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Evening star., 1924-05-28
GRAND JURY INDICTS
IS UNDER DRUG LAW
One Man Cleared in Shooting
Another Charged With
Killing Wife.

The grand jury yesterday reported
to Justice Hitz in Criminal Division /
on fifteen cases Of alleged violations
Of the Harrison anti-narcotic act. In
fourteen Of them, naming fifteen per-
sons, indictments were returned, and
the fifteenth case was ignored.
The grand jury also exonerated
Aaron M. Mullins, colored, of respon-
sibility for the death of Charles
Green, holding that he acted in self
defense. Green was shot May 13 at
440 Grace court southwest.
Those indicted for alleged use or
Green, Charles Norris, Arthur Rich
ard Tip, James Owens. Matte john
son Jones and Edward Jones, Ray
mond Jones, alias Chat; Joseph
Palmer, George Lee, Thomas Edward
Fontaine alias naM;d rh9%aS W,ss EdTard MuTd
Barron, Douglas Beal, George c.
Haynes and Charles Norris. The
charge against Patsy Hawkins was
ignored.
Accused OF Killing wife.
Manslaughter was the charge con-
tained in an Indictment against
James E. Conway, colored, in con-
nection with the death Of his wife,
Inez. The tragedy occurred March 4
last at their home, 1918 L street.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: William c. Brown,
Cecil Fleming, Archie Robbins and
Roy Riley, robbery; Robert H. Nell
son, Joy riding; Theodore Briscoe, as
sault with dangerous weapon; Ru-
dolph Drury, grand larceny; James G..
Houghton, Curt jacobson and August
Habcht, counterfefting Raymond
Briscoe, housebreaking; Raymond
Jackson, assault with dangerous
weapon.
The grand jury ignored also a
charge Of bad check against Joseph
Dickson and one of grand larceny
against Mamie Mckay.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
Offer Reward for Negro Slayer.

SPARTANBURG, S. c., May 2s.-A
reward of 5000 has been offered by
Sheriff Sam x. Miller and the family
of b. A. High, who was found murder
ed on the front porch of the dwelling
of George Hunter. his tenant, for the
arrest of the negro, wanted by
authorities for the murder. Hunter
is still at large. Sheriff's forces have
followed every clue as to the negrc's
hiding place, all to no avail.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
WEED WAR OPENS SOON.
Police Instructed to Advise Prop
perty Owners Of Law.

The annual battle of police VS.. weeds
is about to begin. Announcement of
the fight was made today from head
quarters when acting superintendent
of Police Evans sent forth an official
bulletin to the captains Of each pre-
'cinct instructing them that 1t is pro-
vided in an act Of CongI ess Of 1899
that owners, occupants or agents of
land in the District are charged with
the duty of removing from their
estates or back lots any weeds thereon
four inches or more in height.
Weed surveys are ordered for each
precinct. All local policemen will be
assigned to research apd search work
In the surveys.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
-M'AD00 SEEN AS CHOICE,
Praised by Weaver; Dinner Planned
Tuesday.

William Gibbs McAdoo will be nomi-
mated for the presidency and elected
to office, because his knowledge OF do
mestic and foreign affairs would en-
able him to be a real leader and not
a mere suggester in public affairs.
Representative Zebulon Weaver OF
North Carolina said In a speech before
the Washington McAdoo Club last
night.
meth Romney, Melvin Hildreth and
Mrs Hiram Smell. 1t was announced
that arrangements have been COM
pleted for a dinner Tuesday night,
and that David Ladd Rockwell, man
ager of the McAdoo campaign COM
mittee, and Senator'S King and Adams
would speak.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
Crash Claims Second Victim.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 2s.-
Robert p. O'Brien, twenty-five, son Of
William O'Brien OF st. Paul, Minn., a
millionaire lumberman, with interests
here, died last night from injuries re-
the beach near. Mayport, May 49, His
mother, father, and brother were at
his bedside. f<s
# His companion In the car. which
was said to have been travelling at 4
Of Jacksonville. died a few minutes
after the crash. The car struck q
submerged tree and somersaulted
three times. aeeE -.
Evening star., 1924-05-28
LIQUOR IN D. C. AUTO
SEIZED IN RICHMOND
Police Say Car Bearing Tag No.
IS, 1886 Was Loaded With
$50 Gallons.
special piypatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, May 2S.-Police-
man Bracket seized an automobile
from Washington this morning. with
I50 gallons of liquor. Collie Simms Of
this city was arrested. He is under
stood to have given the name of a
Washington man who sent the liq-
uor here.
The auto bore tag No. 55S96. It
lad driven up to the Central apart
ments and Simms is said to have
started unloading the liquor when
Policeman Bracket stepped upon the
scene. t5t s.-.-+
Evening star., 1924-05-28

