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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
TRY TO DEPORT
ITALIAN WORKER
LID. Fights Frameup;
Urges Aid

Another Italian worker is being
framed up in an effort to deport
him back to fascist Italy. John Pic
collelli was arrested in his home
in Hoboken and charged with illegal
entry. He is also accused of having
had a fight with fascists on Column
bus Day, 1926.
Piccollelli is now out on $500 bail,
pending another hearing. The New
York district of the International
Labor Defense, thru its attorney,
Isaac Shorr, is fighting the efforts
to send him back to certain torture
and possible death.
Hand of Fascist.
1t is believed that the Italian fas-
cists in this country, who act as
direct agents of the Mussolini re-
gime, are behind the efforts to de-
port Piccollelli.
The l. L. D. is also fighting at
tempts to deport Mario Giletti, an
other anti-fascist worker.
In a statement issued last night
the New York l. L. D. appeals to
all class-conscious workers to aid
it in its struggle against these de-
portations which are part of the
governments attack on the foreign
born. The statement, signed by
Rose Baron, secretary, declares:
Must Fight Deportations.
"All class-conscious workers must
get behind the fight of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense to prevent the
deportation of John Piccollelli and
Mario Giletti, Italian workers.
Should the government, working
hand in hand with the Mussolini
terror regime, succeed in sending
these workers back to fascist Italy,
no worker of foreign birth will be
safe. This is an attack on the en-
tire militant working class.
There are two ways of aiding the
fight of the I. L. D.: the contribu-
ton of immediate generous funds to
cover the heavy expenses involved,
and the building and strengthening
of the l. L. D. In this latter con-
nection the formation of I. L. D.
branches in the shops and factories
is particularly important. Send all
funds to 799 Broadway, room 422."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Italian and YugOslav
Fascists Again Swap
Mutual Compliments

ROME, May 8.-Mutual compli-
ments are again being exchanged
between the Italian and Yugoslav
fascists. The Giornale d'Italia prints
extracts from a Yugoslav patriotic
organ, supported financially by the
government, which casts slurs upon
the role of the Italian military in
the world war, stating that they did
not win a single victory in the war,
and that Mussolini is a windbag.
The Italian fascist paper responds
blatantly, and the powder magazine
of the Balkans thereby receives new
sparks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
L. S. S. R. TO BUILD BRIDGE

MOSCOW, (By MaiD.-Dnieper
hydro-electrical works (Dniepros-
troy, returning from a journey
abroad, declared that an order for
the construction of bridge across
the Dnieper has been place with the
Witkowitz firm of Czechoslovakia.
The Dnieprostroy purchasing COM
mission will place an order for gen
orators with the General Electrical
Company of the U. S. A. The value
of this order is $1,45O,0O0. A further
order for turbines to the value of
$1,018,000 has been placed with an
other American firm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
COPS ARREST g
IN shoe STRIKE
Boston Mass Picketing
Worries Employers

BOSTON, May 8.-Police made 20
arrests here today and attacked a
crowd of shoe strikers who began
picketing at the Greene Shoe Fac
tory on Harrison Ave. The 20 strik-
ers were charged with "sauntering
and lettering"
The picketing before the Greene
factory is part of general mass
picketing demonstration, engaged in
by several thousand workers to force
the bosses to grant demands For
more reasonable conditions, abolish
the speed-up system, and stop the
drive for lower wages.
New Union Gives Lead.
The strike is a spontaneous walk
out in most shops, but the indie
pendent Shoe Workers Union of
Greater New York has offered COM
plete solidarity, and the Boston,
Chelsea, and Haverhill shoe workers
are beginning to organize.
Several of the employers have ap-
piled for an injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
"a Visit to Soviet
Russia" to Be Shown
in California Cities

The Workers International Relief
has arranged for the showing of
the 10-reel motion picture, "a Visit
To Soviet Russia" in the following
cities in California: Los Angeles,
Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, Sacra-
mento, San Jose, San Francisco.
They will be shown in the California
district beginning May 23. The
exact date of each showing will be
announced later.
Those wishing the film to be
shown in their city should COM
municate with the w. I. R., Room
GOA, l Union Square, or the Daily
Workers, % Union Square, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
IN
RUSSIA GAINING
10000, 900 Acres Now
Being Cultivated

MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., (By MaiD.-
1.-THE Agricultural Gazette" pub
fishes a number of figures charac-
terizing the condition of agricul-
ture in the U.S.S.R. In 1928 the en-
tire cultivated area in the country
amounted to 116 million hectares, of
which 113 million hectares belonged
to individual peasants, and three
million hectares were controlled by
Soviet and collective farms.
Compared with 1918 the area
under grain in 1928 diminished by
rs per cent while that under indus
trial plants increased by 1873 per
cent.
In 1928 the U.S.S.R. had 80 mil
lion horses and 81 million cows COM
pared with 26 million horses ed 60
million cows in 1925. Compared
with 1913 however the number Of
horses amounts to only S4 per cent
while the number of cows is equal
to 1898 per cent.
The principal funds of agriculture
(this includes cattle, machinery, i'm
plements and buildings) were valued
at 27.5 milliard roubles in 1929
compared with PAT r1illiard roubles
in 1926.
The sales of agricultural machines
to the peasantry are rs times the
pre-war level and are equal to 2O7.5
million roubles annually. The num-
Der of tractors employed on the
farms of the U.S.S.R. in 1928
amounted to So thousand.
The gross agricultural output in
1929 was estimated at 1875 mil
lard roubles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Lottery Scandals May
Start Again in Albany

ALBANY, May 8.-"Check up on
the reported revival" was the only
advice offered by District Attorney
John T. Delaney when he received
reports that seven baseball lotteries
had started in Albany and the
neighborhood. The "check-up" has
been delegated to city and court au-
thorities.
High state officials have been i'm
plicated in previous lottery scan
dals, and six pool operators, con-
victed last summer for lottery con-
Quoting, are serving terms in the
Atlanta Federal Prison..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BY KARL TOMANN.

The workers in the Austrian metal
industry are faced by serious strug-
giles. The employers are aiming at
the conclusion Of long term agree
ment for the whole industry and a
binding clause, according to which,
during the period of the agreement,
no wage movement OF the workers
of factory or a branch may be car
ried out. In return the employers
would be willing to grant a wage
increase of a few groschen.
The trade union leaders exerted
all their efforts to get the proposals
of the employers accepted in the in
terest of capitalist economic peace,
but the workers rejected this policy.
Under the pressure Of the work
ers the trade union leaders had to
bring forward a number of demands
taken from the program of action of
the opposition, such as payment for
holidays, increase of wages of the
lowest paid workers, increase of
piece-work rates, Is per cent all
round wage increase, employment OF
the labor exchanges at which work
ers and employers are equally rep
resented.
Only Fascists Used.
The last named demand was re-
jected by the employers organiza-
tions because the Austrian capital
lists wish to compel the proletarians
to enter the fascist home-defense or
CARNATIONS. Only such workers are
TO be employed who can show the
ticket of the fascist trade union la
Dor exchange.
The negotiations between the
metal workers union and the en-
ployers' organization have proved
abortive. At a conference of the
factory council leaders of the auto
mobile industry the opposition sub
mitted motion for the immediate
proclamation of a strike in the five
Vienna automobile factories, which
employ 1000 workers. The metal
workers union made the counter
proposal to continue the negotia-
lions. The motion of the opposition
obtained Ii votes, whilst that of the
metal workers union received 16
votes.
The secretaries who were conduct
ing the negotiations, then dropped
all the other demands and concen-
trated upon the demand for the pay
ment of seven holidays year. This
would mean a wage increase of 2.5
per cent.
Spontaneous Strike.
The employers declared that they
would not, on principle, pay for any
free time. This declaration led to
the immediate cessation of work in
three automobile factories employing
4, 800 workers, before even the metal
workers union had adopted a de-
cision. This spontaneous action is
attributable to the influence and
agitation of the opposition. The Of
ficial government organ, the Vienna
"Reichspost" expresses this fac;
when it writes:
at seems that the social demo-,
cratic leadership of the metal
workers union is again under the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
PREY ON JOBLESS

