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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29
A SEN OUESTION
NO INDICATOR

BUStOh TrnnNcfIptJ A man is generally nervous when he proposes--and girl when she doesn't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29
tNnh't Have Far

It is reported that Hi Johnson may retire from the racs-but then he was hot in very far, anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

tlJPtrOlt NPMSl You cant judge the length of mans bank account hy the length of his cigar cite holder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29
The Crown of Niartyaom

The Crown of Martydom (Tatler. LUndon)
 Irish Father (to promising son) {: Be il good boy and study hard, Denis, and some day you muy be president of the Irish Republic and have everybody in Ireland fesijectihg your meinOry."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

Al, exchange says that in the death of Lenine Russia has lost her pilot. What the Russian ship of state needs more than anything else is wreck fnR crew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

The poet who says that we "Nssd . Road to Nowhere seems to have
 missed his calling; his talents appear to fit him for a highway comnhis- siohar's job. es,s, ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

fsrsfse incfsasss According to the number of birthdays each one owns up to-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29
Horse Sense

tOhio State Sun DialJ
 Young Landlord Gin Alberta) 1: My word There goes the prince off Il horse again. And he was tray cling incognito. too" l'uncher; Yep! But you can't fool Il livrsp."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

Mention of the former crown prince for the presidency of Ger many probably grew out of the i'm. pfession that he has not yet been sufficiently punished.
 In view of the number of hats that have been tossed into the politi. cal ring, the hat-chscRine concession of that institution might be worth sofiiething.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29
Less Desirable

(l.ofdon Tit-Bits)
 When Tom proposed to me three years ago refused him, and he said it would be the death of him. Maud; Well, that's not sc. for l accepted him. Doris; He must have meant a living death."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

|. To be a ''bull" 0 hArherica. Oh Europe, on the world. on yourself. Yii others--.is sign that your soul is healthy aud your hload is red.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

Wrist action in golf is cultivated art, but chin action comes naturally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-29

As we understand it, the sals-of the courthouse is a private matter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
COAL MINERS! Talk To Your
Convention Thru Daily Worker

Coal Minersf Your convention Is indianapolis, Ind
II will be responsive your needs you will talk TO
to it in loud and emphatic
You do this thru your paper, THE DAILY WORKER.
You do it every day. You make yourself heard
Every day THE DAILY WORKER goes to the convention
Tomnson Hail. indianapolis The miners delegates
reading it, from first page first column last page
column
you will write to THE DAILY WORKER, telling your
needs the delegates will read your letter.
One of the big things interested in unemploy-
ment don't work there envelope. you don't
work. there nothing with which pay the landlord the
grocer with which bury the things family How
do you song7 How do make both What
do you demand?
Tell to the delegates at indianapolis. Tell your
highly paid officials whose salaries the whole year
around.
Write about all the other problems confronting tho
coal miners of this country Your letters will be published in
THE DAILY WORKER and by the delegates your
vention indianapolis Write the Editor The Daily Worker
1910 N. Halsted ST., Chicago Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
l6s&aSI9-

note he jumped five foot from the
foor-that at least, dear children,
is what has been said. He then
yelled, it is reported, Eureka,
Eureka, l have it; them dirty Bolshe-
viks are trying to overthrow the Wall
st. government. Curses, and damn,
I'll get them yet"
It was then, my hearers, that he
broadcasted the wall of woe to the
effect that the Reds in this country,
because Of instructions from Moscow,
were going to plant the red flag on
the White House. The answering
echo, dear children, to this wall Of
woe knocked the props from under
the sounding board in Washington
The answer was a loud guffah heard
thruout the land.
It was voted the best joke Of the
season. Yet it was not original
my children, for it had been pulled
before, yet not in a manner that
evoked such laughter.
Now children, the moral Of thii
story is that if you want to b
real funny buy a false beard anG
try to save the country from thu
wicked reds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26

