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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
GENERAL COUNCIL OF
BRITISH LABOR WITH
MINERS IN new MOVE

LONDON, July IS. - The exeeu-
tive committee of the Miners Fed
Grafton yesterday held a conference
with the general council of the
Trade Union Congress on the an
nounced purpose of finding ways
and means of bringing the miners
union battle against longer hours
and lower wages to successful
ISSUE"
The general council is reported to
have pledged its support to the
miners, and the inapressisn is being
left that the mine owners have made
a proposal yet HndiscIosed. This is
added to by the fact that Premier
Grafton yesterday held a conference
with the ministers who were most
active with him in the coal dispute,
announced that he would be ready
to meet the miners executives or
those Of the general council.
LONDON, July 10. - The exeeu-
tive committee of the Miners FEEDER
alton has accepted, with reserva-
tions, the proposals made by the
Archbishop of Canterbury and other
eeelesiastics for the settlement of
the coal strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
MAREK WINS HIS
APPEAL IN FREE
SPEECH FIGHT

The appeal of Marc Marek, arrested
July 20, 1925. for standing on street
corner listening at an open-air meet.
ing TO Fred G. Biedenkapp, TO the
appellate court has been decided in
favor of Marek and against the police
court magistrate.
Al this meeting Fred G.. Biedenkapp
was also arrested on "disorderly con.
duct" charge. On an appeal Bieden.
kapp won his case. Marek was fined
500 and costs by police court Judge
for not moving quick enough when the
police sought to break up the meeting.
This fine was later reduced to S25
on petition of Marek's attorney. The
case was then appealed. In the an.
pellate court the decision OF the lower
court was reversed on the grounds
that no evidence had been presented
to sustain charge of disorderly con.
duct and that Marek had had no trial
but was arbitrarily fined by Judge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
|. R. 7. PLANS
TO PAUPERIZE
STRIKE HEADS
Traction Barons Shock
Seasoned Reporters

NEW YORK, July is. - James L.
ouaekenbush, general counsel for the
marlborough Rapid Transit company
and chief of the eompany's strike
breaking forces in public statement,
unequaIIed for eold-bIooded callous-
ness, declared that the traction mag
mates would seek by legal process to
pauperize the leaders Of the strike by
using the same methods applied In the
Danbury Hatter's case of lngIorious
memory.
Quackenbush, throwing all discre-
ton to the wiTIls, tainted the officials
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway employees
with the penitentiary if they dared
show themselves in New York during
the strike.
There will be arrests he declared If
my of Mahon's men assist the striking
[. r. 7. men. Then as if to deliber-
ltely incite the Amalgamated leaders
to action Quackenbush said sIf the
Amalgamated Union Sticks its head up
around New York some members will
go to jail. Perhaps that accounts for
their quiessence."
The company has impounded the
back wages of sixty two leaders of the
strike and will attempt to impound
their bank accounts Even the report
ars from capitalist newspapers were
shocked at the cruelty exhibited by
this turnkey of the traction trust, and
they suggested that such a move
would not very likely inspire public
sympathy for the company. Quacken-
bush declared that the company would
rob the striking employees of every
piece OF property they POSSESSED in
damage SUITS.
That falling of strikers on large
scale would be resorted to was init
mated by Quackenbush. "The last
time something like this happened we
sent $50 men to Jail" he said. This
time we will give them little var
ety," no doubt referring to the hold
up proceedings with a view to starve
the families of the strikers.
HyIan Does, Not Help.
Quackenbush admitted that he had
made a study of the Danbury Hatters
case in which the union lost its treas
ury and the members lost their homes
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
New York Cafeteria
Workers Will Take
Strike Vote Monday
Especial to The Daily worker)

