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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
SLUSH MONEY
ROCKS LOCAL
xxx. SOCIETY
Chief Refuses to Open
Books to Public

There is serious rift in the ranks
of the Better Government Association.
The rift is over the loot.
The above named organization is q
self constituted body of shoppers with
K. K. K. proclivities. It's avowed aim
is to purify the social atmosphere of
Chicago by keeping ladies Of easy viz
tue constantly looking for new quar-
tiers and foregoing bootleggers to in.
vest more of their profits in protec-
ton.
Brennan Like insult.
Yesterdays DAILY WORKER pub
lished the story of George E. Bren-
mans contribution to the B. G. A. dur
ing the last election fight over tho
states attorneyship of Cook county.
Robert E. Grove, catholic, ran on the
republican slate; Michael Igoe, catho.
lie, was on the democrat slate. Hope
Thompson, protestant, ran as an indie.
pendent. The latter was supported by
the B. G. A. which looks on the cath
olic church as an instrument Of the
devil.
But George E. Brennan contributed
money to the B. G. A. treasury in the
belief that vote for Thompson would
be vote lost to Grove and as good
as a vote for Igoe.
Refuses to Show Books.
Now comes the news that Senator
Mckinley donated $4,000 to the Bet
ter Government Association in the re-
cent primaries. This story has not
yet been confirmed as the superin.
tendent Of the organization, E. ]. Dav-
is when on the stand at the slusn
fund investigation was not asked if
he received any gifts from senatorial
aspirants. He has also refused to
open his books to the public.
Senator Reed intimated that he
would reopes the investigation into
the B. g. A angle Of the slush in.
quiry.
William @. Hollister, a wealthy
printer and honorary treasurer of the
organization was refused permission
to see the books of the B. G. A. by f.
j, Davis. HOLSTER announced that
he would resign.
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be shut tight. In their naivette they
feel that there ought to be tables at
which to eat their lunches, and that
while 1t may be good etiquette for the
Japanese over in Japan to eat sitting
on the floor it is not customary in
America, especially when mice and
rats are playing tag all over the floor.
Older Strikers Not So Eager.
There are men strikers, too. The
men attend meetings and picket also.
The men are older though, and pretty
much used up by life And there are
some grown up women from far off
Eastern Europe. The men and these
women are good strikers also. But
their grasp for little more life is not
so eager.
The consciousness of power has now
come over the strikers. They have
taken the offensive. They have formu-
lated demands. A week ago the strike
committee met the mill agent, Mr.. Gal
liant and presented their demands in
writing.
Mill Agent Astounded.
The Mill Agent could hardly believe
his eyes. He was flabbergasted.
"BOLSHEVISM, ANARCHISM, the
end Of the world" he cried out. "No
Sir, No Sir, l am boss here. G. D.
how dare you. There is the mill go
to your work" He grabbed the sheet
of paper containing the demands and
crumppled it up. On second thought
he put it back on the table and
5moothed it out. you and You and
YOU" he pointed menacingly to sew
eral members of the committee, you
are trouble makers, you are no weav-
ers, I am going out to lunch" AS
he walked out he growled back, "Ill
shut up the Mill all together"
Giving the Boss a Fight.
The next day the committee re-
ported back to the strikers on the
conference with the boss. "Begorra
if its a foit he wants, he'll have two
foits," exclaimed an Irish woman
striker. eye jolly well bet ell ave it,"
put in the chair lady from Lancashire
England.
And 1t is fight such as Mr.. Gallant
was not expecting that $50 silk weav-
ers and loom fixers are giving the
Lowell Silk Mill Of the New Market
Manufacturing Co. And what's more
permanent ORGANIZATION of
these workers will come out of this
fight.
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UnOrgGnized Silk Workers of LOweN,
Massachusetts, Go Out on Strike
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cerely," we further inquired very ear.
nestly, do they really mean to fight?"
i think so, l know Iydo," he replied
unhesitat1ngly.
Militant Girls.
We went up to Lowell the next
morning and met with the strikers for
the first time. We found that nearly
all present were girls. Young girls
rather light hearted, agog with Gu
riosity, and the thrill Of the novelty
Of the thing. We spoke to them in a
serious way, calling forth from the
girls the seriousness that is in them.
DO you mean this now?" we asked
emphatically several times. They re-
piled that they did. That they were
ready to make a real fight of it, for
better conditions of work, and for
some kind of organization.
We were Cat least l was) still skep-
teal. Nevertheless we went ahead
with the selection of a strike commit.
tee. The next morning we met with
the strikers again.
Strike Machinery Organized.
In two days We had the strike ma
chinery organized. Picket captains,
picket squads, hall chairman, hall sec
rotary. Registration of strikers. WIS.,
iting committee, and publicity COM
mittee. We have since organized
very efficient relief committee. The
workers are very amenable and sensi-
BILE. They made practical suggestions.
and readily accepted practical propos-
ais. l who have had a directing part
in many strikes among clothing work
ers where every other man is an ora
tor, and labor strategist, missed the
usual harangues and confusion.
100 Per cent Strike.
The strike is now on 100 per cent
strong. Girls who are yet too young
to know the sternness of life, many
of whom have never seen a parade, let
alone participating in any public af-
fair, are picketing, carrying placards
with seriousness and discipline. They
don't know what the words "class
struggle" mean. But they feel the
struggle, and act it. Il did not re-
quire any oratory to make them un-
-derstand that $14 week is not enough
to live on. They understand that it is
not written in any book good or bad
that with the temperature over 80 de-
grees the windows in the mill should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
It's Blue Monday for the
Menshevik and Capitalist
Enemies of Soviet Rule
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TT is BLUE Monday" morning so far
L as the BLACKBOARD capitalist press
is concerned in frantically develop
