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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW ISLANDS
GAMBLING RAIDS
ON DEMOCRATIC
CLUBS NET 1870
McGuiness, Ward Lead
er, Is Arrested

Charged with gambling, three
democratic clubs were raided. Among
the minor ward politicians arrested
was Alderman Peter J. McGuiness,
Democratic leader of the Fifteenth
Assembly District, who was caught
"bookmaking" in the Peoples Demo
cratic Club, Meserole and Manhattan
Avenues, Brooklyn.
Simultaneous raids on the three
clubs in the Williamsburg and Green
point districts resulted in the arrest
of $50 men, all Of whom were charged
with disorderly conduct.
It is an open secret that Republican
and Democratic Clubs of most As
sembly districts serve as hangouts
for gamblers, criminals--and ward
politicians, many of whom combine
gambling with politics. Political in
fluences have hitherto prevented
raids on district clubs.
Saturdays raids came after police
had discovered by wire-tapping that
McGuiness and others had been ac-
cepting bets on horse races over the
telephones in the three club houses.
The Wigwam, the Fifteenth AS
senbly and the Peoples Democratic
Clubs were those invaded by the
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

WASHINGTON, March 10. -
Trade unions in the Soviet Union had
total membership of 9,278,O0o on
July 1, 1926, according to report
of the seventh general congress Of
trade unions of the U. S. S. R.,
quoted by the Soviet Union Review,
Of Washington. This represented a
gain of about 100000 members
since the sixth congress, held in 1924.
According to the report, 1913 per
cent of the wage workers in the
countries comprising the Soviet
Union were enrolled in the trade
unions in 1926. On July 1, 81 per
cent Of the trade unionists were en-
ployed and 1. per cent unemployed,
while rs per cent were learners and
apprentices. Unemployment was
more serious in the farming and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
NUMBER OF ORGANIZED WORKERS IN
SOVIET union over nine MILLION

building industries than elsewhere.
Union membership among farm
workers had increased by 624,000, OF
164 per cent, in two years; in the
building industry it had increased by
$4,000 or 35 per cent. About 1874
per cent of the total trade union
membership consisted of clerical and
other office employee, while 66.6 per
cent were manual workers. 1t is
among the manual workers in the in
dustries that growth is now most
notable.
Expenditures Of the trade unions
for the year 1925 amounted to $780,
100000, of which AZ per cent was
current expense. Funds on hand in
1926 amounted to S20,O00,000, Of
which the metal workers had a larg-
er sum per capita than any other
trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Holds
an Impressive
Memorial
Ruthenberg Is Remembered
Where He Joined Fight

CLEVELAND, 'OHIO.-The Mem
erial meeting in honor Of Comrade
c. E. Ruthenberg held in this city,
where our fallen leader first Joined
the revolutionary movement, was most
impressive. A portrait done by Com
rade Sadie Amter was placed on the
platform surrounded hy a mass Of
red and black, and above it the emblem
Of the Soviet Government, the ham
mer and sickle.
The speakers at the meeting were
Comrades Max Bedaeht, Herbert
Fam, John Stieglitz, John Brahtin.
Israel Amter, presided.
The Freiheit Singing Society and
the Lithuanian Workers Chorus rem
dered funeral songs and the Inter
rational.
Sound Note of Challenge
Tho the meeting was in honor of
Comrade Ruthenberg and was filled
with grief over the early demise of
our leader, yet the note of challenge
to the capitalist system--a challenge
in the everyday struggle and for the
overthrow of the system-reflected
the spirit of militancy and revolution
that permeated and signalized the
life of Comrade Ruthenberg.
The police were in evidence at the
meeting, evidently anticipating that
the meeting would threaten the exist
ence of the government.
"They speak of freedom of speech
in this country, and yet even this
meeting must tolerate the presence
of the police" said Conrade Beuacht.
There were no untoward incidents,
but the 1900 workers prese t
demonstrated that they are heart
and soul with the revolutionary move
lnent and will help to build the only
lasting monument to our dead leader
by building up the Workers Com
munist) Party.
Continued on Page T1oo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Marie and Her Sick
Old Man Struggle for
Power in the Balkans

