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New Britain herald., 1926-06-30

telephone Ills at his home. Indeed, he had an unlisted wire, the number Of which Katherine had given me when slN first expected to be called ot nurse Lucia. It did not seem plausible that unless there was a sudden emergency the line would be so persistently busy.
 l took down the receiver again and called Dicky's office. No one else knew of the circumstances sur rounding Katherine's determination to fulfill her promise to Lucia, nor of the necessity of preventing her going to the house. I could waste mo more time in the attempt 10 get telephone connection with the Mere dith home, for Katherine would be- come suspicious at my long absence and the Lourishing dinner Kate was preparing for her would be spoiled if I did not return with the puT- chases my little maid had outlined. But l knew that if Dicky knew Of Katherine's obstinacy ] could per suade him 10 get Dr. Meredith on the telephone and give him the warning I was unable 10 transmit. I was conscious also of the desire 10 satisfy myself concerning the own ership of the voice which had an- swered Dr. 9-lredith.
 There was no delay in getting Dicky's office, but the office girl said that he was not in. TO my in- Quiry as to the time Of his return or the prospect Of my finding him elsewhere she answered with a pert ness which I knew she would not have used had she known my iden- ty.
 "I haven't the slightest idea" she said. land l wouldn't be permitted 10 give out the information if I did know, But I'll connect you with Mss Fairfax If you like. She always knows where Mir. Graham is."
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New Britain herald., 1926-06-30

At the first move Farmer Browns Boy made, Killer the Duck Hawk and Mrs. Killer were once more in the air screaming Justify. Farmer Browns Boy shook his head at them. You foolish bird" said he Those screams of yours can be heard q long distance and so you give your secret away. Any one hearing you would guess right away tha. you have q nest over here. If you had kept still when you first saw me coming lip the mountain il might have taken me a long time to lind where your nest is. But now 1 know that it is up on that little shelf of rock. and in spite of your screaming I am going up there. At least, l am going to try to get up there"
 For a little way it was compara- lively easy. Then Farmer Browns Boy came 10 q place where he had to watch each foothold and grip the rock with his hands. Slowly. care fully. he worked his way up a sort of little crevicc in the rocks until he reached q point where he must get around great. bulging rock tha. couldn't be climbed over. It must be climbed around \ slip would send him sliding down with q sheer drop to the rocks below. Ii would mean broken limbs at best, perhaps a broken neck. Inch by inch he worked around never moving his feet until he had good grip on the rocks with his hands. Al last ho was around. There was a sort of lif- tie pocket here in the eli. with q few trees growing from the steep slope. II was safe enough here. On the farther side, and up a short dis tancc on thr fac" Of inc cliff. was a shelf of rock Even from so close a viewpoint as this that shelf was almost invisible. IL was but a mo- ment's climb un some projecting bits Of rock 70 inc edge Of this little shelf. Perhaps you ran gu"ss how eagerly ho looked along it when hts head came ahoya the level of if. A little more than an arms reach
New Britain herald., 1926-06-30
HER!WN WAY
 ~OYa Girl of Today

"tuay | believed in him-and- and-I was very happy Well. last |wce6 when he and I were out driv- ing la'o at night my ear broke down. or rather it stopped running almost in front or one Of the most disroputahIe road houses near Chi .caao.
 "I expect that everyone in the city know all about that place except me.
 "Barry took mo in there and. al- though ! 3il not know it. he wrote upon inc register Barry Cornwall and wife,
 "W-e staye3 in separate rooms, Of course, aHd Judy l was that inno- cent 'bar when I went into my room land locked the door | thought l was perfectly safe.
 T lay awake a long while and was perfectly unsuspicious when | found the uoNt morning that the car was all right.
 "I drove home, let myself in with .my night krE and thought was perJymtIy safe.
 T knew that one Of the chlufteurs would find my car in the driveway ns they often did when I came home lat" al night and I thought nothing more about it. except 10 congratulate myself that vas safe.
 Weren't you Joan? Surely Barry loved you"
 She shook her head. Copyright 1926. NEA Service, Incl
New Britain herald., 1926-06-30
A NIGHT AT THE ROAD HoUsE

