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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
union OFFICIALS
AID CLERGY TO
EXPLOIT MEXICO
Labor Heads Protest
Aids Anti-Labor Forces

A resolution protesting against the
"anti-religious attitude" of the Mex
lean labor government was sent by
telegram to Gales, president of Mex
leo, by Michael ]. Kelly, first vice
president of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and a leading light in the
Cook County Wage Farmers League
which worked for the union-smashing
e-Barrett-T Thompson machine in
the republican party primaries; John
Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor; Charles Wills,
! business manager of the Federation
News and another Of the leading
lights in the Cook County Wage Earn
ers' League; James ]. Conroy, secre-
tary of the Building Trades Council;
James Jacobs, building service en-
ployes; Claude Peters, janitors; Hugh
Mulligan of the asbestos workers;
Michael Calvin, truck drivers; and
Michael Artery of the machinery NOV
ers' union and supporter Of the union
smashing Robert e. Grove machine.
The labor union heads, who by no
means represent the viewpoint of the
trades union members of Chicago, by
sending a wire protesting against the
''anti-religious attitude" OF the Gales
government in Mexico, aligns itself
with the Mexican clericals who have
exploited the Mexican workers and
farmers for many wears.
The church owned over 100000
acres of land in Mexico at one time
and on its land it exploited the Mexi-
can workers and farmers. The church
today is the agency which is foment-
ing revolutions against the Gales
labor government.
The Gales government in its move
to divorce the church from the state
and TO end the exploitation OF the
workers and farmers on church lands,
has made a progressive move. The
Mexican clergy is given the right to
preach religion TO the workers and
farmers provided they abide by the
constitution OF Mexico which pro
vides that no clergymen shall try to
link up the church and state. The
clergy are allowed freedom OF relig.
sous expression as long as they stick
TO religion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
PLASTERERS ON
STRIKE TIE UP
LOOP BUILDING
Union Members Deter
mined to Win Increase

As the strike of the Chicago Plas-
terers' Union enters its second week
the effect of the plasterers' walkout
is beginning to be felt in loop build
ing. Many carpenters and decorators
on loop building jobs have been laid
OF.
Committees representing the two
plasterer bosses organization, build
ers,' and architects associations, and
bankers will meet to discuss future
policies in the strike.
A number of the heads of the
bosses organizations declared that
they expected no settlement until
after the election in the plasterers'
union June as anyone who dared to
suggest compromise might lose the
elections. The strike of the plaster
ers has forced many of the bosses to
accept the $14 a day wage scale.
The plasterers thru a continuance of
the strike have all to gain. They
can get the higher wage rate. They
should be careful in choosing their
candidates in the coming elections in
their locals so that only those candi-
dates who will really carry on a fight
against the bosses will be elected.
The employers in an attempt to
create dissension between the plas-
terers and the bricklayers declared
that the bricklayers' union was pre-
pairing to take over the plasterers'
jobs. This lie has been scotched by
John Mcleod, international vice-pres-
ident of the Bricklayers' Union.
He stated that the plasterers be-
longing to the bricklayers union
would not scab on the striking plas-
terers.
The citizens committee to enforce
the Lands award are running adver-
tisements in out-of-town papers urg-
ing plasterers in other towns to come
to Chicago. A typical advertisement
these open-shoppers are using is the
following sent to The DAILY WORK
Err by one of its watchful worker cor
respondents in Birmingham, Alabama,
taken from the Birmingham News:
"Plasterers, 1000 in Chicago.
Wanted, competent f1rst-class plas-
terers who will work for $12 per day.
Write giving complete experience. F.
A. Smith, employment manager, citi-
zens' committee to enforce the Lam
dis award, 21S N. Clark st., Chicago.
ILL.,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19

The British and Passaic strikes will
be discussed by speakers at a mass
meeting Wednesday, May 10, at s
p. m, at the Hull House, sos South
Halsted street.
The speakers are Fred Biedenkapp
national secretary Of the Information
al Workers Aid; H. M. Wicks, edi
torial writer of The DAILY WORKER
who covered the Passaic strike for
The DAILY WORKER; Nancy San.
dowski, the Joan of arc of the Pas.
safe textile strike. Chairman, Jack
Bradon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
CHICAGO LABOR
RADIO TO GO ON
AIR This MONTH
Will Broadcast Despite
Hoover's Opposition

