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, 1926-08-04

Dad Handy was calling on old
friends in the city Friday. Dad is a
jolly old fellow and we are always
glad to have him ome
Grandma and Grandpa Todd re-
turned Friday from a trip through
the Yellowstone Park. They &C
companied Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Thayer on the trip which consum-
ed about five days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Phelps
were shopping in Meeteetse Friday.
w. o. Taylor the Oil man from
Cody passed through town Friday.
Wednesday. Mr.. and Mrs. Basil
Bennett drove in from Fillmore.
California. They went there last
November. but not liking the coun-
try they returned here and will
| make their future home in these
parts.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ted Rob-
inson at the Uranium ranch or
Thursday evening a fine baby girl,
all parties doing well.
Sunday the Base ball team of
hittttttSt Mtht " DuIilhStOA "
cross bats with the farmer boys OF
our neighboring town. The game
of Is full innings was played with
the score of one in favor of the
Burlington team.
Denver Lane and Billy Nelson
had a rather exciting experience
Thursday evening when driving
] alamo fhn road III cnannc fhnv ~ OF
a car on a dugway that was toe
narrow for the two cars to pass.
Denver Lane pulled out of the road
as far as he dared without turn
ing over. The other car took the
upper side of the road and hit
the Lane car knocking 1t off the
grade. The car turned over smash
ing the top and bruising and
scratching up the occupants but
not seriously.
Mabel Peoples, the bookkeeper
in the First National Bank. re-
turned home last Thursday. She
has been visiting friends and rela-
tives at several points in the North
west for the last three weeks.
Miss Renner went out to the
Renner ranch on upper Gooseberry
creek last Saturday to visit her
sister.
Joe Wolf made a short stay in
Cody last week. The object of the
trip was some dental work.
David Dickie of the l. U ranch
passed through town last week on
his way to the county seat.
Bill Sayles Sr. came from Their
mopolis Sunday afternoon. He
says it has been fearfully hot the
past few days.
Little Elsie May Zimmerman has
been suffering with a light attack
of the "flu' for the past few days.
1t is hoped that the little lady will
soon be out again.
Mrs. Mcdonald took her son
Angus to Cody last Friday to have
some dental work done.
Charles Smith is still busy haul
ing sand and gravel and spreading
on State street and Park avenue
Mrs. Lew Foster left on Saturday
nights train for Chicago where she
will make an extended visit with
relatives. 1t is not determined how
long she will remain in that city
but she no doubt will be home for
the holidays.
William Steele Jr. from the low
er Go~oseberry country spent a day
in town last week and also a day
on Woodriver catching the speckled
beauties
, 1926-08-04

A. P. Libby left Sunday morning
for Lander where he will attend
Grand Jury.
Mike Dillon returned home Sun
day from Cody where he has been
several weeks with a seige of spot
ted fever.
J. c. McMillin called Sunday at
the Earl Ross home.
Cecil and Harold McMillin, Clar-
ence and Ray Black and Archie
King left Sunday for a weeks trip
through the Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Libby called
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
The Right to Bear Arms

According the constitution of the United States every citizen
has the right In spite of this well known fact certain
freaks who profess talk eanedy of crime when they know moth
ing either its nature declare that everything would be
right if only all citizens completely disamed Against this
suggestion the Ereng american hurs its wrath and reminds its
readers that: tt~
Fortunately constitution United
Of II politicians let
handy
self a sawedof load with bueksho cartridges"
Why should the American become indignant? Did not Mr.
Hears York publication support the Tammanyite shyte
Sullivan responsible the law in that against citizens
possessing guns their homes? 1t well known that the
the passed because Sullivan being Tammany
ite dependent upon gangr and underworld support The
thugs hghwamen porchmbers and other Tammany rank
fs had been meeting with snguinary receptions the hands
New York citizens who resented the house breaking procves
these gentlemen Hence they appealed their political leader
Sullivan place upon the books dsarmng the popu
laion the underworld could ply its trade unmoesed similar
probably prompted all similar laws 4 4eesEa4
of the support the Sullivan by the Hearst papers
the outburst Indignation part Chicago
Hearst paper appears contradictory
inclined think that in The WORKER
should that the working class lay supplies
shoguns and other weapons permitted by the
Hearst papers hruout the land would be among the
dismal howl about it. S ~ A@ @--A't!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
RosenwaERs SOCIOLOGICAL Investigation