idea that 1t is proper procedure, may
initiate and install company union
offering the equivalent Of a $40 in
crease per month for employee as a
bride to vote for such organization
while at the same time refusing 70
grant any concessions to the same
employees so long as they elect to be
represented by a bona fide labor
organization"
This decision carried to its logical
conclusion would permit the railroads
to spend over 100000, 900 a wear out
of funds derived from high freight
rates for the purpose of supplanting
real unions with company unions.
The case submitted to the board
by the American Train Dispatchers'
Assn. involves the attempt Of the
Union Pacific to establish company
unions on all its lines. The Oregon
road is one of its subsidiaries. First
the road got the labor board to
establish rates Of pay for train dis
patchers and to abolish two weeks
vacation with pay which had former
ly been established by agreement be-
tween management and the train
dispatchers' organization. 1t then
turned around and offered these train
dispatchers higher pay and restora-
ton of the two weeks annual vaca-
ton with pay provided they sur
rendered their right to representa-
ton by the organization they had
voluntarily created and accepted as
substitute the company union
created by management.
The proposal to change represen-
tation admittedly originated with the
carrier. Yet the board ordered a
secret ballot to determine whether
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26

the men wished TO be represented by
the national organization or by a
company union which had previously
no existence. The train dispatchers
asked the board to prevent the car
rier's open use Of bribery and econ
omic coercion by including in the
ballot a statement that train dis
patchers would receive the same
treatment regardless of the form of
organization they voted for. But
the majority Of the board refused on
the ground, as stated by Chairman
Hooper in a supporting opinion, that:
1.-THE carrier in this case has OBJ
viously reached the conclusion that
as a matter of economic and efficient
operation 1t can afford to pay its dis
patchers more money if it is permit
ted to deal exclusively and directly
with them" and that dispatchers
must be left free to weigh this fact
in reaching their decision.
Such a cynical statement Of the
open shop view that corporations
can afford to pay more for sub
servient spineless employees, by the
socalled impartial chairman of the
country's leading arbitration board,
would be enough to discredit that
body II it had not already tharoly
discredited itself by a series of de-
cisions showing unmistakable bias
toward the employers viewpoint. In
this case one representative of the
public, Mr.. Hanger, could not stom-
ach such open partisanship, but the
decision was carried by the vote of
the advocate chairman plus that of
Judge Barton who has never failed
to show his partiality for the en-
ployer's position.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
BED TIME STORY
By ROLAND QUILLAN.

Now once there dwelled in the
state department at Washington, D.
C. full grown beard, on which was
hooked full grown man with very
petty ideas. The official duty of
this man, dear little children, was
to sign passports for the Bahamas
and other oasises and do many other
things, above all to assume dig
nifed appearance. This he did fairly
well.
Now it happened that across the
sea in far away Russia there dwelled
other men with boards, but these
mems minds, dear little comrades
had kept pace with their boards SC
that they had great and fully grown
ideas. Their one great idea wal
to live at peace with the world.
So they sent greetings and friendly
overtures to Washington with de-
sire to establish trade Relationship
and general friendly relations among
two hundred and fourty million in
habitants of the globe.
Now when the man with the beart
in Washington received the Russian
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
MERRICK GOING
BEFORE JURY ON
BOMB FRAME-UP
Shoe Owners Conspir-
acy Backs False Charge

