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evening on the moonlight excursion Of
the Ace-Rasmussen Chapter Of the
y. A. " Chapter. Comdr. Frank M.
owens and special committee had
the affair in charge.
With plea for cooperation on the
part OF all organizations in the cause of
the wars manned, E. Claude Babcock,
commander of the District of Columbia
Department of the Disabled American
veterans addressed the annual Dis
tr1ct Of Columbia Convention of the
american Legion during the past week.
AS a result of the recent conference
mere OF members of the National Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Disabled
American Veterans. the force of the
Washington Office of the national or
CARNATIONS Is to be doubled and larger
quarters are to be used in the MunsSy
Building.
The amendments of July to the
law governing the Veterans Bureau
have already materially increased the
volume of work that the D. A. v. is
carrying, not only in Washington, but
throughout the country, and one of the
actions of the conference was to au-
thorlze the immediate employment of
20 additional liaison officers for various
territories, which will be in addition
to the force the organization already
has in the field.
Aside from the system of the ma
tionally paid men, the District of Co
lumbia Department will continue to
maintain its liaison officer at 1540 I
street to assist the disabled of this city
in the preparation ana presentation of
claims for relief, the work in that ONCE
having greatly expanded as a result of
the new pension provision of the act
which is expected to bring benefits to
about LOO additional disabled men of
Washington.
The D. A. V. has recommended to
Col. George E. Iiams, new director of
the Veterans Bureau, that miniature
golf courses be added to the recrea-
tional facilities at Government hos
pitfalls. Particular efforts are made by
the bureau to have tuberculous and
nervous patients take modified exercise
in the open air, and the D. A. v. rec
ommendation is that the pony courses
would accomplish this purpose, as well
as arouse interest among the patients
from the competition.
Capt. H. H. Weimer of Chicago, ma
tional commander of the Disabled
American Veterans. plans to spend sew
eral days in Washington the last of
this month, stopping of on the way
to Baltimore, where he will address the
National Encampment of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars in that city early in
September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17


National Capital Post, No. 1877, held
its regular meeting at Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street, August IL, with
Comdr Harry P. Clements presiding
Department Comdr. William l.. Thomas.
Past Department Comdr. Joseph F..
Beattie Comdr Frank r. HeiSe of Po-
tomac Post, A. c. Heron and Omer
Boman, national commander and dtrec-
tor respectively Army of the Philip
pines, addressed the post Comrades
Heron and Boman are both members
of Post No. 1852, Department OF IN
diana
J. S. Walters. who served in the Navy
in the Nicaraguan expedition. from
September, 1927, to January, 1928, was
elected to membership and obligated
and William w. Burnett, who served in
the 1st Machine Gun Battalion during
the World War, from December, 1917
to August, 1919, was also elected.
For a period of one minute the post
suspended its business session to reVer-
entity honor with silent prayer the late
commander in chief. Veterans of For
eign Wars and the founder OF the
Colorado Society. Army Of Philippines
Gen. Irving T. Hale, who died at
Denver, Colo, on July 26, and also the
late Mai. Gen. Charles t. Menoher 10
whose bereaved families letters OF con-
dolence will be sent by the post ad-
jutant.
1t was announced that a distribution
of the credentials of post delegates and
alternates would be made at the next
regular meeting on August 20.
National Capital Post Auxiliary held
its regular meeting last Monday night
at Pythian Temple. Comdr. Clements
made a visitation to read final report
regarding the Buddy" poppy drive.
Announcement was made that The ma
! tional encampment credentials for dele
gates and alternates had been received
and would be prepared for presentation
to the accredited members of the aux
iliary at the meeting August %, on
which date a birthday party celebra-
ton would commemorate the eleventh
anniversary of the organization OF the
auxiliary. All comrades Of the post,
the auxlliaries' chief of staff, Mrs. Lola
| B. Heise; the presidents of each Of the
local auxiliaries, as we'll as the COM
manders of the several local posts, viii
be invited to'attend the celebration as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17

Come to the Mountains of Virginia
Bryee's Hillside Cottages, near Orkney
Springs. unique resort. wonderful scenery
18th year; noted for fine food; white service.
Just of beautiful Shenandoah Valley; turn
west at Mt jackson, Va; fine roads; a. acres
OF Fairgrounds, swimming pool American
plan, $3.50 per day, s1250 and SIS week
booklet Mr. and Mrs WILLIAM r. BRYCE,
owners Post on1ces, either Mt. Jackson
Basye or orkney Springs. Va. BOOKINGS for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Needlessly Wanders 81 Years.

