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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
WoMAN's COLUMN.
WOMEN'S DAY TO
BE- HELD YEARLY
INST.PAUL,M MINI.
Auxiliary of Machinists
Union So Decides

(Srecial to The DAILY W0RKER.)
ST. PAUL, Mimi, March 14.-At
the regular monthly business meet
ing of the auxiliary to the Machin-'
lists Union, held March at the La
Dor Temple, the members went on
record in support Of international
Women's Day.
International Women's Day will be
celebrated by the auxiliary at its
meeting on the second Tuesday Of
March each year, as this day comes
just before or after the 9Th. This
meeting will be open and invitations
nre extended to all women in st.
Paul.
An effort will be made to have the
very best speakers available for this
occasion to speak on the significance
Of international Women's Day, with
the aim of bringing all women into
the trade union movement to help
their husbands, children and them
selves toward better living condi-
tions.
At the previous meeting of this
auxiliary a resolution was passed
and sent to the national office in pro-
test against the invasion of Nicara-
qua, the threats against Mexico, and
Intervention in China.
The national office of the auxil-
larry has outlined an educational pro-
gram for its members, and st. Paul
will also participate in this, realizing
that women must understand her re-
lations to industry and the trade
union movement before she can help
in the fight for emancipation against
slavery and capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Robert Dunn to Give
Lectures on American
Foreign Investments

Robert W. Dunn, author of the out
standing work on American Foreign
Investment, viii give a course Of
three lectures at the Workers School
on three Wednesday evenings, begin
ming March lG, on the subject dealt
with in his book.
The course aims at a survey Of
the new position of the United States
in the role of the great creditor ma
ton of the world. Dunn will tell
how this country now invests money
abroad at the rate of billion a year.
and what it means financially and
politically. He will describe the eff
iects Of this deluge Of dollars upon
the countries so favored.
The role played by banks and COR
porations in these investment trans
actions, the effect of the growth Of
imperialism upon the American peo-
pie, as we'll rs upon the people Of the
industrially backward countries in
which the investments are made, and
the conflicts being created by our
bankers and dollar diplomats, which
are laying the basis for a new world
war with the United States playing
the central role that Germany played
in the last one.
The course Of the lecture on Amer
lean Foreign Investments was origin
ally scheduled to begin March 2, but
has been postponed to Wednesday
March JIG. The fee for the course is
S1.00.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
BUSY BUSINESS
AGENT MAKES A
MERE 1872 PAY
AS Unemployed Hunt
Jobs, He LOafs

While more than 200 members of
his local are walking the streets
looking for work, Dan Herrick, bust
ness agent of Local %, Pressmens'
Union, who receives wages of SIT a
week from the union, took advantage
of an opportunity Of making some
extra money at the expense of some
unemployed member Of the union.
Two weeks ago the Federal Print
ing Co., 239 West 39th St., called up
the union office and requested that
they send one man for night work.
As he does not devote much time
to union affairs, Dan saw good OPP
portunity to make some extra money.
The wages of pressman is $50 q
week and when you add the SIT that
he obtains from the union you get
$132 a week, which is not bad for a
trade unionisti
After working there as a press
man for one week, Dan was discov-
cred and was removed from the job
and suspended from the union.
He will be brought up on charges
at the next meeting of the local, to
be held this Friday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
windy City is
IN WHIRL wind
OF EXCITEMENT
Red Revel to Greet
New York Visitors

CHICAGO, March 14.-Despite the
absence Of The DAILY WORKER
editorial staff, the Workers (Conmu-
nist) Party has decided to go ahead
with its annual Red Revel, the prin-
cipal social event in this city so far
as radicals are concerned.
On next Saturday evening Mirror
Hall, 1886 North Western avenue
viii be the scene Of this gala event
which has broken all records for
gaiety in this devastating city.
Broke History and Other Things.
The Red Revcl first broke into his
tory five years ago. It's object was
to keep the home fires burning in
the district office. In these ancient
days our technique was crude and
attempts to provide the customers
with an unusual spectacle did not al
ways pan out as the customers ex-
pected they would.
For instance: A committee Of
three was appointed to devise a mid
night surprise. 1t was an intelligent
committee composed Of Hans Peter
son, T. J. O'Flaherty and Manuel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Rowing Oyster Unlike
Rolling Stone Hangs On
To Whatever He Grabs

