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New Britain herald., 1925-07-01
SANDERS HELD FOR
 HIGH COURT TRIAL
Driver Bound Over on Criminal
 Negligence Charge
TRUCK KILLED MARTIN BOY
Counsel for Defense Argues For Dis charge and Puts on No Witnesses -Grccnstcin Declares Auto Had No Right in School Yard.

Finding probable cause on a charge of criminal negligence against Benjamin Sanders. IS. of 55l Main street, in police court this morning. Judge Benjamin W. filling bound the youth over to the September ses- sion Of supreme court under bonds of $1,500. Sanders, operating a truck without a license, struck and killed five year old Isadore Martin of Elm street in the Nathan Hale schoolyard on the morning of June 12. After Assistant Prosecutor William NJ Greenstein had rested the states | case. Attorney r. r. MCDonough, of counsel for Sanders, made a motion 10 the court for a discharge, claim ] ing that the state had failed to show that there was any Wilfui negligence | on the part of Sanders in the oper- ation Of the machine. The court de. nlel the motion and after comforting with Attorney Alfred Levitt, Nc | DOnough announced that the defens, would not nlace any witnesses on thu stand.
 Arguing against the motion, As 1 sistant Prosecutor William NJ. Green stein claimed that the gross negli genCc in the case was contained il the facts that Sanders was operating he truck without q license and hat driven into the schoolyard where h.
 had no right to go.
 shouted to Little Boys.
 John Matodzinski of 1S3 Pleasan street, letter carrier who was dc i 'vering mail near the scene of th
 tragedy, told the court that he say
 the little Martin boy, with a com
 panion, walking along the sidewal
 on their way home from school. Jus as they arrived at the drive leadin into the schoolyard, Sapaors heade the truck in and sho' ted to the tw | little tots 10 get out of the way. Sec ing the truck coming towards then
 schoolyard and the truck follow Q
 after them.
 Truck Passes Over Victims Chun
 Matodznskl said that he saw tn
 truck hit the Martin boys compar ion and pass over him, but he di not see the Martin boy get struck. /, appeared that the companion fe
 under the truck between the wheel and the vehicle passed over hil without injuring him. for he jumpe 10 his feet and ran home. The lei , rear wheel of the truck passed owe
 the Martin boys head and killed hi1 , instantly.
 , The truck Sanders was driyin l carried q lead Of gravel roofing ma t,riaI and was owned by Alex Bes | Soff. Sanders had no operators l $ c"nSe, Motorcycle Policeman Willial
 <, Strols and patrolman Micha,
 Massey told the court of their invc. 1 iiSutions after the police were not tod of the fatality,
New Britain herald., 1925-07-01
FIGHTS TO TAKE OWN LIFE
@t Year Old New Yorker Succeeds in Jumping to Death From VII. liamshurg Bridge.

New York, July LP-Fighting off se' 'eraI persons who tried to hold him, Harry Hazon, 21 years old, committed suicide today by jumping from the Williamsburg bridge to the East river, l15 feet below, He died soon after being removed from the water and taken 10 q hospital.
 Several persons passing by saw Hazon climb over the bridge rail- ing and grappled with him, but he fought free and jumped.
New Britain herald., 1925-07-01
TO CALL ON PRESIDENT

Boston, July 1 Rl-Governor AL van T. Fuller or Massachusetts will go to Swampscott this afternoon to call on President Coolidge at White Court. Governor Fuller planned 10 visit the president at 1 o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1925-07-01
RECEIVED BY POPE

Rome. July tP- Beniamino Giyn. tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, was received by the Pope in private audience today. | Gigli also visited Premier Mussolini,
New Britain herald., 1925-07-01

tcontInusd on Pags Flitesnl
New Britain herald., 1925-07-01

Average Daily Circulation For Suse %ssA s7tS Finding '4 12,054
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
PICKETER FINED
ILLEGALLY BY
CAPITAL JUDGE
Federal Laws Brushed
Aside in Store Case
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

