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HOME NURSING
INFECTION

INFECTION ZTCAN'T imagine how it happened 66 Mrs. Brown said aggrievedly.
 I've taken the best of care of my husbands hand and it seems to hurt worse than ever, no matter what oo for it." , ..l l. lection began before you were in any way responsibel for it. Perhaps the wound was made with a dirty lnstru- ment and bacteria were introduced lnto the blood stream before you had chance to cleanse it or avert trouble m any way" ,,.e.
 "Perhaps that IS what's wrong," she said "You know my husband is brake man on the railroad and he came home three days ago with a nasty cut and wound in the palm of his hand. My mother was handy at nursing and know she was the best nurse Tn our parts. She always set great store by poultices, because she said they cleanCd wounds up and saved people from blood poisoning. So I've been poulticing Toms hand with onions and bread. That didn't seem to do much good, so yester- day I put on a soap and sugar plaster to draw the poison out, and l was just going to. try a good linseed poultlce to- night if I couldn't get you to come" The doctor was the only one in the village and sometimes he was not avail able =.
 He began to look grave recalling ex- periences such as the time well-mean- ing woman h1I plastered her husbands already infected foot (injured with rusty nail) with a wierd concoction of axle.grease and honey. believed by req son of neighborhood tradition to be "good for blood poisoning" The man lost his hand and almost lost his life through septic poisoning, because an un- clean ointment was smeared upon a wound that was already infected by rusty nail.
 In the case of Brown, the doctor was able to rescue him from poultices and by immersing the hand in 2 hot water bath-as hot as be could stand-the wound was cleaned up eventually, after which hot dressings, frequently applied, relieved his suffering and saved his hand
 But Brown had suffered a great deal of unnecessary pain, and Mrs. Brown had had great deal of extra work to do running back and forth with poul- tices, because she had not known at first that clean wounds, kept clean. never be- come infected.
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Today's Short Story

by freight, he had come to Mariontown for just one more sight of her face and now this.
 Martha Dalton lay at the point of death in a local hospital. There was but one chance for life--a volunteer who would give a pint of his blood.
 A pint of blood to save her life-a pint of blood, and detection almost cer- tain, detection which would mean his life. His life, but her life must be saved.
 Lester Gordon sat on the pile of lum- Der, his head buried in his hands, and gradually his shoulders ceased to heave.
 Next morning, when the operating surgeon at Mount Oliver, arrived, a young man sat waiting in his office, a folded newspaper in his coat pocket Clothes a bit shabby, bit dirty; face clean and shaved, physique strong and
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he finished the breakfast they brought him, he automatically pocketed the ad- vertised fee, and at last started for the door. His hand touched the knob-a footstep behind him and hand fell upon his shoulder; Gordon sagged; his taut nerves seemed to snap. Again at the last moment fate had
 Blankly he stared at the white-uni- formed figure beside him, uncompre- hendingly hear the figure say, Miss Dalton would like to thank you before you go"
 Gordon looked again, blinked, stared unbelievingly. Catching a first full view of his face the white-clad young interne gasped:
 My God, Gordon, was 1t you?' Then with tone in which were mingled thanks and the bitterness of hopeless ness "To see you will be worth more to her than all the blood in the world
 Whereupon Interne Vivtor Barnes led Gordon to that meeting for which all explanations had to wait.
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robust; Larry German the name he gave. A blood test showed that was an excellent subject for the advertised blood transmission. He could without danger supply the vital fluid which Martha Dalton so needed.
 An hour later as he lay down beside her unconscious form, Gordon got view of that face he had been treasur- ing in his memory for so long. But how different from the last time he had seen it, how pale and thin, almost waxlike in its immobility! A thrilling touch of her thin, chilled hand as his wrist was bound to hers, and the operation was under way. It seemed but minute and it was completed, and he took his fare we'll look at her still features as they led him to a room in which he was to spend the remainder of the day and night.
 And still he had passed unrecognized ! Twenty four hours more of perilous waiting and he could slip out into the street, out of town, to New Orleans and life of forgetting.
 Still unrecognized next morning as
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freouent but very deplorable condi- tion in home life.
 The mother who is an inefficient dis ciplinarian can never retain the es- teem of her children and loses much of the influence so essential in the train ing of the young.
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SOMETHING IN A NAME

