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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-14
POSTAL RATES

The United States air mall postage
rate Is 5 cents for the first ounce and
no cents for zach additional ounce or
fraction thereof. Letters mailed in
the United States for the points In
Mexico taks this rata
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-14

No. 3le-From Houston. San Anto.
Mo. Sis a. m.
No. SOTO Houston. San Antonio
p. N.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-14

vi. r. TRANSPORTATION co.
Cars to Mission on the hour every
hour. 8 a. n. TO 8 y. N. n at 7:30
a. m, $50 p. m. T:3o p. n. and . ,. N
To Point Isabel. 8 q. u. and II noon.
I p. N.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-05-14
RIO GEANnE RAILWAY

To Point Isabel. $50 4. m.
From Point Isabel. = .. m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Negro Labor Congress
Branch Is Organized
by Workers in Phila.

PHILADELPHIA, April IA
branch of the American Negro La
Dor Congress has been organized
here with IL members. The first
two meetings were devoted to dis
cussing the draft of the new con-
stitution as submitted by the ma
tiona office, after which a motion
to approve it was passed. A COM
mittee was also elected to cooper
ate with the Workers International
Relief in arranging an inter-racial
concert for the joint benefit of the
miners and the Negro flood suffer-
ers of Alabama.
The members Of this local are en-
thusiastic over its formation and
the prospects of carrying the mes
sage of the ANLC to the Negro
masses. The prospects of doubling
the membership Immediately are
good. The secretary is Frank Ken
nedy, ami the Negro Champion
agent. E. M. Brown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
MANY OF THOSE
ARRESTED ARE
WITHOUT JOBS
Whalen Plans System
of Reporting to Police

Acting on instruction from Pc
lice Commissioner Whalen to pick
up all suspicious looking" charac-
tiers, New York policemen and the
gun squad jailed 1S1 men Saturday,
most of them unemployed workers
and strikers.
The prisoners include seven Ne
groes charged with "vagrancy," II
food strikers, and 20 workers en-
gagged on a building construction.
They are charged with vagrancy,
playing dice or using obscene langu-
age. Many of those jailed are I'M
employed who had nowhere to spend
their Saturday afternoons but on
the streets.
At about the time the arrests were
taking place Whalen, speaking be-
fore the Young Democratic Club,
defended his action of rounding up
workers on vagrancy charges and
said that he hoped that New York
would soon have a system of keep
ing tabs on all suspects" and ex-
prisoners by forcing them to report
their activities to the police regu-
larly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
FAKE LABOR LAW
REMAINS INTACT
Gov. Vetoes Bluff Act;
Lets Old One Stay

ALBANY, April IA fake bill
on workmen's compensation, intro
duced by the republicans, was We
toed by Governor Roosevelt yester-
day, because it cut compensation
awards In certain cases, he said.
"This bill aims a serious blow at
the existing system of payments in
compensation, said Roosevelt. The
A. f. of l.. and the state labor de-
partment also opposed the bill.
The existing system he referred
to does not apply to the workers who
most ned it, such as the mass of
unskilled workers in heavy industry
and workers employed in dangerous
trades, those hit hardest by the abb
sence of adequate compensation
laws. 1t makes no provisions, for
instance, for compensation in radium
and lead poisoning, nor injuries sus-
tanned in the chemical divisions of
heavy industry.
Roosevelt approved a bill chang
ing the present law which states
that no food is to be kept in stor-
age for longer than one year. The
approved bill allows indefinite stor-
age.2 He also approved a bill maxi
ing the organization Of banks easier.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
USSR ENGINEERS
TO STUDY IN u. S
Industrial, Farmin g
Delegates Arrive

