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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23

ELoCK around and gather
Il closer. Girls, News Il about
90 b divulEcd that viii start
a stampede 20 the beauty par
lors and SIND all the scissor
grinders simply Wild with de-
ilght.
Seattle men favor hohbed
hair about 10 20 I.
Tuesday The star brushed
aside on probes. plots. prosecu-
tons and politics FOR the moro
important question: What DO
men think % bohbed hair3
Wednesday morning 81 bob
ballots were received from 81
men-unleSs somebody cheated.
The ballots are supposed 20 bo
FOR men only,
Only four OF IN, ballots reg
istered the sender as against
bobhed hair; 81 were IN favor
of Il.
With most Of the ballots a IS.
word reason vas given.
Here are some OF them:
SAYS HE SAVES
On SHAVING SOAP
Il like bo6bod hair because
my wife has discovered that
shaving soap Is an Ideal sham
poo. With bobbod hair she uses
less OF II. "a. J. t.
Bodied hair for me. II
doesn't take my girl two hours
TO floss hers Up now when
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23
rltAw STAGES SHOW
ALL HIS OWN

Earlier IN the day, a. the close Of
the morning session. Thaw staged an
lmpromptu appearance on his own
volitiOn before the press table His
attorney. Judge Patterson. was con-
ferrins With Judge Monaghan. Thaw
seemed greatly excited.
After grasplng one or two news.
napermen by the hand. Thaw STAN.
inered out that he had been agitated
for fear Judge Patterson would in
trcduce some testimony Of certain
alienisis. Thaw's meaning was no,
quite clear. but he exclaimed:
Il was afraid they would throw
out the jury. It's the common law.
the law OF the state OF Pennsylvania.
! was afraid the Judge would put oat
the jury. would rather make
io-minute speech myself than have
Patterson do that. OF course, was
excited.
Il wasn't afraid OF what Cray
William A. Gray. attorney for Eve.
lyn Nesblt. who was addressing the
jury when court adjourned for lunehl.
was saying. wasn't laughing at
that"
All the while he was speaking.
Thaw stood directly in front OF the
newspapermen- His eyes were In.
famed. and he was perspiring pro
fusely. II was extremely difficult.
because OF hts agitation. 10 follow his
meaning.
And my mother wants 10 talk 20
YOU" Thaw then exclaimed. "she
wants 70 tell you about the family.
Here. mother. mother" but when
he turned TO get Mrs. Thaw. his
counsel interviewed and got him away.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23

Simply secure 10 new subscrlp-
tons to Tho Seattle Star and any
boy or sirl will be presented with
n famous Dan Patch" Coaster
Wagon.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23
AhfAA aFN HNIll1 OF "
SAYS HE SAVES
On SHAVING SOAP
Bob Ballot

Mark coupon by striking out either do" or do not
give reason clip and mail at TO Bobbed Hair Editor
Seattle Star, Seattle)
/, male person, do like women TO wear bobbad
do not
hair. My reason is as follows:
Estate reason in % words:)
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23
Would InlpeachJudge
Thru Booze Charges

WASHINGTON. April 28.-Impeaehment charges
w against Federal District Judge w. +. Baker of
the northern district Of West Virginia flied with
the speaker of the house Of Representatives today by
United States District Attorney T. A. Brown OF the
same district.
The charges were formally referred TO the house
judiciary committee by Speaker Gillett
Brown charged Judge Baker with drunkenness, con-
flScation and consumption Of seized liquors, Illegal inn
prsonment of citizens irregularities in certifying his
expense accounts and other high crimes and INSIDE
meanors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23
HARRY K. THAW.
JUDGED SANE
Release From Asylum Is
Favored by Jurors
ny PRANK GETTY

