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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
SENATOR NORBECk
/ INJURED IN CRASH
In Hospital as Result of COL
Iision Between TaxiCab
| and Automobile.

Senator Peter Norbeck of South
Dakota was injured in a collision be-
tween the taxicab in which he was a
messenger and an automobile OPP
Grated by Joseph lie Mouse, 81 years
old. of 203 East Thornapple street,
Chevy Chase, Md, at the entrance 10
Union Station late last night. lie
Mouse was arrested later on charge
of reckless driving. and released on
$500 bond.
Senator Norbeck was taken to Sib-
ley Hospital in another taxicab,
where it was at first thought his
shoulder and several ribs had been
fractured. Today it was found that
the shoulder fracture had not de-
veloped, although he was suffering
from a badly injured shoulder and a
fracture of the ribs.
In Fairly Good Condition.
f1Yr condition was pronounced good
by physicians Nho said an %-ray pho
tograph would be taken today TO en-
able closer diagnosis Of the injuries.
He was said to have passed the -4$l.<
in better condition than was at first
expected and but little fear is felt for
the outcome of his injuries,
With the Senator at the time was
United States Attorney Olaf Eden of
BrOokins, S. Oak. The Senator had
been in his office until late and was
en- route to the Union Station with Mr..
Eden to transmit a late message out
of town. At the entrance to the Union
Station the taxicab III which Senator
Norbeck was riding, which was oDer-
ated by William f. Brown, 26 years
old, of 80 K street, was struck by the
machine operated by lie Mouse, &C
cording to police.
The latter automobile also collided
with a parked automobile owned by
Paul Gaist of 439 Twentieth street,
which was at the curb.
lie Meuse was held at the sixth pre-
cinct last night on the reckless driv-
ing charge until bond was arranged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
SIX WILL DIE FRIDAY.
Illinois Governor Announces He
Will Not Interfere.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, February 9
(A9.-No executive action win delay
the execution of the six convicts
sentenced to die Friday for the MUIR
der of Deputy Warden Peter Klein.
Gov. Small announced last night.
II will grant no stay in the case
of the Joliet slayers," the governor
declared. Il am familiar with the
facts and convinced the murder of
the officer within prison walls was
most cruel. The case is closed so
far as I am concerned"
He stated he had received no rec
ommendation from the pardon board,
but that he had reached a conclusion
in the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
Grandmother Asks Child.

A petition to be appointed guardian
Of her grandson. John A. Smith, has
been filed in the District Supreme
Court by Mrs. Ada M. Osborne Of
Wardman Park Hotel against her
son-in-law, Garrett A. Smith, of the
Chevy Chase Sanitarium. The parents
of the child are divorced and the
grandmother says the father has
taken the child out of school and is
not financially able to care for him
Attorneys Daniel Thew Wright and
Philip Ershler appear for the grand
mot her
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
Yachtmen Fail to Agree.

LONDON, February 9 Ao).-The In
ternational Yachtmen's Conference,
which began Monday, to seek uniform
in yacht construction,
has failed to reach a complete agree
ment. Resolutions were adopted, how
ever, providing for reimbursement of
the international rule of measure
ments regarding the bow tax, free
board height, sail plans, center
boards, hollow masts, sail area and
cabin tops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
STRAW HATS DISPLAYED.

NEW YORK. February CP-
With snow predicted within a few
hours, one Of the leading male hat
teries opened it's sale of Summer
StraWs.
The window display attracted day
long crowd Of overcoated men, too.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
FAVOR MAGAZINE
CENSORSHIP BILL
Wilson Gets Much Support of
Measure to End Traffic in
Indecent Literature.

