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Communists Rouse
French Workers with
Higher Pay Demand
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for more repressive measures against
foreign agitators, soealled.
The fact that these workers, chief
ly Italians and Poles, we're guilty only
Of being active in labor organization
among their compatriots was sufi-
Client ground for their expulsion. For
tunately they were not compelled TO
re-enter their respective father
lands"
Red Unions Lead Fight.
There appears to be nothing to dis.
tinguish the Herriot socialist govern
ment from an avowedly capitalist
government in dealing with labor
problems.
The United French Federation or
Labor (Communist) comprising about
half Of the organized workers Of
France (500.000) is launching a cam
paign for a general increase in wages.
The slogan is go francs (s1.10) day
for every worker"
The leaders OF the movement arc
alive TO the tendency OF the big EN-
ployers TO develop labor aristocra-
cy OF better-paid workers as In the
United States and are beginning tc
combat this tendency.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-03
Kerr and Company,
Robbed, Loses Cash
and Keracher's Watch

The firm Of Chas. II. Kerr and com
pany, publishers Of socialist books, was
robbed OF about $40 cash on Saturday
noon, when two masked men entered
nd held up everyone present, taking
John Keracker's watch. among other
things.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-03
BIG CHINESE CONFERENCE OPENS
DESPITE SUN VAT SENS ILLNESS

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bulletin 1918
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Despite inability
will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-03
Moissaye ]. Olgin
Lectures in Boston
Tomorrow Evening

Moissaye J. oIgin, well known
author and lecturer, recently re-
turned from an intensive tour Of
Russia, will speak in Boston on Tues
day evening, Feb. 3. at steinert Hall.
1862 Boylston street.
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dug Il new channel through the bank
for the stream. AS soon as the water
left Felix dry, we cleared the axle and
wheels and after three and one-half
hours hard labor, which skinned our
hands and feet. the car came out with
| the help of the oxen and we arrived
at Toprah Kale station, where we
| slept.
Now came the dangerous part. Next
| morning we crawled through 22 miles
| Of trackless bushy plain and hill, a
| distance that took us six and one-half
/ hours, and how we escaped destruc-
! ton during that time l don't know.
| hung up on tree roots, twisted In all
! shapes in dry water courses. I trem-
| bled for our cars frame a hundred
! times that day before we arrived al
| Deirtyol, at the Turkish customs
| house, where formalities last only
a few minutes.s
| This place is pronounced dirty ole"
and lives up to it's name. 1t was here
| that the worst Armenian massacres
took place in 1910, when thousands
were slaughtered.
| Following directions, we moved off
across the Plain of Issus, where Alex
ander the Great fought and beat
Darius. King OF Persia. We followed
a footpath for miles over rocks and
ruts, until huge rocky gully 150
ydiuS across ana about 40 feet deep
| brought us TO a fun stop.
For three hours In the burning sun
we hunted for u way across that gully
and finally In despair | turned back
to Deirtyol, intending as last resort
to take to the railway line, when we
spotted faint track which led us In
the direction OF the sea. Many times
we lost IT, and had to walk about to
find 1t; anXiously we followed Il right
on to the beach, where, 70 our JOY, we
found cart track. In 10 minutes We
reached Payas. the actual frontier,
where the beautiful old ruins Of a Ro-
man caSle gave us pIeasurable half
hours photography and a good rest.
Thank God. we We're through Asia
Minor. Ours was the first car to cross
1t and l venture 10 Drophesy also the
last for long time to come
tCopyright. I925D
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When Maj +. A. G. Forbes
Leith first suggested to his friends
a motor trip from London to India,
1t was regarded as wildcat
scheme" The distance had been
covered several times by airplanes,
hut-Strangely-a automobile was
held to involve too many risks.
However. he perSevered in his
plan, feeling that his chances of
success would be better than those
of many others because of his serV-
ice during the World War in some
of the Eastern countries through
which he would have to pass.
Eventually he set forth from
London in small, light car of
English make, which was dubbed
Felix" accompanied by Monta-
que Redknap, who was to act as
camera man, and Allan Wroe, the
diarist of the trip.
After crossing the Channel, the
three travellers drove without Seri-
out difficulties through France,
Italy, Jugoslavia. and Bulgaria,
and finally entered Asiatic Turkey,
which was destined to he the start
ing point of their real dangers and
difficulties. and it is here that the
following accounts of their expert
enCe begins.
