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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

HDid you hear that screamr
Eyes,
why didn't you investigsaa
it?"
Huh, not mel The last ti1se
I investigated one I was roped
in for one wife, six children,
and three maltese cats!"
~. N. I. Snipa.
One girl tells US she is going to
get married next summer If che
has to go swimming every day ID
do it.
-KGasas S0sv OH1
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

AT THE WINTER RESORT
Tourist: Is the water at this
hotel pure2
Guest: Not very. We fire.
quently find traces of coffee and
other substances in it.
-NOrthVesterB Purple Parrot.
81 had a great drink coming
down on the car"
Bourbon"
"No, suburban"
Ohio Sun Dial.
Johnny, are you biting your
nails again?A
Jaw, gee, Mother, nobody else
will, so what's a fellow going to
do?"
Pitt Panther.
Eva May: Do you care for ami
mails?
May Not: No, l wash dishes.
--GrinneA MalteGse,.
90
My woman wants to dance with
a Scotchman. She's been wonder
ing if they're close dancers.
--BYogH Jug.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

Nine of the thirteen members OF
the French Cabinet are authors
which would seem to be about the
write" proportion.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

Presumably the Germans think
that they could have no better
man to watch over their finances
than DR.. Marx.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15
Cape May High.

I0taIS -. .''''IV
Score at half time-Cape May 13;
Pleasantville 5. Referee, Spencer
Bennett. Time of quarters 8 min
utes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

Instalment payments never
bought more satisfactory article
than savings account.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15
-Wisconsiss Octopus.

Scotch: Did you hear about
poor Pat getting killed carry
ing the Irish National flag
through Mikes pasture?
Welsh: No, what's Pat got
against Mike?
Scotch: Nothing at all, but
one of Mixes bulls is color
blind.
Black & Blue Jay.
Those who live in glass houses
shouldn't mind the keyholes.
-Sbdrtas SpGnker.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15
VILE STORY

A VILE STORY
Small boy at a concert: Mother,
what is that thing that man is play
ing7
Lady: That is a violin.
Small boy, pointing to the bass
viol: Mother, that man must have
left his violin out in the rain;
see how it is swelled up2
-K0nsas Sour Owl.
Judge: What's the charger
Cop: Impersonatin' an officer,
your Honor. He took a coupla
bananas from a fruit stand.
--VGSSaY VGgGb0Hd. :
"What does he look like?"
''Oh, he's the boy on the campus
who doesn't wear raccoon coat.
Chicago Phoenir
This modern age-when a man
has to spike the whisky to get
drunk!
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-03-15

No sooner had / stepped across
the threshold into the room than I
felt myself hurled into the air like
a projectile. Everything seemed to
swim before my eyes. The floor
receded from me with sweeping
speed that made the room about
ne blur and dance. The ceiling
seemed to drop on me and a hor-
rible, sickening nausea overcame
me as ] saw it would crush me like
a juggemaut One brief instant
and / was plunged into water with
a resounding splash
Who left the soap on the bath
room floor?
--GrnneA AGteGser.
Don't you speak to him any
more?"
NO." replied the scholarly girl.
Whenever l pass him give him
the geological survey"
Geological survey"
''Yes. That's what's commonly
known as the stony stare.
~. z. Medley.
Little Willie: Mama, is Papa
going to heaven when he dies?
Mother: Why, son, who put
such an absurd idea into your
head?
Ca. Tech. Ysuow Jaekst.
Jacqueline: Most people ad-
mire my mouth. Do you?
Jack: Do II ] think it's i'm
mensel
Aiddlebary Blue BsboOH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
British Production Of
Iron is Lowest in rs
Years; Hit by Strike

LONDON, Feb. 13.-British pig
iron production in 1926 reached its
lowest point in seventy-six years.
according to the annual financial
and commercial review of the Lon
don Times. Steel production was
smaller than it has been for thirty
one years.
How hard the coal strike hit the
iron and steel magnates is evident
from the following statement: THE
total production of pig iron FOR the
seven months, May to November,
amounted to 100000 tons, or little
more than one-third of the output
for the month of April. The steel
output was maintained at a slightly
higher rate, the total for the seven
months amounting to 100000 tons,
or over twO-thirds Of the April pro-
duction."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
WORKING CLASS
HOUSE WIVES BOO
JUDGE ROSALSKY
Agree to Organize for
ClOakmakers' Victory

