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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
YOUNG PIONEERS PROTEST ACTON OF THE SCHOOL
HEADS AGAINST GIRL WHO DIDN'T SALUTE THE FLAG

Protesting against the action of
the authorities of Public School 1888,
Coney Island, who compelled Cert
rude Biefstein a pupil, to salute the
United States flag, the Young Pion-
GERS of America, District 2, issued
a statement yesterday calling upon
the working class children to raise
their voices against deposism in the
public schools.
Gertrude is Is years old. She re-
fused to salute the United States
flag during the school assembly Nov.
q. She was sent home by Leon S.
Kaiser, principal of the school, and
her mother was summoned. Both
mother and child were intinidated,
according to the Young Pioneers.
The Young Pioneers statement
reads as follows:
Text of Statement.
"The children of Public School 1873
and their parents should protest yig-
orously against the action of Pin
cipal Leon S. Kaiser in forcing little
Gertrude Biefstein to salute the
American flag and become a good
100 per cent American patriot. We
children are human beings as well
as the school authorities. We are
not slaves and prisoners to be threat
ened and bullied.
Gertrude refused to salute the
American flag, the flag under which
miners, their wives and children are
being shot down in Colorado by the
state militia, the flag under which
over 100000 little children toll their
lives away for their bosses profits.
the flag under which the working
people labor long and hard and get
miserable wages while the rich peoDle
do nothing and have the best of
everything.
Gertrude said that this was not
her flag because she was a working
class child. My flag is the workers
flag, she said.
intimidate Mother.
For this crime she was called
to the principals office. lectured
threatened, bullied, and forced to
bring her mother to school. Her
mother also was threatened. Finally by
trick Gertrude was forced to carry
the flag. Stories printed in the
bosses papers that she has 'recanted'.
and now believes in the American
flag are lies.
The Young Pioneers of America
an organization of workers children
that stands for the interests of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
VIII Discuss Z. S. S. r.
Opposition at Meetings
Planned for Next Week

Section membership meetings to
discuss the question of the Opposition
in the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union have been arranged by the
New York district agitation propa-
ganda department In each case the
discussion will be led by a speaker
representing the district executive
committee. Discussion by the mem
bership will follow.
The following meetings were an
nounced last night:
Section Friday, Dec. 2, $50 p.
M, 101 W. 9th ST., Alexander Bit
lehman, speaker.
Section 3-Monday, Dec. 5, $50 p.
M, 101 W. 9th ST., William W. Vein
stone, speaker.
Section 4-Thursday, Dec. 1, s p.
m, 81 E. 10th St., Jack Stachel,
speaker.
Section TUESDAY, Dec. 6, 8 p. M,
2075 Clinton Ave, Bronx, Alexander
Trachtenberg, speaker.
Section 6-(sub sections ga and
6B only Thursday, Dec. 8, 8 p. M,
at 20 Graham Ave, J. Minded. speak
er.
Subsection 6C-Monday, Dec. 5.
1859 Pitkin Ave, Wolfe, speaker.
Nightworkers-to be scheduled
later, Bert Miller, speaker.
In New Jersey.
Newark and Elizabeth lat Newark
Friday, Dec. 2, 8 p. NJ, at Slovak
Home, so West ST., A. Markoff,
speaker.
Paterson-to be announced later.
Benjamin Lifshitz, speaker.
Passaic-to be announced later. D.
Benjamin, speaker.
Jersey City, Union City and Bav-
onne lin Jersey City, Dec. II, at lie
Mercer St, Rebecca Grecht, speaker.
The district agitation propaganda
department yesterday issued state
ment suggesting that Party members
read the pamphlet, "Leninism and
Irotskyism," and the current issues
OF the Communist International and
the International Press Correspon-
dence before the meetings of their
sections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Local 10, Furrier Union,
Holds Membership Meet

