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and subjected to terrible tOrtures and
maltreatment not only the population
of the villages concerned but also
those Of villages which had nothing to
do with the revolt.
Turnout Bessarabia an unheard Of
military tyranny was established
Wild soldier bands behaved as tho in
an enemy country. Thousands Of
peasants were arrested, thrown into
prison and terribly tortured. Later on
500 were kept and process started
against them. The trial started the
end of August, after the peasants,
many of them innocent, had spent
over year in prison and after a
great number of them had died from
the tortures.
Governments Purpose.
The government of Bratianu did
It's best to make the peasants appear
S "Bolshevik conspirators" during the
<ishinev trial. The peasants were ac-
cused Of having been in contact with
Russia and il was said that the peas
ants had revolted not because of the
unbearable Rumanian bayonet regime
in Bessarabia, but because of brides
from Russia The government tried
to prove by this trial that the Bes-
serabian peasants party, which had
no connection with the accused peas
ants, was bribed by Russia. In this
way the government wanted to estab-
lish a reason for the suppression of
the peasants party.
Together with these two aims the
government had still a third purpose
that of intimidating the peasants and
the workers of the country and thus
strangle every possible effort of insur-
rection. The government showed its
whole brutal force in the trial. The
accused had no right Of self defense
and were treated like animals.
According to the Lupta there are
many accused who have been brot be-
fore the court for the only reason that
they have spoken once in their lives
with the main accused, Bethlehem"
Despite the strict suppression of the
right of free speech of the accused,
terrible brutalities of the Roumanian
soldiers in Bessarabia population an
initiated without consideration of sex
and age, those who manage to remain
alive had to pay high war contribu-
tons and hundreds Of peasants could
only save their lives by giving over
Ill their property to the officers as a
bride. All the statements of the wit
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Freed blythe .BoIsheUik Revolution

