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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
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Sir Arthur Keith on the Darwinian
theory. We admit prejudice against
an individual sporting "Sir," Duke"
or Lord" before his regular cogno-
men, but what we have up our beak
for Sir Arthur is his alleged assertion
that man has risen from the anthro-
poid ape. Perhaps the headline
writer did him an injustice, but tho
| am not member of the society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals
the apes plight has me weeping.
THERE are many commendable
\ things the ape does that his bio
logical superior should avoid but
does not. Comparatively few apes
have been known to work, except
some dissolute scoundrels who have
taken to the stage after suffering
seduction. But they have a good time
compared to the average wage slave,
who tolls all his life and whose worry
is lest he may die without having
enough money saved to pay the I'M
dertaker.
MORTICIANS meeting in Atlantic
!" City dropped tears of regret into
their beer over the doleful prospect
that faced the undertaking business.
Too many undertakers! Too few corp
SEES! This was the concensus of
opinion. This reminds one of John
L. Lewis's solution for the coal
mining problem. Too many miners!
We do think that the undertakers are
not taking proper advantage of all
the breaks. There was nice little
war a few years ago in. which some
10000 husky American boys were
killed. If the mortiaans had APP
pointed member of the trade to
slave for the government in the
capacity Of patriot for one dollar
year, he might have been able to get
a contract for wrapping the dead
heroes in wooden boxes, thus helping
the undertakers over the compara-
lively lean years that were bound to
follow the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
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because of their political beliefs, but
because of the commission of murder.
This will be the alibi of capitalist
apologists as long as the case will
be discussed-a long, long time.
Millions of workers thruout the world
who have not the slightest sympathy
with the hare Drained anarchist
theory, that governments of any
kind, workingclass or capitalist, are
tyrannies, rallied to their defense be-
cause they believed in their innocence
and because they believed that they
were inundated on the sacrificial
altar as object lessons to other work.
ers willing to give their lives for the
service Of their class.
1T is regretable, yet to be expected
at this stage, that millions of
workers should believe with the capt.
talist press and the courts in the
guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti. Even
now after the execution of these two
idealists it is very important that
their innocence should be established
to the satisfaction of those who still
believe that a militant worker has the
same right before a capitalist court
as a member of the ruling class. Tom
Mooney escaped execution. by the skin
Of his teeth because of the world
wide protest against his legal murder.
He is still in Jail, tho practically
everybody connected with the case,
even the trained perjurers, have long
since confessed their belief in the
innocence of Mooney and his COM
rade Israel Weinberg. Cases like that
of Sacco-V anzetti and Mooney do
more to blast the faith of the masses
in the justice of capitalist courts than
all the propaganda the Communists
could put out in one hundred years.
THO somewhat susceptible to the
claims of any kind of science ex-
cept that of mental healing, this
column is inclined to take issue with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Ex-Governor McCray to
Tell Jury of Bribery

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. /. =
Whether former Governor Warren T.
McCray, who was scheduled to re-
turn to Indianapolis at noon today,
would be called as a witness before
the Marion County Grand Jury now
terminating an exhaustive investiga-
ton of Indiana political corruption
was regarded today as nearly as i'm
portant a question as the jury's ac-
ton.
McCray would appear to be the
most conclusive witness in regard to
the charge that Governor Ed jackson
sought to bride him with an offer of
immunity from prosecution and S10,-
900 cash in exchange for delivery of
the Marion county prosecutors office
to the experimentation faction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Passaic Labor Defense
Meeting VIII Listen to
Mother" Bloor Speak

PASSAIC, Sept. 1. - A memorial
meeting for our two martyred COM
rades Sacco and Vanzetti will be held
on Friday, September End, at 1880
p. m. at the Workers Home, 81 Day
ton Ave, Passaic, N. J. Ella Reeve
Bloor, well known for her many years
of activity in the labor movement, and
relief organizer during the Passaic
Textile Strike will address the meet
ing. There will also be many other
prominent speakers. This tribute to
the two militant workers who have
been murdered by American capital
ism is being arranged by the Inter
national Labor Defense, Passaic sec
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02

