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Evening star., 1924-04-06

The West sParent-Teacher Asso-
citation met Friday and an appropri-
alton was made of SITS for shrub
berry about the front of the building.
A school lunch will be held about the
middle of May.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Anna Barbara Kinnaird, eldest
daughter of Lord kinnaird of Eng
land, recently became a captain, in
the Salvation Army.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

The regular monthly meeting of
the executive board of the District of
Columbia Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations will be
held in the Ebbitt Hotel Tuesday at
2 O'Clock. There will be some very
important business to discuss and it
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

age of five meetings day, during the
French elections, and had been edit
ing daily paper in between whiles.
Then he had travelled to London, and
then from London to Manchester for
the congress. From there we had gone
straight on to Glasgow, where he had
made two long, fighting speeches, and
now we were making another long
train journey back to London. And
from London, he was to go straight
to Paris, to his beloved paper He
talked of the paper with love and I'M
quenchable enthusiasm; it was evil
dent that "Humanite" was his life's
job to him. Yet, he had to attend the
chamber, and party councils as well.
And public speaking was another con-
tinual occupation.
But Cachin, one could tell enjoyed
it all. This sturdy oldN of rs--4cnin,
comes from Brittany, wlsle the peo-
pie are of the same stock as the Irish,
Welsh and Gaelic Scotch--is fighter
born. and he exults in the struggle as
heartily as does any youth, newly
come to the cause.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
Who Gums Crowe?

When the Daily Worker began its exposure of
the conditions that exist in the monster plant of
the Western Electric company in Cicero the Off
Gals of that company were in the midst of an
efficiency campaign which had the objective of
slashing the payroll two million dollars yearly by
laying off thousands of workers and increasing the
output per employee as to maintain the former
standard of production with reduced staff and if
possible increase it.
The bosses we're trying to bamboozle the workers
into believing that increased efficiency on their
part meant more work for them and pro
sperity for the whole country including the COM
pany. What was good for the company was good
for it's employees. After all are not the Western
Electric Company and its employees members of
one happy family?
The Daily Worker set off bomb under this
company buncombe in a series of articles written
by it's staff reporters who went into the plant and
worked in order to get the facts first hand. Thou
sands Of the papers containing the stories were
sold daily at the gates of the plant. The workers
we're glad that at last they had paper to tell the
truth about the conditions under which they la
bored; paper that would fight their battles.
The ineffciency system was knocked into cock
ed hat. The propaganda of the bosses went in one
ear and out in another. The workers had their
eyes opened So had the stool pigeons of the cleo
trio trust Karl Reeve, the man who made the ex-
posture for the Daily Worker was arrested and a
charge of disorderly conduct placed against him.
When he appeared in court man from states
attorneys Groves office was there at the request
of the Western Electric Company to assist the
trust in blocking the expose. Groves Office is now
busy trying to frame up on the Daily WorkeEfor
coming to the aid Of the unorganized and exploit
ed slaves of the mighty corporation
Who owns Robert E. Grove? He is backed by
the Chamber of Commerce. the Chicago Tribune
and all the capitalist papers in the city Of Chicago
He is always at the service Of the BOSSES He would
never be elected to Office but for the votes OF the
workers who are not yet class conscious.
The employees of the Western Electric company
are urged to read the story Of the St Paul Conven
ton join political party of the workers that will
elect men to Office pledged to represent the workers
alone Politicians elected on the Democratic and
Republican tickets are like Grove owned by the
employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
MuSSOIini in a Fix