WASHINGTON, March 14.--still
non-eommittal on the generic question
of the tree-climbing fish, recently
sought by former Mayor William Hale
Thompson Of Chicago, the bureau OF
fisheries today testified to the success
Of oysters grown on birch trees.
The latest marvel Of science, the
bureau reveals, furnishes solution
to one Of the most troublesome
problems of the oyster industry-the
high infant mortality rate due to the
diminishing natural oyster beds.
The life Of the young oyster is
carefree to the point Of tragedy, for
once the animal sets out on its own,
it simply wanders until it catches on
to something. Having once made =
connection, it still grows, develops a
hard saell, and thrives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
FURRIER WRITES FROM LOS ANGELES TO SEND
TAX AND CALLS EXPULSION A SHAMEFUL ACT

The ridiculous charges of right
wing international Fur Workers Of
ficials that the twenty-five dollar tax
recently voted by all locals was in
flicted by force upon an unwilling
membership, is again effectively re-
futed by an interesting letter which
reached the Joint Board yesterday
from the Pacific Coast.
Calls It Shameful.
1928 Brooklyn Avenue,
Los Angeles. Cal, March 10, 1927.
New York Joint Board Furriers Union
% East ED Street,
New York.
Dear Brothers: The expulsion of the
Joint Board by the international is a
shameful act. I, an old member Of
Local 5, Ledger No. 5555, who took
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
BY ROBERT MITCHELL.
ITO Be Continued).

Some Of the methods employed by
the company union have already been
suggested. It is necessary to pre-
sent the most typical examples in
clearer form.
The general policy Of the company
union is to maintain a very definite
hold on the men in order that they
may be prevented from attempting
other forms Of real organization, but
at the same time to conduct the af-
fairs Of the company union so as to
provide the men with the minimum
Of organised power. Care is always
taken that the men shall not become
too active in their locals. Men, who
come too regularly to their meetings
are dangerous TO the officials whether
these officials are the owners of a
traction corporation or the heads of
some of the typical, reactionary la
Dor organizations. Ask any of the
A. T. Of L. right wing bureaucrats!
They will testify that wherever
workers come together, there is the
place of their power.
Dull Meetings the Rule.
As result of this insight the COM
parry sought to make the company
union meetings as listless and unin-
teIesting as possible. 1t was no diff
ficult task to accomplish this mis-
sion. The locals have very little
business to transact beyond listening
to dry, meaningless reports of visits
made to sick" brothers by their dele
gates who seek by the reports of
such activities to raise themselves in
the estimation of their men.
Occasionally there are reports of
the great successes achieved by the
same company tools in securing the
cancellation Of suspension imposed
upon an offender. The method of
using the company union as the
agency TO "straighten" out all petty
difficulties is an old device of the In
terborough, particularly used since
the last strike. The men are, of
course, fully aware of the superb
cial trick. They know, too, that
minor offenses receive usually about
twice the ordinary punishment in or
der that the company union may be
able to intervene in behalf of the
men and secure the cancellation of
day or two of the sentence. 1t is
also well known that the company
union is entirely helpless in the case
of more serious offenses and in
those cases there is absolutely no
protection for the men against the
unfair discrimination of the COM
pany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Times Square to Queens
Subway Opens

Through subway service from
Queens to Times Square was started
yesterday with the opening Of the new
Times Square greensboro tube sta
ton.
Heretofore Greensboro tube service
had terminated at Grand Central and
residents of Queens who wished to get
over to the West Side had to utilize
the shuttle. The new service will save
them much delay.
Mayor Walker, and other city Of
ficinls, and Frank Hedley, president
of the |. R. T. were the principal
speakers at luncheon yesterday af-
ternoon Immediately following the op-
GRAFTON Of the first train TO the new
station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Organize the Traction Workers
ARTICLE v THE COMPANY NORTHUMBERLAND METHODS

