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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21
WATER FALLING.

At noon the water was still falling
at the Blanco road crossing, and re-
ports from the Olmos dam site, where
some damage had been done to rail
road trestle. said that the water was
falling there.
San Antonio's downtown district
and residential districts which were in
the path Of the 1921 flood made prep
aratiens during the morning 10 protect
themselves. Business houses moved
their stocks from Easements to the
first and second floors and sandbags
we're ordered TO protect number OF
buildings.
The telephone company and newspa'
per offices were swamped with calls
from anxious residents inquiring about
the flood.
RELIEF READY.
Preparations also were made BY the
city and military authorities 10 bring
quick relief if a flood occurred. Fire
men and police were bel din readiness
10 send on a moments notice and
Captain S. y. KarriCk Of the Second
Engineers, Fort Sam Houston, had a
company. equipped with boats. trucks
and sandbags ready 70 move post
haste.
Residents in the low-lying districts
along the river also had their house
hold effects ready 10 move II condl-
tons became serious.
The rain began falling shortly after
midnight. following the more than
three-inch rain Of Tuesday. By noon
Wednesday the precipitation had
reached 5.12 inches.
The rain also reached cloudburst
proportions north and west Of San
Antonio. Medina lake reported q 10
inch rain with a seven-foot rise in
the lake. San Marcos reported q
heavy downpour which brought the
San Marcos river 70 flood stage. Traf.
fic between San Antonio and Austin
was interrupted. More than 400 feet
Of the Katy track was washed out
near Frstt. tieing mp rail traffic be-
tween the two towns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
TWENTY POLISH
WORKERS GIVEN
PRISON TERMS
Held in Jail ~ Years
Before Trial

WARSAW, Poland.-(By mail. y
Following the May 1 demonstration of
1924 in the city of LODI, Poland,
twenty comrades and sympathizers
were arrested and accused of seeking
to overthrow the government. They
were held in Jail for eighteen months
until their trial took place October
26, 1925. 1t lasted but week and the
sentence was pronounced Nov. 2.
A correspondent for "Glos Polski," a
daily published in LODI, describes the
last day of the trial in these words:
Before the court house are police,
guards and groups of people, anxious
to get in. 1t is difficult to enter At
the door stand two policemen, who
let in only relatives, judges, lawyers
and press representatives. On the
stairs all the way to the hall on the
third floor there are Sc police guards!
The ages of the accused ranged
from 16 to % at the time of their ar
rest. One admitted being a member
Of the party, some admitted having
Communist theology, the rest denied
any connection with the party or the
Communist youth.
Comrade Abe Tenenbaum in his
speech to the jury declared:
81 confessed to being member of
the Communist Party right after my
arrest and really can not understand
why have been jailed for such a
long time awaiting my trial"
Comrade Tenebaum was sentenced
to 8 years hard labor with loss of civil
rights.
The other sentences are: Wincenty
Dmowski years; Leonard Maciejew-
ski g.; Bonifacy Swierczewski 8; Ed
mund Wawrzynski Q; Stanislaw
Rachlewski Stanislaw Mroczkowski,
Antoni Bielinski, Wladyslaw Szyshow-
ski, Edward Rosiak, Jozef Rosiak,
MARGIN Wesoly, Josek Weinrauch and
Wladyslaw Starczewski to a IL years
hard labor, every one with loss of civil
rights.
Boleslaw Wozniak, Rubin Przedbor-
ski and Jankiel Appel were freed be-
cause of lack of evidence.
Adam Kaufman and Abram Kagan
were given 8 years in prison, and
Mona Awerbuch one year and 5
months These three will have their
term of Imprisonment from the list
of June 1924 to the time of the trial
substracted.
The accused took the sentence
calmly. Tenenbaum tenderly said
goodbye to the rest of the comrades
and was driven away under an escort.
Tho others were later taken in a police
wagon. Mona Awerbuch, accompanied
by policeman walked to the Jail to
be soon released.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
DISTRICT TWO
SUFFERS BUT
STAND LOYAL
Needs Clothing for Class
Fighters
BY ART SHIELDS,
Federated Press.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 31-Sheyering in
the coal valleys of central Pennsyl-
-yania are thousands of striking min
ers and their families who need all
the spare clothing that city workers
can send them, says John Brophy,
president, District No. 2, United Mine
Workers of America, visiting New
York.
Unionists who would start the New
Year with a deed that will stiffen the
workers in sorely pressed region
may parcel post to the United Mine
Workers Offices at Clearfield, Pa, all
their spare trousers, coats, shoes,
stockings and women's and children's
clothing. Don't let the rag man get
a stitch till the last coal digger on
strike in the icy Alleghanies has enuf
clothing on his back and on the backs
of his wife and kids.
jacksonville Pact Buried.
All central Pennsylvania is spotted
with coal camps where mining COM
panies have forgotten their signatures
to the Jacksonville agreement and
are out to restore the 1917 scale with
its enormous reductions and smash
the union if possible. The miners are
putting up gallant fight but outside
assistance is vital. The district union
is bringing the strikers and other un-
employed $4,000 a week from the
working miners, but it is obvious that
this does not go far enough. Families
can not live on SO a week each and
buy the clothing they need to keep
from freezing.
Brophy added picturesque details
to the story of the prayer meeting
strike of the miners at Sycamore
against the Buffalo & Susquehanna
Coal Co. Here the miners meet on a
high piece of land owned by the union
and with their educational director,
Paul w. Fuller, they pray and sing.
Threat in Hymn.
One of the superintendent has
been protesting that he sees a threat
in the singing of Nearer My God to
Thee, but this is only his guilty con-
science. Another superintendent.
Billy Diamond, who in days gone by
was an official in the United Mine
Workers, complains bitterly that they
always sing Rally Round the Flag
when he passes. 1t annoys him great
ly to hear the stave Down With the
Traitor and Up with the Flag"
1.-The miners are asserting their right
to hold services on their own proper
ty and say they will carry on till the
Buffalo & Susquehanna gives up its
1917 scale plans. But a pile of shoes
and sweaters and stockings and coats
will help them carry on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
LAST HAYMARKET
P ROSE CUTOR is
D lad IN CHICAGO

