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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
ALBERTA NJ I'M Frs
BATTLING P R ESS
and COAL BARONS
District Union Officials
Backed BY Members.
By JOHN CLIFFORD.
Special to The Daily Workerl

Especial TO Inc Oally Workerl
DRUMHELLER Alta, Canada,
April 17-On April list. the miners Of
Alberta and eastern British Colum-
bia came out on strike to maintain
their present wage scale and are put
ting up solid front to the coal oper-
ators and the capitalistic press Of
the country. The constitution Of the
union providing for referendum on
the strike issue, a vote was taken
and resulted in an unanimous vote in
favor of cessation of work to strike
against wage cut.
The press of the country, in a rage
at the miners in coming out on strike,
and not doing their share in getting
the country back to normally. The
press Of this western country is in
sistent that the miners be more rea-
sonable, and the country, especially
the miners, would derive much bene-
fit from wage reduction. At pres
ent the boss has very convenient
weapon to use, with the large influx
of immigrants from Europe, and the
operators have intimaSed that they
will flood the mines with incoming
immigrants, if the miners do not take
cut.
The mines being worked with cheap
labor, will result in an affair of the
Herrin type. as the v~te of the min
ers on the strike issue indicates that
they will not tolerate any violation
of their union principles. and if any
violence takes place, the blame will
rest WIDELY on the operators and the
press. The miners are intending to
throw their whole might and strength
into this fight as the operators have
consistently abused the late agree
ment in numerous ways and it was
not possible for any progressive mem
Der Of the union to put forward any
move for the benefit of the workers
without being Disseminated, and the
agreement being of such a nature,
that militant member of the union
had absolutely no redress.
1t is this one feature of the late
agreement that the miners are de-
termined to remedy, and are stalking
their all on this fight, altho the
mines in this district have worked
barely hundred days, in the last
year. However the mines, have re-
ceived much encouragement by a
large number Of non-union mines
coming out in support, and it is ex-
pected that before many days that
the entire non-union field will come
out in sympathy with the union min
ers and line up with the organization.
It is this that the operators were
banking on, as they figured that the
non-union mines would take care of
the summer needs of the consumer,
and would be the means Of breaking
the strike.
The officials Of the district were
fully aware of this situation, and the
strike being called the district Of
ficers acted Immediately, and went
out on the job and proceeded to clean
up the non-union fields. The most
hopeful thing in this strike is that
the rank and file are all solid for the
action of the officials, there being no
internal dissension in the ranks, and
with everybody realising that the on
ly enemy is the boss, victory for the
miners is assured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
DECIDE FL. P.
GONVENT
VOTING BASIS
St. Paul Contention
Votes AppOrtiOned

ST. PAUL, April 1.-THE
June ~ national nominating
convention of the Farmer-Labor
movement to be held in ST.. Paul
will nominate candidates for
president and vice-president on
a definite voting basis, The
votes for each state, based
largely on the progressive-farm-
er-Iabor-radical vote in the gen.
eral election Of 1922, are as
follows:
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a liar. Moran is liar" said Fay
Silkoff in her testimony, HE never
gave me a copy Of the injunction"
The other defendants also denied
that Moran had talked to them.
Patrick Collins had some difficulty
in explaining to the court why he
arrested Morris Sher. What was he
doing when you arrested him." asked
Sissman. why he was pointing his
finger at somebody.
"And you arrested him just for
pointing his finger"
well 1 thought may be he was
blocking the sidewalk" answered
the servant Of the states attorneys
Office.
Strikebrsaking Judge
Judge Foell made it evident in
court yesterday that altho he may
be, a more cultured man than the
brusque Denny, he is going to do
all in his power to hamper the strike
of the garment girls for decent con-
ditions.
Repeatedly by questioning the girls
Foell tried to show that the strike
was a conspiracy" between the pick
eters and the union officials. "Who
told you to go on the picket liner"
asked Judge Foell of every defendant
so far called When they replied they
had gone out on their own volition,
Judge Foell said, "Your punishment
for violating the injunction will be
more severe if you take the full re-
sponsibiIity."
vapId Injunction Twaddle.
II don't believe it when you say you
didn't understand what the Injunction
was" Judge Foell told Mary Gastina
You'd better tell me who told you
to go out picketing. l am trying to
find out who is using you as tool. 4
believe you deliberately violated the
injunction and the amount of the re-
sponsibility you take will determine
the amount of your punishment"
The six defendants heard today
were Fay Silkoff, Mary Gastina, Min
ME Garshin, Mary Nischt, Helen
Wiese, and Katherine O'Connor. The
cases of Elizabeth Crushing, Samuel
Natesky, William Flash, Morris Sher.
Morris Surin, Marya Czajkowska, and
Fabian Tipshus will be taken up to-
day.
Four more picketers were arrested
yesterday They were Bernice Now
akowski. Sophie Moss. Stasie Pill
ichosl1i, and Emma Goldberg.
A Manufacturers Judge.
Judge Foell showed that he is not
going to do anything which will in
jure the dress manufacturers in
this strike He is doing his best to
keep the girls off the picket line. Ev-
cry defendant was forced to promise
that from now on they will keep off
the picket line. In spite Of Judge Fo-
ell and the Dress Manufacturers AS
sociation the picket line is holding
firm. The strikers declare they will
not be scared by any prostitutes of
the employers because they know
they are struggling for higher stan
dard of living. The answers of the
defendants to the Injunction Judge"
showed that the wages they have
been receiving are too low for
decent standard Of living to be main
tanned. 81 earned twenty dollars
week before the strike" said Fay
Silkoff, in answer to Judge Foell
Two other defendants said they
earned S25 week. But 1t was not
brought out in court that the dress
making trade is exceedingly seasonal,
and hence the girls find it impossible
to exist on non-union wages.
Members OF the Committee of Is
said they "are still considering hiring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
Beg in Vain for Scabs

