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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
BY WILLIAM HARD.

The puzzles of popular government
are well illustrated by story recently
told here by Representative Ruth Hanna
Mccormick of Illinois.
Mrs. Mccormick summoned farming
neighborS to conference to tell her
what they wanted from the Govern
ment in the matter of agriculture.
Some IS farmers, with their wives and
children, attended the conference.
Mrs. McCormick's farming neighborS,
for about five hours that night, dis
cussed the problems and perils of farm
ing and laid before her the points at
which they thought that the Govern
ment should come to their assistance.
They mentioned a lot of things; but,
to Mrs. McCormick'S enormous interest,
no one of them made mention of the
"debenture plan," which in Washing
ton furnishes so large a theme Of
mental exercise and of political agita-
ton in Congress. It Furthermore ap-
peared, when Mrs. Mccormick at the
end Of the evening brought up the sub
ject, that quite few of her listeners
had never even heard of the de
benture."
1t further appeared that many, al
though belonging to farm organiza-
tons, did not know that those organi-
cations were represented In Washington
by agricultural spokesman, who address
congressional committees on their be-
half. They were amazed to discover
that agricultural organizations, like in
dustrial organizations, were possessed
Of Lobbyists"
The ignorance shown by many far
mers, not only in Illinois but elsewhere,
Of the very existence of the "debenture
plan" Is not the slightest argument
against the plan, but is a convincing
proof Of the basic political fact that
there are no set rules whatsoever for
politics and its operations.
Some political projects, like prohibi-
ton. start from the grass roots In our
local communities in village govern
mentS and county governments and
work their way to Washington. Others,
like the "debenture" have only a
slender rootage in original popular feel
ing and are in main degree propelled
upon the country by the ingenuity and
enthusiasm of people at the top. Even,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08
Speed Limit Sign
Salesman Is Fined
For Fast Driving
Appears Before Jud &c
After Selling City
$1,000 Equipment.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, Ill, December MANY
persons beside Daniel j. Underwood
have been known to preach what they
don't practice, but Underwood's failure
cost him SO and costs.
Underwood sells trafic equipment.
Yesterday was good day for him. He
sold the city Of Evanston 81 900 worth
of equipment, including stop and 60
lights and signs reading caution, go
slowly" and speed light rs miles an
hour"
What is the charge against this
MANI" inquired the court.
Speeding" said the ArreSting of1cer
why. Mr.. Underwood, I'm surprised
at you" said the court, adding the 50
and costs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

them, personally, that he displayed In
the last presidential election and that
he would carry them again; but stimuli
taneous reports indicate equally strongly
that the Senators who steadily have
voted against the Hoover administration
on Senate roll calls are generally re-
garded as great and bold defenders of
Northwestern interests and in most
cases would likewise be reelected to-
morrow morning If they had to run. A
Democratic Northwestern Senator re-
marked the other day, whimsically but
sincerely to this writer:
Both Hoover and I are getting on
fine in my State"
1t is certainly highly to be suspected
in politics that people will vote for two
men who are all the time fighting each
other If only there is a general popular
conviction that each of the Two men Is
trying to do his best in the peoples
interest. They will vote simultaneously
for opposites If the opposites seem TO
be personally reliable and they are
thereupon willing to let the opposites
fight it out
All of which leads up to the tentative
conclusion that our colleges should
abolish the courses called political
science" and should then give them all
over again, with appropriate changes,
under the title 1.-The political art"
Copyright, 1929
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-08

The pith of the sunfiower, four times
lighter than cork, is being used in Ger
many for making life preServers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
EXPLOITERS ON EXHIBIT
Banker and Job Shark Swank on Easter

All New York's millionaires, and
those exploiters of labor whose busi-
necs requires that they pose as
friends of Morgan and Rockefeller,
put on their gayest spats yesterday
and went to church. 1t was Easter
Sunday, and the day on which those
who take a leading place in the
stock market come out leading along
their fur bearing wives and size each
other up for probable credit chances.
The reasons for the occasion be-
ing what they were, the men rather
outshone the women. When, about
noon, the churches that line Fifth
Ave-, disgorged their crowds, and
these perambulated up the sidewalk,
it was seen that many fat stomachs
bulged over grey striped trousers
and swaycd below cutaway coats,
grey vests, glistening shirt fronts
with a small fortune in studs stick
ing in them, and loudly checked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
PA, silk STRIKE
RANKS ARE SOLID
A. F. L. Agents, Sent
In, Fear Left Union

