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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
CRINGINC ATTITUDE OF LEWIS
ORGANIZER EvICTS COAL MINERS
Harwick Coal Companies and United Mine
Workers Lawyers Write Terms of Surrender

HARWICK, Pa, Nov. 20.-The following document drawn
agreement by counsel for the Harwck Coal Coke
poraon and counsel for the United Mine Workers of America
typical shameful no-fgh policy
lowed by the bureaucracy in the ockedout fields
titles the of the coal operators arbae question
jacksonville egazes the lockout the cou-
panys right carry through eVcons admits that the miner
signing the longer empoye company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Republican State
Chairman Seems to
Have Been Bought

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 20th.-
Clyde Walb, Republican State Chair
man, former klansman and promin-
emily connected with the famous Ku
KluX Klan gang of Indiana, has been
offered $4,000 by Republican poll
ticians "to salvage his personal fl
nancial affairs" Considerable whis-
pering has been going on for some
time about just who the donors are.
However, Walb has promised the or
ganizers of this pool to resign his
Craftsmanship within six weeks, the
report goes.
Goodrich Contributes.
Former Governor James P. Good
rich is said to be the principle con-
tributor to the fund. Walb has been
the right hand man of Senator James
+. Watson, leader of the anti-Good-
rich faction of the Indiana Republican
Party.
Goodrich was active is amassing
q S350,000 pool in 1923 on behalf of
Warren 7. McCray, who was SEN
fenced to Atlanta prison for using the
mails to defraud McCray was
paroled this summer.
Another famous member Of the old
Indiana Ku KluX Klan gang with
which Walb, Goodrich and McCray
were connected is D. c. Stevenson,
head Of the Klan and political boss in
Indiana. Stevenson is serving a life
term in prison for having murdered
a girl after raping her.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
LABOR SUPPORT
MOBIlIzING FOR
TRACTION Labor
City Money Pays Spies,
Union Charges

Signs are multiplying that mem
bers of other unions look upon the
crisis faced in New York by the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
America is a crisis for the entire
labor movement, not only in New
York but throughout the nation.
Members of the Bricllayers' and
Plasterers' Union here continued yes
terday to discuss the proposal that
the New York district membership of
$4,000 be deputized to a man as or
ganizers for the traction workers
union.
Hearing Nears.
The date drawns near when the
Interborough Rapid Transit Co will
go into the Supreme Court to ask an
injunction to prevent the organization
of the traction workers by the street
car mems union or any other union
affiliated with the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. The hearing is
docketed for November 80.
John Gill, president of the New
York executive board of the Brick
layers and Plasterers' Union, was
quoted yesterday as proposing that
bricklayers and plasterers in New
York carry blank application cards
for membership in the street car
mems union and interview every en-
ploye they encounter on the elevated
and subway lines.
The Central Trades and Labor
Council has voted support to the or
ganized traction workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Witness
Organizer Brought 1t.

David McKeen, formerly of Mon
tana, international organizer sent
into Harwick to handle the strike
situation, brought the agreement
around for the men to sign. The
men say they hunted up a dictionary
and looked up all the long words and
tried to dope out what it was all
about. They are not yet altogether
clear as to the exact meaning OF the
agreement, but they do understand
that something is being put over on
them, and same declare that they
will refuse to sign it.
Last Monday six Harmanville fam
lilies were evicted on 48 hours notice
They were forced to crowd in with
other strikers families as best they
could. The evictions which the union
is collaborating with the company to
carry thru will affect some 80 ad-
ditional families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
: Irregular Vote.

There is grave doubt as to whether
any majority for expulsion was OBJ
tanned, as the chairman refused q
count of the votes, and barred
Schneiderman from speaking to the
council, which adjourned in disorder.
The forces of reaction were rep
resented by J. B. Dale, former po-
lice officer of Vallejo, California,
with doubtful record, NOW A. F..
of L. organizer); J. w. Buzzel, who
for years has been batting Reds with
the assistance of the police depart
ment; John Horn, formerly a scab-
beer-wagon driver, but now vice
president of the California State Fed
Grafton of Labor; and j. F. Dalton,
ardent admirer of the American Le-
gion, now president of the State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The Office Workers. Union of this
city, Local No. 1921 of the A. F. of
L., has refused so far to expel VIM.
Schneiderman. The union has re-
ceived letter from ]. B. Dale, gen.
eral organizer in California of the
American Federation of Labor, to the
effect that at special meeting Of
the executive council of the A. F. of
L., meeting in Los Angeles directly
after the convention, it was decided
that the Office Workers Union
should no longer accept any dues
from VIM. Schneiderman, who was
unseated as a delegate to the con-
vention on the grounds that he was
Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
ANGELES CENTRAL
COUNCIL.
ExPELS MILITANT
Green's Orders and No
Count on Ballots

