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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27

It sed in words that faltered, that
church and preachers should oppose
all tricks to lead 'em by the nose 70
war agen on the offensive; 'twuz diff
ferent with the wars Defensive.
/ think that word "agen" unwise.
II seems TO say the textbooks lies.
II seems to say that we have fought
some battles that we hadn't ought.
They otta given him a jog that his
remarks had slipped a cog.
When preachers minds has grown
so strong that like Gene Debs they
think war wrong, and like old Gene
they go to Jail before their con-
sciences they fail, when at the risk
Of losing dough they tell the youths
they should not go TO shoot their
fellows in the CUTS because some
statesmen has gone nuts, when they
give up campaigns of hate, I'll drop
a nickel in the plate.
Perhana
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
THE AWAKENING
By JOSEPH MCDONALD.

On awakening one morning, my
eyes rested upon little calendar,
hung on the wall close to my bed
side. / noticed the date, March
21st. Why it was the first day of
spring. / was filled WITH the desire
to stroll thru the country lanes and
so witness its arrival. Half-an-hour
later I started on my journey and
in a few minutes had left the dingy,
miserable streets of the district in
which / live. On entering into the
open country my whole being SEEM
ed to change. I felt radiantly happy.
Why this was SOL could not tell.
l breathed the sweet invigorating
air of Spring as thirsty man
drinks clean, fresh water. Above,
in the clear blue sky, the lark was
trilling a merry little song which
to me was a song Of welcome to the
Spring. Perhaps this was so. Who
can tell | paused to view the green
carpeted fields from over the hedge
rows and as l gazed upon that
beautiful scene, / dreamed-and 10;
the fields were no longer empty.
Here and there were little bands Of
children romping merrily. Their faces
were radiating with health and hap
piness as they gambolled hithcr and
tllither. Ily eyes rested upon one
little group playing ring of roses.
Their faces seemed familiar Why!
There was little Tommy Jones who
lived next door, and the two little
girls who lived opposite to me.
Somehow or other they seemed to
be so different. Never had / seen
them so happy and contented, nor
had seen them so clean and neatly
dressed. The desire to romp with
them sprang up within ME, but as
placed one hand on my mouth to
shout to little Tommy Jones, the
whole scene changed. No longer
were the children gambolling there.
The fields were deserted save for
one thing which stood out promi-
nently as tho IL were hooking me.
II was a sign post, and on it was
the notice: Keep off; this is private
property"
As read the notice my soul was
filed with bitterness and rebellion.
No longer did feel happy. No
longer did ! enjoy the scenes around
me. FASTENED on my way back to
the sordid and dirty little streets
where and all the other wage
slaves dwell. On turning down the
street where live, saw the little
group of children / had seen in my
dream, but how different they were.
Their little faces were dirty and
their clothes ragged ana patched. I
noticed their little faces haggard
and pinchcd with poverty and desti-
tuition. There they were playing in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
DAUGHERTY FILM
GRATING SEEN
IN CALIFORNIA
Quimby Fixed Dempsey
Picture Deal There
By MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD.
(StnR Correspondent Of the Federated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.--
Echoes of the thunder storm breaking
around official heads in Washington
are reverberating in San Francisco.
Indictments returned by the Los An
geles federal grand jury in connec-
ton with the showing of Dempsey
Firpo fight films in California, have
revealed that Frank G. Quimby, who
first exposed the Dempsey Carpenter
film graft to the committee investi-
eating Secretary Daugherty, also had
charge Of arranging matters in San
Francisco for the Demsey-Firpo films.
Everything Fixed" They Heard.
Quimby masqueraded under the
name of Walter Jackson. Among the
local men indicted are w. o. Ed
munds, who released the films here,
and Maurice Blache, who produced
them. Both state they were assured
by Quimby (alias Jackson), that "ev-
erything was all right with the Off
Gals" and that lit was all fixed with
the government" Later Blache. who
had threatened to make trouble by
protesting against producing the film,
was given JHe QOuDie cfOSS--pdynenE
being stopped on his check for the
work.
Fined Only 500.
Perry Oliver, Los Angeles, also in
dicted, assisted in distributing the
film here, and was fined 500 by
Judge William Hunt on the plea that
he was war veteran, was ignorant
Of the law and was merely taking the
films thru California to Australia.
The usual fine for this offense is ten
times 500. The most prominent
name under indictment so far Is
Alexander Pantages, vaudeville mag
nate. His local manager, ]. J. Klux-
ton, is also named, the Dempsey
F'irpo films having been shown at the
Pantages theater here.
Attorneys for the indicted men say
the trial will lead straight to Wash
ington and will be definitely con
nected with the charges against
Daugherty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27

