davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
FORD NOT INTERESTED NOW in PEACE SHIPS;
FINDS GREAT AERIAL WAR NAVIES PROFITABLE

In interview yesterday Henry Ford showed consider
able pride in the operation of his air lines There four
flying from the Ford Airport here daily and date the Ford
lines have established record of 65 flying hours and 58933
flying miles with only serious accident The auto kings
services connect Detroit with Chicago Cleveland Buffalo
Grand Rapids Mich The Ford planes he said maintain sched
ue of 1872 air miles day, six days week."
what will the plane of the future be ke?" he asked
"The large mumotored plane is the plane of the future
said Ford They will be of great sze many and
hold hundred passengers easily These large planes will
because they be easily operated
"The present machine is fourhs incorporated The oper
aor must the job every second Too much depends
think this ratio be reversed by building larger ships
with motors and less dependence the human equation
what should America do to be prepared the air for
next war;" he asked.
Work aviation he replied promptly 81 think aviation
coming fast it in commercial have lot of
faith the United States and think the commercial development
of aviation helps the national defense by showing way
government should along"
"Can arplanes dspace battleshps as Colonel Billy
Mitchell says?"
There question about it, Ford replied very seriously
Arplanes destroy anything pertaining Aviation
believe, has started another cycle Mitchell is right.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
kyk!qi;i1iil9&
~2WoRKERS
WHAT JULY FOURTH MEANS TO US

The American Revolution was a
war for independence and self-deter-
mination; it was war fought to
free the American colonies from the
rule of foreign country that was
depressing them-Great Britain. We
hail with pride the revolutionary ira
ditions of this great struggle for
colonial liberation.
Today, in 1927, there are millions
of people grooming under the oppres-
sive tyranny of American imperial
ist rule. There are millions of work
ers and farmers in the American En-
pire-the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, and so on-whose strivings for
national differentiation are ruth
lessly crushed by the bayonets of the
Wall Street government. There are
many millions of people whom the
American government is trying to re-
duce to slavery and to keep in that
condition. Nicaragua has now become
practically an American colony. In
their fight for freedom and indepen-
dence the Chinese workers and farm
ers meet with no more bitter enemy
than the U. S.
Just as in 1776 the British govern
ment sent troops to crush the Ameri-
can colonists who were striving for
independence, so today the United
States, the great imperialist tyrant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

between London and Toxic is consid-
cred quite possible.
THO the Chinese league representa-
tive is in Geneva as a representative
Of Peking he issued his warning on
instructions from the Nationalist
movement. 1t would not be a sur
prise to US to hear within a compare
lively short time that Washington has
decided to recognize the Nationalists
leaving the British and the Japanese
holding the bag with the northern
militarists. 1t is also probable that
the money bags of the American i'm
perialists were used effectively in
bringing about the switch of Chang
Kai-shek and Feng Yu-Hsiang from
the Nationalist revolutionary cause
and their adherence to the bourgeois
anti-labor, pro-imperialist policy of
Wall Street. While British imperial
ism led the imperialist attack on the
Chinese revolution, it is now becoming
clear that the underground methods of
the United States were more effec-
tive in corrupting the right wing and
bourgeois leaders than the more open
methods employed by the British En-
pire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE
COURSES

