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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
RED-BAITER SEEKS
SUCKERS TO join
A civil LEGION
"Paytriotic" Americans
Form Organization
BY CARL HAEssLER,
Federated Press staff Correspondent

NSASia NSu TF0So SldU OoFTeSponoent)
All who make application at once
will be charter0members. And it costs
you only $50SiOnce for all, to be
founder-life member or IS every year
to be a regularoactive member. Or if
you were prominent enuf in secret
shopping on Your neighbor during the
war or in profiteering or in getting
good political job to dodge the draft,
you may persuade the promoters to
put you on the national advisory board
which apparently costs you nothing.
This great opportunity is advanced
by the Civil Legion, which is seeking
a national charter from congress. If
you did anything at all in the late war
for democracy, except fight, the Off
GERS will accept your $50. For ex-
ample if you were unfortunate enough
to miss the call to the front and had
to content yourself as a member of
local draft board with sending
others to the scene of glory your cash
is good. If you found out as a men,
Der of the American Protective League
that a suspected doctor of probable
hun ancestry kept reporting cases Of
German measles to the local health
department instead of diagnosing
liberty measles the Civil Legion will
welcome you. If you made your
supreme sacrifice as four minute
speaker to restless movie audiences
the founder-lifS $500 or the regular
active ($5 pel annum) is none too
precious for you.
The gent at the head Of the aggre-
cation is none other than old Frank
Comerford who once had dreams of
becoming a great labor defense law
yer with visions of million dollar de-
Tense funds gathered from the trade
unions. He gave that up during the
war to capitalize on the Bolshevik
panic as a special prosecutor against
Illinois reds, followed by a fruitless
attempt to cop'a judges job from an
ungratefur constituency. He now ap-
pears on the civil legion letterhead as
Hon. Frank Comerford. Illinois. Ma
tional president
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Counter-Re
Seeks Recognition of
Non-Existent Republic

WASHINGTON-(FP)- March 21
Thru Representative Moore of Virgil.
MIA, the claim of the refugees
Georgian Republic" located in Paris.
to American recognition has been
brot before the committee on foreign
affairs. Vasili Dumbadze, who appear
ed in Washington and New York two
years ago as minister" from this non
existent government, is to be heard
by the committee on March 81. With
him will testify John A. Stewart, of
233 Broadway, New York, agent for
the Caucasian Society OF America.
.Moore's joint resolution calls for
appointment of an American diploma
tic representative to the National
Republic of Georgia. which it alleges
has been generally recognized by the
nations Of the world except the United
States" II sets forth that the Moscow
government invaded and now exer-
cises control of the territory
of the republic, which has been com
PEELED to transfer it's governmental
activities from Tihis, and then from
Batum. to France, where it's officials
now function.
1t asks that congress express dis
approval Of the Soviet occupation of
Georgia as alleged, and provide fnan-
cial means for maintaining a diplo-
matte representative to this exiled
government when the president shall
grant it recognition by making the
appointment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
ELECTRIC MAN CARES
FOR HOUSE FURNACES
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NEW YORK, March 23.--Among
the exhibits at the First National
Heating and ventllatlne Exhibition,
which Is on here at the new Mad-
son Square Garden, none have at
tracted more attention than the
electric furnace man" as the ad-
vertlsing circulars describe one
device.
This is a complicated mechanism
which automatically drops coal Into
an ordinary furnace, regulates It's
heat TO the desired temperature,
and removes the ashes. A gauge
sets In motion the whole meehan-
ism. II is the first time the principle
involved has been used as a labor
saving device for the home, tho II
.hss been employed on shIps.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
BURNS GUNNER
RULE MINES OF
CHARLES SCHWAB
Thugs Terrorize Union
Coaldiggers
BY ART SHIELDS,