SCRANTON, Pa, August Is pa
wanderer around the world for 81 years
in the belief that he was a murderer,
Michael Rusnock, has come home to
find his wandering was needless. He
fed in the belief he had killed a man in
fight but on his return learned the
man lived eight years afterward and
then died natural death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
THE AMERICAN LEGION.

MEETINGS THIS WEEK.
Tuesday - George Washington
Post, 1441 Rhode Island avenue
northwest. 8 pm.
Tuesday-Vincent B. Costello
Post, board room, District
Building, 6 pm.
Tuesday-Vincent B. Costello
Auxiliary. District Building,
pm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
SLAVE WAGE FOR
N0RFOL KNECR0ES
In F AC DRIES.
Average Is S6 and 81
per week
(By a Worker Correspondent

NORFOLK, Va. - Conditions of
work for the Negro workers in the
American Tobacco Company are
very bad. They can hardly average
two dollars day after hard work,
At the end of the week their pay
envelope has about six or seven dol
lars in it. The Negro tobacco work
ers are forced to work under poor
sanitary conditions. And then the
living quarters OF the Negro work
ers are very poor.
There are similar bum conditions
in box manufacturing company
here. The average wage is like that
Of the tobacco workers, 6 or 7 dol
lars after a weeks hard work. The
bosses are well organized and do
all they can to keep the workers
separated, especially on the color
line.
Comrade Stephen Graham who
was tried here by the bosses court
Tor ''incitinp the Negro ponilation
to rebellion" has started the work
Of organizing the poorly paid and
terribly exploited Negro workers Of
this city under the T. U. U. L. We
will continue it.
NORFOLK WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
HIT BESSEDOVSKI AND
HIS FAIRY TALE ABOUT
POLITICAL DIFFERENCE
Darling of Capitalist Press Proven Thief and
A Liar; Now A Hero of Socialists
political Difference" With Soviet Government
A Tale to Conceal Theft, Brother Testifies

the accused, then categorically de-
fnied the statements of the accused
in the French bourgeois press, ac-
cording to which his relatives in the
Soviet Union were suffering perse-
cution at the hands of the Soviet au-
thorities. No single relative of Bes-
sedovski had suffered any persecu-
ton of any kind in connection with
Bessedovski's theft.
The witness then described his
brothers career. He was born as
the son of a small trader and at the
beginning of the revolution he was
a member of the Cadet Party. In
1918 he was in touch with anarchist
circles, and in 1919 he was the sec
rotary of the Poltava government
committee of the left-wing Social
Revolutionary Party. Prior to the
revolution he, lived in France, but
not because he was prosecuted at
home for his revolutionary activities,
but because he wanted to attend the
university and at home this was
more difficult.
Evidence was then given by the
employees of the Soviet Embassy
in Paris, including the French en-
pIoyees. The evidence showed that
Bessedovski led a luxurious and eX-
travagant life, and was absent for
days quite unaccountably. Evidence
was also given to the effect that
Bessedovski had never given the
slightest hint that he disagreed with
the policy of the Soviet Government,
on the contrary, he had always ener-
getically supported the policy of the
Soviet Government.
The court sentenced Bessedovski
to ten years Imprisonment for en-
bezzlement in office. A separate
trial will take place against him on
charge Of high treason committed
after the discovery of the embezzle-
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

tional Committee of the Friends o.
the Soviet Union appeals to all
organizations and all individual
per-oas in the labour movement,
and TO the let-esentatives of the
radical intelleginzia sympathizing
with the socialist reconstruction of
the Soviet Union, and calls upon
these to take part in the work Of
the International Conference.
The greatness of the events TAX
ing place in the Soviet Union and
the seriousness of the position
characterized by the intensified
campaign staged against the Soviet
Union by its enemies and by the
growing preparations for war, de-
mand imperatively that all the
friends of the Soviet Union should
gather together and should inten
sify their measures in support ars
in protection of socialist recolt
struction. "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
Soviet Workers Reject Religious Dope

anti-religious carnival took place on
the Streets, and masses of workers
took part in it wearing masks and
fancy-dress and bearing placards
making anti-religious propaganda.
Motor lorries drove through the
streets collecting holy pictures and
other religious emblems flung into
the roadway by the workers as rub
Dish no longer needed. In conclu-
sion tens of thousands of such en-
blems were burned in tremendous
bonfires.
Meetings took place all over the
Soviet Union demanding the closing
Of the churches and the dismantling
of the bells for industrial purposes.
A number of churches were cleared
out and the buildings turned into
clubs and other cultural institutions.
In many places the peasants took
down the church bells and sent them
to the nearest industrial towns to
be melted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

MOSCOW, Jan. Q (By Inpreco1
Mail Service).-The trial of the for
mer secretary of the Soviet En-
bassy in Paris, BessedovsH COM
nenced before the supreme court
here today in the absence of the ac-
cused who was served with the writ
in Paris and refused to attend. Bes-
sedovski was charged with having
converted $15,270 belonging to the
Embassy treasury to his own uses.
Numerous witnesses gave evil
dence at the trial. A member of
the Workers and Peasants Inspec-
ton, RoseInann, gave evidence to
the effect that whilst auditing the
accounts of the Paris Soviet En-
bassy he discovered that a sum of
S15,270 was missing. He approach
ed Bessedoyski, who was response
bic for the accounts and inquired
how the sum came to be missing.
Bessedovski was unable to give any
answer and declared that he had a
headache and asked if the interview
could be postponed until the next
day. The same evening Bessedov-
ski appeared in the vestibule of the
Embassy with French detectives,
took his wife and belongings and
left the Embassy.
The report that Besedovski had
been compelled to flee over the En-
bassy wall pursued by armed G. ?.
U. men was a ridiculous invention.
Bessedovski's subsequent attempts
to present the whole affair as the
the result of political differences
with the Soviet government, were
nothing but an insolent attempt to
turn the offense of a common crimi-
nal into political affair. Up to
the time the defalcation was dis
covered Bessedovski had never as
much as limited to anyone that he
had any political differences with
the Soviet Government.
Jacob Bessedovski, the brother of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
German Government Exposed in Plot on Sovie

read in court whilst the public were
excluded was nothing less than an
official Recommendation of the fact
that Karumidse conducted anti-bol-
shevist activity in cooperation with
the government of republican Ger
many.
The accused Schmidt declared that
negotiations had taken place be-
tween General Hoffman, and promi-
nent industrialists, particularly the
British petroleum interests, with "a
view to securing material and finan-
cial support for Hoffmann's anti
Soviet schemes.
Here the judge interrupted and
declared: This is the first time that
the oil interests have been men
toned. Did these oil interests put
money into the venture with a view
to doing good business?
Both the accused Schmidt and Bell
replied simultaneously that the pc
troleum interests concerned had
put money into the conspiracy.
Schmidt declared that the idea of
the foundation of an independent
Black Sea state had been mooted
chiefly in the interests of the petro-
leum interests because this would
place the petroleum resources OF
/ South Russia at their disposal.
Schmidt also declared that he or
gained the journey of General
Hoffman, to London to negotiate
with the British petroleum King De-
| terding.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
SMASH FRAME-UP
AGAINST MINER
Acquit Communist N.
M. u. Leader in Trial

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 3d.
An unusually rotten frame up
against Communist official of the
National Miners Union has Just
been smashed here. Arthur Debarge
has been found not guilty by jury.
Debarge belonged to the Bicknell
local of the N.MU. The United
Mine Workers officials persuaded
ten-year-old girl to charge him
falsely with serious crime against
her. The trial was a strenuous one,
and the charges were completely
blasted. An acquittal was the only
possible outcome. Miners regard it
as victory over the unscrupulous
UNIV. and the coal operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