That Was the beginning, Judy, Of the happiest few months I have ever spent,' said Joan Meredith. continuing her story. T went back day after day. First We only danced. then WE dinrl together two or three times week when | knew my step father would be out and I danced with Barry until Tho Circle closed.
 "Of course, it cost me all kinds Of money for I literally had 10 bid with almost all the old women in the place for Barry's company
 Finally, he made q straight bar gain with the manager that I was to pay fifty dollars night, and when l WAS there Barry was 10 dance with me exclusively.
 As soon as this bargain was struck there were times that VIC did not meet al Tho Circle at all, except for Barry 10 hand in my fifty dol lars of which I know he got half
 T found eventually that l was hopelessly in love and l thought he was as well.
 " I cannot marry you, my darling, Your step-father would not allow It, said my lover.
 " But dearest answered, "Iu be of age very soon and then
 [" Yes. l know he interrupted me, then as soon aS possible you will be my wife
New Britain herald., 1926-06-30

rock the baby while I came. over here for you. We'd better go."
 "Thered be no point in divorcing Fanny, anyway" she muttered thoughtfully, as she started home H. the rainy blue dusk. You'd never get any alimony out of him anyway There's no juice in cork you know"
 Sylvia, busy with her own un- happy thoughts. said nothing, and they walked on through the pud- dies.
 At the corner of Bleak street car slid to a stop beside them, and Peter Wilks voice hailed them briskly.
 I'm going your way. You'd bet ter hop in, both of you!" he called.
 Peters car was roadster. Aunt clambered in after her. Sylvia found herself very close 10 Peter, so close that ev -ry time the car gave a jolt her shoulder touched his.
 She drew away from him.
 She disliked to be near any man but Fanny, and always had
 Queer" she thought, that I love him so, and he doesn't love me at all. I don't believe he ever has loved me-"
 In that instant she gave Fanny up. The long struggle was over
 "Pll go down to see him at his fathers office n the morning. first thing" she thought, "and tell him that I'll do whatever he wants me to about this divorce business"
 CTO nE CONTINUFD)
 Sylvia tells Sarah Wilk of her troubles. She is met hy startling ad- vice from the spinster.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-30
The Edge of the World

By Thornton ". Burgess Who scales the face of the cliff, you'll find, Is stout Of heart and is clear Of mind.
 Farmer Browns Boy.
New Britain herald., 1926-06-30
ttikct,',

Tho letters TT. r. C." on a call ing card moan that the card was left when the owner came for a parting call. The initials are from the French words pour prendre congo" meaning "to depart
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
CLEVELAND news
FALSE 7 ALE OF
MINERS ARREST
Coaldigger Acquitted by
Trial Judge

CLEVELAND, Feb. T-How the cap
ttalist press makes a business Of falsi-
flying news was never better demon
strated than in the accompanying
photograph Of headline and story in
the Cleveland News of Jan. 26. Here
are the facts as brot out in court when
Joe Kobylak, the young miner was re-
leased by Judge Moylan for lack Of
evidence:
Kobylak, young miner having re-
Gently come to Cleveland, LETT his
home early on the morning Of Jan
rs to search for work. His search
for a Job finally brot him down to the
intersection of Euclid avenue and East
9th street. The Cleveland Trust COM
pany has its main office at this cor
ner and Joe not being too familiar
with the city was standing near a
doorway of the bank looking across
the street for a certain building, there
being an advertisement u the morning
paper for q stock clerk with frza
located in this building Az iee stood
there looking across the street one of
the Cleveland Trust money cars drove
Up to the curb. A number of men got
out and took several money bags into
the bank, passing Joe as they went in.
He was standing two or three feet
from the door thru which they en-
tered. E
Joe barely noticed them. After the
men had already disappeared into the
bank Joe commenced to cross the
street. Just as he reached the curb,
two men, who later proved to be city
detectives, grabbed him by both arms,
saying that they suspected him and
that he was under arrest.
He was taken to the central police
station, where he was quizzed and
searched. A copy of Bishop Browns
Communism and Christianism, /"
three copies of the ''Zeigler Frame-up"
and membership cards in the Young
Workers (Communist) League, the
Workers (Communist) Party and the
International Labor Defense, were
found on his person.
When taken before Judge Moylan,
Kobylak was discharged and the de-
tective was threatened with suit for il
legal arrest and damages by the at
torney engaged by the International
Labor Defense for Kobylak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
Our Readers Views
Justice Under Capitalism.