After his war service. Mai.
ForbeS-Leith for a time administer
ed the estates and commanded the
private army of one of the feudal
noblemen of Persia. For his
travel he was elected a member of
the Royal GeoSra phical Society.
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on an alternative track which went
straight UP hill Of loose decomposed
limestone at a gradient of one In
three.
We got out, walked up and surveyed
it, and II appeared To he an impossi-
BILE proposition to try to climb 1t.
We consulted our maps, but they
and a view OF the conditions Of the
surrounding country proved it TO be
our only route. so we had no alter
native but to call on dear old Felix
for an extra effort.
Posting the others at the critical
points with bricks to block the wheels,
I made rush at It. but the engine
stalled on the loose surface in the first
so yards. Another effort took us one
yard forward before | stalled again.
We covered that $50 yards by start.
ing the engine, accelerating, jerking in
the clutch, and moving inches at a
time.
Sometimes we moved a couple Of
yards and every time we stopped we
had to block the wheels quickly. The
last 10 yards were covered in ID jerks,
and we all cheered when the last
move but one moved us three yards.
We had to clear the surface of the
huge rocks before we started, and my
friends pushed all the time. Once we
started 1t was impossible to retreat,
as we had sheer drop of 200 feet
on my left and a wall of rock to the
right. We did the $50 yards in two
and one-half hours and when we
reached the top we We're all exhausted
and although / was the least hard
worked of the party / felt absolutely
done. / revived the others with our
last drops of whisky from the emer
gency flask, and well they deserved It,
We stopped about six and ne-half
miles from BoZani Khan at the foot of
| the Taurus Pass and had short chat
with the station master at village
station. He gave US very rude
shock by informing us that four and
| one half miles on there was series
of enormous la ndslideS which we could
not possibly pass.
This depressed us considerably, but
as it was the only way to India, on
| we pushed to see the trouble for our
| selves. We came across several OBJ
| Structions which we manipulated with
some difficulty. and as our speedom-
eter then showed that we had come
six miles since our warning, we were
| congratulating ourselves that these
| were the obstacles referred to, when
as we turned corner we were stop
| ped dead by a block which must have
| contained tens of thousa nds of tons
| of rock and earth. The force of the
slide had taken the road with it, and
an attempt to remove the debris would
| have been months work for a steam
| shovel.
In the lowest part there was a climb
of IS feet to the top Of the debris
and at that point there We're from
| 20 to so yards of huge rocks to run
over, while Immediately on our right
was a drop of 25 feet into the river.
l put Felix at it in an effort to climb
| it, but stuck, and every time l tried
to move again, to my horror. we began
to slide towards the precipice Three
more efforts to move up only caused
| the car to skid still nearer the edge.
| X y
\ TURKISH gendarme sergeant sud
denly appeared, and helped us
| with useless advice. He consoled us
| by his assurance that the next time
my wheels moved, 1 should skid into
the river.
| We found that he had five soldiers
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fred, Columbus. Andrea Doria. Cabot,
Providence, Hornet. Wasp and Fly,
finally got to sea and sailed toward the
town of New Providence, where mill
tary supplies were known 10 be
stored. Troops We're landed under
cover of the fleets guns and the fort
was stormed under the leadership OF
Capt. Nicholas of the marines. Hop
kins sailed away with nearly so can
non and 10 barrels of gunpowder, and
he also carried off Gov. Brown and
several prominent citizens as hostages.
On April 4. while off the eastern
end of Long Island, Hopkins fleet cap
tured two small but armed British
vessels, the Hawke and the Bolton
and soon after ran afoul of ship
that subsequently was found to he
the 20-gun British ship Glasgow. In
a brief but sharp battle the Ameri-
cans lost 10 killed and IA wounded but
the Glasgow escaped, although when
she put into port observers noted
that she showed signs of having been
treated in n very rough manner
The Glasgow's escape was not at
tributed TO lack of spirit or courage on
the part of the Americans, but rather
to want OF experienced officers, or
ganization and discipline. 1t led.
however, To the eventual dismissal Of
Capt. Hopkins from the Navy, and
the merger OF HE rank OF commander
in-chief in the presidency. when that
Office was created.
