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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23

Olive: You are dreadfUlly pale!
Something terrible must have hap
pened.
Mae: Yes, the drug store was
closed.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
Gue,ssed. Wrona

The topic OF the Garvanza school
one day was preparing tor the Flu
ture," and the little ones were duly
impressed with the fact that ad-
vance work Of any kind was very
desirable practice. AL but little
johnny.
MY father an mother" he de-
clared, "Say you never can tell how
thirgs are gonna turn out an there's
10 use trying to plan ahead Why,
Cnly last week, when the baby came.
they found they had to change her
name from Mary to James
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-23
ont of Luck

( Old Nose Parker was pretty SICK
aid the darkey doctor promptly put
iainl tc' bed and laid down all sorts
of rules and regulations as to sleep
ard diet. After he had gone, Nose
turned to his wife and complained
Mandy, how does dat dar fool
ioctah reckon Abs gwine eat breast
OBJ chicken ebry day ii An nain't got
nah ebcnin's free to go out an git
de chicken!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

collection OF alleged scientists calling itself the Association
the OF Science at the opening of it's conference
at Nashville Tenn announced that of respect anti
evolution laws of that bengted fundamentas would
avoid discussion of the prohibited subject They
the most serve manner to out their promise of
end the ignorant legislators who passed absurd written
by believing backwoods kuux pulpit Founders politely
erred to the protestant gy soemny discussing
subjects as the overcoming of bad habits the exploded DeVes
theory OF the transmission of acquired characters
banaes This of fundamenasm deep
historical significance far beyond the incident itself The
rne OF fundamenam mitanty upheld by the medicine
of the decadent middle class the expression the realm
theology OF It's futile attempt social development
point favorable to its economic interests.
The fact that socaed scientists willing yield to the
class preudces of this strata of society indicates
capitalist society whole has reached the stage looks
with adherence upon further social development detrimental
to its interests
No intelligent person familiar with the history the evou-
supne groveers Nashville who speak the science
Geo Bruno who raised the torch scientific revolt against
utons AS compared to Thomas H. Huxley, many
dens the theological ackas of his day and dispersed them
with scientific facts these at Nashville pigmes
The difference however not the individuals but is to be
sought in the political conditions OF society today
to the past the early days scientists of
v carriers progress revoutonsts against decaylng
today they apoogists of Imperialism whose role to
stem the of all future because further social
DEVELOPMENT dcyms the, class for which they sneak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
Mellon Declines Presidential Candidacy

andrew w Mellon Millionaire secretary treasury
emphaticay than of the of presidential possb
declined the offer to head the republican ticket 1928 That
however that Mellon will continue to be the
real head of the republican administration after March 1929
Just as he is at the present time
Mellon dominates the republican party
md the Coolidge KeloggHoover administration Himself of
powerful bankers of the world Mellon personifies the
apdency finance capital industry His aluminium
9raHon of America through its affiliated and subsidiary
neN controls billions of dollars in industrial and commercial
ns including OIL railroads. power and public utilities Steel
lsey sng and wholesale and retail sales corporations
directing head of all these diversified interests the chain
controlled by the secretary of the treasury-the Mel
National Bank the Union Savings Bank and the Union Trust
mpany-which inerlocked with the House of Morgan
Melons control of the administration has been complete and
disputed since the Harding Daughrt Ohio vanished from
The federal trade commission has been reduced
vasa of the railroad corporations the Mellon tax program
benefited exclusively members of the dominant capitalist
this country His first program benefited but 6109
he receiving incomes above S64 900
6,636067 with incomes below that amount who not
Gifted at all The tax has aided the great corporate
Arrests in which he has investments to evade taxation of
porAtion profits
Whereas such corruptons Harry NJ Daugherty
Albert B. Fall Edwin DENLY and Theodore Roosevelt merely
dabbed oil and department justice scandals and bunged
their jobs badly the resourcefu Andrew Mellon obbed
millions of dollars into his pockets through manipulation Of
the power he holds in his hands The inspd Calvin Coolidge is
mere marionette in his hands.
No president power that Mellon holds
why should he aspire to occupy office himself when there
ocks Of available puppets ready willing and
his bidding? The chairman of every important military commit
the house OF is Mellon from Pennsylvania
controls the charmen powerful committees on com
ttees of both houses The Mellon government
and by the great bankers and ndusras dictatorship
of minority that imposes its will upon al the of the pop
uation
president because of his known con-
nections and antecedens Someone will have
will be Turnkey to Mellon but who draatized for
paign p the present puppe the white house. Cool
idge, Ntled INTO strong silent man by careful
paign1 " the country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
A Doctor Discusses Class Medicine

