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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
San Francisco Party
Finds Fertile Ground
For School and Speakers
By HOWARD HARLAN,
Worker Cnrresnondent.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. with
new party headquarters in the center
Of the city, a Sunday night forum,
and labor college going full blast,
the Workers party is putting dent
in the trade union situation of San
Francisco The Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers, the United Garment
Workers, and the Millinery Workers
all invite left wing speakers to ad-
dress their business meetings once a
month.
The party conducts weekly study
classes and keeps the soap boxes busy
all year around. The "sEd road, as
the employment bureau streets are
called here, is. nightly the scene of
one of two meetings where theories
Of class struggle and class conscious
ness are hammered into large audien-
ces. Quantities of literature are
passed out. Speakers find the favor
lite topics to be current issues, such
as news from Soviet Russia and
the Mexico and China crises.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
TRUST IN
PLOT TO OBTAIN
MUSCLE SHOALS
Farmers Want 1t For
Producing Nitrates

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-Congres-
siOnal investigation of the hydro
electric power trust" was urged by
congressman, who suspected that
propaganda for power "grabs" was
financed by these interests.
A flood Of kilograms, from differ
ent cities but having the same phras-
ing, giving evidence that they were
written by one hand, has deluged con-
gress during the past few days, en-
phasizing the need Of electrical ener-
gy as the prime necessity for settling
Muscle Shoals.
Hand of insult?
Representative James (R) Of Mich
igan, member of the Joint Congress
sional Committee on Muscle Shoals,
declared his suspicion that the pow
er trust" was back of most Of the
kilograms emphasizing electrical pow
err.
An investigation of this propa-
ganda was urged by Rep. James.
Power interests have lined up their
forces, bankers and officials of trade
bodies, behind bids for Muscle Shoals
that make power production their
prime object.
Farmers Want Nitrates.
However, farmers organizations
are fighting this drive with a demand
that Muscle Shoals be used primarily
for production of fertilizer to I'M
prove the farmers plight. American
farmers are today in the grip of the
Chile nitrate monopoly, they point
out.
James is of the opinion that it
might be to the eountry's interests
to investigate "higher-ups" in the
war department connected with
water-power projects. His statement
that an engineer in the department
solicited funds from officials of the
Electrical Bond & Share Co. Of New
York, for a survey of the Tennessee
river, has caused a stir.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Course in problems
Of the Communist
Movement" Tuesdays

The course in problems of the
Communist Movement" to be given
at the Workers School, Tuesday
nights, at 8 P. NJ, beginning Feb. p,
is necessary for everyone who wishes
20 play an important part in leading
the American workers to their eman-
cipation. William w. Winstone, who
will give this course, is general Sec
rotary of the New York district of
the Workers Party and is intimately
acquainted with the problems facing
the Communist both internationally
and nationally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
WeisbOrd's Busy Four
Days in Denver Wake
UniOnists to Leninism
(By a Worker Correspondent)

DENVER, Colo, Feb. ALBERT
Weisbord of Passaic strike fame was
in Denver for four days.
On Wednesday evening he spoke to
a large mass meeting in Pueblo.
Thursday evening he spoke to a
crowd Of workers in Globeville, the
Packingtown of Denver, who attend
ed an entertainment under the au-
spices of the Young Workers League.
Friday evening he gave very in
structive talk on the youth Move
ment" at the Denver Lyeeum to
Young Workers League members
and their friends.
Saturday evening he spoke to a
strictly membership meeting.
Sunday morning he made few
brief remarks to the Young Pioneers
and also attended the Passaic- Relief
Conference at Waters Hall, at
which he urged the conference to do
all it can to aid the strikers still out
in Passaic.
Sunday afternoon he spoke at the
open forum in Grace Church. His
subject there was: "Passaic and It's
Lessons" Many questions were
asked which he answered and some
very emphatically.
Sunday night the Workers Party
arranged a Lenin memorial meeting
in Denver Lyceum. Wilnam Dietrich
acted as chairman ard made a few
brief remarks about Lenin and the
Communist movement. The interna-
tional was sung by the Jewish Sing
ing Society.
The principal speech Of the evening
was made by Weisbord, who spoke
on "Leninism." He also made some
very hard remarks about the U. S.
using soldiers and warships TO keep
the oppressed nations down, such as
Nicaragua, Mexico and China.
Monday morning he spoke to the
Ministerial Association of Denver.
The opinion of the members of the
Workers Party and trade unionists
OF Denver is that Weisbord has done
{ world of good while in Denver.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Cleveland TO Have
Sunday Class to
Study Communism

