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Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
DELAYED TOO LONG

He was trying to get the car of
the track. when If he had left the
car at once, the car only would have
been dem olishedt and the occupants
uninjured Learning that BENJAMIN
Cephas was at the Retreat for the
Sick, the services of William Isaac
Johnson's Sons were enlisted and
the Packard belonging to Babe"
Johnson placed at our service with
Chauffeur Richard Carter in charge.
Arriving at the hospital, polite at
tendant directed me to the ward
where Cephas was lying.
CEPHAS' STORY
He recognized me at once and
readily replied to questions, al
though at times, he seemed in much
pain He is large rcrtly man OF
light brown complexion. He had a
bandage on his lower lip He said
''My name is William BENJAMIN
Cephas, but / am called BENJAMIN
Cephas. / live on the Mech anicsvGle
Turnpike in Hanover County, about
seven miles from the city. I left my
home and went to my cousins house.
His name is John Adams He lives On
the coGner Of 3Gth and S Streets.
We left there Thursday at about II
o'clock in the day to visit my sister
in Hanover County, near Glen Allen.
J FOUND HIMSELF IN HOSPITAL
"We were returning home about
dusk when we reached the railroad
crossing. was driving Ford
coupe. I did not see or hear The
train. You cannot see the train at
this point, whenrit is coming from
up the country anyway. I do not
remember anything, only when I at
tempted TO cross the track the train
hit me. When I came to, was ~
ing here"
He asked about Adams. l told Him
he was dead and he was much sur
prised. He said, "My sister told me
he was not dead" I realized then
that I should have evaded the ques-
ton perhaps, az his sister evidently
did not wish te shock him. He took
it philosophioally however.
TREATED. ALL RIGHT.
Cephas said his ribs were broken,
his back injured and his lower lip
cut When asked about his treatment
at the hospital, his face frightened.
''They are treating me all right here.
have nurse every night. They
give me everything I need am a
widower and have no children. !
own IS acres OF land In Hanover
County"
Leaving with him copy Of JSe
Planet. was soon back in the cbn-
Portable Packard and later In The
Planet Office.
Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
SANDY Alexander
lBsCONDs WITH ODD
FELLOWS MONEY

The Police Department has sent
tout notices for the apprehension Of
Sandy Alexander, who is charged
with grand larceny, in that he is
alleged to have embezzled $1,095.04
of the funds Of Bethrar Lodge, 1858
&c. U o. of Odd Fellows. He was
notary public and is connected with
industrial insurance.
Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
FATAL SMASH UP At
GLEN ALLEN R. R.
CROSSING
Especial by John Mitchell, Jr.)

Especial by John Mitchell, JrD
John Henry Adams, married, who
resides at 1901 N 30th Street was
killed and w. Benjamin Cephas, VIII"
lives about seven miles from this
city on the Mechanicsville Turnpike
was seriously injured when a south
bound R. F. and P. train enroute to
Richmond, struck the Ford coupe IN
which they were riding, as it was
crossing the railroad tracks at Glen
Allen, about ten miles from this city
The accident occurred THURSDAY al
ternoon, at about six O'Clock.
THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENT.
Adams body was turned over to
Funeral Director Robert c. Scott
who prepared it for burial. The
funeral services will be conducted
from the Hanover Baptist Church. ID
Hanover County. Rev. Samuel Alien
assisted by Rev. Brown will have
charge. Mrs. Lucinda J. Carter.
who called at The Planet office last
Friday to pay her subscription
stated that her son, Elver was por-
ter at the Glen Allen station ana
saw the accident. He stated t1at
the driver of the car seemed to have
gotten confused
Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
CHARITABLE UNION

The, Annual Meeting and Installa-
tion of Officers OF the Charitable
Union will take place at the True
Reformers Hall, Monday night. jan
uary 81, 1927, from. 500 to 11:00
o'clock. An excellent, program has
been arranged. Rey F. W. Quarles
and Rev. w II. Higgins will be the
speakers on this occasion
Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
PROF. JACKSON GONE.

Prof James NJ. jackson. principal
of Jackson Industrial School, at
Louisa. Va. died December "a, 1925
at the residence Of Rev. W. D. White
D. D.. his foster son, sos e. Federal
Street. His funeral took place De.
Richmond planet., 1927-01-15
REVIVAL AT GOODWILL CHURCH
40 North Monroe Street.