a float" They ARE not sure whether
or not they will run float at all on
account of the expense"
Gompers' Aid FizzIed.
No more has been heard about
Samuel Gompers and the aid he was
supposed to be going to give the strik-
ers some time ago. Committee of Is
members said yesterday that they did
not believe Gompers would do any
thing about the strike here. Up to
now the sum total of his assistance to
the strikers has been--Nothing Not
even a statement to the press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
Party Activities OF
Local Chicago
Trachtenberu MeetInn.

ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG
will speak Friday evening, April 18th,
at 500 p NJ, at North Side Turner
Hall, 500 North Clark street. Com
rade Trachtenberg has been having a
very successful speaking trip on the
subject, What Saw in Russia and
Germany" arousing much interest.
Comrade Trachtenberg was in Russia
and Central Europe for fourteen
months and attended the fourth con-
gress of the Third International as a
delegate of the Workers Party of
America. The admission to this
meeting is % cents, and same is to
be held under the auspices of Local
Chicago of the Workers Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18

In press statement, denying ale
cations that the st. Paul convention
is to be dominated by the Workers
party, William Mahoney of the COM
mittee of arrangements declares:
There will no doubt be Communists,
as there will be other schools Of
thought represented in the conven-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
Daily Worker SUB Aaents.

THERE Will BE A MEETING of
the DAILY WORKER Branch Sub
scription Agents on Monday, April
21st, 8 p. NJ, at Room 3O7, 166 West
Washington street. All agents must
be present. Party branches who
have not yet elected DAILY WORK
Err agents must do so at once and
see that their delegates attend this
meeting, where the matter of deyel-
oping the drive for 1000 new sub
scribers to the DAILY WORKER by
June 18th will be taken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
RUSSIA USING REVOLUTIONARY
MOVIES AS EDUCATOR; GREAT
RED NOVEL, "A WEEK, FILMED
BY GERTRUDE HAESsLER.
Federated Press Staff Correspondent
First of two articIesl

MOSCOW, April 17-Move rights to "a Week. the novel Of
revolutionary Russia by bednsky have been obtained in Rus
STA by Proekno the proearan movie producer organization
The author writing the viii direct the production
This the immediate task of Proeno actual film production
Proletno great organization for bringing the masses
with each other thru picture explains
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
standard laying of Men.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, April H.
The Standard Oil Co. has joined the
ranks of the big employers on the
coast that are laying off men. In
the coast town Of FL Segundo, with
a population of approximately $500,
composed entirely of the men en-
ployed at the oil refneries and their
families, fully one-half the breadwin-
ners are now out Of employment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
ORGANIZATIONS, ATTENTIONS
NEW YORK CITY, April IT,

District No. 2, Workers Party,
has arranged grand excursion
and moonlight dance on the Hud-
son river for Saturday, June 2eth.
The commodIous steamer cler-
mont, having capacity Of 5000,
has been chartered for this occa-
sion.
Friendly organizations are urged
to keep this date in mind and not
arrange for any affairs that week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18

How many Of your shop-mates read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one Of
them to subscribe today.
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Italian Branch, Thirty-first Ward,
will meet Friday, April 18th. at 511
Sagemore street.
Friday, April 18th, Ukrainian No. 2
(Pullman) Ukranian Educational So
ciety at 107O1 Stephenson avenue.
Friday. April 18th. Russian Branch
will meet at the Technical School at
1902 West Division street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18
Regular Party Branch MeetInus.