ing its hysterical anti-Soviet cam
paign. All that is new consists Of
repeated denials from the Soviet
government at Moscow of the food
of Shameless fakes" that GIBBS and
flows with each new edition.
Thus Hearst's International News
Service starts the week with several
hundred words Of rehash, every
word being mere repetition OF what
appeared over the last weekend.
Definite denials, however, come
from Moscow for those capitalist
sheets that care to publish them.
It seems that the Soviet govern
ment didn't bother much about the
original fakes. It doubtless took it
for granted that the world had been
fed UP on these lies and that they
would quickly sink into oblivion of
their own weight. But the capitalist
press knows no depths of infamy.
Denials of the fraudulent reports
originating in all the emigre cap
itals along the Soviet border, from
Bucharest to Riga, come from four
sources. These are as follows:
First:-An official denial by the
Soviet government at Moscow of
the reports circulated "thruout the
world" in the words of the Interna-
tional News Service, that revolu-
ton has broken out in Leningrad
or that there is a mutiny in the
Kronstadt garrison"
Second:-Another denial from the
Soviet foreign office at Moscow,
declaring" in the words of the
United News, that umors of
mutinies and revolts among its
troops are absolutely false. 1t cate
gorically denies reports of rebellions
in southern Russia and elsewhere,
and asserts that the recent rumors
of such trouble result from the anti
Soviet campaign started abroad"
Third:-An announcement by the
Soviet embassy in London that It
had received a message from Mos
COW this morning august 81 reiter-
ating the governments denial of the
report that a revolt was taking
place.
Fourth:-Then there is the re-
port Of the anti-Soviet Baldwin gov
eminent in England. The announce
ment was made at London that the
Official dispatches received of the
British foreign Office (Chamberlain)
today failed to carry any conflrma-
ton of the report of revolts in Rus
STA" The foreign office announced
that it is discounting ell reports of
Russian disorders.
One of the most wretched exhibit
tons incidental to this anti-Soviet
campaign is offered by the delapidat.
ed anti-Sovietist, Isaac Don Levine,
who tries to boster up the Hearst
attack with the passing reputation
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that he earned during a brief visit
to the Soviet Union and the writing
of a book on the Russian situation.
But even Levine is forced into max
ing statements that kick his care
fully written endorsement of alleged
disorders in Russia" into the gut
ter where grovels the press for
which he writes. He confesses:
There is nobody outside the
Communist Party in Russia capable
of initiating a serious insured
ton"
"Trotsky is too disciplined not to
follow the orders Of the central COM
mittee Of the Communist Party"
And much more to the same effect.
Even this bought and paid for"
scribe must admit that the mighty
power of the Communist Party in
the Union OF Soviet Republics stands
unchallenged.
One Of the elements that finds
great joy in the avalanche of
malicious falsehood that is being
spread over the the earth is made
up of those Russian emigre men,
sheviks who pray for the return of
democracy" in the Soviet Union,
much as catholics are praying for
the return Of religious freedom" in
Mexico. They seek the democracy
and the freedom" that will enable
them to stab Soviet rule in the back,
If they can, much as they sought to
overthrow the rule of the workers
and peasants in Soviet Georgia. But
they met with miserable failure
there. Every new attempt will also
fail. Alexander Kerensky, who tried
to betray the Russian workers and
peasants into the hands of the Yer
sailles allies in the last war, shakes
on the cobwebs and energies in vain
from his retreat in Paris. His call
to the forces Of the white terror"
to rally against Soviet rule is no
threat to the Bolshevik power.
AS has already been pointed out
In these columns, whatever differ
ences there are in the policies pro-
posed by Stain, Trotsky and Zinc
view, will be given careful consider
alton in the future, as they have
been in the past, in the councils of
the All-Union Communist Party. The
party will arrive at its decision and
enforce 1t. The party builds the
Soviet Front against world capital
ism. That menshevik socialists and
great capitalists should try to find
some comfort out of alleged "disor-
ders" in the Soviet Union is in
eTitable. They are both enemies of
the social revolution. Behind the
barrage of Infamous misrepresenta-
ton laid down by the capitalist
world against the Soviet Union. the
workers and farmers may behold
the enemies of their struggle for
emancipation. In bringing this
knowledge to forefront the present
Incident will develop some good for
world labor.
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Green Promises u. S.
Aid to British Labor
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strikers, Is so small in amount per
family that 1t does not even provide
a minimum of the plainest food. 1t
leaves nothing for clothing, shoes,
shelter or fuel. The strikers and their
families must have food and clothing.
From the Russian trade unions they
have received s2,50O.OO0. and have
spent 1t in their soup kitchens. From
their own trade union funds and from
other British sources they have receiv-
ed and expended s40.000,000 in main
tanning some 100000 for IA weeks
Of industrial war. Now they ask Amer
lean labor, which has sent them total
OF about $4,000. to really become In
terested in their struggle to maintain
civilized standards of wages in Europe.
Mean TO Fight II Out.
Miss Wilkinson and Tillett told
Green that there was no chance OF
immediate settlement. The miners
delegates confirmed this view. Brit
fish mine owners are determined to
break down the wage scales and to
crush the union. The strikers have
no thought OF surrendering the ground
won In past years at heavy cost.
Instead, they propose to put their
case before the trade unions and the
liberal public OF the United States,
In union meetings, in conferences and
in mass meetings in the cities. Miss
Wilkinson will specialize on women's
organizations. Most of the delegation
returned 10 New York from their Visit
to Washington. to start their fund
raising campaign. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
Rubber the Reason
for Bacon Bill, Say
Filipinos in Paper