At a protest meeting held in Web
ster Hall, arranged by the United
Council Of Working Class Housewives
in conjunction vstf the Cloakmakers'
Housewives Council and the Cloak
and Dressmakers Joint Board, hum
dreds Of women cheered the resolu-
ton adopted protesting against the
injunctions, and the arrests and abb
normal amounts of high bail set by
Judge Otto Rosalsky for the sixteen
jailed cloakmakers.
Learn From Passaic.
Pearl Halpern, the chairman of the
meeting, and a member of the join
board of the Cloakmakers' Union
told about the present conditions of
the cloakmakers and introduced the
first speaker, C. Sara Sherman, a re
lief worker for the Passaic textile
strike, who spoke about the impor
tant part the women play in the Pas
sale strike and urged the cloak
makers wives to follow the example
of the Passaic women. woman is
no more considered only a housewife
with 100000 women employed in in
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Jersey Bus Drivers
Report Solid Front;
Traffic All Tied Up

The strike of the Auto Bus Drivers
Union in New Jersey is still going
strong. The men have been able tt
tie up all traffic on these bus lines
and any attempts to run seab busses
have utterly failed.
Arbitration proceedings have been
deadlocked due to the refusal of the
company to meet the union, altho the
traffic on these lines has come to
a complete standstill.
Edward Levy, business agent of
the Bus Drivers Local stated that
the union has not altered its demands
and will not call the strike off until
the terms for an increase in wages
and rate payments for overtime has
been granted. The union demands
an increase of $3.50 a week over the
present scale of $42.50, and proper
tionate payment for overtime.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

Reports Of the contractors con-
vention brought to the Federated
Press ten an interesting story.
The assembled contractors official
ly agreed that wages paid to labor
form very small proportionate part
Of the costs Of highway construction.
This conclusion was reached after a
discussion of the cost charts and eff
ficiency records that had been drawn
up on actual operations and which
were. analysed in detail.
Labor Cost Slight.
The costs Of highway construction
it was emphasized, are dependent on
the efficiency of the equipment and
the manner in which even the best
equipment is laid out and coordinated
Both of these factors are matters fol-
which the management alone is re,
sponsible, it was pointed out. Con
tractors were urged to give moro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
RAKOSI PROCESS
AGAIN IN COURT;
TO Defend SELF
Hungarian Comrades to
Demand Freedom

BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 10 (By
Mail) To-day began the hearing of
the appeal of the defendants in the
Rakosi process, Matthias Rakosi, Karl
Oeri, Katharine Hannah, Ignaz Goe-
goes, Zoltan Weinberger and 20 other
Communists, before the Court of APP
peal.
Defendants Stand United.
AS at the process itself in June,
1926, the 81 members Of the Hun
garian Socialist Labor party are
standing before the court together
with the members Of the Communist
Party. In the process itself the Com
munists were found guilty without
exception and sentenced to heavy
terms of hard labor, etc. The prose-
cutor was, however, unable to bring
sufficient proof against the Socialist
Labor party and was only able to OBJ
tain verdict against the members of
this party for stirring up class ha-
tired" The prosecutor obviously
wishes to make a new attempt to
"prove" that the leaders Of the So
cialist Labor party are Communists
in order to permit the government to
take sterner action against this party
upon the basis of legal judgment.
Narrow Escape From GalIows.
Comrade Rakosi and the other COM
rades are facing the court for the
third time. The first time the Hun
garian government attempted imme-
diately after the arrest, to send RAJ
kosi and four Of his comrades, to the
gallows. They were placed before an
exceptional court and the hangmen
prepared to carry out the death SEN
tence. However, the indignation Of
international public opinion, and the
energetic protests Of the workers Of
the world together with thousands of
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Drag" Takes Count
While Three More Sex
Plays Rake in Mazuma

