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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10

The Brightwood PIT. A will hold
Il reception Tuesday to the new mem
bers and the teachers, at which Mrs.
Rafter will be the guest of honor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10

A card party will be held January
% in the Elks' Hall for the benefit OF
the shoe and rubber fund. Mrs. ). X
Garter has charge of the table res
ervations. and Mrs. Leishear has
charge of the tickets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10

The Emery lexington PIT A will
hold a reception January Is, when
Mrs. w. T. Zimmerman will speak on
the Gasque bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
Parent-Teacher Activities

president Of the D. c. Congress. Mrs.
Giles Scott Rafter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10

the Peabody School at 2:30 pm. DR.
Barr, clinic director of Gallinger Hos
pital, will be the speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01

production of oil without stretching
the powers granted to it one iota."
Charging that Mr.. Hughes lacked
understanding of many important
features and was unfair in his posi-
ton, Mr.. Doherty said Mr.. Hughes
did not invite or request me to con-
fer with him on this matter" and
that the Hughes statement was appar-
emily nothing more than his own re-
arrangement of the matters handed
him blythe oil lawyers. The report
of the committee of eleven Mr.. Do
herty termed ''hopelessly inexact"
and pointed out that Mr.. Hughes fire.
quently quoted it.
With remedial legislation, Mr.. Do
herty claimed for his conservation
program the conserving of natural
gas, recovery of much larger quantity
of oil and the creation of huge
ground reserves Of oil that would be
available and could be drawn upon in
event of war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
WALES MOVES SWIFTLY
IN QUEST OF PLEASURE
Plays Golf, Hastens to Paris for
Dinner, Then Proceeds to
Favorite Haunt. Biarritz.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 1.-The British
are said to take their pleasures sadly,
but the heir-apparent to the British
throne certainly takes them strenu-
ously.
The Prince of Wales, arriving in
Paris from Boulogne late Monday
afternoon, swiftly made his way
through a discreetly adniring throng
at the railway terminal, leaped into
an automobile, sped to the st. Cloud
Country Club and put in a round of
golf with Frederick Bate of Chicago.
former member of the American dele
cation to the reparations committee
Afterward the prince dashed back
to Paris, hurriedly ate his dinner
and departed by the night express
for his favorite haunt, BiarritZ.
Wales intends to do a little explor-
ing of the lesser-known regions of
the Pyrennes Mountains in his own
automobile, which has been sent down
to BiarritZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
Urges ROund-Table Study.

He also suggested a round-table
gathering to get down to brass tacks
as TO just what is true" in an oil re-
port OF the committee of eleven of the
institute and in ahe Hughes state
ment.
There is a great deal contained in
Judge Hughes brief in opposition or
in denial of things which I have
never urged and which no one else
has ever urged. so far as I know
AIR. Doherty said. Il do not know
whether Judge Hughes, in telling you
that the Federal Government has no
power to legislate regarding the pro.
duction of oil, is speaking from his
own study of the matter or is simply
adopting the views of the oil lawyers
He brings up no argument that they
have not brought up.
Judge Hughes contention that the
Federal Government cannot control
production within the States is a
very sweeping statement, which is
not borne out by facts. 1t is my I'M
qualified belief that Congress has
power, under the constitutional pro
visions to provide for the common
defense, to legislate regarding the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01

lily that it dared not approach the dock
Of the Island of Frioul and a tug sent
out to transfer the party to shore was
unable for some time to get alongside.
When the tug finally did succeed
in passing a hawser to the steamer
and assisted it to dock, the grim old
chief seemed to heave a tremendous
sigh of relief as he stepped out on the
jetty. Abd.el-Krim and his party are
to be housed on the Island of Frioul
for a few days to safeguard them from
the curiosity Of the populace until
they board a warship to be taken to
their destinations. The island is a
quarantine station.
The exiled chieftain last night slept
on a simple iron cot which contrasted
with the barbaric splendor of his des-
ert tent. His wives and children and
comrades share the same accommoda-
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
DOHERTY PROTESTS
HUGHES OIL STAND
Magnate Says Counsel for
Petroleum Institute Is Un-
fair in Report.
BY the Associated Press.

