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The Washington times., 1924-04-23
YOU
NEVER HEAR
By Nat N. Dorfma1a.
E<xKY ELL, boys, it's twelve
" o'clock, the time we
set for quitting this

<<WwY ELL, boys, it's twelve
% " o'clock, the time we
o set for quitting this
friendly game Of poker. No.
there's no use in playing another
round, because it's going to lead
ssto many more. Well, if you in
sist on playing, alright. You
fellows can so ahead. but even
though I'm the biggest loser
you'll have to count me out of the
game. Goodnight, boys!'
"Boys, I called you in to tell
you that 1 have $4,000 saved up
and that I'm going to retire from
this business all Of you helped me
: build. 1 won't need any more
money than I already have for
the rest Of my days, so l might
as well QUIT and give it to you
boys even though I'm in line to
double my money within two
years!
49, '-Ah, welcome back to the bank,
Bill. When did you get out Of
Jail? Just been released? My,
my, how the years do fly? 1t
cseems only yesterday when you
.defaulted with $4,000. Oh, well,
let's bury the past. When do you
want to start in as cashier?"
81,
mo. don't rush to pay back the
thousand you owe me, Frank. It's
Just as safe with you as it is
in the bank. Yes, know you've
owed it to me for over six years,
but what's a thousand dollars
between friends!'
The Washington times., 1924-04-23
LEGAL TERMS

NOMMUNITY Property - The
tobacco humIdor on your
~ desk at the office.
Power of Attorney-He may
state your case so poorly that
you lose your suit, and yet you
have to pay him fat fee for
his services.
Extraordinary Separation - A
married. man separating himself
from SIS bill to buy flowers for
his wife on Saturday night.
Just Compensation for Benefit
cial Services-Giving a box OF
good cigars to the traffic cop who
put your wife in Jail for speeding.
The Washington times., 1924-04-23
Try Joint-Ease For
NEURI1IS

'Neuritis may be localized in a single
nerve or may be general, involving a
large number of nerves."
For quick and, lasting. relief. pharma-
cists have for the past few months dis
pensed Joint-Ease-a stainless. pene-
trating remedy that. when rubbed over
the affected parts for about one min
ute, soaks right in SO that not trace is
left on the skin.
Joint-Ease is for limbering up stiff
joints, reducing the, swelling and caus-
ing the pain .to disappear, and for this
purpose thousands of tubes are sold
daily-60. cents at Peoples Drug Stores
and druggists. everywhere.
Always remember when Joint
Ease gets in Joint agony gets out
=.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
TEACHERS MEET
TODAY TO fight
sup M ANDREW
Mayor Deuer Ignores
Appeal for Aid

A call to action against the
exploitation of teachers and the
naturalization and STANDARDIZED
ton of the schools by big bust
ness has gone out to the mill
tant teachers of Chicago in the
form of a circular announcing
a mass meeting to be held at
4:30 today at the Auditorium
theatre.
The notice has been signed
by Mary Able, president of the
Chicago Teachers Federation,
E. B. Colletto, president of the
Chicago Federation of Men
Teachers, and Florence. G. Han
son, president of the Chicago
Federation of Women High
School Teachers.
The circular reads in part:
"The last meeting Of all public
school teachers in Chicago will be
held this week on Friday, after school
at 4:30 p. m. A statement to the pub
lie of the critical situation confront
ing the schools will be presented for
approval as directed by the Stude
baker mass meeting last week"
Obedient Robots.
At this meeting, the teachers of the
city will make final decisions on the
action taken against the continued ag
gression of such men as William Nc
Andrew, superintendent of schools
and the representatives of big bust
ness on the school board who have
been backing him in every move he
has made to reduce the teachers tc
the position of serfs to an official
oligarchy and the schools of the city
to huge factories for the turning out
obedient servants of the Industrial
machine.
Unlike William McAndrew, who has
seen fit to present his case only tc
such organizations as the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce and the prin
cipal's association, the teachers are
appealing to representatives of the
organized labor movement for help
Continued on page a
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wage-cutting schemes Of the bosses.
The Trade Union Educational
League appeals to all militant and
revolutionary workers to aid the
striking miners of District Is in theil
struggle against the operators. 1t mus
be apparent to all militant workers that
the defeat of the miners of District Is
will be the entering wedge in the ranks
of the miners for the operators to cut
Che wages of miners in other districts
Already we have seen the operators
in the Illinois fNd organizing theil
forces to fight for a wage cut. If the
miners of District is are defeated and
forced to accept wage cut the oper
ators will have better chance Of
forcing wage cuts elsewhere.
To all the adherents of the Trade
Union Educational League we say:
Help the miners of District 10
fight against wage cut by sending
them financial heIpI
Organize collections for the
miners in your local union, in the
work shop, wherever there are work
ers who understand that only by
solidarity in the fight against the
bosses can the workers hope to even
defend their interestsl
Send all money to Robert Peacock,
Secretary-Treasurer, District 10,
United Mine Workers of America,
Burns Building, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada.
National Committee Of the
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL
LEAGUE.
William z. Foster, Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03