Rev. E. G. Smith, Of Southside,
will preach each evening during the
week beginning January 18th inst.
Come ye and fnast on the Gospel.
". B. BALL, Pastor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
u. S. Government Will
Agitate for Less Tax
On Foreign Commerce

WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE
U. S. government is summoning a
congress of taxation experts in Lon
don to lay basis for propaganda
for lower taxes by European coun-
tries on American commerce.
The United States is reported by
the department of commerce to have
about $l3, 00O,O00,0 900 invested abroad
and to be doing about S5,000,000,000
worth of international commerce
yearly. A certain amount of double
taxation has crept in, the foreign in
vestment and its product both being
taxed abroad, and sometimes its COM
merce also paying tariff to the
U. S.
Adams For L. S.
Professor |. S. Adams, Yale econ
omist, will represent the United
States at the gathering, TO be attend
ed by delegates from Great Britain,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Ar
gentins and other nations.
Mitchell B, Carroll, chief of the tax
section OF the commerce department,
disclosed that among the questions
to be considered at the London con-
ference are:
(D Where business profits should
De taxed
(2) Whether dividends should be
taxed in the country where the cor
poration is located, or in the coun-
~ Of the shareholder.
"The experts plan TO draft models
Tor conventions governing the elm
.ination of the multiple irnpctition Of
income and inheritance taxes" Car
roll said.
They viii discuss che feasibility
Of establishing a permanent organi-
zation. Action Of the experts will
not be binding on the governments
which designate them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
SORROW CRAzED
YOUTH FAILURE
IN BANDIT JOB
barrow Points a Moral;
Poor Fill Prisons

Broke and anxious TO reach the bed
side Of his dying father in Lawrence,
Mass, Leo Marsafa, 10 year old high
school student yesterday chose crime
and lost because he lacked the nerve
Of bandit
Young Marsafa entered a delica-
lessen store in Brooklyn, mumbled
that he wanted TO make a purchase
and then struck the proprietor ter
rifle blow over the head with the butt
Of revolver.
Panic-stricken as his victim slump
ed to the floor, Marsafa fled to the
street, throwing the reviewer to the
pavement. He was seen by passing
letter-carrier, who summoned Police
man William j. Feeney.
Grief Stricken.
As the youth jumped on passing
truck, Feeney commandeered a taxi
cab and caught him after chase Of
four blocks.
Grief-stricken and hysterical, young
Marsafa readily confessed the crime.
He said he had come recently from
Lawrence to live with an uncle. He
had been unable to find work and
yesterday received letter from his
sister, urging him TO come home as
his father lay at the point of death in
a hospital. Unable to obtain the
money lawfully, Msrsafa had decided
to steal it. He was charged with fe-
lonious assault.
"Men who are trained to make
living don't go to JAIL" declared Clar-
ence Darrow, famous Chicago lawyer,
yesterday in a talk before the West
Side Unitarian Church.
"You don't find carpenters and
bricklayers and doctors in jail in any
number, but the poor and the ignor-
ant who follow the easiest way. Crime
is caused by poverty and by hate, and
if you would devote one-tenth the
money and effort now expended on
punishment to a sincere effort to re-
move its causes you would practically
eradicate it."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Organize the Traction Workers
ARTICLE vIII.-THE 1905 STRIKE-WHO CAUSED 1T?