WASHINGTON, Sept 17.-FP)-
Dorothy Ferguson was found guilty
and fined $40 for peaceful picketing
of the Young Mems Shop. on F. ST..
Washington, byN Police Magistrate Gus
Schuldt, on Sept IA. She was arrest
ed April last ON "a warrant charging
her with violation of police regula-
ton in the District 81 Columbia dated
1906, which forbids al persons from
remaining in front Of, on entering, any
retail store FOR the purpose Of enti-
cling away or in any manner interior
ing with any person or persons who
may be in front or who may have
entered therein for the purpose OF
buying"
The defense was based on her right,
under the Clayton act, to picket the
premises Mrs. Ferguson told people
passing by: This is a non-union store
and is unfair to organized labor"
Judge Schuldt, in his opinion, said,
THE regulation was not passed for
the purpose of preventing picketing
but to save the merchants and pros
pective buyers from annoyance and
to preserve the peace Of the COM
munity." The Clayton act was pass
ed by congress in October, 1914.
However, Judge Schuldt held that
IF picketing in the guise OF intimi-
dation, interference and enticement of
prospective purchasers is pursued the
court cannot perceive why the offend
err should not come within the pur-
view of the\ (police) regulation. be-
cause to hold that it only applied to
merchants attempting to incite and
interfere with the customers Of others
would place It in the category of class
legislation"
Appeal will be taken on the issue
as to whether federal lava that sane
ton picketing have any force what
ever.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

cents. Thank you! will see you
when the revolution is over"
ScarViIIe Good Propangandist.
This merely illustrates what can
and should be done. When our htera-
ture begins to accumulate on our
headquarters shelves, and is becom-
ing out of date due to a failure to
move, we should get busy and move
it. Our movement needs the money;
the masses need the reading. We
should practice craftsmanship. We all
acknowledge the workers must free
themselves. And we know they must
do more than talk. They must use
the art of printing. They must buy
the printed word We who lead must
sell the printed word. To buy, to sell,
to read, to act BY this constant &C.
tivity over and over and over again
we eventually reach the masses.
At Pittsburgh, Comrade Scarville,
a Negro comrade, is the outstanding
propaganda. Comrade Roberts,
one of our original party from Frisco,
is hiking back to the Pacific coast
and should arrive within three weeks,
Comrade Polk, expelled from the bar
bers' union in Chicago, for militant ac-
tivity in the interest of the rank
and file, is accompanying us as far
as New York. Ben Deitsch, an auto
mechanic, comrade Of Pittsburgh, has
greatly assisted us when in trouble
with our auto. Numerous other com.
rades and sympathizers respond
splendidly in times of necessity, real
izing as they must, that our methods
contribute to solution of our prob
lens in reaching the masses. 1t is
hoped to spend some time among
farmers. This may form the basis of
another sketch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
Lehigh Valley |. L. D.
Conference Plans
Future Activities
BY A. HOFFMAN.
Especial to The Daily Worker

especial to he Daily Worker)
so. BETHLEHEM, Pa, Sept. IL
The Lehigh Valley Section l. L. D.
conference with representatives from
various organizations was organized
with expression of determination from
the delegates present to throw them
selves wholeheartedly into the work
ahead.
H. M. Wicks from Philadelphia,
made spirited speech after which
the resolutions on the following mat.
ters were introduced and unanimous
ly adopted. l. Crouch and Trumbull
case. 2. The Zeigler miners case
3. Lanzutsky and the Polish white ter
ror. T. Recent Bessarabian slaugh
ter and Imprisonment of 500 work
ers. 5. Endorsement of National
Convention of l. L. ID. held June 2S, in
Chicago A section committee was
then elected for future activities with
a subcommittee divided into three
city territorial groups, Allentown,
Bethlehem and Easton.
Due to a fierce rain storm, the mass
meeting attendance was somewhat
impaired but what it lacked in num-
bers it certainly made up in en-
tnusiasm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

