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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Don't Enforce II.

where they can make little money.
Don't Enforce II.
Furthermore, the Jacksonville
agreement has been very largely
violated, through failure Of the reac-
tionary officials Of the union in Ger
tain large districts to insist on its
strict fulfillment.
The violations are usually such as
to reduce the workers wages, through
Forcing him to do dead work." clean
ing out rock, or breaking up coal that
take unreasonably long to mine, maxi
ing the miner set the braces in his
working place, or the entry TO it, etc.
Mines frequently shut down, ard
when they start again, they do not
always pay the wages the miner was
cheated out Of on his last pay day.
From one cause or another. the aver
age wages of union miners, working
under the Jacksonville scale are close
tC, based on the amount of work done
in a year, about four dollars q
Gay, instead Of seven-fifty.
Rank and File Struggle.
The struggle against a still FUR
der cut in the coal miners already
low wages, is largely dependent on
the energy of the rank and file of
the union, following the progressive
leaders. such as Howat, of Kansas,
and John Brophy, Of Pennsylvania.
The official leadership is too much
inclined to trust to intrigue and is
too timid. Thus International Presi-
dent John L. Lewis at the conference
to-day, attempted to meet the attack
u Baker Of the operators by drag
c'ng in a side issue. Baker demanded
that the union wages be cut to where
the union mines 'could compete with
the non-union mines south Of them"
Side Issues.
Instead of showing the low cost
of mining in the union fields, and
proving that in many cases, the same
company uses union and non-union
miners. Lewis abused the senators
from West Virginia. Kentucky and
Tennessee for opposing the confirma-
ton Of Cyrus E. Woods, of Pennsyl-
vania, to the interstate commerce
commission. These senators, he de-
clared. were either Gin the service
or direct employ of the non-union
coal operators who are attempting to
maintain discriminatory freight rates
on lake coal shipped from the nom
union fields"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Ruth Ormiston Wins Decree.

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Feb. H.
Brief testimony that Kenneth J. Or
mission, who figured as the elusive
radio man In the Aimee Semple Me-
Pherson trial, deserted his attractive
wife, Ruth Peters Ormiston. won a
divorce for her in Judge j. w. Sum-
merficld's court late this afternoon.
0rmiston did not appear. He was
represented by counsel, however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Fears Parasitism; Takes Life.

HEMPSTEAD, L. l., Feb. Dob
sessed with the idea that the expen-
SEES Of his education were too much
Of a bruden to his family, Thomas j.
O'Donnell, eighteen-year-old senior
student of the Hampstead High
School, committed suicide today by
shooting himself through the temple
IN dressing room behind the audi
forum stage Of the school building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16

demned as unsanitary and unin-
habitable even before the present
emergency laws we're passed. Wit
nesses revealed before the State
housing board sitting in august
session at the comm0dfous city nail
that even Ill cellars two famines
could be found living in rooms ae-
scribed us unfit lor a Pig 70 I'VE
IN
The Times ON its editorial page
boasts OF prosperity" under the
prevailing capitAnsn in TINS coun-
Try, but On tts first page, IN paral-
lei cottinns with the news story Of
inc boy VINO murdered tor 1909,
there is the following:
"I'hc testimony showed that fam
lies with growing ehIluren, whlcn,
prior Co the advahce in rents thas
Cegan IN 1919, cotiid afford d lew
hnnt6d ihxuries, were now reduced
10 the barest necessities; that O.d
eouples b&feiy aDie to pay rent
hiGhefco nave been Completed to ~
70 aimshOuSes because vi the fI5e
Ill fents; That LANDLORDS nave been
notifying tenants to 'N,aiC Until the
rent laws lapse IN June ana We viii
give yea tite trimming OF your
tivcs;" that landlord and teiilile
litigation in 1875 Increased over tl.e
previous years, ana That in ~ per
cent OF these cases Gns iavariaJie
lepiy Of teiIanls TO tie courts was
tfaDfhty To i.N40f0 tue nlgnef reAvs.
III was als0 snJ@n ~ ssselDl0ily
that must u the vaeatieies nov ~
be touiIu were ~ OosUlgoe s.Aa unlil-
nsDi5dOie hOuses WINCH, il - do u.s.
sefred, Should nave seen usrnol-
ished fonS asO, or in Aolses olltfiis
from 80 20 az a l6Oiu aild up.
''Deyeral cases were deserted Of
three nistrtiea eOup.es, sOmet.nles
reiated 10 ettth o.ner ;siiu sOlne-
times not, Sharing the same 1--we
OF SIX room apartnent.
-
This is prosperity with a ven
geahce. IL IS the prosperity oI tne
ainishouse and the paper , grave.
1 ne pubic senool ueaeners o1 the
youtntui muruerer declared he was
very nrlgnt in MS studIes. me
boy IL admittedly very intelligent.
OF tbe 1iFse Snihg proposed by the
law en10rcers u tnls Capitalist
cry is inst Gfe mental STAGE OF me
boy be investigated.
Rather should these facts arouse
che masses OF America to lnvestI-
safe INTO the sanity OF the cap1tai-
list social system under whIcn they
nv" ana suffer. IL is crazy sys-
tenn and the meres5 study OF 1t
should result IN a veruict OF
"Iruiity!"
lt was futile for the 12-year-old
boy, Michael fonkraskow, TO MUIR
der to satisfy his hunger. Bue 1t
IS not tutiie for the children. for
the youth, for the grown-ups of
the working class to unite their
power for the ending Of this cApi-
tailist system that breeds poverty.
not prosperity, despair instead of
opportunity, and the worst forms
OF human degradation instead of
It's boosted democratic freedom"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Rain Stops Ringers.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, Feb. is.
Rain today halted the opening
round of the national horseshoe
pitching championship for 1927 and
the contestants will weigh in their
shoes tomorrow, weather permitting,
for the round-robin tournament,
which, in six days, will reduce 60 IL
the entry list of more than 20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16