MOSCOW, ia. 8 (By Inprecorr
Mail Service).-The Xmas celebra-
tions of the Orthodox Church take
place on January and 8, according
to the old calendar. The priests
and their supporters conducted zeal
Gus propaganda for the celebration
Of these two days and even issued
illegal leaflets calling upon the
workers not to go into the factories.
The anti-religious societies con-
Quoted an effective counter-propa-
ganda with the result that on Janu-
ary 7 and 8 no strike occurred any,
where, and no noticeable truantism
made itself felt. In answer to the
religious propaganda many workers
contributed their wages on the two
xmas days to the industrial loan.
After working hours meetings,
professions, theatrical pieces and
performances of anti-religious ma
ture took place on the ice Kinks and
in the workers clubs. A sort Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

BERLIN, Jan. (By Inprecorr
Mail ervice).-The fourth day of
the trial on Thursday brought a
number of further sensational
proofs of the international backing
enjoyed by the forgers. The ac-
cused Schmidt questioned with re-
gard to his relations with the de-
ceased General Eaffmann declared:
"Our aim was to lismember Rus
STA and found an independent Black
Sea State, embracing the most fruit
full and richest paris of southern
Russia. This scheme had the sup
port of Great Britain"
Schmidt than made interesting
statements concerning the anti-bol-
shevist activity of the Georgian &C
cused Karumidse and the assistance
given to him by the German au-
thorities. During the war of inter-
vention Karumidse had carried out
number of sabotage actions
against the Soviet Union.
Here the lawyer of Karumidse,
Beer, demanded that the public be
excluded from the court because he
wished to read confidential doco-
ment proving Karumidse's political
reliability, for the German bour-
geoisie, of course. The court i'm
mediately agreed and the public was
temporarily excluded. What hap
pened in the meantime is unknown,
but the "Rote Fahne" of the Janu-
arv 10 declares that the document
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01

struggle must be waged for freedom
not in words, but in deeds. Such freedom can
be guaranteed only by workers and peas
ants government, by Soviets. Any other gov
eminent in India will be a government of vio-
lence and oppression. Anyone who fights
against the establishment of a Soviet Govern
ment in India differs from the British imper-
ialists only in the methods of oppression of
the Indian people.
How to fight? The fight must be a revo-
lutionary one, the methods used by such peo-
pie as Nehru Junior, people who fight against
British imperialism with their tongues in the
homes of the rich, at Liberal meetings, must
be exposed. The workers must be helped to
organize their strikes, the peasants must be
helped to seize the land, and preparations
must be made for a general strike of the In
dian masses. A general political strike will
show the masses their strength, will organize
them, and will deliver a serious blow to Bri-
fish imperialism. Prepare for general strike,
organize committees of action, organize the
masses, disarm imperialism and attract the
mass of soldiers to the side of revolution, work
among the forces. We reject individual ter
ror as method. Mass action is the best
weapon in the hands of the revolution.
Whom to fight with? You must 90 to-
gether with the workers and peasants, to-
Young Communist League of India, who alone
are capable of leading the Indian masses to
the end. The Indian Communists are the van
guard of the Indian working class. The Young
Communist League is the vanguard of the
young workers of India. We call upon the
best of you to join and build the Young Com
munist League which aims at the preparation
OF the masses of young toilers for revolution
airy conflicts by means of active participation
in the daily struggle of the workers and peas
ants against landlord and capitalist explota-
ton.
The Young Communist League fights in the
interests OF the young workers and peasants.
1t aims at the securing of better working con-
ditions for the young workers, and at leading
their struggle, and takes steps towards their
education. The YCL fights for the revolution
airy enlightenment of all young toIers.
Build the Young Communist League. Draw
the young workers and the best revolutionary
representatives of young peasants into the or
ganization. Only under the leadership of the
Young Communist League of India will the
movement of the Indian youth be able to fulfil
its historical mission--to be in the front ranks
of the Indian revolution.
Long live the revolutionary struggle for
Soviet India
Long live the revolutionary youth of India!
Down with the leadership of the National
Congress and the League of Independence!
Long live the Communist Party of India!
Long live the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics!
Executive Committee of the Young Com
munst International.
Executive Committee YCL Great Britain
Executive Committee YCL Germany.
Executive Committee YCL China.
Executive Committee YCL France.
Executive Committee YCL Holland
Executive Committee YCL America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
DRIVERS rebel.
At RISKS IN The
ELDoRAD0 Mine
Can 16; Wouldn't Work
Under Bad Rock
(Bu a Worker CORRESPONDENT

