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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

Through the clatter and din
Of a worlds heavyweight cham
pionship fight and an impending
baseball worlds series can be
observed in the offinE q foot
ball season locally and section
ally to compare well with those
stirring autumn afternoons of
1926, which saw Georgetown
University making a bold bid
for the Eastern title.
Monday at the seaside retreat,
Wildwood Crest, N. j., Head
Football Coach and Athletic Di-
rector Lou Little Of the Hilltop
will begin with nucleus of AZ
athletes and whip into form the
1927 Georgetown entry.
Within 4 week thereafter
Curly Byrd will trot out his Old
Line candidates upon the campus
hardly the Baltimore Boulevard
and two days later Catholic
University, under the tutelage
Of Jack McAuliffe, will assemble
to whip itself into form for q
season Of pigskin chasing un-
surpassed hereahouts.
BY the middle of September
American University and George
Washington University will be
under way and with the Guam
tico Marines assembling daily
from points far and near, the
Washington gridiron campaign
win be well under way even be-
fore the Tunney Dempsey fight
and worlds series is dis
posed Of.
Such calendar of sports is
held out to tempt the soul which.
is athletically inclined and what
more could one ask in the brief
period Of two months boxing,
baseball and football.
Without the services Of that
All-American celebrity Harry.
Babe" Connaughton, TO say
naught Of Frank McGrath and
Carl Waite, two better ends
than which this section has sell
dom seen, and Bob Gormley,
q quarterback par excellence,
Lou Little knows his work is
cur out Tor him.
However, some Of Little's
troubles are solved when he
reflects upon such availaole
linesrnen as Monson, Mosko,
Grigsby, Saur and Carroll to-
gether with capable batch Of
secondary material composed
Of Cooney and Dennen, guards,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

IL It isn't one thing, It's an
other with the Griffs these days,
with Reeves back at shortstop,
the infield looked great yesterday.
So the outfielders proceeded to do
funng things. Both Goslin and
Speaker showed poor judgment
under fly balls going for hits and
the Gray Eagle also contri-
buted wild heave in the general
direction of the plate.
BucIzy Harris has finally hit
safely. On his 30th trip to
the plate since leaving home
on Sunday, August n, Wash.
ingtOn's manager pumnleled
hard bOunder over second base
into center.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

ENTERS MARYLAND
Bill Fisher, former Dewitt Prep
athlete. has entered the University
of Maryland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

single in short left center, scoring
Rice on the wings Of the wind.
He lis not credited with being much
Of batsman against lefthanders
and il around today cheering about
that bingIe.
Catcher Sprinz, OF the Des Moines
club in the western League, has
been offered to the washington club,
and Jack Onslow the suspended
pitching coach. may take q peek at
him while the Grifts are in Chicago.
Sprinz is said to be built along the
lines Of Muddy Ruel, with an even
batter arm. He Is hitting for more
than 800. smashing the ball to the
tune OF 1913 in his last six games,
and throwing out seven thieves.
The Tigers had 4 chance 10
get him, but they have eight
catchers, three with the team
and five III the minors, so Mori-
arty turned down the OppOr-
tunity which Washington may
take.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
HARRIS WIRES johnson
IDENTITYlF '0NSL0W,
NENPLAYER
BY Louis A. Dougher

CLEVELAND Aug 26Bucky Harris his gang Chi
tonight where better things expected for the three
happened them during TO- They actually
believe they win from the White sox who said to be
hitting less than the Griffmen.
ago Tuesday Gr defeated the Browns St. Louis
Saturday tied the
innings after apparently being the
they dropped their ninth since leaving home with Garland
Buckeye winning first Washington entering the
league the huge souhpaw been beaten BY the Grf
Yesterday he rung up his first victory them.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
IlOooR SPoRTs:

onslow, who is suspended TIL he
pays his fine. not knowing that
Eddie onsIow. not Jack. is the new
first,sacker with the Griffs. All the
PLAYERS are giving Ban the laugh.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
cHERRYDALE no PLAY

The Cherrydale White Sox will
play the Falls Church nine on Sum
day at 3 o'clock. All White Sex are
requested 10 report at / o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
RIALTOS BILLEO

The Ria1tc baseballers will minsIe
with the Mclean. Va. club SUNDAY
afternoon at o'clock at Mclean.
Va.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
PEERLESS Drill