ally teaches the poor to have more
children.
The more the labor movement de-
velops, the more a new type of doctor
is needed with methods adapted to the
life of the workers, with exact knowl-
edge of the workers interests, with a
revolutionary medical philosophy.
That is impossible to get in the bour-
geois universities. 1t requires a spe-
cial education and a fundamental
change in the entire medical science.
Primarily it is needful that the teach
ings which only benefit the specific
bourgeois and petty bourgeois condi-
lions should be ignored altogether.
Until now such school does not exist
anywhere. 1t should be organized in
country where it could function
free and unhampered.
That would be possible ia one coun-
try only, in the Soviet Republic. Such
medical school should be in\ posi-
ton to conduct the courses lin the
main languages, as for in stance,
French, German and English, so as to
attract the radical and revolutionary
medical students from the whole
world. 1t would produce a new kind
OF doctor, to be employed by work
ers' organizations, workers co-opera-
tiNes, workers sick benefit associa-
lions and workers mutual help So
cletles, likewise workers industrial
and sanitary inspectors for all pro-
greSsiye countries N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
La 7r Faces Struggle as Bosses
+ N Open Shop Drive IN Easl

Cap makers won the 4O-hour we elk,
but had to fight for the enforcem, ent
OF the agreement. A dramatic cal4m-
palgn conducted by the office work iers'
union by way of the Debs Radio
station the newspapers and 1nass
meetings I1 to $2.oO-a-week raise
for 1000 emloyes of the Metrf opoli-
tan Life Insur,ce Co., though the
union did not win recognitionf New
York State women ill have Ia 49h-
hour maximum week or 1929 instead
OF the 4S-hour law thy had hoped
to win from the legislacre. A few
changes for the better in ,<tompensa-
ton laws go into effec-o in eastern
states, but legislative advances have
on the whole been slight.
New England Fights Cuts.
In New England che United Textile
Workers is trying to raise a $4,000
fund to fight wage cuts. The 10 per
cent cuts at Amoskeag Mills, Man.
chester, N. H., and Pepperell Mills,
Biddeford, Me. and Lowell, Mass. =
both non union-have warned the tex
tile union of its own danger. So far
some 10000 non union workers have
been cut
Shoe workers at Haverhill, Mass,
nave also been reduced by the Shoe
Board chairman, although the Shoe
Workers Protective Union which rep
resents the five to eight thousand
workers, put in a strong case for
higher pay.
In Dover, N. j., also, the open shop
is showing its head, five international
unions being hit by the closing of a
big machine shop which formerly
dealt with labor.
But despite these troubles eastern
labor is sending some aid to the min
ers striking in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
under the leadership of the United
Mine Workers, and those out in Col
: orado under the banner of the Indus
trial Workers of the World. 1t is
realized generally, that union de-
feat In the Pittsburgh Ohio fields
would deal body blow to the most
important union of the. A. F. of L. and
thus weaken the entire labor move
'nnnt AGAINST tina no~,, On ana,nv
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

