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The Washington times., 1927-05-18
"Grotitude" is wh0t lots of
people bubble OveT Nth just
before you do them a fdVor.
JUMBO JAKE.


Inspiration IS everything. A
friend Of mine gave me drink
OF prewar stuff (made the day be.
fore) and / Immediately became
.inspired'' and dashed off the fol
lowing:
II q cow has to Ne mIIked every
twelve hours,
And buttereups Just yearn fer May
showers.
How long VIII it take for tenderIoin
TO est tough like the tuft in sum
flowers? SILICUS.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
ADYERTISEMEN TS

EVEN your best friend won't tell yOu,"
And four ont Of five have It."
There's one near your home
Telegraph H---don't write IT,"
'sEat oranges and keep healthy"
''OHF ra3ar blades are the best"
"And automobiles? Why %aPs can't be
heat"
whether yoU try East eF West9
$50 to the dentists once every year"
Use Our tOOthpaste--the best make
to buy"
''NO pistol II made quite like ours
GOshl / think I'll get one and give
Il try!
RAYMOND GERBER.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

We muetn't fight Nth China,
Let the WGr dogs 90 flooey;
If ne are forced into SCGr
How'll aOe get our chop suey?
HAMBONE HAL.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18

The George Washington Univer-
sity Medical School alumni associa.
ton will be formed tonight at Z
banquet to be given at the City
Club at o'clock.
The Washington times., 1927-05-18
MAYoNN AISE

A screen here IL about ne real as
the other kind.
It's easy to pick mp experience, hut
generally costly.
When woman throws herself ut .
mans head her aim should be good.
II yen don't succeed at first try
someone elHe.
Men without money know how to
spend 1t.
This is . fast age; watch your
money fly.
wireless and radio have nothing on
the thoughts broadcast by lovers.
Self-contrOI means not getting mad
with anyone hut your wife.
A large woman always takes .
small man seriously when he says,
81 love you." OLD SOCKS.
FA CE-TIOUS
She was young and fair and pretty,
She's . girl TIL meier forget:
We were In Pullman sleeper
when by accident We met.
Yes. always shall remember well
The girl and time and place:
I was climbing from the upper berth,
Ard stepped upon her face.
H. e. J.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
ON SENTENCE OF TWO YOUNG WORKERS
ISSUE BY DISTRICT 2, WORKERS PARTY

The Workers (Communist) Party
District 2, has issued the following
statement:
"The sentencing of Herman Mos
kowitz to six months Imprisonment
by Justice We'll in the Fourth District
Magistrates Court is an act of gross
disregard for the rights of freedom of
expression which is afforded the
American people by our constitution.
For Mentioning China.
"The action of Justice We'll has
been sponsored not for the violation
of any city ordinance but is prompted
by the fact that this leaflet called
for Hands Off China" and for STOP
ping the murder of unarmed and de-
fenseless Chinese inhabitants.
This sentence. reminds one of the
days of the actions of the courts and
police authorities in the last war, and
is forerunner of what steps these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
0utIawing the Revolution.

Just after the great general strike in England
working class celebrated international Labor Day denouncng
in unmeasured terms the trade disputes and trade union bill
calculated to outlaw general and sympathetic strikes
zion of the leadership of the working class clearly revealed its
character in its of approach the question The
dictionary leadership the Thomases and their M deeply depored
the shorsghedness of the Baldwin government and tried
the Tories that the results could accomplished
by liberal methods They endeavored the ruling
class by telling them that such legislation played into the hands
of the extremists By extremists they of course
Communists and the Minority Movement.
Other elements urged that the only reply the threat
outlaw the general strike is another general strike
munss fight with at hand the proposed
law but they under illusions regarding the action
government in face of another general strike They know that
the government will its full against another strike
they did last And hundreds Of thousands
learned in the general strike that such mobilization
workers will always meet with the ecest resistance the
Of the capitalist and therefore beginning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

