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Garment Strike
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garment shops will not be able to
make up their styles or make any
Of the necessary preparations for
the approaching season.
For that reason, Meyer Perlstein
in charge of the strike told the strik-
ers at yesterdays strike meeting, the
bosses, realizing that they are losing
money, are increasing their effort to
get the girls back to work.
Bosses Try Race Prejudice
Strikers report that ]. Reinhardt
and many Of the other bosses have
been visiting their employees asking
them to return to work with large
advance in pay. Perlstein declared.
1.-THE fact that the bosses are going
to Polish workers and trying to
arouse prejudice against the Jewish
and Negro strikers, and playing the
same trick on the Negroes and Jews
shows that the bosses are weaking.
The strikers are growing stronger
every day. There are few scabs and
we have been promised ample imam.
cial aid"
"The Committee OF Is announces
that two automobiles have been do
mated to take the strikers around 10
the various unions and tell the story
Of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
Letters To Daily Worker.

To the Editors of the DAILY WORK
Err: The report in Mondays Work
er of my speech before the Chicago
South Slavic Branch Of the party, con-
tanned a number of inaccurate quota
tions, which should be corrected. The
report makes it appear that our sup
port of the revolt against and split
away from the Republican and Demo
cratic parties would take the form OF
our entering" the petty bourgeois
Third" party in the event such a
party is formed. This is not the po-
sition of the party. And since my
speech was nothing more nor less
than an elaboration and explanation
Of that section of the thesis OF the
Central Executive Committee, which
deals with the Third party aspect of
our labor party policy, the misquota-
ton becomes quite obvious.
The main line Of our policy. as laid
down in the thesis of the Central Elk
ecutive Committee, is to support the
general revolt against the parties OF
big capital, In which several econom.
ic classes are taking part-workers,
farmers, small business and profess
sional elements and a part Of the mid
die manufacturing class--and to
strive TO deepen and accelerate, by
such means as we can, the split be-
tween this general mass and the Wall
Street parties. At the same time our
fundamental task is TO promote the
organization of an independent class
party Of the industrial workers and
poor farmers, separate and distinct
from the petty bourgeois Third Party
as we'll as from the Republican and
Democratic Parties.
Under certain definite conditions
explained in the thesis and in my
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
NO U Mo N LABEL
I'm BOOKS PRAISING
COOLIDGE CABINET
Crooked Hubert Work
Gets Special Boost
tey The Federated Pressl

WASHINGTON, April 21.-- Wash
ington's biggest department store is
selling series Of booklets, entitled
History Makers of Today, eulogizing
Daugherty, Mellon, Work and other
members of the Harding Coolidge cab
met.
The Truth About Hubert Work is
gem in this collection. Like the
others, it bears no union label and
no confession as to whether the Re-
publican National committee paid the
bill. Work is the secretary of the
interior who fell heir to Falls job
and who lawlessly began to scrap the
Reclamation Service when the Serv-
ice proposed to build Boulder Can
yon power plant and reduce the pro-
fits of the hydro-electric monopoly
in the Southwest.
Describing how he dismissed lot
of aged government employees from
the Pension Office, the book says:
when everything humanity possible
had been done in the personal in
terest of the clerks, he reluctantly
gave his approval for the reduction
and then, instead of dispatching curt,
formal dismissal orders to each of
the aged employees slated for removal,
he invited them to come and see
him in his great private office and
talk matters over with him.
"This man Work actually shook
hands with these honqred govern.
ment servants, exchanged reminis-
cences with them, talked as long as
they wished to talk :. :. :. and strange
as it may seem, not single veteran
or veterans widow or sister or broth
er complained. but left with the
knowledge that they had found a
true friend :. :. ." "Logic and a great
Christian character had triumphed in
the interest of good government"
1t was this great Christian charac.
ter whom the American Society of CT
vii Engineers condemned, after a
careful investigation, for his viola
ton of federal law and treachery to
principles of ordinary honesty and
sound public policy, wnen he dismiss.
ed Arthur P. Davis, at the head of
the Reclamation Service. and Install
ed in his place, under pretext of "re-
organization" an enemy of the essen.
tial principles of the bureau. The
booklet devotes. dozen pages to a
whitewash of this incident, and to de-
nunciation of the vicious attack" by
the engineers Of the country upon
Work. He is still in Office.
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SCHOOLS TDEALIzE
CAPITALIST, N 0 7
C HRIST, he SAYS
McCIuskey Assails u. S.
Educational System
Especial to The Daily Worker