HAVERHILL, Mass.-The trial
next week Of John Merrick before
the Superior Court in Salem, Mass,
on a Misunderstanding charge, fol-
lowing his activities In the Hayerhill
memory the Etto-Giovanitti frame
up, now discredited. and the Breen
dynamite case, when agents Of the
wooden trust confessed they had
planted the dynamite themselves in
order to discredit the strikers.
MerTick was arrested two weeks
after the finding of the bomb" in
Haverhill. After the necessary time
for newspaper propaganda barrage
against Communists" md "dynamit-
ers" the police staged raid on the
room Of the young strike leader and
later in the police station produced
bits Of wire, solder and clockwork
which they swore they had found
there. Curiously enough, the arrest
followed almost Immediately an an
nouncement. Of the head Of the Knipe
Bros firm of $4,000 reward for
the arrest and conviction Of the man
who planted the bomb.
Merrick was held under $40, 0OC
bail, later reduced to $4,000, which
was finally secured by his friends
He returned to the automobile shoI
which he had opened up after the
shoe firms blacklsted him for organ.
king activities. He is married and
has lived in and near Haverhill all
his life.
Shoe factory owners regard the
conviction Of Merrick as very import
ant to their open shop program
The defeat Of the frame-up is equal
" important to the labor movement
The case has been investigated care
fully by the Workers Defense Con-
ference of New England and the
facts of the frame-up shown thorooly
A defense fund drive is now being
carried on by the Lawrence General
Labor Defense Committee, lSO Essex
street. Lawrence, Mass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
FRANK MUNSEY
BUTCHERS Third
new YORK PAPER
Buys and Kills Mail:
Workers Need Daily


NEW YORK.--New York will soon
have as few capitalist papers as Chi
cago. if Frank Munsey continues buy
ing them up and liquidating them.
His latest purchase is the Evening
Mail. just announced. This paper
will be consolidated with the Evening
Telegram into the Telegram and
Evening Mail, as the New York
Globe, which he recently purchased
was combined with the Sun.
The Mail got into trouble during
the war for alleged German owner
ship and Rumley, its publisher, was
indicted. It's editorial tone was not
10 liberal as that Of the Globe, under
the BIiven regime, but It was lar
and above ahead Of anything under
the direction Of Munsey.
Three Notches On Gun
Several years ago Munsey pur.
chased and killed the New York
Press. There are now three notches
on his newspaper-game gun, making
more true than ever the witty re.
mark of a New York editor that al
good newspapers when they die go tc
Munsey."
Hardboiled reaction is the tone OF
all Munsey papers. Matter appears
in its columns only if Mr.. Munsey's
editors consider it wholesome fol
his large steel and chair store inter
ests.
Munsey Papers Worst Prostitutes
The New York Herald distinguished
itself, even among newspaper pros
titutes by the Mccullough cables
about Soviet Russia which were dis
credited even by the stories Of the
New York Times. Two summers age
the Herald ran a fantastic series Of
articles on the radical movement II
America which showed that the De-
partment of Justice had turned over
its files to the staff writer. At the
last convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor the Herald cor
respondent was assistant chief aid tc
Chester Wright in engineering the
publicity campaign against the LETT
wingers which reached its climax
with the unseating of Delegate
Dunno.
New York radicals do not relish
the consolidation of the newspapers
into the most reactionary hands but
they take comfort in the fact that
every halfway liberal paper that
meets It's death at the hands Of Nun
sey makes the necessity Of a daily
workers paper more evident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Alien Foe Plans to
Destroy u. S. AS
World Melting Pot

Observation-Disclosures AL
bert johnson of the house immigra-
ton committee confirms The Fed
Grated Press statement of week
ago that the purpose of the proposed
new legislation is to destroy the
melting pot Of racial stocks in Amer
lea, - the asylum for political re-
fu0ees in this country has already
been destroyed.
In the current Outlook he declares
''that the name melting pot is a mis-
manner and that the asylum idea Is
played out forever" is one of the
conclusions reached by himself and
his committee.
He proposes that relatives such as
husbands or wives, parents or minor
unmarried children, and even grand
parents, of aliens already here, shall
be admitted. He claims that $3.50 Of
all immigrants coming in the past
10 years have come to relatives, and
that other dependents than those
enumerated above should not be ad-
mitted under any quota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Mussolini Going
Before Italian
People in April