After anxiously waiting for the
eventful day of June 10Th, students
from many places assembled at Main
Hall for the third annual Young
Workers League Courses of 1927.
Forty seven students in all came
from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
and North Dakota. Thirty-eight diff
ferent localities are represented at
these courses.
The courses started off very well
this year in spite of heavy rains dur
ing the first few days, but it soon
cleared up and we started our work
in earnest. One student had to leave
because of threatened illness, but
there has not been any other serious
cases of illness. Only few have
been bothered by the rainy weather
toothaches.
The students are all we'll acquainted
with each other by now. Sunday
evenings program and dance, which
was held by the Superior Young
Workers League, helped to chase the
blues away and to get acquainted
with the rest of the students.
We certainly did appreciate their
thoughtfulness in giving us that re-
ception or welcome.
Tuesday morning the lessons really
started; and the work proved far
more interesting than any one expec-
ted. Comrades Hayes and William
son, the instructors, have put across
Economics and History in such a way
that the periods just seem to have
wings. Sociology, Glass Struggle
Theory, Current Events, American
History, and MARKHAM economics are
regular daily subjects. Saturday
mornings work proved to be the
most interesting of all for "Model
Nuclei meetings are held.
Friday evening the student body
held a meeting, and the various COM
mittees for carrying on the work of
the school, were elected The fol-
lowing Committees were chosen: en-
tertainment, sports, discipline, press,
wall, newspaper, and snapshot. A
large part of the work and respon-
sibility rests on the students and they
are all trying to make the school a
success.
Sunday we all went to the swim
ming place for our supper and a
marshmellow roast This ended our
first week and the future weeks
look very bright and promising to
all.-Helmi Juntilain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

of the twentieth century, is sending
battleships and marines and soldiers
to every part of the world, to Mica
ragua, and to China, to crush the CO.
lonial revolutionaries of 1927. The
American soldiers and marines in the
Philippines, Nicaragua and China to-
day are doing the same dirty work
as the Hessians did for the British in
1776-they are helping imperialism
fasten the yoke of slavery on the
necks of the people of other countries.
To cherish and to pay honor to the
great revolutionary traditions of '76
can not be done thru mere empty lip
service while at the same time viola
ting them in everyday deed. This
is what the Fourth of July orators do
the business men, the politicians,
the teachers and the preachers-who
grow very enthusiastic over the colo
NAL revolutionaries of 1776 and very
indignant over the colonial revolu-
tionaries of 1927. For us the lesson
of '76 is: Down with the imperialist
rule of the U. S.! Help the peoples
of the American colonies overthrow
the yoke of Wall Street. Support the
struggle of the Chinese workers and
farmers for freedom and indepen-
dence! Help them fight their Revo-
lutionary War!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
DOPE. AIDS DOMINION
By GEORGE Fl. sHOAF.

PORT SAID, (By Mai) People of
an inquiring turn wonder why the
Orientals, especially those who in
habit India and Malaysia, have been
so docile and abjectly submissive in
the presence of their white conquer
CHS. In common with disinterested
Investigators who seek the truth
believe l have FOND one reason why.
The answer is dope religious, and
that more Immediately satisfying
kind, opium and the betel-nut.
Buddhism and Northumberland are
the two principal religious that obsess
the minds and hearts of the inbabi-
tants of Indian and Malaysia. Many
Chinese endorse the philosophy of
Confucius. Some few Of them have
embraced Buddhism and Mohamrued-
anism, but as a rule the majority of
the Chinese have no religious faith.
Indian -Resistants.
The Indian and Malay Buddhists
and Mohammcdans have been usually
non-resistant. They did not believe in
fighting. Easily imposed upon, al
ways they turned the other cheek.
Needless to say the British govern
ment not only countenances these en-
shaving superstitions and vile prac-
tees but encourages them. On every
hand as one travels through the Ori-
ent, Buddhist temples and Mohamme-
dan mosques are beheld. Multiplied
millions of worshippers throng them
daily. The mouths of nearly every
native one meets are stained with the
red of the betel-nut. This habit lulls
to sleep the senses, stupefies the
brain and completely breaks down the
will. In Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Calcutta and Bombay, opium joints
flourish openly, and in some of the
streets the fumes from these dives
are quite overpowering. What a COM
bination of lucky circumstances the
British possess to aid them in keep
ing their subject peoples down.
Masters Use Opium.
What wouldn't the labor-hating
masters of the American people give
if some almighty power could and
would come to their assistance with
a nationwide sweep of religious re-
yival that would convict and convert
the working classes and bring them
all to the feet of the non-resisting
Nazarine. How the ruling classes
would rejoice at the spectacle of the
workers unitedIy rendering unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars,
and INCREASINGLY turning the other
cheek! No wonder the superstition
injecting Aimee Semple Mcpherson
has been subsidized by the business
interests of Los Angeles and given
carte blanche to go out among the
workers and corral them right and
left. The preachments Of a hundred
McPhersons at strategic positions in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
YOUTHFUL PATRIOTS

