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The daily worker., 1927-06-03
WOMEN AND WAR
By MARGARET CowL.

Twenty-Five million men, and children were
sacrificed in the last World War Emphasis laid
upon the slogan, "a War to End All Wars" when it was
addressed to women. And millions of women in the
United States went into the factories, replacing their
husbands and brothers who carried away to
the battlefields in "war to end all wars"
On the heels of the war; not the golden promises
made to the workers by the government In addition to
the loss of brothers and husbands in the
skyhgh rents soaring food prices impossible prices for
clothing, slashing of wages and intense unemployment
the reward for the workers without whom this
try could not have been made the ches country in the
world" (Rich for employers ony.)
For American working women, the afterperiod of the
average starvation wage of $1400 per
week. to the proletaran housewife the problem of keep
ing up her family during the strike and unemployment
period.
Humanity not yet recovered from the destruction
of the last Now again. the mouths of guns are
smoking ITO protect American life and property" is
the present for sending of warshps and troops
into China
BY sending So warships to China America has Joined
the other mperiasts of England Japan France, Italy,
etc. in attempt to crush the workers revolt in China
against all exploitation The imperiasts fear that if
workers government will be established in China, they
the mperiasts will not be able to exploit the Chinese
people for profits they did up till now
War is not officially declared against China, but
troops from the above named countries firing their
guns upon Chinese men, and children This act
alone is an unofficial against China.
In the Soviet Union there is workers government.
The Soviet Union is calling upon workers in other
tries to protest against the attempt OF American Brit
ish, Japanese, French, Italian ETC., imperiasts to
throttle the Chinese revouton they call upon the work
ers to protest against world slaughter. The i'm
periaiss do not like this appeal by the Soviet Union,
therefore they trying to provoke Russia into
All countries will ally themselves against these two
great countriesthe Soviet Union where workers gov
exists and China where the workers are fight
ing for liberation.
The working class will again be called upon to
help the side of the mperialsts.
But working women must not betray our husbands,
sons and brothers. We must help to prevent men
folk from marching blndly into fresh murder.
We must declare to struggle against all those who try
to ull the workers with the lie that there is in
China. While these agents preach peace to us, the
mouths Of guns breathing tongues of fire in China
The must join the ranks of the fighters against
Women must join in demanding for
Hands off China
Hands off the Soviet Union!
Withdrawal by America of warships and troops from
Chinal
Against the transport of and troops
Fight against instigators of WarI
The daily worker., 1927-06-03

for radicals Soviet Russia is of Mr.. Easleys
chief abominaton He has freely sponsored the cause
Of the Czarists, with Mr. Boris Braso his chief ad
wiser Mr.. Braso of the heads Of the old Russian
Black Hundred to the United States as refugee
from the revolution to enlist support for the restoration
of the Czar.
In the National Civic Federation Review in 1920 he
advocated recognizing "the Omsk government Of Ad-
miral Kochak" He supported the claims of the Grand
Duke Cyril whom he represented in the United States,
and offciated at royalst gathering in 1924 at the
Hotel Plaza attended by the reigning Czarina, the
Grand Duchess Cyril" He also Mr.. Ford's pay
roll and boased that Gin year he had written two
books that would do the Jews injury than ten
pogroms"
Mr.. Easley and his Federation joined with other
ganizations we'll with Noel Sargent of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers in attempting to
break the strike of textile workers in Passac in 1926.
In this connection he wrote in letter to Mr. Ivy L. Lee
april 1926 that Mussolin would make short work"
of Prof Scott Nearing, the Rev. Harry F. Ward G. E.
Ruthenberg and a the other Red and Pink organizers
who either conducting aiding and abetting the
lesson in Revolution at Passaic"
None of the above mentioned have spoken in
Passac in connection with the strike but this makes
difference to Mr.. Easey He is unhappy in the thought
that have Mussolin in America to attend to such
people In the letter to Mr. Lee, he charges Prof
Jerome Davis of the Yale Divinity School and President
Henry N. MacCracken of Vassar College with being
"Soviet defenders
Ito be cOntinued)
The daily worker., 1927-06-03
FINANCES OF THE STRIKE.

