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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
GIBSON SPRING CO.
INSTALLS MACHINES,
HIRES GIRLS CHEAP

The lockout by the Gibson Spring
Co. Of union maehinlsts who refused
to agree to a nine-hour day has been
loaded against the workers by in
stalIation Of automatic power ma
chlnery that dispIaces skilled expe-
rlenced workers with unorasnized,
unskiIIed girls.
The concern. which for the past
ten years padir the highest wages in
the spring making industry in Chi
caeo, is now lined up with the open
shop forces in the National Metal
Trades Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
Soviet Union Builds Ships.

MOSCOW. - The central govern.
ment of the U. S. S. r. has ratified
a ship-building program for the com
ing three years. according to which
two hundred and seven vessels, for a
total sum of 100000 roubles, are
to be constructed in the ship-building
works of the u. S. S. r.. only an in
significant part to be ordered abroad
The work will begin within this cur
rent year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
DICTATOR RIVERA AND
SPANISH COUNT FIGHT
OVER MOROCCO INSULT

PARIS, Aug. s.-FrictIon between
General Primo de Rivera, head of
the Spanish directory, and count
Romanones, the last premier before
the military regime, may lead to Sc
rious consequences, dispatches from
San Sebastian indicate.
Romanones who Is living in VI
ehy, France, challenged the general
TO a duel because certain Spanish
newspapers published articles re-
gardIna the death Of the counts son
In Morocco which the count eonsl-
dered unIustIfied. Young Romanones
was a lieutenant In the Spanish COL
onIal forces.
General de Rivera replied to the
ohallenee with letter published in
the newspapers, treating the whole
matter In a humorous vein.
Count Romanones was reported
lncensed with the reply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
SILK WORKERS
MAY STRIKE IN
As N. J. SHOPS

PATERSON, n. j., Aug. 9.-There
will be strike of 1900 ribbon weav-
ers in As silk mills if manufacturers
do not confer with workers on de-
mands for increased wages this week.
The Associated Silk Workers ribbon
and hatband department and Local
$50 of United Textile Workers are CO.
operating on demands and announce
Jointly the intention to strike. Hat
band workers ask a s36 weekly mini
mum wage, 44-hour week continued.
and return to the blue book price
list.
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conn. Labor Rehind strIke