been removed, but Jacob Dolla
still remains in prison while
criminals and degenerates of
the lowest character have been
released.
Must Care for Families.
The DAILY WORKER believes
that the least that can be done for
working class fighters like Jacob
Dolla is to see that their families
do not suffer physical want while
the vengeance Of the employers is
being satisfied ana 1t therefore
urges its readers to respond to this
appeal and to send their contribu-
tions for Jacob Dollas' family to the
Office Of this paper, 1910 N. Halsted
St., Chicago, ILL.,, or to Earl Brow
der secretary of the Trade Union
Educational League, 1909 N. State
st. Chicago.
Here is the letter sent to Tom
Tippet by Jacob Dolla. Read it
carefully and then send in your
contribution:
Pittsburgh, Pa, March 4, 1924.
Dear Brother Tippett:
I just heard from my wife yes
terday, saying she was sick for
few days again. Now she is all
right, but our little daughter is sick
now and my wife fears she must be
operated on. My wife is highly
alarmed, saying she has no funds,
and she fears if she appeals to mt
the child under a charity operation,
they may take the children from
her.
My prosecutors hound her as well
as they do and did me, because the
agents of the steel corporation when
/ was arrested and after was
sentenced and since then asked her
to divorce me, saying they will help
her get the divorce and it won't cost
her cent, but she refused to do
so.
My wife knows our prosecutors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
HindOOs on Trial
For Attempting
To Free Country

CAWNPORE, India, March 20
Yesterday a trial was begun against
eight Hindoos who were charged with
having made an attempt to establish
a Communist organization in all of
India. Four Of the accused were not
present.
Material was presented which pur-
ported to prove that in 1921 the
Hindoo revolutionaries met in Mos
cow and agreed on program for Boil
shevist propaganda in India.
The accusation was that the Hin
doc Communists on trial had utilized
workers and farmers organizations
for the purpose of attempting to
bring about the separation of India
from England and for establishing
the complete control of the Indian
National Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
RENEGADE LABOR
LEADER HUGHES
VISITS AMERICA
This Australian Faker
A Rotten Egg
By SYDNEY WARREN.

Notan correspondent OF Federated Pre61l
VANCOUVER, B. O., March &c.
William Morris Hughes, Australian
renegade labor leader and rabid war
time conscriptionist, has arrived on
this continent, for a lecture tour
thru the United States in which he
will speak of the necessity of con-
verting the Pacific ocean into an
armed sea for the protection Of the
allied sugar and other financial in
trests. Hughes pretends that this
profteering dodge is in the interest
Of the white race against the yellow.
Sound" Views On Labor.
In announcing Hughes arrival
here, the lecture folder describes
this palavering decoy-duck Of the
bosses, as a labor leader who holds
Sound" views on labor. ''From the
beginning of his career" the an.
nouncement prattles, che has taken
a firm stand against radicalism, and
in recent years he has displayed un.
daunted courage in combating the ac-
ceptance of bolshevism, syndicalism
and other extreme IDEAS"
Hughes is one of the most out.
standing examples of a mans com.
plete betrayal of trust. Beginning
life in Australia as an itinerant tink-
er and umbrella member, he Joined
the labor movement and subsequently
was elected to union Offices. Later
he became a member of the New
South Wales state parliament and
later still a member of the Federal
Australian parliament.
Betrayed Labor Interests.
In 1915 he was elected prime min.
lister and as head of the Labor party
he betrayed its historic ideals by at.
tempting to deliver Australians man
hood into the hands Of Great Britain's
war junkers. Gathering about him a
coterie of other renegades and com.
bining this aggregation with the min.
ority capitalistic party, he proposed a
vicious measure of CONSUMPTION
Lacking the courage to bring in the
measure by government proclama-
ton, he granted a referendum on the
question, and proceeded to subsidize
and intimidate those who dared offer
opposition. The referendum having
been defeated, he announced that he
would never again bring up the ques
ton of CONSUMPTION. Less than Ia
months afterwards he brought for
ward the same proposals for the con
scription of Australia's man power
despite his pledge to the contrary
Fed At Pro6teer Trough.
During the war, Hughes as premier
of Australia virtually turned over tn,
country to the war profiteers and fol
his servitude to them was presented
with cash fund of e25, 900 (nearl,
$125,000). This sum was donated
anonymously and his acceptance o.
it was a contributing factor to his de
feat within his own party as leader
and prime minister.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
California Building
Trades Urge Suits
Against MOnOpOLies

