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Page Two GHARGE HA N PAYROLL OF POWER TRUST, Paper Trust Controls) Press ON, Apr ard Schoo ges that ness Ad- 2 ion Ww nked with the power inter oiced by Rep. James E. of Somerville at 2 the Joint Rules Committee of the legislature today. The hearing w: on a petition for rmine to what ex- corporations and ies controlled the| nd electricity in| said, ‘o Boston newspapers | n rald and the Traveler—by the International Paper Company. This great compa’ a virtual | paper for] and Canada, as! s and controls the rand Power Com-| of the s in Northern the New tiation. ingland Power Asso- and controls a engaged in y in the indus- trial ce such as Lowell, Law- rence, Wor Fall River and some of the smaller industrial cen- The object of the International r Company appears to be, as Fahey said last week at the hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee to establish a vir- tual trust. In this way it would have a complete monopoly of elec-| tric power, from the source to the ultimate consumer, and would dic- tate the price all the way, without competition.” TEAGHERS WOULD RECOGNIZE USSR New York Union Votes to Ask U.S. Act Soon After hearing the report of their committee to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics on the general ex- cellence of Soviet Union schools, the New York Teachers’ Union at a gen- eral meeting recently voted unani- | mously to call upon the U. S. state department and President Hoover to give official recognition to the U. S. S. R. Fola_ LaFollette, Blake and Alexander Fichandler, members of the educational delega- tion which visited the Soviet Union with John Dewey last summer, de- scribed the new spirit and methods in Russian schools. ment in the schools of the homeless orphan children, the tremendous Strides in adult education among the peasantry, the wiping out of illiter- acy through the Red Army were stressed. Three hundred thousand recruits a year in the Red Army, said Fichandler, are taught to read and write and are sent out to spread education in the most backward sec- tions when their term of service is over. most power 1 Eng! England Po “The Ne ciation direct nur distribu ster, Cultural Level Rises. Widespread education, he added, had raised the cultural level of the Russian people and stimulated their demand for higher standards of liv- ing. Production has been unable to keep pace with this demand. When it was pointed out that the credit blockade of Russia by the American state department was largely responsible for the handicap- Ping of Soviet industry, Dr. Fich- _andler seconded a motion by Grace Burnham of the Labor Research Assn. demanding recognition. Copies Were sent to the state department and the A. F. of L. FEDERALS JAIL 60 IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, April 22—The “newspaper Excelsior said tonight a mame charges of distributing e da in the capital, A nuniber of arrests already have | been made but police declined to . how many persons were held. General Martin Triana, at Cam: cho, state of Zacatecas, informed the Presidential offices that 200 reac- wies had offered to surrender. president instructed him to ac- only unconditional surrender to assure the men that their es would be spared if they gave arms and promised not to offer er resistance. The reactionaries under command of General io Galindo, seditious YEMN DELAY IN BIRTH CONTROL CASE. ite Rosenbluth, who post- d the case of five doctors and es arrested for conducting the trol Clinic in New York, y in a letter from the of the Women’s City Club. e objected to delay as it esses ready, many with extensive prac- duties, RVARD Tammany Aids Efforts to Close Birth At the instigation of various reactionary aaencies, police raided in New York City which was founded by Margaret Sanger, who has be traceptive information to the masses. Photo shows a scene in the trial of the Control Clinic the Birth Control Clinical Bureau en fighting for years to bring con- two women doctors and three nurses who were arrested, At the trial Policewoman McNamara admitted she had lied in gather- | ing the so-called evidence which led to the raid. No One Knew By DEMYAN BEDN (From “Russian Poetry: An Anthology,” translated by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, International Publishers.) It was a day like any other, The same dull sky, the same drab street. There was the usual angry pother From the policeman on the beat. Proud of his new calotte’s fine lustre, The arch-priest strutted down the nave; And the pub rocked with brawl and bluster, Where scamps gulped down what fortune gave. L The market-women buzzed and bickered Like flies above the honey-pots. The burghers’ spouses danced and dickered, Eyeing the drapers’ latest lot. An awe-struck peasant stared and stuttered, Regarding an official door Where yellow rags of paper fluttered: A dead ukase of months