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Evening star., 1926-11-30
By the Associated Pres.

by Ine ASSOCIATED Press.
NEW YORK, November 30.-Ab-
sence of children from church con-
gregations is symtomatic of a dying
church and a church that does not de-
serve to live. Justice Thomas E. Grain
told a meeting yesterday Of the
Greater New York. Federation of
' II ches.
The meeting was called for discus
sion by clergy and laymen of all
Protestant churches in the city of de-
crease in child attendance at church
services.
DIR. John Roach Straton. pastor Of
Calvary Baptist Church. told the
meeting that decline in Sunday school
and church attendance by children is
cotemporaneous with the growth of
'insidious counter attractions" on
Sunday.
Among these counter attractions
DR. Straton mentioned lurid Sunday
newspapers. motion pictures. theaters
and concerts.
Charles A. Tuttle. chairman of the
Evening star., 1926-11-30

plosion here Sunday night which
brought death to three youths and
serious burns to a fourth.
Investigation showed, Mr.. Good
said. that the lock on the storehouse
and a packing case of bombs left
over from a fireworks display at the
fair here several months ago stolen.
Parts of some of the bombs were
found in the basement of the Ole
Holsbo home, where the four boys
were playing when the explosion
shook the place.
Fred Gould, Is; Elmer Holsbo, Is,
Evening star., 1926-11-30
STUDENTS OF COLLEGES
TC CONVENE THIS WEEK
Delegates from III Institutions
Will Take Part in Conference
Opening Thursday.
3y tho t--n~a.r,i n'rr--


CAMBRIDGE. Mass, November 80.
- Ma .u} prtllt ms of student life in
American colleges will be discussed at
the second annual congress of the Ma.
tionai Student Federation of America,
TO he held at Ann Arhor. Mich. Thurs
day. Friday and Saturday, Lewis Fox,
fits president, last night made public
the program Of the three-day session.
More than $50 delegates. represent
ing Ill colleges in 80 States, will at
tend the congress Groups will be
formed for the discussion of student
problems.
Chief among these are listed '''Fhe
Honor System and Student Govern
ment": "AthleticS," including no-Scout-
ing agreements. eligibility rules and
intersectional contests; "Fraternities"
"Choice and Methods of Teachers
and The Nature Of the Curriculum" "
Evening star., 1926-11-30
S5O0,01O is FIRE DAMAGE
Taunton. Mass. Downtown District
Is Swept by Blaze

TAUNTON. Mass. November 80 L4o).
Fire wiped out the Park Theater
and the II. Q. Rogers Silver Co. fac.
tory here yesterday. causing dam
age estimated at $500. 900.
The fire damaged the first district
court building, ignited Odd Fellows
Hall and threatened To spread ia other
structures in the heart OF the down
town business section before it was
checked
Evening star., 1926-11-30
Potato Growers Happy.

ITHACA, N. Y, November 80 P).-
Potato growers Of Idaho and Maine
have reason to be merry this season.
While the index number of farm prod
ucts prepared by the economists of
Cornell is at the lowest mark in %
months. spuds have risen 21 points
a nd oats 9 points.
Evening star., 1926-11-30
TRUCK DERAILS CAR.
Motorman Escapes Injury in
Northeast Crash.

A northbound Breokland car was
thrown from its tracks and its front
end swung across the southbound
tracks yesterday at Seventh and
Monroe streets northeast when it was
in collision with a brick.laden truck
owned by George l.. Tarbell and
driven by Frank Owens, colored, o19
NJ street northeast.
No passengers were on the car at
Evening star., 1926-11-30
FATAL EXPLOSION LAID
TO STOLEN FIREWORKS
"Bombs'' Taken from County Fair
Storehouse Given as Cause for
Death-Dealing Blast.

