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Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23
CARD OF THANKS
To all who were SO kind and

tender in their administrations
to our loved one. Mrs. Mack
Parsons, we wish to tender ant.
express our sincere thanks. We
wish you every blessing of life
and assure you that we shall
always remember your kind
ness.
Gratefully yours,
Mack Parsons
Robert Mack Parsons
Doris Fay Parsons
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Bearden
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Bearden
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23
Whites Cream Vermifuge. "A
few doses drives out the worms
and puts the little one ON the

road to health again. White S
Cream Vermifuge has record
of fifty years of successful use.
Price 35c. Sold by Bates Drug
Co.
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23

zie1 and baby, of Texarkana,
spent the weekend with rela-
tives here.
Mrs. Clyde Thornton of Ell
Dorado came Tuesday night to
attend the bedside of Mrs.
Mack Parsons.
Miss Bette Conner and Mrs.
Leila Green of Hope are visit
ing the formers sister, Mrs.
Roxie Redmond.
Mrs. Walter Oliver of Hope
came up Wednesday morning
to attend the bedside Of her
niece, Mrs. Mack Parsons.
FOR SALE: Pure Buff Or
pington eggs; $1.00 per setting.
Mrs. L. E. Salisbury, Washing
ton, Route /; phone 801, three
rings. 3tp.
Mr.. E.. N. May of the Bos-
well-May Auto Co. has moved
his family to Washington. They
are occupying the Presbyterian
manse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Dudney,
who were recently married in
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23
Hopes big department store,
kill offer its custom ers a rare

to supply tnelT
wants with seasonable mer-
thandise at prices that can't be
net by many, beginning Jan.
F3rd. See the company's ad in
lhis issue.
Mrs. l.. r. Monroe entertain
Id the Methodist Missionary
Society Tuesday afternoon. The
Aime was epsnt in the study Oh
Builders of the Kingdom. AT
the close of the meeting a deli
kious three-course luncheon was
6ervsd. Those present were
NeSdames S. c. Dean, Julien
Fold, James Dugger, j. L.
Booker, Lanny Beck, E. r.
fimberlake, l.. F. Monroe and
Mesdames Travis and Lee A.
Holt as guests.
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23
x0H
, local Happenings
BY
Edward
Mccullough
NUTOCASTER 4

Mr.. o. A. Mcknight of Route
2 was in town Monday.
Druggist John Barrow Of
Ozan was in town Thursday on
business.
Mr.. j. E. Salisbury of Route
l was caller at the Telegraph
office today.
Mrs. L. F. Monroe and Mrs.
Lee A. Holt visited in Hope
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. E. Haselman of Ozan was
attending to business in Wash
ington Wednesday.
Mr.. C. E. Boyce of Route 2
was looking after business mat
ters in town Monday.
Miss Vera Moses is spending
the week in Fulton, the guest
of Miss Ivalo Vickers.
Mr.. Jim Ford Stuart Of Ozan
was a visitor to Washington
this friday afternoon.
Misses Selma Beck and Grace
Levins visited friends in Fulton
Tuesday and Wednesday,.
Rev. Taylor Stanfill filled his
regular appointment at the
Baptist church here Sunday.
Rev. j. H. Gold attended a
laymen's meeting at Gurdon
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. J. w. Butler went to
Nashville Thursday to attend
the Presbyterian Bible class
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Branson Fra
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23

Johnson has not been well for
more than a year and recent
complications have aroused un-
easiness in the family.
Mr.. T. D. Hanna, travelling
representative of the James
F. Ballard Medicine Co., of
st. Louis, was in town Tues
day. While here on business
with the Bates Drug Co., ne
called at the Telegraph office
where he had business.
The Geo. w. Robson Co.,
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23

Lovelis states that an epidemic
Of measles is wildly prevalent
in and around Ozan. Most of
the victims have been children.
Mr.. Dolph Carrigan was up
from Hope Thursday.
Mr. Lucious Boyce of Route
2 was in town Monday.
Mr.. R. A. Carrigan was
down from Ozan Tuesday.
Mr.. Benham Fontaine Of
Ozan was in town Thursday.
Miss Bertie Jones of Hope
visited her sister, Mrs. L. f.
Higgason, Tuesday.
Miss jamie Johnson of Co
lumbus was a guest in the
home of her uncle, Mr.. G. C.
Stuart, from Friday to Monday.
A very young and welcome
little Miss arrived at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Boswell
Tuesday night. Baby and
mother are doing we'll.
Mr.. G.. E. HawoIth of Tex
arkana came over Tuesday
night to see his brother, Mr..
T. B. Hawor-th, who was ss1f
ously injured a few daHl
Mrs. Paul DH
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23