Assured of support in his fight to
break up the Nationwide traffic in
indecent pictures and literature, which
he declares are Sowing the seeds Of
moral decay" Representative Wilson,
Democrat, of Mississippi planned 10"
dav to press vigorously for passage
If his bin for a national board of mag
azinc censorship.
While aware that any question or
capeorshiu presents a controversial
issue in Congress, Mr.. Wilson is con
fiaent of gaining enough support IN
the House to force his fight to nnlSh.
His next move will be to bring pres
sure to bear for a hearing ON his btll
before the committee on interstate ana
foreign commerce.
Promised Much Support.
Since the introduction Of his censor
shin bill, Mr.. Wilson has received nun
dreds of communications from clergy
men and leading man and woman or
carnations throughout the country.
MANY of these have requested TO ne
heard by the interstate commerce com
mittee on the question of censorship.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Wilson is bringing
the issue directly to the attention OF
members on the floor of the House and
is accommodating a mass of evidence
in support of his bill to prevent the
distribution of so-called art magazines
and other publications offensive to
public decency.
Included in the list Of magazines
he described to the House yesterday
are a number of q questionable char
acter which Maj. Hesse, Superlntend-
ent of police, has endeavored unsuc'
cessfullv to bar from the neWsstands
in Washington.
Mr.. Wilson, however, is confident
that the authorities in Washington
and elsewhere are enlisted in the fight
to stop this form of traffic in lltera-
ture and believe he has enough moral
support in Congress to bring about
eventually the enactment of national
board of censorship, as provided in his
bill.
Explains His Measure.
Explaining the purpose of this meas
ure, Mr. Wilson told the House that
he does not propose that any magazine
shall escape the surveillance OF censor
ship.
80 long as a magazine conducts
itself on a high moral plane it need
nave IiOIiIlIt5 w IGctl tlC 9AAN3 PA%
When it wallows in the mire Of moral
depravity whether under the name OF
high art or literature, it should be
censored, and If the offense warrants,
suppressed
Offenses against public decency in
the form of nude pictures, Mr.. Wilson
stressed, are not confined solely to
popular magazines of questionable
character. Many of the highest types
of magazines, he declared, are pub
fishing pictures and articles that are
stealing the morals of youth.
IF a person assaults your child in
this country with deadly weapon
that person commits a crime, the
penalty for which is Imprisonment in
the penitentiary," he said. And yet
a person can assault the character of
your children with the deadly weapon
of vulgar and indecent literature and
, pictures and stifie and put to death
the moral life of your child. Yet we
do nothing with that thief and ASA s.
sin of human character. We even
sanction negatively the shipping of
this poison through the agencies en-
gagged in interstate business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-09
Reeal1s Rhessasaa Ga9a2a
I Prescription
6svmr a MgafaaOaa Tasaam@

A s~v, nj druggists established In New York
E;tv rs wears ago has reflied a certain Rheu'
matisn prescription more han million times.
peonln even send for it from foreign countries.
A teaspoonfal of thisfamous Rheumatism pre-
t;u,es = dav sts,ps rheumatic pain and quickly
relieves painful muscles and STIFF. swollen
ioints Local druggists everywhere can supply
YOU. or get Il for you. Price $1.00
kTAiER Il AMEND. EOS Third Ave-. N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Public Relief for Half
Orphans in Washington

WASHINGTON, April Is (FP).-
In its first six months of application,
the new law providing mothers pen
sions" in the District of Columbia
has given regular financial support
to $50 children in 90 families. Two
thirds of these families are white.
More than two-thirds of the total
population of the district is white, but
the colored are as a rule far lower in
the economic scale than are the white
wage workers. This fact is reflected
in the fact that twice as many colored
persons as whites are on the books
of the various charities and public
aid agencies of the district.
Death of the bread-winner is the
chief cause of application by mothers
FOR this public allowance for home
Keeping of their children. The pay
ment is made for the child, to the
mother as agent of the public in car
ing for the child's maintenance. In
each case the investigator for the
Board Of Public Welfare, a govern
meht body, recommends to the board
detailed budget for the family
based on its individual needs. All
such allowance are reviewed at in
tervals of six months or less.
Geo. C. Wilson, secretary of the
board, favors the further enactment
of sick and accident insurance laws
for the district, by congress, in order
that the causes for child dependency
may be further reduced. Many bread
winners are sick for long periods be-
fore they die, and their savings Of
many years as wage workers are con-
sumed by the expense of their final
illness.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Force Doll Makers
To Sign Contracts
Not to Join the Union
By CLARINA NICHOLSON,