bash Doc-he knows. Call him up
shay Three Slips"
Pres. Arthur Reynolds OF the Con-
tinental and Commercial banks Of
Chicago was not thinking of Charlie
Dawes when he told the convention
that the country must be rid Of
"mountebanks and their fallacies, half
truths, malice and ambitions" He
was pointing his big business bankers
finger at LaFollette. In fact Dawes
seemed ace high at the convention
despite, II not because of, his shady
banking record in the Lorimer bank
scandal, for which the Illinois supreme
court held the Dawes bank to account
for the money so wrongfully taken"
The convention opened with all the
bankers repeating the Lords Prayer
In unison: Forgive us our debts as
we forgive our debtors" After this
Continued on page a.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
Handwriting Bosses
Setting Bad Example
to Their Wage Slaves

Laziness and loafing by the boss in
the printing business is attacked in
the September Bulletin of the Frank
lin Assn, an organization Of Chicago
master printers.
During the easy money days Of 1918
and 1920" writes one of their mum
Der, 1--WE all acquired habits Of indo
lent luxury which we are loath TO give
up. Records from the beginning OF
business prove that as income goes
up. productivity goes down. It's a hu
man trait.
"The boss gets down at nine. takes
two hours for lunch and goes home
at four. Then he takes a day off on
Wednesday or Thursday because the
links are not so crowded as on Satur
day when he plays at his own club
What has somebody said about pre-
cept and example?'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
FOSTER CALLS
Gnu. S. TOSTOP
War ON China
Challenges Candidates
On Big Issue

William z. Foster, candidate
for president of the United
States on the Workers (Com-
munist) Party ticket, has issued
a challenge TO the three capital
list candidates, Calvin Coolidge,
John w. Davis aud Robert M.
LaF gillette, to join him in a pub
lie demand that this country
withdraw its armed forces from
China and cease its interference
with the internal affairs of that
country.
The statement reads as fol-
lows:
To Gavin Coolidge. John w. Davis
and Robert LaFollette:
The imperialist interferences of our
bankers, government officials and ma
val forces in the affairs of China have
already produced a move of retalia-
ton by the capitalists of Japan which
threatens us with new war between
the two countries. This bloody war
between this country and Japan,
which our party has been constantly
warning against, is apparently coming
upon us much sooner than expected.
The statement by the Japanese dele
cation in Geneva is already being
made use Of by the capitalist press
for mobilizing public sentiment in ia
vor of war against Japan. AS can
didate for president on the ticket of
the Workers (Communis) Party of
America, and in the name of my par
ty, l condemn this attempt to embroil
the masses of this country in a new
war and demand that the American
government Immediately withdraw all
it's armed forces from China and pub
licly instruct our government officials
to cease interfering in the internal
affairs of that country.
Since you, as candidate for presi-
dent, claim to stand for the well-be-
ing of the masses of this country and
are appealing to the masses for sup
port, l challenge you to join me in
the public demand that this country
Immediately withdraw all armed fore
es from China and that our govern.
ment cease interference with theyfn-
.ernal affairs of that country. Your
action on this question will show
where you stand on the imminent dan
ger Of war between America and Jap
an.
WILLIAM z. FOSTER,
Candidate for President on ticket
of the Workers (Communist)
Party of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03

