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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
CURRENT EVENTS
BY r. J. O'FIaherty.
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President Coolidge caught six PAM
pered fish in the preserves formerly
owned by William Rockefeller. This
is six more than he caught in the
half a dozen states where primary
senatorial elections recently took
place. According to a prediction made
by Senator Cummins of Iowa, who
was handed the raspberry by Senator
Brookhart recently, Calvin will be as
dead politically, as an ancient had
dock, within a comparatively short
time. If the old slogan: Keep Cool
With Coolidge" will ever again be of
any use it will be only to the manu-
facturers of those remarkable mar
chimes that keep cheese from walking
out Of the ice chest in hot weather
TT must be nice to live in Italy. The
L latest edict of Mussolini is that
girls must not bob their hair. Per-
haps Benito, in the fullness Of his
heart shuddered at the thought of the
girls getting trimmed, though our
daily papers would strengthen the
theory that the females are at least
as deadly as the males. In the Unit
ed States, girls now put their money
in the bank, while their masculine
contemporaries resort to the stock
ing. Taxi drivers do not carry peck
etbooks any longer. They park their
money in the old garter, on the as
sumption that girl bandits don't lack
courage to hold up but are too proud
to bend down.
lying ALBERT of Belgium may be
~ granted dictatorial powers Il is
reported. Belgium, another of those
unfortunate countries that won the
war, is in pretty pickle and its
franc is in even more precarious
condition than it's French half-brother.
Europe is pretty groggy at that. Eng
land is patiently on the decline, with
a commercially disastrous strike on
its hands; France is on the verge OF
financial panic; ditto for Belgium;
SPANS only asset is a king that can
tango better than Al Jolson Italy Is =
governed by lunatic and Wall Street.
portugal is running a political
l. burlesque show which daily
change OF cast; Germany is wrestling
with unemployment and the other cap
italist countries, Hungary, Roumania,
Poland, Bulgaria, Jugo-Slavia, etc, are
not even worthy OF honorable men.
tion. Yet our capitalist hack writer's
have the colossal nerve TO repeatedly
say that Soviet economy has proved
a failure and that capitalism is SOL
vent. AS the bible might have said:
Lies repeated maketh the heart
SICK"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
1t VIII Take More than
MADE in U.S.. A. Radio to
Keep Filipinos Enslaved
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

sport pages, and then disconnected
Filipinos, who have been dissatis-
fed with American rule since the
Spaniards were driven out Of the
islands, would be quickly converted
and remain happily enslaved to the
Wall Street tyranny forever.
This use Of the radio is peculiarly
an American idea. The British have
never thought of it to soothe the
restless revolutionary masses in
India and in Egypt. France and
Spain never brought it into play as
a weapon against the warning Riffs.
The French army hurled wholesale
death into Damascus instead of
speeches on ether waves.
This would indicate that other
imperialist nations haven't much
faith in this use of the radio. The
diplomats of London, Paris, Rome
and Madrid will frown at the radio
idea as just another Yankee bluff.
There is no move, for instance, to
recall the military tyrant, Governor.
General Leonard Wood; to return
the American army and naval forces
now in the Philippines to the United
States; or to disband the native
constabulary sworn to kill for and
under the stars and stripes. The
radio, therefore, if it serves at all,
will only be another weapon in the
growing armory of Wall Street i'm
perialism.
The common use of the English
language in the Philippines, even if
it could be accomplished, would be
a thin thread on which to develop
unity and harmony in the islands.
The red solidarity in the islands
that is growing stronger daily, I'M
der the lash of the foreign oppressor
seeking rubber, sugar, oil, hemp.
tobacco and other valuable articles
of trade, will snap such a thread at
the first opportunity and with the
slightest effort.
Probably one of the star perform
ers on the proposed radio will be
General Emilio Aguinaldo, who led
the Filipino instruction against the
United States rs years ago, but who
is today the invited guest of Gov
ernor-General Wood at the recep-
ton given in Colonel Thompson's
honor. Imperialism finds similar
traitors to do its bidding In all sub
ject nations. But the clarion call to
rise and struggle for liberation
needs no radio to carry its voice to
the most isolated slave. The va
rious methods being offered to keep
the Filipinos in chains is clear in
dication that the islanders are rest
less and eager to speak and fight
for themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17