well, you see, Ed, it's your meet
ings Tn complaining about, your
men are too radical"
Radical, He'll! If they were halt
as radical as your conditions are
making them, they would have walk
ed out on you long ago"
"That's pretty strange way fol
a delegate to be talking, Ed"
"I'm taking the part of my men
What's the business Of a delegate
anyway"
Boss VANS Quiet.
"rhat's what you don't seem to
understand. The business Of a dele
gate is to quiet his men lovr, to
keep them from getting out Of con-
troll"
you're entirely mistaken, as far !
am concerned. Thet's what Paddy
Connolly may understand to be the
business of delegate. But you've
got me wrong, Mr.. Keegan.'
"Well, Ed. a committee of yctr
men has complained to me about you
and we will have to take some ac-
ton"
"That sounds pretty 'fishy' to me,
There are no such men in our local.
You had better come clean, Mr.. Kee-
gan, wasn't the man Paddy Con-
nolly?"
well, if you must know, then it
vast"
Local Hears Story.
LAWN reported the whole matter
to his local at the next meeting. He
did not, however, feel like exposing
Paddy Connolly so mercilessly. The
men, nevertheless, suspected Paddy
since they knew very we'll that there
had bcen no committee from the To-
cal to complain about Ed. Seeing the
sentiment of the men, Paddy Con-
molly denied that he had been mixed
up in the plot. The men insisted on
seeing the matter through and when
f. Lawn faced Keegan with his own
statement, the great vice-president of
the marlborough hedged from his
position: THAT wasn't quite the way
| said it, Ed"
Workers Not Fooled.
But the workers were not deceived
by such underhand tactics. Every
one understood what had been at
tempted. The only result was that
Keegan and Paddy Connolly were
both proved to be towards and liars
and that Connolly was shown up in
his true light as a company tool and
betrayer of his men.
In the next election, Ed. LAWN was
elected by the largest majority ever
received by any delegate in the local
They were afraid this time to steal
the election from him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Anti-Saloon League in
Further Grab for Power

A further attempt Of the Anti-Sa-
loon League to control dry enforce
ment in the country is evidenced in
the pen fight which begins today for
the appointment Of Roy A. Haynes
as the new commissioner OF prohibit
ton.
Altho not naming Haynes, the
league demands the appointment Of
"a commissioner who believes in the
law he is to enforce" and it an
nounces that it will try to enlist
President Coolidge in the fight,
which is aimed at Secretary Of the
Treasury Mellon and Assistant Sec
rotary Andews.
Haynes, the candidate Of the Anti
Saloon League, is former dry chief
and now technically prohibition
commissioner"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Page One)
Jews for the honor of being the first
to lay the doughty anti-Semite by the
heel Sapiro, a millionaire attorney
of Chicago, was first over the wire.
Right behind him is Morris Gest, the
famous theatrical producer. Those
gentlemen are out to protect the dig
nifty and honor of the Hebrew race.
We do not care who ticks Ford but it
occurs to us that those defenders Of
Judaism do not display such enviable
devotion to their race when Jewish
tailors are getting walloped on the
head by Tammany Hall policemen,
while striking against Jewish manu-
facturers, or when they get sent to
Sing Sing by Jewish judge.
TNHE section of the Irish republican
4 movement headed by canon De
Valera may not march on its belly
but it certainly does not travel on its
brains. Last night divers politicians,
lawyers and clergymen gave this
gentleman a reception in Carnegie
Hall. A group of Irish Workers Re-
publicans indirectly solicited permits
sion to sell pamphlet called "Jim
Connolly and Irish Freedom" at the
meeting. They were told that no
literature would be distributed there,
that the De Valeraites would have
none. Those blind leaders of the
dumb are as much afraid of an en-
lghtened rank and file as was the
Catholic church IN the middle ages.
A movement that starves the brains
of its followers is hopeless.
DRESIDENT BORNO Of Haiti re-
1 fused permission to Senator King
of Utah to enter the republic on the
ground that he was undesirable" 1t
happens that the senator has on more
than one occasion exposed the role
played by the United States in Haiti
and branded Borno as o puppet of
the state department, a prototype of
the Nicaraguan Diaz. Haiti is as
much part of the American empire
as Coney Island. The United States
senate has indeed fallen on evil days
when one Of its members can be re-
fused permission to enter part Of his
patl|mony with the sanction of his
own government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15

