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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-24

New York Has 100000
People in New District
NEW YORK. Nov. 24.-creation
of a new metropolitan district, >"
under the sanction Of the United
states Census Bureau, today had
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-24
so HENS POISONED

POTTSTOWN. Pa. Nov. 24.-chief
of Police B. B. Scheetz is investigat-
ing the operations of a poultry pois.
oner in the Seventh ward. Many
owners have reported that their
fowls have eaten poison. Mrs. Charles
Kolar, of North Grant Street, lost
four capons weighing pounds each;
four hens and two 13-pound geese.
Fifty hens of the flock are sick.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-24

given New York proper" q popu.
lation OF $500, 900, according to the
Merchants Association of New York.
The new district embraces a
radius Of within forty miles Of the
City Hall. as compared with the
old ten.mile radius.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-11-24

A new antiseptic has been pro.
duced in England which is said
TO have powerful germicidal &C.
ton without harming tissues.
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-02-17
Respectfully,
FAIR COMMITTEE.
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WORK

Quite lot of interest has been shown Boys and Girls Club
Work schools visited We goal thousand
club members in Randolph county for the year Of 1927
Boys and girls who take advantage of becoming club members
will have opportunity money for themselves and
the time get of the practical side of farming which
will enable them decide for themselves whether they would
like farming a life's work.
We feel that there great many progressive boys
and girls schools which have been able to visit at this
time who anxious to avail themselves with the opportunity OF
becoming club member this year. If want to join the Fg
Club Dairy Calf Club the Poultry Club and have not been
able to get membership card will you please call at the County
Agents office on Saturday or write in for a card.
We have taken several for Duroc pigs for club mem
Those who place their orders first will be first to get their
pig DurOc be hard find this year but we nope
that can find one for each bow and girl wanting pig
want County Agent help locate pig write him about
it soon you can so he can place your order.
The teachers all the schools have visited have shown
wonderful cooperative spirit have done their best to hep
program We that those whom we nave
not been able to visit yet equally anxious to help us accom-
plsh our goal
Yours for service,
W B. PROCTOR, County Agent
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-02-17
A TONIC

Groves TasteIess chill Tonic restores
Energy and Vitality by Purifying and
EnEichine the Blood. When you feel its
strengthening. invigoratine effect. see how
it brings color to the cheeks and how
it improves the appetite, you will then
appreciate its true tonic value.
Groves Tasteless chill Tonic is simply
Iron and Quinine suspended in syrup. So
pleasant even children like 1t. The blood
needs QUININE to Purify it and IRON to
Enrich it. Destroys Malarial germs and
Grip germs by its Strengthening, Invieor-
ating Effect. 60c.
Pocahontas star herald., 1927-02-17

ny Onon TO high school students. (5)
Those entering this contest w on nc S last a subject o Zee BY the
person & onosions per cent will be given thought
and composition and 40 per cent on peaShp and neatne
Genera gsIes display must consist of work done the
last annual fair Each school must arrange s own display
Height Weight Contest:
Omen to all schools
The school having the greatest per cent OF pupils who
normal according to eaT%e the per cent the number o
pupils enrolled will be taken as the 9aSe ana Ch nu0er OF norm
pupils WIN IG befoe coming the fair thereby determn
@ the nrobabe number of pupils who score normal Pupils
must be weighed at fair will be necessary Tor schools
taring tbs Contest to submit school registers (25
School Building and School Grounds Contest
Those entering this contest should submit picture
showing the general appearance Of the o school building the
ground, playground equipment ETC. (zo)
Efficiency Award to School: L.,
5 90 will be awarded to the school winning the greatest number
Of points The paenheses indicate the points allow
Efcency Award to Individual Pupil winning the greatest
number of points will be awarded $500 in gold 2nd greatest
History and Description of Arkansas State House:
The Randolph County Bank offers a prize of $500 in
gold the rural boy girl writing the best history and descr
ton of the Arkansas Capitol Building and $1,000 gold for
the best history and description OF this building If you
Pocahontas not later than April l5
General Regulations
l. Any school in Randolph county in adjoining counties
is eligible to enter this contest.
Each contestant must be OF school age and bona hde
student of the school he represents.
Any student enter any and all contests to which he
eligible High school students cannot enter Gen. Display
In map drawing free hand drawing etc. pupils must put
name age grade number of district and name of teacher in
sealed envelope and attach work submitted Do not put any
name mark on the work itself.
s. The Fair Committee will not be responsible should any
part of the general display be lost misplaced Each school
should have responsible charge of general display
No school will be eligible to win the Efficiency award un-
less it enters the school parade
Any number teacher schools not to exceed six
number of two teacher schools not to exceed three number
of three teacher schools exceed any combination of
teacher teacher three teacher schools enter as
one school.
; Note to Teachers:
expected that at least thousand people will attend
this Fair The patrons of your school, and the children as well
will be disappointed lack the leadership to enter
your school, In the past you have shown fine school spirit
We you will at this time Let begin to get ready
for the Fair please.
fully
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
The Black Cities

