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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
l. L. C. w. Open Forum
Discusses Imperialism
BY A Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec IA lecture on
imperialism was delivered by Sylvan
A. Pollock at the open forum which
is being conducted regularly by Local
Al of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union, at their head
quarters, 6 w. 21st st. New York.
Pollack sketched briefly the basis
of imperialism on an international
scale, pointing out its manifestations
in China, Syria and Morocco, as
we'll as its American branch,
which devotes itself at the present
time especially to South and Central
America. The recent outrage against
the workers of Panama, where Amer
lean troops were used as strike
breakers, was cited as an example, as
well as many other forms that it has
taken c
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Pullman Head Has No
Humanitarian Motives
to Save Workers Eyes

NEW YORK. Dec, Z. - (FP) 49,
Workmen's compensation laws make
it bad business for an employer TO let
his workers be needlessly injured 1t
was brought out at joint meeting
of the American Museum Of Safety
and the National Committee for the
Prevention of Blindness.
"I'll be perfectly frank" Harry Ben
son, manager of the Pullman company
factories at Buffalo, told the conven-
ton; 'T'didnt take humanitarian mot
ives into consideration in compelling
our men to wear goggles. 1t was a
cold-blooded money proposition, for
every time workman loses an eye
we lose $4,000"
Fifteen thousand of the blind per-
sons in America lost their sight in
dustry and 1000 workers in Pennsyl-
vania lost one eye each in recent
years, speakers brought out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Life Isn't Sweet for
Sweated Candy Workers
By A Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. THE candy
workers should be organized. We
work ten hours every day and most
of the shops all day Saturday. Our
wages are very low. The girls work
for only $12 week. In the summer
season they get little girls to work
for as low as IS a week. The hours
are long and the lighting system in
most places is very poor.
We turn out tons Of candy a day
The foremen's iobt is to drive the
workers and they csure do that. OF
all the candy shops l have worked
in the Advance Candy company is the
worst. -
The bosses are very rich. They
travel often and have all the good
things of life. We workers who make
them rich If we Get laid OF for a
week we are in fear of poverty and
hunger.
hope some day our trade will be
organized. We need a union badly.
hope our president will not be like
John L. Lewis OF the miners who re-
presents workers only to betray them.
am going To- read Communist
books and literature and The DAILY
WORKER. If Communism is as my
friend tells me will join the Work
ers (Communist) Party. | want to
help my class, the working class.
Will the comrade who sent us this
letter and to whom the Worker Cor.
respondent refers to as my friend"
please communicate with the Editor
Of The DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
POLICE BRUTAL :.
( TO HILLCREST
SILK STRIKERS
Beat Up Men and Insult
s. Women
BY A Worker correspondent

7n HUDSON COUNTY, N. j., Dec. z
AS the strike in the Hillcrest silk
mill in Hudson county, New Jersey
enters its sixth week of struggle with
the workers still holding out firmly
and Loyalty, the police have tried
more and more violent means to break
the strike. 1t has come to such a
point that the United Front Commit.
tee of Textile Workers in charge of
the strike has determined to bring
pressure on the mayor and chief of
police through demonstrations, and
legal procedure to force the police to
stop molesting the strikers.
The police have personally threaten
ed many strikes with immediate bodi-
ly harm, threatening to send them to
the hospital and in some cases actual
ly raising their arms to strike. They
have cracked picketers over the shins
IN their anxiety to please the bosses
They have insulted the women pickets,
calling them many vile names. They
have tried to provoke arguments and
quarrels with the men so as to give
them the pretext to beat them up.
They have seized strikers and flung
them against the wall of the mill. os-
tsnsibly to search them for arms, al
though they had no warrants what
ever. They have done their best to
prevent the strikers from informing
others Of the strike and have actually
pushed newcomers who did not know
OF the strike and did not want to act
es scabs into the mill. And only a few
days ago they ran after a striker into
O bake shop and the policeman drew
q blackjack from his pocket and want
ed to hit the striker with it, at the
same time jamming him against the
wall and frisking him. 1t has reached
such a stage that there seems to be
no limit to what the police will do.
The United Front Committee of Tex
tile Workers thru its representative,
Albert Weisbord and in conjunction
with the International Labor Defense
will make all efforts to procure war
rants against the offending officers and
and to restrain the police from con-
tinuing their brutal tactics. A delega.
ton Of the strikers will visit the
mayor and the board of councilmen
and lay the case before them demand.
ing justice. A big mass meeting will
be held in the immediate future to
acquaint the workers with the facts
Of the strike and the brutality OF the
police. Efforts will be made to get
Carlo Tresca or Giovennitti or Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn, whogare known as
old time textile fighters 10 speak at
the mass meeting to besheld and It is
expected that all good fighters will
turn out to support the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
O.,
SCHOOLS FEEL
KICK OF Y.W.L.
But the "Omcials Are
Investigating"
BY A Worker Correspondent

