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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Locomotive Engineer
Convention Worries
Over Labor Banking

CLEVELAND, June 9. 49, Behind
closed doors and in executive session,
the convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers has opened
here.
TO judge from the reports emanat-
ing from the convention, it would APP
pear rather to be disbursements
than workers convention.
The Brotherhood is interested in
several banks-among them being
now the Mitten Bank of Philadelphia,
with which the Brotherhood bank in
that city recently merged This is
"high finance" and takes the mind
of the engineers-or at least the
bureaucracy-aw from the dis
agreeable question of everyday work
hours, wages, working conditions.
Then there is the town building en-
terprise in Venice, Fla, in which the
Brotherhood has invested money and
energy.
It would appear as if the condition
of the engineers in this country, des-
pite the fact that the engineers or
part of them belong to the "aristo-
eracy of labor" would be of greater
moment to the convention, composed,
as it is of men at the throttle, than
business enterprises. But the off
cialdom which is steering into the
field of '1abor capitalism" and is
deeply enmeshed in its already thinks
otherwise.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons
that the convention is behind closed
doors. Workers are beginning to re-
alize that the aspirations of the Of
ficialdom are quite apart from the
everyday struggle of the workers.
There are about 5000 visitors in
the city as a result Of the convention,
this including the 500 delegates. The
convention will last 80 days, it is
reported, and viii be replcte with
balls, outings, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Organizational Problems
BY ARNE SWABECK
By ARNE sWABECK.

the executive committees, editors Of
shop papers, etc. To make sure Of
this, records of members should be
kept safely where they may not fall
into the. hands Of the agents Of the
bosses. Great care should even be
taken Of such records kept in local
Party headquarters or at the homes
of nuclei officials. Reports or docu-
ments referring to names Of members
should not give the name Of the shop,
but merely the shop nuclus numbers
Of such and such industry.
In approaching sympathetic work
ers within the shops our members
must take care when revealing their
Party membership. In addition to re-
ceiving our general propaganda ma
terial such elements should be APP
preached individually by individual
members and not until they have
made application and properly been
accepted in the Party should they
know who the other members are.
1t is always preferable that shop
A"NASl AtIGI Lttali dlLcL WoLktQE noun y
near their place of work. Neverthe-
less as a matter Of safety, such meet
ings must not be arranged so that
they become obvious as nuclei meet
iugs to the boss or his agents. An
other rule Of safety which should be
observed is for shop nuclei members
to distribute their shop bulletins on
other Party literature in the shop
only when there is some reasonable
assurance Of not getting caught in
the act. Distribution Of bulletins, lit
erature, as well as speaking at fac
tory gate meetings should be done by
members of other nuclei; the prepar-
atory organization work to be done
by the nucleus in the shop, however.
While all necessary safety mea-
sures should be taken il must never
theless be recognized that we will not
use caution to the extent of hindering
our work. Fear of victimization should
never cause our members to stop, or
even lessen, their activities; nor to
fail to accept any post in the general
organization Of the struggle, or cease
their regular propaganda activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Ford's Friends Hit Back?

CHICAGO, June 9.-Aaron Sapiro.
Chicago lawyer and farm cooperative
organizer and +. J. Lisman, New York
banker and traction financier, were de-
PENDANTS today in 100000 breach
Of contract suit brought by Andrew
Stevenson, Chicago banker and rail-
road reorganization expert, and James
II. Howard, Clemens, Ia. president Of
the American Economic Institute.
Breach of contract in the reorgani-
zation, Of several mid-western rail-
roads on plans Stevenson claims he
originated, through dealing in the
stocks, was charged in the complaint.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Negroes Protest Slavery.

