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The Washington times., 1924-04-16
Bids and Proposals

SEALED PROPOSALS will be opened
at p. M, April 2S, 1924, In the
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for furnishing material for the replace
ment and construction on Bureau
grounds three frame and stucco struc-
lures for laboratory and storage pur-
poses Proposals may cover either the
furnishing and erection Of any one or
all the structures, except excavation
and filing or certain portions Of the
work, such as steel structure, concrete
work, etc. Blue prints and gpecifica-
tions may be obtained from the Pur
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d. c., April IL. 1924. Sealed proposals
will be received In Room 500, District
Building, until o'clock p. NJ. April 81.
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crete steps. Apply to Room 427, dis
trict Building for detailed information.
The Washington times., 1924-04-16
Real Estate For Sale

Business Property For Sale. lOs
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Municipal Bldg; s-atory brick. wide
alley. $3.50. 15o2 X st. N. W. C. p.
Barrett. Main 9Ole.
The Washington times., 1924-04-16

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The Washington times., 1924-04-16
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The Washington times., 1924-04-16
Auction Sales

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The daily worker., 1924-07-14
McAdoo Is Satisfied"

"a lawyers views on economic, political, and
social questions are no more to be judged by his
professional associations than is physician to be
Judged by the character of his patients" said
William Gibbs McAdoo, is issuing public state
ment that he is satisfied with Davis as the demo
cratic candidate.
Rather a wild comparison, we would think, and
not calculated to strengthen what was necessarily
a weak statement. Davis was employed by the j.
P. Morgan interests to advance those interests In
fields affecting economic, political and social ques-
tions. He was not treating Mr.. Morgan for
syphilis in which case we could agree that Mr..
Davis would not necessarily be infected Also But
he has been employed in politics and in private
practice, in protecting and advancing the inter
ests of the House of Morgan. His economic views
were suitable for Morgan, his political opinions
pleased Morgan, his attitude on social questions
were Morgan's, or Morgan would not have adj
vanced him from his obscure corner in West Vir-
ginia, thru course in foreign affairs under Will
son at the Court of King George, and then to the
position of his personal counsel.
McAdoo may be satisfied with Davis. The work
ers are also satisfied" but in different sense. 1t
has been proved to the satisfaction of all who care
ito know that Davis is the representative Of Wall
Street in just as immediate and personal manner
as Coolidge or Dawes McAdoo is satisfied be-
cause he was also serving the same masters and
therefore he has to like it whether he wishes or no.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
''YOu Go First, MY Dear GastOn!"

The Structural Iron Workers Union has made
a demand on the bosses for an increase in wages
from $1.25 to $1.3715 an hour. 1t previously de-
manded $1.50 but did not strike for it when it was
refused. In fact the union ordered those who did
strike, back to work. There is no likelihood that
the bosses will be faced with any strike if they
deny the ironworkers the $13712.
This is caused by the most amazing chaos in the
building industry. The fine example of confusion
of the reactionary leadership of the building trades
unions which followed the Lands Award was just
a beginning. Some of the unions refused and
others rejected the Landis Award and a deplor-
able case of some unions helping the open shop
pers resulted.
Now we have a condition where the agreements
of each union carry proviso that if any other
union in the building trades gets increase, the
other unions also should get the same increase
automatically. But, alas and alack bosses are not
in the habit of giving increases without being
compelled without strike, without struggle And
the unions under present leadership do not and
cannot fight. They never will be able to fight un-
less they are taken in hand by the rank and file
and amalgamate their forces for real struggle.
So we see this comedy of unionism. The brick
layers recently got an increase from 125 to $150.
So the iron workers spoke up and said, "We have
to have that too, according to our agreement"
But the bosses said, "Nothing doingw And the
ironworkers not being able or willing to fight, had
to lxnuckle down and eat humble pie. Again, the
electricians get an increase from $125 to $1.3712
So the ironworkers speak up the second time, say
ing, according to our agreement we must get
$13712 too, since the electricians are" But will
they fight for this increase any more than they
fought for the $15O? There are no signs of it,
and the bosses have the habit of telling them to
go to the devil
So the situation is that the building trades
workers. without unity in either organization or
action, have to submit even to violation of their
agreements-the sacred agreements! Unwilling
and unable to struggle, they have to wait each one
of them, until some other one of them first.
1t is case of ''You 60 first, my dear Gastonw 1t
is of unionism without unity And these
unions, under this leadership going to go into
the banking business Unable, apparently, to
collaborate with each other in the class struggle,
they are willing to colaborate with the capital
ist class against the class struggle.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
BY JAY LovEsToNE.