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. = The
Los Angeles Central Labor Council
at its last meeting expelled VIM.
Schneiderman as a Communist 1t
acted under direct orders of President
Green of the A. F. of L., and his
council. president Matthew Woll
and Secretary Morrison had already,
during the A. f. of L. convention
here, used the strikebreaking police
of Los Angeles to drive Schneider
man from the convention, to which he
was a delegate.
The expulsion of Schneiderman
from the council, where he represent
ed the office workers union was not
accomplished without a bitter strug-
gle, in which many members rose and
voiced their indignation at this vic
limitation of an active unionist for
political opinions. Even delegates
known as conservative" spoke
against expulsion and denounced
Green's instructions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21

and gives the company the
right to deal with him as an in
dividual, opening the path for
the victimization of militant ele-
ments following the strike set
tlement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
Miners Indignant.

There is hot Indignation against
the evictions in Harwick, as well as
in camp after camp where the locked
out miners are being thrown out of
their houses. If the union would send
out word for the miners to refuse to
go-back them up and let them fight
it out with the companies-at least
wait till the deputies came and took
their furniture out, as the strikers
did in Passaic-thousands of them
would stay. The strike would gain
immensely in militancy and strength.
But the Lewis groups policy is to
advise absolute submission instead,
to get out as quietly and quickly as
possible, and save the companies any
sort of unpleasantness or disturbance.
Once again the splendid militancy of
the locked-out miners that with real
leadership would inevitably bring the
struggle thru to victory, is being null
lifted by the abject and cowardly
policy of the union machine.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
GUARDIAN OF INDIAN GIRLS
KILLS SUSPECTED DESPOILER
Mai. Victor Locke Shoots Brave After Lat
ter's Visit to Wards-Ancient
Tribal Law Recalled.

were sent into the State. Mai. Locke,
with d large war party OF ChoctaWs,
was made prisoner and held for nine
months in the camp of the 18th In
fantry.
The Federal officers confined the In
dians when it was discovered that 35
braves had been marked for execu-
ton by the faction then in charge Of
the tribal government. Locke's ia
ther and McCurtain were charged with
organizing 200 Choctaws into a band
with the announced purpose of taking
the Warpath to overthrow the DOM
mating group. Arrival of troops pre-.
vented the war"
Obtaining an education in Texas
schools, Maj. Locke served III the
Spanish American war. He became
tribal counsel about 1900 and from
1911 to 1918 was chief of the Choctaws.
He was commissioned a major in the
World War and in 1921 was appointed
superintendent of the Five Civilized
Tribes by President Harding. His ad-
ministration was Immediately attacked
by Miss Alice Robertson, Oklahoma
Congresswoman, and. after an investi-
CATION he was dismissed when he re.
fused to resign.
He also has acted as a delegate of
his tribe before Congress and was a
member of the eighth State Legisla-
ture. He is divorced from Mrs. Locke,
who lives in Oklahoma City with their
daughter.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
TEACHER COUNCIL
ELECTION TUESDAY
BaIIou, in Circular, Calls At
tention to Importance
of Body.

Election of delegates to the Teachers
Council for the ensuing year will be
held next Tuesday. it was announced
today at the Franklin School
1.-The Teachers Council" DIR. Frank
w. Ballou. superintendent. states in
circular issued today for distribution
among all school workers, has re-
quested the superintendent to address
communication to the teachers re-
garding the Importance of these cleo
tions of delegates to the council-
"If the Board of Education, the
superintendent and the school officials
responsible for the modification of adj
ministrative practices and the intro
duction of new plans of procedure
are to accept the suggestions and adj
vice of the Teachers Council, that
council must be so organized and must
so conduct it's business that the results
Of it's deliberations may be truly repre-
sentative of the views of the great
body of teachers and officials. This
can only be accomplished if the teach
erS Of each group assume full RESPONSE
bility for attending the meetings to
elect delegates to the Teachers
Council.
THE superintendent has sought the
advice and suggestion of the Teachers
Council on many important matters
in the past, and thus secured very
valuable assistance in the solu-
ton of problems of mutual con-
Germ to officers and teachers. 1t
is now hoped that the attendance at
the meeting for the election of dele
gates to the council will clearly make
the council of 1929, when organized.
a truly representative body as it is
intended to be.
"Officers in the field are requested
to take such steps to urge this matter
on the attention of their teachers as
they may deem appropriate"
Evening star., 1927-09-28
UNION SHUTS DOOR
ON CRITIC OF ARMY
Use of Typographical Tenn
pIe Forbidden to Anti-MiIi-
tarist Conference.

