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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
IcE.COVERED STREETS
PUT LOO IN HOSPITALS
Paris Life Disrupted as Taxis Are
Forced to Halt and Trolleys
Are Delayed.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 21.-Paris and
the suburbs awoke this morning to
find the streets and sidewalks. covered
with Ice and before long the four
largest hospitals had 1.100 accident
cases. The injuries ranged from
skinned shins to broken legs and
arms. with the latter predominating.
Two of the patients are In a critical
condition.
The cold wave. however. was
broken The thermometer rose, be.
ginning at midnight and rain began to
fall on the frozen ground at am,
causing silver thaws
street cars were idle until 10 o'clock
this morning and taxicabs were not
running. The entire life of the city
was disrupted. one million Office and
shop workers reporting late for work.
BY noon mud reigned supreme.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

universities, representing every type
Of higher education; These institutions
this year have an aggregate enroll.
ment of 297,179 full.time students. as
ing period last wear This l. GAIN
of 4.22 per cent
The Transcript says that "one of
the most interesting reports brought
forth during the past few months was
the finding of the Bureau of Education
at Washington that Massachusetts, is
bowling slowly to the Western States
as the higher educational center of
the Nation.
Because Of the large negro popuIa.
ton. the Southern States nearly all
stand low In the proportion nj their
population enrolled In colleges and
universities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
NIGHT PHOTO SOUGHT.
d. c. Heads Want Airplane View
of New Street Lights

The War Department was request
ed today by the District Commission
ers to take a photograph at nlsnt
from an airplane to show the efttr
of new street light installa tions.
The request was made at the IN
stance of Maj. w. +. r. Covell, senior
assistant Engineer Commissioner, VINO
has had supervision over the insta ia
ton of the improved lighting system
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
ORCHESTRA CONCERT.
TONIGHT


BY the United States Marine Band
Orchestra, at the Marine Barracks,
s:15 o'clock. Taylor Branson leader.
March, "Old Comrades" ..... Teike
Overture. "Orpheus In Hades."
Offsnbach
ta) Serenade Mexicana. "Estrel.
lita .........ss ....s.. Ponce
I'D 1ntermezzo, Bon WANT
Zamecnick
Solo for vibraphone. Song of the
BrO0k ....ss.s LACK
Grand scenes from THE Jewels IT
the Madonna. ..... Wolf Ferrari
Noel" from the Seasons"
Tschaikowsky
Indian suite, "zuni," in two Darts,
Grt nm
Entrance of the Guests in the
'Wartburg,' from "Tannhau-
ser .......s a. wagner
Marines hymn. The Halls OF Mon.
tezuma."
1.-The Star S3ang ed Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Indy TO ESCORT
. MOTHER PART WAY
Will Hop Off Tomorrow From
Mexico City to Meet Her.
0bregon's Guest Today.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December 2l.-
With his mother on the way to Mexico
City, Col. Lindbergh is not definitely
accepting any invitations that would
prevent him from hopping off in time
to meet her and escort her to the
capital. Her arrival Ia looked for
tomorrow.
Mrs. Lindbergh will he the guest OF
the American embassy and reports
from that source indicate that she is
not likely to arrive until Thursday.
but the time is not absolutely fixed.
Embassy officials are holding ther1-
selves In readiness to proceed to
VaIbuena field to receive her.
Weather Less Favorable.
Less favorable weather than that
with which Mexico greeted Lindbergh.
and which has thus far prevailed,
seems I'm store for his mother. Condi-
tons may change in the next "a hours,
but at the present there are fogs along
the Tampico coast extending to the
mountains in the interior. What Is
a cold wave for Mexico covers the
northern and central parts of the
republic. including the plateau, where
Mexico City is situated. The skies are
overcast here and the weather Is more
raw and chilly than usual at this
season.
Americas famous aviator has been
in Mexico just one week-a week
which he pronounces one of the most
coIorful and most interesting he has
ever known.
Each day / have enjoyed Mexico
,,onra n nj y,,rYA ha raf1 ssat,d 7 rA0 II a
wish / could remain longer than
will be able to. At any event, hope
II will not be my last visit here"
Central American Trip.
Lindbergh will leave for Central
America shortly after Christmas day
Stands along the streets offer as
theii best Christmas item a great va
riety Of models of the Spirit of st
Louis aud Of Indy himself, and they
are selling like hot cakes. These have
been made at the Indian villages.
Col. Lindbergh. who has seen
much of the beauty of Mexico from
the air, today had the opportunity OF
seeing some of the wonders of Mexico
that lie underground
Gen. Oregon invited him to lunch
In cave near San Juan, Teotihuacan
after viewing one VI the greatest
archaeological monuments I'm Mexico
the ancient Aztec pyramids of the sun
and moon.
The party will include Amba ssador
and Mrs. Morrow. members of the
American embassy staff and govern
ment officials.
The flying colonel was held I'D to
the cadets of the Mexican National
Military Academy as an ideal for the
Mexican army. Lindbergh's abstf.
hence from smoking and drinking was
a wonderful example for any soldier,
Gen. Alvarez. chief of the presidential
staff. said. He asserted that every
soldier should think of himself and
his country as Lindbergh does of
himself and his plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
WIDOW AND BEACH
START PRISON TERMS
Laugh and Chat Like Untroubled
Friends on Way to
Penitentiary.