THE Minneapolis Labor Review is
| taken to task by the new LaFol-
lette organ, the Milwaukee Leader, for
charging the Conference for Progress
sive Political Action with the guilt for
whatever division exists in the polit-
ical ranks of the workers in the COM
ing campaign.
OF course the Minneapolis Labor
Review is correct. The labor bureau
Gratis and the socialists, who are now
kneeling at the feet of LaFollette, are
responsible for the splitting up of
the labor forces on the political front.
1t is these men, it is these forces that
have prevented the workingmen and
poor farmers from presenting united
front of the exploited against the ex-
ploiters in the elections. 1t is the
Stones, the Hillquits, the Bergers who
have dedicated themselves to deliver
ing the labor and farm vote to the
LaFollettes, the Hearsts and other
disgruntled members of the capitalist
political parties.
But if more proof was wanted to
substantiate the correctness of the
contentious of the Minneapolis Labor
Review, then the balance is surely
offered in the contrary arguments Of
the Milwaukee socialist mouthpiece
of the republican senator from Wis
consin. The Milwaukee Leader de-
clares that the Communists cannot be
trusted. Well, there has never been
a radical, progressive or reactionary
body in American politics that has
been so frank and aboveboard in its
advocates and plans. 1t is precisely
the Communist open admissions as to
their being unreservedly committed to
the establishment Of the rule of the
working class that has brought all the
wrath of the sundry defenders of cap
italism-from Hillquit to John w. Da-
Wis and General Dawes-on their
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
Welcome. Emir!

The visit of the Emir of Kurdistan to this coun-
try is a welcome relief from the thousands of
other titled ladies and gentlemen who come to
this country on pleasure bent, without ever thot
for the country from whence they came
Not so the Emir. We are not in his encourage,
and to us his secrets are as dark as his COM
plexion, but when he says that his mission is to
bring peace and harmony between the people of
Kurdistan and the United States we are inclined
to take his words at their face value.
The Emir carries passport made out for "H.
R. III. Prince of Kurdistan." Inquiries in Turkish
circles elected the information that there was no
reigning family in Kurdistan at the present time,
but the Emir not bit taken aback by this
information. On the contrary, he stated in reply
that he was descended from the renowned Haroun
Al Raschid, and his family is the oldest in the
world.
We are not disposed to quarrel with the Emir
over the facts of his statements, but suggest
if he is hard up for funds, he might do than
pay visit to Edward>L. Doheny or Harry Sin
clair, who would possibly give him a few thou
sand dollars for the privilege of letting them bore
for oil where the Kurds are curdling in the warm
rays of the Moslem sun. It's a habit they have.
Make yourself at home Emir. Kings getting
so darned scarce nowadays that we cannot afford
to allow the few remaining specimens to go hungry
Our own shirtsleeve royalty is so greedy that
they leave very little in the way of crumbs to
the more ancient vintage.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

EMORE than eighty officials of the
lVl Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers and the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Enginemen and Firemen have
been subponaed by the Railroad Labor
Board to appear before it meets rela-
tive to wage disputes and working
conditions.
The labor organizations have sim
ply refused to recognize the jurisdic-
ton of this strikebreaking board over
the life and happiness Of their mem
bers. These labor unions have for a
long time tolerated the unbridled tyr
amy of Railway Labor Board. Their
refusal to play with Chairman Ben
Hooper's gang of railway corporation
tools is based on years of painful ex-
perience with them.
Now marshals OF the United States
department of justice have been sent
to hound the railway union officials.
Unquestionably the leaders will yield
to government pressure and accept
the summons Of the board. But the
time has come to defy the Railroad
Board and go to the limit on prevent
ing the extension Of governmental
strikebreaking activities.
What the railway workers can ex-
pect from the Railroad Labor Board
can best be seen from the record Of
this creature of the American Associa.
tion of Railway Executives. Only the
other day that inveterate enemy of the
working class, Chairman Hooper, de-
nounced the two unions in question
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
WHOSE FAULT?

