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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Hyman Calls for Action Against Betrayal

WITT, quoted from a sheaf of letters
being sent out in envelopes contain
ing the return address of the joint
board and obviously addressed on the
machine at the international office.
Machine Cooks Up Letters
These letters are a bitter attack
upon the Communists, the Yankee
Stadium meeting and the leadership
Of the left wing generally They are
signed by an alleged group of Local 2.
Another letter" he quoted was one
of many sent to number of cloak
makers summoning them to a meeting
at the Rand School, at which prepare
tions would be made for the Beetho-
ven Hall meeting, called by the joint
board to discuss and prepare for the
acceptance of the decision of the gov
errors commission.
Hyman Point to New Betrayal by
Slgman
The speech of Louis Hyman detailed
the betrayal of workers by the joint
board and the Sigman gang. Hyman
was loudly applauded when he pointed
out the stupid inconsistency of the
Sigman gang and the joint board,
when they at first declared that they
would send out in all languages the
decision of the governs commission
for referendum, without any recon-
mendation.
Whereas, now, they are telling the
workers that the decision must be ac-
cepted.
The left wing leadership on the con-
trary has fought consistently against
even In the first place submitting the
workers grievances to the governors
commission.
Prepare for Action
Hyman declared in closing: I'VE are
preparing for action. You should know
that this struggle that is going on here
is fight to the life or death. You
Cloakmakers must not allow band OF
parasites to bind you to such deci-
sions. We are going to take action
as soon as the season starts"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22

Continued from page u
establishes the fact in an incontrovert-
ible manner that the left wingers are
the real leaders of the cloak makers;
that they can at moments notice
call out the masses in the streets and
they come, laughing and enthusiastic.
Fight Governors Commission
The keynote that struck home thru
out the vast crowd was: We will fight
the decision of the governors commits
sionl Prepare for action These slo-
gans uttered by Louis Hyman and
repeated by the other speakers evoked
prolonged and wild applause Listen
ing to the talk of the workers one
could easily gather that they are in
fighting mood.
They are not alone anxious to re-
pudiate Sigman and his gang but, they
also want to repudiate the decision of
the governors commission which
takes the bread out of the mouths of
their children.
The workers have been out of work
0h0 h0AA pboi CQ AOA AAAOhlhbs lG past
seasons have been bad. Now on the
eve of new season they are in an
ugly mood Sigman and his gang are
fool politicians, If one is to Judge by
the conversation of the workers in the
streets.
Refuse to Recognize Sigman Activities
The whole drift Of the talk is: We
refuse to any longer recognize the au-
thority stolen by Sigman, Perlstein
and Feinberg. Let them leave our
union we will have nothing further to
do with them.
Wave after wave Of applause from
the sea Of workers greeted the speech
es OF the leaders of the joint commit
to OF action Some of the speakers
are: Sasha Zimmerman. Louis Hyman,
Joseph Boruchowitz, Rose Wortis,
Mershe Rubin, etc.
All the speakers failed the Sigman
crowd for its many crimes against the
workers and denounced the decision of
the governors commission. Borucho.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Bankrupt Commits Suicide

Emil W. Wagner, head Of the e. w
Wagner and Co, grain, bond and stock
commission firm which failed in 1921
with $1O,O00,O00 involved, crashed "a
his death from a fifteenth floor win.
dow Of the Westminster building in
the loop today. Death was instanta-
neous. Evidence indicated Wagner
who was about 81, had committed sui.
cida ..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22

The progressive miners turnout
America stand ready to aid in every
way at their command their brother
miners in Britain and pledge ourselves
TO that end. Sympathetic strikes are
contemplated in Germany, Belgium.
France and in America and Canada
Naturalization of the coal mines
with workers control" is the slogan
Of the miners turnout the world and
the British miners are leading the
fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Continued from page y


