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Evening star., 1924-05-23
CHAPTER XIV.
Decision.

DecisiOn.
- LISE went out for a walk. She
" suddenly felt that the atmos-
phere of the Earret was
sitting and CONSTRUCTED, and
had a need for the comparative COOL
ness of the night air outside. She
crept across to Marthe's bed. and.
assuring herself that Marthe was
soundly asleep. she went carefully
from the house to the silence of the
night filled streets.
She wanted to think calmly and
5udicially, and thought she could do
so more easily walking about than
sitting in the still, close room.
For this was a great decision. She
was in the position OF one with a
certain limited capital to be disposed
of to the best advantage. She had
single talent-a year Of life-and
she must use 1t with her best en-
deavorS.
Lapierre-Brunel-or what?
Already she had definitely decided
room was impossible. The stakes
were too high to permit of such small
play. She must throw a giant hazard
with fate, and hope to scoop the pool.
AS she walked she realized that she
days The detection Of Kendrick. the
attitude of Brunei and Mordac, the
sentence of death, and Lapierre'S en-
deavor to take advantage of it-all
had reacted swiftly on her mobile
temperament She felt harder. more
detached, more calculating, with still,
beneath the hardness and detachment
and calculation, a restless flood of
her old emotionalism, protest
against this new self which was be-
ing born. a reaching out for light and
love and that quiet happiness for
which nature had fitted her.
The more she thought the more did
she concentrate cd Brunei and Nor
dac and their kind. That way lay
wealth-wealth. as Brunei had said,
beyond her dreams. That way was
feverish gayety, forgetfulness, f1aunt-
ing life the brimming cup, the bright
lights. That way was certain succor
for Marthe.
1t was the way, the only way.
She settled this suddenly and def
nitely and with q GOODNESS which as
tonished her. In fact, she was already
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The daily worker., 1924-12-01

Milan. They are all young men full
Of enthusiasm and were at the mo.
ment enjoying scoop they had made
at the expense OF the chief of police
Of Milan.
Communists Have Them Worried.
A letter had been sent from Rome
ordering him to renew efforts to
stamp out the activities OF the party
amongst the steel workers around
Milano. and to use any methods he
deemed advisable. The letter went
on to say that they, the Communists
were becoming real menace in this
district and should be stopped at all
costs. This letter instead Of reaching
the chief OF police had somehow been
delivered, by mistaken. Of course. to
the L'Unita, where II was photo
graphed and published the same day
SO In spite OF the clubs OF the Fascist
the work is going on here as usual
and It would seem from the letter suo'
csssfully.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
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NEWS OF THE NEW CAMPAIGN.

THE mailing Insurance. policies IN the oampaIun
to INSURE THE DAILY has been completed
Every branch in the directions policy
boOks-sverythIns essential to the
Policy books printed letters
This itself printing plant can be
proud Of.
j. A. Hamilton organizer Of
opinion that the policy
printing establishment do the line Of hghcass printing Then
also decided that would campaign printing
that would make the membership sit they
saw It. And we this did
Mat Jenkins of greatly just
raised $1,000 for the Frehe
equipment special delivery
to to work." His
the
The Headquarters Building
the The call - INSURE THE DAILY WORKER
the 100000 already
by this committee
Party membership
hfeth Of the needed II all will
raise WORKER only
you'll not hear complaint this
activity.
buy policies just
Headquarters groups
compelled literally
safe for the to
speech similarly positive language by DOzenhers
to Lettish comrades gathered at the Chicago
Irving English Chicago pledged every
Chicago
Of
$500 policy.
they WILL their yellow
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Church Leadership
in Strike Brings
Weak Settlement

HULL, Canada, Nov. 30-The two
months strike Of girl match workers,
in which some Of the Roman Catholic
clergy sympathized, is at an end.
The church leadership in the strike
is undoubtedly responsible for the
weak settlement. The E. B. Eddy Co.
agrees to take back all of the 300 en-
ployes only as needed" and only 3
out Of Is machines are to be oper-
ated at present. The company will
not sign an agreement with the un-
ion, but the Objectionable form Of con-
tract, prohibiting union action in
working hours, is dropped. The COM
pany persist in its refusal to appoint
forewomen. but agrees to appoint wo-
men inspectors, who will not have the
power to hire and fire.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
JUDGE
UP ON CHARGE
OF CONSUMPTION
But Not the Kind Cured
by Sun Baths