lister and the Esthonian general staff,
declares Birk, rejected the proposed
Russo-Esthonian non-aggression com
pact-"in collision with a third coun-
try, and are guiding Esthonia along a
route foreign to her interests and
even leading to her ruin"
1t is known here that the ''third
country" refers to England, and the
attempt to assassinate the former
Esthonian ambassador was ordered by
those who are angered at what they
termed his betrayal of the scheme
being engineered by Britain for an
anti-Soviet Baltic bloc to make war
upon the Soviet Union.
British Plot War on Russia.
1t is we'll authenticated that the
British have been dickering with
Esthonia to make Reveal a British
naval base, preparatory to new war
upon Soviet Russia, and the fact that
the Esthonian foreign minister, M.
Pip, spends much time in London
and is known as an Anglophile,
strengthens the belief that the at
tempt to kill Ambassador Birk when
he urged a peace treaty between his
country and Soviet Russia, was a real
thing and was based on British in
trigue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
U. S. LABOR AGENT
IN PASSAIC SIDES
With Mill BOSSES
Neglects Wage Issue;
Attacks Weisbord
Especial to The Daily worker)

ESPECIAL TO The Daily Worker)
PASSAIC, July 15.- John A. Moi
fat, federal conciliator from the de-
partment of labor has Joined with the
chamber Of commerce, the so-called
citizens committee and the execu.
tive council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in the campaign to show
that the strike here is a Communist
undertaking and therefore not en-
titled to support from organized labor
and sympathetic citizens.
He charges, without mentioning
Weisbord by name, that he went to
Chicago to consult 'Ieaders of the
Communist Party before starting the
strike"
The citizens committee has issued
another statement, encouraged appar-
emily by the attitude of the depart
ment of labor representative, charg-
ing the strike committee with
dishonest purposes and with bring
ing "misery, hatred and loss" to the
peaceful textile baron-owned city of
Passaic.
Weisbord has stated publicly that
he is willing and ready to debate the
issues OF the strike with Robert Rein
hold OF the observation-disclosures
mills.
No cessation OF strike activity is
reported.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
LABOR Department NOT
TO PROBE GARY BLAST;
BUT TO PRAISE TRUST

WASHINGTON (FP)-- Discus
sion OF the explosion in the by
products plant of the steel trust
work at Gary, Ind, where is work
ers were killed and go injured, is
not on the program of the Industrial
Accident Prevention Conference,
summoned in Washington by the
Department of Labor.
However, L. w. CLANCY of the
department staff will talk on The
Statistical Factor in the Accident
Experience of the Iron and Steel
Industry, showing that the steel
trust has reduced its average of
killings by IS per cent in 20 years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17

DIG business, through its agents
IL in the Far East is urging, Incl
dental to the visit of Colonel Carmi
Thompson, Coolidge's "eye," to the
Philippines, that the Filipinos be
given radio to play with, to make
them happy and forget all about
their struggle for liberation.
The suggestion is probably born
of the belief that the American
worker will not become rebellious
because he is allotted an occasional
fiivver or radio, and that therefore
he will remain contented. So why
not the Filipinos!
Perhaps the biggest hitch comes
in the fact that big business will
control the radio broadcasting and
send out only its own stuff.
One theory advanced is that the
100000 Filipinos ought to wait
until their numbers increase to 49,
100000 before seeking emancipa-
ton. There is a disputed point.
The Filipinos would not be given
much chance to point out over the
radio that the American colonists
numbered not many more than one
million when they waged their
successful revolutionary struggle
against Great Britain.
Another American big business
theory is that the Filipinos need
American capitalism to help inten-
sify the exploitation of the islands.
The Filipinos argue they want to
develop the islands themselves. 1t
may take little longer but, they
claim, the development will be car
ried on in the interest of the island
ers and not for the benefit of for
eign American profiteers. What
would the American-controlled ra-
dio say to that?
Thus the whole gamut of disputed
points between American imperial
ism and the islanders might be run
showing that the radio would be
very excellent weapon in the hands
of invaders who have failed to keep
a quarter century old pledge to lib
crate the islands.
1t is under this false cover of
giving the Filipinos something for
nothing that American "kultur"
urges its radio scheme. In place of
the 81 dialects used by the 12,00O,-
600 natives thruoutthe 5000 islands,
English is to become the universal
language, sort of an lido or Esper-
anto for the entire archipelago. 1t
is argued that natives listening to
the Turing propaganda of American
imperialism will develop a desire
to read English-language newspa-
pers, especially the comics and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17