saster to the nation and human pro-
gress to a standstill. One denounced
teachers who omitted it as committing
criminal malpractice. Another charged
the biblical literatists were insult
ing god" All were agreed that dozen
educational courses could not be
taught without it.
Life Changes Thru Time
Back in the dim dark ages Of the
past, long before the first dawn of CT
vilization they said, a prehistoric
being dwelled, whose offspring evolved
thru millions of years into men, ami
mails, birds and fish. They knew not
the secret Of life; they only knew how
life had changed thru time. Man, mon
key, whale and reptile, they asserted,
had a common ancestor.
Give Lie To Bible
In their defense of evolution, the
men of science laughed at the claim of
the bible literalists that the world be-
gan on Oct. %, 4OO4 B. c. on the con-
trary they said, the world was formed
1,000,000,000 years ago at least, with
life upon the earth's surface from 3d.
100000 to 50O,O00,00O years old. The
earth once was molten, they added,
and before that probably gaseous.
The sun above us, they continued,
once had an earlier system of planets,
destroyed millions of years ago by an
upheaval amid the stars, but later to
develop the existing planetary system.
To prove the earths age, the scien-
lists pointed to potash deposits in Eu-
rope as 100000 years old; to the
upheaval Of the Rocky Mountains as
100000 years ago; to Green Sand
formation in New Jersey as 100000
years old and to phosphate deposits in
Tennessee at 100000 years old. 1t
took million years, they said, for
water to corrodo the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado and the same time for
the mouth Of the Mississippi river to
move south from CAIRO, ILL.,, to New
Orleans. a
Earth Millions Of Years 11
Why, they added, it took four thous-
and years merely for the great CONT
mental glacier to melt after it once
covered new England from Hartford,
Conn, to st. Johnsburg, Vermont.
The present human race, said scien-
ce, instead of being born in 4004 B. c.,
has lived on the earth for $4,000 years
Before that, extinct tribes Of men have
been tracked back 100000 years by
fossils. and before that the ancestor
Of man, ape, whale and python.
Man Descended From Animals
The man of today, they said, is a
walking museum of antiquities, which
prove his prehistoric relationships. He
has $50 vetigial (obsolete) structures
in his body, all organisms now used by
animals, birds or fish. Man now has
an atrophied tail while the human
embryo has a free taif perore birth.
Blood tests show that mans blood
today is closely akin to that OF the
ape, they added, while some whales
have atrophied yestigial limb bones
In the pelvin region, which Indicate
this mammoth fish once walked. And
even the snake, the Python, has small
but clearly defined hind limbs, hidden
beneath its skin. So tie kinship shows
today.
Once the scientists said man was
the head Of the genealogical tree but
now they give this distinction TO the
whale as showing the greatest organic
development while humans roots half
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Present the Case for Evolution

way down.
It was Curtis, zoologist at Missouri
University, who said, Science and
common sense alike inquire regard
ing the nature and sources of the
special creation, as found in Genesis.
Science faces the matter squarely,
desiring only the right to investigate
and draw unprecedented conclusions.
The result of such Investigations are
not in doubt. 1t appears that the
races about the Eastern Mediterrane-
an like other primitive peoples, had
their traditions of the origin of the
world.
rThe story in Genesis apparently des-
cended TO the early Hebrews and to
their neighbors in Mesopotamia from
source far antedating the appear
ance of the Jews as a people and
their sacred writings. Archaeology
and ethnology most reasonably indi-
cate that in its origin this Hebrew
Babylonian tradition may be compar-
ed with the stories Of many other
primitive peoples.
I'VE take the story in Genesis seri-
ously as an account of pre-historical
facts 1t has been woven into the
thot of Western culture for almost
two thousand years and has intrinsic
literary qualities.
'But the past history Of events,
xryI1 az Of hun ow anfxx al tot.
is subject matter for scientific inquiry
and the answer of science is evolu-
ton. 1t is not that men came from
monkeys, but that, men, monkeys and
apes all came from a common NAM
malian ancestry millions of years in
the past
AS for mans similarity to the ami
NAL kingdom, Curtis said: 1.-THE
flipper Of whale, the wing of a bird,
the forefoot of horse and the arm
Of man, all show the same plan of
structure. The biological explanation
Of this anatomical resemblance is
that the present vertebrates dishes,
reptiles birds and mammals) have
all descended from primite race.
All vertebrates are now alike because
they have never lost the underlying
plan of structure inherited from their
common ancestor"
Delving into the antiquity of the
world and man, and the latter's rela-
ton to the apes, Professor Newman,
one of the nations greatest biologists,
said: 1.-THE earliest fossil evidence Of
the existence of our own species date
back to about $4,000 years ago. At
that time there lived a remarkable
race, known to us as cromagnons,
race said to be the most perfect phys
ically Of which we have any know.
edge. Five essentially complete
skeletons form the basis OF the type
description.
Resemblance Of Man and Ape.
This tall, strong, obviously intelli-
gent, and artistic race, was different
in several important particulars from
any modern race. A detailed descrip.
ton Of his characteristics would take
us too far afield. Our chief interest
in this race is that 1t serves to EN-.
phasize the antiquity Of our own spe.
cies.
"Anatomically, the genus homo
bears a striking resemblance to the
anthropoid apes Bone for bone,
muscle for muscle, nerve for nerve
and in many special details. man and
the anthropoid apes are similar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Mother Jones IN.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 2O.-
Mother" Mary Jones, 92-year-old la
Dor leader is i'll here Of niflammatory
rheumatism.
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
NURMI PASSES
UP NEW YORK
FOR HERE
Georgetown Meet Will Keep
Finn From Running in
Metropolitan