R. Baker, delegate from District
No. Z to the Fifth Party Convention
of the Workers (Communist) Party
now being held in New York City,
has reported great progress in the
Party's work in Michigan The Party
is meeting the problems which con-
front it in this section of the Lake
industrial basin with energy and is
overcoming the obstacles which the
situation presents.
Automobile Nuclei Grow.
In the most important industry of
Michigan, the automobile industry,
the Party has been very successful in
its work of organizing nuclei. The
automobile workers are almost 100
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEWSSTANDS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
MINERS FIGHT ON.
AS BOSSES TRY
TO SMASH union
Thousands Starve in
Hand Six Month Strike

CHICAGO, Sept. 1-One of the ma
tons greatest industrial tie-ups, the
coal strike of 1927, today enters its
sixth month. Except for occasional
violence, as efforts are made to
change closed union mines into open
shop operations, the public is hardly
aware that great war of industry
is being fought.
Thousands Out of Work.
More than 100000 men have been
idle for five months. Production is
at standstill, or practically so, mi
the great coal producing states of
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
Here and there a mine, or group
of mines, has signed what is called
provisional wage scale, permitting
workers to dig coal until the strike
is ended at the Jacksonville wage
scale.
Such coal, and that produced in
non-union mines, particularly in West
Virginia and Kentucky, has supplied
the nation.
Bosses Try to Break Union.
In the Pittsburgh district desperate
attempts are being made to continue
open shop operations in mines which
formerly had contracts with the
union. Mine operators claim the
union has had to tie up S1,000,000 of
its limited funds to cover pending
court proceedings. The miners are
getting no strike benefits as the pres
emit shutdown is called suspension
and in such cases no payments are
made.
Union officials point to the COM
pleteness of the tie-up in the Central
States as an indication that their men
are unbroken in their ranks. Mine
operators likewise are confident, de-
claring wages must be lowered. This,
the United Mine Workers say, never
will be accepted by them. The dead
lock is no nearer a solution than it
was when the men quit work on
March 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
DELEGATE FROM DISTRICT NO. Z DESCRIBES PROGRESS
OF PARTY ACTIVITY AMONG MICHIGAN INDUSTRIES

per cent unorganized and the field for
organization work is immense The
Party's success has been very great
to date but it could unquestionably
accomplish much more important re-
suits provided there were sufficient
number of organizers to do the work
Nuclei whose membership runs
into the hundreds have been estab-
lished in several of the big automobile
plants. The effectiveness Of these
units can be ,gauged from the fac
that their membership increased rap
idly after the reorganization Of the
Workers Party.
Shop Papers Sell by THOUSAND.
- Twenty shop papers, with pain
subscription and circulation Of about
10000 are appearing regularly and
there are others which make an il-
regular appearance in many shops.
Thru the medium of these papers the
Party is placing the daily problems
Of the class struggle effectively be-
fore the workers in the factories.
Despite the difficulties which avs
presented by the lack of organize
ton among the automotiye workers
and the frightful conditions of unem-
ployment i an industry where thou
sands of ntn are now idle, the Party
continues It's activities and one hy
one meets and solves the concrete
problems which confront it in prac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
An Object Lesson.
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:

Editor, The DAILY WORKER:
l wish to be informed as to which
union / should belong. | am working
now in an automobile factory. would
also like to know the address of the
Workers Party office in Detroit.
l want you and your paper to know
that I now belong to the labor cause
with my heart and soul, and that the
Sacco-Vanzetti case has opened my
eyes like l believe it has done to mil
lions of unorganiZed workers.
Fred Garcia, Detroit, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Flight to Rome DELAYED.