e YOUNGSTOWN, o., Dec. 1.-THE
4school officials are making an in
westigation," according to the
Youngstown indicator which city
seems to need some vindication in
view of the exploitation of its work
ers, in the steel mills particularly.
Ia. The Investigation" however, is not
of the long hours. the speed-up and
the miserable pay of the average steel
worker. but of the reds"
~ Don't Like Any Difference.
: 1t seems that the capitalist dictator;
ship is perturbed that there should be
any disagreement with its program
of pumping patriotism to the capital
list system of robbing the workers into
the school children, sons and daugh-
tiers of the workers.
So the "Vindicator" tells in indig-
nant tones of Junior committee" of
the ''Workers Party OF Youngstown, !"
which it deals with imaginately as
local agency of the Communist Rus
sian party"
Y. w. l. Busy. h
The sad tale is told that while
pupils of the South High School were
being dismissed from afternoon
classes, they we're met with literature
attacking the school system and
charging that the pupils are being
taught militarism." A leafiet was
given them entitled 1.-THE Fraud of
American Education Week"
Thus 1t happens that the school
officials are investigating"-not in
vestigating whether or not the
charges made in the leafiet are true,
but investigating who among the
youngsters of Youngstown is so in
telligent and courageous as to defy
the tailor-made ideas these school
officials wish to thrust down their
threats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Anita Whitney Fights
for New Hearing in
u. S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Charlotte
Anita Whitney, under 14-year sentence
for alleged violation of the California
criminal syndicalist law in 1919, has
applied to the federal supreme court
for rehearing of her appeal which
was denied in October. Here counsel
urges that the court was in error when
it held that no constitutional question
was involved in her claim that she
was convicted of no specific act of
lawlessness. Constitutional questions
were raised in the lower courts, ar
cording to the digest of the record
presented in her petition.
She wants ruling on the criminal
syndicalist law itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Los Angeles Standby
of Reaction Worried
Over Workers School
BY A Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. r.
That old standby of reaction, the Los
Angeles Times devoted considerable
space in its edition OF Nov IS to ad-
vertising the Los Angeles. classes OF
the Workers (Communist) Party. 1t
also reprints an Associated Press
dispatch from Minneapolis giving an
interview with c. A. Hathaway, dis
trict organizer of the party, In which
brief outline of the workers school
of the party is set forth.
In case any worker in Los Angeles
missed reading the "Times" we will
give anew the address of the classes,
which take place at 224 So. Spring
st., Room 200, each Sunday. The
Junior League, according to the
Times" meets each Tuesday and
Wednesday at the Cooperative Build
ding, Mott st. and Brooklyn Ave, and
all "children between eight and fifteen
are especially welcome"
More interesting sessions may be
promised, in view of the "Times"
volunteering the information that the
so-called radical squad" OF the police
is keeping "watchful eye upon the
classes. However. even II the cops
are absent an interesting time is
assured, so none should stay away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
WHITNEY JURY
LOOKED AFTER
PAPER CHARGES
Extraordinary Costs Ex-
cite Suspicion
q. |. D. News serviee)