I NOTICE an unusual intensity in his voice, a pc
culiar flashing glitter in his eyes, as he chances
hurriedly over the vanishing panorama of country
side. He speaks rapidly, like one who has many
strange and important things to tell and is pressed
for time. recognize him at once as a miner, man
whose eyes have learned to squnt down in the dark
hard veins of the earth.
An unsual man, / say to myself as / watch him:
who can think and hate, too
For few moments he is silent. Then a hard ex-
preston sweeps his face. He waves his hand
out toward the country sliding by the train window
at fifty miles an hour.
"This," he says softly, ais province of hell Here
we under the Curse of Coal"
Lights. From shops and movies bright stream
of light Bits of song lights and sounds of laughter
from saloons. A white hard wave of light engulf-
ing the pressing tramping, talking crowds. The
Land of Coal is taking its rest. It is Saturday night
in Americas Black Country
Groups Of men, silent. broad shoudered men, talk
ing, STOPPING men Of thirty nationates with their
and children, taking their rest
Laughing men. This is Saturday night Deter
mined men of strong swinging shoulders and steady
eyes. Men with marks of care upon laughing faces
Vast throngs of men who have suffered: men from
the black pits who laugh with their children and
women on Saturday night. Men trying to forget the
Curse of Coal.
Over hills, through fields and towns the train
goes Through cities and woods, and everywhere
feels the influence of COAL hears the gossip of
anthracite. vast land, large as many European
states, built COAL Proud cities, Wilkes Barre
Scranton, Johnstown, Altoona and hundred smaller
places, all supported by masses of sweating men
cauht in the mighty grip of the anthracite. sprawl
ing land where elemental forces are shaping for the
tremendous conquest of the future.
And over 1t all the shines brightly and the
railroad tracks crawl like mated serpents, crawling
over the hills and across the meadows and through
the cities and towns: crawling over the heads Of
many far down under the earth digging, dig
ging, hard breathing men of many races engaged in
the battle of coal
A smiling land seen from tain window A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
By BERNARD COFFIN

