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Carpenters Own
Business Agent Is
Tool of Employers
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hood" of long duration and in good
standing. They may have been born
in America, North or Southsyes, even
in the u. S.. A., but if now for any
reasons whatsoever, toy are without
the rights of citizens, they are with
out the right to earn living by fol-
lowing their trade, under union or
any other kind of conditionss accord
ing to him. fr
Russia, l am told, givess workers
citizens rights the moment they put
foot on Russian soil, without any red
tape, regardless of nationality, race,
or creed.
Our business agent goes so far as
to deny members Of his own Brother
hood" the right to work for a living
because of circumstances over which
they had or have, in the last analysis
and majority of cases, no 69ptrol.
Flowersa for cheapl .oss.
Herecehtly proposedlto the District
Council, that they buy a., wreath of
flowers and present samevto an en-
ployer at the opening of an auditorium
at 18th and Grand thereby showing
our appreciation of him having hired
union carpenters. The council turned
it down. He then bought the flowers
with money from his own pocket and
presented them as coming1 from him
self and the carpenters. 5sg
When the business agent took the
matter before his own local and the
bill was allowed, he expressed re.
greet over the inability of,the council
to buy flowers for their friends be-
cause of lack Of money. On the job
in question the carpenters worked for
one dollar per day less than the scale.
Said a carpenter: IL see no sense
in giving boss, paying less than the
union scale, flowers, while those who
pay the scale and live up to union
rules, receive nothing. None of them
should get anything. The carpenter,
or any worker for that matter, is en-
titled to all he gets and then some"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19

seven supporting the C. E. C. was
elected.
In New York the vote was 1O7 for
the majority against SO for the minor
ity. The delegation Of IL will be di-
vided Z and 4.
Buffalo supported the majority by
vote Of rs to 8, electing two major
ity delegates. Detroit was divided S3
majority, % minority, electing 2 ma
jority and 1 minority delegates.
Cleveland stood SO against H. elect
ing majority and 1 minority. The
Minnesota district elected full ma
jority delegation Of 5, and the Cali
fornia district followed suit with a
delegation of 8. The contention of
the Oregon and Washington district,
by vote Of "a to 2, elected ma
jority delegates. Connecticut elected
majority by a vote of 70, none
against, two abstaining Philadel-
phia is sending 1 majority and 1
minority to the convention. The third
delegate is contested.
The minority elected delegates
from Pittsburgh, while the Boston
delegation was divided minority
against majority.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
American Workers Must
Fight Plan to EnsIave
China with Dawes Plan
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the pendulum swings back from the occident
the orient. When the Dawes plan imposed on Ger
many the German workers charged that they had been
chnae that they had been reduced to the slavery of Far
East coolies Now another Dawes plan over China is pro-
posed effort to Germany the restless oriental republic
The whole plan for subdung China is given serious
deration the Institute of Politics still continuing at Will
Jamestown, Mass where offered for disconnected
peoples everywhere to save their chains content them
with their slavery
Lionel Curtis of London raised the question that the
League Nations should be the instrument China into
Dawes slavery Bsher should be the last to make such
proposition it is the British that have made of Shanghai
English port and with its mperalst allies have turned
crimson the pavements with workers. blood British bait
will attract the Chinese these mperast schemes
Dr. William E. Rappard Swiss member of the permanent
mandates commission of the League of Nations very evil
denty inspired spokesman declares that the league
would be delighted to assume the task (of Germanfyng
Chna) conditions: first that China should not only
accept but welcome, and indeed request Intervention OF
the eague second that the United States government should
assure its cooperation
This is an artfuI play with words Yet their meaning
very clear 1t not difficult to buy up few Chinese gen-
erals, win native capitalists in league with foreign
poftees in the exploitation of Chinese labor and thus pre-
sent the of Chinese appeal to the league de-
nounced by revolutionary workers everywhere as the black
elements in every country willing and anxious to sell out
to foreign expoters. That is the naneuver which inn
Mexico Central and South America have had their expert
in this hemisphere from which all peoples threatened
working class in the Chinese Republic have pro-
fitted by these experiences and they will not easily be led
astray by aIuring imperast subterfuges.
Or. c. c. BatcheIder, who considered fit to be profess
international relations for NewYork University offers
it his belief that China will intervention by 1.-THE
league He bases his conclusion on his experience as
Commercial attache in China His inspiration explains his
conclusions But does not give true Interpretation of
the developments that may be expected
This Intervention of the League of Nations in China,
the effort to impose Dawes Plan the Chinese people,
IS threat to tighten the mPefiaist grip not only upon
China but upon the whole world American workers
suffering under the effects of the Dawes pan that they
did not combat effectively, atho the Communists every
where theoretically urged them to action. Another oppor
tuny fight offers itself. American labor fight
all intervention China under the direction of the League
Nations from any other They fight the
effort to impose Dawes slave plan on China
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
''BEST PEOPLE" FORBID
STRIKING MINERS TO
PRAY FOR SCABS' SOULS

