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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-20
RAIL WORKERS
GO ON STRIKE AT
HAGERSTOWN
500 Workers Walk Out
on Western Maryland

HAGERSToWN, Md, Oct. 1s.--Fol-
lowing an almost unanimous strike
vote, 500 engineers, firemen and host
lers of the Western Maryland railroad
went on strike to force the company
to grant the wage increase awarded
by the United States railroad labor
board.
The brotherhood chiefs at Hagers-
town. the chief operating center Of
the road, declared that all but three
of their membership walked out, ty-
ing up all trains. Not freight train
was able to move out of Hagerstown
this morning. A few passenger trains
manned by scabs are all that have
been able to leave the city. Picket
lines are thrown around the round
houses and attempts are being made
to make the strike 100 per cent eff
fective.
This strike comes following a long
series of negotiations between the
union and the rail heads over the
award granted the rail workers by
the United States railroad labor
board.
The company attempted to get the
men to agree to FORGETTING a part of
the wage increase and also some of
the union conditions which were won
by the men.
When the bosses refused to give the
workers the wage increase, a strike
vote was carried on. The company
then told the workers that each en-
ploye of the road must sign an agree
ment, agreeing to work under the
conditions proposed by the road I'M
der the present wage scale. The men
refused to sign the agreement and a
strike followede. 1@st'
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A FRAID to report the results Of
Locarno dismal failure and
face the opposition in their home
countries, the statesmen Of the ma
tions participating in the Locarno
conference accepted thing of shreds
and patches; miserable compro-
mise that leaves everything about as
it was before. With loud acclaim
they hailed its opening the salvation
Of the world 1t was to be an achieve
ment that was to guarantee security
forever to the chosen nations of the
world. Before its final session they
realized that it can scarcely be utiliz-
ed as security for their own jobs.
No matter what their opinions re-
garding its prospects might have
been as they journeyed to Locarno,
the first session disclosed the basic
antagonisms that doomed it to- fall
ure. But Austin Chamberlain had
assured Great Britain that this was
ITO be great achievement of the tory
government, the triumph of the ages.
If the conference failed the govern
ment was in danger. Aristide BRAND,
as the Big Bertha of the Painleve
government, had to make a gesture
toward lifting the heavy burden of
taxation by reducing the armed forces
in the occupational areas. Strese-
mann and Luther we're forced to keep
their eyes upon the political situation
at home and, like the agents of the
other powers, help to devise some
sort of compact that would make 1t
appear that they lost nothing and
stood to gain something.
THE conference was called for a
4 very definite and specific purpose.
It was precisely what its name i'm
piled, a security" conference. To
guarantee the perpetuity of capital
ism. For capitalism to continue to
thrive two things were desirable:
II Soviet Russia, embracing a sixth
4 Of the worlds inhabitable terri
tory, the outpost of the world revolu-
ton. is standing challenge to cap
italism. Its vast resources are badly
needed for the rebuilding Of the
shattered industries of Europe. To
gain access to those resources on
Soviet terms means to strengthen
this formidable enemy of capitalism
Hence the security conference aimed
to create powerful anti-Soviet bloc
preparatory to an armed assault
upon Russia.
q The vast colonial empires of the
victorious nations are in ferment
The ferocious conflict in Morocco, the
symptoms of colonial resentment that
flare up in assassinations and other
acts OF violence against the domino.
ton of the Civilized nations" clearly
indicate menacing situation that
will soon require all the armed
strength that can be modified to
hold them in leash. The conference
aimed to settle for the time being
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the disputes between the imperialist
nations. of Europe so that they could
pursue their colonial conquests with
increased vigor
Neither of these things can be
realized upon the basis Of the achieve
ments of the conference.
THE first days session. lasting but
1 a half hour, was sufficient to
bring out in bold relief the real con-
fict. 1t arose over the question of
guarantees for the eastern frontier
of Germany. The Versailles treaty had
arbitrarily shaved of portions Of
Germany and attached them to Po-
land and the Czech-SIovakian state,
both dominates by French and Am,
erican finance capital Chamberlain
Of England supported the claim of
BRAND, of France, that these bound
aries remain forever inviolate and
that France itself be the guarantor
of them.
This claim Germany holly resented.
In order to strengthen her case at the
conference table France called in the
representatives Of the two border
states concerned with eastern 'front.'
iers. But the German representatives,
Foreign Minister Stresemann and
Chancellor Luther, were adamant.
THE compromise finally accepted,
l. when the attitude of the Germans
threatened to wreck the conference,
was that the eastern boundary lines
of Germany, affecting Poland and
Czecho-SloVakia would be subject to
arbitration, with the league to act as
arbiter. In order to conceal the de-
feat on this score, the versatile
BRAND signed separate documents
with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia re-
affirming the interest CD of France
in those nations and promising to aid
them in every way possible.
Another provision is that Germany
is to enter the league of nations and
be given a permanent seat in the
council. There are now four perma-
nent seats in the league-Great Brit
ain, France. Italy and Japan. When
Germany joins 1t makes fifth. There
are six temperament seats, at pres
ent filed by Belgium, Spain, Sweden
Czecho-Slovakia, Brazil and Uruguay.
These seats are filled by elections at
the assembly of the league Of nations
No decision can be made unless it is
Unanimous.
Since both France and Germany
occupy permanent seats it is plain
that the league council will never
reach an agreement on the question
of the eastern frontier of Germany
without causing break by unseating
one of the contestants.
On the western frontier of Germany
the conference decided to maintain a
neutralized zone about 30 miles wide
along the Rhine frontier. This part
Of the compact is nothing new as II
simply repeats the terms of articles
AZ and 40 Of the treaty of Versailles
which read:
Article AZ. Germany is for
hidden to maintain or con.
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By H. NJ. Wicks