lcompel uneConOmlc advances In wages
and to expand the powers of the fed.
eral government as to require the
creation Of more public Offices and a
further excuse Of raising the cost Of
government"
If you walked into the inner ex-
|ecutive Offices of the convention you
were offered a drink of "the real
thing" before you could tell the mis-
sion on which you entered.
In the rooms devoted to publicity
every other fellow was Offering flask
Of port with a punch" or talking
about the one he had just helped TO
empty.
Doctors offices were kept busy
writing out prescriptions. yah see,"
said high-up secretary uncertainty
to his convivial assistant. yah just
shay Three Slips and give the adj
dress-not Congress hotel. but Con-
gross street and-weu make It Wa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
Still BUSY AT
UNSNARLING OF
wars TANGLE
Dawes Proposal Based
on Versailles Treaty
BY JAY LOvESTONE
Third ArticIe)

The findings of the Dawes
and Mckenna Expert Commit
tees of the Reparation Commits
sion open new stage in the
s.tsmpts of the Allied capital
its to untangIe the banefuI
economic snarI growing out Of
their victorious war.
OF these two committees, the
one headed by Brigadier Gen
eral Charles G. Dawes and
charged with the task of learn
ing Germany's capacity to pay
is of the greatest Importance.
Putting Germany on its Feet.
These committees were asked on
Nov. 30, 1923, by the PREPARATION com
mission to consider the means OF
balancing the budget and the meas
ures to be taken to stabilize the cur
rency of Germany" On January IA
1924. the experts went to work.
On April 3, 1924, their findings were
made public. On Sept. 1, 1924, the
PREPARATION commission officially de
clared the Dawes plan in operation
after It was approved officially by
Great Britain, France, and Germany
and unofiicially for the United States by
the leading Wall Street bankers
fianked by the two principal cabinet
officers on vacation" in Europe.
Four Salient Principles.
Before going into an exposition oil
the alaborate administrative machin
cry set up by the Dawes plan to turn
Germany into colony of the interna
tional capitalists. dominated by the
American imperialists, II would be
well to state briefly the salient politi
co-economic principles underlying the
whole program. These are;
First and foremost: The Dawes
proposal is based on the Versailles
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
COMMONS Scene
OF TUMULT over
SOVIET TREAT
Tories and Liberals j
LGbOriteS
Especial to The Daily Worker

Especial to The Daily worksrl
LONDON, Oct. 2.-TIE ;
were disorderIy scenes on =
floor of the House of Comm is
this afternoon when questi Is
relating to Soviet Russia were
put to the government. The
tories shouted taunts and the
Iaborites replied in kind.
1t is now accepted as almost
certainty that a general cleo
ton will be held before Christ
mas.
John Robert Clynes, on behalf of the
government, announced that the mo-
ton censuring the government for
quashing the court cases against the
editor Of a Communist newspaper,
would be taken up on Wednesday.
1t was reported persistently in semi
official circles that premier Macdonald
lis prepared to resign if a vote Of
censure is passed by Commons next
week or the Anglo Russian Treaty is
rejected In the event of resignation a
general election will follow automatic
ally.
The general impartial opinion is that
the laborites will hold their ground in
the election.
Conservatives United.
rrho +n,.;ar o~a A.. 1;1.a...,. -..s...
" have deeidedsto bring. about the
downfall Of the labor ministry at an
early date The liberals over the sig
nature of former prime minister As
quith put down a motion of censure
of the government over the Russian
treaty. The conservatives hoped on
the labor government over the with
drawal of the indictment aga.-lst the
acting editor of the Workers Weekly,
Communist organ.
While the labor party is determin.
ed to make a strenuous campaign in
the general election, there is a strong
sentiment for deposing Ramsay Mac
Donald as leader of the labor party.
Since his assumption of Office he has
completely lost touch with the trade
union movement which placed him in
office and has angered large sections
Of labor by his open espousal of the
capitalist side in labor disputes. His
'efusal to meet a delegation from the
powerful miners federation while he
lad plenty of time to hobnob with
,ankers and capitalists made very
bad impression on the British work
ing class
Macdonald does not want to quit
Office if he can possibly avoid It, but
the trade union movement is willing
to fight for the Russian treaty and a
rousing campaign is expected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
Kolchak's Colonel
Again Defeated In
Another Con Game

