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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
BURNS AGENCY
Gets MARINES
AT ST PER DAY
Navy Dept. Starts Inves-
tigation of Practice

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81
Employment of United States
marines by the Burns detective
agency in direct violation Of
naval regulations is being in
vestigated under personal SUI
pervision of assistant secretary
of the navy Roosevelt.
The investigation followed
arrest of ten marines by Mary
land police after they had
elected drivers of eight Wash
ington taxi-cabs, at lonely
spot in Maryland and had
driven off with the cabs.
Roosevelt assigned Captain John
II. Craige Of the marine corps to in
vestigate the marines story that they
were hired by the local officers of
Burns Detective Agency and that
they then obtained two days leave,
hired taxicabs and ordered the driv-
ers to go to Marlboro, Nd.
Under Burns Direction.
Naval regulations specifically pro-
hibit granting of leave to any en-
listed men to engage in any work,
for money, which civilians ordinarily
perform.
The marines, when captured, said
the local Burns Office directed them
to have the cabs driven into Mary
land. so that they could be seized
to satisfy writs of attachment which
could not be served in the District
Of Columbia.
"Bill' Burns Innocent As Usual.
D. G. Henderson, head of the local
Burns Office, today admitted hiring
the marines, not only for this pur-
pose, but for other work. Anderson
said he paid the marines 81 day
and expenses.
W. J. Burns. head of the Depart
ment of Justice Investigation Bureau,
said today he knew nothing of the
matter. as he had severed connection
with the detective agency, which he
founded. turning it over to his sons
when he entered the governments
service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
GAS EXPLOSION
KILLS Is IN TWO
FAMILY COTTAGE
Blast in Pennsylvania
Claims Five More

PAWTUCKET, R. Ia final po-
lice check-up today showed Is per-
sons were killed in gas explosion
which destroyed two-family cottage
in Manville, near here.
The police report said daughter
of Michael Conway was awakened
by an odor of gas and called her
mother, who lighted lamp. The
explosion followed, wrecking the
house.
The body Of Conway was found
in the cellar. It was not known
whether he was killed by the expIc-
sion or had gotten up earlier and
was overcome while searching for
the leak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
.ESTHONIA IN GRIP
OF BIG INDUSTRIAL
CRISIS, MARK SINKS

REVAL, Esthonia.-Th little re-
public of Esthonia is in the throes
of severe industrial crisis.
The Esthonian mark is sinking in
value. There is scarcity of ready
cash. Many banks are compelled to
shut down on credits extended.
One of the things that has hit
Esthonian financial life hardest is
the fact that the government has is
sued an order. similar to that in
Germany. by which banks may only
sell FOREIGN exchange at the official
rate fixed by the government. Firms
having payments to make to foreign
manufacturers are unable to secure
the necessary foreign exchange.
A further factor is that certain
farmers are sabotaging production.
The harvest has been particularly
poor and Esthonia must import grain
from abroad.
AS in other countries many I'm
porters here profted by the catas-
trophe of the German mark before
its sterilization and brought large
stocks of German supplies. They
now find that they are glutted with
their wares. Hence many firms are
going bankrupt, while home manu-
features are being curtailed and the
workers thrown upon the streets in
large numbers. The big cotton spin
ming mills of Reval are working only
four days a week.
Hand in hand with the deprecia-
tion of the Esthonian mark and the
curtailment of production, goes an
alarming rise in the cost Of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Delegates Hear Bill
Foster Reply to John LelUis