By the Associated Press.
ASHLAND, Wis, November 3d.
Fireworks stolen from the Ashland
County Fair Grounds was held yester.
day by Deputy State Fire Marshal
Charles Good to have caused the ex-
Evening star., 1926-11-30

the time, and Motorman Edmund
Davis escaped injury. although some
of the glass at the front of the car
was ebr'oken and the doors twisted
Evening star., 1926-11-30

and his brother Jobart, IA. were ia
tally injured. Bernard Holsbo, 19. Is
expected to recover.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
Thirty-Three Workers
Jailed In New Reign
of Terror in Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary, March s.
Hungarian police are raiding the
homes of members of labor organiza-
tons, the headquarters of unions, in
a new reign of terror inaugurated by
the Bethlen government. The head
quarters of the socialist labor party
were raided, a number Of its mem
bers arrested, whatever literature the
police could lay their hands on was
confiscated and whatever was too
heavy to carry away was. destroyed.
Thirty-two workers and Stephen
Wagi of the socialist labor party were
arrested and thrown into Jail. All OF
the workers arrested are accused of
participating in plot to overthrow
the present Bethlen government.
Warnings have been issued that at the
least sign Of any demonstration,
parade, or meetings in the streets or
halls to protest against the actions OF
the Bethlen government, the police and
soldiers will shoot to kill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
By a WORKER correspondent

SHENANDOAH, Pa, March S.-Ro-
tary clubs, churches, all the institu-
tons which thrive on the simplicity
of the average yokel emphasize the
vast Importance of the miners gains
in this recent struggle. The literate
part Of the workers who can read
enough to absorb the chloroform
spooned out to them literally by the
bourgeois press naturally are wise in
the mysteries of this particular agree
ment which less educated miners can
not understand. The ilHterate diggers
whose knowledge of the world is quite
confined to the ability to figure out
the amount of their money on pay day
are not enthused about the success of
the union in the late contest. When
approached as to their opinion Of the
matter, they shrug their shoulders
and say nothing. No one is happy, no
one is exalted over the outcome,
Meanwhile, the present brings up
some interesting situations in the
hard coal fields which grieves those
who are affected. While the strike
may be a victory to the union men
who held Office and do not bear the
brunt Of daily hardship, II is a diff.
ferent story where the actual worker
is concerned.
THERE are many ways OF looking at
= the inner meaning OF the contract
clause which calls "for cooperation
and efficiency between the union and
the operators to reduce the expenses
OF actual operation" However, the
way In which the company chooses
to look at the thing is the way II will
go. Under the advice OF efficiency
experts, the companies. particularly
the p. & II. Coal and Iron Co. OF dis.
trict No. Q, is putting various expert
ments TO the test In order to increase
production without increase OF opera.
ton. AS this miracle can be achieved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
Economic Council of
Roumania Recommends
New Export Policy
Especial to The Daily Worker

BUCHAREST, March s. The SUI
preme economic council has adopted
recommendation which it is ex-
pected the cabinet will approve, en-
tirely reversing the economic policy
of Roumania.
The policy for the past four years
has been to restrict exports by virtu-
ally prohibitive export duties. The
object was to keep down the cost of
living. The new recommendation are
for drastic reduction on the export
taxes upon grain, oil, lumber and live
stock. The decreases are to go into
effect upon approval by the cabinet.
The electoral losses suffered by the
Bratiano administration and the in
tensifying discomfort, the result of the
prolonged financial crisis, have
prompted the departure. There are
large stocks of oil and lumber on hand
as well as a considerable surplus
from last years grain harvests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
What Did the Miners Win?

only at the expense of a miners
blood and bone, the result is obvious.
Rate sheets are being thoroly studied
with the result that miners are being
paid the minimum rates on all work
undertaken by contracts. Variations
in rates usually tended to benefit the
miner who was paid for any odd work
which had to be done in connection
with the job. AL this is gradually being
changed. The odd work, tho hard and
even killing is now figured as being
incidental to the main job held under
contract and as such is either not
paid for at all or paid at the lowest
rates which the sheets allow.
BY the simple expedient OF rushing
the collieries for seven hours it has
been found possible to produce the
output of eight hours in the past.
Hence, many collieries are working
on seven-hour schedule and are paid
for seven hours, altho the output re-
mains as high as previously. The men
lose one hour daily which creates a
loss OF from $3.50 to $3.50 yearly to
the average day iaborer. Naturally,
there is much dissatisfaction but
what can be done about It? Since
the miners have promised to cooper
ate with the companies in all schemes
Of efficiency. here they are faced with
problem of pure efficiency which
their contract does not permit them to
fight.
THE fewest possible men are en-
i ployed and despite rumors to the
contrary, jobs are unbuyable. Mule
drivers who pull the coal cars inside
the mines are compelled to carry
Jacks with them at all times and IL
a car jumps the track, they are ex-
pected to jack II on. This Is EN-.
cheney. Bosses speak to the miners
in severe tones, advising them for
their own good to work their full
hours. From all sides the miner be-
gins to feel certain pressures brot to
bear upon his daily existence which
certainly are not tokens OF victory. \
What have the miners won? The
miners talk less now OF their victory
than they did on the day when the
famous Scranton agreement was sign
ed. They are simply working and
waiting to see what will be. Only
the future. whose ironic signs mar
the beauty of~the horizon. can tell
Just what chat shall be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10

