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The daily worker., 1926-01-03
St. Louis Central
Labor Union Helps
Anthracite Strike

ST. LOUIs-FP)-Responding to
an appeal from the A. F. of L., the
St. Louis Central Trades & Labor un-
ion voted s1OO to relief fund for the
striking anthracite miners. St. Louis
unions for sometime past have been
collecting clothing, for West Virginia
miners evicted from company-owned
shacks.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Opposes Memorial as
American Legion Plan

SAN FRANCISco-FP)- Daniel
o'Connell, San Francisco attorney,
disbarred because he served sen.
tence at McNeips Island for opposing
the draft, is seeking an injunction to
prevent the purchase of. a site for
erection Of a war memorial building.
o'Connell claims that this memorial
will be for the benefit OF the American
legion and not for the public.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
HOOVER THREAT
OF So WHEAT
MEANS NOTHING
Without H e M e a n s
Something Else

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. al
Herbert Hoover, secretary of COM
merce, is a careful speaker and pre-
ludes his remarks concerning re-
prisals against the British by saying
that Of course no reprisals should
be taken for Great Britain's holding
up the American automobile and other
rubber users by monopoly of rubber
and a monopoly price.
Gentle Hlnt--5ut Empty.
But Hoover said that on the same
basis as the U. S. pays England for
rubber, the English should have to
pay America SS a bushel for wheat
and rs cents a pound for cotton. A
word to the wise Britishers ought to
be sufficient. OF course the United
States has no monopoly on wheat or
cotton, that is the difficulty.
Meanwhile, now that the U. S.
is developing It's own independent
rubber supply sources, it should, ac-
cording to Hoover, use as little rub
Der as possible, and it would be a
popular inventor who could finally
discover a real substitute.
Price Going Up.
In 1925 the imports of rubber by
the United States will probably be
only 135,OOO,OO0 pounds more than in
1924, but the cost will be twice that
of 1924.
From the figures for the eleven
month period ended in November, il
is estimated that imports for the
year will amount to S75,0O0,00
pounds, valued at about S415,OO0,OOO
against imports in 1924 of 734, ,S45,21S
pounds valued at $174,321,331.
The United States is countering the
British monopoly by bill introduced
in congress to investigate the control
OF raw materials by monopolies thru
out the world. This is one large order
and has bound up in it all kinds Of
explosive materials.
While Great Britain's control of the
rubber supply is the conspicuous point
of attack, the department of com
merce is striving to formulate some
kind of understanding whereby the
American consumer will not be
charged exorbitant, prices. The mo
tive, therefore, is one of ultimate ben
eft, but the comprehensive nature OF
the investigation may prove a frank
enstein.
For the truth is no inquiry of such
wide scope as is being discussed can
be undertaken without looking close
ly into the operations of American
companies and corporations with for
eign affiliations. Altho sugar is not
being mentioned at present as one OF
the commodities involved, neverthe
less it is a good example of how Am
erican capital controlled in New York
city actually manages the sugar sup
ply in Cuba.
Americans are heavily interested
nowadays in corporations all over the
world. In fact, American funds NAV
be found in many an enterprise which
Is being called a monopoly by the
officials of the American government
Clearly, it makes lot of difference
to the American secretary of com
merce, whether the monopoly is steal
ing for the United States or from it
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Mellon Says France
Must Pay Principal
In Full to Treasury

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 81. -
Secretary Of Treasury Mellon announ-
ced today that the American debt
funding commission would not con-
sent to a reduction of the principal of
the French war debt to the United
States. This was in reply to Paris
dispatches that the French would seek
to have the total slashed.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Begin to Discover
Strike No Vacation

wILKES-BARRE, Pa-(FP)-Strik-
ing anthracite miners booed at men
employed to unload bituminous coal
from railroad cars in this hard coal
town. Police forced the miners away
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Auburn Woolen Mill
Workers Demand No
Strike Victimizing

AUBURN, N. Y-FP)-Auburn
Woolen Co. workers are demanding
the reinstatement of 20 active union
members discharged after a long
strike against 10 percent wage cut.
The company is controlled by the
Metcalf interests OF Providence.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Ford Planes Wrecked.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 31-Three
of the four Ford all-metal planes were
wrecked, shortly after they took off
from Blackwood field, 20 miles from
the city, according to reports received
here. None of the pilots was seriously
injured, reports here said.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Quarantine Village.