"Sign on the dotted hne, or you're
fired
( The 5000 doll makers in New York
City are being given contracts" by
their bosses, and told to get out, if
they don't sign up. The bosses know
their stuff. They call one or two
workers at a time into the office, hand
them the pledges, and tell them if
they don't want their jobs, they know
they can lose them. In signing, the
workers agree:
\ Never to join a union.
Newer to 60 out on strike.
8.-To give the boss 80 days notice,
before quitting the job. (The boss
to give the worker a day notice..
4.-To let the boss take per cent
off his weekly pay, to be returned
later as a "bonus."
Four hundred doll makers in the
last few weeks have refused to sign.
Nine shops are now locked out. The
bosses are organized. The workers
are not
The doll making. industry is new.
Before the war Germany provided the
dolls and toys for American children.
But rev there are probably $4,000
toy makers unorganized-in New
York City. OF these about 5000 are
doll makers, half of them women who
earn at the most SIC and SIT week.
They start at 712 and S13. They make
the dresses and hats for the dolls,
put on the hair, and pack them in
boxes. The men average $50 week,
a few getting as high as $50. They
make the composition, paint the dolls,
cut the bodies and dresses, and set
the eyes The work is almost entirely
piece work.
Most Of the shops employ from so
or GO up TO 200 workers. The large
majority are in the downtown district.
Louis Ainberg, with factory at 155
Spring Street, is president Of the
Manufacturers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Former Socialist
Heads Speakers On
AmeriCanization


George r. Lunn, few years ago
one Of the bright and shining lights
Of the socialist party, former preacher,
later Tammanyite lieutenant-gov-
ernor OF New York and after his de-
feat for that office appointed by AL
Smith as public service commissioner,
is one of the list Of patriotic speakers
who will address Characterization"
meetings the coming week. The week
is devoted by the political lackeys Of
Wall Street to an endeavor to arouse
patriotic frenzy among the youth of
the state in order that Morgan may
have willing dupes to furnish cannon
fodder for his various imperialist ven
lures, especially In China at the pres
ent time.
Among others who will engage in
this drive with the former socialist
are Brig. General George A. Wingate,
Major General James McRae, Col.
William A. Dawkins and Capt. Walter
I. Joyce. From beginning TO end the
campaign will be Qualification OF
imperialist wars and the usual pa
triotic perversion Of history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
American Home Grows
More and More of an
Apartment, Says Govt.

WASHINGTON, (FP). - Amer
leans are becoming not merely ma
ton of town dwelIers but of cliff
dwellers, since the new construction
Of living quarters is mostly in-apart-
nlents, says the U. S. Bureau Of La
Dor Statistics. It presents building
permit summaries for 294 cities hsv-
ing an estimated population, JAY IL
1926, of AZ, 100000 to prove the case.
In 1921 these cities had new CON
struction which included 130,s73 one
family dwellings,, $3.50 two-Family
dwellings, and 54,8t4 dwellings for
three or more families, including
stores. In 1926 there were construe-
ted 1s8,074 one-family houses, ca
29S two-fanily dwellings and 209,-
iF42 dwellings occupied by three on
more families each. A table is pre-
sented showing the change, year by
year.
''These figures" says the bureau.
'wouid tend TO show that we are
becoming a race Of cliff-dwellers. The
year 1926 was the first year that
apartment houses have provided more
new family accommodations than have
one-faInily dwellings,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Lock Out Printers
In Chicago; Change
Name: Now Open Shop

