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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-05-05

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-05-05

Five-storied houses have been I'M
earthed at Ostia. the harbor town OF
ancient Rome
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-05-05

King George of Great Britain has
adopted the style of wearing violets
on his lapel, held in place by an elias
tic band sewed to his coat
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-05-05

The brain of child of two years is
four times the weight at birth and
one-half the adult weight.
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SOFT NICKETY NACKETY NOW NOW NOW
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The Kentucky Wonder Bean with his Double Barreied
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6078 SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK-MEsDLEY
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME Medley
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
The Close of the Petlura Case.

Only the white guard eXe from the Soviet Union and
rabd anSemtes will find fault with French Jury that
liberated Samuel Schwarzbad who twice
that he killed Simon Peura avenge the thousands of
who massacred during the period Peura
rorlzed the Ukraine.
Let think however, that France declared open
white guard generals equally guilty Petura
tho ghtf slaughter Of countless thousands during the years
the cors of the for democracy substituting
butchers effort destroy the Bolshevik revolution
During the trial the defense hoty denied any Bohevk ten
dences and relied exclusively the theory
Had there been the slightest evidence sympathy
Bohevism the verdict probably would have been different
national and religious defense the French bourgeose could
afford to be lenient.
then assassination essentially bourgeois weapon and
has nothing in with revolutionary tactics which
upon the protaat avenge against
the workers. Glass oppression only be by wagng
the class struggle it is that struggle that had eliminated Petura
to the revolution long before bullet
ended his miserable existence an individual
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
The ZeigIer Case-Part Of the Left Wing Struggle
Against Reaction

announcement five Of the ZegeT Ill., defendants
must serve fourteen years Joliet pen
Tertiary the supreme court having upheld their conviction for
assault another blow struck III the the militant coal
that has carried in intensive fashion for
than five years by the blacklist OF capitalist tools that
cursed labor movement
1t Frank harrington president of District T. United
Mine Workers later found be the payroll Of the Peabody Coal
Company who with his henchmen III the Zegler subdrct
gained and financed the prosecution Of these miners.
In revolt against open seou by the officials to local
coal the question short tonnage Mike Sarovch
shot and killed by kansan whom the grand jury refuse
ndc Saroyich Communist and the grand jury in
ectng jury findings which charged Hargis with
murder evidently the belief that it is not murder
kill Communistespecay he OF the unions saunchest
fighters against official reaction and oregnbon worker to
boot.
These miners be to prison because they defended
themselves against Cobb of the subrct officials and his
gang of khan thugs
They have been convicted technically of assault but actually
they fought the Harrington machine whose united
front with the coal barons while making the militant
all but destroyed the United Mine Workers of America
khan jury, khan judge and bosses agents in the official
circles in the union, sending these miners to jail
Harrington has passed but Lewis remains The Zegr de-
the prisoners of the Lewis machine just truly
if Lewis himself locked the cell doors upon them
The Zegr grew of and cannot be separated from
the whole struggle of the left wing for militant labor
ment AS such the must be viewed and supported
Needle trades workers. who have the rameup worked
by reaconay odom against left wing leaders and rank and
frs will find in the Zeigler that parallels their
long from the garment factories of New York to
the coal of Illinois but the struggle of the workers the
same and the methods of REACTION go the same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
A Naive Doctor
By B. LIBER.
(From his forthcoming book
THE Healcrs.")