A class in Communism will be held
at the Freiheit Hall, 1914 East 10th
street, Cleveland, beginning Sunday,
Feb. Is at 1890 a. m. sharp. The in
structor will be Comrade ]. Brahtin,
and the class is open to all Party and
Y. w. L. members and sympathizers.
Glasses are free. Another class will
be started in the near future in an
other section of the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
MORTGAGE DRIVES
AGED FARMER To
HOLD UP A BANK
Farmers Organizations
Say Others Tempted

DETROIT, Feb. Driven to ban
ditry by the failure of his potato crop
and captured by the police after he
had held up a branch Of the Peninsu-
lar State bank on January IL with a
mail order pistol, John McGregor,
white-haired sixty-two-year-old farm
err, was placed on two years probation
by Judge Edward J. Jeffries in the
Recorders Court.
Since an investigation into his past
proved he was telling the truth when
he said that he held up the bank to
obtain money to pay off the mort
gage on a rundown, stumpy plot Of
land in the bottoms of the Little
Muskegon river, into which he had
poured his entire savings Of 81 900,
the court, after much dickering with
the police, decided to be lenient with
the old man. The police secuted the
story, but it was definitely proved.
Caused by Desperation.
"The defendants rugged conten-
ance carries lines of honesty and good
will, and lacks the appearance cf
furtiyeness and predatory aggressive
ness characteristic of the bandit"
read The recommendation of the pro-
baton department.
"And the sturdiness with which he
bears his sixey-two years can't fail
to excite among those who observed
him to thot that he must have been
a man who at some desperate NOM
ent, acting under some powerful
strain, committed an act entirely con-
trary to the usual impulses of his
life.
Many Farmers Fail.
Leaders Of farmers organizations
thruout the central states are holding
up this case as an example Of the
state of desperation into which the
farmers are being driven, by the
money-lust activities of Wall Street.
They are pointing out that the failure
of a single crop can wipe out the
lifetime savings of a farmer, and that
most farms qre being run at loss
due to the price-fixing Of the middle
men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Labor Unity Exposes
Lewis Election Steal;
Opposes Court Action

CHICAGO, Feb. 7.-Several impor-
tant articles feature the current num-
Der of Labor Unity, the new left wing
paper published at 376 w. Monroe
Street, Chicago. Among the most
important articles is one revealing
that the railwaymen are fighting mad
at the three cent compromises put
over on them against their demands
for substantial wage raises.
An article by George Papcun, a
coal miner Of Pennsylvania, exposes
in detail the methods used by John l..
Lewis in stealing the election in the
U. NJ. w. of A. and packing the
miners convention. 1t is set off by
an excellent cartoon.
The movement in Minnesota for a
labor party is told of and an editorial
urges all trade union progressiyes to
set up committees locally and gener-
ally for the formation of a labor
party. Joseph lack exposes the
frame-up by the trade union bureau
Gratis against the New York Furriers'
Union on the charge of "bribing the
Eolice."
An article of primary Importance
is given by w. Z. Foster warning
against the new tendency in the trade
unions internal disputes of workers
taking their cases to the capitalist
courts as a means of ousting the bu-
reaucracy.
An excellent article on American
imperialism's conquest of Central
America is given, as well as one on
the machinists' elections, the A. F. of
l.. executive council meeting, articles
on science and many other features
which make Labor Unity well worth
the dollar year asked for subscrip-
ton. Then there are poems, a call
to shoe workers, lively editorials and
humor, and sport columns feature
each issue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

bosses propaganda. About how won
derfll this country is, how everything
is the best in the world. How the
workers who strike are only trouble
makers who should be put down inn
mediately.
Not a word about the poverty of
the children's homes, about child la
Dor, about labor unions, about imper-
ialist wars. In short, not word OF
vital truth.
Combat Lies.
Realizing that their own children
may be lead to believe the untruths
taught in the schools, and may even
be turned against the struggle OF
their parents, the Workingwomen's
Councils, with the active cooperation
Of the local pioneers, are going to
hold meetings and parties for the
children in all localities. This COM
ing Saturday there will be one in
Wellington. The next week in Gar
field. And so on through the faj..1e
district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