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind--Wilam T. Foster, Secretary Of
the Trade Union League and member Of the
tive committee of the Workers Party speech delivered here
to audience Of miners delegates and small army of uni
formed policemen replied to the attacks made him and the
progressive wing of the trade union movement in America by
John L. Lewis and the reaconay ociadom of the United
Mine Workers of America
capitalist
that Fosters logical Speech that
the emotions Of his striking the houm
pedded John William
Foster discussed the rogni-
ton of Soviet Russia mastery style and the police
seemed to lendv to his de ivery
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Lever Repeats Charge.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES his
charges in stronger terms, E. j.
Lever, local business representative.
International Association of Machin-
lists, brands the statement Of the Bri-
fish Amalgamated Engineering union
as an evasion and denial Of facts
"Our definite charge against the
A. E IT," Lever says, is that they do
not definitely instruct their imni-
grant members where and how to find
the Office Of the nearest metal trades
unions on their arrival in the United
States. The men should have that
information but they are not given it
when they leave England. 1t is APP
parently common practice among
branch secretaries of the A. z. u. to
brush aside requests from members
for this necessary information with
the remark that there isn't much to
join in America in the way Of metal
trades unions No wonder the A. E.
U. members refuse to transfer here
upon their arrival.
"The Philadelphia Office has cor.
responded for over year with the
British headquarters on this point
without results. The British oficiali
seem to persist in their non-cooperat-
ing policy for the sake of the small
pension assessments that flow into
their treasury from their members in
America who do not transfer"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29


its laws"
The N. Y. Times lost no time in
getting translation" Of the alleged
offending Steklof acticle which is
said to have appeared in the Nov. Z,
1922, issue Of Izvestia, on the occa-
sion of the opening Of the fourth
congress Of the international and
celebration Of the fifth anniversary
of the Russian republic, in which
Steklof is reported to have referred
to the "bond" between the two.
No Proof, Says World
In connection with the U. S. state
departments statement issued with
translation Of the same article,
The World, however, calls upon
Hughes to return to his original
charge of alleged revolutionary Gin
structions" to the Workers Party of
America, and the real issue involved.
1t says that what Hughes is called
upon to prove is whether the Russian
government ais now engaged or has
within any reasonable time been en-
gagged in promoting revolution in the
United States" "That is what the
Zinoviev document, issued the other
day by the state department, was
supposed to prove" says The World
editorially. 1.-THE document is I'M
convincing because it is not yet GER
tain that it is genuine. /. The COM
bined assurances of Mr.. Hughes, Mr..
Daugherty, and Mr.. William j. Burns
do not, without further corrobora-
ton, prove the genuineness or the
significance of the Zinoviev instruc-
tions to the Workers Party Of Amer
lea. That proof has still to be fur
nished the American people"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Borah Gets Good Laugh From
Hughes; Cites Wholesale Lies

WASHNGToN-Senator astonhed laughter
their garbd
published wonders
action
ions with the people of Russia.
he
found least items published from Riga and other points outside
relating which acknowledged be
false he said that unprecedented Of Wholesale lying about
Russia had recently been going
declared that had
their testimony that the Third international cannot be
considered directing Russian
notion
that international revolution possible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Miner Delegates
in Mass Meeting
Mourn for Lenin

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--The fol
lowing resolution on the death O
Nicolai Lenin were passed unani
mously last night by mass meeting
of delegates to the convention OF thu
United Mine Workers here:
WHEREAS: within the past few
days the world has been shocked to
hear of the death Of Nicolai Lenin,
Premier of Soviet Russia and one
of the greatest political figures in
history, and
WHEREAS: Lenin, thru his
clear understanding Of capitalist
society, his profound militancy, and
his answering loyalty to the toll
ing masses, has contributed enor-
mously to the foundation Of the
worlds first Government by the
workers, and
WEREAS: in common with pro-
gressive workers all over the world,
we feel the loss to our cause by the
death Of this great leader; there
fore be It
RESOLVED: that this mass
meeting Of delegates to the Con-
vention Of the United Mine Work
ers Of America express our sorrow
by renewing our determination to
push onward with the great task Of
the emancipation Of the working
class.
The meeting was attended by NOR
than three hundred delegates an,
was addressed by speakers who told o
the achievements Of Leni and the Sow
let government of which he was tn
head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Strikers Reject
Compromise Plan
of Barney Myers
Especial to The Daily wsrk.rj