"Ah' phat did ye say the docther's name was, nurse, dear?" he asked.
 "Dr. Fitzpatrick" was the reply. Hes the senior house physician"
 sThat settles it." muttered the pa tient. That docther won't get chance at me-"
 'Why not? He's very clever man.
 "That's as may be-" said the patient. "But me name happens to be Patrick. - St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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EAR-SPLITTING SILENCE
 "Struck dumb with amazement, she shriked agan and again.-From Novel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-17
HEARST SHEET
PUT ON UNFAIR
LIST BY LABOR
Central Body Condemns
"P. Il" as Scab Goods
Especial to The DAILY WoRKER.)

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER.)
EVERETT, Wash, July t.
Hearsts Post-Intelligencer is on the
unfair list of the Everett Central La
Dor Council The action was taken at
the last meeting on the request Of
Newsboys' Union No. 1853 which re-
fuses to handle the "P.-r'. The Ever
EFT typographical union had already
voted to assess a fine of $40 against
any member caught reading the rat
sheet.
Everett's decision is expected to be
followed by the central bodies in
Beliingham, Anacortes and other
Sound ports and will seriously cut
down the circulation Of the "P-I" it
is believed thru the entire northwest
from Vancouver to Portland and Spo-
kane
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BIG OIL CROOK
DOESN'T WANT
TO TELL GRIMES
Sinclair Asks Court to
Keep Him OFF Stand
(ey Federated Press.l

WASHINGTON, July 16.-Harry F.
Sinclair has lost the first round of his
fight in the federal courts to avoid
testifying on the Teapot Dome oil
fraud before the senate public lands
committee. He will carry the case to
the supreme court. Justice Hoehling
of the District of Columbia federal
court has ruled that the senate of the
United States may require answers
to questions put to Sinclair by its
committee. For his refusal to answer
he was indicted on ten counts by a
federal grand jury on March 81. Sim
Chairs lawyers, headed by Martin w.
Littleton of New York, who had defied
the Walsh committee, moved to quash
the indictment on the ground that
congress had no constitutional right to
question unwilling witnesses, even tho
they do not plead the peril OF incrim.
mating themselves.
Justice Hoehling declares that con-
gress has the right to get information
by testimony secured in the usual
manner Of Investigations.
Meanwhile congress has adjourned
and the committee has rendered it's
report Hearings will be reopened in
December in order that Sinclair's tes-
timony may be had, unless the SUI
preme court is still toying with the
question Of his rights as against the
committee.
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locals and 6, the l. A. of Marble
Slate and Stone Workers, the Plum
bers and Steamfitters, the Elevator
constructors, and three locals of the
Structural Iron Workers.
The injunction grew out of a one
day strike of electrical and other
union workers on the 23-story Illinois
Mercantile Trust company building,
May q. The union electrical workers,
masons, plasterers, marble workers
and many of the other building crafst-
men quit the job when the non-unon
employees of the Western Union, ac-
companied by gunner, came on the
premises to install call bells and
ticker service wires. The architects
and the union officials tried to settle
the matter then. The union Offered
to drag out the wires installed by
non-union men, free Of charge, and
put in the new wiring on contract,
but the company refused. It then ap-
pealed to the court to enjoin the
unions from quitting work on other
buildings when its non-union workers
CONTINUED on next page.)
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MACHINISTS! READ
STATEMENT OF YOUR
PROBLEMS ON PAGE q

All members Of the international
Association OF Machlnlsts will be
interested In the statement on the
coming convention, to be held in
Detroit, starting Sept. 18th, issued
by the International Committee for
Amalgamation In the Metal Trades.
This statement is published in full
on page four. II Is a complete
statement Of the problems facing
the |. A. Of M. at its coming eonven-
ton, and the attitude Of the left
wing towards these problems The
measures for which the Trade IN
ion Educational League mlitants
will fight are outlined, and the
whole document Is Of vital impor-
lance to metal trades militants.
Read III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-17
RUSSIA IN 1924
By WILLIAM z. FOSTER