Discovered His Life In Dancer.
After his resignation, made on ac.
count Of a fundamental disagreement
of policy with the Esthonian govern.
ment, Birk said he went to visit rela-
tives in the Ukraine. Then he started
to France to mend his failing health
but, says his letter:
Il learned by chance that the
Esthonian general staff instructed its
men to carry out an attempt on my
life"
Finnish White In on Plot.
He changed his plans and set out
for Finland, with the idea of going
home to Bsthon4a, but on arrival al
Leningrad read an extremely hostile
interview given out by the Finnish
foreign minister, M. Setel, which
caused him to abandon his trip and
remain for his safety within the Dor
ders of the Soviet Union.
In the letter of resignation, a copy
of which Birk also sends to the IL
vestia, the former ambassador stated
to his government that he could not
agree with the governments policy
of opposition to the proposal of Soviet
Russia that Bsthonia and the Soviet
Onion should sign a treaty of mutual
non-aggression.
NJ, Pip, the Esthonian foreign min
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
New York Holds
Open Air Meeting on
Subway Strike Saturday

NEW YORK, July 15.-The first
open-air meeting in behalf Of the
striking subway and 81" workers will
be held Saturday evening, July II at
the corner Of 14sth street and Wills
Ave.
Louis A. Baum, president OF the
Photograph Workers union, Local
1880. will speak. Other prominent
speakers will also participate. The
meeting will be held under the aus.
pices Of the Workers (Communist)
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
General Motors
Buys Flint Plant
of Flint Motor Co.

FLINT, Mich, July 15.-Stockhold-
ers Of the Flint Motor Company ap-
proved the sale of the Flint plant to
the General Motors Corporation for
approximately 100000.
w. c. Durant, president of the Flint
company announced that the opera
lions of the company would be trans
ferred to the Elizabeth. N. j., plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
MORE POWER HOUSE men
JOIN SUBWAY STRIKERS
AND LEAVE FAKE union
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK, July 15.-Sixty-two
power house men from one Inter
borough plant today walked into
strike headquarters and signed up
with the motormen and swltehmen
who walked out more than a week
ago.
This addition to the mems ranks
brings the number of strikers from
one plant to 105. The strikers claim
ed that forty-two of their comrades
would not report for work on the
midnight shift.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
Seek Surgeon for
Death of Young Woman

BOSTON, July 15.--Spurred by the
discovery Of blood-stained bundle at
Lincoln, Il. l., containing female wear
ing apparel and towels soaked with
blood, police redoubled their efforts
to learn the identity of the young wo-
man whose dismembered body, neatly
carved into four parts. was found in
q pair OF cardboard boxes and bur
lap sack near cemetery at Malta
pan, Boston suburb.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
ESTHONIAN DIPLOMAT FINDS NO
CAPITALIST COUNTRY SAFE AND
SEEKS REFUGE IN SOVIET UNION

MOSCOW July 15How capitalist
seek his es safety refuge within
from B former Esthonan ambassador the Soviet Union follow
ing his mysterious disappearance.
The letter, published
accompanied with Brks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
Four Masked Bandits
Steal $4,000 in Silks
Especial to The Daily Worker,

PATTERSON, N. j., July 15.-Four
masked bandits beat, bound and
gagged the Waterman Of the famous
Piece Dyeing and Finishing Company
and escaped with silk worth between
ys, 900 and $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
NEW YORK NOMINATING CONVENTION
POSTPONED TO SUNDAY, JULY Is