BROWNSVILLE, Pa, March %. -
High power searchlights that blaze
in the travellers face at night are part
Of the military atmosphere with which
Charles M. SchWab surrounds the
countryside about his openshop min
ing operations in Ellsworth, Bently-
vile, Mariana and Cokeburg, in
Washington county, Pa. Steel wire
fences enclose the mine buildings and
the company houses where the scabs
live. Numerous armed guards and de-
tectives, who run out to take the
license numbers of passing autos, help
to complete the picture.
The Bethlehem Mines corporation
signed the Jacksonville union wage
agreement early in 1924. Within
year its mines closed in lockout to
starve away the more militant union
members. Last autumn the pits offer
ed work at the 1917 scale.
Ninety-eight percent of the 1000
miners stood pat. The company began
running in scabs and to date it is
estimated that several thousand have
been brought, of whom less than
thousand are working today. The la
Dor turnover is enormous. They come
and CO. The kind of men the com
pany gets is indicated by a clergyman
who is on the ground. A squad of
scabs had shot down the deep shaft
of the Ellsworth mine in the passen-
ger cage. They gasped for breath as
men do on taking the descent the first
time.
II never did this before" said one
as he recovered on hitting the bottom.
"Then what the hell are you doing
here now" shouted the straw boss. A
few days later the straw boss re-
ceived a typewritten warning from
Pittsburgh, on the stationery of the.
Burns Detective Agency, advising that
he keep his mouth shut about the
qualifications of the men furnished.
Bring In Thugs.
Men are shipped from southern and
northern West Virginia and the slums
of big cities, like Cleveland, with
promises of IS to SIC day. Nothing
is said of a strike. What they are
actually paid appears on a pay state
ment dropped on the road by a depart
ing worker. 1t is made out to Ernest
Payne and credits him with $3.50 for
loading tons of pick coal, or at the
rate of 53c a ton. The union rate
for pick coal is S1.OS a ton. OFF the
$1.60 was deducted $1.56 for various
charges so that Payne had &c coming
to him. The back of the pay envelop
advises in bold type. "Out Of this en-
velop deposit all you can spare with
National Bank of Ellsworth" But
Payne used it for carfare.
Department workers, fed up with
the life behind the wires, tell union
men that it is bad enough to live near
the guards but worse to have to sup
port them. They say they are charged
S. two-weekly pay each for "protec-
ton" The guards are rowdies of the
cheapest kind, tho dignified with the
title of coal and iron police, and
licensed by the state of Pennsylvania.
Several union men have been assault
ed. N
Production in the Bethlehem mines
is low. The openshop effort is costing
Schwab heavily today but he is in
vesting for the future in alliance with
Pittsburgh Coal and Consolidation
Coal companies. A life and death
struggle for the union is being waged
in this kew field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25

WASHINGTON, March 23.-Unlt-
ed States Senator Brookhart, from
all Indications, is ready to wage a
finish fight to retain his seat. All
the odds, however, are against him.
Senator Stephens, (D) Of Mlssis-
sippi, who led the recent successful
fight to seat Senator Nye, Of North
Dakota, has announced that he will
support 5rookhart and file a minor
ity report. In Nye's case he had
to overcome ain adverse report Of
the senate election committee. The
present struggle over the seating of
5rookhart is different. In Nye's
case the democrats stood to gain by
his seating, as he is not a regular
republican and might therefore be
relied upon at times to support de-
mocratic motions. Brookhart's OBJ
ponent, Captain Steck, on the other
hand, is democrat, and to refuse
to seat him is to lose a certain de-
mocratic vote, even tho Brookhart
as an insurgent republican, does
sometimes vote for the democrats,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
boy WIZARD OF
WALL ST. JAILED
FOR LAND FRAUD
Try New Scheme to Ring
More Prospects
Especial to The Daily Worker