The Chicago Federation of Labor
radio broadcasting station is expected
to be on the air before the end of
this month. This broadcasting station
has been made possible thru the Chi
cago trades unions assessing them
selves 50 for each Of their members.
Tho the law regarding the issuance
Of wave-lengths and permits for opera
ton of radio stations states that 1t is
mandatory on the department of COM
MERGE to issue the permits and wave
lengths, Secretary Of Commerce Her.
bert Hoover in his letters to the Chi
cago Federation OF Labor intimates
that he will not issue the Federation
a permit when an application is made.
In lengthy correspondence between
the Chicago Federation Of Labor and
the department Of commerce, the de.
partment of commerce raises the cry
that there are too many radio sta
tions In the Chicago district and that
air is too crowded" to permit the is
suance OF another broadcasting per-
init.
The department OF commerce stress
ed the fact that in the Chicago district
there we're too many stations within
the assigned wave-lengths. To these
deliberate attempts of Herbert
Hoover, representative of big bust.
ness, to keep the organized trade
union movement of Chicago from
broadcasting its message on the air,
the Chicago Federation of Labor
replied with letter pointing out that
tho American Telephone and Tela-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
MEXICAN LABOR
GAVE SUPPORT
TO Big STRIKE
Amazed at Attitude of
u. S. Leaders
Especial to The Daily Worker

MEXICO CITY, May 12.--NeIther
coal, fuel oil, nor eombustIbles Of any
kind will be loaded for transport TO
England at Mexican ports, according
to spontaneous decision Of the work.
ers Of Tamploo and Vera Cruz. The
various TampIoo labor organizations
notified the British miners of their
decision in a Joint cable addressed to
General Secretary A. J. Cook. Tam
pieo Is one Of the most Important oil
eenters In the world.
This concrete manifestation of In
ternational working class solidarity
more valuable in the present struggle
Of the miners than a big cash con-
tributino-is in line with the stand
taken in support of the British miners
! by practically the entire Mexican Ia
Dor movement. Despite the bankrupt
condition of most Mexican treasures,
many organizations sent funds to the
strike committee in London. The
Mexican Regional Confederation Of
Labor &c. R. o. M sent $4,000.
one-Hour Strike.
The Electricians Union, one Of the
most powerful trade unions in the re-
public, carried out one-hour protest
strike on Monday in sympathy with
the British workers. During this
period all electric lights were shut
off, power plants were paralyzed and
street cars remained motionIess.
Cables expressing solidarity were
sent to the strikers in England by ma
tional labor organizations, industrial
alliances and even local unions The
Committee for Trade Union Unity is
taking the lead in the campaign among
Mexican workers organizations in
support of the strike.
Amazed at Green.
Everywhere among Mexican work
ers amazement is expressed at the
hesitating and double-edged utterances
Of William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, regard
ing the strike. Barrios, of the railroad
workers, pointed out to The DAILY
WORKER correspondent that the A.
F. Of L. is the only important labor or
ganization in the world that did not
range itself unequivocally with the
struggling British workers.
Green stabbed the British workers
in the back" continued the Mexican
labor leader. Il do not believe the
American workers-the rank and file
of the unions-will be satisfied with
the kind of statements their president
issued about the strike. The American
workers should realize that the time
may come when they will be in the
same position the British workers
were in.
American labor organizations
should have contributed large amounts
to the British strike fund. The treach-
cry of Green and the A. F. of L.
bureaucracy in the hour of test is an
international scandal"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
GRAFT CHARGES
mark CLOSE OF
Penn. CONFLICT
Vast Sums Spent in
Primary Fight
tspeeIaI to The paIIy workerl