Catholic groups in the same terri.
tory are found by catholic investiA
gators to have failed to live up to
the social teaching of the Bishops
program, as to safeguarding labor's
rights.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., philan-
thropist and moralist, felt SO grieved
by the cruelty Of his own railroad
toward the locomotive engineers and
firen1en in the lockout and strike of
the past two years, that he actually
tried to interest himself in a settle
ment. However, he has found him
self, as capitalist, unwilling TO listen
to himself as humanitarian. Business
is business. Dividends are gilt. And
the clergy along the line Of the road
appealed to him in vain 10 aeknowl4
edge that his stock ownership--the
largest of any-permits him to veto
the union-crushing program Of the
road.
Cynical Strike Breaking.
These are in substance the findings
in the second half Of the report made
public by the joint investigating COM
mittce on this dispute, appointed by
the protestant, catholic and Jewish
churches of the United States.
Public opinion along the Western
Maryland was first wrought up In
the shop strike Of 1929, by the hard.
boiled cynicism Of the management OF
the road. Hundreds Of veteran shop
men were driven from their accus.
toned jobs and had to take employ
ment at lower wages in other places.
Strikebreakers caused endless quar-
rels in the towns.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Dares Sinclair Lewis
To Look in Camera and
Say There Amt No God

Sinclair Lewis, the author, who
recently, from a church pulpit, defied
the lord TO strike him dead, today
was defied to look himself straight in
the eye through q mirror or moving
picture camera without wavering for
two hundred seconds and then pro-
claim his unbelief in the diety.
Allen Stone, masonic lecturer, who
issued the def in the form Of an
open letter to Lewis, offered five dol
lars second for the full time if
Lewis would win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Rockefeller Leads Reaction.

Then In 1924 Roekefeller's manage
ment jumped into the battle against
the train crews, dismissing the men
who would not sign contracts hostile
TO union membership.
The brotherhoods st first refused.
but at the request Of mediators
agreed TO accept arbitration. The
company refused. More quarrels and
bitterness In the churches developed.
Wouldn't interfere.
When Rockefeller the mcralist was
found powerless TO persuade his own
company to arbitratc, an appeal was
made to him TO mediate in person
with his own company management.
TO this last appeal Rockefeller re-
Piled with a letter claiming that he
could not do anything.
Coolidge In Action.
The Coolidge administration as
sisted in the stIike-breaking. Its
alien property custodian, Sutherland,
Of West Virginia, named new d.
rector ON the board during the fight.
He was anti-settlement.
Through The whole report runs a
record Of timidity on the part OF the
clergy IN the strike region. They
synnpathized with the strikers but
they did little--oxccpt under compul-
sion--to defend the workers human
rights against brutal aggression by
Rockefeller's road.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
IN MEMORY OF CONIRADE
PAUL HAYDEN

Pauline Haydn, II years old, an
active member Of the Young Work
ers League in Milwaukee. died to-
day after a very short illness.
She is the daughter OF John Hay
din and his wife, two Of our most
active aud trusted comrades in the
local movement for many years.
The body will be cremated Monday,
2 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Four Killed BY Coal Gas.