SACRAMENTO, Calf, March 26.
The state Building Trades Council
Of California, in convention here,
threatens action against shipping
and lumber firms on charges Of vio-
lating the interstate commerce and
antitrust laws. 1t is charged that
lumbermen and ship owners have
Disseminated against boats carrying
union crews, in an attempt to de-
stroy the Seamen's Union. Com
plant has been made to the depart
ment of justice.
Other matters taken up by the
convention include child labor, state
water and power act, labor banks
and oriental immigration. President
Frank c. Macdonald, in his opening
address, touched on the war prob
lem, and stated that "the same con-
ditions which were responsible for
the wars of the past still exist, and
unless these conditions are remedied
future wars are inevitable"
The councils big victory of the
year was a Judgment against the
San Francisco Industrial Associa-
TONS American plan" and the
practical end Of the open shop war
in the building trades Of that city.
The last labor convention held in
Sacramento, the state strategy meet
ing of the I. w. W., was raided by
the police and % delegates arrest
ed. The convention Of the Building
Trades Council was undisturbei by
the authorities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
Children-Parent Organization Puts
"Bunco" On Program.

"Bunco" is not necessarily the
"bunk." Especially, when it is run
for the benefit of a growing work.
ing-class children's organization.
This was the general opinion of the
parents at the Central Committee
of the United Workers Sunday
Schools at their last session.
Some of the parent-delegates
pointed out that in order to build
up an effective children's organiza-
ton, to combat the nationalist and
religious dope peddled under the
guise Of education in Chicago's pub
lie schools, money is necessary.
But, that is not the only reason
for making this announcement. The
children-parents' organization caters
to your egoistic as well as your
altruistic nature. Do you want to
say: give had fine, grand, glo-
rious time" then just come to the
bunco party and dance given by the
United Workers Sunday Schools of
Chicago on Sunday, March 30, at
Prudential Hall, North avenue and
Halsted street, at p. m. Besides
bunco and dancing, refreshments
will be served. Tickets are so cents
payable at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
POLICE AND XII
KLUX RAID SAN
PEDRO RADICALS
Destroy and Conhscate
$4,000 Worth Property
Especial to The Dally worker

SAN PEDRO, Calf, March &c.
Police raided the Workers Party
halo at San Pedro where Comrade
Lavine, of Los Angeles, was conduct
ing the usual weekly class in Amer
lean history.
The audience was placed under
arrest charged with criminal syndi-
calism and taken 70 Los Angeles
where we had our finger prints and
photographs taken and kept in the
lousy, overcrowded Jail two days.
On returning to San Pedro we
found our hall a pictsre of wanton
destruction, the police having even
gone to the length of smashing a
plaster partition in order to destroy
two pictures that one Of the com
rades had painted on it.
l. w. w. Hall Wrecked.
The interior Of the /. w. w. hall
at Twelfth ard Center streets was
likewise wrecked last night and
benches, chairs, blackboards and a
piano piled into the street, while
four alleged delegates and organ
izers of the !. W. w. were arrested
by police.
While the raid was in progress a
slow drizzling rain fell outside, and
approximately 100 white robed fig
ures in lighted enclosed automobiles
encircled the hall three times.
The officers said that a half-ton
of literature, valued at $4,000 was
confscated in the raid. One Of the
most complete radical Libraries ever
taken in this district was discover
ed, they said.
Charges Of suspicion Of criminal
syndicalism were placed against the
men taken in the raid.
/. w. w. Kidnapped.
Fourteen men who came to break
up an I. W. w. meeting addressed
by Rev. C. Taft at the unions hall
in San Pedro kidnapped Randeil
Altnow, a youth of IS who came out
to get the numbers of their auto
mobiles.
Blindfolding him they rushed him
Is miles into the country, then strip
ped off his clothes and let him walk
away in his underwear.
The kidnappers said they were
after Albert Kohn, secretary of the
Los Angeles branch of the General
Defense Committee of the /. w. w.
and seized the youth by mistake.
Altnow is seaman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
ITO Be or Not To Be"
Is Big Question that
Faces Greek Monarch

