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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

is being charged.
The editorial and business Offices of
The DAILY WORKER have been
granted a special invitation and are
also being invited to the eats, dancing
and other features Of the first DAILY
WORKER Builders Party of this year.
All DAILY WORKER agents and
those who have secured subscriptions
or sold The DAILY WORKER at un-
ion meetings, etc. are participating in
the affair, when for one night Com
munist pleasure will come before pro-
paganda business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Bank Failures Point.
Need of a New Party
By a worker correspondent

ST. PAUL. March 29-The Ramsey
County State Bank here has been
closed by A. ]. veigel, state banking
commissioner, Deposits of, approx
mately $1,3OO,OOO are involved. The
cause of the closing was frozen"
assets.
This is the fourth bank which has
stopped operation in the last few
weeks. believe there are others we
do not hear of. The losses fall mostly
on workers and little business men
who have saved up something for
sickness or emergencies.
Such events as these are paving the
way for real workers and farmers
party movement in this section of the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Churches are Losing
Customers; Advertise
to Get More Business
nx a Worker correspondent

NEW YORK, March 20. The
churches are losing customers. The
Willis avenue Methodist Episcopal
church, located at 141st street and
Willis avenue, has just erected large
billboard in front of the church,
A picture of Christ is in the center
of the billboard, with outstretched
hands. On each side of his hands
stands a church. On top the sign
reads, righteousness Exalteth a Ma
ton" On the bottom it reads, "Come
unto me and 1 will give you rest"
The top of the sign has the name Of
the General Outdoor Advertising COM
pany.
The churches are losing customers
as the workers are getting more. intel
ligent and realize that the church Is
a weapon used against them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

coming ever clearer that as the Party
overcomes the difficulties and grad
ually solves the problems of the re-
organization and, especially, as it sue
ceeds in drawing the membership into
mass activities in the shops, it is be-
coming ever clearer that because of
the reorganization and thru it many
vexing problems (Which in the past
appeared almost unsolvable) will be
bbe solved the problem Of drawing
the membership into the trade unions.
The Party is an inseparable part Of
the working class; its every problem
is related to the problems of the en-
tire working class and must be solved
as related to the problems and strug-
giles Of the entire working class. The
reorganization of the Party has made
this exceedingly clear.
We can, therefore, look forward with
confidence to the solution Of the prob
lem of drawing the Party members
into the trade unions and trade union
activities.
Increase Activity.
Our methods of solving the trade
union problem must be: actiyization
of the shop and street nuclei; demand
discipline and activity on the part of
every member of the Party; develop
the organization campaigns of the
trade unions, increase pressure on the
trade union bureaucracy for the organ
ization Of the unorganized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
HUDSON=::ESSEX
WILL hire ONLY
YOUNetWORKERS
Bosses Refuse to Take
Middle-Aged Worker
81 a W0rRdr cOrrespondent

DETROIT, Mich, March 20 - The
Hudson-Essex Meteor Car company
hires only young strong men that are
able to keep up with the speed-up sys-
tenn that they haYe in the plant. The
manager of the employment Office
gives no consideration to the men of
45 or so who stand in line. They are
not fast enough, j. They cannot pro-
duce the profits the bosses seek. He
picks out the young fellows.
When foreman needs ten men he
sends in requisition to the employ
ment manager for fifteen. The man
ager picks out those whom he thinks
are agile and can stand the pace. They
are sent to work in the department
they were hired for.
After they have worked a week the
boss lays off five of them and keeps
those whom he finds are better able
to produce greater profits for the boss.
It is terribly hard work and in order
to keep ones JOB the workers are
always working at top notch. After
a few years-if worker lasts that
long--he is a nervous wreck. The
conditions in the plant are not of the
best and as times goes on they grow
worse. Every day the work grows
harder, while wages are being re-
duced. The bosses look in disdain
on the workers in the shop. The only
thing that these bosses ever fear is
organized power. its time the work
ers organized and fought for better
conditions. y,r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Workers Communist Party
Trade Union Problems and Reorganization

