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Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-08

H. R. Editor Gateway: What is the population of Seward?
 Ans. Seward has 312 voters Ac- cording to the the ratio of five to one she should have over 150O but hasn't. Her population counting bachelors, dogs, cats, and other useless citizens, is about 1000 to HOO.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-08

B. c. Editor Gateway: Why is persons voice that rebounds back called an Echo?
 Ans. In mythology Echo was nymph who fell in love with Narcis- sus, who was not susceptible to her tender passion. As her love was not returned she pined away until noth- ing was left but her voice-the Echo.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-08

Reader. Editor Gateway: Would it be all right for a boy and girl to marry who are but IS and 16 respec- lively?
 Ans. Ask your parents; we have troubles of our own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
"BirdS of a Feother"-
Expose Them Both

Strike-buster Robert E. Grove was exposed
in the columns of the DAILY WORKER, Mon
day morning, when we made public the COM
plete report of the Committee of Is" of the
Chicago Federation of Labor.
The DAILY WORKER now urges the
COMMITTEE of 10" to fearlessly expose the
strike-busting record of Mayor William E..
Dever's police as well.
Uniformed city policemen are beating up
girls on the picket line. Uniformed city police
men are arresting them and aiding the states
attorneys men in arresting them. Even where
an arrest has technically been made by a
plainclothesman attached to the states attor-
ney's office it is the city policeman who shoves
her into Lowenthal's doorway and acts as the
willing assistant to the Grove dick.
Sophie Altschuler was technically arrested
by William Schroeder, detective assigned to
Groves office, but officer O'Rorke, No. 1881,
took her off the detectives hands and beat
her up.
Officers $3.50 and 1909 beat up Ethel Sphinx.
Officer 3401 beat up Olga Levin. Many more
such cases of brutality to strike pickets are on
our files.
The DAILY WORKER demands that the
Committee of Is" present the workingclass
public with as full an indictment of the
mayors strike-breaking activities as it has
given of Robert E. Grove.
The Committee has the facts Of police bru-
tally in this strike. They submitted these
facts to the mayor. Let them broadcast these
facts as they are broadcasting the expose of
Robert E. Grove. Otherwise one capitalist
politician will merely gain at the expense of
his political rival
Dever and Grove are birds of feather as
far as the workers are concerned. Pick their
feathers and expose them both.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
Pri.on.M.de R.Ii.ne. Shirts.

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 31.-
Tho defeated in the senate the reso-
luton ca1celling the prison contract
OF the Reliance Shirt Factory with
the Oklahoma state penitentiary has
apparently agitated the members Of
the state board Of affairs. The chair
man Of the board has declared that
the shirt factory proposition will be
investigated thoroly. The house reso.
luton charged that the state was los.
ing $4,000 annually on the contrac.
and cited the fact that $4,000 hai
been donated to the campaign funds
Of the governor and attorney eensr.i
by the prison contract people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
Small and Smaller

