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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-31
The Awakening Of Mary SagOrsky

time in her life. This time she felt
that anything the greedy bosses
didn't like must be all right, must be
good for poor people. Mary had
enough proof now, for didn't the
bosses cut the very life of the people
by this wage cut?
Meet On Icy Streets.
Wage cut back! Union! Strike!
Strike! was all Mary could hear. This
was almost twelve months back in the
cold OF winter that the workers as
sembled on the icy streets to discuss
their cause and determined to fight
for their rights.
This big, clumsy, over-worked
Mary awoke suddenly, and in her
eyes, those eyes that had almost given
way, reappeared sparkle now She
became alive. Her body became too
heavy Tor her sprightly spirit. She
plcketed the mills, attended the mass
meetings, block meetings, women's
council meetings, and like young
girl in her teens this wornout woman
moved her big, clumsy body with a.
miraculous speed 1t always seemed
to her that she was not doing enough
for the strike.
Thousands Unite.
Her back, bent by the toll of many
years, suddenly Strengthened out and
she began TO see the sun. "Oh what
a beautiful world" she said. She saw
Chat in this world there are many
things and enough life for all, and
she was sorry that she had let her
life pass so miserably, without any
Of the good things of life, and like a
true mother, her brain worked fever
ishly, and her heart swelled at the
thought that at least she was fight
ing that her children might have the
things she had missed. They shall not
be fooled as long as she was. She
will tell them.
When she attended one of the big
mass meetings in Belmont Park and
saw all the workers, thousands of
them, her very being was moved. She
had faith in herself and in the many
thousands of workers struggling with
her. She listened to the speakers
with all eagerness. They said that
"the people make all the things in
life, and that in spite of that they
have nothing, but hunger and misery.
"This," she said, must not be so,
it is wrong"
On the picket lines she seemed to
feel best, she was sure that this was
the place to wage the fight in. Att
the very mills where she had worked,
where she had given her very life,
that was the place to strike back. She
did not feel depressed or beaten, but
instead spirit of conquest and cour-
age possessed her. Yes, Mary Sagor-
ski, who never sang before, now at
the age of forty-two began to sing.
All the workers sang. They sang
their hopes of freedom. Their deter
mination to win it Solidarity for
ever"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-31
By c. SARA SHERMAN


.TWENTY-NINE years of toll and
1 grind in the Botany Mills, made
Mary Sagorski look like sixty,
though she is scarcely forty-two.
Mary comes from Poland, hardly
speaks the English language, yet
she has been in America since she
was child. She is big with large
breasts and large hips. Her grey
hair pulled tight back in a knot
by a few rusty hair pins.
Into Child Slavery.
But Mary was young once, yes,
even good looking. She came to
Passaic, N. J.. at the age of thirteen,
healthy, robust, almost too big for
her age, She might have gone to
school, but being the oldest of a
family of six, she had to get a job,
and so her career in the Botany
Mills began, working ten and twelve
hours daily for SO a week This,
however, did not discourage Mary.
She did not think she would have
to work for long, for soon she would
marry John Miholosky, whom she
had met on the steamer from Poland
Even night school was impossible
for Mary to attend, since her father
worked in the day while her mother
worked on the night shift, making
her the mother of the younger chill
dren. ..
Wearing Out at Seventeen.
When she became seventeen, she
married John. By that time the ro-
business, the rosy cheeks and her
strength began to give way, and
where the red blood used to rush,
patches of rouge hid the growing
pallor.
One year of love and Mary gave
birth to a little girl. She had to
give up work. But the family had
to live, the doctors bills to be paid,
baby's clothes, etc., and within few
months we find Mary back on the
night shift in the Botany Mills, more
worn than ever. Nineteen, only a
young girl, and already she was
broken with flat feet and rings un-
der her eyes.
Gave to The Church.
Years dragged on-Mary and John
worked. Their family increased.
Mary loved her children, respected
he husband, went to church every
Sunday and on holidays, gave all
the pennies she could to the church
and waited for the good God to help
her as he would all good people who
trusted and believed in him.
By the time Helen, her Oldest girl
was thirteen, Mary had already four
children, and Johns earnings, $40 a
week, did not suffice to support the
family. Helen, like her mother, went
into the. Botany. Suffering and misery
increased day by day. Mary's only
thought was, twill the meagre earn
ings enable her to buy enough food
for the family, to pay rent, gas bills,
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Sinclair

