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The Washington times., 1925-05-27
.CONOW|NGOS|TE
Of BIC POWER
PROJECT
Eastern Financial Interests
to Build Largest Hydro
Plant in Country

Construction of a $S7 7,OOO,OO
suner.hydroelectric power plant at
Conowinro, on the Susquehanna
river. Maryland, Is being planned
bv q group of powerful Eastern
financial interests, 1t was stated
TODAY by Henry F. Broening, presi-
dent of the Baltimore Labor Con-
ference.
The proposed plant, it is said,
will be second to none in the coun-
try, not even excepting the great
Muscle Shoals plant. The Como
wingo power plant, 1t is planned,
will supply current to Philadelphia,
Baltimore and cities in the closer
portions of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. Current may be wired to
Washington IL the proposed con-
struction of local hydro-electric
plant at Great Falls fails to
materialiZe.
There is now a great struggle for
power being waged between the fin
ancial groups that recently fought
for purchase of the Dodge Auto
mobile Company, Broening said.
One of the groups behind the
Conowingo project, it Is said, ls
that of r.. P. Morgan.
The Consolidated Gas and Elec-
trio Company, OF Baltimore, also is
in the fight for the Conowingo
rights, Broening said. This COM
pany has gradually reached beyond
the city limits of Baltimore and
has entered the power fight in
northeastern Maryland. The Nor
gan interests, it Is said, have begun
to build up a distribution service by
purchasing several small Mary
land power concerns, which will be
supplanted by the Conowingo plant.
The Washington times., 1925-05-27
MANY CHART TIES
BENEFIT BY
WILL
Wife Given Bulk Of Hugh Wall.
lis Estate. With Legacies
Going to Other Kin

The First Presbyterian Church Of
this city is to receive $1,000 under
the win of Hugh Wallis, restaurant
proprietor and head Of the Wallis
Co. Inc, disposing of an estate
of about $500 900 and filed for
probate yesterday. The Washington
Home for FoundIings, the Washing
ton Home for Incurables, the play
grounds department Of the District.
the Montgomery County General
Hospital and the Washington Sani-
tarium, Takoma Park, Nd, are re-
membered with a cash bequest of
50, 500 each.
The will, which Is dated March
"a. 1928, has been admitted to
probate in the Orphans Court at
The Washington times., 1925-05-27
THE PRESIDENTS
ENGAGEMENTS

1O-General HI. NJ. Lord.
1880 Senator GOff, West
Virginia.
1O:45-FOrmer Senator Ster-
ling. South Dakota, and Fred
Fishberg.
11-Hamilton Fish, New
York.
I1:l5-COngressman Knutson.
Minnesota.
IIs3O-Captain Harold III.
Flower. Springfield, Mass.
11A5-CeneraI John H.
Dunn, cOn1mander.in-chief, Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars.
I2-NOrval T. Nichols, com.
missioner Of immigration, Porto
Rico.
I2.15-Bishop william Nc.
Dowell.
5-American League Park
review OF Twenty.fourth Regl-
ment, High School Cadets.
The Washington times., 1925-05-27
STRIKE IN TAMPIco OIL
DISTRICT SEEMS CERTAIN

MEXICO CITY, May 27.-A gen
eral strike in the vast Tampico oil
zone is unavoidable and may be
called today, despite President Cal
les determination to prevent the
strike and his action in sending
troops to the OH 1eIds, officials
stated today.
The Washington times., 1925-05-27
Pupils to Give Play

The Maury Home and School
Association will meet at the Ep-
worth Methodist Episcopal Church
next Monday night. Fourth grade
pupils will give q two-act play.
The Washington times., 1925-05-27
Cathedral Heights Meeting

Al special meeting OF the Cath
edral Heights Citizens Association
to select nominee for District Com
missioner win be Eeld at o'clock
tonight in st. Adams Hall.
The Washington times., 1925-05-27

probably be returned to the train
ing school. He formerly lived with
his parents in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
The Irish Famine