To The DAILY WORKER am
not Communist, but occasionally |
buy The DAILY WORKER at a South.
side newsstand. The other day mo-
ticed news item about a lawyer be.
ing shot by a client in loop build.
ing. The client. according to yellow
newspapers, lost civil case thru a
trick and pressed to pay the lawyer a
Zee Of $4,000, he decided to take the
Jaw into his own hands. The last week
before the shooting occurred he slept
IN lighthouses.
Anybody that had some experience
with lawyers and Flaw" is surprised
that such things don't happen often
in our civilized" country.
People have been fooled by "law."
democracy" "justice" and liberty"
by bunch Of yellow capitalist news.
papers and their politicians
long enough. It's time for people to
wake up.
Ant. zaleski.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
SOVIET PRESSURE
FELT AS Geneva
PROPOSALS FAIL
Failure Of Arms Confer
ence Heavy Blow
tspeeIaI . La paIIy Workerl

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. IT,
This town, the seat of the council Of
the league of nations, is beginning TO
feel the effects Of the determined
stand Of the Soviet Union, that insists
upon boycotting the country on &C
count OF the scandalous manner in
which Switzerland defended the murd-
arers OF Vorovsky, the Soviet diplo-
mat, at the Lausanne conference in
1923.
The league is inclined to attach
some Of the blame for the failure Of
the armament conference scheduled
for the 18th of this month on Switser-
land and there is much talk at Euro
pean capitals of moving the head
quarters of the league to some other
capital Of a small European nation.
It is also known that Emile Wander
velde wants the headquarters moved
to the Belgian capitol, Brussels.
Failure Heavy Blow.
The failure Of the preliminary con-
ference is the heaviest blow ever
delivered the league, as it is the first
conference on world scale 1t has
even attempted. It is pointed out that
the Washington conference, called by
the United States, non-member Of
the league, met with much more fav-
orable response than anything yet
achieved by the league. Another such
failure will shatter what prestige the
league possesses among European
powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
Western Railroad
Heads Prepare to
Fight Union Demands

