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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Striking Garment
w or k ers Hear
4. u. E. L. Speaker
lspecial 70 Ths n,iIr Work.rl

BOSTON, Feb. 26.-The second
day Of the Garment Workers strike
in Boston finds the workers in fine
spirit. The previous day, five manu-
facturers were ready to sign up. The
snow storm did not keep the men
from the picket line. Another in
junction has been applied for, which
will be heard in the supreme court
today.
The mass meeting held this after
noon listened to speakers from the
Cigarmakers' union, and the New
England organizer Of the A. F. of L.,
who spoke along the usual lines Of
solidarity during the strike. The ex-
ception was Ida Rothstein, member Of
the international Ladies' Garment
Workers Union, prominent member
of the Needle Trades Section Of the
7. U. E. L. who last spring made a
tour of needle trade centers in the
United States and Canada on behalf
of amalgamation. She pointed out
the need of greater interest in the
union, not only at strike times but
during normal periods. If the union
is not what it ought to be, it is our
own fault, because of our own lack
Of interest. The forty-hour week
was not the ultimate goal in the
needle trades industry; in Russia,
they became the arbiters of their
own destiny. The workers responded
warmly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Wall Street Nervous
OUer Results Oil
Probe Revelations
CBy Tho Federated Press,

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Wall Street
is more than concerned by the oil
scandal. 1t had hoped, and it's rep
resentative men are frank to say so,
that the year would be politically
quiet-that the country would sit
back and accept Cal Coolidge with
out thought
One industrial banker is quoted as
follows: "The blowing of the dome
off the Teapot means more than Just
a scandal of political interest only.
1t means, for one thing, that the
country is in for political year,
and it is this phase of the question
that is disturbing to capital. Until
the Washington scandal broke, every
one had settled back in anticipation
of an orderly and easy election cam
paign; now there is doubt in some
minds as to whether this will be the
case; in fact, it looks as if it would
be the reverse. As every observer
knows, strenuous and bitter cleo
ton campaign always has the effect
of making business nervous"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
b. Y. D.'Less Russian
Prince Says He
Nay Get Job

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-This is the
sad, sad story of Prince Simon Nico-
las Korsakov. The prince was an
aide to General Wrangel, at one time
the New York Times favorite de-
fender of civilization. Prince Kor-
sakov did what he could to hamper
the Russian workers in their effort
to build new government, and what
he could to help starve the peasant.
That done, he got away and went to
Monte Carlo.
What money he had left he spent
there, and borrowed some more,
Then he came to America. He knew
that in this democracy, and only in
this democracy, do people crowd
around the feet of titled loafers from
the old world. Counts and dukes and
princes wrote him that the going
continued good in the land of the
free, and he managed to get here
Luck brought him up against a
friend" whom he had met in Monte
Carlo; and this friend invited him
for a visit in Boston. The prince
went and ran up a hotel bill at the
Cop,ey-Plaza Hotel, which Is a toney
one, and his next move was to a
police station.
When he said he was a prince they
treated him gently, and supplemented
their respect with reverence when he
said he had fought the Bolsheviks
His friend, he explained, had 5000
and all the princes incest under
wear, and then disappeared. He was
released. Somebody paid his hotel
bin. The prince says his brothers
in arms are scattered over the world
from Sofia to Picking and Chicago
suburbs; and he says further that he
thinks he may 90 to work. Some of
the others have tried that, and told
him it wasn't so had.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
McAdOO's DryneSS,
Not His OiLinesS,
Anglers Jim Duncan

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. james
Duncan, of Quincy, Mass, first vice
president, American Federation Of
Labor has passed the black spot to
w. G. McAdoo.
From Offices just established in the
Willard Hotel here, a press state
ment has been issued by Duncan, as
chairman of the "Joint Legislative
Committee of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, National Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
Constitutional Liberty League Of
Massachusetts,, Moderation League,
Inc.," in which it is bleakly set forth
that McAdoo, the presidential candi-
date. is dry.
There seems to be nothing that
McAdoo can do about it now. They
went to his hotel here, when he
came to explain his Doheny money
to the senate committee, on Feb. 13,
and they asked him where he stood.
He said: "I'm dry. There's no use in
discussing the subject. That's all
there is to be said. I'm dry"
Duncan, for the A. r. of L. and its
wet allies, says: eve represent a
voting membership of over 5000, 900
members, comprising the A. F. of l..
. etc." And eve present the facts
to the people for their information on
the attitude of Mr.. McAdoo with re-
spect to the modification Of the Vol
stead Act"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
philadelphia is
MAKING BIG FIGHT
ON DAVIS LAWS
All-City Conference Is
Coming March 10

