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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-03-08

Think we should have had the
nod the last time but a draw was
the verdict so we want an oppor-
tunity to prove who is the better
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

Demonstrate Against TmperiaIist
War May First at the Coliseum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
Greet May Day by Aiding
International Labor Defense

brutally crushed. May Day was a
general signal for renewed ferocity
on the part of the czarist police.
Czarist May Days.
One of my earliest memories is of
police coming to our house and pull
ing up the boards of the floor in
the hunt for illegal literature. In
the small Ressarabian town where
l lived it was impossible for the
workers to come out openly and
demonstrate on May Day. Small
groups of us, mostly young people,
would gather in the dead of night in
the room of some comrade and there
behind closely shattered windows,
with one of US guarding the door,
we would hold our meetings and talk
ardently about the day when the
Revolution would come and the work.
ing class would be free. Few of us
realized then that the day was not
far off. Some of US never lived to
see that great day. Thousands of
the unknown heroes of the Revolu-
ton persisted in the dungeons of the
car.
1t was with memories such as
these that awaited May Day in
Moscow in 1926. And what a con-
trast! Words cannot describe my
feeling on that day. As 1 stood on
the Red Square watching hundreds
of thousands of workers from every
factory in Moscow march past, their
faces aglow, marching with such
pride and assurance, l knew that
this was the May Day we had been
dreaming of in those dark days be-
fore the Revolution.
One of my greatest thrills was
when the Red Army marched past.
One hears a great deal about this
wonderful Red Army that is ready
to defend the Soviet Union against
all attacks. But one must see this
Red Army in the flesh to appreciate
how wonderful it really is. These
are no mercenaries filing by or do
Gle sheep blindly obeying their
masters. These are the workers and
peasants of the Soviet Union -
themselves the masters-ready to
lay down their lives for their pro-
letarian fatherland.
Thousands of marching workers,
a sea of banners, the Red Army, the
Young Communist League, the
Young Pioneers, leaders of the Com
munist Party and of the govern
ment, hundreds of delegates from
the revolutionary workers of other
countries, all of them filled with
the spirit of the great international
holiday of the working class-this
was the new May Day that saw in
the new Russia.
Some day the American workers
will also have such May Day. But
meanwhile we have work to do to
make such May Day possible.
Many of our comrades languish in
the jails of this country. MANY
others are in imminent danger of
Joining them. The international
Labor Defense is fighting to free
all class war prisoners. On May
Day, 1929, in capitalist America, we
send no better greeting to our suf-
fering comrades than by helping
the International Labor Defense in
tensify the fight to free them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
Greetings to
MavDay from
q Gu0YdSmam

By j. \.
Preparations for the coming war
are in full swing thruout the Ma
tional Guard units in New York.
In the - Regiment we are be-
ing intensively drilled in the use of
the bayonet and rifle. Every drill
night we get two hours Of man
euvers, marching, rifle practice, or
bayonet drill. We are taught how
to get down on our bellies in the
shortest possible time and be ready
to shoot at an approaching enemy.
In bayonet drill we practice on dunn
mics and learn how to kill or dis
able a man with either the bayonet
or the butt Of the rifle.
Youth Inveigled Into Service.
This unit of the National Guard,
just like all other units is made up
of nearly all young workers. Most
of them have enlisted because of the
attractions, in the way of sport
activities, that are carried out in the
armory. In this way, by the use of
boxing, baseball, swimming, etc,
these young workers are Iured into
the National Guard for a period of
three years.
AS soon as they have enlisted
their abuses begin. Instead of be-
ing adequately paid for drilling, they
get only one dollar for each night
that they come to be nodded into
obedient servants of the bosses, both
at home during strikes, or abroad,
| in war.
No Pay Left.
When our pay checks come, every
three months, we hardly have them
endorsed when most of the money is
taken from US to pay for things
that the government should buy for
US. First, few dollars is taken off
to pay for a dress uniform which
each enlisted man must buy for
himself. Then few dollars is taken
off for a fund to have eatable food
during the two weeks tour Of duty
at camp during the summer.
Mobilize Against Bosses in May.
The officers, who are all of the
employing class-business men, ex-
ecutives, etc, do their best to make
good cannon-fodder out of the young
workers who have enlisted in the
National Guard.
But on this International May
Day when the workers all over the
world are steeling themselves for
the final conflict with their exploit
ers, those of us worker-soldiers who
see our place is with the workers
against the bosses, pledge ourselves
to do all in our power to disorganize
the armed forces of capitalism, and
to bring into our ranks the worker
soldiers to help US in the overthrow
of capitalism.
Demonstrate Against TmperiaIist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
By BENICE MICHAELSON.

