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Smyrna times., 1925-12-23
MRS. H. l. BEERS, DOVER, HURT

Street While Trying to Save Husband
Mrs. Henry l. Beers, daughter of
DIR. E. S. Anderson, and one of the
most prominent women in Dover, was
struck by a southbound automobile
and seriously injured at Dover yes
terday in trying to pull her husband
from in front of an approaching car.
Smyrna times., 1925-12-23
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
The NeuU German Crisis

While the German workers and their families
were starving and striking against the occupati9n
Of the Ruhr, the German government, with social
democratic ministers, paid the industrial barOns-
the real rulers of Germany 900.
Stiffness Thyssen, and other multimillionaires
received this huge from the treasury of the
German republic" to reimburse them for losses
sustained in the Ruhr. They had this gold in their
strong boxes at the time when the police and mill
tary were shooting and falling workers for strikes
and demonstrations against the high cost of food
5000 members of the German Communist Party
are in prisons and concentration camps because
they took the lead in the struggle.
This last infamy of the socialdemocracy should
convince the most apathetic German worker that
further support of this gang of raitorous leeches
is in itself treason to the working class.
The exposure of the German government in this
theft of bread from the hungry mouths of millions
of men, women and children, has brought on an
other crisis which adds to the rapidly increasing
instability of German capitalism. We can trust
the German Communist Party to acquaint the
German workers with the fact that in Soviet Rus
STA, which the German rulers hate, such crimes
as these are punished with DEATH
The exposure of the close financial connection
between the great capitalist groups and the Ger
man government reads much like our own Teapot
Dome scandal and shows that no capitalist nation
has monopoly of graft and corruption-all are
alike in their drive for the wealth extracted from
the flesh and blood of the working class.
We believe that nemesis treads close the
heels of the German rulers They have bought and
sold the lives of the German workers a dozen
times since the Hindenburg line broke and
crisis succeeds crisis. The German workers were
fooled into endorsing the Dawes plan by promises
of peace and prosperity but the allied troops are
still in Germany and prosperity still does not
show above the horizon. The latest exposure, just
as the betrayal in the last elections, will send
thousands of workers into the Communist Party
and immensely increase the army of its sym
pathizers in the industrial centers.
Capitalism in Germany is the best organizer
the Communist Party has and the social-democratic
traitors can no longer pose saviors of the work
ing class. Their connection with the capitalist
robbers is too easily seen.
Postwar Germany exemplifes the Communist
analysis of the dsrupting processes at work in
capitalist sOcety-economic disintegration, chronic
crisis, the weakening of the grip of capitalism on
the mass mind, the crystallization of the revolu-
tionary forces headed by the Communist Party,
revolutionary struggles and-the dictatorship of
the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
solution For UnempIoyment

To the DAILY WORKER: This
letter was refused publication in our
local Tabor" press:
E. ]. Stack, acting president of the
Oregon Federation Of Labor recently
declared before the Spokane Central
Labor Council that: unemployment is
one of the gravest problems confront
ing civilization. AS solution to this
grave problem, he recommended the
application of the union label principle.
The Union Label
The union label principle is no
doubt desirable one for the workers;
but as solution for unemployment in
the here and now, it is of remote
utility.
When the Root, Russell, Duncan
delegation representing this American
democracy" visited Russia in 1917
they offered to the Russian workers,
then engaged in a hand-to-hand strug-
gle with both capitalism and czardom,
the union label weapon as a means of
emancipation; pointing to their "suc-
cesses" in the u. S.A.
Would Give UsgDay Dreams
The American bourgeois cultivate a
notion among their slaves that the
percentage of unemployed in Goods
country" is less than in Great Britain.
This not so. af a.
The Russell Sage report recently
published admits that from 10 to 20
per cent Of the whole labor force of
this country are for weeks and months
at a time unemployed-the number
varying from one to six millions.
Here in the Northwest there are
from sixty to seventy thousand out of
employment. re-
The "A. L." bulletin admits that
there is vast army of potential la
hor" or homeguards alternating in
the small towns. waiting for something
to turn up"
In Spokane, Seattle and Portland,
thousands of loggers and mechanics
are bucking the 'hlackboards on the
skidroads--eaeer to work for their
~Nt'1 OACA SahANCNf thCJ u v Ut lAAC
mercy OF the masters Of bread--and
believe that nothing can be done,
hence they accept a job at any price.
Unemployment Insurance
Let us inculcate in their minds that
capitalist, industry and government
must support workers. both employed
and unemployed; If they are able to
collect it, This can be done by agitat-
ing and demanding work or full main
tenance by national unemployment
insurance from d tax on profits.
Make IL an isstfe In the trade union
movement. It may not be a revo-
lutionary issue but It is essentially a
class demand.
The British workers have achieved
state unemployfaent insurance; there
by preventing disintcgration Of the
trade unions thru competition Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