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-The
Council for Protection of Foreign
Born Workers, organized here several
months ago, is urging all labor or
CARNATIONS of this city to send dele
gates, Monday, March 10 at p. M,
to Philadelphia conference at 521
York avenue for the purpose Of
planning definite action against the
alien slave acts.
The coming conference is expected
to be still bigger than the origi-
nal organization conference several
months ago at which so organiza-
tons were represented.
Reasons for organized action by
labor is given in the following letter
of invitation to labor bodies sent
by the council:
rs Anti-Labor Laws.
There are now pending in Con-
gress not less than twenty-five bills
which propose, thru "Selective
immigration, registering and fin
ger printing of all foreign-born
workers, to create for the employ
ers an army of serfs who cannot
organize or strike. Thru these laws
the big employers hope to smash
the unions and reduce the standard
of living of native and foreign
born alike.
The American Federation of La
Dor at its Portland convention,
adopted a resolution vigorously de-
nouncing these laws as strike
breaking measures intended to pro-
vide the employers with a slave
army of workers. The Portland
convention of the A. F. of L.
pledged itself to combat these at
tempts of the employers with all
means at its disposal.
Council To Resist.
1t was because of the urgent
need to carry on an effective strug-
gle against the attempts Of Con-
gress to pass these strike-breaking
laws that the Council for Protec-
ton of Foreign-Born Workers was
organized in this city. A confer
ence of all labor organizations of
Philadelphia is called by the Coun-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Russ CO-OperdtiUes
Taking C barge of
Silk Cocoon Industry
Nv GERTRUDE HAEsSLER

(btnn CorresDnndent OF the Federated Fress)
MOSCOW, Feb. 26-The All-Rus-
sian Union of Consumers Co-opera-
tive Societies (Centrosoyuz) entered
on an entirely new field during 1928.
In the south Of Russia the silk worm
industry is Just beginning to recover
from the disorganization II suffered
during the civil war. Centrosoyuz or
ganized the sale Of silk cocoons last
year, taking over the raw cocoons
from the peasants to sell them on
commission basis. Centrosoyuz pays
the peasants a large part Of the sale
price on the spot in cash or goods.
The population Of South Russia
has become greatly interested in this
organized marketing Of the silk CO.
coons as result Of which, during
the year, the raising Of silk worms
and the planting Of mulberry trees
developed rapidly. Centrosoyuz pur-
chased over $1,000 pools Of silk CO.
coons for export, representing about
40 per cent Of the total export of
Russia's silk cocoons. Twelve thous-
and pools, valued at s193,50O, were
exported TO France.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Kaufman BetrGys
Militant into Hands
of Canadian Officials

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Morris
Kaufman, president of the Fur
! Workers Union, added another
shameful deed to his black record
when he betrayed Fanny Warshaf-
sky, a member of Local Is, of the
Fur Workers union, to the Canadian
authorities when she was on her way
to Canada to make a tour on behalf
of our Jewish organ, the Freiheit.
Morris Kaufman was on the same
train with WarshafslSy, and there is
every likelihood that he took this train
on purpose, as the tour Of Fanny
Warshafsky was announced a num-
Der of times in the Freiheit. When
the authorities tried to send Com
rade Warshafsky back she demanded
to know more particulars. Thereupon
she was led to another car Of the
train and was shown the president
of the union who had given the gov
eminent authorities information that
she was a Communist, and that she
was going to Canada to make tour
in behalf Of a newspaper that was
in the pay Of the Russian Soviet
government.
One reason why Morris Kaufman
attempted to render this little serv-
ice to the Canadian government is
that Fanny Warshafsky is one Of
the most active militants Of the Fur
Workers union, which this same
Kaufman rules with "strong arm
squad"
This time Kaufman failed, fol-
the Canadian authorities permitted
Comrade Warshafsky to proceed
Morris Kaufman will most likely
console himself for his failure by
having some more dastardly assaults
made upon members of the Fur
Worker union by the gangsters in
his pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Your Union Meeting
Fourth Wednesday, Feb. 9th