Bunny himself, he humbly decided
She had started a series of paper;
called "Justice and the Student"
discussing the problems of the
younger generation. She saw it all
SO clearly, and was so dignified and
persuasive in manner-not angry,
rs the young reds so easily got!
Even Dad was impressed, yes, that
was a clever girl; you wouldn't
think it to look at her-but those
Jews were always smart.
Also the labor press service was
coming, with Dan Irving's Wash
ington letter and other news from
the oil scandal. And very soon
Bunny saw what Verne had meant
by predicting the collapse of the
investigation. The whole power Of
attorney generals office had been
turned against the insurgent SEN
ators. Barney Brockway, backed
against the wall, was fighting for
the life of himself and his "Ohio
gang" Secret service agents had
raided the offices of the senators
conducting the investigation and
rifled their papers; they were rak-
ing up scandals against these men,
sending women to try to "get"
them, preparing a series of frame
ups" in their home states-every
trick they had rehearsed on the
Communists and the /. w. w. now
applied to the exposers of the oil
steal. Presently they had one of
the senators under Indictment; and
just as Verne had predicted, the
big newspapers came to their
senses, and took the crimes of the
oil men off the front page, and put
the crimes of the reds in their
place.
There was quite a bunch Of
"magnates" now in exile; Fred
Orpan, and John Groby, and all
those who had formed the Canadian
corporation, and distributed two
million dollars of brides in Wash
ington. Dad and Bunny would
lunch with them, and they would
have confidential kilograms, and ii
was curious to watch their reac-
tions. They all made joke of it.
Hello, old jailbird!" would be their
greeting; but underneath they were
eaten with worry. Among other
developments, the new president
was preparing to throw them over
board, in anticipation of next falls
elections. He, Cautious Cal, had
never had any oil stains on him
oh, no! oh, no! The oil men would
jeer-the little man had sat in the
cabinet all the time the leases were
being put through, he had been the
bosom friend of all of them. The
first time any of Verne's crowd en-
joyed the exposures was when the
Senate committee began digging in
to file of kilograms which showed
the immaculate one as heavily
smeared as the other politicians; he
had been sending secret messages,
trying to stave off the exposure,
trying to save this one and that.
But now he was getting ready to
kick their agents out of the cabinet,
and how they did despise him! 1.-THE
little hoptoad," was Verne's regular
description of the Chief Magistrate
of his country!
Ito Be Continued.)
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doctors bills, and from time to time
some clothing. But life must go on
Star Spangled Germans.
In 1914 the world war broke out.
Fatherland, Democracy, Liberty
Bonds, Patriotism, with finally con-
scription in 1917, taking Mary's two
sons to France to fight the Hun
for the Stars and Stripes. The Mill
Owners, who are German, had sud-
denly turned patriots. Flags, flags
all over. A star was hung up in the
Observation-Disclosures plant for
Mary's son who was killed in the
Marines. 1t was Peace on Earth and
Good Will toward men. Then Armi-
stice. Hurrahll We had won. Peace!
Peace. Peace and REIMBURSEMENT.
Pre-war conditions War tax. Wage
cuts. Speed up systems. Produc-
ton.
The money-hungry mill owners
who had made tremendous profits
out of the war, were without con-
sideration for the workers. On Mon
day morning, October 8, 1924, a no
tice was posted to the effect of yet
another 1919 wage cut.
No Confidence In God.
This meant actual starvation and
Mary who in all her life had never
complained and devoutly believed in
God and trusted that he would help
her, felt at last a hatred toward all
those responsible for her miserable
life. Mary felt her very life going.
1t was no more question of home,
tho she had dreamt of one ever since
she was seventeen. No, she never
could save enough to buy the first
mortgage on a shack in Garfield.
This time she began wondering how
she would be able to pay the rent
of the shack on Mattimore Street,
where she now lived. 1t was not
milk and cream and meat, but bread
for her childrenl Breadll
This wrong must not be done to
the workers. The bosses have enough.
Why doesn't the Merciful God punish
them for treating the people like
this?
Determines To Live.
The more she thought of it, the
more determined her NO. That No
became louder and louder. With
fists clenched and teeth biting into
her lips to the bleeding point, she had
felt something had to be done. She
will not starve, and more so, she
will not let the children starve.
Their life is miserable enough. But
what shall she do?
Mary had never known the value of
a union, in fact she was against it..
The boss always told her that they
were not good, and besides he would
fire all the people who would dare to
belong to union, and even the
priest discouraged organization. But
now some of the workers in Botany
said, eve must organize" and she
listened 70 such talk for the first
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the radio sending apparatus was con-
trolled by the employers or the gov
eminent, and used for propaganda
purposes by them. Also in America,
attempts to set up labor broadcast
ing stations are hindered by the fact
that che best wave lengths, and the
most powerful stations, are hogged
by the great corporations.
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reichstag voted against Gessler and
the ministry had to quit. Today
Gessler is back in the cabinet and a
liz. lrlgy Of the same reichstag which
voted against him two months ago
will now vote for him. One reason
is the perfidy of the Catholic Centre.
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Bosses Control Radio

