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New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
SMITH IS WINNER
 OVER MAX PORTER
J. Of P. Player Goes We'll in
 City Match Z

In very thrilling five set en- counter waged Thursday, E. F. Smith, |. of P, defeated M. S. Porter In one of the semi-final rounds of the city tennis champion ship. For two and a half hours the lead in this very thrilling con- test seesaWed back and forth. In fact spectators and officials were so enthralled that the usual 10-min- ute rest period at the end of the third set was entirely overlooked. Porter started off with a vim and soon collected a substantial lead of two sets. Beginning the third set, Smith set the pace a notch higher anC breaking through service in the second game he took this set 6-S, by brilliant work at the net. In the fourth set service was of no avail, both players breaking through until the fourth game which Smith won despite two dazzI- ing placements by Porter. In this set Smith scored a total of 12 aces to four for his opponent.
 The fifth set was the most bril- liant of all, consuming exactly 55 minutes. Putting forth every ef- fort and showing a variety of strokes that puzzled his opponent, Porter took the first four games but Smith retaliated by capturing the next five. He lost his service and took the eleventh game at love on his opponents serve. Por- ter broke through and evened the score also went into the lead on his own service 7-6 but Smith came back strong and won the next three games for match.
 Smith has very strong fore hand drive and his volleying and overhead are excellent. He has a
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
Moscow to Have
 Motor Bus Lines

Moscow, Sept. 19.--Moscow. which from time immcmorial has depended the conventional trolley Gar for it's transportation, will soon have its own motor buses. Eight omnibuses of the London type will make their appearance shortly, and it is the in- tcntion Of the municipal authorities eventually 10 secure sufficient additional vehicles to establish con- nection with suburban districts This will do much, the officials say, to relieve the fearful congestion on trolley cars and trains, and will also encourage part of the population 10 move 10 he suburbs.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
Another Attempt to
 Wreck Home of Policeman

Dennison, Ohio, Sept. 19.-The second attempt within a week to wreck the home of Night Patrolman F. l.. Harmon, was made tonight when dynamite exploded alongside a garage in the rear of his home. A similar attempt was made Tuesday night.
 Two small boys told authorities they saw three men throw the ex- plosive tonight as they ran past the Harmon home.
 It was the fifth attempt this year 10 wreck the home Of Dennison of- f1cial During the same period three homes have Leen dynamited at Uhrichsville, twin-city. There have been no injuries, but many windows were shattered and other property damaged.
 Authorities believe the explosions may be the work Of bootIeggers.
 Plants breathe with their feet as well as with their heads.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19

At the home office 1t is stated that only two spies now remain in prison in this country. ..
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
HG.zAG DRIVER
 PAYS SlO0 FINE
High Street Man Had Been Host
 to 0ut.0f.TOWn Friends

