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beth Sommers. daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Burtis W. Sommers. to Mr.. Wal
ter Hempstone Young. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert II. Young, took place
Saturday evening. The ceremony was
performed at $50 o'clock in All Saints
Episcopal Church. Chevy Chase, Nd,
the Rev. Henry Teller Cooke officiat
ing. The church was decorated with
pink roses. palms and ferns. Miss
Phyllis Price sang AT Dawning' and
Because"
The bride, who was given In mar
rage by her father. wore gown OF
soft white taffeta and net made bout
FAINT and trimmed with taffeta roses.
Her tulle veil was arranged with a
wreath Of orange blossoms and she
carried a shower bouquet OF bride
roses and lilies Of the valley.
Miss Elizabeth Scharf, who was
maid of honor, wore a gown of jade
green chiffon and around her head
wore wreath Of silver. She carried
Columbia roses and blue delphlnlum'
The bridesmaids were Miss HELEN
Hanford and Miss Dorothy Young
cousin Of the bridegroom, who were
gowned In pink chiffon and also wore
wreaths of silver in their hair: Tnelr
CONTINUED on Nineteenth Page)
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SOCIETY
The Chief Executive and Mrs. Coolidge
We're Joined Last Evening by
Son, Mr.. John Coolidge

partite Claims Commission. United
States, Austria and Hungary, enter
tanned the agent of Austria, DIR. Lud-
wig kleinwachter, and the agent of
Hungary, Dr. A. de Boer, at luncheon
yesterday at the Mayf1ower. Among
the guests were the Minister Of Hun
gary, Count Czechenyl; DIR. Ernest
ProssinagG, assistant to the Austrian
agent: Judge Edwin r. Parker, the
sole commissioner on the Tripartite
Commission; Mr.. Robert +. Odds, AS
sistant Secretary of State: Mr.. Chand-
Ter II. Anderson, commissioner on the
Mixed Claims Commission, United
States and Germany: DR.. Karl Won
Lewinski, agent of Germany before
the commission; Col. Henry w. Ander-
son, American agent before the Mex.
lean Claims Commission; Mr.. H. Fl.
Martin, Mr.. John j. Edwards, Mr.. z.
p. Bowyer and Mr.. T. j. Healy.
Capt. Thomas Kenney, u. S. A.. ar
rived in Washington yesterday and,
with Mrs. Kenney, Is staying at the
Mayflower.
Former Representative and Mrs
Ira c. Copley will arrive in New York
today aboard the Majestic from Eu-
rope. where they have been for sew
eral months.
Mrs. Edward Nelson Dingley will be
hostess at dinner Friday evening in
compliment to Miss Marguerite VOL
son Of Manila, +. /. Mrs. Dingley is
the acting president of the National
League of American Pen Women dur
ing the absence of the recently elected
president, Mrs. Ernest Thompson
Seton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bowie Chip
man and their son, Mr.. Norris r.
Chapman. and Mrs. NJ. d. Merrill have
left for New York and will sail Thurs
day for Europe. where they will re-
main until the first part of September.
Mrs. Byron Andrews, who has been
the guest of DIR. and Mrs. Ellie Scott
Carroll in their Cleveland Park home,
will go to Atlantic City tomorrow.
Mrs. Andrews will later go to Cam
bridge, Md. to remain through the
late Summer and in the Autumn will
take possession of her apartment, on
Crescent place, which is now under
construction.
Mr.. Allan c. Clark and his son-in-
law and daughters. Mr. and Mrs.
William Winchole and Miss Elizabeth
Clark, will sail July II from New
York for Scotland.
Mrs. Joseph NJ. Stoddard will close
her apartment in Riggs Court Thurs
day and. accompanied by her son, Mr..
Joseph NJ. Stoddard, and her daugh-
ter. Miss Ruth Stoddard. will motor
to her Summer home, at West Spring
field, y. Fl. On her return Mrs.
Stnddard will open her former resi-
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dence at 1912 r street. which she has
not occupied for several years.
MIR. John j. Noonan has gone to
Chicago, where he is attending the
EuCharistic Congress.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis G. Matson
have as their guests in their apart
ment at Cathedral Mansions Mrs.
Mary A. Matson of Ogden. Utah, and
MIR Marcus j. Matson of New York
City.
Mrs. Ellen Wise Crenshaw and her
brother, Mr.. Richard Parker Cren
shaw. jr.. are visiting Miss Olivia
Phelps Stokes. in the Summer home
of her parents, Canon and Mrs. Arson
Phelps Stokes, Brook Farm, near
LenoX, Mass.
Miss Ellen Peelle. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Stanton G. Peelle, Is visiting
Miss Eleanor o. Colahan, in the home
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Of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Barry
Colahan. Sd. at Chestnut Hill, Phila-
delphia. Mr.. and Mrs. Colahsn will
entertain at dinner this evening for
their daughter In compliment to Miss
Peelle, the company later going to the
Junior Cinderella dance at the Merton
Cricket Club.
Miss Glare Copeland will entertain
at bridge this evening in honor of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Graham King.
the latter. formerly Miss Elizabeth
Anne Combs.
Miss Sommers Bride Of
Mr.. Young Saturday Evening.
The marriage of Miss Helen Eliza
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-22

