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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
DAILY WORKER IS
FEATURED AT BIG
FREIHEIT AFFAIR
Exciting Event Friday in
Philadelphia
Special to The Daily worker)

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 22.-The
big Freiheit Ball, to be held here
in Elks' Hall, the largest in this city,
on Friday night, Dec. "a, Christmas
Eve, promises several surprises.
among which is the novel DAILY
WORKER Mask, an improvised booth
that has caused more whisperings
among those in the know than any
feature ever thrust upon an unsuspect-
ing crowd of merry-makers in the
Quaker City.
Sensational Affair.
The ball itself is staged amid SEN
sational surroundings. For months
the workers directing the affairs of
the Freiheit have spared no effort to
make known that the affair on Christ
mas Eve will eclipse all other doings
of its kind this year. The manage
ment got the largest hall in the city
and then-it went out to get the masses
acquainted with the features of the
forthcoming event. Huge posters dec
crate the city's billboards. These SEN
sational pictures have been the talk
OF the town since they were put ND.
A veritable stream Of people is head
Ing toward the gigantic dance floor.
Exciting Feature.
To cap the climax came The DAILY
WORKER Mask, with its mysterious
labyrinths and spiderlike coaxing of
the innocent to come and have a peep
at the printing press, which stands at
the entrance to the cave. Further
along is displayed the process of get.
ting out the paper, mailing 1t, hus.
Ting 1t out to the street, newsboys
calling out the "Wuxtras!" And then
well, the rest cannot be divulged
here. II will be the excitement cor
'ner and the narrow escape lane thru
each sightseer must pass-uncon.
scious OF any Of the plots that are to
be sprung along the road to freedom.
Vie for Attraction.
II is now becoming question az
to the greater attractiveness- the ball
itself or The DAILY WORKER Mask.
Both will be marvels Of mirth tick
lers. Ten thousand dancers are ex.
pected. All above that number will
be turned away for lack OF room.
The place is Elks' hail. Broad and
Vine streets. The time 10 Friday even
ing. December "a. IT Is In Phlladel-
phia, where the Freiheit and The
DAILY WORKER are booming.
Why don't you write II up7 II may
be interesting to other workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
FANS QUESTION
GAME AS EXPOSE:
HITS BASEBALL
Cobb, Speaker Incident
Only a Small Sample

A hard-drlVIng baseball manager; a
pitcher who was overworked to the
detrIment Of his arm and sacked; an
allegedIy fixed game In 1919 upon
which two famous managers and two
star players bet several thousand
doIlars-these form the background Of
organized basebalps biggest public
scandal since the crooked world
series of 1919.
The two managers are Ty Cobb of
Detroit and iris Speaker of Cleveland.
The players are Smokey Joe Wood
and Dutch" Leonard. The latter
caused all the trouble. He claims Ty
Cobb pushed" him while he was in
the box for Detroit, that, as a con-
sequence, his arm gave way, and Cobb
then tried to sell him to a minor
league team.
Fixed Game.
Leonard charges that the four men
involved fixed an end season game
between Cleveland and Detroit and
laid several thousand dollars, or tried
to, on the outcome. The bets were
not all placed. Only few hundred
was won between them. But Leonard
claims that this little incident is only
a sample of the way it works.
He produced letters from Cobb and
Wood to verify his charges. It is
significant that both Cobb and Speak
err retired from the game this year
wealthy men. The investigation being
conducted by Commissioner Judge X.
M. Lands can only sift few facts
about this specific case. The princi-
pies are out of baseball.
Crooked Turnout.
Anyone who thinks organized base
ball is on the square, has another
guess coming" said an old time game
follower to The DAILY WORKER.
There is too much money involved in
it. A vast betting machine has been
built up around the game and the line
between a game honestly won or lost
and one thrown is far too thin. The
present airing of very minor in
cident that happened many years ago
is only drop in the bucket of what
real investigation would reveal"
Chicago ball fans may also be heard
to inquire why it is that Judge Lands
has been so reticenlt about making
pubic the facts in this particular case.
1T Certainly could NnosNsve been UNI
known to the commissioner, they say,
that Speaker and Cobb retired for
reason. The case also reveals that
Lands has been conducting hearings
on it for some months past. The press
learned of the case, not thru Lands,
but because Dutch" Leonard talked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
Senate HEARS
PENNSYL
GRAFT REPORT
Nearly 3 Millions More
Spent BY G. 0. P.
Especial to The Daily workor)