Julius Rosenwad the Chicago mail order millionaire is
Europe everyone Chicago to know it. While
Vienna he pulled off cheap publicity stunt by first notifying
Floyd Gibbons Tribune correspondent and then standing in line
with the unfortunate unemployed workers who live dos from
the government report he Tribune correspondent
found the Chicago millionaire surrounded by 1000 jobe money
less the northwest railroad station where the payment
Of the does for the unemployed is made daily"
The phanthropic Julius Studying conditions
by standing in line with the unemployed workers After this
the correspondent drove luxurious
mobile while the millionaire ruminated about the sociological effects
Of the dole system for unemployed He discovered that in addition
paying sam the unemployed the workers
required for their dwellings Ronwald
found conclusion stated in few Words
at doles only number
making o
endy placing remaining industries
operation"
This reaction Of the Chicago expoe of labor is quite logical
II the state pays dole its unemployed it thereby establishes
worker would be foolish slave all day for equva
dole paid by paid doles those
work in Illinois the Sears eobuck mail order house. which
Mr. Ronwad the head would have its workers than
Such deporabe state of affairs is to this
greedy boodsucker of labor Equally unthnkabe for Mr. Ron
the suggestion that industry should be forced maintain
its idle workers during periods of depression.
Rosenwads sociological investigation complete
that Vienna its
because it has particular love for hem because
praccing mild form of state socialism,
it strives paate the discomfort of the workers and
thereby avert time the proletaran revolution When the
workers country similar conditions will
change his mind about do He the situation in Vienna
standpoint of the individual employer while the
views matter of life and death the CAPT
taist class whole
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
BY NAT KAPLAN.

THE Journal Of Electrical Workers
and Operators throws out the hint
that there is movement on foot in
Washington for wiping out the I'M
ratified child labor amendment. Thus
writes the Journal: "Rumor in Wash
ington says that there is, led by the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, whose president, John f. Eyer
ton, and chief lobbyist, James A.
Emery, are actively on the job"
This is more than a hint. 1t is a
challenge to the entire labor move
ment in this country. The class con-
scious bourgeoisie Of this land "of
freedom" wish to perpetuate their role
as the worlds child exploiters par ex-
cellence and are on the offensive in
this regard
The fact that there are over 3,000,-
900 children exploited in this country
is no suddenly exploded, unexplained
phenomenon, but, on the contrary,
has its roots deeply sunk in the en-
tire system Of bourgeoisie economy.
The development OF machine produc-
ton, the simplihcation Of the produc.
tion process thru the division of la.
Dor Tin its higher form the Taylor
system, etc.) has laid the basis for a
large influx OF child and woman labor
into the production processes. The
ranks OF the skilled laborers is being
ever more narrowed down as capital
list production develops, Out OF IS to
40 million workers In the United
States only 100000 are skilled work.
ers while the great majority are I'M
skilled and unorganized.
Child labor enormously increases
the surplus values which the bour-
geoisie extracts from the sweat and
blood of the workers. It's more than
doubly exploited position makes II act
as a wedge for the lowering OF the
living standard of the masses OF adult
workers and for the greater bribery,
and hence greater corruption, of the
ever narrowing circle of the labor
Thus we see the influx
of children into the Industries not as
i miracle but as an inseparable feat.
u capitalism-when capitalism reaches
/ certain stage on It's development
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

trade union movement support the
strikers The Locomotive Engineers
Journal, organ Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers. in its April is
sue prints an editorial properly char
acterizing the bosses and the rotten
conditions in the Passaic textile mills,
pointing out that these workers are
fighting for better living conditions.
The brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers is not the only section of the
organized labor movement supporting
the Passaic strike. Qther important
units of the American Federation of
Labor have expressed themselves for
the Passaic strike. The-DAILY WORK.
Err will publish under its head the
comments of the various unions in
their organs on the Passaic strike.
The endorsement Of the Passaic
textile workers struggle by great sec,
tons of the American labor movement
strikes new note o. hope for the
American labor movement.
The editorial on the Passaic strike
in the April issue oflthe Locomotive
Engineers Journal follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