The Peerless Juniors viii work
out tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock
at Fifth and * Streets Northeast
All members must be present.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
ACTl0N S0IIcHT

The Riggs Bank team IL casting
about for Saturday games. Cali
Manager Womersley Main $500, be-
tween Q and $50 o'clock.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
PULLMANS ANXIOUS

The Pullman baseballers are hunt
ing for opposition. Call Main 73sc
branch III.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26
CORINTHIANS GRAVE

The Corinthian Midgets are angling
for games with midget or junior
teams. Phone Manager Ridgely.
Lincoln 4005.W.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

It came Off Hudlin in the third
inning and drove Zachary across
the pan with the second run of
the inning. He has now been to
bat Al times on trip. getting four
singles and 4 double for the as
founding average Of .121.
Eddie Onslow, Ban Johnson's
unknown firstsacker. broke into
the hitting class against Buckeye
In the fifth inning Of yesterdays
slxirmisl. Rice was on second and
GpsIin on first with two out when
onslow dropped = Texas League
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-26

Manager Harris today wired Presi-
dent Johnson the identity Of his new
first baseman. who seems to be an
unknown character in The life Of the
league president. Ban has de-
manded to know why Harris played
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
GAMBLERS Bet
ON LIFE Term
IN SACCO CASE
Foreshadow Decision of
Governor Fuller

BOSTON, June 3.-Gamblers here
are betting even money that Sacco
and Vanzetti will be given life i'm
prisonment.
The gentry who hang out in news
paper offices and hotel Hobbies down
town are cashing in on information
which they claim comes from "in-
side sources" concerning the probable
fate Of the two Italian radicals fac
ing death in the electric chair on
July 10.
While their sources can hardly be
verified, the gamblers and sports are
ready to put up hard cash on their
wagers-and these fellows are not in
the game" for charity.
III the eyes of both Sacco and
Vanzetti, life imprisonment for a
crime they did not commit is worse
than electrocution. Sacco particularly
has been emphatic in declaring that
he favors death Eat any time" in
preference to continued Imprisonment.
The new advisory committee has
done nothing yet on the case and no
one knows when it is going to func-
ton. Two of the members are col
lege heads and are overwhelmed with
the all-important job of turning out
some more intellectuals for use in
white collar jobs in factories and Of
fees.
Judge Robert Grant, the third men,
bcr,. is a thorough-going reactionary
who in his literary gems has been
a great friend of the courts. The de-
tense fears that Grant will be over
powered by his desire to whitewash
Judge Thayer and the supreme court
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
FurrierS United in Strike!
We Must Raise the $500 Fine
and Appeal Funds

WORKER
the
initiated months by of patriotic
heavier Due
put up stoutan eff
OF five
il
the books An appeal
doubd that the through complete
Rush in o
plend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
A. FL. DEMANDS
SOVIET RAIDS
IN NEW YORK
Department of Justice
Cool to Suggestion

The American Federation of Labor
called yesterday for the repetition of
the ARGOS raids in London by raids
on call Soviet offices in New York
City,"
The demand was made by Edward
McGrady, special representative of
the A. +. of L. in a formal state
ment.
McGrady is member of the A. F.
Of l.. committee attempting to break
up the Furriers' Union here and turn
over the remnants to the fur bosses.
Within few hours after the Joint
Board had called the city-wide strike
of furriers, he declared he would ask
the Department of Justice to raid
Soviet offices here.
Il am going to demand" he said,
"that the Department of Justice make
a thorough investigation of Soviet
agencies in the United States.
II am going to call for action sim
liar to that of Great Britain. l refer
to the ARGOS raid, in which the Brit
lsh Government seized documents
showing Russia had been carrying on
a subversive movement.
"This fur strike is under direct
orders from Soviet Russia The
American Federation of La has
hoisted the American flag r the
fur industry, and, by God, ii going
to stay there"
Department Ignores Him.
The Department Of Justice, immedi-
ately after the ARGOS raids, announced
publicly that there were no grounds
for similar fishing expeditionxs
against Russian-American trading or
CARNATIONS. Neither Amtorg, the Of
fetal trading organization nor the
Russian-American Textile Syndicate
would comment on McGrady's state
ments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04