A sign in your window for a year
will not be read by as many people
as an ad in The Star one day.
Evening star., 1924-05-28

The best homing pigeons are bred
In Farnworth, England.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Khan Wars Again

Jack Skelcher anti-Klansman, was killed at
Herrin Ill, Saturday, son suspicion" that he was
implicated in the shooting of Glenn Young
Kleagle of the Ku Klux Khan, ex-prohibition agent
and the Mussolini of Williamson County, who
took over the government there some morths ago
by force and violence. Thus does the struggle
WHICH has been going on openly and secretly since
the Illinois Chamber of Commerce began pouring
money into Williamson County to revenge them
selves for the loss of their scabs in 1922 again
break out into open warfare.
When Young was attacked Friday night, the
news reports say that he riding in big sedan
car, presented to him for cleaning up William
son County. This sufficiently characterizes the
forces behind the gang of desperados who mas
querade at one time as prohibition law enforcers
1.-THE Volstead Fascist as they have been well char
acterized), and at another as Ku Klux Klansmen.
Their tools may be blindly ignorant and fanatical
countryfolk, but their leadership and the money
that pays for their wild adventures of murder and
arson comes from the organized capitalists of the
state.
The killing of Skelcher has all the appearance
of another application of the notorious fugitive
law long popular among bandit gangs like those
of Glenn Young. He was suspected" and did not
stop quickly enough when ordered to do so, and
therefore was shot down. Southern Illinois seems
destined to have more bitter struggles consequent
upon the declaration of war made by the Chamber
of Commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Food Workers Great Fight

1t was great tribute to the Amalgamated Food
Workers in Chicago, when Judge Hugo Friend
issued an injunction covering ITO Greek restaur-
ants, prohibiting that organization from organ
izing the exploited workers in those places. And
it was not score against this independent union,
when the lawyers for the bosses pointed out that
it is not connected with the American Federation
of Labor. Rather should it make all members of
the greater body of organized labor ask themselves
why should the relief Of the Greek workers, among
the most exploited in the city, have been left to
small, independent body rather than having
been undertaken by those who have the big
treasures and powerful connections. That the
Amalgamated Food Workers should enter the
struggle for the eighthour day, and decent wages,
in the Greek restaurants throwing all their ener-
gies into the fight is proof that it is animated by
feSi TGfs I 4SEs
When workers are in battle against the bosses,
no real union man will bubble about techncalities
of affiliations Rather every union man in Chi
cago American Federation of Labor or otherwise,
will cheer on the campaign among the Greek
restaurant workers. and will render every as
sistance possible Organize the restaurants of Chi
cago, the Greeks now and then the others. Abolish
the 10 and 12-hour day. Establish decent wage.
These are the immediate problems in the hotel and
restaurant industry. The Amalgamated Food
Workers are making good start. More power to
these efforts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