Slgnor Matteoti, millionaire Socialist deputy,
who was kidnapped by the Fascist has not vet
been returned dead or alive. 1t is quite likely he
will never be returned alive The wife of the miss
ing deputy implores Mussolini to give her back the
body of her husband so that she can give him de-
cent burial The black shirt dictator hypocritical
" said he would be glad to return her husband
alive. He knows better than anybody else except
those who did the kidnapping whether Matteoti
can be returned alive or not.
Mussolini and his murder gang have killed thou
sands of Italian workers during their career of
crime. But they we're applauded by the capitalist
press Of the world. Now the story is different.
Mussolinis gang did away with a millionaire So
cialist. This is striking too near home 1T is an
act Of desperation, which shows that Mussoini is
finding the ground slipping from under his feet.
1t is no wonder that his face was yellow when calf
It is wonder that his face was yellow when called
on to explain the disappearance of Matteoti The
anti-Fascisti bourgeois press which tolerated and
approved the murders of the Communists now be-
gins to dig up enough courage to call on the Fas
cish dictator for a showdown.
The boasted purity of purpose of the italian
Fascist, it seems about to be exposed by Mat
te0ti. The saviors of Italy like our own Ku Klux
Klan the Falls, Daugherties and Coolidges were
found to be colossal thieves who looted one great
financial institution and build up tremendous for
tunes for themselves with the loot The deposit
ters whose savings stolen now call frantically
for the documents that are alleged to be in Signor
Matteoti's portfolio when he was kidnapped and
most likely murdered by those who had reason to
fear the threatening exposure. The comrades of
the murdered workers and those whose homes were
burned who saw their labor temples destroyed,
their organizations wrecked, and their printing
plants smashed are also watching the situation
with interest that BODIES i'll to the arch assassin
of the italian workingclass.
Mussolini, the black dictator tried the wrong
kind Of dictatorship He tried to block the onward
march of evolution. Backed by capitalism he
turned his face to the past and sought by artif-
cial means to thwart the movement for freedom
from class rule that for moment promised to win
i'll Italy Today he sees his edifce crumbling about
him. What he may do can do in this critical
uncture cannot be predicted with infallible accu-
racy but tits reasonable deduction from the re-
ports coming from Italy that the end of his bloody
rule is not far off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
A SHIP LAUNCHING
BY ANIsE
Federated Press STAFF Writer

They have celebrated
In Odessa
The LAUNCHING of a ship
WRECKED by the French invaders.
And SALVAGED
By the Soviet shipyards
In the rout
OF Wrangle's forces
The Chalirdal was seized
Along with all the other
Boats in sight,
To carry off the officers
OF the White Army.
But in their panic hurry
They ran it on sandbar.
So the French removed
The ENGINES,
And smashed up all the woodwork,
And scrawled
Across the broken cabin-walIs;
Goodbye, Bosheviks!
This is good enough for you'll"
But the BoIshies
Didn't think it good. enough,
So they towed it into the harbor
At Odessa,
And fixed it up again
Just as they fixed
THOUSANDS of burned bridges
HUNDREDS of burned villages
All thru south Russia.
And now
They have finished it in time
To carry freight to France
When they sign
The Franco-Russian
TRADE-AGREEMENT.
But wonder
HOW MANY MORE
Little freight ships
And bigger ships of state,
Scattered thru the broken lands
OF eastern Europe,
Which were wrecked
BY Poincare,
Will be fixed up at last7
BY those BOLSHEvIKS?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

Is it criminal offense to critcise president of
the United States? Not according to the constitu-
ton of course but that venerable document was
patched together quite long time ago outside of
recent additions, which are also careessIy OBJ
served, and anyhow what is a constitution between
friends?
Since the Teapot Dome party held its convention
in Cleveland and affirmed Wall Streets nomina-
ton of Calvin Coolidge, two outrages were com
mitted against workers and citizens of the United
States for availing themselves of their constitu-
tional right to state their views on current events
and to criticse the president of the United States
and the things for which he stands.
In the city of Philadelphia, in the state made
famous by the much touted progressive governor,
Clifford Pinchot, II. NJ. Wicks, of the Workers
party, was arrested while speaking at picnic,
because of his criticism of Calvin Coolidge. True
to Pennsylvania style the arrest was made by
mounted policemen, or cossacks and the outing
broken up.
In Buffalo, New York, as member of the Probe
tartan party was speaking on the street corner in
the vicinity of the headquarters of the American
Legion, gang of hoodlums was organized by the
legion which seized the defenseless speaker and
beat him severely Not satisfied with the first
beating the brave warriors who would no doubt
pass into eternity if they ever faced number of
men approximating their number, followed him
down the street and gave him a second beating
The capitalist class care nothing for law; order
Or constitutional methods except when their own
purposes can be served thereby Their laws are
made to protect their illgotten property and to
keep the workers down. They violate their own
laws officially and unoficially. In Philadelphia
Comrade Wicks arrested by uniformed SER
wants of capitalism. In Buffalo the extralegal
arms of the capitalist government punished the
worker who thot he had right to express his opin
ion on the affairs of the country in which he was
living and working.
This state of affairs cannot be remedied by try
ing to democratise civilize capitalism The
system must be destroyed and the workers must
set about reconstructing society on Communists
basis. Only when the workers have governmental
power will they be immune from such outrages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
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The "Third Degree"