DETROIT.-The Detroit police are
investigating a love lottery" operated
by the Perpetual Endowment society
for financing weddings, the president
of which is Nicolai Sokolowski, former
colonel with the Kolchak counter-revo.
lutionary forces in Russia. Several
brides and bridegrooms have com.
planned the former anti-Soviet adven.
turer defrauded them. Sokolowski
has ben stopping at the Waldorf-As-
toria in New York City. after leaving
his wife and two babies with $12 to
live on in the Detroit industrial sub
urb of Hamtrmack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
COOLIDGE'S SECRETARY
OF The TREASURY TRIES
TO CHEER UP FARMERS

WASHINGTON, oct. a. AmerI-
cas- 1924 wheat crop will put ST.
ooo,ooo,ooo In the hands of farmers,
secretary Of the treasury Mellon, an
nounced today, following an investI-
cation Of the situation at Chicago.
by Eugene Meyer, Jr, managing d..
rector Of the war finance corpora
ton.
at is matter Of great satlsfao.
tlon that this years great wheat
crop was grown on a ten per cent
smaller acreage than last years.
Mellon said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
Help! Help!

A campaign for Increasing the cir
culation Of the DAILY WORKER
has heaped loads of work on our
force. We need HeIp-NOW-
QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to
assist report at the DAILY WORK
Err office any day this week during
the day or evening. We have work
to spare. We want volunteers
quickIy.-HELPI HELPl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
French Government
Supplies Chang with
The Sinews of War

PEKING, Oct. 2.-Formal protests
have been handed the French legation
here by the Picking government over
the shipment of is airplanes on the
steamer Chantilly, enroute from Hong
kong to Mukden for Chang Tso Lin's
forces there.
General Changes armies captured
Chenping City on the morning Of Sep.
TENDER 20. The ChihIian forces are
retreating before the forces Of the
Manchurian war lord.
Subscribe for "Your Daily"
the DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
BOOZE! BOOZE! EVERYWHERE AT THE
AMERICAN BANKERS MEETING HERE
BY CARL HAESSLER
(For The Federated Pressl

nseparabe
Some Of the speakers Of
the good stuff Listen president
Manufacturers who told this 5Oth
ers
THE socaed child labor because
that unfods tarantula
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
DANCER, NEARLY.
NAKED, STAR ON
NIGHT PROGRAM.
High links in Largest
Masonic Temple
Denouncing Communism by

