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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
MiLitGriSt
Play Is Late est
B erLin Sensation

DRESDEN, axony, Germany,
Feb. 18.-Ernst Toller's anti-mili-
taristic play, Hinkemann (Limping
NAM, is the most talked about
theme in Dresden today. After hav-
ing proved great success in Leip-
sic, where it first went over the
boards, it was to be staged in the
state theater at the capital, Dresden.
But in Dresden the reactionaries
are in control Dresden is the head
quarters of the military dictator,
General Mueller, and everything red
is anathema to the powers here.
Accordingly, when Hinkemann was
announced group of nationalists
decided to break up the first per-
Torrance and to make later perform
ances impossible. They bought seats
in various parts of the house and
soon after the opening of the play
Kisses and cries of shame were
heard, and the 100 per cent patriots
started to sing nationalistic songs.
After breaking up the first per-
formance, they next addressed let
tiers to every member Of the cast,
threatening to shoot them on the
open stage in case they continued
to produce this searching denuncia-
ton by the noted revolutionary dra-
matist. The play has therefore btn,n
cancelled for the present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Senator Phipps
Uses Job to Guard
His POUUer Monopoly

WASHINGTON. Feb. Ex-senator
Phipps, of Colorado, once treasurer
of Carnegie Steel. is chief owner of
the Southern Sierra Power Co.
He is collecting extortionate rates
for power and light from the people
of the southwest.
The annual appropriation bill for
the interior department, now in the
senate, came over from the house
with an item of $3.50, 900, recommend
ed by the reclamation service and the
budget bureau, for construction of a
hydro-electric power plant at the
Yuma reclamation dam in Arizona
This project would smash Phipps'
monopoly in that region. The bill
went to a committee in which Phipps
is a member, and when it emerged
the item of $250,000 had been cut
out. Another similar Item, which
would put a crinpI in another private
power monopoly in Idaho and eastern
Washington, was likewise eliminated
In that committee.
Democratic senators from the reg
ions affected took the warpath. They
declared that this was bit too raw,
even from Phipps, and they would
tell the country about it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Independent Union
of Lumber Workers
s e e ks AMLiGtiOn

VANCOUVER, B. c., Feb. 10
At the recent annual convention OF
the Lumber Workers Industrial
Union of Gambia held here, the
union voted for utilization with the
Trades and Labor Congress Of Cam
ada as a part of its united front
program. The convention decided
that the L. w. l. U. would adhere
to its original policy for the organ
ization of workers engaged in the
timber industry turnout the domin-
ion on an industrial basis without
regard to race or color, skilled or
unskilled.
The system of piece work and
the contract system were condemned,
but the union decided that so long
as a worker is actually engaged in
che iumber industry he is eligible
for membership in the union regard
less Of whether or not he is COM
PEELED by the boss to work under
the piece work system.
The convention voted to appoint a
committee of three members to meet
and interview the officials Of the
Vancouver branch of the /. w. W.,
No. 100, to reach an understanding
as to organization activities among
the lumber workers Of this province
and to provide a means for cohesion
between the two unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Court Ruling May
Wipe Out Bonuses
for the BrickLGyers

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-Building
contractors who pay bonuses in order
to secure bricklayers during the busy
season must continue to pay them
during the period the building is in
course of construction, ruled Supreme
Court Justice Ford, arbitrator be-
tween the Mason Builders Associa-
ton and the executive committee Of
the New York Bricklayers' Union.
Under this decision builders who
paid $14, $15 and $16 per day to get
bricklayers when there was a scare
ity Of skilled labor, must continue to
pay it. Ten large buildings now in
construction must pay the extra
wages until the building is COM
pleted.
The employers feel that the decis-
ion may have the effect of stopping
the payment Of bonuses, for the time
being. They also state that the com
ing summer will find many employ
ers eager to pay the bonus in order
that they may have sufficient skilled
labor TO enable them to complete
their contracts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Police FrGme-ups
Hit IS nag in Mo.
Supreme Court Rule
By MARTIN A. DILLMON