CLEVELAND. June AT a re-
cent meeting the American Negro
Labor Congress here took action
against the system Of slavery that
prevails in the flooded lower reaches
Of the Mississippi Valley, in the fol-
lowing resolution;
WHEREAS, thousands Of poor col
ored and white farmers and laborers
are the chief sufferers in the Missis-
sippi flood disaster; and
WHEREAS, a system Of partial
slavery due to the fact that Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover releases
the Negroes only to the owners Of
the plantations from which they
came; and
WHEREAS, our brothers have been
and are being treated in a most
shameful manner and are not allowed
any freedom Of action for themselves,
but are made to submit to the dicta-
tons of the relief committee, who
have been acting in an utterly hypo-
critical and unfair manner, increas-
ing rather than alternating the suf-
fering of our brothers; and
WHEREAS, the colored laborers in
the flooded valley have no objection
to working, but do strenuously object
to being cursed, beaten and forced to
work on the levees under the guns
of white civilians; and
WHEREAS, they are not allowed
to leave the relief camps to seek work
wherever they can, without permits
sion Of the white plantation owners;
therefore be it
RESOLVED that the Cleveland To-
cal of the American Negro Labor
Congress do hereby protest and call
upon the president to take immediate
action in the flood district so as to
afford the colored flood victims pro-
lection and the same freedom Of &C
ton as is given the white flood VIC
tins, and so that both white and col
ored flood victims as American citi-
zens may be given the right to leave
the camp as they see fit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Army Floods Farmers.

HOUMA, La, June obstructive
work of incompetent U. S. army en-
gineers, the same engineers whose
policies of levee building made GER
tain the present destructive flood
was sternly rebuked by about two
hundred farmers here today.
A dam erected above the town of
lIouma, Louisiana, by the army, was
backing up the water and drowning
out scores of square miles Of rich cot
ton and sugar cane. The dam was
not needed to save the little city Of
Houma, except in the opinion of the
engineers and the police they had
won over to their view. After vainly
expostulating for some days, the inn
periled farmers blew up the dam.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Saws Hen Hon Pacific.

SAN FRANCISCO, June s.
Around the world in twelve days
with the first hop from San Francisco
to Tokyo.
That is the airplane flight being
considered today by Lieut.. Bert Hall
famous ace.
Lieut.. Hall said he expected the
$500 mile air iaunt from San Fran
cisco to Tokyo could be made in from
so to 60 hours. This ambitious air
feat will be attempted sometime dur
ing August and no later than Sept,
1, Lieut.. Hall asserted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Man in Jail for Life
Practically Dead, Is
Verdict of High Court

A person sent to prison for life
for murder is legally dead, Justice
Fawcett held in Brooklyn Supreme
Court yesterday when he granted
Mrs. Blanche Irene Galloway Webster,
wife of Harold F. Webster, convicted
slayer, the right to resume her maiden
name and inherit her husbands prop
erty.
Webster was sentenced to twenty
years to life imprisonment in Sing
Sing for killing his mother-in-law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
BUILDING TRADES
HEAD IN ROLE OF
A STRIKEDREAKER
Orders Return to Work
With Scab Plumbers

John Halkett, president Of the New
York building trades council, has as
sumed the role of strikebreaker.
In a ukase just made he orders all
building trades in Brooklyn who had
refused to stay on jobs with scab
plumbers, to return to work.
Workers Defy Order.
The order addressed to the business
agents of the crafts involved followed
protest registered with Halkett by
the New York Building Trades En-
ployers' Association, who declared
that the men were violating an agree
ment with the bosses which is opera
tive until January, 1928.
The lie is given to this assertion
by leaders of the union who declare
that their agreement specifically
states that only union men shall be
employed on the various jobs.
Workers in the trades involved in
Halkett's order refuse to be STAN
peded into returning to work and are
indignant at his attempt TO force them
LulO Tie pOsllluu u SCdDbs
Stand With Plumbers.
On two big construction jobs in
Brooklyn all the men had dropped
their tools last week, according to
Dan Quigley, business manager of
Local 791, who reported this fact at
meeting Just held. These are To-
Gated at Eastern Parkway and Wash
ington Ave, and Lafayette Ave. and
Ashland Place. On several other
jobs, he reported, the carpenters were
asking to be taken off the jobs on ac-
count of the presence of seab plumb
ers.
Workers in the locals affected are
giving the cold shoulder to Halkett's
order, declaring that the struggle of
the 5000 striking plumbers in Brook
lyn was a situation of vital concern
to their own progress.
Attack Order.
Morris Rosen, Of Local 791, lead
er of the progressives of the Carpen-
ters' Union, led the fight on the order
of the officialdom. Rosen was for
merly president and business agent
Of Local 376, whose charter was re-
voked because of its fight against the
Bureaucracy in the international
union.
Rosen, in moving that a protest be
sent to the district council of car
penters and to the Building Trades
Council, declared that such an order
is equivalent to forcing the men to
scab.
"The plumbers struggle is our
struggle" he declared. "If they lose
their fight for the five-day week, it
will be a signal for an offensive
against the entire building trades"
Adopt Motion.
The motion, which was adopted by
an overwhelming majority, was ac-
lively supported by McClarkin, trus-
tee of the union. and other members,
who declared that they would under
no circumstances obey the orders of
the officials to return to the jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Mussolini Foe On Trial

ROME, June 9.-Gino Lucetti was
placed on trial today before military
tribunal on charges of having made
an attempt on the life of Premier
Mussolini last September.
Lucetti is alleged to have thrown
a bomb at the Premier's car as he
drove from his summer residence. The
bomb hit the car but rolled away and
exploded without injuring the prem
Ter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Nungesser Search Begun.