SEATTLE (By MaiD There is
no excuse for being out of work.
We will pay $3.50 cord for all the
wood you can cut. We give you
wood free. All you need is q saw
and strong arm. But you must
buy land, small payment down and
easy monthly payments" So reads
an ad in the capitalist press here,
designed to prey on unemployed
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
British BOilermakers
Vote Down SellOut

LONDON, (By MaiD.-For the
fourth time the rank and file boiler
makers have overwhelmingly reject
ed the shipyard procedure agree
ment, which the misleaders of the
Boilermakers Society have recon-
mended for acceptance. Only 5000
out OF membership of 10000 voted,
showing the apathy to which the
boilermakers have been reduced by
the reactionary officials.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May s.
United States troops on the Mex
lean border, which were threatening
to intervene against the clerical
landowners reaction when the latter
appeared menacing TO United States
imperialism's interests, are begin
ming to withdraw. The Seventh
Cavalry, Eighty-second Field Artil-
lery, and observation squadron of
the Second Division have been or
dered home. The Twentieth In
fantry remains stationed at Nogales
and Douglas, Arizona.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
Arabian, Jewish Labor
in Rockefeller Museum
Construction Walk Out

JERUSALEM, May 8.-The Jew
ish Telegraph Agency reports that
Arab and Jewish workers employed
in building the Rockefeller Museum
here struck on May 8 against the
wage and hours under which they
work.
Of the 100 strikers, rs are Arabs
and the rest Jews. They receive 3
shillings a day and work 9 and one
half hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BRITISH Sore At
u. S, FIGURES IN
NEW DAWES PLAN
Reductions for All But
"Uncle Shylock"

GENEVA, May 8.-While appar-
ent agreement has been reached on
the Preparations memorandum pre-
sented by Owen D. Young, it became
known today that the British are
very much aroused at Young's dras-
tic reduction in the claims OF all
countries except the U. S.
The French are also still dissat-
isfied. The American claim Of about
1,4O0,O0O,0O0 marks remains intact.
Germany has tentatively agreed to
the payment of half billion marks
annually.
New Payments Proposed.
The division Of the German pay
ments among the allied powers, the
total of which will be 2,050,000,0O0
marks ($492, OOO,OOO) per year for
period of 81 years, will be as fol-
lows, if the German reservations
make no great change in Young's
proposals:
To the U. S., Germany will pay
annually on war debts 1,270,O0O,O0U
marks; Dawes loan service and ex-
penses, 61,0O0,000; United States oc-
cupation costs and reparations, TO-
100000; France, 435,0O0,O00; Bel
GUM, 64,OOO,0OO; Great Britain,
nothing; Italy, 100000; Serbia,
55,000,000.
Rumania, Portugal and Japan will
each get about 100000 marks.
Britain Excited.
LONDON, May 8.-The British
press is considerably agitated over
Young's proposed discrimination
against England, which they claim
would mean greater losses for her
than for any other country. The
London Times says editorially:
"No British government of what
ever political complexion would IA
vor any revision of this character"
This last sentence undoubtedly,
refers to the Labor Party, which is
supporting the claims made by the
British bankers. Some British pa
pers go so far as to call the pro-
posals an 'unfriendly act"
France Still Dissatisfied.
PARIS, May 8.-Even tho the
French reductions are less than the
British, they are still unsatisfactory
to the capitalists whose press asks
why U. S. doesn't set an example in
accepting reductions, if she expects
the other countries to take them.
The French insist that the German
representatives clearly formulate
their stand, and put in in writing
especially their attitude toward the
new proposals of Young.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