funds and handle union made money,
flor all government employees max
ing the money are union), deal with
non-union Office workers, and without
"a protest. Would they tolerate the
same condition on their Jobs?
2. The International Union Bank.
This is a creation by the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union of
which Mr.. Morris Sigman, president
of the I. l.. G. w. U. was the presi-
dent until recently succeeded by Mr..
Abraham Baroff, sec.-treas. of the /.
l.. G. w. U.
Almost the same story fits here.
The Office workers employed are not
interested in any union. Frantic eff
forts have been made to induce these
officials to carry out their policy of
unionism, with no success. While
some of the Office workers are mem
bers of the B. S. & A. u, it is con-
tinual struggle to get them to pay
dues.
3. Amalgamated Bank of New York.
Here we have an institution founded
by the Amalgmated Clothing Work
ers Of America.
One would suppose, that president
Hillman and Secretary Schlossberg
would be first in line, as good honest
TO god union men, to have union office
workers employed in their bank, par
ticularly as they claim to be progress
sive. have persistently fought non
union employers in their trade, and
On the platform have voiced the ne
cessity of union organization and CO.
operation
But again we find, that the Office
workers employed in their bank, with
few exceptions, are non-union and
these officials are satisfied with this
condition.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive
Engineers Bank is in the same posi-.
ton with the Federation Bank.
Can you imagine, how officials of
real labor unions, can for a moment
tolerate such inconsistency and is it a
wonder, that the great organizing
campaign of the American Federation
Of Labor, so much advertised at the
Atlantic City convention, has gone on
the rocks?
(Mr. Editor. l am member Of the
B. S. & A. u, but since it means my
decapitation to be known as CORE
spending with you, must beg you to
take the above information as the
truth and if you need verifcation, !
am confident, that neither president
Bright or secretary Bohm, assuredly
the latter, will not deny the truth Of
the statement. Yours is the only la
Dor paper that would dare publish the
facts.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
NEGRO TEACHERS
NOT ACCEPTED IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Equality Boasts Again
Show Up
From . OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

From Teaoher-correspondent.
One of Americas pet patriotic
myths is that we have something
which is the envy and desire Of every
poor human who was unfortunate
enough to have been born elsewhere,
equal opportunity. It is offered to all
black or White, rich or poor, young
or old. This thing is built upon a
great, solid, impregnable, inviolable
rock named the public school. Look
at Lincoln-a poor boy who went to
school, studied, and became president.
But, what is more remarkable, look
at Booker T. Washington, a Negro,
who, because the public school Of
fered him an education, became an
educator and writer of national fame.
While you are looking at Booker,
look long and hard. His chief service
seems to be to the capitalist class,
which uses him as an example" to
disarm criticism. 1t pushes him up
close to the face of society so that
1t cannot see the mass of contradic-
tory facts bheind him. He is the JUS
LITIGATION of every injustice to the Ne
gro on the educational field.
Facts disclose that there is dis
elimination against members Of the
Negro race even when they have
struggled to the position of teachers
The other day-a Negro teacher was
sent as a substitute to south side
school in Chicago in which there is
IN appreciablA percentage Of Negro
children. After school that day the
principal notified her that she would
not be needed the next day, tho II was
known that the regular teacher would
not return.
A white women was sent TO that
room the next day, but another Ne
gress was sent to fill a second va
cancy in the same school. At noon
the second substitute was asked TO
leave and the center which sends
substitutes was requested to be care
full not 10 send another Negress to
that school.
Similar determinations are common.
No protest IS raised anywhere in the
school system. Not even the Chicago
Teachers Federation makes an at
tempt at remedying this condition. II
will be the function of the progressive
teachers OF Chicago TO demand that
any person who is qualified for a
teaching position be given complete
and unhampered opportunity to earn
her living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
FURNITURE And
CABINET Makers
CONDITIONS B A D
Bosses Set Hours; Pay
Starvation Wages
81 4 Woke correspondent