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.--Official
denial was made today OF a re-
port given publication that Paavo
Nurmi, Finnish wonder runner,
had been dropped from a special
exhibition race on the program Of
the Metropolitan "A. A. u. champ.
ionships February 81, owing to
what was characterized as his lin
different running in recent races.
1ts was explained by Daniel j. Fer
ris, secretary to Fred Rubien, that
Nurmi would not appear at the
championships because he had a
previous engagement TO run at the
Georgetown University games on
the same evening.
when 1t was discovered that
the Georgetown games and the
championships conflicted. the latter
were moved ahead one night in
order to- assure Nurmi's appear
ance,' Ferris declared 1T was
then discovered that the military
authorities planned to use the
arrnory for a set of games on the
new date SO the championships
were shifted back to their former
date and all hope of Nurmi's APP
pearance abandoned. cannot
understand how such reports origi-
nate"
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
AVIATION CUTS
INTO FRENCH
SPORTS

At the annual dinner Of sports
writer's in Paris it was pointed out
by a government official that less
than one man in every ten in France
cared about athletics and that even
a smaller percentage was engaged
in some game or other even in an
amateur way 1t was said that the
country Is turning its attention to
aviation and that distinct loss
was felt in the sporting world be-
cause of it.
On the other hand, it was shown
that Of the eighty-three world
records which are recognized uni
versally fifty-three are held by
Americans, while the French hold
twenty.four. These figures would
show, it was said, that while avia-
ton may hurt athletics in France,
it certainly did not in the United
States, where the most interest is
being shown in sports and where
the best performances are made.
The writers came to the conclusion
that there are cycles in athletics
just as in finance and that some
years a sport will draw large
crowds and will create much enthu-
siasm, while the next year may find
that-~there is less interest and
fewer individuals trying for places
on the teams.
A comprehensive report by the
track and field headquarters showed
that track meets have gradually
been gaining favor in France and
that the coming outdoor season will
witness a revival on q larger scale
than even the most optimistic hoped
for
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
FRANK 5RUGGY DROPPED
FROM ATHLETICS ROLL

PHIL DEL-R HIA, Feb. H.
Mack's fourteen pitchers who work
up sweat at Fort Myers this
spring will not be pitching to Frank
Bruggy, the veteran catcher of the
AS. Burly Frank will not make
the trip south. In fact, the baseball
basketball star has heen given his
release by Mack and will. probably
seek job managing and catching
for minor league club
With Bruggy gone. C. Mack will
have to discover a receiving mate
for Eddie Rommel. The latter and
Buggy did the battery work for
the AS FOR the last two seasons.
with an occasional exception when
Cy Perkins caught RomFnel.
The chances are that Mack will
put Cochrane with Rommel. If the
young coast star is as good a re-
ceivc. as reports indicate it is a
surety he will be paired with Eddie,
which will give Perkins 4 chance
now and then to lay off for RESI-,
whenever itommel works
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
Has
HOPES He GAN
STOP RAY
Jimmy Says Joie Will Have
More Than Nunni 70
Worry About