BROADWELL, ILL.,, Dec. 31.-Broad-
well is under strict quarantine with
IL cases of smallpox, Public meetings
Of all kinds have been banned and all
precautionary measures taken.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Join Hands with Klan.

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 31.--on the
eve of his retirement from public Of
fee, Mayor Lew Shank, who, thruout
his administration, fought the ku klux
khan, Joined hands today with the
hooded order in an effort to overthrow
the republican organization In Marion
county.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03
Here's One
Union That Hasn't
Stopped Organizing!

ST. LoUIS-(FP)-The Order of
Railroad Telegraphers enrolled 622
new members during November 1925.
The daily worker., 1926-01-03

TO-DAY, the gathering of the American Association OF
Teachers of journalism, In New York City, gives testI
mony that the American capitalist class with it's
gathering of collegiate henchmen is pretty much satisfied
with its kept press Big business has fundamental fault
to find with its subsidized newspapers
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09

that future days may perhaps again
open up the great white theatre world
to eminent Negro performers. On the
New York stage merit more than any
thing else counts; but it has neverthe-
less been difficult to convince the
Broadway critics that the race has
several more Bert Williams" in the
bud. Hudgins, Hunter and one or two
other corners" will soon make bids
for the honors and the opportunities
of our greatest performer, now de-
ceased. And now that the ice has been
broken, all we ask is fifty-hfty chance
for those artists, whose job is to enter
tain. Perhaps if the white folks can
drop their prejudice long enough to
be entertained by some of the stage
brothers and sisters, the idea OF
Efficiency may lead them to drop it
along some Of the other lines, where
merit and ability should remove the
color mote from the vision of preju-
dice.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
WOMAN SHOPLIFTER WHO
STOLE 20 DRESSES AND
SUITS IN ONE DAY SEN
FENCED
preston News Service)

Columbus, O., Jan. Edith Ridley
Of Detroit, Mich, shoplifter, was SEN
fenced to an indefinite term in the state
reformatory at Marysville, by Judge
Robert p Duncan in the Franklin
County Criminal Court, Wednesday
afternoon.
The woman was arrested at Gay and
High Streets, and an inspection OF
her suitcase showed that she had stolen
20 dresses and suits valued at more
than $500, in one day. Of this prop
erty, a jacket suit and dress valued al
500 had been stolen from the Fashion
three dresses and a suit valued at $195
had been stolen from the Dunn, Taft
Co., four dresses valued at $143.5C
from the F. & r. Lazarus Co., dress
and suit valued at $114.50 from the
Frederick Co., and five dresses valued
at $2085 so from the Bradford Husch
Co..
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Colour Bar" Hits Africa

The Colour Bar" walked right in to
the South African mines, turned
around and waltzed right out when the
Parliament of the Union of South At
RIGA rejected it by vote of IL to 49,
This particular color bar was a per-
nicious bill fostered by the Nationalist
and Labour Parties, and growing out
of the fact that mine manager had
been guilty. Of employing black native
to control an electric locomotive. The
Bill sought to create forever color
differential treatment prejudicial to the
black laborers in the South African
mines. In fact, the bill sought to pre-
serve for Europeans certain specific
skilled and semi-skilled occupations to
which African native laborers were as
piring. AS matter of fact, several
strikes have taken place during the
past year because of work antipathies
which the whites Of the South African
mines have steadfastly held against
their black brother laborers. Yet, on
this side of the sea, we hear the call
Workers of the World, UniteI"
At any rate the Colour Bar" bill
was rejected on a II to Is basis, and
black natives can continue to aspire
to any place, skilled or highly tech
nical, which is available and for which
they are amply prepared. Further
more, the Colour Bar" bill, as i'll a
wind as it was, performed the usual
amount OF good. II stirred the Trans
vaal African Congress to pass resolu-
tons Viewing with alarm the spread
of segregation-a segregation resem-
bling the slavery Of old" This stirring
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
ROLAND HAYES HOMECOM-
ING WAS TRIUMPHAL
EVENT