Discussion of trade questions were
taken up in great detail last night at
a meeting Of Local 10, Joint Board,
Furriers' Union, at Manhattan Ly-
ceum, sc E. 18th St.
When distributing leaflets advertis-
ing last nights meeting in the fur
market at noon yesterday, julius
Weiss was taken into custody on a
charge of disorderly conduct. When
brot to the Jefferson Court before
Magistrate Dodge he was released
with suspended sentence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
To Begin Morning ass
In Communism friday
at n. Y. Workers School

A special morning class in
fundamentals of Communism has
been organized in the Workers School,
108 E. 14th ST., to begin Friday
morning at II o'clock in Room 43.
Emil CARLOS is the instructor.
1t was decided to organize this
morning class because of the many
fightworkers who are unable to at
tend the evening classes at the
school.
Among topics to be taken up in
the class are the analysis of capital
ism; the nature of the dictatorship
of the proletariat and of Communism;
the difference between American
bourgeois democracy and the Soviet
form of government; the character of
the American working class move
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

workers children, protests against
such treatment. We call upon all
school children to protest against
such action by the school authorities.
We call upon working class parents
to protest against the school author
tiles who are trying to turn their
children against them and their class,
who treat their children as prisoners,
and who don't care snap as to that
the parents think or want.
Against Boss Patriotism
1--WE want to have something to
say about how we are treated and
how the schools are run! And we
want our parents to have a saw in
how we are treated and how the
schools are rum
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Of
Foreign Born viii
Be Hit at Meeting

A mass protest meeting against the
proposed legislation to finger print
ing, photograph, register and tax
non-citizens, will be held on Friday
evening, 500 p. m. at Hunts Point
Palace, Southern Boulevard & 1853 St.
Bronx.
This meeting is the opening drive
in a wide educational campaign
launched by the New York Council
for Protection of Foreign-Born Work
ers with headquarters at al Union
Square, N. Y. c.
Madame Rosika Schwimmer will
be the principal speaker of the even
ing. Madame Schwimmer was re-
Gently denied citizenship papers be-
cause of her opposition to war. She
was the first foreign woman to speak
in the British Parliament and is a
world famous peace advocate. She
organized the Ford Peace Ship.
Some Of the other speakers are:
DR.. Jacob Katz, Rabbi of Montefiore
Congregation and Chaplain of Sing
Sing Prison; Paul Sifton, author of
"The Belt" now playing at the
Provincetown Playhouse; Ludwig
Lore, j. o. Bentall and jeanette D.
Pearl, Field Organizer National
Council for Protection of Foreign
Born Workers.
The meeting will be held under the
joint auspices of the New York
Council for Protection of FOREIGN
Born Workers, the Bronx Free Fell
lowship, and the Hunts Point Fellow
ship-all non-political, and non-sec-
tartan organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Daily Worker-Freihe
Ball An Annual Event

That the forthcoming ball of The
DAILY WORKER and The Freiheit
Will be a genuine left wing demon
stration is indicated by the lively sale
Of tickets for the event, which will be
held on Saturday, Dec. II, according
TO the arrangements committee.
Requests are coming in from a
large number of labor and fraternal
organizations daily for blocks of
tickets.
1t is announced that the ball will
be an annual function in support of a
nilitantslabor press.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
hnll-DriII Meet Of
Student Council Is
Backed by Teachers