NR, WILLIAM STRAIGHT had been
y in practice for one year when a
man with heart disease came t. -.
office. After the examination he toIG
the patient to give up his work fos
at least six months. A smile of pity
for the doctors candidness was the
answer.
"Maybe you can find some other
work, something lighter" suggested
DR. Straight.
ooh, doctor, it is so hard to get a
Job nowadays! l must stick to mine"
Can you at least be excused from
overtime work, so that you can have
the evening for yourself?"
THAT is impossible at present, dur
ing the rush"
Impossible? Impossible? Wen
see"
William was determined to act. The
next day he went to his patients shop
and asked to see the head of the firm.
lie was waiting in the office and
speaking to ono of the foremen.
Through the thin board partition the
doafening roar of the machines came
in partly muffled, But each time the
door toward the shop was opened he
was unable to hear his own voice,
while the cloud of dust brought in bv
the draft made him cough. At last
the chief arrived and his subaltern
introduced the doctor. AS William ex-
planned the object of his visit he no.
ticed on the lips of the employer, as
we'll as on those of the foreman and
OF the stenographers who had stop
ped their work and were listening,
the same smile of sarcastic pity that
he had seen the previous day on the
face of his patient. He felt embar-
raised and stupid, although he did
not understand why, knowing that his
errand was justified and his demand
reasonable.
$50 you want me to exempt your
patient from overtime ?" said the boss
at last. "All right. It will be all
right. He will be excused"
A few days laGer the patients wife
came to Williams office and began
TO abuse him.
What is the matter?"
why, you went to my husbands
shop and denounced him. They don't
want no sick people there and now he
lost his job. What1l l do with my
children? Shame! But wait, I'll fix
you! III tell everybody not to put
their feet in your office! You'll see!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
Strengthen the United Front of LabOrSuppOr the Program
and Candidates Of the Workers Communist Party!

The program of our party the York elections
recy emphasizes the Importance of the present campaign even
tho it in an "off" year
In New York from which possible that not only one but
presidential candidates in 1928 and winch IN any
case one voting population and the
worlds financial center the present campaign IS IN the nature Oh
trial heat for the next year.
There plenty indications that the capitalist parties are
attaching Importance to this years elections The charges
and counharges graft and corruption which fill the press
both parties than usually numerous and vruen
The socialist party obviously preparing for 1928 rejects
united with the Workers Communist Party but socialist
ocadom accepting democratic and republican support for its
judicial candidate Jacob Panken Not only 1t accepting this
support but ocs it the Panken campaign
Heterogeneous collection of lawyers from the ranks OF
both capitalist parties.
Panken principles wants to be able to advertise
cas judge in the campaign next The fact that Panken
socialism not of sufficiently worngclass and militant kind
to prevent his being highly praised and endorsed by
party machine elements does not socialist party offcadom
contrary Panken has become the real leader of the
socialist party in New York.
Socialist capitalist political parties alike have nothing
say the danger With rapid increase in the tension
internationally with the campaign for mtazaon OF the Amer
well under with the offensive against the Soviet
swing might be expected by workers who do not
vet know the socialist party mask for capitalist
Imperialism that party which sometimes condescends to speak
struggle and which makes appeal to workers.
would have something and to offer on this
al-important issue
Similarly the socialist party has nothing the work
New York relative to the increasing police brutality
itself every strike big and little Especially
question the pogrom motion against the rank and file
of the needle trades workers has it nothing to say
The clear The socialist party oftadom has not
only endorsed this open unomashng but has furnished to
F. of offcadom the right wing and the BOSSES theore
zeal justification it.
The program of the Workers Conmunist Party speaks
clearly this question It's proposal for labor party falling
time Labor Ticket to challenge the system
njunction strkebreakng by police gangsersm and the
ameup rejected except by those who against
united labor front
On all issueshousing traction food wages of public
employees social legislation rights of Negroes child labor etc.
the program of party the only which represents the in
est of the workers and the great of the population
Support the program and candidates of the Workers Com
munist) Party
Strengthen the United Front of Labor for the immediate
struggle and the 1923 campaign!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
Money Writes