Report of Speech Delivered in Chicago July IS, 1921
L NOMRADES:-It my good fortune spend four
I months of 1921 in Soviet Russia. While was there
studied the situation diligently with all the
at my command tried to things they WERE
would like them to be. And finally result of my in
vestgatons declared Jpn my return the United States
that in my judgment the Russian revolution success
gether impossible and that though still faced
with problems utterly staggering in their immensely
plexty the invincbe spirit that had carried
voluon onward to that point in the the most ire
mendous obstacles would carry it still further in spite
every barrier until the final victory achieved believed
and said that the revolution had its greatest tasks
had the day.
Tonight glad to tell you that mistaken in
my judgment in 1921 not then carried away by
voluonary optimism that blinded realities as
many of Liberal Socialist and Syndicast friends
The Russian revolution say that with
utmost upon my return from six weeks stay
Russia in April and May of this year The valiant
Communists have fought the thing through
PEELED to recognize that The Russian working have
smashed great breach in the wall of capital
ism The exploiters patch it up again. 1t will
widen and widen until finally the great proletarian flood
pous through and overwhelms the capitalist over
Continued Six
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kIeaqIe Young Kicked out.

EAST ST. LOUIS, H., July TO-
S. G enn Young, former Ku Klux Khan
booze.chaser and anti-miners' union
fighter, has been removed from his
temporary and assumed Job of "klea-
gle" In Herrin and for Williamson
county. Young was ousted because he
exceeded his authority as khan off,
Ger in publishing statements regard
ing an official of the United States
government"
Fighting Bob" Evans, only a little
less notorious than Young. takes his
nlaoA-
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Councils Statement.

The resolution adopted by the Ever
EFT council indicts the "P.-I." manage
ment in the following terms:
Whereas, The management of
the Seattle Pr. has forced strike
and walkout upon employees in three
of the mechanical departments of
that paper; and
Whereas, Introduction Of gun
men occurred after said employees
had endeavored for six months to
negotiate a\contract which manag-
ers and owners Of the three other
dailies of the city signed, and was
intended to intimidate employees
and compel them to work three
hours longer and for SO less each
week than employees Of the other pa
pers; and
Whereas, The acts and words Of
the manager and owner since the
strike and walkout have not squared
up with their acts and words, or
with the printed words Of their pa
per, as expressed when they posed
as friends of workers and produc-
ers, but have given the lie direct to
their former words and acts; and
Whereas, The Central Labor
council of Seattle, at the request
of the Allied Printing Trades, has
placed said paper on the unfair
list; and
Whereas, The Newsboys' Union
Of Everett. whose members have
been Inundated by the oft-repeat-
ed charge that they are scabs be-
cause they continue to sell that pa
per, and have voted II unfair and
have requested the Everett Central
Labor council to concur in their ac-
ton: therefore be Il
Resolved, That we hereby con-
cur in their action. and that dele
gates call special attention Of their
locals TO the matter"
UNFAIR IN 5REMERToN.
BREMERToN, Wash. The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, Hearsts non-union
morning daily, is on the unfair list OF
the Bremerton Trades & Labor coun.
Gil II went there by unanimous vote
of the delegates when they heard how
Hearst was paying his men less than
the unfca. scale, which is observed by
all other Seattle dailies, and how he
wanted to work his force longer than
the union hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-17
WORKERS PARTY
Names ILLINOIS
TICKET FOR FALL
Dunno Up for Governor,
Loeb for Secretary