struct any Notifications either
on the left bank of the Rhine
or on the right bank to the
west of line drawn fifty XII
lometers to the east of the
Rhine.
Article 40. In the area de-
fined above the maintenance
and the assembly of armed
forces, either permanently or
temporarily, and military ma
MOWERS of any kind, as well
as the upkeep of all perma-
nent works for mobilization
are in the same way for
hidden.
England and Italy are to be joint
guarantors of the Rhine pact, thus
agreeing to protect either France or
Germany against aggression by the
other. gus1
ITnHEN the entry of Germany into
w the league was under discussion
the German foreign minister objected
to the provisions of article 16 of the
league covenant. This article provides
that one power has the right to
march armies over the territory of
"a second, power in case any third
member is attacked. The Germans
feared further aggression by France
and were justifiably suspicious that
through intrigues with Poland they
could incite border disturbances
which would furnish an excuse for
French troops to swarm over German
territory. Their length of stay would
depend upon the duration of the
emergency
The reason for the press striving to
leave article 16 as it is, was the
desire of France to have unhampered
passage through Germany so that the
military forces Of that nation could
unite with the Polish army, one of
the largest in Europe, for the purpose
of a military drive against Soviet
Russia.
Germany, in her own interests,
bitterly opposed entering the league
until the Objectionable article 16 was
modified. This prolonged the dead
lock that gripped the conference for
nearly week. The representatives
of the entente had no power to change
the covenant of the league, but they
finally agreed to use their influence
and votes in the league council to
change the Objectionable parts of the
article. The main objective Of the
conference thereby came to naught.
DREMIER Painleive of France ac-
= claims October 16, the date OF
the signing of the pact by the re.
representatives. of the powers "a historic
date" He Immediately dispatched
congratulations to Aristide BRAND,
his foreign minister
A close examination Of the sub
stance Of the pact, discloses the fact
that France least Of all has reason to
congratulate herself. II means a long
step in the direction of complete de-
feat of her aspirations at the close
Continued on page 81
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o. INVENTION
i. 1BE PHONE TRUST

ATLANTIC CITY, October 1s.-A
resolution was unanimously adopted
urging congressional Investigation
Of the Bell Telephone system. "This
SYSTEM" said the resolution, "eon-
trolls the entire means Of telephone
communication Of the nation. This
monopolistic grip on a vital public
service has become, year by year,
more arrogant, more suhversive Of
the rights of the people and more
detrimental to the progress and
welfare Of the country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-20
Czechs Complete
Arrangements for
Funding War Debt