before. The fireman ranged his tower, surveying The roofs, like the chained bears one sees; And soldiers marched like slaves, obeying The drill-sergeant’s obscenities. Slow carts in caravans went winding Dockward, where floury stevedores moiled; And, under convoy, in the blinding Dust of the road, a student toiled. Berating some good pal and brother, A drunken hand was loud in scorn . . Russia was aching with the thorn And bearing her old cross, poor mother, That day, a day like any other, And not a soul knew that—LENIN WAS BORN! * Today is the 59th anniversary of the birth of Lenin, This tribute to him is by Demyan Bedny, born 1883, who is probably the most popular poet in the Soviet Union. His songs have been sung by the Red Army and by class-conscious workers and peasants thru- out the U. SS. R. Bedny is « member of the Communist Party of Self govern-| i t police were seeking 50 persons, img a number of women, on the Soviet Union. katherine v. “The Future Is Communism’s’ Says Ruthenberg in May 1 Call | The following article was writ- ten by Charles E. Ruthenberg, | who was, before his death, sec- | retary of the Communist Party. It appeared in The Worker, for- merly weekly organ of the Party, | on April 28, 1923. | We reprint it today as a call from one of the most militant fighters the Communist movement _ has produced to the workers of this country to rally to the mass demonstrations of proletarian solidarity which the Communist Party is organizing everywhere on May Day this year. The Commu- nists are the bearers of that sec- tion of the American labor move- ment which has real vitality and militancy in it, and which will be | erystallized on June 1 at the | Cleveland Trade Union Conven- tion into a nation-wide traue union center. The American work- ers will celebrate May Day this year at many meetings through the country arranged by the Com- munist Party. * | By C. E, RUTHENBERG (From “The Worker,” New York, April 28, 1923) Mey Day—the day which inspires fear in the hearts of the capitalists ond hope in the workers—the work- ers the world over—will find the |Communist movement this year |stronger in the United States than at any time in its history. | Three years ago the Communists |of the United States were driven underground, their organization de- stroyed. They were outcasts, de- spised and ignored, May Day of 1928 will find all this changed. The Communist move- ment, which Palmer and the various state governments which partici- pated in the 1920 persecution thought they had destroyed, is again carrying on its work in the open. Through the Workers’ Party it is Christian Socialist, ‘Ender, Chosen As New ‘Chancellor of Austria VIENNA, Austria, April 22—Dr. Otto Ender, christian socialist, has been chosen to succeed Chancellor Seipel, it was officially announced last night. Ender has been gover- nor of the far western district of Vorarlberg since 1918 and is known to be a clerical of intense pro-Swiss views. He is known especially to oppose the union of Austria and | Germany. | After the revolution of 1918 he worked for the union of Vorarlberg and Switzerland but st ain and| * * * | publicly advocating the principles of | farms. Orders placed for industrial | Communism: and winning the sup- port of the workers for these prin- ciples. The Communists organized in the Workers’ Party are no longer the outcasts of the labor movement. Through their work in the every- day struggles of the workers, through their programs of action and leadership they have won the |confidence and support of an ever- widening circle of sympathizers. Today the Communist movement erful influence in the labor move- ment of this country which will in- fluence the millions of workers and give them leadership and direction in the struggle against capitalism. The inner changes which have taken place in the Party have been a vital factor in achieving this re- suit. The Communist movement in |this country is no longer satisfied with dogmatic reiteration of funda- mental Communist principles. It |bolds fast to this principle: it will |never compromise on the question of publicly advocating these prin- ciples. But it has also learned to apply them. It has learned to make jits beginning with the present men- \tal attitude of the workers of the United States. It has learned to realistically study the workers of this country and the facts of their iife and to base its policy and tac- tics, its methods of teaching the American workers that their road to freedom from exploitation and oppression lies through Commu- nism, on the conditions as they ex- ist in the United States. Every worker who is a Commu- nist can celebrate May Day this year secure in the confidence that the movement he supports has made great strides forward, that the road is clear for greater achieyements, that in the United States as else- where in the world the future be- longs to Communism, Italian cantons