Friday, April 18th. at P. NJ, Hun
garian Branch will meet at 1900
North Sedgwick avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-18

How many of your shop-nates read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one Of
them to subscribe today.
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 Cooper. tf.
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Decide Naval Officers
 Not Liable to Moneys
 Paid Disallowed Claims

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. G. Comptroller General McCarl has no right to withhold any portion of na- val officers pay to offset government claims for disallowed payments, Jus tice Hoehling of the District Supreme court decided today, as Congress fix es the salary of the officers and neither the accountant nor the comp troller may withhold any portion of it.
 The decision came in the test case brought about by Lieutenant Com mander John F. Cox, against the Comptroller General, the Accountant General and the Secretary of the Navy.
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AGE. .OLD GOVERNMENT IN IN CHINA CHINA
 PERMITS COUNTRY TO PROSPER
ution or a reform movement.

lution or reform movement. The great bulk of China's half bill lion inhabitants are not interested in higher politics or national politics of any kind. Their aim for today is to trade, or till, or SOW, or reap-to fill their stomachs, and that is all.
 The average political rumpus is caused by handful of agrarian agi- tators in the treaty ports and few scattered about in the interior. The articulate group in China is very small in comparison with the total population, but it makes a powerful noise.
 This situation exists because in China the administration has always been carried on by an official class made up of the so-called literati. The people regard it is the task of this class to run the country. It is not the peoples business to butt in.
 The Man With the Hoe
 China's standby is the "man with the hoe" These people will for a long time be unaffected by political strife. They will only be driven to desperation and revolt when their pockets are endangered
 So far only their intelligence has been insulted by the politicians When the people are really hurt is where they eat, and then they will rise but not until then and then only after long suffering.
 For this reason trade and com merce go on in China despite the civ il wars, the brigandage, the corrup- tion, and the absence of any govern ment worthy of the name For this reason there will not be bolshev vism in China.
 Only when the militarist. the official and the politician stop the crops from
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BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO
 BUILD MORE CRUISERS

LONDON, Dec. 8.-One of the first acts of the Admiralty under the new government will be to lay down a further number of cruisers, accord nig to the Daily Mail, recalling that the Conservative government of Brit ain decided to build eight cruisers, and that the labor government had only laid down five of these. The paper says the balance with further fresh replacements may be begun in the near future.
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GERMAN OFFICER FOUND
 GUILTY OF SHIPPING
 STOLEN GOODS TO HOME

LILLE, Dec. 8.-Found guilty of conf1scating and shipping to Ger many valuable properties from the chateau he was occupying as head quarters in Northern France during the World war, General Won Nathus- lus' German commanding officer, was sentenced today to a years i'm prlsonment and the payment of the trial costs.
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VESSEL IN DISTRESS

PENSACOLA, Fla, Dec. GA mes sage picked up by the naval air sta tion here reported the British steam CT Helreadale aground on West Horn Island, in the Gulf of Mexico. The message asked for aid from tug at Mobile. Earlier distress calls said the ship was in no immediate danger.
 A tug later reported to be working on the vessel
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REPORTS OF NEW GASSES
 ARE MISLEADING SAYS GEN.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. s. Published reports of the development of new poison gas with supernat- ural powers of destruction or of the evolution of death dealing rays of terrible effectiveness are both ridic- ulously erroneous and seriously mis- leading, Brigadier General Amos A. Fries, chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, asserted in his annual report recounting the progress made during the last year by the army chemists.
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By Miller Holland

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. S. Why is it that, in spite of hundreds of years of never-ending turmoil, blood shed and civil strife, China, the land of forgotten fable and legendary myths, goes on forever and ever?
 For centuries the world has won- dered how it has been possible for the great oriental nation to keep up even semblance of order and of confusion and military uproar unity in view of the chronic state that has prevailed from before the days of Greece and Rome.
 According to some observers of China and the Chinese, one explan- ation might be about as follows:
 In so-called civilized country, if a president is kicked out, or any oth- CT political fireworks go off, work would practically sease.
 But not so in China.
 When a dynasty is Overthrown, when an emperor is restored, when a president runs away, or is chased away; when Peking is without a central government, when a war lord tries to seize the capital and even succeeds in capturing it, there is no cessation of work anywhere in China, not even temporarily.
 The tradesmen, the artisans, the laborers go about their business without interruption, and the only excitement. if any, is among the handful of politicians congregated in the teashops.
 not tie business of the working people.
 It is this happy state of indiffer- ence, combined with a feudal system of local government, that saves China from general chaos. The prevailing system of local government which has existed through the ages in the cities, towns and villages, renders a central government unnecessary ex- cept for the handling of foregin af fairs
 Suffer From Bandits
 In times of civil war and bandit out breaks the great common people in the celestial commonwealth "get it in the neck" of course, as usual, but they go back to their fields and the shops as soon as the trouble is over congratulating themselves that it has not been worse.
 A "civilized country under such cir cumstances would start a revolution and be seething with disorder in less than no time
 In China the man with the hoe" accepts the suffering as part of the daily round. He probably decides he has not done enough worshipping at the village shrine and to make up for this neglect he merely bows and prays to his gods little harder. That and nothing else.
 The average Chinese in town and country asks for nothing in the way of local Improvements in return for the taxes he pays. All he wants is to be let alone to have no official reach out and try to inflict higher taxes
 Then la
 However, should the Chinese peas ants pocket be too seriously tam- pered with, he claims the right to re- volt, and he gathers his fellow hoe men, and they will all try to show the grasping officials just what's what and then some.
 But he will not, as rule, allow a little local scrap to be used as a peg upon which to hang a national revo-
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General Shakeup Eminent
 In Foreign Service Dept.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. G. A general shakeup in high places of the U. s. foreign service is like to take place soon after March 4, was the announcement which peeped thru political circles here.
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growing, or tax the people beyond their limit of endurance. will their be rising; but the officials wisely keep their hands off the people.
 And, finally, despite all the trials and tribulations of the past and the present, the trade figures TOT each successive year keep on going upward and probably they will continue to go upward.
 Dull, listless China has done what the vibrant genius of Greece and Rome failed to do.
 China still is.
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REPORTED MUTINY AMONG
 RUSSIAN TROOPS YESTERDAY