Especial TO The Daily Worker)
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 21.-Our
educational system is "a huge hopper
for feeding idealistic youth to the
business interests" was the charge
of Howard McCluskey, graduate stu
dent of the University of Chicago, in
an attack on vocational guidance, be-
fore the conference of six hundred
Methodist students here. The stu
dents, representing 112 colleges and
universities turnout the country,
heard several church officials de-
nounce the capitalist system as un-
Christian.
Our law schools and schools Of
commerce are shot thru with trickery
and get-rich-quick ideals. The captain
of industry, not Christ, is the ideal
held before the Students" McCluskey
asserted.
NASTY, Dirty, Sinking" War.
Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell of
Pittsburgh declared it was not dis
loyal to face the delicate issues Of in
dustrial strife and war. 81 don't mind
mans going to war;" exclaimed
Bishop Mcconnell, "but l do object to
trying to give that nasty, dirty, stink
ing business halo of sanctity."
The present distribution Of wealth,
whereby excessive riches and dire
poverty exist side by side, was de-
nounced by the Rev. Allan A Heist.
Christianity can make little progress
in steel towns, where poverty prevails
and among farmers robbed of their
lands and made landless peasants by
defation and bread bandits" the Rev.
Heist said. "The profit motive should
be eliminated from industry. The
church must teach the abolition of
poverty and give whole-hearted sup
port to every agency, political, eco
nomic and social which seeks to heal
the age old sore of poverty"
Youth is hearing new melody out
of the discord which followed the dis
illusionment of the war, Howard Beck
er, the Northwestern University paci-
A fist, told his audience. ain the past
we have worshipped national gods.
The great universal God has been di-
vided by boundary lines"
WASHINGTON, April GA con-
stitutional amendment abolishing
child labor was urged here by the Rev.
DR.. Worth Tippy on behalf of the com
mission on social service of the Fed
eral Council of Churches.
Slavery of 100000 Kids.
Child labor is shameful" the Rev.
Tippy declared in a statement issued
to the press. During certain seasons
in the beet fields and canneries and
factories over 100000 children under
10 years of age work from A to so
hours week"
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Pennsy Farmers
Read Daily Worker;
Talk Communism
Especial 20 The Daily Worker)

Especial 70 Inc Daily Worker)
WHEATLAND, Pa, April 21.-Mills
are being closed rapidly here, indicat-
ing that the bosses are moving eau
tiously--for their profits sales. Work
ers do not know where to turn for
employment. Many of them are read.
ing the DAILY WORKER and are be-
coming more than ever convinced of
the fact of the class war.
Farmers around Wheatland read
the DAILY WORKER and some of
them openly express themselves in
favor Of Communism. Their plight is
desperate and no aid is in sight. The
government has made no serious
move to help them and they find no
solace in prayer, which some of the
local pulpiteers have suggested. One
of them writes: "a shower of man
ma would be in order" but the heav-
en- remains as unconcerned with man
as it ever has.
Workers and farmers are learning
under the whip of depression that
their hope is not in the democratic
pills fed them by capitalist agencies
and are turning to more intelligent
guidance. More would get the DAILY
WORKER if their pocket books were
not so fat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
CANUCK PARTY NOW COMMUNIST