Blow To Paper.
The new tactics to be utilized by
its enemies to crush The DAILY
WORKER were revealed when a fine
of $500, the maximum under the law,
was imposed upon it for the publica-
ton of the poem.
The $500 which The DAILY
WORKER must now pay comes as a
terrific blow, and it's existence be-
comes more precarious than it ever
has been since the commencement of
the persecution against it by profess
sional patriotic societies. It estab-
fishes a dangerous precedent for fur
Their attacks against the radical press
of the United States in utilizing this
means of impoverishing it.
Miller Sufficiently Punished"
In suspending sentence on Bert
Miller, business manager of The
DAILY WORKER, Justice Murphy
for the court declared that "the guilt
of defendant Dunno was greater in
asmuch as he was the editor of the
paper and responsible for its con-
tents"
With surprising candor the judge
declared that as far as Miller was
concerned "the seven days which he
has already served in the Tombs
Prison will be considered sufficient
punishment"
Dunno and Miller were brought
handcuffed into the court room from
the Tombs prison where they have
been held without bail for the last
week.
Preliminary to their sentence the
probationary officer of the court read
detailed account of their radical
activities" especially that of Dunno
who, the investigator declared, has
for long time been active in the
American labor movement, especial
ly the radical and Communist side"
Dunne's Record.
He also read kilograms and letters
from police authorities in Butte,
Mont, where Dunno was many years
the editor of the Bulletin" and from
numerous industrial centers thruout
the U. S. where he was active in labor
struggles.
Dunno had been arrested number
of times, he declared, but had never
been convicted.
The court investigator reported
that he had no record of Miller ever
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
SHOPS TIED UP
IN WALKOUT OF
ALL WORKERS
Arrests Follow Vigorous
Picketing

A tremendous success. That is the
report of all Joint Board leaders and
members of the Strike Committee fol-
lowing the walk-out of New York
City fur workers in response to the
call issued early yesterday morning.
"The response was far greater than
was expected" said Ben Gold, chair
man of the Strike Committee and
manager of the Joint Board. 1--WE are
delighted with the result"
AS the fur workers came to their
shops yesterday morning, still carry
ing the memory Of the enthusiastic
mobilization" meeting held at Coop
err Union and Manhattan Lyceum the
night before, they found members of
the General Picket Committee on the
job before them and leaflets were
handed out calling the General
Strike of all Fur Workers for 8
o'clock, June 8.
Instead of going up to their shops,
the workers started picketing their
own shops, and for over an hour the
fur market was crowded with thou
sands of men and women peacefully
picketing and thus showing their de-
termination to defend their union
against both the bosses who have vio-
IaCed the agreement, and the Craitc14
GUS international officials who with
leaders of the A. F. of L. are trying
to destroy the organization which the
workers have struggled for so long
to build.
Dismiss Two Cases.
Several arrests were made by the
police, but Al Schap and Samuel
Mailman charged with disorderly con-
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Let Workers Families
Jump in Case Of Fire,
Declares Chief RealtOr

"Let 'em jump, declared Stew
art Browne, representing New
York realtors at the hearings yes
terday of the state commission
considering revision of tenement
laws, when he opposed construc-
ton of fire escapes in workers
tenements.
Browne revealed wholesale viola
ton Of the spirit Of the law re-
curing landlords to have hose in
halls for fire protection.
"Some buildings have fire hose
20 years DID," he declared. "The
hose would burst if it was ever
used in q fire. But the owners
are obeying the letter Of the law;
they do have hose"
Browne objected to changes in
the coming law and called for the
elimination of water tanks on the
tops of buildings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
|. R. 7. Anxious to
Fire Union Men,
QuaCkenbush Says