BUCHAREST, March 26.-King
George of Greece announced today
he will refuse to abdicate the Greek
throne until a national plebiscite
confirms the action of the assembly
at Athens in dethroning the dynasty
and declaring a republic.
The Greek constitutionalist COM
mittee issued a proclamation today
against dethronement Of the dynasty,
alleging that a republican militar-
istic minority" was responsible for
the assembly's action. It urges the
Greek people to make any sacrifice
to support their constitutional rights.
Preparations are under way to
hold national plebiscite.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27

the filthy gutter, breathing the foul
air. This was the awakening. This
was no dream but the brutal reality
of life. What l saw there, / could
see in England, Germany, France
and Italy. The children of all lands
are suffering the same living death
as this, their little hearts are pining
for the fields. Can you not see their
faces or hear their cries. WORKING
CLASS Chill DREN! THESE
FIELDS ARE YOURS. YOU MUST
PREPARE TO TAKE THEM FOR
YOURSELVES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
WILL YOU HELP?
Aid Is Needed For Family
of Jacob DOlla---4 Years
In Jal4 For Fighting Gary

The DAILY WORKER publishes the following letter from
Jacob without his knowledge consent but with the
hope that the response the appeal contained therein will be
so generous that its action will be justified.
Jacob Doa framed up and raroaded to Jail by steel
detectives Of his activities in the great strike of
1919 Promises to pardon parole him have been made time
after by the authorities of Pennsylvania after all doubt
his innocence Of the charges which he convicted has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
"Perfect" Cook in
Germany Gets Bare
$3.50 Per Week

BERLIN, March 26.-If you are a
perfect cook in Germany, the high
est wage you may expect is 80
marks per month-about $3.50. If
you are a male married servant or
butler, you may expect 40 marks or
less than $40 per month besides
keep.
Girls under is experienced as
maids must be content with 1925
per month and keep. A girl who
is maid and cook combined can
claim IS per month; a housekeeper
who cooks may get $3.50. The
schedule Tor a nurse girl varies
from S4.75 TO 1925 month.
Don't be "Yes, But" supporter of
The Daily Worker. Send In your sub.
scription at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27

control the town and have every
thing their own way. / myself don't
know what to do. / am helpless
and innocent here in prison serving
for labor's cause because I am q
militant worker. For this crime ]
was railroaded to prison. If l could
save my sickly wife and two little
children with a drop of water from
starvation and ruination, / am not
able to do 50, as much as I would
love to, and willing to rush in in
the eleventh hour of grave need to
rescue them from complete ruina-
ton, but my prosecutors won't let
me.
My faithful wife is struggling to
make ends meet since l was jailed
Oct. 5, 1919-much over four
years, and never before was she in
graver need than now. Altho she
was many times in danger she never
asked for help and wrote me not
to ask for any help, saying they are
satisfied with one warm meal day
as long as l am in prison.
For myself l do not care what
comes or goes any more, as ] know
| am in the clutches of the blood
thirsty steel kings and they will not
break their bloody teeth until they
have sucked life and blood out of
me, but ] do worry about my wife
and children, as / don't like to see
them prosecuted because 7 am their
father and husband.
When was arrested my perse-
cutors told me if God and all the
angels came down from heaven il
will not help me. considered them
mad because they praised them
selves above Gods power, but
found they were right on that point
Brother Tippett, this appeal is
not for me but for my wife anC
children, and / hope you carry this
appeal to the hearts of every bro.
ther, sister, and comrade.
Brother James H. Maurer anC
Clinton S. Golden of Pennsylvania
are doing their very best; they are
fighting brave battle to secure
Justice and my freedom so I car
go home and support my family
Last Christmas, Brother Colder
sent $50 to my family. Ny wifi,
wrote me that this $50 Just cam,
in time; she needed coal and paiC
the store bill and bought shoes anc
clothes for our children, saying tn,
children had to go to school il
summer clothes.
hope you will bring this letter
to the attention of the workers anc
T. U. E. L., Chicago Federation Of
Labor, and others.
In all the world there is moi
anybody who is in gravsr need Of
help than my family at the pres.
ent time. / don't make any appeal
to Brothers Golden and Maurer as
l feel they are both doing more
than enough. | wish you would tell
Comrade Moritz j. Loeb, that / am
receiving The DAILY WORKER
0. X. 1t is a great paper and a
real fighting weapon for us work
ers. l don't know who paid the
subscription for me, but l am
thankful to the comrade who did.
With best wishes and kindest re-
CARDS, believe mel am fraternally
yours for the solidarity of the
farmers and workers everywhere
JACOB DOLLA, Box A12S91, North
Side Station, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
Probe Wallace Crookednes..