THE Passaic strike is now entering
4 it's thirteenth week. Sixteen thou
sand textile workers are on strike
demanding higher wages, shorter
hours and more sanitary working con-
ditions. On numerous occasions these
workers have appealed to President
Green of the American Federation Of
Labor to organize them into the Amer
lean Federation. of Labor. Green's an
swer to their appeal has been an at
tack on the strikers. Instead of at
lacking the open shop exploiters he
attacks workers on strike for better
conditions and refuses to organize
them.
Refuses to Organize Strikers.
The strikers appealed to Mcmahon,
head of the United Textile Workers,
to organize them. McMahon's answer
was blunt refusal. Both Green and
Mcmahon answered the appeal of the
textile strikers to organize them and
help them fight the open shop bosses
by publishing half-page ads of the
struck Botany Worsted Mills and the
United Piece Dye Works in the Amer.
lean Federationist and half page ads
Of the struck Botany Worsted, Gera
and Lodi mills in the organ OF the
United Textile Workers.
Workers Support Strikers.
THO Green and Mcmahon are doing
= their best to aid the bosses break
the strike, the major portion of the
workers organized in the American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

upon young man as described in
Genesis XXXvIII, $40
Z. Forcible capture Of women and
polygamy approved in Deuteronomy,
XXI, 1915.
g. Marked consideration for the
soldiers of God as revealed in Mum
chapter of Isaiah.
Other portions of the holy book con
tain guides to morality and etiquette.
We will give but four references OF
that nature, which will be quite enuf
for any good Sunday school teacher:
l. Heavenly suggestion to christian
dieticians as told in Ezekiel V, 1918.
2 The etiquette Of eating accord
ing to st. Matthew XIV, 90
g. Cody hospitality as eloquently
set forth in Deuteronomy XIV, 81.
A. Most anyone would rather be-
lieve that he rose from the apes than
that he is fallen Adam after reading
the twelfth verse of the thirty-sixth
chapter of Isiah.
PiIory the Hypocrits.
It is not a bad idea for workers 10
keep this list Of bible quotations to
use against the pious hypocrits and
frauds who are always prattling about
their superlative virtue and morality.
The present writer has used them
from time to time in debates with
ministers Of the gospel and other de-
tenders of christianity and can recon-
mend them as highly efficacious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

Bosses Ignore Workers. Demands.
1.-THE governor of the state, clergy
men, rival and commercial bodies be-
sought the mill owners employees.
They haughtily ignored these proffers.
Only when the strikers carried their
case to Washington and laid it before
members of congress with a plea
for federal investigation did these in
dustrial tyrants condescend to listen
to their employees, and then only ON
condition that they first go back to
work and have nothing to do with
outside agitators-in other words
break their strike and give up the
union they had formed for their pro-
lection. The workers offered to return
to their jobs if. they are first paid a
living wage as determined by the
cost of living studies of the United
States department of labor. Many Of
them now get less than one-half OF
this amount. Their other grievances
they offer to, adjust by joint com
mittee on which they and their en-
ployes have equal representation.
YTHE owners refuse to deal on these
= terms, Meanwhile, Senator La
Toilette has introduced a resolution in
the senate for an investigation of the,
denial of constitutional rights and the
other illegal acts OF the arrogant mill
owners, whose sole ridiculous defense
is to cry Communism at these strikers
struggling for an American standard
of living and vestige of industrial
freedom
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
Plot Against Child Labor Law