Executives Of western railroads,
meeting here to discuss the wage de-
mands of the Order OF Railway Con-
ductors and the Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Trainmen for pay increases aver
aging about 81 per day, unanimously
decided not to grant the increase.
1t has not been decided as to what
terms the employers will offer the
union committee and as March 2 has
been set as the time limit the rail-
road officials declare they viii devote
the remainder of their conference to
organizing themselves to resist the
union demands when the limit ez-
pires.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
PITTSBURGH COAL
co. RESPONSIBLE
FOR MINE DEATHS
Operators Try to Blame
Union Coaldiggers
BY GEORGE PAPcUN.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. Horn
ing mine No. is located ten miles
south of Pittsburgh. The fire in the
mine was supposed to have started
from the sparks Of coal cutting MAJ
chine when the cutters were cutting
thru some clay in order to reach the
coal. They hit a gas pocket which
burned all day. The coal company
did not notify the workers that the
mine was on fire but tried to check
the fire by building up brattice. The
explosion occurred thirty minutes
after the miners had quit work and
1t is claimed by the company that %
workers were in at that time. The
coal miners, however, say that over
40 men were trapped in the coal mine.
The explosion occurred in the sec
ton known as right butt Of section
four, $50 feet down and 1000 feet
southwest. Andy Bic, one Of the
workers killed, was reported to have
been operating the cutter while the
other victim, John Petrovich, was an
assistant Louis Christian, the third
vectim. was one of the men sent into
the mines to combat the flames. The
bodies of these 8 miners have been
recovered.
News Of the disaster spread rapidly
and vast crowds of workers, including
the relatives of the man believed to be
trapped in the mine, gathered at the
mouth of the pit.
The mine is owned by the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Co. This is the
second disaster in less than a week
Of this same coal company, the other
disaster was at the No. mine at
Mollenauer, where an explosion occur
red Jan. % and six miners were badly
burned.
This same coal company is trying to
run it's mine in Library, Pa, on the
1917 scale. Not long ago one woman
was killed and one is still in the kos
pital as the result of the attack Of the
deputies on the striking -atrers.
The following miners are reported
dead: Andy Bic, Andy Petrovich,
LoEss Christian, Howard NJ. Ernst,
George Tiayis, Mine Foreman Load
man, Andrew Smith, John Crotch, Jr,
Harry Maloney, William Holzhauser,
Joseph Tiavis, james Powell, Tony
Heirns, John ]. Luzer, Reese Brad
burn and two unidentified workers.
In the last years in western Penn
sylvania over ia workers were
killed in mine disasters which have
always been found out to be the fault
Of the coal companies. In the last
rs years S5S workers were killed be-
cause of the neglect of the coal COM
pany.
AS usual the coal company is try
ing to put the blame for the explosion
on the workers but it is clear that
it was the fault of the coal company
and 1t was only by stroke of luck that
the 500 miners we're not killed. The
mine is under control of local union
No. S27 of the United Mine Workers
Of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
'FORWA Ard AGENT
DISRUPTS LABOR
LYCEUM MEETING
Fear He May Lose Board
of Directors Control

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 7-Continuing
his tactics of the previous meeting Of
the shareholders of the Labor Lyceum,
D. Shier, Minneapolis agent of the
Jewish Forward, again adjourned the
meeting without permitting the cleo
ton of board of directors as he
feared he would not be reelected to
the board of directors. From the be-
ginning of the meeting he attempted
to stifle any discussion of how he used
the Labor Lyceum for his political and
financial ends. When it came to the
vote itself, Shier as chairman, appoint
ed his own tellers who announced the
vote a tie: SO to SO. Instead of i'm.
mediately FALLING for another vote,
which is the procedure according to
the bylaws, he permitted a 4-hour
filibuster.
FiIibuster in Meeting.
At the end of the filibuster he called
for the election of a nominations com
mittee" to present the shareholders
with slate next meeting. This NOM
nations committee is an obvious
evasion of the legal procedure which
calls for reflections. Realizing they
are defeated they are using these
methods of keeping themselves in
power.
The left wing shareholders insist
on the election of each official as pro-
vided in the by-laws-and are opposed
to political bargaining. The left wing
asks that the shareholders themselves
and not the small gang in control de-
eide who shall be their officers for the
coming year.
Fight Yellow Forward Gang.
For four years the Shier group dom
mated the affairs of the Labor Ly-
ceum. The time to rid the Labor Ly-
ceum Of this group has come. The
coming meeting Sunday will decide
this question unless the chairman
again attempts to adjourn the meet
ing against the will of the sharehold-
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09