The workingclass are constantly told during
election periods that its future welfare de-
ponds on its choice of a candidate from the
ranks of the capitalist parties. They always
make choice But their condition does not
show any improvement. In fact it grows
worse. Its frienNs turn out to be enemies and
its enemies never change for the better; they
cannot change for the worse.
Here in the state of Illinois two rival groups
in the republican party are at each others
Threats over the spoils of office. Governor
Small, with as unsavory a record as any public
official who ever held Office in this state is OPP
posed by another gang of blackhearted crooks
and anti-labor open shoppers. Both factions
are controlled by the enemies of labor
Until quite recently the American Fedora
ton of Labor in this state was committed to
Independent political action. The leaders of
the movement sponsored a Farmer-Labor
Party which attempted to rally the workers
under its banner on the political field against
all the parties of capitalism, alleged friends
and open foes.
The workers were slowly gaining confidence
in themselves. The capitalist parties could see
the day approaching when grating labor Off
Gals could no longer barter the labor vote at
election time.-But change has taken place.
Those who in the recent past sponsored the
Farmer-Labor Party movement have now be-
trayed it and are eating from the capitalist
trough along with the consistent reactionaries
who have always looked on the labor move
nent as their legitimate prey.
The executive committee of the Illinois
Federation of Labor has endorsed Small and
now the leaders Of the Chicago Federation of
labor, John Fitzpatrick and Edward N. Mock
els, respectively president and secretary, have
ssued public statement calling on the men,
oers of organized labor to support Small in the
primaries on April 8.
The only ray of light in this discreditible
situation is the resolution that was passed by
the Cook County branch of the Farmer-Labor
Party urging the workers to stay away from
the republican and democratic primaries next
week, and severely criticising the purchaseable
labor leaders who have espoused the Small
candidacy.
Governor Small has a record that fits ex-
sctly with his name but he is a moral giant
compared with those leaders who have be-
trayed their principles and turned their backs
On the movement for Farmer-Labor political
action, which they helped to bring into exist
ence They are a million times smaller than
Small.
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cussed this matter, and grimly
decided to edo something to show
these barbarians we have some
rights" They moved down that
night on the Pottawatomie. and
calling out the five men who had
done most of the killing, threat
ening and burning down of houses
in the region, executed them as
a measure of self-defense.
John Brown Guerilla Captain.
1t was a bloody, stern act, but
it proceeded out Of the same in
famed spirit with which the min
ers at Herrin recently shot down
the armed strikebreakers who had
had been brought into their sec
ton. Many, including some SYM
pathetic historians like Oswald
Garrison Willard, have condemned
this brutal deed, and have called
it a stain on John Browns life.
Murder is murder, and it cannot
be defended on ethical or logical
grounds. But when thug assails
one with gun, or threatens ones
WA1C dlld CIlAAutCtlS 10 OIiC 70 pIdS-
tice non-resistance on him? Is his
life more valuable than ones
own? In such moments men do
not think, they act as nature tells
them to; even Willard would
refuse to yield up his life to
thug; he would forget logic and
ethics, and defend himself. And
that is what John Brown did; his
act was a stern and immediate
answer TO the long-continued
murders and threats against the
Free State men of Kansas. 1t
shook the territory to its fcunda-
tons, and it made of John Brown
a hunted outlaw. Thereafter he
grew no more corn and built no
more cabins for his family; he
was guerilla captain in the
field.
Ito Be Continued Wednesday,
(After Pottawatomie)
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''The Story of John Brown

toughest pro-slavery rufians who
lived there.
1--WE expect to be. butchered.
every Free State settler in our
region" one Of these men told
John Brown.
Here was a story John Brown
heard a few days before from the
lips of pretty young girl named
Mary Grant, a settlers daughter
in the region:
Dutch Bill arrived at our
house, horribly drunk, with a
whisky bottle with corncob stop
per, and with an immense butcher
knife in his belt. Mr.. Crank, my
father, was sick in bed, but when
they told him that Bill Sherman
was coming, he had a shot gun
put by his side. old woman
said the rufian to my mother, you
and | are pretty good friends, but
damn your daughter I'll drink her
hearts blood My little brother
Charley succeeded in cajoling the
drunken man away"
RePrisals Begin.
An old settler named Morse was
hung and let down again by this
same group of ruffians. Then they
threatened to kill him with an
axe, but his little boys set up
terrible wailing, and begged for
his life. The rufians spared him,
but gave him until shutdown to
leave the community. He wander
ed in the brush for two or three
days with his children, frightened
to death, and finally died Of the
excitement.
There were other such tales,
including one horrible story of a
similar attack on a woman in
childbirth. The ruffians had also
put up a notice, advising every
Free State settler to leave the
community in thirty days or have
his throat cut.
John Brown and his men dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
Recognizing Soviet Russia