NEW YORK, July 16.-The organ.
ization campaign of the cafeteria
workers belonging to the New York
Amalgamated Food Workers union.
is meeting with great success. The
workers are Joining the union en-
masse. The union now is preparing
to conclude its organizational work
and is preparing the union demands.
and If refused by the bosses, a gen.
eral strike in the cafeterias OF New
York City will follow.
Monday, July 10, at s D. m. az
Bryant Hall, 725 Sixth avenue. (near
And street,, mass meeting will be-
hold. At this meeting a vote Will be
taken on the new wage scale and a
general strike committee will be
elected
The cafeteria workers, at present
work IL hours1a day with one day of
every IA days and In most instances,
I days a week straight. The wages
are low and 9seheral conditions miser.
able.
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TT Mr. Davis is really anxious to
l. gorge himself spiritually with what
he calls the old time religion many de-
cent tho not wealthy people would
willingly chip in on a collection to
pay hts fare to Patagonia, whore old
fashioned religious folks worship
hole IN the ground. Or perhaps there
Continued on page ~ a@
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
R. |. |. u. ASKS
LABOR TO Save
MASS. VICTIMS
Sdcco-VGnzetti c as e
Attack on Labor
BY JOHN PEPPER.

Especial Cable to the Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., July TO-
The Red international Of Labor IN
ions has just issued an appeal here to
the workers cf all countries, declaring
that it is clear chat tie iahuman legal
machinery of Aasfican capitalism is
now Being prepared for the murder of
Nicola Sanoo and Bartolomeo Vanzetti,
and urging that riass demonstrations
and protest meetings be organized in a
determined effort to save their lives
and TO win their freedom.
The appeal OF the Labor Union In
ternational says:
"The inhUman death sentence which
has been imposed upon Sacco and
Van2etti in spite of the fact that the
innocence of the accused has been in
dubitably proven, and in spite of the
fact that the real perpetrators of the
crime with which Sacco and Vanzetti
are charged are known, has aroused
an invincible wave of indignation
among the workers Of all countries
1.-THE protest of the international
working class in 1921 compelled the
postponement of the execution of the
criminal death sentence. But it is ne
cessary to staff again at the begin.
ming, because the recent decision of
the court of appeals clearly shows that
American capitalism does not intend
RI rive nm ire nrav and that IL 10 frv
ing thru the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti on the electric chair to deliver
a blow at'the immigrant workers and
the working class as a whole who are
guilty of organizing in the pelitica
field and the field of trade unionisn
their best forces to aid in preparing
for their emancipation"
The appeal calls upon the worker
and farmers of all countries to organ
ize meetings of protest and mass dem
onstrations and tc demand that Sacco
and Vanzetti be released in order to
free them from the threat of the cleo
trio chair.
The appeal continues;
Let our slogans be:
Save Sacco and Vanzetti-release
the innocent Saoco and Vanzetti!"
THE world working class must take
action against the American capitalist
class which is preparing its inhuman
law machine to perpetrate murder
upon two members of the working
class" III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Joins Conference
with Russians at
Paris on July 26
BY JOHN PEPPER.
Especial cabIegram to The DAILY WoRKER)

MOSCOW July 15.-The General Council Of the British
Trade Union Congress has teIegraphed Central
of Labor Unions of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
proposition to Paris July 20 Anglo
Committee for World Trade Union Unity continue the
of the last session which took place last December and review
the latest events in their connection with the
of the labor movement.
Editors Note For time
trade unions has been insisting
movement inperatVey demanded
Russian committee, criticism
ISL Council
dangerous in Of the strike
and the absolute of international off shipment
o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18

The DAILY WORKER Raises
the Standard for a Workers.
and Farmers Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
Subsection 6B,
Brooklyn, to Hold
Picnic on July Is
Especial to The DAILY Worker

BROOKLYN. N. Y. July 16.-Sub-
section 6-B Workers (CommunisD
Party of Brooklyn has arranged a pic
mic for Sunday. July rs, at Rriarwoods
Forest, jamaica, Long Island. An en-
tertaining program has been arransed.
Admission only 10c. Take Jamaica
Il" to Queens Blvd. station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
$50 MOULDERS
ON S TRIKE IN
FISHER PLANT
Especial to The Daily WORKER