authorities will take in silencing OPP
position to the imperialist plans of
Wall Street.
Continue Agitation.
"These actions will not for single
moment deter the Workers (Com-
munist) Party from continuing the
agitation for hands off China and for
preventing another great imperialist
catastrophe in which the American
workers will give their lives for the
interests of the big bankers. We will
take every step to defend our rights
of freedom of speech and will sup
port Herman Moskowitz and Mat
thew Kushnir, whose cases have been
taken up by the International Labor
Defense.
Workers (Communist) Party, Dis
trict 2. w. w. Weinstone, General
Secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
HOW THE AMALGANATED CELEBRATED INTERNATIONAL
SOLIDARITY ON MAY DAY

hall discovered that I was to speak at
the celebration of Local 81, they took
the matter up with the Joint Board
office.
There it was reported that the Joint
Board under no circumstances would
tolerate my speaking on May Day for
Local 81 at the Amalgamated Temple.
First, because | was expelled from
the Amalgamated and second, because
I might criticize the Amalgamated.
Gangsters Mobilize
Steps were then taken to prevent
my speaking. Before the meeting
started the committee in charge of
the hall and the meeting, was given
to understand that if Gitlow was per-
mitted to speak the meeting would be
broken up. Strong arm forces were
modified at the meeting for this pur-
pose.
The comrades in charge of the meet
ing were of the opinion that it was
highly inadvisable for the meeting to
be broken up and the impression be
given that riot took place, giving an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
By BENJAMIN GITLoW.

Local 81, of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, held a
May Day celebration at the Amalga-
mated Temple in Brooklyn, New
York.
When the committee of Local 54,
in charge of the May Day celebra-
ton, appeared before the manager Of
the hall, Greenberg, on the matter Of
hiring the hall for their celebration.
Greenberg informed them that the
Amalgamated would not rent them
the hall if they had any Workers
Party speakers speaking at their May
Day celebration. The committee, how
ever, did arrange to hold the meeting
with the Workers (Communist) Party
speaker, Bert Wolfe, being obtained
as the English speaker.
He Might Criticize.
Before May Day, Bert Wolfe was
called out of town and I was desig-
mated to substitute in his place. l
was informed that when the Amalga-
mated officialdom in charge Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Official Labor Reaction Meets Political Defeat
The

has been cut at the quarries by
'scabs' without aiding and abetting
the enemy. Observance by each
member of the provision of their
constitution which fOrbids such ac-
ton was essential to his own self
protection. 1t was demanded of
each by loyalty to the organization
and to his fellows. If, on the un-
disputed facts of this case, refusal
to work can be enjOined, Congress
created by the Sherman Law and
the Clayton Act an instrument for
imposing restraints upon labor
which reminds of involuntary servi-
tude."
THE Greens, Wolls, Lewises, ETC.,
are of course greatly shocked by
this manifestation of reaction. For
them it is indeed unfortunate. Here
they have making war on the "reds"
and making great capital out Of what
they have claimed was "a new era.
The labor leaders got out and helped
the bosses with a right good will. AT
chamber of commerce banquets, at
rotary club luncheons and at conven-
tions they have been whooping it up
for efficiency and abolition of waste
in industry. If the bosses will just
give the unions a chance like good
old Dan Willard has on the B. and o.,
they said, the unions (under able Of
ficial direction, of course,) will show
that they appreciate it by turning out
two or three times as much work as
ever before.
No more fighting, just good feel
ing and lots of work. The Supreme
Court felt the same way-hence the
Bedford Cut Stone Company decision.
PUT what becomes of the theory Of
= peace and democracy in industry T?
What becomes of the kindred theory
that by supporting capitalist party
candidates the bosses government
will reciprocate by not being too
rough?
1t has gone the way of all such
miserable excuses for reaction and it
is certain that many union men and
women are wondering why it has been
necessary for Green, Woll, Lewis, etc.
to denounce, expel and try to jail
Communists and left wingers who
predicted that the coal barons and
government agencies, such as the
supreme court, would fight the labor
movement just the same-whether
reds were in the trade unions or not.
SUMMARIZED, it means that the
y four-year war on the militant ele-
ments in the unions has placated the
capitalists to the extent that they are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