"The Drag, another play dealing
with sex perversion, has persisted
ANONYMOUSLY in Bayonne, New Jer-
sey. The play was barred by the
towns kosher police force and expir-
ed when its producer, C. w. Morgan
stern, producer of "Sex," failed to
get an injunction TO prevent police
RAIDS.
1.-THE Drag" has fallen victim to
the hysterical condition which has
forced action against "Sex", "The
Captive" and "The Virgin Man., ac-
cording to Morgenstern.
Unlike "The Drag, however, the
other plays are doing a rushing bust
ness. "1he Virgin Man, which was
scheduled to have closed last night
because of a lack of patronage, re-
ported at 1870 P. NJ. that it had only
eight seats left for the matinee and
was selling four weeks in advance.
The Virgin Man" and "The Cap
tive" will be arraigned today on
charges Of constituting a public nui-
sance and tending to corrupt the
piorals of youth" in jefferson Mar
ket Court today. "Sex" will be heard
Tuesday in the West Side Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

thought to reducing waste, due to
poor concrete mixing practice and to
delays in material deliveries to the
mixer; usually caused by i'll conceived
m t e rial handling arrangements.
Contractors were urged to be on the
alert to detect and remedy the pres
ence of "bottle-neck" points in the
equipment channels through which
the flow of paving materials must
pass at an even maximum rate if the
lowest costs are to be maintained.
This admission by the employers
themselves that poor management
not wages-is the chief reason for
high costs calls attention to the re.
port of the Engineering Committee
for the Elimination of Waste, five
years ago, which found management
twice as responsible as labor for in
dustrial wastes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
CHILDREN STARVE AS SIX HUNDRED WORKERS ARE
THROWN OUT OF WORK WHEN MILLS CLOSE

MAYNARD 3-Pald little girls without underwear
and stockings.
in sneakers walking through the to school,
families existing envelope containing
week.
hungry hadbare clothing hoping against
hope-pale and Respondent.
this thriving mill townhe result
Aabet mills the Wooden Company
the industrial plant.
Superintendent Of Schools Jerome Fogwe issued appeal for food
clothing for the boys and girls who to his school,
terrible" Fowe. Assabet mills which
blankets
hundred mill days work
and then.
hundred children dire need of
Many families consisting of the father mother and
o eight children existing on SIS week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
WI Army Locks
Antlers With
Chang-TsO-Lin
Picking Ministers Said to
Favor Cantonese

SHANGHAI, Feb. 13.-The armies
of the two rival Northern miIitarists
WI Pei Flu and Chang Tso-Lin are
locked in battle according to reports
seeping in through the military cor
don that encircles this city. The clash
between the reactiOnary generals
sounds the death knell Of whatever
hopes the imperialists may have that
the Northern generals would be able
to present a united front against the
Cantonese.
British propagandists are busy ex-
planning that the fighting in WI Pei
Fu's balliwick is due to "misunder-
standing" despite the fact that WI
warned Chang few days ago to keep
his troops out of Honan province.
The Cantonese are reported con-
centrating their armies for a final
drive against Shanghai. With Chang
blocked by WI and with General Feng
lowering on his flanks like the spirit
of vengeance the prospects Of the
Manchurian militarists eating easter
eggs in Canton is considered an idle
dream.
In view Of the frightened prospects
of the Cantonese and the progressive
decentralization of the Northerners,
the imperialist powers are using every
influence to strengthen the right wing
elements in the Koumintang party.
The capitalists realize that the day
of the militarists is drawing to a
close. They are willing to spend
money on a government that "would
listen to reason" and permit the i'm
perialists to continue the exploitation
of the Chinese masses and the vast
mineral resources of the country. s
Whether they win their detectives
with the bayonet, with diplomacy or
with gold is all the same to the rob-
Der powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Cuerillas Shoot
Another Left
Wing Picket
Wound Kuvrenetzky in Foot;
RegiStereeS Swindled