AshdoWn, are now occupying
apartments in the Garner
building.
Just in-Carload of Wash
ington's best Flour. Bought
when price was low, ana being
sold at popular prices. Moses
Levins & Co. 1tc
Mis-. w. A. Lovelis spent
Wednesday at Ozan with her
daughter, Mrs. w. A. Webb.
The four Webb children are re-
covering from measles. Mrs.
Washington telegraph., 1925-01-23

The Geo. w. Robson Co.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20

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ers' League, had her clothing torn and
was held prisoner. by the socialists.
Workers Listen to Communists.
While the workers inside the hall
were protesting against Abramovich's
lies, hundreds of workers were listen
ing to the speeches of the Commun.
lists half block away. There were
five times as many workers listening
to the Communist speaker as there
were inside the hall.
Comrade Manuel Gomez opened the
meeting and told the workers why
the capitalist police were protecting
their enemy Abramovich. Martin
Abern, Chicago district organizer of
the Workers (Communist) Party, told
the workers present that only the
Workers (Communist) Party repre-
scented their interests.
William +. Dunno, editor Of the
DAILY WORKERS spoke for the col
lection, which went to the DAILY
WORKER. While Comrade Dunno
vas speaking. a 2flivver squad" drove
up and ordered, Comrade Dunno to
stoD. The crowd called 70 Dunno to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Thousands Cheer Soviet Rule

proceed, and he refused to stop
speaking. Seeing the temper of the
crowd, which had swelled TO enor-
nous proportions, the police drove
away. and did not re-appear at the
meeting.
]. Louis Engdahl, editor of the
DAILY WORKER, flayed the yellow
socialists like Benenson, who was
chairman Of the would-be Abramovich
meeting.
William f. Kruse, declared that
Abramovich was unable to fight the
workers OF Soviet Russia and had to
stink over to America to seek the
protection Of the capitalist police, in
an attempt TO get a hearing.
Tell Of SIuggng Tactics.
Bill Kuperman, Nat Kaplan and
Rose Wagman. all of whom we're
elected from the meeting by the gun
men, told Of the smuggling tactics Of
the cowardly Forward socialists, and
Morris Chilofsky told how he was
blackjacked at the Garrick demon
stration last Sunday Karl Reeve,
Thurber Lewis and John Edwards
were the other speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
More Miners Murdered

Another coal mine blast takes the lives of SO
miners.
The accident occurred in steel trust property,
christened after its Bethlehem Mines cor
poration. Accumulated gas which gave the ex-
plosiOn terrific force, caused the accident and in
dicates that the presence of the deadly gas in such
large quantities could not have escaped notice by
the bosses.
An open shop drive. is in progress in this fer
ritory The union has been greatly weakened by
the constant attacks upon and endeayors to force
a wage cut upon the miners have been made re
Gently.
II is in West Virginia that the coal and steel
trust has been concentrating it's efforts in the
developments of nonunion mines The coal from
these mines has been used 70 force unon-mined
coal out of the markets. The whole state is prin-
cipality of the steel trust and readers familiar
with the horrors of the bitter struggle between
the union the capitalists, the state authorities and
the various city and county governments owned
outright by the bosses.
To the atrocities committed on workers who were
fighting for unionization there has now been added
the additional horror of men sent helpless to their
death in dozens. Like in the DOrtmmd disaster
in Germany these workers we're sacrificed for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
"A Rugged Country Lawyer