pute to an arbitration committee OF
six, each selecting three"
To which Mr.. August Belmont re-
piled, "All right, Mr.. Stone, and if
we get to that point, you can name
all six of them"
This conversation took place sew
eral days before the March Z, 1905
strike. Mr.. Stone, Mr.. Belmont, Mr..
Hedley and others we're taking din
ner together before the departure of
Mr.. Belmont on his regular vacation
to Florida.
Workers Complain.
But at this time the air was al
ready full Of complaints and even
threats of the workers whose in
terests had been betrayed and who
were unable any longer to endure
the increasing savagery of the Inter
borough tactics. Some of the men
were receiving $1.40 per day. The
average was about $1.75 for q ten,
twelve or fourteen hour shift.
AS early as January Of that year
the men, particularly those affiliated
with the Amalgamated under the
leadership of Pepper, had threatened
to strike when the marlborough
broke the terms Of an agreement
with them by increasing the schedule
of trains against all accepted prac-
tice and mutual understanding.
The agreement with the Amalga-
mated was due to expire in March,
whereas the agreement with the b.
of l.. e. had still three years to run.
When the men went out on strike on
March Z, 1905, the cry was, Of course,
raised that the walkout was in vio-
lation Of the existing agreement but
this cutlery carefully concealed the
fact that the Interborough had, as
we shall see, very deliberately brok-
en- the agreement with the men for
the purpose of breaking up the
union.
Used Labor Takers.
The facts are now clear: When
the PETERBOROUGH officials realized
that through their association with
the International labor leaders in the
National Civic Federation they had
the support of these labor takers in
whatever steps they might take, they
decided upon the extreme measure
of breaking the union.
For this purpose the PETERBOROUGH
adopted two methods of procedure.
First, the officials began to break
the terms of the existing agreements
with the local unions; secondly they
began to import scabs from Chicago.
Weeks before there was even def
mite threat of a strike the INTERIOR
ough had aleady collected over a
thousand scabs who were being fed
and prepared for the coming events.
The accounts of such papers COM
pletely antagonistic to the strike as
"The New York Times" will bear out
this assertion.
The local workers knew these
facts; the International Labor Off
cials likewise were aware Of them,
yet in spite of this knowledge they
dared openly to sabotage the strike.
Ito Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
ORDERS JERSEY
SCHOOL TO LET
NEGRO BOY IN
RaisOn Says Son Sent to
Unhealthy Building

TRENTON, n. J., March 17.-Su-
preme Court Justice Frank 7. Lloyd
here today signed an order asked by
John F. Rason, a Negro, directing the
board of education Of Berkeley town
ship to admit Raisons son, Frank, 10
years old, to the Toms River public
school, or, failing that, to show cause
on April 6 next for refusing to admit
the boy to that school
While Raison was asking for this
order, State Senator Alexander Simp-
son, democrat, of Hudson County, in
troduced bill in the senate, making
the segregation Of children "by res
son of color, race or religion" a mis-
1emeanor.
To Insanitary Building.
Raison said that his son, Frank, had
been attending the Toms River school
for the last two years. On February
/ last, Frank and n other Negro chill
dren were taken out of the Toms
River school, and moved to a school
established in a Negro church at
Bushwick. The church building has
walls without plaster, retains mois-
ture, is cold and damp, poorly heated,
and unsanitary, and drinking water
there is kept in an unsanitary gal
vanized pail, Raison said in an affi-
davit.
Color Discrimination.
Il believe have right to have my
child educated in the school nearest
his home" Raison said. THAT is,
the Dover township school at Toms
River, half mile from where the BOY
lives. My son has been and still is
excluded from that school because he
is a Negro, which means he Is ex-
cluded because of his color"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
British Imperialists
Failed to Prove Their
Case, Says "Pravda"

Continued from Page Onsl
only concrete accusation raised
against the Soviet government was
in connection with the so-called "Zin-
oviev letter" which was manufac-
tured in the workshops OF the Dri-
fish secret police and which helped
the existing British government to
win the election campaign. 1t was a
well-known fact that this letter was
a forgery and that up until now no
one has been punished for It. This
forgery was used as threat 80 break
off diplomatic relations as a, threat
TO peaceful relations.
The "Pravda" writes: "The more
groundless the British accusations
are the queerer they become. Cham
berlain for instance, is not satisfied
with Kamenev. We do not know
whether perhaps Chamberlain has
been instructed by Alussolini to ex-
press the dissatisfaction OF the lat
ter with kamenev. II that is not
the case why does Chamberlain con-
slider it necessary to interfere in the
affairs Of the Soviet Ambassador IN
Italy? When only AngIo-Russian re-
lations are under discussion? Or per-
haps in the meantime Italy has be-
come a part of the British empire
And the presence Of the Soviet agent
Kamenev there is not agreeable to
Scotland Yard?"
Answers With Dignity.
The Soviet government had, de-
clared the "Pravda", despite the
absurdity of the accusations made
against it and despite the challenging
tone of the British note, answered
with the greatest reserve. The So
Wet government had exhibited great
self-control and great will for peace
by expressing once again its COM
plete preparedness to settle all diff
ferences and conflicts by peaceful
negotiations. However, the cabinet
of Orchards was pursuing its own
plans. There was a certain danger
in this and it was the task Of the
working masses to curb the conserva-
tive extremists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
No Peace Il Diaz Wins.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March II.
A peace mission which was to have
started for Puerto Cabezas to attempt
to urge DR.. Sacasa, liberal leader to
give up his efforts to win military
success, has been abandoned as those
interested feel that the war will have
been brought TO a conclusion by a
decisive battle before they could reach
Puerto Cabezas. They expected the
recent battle in which Diaz was beaten
to be a victory for him.
Diaz announces that he lost sixty
one dead and seventy wounded in the
battles at San Jeronimo and TERRA
Azul on Tuesday.
Admiral Latimer has left for Cor
into, but prior to his departure he
congratulated the editors Of La
rrensa for their initiative in putting
out an English section of their pa
per, carrying international news SER
vice dispatches, for the benefit OF
American marines and sailors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Yearly average