BY MARTIN a. OlLLMON
(Stah Correspondent Of the Federated Press)
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1S-Police officials
cannot break the law to enforce it,
saws a decision Of the Missouri SUI
preme court, handed down in three
LIQUOR cases. Convictions on evidence
obtained by the police unlawfully will
not be sustained by the high court,
the opinion states.
In one of the cases the court orders
the release of Alfred Owens, con-
victed in Stone county Of possession
Of a bottle of whisky, because he was
convicted on evidence obtained by Of
ficers searching without warrant.
Justice White wrote the opinion and
reviewed several liquor cases in vari-
Gus parts of the country. The trend
of argument, the judge says, in favor
of admission of illegally obtained
evidence Of violation Of the prohibit
ton law is that it is necessary and
the only way to enforce the law--that
it is necessary to violate the law to
enforce it.
"If peace officers are rewarded for
DIGdhlHB Onc peace, WhaI AlOAC POOSAAe
influence could induce people gener-
ally to hold law in contempt and to
break thru legal barriers which stand
across the path of their desires?'
Judge White asks.
eff a rule obtains" the judge con-
tinues, "that an officer may enter any
home and search any person or place
without a warrant-if he, vainglori-
ously sensible Of the little brief
authority with which he is invested
is encouraged to arrest and search
because he suspects someone of some
unknown crime, and is rewarded &C.
cording to his own success in dis
covery; if he is encouraged to hunt
and ferret on chance of hitting on
something suspicious, a system OF
espionage would ensue characteristic
Of those countries where the sanctity
of the home and inviolability of the
citizen are unknown"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
st. Louis Postal
Workers Demand
COS t in Wages
tBy Ths Fsdsratsd Pre.sl

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 18.-Three thous-
and citizens met in public mass meet
ing here and adopted unanimously a
resolution endorsing legislation for
increased pay for postoffice employees.
The resolution sets out that made
quate pay and unsatisfactory working
conditions are lowering the efficiency
and morale of the postal service.
"The salaries of the postal en-
ployes of the United States are in
adequate to properly rear their fami-
lies in accordance with the stand
ards of American living" the resolu-
ton declares. Conditions within the
service are such that it is becoming
increasingly difficult to retain an eff
cient personnel
st. Louis Postmaster Alt, favoring
the resolution, said he is surprised
that postal service is so good with
existing meager salaries. He pledg-
ed his support to the move for i'm
proved wage rates. Former Congress-
man Bartholdt said if the public re-
allied present conditions in the postal
service it would force action by con-
gress.
More than 5000 employees are en-
ployed in the st. Louis postoffice
They are organized and affiliated
with the Central Trades and Labor
union. This effort for better pay has
the undivided support of organized
labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
AmOskedg Textile
b arc rs Attempt
Evidence Suppression

MANCHESTER, N. H.. Feb. 49,
The lawyers for the Amoskeag Man
ufacturing Co., textile barons, strove
strenuously to keep out Of the evil
dence damaging testimony to their
propaganda. The Amoskeag is try
ing to have its taxes reduced, altho
their present rates are low, and the
farmers bear the brunt of the taxa
ton. The main point stressed by the
labor-hsting Amoskeag has been the
fear of southern competition.
But the lawyers do not want this
question discussed; they objected to
the introduction Of evidence that not
all textile interests fear southern
competition. The evidence, however,
was introduced; it was shown that
Henry F. Lippit of Manville, r. !. and
H. C. Meserve, president and secre-
tary, respectively, Of the National
Cotton Manufacturers Association
had testified at other hearings that
they did not fear southern COMPETE
ton.
Not only southern composition but
also the 4S-hour week are brought
into the hearing. Both issues were
involved in the textile strike last
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
NOU0 Scotia Coal
Miners Return to
Work, Strike OUer
By JOHN ROBUR