President Coolidges Oil Board re-
cetved today a statement from Henry
l.. Doherty New York oil magnate, in
which he took sharp issue with con-
tentions of former Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes, now counsel
for members of the American Petro-
leum Institute. who held that the
Nations oil industry will best be
served by self-regulation and avoid
ance of Government interference. The
Doherty statement. made public by
Secretary Work, the boards chair
man. was offered in rebuttal to views
Of Mr.. Hughes, given at public meet
ing of the board in May.
Counseling the board against
either delay or IAN attempt to pre-
naturely issue report" Mr.. Doherty
advocated conference of from 10
. to 20 of the leading petroleum
technologists of the country in con-
nection with the Government experts
TO fully discuss and agree, if possible
upon the advantages which will be
gained and the savings which will be
made by changes In our present meth.
&c
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
STAGE FOR VIERKOETTER.
German Channel Swimmer Says
He'll Beat Record Next Year.

CAPE GRIN EZ, France, Septem
Der P).-"Next year am going
to beat my record by two hours.
were the parting words of Ernst Vier-
koetter, the German who swan the
English Channel Monday, prior to de-
parting for Cologne last night.
Somet members of the swimming
colony believed the German could dc
this. To obtain the necessary money,
Vierkoetter plans to appear in an
English vaudeville act which is being
prepared for him. 1t is understood
that he will get $4,000 weekly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01

Never try to drill hole in a bake
lite or hard rubber panel without first
providing a starting dent for the drill
with a center punch. Without such
a punch mark the drill will walk" all
over the panel, no matter how care
fully you hold the drill itself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01

With the opening Of navigation into
the Yukon this Spring, wholesale
merchants Of the Pacific Northwest
had an increased rush of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01
TRIP TO MARSEiLLE
is ROUGH FOR KRIM
Ship Bearing Former Riffian Chief
Has Hard Time Landing at
,
Quarantine Island.
By the Associated PRESS.

By the Associated PRESS.
MARSEILLE, France, September /.
-Abdel -Krim. the fallen Riftian lead
er, on his way to remote island in
the Indian Ocean. had a rough halt
by the way yesterday when the steam
ship carrying him and his relatives
and suite-24 in all--approached the
port of Marseille.
The Mediterranean was something
like a Moroccan uprising. The ship
tossed and plunged and rolled so heav.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-01

Breaking the longest droutf in
Hawaii in so years, record-breaking
rains for the last half century have
been delugiDg the island.
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
The Reptile Press in the PassQic Strike

Contrary the usual practice of the capitalist portion
of the daily newspapers of the metropolitan be taking
The side of the strikers in Passaic Sympathetic articles
panied by photographs of the cossack brutality inflicted the
by police appear tabloid paper Mirror pub
by another published by
McFadden the physical culture" capitalist called the Graphic
publishes similar material
These papers compete circulation Cheap appearance and
little columns ordinary conditions
with the vile capitalist propaganda all the poisonous
upeon popuarzed in order make their readers sub
servient to the expoers
The his publications familiar He OBJ
tanned his publisher by pretending appeal labor
his papers established he stabbed labor in the
Ills lockout Of his employees in Seattle recently example
his friendship organized labor Passac his papers
1922 his thugs gunmen reinforced by police cossacs
used practices just the police Pasaic
against his striking women Last year there another
strike in the press Of his sheets New York
Of the M0 presented the appearance of arsenal with police
and thugs wamg the nghborhood beating back strikers
who even dared appear in the vicinity
In face Of this very meager record of Hearss antiabor activity
Passac striker should fooled believing papers
friendly organized labor They simply this get
circulation that their poisonous propaganda may easily
be instiled into the mill workers after the strike.
The strikers should remember that there only labor daily
published in the English language in America and that is THE
DAILY Worker
fight for the Passac strikers because they belong to the
working 1t part the CLASS STRUGGLE
entey all times all against the capitalist
class whether be strike against the mill barons of Pasaic
against the Hearst publications York against the
cite trust in Pennsylvania anywhere else
To the extent that these papers, for their sordd
ets publish pictures and Of the assaults upon strikers,
utilize them against the Immediate enemy;
of the anagOnisms within the capitalist
for moment forget they
they woen mills
they will be against the workers there also.
The daily worker., 1926-03-09

