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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14


leveled this town Tuesday
night was increased to 81 to-
day. when several Of the in
jured died in . hospital at
San Antonio. 1t was expected
that ut least q dozen more of
the more than ITO injured
may die.
Rocksprings, Tex, April l4.-(P)--
Military rule today placed relief and
salvage operations here on an ef-
ficient schedule as the casualty list
in the tornado that razed this inland
plateau town Tuesday night stood at
50 dead, four reported missing and
upwards Of 10 injured.
More than 20 Of the more seriously
injured were in hospitals ut San An
tonic, l2O miles east of here. About
the same number received treatment
in an improvised hospital at Camp
Wood. AZ miles south.
Uvalde, ~ mics southeast of the
nearest main line railroad point,
continued as relief headquarters
where the Red Cross supervised
evacuation Of the injured and dis
patched supplies to approximately
100 survivors.
Work Well Organized
Relief work was well organized.
About 80 Of the dead were buried in
a hillside cemetery yesterday. Dyn-
amite was used to dig the graves
while volunteer carpenters made
caskets when supply from a near
by town was exhausted. Several of
the dead were still unidentified.
Few persons apparently witnessed
Of approach of the storm, as it
struck with little warning. Frank
Rahmstorf, San Antonio, told Of
watching the twister for several
miles.
Rahmstorf said the funnel-shaped
cloud raced along with it's 'greenish-
yellow" center set off by black back
ground.
"At 1920 it broke" he said. "Just
swish and a roar, then havoc and
pandemonium. The cloud dipped
and seemed to grasp the city. For
six inmates it ragged and roared. !
took refuge in the Valentine Hotel
and managed to seek refuge under
heavy timbers and cscaDed unhurt.
Town Resembles Battlefield
II could see trees, human beings.
houses and large buildings hurled
lifted and driven through the bodies
Of victims who sought to escape. II
rcsembled more battlefield in
France than a peaceful Texas town."
The tornado swept virtually every.
thing from an area Of approximately
four square miles. 1t seemed to cen.
ter here.
Rain and wind that followed the
twister continued in Texas yesterday
to cause damage at widely separated
places. Upwards Of dozen towns
reported more than a score injured
and heavy damage from high winds.
VIOLENT WIND STORMS
BRING INJURY TO MANY II,
Texarkana, Ark, April lA.-<R-
Violent wind storms at Greenwood,
Ark, and Mount Pleasant and Avery,
Tex, today damaged buildings and
injured more than a score Of people.
No fatalities were reported.
Several buildings were blown down
at all three towns and o score were
said to have been injured At Green
wood, and five or more at the Texas
A.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

Little Falls, Minn.-Mrs. Mary
Kinney, 60. was ordered to stand trial
on first degree murder charge
growing out of the death of her hus-
band. whose bodv was found in a
straw pile near their home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

st. Minnesota state senate
passed bill that would permit life
imprisonment for habitual criminals
in many cases.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

Recent statistics show that there
are moro automobiles thah kitchen
sinks In the United States.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14
SHOCK CAUSES
CONFUSION IN
CAPITAL CITY
TembIOr Occurs Early in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dis.
trict Hardest Hit
FIRES CAUSE DAMAGE
Frightened Populace Rushes
From Homes to Seek Refuge
in Parks, Squares
FIRES CAUSE DAMAGE

