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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
FILL TENT AT
K. C. HANDS OFF
CHINA MEETING
BY E. HUGO oEHLER.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 10 At
the Hands OF China" meeting held
here. Ave speakers held the audiences
attention for two hours and a half
in spite Of the heat The tent was
packed with occidentals and orientals
who heard the speakers representing
the oppressed races express their sol
idarity against the imperialists and
their demands in China.
The students who represented the
orientals in an international way
were c. I. Chang, Chinese; L. I. Saw
mento, Philippine and Siao Ogino,
japanese.
Col. Bradley Negro speaker, gave
an excellent talk as a representative
of the downtrodden ~ million Neg
roes of the states and those of the
unprotected colonies.
Thurber Lewis, representative of
the Workers (Communist) Party, ex-
pressed the American workers SYM
pathy for the Chinese and showed
what is necessary for the abolition of
Imperialism. The five speakers let
oose more working class thoughts
han the capitalist presses put out in
year.
One capitalist lackey paper of the
Kansas side had an editorial ridicul-
ing and criticizing the meeting in the
usual capitalist way But the big
turnout of all oppressed races who
showed their solidarity and class
conscious awakening of the masses
was a suitable answer.
With the comradeship, information.
al spirit and friendship for Soviet
Russia as shown by this anti-imper
ialist, Hands OFF China" meeting
we can see why the god-fear and hell
fear is in the hearts of all capitalists
and capitalist lackeys.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

nOSLlllLleS. mere ne JeSleu SuSpl-
cious specimens of the food supplied
to Uncle Sans fighters by Swift C
Co. and other profteers.
He found some canned beef not
only spoiled and chemically bleached
but that pinholes in the cans had
been resoldered and the cans them
lseves very heavily lacquered. Dis
solving the lacquer he found the tell
tale stamp, 1898, on the cans.
Story Widely Printed.
After the war he told Harold Swift,
the meat magnate and president of
the board of trustees of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, whom he had known
in college. Confronted with affida-
Wits from the army laboratory files
Swift was very much surprised"
The Federated Press story was
printed at least in three papers in
Chicago, several in New York and in
others all over the country. Not a
word came from the usually alert pub
licity and research department of the
packing company The proof behind
the story was too full of dynamite
Two months passed and at last the
corporation found a victim on which
to experiment.
Swift did not attempt to muzzle
any of the three Chicago papers nor
the New York or other metropolitan
publications that used the F. P. story.
But L. ID. H. Weld, manager of the
Swift research department, swooped
down on tiny publication way off in
Nebraska, the Norfolk Press, and de-
manded an accounting.
Perhaps Weld was emboldened by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

the fact that the editor of the Nor
folk Press is a woman. But since
she is a levelheaded woman she got
in touch with the Federated Press.
her representative saying, II am quite
sure that when you begin to answer
Swift & Co. they will soon lose in
terest" Since then a month has
passed.
Received No Answer.
The r. P. has written to the valiant
Weld, In care of Swift & Co. as fol
lows:
I'VE learn that Swift & Co. has be-
come interested in the embalmed
beef revelation published by The Fed
Grated Press over three months ago.
We printed what we believed to be
well supported facts on unimpeach-
able evidence and see no reason to
alter any statement in the article but
will be glad to send out correction
if there is any basis for one.
"If after consulting Harold Swift
of your corporation you still desire TO
push the inquiry, we shall be at your
service but hope you will deal with
us direct instead of bouncing on an
obscure woman editor in Nebraska"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
IRON HEEL is
USED ON UNITED !
STATES SOLDIERS
No Justice for Poor
Says Young Private