The latest government to signify its inten-
ton to recognize the Russian Soviet Republic
is Canada There is Soviet Trade delegation
in Canada already and the country as a whole
is jubilant over the prospect of getting down
to business and brushing aside the legal OBJ
stacles that have so far prevented free COM
mercial ntercourse-between the people of
the Dominion government and Soviet Russia.
Foreign Minister Benes of Czecho-Slavia
predicted that this year would be remembered
by the establishment of complete diplomatic
relations between most of the European and
Asiatic countries and Soviet Russia.
This prediction is being borne out by the
developments in Europe since the opening of
the New Year Two of the most powerful
nations in the world, the mighty British En-
pire and Italy, have granted de jure recogni-
ton to the first Workers Republic in history
and this action was followed by Norway and
Greece and the extension of de facto recogni-
ton by other countries. Canada, a powerful
influence on the American continent is the
first country on this hemisphere to signify its
intention to recognize Russia
This is testimony to the growing power
and stability of the Soviet Republic. The
capitalist nations have come to the conclusion
that they cannot defeat the Workers Republic
so they decide to make the best of bad situa-
ton. in the meantime the Teapot Dome gov
eminent of the United States raises its hands
in horror over the state of affairs in Russia and
refuses to have anything to do with the wicked
Communists. It is only fair to say, however,
that the present administration has been quite
busy peddling the country to various hucksters
and had to depend on the old fossil Gompers
and the Jewish Daily Forward for most Of its
Russian information. Once the cabinet is de-
oiled perhaps what is left of tiff there is any
might step in line and follow the example
of Britain in its foreign relations
Meanwhile the workers of Russia are pro-
ceeding nicely with the work of laying the
groundwork for the establishment of Com
munist society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
Argentina Workers
PensiOned on Full
Pay After rs Years

BUENOS AIRES, March 31.-All
persons in Argentina who have la
bored for rs years are pensioned to
the extent of their present salaries,
as the result of new pension law,
President Marcelo T. De Alvear has
officially announced.
The workers themselves, however,
must supply half of the pension fund
by donating to it ) per cent Of their
salaries, the other half being sup
piled by the employers. who also do
nate 5 per cent of the amount of
their payrolls. The law, which was
bitterly opposed by the employers, is
to take effect in two months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
|1O WORKERS LOST
LIVES WHEN BOSS
VIOLATED LAWS
Criminal Negligence by
Explosive Firm Barred

TRENTON, N. March 81
Eighteen workers killed and 200 in
jured by explosion Oh, no, the
company was not to blame, it was
much more interested in protecting
its employees than in piling up prof
its-at least according to the COM
pany officials and capitalist news
papers. The workers who ESCAPED
say the company was responsible,
do they? Well, that's only red
propaganda. -. That was the
story at the Nixon plant of the Am
monte Company, on. March 8.
Law Was Violated.
Now comes the report of DR..
Martin Szamatolski, consultin 2
chemist New Jersey department of
labor, declaring that the company
was carrying on dangerous opera
tons just before the explosion which
were very different from those in
progress when the plant was in
spected and approved on Jan. 1. at
would be idle to speculate on the
true causes of the explosion," the
expert reports, beyond the fact
that it was due to gross negligence
and violation of the law"
The report of State Labor Com
missioner Andrew F. McBrid e
which includes the Szamatolski re-
port, has forced Prosecutor Joseph
E. Stricken, of Middlesex county, to
SUMMON the grand jury in special
session to fix responsibility. Gov.
Silzer may have TO act upon Com
missioner McBride's recommended
tions and call a special session of
the state legislature to revise the
laws governing manufacture and
storage of explosives.
Don't be "Yes, But" supporter of
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This is "The Story of John
Brown" by Michael Gold. Pub
lished by the DAILY WORKER
thru arrangement with Haldeman-
Julius Company, of Girard, Kans.
Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman-
Julius Company.
The Liberty Guards.
NNE of these companies was the
OLiberty Guards, as commander
of which John Brown first receiv-
ed his historic title Of Captain.
Besides four of Browns stalwart
sons, there were fourteen other
Free State settlers, and they were
present at the first attempted raid
on Lawrence, which had resulted
in compromise and an abortive
treaty"
Captain John Brown had gath
cred his men, and was on the way
to Lawrance for the second time
when they were informed by a
messenger that Lawrence had al
ready been destroyed. The Border
Ruffians had captured the town
without meeting any resistance,
and RACED it to the ground, the
breathless courier reported. This
startling news was received in a
bitter silence by The little COM
pany. They pushed in, neverthe-
less, and encamped near Prairie
City, hearing from passing strag-
glers further reports Of burnings,
killings and drunken threats Of
the Southern invaders.
Border Rufians Active.
It was a period Of great excite
ment. The Kansans felt as if war
had commenced in earnest on
them, and that they were to be
wiped out. Some of the men who
lived on the Pottawatomie Creek,
near Dutch's Crossing, heard re-
ports that their women had been
threatened by a group of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01