PARKERsBURG. w. Va. Nov. 30,
Charged by T. A. Brown, United
States district attorney. with drunk
enness, confiscation and consumption
Of intoxicating liquor, Imprisonment
of a citizen without cause or justifi-
cation, high crimes and misdemean.
ors and unfitness and incompetency
to fill the judicial position" held by
him, Federal Judge William e. Baker,
Of the northern district of West Vir-
ginia went on trial before sub-com-
mittee of the house committee on ju-
dietary here today. The sub-commit
tee is to determine whether Judge
Baker, who was named to his posi-.
tion by the late President Harding in
1921, should be presented to the sen.
ate for impeachment.
Members Of the committee sitting
the charges include L. G. Dyer, Mis-.
souri,, chairman; I. M. Foster, Ohio;
A. ]. Hickey, Indiana; J. B. Kritz.
Pennsylvania; F. H. Dominick, South
Carolina, and J. w. Wise. Virginia.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
LIGHTS GO OUT,
BOOKS STOLEN.
in union MEET
Bosses Thugs Stage
Raid on Candy Union
Especial to The Daily Worker


NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-That
the workers who produce the
sweets are having a very bitter
time of il was the consensus of
opinion at a mass meeting of
candy workers here at Astoria
Hall, 62 East 4th Street.
They called this meeting to
organize into a union to secure
better working conditions in
candy factories.
over $50 attended. The lights went
out suddenly. There was a skirmish.
Then five men rushed up to the plat
form, snatched up the books and file
card index containing names Of the
members Of the union and made their
getaway.
The officers and members said they
could easily explain the hold up. The
manufacturers Of candy are worried,
in fact, they are desperate. They
have always been able to exploit the
candy workers without any redress.
Profits were big-salaries the lowest
Of any workers in the country and
hours the longest Now the candy
workers are organizing. And the holi-
day season is here. The workers de-
mands become serious. Il is a bad
time for bosses to have a strike on
their hands. But it is a right good
time for the workers.
The candy workers have sent out
the following appeal to workers in
their trade:
"candy Workers, AttentIonI
How long are our conditions going
to remain worse than those Of other
workers? How long will our wages
be SO low and hours so long? How
much longer will our bosses and fore
men be able to insult us with abso-
lutte impunity? Do you realize that
our lives are endangered by the rot
ten conditions under which we la
Dor? Do you know, candy worker
that you can improve your condition
by coming to this meeting? It is your
duty to come. You cannot afford to
miss 1t. In union there is strength,
and We Must Organized"
There will be another meeting Of
the candy workers very soon at which
they will go into the fnal plans for
the organization Of their union.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
MILK PROF|TEERS
STAGE RIOTS IN
HIGH PRICE WAR
Meanwhile Oakland Old
and Babies Suffer
SsreeIaI .o .hs paIIy workerl

OAKLAND. Cal, Nov. sO.-As the
result Of milk war between produc-
ers and jobbers, Alameda county is
practically without milk. % persons
are under Arrest, drivers have been
held up and shot at, and state troops
have been requested.
The trouble arose when the East
Bay Milk Producers Assn, the job
bers between farmers and distribu.
tors, refused to supply any more milk
until the price was raised from tic
to 29c gallon. Milk retails in Oak
land for SC pint, as against 13c in
San Francisco. Dairymen within zoe
miles normally send milk to Oakland
The small independent milk produc
ers, continued to serve Alameda
county, and the big association, it is
claimed, hired gunmen to prevent
their doing so.
There have been several clashes be-
TWEEN gunner and strikers, and the
only way to get milk in Oakland today
is to stand in line for hours. Then
only old women and children with
babies in arms are served. San Fran
cisco producers are sending some sur
plus milk to the east bay district, but
almost none is coming from the back
country. 1t is unlikely that the gov
ernor will send trop at the milk dis
tributors' request, as owing to the
trouble in southern California, where
the farmers in Owens river valley
have diverted part Of the Los Angeles
water supply to provide themselves
with water for irrigation, all available
troops may be needed there.
The producers association states
that the farmers they get their milk
from are desperate, and will not pro-
vide any more milk until the price
is raised. The independent producers
say the big association is sabotaging
and that 1t is simply trying to raise
prices for its own benefit Meanwhile
disorder continues and Oakland chill
dren are crying for milk.
|
The daily worker., 1924-12-01