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Dec. Tin
the Nov 81 issue of The Open Fo-
rum, paper published by the south
ern Californian branch of the Civil
Liberties Union, a story is reprinted
from an Oakland, California paper
concerning the inside workings of the
jury which convicted Anita Whitney
now scheduled by the decision of the
U. S. supreme cort, to spend some
years in San Quentin prison for her
political opinions under the criminal
syndicalist" law.
The Consuming "Publie."
The story speaks for itself and is
given as follows:
"A bill amounting to S14S.53 for
cigars, cigarettes, magazines, candy
and chewing gum for the Whitney
Jury is now being held up by Frank
Garrison, county auditor. pending an
investigation of the expenditures by
District Attorney Ezra Decoto The
bill was presented by Bercovich cigar
stand in Hotel Oakland, where the
jury was quartered. The total bill fol
the jury, including hotel accommoda
tions, amounts to about $4,000.
Some Smokers.
"The bill shows that four members
of the jury smoked 742 cigars at 1871
cents each during the "a days Of the
trial, tobacco costing sos. About $50
was spent for magazines, chewing
gum and other notions. .e
Garrison explained today that he
had held up the bill when jurors in
formed him that they did not con
sumo the amount of tobacco charged
against them.
Did the Ladies' Get Shaved?
six women on the jury spent S5E
for toilet articles, while Abe Cohen
a barber, charged 81 each for IL hail
cuts and so cents each for AZ shaves
ain case the bill is presented to him
for his approval, Judge James G.
Quinn said today he would have a full
investigation made before passing
upon It,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Women Textile Toilers'
Meet at Passaic, N. J.,
Draws Many Members
By A Worker Correspondent

PASSAIC, N. j., Dec. 1.-THE I'm
tied Front Committee of the Textile
Industry held special meeting for
the women workers, in Neibauer's
Hall. The hall was packed with men
and women from the Passaic mills,
Albert Weisbord was chairman. The
speakers were Rose Pastor Stokes
who addressed the meeting in English
Zaikowsky who spoke in Polish and
Steiner Of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union who spoke
in Hungarian. The three women
speakers were heard thru to the end
and heartily applauded, despite the
fact that not all the workers in the
hall understand every one OF the
languages spoken.
When a local police sergeant, who
came in plain clothes. rose to tell the
workers that the police were their
friends, and not the friends OF the
bosses, the workers who packed the
hall talked right back in no uncertain
terms and the sergeant beat a polite
retreat after his impolite interruption
of the meeting
Dozens Of men and women joined
the union, the speakers helping to en-.
roll them as they crowded around
the platform. Weisbord told your
correspondent that the union is
getting its daily dozens of new mem
bers since the campaign began.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Your Union Meeting
second Tuesday, Dec. 8. 1925.


Name Of LocaI and Place
so. Of Meeting.
1873 Boot and shoe Workers, 1889 MIL
Calumet Joint Labor Council, 5t4
w. nth Street.
461 Carpenters, Witten's Han, High
clerks, o sS' ~ So W. Van Buren,
Street.
sc2 EnSneers tLOcomotive), 5cSs Went.
worth Ave.
s2s Engineers CLoeomotive), 2s47 W.
ssi electricians, sos S. state st.
s7os Ego inspectors, 41s N. Clark St.
27 Hold Carriers, SIND anc la Nergne
Avenue.
Y Leather Workers, III w. Adams St.
II Leather Workers, III w. Adams ST.
os4 Maehinists, 254s s, Homan Ave.
9t5 Machinists, 4126 w. Lake St.
275 Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
400 S. Halsted ST., $3.50 p. m.
1870 Garment Workers, IT'S w. Wash
81 ericklayers, s12 w. Monroe St.
.5s carpenters. Diysrsey and shefneId.
141 Carpenters, 1923 e. 75th St
272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago
i7ss carpenters, springHeIa and 2sth
% S oa 1870 Us rs W y 5.S sr. st.
8 Hold Carriers, si4 w. Harrison ST.,
81 Ladies Garment Workers. s2s W.
Van Buren, ST.
1924 Machinist5, 1924 Princeton Ave.
$40 Meat Cutters, IFS w. Washington
Street
81 Meat Cutters. sos Houston Ave.
1883 Nurses, runk's Hall, Oak Park.
$50 Plumbers, 1907 Ogden Ave.
402 Plumbers, All w. Madison st.
ITO Railway Carmen, 1902 Michigan
Ave.
1867 Railway Carmen. 1924 S. Halstss
Street.
7ss Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi.
eapo Heights.
sos Railway Clerks, 543s S. Halsted ST.
$40 Railroad Trainmen, 1859 w. Madi-
son St.
Tsamsters' District Council, go S.
Ashland Boulevard.
81 Tile Layers, 1870 w. Washington
ais Railway Carmen. ssf7 vinosnnss
ga Railway Clerks. sag W. Washington
Street.
Marine Fire and oilers. ss7 N.
~ Painters, 20 W. Randolph St.
1870 Painters, N. (. cor. California and
Madison.
1874 Painters, e4f4 S. HaIsted ST.
1911 Painters, NJ. w. cor. state and 65th
275 Painters, go w. OAK ST.
521 Painters, Trumbuli and Oqden Ave
500 Plasterers, Monroe and Peoria sts
221e Railway Clerks, SOC w. Washing
Walters, 2s4 w. Randolph st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
JURY REFUSES TO
ANNUL MARRIAGE
OF RHINELANDER
kip's Attorneys Play on
Race Prejudice