Of all the charges" against the
Joint Board officers, that of having
"extravagantly wasted the Union
funds in the General Strike, has been
most frequently used by the officials
of the Right Wing in explanation of
the expulsions. Since the public had
no way of ascertaining the truth of
the matter, it was easy to broadcast
a general impression that money had
been mishandled and possibly even
embezzled, in order to obscure the
real issues at stake.
Even casual examination of the
facts, however, proves conclusively
that the extravaganza" charge, like
the Communism" charge, is with
out basis.
All of the finances of the strike
were under the control of Finance
Committee, of which Abraham Baroff,
Secretary-Treasurer of the Inter
national, was the Chairman, and on
which every important local, includ-
ing the Right Wing locals, were
represented.
The money expended was allotted
to the committees in charge of vari-
Gus departments of the strike. Act
ual disbursements were made by
checks signed by Joseph Fish, then
Secretary-Treasurer of the Joint
Board and member of the Right
Wing.
The total amount expended for the
entire strike period of twenty-four
weeks probably was three and one
half million dollars, with Committee
appropriations proportional to the
amounts spent during the twenty
weeks reported upon to the General
Strike Committee.
The last report Of strike ex-
penditures made to the General Strike
Committee before the expulsions took
place, covered twenty weeks of strike,
from July l until November 18, 1926.
The total amount expended during
this period was $2,794,00O.
Modest Payments.
Of this amount $1,37O,00O was
spent for strike benefits, which was
distributed, after the eighth week of
the strike, on the basis of $500 a
week for single men and $500 a
week for family men. These amounts
were later increased to $500 and
$1,000.
1t is worthy of note, in this con-
nection, that none of the officers of
the Left Wing of the cloalmakers ac-
cepted any pay up to the nineteenth
week of the strike excepting $1,000
week for expenses. Right Wing
officers, including President Sigman,
received their full pay, and did not
even donate 20 per cent to the strike
fund, as did all workers who were
sent back to work in settled shops.
Outside of strike benefits, which
must be discounted since it was paid
directly to the workers, the expenses
The daily worker., 1927-06-03

of the twenty weeks of strike
amounted to nearly million and
half dollars. Of this sum, the Right
Wing Chairmen Of two Committees
spent $779,212; the Left Wing Chair
men of three Committees spent $685.
091; and $251 ,687 was spent for gen
eral expenses which cannot be as
signed to either group.
In other words, of the funds which
passed directly through the hands of
Committee Chairmen, the Right
Wing Chairmen spent twice as much
as the Left Wing ChaiImen; and of
the entire funds of the strike, only
about one-seventh was in the hands
of members Of the Left Wing at all!
Sigman's Charges Flat.
1t is apparent that President Sig
mans charges Of "wasteful extrava-
gance" in the conduct of the strike
are entirely without foundation.
The three Committees headed by
Left Wing Chairmen carried on the
important mass work of the strike.
The Picket Committee, headed by
Joseph Goretzlky, made its principal
expenditures for the "coffee and
cake" committees, so called because
the active workers, who picketed New
York shops night and day, received
only $15 a week for their meals. In
the fifteenth week Of the strike, this
was raised to 500. These workers
were not paid strike benefits.
The Hall Committee, headed by
Joseph Boruchowitz, kept it's expendi-
lures very low in comparison with ex-
penditures for this Committee in
other strikes. This was due to the
fact that its several hundred members
gave all of their time to the work
of the Committee without salary, re-
ceiving only $40 week for expenses,
and no strike benefit This amount
was later raised to SIS.
The Organization Com mittee,
headed by Nathan Kaplan, spent
nearly ninety percent of its appro-
priation for payment Of professional
accountants who investigated the
books of settled shops to see that no
scab work was done. Nearly a quar-
ter of this amount was recovered
from employers for the work of the
! accountants.
There were four Committees headed
by Chairmen from the Right Wing.
Of these, the Finance Committee and
the Settlement Committee made no
large disbursements. The Out-of-
Town Committee, and the Law Com
nittee, that together spent nearly
one-half of the strike funds, outside
of strike benefit, did not need to use
large masses of people, as did the
Picket, Hall, and Organization Com
mittees.
That the 1926 strike was an eco
nomical one, and that those depart
ments over which the Left Wing had
control made even greater savings
than did the Right Wing departments,
is shown by comparison of recent
strikes and stoppage:
The daily worker., 1927-06-03