John Bukowsh of 3O3 High street was fined $100 and given a suspend ed jail sentence of 15 days when he was found guilty in police court today of operating a motor vehicle on Main street this morning while under the influence of liquor. He was arrested by Patrolmen Frank Parker and Peter SkierkoWski when he drove his machine up to the curbing on Main street and was leaving 1t to go into a restaurant.
 The police had been attracted by the 5ig-zas course the machine travelled, according to their story. so they watched BukoWski as he left the car and saw that he was drunk. They walked over to him and see,Lg that he was in no con- dition to operate a machine, and finding a small quantity of liquor in bottle on the floor of the auto, they placed him under arrest.
 The defendant told the court that he had some friends from out of town visiting him, and they had one drink of liquor. He said that he had left his friends at the railroad station, when he was picked up by the police.
 Fuller Sent to Jail.
 Edward Fuller of 52 Whiting street was sentenced to Is days on a charge of drunkenness and breach of the peace. The court also re- voked the suspension on a S0-day ? sentence imposed several months ago, and ordered the sentence served.
 Fuller pleaded guilty to the drunkenness charge and not guilty to breach of the peace. He was ar rested last night by Policeman Thomas C. Dolan on complaint Of his wife. who told the court that Fuller came home drunk, and vas cursing and using vile language about the house. shouting so loud that a crowd was attracted ont side.
 Say Woman Is Runaway Wife.
 The cases of Jacob Russell and Stella Stowell of 167 High street. charged with misconduct, were con- tinued until Monday for trial at the request of Prosecutor Joseph C. Woods. They were arrested lass night by Sergt. Michael * Flynn st the High street house.
 According to information received by the police the woman deserted her husband in Syracuse, N. Y, over five years ago. and taking two of their five children with her, came to New Britain with Russell and lived with him as his wife. A daughter was born to the couple three years ago.
 The police received letter from the woman's husband yesterday, in forming them that the woman Was here living with Russell and asking the police 10 investigate. ScrSt. Flynn located the couple at the High street house. The other three children of the couple are with the husband in Syracuse.
 Both defendants entered pieas Of not guilty and bonds fo; theIr re- lease were set at $500.
 Reckless Driver Fined.
 John Carboni of Hartford was fined $25 and costs on a charge of reckless driving on Broad street Tuesday afternoon. He entered q plea of not guilty through Attorney Morris D. Sake, but after listening to the evidence in the case Judge Alling decided that the defendant was the one to blame for an acci- dent in which he was involved.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19

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New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
LACONIC FAREWELL
Doomed Sailors Set Adrift Their Last Message when They Saw That They Were Lost.

Nagasaki, Japan, Sept 19.--A grim message of farewell from the Nippon Yusen kaisha freighter Mat suyama Maru, which foundered and went down with 57 men the night Of July II about l5O miles south west of Nagaski. has been picked mp off Kyushu. A lifcbclt. aImost the only trace Of the ill fated vessel picked up by searching ships, was found, bearing the words, The Matsuyama Maru has gone to her death."
 There was only one survivor of the Matsuyama Maru, a stoker named Fukuoka, who was picked UT off a raft after eight days with no food and little water.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
POLISH CONCERNS FILE
 SMALL INCOME RETURNS
Special Tax Commissioner Finds Two Sets of Books in One Off,
 ice-Owners Leave Country

Warsaw. Sept. 19.-Its suspicious having been aroused by the abnor- mally small income returns filed by some important concerns in Polish Upper Sllesia, the government sent special mission to make investi- Eations on the spot.
 It was disclosed that two indus trial firms had carried duplicate sets of books. one secret and the other public. One concern report ed a taxable income Of 156,00O,000 zlotys, while the hidden sbooks showed it should have reported 500. 900, 900. The fines 10 be im- posed will reach 5.o0O,0OO zlotys. Some arrests have been made but the directors Of the two Companies have escaped to Germany.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19

NEW PEA BEANS ........... PURE COCOA IN BULK ..... NEW SHREDDED CoCoANUT \. B. C. PANTRY COOKIES .. MoHICAN EVAP. MILK .....
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
His Old Critic

A young actor recently made his debut on the screen. and was talk ing about 1t to a dramatic critic.
 Tt was a staggering experience" he said, actually to see myself act ing"
 T suppose 1t was," answered the other. Now you know what we critics have to go through. Sur rey Comet.
New Britain herald., 1924-09-19
ENGLAND HAS TWO SPIES
 STILL UNDER OBSERVATION
Dc Rysbach, Sentenced For Life Is
 Rcleased-Marked Music \

London, Sept. 19.-Stories of the sometimes romantic exploits of spies are recalled by the release from Dartmoor prison of Courtenay Henslot de Rysbach, who in Octo- Der, 1915, was sentenced to penal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
BY HARRISON GEORGE

