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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Yellow Press Circulates
Fake About Betty Blythe
To Jazz Up Its Readers
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, another lie is added to this rapidly multiplying
breed of the BRASS Check" press When Ellis Parker
Butler the American author his "Pigs Pigs telling
OF the amusing situations arising of the rapid mupca
ton Of guinea pigs he made thousands laugh Millions of
workers should laugh the latest chapter Of Lies
as applies to the fasehoods spread by the yellow sheets
that depend upon their working class readers for exist
They should laugh the hyserica antics of this
frantic press in its efforts attract attention Then they
should turn their backs upon it. They should all work.
ers away from it.
The latest episode American "ept press" perverscn
took place when the canard spread that Betty Blythe
the American moving picture actress had been kidnapped by
Bedouins Palestine Practically every big
business sheet in the land gave that story big headlines
while sei-nude pictures of the novie qeenT were also
given generous display 1t all supposed produce
Oh Gee Kick for the base readers of these publications.
Hundreds Of workers may die in industrial accident
and they would receive far less attention of thousands
but the days would pass them BY except in the
where the strike occurred and then would only msep-
resented The editor would say our readers not in
terested."
But Betty Blythe in the deserts of Palestine played
up All the thrilling trimmings put to jazz up list
less reading public Two paragraphs worth quoting here's
5ythes London agen 5edouns
Palestine and SYRIA attacked the automobile in which
riding
riding Blythe Dr. Narkus
and Edward Jose fighting
douIns
away into the desert The cable said Immediately
In pursuit"
Every editor who published the story knew it was ie
But went in just the because was good stuff"
Investigation resulted in Miss Blythe being located at
Mount Carmel It was found that she had been attacked
and the authorities at Jerusalem reported being highly
surprised at the published story 1t claimed that this
newspaper fake" hawked among the newspapers of
London, but they refused accept Not until cabed
to the United States did receive circulation from the Amer
can press
The United States leads the world in the number of kept
sheets that publish this sort of stuff 1t has 10000
papers. France is poor second with only 10000.
Daily the tens of millions of copies of these employers
publications with their nsidous poison spread among
the workers. If the workers be interested
fake escapades of Betty Blythe in Palestine than in their
problems, then capitalism is safe
But the workers in the United States in other lands
are building their own pressthe Communist press-that
fights for labor the daily press of capitalism fights for
the employers Let the workers rally the side their
Communist pressthe DAILY WORKER. Let the capitalists
read their sheets. If the capitalists alone read Them
their influence will be gone. The workers would then be
to the day of their liberation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Government Gives
Railroad Trust a
$147,028 Present

WASHINGTON, May IL. - The
Southern Pacific company won in the
supreme court Of the United States
its appeal from the court Of claims
OF a suit asking S14702S additional
from the government for transporting
troops and discharged soldiers dur.
ing the war period
The company accepted payment
from the government for such trans
portation under provisions Of its land
grants. but later claimed that national
guardsmen and discharged soldiers
should have paid full fares because
they were not troops Of the United
States"
The Western Pacific Railroad com.
pany had a similar claim for S11,O55.
IL also won It's suit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
CHINESE FAMINE
HORROR BRINGS
CANNIDALISM
Report Millions Are
Starving to Death
Especial to The Daily wOrksr.l

LONDON, May 11-Millions of Chin.
csc in the province Of Kwei Chow are
famine stricken, many are dying on
doorsteps where they beg in vain for
food, while the roads are Uttered with
dead, according to the Daily Express
Shanghai correspondent. Sixty dis.
tricts are affected.
Stocks from last years harvest
were exhausted long ago, the report
says, and the people Of Kwei Chow
have been living on grass, after hav'
ing stripped trees bare Of leaves.
Cannibalism has presented another
solution to the food problem, and is
prevalent in the villages. Many por-
tions of the countryside have been
deserted by migration Of inhabitants,
altho many died en- route. Opium
traffic in the stricken province is
brisk, many wishing to dream their
way to death"
The situation, the correspondent re-
ports is likely to become worse rather
than better, for relief on any consider
able scale is impossible until the rice
crop is harvested FIVE months from
now. The provincial treasury is de-
pleted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
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Continued from page -
ment for union organization devel-
oped; many strikers acknowledged
that, after all, that must be their first
object. Representatives OF the Ma
chinists' District Council appeared at
a couple of strike meetings ready to
begin organization OF all who were
willing to join. but were compelled to
withdraw when the silly stupidity OF
the craft union system threw down
the bars Of jurisdiction.
One international union had already
succeeded in organizing the few men
OF its craft who were employed in
the plant and who enjoyed the eight
hour day. Another union was carry
ing on a so-called campaign also to or
ganize the few men of its craft EN-
ployed there.
Crafts Objected to Strike Unity.
Both these unions objected to the
strike, fearing that their few men
may be compelled also to throw down
their tools, and, Of course, II never oc.
Cured TO them that even the most Gle.
mentary principles of solidarity de-
mands that they should have Joined
hands with the rest OF the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Big Crowd on South
Side Hears Problems
of Negroes Discussed