HALIFAX, N. s., June o. - The
monoplane Jeanne dare, in which
Major Cotton plans to search the
North Atlantic coast for trace of Cap
tains Nungesser and Coli, missing
French transatlantic filters. was
launched today at st. Johns, NJ. The
plane was flown to the Cuidi Vidi
Lake Aerodrome, which will be the
starting point Of the aerial search.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10

SEWARD, Alaska, June 9.--Cap-
tain Hubert wilkins has abandoned
his attempt to fly from Alaska TO
Greenland, according to advices re-
ceived here today from Fairbanks.
wilkins and his party arrived at
Fairbanks yesterday and related how,
after they were 200 miles out, en-
countered fog so dense that it was
impossible TO proceed with thu flight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Doheny Wants MononoIy.

CHICAGO, June Sunless anti
trust laws are modified to permit re-
stricted production, American oil
companies face long period Of
"profitless operation f. /. Doheny,
the oil magnate, declared today. The
hero Of Teapot Dome agitates for a
complete trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Lindbergh to Get Cash
at Breakfast in His
Honor on June the 18th

Col Charles A. Lindbergh will be
presented with the $4,000 Raymond
Orteig prize which he won by making
his New York to Paris flight, at
breakfast to he given in his honor at
the Hotel Brevoort on Friday morn
ing, June II, according to an an
rouncement made yesterday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, june Y.-Ihe
American wheat crop this year will
fall considerably below recent years,
Secretary Of Agriculture Jardne told
President Coolidge today at the White
House.
Jardine, who has just returned
from a swing around the wheat belt,
said the government report to be is
sued late today would show an even
greater reduction than the 33,00O,O0O
bushels shrinkage estimated in the
last government report
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
At 5 Cents
At 10 Cents

TRADE UNIONS ~ AMERICA
Foster Cannon Browder.
THE LEFT WING IN THE GAR
MENT UNIONS-Margaret Lar
kin.
WHAT'S WRONG IN THE CAR
PENTERS UNION.
LA r OR LIEUTENANTS Of
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM r.
Jay Lovestone.
CLASS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
TO FIGHT IT-Bertram Wolfe.
ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
VIM. 2. Foster.
WORLD LABOR UNTTY-scott
Nearing.
THE GENERAL sTRIKE-John
Pepper.
JIM CONNOLLY AND IRISH
FREEDOM--G. Shuller
PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM
Engels.
COMMUNISM VS.. CHRISTIAN
ISM-BishOp Brown.
MARK AND ENGELS ON RENO-
LUTON IN AMERICA.
LENIN, THE GREAT STRATE-
GIST-Losovsky
STOPPING A WAR-Scott Near
RUSSIA TURNS EAST - Scott
Nearing.
PUBL1C--Scott Nearing.
LABOR LAWS OF SOVIET RUS
STA.
MARRIAGE LAWS or SOVIET
RUSSIA.
l00eo-A story by Upton Sinclair.
THE DAMNED AGITATOR AND
OF Fl y r STORIES-Michasl
Gold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Polish Workers Declare
Pilsudslxi Accessory
(Continued from Page One)

IC0htlH1led TOM Fdgs OneJ
tartan masses of Poland the feeling
of deep love to the motherland Of pro-
letarians and a World Soviet Union
and viii fight against the threat Of
another imperialist war and Pilsud-
skis fascist dictatorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Negro Labor Congress
Protests Slavery

CHICAGO, June 9,-Headed by
Mayor William Hale Thompson, a
special train bearing advocates of inn
mediate flood control measures was
to leave Chicago today for Washing
ton to discuss the problem with Presi-
dent Coolidge.
Many La Sale Street bankers have
been heard to say hard things about
Herbert Hoover lately, because the
official director of flood "relief" has
left out Of the picture most Of the
Chicago capital, and has organized
his "credit corporations" principally
among the financiers of Wall Street,
with local, flood region, bankers as
the distributors of the debt he plans
to impose upon the victimized farm
prs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-10
Some Oppose Debt.