"All you worry about are the
workers. You don't give a damn
about the employers" A florid, fat
cafeteria owner, well-fed and hoarse-
voiced, was complaining to the
union.
The union official smiled. "Of
course we care about you. We want
to help you as much as we can,"
winking at one of the organizers.
Slightly soothed, the cafeteria boss
continued to pour forth his "griev-
ances" about the terrible manner
with which the union treated him
and all cafeteria owners. "And
while we're discussing this PROPOSE
ton, call off your pickets in front
of my restaurant. They're spoil
ing my business" he complained
petulantly.
The union did call them off, but
not before he signed the agreement.
Forty picketers, released from
jail, marched to union headquarters,
singing songs of solidarity. Inside,
they were greeted with cheers,
shouts, and more songs.
eve got suspended sentence"
Glow many more shops are sign
ed up, ha?"
Flows it going with the other
pickets? Any more picked up?"
Come on, boys, let's go to the
cafeteria. I'm ready for a meal"
A Scab Wants to Belong"
"They sent me here to join the
union"
where do you work."
Gin the :. J. Cafeteria"
why, that cafeteria settled. How
is it you didn't come out with the
other boys?"
81 was working"
"You worked all through the
striker"
eyes"
"Well, you wait a while before
you become a member"
Flows man to make living?
Don't / want to join the union
now" he whined feebly, as he skunk
from the registration window.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
MARCH TODAY!
By HENRY GEORGE WEISS.

May Day!
Labor's day!
Our day!
Made in America
AS American as the Fourth of July
And the Declaration of independence.
Turned out of the crucible
Of the suffering
Of working men and women
(No, my dear useless, silk-cad Madames of the
D. A. r.,
And you illustrous fat-headed degenerates of the
Civic Federation,
Bolshevik Russia didn't give May Day to the Amer
lean working class,
But the American working class gave May Day to
the revolutionary workers of the world
Gave the world May Day,
Red Revolutions hoday)
0 American workers,
Red white yellow black,
Come on, lift up your heads
Throw down your tools.
To hell with the boss!
To hell with the factory whistle!
This is Labor Day, our day made in America
March!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

pletely cooperative society in the U.
S.S.R.
]. B. Brebner of Columbia presents
one of the most fascinating chapters
on the interplay of town and country
forces, taking Poltava, typical pro-
vincial community, as the microcosm
for his study. He says, eve left
Poltava feeling that town and coun-
try were working hand in hand"
Peasants and workers were CO.
operating according to Lenin's plan.
When | saw this assorted group
of professors and research students
at work in Moscow in 1927 it was
clear to me that Paul Douglas was
the hardest worked in the gang. He
now tells US that he lost 80 pounds
in his tussles with soviet statistics,
Kremlin interviews and the tons of
literature which he digested before
writing his chapters in this book.
And after all this study he finds,
among other things, that the real liz.
come of the Russian city worker is
now from 40 to 45 per cent above
that of pre-war. In other words, the
revolution has paid tangible divi-
dends" to the workers and they will
fight to maintain it. He also shows
that the Soviet Union has gone for
ward not by the abandonment of So
cialism, as the light-brained Ivy
Lees contend, but by a wider and
wider extension of socialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
CAFETERIA SIDELIGHTS
Song of Arrested 'PicketS %
A Worker Wants to Belong.