Two men and two women were
killed and four persons were over
come yesterday by coal gas escaping
in an apartment house at 1414 51st
Street, Brooklyn.
The dead: Abraham Pollock, Mrs.
Mildred Pollock. his wife; Mrs. Rose
Pollock, sister-in-law of Abrahamj
Solomon Pollock, brother Of Abraham.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
FORSTMANN- HUFFMAN STRIKERS
PREPARE NOW FOR ORGANIZATION
Local Union President Issues Statement to
Explain Situation: Back at Work

PASSA1C explanation ending the strike Of the
mills statement has been issued
United Textile Workers. by the Local president
The Locals letter indicates that the strikers did not win this par
the
aa which retained
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
Page Tom Fleming!

II Tom Fleming calls at The
DAILY WORKER office he will find
a letter from Glasgow awaiting the
owner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
JOHN D WRECKS A FEW CHURCHES WHEN HE
TRIES TO WRECK UNION

WASHINGTON FPProaht congregations in some towns
along the line of the Western Maryland
by hatred Of the RoekeeIer rail scabs in their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-16
DEADLOCK STILL
LASTS AT MIAMI
COAL WAGE MEET
Miners Wage Too Low
To Stand Any Cutting

(Coatjated from Page One)
OF the crew into bad working places,
where they can make little money.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
FANS
CHAT TER

Washington fight fans are show
ing greater interest every day IN
the coming Marty Gallagher-Henry
Lamar heavyweight battle which
has been scheduled by promoter
John S. Blick to take place in the
Silver Spring Armory, Nd, Wednes-
day evening, October 5.
This main fight between these
two very promising local boys is
supported by an exceptionally good
preliminary card which includes a
Ground battle between Jack Turner
and Willie Ptomey, Waite McF'eeley
and Texas StOvall, Billy Stricken
and frankie Weinert, Sailor Nc,
Kenna and George Leslie, and a 4.
round curtain raiser between Paul
Bruen and Ray Bowen.
Practically every fighter on this
card has been seen in action by
Capital fight fans. and have proven
themselves fighters with k. o. in
tentions while in the ring.
Lamar, former Western High
School boy. who has made such a
record in Boston since turning pro
fessional that he is considered q
sensation there, will arrive in the
Capital about Sunday.
Tickets are on sale at A. G
Spalding & Bros, 1898 G st. n. w.
and Arcadia Auditorium. Four
teenth and Park Road Northwest.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Connie Mack Names
A. l. AN-Star
Lineup

Connie Mack. manager Of the
Athletics, recently nominated an
all-star American League team
for 1927. His team consists of
Cochrane, Athletics, catcher,
Lyons. Chicago; Hoyt, New York,
Moore, New York; Grove, Ath.
letics, pitchers; Gehrig, New
York. first base; Lazzeri. New
York. second base; Reeves. Wash
ington, shortstop; Hale, Athletics.
third base: Goslin, Washington.
left field; Simmons, Athletics,
center field; Ruth, New York,
right field.
and she led home Aromagne and
Sales Lady.
Mrs. Payne Whitney's champion
leaper, Jolly Roger, and Joseph E.
Widener's Fairmount, who ran one
two, respectively. In the $4,000
stake at Belmont Park, again are
expected to meet here in either Oh
both the Chevy Chase and Cover,
nor Ogle steepleehases.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Northwestern Squad
Ready for Opening Game

EVANSTON, H., Sept. o.
Northwestern Eniyersity's Wild.
cats were ready today for the
opening game OF the season at
Dyche Stadium here next Satur
day. Coach Dick Hanley faces
something like an ordeal then. for
his new system will be on trial
before Purple rooters. He is ex-
pected to do some shifting of
players before Saturdays game
With a muddy field in prospect,
the men have been drilled in han
ding and recovering a slippery
ball
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Coach Page Works
On Indiana's Lire

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. %
Head Coach Pat Page today devoted
much time to the linesmen of In
diana's eleven. OF the 80 men who
have tried for a place on the line,
only few have shown promise so far.
Most Of them are light as well as i'm
experienced. Page is brushing up
his men for the opening game next
Saturday with the University of Ken
lucky at Lexington
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Wolverine Coaches
To Give Team Rest