Nearly two score engineers repre-
senting Soviet industrial and agri-
cultural enterprises arrived in the
United States during the past two
weeks. The Soviet delegation will
study American production methods
and will look over the equipment re-
quired by their respective indus
tries, it was stated by the Amtorg
Trading Corporation, representatives
of Soviet commercial and industrial
establishments.
A delegation of eight engineers
from the Azneft Oil Trust, the
largest oil producer in the Soviet
Union, will study drilling and oil
refining methods, as we'll as fac
tories producing oil refining ma
chinery.
The "Zernotrest" (Grain Trust)
which has supervision over the or
ganization of large scale state
farms has sent seven agronomers in
addition to the delegation already
in this country. V. 1. Ilyichev, vice
president of the Zernotrest, stated
that these agronomers will receive
practical training on large Ameri-
can farms during this years sowing
and harvesting seasons. Some mem
bers of the delegation will also study
road building in rural communities.
An additional delegation of seven
engineers connected with the con-
struction of the Stalingrad Tractor
Plant also arrived recently. They
will examine the plans for the con-
struction of the plant submitted by
American companies and will assist
in purchasing equipment. The
Stalingrad Tractor Plant is to pro-
duce annually 10000 tractors, en-
ploying two shifts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
WILL PASS FAKE
FARM BILL FIRST
Tariff Fight to Hide
SWlndle of Farmers

WASHINGTON, April THE
fake farm relief bill is expected to
be showed through first and gotten
over with, with the least possible
embarrassment for Hoover, at the
special sessions of congress, start
ing next week.
House and senate agricultural
committees have started drafting
these bills after trying in vain to
get Hoover to publicly take some
responsibility for the swindle. 1t is
vaguely Tstated that it will follow
the general outline of the McNary-
Haugen bill without the equaliza-
tion fee. There is a general feeling
ronC the leaders that no attempt
viii be made to block the fake bill
Tsriff lobbyists, representing The
leading manufacturers and indus
trialists, are active both in the house
adm senate lining up the boys for
high tariffs. With the farm fake
practically taken care Of, competi-
tive manufacturers are getting their
senators to prepare for the tariff
fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
GRANT HUGE
R. R. MERGERS
Van SWerigens Get the
Official 0. K.

WASHINGTON, April THE
Van Sweringens brought the Inter
state Commerce Commission around
to its own way of thinking when
that commission yesterday reversed
Q former decision and r~anted per-
mission to the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad to buy 174,90O shares of
the Pere Marquette from the New
York, Chicago & st. Louis Railroad
at S133.53 per share. Both the
Chesapeake & Ohio and the New
York, Chicago & St. Louis are con-
trolled by the Van Sweringens.
This decision is important be-
cause it not only permits large scale
consolidation and helps along the
Van Sweringens' merger scheme,
but allows the railroad owners to
make millions of dollars by the
simple process of transferring stock
from one of its concerns to another.
In the transaction authorized by
the commission, the Van Sweringen
interests will make a profit of
s7,S86,000 by transferring its shares
from the New York, Chicago to the
Chesapeake.
With this purchase made, and the
acquiring of more outstanding stock,
the Chesapeake G. Ohio will have
complete control of the Pere Mar
quette, and another step will have
been completed in the avn Swerin-
gen merger plans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
AID BRITISH TO
STUDY INDUSTRY
IN SOVIET union
Big Delegation Splits
for Investigation

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., April T.
The big industrial and financial
delegation from Great Britain now
in the Soviet Union to investigate
the possibilities of trade with the
U.S.S.R. has been divided into
groups representing various inter
ests and is studying conditions in
corresponding interests here. One
group is visiting the textile fac
tories, another the mines, and so
forth.
Receptions with the directors of
the Soviet industries have been ar
ranged for the British delegates, at
which they will be given an oppor-
tunity to avail themselves of first
hand information in studying their
particular branches of industry.
The British delegates are delight
ed with the facilities provided them
in the Soviet Union as we'll as with
the realistic way in which affairs
are managed by the Soviet authori-
ties.
A number of the delegates have
intimated that relations between the
government of the Soviet Union and
the British government must be re-
sumed and it is presumed that they
will work for this end after their
return to Great Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
PEASANTS FLEE
POLISH MISERY
Repression Is Growing
Under Fascism

