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The daily worker., 1926-02-13
Clifton Police
BRUTALLY BEAT
STRIKE PICKETS
Company Tools Assault
Textile Workers
BY J. o. BENTALL
Especial 70 The Daily Workerl

at
.PAsSAIc, N. j., Feb. 11-PoIice on
the Clifton side of the line beat
several pickets on the way to the
Forstmann & Huffman mills, split
their heads, knocked them to the
ground and kicked them In the back
and their stomach and then let them
lie bleeding on the ground until
carried away by their fellow workers.
One woman, Rose Hadagy, was
beaten on the head till the blood fiow-
ed freely ana was brutally kicked in
the stomach. She did not faint at the
time but collapsed later and said her
pain was terrible.
Strike Official Knocked Down.
Gustav Deak, ecretary-treasurer of
the United Front Committee of Tex
tile Workers was knocked down and
after he was PROSTATE on the ground
the police hit him over the back and
kicked him until he was unable to
move. Members of the picket line car
ried him to safety.
A more brutal assault by the police
has not been seen in any labor
trouble, for they swung their clubs as
violently as they could and did not
care who was in the way. A dozen
or more were knocked down and beat
en- back by the cossacks.
The attack on the pickets is backed
by the Forstmann & HUFFMAN mill.
The police and authorities are taking
orders from this firm and it is gen.
orally believed that the police get
quite bit besides advice.
The police forces of Passaic, Gar
field and Clifton we're called together
for a conference and it was openly
published in the local press that the
agreement arrived at in this confer
ence was that the police in either
municipality were authorized to act in
all of them, thus making the 200
police of the three towns united
force in battling with the strikers.
Police Out in Large Numbers.
The day following the conference
police were stationed in large num-
BCAo ~ oAA CAtA 0hOCo W OAAAbOAJs aAA
when six of the pickets walking two
and two several yards apart came to
the Clifton line they were told to stop
and go no further. When they OBJ
jected they were beaten and kicked.
They were told that martial law was
in force in Clifton and that they could
not pass.
In this group of six were Margaret
Bortos, Elizabeth Porembo, Anna Ha-
las, Chester Grabinsky, Balga Bella
and Joe Bryan. These pickets made
no move toward the mill, but were
simply walking peacefully along the
street. All of them were injured by
the police.
At noon the pickets used another
tack. They assembled about 1,500 Of
them and made their way toward the
Forstmann & HUFFMAN MILL Again
they we're met by the police, but the
order had gone forth to push thru and
the 1900 did some tall pushing, for
while some had been laid low by the
police and were being carried away
by their fellows, the big line went for
ward and pushed the whole police
gang into the ditch where some of the
cops found the snow mighty cold as
they sprawled in the slop.
Four Strikers Arrested.
Four were arrested and are being
held on a charge of disorderly con-
duct. The international Labor De-
fens is on the job and is taking care
OF them.
Josephine Zempura on her way to
work was so enraged when she saw
Continued on page 81
The daily worker., 1926-02-13
New Workers Must Keep
July 3, a, S Open

NEW YORK FEB. '9--FrIendly or
ganizations in and around New York
are invited to leave the third, fourth
and fifth of July open, as The DAILY
WORKER is planning to arrange a
three-day encampment for those dates
somewhere near New York. which 1t
II hoped will be- attended by large
sumbers OF workers.
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VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation Of Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. It is
broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
$500 to 7;oo-chicago Federation Of la
Dor talks and bulletins; Instrumental
solos.
900 to 7:3o-The FIorentine String Trio,
dinner music.
1850 TO S;so-Harry Anderson, tenor;
Plerson Thai, 14-year-old boy pianist;
VIGIL Ensemble.
$3.50 to 1o:oo-HalIeluyah Boys: Rudy
Winter, harmony and character songs;
Billy Sehafer; Al Scott's Hawaiian Trio;
Arthur 5iIIquist, popular songs.
1880 to 11;oo-Dance music from the
Municipal Pier Auditorium, chas. Cooks
Orchestra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