A number of fraternal organizations
pledged monthly contributions to the
council.
The following resolution was
passed.
Resolved, This International Labor
Defense Council of Milwaukee COM
posed of delegates from working
class organizations recognizes the
necessity for unity of effort in de-
Tense of class war prisoners, men and
women prosecuted by the capitalist
class for their activities in the labor
and revolutionary movement and sub
scribes to the program of the Inter.
national Labor Defense Council.
This conference constitutes itself a
unit Of the International Labor De-
tense Council and pledges itself to
carry out Loyalty all the tasks that
fall to it in connection with the de-
tense of all workers prosecuted be.
cause of their loyalty and activity for
the working class and in connection
with the maintenance Of their fam
lilies.
The Milwaukee council will meet
once a month and the executive COM
mittee will also hold one meeting
every month.
The International Labor Defense
mass meeting was held in the even
ing of the same day with William
F. Dunno as the principle speaker. A
collection of 1920 was taken up
The delegates attending the confer
ence and mass meeting were from
the following organizations:
List Of Delegates.
Creation Fraternal Sick and Bene-
VIOLENT Organization. / National Gro
alton Society Branch No. 291, 3; Lith-
uanian R. L. w. L. G. Branch No. 6,
1; Cigarmakers No. rs of Milwaukee,
2; So Slovak Branch No. 81, w. p,
2; So. Slovak Branch No. So, w. p,
1; Creation Benefit Society, Sokol No.
rs, 1; German Society, G. u Ger
mania, 2; Young Workers League, 1;
Jewish Branch w. P, L. English
Branch w. p, l; Czecho-Slovak W. p,
1; Finnish Branch w. p, 1; Ukrain-
ian Branch w. p, /: Russian Branch
W. p, 1; Bulgarian Branch w. P, /;
Slovenian Branch w. p, 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
Carpenters OF
DETROIT NAIL
CAR TO Bench
YellOuU Dog Pledge Is
Sent to Discard
especial to The Daily wOrksr)

DETROIT, MIeh., Sept. 17.-Hutehe-
BON and his Detroit Iieksplttles re-
celved another body blow from the
Detroit carpenters Sept. II when Loo.
a20 voted down a motion to exclude
from the meetings all those who had
refused to sign Hutoheson's yellow
dog pledge.
John Potts, who leads the state
eossacks against the rank and file In
Detroit called the puppet officers Of
Locals 10 and 400 together and told
them they must drive all those who
cherished their manhood from the
two locals. As result, the motion
was made on the floor of 400 to drive
out the dissenters from the pledge
After a long and hot debate, the ques-
ton was put and Hutcheson scored
exactly votes, and the yellow bellied
crew who supported his move left the
hall hurriedly and discredited.
IN starting his expulsion drive In
Detroit, Hutcheson got hold of the
bot end of poker and it seems he
must burn his soft hands many times
before his dumb brain registers need
for change of policy.
The intellectual vacuums who have
set out to rid the unions of the red
elements to the end Of making them
their docile private preserves may
we'll keep their weather eye on Detroit
to learn what is not good tactics in
red batting.
Local 420 of the carpenters signed
the pledge to about rs per cent, and
now the 70 per cent finds that it can
only respect the % per cent who
refused to sign. They are fighting for
the fighters almost to a man; in fact,
exactly to man, for defense of this
yellow pledge marks the deadline of
manhood and those who waver now
are marked for contempt and shame.
40 has spoken, and In its action,
500 more carpenters say in unison,
~Hutckeson, you have gone too far. I"
Nero fiddled while Rome burned,
and It remains to be seen If Hutche-
son will continue to twiddle his
thumbs in vain arrogance while the
edihce of unity builded by the car
penters crumbles beneath hand more
skilled at using box makers ham
mer.
AS has been stated somewhere,
"The results of the plumbers of tyrants
a.
stupidity will leave a heritage of
militants who will build the future
glory Of the Brotherhood.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
IMPERIALISTS PLOT
COUNTER REVOLUTION
IN SOUTHERN CHINA

SHANGHAI, China, Sept. H.
Persistent rumors say that a reae-
tionary Chinese general, Chen Cru
ing Ming, who once supported the
Canton government, has left here
for Hongkono with view to obtain
ing material and money from the
British and to form an army 70 at
tack the Canton national revolution
airy government.
It is known that the policy Of the
imperlalIst powers is to extend a
bait Of eoncesslons--or the appear
ance Of concessions--to the PekIn
government, In order to get its
military power to smash the Can
ton center Of nationalist revolution
and opposition to lmperlallst DOM
nation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

lated during the years of the war and
preceding the war, have now been dis
carded
France, threatening and threatened
by Great Britain in the Medlterran-
can. which connects her up with the
French colonies. is here threatened
also by Italy and Spain who in 1928.
concluded naval agreement direct
ed against France aiming at protect
ing the freedom Of the Mediterran-
can" The French imperialists are
not tagging behind the continued ma.
val ornaments OF their rivals. In this
connection we have the absolutely
categorical statement OF Dumergue
himself lin his Cherbourg speech in
1926 where he said: THE desire
for peace has induced France to con-
serve its naval strength in a condi-
ton corresponding to the world posi-
ton OF the republic and the neces.
sity for safeguarding the tremend.
Gus coast line and the colonial de-
Tendencies" In addition TO battle
ships, 6 cruisers, So torpedo boats and
As submarines, France has fixed a
ship building program for s cruisers
at 10000 tons each, 3 cruisers at T.
$50 tons. 81 destroyers at 2.326 tons
and SO torpedo boats at 1,430 tons and
also SO submarines. Such are the ire
mendous increases OF the French fleet
in that very Mediterranean which ].
r. Horrabin correctly described as
".... the British roadway leading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