A Worker Wants to Belong.
The strike is in Manhattan: but
a Brooklyn dishwasher, stirred by
the struggles of his fellow-workers,
came to union headquarters.
I'm working in a cafeteria in
Brooklyn, and I want to join the
union"
Say some of the other fellows
there want to know about the
union," he said, filling out the ap-
plication card. "They want to know
about the fees. Got any leaflets l
could give them? That's fine.
i. They can't join up until pay
day. =. But they'll be around Just
as soon as / give them the dope"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
A SOUND
BOOK ON
THEUSSR
By LANE WOODS

SOVIET RUSSIA IN THE SEC
OND DECADE. A Joint Survey
by the Technical Staff of the First
American Trade Union Delega-
ton. Edited by Stuart Chase,
Robert Dunn and r. G. Tugwell.
The John Day Co., 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

Demonstrate your solidarity
with Tie striking miners, textile,
food and shoe workers on May
Day, and against the treachcrOus
socialist party and the capitalist
flunkeys of the A. f. of l..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

brutally crushed. May Day was a
general signal for renewed ferocity
on the part of the czarist police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

On May Day-mobilize for the
struggle against colonial oppres-
sion! Long live the revolutionary
struggle for the liberation OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

The working class cannot simply
lay hold of the ready made State
machinery. and WELD IL for it's own
purpose. This new Commune Paris
Communc). breaks the modern
State pOwers--Mnrx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01

SONIEI RUSSIA in HE SEC-
OND DECADE. A Joint Survey
by the Technical Staff of the First
American Trade Union Delega-
ton. Edited by Stuart Chase,
Robert Dunn and R. G. Tugwell.
The John Day Co., 81.
WHEN Albert F. Coyle and the
" trade union delegation returned
from the Soviet Union in the fall of
1927 and turned out a sound and
readable report called After Ten
Years, of which over 10000 copies
have already been distributed in this
country, they had not shot their last
bolt. The next step was to authorize
the technical advisors of the delega-
ton to do their stuff. They were
ordered to prepare volume contain
ing their special studies, book that
would "stand up" as a permanent
record of the detailed findings of
this pioneer group.
So the several technical advisors
unlocked their trunks full of notes
and Soviet pamphlets and forthwith
produced Is chapters on industry,
agriculture, education, trade unions,
cooperatives, finance, the C. P. and
so on. The result is somewhat
"spotty" but it can be said that
this volume contains in most of its
chapters very careful research and
writing, indeed some of the best
that has been done on the Soviet
Union in any language.
Sound and Detailed.
Bourgeois journalists by tn e
dozen have visited the Soviet Union
and have set down their Empress
sions," glimpses and gossip. All
sorts of street scene close-ups and
snap shots, packed in with much
nonsensical moralizing, has been in
cluded in this chatter about Russia.
And most of it has been marketed
in America for a neat profit.
"Soviet Russia in the Second
Decade" is not in this class. 1t has
not been heralded in high-pressure
advertisements. But it remains one
of the fairest and most comprehen-
sive surveys of Russia by an Amer
lean group, and will doubtless be
consulted long after the more Color
full works have gone the way of
all one-season novels. incidentally
the book has very adequate index.)
Most of the, chapters seem to have
been prepared with scrupulous ac-
curacy. No one, not even the White
Guard sympathizer who reviews
Russian books for the New York
Times, has challenged even a deci-
nal point in its nearly 400 pages.
Yet the net picture presented by
these primarily academic writers is
that of a vigorous federation of
nations run by honest, competent
and practical Communists.
"Audacity and Courage"
Those who would understand the
peasant problem" on which so much
depends will find it treated by Tug
well; while Stuart Chase sketches
the planned economy" of the coun-
try which blinded Herbert Hoo
yer once called an economic vacuum.
Chase, the apostle of Standardization
and the foe of waste, says he can
only "stand bareheaded" before the
"audacity and courage" of the Cos
plan experiment which he believes
will succeed in achieving a COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
By ROSE BARON.