defeated the move. jesuits, it is expected that Ender will be as reactionary as the chris- tian socialists can desire. His cab- inet will not differ widely from Seipel’s. riage laws, the worst in Europe, he is expected to support the church. The fascists, who have been openly declaring their intention to seize the government are reported to consider the choice favorably, as Ender is not regarded as a strong man and they believe they will still make a thrust for power within a short time. In the Soviet Unio hour day. On May sify our struga@le for the S-hour day, 40-hour week! the seven- is on the read to becoming that pow- | As a Catholic educated by the) On the reactionary mar-| we inten- (ual displacement of workers by jmachines, Facts about the trend of = TRADE OF USSR ALMOST DOUBLES, Amtorg Figures Show | Big Increase | | | Soviet-American trade for the | | first half of the current fiscal year, | | beginning October 1, 1928, totaled | $62,000,000, as compared with $35,- 000,000 in the preceding six months | and $115,000,000 for the entire year | | 1927-28, it was announced by Saul G. Bron, chairman of the Board ot | Directors of the Amtorg Trading| Corporation. Russian - American [ae in 1913 amounted to $48,00,000. The Amtorg Trading Corporation made purchases aggregating $19,- 330,000 during the six months end- ing March 31, 1929, an increase of | $3,500,000 over the orders placed | in the preceding six months. In 1927-28 Amtorg purchases totaled | $33,100,000 and in 1926-27 $26,325,- 000. The All-Russian Textile Syndi-| | cate, which purchases cotton for the | Soviet textile industry, and Cen- trosoyus-America, Inc., and Seles-| | kosojus-America, Inc., representing | | Soviet cooperative organizations, | | placed orders aggregating $30,000,- |000 during the half-year period, | Sales of Soviet products by report- |ing organizations amounted to $9,600,000 for the six months, as| compared with $7,600,000 in the six | months ending September 30, 1928. Imports of manganese. of Soviet} origin into this country and of furs | by firms having special contracts in the Soviet Union are estimated to $3,000,000 for the period, bringing the total Soviet-American trade | turnover to $6,2000,000. “The industrialization process un- | der way in the Soviet Union was re- | flected during the past half-year in) increased purchases of American equipment for Soviet factories and |power plants as well as for the | newly organized large state grain | equipment by the Amtorg Trading Corporation alone totaled $9,160,- | | 000, as against $4,100,000 in the) preceding six months and $6,952,-| | 000 in the corresponding six months | of the preceding Soviet fiscal year,” | stated Mr. Saul G. Bron. “Pur-} chases of equipment for new Soviet power plants were especially im-| portant. “T am glad to state that a large | part of our purchases in this coun- try was made on a long-term credit | basis.” RESIST WAGE CUT. LONDON, (By Mail). — A pro- posed reduction of 5 shillings a week in the wages of workers in the woolen mills at Dewsbury, Liver- sedge and Wakefield, has met with resistance and demand for a strike on the workers’ part. Between 9,000 and 10,000 workers will ballot on | what action to take. By GRACE HUTCHINS. John E. Edgerton, mill owner, | president of the National Ass’n, of Manufacturers, finding that even cautious government surveys reveal too much poverty and joblessness in the United States, directs an em- | ployers’ annual survey of employ- ment and wages. Results of this Spring’s survey, re- leased by the National Industrial Conference Board, statistical division of Edgenton’s organization, were published on the front page of the New York World under the headline, | “Employment Greatest in Two Years and Still Growing, Surveys Show.” This is deliberate propa- ganda aimed to persuade workers that all’s right with the capitalist world. Employment in industries throughout the country, according to these employers, is 8.7 per cent higher today than it was a year ago, and industries are operating at the very favorable peak of 85 per cent of their fullest capacity, 1928 Worst Since 1921. What president Edgerton does not tell is that the year 1928 showed a low level of employment in all in- dustries. It was the worst year for factory jobs since 1921 and factory payroll totals were at the lowest level since 1924, These facts were revealed by the U. S. department of ‘labor in the Monthly Labor Review of February. A slight gain in employment over last year in this spring of 1929 is only a temporary relief in the grad- \ mining, railroads, public utilities, and figures show that the number of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929 |BEGINEXPOSING DEPUTIES FIRE | | HOUSE EVILS IN LATIN DISTRICT | From Peonage in Fields Charge With Bayonets; to Slavery in N.Y.C. (Continued from Page One) | | and enter the residential section of Sprawling