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 5.-Roland Hayes
Homecoming concert here Deem
Der 1S, his first appearance in his ma
tive state--was one Of the greatest
triumphs of his remarkable career.
The vast auditorium where the annual
grand opera season is staged was
crowded with an audience of FIVE thou
sand, the two races being represented
in nearly equal numbers.
The singer gave remarkable pro-
gram, leading off with number of the
great classics and closing with group
Of Negro spirituals. He won his au-
dience completely with the first num-
Der and held it with increasing power
to the very end. AT the conclusion he
was thronged by hundreds eager to
say a word of appreciation. The uni
versal verdict was that the event was
a triumph of the highest order. The
public and the musical critics alike
were most enthusiastic in praise of
both the singers voice and the per-
lection of his ar. The accompaniment
by William Lawrence also received the
highest praise.
Many of Atlanta's most prominent
music lovers were sponsors of the con-
cert, including the head Of the biggest
bank, the editors of two of the great
daily papers, well-known millionaire,
and many others-both men and wom-
en-. The colored section of the audi
ence, filing half the vast arena, was
equally representative. Many promi-
nent colored people occupied boxes,
among them being DR.. and Mrs. NJ. S.
Davago, DR.. and Mrs. ]. H. Lewis,
Mr.. and Mrs. B. J. Davis, DR.. and
Mrs. A. L. Butler, Mr.. and Mrs. Hol-
sey of Tuskegee, Mrs. Rayheld Of Bir-
mingham and Champlain, A. M.
Thomas Of Columbus.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
ALDERMAN ANDERSON AD-
DRESSES CLUB

Hon. Louis B. Anderson, alderman
of the Second Ward and an advocate
of the great principal of race solidarity,
delivered an enthusiastic address be-
fore the officers and members of the
Fl. Dearborn 1926 Marching Club in
their beautiful club rooms, 1920 Grand
blvd, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 3rd. Mr..
Anderson reviewed, with pleasure, the
history of the race in the city for the
past twenty years. He compared city
after city with Chicago and found no
city to measure up in progressiveness
with Chicago. He sees brighter fu-
ture if cooperation, unity and leader
ship among the race can be Of mu-
tual continuance. Others who made
short remarks were Hon. Edward H.
Wright, ]. c. Martin, E. R.; Atty. J.
P. Hardin, P. A. Glanton, Mrs. Ella
G. Berry, vice grand daughter ruler;
DR.. w. H. Davis, S. ]. Fountain, pres
ident Of the 1926 Marching Club /;
James M. Brooks, past president of
the 1925 Marching Club acted as mas
ter of ceremonies.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
WARNING BRITISH GIRLS ON
DANGER OF MARRIAGE INTO
ORIENTAL RACES AND ARR.
CAN
preston News Service)

The difficulties which confront p;rI
who may happen to contract marriage
with a Chinaman, Hindu, Moslem -
African Negro are illuminatingly set
forth in memorandum issued By the
British colonial Office in view of re-.
cent marriages of English girls into
the races indicated, states the Van.
couver Province.
Marriage Of a British girl to !
Chinaman results in the loss of her
British nationality thereby, and the
fact that her marriage is valid in Brit
ish law would not avail to protect her
in China from a treatment which does
not conform with the rules applicable
in Christian countries in regard to mar
riage. In the case of such a marriage
there can be no actual guaranty that
if the husband returns to China he
may not, in accordance with the Gus
toms existing in that country, take 70
himself other wives in addition to the
first, or even that he may not have
already entered into marriage relation
ships in China
The marriage of woman Of British
nationality (profesisng the Christian
faith) with Hindu, even in a case
when it is valid in all respects in this
country, is not necessarily SO when the
husband returns to India. In India he
is subject to what is known as his
personal" law, and this law would
probably not recognize the marriage
at all.
In the case of Mohammedan, al
though marriages between Christian
women and Moslems are recognized as
valid by Mohammedans law, the Eng
fish law only were gone through might
place the parties in a position of some
difficulty in a Mohemmedan country.
Under the Mohammedan law, the hus-
band may, if he desires, take other
wives in addition to the first, without
consulting his first wife, whether
Christian or otherwise.
Where a marriage relationship is
constituted which the Mohammedan
law will recognize, a Mohammedan
husband may, under Mohammedan
law, divorce his wife at will without
any legal formality beyond that of re-
pudiating her, and Of discharging the
mahr, or marriage settlement, agreed
upon; while should he return to hi
own country, leaving his Christiar
wife here, the fact of their being thu
locally separated might be equivalen
to divorce under Mohammedan law.
African Negroes are in many case
in their own countries subject, in Ger
tain particulars, to native law and Gus
toms which may permit of polygamy.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09