Francis w. Walker. Chicago attor-
ney, and the last of that ignoble crew
Of murderers that aided in railroading
to the gallows the so-called Chicago
anarchists in 1887, is dead at his
home in this city. For years ne has
been the sole survivor Of the array
Of prosecutors retained by Marshall
Field and the Mccormick Harvester
concern to railroad the innocent vic
Tins of the Haymarket frame-up to
the gallows, because of their activity
in the eight-hour movement of those
days.
OF late Walker had been prominent
as the defender of labor grafters and
gangsters of the big Tim" Murphy,
Fred Nader and Con Shea type. IN
politics he was connected with the
crooked democratic political machine
Of Chicago and was member of most
of the viciously reactionary clubs Of
the city.
He is only remembered because Of
the vile role he played in sending
innocent men to penitentiary and the
gallows. The character Of the pro-
.ceedings was best described by Gov
ernor John P. Altgeld, who pardoned
those who were sent to the peniten-
tiary and characterized the assassina-
ton of those that were hanged as
judicial murder"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

approved by S. D. Warmer, president
of the company and chairman of the
anthracite operators conference.
The anthracite describes the sue
cess of a semi-monthly foreman con.
ference held by one anthracite COM
pany for discussion of operation, costs,
safety, organization and the handling
of men. 1t holds that this means Gin
a new and very real sense taking these
key men into the management" Gil
bertson continues:
1T is thru such constructive means
that the industry may hope to solve
both revenue and cost problems with
out recourse to what, in some indus
tries, is the easy but, in the long run,
unsatisfactory route of wage reduc-
tions-provided, organized labor can
be persuaded to use it's Imagination
and become party to that program
of joint effort which the committee Of
economists and engineers suggested
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