7HE President and Mrs. Cool
idge have with them at the
White House their son, Mr.
Il John Coolidge, who arrived
last evening from Amherst
College. En- route TO Washington Mr..
Coolidge spent a short time with his
grandmother. Mrs. Elmyra Goodhue,
at Northampton.
Mrs. Coolidge accompanied the Presi
dent to the budget meeting last night
and had with her Mrs. Herbert Hoover
and Mrs. Jardine.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr..
Mellon. who vert to attend the Am
herst College commencement eXer'
cises. will not return to Washington
until the end of the week.
Mobile de MARITIME i'm New
York to Meet Nobil de MARITIME.
The Ambassador of Italy. Mobile
Giacomo de Martina, is at the Ritz
Carlton Hotel. in New York. after
spending the week end In Syracuse.
n. Y. The Ambassador will remain
there to meet NObil de MARITIME on her
arrival from their home in Italy,
where she has been since the late
Winter.
The Ambassador of Germany. Baron
Nathan, has returned 10 Washington
after a short stay in New York and
Atlantic City.
Senator Stanield of Oregon was
host to a small company at dinner last
night on the Willard roof.
Mrs. Gerry, wife of Senator Peter
Goelet Gerry is in New York. where
she is staying at the Hotel Ambas-
sador.
The chief Of staff and Mrs. John l..
Hines will be hosts at dinner this eve
ming.
The first secretary of the Swiss le'
cation. NJ. l.. A. Girardet, sailed last
week aboard the Rossillon for three
month vacation in Europe.
The first secretary of the Greek le-
cation. Mr.. G. Diamantopoulos, has
returned from New York. where he
spent a few days at the Plaza Hotel.
The newly appointed attache of the
Swiss legation. NJ. Walter Fl. Rufe-
nacht. arrived in Washington yester-
day and has taken up his duties at
the legation.
Col. and Mrs. James r. Mitchell
were hosts to a company Of IL at
dinner last evening in the presiden-
tial dining room Of the Hotel May
flower. when their guests included Mr..
Vail Stebbins of New York, brother
of the hostess. who spent the week
end with Col. and Mrs. Mitchell.
Mr.. Robert w. Bonynge, agent of
the United States before the Tri-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
10th Anniversary of
the Jena Conference

BERLIN, Germany. - The Young
Communist League will celebrate at
Easter the tenth anniversary of the
Jena conference. Arrangements are
being made for public and special
youth meetings.
In 1916 the German revolutionary
youth met for the first time at Easter
under the leadership Of Karl Lieb-
knecht. AT this meeting the revolu.
tionary youth group separated from
the central organization OF the So
cialist working class youth and under
Liebknecht's leadership issued the
slogan, "clvI War and Not Class
Truce It was at this meeting that
the thesis was coined; 1--WE must do
our utmost to accelerate the collapse
Of the capitalist society" which is
identical with Lenin's slogan Of the
transformation Of the imperialist war
into civil war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
MILWAUKEE LEAGUE WINS
MORE YOUNG WORKERS