NEW YORK, March 8.-Due to lack
Of organization the conditions Of the
furniture fnishers and cabinet MAX
ers, repairmen and polishers are get
ting worse and worse. Most of the
workers in this trade work in the
large furniture and department stores
for wages that range from SIS to $40
a week. The boss fixes the hours to
suit himself
During the busy season--which is
about months-all Of the workers
are speeded-dp turning out great
amounts of work. When the slack
season comes around hundreds are
dumped onto the streets to seek work
When an ad is inserted in one of the
newspapers for finisher or pol
isher dozens of men gather at the
place all expecting to get the job.
The bosses, in these slack periods
call the workers into their Office and
interview each one in private. The
boss, when he has him in the room,
asks him if he is union man,
whether he is married and what
wages he will work for. The worker
who does not belong to the union and
is willing to work for low wage gets
the job.
Many of the workers think that
when they go into the boss Office and
get the job after promising to work
for small wage that they have done
smart thing. All they are doing is
cutting their own throat. The boss is
thus able to keep the workers work
ing at low wages and they do not dare
ask for shortef hours.
There is only one way that the fur
niture and cabinet workers can get
better conditions in their industry and
that is thru the organization Of a
union. BY organizing into unions
the furniture and cabinet workers will
be able to shorten their hours, in
crease their wages and take steps to
prevent the bosses from browbeating
them at every opportunity.
Be worker correspondent. II paws
for the workers. It hurts the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
DIR. Limburg Fails to
Form Dutch Cabinet
Especial to The Daily Worker

AMSTERDAM, March S.-Holland,
too, has its cabinet crisis. DR.. Linn
burg has failed to solve the question
Of whether the country shall be rep
resented at the Vatican and has been
excused from his mandate to form a
cabinet. The country has been with
out a responsible parliamentary head
or over three months.
The catholic party is determined up
on representation while the oppposi-
ton is equally opposed. The groups
are nearly equally balanced in the
parliament.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10

Mr.. Brady, a, member of the Photo
Engravers Union has been an active,
conservative trades unionist and
prominent in Tammany Hall, (no
doubt you have heard of this sewer
being the connecting link between
the labor leaders and the hall, and
practically bossing the jobs.
Mr.. Munholland for years represent
ed the Patternmakers Union and was
a "hell bent for glory" trades union
ist. Both are conservative and reac-
tionary. 4s.A
On the board Of directors of the
Federation Bank are, Sara Conboy,
sec.-treas. United Textile Workers.
James P. Holland, formerly represen-
tative Of the Firemens Union, presi-
dent of the N. Y. State Federation of
Labor, now holding down a lucrative
political job at $500 per year and
trimmings, by the grace of Jimmie
Walker, Tammany mayor.
William Kohn, president Upholster-
ers International Union, progressive.
formerly president of the farmer-labor
party and American labor party, ad-
vocating continuously in his monthly
Journal, the need for organization
among the workers.
Joseph P. Ryan, a vice-president of
the Longshoremens International I'm
ion, recently elected president Of the
local central body. Frank x. Sullivan,
Ia so-called labor lawyer.
John Sullivan, formerly an organ.
izer of the brewery workers, president
of the local central body, an appointee
Of another shining light of Tammany,
Mr.. Coler in some welfare organiza-
ton. and at present, president of the
N. Y. State Federation OF Labor. and
last but not least, Matthew VOL. a
vice-president of the American Fedora.
ton Of Labor, and president of the
Photo Engravers Union.
With this array of union men. as
prominent officials OF the Federation
Bank, one would have supposed that
their very first duty as union men,
would have been to see to it, that
the Office staff OFF, the Federation
Bank, created and iorgaaized by the
union labor movement, should be
members of the Bookkeepers, Steno.
graphers and Accountants Union
1886. ssrie+
But according to. the report of the
B. s. & A. U. officials, their effort to
unionize this union CD bank, has
been nil, and it isanearly three years
in business. 4a7 ~
Even Mr.. Frayne, the A. r. of L.
representative has been unsuccessful
IN his various attempts in this direc.
ton. .o.f
The union men, who deposit union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10

