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Evening star., 1924-04-20
JR- o. q. A. M.

Anacostia Council, No. 1e, met Mon
day evening, with Councillor J. c. Cop
page presiding. A report of the
board of trustees was given. There
will be a class initiation May 5. The
following made short speeches: F. c.
Prather, r. A. Estep. J. E. Frye. w.
J. Mitchell, J. G. McCauley, Clark
Teets, n E. Kemper, E. r. Thomas,
p H Martin
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Wednesday evening Eureka Royal
Arch Chapter will pay a. fratcrnal
iSit to Washington Naval Royal Arch
Chs pter. No. 6. meeting first at Naval
Lodge Isall. at 4th and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Chapter. No. ;. will give it's fifth and
last informal dance OF the season
Wednesday at thn Navy Sail Loft,
with music by the Navy Band Or
cheStra.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter
will have two teams for the Royal
Arch degree Tuesday evening, when
the work will he divided between the
chapter officers and a degree team
from the High Priests Association.
High Priest Ballard announces that
here will be entertainment and re-
trcshments as well
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Hiram Lodge Instruction Club will
meet tomorrow evening in kidder
Hal. So 2oth street northwest.
Evening star., 1924-04-20
Reviews of New Books

DARKER PHASES OF THE SOUTH.
BY Frank Tannenbaum, author OF
wall Shadows" etc. New York:
G. p. Putnam's Sons
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Hiram Lodge. No. 10. will have it's
City Club Monday evening, April cs.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, will cele-
hrate the fifty-ffth anniversary Of
receiving its charter with an enter
tainrnert and dance Friday evening,
May ., at the City Club.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

The Cabletow Masonic Club, includ-
Ing Past Master Schooley. will have
charge OF the degree in National
Lodge Wednesday evening.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

AT the meeting Of Cathedral Chap
ter next Wedne sday Worthy Matron
Eva L. Horn has announced the de-
grees will be conferred. At the first
meeting in May the star points will
have charge Of the entertainment.
which will be in the form of circus.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Eight big nights are promised by
.hfynas Temple when the first annual
Fashion show and exposition under it's
auspices open at Convention Hall on
May 2 Tho fashion show viii not
~nfy-be-3 U07SzMss3ufs~2>2&aN1 n
Evening star., 1924-04-20

About forty of the Washington
delegates to the New York conYen-
ton of the National League OF Ma
sonic Clubs met in the Gavet Club
rooms Tuesday evening to make ar
-angements for the trip. Gen. Amos
]. Fries was elected chairman of the
delegation.
" Another meeting will be held Thurs
day evening. May ], at which all
delegates and alternates are expected
to be present. Many matters of in
terest to Washington Masonry will
be discussed.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

pany.
The story of "Kit" Newell all
dressed mp and no place to go. Or, the
same thing. loads of money without
the ghost Of a notion of what to do
| with it So, the story follows the
young man from nursery days on till
just "Kit'' becomes kit and Mary
with no end Of adventure accompany
ing this big change. Change of place,
from one beckoning point to another
one state to another, each shift max
ing progress really. no matter what
its outer seeming might be. A serious
fellow at heart despite some rather
hectic signs to the contrary, Kit Ne
we'll finally comes out on the very
safe ground that looking out for
other people most OF the time, instead
OF looking out for himself all the time,
is the best kind OF job that a man can
have. and the best bargain with hap
points of adventure mark the course
of this really plausible and interest
ing story.
HERE COMES THE SUN: By EN-
iiie Loring, author of THE Trail of
Conflict" illustrations by Paul
Gill. Philadelphia: The Penn
Publishing Company. so
The new day with a vengeance.
when a young woman in a chivaIry
that used to be ascribed to the male
of the species marries a young man
out of hand in order to protect him
from oyerhanging harm. Yesterday
she did not even know him. Today
she takes him for better, for worse.
When he is out of his trouble she Is
going her own way, "a way set long
before this appeal to her chivalrous
soul. You know what did happen.
Why, they fell in love. just as folks
used to do. When the time came to
mart nothing in the wide world could
have pried that girl loose from the
situation. Very bright and gay and
readable-Quits In the vein Of the
eneae daH Anr~ an -Enmens .Ane>.;a.a& a&cHi
Evening star., 1924-04-20

The last ceremonial of Almas Tenn
pie until fall will be held at the
President Theater Monday, May 1s.
A number of Masonic dignitartes and
men prominent in official life have
been invited, and the occasion prom
ises to be one of a high standard.
Evening star., 1924-04-20

Anacostia Lodge. No. 81, has made
Unusual preparations for social eve
ming tomorrow night, with a large
corps of women to assist in the enter
tainuent il has provided. The master
las gone so far even as TO send au-
tomohiles to bring infir1n members
TO the lodge and to take them home
again. The past masters also will
be in the limeIight OF the evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Russian Journalist pies.