equal fervor this system Of exploita-
ton. They nigh have been boy and
Virl scouts such as one sees parading
oAS occasion in any town in the United
StAtes except that they wore black
shirk, They were Of course too
small "a carry pistols and clubs like
their elders.
Must Prepare to Fight FascIsm
We have Fascism in the United
States although as compared to Italy
Il is in It's infancy but let us have
real revolutionary crisis and II will
grow into a conscious, cold-blooded
armed force that will show absolutely
no quarter either TO the members Of
the party or to the proletariat. The
comrades must work hard to prepare
themselves for what is surely to
come, for we have the most power
full bourgeoisie in the world with
murder as one Of its lesser and more
gentle crimes.
Yesterday went to call on some
Of the comrades at the Office Of the
L'Unita. tho party's Official organ In
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
1T HAPPENS IN MILWAUKEE,

charges. THE mother won't stay home
and take care Of her children, your
honorl"
The father is called to the stand
Ho explains:
II make SIS week when work is
scarce and s21 a week when / work
full time. My wife must work or we
cannot eat"
The case was dismissed. But that
will neither put food into the mouthr
OF the hungry ones nor will II
straighten out the psychological kinks
which grow into the minds Of children
who are brot up in poverty and mis-.
cry. And when they grow up. there
viii be no costly alienists to explain
away their possible crimes.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
BY IDA pAlLEs.


Wisconsin is LaFolIette's model
state. Milwaukee is Victor Berger's
model city. Could one wish for hap.
pier combination? And yet
strange things happen in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. Things that really
shouldn't happen in city and state
that are run by those who represent
themselves as the friends OF the
common people,"
A man. wife, six children. Two Of
the children had been committed TO
county institutions for delinquency.
Another child, six years old. is to be
placed in an institution for theft.
An indignant probation o1icer
tsstifying in the juvenile court,
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
WAR Chief ASKS
CONGRESS FOR
GREATER ARMY
Far-reaching Plans for
lingo Propaganda
lspsoIaI . .he DaIIy workerl


WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov.
3O.-Secretary of War Weeks
pleads for greater war Topro-
priations and for an increase in
size Of the army in his annual
report made public Hday.
Weeks praises the "citizen
army" provided in the national
defense act.
Prepared for War,
"Our program for national defense
conforms to military requirements in
view of the state of the world and the
traditional traits of our people" says
the secretary Of war.
1T was made so that should we
again be confronted suddenly with an
international crisis the nationals Of
America would defend themselves in
an effective organization, the citizens
Of the nation forming part Of either
army.
"The training activities Of the army
Of the United States and its personnel
procurement branches are on the in.
crease"
While stating that the size of the
army is increasing, Weeks admits
that conditions under which the sol
diers are forced to work are many
times very poor.
"The condition under which officers
and enlisted men live in temporary
camps and cantonments, due to lack
Of funds for new construction, tends
seriously to reduce the efficiency and
morale of both officers and men.
Worries About Appearances.
Lack Of funds for the manufacture
Of clothing for enlisted men and the
forced issue Of war stocks of these
articles has resulted either in very
unmilitary appearing commands OF
has compelled the soldier to expend
large proportion Of his own funds in
order to present before the public the
military appearance necessary.
Plan War Propaganda
The secretary Of war shows that
progress is being made toward the
perfecting OF system for the spread
Of war propaganda,
Eventually we shall have repres-
entatives of one or another of this
national defense system in all COM
munities and their influence will
be felt among their neighbors
until all our people come to apprecia-
to the wisdom of supporting ma
tional defense plan so essential to
security and peace, so beneficial tc
our youth. and yet so economical to
the taxpayer.
The war department again pleads
for more money and larger army
declaring, 'If satisfactory normal
progress is to continue there must be
provision for expansion beyond the
narrow bounds imposed by the TEN
porary considerations of the post wal
reaction.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Police Launch
MANY RAIDS ON
NEGROES HERE
Find 1t Is Profitable
Source of Graft