An illustration? Passaic. The textile
workers, members of the Party in
Passaic, hardly needed any disciplin-
airy measures to compel them to par
ticipate in the struggles for better
conditions and for organization.
Another illustration. At the recent
organization conference of the Party
in Chicago, in the course of discus
sion of the trade union question, one
of the comrades related how recently
some Of the Party members in Chi
cago, millinery workers, enthusiastic
cally joined the trade union during a
drive to unionize the millinery shops.
While this interesting experience did
not arouse any discussion, yet, in our
opinion, it touches the very heart Of
the problem of the 'unionization" Of
the Party.
Connected With Workers Struggles.
The campaign for drawing the Party
members into the trade unions will
become a real and a live issue for the
membership only when connected with
the struggles of the workers, with the
struggles of the unorganized workers
for better conditions and for organiza-
ton.
The reorganization of the Party was
revolutionary change; it shook up
the Party, it placed the membership
face to face with new and increased
responsibilities, with new problems,
new methods of activity. But it is be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
PEERLESS LIGHT
COMP ANY GIRLS
DO DIRTY WORK
More Freedom in Prison
Than in This Shop
81 a worker corresponden..

The Peerless Light company, Union
avenue and Washington boulevard, is
an open-shop concern. The boss and
the foreman are the supreme rulers in
this place. Nose Of the workers are
young people. The work is hard and
dirty.
The girls have such dirty work here
that they never go out without gloves.
1t takes at least fifteen minutes every
day to wash their hands. Only the
forelady is allowed to wash her hands
before the bell rings.
Wages in this shop are low and the
hours are long. The conditions are
miserable. Hiring and firing go on
without interruption.
The workers are forbidden to talk
to each other-not even to ask a ques-
ton. A shopmate of mine was fired
for talking to her neighbor. When a
worker goes to the Mushroom the FORE
man times them. If the boss thinks
the worker has taken too much time
the worker is fired.
When the boss gets big order
everybody must work overtime with
out extra pay. To refuse to work
overtime means to lose the job.
These are the conditions in the
shops where workers are not organ
lied. The things for us to do is to
organize ourselves into a union and
demand better conditions, higher
wages, shorter hours and cleaner work
for girls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Chicago Builders Hold EXCLUSIVE Affair

T .ETTERS of invitation to a novel
party, from the Chicago DAILY
WORKER agent Sam Hammersmark,
have gone out to all Chicago workers
who have done some special service
for the DAILY WORKER since jan
nuary first.
To this Builders Party held on
Wednesday night at Stiskas Hall on
Irving Park Boulevard will come some
hundred odd workers specially invited
to the affair which is restricted to
them only and for which no admission
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

- - u = = - - kssA
THE question of drawing the Party
1 members into the trade unions is
before every Party committee, before
every Party unit, every Party confer
ence. 1t has been before the Party
membership for a considerable time,
but the progress of "unionizing" the
Party is a slow one. Some of the
comrades are getting impatient and
suggest the adoption of drastic dis
ciplinary measures. Theological prep
aration of membership - we had
enough of it," they say, 'it's time
some other measures be adopted"
Correct. But not measures of me-
chanical compulsion.
Reorganization Raises Problem.
With the reorganization of the Party
the problem of drawing the Party
membership into the trade unions as
sumes a new aspect. The reorganiza-
ton placed before the Party the ques-
ton of activities in the shops, among
the masses of the unorganized work
ers. And the first word that the Party
naturally speaks to these workers
after analyzing their conditions is:
"Organize!" In this situation the de-
mand to join the trade unions becomes
for the Party members a concrete one,
a question of action, a question of
participating in the struggles of the
unorganized workers for organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