government also had it's hand in the
game. A furious campaign for his
expulsion from the Journalists So
ciety had been carried on by the
press Of the siguranti for many weeks.
Bratianu & Co. could not bear Costa
Foru defending the Tatarbounar reb-
els and that thru his connections
abroad he helped to arouse sympathy
among the honest intellectuals of the
West for the victims of the boyars.
The oppressed toilers of the towns
and villages expect that all free mind
ed journalists, literary men and law.
yers,-in word all honest intelIee-
tuals and their organizations, will
protest against this persecution of
this honest fighter Costa Foru.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

conferences in Bucharest discussing
the attitude to be taken towards Cos
ia Foru. The first group condemned
Costa Foru, the second expelled him
from the organization. The fact that
these Roumanian literary men" are
on friendly terms with the political
bosses and that they have accepted
Romules Voinescu, the director gem
eral of the Roumanian secret service,
as member Of, their organization,
shows them in their true character
This torturer of the Roumanian work
ers, this counterfeiter and provocateur
of high standing, appeared at the head
Of the Roumanian intellectuals against
the unselfish courageous defender Of
the oppressed masses of Boyar Rou-
mania. Is there any need of further
proof that there is something rotten
among the Roumanian intellectuals
Bourgeois ldealist.
| have known Costa Foru for about
IL years. He is man of thoroly
bourgeois turn Of mind, an idealist
who wanted to remain faithful to the
old ideals of the once oppressed bour-
geoisie. He is a descendant of an
old boyar family, who renounced all
privileges that his status afforded
him, in order that he might remain
true to himself. Unselfsh nd coura.
geous, he acted as the attorney for
the defence in almost all Of the polit-
ical trials. Declaring himself from
the very beginning an opponent of
Communism, he nevertheless thought
II his duty to offer his services as
defender OF the Communists. This
fact led to his gaining sympathy even
outside of the oppressed working
class.
Fascist Attack Costa Foru.
Prior to his trip TO SEVERN, where
he was to appear in a trial against
the fascists, he asked me whether he
ought not to take some arms with
him, seeing that the fascists had
threatened him. In spite OF the
threats, he decided to go without
even a revolver, In order to avoid
any possible shedding of blood. It
seems that the fascist students knew
OF HIS peaceful intentions and took
courage" In attacking the old man. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Congressman Praises
Dictator Mussolini
as Union Destroyer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-Congress-
man Bloom, representing the theater
district of New York City, claims the
title of direct spokesman in the house
for the pro-Mussolini forces in Ameri-
ca. He punctuated the debate on the
Italian debt settlement by frequent
protests against any criticism of the
dictator, and by claims that he,
Bloom, was personally familiar with
all the story of fascism, and knew
it to be pure, noble, humane and law
abiding in the finest sense.
When Blooms turn to make a
speech arrived, he explained that
Mussolini had favored Blooms daugh.
ter with letters of introduction to
D'Annunzio during the latter's occu-
patton of Fiume in 1919, when Miss
Bloom wanted to get some magazine
articles on the Fiume situation.
The daughter wrote an article com
pairing the fascist seizure of power in
1922 to what might have happened in
America had the American legion, I'M
der fiery leadership, decided to es-
tablish strong and sane and strict
administration, especially if they
saw the country facing rank socialism
and financial ruin"
Bloom boosted of Mussolini's crush
ing out the labor movement Of Italy,
and unblushingly asserted:
you do not find any strikes" he
added. ITALY has not had a strike
in % months. Everybody over there
is working, and it is all due to Musso-
lini."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Australian Election
Show Loss of Labor
81, Seats to Reaction