N C. pratng fairness
make the ykes his New Leader"
of intelligence S humanity conceivable
little study Underground Racaism" Pepper
profoundly According him the
practically proletaran mostly composed of
the Tammany
Hqut ambition this
conditions
objective position P. willing
labor bureaucracy
of the
let them
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the W. mistake) (Fos
E. to task for the attack such aherous labor takers
Miners of Carpenters Infamous
this sink may vest
thinks
finally touched bottom, finds
depth professors pounders lawyers
editors today that
the reacionary Sons the American
their approval to the proposed legal assassination these
workers their held Richmond
the editor of the New Leader the member of p
the theoretical light of that
L. D. has devoted much Of its time to collecting funds for the purpose
of obtaining legal aid for Vanze
murder Massachusetts, the case
believed to be innocent" bold face mine--T H. 81
With this intellectual comps one aues
tion remains to be at this
time? Undoubtedly theoretical"
tack Of the class coaboraors the left the
If interested political deprayy
this book worth
derou of learning something movement
then the book is than him. better purchase
tales OF Baron Munchaun and entertaining better
structed lies THOMAS IT, STONE.
The daily worker., 1927-06-03
PROFESSIONAL PATRIOTS

Ebert H. Gary T. Coleman DUPONT, William
K. Vanderbilt, Albert Fall (of oil fanae), and
others, are among the financial supporters Of
the OG1ous 'patriotic" societies noa0 function&ng
IN the United States
The uses of these organizations as organs for
suppreSsing radical and liberal opinion and trade
u,aiO1S are being explained IN this series.
The daily worker., 1927-06-03
The Left Wing in the Garment Unions
By MARGARET LARKIN

The financing of the great strike of 1926 has sub
ect of amending misrepresentation both capitalist and rioht
ng Accusations haze been hurled the Board
leaders hich altogether ouaded Margaret Larkin odQy
discusses those charges and offers complete reputation of hem
The daily worker., 1927-06-03
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS

The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters
from its readers stating their views the
fronting the labor movement. 1t is hope to de-
velop Letter Box" department that will be of wide
interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family.
Send in your letter today to "The Letter Box" The
DAILY WORKER. 33 First street. New York City,
The daily worker., 1927-06-03

N
yoke support his
n of intelligence is humanity conceivable.
The daily worker., 1927-06-03
Continued from first column)

s. COMMITTEES headed by Left Wing Chairmen in 1926
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
WIFE SUES HUSBAND.

Emanuel Preston, 900 Rhode Island
avenue northeast. has been made
defendant in a suit in Equity Court
filed by Madeline Farrar Preston, his
wife, 1743 P street, in which she asks
maintenance for herself and minor
child. The plaintiff, through ATTORNEY
j. Robert Esher, alleges abuse and
drunkenness on the part of the hus
band, and says that on July -, last.
both parties agreed to live apart, the
husband agreeing to contribute a
small sum for the support Of herself
and child. On July %, she tells the
court, the husband obtained the child
promising to return her that evening.
but has failed to do so, and she adds
that he called on the telephone saving
that he was going to take the child
back to his native country, Greece.
She asks the court for writ of ne
eXeat to prevent the defendant from
leaving the jurisdiction and she also
asks the custody of the child.
The couple were married at Ports
mouth, Va, December %, 1920, and
the plaintiff says that the husband is
employed as an engineer at 5000
month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
HEAVY FLOOD TOLL
REPORTED IN INDIA
Great Loss of Life Feared at
Bar0da-Rains Inundate
Entire Region.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 30.--Great concern
over the flood situation at Baroda Is
reported in special dispatches from
Bombay. The region was inundated
after heavy rains lasting several days,
and while news has been received
from Ahmedabad and other affected
centers. the Daily Mail correspondent
says that Boroda, about 240 miles
north Of Bombay, appears to have
been entirely cut off from the out
side world since Monday by sheet
of water 10 feet deep.
A late dispatch to Reuters from
Bombay states that railroad communi.
cation to Baroda from the direction
of Delhi has been restored, but gives
no details.
Everybody is asking what happened
there. Many rumors are current OF
great loss of life. but nothing has
been received to substantiate them.
The Bombay newspaper. Times OF
India, calls upon the government to
arrange for an airplane survey of the
Baroda area and takes the occasion to
preach the necessity of radio com
munication throughout India. 1T en-
phasizes that although Bombay is able
to communicate with England by
beam radio without difficulty. it can
not get in touch with Baroda, with
it's 100000 inhabitants.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail says
there is anxiety over the Bombay
steamer Irrawaddy, due at karachi
Wednesday, which has not been re-
ported.
Damages to the Bombay Baroda Rail-
road probab bly, amount to S1,000,000
The floods are subsiding.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
AMBULANCES ORDERED
OBSERVE SPEED LAW