The Amsterdam international is
Splitting the Trades Union Move
ment. Long Live a Single Mill
tant Class Trade Union Interna-
tional.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Struggle for the Protection of
Female Labor! Fight for Mater
nifty Welfare! For an 8 Weeks
Vacation on Full Pay Prior to and
After Confinement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

barracks outside Of which there was sign Dogs
and Soldiers NOT ALLOWED" He said his idea of
a soldier began to dwindle from that time
This penitentiary little different from
others. Here the prisoners did not the usual
black and white convicts' stripes and the terrible
silent system enforced only at certain hours and
places. But like all PRISONS it vicious place
Prisons have been called "The Universities of Crime"
This was such university with many post-graduates
There were men who 2 and time "losers."
"Blacky" had been in the Ohio State Pententiary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
The Prison AS A University of Crime; Starved
Inmates Revolt; Guards Send Thugs to
Beat Up Mutineers With Clubs

told many Uvd incidents of the class struggle IN
America and his participation of hard fought
battles during gears He told of great strikes
he led of the Violence of the bosses and human incidents that
accompanied the battles NoO telling about his life
after the trial conviction about IW members arrested
nutionVide raid during the World Continue beloW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

No Wavering, no Hesitancy. no
Deviation From the Policy Laid
Down by the Red International of
Labor Unions, Which Will Lead
the Workers in the Coming Class
Struggles, Will Lead Them to Vic
tory!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
MINER KILLED.

ASHINGTON, Eng, (By MaiD -
A ton of stone fell on James Black,
a miner at Linton Pit, and killed
him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
By WILLIAM d. HAYWOOD
PART 106.

IN the department with life timer known Red" Spain
His the clothes and other effects of incoming
had soldier the regular and fought
the Philippines told how proud he had been of his soldiers
uniform first walk the streets of
Cleveland Ohio he had enlisted He Salvation Army
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Among all the classes that con-
front the bOurgcOisie today, the
proIetarint alone IL really rcvoIu-
ti0nnry-Marx.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09


boxes that piled pyramid under the second story window
TONNES said; 81 don't remember that looked at him in
prise Here who had blown safes that there
instance he had entirely forgotten
ONE night got We
tan shot
morning Deputy Warden office and he
told that was reported for talking in the dining room that this
loss of good time time in the hole Losseff got the
reprimand
day gang doing
unload couple of loads of coal They had just had their
nS that thew be- taken to- the Deputy Warden He
datey put would either
coal there bread and water and be chained the bars
during working hours.
dining principal place where the silent system
force There when wanted crust of bread he would
hold his cenched fist If one wanted the salt he shook his palm
down; pepper, he wigged his fingers
dining hall the Of riot The pris
furnishing music But from the kitchen for the
third succession they baked parsnp The went
us something to eat!"
speak loud in the dining room The
they flung the floor
Warden and plates and SHE'D
They did obey his first command then
up marched followed in turn by the rest of
morning there many court calls Some
isolation That night Negroes who protected with
D ad na @ o with o: %a s NO e o
broken but the boys roughly handled Manuel
Rey told afterwards that it bloody night Two white ps-
defaung bankers from South Dakota took hand the
affair and afterwards said that the IWWs got just what COM
ing them.
hall the months converted into school
study
foreign languages.
COURT unusual there daily violations the
institution there things that
did
dining hospital all white jackets. These
jackets" by the though
al them informers.
Stills making whisky operated different the
supplies
this kind enough potatoes
many asn quantities make good supply
of whisky still full
smokeack, carried off the tae
long this bootegging had been running
Z of flooded
time. When the Justice
the counterfeit the
Tertiary. couning within
them Here prisoners
melting all the Nickel and babbt metal that could
hold of the making
money brought their purchases every
work
bakhop prisoner employed
there, had there Charlie
baker and working at his job He said B
pie?"
sad "Theres nothing that would suit me better"
"Iow it," he asked holding juicy apple
pie baked for the prison officers.
"Give it to I'll carry it."
tails slipped suspenders buttoned
and started out When the clothing department
there, but the juice legs. The bows
who thought the
better if hadn't lost all the juice.
Haywood planting of yevolves in
his locker Bill yeory
subscription to the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
BUILDING WORKERS GAIN.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, (By
MaiD A five-day week has been
gained by all organized building
workers in the Steubenville district.
Over 900 workers are affected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Struggle Against Imperialist
War! Get Ready to Turn an I'M
perialist War Into a Glass War!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09