NEW YORK, March 23.-A search
ing investigation of Florida land deals
was in full swing here today following
the arrest of six members of a New
York city corporation on charges of
using the mails to defraud.
The corporation was known as the
Griffin Development and Construction
corporation. 1t owned some 700 lots
in Putnam county, Florida, bought for
about $40 an acre.
Those arrested were Harry Griffin,
president; Charles Greenhaus, secre-
tary, and three statesmen, William c.
Price, Ivan Franklin Israel and w.
Kyle. The two first named were held
under $4,000 bail each, and the sales
men under bonds of $4,000.
Greenhaus was called the ''boy wiz
ard of Wall Street" in 1924 because
of his near-successful operations in
Middle States Oil stock, which cul-
minated in his indictment for stock
swindling.
Millions Stolen.
Investigators attached to the Office
Of United States Attorney Emory
Buckher, who have for months been
studying methods employed by GER
tain Florida land statesmen, intimated
that millions have been stolen from
New York investors. More arrests
are expected.
Sucker List.
According to the government
authorities, Griffin, Greenhaus and the
statesmen arrested were using an en-
tirely new plan in their operations.
Postal cards were sent to thousands
OF New Workers, the list of names
being compiled from the holders of
stock in various defunct Florida land
corporations. The holders of worth.
less stock were invited to call at the
company's office.
When the prospect called, govern.
ment officials claimed, he was told the
promoter of the defunct COMPANY
wished to help the investors make
good their loss. The salesman then
represented that the company had be-
come possessed of large number of
lots in Florida Out of sympathy for
those who had lost money in previous
ventures the promoters were willing
- turn over the lots to them at cost
and so help them recoup the original
loss. Ready cash was asked OF the
prospect. 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
FINED $500 BECAUSE
rs She SOLD LIQUOR TO
KEEP CHILDREN ALIVE
tsDeolaI to The Daily worksrl


ROCK ISLAND, H., March 3d.
cllnging to her three children, one
in arms and the oldest one barely
five, Mrs. Dwight Elliott wept, when
arraigned before Police Magistrate
A. M. KIive, on a charge Of selling
liquor.
"a could not get enuf money wash
ing and sewing to support the chill
dren, so sold liquor to help out"
she said.
Two hundred dollars and costs
were assessed by the court. Mrs.
Elliott, claiming she had no money,
requested that If she is sent TO Jail,
her children accompany her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
AFTERMATH OF
COAL STRIKE
HITS WORKERS
Companies Begin to
Tighten ScrewS
ay a Worker Commencement


SHENANDOAH, Pa, March %
Tie anthracite strike having been
'won," things are shaping themselves
into the pattern of normalcy. Those
union officials who kept themselves
snugly hidden from facing the situa-
ton are now creeping out Of their
storm cellars, waving the banner of
prosperity which is to characterize
this region for the next five years.
Day Men Hit.
The miners resumed work with
great enthusiasm and things were
swinging along beautifully until the
coal companies commenced to apply
the conditions Of the contract to the
daily work of the miner. By means
of foisting a seven-hour day on the
company hands and increasing their
work for that time the companies
have succeeded in giving the day-rate
men the cut which they struck
against. This cut amounts to approx
mately per cent at the present time,
but there is nothing to prevent the
companies from going much further.
The Scranton contract is so flexible
that it can be used to cover a multi
tude of abuses. While the actual
worker feels more and more keenly
the fact that the strike has been dan
gerously compromised, he finds him
self in tight fix with the officers of
the union, who are omnipotent and
authorized to go so far as to expel
recalcitrants from the union alto
gether.
Workers in Debt.
The thoughtful miner who studies
his family ledger knows that his
strike losses are irretrievable. Moth
ing has been gained to compensate in
the slightest measure. his suffering
and financial loss. The strike came
after a period of slack work. Miners
pre- unprepared to cope against a
ng emergency. After one. month of
likeness the union received calls for
relief; miners demanded credit of
their storekeepers. Business men,
knowing where their butter and Cadil-
laos came from, were morally COM
PEELED to give the miners credit. Any
other policy would involve their fu-
ture business prospects in ruin. So
credit was extended, with the result
that today there is hardly a miner
here who is not between $500 and $500
IN debt to his grocer and butcher.
Officials Protect Business.
Now the union officials undertake a
new mission which is somewhat with
out precedent in union history. They
become guardian angels for the bust
ness men, distrusting the conscience
of their members. Locals have passed
resolutions that all miners indebted
to grocers are obliged to pay their
b IFS. The resolution naturally i'm
les a threat, since any offending
n imber can be cut off from the union
add SO forfeit his right to work around
the mines. The unions have gone SO
far as to urge grocers to come to their
meetings and present their bills
against members of the u. M. w. A.
that the officials Of the unions may
come in personal contact with Of
tenders and warn them of their chris
tian obligations. What this little
piece of oficiousness will mean shall
in time appear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Charge Minister'S Son
with Forging of Checks
Especial 10 The cally Worker,