The negation of child labor necessari.
ly implies the negation of the entire
capitalist system, its economy and its
super-structure, and we are under no
Illusions to the contrary.
However, we are now faced with
the problem of the immediate strug-
gle against child labor. In that re-
CARDS the warning of the electrical
workers journal is of great importance.
1t takes on additional life when we
note the resolution passed by the
house Of representatives and intro
duced by Representative Garrett OF
Tennessee C'who admitted that he
was opposed to the, amendmentD The
resolution reads: ~.
"ResoIVed, That the secretary Of
state be directed to transmit to the
house of representatives a state
ment showing what states have
thru their respective legislatures, as
certified to his office, taken action
upon the proposed amendment TO
the constitution oF the United States
authorizing the Regulation Of the
labor Of persons under 1s years Of
age by the congress, and what such
action has been, giving In each in
stance, where Available, the vote In
the several legislatures that have
acted"
The intention behind this resolution
Is very evident, Our illegal fixers
made marked error in applied
jurisprudence" at the time that the
resolution was first sent on It's trip to
the states. There is no time limit set
for its ratification. Thus altho %
states have already rejected the
amendment latter the child exploit.
ers carried on an energetic campaign
spending huge sums OF money for
propaganda and other purposes) there
Is nothing which can prevent the
amendment from again becoming an
issue, even In a state whore II has
already been acted upon. This &C.
counts for the cold sweat appearing
on the brow Of the National Associa.
tion Of Manufacturers. II is very
likely now that once the secretary OF
state supplies the information TO the
house on the actions OF the states that
the N. A. OF M.Tie. It's representative
in congressl VIII rush thru some pro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

chairman of the former U. S. war la
Dor board, brands them the most
shameful existing in any American in
dustry.
Geographically the Passaic textile
mills are in the United States, but
spiritually they belong to the period
of the divine right of kings or the
ruthless czars and kaisers of a by
gone age. In fact, the largest of the
Passaic mills is chiefly owned by Ger
man capital that invested in America
because German labor laws would not
permit the constituencies exploitation
of employees allowed in free America
SIxteen-Hour Day.
TTHE Passaic textile barons enjoy
4 high tariff subsidy averaging
rs per cent, which is justified on the
ground that it will enable them to pay
good wages. Instead, they have ground
wages down to $12, SIC, or SIS week,
and out Of sweated labor have
squeezed profits that, in the case of
the largest mills, average over SO per
cent for a seven-year period. Nor do
the workers have fixed hours of la
Dor. A drive system compels them to
work at break-neck speed for four or
five hours, and then they are laid off
for the day, with pay only for the
hours worked. In the case of day la
Dor. workers are often compelled to
labor sixteen to nineteen hours at a
stretch, with one man to do the task
of two. Even decent sanitary con.
veniences are denied these mill slaves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

vision for limiting the time for the
ratification of the amendment. If this
is done, it will be done in great
hurry, since the senators and repre-.
sentatives have already started the
exodus back to their wards" to en-
gineer their reflections and this will
soon become general.
This means that the labor move
ment must act-and act quickly. To
merely repeat phrases which have no
content in reality and in practice viz.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. f.
of l.. answers Egerton Of the N. A. of
M. at the women's industrial confer
ence held in Washington in January:
THE A. f. of l.. has taken an official
position in favor of protective legisla-
ton for women and children") is not
sufficient. The entire force Of the
labor movement must be organized to
bring pressure to bear against congress
preventing 1t from rushing thru pro
vision which wipes the amendment off
the books. Not only that but the la
Dor movement must put up additional
demands. Not only: "the authorize
ton of congress to regulate the labor
Of persons under Is years" but the
complete abolition OF all child labor
up to 16 years of age, state mainten-
ance for the children and severe pun
ishment to all employers who violate
same. Behind these demands must
stand the united forces not only OF the
trade unions, but the political parties
OF the working class and all workers
organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

And when they finally dared to rebel
gainst a 10 per cent wage cut, their
committee of protest was fired on
the spot.
Textile Barons' Low Wages.
Wages are so low in this textile
baronetey that mothers and children
have to work to exc out the fathers
income. Over so per cent of the women
working nights are mothers. A mother
WITH nine children tolls all night in
the mills for from $14 to SIC a week,
goes home in the gray dawn to get
breakfast for her husband and Oldest
daughter, aged seventeen, to go to
work (the husband, skilled machin-
list, made but $25 in two weeks be-
cause of part-time employment), and
then she gets breakfast for the rest
of the family, washes them up and
sends them off to school, or let's them
roam the streets while she snatches a
few hours sleep, interrupted by pre-
pairing two more meals for a hungry
family before trulging back TO work
again,
-e Terrorize Strikers.
"INTHEN the striking employees
" peacefully assembled outside the
mills, the barons had them drenched
with fre-plug streams on bitted cold
day, assaulted them with tear gas
bombs, minions, the police, to club
them, ride them down, and throw
them into jail. Even newspaper re-
porters were beaten and their cameras
smashed by these peace officers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