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug pat
rick OMeara, president Connecticut
Federation of Labor, denounced brick
manufacturers who are denying the
workers the right to organize and at
tackled the company housing scheme
that is in use.
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had no freedom of movement ami ,
could not examine that which inter-
ested rs.
However, we have the fullest free
dom and have met with the greatest
readiness on the part of the Russian
workers and we have seen that Rus
sIa has become land OF the workers
and that in few years Russia will
be able to compete with the capitalist
countries economically with the great
est success"
Prejudieed Socialist Admits NEW
World Created"
The social democratic delegate
Theodor Oberhegen writes:
Despite a certain amount Of pre-
judice with which came here. and
despite the fact that | have not yet
formed a definite opinion upon that
which have seen, can already say
that in Soviet Russia the basis of
new world has been created, a world
in which all people can be happy
THE consciousness of the masses
has given the Russian workers the
possibility OF bearing material want.
am astounded at the sacrificing love
devoted by Communist Russia to its
social order. Long Live the revolu-
tionary will of the Russian workers."
In his capacity as a member of the
political commission OF the German
workers delegation. Oberhagen de-
clared to representatives Of the press:
Very crltleaI-But contesses Work
ing Glass Triumph
AS a social-democrat | approach
everything in a more critical spirit
than the others. Perhaps this will not
be pieasurable to everyone. shall
put many questions in connection
with the scepticism which to a GER
tain extent exists abroad in relation
to Soviet Russia. | shall hold it tc
be my duty to defend in Germany
with all means what | recognize tC
be the truth.
81 must confess that the picture
which have seen here of the triumph
Of the power of the working class hai
made a great impression upon me
Despite a few deficiencies which
have already noticed, l can see how |
new world is coming into being her
and how great the achievements 0
he Russian working class really are
A member of the industrial CON
mission OF the German workers dele
cation, the metal worker Schaudt 0
Nuremberg declared to press repre-
sentatives:
Real Cooperation Between Admin
stration and Workers
"our commission is composed Of n
representatives. from various branche
: of industry We want to study Sovie
industry with ell its positive and M
! gative sides in order to be able t
!. make an objective report upon tn
efforts OF the Leningrad workin
. class when we return.
a "Our visits to the Putilov Worker
gave us the impression that the rels
lions between the workers and tn
administration. between the sho
!. councils, the administration ond tn
4 workers were relations of real &C
!. operation.
b Directors Not Of snobby Better
a Class
e Here in Russia in contradistinC
g ton to Germany. the factory direct
: ors and engineers are not people o
!. a better class. they do not conside
: themselves above the workers. Her
in Russia everything is concentrate
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international unity, and the VIC
tory of the workers and OF so
Uialism in the whole world.
The Moscow trade union council
greeted the delegation in the same
spirit and in the name of million
organized pedestrians in Moscow
Greetings were also made by the Pre-
8idium Of the Moscow Soviet and
many other organizations.
Russians Learned from Germans
Comrade Krupskaya, Lenin's widow,
writes IN the Pravada:
thirty years ago when the Rus
sian working class movement was
making its hrst steps, we learnt Gag
erly from the German social democ-
racy, and not only the names of Marx
and Engels were dear to us, but also
those of Wilhelm Liebknecht and
Bebel.
I'VE studied every word Of the lead
ers OF the German social democracy
and therefore our revolution, orr
Soviet power, is not only the result Of
your and our earlier leaders teaching,
but 1t is directly your child. We
recognize this openly.
History has taken such course
that it is in backward Russia that the
working class seized the state power
earlier than in the other countries.
and now it is using it to build up
uew life.
without a far developed work
ing class movement this could never
have been possible under any circum-
stances. It would have been impos-
vible without the theology Of the pro-
Istariat clearly formulated by Marx
and Engels and by your other old
leaders.
"The present leaders Of the Ger
man social-democracy reject their
child, all the worse for them. The
working class of Germany feels its
blood relationship with the working
class of the Soviet Union. 1t will use
our revolutionary experience, our
achievements and even our mistakes
b order to strengthen its own forces
h the coming and unavoidable strug
gle with the capitalist world.
Comrade Trotsky writes in the
Pravda, official organ of the Russian
Communist Party:
Have we any interest in presenting
pur work, and our life to our foreign
kuests from the working class in q
better light than actually? In no
way.
"The cause which we are carrying
on is so great, so historically victor
lous that the revolutionary effect Of
our work will be all the greater when
our guests see the difficulties, defici
encies and weaknesses of our situa
ton.
M 1T is in our interest that the for
eign comrades see the internal and ex
ternal dangers in their complete ex
tent
"One thing we can show our guests
that the Kautsky's, Bauer's and Adler's
have lied to them when the former
said that we.had betrayed the October
revolution to the capitalists.
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GERMAN WORKERS BEGIN TO SAY lvz
WHAT THEY THINK OF SITUATION
OF WORKERS UNDER SOVIET RULE

MOSCOW July Man)The Lenngad Pravda publishes
article Of the member of the Ansbch which
other things he writes:
I'VE have only but already able
The
press published lying reports tho we
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Painter is Drowned