The Communists have always
claimed that many Of the syndicalists
and anarcho-syndicalists are moved
by anarchist individualism, by selfish
ness elevated into philosophy and
not by class solidarity. A letter from
a German syndicalist published in
the l. w. w. official organ, Industrial
Solidarity, of June %, is proof that
the Communists are correct.
More than a column is given to an
appeal, signed by the Chairman,
Local Freital, Syndicalist Labor Fed
Grafton" of town in Saxony, Ger.
many, asking for help. It is nothing
remarkable to get calls for help from
Germany-or from any other coun.
tries where the capitalist decline has
gone further than in America, there
fore heaping greater miseries on the
proletariat From these miseries there
is no ultimate escape for the working
class but REVOLUTIONARY the German
Communists base their program upon
the explosive power of mass hunger
and misery The German Commun.
lists, too, have asked for help, but only
for such help as will aid them to win
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
ONE COMMUNIST
YOUTH EXECUTED;
MANY IN PRISON
Poland Sentences II in
Three Months

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
MOSCOW, July 2.-Within the last
three months II members Of the
Young Communist League of Poland,
have been sentenced to total of 479
years of hard labor in the jails of
Poland. In Grodno 17-year-old girl,
Klempner, received a four-year SEN
tence. Still another youth, Samuel
Engel, 10 years of age, was executed
for shooting an agent-provocateur. He
was executed IL hours before the time
allowed by the court expired.
The agent-provocateur, Luchak, was
a personal friend of Engels, and was
not suspected. But after a few meet
ing had been raided by the poll
teal police, and many of the members
of the Young Communist League re-
ceived heavy sentences, he was dis.
covered. Engel decided to avenge his
comrades and at the same time re-
move a dangerous snake from the
ranks of the Communist movement,
which is an underground movement in
democratic" Poland.
1t is worth while to note that many
bandits who received death sentences
from the court martials have been
pardoned, but this youth has been exc
cuted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
A SyndiCa|iSt Solution for Class Struggle

the masses to the army of revolution,
only such help as will assist the Ger
man proletariat to overthrow German
capitalism.
But this is another sort Of an APP
peal, this appeal from syndicalists.
This appeal is from an official of the
syndicalist labor federation of Ger
many, and it reflects how bankrupt is
the syndicalist theory and practice.
For this syndicalist official does not
ask help for his organization, nor for
the German working class as a whole.
He merely makes vocal the hopeless
ness Of the syndicalist idea when con-
fronted with reality-and he asks for
somebody please to send him trans
portation to America because he can
not stand the struggle any longer"
What an ambition for a leader in an
organization which attacks Commun-
lists on the grounds that they are not
revolutionary enough! Which
fights Soviet Russia and the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions
And this rank individualism finds a
column of space in paper named
Solidarity" In an official organ of
the I. W. W., whose Centralia mem
bers imprisoned at Walla Walla have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

time and again complained that their
case lacked publicity! This appeal to
help an individual individualist in
Germany to try to run away from the
class struggle, is published in full in
the official organ of the I. W. w,
which, however, did not allow one
line of space for the appeal sent to
the membership thru the General
Headquarters on May Sth, from the
Red International of Labor Unions.
When the 100000 workers Of the
Red International appeal to the mem
bership of the l. w. w. for solidarity
in the class struggle, the officials Of
the I. w. w. despotically decree that
they will not permit the membership
to read such appeal. But when a Ger
man syndicalist who is such a blazing
''revolutionist" that he has no faith
in the historic mission of the working
class, wants to beg someone for trans
portation to this great promised land
of Teapot Domes. Daugherty, Dawes,
Open Shop, Iniuncti2ns, Blacklists and
X. XIX. tar and feather mobs-why,
then the I. w. w. will give the poor
scissor-bill a whole column! Such is
the degeneration of the l. w. w. press
under the censorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
KAN kIucker Kauuht.