MOSCOW, July 25.-Brazul Brush
kowsky, Russian journalist died here
today. Mr.. Brushkowsky was we'll
known in 1912, during the period Of
the Bells trial in Kiev. He was at
that time employed as reporter on
the influential Russian paper, "Kiev-
skaya Mysl," and upon the arrest of
Bells, whom he believed innocent, he
initiated an investigation to find the
real murderer, which he succeeded
in doing
He uncovered evidence, which
proved conclusively that Ushchinsky,
the murdered boy, had been killed in
the house of Vera Cheberak, the own.
err of a house of doubtful reputation.
For his zola-like action. Brushkow.
sky was for long time the object
of attacks and persecution from the
Russian Black Hundreds, and even
served year in Jail on trumped-
up charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
ECONOMIC CRISIS
GRIPS GERMANY;
FACTORIES CLOSE
Unemployment Rising
to Record Levels
BIZ LOUIS P. LocHNER

Federated Press staff Correspondent
BERLIN, July 27.-Germany is in
the throes of an economic crisis
From every industrial district, prac-
tically, reports reach the capital that
production has almost stopped, that
the workers are thrown on the streets,
that bankruptcies are on the increase.
In Saxony the textile industry is
hard hit. Most factories find only
part-time employment for their work
ers. There is a lack of orders. Or
ders from abroad are often cancelled
because of rumors that economic con-
ditions in Germany are such that it
isn't safe to place orders here. The
machinery industry of Saxony also
is almost at standstill. One of the
largest firms in Chemnitz, employing
5000 men, is planning on shutting
down completely.
Bankruptcies In Thurlngla.
In Thuringia, especially~-in those
sections where the wooden weaving
industry is at home, twenty-eight
firms have recently gone into the
hands of a receiver, with the likely
prospect of more to follow.
In the Ruhr valley industry is shot
to pieces as a result Of the occupation,
the passive resistance, the troubles
between capital and labor that it is a
mere shadow of it's former self. The
wonder to the outside observer is that
the working class population has re-
mained as quiet as 1t does.
On the water front one reason why
the employers held out so long
against the dock and ship building
workers was the fact that there wasn't
much work anyway, and that it was
just as cheap to lock out the men as
4 1t would have been to keep them en-
Hployed at the wages they demanded
Jpn the few contracts for building in
their hands. In other words, their
hprofits on existing contracts, had they
kept the men at work, would not
Hhave been as large as their savings
jpn salaries and wages by simply lock-
ling the men out.
Two Solutions
1t is obvious that conditions Of this
kind make the position of the work
Frs particularly difficult. There are
10 many people unemployed that the
owners always think they can get
cabs to take the places Of the or
kanized workers.
The socialist solution is: accept the
Dawes report, and there will be work
Ind capital. The Communist solution
;: reject the Dawes report and SUBJ
titute for it the specialization of in
iustry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Remember Class-War
Victims Birthdays
Coming Thru August

Birthdays in August of Political
Prisoners still confined in prisons in
the United States, are announced by
the Workers National Prison Comfort
Club, 1929 Chestnut St. Milwaukee.
Wis, as follows:
At Represa, California, Folsom
Prison: August 20, X. C. Duke.
At San Quentin, California (San
Quentin PRISON. Aug. 10, J. c. Rob-
Inson, reg. No. 1922. Aug. II, Roy
House, No. 1885.
At Road Camp "A"-Requa, Cali
fornia: Aug. 5, Edw. r. Peters.
At Walla Walla, Washington, Box
$40; Aug. IS, James MeInery, No.
Ie41o. Aug. rs, John Lamb, mo. s4t2.
Cora Meyer, National Secretary, in
vites friends and sympathizers to send
birthday cards and letters (money is
advisable for gifts) to these political
prisoners. Books and publications to
Ne sent directly from the publishers
A political prisoner writes: Lit
tle,--Ah, yes, does the average person
on the outside looking in realize how
much Joy and cheer is brought to a
person on the inside looking out thru
greetings and words of comfort The
shower for my birthday planned and
engineered by the club was a tremen-
dous success, bringing with It a
couple of dollars coming in right
handy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
AMERICAN OIL
DIPLO MACY IN
PERSIA SHOWN
officials "Conhdential"
Letter Gives Intrigue
(Ry Federated Pressl