WASHINGTON, March 26.-In-
vestigation of expenditures in the de-
partment of agriculture is about to
start in the house. This is the first
step to review publicly Secretary Wal
lace's violation of the packing house
control law and the placing Of numer-
GUS pro-packer employees on the staff
Of the packers and stockyards act adj
ministration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27
l. w. w. Sailor Tells What He SnLU
In Russia Where SeGn1en Enjoy
the Best Conditions In Europe
By M. FILL.

When saw Bill Haywood of my visits to Moscow
he told The thing which stands out the most gar
fault of the Industrial Workers of the World Of today
that does able understand the Workers Soviet
Republc-t does not understand Russia"
Later when decided to back the States, think
that other W. W. sailors would be respond to the
call put out last year for united all transport work
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-03-21

The many friends Of the Staley
family throughout this valley we're
shocked to learn OF the death by
suicide OF Wesley Staiey which oc.
cured At his home At Arvada. Colo,
Sunday.
Wesley staley got his start" In
the San Luis valley. His first oc-
cupation here was In driving . slip
scrsper In the construction Of the
irrigation canals about forty years
ago. He homesteaded q piece Of
land between Center and Hooper
and later established the Hooper
State hank. He served as irrigation
engineer for District 20 one term.
In April. 1905. Mr.. staiey orEanis.
ed the Exchange bank Of Monte
Vista In which he was associated
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-03-21
Sunny San Luis Gets
It's Million Dollar Snotv

and testures are said to be soaked
and many farmers are having
troubls with stock miring in the
fields where they are being pas
tursA.
Sessions of Monte Vista school
wers suspended for the rest Of the
week snd possibly for the week fol-
lowing Is 4 result OF impossible
road conditions "wednesday. The
school buses have been able to
make the routes but the wear and
tear o. them was too great to war
rant the trips. because they were
necessarily late owing to the fact
that ten miles an hour was about
the li0it OF travel.
Superintendent Van Fleet made
the announcement before the close
Of Wednesday sessions. Schools at
Sargent and Center have also been
closed. these being consolidated dis
tricts and their buses unable to
make the routes. With the roads
already In bad condition and q
bright warm sun worse roads are
expeet6t next week.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-03-21

During the past week the San
Luis valley has been visited by the
heaviest SHOWS Of the year. The
snow fall At Monte Vista and east
In the Alamosa district amounted to
about one foot. To the west and
up In the Creede district the fall
was much lighter this week but was
heavier the week before than In the
lower valley.
Roads In every direction are re-
ported In bad shape and with the
prospect OF thawinE weather VIII
probably be In worse condition next
week. The road between Monte
Vista and Del Norte Is probably In
worst condition OF the state high
ways and II 10 said to be impossible
to make more than ten or fifteen
miles an hour BY automobile. In
the Alamoxa direction the roada
are said to be little better but the
Gunbarrel road 10 said to be In fair
ly good condition.
Coming as II does at this season
Of the year the heavy snowfall in
sures the valley an excellent crop
condition for this year. The fields