Gree as the air" doesn't mean so
much as it used to, since the inven-
ton of radio, telegraph and telephone
have added new use to the space
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above and around
us, and a use that
is by the nature
of the cost of the
apparatu required
to exploit it, with
few e X C e p t o n 8
limited to the pos
session of the rich
and Of govern
ments.
Radio Telegraphy
is said to have in
creased the diff
culties of secret
diplomacy, by en-
ticing ambassadors
and other political
agents to employ
a means of COM
m u n j c a tion in
W h j c h opponents
can listen in, and
by making it inn
possible to prevent
small sending sets
from being erect
ed. which can DIS
tribute important
information until
traced down and
sealed.
However, during
the British Gener-
al Strike it was
discovered that all
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The worst has in China The Chinese priests have
lied into union adopted scale and declared that they
will not another darned until the bosses acced to
their demands It's about time the American religious trusts
should begin evacuating their missionaries.
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China cannot be fooled by Great Brans specous peace
language The Cantonese declare they understand why
britain needs 10000 troops conduct negotiations anywhere
ept battlefield We have suspicion that the Chinese will
not be caught with their spurs off.
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NEUROLOGY

Jan. 2-Maj. Gen. w. H. Hart, quar-
termaster general of the army.
Jan. Queen Mother Margherita of
Jan. 1s-Mgr. Ut. oFarreI1, vicar
general of the Virginia Catholic die
cese.
Jan. 23-Cardinal Mercier of Belgium.
JAN 26-Rt. Rev. Joseph s. Glass,
Catholic bishop of Salt Lake City.
Jan. 27-yiscount Kato. premier of
Jan. SOW. L. George. English au-
Jan. s1-George v. Hobart. musical
Feb. w. M. Wood. former presi-
dent of American Wooden company,
suicide.
Feb. s-Brig. Gen. E. ]. McClernand,
retired, in Washington.
Feb. 11-W. c. Bobbs of Indianap-
oils, president Bobbs-Merrill Publish
ing company.
Feb. lS-Henry Holt. publisher and
author. In New York.
Feb. 15-George Middleton, veteran
theater man, In Pasadena, Calf.
Ida jeffrey, American actress.
Feb. 17-Archbishop ]. T. Cieplak
of Poland, in Passaic, N. ].
Feb. 20-Dr. James A Israel, world
famous German surgeon.
Archbishop Roy of Quebec, Catholic
primate of Canada
March 6-Rear Admiral Richard
Wainwright, retired
March 11-Leopold Schepp. fnancier
and philanthropist IN New York.
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DISASTERS

Jan. disastrous floods prevalent
throughout western Europe, and in
Mexico.
mine explosion near Helena, Ala.
Jan. 13-Ninety-one men killed by
coal mine explosion near Wilburton,
Okla.
Feb. s-Sixteen men killed by mine
explosion at Horning, Pa.
Feb. 17-Snowslide destroyed min
ing camp near Bingham, Utah; 10
killed.
Feb. 25-Tornado in Arkansas and
Mississippi killed ten persons.
March 20-Twenty-two men killed in
furnace explosion at Woodward Iron
April 7-Oil tank fields at San Luis
Obispo and Brea, Calf, burned with
loss of about $18,o00,000.
April S-Forty men killed by ex-
April 11-Twenty- five seamen burned
to death by explosion on tanker at
Port Arthur, Texas.
SAG at New London, Conn, killed
three men.
May 2s-Cyclone and tidal wave in
Burma killed 1900.
June 13-Disastrous storms in Illi-
June 24-Disastraus floods in Ger
many and Mexico, hundreds being
drowned In Latter eSsnt ig sumatra
July 5-More than 400 killed by an
other earthquake in Sumatra.
July 10-Naval ammunition depot at
Lake Denmark, N. J., struck by light
ming, was destroyed by explosions and
fire; twenty-ene men killed and prop
erty loss about 100000, 900.
at Twilight Park inNthe Catskills.
Aug. 25-Twenty- five killed in storm
that swept southern Louisiana.
mine explosion at Clymer. Pa.
Aug. 31-Earthauake in the Azores
wrecked city of Horta; "a killed.
Sept. Sixteen men killed by mine
explosion at Tehona, Okla.
Sept. 6-Twenty-seven killed in train
wreck near Leadville, Colo.
Fifty persisted in fire in cinema hall
at Drumcollogher, Ireland.
Sept. Industrious floods In six
middle western states.
Sept. 18-Terrific hurricane swept
lower east coast OF Florida, passing
across state and gulf to Pensacola.
losses in Miami and elsewhere amount
ed to over $2oo.ooo,000.
Sept 2S-Vera Cruz, Mexico. and
vicinity badly damaged by hurricane.
sas and Oklahoma.
Oct. 4-Twenty-eight men killed by
mine explosion at lockwood, Tenn.
ing 500 and doing 500, 100000 damage
to property.
Oct. 22-Earthquake In Armenia de-
stroyed Leninakan and twelve other
towns; 900 killed.
Nov. 3-Fifty-one men killed by cave
In of iron mine at Ishpeming, Mich.
Nov. 6-Typhooh in Philippines killed
several hundreds.
Nov. 19-Sixteen men killed by ex-
plosion on tanker at Baltimore.
Nov. 25-Tornado killed about 80 per-
sons in Louisiana, Arkansas and Mis-
souri,.
Dec 9-Twenty-nine men killed by
mine explosion at Princeton, Ind.
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INDUSTRIAL.