transfer to Local As (Chieago) in
1925, and now, on account of my
health am in Los Angeles, California,
consider myself ideologically still a
member of Local 5, New York Joint
Board.
Sends Tax.
Therefore, l enclose S25 per capita
tax, which was unanimously voted for
by the last local meetings.
Your fight will be a successful one
because you are fighting for the right
cause.
Long live the pioneers of the 40
hour week in the United States!
With brotherlv and comradely
greetings, remain,
Yours,
MAX Safer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Plan Organization of
Women's Work at Party
Conference Wednesday

Plans for the organization of wo-
mems work will be mapped out at a
conference of the housewife-members
of the Workers (Communistl Party
at the Manhattan Lyceum, &C. East
4th Street, Wednesday evening.
Section organizers for women's
work will present reports, which will
be followed by discussion of meth
DDS and plans for the organization
Of women. All section organizers
and housewives who are party menu
bers are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
DANGER in Numbers.

The device Of making the local meet
ings as undressing as possible may
be illustrated by a rather amusing
example from the experience of the
Station Department Local. Several
years ago the men of this local de-
veloped an unexpected streak Of mill
fancy. This, naturally, worried the
company not a little. Quite by &C.
cident, however, some of the men in
PRODUCED the game of "crap-shooting'
a. one of the meetings. The practice
became so diverting that more and
mere of the men began to take part,
Grievances were lost sight of in the
fascination of watching the rolling
bones. Likewise the new interest be-
gan to pack attendance into the meet
ings which before this could hardly
muster sufficient men for quorum.
When the numbers became too large
for safety, the cller was issued pro-
hibiting the game at the meetings,
The attendance again fell off to the
earlier small numbers but in the
meantime the men had been temper
arily at least, diverted from their
earlier demands.
Crush SIilitancy.
No less interesting, even if not so
amusing, is an example of how the
company works directly to suppress
the men bv means of its tool, the
company union.
In the case of locals in which the
men become over militant, steps are
always taken to subdue them. The
urit which has always had the great
ss. reputation for militancy is the
Motormen's and Switchmen's local,
the leading group in the recent strike.
On one occasion when the situation
became dangerous, it was decided to
get rid of Ed. LAWN, fighting leader
Of this local and the plan was de-
vised to have complaint of disloyal-
ty registered against him by the
company union through Paddy Con-
molly its president. Ed LAWN was
summoned before Mr.. George Kee-
gan, the viee-president of the COM
pany.
LAWN Speaks Up.
Almost everyone on the road has
by now heard the story which is vah-
iously reported as follows:
Nov, Ed, began Mr.. Keegan, 81
have been receiving bad reports
about you and your men,.
whats the matter Mr.. Keegan,
aren't the trains running alright!
eyes, yes, well, err"
"We show up on time, keep to tie
schedule, send in regular reports
o. K.?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
HE sTooPs TO CONQUER.

This is 4 photograph Of prOmin-
emit reyelier who spent all his money
at the lunch counter and absent
mindedly took a taxi home. When
the driver learned that his fare had
20 money he dropped him in a vacant
lot in the condition you see him in.
With the aid of a pair of dumb bells
and inspired by mental picture we
see the gay citizen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Harry Kemp's Divorce.

Harry Kemp, Greenwich Village
poet, author of "Tramping on Life"
and veteran correspondent of many
divorce and separation suits, today
admitted that he and his second wife,
the former Frances McLernan. have
separated and are planning divorce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Fired Film Star Sues Boss.