flntfed hrrta Etaff ccrfsElsenf rntf
PHILADELPHIA, April s3-oncc
s nncro the doors - the asylum swing
cptn Tor Harry X. Thaw.
Arsr a period 81 seven years In
generation IN a Philadelphia mad,
house. Thaw has been adiudEed sane
By a jury q his peers aud probably
soon viii be FREE.
The jury that heard the slxday
trial of his petition for release from
kirkhride's asylum was out Tor near.
~ seven hours late Tuesday before
they returned with their verdict for
the millionaire plaintiff.
Notice 81 motion ~ appeal Tor a
new trial was immediately given By
parties opposing freedom Tor Thaw
and this technically Viii slightly a..
lay complete freedom for Hsrry.
Harry IN a rambling statement
which he picked out himself upon
a typewriter while awaiting the Yer.
dict. announced he probably would
make some provision Tor HIS former
wife.
Il don't want his char,y-h his
dirty Money Evelyn snapped,
when she heard about this. Il
interviewed for my boy who Is On,
titled 20 inherit his fathers estate
But Mrs. Thsw has her son nav
and suppose she doesn't care"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-23

fire protection Tor moro than 20
years. Russell estimates.
The Iogged.off land is covered
with rot,ing logs and stumps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

standards and pitiable state of want.
But with the problem of internal power settled
and the invaders driven back-with no help and
much hindrance from the Chicago Tribunes of all
the world-the Russian workers, with no aid at
all from capitalist sources, have been rebuilding
the national economy with amazing speed and i'm
proving their standards of living with every step.
In Moscow the workers Of all classes earn on an
average of SO per cent of pre-war rates, and in
Leningrad they earn SO per cent These are figures
of early spring 1924 There has been swift and I'M
interrupted progress since then. At that time the
wages for all classes of workers turnout Russia
were IS per cent of pre-war wages.
Moreover, it must remembered that the ruble
is at par. The "deluded" Russians have a govern
ment that has recovered from unexampled infa-
ton because it could write off debts without fac
ing opposition from the creditor class. No other
country on earth can do that The Soviet Republic
is the first nation in Europe to go back on gold
basis, and to reckon wages from what wages buy.
The fact then that Russian workers are getting
wages that amount to 65 per cent of pre-war
wages, shows that they are in about the same
comparative circumstances as the American work
ers whose wages in dollars that are worth only
66.3 per cent of pre-war dollars, have not con
vinced them that their Russian brothers are al
together mistaken in making a revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
Getting Their Pound of Flesh

The Mexican government has decided to shoot
two peasants its court found guilty of participating
in the incident resulting in the death of Mrs
Evans.
This case bears all the earmarks of diplomatic
found guilty if there were Mexican government
strong enough to disregard the British imperialst
government whose subject Mrs. Evans was. The
two peasants would never have been sentenced to
face a firing squad if there had been a Mexican
government courageous enough to tell the British
and American imperialists to keep their hands Off
But such antiimperialist steps cannot and will
not be taken by so weak government as the
Oregon Gales administration which is ever ready
to bow before the capitalist imperialist punderers
of the United States and other powers
The diplomatic corps in Mexico City is especially
hopeful that the sentence will stand and that the
Mexicans will be shot down They are sure that the
melting out of such punishment will help all
wealthy hacienda and the foreign exploiters
in general In fact two British representatives are
being charged with tampering with witnesses
against the defense Other irregularities are also
evident in the trial The hand of the American and
British governments is behind the scenes in an
effort to enact judicial murder legalized murder
We know that Mrs. Evans took her life in her
own hands when she insisted on denying the
Mexican poems the right to the most elementary
needs of life This is precisely what all the cap
italist exploiters are doing in Mexico and in the
other economically under developed countries 1t
is these capitalist marauders who are really guilty
of murder
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
This-Or Face AnnihiIatiOn

