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DISAGREE ON LIMITATION.
Naval Powers on Commission Assert
Views on Limiting Personnel.

naval HOWcES OL ONAAAAhASoAOh -ASSNA =
Views on Limiting Personnel.
GENEVA, November Z (P).-The chief
naval powers on the Preparatory Dis
armament Commission today disagreed
on the method of limiting naval per-
sonnet and the question was referred
to subcommittee.
The difference was on British pro-
posal that limitation should be only OF
the aggregate of officers, petty officers
and men. The French position, which
was supported today by the Russians,
was that maximum figure must also
be fixed for the number of officers.
Hugh S. Gibson, chief of the Ameri-
can delegation, announced that the
United States Government regarded the
limitation of naval electives as of little
importance, as it considered the l1mi-
tation of ships would inevitably result
In all the needed limit on personnel.
He was willing, however, to accede to q
proposal for total limitation, but saw
no practical value in fixing a maximum
figure for the category of officers.
Fear Too Many Officers.
Rene Massigli, defining the French
attitude, expressed the fear that If the
total personnel alone were limited this
would permit training of an excessive
number of officers and enable a naval
power to expand its sea forces beyond
treaty limits quickly. The commission
has already agreed that officers and
non commissioned officers of land forces
shall be limited, and France thought
this principle should be extended to
navies.
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign min
lister, who sharply criticized the work of
the commission yesterday and particu-
larly directed some of his fire at France.
today agreed with the French on the
naval point, asserting that an unlipl-
tied number of officers would facilitate
mobilization and the process of rapid
war making.
The Dutch delegate also favored
placing a top figure for officers. The
British and American opinion, however,
was shared by Italy and Japan. Japan,
like the United States, felt no real need
for a limitation on naval personnel at
all, but in an effort to reach an agree
ment was willing to accept a limit on
the total personnel.
Referred 10 Subcommittee.
AS a possible basis for a compromise
agreement, M. Sato, Japanese delegate,
suggested that a provision for publicity
as to the number Of all ranks and
grades of personnel be inserted in the
treaty. This. he thought, might dis
courage successfully the inclusion OF an
excessive proportion of officers in the
global or total maximum.
Ambassador Gibson, Lord Cecil of
Great Britain v. H. Rutgers of the
Netherlands and Gen. De Marinis of
Italy viewed this suggestlDn favorably
and 1t win be discussed BY b subcom-
mittee consisting of Representatives of
the United States Great Britain France
Japan. Italy, Russia and Holland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
FIRE MENACES TOWN
IN WATER SHORTAGE
Boonsboro, Md, Runs Hose to
Mountain Springs to Fight
Flames in Garage.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BOoNSBORo, Md, November IA
fire which started in a garage and
spread to adjacent houses menaced this
town this morning. Shortage of water
added to the danger. A small reserve
supply was used and hose lines were
run to nearby mountain springs.
A call for help was sent to Hagers-
town, and one engine was dispatched
from that city.
The fire originated In the garage of
RuSsler 81 Meredith, according to
early reports. The garage and several
automobiles were destroyed before the
flames reached nearby dwellings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07

Continued From First Page.)
Just what the President wished to
learn could not be ascertained.
Woodcock will be in Washington by
November 13, and the completion of a
prohibition report by the commission
before that date is extremely improb-
able. Chairman Wickersham today
planned trip to Wilmington, Del, but
this was not interrupting the commits
sion sessions.
While several of the members have
already formed definite views, assurance
has been given that no majority has
agreed on what to place in the report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
SCHOONER is BURNED
Four asted Vessels Crew and
Two Women Rescued.

KEY WEST, Fla, November R.-
The four-masted schooner Rose Mary,
believed by naval station offlcials to be
from Mobile, Ala, burned after an ex-
plosion In the vessel on Key West to-
day.
The crew and two women aboard were
rescued by the u. s. s. Hannibal, sur
vey boat, which was near the Rose Mary
when the explosion occurred, according
to officials Of the naval station here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07

CHARDON. Ohio, CNAN.A).-V. e.
Whitney, IS, of Chardon, Ohio. is the
worlds champion Sunday school
teacher. For so years, through rain,
snow or heat, he has conducted his
class without missing single week.
(copyright, 1880, By North American News
mADer Alliance.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
Steamer Passenger browns.