NEW YORK, August 17--"Wire
churches here or Rotary Club or
Lions Club or Chamber of Com
merce," J. w. Hinton, secretary
Henryetta, Okla, Coal Associa-
ton, teIegraphed to the American
Civil Liberties Union, In asking
them to investigate how the best
people of okmuleee, Okla, are sup
porting sheriff John RusselPs ban on
miners outdoor prayer meetings
for the souls of scabs.
Four miners have been arrested
for violation of the sheriff's order
and will be assisted in defense by
E. C. MarianelIi, Civil Liberties
legal representative in MeAIester,
Okla.
Marianelli informed the Civil Lib
critics Union that "This Is not a
strike but a lockout. The miners
worked nearly one year. They are
still willing to work under the ex.
listing unexpired wage agreement.
The operators have repudlated
same arbitrarily
"They have cut wages 80 per
cent, evlctInp miners from company
houses and prohibiting public
meetings, pieketine, parades and
public prayers. The latter means,
on the part Of the miners wives,
was most effective in inducing
scabs TO quit work."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
BRICKL AVERSION
STRIKE IN N. Y,
AGAINST FULLER
Company Advertised for
Non-Union Workers

= WASHINGTON, August 17.-Altho
the Bricklayers' International Union
has maintained a policy of refusing to
call strikes on hospital construction
jobs, all members Of the organization
have quit work on a big hospital adj
dition in New York City, according to
General Secretary ]. j. Gleeson. They
stopped work when an individual
member showed to them an advertise
ment published in a newspaper in
Florida, advertising for bricklayers to
work "open shop" hours a day, on
a job which the union had struck The
firm publishing this advertisement was
the Geo. A. Fuller Co.-the same firm
that has the hospital contract in New
York. A copy of this advertisement
is show in Gleeson's Office.
The Fuller concern is the largest
involved in the iurisdictional dispute
between the Bricklayers and the Oper-
alive Plansterers' International; it
became a party to the trouble when
it signed an agreement with the Oper-
alive Plasterers recognizing their
jurisdictional claims as against those
of the bricklayers. Reports reaching
the bricklayers' headquarters in Wash
ington indicate that the work struck
by them remains tied up, except for
the employment Of four non-union men
in Florida to replace 25 bricklayers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
Chicago Federation
of Labor Surrenders
to Scabby Bill Green
Continued from Page u