May Day always brings to my
mind great and stirring contrast
the May Days that l knew in czarist
Russia and the May Day that l saw
in Moscow in 1926.
The May Days under the car
were filled with danger. Terror
stalked throughout Russia. Demon
strations of workers were ruthlessly
suppressed, workers were beaten and
thrown into jail, all protests were
Evening star., 1929-12-20

All of our stores do not have every
number that is advertised above, but
should the store to which you go fail to
have the particular toy you desire, they
Evening star., 1929-12-20
Give "Her'' a Cutex
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Just what you
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boards and steril-
lied cotton.
Evening star., 1929-12-20
RTANT NOTICE

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to your home.
Evening star., 1929-12-20

This set consists of
curling iron, drying comb
and waver rod all
that is necessary to COM
pletely dress you hair at
home. A full-length ex-
tension cord is included.
Any woman would be glad
to receive one of these
sets at Christmastine.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
BAD DRIVING HABITS
INCREASE GAS COSTS
Various Ways Cited Whereby MO
torists Waste Oil-Care Of
Car Emphasized.

Bad driving habits and improper care
of car are usually responsible for ab-
normal consumption of gasoline, ac-
cording to Frank NJ Mutt, research engt-
neer, who cites the causes Of these
faults:
Letting the engine run at high speed
while idling in traffic. Many drivers
have this bad habit.
Uneven acceleration, that is, stepping
on the accelerator unsteadily.
Racing the engine in spurts when
waiting for the traffic Go" signal
Driving with fouled spark plugs.
This wastes about 20 to Is per cent Of
the gasoline used for every plug that
is out of commission.
Dashing up to a stop street and
then jamming on the brakes. Also this
is hard on q car and is dangerous
practice.
Dragging brakes waste gasoline and
wear out brake Innings.
Driving too long in first and In second
gear before shifting to high.
Careless drivers frequently pay no at
tention to simple warnings of coming
trouble in their car, Mr.. Mutt added.
What would usually amount to q minor
repair If attended to at once often is
permitted to grow into a large one.
This is why the periodical car inspec-
tion and overhauling is necessary to
keep cars in the best operating con-
ditions.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
VETERANS GET READY
FOR 5OO-MILE CONTEST
Race Drivers Are Tuning Up Cars
for Indianapolis Speed
way Test.

INDIANAPOLIS CP-veteran race
drivers, early on the job. are preparing
their cars for the 500-mile international
speed classic here May 80.
Cliff Durant, millionaire sportsman
and an old-tiner at the Indianapolis
s. track, was among the first to arrive.
Early arrivals also included Dave De-
vans, Johnny Seymour, Deacon Litz and
Bob McDonough. A dozen cars are un-
dergoing tests at the track.
Louis Meyer, winner of last years
500-mile race, is preparing to drive a
new car this year, while Deacon Litz is
here with the car that Meyer drove to
victory last year.
Qualifying trials will begin Saturday,
May 25. Cars must be piloted by the
starting drivers for 10 miles at an aver
age Of so miles an hour or more. En-
tries will close midnight May l.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
Lists Motor Trouble Causes.

Motor car owners who like to dag
nose the ailments of their engines will
find many valuable hints in a booklet
Just issued, entitled Facts About Spark
Plugs and Engines" In this booklet
engineers have assembled the results
Of years of study into the causes of q
long list of motor troubles which per-
plex the amateur and sometimes even
the professional student of internal
combustion engines. The range of in
formation offered is wide. The booklet
includes not only a discussion of spark
plug construction and possible irreg-
ularities In their functioning, but q
survey Of other parts of the mecha-
nism Of the modern gasoline motor. as
well.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
10 HIGHWAYS NAMED
AS ARTERIAL ROUTES
Maryland Law Requires Vehicles
to Stop Beofre Entering
Designated Boulevards.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