WARSAW (By'pMaiD. -Emigra-
ton of the peasants is taking on an
intensified form, with considerable
unemployment, in the Western
Ukraine. The Ukrainian peasants
are living in misery, and five-sixths
of the arabic land is in the hands
of the rich landowners, 80 per cent
Of whom are Polish. More than
10000 peasant families live in prim-
tive barrack- like buildings. There
are more than a dozen direct taxes
which the peasants must pay, not
to mention the intolerable burden of
indirect taxation.
Ukrainian national culture is be-
ing destroyed by the Polish authori-
ties in the Western Ukraine. The
Ukrainian schools which existed in
Eastern Galicia, even under Aus
trian domination, have been replaced
! by Polish instruction.
The whole movement of the work
ers and peasants has been forced
into illegality. The revolutionary
press is prosecuted, newspapers sup
pressed, their editors and publishers
sentenced to long terms of hard la
Dor. Polish fascism refuses to per-
nit the organization of landwork-
ers union and is supported in this
matter by the Polish socialist party,
which holds the,eentral leadership of
the landworkers union in its hands
in Warsaw, and refuses to recognize
the -landworkers union in the
Ukraine.
The Polish government is at
tempting to suppress and destroy
the growing movement OF the
Ukrainian peasants by introduction
Of martial law and by wholesale
orrests. Those imprisoned are held
for years awaiting trial. Terrible
TEXTURES are used to extract 'con-
fessions" and the material at the
trial is then based upon the econ
LESSONS" secured in this fashion and
upon the evidence Of agents-provo-
cateurs. The courts then pass death
sentences and lifelong hard labor
sentences upon the basis Of such
material. The prisoners from the
Western Ukraine are always trans
ferred TO the interior of Poland.
Efforts Of the International Red
Aid to aid political prisoners are de-
clared illegal and many are sent to
prison for raising defense funds and
material relief for the political pris-
oners. The persecution, however, is
acting as an incentive for more en-
ergetic struggle on the part of the
workers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
BRITISH LABOR
MISLEADERS ROW
LIP Heads to Vote. War
Credits Despite Gesture

LONDON, England, April IA
resolution of the independent labor
party's conference at Carlisle to in
struct its 1T members of parlia-
nent to vote against all war credits
has brought storm of abuse upon
its trainers from the section of the
party which does not see the cleo
ton gain in this left gesture. These
members declare that far from win
ming votes, such a resolution on the
eve of the elections will lose sec
lions of the liberal vote to the labor
reformists.
E. Shinwell, a former minister in
the labor government, asserted that
he would take instructions or this
point from his constituents and not
from the party, since, should the
labor party get into power, it would
mean it could not bring in estimates
for the army, navy or air force.
His statement was greeted with
calls of SHANE" from the resolu-
ton trainers.
The conference carried the resolu-
ton by 100 to 125, to the indigna-
ticn of the more reactionary dele
gates present.
During the lunch recess, James
Maxton, the chairman, hastily called
a committee meeting, in which an
attempt was made to spike the res
clution Immediately by giving wide
discretionary powers to the chair
man of the conference in enforcing
it.
This is taken to mean that the
resolution will be disregarded, the
reactioraries contending that if it
were enforced the majority of the
rarty's members in parliament
would resign.
The conference also resolved that
the prime minister and the cabinet
Of a labor government should be
chosen by caucus of the party's
members in parliament.
The independent labor party must
rot be confused with the labor party
from which it broke away, though
many of the members belong to
both parties.
Both organizations are thoroughly
leformist and the vote to refuse all
war credits is a very obvious left
gesture with view to vote-catch-
ing in the forthcoming general cleo
tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
MORGAN BEHIND
BIG Wire MERCER
SIS, OOO,O 100000 Trust to
Oppose British