BERLIN, March 13.-While Buch-
Arrest is celebrating Italy's recogni-
ton Of Bessarabia as Roumanian
territory with riot flags and joyous
street parades just as if the country
had won a victory at war, a new
and si.ent battle is going on inside
the royal palace.
King Ferdinand announced his in
tention to go to Sicily in April in
order to recuperate, but Queen
Marie has suddenly come out against
the trip because she learned that
Prince Carol is to visit his father
there.
The arrangement for the meeting
was made by Prince Wilhelm of Ho-
henzollern, a, rother of the former
king and chief of the family, be-
cause he believes Carols restoration
is the only way to keep at least one
branch of the family on a throne.
Marie is silently opposed to a re-
Cancellation because she hopes that
if Carol is kept out of the country
she might become empress of the
Balkans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
ChicagO's ArmOred
Car To Be Kept In
The La Dor District

CHICAGO, March 10 (FP).-New
equipment for the Chicago police de-
partment includes a steel armored car.
1t is to be assigned to the central dis
trict, says chief of police Morgan Col
Inns, to answer emergency and riot
calls. The record of the police in
charging and clubbing girl pickets in
recent needle strikes in Chicago's cen
trail district and in brutality breaking
up picket lines in other labor disputes
indicates that the principal use of
the armored car will be to ride down
unarmed and defenseless strikers.
"If the first one proves practical we
will buy armored cars exclusively
hereafter" Collins says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Insanity Charge, Wild
Parties, Adultery, in
Augusta High Society

AUGUSTA, Me-, March Is. - So
ciety here stood aghast today when
James W. Skene, the new father-in-
law of Eugene S. Labar, millionaire
Pennsylvania coal operator, filed in
Kennebec County Court a petition
asking that Ernest L. Mclean, last
democratic candidate for governor, be
appointed Labar's guardian. Skene,
in his petition asserted that Labar
was mentally unfit to look after his
wealth.
Just a year ago Labar came into
the limelight when investigation of
wild parties" at his mansion, with
liquor coming from the county store
house, resulted in the removal from
office of High Sheriff Henry F.
Cummings by Governor Ralph o.
Brewster.
Subsequently, Mrs. Grace R. Labar
secured a divorce from her husband
in counter suit the husband men
toned her alleged "affair" with Lawr-
ence E. Purintoon, wealthy Augusta
coal dealer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Priest Expresses Fear
Capitalism Is Doomed
Unless ItFeeds Worker

Twenty-threo thousand Hudson
Coal Co. miners have resumed work
after a weeks idleness caused by
overproduction.
Frequent layoffs in the anthracite
this winter have brought consider
able distress to the workers. In a
bitter comment on conditions from
the Roman catholic pulpit at Oily
plant, a Hudson Coal town, Rev. p.
J. Murphy said;
"Men, impelled by idleness, are
thinking very seriously on the I'M
just, unscientific and stupid, econom-
ical system of capital and labor as
it exists at present Is capi-
tai in this country blind, deaf and
dumb? Can it not see an invisible
hand writing its doom on the wall
unless it relent and make the work
ing men and women happy, peaceable
and contented by sharing its profits
in prosperity with the wage earn
ers? 2"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Bill to Withdraw Jim
Grow Law Of Maryland
Is Before Legislature

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, March 10
(FP).-Repeal of the Jim Crow
law of Maryland, which requires
that white and Negro passengers
ride in separate railway cars or
compartments on cars and steam
ships where tickets are sold between
two Maryland points, is proposed
by bill offered in the state legis-
lature by Senator McCardell of
Frederick county.
Negroes holding tickets for inter-
state rides cannot be compelled to
take Jim Grow cars or seats, federal
courts have held.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Old Woman Killed In
Brooklyn Hotel Fire

Because Of her determination to
return to a burning building to
rescue some valuables, Mrs. Reva
Solomon, go years old, persisted yes
terday in fire which destroyed the
Hotel Fort Lowrie, a four-story
frame structure at the foot Of 18th
Avenue, Bath Beach, Brooklyn.
Many guests were overcome by
smoke, and score of firemen were
cut by glass and badly burned in the
course of the fire. The ruins are
still being searched for other possible
victims.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
CLUB
RAISES MONEY
FOR DEFENSE