Complaint against the excessive
speed of hospital ambulances caused
DR.. Joseph D. Rodgers, superintendent
of Casualty Hospital. to issue an order
yesterday directing the ambulances of
that institution adhere strictly to the
speed laws and not at any time exceed
the 22mile- an-hour limit
The complaints were made to the
Commissioners some time ago and
they were referred to Mai Edwin b.
Hesse, who in turn warned the hos
pitfalls that unless the ambulance driv-
ers observed the speed regulations
they would be arrested.
Inspector Charles Evans. acting
superintendent Of police in the absence
of Maj. Hesse, who is in Atlantic City
on a brief vacation, explained that
while the police regulations give am
balances. as well as fire apparatus
and vehicles of the Water Department
the right of way over all other We
hicles, ambulances are not authorized
to exceed the speed limit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
PULITZER'S WIDOW
WAS WASHINGTONIAN
Member of Old Georgetown Family
Was Former Kate Davis, and
Married Here.

Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer. widow Of the
founder of The World. New York. who
died yesterday at Deauville. France,
was a member of an old Georgetown
family and lived here prior to her mar
riaee at Epiphany Church on June 10
1878.
She was the former Kate Davis. a
daughter of the late Judge William
Worthington Davis and Catherine
Louise Worthington. Her parents
were first cousins and she was a sec.
ond cousin of Jefferson Davis, presi-
dent of the Confederate States of
the Confederate States Of America.
Her parents were married at Epiph-
any 80 years before her marriage at
the same altar. She was married by
Rev. ]. II. Chew.
Mrs. Pulitzer always maintained her
af1liation with the Protestant Episco-
pal Church and at the time of her
death was a member of st. Thomas
Church. New York. After her mar
riage she went to st. Louis. where Mr..
Pulitzer founded the Post Dispatch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
HEARINGS ON FALLS
POWER PLANS SET
First Probably Will Be Held
at Harpers Ferry Aug. "a
and Second Here Aug. rs.

The public hearings to he held by
the Army Engineer Corps on the pro
posed development of water power NJ
Great Falls have been scheduled ten
tatively for August "a and %. If
these dates are fixed definitely. the
session on the first day will he held
at Harpers Ferry, W. Va, and the sec
ond day in Washington. probably in
the auditorium of the Interior Depart
ment.
The pending application of the To
tomac River Corporation of Whining
ton. Del. calls for dam and power
house st Harpers Ferry and a storage
dam at Charles Town. w. Va, in ad-
dition to the Great Falls end of the
project.
The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission is prepared 10
offer strong opposition to the develop
ment of power between Great Falls
and Washington. chiefly on the ground
that it would destroy one of the
greatest scenic attractions of the
Capital City.
1t is customary for the War Depart
ment to make a preliminary report TO
the Federal Power Commission before
any water-power project is passed on
finally. and the proposed hearings in
August by the local Army engineer
will be a step in the preparation OF
that report. The War Department
inquiry is being made by Mai Brehon
Somervell, engineer for this district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
WILLIAM H. WARNER
CLAIMED BY DEATH
Veteran Cigar Store Proprietor Elk
pires After Two Week Illness.
Funeral Monday.

William II. Warner, 55 years old.
Nroprietor of the cigar store at 935
II street and in the cigar business in
this city for the past 35 years. died
at his home. 1903 Hamilton street.
yesterday after two weeks illness.
Mr.. Warner began in the cigar bust
ness at sos Ninth street, and later was
in business at Eleventh and F. streets.
He was widely known in this city.
He was prominent in Masonic cir.
cles. belonging to Federal Lodge, No.
l, F. A. A. NJ; Washington Command
cry, knights Templar; Naomi Chap
ter. o. Z. S.. and Almas Temple of the
Mystic Shrine. He also belonged TO
the Kiwanis Club, City Club and the
Monarch Club.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Florence A. Warner and three sons.
Harmon X. Warner. Clarence w. War
ner and Albert r. Warner.
Funeral services will be conducted
at his late residence Monday afternoon
at . o'clock. Rev. Newton D. Sim.
monds, pastor of the Highlands Bap-
fist Church, assisted by Rev. w. w.
Shearer. pastor of St Columbia's Epis-
copal Church, will officiate. Interment
will be in GlenWood Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
FORD PERSONALLY TESTS
NEW CAR ON ROADS

