count
er. Judge Byers inquired II there
was a brass rail. There wasn't.
Then We'll call IL a counter" he
ruled. Rossi was fined $3.50 for pos
session OF liquor.
HANFORD. Calf William Y.
Liggett is dead Of injuries received
when kicked by a COW. He had in
Alrance against being kicked by a
horse or gored by a bull.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-12-13

Noises generated by household electrical devices have brought a
sustained drive 70 conquer them with fnterinR devices similar To the
one pictured l. the center. The diagrams give the circuits gener-
ally used.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
CREETS TWELFTH
Year OF SOVIET
Workers Send Message
Thru Labor Defender

The November issue of the La
Dor Defender, which will contain 48
pages of working class life and ac-
tivity in the Soviet Union and in
other countries, is to be a message
of solidarity from the American
working class to the Russian work
ers and peasants, on the 18th Soviet
Anniversary edition.
The Labor Defender has opened
the pages of its November issue for
greetings from working class Or
CARNATIONS and individual workers
to the Soviet Union. Organiza-
tons may send greetings thru the
Labor Defender at the cost of $500
per inch, $500 per quarter page,
$4,000 per half page and $500 per
full page. Individual greetings will
be forwarded to the Soviet Union
thru the pages of the Labor De-
fender at $1.00 per name. All copy
must be in by October 10th, it is an
nounced. The office of Labor Unity
is at so E. 18th Street.
Greet Russians.
During this trying period, when
the Chinese and white-guardist war
provocations are molesting the So
Wet Union from the East, while
other imperialist intrigues continue
from the west and south, the Soviet
workers are expecting powerful
messages Of solidarity from their
class brothers all over the world.
The October issue of the Labor
Defender, which will be off the
press by September 21st, will con-
tain first hand accounts of the trial
of the 16 Gastonia strikers and
Union organizers as well as many
pictures of the Cleveland TUEL
Convention and other important
workingclass activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11

WORKERS OF U. S.
TO help REBUILD
PLANTS IN U.S.S.R.
Technicians Bought
Through Amtorg

To manufacture inexpensive
watches and clocks for the workers
and peasants of the U.S.S.R., the
Soviet Precision Machinery Trust
has bought through the Amtorg
Trading Corporation, 261 Fifth Ave-,
the entire equipment and machinery
of two American clock and watch
factories.
The Ansonia Clock Company at
Brooklyn and the Deuber-Hampden
Watch Company at Canton, O., are
the purchased plants. A. M. Bod
rolf, chairman of the Soviet trust,
and l. G. Sarkin, technical director,
inspected the machinery and equip
ment of the plants before the pur-
chase was closed.
American factory foremen will
help reassemble the machinery and
erect the plants in the Soviet Union.
The two factories will be recon-
structed in Moscow, U.S.S.R., to be
ready for production in 1881, the
Amtorg representative reports. Some
100000 inexpensive watches,
100000 alarm clocks, 100000 wall
and electric clocks and 100000 bet
ter-type watches will be produced
annually. Wall clocks are manufac-
tured by the Soviet trust at the rate
of 100000 yearly, according tor
present schedules.
The trust also makes typewriters,
aviation accessories and medical,
optical and labarotory instruments.
Its output last year was valued by
Amtorg at $10,000,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
TRIAL
OF JOE JACOBS

When the trial of Joe Jacobs,
member of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union came up yes
terday morning in jefferson Market
Court it was postponed until Sept.
80 on recommendation of his at
torney.
Jacobs was severely cut up more
than a month ago by thugs of the
scab International Ladies Garment
Workers Union when he was on his
way to work. He was then ar
rested charged with felonious as
sault, altho he did not even have an
opportunity to defend himself
against the right ling gangsters.
After he w&s cut up he was on the
point of death for several weeks
and is still in a very serious condi-
ton from the loss of blood. The
trial was postponed yesterday so he
could enter Hunts Point Hospital
for further treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Negro, White Workers
United Against Scabs'
Terrorism in Chicago