NEW YORK, July 2.-The Rev.
Charles Lewis Fowler of this city, a
Baptist clergyman, editor of the Amer
lean Standard Magazine, and said by
the police to be a member OF the Ku
Klux Khan, together with his son,
Louis Hunter Fowler, nineteen. a col
lege student at Greenville, S. c., are
held in $1,000 bail each on a charge
of criminally libelling Governor Smith.
The article complained of stated, in
effect, that Governor Smith was not a
fit person to be president because he
was a member of the Knights OF Col
umbus, which was dictated to by the
Church of Rome"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
Pacihsts Announce
Campaign Against
Gas, Guns, Bayonets

WASHINGTON, July Answering
the almost daily attacks Of officers OF
the regular army, who are inspired by
Secretary Weeks, the National Coun-
ell for Prevention of War announces
nationwide campaign to stop war
by international cooperation. From
July rs to Armistice day it win stir
the country with posters, pamphlets.
meetings, ETC., with the purpose OF
committing all candidates for con-
gress and the presidency to a definite
program of world peace.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
RUSSIANS PREPARE TO
OPEN NEGOTIATIONS IN
FRANCE; ENGAGE ROOMS

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER.)
PARIS, July 2.-Hotel quarters
have already been ordered and 1900
vlsas of entry to France have been
signed, for Russian officials who ex-
pect to come here to participate in
the negotiations with France for re-
cognition and restoration of dipIo-
matte intercourse. The French gov
eminent has not made definite an
nouncement of its recognition plans
yet, but II has already signifIed to
United States secretary Of state
Hughes that il would not continue
to be bound by the Poineare agree
ment. Former King Manuel of Por-
tuaaI occupied the suite now as
signed for the 5oIshevik leaders
when he was last In Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
NEGROES TOLD
KHAN ISSUE is
BIGGEST FIGHT
Must Crush Political Rise
of K. K. K.
Especial to The DAILY woRkER.)

AORCCiGl ~ ! C GfNiNN WOnNEns
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July a.
James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of
the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People, in an
address at a mass meeting Of the
Fifteenth Annual Conference Of that
Association, held at Metropolitan
Opera House Sunday afternoon, urged
Negroes in the United States to make
the Ku Klux Khan the main issue in
the coming election. Mr.. Johnson
said:
1.-THE most imminent question be-
fore the American Negro at the pres
ent time is that of his political respon-
sibilities and opportunities. The big
gest single political issue before him
is that Of the Ku Klux Khan Colored
Americans should not be lulled into
feeling of security by the fact that
the Khan is seemingly no longer anti
Negro. The Khan is as much anti
Negro now as it was the day 1t was
organized.
AT present it is not spending much
time in tarring and feathering or
branding or mobbing individual Ne
groes. 1t is devoting its energies to
a bigger job, the job of gaining poll
teal power, of gaining control Of gov
eminent. When it has done this, IL it
succeeds, it will again turn its at
tention to the Negro and It viii then
execute its policies not upon individ-
ual Negroes but upon the race a. .
whole.
Fighting In Politics.
'If the Khan gains the power which
it contemplates, it will at once begin
to take from the Negro, his guaran-
tees and even his claims to the COM
mon rights of citizenship That is one
of its deepest laid plans. 1t is, there
fore, the duty of Negro citizens in
states where the Khan is an issue and
where the votes of Negroes count and
are counted, to discard sentimental
political allegiance to any party and
vote against candidates who are
named or supported by the Khan.
Farmer-Labor Party for Negroes.
"The situation in Indiana Is a case
in point. There the republican NOM
inee for governor has the open en-
dorsement of the Khan, an endorse
ment which he has fully accepted. In
that state the republican senator,
James e. Watson, who stands high In
administration circles, openly confers
and consoBts with Khan leaders.
"In the states of the north and the
northwest, where the vote is close
and where the Negro holds what may
be the balance of power, we must use
our votes in a manner which is de-
manded not only by common sense,
but by safety"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
Haverhill Bosses
Experiment" With
Vicious Wage Slash
BY Il. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD
Especial to the DAILY WORKER)


