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The broad ax., 1925-12-19
preston News Service)
1. The Virgin Islands.
2. Building Memorials.
3. Isn't 1t Shocking?
4. Colorgrams.

There is much ado about the Virgin
Islands, formerly known as the Dan
ish West Indies, purchased by the
United States from Denmark, in 1917.
Legislation is necessary, it is said, to
give the islanders the full advantage Of
American citizenship. Rumors of
legislation have brought forth pros"
and ICONS" as to a number Of plans,
running from annexation to Porto
Rico to a distinctly sole and separate
government to be run by jealous
statesmen, both native and American.
Members of the Colonial Council, the
native Virgin Islands legislative body,
are already pressing for national
plan to promote legislation by Con-
gress, following the death of the Nc
Lean bill last year In the meantime,
a currency bill has been introduced by
Senator Cummins Of Iowa, which
would change to u. S. standards the
Danish monetary system nowin effect
on the islands.
Economically, the islands are in bad
shape. Nothing has been evolved to
take the place Of the bay rum industry,
now dead under the National Prohibi-
ton Act. For this reason employment
is at a low ebb, with low wages and
much surplus labor. 1t appears that
unrest has pervaded the islands over
alleged misfeasance on the part of
some of the administrative of Govern
ment, and that protest after protest is
being sent forward to official Washing
ton, with concurrent requests for re-
lief, by legislation or otherwise.
Precedents. for selr-government are,
of course, much varied, due to the pc
culiar circumstances which have sur
rounded each particular case. The
fact remains, however, that the Virgin
Islands, having become an integral
part of the U. s. A., are entitled to
the advantages, along with the disad-
vantages, if any, which 60 with the
new order Of things. They are entitled
to develop under the American Gov
eminent, and they are entitled to all
the considerations which America
breaches and practices within her own
native borders. If, under present cir
cumstances, the Virgin Islands are
being denied or neglected, in an iota,
as to any Of those things evolving
from the spirit Of 1875 then II is the
manifest duty Of the U. 5. Govern
ment to exhaust its remedies. il neces-
sary, to see that civil and legislative
justice is done to its wards across the
sea. Surely President Coolidge meant
nothing less than this in his FIRST mes
sage to the Sixty-ninth Congress.
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

Now that the statutes Of the State
Of Indiana construe TASKS and cock
tail shakers to indicate an intention to
use same unlawfully as containers of
a much prohibited beverage of old, the
presence Of rope, chain and posts in
Georgia Or Mississippi can be con-
strued to indicate premediated lynch
ing.
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

The Greatest Collection Of Sport Celebri-
ties in Chicago's History VIII Assemble
at the Christmas Fund Show at the
Coliseum on December 18th, WhenP. ].
Carr will be the Big Boss at the Monster
Carnival to be Staged for the Needy
Poor of the City.
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

Despite the myriads Of monuments
already erected in the South in mem
CRY Of General Robert z. les Stone
wall Jackson, JEFF Davis, and hust Of
other heroes whose names are dear t.
Dixie, there's a veritable frenzy down
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

either in capital punishment or lynch
ing-two highly sensitized practices Of
the great white world
SANDER, murder, arson, embezzle-
ment, and 81 other varieties Of crime
are running wild in the great white
world, as never before; and its great
Christian church, which has failed mis-
erably in its relations towards the
Negro group, has some tough work
cut out for the next decade, if it would
increase its power beyond one-candle
projection In the meantime, we can
only watch. hope and pray, and feel
sad over the rough moral treatment
the great white world is administering
unto itself. Perhaps, when better days
come, we can watch some moral
crumbs falling fom TIE table. But
now, ye gods, we can hope Tor nothing.
Good morals, like Charity, are first OBJ
served at home
The broad ax., 1925-12-19
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The broad ax., 1925-12-19

Count de Prorok has discovered in
Northern Afr4ea evidence that customs
once existed there similar to those Of
the American Indians. Maybe Amer
lean Indians were living under mis-
homer.
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