heads.
Then, indeed, it comes with mall
odorous grace from the poisoned pen
of the Milwaukee LaFollette Leader
to talk of it's love for democracy.
Why. it has been the rule of Berger's
bosom friend, Ebert in Germany, that
has foisted upon the workers Of that
unfortunate country regime of cap
italist-Junker blood and thunder.
When the workers of Berlin and the
Ruhr struck for the preservation of
the eight-hour day, and when the
workers of Bavaria demanded their
right of suffrage, it was the helmeted
bloodhounds of the Ebert government
that swooped down upon them and
drowned their protests in blood.
And all the dishonest balderdash of
the LaFollette organ about the Com
munists being for force and violence
will not hold an ounce of clean water.
Police power has been employed with
frequency to break strikes in the
Berger-LaFollette province of Wiscon-
sin, just as it has been done in the
Cossack-ridden state Of Pennsylvania,
in the capitalist-ruled Germany Of
Ebert and Severing.
1t is just because the Communists
have been openly and honestly pro-
claiming their answering loyalty to
the interests of the workers as class
against the capitalists; it is precisely
because the Communists are for the
supplanting of the present capitalist
dictatorship parading as pure democ-
racy with system Of working class
democracy, and it is primarily because
of the committees insistence of the
workers and poor farmers organizing
themselves to do away with the pres
ent capitalist system based on force
and violence that the LaFollettes, the
Bergers, the Hillquits, the Stones, the
Keatings and the others of their CO.
terie have been fighting the Workers
Party tooth and toenail.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

We waited. The high ceilinged
room with iron bars for walls, thru
which could be seen the stone stairs
leading to tiers of cells, was the pri-
son reception hall. It was June out
side, but here the stone floor and the
cold stale air coming up thru the
grated walls chilled Keys clanked.
Doors opened and shut. Huge doors
that were portions of the walls. They
were opened by guard whose sole
duty seemed to be the opening and
shutting of these doors. Opening and
shutting Of prison doors He clanked
his keys. They were the only doors.
His face was expressionless. The
guard at the table in the center of
the dim gray hall looked neither to
the left nor right of him. He sat
rigid, looking straight ahead Of him.
Into the depths he seemed to look thru
the grated wall.
Doors opened and shut. Keys
clanked. Children came to see their
fathers. Mothers their sons. Wives
their husbands. A young prisoner
was smiling up at his sweetheart.
Looking up into her eyes ingratiating-
ly. His own eyes were feverish.
There were deep MARKS around them
of sleepless nights and torment.
The west wing door opened and
shut. The guard shook his keys and
stepped aside.
Vanzettir He came toward us with
quick springy step, his figure taut,
his wonderful smile falling upon us
like a pale ray of sunlight He shook
hands with us: II am so pleased to
see you, comradesl" How soft and vi
brant his voice! How his sensitive
mouth quivered under his dropping
mustache.
1 had not seen him in three years.
Not since that scorching day in July,
1921, when saw him and his fellow
victim Sacco, in the steel cage in
Massachusetts courtroom. He leaned
intently forward, his soft gray eyes
full of questioning and of sorrow,
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

while about him was being cast a
net Of lies upon which the common
wealth built up it's case and found
him and Sacco guilty of murder.
There was light in those gray eyes
then that could not be extinguished.
Four years of the dim cell in the
west wing have failed to extinguish
it,
We talked. 1t was hard for me to
bring the words up out of my throat.
They got mixed up with the tears
yelling up in it and hurt with their
throbbing. Vanzetti has a soft, melo-
dious voice, but charged with the
passionate appeal Of the dreamer and
the social rebel. Except for his COM
ment that his i'll ventilated cell hurts
his lungs and that he cannot see the
sky from the prison workshop where
he makes automobile plates, he did
not refer to himself again. But he
repeated twice that he could not see
the sky. He wanted so to see the
blue sky!
How eager he was for news of the
workers movement How those soft
eyes would light up with hope Of la
boris triumph; how sadden at labor's
defeats!
Vanzetti has learned English during
his four years of prison. He speaks
it with the precision of a foreigner
acquiring a new tongue. But he in
vests it with a charm of liquid inflec-
tion with which his own Italian
tongue is so exquisitely beautiful.
When he spoke to his two Italian
friends who were with me, it was
like music that rose and vibrated
thru the prison catacomb. His smile
was like benediction. His eloquent
hands play upon the heart
"You have many friends every
where" l said to him, friends who
love you and will continue to work
for your liberation"
shall always remember the Won
derful light of gratitude that came in
to his eyes as he said, "Ah, know,
I feel. That is why I am still living"
Still hyingl This noble soul, this
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
Hearst HeSitafeS