I boy-a hateful and dangerous anc
bloody minded boy, dreaming of kill
ing all the people whose minds per,
sist in growing beyond his own. He
called it the "white mans burden,
the task of making all the colorec
men into his servants; now that col,
ored men all over the world are OBJ
jecting to being servants, it has
become a matter of Strengthening
whole populations with machine
guns and poison gas and flying ma
chimes, and this old ghost of Kipling
in Surrey knows nothing else but
the jabber of slaughter and the slang
of the slaughter-house. 1t is the point
of view of the cocktail-sippers in that
Shanghai club which boasts of hav-
ing the longest bar in the world.
class superiority and cruelty, jeering
smartness, wit and energy in hui
initiating your fellow beings; and
then the technicalities of the instru-
ments of killing, and of railroads
and steamships and airplanes to take
you to the places where your victims
live. Not long ago one of our popu-
lar magazines announced with great
eclat series of new stories by the
old ghost in Surrey, and l found my
self reading such phrases as "Bosco
absolute" and "a four pip Emma
No doubt the words mean something
and l might find out if l tried; but
why should trouble to learn the
slang Of these depraved wretches?
Poor old ghost in Surrey, the
world refused to go the way he told
it. He put on his prophets robes
and laid down the law, that East
was East and West was West and
never the twain should meet. But
now from Alden to Zululand and
from Angora to Zanzibar, the flap
pers are crowding to the movie pal
aces to see Mary Pickford in 'Little
Annie Rooney" and coming out to
bob their hair and cut short their
skirts! And black boys and yellow
boys joining the Young Communist
League, and setting up a bust of
Lenin instead of an idol in their
huts! Swarnling from hundred diff
ferent lands to the University Of the
East in Moscow, and preparing to
take up the colored mans burden,
of compelling the white man to be-
come comrade instead of killer!
| never was inside a dragon, and
can't say how he felt when st.
George stuck his spear into him, but
his noises must have been like the
poems we get from the old ghost of
Kipling in Surrey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
Letters From Our Readers
Afraid of Getting Captured.

Editor, Daily WORKER
In recent study of Company
Unions and Organized Labor" by the
Methodist Federation of Social Ser
vice, appearing in the Railway Con-
ductor for August 1927, one page out
of the four on this subject was devoted
to the left wing views and activity
in combating company unions. The
ten PORTS of criticism of company
union by R. w. Dunn, in his PAM
billet Company Unions" issued by the
Trade Union Educational League are
quoted as "Labcr's argument bv
spokesman of the left wing" They
quote paragraph from the conclusion
of that pamphlet contributed by VIM.
Z. Foster, which shows the company
union as an attempt to ward off union
organization, as well as Fosters con-
clusion that the company unions are
most prominent in the basic, trusti-
fled industries which the labor lead
ers have failed to organize.
"Can the company union be cap
tured?" asks the federation. can at
tempt would be in harmony with the
Communist policy of boring from
within" 1t then quotes the warning
given Chicago employers by the
American Plan Open Shop Confer.
ence: "Do not form any club of en-
ployes. 1t proves to be an invitation
to the union to come in and take them
over. The Engineers Club has gone
lock, stock and barrel into the Hoist
ing Engineers Local. In a few cases,
company unions have actually been
captured for a time by trade unions"
Recognition of the powerful influ-
ence of the Communist shop papers
is made as follows: Gan aggressive
effort to influence the industrial coun-
Gil in the Mccormick harvester plant
is being made by Communist employees
who distribute at the gates their milf.
tant little paper, The Harvests2f
Worker" 1t should be stated that the
paper is written by Communists and
other workers employed by the litter
national Harvester Co. H. ".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
Continued from Last Issue.)
VII.
Young America