TRENTON, N. j.. December 81.
Laughing and chatting like un-
troubled friends on an outing during
the two-hour automobile ride here
from Mays Landing. Mrs. Margaret
T. Lilliendahl and Willis Beach. con-
victed of killing DIR. A. William
Lilliendahl. the woman's husband. en-
tered the State prison here today to
begin the 10-year sentence imposed
on each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Vegetarian Society will meet.
| 10 O'Clock, at 1929 Sixteenth street,
Miss Olivia Martin win speak of
| Ethics and Consistency" Admission
free.
Potomac Commandery, No. 3, X. r..
will hold a conclave and confer the
Order of fhe Red Cross at 1910 Wis
censin avenue. The annual Christmas
observance will be held in the BANQUET
hall at noon Christmas day.
The Red Triangle Outing Club win
have a Christmas party, $3.50 o'clock.
at the Y. M. G. A. Each person is re-
quested to bring gift for the tree. not
to cost more than dime Gifts should
be wrapped, but not addressed.
Gen. M. Emmett Urell Auxiliary. No
), U. s. w. ". will meet, 6 o'clock. at
Pythian Temple. Election of officers
FUTURE.
The Washington Kiwanis Club will
hold its luncheon and annual Christ
mas party in the Hotel Washington
tomorrow afternoon, 1880 o'clock.
The Knights of the Round Table
will hold a Christmas party for MEM
bers and their Families. Friday. 1870
pm. at the Y. w. G. Al. Seventeenth
and X streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
WAR ON POULTRY THIEVES
illinois Loss of 81, 5O0,O 900 in Year
Causes United Drive.

CHICAGO, December 81 R.-A
million and q half dollars worth of
poultry was stolen In Illinois last
year. and the Illinois Agricultural
Assoeiat ton has decided to do somel
thing about 1t.
Farmers. pQultrymen. State and
county officials and bankers have
pledged their support.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Two Children Die In Fire.

MANILA. December 81 (R--Two
Filipino children persisted today In a
fire in the suburbs of this city that
burned the homes OF 1000 persons.
The property loss was approximately
$500 600
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21

Mrs. Lindbergh will Have Lunch and
Continue Trip.

DALLAS, Tex, December FL CpD.--
Mrs. Evangehne l.. L. Lindbergh, on
her way by airplane to see her son
in Mexico City, landed at Love Field,
Dallas, at 1907 o'clock this morning.
The plans were to re.fuel the big
plane here and proceed to San
Antonio.
TULSA, Okla, December 81 H).--
The tri-motored fnonoplane carrying
Mrs. Evangelinc Lindbergh and party
to Mexico City. where she plans to
spend Christmas with her son, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh, hoped off
from Tulsa airport this morning at
7;45 o'clock.
Pilot Harry Brooks expected to
reach San Antonio at o'clock this
afternoon. The party will have
luncheon at San Antonio.
The plan 10 fly to brownsville,
Tex, border city. this afternoon and
expect to spend the night there.
Brooks said they decided not to try
to reach Tampico today, as they
wished to avoid any possibility of
night flying over Mexico.
The mother Of the clone eagle"
rested last night after an uneventful
400.mile fight from st. Louis.
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Lack Of Business Here.