J. Billboard" Jackson, theatrical
writer and stage critic, is now trying
to win his spurs as an "Editorialist"
and commentator Accuracy is the
best policy, @Bl9iboard''l
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

See Uneasy lies the head that wears
the crown"-by Dr. J. Stanley Durlee,
President Of Howard University,
Washington, ID. o.
The broad ax., 1925-12-19

Philadelphia, having recovered from
the football classic of the year." will
now set its face towards the Sesqui-
Centennial Exposition, 1926.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
HEAD or BOARD URGES
RELIGION m SCHOOLS

A religious course in the schools
would have a establishing influence
In the community. James 7. Llyod,
president of the Board Of Education,
told the Mems Club Of Mount Pleas
ant Congregational church in an ad-
dress there last night.
An hour In Sunday school q week
In insufficient for the proper up
bringing Of children, Mr. Lloyd said.
The Washington times., 1925-02-10
BRUNSWICK
MEMORY
!. TEST
WRc Regular Features Also
Due, With New York Artist
in Piano Recital

The second concert Of incosnito
music, presented in connection
with the February music memory
contest Of the Brunswick Bake
Collsnder Company, will Be On
the air tonight from 9 o'clock
until 10. The concert will be
broadcast BY WIZ. New York,
WGY, Schenectady, and WRC.
An - DO NaltAelesh.
Az In the first Of the programs.
last Neek, the selections viii be mi.
crcpAoned without announcement
~ to the name Of the selection Of
THE performing artist Or artists.
Listeners, striving to win some
OF the 5000 worth Of prizes offered
by the Brunswick Company. are
asked to guess the selections and
the naines 0f the artists and submit
them ct the end Of February to
the Brunswick Company.
In addition to. the miisic-Tilefnofy
contest, WRC will present its regu.
lar Tuesday evening feature periods
Iconduct4d py Frederic William Vile.
who win discuss THE Political
Situation In Washington Tonight"
and Lbouard Hail, Dramatic critic
81 the Daily News, who viii offer
Ms suggestions ~ 70 show shop.
ping."
lie Paradis Dance Music.
The dance music Of the evening
will be rendered by the Meyer
Davis lie Paradis Orchestra, direct.
from the Cafe lie Paradis, begin
ming at 1915.
AZ 10 o'clock WRc win present
Elizabeth winston, recording artist
for the KnSbe Piano Co, IN . brie1.
recital, broadcast jointly with
WIZ, New York.
WRC's program VIII PC opensa
Tc,ir Conducted by Peggy Albion.
a I.rNErafn OF dinner music by the
nrSveT Davis New Willard Hotel
rrcheAtra viii follow at o'clock.
4 sacond early feature Of the
nrorfAfr win be . song recital py
KafheFifaA Travis, soprano, accom-.
paflled 1T tho piano by Helen Hau
| 9klsgivsr. q
Proerahl iii Full.
The detailed program for the
evening follows:
e:45 p. m.-C hildrena HOUR con.
n,.-pifner Music by the
Hrew willard Hotel Meyer Davis
orchestra. Broadcast from the New
= m@.shcw shopping by
T,eonard Hall, dramatic editor, Of
The Daily News. rri..
$40 D. nl.-Song recital by katn.
crime Travis, soprano. Helen Hall
saIskfver 1t the plano.
$50 b. m.-The Political Situae.
ton. in Washington Tonight by
Frederic william Vile.
q 8. na.-Music Memory Contest
in connection with the Brunswick
Hour Of Music, broadcast jointly
with station WIZ and WGY.
10 b. m.-Piano recital by Eliza
beth Winston, recording artist for
the Knabe Piano Company, broad
east jointly with station VIZ.
1915 b. n1.--Dance program by
the Meyer Davis LIE Paradis Band,
broadcast Jointly with stations
WIZ and WGY.
The outstanding, events on the
distant station calendar for tho
evening viii be. the Eveready Hour
ana the concert by the Goodrich
silveYtoWn Orchestra, both Of which
programs will be broadcast over
the hoek.up of WEAF, WCAE,
WGR, WIFI, WEEP and WAR.
The Eveready Entertainers viii
present a Lincoln program from 9
ia 10 o'clock ana will be followed
by the Goodrich Orchestra under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
TEXAS TEXTBOOK
CONTRACTS ARE
NOW CONTESTED
Graft harges Fly
Thick and Fast

AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. 4. - Text-l ook
contracts worth approximately $780,
600 and made by a subcommittee of
the state textbook commission with
out "the advice or consent of the at
torney general" and with Governor
ma" Ferguson as chairman, promises
to reveal some more juicy plums being
handed around in the state to sym
pathizers of the "cliques."
Attempts are being made by the at
torney general who is on the "outs"
with the machine in power to force
the American Book Company, publish.
ers of textbooks, to hand back a de-
post of $4,000 and cancel six.year
contract with the state. This company
had bid the highest price on school
textbooks, but was able to "land" the
contract.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06

to the use Of one textbook as in the
past.
Students will be assigned specific
subjects in the form of questions
which they must study up out Of the
books, pamphlets, and such other ma
terial as is given for reference, thus
giving the students a stimulus for
reading revolutionary literature and
studying Independently.
The following classes have already
been launched:
Fundamentals of Leninism Glass
has been successfully launched and
meets every Saturday afternoon, p.
m, at 521 York Ave. This class is
led by Comrade Morris Yusem. The
principal textbook used is Stains
Theory and Practice of Leninism."
Elements of Communism-begin-
ming Dec. 3 at 505 Reed St., with
Comrade Bail as class leader. Every
Wednesday.
Elements of Communicates
ming Thursday, Dec. IL at 3006 Sus-
quehanna Ave-, with Comrade Ready
as class leader. Every Thursday.
Elements Of Communism-at 4Os5
Girard Ave. every Thursday evening,
with Comrade Sklaroff as class leader.
Glass in English to begin Monday,
Dec. 6 at 521 York Ave-, with Com
rade Winner as teacher. Every Mon
day. p. m.
Definite announcements will soon
be made on the Trade Union History
Glass for which preparations are be-
ing made.
Comrades from all units in Phila-
delphia must Immediately register
with the agitprop organizers of the
branch or nucleus.
All the above classes will begin
promptly at D. m. and comrades are
urged to come in time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Workers COMMUNIST Party
PHILADELPHIA WORKERS PARTY
OPENS CLASSES IN COMMUNISM

PITTSBURGH Pa, 4Along with the general Boil
shevg Philadelphia has made definite beginning the
that the
Lennism.
The method be employed the viii
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
NOTICE TO CHICAGO
MEMBERSHIP
WORKERS SCHOOL At
CHICAGO HOLDS MANY
CLASSES DURING WEEK

The following classes are being
held now every night at 10 South
Lincoln ST., unless otherwise noted.
They are as follows:
Monday, 8 p. m. Capital, Volume
I, instructor, Earl Browder.
Tuesday, 8 p. m, Imperialism, in
structor, Manuel Gomez.
Tuesday, p. m, Elements Of
Communism, instructor, oliver Carl
son.
Tuesday, p. m, English, 2644 lie
Moyne st.
Wednesday, 8 p. M, American So
cial and Labor History, instructor,
VIM. =. Dunno.
Wednesday, 8 p. m, Aims and
Purpose of the Y. w. l., instructor,
Max Shaehtman (at 1902 w. Divi-
sion ST.
Thursday, p. m. Elements Of
Communism, instructor, Max Be-
dacht.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
new YORK DAILY WORKER
BUILDERS WILL HIKE TO
JAMAICA WOODS SUNDAY
tspeeIaI to The DaIIy wOrIeerl