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, Dec. T.
After trial which lasted a number
of weeks, the jury has decided that
the marriage of Leonard Kip Rhine
lander, son of wealthy family and
considered one of the blue bloods"
Of New York, and Alice Jones Rhine
lander must stand and cannot be an
nuled.
Plays on Race Prejudice.
In the attempt to prove that the
marriage with Alice Jones Rhine
lander must be annuled, Kip's lawyers
played upon race prejudice of the
jury to the nth degree trying to make
it appear that Alice, who has Negro
blood in her, forced him into the mar
riage. When his passionate love notes
to her were read and it was establish
ed that Kip was the one responsible.
his attorneys attempted to make It
appear that she had represented her
self as white.
Alice soon blasted the hopes OF the
blue blooded" Kip Rhinelander by
barring her shoulders and showing
the court that she was colored.
From then on, Kip's lawyers tried
to make it appear that Kip was not
only color blind but even put him in
the position of being a fit candidate
for an insane asylum. Then followed
the plea of the lawyers for Kip filed
with race hatred in an attemnt IN
get the jury to annul the marriage.
For Separation.
Alice Jones Rhinelander. who won
the suit, is now filing a bill demand
ing separation and separate main
tenance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Workers WFitGaAbOut thG. Workers. Life
WANT CHILDREN
TRAINED into
WILLING SLAVES
Servility Is Keynote to
Capitalist Education
BY PHILLIP SHATZ.
worker correspondent)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. Eff
teen hundred teachers Of vocational
training, representing high schools,
rehabilition schools, and the voca-
tional training department of some Of
the largest industrial and commercial
corporations in Che country gathered
at the convention of the National
Society for Vocational Education, at
the Hotel Statler here.
What the purpose of this conven-
ton is may be oreadily understood
from the utterances of some of the
outstanding figures at the convention.
I'VE must never neglect to teach the
idea of service, said Vernon Riegel,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton. LAS long as the idea Of service
is not taught, there will be discussion
between employer and employee"
serviIityk First Aim.
The chief problems of the conven-
ton are how to train the country's
youth to be efficient slaves and how
to make them like it. Said o. w.
Rosenthal, president of the Builders
Association of Chicago and director
Of the National Association of Build
ing Trades Employers, I'VE do not
care how much training you give the
apprentices in pounding nails or
handling saws Whist we want are
men who will come to us trained in
the right spirit, the right frame of
mind, men who will come to us in a
spirit of willingness, men who are
willing to make sacrifices"
Unions a Bone in Their Threats.
This jovial representative of the
class for whom all the vocational train
ing in the public Schools is carried on
further bewalled the fact that in
Cleveland the apprentice who wants
to work in the trade has no choice
other than to join the union in his
respective trade. ~ do not say that
this is either good or a bad situa
tion," said, Il simply present it as a
situation for vocation teachers tC
think about.
In private, however, Mr.. hosentna
admitted that he was of the opinion
that the closed shop was un-Americar
and that workers ought to be per
mitted to have some choice as tc
whether or not they wanted to joir
the union"
Begin in Elementary Schools.
One Of the speakers unintentionally
struck a note of truth when he SAID
that "Our teachers in the elementary
schools lack background. Let us pay
more attention to what is being
taught and not howlit is being taught.
How true it is thatthe young workers
of the country are taught not how tC
live that they may enjoy life to the
full, but rather how to live mos
profitably for thealbosses, can be
readily seen from the above remark
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
cIut Labor Market.