all over the the quarters of millions of , while the exploiters have | rawn the delicate rows of their homes in the most desirable sections. In the workingclass districts them- selves the exploiters have taken care to build barriers, The history of many of the slum districts reveal the flux and change of immigration. Lower Harlem, twenty years ago, was already be- ginning to lose its Irish and German population, which had been placed in other divisions of American industry, to give way to the mass immigration of “cheap” labor. This turn-over of population shows that the most re- cent immigrant workers, were not only yoked to the lowest kind of the rich. labor, but were also given the worse dwellings to live in. They go hand in hand. Latin-American Section. Latin-American toilers, many of them peasants, were given the | privilege of living in this section of | for their families. Lower Harlem. There are many Porto Rican peons here, who, in turn, | together with the Negro workers, are filling in the growing demand for the lowest kind of labor in in- dustry, This section is not purely Latin- American, Many Italian workers live here, as well as many Negro workers, who have “migrated” from their “Mecca” in search for less crowded conditions. There is also a large percentage of Jews, some of whom are petty businessmen, drag- ging their incomes from the workers | via pushcarts in the market on upper Park Avenue, Harlem, and the small stores in the section, This is a sort of intermediary sec- tion, from the Negro district to the north, thru the Negro section—the Latin-Americans, to the white work- ingclass sections to the south, From One Slavery to Another. Peons from Porto Rico and the Philippines have tried to escape the brutal exploitation of Yankee im- perialism by escaping to the home of that imperialism and into the dis- ease-festering homes of upper Park Avenue under the tracks of the New| York Central. Latin-American work- ers have come from their home countries, chased by brutal bourgeois governments that have sold them- selves to Wall Street. Many of them came from the fields to New York City, perhaps thinking that some degree of free- dom awaited them here, perhaps knowing better. But they are here now, a part of the American work- ingclass, most of them making up the most exploited section of it. We will visit some of their homes here, and see if they have really escaped the slavery of peonage, of the plantations and of Yankee im- perialism, Cee. ae Tomorrow we will discuss the homes in Latin-American Harlem. We will go to Park Avenue, the street of two classes. Tenants are invited to write in freely to the Daily Worker, de- scribing the conditions under which they are forced to live. The letters will be published as they come in. Demonstrate on May Day your solidarity with the oppressed Negro race. Long live political, social and racial equality for the Negro masses. The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy,—Marx. employment over a series of years are more significant than a tem- porary gain reported for the early part of 1929, Government monthly cover over 3,000,000 factory workers and about 3,000,000 other workers in trade. But the employers’ private survey covers only 565,000 workers or less than 10 per cent of the 6,000,- 000,covered by the labor department figures. A government summary of factory employment for the last five years reveal that one out of every four factory workers has lost his Job. "Million Lose Jobs. Reduction in factory employment since 1928, as reported by the De- partment of Labor, means loss of jobs to more than 1,000,000 workers. While factory production is at the highest level ever reported, more than 1,500,000 factory workers have lost their jobs since 1919, Even Nation’s Business, organ of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, ac- knowledges the loss of jobs due to “rationalization.” “Since 1920 mil- lions of workers have been displaced from the primary productive indus- tries—agriculture, mining and manu- facturing. Thousands of others have been dropped from the pay rolls of railroads. What has become of these men?” asks the business men’s magazine, Permanently Jobless. U. S. Department of Commerce workers in productive industries has surveys | 2 VOLLEYS AT MILL STRIKERS Mass Meeting Defiant (Continued from Page One) must not be allowed to stop the ef- fective picketing, which is winning the strike. Speakers at the afternoon mass | meeting were Organizers Beal, Bush land Pershing. Karl Reeve spoke for | the International Labor Defense. | There are apparently well found- |ed rumors that the night picket line tonight will be assaulted in similar fashion to the one this morning. Police Encourage Bomber. The scab, Troy Jones, who Satur- day attempted to throw a dynamite |bomb at the speakers’ platform at the strike meeting in the afternoon, and was arrested when he came