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. - Listing
expenditures Of s2,777,s42 in the Penn
sylvanfa republican senatorial primary
last May, the Reed campaign fund
committee filed a preliminary report
with the senate on Its Keystone state
inquiry.
The committee merely recited the
revelations of expenditures on behalf
Of Senator George Wharton Pepper.
Senator-elect William S. Ware and
Governor Clifford Pinchot, without FL
ing any recommendations.
The committee also reported of the
inquiries held in Oregon, Washington
and Missouri and in each case de-
clared there was no evidence of slush
and recommended that the investiga-
tions be dropped.
Have Contempt Case.
The committee launched it's first
contempt case by formally citing
Thomas F. Cunningham, Ware Lieuten-
ant, to the senate for his refusal to
answer questions concerning contri-
buttons to the Ware fund The com
mittee asked the senate ito take such
action as the senate may deem
proper"
Rap Manufacturers.
Added to this purely political con-
test was the determination on the
part of the Pennsylvania Manufac-
iurers' Association, under the leader
ship Of it's president, wealthy manu-
facturer of Eastern Pennsylvania and
an experienced lobbyist, Joseph R.
Crumbs, to elect John S. Fisher, cor
poration and railroad attorney, and to
defeat Edward F. Beidleman for the
republican gubernatorial nomination
and thereby prevent the repeal of an
excise tax on coal mined in the state
as advocated by Beidleman, and in
sure the mountaineering interests
continued freedom from all state cor
porate taxation" the report said.
Absolve Oregon.
In its Oregon investigation, the
committee reported it was convinced
the charges were unfounded that the
Portland Electric Power company had
paid the Portland Oregonian $4,000
to oppose the candidacy of Senator
Stanfield OF Oregon.
The committee also found that the
charges made in the Washington SEN
atorial election that 100000 had been
spent on behalf Of A. Scott Built, the
democratic nominee, were unfounded.
1t did discover expenditures of $4,000
on behalf Of Bullitt, the report said,
but the committee "believe the
charges of excessive expenditures
were unfounded."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
STRIKE To GO
ON UNTIL ALL
MILLS SETTLE
Big Rally at PassGic
Decides to Fight
Especial to The DAILY worker)

NSPcSidl 10 me lazy WOFkeTl
PASSAIC, Dec. %. - The big tex
tile strike will continue until all the
mills have settled with the union,
eight thousand textile strikers were
told at a packed meeting In Belmont
Park Casino, Garfield.
No Company Union.
The meeting rivaled in size and en-
thusiasm the huge rallies OF the early
period of the strike, which is now in
it's eleventh month Gustave Deak,
president of the United Textile Work
ers local, acted as chairman, and told
the workers that the strike would go
on against the other mills until every
one of the struck mills had followed
he example of Passaic Worsted, Bo-
any Worsted, Garfield Worsted, and
the Dundee Textile, and had recog-
nized the union.
He announced a meeting of all
Forstmann G. Huffman workers to
consider plans for carrying ON and in
tensifying the struggle against the
Forstmann & HUFFMAN plants until
Mr.. Rheinhold is made to realize that
the only union we want, the only I'M
ion we will have, is the United Textile
Workers Union of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor and not the dead
carrion of a company union"
Fight Goes On, Says Coco.
Chief Organizer Coco predicted an
early settlement in all the mills. stat
ing that "the bosses one by one have
been convinced that the only way to
settle this strike, the only way to
have peace in the mills, is to recog-
nize our right to have union OF our
own choosing. They thought to starve
us begging back, but instead we go
back in victory, with our union to pro-
tect us. But the fight is still on
against those mills that have not yet
settled, the Forstmann & HUFFMAN.
the Gera and others. And want to
say to the workers from those mills
that the fight will continue until those
mills too are brought to recognize the
union, until the pirate flag Of company
unionism is hauled down in every one
of the mills"
Starr Sure of Victory.
James Starr, vice president Of the
United Textile Workers, then took the
floor to tell the workers that every
thing possible was being done to
assure victory in all the mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
XMAS MEANS
SOLIDARITY
FOR WORKERS
Christmas, 1926.