Marooned on her runway in a new
"sea" that was Roosevelt flying field
until the heavy downpour of Wednes-
day night continuing yesterday with
out a break, brought about the
change, Old Glory, the Hearst New
York-Rome monoplane, is still earth
bound.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Walker Lectures on Booze.

, MUNICH, Sept. before leaving
the Bavarian capital tonight for gay
Lido, Mayor Walker of New York,
delivered a witty eulogy on German
efficiency in science, in traffic sys-
TENS and in malt and hop foundries."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02


Here Is My Tribute to The
Memory of Sacco, Vanzetti.
DAILY WORKER
80 First ST., New York, N. Y.
Enclosed you will find .,.
dollars as my tribute 10 the
memory of Sncco and Nanzetti.
and as my contr. button to help
the Daily Worker carry on the
fight, for which they have given
their lives.
Name '..'.'.......'.,.''....''.
Address .........'..'...........
city .............. State 49,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Thousands Starving.

Tens of millions of dollars in wages
have been lost. Thousands of miners
families are feeling the pinch of
their situation. Thousands will be
evicted from mine company homes as
winter approaches if the strike is not
settled. Their plight will be desper-
ate, it is, even now, in some regions.
And yet the battle goes on its bitter
WaV.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-02
Sacco-vanzetti Results.

Besides it's work in the organize
tional field the Party in District No
7 has given special attention to the
agitation against the murder of Sacco
and Vanzetti. With the assistance of
the International Labor Defense huge
protest meetings and demonstrations
were organized in District No. 7 and
resolutions were sent out denouncing
the execution of the two workers.
Thousands of workers were drawn to
the Party thru this agitational work.
The militant attitude of the Party
and the campaign, the implacable
hatred of the bosses as manifested in
the raid on the Party headquarters
and the police ferocity during the
meeting on Cadillac Square in De-
troit all served to put clearly before
the masses of workers the struggle
between the bosses and labor and our
Party's function as the leader in this
struggle.
Thru its shop papers and its worl
among the workers in the factories,
the Party in District No. has been
able to tie up it's protest work for
Sacco and Vanzetti with the daily
struggles Of all the workers md this
way to deepen the struggle.
In other fields the Party in Dis
trict No. 7 is not idle. Arrangements
have been made to open a camp of
several hundred acres outside De-
troit. There is great amount of in
terest in the project among the Party
members and the workers. The camp
will be ready for use next season and
lis expected to accommodate 200 or
300 workers tho it may have to be
enlarged in the future.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
DISTRICT STEWARDS MEET
Districts Stewards of Dover District
Talk Over Conference Matters

The annual meeting of the district
stewards of Dover District Of the vii
mington NJ. E. Conference, was held
Wednesday in Wesley NJ. f. Church.
Dover, with DR.. W. f. Gunby, District
Superintendent, presiding. Granville
Hooper, of Cambridge, was elected
secretary. The main items Of bJsi-
ness considered We're the apportion-
ments for the different conference
claims, including support Of bishops
which was one and one-eighth per
cent of each pastors salary plus
house rent; Is per cent for Confer
ence claimants; and per cent for adj
ministration expenses for support ot
District Superintendent. The meeting
authorized the District Parsonage
Trustees to apportion $4,000 to the
several pastoral charges Of Dover
District to take care of the district
parsonage repairs, Improvements and
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
QUARANTINE FOR MANY CROPS
Delaware to Resume Warfare on Jap
anese Beetle Next Month

