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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Society Eagerly Awaiting
Signal for Formal Opening
OF Years Brilliant Period
Most Important of Season. Events Scheduled to
Begin With White House Reception,
Capitals Derby Day"
SALLIE V. II. PICKETT.

of the brilliant the social
opening with White
Thursday society taking deep breath with only few
big disturb it, and preparing for the plunge New Year
leads through the brilliant diplomatic breakfast the
Building with the Secretary of State and Mrs Hughes
the homes respectively of the Secretary of War
nd the Secretary of the Navy and others of the cabinet family
TOR the President and his family holiday quiet
January birthday Coolidge,
the world Society representing several generations
maddnng last week and will continue to flash through
this The President Mrs Cool
their Mr. John Coidge will tradition and
ear charity Hospital Friday
light thus attendance Never
bright successful affair for the children and much of is
generous promise of members the Pres
family is understood, will be other big society
went during the season.
90 many changes have come the diplomatic gng
- many and gddening others with
splendid before President Coolidge
Thursday morning at II o'clock opening the reception it would
recognized body passed old the
Ambassador of and Nine JUS
Grand who attending reception time
during administration usserand
he dancing the President and less fortunate
envy.
be to greet the President on the first day of the seems
places will arrive until later.
EVEN big charity Thursday night mpor-
n does the second annual al BAL Bohsm Of
M yam ss snS i
ss VI ths M Mrs
M Wa @ ad @5i % R
E M wh M WITH & Ts e
rsax s'? p'sss
Judgment be the of
liant
affairs besides those of official life arranged for this
New Year dsbu ball. M and Mrs 5 Edwar
of Miss Anne Covngon who
be Mr. and Mrs Harry Covngton,
dance claiming attention Miss Hd Hill
Tuesday
Lillian Grosvnor having her
earlier the day.
MODES rs change
III those in the other spheres OF life Washington While
c i!e5 justice
Just imposing the dinner if arranged The Attorney Genera
the Supreme Court bench this
mdd Tuesday at Willard.
BESIDES receptions President and his executive
Thursday there will be official and resident society folk recev
Minister OF Switzerland
legations members Of their
Army
Hines Will Thursday their Fort Myer Va from sc
Congregational Club New Hampshire and street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

homo New Year day from . until 6
o'clock. 2o0i New Hampshire avenue.
Dancing, D until -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ r. May OF Berwyn.
Md, announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Grace Catherine, to
Mr.. Fred w. Isardner OF Chicago. the
wedding 10 take place IN February.
Mr.. Lardner n we'll known IL
newspaper circles of Chicago,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Mr.. and Mrs. George c. LAfferty
will be at home informally on New
Year day from 8 to z o'clock, at their
residence, 1900 T street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

official
NJ the other spheres of life in Washington While in
marked
justices Court they
which,
@ as imposing as the dinner so arranged Attorney
and Supreme Court bench in this
midd at New Willard
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Mr. and Mrs. George P. Earling of
Milwaukee, Wis, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Isabel
Mary, to Mr.. Winslow B. Van
DeTanter, son of Mr.. Justice Willis
Van Devanter of the Supreme Court
and Mrs. Van Devanter No date is
announced for the wedding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Maj. and Mrs. J. L. Bcatie of Park
lane. Battery Park. entertained
few friends at Christmas dinner
Thursday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
Labor Secretary to
Call Conference on
Textile Depression
tsy The Federated Press)

WASHINGTON, June 19.-There
are about 10000 idle workers in the
Fall River district as result of cur
tailed operations in the cotton mills,
according to information given out in
connection with the conference which
Secretary of Labor Davis is expected
to call in the next few days. The pur-
pose Of the conference is to consider
plans for relieving the depressed sit
uation in the textile industry. One of
the subjects to be taken up is the
question whether tariff changes to
keep out the increasing importation
|of foreign goods would help matters
Reports from Fall River give no
signs Of improvement The curtail-
ment in that region amounts to about
so per cent of the mill capacity. There
is continued talk Of possible wage
reductions but the employers appear
hesitant on account of indications
that any general cut would meet with
Istif resistance on the part of labor.
Labor leaders hold that a reduction in
wages is no way out of a depression.
An attempt OF the Flint mills to re-
duce payrolls 25 per cent by ordering
each weaver TO tend eight instead of
six looms resulted in a strike which
has been in progress more than two
weeks with no prospect of settlement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
Red Men Used by Iron
League as Scabs Will
Be Deported from u. S.