lin Canada was giving sufficient atten-
ton to the political developments in
that country. 1t urged that the party
must keep in close contact with every
development in the political life of
the country and express its views and
raise issues in connection with these
Developments. q - G.
The report to the convention made
by Comrade Specter on the political
situation gave a very fine analysis Of
the Canadian situation and unques.
tionably the party will, from this time
on, play larger part in the political
life Of the country.
Party Influence.
While the Workers Party, now the
Communist Party of Canada, was un-
able to increase its membership dur
ing the past year, it has been success
full in extending it's influence. 1t is an
accepted section OF the Canadian La
Dor Party and wields considerable in
fluence in that organization. 1t has
also been able to establish itself in
the trade Union movement of Canada.
MaeLachlan and Ruthenberg Speak.
The convention adjourned in order
to permit the delegates to attend a
mass meeting at which ]. B. Mac.
LachIan, president Of District 26 OF
the United Mine Workers, deposed by
John L. Lewis and recently released
from prison, and c. e. Ruthenberg,
who was the fraternal delegate of the
Workers Party Of America, were to
speak. This meeting showed the infiu,
ence OF the party among the workers
lof Canada, as the audience, which
packed assembly hall OF the Labor
Temple, greeted the two speakers.
The convention reassembled after
the mass melting to take up organiza
tional problems and take steps to or
ganize the party so as to permit the
national organization to send organ
izers in the field for the upbuilding OF
the party
The delegates at the convention
generally, expressed an optimism as
to the future OF the party, and 1t is
certain that the coming year will
show the Communist Party of Canada
stronger organization and a still
greater influence among the working
masses of that country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
Pinchot for Coolidge
at Wet and Dry Poll
in Pennsylvania Today

HARRISBURG, Pa, April 21.-To-
morrow Pennsylvanians will pass
once more on the wet or dry issue
in the state.
An off-year primary election--usu-
ally an ordinary affair in the Key
stone state-has taken national i'm
portance.
Governor Clifford Pinchot, champion
of law enforcement, last night said
he expected to win and asked all citi-
zens to support his candidacy for re-
publican delegate at large. At the
same time he repeated his acknowl-
edgement that President Coolidge
would be nominated at Cleveland in
June, saying that he would support
him. The governor made liquor or
law enforcement, the issue.
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Gillette Has Poor Abb

vestigation. and protested against the
continued holding Of his liquor, Burns
passed the buck"
where did the liquor go?" asked
Brookhart.
Mclean Too.
II was told on good authority that
most Of It was hauled to Ned Nc
Leans house." said Bunch. II under
stand that Gillett got some of II too"
who told you that Mclean got
most of the liquor?" asked Brookhart.
"My lawyer. Judge Daniel T.
Wright, has the name OF the man who
told me that the liquor was handled
from the warehouse to McLean's
house." said Bunch.
Bunch said that he wrote several
letters to the late President Harding
In an effort to get his whisky back.
"Did you get any reply?"
Eyes, he referred me to Burns"
"Have you written to President
Coolidge?"
"Twice. with no reply"
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my fourth article when | was
arrested and escorted to the
French frontier.
"Now, here l am, almost un-
certain of what is going to hap
pen to me. One thing is quite
certain, and that is the impos-
sibility of my going to Italy as
long as Mussolini keeps power
there"
CYCLIC sent report of his arrest
and expulsion from Italy, from Paris
that is of exceeding interest. 1t reads
in part as follows:
PARIS, April al have been too
weak from my journey and expert
ence to give the full facts of my ex.
pulsion until now.
l was arrested by the italian police
at half-past eight on Monday morn.
ing. was in bed, and was told by
my wife that there were two police.
men outside who wanted to speak to
me.
AS was afraid that they were real
ly Fascist, told her not to open
the door until / was fully dressed,
when discovered that they were
really police officers. They asked for
my passport, which produced. Then
they required me to follow them to
the Prefecture Of Police.
My wife was alarmed and asked me
to return soon, and stated that she
would call for me at the Prefecture if
l did not return within half an hour.
MusseIinI's Own Order.
l was kept there. however, for two
hours before the Commissary of Pc.
lice saw me. When he did, he read
to me Government decree ordering
me to leave Italy within "a hours.
This decree was passed at a Cabl.
net meeting, upon the motion Of Sig.
nor Mussolinl. The reason given was
public security.
asked the Commissary if could
be granted "a hours more to make the
necessary arrangements, but he re.
piled that was to leave by the first
train.
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MUSSoLTNI ExPELS CORRESPONDENT