strictly military side OF the training
is Of course, very much subdued.
When the student falls for the salvt
and signs up with the r. o. r. G. Il
dies not take him long TO discover tina;
he has not only pledged himself to &
serious contract with the government
to engage in military service that in
wolves much embarrassment for him
in his school to withdraw from, but
that the bunk peddled about sports
and citizenship resolves itself into
good hard training in regular army
style. Into his ears is dinned the
most vicious sort of militarist talk and
the members of the military faculty
are forever attempting to arouse an
exalted sense Of patriotism on the one
hand and enmity and hatred for for.
eign nations on the other.
The subsIdlzers Profit.
TT is important not to forget that the
greater part Of the higher educa-
tional institutions in this country are
subsidized. There is not an important
university in the land that does not
receive donations from some million
aire or corporation or group of
wealthy capitalists. Do you suppose
these subsidizers, most Of them war.
mongers and jingoes forever clamor.
ing about intervention in Mexico or
defending the national honor" OBJ
ject to the War Department moving
into the schools with its rifles and drill
sergeants? OF course not. These
very subsidizers have themselves in
vested too much money abroad, they
own too many mines and factories IN
which at any minute a strike might
break out, to be oblivious to the adj
vantages that the activity Of the War
Department in extending the military
power holds for them.
In what places can the militarists
find better officers for the command of
the millions of conscriptable cannon
fodder in this country than in the
schools and colleges? The basis Of an
imperialist war machine of untold
magnitude is being laid each year as
the thousands of officers graduated
from the r. o. It. c. units don their
uniforms and admire their newly ac-
CURED golden shoulder bars. Give the
War Department the officers and it
will draft the men for them to com
nand. That sums up the purpose of
the R. o. T. C.
Tomorrow, Who Is Behind Military
Trainlng?)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
More Revolts Threaten
Nicaraguan Dictator

LEON, Nicaragua, August 24.-Re-
volutions continue in this satrapy of
Wall Street. The latest outbreak is
directly across the country from the
recently suppressed revolt at Blue
fields which threatened the rule Of the
dictator, Chamorra. The government
is modifying all available forces and
sending them to Leon and other towns
near the Honduras border where re-
bells have just dynamited a troop train
on which there was 100000 in cash.
Only by sharp fighting were the re-
volutionists prevented from making
off with the treasure.
Sporadic warfare is reported from
other parts of the country, and the
American consul at Bluefelds has
again asked Washington for a gun
boat; the usual procedure of landing
marines Is expected.
President Chamorra represents the
most reactionary group Of landowners
and the most tyrannical cliQues Of
army officers. During his former long
reign as dictator, he was a tool Of
American bankers. He lost his Job,
finally, but has recently recovered the
spoils of office by military insurrec-
ton. Though not recognized by the
U. s. government which desires to
maintain a general policy against re-
bellion in Central America, Chamorra
is reported as being on increasingly
terms with the business in
terests and high officials OF the United
States. He is violently opposed by all
the more liberal bourgeois OF Mica
ragua, by the labor movement Of that
country and even by some of its land
owners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
GREAT MONOPOLY
OF FRENCH IRON
BEING ARRANGED
Build Biggest Trust in
Period of Penance

PARIS, Aug. "a. - While the gov
eminent, which is now strictly a big
business affair, following the shatter-
ing Of the "left bloc" makes a gesture
Of economy by passing a regulation
that all good Frenchmen who love
their country and value the franc shall
eat stale bread during a so-called
period OF penance," the great indus
trialists get to work to reap the fruits
Of depreciation and consolidate their
gains.
The collapse of real wages thru the
cheapening of the currency has placed
the French manufacturers in a posi-
ton to bid for the world trade In steel
and iron. In addition TO the recent
bargain with the German trusts cor
respondence is now going on between
all French concerns controlling mines,
furnaces, steel works, foundries, roll
ing mills, manufacturers using iron
and steel as raw material, and all
wholesalers, retailers and exporters in
this industry. The object is to call
in the near future a States General
OF Metallurgy" and to establish the
largest and most complete national
monopoly of iron and steel products
In the world. With its relations to the
conquered German industrialists clear
the way seems open for French indus
try TO seriously affect the world mark
ct. unless Morgan decides otherwise.
The industrialists in their propaganda
are making point that the bankers
are not included in the new combina-
tion. but Just how much Of this is true,
remains 70 be seen.
Meanwhile the common people con-
tinue to eat stale bread and enjoy not
more than two dishes per meal in
restaurants
$50 -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