GREENSBURGH, Pa. - Barney
Myers, chairman of the strike com
mittee for the Kelly and Jones COM
pany plant, was unable to persuade
the rank and file to accept his settle
ment plan at meeting in Odd Eel
lows Hall, and the 1,400 men who
have been on strike for eight weeks
against a 10 per cent cut will con-
tinue to stay out.
The Myers plan was for the ap-
pointment of a new committee OF IL
which would be empowered to make
an authoritative settlement. 1t was re-
jected because the strikers feared a
cut would be accepted. The new COM
mittee, which has taken an unconl-
promising stand, will be retained.
This is the second strike the Kelly
and Jones workers have conducted
during the last year. The men are
not organized in any union.
Greensburgh is the capital of the
notorious scab county Of Westmore-
land, the only bituminous mining
community in Pennsylvania which
kept up Atty oer cent and more av-
erage Of production during the. 1922
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Convict Alabama
MiIitian1on for
Murder ofMiner

HAMILTON, Ala.--Robert L. Ian.
caster, sergeant in the Alabama Ma
tional Guard, was today convicted of
second degree murder in the lynch
ing Of William Baird, union miner.
1t carried a penalty Of eighteen years
imprisonment.
Conviction of Lancaster means that
seven other guardsmen, accused of
completely In the lynching, will now
90 to trial on the same charge.
Baird, a union miner, was taken
from jail at Jasper. Ala, on Jan.
10, 1921, by masked men and shot to
death. He had been arrested for
killing a guardsman who had pre-
viously killed Baird's father-in-law,
Jesse Northcutt.
Work DAILY for THE Dailyy'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Morgan BUYS Oil Stock

NEW YORK = President MARYLAND
Of the Marland Oil company an
nounced the company has sold to J. p
Morgan and company 100000 shares
Of its stock, heretofore unissued.
The company also Sin return for
substantial cash consideration" has
given an option to the same firm on
an additional amount Of its shares,
Marland said. 1t is understood the
option covers $4,000 shares
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

furnish facts, and if the senate for
eign relations committee fails TO af-
ford an adequate investigation, he
will insist that his committee on
education and labor take us the issue.
ROsta Issues Statement
NEW YORK - The Russian Tele-
graph Agency, New York office, re-
spending to queries regarding the
controversy as to the connection be-
tween the Russian government and
the Third Observation-Disclosures by
Secretary of State Hughes into the
question of Russian recognition
cited the statement to the Italian gov
eminent made Feb. q last by Vorov-
sky, late Russian trade representa-
tive in Italy. saying that the two
were mot united by any bond or any
engagement" and reading as follows;
Communist Party Independent
with regard to the Communist
International, which is a political
association having its central offices
in Moscow, it constitutes an organ
ization completely independent of
the Russian government, which is
not united to it by any bond or any
engagement. In its activities, and
those for which it is responsible, it
is limited by the common law of the
republic. This organization in it's
public declarations expresses solely
its own point of view; the soviet
government is in no way responsible
for the declarations and the actions
of this organization, just as no other
government is responsible for the
actions of political parties working
on its territory in conformity with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

NEW oRLEANS.-J. Fred Car.
penter, khan sheriff Of Morehouse
parish, scene Of the khan atrocities
Of a year and a half ago, Is short
in his accounts as tax collector. He
owes S1S,593, which his bondsmen
must make good. Carpenter re-
ceived large majority two weskt
ago at n primary for reelection.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Gas Blast Kills Five.

FARRELL, Pa-Five persons were
burned to death and FIVE injured,
one probably fatally, when fire
caused by gas explosions destroyed
four houses here Sunday morning.
The blasts rocked houses for several
blocks, destroyed windows, and were
heard for more than two miles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Sentence Woman To- Death.

ATLANTA, Ga.--Mrs. Ida Hughes
today was sentenced TO be executed
March IA, for the murder Of her
mother-in-Iaw. Sentence was pro-
nounced by Judge G. II. Howard,
after n jury in superior court had
found the young woman guilty Of
murder in the first degree.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
S.
MACHINISTS IN
CARD DISPUTE
Try to Get Immigrants
Into American Unions