The local typographical Union
last night closed the doors of it's
temple, at 423 G street, to a sched
uled meeting under auspices of the
Anti -Militarist Conference of the Dis
trict of Columbia, holding that the
gathering was "un-American."
Notified of the unions decision
several hours before the time set for
the meeting, officials of the confer
met in hall at 1887 Seventh street.
where Paul Crouch, former Army
officer, recently released from a mill
tary prison, gave an address on THE
Menace of Militarism."
officials of the union explained to-
day that the Typographical Temple
will not be permitted to become the
meeting place for "un-A American or
ganizations." In line with this policy,
II was point out, use of the temple
recently was denied group Of Sacco-
Vanzetti sympathiZers, and resolu-
tions were adopted by the union
against use of its hall by radicals
or other agitators.
II was declared, furthermore that
those in charge of the lecture did not
obtain permission Of the union to
hold the meeting in the temple, but
spoke to the janitor about it several
days ago. without leaving any deposit.
Efforts TO get in touch with those ar.
ranging the meeting We're unavailing
until yesterday. 1t was stated. James
II. Swan, secretary-treasurer OF the
Anti-Mlitaristist Conference and a
member of the Allied Printing Trades
Council will protest against denial
OF the hall.
Crouch, who served three years in
Alcatraz Prison for what he terms
friendly activities toward organized
labor while in the military service, q
charged in his lecture that the Army
is breeding class oppression and mill
tarism. He urged workingmen to
combat the spread Of militaristic ideas
in this country and thus avert another
great war.
Linn A. F. Gale is chairman OF the
Anti-Militarist Conference. Benjamin
G. Marsh was chairman Of last nights
meeting.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
HIT BY AUTOMOBILE,
BROOKLYN WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Anna D. Rexford, Here on
Business, Run Down at Seven
teenth and L Streets.

Mrs. Anna d. Rexford. 63 years old,
of Brooklyn, n. V, was fatally in.
jured by an automobile at Seven
teenth and l. streets shortly before
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, dying at
Emergency Hospital an hour later
from cerebral hemorrhage following
a fracture of the skull Leroy Robey,
q years old, 1916 Belmont street,
driver of the automobile, took her to
the hospital. She was unconscious
when picked up and did not regain
consciousness.
Mrs. Rexford. who was here on a
business trip, had just stepped from
the curb to cross L. street when the
car knocked her down. After taking
Mrs. Rexford to the hospital. Robey
reported the accident to the police.
AT the inquest held this morning. a
verdict of accidental death was re-
turned.
Police obtained the address Of the
dead woman as Perley Studios, 8 East
Forty-eighth street, New York City,
and a message sent there brought
response from Ethel Berley Rabin
that relatives would come here and
take charge of the body.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
SEES NATIONWIDE
"ONE-NAy ROAD"
Prediction Made by Speaker
at Parley as Remedy for
Traffic Congestion.


PHILADELPHIA, September 2S.-
A nationwide network of one-way
roads. under park restriction. for the
use of the recreational nlotoriSt in or
der to lessen traffic congestion and de-
crease accidents, was predicted yester-
day by Albert N. Turner of Hartford.
Conn. in an address before the annual
convention of the American Institute
of Park Executives.
"A traffic survey has shown that
more than one-haif of all motor ve-
hicle mileage is of the nonbusiness or
recreational class" he said.
Let us consider the lesson OF 100
years of experience in railroads, and
give up the iGca of moving traffic
both ways. Roads which we can call
fairways should be built entirely of
double track. These should be located
through cheap and undeveloped lands,
well away from the center of popula-
ton"
The danger of tree parasites and
bhghts entering this country is over
and by rigid inspection importations
will be absolutely safe, in the opinion
of Henry w. Busch, commissioner of
parks and boulevards of Detroit.
Many varieties of plants imported
from Europe are better than those
grown in this country, he asserted.
American nurserymen favored the
quarantine, he said, because it enabled
them to sell more native stock.
The convention voted to meet in
Los Angeles next year.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
UNCENSORED CABARETS
AND HALLS DENOUNCED
Georgetown Civic Association
Urged to Correct Evils-Night
School Change Asked.