CHICAGO, April 25.-The printing
trade unions here have sent out a
notice calling the attention of union
men to the fact that the Regain Print
ing House, 523 Plymouth Court, has
changed its name to the White Print
ing House, locked out its union work
ers and decided to run as an open
shop. The union effected are Typo
graphical Union 16, Pressmeu's Union
3, Franklin Union 4, Bookbinders'
Union s and Binders Union 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26

as result of the war, reports a net
holders get a return of S9.7S a share.
The statement, however, conceals
the real return on the actual invest
ment by owners of common stock.
The books show the value of this
stock at So share, so the stock
holders in Allied Chemical e Dye got
about 1876 per cent of their invest
ment.
In the years 1921 to 1926 this
company has taken profits totaling
over $1O5, 100000. For the common
stockholders this means return of
$4,000 on each So share or more than
800 per cent in years.
Texas Sulphur's Monopoly.
Texas Gulf Sulphur shows how
control of limited natural resource
enables New York millionaires to levy
hidden tribute on consumers. The
1926 profits of this concern amounted
to $9,3S3,819 or. more than half the
value of the goods it sold to industry.
The gross income of the-company was
only SlS,l5Z,O30.
The report shows the profits as
return Of $3.50 share on the common
stock. But this is no-par stock Of
which 4 shares were issued to the
owners for each $40 share held prior
to 1926. Thus the owners got a re-
turn of Si4.76 on each $40 invested, a
profit of more than 147eo.
In the 7 full years of operation, 1920
to 1926, Texas Gulf Sulphur has made
total profit of $50, 753,661, equiva-
lent to S53.14 on each $40 invested.
This 7-year return of 1910 was pos
,sible because the owners share with
Freeport Sulphur monopoly of the
market. Texas Gulf has such rich
and easily worked deposits that it
stands practically alone in the field.
Powders Profitable.
Hercules Powder Co., formed as an
offshoot of the Dupont powder trust
when the U. S. supreme court ordered
it's dissolution, classes with the very
profitable chemical concerns. It's 1925
profit Of sS,433,919 meant a return
of $1S.l8 on each share of common
stock. In view of the 1000 stock
dividend declared in 1922, this repre-
sents real return of 36.49o on the
investment.
In the last years Hercules Powder
has taken profits totaling 1888, 754,
giving common stockholders 5-yeaf
return of 1867 on their investment.
All the stock Of this concern was dis
tributed to the owners of Dupont stock
when the court ordered the dissolu-
tion of the trust. Hercules Powder
makes, among other things, the black
blasting powder and dynamite which
the U. S. bureau of mines brands as
an unnecessary menace to the lives
of coal miners.
Dupont Gets Rich.
The giant Dupont trust, itself re-
ported a 1926 profit of Sal, 969.574.
equivalent to $13.9S on each share of
common stock. But as ayresult Of
stock dividends Dupont stockholders
now hold AZ shares for every. share
originally purchased so that their
1926 return was really about $3.50 on
their investment in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Sidelights on Passaic Campaign

and working for the election Of Weis-
bord, Bambach and Smelkinson (pots .
as individuals but as labor repre-
sentatives) had no conception with
few exceptions Of the class struggleg
On Picket Lime. 1e-s4
True they had low wages, long
hours and unsanitary conditions but
they could not understand their ,rela-
tions to the world about them. The
strike came. Picket lines Tear gas
bombs. Water hose. Beatings Ar
rests. Martial law. And ell this
time they attended their daily str5ke--.
meeting where Weisbord and other d 2
speakers, many of them Communists,
analysed the happenings Of the day
and explained their relationship to-
the class government that was re. 49,
sponsible for it.
as Have Learned.
Today they know more. They UNI
lefstand that their interests as work
ers means Independent working class
action and that is what they are
practicing today with Communists az
their standard bearers. aG
The Passaic strike was an .ims sa
portant step in the advancement of ID,
the American labor movement The
election campaign now taking place
there shows that the policy followed
was a correct one It was a step
forward for the workers of that city;
another move towards a clearer I'M
derstanding Of the goal Of the work
ing elass-2a workers and farmers
government. JaH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Express Workers Sign
With Company After a
Year of Negotiations

WASHINGTON, April 25 OPP.
j. J. Forester, president and r.
L. Walters, general chairman, of the
American Federation Of Express
Workers, announce the signing by
their committee with the officials Of
the American Railway Express Co.,
of settlement Of the C.sputes MS 70
working conditions whic'i has been
in negotiation between them for more
than year. The working agree
ment between the company and its
organized employees affects $4,000
men.
The American Federation of Ex-
press Workers split off from the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Ex-
press and, Station Employees some
years ago. The Brotherhood has al
SO adjusted it's difference with the
company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities
Policies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
Strikes-Inj functions
Labor and Imperialism
Churches Invite A. FL.
To Take Over Churches
In Los Angeles Sunday
By WIN. scHNEIDERMAN.