(Staf Correspondent Of the Federated Press)
MONTREAL, Feb. 18-After nego-
tiations stretching over three months
the Nova Scotia miners have secured
an increase in wages over those in
force last year. Work and negotia-
lions went hand in hand from Novem-
Der till the middle Of January, when
the British Empire Steel Corp. locked
out the men, and ordered a reduc-
ton of 20ao in pay. Negotiations
were renewed after a weeks break,
and later carried from Cape Breton to
Montreal, where the head Office of
"Besco" is situated.
The new agreement which runs for
one year provides for the following
increases:
Datal men, underground, 80 cents
day; datal, surface men, % cents
day; shooters and leaders and con-
tract men, including helpers, cents
ton; local contracts, sc; hand pick
miners, cents a ton. At the same
time the price of domestic coal to
the miners in increased from $2.25 to
$3.50 a ton.
The final adjustment between the
company and the men came about
after Intervention by representative
of the federal department of latFr, E.
MEG. Quirk of Montreal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
To PrOUide the
W OrL DIS Workers
Nth Common Tongue

In order to eliminate one of the
main obstacles to the international
solidarity of the working class an
organization was formed to provide
the workers with a common language
for use in international relations
without, however, abolishing the ex-
listing languages.
At its last international congress
in Cassel, Germany, this organization
called the International Communist
lido Federation adopted the following
declaration of principles:
/. The International Language to
be used exclusively for the inter-
national relations, without abohshing
neither the nations or the national
language, is a characteristic pustu-
late of the proletarian society and
movement. All efforts 70 materialize
it in the capitalist bourgeois society
is utopianism and abuts necessarily
upon intellectual sport and sterile
sectarianism.
2. The practical naturalization of
the international Language becomes
possible in the same degree as the
political power Of the proletarian
struggle for power increases in the
world. Therefore, the proletarian
movement for International Lam
guage must work and fight in the
closest contact with the proletarian
movement for the conquest and con-
servation of the political power. /.
e., with the Third (Communist) In
ternational, on which it depends spir-
itually and politically.
3. The proletarian movement for
the international Language has as its
aim the realization and practical
adoption of the international Lam
guage in society. 1t does not work
for any certain system against an
other, and will practically propagate
and practice the International Lam
guage such as it is and will be pre-
scented by its science. (''Mondolin-
guismo.")
A. Because among all existing sys-
TENS of the International Language
the language lido today offers the
greatest guarantees for constant and
easy adaptness, at present and in
future, to the progress Of science the
proletarian movement for the Inter
national Language takes as base
for its propaganda and tactics the in.
ternational language lido (scientif.
cally perfected Esperanto) and con-
stitutes its fighting organization un-
der the name of the international
Communist lido Federation (Kifn-
term.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
I He PRIN &c
is LUCK Y; he
HAS NO COUNTRY
All Locked up; No Place
to Go

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-Prince
Michael Dmitri Obolenski-some-
times known as plain Harry Gergu-
son-self-styled scion of the ROM
anoffs and an enigma to police chiefs
turnout the middle west, has become
man without country.
Authorities at Ellis Island, where
he is held, are unable to deport him
because they haven't any place to
send him.
The prince was arrested three
months ago and sent to the island
for deportation, because he entered
this country without passport,
swimming ashore--or so he says
from Ellis Island one dark and
stormy night. For a year previous
he had roamed the United States,
debonair, immaculate, with his tale
Of royal relationships disseminated
in the cultured accents Of Oxford
and Eton and his too apparent pow
erty a merry jest for his friends, in
whose polite amusement he never
failed to shase.
The department of labor at Wash
ington directed that the prime be
deported and the prince took out
writ Of habeas corpus. Now, from
his chilly confinement at Ellis Island
whence, lacking $1,000 for bond. he
cannot escape, Obolenski or Gergu-
son as they somehow prefer to call
him there defes the authorities.
Not Prejudiced Against Truth.
Send him if they will, but where?
He possesses no passport whatever.
It will do no good to dump him upon
the sunny shores of France, or of
England, or even of far off Russia:
in fact, the authorities admit it
would be highly improper.
For the present, in answer to
questions Obolenski says he is an
American citizen. Nobody believes
that; but then, nobody believes any
thing he says. In answer to ques-
tions, he admits he is not telling
the truth, adding he would be pleased
to do so if it would serve his inter
ests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
S OVIET RUSSIA.
WILL VEL C 0 M {.
5000 DUKHOBORS
Members of Sect Quit
ting Canadian Farms
Especial 70 The Daily Worker)