LONDON.--British machinists GO
ing to America cannot be compelled
by their organization to transfer to
join the International Association Of
Machinists. If they do not sign up
with the American union voluntarily
there is no way Of forcing them to do
so, altho efforts are frequently made
by their old organization to put them
in touch with the American officials.
This is the answer to General Sec
ret~~-- = " 60 ~+i,,--st. Am alcarnated
Engineering union, to the charge
made by an American union official
and published recently in The Fed
Grated Press that the British union is
not cooperating with the American
union in getting its members to trans
fer and to stay organized when they
cross the Atlantic.
The American official was E. ].
Lever, business representative, dis
trict lodge No. /, international Asso-
citation of Machinists, with offices at
Philadelphia. Lever had pointed out
that by agreement the British organ
ization lad shut down its branches in
the United States and Canada while
the American union was permitting
all British members entering or resi-
dent in America to transfer their
membership without charge. Lever
said the Britishers neglected to trans
fer and were depressing wages in
America by working in unorganized
shops at wages far below the union
scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

Watch the "Daily Worker" for the
first instalment Of "a Week. the
great epic Of the Russian revolution,
by the brilliant young Russian writer,
Jury Libedinsky. II will start soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

Don't be "Yes, But" supporter Of
The Daily Worker. Send in your sub
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Work Daily for 9TH. D.iIyr
Automobile. XII 5000.

Fifteen thousand persons were
killed in automobile accidents in
1923, the National Safety Council
reported today. This figure exceeds
the 1922 figure by about 1000, the
council stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
can Ford to Washinrton.

WASHINGTON.-The house mill
tary affairs committee today asked
Henry Ford to appear before it on
Monday or Tuesday regarding his
offer for Muscle Shoals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

Get unity thru the Labor Psrtyi
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29


Turkey Egypt In just such way would the inmates of
harem discuss the wares which helped them retain the
favor of their lord.
AS MATTER OF FACT THE VIEWPOINT IS
IDENTICAL OUR COVER FORTY VIEWPOINT PAR
TICULARLY AMONGST CITY WOMEN is THE VIEW
POINT OF THE FADING ODALISQUE
How shall keep my complexion! How shall regain my
gure What will abolish these wrinkles and thcken these
thinning hairsG FOR IF MY BEAUTY GOES HOW
SHALL ATTRACT MEN? WHAT is THERE LEFT IF
ROMANCE FAILSf
am not giving you the thoughts of bad woman These
are the terrified inner communngs of good faithful wives
who live next door to you and me- kind women who
only voice the creed which they have taught from
childhood.
With all scientific achievement with all our advance
ment and power OUR CHILDREN ARE STILL SHARED
IN THE CODE OF THE ODALISQUE Beauty as a tool
romance as an endsuch the standards which are held
before our young women You deny that? Stop and think
How often do you hear valued for her intelligence
her fair payher humor-her business acumen-her svm
pathetic understandings Such attributes are admired but
the big point ISIS SHE PRETTY?
Ii she ism pretty what value has she in the matrimonial
market or what right to expect hold her husband after
she is forty and the wrinkles come?
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE WE AMERICAN WOMEN
LIVE But MlGOSH, CAN'T WE SAY 1T WITH ANY
THING BUT COMPLEXIONS9
Copyright AssA King Features Syndicate Ina. ,... i
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29
New Idea

To the Editor of The Washington
NEW ideas are often hailed
IN with the merry ''ha, ha!
However that may be, perhaps
this is new idea and perhaps 1T
may get the go-by plus the ha, ma;
anyway. here it is.
One Of the biggest problems to
be handled by the city fathers IS
the automobile criminal and OF
fender. Speeding. and all the
yari .colored violations or the
traffic laws and or public safetr
can be handled successfully. TIL"
city's treasury will be swelled AMI
an urgent need supplied.
This is how 1t can be done
and should be done. When a man
or woman. for that matter, Viz
lates any Of the traffic laws, let
them pay their fine-and more
over. compel each of them to do
several days ESQ many hours pei
day) at the busy intersections
regulating traffic, observing other
defaulters. This would supply
lots of good help in regulating
the traffic policeman shortage and
teach the offenders lesson that
they would not be likely to for
get. Incidentally they would
think seriously before breaking
the regulation laws again, be
cause they would give them more
serious consideration from prac.
tical contact. j. w. Z.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29

