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New Britain herald., 1927-11-25

track, hastily rebuilt after the flood appeared to have caused the acci- dent.
 The caboose caught ii,e after being telescoped. Six Of Is work men in the caboose escaped unas- sisted. Besides the three men killed, two others were injured and four more received minor burns
 Aime Bahoury, one O, those in iurey, was reported dying at the Fanny Allen hospital in Purlineton today. Leon Jacobs also was con- fined to that hospital but his condi- tion Wa. reported improved.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-25
Vermont Flood Cause
 Of Railroad Fatalities

Williston, Vt, Nov. 25 tUP)-The recent Vermont fool WAS indirectly responsible for Thanksgiving day railroad accident in which three men lost their lives hero.
 The accident occurred when a. caboose was telescoped by m engine after car on the train to which the caboose was attached hal been de- rallied.
 Central Vermont railroad officials reported that q weakness in the
New Britain herald., 1927-11-25

;oga Of the Roman. and Labor i1 the garb Of q workman.
 A plaster cast Of the group v $ placed before students and aiamui Of the university. and the alumni a~- sociation undertook 10 direct the raising Of q 4o,00o fund necessary for casting the group in bronze anI mounting it.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-25

cert tours. But MT. Fuller, un- known then in politics although successful in business. had other plans for her future. He followed her to Paris where they were mar rted.
 While success has come to her husband in politics, Mrs. Fuller confesses that she does not know anything about politics as such" !" Devoting herself to her family, she retains her interest in music and spends many hours instructing her two girls and two boys.
 Her love of children has ex- tended to the aid Of many charities henefiting children.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-25
ALCOHOL DRINEER BETTER

New Haven, Nov. o5 P,-John Creamer, 25, of 7S4 State street, who has been confined to Grace hospital since Wednesday night when he drank wood alcohol while doing little premature Thanksgiving cele- brating is reported to be out Of danger today.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-25

they had definite l. ". w. records and in many cases criminal rec ords."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Playwrights Theatre to
Raise Flag Here Today

A unique flag raising ceremony will
be held today at 1 p. m. when the
flag Of the New Playwrights Theatre
will be raised, to the sound of jazz
orchestra and a chorus singing song
from the first play called "We Love
Our Boss"
The flag is bright proletarian red,
with the name of the theatre across
it's face. AT night it will be illumin-
ated by spotlight. John Dos Passos,
Michael Gold and John Howard Law
son. directors of the theatre, will make
brief speeches. There will be dancing
in the street.
Members of the staffs of The
DAILY WORKER, the Freiheit, the
Elore and other workers papers as
well as leading members and officials
Of trades unions, were present last
night at an invitation dress rehearsal.
The first play of the new theatre is
''The Belt" by Paul Sifton, and is a
satirical study of mass production in
Detroit auto factory and the revolt
of the workers against this oppression.
The DAILY WORKER and the Joint
Defense Committee Of the needle
trade unions have arranged for blocks
OF seats for benefit performances.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

surance. cement, lumber and other
supplies. These charges, like others
under the unspeakable present dual
subway contracts, are passed on to
the city.
Manipulate Stock Market
In addition the gang used its con-
troll Of the roads to manipulate the
stock market ard raked in millions
in this way alone. Financing and re-
organization schemes acted other
millions.
At the time referred to, about
two years ago. this gang was
able to win over she whole Tammany
machine to its side The then Mayor
Hylan, for reasons of his own, had
fought them consistently. It became
necessary to defeat Hylan in order to
advance further with their plan, which
was to take over the new city sub
ways as well and to increase the fare.
Hold Secret Meeting.
Accordingly a secret meeting was
held to discuss the plan At this
meeting We're present Al Smith, gov
ernor of the st@te; the prospective
Mayor of New York, Jimmy Walker;
Olvany, the leader of Tammany Hall,
Frank Hedley, president of the Inter
borough; Gehard Dahl, chairman of
the board of directors Of the B. NJ. T.:
Thomas l.. Chadbourne, counsel of the
B. NJ. T., and others. Here it was
agreed to ditch the obstinate Mr.. Hy-
Ian and after the election campaign
of 1925, at which the five cent fare
issue was to be held aloft, to lay the
plans for an increased fare.
Elect Walker.
Everything went according to
schedule. Hylan was ditched Wal
ker was elected John Delaney,
chairman of the transportation board,
worked out a transit unification
scheme which he chopped" would save
the scent fare. Both companies FAC
copied" the plan Immediately.
Then Tammany Hall got its or
ders!
The House of Morgan cracked the
whip and All Smith began to jig. I'm
mediately there was instituted the
Investigation" by the Transit Com
which was to lay the basis
for a real" unification plan. Choos-
ing the great inquisitor, Untermyer,
for the main role, there began what
was really complete exposure of the
methods of the traction plunderbund
in order to wrench from them the
control of the railroads.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Big Crowd Expected at
LID Ball Friday Night