advancement and welfare of the
Chinese People under democratic
institutions; and as a mark Of re-
spect the Congress stands adjourned
for three days
Russia's Program
eve are proud, declares Mr..
Kameneff, "that our leader inspires,
in remote China the forces of a
democratic nation onto a new iber-
alive work. This precept we shall
never abandon. And so again do |
repeat: the tenor Of our policy is,
friendship with all the nations Of
the world, brotherly sympathy for
the oppressed peoples, business and
peaceful relations with all the gov
ernments:'' cloud applause).
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government Friendship WIFI
Oriental peoples, striving at an
independent national develop
ment, is not the result of such
or other policy of the day: it
Is one of the fundamentals Of
the general policy of the Soviet
power, it is its token.
Don't Barter Friendship.
"Brotherly sympathy with
The Eastern nations, fraternal
assistance to them in the cause
Of the powerful movemcns wnlcn is
bound to bring about the era of
national independence and emanci-
patton of these uations-are laid
out at the very base Of the policy
of the Soviet Power. cloud ap-
nlause)./ Differently from all the
other governments, we do not bar
gain this friendship, we do not bar
ter or sell it, we transact no deals
with it.
"On the occasion Of the terrible
grief that has befallen us and all
toiling masses we have received
thousands of messages Of every de-
scription. However, those received
from the Orient are especially in
grief.
"The following woros were said,
among other speeches made in the
Turkish Parliament: Lenin's death
has grieved US all. This great man
has stood by US, assisted us, in our
blacklist hours and ever wished us
success in our fight for independ-
ence. Lenin never missed an oppor-
tunity to welcome our National As
sembly.' The speaker concluded by
moving the despatch Of coincidence
telegram, most warmly worded. One
of the next speakers, Deputy Djelal
Nurim, added that when our peo-
pie were living thru their hardest
days, Lenin stretched out his hand
to us. His letters and telegrams
were ever source Of encourage
ment for u.s.
Straightforward Oriental Policy.
"Such utterances," continues Mr..
Kameneff, fare the prize Of an open
and straightforward policy Of as
sistance rendered to and friendship
with the peoples Of the East, and
this tribute surely is the best token
of the correctness ana far-sighted-
ness Of our policy. The history will
forever record that, n the black
days Of the Lucrative struggle Of
the Oriental people, Lenin stretched
out brotherly hand to them, and
this shall also be a precept for our
further policy" (Appiause).
The acting president Of the Coun-
ell of P. o. Of the U. S. S. r. then
reports that from far-off China,
we have received, over the sigma
ture Of Sun Vat Sen, the leader Of
the democratic forces OF China,
telegram whose contents are char
acteristic, would say, Of a new
historic era introducing new facts
into history, which at the same time
serve as precepts OF our policy DIR.
Sun Vat Sens message reads.
Resolved that the Kuomintang,
assembled in National Congress, re-
cord its profound sorrow AZ the
death Of Comrade Lenin, whose
work as chief architect Of New Rus
STA is at this moment inspiring the
minds and purpose Of the Congress
in its principal task Of making the
Party national instrument for the
unification Of CHM and for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
Oriental Peoples GrieUed For
Lenin's Death; Soviet Policy
FORCES Bonds of Unity In East

MOSCOW (by mai) The following is excerpt from
Leo Kamene speech of January 80 at the Second
Congress of Sovie being part of the Soviet Governments
report the Congress- Referring the Soviet Unions
tai policy the Acting President Of the Council of Peoples
Commissaries said, in part:
'You know that Oriental policy may be put in very
few constant friendship with the oppressed nations
the East and m is immutabIy the slogan of the Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01

