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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
DIJ Gilman
LEANS TO.
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TAMPA. Fla. March 3.-With
sDutch" Ruether showing every
sign of regret that he has not
begun training and Muddy Ruel
due here tomorrow morning, the
complete surrender of Washing
tons two-man rebellion seems at
hand. President Griffith is be-
ginning to smile, which is q
straw in the gulf breeze.
Muddy RueI has wired President
Griffith that tomorrow's first
train will land him at the Union
Station. It is expected that Roger
Peckinpaugh viii be with Ruel,
joining him at Memphis. By to-
morrow night the nobby little
backstop should be o regular
member of the Griff household,
with due permission to eat and
sleep con the boss.
As for Dutch Ruether, the Sara.
sofa realtor, he spent most Of yes
teraay gazing at his former team
mates in action or chatting with
his blood and he knows 1t.
Quite some excitement was occa-
stoned when the holdout hurIer
sauntering around the field, came
to halt close to President Grit.
fifth. A war correspondent, think.
to get the real hot stuff" took
up q position within earshot and
this what he heard:
The Goose Is smacking 'ean,
aBn'k he, Grifff's
Yep, he got hold o. that one,
al right. Looks like he might
Set away TO 3 good start. ?
Then President Griffith moved
away in one direction and Ruefher
In another. They met no more.
though both were around the hotel
for hours afterward.
President Griffith admits that he
has not yet pulled down his original
salary offer to Ruether, though ne
insists that he win do so s.in q
few DAYS, unless he signs. Ii was
supposed that this had been done
some days ago. so evidently Presf-
dent Griffith thinks he has Ruether
ntbbling and wiz soon have him
hooked.
Il want to play ball. says Rue
Their. It's the game like the
best. even IL / have been doing
well selling real estate at Sarasota.
But insist on being paid what /
the Washington club differs with
me-on what I'm worth .
Manager Harris says he will
start his veteran lineup against
the Boston Braves at st. Peters
burg Saturday, though some OF the
rockies may see some action before
the ninth frame comes along. Only
In the box will rockies be seen
at the start, and that isn't de-
termined vet. Managers have a
way Of changing their minds.
MorreII, Marberry and Joyce.
with q possibility that Thomas
VIII be added, Is tOday's done on
the pitching, but Manager Harris
admits that Lyle and Ogden may
be sent to the hill. He says e
all depends upon what happens
between now and Saturday.
Almost any Of that gang could
so in and pitch three innings, =
says Manager Harris. TITS only
the old-timers, like Bush, johnson
and Coveleskie. who might not be
able to go that distance right now.
'As for the infielders and out.
fieIders, two or three days Is
enough for them to get the feel OF
the ball. We can all step, / think,
and will surely start In with a
victory
The only rookie to start Saturday
will be Buddy Myer. He has work
ed himself into fine shape and looks
able to hold his own. Johnny
Tobin, veteran outffelder from the
Browns, will play right field and
lead off at bat against the Braves.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
They Win Again

The General Accounting Office
basketball team from the sixth
floor defeated the Fourth Assist
ants in the Post Office Department
League A toll -..,----
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nGAQ1uk 0ts 41Ou1S SPOAGS PO6O0
these days cannot but provoke
smiles for those not especially
sympathetic toward the Mound
City's two major league clubs.
The war correspondents, both at
Tarpon Springs, Fla, and at Hot
Wells, Tex, go into daily raptures
over the prospects Of the Browns
and Cardinals. According to those
boys, the pennants have already
been decided. It's now merely
necessary to pick the opposing
pitchers in the world series,
whether Zachary opposes Sherdel
or Giard climbs the hill against
Mails.
George Sisler is very much in
earnest about this years race.
He really believes his team is
facing its best chance since he
became connected with it. Sixteen
pitchers and five catchers are
training at Tarpon Springs, battery
weaknesses being blamed for past
grief. Only one new infielder,
Mellilo, midget from Milwaukee.
and one outfielder, Cedric burst,
with st. Paul, a year ago, are
with the squad. Sisler is devoting
his entire attention TO the battery
candidates, being satisfied with
the rest of his lineup.
Counts on Zachary
~ ISLER makes no bones about
- saying that he counts on
- Zachary to surprise the
league in a st. Louis uniform.
Washington fans, knowing Zach's
habit Of having one good year
follow q bad one, are inclined to
think the southpaw may be a
winner, seeing that he was a sad
failure last season. But Zachary
cannot win a pennant all by him
self.
Zachary, Wingard, CASTOR and
Giard will probably be the first
string quartet, though Dixie Davis
is sure to be sent against certain
clubs, notably the Griffmen, to
whom he is poison. Three of
those first string quartet are
southpaws, which is not so good.
Ballou and Robertson may horn
into many games, if only for their
being orthodox in their delivery.
Van Glider somehow has never
quite succeeded, though he is still
with the team.
Wally Schang and Reds Har-
grave will probably divide the
catching, leaving Rego and Dixon
for the bullpen. Porter, the fifth
catcher, is just out of Alabama
University.
Aside from the battery the
1926 Browns are the same Browns
they were in 1925. They may be
expected to show the same dumb
work on the bases, multiplying
much of their fine hitting and
stellar fielding. They have added
no fighting spirit noticeable. But
all that's nothing whatever to
those st. Louis writer's. Already
the Browns have copied the ban
ner.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
Same With Cardinals