HONOLULU, Hawaii (By Mail.)-
Army courts-martial show the same
kind Of injustice in dealing with minor
violations of law as with those guilty
of the crime of sympathy for the
working class.
A young soldier recently received g.
sentence of five years at hard labor.
His crime was taking part in an IL
legal raid upon house of ill-fame in
which many soldiers had been robbed
In a letter to a friend, this young
soldier gives his opinion of the Jus
tice" given men in the Hawaiian de-
partment An extract from the letter
speaks for itself
rs it a wonder that I am full Of
hatred for my own country? Forced
by jury of seven officers to serve five
years of the best of my life, can you,
wonder at me?
Justice is supposed to reach from
ocean to ocean and to the uttermost
parts of our possession. But does it?
when a young man with no expert
ence, for his first crime goes on the
witness stand and is not granted even
respect by the court; when a jury
gazes out the window while the ac-
cused is pleading, yes, praying for
justice, consideration and square
deal, what can one think of his coun-
try? How can one respect such a
sentence? How? l ask you.
when soldiers are given sentences
and dishonorably discharged at the
rate of one a day in these islands
alone, what shall man think of his
country? Is it our laws or our peo-
pie? Surely, with our present schools
and educational means, the people are
growing no worse. The correct answer
is-our laws.
Nothing but Injustice; nothing fair.
Only crookedness and unfair methods.
Shall we call it the land of the free
and the home of the brave?'"
The writer of the above letter is
victim of the present system Of social
injustice. Despite his sentence, /
would trust him with my life or prop
erty a thousand times sooner than
Morgan and the other respected para
sites of the country.
When Communism is fully realized.
crime will exist only in the past. The
working class should understand that
crime is only one of the evils Of cap
italism. The cure is not brutal sup
preston, but the destruction of its
source.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Cyanide Gas Kills
Disinfectant Worker
In New York Plant

NEW YORK, July 19.-Cyanide gas
killed the bugs in the leather at the
Arm of Goodfriend Bros, but it killed
the .disinfectant worker also-Isidor
Deckowitz. Acting Chief Medical Elk
aminer, DR.. Benjamin Schwartz, has
urged the district attorneys Office to
have this poison banned for disinfect-
ing purposes.
There is little protection today for
workers connected with the chemical
industry or the use of chemicals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Porters Hurt In Wreck

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 1.-Two
Pullman porters were injured slightly
and hundred passengers were
shaken when four coaches of passen-
ger train No. z, of the Pennsylvania
line, New York to ST. Louis limited.
were derailed today at Ingram, a SUI
burb.
All passengers were transferred to
another train. Most of the passengers
were in their berths when the four
coaches split switch and were drag
ged 200 feet before the train could be
stopped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
An Index to Los Angeles

GLENDALE Suburb OF Los Anger
es)-Unable to obtain work, Herman
Van Black, about 35 and believed to
be from a prosperous Nebraska fami-
ly, lived for many days on what
scraps he could find in garbage cans
Today he was found unconscious and
dying, poisoned by what he had eaten.
In his delirium, the man told of I'M
successful efforts to secure work and
his dread of asking aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Mechanics Get Raise

WASHINGTON. July 19.-(FP)-
Wage scales of skilled mechanics en-
ployed by the District of Columbia
were increased approximately 10 per
cent by act Of the board of commits
sioners. These employees were getting
S6.4O day and their new rate will
be S704. They have practically con.
tinuous employment and Is days
leave with pay annually.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
GERMAN FASCIST
STUDENTS TRIED
FOR DEATHPLOT
Made Plans to Murder
Stain and TrOtsky
Especial to The DAILY worker)