Santiago. Chile, April l4.--
AP-P0lice reports say there
are seven known dead here IN
the earthquake which slook
the Chilean capital this moen.
ing. Fifty.five were injured
here.
Santiago. Chile, April l4.---Ip)--.
Several persons lost their lives and
numerous persons were injured when
an earthquake shook the capital at
l:4O this morning. The newspaper
LaNacion had reports Of six deaths,
while Ell Mercurio had learned of
four deaths.
Most Of the casualties were in the
residential sections, where several
houses collapsed. In the business
district the streets were Uttered with
bricks and debris.
Scurry to Open Spaces
Only few persons were in the
streets at the time of the shock and
they scurried to open spaces for
refuge. The population in gene raj
rushed from houses in night attire
or with what few clothes they were
able to snatch in hurried. flight. All
was chaos. Numerous fire alarms
were turned in and the fire engines
were kept busy rushing to various
parts Of the city. Telephone and
telegraph service was interrupted
with all points except Los Andes and
Conception. which reported that
while they felt the shock. no severe
lamage was caused.
Santiago's lighting system failed
soon after the quake. Service was
resumed within few moments. Only
after an hour did the majority Of
he scared populace return to their
lOmes.
Workers in the offices Of morning
,apers and others on duty at. the
,ime joined the general exodus from
he buildings.
The quake was felt at Valparaiso,
'bout 50 miles northwest Of Santi-
.go. but only meagre reports of
lamage there have been received.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14
EARTHQUAKE KILLS
TEN IN ARGENTINA

Buenos Aires, April l4.-(P)--Ten
persons are reported to have been
killed in this mornings earthquake
at Mandoza, Argentina, in the foot
hills of the Andes and more than 100
miles northeast Of Santiago, Chile.
About 30 were injured and consider
able damage occurred.
The quake also was felt here faint
ly. starting about 2:3O a. m. local
time and continuing three minutes.
No damage is reported here.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

Temperature at : a. M. SO
Highest yesterday .............. ~
Lowest last night ............. 3&
Precipitation to Z q. m. ....... O
Highest wind velocity Ia
Weather conditions at North Da.
kota points for the - hours ending
Ut s a. m. today:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

President Grant during his entire
term of office, did not make q single
public address.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14

Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday.
Not much change in temperature.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-14
RELIEF WORK
ORGANIZED IN
TORNADO AREA
Upwards of ITO Injured in
Storm, 20 of Whom Are
in Serious Condition
Dynamite Used to Dig Graves
For Victims While Car.
pentc..s Make Caskets

Rock Springs, Texas, April
14-AP-The death toll re.
sulting from the tornado that
leveled this town Tuesday
night was increased to 81 to-
day. when several Of the in
jured died in . hospital at
San Antonio. 1t was expected
that at least a dozen more of
the more than ITO injured
may die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
S. A. Garlin.

In 1906, when the Rand School of
Social Science was founded, it had a
couple of little rooms in one of the
decayed brown-stone houses on East
18th Street, near Third Avenue.
There weren't many students, but
they were earnest, Woodworking, and
eager. The faculty consisted OF two
or three men, one of whom also acted
as executive secretary of the school.
The students came from. the shops,
the factories, or the mills, to learn
the facts about the capitalist system
so they could return to their home
towns" and spread the message.
These were the "full-time" stu
dents, who spent a period Of six
months studying the history Of the
working class, economics, history, and
sociology. Many of them later be-
came organizers, speakers and writers
for the Socialist movement.
Some OF the students slept in the
little rooms on the top floor of the
building. Joints on Third Avenue
We're constantly being discovered
where a big meal could be had for
% or 30 cents. Some of them washed
dishes in neighborhood restaurants
for their meals; others brought lit
tie money with them and were able
to spend all their time in study.
There existed then a spirit Of COM
radeliness, cooperation, eagerness.
This was before the World War and
the Russian Revolution and America
was to gain the Cooperative Com
monwealth by electing the lawyers in
the party to the State Legislatures.
The school was founded with few
thousand dollars bequeathed by Mrs.
Carrie Rand, lady with liberal and
humanitarian instincts. The money
she left didn't amount to a great deal,
but it was sufficient to start the
school going.
In the spring of 1917 the building
at Z East 18th Street was the head
quarters of one of the branches of
the Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation.
In that year the Socialist Party
was very strong, numerically, in the
United States, and particularly in
New York City. It's academic oppo-
sition to the war; Morris Hillquit's
mayoralty campaign on the issue of
cheaper milk; and a general program
of petty reform attracted thousands
of middle-class tradesmen and pro-
fessional men to the party.
That's how the Peoples House was
obtained.
(They also got the New York Call,
a large building, and the fine print
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
The Rand School: A Memory