BOSTON, Mass. August 9.-(FP).
Michael Connors, young painter
working on the girders under the
West Boston Bridge, fell from the
plank into the Charles River and
was drowned.
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Charlottenburg Detective Agency, con.
nected with various officials Of the
Berlin police presidium.
30 Dittmsr, Maxim Napoleonovitch
German from Esthonia. Esthonian citi-
zen. in close relations with the Estbon-
an embassy and also with Russian
White guardist circles in Germany and
Esthonia, went to Esthonia as a cour.
Ter, participated in the carrying out
Of various terrorist acts by the organ
lzation consul
Concrete tasks for the carrying out
OF terrorist acts were put to us IN
secret sessions in July and August,
1924. and tho plans OF the expedition
vcro discussed with us.
Planned to Kill Stain, Trotsky.
Our intention was to come In.
contact with Trotsky AMI Stain TIM
the recommendations in the meabtlUie
received to Lunarcharsky and Krup.
skaya and to carry out attempts
against Stain and Trotsky In order
to win still more the confidence of the
Soviet leaders,. we interested liberal
and Soviet.friendly politicians in the
purely scientific side OF the expedition.
so, for instance, we received the sup
port of Theodor Liebknecht and oskar
Cohn and also instructions or scienti-
fic correspondence for the Berliner
Tageblatt thru its chief editor Herr
Wolf.
Il the undersigned Karl Kinder
mann, journeyed with Wolscht, with
German passes, and with count Dit
MARI with an Esthonlan diplomatic
pass, which the latter destroyed upon
our arrival In Moscow and gave out In
order to mislead. that It had been
stolen from him In the tramway
After our arrival In Moscow we com
menced by working out the topo
graphical details of our plan, recon
offering the ofhces and homes of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
SUNDAY PUESSOF MOSCOWN
BUOADSIDE OF WELCOME TO The
GERMAN WORKERS DELEGATION
tRy International Press correspOndenee.l

MOSCOW, July 2o--(By MaiI.)-The whole Sunday press
M Moscow appeared with greetings the German workers dele
cation printed in German.
The Committees of the Russian Communist Party
declared in its greetings that hoped that the fact that the
delegation would workers Moscow reality and
learn the the political and life in
Soviet Union would working solidarity
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soviet Union Mskes cold coIns.

Soviet Union Makes Gold Coins.
MISUNDERSTANDING at an Alum
ion Delegate Conference of institutions
of the Peoples Commissariat of Fin.
ance, Sokolnikoff. the Commissary OF
Finance of the U. S. S. r. mentioned,
among other things, that the gold
"Chervontzy" (10-ro1bles coins) sctu-
ally being coined were designed for
the needs of the y. S. s. R. CONNER
cial transactions with China, Persia
and Afghanistan.
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upon one aim: Work, work to build
up the new economy.
For this reason work in the Soviet
Union is a pleasure and we are glad
to have been able to see such work.
Nothing could be. more desirable then
the establishment Of such conditions
of labor in our own country"
The trade union commission Of the
German workers delegation first ex-
amined the shop councils of the Putt
Low Works. All three members of this
commission. Freiberger, Brotog and
Zalm signed the following report:
Trade Union Commission Signs
Statement
after having studied the situation
of the shop councils in the Putilov
Works. we have come to the conclu-
sion that the rights Of the Russian
shop councils are tremendously much
greater thon those Of the German,
Before our. departure we were told
that in the Soviet Union there were
no shop councils at all In actually
however, exactly the opposite is the
case. The significance and the power
Of the Russian shop councils are ire
mendous and unshakable"
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City Laborers Raised.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Aug. City
'laborers have been raised rs cents
day.
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Directors Not Of snobby Better
Class"

Here in Russia in contradistinc-
ton to Germany. the factory direct
ors and engineers are not people Of
a better class they do not consider
themselves above the workers Here
In Russia everything is concentrated
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-11-20

tues. The authentic records of the
Mayfiower's long voyage do not reveal
how these Pilgrim women kept clean
at sea. For they had some very rough
weather: and the Mayflower, though
seaworthy, was not much of ship.
She was of only $50 tons. She had
102 passengers-men, women, and chill
dren-and Of course crew. And she
was loaded to the last inch of avail
able space with household goods and
the wherewithal for the new colony.
The records set forth that some OF
the Mayflower women were seasick.
And seasickness-the real seasickness,
when you are not afraid that you will
die, but are afraid that you will not
will play havoc with the ideals OF
us that American institution.
Anyway, what was the very first
thing these Pilgrim women did-after
the Mayfiower had anchored inside
Cape Cod and they had upon their
knees given thanks to "the' God in
Heaven, who had brought them over
the vast and furious ocean, and de-
livered them from all the periles and
miseries thereof, againe to set their
fete on the firme and stable earth,
their proper elemente"?
Why these Mayiower women pro-
ceeded to have one grand wash-day |!
And the "punkin pie"-and why
anyone should say pumpkin pie" Is
one of the mysteries, even If one feels
obliged to write 1t that way. 1t would
never do to lose sight Of the fact that
it was the Mayfiower women who gave
us that American institution.
When the Mayfiower women arrived
they found the Indian practicing a
wonderfully simple and logical kind
of agriculture He-or rather she, for
the squaws did all the work-made a
hole, dropped in several grains OF
corn and a climbing bean. Between
the corn rows the squaw planted pump
kin seeds. When the pumpkin was
ripe 1t was stewed and eaten. either
by itself or mixed with corn or beans
or dried berries. r
And it was out of this inspired
pumpkin that the genius of the May
flower women evolved the pumpkin
Die. And what would be Thanksgiv-
ing-without pumpkin pie? 1t would
be much like Hamlet" with Hamlet
left out. Oh, yes; most pie is good,
but along about the last Thursday In
November the Mayfiower woman's
contribution to the upbuilding of the
nation is sure-enough headliner on
the bill of fare. Millions of Thanks
giving ,feasters who don't know that
there's any difference between Pilgrim
and Puritan will rise up and call her
blessed.
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JOINED IN PICKING a
SICK MANS COTTON