An exploit early in the Revolution
demonstrated the temper OF American
seamen and gave promise OF the Glo-
rious record that was to be written by
| them in every war. Under command
OF Capt. John Barry the 16-gun brig
Lexington, in April. 1916. after spir.
| tied One-hour action, forced the sur
render OF an armed tender, the Ed
| ward. A few months later the Lex
| ington. then commanded by Capt. Viii
| liam Hallock and laden with military
| stores, was captured by the British
| frigate Pearl. A prize crew was
placed aboard the Lexington with or
| ders to follow the Pearl. When night
came on. dark and stormy. the Ameri-
can prisoners fell upon their British
captors, recovered possession OF the
vessel. and triumphantly sailed her
into Baltimore with the prize crew
! as prisoners.
This marked the beginning OF great
activity by the Americans in captur-
| ing enemy craft. Cruising between
the Delaware and Penobscot, Capt.
! Nicholas Biddle. of the Andrea Doria
within four months seized not less
than 10 vessels. all save one of which
were brought safely into port. two of
the prizes being transports carrying
400 soldiers. When Riddle put into
port he had placed so many men
aboard prizes that he had only FIVE of
his own crew aboard the Andrea
Doria. In succeeding weeks the
Cabot, Capt. Elisha Hinman, and the
Columbus, Capt. Abraham Whipple
secured seven and four war prizes, re-
spectively.
| When the Declaration Of Indepen
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PATRIOTIC COLONIAL GIRLS PRESENTING JOHN PAUL JONES
WITH FLAG MADE FROM THEIR PETTICOATS.

ping. But it was in carrying the war
to the enemy in his own waters that
Jones established his enduring repu-
tation.
When England determined to coerCe
the refractory American coloniSts her
people little dreamed that she was in
yitinS a menace to the very doors of
the tight little isle" But American
naval enterprise in European waters.
from the appearance of the first
American war vessel the RepriSal. TO
the exploits of John Paul Jones, was
uneXampled in daring and success.
During III the naval war was
prosecuted with viGOr wherever Brit
iSh ships were found. total of 4S6
! Of them being captured. and toward
| the end OF that year Jones began the
| first OF his more famous cruises. in
| the 1s-gun ship Ranger. His effective
opera tions in the Irish Sea eliminated
| in the colorful yardarm-to- -yardarm
encounter with the 20-gun British
man-owar Drake resulted in the cap
| ture of the latter after an hours bat
! tie and the name of Paul Jones be
| coming a synonym of terror through
the British coasts, where he became
the object of hatred and slander.
At the end of 177S the Americans
had lost several cruisers. and as Con
I
the Navy was reduced to IA war YES
sells with a total of 332 guns, opposed
/ to a British force of 80 vessels. carry
| ing over 800 guns. But British com
merce had suffered the loss of some
$50 ships, involving "a money damage
estimated in the House of Lords at
about two million pounds.
In the meantime, Jones having re-
! turned to Brest. after his successful
1 -
| France turned over to him the 40-Gun
ship. Duo de Duras. In honor of Ben
jamin Franklin, whose homely maXims
| in Poor Richards Alma nae had been
of so great inspiration to him. Jones
renamed the vessel the BoRhomme
Richard. In this vessel, defiant OF
| the most severe handicaps. Jones
made his most extraordinary cruise
against the enemy with results that
! have sent his name ringing down
through the years as the symbol of jim
! domitable courage and resourCeful-
| ness.
| * X X
TO begin with, the Bonhomme Rich
! ard had not been built for war but
was an antiquated India merchant
man. Carrying inadequate armament
and an ill-assorted crew with. how
ever, American officers predominant ting)
the vessel started August IA, 1873
from l. Orient, at the head of small
squadron. While making an al
most complete circuit of the British
Isles, Jones captured II British yes
sells and on September % was of
Flambourg Head when large So s..N
of enemy ships was discerned. oa,.s
flying himself that only two wer,
memo war, the American commands
gave chase and, as darkness descend
ed, there began an encounter that Il
an epic in all naval history-the bat
tie Of the BOnhomme Richard and tn,
Scraps.
This action Of three and hal
hours, during most OF which the YES
sells were locked in n death embra ce
remains unsurpassed for the endur
ance displayed by both sides. At tn,
first brOadside, two of the Bonhomm'
Richards 1S-pounders burst, killint
most Of the men that worked them
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YHAT a day we had, You
n who motor on first class
wv roads, cannot fail to con-
slider the contrast between
that comfortable expert
ence and conditions to he found in
Asia Minor offering the difficulties to
he surmounted by our gallant little
British car. So l will give you an
extract from my diary for one day.