During recent years industrial n.y.
giene has grown. But the doctors
occupied in factories are the employees
of the bosses. Their object is to see
to it that the workers are in condi-
ton to produce more and more work
If that is at the same time good for
the workers themselves, we'll and
good. If not---not. Often it is harm
full to their health. There are even
circumstances where the boss uses
the doctor to get rid of the most de-
voted and most active union workers.
They are simply pronounced tubercu-
lous and "for their own good" not
permitted to work in the factory.
The ordinary, average doctor, tho
he sees so many workers during his
study years and in his practice, knows
very little about their lives, their in
dustrial unhealthy conditions and
treats them as if they were members
of the middle-class. The whole medi-
cal study is keyed up in the same way.
The life of the workers is very little
considered. Such must be the case as
long as medicine is class profession.
Need Birth Control.
Take such an important matter as
birth limitation, without which a
workers farniiffy no ada days cannot get
a2ng. While the profession, as far
as it is itself informed about birth
conrol, imparts the methods to the
weakly and the middle-class, it usu-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
Workers Forum
Editor, DAILY WORKER:


AS comrade who has the inter
ests Of the Workers (Communist)
Party and those of The DAILY
WORKER at heart, I wish to throw
out one or two suggestions how to
increase the value and spread the in
fluence of The DAILY WORKER
among the less informed and nom
class-conscious elements of the work
ing class.
How can we make The DAILY
WORKER more interesting to the
masses? From a vigorous, intellec-
tual, strictly MARKHAM and feminist
viewpoint, your standards are high,
and therefore a response from such
elements of the working class that
are in harmony with these standards
can be expected at all times. But In
order to reach wider circles of work
ers, particularly the vast masses Of
unorganized workers, | think it is
essential that more simple and ele-
mentary method of approach be used.
We have within the Party and with
out, women comrades and sympathiz-
ers who demand newspaper material
of more emotional nature. How d.
rect International antagonism against
the capitalist order along Commun-
istic lines? I think a well chosen
novel, with a Communist background
or one arc using such sentiments run
in serial torn would be an answer,
and attract and keep new readers as
well as retain the old. They will then
turn to the more serious, concrete
daily local, national, international
news and editorials. Short stories and
sketches of the workers and peasants
lives of red chatacter are doubtless
at hand.
Letters to the Editor" should be
encouraged, so that the open forum
would arouse the rank and file SYM
pathizers to take more active part in
improving the quality of the paper
and augment the circulation of The
DAILY WORKER.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

tients are exploited as much as pos
sible, and swindling surgeons operate
on them often when it is not neces-
sary, only for financial returns. But
that is not different from happenings
along the whole line of the capitalist
class. People cannot visualize truly
honest doctor who sympathizes with
the workers.
More important is the fact that the
field of work for the sick in hospitals
means publicity for the doctor, espe-
cially in America, so that the treat
mem Of Re poor pays, in way. The
poor "gratis" patient is the one serv-
inc for exnerinos9ts and on whose
body doctors learn to laake operations
so that others able to lFay' the we'll
TODD and the rich, can Gay hand
somely.
Poor Help Doctors.
The more one works among tne
poor in hospItais-iias- America hosIr
tails do either not pay at all or only
nominally for such work-the more
renowned and richer one becomes. The
hospitals and especially the dispen-
saries offer favorable opportunities
for catching fish in the doctors net
One may well assert that the medi-
cal profession needs the poor patients
more than the latter need the doctors
One must generally treat the work
ers of course. They must be sent
back into the work shops to serve
capitalism. They may be neglected
and they are much neglected. But
not altogether. That would simply be
impossible. Even if doctors as pro.
fession could and would do it, the
ruling class would step in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
War to End
War"
By DAVID KINKEAD.