Every now and then howl goes up from the
liberal elements some particularly obnoxious
incident connected with the working of the CAPT
talist government. But the shouting soon dies
down and the capitalist government goes along
riding roughshod over the peoples "rights" re-
cognized more in breach than in observance.
The arrests of two Chicago teachers on suspi-
cion of being connected with the murder of the
Franks boy, and the tortures inflicted on them in
an attempt to extract confessions of guilt from
them under pressure has again brought these bru-
tai police methods to public attention.
The two teachers were beaten frightened and
threatened with death unless "they came clean,
"told what they know" or informed the police
"where they buried the body" To justify the il
legal detention of these men, incommunicado, the
police issued fantastic statements to the effect that
the teachers confessed to sex persersion and
nauseum.
After the LeopoldLoeb confession was secured,
the two victims of police brutality were released.
When the facts of their treatment became known,
an investigation of the truth of the charge made
against the police started but the two men had
a taste of what the police can do in the way of
punishment and afraid to testify.
But for the comparative prominence of the
tutors the beating and torture they suffered would
never come to light. Had they been ordinary work
ers nobody would bother about them.
The brutality of the police will continue until
the workers who suffer most from it will exert
their political and industrial might and wipe out
the brutal capitalist system which brutalizes its
agents
Capitalist governments do not maintain power
because they serve the people They exist by force
and are primarily for the purpose Of keeping the
workers in subsection.
The ''third degreeing" Of workers must 60 But
it will not go until the workers act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
FRENCH COMMUNIST
CAMPAIGN.

Naturally, he talked about the cleo
tons. He told me how the French
Communist Party had, for the first
time, organized Q really centralized
campaign. The French traditional
method is to leave much latitude to
districts-it is the legacy Of the old
revolutionary federalist and autonom-
list thought Of France. But in the
election campaign they had organized
straight from headquarters in Paris.
It was stirring campaign and an eff
ticient one, in which every unit of the
party participated with energy.
Fight in 500 Constituencies.
There are over 500 electoral consti-
tuencies in France; and the Commun-
list Party presented its candidates in
every single one of theml Not be-
cause they had any hopes OF success
in hundreds Of them, but for purposes
OF propaganda, to bring the Commun-
list message before the workers OF all
France. The Communist Party had to
fight practically alone. They had
called upon the socialist party to form,
with them, the bloc of the workers
and peasants, but the socialist party
had preferred an alliance with the
bourgeois liberals, rather than with
the proletarian Communists. But the
workers, organized I'm the trade unions
affiliated to the Unitary Confederation
Of Labor Joined with them, and the
confederation supported their fight
with courage and ability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

OF which are built upon blood and
tears and death.
We were out in the surge Of the.
streets. It was the time Of parting
He was to go on to Paris. to take
up again the arduous. joyful burden
of his work. l had to hurry away,
for l had two committees to attend
that night. A warm hand grasp.
Goodbye, contradict Best wishes!"
And we parted, each to his place in
the ranks Of the army of the great In
ternational
But got a story for the DAILY
WORKER after ALI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
cachln's Man.sIzed JOB.