Governor Robinson, under authority
conferred by law passed by the last
Legislature, has ordered a quarantine
of that part of Delaware which is now
or which may hereafter be designated
as infested or Immediately threatened
with infestation by japanese Beetle.
Notice of quarantine orders that
farm, garden and orchard products of
all kinds, including cut flowers, hay
and straw, with the exception OF
sweet and white potatoes and water
melons, will be in quarantine from
June Is until October Is and are not
to be moved out of the quarantine
area unless certified as being free of
the beetle.
Throughout the year, nursery, or
namental, greenhouse stock, and all
other plants and plant roots, sand
soil, earth, peat, compost and man
ure shall not be removed from the
quarantined area without a permit.
The Office of the Federal japanese
Beetle inspector at 903 Shipley street
Wilmington, is open throughout the
HOdI III IIlSpCCLlOn anu lSSudICe VI
certifcation, and from June IS unit
October IS inspectors will be station
ed on Fourth street, between King
street and Walnut street in Whining.
ton, between the hours of Ga. m. anC
10 P. M, with the exception Of Sunday
to issue certifcation.
Senate bill No. 30, section 8, pass
Ell BY the 1927 legislature provide.
that ANY person, copartnership, as
sociation or Incorporation, violating
the quarantine regulations establish
ed under this act shall be fined from
$40 to $50.
The public IS asked to cooperate
with the officials Of the Japanese
Beetle project, and obtain certifcatior
Anyone coming to the outer boundary
Of the quarantine without a permit j.
liable to arrest, for it is an attemp-
made BY them to 20 out Of the quar-
antined line without proper certifca
ton, or you will be liable to arrest al
once.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
NEGRO MURDERER SOUGHT BY
POSSE, SHOT AND KILLED
SAMUEL JONES SURROUNDED IN
WOODS NEAR GUM SWAMP
Fugitive Found Dead After Armed
Officers Fire VOlley Into Hiding
Place-Had Murdered Niece

Samuel Jones, colored, alias Samuel
Barratt, who, on Tuesday afternoon
of last week, shot and killed his niece,
Ethel Baynard; shot and wounded her
mother, Frances Baynard, and shot at
another niece, Rosalie Baynard, sister
of the murdered girl, Friday morning,
shortly after 9 o'clock, was surround
ed in a small woods on the Hayes
farm, near Gum Swamp, by a posse
of state highway police, state detec-
tives, sheiffs and deputies and citizens
of Kent county and shot and killed
He was armed to the teeth, had a
plentiful supply of ammunition and
had made threats, that he would "get"
anyone who tried to "get" him. Jones
was 50 years old and had been serv-
ing six months in the Kent county
jail, at Dover, on a charge of carry
ing concealed weapons. He was a
''trusty," and, as such, had unusual
liberties, and, because Of this, he was
able to walk out of the jail, 60 to his
sisters home and kill his niece, with
whom he was in love. He murdered
her when She refused to give up the
attentions Of another negro and to
20 TO Dover to live, 50 she could be
near Jones.
His killing Friday morning came
with dramatic suddenness and follow
ed an all-night search by a posse.
Whether Jones was shot BY a member
of the posse or whether he killed him
self when he realized he was COM
pletely surrounded and that there was
40 hope for his escape had not been
determined. His body was discover
ed in a clump Of trees and there We're
a gaping wound under the chin and
powder marks Oh the flesh. The dis
covery was made when the posse was
moving into his stronghold in all eff
fort to storm the position. Plans had
been laid To saturate the whole place
with gasoline and burn him out had
the bullets from the guns Of the men
i'll the posse failed to accomplish this.
The first definite information as to
the whereabouts of Jones was brought
by negro named Walters Of near
Postles' Corner southeast Of Dover
elllAl ll Liz hALEGllOl u MUS IIdlll-
mock. He said he had been at the
home IF neighbor named Huntingdon
and had talked to Jones there He
knew Jones and was positive in his
Identification. Walters said ne asked
Jones what he intended to do and
Jones replied that he was all right
and then declared: "If they try to get
ne | will certainly get some of them
first" This frightened Walters and
all the other negroes i'll the district
and il was because Of this that Wal
ters hurried to Dover to give the
alarm. He and others who We're with
him were so scared that they remain
ed i'll Dover all night, refusing to re-
turn to their homes.
Acting On his information Deputy
Attorney-General Wiley, the sheriff,
State Detective Wharton and highway
policemen went to the location and
searched All night but could find no
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08