GALVESTON, Tex, November IN
Mrs. Gray Elvaille, 40, Of Tulsa,
Okla, passenger on the Mallory
Liner Mohawk drowned about 10 miles
out from Galveston early today. The
steamer recovered her body after a
search of about 80 minutes.
about 80 minutes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07

CONTINUED From First Page.l
costly this armament race can be Is
regarded here as a good omen.
1t is believed unlikely that Ambas-
sador Gibson will make any spectacular
speech at Geneva. He has said all he
had to say in his private conversations
with M. Tardieu, Foreign Minister Dino
Grandi and Mussolini privately. They
know now exactly how America stands
on the question of disarmament, and
it is up to the italian and the French
statesmen to find solution to their
naval questions without any further
active Intervention on the part OF the
United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
Rio de Janeiro Banks Guarded.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Novem-
Der (R.-Extra armed guards were
placed on all foreign banks today be-
cause of reports that an attempt to
attack them might be made by Com
munists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
RIVETERS CAUSE FAINT
Manslaugrter Defendant Misun-
derstands ~erdict.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia
"A riverter's hammer caused
Archibald Scott of Vancouver, British
Columbia, some anxious moments. Scott
was awaiting the jury's verdict on q
manslaughter charge. When the jury
foreman pronounced the verdict q
rtverters hammer took up It's song In
an adjoining building and through the
racket the word guilty was heard.
Scott" stated the judge, "the jury
has found you guilty."
Scott fell into q dead faint.
mot guilty" shouted one of the jury
men above the clatter.
But Scott was not revived until he
reached the hospital.
(Copyright, 1880, by North American News
paper Alliance)
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October Circulation
Daily. ..11O,628
Sunday, 1929

District of Columbia, ss
FLEMING NEWBOLD Business Manager
of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. does
solemnly swear that the actual number of
copies of the paper named sold and distrib-
uted during the month Of October. AID.
1890, was as follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07

ROUEN. France R.2The city coun-
Gil recently voted $4,000 to celebrate
in 1891 the 500th birthday anniversary
of Joan of Arc.
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Morrow Rests in Pinehurst.

PINEHURST. N. c., November (F9.
Dwight w. Morrow, Senator-elect
from New Jersey, arrived here today
campaign. He was accompanied by
AIRS. Morrow and their daughter Eliza
hsths
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
SEVERAL PERSONS HURT
JUMPING FROM BLAZE
Deaths Feared in Fire Which
Sweeps Business Section Block in
Heart of Hartford, Conn.

By the Associated Press.
HARTFORD, Conn, November T.
Several persons were injured as they
jumped from windows into life-nets
and 1t was feared that one or two
others may have burned to death in a
IRE which swept the Miller block In
the heart of the business section here
today.
Firemen abandoned hope of saving
the structure and gave their attention
to saving Christ Church Cathedral and
q department store adjoining the burn
ing building.
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SITUATION IN HOUSE
STILL is UNCERTAIN;
EVEN SPLIT POSSIBLE

CONTINUED From First page.l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-07
LIQUOR CONDITIONS
ABROAD STUDIED
BY WICKERSHAM BODY

Continued From First Page.l
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GIBSON'S SUCCESS
lessons DEADLOCK
ON NAVAL PROGRAM

Continued From First Page.l
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Il Farmer-Labor In House and
Senate. tDoubtful-House: Illi-
nois, at large, /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