| was forbidden to go home, and ]
was forced to wait at the police sta
ton until I could be escorted to the
train.
| was not allowed to get in touch
with the British Embassy. was only
allowed to see my wife and 1o-year.
old son In the presence Of the Com
missary.
was asked to which frontier !
would be deported and chose to 60
to London via Modane on the French
frontier. At three in the afternoon,
after having been kept under arrest
all day, l was allowed to see my wife,
and, after a sad separation, was taken
to the train by two carabinieri in
multi.
Threat of Handouts.
Before / left, the Commissary, in
my presence tod the carabinieri that
was to be handcutfed if tried at
any point in the journey to speak
English or communicate to anybody.
/ had no reason, however, to provoke
the carabinieri, who treated me kind
ly.
At the frontier station, however,
was received with the greatest inso-
lence by the Fascist in authority
there, who told me never to enter
Italian territory again."
1.-THE atmosphere of Italy is not
good for people like you," the bully
went on. 1.-THE Fascist stick rules
here with absolute power" l con.
graduated him, and told him that
expected to be back soon, as hoped
Italy would soon be a free nation
again.
When I reached Modane, Fascist
militiaman tried to cause me more
trouble by pointing me out to the
French police. However, the French
policemen, after examining my pass
port and hearing the reason for my
expulsion, returned the passport, and
told me was free to go where
chose.
That / have been expelled on the
very eve Of the elections convinces
me that Signor Mussolini is about tc
extend his system of violence to Sc
cure a Fascist victory.
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speech, our party will favor an cleo.
ton alliance OF the Farmer-Labor
Party with the Third Party, but will
not favor the idea of this alliance
taking the form of ornanlzational
unity under any circumstances. So
far from entering" the Third Party
we are striving with all our power
to bring about complete organiza-
tional and theological separation OF
the workers and poor farmers from il
and its leaders. This policy is dem
onstrated in action oy the fight OF
our party for the June 18th conven
ton at st. Paul as against the July
4th Convention of the G. P. p. A. al
Cleveland.
The error Of the reporter Of the
DAILY WORKER consisted in rep
resenting my argument for support
ing" the third party in the coming
elections to mean that the workers
and farmers should center" it. There
Is a vast difference serween the two
and tried to explain that difference
In my speech.
For purposes Of illustration, l re
ferred to the action Of the Russian
Bolsheviki in supporting" the Ker
ensky revolution against Czarism ant
working at the same time for the
overthrow of the Kerensky regime
Here again the report in the DAILY
WORKER contained a misquotation
II quotes me as saying: 1.-THE Bolshe
wiki fought with guns in their hands
In Kerenskys army against world
Imperialism" What said, was thai
they fought with Kerensky against
czarlsm. Everybody ought to know
that Kerensky did not fight against
world Imperialism. but for it.--Jamei
p. Cannon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
ACTORS BATTLE
WITH MANAGERS
EXPECTED June |
100 Percent Union Shop
Is Equity's Demand
BY LuDwELL DENNY

tstsft Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
NEW YORK, April 21.--"lt looks
like lockout June l." officials OF the
Actors Equity Association, American
Federation of Labor, told the Federal
ed Press following breakdown Of
prolonged negotiations with the anti
union group of the Producing Manag-
ers Assn.
Last November joint committee OF
the union and the managers drew up
satisfactory agreement to become
operative in June. The Equity mem.
bership ratified the agreement, but
a group Of managers refused, where
upon the actors voted 1000 to tn
stand by the Equity demands in the
events of Lookout. A union victory
is expected if there is fight because
the powerful Shubert-Selwyn group
in the P. NJ. A. as we'll as the indie
pendent producers support the union
Another rank and file union meeting
will be called before May 1.
Union Shop, Is Issue
The issue is Equity shop and does
not touch wages or hours. The
Equity shop rule provides for 100
per cent Equity organization in every
company in which union member is
employed, but permits managers Ia
have non-Equity companies, and ex
empts certain actors belonging to q
small rival association.
1910 81, xvhova fbn
Producing Managers Association was
formed to defeat the union. a Ave
year contract was signed comprising
the Equity shop principle. A company
union, the Actors Fidelity league
had been formed, with managers as
officers and about so members. The
union contract recognized the league
and permitted a non-Equity shop
Equity is now demanding for the new
contract a complete union shop where
members are employed, excepting
only the few actors who we're Fidelity
members up to Sep. 1, 1923. This is
to prevent managers from increasing
Fidelity membership (S5 annual
dues) with potential Equity members
(S1S annual dues.)
Managers who control two-thirds
of the theatres on Broadway have
definitely committed themselves tc
the actors SIDE" says Equity, official
organ Of the union. "A check on cur
rent productions revealed that there
were many casts 100 per cent Equity
already and that the general average
was more than 80 per cent Equity
Equity wants another 5-year con
tract but has agreed with Lee
Shubert to sign an Equity shop con
tract for ten years If necessary.
Equity has a 10000 membership
The annual meeting is June 2. Out
going officers, including John Elmer
son, Ethel Barrymore and Frank Gill
more, will probably be reelected.
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He Was Aforementioned.