Claiming damages of $5s,00O, Hope
Hampton, film star, is scheduled to
appear in court here against Charles
Dillingham; and Martin Beck, theatre
cal producers. The suit grew out OF
Miss Hampton's dismissal from the
cast Of "Madame Pompadour" in 1924.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15

Gomez. O'Flaherty was in charge
OF the publicity, Peterson was in
charge of the stage and Gomez was
commissioned to bring the surprise
along. When it came the customers
fled including Peterson and O'Fla-
herty, tho the guests retreated face
10 the stage with hands on eyes, but
like Mark Twain while watching the
>an-can dancers. most of them looked
.hru their fingers. Gomez never got
on such a committee again and
O'Flaherty, and Peterson had a
tough time retrieving their reputa-
tions. Nevertheless the Red Revel
was made by the incident Even the
Danes and the Films attended the
following Revel.
The Exiles May Return.
According to Arne Swabeck the
following New Workers will be in at
sendance if they can get away from
their duties in the Metropolis; Will
liam z. Foster, James P. Cannon and
Jay Lovestone. The boys are getting
homesick and would like to have an
other look at Chicago before they die.
William f. Dunno and Louis ]. Eng
dahl are resigned to their fate as all
editcss should. As for T. J. O'Fla-
herty he will be obliged to enjoy the
Red Revel by the exercise of a lively
Imagination and is looking forward
to the day when the DAILY WORK
Err grows wheels as well as wings
If the Red Revel is a financial rs
well as a social success there is some
talk Of bringing the arrangements
committee to New York to teach the
Gothamites thing or two about
staging Revels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
New Jersey Workers at
Ruthenberg Memorial

Continued from Page ONs)
the Pioneers. Five policemen were
present but there was no disturbance.
Other Meetings.
Yesterday q meeting was held at
Utica, N. Y, while tonight hundreds
of workers will gather at memorial
meetings at Schenectady, n. Y, Lu-
zerne, Pa. Superior Wis. and several
other cities.
More This Week.
The following meetings will be held
this week:
Upper New York State.
Schenectady, n. Y, March 18th.
Albany, N. Y, March 10th, Sons
of Italy Hall. 12O Madison Avenue.
Troy, N. Y, March 18th.
Binghamton, N. Y, March 18th.
jamestown. n. y, March 10th.
Ithaca, N. Y. March 10Th.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. March goth,
Newark Meeting.
Newark, Friday, March is. A,
Markoff. Montgomery Hall.
washington meeting.
Washington, d. c., Monday, March
21st.
Messages Still Arrive.
Messages on the death of Comrade
c. f.. Ruthenberg are still arriving
at The DAILY WORKER office.
Ellis Chryssos, Denver, Colo, writes
that he cannot believe that &C. E. il
dead"
B. Akerson, Little Falls, MINI.
writes that Ruthenberg gave his life
for the oppressed class"
4 Nucleus 81, of the Workers (Com
munist) Party, Toledo, Ohio, has
adopted a resolution pledging them
selves to carry out the last words
of Comrade Ruthenberg, "by closing
our ranks and building a stronger
Communist Party and larger cir
culation of our party organ, The
DAILY WORKER"
Mansfield, Ohio, branch of th'
Workers (Communist) Party, Johr
Dekell, secretary, pledges to carry on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-15
Actress Saves Robkowski.

Nine. Olga Petrova, well known ac-
tress, today offered TO provide EN-
ployment for Sabina, Josephine and
Joseph Bobkowski, to save them
from deportation.
The trio entered this country last
November TO enter a dental institute
but Immigration officers, after an
investigation, ordered them deported.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-10-22

Once he looked up an expense bin of traveling state employe and. by consulting the hotel menu, found he had overcharged on a lunch of lamb chops. Donahey marked or 25 cents from the expense account.
 Like Al Smith. Donahey has his own conception of the use of the English language, and oftentimes horrifies the highbrows by his gram- mar and pronunciation. He talks to the Cleveland Chamber of Com- merce just the same as he addressee Q gang of hog raising farmers.
 Donahey is big fellow, tall and wide. He has voice like the roar of a bull. and knows all the flag waving, easle-screaming tricks ol oratory. He's a devout prohibition ist, and his proudest boast Is that he's never trod the sinful streets q New York.
 The Donahey family comprises Margaret. Elizabeth (Mrs. Paxa ogden). Robert. John. Hal. Richard, James, Dorothy. A. Victor, IT,. anf Marion. Two other children die1