Reynolds, defendant herein, and
respectfully show unto this court as
follows:
1. That the said United Brother.
hood of Carpenters and Joiners OF
America, is an organized national un.
ion Of the carpenters OF America;
that Sam Botterill is the authorized
representative of said United Broth.
erhood for the district which en-
braces the city of Detroit; that the
Wayne County Carpenters District
Council is subsidiary Of the said
United Brotherhood, and has direct
control of the district embracing
Wayne county and the city OF Detroit;
that James W. Sharrack is a member
Of said United Brotherhood and presi-
dent Of said Wayne County District
Council; that Harold r. Fish is a
member of said United brotherhood
and secretary of the said Wayne
County District Council.
2. That William Reynolds, de-
PENDANT herein, was member Of said
United Brotherhood and vice-presi
dent Of said Wayne County District
Council and president of Local Union
No. 214O, one of the locals of said
United Brotherhood.
The Famous Paragraph.
g.. That the said defendant, Will
liam Reynolds, was expelled from
membership in the United Brother
haood of Carpenters and Joiners Of
America, by the action of the general
executive board of the United Broth.
erhood at the regular quarterly meet.
ing of said board, on Jan. 8, 1925; a
copy Of which order of expulsion is
attached hereto and made a part
hereof. That the said defendant
William Reynolds, was expelled from
said United Brotherhood for violation
Of paragraph U. section AZ, of the
constitution and laws of said United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join.
ers of America, which provides:
"U-No member of the United
Brotherhood can remain in or be-
come a member of more than one
local union, or any other organiza-
ton Of carpenters and joiners, or
any mixed union of building trades
men, under penalty Of expulsion"
4. That a copy of said order OF
expulsion was mailed by the genera
secretary of said United Brotherhood
to the Wayne County District Coun
Gil and also to Local No. 2140; that
the expulsion of the said defendant
William Reynolds, from the United
Brotherhood and from the District
Council and from the Local Union
was made effective by the official &C
ton of the meeting of the said Dis
trict Council at Detroit, Michigan, on
Jan. is, 1925, at which time said or.
der was read in open meeting; that
copy Of said order was personally
served upon said defendant by Harole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
Making Revolutionary History

Who is fighting the battles of the working class
against treason and reaction in the American labor
movement? Who is taking the blows of tools of
capitalism in the unions and organizing the rank
and file by precept and example for action against
the bosses and the capitalist government that il
their instrument?
The answer is found in the story of the strug-
giles in the labor movements of Detroit, Chicago,
Minneapolis, st. Paul, Seattle and other centers,
in the story Of the struggles in the unions of coal
miners, machinists, needle workers, carpenters,
steel workers, railway workers, where the Gym
munists and their program are the pivot around
which the battle RACES.
The Trade Union Educational League page in
the DAILY WORKER gives the bare facts of these
struggles but il is a record of achievement against
big odds in a labor movement soaked in the belief
that workers and robbers of the workers can live
in peace In a nation where capitalism has still
resources untouched with which to wage war on
the working class, the Communist program, as
proved by the record in black and white gains sup
porters every day and is the fighting issue around
which the militant workers rally.
We are witnessing now the capitalization of
the forces in the American labor movement that
alone are capable of building unions that will
be weapons in the class struggle and as record
of this process day by day, the Trade Union Educa
tional League page is history hot with the fierce
breath of the battle.
In the years to come il will be a record of the
rise of the American revolutionary movement in
the /1nks Of the organized workers--the spot
where revolutionary activity registers its best
results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