1t is typical that of the most important parts
Of the American Federation Of Labor, the Building
Trades department is torn with dissension over
iurisdictional disputes The $4,000 carpenters
and joiners, quarreling with the sheet metal work
ers, withdrew from the department some time ago
In order to continue the job war against the sheet
metal workers.
The Stone Cutters Union accuses the Granite
Cutters Union of cutting artificial stone which is
mot hard enough" to use granite cutters tools
upon, and therefore belongs by grace of the juris
dictional board of awards" to the stone cutters
jurisdiction The scrap over this made such bad
blood that 80 granite cutters were compelled by
their union president to scab a job at New
Haven, struck by the stone cutters.
In California the open shop drive against the
building trades threatens to wreck them all, but
the head Of the Brickayers' Union questions the
wisdom of sending money to help the building
trades of California for fear "of furnishing am
munition to fight" the national department.
These are merely mild and typical examples of
the disorganization persisted in by the labor
bureaucracy rather than give way to the increasing
need and the growing demand for amalgamation
of the craft unions into industrial unions. In
every strike the glaring impossibility of victory
by the scattered segments of labor, which battle
huge corporations alone while other crafts calmly
not only do their own work. but the struck work
Of the craft on strike, becomes more evident.
Against such demoralized condition the Trade
Union Educational League has raised the banner
Of militant struggle by its campaign for amagama-
ton. zone union for each industry" has been it's
cry. Great blocks of organized labor have rallied
to the call for amalgamation Only the bureaucracy
stands obdurate. 1t would mean the loss of many
FAT jobs for officials Therefore, even tho it is a
matter of life and death to the rank and file the
officials will not move.
The employers are preparing new open shop
drive, new wage cuts and a general offensive.
Conditions cannot improve, they cannot even be
maintained They are sure to become worse if the
t4th convention does not register the will of the
A. F. of L. membership and call upon the various
international unions to meet in special conference
to arrange for the amalgamaton of the conflicting
and discOrdant crafts into harmonious and CO.
ordinated industrial unions which can deal with
corporate wealth in effective manner. Do this,
face humiliation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
Report to A. F. of L. Model of Evasion

donment Of the class struggle and an
admission of inability to fight the
enemy ON the Industrial field.
Amaleamatlon or AnnihiIation
In the report of the executive coun-
Gil, there is no recommendation at
all of the only measure which would
make the scattered forces of the craft
unions able to fight the employers
and depend upon the problematical
dustrial unions.
One can only draw the conclusion
from reading the report, that the ex-
ecutive council of the A. F. of L.
does not want to fight the employers.
That facts which show an increasing
misery Of and danger to the workers,
are disregarded and covered over
with rosy pictures, is not merely ac-
cidental or conventional cheer-up
stuff, but preparation for ceasing
struggle against employers and going
over into collaboration with them, is
shown by the space devoted in the
report to class collaboration, labor
banks and labor insurance.
No Program of Struggle
The first part of the report that
claims that "reactionary and bourbon
employers are in a most unfavorable
position" is not only falsehood. but
a falsehood upon which is erected the
conclusion that all that labor needs to
do is to establish Tabor" banks and
Tabor" insurance companies. There
is no hint Of vigorous programs of
struggle, no campaign proposed for
organizing the unorganized, nor for
making the organized workers able
to strike with success by amalgama-
ton of their unions and making COM
mon cause with the unemployed mil
lions through unemployment councils
Such ridiculous measures as the
full utilization of playground adj
vantages" are advocated as essential
to workers who have small oppor-
tunity to use other than few muse
les" While no one doubts that re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
Timely Liars

The convention of the American Federation of
Labor is opening at FL Paso and it is foretold that
a group of delegates who are not any more reac-
tionary than Coolidge and Senator Borah are
planning to fight for resolution favoring the
recognition of Soviet Russia.
At the time the political circles of Wash
ngton are fabbergasted by Borah, the new chair.
man of the senate foreign relations committee,
openly advocating the recognition of Russia.
The division within the ranks of the bourgeoisie
over this question is becoming more and more acute
as the commercial interests of England and France
are breaking away from the old blockade agree
ment and are competing for Russian trade. The
~bitter enders" among the bourgeoisie are launch
ing campaign against any recognition, hoping to
influence both the labor convention and the cap
itast government.
The Mccormick Harvester company, which is
the twin brother TO the Chicago Tribune, lost its
reat factories and warehouses and port properties
IN Russia by the Bolshevik revolution. The Trib-
ie is very vocal just now opposing recognition
H.l nventing fairy tales Of all sorts against the
republic Of workers and peasants.
in Sundays issue, the Constantinople cor
nondent Of The worlds greatest liar is authority
the ridiculous statement that there are 1000
unemployed in Russia at present The dispatch
81 on to add the more ridiculous statement that
suit OF clothes costs 800, shoes 500 and so on.
pon the basis Of this last yarn, a long list of
nary figures are given showing how the wages
Soviet Russia are, according to this telepathc
Frespondent slower than in any other country
IA Europe Very interesting, if true. But what
are The facts?
Russian workers were badly enough off before
the war, and no Communist has contended
that they are dwelling in a fairy land where
chocolate biscuits drop from heaven. The wreckage
Of war and civil war, Of blockade and famine and
pestence made the first effect of the workers
revolutionary seizure Of power a lowering Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