When I originally planned this trip
! anticipated having to take ship from
Saloniki, Greece, TO AleXandretta in
Asiatic Turkey. Had we realized what
the conditions were in Asia Minor, !
do not think we should have tackled
1t by land. Here is a condensed re
cord for II hours:
a.m.-Wake, cook. and eat break
fast. and pack.
$40 a.m.-Strike camp.
$50 a.m.-Arrive Landslide, work till
9:05 clearing road.
9:15 a.m.-Arrive at sharp corner of
gorge just wide enough for Felix to
pass. Rock Is inches high sticking
up in center of road. We cannot shift
rock. so we collect smaller rocks and
build road up TO leyel of big rock.
10 a.m.-Deep mud patches which
we try to rush with chains on, but
stick. Standing in i inches of mud
we unload and get clear in Is min
utes.
1890 a.m-Hill with gradient OF
one in five strewn with loose rocks
on surface Of loose stone. We walk
up hill and remove biggest obstacles
from path of axle. Drive up and stick
at hair-pin bend, with wheels slipping
After reversing three times and par
TALLY unloading, we manage 1t, with
Redknap and Wroe pushing.
11:15 a.m.-On apparently harC
surface we sink up to aXles in mud
unload car. / put on chains. Wroe
loses shoe in mud. We dig our axles
clear and collect about two tons of
rock to make hard track. Clear In
an hour. Redknap purple; also the
air.
1915 p.m-Half a mile through
mud patches and over plowed fields
Lunch after covering 6i2 miles in six
hours. Clean and scrape mud off
clothes
80 pm.-Another rocky nil :
miles long, continually unloading and
pushing.
PAS pm.-After two miles of fail
going, following road cut into cliff
along river bank. Half of road faller
away, and replaced by siX-inch-wide
beam carrying rotten boards. Return
to village and are told this is only
way through. Crawl along beam with
one inch to spare with torrent 80 fee
below.
$50 p.m.-Camp dead beat aftel
nearly three hours more mud anc
rocks. Total mileage for day, 81 il
IL hours.
X X X
THE following morning we arrived
at Bilejek, which the map de
scribed as n Turkish town of third i'm
portance, but TO our great surprise
we found a complete ruin. Bilejel
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Run From England India by Motor Car Covers Periou

nets. in a country free from mos
quitoes, and where the bracing noun
tain air was az tonic as champagne.
Next day we wended our way
through the Cilician Gates. past the
great triumDhal arch built by the
Emperor Justinian. and on over the
tropical plains to the famous city Of
Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia. 1t was
there that Antony received Cleopatra
when, as AphrOdite, she sailed up the
River Sydnus in magnificent luxury.
1t was also the birthplace Of st. Paul,
who received most OF his education
here.
After the decline of the Roman and
Byzantine power. during which it was
one of the greatest commercial centers
Of those empires, 1t came into the
hands of the Turks and fell into decay.
Even now, in It's squalid state Of semi
ruin, 1t is still an important center Of
commerce for wool, cotton and hides.
WE forded river near one broken
w bridge successfully. but when with
In six miles of Toprah kale, where we
intended to camp, we were held up by
another break over a swift stream.
We explored 1t we'll and put Felix at
1t at the most favorable looking place,
but although our front wheels just
touched the far bank, the rear wheels
stuck In the loose gravel Of the river
bed Felix Immediately acted as a
breakwater, and in 10 minutes the
whole under water part OF the car
was a concrete mass Of sand and
gravel.
Wroe went off to find bullocks to
pull us out. and Redknap and l clear,
ed the car of baggage, and tried 10
clear away the silt, but as fast as we
shoveled II away more came. We
then waited, and, having a book OF
trout flies with me, we improvised
rods from bamboos growing by the
river, and with the aid Of cotton
thread from our mending outfit we
caught six useful trout for tea.
Wroe returned in three hours with
a peasant and A pair of huge buffa
loes, and although they were strong
enough 10 pull anything, they could
not move us, and only broke theil
yoke in trying. To clear underneath
the car was impossible in the rush
ing water, So as we could not move
the car. our only alternative was t.
| move the river.