well educated and have great deal
Of pride and conceit. They do not
consider themselves working men.
They belong to some imaginary middle
class. Perhaps the reason they claim
to belong to the middle class is be-
cause they are about half way be-
tween poverty and starvation.
In the 81 weeks that we have been
insured eleven different agents have
collected and on 16 occasions the
assistant superintendent has collected
when he had no agent. In addition to
his 16 calls he has had to go with each
new agent to break him in, which
makes the total of q trips for the
superintendent. One man stuck out
for IA weeks, thus depriving several
others Of some good rich experience.
Another stayed six weeks, wore his
shoe soles thru and had no money to
get them repaired, from Tuesday I'M
til Saturday.
| asked third agent, "Why do the
insurance companies change agents to
often? Is it the inefficient help or
small salary?" He said, Small sal.
ary." He gets $14 week, but il he
sold more policies he would get loo
on the dollar. He also said the agents
must be married men, as they make
better slaves.
When agents come to our house
(which is very often) / usually offer
them chair to rest themselves. Then
after while l asked them: Are you
a working man or do you belong TO
the middle class?" After some discus
sion, close the conversation by hand
ng them our DAILY WORKER or
Workers Monthly. or other good read
ing material we have on hand. In this
way think the housewife can spread
propaganda and advertise the DAILY
WORKER. hope other housewives
will follow my example TO help edu.
cate the workers o the class struggle.
M Y LEE GREEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

I(zAR HUTCHES0N'S machine IN
N the Detroit section Of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join.
ers must be in a bad way when 1t
is compelled to call upon the armed
forces Of the state thru an injunction
to prevent one illegally expelled mem
Der from participating at meetings OF
his union.
William Reynolds, vice-president o.
the Carpenters District Council in
Detroit and president of Local UnioI
No. 214O, was expelled from the un.
ion without trial. In fact, the first
Reynolds heard about his expulsion
was when he was so notified by the
general executive board in Indianapo.
lis.
Constitution Violated.
According to the Jaws of the United
Brotherhood, every member is EMIT
led to fair trial under specified con-
ditions. One of these conditions is
that, the defendant has the right to ap.
pear before his accusers and defend
himself. This or any other condition
of the constitution of the brotherhood
was not complied with in the railroad
ing of Reynolds. 1t was even a NOR,
high-handed piece Of business than
the expulsion Of the five members Of
Local No. 1St in Chicago.
The rank and file in Detroit are
supporting Reynolds in his fight for
justice under the laws OF the Car
penters' Union. Reynolds has refused
to consider his expulsion as legal and
insists on trial. The members are
with him in this fight. When the fax
ers attempted to have him expelled
from the meetings OF his union, the
members voted that he remain;
hence the appeal to the courts for an
Injunction restraining Reynolds from
attending his union meetings.
Scrap Of Paper.
This scrap of paper issued by the
capitalist court to the capitalist labor
lieutenants, will not avail Hutcheson
very much. 1t will serve to shed more
light on his character and expose
him to the membership.
The document is a unique one and
is herewith published for the sake of
the record:
STATE OF MICHIGAN
In the Circuit Court for the County
of Wayne in chancery.
4 H.
Of Wayne In chancery:
Wayne County Carpenters District
Council by James w. Sharrack, presi.
dent, and Harold R. Fish, secretary
and James w. Sharrack, individually
and Harold R. Fish, individually, and
United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America by Sam Bot.
terill, its duly authorized agent, plain
tins herein, complain of William
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