TIME correspondents with the
Cardinals in Texas are
filled with the same hop.
1t is wellnigh impossible for them
to remain near the ground when
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03

In picking Keeler for rightfield ]
have selected one Of the greatest
lead off men that ever lived. He
was an artist at bat. Everyone
knows about his great place hitting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
cherrydaIe Meets

The Cherryda1e A. C. will stage a
gettogether at the home Of Mickey.
Johnson next Tuesday night at $
o'clock They will talk baseball.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
LL-AMERIC AN LEAGUE
TEAM NAMED BY IY
TVS AII-American league Stars

PITCHERS--Walter Johnson, Cy Young, bA plneen, nA
Tlanovan ri walsh Chief Bender, and Eddie Plank
sCATCHERS-Rav Schalk and Mig" Clark.
FIRST BASE-Hal Chase K
SECOND BASE-Eddie Collins. 8
SHORTSTOP-Bobby Wallace
THIRD BASE-Jimmy Collins
RIGHTFIELD-Wiie Keller
CENTERFIELD-Tris Speaker,
TEFTFIELD-Joe Jackson
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03
viii Talk Some More

The boys from the Hess A. c.
will gather at 723 Tenth st. s. e.,
tomorrow night to go over their
plans for baseball this summer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03

Bradley ranks next to Collins,
i'm my opinion. and then comes
Buck Weaver. When Weaver was
banished from baseball he was
budding into q great star. He
could do everything-field, hit and
bunt and run bases.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03

The Goose Is smacIing 'ean.
GBnsk he, Griff9"
Yep, he got hold o. that one,
I'll right. Looks like he might
Set away TO good start.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03

For shortstOp name Wallace
because he was one Of the great
est flelders that ever lived. He
was the best In the world in go
ing to his right and making .
throw from back to third.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-03

MorreIl, Marberry and Joyce,
with . possibility that Thomas
VIII be added, Is today's dope on
the pitching, but Manager Harris
admits that Lyle and Ogden may
be sent 70 the hin. He says e
all depends upon what happens
between now and Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
European Powers Make
8-Hour Day Gesture to
Aid Reformist Leaders

LONDON, March 21-After nearly
seven years. five governments, those of
Great Britain, France, Germany, Bel
GUM and Italy have signed the con-
vention for putting into effect the s.
hour day program for labor adopted
in October, 1919, at the first inter
national labor conference under the
auspices of the International Labor
Bureau of the League OF Nations.
Prospects for its actual enforce
ment are not very bright and the
signing is considered more to be a
gesture to strengthen the position of
those labor leaders in all European
countries who have been ardent sup
porters of the league. The break
down at Geneva has seriously under
mined their influence. Another factor
bringing about the convention is the
desire of large capitalist groups in
the countries concerned to secure an
equal basis of labor cost in an equal
ization of wages. Needless to say,
what they would like would be a re-
duction to the level prevailing in the
country paying worst.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
49, N6NkW G6yVig6R9NdeNrR -
Debate in Detroit
Between Negro Forum
and Y. w. L., March 28
By A Worker Correspondent.