had no formal permit. 1t was a
matter of common knowledge that
we proposed to make a parade. We
were now asking for permit, if it
was necessary"
Foster told about Whalen's tech
meal objections, and his vigorous
attempts to keep the 10000 work
ers from putting forward their de-
mands to the mayor at city hall.
Millions Demand.
81 told him." went on Foster,
"that millions of workers through
out the country were hungry and
unemployed. They were thrown out
on the streets without any income
whatever, and that the capitalist
government was doing nothing to
relieve unemployment, and that they
had a right to present their de-
nands. We stated he would be
responsible for what occurred If he
did not permit the workers to march
to the city hall to present their I'M
employed demands.
eve left. | mounted the speak
ers' platform. | told the workers
of our conversation with Whalen.
told them that his refusal to per-
nit them to march to city hall was
manifestly blow against the un-
employed. The policy of the bosses
of the city of New York on unem-
ployment was breadlines and night
sticks, and that the workers had a
right to bring their grievances be-
fore the city in the way that they
contemplated.
"Then / put the question to the
crowd: whether or not they were
prepared to accept Whalen's arbi-
trary ruling against the workers.
Whereupon the crowd gave a great
shout of no!
March To City Hall.
~ gave a sign with my hand for
the crowd to march to the city hall.
Then the police began to blackjack
and club the workers."
Up sprang Unger, like jack-in-
the-box, with his monotonous 81 OBJ
ject." Just as monotonously and
as machine like, the magistrate pre-
siding mumbled Sustained" Eos
TER was not allowed to tell what
every worker in Union Square saw
vicious brutality of the police
against the workers.
Foster told how he said, "Then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

lection sustained" Whalen denied
at first that he threatened blood
shed" if the crowd marched, but
when confronted with his testimony
in the magistrates court admit
ted it.
When Suzanne La Toilette, editor
of the New Freeman answered
quickly, EYES," to a question, "Did
you see the police ride their horses
into the crowd?" a judge howled
instantly, objection sustained!
Strife out the answer! And the
witness is ordered to answer no
more questions without being in
structed to by the court"
Witness after witness of the de-
Tense, workers, iobless, passersby,
who were slugged and dubbed and
ridden down by police horses, were
placed on the stand, some identified
themselves in newspaper pictures
which showed the police in the act
Of clubbing them down, but at the
first question, "Did the police strike
you?" an objection stopped every
thing else.
All of Whalen's remarks in the
first hearing in the magistrates
court, about "hell breaking loose"
about disorder" etc, were barred
from evidence. The resolution
adopted by the unemployed, describ-
ing their starvation, the failure of
bosses or government to do any
thing for them, and putting forward
their demands, was again and again
ruled out of evidence.
Won't See Pictures
The defense proposed to show
moving and talking pictures of the
whole affair-that was ruled out,
on the rather remarkable grounds
that it had nothing to do with the
charge.
At the close of the hearing the
defense made several motions, to
lay the basis for appeal, and prove
that the constitutions of the United
States and New York state, as well
as the statute on which the charge
of unlawful assembly was based by
the prosecution, were violated by q
verdict of guilty in this case. The
constitutional points violated are
that guaranteeing the right of free
speech, freedom of assembly, and
petition for redress of grievances,
and the right of trial by jury"
Denied" said the judges, and
snickered behind their hands at the
idea that a constitution made for
the benefit of the rich, and to fool
the workers, could possibly be used
in capitalist country to guarantee
anything to the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
WORLD CONGRESS OFFSU
BRANDS LABOR GOVT AS
DEADLY SOVIET ENEMY
Labor Party Gave Covert Aid to Holy Crusade
Against the Soviet Union
Calls Upon Rank and File Workers to Rally
to the Defense of the U.S.SR

"This World Congress of the
Friends of the Soviet Union views
with disgust the attitude of the
present labor government to the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics"
declares a resolution adopted by
that body.
"At the 1929 general election the
Labor Party promised, if it was
given the confidence of the electors,
to do its utmost to promote cordial
relations between the Soviet Union
and Great Britain. Now that it has
assumed the reins of government
how has it redeemed its pledge?
"By means of the grossest subter-
fuge and prevarication it delayed
the official resumption of relations
with the first Workers. Republic
time after time, and was finally
forced into recognition only by pres
sure Of the working class.
"By making hypocritical "repre-
sensations" to the Soviet Govern
ment it has given it's covert support
to the palpably lying stories of
atrocities in the Soviet Union.
"The government caused the army
command to forbid official services.
But this, it is now clear, was a mere
maneuver since it was subsequently
explained there was no objection to
private services. BY this policy it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Reject APPEAL
IN CALF. CASE
LID. Defends Is On
Clear Class Issue