More than 1000 tickets have been
distributed to Al International Labor
Defense branches in the city for Fri
days costume ball at the New Star
Casino, Park Ave. and 10Th st.
Prizes will be given for the best
costumes. The judges include Robert
Minor, editor of The DAILY WORK
Err; James P. Canno, national secre-
tary, International Labor Defense:
Kate Gitlow, secretary, United Council
of Working Glass Housewives, and
Carlo Tresca, editor of II Martello.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Big Indoor
Meetings As Labor
Campaign Develops

Plans for many large indoor rallies
to be conducted by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party in connection with the
present election campaign are being
continued.
The first meeting will be held at
Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 43rd St.
Wednesday, October 26. The speak
ers' list will be headed by Ben Git
low, the Party candidate for judge
of the court of general sessions in
Manhattan.
The following Sunday two large
rallies will be held in the Bronx and
Harlem. The Bronx meeting viii be
held in the largest hall in the boro,
Hunts Point Palace, 163rd St and
Southern Boulevard. The Harlem
meeting will take place at Finnish
Labor Temple IS West 126th St.
Indoor meetings in Brownsville,
williamsburg, the East Side and
other working class centers are also
being arranged. Plans are also be-
ing prepared for Red Nights in vari-
Gus workingclass sections of the city.
A series of street meetings were held
in Williamsburg Saturday night.
Ben Gitlow. candidate for Judge of
the court of general sessions, viii ad-
dress open air meetings Friday at
10th st. and Fifth Ave; 106th St.
and Madison Ave. and 10th st. and
Madison Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

of Mount Lebanon township hun
dred percent company Squire
Guilty" the miners said they call him,
because when any union man is
brought up before Edmunson he
knows in advance he will be found
guilty before he gets there.
Carry Off Picket.
The miners picket chief stationed
John Benick, at a distance from the
Coal and Iron Barracks, out on the
public highway, to see who it was
the police were taking along in their
machines. AS the machine passed
him Ton the public highway, remem-
ber), John Benick asked the police
where they were taking the men.
None of your damned business"
yelled the Coal and Iron police, then
we jumped out, pulled Benick into
the machine, and took him along up
to Edmundson, the Pittsburgh Ter
minal squire. Benick was left in the
car, when the others were taken in
side. Another miner came up to the
squire's office in order to post bond
for the men. Seeing him about to
talk to Benick as he got to the door,
a Coal and Iron police jumped out of
the office, shouting, Stay the He'll
away from there" to the man, and
then Benick was rushed back to the
police barracks in their car, taken in
side-again faces hidden with hand
kerchiefs, lights put out, Sock
him." yelled one of them, and when
they were through Benick lay on the
floor bleeding and with rib broken.
From here on the story enters its
legal" phase--as legality is under
stood in company towns. This is the
account as it was told me by the con-
stable and corroborated by Squire
who came in as the con
stable was talking.
(To Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
500 Register for 1928
Worker School Courses
Continued from Pare Onel