CHICAGO, H., Sept. 10.-Devel-
opments in the militant strike be-
ing carried on under the leadership
of the Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union have once more dem
onstrated the united front between
the police department and the right
wing of the reactionary LL.G.W.U.
and the bureaucrats of Zaritsky's
fake union.
Within the last two days there
have been more than twenty arrests
on Market Street. The right wing
gangsters stand around and point
out to the police pickets they want
arrested. The machine that carries
the scabs and the patrol wagon usu-
ally arrive together. In spite of the
smuggling tactics the hired gangsters
and the police terror the workers
reform their picket lines and will
not be intimidated.
In all of the cases the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has given full
support and has secured the release
of the strike pickets on bond, pend
ing trial by jury.
The solidarity Of Negro and white
workers has again been proven in
this strike. The Negro workers
take their place along with the
white in the picket line and not only
daily face the attacks of the police,
but are thrown into prison along
with the white workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
tST TUUL BOARD
SESSION TODAY
Lumber Union Joins
New Center
(Continned ion Paqe Onel

Continued from Page One)
stressing the organization of every
worker in the industry regardless of
color, race, etc, into the union whose
basic unit will be the mill committee.
"No official of this union shall re-
ceive more pay than the average
wage in the lumber industry" the
bylaws specify.
Child Labor.
Commenting upon the tremendous
job of organizing the thousands of
workers in the saw, paper mills and
lumber camps now under way, Pit
kin pointed out the extremely low
wages and almost unbearable con-
ditions.
For the men with families in the
lumber industry, it has become i'm
possible to make both ends meet"
he said. "In this desperate struggle
for existence not only the wives but
also the children under ten years of
age have been drawn into the lum-
Der work.
"A very common sight in the lum-
Der camps of Michigan today, is
scores of families, men, women and
children, cutting and pealing pulp
wood and railroad ties from four
o'clock in the morning until eight
at night during the summer, and
from dawn to dark in the winter.
"These families are compelled to
buy lumber and build their shacks
at their own expense, A man and
wife are able to earn this way up
to 81 a day. A family of five or
six earns SIS to Sc a day When
they are located far from the road,
there is no schooling for the chill
dren. When the camp closes down,
the workers have to dispose of the
shacks as best they can, or leave
them to rot-and on to the next
camp. Workers in the lumber in
dustry are more than ready for
union"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Lost Air Liner Found
in New Mexico; Crash
Killed All 8 of Grew

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1O.-All
eight passengers aboard the Trans
continental Air Transport Company
monoplane City of San Francisco
were killed when the plane crashed
into the side of a 10000 foot noun
tain and burned last Tuesday, ad-
vices to the TAT. said yesterday.
The crash occurred in one of the
most desolate sections of New Mex
leo.
The wreckage was discovered on
the south slope of Mount Taylor at
11:30 yesterday morning by West
ern Air Express passenger plane.
Transcontinental is one of the sew
eral groups specializing in coast-to-
coast plane transport. The system
can easily be adjusted-in line with
its real purpose-to the war office
scheme for militarization of air
lines in preparation for the next
imperialist war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11

city and county authorities cooper
ated with the terrorists and gave
them free hand. All pretense of
ordinary legal procedure was aban-
doned following the declaration of
mistrial in Judge Barnhill's court
where for two weeks the state has
been demanding the lives of 10
working men who defended them
selves and their union against an at
tack on smaller scale, but similar
in its murderous purpose to that
staged during the night of Sept. 9.
After Organizers.
The invasion of Charlotte, a city
of 100000 population, by the Man
ville-Jenckes gang who rode in and
searched high and low for Oehler,
Dunno and Gerson, the youth organ
izer of the N.T.W.U., and all other
workers on the stats of the N. t.
w. U. and the /. L. D., is a brazen
terrorist act, union organizers point
ed out.
The local press plays up the at
tack as fight on the Communists
carried in an eight column streamer,
Communist Offices Raided By
.Anti-Reds."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
$500 STRIKE At
Am. METAL CO.
T.U.U.L. Metal Bureau
Secretary Speaks
Continued from Page One)