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-czecho.
Sloyakia has completed arrange
ments at the United States treasury
department for funding it's war debt
to the United States.
The total of the debt, over which
there had been some pickering be-
tween the Czech and American debt
commissions, was set at S115,OOO, 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-20
AMERICAN AGENT
BLAZING TRAIL
IN BUCHAREST
New Ambassador Has
Long and Odious Record

BUCHAREST, Roumania, Oct. 1S.-
While the leaders Of the working class
are being tortured to death in the
dungeons of the Roumanian terror,
the Roumanian economic association
is entertaining William Smith Culbert-
son. representative of American i'm
perialism, who is the new United
States minister to Bucharest. At
banquet Thursday night fifty agents
of the terror, dubbed by the capitalist
press leading Roumanian citizens
attended in honor Of Culbertson Since
taking his post here Mr.. Culbertson
is announced to have studied Rou-
mania's possibilities as an outlet for
American goods and as a field for in
yestment of American capital. The
question of settlement of Roumania's
war debt to the United States is in
volved in the speculations and the
coming of Culbertson is unquestion-
ably a move to bring this nation and
its resources under the domination of
Wall Street.
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to die at the hands of Horthy,
were carried in the demonstra-
ton.
Other banners demanded liberation
of other workers to be tried before an
extraordinary court martial.
Consul Feiuns Ignorance
The picketing was under the direc-
ton Of the international Labor De-
tense and a committee was selected
% enter the consulate and protest to
the consul. He feigned ignorance Of
the terror in Hungary, but finally adj
mitted that he considered it necessary
O suppress the Bolsheviks.
Carry Defiant Banners
Among the banners carried before
the consulate which is located in the
heart of the Wall Street section, at
| I Morris street, was one reading:
"Horthy White Government Is Red
With Workers Blood" Another was a
direct slap at the vultures of Wall
Street and defiiantly proclaimed
wall Street Finances Horthy; On
Wall Street Lies the Blood Guilt"
Many banners bore the slogan IRA
kosi Shall Not Die!"
Arrests Follow Interview
The arrests of the pickets followed
/ he interview with the New York
lgent of Horthy. The charge was
lisorderly conduct and the prisoners
were held in Jail for night court.
Vast crowds gathered and express
ID in no uncertain terms their in
ldignation at the arrests. The deni-
zens of Wall Street seemed stunned
by the events and lowered in small
groups at a safe distance watching
the activities of the pickets and the
police.
| In spite of the arrests the New
York branch Of the International La
Dor Defense announces that picketing
will continue until the detestable gov
ernment of Horthy is forced to recede
\ from its murderous designs on the
workers of that hapless nation that
has been for years in the bloody
clutches of a terror directed from
Wall Street.
After the arrests a tremendous de-
monstration against the New York
police aiding the upholders of the
Hungarian terror was held, attended
by thousands of workers as they pour
ed out Of the shops at noon. The
meeting was addressed by P. Pascal
Cosgrive of the Shoe Workers Union,
E. Gardes representing Hungarian
Workers organization, ]. o. Bentall OF
the International Labor Defense, and
Ben Gitlow. candidate for mayor OF
the city of New York.
The thousands of workers present
applauded the denunciation and ex
posture Of Horthy and endorsed the
demands for freedom of Rakosi and
the other victims of the terror.
Resolutions unanimously adopted
demanded immediate freedom Of the
working class leaders and called for
emptying the Horthy jails of i'm.
prisoned workers.
Further meetings are to be arran.
ged. Resolutions also were adopted
calling upon unions to act in defense
OF workers in that benighted nation
Already many unions have protested
to the state department at Washing
ton.
Thousands of workers also attend
ed, the International Labor Defense
ball held Saturday night where reso
lutions were adopted protesting
against the merciless prosecutions Of
Hungarian workers.
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N. Y. Police AID HORTHY
TERROR; ARREST PICKETS
OF HUNGARIAN CONSULATE
tspsoIaI % rhe paIIx workerl