(Bg q Worker Correspondent
ELDORADO, Ill.-The checkoff
is on an average S. per fifteen days
pay for dues and assessments. And
house rent is more than other dwell
ings which runs from SIS up. The
company store has great part in
getting the miners pay. The prices
are all the way UP from 80 per cent
to 70 per cent higher than the other
stores. When the mines are about
to start working, the company stores
opens its credit to the miners ahead
of time so they can get the miners
in debt to them.
Then the miner has to have money
to pay his bills that he made through
the Summer when the mines were
down. So he must "sticker"-get
store credit and cash $1.00 for 80
cents, which is Ill per cent in not
over two weeks.
The bottoms at some of the mines
are very hard and in holes in the
fire clap. At Number l, O'Gara,
the bottoms are so hard to pick up
and load one ton without any pay
as the bottoms must be over five
inches before there is any pay. And
in very near every place in No. /,
O'Gara, there are the same condi-
tions.
We have some very dangerous top
in Saline County. I have seen 4
whole entry for 300 feet fall in.
And I have worked in places that
the timbers had to be set on the bot
toms as the coal was taken out. And
the last place, the top fell all the
time. All along the entry after we
had gone as much as two or three
falls the top would get bad, and
would fall out from six to eight
inches in thickness. We sure had
to keep an eye of this kind Of rock.
At one mine I worked at, Pea
body No. 20, the company fired six
teen drivers for refusing to pull
coal under some bad rock. So the
superintendent of the coal company
came to see what was wrong.
He saw the rock and knew it was
dangerous and gave orders for it to
be taken down. There were sixty
cars of rock "two-ton cars" We have
all kinds of grievances of the same
nature in all Of the mines all of the
time. -Eldorado Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
Fear Ohio Workers
Militancy, Sta tie
Bans Soviet Film

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 90. -
The film, "a Visit to the Soviet
Union" is too likely to further
arouse the militancy of Ohio work
ers, and so cannot be shown in Ohio,
is the evident opinion of the Ohio
State Board on Motion Pictures,
which, after having the film in its
hands five weeks, has banned it.
The reason given is that the film is
harmful to the workers" The
barring of the Soviet film is in con-
junction with the attempt of the
Ohio courts to suppress the Com
munist arty and all militant labor
groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
FRIENDS OF SOVIET
UNION CALL INTL
MEET FOR FEB. 1928
Mobilize For the Defense of the Soviet Union
Against Imperial War Danger
Congress To Be Held in Essen Under Auspices
of Int'l Committee

The eyes of the whole world are
directed to the Soviet Union, fol-
lowing with intense interest the
news relating to the carrying out
of the gigantic work of socialist
reconstruction.
The imperialist great powers,
alarmed at the actual success of
socialism in the Soviet Union, and
anxious to save what can be saved
at the last moment are intehsifying
their efforts - even in countries
where so-called labour governments
are at the helm--to assemble an
anei-Sovie front, and to unfetter
the long projected war against the
land of the workers and peasants.
II international il. buttons Of the
capitalist countries and the various
assemblies of the imperialists:
League of Nations, Kellogg Pact,
reparations negotiating, and disar-
mament conferences are enlisted in
the cause of intervention against
the Soviet Union.
In view of these intensified SLAM
der campaigns and war prepara-
tions the friends of the Soviet Union
too must redouble their efforts. The
number Of the friends of the Soviet
Union, and their determination to
fight against Tie threatening ar,
are growing steadily and rapidly.
7 movement of the Friends of
the Soviet Union, founded by the
delegates sent by the workers of AZ
countries to the Soviet Union on
the occasion of the tenth anniver-
sary of the Russian revolution, is
on the road to become a broad mass
movement. In order to confer on
the most urgent tasks of the Com
mittee, with the aim of extending
its activities, the international COM
mittee convocates the international
conference Of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, for Essen, Feb. %,
and %, 1880.
The Sections of the Committee
are preparing for this international
gathering by means of national
conference.
But today the number of sincere
friends of the Soviet Unior goes
far beyond the organizations and
individual members belonging to the
Sections. Theref the r~'orna-