WINNIPEG, Mant., Feb. 17.-Be-
cause economic conditions here are
not good for the farmer, and we are
just making money for men who take
advantage of the fact that we are
simple people who keep our word
and do not go to law" 5000 Dukho-
bors are planning to leave Canada
and go to Russia. They are selling
over 100000 acres of land to an
American syndicate,
The Dukhobors, who are a relig-
ious sect that does not believe in
war, came to Canada from Russia
more than quarter of a century
ago. They came here to escape serv-
ing in the Cars army During the
late war Canada forced many of
them to serve in her army and the
fact that Soviet Russia recognizes the
right of religious sects to refuse
military service is a strong factor in
their decision to return 10 Russia.
The first party expects to leave a
Canadian port shortly on a chartered
ship for Odessa. The rest of the
colony will follow later. They will
take with them several million dol
airs in cash for the purchase of farm
machinery. The Soviet government
will give them all the land they can
use for one-sixth of the crops. The
emigrants will pay their own way to
Russia.
The Dukhobors are quiet. indus
trious people who are we'll liked all
thru the Canadian northwest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Granite State II. r.
Workers Still out
After Is Months

CONCORD, N. H., Feb. 1S.-Nina-
teen months, a long weary strike
and not yet settled. Since July.
1921, when the shopnen strucS
against the union wrecking railroad
companies, those in Concord have re-
fused to go back. They stuck, ninety
per cent of the seven hundred that
went out. They got Jobs at any,
thing, stone cutting, quarrying,
weaving. And others left the city.
Even a year after the strike be-
gan, the men had the never say die
spirit. eve won't go back, until we
can go back like men," And thew
didn't.
The Boston and Maine manage
me mt told the men that they would
not have anything to do. with them
they would come back at the terms
given to them, or not at all. But the
leaders have been putting the men
off with promises, of an early settle
ment and it looks as tho Godfrey
Cass was talking about the Concord
leaders, when he said: "Marner was
III SHC 4A6Ab aOO0b HAL
off blessing; it falls to somebody
else"
Many of the strikers feel that the
strike has been fzzle, due to the
separation of the workers into too
many unions; the betrayal by Cradle,
the capitalist lickspittle; and the pus-
syfooting of the railroad union Off
Gals. They point to the need for
amalgamation of all the railroad I'M
ions, and show that now all the shop
crafts meet together in Concord ev-
cry Sunday night. They claim that
if they can meet together, they can
decide together.
Even the scabs are being laid of
this is their reward for betrayal.
The same thing is happening in the
Bellerica shops, the main ones on the
B. & M. line.
The courageous fighting spirit of
the Concord railroad strikers is
worthy of better leadership and a
better program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Work for JObLesS
at Union Wage, Is
Demand In Britain
CBy The Federated Press)

LONDON, Feb. 18.-The growing
protest against unemployment in
Britain has centered in a campaign,
supported by the council of the Trade
Union Congress and the Unemployed
Workers committee, for immediate
action on the unemployed workers
charter" The six points Of the char
ter follow:
First-Work Of effective mainte-
nance for all unemployed and increas-
ed government assistance, to be pro-
vided thru the trade unions. all re-
lief being completely ASSOCIATED from
the poor law administration.
Second-Immediate development Of
government schemes for employment
to absorb the unemployed in their
own trades as trade union wages.
Establishment of state
workshops to supply the necessary
service or commodities to meet the
requirements of the government de-
partments.
Fourth-Reductior in the hours of
labor sufficiently to absorb the un-
employed workers, the normal work
ing day or week to be regulated by
the requirements Of industry.
Establishment of occupa-
tional training centers for unemploy-
ed workers, with effective mainte-
nance.
Sixth-PFovision for suitable hous-
ing accommodation at rents within
the means Of the wage earners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
1t Admires Our Vigor
"The Nations" Comment on the DAILY WORKER