Continued from Page One)
pected to register Immediately before
more classes are closed to registra-
ton.
Courses Are Varied.
Other courses of special interest to
workers active in the trade unions
are: Present Tactics of Employers.
Robert w, Dunn, instructor; Historic
Struggles Of American Labor. David
j. Saposs, instructor; Public Speak
ing, Carl Brodsky; History Of the U.
s., Jim Cork; MARKHAM Economies,
Ray Ragozin; fundamentals of Com
munism, various instructors. and
Principles Of Marxism, Abraham
Markoff.
For. information about these or any
other of the so courses offered by the
Workers School, write or call at the
school office, Room 80, 108 East 14th
Street, New York City.
English Dept. Large.
Because the American working class
is so largely foreign, particularly in
the basic industries, and because in
the city of New York the proportion of
forelgn-born workers is particularly
high, the Workers School. in it's eff
forts to serve the New York labor
movement, has built an especially
large English department. 1t offers.
not one or two, but Is different
courses of six grades so that every
worker, from the one who does not
read or write English at all to the
worker who merely wishes to com.
plete his mastery of the language. can
be fitted into the class best adapted
to his needs.
Develops Own Text Books.
The school has found it necessary to
develop its own text books for the
English work in order that the book
may have such vocabulary and such
subject matter as really fits the work
er.
The teachers also have been select
ed with double test of their fitness
first, their technical fitness as.instruc-
tors, and second, their knowledge Of
and experience with the labor move
ment. The fee is only $3.50 for a
three-month, once-a-week course and
$500 for three-months twice-a-week
course. The instructors include: Sue
Baxter, Beatrice Carlin, Whitaker
Chambers, Mary Client, Vera Green.
Eli B. Jacobson, Violet Kay, Florence
Lubin, Sophie Mesnil, Ruth Munson,
Patterson. Pauline Rogers,
Hannah Scherer, Anna Soirsky and ].
Warner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Russian Motion Pictures
for Celebration Of Tenth
Anniversary Here Oct. 80

The New York celebration of the
tenth anniversary of the Russian
Revolution will be featured by a
showing of a motion picture of the
funeral of c. E. Ruthenberg, late
general secretary of the Workers
Community Party, and other
films of Soviet Russia
They will be shown Sunday, Oct.
30 from 2 to 9 p. m. at Irving
Plaza, Irwin Place and 18th St,
under the auspices of the New
York district of the Workers Party.
Admission viii be so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
BY ROBERT MITCHELL.

by KObEkt MITCHELL.
The Subway Nickel: To Be Or Not
To Be! This is the drama which now
struts and frets it's hour npon the
Metropolitan stage. The last act is
scheduled to be a tragedy unless the
workers and other subway riders Of
the city can by their united effort.
prevent the otherwise certain MARTYR
dom Of the five cent fare.
Tammany Hall now posing as the
chief friend and supporter Of the long
suffering Nickel will with equal grace
act in the role Of principal mourrer.
Controller Berry, whom Tammany has
chosen for the unpopular role Of chief
executioner, will be amply rewarded
for his courageous stand in uphold
ing the interests of the Tammanv
masters in Wall Street. Untermeyer
will be praised for his unstinted public
service. The traction workers will re-
main unorganized. Subway riders
will pay 7 or 10 cent fare. Tax
payers and eventually the workers
will carry several hundred millions in
an additional burden for the financing
Of the new "unification" plan.
Undermyer Plan Is Fake.
For the Untermyer plan, so far as
the peoples interests are concerned.
is complete fake. The truth of this
assertion viii be proved presently
when this plan is analysed in detail.
The Berry sponsored increased fare
scheme of Charles "St. Louis" Smith
is a camouflage behind which Tam
many may still pose as the defender
of the peoples interests. The Transit
Commission Investigations are equally
a deception. Nothing can be accepted
as substantial in the whole situation
except the certainty that the people
will lose.
The driving force behind all that
has happened in the situation so far
is the conflict between the Chase Ma
tional observation-disclosures group,
which owns the B. NJ 7. and has
bought heavily into the l. R. T., and
the Morgan interests, who are seek
ing to obtain complete control of the
traction properties of the city. To
understand this conflict it is neces-
sary to give word of the back
ground.
Backed BY Morgan Interests.
The Morgan interests are behind the
financing o. practically the whole
of the l. R. 7. system and a sub
stantial part of the B. NJ. T. as well.
In the case of the B. NJ. T. its hold
ings are not sufficient for control.
The Morgan holdings on the l. R. T., !
as is customary with this banking
group, is represented by bondholders
VINO serve on the Board of Directors
of the railroad Under the present
so-called dual contracts with the city
the Morgan control over tn |. r. 7.
was unquestioned until about two
years ago.
At that time the Wiggin-Dahl-
Chadbourne, Chase National Bank
gang began secretly to acquire large
sections of l. r. T. stock, holding it. /
as Chadbourne testified, for the
power it would give them in the COM
ing unified traction plan. In this
round up of l. R. T. stock the direc-
tors of the I. R. T., other than the
bondholders, united with the B. M. 7. +
gang. These directors of the l. r. T., |
it is important to remember, own no
stock themselves in the railroad and I
have used their position to plumber
the road by buying from themselves, /
at excessive prices, coal, steel, in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Ball Will Greet Y. w. L.
Convention Oct. 10Th

