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Evening star., 1926-02-20
Washington's Home Life.

In an account of Washingtons home
ltfe, Mr.. Proctor said the former
always arose at 4 o'clock and that his
breakfast invariably consisted Of In
dian cakes, honey and tea At 3
O'Clock he dined again. eating heartily
sof most everything. However. he par
took sparingly of dessert, but drank
q. homemade beverage and from four
10 dye glasses of madeira wine. He
ate no supper. satisfying himself with
lust a cup of tea. and at about 9
o'clock he retired. continued MIR.
Proctor.
The speaker told OF Washington $
valor in battle and recounted various
'AventS in the life of the great patriot
when you feel your confidence in
the American Republic slipping, may
Il suggest that you take a trip to
Mount Vernon, visit the tomb of the
Founder of Freedom. look through the
bars where lies all that is mortal Of
this illustriouS man and | am sure
your soul will be thrilled with re-
newed patriotism and you will go
American than YOU ever were before,
said the speaker
Lincoln Sold Liquor.
After describing the early life of
Lincoln and declaring ;hat today
America acClaimS Lincoln as one OF
the two greatest of its % Presidents
and the greatest commoner of them
All," Mr.. Emery told how the Civil
War President. at one time sold liquor
over the counter for cents a glass.
adding, however that in those days
such an act was considered perfectly
legitimate.
/, Mr.. Emery quoting. he said from
Daniel Green Burner. who had been
p clerk in LinColn'S store. during the
early life OF the Ema ancioaror as
scribed the following statement to him:
! 81 clerked in the store through the
winter of 1SS334 up To the first of
March. While | was there they had
nothing for sale but liquors. They may
have had some groceries before that,
but I am certain they had none then
ITO buy or sell or offer hooch' was
In entire harmony with the customs
Of those days. involving none of the
complications Of today" Mr.. Emery
empha sized.
: The speaker declared aiso that after
Evening star., 1926-02-20
Mitchell Robbed
OF Bag Containing
Air Service Files
By the Associated Press.

BOSTON. February 20.-A trav.
cling bag, containing a typewriter.
personal files Of Air Service records
and letters, was stolen, yesterday
from former Col. William Mitchell
while he and his brother-in-law
w. X. Jackson, were lunching In
hotel here. The bag had been left
outside in a car belonging to Mr..
Jackson, who requested the door
man to keep an eye on it.
After notifying police. Mitchell
left for Springfield.
Evening star., 1926-02-20

81 rooms, S6 weekly: SlO.5O rooms. IS:
Sl4 with toilet, shower and Iavatorv SlO. .
tr room. SOC more Rooms hike Mother
Evening star., 1926-02-20
Famous Bridge Builder Dies.

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, February
20 PD.-Word was received here to.
day. of the death in Montreal Of Phelps
Johnson, builder of the famous Quebec
Bridge. He began his career in this
city.
Evening star., 1926-02-20

the District of Columbia: Oscar W.
Riley, vice president Of Masonic
clubs in the District: J. Boyd Dexter.
William Musser and the presidents OF
other Masonic clubs
Evening star., 1926-02-20
WASH|NGTONS LIFE
DECLARED UPRIGHT
John CIagett Proctor De-
scribes Routine of First
President at Home.

George Washington was strict
observer of the Sabbath; never en-
ragged in a game of chance. except
when he was needed to make UP a
full quota of participants. and did not
swear as he has been accused Of do
ing" John Clagett Proctor. historian
Of the Society of Natives Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, told the society at
q meeting in the Washington Club
last night.
LAS a matter of fact" continued Mr..
Proctor. washington not only did
not swear himself but il is matter Of
history that he detested 1t in others.
Members of the society heard with
equal interest. a description Of the de-
velopment of the life and character of
Abraham Lincoln. with intimate de.
tails by Fred A. Emery
Mr.. Proctor was emphatic in declar-
ing that Washington was real man.
There was nothing artificial about
HIM" the speaker continued. He
danced but ! don't believed he liked
To do IL ="
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Cables from Ewer and AShleigh
Rights of Men Are
Signed Away by the
Supporters of Thomas