dent to take up the instruction. We
will let Winthrop D. Lane, to whose
researches we are indebted for much
of the material about the R. o. T. c.,
tell US about subsidizing the student:
But even" says Lane, "if compul-
sion were to go-and it is at present
increasing not essening-there would
still be the factor Of War Department
propaganda. Backed by an annual ap-
preparation such as the S3,S1S,020 CIV
en- by congress for R. o. T. c. ex-
penses in 1925, the military officials
are able to make money talk to stu
dents. Under the terms Of the Ma
tional Defense Act students in the jun
ior division and those taking the basic
course in the senior division receive
uniforms to wear while they are IN
dergoing training. Those in the basic
course receive, also, travel allowance
to and from summer camp, If they
elect to attend one; they receive sub
sistence while there. Students in the
advanced course of the senior division
get more. They are not only given
uniforms, but a subsidy in cash. This
payment is issued to them at the rate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

Reserve Officers Corps. But before
entering the latter he must sign an
oath to bind himself to reserve service
in the army for at least five years.
In the school year Of 1924 no less
than 1892 youths we're made second
lieutenants in the United States
Army as the result OF their training
in the R. o. T. C. Since the activ-
ity of the War Department is increas-
ing year by year in this direction,
altho no figures are available for the
succeeding years, it is plain that the
officers commissioned in this way is
increasing.
All the big universities and colleges
are on the list in which military
training is given, high schools in
eight cities of the first class give mil
itary instruction, where often boys Of
IA are given regular instruction in the
use of arms.
A LTHO only SO educational institu-
"A tions make military drill compul-
sorry, (actually it is not compulsory ac-
cording to law it is not necessary,
what with the funds appropriated and
the propaganda spread, to force a stu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
SPANISH-ITALIAN
AGREEMENT inks
BRITISH CABINET
Suddenly Decides No
Slavery in Abyssinia
tspeeIaI 70 rhe Daily Workerl

AopCCldt TO Inc lazy NOTHCTJ
LONDON, Aug. "a. French and
British warships steam towards Tan
gier to prevent that theoretically
neutral territory from being seized as
result Of the new Spanish-Italian
concord and turned over to Spain.
Dletators' Alliance.
The Mussolini government has de-
clared in favor of Spanish ownership
OF Tangier. The treaty between Spaiu
and Italy discusses other phases of
the Mediterranean and North African
situation also, and in general indicates
an alliance between Mussolini and
Primo de Riviera, the full extent of
which can only be guessed.
Baldwin Changes Front.
One immediate effect is the brazen
change Of front by the Baldwin cab
met on the question OF slavery in
Abyssinia. While Benlto and Baldwin
were planning to divide the famous
land of the Queen Of Sheba, there was
much talk Of the terrible conditions
OK the slaves down there, and IL was
freely prophesied that the crusading
armies OF England and Italy would
find It necessary to free them. Now
the Abyssinians have granted the
British government the right to dam
Lake Tsana and provide a water sup
ply TO irrigate their newly opened cot
ton growing region in the Sudan.
The British government has evidently
decided that slavery is not in Abys.
sin'a, at least as long as the natives
there do not interfere with the water
supply and at least while Mussolini
persists in double.crossing the British
navy by flirting with the idea OF build.
ing Notifications across from Gibral.
fsX .S...sv1.-T7fr y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
$226, 100000 Spent
by u. S. Tourists in
France During 1925

PARIS, Aug. "a. - The official Jour
nal publishes the statistics of money
spent by Americans in France last
year.
The number Of American visitors
was 100000 who spent $226,150, 900.
The tourist chart shows: 2 per cent
Of the tourists we're millionaires,
spending $4,000 each; IS per cent were
Of the wealthy class, spending SLIGO
each; A per cent were business men.
spending $3.50 each; s per cent were
travellers for business and amusement.
spending $500 each, and 26 per cant
were teachers. students and other en-
ployes on vacation, spending ;425
each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
GEORGE
IN FOXY MOVE
TO WIN LABOR
Pushes Macdonald Gu
of Leading Position