Robert Minor was the principle
speaker at tremendous street meet
ing at both and S. State ST., where
over 800 people mostly Negroes, listen
ed to the story of the persecution of
Negro organizations by the United
States government. Several Negro
workers took the soap box declaring
that these prosecutions must be stop
ped thru the concerted action of Ne
groes, who must also ask the support
OF all organizations of white workers.
Minor in his speech showed that it
would not be possible to stop such
prosecutions except thru the establish
ment Of workers and farmers gov
eminent in this country. Minor told
told of an article that appeared in the
DAILY WORKER and was reprinted
in the Negro World, which gave the
Communist position for the emanci-
patton of the Negro workers. The
Communists do not believe that the
Negroes can achieve anything thru
the exit to Africa, but that it is a
world situation and that the emanci-
patton of the American Negro must
be fought right here. Minors refer
ence to Abdel Krim, who is driving
imperialism out of Africa, brought
cheers from the great crowd.
Norval Allen spoke for the Ameri-
can Negro Labor Congress. After the
meeting there was a great rush for
copies of the DAILY WORKER which
were all sold out in no time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Search for River Dead.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May IL Mai.
Donald H. Connolly, Of the United
States engineers, asserted today that
the steamer Norman. lying at the bot.
tom OF the Mississippi, 16 miles from
here, with its cargo of human dead.
would be Jared loose sufficiently late
today to release the bodies Of the vic
tins imprisoned within its hull.
Preparing for this possibility, a
small fleet Of fast motor boats will
be kept patrolling the river while the
rescue work goes on, on the chance
that the bodies, If released. will rise
to the surface.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
REPORT BUILDING
STRIKE SETTLED BUT
TERMS REMAIN SECRET

The strike of the union building
trade workers, employed on the
twenty million dollar new market
project being constructed by the
McLennan Construction company
for the Central Cold Storage COM
pany, was reported settled yester-
day, altho the building trades coun-
ell officials were In consultation with
the contractors and the terms Of the
settlements were not made known.
The electricians, briekIayers, plas-
terers, tile settlers, plumbers, and
iron workers went on strike a week
ago against the open shop, in or
der to force the unionlzlng Of the un-
organized "LandIs award" carpen-
tiers, cement workers and laborers
working on the same construction
job. Twenty-Five hundred workers
are employed by the McLennan COM
pany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13

triumph, is, of all the parties in the
Second international, the flercest
enemy of trade union unity.
German workers. Have you not
yet realized that the triumphant tao
tics of the socialist party of Germany
are leading you under the yoke Of the
bourgeoisie and to the restoration Of
the monarchy? Have you not yet re-
allied that the liberation Of the Ger
man proletariat can be attained only
thru unity of all workers in Germany
regardless of party afiliation?
"Of course, unity is to be under
stood not as unity under the flag of
SHINES, Barmat, or Wilhelm MARY
but under the red banner of revolu-
ton. The Comintern calls upon you
to close your ranks, to effect the
unity Of the workers of all countries
under the banner Of the class strug-
gle, and for the joint struggle against
the monarchist danger.
Add to War Danger.
Remember that the election of
Hindenburg does not add to the pros
poets Of peace, but on the contrary,
increases the dangers of war Re-
member that only the strictest unity
Of the international proletariat can
avert these dangers. Hindenburg's
victory should give some thought to
every class conscious worker.
'If the toiling masses do not aban-
don the social democracy even now,
then they will help prepare with
their own hands, new imperialist
slaughters, new terrors and suffering.
The great political lessons should not
have been in vain. The road from
Noske inevitably led to Hindenburg,
but the road from Hindenburg must
not lead back to Noske.
Unity Could Win Soviet.
"ff the fifteen million strong Ger
man proletariat were not split and
II II were to reject the counter-revolu-
tionary tactics Of the social-democrats
Of Germany, it could liberate its coun-
try from the yoke OF capitalism, and
build up Soviet republic. Otherwise,
the growth Of reaction, new defeats Of
the working class, new wars and the d.
rect restoration Of the monarchy, are
inevitable.
"The Communist International calls
upon you TO close your ranks, TO es-
tablish a united front, in the struggle
against the bourgeois reactionaries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
ProfIteers Sell shoddx Houss..

NEW YORK, May IL. - Shoddy
buildings are the rule in America, IL
was brought out at the sessions of the
American construction council at the
Biltmore. Ninety per cent OF the build
ing in the United States is done by
spectators and done badly, said
Walter Stabler, controller OF the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
Houses are difficult to heat and have
to be rebuilt in 10 or 10 years, he
declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
eovernor HIS Ford sun.