The latest victim of the gangsters
being employed by Morris Sigman,
president of the international Ladies'
Garment Workers union, in his eff
forts to take the union away from the
workers, is Elias Kuvrenetzky, chair
man of the board of directors of the
Joint Board, and an Executive Board
member of Local 35.
Shot In Foot.
Kuvrenetsky was on his way to the
Gilt Dress House, at 25th street and
Eighth avenue, to stop a scab who
was working there. As he. was walk
ing along 25th street, car full of
gangsters passed and one of them
shot at him, hitting him in the foot.
The car escaped before Kuvrenet-
sky could see any Of the occupants.
He was then taken to a physician
for treatment.
Forced To Do Overtime.
A few other interesting examples
of Mr.. Sigman's methods have been
brought to the attention Of the Joint
Board by some of the workers within
the past two days.
On the same day that the Jewish
Forwards, organ of the right wing
leaders, was loudly advertising that
the International officials had hired
hall from which committees would
be sent out to prevent anyone from
working overtime on Saturday, a
worker in one of the industrial shops
was threatened with discharge foI
refusing to do overtime work.
Sigman For Overtime.
/ In the Straussman shop on 38th
street, the chairman was asked tC
have the workers report for work or
Saturday. When she declined to dc
this, the foreman stated that the In.
ternational had agreed that they
should work and if they refused they
would be fired.
Ten Dollar Swindle.
Members of the /. L. G. w. u. who
by force, have been compelled t.
register with the international, have
just discovered that when signing
their names on the so-called unior
books which are issued to them, they
have-without knowing it-signed {
pledge to pay a special tax of S1(
inside of 10 weeks.
A clause to this effect has beer
found written in the books, yer!
lightly in lead pencil, so that it wal
hardly noticeable. Workers knew
that they were being forced to sign
statement that they gave theil
moral support to Sigman and hi
gang; but they did not know unit
they had left the International offic,
and examined the books in the ligh
of day that they were pledging fl
nancial support also.
Those who have destroyed thei
books, or brought them to the Join
Board to be added to the collection
there, say they would like to SCI
President Sigman make an attemp
to collect that $40 tax.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Arbitration Big
Issue at Mine
Negotiation
Lewis Jams Weakened Union
Into Dangerous Position

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 13.-Members
Of the committee appointed by Inter-
national PRESIDENT John L. Lewis Of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea to negotiate a two years agree
ment with The mining companies of
the central competitive field are as
sembling here.
But Lewis is not leaving the mat
ter up entirely to the committee on
which the much discredited Pat
Pagan, of District 5, Pittsburg,
serves. Lewis is here himself. He
arrived yesterday with Phillip Muir
ray, international vice-president, and
Thomas A. Kennedy, international
secretary of the union, and
his influence will undoubtedly be
paramount over the miners commit
tee.
The meeting starts today, if the
employers representatives arrive on
time. Very few Of them were pres
ent this morning.
The packed international conven-
ton of the U. NJ. w. A. adopted
report of the wage scale committee,
also appointed by President Lewis
from among his supporters, and
headed by President Harry Fishwick,
Of District II (Illinois1. The report
was opposed to wage reductions, but
permitted the appointment of com
naittee, or bureau, which would prac-
tieally establish arbitration machin-
cry, under the guise Of "interpre-
ting the contract.
Want Arbitration.
Preliminary publicity by the oper-
ators indicates that they Will insist
on just this sort of a provision in the
next contract. The story gong
around operators circles is to the et-
feet that their representatives will
demand that a board be created OF
four of the upper bureaucracy Of the
miners naion, fur representatives of
the employers, and three mediators,
selected by two parties, or, if they
cannot agree on neutral members,
appointed By the Chief Justice OF the
Supreme Court Of the United States.
For Glass Collaboration.
Coal Age, a magazine controlled
largely by the manufacturers of coal
mining machinery, but with its ear
close to the ground in operators
councils, senses this determination to
get, not only lower wages, but some
form of cast iron arbitration clause
in the contract. In a frank plea tor
class collaboration, Coal Age says,
editorially: Issues far greater than
the extension of the Jacksonville base
rates wait decision. The future Of
the unionized bituminous districts is
at stake.
Whether that future is to be one
in which the sphere of union influ-
ence again expands, or whether it is
to be one of continuing decline in
Undermined tonnage, depends large
ly upon the attitude in which the con-
terees approach the problem. If dis
cussions are confined to a renewal Of
tine Jacksonville scale, then the nego-
tiations will be a failure. Regard
less of its outcome, strike, in the
present state of the public mind
would be a calamity to the industry
An agreement which went no fur
Their than renewal of the 1924 con-
tiact would be almost as tragic.
; "The future success of the organ
lied fields is not to be decided solely
Continued on Page Tl0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Percy Stickney Grant
Dies After Operation;
Was Liberal Churchman