LOS ANGELES, April 25.-ln con-
nection with the approaching A. f.
of L. convention to be held in this city
next October, the churches Of this
city have invited the officials Of the
American Federation of Labor to
take over the churches on the Sunday
before the convention opens.
The terms upon which they make
this generous offer are quite inter-
esting. Most of the churches are
linked UP with the radio broadcast
ing station Of The Los Angeles Times,
notorious anti-labor paper, and the
churches urge our labor leaders to be
gentle and kind in their speeches if
they do not wish the privilege Of
broadcasting their talks taken away
from them
Gentle As Lambs.
VIM. Green's Representatives have
assured the churches that they will be
gentle as lambs, that they will preach
only brotherly love and will not hurt
the sensibilities of the kind bosses Of
Los Angeles and vicinity.
But this pound of flesh is not suf-
fieient for the Chamber Of Commerce
and the Merchants and Manufacture
ers' Association, who entered a fur
ious protest against allowing labor
officials to preach even "brotherly
love" The church federation was in
a quandary, as they did not like to
incur the displeasure of their meal
ticket, even to stage such publicity
stunt as they had in mind, so they
invited speakers from the NJ. g. NJ.
and the Central Labor Council to de-
bate before them the question
whether labor should be allowed to
discuss unionism in the churches"
The answer of officials of the Cen
trail Labor Council is quite interest
ing, and no doubt satisfactory to even
the most rabid labor-hater in the
City of Angels. 1t is that 1--WE do
not intend to violate the hospitality
of the churches by preaching union
ism from the pulpit" What they will
preach. then, will undoubtedly satisfy
even the Chamber of Commerce. "The
lion and the lamb shall lie down to-
gether."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
building Trades Have
Won in Brooklyn and
IN W ] ersey Battles
(By Federated Press.)

Building trades strikers are harden
ing their lines as they press on for
higher wage demands. The strike of
5000 plumbers and plumbers help
| ers in Brooklyn, has so far resulted in
victory for 400, the others continuing
their struggle, and now the Building
! Trades Employers Association of
New York threatens to lock out
journeymen and helpers in Manhat-
tan, unless the Brooklyn strikes are
called eff.
The solidarity that unites the help
ers and journeymen is the significant.
Feature Of the Brooklyn strike. Till
Recently the helpers were unorganized.
But now they are out a hundred per
cent with the craftsmen. They de-
mand union recognition, the 5-day
week, and the SO day. Journeynen
ask an increase of 50 over the S12
scale, and the 5-day week.
Painters Win Despite Injunction.
Painters in Brooklyn are not cowed
w Supreme Court Justice Cropsey's
injunction. Most of the employers
have settled at the $14 scale demand
ed, but % Of the 80 bosses who swore
out the writ are still standing pat.
The unions official position is that
the strike order has been recalled, as
Cropsey required. but that individual
workers have the right to continue
idle until their wage requests are
met.
The union is encouraged by the vic
tory Of Passaic, Paterson and Ruther-
ford, N. J. painters who struck for a
SIP scale. And they point out that
S14 in Brooklyn is no more than S12
in New Jersey, because of the differ
ence in the cost of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26
Bill Posters Locked
Out in Union-Smashing
Campaign in Milwaukee
(By Worker Correspondent)

MILWAUKEE, April rs. ~ Bill
posters and billers, local No. l2, re-
ported to the Federated Trades Coun-
ell here that posters" working Mt the
Cream City Bill Posting Company
had been locked out by the company
and that the company had advertised
for and had placed scabs upon the
job.
Union pickets are busy and the
lockout is being treated by the COM
,pany as a strike. The company is out
to smash the union-and II practically
controls the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-26

a whole section will be de-
voted to greetings to the
world of labor from indiyid-
ual workers and from work
ing class organizations.