There is large and influential
section of business men, especially
among the manufacturing interests
of Chicago, which has nothing to pro-
fit from the mortgaging and debt
slavery the Hoover plan provides for
Southern farmers, and desires instead
direct gift of rehabilitation funds
from the United States treasury to
the Mississippi victims, so they can
continue to purchase the products of
Chicago and other lake ports.
Advocates Of both these factions
are understood to have pooled their
forces to bring pressure on Coolidge.
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
Speaker Expounds the
Good In Science

"Christian Science: The Chris.
tianity of the Bible" was the sub
ject of a lecture delivered this
week in First Church of Christ,
Scientist, by Robert Stanley Ross,
c. s.. of New York city. Mr.. Ross
Is a member of the board of lecture
ship of the Mother Church, the
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
and spoke to a large audience. He
was introduced by William G.. Bed
erman, first reader of First Church,
under whose auspices the lecture
was given. The lecturer said, in
part:
Referring recently to the healing
efficacy of Christian Science, DIR.
Richard C. Cabot, professor of
clinical medicine and professor of
social ethics at Harvard University,
said: The good effects of Christian
Science see on all sides. I have
not the slightest doubt that 1t does
good, that it cures disease, organic
as well as functional" In this
same connection, DR.. Charles Hun
ter. associate professor of clinical
medicine at the University OF Mani.
toba. said: Christian Science has
helped many persons suffering from
diseases which to the medical prac.
utioner had .defied diagnosis. /"
Finally. DIR. Drummond Shells. a
physician and member of the Brit
isF Parliament. said: Some of the
most remarkable cases / know of,
wonderful cures, have Keen in con-
nectlon with Christian Science.
which I have seen and know"
Recently, for example, l was in.
troduced to an audience by the
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
TOMORROW'S SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Micah --Prophet
of Justice
Rw DEW EDXMA DIN TARED
BY REV. EDWARD TABER

probation of history" We are
told that the prime driver Of
men and molder of events is
economic necessity.
Certainly a nation has no time
to cultivate art or literature or
even religion when the masses
of men have no leisure and are
forever faced with the grim
necessity of using all their
energy in an attempt to wreak
from life a barren existence.
Conditions in Israel and Judah
in the late days of the nations
existence were economically
about as bad as they could be.
There was much display of
wealth and luxury on the part
of the favored few. The great
majority of the people were
miserable almost beyond belief.
A proper understanding of this
fact is necessary to any under
standing of the message of the
prophets. They were teachers
not only of the will Of God. They
were also professors in no un-
certain language against all the
social injustices of the time.
They demanded that the poor
be given a chance. They cried
out against the awful inditfer-
ence of the wealthy DIT the mis-
cradle state of the great multi
tude of the inhabitants.
Micah was a teacher of re-
ligion. But his was a practical
religion. 1t was a religion that
condemned the rich that worked
evil and devised iniquity."
1t is doubtful if the entire
book of Micah was written by
the prophet. At any rate, he
wrote a large part of it. The
book reaches its greatest height
when it asks, What doth the
Lord require of thee but to do
justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God ?"
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
DIR. S|zOO TALK
ON WILL"

The Rev. DIR. Joseph r. Sizoo,
pastor of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. will preach to,
morrow morning on THE Will to
Do"
A special service will be held at
8 a. M, and will he attended by
several hundred boy scouts from
this city and New York. The New
York Scouts arrive early tomorrow
to visit the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. They will also attend the
early morning service at the New
York Avenue Church, which will be
open to the public.
In the evening DR.. Sizoo will de-
liver the seventh of his series of
Sunday evening lectures on Med
iterranean cities. The subject for
this week is 'Pompeii-Ruined Splen.
DOR"
On Thursday the annual Thanks
giving Day service will be held at
/ a. m. DR.. SizOo will preach.
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
"The Abundant Life"
Subject of DR.. Melton