tC0nIHSued from rage OneJ
fuse admittancse to any but scabs,
or bosses. Daily Worker reporters
were told that the strike was none
of their business and that the
bosses r. no st;tement to make.
Completely unorganized, rationale
cation and intense speedup had the
men ready to strike on any excuse.
The strike started under the leader
ship of an inexperienced but deter
mined strike committee of some
sixteen men-two from each depart
ments.
One of the chief bones of conten-
ton is the so-called "bonus sys-
tenn" In April 1928 the bosses in
troduced five cent wage cut,
simultaneously offering a five cent
"bonus" for those workers who lost
no more than seven working hours
during the two week pay period.
The result has been that any work
err who through sickness or injury
lost a days work, on top of that
days pay he was robbed of five
cents an hour fer every other hour
he had worked during the pay
period.
Many Accidents.
Strikers compla;l that the in
make for many ccidents, that,
aware of its high accident record,
the company follows the policy of
giving a man hell every time he gets
hurt, often forcing him to remain
on the job when he should be home
in bed or {; t least resting his in
jury, and often firing him as soon
as he has recovered.
Due to the large amount of lead
used in the manufacture o. brass
one of the principle products of
the company-lead poisoning is fire.
quent. Each worker must be exam
ined for it's monthly, and if lead is
found in his blood he is sent home
and his bonus is divided among the
stockholders of the company. If
the poisoning clears up he may get
his job back; if not, and if he is a
foreign born worker, he dies and
the company denies responsibility.
Long Hours, Low Wages.
Over 1900 of the men have been
receiving the unskilled labor rate,
40 cents. Work for the shelters is
seven days a week, 81 weeks a year.
One worker on a regular nine-hour
day recently was forced to work
AN hours overtime within space
of five days. Continuous processes,
working a regular eight-hour day,
are forced to do the double shift six
teen hours every two weeks when
the shift changes, and seven days
week throughout the year, al
though Christmas and the Fourth
of July are holidays.
T. U. U. L. Active.
The fact that the T. U. U. L. is
already on the job shows how seri-
ously the line laid down by the
T. U. U. L. convention is being
taken. Overgaard will emphasize,
giving the recent Murray Body
strike as an example, the necessity
of developing real organization
before returning to work. The
workers Of the Murray Body Cor
poration manufacturer of bodies
Of Ford cars) successfully resisted
20 per cent wage cut imposed by
the company, only to find that be-
cause they returned to work with
out a sufficiently powerful organ
ization, their leaders had been sac
rificed.
A real shop committee must be
established, deriving its authority
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
Roosevelt Named by
Hoover to Rule Porto
Rico for Wall Street

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10,
Among the latest batch of nomi-
nations sent by President Hoover
to the Senate are included Leland
Harrison, Illinois politician, now en-
voy to Sweden, to represent Wall
Street in Uruguay; Theodore Roose-
welt, republican political leader in
New York, to be governor Of Porto
Rico and several republican local
politicians to be circuit judges in
California and Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
SOVIET union IN
Note Tells OF
10 BORDER RAIDS
Reported to be Taking
Retaliatory Action

!. Continued from Page OnP)
Stimson notes of July % to all i'm
.perialist governments, proposing
joint investigation" of the seizure
of the ~eSe Eastern Railroad and
events following it, and the Hen
derson speech in the League of Ma
tons assembly last week proposing
Incorporation of KeEc-- pacts in
the league statutes, and furnishing
of finances to "any country which is
the V, Ill of an aggressor's at
tack" (In practice, the imperialist
power or its agent, for example,
Chang Kai-shek, is always repre-
sented as being attacked). The
preparations for war on the U. S.
s. r. also include the BRAND pro-
posal for confederation of Euro
pean imperialist powers and those
in their orbit, reco- lied by the
European press IS an Anti-Soviet
move.
Firing at Pagranitchnaya.
Japanese official reports, the
Marking governments Kuomin
News Agency, Reuters (European)
telegraph agency and American
news services report a heavy battle
at Pogranitchnaya yesterday and
Monday, in which the garrison of
the Chang Hsueh-liang government
was driven from the city by the
Red Army's artillery fire and air
plane attack, and the city looted by
bandits in the absence of the troops.
The Mukden government states that
it lost 500 men, including deserters,
in the first attack, nd more after
wards. The stories refer to the
Manchurian town of Pogranitchna-
va, not the railway station on U. S.
S. R. territory.
This is interpreted here as the
Chinese militarist governments YER
sion of the repulse of one of their
raiding parties into the Soviet
Union, and the fighting that fol-
lowed when the raiders sought
security behind the entrenched posi-
tons of the Chang Hsueh-liang
troops massed along the border.
Warlords Lose 100.
A report from Toxic sent by the
United Pres states that the Muk-
den governments losses in five
hour border fight at Manchuli "a
town near the western border of
Manchuria) was 100. The story
yesterday, contrary to the version
given Monday, does not speak of
any advance of Red Army forces
across the line, but apparently re-
fers to the = suits of heavy artillery
fire, from $50 field pieces, located
on Soviet Union territory. This is
undoubtedly the result of the dis
persal mother of the attempts
Of the Chinese and white guard Rus
sian mercenary troops to penetrate
into the Soviet Union, and of the
bombardment of U. S. S. R. posi-
tons by Chinese artillery and
machine guns which accompanied
the raid.
The United Press correspondent
at Manchuli repeats a Mukden Off
Soviet workers arrested last night
are to be immed Gtely executed as
"spies."
The same news services CORE
spondent at Hardin wires a report
of three Soviet government air.
planes b. harding Pogranitchnaya
again at 7 a. m. yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
British Mill Bosses
Victimize w Orke
Active in Big Strike