Continued from page y
Samuels proposals. The miners con-
ference met on Friday and adjourned
until next Thursday while its execu-
tive meets the government for expla-
nation Of the proposed settlement.
Continue Subsidy.
The proposals contain much ameli-
orative padding, such as baths at pit
heads, establishment of various well
fare committees and so on. There is
also involved an offer of extension Of
the subsidy by three million pounds
5,000,000) to the industry. But a
wage reduction is also required, the
amounts to be decided later. There is
also provision for modification of
hours. However, the proposal states
there shall be no reductions where the
subsistence wage is now forty-five
shillings or less weekly.
National Board.
A board shall be set up consisting
Of three owners, three miners and an
Independent chairman which shall
frame a national wages and hours
agreement. The concession OF a ma
tional agreement is something, but 1t
Is hoped by all militant workers that
when the representatives report back
to their districts to have the Sam
uels' proposals acted upon that they
will be rejected.
Communist Arrested.
Stewart, acting general-secretary of
the Communist Party, was arrested
last night.
The press has not appeared in full
in London and other large centers ow-
ing to friction between the owners as.
ISOLATION and the unions, especially
the printing pressmen's.
AT this writing the lockers were
still out solid The machinists are
also still out practically everywhere
against victimization OF members.
And in many places the tramwaymen
are still out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
NORGE ENDS
POLAR FLIGHT
WITH TRIUMPH
DirigibIe Safely Landed
at Teller, Alaska

NOME, Alaska, May 10. - The
Amundsen-EIIsworth. IIghter-than-aIr-
dlrlgible Norge has successfully made
her flight across the polar regions and
has been safely landed at Teller, a
small mining camp rs miles from
Nome.
The dirigible will be d1smantled and
shipped to either Seattle or San Fran
cisco by the first available steamer, it
is declared.
The Norge expected to make land
ing at Nome and notified the radio
operator at Nome to prepare for the
landing Of the dirigible. High winds
buffeted the Norge and made It impos-
sible to make landing at Nome.
Frantic calls were sent out by the
Norge to the Alaskan radio operators,
seeking to find out their location. The
radio operators were unable to get a
message to the Norge because Of the
electrical disturbances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Rank and File Are
Aroused Against Their
Compromising Leaders
CONTINUED from page u

Continued from page y
Samuel memorandum, are suggested.
There is no doubt the miners will re-
ject it. Thus the net result of dn-
credibly bad generalship and naive di-
plomacy on one side and cynical un-
scrupulousness on the other has been
to leave the coal war where it has
been for many months and to cripple
the possibility Of new rally to sup
port of the miners.
A confidence trick of the crudest
nature has turned a struggle which
was on its way to resounding victory,
into disastrous defeat compared to
which the famous BLACK Friday" is
only joke
A Great Struggle.
The consolation is that the strlig-
gle has been a wonderful demonstra.
ton of solidarity, courage, and en-.
thusiasm OF the rank and file. Funda-
mentally the strength OF the British
labor movement is greater than ever
before.
Thus that in the moment Of the de-
monstration and realization of that
strength this should be the outcome of
a magnificent fight is one Of the most
tragic things in the whole history Of
the movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Socialist and Capitalist
Press in Agreement on
British Strike Result
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TT is not an accident that the So
4 cialist and capitalist press in the
United States join in many common
conclusions concerning the criminal
capitulation OF the labor leadership
of the British general strike. 1t is
quite natural that such should be
the case.
This is merely a duplication in
this country of that bond Of interest
that exists between the British
premier, Baldwin, on the one hand,
and the Hendersons, Thomases and
MacDonalds on the other. They all
jointly fear the social revolution
that will end the capitalist state and
inaugurate the rule of the workers.
In the name of democracy" and
"fair-dealing," therefore, they rally
to the defense Of the profiteer's gov
eminent.
When the ending of the strike is
therefore hailed as a victory, the
joy is not over any triumph for the
workers, for labor was bitterly be-
trayed, but the rapid and reasonable
ending of the struggle is considerd
as a major achievement against Ia
boris most militant section that was
quickly increasing its influence and
prestige among the masses. This
brazen confession appears in lead
ing editorial in the Milwaukee
Leader, the lone remaining socialist
daily, edited by Congressman Victor
L. Berger, as follows:
1.-THE chances are that the SEN
sible element of the labor move
ment, now in control, feared that it
would lose control IL the strike went
on a long time. In a period Of such
great excitement there is tendency
for men to give way to emotional
ism and to lose their heads. Had
the general strike gone on for long
time, the small minority of enemies
Of democracy in the labor move
ment might have been able to make
a successful play upon the emotions
of the workers and lead them into
paths of violence and to attempt to
set up a dictatorship and reign Of
terror la Russia in 1917 and 1918.
This would have set back the pro-
gress Of labor for many years. We
may safely believe that the British
labor leaders knew that what they
were about when they consented to
an apparently very-mild settlement"
The above from the socialist daily
parallels very colsely the editorial
utterances OF the "open shop" Chi
cago Tribune, Friday, May IA, as fol-
lows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
LOCAL POLICE AID
POLISH REACTION
PROTEST COMING
Suppressed Meeting Is
Now United Front