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Killing Of
Consul Imbrie by a Persian mob, ap-
parently assisted by Persian police,
recalls the fact that Teheran, the Per
sian capital. has been one of the cen
ters Of oil diplomacy as practiced by
the state department under the
Hughes regime. Here is a personal
and confidential" letter from c. Van
H. Engert, American charge d'affaires,
at Teheran, to Moshir-ed- Dowleh,
president of the council of ministers,
dated Fed. %, 1922. on a bid which
Harry Sinclair afterwards blocked:
Dear Highness; Referring to our
conversation of this morning, am
very glad to summarize herewith
briefly the contents of the telegram
from the state department in Wash
ington =. My government begins
by stating that the Persian minister
in Washington would telegraph to the
imperial government the literal French
text of the proposed concession which
appears to have been agreed upon by
him, the Standard Oil Company, the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and Mr..
Shutter. In addition to the pro-
posed concession. an agreement APP
pears to have been signed between the
Standard Oil Company and the Anglo
Persian Oil Company providing for
their joint participation in the new
Perso-American Petroleum Company,
but stating specifically that the Stand
ard Oil Company is to have the voting
control of the board of directors and
is to have the management Of the
company. =.
I'm this connection my government
authorizes me to state informally i. .
that while the department of state has
not participated in the actual negotia-
ions concerning this concession It has
been kept informed of their progress
The American government desires
the maintenance Of the Open Door in
Persia for American nationals, and to
this end it approves cooperation IN
Persia between American and British
interests. This arrangement rem
ders possible without delay the begin
ming of prospecting and development
in the provinces Of north Persia on a
practicable basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

anti-red campaign. Among
these organizations are the
Young Mems ChristianAssocia-
ton, the National Catholic
Welfare Council, the Women's
Christian Temperance Union,
the Hebrew Sheltering and
immigrant Aid Society, the Ma
tional League of Women
Voters, and the National Ed
Ication Association of the
United States.
Did Not Approve.
The legion's announcement named
So organizations which were alleged
to have endorsed it's program against
revolutionary and destructive radi-
calism." 1t is charged by the union
that the above-named organizations
either did not participate in the
Washington conference, or did not
endorse it's program, and that "the
whole affair gives an impression Of
strength which it does not possess"
The union challenges the American
Legion to make some statement in
regard to the character and back
ling" of its campaign against radicals
(which seems to have been so thor
oily misrepresented."
The Letter Reads In Full:
"The press on May 18th carried
accounts of the All-American confer
ence held at Washington under the
auspices of the Amerioanization Com
mission of the American Legion, NAM
ing sixty-two organizations which par
ticipated and which news dispatches
made to appear endorsed your pro-
gram against revolutionary and de-
structive radicalism.'
I'VE were concerned at once to
make inquiry as to how far the sixty
two organizations named really. par
ticipated in the conference and en-
dorsed the program, because we knew
that many of them were not commit
ted to such notions of intolerance and
suppression. We made inquiry of a
few organizations and received the
following replies:
"Mr. John L. Bernstein, president
of the Hebrew Sheltering and Immi-
grant Aid Society of America, writes:
al. l. A: s. did not participate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Fewer splndIss spInnlnu.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-only 90.
216,4S6 cotton spinning spindles in the
United States were in operation in
June. 1924, as compared with 1885,.
$40 for June, 1923, says the Depart.
ment OF Commerce. A decrease in the
number OF active spindles in the cot.
ton industry has been shown each
month since January. The June op.
Grafton was 64.6 per cent of capacity,
on single shift basis. figured on an
average activity OF STA hours per day.
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Send In that Subscription Today.
France and Turkey Scrap.