singing OF strike songs and games.
A real party. But there was more
than that. The children were brought
together in order to teach them the
class struggle. These are mostly the
children of textile strikers who are
fighting tremendous battle to build
union The children must know Of
their parents struggle.
Teach Class Struggle.
Last summer at Victory Play
ground, where many hundreds of chill
'dren attended every day, there were
daily mass meetings to teach the
children the class struggle and the
need for them to participate in it.
Every one knows the vital part the
children played in the strike
picketing, roofing out scabs, enliven-
ing the mass meetings with songs
encouraging their parents.
Dread School Propaganda.
Now, since the children have gone
back to school, there is a danger that
they will forget the lessons of last
summer. In the school, they hear
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Architectural Iron and
Bronze Workers Will
Have Meeting Tonight

An important meeting of the Iron
and Bronze Workers Union will be
held Tuesday evening, February Sth,
1927, at East 18th Street, New
York City. at s. P. NJ. sharp.
A well-known speaker will briefly
address the meeting on a certain i'm
portant topic. Various important re-
ports will be given. Plans for the
coming organization drive will be
discussed and acted upon.
1t is Of great importance that ev-
cry member should be present at
this meeting without fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

tional Labor Defense and it's branch
es, the Young Workers League,
Workmen's Circle branches $40, 567,
Freiheit Branch, United Workers
cooperative Assn, Progressive
Bakers Group, Progressive Millinery
Workers Group, various language
groups Of the Workers Party, the
Freiheit Youth Club, the Young
Pioneers, with childrens corner, and
the Independent Workmen's Circle Sc,
v hich has set goal of $500 worth
OF stuff.
Volunteers Busy.
Every afternoon volunteer solicit
tors go out from the bazaar head
quarters at 10 S. Lincoln St. TO col
lect articles, get advertisements etc.
A call has been issued to all workers
to help in these collections.
Three stations have been esta5-
lished TO which collected goods are
10 be brought - IS S. Lincoln St.,
1909 w. Roosevelt Rd. (Freiheit Of
fice), and 2720 w. Division st. (book
store). Every Sunday morning spe-
cial notifications of volunteers will
take place at the last two above adj
dresses.
Split Proceeds.
The bazaar is run for the benefit
Of The DAILY WORKER and the
Daily Freiheit. with 5000 Of the pro-
ceeds to be given to the international
Labor Defense. This explains why
the secretary of the bazaar commit
zee has said: 1T is a poor friend of
the working class movement who will
not do his share toward making the
bazaar a grand success"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

A BOOK FOR THE IRISH WORKER
dim Connolly and the Irish Kissing
Of IOid.'-intrOduction by Y. J.
'Flahcrty.--By q. SCHUYLER.
Price 10 cents.
Jim Connolly was the military
leader Of the Easter Week rebellion
in Ireland which broke out when
the British empire was passing thru
one Of the most serious crises that
faced IL durlu2 the world war. Con-
molly, the international Marxist.
Joined his small army Of workers
with the nationalist secret society
known as the Irish Republican
brotherhood and raised the stand
ard OF an Irish republic. Connolly
was one of the first revolutionists
in the international socialist move
ment TO appreciate the value or the
nationalist question In the workers
struggle against imperialism He
was 3OlsheVilS in the full sense OF
the term. This little pamphlet by
G. schuler is the first serious at
tempt TO give Connolly his rightfui
place in the revolutionary history
OF this period. W WAS first pub
lished as an article in the official
organ OF the Communist Interna-
tional. IL should be distributed in
large quantities among the Irish
workers in the United states. Con-
molly Is magic name with every
Irish worker who has spark of the
divine fire OF revolt in his system.
IL can also be read With interest
~ every radical worker who wants
10 soak up on the strategy and
tactics of revolution. Comrade
schuler declares that Connolly was
feminist. He was. He fell before
British squad III 1916, one year
before the Russian workers. and
peasants buried the Gar and Car
dom aud began TO build a Soviet
Republic on the ruins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Vaudeville Scribe to
Organize UnOrganized

The organize the unorganized"
spirit has hit vaudeville writer's. Ed
gar Allan Wolf, veteran writer of
vaudeville sketches and author of the
gypsy play in which Nazimova is now
starring at the Palace Theatre, is
roofing for a League of VaudevilI
Writer'S" His object is to secure {.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Breaks World Record.