delightful sex stories in the so-called
book of god, the holy bible. In case
they are not able to recall these
stories, we pick few at random.
Since the stories are so filthy that
we cannot publish them for fear of
having our publication barred from
the mails for carrying obscene mat
ter, we will only refer to the chap
ters and verses in the holy bible
where they may be read in the even
ing before family circles in the chris
tian homes of the nation for the edi-
fcation of the children.
First, we suggest the story of the Ia
mentable failure of the heroic attempt
to stimulate the circulation Of the
feeble King David's blood as related
IN First Kings, !. IA.
?. The 1electable story of Abraham
using his wife, Sarah, to deceive
Pharoah, according to Genesis XII,
1920; and its sequel which is found
in Chapter XVI of Genesis.
3. Intensified surgery as related in
Genesis XVII, 1927.
A. Why Sarah laughed out loud at
what she considered a joke of the
Lord God Almighty as eloquently told
in Genesis, XVIII, 1912.
5. Highly moral and religious cpl
sode from the intimate family life of
the late Mr.. Lot according to Genisis
XIX, 3O-36
G. The wrath of the Lord visited
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20

Wave after wave Of christian de-
nunciation has rolled over the head of
H. L. Mencken, editor of the Ameri-
can Mercury, because of his publish
ing story regarding one "Hatrack"
part-time prostitute in the town of
Pennington, Missouri. The story of
the lone lady of the evening" who
lived in town incapable of support
ing a fun-time prostitute was a piece
Of descriptive realism that was too
much for the guardians of other peo-
pies morals, hence whole swarm of
them have assaulted the magazine and
its publisher.
The first action was initiated by a
meddlesome skypilot, the Rev. Chase
Of the watch and ward society of Bos-
ton. He was afraid it would corrupt
the morals Of the textile Goldfish arts
tocracy of the Back Bay section OF
chat center of culture and light. About
the time a decision was rendered de-
claring the contents of the magazine
perfectly legal, the residents of Farm
ngton who had been former Gus
omers of "Hatrack" waxed indignant
at the unfavoor9ble publicity given
cheir town and appealed to the post
master general at Washington to sup
press the issue of the magazine.
But the watchful Mr.. Harry S. New,
who was one of the favored of the
late Harding and his political mentor,
Mr.. Harry NJ Daugherty, the low
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
ANSONIA LABOR IN
CONNECTICUT PLANS
FOREIGN BORN MEET

ANsoNIA, Conn, April IA
conference for the protection Of
forelgn-born workers will be held
at the Samson Hall, 9 High street,
on Sunday morning, April rs, at 10
o'clock.
The conference is called by mem
hers of trades unions and other la
Dor organizations. An appeal has
been sent to all labor organizations
In the city to send delegates to the
conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-20
by H. M. WICKS

submitted to the postmaster at Cam
den, N. J., from whence the maya
zine is mailed, for an opinion
We do not know whether the post
master at Camden is sufficiently in
telligent even to understand anything
above the intellectual level of a
Hearst publication. Probably he is,
like New, a Harding or Coolidge ap-
pointee. If so, he is probably the
most abysmally ignorant creature in
those parts. But tho he were intel
ligent such autocratic exercise of us
urped power is utterly repugnant to
every thinking person.
IL the opinions of christians of the
type of the Rev. Chase of Boston,
the chamber of commerce of Farm
ington and Mr.. Harry S. New are
to determine the type of publication
circulated in this country intelligence
will soon become a crime and ignor-
ance a virtue. Certainly these hypo-
critical religious frauds never read the
book which is alleged to be the found
alton of their creed, otherwise they
would not have the gall to try to
suppress anything else on the grounds
that it is obscene or tends to de-
bauch the public morals.
Some Detachable Smut.
If these smut-hunters really want
to suppress books containing filth of
the most nauseating and utterly de-
basing character they should read the