LdCh VI DuSiHcsS HHCTc.
Citing statements Of some critics of
residents OF the District who believe
that the tax rate here Is not high
enough. Senator Jones pointed out
that they forget that Congress. in es.
tablishing the District as the Capital
deprived this city of the natural busi.
ness activities which are found in
other cities. where they produce great
revenues: that Washington has wider
streets and avenues, more parks and
tax.exempt space and other features
for the benefit of the Nation as a
whole, and which adds to Government
costs here.
The injustice of comparing the tar
rate in Washington with those OF
other cities without making adjust
ments for the difference In the basis
OF assessments. also was cited by
Senator Jones In defense OF Washing
t0hians.
"The current tax rate on real estate
IS $40. The corresponding tax In
my city is 81 per hundred. On the
face of it. this looks as though you
people here are not hearing a high
CROUCH tax. But this is not the true
picture OF the tax situation. In thu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
Capacity to PAY.

The capacity OF Washington citizens
to pay for needed Improvement.
should be taken iheo careful consid
Grafton, the report held. 1t pointed
to the fact that while Washington ha:
been faced with a decrease of 60,00t
employees in Federal civil service here
since 1918, amounting to pay r6l
loss of about 1900. 900 a year, there
has been at the same time A ire
msndous increase in the tax burden
on local residents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-21
FUTURE.

Gen. M; Emmett Ureil Auxiliary. No
>, y. 6. w. ". will meet, o'clock, al
Pyth1an Temple. Election of officers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
Boston Women to Fight
For Child Labor Laws;
Celebrate WOman's Day

BOSTON, March 23.-For the first
time in the history of Boston women
of various nationalities and races
have gathered together for the cele-
bration of Woman's Day. Before the
International Woman's Day celebra-
bration at Paine Memorial Hall work.
ing women of Boston celebrated
Woman's Day in national groups.
At the Paine Memorial Hall meet
ing women of all races and nationali-
ties stood shoulder to shoulder and
voiced their determination to fight
their common battles together.
The fight against child labor and
for the government maintenance of
working women before and after
childbirth, the organization of work
ing class women and agitation for
better housing and sanitation were
among the campaigns which the
women decided to wage.
A resolution expressing the grief
Of Boston women at the death OF
Charles f. Ruthenberg was also
unanimously adopted. Speeches by
Bertha Lieb, G. S. Shklar and Eva
Hoffman were other features of the
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24

my firm belief that education is the
medicine the worker needs why not
give us some about money-licking
churches and their blue laws, evolu-
tion-banning, etc. Tell the workers
your readers, just what these mean
TO him. Give fact publicity and keer
up your broadside every day. Meet
lies with truth.
Take up censors, churches, and
stop yelling about red this, that, and
red Russia. Talk, write, shout, yell
United States. Use ink and powerful
words, photos of strike locations,
conditions, living quarters of work.
ers, where they work, how, number
of hours, pay received, ETC., and yell
your editorial head off that the work
er--you, me, everybody, must organ
ize and stick together to get results
And keep at itl-E. J. A., San Fran
cisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24