creation is imperative for sedentary
workers, program which shuns
struggle for shortening their hours
and merely declares some exercise is
healthful is nothing short Of betrayal
of the duty Of union leadership. If
workers would use their heads as well
as a few muscles" such leadership
would soon be discharged This is
merely an illustration Of the petty
and futile items of the program sug-
gested by bankrupt leadership.
Proud Of Glass Collaboration
The twenty-three labor" banks
are pointed to with pride" and an
insurance scheme is recommended by
a special committees report contained
within the report of the council. This
committee is composed of Matthew
Vol and G. w. Perkins, and urges a
capital stock company to operate on
the legal reserve system and on the
participating plan only-to write both
ordinary and industrial forms of polio
ies-to be owned by the A. F. of L.
and its constituent elements and their
members, and directed by the heads
Of these organizations" Thus it is
seen that the A. F. of L. is giving up
the function of labor union for it's
leaders to become officials OF an in
surance corporation.
The matter of child labor is dealt
with specifically, complete depen-
dence being placed upon legislative
program and nothing at all is pro-
posed for to organize the millions of
young workers into the A. F. of L. to
remedy the condition of their use
against adult labor by capital in re-
ducing wages, etc.
Sam Protects Capitalist Courts
The menace of the injunction and
the usurpation of power by the judi
iciary is a real threat to labor unions.
Yet there is not mention of the use
of mass violation to break injunctions.
Even the militant phrases once used
by Gompers are missing. All that is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

The appointment of VIM. Morgan Butler as the
successor of Henry Cabot Lodge in the United
States senate, is of far more than passing sig
nifcance
Butler will be to Coolidge what Mark Hanna
was to Mckinley. The multi-millionare textile
magnae will be the captain and director of politics
in Washington. This is the task that Mark Hanna
performed twenty years ago for the imperialist
lackey Mckinley. 1t will be recalled that when
Hanna was appointed senator he was chairman of
the republican national committee This is the
position Butler occupies now.
OF course Butler will be the liaison officer be.
tween the senate and the White House 1t is fitting
that he should be- The abor-hating Butler per-
soniies very adequately the type of administration
with which the country will be saddled for four
years. The tariff lobbyist Butler is a symbol of
the price, the huge expense paid by the reaction
in selling Coolidge and Dawes to the country.
The days of Mark Hanna are with us again in
American politics. Fundamentally there has been
no interruption in the Mark Hanna politics for
the last two decades. But now and then our strike
breaking governmental agents would tend to cloak
themselves in the raiments of purity and dem.
ocratic virtues Mark Hanna was the type of gov
eminent representative who did not have recourse
to hypocritical cant. He was the type Of political
policeman who swung his club without blushing
Butler is a prototype of Mark Hanna.
1t is perhaps not strange coincidence that on
the very day which the senior Butler was APP
pointed United States senator the junior Butler
his son, chosen president Of the National AS.
ISOLATION Of Cotton Manufacturers This is an
employers association Of the vilest hue 1t consists
of the greediest textile barons in the country With
Butler at its head and Butler in the senate, the
textile interests will not 90 hungry in Washing
ton for the next few years-unless the working
class decides otherwise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
(Continued from Page ID

an interview last week concerning
convention issues he said: "Our con-
vention is a free and open forum
where nothing can be concealed and
where every delegate has full and
free opportunity to speak his mind
This is the freest forum in the world,
and it is so known"
Gompers Doth protest too much"
The same may be said Of the rosy
prophesies he and the other labor
takers make as to the future. With
the Dawes plan being celebrated in
every bankers and commercial jour
nal In the country as the means
whereby, in competition with German
labor, American labor will be thrown
into unemployment enough to create
a labor reserve sufficient to force
down the wage standard Of American
workers and lengthen their hours
Frank Morrison, secretary Of the A.
F. of L., announces in pure disregard
Of facts, that THE trend Of the times
is upward for wages, and that trend
will continue"
Rosy Dreams-6iack Facts
This even stands in contradiction
to the bourgeois economist Roger
Babson, who says that wages will go
lower and remain lower for the next
ten or fifteen years. In fact, of course
there is nothing inevitable about it
either way. 1t depends altogether
upon the strength of the labor unions.
This being the case, the unions must
look to building up their own powers
and not depend upon the problematical
weakness of the capitalists.
However, Gompers declares that
everything is going to be glorious in
the future because 1.-THE new con-
gress is not likely to pass any meas
ure greatly detrimental to the inter-
ests of the workers." Such depen-
dence upon the kindness of the cap
italists to avoid injury is an aban-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