especial to The Daliy Worker)
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-The New
York DAILY WORKER Builders
Club has arranged a HIKE to ia
maica Woods for this Sunday, Dec.
s. This was postponed twice on
account Of meetings Of the Young
Workers League and the Junior Pr
oneers, and it Is expected that this
time both organizations will turn
out in force to cooperate with the
DAILY WORKER Builders to make
this the most successful event Of
the season.
There will be miles of hiking
thru the woods. There will also
camp fire, and potatoes baked in
a hole in the ground and roasted
marshmallows and roasted apples
and all kinds Of good things to eat
(altho it is advisable for everyone
to bring a little lunch along in
case the comnissary department a.
gain goes astray). BY special ar
rangement with the weather de-
partment there will be no rain this
time, so as to enable the mixers to
play all the games that had been
planned for three weeks ago.
The meeting hour is ten O'clock.
Be on time at 1903 E. 14th St., or be
at tie end of the BIN. 7. line in
Jamaica at 16sth st. at II a. m.
Then follow the crowd and enjoy
the fact that you're alive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
WARD BAKING SLAVES
HELP PRESIDENT BUY
AN OPERA BOX SEAT

NEW YORK --(FP)- Dec. A.
Business is so booming for the new
4oo,ooo,ooo baking merger, General
Baking corporation, that its presI-
dent Paul H. Helms can pay nearly
100000 for box In the diamond
horseshoe" Of the Metropolitan
Opera House. Helms, who has not
announced wage advance for his
many baking employees, purchased
the box from the August Belmont
estate and becomes owner of 5000,
600 equity in the 100000 opera
house property. Costume alteration
hands are still striking against the
Metropolitan for abroaation Of the
union agreement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Pullman Porters Conduct
Organization Campaign

ST. LOUIS-(FP)-Pullman port
ers in st. Louis are organizing. "Men,
you have nothing to lose, nothing to
fear. Your movement is the Broth
erhood of Sleeping Car Porters. You
have the solid support of organized
labor generally. White men organize,
why not your" reads a campaign cir
cular. The Negroes are angered at
the Argus, local Negro newspaper
which in return for large advertise
ment from the Pullman company pub
lished an attack on the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
"Aidlna" Disabled Vets.

MONTREAL FP)-When unem-
ployed ex-soldiers we're forming pa
rades and storming restaurants, the
Montreal newspapers discovered g
plan to help the men whose wounds
made them unfit for hard labor. They
collected funds to build little street
stands from which the disabled could
sell newspapers and magazines. The
street corners blossomed with red
boxes. A lot of old newsvendors, I'M
able to meet the competition, went to
the poorhouse. Recently the city
council, at demand of the bookstores,
forbade the sale of magazines on the
streets. The newspapers did not rally
to the defense of the disabled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06

Roads naval base in sinking condi-'
ton. The Orion was a sistership to
the Cyclops.
Some officers expressed the opinion
today that the Orion's mishap may
reveal the secret of the greatest of
all American naval mysteries, the loss
of the Cyclops.
Sister Ship Vanished.
The Cyclops sailed from South
America In March 1918, with cargo
Of manganese. He had aboard 290 per-
sons, officers, passengers and crew.
Nothing more was ever heard of her
She disappeared as completely as if
a magic hand had brushed her from
the world, leaving not one trace Of
her going.
The seas were combed, ports were
searched every clue followed intently,
but never trace was found of her,
not even spar of a drifting life
preserver.
For some years, it was suggested
that German submarine had sent
the collier to her doom, or that she
had struck a submerged mine. In
quiries were conducted in Germany
after war, but no German sub COM
mander could be found who could
throw any light on the mystery.
Yesterday her sister ship, the Orion,
sailed out of the Roads with a cargo
of coal. Her structure buckled in a
heavy sea and she raced back to port
with her forward tanks flooded and
almost sinking.
The same defect, some officers be-
lieVed today, may have buckled the
Cyclop's structure and sent her to
Davy Jones' locker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Teachers Fight for
Increase In Wages

NEW YORK, -(FP)- Dec. A.
New York teachers will find the
Teachers Union leading the renewed
fight for increased wages by state
legislation. The New York City
teachers were sorely disappointed
when the board of estimate dropped
the $5,700,0O0dput in the budget for
teachers wage increases. The Teach
ers' Union urges teachers to rally be.
hind the joint salary committee which
is working out revised schedules for
the Ricca bill which passed the last
legislature only to be vetoed by Gov
ernor AL Smith on the ground that
city authorities should act.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
barrow DISCUSSES Negro.