Deploring the existence "of un-
censored cabarets and dance halls" 1"
Rev. D. G. Hill requested the George.
town Civic Association to aid in cor
recting alleged evils associated with
those places. in an address at the first
Fall meeting of the association in the
Francis Junior High School last night.
Addresses also We're delivered by G..
G. Wilkinson, assistant superintendent,
in charge of colored schools, who
outlined plans for the expansion of the
junior high school plant. and by Mrs
Gabrielle Pelham, executive secretary
Of community centers, who told Of
plans for the observance of the tenth
year of official operation of the COM
munity center department, in educa-
tional and social activities. She called
especial attention to plans for the Oh
servance Of negro history week in
February.
The association voted to request the
Board Of Education to move the
Stevens Night School to the Francis
Junior High School Building.
Last nights program was supple.
mented with several musical selections
by the Fairfax Quartet of Arlington
and by the associations quartet. About
a dozen new members were installed.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
RESTAURANT Men URGE
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
Convention at Buffalo Decides to
Admit Canadian Operators to
Membership.

BUFFALO, n. Y, September Is
Canadian restaurant operators We're
admitted to membership in the Ma
tional Restaurant Association by vote
Of members in convention here yes
terday. 1t was voted to move the ma
tional headquarters from Kansas City,
where it has been for nine years. to
Chicago. To permit Of better geo.
graphical representation. the constitu-
ton Of the association was amended to
increase the board of directors from
81 to q members.
Proctor Welch, Syracuse, addressing
the convention last night, stressed
the importance to restaurant men of
newspaper advertising.
"We've tried all sorts of stunts" he
said, "but the only advertising to bring
results was that placed in newspapers.
It's vital to keep the name of your
place in the newspapers"
w. z. Lindblad, Chicago, advised
members to set aside a substantial
percentage of earnings for newspaper
advertising.
Evening star., 1927-09-28

BY the Associated Press.
ANTLERS, Okla, September 2S.-
EXacting the Vigilante penalty known
to the whites and Indians of pioneer
Oklahoma days, Maj. Victor Locke, jr.,
soldier, chieftain and politician, reared
in the tepees of the Choctaws, today
faced charge Of murder for slay.
ing a tribesman whom he believed
was a despoiler of girls of the tribe.
Maj. Locke, known as a descendant
of Choctaw chiefs, who rose from trib-
al counsel to chief and then to super
intendent of the Five Civilized Tribes,
yesterday was charged with the slay-
ing Of Abner Battiste, 24-year-old
ull-blooded member of the tribe.
Battiste was shot to death Monday
night after he had called at the home
Of two of Maj. Locke's Indian girl
wards. who were students at the Good
land Indian School, near Hugo, Okla.
Although the major was silent follow
ing his surrender to the sheriff, his
friends said he shot Battiste some time
after he had forced the Indian to leave
the home of the girls.
Chased Man From Home.
The sheriff was told that major
Locke chased Battiste from the home
tistes home in company with three
Indian boys. When Battiste appeared
Maj. Locke fired one shot and the
Indian fell dead. The major imme'
diately surrendered to Sheriff Nevins
Kirkpatrick of Pushmataha County,
who with Locke had led many sue
cessful posses in search Of law
breakers.
Maj. Locke, who is 81 years old
started a fighting career when as a
| boy he shared the dangers Of the
Locke War;" sponsored by his father
, and Green McCurtain, picturesque
| Oklahoma sheriff.
The "war" grew out Of political riots
in 1892 following the stuffing of ballot
| boxes Several skirmishes We're fought
between political factions In which In
| dams were invoked. The uprising
Was Quelled only Wkter Federal troops
Evening star., 1927-09-28
Oil Town Gets Water.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
McCAMEY, Tex.-This 2.year-old
oilfield town. with its population OF
5000 persons. which has shipped In
its water supply since the towns
founding, will have its own water by
October 1. The water has been
brought here from a point 80 miles
distant. Pipes now are being laid
At times water has cost more than the
crude oil which comes up to the towns
back door. Two years ago McCamey
WAS - aikan dat. .-x:lA...,s...- :.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
LAD PLEADS NOT GUILTY.