NSOhIAuueu from rage -
to keep their hands off the Anal
gamated strike situation.
On on aye and nay vote the motion
to accept Green's letterappeared de-
feated, but the machine stuck by
President John Fitzpatrick in the
rising vote. 81
A little later one delegate asked,
Are we to undrestandsthat we are
to approve the strikebreaking of the
United Garment Workers." and Fitz-
patrick answered: "That matter has
been referred to the executive board"
Thus the Chicago Federation of
Labor refuses to take decisive action
against the tactics of the A. f. of L.
union, and actively support the strike
OF the Amalgamated, despite the fact
that the International Tailoring com.
pany is advertising for strikeberakers
under the name Of the A. f. of L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
union DRIVERS
MAY REFUSE TO
CARRY SCABS
Continued from page u

then went into the printing business
for himself, but he was equally unfor-
tunate or rather his creditors were.
He trimmed them all. yellow Kid"
We'll, the famous confidence man, who
checks ON imaginary banks had moth
ing no Linderman alias Indy. After
leaving his creditors holding the bag,
this incurable strikebreaker even
went so far as to separate friend
Of his from his violin. This got Lin
dy alias Linderman into the tolls of
the law, but legal understudy in
the office of well known lawyer got
him out of the tolls. This understudy
is a brother-in-law Of "Stuss' Singer,
scab superintendent in the Cuneo
plant.
Singers brother-in-law got the job
in the lawyers Office thru the influ-
ence of Shurford "Marble-top" Marks
Linderman beat 1t out Of Chicago but
he was brot in here again and is work
ing at his favorite profession, which
is StrlkeDreaklng.
Among the many changes made by
the pressmen against Seymour
"Stuss" Singer, is that he was the
cause of Johnny Grants death, pro
gressive pressman who was fighting
Berry during the 1919 strike in New
York City. Singer is reported to have
blackjacked Grant, the beating bring
ing fatal results.
Another rat is "Zeb" Meanwhile
from Kansas City. "zeb" brot twelve
men into the Cuneo plant to scab, but
ten of them returned when they
learned the cause of the trouble.
Policemen armed with rifles are
guarding the plant,
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CHARGE AGAINST
WP. ORGANIZER
is DROPPED
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hours, but this w@uld not do. A Rus
sian comrade working in one Of the
mills offered a bank book that night,
but this would jeopardize his job, and
his offer was not accepted by Simons.
The result--a little stretch of IS hours
in the coop.
At o'clock Monday morning, Sim
ons pleaded not guilty to the charge
as stated above. They tried to rush
the thing thru, but Simons demanded
continuance till Wednesday. Appear
ing with Attorney Somers of Meriden
on Wednesday, Simons was informed
that the Monday morning charge. was
dropped, and charge placed Of vend-
ing merchandise without a license. AL
tho the prosecuting attorney admitted
that newsboy needed no license, yet
Simons was fined $40 and costs,
amounting to $22 in all. Appeal was
taken to the Court of Common Pleas
in New Haven, the case coming up
early in September While the New
Haven and Derby papers featured the
radical propaganda distribution, they
did not tell the truth, emitting en-
tirely the dropping of the silly, pre-
posterous charge first made. 1t is ap-
parent to the workers that the Derby
authorities tried to drive the Workers
Party out of that city.
Shelton is the home of Blumen-
that's. The local police chief, taking
orders from the mill owners, desired
to designate the corner for us to
speak on. He told us to come to
him before IL o'clock on the day we
wished to speak, which makes adver-
tisement among the mill slaves i'm
possible. The Workers Party could
not consent to such ruling. Since
there is no city ordinance, it is not
necessary to get permission from the
police chief. Such is our contention.
The first noon meeting, the first
held in years, was not stopped; the
reason, it appears now, being that the
cops were asleep at the switch, not
even knowing it was going on. Last
Tuesday the workers were informed
about it, and about $50 were listening
to Simons tell about the insipid charge
over in Derby, when the pompous
chief arrived, enraged, and arrested
the speaker for speaking without
| permit Simons was released after
two hours on bail of 800 cash. I'm
the Derby case the court redused the
bail to $300.)
At the back Of these arrests is the
story of the Shelton Looms, of the
Workers Party aid to the strikers six
weeks back, of carrying on propagan-
da thru leaflet distribution and speak
| ing to the Weavers' Social Club. The
Weavers have decided to participate
in the Textile Workers Conference in
New York on Sept. 9Th. This propa-
ganda is becoming thorn in the side
of the Shelton Loom owners. And
the police of the two neighboring
towns are cooperating with the mill
magnates. The effect of the arrests
has been to show the Shelton workers
that the police and the courts are
against them and on the side of the
boss. Never have those workers heard
more about the Communist message.
They are beginning to understand it
and sympathize with it.
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AS WE SEEIT : ByT.J. O'Flaherty