Christmas, 1926.
What will it mean to the members
|of the working class turnout the
United States? International Labor
Defense answers the question by call
ing on all workers to express their
solidarity with the class was prisoners
held behind prison bars, who realize
more keenly than any how much bun
combe there is in the pratings OF
Christmas cheer - good will on
earth.'
Christmas parties are being held
thruout the land by branches OF the
i. L. d. on Friday night, Christmas
Eve, Dec. "a, to raise funds for the
political prisoners. All Of the pro-
ceeds will go to bring the message of
class solidarity to the workers who
are in prison because of their activity
in behalf of the working class.
The /. L. d. is thus giving every
worker an opportunity to observe
Christmas with the spirit of the work
ers.
Chicago Party.
In Chicago the Christmas Eve party
will be held at the West End Women's
Club, Ashland and Monroe. A jolly
time is assured everyone who attends
the affair.
Besides the merrymaking features
Of the party, which have been elabo-
rately planned, there will be a "tele
graph BOOTH" thru which all OF the
class war prisoners will be directly
connected with the workers ION the
outside" who attend the affair. Wires
of greeting to those ION the inside"
will be sent from the booth.
Those who want to show their soil
darity in an extra manner are given
this hint by the Chicago committee on
arrangements. 1T wouldn't be a bad
idea," says the committee. III you
brought along package to be sold or
auctioned off at the party for the BEN
eft of the class war prisoners"
In New York the workers will cele-
brate Christmas Eve at the big dance
OF the Workers School, which prom
ises to be one OF the biggest affairs
ever held. The dance will also cele-
brate the great expansion Of the
school made this year.
Philadelphia workers will make
merry at the Daily Freiheit ball TO
be held there on Christmas Eve. The
sections In Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Buf.
falo Erie. Canton. Youngstown. Mil
waukee, st. Paul, Duluth, ST. Louis.
Kansas City, San Francisco, Los An
geles, Oakland and Portland are all
doing their bit'' to add 10 the Christ
mas relief fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
Build the Red Sports Of
Labor Against the Profit
Sports of the Capitalists
BY u LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THE latest scandal in baseball will
L remain just another scandal"
If workers are not aroused by it
against all sports for profit.
Defenders Of the capitalist system
pride themselves on the fact that
their social order offers personal
gain, IN MONEY, as the great driv-
ing motive for human action. They
argue that without this incentive,
progress is paralyzed.
Basebalrs new scandal again
proves to the open-minded the cor
rupting influences Matched by this
profit desire, and gives the lie to the
champion of capitalisms big incen-
tive.
In the words of Hebert b.
CDutch'O Leonard, who spilled the
beans, "Why Cobb (Ty Cobb, form
er manager Of Detroit) turned on
me l don't know. Money is his sole
thought. That also applies to
Speaker (Tris Speaker, former man
ager of Cleveland). Cobb may have
figured he was too big to be touched.
Well, he knows now that he is not"
Baseball players, and especially
managers of baseball teams, are
amoung the most highly salaried in
the land. Salaries granted college
professors, scientific workers and
similar categories are pigmy in size.
Yet it is well-known that gambling,
the desire to make more money and
in hurry, permeates the whole
capitalist sports structure, especial
ly baseball. Clark Griffith, of the
Washington American League team,
for instance, openly declares that,
There was no great crime in Wash
ington players betting on their own.
victory in a 1912 game with the
Boston Red Sox."
Thus it is not necessary to enter
into the question of whether there
is any truth to the charges made by
Dutch" Leonard against Cobb and
Speaker, who have retired from the
game wealthy men. The fact re-
mains that professional baseball,
part of the profit system, is con-
Quoted for the money that there is
in it, and the players and managers
are out to get what they can, just
as well as the owners Of the teams,
whose takings run into the millions
each season.
To question the right Of players
to gamble on their own victories
might direct attention against the
gamblers on the boards of trade,
the chambers of commerce
and the stock exchanges where
gambling has been raised to the
high art of financiering. Instructive
ly baseball players think they have
the same right to throw" a game,
that the big capitalists have in rig
ging" the market for their own pro-
fit purposes.
To be sure the hauls that lure
baseball players into proat-taking
are oftentimes not large. The money
won in the present scandal is re-
ported to total only $3.50.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
High Cost of Crime
Absorbs Big Amount