Jan. 11-Supreme court held uncon-
stitutional prohibitive tax on put and
CALI trading on boards of trade.
Feb. 1-Trainmen on Eastern roads
asked wage Increase of 81 day.
Feb. 12-Anthracite coal strike end
ed by signing of hve-year contract;
wages not raised, check-off not men
Feb. 16-Twelve thousand fur work
ers of New York struck.
March 2-Interstate commerce COM
mission rejected Van Sweringen plan
for merger of Nickle Plate, Chesapeake
& Ohio, Hooking Valley, 'Pere Mar
quette and Erie railroads.
March 9-New York plasterers' and
bricklayers' wages increased to $14
per day.
March 15-Announcement of 100000
600 merger of 1S quarry companies in
limestone district around Bedford and
April 30-General strike of British
coal miners began.
May British trades union con-
gress ordered general strike of 5,000,-
Government declared state of emergen-
cy and Prime Minister Baldwin became
dictator.
May s-General strike in Great
May 12-British general strike called
off with understanding government
coal subsidy be resumed temporarily;
lockout against miners be withdrawn,
and board established to revise miners
wages. Miners rejected the proposals.
May 20-British miners rejected gov
ernment's proposals tor strike settle
ment.
June Charles P. Howard of Chi
cago elected president of International
Typographical union, defeating ]. M.
Lynch.
June 3-Eastern railroads rejected
trainmens demand for 20 per cent
wage increase.
July forty thousand garment
L. II
July 16-Interstate commerce COM
mission denied per cent freight rate
advance to Western railroads.
Sept. 1--Nation-wide strike Of thea
ter musicians began in San Francisco,
for more pay and shorter hours.
Sept. s-Musicians' strike spread to
Chicago movie and vaudeville theaters.
Sept. 1o-Chicago musicians strike
ended; men won increased pay.
Sept. 26-Creation of the National
Electrical Manufacturers association,
consisting Of 270 electrical manufac-
turers with q gross annual business
was announced in New York.
Oct. American Federation of La
Dor convention opened in Detroit.
Oct. Federation of Labor voted to
organize the automobile industry.
Oct. 8-German- Australian and Kes-
mos shipping companies merged with
the Hamburg American line into a
total tonnage Of $4,000.
Oct. 14-American Federation Of La
Dor reelected all its officers.
Nov: 21-Jewish synagogue cantors
and city health physicians Of Chicago
formed labor unions.
Nov. 22-Canadian conductors and
trainmen voted to strike for higher pay.
Nov. 23-United States Supreme court
upheld conviction OF Chicago district
carpenters and employers for plot to
restrain interstate commerce.
Dec. New railroad arbitration
board gave eastern conductors and
trainmen 7k per cent wage increase.
Dec. 16-United States Steel corpora
ton declared. q 40 per cent stock divi-
dend
Dec. 31-Frederick D. Underwood re-
tired as president of the Erie rail-
road, being succeeded by John j. Ber-
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FOREIGN