WASHINGTON. Aug. 9.-Represent.
active Bacon's bill for separation of the
rich rubber lands of the southern half
Of the Philippine Islands from native
control is the target OF many articles
and arguments in the current issue
Of the Philippine Republic, organ OF
the independence mission in Washing
ton. Rubber is declared to the first,
foremost and real reason for the
Bacon bill" other reasons are named
--cocoanuts and copra, lumber and
hemp.
The magazine suggests that Bacon,
in his three speeches in behalf OF
separation OF the islands, strangely
fails to mention the fact that the
Washington government stands
pledged TO grant independence to the
Philippine lslands-not simply to q
part Of them. This, II says, all ma.
tions and races know. They watch
America which made the pledge.
Five dollars toiH reneto your
sab for year, II you send II IN
before august rs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
Russian Professor
Discovers death
Carrying" Sound
Especial to Tho Daily Worker

MOSCOW, U, S. S. r., Aug. 9. -
Professor Goldman of Kiev announced
to committee of Ukrainian scientists
that he had discovered "death-carry-
ing sounds He produced documents
to substantiate his claims.
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K. of C. Appeal.

LONDON, Aug. 9. - The foreign
ofice today denied Mexico City reports
that Great Britain has made diplom'
attic representations to Mexico, pro-
testing against the seizure Of English
owned church properties.
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Ford Circus at St. Paul.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug 9.--The first
plane Of the Edsel Ford reliability
tour in which "a planes are entered
arrived here from Milwaukee shortly
before 10 o'clock. The plane piloted
by Ray Collins, referee of the tour,
and Plotted Charles WESLEY, took or
from Milwaukee at z a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
RrItIah sur slnks.