ROME.-It Is Museum ana ms
followers against the Communists
socialists and left wing Of the, popu-
lar party at the general election
which the government has just an
nounced, thru the Popolo d'ltaliar
personal organ Of the fascist chief
This will be the first time Mussc-
lini has gone before the people tor
& mandate since he climbed into
mower by force. The fascist believe
that a sufficiently strong political
machine has been built to return
their movement to Office.
The treaty Of friendship with Jugo-
Slavia is expected to be signed Jan;
26 and the next day the king Will
sign his decree dissolving the cham
Der. January 2S, Mussolini Is
scheduled TO unfold the details Of his
electoral policy to his followers.
Mussolini's opponents point to the
fact that the fascist are themselves
torn By as serious dissensions az
those Of their enemies and that his
administration would be sabotaged
into powerlessness in a short time
II he did not risk the election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
pisavow Independent Party.
OMAHA.-The Progressive Part

OMAHA.-The Progressive Party
Of Nebraska has no connection with
the Independent Progressive party,
This assertion is made on behalf of
the Progressive party by Rev. J.
L. Beebe, chairman, and w. II.
Green, secretary, to clear up false
impressions that the party was asso-
ciated with the various Roy M. Har-
rop organizations, including the
league.
1.-THE Progressive Party Of Ne
braska has not affiliated with any
national Farmer-Labor party" its
officials say further, "but has Joined
with Farmer-Labor groups and par
ties from the various states in the
calling Of a national convention 10
be held either at Minneapolis or st.
Paul May 80 TO form a national par
ty and nominate candidates for pres
ident and vice president"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26


pupils who were already on their way
down from coming on and many
would undoubtedly be smothered to
death.
Because of this possibility the prin-
cipal does not permit their use dur
ing fire drills. It seems certain that
if they were used during q fire by
children who were unaccustomed 70
them, panic would result.
The Board Of Education has de-
layed the erection Of a new building
for the Brown school because they
were doubtful Of the future Of the
neighborhood. Factories were NOV
ing into the district and the board
thought that the entire district might
be given over to manufacture and the
school population reduced. Last year
the city coming laws were passed out
having factories in the Brown school
district but nothing has been done
about a new school building.
fhe school has 945 seats and about
1900 pupils. The two shift system
has been introduced. The pupils at
tending the Brown school are the
children Of factory workers. Altho
most Of the children come from
homes where both the mother and
father work the school does not have
lunch room.
A few years ago a new heating
plant and plumbing system was In
stalled at a cost Of $4,000. 1t Is
felt by many parents whose children
attend the school that the cost of the
heating plant will be used as an ar
gument against the scrapping Of the
present buildings and the erection Of
a new and modern one.
Parents Afraid of Firetrap.
Because of the general belief
among the parents of the pupils that
the school is unsafe and unfit for
use many parents are taking their
children out Of the school and send
ing them to Catholic schools.
A canvass of the ncighborhood of
the school revO'led that the parents
of the pupils are hopeless of getting
new building.
The first mother Of school children
visited by an Investigator of the DIAL
LY WORKER said that more than q
year ago she had taken her two chill
dren out Of the school and sept them
to a Catholic school. She said that
If a new building were put up she
would send them back. II know that
children learn more in public schools
than they do in the Catholic schools
but that school building is not safe
Until there is new building my kid:
will go to the Catholic school," she
said.
Would Let Kids Die.
A grocer who comes in. contact
with many Of the mothers near the
school said that it was generally real.
lied that the school was a menace tc
life but that he did not see what could
be done about il. He had taken il
up with the alderman from the dis.
triet who said that nothing could be
done until the coming law was passed
and the future Of the neighborhood
made certain. Nothing has been done
since then the alderman said because
the Board Of Education has To
money. "But most of the parents
around here have very little time to
worry about the school. If the kid:
are away from home they are salts.
fed"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Building Trades Council
Demands Public Schools Be
Made Safe for the Children

The subject Of conversation in union Offices and halls
yesterday the campaign of THE DAILY for safe
and adequate public schools Unemployed workers. who sat
around union offices waiting for jobs expressed interest
in the subject.
Many building trades workers who competent Judge the
safety of buildings said that they have known that their chill
what they could do remedy the situation.
"f anything to the politicians about the schools and the need
Of accused Of wanting schools built
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Free Lunches For
Starving Doctors
Latest in Germany