opportunity to the police to interfere.
The comrades in charge of the meet
ing declared that they would strongly
protest this action on the part of the
Amalgamated officialdom and the
Joint Board.
This is another proof of the kind
of free speech that Sidney Hillman,
Joseph Schlossberg and their lackey,
Salutsky, believe in. If Local 81 had
invited the psalm-singer exploiter of
labor, Nash, to speak, Hillman would
have hailed it as a great victory for
workingclass solidarity.
What About Civil Liberties?
1t is we'll also that the American
Civil Liberties Union should know this
act on the part of the Amalgamated,
because Hillman and Company have
strongly protested to the American
Civil Liberties Union and have re-
peatedly reiterated that under no cir
cumstance have they been guilty Of
denying freedom Of speech. The May
Day incident of Local 81 is only proof
of the fact that the bull-dozing fascist
braggadacio Of Beckerman, the pres
ent manager of the Amalgamated, is
the prevailing mode of the Amalga-
mated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

must decsvey challenge the of the capitalist class and
openly proclaim to the workers that it first step on the
road to revolution.
The ruling class have also learned this when they
outlaw the general strike they know they ouawng the
luton But when was revolution anything other than outlaw from
the standpoint Of the class that is about overhrown
The British Communists fight against the bill in order to
further to the workers the of the
ment in order to make them dp the as the in
srument of oppression in the hands of their enemies They
not fight because they believe that the absence law
will make the final struggle any casters
And as for the ruling class the passage of the bill will only
reveal its uy because the nsugent workers. being ground
down by the mechanism of Imperialism will rise and fight
against their oppressors.
To try to outlaw general strike in mperalst country
is sensible adopting legislation against the sunrise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.
ARTICLE III.

WHILE the coal barons were putting
" John L. Lewis thru his PAGES and
proving up to the hilt the contention
of the Communists and the left wing
that unions and labor movements
must fight to live and fulfill their
functions, the Supreme Court wa s
getting ready little demonstration
Of its own.
For years the ears of American
militants have been assailed by the
proud boasts of labor officialdom
whenever it secured some mild and
more or less meaningless legislative
reform. This was the case with the
passage of the Clayton Act which was
supposed to free labor and labor
unions from the provisions of the
Sherman Antitrust law.
CAMUEL GOMPERS INDUCED in
y panegyrics. He hailed the Clayton
Act as "the Magma Charta of Labor"
and all the lower strata of union Of
fieialdom, without knowing what the
Magma Charta was, were greatly i'm
pressed.
President Wilson presented Com
pers with the pen he used in signing
the Clayton Act and Gompers was
overjoyed. He said:
"This pen with which the President
signed the Clayton Bill has been
added to the collection of famous
pens at the A. T. of l.. headquarters
trophies of humanitarian legisla-
ton secured by the workers of
America. This last pen will be
given the place of greatest honor-it
is symbolic of the most comprehensive
and most fundamental legislation in
behalf of human liberties that has
been enacted anywhere in the world"
IN April II, 1927, the Supreme
v Court, by handing down the de-
cision in the Bedford Cut Stone Com
pany case which outlawed the Stone
Cutters Union because its members
refused to use stone quarried and cut
by strikebreakers. This decision be-
comes the law of the land and it
means simply that union is deprived
Of the possibility of declaring any
product unfair even for its own mem
bers.
JUSTICE Brandeis, in his dissenting
. opinion characterized this phase of
the question as follows:
Members of the Journeymen
Stone Cutters Association could
not work anywhere on stone which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

Theatre to
House English Players

The National theatre on Houston
Street will house an English company
beginning May 9, when the Yiddish
players go on tour. Among the Eng
lish players that will appear under
the direction Of Charles D. Pitt are
Mildred Leaf, Charles Ellis and Nor
ms Strassberg. The Broadway
players will open with "Welcome
Stranger" the Aaron Hoffman COM
edy, which is to be followed by white
Cargo" us Eat &c." 1.-THE Gorilla, /"
The Fall Guy" "Potash & Perl
mutter," I'VE Americans" and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Let's Fight On! Join
The Workers Party!