Following 1t went into the abyss. The
last three coaches, which were first
class or Pullman, stayed on the track
En- impartial of Mexico City, for
many years leading the Mexican press,
the day after the catastrophe, covered
it in succinct manner and used a
phrase worthy of immortality, There
were many casualties to lament, altho
fortunately all among third-class pas
sengers."
After a dictatorial reign of thirty
years, Porfirio Diaz was overthrow
by a revolution of "third-class passen-
gers"
If a movie star hurts a toe while
dancing the Charleston; If an oil mag
nate strains an ankle while playing
golf; if a successful politician is poi
soned by a bellboy, an uproar. of anx-
iety, grief and lamentation saturates
this atmosphere of ours of black
smoke, jazz radio waves and vapors of
bootleg whiskey. The papers regret
not having at least half a dozen. first
pages on which to print itemized de.
tails Of the calamity affecting the ma.
ton. Editorials continue for weeks.
philosophizing on the remotest origins
and furtherest consequences of the
event. ~ +
But suppose three-score coal miners
are buried under the debris of de-
fective structure wrecked by a pre-
ventable explosion; suppose a few
hundred poorly-paid factory workers
are slowly poisoned by deleterious
gases in the manufacture of product
which is making some millionaire
more millions; suppose, as it hap
pened last week in Alabama, that two
dozen humble laborers are turned into
human patty, becoming covered By
tons of molten metal, in a plant where
o similar explosion occurred two weeks
before. .-,,s.
One-column heads start the brief
notice. The prosperous population of
the metropolises read the news with
great Indifference. Editorials are con-
spicuous by their absence. Laborers,
perhaps dirty foreigners, third-class
passengers ARE involved. 1t has no
importance!
When shall the American people
commence to realize that the human
life of the humblest, blacklist, and
most ignorant coal miner is just as
sacred, just as worthy, just as precious
as the human life of kings, emperors
or barons, so numerous in this re-
public?
Or is it, perhaps, that the peace we
have here now is also an Octavian
peace and that third-class passengers
are slowly Matching dramatic scene
such as those enacted in Mexico or in
Russia? Quien sabel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Russian Members
of Workers Party
Will Meet Wednesday

A special meeting of the Russian
fraction of the Workers Party will be
held Wednesday, March 81, at p. m.
at the Workers House, 1902 w. Divi-
sion St. Very important matters will
come up. All Russian members Of the
party are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

/ Section Begins Women's Work.
E A meeting Of directors Of women's
work in every shop and street nucleus
in Section No. 4, Chicago will be held
Friday, April 2, at 10 S. Lincoln, St.,
at SIP. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
HOW CAPITALIST PRESS IGNORES
"THE THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS
By a Worker oorrespondnet.

oHNG the oetavan was de
- pot Roman that PorHO paz was
president terrible accident
between Mexico City and excursion train caro
pilgrims to religious fesvy engine and number Of cars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31

"say II with your pen In the worker
correspondent page Of The DAILY
WORKER"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-31
Y. w. L. WORKER CORRESPOND
ENTS' CLASS IN DETROIT

DETROIT, Mich.-A class of Work
ers' Correspondents has been started
by the Young Workers League. Mem
bership to this class is open to all
league and party members. 1t meets
regularly every Thursday at p. m.
at the House Of the Masses. Comrade
Owen Stirling is instructing the class.
Comrade Stirling is one of the most
experienced journalists in the local
movement and by far the most compe-
tent instructor that can be engaged.
"The pen Is mightier than the
sword" provided you know how to use
II. Come down and learn how In the
worker correspondents classes.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
BUTTERFLY AID BEE
BAPTIsTs BACK
DRY AN

Tlre Northern Baptist Convention,
which CLOSES tomorrow after week.
81 battling between the Funda
mentaiists and Nrodernists. from
which the Modernists emerged
victorious. adopted series of.
resolutions today opposing war and
looking with diafavor upon com
pulsory military training n colleges
and high schools.
The convention also demanded lin
no uncertain way that ali public.
officials. including senators and
Representatives ii Congress- use.
their powers Tor the enforcement Of
the Eighteenth amendment and
urged that no treaty be concluded
with Turkey which does not guar
antee full religious liberty ana Tree
dom from persecution Tor Christian
residents and restoration Of its
Christian Womanhood.
Another resolution commended
the program OF the White Cross In
ternatfOnal Anti-Narcotic Society for
combating the drug evil. which the
Baptists characterize as Menace
whose equal. perhaps. cannot be
found among the social evils
The convention also adopted b
resolution authorizing the appoint
nnent OF committee to cooperate
with connmittte already appointed
by the Southern Baptist Convention
with reference to the possibility OF
the two conventions having joint
headquarters III Washington.
Labor was also taken up, and
the resolution urged the churches
sto take an interest in the movement
to improve standards OF labor and
particularly III helping to secure
the constitutional amendments that
viii make t possible to remove the
handicaps caused by child labor"
The resolution on opposition to
war precipitated considerable dis.
cussion concerning the clause on
elimination OF perfunctory military
training In colleges and schools, but
the delegates Oyerwhe lmingly voted
to retain the language.
The Anti,Saloon Leagues attitude
was outlined by Wheeler In q speech
before the Northern Baptist Conven.
ton ~ Washington Auditorium in
which he roindly denounced ali pro-
pD6a46 4OE q 1lslL1OndA EGlePSn0um on
the wet and dry issue. He appealed
to the churches to emphasize the
moral rightness' Of prohibition,
rather than listen to loose talk
about the alleged failure OF en-.
9orcement."
Wheeler declared that loyalty to
the Federal constitution and law
enforcement will be the acid test
applied to candidates in the coming
primaries"
I'm the five States where
primaries have been held, the
friends OF the 18th amendment have
held the line," he said. Even in
Pennsylvania, one Of the wettest
States in the Union with two dry
candidates for Senator dividing the
dry vote, they had $50 900 more
votes than the wet candidate who
carried only about q half dozen
counties"
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Wheeler's
speech. the convention adopted a
resolution endorsing the National
Anti-Saloon League as the inter-
denominational agency in fighting
the liquor traffic.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
Parade to Be Followed
BY Visits to Graves Of
Walker and Col. Young