ing presses).
Between 1917 and 1919 was the
Golden Age" of the Rand School.
Thousands of men and women at
tended the lectures given at the
school. A cafeteria was established,
and book shop, with brisk and
enterprising manager.
Courses were given by some OF the
best radical thinkers in America.
This was a period Of explosions of
unorthodox professors from the Uni
versities. There was one from, Penn
sylvania, another from Columbia, and
one from Clark.
At this time the Rand School was
in a true sense the intellectual center
of the American radical movement.
Then came the left wing split in
the Socialist Party in 1919. The Rand
School became the citadel for the
right wing forces. Several OF the in
structors were ''let 60" One of them
a teacher of history and political sci
ence was made uncomfortable, be-
cause of his dangerous doctrines, and
he parted company with the school.
He had previously lost his job in a
Brooklyn high school for similar
reason.
1t was at this time that courses
were introduced in interpretative
dancing, psycho-analysis, and "The
Ring of the Niebelung."
1t was natural, in this atmosphere
of culture and refinement, that there
should be sofa jobs, administrative
twaddle, fat salaries. There was an
Educational Director, an Executive
Secretary, an Assistant Educational
Director, a House Manager, a Pub
licity Director.
And once, the three typists and Of
flee clerks had their pay cut two
dollars each, because the comrades
ought to cooperate"
One winter Morris Hillquit gave
a series of talks on From Marx to
Lenin." East Fifteenth Street be-
tween Fifth Avenue and Union
Square was lined with limousines. In
the crowded auditorium the Execu-
tive Secretary, who resembled a Dean
of Women in a Middle-western Uni
versity, beamed. The Socialist move
ment was making definite progress.
1t was gaining recognition.
Today the Rand School is a tomb.
In spite of attractive courses on
Psychoanalysis, Appreciation of Mu-
sic, and Current Poetry, few come.
Even it's gym classes have been
liquidated. The library is usually
empty. The large clock on the wall
Of the library stopped few months
ago. Nobody has taken the trouble
to wind it up again.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
Why Does Not President Lewis Of the United Mine Workers
DenOunce the Coal BarOnS!

President Lewis public statement in Miami has spurned
all aid the Communist International which ne says has been
offered United Mine Workers has to strike to enforce
wage agreement with the coal barons on April l.
reputation of assistance from Communist
gesture designed convince all and sundr that the
UNWA ofcialdom would rather the miners union suffer
disastrous defeat rather than take rub from revolutionary
workers for strike relief
Just why any further proof this thought be needed by
President Lewis is mystery He has, in addition in
ssng beginning the expulsion campaign against Communists
by the unseang of William Dunno at the Portland convention
the American Federation of Labor 1929 made upon the
rank and file of his union.
Starting the drive ostensby as an effort to expe
miners from the union the Lewis machine ended by
stripping the union constitution Of all provisions for rank and file
expression giving the officials unlimited power to levy ana col
ct assessments and prohibiting foregnorn workers who are
not yet citizens from holding office in the union.
while the Lewis machine has been prosecuting and
expeng the union has dropped from
100000 2300O members In the last six months when all
records for coal production result of Amer
lean coal grabbing British markets. the UMWA LOST
10000 MEMBERS.
result of the corruption and ncompeency of the Lewis
machine Other important districts have shrunk to half their
former strength
In yesterdays issue of The DAILY WORKER pub
shed complete reutaon of of the main charges made by
machine connection with its the Communists
The letter Of William Feeney organizer Of the union at the
time the letter was written and still on the Lewis payroll shows
only example of the practical application of the Lewis policy
The Communist International fails to call on the work
all countries for support of struggles like that which the
UWA may be called upon to fight But it does not give nan
ca aid to these struggles The trade unions of the Soviet Union
do however Lewis may say accept support
100000 trade unonsts of the Soviet Union but if
probable UWA fight for its e the union member
ship Lewis does speak for them by accepting
gratefully such support the Russian workers give them in
struggle against the American coal barons to the union
may added to his prestige coal operators
capitalist circles by his recent statement but he has not
helped dggers who pay his salary of
We would like remind President Lewis that the enemies of
Mine Workers the coal barons who here in
The Communist international is the most powerful
friend any organization of workers have What the UWA
statements from Lewis denouncng the operators
vigorous those he in sanderng the
Communist International
This would put the union in fighting mood for the
struggle another it will have after
April this expect from ardent supporter
of President Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
The Passaic Spirit