That the crafty Welsh politicisn
David Lloyd George. is pushing Ram
say Macdonald, right wing leader 0
the British Labor Party and ex
premier, off the stage as a spokes
man for labor, is apparent in LloyC
Georges vigorous defense of the Brit
ish miners published in the Hears
press.
Following the message sent by Pre-
mier Baldwin to America declarin1
that there was no sufferingsan the Goa
miners families and trying to preven
financial relief being sent the British
miners, A. ]. Cook, miners secretary
stated that Ramsay Macdonald hac
refused to write a letter to America
refuting Baldwin's lies, but that Lloyc
George had promised to do so.
A Fine Labor Leader"
Macdonald, who had gone so fai
in support of British capitalism thai
he even wrote articles for the Ameri
can press attacking the British gen
eral strike, has been losing labor sup
port rapidly. With Lloyd George aim
ing to take his place, Macdonald was
forced to act. So he declared that he
had written a letter to Ellen Willdn.
son, now in America, TO refute Bald,
wins claims, but his letter was lost!
MacDonald's letter finally appeared,
with a weak defense Of the miners
strike and an even weaker criticism
of Premier Baldwin. Now Lloyd
George, in his article for the Hearst
papers far outstrips Macdonald in de.
Tense of the miners and lashes Bald.
win in scathing terms In defense
Of the striking miners Lloyd George
says, in part, as follows:
Miners Case Just One.
ct will be asked, Why, if there
is all this suffering, do not the miners
end it all by returning to work. But
surely that depends on whether their
case is just one. They are not
striking for a wage. increase; they ara
resisting an attempt to reduce wages,
which are none too good when the per.
lis Of their trade are taken into CON
sideration.
at is the most dangerous Of occu-
pations, and the casualties to life and
limb are higher than in all other voca-
lions together. The work in older
mines was particularly arduous and
dangerous, but the British miner was
paid, before the lockout began, not
much more than one-third the wages
received by Pennsylvania and Virginia
miners.
Owners Tyrannleai.
"The owners insist on a substantial
reduction in that wage or an increase
In hours. The hours are nominally
seven a day. In reality they are often
eight or more, because Of the dis.
tances men have to travel under
ground to their work.
Several royal commissions have in
vestigated the industry, each support
ing the main contention of the miners
and each recommending reorganiza.
ton Of the industry. The mine own
ers are stubborn, rigid and unyield.
ing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
Know Their Enemies.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua.-Th revolt
has spread into central Nicaragua and
considerable bocy of rebels have at
tackled the San Antonio headquarters
of the Nicaragua Sugar Estates Co.,
OF London, the largest sugar enter
prise in this part of the country, and
one of the worst OF the foreign ex-
ploiters who operate under the protec-
ton OF dictator Chamorra. 1t is re-
ported that in the fighting Gustave
Canton, the assistant superintendent
OF the company was killed.
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of 80 cents a day for 312 days and
thus amounts to $9360 for each year
or $187.2O for the two years, a sum
sufficient to help many poor lad thru
school. In addition while in camp
they received wages at the lowest rate
in the regular army, or 70 cents day.
This adds S29.4O to their receipts,
bringing the total in actual cash up to
$4,000"
The Publicity Agents.
TN addition to these material offers
L that are often enticing to youth
that has to struggle his way thru
school. the army publicity agents work
the game for all it is worth in propa-
gandizing the lads. They appeal to
the school spirit of the boys, they
make no secret of talking about the
money and clothes advantages Of the
course, they hold out offers Of polo
games with cavalry teams" and talk
of getting training in managing men,"
The colleges give credit to the stu
dents that engage in military drill and
this too is not overlooked by the cata-
logue writer's. Every possible induce
ment is held out and mention Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
Americans Attacked In France.