The question Of a certain lawyer,
sand who is my neighbour" was an
swered with the parable Of the Good
Samaritan. That was about 1000
years ago. says the Memphis CONNER
cial Appeal.
1t was answered again few days
ago by some good people In Carroll
county. Tennessee. Af1iiction had laid
Its hand heavily on the family Of a
poor farmer In Carroll. For six weeks
the man, his wife and two children had
been down with typhoid fever,
The sick man had little cotton
crop. 1t doesn't matter how much
lotion farmer plants and grows, nor
how good the cotton, 1t isn't worth
anything unless 1t is picked.
There is q big demand for cotton
pickers at this time. They are being
imported by the hundreds. This sick
man couldn't pick his cotton and he
was in fair way to lose 1t. His
neighbors had their own cotton to
pick and other farm duties to attend
to, but
Eighty OF them went into the field
o. this sizes man and gathered his crop
for him. They saved the cotton and
the cost o. picking 1t.
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WE AMERICANS
BY THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

/" A MOTHER American couple has
"A come to the hotel this after
noon," the proprietor of the Ferry said
to Nancy and me. land perhaps you
would like to meet them"
We had been the only Americans at
the hotel so far and were glad to know
that there would be someone else now
to appeal to the interest and the curl
osity Of the English guests.
THANK you" ] replied, Il should
very much like to meet them, but
think could without difficulty recog-
nize them shortly after they come into
the dining ROOM"
slow is that?" he inquired. docs
nm American look different from an
Englishman?"
+ "It's not that" answered, 'but we
all give ourselves away"
you'll recognize them, of course,
by their dialect" Nancy said to me.
"That would be quite easy" I re-
piled.
We were little late to dinner that
evening, and the tables were well filled
when we entered. There were five
strange couples scattered about, no
one of which had been in the dining
room before during our stay, and no
one of them near enough for us to
catch their accent, or to get a look
at their Shoes so those two methods
of identification were eliminated. A
sxrAI~ In off0r
seated, but he entered first and she
followed, so that eliminated them from
the running. The American man al
ways trails along behind his wife.
"We1l solve the problem by
process of elimination" / said to
Nancy, "and you can help"
We eliminated the next couple be-
cause, though we could not hear what
he was saying, it was apparent that
the man was giving to the waiter the
order for the various courses without
consulting his wife as to her especial
desires.
The next woman went because her
dress was so long ago out of style that
Nancy was sure nO AAHeiiSah "oniaA
who had money enough to go to Eu-
rope would ever wear a gown. no mat
ter how we'll preserved it was, If 1t
were ten years behind the styles.
There were three left from which to
pick the winner. OF these three
couples the woman at one table was
smoking. the woman at another table
was drinking beer, and the third wom-
an had brought dog into the dining
room with her. -
"The dog means English" l said.
for every other woman you meet in
England is being led about by dog
usually a Scotch terrier. So she
dropped out.
swell. some American women drink,
and not a few smoke" Nancy re-
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Providence which has SO often inter-
posed to assist our progress as ma
ton. And surely no people have SO
much cause for thanksgiving. Today
the United States of America is the
most happy, prosperous and powerful
nation of earth. So 1t is most natural
that at Thanksgiving time the national
thought should go back to Plymouth
Rock where three hundred years ago
the observance Of Thanksgiving Day
had its origin.
But Thanksgiving is a day Of feast
ing, family reunions and jollity, as
we'll as of thanksgiving. So 1t is in
keeping with the spirit Of the day to
make review of the Mayfiower Women