were left to our own devices. In 1909
at The time of the Turkish revolution
the sultan, who had been deprived of
his throne ordered the destruction of
all the Greeks as he considered them
his enemies. But there was no time
to carry out this order as Russia in
tervened and saved the Greeks. There
fore, Russia appeared to me as some
thing bright and beautiful as a
country where there is no oppression.
When in 1912, during the Balkan
war, life became vulnerable for the
Greeks we fed to our father in Rus
STA. Great was my disappointment
when | gradually began to realize
what life the workers among whom l
found myself were leading. / was par
ticularly struck by the conditions of
life of domestic servants, who apart
from very hard work had to submit
to the insulting advances of their
masters and for the least offense were
thrown into the street, doomed into.
starvation or prostitution. In 1915
l began to work in the Red Cross sis
terhood of mercy and experienced on
myself the bullying of the bourgeois
lady-patronesses which | as a for
eigner felt more than others, particu-
larly as l did not know Russian very
we'll.
But the October, November, 1910
revolution freed us from this oppres-
sion. During my employment in So
Wet institutions i have had, like all
manual and office workers, an oppor-
tunity To study and to develop. /
began to take part in social work and
took an interest in trade union work,
etc. | was elected delegate to the
women's section. The working wo-
mems section of the Russian Com
munist Party has panel of women
delegates. They are women elected in
the enterprises by the working wo-
men, and under the guidance of the
working women's sections they are
drawn into social work. Apart from
regular general meetings, where vari-
GUS questions concerning Soviet con-
structlon ana the womens movement
are discussed, the women delegates
are attached to children's institutions,
hospitals, co-operatives, and public
dining halls where they see to it that
work is carried on properly and at
the same time learn themselves. Hav-
ing worked as a delegate whole year
| awakened politically, realized that
only the Communist Party can bring
freedom and equality to the oppressed
Eastern women. Therefore. l joined
the party in order to help together
with It the working class populations
Of the oppressed nationalities to come
out Of their backwardness and acquire
knowledge just as l have been able to
do.--D. LAzARINI.
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C. W. This fully justifies the claim that
a militant policy must be the policy
Of the A. G. w. 1t is true that when
the strike actually came, preparations
were made to rally the workers in
mass support, but the conditions upon
which the strike was settled, though
forestalling humiliation by the en-
ployers, yet were by no means that of
victory.
Did We Strike for This?
The conditions in the shop of the
two companies are actually worse than
before the strike. In the tailor shops
wages were cut in some sections about
z per cent. The cutting rooms in
creased their speed-up system. Pro-
duction has increased about per cent
with no increase in wages. And we
find some workers who are employed
by those firms which are not men,
bers of the A. C. w.
This victory" does not in any way
compare with the demands of the
workers before the strike. And it
must be said that the demands were
modest and somewhat as follows:
THE renewal of the old agreement
and all its shop conditions therein.
2-No wage cuts.
3-No readjustments.
4-No increase in production unless
wages are simultaneously increased.
5-No worker to work in the shop
unless he or she is a member of the
A. G. w.
In Chicago no strike has taken place
for the last six years. So sure and so
willing we're our officials to concede
and to compromise with the employers
on all differences that arise occasion
ally between the employers and the
union, that they permitted the Inter-
national and ]. L. Taylor to finish the
busy season and operate for six weeks
after the old agreement expired, thus
giving the International Tailoring and
]. L. Taylor company ample time to
prepare for this 10 weeks struggle that
has just come to an end about two
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nesses, even those Of the prosecution,
were terrible accusations against the
terror regime of the boyar govern
ment.
Orders Quick Ending.
When the trial began to get unde-
sirable to the government, the war
minister ordered that it should end as
quickly as possible, that the witnesses
Of the defense should not be exam
ined and that the questions of the de-
tense should be unanswered.
Torres, French lawyer, who par
ticipated as a defender in the first
part of the trial, was forced to aban-
don his defense of the peasants by
the actions of the court. After he had
gone, the accused were treated still
more brutally and towards the end Of
the trial not only about 100 accused
who were still at liberty, but also
about a 100 witnesses were arrested.
under the pretext that they had writ
ten the appeals in favor of the ac-
cused that had been circulated in
Kichinev.
The last sessions of the trial took
place day and night without Interrupt
ton in the cold autumnal air, altho
the accused we're only dressed in rags
The whole proceeding was terrible
inhuman torture for the accused. AS
the trial brot forth no material against
the accused, the Prime Minister Brat
ianu made public statement in which
he accused the peasants party as
party Of anarchy and demanded that
the sentences be as severe as pos
sible.
Witness Spills Beans.
In the Kishiney trial the witness for
the prosecution, Michail Cusmin, stat
ed that according to his knowledge
of the rs peasants arrested in his COM
munity, not a single one had anything
to do with the instruction. He stated
that Lieutenant Lungu had forced the
accused peasants by means of terrible
tortures to admit that they belonged
to a secret revolutionary commit
tee"
81 know, however" the witness tes-
titled, that of all this not word is
true"
The witness furthermore stated that
Lieutenant Lungu had received from
the wives Of the accused 10000 lei
and more so that their husbands
should not be killed in the examina-
tion.
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thing to swallow. No striker can toll
crate a scab after 10 weeks fight.
Have Learned Nothing.
Thus far we find that this strike
has not changed the view Of the Of
ficials towards the employers the least
bit. They are still ready to proceed
with the same methods of compromise
in the disputes arising. Such a policy
will undermine the very things that
had been won for the organization at
the price of painful struggle.
The militant workers recognize
that an end must be put to such a
policy, that a fight must be made in
an organized manner at local and shop
meetings, as we'll as in the shops,
against such pylicy, if the Amalga-
mated membership ever hope to attain
union conditions in the mems cloth
ing industry.
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Los Angeles Rabbits
Refuse to Face Facts
ny A Worker Correspondent.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Q. - In spite
OF all the faith cures of the Los An
geles Rabbits that city is hard hit.
People lin the know" assert that there
is vacant housing accommodation
here for 100000 people without using
the apartment houses at all. Other
towns are proportionately hard hit.
Long Beach has accommodations for
probably more than $4,000.
The oil field, In which / am en-
ployed, is dead. Drilling has practical
ly come to an end, and only few OF
US are still hanging on by their eye-
lids and expecting them to slip every
day and yet. as limited above, the local
Babbitry here using christian science
or faith cures will tell you. Eyes,
business is good"
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Workers Dramatic
League Will Stage
Colds Play, Money

NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-On Friday
night, Jan. sth, the Workers Dramatic
League will introduce itself to party
comrades and friends by presenting
the play Money, by Michael Gold,
and by dramatization of several re-
evolutionary poems.
Imbued with the splendid vigor of
the modern Russian stage, we will
produce the play in the most radical
fashion. The settings of symbolica
significance, will be designed accord
ing to constructivist principles, giving
the actors the opportunity to use, in
addition to width and depth, the
height of various levels on the stage,
for the portrayal of their emotions.
Challenge Bourgeoisie.
Challenging the old bourgeois stage,
with its often untruthful psychology,
and conservative ways Of producing
the Workers Dramatic League intends
to enter the field. Our first produc-
ton will have much that may and
will be criticized. but something new
and viTile will not fail to be noticed.
Starting under the most difficult
handicaps, we intend to build unde,
the direction of DR.. Arkatov, the Rus
sian proleculturist, and with the co
operation and help of party comrade
and sympathizers. develop this work
ers theatre until it becomes a power
full propaganda weapon, ready for our
use.
collectivist Art.
Our work is primarily collectivist.
To play on our stage does not neces-
sarily require talent. To our under
standing, the actor or performer ac-
quires the faculty, thru intelligent
training, to play upon his body, to use
his body as an instrument. In order
to acquire this faculty we found it
necessary to organize primarily as a
school, where the necessary subjects
are collectively taught.
The Workers Dramatic League must
become self-supporting Help us by
coming to our first production, Friday
night, January 8, at Tammany Hall,
18th Street, near 3rd Ave. Help us
build the Proletarian Theatre. Tickets
can be had at the district office, the
Freiheit, the Novy Mir, and the Jim
mic Higgins POOk Shon
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LlauldatIon o. llIlteranu

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Dec. s.-The
Down with Illiteracy Society has
opened 32052 classes thruout the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics,
which embrace over a million people,
100000 of whom have already been
taught to read and write.
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3 1t is with much pleasure that we
print the following letter received
from d. Lazarini, a woman worker
correspondent in Russia. We are
sure that all who read it will feel
keenly what the revolution has ac-
complished for all workers. To
bring such a healthy and inspiring
viewpoint towards life to the OPP
pressed peoples for whom there
seemed to be nothing but endless
drudgery and darkness is indeed an
achievement worth striving for.
We hope it will inspire some Of
our women worker correspondents
to reply to her so that she may learn
something of the life of women
workers in this country for which
she expresses such eagerness.-Ed.
Note.
nEAR COMRADES: Having a
~ strong desire to know something
about your life want at the same
time to tell you something of my own
life, as my experiences will show you
how the women of the oppressed ma
tionalities lived in the old Russia and
how they are developing now. l am
of Greek nationality and was born in
an out-of-the-way village in Turkey
AS the country is very backward, cul-
turally as well as economically, the
workers and peasants there have a
very hard time of it. The men mostly
go to Russia to earn their livelihood
and the women have to bear the bur
den OF keeping the family. From early
childhood women are tied to hard
physical labor, and this is their fate
thruout life. They are not taught to
read and write. A literate girl is
treated with contempt and has no op-
portunity to get married, which is
looked upon as terrible disgrace for
her and her relations. At the age of
IA girls are considered grown up and
can marry. They are, of course, not
consulted but are looked upon as chat.
tells at the DISPOSAL of their fathers
at first and subsequently OF their hus-
bands. Women are so backward and
intimidated that only very few of them
understand the full horror of their
position.
began to work at the age of 2 and
up to the age Of IL was over-burden-
ed with hard physical labor. Our
family consisted of people-our
father. our mother who was paralyzed
and three daughters. The eldest OF
us three girls was IL years old.
Father went to Russia to seek work,
the eldest sister was abducted as our
father had refused to let her marry
the man who wanted her. She was
taken away forcibly at night and had
to 20 thru the marriage ceremony.
Once she was married she become the
of her husband. My sisters
abduction affected my mothers health,
which was already shaken, and she
died soon after. Thus we young girls
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TATAUDOUNAR PEASANTS trial