During the last few months the.
Milwaukee league has made very good
progress. First we stopped meeting
in isolated corners of small suburbs
and are now in the heart Of the city.
Where formerly the majority of our
league members were students. at
present the working youth outnum-
Der the students to 1. Arrange
ments are being made for the unioni.
cation OF these members. Those who
are in the unions are doing good
work.
The league, more than any other
part of the movement, is at present
working hard to make the Bishon
Brown meeting success. A class
has been recently organized which is
studying the Communist Manifesto
The members greeted the class with
enthusiasm and many new faces were
seen at the first meeting. Comrade
N. Picola, who draws for the Marty
press, is our Instructor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Exchange of Experiences of Shop
Nuclei and Concentration Groups

A MEETING of the R. S. Shop
Nucleus was held Friday, Jan.
20, at 1913 East 14th street. Comrade
S. elected chairman. The order of the
business was as follows:
Reading of minutes.
Literature report.
Union report.
Drive for new members.
Section.
Election of secretary.
Minutes were read and accepted.
Comrade literature agent could not
give a full report; it therefore was
postponed until next meeting. Com
rade was elected as assistant litera-
ture agent. Comrade organizer re-
ported that union and shop meetings
are being heldN but our comrades do
not attend theml 1t was decided that
every comrade unjust come to these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
DEMAND THAT BOARD END
ITS DISCRIMINATION IN P. S. 14S
Penalize Children for Protesting

constantly cold and the youngsters
are compelled to sit with their coats
and sweaters, and rubbers on, all OF
which is an excellent method of bring
ing about recurrence of an influenza
epidemic in Brooklyn. Even the
teacher is compelled to wear her coat
in the classroom.
"In addition, the children are daily
compelled to walk up to the top floor
of the building, an exertion which is
too great for many Of them, as they
are forced to wear all their clothing.
No instruction.
"The above is a bare statement Of
the physical discomfort suffered by
the youngsters, but there is even
more important and vital circum.
stance which should enlist the imme-
date action of your board, and that Is
that no instruction worth the name is
being given to the children, and this
attitude is a deliberate one on the
part of those responsible for the con-
duct Of the school.
CDR. Veddt and Miss Holch, who
seem to be in charge of the situation
at public school 14S, have stated that
they have deliberately withheld the
necessary education and instruction
from the children in order to compel
the parents to consent to a transfer
of the children to other schools.
"They are threatening the children
and the mothers that unless they con.
sent to such transfers they will see to
it that the children will continue to
waste their time during their attend
ance at public school 148.
Protest Against Discrimination.
81 am sure that such a condition
will not be permitted to continue very
long after you become aware of it.
And it is for that reason that we are
protesting to you.
the mothers of the children, treat
ed as described above, demand no
more than their due; namely, the
usual instruction which prevails in
other schools, plus comfortable and
proper physical surroundings.
MAY we not ask that this matter
receive your immediate attention and
that we be advised of your decision
with reference thereto.
Very truly yours,
MRS. BETTY ZLOTT,
Mother of one of the children Of
P. S. 148,
"Organizer Council of United Moth
ers of Williamsburg"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

meetings. 1t was decided that the
comrades of x st. shop should find
out information of conditions in the
40 millinery cap and report to the
next meeting.
A motion was made and carried
that lecture should be given Feb
ruary IS at 1O8 e. 14th street. A
decision was made to print leafet
on sanitary conditions as an issue.
The following comrades were elected
to work out the leafilet. B., chair
man; K.
A motion was made and carried that
sympathizers should be called to the
section meetings first, then the nu-
cleus.
A suggestion was made and ap-
proved that the comrades should find
out how many S. and f. there are in
our section. Comrade S. elected as
secretary. Meeting adjourned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