Lenin determined this very definitely
after the Second Congress of the Rus
sian social-democratic party. Thru
the formulation of the famous para
graph one, he came to the creation
of the Girondist wing of the party.
Since then he continuously criticized
the right wing of the Russian social.
democratic party whose reformism be
came apparent to everyone only in
1905.
Turnout the first revolution, in the
period preceding the late war, and
particularly after the war, this anti
reformist sense of Lenin manifests
itself in all his activities. He was de-
ceived neither by revolutionary
phrases nor by welI-sounding resolu-
tons. He exposed to the daylight the
reformist theoreticians and men OF
action, despite all their attempts to
conceal their real nature. He was pri-
marily man Of experience and prac-
teal deeds, and it was in this sphere
of life that he caused the defeat of
the strategians of reformism. More
than one-half of his writings were de
voted to the demoralizing activities of
reformism, especially to the Russian
Mensheviks. Just as an archeologist
determines the species of a pre-his-
toric animal by the examination OF a
single bone, so Lenin was able to de
termine the reformist nature of his
opponents by single phrase in one
or another of their articles.
Tomorrow-"The Enemy Of Re-
formism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
LF-CRITICISM AND FRANKNESS

ment. And for this reason he re-
acted SO exceptionally critically to
every theory built upon the back
wardness and weaknesses of the work
ing class. He possessed a sixth sense,
the sense of anti-reformism. He
smelled reformism from a distance
1t was very difficult in 1903 to have
determined on the basis of differences
of opinion regarding the first para
graph Of the party constitution, who
were the proletarian Girondists and
who were the Jacobins. Nevertheless,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

said of the basis Of the complaint is
that the misuse" of the injunction
threatens to Undermine public cory
fidence in the judiciary" The A. #
of L. would, that is, defend the cap
italist courts against the indiscretionA
Of the capitalist courts.
BootIeeaer Draws compers' Tears
The instance given to illustrate the
usurpation Of power by the judiciary
is an illustration, as well, Of the sniv
cling character Of the executive coun.
Gil of the A. f. of L. With thousands
Of members thrown into Jail for viola
ton of injunctions, with strikes
broken right and left by order of the
capitalist courts, the chief point made
to show that courts are usurpinr
power is the recital Of the Judicial
over riding Of President Coolidge's
pardon granted to Phil Grossman, a
ward-heeler-b ootlegger of Chicago
Grossman, pardon by Coolidge thru
political pull, was by court order, re
arrested and confined in jail for a
time. This is the best example Of
judicial usurpation Gompers could
selectl
Left Wing Only Hope.
Labor has no complaint to make
against the 6Sth congress-" the report
states. Gompers, privately goes fur
Their and brazenly contends that
Labor Jared almost phenomenally
well in the elections" And he adds
"The new congress is not likely to pass
any measure greatly detrimental to
the interests of the workers"
Such are the falsehoods upon which
the leadership of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor is leading the organ
lied workers of America into 3
morass of disorganization and des-
pair. Only the growth and uniflca.
ton of left wing can defeat the
traitors and class colIaborationists
That left wing can, moreover, do this
only by the closest harmony with the
Trade Union Educational League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18

Editors Note.-Every day until
publication has been completed, the
DAILY WORKER will publish a
new chapter from the book, Len
in: The Great Strategist of the
Glass War" by A. Losovsky, secre-
tary of the Red International of
Labor Unions. The fifth chapter is
entitled "Self-Criticism and Frank
nes."
ENIN knew exactly the strong and
. weak sides of the labor move.