Bessarabia southern Bessarab
the
during the whole
nsurrecon killed
Roumanian
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FRUITS OF VICTORY IN A. CIV.
STRIKE NOT ALTOGETHER SWEET;
OFFICIALS KEEP PEACE POLICY
BY BEN GORDON.
Worker Corresponding

The results of the strike the Amgme
Chicago
and L. Taylor Chicago
lacy Of the policy
victory struggle between the
thru a fighting policy.
The forces that carried this
weeks of strike were the most powerful combinations
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Watch the Saturday Magazine
Section for neo features ererl
toeek. This is a good issue to givc
to your fellOtC icOrker. NORGE
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order bundle of The DAILY
WORKER for every meeting Of
your union
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l Take this copy Of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
tomorrow.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Experts Predict With Accu-
racy Where and When
They VIII Happen.

New York-What type of fires to
expect in selected months can be fore
told with reasonable certainty by the
National Board Of Fire Underwriters
The board has found that the arson
curve reflects not only the ebb and
flow Of prosperity, but also, with un-
varying regularity, the closing of the
special seasons in certain commod-
tiles. A precise relation between in
cendiary fires and industrial seasons
is known to exist.
With the approach of the Christmas
season, the fur manufacturing trade
concludes it's brief year" and as the
cutting and sewing machines slow
down, the number of conflagrations in
these shops increases inordinately
with other months
Sudden Increases in April.
Some important sections of the gar
ment trades season end in April, and
from the middle of that month, under
writer's assert, they may expect a sud-
den increase in calls for fire settle
ments. Similarly with the sporting
goods manufacturing, and other in
Custries whose period of output occU-
pies only a portion of the calendar
year.
trade map of. the country warns
the. insurance man where to expect
sectional conflagrations of unusual
frequency. This year they are said
to center in New England. where the
textile industry is below par, but the
wave also has touched upstate New
York, and in the last two years the
finger pointed TO Texas, then Georgia
and to southern illinois,
Some estimates lay as high as 40
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
"Equinoctial
Storns' Myth

was probably the most destructive
hurricane that has occurred in the
West Indies.
"Saxby's gale swept over eastern
Canada with terrific force October 4.
1859. 1t owes its name to the fact
that it was predicted by Lieutenant
Saxby of the British navy.
Historic Storms.
I'm the Backergunge cyclone, Oc-
tober, 1876, more than 100000 people
were drowned by the storm waves
over the Ganges delta.
''The blizzard of March 11-14, 1888,
also known as the great March bliz-
zard' the New. York BLIZZARD and,
in New Hampshire, as the 'town-meet-
ing STORM is historic.
1.-The Samoa hurricane of March 16,
1889, wrecked American and German
warships in the harbor of Apia, with
heavy loss of life.
'"The ST. Louis tornado of May 27,
1896, was the most destructive of the
three tornadoes that have occurred in
large American cities, the others be-
ing the Louisville tornado of 1890
and the Omaha tornado of 1913.
1.-THE Portland storm Of November
26-27, 1898, is the classic example of
the danger of ignoring storm signals.
| The steamer Portland which fur
nished the object lesson in this case
was one of more than 40 vessels
wrecked by the storm on the New
England coast.
"In the Galveston hurricane. Sep.
tember s. 1900, there was great loss
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Fires Forecast
by Actuaries