Hold high reveI at night.
That is the business of the
American Bankers Association
meeting in Chicago.
c. H. Markham, president Of the la
bor-hating Illinois Central railroad, got
rid of the following at the Auditorium
Theater meeting of the bankers:
''The broad principle to be consider
ed is whether the people desire more
government in business, and eventually
all government in business, which is
Communism"
Cheer 5arelegged Dancer.
But couple of hours later the thou
sands of bankers, jamming the Medi-
nah Temple on the North Side, were
Justify cheering a bare-legged dancer,
and bare nearly everywhere else.
Nero had to do his own fiddling. But
the bankers, at their Medinah Temple
smoker" that lasted into the wee
sma hours of the dawn, and considered
the biggest event of the gathering here,
had several jazz orchestras, the huge
pipe organ, and their own voices. They
sang, accompanied by the pipe organ;
How dry ami How dry ami Lord
only knows, how dry am! A-a-a-men. "
But this was quickly followed by,
Hail! Hail The Gangs All Here. So
what the hell do we carer what she
hell do we care? What the hell do we
care, NOW?"
And They Don't Care.
And why should they care? Here
was the pick of the bankers of the
country. Thousands of them! They fill
the auditorium of Medinah Temple
hailed as the largest structure under
the jurisication of the Masonic Order.
They left their wives at the hotels
in "The Loop" They rode to the Medi-
nah Temple on the North Side in scah
Yellow Taxicabs, on free passes fur
nished by the local committee" Many
of them got their early, around seven
O'Clock. They wanted the front seats
because they knew there was some
thing special on the program. Many
protested when they learned that a
huge block of seats, directly in front
of the big stage, had been reserved for
the officials and select members OF
the American Bankers Association.
When Farmers Go to Bed.
1t was about the time that the
farmers out in the grain belt were
turning in for the night, to recuper
ate for the next days labor, that the
bankers got under way with theil
high jinks.
In the words of the announcer, III
is to be memorable event" And II
was. If the Machinists' Union, OF
some other union, had tried to put
Continued on page 81
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of the Jacksonville agreement
between operators and the
Miners a in the so-called
central etitive field in the
United Scaces.
The operators refused to do this;
on the contrary, they demanded a cut
in wages amounting to s1.17 day.
This would mean the loss of the war
bonus gained by the miners in 1919.
On Strike Six Months.
Rather than accept the operators
terms, the miners struck, and they
have been on strike for the past six
months.
For the first weeks Of the strike
the miners Of District is did not
receive a cent from the Lewis adj
ministration of the United Mine Work
ers. The only support they received
during this period came from the rank
and file of the labor unions of Can
ada owing to the campaign waged by
the Canadian Communist Party for
assistance to the miners.
The officialdom of the Canadian
labor unions and Trades Congress did
not raise finger to aid the miners in
theier struggle.
Get Small Plttance.
Since July the miners have been
receiving only few dollars each week
to keep them and their families. The
1000 miners and their families are
determined to stick with the battle to
the last, but the operators have the
deadly enemy, HUNGER, on their side.
The stores have long since stopped all
credit. In many camps miners and
their families are being evicted from
their shacks because they are unable
to pay rent.
Naturally the operators are using
this situation to attempt to break the
ranks of the miners. The capitalist
press has been flooded with propa-
ganda against them. Agents of the
mine owners have attempted to sci
up company unions, as happened in
Fernie, British Columbia. But this
attempt did not last long, because Of
the bitter opposition of the miners
The rank and file even fought the
policy of signing agreements with in
dividual operators when that was
proposed by the district officialdom.
Strikers Decide to Fight to Finish.
At the special district convention
held this month. there was no sug
gestion from the rank and file dele
gates that the fight should be aban
doned. They demanded from the dis
trict officials that more relief should
be gotten from the Lewis administra
ton of the International Union Il
help them win the struggle. AS al
answer. they were told that the In
ternational could not do more than 4
was doing because of the great un
employment existing among thu
miners in the rest of the districts OF tn,
union.
In spite OF all this: evictions, scab
herding, foolish leadership, and HUN
GER, the miners OF District IS have
stood as one man in opposition to thu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE
URGES HELP BE SENT TO COAL MINERS
OF DISTRICT Is, WESTERN CANADA

CE April 1st this the miners of District No 49, United
- Mine Workers of America alberta Canada have been
strike against wagecut The strike involves about 900
miners and their wives families The of the
have been firm face Of all the brought to bear them
by the operators and the capitalist and of
Canada.
Prior to the of the strike in April the officials
of the District demanded the operators association
the scale be extended for three years the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03

Bankers Forget Gear Of Communism in ReveI
"SacCO and Vanzetti Must DE- Judge Thayer

rounded with much perjury and manufactured evidence
the case of the two italian radicals
Since the conviction of Sacco and Vanzet defense law
yers have been active securing adavts from those who
testified at the trial in which their former testimony
pudiated But in the preudced heart of Judge Webster
Thayer those workngcass leaders guilty because they
served their class
But the workers see that Sacco and Vanzett will
not die the hands of the Massachusetts, ruling class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
Especial to The DaIlv worksr)


BOSTON, Oct. 2.-Ncola Sacco and BarthoIomeo Van
zett two labor organizers of Italian BIRTH who
vcted the charge of numbering the pay1aster of big
shoe manufacturing company at Bridgewater Mass
refused trial by Judge Webster Thayer
The conviction of Sacco and Vanze aroused national
and international anger the part Of the workngcass.
Not since Tom Mooney ralroaded within inch of
the electric chair the prosecution Of labor