"chesty Joie Ray may have
something more to worry about
than the manner in which Paayc
NurmI Is blasting his records
right and left, II the plans d
Jimmy Connolly. Olympic star and
eFstwhiIe track star at the Univer.
sity Of Georgetown, materialize.
Jimmy is almost as chesfy az
Joie Ray over his possibilities Of
beating the Illinois A. @. Wonder
at the 1900 meters event IN the
Georgetown games at Convention
Hall on February "a.
Connolly Is running better this
year and with less effort than ever
before in his long career and
Jimmy figures that IL he is ever
going to beat the ehesty person,
hts opportunity will come with
the Georgetown games. Rays star
.haa been somewhat dimmed by the
great work OF NurHf but the dim
inutive Illineis runner is still
counted among the beat nlilers in
the country and has said that
while Nurmi may be q. great dis
lance runner he has yet to take
Ills ItI&e9uEGf III tAAS 24AAtACs 00HG -
entered in the ] 500 meters event
in the indoor games and when this
was announced to Connolly, the
Blue and Gray athlete Immediately
requested that he be entered in the
same event.
Ray is without a question of a
doubt one of the greatest nilers
In the country and until / saw
a. vafC Ia ~
the United States / was under the
impression that he was the great
est runner in the world, said Con-
molly. II didn't believe it possible
for any human being to beat the
Illinois lad at his favorite distance,
the mile, but after / saw the ease
with which Nurmi made Ray take
his dust believe that 1t is posi-
BILE for me to do the same thing. .
There is no question to the
fact that Joie has licked me and
licked me decisively on many occas-
ions but I have never ran better
than I have been running this
year and believe that coming
into the Convention hall in the
same form that / have been run
ming lately 1 should have better
than an even chance of taking
his measure.
This may be my last year OF
active competition and am more
than anxious to make it the best
of my career and feel that can
only do this by taking a race from
Ray and what could be better than
the winning of such q race in the
very town where 1 first began my
athletic career. / know the track
at Convention Hall and feel con.
fident that l win be able to show
the Washington public that / am
every bit as good a miller as Joie
Ray"
Tickets for the meet went on
public sale this morning at Spald.
ings where the sale will be con-
tinued until the day OF the meet.
Director OF the Games O'Reilly an
nounced yesterday that there were
still plenty of good seats to be
had for the meet but warned those
who are desirous of seeing the
greatest track carnival of the
season to get in early In order
that they might not be dis.
appointed. There are only. 5000
seats that can be sold and the
demand as in far exceeds the
supply, - ~ t.-e
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
HILLTOP TEAMS
FIGURED
To WIN

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-According
TO the way track matters are shap-
ing up the one and two mile relay
teams of Georgetown University are
quite likely to win both titles in the
fourth annual indoor l. C.. A. A. A.
A. track and field meet which will
be held in the Twenty-second Regi-
ment Armory, 16Sth street and
Broadway, on Saturday evening,
March Z.
The one-mi1e team, Ascher, Bur
CESS. kinnally and Herlihy. have
already defeated several speedy
Tours. Brooks, Holden, Sullivan
and Marsters, the two-mile combina-
ton, are among Ine fastest half
milers competing at the present
time. This team holds the worl i
record of z minutes 434-5 seconds.
Boston College, winner of the
Penn relay carnival two-mile event
last spring. will be Georgetown's
most formidable opponent, despite
the fact that the latter has defeat 81
the Hub -" three times since the
opening OF the 1925 indoor season
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
DE- MES
BIC DEMAND
ORFIGHT
Says Jack Has Received ny
Offers and Manager
Names No Price

Los ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 11.-rS
Jack Dempsey has received ngit
offers for fights in 1925 and Jack
Kearns, his manager, has made Iie
price for the heavyweight king
This was declared today u <
Kearns.
Dempsey viii fight this summer
and he Is prepared to take on Glib
bOns or Willsor bcth-or any
one III the wide world, but there
il nothing to this talk that he -
already matched or that I have
asked $1.00O.O00 or whereabouts fOi
his success, said Kearns
We have no agreement with
Tex Rickard or Charlie Henderson
or anyone. Dempsey IL not tiea
up to anybody and he will accept
the first reasonable offer to fight
made by any responsible promoter
Rickard or Henderson have MT
made any offers and i have not
discussed terms with any one.
have asked Richard and others for
offers. but none has been received
to date.
q win SO to New York early
in March and take the matter IL
then probably first discussing
A1Nnll1lA lAlcAEE11.
Keapns denied that he had broken
with Dempsey
Jack and are just like that.
said the bediam0nded uianag6r
holding up fingers and we al
WAYS will be. Jacks marriage viii
make no difference with hfs RIM
work. Az soon as his honeymoon
days are over; he ID going e. rs
right into hard training and viii
be in shape for fight anytime
this summer. e
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
GUARANTEE OF $500
FOR MARTINS CONTEST

Eddie "CannonbaH' Martin Is to
receive guarantee of $500 for,
taking on Carl Tremaine. the Clevs-
land bantamweight, in the main 20
of ten rounds, no decision, at the
Auditorium ir Cleveland on the
night Of February "a.
, Martin also fights Pete Sar-
miento ten rounds. no decinIon, at
Milwaukee on March -.
The Washington times., 1925-02-11