AS a result of an enthusiastic meet
ing of the Progressive Workers Club
of Williamsburg, held on Friday night
at Royal Palace, Brooklyn, both the
Cloakmakers Bond Issue and the
Cloakmalzers and FurTiers Defense
Committee are today many hundreds
of dollars richer
Against Reactionaries.
The union members and others who
were present pledged themselves to
carry on an aggressive campaign for
funds, in order to show concretely
their protest against the heavy sem
fences of Judge Otto Rosalsky, and
the deliberate attempt of the reac-
tionary officials in the needle trades
to put some of the left wing leaders
behind prison bars.
Prominent Speakers.
Joseph Goretzky, manager of Cloak
makers Local IS, who is one of those
against whom the right wing has been
campaigning and who is at present
out on bail Of $4,000 on a frame-up
charge. was one Of the speakers. An
other was A. Schiller of the Furriers
Joint Board.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
WORKERS DEMAND
FAIR VOTING IN
GARMENT LOCALS
ReactiOnary Officials of
As and SO Warned

A demand for impartially super
vised elections in Locals 4S and 80
of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union is voiced in a resolu-
ton which will be forwarded today
to the right wing officers Of these
locals by members who met last Fri
day night to discuss union problems.
Warn of Election Steal.
This group of Italian workers,
members of Locals as and 80 who
are loyal to the New York Joint
Board, state that from their exper-
fence in former elections in these To-
calls they "have no confidence that
the proposed election of various To-
cal officers will be conducted proper
ly and honestly, if controlled by the
present mal-administrators".
Want Fair Meetings.
Therefore they demand that:
IL. The shop chairman's council
call under its complete jurisdiction
membership meetings of Locals AS
and 80, where nominations for the
various officers of the locals will
take place in an orderly, legal, and
legitimate way;
"2. All members Of these locals,
regardless Of whether they have
registered with the international or
not, be permitted on the ballot;
"3. All Italian members, regard
less of whether they have registered
or not, be allowed to vote;
"a. The shop chairman's council
be allowed to invite an impartial
body to supervise the actual cleo
tions.
"Only in such a manner can the
elections of Locals as and 80 be the
real expression Of the membership"
Also Use Injunctions.
The glaring inconsistency of the
reactionary right wing officials was
pointed out by Anthony Ramuglia,
one of the speakers, who told Of the
fact that Local 80 had sent a dele
gate to Albany, with the Central
Trades and Labor Council, TO urge
the legislature to pass the Lipowicz-
Hackenburg bill for regulating the
issuing Of injunction; yet the man.
ager Of this local, Luigi Antonini,
had just taken out most vicious in
jurction in the capitalist courts
against the members of the Joint
Board who were fighting for the in
terests of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NE S STA NDS
Chief Engineer Saved,
But LabOrer Killed

RIvERHEAD, N. Y, March 49,
Joseph Brodsky, 3S, an employee Of
the Riverhead Ice Co., was crushed
to death here today when a coal con-
veyor overturned and he was caught
beneath it. Brodsly was assisting
Andrew Broawa, the chief engineer
Of the plant, in moving the conveyor.
Broawa just managed to jump aside
and evade the falling machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Cannot Find Ship

TOXIC, March 49, Destroyers
sent to search for the missing train
ing ship Kirishima Maru, returned to
port today without having found
trace Of the vessel. 1t is feared the
ship foundered in gale off Cape
Inuboe. The vessel carried crew
of % men and 30 cadets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
American Consul knitted
Fighting a Compatriot

SAC PAULO, Brazil, March 49,
Herndon w. Goforth, assistant Amer
lean consul here, died today as re-
suit of stab wounds received at the
consulate yesterday, inflicted by an
American giving the name of David
Canfied. Canfied was arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Arrested Soviet
Citizens Safe
Says Picking
WI Fights Chang as Battle
For Marking Opens