In the loss of Comrade Ruthen-
berg the Workers (Communist) Par
ty has lost it's foremost, leader and
the American working class its
staunchest fighter. This loss can only
be overcome by many militant work.
ers joining the Party that he built.
Fill out the application below and
mail it. Become member of the
Workers (Communist) Party and
carry forward the work of Comrade
Ruthenberg.
want to become a member of the
Workers (Communist) Party.
Name .................
Address .................
Occupation ...................
Union Affiliation.
Mail this application to the Work
ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New
York City; or if in other city to
Workers Party, l113 w. Washington
Blvd, Chicago, i'll.
Distribute the Ruthenberg PAM
phlet, "The Workers (Communist)
Party, What it Stands For and Why
Workers Should Join" This Ruthen-
berg pamphlet will be the basic pam
phlct thruout the Ruthenberg Drive.
Every Party Nucleus must collect
so cents from every member and will
receive 20 pamphlets for every mem
Der TO sell or distribute.
Nuclei in the New York District
will get their pamphlets from the
District Office--10S East 14th st.
Nuclei outside Of the New York
District write to Daily Worker Pub
fishing Co., 33 East First Street, New
York City, or to the National Office,
Workers Party, lib w. Washington
Blvd. Chicago, Ill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

trying with might and main to de-
stroy the backbone of the labor
moSement-th UMWA-and have
handed out supreme court decision
which makes illegal the most elemen-
tary activities of unions.
Surely this is political defeat of
major proportions for the efficiency
unionism and class peace policy. In
addition to these two smashing blows
at the labor movement there are such
things as the defeat of the carpenters
union in San Francisco, the lockout
of the plumbers union in New York,
the open shop offensive begun by the
Regain Printing company against the
typographical union in Chicago.
THE attempt to railroad Ben Gold,
Shapiro and eight other militant
Furriers to prison, attempt in which
the leadership of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor took part openly,
has also left a bad taste in the
mouths even of many who supported
the right wing as against the left
wing. The whole affair, Disgrace
full revelation of the depths to which
leading union officials have sunk, has
drawn a sharp line between thou
sands of union members and official
dom.
THERE is no hope for the leader
ship of the A. F. of l.. but the
membership will learn from the
events dealt with in these three ar
ticles. AS the New Republic said in
commenting on the Supreme court de-
cision:
Labor has now for long been
subdued by the siren propaganda
of prosperity" A severe jolt was
needed to awaken the more limo
cent even of the trade unionists
from the illusions of the Civic Fed
Grafton, of dinners with the mighty,
of all the prattle of identity of
interest"
The spectacle of the United Mine
Workers faced with defeat, and
the fact of the arrogant attitude of
American capitalist government as
shown by the Bedford decision after
labor officialdom has crawled on its
collective belly to the capitalists,
means the beginning of a revolt
against the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ton policy.
The left wing must and will show
that these attacks of capitalists can
be answered only by great organizing
campaigns, but labor party and by
Reputation of the class peace theory.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Net Receipts of May
Day Celebration Sent

BALTIMORE. - Dear Comrades
lnclosed find check for S3O.55 which
was collected from our May Day cele-
bration. By decision of the con-
ference, the collection, after all ex-
penses are paid, is to be turned over
to The DAILY WoRKER.-Wm. vii.
kins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Broadway Briefs

Talk About Girls" a new musical
comedy based on play by John Hun
ter Booth, called Like a King" will
be brought to New York in June by
Harry H. Oshrin and Sam Grisman.
William Carey Duncan adapted the
book. Harold Orlob and Stephen
Jones wrote the music and Irving
Caesar the lyrics. The cast will in.
clude Andrew Tombes, Russell Mack
William Frawley, Jane Taylor and
Frances Upton.
Robert Milton is planning to mo-
duce in September a new play called
"All the Kings Horses" by Fulton
Oursler, co-author of "The Spider. y
Oursler will also have another plav
produced next season, Behold This
Dreamer" dramatization of his
novel of the same name.
Richard Herndon is planning to
present his new revue on MAY 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Sends Check for $3.50
To Ruthenberg Fund

LUZERNE, Pa, = Dear Comrade
Editor; l am sending you a check
for $3.50 for the Ruthenberg DAILY
WORKER sustaining fund. 1t was
collected here.--Secy. S. N. No. 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04
Screen Notes