The steel cells alcao to restrain
those who will be loo up in Cook
county's new Jail will st S1.4OO,00O
The construction companies bids for
the new criminal court building and
jail, opened by the county board,
range from S4,672,OOO to s5,179,SS5
This does not include plumbing, which
will amount to about 100000, or the
electrical work, which will add some.
thing like S175,00O
The total cost will probably use up
about all of the s7,500,O00 authorized
by the voters in referendum.
The bids, besides being passed upon
by the committee on public service
VIII receive the scrutiny of citizens
committee, headed by Joseph r. Noel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
Ohio Town Demands
Freedom of Speech

YORKVILLE, o., Dec. pa big
mass meeting will be held here at
Miners hall on Sunday, Dec. 26, to
protest against the interference with
free speech and constitutional rights,
which occurred when the sheriff of
Jefferson county prevented the pro-
posed celebration of the ninth ami
versary Of the Soviet Republic on
Nov. 6.
The protest meeting will be under
the combined auspices Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, the American
Civil Liberties Union, and the Work
ers Party. Admission is free-even
if speech isn't.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
Thompson Report Is
Opposed to Freedom
for the Philippines
Continued from page ~

Pointing out that political condi-
tions had virtually strangled business
on the islands, Col. Thompson said:
mot only is it impossible to obtain
new capital, but many existing in
vestments are regarded unsafe"
AS for the Filipinos' demand for in
dependence, Thompson said that for
the United States to relinquish con-
troll at this time would mean eco
nomic disaster" in the islands and
might complicate international re-
lations in the orient"
Military Rule.
Referring to the military rule OF
the Philippines, the report says:
"The military atmosphere of the
present administration has been UNI
ortunate in its reaction upon the
Filipino leaders. The governor gen.
sral. himself distinguished soldier.
is surrounded by a group of Ameri-
can army officers who serve as assis-
tants. aides and confidential advisers.
These officers have excellent mill.
tary records, but evidently lack
training and experience in the duties
of civil government and in dealing
with legislative bodies and civilian
officials" This is hint of Woods
withdrawal.
Recommendation contained in
Thompson's report were:
That Mindanao and Sulu should
not be separated from the rest Of the
islands, but that American control be
strengthened in the Moro country.
Federal Reserve.
THAT the federal reserve system
should be extended to the Philippine
Islands:
THAT one or more federal land
banks should be established in the
Philippines to provide loans at rea-
sonable interest rates for the farmers
who now pay from 10 to 80 per cent
interest;
THAT the Department OF Agricul.
ture establish a sufficient number OF
experiment stations 10 properly de.
velop the agricultural resources OF
the islands;
Amend Land Law.
THAT the Philippine Legislature
should amend the Philippine LAND
laws, with proper safeguards, so as
to bring about such conditions as will
attract capital and business expert.
ence for the development OF the pro.
duction OF rubber, coffee and other
tropical products some OF which are
now controlled by government mo.
nopolies;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24

Take a look at the results of the
announced new financing" of the
Victor Talking Machine for instance
which gets this headline in the New
York Times: $4,000, 900 Paper Pro-
fit in Ten Days for Bankers Who
Bought Victor Co. Stock" That is
all very legitimate and the finance
capitalists behind the deal are laud-
ed as highly successful" in the
profit game. Perhaps gambling in
baseball, and other capitalist sports
will some day be lifted to the same
high plane of approval
But there is danger that 1t won't.
Inorder to be successful, from the
box Office viewpoint, baseball must
have the support of large masses of
people, including many workers, who
are whipped into an hysterical local
patriotism by the kept press, that
gives more attention to baseball
than to any other sport.
1t is necessary, therefore, to keep
the game as clear of crookedness
as possible. Or 1t must at least
present a picture of cleanliness,
since it is difficult to get people ex-
cited over a CROOKED" baseball
game, just as it is to develop en-
thusiasm over a framed prizefight,
wrestling match, horse race or other
sporting event.
The baseball game, therefore, set
crook, Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis) to catch the crooks, favor
tie police method.
The police under capitalism will
never eradicate crime as long as
the capitalist crime-breeding system
lasts. Judge Lands, the red-baiter,
the foe of the working class who
gave his name to the Lands Award
plan to inaugurate the open shop"
in the Chicago building industry,
will never catch all the crooks in
baseball because the profit motive
will always be there to breed new
crooks. And the profit desire is al
ways there to get even the boasted
commissioner Of baseball"
The present scandal also draws at
tention again to the contract system
under which baseball players are
held as virtual poems. 1t was the
smart OF his chains that forced
Dutch" Leonard to "get even" with
Cobb. who sold him for $4,000 to
the Vernon, Calf, refusing even to
allow him to buy his own freedom.
Leonard was thereby denied a
privilege often extended to the black
slaves of the South in the days Of
chattel slavery. When the slave,
Leonard, protested against over
work, he got the reputation of being
"the Bolshevik" on the team.
This latest scandal must not re-
main "just another scandal" 1t
should be another urge for the work
ing class to develop its own sports,
fostered thru its own organizations.
Against the sports for profit of the
capitalist class, the RED Sports"
of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
OUR READERS CAN HELP US
GATHER SOME FACTS.