ANfNNiH' ~ w lazy WOIHSiJ
MOSCOW, June 24-(5y Mail.)-
The trial of the German fascist stu
dents, klndermann; Ditmar and
Wolsoht, accused of having pre-
pared terrorist acts against Stain and
Trotsky, was opened before the Mos
cow supreme court In the evening Of
June "a. JarosIavsky presides, VII.
rich and Cameron are members Of the
court and kryIenko is prosecuting at
torney; the official defense has been
taken over by ozep and Dukowskoy.
Numerous members Of the foreign
embassies as we'll as numerous for
eign journalists are present
The defendant Ditmar speaks Rus
sian; the others, German. Wolscht
refuses to be defended. Kindermann
requests only legal advice. AS ex-
perts for the characterization of the
political situation in Germany and of
the political motive forces behind the
defendants, Horpius and the repre-
sentative of the German Communist
Party in the Comintern, Heinz Neu-
mann, we're summoned. On grounds
of xtra-territoriality the German en-
bassy council Hillger refuses to APP
pear before the court; he declares his
willingness however, to be examined
commissarily at the embassy The
prosecutor announces that the exam
nation of Hillger is of prime import
ance, because Hillger has to corrobo-
rate or deny the statements made by
the prisoners during their preliminary
examination.
Abuses the Court.
The defendants Wolscht and Ditmar
are quite at their ease. Kindermann
Is a confused phantast. He attempts
to provoke the court with the state
ment that the indictment is product
of insanity. He claims to have signed
the protocol in a state of hypnosis.
The prosecutor explains to the defend
ants their various rights according to
the Russian criminal code.
The chairman announces that the
witnesses summoned by Wolscht from
Germany would reach Moscow on the
evening of June %. At the appear
ance of the witnesses for the prose
cution, Kindermann again attempts
to abuse the court. He is severely
censured by the presiding Judge who
makes it clear to him that the court
alone is competent to judge the admis-
stability of the witnesses.
To the question of guilt Kinder
mann declares that all defendants
would plead not guilty. However, only
Wolscht joins this plea, whereas Dit
mar pleads guilty to every point in
the indictment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
JOBS STILL Get
FEWER, BUILDING
ONLY PROGRESSES
148 Men to 100 Jobs,
Throughout Illinois

Industrial employment in Illinois Is
on the downgrade. The Illinois depart
ment of labor's monthly review, pre-.
pared by r. D. Calm, chief statistician,
and issued yesterday, shows less
change during the last thirty days,
however, than in preceding months.
Altho employment figures are lower
than for any June since 1921, the
ratio Of descent has slowed down. The
number of workers employed fell By
only 40 of per cent in June, where
as the rate OF fall was 1 per cent in
each Of the three preceding months,
owing perhaps, to more summer work
opening up.
as Per. Cent Less Working Than in
1924.
Reductions in working forces are
ess than those of year ago when
Illinois employers. after laying off %
per cent OF their workers in May, oil
minated an additional 3.4 per cent in
June. The decline of a year ago.
aowever, started from higher point
than was the case this year. There
are now 4.5 per cent fewer people EN-
ployed than at this time in 1924, and
10 per cent fewer than in June, 1928.
Building Volume Grows.
The, phenomenally large volume Of
building operations keeps the employ
ment curve from dropping still fur
Their. In seventeen Of the twenty
three principal cities of Illinois, ths
volume of new building work author
tied was larger than a year ago.
Building progress was recorded al
Aurora, East st. Louis. Rockford.
Rock Island and Murphysboro. In the
city last named, which was struck by
a tornado in March, more than $780,
600 worth of work has been projected
during the last two months.
In Chicago the volume of new work
for the calendar month amounts TO
SS3.OS7. 100. In Aurora, Decatur, Oak
Park, Peoria and Rockford new pro
iects are valued at between $500, 200
and 100000, and in Cicero, East
st. Louis and Springfield between
s25O.OOO and 100000.
Steel Business sIumps.
Employment fell sharply in iron and
steel plants. which laid off "a per
cent of their employees during the
month. In furniture, musical Instru-
ments and household furnishing fac
tories, employment fell off between
IL and 4 per cent.
Seasonal increases in the apparel
and food Industries were pronounced
Warm weather brot increased employ
ment in beverage, ice cream and ice
factories. The meat packing indus.
tries also had more employees than is
regularly the case. Canning employ
ers, approaching the peak of their sea
son. added 26 per cent more workers
IN June than they had in May.
Coal mining operations are still
bad. Reports are current, however
that some collieries now sealed, will
resume operations in the early fall.
Free employment conditions were
changed but slightly. There were las
applicants per 100 positions open In
June. which was slightly less favor
able than in May or April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
GOVERNMENT TO TURN AIR MAIL
ROUTES TO WAR USES? COOLIDGE
ORDER TO THE ARMY REVEALS

WASHINGTON, s-The
possibility"
ridge Field Mich francisco
be accommodated reued the
July 20 and will be regular landing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
WIVES OF TWO MURDERED POLISH
COMMUNISTS ARE GIVEN HEARTY
WELCOME BY WORKERS OF SOVIET