"The Senator'S" continues Hug
gins, "have picked up some old
timers in Ruether, Stanley Covel-
eskie and Vean Gregg. who win
give any team trouble if they are
right. johnson added to that
bunch will give Griffith strength.
But it won't, come till late in the
year. The Senators have to take
a long Western trip early in the
season and if their old pitchers
aren't in top form they may lose
the championship in May or June,
think l will be ready to win at
any time in the year"
Yeah, that's what. Higgins and
his proud Yankees thought last
year, that they W0ald "be ready
to win at any time in the year.,
and see where they finished.
If the New York Yankees are
going to win the 1925 pennant,
they'll have to begin very much
in earnest on April ID. On that
day the fighting Griffs will begin
to fight for their second pennantt
in as many seasons and no rival
can afford to run along with the
foolish belief that he. can BE
ready to win at any time in the
year."
Urban Shocker is a high-class
pitcher, but he is not a bit better
than Joe Bush, the man ne has
superseded on the Yankees, pitch
ing staff. The Yankee hurting
corps still hangs pretty much on
what shape Sam Jones is IN.
If Sam is as bad as he was IN
1924, the Yankees will hardly do
much better this year than they
did last.
Earl Combs is expected to play
centerfield in place Of, Whitley
Witt. This writer is not familiar
with Mr.. Combs, never having
seem him, or at least mucn OF
him. But it must be remembered
that Witt was first-class lead
off batsman for the Yankees, q
lob requiring certain points OF
finesse which may not be pos
sessed by Mr.. Combs. AS a gar
dener, Mr.. Combs may outshlne
Witt. That remains to be seen.
As a hitter, he may put Witt IN
the shade. That, too, remains 10
be proved. ~,
Meanwhile, pennants are still
decided greatly by the pitching.
The New York club has not
STRENGTHENED its hurting staff
anywhere near as much as the
world champions have, and Miller
Higgins knows it.
Yeah, it must have been quite
a shock to Miller Higgins, the boy
in the mans pants, when ne
learned that Walter Johnson was
coming back to the fighting
Griffs for at least one more Wh1ri
around the circuit before becom-
ing a minor league magnate.
Higgins argument about the
long western trip in the spring
is the bunk. His own pitchers
are also veterans and the Yankees
must take the same western trip
with the world champions. Neither
has any advantage in that schedule
made public today.
Bucky Harris and his gang Of
fighting Griffs won their pennant
by eVerlastingly keeping in the
fight. They may be expected to
do the same thing this season,
Bucky doesn't think his team can
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
TWO IMPORTANT SCRAPS
ON CARD FOR MONDAY

Two important bouts will be
staged on the night OF Monday
February 16, in one of them Tiger
Flowers. the Negro fighter of At.
lanta, Ga, takes on Lou Bogash
for ten rounds to a decision, at the
Commercial A. c.. of Boston, while
at the Genesee Valley A. c., OF
Rochester, Pat Moran, of New
Orleans, meets Charley O'ConneIl,
Of Cleveland. for twelve rounds al
the big auditorium of that city.
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
LOOKHs OYEp
~ LOUIS ADOUGHER
MUST BE a SHOCK. TO HJJGGINS.

TT quite shock to Miller Hgggns The
Yankees to read Walter De-
to the world champion washington GEfsn Tor
would teams only real opponent in the tight Tor the
1925 He sofed at talk that the Detroit Tigers
would oven M figured the Scna-
being decision II always had f Johnson pitches
DETROIT
feared had the idea that johnson would be back
another Isl that have got 70 work
E IA A . II
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
YOUNG FISHER TO FACE
GRER IN SCRANTON RING

Young Fisher, the Syracuse junior
light-heavyyeight. and Harry t1reh,
holder OF the middleweight title,
have been signed Up at g boxing
show to be staged at Scranton, Pa,
on the night of February %. As
Fisher has not fought in some time
he expects to put up a stiff battle
against Greb. ~
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
ToNGMEN ARE BOWLED OFF
BY WASHINGTON COT EcE

George Washington Universits
Pasketers bit the dust before Tx
onslaught Of the Washington CO..
lege quint from Chestertown. ma
In the II street gym, "a to Is.
The Tongmen had to fight With
unusual vigor to keep the score s.
the MarylandePs down that low
washington College has now acored
thirteen victories without sufferiTsn
5 defeat.
The Washington times., 1925-02-11
Erisco's Record Squad

BasebaIl's great hatchery is the
Pacific coast. San Francisco VIII
have fifty-two players in its train
ing camp this year which is Il
record. Twenty-Five of them arc