John was kind-hearted, idealistic
youth. He hated the brutalities of
mankind. Worst of all, he hated war.
Sometimes he dreamed that he was
mutilating young boys like himself,
disemboweling them with a bayonet
of cold steel. He would awaken with
the stencil of human blood in his nos
trils and with the choked screams of
dying men still ringing through his
tortured brain. For days after such
a nightmare John would be sad and
shaken.
John worshipped President Wilson.
1t was this great-hearted person who
was keeping sane and clear-headed,
while all the European countries were
tearing at each others vitals.
Then came 1917 and Wilson's de-
claration of war. This was a stag
gering blow to poor John. Wilson
mad been to him the single remain
ing vestige of sanity in this bloody
world of mad-men. And now Wilson
had failed him.
At first John resolved that, come
what might, he at least would not
join this bloody fray and slay his
fellow men. But propaganda had its
deadly effect even on John. He read
long editorials of how this war diff
fered from other wars. This was a
good war, humane war, a war
fought for the inalienable rights of
mankind. A rich ammunition manu-
facturer, friend of his fathers, told
him what a good war it was. Even
President Wilson said it was. This
was war to end wars; a war to
make the world safe for democracy.
The manufacturer went on to de-
scribe the horrors of America, demo-
cratic America, ruled over by that
despotic fiend, the Kaiser.
"Why, yes" he said, eff we didn't
help the allies, the Kaiser would
soon conquer them. Then he would
come and get U.S." John shuddered
at the thought.
Besides" the man added, "only
towards and slackers refuse to fight
for their flag"
So John caught the fever and went
to war. He was not afraid of being
called a coward. But fight a war to
end war was truly worthy cause.
To describe the black depths of
hell that John went through would
fill many books. Let it suffice it to
tell that mangled, disease-racked
man came back in the place of the
boy, John. The war had given him
a fleshy stump in exchange for his
right leg. There remained only a
sacred socket where his left eye had
been. Gas had left his lungs a pussy
mass. His once fine young body was
a hideous mass of scars.
Ten years later John was again in
France. He had returned with the
American Legion. His one eye was
dry and aching as he leaned on his
crutches and gazed at a soldier
graveyard near Chateau Thierry
Above each grave was small white
cross. The individual crosses dis
solved into long white lines. The
lines, as they faded into the distance,
blended into a mass of sod white that
seemed eternity.
The ammunition manufacturer
stood beside him. He was little
changed. His hair was a shade
greyer. The gold watch chain that
stretched across his ample belly was
bit larger. That was all.
"Say, John, old fellow" he re-
marked, breaking long and awk-
ward silence, wouldn't it have been
terrible to be ruled by the Kaiser?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

The executive council of the American Federation of Labor
going to Miami exactly at the time when the annuncon
gson which of the farm bloc senators have promised
ointroduce will come before the senate committee
The given the inability executive council
present to put its anncon law demands before the
committee that special meeting of the council has been
called to lay plans for the antnjuncon fight in and
the courts
the executive council Washington to push the leg
saon sought the time it IS first introduced there will be
real struggle for IN the opinion of such sympathetic observers
as the Washington correspondent the Federated Press and since
the executive council has announced that will be in Miami
the that the official leadership
not going to utilize legislative campaign
reatlng mass support for an antiinjunction drive.
1t is doubtless true that annunction law would
i'm chance of passing but it is likewise true that the executive
nc has based its whole antinjuncton the posi-
ity of legislative action.
It abandons this ineffective struggle
treats to the pleasant precincts of mumlonares winter
resort.
The between the surroundings the e
ecutve council and the terrible hardshp which the
5b S'A'e ana '0ef"i nn'0nS strikes one very
The miners and their wives and children fighting niunc
ions They live in fmy shacks their water supply been
hut off by the coal companies they insufficient clothing
I'd such supply of food that they step this
side of starvation
The executive council Federation of Labor
headed by William Green himself member of the United Mine
Workers to Miami where food expensive plentiful
U not necessary to take collections for the members the
executive council as is for the striking miners and their families
Inc salary of President Green-$1200O per year-woud
t g "'fn1rs farnies At the level thew ivno
- - vA~.o J 49, 80
would support another 20 families.
leaders would only fight might be tempted to
that they get welpad for it. AS it is the retreat
program they adopted because it required
lie brands these leaders a enemies of the strik-
other workers.
exposed, defeated and driven from the labor
they betray and the labor movement build into
lizaton which will not tolerate such retreats nor
officials in luxury while 100000 working men,
>,cner children starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