Police officers are conducting
wholesale raids without reason
on the homes of south side
Negroes, victims Of police raids
charge.
The police on the south side
are in league with the numerous
bondsmen who infest the police
stations and courts, baiIing out
those arrested and giving COM
missions to the police, Perry G.
T mpson, Negro writer,
charges.
Prey On the Negroes
Arrests must be kept up to GER
tain level in order to make the graft
profitable, and as usual, the Negro
residents are counted as legitimate
prey.
An example of wholesale persecu-
tion Of Negroes by the police is seen
in the arrest by Officers McMorrow
and McKenna, Of the Wabash avenue
station, of Irene Mathews, 1925 Calu-
met avenue, Miss Mathews was ap-
preached by a white man who, she
charges, made some fresh remarks
to her, and when she refused to go
with him, called to the two officers
who were standing in readiness near
by.
The Negroes charge that scores of
Negro women are being framed up
in similar manner by the police, the
white men accosting the women
being "stool pigeons" in league with
the police.
Complainant Fails to Appear
Miss Mathews was discharged by
the judge trying her case after she
had given evidence of her good moral
character. This is the first time in
the many similar cases in which the
complaining witness has failed to
appear to make his charges.
1t cannot be charged that there is
more crime rampant in the blackbelt
as the gangs centering around Dean
O'Banion, Tommy O'Connor, Big Tim
Murphy, Gene Gary, the Torrios, and
O'Donnell made their habitats in
other sections of the city. Many of
the Negroes unjustly arrested are
forced to "pay Off the police officers
rather than spend the night in Jail, it
is charged.
Negro Made the Goat
The south side Negroes are now
paying rent which in many cases is
so per cent higher than whites pay
for similar structures. These homes
are broken into without search war.
rants by officers on the trail of graft
for themselves. AS usual, the Negro.
who is unorganized, and on the bot
tom of the wage scale as well as the
social ladder, is made the goat.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Expect to Save Miners.

SWANSEA. England, Nov 30.--Four
miners had not been reached by res
cue parties working today in the Pen
land Colliery where 18 were caught in
the rush Of waters into the mine but
1t was believed that all would be brot
out alive.
The rescue workers first feared that
nine were imprisoned beyond hope of
salvation.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Americans Perished
In Expedition to
Wrangel Island

MOSCOW. Nov. SO.-Fifteen Ameri-
cans, Britishers and Canadians perish
ed on Wrangle Island, according to an
interview today with M. Moscow from
has just returned to Moscow from the
the Soviet Wrangel expedition.
The victims Of the exposure and
scanty food supply included Barker
Brady, King. DR.. Mackey, Murray
Buchet, Morris, Brawford, Gala and
Malta Church.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01

mittent strike against these condi-
tions.
Terrific Driving Goes on.
All prisoners are forced to work in
one Of the several workshops of the
prison. 1t was while driving a shaft
for coal mine to be operated by
convicts that the two prisoners we're
killed and the other one injured. The
state manager of the prison permitted
the work on the shaft to be carried
on in such manner as to lead to the
tragedy.
In all the work shops a certain
amount Of work is demanded of each
prisoner If he fails to do it he is
punished. Several times recently the
work quotas have been raised. Final
ly in desperation the prisoners struck
against conditions demanding that the
standards be fixed so that the aged
and inhrm and sick prisoners should
not be required to do as much as
the young and stronger prisoners.
Prisoners Prosecuted.
The strikers were all put in solitary
confinement and the prison authorities
refused to give them either food or
water till they agreed to work. After
three days the strikers were forced to
agree to work. Several days later an
other strike occurred and again the
strikers were put in solitary without
either food or water.
Many of the prisoners are coal min
ers who took part in the battle of
Cliftonville in 1922. They are all
serving fve-year terms. Since they
were union men who were all fearless
and were not timid in demanding that
conditions be improved, they were
blamed for the strike by the prison
authorities. They are receiving the
worse treatment than any Of the 9TH
or strikers.
Some forward looking liberals"
hope that the death Of the two pris-
oners killed in the mine blast will
serve to arouse the public to demand.
ing that prison conditions be set right
but the workers and the convicts who
know something Of the political rot.
tenness Of this entire state and its
government machinery are cynical
about the outlook. In the meantime
the intermittent strike Of the convicts
goes on. The cycle runs, work and
misery, strike and starve, work and
misery, strike and starve.
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WORKER CRACKS JOKE
WITH ANOTHER; BOTH
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.-"cooI-
idae ought TO be killed." jocuIarly
remarked Mike Nauloks to Arthur
Bllledo, both cheesemaksrs in the
Armour plant. The two we're arr
rested by U. s. marshaIs and con-
fronted with charges Of having
threatened the life Of the president
In violation of a federal act prohib-
Itlng such threats. Their bonds
we're fixed at $1,000 which NauIoks
furnished.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
sun YAT SEN
CONFERS With
JAP LEADERS
christian" General to
Tour United States
tspseIaI to Th, palIx worksr,

