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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
SCARED BY 1000 VOLTS,
2 MEN LIVE FOR HOURS

NORFOLK, Va. May ia coro-
ner's investigation is under way
here today to determine the facts
surrounding the death of two men
at the Reeves avenue power plant
of the Virginia Railway and Power
Company.
The men, Alvin Douglas, twenty
nine. and Linwood Whitley, forty,
were engaged in painting near a
high-voltage circuit. In some man
ner Whitley came in contact with
the wire and in an instant both
were enveloped in flames. Though
the full force of the II 900 volts
burned and scared them, the men
remained conscious until their Grat h
several hours later.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
AUTO BREAKS LEG OF
GIRL, SITTING ON STEPS

NEW YORK. May 19.-Elizabeth
Hughes, seventeen years old, OF
No. PAP Berkshire street, had her
left leg broken in an odd accident
while sitting on the steps in front
of her home last evening. Parked
in front Of the house was an auto.
mobile, owned by Joseph Major, OF
No. 2S2S Crirard avenue.
When Major started the machine,
the steering gear broke and the car
went up on the sidewalk. the right
wheel pinning the girl against the
steps. She was taken to the Epis'
copal Hospital.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
COOLIDGE GIVES UP HIS
ECONOMY IN TRAVELLING

President Coolidge will use a spe-
cial car and not Pullman car sec
ton in his travelings hereafter, it is
indicated at the White House.
When he goes to st. Paul, Mimi,
next month and to New England
for his summer vacation he will
travel in private car, as has been
the habit Of Presidents for many
years.
The experiment Of travelling in a
Pullman section. initiated by Ptesl'
dent Coolidge last fall for economy
purposes, is to be abandoned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
TRANSMITS PROVIDED
WORK FOR HUB POLICE

BOSTON. Mass, May IA total
Of 79,444 arrests were made in
Boston from May l, 1924, to May
!. 1925. according to figures made
public recently b.. Police Commits
sioner Herbert A. Wilson.
OF this number arrested, only
dents of the Hub, Commissioners
Wilson calculated. Aliens arrested
totaled 29,304 and non-residents,
% 263
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL
LEADS IN u. s. CAMPS

Business High School has the
highest percentage enrolment for
the citizens military training camps
among the Washington high schools,
according to announcement by the
War Department. The quota at
Business is eighteen. while twenty
two students have enrolled so far.
Other high schools in the order
of their enrolment are Western,
st. Johns;~ Central. Mckinley. Con
zaga and Eastern.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
SEC. WEEKS RECEIVERS
FROM ATTACK OF COLIC

The progress of Secretary of Wa"
Weeks toward recovery has been
retarded by an attack of gall blad-
der collie. but his general condition
lis satisfactory. physicians announced
today.
An operation may yet be neCes-
sary to afford the Secretary relief
from this trouble. but the attending
physicians are hoping that it will
~, <;tI'N
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19

Langley case Is scheduled for trial
in Criminal Court, No. /, next Mon
daV
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-19
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

Celebrate Ruthenberg's
Release Also Tomorrow

Thousands of workers are ex-
pected to gather tomorrow
night to commemorate the
death of NicoIai Lenin, founder
of the Third (communist) In
ternational.
AT the meeting in the Ashland
Auditorium, Ashland and Van
Buren, SITS, Wednesday night,
at 8 p. m, the militant workers
Of Chicago viii also have a
chance Sc celebrate the release
of c. e. Ruthenberg, executive
secretaryso OF the Workers (Com-
munist) Party ON bail by the
United States supreme court.
Review Achievements Thru Leninisnn.
They will also rejoice that the
DAILY WORKER, the only Commun-
list daily newspaper printed in the
English language, has SO successfully
passed its first birthday.
J.. The speakers will tell what Lenin
meant to the toiling millions of Am
erican workers, and how he establish
ed the Communist International to
bind the proletariat of the world to.
gether into a powerful and well dis
ciplined army for the overthrow of
the exploiting class and the triumph
of the rule of the workers of the
world.
They will also review the growing
power Of the militant workers who
rely on the tactics of Leninism, and
of the world crisis in the ranks of in
ternational capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