creates lOrCe Oh cOSSaCkS 10 lnIllnl-'
date pickets and to break strikes.
The report plainly declares that this
State Police which came into exist
ence against the strong opposition of
a part of the community should have
its tenure protected by law and mot
be subject to the varying currents of
popular feeling"
State Police Menace.
This means that it shall be entirely
independent of the great mass of peo-
pie of New York state and beyond
any check or control by workers. We
can expect from such a State Police
increasing interference in strikes, not
only such as took place in breaking
the streetcar mems strike in Buffalo
in 1921 but interference on a larger
scale. From such a State Police the
same treatment can be expected as
that suffered under the infamous
State Constabulary Of Pennsylvania,
which has already produced such ex-
cellent results for the capitalist class
in breaking strikes, clubbing pickets
and destroying organized labor.
A More Efficient Bureaucracy.
The whole project of the consolida-
ton, hailed as a step in economy, will
not reduce the army of bureaucrats
in the state machinery. On the con-
trary, this bureaucracy will only be
used much more efficiently and under
greater dictatorial power of the gov
ernor against labor.
The proposal for the four-year term
for governor is a blow to the so-called
democracy" of America 1t removes
still farther the state machinery from
any check by the masses of people so
that the governor can act with i'm
punity in the interests of capital, with
out even being called to such little
accounting in his activities as takes
place in the periodic elections. The
governor and the state legislature,
which in the last years have shown
themselves as ready agents Of the cap
italist class in their denial OF any
interest in the condition of labor, will
only be so much more subservient to
the lobbyists of Big Business and will
grant to these lobbyists and Big Bust
ness greater control over the state
machinery, denying to labor even the
little crumbs and petty concessions
which they throw out to it from time
to time today.
Labor Party the Answer.
The entire proposal for concentra-
ton of government is a challenge to
labor, which labor must take up
swiftly if it does not wish to see a
state machinery imposed upon it that
will club it into submission any time
it raises its voice for the maintenance
or improvement of its present stand
ards. The organization of a labor
party by the trade unions and other
bodies of labor must be the answer
to this challenge to labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
DON'T LEAVE 0 UT YOUR
| NAME AND ADDRESS WHEN
SENDING IN YOUR ARTICLE


Due to the volume OF Worker cor
respondence that comes to our office
every day and the necessity often to
ask for more detailed information
and send suggestions and instrue-
tIons, we make the following request
from our Worker Correspondents:
At the top Of each page Of your
manuscript, In the right hand cor
ner, write In plain hand, II you do
not use typewriter, your name, adj
dress and date. At the end OF your
manuscript add a note stating
whether you wish your name to be
used and any other instructions re-
aardIng the signing Of your article.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
Must Declare Income,
French Chamber Votes

PARIS, March s.-The government
suffered a minor defeat in the cham.
Der OF deputies today when that body
adopted an amendment TO the financial
project requiring obligatory income
tax declarations. The vote was 3O2 to
1876.
Finance Minister Doumer had de-
manded that the amendment be sent
back TO the finance commission, as
the senate had previously rejected Il,
but he was overruled by the chambers
vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
rwo Ole ln Break.

LoRAIN, Ohio. March s.-Two men
were killed and three freight cars
were burned early today when Lake
Shore electric baggage train left the
tracks on curve three miles west of
here and crashed into concrete rail
culvert. z
The dead are:
Edward Crump, Lorain, motorman,
and Herbert Courtner Avon, conduc-
tor. They were alone in the train.
An overturned stove in one OF the
ears set fire. to-the wreckage. The
Anen were caught in a twisted mass
of steel and burned to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
PLAN FOR CONSOLIDATION
OF STATE DEPARTMENTS IN NEW
YORK ENDANGERS THE WORKERS

the consolidation Of
departments the organized labor of New York state
hands
wer the work
of New York struggle the improvement Of their
iiions
establishment police independent
military Independent the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-10
OFFICE WORKERS. ORGANIZATION
CAMPAIGN MET WITH INDIFFERENCE
BY THREE NEW YORK LABOR BANKS
BY a Worker Correspondent.

NEW YORK March Sin issue of valued
ties planned by the Bookkeepers
12646 New York City This organization
fruitful due the dsnterestedne
fcials
There three socad labor banks New York City The Fedora
ton Bank Of New York Of which president