Especial to the Daily Worker
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, March 81.
Despite a heavy concentration of
officials of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, who lend respecta-
bility to the strikebreaking efforts
of the police here, the striking silk
workers of the Wilkes-Barre Weav-
ing Co. are holding firmly to their
demands for better conditions and
recognition of their union, the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
Frightened by the possibility that
the left wing textile workers or
ganization would get a foothold
here, the A. F. of L. officials arc
plotting to betray the strike.
American Federation of Labor
sincerity was tested here Saturday
when the Strike Committee vos5d
to send a letter by Organizer Clar-
ina Nicholson, to the neighboring
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
Workers Int'l Relief
Calls Meet on Mine
Situation Wednesday

A mobilization meeting to discuss
the miners situation and prepare
for the New York tag days, April
IL, IS and IA, will be held at the
Irving Plaza, Irving Pl.. and 18th
St., Wednesday, at 8 p. m. The
meeting has been arranged by Local
New York of the Workers Inter
national Relief.
All trade unions, workers clubs,
labor fraternal organizations and
women's councils are urged to be
represented at the meeting, where
the destitute conditions of the Brit
ish and American miners will be
taken up in detail. The speakers at
the meeting will include Albert
Weisbord, secretary-treasurer, Ma
tional Textile Workers Union. and
a coal miners report on the Kinloch
explosion will also be given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
HARVEY TO FIRE
De BRACCA men
Battle Over Patronage
Splits Queens Machine

George U. Harvey, borough presi-
dent of Queens, yesterday announced
that he would not recognize as head
of the republican organization in
his borough the man elected by the
local ward bosses some time ago.
That man is a certain Joseph De
Bragga.
De Bragga has answered that he
is 1t, and will continue to dispense
patronage in Queens. Most of the
local bosses agreed.
But Harvey, altho he cannot eff
fectively interfere with state or ma
tional patronage plums going where
De Bragga decides they should, de-
clared that not only would he dis
regard candidates for borough office
suggested by De Bragga, but would
discharge Immediately every man
friendly to De Bragga and not pro-
tected by Civil Service rules.
81 told De Bragga before election
to give what aid he could to the
minor candidates and to let me alone,
He contributed only $500 to my
campaign and got me only $500
more from the organization and l
don't owe him thing.
"All persons he recommended and
whom I appointed to offices not un-
der Civil Service will have to go
tomorrow"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01

silk ties. The so-called "conserva-
tive dignity" of mans formal dress
vas absent. When a pawn broker
has to put up a front, there's no
pledge in the shop too good for him.
Silk hats were thick on the Fifth
Ave. sidewalks yesterday. Not many
of the proletariat were there.
Urban Ledoux ("Mr. Zero") par
AIDED his handful of ragged men in
honc:' of his soup kitchen.
But the proletariat had no inter-
est in the spectacle. They know
that the rich are getting richer
They knew it because of the con-
stant attempt to cut wages.
And they didn't have any money
to buy orchids at $40 a flower, or
"silver fox and tight Egyptian
hats" OF silk hats with crepe de
chenc tops, OF chic blue ensembles
with which Easter lilies are car
AlSus d. ~ .g...g ~. L. Ln~..L-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
II Miners Killed

BRUSSELS, Belgium, March
81 U.P).-An explosion of fire
damp in the Andre Duont coal
mine, near Genck, Belgian Linn
burg, cost 27 lives, check showed
tonight.
The explosion occurred Satur-
day night. Bodies were removed
all during the night. They were
badly charred and were identified
only by their metal miners tags.
The dead included two rescue
workers crushed by fall of coal,
and one injured miner who died.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
Heyyck Dead;
Hated USSR, Sacc0, VQnzeH