Despite the continued inclement
weather that has been prevalent here
for many weeks, and its detrimental
effects upon several local crops, the
present outlook for bumper wheat
crop is excellent It is predicted by
the farmers that this years crop will
equal, if not exceed, that of last year
when the average was well above 30
bushels per acre. Wheat has made
remarkable growth in the past month
and its healthy appearance gives cred
ence to the previously mentioned pre-
dictions. There appears to be abund-
ant straw and local wheat, which is
now in blossom, has a generous sup
ply Of large heads. This section of
the Delmarva Peninsula has long been
noted for its large wheat yields and,
unless some unforeseen catastrophe
hits the present crop, the surround
ing farms will doubtless produce a
bumper yield from their many fertile
fields.
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
GIRL IS CHOSEN BEST ORATOR
Miss Marguerite Sterling, BridgeyiIIe
Wins Baltimore Competition

Miss Marguerite Sterling,of Bridge
Vile, Delaware girl champion repre-
senting the Wilmington Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, on
Tuesday night of last week was de-
clared winner of the oratorical CON
test on prohibition held in Mount Yer
non place Methodist Episcopal Church
in Baltimore under the auspices Of the
Methodist Church. Miss Sterling was
awarded $50 She will compete in a
nationwide contest being conducted
by the church among high school stu
dents to be held in Washington June
16 and II. First prize in the national
contest is $1,000 The second prize
of $25 awarded Tuesday night of last
week went to C. Lostin Adams, repre-
senting the Baltimore Conference
Third prize, SIS, was awarded Russell
W. Lambert, of Roaring Springs, Pa,
representing the Central Pennsylvania
Conference. The Rev. G. w. Hadda-
way, of the Methodist Protestant
Church; the Rev. T. H. Coppenhaver,
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and William Purnell Hall, Bal
timore attorney, acted as judges
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
VOTERS FAVOR BOND ISSUE
Those Opposing Move AT Rehoboth
Object to Ruling: Threaten Injunction

Residents of Rehoboth OH Saturday
May 28, voted in favor Of issuing St5,-
600 in bonds to pay for the water
mains that have been installed in Re
hoboth Heights, a new section which
has been taken into the corporate
limits if the town The referendum
was authorized by act Of the last leg.
islature. Those opposing the bond
issue have threatened To seek an in
junction to block the sale Of the bonds
Exception is taken to the rulings
adopted ~ the Inspector and two
judges III charge Of the referendum
and to the manner in which they con
Quoted the election.
The rules laid down by the election
board comprising II. 5. Prettyman, IN
Spector, and NJ. i. Yeager and Thorn
Az M. Ewing, judges, We're announced
about 15 minutes before the polls
were opened. This rule allowed prop
erty owners in Rehoboth proper one
vote for every dollar paid in taxes ac-
cording to the last county assessment
and one and one quarter votes fol
every property owner Of Rehoboth
Heights for every dollar paid in taxes
according to the last county assess
ment.
The vote was 6115 favoring the
bond issue and 3479 opposing, leaving
a majority Of 1886 in favor Of float
ing the $4,000 loan
The polls we're one hour late in
opening, o'clock instead Of II O'Clock
and closed at scheduled time, O'Clock
The vote was not as large az predict
ed, it being estimated that only one
third Of the possible ballots were cast
Smyrna times., 1927-06-08
Mrs. Brady Buried at Chesapeake Cit,

Mrs. Susan Brady, widow Of the
late Henry H. Brady, who was one of
Chesapeake City's wealthiest men,
died Tuesday night, May "a, at the
home Of her son Dwight Brady, at
Cape May, n. J., age about SO years
Mrs. Brady is survived by five chill
dren, John, of Haddonfeld, N. j.;
Dwight and Mrs. S. S. Sawtell, of
Cape May; Philip, Of New York, and
Paul Of Chester. Her funeral was
held Thursday afternoon,last, from
the home Of Mrs. Harold Steel in
Chesapeake City, with interment in
Bethel cemetery.