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April IL.
The appeal of the case Of Wal
Iron, Kiosz and Ray against SEN
.ences of 125 days or $3.50 fine. and
If Spector against % days or $50
Tine in San Bernardino, was denied
,oday by Superior Court Judge Al
.ison, the same judge who sentenced
Yetta Stromberg and others in
charge of a children's camp near
mere in the "Red Flag" case,
The four workers were sentenced
for attempts to hold open-air meet
jngs arranged by the International
Labor Defense to demand release
Of Stromberg and others.
The eases of the Is workers ar
rested in the March demonstra-
ton are nearing an end. The In
ternational Defense is conducting
the cases on a clear issue Of the
workers right to self-defense, and
the class character of the court is
exposed.
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them the right to march to the city
hall to present their demand. They
answered W = 2 tremendous MOI
''Then the workers started to
march down Broadway. Immedi-
ately the police attacked them vic
iousl ""
Here again the clock-work of the
capitalist court machinery came
into action to draw a screen across
the record of the vicious police bru-
tality as an answer to the unem-
ployed workers. In spite of the
courts action Minor was able to
bring out few instances of sadis
tic violence on the part Of Whalen's
Cossacks, and at his orders.
81 marc. ed with the crowd" said
Minor. 81 was struck by a police
man on horseback. saw another
policeman>beating a girl with his
fists" (The inevitable objection
was slammed in by Unger. There
followed the inevitable reflex action
by the court of sustaining fingers
objection to shield police brntality.)
Il went on to city hall" continued
Minor. Il walked along with work
ers who were carrying a man whose
head had been split open by a po-
lice club. ("Objection sustained
strike it from the record.")
"When we arrived at city hall we
demanded to see the mayor to present
the demands of the unemployed, and
the entire committee was arrested"
Communists Called Meet
Foster Tells Whalen.
81 was chosen spokesman Of the
delegation elected by the 10000
workers at Union Square" began
William z. Foster, general secre-
tary of the Trade Union Unity
League, when he took the stand.
Il told Whalen we were a COM
mittee selected by the large dem.
onstration just outside in front of
his nose. That this was a part
of huge demonstrations of hun
dreds of thousands of workers on
the same day throughout the
United States. These demonstra-
tons are part of worldwide
protest against mass unemplOy-
ment in all capitalist countries.
The unemployed workers had
adopted certain demands such as
the establishment of unemploy-
ment insurance; the seven-hoir
day, and the five-day week. We
proposed to Whalen that he
should clear the streets of the po-
lice so the workers could march 10
city hall to present the unem-
plOyed demands in the name OF
this big gathering of workers to
the mayor of New York.
"Whalen said this would not be
permitted. He inquired whether we
had permit. l stated that we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

permits the armed forces Of the
crown to be made tools in the hands
of the war mongering bishops and
generals.
"By means of its police thugs and
of the army chaplains it has perse-
cuted workers who endeavored to
counteract the noxious lies that were
land still are) being inculcated into
he minds of workers who, from the
sheer desperation of poverty and
unemployment. have been forced
into the army.
Finally the Labor Party has re-
vealed itself in its light, and has
come out as the open and avowed
enemy Of the Soviet Union, and the
supporter Of reaction, by expelling
from its ranks those workers VINO
dare to acknowledge their sympathy
and support for the Soviet Union.
"In view of these facts we place
on record our most emphatic con-
demnation of this spurious work
ers' Government" and of those
pseudoleft "leaders" who have so
shamelessly broken their oft re-
peated pledges to befriend the
Soviet Union, and call upon the real
friends of Soviet Russia, the rank
and file of the working class, to
stand as one with their brother
workers of the Soviet Union in their
great task of building up Socialism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Lowest Seamen's Pay;
While 5000 Are Jobless