HARRIsBURoH, Pa, May II. =
Tomorrow is primary election In
Pennsylvania, the heavy guns Of the
campaign are sleneed and the vote
will In few hours be known. Charges
Of monumental graft and bribery be-
come ever louder and more lnslstent.
The outpouring Of money to corrupt
the republican party electorate has
probably exceeded anything in the
way of state elections. Close observers
say that even the notorious Newberry
scandal in Michigan has been left far
in the background.
The Mellon billions back the admin
istration senator, George Wharton
Pepper. William S. Ware, boss of
Philadelphia, running on a ringing
wet" platform, has the backing of the
Mitten scab shop street railway octo-
pus of that city and smaller manufac-
turing interests scattered thruout the
state. Pinchot, now governor, has
modified his political machine and is
backed by other industrial interests.
EdCn OldlNlS VICTORY
Each of the three candidates claims
victory, for purposes of last.minute
campaigning, but privately they admit
that they consider the conflict very
close. Real issues have been befogged
with the wet and dry question.
While Pinchot, as opposed to Ware
the wet" is decisively and vocally
-bone-dry," George Wharton Pepper,
the Mellon-Coolidge candidate, strad-
dies the issue by stating that he is
for Flaw enforcement"
Each accuses the other of attempt
ing to steal the nomination by fraud, +"
which Is probably true in each case,
as is usually the case in old party
conflicts.
LahoTs Pathetic Role.
The role of organized labor, that is
as far as the official spokesman are
concerned, is pathetically impotent.
With the shameful policy of treachery
embodied in the slogan reward your
friends and punish your enemies" in
the old party camps, the state officials
of the labor movement, endorse Pin
chot. But hundreds Of local leaders
line up behind Ware, because of his
wet platform. Pepper and the other
state candidates on the Mellon-Coo-
lidge ticket have no labor support
whatsoever, which doesn't seem to
worry them as they take the attitude
that the leaders cannot deliver the
vote anyway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
Milk Producers Renew
Fight Against Bundesen

Attorney J. Mccarthy, representing
the United Milk Producers Associa-
ton, has notified Corporation Counsel
Francis x. Busch that he will appear
before Circuit Court Judge Fulton in
Geneva and ask that the demurrer of
the city of Chicago against proceed
ings instituted by the United Milk
Producers Association for the viola
lions OF the Shurtlef act be dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
Capitalisln's Professors
Admit War Danger in
Hunt for Raw Materials
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

ONE Of the choicest aggregations
~ of apologists for capitalism,
that has ever assembled under the
stars and stripes, has just adjourned
its sessions in the sylvan retreat
provided by the exclusive resort of
parasites known as Briarclif Lodge,
New York. The consensus of opin-
ion, as keynoted by such outstand-
ing defenders of the American dol
lar as Elihu Root and DIR. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Column
bia University, was that "the center
of gravity has shifted from ques-
lions of pure politics to questions of
pure economies"
1t must have been rather difficult
for these scholars and opponents Of
American democracy" to admit
that economic forces dictate the de-
cisions Of their Wall Street gov
eminent at Washington. That is
what Communists have always con-
tended. Karl Marx carefully pointed
1t out to the whole world about rs
years ago, while Lenin applied these
theories to the present period of
development of the imperialist
epoch.
There was no denying the fact,
by any Of those present at Briarcliff,
that the possibilities Of igniting the
world powder barrel are greater now
than ever before. In 1914, the strug-
lie was limited more or less to the
European slaughter house, in the
war over "coal' and "iron," altho it
was sedition, to be punished with
long terms, to mention it then.
Now the capitalist "intellectuals"
gravely discuss and sagely declared
that:
I'VE must concern ourselves more
than ever before with problems
arising out of those multifarious
trades and commences which are
the outcome of our industrial civil
ization."
Just how that situation has been
met by the great imperialist nations
is pointed out by Richard v. Oula-
han. the Washington correspondent
of the New York Times, when he
says:
Ever since the peace makers at
Paris seven years ago inserted in
the Versailles treaty an agreement
to have a disarmament conference,
the business of improving death
dealing engines of warfare has been
carried on industriously by the ma
tions whose representatives sat at
the peace table,"
The Harding disarmament comedy
at Washington, in 1921, no longer
receives serious consideration. 1t
had to do merely with limitation of
naval strength, that offered numer-
Gus loopholes to evade its decisions.
The proposed disarmament confer
ences repeatedly planned to be held
in Europe, were to consider merely
the limiting of armies. The profess
sors at Briarcliffe Lodge, however,
try to get down to the real prob
lem when they declare:
''The discussions on the subject
of disarmament have called atten-
ton to the fact that the whole CEN
ter OF gravity Of that problem has
shifted in recent years. The prob
lem of disarmament no longer rises
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19