Let all workers know that one of the most sweep
ing njunctions ever issued against organized labor
has Just been handed down in the war on the Anal
gamated Food Workers by Judge Hugo Freund.
The big significance of this event is not that
Judge Freund has come to the aid of 40 Greek res
taurant bosses. That was expected Of him. He is
elected republican judge and that is what he was
elected to do. He lived up to the bosses expecta-
TONS
But the thing for the workers Of Chicago to re-
member is that their officials, Is Of them, "The
Labor Committee of 10 on Injunctions," openly
and actively advocated the election of Judge Hugo
Freund at the elections last fall.
The officials of labor, headed by John Fitzpat
rick, president of the Chicago Federation Of Labor
urged the workers to elect this judge who is now
hitting them over the head with an injunction
after these same officials had rghteously declared
that Government by injunction has become a
menace to free citizenship"
Fitzpatrick and the other members of the "In
junction Committee of 49," helped elect Judge
Foell the foe of the garment strikers They helped
elect Judge Freund the foe Of the food strikers And
any one of the other 10 judicial candidates en-
dorsed by the Committee of Is" at the Nov g.,
1923, elections, will follow in the footsteps of
Foell and Pam when they are called upon to serve
their masters, the BOSSES in some labor struggle
Watch out for the leaders Of labor who ask you,
the workers, TO vote for such old party, bosses
candidates on election day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
LaFolIette Is Trimming

Persistent statements come from friends Of
Senator LaFollette to the effect that he is not
going to make the break from the republican party.
Perhaps, they say, he will run independently, ask
ing for support from the republican party in some
states, from democrats in Others from the Farmer
Labor Party in others, and pledging himself to no
organized party as whole. He will not, they pre-
dict even go so far as did Roosevelt in 1912,
characterizing such break a great mistake"
This must give food for serious thought to all
the LaFollette enthusiasts in the Farmer-Labor
Party movement. Such clinging to regularity"
and respectability such evasion and cowardice, is
not the stuff upon which Farmer-Labor Party can
be built
1t is not the spirit that can go with the workers
and oppressed farmers in their present struggle
against the domination of the Wall Street blood
suckers. 1t does not fit into the picture of stern
and earnest effort to establish the political power
of the conscious workers and farmers. LaFollette
seems to be allowing his "friends" to sever, as
rapidly as they find it possible to do so, those
sentimental connections that have existed between
him and the growing movement for class party
of the producers in the coming presidential
election
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Crisis in Garment Industry

why has it been possible for the officials of the
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union to
get away with their disgraceful expulsion Of rank
and file leaders, which eliminated in the Boston
convention, while the great bulk of the member
ship stands unalterably opposed? One of the prin-
cipal explanations is found in the news from New
York on Saturday that general strike is looming,
due to the refusal of the Manufacturers Associa-
ton to consider the unions basic demands The
4O-hour week, guaranteed period of employment,
unemployment insurance and a minimum wage,
are the outstanding demands formulated by the
union For several years the left wing has been
agtating for these things; now they have finally
been incorporated in the union program.
But it is no accident that this occurs at the very
time when the left wingers are being expelled. The
reactionary officials did not dare carry thru the
explosions and at the same time reject these
demands. The rank and file will do well to watch
their officials closely in this strike situation. The
deliberate provocation of the membership, by the
outrageous explosions, was evidently intended to
stir up a revolt against the union ofice-holders,
that could be made an for accepting defeat,
and for bowling to the bosses terms.
The militants in the |. L.. G. w. T., however are
keeping their heads cool This strike situation is
biity for its successful issue is theirs. The left
wing, under the leadership of the Trade Union
Educational League, has already shown by its
services in the Chicago and Boston strikes, that
even when it is expelled and disfranchised, it is
the only dependable fighting force in the |. L. g.
w. U. 1t will continue to fight for the protection
active IN tie asd ds-and. will not allow
-Of rne the y orkers PARTY
the reactionaries to succeed with their disruption
If the strike facing the $4,000 New York garment
workers is won, it will be by the fighting spirit
and courageous sef-sacrifce of the membership
with the left wing in the front lines If it is not
won-and won fully-the responsibility will be
on the heads of the mad men at the top, who have
done their utmost to demoralize and defeat the
union just before it goes into battle.
The militant garment workers will not allow
their solidarity to be broken. They will defeat the
autocratic officials, and at the time they will
defeat the clothing bosses, winning the union
demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
I'VE We're All Stealing