The fact that John f. Hylan, mayor of New
York, hesitates to commit himself on the question
of presidential candidates, is but a reflection of
the hestancy of William Randolph Hearst. The
latter is doubtless fishing around for favorable
terms for himself, before he joins the LaFollette
movement to which, however, he is already giving
free advice in large quantities. But Hearst wants
party to be organized before he quits the older
machines, for, practical man Of affairs, he
knows that organization is the only thing that
stays put.
Whatever the outcome of the particular hesita-
ton of Hearst, there is little doubt Of the result
that will be brought by the general hesitation of
the crowd of small and disappointed office-seekers
who want permission to hitch their offce-seeking
wagons to the LaFollette star. They will get the
permission, and the budding FarmerLabor move
ments in the states will be swamped by food Of
independent" candidates., corresponding to La
Follette's personal campaign.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

generous heart, this dreamer Of hui
man brotherhood and beauty still liv-
ing under the shadow of the electric
chair! There was the night when
10000 volts of lightning snuffed out
the life of one mani What night of
horror! He lies awake thinking Of
the men killed and the men that kill.
Passionate apostle of freedom and of
service to mankind; rebel against a
world where men MAIN their fellow
men in the name of the law; where
justice is in the hands Of men who
cannot hear, who cannot see, who can
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
A CHALLENGE TO BE NET

because of their ordering a strike vote
on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burgh Railway. Mr.. Hooper was par
ticularly vicious in his attack because
of the refusal of these organizations
refusing to come over boot and bag
gage to Coolidge and Dawes or Davis
and Bryan in the coming elections.
The rank and file of the railway un-
ions must watch this test Of strength
very closely Only the membership Of
these unions can meet the challenge.
It is the rank and file Of these rail-
way unions that has had to put up
with the tyranny of the strikebreak-
ing board. The leaders Of these un-
ions, judging from their previous sur
render to the board at the decisive
moments, will go only as far as they
are forced to go by their member
ship.
The time to meet the challenge OF
railway capital, Of the financiers who
control the arteries of the country's
system or production and exchange Is
at hand. The workers could not have
chosen better time than this when
we are on the eve Of a gigantic ma
tional election campaign. II is up To
the members Of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers and the Broth
erhood OF Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen to accept the challenge
thrown in their teeth by their sworr
enemy, Ben Hooper
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
ONE OF OUR PRISONS s1..5.5s. sss.s.
By, MATHILDA ROBBINS

not understand the spirit Of vanzet-
ii.
The jailor brought a little piece Of
yellow paper and slipped it into Van
zettis hand He clutched it. I'm
der his mustache he bit his lips. The
prison clock struck four. The visit
was at an end. held his hand for
moment and quickly turned away.
Doors were opening and shutting.
Keys clanked. looked back. With
head high and quick step vanzetti
was walking thru the grated wall Of
the west wing.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14
The Plight of Labor