NEW YORK ,T(FP)-Dec. 4.-Res-
idential discrimination against
Negroes will be discussed by Attorney
Clearance Darrow in Harlem, New
York's Negro city, on Dec. 10. Darrow
will speak of the issues raised by the
trial of II Negroes in Detroit whom
he defended from charges of murder
committed by an unknown while the
Negroes defended the home of one of
them from white mob.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
To Make Actors Work SUNDAY.

NEW YORK LFP)-Dec. 4.-The-
atrical managers are trying to restore
New York's Sunday shows by pres
sure upon Actors Equity Association.
whose agreement with the managers
prevents Sunday performances by
actors and actresses. Movies and vau-
deville are not affected by the Actors
Union agreement. The Lords Day
Alliance enters its protest against
possible breaking of Sunday closing
laws in New York towns by Sunday
shows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Yellow Swallows Checker Taxi.

SAN FRANCISCo-(FP)-Of two
remaining taxicab companies operat-
ing in San Francisco, the Yellow and
the Checker, the unionized Checker
will be absorbed by the Yellow, which
employees nonunion drivers. The taxi
drivers union will probably have a
big fight on it's hands to unionize the
Yellow in San Francisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Call OFF Spies, Let
Business Take Care Of
ITSELF" Walls Senator

In a speech before the Western
Gamers Association in the Hotel
Sherman here, former Senator James
Hamilton Lewis called upon Presi-
dent Calvin Coolidge and congress to
call off the $4,000 "spies" that the
government maintains to probe into
business and to call off all the COM
missions the government had investi-
eating business ventures and let
business take care Of itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Pepperell Weavers
Refuse to Work Under
Multiple Loom System

BIDDEFORD, Me.-(FP)-Weavers
of the Pepperell mills, organized in
the American Federation of Textile
Operatives, are striking again, against
the multiple loom system. The $500
workers fought the introduction of the
system by which each workers work
is more than doubled. In the previous
strike the workers finally went back
to try out the system and now de-
fnitely refuse to accept it. 4i
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Operators and Union
Heads Discuss Use of
Machinery in Mines

Representative of Illinois miners
will meet with mine owners at the
Great Northern Hotel to open negotia-
lions that may lead eventually to
machine operation of Illinois coal
fields.
The operators, at meeting presided
over by President Rice Miller of Hills
boro, made a preliminary survey as
to the use of electric machines in the
Illinois coal mines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Carpenters Get Raise.

DALLAS, Tex.-(FP)-Union car
penters in Dallas are about to sign a
negotiated agreement with the con-
tractors association which will in
crease their wages from SO to 50 per
day of hours. This will affect 1900
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Want Wage increases.

ST. LOUIS-(FP)-Unlon taxicab
drivers of st. Louis are seeking a
wage increase from $3.50 a week to
$50 and one day week off instead
Of two days month. Funeral driv-
ers, members of the same union, re-
ceiving $50 week, are asking for
S35. st. Louis taxi drivers are 100
per cent unionized, and even Yellow
cabs operate union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-06
Prominent Politician
Forces, 15-Year Old
Girl Into Marriage

MIAMI, Fla. Dec. A 15-year old
girl found beneath a porch in the
southwest section of Miami attired
only in her night clothes, told a story
of forced marriage at Fort Lauder
dale, Fla, that may lead to the ar
rest of a prominent public official of
that city, 20 years her senior.