DETROIT, Mich, July 6.-As
part of the whole campaign against
the Party and Communist movement
in this country, the plans for the or
ganization of new youth movement
for the perpetuation of the American
creeds of patriotism, and for new
struggle against the reds have been
laid. This is being initiated in the
state of Michigan under the direction
of the Detroit National Defense Com
mittee an adjunct for the Detroit
board of Commerce. Former repre-
sentative Sosnowski of Detroit is in
charge of the organization sub COM
mittee, which has plans under. way
to spread out thru the country bv
special organizers.
1t is very significant that the one
sponsoring this organization is the
Board of Commerce. They have al
ready invited VIM. T. Page, clerk of
the house OF representatives, notori-
GUS patriot, to begin this campaign
to clean out the reds. Page is
expected to arrive in the first part
of July and begin the campaign at
Camp Custer, Michigan, and then be-
gin to spread out with Detroit as it's
main center. Quoting the Detroit
Free Press of June 22nd it states the
following: "The organization is to
undertake an extensive anti-red cam
paign in every sense of the word. 1t
is planned to establish a head
quarters which will supply America
with first education for the youth of
the entire country"
The professional patriots are be-
ginning to realize the Importance of
the youth and the launching of this
campaign is in line with their gen
eral policy for militarizing and
doping the minds of the youth.
These organizations when on footing
becoming nothing but fascist and are
the factor used by the bosses in their
struggles against the whole working
class. At this period when affairs
are becoming more and more acute
it becomes the policy in this country
of preparing and molding the youth
into struggle against the working
class. Our tasks are to counter
these campaigns on the part of the
bosses by the league actively partici-
pating thru education, propaganda
and organization against these Of
lenses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:

Editor, The DAILY WORKER:
When the owners of the Pechter and
Messenger baking trusts set out to
break the bakers union they reckoned
without the women.
The organization of the Women's
Councils was a step that the bosses
did not anticipate. They visited all
the neighborhood groceries in an at
tempt to persuade the owners not to
Galp in the sale of the scab bread.
When they were unable to make any
pl ogress with given grocery, the
committee would picket it from morn
ing to night They distributed leaf
let's, arranged open-air meetings, etc,
until they were victorious.
How were the wives of the workers
able to accomplish all this? How did
they manage with their homework
and responsibilities The answer is
found in mutual aid, cooperation, and
organization. They took care of each
others children, assisted each other
in shopping, etc.
Of course they were also on the
picket line. The Bakers Housewives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

IN THE oath Of December, 1925,
" they were taken from the hotel
to the commissioners office and
from the commissioners office to the
Canton jail, where they were kept
for two days without receiving atten-
ton. On the Goth they were again
taken to the commissioners office.
This time they were asked if they
had anybody representing them.
Their lawyer was not there somehow
and could not be located at the ap-
pointed time. Neither the commits
sioner, the marshal or the captain
would allow the seamen to be re-
leased so that they might go out and
look for their lawyer. Instead, they
held them prisoners in the office I'M
der guard and proceeded with the ex-
animation.
When the seamen demanded the
right of examination and representa-
ton by counsel the commissioner told
them that he had met their attorney
in the street and that he had waived
examination for his clients. No self
respecting lawyer would ever endan-
ger a client in such manner. 1t
seems more like deliberate frame
up than trial, the commissioner
taking it upon himself to waive ex-
animation over the protest of the
seamen.
Immediately after this they We're
railroaded to jail. They were kept in
the Canton jail without any legal
process other than simple commit
ment paper.
Ford Can Do No Wrong
THE influence of Henry Ford seems
to have a soothing effect upon tse
official conscience in order to cover
such heinous procedure
Fitzgerald and Loomis were finally
released on the goth of February,
1926, after having served sixty days
Imprisonment without any charges or
real trial other than the frame-up
which has been described.
Their only CLEAN Of hope during
this period was curt note from the
District Attorney saying that he
would shortly dispose of their case.
The entire process is a demonstra-
ton of the power of capitalist cor
poration over the so-called instru-
ments of justice, law and order in the
shipping industry, and it should be
instructive to other workers to note
the value to themselves of these in
struments in capitalist social order.
Fleeced of Wages.
THESE men were released without
cent of wages or any money paid
to them at all; however, when the
case of the wages of the seamen
came up for trial in New York last
week in the City Court, the Ford
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
Young Workers School At Conneaut.
Ohio,