NEW YORK. Oct. 1e.-Fifteen pickets participating IN
outbreak of the Hungarian white
terror we're yesterday before the Hungarian consulate
The demonstration part Of the Worldwide protest that
rising against grim ghasty preparations by the bloody
oy wholesale murders against the flower
of working demanding freedom for Matthias
Rakos commissar shorved Hungarian Soviet
ernment with brilliant record revoluonist who is slated
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STRIKERS FORCE 10 PCT.
REDUCTION IN PANAMA
RENTS FROM LANDLORDS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1s.-- From
Panama the war department. has
received word that aItho American
troops restored order" during the
rent strike in Panama City at the
request Of the president of Panama,
the landlords were forced by the
strikers to reduce rentals ten per
cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-20
A Good and Faithful Servant.

William Smith Culbertson has a
long record in the United States as
the agent of the government in many
shady economic and political man
euvers. He was the examiner for the
United States tariff board and pre-
pared the first volume Of its report
on the wool tariff for the Taft gov
eminent in 1902, which recon-
mended high protective rates for the
wooden trust. Under Woodrow Wilson
he was a member of the federal trade
commission, studying tariffs and trade
conditions in Brazil, Uruguay, Argen-
TINA, Chile, Peru and Panama, an adj
vance man for the armed forces OF
the Unietd States, and using his posi-
ton as agent of the government to
blaze the trail for deeper financial
penetration by American finance and
capital Of South America Appointed
by Wilson to a post of the federal
trade commission for term of II
years he served under Harding as
vice-chairman of that commission. At
intervals he has lectured before stu
dent bodies of American colleges on
commercial treaties and policies"
He is a republican in politics,
member Of the Presbyterian church
which follows the teachings of the
maniac. John Calvin, who burned
Servetius at the stake for disagreeing
with him on biblical Interpretation;
a shining light in the Rotary club. He
halls from Emporia, Kansas, whose
leading citizen is the clownish news
paper editor, William Allen White.
BY birth, education. training and en-
vironment he is eminently fitted to
play his present role of vassal Of
American Imperialism.
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Mistaken Idea That
Moon Rises IN East

II you were asked where the moon
rises you would probably say, In the
east" And you would be wrong.
True, we see it coming up above the
eastern horizon at night, but that is
simply because the earth, by turning
In its direction, brings it into view.
In reality, the moon rises" In the
west. II there is any doubt on the
point, all that it is necessary to do
Is to watch its progress across the
sky night after night.
It would seem to be moving from
right to left; that is, from west to
east. The stars prove this. One night
1t will be near star In the west and
the next night near another star good
way to the left, or east; then farther
to the east the following night. and
SO on.
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GETTING TOGETHER

Customer-Goodm morning Mr.. Mer-
chant, / want to settle my account
in full. It is a shame for me to have
kept you waiting so long, and / real
ly have no legitimate excuse. I'm
sorry. .,....
Merchant (holding on to counter
Thank you, Ma'am. 1t is fine morn
ing isn't it? a..r......
Customer-You see, 1 didn't under
stand and in talking with a friend
who has studied Economics ETC., !
gained a new idea. I now realize that
you and are really co-partners, and
that our obligations are mutual, and
that they reach back even to the
Houses" from whom you buy your
merchandise, that my wants, among
those others may be effectively sup
piled. l also see how that those
Houses" grant you Notwithstanding
the more, secure, and your reputation
as man, and merchant safe. For
example: If you can discount your
bills at 80 days instead of 60 days,
it gives you better chance to secure
a fair return upon your investment.
Now, if I, and many others keep you
waiting for money, the value of which
I have already received, do you an
injustice, and not only so but others
also, for you will have to charge it
off somewhere, and eventually I be-
come a loser also.
Besides there is my own slef-re-
spect to think of. Why did l not think
of all this before? How selfish. Well,
it will be different from this on, and
1 am sure we understand one another
better already, do we not?
Merchant-Yes, indeed Ma'am.
Customer-Well, good-day Mr..
Merchant, and good luck to you.
Merchant to you, Ma'am.
customer retires). (aside to en-
ployes): Gosh. It's hot, boys. Let's
all go and get a "Cola."
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never made the grade in the long line
of advance. Man has left him far be-
hind, and between man and monkey,
after all similarities have been taken
! care of, "there is great gulf. fixed. !"
P. D. Ouspensky, in his s'Tertium Or
ganum," pages 81, 90 says: <y$ Il
''The invention of the lever imme-
diately divided primitive man from
the animal, and it was inextricably
bound up with the appearance of
concepts. The psychic side Of the I'M
derstanding of the action of the lever
consists in the construction of a COR
rect syllogisn. Without constructing
the syllogism correctly it is impos-
sible to understand the action of
lever. Having syllogism in the psy-
chic sphere is literally the same as
the lever in the physical sphere. His
mastery of the lever differentiates
Man as strongly from the animal as
does speech. Any animal almost can
be taught to operate lever, but it
is unable independently to come to
an understanding Of the principle of
the action of the lever"
Some one said long ago: "There
are some people who prefer to have
come from the zoo but I prefer to
come from the Garden of Eden. The
two groups won't mix. The Bible rec
ord seems safer, and is more cor.
sistent perhaps with the longings of
the human heart in relation to God
and to our fellowman. God said: "I.et
us make Man in our own Image, af-
ter our likeness and following this
out, both in the Book of Nature, and
supremely in the consistent character
of Jesus Christ we shall have greater
desire, deeper incentive, and higher
aspirations toward Holiness, without
which no man can see the Lord.
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ITO THOSE who will take time t,