Fourth Wednesday, Feb. 27th
No. Name Of Local and Place Of Meeting.
Boiler Makers. Monroe and Racine.
Throop St.
10 Carpenters, - Garfield Blvd
81 Carpenters, Western and Lexington.
242 Carpenters, s4t3 s. Aahland Ave.
1888 Carpenters, sos s. State st.
1884 Carpenters, 1888 N. Halsted
st. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec'y.,
2253 Grace st. Irving 1897.
1912 Carpenters, s4l4 8. Halstsd ST.
2507 Carpenters, 1881 Maple Ave, Evanston
1871 COOpers, 1901 Escanaba Ave.
7O7 FiremeR and EnEinemeR, SSH Archer
Ave.
1Osss Hair spinners, 5445 s. Ashland Ave
Metal Trades Council, lis s. Throop 81
Hold Carriers, 1852 w. Division st.
$50 HOd Carriers. $40 W. Harrison st.
II Janltors, 23rd and lsth AYES, Cicero
"a Janitors window workers., $50 w
Washington St.
Jswelry Workers, 10 w. Adams st.
104 Ladies Garment Workers, s2s w. Var
Buren, St.
1875 Machinists. Il3 S. Ashland Blvd.
524 Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave.
375 Maintenance of Way, AIS w. esd ST.
Marine Cooks. 357 N. Clark St.
81 Painters, Sherman and Main SITS.
Evanston, Ill.
Plasterers, 80 W. Monroe st.
Railway Carmen Dist. CouaciI, 5l45 s
Ashland Ave.
6s7 Railway Carmen, 5444 Wentworth Ave
1340 Railway Carmen, 5l45 Ashland Ave.
2ls Railway Trainmen, 42e w. Esd St.
1880 D. m.
II Roofers, III w. Adams st.
70 Sheet Metal, ia W. Harrison st.
ass Sheet Metal, 1894 S. Halsted ST.
753 Transfers; IT'S w. Washington St.
759 Transfers (Meat). 22O S. Ashland Blvd
1853 Transfers (Bonel, ss5s S. HaIsted 81
1906 Tuekpainters, $40 w. Harrison 81.
s24 Tunnel and Subway Workers, GA w
Harrison st.
(Note-Unless otherwise stated all meeting
are at 5 D. MI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
MUSCULAR PARTY
or ATHLETES, IS
CONFERENCE AIM
N. Y. Communists Start
Sport Movement

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-The revo-
lutionary youth of America must
have sound bodies, declares the Ath-
letic League of the Finnish Fedora
ton of the Workers Party which is
calling an athletic conference at the
Finnish headquarters in New York,
2042g Fifth Ave, for II a. M, March
%. with the cooperation Of the dis
trict office and the Jugo-Slav and
Cheko- Slovak Sport Clubs.
All branches of the Workers Party
and the Young Workers League are
urged to send delegates to work out
plans for vigorous athletic move
ment among the young people Of
the party
Muscular Communism.
Urging the Importance of museu-
lar communism the Athletic League
points to the fact that the capitalist
class spends millions of dollars for
the bourgeois sport movement in or
der to bring the young men and
women where it can preach patriot
ism and hatred of the revolutionary
movement to them.
On the other hand in Russia, IL
| declares, the workers government is
I building up the sport movement
among the workers and peasants.
Red Sport international.
An international working class
sport and athletic movement is in
existence with two international or
CARNATIONS, one of which has been
organized by the communists Of
Europe. This is the Red Sport In
ternational of Moscow; it works
in harmony with the Comintern and
the Young Communist international
which have discussed the sport prob
lem and have told their sections in
different countries to build rival
sport organizations to the bourgeois
sport organizations. to draw the
young workers to them and propa-
gate the principles of communism
among them.
Outside of Russia there is strong
working class sport movements in
Germany, -Slovallia, Finland
and many other countries embracing
hundreds Of thousands of members.
Athletes On Barbados.
In America it is our duty to start
organization of a Workers Athletic
League that is controlled by our
party and the Young Workers
League. Some comrades might think
that when we organize an athletic
club into our midst our activities in
the class struggle cease. But ex-
perience shows us different. Tor in
stance in the civil war Rin Finland
in 1918 the membership Of the work
ers' sport clubs were among the
first to step to the workers side Of
the barricades to fight for the rights
of the working class. And in the
Workers Party branches where there
already is a sport club the members
of the sport clubs are just as active
in the party work generally as are
those comrades who do not belong
to a sport club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Mexican Labor Notes