PEKING, March 13.-Mme. .Boro-
din, wife of the Soviet adviser to the
Nationalist government and her three
companions arrested by Chang TsO-
Lin's generals are reported to be safe
and the Soviet ambassador has been
given assurances that their execution
is not contemplated.
The arrest of the Soviet Union citi-
zens has increased the ferment in the
ranks of the northern troops and re-
bellions against the rule of the mill
tarists are reported daily.
Generals Lukewarm.
One of Chang Tso-Lin's highest of
ficials admitted that there were only
few of his generals that could be
trusted to accept battle with the Ma
tionalist forces.
The first serious engagement be-
tween Chang's troops and soldiers
under the command of WI Pei Flu
generals is reported from the north
ern border of Honan province. Wu's
generals have positively refused to
allow the northerners to pass. The
position of Chang Chung-Chang is
now precarious with the Nationalist
preparing for drive on Marking and
his foes to the north springing up
like mushrooms in his rear. Unless
Chang steps lively ne may be step
ping into a Nationalist dungeon be-
fore long.
Workers Demonstrate.
Millions of Chinese workers and
peasants participated in the Sun Vat
Sen celebrations all over China. Work
ers quit the factories and demon
strated in the streets, even in cities
held by the northern militarists.
Leaflets were distributed by the hun
bred thousand and speeches were made
denouncing foreign Imperialism and
pledgiug the Chinese masses to the
task of freeing the country and the
world from imperialism.
The speech Of Chan Kai-Shek in
which he affirmed his loyalty to the
Revolutionary Koumintang Party has
set at rest for the moment the circula-
ton of yarns concerning the alleged
anti-Soviet animus of the Nationalist
general.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Seamen Threaten Strike.

HONG KONG, March ia gen.
eral strike among seamen was threat
ened here today following the seizure
of revolutionary posters aboard the
steamer Fatshan by police.
The crew of the Fatshan, about to
clear for Canton, refused to sail until
the posters had been restored.
The posters advocated an alliance
with Russia, praised Communism and
every effort to further the aims Of
the laboring classes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW NDS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

The Daily Worker Fights:
For the Organization of the I'm.
organized.
For a Labor Party.
For the 4O-HOur Week.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-17
|FENG IS Strong
MILITARY RULER
DR.. Hornbeck Speaks on Chinese
Situation

Williamstown, Mass, Aug. II Pl-
Gen. Chang Kai-Shek's resignation
forecasts withdrawal of national
list troops from north of the Yangtse
river, and the consolation of the
nationalist forces in south China I'M
der Feng Yuh- Shiang, in the opinion
of DIR. Stanley X. Hornbeck of
Harvard, an authority on Far East
ern affairs. DR.. Hornbeck spoke at
round table of the Institute of
Politics today. Nationalist have not
the confidence in Feng that they had
connection with the soviet, but they
recognize his superior proclivities as
a military leader and organizer, DR..
Hornbeck said.
Nationalist predict that the new
tariff rates Chang proposed to i'm
pose September first, after the tariff
conference went by default, will now
be put into effect by Feng, he said.
A governmental pay-as-you-go
policy and a ban on public indebt-
edness, as a preventative of future
international conflicts was advocat-
ed here today by +. B. Hawley.
economist of New York city. When
governments borrow money, he
! pointed out, they lure the funds of
capitalists into unproductive chan
nels, and then tax the poor man to
repay the debt. The remedy is SIM
pie: Require governments to do
business on cash basis, without re-
wars. which are carried on by these
| loans will cease.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-17
SAYS COTTON NOT
TO EXCEED DEMAND
Institute Of Politics DiSpels
OYerproduction Theory

Williamstown, Mass. Aug II @
English and American cotton au-
thorities dispelled> the DOGGY Of over
production from the cotton crop at
the Institute of Politics today, and
predicted that despite the increased
supply from Britain's new fields.
the worlds demand, plus lowered
production costs augur prosperous
days for the cotton farmers.
Prof. John A. Todd. Liverpool
economist, deplored the instability
of the American cotton market with
its consequent effect on worlds con-
ditions but predicted that if produce
ton costs are lowered, there will be
4 return to pre-war conditions when
increased supplied will be taken up
by unlimited increased demand.
DR.. 3. Youngblood, of the de-
partment Of agriculture and drec-
tor of the Texas Agricultural En-
pertinent station saw only increased
demans, larger yields. and lowered
production costs as the lot of the
cotton farmer in the near future,
and found no cause for alarm in the
increased production of other coun-
tries. He eXtolled the southern
farmer, and declared. in contradic-
ton to Prof. Todd, that cotton is
not a negro but white mans crop.
Our white farmers have increased
the crop from five million to IS
| million bales since over the negro
farmers, he asserted.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-17