neutrality-suspicious. to gen
eral expectations, Labor suffered a
loss of seats in the Australian federal
elections held Nov. IA. Instead of de-
feating the onservative-C Country Par
ty coalition, Labor lost 6 seats in the
house Of representatives and 2 in the
senate.
Prior to the elections, the state of
parties was House of representa-.
tives: Conservatives 81, Country
Party lin coalition with the Conser.
yatives) IA, Labor 30; senate: Con-
seryatives "a, Labor IL. On the eve
OF the elections, a Labor member
named Mcdonald died suddenly. re-.
ducing the Labor strength in the
house to 2S. The state of the parties
after the election is: House of repres.
entatiyes: Conservatives 80. Country
Party ID, Labor 90; senate: Conserve.
tives 26, Labor 10. Compulsory voting
was in operation for the first time and
record votes were registered. In some
celebrates 95 per cent of the electors
voted.
The elections were held when the
country was disturbed by Industrial
troubles, particularly the British sea.
mems strike and the railway strike in
Queensland. The Conservatives used
these issues against the Labor party
Communism was used as an add.
tional weapon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Pabst Brewing Firm
Has Union Shop Now

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 31--Pabst is
union again, the Brewery Workers
union declares on signing of a wage
and working agreement with the
Pabst corporation. Pabst follows
Schttz in renewing union relations
which had been broken off in 1922.
Nearbeer, malt products and artesian
water are the principal Pabst prod.
ucts. All Milwaukee breweries are in
the union fold again except Gettel.
man. The Milwaukee, aukesha
Brewing company OF Waukesha is
also unfair. These two companies
sell nearbeer and malt syrup. the
Waukesha firm handling spring water
as well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
HULL'S AGENTS
FORGE NAMES
TO PETITIONS
Fraud Practiced to Get
on Ballot

Ward heelers working In the inter
est Of Morton D. Hull, congressman
from the second district of Illinois,
are so anxious to get the name of
their candidate on the ballot In the
primary elections that they resort to
plain forgery in order to falsify sig
natures.
They made one mistake, however,
and that was to forge the name of
a resident Of Chicago who is not
a supporter of capitalist parties and
Mr.. Hull, from his office in Washing
ton, sent a letter congratulating the
man whose name had been forged.
Here is the letter, the original copy
of which is in possession Of The
DAILY WORKER:
Geo. MeyIer,
1869 OakenwaId Ave-,
Chicago, III.
Dear Sir:
In looking over the petition pre-
pared by my friends for placing my
name on the primary ballot, as can
didate for denomination as a repre-
sentative in congress, ! find your
name attached. Permit me to express
my qualification Of this evidence of
your continued confidence. | shall try
to further merit It.
With best wishes for the coming
year, ! am
Yours very truly,
MORTON o. HULL.
The recipient of the letter informs
The DAILY WORKER that he never
signed the petition nor was he ever
asked to sign such thing. His opin-
ion is that the political crooks simply
obtained the names of residents and
sign them without consulting those
whose names they forge. This is only
one of the many corrupt practices rife
in the old parties of capitalism, who
never scruple at anything in order
to put over their candidates.
Has No Respect for Hull.
Furthermore, the recipient of the
letter emphasizes the fact that he
never had any confidence in or re-
spect for Hull or any of his clique
of plain political swindlers and that
he has less respect for him now than
he ever had before and as far as the
coming year is concerned, being a
worker, he expects nothing from Hull
or any other shyster elevated to the
halls of congress by capitalist ward
heelers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
SOVIET RUSSIA
OPENS SCHOOLS
FOR The Firms
New Organization to Do
Special Work
BY WILLIAM E. KRusE

MOSCOW-(By Educational
work among the 100000 Firms in So
Wet Russia was brought to a still
greater height by the organization re-
Gently of the Finnish Educational In
stitute in Leningrad which is to have
charge of all Finnish educational act
ivity in the Leningrad gubernia. The
Finnish population is concentrated
largely in the Leningrad and Tver
gubernias and in the Karelian repub-
lie.
During the current year 243 ele-
mentary schools, IL intermediate and
high schools for peasant children
were opened. They will accommodate
11,41O children. The instruction will
be in Finnish.
New Schools Opened.
A Finnish agricultural school has
been opened in Leningrad province,
and Finnish department has been
opened at the Labor College of the
State University. Libraries and adult
schools have been opened in various
villages for the benefit of the Finnish
populace.
In order to assure adequate stats Of
teachers for the schools OF the nation
al minorities the study of the native
language is compulsory in all of the
pedagogical institutions of these min
critics. In some of the higher schools
there have been organized depart
ments for the study of Finnish, Ger
man, Polish, Ukrainian, Esthonian,
etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Tallors Aid Miners.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-Thousands
Of dollars are expected to pour in for
relief Of anthracite mine strikers in
response to the Amalgamated Cloth.
ing Workers appeal to its members
for an hours pay. The Amalgamated
gave 100000, the largest single con.
tribution, to the steel strikers in 1919.
The call to the 100000 mems clothing
workers to help the miners is sure
TO receive a quick and generous reply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
THE JAIL RUSS PLAY,
WILL Be PRESENTED
AT WORKERS HOUSE