The old Biblical saying that honest confession
is good for the soul is today ruer than This
truth is particularly timely in the present graft
corruption, and thievery crimes being revealed in
the Klan investigation now proceeding in Wash
ington.
One of the star witnesses before the Senate Com
mittee looking into the election of Mayfeld from
Texas frankly confessed, as Khan member of the
innermost ring, that 1--WE were all stealing" The
witness declared under oath that the Imperial Wiz
ard Evans had his little graft also AT least $25,
900 were spent in educating the Texas voters to
write in the name of Mayfeld in the last Senatori-
al contest. Representative Upshau, one of the
self-appointed guardians of the morals of the
House, shown to have been in the pay of the
nation and of the ardent prohibitonists of the
Khan for Congressional services rendered.
We welcome the evidence adduced which sub
stimulates the estimate we have been making of
the Khan. The Communists have never for a mo-
ment seen in the Khan, as an organization, any
thing but an extralegal agency of the reac-
tionary interests, integral part Of the vast and
complicated strike breaking machinery of the cap
talist class having its ramifcations in the govern
ment, in the church, in the press, in the schools
All the noise made by the cyclopes wizards, EN-
perors, kleages and ambassadors has never deceiv-
ed. We have always viewed the excitement about
honesty, pure Americanism, unadulterated woman
hood, and other impotent distractions and vagar-
les peddled by the masked gangman as merely
smoke screen behind which the vilest of crimes
against the best working class fighters were hid
den, as an organized effort to mislead and divide
the masses of this country in their struggle for
better working and living conditions.
Yes eve were all stealing" is a timely confess
sion for the Khan authority to make when caught
red-handed. When hooded honesty confesses about
stealing little it is clear as broad daylight
that only fraction of the truth has been allowed
to escape and that stealing has been going on
wholesale by the Khan the country over.
Especially instructive to the workers and farm
ers is the outright refusal of the Senatorial Com
mittee to delve into the connections between the
Khan and Congressman Upshaw. There is no
mystery about the fact that no official body, no
Congressional subcommittee has ever dared exam
inc the relations between government officials and
the Khan. Neither capitalist party dares make an
honest fearless investigation of the Klan because
the democratic and republican parties are both
closely tied up with the Khan in many states. Is
any better proof needed to show that the govern
ment secretly is aiding and abetting the Khan out
RACES while it pretends to oppose it?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
The World Trade Union Movement

trade union Capitalization could not
counteract the disastrous effects OF
the severe economic depression and
the reactionary leadership on the Bel
gian trade union movement.
canada-In Canada the number of
affiliated organizations remained sta.
tionary At the same time the mem
bership of the Trades and Labor Con-
gress declined from 164,8s3, in 1921 to
117S14 on the last day OF December,
1922.
czecho-SlovakSa-On January 1,
1928, there were SSS,294 members in
the Federation Of Czechoslovakian
trade unions. In 1928 ten powerful
trade unions totaling a membership
.of 167O7S withdrew from the Amster-
dam Federation and affiliated them
selves with the Red Labor Interna-
tional
Denmark-At the close of 1922 the
Federation of Trade Unions had a to-
tai membership Of 2S2,574. This was
1871 less than in the preceding year.
There are So separate unions affili-
ated with the Danish Federation.
France-The membership of the
General Confederation Of Labor re-
NAMED practically stationary during
the year. On December 81, 1922, its
membership was 757,S47. In the same
year there were several amalgama-
tions. The General Confederation of
Labor Unified, which is the Commun-
list Federation, affiliated with the
Profintern, showed Increased strength,
according to the last convention.
cermany-In 1922 the General Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions increased its
membership by 100000, rising to to-
tai Of 7,9OS,516. In the same period
the Federation of Unions of salaried
employees increased its membership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
by JAY LovEsToNE.