PARIS, March Blu. S. Am
bassador Herrick,. probably the
most vocal of the rabid reactionaries
in the American diplomatic service,
died at the American Embassy at
5 p. m. today, after a brief illness,
said to have resulted from cold
contracted while participating in
the Foch funeral ceremonies.
French workers will shed no tears
over his demise. Herrick was one
of those who campaigned for the
U. S. entry into the war during the
1914-1917 period. He had been ap-
pointed ambassador to France by
President Taft in 1912, and was re-
appointed by Harding, but stayed in
Paris during the war.
Hated Workers.
He was bitter enemy of the
Soviet Union, his speeches made on
every possible occasion invariably
repeating all the most ludicrous
ISLANDERS such as naturalization
of women" etc. He worked cease
lessly for a break in diplomatic re-
lations between France and the U.
S., and made the U. S. embassy a
meeting ground for Russian mon
archist plotters, and a place for
them to meet American millionaires
who might possibly finance their
schemes. He was personal friend
of the late Grand Duke" Nicholas.
When the Sacco-Vanzetti case
came up, Herrick bluntly told dele
cations of French workers, protest
ing to him against the murder of
the two innocent workers in Massa-
chusetts, to mind your own busi-
ness, this is an American affair.
The French demonstrators practi-
cally captured by assault the Amer
lean embassy on the day of the exc
cution, and Herrick fled to a coun-
try home.
Craved Front Page.
Alive on the lookout for pub
licity for himself, Herrick forced
his way into the Lindbergh flight
incident, took possession of Lind
bergh, who at that time was not
particularly a militarist here, and
surrounded him with the luxury and
temptations of his ambassadoriaI
palace. He is credited with doing
much to seduce the callow young
pilot into his present role as ad-
vance guard of American imperial
ism.
Before going to Paris, HerricR
was Cleveland banker. He was
a republican party machine polite
ian, and was for one term governor
of Ohio, with Harding as lieutenant
governor, at the time the "Ohic
gang" organized itself. l5s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
5000 Meet FOR
CLASS PRISONERS

SEATTLE, Wash. (By MaiD =
The biggest labor meeting since the
general strike was held here on
March II, with 5000 participating,
on behalf of the Centralia case vic
tins. The Communist Party, Inter
national Labor Defense, A. F. of L.
trade union locals, Seattle Labor
College, l. w. w. and many other
organizations joined together, un-
der the name of the Centralia Lib
Grafton Committee, in making the
demonstration huge success. Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn, of the l. L. D.,
and Elmer Smith, lawyer for the
Centralia prisoners, were among the
speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
CHARGE MELLON
is DISTILLER
Senators Flay Morgan
Man in Treasury

WASHINGTON, March 31.-Ef-
forts to oust Secretary of Treasury
Mellon from the cabinet will be re-
sumed at the special session of con-
gress next month. The senate judi
ciary committee is to make an in
vestigation in accordance with re-
solution adopted the day after Pres
ident Hoover's Inauguration. This
resolution, by Senator Mcclellan
(Dem.), Tenn, recited charges, made
frequently by McKellar, that Mel
lon is interested in liquor concerns
and thus is holding office contrary
to law, and also questioned the
right of President Hoover to with
hold the nomination of Mellon from
the senate.
Chairman Norris of the judiciary
committee opposed the Mcclellan re-
solution on the ground a senate in
vestigation would prejudice possible
impeachment proceedings in the
Continued on Page Tvo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
Articles on Penn.
Mine Conditions
Start Tomorrow

Louis Gibarti, international Rep
resentative, Workers International
Relief, has written a series of four
articles, the first of which will ap-
pear in tOmorrow's Daily Worker,
on conditions in the Western Pennsyl-
vania coal fields.
The other three articles will ap-
pear, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. Don't miss these important
articles by student of international
affairs. They will appear only in
the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
CASTONIA Mill
STRIKE If BOSS
FIRES WORKERS
1000 Join the National
Textile Union at
Great Meet
Sixty Face Evictions
Beal, of New Bedford
Struggle, Speaks