July Workers (communis Party nominating
e will held Labor s4th
convention postponed upstate delegates
sleeted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17

elevator operator in apartment
houses, crashed into the terminal
bumper at 242nd street. The ancient
elevator operator could start the thing
but could not stop it.
Thirteen passengers were injured,
five of them seriously and had to be
taken to hospitals. Thirty or more
others were attended by physicians
for minor injuries, according to re-
ports from the district attorneys Of
fee. In pursuance of its set policy
to prevent reporters for newspapers
obtaining first hand information, the
company and city policy prevented
correspondents from entering the
premises to view the wreck.
The scab motorman was William
Odell, 32S West Goth street. He was
arrested on orders from the Bronx
district attorneys Office and charged
with criminal negligence. Quacken-
busch, the legal apologist for the COM
pany, gave out a statement that Odell
was once employed as a motorman on
the elevated lines. Records show that
one William Odell was employed in
that capacity % years ago, but has
not worked since. Old timers say that
this Odell is not even the same man,
but that the company is trying to
avoid heavy damage suits for employ
ing incompentent motormen by con-
Meeting the present Odel with the
former motorman who is said to be
now dead.
Look for other Jobs.
Since there is no immediate pros
poets of settlement of the strike,
many Of the men are striving to OBJ
tain other employment thru the me-
dium Of an employment department
opened by the Consolidated Railroad
Workers Union, which is conducting
the strike.
Meanwhile the rest of the labor
movement in New York is beginning
to get in action in behalf of the strik-
ers. A number of unions have signi-
fed their intention of giving financial
aid to the strikers.
The units of the old company union
were prevented by devious schemes
from building up a treasury that
would enable the men TO defy the
company and the secretaries of all
units were always selected because
they we're faithful 1unkeys OF the
company in order to steal the treas
ury from the men in case they dared
defy the traction trust OF the city.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
STEAMER, WITH FIRE IN :
 HOLD, IS NEARING PORT
Shipping Board Boat west Celina Is Approaching Boston Harbor
 Today

Boston, Dec. 20 P-With the fire which had been raging in her No. 2 cargo hold reported under control the shipping board steamer West Celina was nearing here today and it was believed that all danger had been averted.
 The West Celina left Norfolk last Thursday for Hamburg and Bremen with cargo of grain and cotton. Late Saturday night while the ship was 150 miles south of Nantucket Shoals light fire was discovered in the hold and Captain Frank Stevens wirelessed to Robert Peabody, local agent of the line. The flames were quickly controlled and confined to their place of origins
 The boat was ordered in here and officials of the lines prepared to meet her and survey the damage. Tto West Celina is 6.1S7 ton ship, was built in Portland, Ore, in 1919. has been on tho Norfolk to Ger many run for some time. There is a crew of 40 men but no passengers aboard.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Bridal Party of 16
 Is Piled Up in Wreck

Clermont-Ferrand, France, Dec 20 Pl-A bride and bridegroom and 16 members of the bridal party were run down by a speeding automo- bilist last night as they were march ing to the marriage supper after the ceremony.
 The celebrants were walking two abreast, and the driver-blinded. he declared, by approaching headlights crashed from behind into the col umn. scattering the men and women in all directions. The car was ac- tually stopped by the mass of bodies, but only four were dangerously in jured.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Retired Merchant Found
 Dead in Rrariord Cottage

Brantorl, Dee. 2n.-Thc body of Charles II. Ryder, a former Vernon merchant who has been living al Indian Neck the last five years. was found in one Of several cottages which he owned by his son. Clayton, yesterday. The seal which had been placed on the gas meter when the summer occupants left the cottage had been broken and gas jets had been turned on.
 s Mr. Ryder was last seen Thursday when he told his family that he was going 10 Bridgeport to visit sister for several days. His family
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Starving Dog Keeps
 Vigil ali Masters Body