dency to incite those suffering from it
to sodomy. Had all those clergymen
who violate the moral code, been
atheists or agnostics, the air would be
filled with the shrieks of raving
preachers advocating the execution of
those found guilty of doubling the
authenticity Of the bible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
CITY CENTRAL, LOCAL
CHICAGO WORKERS PARTY
MEETS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

The next meeting of the City Cen
tral Con4mittee will be held Wednes-
day evening, Aug. 19, at 722 Blue
Island avenue. The meeting will
open promptly at p. m, and all
delegates are requested to be there
promptly at that hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
DISTRICT CONVENTIONS OF WORKERS 4
I (COMNUNIST) PARTY ENDORSE
CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Commun Party hd
country policies leadership Of the Central
received endorsement by very large
majority
delegates voted for the resolution 81
majority by minority full delegation OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
Build the DAILY WORKER.
Man DROWNED in france

PARIS, Aug. 17.-Statistics publish
ed by the French Swimming and Life
Saving Federation today showed that
more persons were drowned during
summer months than were killed in
railroad, motorcar OF airplane acct
dents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
TRIP0LI Joins
african revolt,
ATTACKS ITALY
Natives Hold the Main
Caravan Route

PARIS, France, Aug. 1.-THE revolt
of the African races against European
Imperialism has spread to Tripoli,
w8erc 7o1ooo senussi Arabs are in
rebellion against the rule of italy.
Since an italian column was wiped
out south of Renahazi, by the natives,
the revolt has not been put down.
The column was proceeding south in
war formation under the command Of
Major Ruggero. and its supply caravan
was captured. Two hundred Italian
troops were killed or wounded. The
natives still control the main caravan
route between Tripoli and Egypt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
Wind Appears at
Chicago Federation
of Labor Meeting

Theodore Wind, labor official re-
Gently pardoned by Gov. Len Small,
after being sentenced to Joliet on a
charge of extortion, appeared at the
Chicago Federation Of Labor Sun.
day. 1t cost me more than $4,000
IN lawyers fees and much of that
money came from you,g ivnd said in
commenting on the fight Of the union
omciais to escape the penitentiary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
Riffs Attack MeIlIla.

PARIS, France, Aug. 1.-THE Riff
ians have launched a new offensive
against the French invaders and are
threatening Melilla, the Spanish
stronghold
The French and Spanish agents
have made efforts to break the soil
darity of the Moroccan groups by Of
fering a separate peace to the Jebala
with political and economic autonomy
but The offer has been refused.
Spaniards Shoot Women.
The chief of the Spanish general
staff has admitted the truth of reports
that Rifian women were killed under
his orders. Our sentries have shot
women when they were in gun-running
parties" he said.
= ''The Riffs got much of their ammu-
milton from the neutral Tangier zone,
and at night women laden with arms
and cartridges, with few armed men
scouts around them, have crossed the
border Our sentries have shot and
killed in such cases"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19