MANCHESTER, England, Sept.
10.-Abut 100 of the workers most
active in the recent strike at the
wooden mills of Calder Valley have
been refused unemployment by the
mill owners. The blacklisting came
directly as a result of these workers
militant activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
TRAIN DERAILED.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. TO-
Train 46, of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, bound
from New Haven to Boston, was de-
rallied at Hop River, a hamlet west
of Willimantic, it was announced to-
day at the railroads offices here.
No one was injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
TANNERS WIN STRIKE.

PHILADELPHIA (By MaiD.-
Tanners at the Hubschmann Tan
merry here who struck against the
dismissal of union man won their
strike, procuring reinstatement of
the union man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11

from the mass of the workers; g
dues system set up and shop bull
letin issued. The demands of the
workers, in addition to the wage
increase, weekly pay, time and
half for all overtime, must include
mo discrimination against any
strikers and a six-day week.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28

pital, then drove to the po-
lice station and made their
report.
You must be half dead -
Nearly home at last. Dick
put an arm about Felicia
and drew her close, and with
a little sigh of content, she
rested her head against his
shoulder, her lips almost
touching his ear.
Dear Dick" she mnr-
INJURED, sleepily. 1t would
soon be dawn.
Dick Stuyvesant smiled
into the darkness. Not
since that first evening
after Judge Cooper's party
had he really kissed Felicia
kissed her as he longed,
sometimes almost unendur-
The Washington times., 1929-02-28
RICHER N1sGE
MELLOWER
than 0"y single coffee gro'r1s

States than any other coffee ever offered
for sale.
For Maxwell House is not single coffee
flavor, but sparkling blend of many
choice coffees each selected for a special
excellence. 1t is the triumph of a man
who spent months of experimenting TO
combine in one delicious drink the most
delightful Ravors of all the diverse cOffees
grown in many tropic lands.
That is why Maxwell House Coffee
pleases everybody. In it the mild and the
pungent, the syrnpy and the ''winy'' are
merged in a rich and mellow harmony
which comes to the most critical palate as
new and deeply satisfying experience.
Within the lifetime of ''the Old Colonel" )"
this superb coffee flavor he created years
ago has become Americas most popular
coffee.
Your own grocer has Maxwell House
Coffee nicely sealed in tin to preserve all
its fragrance and inimitable favor.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28

do you know who they
were, Dad?"
Peg was clinging TO ber
fathers arm, leaning on him
and supporting him, by
turns.
Never saw them before.'
They r
For Gods sake, get an
axen"
Peg flew TO the cellar
while Dick quieted Felicia,
holding her frantic, bleeding
hands away from the door.
From the upstairs tele-
phone, DR.. Tom was calling
the police.
Peg, painting, came back
with an axe, and Dick swung
at the door. Boards splin-
tered E; he swung again. Once
more, and he could squeeze
through.
Where are the lights
he demanded. Felicia,
crowding after him, touched
the switch.
Her room was in perfect
order. Filmy nightgown on
the bed, little pink slippers
side by side on the, blue rug.
The Washington times., 1929-02-28

Felicia wiped blood from
tie strangers face with an
absurd little handkerchief.
The cut ism t very deep, "
she said, examining the
wound. "Can | help you
carry him?''
He laughed at her indul-
gently. "Goose.''
She stood back, watching
adoringly, as he lifted the
limp body and bore it to the
roadster.
IF you'll sit here and
support him, Felicia"
The cold air, whipping
into the car, revived the
man; he opened his eyes
only TO close them again,
as; though the effort had
been too great;
They took him to the hos