Anna Karenina," Tolstois famous
novel which is now being filmed will
have many prominent stars in the
cast. Greta Carlo will star, with
Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Barrymore,
Helene Chadwick, Dorothy Sebastian
and Zasu Pitts as her support.
Sidney Towards play, Lucky Sam
McCarver," will be the next starring
vehicle for Thomas Meighan. "We're
All Gamblers" will be the screen
title.
Heading the long list of Columbia's
schedule of releases for the coming
season, will be "The Blood Ship"
adapted from Norman Springers
novel and to feature Hobart Bos-
worth. This will be one or num-
Der of specials, others of which will
be "Alias the Lone Wolf" from Louis
Joseph Vance's novel; "The College
Hero" by Willard Mack, "By Whose
Hand?" by Claiming Pollock, "The
Sporting Age" and "The Way of the
Strong"
Will Hays, the Gar of movieland,
has, it seems, approved "The Green
Hat" for the films. Fox will produce
Michael Arlen's story, with Virginia
Valli playing the role of Iris March.
Edward Peple's successful stage
farce, "A Pair of Skies" will be
filmed shortly with Johnny Hines
in the star role.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-04

WORKERS! STOP THE MURDER
OF SACCO AND VANZETTI
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Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Other Counties Busy With Spelling Bees

champions were chosen this
week in all the counties, includ-
ing Marion.
Teachers in the schools of the
counties which are cooperating
in the contest conducted in In
diana by The Times declare that
the spelling bees have greatly
stimulated interest in education
al programs. Homes have be-
come the scenes of neighbor-
hood bees, and adults as we'll as
children have become enthused
over spelling.
Down in Johnson county, ac-
cording to word from Franklin,
Edinburg and Greenwood, the
grade spelling bees were held
held Friday, but there were nu-
merous ties and oral bees will
be required in some of the nine
teen public schools on Monday to
decide the championships.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
FLOOD DEATH
TOTAL At z
IN OKLAHOMA
Farmer and RaiIroader Save
Marines Train on Wash
out Brink.
LOSS BY WATERSPOUTS
One Measuring Eight Inches
Reported.
BV United Press


OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, April Q.
Oklahoma death toll was swelled
by fourteen when overflow waters of
the Washita River swept through
several Mexican homes near Rocky
Ford last night.
Six persons were drowned in the
same community Wednesday night
and six others are missing. Two
other persons have been drowned as
the result of floods in various parts
of the State in the last forty-eight
hours, a total Of twenty-five deaths
in the State.
In several parts of Oklahoma
swollen streams have overfiowed
farmlands and paralyzed railroad
traffic.
River at Flood Stage
Yesterdays toll of death and dam
age was followed by waterspodts
again last night. The Grand River
was raging torrent early today and
is expected to rise at least thirty
feet and overflow.
Al Erie, Kan, where an engineer,
fireman and an unidentified passen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09

the various winners until after
the Zone and State Spelling Bees
have been held here in May.
Miss Flora E. Drake, assist
ant superintendent of Indian
apolis schools, who is cooperat-
ing with The Times in promot-
ing the Bees in Indiana, declares
that reports reaching her office
show that many ties have re-
suited from the written bees
held IN the local schools Thurs.
day morning. Oral bees to be
held at the regular class periods
Monday morning will find many
pupils competing in many grades.
Attention will turn, after the
oral spell-off Monday, to the
preparations for the Building
Bees, which will be held in In.
dianapolis April 81. These con-
tests will be the last Of the
written bees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-09
Aimee MoUes; Denies
Runnors of Quarrel

BN United Press
LOS ANGELES, April s.-Aimea
Semple Mcpherson was settled down
in the former home of the famous
Nat Goodwin today, preparing her
campaign to take religion to the
wicked East"
The home, overlooking Ocean
Beach, from which Mrs Mcpherson
claimed to have been kidnapped last
summer. is the ideal place to map
out her eastern crusade, she be-
lieves. She moved in yesterday
amid rumors of dissension In her
church and of an open break with
her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy.
The evangelist denied she had dis
agreed with her mother, and to
prove everything was serene at her
church she conducted revival serv-
ices at her Angeles Temple last
night.
Every time I leave my Angeles
Temple home" she said, some one
starts rumors that have quar-.
relied"