REFUSES TO
SERVE NEGRO
Discrimination to Be
Issue on South Side

Making their profits by frankly pan
dering to the most vicious notions of
"aristocratic" white exclusiveness, a
number of eating houses of Chicago's
south side refuse to serve Negroes.
This standing insult to the nearby
community was revealed to the DAILY
WORKER today as a result of the ex-
perience of young group who were
denied service at Feuer's restaurant,
Indiana avenue and 31st street, Sun
day night because one of their number
was a Negro.
The group, which included Lydia
Beydell, Elsa Bloch, Sam Hammers
mark, Manuel Gomez and Haywood
Hall (colored), entered the restaurant
following Sunday nights Trumbull
mass meeting at Metropolitan Com
munity Center. They were imme-
diately informed that if they wanted
to be waited upon they would have to
go elsewhere.
Do Not Serve Negroes.
I'VE do not serve Negroes" the
waiter said bluntly. "Of course, if
you insist" he added, 81 suppose we
shall have to give you some service. -
The group did not insist, but took
its patronage. elsewhere. BY cunningly
qualifying it's Jim Crow rule, the
management had protected itself
against a showdown and had thus
made it impossible to get a clear-cut
issue. The fact remains, however,
that for all practical purposes this
restaurant fiaunts the banner of race
discrimination right in the face of the
south side Negro community.
To Force Issue.
1t is understood that the issue will
be taken up in the next aldermanic
and congressional elections. 1t is also
planned to visit those restaurants that
refuse under any conditions to serve
Negroes and to force the issue there
by remaining and demanding service.
The group to make these visits is to
be composed Of both white and Negro
members of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
A. F. of L. Organizer
Admits Bankruptcy of
Reactionary Policy

DENVER, Colo, March 17-"The
American Federation of Labor must be
rehabilitated," was the burden of a
speech delivered before the Denver
Trades Assembly by T. Conboy, gem
.eral organizer Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor who is speaking in the
state Of Colorado wherever the NOV
ing picture, 'Labor's Reward" is be-
ing shown.
He said that during the past six
years defation had set in and that
the membership had been reduced
from four million to less than three
million. He stated that the American
Federation of Labor is putting on an
organization campaign in many of the
large cities like Detroit, Cleveland,
Philadelphia, Buffalo, New York, Chi
cago and st. Louis. He deplored the
situation in the labor movement in the
St Louis district, especially where he
has been assigned, for he said a leth-
argy exists besides the many jurisdic-
tional fights that are being carried on.
He urged the delegates to put on a
rehabilitation campaign in Denver.
A delegate from the Chauffeurs
Union asked Mr.. Conboy if he knew of
any plan or way to remedy the condi-
tons Of lethargy and jurisdictional dis
putes existing in the American Fed.
Grafton Of Labor, especially in the st.
Louis district. One could hear a pin
drop as Mr.. Conboy arose and very
solemnly admitted that he knew OF no
plan or remedy for existing conditions.
The chairman seeing the predlca-
ment the speaker was in Immediately
came to his assistance and announced
that the assembly thanked Mr.. Con-
boy for his splendid speech and that
the meeting would stand adjourned.
Thus has a mighty" organizer of
the American Federation of Labor adj
mitted the bankruptcy of the reaction
airy policy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Workers Communist Party
The Role of the Trade Unions

and abandoned the unions thus bleed
ing the established unions of mill
fancy and leaving them entirely in
the hands of reactionaries. Some dual
unions were formed by such elements
and have merely served to keep work
ers fighting among themselves when
all efforts should have been directed
against the bosses.
Glass Consciousness Develops in
Unions.
Our comrades should not act upon
the theory that the unions were Great
ed by god in order to provide fat
job for some per capita shark but
should devote little time to study of
the history of the formation and func-
ton Of the union. Union members
are not all boobs and reactionaries.
The beginnings of class conscious
ness are present in every worker
who voluntarily joins a union in or
der to better his conditions of exist
ence. At that time he is usually mill
tant and is ready for the next lesson
in class solidarity. If there are no
others there to teach him this lesson,
who can blame him if he soon sours
and fails to keep up his interest.
Any comrade who remains outside
the union, fails to learn the primary
lesson of class consciousness and the
unionist can be excused for
looking sceptically uon such a repre-
sentative of the vanguard who has
learned so much that he appears to
have forgotten the necessity for be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
BY v. v. DART.

THERE is in our ranks a wide
spread lack of understanding as
to the role of the trade unions in the
development of the working class.
and of the role of our party in rela-
zion to trade union work
The present campaign of the party
to get the members into the unions,
brings these problems again to the
fore where they should be examined
and explained so that the most effec-
tive results might be obtained.
Practically every union exceptions,
blue sky or paper locals, formed by
bureaucrats to increase their repre-
sentation) was formed in the first
place to serve the interests of the
workers who composed ii. They were
formed preparatory to or during
struggles against the bosses and
serve as the basic class Instruments
for promoting, the economic welfare
of their members. The fact that the
unions do not always serve the in
terests Of the working class is due to
several causes. The main ones are
the low state of Observation-Disclosures
Of the members; the boss-inculcated
theology of accepting the capitalist
system as permanent; and the dis
couraged militant, who, failing to get
sufficient class activity out of the
membership, became disheartened
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Snake Tale Sceptic
Continues Preaching