out of armies and navies so much
as out Of the great air forces and
the resources and inventions Of
modern chemistry and industry"
The fact is that every nation is
straining itself to the utmost to
develop its battle fleets of the air.
There are no limitations and none
will be tolerated. The invention Of
new and more powerful poison gases,
and other means Of mass murder,
are hidden secrets of the laboratory,
carefully protected from the prying
search of all enemy governments.
DR.. Richard Mead Earle, Associate
Professor of History at Columbia
University, dares to whisper that
there is "a tendency in this country
by both government and private
business to develop sources OF raw
materials overseas and that an ag-
gressive policy of such American
investments was certain to meet re-
sistance."
1t is difficult to understand what
the professor means by "a ten
dency." The agents of the Standard
Oil company roam the world, hunt
ing new fields of exploitation. The
rubber barons, in competition with
those of Great Britain. do likewise.
Control of nitrates in Chile ranges
in Importance with the natural re-
sources of Mexico and other Latin
American countries. These are facts
not tendencies"
Surely the capitalist brains gath
cred at Briarcliff must offer some
method by which American imperial
ism can plumber the world without
running the danger of engaging it.
self in a fratricidal world war. But
the best that the scholars have to
offer is the claim that, "The change
from autocracy to democracy in in
ternational relations is capable Of
leading to the peace OF the world"
Their only meaning can be that they
believe the capitalist republic of the
United States is a greater safeguard
of world peace than the German
autocracy under the late kaiser.
There were those who were fooled
into believing this when Woodrow
Wilson presented the nations with
his IA points" But the number of
believers has been steadily dimin-
ishing. They are not so numerous
now.
The American capitalist republic
is the protector of that imperialism
that seeks new sources of raw ma
terial, new markets in which to dis
pose of its finished goods, new ma
lions to burden with its export cap
ital. For this it needs armies,
navies, airfeets, poison gas and all
the other weapons of modern war
fare. All the professors in all the col
leges with all their lectures and dis
cussions cannot delay the inevitable
war. It is even becoming less pos
sible for them to persuade any num-
bers of people, let alone the workers
and farmers, that such a war can be
avoided. Since it is to be war, there
fore, the only war worth fighting, so
labor is learning, is the the war Of
the masses against the imperialist
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
200 Passengers Saved From Ship.

MIAMI, Fla, May 1.-THE $50 pas
sengers taken OF tho Clyde line
steamship Seneca early yesterday
morning when leak threatened to
sink the vessel, were nearly all on
their way north today by train. Not
life was lost in the transfer OF the
passengers which took place two
miles off Miami after the ship
grounded
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
Women Voters League
Hits Police Brutality
in Passaic Strike

NEWARK, N. j., May II. - The
League of Women Voters at one of its
sessions here adopted a resolution bit
terly condemning the brutality dis
played by the Passaic police against
the 10000 textile workers on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
Urge Workers to Aid
Forget Labor's Victims
Jewish Bakery Strikers

LOS ANGELES, May 1.-THE Work
ers (Communist) Party local here has
issued a statement calling on the Los
Angeles workers to get behind the
strike of the Jewish Bakery Workers
Union No. 453 here and aid them win
the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19
FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

Great Britain, pound sterling, de.
mand 4.s6b; cable 4.S65s. France
franc, 2.991A; cable 800. Belgium
franc, 2.93h; cable 2.94. Italy. Ira
S.51A; cable 1852. Sweden, krone
26.75; cable 26.7S. Norway, krone
2L65; cable 1926. Shanghai, taels
72.25.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-19

That worker next door to you
may not have anything to do to-
night. Hand him this copy of the
DAILY WORKER.
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-01-16
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT, POCoMOKE CITY MARYLAND