William F. Dunno was nomi-
mated to run for governor of
Illinois, at the Workers Party
nominating conference held
Tuesday night, when the Com
munist campaign for the fall
elections in Illinois was
launched.
The campaign of the Workers
Party thru-out Illinois this year
is expected to clarity the badly
muddled Illinois political situa-
ton. Len Small, the republican
governor, has been Endorsed by
the reactionary state federation
of labor officials.
The socialists announce that they
will not run a state ticket this year
if a LaFollette man runs on an indie
pendent ticket. A LaFollette state
ticket is expected to be chosen at the
stae convention called by the Confer
ence for Progressive Political ction,
to take place in the Auditorium,
July 81.
In the face of the lackeys of big
business running on the two old party
tickets, and the representatives. of lit
tie business running on the LaFollette
ticket, supported by the socialists,
Dunno will carry the slogan of "All
power to the workers" into the polit-
ical fray.
Gordon Owens has been nominated
for congress from the First congress
sional district; Sam Hammersmark,
of the DAILY WORKER, for the Sew
enth congressional district; George
Maurer, for the Eighth congressional
district; J. w. tombstone for the
Ninth congressional district; ]. Pelle-
grino for the Sixth congressional dis
trict, and for the Fourth congression-
al district the candidate will be
chosen later.
In Electrical Workers. Union.
p, Each branch and City Central Com
mittee in the state will select cam
paign committee, which will work
jointly within each congressional dis
trict and each county.
William F. Dunno is a member of
the Electrical Workers Union, and
was expelled from his place as dele
gate to the Portland convention of the
A. F. of L. for being Communist.
Dunno will speak turnout the state,
raising the standard of militant trade
unionism and Communism in the face
of Len Small, Endorsed by the Comp
ers labor fakirs of Illinois.
Miner for Second Place.
John Watt of Springfield. ILL.,, secre-
tary Of Sub-district 4, United Mine
Workers Of America, has been chosen
for lieutenant governor. Moritz j.
Loeb, business manager of the DAILY
WORKER, will run on the Workers
Party ticket for secretary of state,
He is a member Of the draftsmen's
union. J. Louis Engdahl, editor Of the
DAILY WORKER, is the nominee for
United States senator from Illinois.
5entaI for Attorney.
For congressman at large. state Of
Illinois, r. b. Hewlett, coal miner from
West Frankfort, ILL.,, and Robert Mi
nor, editor Of the Liberator, will rep
resent the Workers Party.
d. J. Bentall, Chicago attorney, has
been named for attorney general Of
Illionis. Twenty-Five candidates were
to be nominated for presidential cleo
tors.
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STATE DEPARTMENT AWAITING
PRETEXT' FOR TURNING GUNS
ON SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY
(speeIaI 70 The oaIIy Workerl

WASHINGTON, D. c.. July 16-The department of state in
today would send United States warshps
Santos Brazil developments there them
For the the department will not act the
appeal of the American consul Santos because of the lack of
approval by the American embassy Rio de Janeiro.
political rebels of Sac Paulo and Santos the coffee
capital guaranteed adequate protection foreign interests
meage reports which have escaped the indicate
loss of life and possibly property
damage in the fighting.
The United States state department has before hest
warshps particularly
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lost s2O,OOO,000 for the Armour Grain
company, and went heavily in debt
to the bankers. They have now sue
ceeded in selling his wrecked con-
Germ to the already bankrupt farm
ers. The obligations and responsible
tiles of the Armour Grain company
have been shifted to other shoulders,
while the bankers, as managing direc.
tors Of the new combine, retain con-
troll Of the new corporation.
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corporation, j. =. Shaner ana the
Davis. l.. Nolan, Merrill Grain COM
pany OF Kansas City are also members
of the banking group, which unloaded
the bankrupt Armour Grain company
onto the farmers organizations.
Armour was so hard up that he mad
TO sell his real estate. his home, and
most Of his stock holdings which were
the largest in the city. Armour had
been forced out of the Armour pack
ing company by the bankers. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-17
LABOR PREMIER
LAUDS MORGAN
PLAN At MEET
International Unity Is
Urged for Investors