CLEVELAND, July 6.-For seferal
months preparations have been made
in Districts 6, z, and for the estab-
lishment of a school for young, work
ers. Through the magnificent efforts
of the Finnish comrades in the four
districts, who collected more than
$1,000, the school was ensured, A
campaign in the party and Y. w. L.
was started, even though some of tbs
comrades were skeptical as to the pos
sibility of forming the school.
On July 5, the school will be opened
at Conneaut, Ohio, a beautiful coun-
try-like town on Lake Erie, with as
to 80 students from the four districts.
Comrades Will Herberg, Max Schacht-
man and d. E. Farley will be the in
structors. The Finnish Workers Club
will be used for the classes, while the
curriculum calls not only for theoreti-
cal but practical work. @4
The students comprise miners, steel
workers, metal workers and others in
light industry and few students.
The school will last for weeks, and
promises to 1e one of the best that
have been organized in the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
Letters From Our Readers

Council" in the Bronx, especially, has
been of great aid in the strike.
Against the strikers the bosses use
injunctions, gangsters, and other
weapons but they are helpless against
the agitation of the women.
Let us hope that your women read
ers will profit by our example and or
ganize neighborhood working class
councils so as to help in time of strike.
Member, United Council
Working Glass Housewives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

Marks the spot where the
sub blank will be found. just
put your name on 1T, clip 1t
out, add a dollar cit doesn't
matter how old it isD and
send 1T to get years sub
scription to the Young Work
err. Here's the address--The
Young Worker Ed. Committee,
33 First ST., New York. N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
Subject State Pays Debt.

WASHINGTON, July G.-For the
first time in the hectic history of
American war debt negotiations,
nation came to the United States
Treasury today and rendered a check
for its entire obligations, plus in
terest.
The republic of Liberia, with a pop
ulation of but 100000, mostly Ne
groes, presented to acting secretary
Of the treasury Mills check for APP
proximately $4,000 in settlement of
it's entire obligations to the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

Motor Company had miraculously
procured evidence to the effect that
LOOMS and Fitzgerald were thieves,
that they had wilfull3 destroyed
property and were deserters.
The technical charges brought up
amounted to the stealing of several
firths of butter, throwing meat over
board and disposing of cooking uten-
sis in the same way. They were
also charged with cutting rope and
refusing to do work upon the request
of the captain.
Manufactured Evidence.
THE Ford Company, in the course
4 of the trial, introduced two wit
nesses.
These witnesses, Andraddy and
Dane by name, had been kept by the
Ford Motor Company for two years,
their transportation paid to New
York, and their running expenses
taken care Of. This is the extent to
which the Ford people were ready to
go to suppress the action of militant
workers.
The evidence given by these wit
nesses was SO crude that even the
Judge had to agree that no evidence
had been shown at any time to indi-
cate that the charges against the sea-
men were true. Ford went even one
step further, taking the trouble Of
digging up the navy record of LOOMS
and finding some flimsy charge Of
speaking back to superior officer.
This was swept about the courtroom
by the Ford lawyer with majestic
gestures and triumphant red her
ring expressions about patriotism
and loyalty to ones country in his at
tempt to discredit LOOMS in the eyes
of the jury.
Affidavits Manufactured
IT WAS quite plainly pointed out
and accepted that the affidavits of
the Ford witnesses were nanufac-
tured in the office of tile Ford law
yer.
Such conditions as the framing up
of sailors will continue and be a mat
ter Of everyday occurrence as long
as the seamen do not realize that
only in organization lies the secret
of power to gain their elementary
rights.
Organization Only Hope.
Seamen are entitled to good con-
ditions aboard ship, decent living
quarters intended for the proper
housing of the crew instead of the
econonnization of space for profit;
four watches leave in every port of
stop; better food and an increase in
pay which is now far below the rela-
tive wage ashore.
The Ford workers especially should
learn from this lesson the absolute
need of organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
CURRENT EVENTS
Continued from Page Ome)