TOKYO, Nov. 3O.--Japanese politi-
cal leaders went to Kobe today to
confer with Sun Vat Sen. southern
Chinese leader. who is enroute to TieD
Tsin for reunifcation conferences
with other Chinese leaders. In an in.
terview at Kobe, Sun declared that
extra territoriality is the chief cause
OF China's troubles He declared that
he needed Japanese aid to abolish un
fair foreign treaties.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
ImperIaIIsts Get slnced.

LONDON, Nov. 3O.-Fire in the ex-
elusive British Empire club in York
St., Piccadily. claimed one life today
Eight members of the club. who were
trapped in their quarters by the
flames, were injured. The building
suffered heavy damage.
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
FASCIST MENACE CANNOT STOP
COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN ITALY

italy Of
Fascist the holiday
boys girls between and
and they are taught
carried banners denouncng Boshesm promising
big bakshrts like their daddies
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Fena 70 Tour U. 5.

PEKING, Nov 30.-Resigning his
army command, Marshal Feng W
Hsiang, famous christian general and
one Of the most picturesque figures in
recent Chinese history today an.
nounced his intention Of going to the
United States.
Feng in a telegram to Marshal WI
Pei Flu, who was ousted as military
over lord of China by Feng's success.
full coup, invited WI also to go
abroad and give the country an oppor
tunity to work out peaceful reuni-
flcation without military interference
The daily worker., 1924-12-01
WEST VA. COAL STRIKERS MEET
DEATH IN PRISON PROSECUTIONS

MOUNDsvILLE, w. sO-It
and the probable injury Of another the pnenay
attention the public
prison.
CARRYING
The daily worker., 1924-12-01

Next Sunday Night and Every Sun.
day Night, the Open Forum.
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Isabel UStTunder~

place rafs a. home, Tor The benefit oi
one OF the servants alone.
when ] had made up my mind
that Insanity played no part IN tho
strange events tho only alternative
10 consider was biackmail. and u
must have been Tor some iugncrc
I lion or oven crime committed lu The
FAR past Right then tho solution
was IN my grasp for sou had learned
that IN their youth Roger had bfea
interested In chemistry. dye.nF and
boz photography that Hobart WIS d
pfn-and ink artist and Andrew had
worked for O time iu "a pulp manu-
featuring plant Tho old chest Of
metal junk which We cafted away
from under tho floor az tho summer
house and destroyed tho morning
after VIC wound W tho CASE. Eootuc
did not contain the remains ~ a
I printing press hs you hurmised. but
tho relic OF n machine for making
a replica of tho rIlk threaded paper
tho government uses FOR genuine
Erefnbaelgs and lad been an original
Invention Of the real Andrew
1T didn't come % me even then
that the truth was staring mo IN The
face until you brought INC thai
/ so bin Rip E0t knitted over and ]
found u was counterfeit II wai
scorched AZ one end. and knowing
that Il had been on the duathend
where Miss Drake must have thrown
u among tho nEhes which she clean
"a out Of the drawinE.room fireplace
after ] had seen her burning some
thing thero % midnight
II recalled her woris Ashes
every one. II only the first had
never been conceived this horror
would not have descended upon us.
She had known from The start what
her brothers we're doing. None oi
Der brothers known upiil Just before
the explosion came that Hhe had
been wise al the time. they thought
she believed tho mythical tale Of
an inheritance and ! could kick my
SELF for accepting Il without vcrifica
I ton. but Wells had taken Il Tot
I granted md 20 did ir'
ITS no woTae than me- Sco;tls
Z remarked consollnEly. why dldn'i
I sat that tattoo mark on Andrews
arm when be took off his coat there
In tho garden Just before Mls,
Hawks appeared? To he sure. my
hack was 70 him but ! was there "a
keep my eyes on him and everybody
How ala you first guess that the