MOSCOW Mai)The wives treacherously
Polish Vetchorketch
with Committee
last months of their bourgeois Poland.
prison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Heat Kills Three
PULLMAN PORTERS, FORCED TO WORK
OVERTIME ON SMALL WAGES, MUST
ORGANIZE INTO THEIR OWN UNION

NEW YORK July 19Unrest Pullman a
Pullman
his union the
worker fer from:
Average S a month
Overtime:
days and two nights without without
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Money Scandal Causes Split in Khan

/ DENVER, Colo, July 19.-The
climax in ku klux khan money scan
dial was the secession of the Colorado
klans from the national organization
and its formal declaration to follow
the Denver khan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

Warsaw. A few days before his assas
sination." said Baginsky's wife, my
husband said to me: 81 could tell Of
such horrors that find it difficult to
believe they could happen in the goth
century"
Comrades Baginsky and Vetchorke-
witch were soon made to realize by
their own bitter experience how true
these words were.
Hounded on Streets
After comrade Baginsky's and Vet
chorkevitchs assassination their
wives returned to Warsaw. They were
so closely watched by detectives that
they had to sever all connection with
their friends, in order not to expose
them to the danger of arrests and
raids. Moreover, they avoided walk.
ing in the streets, as Warsaw ladies"
-furies in the guise of angels"
Knocked and derided them in every
possible way, using abusive language,
etc.
These ladies' said Comrade Vet
chorkevitch, "and also the police,
knew that l was a proletarian by
birth (my father was a working mani
and wanted to root up this nest of
Bolshevism."
The president of the repatriation
commission Kulikovsky, used every
possible means to make us give up
'Bolshevism Dreams" He promised
to support us and to place our chill
dren into schools at the expense Oh
the state. When this old hypocrite
saw that all his vile efforts were in
vain, he began to threaten us with
gods" punishment, saying that ou
children would curse us.
Your children will curse you fo
taking them to the country of the
barbarous Bolsheviks" Kulikov-
sky repeatedly
Welcomed In Soviet Union
When even this was OF no avail
the secret police took a hand. All
sorts of threats were used. But we
were not frightened even by this. and
went to Piontkevitch, the chief Of
the Polish secret police. He would
not receive us for a long time, but
we were so insistent, that his lord
ship" came to us in a passage sur
rounded by large body of detectives
and policemen armed to the teeth.
After stormy negotiations, we re-
ceived the permit to go to the U. S.
S. r.
Comrades S. l. Vetchorkevitch and
d. S. Baginskaya closed the recital
of their bitter experiences with the
remark: "The hearty welcome extend.
ed to us in Moscow will make us for.
get the horrors which we have ex-
perienced in bourgeois Poland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

of the Pullman conductor or the hun
dred dollars or more of me engineer
The only Pullman porters' organ
ization is company union formed by
the Pullman company for the benefit
Of the company and Of no value to
The workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
To Call Pact Conference

LONDON, July 19-The possibility
of conference between Great Bri-
tain, Belgium, France and Germany
to discuss the German security pact,
was admitted at the foreign office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
EXPOSURE OF SALE OF EMBALMED
BEEF TO WORLD WAR SOLDIERS GETS
RISE FROM SWIFT PACKING COMPANY
BY CARL HAEssLER


Federated April this making
responsible industrial position Chicago,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

Tell other workers what hap.
pens in your shop. Write a story
and send it in to the DAILY
WORKER. Order a bundle to
distribute there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21

crafts get time and half for over
time.
Hours of work: Whatever the boss
wants to enforce.
Pensions: Eighteen to twenty dol
lars month on retirement as com
pared with the fifty dollars or more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
Electric Trainmen
of Melbourne Demand
Pay of Steam Roads

MELBOURNE, Australia, July ID
Electric train drivers at Melbourne
have protested to the state govern
ment of Victoria because their wages
are lower than those of drivers Of
steam locomotives. The electric mem
demand uniform rates OF pay.
Heat Kills Three
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, July 10
Heat killed three persons near here.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-02-12
WHY NOT A LINCOLN CHART?