NEW YORK, June 19.-Unable to
get enough strikebreakers in this
country, the Iron league, open shop
combine which is lighting the iron
workers in New York and vicinity, has
resorted to Indians from Canadian
reservation near Brantford, Ontario.
Three of the Indians have been ar.
rested by immigration officers and
taken to Ellis, island for deportation,
charged with being Struggled across
the border International Association
of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental
Iron Workers officials say the Indians
are part Of gang OF iron work strike
breakers used in various parts OF the
country. The union by striking has
already won an agreement with most
OF the large employers granting a
wage increase from $1,000 to s12 a
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20

even more bitter, and Americans are
openly accused of the bitterest racial
prejudice. The gross persecution"
is rather rich, especially considering
the disabilities under which foreign
residents labor in Japan.
Explanations in Order.
While the capitalistic press Of Jap
an has been emptying the walls Of its
wrath upon Americans, certain Sec
tions Of the United States press has
been hardly less bitter in its attacks
upon Japan. Fortunately, in neither
country has the worker risen to the
bait, but the sinister motive underly-
ing this deliberate propaganda is quite
evident, and the ease with which both
sides to the dispute" have been pla-
Gated is, to say the least, most re-
markable. Is it possible that another
"gentleman's" understanding has been
arrived at? Only time can answer that
question; but however indignant the
press of Japan may pretend to be on
the question of the hardships inflicted
upon Japanese workers, the importa-
ton of thousands of underpaid labor
ers into Japan will need to be ex-
planned before those protests can be
accepted at their face value.
All the talk of cause for grave dis
quiet" may be discounted by the
American worker. The Japanese mill
tarists are not now in position to
fight did they so desire, for the Japan
csc worker has indulged in no flag
tapping at the thought Of war, even at
the behest of provocative press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
MASS MEETING
HELD AT BIG
ELECTRIC PLANT

Thousands of workers employed at
the huge Western Electric company
plant at Cicero, ILL.,, listened with
eager attention to speakers from the
Workers party and the Young Work
ers league, who addressed them yes.
terday on the program and activities
of the two organizations.
The meeting was the first Of Sc.
ries which are to be held regularly in
front Of the plant to acquaint the
workers there with the work of the
party and league.
Help Yourselves.
"The DAILY WORKER, the Work.
ers party and the Young Workers
league are in this campaign simply
because they are workers like your
selves" declared Max Shachtman. ed.
itor Of the Young Worker. "And in
this campaign to better your condi,
tons, to increase your wages, to de.
crease your hours, to abolish the
frightful speed-up system which
leaves man a wreck in the prime OF
his life, there is no one going to help
you but yourselves. If you wait for
some improvement to come out Of the
sky, or if you expect your bosses to
hand it 60 you on silver platter
you're going to wait till doomsday
The only ones that can do anything
to better your conditions are your
selves, and the sooner you realize that
you have the strength to do it when
you are organized, the sooner you'll
be able to start effective improve
ment."
Asked to Join.
Barney Mass, recently returned
from tour of the southern Illinois
coal fields, where he had great oppor-
tunities to come into contact with a
well-organized mass of workers, ap-
pealed to the men to get into the
Workers party and the Young Work
ers league.
THE bosses are pretty slick men, "
he said. They are wise enough to
try and keep you divided on the is
sues of religion, or age or nationality.
They play up these false divisions in
an attempt to prevent you from as
sorting your strength. The United
Mine Workers of America, one of this
country's strongest unions. is COM
posed of over so per cent foreign born.
You can build your organization and
make it just as strong as that of the
miners"
Thousands of copies of the DAILY
WORKER were sold to the men.
Copies are being bought regularly on
newsstands also.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
POSTAL STRIKE HITS
CANADA IF GOVERNMENT
REFUSES PAY INCREASE
(speoIaI o the Daily Worker.l