labor holding 'e in the eastern
states, the nc hows the trade |
union moveme most serious
situation since 1871. y
Open Shop Mena.
What darkens the dawn of 1928 for
eastern unions, however, is the grow
ing menace of the open shop. Labor
must still beat the Interboro Rapid
Transit Co. injunction, when the hear
ing comes January "a, or free unions
will face extinction by company
unions. The Amalgamated Assn. OF
Street G. Electric Rwy. Employees is
bearing the brunt of the fight against
the subway company's injunction
which challenges the whole American
Federation Of Labor.
The Pullman Co. is another that
has not stopped pulling the strings
for its company union marionette
show. The Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters has for the first time in
it's two years, existence threatened &
strike. The union is waiting the de.
cision of the interstate commerce
commission on tipping, before making
active preparations for walkout.
Unions Gain By Struggles.
Other transportation unions have
registered the bulk of the wage in,
creases given in the east this past
year. The railroad brotherhoods -
trainmen and conductors, firemen ant
enginemen-won most, under Watson.
Parker Act mediation or arbitration
The init. Longshoremen's Assn. got
five cents more an hour, but THEN
work is still intermittent, and uncer.
tain. Two groups of union truckmer
in New York City, organized in the
teamsters' international union, gained
wage increases by short strikes.
Printers and pressmen won adj
vances in pay, and the building
trades union scale has been continued
for another year. The electrical
workers in New York are negotiat
ing, although the employers associa
ton is threatening not to deal with
the recornizad union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
Examples Given.

The medical profession assures the
world constantly that it is the most
charitable body in existence. 1t gives
it's service to the right and left. At
certain times and in certain countries
such has actually been the case. There
are still places in Europe where some
of the doctors are poor, sometimes
even proletarians. But in America
that does not occur.
Hospitals and dispensaries do give
free consultations and a great deal
Of free examinations and treatments.
But it is not true that "the richest
and the poorest get the same atten-
ion" The rich are really treated de-
Gently, clearly, respectfully, while. =. E.
the poor? The Workers? Well, just
as everywhere! True, well-to-do pa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31

Yet in this case the situation is not
as clear and obvious as in other brain
occupations. When you state the as
sertion here made to the ordinary doc
tor-regardless of whether he is ra-
ideally orientated-a even to a
class-conscious worker, they would
not believe you and would object to
this view The answer would be:
Don't you see that the largest num-
Der of sick treated by doctors con-
sists of working people ?" That seems
to be true. Yet when one considers
the matter more closely the fact would
S~-~~~$@-snN @ss~ssa@assa-s-.~---s-----~- r-'
forcibly strike you that the manner
in which such treatment is given is in
reality from a class standpoint.
That can be made clear by exam
pies, of which l would quote many if
I could afford space for them. But
some Of the best known ought to suf-
fire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
J., DIR. P. H., Editor of Rational Living.

By B. LIBER, M D, Dr. P Fl, Editor of Rational Living
LII intellectual professions class professions subject
of the ruling
medical
the becoming tool of exploiers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-31
FER LOWELL
ted Press.

Although IDS with organized
labor holding 'e in the eastern
states, the nc 'hows the trade
union movem. most serious
situation since 49,.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-20
JOHNSON COMMITTEE
TO CONVENE TONIGHT
Daughter of Former Representative
Mae E. Nolan Sends $40
to Aid Testimonial.

The Walter Johnson anniversary
testimonial fund was augmented today
by a telegraphic order for SO from
Corliss Nolan, 14-year- old daughter OF
the former Representative, Mae e.
Nolan, of San Francisco.
Miss Nolan wired the committee as
follows: Am sending $40 to Walter
Johnson fund. When he quits Wash
ington--if he ever does--we want him
to come to California to finish the
base ball career he started here as a
high school boy. Tell him we would
like to hear him say, California. here
l come"
A meeting Of the general committee
in charge of the anniversary testi.
monial will be held at 8 o'clock to-
night at the City Club, where further
plans for honoring the big pitcher OF
the Nationals will be made. Il has
been definitely decided to award to
Johnson on August 9 a medal for dis
tinguished service to the American
League and at the same time give him
the architects drawing Of statue TO
be erected to him later at the entrance
to Clark Griffith Stadium. The com.
mittee in charge of the testimonial
and celebration, to be observed at the
base ball park on August 2, the day
on which Waller Johnson pitched his
first big league game 20 years ago,
is headed by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover as honorary chairman, with
Gen. Anton Stephan acting as actlVe
chairman.