hoboth, Del, is visiting his gran,
mother, Mrs. Alice Hudson.
Skating has been great sport among
the young folk Of town.
Mrs. Marie Taylor spent last week
with her mother, Mrs. Len Hudson.
Mrs. John E. Hudson is visiting he1
daughter in Anglisea, N. J.
Mrs. Hilary Hancock and son John,
Of Snow Hill, spent last week with
relatives in town.
Mrs. Ralph Hoay entertained DR..
Overholt, of Virginia, and Miss Mary
Burroughs, Of Assawoman, at dinner
Wednesday Of last week.
Mr.. John Howard and family, Mr..
Walter Brown and family, and Mr..
and Mrs. Alton Davis spent last We'd
nesday with Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Cole
bourne, Of Stockton.
Mrs. Estee Jones entertained rela-
tives at dinner last Wednesday.
Mrs. Louise Adkins entertained
friends during the Holidays.
Mr.. Arthur Melvin spent Xmas
week with his mother Mrs. Julia Mel
vim.
Mr.. August Bartling and wife have
returned from three weeks stay in
Florida.
Mrs. c. McCleary and daughter,
Helen, after a few months stay in
California and Philadelphia returned
home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Collins and
children are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. S.
G. Chapman.
Mr.. Ernest Merrill, Of Norfolk
spent last week with his father, Mr., j.
II. Merrill
Mr.. Gordon Mariner spent the
weekend with his mother here.
Mrs. Willie Matthews and Miss
Cathryne Brown spent New Years
in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Martha Davis and son, Elmer,
of Delmar, visited friends here during
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hayward Thornton,
of Wilmington, spent the weekend
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. @. Hudson enter
tanned friends Sunday.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-01-16
One Fifth Of Maryland Peni
Tertiary Prisoners Murderers

At the request Of Senator Weller,
Secretary Of War has recommended
% the House Appropriations Commit
6ee that sum Of money equal to that
shtained through the sale Of the use
less buildings ct Fort McHenry be
appropriated by Congress in the res
Aoration of tie Fort. The proceeds of
MAis sale were $2s,522.S5, and that a.
nAount will make possible vast i'm
provements.
Not only the people Of Maryland,
bat all patriots Of the United States,
should share the interest which Sena-
Ger Weller has shown in this matter
end should be glad to know of the
favorable action taken by Secretary
Davis, which has been brought about
Aru the Senator's efforts. It is to be
hoped that nothing will prevent the
sarrying out Of the plan to restore
mis- historical old site to such q con-
Aition as will make It suitable for
preservation permanently a. q nation
al park and perpetual national shrine.
since it Is the birthplace Of the i'm
naortal "Star Spangled Banner" moth
ing could be more fitting.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-01-16

spent the week with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. M. Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. e. Selby enter
tanned the following at dinner Xma.
day: Mr., and Mrs. Henry White ant
daughter, Of Delmar; Mrs. Blanche
Riggin of Philadelphia; Mr.. and Mrs
Allen Selby, and Mrs. Parks, Of Parks.
ley, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Worrell, Of
Chincoteague, spent Xmas week with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T., Brown, Sr.
Mrs. Samuel Lilliston entertained
her parents and other relatives at
dinner Xmas day.
Mrs. Virgil Brown has returned
from Leesburg, where she spent the
Holidays.
Mrs. John Hill entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Davis and children, Of Rue,
Va, Saturday Of last week.
Mr.. Robert Hudson has returned to
Strayer's Business College, after
spending the Holidays with his par
ents.
Mr.. w. A. Kelley, wife and son and
Miss Nellie Kelley spent Xmas day
at Chincoteague.
Mrs. Lewis Conoway and children,
of Rehoboth Beach, Della, spent a
part of last week with Mr.. and Mrs.
Len Hudson.
Miss Alice Adams spent the Holt
days with her parents, Rev. and Mrs.
Adams. A
Miss Ada Colebou1ne, Of Milford
Hospital, spent part Of last week
with relatives here.
Quite a few of our town people have
motored to Ocean City during the
week to witness the fire ruins.
Mr.. Levi Ellis has returned to Oys-
ter, Va, after spending a few weeks
with his daughter here and with his
wife in Baltimore.
Mr.. Charles Hearthway and family,
Of Bishop, Nd, spent this week with
their daughter and other relatives.
Miss Rhoda Harrington, Of VIII
mington, spent last week with Mr..
and Mrs. B. F. Harrington.
Mr.. Harrison Jones, Of Delmar,
was ague st last week of Mr.. and
Mrs. s. M. Jones.
Mr.. Howard Crowley and family, Of
Delmar, spent last week with friends
here.
Mrs. H. II. Adams, Of Eastville
visited relatives here last week.
Mrs. Alton Davis entertained at
dinner Sunday Of last week.
Master Lewis Conoway, IT,, Of Re-