DETROIT, Mich, July 16.-One hun
dret and fifty moulders have gone on
strike at the Fisher Auto Body plant
No. IS for 1870 increase In wages.
Three hundred metal polishers went
out on sympathy strike with the
moulders. completely tying up produc-
lion in tbe-plant. The strike affects
5000 workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-18
SEAMEN Get CUT
BY SHIFTING OF
ship REGISTRY
Especial to The Daily Worker

NEW YORK, July ia 1870 reduc-
ton Of wages for all ranks of work
ers employed on the three steamships,
Reliance, Resolute and Cleveland is
one OF the most important conse-
quences OF the sale of these ships to
the Hamburg-American Line.
Seamen and petty officers alike have
been watching negotiations between
the United American Lines and the
German firm for months, knowing that
their wages would drop from the
American level to the German as soon
as the sale was completed.
American deck officers were en-
ployed under United American owner
ship. German under-officers. stewards,
seamen and engine-room men were
employed. 1t is stated that the wage
scale was a significant factor in bring
ing the change of ownership.
Any old Flag That Pays.
The three ships have been operated
by the Hartman interests under the
Panama flag TO avoid United States
liquor regulations, but the boats have
been considered a part OF the U. s.
merchant marine. United American
gets a million and half cash from
the Hamburg-American Line and four
million in notes secured by mortgages
on the boats.
United American is supposed to
have acquired stock in the German
concern TO the extent OF ten million
reichsmarks, par value, which will
enable the Hartman firm TO retain an
important interest in the operating OF
the ships. The boats were used In
transatlantic service. in which they
will probably be continued, and in
special winter cruises to the West In
dies and for round-the-world excur.
slons.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

TREMBLING with excitement, a
= little pink-tea, alabaster sort OF
a chap just turned 81 was being ex-
amined for life insurance policy.
The company's physician, upon get
ting to the excited candidate, inquired
of him, do you dissipate to any eK-
tent? Are you what might be called
a fast liver?'
Hesitating for a moment. the candi-
date, in a thin, piping voice, said !:
MY only vice is that sometimes
chew a little gum"
OF course, the company's physician
had to keep prying around until he
found something to find fault with.
Didn't he know that the best of us
have our failings and the worst our
good points? 1t is one Of the most
self-evident facts in the world, and yet
we are so slow to adjust our thought
and actions to it.
A poor old crouch Of a retired mer-
chant robbed me OF an hour or two OF
my time telling me about the mean,
miserable set" he dealt with while he
was making his fortune Of more than
100000. They were a wicked
bunch, and God would surely get even
with them sometime"
1 said to him, did you not run
across some decent people, who seemed
quite willing for you to have a square
deal? Why don't you be like the
Sundial and record only the Sun.
shine?"
That radiant Son of the Morning
we call Jesus. saw good in everybody
and everything. The ugliest, the most
despised and sinful of the sons of men
found in the carpenters son one to
praise them, to see something beautiful
in them, TO encourage and help them
His religion was the Gospel" the
good news, the glad news for every
body.
When the so-called Christian
churches began to build up their pow
er in the world it was the Gospel Of
Hate, not of Love. They built great
hell, conjured up pack Of devils and
impS and made it their chief business
to scare poor humanity to death.
But it is a long road that never
turns.
How much better and happier we
should all be if we had sense enough
TO see and to be devoutly Thankful
for the good and to keep decent!
dumb about the bad?
1t is not by cursing the bad bu
by loving and trying to help along th'
good that the world improves.
Many will remember what grand oil
Epictetus used to say to his contem
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word for granted and copy it as it
stands without further investigation.
But it remained for an American
with both bank-notes and time on his
hands to ask 'Compa? Why 'Compa?
And SO the quest for information be-
gan.
THE query was first taken to the
teller of large bank in the city who
handles hundreds Of Bank of England
notes every day. 'Compa? I've never
noticed it, says he. NO idea why
they use it. I'll call the manager
",rhe manager looked at the five
pound note and compared it with a
; large bundle of fives, tens and fiftics
all signed with the queer word
'Compa.' I've been in banking 81
years. he confessed, and I've never
noticed that. Why not ask the Bank
of England? They will tell you ct
once
"Our American then carried his
query to the Bank of England itself.
A cashier had never noticed 'Compa,'
and others around him could not give
an explanation. The persistent Amer
lean was then taken into the sanctum
Of great official-who had never
noticed 'Compa' and was equally at a
loss to nswer the question why
Compay He suggested, however, that
the explanation would certainly be in
the archives of the bank, and if the
visitor would return in n couple TO
days he would have a search made
and the reply obtained.
Meanwhile, the American put he
query to everyone whom he met, UNI
ill at last he found the owner Of an
extensive library containing a very
rare book on the history of the Bank
of England. This book was originally
written by a Greek, in Greek, and
translated by Frenchman into Eng
lish. And here the answer was found.
Towards the end of the seventeenth
century the Lombards of Italy were
responsible for the introduction of
banking into England, and when the
Bank of England was founded in 1904
the Italian word Compagna, with its
abbrevistion, 'Compa,' was used in
stead Of company
~And ever since there has been
this abbreviation in the signature on
all notes and documents of the bank.
though it's one of the things We
never notice."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
Why Find Faults Only?
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