Renewed efforts should be made to raise funds
for the relief Of the famine stricken workers and
peasants in the west Of Ireland who are con
fronted with the prospect of slow and lingering
death thru starvation unless the workers of the
world rally to their aid
Considerable skepticism as to the extent of the
famine is met with and this is not surprising in
view Of the propaganda put out by the Free State
government ably assisted by the catholic clergy of
Ireland and the United States The Free State
threw few sops to the people of the famine
region before the last elections. When the cleo
tons were over, they locked the treasury door,
Because famine hurts the credit of capitalist
nation which puts the interests of businessmen
above human life, the Free State disapproves of
efforts to raise money for the starving peasantry
Officials Of that government have warned editors
in the west of Ireland to "cut out that famine
stuff" And the Free State government is not
particular about the weapons it uses in order to
make its wishes respected. It's methods are differ
ent only in degree from those of Zankov of Bull
garia.
The Peasants International recently issued a
manifesto calling the peasants of all countries
to send help to their brothers and sisters in Ire
land. The industrial proletariat must do the
same. Let us help and help quickly before it is too
late, people that produced a revolutionary leader
like James Connolly who raised the flag of revolt
against British imperialism in 1916 when the
bodies of the prOletariat were being manged on
the battlefelds of Europe and their leaders, who
had sworn to serve in the international army of
labor, had betrayed the cause and the millions who
trusted their leadership.
On the ninth anniversary Of the Communist
Connolly's DEATH the workers of this country
could honor his memory in no better way than by
do this by relieving the sufferings of the work
ers and peasants whom Connolly loved so well that
he gave his life to emancipate them. And in add
ton they will strengthen the bonds of international
solidarity and help bring the Irish workers closer
to the revolutionary battalions that are marching
forward in spite of all obstacles to the conquest
of power and the ownership of their world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
SadouI Offers Services to French
Communist Party

ON the evening Of his acquittal Cap
~ tain Jacques Sadoul met with a
tremendous ovation from thousands of
Paris workers. Sadoul made his first
appearance as a free man at mass
meeting held by the Paris Communist
Party to launch the municipal election
campaign. fafsa
The meeting was held at the huge
Luna Park hall, and was filed to
overfowing. Comrade Marcel Cachin
had opened the meeting, pointing out
the necessity Of conquering the NUM-
cipal governments, and directing a
stinging attack against the left wing
government.
1--WE have gone thru the experience
of radical-socialist government" he
said. ut is dying in impotence-it
has accomplished none of the things
that it promised. By its weakness,
it has left the way clear for fascism."
Comrade Marguerite Faussecauve
followed Cachin, and while she was
speaking. Sadoul entered the hall, ac-
companied by his lawyer, Berthon.
Paris Workers Greet SadouI.
AS soon as the audience caught
sight of Sadoul, thunderous applause
swept thru the hall, and he was
caught up and borne in triumph to the
platform, amidst shouts of Amnesty"
and 1.-THE Soviets, the Soviets!" and
the singing of the International. Great
excitement had been aroused among
the French workers by the trial of Sa-
doul, who is looked upon not only as
a French comrade, but also as a mes
senger from the Russian workers re-
public.
Deeply moved by the demonstra-
ton, Sadoul greeted the Paris work
ers after his seven years exile.
From lawyer" he said, 81 have
become man of action. have come
to the proletariat for action l want
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Coming Struggle of Polish Miners

THE coal bosses of Poland have sig
L nified their intention of cutting min
ers' wages 10 per cent. The workers
of the Dombrowa region, who have
been suffering intensely for a long
time from the exorbitant cost Of liv-
ing and unemployment, have decided
to fight the wage cut. The coal bosses
give the "unproductivity of labor" as
Justification for the decrease, but sta
.istics show that this excuse is in
iirect contradiction to the facts.
According to official figures, in jan
uary, 1924, there were 224,OOO miners
producing 100000 tons monthly, and
in November, 1924, 100000, producing
100000 tons monthly. In other
words, after $4,000 miners had been
dismissed, monthly coal production
rase $4,000 tons, production being
raised by 973 kilos per miner. Wages,
however, underwent a IA per cent re-
duction in the course of the same per-
iod.
The enormous Increase in profits
accrueing to the coal barons during
this period is evident from the follow
ing figures:
l. The total reduction in wage
costs, due to the reduction in person
mel, 100000 zloti (about $SSO,OOO)
monthly.
2. The total production in wage
costs due to the IA per cent decreases,
total: 2,142,OO zloti (about $1O7, O0OJ.
8. The abolition of the coal tax,
4,6SO,OOO zloti (about $234,OOO). This
makes a total of. 14,422,0 900 zloti sup
Elementary profits. The demands for
a wage cut is meeting with bitter OPP
position on the part of the rank and
file of the miners unions, and it seems
very probable that a general strike
will be provoked by this latest at
tempt on the part of the bosses to
make the already wretched condition
of the Polish miners still worse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Liebkneoht's Murder is Proved