Not even the recent eclipse with all its thrills
and wonders fires the imagination in the Amerl-
can boy as does the magic name of Lincoln. The
mysteries of nature may appal us, but 1t is the
human touch that stimulates to action all latent
qualities of the soul. To the American lad Lin
coin embodes the greatest combination of char
acterstics ever found within the breast of single
man. He emphasizes the spirit of human tender
ness, of undaunted courage, of firmness and rigid
ty of purpose and perhaps above all the spirit of
tolerance and human understanding. Little If
anything may be said of Lincoln that has not COM
manded the expression of the world great minds
All humanity pays tribute at his shrine.
1t is recorded that when he was walking to the
national capitol one day he said the great regret
of his life was that he had been denied the advan
tage of a college education. What an inspiration
in those words for the youth of today shoWered as
he is with educational opportunities. We wonder
If the boys and girls in this town have learned a
real lesson from the life or from this thought of
Lincoln, or do they think of him only in the terms
of his immortal Gettysburg address, What a.
wonderful thing if we used the legacy he has left
us, 1t each OF us took measure of the man. consid-
cred the characteristics that made him great and
then by close self-eXamination found out in what
proportion those characteristics rested in our
selves Perhaps we might sense love of humanity
as the dominant note and then strive to measure
somewhat to the Standard We might make al
little chart and examine it from month to month
to see how our percentages are getting along, Civ
ing lOO to Lincoln as the standard of real Ameri-
can. 1t might prove more interesting than even
the crossword puzzle and really give meaning
TO hundreds per cent Americansm.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-02-12

the free exercise of commercial relationships or,
more or less, retard the everyday inclinatons of
most of US, will work a long-run injury to Ameri-
can institutions or cause an unhealthy reaction,
can be fully answered only by the test of time too
remote to fix with certainty
There is one measure of freedom, however,
that appears to have been overlooked, or wisely
omitted from the program of over-zealous patri-
OTIS or of those afflicted with pass-a-law it's and
it is this: someone forgot to have law passed
that would prevent towns from growing in ma
terial wealth and population communities from
expanding in ever-increasing programs of civic
beauty and solidarity, and citizens from cooper
ating to bring the aspirations of themselves and
fellow toWnsmen to fulfllment.
There is no law against boosting Red Lodge.
And becausethefe is neither a law to prohibit
knocking Red Lodge the greater the duty rest
upon the people of Red Lodge to see to it that
every ounce of community spirit is put to use to
further it's interests. Our rival town. (if indeed,
we recognize any SUCH the 'big" towns nearest
us, the tourists, in fact, everybody, respect US
more for showing our mettle and not only declar-
ing but proving that Red Lodge is the best town
of its size on the map, the area of which map we
leave to their choice There is no prohibition of
community loyalty and the freedom to show it is
unlimited.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-02-12
A man reaches fame whenever they begin to
remember his birthday; but woman achieves her
ambition when people forget hers.
WOLF, WOLF! AND THERE is NO WOLF

For more than three hours prominent men of
the stage last week discussed in New York the
subject of radio in relation to the theatre, and
most of them-one SO prominent in fact as Will
liam A. Brady, sounded note of warning, eS-
pressing the belief that the radio, the photograph
and the stage are in battle so severe that one of
the three at least is likely to be destroyed Actors
managers, playwrights, lyricists and others allied
with the world of mummery joined equally in the
chorus of calamity truly an amusing spectacle
Gatherings ofalarm such as this are as anus
ing as days when old time printers sought to de-
stroy the typesetting machines fixed in the belief
that the monster was destined to put an industry
to sleep and throw thousands of men out of useful
employment. Today by reason of greater posi-
bilities of production and economic saving there
are ten printers employed to one in the good "oId
days" 1t was all matter of adjustment.
1t is quite futile for actors or any other group
of men and women to resist the advance of radio,
which is destined to prove the greatest civilizing
influence in the memory of man and it is equally
silly tn suppose that radio ever will suppant the,
appeal to emotions SO subtley handled behind the.
footlights. Transmission of sound may reach per-
lection in its delicacy of shading, but until such
time as the radio is synchronized with the motion
picture the stage need have no fear. Even then
only the ham" actor need dread the hour At
worst it will mean survival of the fittest Rem
brandt with all his great art never has taken from
man the desire to gaze on beauty i'm the flesh