poraries: Everything has two han
dies, a right one and a wrong one.
Be careful and take hold of the right
one." And this is what Epictetus meant
BY the right handle-that everyone
has good and bad in his makeup, and
that it is our duty to press lightly
on the bad on the soft pedal, and, with
the pipes wide open, to bear down upon
the good as hard as we can.
The dear old Greek philosopher
never heard of Jesus, but in spirit
he was a twin brother to Him.
To neither Of these choice spirits
did anything ever seem ugly or re-
pulsive or hateful. To love every
thing is beautiful. Love understands
that that which loves and can be loved
is all that is worth while, and that II
is worse than foolish to hate those
who are deceived by the bad.
Our lips will culver with deepest
sympathy, but never let them curl with
the cynic's cold, unfeeling scorn.
We belong to one another not as
critics and fault-finders, but as fell
low-helpers and well-wishers, and it is
that spirit-the spirit of Jesus, Epic,
tetus and the rest of the elect of the
earth-that is going to save the world
after all the old worm-eaten creeds
and meaningless symbols have, in the
fullness Of time, persisted forever from
the memory of mankind.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
'Why This Eternal Hubbub About Female Legs? The
Woman Who Has Not Two of Them Is Unfortunate
and if They're Not All Right, She'll Hide Them

dens and bundle them up unrecogniE-
ably when they had to go outdoors.
But in the name of Susan B. An
thony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Joan
Of Arc, Florence Nightingale, and all
the noble women who wore breeches
during the World War, how Is it that
we find infatuated women trying TO
grab the shackles and the long petit.
coats up from the garbage heap and
fasten them once more on their sex ?
The effort OF these doubtless es-
Unable ladies is doomed to failure.
Only one thing can make women year
long skirts; and that is a desire for
novelty. When they tire of short
skirts some leader of fashion will start
new style and they will all wear
long skirts. When they have tired of
those skirts their skirts will climb
again in spite Of all the resolutions
of all the declarations, the thunders
from the pulpits and the clustering Of
parents and teachers.
NOT MATTER OF MORALS.
Morality has nothing to do with il.
any more than it has to do with the
long coattails of men. These used
to vary in length from time to time
For a year or two Of late men wore
nothing but dinner jackets even TO the
opera or on first nights. This win
ter the long-tailed coat has come back
with a rush, and the obsolete crush
hat has come back with bang.
had a new dress coat made fol-
myself this fall and the tips OF the
swallow tails were very long. Shall /
plume myself on being more moral
than when / wore a dinner coat? Or
shall l get my picture in the papers
by starting "A World War for Long
err Coattails?'
II I can only procure friendly
nod from a few chairmen OF such So
cieties I think I shall have it an
nounced that 1 have Launched 8
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
Manual Labor College Is Unique