Especial to the Daily Worker)
GASTONIA, N. c., March 81
Full authority to go ahead with
strike preparations was voted the
of the militant National
Textile Workers Union by an en-
thusiastic mass meeting Of approx
nately 1000 workers in the Loray
plant of the Manville-Jenckes Co.,
in the event that the mill owners
discriminate against any worker for
Joining the union. The meeting was
held late Saturday afternoon.
1t was the first open-air meet
ing yet to be held here and the tex
tile workers refused to be terrorized
by the threat of dismissal and
flocked to the meeting. Hundreds
openly Joined the Manville Jenckes
Local of the N. 7. w. at the meet
ing.
Ready to Fight.
Insistence of the mill officials on
the dismissal of 60 union members
and the eviction of their families
from their homes, or further dis
nlissal of members who joined the
union at the meeting, will be imme-
diately answered with a strike, the
mass of workers at the meeting de-
cided.
Strike Inevitable.
Unlike other recent strikes among
the Southern textile workers, this Is
expected to be the first open strug-
gle of enslaved mill workers under
real union leadership. That strike
is inevitable is generally believed,
because of the mill officials action
in locking out and evicting the sc
union families.
Organizer Fred E. Beal, a leader
in the great strike of the New Bed
| ford workers, and Organizer Eller
(Contiaued on Page F1ue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
CAFETERIA union
CALL S MEETING
ON YELLOW DOC
Will Fight the Vicious
Contract Proposed
by Food Bosses
To Plan General Strike
Needle Workers Offer
Their Support

The drive of the Hotel, Restau-
rant and Cafeteria Workers Union
to organize the exploited cafeteria
workers has met with such enthusi-
astic response that the bosses,
alarmed at the growth of the union
forces, has resorted to an attempt
to force the workers to sign yell
low-dog contract. The union, learn
ing of this move, has Immediately
taken steps to prevent it's being sue
cessful even to a minor degree.
A leaflet is being distributed to-
day to all cafeteria workers through
out the city, warning them against
signing any agreement with the
bosses, exposing the yellow-dog con-
tract so that no worker will be mis-
led by fake promises, and calling
them to a mass meeting. This
meeting will be held next Wednes-
day, April 8, at Bryant Hall, 42nd
St. and Sixth Ave-, at 8 p. m. All
cafeteria and restaurant workers
are strongly urged to be present, as
this will be an important meeting.
Plans For Strike.
The mass meeting will be, not
only a protest meeting against the
yellow-dog contract, but the union
leaders will also tell the workers
about plans being matured to call a
general strike in the garment sec
tion in the near future. The calling
of a general strike to win union con-
ditions and abolish the 12-hou1
slavery, the miserable wages, that
go with the open shop has become
an absolute necessity. Only by this
means can the cafeteria workers i'm.
prove their conditions. The time is
ripe for this move. All forces mus
be modified to assure the maximum
success. The date for the genera
strike will be announced in the very
near future.
All Workers Must Aid.
The union appeals to all elias:
conscious workers to rally to the
aid of the cafeteria workers.
victorious conclusion of this strike
will be of great Importance to the
entire labor movement, and to the
campaign of the left wing force:
to organize the unorganized. The
wholehearted support of the Nee
die Trades Workers Industria
Union to the strike movement ha.
been pledged. This help will be O
crucial Importance to the cafeteri;
workers union, as the cafeterias il
the garment section are. patronizet
largely by the needle trades work
ers.
All cafeteria workers who wan
to abolish forever the 12-hour day
starvation wages, miserable work
ing conditions prevailing, and vii
union conditions, are urged by tn
union to attend the mass meeting
next Wednesday at Bryant Hal
without fail, and prepare for de
termined fight against the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
FREIHEIT JUBILEE SOON
Features at Rally of Communist Daily

What is the extent of the indus
trialization of the U.S.S.R.? What
are the achievements of the work
ers and peasants of the Soviet Union
in the field of collective agriculture :?
How does the Soviet worker spend
leisure hours at the end of the
seven-hour day?
The answer to these questions will
be graphically illustrated in Sow
let newsreel which will be the cen
trail feature of the seventh ami
versary celebration of the Freiheit,
Yiddish Communist daily, to be held
at New York Coliseum, 177th St.
and Bronx River, at s p. m. next
Saturday. The Red Army at work
and play, the rest homes enjoyed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01

by workers and peasants throughout
the Soviet Union, and pictures of
Moscow life are only few of the
shots which make the film one of
the most remarkable cinemato-
grahic interpretations of the life of
the U.S.S.R. ever shown to an
American audience.
Other contributions to the ami
versary celebration program will
come from Nicholas Karolash. Anna
Sovina, and Ivan Walkikinoff, Sow
let Union artists, and selections from
the Freiheit Gesangs Verein Chorus.
Although tickets for the event have
been selling rapidly, there is STILL
title to secure reserved seats at the
office of the Freiheit, 80 Union So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
Federals Enter MazatIan.
Article Tomorrow on
Mexican Uprising