The Teachers Union of New York,
has voiced its approval of the anti
militarist conference to be held Sat
urday at 10 a. m. at the Madison
Square Hotel, 81 Madison Ave, by the
Student Council of New York.
The impetus for the conference was
given by the suspension of two stu
dents at City College for denouncing
military drill 1t has been called by
the Student Council of New York, a
federation of college organizations of
the New York district, to oppose mill
tary training in the colleges and urge
greater freedom of student express
sion.
1.-THE Teachers Union of New York
learns with satisfaction of the inten-
ton of your council to assemble to
consider the issue of whether military
training shall continue on a compul-
sorry basis in the colleges of New
York and vicinity" a statement by
the Teachers Union yesterday said.
THE Teachers Union and the nation
al organization OF which it is a part,
the American Federation of Teach
ers, has long been opposed to COM
pulsory military training in the
schools and colleges of this country.
Why Opposed.
"Our reasons for opposition are;
first, on the ground that educational
requirements should be undeniably
constructive in terms of character and
understanding; second, on the ground
that compulsory military training is
psychologically destructive of the
habits of mind requisite for the ex-
ercise of free citizenship; and, third,
because military training actually has
the sole objective Of preparing not on
ly the mind but the body also for
participation in war.
I'm our opinion it is not only the
right but the duty of college men,
especially in the undergraduates
bodies, to agitate in opposition to
military training wherever the issue
of compulsion exists. The fact that
the self-seeking organized military
forces of the country are bringing
economic pressure to bear on the col
leges to cause the establishment or
the continuance of compulsory mill
tary training in these institutions
should not terrify our young men.
They should rather more openly and
generally than ever before courage
ously state their principles to the pub
lie and thus challenge the conscience
of the country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Powers Hapgood Is
Tried for SaCCO-
Vanzetti Speech

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 3O.-Powers
Hapgood, of the United Mine Work
ers Of America, was "a, sted several
times during the Sacco-van.- = agi-
tation here, has been placed On trial
before Judge Nathaniel Jones on
charge of disturbing the peace.
Cosmo Carvotta is co-defendant
They We're taken into custody when
addressing meeting on the Common.
A motion by Hapgood for a separate
trial was denied yesterday.
Testimony, under cross-examina-
ton, by superintendent of police
Michael H. Crowley, that he heard a
cry of "kill Hapgood" from a Sunday
crowd on Boston Common while Hap
good was being placed under arrest
at Sacco-Yanzetti protest meeting
August IA, was ore of the highlights
at the trial.
Court is Crowded.
The police superintendent admitted
he took no steps to discover who
made the cry, explaining that "too
many were present to locate the
man."
The court room is crowded with
spectators. Arthur Garfield Hays, Of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
is defense counsel.
Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor; John
Howard Lawson, playwright; John
Dos Passes, novelist; Ellen Hays, TO
year-old retired WELLESLEY economics
professor; George L. Seeple and
Catherine Huntington, all defendants
in similar cases, are scheduled to go
on trial today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Coney Island Laundry
Lockout Hits Drivers

The drivers Of the, Coney Island
Laundry, 211S Neptune Ave, Coney
Island, locked out last Saturday, are
picketing the plant. They are mem
bers of Laundry Drivers Union
Local $40.
When picketing the laundry last
Saturday, A. Rosensweig, local or
ganizer of the union was beaten up
by strikebreakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Williamsburg Affair Saturday.

A reunion of all party members
who formerly were attached to the
Williamsburg branch of the party will
be held Saturday evening at o'clock,
at the Laisve, 46 Ten Eyck St, Brook
lyn. Proceeds will go to The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Weinstone Lectures Friday.

William w. Weinstone, district
secretary of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party, will lecture on the 1923
Political Arena" Friday at p. m.
at the Open Forum conducted by the
Party at 81 E. 10th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Spanish Workers In
New Club in Harlem

A S"Spanish Workers Club" with
headquarters at 100 W. 10th st. has
been formed in Harlem.
The primary impetus behind the
formation of the new organization, it
is announced, is discriminatory leg
islation proposed against the foreign
born and the present offensive
against the trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Jersey City Dance.

The Jersey City Branch OF the
Workers (Communist) Party will
hold social and dance Saturday eve
ming at o'clock at the Ukrainian
Hall, 100 Mercer St
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Bath Beach Ball.

Bath Beach Council No. 10 of the
United Council of Working Glass
Women will hold banquet and dance
Saturday at $3.50 p. m. at 1910 Ben
son Ave, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

A costume ball will be given by the
Road to Freedom group Christmas
Eve, at Harlem Casino, 116th st. and
Lenox Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Brownsville Day Saturday.

The Workers Center of Browns
vile will celebrate the opening of a
new headquarters at 1859 Pitkin Ave,
Brooklyn, with a dance Saturday at
n m
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Functionaries' Class.