BERLIN.-Free lunches for doc
tors are the latest form Of charity
in Berlin. The lot Of the German
medical man is such that hundreds
Of physicians, if not thousands, are
literally starving. The average Ger
man is SO impoverished that he con-
siders the doctc~ to be about the
last luxury that he can afford.
Already countless physicians have
gone into other professions. The
other day one appeared at my house
to sell me some steel engravings
by celebrated German masters. MY
commission on these" he said, "is
bigger than all my medical fees put
together"
Other physicians are taking jobs
as bank clerks, as scribes in public
Offices, as floor walkers, and what
not. And as for young graduates,
they find the cost Of purchasing
medical instruments so prohibitive
that they must first work at some
trade for few years before they
can return to their chosen field OF
human knowledge.
But meanwhile there are those
men of medicine who remain In the
profession and who haven't enough
TO live on and too much to die. 1t
is for these that special doctors feed
ing kitchens are being established.
The doctors are to have wholesome
food, supplied by the various for
eiQn relief organizations, especially
the Austrian, either at ridiculously
low cost, or else entirely free Of
charge, depending upon the circum-
stances of the physician in question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
strikebreaker Electrocuted.

NEW ORLEANS.-O. L. Sherman,
2S years old, resident of this city,
and a strikebreaking lineman eEp-
ployed by the New Orleans Public
Service, Inc, was electrocuted while
touching a live wire in the dis
charge Of his duty. Under the work
mems compensation act the company
win be obliged to compensate his
family.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Wharton Charges Railroad Labor
Board in Bribery Plot to Smash
Bona Eide Union Organizations
ByLELAND OLDS


Connivanc with bribery all
organizations the railroads against the majority Of the u
railroad dissenting
dispatche employed
Oregon w ashngton Railroad Navigation
This total disregard Of the rights Of the employees according Whar
emphatic against unheard of abuse Of
authority
Under the decision Of the majority Wharton 1.-THE carrier with
the 1nn knowedge that the majority Of the board gmpaty with the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26
Paraguay Carmen On Strike.

ASUNCION, Paraguay.-Stre t
railway workers are still on strike.
They walked out last September.
The workers refuse to return until
the company guarantees reinstate-
ment of every striker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-26

More JobIess in BresIau.

WOfe JVOItSb III OHVo.
BRESLAU, Germany.-Unemploy-
ment Is increasing. A survey shows
1000 persons seeking work as
against 1,7i4 vacant places.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-26
RAINIER BEACH
wOMENs CLUBS

The regular meetings Of tho Rain
Ter Beach women's clubs are about
10 b resumed with renewed Inter
eat for tho coming year, The meet
ings are held on the FIRST wedncs-
day uf each month az : o'clock
This club was organized IN Sepicm-
Der. 1908. and Federated June. 1919
The officers arc President Mrs w.
s walker. vice president Mrs a.
/ McNeaiy. secretary. Mrs Grant
Wilson. treasurer Mrs Dan Earle;
corporation trustee for ono year,
Mrs G. X. Sturtcyant. two years
Mrs 81. T. Pearl. and three years
Mrs Harry Merrill. delegates 10 the
City Federation. Mrs George Cloth
Ter and Mrs ~ + Pearl; alter
mates. Mrs Homer Hill and Mrs
George Hnzen trustee. Mrs. George
n. Clark. custodian. Mrs Frank
Parrish. auditor. Mrs W. G. John
son. Chairman Of committees. Pro-
gram. Mrs r. w Chriswell: oduca-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-08-26
Place Standing Wednesday order with your Baker Grocer

uonal. Mira + NJ Schaffer: civic,
Mrs r 4. steele: musical. Airs W
y. Thomas; welfare. Mrs G. l.
Birchneld: press Mrs j. J. wilder
muth social. Mrs. W A. Siaunus.
parliamentarian, Mrs + X Brown.
The first program viii be septem-
Der 3. Mrs A. J. McNealy, host
cas-, snd Mrs G. l. Birchneld. Mrs
n. o Johnson and Mrs George
Hazsn.