LONDON, Aug. 9.--The British sub
rmarine s-29 sank late today in the
davenport doclyard basin with six
,teey officers and men aboard.
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CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.

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Heads of International unions have
built up powerful machines thru this
method. John l.. Lewis of the mine
workers has scores of loafing organ.
izers on his payroll, not to organize
the unorganized but to bring in the
delegates at international conventions
so that John can continue in office.
Capitalists, their henchmen and CAPT.
talistically minded people in general
are convinced that every person has a
price. They operate on this assump.
ton.
OF course it must be admitted that
~ every human being, being what he
is, is driven by an impulse to. make
himself heard. This is far from being
calamity. Ambition is a powerful
dynamo. Even when leaders quarrel
over Office in working class organiEa-
ton, tho their motives may not al
ways be altruistic, the struggle is
usually productive OF good. No leader
will admit that he is out for leader.
ship because he likes II. He usually
has a platform, which he succeeds in
enlisting his followers to fight for. II
the policy is correct the personality
Of the leader can be discounted. He
serves a useful purpose, even tho he
may care little for those he leads. He
is the servant Of progress.
THE epithet Of "caresrist" is often
i applied to individuals In the radi.
cal movement who seem to regard
organizations as vehicles for their own
personal aggrandisement. There Ia a
world OF difference between the man
who fights for leadership on the basis
OF definite policy and the thimble rig.
ger who employs the art of jugglery
TO make people believe things are not
what they are. The careerist Is
usually a demagogue and hurls verbal
thunderbolts at his opponents without
regard to reason, but with consid.
cradle attention to sound. This type
of person caters to any prejudice that
promises success, II only for the
iA""ons l.ll.-.- keLzlGAs. !. Al,i-..-li.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-11
SHEFFIELD ON
Way With BAG
OF EVIDENCE
Gales Issues a Decree
Regulating Wells
CONTINUED from page ~

would turn over the country to them.
Reports of violence continue to pour
in from all parts of the country but
most of them are without foundation.
The situation is we'll in hand and the
federation of labor is carrying on a
vigorous propaganda thruout the ma
ton against the clergy.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
NEXT OUTBOUND MAIL ;IO
 LEAVE OPHIR ON SEPT T 6

{ Get those letters ready! Theenext mail outbound, the last of the summer series, is scheduled to leave Ophir on September 16, which means that all mail going from Takotna .should be in the local office at least two or three days before that date.
 Newspapers of Alaska may sympa- thize with the people of this section ]. in having miserable summer4mail vice, and people in other parts may . either pity or throw jokes at us, but .Rtheafact remains, nevertheless, that the people. of Takotna, McGrath and environs, by having this service, ordi- :, parifx haye almost month to make repliesoto mail received. This is a feature not to be overlooked, for about every other place in the Terri tory is handicapped in this4p particular
 the people of other parts sometimes not having more than day, or..at least few days, to give attention to such matters. For all this, of course, full credit. and thanks must be given oto the '..'generous' Postal Depart ment.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
HARRY STALL. FAMOUS CHEF AND MUSICIAN,
 TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

Seattle, Aug. 31.-Wanted. in Ju- neau on the charge of uttering false statement when he obtained mar riage license there by giving an as sumed, ,,name, andy1swearing that he was a single man, when the Govern ment charges he was already mar ried, Vernon Grigshy is under arrest here.
 Grigsby is charged with having sworn that his true. name was Verne Elliot when hes obtained the marriage license, when hiss name was Vernon Grigsby.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
PICTURED
 BY SUL-ZER
Worlds GreatestJUnde- ~veloped Petroleum,
 Gold, Coal Fields.

!. Seattle, Sept 3.-Picturing that z.section- of Alaska north of the Arctic . Circle as the worlds greatest unde- , veloped gold ,feld,@and as containing
 petraleum and anthraciteacoal enough
 to last the entire. United States foG thousand years,, William. Sulzer, one time governor. of, New York, speaking
 at the Seattle Mining Clubs luncheon today, predicted the early extension
 of the Government Alaska Railroad into the country which he described .. on both sides of, the Endicott-Alaska mountains.
 .."Solne persons, pnot long ago, told us we should tear up the rails and z. abandon 1.-the. Alaska Railroad" de :. clared Sulzer. "Absurd! Our Gov ernment moves slowly, but it always reaches it's objective. '. And now the
 great oit andi coal fields. that are in the North ,Endicott range, in the great plain that. slopes away toward |. the Arctic Ocean, are its~ohjective."
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
DEATH OF
 RODGERS
Hero of Hawaiian Sea plane Flight Killed
 Landing Plane.