The class in party organization for
functionaries is held every Sunday at
IL a. m. at 10S L. 14th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Section 2 Women Meet.

All women directors Of Section 2
will meet tonight at 8 p. m. at 101
W. 9th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Workers Party Activities
NEW YORK NEW JERSEY
Harlem Inter-racial Dance.

Something new in the way of
dances will be the inter-racial dance
arranged by the Harlem street nu-
cleus of the Young Workers League
Dec. 10 at $3.50 p. m. at Imperial Au-
ditorium, 160-164 w. 10th st.
An unusual feature of the dance
will be Negro jazz band.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
LABOR AND FRATERNAL
ORGANIZATIONS
Workers Culture Club.

T. Yudich and Ben Lifshitz will lee
ture Friday evening at the Workers
Culture Club, I'LL Rutland Road,
Brooklyn. Lectures will be held every
week at the club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
LID Challenges Smith
On Fascist Case

Continued from Page One}
boasts that by this means it will ad-
vance the cause of Mussolini in Amer
lea. This nization-working in
direct collision with the fascist party
of Italy-is behind the prosecution
of Greco and Carrillo.
Urge Investigation.
eve urge you, as chief executive
officer Of the state of New York, to
form commission to investigate the
practices of this organization with
special relation to the Greco-Carrillo
case. You have repeatedly declared
your adherence of the Ku Klux Khan.
We are prepared to bring numerous
witnesses and submit concrete evil
dence before a public Investigating
commission to prove that the activi-
ties of the fascist agents in America
embody all the worst features of the
Ku Klux Klan, with special improve
ments in the art of intimidation, VIC
lence and terror imported from Italy.
Fuller Abbetted Murder.
Governor Fuller of Massachusetts
declined to interfere in the Sacco-
Vanzetti case on formal and technical
grounds. until it developed to the point
where he himself became direct in
strument for the contamination of
that legal murder which Mortified the
civilized world.
Another Sacco-Vanzetti case is
casting it's shadow across the state of
New York.
eve urge you to take steps to in
vestigate the matter and give public
assurance that you will not permit
the crime of Massachusetts to be re-
enacted in New York.
ISIS 'sYours very truly, 10
"James P. Cannon, secretary,
International Labor Defense"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Unemployed Members of Section 2.

All unemployed members of Sec
ton 2 are urged to attend meeting
Friday at l p. m. at 101 W. 9th st.
Very important questions will be dis
cussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

SINCLAIR LEWIS IN MOSCOW.
MOSCOW, Nov. So Sinclair Lewis
arrived in Moscow tonight. He is
planning to write his next book here.
He was given a banquet by the
American colony.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01
Esperanto Glass.

A class in Esperanto will start Fri
day at p. m. at the Esperanto Insti-
tute, Steinway Hall, 119 w. 57th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

The City Central Committee of Lo-
cal New York, International Labor
Defense, will meet tonight, at 8 p. m.
at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E. Fourth
st. All functionaries must be pres
crt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

Tickets at the door $500 Buy yours in Advance at
half price for $3.50 at the Jimmie Higgins Book Shop
Rand School The NeU Masses. Phone Algonquin
4445 IN hurry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-01

flames P. Cannon, secretary,
International Labor Defense.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24
Shepherds
CONTINUED from page ~

the cardinal principles of our Order.
3. That the Military Department
be under the supervision of the
Grand Presiding Shepherd and a
Military Board of five persons.
4. That the head of the Military
Department be appointed.
5. That members of the band who
are members of the organization be
given paid-up policies in the Endow-
ment Department.
6. That a list of the members of
the band and their addresses be kept
in the office and the various Folds
to which they belong.
8. That the plan for the CONNER
cial Department be studied and sub
mitted to the Executive Committee
for it's adoption.
9. That the Juvenile Department
hold it's annual meeting at a separate
time from that of the Grand Fold,
and that it be held at some central
place in the month of July in the
nature of a Chatauqua for children.
10. That report blanks be sent out
from the office for deputies in order
that we may keep an accurate sched-
ule of work being done.
II. That monthly statement OF the
financial and numerical condition OF
the Order be mailed each month to
each director and Grand Officer.
II. That the Advisory Board Will
budget our work for the next year
based on the 45c semi-annual tax,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24
A Message to
Underweisht
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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24
DEATHS REPORTED