THO THOSE who will take time to
gaze, rather than take a passing
glimpse, the Book of Nature has
much to reveal. The writer recently
attended series of early morning
services in a grove, comprized Of
pines, and douglas fir trees. An altar
made of stones, cross, symbol of
the Christian faith. Yet the symbols
were wider than that, gathering up
the urge" of the ages that have
past. For example, Two lone trees
marking the entrance" as it were,
to this novel chapel, suggested that
allusion in scripture to the effect that
"God would establish His Kingdom
in Strength" Around the altar, three
trees, in triangular form, suggesting
the three great pillars upon which
it is safe to build Wisdom, Beauty
and Strength; for it takes wisdom
to contrive, strength to support, and
beauty to adorn a temple worthy Of
habitation by the One supreme God
of the universe.
The choir was none other than that
of the Consistory from above, the
feathered songsters, who can put the
human being to shame when it comes
to the question of worship. Then
again, the linen was embroidered
with designs that made one think Of
brother men away back in the misty
past who interpreted their religious
ideas thru symbols. There was the
hypotenuse of the triangle, by which
the Egyptians interpreted their gods
the male, the female, and their off
spring, or Osiris, Isis, and Horus
Above, the canopy of heaven, in fac
the whole atmosphere was such a:
to promote feelings of reverence, as
piration, and soul-hunger for "furth
er light" and, as if the promise were
on the point Of fulillment, brgih
Phoebus shone upon the little com
pany in all His glory. Well may i
be said, with God go where .yol
will; without Him not over the thresh
hold" In religious life vocation can
not be eliminated by vacation.
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MAN OR MONKEY
4 LOWING the possibility rath,

A LOWING the possibility rather
- than probability of mans ascent
from monkey, let US give our forbears
credit, but not all. We have shown
our ability to do most all that the
monkey has ever done, even to eating
nuts, and hunting fleas: TASK the
Cootie boys), but why has evolution
stalled at the stage of "Man ?" There
are many difficulties to overcome
however, before many of us are pre-
pared to allow the relationship. Way
back in the dawn of history man
somehow at some time, and for some
reason, found himself able to articu-
late in speech, and then to reason,
and to act independently of his re-
puted forbears, and the monkey has
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THE ACTING EDITOI
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MisDIaced Sympathy

When Sir Henry Hawkins, the Ia
nous Judge, was practicing at the par,
on one occasion having the prisoner
children present in the courtroom our
ing his summing up. by his pathenc
references to these weeping children
he so worked on the sympathies OF the
Jurors that they promptly set the pris,
oner free. A few days later frleno
told him he had been walking In tne
neighborhood of the prisoners nome
during the early days of the trial .and
had seen these same children piayihs
at hanging cat, at the same time sing
ing at the top of their voices: Ihls Is
the way daddy will go.