Cutting branches Of trees, and col
! lecting huge turfs, we set TO work anc
| built ramp round the car, and ther
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and 30 minutes after the battle opened
shots below the water line had begun
TO fill the hold Her decks ran with
gore, and at the height of the slaugh-
ter the British commander hailed to
know II the American struck. where
upon Jones delivered his historic Re-
ply, Il have not Vet begun TO fight"
The Bonhomme Richard soon Was
on fire and its magazine menaced.
but the American ship fought on, even
/ when one of its own fleet. the ALI
ance. drew near and raked il This
Extraordinary deed was first inter
preted as meaning that the British
had seized the Alliance and had turned
| it against its own flag. but later there
was indisputable evidence that Capt
I Peter Lands, French commander Of
the Alliance. whose hatred of Jones
| had previously cropped out had &C.
/ tually ordered the attack. He escaped
summary punishment only through
| the general belief that he was men
| tally unbalanced.
The situation of the Bonhomme
Richard became 50 desperate that
Jones was urged TO surrender, and an
ordinary commander would have been
justified in so doing. but Jones refused
TO accept defeat. BY his dominating
will he convinced British prisoners
that their own lives as well depended
on helping TO keep the ship aloat
thus freeing the American crew to
work the guns.
| On the battle ragged The Scraps,
| too. took fire, and. convinced that re-
| sistance was hopeless, the British com
mander, Capt. Pearson, with his own
| hands hauled down the flag Of the
! 44-gun friGate. So badly damaged
was the Bonhomme Richard. however,
that prisoners and crew had barely
| been transferred to the Scraps when
| the American flagship plunged to the
| bottom. The loss of men by the an
| tagoniStS was almost identical. Each
ship had 40 killed. The Bonhomme
| Richards wounded totaled 81 and the
| Scraps 6S.
In France and America John Paul
! Jones was loaded with honorS But
no one knew better than Jones that
an ignominious death would follow his
capture. for the rage and humiliation
of England at the decisive defeat OF
one Of her best frigates by a man she
insisted on calling pirate" knew no
: bounds
The fortunes of war by the close Of
1879 had reduced the American Navy
to total of six warShipS, but several
smaller actions took place before
Yorktown fell and the world reputa-
ton of American courage and skill IN
naval warfare was established for all
time. The total of Continental vessels
lost during the Revolution was a,
carrying an aggregate of 40 guns.
But the damage To British power and
prestige on the high seas was far
greater. The loss of British war YES
sells was loo. carrying a total of 500
guns. About 500 vessels of all kinds
were captured from the British by
American cruisers and privateers.
tCopyright. 1897
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Light.P reducing Alloys.

I ONG before the modern process Of
using chemical preparations fire
was kindled by the use of fiintstones,
which by conCussion emit sparks.
This method of lighting inflammable
materials has been restored by the
employment Of other metals produc-
ing, under the action of shock,
sparks hotter than those obtained
with the ordinary steel and flint.
Metallic uranium will ignite a mix
ture of air and iiredamp. Scientists
have discovered that this mixture
must remain a certain length or time
in contact with the uranium before
isniting. The phenomenon LAYS In ITS
delay to take fire; this delay OF 10
seconds at the temperature of $50 de-
grees diminishes in proportion as the
temperature increa SeS. for delay OF
only one second the temperature must
he Increased to l 900 degrees.
The tempera ture of the sparks from
ura MUM Is then above 1000 degrees.
Sparks forced from iron whether by
an ordinary steel and flint or by the
stroke of a miners tool will not ignite
the mixture Of air and ftredamp.
Sparks from uranium will readily
ignite cotton wicks saturated with al
cohol or gasoline. 1t was decided that
this metal could he utilized for max
ing very simple lighters. by placing
piece of uranium in a movable sup
port pressed by a spring against Il
steel surface covered with points ar
| ranged in such Il way that the sparks
produced would be projected into the
| gas jet or on the wick to be lighted!
! This very ingenious idea, which was
not applied because Of the high price
! - Uranium. was later realized be-
c..use Of the utilization Of the sub
stance cerium.
Some years ago Prof. Auer attract
ed attention to cerium by a patent
concerning an alloy of cerique metals
| with iron: by this alloy small pyro-
phoric sticks under slight shocks will
emit very hot sparks
A new alloy, the Kunheim alloy. is
| composed of cerique metals with the
/ addition of iron and magnesia. 1t
| ignites more readily than the pre-
ceding alloy. and may he utilized for
lighting gas jets, while the Auer
metal is especially adapted to pocket
lighters.