thur Froe, Recorder of Deeds, came
stalking along, holding high the in
scription: ITS better to be born rich
than lucky" Charlie Hall came
swinging along with a cane in one
hand and a monocle in the other
Casting furtive look at the official
stand, Charlie gruffly said: Il want
what | want when | want it." The
quiet Claude Barnett of the Associated
Negro Press came into view, with the
slogan: TRY it before you buy it. "
And just as we were about to light a
fresh camel, the genial "Mep Chisum
reached the reviewing stand, with the
simple emblem "PP.P" which we
later found meant Preserve the Pull
man Porters.
We were just getting ready to give
the female contingent the once over,
when the telephone bell rang angrily,
arousing us from our dreamy slumber
in the City of Scipio Africanus A
loud voice rang over the wire: "Say,
Mr.. Cameraman, l suppose you know
that three bills affecting our people are
pending in Congress this session. l
want to know if you fellows are going
to sleep like you did last year, while
Legislative committees wonder why in
the deuce we don't get some represen-
tation out to the hearings, in order to
tell Congress just exactly how we feel
concerning all these matters. We've
got to put some pep into the boys;
then maybe we can get somewhere, -
he concluded snappingly.
"Righto," we thought, as we again
realized we were living in world of
realities.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Art Steps Forward

Significant in the New Year stride
of the races musical and stage art are
the booking by the South's premiere
agent, Mrs. Wilson Greene (white) of
our own Roland Hayes for appearance
in the Lyric Theatre of Baltimore
and the advent Of laughing Johnny
Hudgins at the Alabama Club, Forty
fourth Street Theatre, New York, N.
Y. The fact that Mrs. Greene is un-
afraid, as venture in finance and art,
to book the golden-voiced black tenor
in the largest city of the South is a
fine tribute to the agent and the artist.
Hayes enters Baltimore for the first
time, under the same tutelage and
upon the same stage that shelter Hoff-
man, Kreisler, Samaroff and the other
great musical illuminaries of the
world. 1t is forward step in Hayes
life in America, and laudable act on
the part of the South's greatest book
ing agency.
Hudgins' advent at the exclusive
Alabama Club, in a city, which as a
rule. emphases but slightly the color
line. is no less notable than that Of
Hayes. 1t brings back not only mem
cries Of Bert Williams, but it indicate:
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
New Years Dreams

Just before the old year departed,
we dozed off into weird dream. We
dreamed we were on a broad thor
oughfare in Africa, named Garvey
Boulevard, as lively as Lenox Avenue,
New York, Beale Avenue, Memphis,
and Indiana Avenue, Chicago, all in
one. A huge parade was in progress,
for it was Dedication Day for the City
of Scipio Africanus In giant review
ing stand sat Mayor Marcus Garvey
and his official guests OF honor, while
in the far distance, led by a resonant
band, the cavalcade Of celebrants with
lofty banners, had begun the slow
march, as the band played "Save Your
Sorrow for Tomorrow" AS the line
of march approached, we could see the
faces of the marchers. There was Bill
Matthews, with banner OF the u. n.
|. A., inscription, under which ap-
peared the simple sentence: "You made
me what I am today" Next there
came, hand in hand, Emmett Scott and
Perry Howard, who were %hging that
lovable old song: Comrades, Com
rades, Ever Since We Were Boys"
Emmett's banner bore the single line:
"Helveti ct Romani multis proclis
dimmicant;" while Perry's banner
said: "Silver threads among the gold."
John D. Gainey hove into sight. He
was faultlessly dressed, his natty
gloved hand holding aloft an inscrip-
ton saying: Never do today that
which you can put off until tomorrow. +"
The Mayor shifted uneasily in his chair
as Nahum Daniel Brascher walked
nobly by the stand. with "Pay-as-
you-enter" banner hanging lightly
upon his shoulder. Tom Smith OF
Baltimore was also in line He was
softly singing to himself: SIN lone
some, that's all" A tall figure, which
we at once recognized as that Of Ar
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
MAN BURIED IN COTTONSEED
DIES
preston News Service)