Jan. Seen. T. H. Panga1os pro-
claimed a Dictatorship for Greece with
himself as its head.
Bulgarian cabinet resigned.
Jan. 4-Four-year-old Prince Michael
of Rumanfa was proclaimed crown
prince in place of Prince Carol, his ia
Their, who had renounced his rights
Jan. 13-Doctor Luther reappointed
chancellor of Germany.
Jan. 14-Carlos Solarzano, president
of Nicaragua, resigned.
dency of Nicaragua; not recognized
by United States.
Jan. 22-Spanish aviators. bound for
Argentina, reached Canary Islands
Jan 31-Spanish >aviators reached
Pernambuco, Brazil.
Feb. 3-Portuguese government sup
pressed a revolt in Lisbon.
Feb. lSGMe * an. government ran or,
asylums conducted by Catholic priests
Feb. 15-Miguel Mendez elected presi-
dent of Colombia.
Feb. 27-Maharajah of Indore alb
Italian government completed its
suppression of the Sicilian Malta by ar
rest of SEQ members.
Feb 2S-Mexican government or
dered all foreign priests and ministers,
Catholic and Protestant, to leave coun-
March SWAN Lykke formed new
March s-Cabinet of Premier BRAND
of France resigned.
March s--Aristide BRAND made
premier of France for ninth time.
March 2e--New Czech cabinet headed
by former Premier Cerny. DR.. Eduard
Benes retained as foreign minister.
April 4-Frencn parliament adopted
Finance Minister Peret's budget
scheme.
Pangales elected president of Greece.
Yugo-Slav cabinet resigned
April Premier Massolini of italy
shot in nose by eccentric sister of
Baron Ashbeurne of Ireland.
April s-RevoIt in northern Greece
against Pangalos- government sup
pressed.
April 1o-President Tuan Chi-jui of
China deposed by coup of national
army leaders.
April Irrational army of Feng
evacuated Picking; President Tuan re-
instated.
April 1s-Chang's troops occupied
Picking: President Tuan fed te Tien-
tsin.
April 25-Riza Khan Pahlevi crowned
as shah of Persia.
French captured Sueida, chief for
tress OF Druses in Syria
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Dec. 1-Elections in Ontario won by
for government control of liquor sales.
Dec. Socialist government of Dem
mark resigned after defeat In cleo
lions.
Dec e-Yugo-Slav cabinet resigned.
Dec 17-German cabinet resigned.
Lithuanian Socialist government
overthrown by military and Catholic
tor.
Dec. 1s--Antona Smetona made presi-
of Iifhuania
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To Preserve Abbey Ruins

Ruins of an ancient abbey of Deer.
Aberdeenshfre, Scotland, and the
ground adjoining, situated on the es-
by the Roman Catholic authorities for
the purpose of preserving the remains
of what in the Middle ages was an
active and important center Of re-
ligious life.
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cipai officers as prohibition officers at
nominal salaries.
House rejected Haugen farm relief
bill, 167 to 212.
Frederick Steiwer nominated for SEN
ate by Oregon Republicans, defeating
Senator Stanfield.
Nav 31-President Coolidge delivered
Memorial Day address at Arlington,
urging world disarmament.
SesquicentenniaT exposition opened
in Philadelphia.
June 2-Senate passed army air SER
June s-senate passed naval air pro-
Indiana Democratic convention nomi-
mated Albert Stump and Evans Wool
len for long and short senatorial
terms, respectively.
June 4-Omnibus rivers and harbors
bill passed by house.
mated for senator by Republicans OF
Iowa, defeating Senator A. B. Cum
Minis Claude r. Porter nominated
by the Democrats.
June 11--Senate passed house bill
carrying $75,OOO.ooo for federal aid
road construction.
June I7-House passed senate's corn
June 20-Twenty-eghth internation-
al eucharistic congress opened in Chi
June 21-President Coolidge in his
annual budget address announced sur
plus for fiscal year 1926 was about
$500, 0es,eee.
June 24-McNary bill for farm relief
by price fixing defeated in senate.
June 2s-Fess farm relief bill. backed
by administration, defeated in senate
which then passed the cooperative
marketing bill.
Second deficiency bill with dry law
enforcement fund passed by senate
House passed army air service ex-
pansion bill.
June So-Gerald P. Nye nominated by
North Dakota Republicans for Unit
ed States senator. Gov. A. G. Sorlie
re-nominated.
E. p. Warner appointed assistant
secretary of the navy for aviation.
July 2-F. Trubee Dawson appointed
assistant secretary of war for avia-
ton.
July s-Congress adjourned for sum.
mer recess
July s-President Coolidge and party
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To School on SKIS

Ski-running is becoming popular
with school children of the mountain
districts of Bohemia. Formerly chill
dren were often obliged to stay at
home on snowy days; now, on skis.
they can cover the ground easily.