R. R., Fish secretary Of District ooun
They Rub Il In. ps
5. That since receiving notice Of
said expulsion, the said defendant
William Reynolds, has in various
ways attempted to stir up strife, and
discussion among the members OF the
other local unions; that he has at
tempted to interfere with the meet
ings Of other unions; that he has
stated at various meetings that he
will refuse to obey said order of ex
pulsion; that he has sought to repudi
ate the action of the general execu
tive body in expelling him from mem
bership; and to continue in his
former capacity as president of Loca
Union No. 214O; that he has threat
ened to disrupt the entire organiza
ton OF said United Brotherhood in
this district.
g. That as president Of said Local
Union No. 2140, the said defendant
William Reynolds, would have con
troll OF disposition Of the funds anC
moneys Of said local; that il the sale
defendant attempts to carry out his
threat to continue as president OF
said local union, he will thereby
ijeopardize the rights OF every mem.
Der Of said local union; that such. &C.
ton would render every member Ii.
able to expulsion and would cause the
forfeiture of all benefits derived from
said membership, including disability
to pay death and old age pension,
funeral donations and all representa-
ton at national councils.
The Tale Of Woe.
Z. Plaintiffs believe that unless
said defendant, William Reynolds, If
restrained by an injunction of this
honorable court from attendance at
any Of the meetings Of the said United
Brotherhood and the said Wayne
County Carpenters District Council
and the said Local Union No. 2140.
that the plaintiffs herein will suffer
irreparable damage, and that these
RAeSA4SAAAD 0AAU AAACAAhCAS VI bdAQ 4IOCd4
Union No. 2140, will lose membership
in said union and will forfeit all the
benefits. Of said membership, as enum-
Grated in paragraph s, Of this bill OF
complaint. .r-
8. Plaintiffs further show that the
amounts herein involved are in ex.
cess of one hundred dollars ($1OO 00)
WHEREFORE, plaintiffs being
without aid save in a court of equity
respectfully pray the aid Of this court
as sIoslpNs-@sg sfs3.a
1: That the said defendant, VIII,
liam Reynolds, may without oath (his
answer, under oath being hereby ex
pressly waived full, true, direct and
perfect answer make to all and singu
lar the matters and things hereinbe
fore stated and charged,
2. That the said defendant. William
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

If the news that Doctor Sun Vat Sen is dying
is correct and not "wishfather- to- the thought
dispatch of capitalist press agencies, the Chinese
nationalist independence movement will suffer a
serious loss.
Sun Vat Sen heads the Kuomingtang party, the
fighting party of the Chinese revOlutionsts and has
given his life for the independence movement He
is friend of Soviet Russia and it was largely his
influence that made possible the Russo Chinese
treaty.
His party is the expression of the most revolu-
tionary group of the Chinese nationalists and it
has stood, under his leadership, against all DONNA
ton by western and Japanese Imperialism. His
friendship for the working class movement of the
Far East was shown last year when the conference
of the transport workers of the Far Eastern coun-
tries was held in Canton under the protection of
his government.
We hope that the news of his losing fight with
death is not true, but if it is we extend our con
dolences to the movement he served so well and
so faithfully, confident that it is now of such pro
portions that it will survive and grow in spite of
the passing Of Doctor Sun Vat Sen.
We hope he can live TO see a China freed from
the imperalst bandits and united with Soviet Rus.
STA in a powerful union OF workers and peasants
building a Communist society
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

: Housewives and Insurance Agents.
To the DAILY WORKER would
like teraay a. word in behalf Of the
"white-collared slaves" Of the big life
Insurance., companies, who secure jobs
as solicitors under the belief that ii
they viii only hustle for while they
will soon work up good paying bust.
ness providing, of course, that they
are good hustlers. In this way the
company gets It's collecting done for
almost nothing, ~.
These young men are usually fairly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06