The significant fact which Stewart
omits is that average full-time hours
)er week have fallen from S1.4 in
1907 and 7S in 1913 to COS hours in
924.
Blast-furnace workers are even
worse off today than figures for 1924
Indicate, for the cost Of living has
been steadily rising without CORE
spending increase in steel wages. BY
December 1925 the purchasing power
Of their wages was only about Z per
cen above 1913 and was s]s per cent
below 1907, quite different showing
from Stewards figures boastfully
featured in the Iron Age.
Table Nails Stewards Lie.
Changes in blast-furnace weekly
wages, in the cost Of living and in the
purchasing power of these wages
from 1907 to December 1926 are
shown in the following figures issued
by Stewards own bureau OF labor sta
tistics. The year 1918 is taken as
100 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
HAS WARDEN RELEASED
STEPHENSON, KHAN HEAD?
ASK IND. NEWSPAPER MAN

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Feb. r.
Walter Daily, warden of the state
prison here, refused to permit re-
porters to see D. C. STEPHENSON, serv-
Ing life sentence for the murder
of Miss Madae oberholtzer, in per-
son, to determine the truth or falsl-
ty of persistent rumors that the
famous prisoner has been released.
When questioned about the ru-
mors at first, Warden Daily declared
Stephenson was at work In the
prison chair factory and invited a
newspaper man to come out and
see the prisoner for himself.
Informed that a newspaper repres-
entative was coming out to see
Stephenson in person, DAILY reversed
his decision and declared that he
would not permit anyone to see the
prisoner. "They'Il have to take my
word for it that he's safely within
the walls of the prison." Daily said.
Governor Fears Investigation
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Gov.
Ed. jackson refused point blank 70
Issue an order Co Warden DAILY of
the state prison at Michigan City to
permit a newspaperman to see D.
C. Stephenson, to verify or discredlt
widespread rumors that the prison
err had escaped.
a won't issue such an order,p the
governor emphaticaIIy said. "a don't
see why you don't let Stephenson
alone, why you don't let the warden
alone, why you don't let the whole
matter alone"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
KELLOGG PERFORMS
FLAG WAVING STUNT
IN SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, Feb. ENTRY in
to the United States Of the liberal
Countess Catherine Karolyl, wife Of
the first president Of the Hungarian
republic, would be "prejudiclaI to
the interests Of the country" Sec
rotary of State Kellogg decIarde to
the District OF Columbia supreme
court when asking for dismissal Of
the petition compelling him to
grant passport to the countess.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
Openshop Bosses
Fight Shay Week

HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. Hart
ford building trades employers are
massing support Of their stand against
the fve-day work week for building
trades workers. The painters union
leads in demanding the shorter work.
week. Hartford chapter Associated
General Contractors of America is
sending letters to local employers I'D
vising them that 1t condemns the Ave
day week as economically fatal"
Hartford open shop building trades ex.
change endorses the stand and en-
courages openshop firms to help push
the wedge into the ranks Of organized
building workers by lighting the
shorter week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
RadIoHcatlon In Russia.

MOSCOW, Feb. 7 -(Tass. Z The
Moscow Soviet of trade unions has
completed the initial plan 0f the
radiofication of the villages of the
Moscow district. Radios are establish
ed now in all the 209 volost (paro-
chial village reading rooms of the
Moscow province. Radio circles are
formed in each reading room.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
Union setters Conditions.
Physical Culture Conferences.

MOSCOW, (Tass) Feb. IA confer
ence of physical culture societies was
held in Minsk. According to reports
submitted to the conference, there are
now over 400 physical culture socie-
ties, and upwards OF 10000 members
in White Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
FEDERAL labor" STATISTICLAN
FALSIFIES FIGURES TO ASSIST
STEEL TRUST TO SLASH WAGES
By LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

Of the living
and steel industry extended article The
furnished United
Stewart his article directly
the hands the steel basng his calculations
than fulltime weekly
standard of living 1880 1913
of fact the weekly Of these will purchase 1870
than in 1913 while their purchasing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-09
Six Soldiers Dead
After Bay Rum Orgy

HONOLULU, Feb. six soldiers
were dead, three were in a critical
condition and thirteen others we're
recovering following a bay rum orgy
at Schofield barracks.