BERLIN, Feb. Erich Rade-
macher, crack German swimmer to-
day broke his own world record for
two hundred metres by three seconds.
Rademacher finished the distance in
two minutes, 27.4 seconds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
UNIVERSITY Paper Retracts.

The Exponent, student newspaper
of Purdue University, Lafayette. Ind,
has retracted in an editorial Of Jan.
21 the charge made in an editorial of
Nov. 16 that the American Civil Lib
critics Union is "the official organ in
this country of the Third Interna-
tional, of Russia primarily, but world
wide in scope"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

Police broke up Workers Party
meeting in Newark on Jan. 16, it is
alleged. The meeting was on the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers left
and right wing internal fight. No
disorder occurred and no reason was
given for interference. Mr.. Hughes
reminded the Chief of Police of cor
respondence between the legal depart
ment of the City of Newark and the
American Civil Liberties Union in
which the former committed the city
to policy of non-interference with
peaceful meetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

Many organizations will run booths
Of their own, collecting the goods for
the display themselves. Most Of
these are setting goals or quotas of
a certain number Of hundreds of dol
lars worth Of articles; among them
are the Workmen's Sick and Death
Benefit branches, the local Interna-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
New Evidence Showing
Innocence Of Hoffman,
Serving Twenty Years

NEW YORK, Feb. Mrs. Agnes
Hoffman, missing former wife Of
Harold Hoffman, convicted slayer Of
Mrs. Maude Bauer, found murdered
in Staten Island two years ago. is
being sought by counsel for Hoffman
today to appear as a witness at a
new trial the prisoner has been
granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
STRUGGLE FOR FREE SPEECH AS Seen
BY AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES union

John Larn Hughes Newark attorney
Liberties Union and Chief of Police Mce of New
hold
city members had tried unsuccuy for two weeks
permit They charge that city hall authorities put them off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
PASSAIC WORKINGWOMENS COUNCIL PARTIES
FOR CHILDREN COMBAT SCHOOL PROPAGANDA

On Saturday afternoon at 152 Eighth Passa Workingwomen
NO. hed party Tor the children of the neghborhoo -Four hun
dred children attended There
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
CHICAGO WORKERS ARRANGING GREAT CARNIVAL
BAZAAR FOR DEFENSE, FREEHETT, DAILY WORKER

cHcAGoWoe of all languages readers of working class
societies. actively
hg the WORKERS Carnival Bazaar be held here February Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

sally" at the Greenwich Village.
This afternoon "Spellbound" will be-
gin series of special matinees at the
Klaw.
The vaudeville program at Moss
Broadway this week is headed by:
Long Tack Sam; Dave Harris & Co.
and Moss & Frye. The screen fea-
ture Held By The Law" has Ralph
Lewis, Marguerite de la Motto and
Johnnie Walker in the cast.
The cast for "What Anne Brought
Home" Larry E. Johnson's new come
dy which Earl Carroll will present at
Wallack's Theatre, the latter part of
this month, will include: William
Hanley, Mayo Methot, Ed Poland,
Marion Stevenson, Lenore Sorsby,
Peggy Shannon, Erman Seayy,
George Earle and Cecil Secrest.
Robert Craik, who played Francois
Villon in "The Vagabond King" has
joined the cast of "The Desert Song"
at the Casino, playing the role Of
Captain Fontaine.
John MacMahon has acquired the
American rights of "Mediterranee,"
play by Paul Haurigot, recently pro-
duced the Theatre Michodiere, Paris,
and will present it in New York fol-
lowing a spring try-out.
The Civic Repertory Theatre will
present at least three performances a
week of Grade Song "The Mistress
If the Inn" will be played only once
more, Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