The Pilsudski rebellion against the
landlord government of Witos already
has had its echo in Chicago.
Supporters of the socialist party of
Poland engaged Schoenhofen Hall for
meeting last Friday but before the
meeting could be called to order Cap
tain Paiczynsh OF the police depart
ment, with squad Of plain clothes
oflcers took possession and refused to
allow the meeting to take place.
The meeting had been called to dis
cuss the Polish situation in the light
of recent news and it can scarcely be
doubted that the Polish consulate and
other Polish reactionaries, who have
much influence with thcAcity hall poll
ticians, secured the'<.ld Of the police
b suppress a meeting of workers
which would naturally be against the
Witos government.
Hold Meeting Anyway.
A number Of Communists who were
present when the meeting was broken
up, organized the crowd and led It
to another hall where a very success
full meeting was held. Gebert, Kow-
alsk and Zoltowski spoke on the Pol
ish situation and the audience listen.
ed attentively to their description Of
the causes underlying the present up
rising. The speakers pointed out
that the Pilsudski rebellion can by no
means be considered a solution for
the problems of the Polish workers
and peasants and national minorities,
that Pilsudsh is a supporter of the
capitalist system.
United Front Conference Arranged.
The speakers pointed out that IL the
masses are to gain anything from the
overthrow Of the Witos government
1t must be thru a united front move
ment Of all working class and progress
sive elements which will stop an Of
fensive of the reactionaries and at
the same time force Pilsudski to adopt
a program containing the demands of
the workers and peasants.
Plan Conference for May 20.
In view of the fact that the Polish
reactionaries here will probably try to
support the Polish landlords with
money and men from America, the
speakers proposed a conference OF
working class elements which will sup
port the mass movement in Poland.
This suggestion was accepted by the
audience and provis ipnal committee
Of five was elected ton fnvite various
organizations to send delegates to a
conferences to be held Sunday after.
noon, May %, at 1852 Milwaukee ave.
nue..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Indiana Anti-Saloon
Head Hailed Into Court

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, May 14-Dr.
r. s. Shumaker superintendent OF
the Indiana Anti-saloon League, and
Ethan A. Miles and Jess u. Martin,
league counsel, were cited by the
state supreme court to appear before
II Tuesday, May IS, TO show cause
why they should not be punished for
contempt growing out OF Shumaker's
annual report criticising Indiana's
highest tribunal in the handling OF
appealed liquor case
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
PENNSYLVANIA is
READY FOR THREE
CORNERED FIGHT
Primaries to Be Held on
Tuesday
Especial to The Daily Worker