CONTINUED from Page One)
anese alliance current in Geneva are
not without foundation is indicated in
the significant statement issued by
the Chinese. member of the league of
nations who keeps an apartment in
the vicinity. The Chinese league
member warned the delegates to the
naval conference that they must not
discuss the Chinese question. Be-
cause of the somewhat similar prob
lens confronting Japan and Great
Britain in China and the awakened
rivalry between England and the
United States an agreement hostile
to both China and the United States
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

THE following itself with the experiences
sailors George LOOMS and James Fitzgerald both employed by the
Ford Motor Company their boats the Ball Camp used
to tow the vessels which the Ford Company purchases the
process of creating its economical "izzy'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07
How the Frame-Up Works
on Henry Ford's 'Modep Ships

An Amazing Tale of the Methods Used By the Understrapps
and Legal Lackeys of the Great "Philanthropist" To
Stamp Out All Protest Among Seamen-This
Story Is A Document of the American
Class Struggle of Interest Not Only
To Seamen But To All Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-07

the United States-with the criminal
syndicalism laws operating against
radical agitation-would quickly steep
the workers in the right superstition
and make them more obedient and
law-abiding than they are at the pres
ent time.
Truly religion is the opium of The
people. In the Far East the British
use both!
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-10-13
NEGROES ARRESTED HERE
FOR CHRLOTTE AUTO THEFT

Willis Smith and Jonas Taylor, ne
groes of Charlotte, were lodged in
the county jail here Monday on a
charge Of stealing an automobile,
aavices leading to the capture having
been sent out by Mecklenburg of
f3cers. The arrest was made at the
Mulligan Company's construction
camp on Highway 50, a few miles
from Boone.
The abandoned car was later
found near the Meat Camp Baptist
church and a careful search in the
vicinity Of the find by Police Chief
Garland disclosed q quantity Of fine
electrical equipment, perhaps valued
at IS much as $500. The warrants
held in Charlotte, however, did not
charge the negroes with the theft Of
anything other than the car.
An officer from Charlotte arrived
yesterday and the prisoners were
taken to Mecklenburg for trial.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-10-13
WARD DAIRY BARN
RAZED By FLAMES
Fire of Unknown \Origin Destroyed
Valuable Property on Brushy
Fork Monday Night; Loss Said to
Be Heavy

On Monday night, fire Of unknown
origin completely destroyed the large
dairy barn Of Mr. F. C. Ward on
Brushy Fork, west of Boone, togeth-
er with the milk house, siIos and
complete dairy equipment. Mr..
Ward estimates the blaze repres ented
loss of approximately $1,000.
Sometime around IL o'clock on the
night of the fire, Mr.. Ward awaken
ed as car stopped on the highway
near his place and the only clue he
can advance as to the origin of the
fire, is that its occupants went to
the barn in search of gasoline and
ignited the structure by lighting
matches. 1t was known that Mr.
Ward operated gasoline engine in
another building and this theory is
likely a good one.
Mr.. Ward was the pioneer in the
modern dairy field in this county,
having installed the most modern
equipment to be found and the barn
was well appointed and sanitary
throughout. For long time he had
furnished Boone with milk but some
tine ago sold out this business to
Mr.. Tracy Councill of Boone. Hav-
ing decided to open dairy business
at Elizabethton, Tenn, to increase
his income from this source, some of
his stock had been moved there and
no cows were in the barn at the time
of the fire.
Mr.. Ward has issued no statement
as to whether he will rebuild the
dairy at this place. The property
destroyed was partially covered by
insurance