NEW YORK, March 23.--Rolfe w.
Anderson. 20, tall and handsome. was
held today by Magistrate Simpson in
Yorkville court on $4,000 bail for exa-
mination Tuesday on a charge Of pas
sing bogus checks. Anderson claims
that his father is a Lutheran pastor
in Story City. Iowa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Advocate Injury to Miners

ed that personal injury be done the
starving miners in the anthracite.
Advocate Injury to Miners.
In a front page article under the
name of Jack Thomas we find the fol-
lowing gem Expulsion does not
bother these rats. What they need is
a talking to by hand Until they
get 1t, not in isolated instances, but
every time one of them raises his
Shiny head, the American labor move
ment is going to be troubled with
them"
Policy Bankrupt.
In no place in their spew do they
offer any program to help the miners.
In no place do they appeal for sup
port to the starving slaves in the hard
coal. Their corrupt attack is like the
mouthings Of the thugs of capitalism.
Watch Them.
II is well the progressive miners in
the anthracite and turnout America
know this outfit "as they contemplate
drive to line up the miners
In their traitorous organization II
is well that we keep close watch Of
this bureaucracy, capitalist loving
gang, so that we will not be forced
into the same position as were the
Industrial Workers OF the World.
Their sheet is published in the west
where It is reported this outfit have a
handful of members, which they are
rapidly losing, just as soon as the
source OF their stencil is exposed. The
workers in the west will do well TO
keep this gang at arms length
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Sues polio. for $4,000.

ST. LoU1S-FP)-Alleging that he
was beaten numerically by policemen
to force a confession Of highway rob
berry Robert Dennis is suing FIVE 81.
Louis police and detectives for $4,000
damages. The police had no evidence
and he was discharged. DennA is
unable to move except with great PAIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25

Court Lovers.
This is the same crowd that tried to
get control of the Industrial Workers
Of the World short time ago, and
failing in their nefarious attempt to
get the union, went into the capitalist
court and run an injunction on the
Industrial Workers Of the Worlds
funds.
This gang forced the Industrial
Workers of the World into court
about dozen times under the injunc-
ton, had the funds of the organization
tied up so that the union could not
effectually carry on the work of the
organization.
Kicked Out the Takers.
A general convention of the Indus
trial Workers of the World finally re-
ferred their expulsion to the member
ship and the outraged membership
practically unanimously expelled them.
Among the leaders expelled were
James Rowan, Mike Raditch, e. w.
Bowerman and company.
This outfit now shows its true color
by joining hands with the capitalist
class in condemning the progressive
miners in the anthracite.
In this issue of the so-called Indus
trial Unionist, these sewer rats join
hands with Lewis, and the financial
papers in condemning the progress
sive miners. The snaky vituperation
II this conglomeration of takers is
spewed out against the anthracite
miners on the front page of their vel
low sheet.
Commend !. w. w.
We hold no brief for the Industrial
Workers of the World, we disagree
with them theoretically on many ques-
tions, but honesty bids us commend
the Industrial Workers of the World
for kicking this putrid outfit out of
their union. No organization Of any
that has the welfare OF the
workers at heart can tolerate these
skunks in their midst.
Joins Hands With Thugs.
When the anthracite miners were
starving and fighting one of the most
bitter fights against the reasonable
policy OF the Lewis machine and the
capitalist class. when the progressive
miners were fighting for the very life |
Of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, when the progressive miners
were going to jail In the anthracite |
FOR the progressive miners program,
which is accepted practically all over
the hard coal fields by the rank and
ale miners that have studied 1t, when |
the labor bureaucracy were compli-
menting the police power for putting
the miners in jail, these filthy vermin
,f the Industrial Unionist joined hands
With the capitalist class and advocat-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
LAWYERS OF ROUMANIA
STRIKE TO KEEP JOBS
MENACED BY new RULE
Especial to The Daily Worker

Especial 70 he Daily Worker)
BUCHAREST, March 23-The law
yers Of Roumania, are on strike.
Just like ordinary workers, they
resorted to this method of enforcing
their demands when other measures
failed.
A heavy stamp tax placed by par
lament on all legal papers will ruin
their business, they claim. Law
suits will become so expensive Il
disputes will be settled in other
ways.
That will deprive the lawyers Of
their jobs-hence their strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
Ex.KaIser Lonnn for smItzerlnnd.