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 10
BOSS Bill' Ware, head Of the local
republican spoils political machine,
has his fundamentally lawyers,
ward heelers, vice lords, bootleggers,
hooligans and other elements aligned
in his crew ready for the primary
election here Tuesday, with the boss
himself running for United State sena-
tor against Senator George Wharton
Pepper, the Mellon-Coolidge candidate,
and Governor Clifford Pinchot.
In this three-cornered fight Phila-
delphia can be depended upon to come
thru strongly for Ware, tho it is inn
probable that he will develop any
appreciate strength outside this city.
His candidacy here is viewed more as
a measure to strengthen his local ma
chine and pave the way for eventual
control of the republican forces of the
state.
Mellon on Job.
Andrew w. Mellon, real head of
the administration at Washington and
James ]. Davis, secretary of labor,
have entered the campaign in behalf
OF Pepper and will roll up a big vote
in the bailiwicks they control, while
Pinchot is utilizing his own machine
in order to bring out the registered re-
publicans to vote for him.
He claims that Pepper is eliminated
and that the fight is between himself
and Ware, but close observers view
this as mere campaign issue and
consider the Philadelphia boss out OF
the running, with the real contest be-
tween Pinchot and Pepper.
Labor Takers Play Role.
Many of the professional reward
your friends and punish your enemies"
labor takers have plunged into the
campaign. but there is no unity OF ac-
ton even among these treacherous
betrayers OF the working class. The
Philadelphia gentry line up with Ware.
Others follow the band wagon OF Pep
per, while many others support Pin
chot.
This performance will do much to
expose the futile policy of supporting
old party candidates and will aid in
forwarding the campaign for a labor
party In this state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
ARPENTERS VOTE
ON QUESTION OF
new WAGE RATE

AT the meeting of the Carpenters
District Council the arbitration board
in its final report" had nothing con-
crete to report and merely stated that
the bosses asked them to wait until
Wednesday for further negotiations on
the wage scale. The council concurred
in the recommendation and soon after
Wednesday special meetings OF all the
carpenters locals will be held, at
which meetings votes will be taken on
the proposition that will then be sub
mitted by the board.
Must Watch Jensen.
The board. instead of considering
the bosses the enemies of the carpen-
tiers because of the attempts to en-
force a low wage scale, spoke of the
employers as "our friends" and their
whole report was conciliatory and un-
satisfactory.
Harry Jensen, president OF the dis
trict council, already limited at the
meeting that the carpenters would be
asked to accept scale below the de-
mands by stating that "our demand is
$3.50, but we expect compromise"
Many members interpret this state
ment OF Jensen to mean that the coun-
Gil may accept from the bosses and
place before the membership for rati-
acation a scale much closer to the
bosses offer than the union demand
and they fear that the board may send
out one-sided proposition to the
membership that will leave them with
out means Of yoicing their own de-
mands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Strike Continues in Many Cities

port for duty until they had assurance
that they would be reinstated on the
old terms.
The tramwaymen in many places
are still out and in the eastern valley
of Monmouthshire the iron works and
tin plate works have not resumed op-
Grafton.
SO Miners Sentenced in Doncaster.
DONCASTER, England, May 16.-
Sixty-eight miners have been SEN
fenced to three months hard labor for
breach of the emergency regulations
during the general strike by interfer-
ing with road transports. The leader
was also fined in addition with an al
Tentative sentence of two months I'M
less he could pay the fine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Arrest Prohibition AGENT.

STERLING, ILL.,, May 14.--Albert
Tate OF Rockford, ILL.,, said to be a
prohibition agent on the payroll OF
the Anti-Saloon League, is held in $bOp
bonds here, charged with stealing a
thorobred dog belonging to man
Tate prosecuted for selling liquor.
The dog was stolen while its owner
was doing time for the bootlegging
offenge,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Government Seeks to
Restrain Sinclair from
Draining Teapot Oil

ST. PAUL. Mimi. May 10. - The
government prepared to reopen the
Tea Pot Dome naval oil reserve con-
troversy in the United States circuit
court of appeals here. The govern.
ment seeks TO restrain the Sinclair
interests from draining the naval oil
reserve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
American Labor In
Demand for Civil
Trials In Lithuania
CONTINUED from page u