A concert and dance to welcome the
delegates to the fourth national con-
vention of the Young Workers (Com-
fnunist) League will be held Satur-
day, Oct. goth, at the Harlem Casino,
Lenox Ave. and 10th St. The con
vention win open the following day.
Tickets in advance will be SO cents,
and at the door rs cents. They can
be bought now at 108 East 14th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

At about seven o'clock, October s,
two of the five men who were as
saulted were walking along the tracks
belonging to the Pittsburgh Street
Railroad Company, and off company
property, Two Coal and Iron police
who had evidently been lying in am
bush, sprang out of the weeds along
the roadway with blackjacks ready
and arrested them. Then, further
along the tracks, at Cooley station,
the car stop for No. 2 mine, the Coal
and Iron police whistled for more of
their gang to come, and made two
more arrests.
The four men, Christ Dilla, Peter
Karkhalla, and Lawrence Reiter, all
striking miners, and Samuel Mule
noski the young carpenter, were then
taken up to the barracks of the Coal
and Iron police ON the company prop
erty, and a guard of three placed
over them. After about an hour of
waiting and general abuse, the COM
pany thugs warmed up to their job,
and began working on" the boys
as they put it, in telling the story.
This is a good phrase-signifying not
merely a sudden wild assault, but
long, deliberate, bestial, and obscene
torture process.
Police Masked
First they took Christ Dil1a, threw
him through the door into an adjoin-
ing room, then five of the Coal and
Iron police came in after him with
handkerchiefs masking their faces,
turned off the lights, and began.
After they got through with him, they
worked over" the other three.
1t was on the young carpenter Null
lenowski, that they did their most
perfect job. saw him when he came
into Squire Beltzhoover's office with
his brother in regard to his case
Kick Out Eyesight.
The black glasses he wore looked
homogeneous in combination with his
blonde youthfulness. Then he lifted
them, and you saw the reason for the
glasses-the CHASTITY, horribly injured
eye that was the result of number
Of well-directed kicks delivered by the
Coal and Iron police when they had
him lying helpless on their barracks
floor. The doctor tells him it is prob
able he will lose the sight Of the one
eye altogether-perhaps of both.
After they got through with these
four, the police put them in a car
and took them along up to the office
of Justice of Peace Ira H. Edmunson,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
PITTSBURGH TERMINAL co. GUNNER
KICK OUT EYESICHT OF STRIKER
Coal and Iron Police Kidnap Five Workers and
Work Them Over" in Company Barracks
BULLETIN.

Avla, Penn, Oct 17At six o'clock
drunken police the
public highway beating with bkjacks
Angelo Simonett Joe Lazar All
Simonetti and Lazar under hospital
returning line and bno Gal
ginni the
attacked
CASTLE SHANNON, Pa. Oct 17.-Several Illustrations of
the complete abrogaon of civil rights in the mining camps where
the coal is come from Castle Shannon No.
Of three adjoining mines Pittsburgh belonging
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company Here the facts in full
got them from the five boys four striking miners and
fifth union carpenter who the victims of planned and
unspeakay brutal attack last week the part of the Coal
Iron Police IN the hire of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company
supplemented by the given by Squire George Bez-
hoover of Castle Shannon Borough and of his consta
Who unlike of the officers of the law the coal region
happen not to be the
ton of the people in territory for which they responsible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Election and u. S. S. R.
To Be Under Discussion
at Membership Meeting

The present New York election
campaign and the Tenth Anniver-
sary of the Russian Revolution will
be the order of business at a gen.
eral membership meeting of the
Workers Community Party at
Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th
ST., at p. m. Wednesday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Postpone Philips Lecture.