The DAILY WORKER is interested in securing facts
gdrdng corruption and graft IN the labor
OF the characteristics Of the American trade union
that 0a dishonesty corruption and gangstesns not
only widespread bat less looked upon the
OF me membership as something to be erpeced.
The importance to the 1oorers studynq this
condition t all its rdcGt0nS is at obDious The larger
Of this kind that hare under seachlght such
as the BrindeH incident IN Ne YORK, Of
socb facts easily cleaned But there nnNneoble
local samples Of corruption obscure and that
posed only y persons IN the locality and IN touch leh the
facts
Oar request Is that readers oho interested this
study and oho knoo of such do the of sending
briefly and clearly possible the facts concerning
them We insist hotceper, that the material composed Of
facts that oGn be proUen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
Low Pay for Women
Workers in Mississippi

hours or more a week.
The bureau found that half OF all
these workers earned less than $500 a
week and that half OF the full-time
workers earned less than $3.50. Half
Of the Negro women workers earned
less than S5.75.
Half Get Less Than $500.
The bureau also investigated the
annual earnings of women who
worked at least A hours. Over 70
per cent Of these put In more than 80
weeks during the year. Yet half OF
them earned less than SAGA The tex.
tile industry showed half the steady
women workers o.rnlng less than $500
In the year. For the 10-cent stores
the figure was s431. for mems cloth
ing sa3s. laundries s463 and general
mercantile establishments ss45 q year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
N. Y. BOXMAKERS
UNION REFUTES
. FORWARD CHARGE
Declares All Sections
Cooperate in Strike
Especial to The Daily worker)

NEW YORK, Dec. a. The paper
box workers union of New York
which has been on strike against the
box makers association for IL weeks
has made public a statement the OBJ
ject of which is to refute the charge
made in an article in the socialist
Jewish Daily Forward to the effect
that the union is throwing out Com
munists and left wingers."
Seeks Support From All.
The statement declares that the I'M
ion seeks support in its struggle from
all sections OF the labor movement. 1t
reads as follows:
1--WE. the striking paper box max.
ers, who have been fighting for eleven
weeks against the bosses for better
ment of our economic conditions and
10 save the union, declare that all un-
ions, fraternal organizations, friendly
groups and individuals, irrespective OF
their beliefs, are asked TO support us
financially and morally in our strug.
gle.
Deny Statement.
I'VE emphatlcally deny the state
ment which appeared in the press
hat we forced any element out of
our Relief Committee.
1--WE call upon every worker to aid
n our relief Immediately, in order to
how the bosses that the labor move
nent ne whole is supporting us in
iur struggle.
Our union will not tolerate the
injection of politics into this situa-
ton.
Fired Caiola, Chairman,
Gen. Strike Com, p. b. M. u"
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24
VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation or Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. It is
broadcasting on 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
500 p. m,-chicago Federation Of La
Dor Hour.
6s3o-The BreVoort Concert Trio;
Little Joe Warner; Hazel Nyman, &C.
Gordon; Anna 5oehm; Lucky WILDER.
o:oo-Alamo Cafe Orchestra.
t1.0o-Alamo Entertainers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-24

Why don't you write II up7 II may
be interesting to other workers.
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