Plans have been completed for
assembling all colored patriotic or
ganizations OF the District OF Co
Ilnnbia. under the direction OF
James Il. Walker Post, at the coll
ored Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, Twelfth between s and T
Streets Northwest Monday. at 8
4. M. preparatory to participating
IA the general Memorial Day parade.
Leaving the ''Yo at 10 &. m. the
colored organizations will march
to the District Building. where
they will join the procession to-
Arlington National Cemetery.
q. II. Miller, leading the COlored
Community Center Band OF S.
members. win head the colored
marchers.
After participating in the general
exercises at Arlington Cemetery, the
colored organizations win hold spe-
cial exercises at the graves Of
James e. Walker and Col. Charles
Young. Speaking and appropriate
music will constitute their program.
Officers OF the colored posts have
asked all ex-service men to turn
out, and that q uniform is not
essential to, participate In the.
march.
A group OF colored ministers OF
the city has planned q visit Monday
to the grave Of William Jennings
Bryan.
Children from many of the col
ored schools win make q pilgrimage
to Cedar Hill, the late home Of
Frederick Douglass, recently pur-
chased by colored citizens OF
America az national shrine of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
STUDENTS REPORT YOUTH
WHO STOLE 6. W. D. TESTS

The student who stole minne0.
graphed copies Of examination
papers at George Washington Uni
yersity and sold them on the
campus has been Identified and
probably win be summariIy dis
missed from the university.
Faculty members stated today
that comparatively few copies Of
the questions were sold and that
the students themselves turned In
the man who had stolen the papers.
/ The name 81 the guilty party. It
was said. probably win be an
nounced by university authorities.
The procedure viii be to strike his
name from the enrolment list and
let that close the incident.
Copies OF the questions are re-
ported to have sold at prices rang.
ing from SIS to 81. The classes
affected by the leak" were those
In political science, English, Span
ish and psychology.
Purchasers of the questions win
gain nothing, for the reason that
the professors In the classes ~.
fected have made out a new list OF
examination questions.
It Is the practice at the univer-
sity for professors to make out q
list Of questions and turn the list
in to be mimeographed. A copy Of
the examination questions Is then
given to each student on the day
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
SPIRIT ALIST
RAPS POLICE

interruption of her aeance by %
lice last night nearly resulted fatal.
" for DR.. Charlokta Blanchard
Bruen. az 2120 Eighteenth ST.
~. she declared today
When q medium Il II q trance
Il e extremely dangerous for her
20 receive such q shock s. did
when the police broke in she said
Ana besides ! am in II health al1S
way and those officers were almost
rs1pensibIe for my death
Backed ~ fIcenee obtained at
the District Building permitting
her to practice spirit uallan and
BY large, neaxl framed diploma
from the 1utexnatlo srlrltusl list
Union. Of Nebraska. Or. Eruea sid
III court
She VIII appear before s police
judge Tuesday morning with Wit
nesaes galore.
The witnesses win include The
persons present az the seauce last
night. al Of which except two.
Dr.. Bruen declare had received
messages from their dead relatives
Or friends.
they are Mrs. Grace Lansing.
Parlxlngton, cousin Of former Sec
r9taxy Lansing NGES. - q HOLINESS
Of go Tenth ST. 5. wife o1 8
Ct Mrs Holmes; 1Ers GLE
pin. % re Underwood ST.. k0Ena
Park HI Myers. ot $40 Indiana
Ave. ~. w. Mr Rathman. Mrs.
Neftie and Miss nGabal Jones', Of
716 Tenth St s.
was giving 3 message from the
dead 70 one Of my friends. con-
tinued Dr. Bruen. when we heard
noise. said Now ] wonder who
that can be- It was the police.
nnllee - 800 - 80. ,.s.ss IS -.
dunn BY the name Of = !. 3 Carroll,
who LETT ashinskon Tor Buffalo
few days ago after giving ance
Because of her 81 heaikh DR.
Bruen was not taken to the Eighth
Precinct station house
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
MEMORIAL D 4 \
Fl ANS MADE