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
oTToWA, Ont, June fs.-otfIclaIs
Of the Postal Federation Of Canada
meet the Dominion cabinet today In
last effort to avert the nationwide
strike Of postal workers scheduled
for p. m.
The government has announced It
will not change its position and that
II the strike is carried out It will
be Eat the peril" Of the workers.
The opposition party In parIia.
ment, siding with the workers in
their demand for increased pay, is
sued a statement today charging the
government with a series Of mis-
takes which threaten grave crisis
for the industry of all Canada"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
RUHR MINERS
STRIKE ENDS IN
PARTIAL VICTORY
Communists Stand for
No Compromise
BY LOUIS p. LocHNER.
Federated Press staff Correspondent

reoeTdteo FTesS OtdU correspondent.
BERLIN, June 19.-The heroic fight
of the coal miners of the Ruhr valley
is at an end temporarily. The terms
are compromise to which the lead
ers of the four miners declarations
agreed over the protests Of the Com
munists and syndicalists.
In both points, hours and wages,
they scored partial victories. The
operators had tried to force the s.
hour day, underground, and the 10
hour day at the pitheads as a regular
thing and for an indefinite period.
Seven and one-HaIf Hours Day.
The workers insisted these hours
are only temporary to show Germa-
nys willingness to live up to her
Preparations agreements. But the or
iginal award Of the department of la
Dor, by which this was to continue
to April OF next year, was unaccept-
able and they insisted that the entire
extra hours be paid as overtime.
The most recent award, which the
unions accept, recognizes that T.
hour day underground and eight hours
above ground is to be the standard,
and that the extra hours are to con-
tinue only until November, 1924, at
which time new agreement is to be
made.
Get Per Cent More.
The unions obtain a general per
cent increase in lieu of specific over
time payment.
Even the more conservative unions
marched shoulder to shoulder with
the radicals. The rank and file were
far more radical than the leadership.
There was willingness to sacrifice
that won the respect, even OF the
opposition.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
Metal Workers Will
Picnic in New York
This Sun. Rain or No

NEW YORK, June 1.-the mon
ster all-day picnic and dance, ar
ranged by the joint locals Of District
No. 1, Amalgamated Metal Workers
of America, will be held, rain or shine,
next Sunday, June 22, at Astoria Ca
sino formerly Schuetzen Park. at
Broadway and Steinway Ave, Astoria,
L. /.
The entertainment committee ex-
tends cordial invitation to all work.
ers, especially to all machinists and
metal workers, to come with their
families and friends and spend a joy
full day with the organized metal
workers Of the A. M. w. A.
Thoro arrangements have been com.
pleted for a great number OF all sorts
Of games. and numerous fine prizes
will be awarded the lucky winners
There will be baseball. bowling, relay
races, tugs-o'-war, etc, for young and
old.
Rain should not deter our friends
from coming, for the picnic can be
held under cover in case of rain. So
come, rain or shine! This park is
easily reached from New York by
greensboro subway. Astoria line, to
Broadway, Astoria, also via Astoria
ferry at 92nd st. and East river.
From Brooklyn take B.. M. T. subway
to Times square and transfer to local
to Bridge plaza, Long Island City.
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NCOnJlnueu from page -
government So when the police get
red" they are cruel and brutal
with trimmings
AS long as the police confne their
goldfish" tactics to workers and poor
devils. the bosses and the politicians
don't worry about it.. Hitting heads
in quiet times is good training for
strike duty.
Police get Their Bucks"
The workers have heard stories of
frame-ups and when arrested have the
fear of the police already in them.
They would no more think of really
making a fuss about being beaten
than they would of kicking because
someone gives a policeman a drink
and bit of graft every week for per
mission to break the law undisturbed.
The fact that the police graft, or
as the police in Chicago phrase it,
get their bucks" develops the idea
in their heads that they are above the
law. The law is not for the police
to enforce or be limited by, but is
for the purpose of permitting the po-
liceman to make an easy living. A
cop who owns a house and car got
from the proceeds of breaking the
law by taking brides, cannot be ex-
pected to observe the law when he is
questioning a suspect.
Police Respect Real Crooks.
This attitude is we'll illustrated in
the fact that well-known and recog-
nized criminals such as bootleggers
and beer runners are treated in a very
different fashion than are ordinary
working stiffs when they are under ar
rest. A working stiff in the clutches
of the police is very lucky if he gets
off without being beaten up. A boot
logger or beer runner who has paid
his share of graft to the police, can
expect service in return when he is
arrested. And he won't be arrested
unless the police are compelled to
arrest him to avert scandal.
Most crimes are crimes against
property. The rich only commit
crimes of passion. Because crimes
of passion, murder, assault ETC., are
comparatively rare, the rich seldom
get arrested. When they are, they
are treated better than the poor stiff
who stole a few dollars, but not with
the consideration that is accorded a
regular underworld character who
gets along by paying graft to the po-
lice. This is good example Of class
consciousness and solidarity.
This recalls to the writer's mind
the cases of two young people, girl
who was suspected of being the assist
ant of a "prowler" (burglar) and a
boy who shot and killed one police
man and seriously wounded another.
Oppressed at Home.
The girl had had a hard time at
home. Her step-mother permitted her
none of the pleasures that young
girls want to have. So the girl, ac-
cording to her story, which | heard
and believed, tried to avoid trouble
at home by assuming harmless dis
guises. She would leave some of her
clothes at the homes of friends and
even made a couple of homemade
wigs to complete her disguise.
The idea was that she wanted to
do as she pleased while away from
home without the danger Of her STEP
mothers friends running about with
stories Of having seen her in this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
WORKERS WRITE
APPROVAL UPON
GREAT EXPOSE
Electric Bosses Thugs
Threaten Reporter