Frank Hedley and James l..
Quackenbush, l. R. T. officers, boost
ed their own pay at the time they
persuaded platform men to take a
10 per cent reduction in wages.
Amy I. R. T. worker joining the
Amalgamated Association Of Street
Railway Employees will be fired forth
with.
3.-Breaking the /. R. T. strike last
summer entailed an expense of ST.
100000, which was paid out of the
funds due the city. In other words,
the straphangers were forced to pay
the costs of breaking the strike.
These were leading points disclosed
yesterday when Samuel Untermyer
resumed the transit commission hear
ings. Angered by the refusal of bond
house clerks to testify on the owner
ship of /. r. 7. and BIN. T. stock
held in their names, Untermyer
threatened court proceedings and Jail
against them.
In the Dough Himself.
James L. Quackenbush, general
counsel for the |. r. T. testified that
the subway strike Of 1925 cost up
ward of $1,OO0,0OO for scabs and bon
uses. He also admitted that his own
salary had been boosted to $4,000
a year and that of President Hedley
to $4,000 when the subway workers
Ito save the company from bankrupt
cy" were forced to take 10 per cent
cut.
Bonuses of half months pay were
given employees who scabbed during
last years strike, Quackie stated. He
shared in the 100000 swag distribu-
ted thus.
Fire EN-.
Quackie objected bitterly to the use
of the term company union" TO des-
eribe the Interborough Brotherhood"
81 know what you mean by that
term, and it is not what you imply"
he said.
However, would you not have OBJ
jected if any Of your employees had
sought to join national unions affili-
ated with the A. F. Of LII" Inter
myer asked.
IL most certainly would. I would
recommend that they be discharged"
was the reply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Topics of the Tombs
BY b. ID.

By b. ID.
He was sitting, half asleep, in the
"bull-pen" when they brought US in
to be handcuffed and led us to the
cells.
A huge Slovak and a construction
worker, he had been arrested for
putting slug instead of a nickel into
one of Chadbourne's subway turns
tiles while on his way to his job.
He had his ba tered dinner bucket
with him and every little while he
would lift up the cover and look in
side in puzzled way.
He got ten days in the workhouse.
Chadbourne, accompanied by Bar
ney Baruch has gone to Europe after
testifying that he has bought up
millions of dollars worth of transit
stock in expectation of a fare in
crease.
Don't eat any of these Jail prunes,"
said the white haired "cokey" who
keeps his overcoat on day and night
because he claims he once did thirty
overtime days because the jailer
would not went for him to put it
on after he had been ordered re-
leased.
They're full of worms that won't
stay in your stomach. These worms
amt like tapeworms. They got to
have air. They crawl up in your
throat and steal the air away from
you"
"The last time l was here ate
prunes for supper and they had to
call the ambulance and take me to
the hospital early in the morning."
"All night long had to stay awake
and keep swallowing, but early in
the morning they tired me out and
| nearly passed out"
"Cokey" made one convert. The old
man whom the keepers say never
steals anything but neckties, and who
claims that he once woke up in the
workhouse with a mouthful of bed
bugs when he had cold and slept
with his mouth open, went over and
poured out his prunes in the corner
where they sweep the garbage.
But ne did not capitulate to greater
talent completely.
but prune worms has got to taste
like prunes," he said. "Now you take
q todbug and he tastes like a bed
bua Of course bedbugs in your
mouth don't steal your breath, but
you just don't feel like you wanted
to breathe any more"
Cokey magnanimously conceded
the point.
Slim and brown, dressed in the
uniform Of an usher for big uptown
theater, he spoke English with the
peculiar clipped accent of the West
African Negro.
He had finished a course at Am
herst last spring, he said, and was
waiting to hear from his father in
England before leaving the United
States after being here for five
years. He was born in Togoland.
Coming to New York from Massa-
he had taken a job as usher
to pay expenses. In Massachusetts
he had permit to carry gun, be-
cause he was working in an all-night
restaurant.
A few days after he came here, his
room was burglarized. He called in
the police and they found his revolver
which the thieves had overlooked.
The policemen he had called upon
for protection arrested him and
him with violation Of the
Sullivan anti-gun law.
ut is easy to make living here"
Continued on Page TtCo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Exploit Butter and Err Men.

Theatre box office men exact a 25-
cent personal fee on tickets sold to
likely looking butter and egg men,
it was revealed in the income tax
hearings yesterday on several big tax
evading agencies.
Everybody takes a rake-off on
tickets, 1t was testified, with the bah
bits paying $40 to $50 for the better
girlie-girlie leg shows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Contempt Charge On
Cl0akmakers Argued

The contempt charge made against
left wing leaders Of the Cloak and
Dressmakers Joint Board for viola
ton Of the injunction taken out by
the Dress Manufacturers, Inc, was
argued yesterday before Judge Nit
chell l.. Erlanger, in the supreme
court, Special Term, Part I.
Louis. b. Boudin appeared in be-
half of the union. The decision in
the case will not be rendered for a
week or ten days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
FIGHT TO FREE
NEGROS HELD As
Poems IN SOUTH
BY ART SHIELDS
Federated Pressl.