Continued from Page One)
and Observation-Disclosures, sick
ness, accident and old age.
Ordinary seamen receive $15.18
per month, pulls food an da bed fig
ured at $10.84; $34.45 is paid to fire
men, S29.87 to stewards and $5S.07
to cooks. A chief officer makes less
than 500, and chief engineer
S134.93. On ships above 1000 tons
the working time is s hours in 8
watches. Below 1000 tons n hours
is a working day.
Since the sterilization of the
mark in 1928, the Hamburg America
and the North German Lloyd have
paid stockholders Z and s per cent
dividends the Hamburg South Am
erica has made 10 per cent and the
Hansa IL per cent. Morgan & Co.
hold $30,000,000 of investments in
these companies-Ed.) The whole
world has gasped at the rapid come
back of the German merchant fleet
after the war. In 1920, by the terms
Of the Versailles treaty, Germany's
tonnage was 100000. In 1914 it was
100000 and on January l, 1880,
it was 4,135,000 tons. By paying
the most minimum wages and using
evergrowing unemployment as a
threat against revolt, the German
shipping companies have managed
to regain so per cent Of the prewar
standing.
Seamen get poor food. From IL
to IA men sleep in room. After
60 or 80 hours of overtime during a
trip, if they insist on full overtime
pay instead of the 20 hours COM
promise frequently proposed by the
captain, they are generally paid and
discharged.
Although married men are allowed
j. reduction in taxes, wages are so
low that very few apply; the large
majority are young single men.
The opposition group in the Sea-
mems union calls for 7-hour day,
8 watches on deck and four below,
scailors' councils similar to workers
councils in the factories, compulsory
manning scale to prevent shipping
too small crews, abolition Of crowded
fo'cs'les by having two men in a
cabin, provisioning to fit the differ
ent climates, and IA days vacation
with pay.
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let's Co." after the workers voted
to refuse to take Whalen's arbi-
trary ruling as an answer. He told
of how the committee ma "ched with
the crowd, was showed about and
separated, and then met at city hall
to present the demands of the I'M
employed, and were there arrested.
Unger again tried to bring out
that Foster was arrested twenty
one years ago in Spokane, Wash
ington, in a fight for free speech.
Dodge All Facts
1t was Immediately evident when
the prosecution started its case that
Whalen had been instructed by
somebody with at least some brains
to keep his mouth shut as much as
possible and not put his foot in it
the way he has been doing. The
prosecution was clearly afraid to
let any facts into the case, or any
police discussion of it.
Every effort was made by the
court to keep the case purely tech
meal one. The prosecution, in full
confidence of a conviction, evidence
or no evidence, restricted the testi-
mony Of Whalen and his support
ers; Three police stool pigeons and
two newspaper reporters, to a num-
Der of so-called technical facts. Prac-
tically all evidence leading up to the
visit of the committee and all evil
dence of the police attack on the
crowd, except what slipped through
by persistence Of defense witnesses
was ruled out. All the former pre-
tense that "the committee fled from
the scene" was abandoned.
Always Aid Whalen
When Attorney Robert H. Elder
of the defense counsel asked Whalen,
Didn't you say to the New York
Times reporter:
81 thought l would crack my
sides laughing at some of the I'M
dercOver men who figured in the
demonstration and who carried
placards advocating the overthrow
of the government and shouted as
loud or louder than the other Reds,
put the fun started when one of
the undercover men started to razz
the cops and he got a terrific
punch in the eye the judges didn't
even wait for the usual objection
from the prosecution to say, COB
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12
Hear Appeal of Burke
Conviction, Monday

DEDHAM, Mass, April IL
Playing ball on Sunday hurts the
sensitive pride of old families in
Massachusetts, but when WORKERS
especially organizers of worl ers'
sports clubs-play the game the vio-
lation Of the Blue Sunday laws be-
comes a class crime. Thus al que
the rulers Of the state which rlur-
dered Sacco and Vanzetti. They
will endeavor to uphold a court con-
viction when Walter Burke, natl NAL
secretary of the Labor Sports
Union, appeals a $50 fine ruled
against him here. The appeal will
be heard Monday, April IA. Burke
will be represented by international
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-12

SHANGHAI, China (By Inpre-
orr Press Service The South
Ihina Morning Post admits that tic
nsurrectionary troops, under Com
nunist leadership, have consolidated
heir positions in the province of
iwangtung, Kiangsi and Fukien,
nd writes: "The insurrectiolary
movement is particularly strong in
he province of Kiangsi, where the
ieds have recently occupied the Sim
eng and Kianghau districts. The
districts of Wuchang, Shultang,