The DAILY WORKER has been re-
ceiving letters and phone calls COM
mending the paper ON its exposure Of
the Western Electric slave-drlving
system. At the same time, hirelings
and hangers on Of officials of the com
pany have made threats of violence
against the DAILY WORKER report
ers.
Wednesday evening a man called
up the DAILY WORKER editorial
rooms and insisted upon being con-
nected with Karl Reeve. Are you the
man who has been writing all that
bunk in the DAILY WORKER about
the Western Electric" this individual
asked Its a bunch of lies" he said.
Reeve told the man that he was not
afraid to sign his name to the Western
Electric stories and asked the speak
er why he was afraid to reveal his
identity.
Makes Shooting Threat.
"You might write me up in the pa
per-" this man answered. I'm calling
from the Western Electric Plant, and
I'm an employee of the company.
think the Western Electric plant is
all right" He then swore violently
at the DAILY WORKER reporter.
you better not show your face in
Cicero again, if I'm around" he said.
'Ill shoot you. If got my hands on
you I'd beat you up"
Something seems to have gotten
under your skin, my man." Reeve said,
You seem to be all excited about
something. Why did you take the
time and trouble to call US up for II
you don't like our paper"
Il just wanted to talk to the cd
d-m fellow that was writing those
lies and tell him what l think Of him."
"Oh, see," Reeve answered,
You're loyal employe-perfectly
satisfied with your wages and you
think the Western Electric is o. K.
You must be an efficiency expert or a
member of the welfare department
How long have you been with the
company? They ought to reward you
for your loyalty with one of those
litIIe gold buttons mat they gfve zftsf'
you have worked thirty years for the
company"
This man refused to give his name.
Reeve invited him to come into the
DAILY WORKER office and say few
of the things he said over the phone
face to face. The ANONYMOUS West
ern Electric booster declined, saying:
IF l did come down it would be to
set stick of dynamite under your
damn place and blow it to hell"
"Don't Read Paper" Say Bosses.
Some of the Western Electric work
ers who buy the DAILY WORKER,
stuff it under their coats so that the
straw bosses won't see the paper that
tells the truth. They have been
warned that they would be fired if
found reading the paper.
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Irate Workmen Gust
Fascist Italians In
Geneva Conference

GENEVA. Switzerland, June 49,
The workmen's group Of the Inter
national Labor Conference OF the
League Of Nations reafhrmed it's de-
cision to exclude the Italian workman
delegates who are members OF the
Fascist. The workmen are excluding
the Fascist representatives in protest
over the killing Of Socialist Deputy
Matteoti.
Sig. Rossoni of the Italian delega-
ton telegraphed to Premier Mussolini
to withdraw the entire delegation
from the conference unless the Fas-
cisti workmen are seated. Mussolini
has so much strife on his hands in
Rome that he has not yet replied.
a
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WORKERS GET WORST GOLDFISH"
dance hall and that park.