The following is list of deaths
of colored persons reported to the
Richmond Bureau of Health from
September Is, 1927, to September
20, 1927, with date of death;
September 10-Minnie Montague,
age 43 years, 321 West Clay Street.
September 19-Sadosa Matilda
Perry, age months, 1906 Bowling
Green Road.
September 13-Mary D. Tancil,
age 60 years, Col North Thirtieth
Street.
September 11-Edward Hill, age
AZ wears, 23 West Canal Street.
September 13-Robert Lee, age
Al years, APO Calhoun Street.
September 15-Martha Duncan,
age AZ years, 718 Brook Avenue.
September 14-Sadie Roach, age
20 wears, $40 East Duval Street.
September 15-James Carter, Jr.,
age az wears, $500 Selden Street.
September Is Theodore Clay
Moseley, age SO years, SOB Catherine
Street.
September 15-William NJ. Wood,
age 48 years, 704 Clark Street.
September 15-Sarah Harris, age
So wears. SIC East Federal Street.
September 17-Minnie Page, age
81 years, 171S West Leigh Street:
September Is - Pearly May
Starkes, age 10 years, 1927 Caring
ton Street.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24

thereby preventing the use of the
mortuary fund for anything else.
This budget to be presented to the
Board of Directors.
10. That the Welfare Department
be put into operation this year.
IA. That dispensation for joining
fee will not be reduced to less than
$2.C0, unless an emergency arises, to
be divided as follows: S1.00 to be
applied to the deficit in the Expense
Fund which accumulated in the adj
ministration of the Past Grand Shep-
herd; 75c to the support of the Char
ity Department, and Csc to the rec
ommender unless otherwise desig-
mated by the Fold. The same fee is
for reinstated members.
Is. That all old members will con-
tribute 25c quarterly as a special
donation to the Charity Department,
effective March, 1928:
16. That Folds in a prosperous
condition failing to send represen-
tative pay the regular fee Of $500,
and any Fold that fails to send a
representative without lawful ex-
cuse, which shall be written and sent
to this body, shall pay fine of S..
The following Grand Officers were
elected: Rev. S. j. Ellis, G. V. Pre-
siding Shepherd; Mary E. Cousins,
G. R. Sec'y; Kulah l.. Cunningham,
G. A. +. Secretary; Della Jones, G..
Degree Mistress; Sadie Taliaferro, G..
S. Staff Supporter; Francis Red
wood, G. J. Staff Supporter; VIM.
H. Dennis, G. l. Porter; Mamie
Payne, G. Outside Porter; Rev. c.
A. Cobbs, Grand Chaplain; Evelina
Lewis, G. X. of Wardrobe; Rosa
Brown, Grand Mistress of Signs;
Emma Wynn, G. Regalia Maker; DR..
NJ. NJ. Lewis, G. Medical Examiner;
C. A. Mckenzie, G. Legal Adviser.
Adjourned to meet in public meet
ing at $50.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24
NIGHT SESSION.

Called to order by Grand Presid-
ing Shepherd.
Devotional exercises conducted by
the Grand Chaplain, assisted by Rev.
C. E. Jones.
The Grand Presiding Shepherd
made some remarks, thanking the
people of Newport News for their
many Inequalities. She then pre-
sented Hon. T. C. Walker, of Glou-
cester, who made short address
greatly enjoyed.
Major Allen Washington, COM
mandant at Hampton Institute, was
then introduced to deliver the install
lation address to the newly elected
Grand Officers.
Mrs. S. E. A. Hicks, of Pittsburgh,
Pa, rendered great and efficient SER
vice to the convention by song and
renditions on the piano.
After the address, the delegates
and visiting friends were served with
refreshments in the basement, and at
a late hour left we'll pleased with the
reception rendered them in Newport
News.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-24
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