MOSCOW. July 27.-The friction
between Turkey and France is grow
ing worse. The Turkish Home Office
has sent an Official inquiry to the
Turkish authorities at Adam, asking
them whether the French authorities
have introduced the autonomy in An
tiochy and Alexandrette. On the
other hand, the population OF the Dor
der zone has again formed a large de.
tachment and the commander Of the
latter put forth the demand that the
French evacuate Antiochy within a
week.
Send In that SubscrintIon Todav.
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casion for going over the whole or
ganization, eliminating dead wood and
strengthening connections. AS had
happened before with the trade UNI
ions, the whole membership was auto
matically fred, and required to join
again If they wished, on voluntary
basis, paying in their share of the
capital. Within a month and half,
to the 18th Of February, 6,S13,OO0 per-
sons had rejoined.
The working capital Of the Centric
soyus is about twelve million dollars.
1t has as members 10000 societies.
1t exports about 40 per cent of all
furs, 30 per cent of fax and hemp, 35
per cent of all dairy produce, and a
considerable percentage of the grain
exported from Russia. 1t buys in re-
turn agricultural machinery. 1t also
lends it's credit to the textile trust to
buy raw cotton, receiving in return
cotton cloth for its members.
Credit In England.
England has now returned to the
Centrosoyus the London Branch of
it's former bank, with paid up CAPT
tai of a million dollars. In addition to
this, the Centrosoyus receives large
credits from English manufacturers
and customers. This history of the
growth of this credit shows how step
by step, Russia has shown her stabil-
ity as a purchaser. In the years after
the Revolution, Centrosoysus had to
pay cash for all its purchases; early
in 1913 the London banks began to
advance money against goods in Brit.
ish ports, then against goods IN neu.
trail ports, then against goods in Rus
sian ports; now credits are received
against goods as they are delivered in
railway stations throughout Russia
and Siberia, and even in the case OF
some contracts, advance payments
are given in part with the order, when
the butter and fax is still not yet
produced by the peasant.
Coop Bank Again.
During the last few months the
Selskosoyus, or agricultural producers
union, has also sent its representa-
tiyes abroad, where they sell the pro-
ducts of their million and half peas
ant members, and buy machinery for
them. In the past year the All Rus
sian Cooperative Bank has again
been established, with capital of five
million dollars and with So branches
thruout the country. The balance Of
its resources last February reached
thirty million dollars.
But figures. while they show the
success of cooperation externally do
not show how it is penetrating into
every activity OF the Russian worker
Favored by law, 1t is in an especially
strong position. And all the propa.
ganda OF Communists and workers or
CARNATIONS also favor it. AS one goes
through the streets OF Moscow, almost
without exception the larger, cleaner,
more prosperous stores are either
state-owned or co-operatives, aiming
on the economic field, to win the vic
tory against capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
SOCIALISTS USE
QUEER LOGIC TO
MAKE CAMP AIGN
"Huge Mass Meeting;"
500 Gather In N. Y.
Especial to The Daily Worker


NEW YORK, July 27.-The National
campaign on the part of the Socialists
to help sweep LaFollette into the
White House was started at a mons
ter" mass meeting held in the Rand
School, Tuesday evening, July 22nd.
Between 400 and 500 people took the
trouble to listen to their message.
Considering that Victor Berger, Nor
ris Hillquit and others were to speak,
this was indeed great Socialist
demonstration.
1t would be we'll at this moment to
mention that all the capitalist papers
were generous in their publicity to
this meeting. 1t seems that LaFol-
lette has become fad to- the Times"
World" and the Hearst papers here.
Editorials can be found in one or
more Of these papers daily besides
two or three columns of reading mat
ter. "The New Leader" the Jewish
Forward" etc, could not get the
crowd.
Trying the wrong Way.
Algernon Lee, as Chairman, was
khappy at the immense crowd that al.
most packed the orchestra. He could
not conceal his elation and said,
This is one of the largest crowds
we have had for long time and on
such a hot night too" The writer ar
rived at 8:45 and expected to be stop
ped at the outside unable to crowd
thru the large following that the So
eialist Party has. But to his amaze
ment there was room for more Com
munists.
John Collins then told the audience
that he had been in the movement for
80 years and this was the first time
that the S. P. had chance to join
with the unions, farmers organiza-
tions, ETC., in a presidential cam
paign. Maurer touched on the opposi-
ton tendencies in the S. P. itself and
became excited as he claimed that he
was also a revolutionist but since
Dietzgen said, THAT the workers on
trying a new thing always try it the
wrong way" he was willing to try
this thing fol the first time. At this
point the deadly silence was broken
with laughter when Maurer added he
hopes that this wrong method will be
right.
What Kind Of Logief
This was type of logic that the
writer could not comprehend, but il
must have been very clear to all the
socialists present.
1t is significant that not single
| speaker mentioned the fact that after
election a Labor Party would be
formed. The furthest that Maurer
got was to say that after election, II a
large vote will be cast, for LaFollette
then they will all continue to stick to-
gether.
If any comrades really desired in
spiration they should have attended
this meeting. This would have been
the greatest tonic for all weakened
Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
AMERICAN LEGION MISREPRESENTS
"BACKERS" FOR ITS ANTI-RADICAL
DRIVE CHARGES CIVIL LIBERTIES
Especial to The Daily worksr)