Little Rock, Ark, Jan. Eight
hours after he had been buried alive
beneath many tons of cotton-seed
stored in a large concrete tank at the
Buckeye Cotton Oil Company's plant,
the body Of Ed Hampton, aged As, was
recovered at o'clock last Wednesday
night by workmen who had labored
throughout the day in vain attempt
to rescue Hampton. Efforts at resus-
itation failed. Physicians said that
Hampton had been suffocated within
FIVE minutes after he was trapped be-
meath the sliding seed.
Hampton with several other labor
ers, was working at the bottom of a
large concrete structure in which ap-
proximately 20 carloads of cottonseed
was stored. Through the base of the
tank extends steel funnel housing a
conveyor belt which removes the seed
to the mill. Above the tunnel the store
Of seed rises sharply to the walls of
the tank, and it was to take down ad-
ditional seed to the conveyer that
Hampton crawled out through a door
of the tunnel and into the tank His
action caused slide from both sides
of the structure, the seed enveloping
him and causing his death almost i'm
mediately. The two other men who
remained in the tunnel were unframed.
All the available men who could be
spared were put at work removing
seed from the tank in an effort to save
Hampton's life. More than 100 tons
were taken out, but fresh slides de-
layed progress.
Hampton had been employed at the
mill at various times during the past
several years. He is survived by his
mother and two children.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Blood viii Tell7 Maybe?

And now, after all the sublime years,
during which scientists have agreed
that there was nothing in the blood
corpuscles of man by which black skin
tints could be differentiated from white,
red, brown or yellow, comes North
Carolina scientist, DIR. L. H. Snyder,
announcing that inheritance and race
characteristics can be told from chem
ical reactions of the blood in certain
combinations; and that, thus, the
sheep" can be eventually separated
from the goats" in the grand Amer
lean chase, after so-called racial purity.
1t is inferred, from the scientists con-
illusions, that much aid will thus be
available to the courts and other
analysts who may be called into duty
under such acts as the Virginia In
tegrity Law or amid such cases as
that Of the Rhinelanders or the Vir-
ginia Indian Case.
The sincere professor of the science
of blood almost tears down his little
white house when he says: "The ex-
periments are not successful where
there has been admixture of races"
Furthermore, he admits that the truth
of the experiments is always dependent
too, upon the purity of the chemical
solution used to cause the desired
chemical phenomena. With two such
gIaring weaknesses in an experiment
alton, it is difficult to see how DR.. Sny-
der's discovery is going to be Of much
practical benefit to science. Thus,
where alleged Nordicism had made
some blood tributaries or become a
blood tributary itself, under admix-
lures, it is difficult to see how accuracy
could obtain in the test. Of course,
so far as our group is concerned, I'M
fortunately it's upward trend from fast
black runs into about ffty-seven
shades up to pure white, including the
hundreds of thousands who are now
classified as pure Nordics. Perhaps
it is good thing that Prof. Snyder's
test is not hundred per center; for
CONSERVATION might grasp the ranks
of some of Americas Hottest Nordic
families And what good would it do
thus to expose, by mere chemicals,
facts which have been believed from
time as to which the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary. No, stree;
what science needs to do is to bring
back the old-fashioned sweet potato;
or to eliminate the germs which con-
tinue to cause sickness and death. This
we think, would benefit man far more
than it will to imagine the blood con
tent Of his great, great grand parents.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
INTERRACIAL MEETING BEARS
FRUIT

Louisville, KY, Jan. 4.-The discus
sions at the state interracial meeting,
held here few days ago, are already
bearing fruit in opening to colored
physicians the opportunity for study
offered by hospital clinics. DR.. James
Bruce, eminent child specialist of this
city, has issued cordial invitation to
the colored physicians to attend his
clinic at the Children's Hospital every
Monday. The announcement was
made through Mrs. Helm Bruce, a
member of the state and local inter
racial committees and one of the city's
most prominent women
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
COLORFUL NEWS MOVIES

sentiment means that irresistible
African forces, in statesmanlike way,
are preparing to combat segregation in
their own homeland And when the
smoke of protest has cleared away, we
doubt not that the Colour Bar" shall
have shrunken down to minute COM
posite In fact, it may become con-
verted into common sense, if the
Transvaal Congress finishes as strong
as it has begun.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1926-01-09
Of the and criminal lawyers
States has already entered the the Re
publican candidate for States Attorney of Cook County
in 1928.

Mr.. O'Donnell declares to the whole
known world that his platform en-
braces four planks He promises, if
elected, to nolle all misdemeanor courts
in pending felony indictments in order
to do away with the abuse of prose
cutting on the lesser charge while al
lowing criminals to escape on the
major charge.