Mays figures show little variation
from preceding months-conditions
here are featured by an increase in
food prices and novel experiment
in Haverhill shoe factories.
Cost of living figures are about the
same, according to a memorandum
issued few days ago by Eugene G..
Huffman, Chairman of the special
Massachusetts, commission on the
necessaries Of life. Food prices
showed a small net increase. Practi-
cally all items in the clothing section
dropped very slightly. In the fuel and
light division a decrease in the price
of kerosene made a very small
change"
The cost of living and the standard
of living are closely connected with
wages and other economic conditions
in an industry. At present a nasty
job is being put over by the shoe
manufacturers in Haverhill. The
bosses call it an experiment" and if
it passes without protest on the
part of the shoe workers, this same
experiment will be adopted and
worked throughout the state in all in
dustries. The bosses in the many
other industries, not only in Massa-
chusetts, but all over New England
are watching keenly the success with
which the Haverhill Manufacturers
are meeting so far.
The experiment" is simply this:
the Haverhill shoe manufacturers
made, and the shoe workers meekly
accepted terrific slash, or as the
bosses call it, "a wage reduction to
enable the production and sale of
shoes at the present market price.
The manufacturers made pious ges-
ture in the form of an appeal" to the
Haverhill landlords, merchants and
other citizens" for their cooperation
in reducing the price of commodities
and essential services in that city.
What effect this appeal" of the
principal industrial factories has made
on living costs in Haverhill is illus
trated by the conversation had with
a few landlords of that city When
asked whether they would comply
with the appeal" and reduce the
rents on their tenements, they cyni-
cally smiled and replied that they
would, gladly, providing the taxes on
their property, the cost Of repairs,
etc, were also reduced. When the
matter of reducing the cost Of food,
clothing, ETC., was put before few
merchants, they too, were willing to
yield to the appeal, providing, the
landlords reduce the store rents, the
wholesalers cut their prices, ETC., etc.
In the meantime the workers of
Haverhill have already received their
cut, and are working only part time
or not at all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

off. Our regular force is 5000,
but we have less than three
thousand at work now. The
plant will probably shut down
completely for at least month
beginning July 1st."
A worker in the Crane plant told
the DAILY WORKER reporter, May
be it's because this is presidential
year, but whatever the reason, men
are being laid off all over the city.
The Crane Company will shut down in
a short while. At the present time
less than half the Crane force is work
ing. Those of us who are now on the
job work only four days week. We
come in to work Tuesday morning and
quit Friday night. Saturday, Sunday
and Monday we are not allowed to
work at all"
The Deering Tractor works, 100
Fullerton Avenue, which is one of the
largest factories belonging to the In
ternational Harvester Company, is
laying off men. 1--WE have 900 on our
waiting list, the employment manager
said Two hundred men were laid off
in our foundry alone last week. The
plant is liable to shut down at any
time. We are scraping along ON sum-
mer orders, and most of the work done
is repair jobs. Conditions will probab-
ly get worse instead of better"
The Wisconsin Steel Mills, part of
the Harvester Works, is completely
shut down. The DAILY WORKER
reporter went thru the plant, finding
no one at work in the plant except
a few men repairing the furnaces.
The Waterman said: 1.-THE plant is
called the Wisconsin Steel Mills, but
it belongs to the International Har-
vester Company. 1t all comes out Of
the same pocket. We take individual
orders however"
At these steel mills, angle bars and
steel bars and ingots are sold The
timekeeper of the plant told the
DAILY WORKER reporter, 1--WE won't
be able to start work for several weeks
at least. Even then, when we start up,
we may have to shut down in a week.
We will try to open up and keep
dragging along on the orders that
come in, but don't see how we can
open the plant up at all in the near
future"
At the employment office of the
Eugene Dietzgen Company, a large
manufacturing plant on Fullerton
Avenue, are large signs, mo HELP
WANTED"