NEW YORK, July 27.-That the radcalism by
the American Legion and other organizations
Misrepresentation their backing ignorance
facts charged yesterday by the Liberties
Union in letter the officers Legion Washington and
Indianapolis The Unions letter given
out at Washington by Garland W. Powell National Director
the American Legion in which he announced nationwide
drive reds result of the AAmercan Conference held
here in May.
The letter quotes number of leading national organizations
which repudate the Legon statement that they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28

in the conference nor was it rep
resented
Women Voters Deny.
1.-THE National League of Women
Voters, thru Miss Marguerite Owen
replied:
No representative of the League
of Women Voters voted for the
aims and the resolutions which
were the result Of the conference
3 In response to a letter Of
invitation, Miss Sherwin replied
that she would attend such sessions
as she was able No repre-
sentative of the league was present
on the first day when the delegates
were listed. Miss Sherwin did sit
in the audience for an hour the Sec
ond day, without, however, register
ing her name or her organization
as present.
The league is not committed in
any way to the sentiments which
have been quoted as the combined
ones of all the organizations attend
ing We are in no way
committed to carrying out the. pol
icy which the press reported from
the Americanization Commission.
Father John A. Ryan of the Ma
tional Catholic Welfare Council
writes
The National Catholic Welfare
Council sent a delegate, Mr.. McMa-
hon, to this Americanization meet.
ing as It has sent other delegates
to other meetings on this subject.
Father MCGOWAN was not the ac-
credited delegate, but attended one
or two sessions at the request of
Mr.. Mcmahon and for his own edi-
fication. He protested that the an
ti-radical resolutions were vague
and misleading and refused to vote
for them. He was assured by the
chairman that the votes Of the dele
gates did not bind their respective
organizations.
I'm the absence of John R. Mot
from the city, MIR. B. R. Barber re
piled for the International Committee
of Young Mems Christian Association
as follows:
Y. M. C. A. and N. (. A. Deny.
AT the conference which you
mention there was present a man
who used to be secretary of the
Y. M. G. A. who retired last year
and IS no longer a secretary. He
was in no sense an official repre-
sentative of the International COM
mittee or Of the Y. NJ. G. A., and so
far as we know did not presume to
be, because the question of rep
resentation at this conference was
ALL
"Mr. ]. W. Crabtree, secretary OF
the National Education Association OF
the United States, replied:
The action Of that conference
was not the action of the National
Education Association of the Unit.
ed States. Two representatives of
the Association were present but
without authority to bind the asso.
citation by their votes
with one exception these are ali
the organizations to whom we wrote
Their replies make it clear that they
do not endorse the program, that the
news dispatches as to their partici
patton to that effect were misleading
and that the whole affair gives an i'm
preston Of strength which 1t does moi
possess. We are glad to note that
this is so, because we regard such
movements as violative of the rights
OF freedom Of opinion and discussion
on which any democracy must rest.
I'VE suggest that you owe It to the
public to make some statement in
regard to the character and backing
of this movement, which seems "a
have been so thoroly misrepresented
in the statements given out at Wash
ington."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
Broom Sale Blot.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, July IA
bargain counter rush at a one cent
broom sale developed into a near riot
here today, resulting in the injury Of
nearly score Of women. IL OF whom
were taken to the hospital The in-
juries occurred when the crush be-
came so great, the storm window col
lapsed, showering glass over the pros
pective purchasers.