THE bourgeois Vienna newspaper,
4 Die Stunde, publishes sensational
revelations in connection with the as
sassination Of Karl Liebknecht, com
pletely confirming the version of the
shooting which has been consistent
ly maintained by the Communists.
The paper gives three photographs.
which conclusively establish the fact
that the evidence given at the trial
held after the shooting was abso-
lutely false. The photographs, which
were taken at the hospital to which
Liebknecht's body was carried after
the murder, show that Liebknecht
could not possibly have been shot at a
distance Of six metres while trying to
escape from his captors, as was al
legged, but that he was shot point
blank, at the closest quarters, the
bullets entering the breast, and not
the back, as was claimed.
The photographs were given out by
a DR.. jacob, who was in attendance
at the hospital to which the body
was brought. Die Stunde declares
that the Photographic plates are still
in the possession Of the Berlin po-
lice.
This absolute confirmation Of the
fact of Liebknecht's deliberate muir
der has aroused intense excitement
among the German workers. The Rote
Fahne is demanding the immediate re-
opening of the case, and an 'investi-
cation into the culpability of the for
mer Berlin chief of police, Ernst, who
seized and concealed the incriminat-
ing plates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Notes of the international Labor Movement

who personally created this will to
unity, 1t was the working masses in
the shops, and mills and mines who
felt the absolute necessity for unity in
the face Of the menace Of world reac-
ton, who pushed on their chiefs, the
latter only giving expression to the
thought Of millions of wage workers
"The unity that we wish is not a
marriage between red and yellow
leaders, It is not a sentimental ALI
ance, it is basic union of the mass
es. And we, the minority, say that in
this unity we must keep our abso-
lutte right to struggle against the So
cial democratic conceptions of class
collaboration and for our revolution
airy principles"
eve hope that the delegates to the
national committee will return to the
laboring masses of France and show
them forcibly that it is absolutely
necessary to work for unity, which
alone will permit the conquest Of cap
italism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10

conditions In the mining villages were
beyond description. Imagine 100000
men taking home each week amounts
varying between the paltry sums Of
20 shillings and so shillings. (About
$4.S4 and $12.1S)
On the other hand, during the last
ten years the employers had made
nearly SO0,O00,Oo0 pounds Of profits.
The mine owners had opposed every
attempt to improve the standard OF
living Of the mine workers, and had
even opposed the introduction of legis-
lation designed to ensure the safety
of men in the mines.
Bad as were present conditions,
they had only secured them in the
teeth of the most violent opposition
of the coal owners.
Since Black Friday wages in the ma
jority of districts had been reduced
by 80 per cent, and, not content. with
this, the owners were further attack
ing the basic rates, pit by pit, and
district by district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Red War Veterans Meet

THE Fifth Congress of the Interna-
4 tional Veterans Association was re-
Gently held in the Hamburg Trade
Union Hall, With Comrade PECK,
Communist reichstag deputy, presid-
ing. There were present 1872 dele
gates from all parts of Germany, as
well as delegations from Austria, Bel
GUM and France. The reichstag
Communist fraction, the International
Workers Aid, and the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions, were all rep
resented. The reformist trade unions
declined the invitation to attend.
A large part of the delegates were
social democrat and non-party. Col
lective affiliation to the Red Aid was
decided on.
After the congress a delegation
went to the Fuehlsbuttel fortress, to
greet Comrade Urbans, sentenced to
twelve years hard labor for leadership
of the Hamburg Instruction of 1923,
and the other imprisoned comrades.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Communists In German shop
Committees