Comrade Cachin did not seem to be
very fatigued, altho he is getting on
In years. He had spoken at an aver
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
MARCEL CACHIN, GREAT FRENCH
COMMUNIST, TELLS OF PARTY'S
AMAZING SUCCESS In CAMPAIGN
BY CHARLES ASHLEICH.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

LONDON, May 2O.-(By Mal.)-"Man proposes and the
movement dspose would be adaptation old
for the of revoutions The last couple of weeks
much sudden changing of and incidentally
plans regarding DAILY WORKER, owing to the
exigencies of the class struggle
terrible try correspondent the one English
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

AT mass meeting in Toxic speeches were made
denouncing the United States and resolutions
passed calling on naval reserviss to be ready for
defense of the nations honor" Did you ever hear
anything like that before? OF course you did and
,ery likely you will hear the same story again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

exigencies of the class struggle.
1t is terrible to try and be a
speaking Communist daily in the
world and, at the same time, to
be ruthlessly ordered here and
there by genial, but quite re-
lentless, officials of the Commu-
mist party of Great Britain.
For instance, wished to report the
French elections for the DAILY
WORKER. 1 had had the opportunity
of getting to Paris. So got there,
But then, alas, came peremptory
wire from England, and back l went.
For the British Communist party was
going to have party congress and
they wanted me there. had fraternal
delegates credentials from the Work
ers Party of America, for one thing;
and, for another, Marcel Cachin, just
reelected as Communist deputy to the
French parliament and editor of that
great Communist daily, L'Humanite,
was to be present as fraternal dele
gate from the French party, and l was
to interpret his speech.
So l thought to myself, well, if l
can't send the WORKER any French
election stuff, at least I'll send them
two or three stories on the British
party congress-" And with that conso-
lation did salve my soul.
Back to London l came. A day or
two there and l was embarked in a
special delegates coach. on the train
for Manchester, where the congress
was to Be held.
In the Communist Congress.
The following morning the congress
opened. During the opening speech /
scrubbed few lines of my opening
story for the DAILY WORKER, Just
describing the hall and giving the
number of delegates. l also enclosed
the resolutions and the agenda This
| sent off Immediately to be mailed.
And no sooner had I got this done
when | was called from my place.
BE ready to interpret Cachin,' l was
told. secured pencil and paper,
mounted the red-draped presidium
with Cachin, and my labors began.
And then, after l had interpreted
Comrade Cachin's splendid speech. l
went back to my place among the del
egates, prepared for three days list
ening and reporting. All, the good
stories l would be able to send. hot
off the bat, to the DAILY WORKER!
But it was not to be. Again l was
called from my seat.
With caehin to Glasgow.
Were going to send Comrade
Cachin at once to Glasgow, to speak
at two meetings tomorrow, for Com
rade Ferguson, the Communist who
is running as Labor Party parliament
airy candidate for Kevingrove. Glas-
gow," said the secretary amiably, "and
you've got to go with him to interpret
his speeches. You have only got three
quarters of an hour to get to your
hotel, pack up, and get the train to
Scotland"
Meekly, / left 1t seemed that /
should never be able to send the
WORKER any special stories. BY the
time we would have finished in Glas-
gov, the Congress would be over.
But, after all, did get story for
the DAILY WORKER, and good one,
too. Because spent three days with
Comrade Cachin. On the train to Glas-
gov; in between the rousing meet
ings in lasgow-internatio ones
they were, for at them spoke the
Frenchman, Cachin, the Dutchman,
Edo Fimmen, and the semi-American,
myself-and on the train, on Monday,
returning to London: all this time l
was talking with Comrade Cachin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19

"The cure for highway robbery is unfailing
punishment of the robbers says the Chicago Ere
ming Journal, commenting on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul robbery. The darned trouble
is there too many robbers and they control the
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
ABOUT THE DAILY WORKER.