The escape Of James FELTON,, fugi-
tive peon, from a cotton plantation
near Lexington, Georgia, may lead to
a general probe of peonage in the
South. The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People is
stepping into the case and intends to
bring FELTON, TO New York to give his
story the widest possible hearing.
Five other Negro poems who at
tempted to escape were knocked on
the head with axes and then shot,
says FELTON,. He was more lucky.
After three days in a swamp with
out food he came to firm land and
finally reached Danville, Va.
"They had As men and Is women
when left" he said. "Some Of them
worked on the farm and others in
the sawmill. We got the same food
three times a day, peas and corn
bread. We could not sing, write let
tiers or talk, and when we did not
work fast enough we were whipped
with a strap"
The Negroes hands are badly
SCARED. Hot Babbitt metal was
poured over them TO make him work
faster, he says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
BERT MILLER SENTENCE SUSPENDED;
court IMPOSES HEAVY FINE ON PAPER
DUNES Record in Behalf of Militant Labor
Held Against Him by Judges

William F. Dunno, editor of The DAILY WORKER, must
80 days in the New York workhouse This the
imposed yesterday morning by Justice Feahestone Muir
ply Kelly sitting in Special Sessions in connection with
publication in The DAILY WORKER Of poem entitled
America" by David Gordon.
Handcuffed he returned to the Tombs Prison where he
will remain pending appeal to the higher courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Hoover BIesses PeOnage

Reports Of Negro peonage in the
Mississippi delta are scoffed at by
Herbert Hoover, secretary Of the de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04

partment Of Commerce. without
foundation he calls them. The re-
ports were made by Walter White,
assistant secretary Of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, after an extended
tour Of the flooded area.
If Hoover will talk to General Cur
lis T. Green, commander of the Mis-
sissippi National Guard Troops, in the
flood zone, he will get abundant evil
dence Of Negro slavery. Green talked
freely to White.
Negro refugees-who make up so
per cent Of the flood sufferers-will
be returned only TO their former land
lords, on Identification by the land
lords, the general said.
I'VE don't want our labor supply
Continued on Page TtCo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04

MOT that quite innocent persons
Ndon't get into the meshes Of the
law occasionally. For instance we
have our comrades Dunno and Miller
who are in Jail because somebody
wrote a poem that got published in
The DAILY WORKER which was not
to the liking of our local rulers and
their stoolpigeons. But that is a
different story. Purnell was only
running a religious business calcula-
ted to dope the brains Of the masses
while Dunno and Miller were getting
out a radical publication designed to
open the minds of the workers. If
Benjamin used little discretion or
paid enough protection he would be
still playing to full houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
Feng Controls Honan

HANKOW, June 3-Detachments Of
General Feng's troops are sweeping
out the rearguard of Chang Tso-lins
retreating army from the Chengchow
district, according to reports received
from the front. Honan Province,
south Of the Yellow River is now in
the complete control of the Nation
alist troops.
II is reported General Yen Shi-shan.
commander-in-chief of the Shansi
army, will join the Nationalists in
their drive against Picking.
Women Join Struggle
The awakening women of China
have thrown themselves full-hearted-
ly into the struggle for the emanci-
patton Of their country and have even
gone to the extent Of joining the Han
kow Nationalist army.
A regular woman's training corps
has been established here. The wo-
men have regular army uniforms.
They are primarily engaged at pres
Ont in giving first aid at the battle
front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-04
DAILY WORKER EDITOR SENTENCED TO prison
CuyYgntEUentS
By T. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

WHILE Benito Mussolini is sharpen
Wing his stilleto and threatening to
nlunge It into the heart of Europe the
government of the Soviet Union uses
the language of peace. And yet our
"peace loving" press sings low on
Mussolini's sabre-rattling, while 1t at
tributes every disturbance outside OF
an earthquake to the Soviet Union
There is a reason, as a famous adver-
tiser used to say.