Frederick c. Russell, the colored boy
whose transfer from the National
Training School to the District Jail
led TO a charge of contempt of the
Juvenile Court against Assistant
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover,
Chief Deputy Marshal Stephen e.
Callahan and George A. Sterling,
superintendent of the National Train.
ing School for Boys. was arraigned
today before Justice Adolph A. Hoehi-
ing in Criminal Division !. He IL
charged with two cases of joy-riding
and one OF housebreaking and larceny.
He pleaded not guilty to all three
charges.
Hearing on the contempt charges
has been deferred until December 10.
to await decision by the District Court
Of Appeals on the question of the ex-
elusive jurisdiction of the Juvenile
Conrt ever all minors.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
BATHTUB CALLED BOON.
With Modern Plumbing Held
Basis of Nations Health.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. September % fP)
The bathtub il civilizations great
est born. according to Thomas r.
Nolan. Albany. y. y. president of the
National Association Of Master Plumb
ers of the United States, here today
10 attend an executive meeting to
plan a national conven%on next June.
The health Of a n'<.On, Mr.. Nolan
declared, is measusd by its daily
baths and the use of other modern
plumbing.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
One Dead, One Hurt in Crash.

DETROIT. September % R.-One
man was killed and another serious.
ly injured tonight when a small pas
senger airplane crashed In a garden
patch at the outskirts of the city.
The plane. somersaulted when the
wheels struck a drainage ditch and
caught. fire. Elmer Borutzke, pas
senger, was burned to death and the
pilot, Shirley Burk, seriously burned.
Borutzke, strapped in his seat, was un-
able to free himself before the flames
spread from the broken gasoline tank.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
BUGS ROUT DRILLERS.
Correspondence of The Star.

correspondence UI 1Hc SldF
RUSSELL, Kans.-Noticing the
lights going out at first one we'll and
then another. Midwest drillers on a
well near Gorham were wondering
what was wrong when a noise that
sounded like rain hit the tin roof Of
the rig. The storm proved to be a
shower Of green bugs.
The drillers. not knowing whether
their intentions were friendly or not,
turned out the lights and left the rig
continued their jou9ey.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
PHINNEY BADLY HURT.
Naval Chief Radio Man in Plane
Wrecked by Crash.

Jabez N. Phinney, naval chief radio
man, was seriously but probably not
fatally injured when his plane, piloted
by Ensign Carlton Ray Mabley, hit
the mast OF the administration build
ing OF the naval air station at Hamr-
ton Roads yesterday, the Navy De-
partment was informed. The plane
was wrecked,
Evening star., 1927-09-28
Woman Faces Jail
Term for Failing
ToPay Up Alimony
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
LOS ANGELES, September 2S.-
Daisy NJ. Lorentzen yesterday was
declared in contempt of court for
non-payment of alimony. She was
ordered to appear today for sem
tence.
Her husband, H. J. Lorentzen,
taking advantage Of a new Cali
fornia law, recently obtained a
court order directing Mrs. Lorent-
zen to pay him $50 a month. When
5000 was overdue the court or
dered immediate payment. 1t was
shown Mrs. LorentZen had $4,000
in the bank. Her citation for
contempt followed.
Evening star., 1927-09-28
43 Criminal Cases Up.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DIspdtCH 10 TIC olar.
FREDERICK, Md, September 2S.-
Forty-three criminal cases will come
before the Circuit Court here tomor-
row. Larceny and violations of the
liquor law constitute the largest num-
ber of charges. Members and off,
cials of the Frederick and Hagers-
town base ball clubs are charged with
violating the Blue law. g
Evening star., 1927-09-28
Finds Valuable Necklace.

Core .pondence of the Assoc iated Press.
OTLF.Y, England All day long Ar
thur Brown. 14-year-old errand boy
carried s.. 500 pearl necklace in has
pocket. unaware OF its value. He had
Kicked up the shiny string in the pub
lie road. When he brought il home
his mother, thinking ii valueless, told
him to give il TO his little sister. His
father suggested that they report IT
to the police, who found the owner ol
the l3S graduated pearls. ..