DETROIT, March 21-A debate on
the proposition: Resolved That Com
munism Is The New And Only Eman-
cipation For The Negro" will be
held March %, at $50 p. M, in the
Labor Lyceum, Livingstone street.
The affirmative will be upheld by the
Young Workers League and the mega
tive by members of the Congregations
al Forum, which is an organization Of
young Negro students and workers.
The audience will act as the judges.
Those in the forum are eagerly await.
ing the debate yand the Y. w. L. is
as anxious inAits anticipation.
AS result of this debate it is ex-
pected that many new recruits for the
league will be secured. This is not
the only source THAT the league hopes
to draw young Negroes from. In De-
troit there are many organizations Of
colored youth which are very sympa-
thetic toward Communism and as the
league carries out it's program in this
work colored members will be secur
ed until we have a fraction in each Of
these Negro clubs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
Oppose Class Collaboration.

SEATTLE-(FP)-Labor banking.
B. & o. plans, craft unionism and non
partisan political action were opposed
by John G. Kennedy speaking at the
Labor College open forum.
With very few exceptions the aver
age American workers are not funda-
mentally opposed to the present eco
nomic system" he said. "They look
forward to improving their condition
by their own individual efforts. They
are capitalists without the capital and
they all hope to have that some day.
They do not see that the present crust
Of prosperity is very thin and that for
the workers as a class the system has
nothing to offer them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
DAILY BUILDERS
IN Los ANGELES
ORGANIZE CLUB
so Members Enrolled
as Starters
By PAUL c. REIss.
Special to The Daily Worker)

Especial 10 ne Oaity Workerl
LOS ANGELES, Calf. March q.
Last night at gay celebration bright
ened by musical program the Los
Angeles DAILY WORKER Builders
Club was organized, Including about
sixty members, with representatives.
from eight language papers and in,
GLIDING those Of the youth papers, the
Young Worker and the Young Com
rade.
All these are bona fide builders,
workers who thru special activity Of
securing subscriptions, donations or
participating in sales of the DAILY
WORKER or work in the local office,
have merited membership in a club
whose purpose is more efficient dis
tribution of the whole Communist
press and literature thru joint effort.
other Cities Send Greetings.
kilograms of congratulations, ex-
pressing hope for success and an early
calling of a national conference of
DAILY WORKER builders and
worker correspondents from the New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago build
ers' clubs thru their city DAILY
WORKER agents were received with
enthusiasm by the assembled propa-
gandists. In turn, the newly-formed
Los Angeles Builders Club extends
hearty greetings to all existing clubs,
with a challenge of activity to sur
pass that of other cities.
Collection to Help.
To enable the builders club to be-
gin its work with less difficulty, the
assembled workers taxed themselves
with a collection which Melted the
tidy sum of S42 and outlined pro.
gram of activity which includes work
for the DAILY WORKER and the
whole Communist press, including all
language papers whose representa-
tives are important cogs of the newly
built propaganda machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
FALLING SLATE
CRUSHES MINER;
BOSS TO BLAME
Trip Rider Is Severely
Injured in Illinois

COLLINSVILLE, ILL.,, March q. -
Edward Welle, a miner, was killed
at the Lumaghi Coal company, Mine
No 2, while he was pulling a load Of
cars from the mine. A piece of slate
fell, killing the motorman instantly
and severely injuring the trip rider
The accident was caused due to ne.
elect on the part of the operator and
the state inspector.
Here at the mine the working con-
ditions are deplorable. All over the
mine slate hangs down from the roof
ready at all times to fall and kill
the unlucky miner that passes by I'M
derneath. This condition is the worst
at the main epTies where the min
ers go to and from working places.
The union officials flirt around
with the operators and give but little
thot to demanding safety measures
for the coal diggers.
Last spring when a motorman was
killed in main entry by fall Of slate,
the miners demanded that Earring
lOn pAOJCCI tic lLAnClo anu luSloI Ou
safety measures. Harrington an
swered that he could do nothing in
the matter and that the miners should
protect themselves. The miners then
tried to protect themselves. They
went on strike for two weeks, but
Harrington broke the strike and fined
each miner SIS for "disobeying" his
orders.
The miners decided to strike again
when the $25 was taken from their
pay. Board members advised that a
strike should not be called but that
they should appeal the fines. The
miners agreed and did so.
When the case came before the
board, harrington refused to allow the
money to be refunded declaring that
it would be a good lesson to the
damned fools" and would keep them
from going on strike the next time.
AS 500 coal miners worked in this
mine, it meant that Harrington was
able to collect S12,5O0 of which half
went to the union treasury for Far
rington to use and the other half to
The coal operators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
Los ANGELES TO STAGE
A LIVING NEWSPAPER ON
SATURDAY Mite, MARCH 27