3 ANN ARBoR, Mich, Sept. 20.
Wolverine coaches were admittedly
worried today over the Michigans
showing against the Ohio Wesleyan
eleven next Saturday, with mos
Of the regulars on the list of in
jured. With the exception Of Cap
tain Oosterbaan, Gilbert, Baer and
Genbis, every one of Coach Tad
Wiemen's men is laid up with in.
juries, Only a light workout was
INDUCED in today. with complete
rest ordered for tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Sid ferris FavOrite
To Defeat Martinez

NEW YORK. Sept %. - Sid
ferris, New York lightweight, is
Z to 5 favorite to defeat Iilario
Martinez. hard-hittfng Spanish cham
pion. in their 1O-round bout here to-
night
Terris cannot afford to lose, be-
cause he is scheduled to fight Phil
McGraw here next week.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Iowa u. Punters Get
Special Workout

IOWA CITY, Ia, Sept. 29.-Uni-
versity of Iowa punters were given
special attention in practice here
today. Cooley and Cuhel bearing
most of the burden. In prepare
ton for the Monmouth fray on Sat.
urday, Ingwersen used Captains
Nelson ana Westra. at tackle: Chat
terton. Glasgow. Schmidt, Copeland
and Armil in turn in the backfieid.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
NERVES BAD
RULES NOT
OBEYED
BY Gene Tunney
Worlds Heavyweight Champion

"OTIu > I1edNyWciSHb NhdAIpiVh
NEW YORK, Sept. $3.50 long
al people have opinions and
tongues with which to voice these
opinions, the world will be forced
to lend a weary ear to the age.old
plant of what might have been. ="
I suspect that boxing, as ex-
emplified by worlds heavyweight
championship match, owes a good
deal of it's popularity to its after
math and the opportunity it af-
ferds for weeks of controversial
discussion. At least, that seventh
round at Chicago should furnish
enough fuel for comment to last
from now until the next big fight.
/ have listened to dozens of
people and have read thousands
of words from the typewriters of
critics of the Chicago fight and
few of them have a very clear
version of exactly what happened
or how. Primitive admiration
always goes to the loser, and to-
day Jack Dempsey reigns in some
circles as something of a senti-
mental hero,
~ mt nm a gond f;0Et for a
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
MOTORMEN LISTED

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. 29.-
Columbia Engine Company viii
play either Number Five Motor
Company or Gerard Edwards All.
Stars here Sunday on Hayden Field
at 3 p. m. 1t was at first an
nounced that Number Five would
be played but, contrary to popular
belief, negotiations have not been
completed.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
BambinO and Buster
Are Dated For
Exhibitions

Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig,
whose race for seasonal home run
honors became for a time the
most interesting feature of 1927
baseball. are going to continue
their smuggling duel in a series of
post-season games between New
York and San Francisco.
A tour, including from IL to Is
exhibition games during October,
has been approved.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
DEMPSEY WAS WHIPPED BEFORE THE BA77ZE-7JLNNE]

man who was beaten before he
ever stepped into the ring. /
say say this, not with an at
tempt to exalt myself, but be-
cause l know Dempsey was
beaten by many things-his age,
his inferior ring mastership,
and, most important of all. him.
self. He was pale and nervous
when he came i'm He was trem-
bling when the bell sounded the
end of the tenth round.
Not that Dempsey is not cour-
ageous in his way. He has fight
ing heart. But Dempsey was beaten
by what the moderns might refer
to as an inferiority complex.
What Dempsey, or his hackers,
cannot and will never be able to
understand, is that prize fighting, in
its present form at least. is fought
with regard to certain rules. Demp-
sey has had neither the proper train
ing nor the ecessary discipline to
adjust him to the fact that ali life,
wherever it concerns rocial inter-
course, whet' .r it be in the mere
matter of daily existence, or the
battle of the prize ring is governed
by set rules.
l may be wrong, but am labor
ing under the impression that the
world progresses.
On this basis, then, when two
men face each other to decide
which is the better, they should,
under a civilized State, be governed
by certain rules.
Else, why have boxing at all?
Defenders of Dempsey bewail the
fact that, according to their lights,
Jack Dempsey, the old campaigner,
lost a glorious "break''-a chance
to come back like a young god
and do something no other former
heavyweight champion has ever
done-fight his way back to the
throne. All of which, of course,
is sentimental nonsense.
copyright 1927. King Features
Syndicate. Incl
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
Horses Arriving for Turf
Meet at Laurel

LAUREL, Nd, Sept 29Laure Park threw gates
week receive horsemen for the dy which begins Tuesday
ana continues through saturday october Some early arrivals
already have been reported by Andrew
Maryland State Fair Incorporated notified that
stables will this week from New
racing points and from Havre de Grace The
last will take Monday
The Washington times., 1927-09-29