The $4,000 average wage in De-
cember 1926 is a gain Of about 1910
over the average for December 1925
and $4.20 over December 1924. This
average reflects the earnings of all
employees including salaried execu-
tives and officials. If we consider
only employees paid on an hourly
basis the average for December 1926
was $1S6.75 and the average for the
year under $1,000.
The average hourly rate for
straight-time work on the railroads
rose slightly from 59.1c in December
1925 to 59.9c in December 1926. In
creases TO the shopcrafts and the
train and engine service employees
were chiefly responsible for this
gain. Shop wages averaged G0.Sc in
December 1926 with 59.4c in 1925, a
gain of lac.
The train and engine service aver
age straight time hourly earnings
rose from 7S.2e to 79.7c. a gain of
1.5c. In the other departments in
creases amounted to a fraction Of a
cent ranging from $40 of cent for
yard service employees down to moth
ing for maintenance of way en-
ployes.
The total distributed by the rail-
roads in wages in 1926 amounted to
$2,990,2l5,7l9. According to The
Wall Street Journal railroad execu-
tives expect that the wage increases
which are going the rounds will raise
this about. 59e or nearly s150000,O00
in 1927. That is, il the railroads do
not succeed in further speeding UP
the employees and getting along with
fewer on the payrolls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Claim Proof Will
Be Offered to Show
Sapiro Cheats Farmers

(COati,iaed from Page One)
In one instance, Reed declared, Sa-
piro threatened to make grass grow
in the streets of the town of
Wilson, N. c."
duplicates Baruch.
Late in the afternoon, Reed drew
Bernard NJ. Baruch, the New Yorl.
banker, into Sapiro's activities. Rec,
said Sapiro had conferred with Re-
ert H. Bingham, of Louisville aaC
Baruch before organizing the Bar
ley Leaf Tobacco Association. Rec
declared he would prove that Barucsl
had advised Sapiro to organize T.
association and had promised to lerd
monies to the cooperative to marle
the tobacco crop.
To Save Merchants.
Reed declared Baruch sent Sapiro
TO Kentucky to organize this asso-
citation because the tobacco ware
house owners were facing bankrupt
cy." Under the plan evolved, Reed
said, Sapiro was to organize the to.
baeco farmers, pool their crops, Dor
row money on the pool and ther
buy the warehouses from their own
ers for the association.
"This plan was carried out" Reed
said, "and we win show that Aaron
Sapiro wrote out the minutes for the
first meeting of the board Of direc.
tors in advance and these minutes di.
rected the purchase of the ware.
houses
Generous to Middleman.
Reed said the minutes contained al
instruction for the association "to en-
on the side of generosity toward The
warehouseman,' in making the pur.
chase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18

are to disrupt labor unions and cor
rupt labor officials invariably adopt
such name as the above to serve
as a disguise for their real purpose
In the case Of the National Civic
Federation, its vicious activities are
all the more effective because ii
works under a cover of pretended
friendship to organized labor and
collective bargaining.
Provides Market Place.
The National Civic Federation
brings together the capitalist and
the labor leader" in cooperative
scheme to sell out the workers. 1t
crates about common interests and
the removal of conflicts from the
economic plane; it pirates about a
square deal for labor and agitates
for compulsory arbitration; it advo-
Gates trade agreements and approves
of scabbing and strike breaking; its
left hand writes in glowing terms of
abstract welfare work for employees
while its right hand prepares def
mite and dishonest propaganda
against old age pensions and social
Legislation. In short it is a fake,
and it is supported by the highest
officials of organized labor!
Advanced" OpOn Shoppers.
Draw the curtain from before one
of the Civic Federation meetings.
Knowing already what this organiza-
ton stands for you will not, of
course, be surprised to find there the
collection of regular open shoppers
only the more advanced" variety,
however--likewise you will discover
there the 81 varieties of union bus
ters and labor exploiters. But even
though you have already been
warned you can not help gasping at
your first view of the others. There
sits old Sam Gompers, President of
the A. F. of L., a full quorum of
his vice presidents, Duffy, Duncan,
Vol, Rickert and others; look fur
Their: there is old fighting w. D.
Mahon, president of the Amalga-
mated Street & Electric Railway
Employees of America, Warren S.
Stone of the B. of L. E., and many,
many others. How many, does not
now matter, for to them all and their
activities we shall do justice at an
other time and in another place.
The connection between the Ma
tional Civic Federation and the 1905
Interberough strike now becomes a
little clearer. Who was then Presi-
dent of the Interborough August
Belmont. What was his position in
the National Civic Federation? Also
President. Did he meet with bro
theirs Stone and Mahon? Oh, yes,
many times! Did they talk about
the weather? Yes, and about the
traction situation! Listen to bro
Their Stone for Stminute:
Promises No Strike.
''There will be no strike on the
PETERBOROUGH, Mr.. Belmont. You
need not hesitate to go away on your
vacation. If any disagreement aris-
es between the management of the
road and our local committee, it will
be referred to you and me. If we
cannot agree, we will refer the dis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
Bv ROBERT MITCHELL