TIME German Communists are stead.
= lily extending their influence in the
shop committees. In the recent shop
committee elections held in the i'm
portant industrial Halle districy, the
majority of members elected we're
Communists. In the great Schwartz
kopf shops in Berlin the votes were
distributed as follows: Social-demo-
Gratis, SOL; Hirsch-dunker, 1872; Com
munists and sympathizers, 956. In
the shop committee Of the largest
metal works in Reimscheid, the Com
munists obtained SO2 votes Give dele
gates); the reformists 237 Zone dele
gate); the Hirsch-dunckers and Chris
tian unions, together 759 Give dele
gates). In this last case the victory
Of the Communists is especially sig
nifcant in view Of the fact that fol-
lowing last years strike, all the Com
munist members Of the shop commit
tees were dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Joking" in Dixie

From Bristol, Virginia, comes a story that ex-
plains more than the incident with which it deals.
A young girl announces that she has been attacked
by a Negro mob is formed, a man-hunt starts
two Negroes are seized and all is ready for that
most enjoyable of southern pastimes-a lynching
of a black man-when the girl admits, under
pressure from the few sane persons present, that
she was only "joking."
How many Negroes have been sent to their
deaths in similar cases will never be known, but
if the records could be probed and the evidence
collected it would be found that with negligible
exceptions the crime Of rape the ostensible reason
for their murder, was either imaginary or had been
fastened on black man to protect some white
seducer by mental process with which all psyche
pathists are familiar.
The accusation Of rape affords a convenient ex-
for the periodical acts of terrorism fomented
and INDUCED in by the southern ruling class to
keep the Negro population properly inundated.
The whole southern atmosphere is such that I'M
balanced white women are the exception rather
than the rule and any sensation-seeking female
can always aid a mob in securing Negro victim.
In this reeking southern cesspool where sadistic
degeneracy is an effective weapon of the white
exploiters, where yestigial remains of medieval
chivalry have crossed with the most disgusting
forms Of sexual perversion to form monstrous
offspring whose bloody orgies are reported by the
capitalist press with favorable comment, only mill
tant organization Of the Negro workers and farm
ers and alliance with the conscious white workers
who repudiate the persecution Of the Negroes,
can wipe out this result Of suppression of one race
by another.
Such an alliance has more than a sentimental
foundation. II must and will be consummated be-
cause the whole purpose Of these attacks on Ne
groes is to keep them subject class lower in the
social scale than the white workers, and by dis
sension and division Of their forces lower the liv
ing standards Of both, leaving the bosses and land
lords supreme.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
Swedish Union Delegation to
U. S. S. r.
DELEGATION Of Swedish trade

A DELEGATION of Swedish trade
II unionists is now visiting the U.
S. S. R., carrying on a searching in
vestigation into factories, trade union
organizations and co-operatives. The
delegation has been very deeply i'm
pressed by what they have seen. Mat
lin, one Of the delegates, and editor
of Swedish social democratic pa
per, confessed that he had arranged
with his party press to send them ma
terial to be used in attacking the
Communists, but that since coming to
Russia he had been convinced that
his former conception of the Soviet
government and Communism was err
roneous, and that the Soviet Union
had accomplished tremendous things
by the co-ordinated effort of workers
and specialists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
British Miners Must Fight

THE subcommittee of the executive
l. of the Miners Federation of Great
Britain which has been comforting
with the mine owners has made no
progress, and the only course now
open to the miners is to call further
delegate conference, formulate their
wage demands and organize to fight
for them. The Minority Cleft wing)
Movement in the unions is keeping
up energetic propaganda for the form
uIation of united front of miners,
metal and transport workers against
the capitalist offensive on wages and
hours which they are all facing.
A. ]. Cook, secretary of the Miners
Federation, and a leader of the Minor
ity Movement presented the situatio,
forcefully in a recent address:
"This year will see the greatest
struggle of British workers. Our on
ly hope lies in united front both po-
litically and industrially."
Industry today, he said, was stag
nant, and men, women and children
were suffering more acutely than at
any time within living experience.
The policy of the employers was
to get uniformity of conditions based
on those of the worst conditions Of
any body Of workers in Europe.
II must be understood that the min
ers Of Britain were not going back
Rather were they going to strive to
the utmost to bring their comrades
in other countries up to a higher
standard.
Referring to the state Of the mining
industry, Cook said It must first be
understood that coal, land, machin-
cry, and capital assets today belong
ed to private individuals linked to-
gether in trusts and combines which
controlled industry. The workers in
industry had to no control whatever
over production and consumption.
They were simply the wage slaves
who were made use of when the en-
ployers so desired.
II was now admitted that tho wages
Of the miners we're a scandal and dis.
grace 10 . civilized community. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10