A T this moment, when the Party is
"A engaged in bringing its entire
membership into the unions, it is op-
perfume to raise the slogan Into the
Labor Councils"
In New York, for example, where
over so per cent of the Party men,
bership already belong to unions, and
where, within the next few weeks, it
is expected to raise that percentage
to we'll over 80 by the intensive cam
paign that has now been started by
the Organization Department, the In
dustrial Department and the Agitprop
Department, the question Of the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council is a
sorely neglected one.
Time was when the New York Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council was
standard bearer of militancy for
the American Labor movement and
when it was a definitely socialist"
council under the theological influence
OF the socialist labor party. But times
have changed and our left wing
unions for years have neglected the
Central Trades and Labor Council;
have, sometimes by accident and
.sometimes by the design of yellow
socialist bureaucrats, made their
meeting nights conflict with the
nights on which the Council meets
and have permitted it to become
tool in the hands of the Tammany
bureaucracy in the labor unions of
the City of New York. Thus, in place
Of being, as it should be, the co-ordi-
mating body which unites all the New
York local unions into combined
force for the defending of those COM
mon interests of the city's workers
which transcend the narrow interests
The daily worker., 1926-03-09

Of each particular craft and local
union, 1t has become an instrument
of ham-stringing the workers of New
York City and tying them to the po-
litical chariot of Tammany Hail. This
has become all the more a menace to
New York City's workers since Smith
has gotten control Of the New York
City democracy" and thus delivered
the Democratic Party directly into
the hands of the House of Morgan
and with it the New York trade union
bureaucracy. Smith himself is the
direction of the Electric Transport
Co., which thru interlocking directo-
rates is tied up with the Interboro
Rapid Transit Co, the New York Cen
tral and most of the other leading
railroads of this country, the United
States Steel, the International Har-
vester, the Bankers Trust, the Guar
antee Trust Co., and the House Of
]. P. Morgan & Co. q
In these days of injunctions, Of gov
lernor's impartial arbitration COM
missions" and governmental interfer-
ence at every turn ON sbehalf of big
business against the workers, only the
Capitalization of all ofllabor's forces
thru the central labor council and
thru the development of political
party of their own can enable the
workers to resist theo centralized big
business Of our day and the govern
mental machinery which is used
against the workers.
THE members of the, local unions in
4 general and many numbers of our
Party are inclined to underestimate
the Importance of ceutrhl labor coun-
ellis because of the fact. that the con-
stitution of the American Federation
of Labor definitely limits their powers
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
ENEO THE EASOR COUNCIL BnhamD
By Bertram D. Wolfe

our theological control, have refused
to send delegates to the Central
Trades and Labor Council, and that
Party and left wing comrades, when
nominated as delegates, have refused
to ewaste their time" Thus we have
abandoned the central labor body Of
New York City to the labor lieuten-
ants" Of the capitalist class and they
have shown that these bodies are very
useful by using them as instruments
of class collaboration and of capitalist
politics.
1t is time that every union fraction
and every TUEL unit set on the
order Of the day the question of affil-
iation or re-affiliation with the Cen
tral Trades and Labor Council and Of
election of militant left wing dele
gates to that body. If we do that,
almost overnight we will find our
selves with a delegation comprising
from one-third to one-half Of the pres
ent attendance at the Central Trades
and Labor Council and with a little
persistent work we can make that
Council once more center Of mill
fancy, the base for a labro party, a
means for terminating the unholy al
lance of New York's labor bureau
cracy with Tammany and the House
of Morgan, and fighting instrument
for co-ordinating the forces of the
New York organized workers for any
campaign that concerns them as a
whole, whether it be such as the pro-
lection of the foreign-born workers or
such as the building of labor party
Therefore, at this time when the
Party is raising the slogan, Every
member into the unions" l add the
slgan, Every union into the Labor
Council"
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
By An INDIAN WORKER.