not now object to membership of it's
employees in outside organizations
whether religious, social or other
WISE"
Meeting Two Weeks Ago.
The letter was first presented to
the strikers on January 10. The crowd
cheered wildly as their local leaders
spoke in favor of the resolution to-
treat the letter as basis for nego-
tiations, not a basis of settlement.
Chief Organizer Coco, Relief Chair
man Wagenknecht, Gustave Deak,
Ellen Dawson, financial secretary
Local 1903, U. 7. W., Thomas De-
Fazio and Joseph Magliacano, Ital-
ian organizers; Emil Gardes and Ben
Lawinski, Hungarian and Polish or
ganizer, respectively, Felix Pancres
and the members of the F. & H. com
mittee, were elected some weeks ago
to negotiate with the bosses as oc-
casion presented.
Two weeks later, however, on Feb
ruary 2, another meeting was called
and Vice-president Starr reported
that every effort at further negotia-
ton with the labor-hating Julius
Forstmann had failed.
This time the local leaders, faced
with a most serious relief situation,
still opposed acceptance Of the Forst-
mann letter as a basis for settle
ment, but offered a resolution to call
off the strike and let the workers re-
turn to work and strive to build up
union inside the mills.
The resolution had been passed
earlier in the day by the strike exc
cutive committee and the delegate
body. 1t declared that while the
Forstmann letter was unsatisfactory,
nevertheless it was a distinct retreat
on the part of the mill owners and
might be made the basis for building
real union within the F. G.. H..
plants.
In addition to the two F. & H..
plants, there are three other mills,
New Jersey Spinning, the Gera, and
the United Piece Dye Works, involv-
ing some $500 workers, who, with
o,OOU from the Tour settled mills, who
have not yet been returned to their
mills, make a total of about 1900
still out. Of these some two thou
sand have temporary jobs outside the
mills, and contribute weekly to help
give relief to their fellows. In spite
Of this the strain on the relief mach
inery is very severe.
Must Rush Relief.
No one can tell what the outcome
will be, but such a determination as
these strikers show should rouse a.
response among workers elsewhere.
They must have relief at once. The
organized labor movement must
hurry them food, clothing, or money
to buy this. And organized labor
must act quickly, if the situation is
to be saved, and the splendid spirit
Of the Passaic strikers utilized to
make the victory complete.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
CHILDREN on THE sun. hu Inme,

CHILDREN OF THE SUN, by James
Rorty. Macmillan Co., New York.
$175.
The dominant note of James Rorty's
first book of verse is meditative rap
ture. At its best this rapture is trans
muted- into a strong, FURNISHED elo-
quence. AT its worst it is mere prosi-
ness or rhetoric.
Rorty is aware of a large world.
1t is a world in which his senses, his
intelligence, his loves, hates and
angers all play their part. Here is no
fragile poetaster grieving a delicate,
moldy grief. Rorty challenges the
tasks and large articulateness of the
major poet. There is strength and de-
sire and sunlight for the flesh Of his
verse. Yet too often think his vision
outleaps his powers of expression, and
what is evidently deeply felt emo
ton energies as a flat landscape of
tolerable lines. He does not hew
words boldly and definitively enough.
Being poet who knows the diff
ference between bunk and reality.
Rorty makes no secret of his contempt
for the ideals of capitalist America.
This appears directly in his satires.
which contain some of his best work.
and indirectly in his hymning of birds
and beasts and rivers and mountains.
Perhaps this is what is called escape
But in his positive philosophic APP
proach to nature, an approach hidden
at times under a mock simplicity.
there is too much that is direct and
unwavering to be called escape.
Rorty's most recent work is his
strongest and he has continued to inn
prove. He is poet who fuses SEN
sitiveness to personal experience with
a feeling for social values.
A. b. Magil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
By CYRIL BRIGGS.
(Strike Publicity DIRECTORY