New York comrades to use the DAILY
WORKER to strengthen all Of their
various activities.
In our trade union work, with a
workers paper, yet, Communist pa
per, to back it up, the 7. U. E. L..
militants will have mighty weapon
to push the program they are present
ing. Front page articles on local
strikes, lockouts, etc., will mean a ire
mendous impetus will be given to this
branch of our activity 4a
In fact, all branches of our work
will be greatly benefited. 1t will re-
suit in the building of stronger and
larger section of the party in the east.
However, that is not enough. Each
and every worker must do this or
her share. They must broadcast far
and wide this happy news and back II
up by obtaining subs from their shop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Miners
HOLD Meeting
AT BELLEvILLE
Demand the Release of
c. E. Ruthenberg
BY JOHN MIHELic.
Especial to The Daily Worksr)

BELLEVlLLE, Ill, Jan. 49,.
The conference Of miners to
consider unemployment was
held in BeIleviIIe Sunday. The
conference opened at 10 a. m.
and adjourned at S p. m.
Delegates present represented
18 locals. Reports from the
delegates showed many miners
in the Belleville sub-district
without employment, and many
mines closed down.
harrington Helps Operators.
The delegates from the O'Fallon Lo-
cal, No. 705, reporting regarding the
effort of the miners to force the o.
Fallon coal operators to put into
practice the clause in the agreement
dealing with the sharing of work be-
tween the miners who are unemploy-
ed and those working, said that the
operators are trying to interpret the
clause to their own advantage. The
coal operators claim this clause gives
them the right to dictate the terms
under which the work shall be shared
The operators submitted a yellow
dog" agreement for the sharing Of
work to the miners, but they refused
to sign. Protests were made by the
O'Fallon miners to Harrington and the
other District IL officials. The officials
however, did not aid the miners, prac.
tically agreeing with the coal operat
ors' Interpretation of the clause.
Call for Unemployed Organizations.
A resolution was passed by the
Belleville conference providing for the
Organization OF the unemployed min.
ers in the Belleville sub-district. A
resolution was also passed demanding
state and national legislation for the
relief Of unemployed workers, and ia.
voring joining hands with other unem,
ployed organizations that may be
formed turnout the state and nation.
Demand Ruthenberg's Release.
The convention demanded the re.
peal Of all criminal syndicalism laws
and the immediate release OF c. u.
Ruthenberg, executive secretary Of
the Workers (Communist) Party,
from Jackson, Mich. penitentiary
where he is serving term of from
three to ten years for expressing his
Communistic opinions. s3s rr
A committee Of five was elected
with power to call future unemploy
ment conferences and carry on other
work in behalf of the locals repre-
sented at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
LOWER HOUSE is
AGAIN CLOSED
BY MUSSOLINI
No Elections Soon, Says
Dictator

ROME, Italy. Jan. i9.-The chamber
OF deputies has adjourned after pass
ing Mussolini's new electoral bill, and
hearing the Communist deputies de-
nounce the rule Of fascism and call
for the rule Of the workers. The elect
oral bill must pass the senate, where
the opposition is now concentrating its
efforts against the bill.
Speculation in Rome dwells on
whether Mussolini win soon reconvene
the chamber. or wait until after the
Matteotti murder trials, In which Mus
solini and his aids are implicated.
MussolIni repeats that he will not call
a general election for many months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
GOV. AL SMITH
JOLTS LABOR ON
CHILD SLAVERY
Nationwide Drive Is On
Against Amendment
BY Il. NJ. WlcKs.
Special to The Daily work.rl

(opeciai 10 The Daily Workerl
NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 49,
The Tammanyite politicians at
the head Of the New York State
Federation of Labor received a
sever jolt from their friend"
Governor Al. Smith, when that
asstute politician came out
against the immediate ratifica-
ton by the state legislature of
the child labor amendment to
tho United States constitution.
Thus, the governor or New York.
elected by labor and socialist votes on
the democratic ticket against an ava
lanche OF republican votes that swept
every other democrat out Of Office,
lines up with the most bitter and out
spoken opponents OF labor. much to
the discontinue Of James p. Holland,
president OF the State Federation Of
Labor, and the local officials OF the
New York City Central Labor Coun.
ell.
Encouraged by the successful refer.
endum in Massachusetts, where. at the
last general election, the measure was
defeated by vote OF 3 to /. the ex.
ploiters OF children, under the leader
ship OF the national manufacturers
have become converted to
the principle Of democracy" and are
urging referendums in every state.
Since II is the various state legis.
CONTINUED on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
DISTRICT TWELVE
EXECUTIVE SENDS
PROMISE TO ACT
tspeeIaI 70 The psIIy- Workerl