On page 6 of tomorrow's issue of
the Daily Worker will appear an
article on the reactionary insurrec-
ton in Mexico, entitled, "The Up
rising in Mexico" by Bertram D.
Wolfe, which should be of interest
to our readers. 1t analyzes the back
ground of the uprising, the crys-
tallization of class forces. and the
position of American and British
imperialisms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
FATAL DRY RAID
ON FAKE WRIT
Mrs. De King Killed on
False Evidence

AURORA, ILL.,, March 31.--Boyd
Fairchild, mystery Investigators"
tonight admitted he had sworn to
false affidavit to obtain the war
rant issued by county officers in the
"dry" raid which resulted in the
killing of Mrs. Lillian DeKing. Mrs.
DeKing was shot dead at her din
ner table by Deputy Sheriff Roy
Smith. Mrs. Deking's 12year-old
son then got gun and shot Smith
III the leg.
Fairchild's story was reported to
be as follows:
Just Perjury.
He was driving past the DeKing
home with man he knew only
slightly when he suggested they buy
drink. Fairchild said he told his
companion he was not known at
the DeKing's and that the latter took
IS from him, went into the house
and came out moment later with
pint of liquor and $9 in change.
Fairchild then made an affidavit
that he had purchased liquor from
the DeKing home "from woman
about so years old" Mrs. DeKing
was only 3S and the only woman
who resided in the house.
George Stafford, a witness to the
shooting, said that Mrs. DeKing
was seated in a chair, holding tele-
phone in her hands when the shoot
ing occurred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
Green Admits US. Has
Some Unemployment
But Cheers Big Profits

As soon as a wave of strikes in
the textile industry started and
spread through the hitherto docile
o u h, American businessmen
brought out their reliable friend,
William Green, president Of the
American Federation Of Labor, and
had him declare for continued pros
perity.
Green begins by admitting in a
nice manner that "The people of
the United States suffered to some
extent during the year 1928 from
unemployment, but, he says, "the
causes are unknown for part CT
this" and anyway:
"The basis of our industrial struc
ture is fundamentally sound, conse-
ouently the outlook for the remain
der of the year 1929 is most reas-
suring. The building industry is
active and because of great activity
in both private and public construc-
ton the indications are that heavy
demands will be made upon both
skilled and unskilled workers asso-
ciated with the building industry.
This applies not only to the work
Of constructing buildings, but also
ITO the industries which supply build
ing materials"
This in the face of government
figures showing building off about
II per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01

Anarchism was often kind Of
punishment for the opportunist sins
OF the working class movement.
Annrchism and oppOrtunism are two
defOrmities, one complementary TO
Che other.-v. /. Lenin cleft" Conn
munism), :. En-. l.a..---ss..a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01

OF AL tie classes that stand face
to tace with tie bOurEGOisie today
the prO-etnrint alone In n really revO-
IutiOnnry class.-Karl Marx Com
munist ManifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01
ATTACK
FEDERAL FORCE
IN NACO BY AIR
Govt Cavalry Fighting
SkirmisheS with
Escobar Rear
Federals in Mazatlan
Rebels Score Morrow
in Statement

NACO, Ariz., March 81 UR.-
The first of the long-awaited rebel
air attacks on the federal garrison
in Naco, Sonora, took place today
when a plane flew over the town
and dropped four bombs, two of
which exploded but with no dam
age.
The federals remained at their
posts in trenches surrounding the
border port on three sides and fired
several thousand rifle shots at the
ship, which was flying low and
slowly.
"Rebels" Camp Near Naco.
NACO, March 31.-The "rebel"
army is encamped six miles south
of here, waiting until 'holy week"
is passed before attacking.
The reactionary religious nature
of the "rebel" soldiers is working
to their disadvantage here, because
while, with the exception of a few
American mercenary airmen, they
refuse to fight during the Easter
holidays, the federals in Naco are
busy digging trenches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-01

BUCARAMANGA, Colombia, Mar.
81 U.D.-Eight persons were killed
and twelve injured seriously when a
bus drove off a hill on the outskirts
Of Bucaramanga. ,..a.s,.A;. .sSs,A.