"Will you kindly answer me
the following questions? Mr..
II. G. Wells in his Outlines OF
History states that there was
a time when the day was not a
half or a third of what it is
today. / was under the i'm
preston that our day was al
ways of the same length since
millions of years. Also why
was the moon nearer to us ana
had a changing face?--A. Died
rick. Palisade. n. j..
I'm the beginning of his "Out.
lines of History" Mr.. Wells
has included much that is
not history. Some of this is
pre.history," i. e., 1t relates 10
hat is supposed or inferred
with more or less likelihood, 10
have been or to have happened
before recorded history began,
and some is interesting specula-
tion based on facts, calculations
and suggestions more or less
probable on scientific grounds.
Mr. Wells draws his statements
ahout the moon from the theory
of "tiflal evolution" due to the
mathematician and physicist,
George Darwin, son OF that
Charles Darwin who is world
famous for his great theory OF
evolution in the plant and amman
kingdoms.
Mr., Darwin's theory is an ex-
tremelv interesting one, but 1t
has not been accepted by the
scientific world as final or con-
elusive. In substance, it repre-
sents the moon as having peen
originally a part of the earth.
when, an unknown NUMBER OF
millions of years ago, the earth
was a molten or plastic mass.
revolving on its axis six or elght
times as rapidly as 1t now does
and so strained by the tidal &C.
t,on of the suns attraction and
the results of its own internal
stresses and vibrations that a
large mass was detached from 1t
which eventually became the
moon. At the time when this
sunposed rupture occurred. ac-
cordinr to Mr.. Darwins calcula-
tions. the earth must have been
rotating in a period not more
than three or four hours in
length.
Short Primeval "Day."
That. then. would have been the
length of the day on the earth at
the time of the violent birth of the
moon from its over-strained frame
Rut there was no history" then be.
cause there were not yet even the
first beginnings of life on the globe.
Still. II we assumed Mr.. Darwin's
theory to be based on fact, we
should have to admit that this short
nrimeval ''day' was an early form
Of our own day, since, like It, it
was based on the earth's rotation.
The theory went on to picture
the moon itself after being sepa.
rated from the earth as raising Icy
its attraction great tidal waves in
the plastic body of its parent planet
while having its own shape lis
torted by similar and still greater
waves raised by the earth's attrac.
ton. BY virtue of the interaction
OF these tides it was calculated
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON SPLIT
OF EARTH AND MOON
Day Was Much Shorter Than Now When Solar
Body Was Part of Our Globe.

that the moon must have gradually
retreated from the earth, following
a spiral way, while at the SAM
time it slowed up the earth's rota
ton and thus caused lengthenini:
of the day.
Slows Earth'S Rotation.
At last the moon reached .
condition in which its own rota
ton had been totally DESTROYED
by the tidal attraction Of the
earth, and from that time to the
present it has always presented
the same face toward US, its pc:
riod of revolution around the
earth having been reduced to
equality with its period OF revo'
luton around its own axis.
Mr.. Darwin's theory goes still
further by assuming that the
moon continues, by virtue OF the
tides that it raises in our oceans,
to slow down the earth's rotation
or. which is the same thing IN
effect, to lengthen the day. But
If this effect exists. as it probably
does, it Is extremely slight, and II
may be counterbalanced by other
opposite effects. SO that it Is rot
certain that the length OF the
day is changing in any definite
or measurable way. IL 1t Is, the
result can only become evident
after a very long interval OF time
Such things are scientific specu
lation, but not established sci
ence. It requires Ct psiderable eX
perience sometimes TO enable one
to recognize them for what they
are. Their true character Is OK
casionally concealed behind
mathematical smoke cloud which
seems to blind even its inventor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-29
ONCE-OVERS

Whom Won see man who is good to his mother you may
trust him.
man who is not good to his mother may not be good
to his wife,
IF man has not learned to be thoughtful in youth be
is not going be thoughtful when he gets to be older
Many disappointed might have saved herself the
humiliation Of being neglected as wife she had lnvest
gated the attitude OF the young toward his mothe,
Many girl has been fooled by young man who brags
about his goodness to his mother
But if you find that the young has to be called
every morning while his mother waits breakfast, be little
doubtful about his actual goodness to his mother.
You be good your mother twelve
wears of age and permit her make the fire. hustle the
coal wait for you meals and get TO mill and to meeting
alone far you concerned
If you think of how old fashioned she looks rather than
Of how good YOU you are Gndutful and ungrasfu