The picture which has thus far
been presented of the New York
Traction situation, particularly of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany is so striking and unusual that
I il becomes difficult to understand
how the conditions have continued in
this way for over a score Of years:
Fearful overwork, starvation pay,
vile and unsanitary working condi-
tons, reptile" company union sap
ping the life blood Of the workers, an
organized spy system which poisons
ali possible trust and comradeship
among the workers and hounds their
daily lives--how have these things
gone on for so many years without
the most violent kind of rebellion?
They Have Fought.
The answer Is that there have been
rebellions; some of the bitterest and
most violent in labor history. That
the PETERBOROUGH workers have not
reaped the rewards Of their struggles
has not been their fault, as will be
shown. That they remain still with
out recognized organization to pro-
tsct them and advance their inter-
ests, is due to a peculiar kind of be-
trayal which has been practised upon
them.
Nor should it be supposed that the
traction workers have always been
unorganized. To many men on the
line and particularly to workers in
other trades who can not look back
with accuracy for u quarter of a
century, it may come as a surprise
that the Interborough once had a
most powerful and militant labor or
ganization.
Previous to the year 1905, the In
terborough was not only organized,
but it was affiliated with two of the
most powerful national labor organ
izations in the country, the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and
the Amalgamated Association of
Street & Electric Railway Employ
ees Of America. The motormen and
conductors were affiliated with the
B. Of L. Z. and most Of the other
workers with the Amalgamated. The
heads of the local divisions were
three honest and hard working lea
ders who remind one, as he reads of
their struggle against the INTERIOR
ough OF LAWN, Bayk, Phelan and
Walsh who put up such a heroic
battle against that INSCRIPTIONS
company last July. The leaders of
the 1905 strike were Jencks, Pinney
and Pepper. The first two were of
the locals affiliated with the B. of
L. f. and the last, Of the Amalga-
mated.
National Civic Federation.
Now. if you have never heard Of
the National Civic Federation, the
first guess you will make is that it
is an organization of Fascists and
American Legionists; secondly that
it is body of labor officials. You
are right in both guesses But your
guesses were not so difficult after
all, for everyone knows by this time
that organizations whose motives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-18
William Pickins' New
Book Will Be Issued
By The Soviet Union

William PickcrS, field secretary
OF the National Association for the
Advancement Of COlored People
aud chairman Of the recently form
ed Glands Off China Committee"
has received letter from Moscow
informing him that his latest book,
Bursting Bonds" will shortly be
Published hy the state publishing
trust.
The letter follows: "My dear
Mr.. Pickens: Your three letters
and the copy OF Bursting Bonds
d. / received a few days ago. Many
thanks for them. About the Burst
ing Bonds: Il is just the kind Of
book | was looking after--lt is a
matter of some petty fOrmalities,
which are going TO be settled on
coming Monday the nth $50 in
formed me Mr.. Lundberg) and the
book viii he accepted by the COSTS
dat governmental publishing) for
the purpose of translating it.
CAS- a matter of fact l have al
ready trsnslated the Chapter Ar
kansas traveller and viii see it put
in press (prohably in the Evening
Moscow. Further information l
will send to you, as soon as viii
get them.
Very truly yours
(Signed ELIAS SREDNIK"
Moscow, Russia
ZemlianOy Val AZ, Apt. la