The lecture which has been sched-
uled for Thursday with j. V. Phillips
as speaker is postponed At the meet
ing Thursday discussion will take
place on the situation in the Y. w. L.
and its immediate tasks. After the
discussion delegates to the district
convention will be elected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Socialist Confab Here Next Year

The national convention of the So
cialist party for 1928 will be held
here next April 10, it was reported
yesterday. Candidates for president
and vice president will be nominated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Daily Worker Agents Meeting.

A DAILY WORKER Agents con-
ference will be held next Wednesday.
p. M, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Settle For Tickets

All comrades are instructed to set.
tie for The DAILY WORISER-FREI-
HEIT Bazaar tickets at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
City Engineers 10
Demand Raises at
Protest Tomorrow

Municipal engineers through their
union will protest the action of the
New York board of estimate in set
ting aside what they characterize as
an entirely inadequate sum for salary
increases at mass meeting tomorrow
night at the Society of Engineers
Building 90 West 39th. st.
In announcing the meeting the
unionized engineers. said the 100000
voted by the Tammany administration
for salary increases in the municipal
engineering service would not amount
to more than al per cent increase
even if equitably distributed whereas
the Civil Service Commission recently
recommended So per cent increase.
The engineers union is the Union of
Technical Men, which is affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
To Demand Is Per cent More.
The immediate granting of a gen
eral Is per cent wage increase and
use of the 100000 forlow-wage rath-
er than favored workers will be urged
at tomorrow's meeting. At the same
time a conference with Charles Kohler,
director of the budget, will be ar
ranged before Thursday, when the al
lottment of the salary increases will
be officially announced.
The protest meeting will be address
sed by Dudley Babcock, president of
the Union of Technical Men, and Evan
L. Gunter, president of the architec-
tural association of the board Of edu-
cation.
Contractors Pay More.
Although it is upon engineers en-
ployed by the city that the response
bility falls for planning and design
ing subway projects, the salaries paid
by the city are in sharp contrast to
those paid by private subway contract
ing companies, according to a state
ment issued by the Union of Technical
Mems Association last night.
"Section engineers receive, an an
nual salary from the city of $4,000,
whereas subway contractors pay the
same class of engineers $4,000 a year"
the statement said. Assistant engf-
neers receive from the city $4,000
while subway contractors pay $4,000.
The annual salaries paid by the city
to surveyors in charge do not exceed
$4,000 Subway contractors pay S4,-
900 to $4,000 The city holds its rod
men to yearly salaries ranging from
81 $50 to S1,860. Subway contractors
pay $4,000.
"In providing for salary increases
proportioIiate to living costs. the city
has given minor recognition to the
$500 men of its. engineering force.
The city's mechanics have had 10
per cent salary increase and unskilled
laborers 140 per cent. Salaries of
patrolmen and fireinen have been
raised 56 per cent and those Of teach
srs So per cent. But engineers have
aad only A per cent increase through
out all the rises in the cost of living.
At times this increased cost Of living
mas assembled to nearly double what
t formerly was. 1t is now 81 per cent
higher than before the war
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

A general membership meeting of
the Night Workers Section will take
place today at p. m. at 1O8 East
18th st. All members must attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
PARTY ACTIVITIES
NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY
Open Air Meetings Tonight.

" III 1'IVOVIlt5o UIUgHt.
Second Ave. and 106th ST., Abraham
Markoff, George Primoff and Joseph
Malicanico, speakers.
Madison Ave. and 1O6th St., Charles
Mitchell, H. Schreimel, Max Sacht-
man and Pat Devine, speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

F. D. 4, S. S. pa meets tonight,
$50 p. m, at 100 West 28th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18

BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEWSSTANDS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
Yonkers Meeting Every Thursdav.

The Yonkers International Branch
meets every Thursday, p. M, at the
Labor Temple, 20 Warburton Ave.
Members should bring dues books.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-18
WHAT PRICE TRACTION POLITICS?
TANMANY SUPPORTS FARE RAISE

surance. cement, lumber and other
supplies. These charges like others
under the unspeakable present dual
subway contracts, are passed on to
the CITY
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-12-09

Lisabeula Community Church
Sunday School at 1000 a. m.
Christian Endeavor 6 80 p. m.
Evening Service at 1880 p. m
Every Sunday.
Rev. H. e. Anderson, Pastor