to share in the revolutionary action
Of the French proletariat az did in
the revolutionary action Of the Rus
sian. You can count on me, and use
me. want to work, and you can
count on my complete devotion"
As Sadoul ended, the international
was sung again, and shouts for am
nesty and the Soviets again ran thru
the hall.
SadouI Trial and Aoqulttal.
sadoul was acquitted by four votes
to three Of the charges Of desertion
and Of intelligence with the enemy"
in Russia in 1918.
1t was the second court martial
The first, in 1919, condemned him to
death in his absence. He returned to
France last December to demand a
retrial, and was at once arrested.
Among those who gave evidence on
his behalf were M. Rakovsky, NJ. AL
bert Thomas and M. Henri Barbusse.
A letter was also read from M. Trot-
sky.
Sadouls defense was simple and
straightforward. He declared himself
revolutionary and acknowledged
that he had taken service with the
Soviet government. But he had not
done so until after the war. At the
time when he was serving the best
interests Of France by urging the Am.
bassador M. Noulens, to recognize and
help the new Soviet Republic.
From the day of their advent 70
power" he declared in court, 'Lsnin
and Trotsky appealed constantly to
the French military authorities for
help in continuing the war against
Germany. But M. Noulens refused.
and the peace of Brest-Litovsk was
signed.
"The Noulens-Clemenceau policy was
responsible for the treaty Of Brest,
which prolonged the war. On their
shoulders rests responsibility for the
deaths Of some hundred thousands Of
French soldiers"
1t was not defense, but . defiant
vindication and a remorseless counter
attack. A curious court martial, which
was rather the indictment OF French
governments by Sadoul than the pros
ecution Of Sadoul by a French gov
eminent.
Sadoul launched his accusations.
His lawyer, Maitre Berthon, arguing
successfully that in no legal sense has
the Soviet government been the zen
envy" Of the French republic, got the
charge cut down to simple "deser-
ton" Failure to join M. Noulens in
his unnecessary and undignifed flight
to Finland could scarcely be counted
"desertion." Sadoul could retort with
some reason that it was the ambassa-
dor who had deserted, he who had
stayed at his post.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10
French T. U. Conference and
Unity

A T the recent meeting of the ma
AAtional committee of the French Gen
eral Unity Confederation Qeft), in
Paris, Gossip, general secretary of
the British Furnishing Trades Union,
and Capp, of the British Minority
Qeft) Movement; attended. in order
to tell Of the efforts of the British
militants towards international trade
union unity, and to enlist the sup
port Of the French workers in this
campaign. The great enthusiasm
which greeted their speeches showed
that the delegates realized the vital
Importance of the problem of unity,
and were ready 10 carry on the fight
together with the Red International
OF Labor Unions and the left wing OF
the Amsterdam International for the
gathering Of the working masses into
a single international.
British Delegate Speaks.
In the course Of his address, Capp
showed how the establishment caus-
ed by the failure of MacDonaldism
and the offensive entered upon by the
employers and the conservative gov
eminent several months ago had
caused tremendous development in
the tendency toward class struggle.
This tendency, organized by tho Min
ority Movemeut had shown It's
strength at the Hull congress, which
had decided to send delegation to
Russia, and TO adopt a stand in IA
vor OF international unity.
IL is not Purcell, Bramley, Cook
and tho other leaders OF the left wing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10

ellis Overwhelming and determined way Of utter.
ing the most threadbare commonplace. as il they
were striking new discoveries makes conversation
with him very difficult even for his partsans"
This is a sidelight on Won Hindenburg What excel
lent material for an American labor faker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-10

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