Especial TO The Daily Workerl
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. DO c.
&. Ruthenber1, care Earl Browder,
1113 w. Washington Blvd, Chicago,
~.
The executive. committee of Dis
trict Twelve In regular meeting as
sennbled this day, Jan. 10, greet
your courageous fight for commun-
ism and send you our comradely
greetings and assure you we are
with you IN this struggle for the
final victory Of the prcl>tariat.
We have already launched an IN
tenslve agitation among the work
ers Of this district and we will not
rest until you are free again.
Aaron Fisherman, chairman.
N. X. TaIIentIre, secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

mates and friends on q larger scale
then ever before.
One more thing must be done. All
Of US should consider ourselves a com
mittee of one, to help supply the news
to make the New York edition of the
DAILY WORKER what 1t actually is
A WORKERS DAILY. Send into the
New York office all news OF the labor
movement that other workers should
know about.
The New York edition Of the DAILY
WORKER published in Chicago is the
transition period between the past and
a DAILY WORKER, PRINTED IN
NEW YORK CITY!
Let our slogan be: "a DAILY
WORKER PUBLISHED IN NEW
YORK CITY BEFORE THE END OF
1S25!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
MORE WEAvERS JOIN
FALL RIVER STRIKE
AGAINST WAGE CUTS

FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. a.
One hundred and fifty Ieno and
plain weaVers from the DaVol Mills
have Joined the strike movement
against the ten per cent wage re-
duotion. The DaVol, Lincoln, Gran
lite and Barnard Mills are now out.
Viewers Of the Davis Mills are said
to be returning after promise to set
tie part Of their grievances.
Thomas ?. Mcmahon, president Of
the United Textile Workers, is ex-
peeted In Fall River as reinforce
ments for Organizer Riviere who Is
conducting the strike Of Dyers and
Bleachers at the Kerr Mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Cali For Amnesty
FIoa Worker RefusIna Starvation Pay

SHREVEPORT. La F. A. Cum
mings, a laborer, was iogged by a
selt-appointed Shreveport vigilance
committee because he would not work
at local sawmill where he had been
offered employment. Cummings says
that wages were so miserably small
that he preferred to starve while not
employed to working and starving
Just the same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Amateur Radio Achievement.

LONDON, Jan. 19.-lThe first anna
teur two-way radio communication be-
tween Europe and South America
was established today. An eEnglish
amateur radio operator" conversed
with a member Of the Rice explora-
tion party at Boa visto, 500 miles in
land. The ameteur used an 500 watt
set. f1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
"a unions IN
HARD COAL PITS
FAVOR WALKOUT
Lewis Regime in Threat
to OUTLAW Struggle
Especial to The paiIy Worker