per cent of the $5OOOO0,0OO annual
fire loss to the hand of the ''fire bug"
His work is marked by death as well
as destruction, for of the 10000 peo-
pie who perished in flames in the Unit
ed States last year. many died in con-
fiagrations of deliberate origin.
In William street, which is to in
surance what Wall street is to finance
and Maiden Lane to gems, there is is
sued a monthly chart for the informa-
ton Of underwriters. 1t shows in
parallel columns the fires which have
occurred in various trades and the
business embarrassments' noted in
the same industries.
"What fires are running n0WY is a
commo inquiry of an insurance agent
returning from a short vacation.
"Clothing," or "leather goods" or
trimmings" may be the reply.
.-diusters and Investigators have
been warned to scrutinize carefully re-
ports in the trade which, for the time
being at least, is known to be under
going an extra hazard.
Weather Has Its influences
Even the weather has not incon-
siderable influence on commercial fires.
If summer fingers, throwing the fall
trade sales behind, the fact is noted
by the underwriters loss committee
if the winter is unusually severe, a
closer watch is kept on the spring
trades, for straw hats and flimsy dress
goods will be retarded on their way
TO market and the weaker elements of
those trades may be pinched.
Unassimilated aliens often are the
lIazers of the arson trail. Underwrit-
ers hold this type responsible for
many devastating cOndagrations.
Although declared to be widespread
arson is a difficult crime to prove, and
many claims are settled that just
failed to bring a criminal indictment.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
SICK WOMEN
ATTENTION!
Read t1.lis Remarkable Testi-
monyRegarding Results from
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Norfolk, Virginia. -" IF you only
knew how many women and girls have
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

the Vegetable Compound home to me:
In few days l began to improve and
have often taken it since. am now
passing through the Change of Life and
still stick by it and am enjoying won
derful health. When first started with
your medicines was mere shadow.
NV health seemed to be gone: The
last doctor I had said he would give me
no more local treatments Unless went
to the Hospital and was operated on.
That was when I gave the doctors up:
Now am a healthy robust woman. l
wish could tell the world what won
derful medicine Lydia p. Pinkham,'s
Vegetable Compound is. will be only
too glad to answer letters from any,
where. I wish all sick women would
take it. Mrs. j. A. JONES, 3l7 Colley
Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Easy

Easy
''How can you find out if girl
loves you?"
"Give her little brother a dime'
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Aspirin Marked With "Bayer Cross"
Has Been Proved Safe by Millions.

Warning! Unless you see the name
'Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for 25 years.
Say 'Bayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

but the Discovery completely restored
my blood to natural and normal state
and l grew we'll and strong. have
never taken a medicine that did SO much
for me, it made me feel like new per-
son. Mrs. Sarah Dahlstrom, 1911 S.
K ST. Tablets or liquid. All dealers.
Write DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in
Buffalo, N Y, for free advice.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

taken your meOlcnle
by hearing my testi-
mony, it would seem
wonderful to you.
Every day and every
chance / have l ad-
wise some one to try
it. 1t was in June,
1904, when / had
given up to never get
well, that l wrote
to you. My husband
went to the drug
store and brought
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Plenty of Them

If placed esd to end the 100000
freight cars in use on railroads in the
United States would make a solid
train long enough to reach from New
York to Denver.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
I4CW's YOUR BLOOD?

Tacoma, Wash.-"I was SO greatly
benefited by taking DR.. Pierce's Golden
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Bird of a Dance

Minerva, age three, had been prac-
ticing some of the new dance steps
with her older sisters. Next morning
in the kitchen, while watching the
canary bird warm up on his perch,
she said:
"Oh, mamma, come here quick and
see Dickey-bird do the Charleston"
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

M edlCaI discovery
that | am convinced
there is nothing bet
ter for a run down
system or for tnsrl
blood, | was suf-
fering from an
anaemic condition,
had scarcely any
blood, and what
there was was thin
and impoverished.
l became very nerv-.
ouS, weak and thin
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

of life and property. This was main
ly the work of water rather than wind.
A less destructive Galveston hurricane
occurred August 1917, 1915"
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14
Piles Disappear
PetersoY1's Ointment

''Please let me tell you,' says Peter
son, that for instant relief from the
misery Of blind, bleeding or itching
piles, there is nothing so good as
Peterson's Ointment, as thousands
have testified" Best for old sores and
itching skin. All druggists, so cents.
Arizona state miner., 1925-11-14

Fort Wayne, Ind.-A burglar who
forced entrance to the basement at the
residences of John Adams and A. H.
Meyer carried off large quantities of
canned fruit.