The unemployment and insecurity exposed by
the DAILY WORKER inside the factories of the
international Harvester company are indicative
of the prevalent plight of the American workers.
Over half of the Harvester Trust employees have
been laid off, and the ten thousand who are work
ing are employed only five days week.
The first reaction of the employees is to cling
more closely to their jobs, to be more servile, to
cater to the wishes of their BOSSES The period of
industrial crisis brings many ESTABLISHMENTS to
the workers Thousands of them are laid off after
many years of faithful service. Others are dis
charged just before their pensions come due.
'"Theyll keep ME- on" the trusting employe
says to himself. II have shown them by obeying
their commands at all times that 1 am valuable to
them. have stuck by them when the rebellious
element went on strike, and have stayed Loyalty
with the company union against outside atfilia-
tions"
But then the axe falls. The faithful employe
learns to his sorrow and sometimes to his SURPRISE
that promotion rate of wges, and discharges are
not determined by loyalty to the company. lie
finds that the only condition on which the Har-
vester company suffers him to work is that he
turns his energy into profits for the firm. AS
soon the emplOye is unable to turn his energy
into wages, plus net profit for the BOSS he is
summarily dismissed without the slightest senti-
1t is in this psychological state that the worker
finds himself at the present time. The Industrial
Councils, which supposed to take the place
of the unions, have not prevented wage reductions
and indiscriminate lay-offs. Faithful service, in
periods or retrenchment has not kept the wife and
children from walking the streets looking for work
to support starving family
The "pep-em-up" literature, distributed by the
tons, is laid on the shelf, while the Harvester
company sitting pretty after large dividend pay
ment and a net profit of over eleven million dol
lars for the last year. says sadly, go, thou good
and faithful servant, we have no more use for
your energy for the present. You have done your
work so well that our storehouses are full and
the market is glutted. You took our advise too
seriously and speeded up so much you worked
yourself out of job. Sorry-come around again
next year"
The workers will be at the mercy Of the bosses
until they disregard their bunk and get into class
concious organizations such as the Workers Party,
~n the political field and the trade unions on the
Industrial field. The industrial crisis and its ac-
companying starvation, point out none to gently
to the workers that their salvation lies in taking
over the factories and running them for the serv-
ice of the wealth producing class. They are re
minded that as long as industries are run for pro
fit their wage slavery and insecurity will continue.
The nomination of Calvin Coolidge by himself
and his acceptance at Cleveland made Wall Street
feel pretty good Stocks took an upward fly.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

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The daily worker., 1924-07-14

The nomination of Davis on the democratic
ticket sent the tckers ticking merrily and the gam
bers went to see the follies in the evening with
complete peace of mind. All was we'll with the
world and capitalism was sitting pretty.
The daily worker., 1924-07-14

The nomination of Calvin Coolidge by himself
and his acceptance at Cleveland made Wall Street
feel pretty good Stocks took an upward fly
The Glenwood post., 1924-09-25
RIO oRANDE 70 SH eodD
AT AUCTION OCTOBER q

Denver, Sept. 2o.-The Denver and
Rio Grande Western railroad will be
sold at public auction on October 90,
according to an announcement here to.
day by Cass 3. Harrington, special
master to conduct the sale, named by
Judge Foster J. symes yesterday. The
minimum bid to be received under a.
rection Of the court will be ~ ,sa5, 100.
The date Of sale was announced here
late today BY the special master. The
road will be offered at auction from
the front steps Of the railroad com
pany's office at the Barnum shops in
West Denver.
The Glenwood post., 1924-09-25

Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Dickson, daush-
ter, Geraldine and son, Andrew, left
Sunday noon for Denver, via Berthoud
pass. They will visit in Denver and
take Geraldine to Boulder, where she
is q sophomore at the Uuniversity Of
Colorado, and will return home the
latter part Of the week.
The Glenwood post., 1924-09-25

Robert weise sad son sad Ja.s
Bulloch Of Cosy Point came down S.
day to get out Of the snow. AAeae
six inches fell in the vicinity Of ~
On, but part Of It melted = fast 49,
came down.
The Glenwood post., 1924-09-25

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blossom, Mrs. 81.
T.. Hubbard, Jess Dore and Leonard
Reeves left Sunday for Denver to
spend few days. They will drive
some. cars back for the Blossom Motor
company.
The Glenwood post., 1924-09-25

Clyde Burnaugh and wife spent sew
eral days Of this week visiting M.
Burnaugh' e father, Ed Burnaugh. They
left Friday for Steamboat Springs to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Peircs.
Mrs. Peirce was formerly Miss Frances
Lowe of this city. Mr.. Burnaugh is
employed by the Western Union Tele-
graph company in Denver.