PARIS, Dec. S.-Reports reached Paris yesterday that serious mutiny of Russian troops had broken out in Kronstadt and that Leon Trotzky had been made prisoner.
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Are you a subscriber to the Daily Gateway? If not ,why not:
 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Having purchased the interest of John Morrison in the Seward Plumb ing Company, I will be responsible for all debts owed by the concern, and all bills due the company should be paid to me.
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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1924-02-22
MARY
SUCCEEDS
ON
MAIN STREET
By LAURA MILLER
y, lyL4, " Laura Miller
THE WIDOWS MIGHT

Three widows in three different
One sought a manager for her hus-
bands business In the hope a living
for both her and the manager would
result. One found herself the sort OF
low-paid job woman past forty can
acquire, and is saving painstaking
sums to care for her old age. One,
past fifty, took over her husbands fac
tory, and in ten years increased the
profits three-fold.
No article can give an unfailing
recipe for the secret of such success
as Mrs. Charles Knox has made Of
her universally known gelatin busi-
ness. 1t can only tell how the Knoxes
did it, for he had helped her greatly
during his lifetime. Her husband
started the little factory at Johns
town, n. Y. Both had struggled to &C
cumulate. What she saved from her
household allowance was always hers.
If Mr.. Knox needed money, he often
borrowed from her-at bank rates.
When he consulted her about his busi-
ness affairs he expected a judgment
based on reason. He never fooled
her with praise" she says. But he
acted on her opinion.
So much for his part. At his death
the boys future depended on her wise
action. And she loved her children.
Financially she is canny. She found
that Mr.. Knox's newspaper, a side
line, did not pay. Forthwith all checks
for the paper were issued from her
Office until the paper did pay and
could be sold at a profit. When she
built concrete factory to replace the
original wooden one, she planned. not
for ostentation and size. but for clean
illness and convenience 1t carried Oh
a far larger volume of business with
almost the same floor space. When
her first contract involved spending
SS5,0OO, she learned how to secure the
rock-bottom price from the salesman
of the other side.
She sets a high standard. Her prod
uct, her employees, her son and as
sistant in the business, even the orchid
conservatory at her home-all must
pay their way by showing clean-cut
efficiency.
She likes the sort of simplicity that
often accompanies greatness. Her adj
vertising campaigns have Illustrated
this. Mr.. Knox used to go in for
stunts. Mrs. Knox has mainly con-
fined herself to swapping recipes" as
from one woman to other women who
love the kitchen.
70 women entering business she
says: You must have training or
ability or both. Use common sense.
Utilize your sex, but don't demand ia
vors on account of il Keep busy
of what you can accomplish
and you will grow old only half as
fast as the woman who worries over
what she can't do"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1924-02-22

mis- scarf, and when the officers ex-
amined the body they found it was
cold.
Examination OF the body by the
morgue officials showed that the scarf
had been tied tightly around the wom-
ans neck and that 1t had been pulled
80 as to strangle her. There was
black ring around her neck. 1t is the
opinion of the police that the woman
was asleep when she was attacked.
When the body was found it was lying
beside the bed with the bed sheet over
IT, Only an unde-shirt clad the body.
Information obtained by the police
was that the couple had been married
since May. and that they had not
been very happy.
Lost Both Legs in War.
GODDARD is returned soldier, thirty
years of age, who. during the war.
having lost both his legs, wears arti-
fetal limbs and walks with the aid of
a cane This led the police TO believe
that Mrs. GODDARD must have been at
tackled in her bed. as otherwise she
could easily have pushed her assailant
away.
OF Godard's war record the police
were unable TO learn great deal.
They found four military medals in a
frame in the house. but they could net
learn for what they were awarded.