"Sons and Daughters Of God"
will be the evening subject of Rev.
DR.. Fl. 3. Melton, pastor of the
Ninth Street Christian Church,
Ninth and D SITS. n. e. In the
morning he will speak on The
Abundant Life" The Daughters of
America will attend the evening
service. Preceding the sermon each
Sunday night, DR.. Melton gives a
Commute illustrated travel talk.
Tomorrow he will speak on "Je-
rusalem; We See the Holy City;
November p his subject will be
Jericho: We Travel in Danger and
Mystery; December 4. THE Dead
Sea. the Mystery of the Ages;
December II, Egypt. the Bibles
Background December IS, Beth
lehem. the Most Loved Spot on
Earth; December Is. The Other
Wise Man, the Christmas Story
Beautiful"
The Washington times., 1927-11-19

The prophet Micah was a
champion Of social reform. He
was not interested in the cere-
monies of religion. The elab.
crate ritual of the priests meant
little to him.
Like other prophets, he looked
askance at the wanderings OF
his people from the worship OF
Jehovah. The oppression of the
poorer classes weighed heavily
upon him.
Throughout history there have
been social reformers that have
labored against economic injus-
tice. They appeared in France
when conditions became intoI-
cradle under Louis XIV and XVI.
The French revolutionists, Of
course, went to appalling ex-
tremes. Discretion and justice
were cast to the winds, and the
orgy of executions made a true
reign of terror.
In Russia we have recently
seen the overthrow of the last
of the Gears of all the Russias.'
A weak and futile king was
followed, after an attempt al
moderate reform, by the present
Bolshevist regime. Everyone
knows the follies and excuses Of
which the present Russian gov.
eminent has been guilty. AnC
yet it is questionable if condi.
tions today are any worse fol-
the poor than. they were under
the monarchy.
The tendency of all revolution
is to go too far. Things go on
until they reach the breaking
point, and then the people rise
in their fury and the inhibitionS
of years are often expressed in
an orgy of assassination and
turmoil.
There has been much emphasis
of late on "the economic inter.
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
''Plea of Hundred Years, %
Whitley Talk Subject

The Rev. Earle Whitley, pastor of
Vermont Avenue Christian Church,
will speak tomorrow morning on
THE Plea of a Hundred Years"
In the evening his subject will be
THE Master of Men"
Thanksgiving services will be
held Thursday at IL o'clock, with a
special program of music under
direction of W. F. Braithwaite. The
Thanksgiving sermon will be de-
livered by DR.. Whitley.
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
DR.. PIERCE TALK
IN REVIEW

The Rev. DIR. Joseph Fort Newton,
editor of the BEST Sermon" books,
published annually, will review a SER
mon of the Rev. DR.. Jason Noble
Pierce, pastor of the First Congre-
gational Church here, in the forth
coming issue of McCans Magazine.
The comment of DIR. Newton. and an
extract of the sermon of DIR Pierce
follow:
"At the center of the Chris,iSn re-
ligion stands the person of Christ.
Who is He? What is He? Was
Jesus more than a many Was He
the Son of God in sense which no
other man can fill? Such questions
are easy to ask, but difficult to an
swer, because they take us into the
field of personality. where we are but
children in our knowledge. What a
man may be when all his marvellous
possibilities unfold surpasses imagi-
nation. These questions cannot be
settled glibly or all at once. The very
fact that honest and Christ-minded
people hold various opinions in their
answer shows that more light is
needed and more love must be exer-
cised."
The crux of the matter lies in the
question: What Is the real mystery
of Jesus? Surely not in His physical
history. but in the spiritual splendoy
that shone in His bosom transfigur-
ing life. making even ;ts dark riddle
more n1erciful. The wonder of His
life is that He lived what others in
their highest moments only feel. or
dimly see in moods of immaculate
perception. Such heroi" moral grace
stirs us deeply; such spiritual beauty
makes us wistful, and contact with
It works wonders IN the life of man.
The Washington times., 1927-11-19
I EVANGELIST | n
SERMON SERIES

The Rev. Charles A. Shreve, for
mer Washington pastor, will con-
duct evangelistic services at the
Full Gospel Tabernacle. North Cap.
itol and K Streets, beginning No
vember %. The. Rev. Mr.. Shrefe
held several Methodist pastorates
here. the last one being the Nc
Kendree Church, where Aimee Sem
pie Mcpherson conducted an evan
gelistic campaign before building the
famous Angelus Temple in Los An
geles.
The Rev. Mr.. Shreve has preached
in various cities since leaving here.
An all-day service will inaugurate
the meetings here on November ~.
Services will be held nightly except
Saturdays.