DnQef the SUPERVISION OIL PfeSl-
dent Cummings, the paint brush
has been used where use was
necessary. the lawns have been cut
as closely as a cropped head and
landscape artists have completed
their work well. The shrubbery
never appeared more colorful and
the infield Immediately in front of
the grandstand will be more beauti-
full than ever with foliage.
Woods Dickerson. track superin-
| tendent, has his racing strip as fast
as hands can make it and some
| splendid trials have been turned in
by horses already on the grounds.
The barns have been renovated and
await the arrival Of horsemen.
The feature stake on October is
the renewal OF the. $4,000 Capital
City Handicap, which is at three
quarters of mile. This stake has
attracted the best sprinters in
training and splendid horse race
undoubtedly awaits the fans.
Johnny SchOrr, who trains for
Ned Mclean, Of Washington,
will try to make it two I'm n
row with Prince OF Wales, who
was beaten a head by Harry
Payne Whitney's MacaW at
Havre de Grace on Saturday.
Macaw also probably will be =
starter.
A year ago Noah, then. owned by
Phil Chinn finished back of Prince
Of Wales, with Whitney's Croydon
third.
The National Stakes, with $1,000
added, will test the mettle of the
Juveniles on Saturday, October S,
and some of the best youngsters at
the track will be seen in action.
In 1927 Joseph r. Widener furn-
ished the victor In Osmand, with
Painted Lady second and Maid o.
the Mist third.
Whitney was disappointed in the
Capital Handicap, but his Croydon
carried off the SO 900 Laurel Stakes,
which will be run on October is.
Back of him finished Sarazen who
since has been retired, and Mars,
who was to be heard from later.
-----1---
Samuel ID. Riddles coIors.
which will be seen during the
meet, sent Crusader to the post
in the maryland Handicap and
he was returned a winner over
Chance Play and Craftsman.
Crusader this year win be
prepped for the $4,000 Wash
ingtOn Handicap. which was
captured year ago by Walter
Nj. JeffOrds' Mars.
Robert l.. Gerry's Peanuts placed
and Walter j. Salmon's Display
showed. These same animals again
are expected to match strides in
the Washington, which win be run
on the last day of the meet.
The Manor Handicap, which is
for two-year-olds and which will
carry $4,000 added, will be test
at mile for the youngsters. Mrs.
Payne Whitney's Adois beat Willie
X. and Fair Star a year ago.
The crack fillies will be seen in
the Selma Stakes. which will be
run on October %, and several
classy ones are in training. The
retirement of Anita Peabody takes
some color away, but the race will
not lack competition. William du
Points Fair Star scored a year ago,
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
PREPS ANGLING

The Southern Props are hunting
for football engagements with $50.
pound teams. Call Manager Speak
man. Franklin 1872.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29
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The Washington times., 1927-09-29
CHAMPIONS
FORFEIT

Personal Audit, champion team
Of the Internal Revenue Bowling
League, is off to dismal start.
It failed to muster a fun lineup
for the opening matches at the
King Pin and Of consequence
Annex No. took three games by
forfeit.
Commissioner David II. Blair fired
the ball that opened the leagues
seventh season.
Miscellaneous won two games
from Clearing Division, General
Counsel defeated Field Audit
Review, the last game being de-
cided by rOll-Off which the
lawyers won by One-pin mar
gin.
Rules-R Regulations a newcomer to
the league. lost to Special Adjutant.
= Tarter. of Clearing Division, led
with a set of $50 and also had the
high game, 1876.
Field Audit Review had the high
team game, 535 and the best set
was rolled by Annex II, 545. Mis-.
cellaneous was the only team to
shoot all games above 500.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29

The Classified Columns of tOday's
Times and Herald are Rental
Guide to many Washington apartments
for Rent.
The Washington times., 1927-09-29

He put up a good fight for a
The Washington times., 1927-09-29

Johnny SchOrr. who trains for
Ned Mclean, Of Washington,
win try to make It two In
row with Prince Of Wales. who
was beaten a head by Harry
Payne Whitney's MacaW at
Havre de Grace on Saturday.
Macaw also probably will be =
starter.
Milford chronicle., 1927-07-29

If the darkest hour is just before
the dawn, we know some men who
have been a long time ready for the
break of day.
Milford chronicle., 1927-07-29

It's all hoax anyhow; most men
are their own severest critics.