The new attorney general, heir to the Office after
two of his immediate predecessors have fallen by
the wayside thru series of circumstances that do
not need to be detailed here, is described in ad-
ministraton publicity as "a rugged country lawyer
with record of quiet service" Those familiar with
the language of press agents will interpret this
correctly if they read "a nOnentity who has never
reached a mental level above that of the prerevO-
lutiOnary culture of Vermont"
The farm of John Sargent, the new head JOf the
department of justice adioins that of the Coolidge
family. This is probably as good reason for his
appointment as any other. He has never been heard
Of before and the senate could therefore have moth
ing against him.
We recall case that is similar in many respects
to this elevation of one from the lower depths of
medocrity to the head of the department of
justice. Years ago the Anaconda Mining company
picked for governor of Montana livery stable
lawyer in Virginia City-a village without rail
road where the event of the day was the arrival
of the stage with its emaciated mail pouch.
This local shyster who was said to be the best
whittier in the hamlet, became the most servile
capitalist tool and the most tyrannical governor
that the state ever had He,. too, was "a rugged
country lawyer with record of quiet service" One
of his first official acts was to send in troops to
crush the metal miners strike in 1914 He built
the game warden service into a band of thugs un.
der direction of the copper trust He advocated
and signed the most vicious anti,sedition law ever
passed by any state. During the war he, as head
of the draft board arbitrarily increased the quotas
Of the mining counties to take out as many militant
workers as possible. He sent in troops again in
1917 when the miners struck. He did everything
that the copper trust told him to do but his real
value lay in the fact that he never did anything he
was not told to do
If historical analogies are worth anything at
all, the appointment Of "tfiis rugged country law
yer with record Of quiet service" as head of the
department Of justice means that the labor unions
and the revolutionary movement are in for stormy
time. F@"
We had better do little rugged preparation.
Send in that new Sub todayI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
GALES to USE
TROOPS AGAINST
RAIL WAY WORKERS
INFLAMMATION of Labor
Anglers Men
(special to the Daily workerl

MEXICO CITY, March 1S.-A gener.
al strike of railway workers may re.
suit from the effort of the Gales gov.
ernment's assistance to the private
capitalists of Wall Street to crush
the railway union before turning
over the lines to private bondholders.
Gales has ordered that all en-
ployes must subscribe to an oath bind.
ing him practically under military law
to support the government upon the
same status as if these workers were
soldiers. 1t is actually militariza.
ton Of labor.
Workers Refuse Military Rule.
Railway workers are extremely bit
ter and are widely refusing to sign
are demanded oath. Machinists in the
roundhouse of San Luis Potosi were
first to record physical protest when
they belabored master mechanic
for accepting the oath to be militar-
lied.
Gales has been swift to disillusior
the Mexican workers who bore him
to power. He today issued orders ia
all military commanders to suppress
disorders, using force if necessary"
Gales Threatens.
"Rumors Of proposed railway
strike do not intimidate the govern
ment," the president added. we
will place the railways under just or.
ders and nothing will stop us. RAN
way men must accept the new order.
They will not lose their places. They
will not remain members Of the un,
ion, but will be considered federal en-
ployes.
"The government purposes 10 read
just the railways, running them q
short time economically, giving them
economic stability, then returning
them to the company"
The secretary of communications
said if the railway men strike they
will lose the goodwill of the govern
ment for their betterment.
The workers cynicaIly want to
know what the good wilr' Of the gOv-
eminent may look like after It is
cooked and ready to serve. They
point out that 10000 are to be fired
by this same good will" and left to
starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Obstacles to Capitalist Unity

The United States of Europe, divided into
western and eastern groups is the solution for
Europe's political and economic problems accord
ing to M. Benes, foreign minister of Czecho-
Slovakia.
The resourceful NJ Benes proposed to Herriot,
the French premier, that the western group should
include England France, Belgium and Germany
the eastern group to include Poland, Roumania,
CzechoSlovakia, Austria and other small countries
Italy would be allowed to throw her fortunes with
either group she chose.
M. Benes waxed very enthusiastic over the re-
suits Of such an arrangement. He says, according
to Paris dispatch, that
trade will be assured thru easement of railway,
shipping, and transportation regulations and bust
will be doomed thru an ameioration of pass
port and police control difficulties.
Further
that Europe will SO per cent of the present
budgets expended the upkeep of armies, naVies,
and aviation and will be able to haIVe the num-
Der Of state employees thru cutting and eliminating
the huge amount of red tape which will not be
necessary when relations friendly and the
tons practically federated.
But like all schemes for solving the insoluble
contradictions of modern imperialism, the plan
of NJ. Benes, representing as it does the aspirations
of the great powers ran into a snag at the very
outset NJ Herriot, speaking for French imperial
ism, sunk the Benes scheme with few well-amed
verbal torpedos.
He said that the plan ''utopian untimely
and impossible of realization" He assured the
Czech and Polish statesmen that the interests of
their countries lay very close to the throbbing
heart of France, but-he could not see his way
clear to endorse plan that might deprive French
imperialism Of some of its vassals
Meanwhile France and England haggle over the
security pact with France getting little the worst
of it as this is written.
The Benes plan is good one, but he has neg
lected very important historical factor-that of
revolution, Such. agreements and mutual under
standing Benes visualizes come only between
workers and peasants republics AFTER a revo
luton. m 8eas~
Even in America such understandings between
the separate states were not reached until after
the revolutionary war
NJ. Benes, however, is not trying to start a revo-
luton. He is trying to stop one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Capitalists Want State COssacks