Comrade Cachin was very interest
ed in the DAILY WORKER. He rec
ognized to the full the importance of
an English language daily paper to
the Communist movement of the
United States. He asked me dozen
questions about the DAILY WORK
Err: about its makeup (Comrade
Cachin does not know English, and so
had not read the paper, about the
territory it covered, the methods of
distribution, and many other keen
questions, some of which, l regret to
say, could not answer, being an ex-
lie from America, and thus somewhat
out of touch. But / told him every
thing knew about the paper, and
about the Workers party and the
Trade Union Educational league. He
listened with close attention, and inn
mediately spoke in warm approval
when mentioned the tactics of the
party with regard to the formation of
a Farmer-Labor party in America, and
when l touched on the policy regard
ing the trade union movement.
1t was happy meeting this: be-
tween the editor OF an historically ia
nous paper, the paper founded by
Jaures, with its circulation of about
250,0OO among the workers of France,
and the rowing occasional correspond
emit of new and vigorous young pio-
reer journal. which is just setting out,
with dauntless courage and untiring
vigor, to attack the nionstrous power
of American capitalism.
Greetings to Daily Worker.
Tell the comrades of America, A"
said Comrade Cachin, when you
write to the DAILY WORKER, that
the French proletarian vanguard, or.
ganized in the Communist party of
France, saluted them, and wishes
them all success In their splendid
fight. Tell them that Humanite sends
its heartiest greetings to its sister
daily across the wide Atlantic, and
hopes It will grow and grow and plant
its roots ever deeper in the hearts OF
the American proletariat. The work
ers and peasants of France will watch,
with sympathy and understanding,
the struggle OF the American workers
and farmers against the powers OF
American capitalism and Imperialism
and wish them all success in their ef'
forts"
The train steamed into Euston sta
ton. We were in London. We
stepped out into the roar and hustle
OF the teeming city-the city OF fabu
lous wealth and squaIId poverty. The
city OF seven millions, OF whom the
great majority live lives bereft OF Joy
health and fulfllment. The center OF
an immense empire, the foundations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-07
OuIRRLING AGAIN

Neither the forty thousand people of the eastern part of the city nor the com munity at large will take kindly to any unnecessary delay in the improvement of First avenue between Forty-first street and East Lake, as is reported to be threatened because of differences be- tween the city and county authorities. For months this project was delayed pending an agreement between the city commission and the Birmingham Electric Company as to the latter's responsibility. The utility in spirit of cooperation agreed to do it's part of the work. It was thought then that construction work would soon begin. The commission agreed to obtain necessary rights of way for widening the avenue, and to provide for sidewalk, guttering and curbing, while the county's duty was to care for the street paving.
 This public improvement, which af- fleets the convenience and interests of the community, has already been delayed too long. There seems no reason why work should not be promptly begun and pushed to early completion. To hold it up while the city and county authorities quibble over details in the performance of plain duty would be another evil dence of that lack of appreciation of re- sponsibility and obligation to the public welfare which has already been too man. ifest for long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-07
THE LYNCHING RECORD

Two items which recently appeared in this newspaper, one of local significance, the other of more general scope, are in- : teresting and encouraging because of the relation in their effects. The first told of the comparatively good record of the Jefferson county criminal courts in the percentage of convictions of those charged with felonies. During the first six months of this year, of the 322 cases brought before the courts, there were 221 convictions, or more than double the number of acquittals, a percentage or 6s, with penalties that fit the crimes This is a decided improvement over the corresponding period of last year.
 The other encouraging item relates to lynchings throughout the country, ac- cording to statistics compiledI by the re- search department of Tuskegee 1nsrl- stute. During the six-month period there were only five lynchings, which IS the lowest for six months of any of the forty years during which the record Was kept This shows decided improvement over the corresponding period or 4aSC wear, when there were fifteen Iyncnlngs, and over the same periods of 1922 ano 1921, when the records were thirty ana thirtv-six respectively. It is arsource of rrr.t;fication that neither in the whole of 1922 nor in the first six months of 1923 was there a lynching in Alabama records which bespeak wholesome sit uation. The five lynchings were divided among three states.
 Efficiency of the courts, as shown in N+he favorable record of the Jefferson county tribunals in the last six months, is closely associated with and partially responsible for the Improvements in the lynching record. When there is confi- dence in the courts, there is less for the mob spirit to feed upon. When more than two-thirds of those charged with crime are promptly tried and convicted, there is little danger of mob law