Los. ANGELES, CAL, March 21-
Something novel. Something unique.
in the history Of the Los Angeles
Reds. An honest-to-eoodness live
newspaper. A newspaper that walks,
talks, thinks, Just like a real human
being. Come to the Cooperative
Center, 27o6 Brooklyn Ave. on sat
urday night, March 27. For the old
we promise reJuvenation. For the
young we promise inspiration. The
Young Workers League Of Los An
geles Is going to stage a Living
Newspaper, which will give working
class news by working class jour
nalists, for a working class audi
enee. Is there anything you want
to know about the conditions, and
problems Of the working eIass7 Our
Living Newspaper vii tell you. It
sees all, hears all, knows all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23

trade unions. The Central Labor
Unions of Pittsburgh and vicinity are
called upon to cooperate with the
Council for the Protection Of Foreign
Born to put these resolutions into eff
feet.
The conference also went on record
in favor of establishing legal aid
bureau to protect the foreign-born
against the illegal wholesale raids
which are being made on the foreign
quarters under the pretext of round
ing-up those who entered the country
Illegally"
The conferences will meet regularly
once a month. The next conference
in Pittsburgh will be held, Sunday,
April IS at the WALTON Hotel, 220
Stanwix street The conference in
Uniontown will be held Sunday, April
II, 10 a. m. at the Croatian Hall on
Franklin St., Uniontown.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23

but emitting to pen a single line edi-'
torially that can be taken as anti-cap-
italistic. He may champion Countess
Karolyi and Eugene Debs to his
hearts content but he may not cham
pion local strike that in any way af-
fects local capitalists. He may ham
mer Mussolini for Mussolini is not
dictator in American capitalistic So
ciety. He can shoot pop guns at the
moon; he dare not aim a rife at a
quart can across the road.
About once a month he should write
an article in proof of prosperity. That
is easy. Take any statement of bank
clearings for any two convenient
dates. One will be found to differ
from the second. If the figures Of the
later date are larger than those of the
earlier, you have enuf for rousing
editorial in proof of business health
and industrial sunshine.
Lie For "Law and Order"
In writing crime news waste no
time on modern theories Of psychol-
OSy. OdplldllbAl uCuAduQo ludl. SAlAhT
inals be considered responsible for
their actions. Discuss the influence
of heredity and environment II you
wish, but never in connection with
any particular crime that has aroused
the community. The paper must pose
as a champion Of law and order and
that includes strict enforcement of all
statutes. Lawyers have made the lat
ter, not doctors or sociologists. To a
lawyers mind, with rare exception
a man is a criminal because he hasn't
learned to respect the law.
Keep your eyes open for the activi-
ties Of all business organizations such
as the chamber of commerce, the XII
wants, Rotary, etc. Give men of wealth
an occasional boost. Once in while
say kind word for a labor leader, IL
the labor chief is republican, d
church member and an enemy OF all
reds.
Don't forget sentiment. Throw In an
occasional load Of gush for the home,
its sanctity, for mother and the ba-
bies. Sentiment is an excellent sub
stitute for hard thinking. fsaM
The Master Prostitute.
Study brisbane. He Is the master
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23