Especial to The Daily Worksrl
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Jan. 10.
Sixty thousand anthracite
miners of District No. I, United
Mine Workers of America,
threaten to strike on Wednes-
day as a result of a meeting
Sunday of the joint grievance
committee representing "a local
unions.
To Spread the Strike.
If the strike comes, as it seems GER
tain to come, it will be in open de-
fiance of John L. Lewis, international
president and the renegade radical
Rinaldo CappeIlini, the discredited
president of the district. Both of
these traitors to the miners interests
have, of course, warned that charters
will be revoked and the miners "out-
lawed"
The miners, in turn, are depending
on spreading the strike until so many
are "outlawed" that only the Preacher
GUS union officials are left "inlawed"
and the general violation becomes le-
gal by force of numbers and power.
Miners Oppose Any Split.
Bitter hostility is shown against the
suggestion raised by Tony Panne,
chairman of the 1900 Pennsylvania
Coal company's miners now on strike,
that these men would split from the
q. NJ. w. of A. The miners are deter
mined to stay in the international and
clean out the takers.
The meeting Sunday was sailed 10
hear charges against the district exc
cutive and to prepare Impeachment Of
Cappellini for refusal to call special
district convention as provided by the
constitution to settle grievances
against both the bosses and Cappelini.
Committee Report Brings Explosion.
Further dilly-dallying over the
charge against Cappelini became. evil
dent by the report of the special com
mittee which merely advised that if
satisfaction was not secured thru the
union courts, the case might get ia
WI. III thC SOuAly SOulb ny q plcd III
equity.
1t was then that Tony Panne threw
the meeting into angry disorder by
threatening to split the Pittston 12.-
600 men of the Pennsylvania company
from the U. II. w. of A. if no action
was to be taken and such a report
were adopted.
Many motions to spread the strike
thruout the district were, however,
made from all sides by rank and file
miners who strenuously opposed
Panne's provocative utterances. But
immediate strike motions were quick
ly withdrawn because time was need
ed to guard the treasures of the To-
Gals against attachment by the treach-
erous officials.
Special meetings of all the locals
are being held before Wednesday,
when another joint meeting will be
held. Also there is the double purpose
of getting the rank and file sentiment
solidified and to await the final action
Of the district board which promised
meeting to consider the question of
a special convention.
Cappellini shows worry over the ac-
ton Of the meeting and is holding
sessions with other officials at his
home and the district office, mean
while confering over the long distance
telephone with John L. Lewis at In
dianapolis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Floods Sweep eeornla.

ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 19.-virtually
the entire southeast today was theat
ened with enormous property damage
from foods rolling down the valleys
after three days Of constant rain. The
downpour continued. Three trainmen
were killed and several persons were
injured in two wrecks attributed to
the rains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Brakeman Is Killed.

LITCHFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-Roy
Cody, rs, of Nation, brakeman on the
Big Four train number 81, was killed
near here today when he fell from the
rear Of the train. His head struck a
rail, breaking his neck and crushing
his skull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
RU7HENBERG ADMITTED TO 81, 500
BAIL BY JUSTICE BRANDEIS|
AS NC REYNOLDS DENIES WRIT
Especial to The psIIy Worker,

WASHINGTON o. c. Jan. ia writ of supersedeas
granted c. E. Ruhenbe national executive secretary of the
Workers communst Party by Justice of the U. s. Supreme
Court Louis Brandes Sunday
AS the technical details are arranged Comrade
Rutenberg will come out of the Jackson Mich penitentary
$500 bail
has jurisdiction most Michigan cases. denied the writ of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
LstyIa to RceonnI-e soul.ts.

MOSCOW, Jan. 19.--It is reported
that negotiations are soon TO be start.
ed between Latvia and the Union Of
Socialist Soviet Republics for the con
clusion OF a Soyiet-Latvian treaty Of
commerce. (The political treaty be.
tween the two countries was conclud-
ed four years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
LenIn Memorial MeetInas.

UTICA, New York.-A Lenin me.
mortal meeting will be held here on
Wednesday evening. Jan. 81, at 1871
Washington street, Labor Lyceum at
8 D. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
russians at French Art Show.

MOSCOW Jan. 10. - The French
cabinet has decided to invite the Sow
let government to participate in the
art exhibition to be held in Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

oAPSA SCdOdO anu ICluoOu u du-
init Comrade Ruthenberg to
bail. Frank P. Walsh of New
York and Kansas City, and
Isaac Ferguson of Chicago,
made the appeal for the writ.
Law Unconstitutional
The two lawyers for Comrade Ruth
enberg claimed that the criminal syn
icalist law Of Michigan under which
Ruthenberg was sentenced is unconsti-
tutional. as it denies the right of free
speech and assemblage.
They further declare that no intent
of criminal injury was shown by the
Berrien county prosecution. Comrade
Ruthenberg was found guilty of ex-
pressing his communistic opinions, and
of assembling with" other Commun-
lists at the August, 1922, national con-
vention of the Communists.
Supreme Court Get Case
The United States supreme court
must now pass on the constitionality
of the Michigan criminal syndicalist
law. The constitutionality of any state
syndicalist law has not yet been pass
ed on by that body. BENJAMIN Gitlow
is now out of Sing Sing penitentiary on
bail, pending hearing before the U.
is. supreme court on the constitution
atty Of the New York state criminal
syndicalist law These laws were stated
at the time of their passage to be
wartime acts" to prevent foreign
enemies of the United States from en-
gaging in activity in this country
against the United States, but they
have been used from the start by the
employers against labor, and against
those who tried to strengthen the
ranks of the militant workers.
Ruthenberg Now in Prison
Comrade Ruthenberg has been con-
fined in the Jackson. Mich, penitent-
larry for the past two weeks, after
the Michigan state supreme court at
Lansing refused to reverse the con-
viction and sentence of three to ten
years at hard labor and 100000 fine
imposed by Judge Charles White at
st. Joseph, Michigan. Comrade Ruth
enberg had not yet been put to work
in the prison, which has one of the
most damnable prison labor contract
systems in the country. Ruthenberg
is still in quarantine.
Jackson Prison Worst
The Jackson prison boasts that the
nrisoners make one dollar or sliphflv
more a day in the jute mills and shoe
shops. But the prisoners are worked
like slaves, under penalty of cruel and
vicious punishment. and are made to
turn out more work than the lowest
paid non-union factroy labor. The
working conditions are of the worst,
prisoners frequently contracting tu-
berculosis in the rotten, dust filled air
of the jute mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