If you want to thoroughly un.
derstand COMMUNISM study it.
Send for a catalogue of all Com
munist Literature.
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Continued from page u
those of the Soviet Union and the
United Statesso Capitalism is still
powerful here.a' But it is bound to
disintegrate. The same fate will be-
fall it as befell the system of Europe.
And when Europe. goes down to rise
up as a federation of Soviet republics,
the process of disintegration of cap
italism in the United States will pro-
coed by leaps and bounds.
WHAT religious people do and get
w away with, beggars description.
In New York policeman saw what
he thought was a man dressed in
white clothes walking along Fifth
Avenue. Thinking it might be some
millionaire taking stroll, the cop
touched his hat respectfully, but on
looking more closely he was convinced
that the pedestrian was even minus
a string of beads. The policeman Of
fered the nude traveller his coat to
protect at least some portion of his
indecency, but his generosity was
spurned by the naked one, who de-
clared that he was on his way to the
Waldorf Astoria to meet the Lord,
and he wanted the Lord to get an eye
full. This was too much for the cop
who had a different conception of
what the same Lord would like to
look at. He took his charge to the
station.
TINE writer once knew perfectly
4 sane person in Boston. At least
outside of the fact that he went to
church regularly, he acted normally.
But one Sunday afternoon this man
took a little catholic prayerbook and
went out on the street preaching the
WORD of god" like Salvation Army
exhorter. An Irish policeman, hear
ing the name of Christ mentioned
rather too frequently thought the of
fender was swearing. Catholics sell
dom use the name Christ outside Of
a church except for emphasis. Think
ing was acting and the cop brought
his club down violently on the head
OF the over-enthusiastic christian, who
went to heaven shortly afterwards.
The cop thot he had finished off a
protestant and was perfectly satisfied
that he had done his duty.
A MOTHER clergyman is arrested
"A and charged with sodomy. Every
day stories Of this kind appear in the
press. Yet there are no editorials
pointing out that religion has q ter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-19
No Production
in Struck Shop
of Tabor Boss
(Continued from Page 1l


bail with the exception of John (Pat-
sy) De Rosa. De Rosa, who is in the
Maxwell street station under $100,500
bail, refused to allow the Amalgamat-
ed to put up this bail, declaring he
would rather stay in until Friday,
when the case comes up for hearing
before Judge Lyle.
William A. Guinea, attorney for the
Amalgamated, will ask for change
of venue on the ground that Judge
Lyle has shown prejudice. Judge Lyle
stated he thot De Rosa guilty.
Bernard Raeling, one of the stril1-
ers, who was charged with malicious
mischief" appeared in the Maxwell
police court yesterday, and his case
was continued until Friday, when the
sixteen other union officials and strik-
ers will appear on similar charges.
The union officials are also charged
with Conspiracy. Raeling is out on
$4,000 bond.
Two pickets, Sarah Mondella and
mother girl striker, were taken from
the picket line by police yesterday and
arrested. They are charged with dis
orderly conduct"
The strike benefits were paid as
usual yesterday, $12 to strikers with
dependent families and So to the 9TH
ers.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.-FP)-Ali
injunctions in recent New York labor
history are outdone by the amazing
decree issued by Supreme Court Judge
Churchill against the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union in its strike
against the International Clothing Co.
The writ not only forbids "picketing,
in any manner whatsoever" but bans
congregating of strikers within eleven
city blocks of the plant.
Judge Churchill's injunction is first
aid to the firm, following a second
walkout which stripped the plant Of
most of the strikebreakers imported
since the original walkout seven
weeks ago In reply the union an
nounces 1t will keep the strike flag
lying in New York as n Chicago.
where success is approaching.
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A MOTHER clergyman is arrested
"A and charged with sodomy. Every
day stories Of this kind appear in the
press. Yet there are no editorials
pointing out that religion has q ten
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-12-15

court procedure and reforms in the
law are not wanted. They are deem
ed mere ignoramuses unfit to offer
any advice. No one but a lawyer was
ever appointed on commission
dealing with law and the courts.
None but lawyers are allowed posi-
tions on the judiciary committee,
which passes on all bills relating to
the law. The legal profession is the
only one allowed to regulate its own
acts. Business men fume and rage
over the bankruptcy law administra-
ton, but they can get no satisfaction.
Anything they have to say must be
said through lawyers.
Yet there is no mystery about the
law. Presumably founded on COM
mon sense, there is no reason why
man gifted with that commodity
should not have some valuable ideas
even if he is not a lawyer. But the
law is hedged about with traditions
which seem to bar anyone who is
not of the elect from having any
voice. All other branches of the
States activity are subject to the
supervision of representatives of the
community. But questions relating
to the law must be left to lawyers.
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