TOWARDS the end of last July the
i Bombay millowners put up notices
at their mills that the wages of the.
workers would be reduced 1115 per
cent on the LIST of September. The
reason for the reduction, as given by
the millowners, was the general de-
preston of the industry, the cotton
excise duty, undue Japanese compe-
tition and defective exchange policy.
The workers at once raised their pro-
test to the millowners, to the Gov
ernor of Bombay and to the Viceroy,
showing them the inevitability of a
general strike in the event of wage
cut.
The millowners refused to listen
and the cut went into operation on
the specified date. A general strike
was declared. In ten days time the
whole industry was naralyzed-only
four out Of eighty mills working.
The first thing the labor leaders did
after the strike started was to send
to their villages as many men and
women as they could, About 10000
workers left Bombay. The struggle
then began in earnest.
Relief Body Needed.
After striking for three weeks a
large number of workers-about $4,000
began to feel the pinch of starva-
ton. The All-Tndia Trade Union Con-
gress with the aid of local unions
took steps to form a Committee of
Assistance to the Textile Workers.
The funds at their disposal were so
poor that they could not start any
measure of relief. The President of
The daily worker., 1926-03-09

and makes them very largely advisory
bodies. This, however, has not pre-
vented the central labor councils from
playing tremendous role in the his
tory of American labor struggles and
role which is bound to increase in
Importance as the workers try to de-
velop new forms of struggle to meet
the new conditions of classification
and governmental interference.
Without the labor council of Seat
tie, the Seattle general strike would
have been an impossibility. without
the, manifold endorsements of labor
councils, the labor party movement of
1929 would have been immeasur-
ably weakened. Without the utiliza-
tion of central labor councils, the for
nation of labor party will be in
definitely postponed.
Every active unionist, who has ever
been labor council delegate, can
testify to the manifold uses of ac-
tivity in the central labor body. In
Chicago, for example, the Central
Labor Council was used as a lever
for the initiation of the big organizing
campaign in the steel industry which
led to the steel strike, and the organ
izing campaign in the packing house
industry which led to the packing
house strike and the forming of Pack
ing House Councils.
In San Francisco, where l was
delegate to the Central Labor Coun-
Gil, our fraction was able to utilize
the council as weapon in the fight
against the "American plan" open
shop drive; to bring the labor move
ment of San Francisco to the verge
of a general strike which was only
prevented thru mistaken secession
ist policy on the part of some of the
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
Bombay Textile StrikG--A Lesson in Solidarity

the Trade Union Congress issued an
appeal for funds to help the strikers.
The response to the appeal in India
was very poor. Donations and contri-
buttons hardly amounted to 1000
rupees.
Western Workers Aid East.
The situation was becoming des-
perate and apprehensions were enter
tanned as to an early collapse Of the
strike. Then happened the most
unique thing in the history of labor
The cry of oppressed Indian laborers
had reached their comrades in other
countries, and there was prompt re-
sponse to their appeal for help. Money
began to come from Europe, England
and Soviet Russia. The Committee
Of Assistance started relief work.
More people were able TO go to their
homes in the countryside. Centers
for distributing rice and other articles
Of food were opened. I, The workers
were overjoyed at the generous help
from their fellow-workefs abroad.
They became more resolute to carry
on the struggle. The eFstwhile timid,
ignorant, disorganized workers under
went phenomenal change. They
became charged with new hope, new
courage and new life. They felt their
oneness with the workers OF the
world. me
The Bombay municipal corporation
sanctioned one lakh OF, rupees for re-
lief work for the strikers. This is the
first time in India that, such thing
happened and this strengthened the
determination of the strikers.
The exodus of workers to the vii
lagos, the financial help from abroad
The daily worker., 1926-03-09