Among the organizations repre-
scented at the conference was The
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union, sew
eral machinist locals, flint glass blow
ers' locals, Canonsburgh steel work
ers' lodge, a number of miners locals,
moving picture operators unions, tail
ors, bankers, broom-makers, walters,
cooks and pastry locals, and a mum
Der of Croatian. Slovak, Slovenian,
Lithuanian, German, Russian, Hun
garian, Ukrainian, and Negro socie-
ties and a number Of other organiza-
tions.
Resolutions are unanimously
adopted condemning the so-called anti
alien bills as being nothing but strike
breaking measures affecting all labor
both native and foreign-born-and
providing for the establishment of a
bureau to help the foreign-born to be-
come naturalized and members Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
union is BADLY
NEEDED, FACTORY
PAPER DECLARES
Radiator" Raps Low
Wages and Speed-up
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, March 81 - The first
issue of the "Durant Hayes-Hunt Radi-
ator," factory newspaper issued by
group Of workers in the big auto
plant in Elizabeth, N. j., gives union
organizers plenty Of arguments to
push organization of all auto workers.
Demands given by the Radiator" in
clude: abolition of the 8, IL, IL hour
day; abolition of the piece work sys-
tenn; abolition Of night work; time
and half for overtime; a living
wage; restoration of our smoking priv
ileges; reduction of hours and steady
employment for all.
In the Letter Box one Of the auto
workers writes: 1--WE work nights for
five nights a week; liz hours per
night. OF course the boss is very
kind and he allows us one-half hour
for lunch. OF course he takes this
from our pay. He took away our
right to smoke as it is against the law
for the worker to smoke, tho this law
does not apply to the boss" And
about the day men, "some of them
work seven days week, from 10 to
IA hours a day. They receive straight
time, so Sundays and holidays do not
mean anything"
An article on piece work shows
how the system speeds up the workers
to exhaustion and tends to divide
them because of different grades Of
pay. Let us take the understanding
division of the Hayes-Hunt corpora
ton as an instance" says the author.
''In the stamping of doors, there are
five men working on one press. The
operator gets "a cents per 100; the
fellow receiving the doors gets %
cents per 100; the wiper receives 20
cents per 100; the grinder receives 20
cents; and the man that places the
metal on the bench for the wiper re-
ceives Is cents per 100.
"The hourly rate these men are
paid is 40 cents per hour. At the
highest rate of speed, the workers can
turn out 200 doors per hour. There
fore the operator will get 8 cents per
hour above his hourly rate. The re
.ceiver will get -four cents more, while
the wiper, the grinder, and the fellow
placing the metal sheets on the bench
receive nothing above their hourly
rate" Then the operator drives the
other workers until his hourly maxi
mum, fixed by the time-setter at so
cents, is reached. The others drive
him after to gain theirs.
The auto plant has a spy system,
the Radiators" leading article re-
lates, which prevents the worker-edi-
tors from conducting open organiza-
ton meetings. The paper complains
Of new order that workers must
wear their badges on the outside and
says that the employer has spoilers
Ia report workers for smoking or
speaking to anyone at work. The
badges are compared to the alien reg
istration and fingerprinting bills in
congress, as a means of branding
workers and subjecting them to dis
examinations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
RECOGNIZE union,
Is DEMAND OF The
LAUNDRY TO|LERS
600 Strike to Better
Working Conditions
b. a Worker correA eondent

Six hundred laundry workers are on
strike at the Quick Service, the Great
Western, the Kings Model and the
New Yay laundries demanding higher
wages, shorter hours and recogni-
ton Of their union. The strike came
as result of an attempt on the part
of the bosses to fire active members
of the Laundry Workers Union.
During the past eight months the
Laundry Workers Union has been car
rying on an intensive organization
drive in the laundries controlled by
these million dollar corporations. The
bosses realizing that their workers
were organizing and fearing gen
eral tie-up of the industry fired 25 to
80 workers in each of their different
shops in an effort to terrorize the
workers. In answer to their whole
sale firing Of active union members,
the workers decided at one of their
meetings to go on strike.
Picket lines have been placed be-
fore these laundries and the union has
opened two laundries of it's own. One
of the union laundries is at 3712 Lang
ley Ave., and the other is at 1886
Madison st.
Conditions in the laundries of Chi
cago have been of the worst. Women
have been forced to work IL and 10
hours, five and half days a week for
the small wage of So to S12 a week.
Men workers have received SIS to S23
a week for working the same long
hours. Tho the Illinois law provides
that women can work but 10 hours a
day, the laundry trust keeps it's wo-
men working IL and 13 hours day,
point out union members, and the fac
tory inspector has nothing to say al
lowing the laundry trust to do as it
pleases.
One Of the worst blacklist and spy
systems in use in the laundry indus
try is in force in Chicago, point out
the union heads. Simon German, one
of the former officials of the Horse
shoer's Union is in charge of one of
the bosses associations that is now
attempting to crush the strike of the
workers.
The union declares that it will open
more of its own laundries in differ
ent parts of the city and is calling on
the members of the different Chicago
unions to support the laundry which
the union membership has opened and
to call Seeley 1899 when they need
laundry work done.