J. P. Morgan and Co. are behind
the agreement between the Radio
Corporation and the International
Telephone and Telegraph Co. by
which the latter will acquire r. C.
A. Communication for about $780,
100000 as a further step in the con-
struction of an all-American COM
munications merger in opposition to
the British wireless and cable mer-
ger. This is authoritatively stated
in Wall st. ....
$4,000, 100000 Merger.
+ The merger involves companies
with assets Of $5,000,00O,O00. Be-
hind such an enormous transaction
there can only by ]. P. Morgan and
his associated interests in the Cen
eral Electric Company.
The merger will include not only
I. T. and T. and Radio, but also
American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., the Western Union and several
smaller telephone and telegraph
companies. The General Electric
is the principal stakeholder in the
Radio Corporation.
So TO Fight Britain.
When the British cable merger
was made, it was provided that in
case of war the whole merger be
placed directly under the supervision
of the government.
When the American merger is
completed, the combined wireless,
cable, telegraph and telephone sys-
TENS will be consolidated. Such a
system would form a network over
North and South America and would
+encircle the globe as well, in active
competition with the British merger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
French LmperialistsAre
Worried Over Anglo
Italian Secret Farley

PARIS, April Speculation is
rife in the press here over the re-
cent conversations which took place
between the British foreign minister
Chamberlain and Mussolini. 1t was
recalled that after a similar parley
in 1926 Mussolini gained control of
Albania.
The French imperialists seem to
be worried that Britain may grant
Italy too many concessions on the
Mediterranean in return for similar
services from Mussolini. 1t is point
ed out that the conversation may
have great effect on the forthcom-
ing parleys between the French and
Italian governments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
tuberculosis Dea t h S
and Infant Mortality Is
Greatest in Harle m

Death from tuberculosis among
the Negro tenants in New York City
are three times as large as among
white residents in proportion to
numbers, according to statistics
published in the weekly bulletin of
the department of health.
Taking the number Of deaths
from 1910 on, it is shown that both
tuberculosis deaths and the infant
death rate have decreased at an
almost imperceptible rate, while
among the white residents the de-
crease has been greater.
This state of affairs is due to the
extremely unsanitary and crowded
condition in the segregated district
of Harlem where Negro workers are
forced to live.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
WANT DOCILE WOMEN
Meekness to Aid Moneeys of Wars

ready almost as if it were an
arsenal, with system of passports,
each bearing the workers photo
graph, barbed wire fencing at its
boundaries, and so on.
1t employs 5000 workers, of whom
the majority are women. This staff
of workers is in continual stage
of change. Not only is any sign of
class conscious-activity visited with
immediate dismissal, but in anticipa-
ton OF any such attempts, system
attic intimidation is carried out.
Recently 1000 girls were dis
charged and new 1000 engaged,
apparently for no other reason than
as an insurance against the possible
introduction of dangerous" ideas,
and to show how easily workers
could be dispensed with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
From English Correspondent

From English Correspondent
The rising artificial silk industry
of England is notorious for the de-
termination with which the least
signs of class-conscious propaganda
or desire for organization are
watched for and suppressed. The
reason for this is not only to be
found in the capacity of the cap
italist firms for profit. For the cap
italist state is largely interested in
the development of this industry,
which can be so rapidly converted
to war purposes.
A striking example of this is to be
found in great artificial silk fac
tory near Derby. This factory,
which is capable of being adapted
in q space Of "a hours for the manu-
facture of poison gae, acids, and
aeroJ'ane wings, is organized al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Roosevelt Kills Bill
Creating Commission
for Survey of Judges

ALBANY, April IA bill au-
thorizing the formation of COM
mission of seven lawyers for the
investigation and reform of judicial
procedure in New York state, was
vetoed by Governor Roosevelt yes
terday.
He objected to the bill on the
ground that such a commission
should be composed of business men
instead Of lawyers and legislators,
since they would know best "the
practical side" of such matters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Strike of London
Spreading ,200Out

LONDON, (By MaiD.-Over zoo
electricians are now on strike in
building construction going on ir
London. The strike started among
the electricians at work on the con-
struction of the Henry Glave Drap-
cry Building, for the union rate. 1t
spread to the electricians working
on the Strand Palace Hotel, Lloyda
Bank, st. James Underground Sta
ton, Devonshire House, and other
buildings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Labor Sports