Springfield, Mass, Dec. 20 R>- Suffering from hunger and exposure to the cold but devoted to the end, a small dog was found yesterday keeping vigil over the dead body of his master, Robert Moultrie. whose hody was found by police in small tenement block. The man had been dead since Tuesday the cause being heart attack.
 Last week woman of 1o was found dead in the same book with S1,4s3 tied to one of her legs. She was victim of escaping gas.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Nine Bremen Injured
 In Washington Blaze

Washington, Dec. 20.-Nine fire men were injured, four seriously. in a s20o,000 fire here early yesterday which destroyed three-story music store and damaged several other business houses in the downtown district
 Six f1remen were knocked down by a gas explosion. another fell four
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

said ha had been depressed recently because of poor health and had acted queery. He was S7 years old, and was born in Coventry.
 Besides his son. he leaves a wife and daughter by her and three chill dren by former marriage.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Pittsburgh Society Woman
 Proves Heroine at Fire

Pittsburgh. Dec. 20 Hf = Mrs. Alexander W. Werner. prominent in society. proved heroine yesterday when she returned to her burning home to arouse two maids who were asleep on the third floor. After waking the girls she fled with them to the street over stairway that collapsed not q min ute afterwards.
 The Werner home was destroyed. causing a loss estimated at s55.- o00.
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New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
DENIES THEATER ROBBERY

Frank Saultis of Erwin Place was taken into custody Saturday by De- tective Sergeants McCue and Filing CT and questioned about the Capitol theater robbery. Manager Carlyle G.. Barrett, who was bound and gagged in the theater office, could not iden- tify Saultis and he was released.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

William Camp and Truman Camp will spend Friday and Saturday
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

floors 10 the pit of a blazing elevator shaft, while two others were in- jured by flying glass and burns. William White. who fell down the elevator shaft, was saved by his brother, also fireman, who leaped from the fourth floor landing and slid down the elevator cable.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

Fred Wilson Of Main street has returned for the holidays from Springfield Y. NJ. c. A. college.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

Herbert I. Welch is confined to his home at tho Center by illness.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

with their parents, MT. and Mrs. Norman P. Camp. of. the Junction. William is working Tn New Haven and Truman is teacAng Latin at the Collegiate Preparatory school.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2o 1926

last spring. It Is understood that the plans for the building will pro-
 vide for the use of the auditorium for both school and town use, while space will be provided for the town clerks office.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
ASKS BUS SERVICE
 FOR HIS CHILDREN
Father, Recently Prosecuted,
 Wants NeWin6ton to Act

The Newington committee will hold a public hearing this evening at o'clock at the Town hall on the petition of Joseph Angelillo in re- gard to the transportation of his children to the Center school.
 Several weeks ago, Angelillo was prosecuted by Justice of the Peace E. Stanley Welles for failure to have his children attend school. His contention was that, since he lived on the turnpike, the bus which usually goes as far as the corner of the turnpike and East Robbins av- enue should go down the pike to take on his children. He did not send his children to school because they had to walk a short distance on the turnpike. Angelillo has now presented petition to the school committee to have his children transported to school, The commit tee, according to law, must hold a hearing on the petition within 10 days after it's receipt. therefore H. I. Dyer, secretary of the school com- mittee, has sent notices to all mem- bers of the committee to attend the hearing.
 Herbert I. Welch is confined to his ot hu
 Fred Wilson Of Main street has returned for the holidays from Springfield Y. M c. A. college.
 A special town meeting has been called by First Selectman James c. Gilbert for Thursday. Dec. 23. at the Grange hall at o'clock. The mat ters to be taken up are:
 To make arrangements for fire protection with New Britain and Hartford.
 To appropriate $500 for improve ments at the Town hall. The first grade now holds classes there and accommodations are poor.
 To appropriate $500 for the hardening of Day street. This item was originally called for last fall but through an error it was omitted from the budget prepared by the finance committee.
 To appoint a high school building committee to prepare plans and estimate the costs of erecting a high school building on the site which was purchased from F.. Welles Eddy
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

c. s. Barrows is i'll at his home on Newington road.
New Britain herald., 1926-12-20

Randolph Whaples has returned from Connecticut Agricultural col lege to spend the holidays at his home at the Junction.