about a year or more, and some Of
them, far from being able to pay back
rent or increase, couldn't pay any at
all.
Here is where the tragedy and the
fun comes in. The housewives de
cided among themselves that anybody
who came 20 put poor people out of
house and home because they couldn't
pay rent would get a run for their
money. The women decided that on
the appearance of the sheriff's officer
with his men, bell should be rung to
summon the district to the scene of
action. The children were not going
to be left out of the fun, and always
seemed to have plenty of mud or
stones handy for the occasion. The
electors found that it is better to face
the devils in hell than a crowd of
working women raised to a pitch Of
fury.
Scalding The Electors.
If the sheriff's officer and his men
managed to survive the barrage Of
stones set up by the kids, and reach
the entrance to the building, they
there got scalded with buckets of boil
ing water from the windows above.
Even if they achieved their object, it
turned out to be case of loves labor
lost, for as soon as they departed
amid the jeers Of the children, who
followed them far enough, the neigh
bors simply forced the door of the
house, put back the few scraps of
furniture, and reinstalled the poor
worker and his family.
Things reached an awful pitch,
labor representatives raised hell in
town and parish council, refusing to
let business proceed until the powers
that-be would decide to pay the rents
of the more poverty stricken workers,
which they eventually did.
Tenants Organize.
The factors association won a par
tial victory through the unconstitu-
tional action of the government, but
at what a price. It cost them thou
sands of pounds, and they will be a
little more careful in future about try
ing monkey tricks with workmen who
know the rent act as well as they.
The tenants association received an
influx of members nothing else could
have brought, and now almost every
workers wife has card.
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tended to be a radical, member of
the Bund in his home country. He
frequently assisted union organizers
to distribute circulars. However, he
was not textile worker and was sus-
pected by some of the union leaders.
Last year the writer happened to find
his name on a long list of local spies
furnished by a certain detective
agency. Opposite his name were the
initials P. w. c., meaning Passaic
Wool Council. A dozen others were
similarly marked.
II Using Basevitch's exaggerated re-
~ port Andres attempted to discred-
it Miss Barrows with the local school
authorities, who, however, refused to
be frightened. Miss Barrows subse-
quently turned on the Wool Council
and exposed its undercover system in
the Passaic papers. Andres in turn
tried to get her ousted from her fed
eral post. Powerful influence was
brought to bear through Washington
politicians but P. P. Claxton, u. S.
Commissioner Education, stood by his
expert.
Andres also spied on Agnes De
Lima of the National Consumers
League who reported on might
Working Mothers in Passaic in 1921.
He directed his chief fire, however,
against the Amalgamated. In this
connection he issued mimeographed
sheets of lies and half-truths concern
ing the union and its officials includ-
ing A. j. Music, now Dean of Brook
wood and Cedric Long, now secretary
of the Cooperative League of Amer
lea. The bulletins, distributed at the
mill gates, appeared in A languages
and were signed Workers Intelli-
gence Committee" a sort of paper
dual union operated from the office
of the Council.
COPIES of instructions to spies fell
~ into the hands of the union. They
revealed how workers were turned in
to stool-pigeons by threats of dis
charge or by special rewards. The
instructions told undercover men to
watch closely what each mill worker
SAID, what meetings he attended, /and
all his affiliations.
DURING the strike last year "a COM
- plete story of the card catalogue
and blacklist system was made public
by one John Sherman of Garfield, who
had served as clerk and interpreter
for z years in the office Of the Coun-
Gil. Sherman, under oath, described
the employment card system used in
the mills. No worker who was even
suspected of agitation" or who had
received the "can him" code-number
on his quit card could secure job in
any Of the Passaic mills.
Mr.. Sherman was among the Coun-
Gil agents who helped Andres spy OF
Justine Wise, daughter of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, when she took job
in one Of the Passaic mills in 1924.
During the recent strike the Wool
Council acted as scab importer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

For some reason or other, my
copy is delayed in the mail, probably
because some one is interested and
reads it. More power to him or them.
Worker Can Easily Starve.
Today / am sending in to you a
clipping from our estimable San
Francisco Examiner" telling very
tersely about how a worker can very
easily starve. (He encloses news
paper story Of the starvation of a
25-year old Mexican laborer who died
in Oakland hospital.)
For general information, / wish to
state here that altho a strong union
city, San Francisco has now today
over $4,000 unemployed and no relief
in sight. The same facts are for all
of the whole Pacific Coast.
"Louse" Angeles is open shop and
the worst. Your correspondents there
can give you the facts. Since it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24

AdDOA 0Pys LusJ
THE dissolution of the Industrial
l. Council of Passaic Wool Manufac-
turers and the closing of its employ
ment and blacklisting bureau may be
called one of the important achieve
ments of the Passaic textile strike
just ended.
No local employers association in
the textile industry has blacker rec
ord of anti-union activity. 1t was not
only centralized blacklisting bureau
but its secretary J. Frank Andres, ex-
N. Y. newspaper man, was for many
years the leading lobbyist in Jersey
against bills introduced by organized
labor and the National Consumers
League to abolish night work for
women. Andres always succeeded in
killing the measure, until two years
ago when it was passed. court ac-
ton instituted by the Wool Council
blocked enforcement of the law
Andres favorite tactic when fighting
the bills was to hire several mill
women to appear before legislative
committees in Trenton to testify
against the law. They would all swear
they loved to work nights and con-
sidered it highly beneficial.
N7HEN Alice Barrows, specialist
w on adult education for the U. S.
Bureau of Education, investigated
that subject in Passaic in 1920, she
called at the office of the then exist
ing local of the Amalgamated Textile
Workers of America. She spoke with
Andrew Pluhar, head of the union,
and the writer, and inquired into the
educational classes then being con-
Quoted by the union. This innocent
visit of Miss Burrows was reported
to the Wool Council by an undercover
man, Sam Basevitch, a Russian Jew,
who happened to be in the office when
Miss Barrows called. Basevitch pre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24