The results of the games in the
Metropolitan Workers Soccer League
yesterday were as follows:
Spartacus 8, East Side Workers
?, referee, Schafner; Bronx Work
ers 3, Red Star 0, referee, O'Farrel.
The results in the Brooklyn
Workers Soccer League were:
Red Star 2, Scandinavian /, ref
cree, Schafner; Education 4,
Red Star O, referee, Goldenberg;
Aurora 1, Barcelona 0, referee,
Braunfeld.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

The lower middle class. the small
manufacturer, the shopkecper, the
artisan, the peasant, all these fight
against the bourgeOisie, to save
from extinction their existence az
fractions of the middle class. They
are therefore not revolutionary, but
cOnser--s.e.-Karl Marx (COmmu-
mist MauuestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
Fireworks Plant Is
Wrecked by Explosion,
Observation-Disclosures

CARSTADT, N. j., April T.
(U.P)-Police headquarters were
advised tonight that an explosion
had wrecked fireworks plant on
the outskirts of the city.
The first reports said no one was
injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08

Something else, however, must be
said of the other enemy of BoIshe-
vism in the working class movement.
1t Is not sufficiently known abroad
that BOlshevism grew up, forme ed
and hardened itself in long years of
struggle against petit-bourgeo's rev.
OlutiOnism, which resembles, or Dor
rows something from, anarchism.-V.
I. Letfn t"Lefto COmmunism)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
FIGHT LONGER HOURS.

SYDNEY, Australia, (By MaiD.-
Australian railway workers have
demanded a union fight against at
tempts by the rail bosses to re-intro-
duce the 4S-hour week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-08
'SEAMEN Are
IMPERILLED BY
| COAST GUARDS
Barely Miss Nor
Wegian Ship

BALTIMORE, NJ. D., April r
(UP}.-Thc Norwegian consulate
here has forwarded a report to the
consul general in New York and the
ministry at Washington, charging
that coast guard patrol boat fired
on the Norwegian fruit ship Juan
in Chesapeake Bay yesterday.
BALTIMORE, April, 7.-Seamen
aboard the Norwegian fruit ship
Juan were endangered when coast
guard cutter fired at the vessel in
Chesapeake Bay, on the suspicion
that it was a rum-runner. The cap
tain reported that two of the six
shots narrowly missed the ship.
The pilot, Kesteron, asserts that
one Of the shots would have struck
the Juan if he had not hove the ves-
sci to.
WASHINGTON, April IA note
vigorously protesting against the
sinking Of the Canadian rum-runner
"I'm Alone" by a United States
coast guard cutter more than 200
miles off the Louisiana coast, will
he presented to the state depart
ment early next week The con-
cents of the note were kept secret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-05
Heavy Training at Tampa Garden to Stage Percentage Fights
ON THE SIDE LINES
With the Sports Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPSON

Roommates from the outset their
attachment was so strong that where
one was the other usually also was
to be found, and, despite the dis
crepancy of several inches in height
and some 40 pounds in weight, they
came to be referred to as the Gold
Dust Twins.
As the years iD0re on travelling,
working and playing together they
finally found that association during
the Summer months did not suffice.
so they got in the habit of Uisiting
each Others homes during the of
seasons, nth Milan playing host for
fishing, to mitch he always has been
an ardent devotee, and Johnson con-
Quoting expeditions OF hunting, his
fGUOrite form, OF recreation.
Season after season under first
Cdntillon, then Jimmy McAleer,
Clark Griffith and George Mcbride
as managers they performed for the
Nationals, each attaining to star
dom, Milan as an outfetder and
season of 1922. Then Milan, whose
active career iuas drawino to close.
took oUer the retns of the Washing
ton Club and issued orders to his
roommate and buddy, still an ace OF
the firing line.
For the first season since they met
Barney and Zeb, as they called each
other, tUere separated in 1928. Dhen
Milan performed as an outfelder
NTH the Minneapolis Millers. The
merit year found Milan installed as
manager of the NeW HdUen Club of
the Eastern League and after one
term there he advanced to the pilot
ship OF the Memphis Club OF the
Southern Association, t0here he held
forth through 1925, rs and '27.
All this time johnson had bee
carrying on with the Nationals an
asst year when Walter assumed the onl
oh he ever hold i'm