Especial TO the DAILY WoRkER)
LONDON, July 16.-Premier
j. Ramsay Macdonald, in his
keynote speech at the opening
of the fifteenth postwar inter-
allied conference today, Iadded
the Dawes plan and pleaded for
adequate guarantees to the in
ternationaI bankers who will
float the 100000, 900 loan pro-
posed by the experts for the
economic restoration of anti
Communist Germany.
His remarks were listened to
with great satisfaction by Owen
D. Young, president of Morgan's
General Electric company.
Young will probably be made
agent-general of Preparations if
the Dawes plan is Endorsed.
MacDonald's speech was regarded
as a pledge to the Morgan interests
that the military resources of Eng
land will be used, if necessary, to ex-
act the blood money, should the Ger
mans default from poverty to revolu-
ton. 1t was also a declaration to the
allied nations that the international
bankers expected them to quit their
squabbles and agree to pool their re-
sources in support of the program out
lined in the Dawes report.
"Nobe Words" Says Herriot.
Premier Herriot of France, in "a non
commital speech, thanked his col
league for his noble words" and said
that he believed the interests of the
various peoples concerned could be
conciliated. The difference of opinion,
which Herriot is yelling during the
earlier discussions of the conference,
relate to the question of priority of
interest on the loan or PREPARATIONS.
The international bankers are in
sisting that interest on their loans
shall come first and PREPARATIONS sec
ond. Ramsay Macdonald shares this
view, but the Frenchmen insist that
reparations shall come first.
Bankers Come First.
Furthermore, the French are de-
manding that Great Britain make a
specific pledge of military assistance
to France should she clash with Ger
many or other nations. They declare
that the English promises are too gen.
eral in character, so far as aid to
France is concerned. The British gov
eminent, they say, is willing to init
mate that she will take measures
against a Germany which defaults in
her payments to the bankers, but hes
itates when asked to pledge definite
military assistance to France. In
other words, England is more con-
cerne with the security of the inter-
national bankers loans than she is
with the safety of her late ally, they
charge.
Want Germany in League.
The MacDonaldites are also urging
that Germany be brought into the
League of Nations. This the French
eve opposed to. Macdonald believes
that Germany should be restored TO a
sound financial position in order that
Continued on next page.)
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WORST INJUNCTION IN CHICAGO
HISTORY GRANTED WESTERN UNION;
CRIME FOR INDIVIDUALS TO QUIT

Slavery days have returned again in all their former
Chicago Western Union Telegraph
Wkinson
his quitting will hinder
Telegraph
directly
Brotherhood Electrical
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OGDEN ARMOUR SHOVES INDEBTED
ELEVATORS ON BANKRUPT FARMERS

a
unload $26OOOO0 cooperative Grain
selling
with the
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MInnesota State EederatIon.

FARIBAULT, Mimi, July 1.-THE
Minnesota State Federation of Labor
opens It's annual convention in Far
ibault July 81
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AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL
GOVERNMENT DEFEAT
TO BRING IN LABOR

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
LONDON, July 16.-The Austria
liam government has fallen thru an
adverse vote in the commons, said
a dispatch tonight from Melbourne.
The Labor Party probably will form
a new government.
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the Caribbean, whenever the
political troubles of anyone of
the various small Central or
South American countries Of
fered the pretext for the Amer
lean imperialists' advance.
Woodrow Wilson sent the United
States marines to Vera Cruez when
the American oil interests required
such action, and countless times the
sugar trust has called out American
army and navy assistance in Cuba,
Porto Rico, Panama, ETC., to settle
the particular country's difficulty in
the trusts favor.
Armour Plant in Santos.
Armour and company, the biggest
of the big Five" packers, has a ire
mendous plant at Santos. Besides
American capitalists have great coffee
holdings in southern Brazil
With the advance of the rebel army
upon Santos, it is quite likely that
the Armour and other American
agents urged the American consul to
send for protection from United
States warships.
U. S. Arms in Six.
United States armed forces back
up the American financial agents who
run Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Pa
mama, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
The army, navy, and marines have
not yet been permanently stationed
in Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,
and Bolivia where American agents
run the governments finances. Guat-
emala, Costa RIGA, and Mexico have
their policies dominated by American
interests, altho they have no official
financial aid appointed from the
United States.
Brazil to Follow.
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay,
Paraguay and Venezuela have evaded
direct American financial control so
far, but American capitalists have
gobbled up big chunks of their land
and gone in for wholesale exploita-
ton of their rich resources and the
governments of these countries, OBJ
serving the absorption by the United
States of the control of the govern
ments about them have been trem-
blingly waiting for their own day of
fate. 1t seems that Brazil's is at hand
and that the friendly" United States
will usurp one more Latin American
country to her capitalists interests
under the elastic Monroe Doctrine,
which never did anybody but the
United States imperialists any good.