JACKSON, Miss, May 11-Governor
Whitefield of this state publicly re-
buked the state revenue agent for
bringing suit against Henry Ford
for S12,OOO,OOO damages, charging that
the Ford Motor company violates the
antitrust laws.
Whitefeld, in signed statement.
laments the filing of the suit, and
asks the revenue agent to drop the
suit. The suit alleges that the anti
trust statutes Of the state were VIC
lated when the Ford company made
contracts with local agents fixing
the price for products Of the firm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Independent HTarbor
Boatmen of New York
to Push Organization

NEW YORK, May Ii The indie
pendent Harbor Boatmen Union, at a
special called membership meeting
held MONDAY, Aprill27, at Melcher's
Hall, 216 E. 18th st., voted to apply
for a charter in the United Labor
Council Of Greater New York and
vicinity and elected a committee
with power to make the necessary ne
gotiations.
This organization intends organic
ing all harbor boatmen into one union
and their president and delegate say
that an intensive campaign Of organ
ization will be started Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13

thruout the world, including the mon
archist reaction and for the struggle
against advancing fascism; for trade
union unity and for a determined
struggle against the danger OF new
wars.
"oown with the soelal-democ ratic
lackeys Of bourgeois reaction.
Long live the revolutionary strua-
gle Of the International proletariat.
Long live the unity Of the proIe-
tartan ranks.D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
YOUNG WORKERS
LEAGUE N. E. C.
IN FULL SESSION
CONTINUED from page u.

II Continued from page II.
great deal of activity had been con-
Quoted.
" The campaigns on child labor, ar
rest of Hawaiian comrades, against en-.
try of religion in the schools, against
the arrest of Comrade Lanzutsky and
against Abramovich had all been par
ticipated in by the league.
Favorable organlzatlonal Growth.
The organizational growth was also
commented upon favorably by all the
comrades, there having been organ
lied since January 1, 1925, 81 shop
nuclei and 10 branches. These were
located principally in Chicago, Pitts
burg, New York and other districts.
During this same period 10 nuclei col
lapsed, principally thru the activity
of stool pigeons.
Comrade Harvey, the acting editor
during the past few months, reported
on the necessity of developing the
Weekly Young Worker; especially in
the field of regular shop correspond
ence, general news correspondents
etc.
For feminist Education.
The necessity of feminist education
was stressed in a report by Comrade
Carlson. He pointed out the necessity
OF our entire membership receiving
an adequate political-minimum of edu-
cation and the Importance Of training
leading functionaries so that the di-
receives of the national office would
be applied more effectively.
The future tasks of the league dur
ing the next three summer and pre-
convention months was dealt with by
Comrade Williamson. The tendency
OF laxity in the summer months was
discussed aand definite tasks adopted
for the membership to carry out dur
ing this period. These include nuclei
organization to be closely connected
with membership drives. Every branch
is expected to increase its membership
by at least 10 per cent before the con-
vention. Other tasks included youth
fractions in trade unions, anti-militar-
list, junior and education.
Unity Behind the N. &. c.
On the basis of the Y. C. l. resolu-
ton which called for close unity OF
the entire membership behind the N.
e. c., it was decided to send Comrade
Williamson to the New York district
to assist the D. E. C. in its activity
and consolidation of the entire mem
bership behind the policy of the Y.
c. I. and the N. E. c. other organiza-
tional readjustments were made as fol
lows: Acting national secretary, Bar
ney Mass; editor, Shachtman; bust
ness manager, J. Harvey.
The spirit of the meeting was fine
and portrayed a definite determination
to still further increase the activities
which have been commended favor
ably by the Y. G. /.
The tone of the entire meeting was
one Of constructive activity and the
consolation Of the entire membership
behind the program of the N. E. c.
and the Y. c. I.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
AS WE SEE 1T
BY r. }. o'FLAHERTY.
Continued from page ~