"The Jail" a drama in 4 acts will
be presented in the Russian lang
uage Sunday, Feb. 7, at the Work
ers' House, 1902 w. Division ST.,
under the leadership Of the we'll
known Russian actor Anatoly Poko-
tilov.
Beginning at $50 p. m. Admis-
sion so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
Current Events
lContinued from page l.l

(Contlnued from page ID
the 100000 workers in capitalist jails
employed a Hearst journalist to collect
the garbage scooped up in Soviet
Russia about the paid agents of the
international bankers. They dumped
this offal on the American workers
under the American camoufage of a
drive for class war prisoners.
THE American workers however, are
4 too accustomed to the harsh
realities of life to be fooled by the
clever devices of Baldwin and his
pals. The class conscious worker may
not believe in the infallibility of the
personnel of the Russian government.
This is a papal prerogative and the
workers know that all human beings
are very falible and liable to err.
But they know that in Russia the
workers and peasants rule and that
covers multitude of sins. The Brit
ish trade union movement sent dele
cation to see what was going on in
Russia. The delegation was not COM
posed of Communists. Neither was it
composed of Greenwich village anar-
chists masquerading as radicals.
WHAT the British trade union dele
w cation saw can be read in a book
published by the Daily Worker Pub
fishing Company. They did not find
a utopia. They found workers and
peasants government struggling to
reconstruct the country's economy on
a socialist basis. There were slips
here and there That was inevitable.
The trade unionists, not having spent
their lives sucking some bourgeois
financial pap, expected accidents and
miscarriages. But incidental accom-
panients we're ignored in face of the
dominant fact, i. e.: the existence Of
workers government. The delegates
investigated the reports of red ter
ror" in Georgia and in other sections
of the U. S. S. R. and they reported
them ill-founded. They reported how
ever that the capitalist governments
had financed many civil wars against
the workers government.
7 WOULD rather take the word Of
A. A. Purcell, a worker and re-
sponsible leader of millions of British
trade unionists than the collection of
connections gathered by Isaac Don
Levine, William Randolph Hearsts
hireling. We know that Purcells
committee investigated conditions in
Russia. We don't know how Levine
got his fables. OF this we are con-
WINGED; that the committee headed by
Roger Baldwin, did not render any
service to the International labor
movement when it financed a propa-
ganda designed to hurt the workers
government of Russia in the eyes of
the world. For the moment this kind
of treachery may flourish. But there
is an old saying that every dog has
his day" and undercover sabotage
against Russia under whatever guise
will some day prove boomerang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
ROUMANLAN FASCIST PROSECUTE
COMMUNIST DEFENDER, COSTA FORU
BY Do8RoGEANU GHEREA.
Member of the Central Executive Committee of the


against Attorney chairman
League of Rights of Man. is definite
robust his
minority Grosswarden horribly
At the time this mishanng
at the hands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02
MINE OPERATORS WANT "B. & %.
PLAN' TO SPEED UP COALDIGGERS
By LELAND oLDs, Fedsrated Press.

Something b. anthracite industry
tmecock discipline
a article Gbertson
article
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

THE power Of the working class ia
organization. Without organization OF
the masses, the proletariat--ls moth.
Ing. organized--it Is all. oreanIza.
tlon Is unanimity Of action, unanImlty
Of practical activities"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-02

Put a copy of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you go to your union meeting.
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