, the most notorious Of all, 1t original
ed as an anti-labor militia and from
the time of its inception has gone on
breaking strikes, clubbing and jail
ing workers, disrupting labor meet
ings, breaking up demonstrations
During the steel strike of 1919, the
anti-labor reign of terror of the
American cossacks" was particular
ly bloody, and was repeated in the
1922 coal strike.
In czarist Russia, mothers used to
brighten their children into obedience
by admonishing: 1.-THE cossackse are
coming" So it is actually today in
the industrial and mining regions Of
Pennsylvania, where the children
tremble with fear when they hear
the word "constabulary' muttered in
their presence.
Unless the Illinois labor movement
succeeds in preventing the establish
ment of an Illinois state police, as it
did in 1919 and 1920, the above stu
alton will inevitably be duplicated in
Illinois.
Want cossacks to Crush Miners.
Miners and other workers in the
mining areas will be the first to feel
the heavy hand of the cossacks.
These, especially are the rural COM
munities" which big business has in
mind. The chamber of commerce,
bankers land mine owners have not
forgotten Herrin, nor the great fights
which the miners have sustained on
behalf of their union and decent
standard of living
What S. Glenn Young and his ku
kluxers failed to do, the Illinois cos
sacks would bend all their energies
toward accomplishing: The destruc-
ton of the miners union.
Labor is unit against the mon
strons Dunlap bill for a capitalist
owned state police force. That OPP
position must be made vociferous and
Immediately effective. Labor defeat
ed similar bills in 1919 and 1920. 1t
must now make the bosses feel once
for all that the workers of this state
are determined never to allow any
American cossack system to be fast
ened upon them.
lin the second article of this
series, Manuel Gomez will expose
the bloody anti-laborN record Of
the famous Pennsylvania state
constabuIary, which Is the model
on which the plutocratic Inter-
ests Of illinois are trying to draw
up the Illinois state police force.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Textile Workers Are
Robbed AS Bosses
Pile Up Millions
CONTINUED from Page u


S.; and 1920, $4.O1; 1921. s1.Os; 1928
$1.56 on par of $40.
It must be borne in mind that the
dividends on the common stock, at
least, go almost entirely to the con-
trolling company (British) the Eng
lish Sewing Cotton Co., Ltd, which
owns 1,197,5OO shares out of 2,2OO,O 900
shares of common stock, represent
ing sole voting power.
1t means that an average of mil
lion and quarter dollars has gone
into the pockets Of a company with
it's office in Manchester, England.
When the capital stock was increased
it meant that the parent company
could cry to the American workers,
Produce more; take cut, we must
keep up our dividend rate"-on wa
tered stock.
That huge reserves are built up
proves the extraordinary exploitation
of the mill slaves, immense piling up
of surplus value. In 1923, the de
probation fund" carried along
$7,625,51O; and 100000 was put away
as reserve for contingencies Git will
be recalled that in 1919, to increase
the capitalization $3,000,000 was
taken from various reserve funds of
which $1,975,142, the largest sum, was
transferred from the reserve for con-
tingencies). The contingency seems
to be danger Of loss of profit, and the
desire for more.
Huge Reserve Fund.
There is now carried along as a
reserve fund" the sum of $1,797, 1896.
In 1919, this and similar sums were
used to increase capital. Why should
not money lying idle in the treasury
of the company be used to pay de-
cent wages for the workers?
Textile Workers Robbed.
What are reserves for the manu-.
facturers should be reserves for the
workers. If all the talk about thar
mony of interest" between workers
and bosses is true, why don't the
bosses take the reserves and divide
them among the workers whose labor
produced them? $1,797,s96 divided
among workers would mean several
hundred dollars piece. But why
dream? Capitalists don't act that way.
Instead they divide them up in stock
or cash dividends.
The crushing process goes on-but
the Willimantic workers have shown
their colors as fighters. They made
IA Standard for the sake Of them
selves, the textile workers of the
country, and the entire working class,
they must win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20