WELLINGTON, New zealand-(FP)
Immigrants are being rushed to
New Zealand from Britain though
there is no work for them on arrival
and houses are scarce. Many Of them
are homeless and starving. Many
offering themselves as scabs for en-
ployment on the British steamers
laid up in New Zealand because OF
the seamen's strike hope thereby to
get back to Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Trenton, N. j., Workers
Protest Rakosi Murder

TRENTON, N. j., Dec. TAT the
first meeting here of the newly or
ganized local section International
Labor Defense a resolution protesting
against the contemplated execution Of
Matthias Rakosi and his comrades by
the murderous Horthy regime was
unanimouously passed calling upon all
working class organizations to take
up the fight for saving the lives Of
these revolutionary workers. Copies
Of this resolution were sent to the
Hungarian ambassador in Washington
and to the labor prsss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09

higher classes far beyond their capa-
city. The board Of education's object
in this move u 20 save building a new
school.
The republican politicians in whose
headquarters this meeting was held
were dumbfounded when following
their speakers Rose Pastor Stokes and
Clarence Miller were given the floor.
And they well might have been.
Mrs Stokes advised the parents not
to permit the politicians to play
around with them and divert them
from their chief object but to imme-
diately organize themselves for action,
to issue petitions. to arrange for de-
monstrations and to go before labor
organizations in the vicinity and enlist
their support. Clarence Miller recited
the experiences of other school con
iicts in which the parents permitted
the capitalist politicians to take
charge of their fight with the result
Of being misled and finally the parents
giving up in disbursement. A col
lection was taken up for the initial
expense of organization.
The young pioneers will call a meet.
ing this week to organize the children
to fight their own battles with the aid
Of their parents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
COMMUNISTS ADVISE STRIKING
PARENTS TO GUST LMPOSTORS
AND CONDUCT THEIR OWN FIGHT

Public School No a
Williamsburg Brooklyn, the republican
almost
Sacrifice Children Dollars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09

When that argument begins at
lunch time in your shop tomor.
row--show them what the DAILY
WORKER says about it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09
Bill Calls for Merger of
Army and Navy Into
Unified Department

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. - Repres-
entative John Philip Hill of Maryland,
announced he would introduce a bill
providing for the merging of the war
and navy departments into a depart
ment OF national defense, and provide
therein secretaries of equal rank for
the army, navy and the air service
following Coolidge's acceptance of the
Morrow aircraft investigation, reject
ing Mitchell's proposals.
Observation-Disclosures The DAILY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09

If you want to thoroughly un.
deistand Communism--study it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-09

observation-disclosures The DAILY
WORKER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
roo MANY LAWS
DISGUST MOSES
Senator Believes Nation Is
Being StrangIed.
~ United Iress

~ United Fres6
CHICAGO, Dec. 1S.--The United
ltates is being strangled by the
Multiplicity OF laws, Senator George
&. Moses of New Hampshire, be-
leves. In a speech here Nst night
b the Cook County Real Estate
Board. Moses declared that $4,000
lew statutes were enacted by the
hxty-eighth Congress and the State
legislatures In two years.
THE Sixty-Ninth Congress appar-
mtly Is out to shatter the present
hmentable record for law-making,"
Noses said. when I left Washing
on yesterday. Congress. only nine
lays old. had 10000 new pieces of
legislation introduced"
Moses declared his opposition to
American membership in the world
Eourt with the words:
And not content with meddling
With the private affairs Of our mil
ions, we now wish to launch into
heddlesomeness abroad to become
|ntangled in the turmoil and hatreds
" the old world"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
MoToRIsT AT LIBERTY

Charles Girton. colored, 319 In
diana Ave., was at liberty today after
Special Judge H. B. Pike withheld
judgment against him when he was
tried on charge Of assault and bat.
terry in Criminal Court. Thursday
afternoon. Girton is alleged to have
seriously injured Miss Laurel Davis,
5, Of 1902 N. Holmes Ave-, when his
automobile struck and dragged her
several feet. He appealed from city
pourt, where he was fined $500 and
posts and sentenced sixty days in
Jail.
However, he was fined $40 and
hosts on charge Of speeding thirty
I'VE miles an hour. In city court he
was fined 800 and costs on this
charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-12-18
CHRIS MAS TO
BE OBSERVED
First Presbyterian Church
Announces Program.

Plans for the celebration Of
Christmas have been completed by
he First Presbyterian Church.
Sunday morning. a program of
music and pageantry will be pre-
tented in the Sunday school. Col
ection of $3.50 for Foreign Missions
B expected.
Special music will feature the
Usual worship Sunday morning and
bvening.
Tuesday evening, a turkey dinner
kill be served by the Womens
Auxiliary in the church dining room.
Fables will be reserved for young
people home from college. Follow
hg the dinner, a pageant, "The
pther Wise Man" will be presented.
a candy treat 70 rthe children has
Been arranged.