for purposes unknown to the evening |meeting, has already been released, jand walks the streets of Gastonia ‘under police protection, openly and jloudly declaring that he will yet ‘plow up with dynamite the strike |headquarters and union organizers. Even with the opening of. the re- lief store at Pineville strikers of the Chadwick-Hoskins mill have been forced to fish in streams for food In other towns jof the Piedmont district, food is operatives. | The imperative need here and throughout the southern textile strike area is for relief donations to keep the relief stations stocked with food and for defense money to fight the frame-up cases -tarted by | the bosses. Feed Pickets. Immediately after the bayonet charge of the deputies, the strikers j held a meeting in the Workers’ In- ternational Relief station, Franklin Ave., and without suggestion from the relief director decided that the strikers actually participating in the picketing should receive food first for their wives and young children. Must Rush Relief, Defense, The Workers International Re- lief national office has received the following telegram from the Gas- | tonia representative: Gastonia relief store must be kept stocked with food relief daily because need is great. Spirit of strikers and number on picket line increasing steadily due to relief | already given. Workers of Boston, Mass., New York, Philadelphiay Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Haven, and other cities must has- searce among families of striking} / ten to build relief collection ma- chinery so we can inform strikers that workers throughout North are loyally backing them with re- lief. Rush large check so we may feed mothers and their children. Funds for relief should be sent j with all possible speed to Workers International Relief, 1 Union Square, | New York. | Funds for defense of the jailed | organizers and strikers in the South |must be rushed to International | Labor Defense, 80 E. 11th St., New York City, Pe ae Lexington Strike Firm LEXINGTON, N. C., April 22— Heavy picket lines yesterday and today around the Wenonah and Da- kota mills, which had advertised that they were going to reopen Monday and Tuesday, effectively discouraged the idea of the employ- ers here that they might get some of the strikers to go back. The mills are still closed, The National Textile Workers Union and the International Labor Defense are holding a mass meet- ing this afternoon here at which Walter Trumbull, Ellen Dawson and Paul Crouch, as well as local speak- ers, will address the strikers, U.S. Surveys Reveal Poverty, Unemployment j;this decline agriculture accounted | for 800,000 men. Railroads showed a decline of over 300,000, In all, nearly 2,000,000 workers are no longer employed in their old occupa- tions. That many of these 2,000,000 workers are permanently jobless is acknowledged even by Nation’s Busi- ness. “It is likely that some of these men, particularly the older ones, the partially disabled, and those relatively inefficient, have not been reemployed. They are perma- nently out of jobs.” Do They “Enter Service?” Then with professional optimism, the Chamber of Commerce writer points cut that many workers have been able to find jobs in non-manu- Workers in hotels, restaurants, etc., have increased by 525,000. He says nothing about the uncertainty and in- stability of such jobs and of other work which may be called personal service to the rich. The number of workers in pro- ductive industry may be expected to decline rather steadily for a num- ber of years as Nation’s Business predicts. But contrary to the pre- diction of this optimistic, capitalist Journal, we know that not many of the displaced workers can find per- manent jobs, under capitalism, in service or merchandising. cannot almply The working ela‘ ny ihe new Commune (Paris facturing work and in “service.” |, «breaks the modern declined 1,564,000 since 1920. Of Farmers After More Readers of Daily Worker in Fight gainst Fake “Relief” Bill THe DAILY WORKER has a circulation among the farmers. Many farmers of the great mid-west are .readers of the “Daily” and contribute their part to the struggle. As an answer to the most brazen bluff that Hoover and his Wall Street cronies are trying to put over on the farm- ers in the form of a farm “relief” bill, a farmer of North Dakota sends in the following letter: “Will you please arrange to have a complete list of the subscribers to the Daily Worker in the states of North and South Dakota and Montana at the earliest possible conveni- . ence? # “We must have these as we are planning to order a large number of the May Day edition as sample copies to be sent to prospective subscribers in this district. “Please also have about 200 extra coupons with the Bill Haywood’s Book offer sent us.” These farmers know the road to travel and the value of the Daily Worker in the fight against “relief” schemes of a capitalist government. They are actively at work getting more subscriptions to the Daily Worker. Farmers and workers, we must double the number of readers of the Daily Worker! MOBILIZE FOR MAY DAY ae following is a partial list of International May Day meetings arranged by the Communist Party and sympathetic organizations. The various districts are urged to send in immediately for listing the dates, cities, halls, and speakers of their’May Day meetings. | otherwise noted, meetings are on May 1. Except where CALIFORNIA. San Francisco, 8 p. m., Eagle Hall, 273 Golden Gate Ave. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, D. Ettlinger, Negro, Mexican and YWL speakers, Oakland, April 30, Fraternity Hall, 708 Peralta St. Speakers: E. Gardos, A. Whitney, Chaplick, M. Martin. Eureka, April 27. Speaker: E. Gardos. Fort Bragg, April 28. Speaker: E. Gardos. Sacramento, May 5, Open-air (Park). Speakers: M. Daniels, E. Gardos. Los Angeles. Details to be announced. CONNECTICUT. Hartford, 8 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 2003 Main St. East Portchester, 7:30 p. m., Finnish Workers Hall, 42 Water St. DELAWARE. Wilmington, 8 p. m. Speakers: F. Mozer, L. Meldin. ILLINOIS. Chicago, 7:30 p. m., Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren & Marshfield Ave. Speakers: J. L. Engdahl and others. Open-air demon- stration at 6 p. m. at Union Park, Ashland & Washington; then parade to Auditorium. Also 20 noon-day factory gate meetings. MARYLAND. Speakers: W. Murdoch, YWCL speaker. MASSACHUSETTS, Baltimore, 8 p. m. Boston, 8 p. m. Z New Bedford, 7:30 p. m., Bristol Arena, Purchase St. Speakers, A. Weisbord, E. Keller, and Southern textile striker. Gardner, May 5, 1 p. m. MICHIGAN. Detroit, 7:30 p. m., Danceland Auditorium, Woodward near Forest. Speakers: N. Tallentire, others. Pontiac, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: A. Goetz. Flint, 7:30 p. m. Speaker, A. Gerlach. Saginaw, 7:30 p.m. Speaker: A. Ziegler. Grand Rapids, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: J, Schmies. Muskegon, 7:30 p. m. Speaker, P. Raymond. MINNESOTA Minneapolis, 8 p, m. Speakers: P. Devine, YWCL and Local speakers. St. Paul, 8 p. m. Speakers: P. Devine, YWCL and local speakers. Duluth, 8 p. m. Speakers: H. Puro, W. Watkins, YWCL and others. Chisholm, 8 p. m. Local speakers. NEW JERSEY. Newark, 8 p. m., Progressive Labor Center, 93 Mercer St. Jersey City, 8 p. m., Ukrainian Workers Home, 160 Mercer St. New Brunswick, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 11 Plum St. Paterson, 8 p. m., Carpenters Hall, 54-6 Van Houten St. Passaic, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 25 Dayton Ave. Union City, 8:30 p. m., Nepivoda’s Hall, 418 21st St. Perth Amboy, 8 p. m., Workers Home, 308 Elm St. Elizabeth, May 5, 8 p. m., Liberty Hall, E. 2nd St. Trenton, 8 p. m. Speakers: W. Lawrence, and YWCL speaker. NEW YORK. N. Y. Coliseum, E. 177th St. and Brons New York, mace River Ave. Yonkers, May 5, 8 p. m., Workers Cooperative Center. Yonkers, May 4, 8 p. m., street meeting. Manor House Sq. Buffalo, 8 p. m., Hungarian Frohsin Hall, Genesee & Spring Sts. Rochester, 8 p. m., R. B. I. Auditorium, 172 Clinton Ave. So. Jamestown, 8 p. m., Business College Auditorium, Cherry St. between Third and Fourth Sts. Niagara Falls, Hippodrome Hall, Pine and 19th Sts. Schenectady, 8 p. m., Red Manse Hall, 11 Mohawk Ave. (Scotia, N. Y.) Syracuse, May 5, 8 p. m., Kosciusco Hall, Tiega and W. Fayette Sts. Binghamton, May 5, 8 p. m., Lithuanian Hall, 315 Clinton St. Troy, May 5, 2:30 p. m., Youngs Hall, 18-20 State St. ; Utica, May 4, 8 p. m., W. C. Lyceum. Lackawanna, May 3, 8 p. m. OHIO. Cleveland, 7 p. m., Public Hall. Canton, 8 p. m., Canton Music Hall, 87 E. Tuscarara St. S. Van Veen. Warren, May 5, 7 p. m., Walnut St. Speaker— S. Van Veen. Youngstown, 7:30 p. m., Speaker—D. Martin. Toledo, 7:30 p. m. Speaker—G. Lawrence. Akron, 7:30 p. m. Speaker: Jack Ross. Ashtabula, April 28. Speaker: J. Marshall. E. Liverpool, April 28, 2 p. m., West 6th St. Speaker: R. Sivert. Yorkviile, April 27, 7 p. m., Misko Bldg. Speaker: S. Van Veen. PENNSYLVANIA. Pittsburgh, 7:30 p. m., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Philadelphia, 8 p. m. Speakers: R. Minor, H. Benjamin, and a Negro speaker. Chester, 8 p. m, Speakers: Ben Thomas and a YWCL speaker. Allentown, 8 p. m. Speakers, L. P. Lemley and a YWCL speaker. Wilkes-Barre, 8 p. m. Scranton, 8 p. m. Minersville, 8 p. m. Easton and Bethlehem, 8 p. m. Erie, May 5, 2:30 p. m., Scandinavian Hall, 701 State St. RHODE ISLAND. ‘ Providence, 8 p. m. Speakers: J. R. Reid, L. Nardella. WISCONSIN. Superior, 8 p. m. Speakers: H. Puro, W. Watkins, YWCL and local speakers. There will also be May Day meetings in the following cities, the Speaker— full details of which have not yet been received: New Haven, Waterbury (May 5), Bridgeport, and other cities, len ail adn . pore se— ty itl