LONDON, March II - The Rev. DR..
Geelkerken, Of Assem-, Holland, sus-
pended from the state church for
three months because he refused to
affirm his unqualified belief in the
literal accuracy Of the Adam and Eve
story of the old testament, today in
dictated that he would defy the church
Geelkerken is strengthened in his
stand by the almost unanimous sup.
port OF his Pensioners who fatty re-
fuse to depose him from the pulpit.
Rev. Geelkerken yesterday preached,
twice to Overlooking congregations. I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

longing to basic working class or
ganization.
1t should be evident to all that a
revolution cannot be successful with
out the assistance of the great mass
es of workers participating in the
struggle. Those who are organized
and know the value of united action
on the economic field are the ones
who will respond most effectively in
such a situation.
We must have the unions on our
side but We'll never get them by tele-
pathy. The place to speak to them is
on the floor Of the union. If we de-
monstrate our ability to clarity the
issues that come before the union
for consideration and help plan con
structive policy for the union, our
gains will be enormous.
1t may be difficult to re-educate the
oldtimer who has grown pessimistic
but the general membership can be
made to respond to the logical I'M
foldment of class struggle ideas.
Every member has work awaiting
him in the union, real mass work
which holds promise of very great
gains to the party in strength, num-
bers and prestige.
The crying need Of the unions today
is for constructive leadership anC
since one must have been active in
union work for quite period of
time in order to be able to exert
much influence there is no time to
waste. Join!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
STRIKES ILLEGAL
IN GUATEMALA
Financial Colony Of u. S.
Attempting to Crush
Labor Movement

WASHINGTON, March II - Guate-
mala's dictator has put thru his ODE
dent congress a law making strikes
punishable by Imprisonment of strik-
ers for terms Of eight years. If any
one is killed as a consequence of
strikers activities, all the strikers
are held guilty of murder. Two
years Imprisonment is the penalty
for any striker who induces a strike
breaker to quit work. The military
have full charge Of administering this
law, so that industrial life in Qua
temala is now ruled by threat Of
court martial proceedings and the
firing squad.
Wall Street Dominates.
Guatemala is one of the most re-
dictionary spots on the political map
of the Americas. North American
finance is entrenched there, to hold
a frontier against the southwark
spread of the labor movement now
dominant in Mexico. The American
state department has a long record
of favoritism toward Cabrera and 9TH
er anti-labor despots in that coun-
try, and at times the Mexican revo-
lutionary government has been com
PEELED to issue sharp warnings
against the harboring in Guatemala
Of counter-revolutionar groups of
Mexican refugees, upon whom the
hopes of American oil companies and
other owners Of property in Mexico
were pinned.
The fact that this decree was re-
quired to prevent the outbreak of
strikes in Guatemala indicates to la
Dor officials the degree of fear in
stilled in the dictator by labor agita-
ton. Because the trade union idea
is one Of democracy among the work
ers who until now have been treated
as feudal retainers, labor agitators
are welcome in most OF the Latin
American republics. The Pan-Ameri-
can Federation of Labor cannot safe
ly send its spokesman into these
countries. Yet the example set by
organized labor outside Guatemala
appears to have been sufficient to Gre
ate unrest and agitation there, with
consequent strikes and the fear of
labor riots.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
RED NIGHT ON MAR.
20 FOR new YORK

The fourth anniversary of the es-
Enlistment of the YOUNG WORKER
will be celebrated in New York ON
March 20. The place is Harlem Ca
sino, 10th street and Lenox avenue,
Saturday evening, March 20. There
will be excellent music and many sur
prises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Labor sOycOtts Charity Fund.

ToLEDo-FP)- Organized labor
disguised by the Indifference Of the
Toledo community chest to the suffer.
ing OF the poor during this winter,
will refuse support to the next drive
unless control is radically changed.
The chest while liberal in supporting
socalled Americanization schemes and
other forms of boss propaganda refus.
ed to meet the demand for emergency
relief at the christmas season. The
Central Labor Union is considering
a labor chest to aid poor people and
strikers.