greed of the Morgan Rockefeller dynasty that
drives for world power.
There is only one answer to such crimes Of the
rulers: +t A
Unity of the American labor movement-amal-
gamation into gigantic industrial unions.
Unity of the world trade union movement against
the international robbers
If the deaths of these West Virginia miners stir
the American labor movement to action they will
not have died in vain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Another State Goes
on Record In Favor
of Child Slavery
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page IL
has just started publication as week
Iy, which enables it to carry on more
active fight than ever before against
child labor in America. Besides carry
ing all the latest news on the progress
of the child labor amendment, the
weekly Young Worker deals with the
problem of child labor realistically,
pointing out that the passing Of law
regulating child labor will be of no
use unless some provision is made for
the maintenance of the children who
go to work, not because they want to,
but in order to support themselves
and add to the low earning of the
family.
Big Mass Meeting in Chicago.
The Young Workers League of Chi
cago is holding a big child labor mass
Smeeting and conference in Chicago
on Sunday, March %, at the North
west Hall, North and Western AYES,
at p. m. Admission is 10 cents and
an effort is being made to have local
unions and sympathetic organizations
send representatives to the meeting as
well as urging their members to at
tend in large numbers. Barney Mass
will be the Young Workers League
speaker at the meeting and Earl R.
Browder, acting secretary of the
Workers (Communist) Party will
speak on "Child Labor in the United
States" stressing the need of an Or
ganized fight against child labor on
the part of the workers that will have
far different effect than the weak,
pacifist fight put up by the liberals
and reforms in their effort to "regu-
late child labor"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
POIIyannaism in the Labor
Movement

We pick an article in The Federation News
entitled "Open Shop and American Plan" as a
shining example of the muddled thinking INDUCED
in by labor leadership. The article in question is
featured and is undoubtedly an expression of
large part of that section of the labor movement
called for lack of better name, 'honest trade I'm
ionists." Daniel DeLeon called this group 'pure
and simplers" Their purity may be legitimately
questioned from time to time but their simplicity
never.
Here are the subheads under which the writer
builds up his Indictment of the capitalist class-a
pretty fair Indictment but weakened by his refer
ence to the capitalists only as employers"
Workers Rights Ignored in Open Shop Idea.
Organized Employers Glaringly Inconsistent
Towards Employees.
Labors Harmful Neglect
Intolerant Employers Use Human Buzzards
Against Toilers
Blacklist Used as Gag.
Big Business Scientifically Controls
How Private Monopoly Controls Government
The writer cites incident after incident showing
that the capitalists control industry and govern
ment but when he has to draw a conclusion from
these facts he begins to back up. Not being a
revolutionist he only accept capitalism. Here
is his solution and why he to so much trouble
to prove the power and tyranny of the capitalist
system in order to reach such a childish concus-
ion probably always will remain mystery
"If the wage system is abolished it viii be
after centuries of effort to evolve pxostlcal social
order based upon mutually of responsibility as
well as mutual benefit The building Of a
new order is not class job. Those in every class
thruout the entire social body, who believe in the
betterment of humanity, will have to unite for
the building of a new order, otherwise it will not
be built"
This is the logic of Pollyanna.
The capitalist class controls industry and gov
use every method, no matter how horrible, to re
tain their control. Therefore we, the workers
whom capitalism Expresses, against whom they
use all the machinery of thir state must unite
with the capitalist class to build new order in
which the basic element in capitalist control the
private property in community needs, will be
missing.
Hurray Workers, worry no more!
just wait, it will take only centuries of eff
fort" Give the believers in the 'betterment of
humanity" chance and remember:
No preaching of hatred of capitalism or talk of
revolution because, says this unhurred soul, such
things twill retard social development" Do not
revolt because then it might delay things a cen
fury or two.
One thing is certain. Capitalism can look for
ward to centuries of unchallenged power if the
working class program is to be framed by leader
ship of this calber.
The Communist program?
Well, that is probably why the Federation
article was published