! THERE are several ways by which
we might approach the subject
of present-day art and it's economic
Interpretation. The easiest for me,
and probably the most entertaining
for you, will be photographed.
Let me show you the world upon
which l first opened my literary
eyes.
am youth of eighteen, just
out of college. l have been carefully
taught by several professors that to
read book less than fifty years
old is an unworthy and degrading
action, and consequently l have never
done it. l carry around with me
some little red volumes of Horace,
with which l beguile my spare hours
while collecting material for obitu-
airy notices for the New York Eve
ming Post" All the rest of my life
it will be possible for me to be pa
tient with young literary tories, re-
membering the chain-mail suit of
prejudice into which I was rivetted
by my professors of academic snob-
berry.
Somehow or other ! fell from
grace; there came into my hands a
copy of Barrie's Sentimental Tom
my" and for the first time it dawned
upon my young mind that works of
genius might be appearing now. You
cannot imagine the revolutionary ma
cure Of that idea, to one who had
been taught that the roll of liter
airy greatness was closed and sealed
L began to read modern books, and
the little red volumes of Horace ac-
cumulated dust.
This literary world of my youth
was dominated by a writer named
kipling, an Englishman, you may
remember; he is dead long since, but
ghost of him haunts manor-house
somewhere in Surrey, and squeaks
and gibbers on the front page of
the "Times" london, New York,
Seattle and Los Angeles-wheneve
the bulldog breed is called out to
bite stranger. This man is one
Of the tragedies Of our literature,
because he had so many of the great
qualities, energy, storytelling pow
er, singing fervor But his mind
stopped growing, and he stayed a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28

Also there was a lady novelist
whom everybody read, truly ad-
vanced and intellectual lady who be-
longed to the very highest English
society, and invited all America to
come in with her. When a new book
of hers was published, the stacks in
the department stores looked like for
tifications, and with every volume
you got a premier free-no, not a
premium, but real live premier Of
the British Empire, with all his heart
secrets, and how his political enemies
tried to ruin him by making it ap-
pear that he had-well, you know
what | mean, but it wasn't said in
plain words, because young girls read
Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
We had American novelists also.
There was our Richard Harding
Davis, very much like Kipling, only
he told about handsome young Amer
lean engineers who went to Central
America and put the spiggoties in
their places, with the help of the
American navy arriving gloriously in
the last chapter to put down the bad
revolutionists and put in the good
ones, just as we are doing today in
Nicaragua. Also Davis wrote the
most perfectly lovely stories about a
young society darling named Van
Bibber, who solved all kinds of prob
lens and set everything in the world
right with the most wonderful grace;
he thought nothing of knocking out
three terrible thugs with one arm
while holding his fainting lady love
upon the other. The Van Bibber pa
pers thrilled the reads of "Scribner's,"
while "Harper's" featured Mrs. Ward,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
By Upton Sinclair

if l remember, and the Century
specialized in another lady--what was
her name, she wrote "Little Lord
Fauntleroy," and the best English So
ciety received her, and permitted her
to tell US about their love affairs.
Also there was Henry James, a
"Scribner" writer, too, and read
every line of his thirty or forty nov
els; because l had come to realize
that l must know what our ruling
classes were like, and James was the
man who would tell me. He had the
most scrupulous regard for truth--he
thought nothing Of using up eight
hundred pages to find out exactly
what had happened in the way of a
sexual intrigue between two of his
characters twenty years ago, and to
show you the writings and stwistings
of the souls of these characters while
the old guilty secret was coming out.
For years | read these rather nasty
scandals of the rich, and couldn't
understand why it should be of such
supreme Importance whether she did
or she didn't, whether he had or he
hadn't. AS with everything else in the
modern world, it remained a mystery
until came to study economies, and
realized that under the bourgeois law
such old scandals determine property
rights. 1t is upon property that bour-
geois society is built, and it is prop
erty that decides whether people are
worthy of having their scandals pried
into and exposed by great geniuses
like Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Henry
James.
Ito Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28

provided nothing in the way of hui
man, elevating amusement for it's
thousands who are born only to create
cities for the master class, and them
selves perish for want of life and
JOY and happiness.
Night. A forest Of brilliant, flam-
ing Threats are splitting fire around
Youngstown. The flames are raging
in the black night. They will burst
into merciless conflagration one night.
AS you listen in the silence of the
night you begin to hear the distant
rumble as of millions of voices some
where in the flaming heart Of the
steel city Of Youngstown, Ohio: eve
will ask for reckoning!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
A STEEL CITY