GENEVA, March 20. - Negotiations
are under way to purchase a large
chateau at Treveno. fifteen miles from
Lugano, for residence for the ex-
kaiser, IL the powers will permit him
30 leave Holland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
UNIONIST AIDS COAL
BARONS IN WAR ON MILITANTS
BY ALEX REID.

Shiny outfit
Portland orey is the latest line
progressive miners
Worker Of Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25

"The pen Ia mphtIer than the
sword" provided you know how to use
II. Come Flown and learn how In the
worker oorrsspondsnt's glasses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25

ed that personal injury be done the
starving miners in the anthracite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-08
Order Guardsmen
To Attend Infantry
School in Georgia

Special orders have been issued
by Adjutant General James w.
Hanson directing Captain Willard d.
MacLaughlin of Company IL. 103rd
Infantry, Bangor, to proceed on
Feb. "a, 1927, to Fort Benning, Ga,
reporting to the commandant, The
Infantry School, on Feb. 26, 1927, as
a student for the machine gun
course. commencing Feb. %, and
ending May IS, 1927.
Sergeant Lawrence E. McGilvery
of Headquarters Company, Bird Bat
TALON, 10Srd Infantry OeXter) is
directed to proceed on Jan. so. 1927,
to Fort Benning, Ca, reporting to
the commandment of the Infantry
School, as student for the COM
municationS course commencing
Feb. 2, and ending May 81, 1927.
Exam for Promotion
End Lieutenant Freeman e. Walk
er of Company X BelfasD, 103rd
Infantry, Maine National Guard, is
ordered to appear for the purpose OF
| establishing his eligibility for pro-
motion to the grade of LIST leuten-
ant, Infantry. at such time and place
as may be designated by the exam
lining board, the president of which
| is Major Donald c. Metcalf, seth In
fantry Brigade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-08
1926 Sees Many
Changes In New
England Railroads

Boston, Dec 7-(R)-New England
ers will jot down 1926 in their diaries
as a year of significant changes in
the railroads and street railways of
this section. The recent election OF
George Hannauer as president of the
Boston and Maine Railroad calls at
tention to the many important de-
velopments of the year.
On the very first day of 1926 James
II. Hustis announced his resignation
as president of the Boston and
Maine. of which he had been the
head during long and trying period.
Succeeding months saw this railroad
in continual controversy with towns,
cities, states and shippers over it's
policies of abandoning branch lines
considered Improbable, closing small
stations, centralizing it's shop work,
extending its motor bus lines and
curtailing passenger service on many
lines. Only a few of the many petit
tons for absolute abandonment of
branch lines We're granted by the
interstate commerce commission.
All the New England railroads
made this a year of speeding up
through passenger trains. Particu-
lar stress was laid on providing fas-
York, Maine, Canadian points, and
West and the South. Additional ex-
press trains were put on and inter-
mediate stops were cut from the
schedules of others, not without
protest from residents of many places
which found themselves with les
sened passenger travel facilities.
From a financial standpoint the
biggest development of the year was
the reorganization of the Boston and
Maine. This was carried through
latter prolonged opposition by mi
nority stockholders and resulted in
the issuance of a large block of
prior preference stock. Another
important financial step was the
payment by the Maine Central Rail-
road of accumulated back dividends
on it's preferred stock and resump-
ton of dividends on the common
stock. Improved earnings have been
reported this year by all the New
England roads.
Motor bus transportation has made
great strides in New England this
year. Both the Boston and Maine
and the New, York, New Haven and
Hartford railroads have added many
lines to the systems operated by their
motor bus subsidiaries. In some in
stances these lines have replaced
short railroad branches and in
others they have been used to sup
plement train service. Street rail-
ways have substituted buses for
trolley cars on many routes and in
dependent interests have started
many bus lines.
Some street railway lines have
been junked during the year but
many of the larger systems have I'M
dergone improvement. Arrangements
are virtually complete for the taking