The Nation, liberal
its Feb goth on Daily Worker
1.-THE DAILY WORKER born and published in Chicago
live and prosper after many another paper forgotten
for it has several of strength that many of its Inflated
contemporaries have lacked 1t Is the organ cohesive and
highly disciplined organization, whose members will support
matter Of party loyalty 1t is propaganda Sheet
and its editorials frankly coloredand their color
red It makes efforts to please various factions
at being general newspaper is the of the
members of the Workers Party and its money and its readers
will presumably be drawn from that group. Such the
sources In far refuses to the
nonCommunist workers, 1t will also fail to win them We
need labor daily in these days of high journalistic mortality
journalistic standards that welcome the existence
of the DAILY WORKER and admire its straightforward vgor
hope that will yield the human demand for
nonpasan with relegated the editor
isl pages" 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19

Tho Daily Worker urges al
nembers Of che party to ssnA In
the news Of thsir various Sec
tisns. Every Party Branch shesld
appoint lie own correspondent and
make him responsible for the news
that ought to be sent In TO The
Daily Worker. The Party Page
should be the livest page in The
Daily Worker. Help make II so.
Address all mail to the Editer. The
Daily Worker, 1910 N. Halsssi
ST., Chiesso, III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Strike of Stage
Hands Coming in
San Frdncisc

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1S.-This
city is faced by the probability Of
strike Of all stage hands, motion
picture operators, theater musicians
and other stage employees, unless the
theaters grant IA per cent wage
increase at once. BY the rules Of
the Federated Stage Crafts, all al
lied trades must walk out If the
stage hands quit, and the result will
be the darkening of nearly every the
alter in San Francisco. A 5 per
cent raise was offered and refused.
The managers are evidently pre-
pairing for a siege, as evidenced by
the refusal of the owner of the Cur
ran theater to allow the orchestra
to play. "That was an experiment
to prove that we can get along with
out an orchestra" he explained, land
If necessary we'll get along without
stage hands" The musicians re-
Gently asked for a II per cent In
crease and accepted compromise
Of per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Boston Baked
BY WILLIAM sIMoNs.

This is surely the era of revela-
tons; how suddenly Mussolini has
discovered that he was always
sympathetic toward Russia.
The papers said that Coolidge
would make a political speech on.
Feb. IL. But they didn't say, in
what year.
New Hampshire is reported to
be state that is growing richer.
The workers and farmers, it
seems, are not in that state.
A tenant in Worcester was dis
charged for striking his landlord,
after explaining that "every time
I have an increase in my family,
have my rent increased" Strange
that the landlord was not jailed
for trying to limit the number of
working stiffs.
Said Coo-Coo-Coolidge when
Governor of Massachusetts, 'Have
faith in Massachusetts," when
chance put him in the presidential
chair: "Have faith in the United
States" Faith? In He'll!
Sam Sinp said he was amazed
at the universal support of the
Mellon taxation plan. Why, even
the jewelers. Clubs were in favor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Recognition Must
Come Before Trade
Pact, Says LitUinof

MOSCOW, Feb. 18.-ln future
Russia will not sign commercial trea-
ties with countries prior to their
de jure recognition of the Soviet gov
eminent, declared Maxim Litvinoh,
deputy minister Of foreign affairs.
Great Britain, italy and Norway all
ready have recognized the present
government.
M. Litvinoff would not take def
mite stand in connection with the
United States, tho he was firm in
his statement that European coun.
tries would have to accede to the
terms. He drew distinction between
trade agreements implying de factc
recognition and commercial treaties.
He added also that the United States
has not made an approach on the
subject.
"Some countries 60 on muttering
about old debts" M. Litvinoff said.
1--WE refuse to consider any prelim-
mary condition to commercial trea-
ties. Countries first must recognize
us de jure, then we will discuss
iaatters with them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
Crippled Soldiers
Pr0tes t Plan to
Reduce Pensions

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. ban
unusual spectacle was presented here
recently when 900 wounded ex-sol-
diers entered the magnificent parlia-
ment building to protest against an
order Of the government by which
the benefits paid to them by the gov
eminent are reduced.
What lent color To the demonstra-
ton was the fact that among the
invalids were cripples who had to
be dragged into the building by their
comrades, since they were unable to
move alone, and that there were
naxv sx-ssldisrs ~ oxutqhss. -.