Elaborate prepare lions Tor the OBJ
servance or Memorial Day Monday
have been made by patriotic organ
iazfions 81 the District 81 Columbia,
headed 81 veterans DK the Grand
Army Or the Republic.
All Government departments VIII
Be closed, most Ok Washing ton 3
business houses viii be closed.
President Coolidge win take the
most prominent Part III the days
program when He delivers "A adj
dress IRON the ma ntficent marble
aTnphitecture 81 Arlington Gene
terry. The speech VIII be broadcast
bv radio throughout the country
Plans have been completed tor
the decoration with flags and
flowers oe the grave Of every soldier
Iin and around the National Capital.
Patriotic Parade
Starting the official observance
win be q parade Of patriotic
societies, led by the Grand Army Of
the Republic, Potomac Department.
THE parade win start At $50 O'Clock
Monday morning az Fifteenth and
Pennsylvania Avenue, circle the
Treasury on the south, proceed to-
III street between the White House
ana Treasury. thence to Thirteenth
street and south to the Washing
ton Virginia Railway cars. where
special trains win take the march
ers 10 Arlington National
Cemetery.
AT Arlington an impressive pro-
gram and march has been arranged
participated In BY women auxiliaries
st the various veteran organizations.
Meanwhile, throughout the city
and In the suburbs. Individual posts
Of the. American Legion Spanish
war Veterans, Boy Scouts and
others viii visit the various
cemeteries to place flowers and
flags.
parade win be g. A. +. veterans.
the Army and Navy Union. United
Spanish War Veterans, American
Legion posts, Veterans Of Foreign
lenic Descent.
Mounted Escort
Al mounted police escort win pre-
cede the parade. 1t viii be followed
by the Marine Band. Capt. John
Middleton of the @. a. r. win be
chief marshal.
Upon reaching Arlington the pro-
cession win reform in front Of the
Lee Mansion and march to the
Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier
where flowers and wreaths win be
placed.
Services win be held in the amphi-
theater starting at o'clock. 1nv0-
cation win be by Rev. George 81.
Dudley. Introductory remarks VIII
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29

A married qgOmsGs stays
0aOnlxe wondering 1Uhem her
husband Viu get IN. An
Old maid stays alUGlee for
fenr that some man 1Diu get
III. GENEVIEVE.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-05-29
THE PICNIC


The Pfcxnick Ii where lot &c
feIlurs and gurls goes out II the
tall timber among the farmnrs
and bug8s ana othur wild anna
mule. and 2akes lot Of things TO
Get and drink while they are
there, and stays as long as the
things are enuf to 90 around.
what Lovely Time they had.
8umtimes this - the Truth. and
aantlmee Il n Far Difeerent. Pic
hicks Is WHARF you get b rurf if
sum other feliur has not got the
enrl you want furst. and then You
set anOthur one, and you W8n4uf
ever the bukifu1 landscaip hand ID
band and pick fipMurs. snntilnes
yon take 3 gun along ana shoot
brrds ana the CURL says 20 you
notify thing, and You swell up
and act braiv. like you done that
eRury day. and when e gets dark
and gou are several miles kroAm
th6 EIcknicl yOu put your arm
eronnd The gnri aua she EuaiIen e
tIaelneni 6ls - CALM guri
ana y0u otto know that hefoar
Won come ont. and y0u kiss her
ana she kisses you back, and You
don't ret back TO the Picxnick
til sum Onry felIur shoots of
JNA TIE U1uAH4 40N AA41 3ON Att-A
the gnrl both almost dies, and the
falinr says sulnthing smart and
y0n would mock his block of II
y0u wasn't with the gurI. and ron
feel like there n no more Joy IN
life anyhow. Sum folks have
Chapperons with their picIsnfclEa
which II old married woman
that goes eo sleep and don't care
hoop n you commit battul
waurd M and sudden defh
RAY DEYO.