by DONALD NChlLLOI
The trouble all arose over tech
nical blunder of the factors (land-
lords agents.. They issued the usual
notices, demanding an increase of
rent, without, apparently, conforming
to the letter of the law.
A certain individual in Glasgow
named Mcbride, refused to pay the
demands, pointing out that the claim
was illegal. He seemed to know what
he was talking about, and the news
spread like wildfire that the factors
had Numbered. Mcbride versus the
factors was made a test case before
the Sheriff's Court. The sheriff de.
cided in favor of the tenants. The
fat was in the fire now.
Demand Increase.
When the workers went to pay the
usual rent, the factors would not take
it without the increase, so nothing
loathe, the workers decided to sit rent
free, pending developments. But the
factors were not beaten yet. They
took the matter to the high court and
lost again. There was still the House
of Lords, and there they went. But
alas! Days have changed since the
lords were absolutely dependable. The
fight might have been won had the
proper lords been chosen to sit on the
case, but, unfortunately, Lord Hal
dane, a member of the Labor Party,
and two others sympathetic to labor
voted against the two for the factors
association.
The workers were jubilant, but they
reckoned without their masters. They
forgot that the rat when cornered will
fight, and not be particular how.
House of Commons To Rescue.
At this point, the House of Com
mons came to the rescue, and then,
any workers that still believed in the
delusion that the right could be won
by constitutional methods, had the
veil lifted from their eyes. For that
body of gentlemen set at naught the
decision of the highest tribunal of the
land by passing a bill legalizing the
illegal action of the factors. It was
decided the factors had to get their
pound of flesh. Man proposes but cir
cumstance disposes. BY this time, the
workers had fallen behind in rent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
Women Sparing No
Efforts to Make Ball
This Saturday Success

The working class women have
spared no efforts to make their con-
cert and ball a success. The time of
the ball is Saturday evening, March
26. The place is the Manhattan
Lyceum, &C East 4th ST., near Ord
Ave.
Well known artists will participate.
The Ukrainian Chorus in national cos
tune will sing. A good union band
will play. The young folks will
dance until early in the morning.
Refreshments are being prepared
at reasonable prices by the women Of
the United Council of Worldngclass
Housewives. Tickets are only SOC. =.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS

The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters
from its readers stating their views on the issues
fronting the labor movement. It is our hope to de-
velop Letter Box" department that will be of wide
interest to all members Of The DAILY WORKER family.
Send in your letter today to "The Letter Box, The
DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
My Country IT'S Of Thee
By NAT KAPLAN.
ASK Me Another /

Ask Me Another!
How many companies of marines
are necessary to protect one Ameri-
can in China? In Nicaragua? In
Haiti?
II
What country in what state holds
the record for lynching Negroes?
Il
What are the Bronx? Yonkers?
y
Besides the Official Spokesman,
with whom does Mr.. Coolidge play
solitaire?
How many miles (give within five)
was who from what scene of action
when he said: ut is cheaper to re-
place a soldier than a machine gun" :?
Where was who when what went
out?
What humorists are: (1) editor
of the New Leader; (2) speaker of
the House of Representatives; (3)
editor of the Saturday Evening Post;
az president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
Textile Union Breaks Passaic
Employers Association
BY ROBERT DUNN Federated Press).


local Of
organization
asked Robert
the and blacklist Passaic while
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-24
The Rent Strike on the Clyde

DONALD McKop student at the Labor Journalism Gloss
of the Workers School tells of the great strike of the British
Isles that began IN Glasgow IN 1928 and spread rapidly other
cities IN Scotland and England.
Rent strikes like these powerful at the land