Bill afterwards Henry,
the famous short story writer.
would
and relate their experiences heard "Whiey tell
of time when he and others blew safe town
boosted the
a pyramid the second window
&c" don't remember that" looked him in
that there
was instan he had entirely forgotten.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-10
ILLNESS FATAL
TO HUMORIST
H. c. Witwer, Sports And
Comic Writer, Had Been
I'LL Several Months

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Aug. TO-
R)-The death of II. G. Witwer, hui
morist and writer, here yesterday
was made known late last night. but
the cause Of his demise remained a
mystery TO the outside world. He
was 80 years old and had been Ill
for several months.
Announcement of the authors
death also disclosed that Mrs. Wit
wer had collapsed and was under
the care Of a physician, and that
his mother, Mrs. Margaret L. Nam
merry, was rushing here from New
York unaware that her son had sue
cumbed. News Of the death was
said 10 have been withheld because
Of Mrs. Nannery's age-weakened
condition.
Inquiries at the Witwer home as
to the cause of the authors death
failed to elicit an answer. The
death certificate had not been sign
cd by ne attending physician.
Born in Athens, Pa, Witwer at
tended st. Joseph's college in Phila-
delphia. He was married in 1912 u
Sonia Schagrin of Yonkers, N. Y.
while he was a reporter for the
New York American. Subsequently
ne joined the staff of the Brook
lyn Daily Eagle. He was a war
correspondent for Golfers Weekly
in 1917.
Witwer was known chiefly for his
humorous and prizefight stories. re
wrote nearly 400 magazine stories
and a syndicated series of classics
IN slang"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-10

girl then pushed him into another
room and ran down the hall.
Fred Wiese, who was in the hall.
told officers he heard the girl
screaming and saw Miss Pringle
emerge from Pantages' office with
the theater magnate chasing her.
Weise said the clothing OF both
Pantages and Miss Pringle was in
diSarray.
Sold Theaters
Chief Of Detectives "A. r. Taylor
said Pantages told him that Miss
PrinFle, realizing she was not TO be
reemployed. forcibly removed his
coat and then tried to tear the re-
mainder IF his clothing into a state
Of disarray.
Pantages recently sold six Of his
theaters 10 the Radio-Keith-Or Dr.
pheum circuit for a reputed price Of
$4,000. 900. This week he sold two
others u a Hollywood corporation
for So 100000.
Pantages' wife. Mrs. Lois Pan
taEes. Is scheduled TO 20 on trial
here September 2. on charges Of Sec
ond degree murder. resulting from
the death Of Joe Rokumoto. a Jap
anese. following the collision OF their
automobiles. Witnesses testified nj
her preliminary hearing that Mrs
Pantages was intoxicated when the
fatal accident occurred.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-10

legislature would GllCy II TO remain
the law indefinitely. / would veto
it. I feel, however, that the legisla-
ture will avail itself of the oppor-
tunity at the next session to correct
the law"
In urging passage Of q measure
10 protect the University Of Texas
land having potential oil value from
being sold at less than an adequate
price, the governor told the law
makers that lands having great
value might develop to be vacancies,
subject to disposition as unsurveyef
public school lands. He asked that
If the legislature was unwilling to
remain in session to pass proper
laws for the protection Of the tracts
that vacancies should be withheld
from the market until adequate
measures might be enacted.
The legislature did not pass any
law for the sale of unsurveyed
school land with a view of giving
better assurance that the institu-
ton would get the proper value Off
land sold, or a statute TO withdraw
only possible vacancies discovered
in the university survey" a message
filed by the governor with the bill
He declared the Small bill would
have a decided different effect from
the remedy he suggested.
Explains Stand
1T withholds from the market
oil vacancies Of whatever class or
kind, without regard TO where they
may be located" he continued
That there are ~acant strips or
land in the immense area OF Texas
no one will doubt. That they exist
in oil fields has been established
both in point Of fact and law BY
our courts. Even though q vacancy
may exist between two surveys In
the midst Of an oil field. this bill
has the effect TO withdraw such va
cancies from the market. Any va
cancy belonging to the state lane
may be drained by contiguous LAND
owners.
Il permit IL to become a law" the
chief executive explained. ito give
the state protection from losses II
might sustain should vacancies be
disclosed by the resurvey Of univer-
sity-owned tracts"