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.-One
thousand railroad workers are threat
ened with the loss of their jobs here
for alleged voluntary aid to the
fascist during the period that the
latter controlled the railroads from
Puebla to Vera Cruz and from La
Barca to Guadalajara. A careful
investigation will be made in each
case, the government promises, be-
fore action is taken.
A strike of nurses and doctors of
the state hospital of Puebla has
broken out. The strike is due to the
fact that it is almost two months
since the institutional pay roll was
met.
A textile convention Of the Con-
federation General de Trabaiodores
(anarcho-syndicalist) is meeting in
the capital. 1t is to take up the
problem of preventing wage reduc-
tions, partial or complete shut downs
in the textile factories, avoiding APP
pearance before the arbitration and
Cancellation commissions in the fed
eral district because they are under
control of the Laboristas, a labor
political party controlled by the rival
Mexican Federation of Labor. Free
ing class war prisoners thruout the
world is another subject up for dis
cussion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
u. S. Is R1iLrOGding
Speaker for Soviet
Russia to Prison

Workers and Friends of Labor
Help raise five hundred dollars and
give John L. Cooper, formerly bust
ness manager Of the Novy Mir, a
fighting chance.
He was arrested after speaking at
Soviet Russia recognition meeting,
Feb. 3, at Bayonne, N. j., and was
held on the federal charge Of con-
spiracy to overthrow the government
Of the United States. He will be
railroaded to Jail unless a fight is
put up.
Five (undred dollars must be rails
ed instantly--more money will be
needed.
Will you be one of five hundred
comrades to donate a dollar or more
and keep him out Of Jail
Send contributions to National De-
Tense Committee, New York Division,
20S E. 18th St., New York City.
Work Daily for THE Dailyg'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27

Gil for Monday, March 10, 8 p. M,
at 521 York avenue, near 9th and
Spring Garden streets. The confer
ence will work out ways and means
how best to fight the slave laws
which are a menace to the entire
working class of this country.
Brother workers, the interests
Of labor and of your own organ
'zation make it imperative for you
to send delegates to that confer
ence without fail. Let us act be-
fore it is too late.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27

master has commanded nee. IF
don't obey him he will punish me
severely"
The little grey dog licked Benja-
minis face, looked at him with his
large eyes that seemed to implore
him, "Save me, save me-"
"Give me the dog" pleaded Ben
jamin. 81 will hide him carefully
so that the master will not see him.
The coachman thought for a mo-
ment, then replied, "Good, you may
hide him. But" he said warningly,
"you must not betray the fact that
have given him to you. If the
master should ever see him you must
say that you saved him from the
river. Then he will give you bad
beating. :"
"That doesn't matter" cried Ben
jamin eagerly. GAS long as the little
dog is allowed to live"
The coachman laughed, removed
the string from the neck of the dog,
and Benjamin ran to the hut with
him, patting him, kissing him, full
of joy. At evening when Benjamin's
parents came home, he showed them
the dog, and the parents also were
happy because they had to be away
from home all day and always feared
that the little boy might go to the
river, fall in and be drowned. But
now he would stay near the huts with
his playfellow, so that he might hide
himself quickly in case the rich man
might pass by.
1t was as tho the little grey dog
knew that Benjamin had saved his
life. He did not leave the side OF
the little boy, obeyed him, and
showed himself to be quite intelli-
gent. Benjamin spoke to him as ia
a person, and the dog looked at him
as wisely as tho he understood every
word.
Benjamin's parents were young
and strong, the best workers on the
sugar plantation. Therefore the Sc.
we're overseer was satisfied with them
and beat them less than he
did the other slaves. On that ac-
count they were both, in spite OF
their hard life, satisfied, and in the
evenings when they returned to their
hut and their little Benjamin, all
three Of them were gay and happy
Benjamin's mother, Hannah, was
also an excellent seamstress. She
knew how to weave pretty basket:
from reeds and rushes, and was Q
very good cook.
One day the eldest daughter OF
the rich man, who lived with hei
husband in the north, came to visit
her father. She was glad to see her
old home again and everything
seemed to her more beautiful thar
in the north. She complained OF
the trouble she had in getting serv.
ants in the city. "These whites are
not nearly as desirable as the
blacks" said she. "They cannot be
driven to work with whips. You
should present me with q good slave
father, so that life win be more
comfortable for me. My husband
will be quite angry about Il, for the
people in the north are crazy; they
claim that the blacks are also hu.
man beings, and that slavery must
be abolished. But he loves me very
dearly, and will be glad II he see,
me happy"
(Te be continued temorsw)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
THE LITTLE GREY DOG.