long hours in the menacing black depths They
fought bravely, and still women and children are
weeping in novels; again hunger and terror are
doing the work of the hard driving barons laughing
in the sun.
Stories of betrayal are told are whispered from
house to house. carry the challenge even down into
the black pits
Defeated!
Betrayed!
But there is difference now Men talk quietly
together. In the novels they talk by two and two in
the black gas haunted veins of the earth men talk
There is something new, something clean and strong
and terrible come into the Empire of Coal.
Men digging, digging down there at the bowels of
the planet catch glimpse of new dawn; down
there they hear whispers of words that bring them
hope, words that fortel another time of battle and
victory
Down in the black pits they are dreaming and
planning. Down there they have learned the need
for the universal solidarity of labor are fitting their
souls for the inevitable conflict for domination OF
world
This is the drilling ground of the futures Iron
cohorts, the training place of strong who viii
one day stream up into the sunlight to take their
places by the sides of other workers to answer blow
for blow the challenge of the BOSSES
Down In the black pits men are digging, digging,
flesh against rock digging, digging, iron willed men
who are destined to escape the Curse of Coal
The eyes of my companion CLEAN with strange
intensity, the flame of enthusiasm casts a glowing
shadow his face there is something of the air
of prophet in his manner.
Now, for while he is silent again. peering out
over the swiftly moving landscape.
Goal! Coal!" he murmurs as if to himself "There
is fire in COAL fire that lights either the flames Of
hell or the flames of revolution"
He turns toward me suddenly. His face darkens,
he speaks with savage vigor, "But today you are
passing through corner of hell"
The train rushes on over hills and across mea-
dows and through towns and proud cities caressed
by the sunlight Over the heads of sweating men,
down, far down in the black pits, digging, thinking
digging dgging-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
On The New Road

IN the End of February the Fascist Press published
the notorious declaration of the traitors of
the Italian General Confederation Of Labor. Having
announced the liquidation of the G. C. L. these trail
tors went into the service of the fascists. On the
goth of February at of the factories in Milan
the real representatives of the G. c. L. held con-
ference, which proclaimed to the woodland no less
to Amsterdam, that the G. c. L. was not dead, that
the workingclass decided to take matters into their
own hands. They proclaimed that the struggle
against fascsm and the bourgeoisie will not be
pended the contrary under the leadership elected
by the worngelass ITSELF it will be carried on more
resoutely than ever.
This conference was illegally convened on the
initiative of three left declarations. 1t attended
by delegations from unions Of woodworkers business
employees and hotel and restaurant workers, metal
workers, transport workers. printers chemical work
ers, building trade workers and food workers. Rep
resentatives from the Trade Councils of Milan Turin
Trieste, Bologna, Genoa Rome Naples, Bergamo
and Vicenzy and from a number of local trade union
organizations also participated The conference re-
ceived greetings and expressions of solidarity from
the BARRIERS Union, the Agricultural Workers
Union of Apulia and from a number of individuals.
Besides the Communists there were also reformist
and maximalst delegates at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30

stage set for mighty drama, play in which the
bodies of men being broken, lives are being
smothered out, are being, day and night, crushed
out by the pitiless coal. Shacks and palaces want
and wealth. despair and the arrogance of power
toll and the hunger of women and little children
The Curse Of the Coal
suks over the great region. Up out of the pits men
are swarming, up into the sun they are not sup
posed to see, come streams of sweating men,
A thrill of purpose fires the land. It is war war
and the stirring preparations for battle. The men
from the black pits strike. The men of the
deep pits pouring into the light of day to fight
wealth and arrogance and power for their women
and children: the slaves of the anthracite are COM
ing up to fight for the very lives of their people
of the novels.
Armed guards appear, a terrifying display of
brutality and weapons State police minions of the
coal barons patrol the whole land silent menacing
hating the men of the deep black pits
Terrified women, screaming children, and logged
determined men in whose blood the flames of con-
quest have been lighted Violence guns clubs
prancing horses, bright uniforms. land at war
Into the houses they come. the armed guards and
the uniformed police. Men are beaten before the
eyes of their families Terror has holiday But the
grimy men stay in the sum- the men refuse to go
back into the black pits.
An unbelievable campaign of starvation, brutality
coercion in myriad of forms; monstrous unhuman
force employed upon a of workers in the name
of justice and law. The hate of the great barons
desoates the land, but the workers do not go down
into the black holes: they take the bitter flashing
in broad day. By hunger and suffering they are
learning lesson, they being trained hardened
for the magnificent future conquest of coal.
Heroism and tears, the glory of the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
A RefOrmist's Admission.