The Rev. DR.. Percy Stickney Grant
died yesterday at the Northern West
chester Hospital in Mt. Kisco. The
former rector of the Church Of the
Ascension of New York City was
stricken with appendicitis last Mon
day. He was operated on the follow
ing day. He was one Of the mod
ernist and liberal group in the Epis-
copal Church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 13.-Po-
lice started digging up the campus
of St. Mary's school for girls today
in search of the head and arms of
the torso of the slain woman found
floating in the st. Joe river last week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
HIGHWAY CONTRACTORS DISCOVER BAD MANAGEMENT
COSTS MORE THAN HIGH WAGES

Driving and riding labor cutting
Contra of in at No
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

William John Cooper, new Super
intendent of Schools in California in
tends to permit married women to
continue teaching. He advises an
eighteen-month leave of absence
when children come, and agrees to
hold their jobs that long. Cooper
follows to some extent the example
of Soviet Russia, where not only
teachers, but other working women
expecting children. are given vaca-
tions. The difference is that in the
u. S. S. r. women retire with pay,
while in California Cooper's teachers
do not receive pay during such vaca-
tions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14
Said to Favor Canton.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 10. -
Sac Ke Alfred SEE, Chinese minister
at Washington continues to give the
impression that he favors the Can
tonese government rather than the
paper mache institution that goes by
the name in Picking.
A Geneva dispatch stated that all
the Peking ministers had gone over
to the Cantonese. There is reason to
believe as The DAILY WORKER
pointed out several days ago that out
side of Chang Tso-Lin, WI Pei Flu,
Sun Chuan-Fang and their under
tuchuns, the entire population of
China is on the side of the Cantonese.
With their customary disregard for
the feelings of the Chinese people, the
capitalist correspondents attribute the
switch of the Peking ministers to Can
ton, to failure on the part of their
home office to put tea in their cups.
There is no fun in working for an
empty treasury particularly for SER
wants of the bourgeoisie, but the idea
that the Chinese are more purchase
able than an American secretary Of
the interior, an attorney general or
a federal judge is the bunk.
LONDON, Feb. IS. - The Hands
Off China" committees organization
by and through the influence Of the
Communists Joined here Yesterday in
parade to Trafalgar Square where
in the shadow of Nelson's Pillar,
speakers demanded that the govern
rIent withdraw the hostile expedition
on the way to China, the recognition
of the Nationalist government and the
surrender of the imperialist conces-
sions.
British workers are strong in their
disapproval of J. H. Thomas's action
in supporting the Baldwin government
on the Chinese question. y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

Juan Sacasa, above, is the cOnsti-
tutiOnal president of Nicaragua, rec
Ognized as such by Mexico, and va
rious Latin American countries. In
the war he wages with the usurper,
AdolfO Diaz (below), he finds Amer
lean marines and American aerOplane
officers defending Diaz. The U. S.
recognizes Diaz as president because
he belongs to the clique that has been
selling the public and private prop
erty of the country TO American in
yestOrs for next to nothing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-14

The Daily Worker Fights:
For the Organization of the I'M
organized.
For a Labor Party.
For the 4O-HOur Week.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-03-16
Suinburn Runs
Saturday in
$50 Event

Two of the leading middle dis
lance runners Of the East Eddie
Swinburnes Of Georgetown Uni
versity. and Pincus Sober. OF New
York-have entered the Meadow.
brook 66On event to be ruin in
Philadelphia Saturday night against
Allan Helffrich, former Penn State
star, and several more speedsters in
the race for the President's trophy.
Swinburne has been running on
the Georgetown one. mile relay
team this winter and held No. 3
baton last Saturday night when the
Hilltoppers handed Syracuse their
surprising defeat in New York.
Swinburne has written to Secretary
Samuel j. Dallas, he is in the best
form Of his career and has high
hopes OF being the first Georgetown
man to gain a leg on the famous
"Meadowbrook 660' cup. Such noted
runners as Ted Meredith, Bob Max
an, OF Penn, and Walter Koppisch,
of Columbia, have lifted this famous
trophy.