smoke-laden atmosphere more hor-
rible, to the point of terror.
A fat, putting priest, tired and
sluggish, with heavy golden cross on
his chest, mingles with the crowd and
disappears in the dark Turing entrance
Of the movie.
Uphill, narrow, dirty streets are
scattered, and reach towards the very
doors of the huge, fiery steel factor
les. Overhead thick black and sooty
sky, through which reddish hot sun,
like copper disk, rolls westward,
Saturday afternoon. Youngstown is
like black seething sea Of released
iron workers. All are black and dirty,
and torn, beyond recognition. 1t is
pay day. All are crowding to the
banks, through which the blood-soaked
dollars are straining only to find their
way back to their original source
Across the street player piano thun-
ders insanely gay march, now break
ing into a plaintive Italian melody,
and then again furiously bursting out
into wild and careless jazz.
What crowd of black, dirty, shad-
ows has gathered around that window
of mirth, and forgetfulness! Soon two
ragged forms armed in lover fashion
follow a gay slavish polka in dance,
repeatedly exclaiming loudly their in
rer joy.
1t has now become dark, and the
darkness is heavy. In the distance,
surrounding the town, the sky is il
Illuminated with golden flames, burst
ing in spark-showers, like so many
craters, calling TO the night-shift to
be annihilated again within its frey
sides.
On Main Street the churches are
Ginning lazily, calling those who do
not work, to service. Tomorrow is
Sunday, and dead hush will prevail
over those crushed lives who have
l.. Ill n. L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
BY MEYER DWORKIN.

q black forest of gigantic smoke
stacks, which are constantly belching
with thick black and yellow smoke,
surrounds the valley where the city
of Youngstown, Ohio, lies. A heavy
curtain of smoke, black, and dirty,
and hot, hangs over the city always.
In the valley, in the shadow of red
and golden white flames which pour
constantly from the huge steel fac
tories which surround the city like
threatening bells, are living and suf-
fering one hundred and seventy thou
sand slaves, and about five thousand
slave drivers.
Through the heart of the valley
runs, like cheap gaudy ribbon, Main
Street, the nest of the mighty, where
all their institutions are located, the
institutions which hold in subsection
and slavery the huge army which
burns its life and youth away within
the prison walls Of the surrounding
FACTORIES.
Here is also the market where the
free slave purchases ali necessities
for the week. Here on Main Street
cheap pianos are sold, cheap automo-
biles, cheap clothing, and cheap food.
Here everything is cheap 1t is pur-
posely designed to satisfy the desire
of the slave who is only born to create
beauty and luxury for the few thous-
ands Of the master class, who own
everything around here, even their
slaves very lives.
Main Street. A market place Of
cheapness. Great throngs of steel
workers are swarming past the banks,
the churches ooh! how many of them
there are here!) the movies, seeking
amusement, escape from the monoton-
Gus factory life that eternally keeps
one as if under a clod. The movies
shouting with their green and brill
: iaut.~sign make .~surroundin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-28
Auction For DAILY WORKER.
The DAILY WORKER:

We had an auction or an evening
party as benefit for The DAILY
WORKER from which the profit was
S2S.10 (twenty-eight dollars and
forty cents) which the Executive
Committee of the Workers Party is
sending you.-John Hakala, Fort
Bragg, Calf.
, 1927-12-20

FROM THE POLICE.

ALL owners Of dogs are required
n to procure from the respective
Police Offices in the Jurisdiction in
which they reside, a new sign for
the year 1928, for which the amount
Of FIRES. 1000 for dogs in the towns,
and Frcs. 200 for dogs in the coun-
try, must be paid, in accordance
with the Police Regulations for st.
Croix.
These signs eau be obtained from
January LIST to February 18th, 1928,
after which date, dogs for which
signs have not been procured, will
be caught and brought to the Police
Station and detained for 3 times "A
hours, after which time they will be
killed, if the owners Go not appear
to claim them, pay q fine OF trcs.
1900 for each dog and procure the
new sign.
Frederiksted Police Office, st.
Croix, V.L.U.S., December Il, 1927.
+. ClULIER,
Director Of Police. .