/ dance hall and that park.
lnsulted for Hours.
Somehow she was found out and
the police picked her up. She was
accused of helping to pull prowls,"
or commit burglaries. There was no
evidence against her After being
kept awake for more than "a hours
she was questioned for more than
five hours. Altho she was not struck
once during that time she was sub
jected to indignities which must have
been far worse to her,
The writer and another reporter
were present during the entire time
she was being questioned. The other
reporter took up the questioning after
about half hour He was more in
terested in getting a story than in
establishing her guilt or innocence.
His questions were chiefly put to find
II she was a virgin or not.
The girl wore long pleated skirt.
The reporter, in the presence of the
police captain, pulled the girls skirt
up to her knees saying he wanted to
see if her legs looked innocent. After
the questioning the girl was sent to
the women's quarters and held there
for a couple Of days and then re-
leased.
Girl Given Bad "Rep."
The police captain got bit of pub
licity and the reporters got a good
story and the girl was compelled to
leave home because of the incident"
The boy who killed the policeman
was the son of bootlegger. The cop
was shot during a raid which was be-
ing conducted without a search war
rant, and the boy shot when the cop
struck his pregnant mother.
The lad escaped but was later
turned up" by his lawyer. He was
given every consideration by the po-
lice while they held him. The raid
and the arrest of the boy we're both
unpleasant jobs to the police. They
were compelled to do both but did
them without any relish.
The boy refused to say word when
questioned about the affair. He was
questioned by the police for about
five minutes and then sent to a cell
and held During the couple of
months he was in jail awaiting trial
he was permitted to get food from the
outside. Finally when he was tried
he was acquitted. The testimony of
fha nolfca in courf did mt do much
damage to the defendants case.
nos No Chance for Honesty.
The moral is that under capitalism,
if you're big crook and keep on the
good side of the police you don't need
to observe the law, or if you are ar
rested, you will be treated with con-
sideration. Or, don't be a petty lar
ceny crook, because petty crooks don't
make enough to keep the police sat
isfied. But if you're worker, the po-
lice won't bother with you at all un-
til they need to get someone to
fasten battling" crime on, and then
they may pick you or your fellow
worker and try to goldfish" a con
fession" out of you.
American workers need to lose lot
of their false respect for lawless po-
lice and their brutal, entirely extra-le-
gal methods. American workers have
to learn lot more about organizing
a government for themselves which
will do away with the capitalists
things the nolfce
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-20
TEN THOUSAND THUGS
REQUIRED TO KEEP
HORTHY IN EXISTENCE

tSpcCidl 70 We Odhy WoENcFJ
BUDAPEST, June 19.-With one
slick stroke Of the pen, the black re-
dictionary regent Of Hungary, Ad-
miraI Horthy, added 2,25s ex-sol-
diers to the "order of Heroes" by
creating them Knight Heroes"
thus Increasing his personal guard
to the 10000 veterans who are
obliged to take an oath Of loyalty to
Horthy personally. This bonus was
handed out to the veterans in an at
tempt to alIay the growing rebel
lion spirit among the workers
against the autooratie rule Of the re-
gent.
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JAPANESE CAPITALISTS IMPORT
CHEAP CHINESE LABOR, BUT CRY
U.S.ACT MAKES LABOR SURPLUS
BY JACK ARMITA0E.

CANTON April BODY Mal)-It is increasingly evident
that Japanese employers of labor endeavog
animosty the immigration question Anything which might
tend to divert the attention of the public burning ques
ton of manhood suffrage particularly welcome quasi
dispute with America therefore, Godsend
especially the position of the marists daily