Continued from page H.
in the Chicago Tribune about large
consignment of Moscow gold" for the
Communists. 1t is reported that the
hack rewrote it on orders from a for
mer disciple Of skinny" Madden.
TN the current issue, this illiterate
4 dumbbell attacks the Negroes, who
are trying to organize-for their own
protection-a race that is oppressed
racially and industrially; he attacks
the amalgamation movement which
the Observation-Disclosures crowd once
gave lip service to; he tries to preju-
dice the work of the Irish Workers
and Peasants Famine Relief Commit
tee; he takes a slam at the Labor
Defense Council. There is no effort
in behalf Of the exploited workers that
this omadhaun does not turn his mud
guns on. But the radical movement
has withstood the fire of the brainiest
stoolpigons in the pay of the cap
italist class. The rawlings of an igno.
rant ink sprinkler will only leave a
black splash on its shield.
THE workers of Melbourne, Austria
4 liza, will not welcome the Wall
Street navy on the occasion of it's
forthcoming visit to the Antipodes.
The labor council voted not to par
ticipate in the official greetings organ
lied by the bourgeoisie in honor Of
the war dogs of Morgan and company,
tho no objection would be taken to
the determination Of the workers with
the rank and file sailors of the Amer
lean feet The Melbourne workers
took this action as a protest against
the Imprisonment Of their brothers in
the United States under the espionage
laws. Good for our Australian broth
ers! Long live this kind Of interna-
tional solidarity!
AN allegorical painting by an old
"A artist almost caused a religious
war at a recent meeting of the New
York chamber of commerce. 1t was
proposed that the picture be shown
turnout the country in order to inspire
religious feeling in the hearts Of the
young men and women of the nation
who are on the road to hell-what
with hip moonshine, bobbed hair and
crossword puzzles. But there are
more gods than one, even if this fact
is not widely advertised in christian
country. There are protestants, cath
olics and Jews in the chamber of
commerce, and their respective gods
fight like. furies on the slightest provo
cation. For the sake Of harmony the
embattled christians consigned the
picture Of Jesus to the garnet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
Manila AIrplane Burns.

MANILA, May MILITARY author
tiles today launched an investigation
OF the death of Lieut.. John d. Barri-
ger, found burned to death after his
airplane crashed into tree near Stot-
senburg. Barriger was searching for
three lost soldiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
No Pay to Teaehers Eor overtime

NEW YORK. May 11.-overtime
without pay for New Yorks teachers
is the request Of Superintendent of
Schools William J, O'Shea who is call
Ing for teacher volunteers to super
wise school playground activities.
Sixty school Fairgrounds are opening
and a new order keeps school athletic
centers open from closing hours till
8 y. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
New zeaIand,a premIsr nI...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May
11.-William Ferguson Massey, pre-
mier of New Zealand, is dead here to-
day long illness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13

Your branch needs more members
get sub to the DAILY WORKER
and "makc another Communist"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-13
RED BAITERS IN
MINNEAPOLIS IN
INTERNAL WAR
Anti Communists Fight
Each Other Over Graft
Quarrel over Rich Graft.
CONTINUED from page u

within the nti-Communist camp it
self.
The Washington times., 1925-08-27
Prosecutors Accept
DIR. Young's Suicide AS
Confession of Guilt

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-Dis.
thict Attorney Asa Reyes, in COM
Hiand OF the prosecution against
Doctor Thomas w. Young, who to.
day committed suicide in his cell
at the county jail, when told of
the sudden end OF the case, de-
clared:
1T can be reckoned as, first Of all,
a great saving of money and trou-
BILE for the State of California.
Doctor Young was as fully aware
as we that he would end on the
gallows. Our case was too strong,
too complete"
Deputy District Attorney Harold
L. Davis. head Of the homicide de.
pSrtment, who conducted the in.
vestigation and prepared the evi.
dence against Young, said:
Doctor Young's act lis a full
confession Of guilt. He knew as
we'll as we did that his case was
hopeless. I cannot see how the
jury could have failed to hang him
It Is interesting to note that the
doctor did not become desperate
until our evidence was praetically
complete. This shows that he meant
to cheat the rope as long as h
could. Suicide was the shortest
and best way out for him"
The Washington times., 1925-08-27
Can J0E.
IS HERE WITH
GUITAR
Radio Fayorite Made Odd
instrument Of Odds and
Ends on Ranch

Leonard J. Otis. better known to
radio fans throughout the country
as Tin can joe" has arrived in
washington with his famous tin
can guitar to present old-time tunes
In old.time fashion to those people
who delight in the melodies Of
yesterday.
How well he has succeeded can
be told by members of the Rotary
Club, before whom he played yes.
terday. They will be backed up in
their statements by the listAners.in
who heard the strains OF Joe's In.
strument waited over the air last
night from WCAP.
Tin Can joe who halls from
Southern Oregon, Is making q tour
OF the country. stopping off at diff.
ferent cities to broadcast his Inelo.
dies. and has reached this city
after an extensive TOUR of the West.
He has played over all the large
radio stations in the country and
has made records for the Columbia
Music Company.
Although Joe's melodies have been
deeply appreciated by all his
HSAISISt ~ - us instrument IAaL
has called forth expressions OF sur
prise from all those who have seen
him play. Joe has q queer looking
with tuning arm OF.
wood, six steel strings and a five
gallon tin can. At first glance it
gives the impression OF some sort
Of internal machine.
All doubts as, to the nature of
the apparatus are dispelled, how
ever, when Joe starts strumming
the strings, accompanying himself
with a harmonica fitted to his
by a wire brace. Joe con.
structed the contrivance out Of
odds and ends around the ranch one
day when he was right lonesome"
and since that day has been getting
real harmony out of an ordinary
every day tin can.