BY Herminia Eur Mullen.
LIE WAS an ugly little grey dog
4 with long silken-soft ears and
bushy tail. He was born in a
splendid stable that belonged to a
rich man. This rich man lived on
a large estate in which were many
fields and meadows. And in these
fields grew sugarcane, in great guam
titles, great, round, smooth canes
that contained the sweet sugar. On
the sugar plantation worked hum
dreds of Negroes, men and women,
and all the Negroes belonged to the
rich man who had bought them in
the market as he would buy cattle,
for this story happened long ago, in
those days when slavery existed in
America. The rich man could do
anything he wished with his slaves.
II he was in bad mood he would
permit them to be whipped; if they
dared to protest against this cruel
treatment they were more cruelty
punished-they were stripped naked,
smeared with honey, and tied to a
tree. The smell of the honey at
tracted the bees that came in large
swarms, settled on the body of the
slave, sucked the honey and stung
the bound man till he collapsed with
pain. Also, the master could sell
his slave, did tins frequently, with
out the least consideration tearing
mother from child, separating man
and wife, sister and brother. The
poor Negroes were entirely helpless,
they had to work all day long in
the hot sun. received very poor food,
lived in wretched huts, separated
from the house of the rich man, near
a mighty river. Here lived the Ne
groes, crowded together; the chill
dren played about in front Of these
huts, played happily, because they
did not yet know that they were
slaves and that hard, difficult life
awaited them.
In one of the Negro huts arrived
the little grey dog who had been
born in the splendid stable, and this
is how it happened.
Once when the rich man walked
thru the stable, he noticed the little
grey dog who was playing in the
straw. He looked at the little dog,
and said angrily to the coachman,
What is this ugly little creature
doing here in my beautiful stable :?
Take it out; drown it in the river"
The coachman promised to do this
indeed he pitied the lively little AMI
NAL, but the master was strict and
he did not dare to disobey the COM
mand. He called the little dog, who
came running joyously, and started
toward the river. As he came near
the homes Of the slaves, little black
boy ran out of one Of the huts and
cried, 20, the lovely little animal!
Where are you taking it?" And he
ran quite close to them and patted
the dog, who mischieviously Jumped
at him, barking.
IL must drown the dog" answered
the coachman.
At that the eyes OF the little boy
filed with tears, he took the dog in
his arms, held him close, and begged
Don't do it, just see how darling
he isl
II must do II. Benjamin. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Send in Your News

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
World Women 70 Gather.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.--Dele.
gates from 20 foreign countries will
attend the fourth international con-
gress Of the Women's international
League, to be held here May IL.
Miss Jane Adams, international
president, will preside over all the
sessions, which will deal with after
war problems in all countries, leading
Up to world reconstruction and re.
tonciliation program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-27
Willard to TAX on Eurone.

Oswald Garrison Willard, editor of
the Nation, will be the guest of
honor at a dinner prepared by his
friends at the Auditorium Hotel,
March s. He viii tell Of European
conditions as he observed them in the
Rhineland, the Ruhr and the Pala-
innate.
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