eve would go to work in hell if
there's union there, but we would
not go to work in heaven without a
union"
That's the way one of the Forst-
mann-Huffmann strikers put it the
other night at a meeting Of Forst-
mann-Huffmann strikers called in
Ukrainian Hall to consider whether it
would be advisable to call off the
strike and attempt to build union
upon the basis of the concessions so
far wrested from the stubborn and
reactionary julius Forstmann, presi-
dent Of the company and die-hard
leader Of the five mills which are still
refusing to concede their workers the
right to organize and do collective
bargaining.
"Union or Nothing" came another
voice from the crowd and the demon
stration that followed proved that
both speakers had properly inter-
preted the sentiment Of the packed
gathering.
Union OF NOtnlnB.
"Union or Nothingp It was the
Passaic spirit speaking. The cour-
ageous Passaic spirit which in its
flame-up in January, 1926, lighted UP
one of the darkest periods of labor
history in this country and served as
as beacon light to the workers IN
every trade throughout the country
The Passaic spirit, which held out
month after month against the boss
es' starvation offensives, against the
poison gas propaganda Of the kept
press, against all sorts of underhand
attacks upon their leaders, against
the clubs Of the police cossacks and
the fines and Jail sentences Of judi
cial tools of the millionaire mill
bosses. The Passaic spirit, which
rallied the workers in the most ex-
plotted trades to resist the wage
slashing, union-smashing campaign of
the bosses, which was in full swing
at the time. The Passaic spirit,
which by its tenacity and steady cour-
age, finally forced four Of the nine
original struck mills to back down
and concede to their workers the
right to organize in a union of their
own choice, and not in the hated COM
pany union.
Rather Starve Than Surrender"
Faced with diminished relief con-
tributions, with food stores that are
almost empty, and for months now
living on a monotonous diet Of cab
bage, potatoes, beans and bread, the
Passaic spirit declared IFS readiness
to starve rather than surrender. Eve
would rather starve than surrender"
a tall, angular woman, who carried a
baby in her arms, called out after
hearing the report Of Relief Chair
man Wagenknecht.
The Forstmann letter, while put
ting the company on record as dis
pensing with the silly fiction that
there was no strike in it's plants, does
not concede recognition Of the right
Of workers to organize in union Of
their own choice or TO do collective
bargaining. 1t merely declares,
against all evidence to the contrary,
that the company had never and does
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-22
Drive SDes and LnfOrmers Out Of the Labor Movement

The ame-up members of the Furers Union in Bos-
ton evidently extension of similar methods used New York
centers should call attention again the vcouness
the needle trades unions and the cooperation which
denied longer between government agenciespoice
the right wing these unions backed by the
officialdom of the American Federation of Labor.
the scale which the drive honest fighting trade
being conducted the united front of Bosses
reactonary union officials without precedent the
labor movement
Heretofore has been the rule that all differences of opinion
to policies subordnated the main question
defending union leaders who
result of strikes and boycots This rule longer
applies is clear that the right wing leaders playing the
role of inormers and in that of prosecutors
Expusions of left wngers from the unions followed sys
Dramatically by prosecutions in the capitalist courts The right
wing offcadom marks the victims for the police agents
The members of the American labor movement will sup
port this black reaction they informed Of it, The right
wing defend their actions in this respect before
any body Of American workers.
There needed broad movement for which base al
ready exists the labor There
be organized the defense of the workers
deserted and betrayed by ocadom and there is
doubt that it will become Of the most effective weapons for
checking the drive against militant trade unionsm and militant
trade unonists and finally smashing it completely.
No worker who feels the of American capitalism but
who will support with the slogans of Support all
framedup strikers and Drive spies and nforms out of the
labor movement
The Committee the Preservation of the Trade Unions is
reported to be for undertaken When last
the committee suffering from shorness OF breath sluggish
liver and moral eprosy.