The economic ruin in Europe after
ehe war and the desire on the part
Of the various admiralties to take
stock of their war experience before
undertaking the construction of new
ornaments has, during the first years
FOLLOWING the war caused certain
stcppage in the work OF naval ship
yatds. Only America and Japan
(which hardly suffered at all from the
war; commenced TO carry out their
colossal ship building program, vying
with each other for the first place in
the Pacific Ocean naval forces.
In 1921. the Washington congress
took a decision to bring the American
feet UP TO strength equal to that
OF the strongest fleet in the world,
1. e. the British fleet. Great Britain
IN reply published its new program
which included the construction Of
four new super-dreadnaughts The
Japanese government drew up the
famous program known as the 1913"
according to which the fleet should
include s first line battleships and s
super-dreadnoughts not more than s
years old.
This tremendous program was to
have given Japan almost the second
place among the fleets OF the world
The Japanese cruiser "Takao" ap-
peared as on unprecedented giant Of
$4,000 tons with speed OF "a knots
and fitted with eight 17-inch guns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
Naval Armaments After the World War

Such is an example of the naval con-
struction activities that began to take
place almost directly after the peace
full declarations OF Versailles.
The Washington Conference.
In 1921, America considering the
correlation of forces of the different
powers at that time to be very adj
vantageous for her, convened the
Washington conference in order to
FIX naval ornaments at definite and
stable dimensions" Great Britain,
the U. S. A., France, Japan and Italy
sent their representatives to this
conference. At the opening Of the
conference President Harding deliver
ed remarkable speech in which he
declared that "Our conference bears
witness to the awakened conscience
Of the civilization of the twentieth
century. The wearied' world is thirst
ing for new relations, and humanity
demands a stable peace"
The Sleepy Conscience.
The results OF the work OF this
awakened conscience" at the Wash
ington conference were that It was
decided that Great Britain and the
United States might possess $4,000
tons in large battleships. Japan 315.-
900 tons, and France and Italy 49,
900 tons. With regard to cruisers,
torpedo boats and submarines. here
the awakened conscience" already
placed no limit to the total sum per-
mittsd Tor displncements, altho the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19
Menace in FInasrprInt system

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-(FP)-John
Nicholas Beffel. co-author Of a book
showing that fngerprints can be for
ged, condemns the proposal of the
national crime commission to have all
immigrants fngerprinted in an. open
letter to Mark o. Prentiss, organizer
of the commission. The plan, points
Beffel might lead to the framing up
of immigrants because fngerprint
identifcations are not infallible. OF
the two men executed In this country
solely on fingerprints evidence. says
Beffel. there is reason to believe that
one George Brandon, electrocuted in
New Jersey in 1921 was guiltless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

pletely dependent upon sea communal
catlon+ declares quite openly as TO
the necessity for occupying "a CORE
spending position on the Mediterran-
can paths essential to her" Possess
ing already s battleships, s cruisers,
81 torpedo boat destroyers, and Al
submarines, she is putting thru a new
construction program for 1923-2S dur
ing which period the government
should construct s cruisers of 10000
tons each, 20 large destroyers and 20
large submarines. Spain which has
friendly naval relations with Italy and
which already possesses battleships.
3 cruisers, 3 light cruisers, 10 torpedo
boats and 10 submarines is building
more cruisers, 3 destroyers and
submarines.
We will not trouble to consider the
naval ornaments of the minor states
since the picture becomes quite clear
without this. Naval armament after
Versailles is being carried out at just
the same rate as it was during the
preparation for the 1914 war.
-
NoTE:-The tasks prescribed for
the recent maneuvers Of the Italian
feet are characteristic: group Of
transports from the U. S. S. r. carry
ing Russian wheat and oil proceeding
from the Black Sea to Italy has to be
met by the fighting squadron which
endeavors 70 escort them safely under
the threats Of the hostile French neet
-. y. : Y. = q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

from the west to the east crossing,
in the Mediterranean Sea, the French
road from North to South. And where
their roads cross. their interests
cross, especially when the only police
man standing at the cross roads is
the doll called the League OF Ma
lions"
Wall Streets Bulldogs.
The U. S. A. no longer construct.
ing its pre-Washington giants has
now at it's disposition is battleships
(of which we're launched in 1920-21,
armed with 16-inch guns) 81 cruisers,
267 torpedo boats destroyers and Sc
submarines (of which 10 cruisers. 249
torpedo boats and 56 submarines have
been launched since the war;. Not
content with this. the government has
presented draft bill to congress for
the construction Of eight more 10000
tons cruisers.
Japan has at its disposition 10
battleships (of which two were
launched in 1920. with 16-inch
guns s cruisers. 81 light cruisers, 81
torpedo boats and the same number Of
submarines. She is continuing to in
crease the fleet, by adding new cruis-
ers and torpedo boats BY 1928, the
Japanese fleet should include 25 large
new cruisers as against 10 new cruis-
ers Launched since the war; Of the
u. S. A.
Italy, which economically considers
itself almost as an island state, com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

friends and discussing the workers
problems. The Negroes, especially,
were eager to learn. An ordinance in
Pittsburgh prevents the giving away
Of literature. We soon found it was
possible to sell our literature regard
less of date. It is all good to one who
has not read IT, OF course, we re-
duced the price.
How to Sell Literature.
Really, anyone who reads working
class reading matter should pay some
thing. No one begins to understand
until they begin to pay. They must
know there is a struggle and they
must contribute to a solution of this
struggle or they take no creditable
part in it, and for that very reason
cannot possibly begin to understand
it.
Our best salesman was a young
man not yet a party member. He is
an itinerant. chimney sweep and
steeple Jack, and natural propaganda
ist. We picked him up near Column
bus, Ohio, and soon he became con-
WINGED that we represented an organ
ization worth tying to. He at once
applied himself to selling our reading
matter and by the time we reached
Pittsburgh he had a definite formula
worked out which, with him, usually
got results. Here is the wording he
used as nearly as I could get it.:
Good morning. l am Mr.. John F.
Lehney 1--WE called him Lenin for
short) representing the Communist
International with headquarters in
Moscow, with which the Communist
Party of the United States is affiliat-
ed, and am making my way from
San Francisco to New York, advertis-
ing the DAILY WORKER and sell
ing Communist literature. This issue
of the Workers Monthly l have now
for sale will make you acquainted
with the conditions of the workers
all over the world, and the labor
struggles in the United States where
the Communist International is try
ing to bring all the workers into the
united front to make conditions bet
ter for the masses of labor turnout
the United States and the world to-
day. II you buy this issue of the
Workers Monthly, you will thank me
many times for enlightening you on
the labor question This issue is Is
A l. 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 16--John j.
Mcnamara. a leading figure in the
trial fourteen years ago in Los An.
geles, when he was accused of bomb
ing the Los Angeles Times building.
faced trial again here. He is under
indictment charged with threatening
strikebreaker engaged in the con-
struction of the Elks' Home in 1924
Mcnamara is business agent OF the
local Iron Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-19

commencement OF 1923. laid down the
keels OF new uper-dreadnought in
the shipyards OF Whit
worth and CANNED Laird-the Rod
ney" and Nelson with tonnage OF
$1,000 with 16-inch artillery % guns
each); in addition Great Britain has
begun the construction Of IL cruisers
and a number Of torpedo boats, air
craft carriers and submarines. AL
ready at the commencement OF 1925
she has the following warships ready;
Battleships-22 mot including two
under construction.
Cruisers--52 Tin addition to those
being constructed the new program,
July, 1925-provides for is additional
cruisers).
Aircraft carriers-eight.
Torpedo boats and destroyers-207.
Submarines-66 (beside those un.
der construction and included in a
new program).
Strapped the Junk.
II is necessary to remark that all
figures and data In these tables con-
Germ the most powerful and up-to.
date warships for, between November,
1918, up to 1928, the British have
sold for scrap IS battleships. so cruis.
ers, 375 torpedo boats, i01 submarines
and 24O other boats with a total dis.
placement OF 100000 tons. In this
absolutely free Of any out-of-date war
manner the present British fleet is
shipA AL those Which have accumu.