Very remarkable is the statement made at this
conference by well-known and responsible reform
list worker in the executive committee of the G. c. L.
Il came to the conference today" he said, Ito make
the following statement: You know that always
bitterly fought any attempt your part (the Com
munists) to get control of the G. C. L.
II always thought-although this proved an illu-
sion-that the distinct division between the social
democrats and the Communists would guarantee
personal and tradeunion freedom, at all events for
the socialdemocrats and that the latter could con-
tin1e their work of defending workingclass inter-
ests under regime if only of comparative freedom
/ repeat that this proved illusion After unsuc-
cessful experiments we get to know better Today,
/ belong to those workers-to those social-demo-
crafts who confronted with the choice of two dicta-
torships prefer and choose the dictatorship of the
proletariat. /, therefore, state that all my SYM
pathies with Communism, which l well under
stood as a world-outlook but against which was
struggling being one of the opposite camp Today.
have finished with them. It is with these consdera-
tons that appeal to socal-democratc comrades:
we must do everything to get the support of the
masses for Communism. Once we are smashed by
reactonary methods-methods incredibly reaction
airy, by dictatorship which is considered such even
from the capitalist point of view-for has not the
masked constitutional forms also been discarded
all our efforts must be directed to get the working
class to join the Communist Party which is ideolog-
cally and organizatonally better prepared for the
struggle with the dictatorship of the bourgeoise"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
Decisions of the Conference.

The conference at which complete unanimity pre-
vailed declared the liquidation of the G. C. L. in
valid and elected provisional committee to direct
the work of the confederation. Reformsts, maximal-
lists and Communists (who were in the Majority
were elected to the committee. decision was taken
that the G. c. L. centre must be situated in Italy
and demanded that Amsterdam recognize the organ
ization the only having the right to represent
the Italian proletariat 1t decided to re-organze
the trade unions lines, making the factory
committee the basic trade union unit. Membership
dues greatly lowered.
The provisional committee was charged to convene
All-Union Congress to work out program of
action for the trade union movement and to elect
permanent executive bureau.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
Reformist Methods

This statement of a reformist worker who for
many years past was actively fighting the Comnun-
lists is exceedingly symptomatc, for it throws light
on the feelings among the working masses of Italy
1t exhibits the methods used by reformist leaders
to control the working masses It shows how re-
formist workers who could not otherwise but feel
in complete sympathy with the USSR and the Rus
sian proletariat, who every occasion manifested
their sympa-hy-permitted the exclusion of Com
munists from the trade unions and allowed the trade
unions to be ncapactated in face of fascist reaction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
Shared Workers Needs.

This clearly demonstrates that the foremost eIe
ments OF the labor movement the most honest and
steady workers of the trade unions have maintained
their connections with the rank and fle have shared
their needs and hopes and despair and have learnt
the bitter lessons of recent years They realize now
that the road to victory is through national and in
ternational unity under the slogan of the Com
munist Party. This feeling among the Italian work.
ers prompted the maxmalist workers who at one
time was in the leading organs of the Trades Coun-
ell and in the Metal Workers Union of Milan to
participate also at this conference
MY comrades" he declared, ain deciding to send
me to the conference said Co. but with conditions
But put up no conditions. My comrades are intel
iectuais. am worker As my conscience die
tates will / act'
AS indeed, the Milan conference is the expression
OF the revolutionary consciousness of the Italian
proletariat The impulse for unity the incentive
to take up the struggle, which for so many years
had been held up by the leaders of the G. c. L. and
socialist parties, is now once again crystallizing
into concrete FORMS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
By S. SLOBODSKY

They believed the assertions of the opportunist lead
ers that in steering clear of the COMMUNISTS that
by keeping "clean" of them reformist unions would
be able to continue their existence under the fascist
regime. Their leaders assured them that with SUBJ
mission and loyalty the fascists could be persuaded
to allow the legal existence of the unions This is
the justification for their opportunist and treacher
Gus policy Step by step the reformist leaders closed
down the trade union organizations day by dav
they capitulated to fascsm for the sake of saving
their personal and trade union freedom" The re-
suits of this policy conspicuously clear and
the anger and dismay of the workers are eoualled
only by their contempt for these traitors What is
more important in this statement is the fact that
it was made not before the representatives of
victorious Communist Party, not in a moment of
triumph or rise in the labor movement of Italy
but at an illegal meeting in the presence Of thirty
representatives of the workers. who risking their
lives and their freedom has gathered at time when
fascist reaction was rampant and at its worst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-30
Betrayed
Defeated!