Frank A. Vanderlip wants housekeeping
in the republican and democratic parties. We
are in favor Of that and after some degree Of
sanitation is attained, the process should be
topped off with a successful surgical operation,
with both patients waking up In heaven.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01

The iron and steel industry IN
New York proves to be still very
much in the reactionary class with
IS IL per cent Of its employees
working over 50 hours a week. Ac-
cording to the report a large pro-
portion of them worked 60 and "a
hours week. Only 81 per cent
have secured a week of 40 hours or
less.
Hours of Labor.
In the manufacture Of machinery
approximately SO per cent Of the
workers are on a week of AS hours
or less. In the automobile industry
AZ per cent work 48 hours or less
and 1876 per cent work from 40 TO
81 hours per week. In the manu-
facture and repair of railroad roll
ing stock approximately 60 per
cent Of the workers have basic
48-hour week.
The shoe industry in New York
appears particularly progressive
with 93.1 per cent of its employees
working basic week of AZ hours
or less. In the manufacture OF
paper 75.1 per cent of the employees
work a straight 48-hour week.
In textile industry ~ per cent Of
the silk workers and sos per cent
Of the cotton mill workers on ls-
hour week basis as compared with
only 1915 per cent of the EMPLOYEES
of woolen mills working the shorter
week. Approximately sc per cent
Of the employees of the wooden in
dustry still work from So to 81
hours a week.
Workers who have led in estab-
fishing the 44-hour week include
the fur workers with 100 per cent
OF their number on that basis.
printing and bookmaking with 54.6
per cent, mems clothing with TIL
per cent and women's clothing with
75.1 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01

William Randolph Hearst says that Daugh-
erty got the gate because of his vigor in prose-
cutting Standard OIL At the same time Mr..
Hearst's literary monkey, Arthur Brisbane,
uses up half his daily column singing the
praises Of the Rockefellers How the pair
must laugh!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01

As skull of a more primitive shape than that
of the Neanderthal man has been discovered
in California. The find is puzzing scientists
as no California senator has been reported
missing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01

The French navy, with five capital ships,
has sixty-seven admirals This is reported to
be causing great unrest In the Honduran army
which has only forty-two generals
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-01
MOVEMENT FOR
SHORT WORKDAY
AT STANDSTILLl
Workday Outside New
York Lengthens
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor

" ~~~A0eNA 4 ACo0 lhuuSLIldA
Generally speaking the movement
for shorter week in New York
state stands today almost exactly
where it stood in December, 1921,
altho outside New York City the
number of men on an eight-hour
day has been reduced from some
what over a half in 1921 to less
than a half in 1923.
More than 60 per cent of the fac
tory workers of New York state
have working week of 48 hours
or less, according to the chief sta
tistlcian of the state department Of
labor. He bases his report on in
formation from 1900 manufacturing
establishment employing over AGO.
900 workers.
Workers in New York City.
Wage earners in New York City
where organized labor is strong
have made the greatest progress
toward the shorter working wesk
while the detailed figures Indicate
that many employers by moving 10
small upstate towns have succeeded
in putting off the day when they
must conform to union conditions.
The report says:
"Over 80 per cent of the factory
workers in New York City have a
basic working week of A hours or
less, and one-third have a 44-hour
week. Up state the working week
is longer. Not quite half the men
and somewhat fewer of the women
worked 48 hours a week and the
44-hour week was almost unknown.
A substantial proportion of the men
upstate work over 81 hours as
compared with almost none in New
York City. Two-thirds of the women
upstate work 40, 30 and 81 hours q
week"
The figures shows that S1,785 men
in factories outside New York City
are still working more than 81
hours a week and that 59,455 out Of
207,S44 or 2e IL per cent work
more than 81 hours a week.
Figures Tell Tale.
The following table shows for
the state as a whole the proportion
of workers in different industries
working the various basic weeks: