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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
CHARITY WAR ON Y
FOR SPOILS FROM
HOBO BUSINESS
Unite to Fight Their
Competitors

Anyone walking along lower West
Madison street these frosty days see
ing the parade of shivering, thinly
clad and hungry looking individuals
may be moved to tears of sympathy
for them or to revolt at system that
produces such results but certainly
never would guess that these down
and outs are the cause of bitter feud
between human yultures who feed on
them.
The fact is that they are the cause
for a terrific competition that has
sprung up between charitable organ
izations that prey on the misfortune
and wretchedness of the Madison
street hoboes of Chicago. The fight
has become SO severe between these
religious business men that they have
come to the "peeple" with their prob
lens.
Other wise guys have gone into the
business. So they formed an organ
ization known as the Mid-City Wei.
fare council. Any charity organization
which refuses TO join up is fought
with reams OF propaganda which tells
why those who give their money for
charity should shun them like the
plague.
incidentally the propaganda gives
some interesting information on the
statue of the jobless workers and
their fate during the winter months.
Says a statement issued by the Mid
City Welfare Council;
West Madison streets homeless
men population is swelling rapidly as
seasonal jobs are terminated in the
middle west and northwest. The
cheaper rooms in the lodging houses
are all taken. :. =. AS winter advances
and temporary jobs become more
scarce there will be real distress
among the homeless men"
This tells us what they do for the
men. There is a group of men hang
ing around Madison street which re-
fuses to work because free food is to
be had from these badly run missions
(their competitors). We insist that
applicants for help PERFORM SOME
USEFUL SERVICE I ABOUT THE
MISSION" tour emphasis)
And then: There is imperative
need for the municipal lodging house.,
the Mid-City Welfare council declares.
But the council does not even use any
of its money for the operation of the
lodging house for it calls on the
mayor to provide for the operation of
the welfare station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Workers Communist Party
LOVESTONE AND CANNON ON TOUR
OF DISTRICTS FOR MITIGATION
AND PARTY TRADE UNION WORK

Meetings Of the District various dis
triets we'll membership meetings
Of unheatn party
tive Committee the nenshcaton
being
meetings
DETRolT-0 E c. meetng Dec s. membership meeting, Dec
5UFFALo-p &. c. meeting, Dec 10 mq 23 Williams
membership meeting, Dec. g. M 1859
5osToN-o. E. C. meeting, meeting
8 m, 1S Dudley
NEW YoRK-D. E. meeting membership meetings,
to 10 incl.
PHiLA0ELPHIA-p E. c. meeting, a.
bership meeting, 49, 1926
PTTseuRGH, meeting Dec IS; membership meet
ing Dec. IL.
cLEVELANDD e. meeting,
meeting evening of Dec 1s, Cardinal Hall,
These meetings of the
the various attendance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Organization
Meetings
YOUNG WORKERS T
TAKE STEPS TO
ENTER UNIONS
Chicago League Mem
bers Organize Drive

To accomplish the two main. tasks
set by the Young Communist Interna-
tional for all sections of the interna-
tional for the month Of December
which are:
1. To bring every league member
into a trade union.
?. To form youth fraction in
every union, the District Industrial
Committee Of the Young Workers
League has called meetings of com
rades in every trade.
Every member of the league who
recognizes the necessity of carrying
on our work in the unions will not
let anything stand in the way of at
tending these meetings, which will be
as follows:
NEEDLE TRADES; This includes
~ comrades who work in the mems
and women's clothing industry, the
millinery workers, fur workers, etc
This meeting will be held on Thurs
day, Dec. 8, at p. m. at Bis Roose-
welt Road.
DRINTING TRADES: This includes
all comrades who work in COM
posing, press and bindery rooms, or
other department. The meeting will
be held on Saturday, Dec. at 5 p. M,
at 10 S. Lincoln St.
BUILDING TRADES: This includes
- all comrades working in the
building industry, such as carpenters,
painters, bricklayers, etc. The meet
ing will be held at 10 S. Lincoln ST.,
Saturday, Dec. 5, at p. m.
OFFICE WORKERS; These com
~ rades will meet at 10 S. Lincoln
St, Sunday, Dec. at 2;S0 p. m.
MISCELLANEOUS TRADES: This
A'1 includes all comrades working in
trades not otherwise listed, such as
shoe workers, leather workers, auto
drivers, textile workers, musici
ans, food workers, etc. The meet
ing win be held at 10 S. Lincoln ST.,
Sunday, Dec. 6, at 2:30 D. m.
CLERKS: This includes all depart
~ ment store workers, mail order
workers, and clerks in small stores.
This meeting will be held on Sunday,
Dec. 10, at 2:30 p. m. at 10 S. Lincoln
st. Here the specific problems Of the
students will be discussed and frac-
lions formed in the various schools.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04

that the defendants, in case the jury
convicted Koracek, could on motion
for a new trial have it decided
whether or not the indictment should
be quashed before other defendants
were brot to trial.
The United States attorney general
for the Pittsburgh district, who was
fromerly assistant prosecuting attor-
ney in the Blankenstein case was then
called to the stand He was used to
identify some documents that were
taken in the raid on Koracek's room
Among the documents" that were
introduced as evidence against Kor-
acek were catalogs, subscription
blanks, copies of the Weekly Worker,
and a copy of the old manifesto pub
lished in Ohio in 1919.
The Jury.
The jury which was sworn in to
try the case of Edward Koracek is
composed of clergyman, foreman
in a metal factory, bitterly opposed to
radicals, and a number of aged wo-
men. There is but one industrial
worker on the jury. This worker is
machinist. The prosecuting attor-
ney objected to allowing a brakeman,
miner and young saleslady to sit
on the jury.
The following individuals are in the
jury:
Philip Emmett, foreman; Lena
Kirk, housewife; Cochran Fall ma
chinist; Harriet Watson, housekeep-
er; Arthur G. Fry, minister; Cordelia
Nesbit, housewife; Frank B. Dyer,
engraver; Edw. F. Moony, salesman;
Chris Berbman, inspector; W. B.
Donnelly, realtor; VIM. Greenwalt,
retired, and Donald Hamilton, sales
man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04


preston of this Russian festival OF
science as of real festival of all
toilers.
SoViets Based on Science.
The activity of the Soviet govern
ment was based on the methods EN-
ployed in scientific work The great
scientists had pierced the veil of
mysticism and dissected the mystic
ries of nature into their component
parts, discovering the elements of the
solar system and the forces of nature.
The Soviet government had torn off
the veil from the capitalist system.
showing the nature of the exploitation
OF the majority by the minority and
revealing the fact that the catch
phrase of national defense" served
only as a. cloak for the interests of
handful of rich people. The repres-
entatives of the Soviet government
were rebels against all the old super
stitions; they were proud of the fact
that in the eyes of the ruling classes
chey were the same criminals and dis
curbers of the divine order as had
once been in the eyes of unenlighten-
ed society such people as Giordano
Bruno, Calico, Diderot and others.
The Soviet government believed in
the formula of everything moves"
which is at the bottom of scientific
development. In the name of this for
mula had been overthrow the old
capitalist order.
The difference between scientific
work and that of the Soviet govern
ment consisted in that the former was
taking place in the laboratories, and
the latter before the whole world.
Science had taught us to verify
theories by facts; here again the So
Wet government was following the
way of science, being unafraid to sub
NIT to the worlds judgement the re-
suits Of its work Without conceal
ing the fact that the contemporary
Russian reality was not considered by
it as ideal, the government could
nevertheless claim a record Of great
economic, social and cultural achieve
ments in the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics, and the organization of
actual participation by the masses of
the workers in the government of the
country.
The Soviet government had never
wanted to destroy the science deve-
loped before the Octobr rvolution; it
wanted only to wrest it from the hands
Of the exploiters and to lead it out
of the cul de sac in which it had been
landed by the capitalist system. The
goal of Soviet physics and chemistry
were not machine guns and new me-
thods for the destruction of human
beings, but the perfection of the order
of government and the increase of
the prosperity of the toiling masses.
In this there was close connection be-
tween the workers revolution and
real science. Only under the Com
munist order could science gain a real
leading position. The representatives
Of world science should therefore at
tentively watch how the socialist
commonwealth was being built for
the first time in the worlds history
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Resolutions
SociaILAfairs
HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONS |
CLASS OPENS IN new YORK |
WORKERS SCHOOL MONDAY |

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-on Monday,
Dec. 2, course in the "History Of
Revolutions" with Paul Keller as
instructor will begin at the Workers
School. This very important course
is study of revolutionary exper-
fence and tactics in past revolutions
and Of the revolutionary prospects
for the present and future. Paul
Keller has spent some time IN Ger
many making special studies Of the
events of the German revolution
and the reason for its failures in
1918-19 and '23.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
WORKERS SCHOOL AT
CHICAGO HOLDS MANY
CLASSES DURING WEEK

The following classes are being
held now every night at 10 South
Lincoln St., unless otherwise noted.
They are as follows:
Monday, 8 p. m. Capital, Volume
/, instructor, Earl 8roWder.
Tuesday, p. m, imperialism, in
struetor, Manuel Gomez.
Tuesday, 8 p. M, Elements of
Communism, instructor, Oliver Carl
son.
Tuesday, p. M, English, 2s44 LIE
Moyne ST.
Wednesday, 8 p. M, American So
ciaI and Labor history. instructor,
VIM. :. Dunno.
Wednesday, 8 p. M, Aims and
Purpose Of the Y. w. FL, instructor,
Max shachtman (ag 1902 W. Divl-
sion ST.
Thursday. 8 ) m. Elements Of
Communism, Instructor, Max Be-
dacht. ~ nsfkH
Thursday, p. M, W0A.ker Core
spondence, Editorial RUofi, Daily
Worker, 1913 w. Washington Blvd.
Instructors: J. Louis Enbdahl, VIII
liam F. Dunno and Oliver Carlson.
Friday, p. M, Elements of Com
munism, instructor, II. N. Wicks.
Friday, $3.50 p. M. Public Speak
ina, instructor, n. M. WTcks.
Friday, 8 p. m, English, 2644 lie
Moyne ST. Ida Dailes.
Sunday, 1o:3o a. ma2 History Of
international Youth Movement, in
structor, John Williamson.
sgrV
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
General Of Academy Of Sciences Of the u S. s. r.
Fear POISONING.

The body of William Beck, late
singer with the Chicago Civic Opera
company, was placed in a vault follow
ing continuance of an inquest until
December 20 to permit analysis of the
vital organs. Altho heart failure was
believed the cause of death, attorney
Benjamin A. Enrich, a personal
friend, reiterated suspicious that
death was not natural. Beck, he said,
had enemies and recently was given
wine which made him i'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Teachers to Convene.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,, Dec. 2-Teach-
ers, approximately $4,000 in number,
will be represented at the convention
of the Illinois State Teachers asso.
citation which will be held in this city
Dec. 2S, 20 and 80. Each official dele
gate will represent 100 teachers in
some one of the fourteen state divis-
ions. The convention will decide
upon policies for the next year, out
line legislative policy and discuss
their problems of the preceding year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Must Return "Fees.v

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 2. - Re-
preventative Otto Sonnemann, met
defeat in his effort to escape payment
of $3,541.61 received for special"
work for Attorney Leon Oscar Carl
strom while Sonnemann was a men,
Der Of the legislature, and $500 at
torneys fees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
EXPERT WITNESS
FALLS DOWN IN
KORACEK TRIAL
Judge Intercedes for
"Star" Investigator
tContlnued from page %

CONTINUED from page %
stoolpigeons in the unions, was then
called to the stand as an expert wit
ness. He was questioned on the Work
ers- Party, the Communist Party and
the Communist International He tried
to prove that the object of all these
organizations was the overthrow of
the government, etc. Ferguson
then made lengthy argument against
the admission of the evidence of the
so-called expert as his testimony was
nothing but hearsay and that such
testimony cannot be interposed be-
fore the jury, but that the jury must
be presented with concrete and actual
facts.
Case Built on Hot Air.
So far the states case has been
built upon wild charges that cannot
be supported by evidence. The work
ers attending the trial are interested
in the proceedings as they realize that
the right to organize is at stake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Killed by Train.

MURPHYSBORO, ILL.,, Dec. 2.-w
Scott Matthews Of Murphysboro, form
err pure food administration under the
Dunno administration. was instantly
killed by Missouri Pacific passenger
train at Ware Station in Union
county slft-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Chicago Section
Party Membership
Meetings Postponed

Owing to a conflict Of dates, the
section membership meetings which
were to be held in Chicago from De-
cember to IL have been postponed
for dates later on in the month.
These meetings which were to be
held were ON the subject of unifica-
ton and trade union work
Definite dates will be set in the
near future and the comrades should
watch these columns for such inform
alton.
HELP SAVE THE DAILY WoRKERI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
British and Japanese Industries Hit.

british and Japanese Industries Hit.
WASHINGTON, Dec. China will
use customs autonomy to protect a
great expansion of textile manufac-
turing, and will cease buying cloth
from Britain and Japan, says re-
port from F. R. Eldridge, Far East
expert for the department of COM
merce, just returned from a survey
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Santa Fe wins Long Hours Decision.

Santa Fe Wins Long Hours Decision.
WASHINGTON (FP) Federal
nine-hour legislation for railroad en-
ployes in yard service does not pro-
tect a yardmaster, the federal sup
RENE court holds. The Santa Fe ap-
pealed from Chicago court which
ruled that the company could not
work yardmaster ~ hours a day
The supreme court says it can.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Dav. Haas Expelled.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Dave Haas
has been expelled from the Harlem
English branch of the Workers Party
for ustworthiness.--J. Sorensen,
Branch Organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Court Furnishes Pssddlsrs--

NEW YORK, Dec. 2-rWilliam Lee
vine and Gaspero Pules, Npeddlers, left
their horses unblanketed in driving
rain for fifteen minutes As punish
ment they were ordered by Magis-
trate Levine to stand -hatless, coat
less in the rain for a similar period.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Treasury Department
to "Curtail" Drinking
"Blood of the Lamb"

WASHINGTON. Dec. Bootleg
gers are going to find it difficult to
get sacramental wine' hereafter. The
treasury department has decided to
cut the allowance for Jewish families
and christian churches in half.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
sheedY Resians office

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-Joseph E.
Sheedy has resigned as vice-presi-
dent of the Emergency Fleet corpora
ton. He was in charge of European
work for the corporation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
MOSCOW SOVIET CELEBRATES RUSS
SCIENCE ACADEMY CENTENARY

MOSCOW Ma)At session Soviet dedt
the Theater which
B. Kamenv vcecharman the Council
pressed the hope that all the scientists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Worker Correspondents Meet Thursday

THE correspondents Chicago will be
held Thursday night the
111s W. Washington Chicago question developing
city
especially join
develop this activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
Defense sprlnes HombsheII.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2.-When the
attorneys for the defense of Edward
Horacek, active member of the Ma
chinists' Union and now on trial for
an alleged violation of the state sedi-
ton act, threw a bombshell into the
court proceedings showing that the
indictment under which Koracek was
imprisoned did not show any specific
charges as to the violation of the
sedition law and that the only crime
mentioned was organizing, a motion
to quash the indictment was i'm
mediately made by Isaac Ferguson.
The judge overruled the motion to
quash the indictment and showed him
self in doubt as to whether the trial
should be continued
Judge Regainst composure.
The judge after he had regained his
composure then stated that the case
would continue to the end if the state
desired so and then later declared
that he would have the trial go thru
to the end. Judge Prather, who is on
this trial and is one of the visiting
judges from another county, intimated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04
start on Illinois waterways.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. 1.-Two
links in Illinois waterway project now
are assured, the director of the state
department of purchases and supplies
has announced that bids for work at
Ottawa and Joliet will be received by
the state January 8. Work will begin
at as early a date as possible.
Your neighbor win appreciate
the favor-give him this copy Of
the DAILY WORKER,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04

Wrap your lunch in a copy of
the DAILY WORKER and give
it (the DAILY WORKER, not the
lunch) to vor shop-mate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-04

HELP SAVE THE DAILY woRKERl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-12
Our Readers Views
pisaarees with Dunbar.

To The DAILY WORKER: In a re-
cent issue of The DAILY WORKER,
the play white Cargo" is reviewed
by Comrade Dunbar, and in my opin-
ion, his comment is sample of every
thing a Communist critic should not
be.
To begin with, wish to align my
self with Bernad Shaw in his opinion
of art, which is to the effect that IF
it is not propaganda, it is not art"
To me, art for arts sake, is the bunk.
And to me, white Cargo" is a piece
of very effective anti-imperialist prop
uganda.
To be sure, the play is full of sex
obsession and so are men who are shut
off from what is to them) normal
sex life. All that Comrade Dunbar
could see was the sex exploitation Of
the native women and Immediately
he reacted to the defense of the ma
tive, without questioning the effect Of
the scene on the audience.
What (if any, effect is there, when
raw exposition of sex exploitation OF
Negro women by white man is por-
trayed, when all the, instructive sad
ism of the male is brot out to pub
lie view? 1t seems to me that the ef-
feet is to strip the romantic veil of
the face of the colonial ventures into
which the young men of nation are
enticed, by glowing pictures of adven-
ture, which totally ignores the sex
needs Of the aforesaid young man.
And then the play proceeds to take
away even the adventure of the thing
and show it in all its beastly dullness
as a drab routine of herding native
labor; so dull that only whisky and
drunken stupor brings any relief to
brain satiated with heat and monot-
ony. My bet is that any young man
filled with longing for adventure and
the notion that it can be found in one
of the tropical colonies of this or any
nation, whose brain is filed with Wis
ions of grass skirts and ukeleles, will
come away from a performance OF
white Cargo" with his brain much
clearer than when he went in; and If
then he still has a desire to try 1t
well, our propaganda isn't intended
for the digestion of a moron.
The acting of the players was COM
petent and the lead was exceptional
ly done.
Comrade Dunbar should know that
Communist criticism doesn't consist OF
merely calling names-Wm. &. Brow
dar Kansas Cftv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-12
Philadelphia Teacher
Laucis Care of Children
in Bolshevik Russia
BY LENA ROSENBERG.
Worker correspondent)

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 10--Dr.
Lucy Wilson, principal of South Phila-
delphia girls high school, the largest
high school in Philadelphia, who
spent all summer in Soviet Russia,
spoke on trade unionism and factory
conditions in Russia at a meeting of
the Women's Trade Union League Of
Philadelphia.
She started out by describing the
conditions in a certain factory but in
doing so she emphasized the fact
that this factory was an example Of
hundreds of other factories in Russia
today.
In brief, the conditions in the factor
les are what the workers of the fac
tory want them to be, she stated.
These conditions are enforced by
their shop committees and trade
unions. She stated there is nothing
in Russia as strong as the trade
unions. When there are profits made
by the factory, the workers of this
shop decide whether to dispose of
those profits thru an increase in
wages or the improvement of the fac
tory conditions or improving the ma
chinery or lowering prices.
Radio Newspapers"
They also have radio loud speakers
in the factories, which are called the
factory newspaper" and during the
lunch hour the workers get news of
what is actually happening in world
politics and Of economic conditions.
Even the school chilrren receive this
type of news.
She pointed out that altho tuition is
not free in the higher schools, work
ers pay as little as 40c. while the
nep man has to pay as high as 200
rubles. The tuition fee is arranged
according to the workers income. The
workers child always gets the prefer
ence whether it is in school or in any
other place.
Children Taken Care OF
When questioned about an article
that appeared in the Philadelphia
Ledger claiming that there are 10000
children homeless in Moscow, she de-
clared that was a revolving lie. There
are no homeless children in Moscow
at the present time" she declared. for
they are all taken care OF by either
the trade unions or the government.
On the question of whether her in
designations we're interfered with, she
assured the questioner that she went
where she cared to and was not hind
cred from doing anything she wanted
to. There is more freedom in Russia"
she stated, then in the United States
or any other country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-12
MILITARY COURT
. TO HANG RAKOSI
AND WEINBERCER
Prosecution Charges
High Treason"
Especial to The Daily worker)

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov. TO-
Due to the protests of the workers on
an international scale, the Horthy
hangmen were forced to change their
plans. kilograms of protest arriving
in Hungary condemning the Horthy
white terror, forced the "Hangman's"
regime to turn the trial material over
to a prosecution which took little
time to "sift' the evidence" and
which after "deliberating" on the "eyi-
dence." decided that Rakosi and the
100 others must stand court martial
trial for high treason and revolt"
The sentences of the Hungarian
court martials, however, can only be
death sentences and must be execut-
ed within two hours.
To Hang Rakosi.
The intention of the prosecution is
to sentence Rabosi and all the other
prisoners to death; to execute Rakosi
and Weinberger and, after having CIV
en- this example; transform the other
death sentences into 10 to Is years of
Imprisonment. All this is permissible
according to the Hungarian penal
code.
The international proletariat must
intervene more theoretically than, in
the past, to save Comrade Rakosi
and his group from death.