THE yellow Amsterdam Interna
l tional Of Trade Unions has just
issued Year Book which contains a
good deal of valuable information
about various internationaE workers
organizations.
One Of the most instructive sections
of this book is the part dealing with
the present strength of the trade
union movement in different coun-
tries. According to the findings Of the
Amsterdam International, there were
organized in sundry trade unions
turnout the world, at the end of 1922,
approximately 41,O0O,OOO workers.
In every country of the world, with
the exception of Hungary, Germany,
Poland and Soviet Russia, the tenden-
cy has been for a decrease in trade
union membership. The greatest gain
was made by the trade union move
ment in Soviet Russia.
On the basis of the findings of the
Amsterdam International the strength
of the national organizations at the
close Of 1922 were as follows:
Austria-The tyear 1922 saw loss
of 29,S2S members by the General Fed
Grafton of Trade Unions, or a total
number of 1,O49,949 members. In the
period 1919 to 1923 there was an in
classification in the tendency towards
amalgamatiog various crafts.
BeIgium-The Trade Union Commit
tee of Belgium reported a membership
of 61S,S71 on January 1, 1923. This
was decrease of $4,000 from the pre-
ceding year. The heaviest losers were
the building trades, the miners, the
metal workers, railway men and the
textile workers. 1t is interesting to
note that even the almost complete
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

by $4,000 to total of 667, 1898. In 1928
the Communists made marked adj
vances in the German trade union
movement, particularly amongst the
metal workers and coal miners.
Great Britain-Co Compared with 1921
the membership Of the Trade Union
Congress dropped from 6,59,9-3 to A.
$685. The economic crisis, the Sc
we're unemployment, made heavy in
roads on the trade union membership.
Strong efforts were made in this pc
Rod to secure amalgamation of sew
eraI organizations dealing with the
same branches of industry. Towards
this end, national declarations were
formed in industries dealing with
printing and allied trades, textiles
machinery and ship building, trans
port, building and also technical en-
ployees and unskilled workers. There
is also a notable tendency towards
standardization union dues and rules.
Hungary AT the close of 1922 the
Council of Trade Unions had total
membership of 2O2,s56. This was an
increase of 10000 and indicates the
fact that the trade union movement
is beginning to recover from the heavy
assaults launched against it by the
Horthy government The union show
ing the greatest increases were those
of the building trade, metal workers,
tural workers.
ltaIy-The membership of the Gen
eral Confederation of Labor fell from
100000 in 1921 to 4O1,O54 on Deem
Der 81, 1922. This collapse was due
to the ravages of the Fascist. The
latter now have their own organiza-
tions for labor, their own so-called
unions which have an approximate
membership Of 2 100000, according to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26

Communist Party is the only Party that is fighting
against the crushing of Germany, against the en-
slavement of the German working class, against
starvation and unemployment. The German work
ers, faced with the alternative which will soon
present itself to the entire working class-he die
tatorship of the proetariat submission, starva-
ton and DEATHS finally breaking the chains of
the treacherous Social-Democracy completely. The
German revolution cannot be much longer delayed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-26
Preparing For Revolution

If the workers of Germany wish to struggle
against slavery and starvation they must go side
by side with the Communists. That is the great
lesson that events teach, day by day, to the work
ing masses of that unhappy country Dispatches
from Berlin on May 24th tell Of the Communists
in the Ruhr forcing merchants to grant food
credits for relief of the starving The strike now
going ON is led by the Communists. In the cleo
tons of May 4th the Communists carried the
Ruhr district over all other parties combined, in
addition to multiplying their vote tenfold in the
country at large. This enormous increase in power
of the German Communist Party, its growing
leadership of ever greater masses of workers, is
the inevitable consequence Of this fact-that the