CARSON. Wis. April 21.--Placing
four sticks of dynamite under an old
stump on his farm near here, and
then lighting the fuse. J. N. Winacke
in a moment OF Observation-Disclosures
sat down on the stump. After the
explosion, Wfnecke was picked vi
thirty feet away. seriously injured
He will probably lose his eyesight, at
tending physicians at a hospital al
Stevens Point, where he is beint
treated, said today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22
SOVIET PICTURE
WINS ITS RIGHTS
IN RHODE ISLAND
Fifth Year., Forbidden
Before, To Appear
lspeelsI to The Daily worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
The Fifth Year" film picture OF
Russian life under the Soviet govern
ment wins its rights to appear in
Providence, r. l., on Wednesday.
April %, after six months of efforts
on the part of the Civil Liberties I'm.
ion and others to get permission from
the police commissioners of that city.
"Soviet Propaganda" Cry.
A local committee had been formed
for the purpose of running the enter
tainment. This committee was called
for the r. l. Russian Relief Commit
tee, and was composed Of men of
Russian birth and parentage, but all
citizens of this country. But reac-
tionary elements raised hue and cry
against Soviet propaganda and al
legged that the showing of the picture
was part Of a nationwide plot to con-
vert this country to the ideas OF the
Bolsheviks and as a result Of this
opposition the permit was denied.
Police Commissioners Yield.
The Civil Liberties Union tried to
get the police commissioners 10 re-
consider their action, but without
avail. Finally the r. l. Workers Edu-
cational Society decided to show the
films as part of their educational pro-
gram and when DR.. ]. u. Reid made
application for permit, which Is re.
CURED under the local law, Il was
granted by the police commissioners.
So the Fifth Year" will be shown
TO q Providence audience as an edu-
cational film in Eagles Hall, on
Wednesday, April 2S, at D. M, under
the auspices OF the r. I. Workers Ed
ucational Society. All tickets that
we're purchased for the showing on
Sept 20 will be good for this showing.
II is expected that a large attendance
at this meeting will be the answer to
the reactionary elements OF Provi-
dence. All friends OF freedom in
Providence are requested to spread
the news and to be present In Eagles
Hall on the night of April 23 and see
the pictures OF Russian life under the
fifth year OF the Soviet regime.
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list International raised the question,
in its letter to the convention, of an
alliance with the farmers and whether
the Labor Party should not be
changed to the Farmer-Labor Party.
After a thoro discussion of the
question in which some delegates ex-
pressed the viewpoint that to change
the character of the party from a Ia
Dor party to a farmer-labor party at
this time would be premature, the
convention voted to raise the issue in
the Labor Party of the alliance with
the farmers in the formation OF the
proposal, to change the name to the
Farmer-Labor Party and to invite
farmer organizations to send dele
gates to the labor party units.
Nova Scotia Strike.
The second issue which caused a
great deal of discussion was the ques.
ton of the conduct of the Nova SEQ
tia strike. There was some criticism
of the method Of developing the sym.
pathetic strike Of the miners in sup.
port of the British Empire Steel Com.
pany employees. The Communist In
ternational raised the question as to
the tactics of the party in relation to
the strike, criticising the party for not
making sufficient political use Of the
Nova Scotia strike. The Communist
International was of the opinion that
the Workers Party should have issued
manifesto calling upon the workers
thruout Canada to rally TO the sup
port of the miners and thus develop
the strike as political Issue against
the Canadian government.
The discussion of this question
brought out the fact that the strike
in Nova Scotia had developed spon
taneously and that the leaders had
done all in their power to safeguard
the interest OF the workers. II was
admitted that the party might have
acted more energeticaily in making
use of the political issue raised by the
strike.
Recommends Political Action.
The Communist International also
raised the question whether the Cen
trail Executive Committee of the Marty