NEW YORK EDITION OF DAILY
WORKER HAILED BY COMRADES
By SYLVAN a. PoLLAcK.

NEW YORK coNIRADESs The publication
edition of the DAILY WORKER significant following
the first of its existence
daily into real national the American
considerable portion issue will be
in conspicuous parts Of the which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
Work Scarce In 81. LouIs.

ST. LOUIS-Canvassing st. Louis
union offices, one hears everywhere
the same story of large numbers OF
members out of employment. The
situation is growing more acute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20
AS WE SEE IT
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

NRAND DUKE BORIS VLADIMIR
~ OvICH of Russia, (there is no
cash in the title in Russia), is here
for a good time. Congressman La
Guardia copied little publicity by
suggesting that the duke be fumigat-
ed before being allowed to land. The
aristocratic visitor denied that he is
here to overthrow the government.
It's being run to suit him, he declares.
THE last time Boris was in this
] he distinguished himself by drink
ing champagne out of chorus girls
shoe. This time he may sip moon
shine from her hip, If that is where
they carry their TASKS. The duke is
nothing if not gallant. That is about
all he can show as an excuse for con-
Stunning his vitamines. The duke trav-
elled first class, but the rest of his
Family came second. It's tough
world for dukes, particularly Russian
dukes. e
$50
HIRAM JOHNSON is back In the
news again. He saw his chance
when Kellogg signed the agreement
with the allied powers providing for
participation by the United States in
the work of skinning Germany thru
the Dawes plan. johnson has not
been so happy in many months. He
introduced motion requesting Sec
rotary Of State Hughes to come across
with the documentary evidence on the
Dawes plan and everything connect
cd with It. Fellows like Johnson
stand for the capitalist system alright,
but the interests they represent put
q tack ON Wall Streets throne every
once in while.
KNUSSOLINI manages to keep his
lVl stiletto yet. But his prospects
are none too good despite Arthur
Brisbane's insistence that everything
Is alright on the Tiber. Arthur used
90 be a radical once, a sort Of social
ist-progressive, but he is now a mil
lionaire. He receives 100000 year
from william Randolph Hearst for
turning out his daily column of rub
bish. Mussolini stands for capitalism.
So does Brisbane. The latter has
brains enough to know that. when
Benito passes in his checks, the Com
munists will be on his heels with
dictatorship of the proletariat instead
of a dictatorship of heavy industry.
THE capitalist papers no longer re-
/ fer to the socialists as reds"
They reserve that title for the Com
munists. A French socialist in the
chamber Of deputies had his dander
up a few days ago and he began to
throw water on his colleagues. The
Communists denounced the govern
ment for its action in removing may
or who supported the strikers in the
town Of Dournenez. The socialists
defended the government of course. A
clash followed which was headlined
by the press: Socialists and Reds
Clash in Chamber" We are not COM
planning.
THE Right Honorable Edward Hill
ton Young. M. p, formerly finan-
cial secretary to the British treasury,
addressed fifty financiers and men
prominent in industry In New York
recently. Otto II. Kahn. was the, host.
CONTINUED on Page A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-20

"The Beauty and the BoIshevik" is
coming to Ashland Auditorium Feb. 5.