Philadelphia, Aug. 29.-Gcmmande John Rodgers, hero of the Hawaiian seaplsne flight. was killed .here this afternoon when landing ,the plane he was flying, which planed iRto tie Del aware liver. He died sooa after being taken te the hospital
 Accompanied by a meChanician Commander Rodgers had flown iron Anaeosta Field, near Washington, or a trip here te inspect some new planes Of the type used in the Hawaiian flight
 Comma ndtl[ [Radg gers wil! be buried ia Arlington National Cemetery, witf naval honors.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
POPULATION. OF UNITED
 STATES MOVING TO CITIES

Tulsa, Okla.AThe probable popula- ton of the limited States in 1856 will be approximately LAG 000,000, accord ing te working estimate brought re cently before the National sAssocia- tion of Real &state Boards by E.. N ', Widon, of St. Louis commercisA en- gineer of theGSouthN esternsBe H. Tele- phorfe Company.
 By that time the urban regiona, which he said contain old per cent of the total population, will hawe total of about g0,500,000 or an increase of 67 per cent over the 1920 total. Rural communities, MT Widen's figures showed, would then have total popu- lation of approxima tely 55,500,000. Their population may be expected to increase only 8 per cent over the period.
 'The population expectancy for the United States in 1850 is now 100000 less than it appeared to be several years ago, che said. ''The revision IS due principally to changes in the i'm migration outlook, and the accelera- tion of the movement from farmseand smaller towns tothe larger cities"
 The present trend of home-hmters is toward the outskirts of the cities via the best automobile roads, asserted J. k. Miller, of Geneva, O., vice presi- dent of the farm lands division. He predicted smon per cent of growth within cities and a great increase III the population of areas just outside the corporate limits. Two acres is his ideal size for a suburban farm, and he advised against novelty advertising hn selling them. The local papers were said to be the best media.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
CHARLIE REBHUN HEARD
 FROM. HOLLYWOOD, CALF

Mrs. George Mutchler, of McGrath, in the last mail, received letter from Henry Charles Rebhun, former Me Grathite. and . well known ~oldtimer. which will be of interest to many of that gentleman's friends. The. letter follows:
 Hollywood, Cal, July 19. Dear Mrs. Mutchler: Left Seattle 9th of July and landed here 9th. l was two-days in finding my brothers place. They want me to stay here with them. My brother is very, feeble. and l am going. te stay4here- this sum- mer. Am going to get a job at some of the picture places as extra man. Lots of work here at S a4day. Lean get paperhanging at SZ50 day, but the folks don't want. me to do any thing for while vet.
 I came here in taXimotor bus,s by way. of Portland, Grants Pass, Fresno, Bakersfield and Los Angeles the finest. trip I ever,tnok. The fare is very cheap, S35 by the Pass, and $4S by steamer.
 My health is fine now. The folks are figuring on taking a trip to Flor ida this fall They have very fine car.4 Regards to yourself and all sold friends. Yours as ever,
 Henry Charles .Rebhun,
 21225 Genesee Street,
 Hollywood, Calf.
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
ON CHARGE
 OF MURDER
Methodist Pastor and , Dry Agents in Jail
 5at Tacoma.

Tacoma, Sept. 3.--Rev. George 8. Selley, Free Mathodist pastor of Ort ing, and editor of the Orting Oracle is held without bail on murder charge in the Pierce ceuntv jail this afternoon, charged jointly with three Federal prohibition agents of the fatal shooting of Emile Matsumoto in a moenshine raid made by the officers and Dr. Seeley during yesterday af- ternOon
The Kusko times., 1926-09-04
Veal Loaf Blamed for
 Illness 0f.200 Persons

Peoria. Ill. Sept...2.-Canned veal loaf was blamed today for the illness of two hundred .rersons stricken with ptomaine poisoning after the annual picnic given by the City Christian En- deavor. Society. A half dozen cases were so serious as to cause removal 0 fthe patients from theI homes to hospitals Physicians believe that tive girls will die