this unusual college presents to a.
visitor upon arrival. A large colonial
building is the chief feature of 90
acre tract of wooded land. 1t gives
one the impression Of a New Eng
land scene. In this main building is
a large social hall, a well equipped 2
library, a kitchen and dining room
on the first floor; offices and faculty
apartments on the second: and on
the third floor, students rooms. The
girls dormitory has beside single bed
rooms, a reception room and several
guest rooms. Most 6f the men stu4
dents live in the Hobo House" the
cabin or the Shanty," rustic build
ings situated near the main house.
STUDENTS DO WORK. q,
Most Of the work is done by the
students, such as cleaning, prepare
ton of meals, waiting on table, gen
eral repairs and care of furnaces.
Employed help includes only a diet
itian-housekeeper, cook, and
superintendent of grounds and build
ings. A work committee assigns each
student to some particular job each
week.
In the curriculum this year are
to be found two subjects not stressed
upon in former years-"Labor Jour
nalism' and "Dramatics. 1t is the
belief of the faculty that through
education in these subjects the. justice
of labor's cause can be widely spread.
"Brookwood" appears to be an in
stitution deserving of much fuller de-
scription than is possible in a single
article, but the crux of the matter
seems contained in the following
statement by its president: "our aim
is not to educate the worker away
from his trade and class, not even
to make him more skillful at his trade,
but to fit him for more efficient SER
vice to his class" -
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
What London Missed

GLOW many Of u.s. asks a writer
- in the r. P.'s (London) Week
ly, could describe the door knocker
upon which we knock every day? Or
the pattern Of the china off which We
eat? For the things with which We
are most familiar are those that often
leave only the vaguest impression on
the mind.
"A five-pound note may not be so
familiar as the door knocker or the
breakfast china, yet how many Of us
who handle a five-pound note--even
daily-have noticed the peculiar word
ing, For the Cover and Compa of the
Bank Of England Why 'Compa?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

ize that men who are on the keen
lookout can often see how the upper
half of the female calf is built and
they even observe a knec-joint now
and then. The visible patella is the
latest badge of shame.
One might have thought that, with
all the women riding astride now
adays, the public had pretty well
learned the dark secret that a woman
is just as much of biped as a man.
One had begun to hope for some
results from the sane and clean idea
that permits about twenty-five mil
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31
By Sir Oliver Lodge

ing process was a legitimate one and
contained some elements of truth, but
it led to materialistic philosophy. 1t
was not so much wrong as incomplete,
but it was invigorating. 1t carried en-
thusiasts too far. 1t led to the exclu-
sion of mind or purpose from the uni
verse a1d the replacing Of them BY
mechanism. Now, cs complete &C
count of the universe. it is recognize
as faulty and insufficient. The mis-.
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them so low that they would alarm
burlesque audience today: but they
did not wear shoe-top skirts.
Once I came across a protest Of
ITO against the immortality of
young woman who held her skirts so
high when she walked upstairs that
man actually caught a glimpse of
her heels. The Mortified moralist of
the day gasped, "Oh, shame!"
Sometime before that, the pic
turesque Anneke Jams of old Dutch
New York actually sued a man for
libel because he said that in cross
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-31

take is to put evolution forward in
opposition to the idea of creation in.
stead of as a method of creation.
The mistake of the Fundamentalists
is that they think they have an in
fallible guide. Infallibility has not
been granted to man. The documents
on which the orthodox pin their faith
are full of errors made by humanity
in the past. The Book of Inspiration
the thoughts Of the great thinkers aut
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really knows nothing about the cam.
paign and cares less.
How can anyone suddenly announce
that the Daughters of the American
Revolution are committed to an ex-
pensive. hopeless and silly crusade for
longer petticoats?
At the time of the American Revo-
luton skirts scraped the ground, and
the shoe-top skirts now approved as
highly moral would have been consid-
cred disgusting. The flappers of that
day wore transparent things and cut