The Black Cities under The round are crowded
again. Human muscles digging, digging into
the tough bones Of the earth: again the bodies of
men are pitted against the COAL the men who have
been betrayed and defeated in the sun.
The strike is over. Again must labor for
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-07
Economic Articles
By Leland Olds, Federated Press
Morgan S Satrap

The appointment of Dwight Nor
row to be U. S. ambassador to Mexico
should go far toward destroying a
fiction that constantly clouds the
popular understanding Of the nealCy
of the American f;--0snclal empire.
This fin+:--- 70 The product of propa-
gandlsts for the established order in
America. This group contends that
Morrow IS chosen simply because of
his outstanding ability, that his con-
nectiOn with the imperial house of
Morgan is only incidental, in fact that
ne has tired of banking and longs for
a public career.
Ihs group wishes to keep from the
people the knowledge that popular
government according to republican
forms has ceased to be the real
government of America, as truly as
it ceased to be the real government
OF Rome when the city plutocracv
began extending the bounds of its
investment empire to the confines of
the known world. 1t wishes to conceal
the fact that the relations of the
United States to other countries.
particularly the so-called backward
countries, are determined by the sell
fish designs of a financial oligarchv
to extend its power.
FL Universal, biggest and most con-
newspaper of Mexico CITY
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-07
PHILIPPINE SENATE PRESI-
DENT VISITS WASHINGTON

Manuel Quezon, president of the
Philippine senate, is sailing for Amer
lea to discuss the problems of the
Philippines with President Coolidge.
The White House wants the public
to know that this interview was
sought by the Filipino leaders, and
was granted by Coolidge reluctantly
as an act of courtesty. 1t is the Cool
idge opinion that the work of the Phil
ippine legislature, now in session,
should have been enough to keep Que
zon at home.
What the Filipinos want is voice
in the selection of their next govern
or-general. Leonard Wood, their OPP
en- enemy for four years, is dead Coo
lidge will soon name his successor. 1t
is likely that that successor will DE
Forbes, the man sent out to "investi-
gate" conditions in the Islands and
whose report echoed the Coolidge OPP
inion that the Filipinos are not en-
titled to independence in the near fut-
ure.
Quezon will be heard for a few min
utes, and will ask for the appoint
ment of a man who has not been com
mitted against independence. But he
will not influence the administration
purpose to keep the Islands as a com
lmercial asset and permanent colony
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-10-07
WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA =

Money plus interest makes money. Indians sold
New York City for $24 to Dutchmen Had they
placed that sum at six per cent compounded on
the day they sold the land, their heirs would have
more money now than New York City is worth.
Chauncey Depew, past ninety, tells how he put
@lOO IN the savings bank sixty-six years ago and
has $1,100 in the bank
But interest, while sure, is slow. good idea
makes money quickly. John E. Andrus, called the
"Straphanger Millionaire" because he hangs to the
street car straps when he might ride in his auto
MOBILIZE bought one share of Singer Sewing Ma
chlne stock for few dollars IN 1864 Having
bought good thing, he knew enough to keep it.
mat share has paid him thus far $4,000.
1t was not Mr.. Andrus' thrift that made the
money but the IDEA of another man, putting
'ne eye OF the needle in the needles point, in
stead OF the other end thus making the sewing
ma possible. While it is well to be thrifty
anu sdVo " II' y