NICE, France. Aug. 24.-Police res
cued Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wills and
Mrs. Alice Oler of Philadelphia from
threatening mob today The taxi
cab In which the Americans were rid
ing ran down cyclist. The cyclist
was not injured and he got up and
attacked the chauffeur. A crowd col
lected and threatened the Americans.
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Third Article of Series

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Wanted by employed couple two
rooms or one with sleeping
porch in Northern Detroit,
with meals Monday TO Friday.
Call MoIlenhauer, Cadillac
4725.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

Reports from the far east say that
the former cossaek General Sem
enoff, now living under Japanese
protection at Nagasakl, Is making an
attempt to organize an army for the
invasion Of Siberia. He hopes, II Is
said, to use the white Russian troops
under Chang in China, notorious for
their savagery, as a nucleus. But
II the general was deeIslvely beaten
In the days when Soviet Russia was
weak and being attacked from all
sides, the eklled white guard must
be given credit for great optimism
In supposlna he has a chance Of sue
cess with the forces Of the revoIu-
tlon consolidated az they are now
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READY TO CROSS
BULGAR BORDER
TENSION CROWS
Only Bulgarian Speech
Allowed In Sofia

BUCHAREST, Roumania, Aug. "a
The Roumanian minister at Sofia has
communicated to his government the
fact that the Bulgarian rulers are
much worried over the present ex-
change Of notes between Bulgaria on
the one hand and Greece, Roumania
and Jugo Slavia on the other. The
Bulgarian reply to the allies demands
that raiding across the border by ir-
regular armed bodies Of Bulgarians
and Macedonians must stop, will prob
ably admit the raids but disavOw re-
sponsibility on the grounds that the
treaty of peace and the league Of ma
tions do not permit Bulgaria sufficient
armed troops to guard the frontier.
The Roumanian minister claims that
the Bulgarian government itself is
afraid this excuse will sound rather
stale.
Talk Bulgarian or Nothing.
It is reported that the Bulgarian
government has forbidden all use in
public of any but the native language,
and gives other evidence of nervous
ness.
The Belgrade newspapers say that
il the Bulgarian raids do not come
the Balkan allies will pursue raiders
over the border. This is certain to
result in war, either declared or not
declared.
There Is still some talk of bringing
in the league Of nations to settle the
quarrel, but the opinion gains ground
that Greece, Roumania and Jugo
Slavia know their ground, and that
the league will, as usual, side with
the stronger. The affair may result in
some further friction in the league, as
1t is certain now that there is contem-
plated matrimonial alliance between
the ruling houses of Italy and Bull
garia, and there are always hard feel
ings between Italy and Jugo Slavia.
Roumania is opposing, diplomati-
cally, the Humanitarian" loan from
the league to Bulgaria, on the grounds
that some of the money might be used
TO build strategic military railways
under the pretense Of opening up new
land for settlement of refugees.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

Five dollars t0iH renetc your
sub for a year, if you send IL in
before AH0ust Is.
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Beginning of Scholastic Military Training Manu-
featuring Officers for Cannon Fodder-Subsides
by the War Department Compulsory Training.
Evening star., 1926-10-15

West Virginia University. Alumni
from many nearby cities in the East
also will attend.
Evening star., 1926-10-15
ALUMNI HONOR new DEAN
OF GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
Rev. Robert A. Parsons, S. j., to Be
Guest at Homecoming
Smoker Tonight.

Rev. RobeEt A. Parsons. S. j.,
newly appointed dean of Georgetown
College, will be welcomed at the
alumni homecoming smoker to-
night at the Willard Hotel. Retire
ment of Dean Louis j. Gallagher, S.
j.. and the arrival of the new dean.
announced only yesterday, caused gen
eral surprise in alumni circles.
The new dean is not unknown to
Georgetown alumni, for he has So
journed in Philadelphia and Boston,
two of the largest alumni centers.
He comes here from st. JoSeph'S Col
lege, where he held various executive
positions and from which he was
graduated as young man.
Father Gallagher, it was announced,
retired TO become assistant to the
provincial and prefect general of
studies of the newly formed New
England Province of the Jesuit Or
der. His new duties will place him
in a supervisory capacity over two
of the largest Jesuit institutions,
Holy Cross College of Worcester,
Mass, and Boston College.
Boston. is Father Gallagher's home
arH ho went from Boston College
several years ago 10 JOIN ReN. fd-
mund A. Walsh, S. j., OF Georgetown,
in his relief work in Russia.
Father Parsons is native of Phila
delphia lie studied at Woodstock
College, Md, and later in New York
in preparation for the priesthood.
Previous to his duties at st. Joseph 8,
he was professor of chemistry at Bos-
ton College for number of years.
Coach Lou Little, officers of the
athletic association and the varsity
team will be guests at the alumni
banquet tonight, which is being held
preparatory to tomorrOw'S game with