SSCSAai OAspdICn 10 Inc star.
BALTIMORE, April 20.-The Wash
ington Boulevard and the Defense
Highway are among 10 highways desig-
mated by the State Roads Commission
as "bouleyards" and will be so marked
In the near future.
Naming of these roads is the first
step In complying with the boulevard
law passed by the last session of the
legislature, according to G.. Clinton
Uni. chairman of the commission.
The new boulevards are the National
pike, the York road, the Philadelphia
road, the Belair road, the Annapolis
Boulevard. the Grain Highway, the
Washington Boulevard, the Defense
Highway. the Liberty road and the
Reisterstown road.
Under the boulevard law, after
adequate markers have been placed at
the intersections of the bouleVards and
paved or improved roads, all vehicular
traffic on the intersection thoroughfares
must come to stop and yield right Of
way to traffic before entering or cross
ing the boulevard.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
EASIER DRIVING SOUGHT.

PARIS P).-Devices to take most Of
the hard work out of driving trucks
or big busses are interesting French
automotive engineers.
The same principle used to multiply
power on brakes is applied to steer
ing and is being experimental with on
heavy clutches that require much ef-
fort.
One Of the ideas Is to use vacuum
created by the engine to work two op-
posed cylinders connected with the
steering mechanism, multiplying many
times the. power applied to the steer
ing wheel
Evening star., 1929-04-21

phase of the automotive industry in
Paris, London, Berlin and the smaller
cities Of the continent.
Mr.. Henderson has returned to the
United States with definite knowledge
of the superiority of American automo-
bile bodies. This country, he says, has
far outdistanced Europe in giving the
utmost in comfort to both driver and
passengers in its motor cars through
adding body conveniences which in
crease riding and driving comfort
appreciably.
Two definite trends have marked the
Evening star., 1929-04-21

If American manufacturers and de-
signers of motor car bodies ever pat
termed their wares after the finest
products that European coach builders
could advance, they are doing so no
longer. On the contrary, there Is a
distinct tendency among European
Evening star., 1929-04-21
utomobile bodybuilding industry dur

automobile bodybuilding industry dur
ing the last two years, he says. One
has been the provision for the drivers
comfort as exemplified by the recent
adoption of adjustable driving seats, and
the second has been the elevation of
the lower priced field of cars to a plane
equal in style and comfort to that
heretofore confined to the field of more
costly automobiles.
Newspaper advertising has played a
great part In bettering motoring condi-
tions," Mr.. Henderson added. when
consumers know there are better
Evening star., 1929-04-21
Roads Shorten Distances.

Motor transportation and good roads
have shortened distances to such an
extent that there is no such thing as q
rural district, says the bulletin NE
between the extreme ends of the State
is convenient and quick. We are one
locality"
Evening star., 1929-04-21
Racing Designs Improved.

Still futher advanced signs in the 91-
inch rear wheel drive cars are being
prepared for this years racing events.
Innovations in rear axle and spring con-
etruction to decrease unsprung weight
are being made to place the rear wheel
car on the same level with the front
wheel drives, which have attained tre-
mendous speeds during the past year.
Evening star., 1929-04-21
Europe Copies American Car Bodies
In Design and Manufacturing Methods

manufacturers TO follow American
trends both in actual design and in
manufacturing methods.
That is the statement of H. J. G..
Henderson, sales and advertising man.
ager in the automotive industry, after
two months spent in studying every
Evening star., 1929-04-21
$50.oo0.0o0 Outlay by Tourists,

More than s50,OOO,oo0 will be spent
in European countries this year by
at least 1000 American motor touring
parties who will take their cars abroad
to travel under their own power, ac-
cording to the foreign travel division
of the American Automobile Asso-
ciation.
Evening star., 1929-04-21

The average automobile can be
bought for half the number of bushels
Of corn necessary to purchase the
average car In 1913.
Evening star., 1929-04-21

creations made for them their demands
are responsible for bettering the efforts
Of every one In the industry"