DETROIT, July 30.-Motor and
speed tests of the new automobile
shortly to be introduced on the mar
ket by the Ford Motor Co. are being
made personally by Henry Ford. 1t
was announced today.
The manufacturer has been engaged
for the past few weeks in driving the
car over roads in the vicinity of Dear.
born, Mich, the announcement from
the executive Office Of the organization
said. The result Of the tests were not
disclosed and officials did not indicate
if they were in the nature of final try.
outs.
Ford. who celebrated his sixty.
fourth birthday quietly at home today,
indicated he had completely recovered
from injuries received in a recent &C.
cident.
II fee1s better and have greater
interest in life than was the case four
years ago, because ] have new job
to tackle that was unforeseen then"
he told associates. THE new job"
was taken to refer to his new car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
-FOUR PROBES BEGIN
INTO BOAT SINKING
Death Toll Stands at 27 as
Search Fails to Yield
Further Bodies.

CHICAGO. Juy 30.-A day spent in
searching for bodies failed to reveal
any additional victims of Thursdays
AXE tragedy and the death toll today
still stood at q. as four different in
quaries into the sinking of the ex-
cursion boat Favorite were under
way.
Several passengers of the Inflated
craft who had been reported missing
were accounted for today, having been
among the first to he rescued and
soon lost sight of in the confusion
which followed.
Coast Guards who dragged the lake
near the place the boat fioundered
and turned over said they believed
there were no more bodies and aban-
doned further search.
At the same time, the coroner, the
States attorney, the police and the
United States steamboat inspection
service were conducting inquiries into
the tragedy but they had arrived at
no definite evidences of criminal
liability for the disaster.
Skipper Is Exonerated.
Capt. Arthur Olson. skipper of the
Favorite, although held in technical
custody. was eXonerated of any blame
by William A. Hofnauer, millionaire
yachtsman, whose craft stood by and
aided in the rescue of most Of the
excursion boat passengers.
The sportsman told investiga tors
that Capt. Olson had acted heroically,
doing the utmost for the safety and
rescue of his passengers. He said
the squalt which hit the boat, send
ing its passengers scurrying to
shelter on one side and causing the
boat to list until it toppled over and
sank, came up so suddenly and was
so terrific that there was nothing
that could have been done.
Government inspectors said the boat
had been declared seaworthy and was
equipped with enough life preserver3
Tor ITO people. although at the time of
the tragedy there were only about 80
on board. mostly mothers with their
children on an outing
Priest Aids Rescue.
A Catholic priest who was too mod.
est to reveal his name was found to.
day to have been one of the MANI
heroes in the disaster to the Inflated
excursion boat.
The priest, visitor in the city for
few days, took two little girls. daugh.
ters of friend, for boat trip and
chose the Favorite. When the suuall
came up. the priest fitted life preserv.
ers on his charges and after the boat
sank succeeded in reaching them and
several other children and bringing
them to the side of the vessel, where
they chung until rescued
Finally, some of those rescued said.
he had half dozen little tots by his
side, all clinging to the Favorite when
the first relief boats came. The priest,
found at the home Of one of the chill.
dren he saved, acknowledged he aided
IN the rescue work, but declined to
give his name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-30
Highways Needed
In Arkansas, IL C..
Advises Railroad

Arkansas needs adequate high
ways rather than new railroads,
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion today informed the Reader
Railroad Of that State in rejecting
the company's application to con-
struct 70 miles OF tracks. The road
planned to build 50 miles from
Hope to Ell Dorado, with a 15-mile
branch from Waterloo to Mcneil,
all points in Arkansas.
THE great need of this territory"
the commission said. lis for ade-
quate highways rather than for
new railroads"
The commission also stated that
another reason for rejecting the
application was due to the fact that
the territory through which the
new road was designed to run could
he reached effectively by branches
from existing trunk lines. and 1t
was declared further that the pos
sibilities Of developing new traffic
did not justify the Reader concern
In making the contemplated invest.
ment.