(COnClnued from page u
workers stopped to read the protests
against the tortures and the attempt
Of the Lithuanian government to rail-
road 80 Lithuanian workers and farm
ers, who we've candidates in the par
liamentary elections on the workers
and poor peasants tickets. to the
firing line and long sentences at hard
labor.
At the loop hall George Maurer, sec
rotary of the Chicago International
Labor Defense, told of the protests
that the Chicago local had carried on
against white terror prosecutions in
European nations and also Of the ac-
tivities Of the international Labor De
Tense in the United States. Victor A.
zokaitis briefly reviewed the incidents
that led to the falling Of the 90 Lith-
uanian workers and farmers and also
the reason for the protest demonstra-
tions.
A committee of five went up to the
consulate. The consulate was open,
but the consul could not be found.
Shortly after the delegation had en-
tered the consulate an elevator
starter, anxious to see the picketing
demonstration withdraw, made apol-
ogies for the absence" of the consul,
and pleaded that the pickets be with
drawn.
After picleting the consulate, the
pickets went to the Lithuanian section
of Chicago, where they picketed the
business section. After the picketing
demonstration, an open air meeting
was opened at 32nd and Halsted SITS.
George Maurer, Victor A. Zokaitia
and ]. X. Danta spoke in English ex-
planning the purpose of the demon
stration and the International Labor
Defense. John Gasiunas, secretary of
the Lithuanian fraction bureau Of the
Workers (Communist) Party, spoke in
Lithuanian. About 300 to 400 listened
to the speakers.
A telegram protesting against the
court martial trials of the 92 Lith-
uanian workers and farmers and de-
handing that they be given civil court
trials was sent to the legation at
Washington by the Chicago l. L. D.
Washington Demonstrates.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May 16.-The
picketing demonstration before the
Lithuanian legation at 1922 Sixteenth
N. W., protesting against the court
martial and torture of go Lithuanian
workers and farmers for daring to run
in the parliamentary election on the
workers and poor peasants tickets,
created quite a furore.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Wales Holds Fast.

CARDIFF, May 16.--The strike sit.
uation in South Wales today appears
to be the same as Il was yesterday. In
several towns the railwaymen present.
ed themselves for duty and we're not
accepted. In larger centers the rail
waymen made no attempt TO resume
work.
In Cardiff the railwaymen held a
mass meeting and decided not TO re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS DEMAND
ONLY UNION LABOR BE USED AT THE
PHILADELPHIA SESQUI-CENTENNIAL

NEW YORK. May e-coak skirt
resolution
Mai Exposition that the executive council
Of Labor the American labor dem@aa
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Down With Thomas.

| GLASGOW, May 16.-There has been
" no general resumption Of work in
Western Scotland. The employers in
most cases intimated to the men wish
ing to resume work that they must
make individual applications for their
old jobs.
The railwaymen who presented
themselves for work were disgruntled
at being told that they could go home
until sent for.
A procession of the unemployed pa
raded this morning in certain districts
Of Glasgow carrying placards bearing
the words: Down with Thomas!"
The docks were idle today. Men
seeking unemployment were told to
make individual applications. The
same procedure applies to railwaymen,
tramwaymen and STRIKING workmen in
other trades. The publishers of sew
eral leading newspapers have an
nounced that henceforth they would
employ only non-union labor.
Plymouth Stays Out.
PLYMOUTH, May 16.-The main
body of railwaymen here did not re-
sumo work this morning. Their atti-
tue is that all or none must be re-
engaged.
Work at the docks is still being car
ried on mostly by volunteers and the
regular lockers are idle.
Iron Workers Hit.
The engineering works of Yorkshire
made an attempt to begin again, but
only very few of them were able to
re-engage 80 per cent of their men
and the average all round was only
about 40 per cent.
Manchester Unions still Out.
MANCHESTER, May 16.-There are
no signs Of an end to the newspaper
strike here. The newspaper Offices
are still being picketed and the pros
poets for publication tomorrow are I'M
certain.
The Manchester tramcars are run
ming, but in the adjoining districts the
tramway men refused to return unless
all OF them were re-engaged at once.
and those who were not wanted for
immediate work were paid full rates
for standing idle. The railway COM
panies are continuing emergency SER
vices and no material alterations have
been announced for tomorrow.
Liverpool Council Of Action.
LIVERPOOL, May 16.-The men in
all the affected trade are to remain on
strike unless the employers agree to
take them back in a body. No volun-
teers are working at the docks, but the
regular lockers have been instructed
not m requna until autborf1ad h,, ti,o
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
LIverpooI Council Of Action.

LIVERPOOL, May 16.-The men in
all the affected trade are to remain on
strike unless the employers agree to
take them back in a body. No volun-
teers are working at the docks but the
regular lockers have been instructed
not TO resume until authorized by the
Council of Action"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-18
Plymouth STAYS Out.

The engineering works of Yorkshire
made an attempt to begin again, but
only very few Of them were able to
re-engage 80 per cent of their men
and the average all round was only
about 40 per cent.