bodies had been carried by mules
over mountain trails to the nearest
highway. was the real search for
the assailants begun. The attackers
apparently fled Immediately after
the shooting.
Dave Hensley said members of
the party were not searching for
stills, and, as far as posse men
were able to learn, the fact that
Ed Hensley was a prohibition agent
was unknown to the attackers.
The two men arrested. Arch Ad-
kins and A. f. Roberts. residents
of the district, are held for ques-
tioning. Three stills were found dur
ing the search. one near the scere
Of the shooting.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-17
court fight near
IN chaplin SUIT
Seven Women May Be Sum-
moned by Actors Wife

Los Angeles. Aug. II Pr-Reports
of a property settlement either al
ready effected or nearing compile
ton in the sensational divorce suit
of Lita Grey Chaplin against her
film comedian husband, Charles
Chaplin, gained new impetus today
despite the lack of any confirmation
from attorneys or principals in the
case.
These reports fed and fattened on
the hurried arrival of the actor here
yesterday and the massing of his
legal batteries as well as the force
OF counsel for his wife despite the
declaration of attorneys that legal
tcchnicalities make imperative a
postponement of the trial set for
Monday.
If property problems of the case
We're settled before that time il
would be possible for Mrs. Chaplin's
attorneys to so into court with a
modified complaint. The trial then
would become routine divorce &C
ton. lacking the startling elements
injected into it by the seven wom-
en-, three of them prominent motion
picture actresses" accused in the
wife's complaint and the certain
young man" mentioned in the &C
tors counter action.
Lloyd Wright, Chaplln's Los An
geles attorney, with whom the
comedian spent a large part of yes
terday in conference, denied fatty
that anything except a court fight
was impending. Edwin T. McMur-
ray, uncle and chief counsel for Mrs
Chaplin, contented himself with a
statement that there was nothing
new in the case.
Chaplin last night spent a halt
hour playing with his two small sons
whom he had not seen since months
ago when he left California for New
York Just before his wife filed her
divorce suit The meeting of father
and sons took place in the Beverly
Hills mansion from which the girl
wife fed last fall to return later
after the courts had awarded hei
possession. Mrs. Chaplin and heI
mother We're in the background
while Chaplin played with the boys
He was told he could return to see
them whenever he desired.
The actor stayed in virtual Sc
clusion at the home of his brother
sgd Chaplin.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-17
C0SGRAVE SAVED
BY single VOTE
Speakers Choice StaYS OF
Defeat in Dali Eirean

Dublin. Ireland, Aug. II up =
President Cosgrave's government,
having STAYED off defeat in the dali
eirean by the narrow margin OF one
vote. will continue to function I'M
til October II at least, unless the
governmental candidates lose in
two by-elections now pending in
the city and county of Dublin.
Last nights vote in the dali was
only a motion of non-confidence in
troduced after the government had
been criticized by Tom Johnson. the
laborite leader, for what he termed
the failure of its social and indus
trial program, and for its public
safety and electoral amendment
acts. The deciding vote was cast by
the speaker, when it was announced
that II deputies had voted for the
motion and II against 1t.
President Cosgrave Immediately
took advantage of his power and
proposed an adjournment of the
dali for three months, but as this
was not looked upon favorably by
some of his followers he suggested
an adjournment until October II.
This was agreed to. In the mean
time much depends on the two by
elections. for if the government
candidates are defeated, President
Gosgrave indicated he would re-
quest the speaker to call a special
session of the dali Immediately.
The outcome of the voting was a
great surprise, that the vote came
so soon another. When the dali
gathered it was expected the debate
would continue for several days.
Contrary to expectations, the
discussion was calm and dignified
throughout, minus bitterness. re-
ordinations and striking sensa-
tons. canon De Valera and his
fellow deputies of the fianna fail
party. whose decision to take the
oath of allegiance and their seats
in the dali precipitated the politi-
cal storm. remained silent during
the proceedings.