leaders in the building trade unions
of the city; to develop a campaign
Of great intensity for the recognition
of and trade with Soviet Russia; to
build up a local left wing newspaper,
and powerful sentiment for a labor
party; the fraction has other achieve
ments to show for it's activity there.
All this in spite of the fact that the
Central Labor Bodies of San Fran
cisco, Seattle and Chicago, like all
others. have constitutions which def
nitely limit their powers to an lad
visory' capacity.
WTHILE it is true that the voting
W power of the central labor bod
les in national A. f. of L. conventions
is insignificant, and while it is also
true that the constitutional limitations
described above prevail, nevertheless
the central labor bodies remain the
natural instrument for the uniting Of
the various craft local unions on
class scale for the undertaking of or
ganization campaigns in basic indus
tries, for the coordination and con-
Quoting of local general strikes, for
the building up of a local militant
labor press and labor party move
ment. and for the carrying out of all
general working class campaigns
among the organized workers of the
American Federation of Labor, even
in locals whose national and interna-
tional unions are not under the con-
troll of the left wing.
In view Of these simple elementary
facts that every trade unionist should
know, the attitude of the Party COM
rades in the left wing unions in New
York is little short of criminal 1t
has repeatedly been our experience
that whole locals, which are under
The daily worker., 1926-03-09

and the grant Of one lakh rupees by
the Bombay Corporation completely
turned the tables in favor of the work
ers.
The millowners then invited the
workers representatives for negotia-
tions, but the attempt was failure.
The Municipal Corporation then tried
to bring both parties to some sort of
agreement. The effort proved fruit
less. The millowners refused to with
draw their decision to cut wages.
Strikers Return Victorious.
This tug-of-war continued for two
months and a half. Then suddenly
on December 1, 1925, the Viceroy an
nounced the suspension of the collec-
tion of excise duty for the rest of the
year. This gave the millowners what
they wanted. They forthwith restored
the wage cut and asked the workers
to resume work. AS soon as the re-
suit of the strike was sufficiently
known workmen began to return to
the city and a week after the end OF
the strike almost all the mills had re-
opened.
Thus ended the first great strike Of
the textile workers in Bombay. There
was very great jubilation among the
workers, but it was not a real vic
tory for the workers. The victory
would have been real and fully due
to labor if it had been won without
the situation created by the suspen-
sion Of the cotton excise duty.
The real Importance of the strike
lies in the fact that this was the
first time in history that the workers
of the West showed such sympathy
for workers of the East.
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
LONDON CHILDREN TO
LOSE TONY AND JOCKO
BY MUSSOLINI ORDER

LONDON, March Zone Of the
eolorfuI features Of the rather drab
life Of this city is threatened with
extinction due to Mussolini's latest
efforts to uphold the dignity Of
Italy. The Italian foreign office has
issued an order to all passport au-
thorities to refuse passports to call
ambuant musicians intending to
live abroad by the exhibition Of
monkeys, thereby lowering the pres
tige of the Italian nation"
The itinerant Italian organ grinder
I with his gaiIy dressed monkey has
long been delight to the children
Of London. He returns to spend
the winter in Italy and comes back
in the spring to pick up stray coins
~ the busy streets of the metrop-
oils.
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
DECLINE IN U. S. BABY
OUTPUT lessons THE
DEMAND FOR BUGGIES

NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 2
The baby buggy industry is in the
dumps, according to;eFrank Adams,
president OF the Ideal Baby Carr age
company. The widespread use Of
the auto and the Increasing knowI-
edge Of birth control are the
causes, he deelares..L
Adams states that baby buggy
manufacturers havs seriously cur
tailed their schedule Of product on
for the current year because a large
proportion Of the carriages still re-
main over from last year.
The falling off of sales to work
ing people, Adams believes, is due
to their practice Of birth control.
Sales to them now are In the same
ratio as to the wealthy class, he
says.
The daily worker., 1926-03-09
Wheeling Steel Co.
Closes La Belle Mine

STEUBENVILLE, o., March z. -
When the Wheeling Steel company.
which operates the non-union La Belle
mine, heard that the miners had com
missioned deputation to demand
higher wages and, better living condi-
tions from the company, the bosses
posted notice stating that the mine
was closing down and that the men
would receive their dollar back II
they turned in their check numbers
that afternoon.
This move of the company threw
many workers out OF job. Tho the
mine was run in conjunction with the
plant and the plant is still operating,
no coal is being mined in the mine.
Coal needed to operate the plant is
imported from outside districts.