Reynolds, be restrained by an injunc
ton of this honorable court from thu
attendance or participation in any OF
the meetings of the said United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join
ers of America and the said Wayne
County District Council and the said
Local Union No. 2140, or from in any
other way molesting or interfering
with the conduct Of said meetings OF
any Of the affairs of the above men.
toned Brotherhood Council and Local
Union.
8. That these plaintiffs may havs
such other, further and different re.
lief in the premises as shall be agree.
able to equity.
And these plaintiffs will ever pray.
United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners Of America, by Sam Bot!
terill. EEG
Wayne County Carpenters District
Council, by James W. Sharrack, prest
dent; Harold r. Fish, secretary.
James W. Sharrack.
ftdrOlu II. FISH.
Attached to this document were twa
others, one a notary public statement
affecting to the fact that Sam bot
terill, Hutcheson's tool, was what he
represented himself to be. to wit and
so forth, and letter from crank
Duffy, general secretary of the Broth.
erhood, advising the recording secre.
rary Of Local No. 214O that Reynolds
was expelled.
This innovation in preventing trade
union militants from attending their
union meeting may become popular,
The next step will be to have ali
those members who have cast their
ballots in the recent elections for op,
ponents Of "Czar" Hutchinson expelled
by injunction. It will save the fakeru
the trouble Of looking up the constitu.
ton. But Of course they don't do
that now.
The desperate straits to which the
reactionaries are driven in their ef.
forts to exclude all progressives from
the union is here amply demonstrated.
That they should be compelled to re.
sort to the courts In this fashion IL
positive proof that the majority Of the
membership are against them. This
kind Of conduct will only quicken and
sharpen the growing discomfort Of the
rank and file against Hutchinson and
hasten the day when the present fos.
silized bureaucracy will give way to
progressive leadership.
That Hutchinson is panic stricken IL
proved by the fact that several locals
are in open rebellion against him yet
he fears to take disciplinary meas
ures. The fight in the Carpenters
Union, under the direction OF the
Trade Union Educational League ID
making such Roadway that fakerdom
justly sees the end OF its rotten
regime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
Who VIM visit MS comradef

To the DAILY WORKER: Would
think 1t advisable to publish this letter
in the DAILY WORKER concerning
the coniienment OF Comrade Andrew
Graham at tho Swedish Hospital, Eos
ter and North California. Except for
the moral aid OF only two or three
comrades his belief in recovery
would be nil. ANY comrades who wish
TO bring a parcel along may bring
fresh fruit such as apples, oranges
grapefruit, pears, etc. Comrade Ora
ham has been in cast for ~ weeks
with permanent recovery in doubt
There is no doubt the accumulatiye
moral assistance OF more comrades te
his bedside would be Invaluable aid
Comfadely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
Ammunition for the Workers Arsenal
Distribution of Working Population Employer SaIared
and Wage-earnne Classes "
BY MANUEL GOMEZ.

Capitalist Industry
V is for the working class include proportion
whole population while
industry
tendency pointed nearly century
be observed in capitalist the
United States Here figures which themselves
In the 1910 to s2on spite American Industry
expanded
creased from 24s9s2 to number individuals
setemPoyed decreased, fs,t757tf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-06
Moscow LAWYERS Manifesto

We publish what in our opinion is one Of the
most remarkable documents ever circulated. Ger
tainy it is one Of the most remarkable ever given
publicity in the United States of America
1t is an appeal for the defense of revolutionists
issued by union of lawyers-the Bar Association
of Moscow Russia, and is as follows
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!
constituted e27 cent the
seItepoyed
the seempoyd should
number the latter would be ssen 70 DO much smaller
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unemployed, as the latter, unlike their
American brothers in distress, refuse
to take a underpaid job, as long as
they can get the same amount Of
money from the state, and refuse to
scab on their unemployed fellow
workers.
A. J. Clarke, Spokane, Wash.
Red ReVeI Masquerade Ball, 81 South
Ashland Avenue
Corner of Monroe and Madison Sts.,
February %.