"Spread-Eagle," a melodrama deal
ing with the Mexican American rue
ton, has been bought by Jed Harris,
who produced Broadway" to be
staged at once. The effort of Amer
leans to hang on to their Mexican
oil concessions forms the basis of the
plot. The authors are George S.
Brooks and Walter B. Lister, the lat
ter city editor Of the Brooklyn Times.
No indication is given whether the
Mexican characters in the play are
human beings or the perennial
"treacherous greasers" of melo-
drama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
BROADWAY GOSSIP

"Off-Key" opens tonight at the Bel
mont Theatre. Another opening is
"Sally" at the Greenwich Village.
This afternoon "Spellbound" will be-
gin series of special matinees at the
Klaw.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
Get Union Literature.

Literature from the American Civil
Liberties Union attacking anti-evolu-
ton laws has been sent to key-men in
the Mississippi state legislature in an
effort to combat the anti-evolution
bill introduced last week. The Union
has also offered its help to professors
at the University of Missouri, who
have been urged to fight the measure
for the sake of academic freedom.
4
Khan MObs Terrify Negroes.
A fiery cross was burned in front
of the home of Jesse Burrell, school
director of Carney, Iowa, last week
because he appointed colored teach
er to take the place of white teacher
in his district. Negroes in Miami,
Fla, have been intimidated by two
public parades and demonstrations by
the Ku Klux Khan. Three Negro
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church refused to attend the closing
banquet of the Citizens Committee of
One Thousand for Law Enforcement
when it was learned that they would
be "Jim Crowed" to a segregated
table at the Willard Hotel in Wash
ington, d. C. The home Of Negro
in Denver, Colo, has been twice rid
died with bullets and damaged by
bombs from white neighbors who re-
sented his moving into the district.
Five white men in Shreveport, La,
kidnapped a Negro baggage carrier
and logged him in the woods with
leather straps and sticks. Although
he knows the names of his assail-
ants, he is afraid to reveal them. No
reason for the assault is known.
l. w. w. Faces Deportation.
The Seattle immigration station is
housing Andrew Stinson, an /. w. w.
charged with illegal entry into the
United States, despite the fact that
he proved legal entry and has applied
for first papers, the Seattle Indus
trlal Worker reports. Stinson is be-
ing held for deportation because he
is member of the |. w. W., the
weekly charges. He was arrested
Nh'.e hunting for job. The Wash
ington branch of the General Labor
Defense is handling his case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

Broadway gossipers who "know the
dope" have slated Paul Green's "In
Abraham's Bosom" for the next
Pulitzer Prize = unless somebody
comes along with a new play to
change the minds of the awarding
committee. Green's play is a study
Of simple Negroes in the South and
the bitter, unsuccessful struggle Of
one of them to lead his people out Of
ignorance and peonage. Though de-
ficient in technique, tiresome and
repetitious in spots the play has fer
vor and passion and something to
say. 1t comes as near as anything
produced in New York this season to
being a workers play. Radicals ought
to see tat the Provincetown Play
house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

Roll in the Subs For The DAILY
WORK Err.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

uniform type of contract from the
managers, to standardize arrange
ments for advance royalties, and to
provide security to authors for the
collection Of royalties. He also urges
the use of more one-act plays in
vaudeville programs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
University Bars !. W. w.

The University Of Washington
closed its doors against Edward Della
ney, l. w. w. organizer, who was
secluded to speak on the campus on
Jan. 10 against the criminal syndical-
ism laws, according to the Industrial
Worker of Seattle. When Delaney ar
rived the doors of the hall were locked
and it was announced the meeting
was called off. The talk had been
sponsored by the Social Science Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
D r A M A
A GREAT THIRD ACT

Her Crime" drama in three acts by
NJ. J. Olgin, directed by Maurice
Schwartz. at the Yiddish Art Theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08
New Hampshire and Evolntion.

New Hampshire was the sixth state
to introduce an anti-evolution bill in
the legislature during January. The
bill proposed by Representative Ros-
coe Crane would declare unlawful the
teaching of any philosophy which
deals with religious belief, and espe-
cially the evolutionary theory" The
penalty is a months loss of salary
for the first offense and dismissal Of
the teacher for the second. Other
states with evolution bills are Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Alabama, North
Dakota and Minnesota. A West Vir-
ginia measure was defeated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-08

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