from witchcraft to pumpkin pie.
The Pilgrim woman was evidently
a woman OF common sense. And, like
"a good deed in a naughty world" q
woman with the saving grace of COM
mon sense is a ''joy forever" whether
or no she is a .'thing of beauty" How
do we know that the Pilgrim women
had any unusual amount of common
sense? Well, there's the witchcraft
craze, for one thing.
Salem and Boston. you know, were
at one time obsessed by witchcraft
frenzy. These were Puritan settle
ments. This frenzy was so violent
that women were hanged for being
witches. And If the records of the
time do the fair sex no wrong, 1t was
usually woman who brought the ac-
cusation of witchcraft and testified
in court to the most extraordinary
details of witchcraft.
The Plymouth women refused to
have any part in the witchcraft craze.
There were, If memory serves, but two
witchcraft cases in the colony. The
first case was that of Dinah Sylvester,
who accused Mrs. Holmes of witch
craft. She told in court how she saw
her neighbor plotting evil with the
Devil himself, who had assumed for
the occasion the form of bear. Evil
IDENTIFY terrible case of witchcraft /!
The court, nevertheless, refused to
believe either in the witchcraft of Mrs.
Holmes or in the Devil-bear. 1t ac-
quilted Mrs. Holmes. Moreover, it
decided that Dinah Sylvester's charge
was just SANDER, plain and simple.
So it gave Dinah Sylvester her choice
between paying Mrs. Holmes five Eng
lish pounds as damages for that SIAN
der or being publicly whipped. And
the women of Plymouth approved the
verdict. Several years later the Sec
ond case came to trial and was
laughed out Of court
Then, too, the Mayfiower women
were Clearly lot. And cleanliness
in a woman is high among the vir-
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$50 you can't decide it on that

marked, $50 you can't decide 1t on that
basis"
II have 1t solved" I said. ITS the
woman who is smoking. She doesn't
look like an American, but she's had
two glasses of water since I've been
watching her, and she hold her fork
in her right hand and eats from the
front Of It,"
There was no doubt of 1t. An Eng
lishman almost never drinks water.
and when eating he uses both knife
and fork piling his food on the back
of his fork with his knife as sort Of
''pusher."
I found afterwards that + had
guessed correctly.
%. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-11-20
InterIarded Proposal

From an English book: at was at
the luncheon table that he proposed
to me and he wasn't at all put out
Mt the arrival of the waitress. You
know, my dear GIRL he began, that
] have grown very. very fond of you.
Wen have something cold, waitress.
Cold beef for two. / want you to
be my wife. Yes. salad, please. You
are quite Indispensable to me- Boiled.
If you're sure they're mealy-other-
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Honesty Not Extinct

R. F. Prince. farmer, of Wilbur. Neb..
inadvertently placed a package con-
tanning $4,000 worth of bonds under a
rear seat in an automobile he thought
was his own recently. Coming back
later he discovered his mistake, but
was not perturbed. Everybody around
here Is honest" he said. II will get
them back"
He advertised the lost bonds in the
county paper and they were promptly
returned to him by Joe Savaro, who
found them in his car. remarks Cap
per's Weekly.
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searching in vain for good catch of
mackerel for a canning factory. big
school Of mackerel swan through the
open space in the breakwater and d.
rectly to the canning factory wharfs.
The fish were easily netted, and by
the time the fishermen returned with
a small catch the fish had been sailed
down in barrels.
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Obliging Mackerel

The mackerel in the waters around
South Portland, Maine, are the most
obliging in the history of ichthyology.
They are SO accommodating. in fact,
they threaten to put fishermen there
abouts out Of business.
While fishermen were 20 miles out