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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
USE OF RADIO HELPS ORGANIZE
FULL FASHIONED HOSE WORKERS

(By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press)
NEW notwithstanding
the unorganized over the radio is the
new method the American Federation
Of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers
is using with good results.
The hosiery union is a youthful
and vigorous section of the A. Of
L. that has met with fine success
almost everywhere except in Reading.
But in Reading the Berkshire Knit
ting company is exploiting several
thousand workers under the open shop
plan. It's three monster plants pro-
duce full fashioned hosiery, in one
mill, ribbons and garters in another
and in the third mill the company
turns out the knitting machinery that
it uses itself or sells to new COM
nanies starting on the open shop plan
in other cities.
Standard ways or organizing were
failing. The Berkshire lznitters live
in a company town on the outskirts
Of Reading. And there in Berkshire
houses, Berkshire social halls and
Berkshire company stores they were
under the eve of Berkshire spies.
The knitter seen talking to an or
ganizer or turning the pages of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

the anti-labor employers rather than
by the sacrifices of organized labor.
Capitalists At Work
At Seattle it was the Chamber Of
Commerce and the Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club, and not the
Central Council or the State Fedora
ton OF Labor that undertook 20 show
the visitors around.
The Department Of Commerce is
sued Q confidential statement, early
in December, pointing out that Aus
tralian labor was much excited by
disputes as TO the good faith of the
Commonwealth premier in sending
this mission. Labor spokesman
charged that its snal purpose was 70
make 2 report which would be an at
tack upon trade union standards in
Australia. The main object Of inquiry is
to be the most efficient mode Of pro-
duction in American advertisements
production and mass management of
labor On Mar. A. the department
issued a public statement which ig-
nored the fact that Australian labor
has challenged the enterprise.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Chicago BoOtleggers
Again Stage Machine
Gun Battle; Two Dead

CHICAGO, March 1.-TWO dreaded
chieftains of gangland lay dead here
today following a spectacular street
battle between rival factions of boot
leggers. Others may have been killed
and wounded.
Frank "Lefty" Koneil, chief lieu
tenant for Joe Salts, recognized head
Of powerful south side beer running
syndicate, and Charles Rubrec, alias
Big Hayes" are the men known to
have been killed.
The bodies Of Koncil and Rubrec,
riddled by machine gun bullets. were
found in the street at the corner of
Ashland Avenue and 30th Street, near
a Lincoln sedan identified as the prop
erty of Joe Salts.
The circumstances of the fight were
not unlike those in which recently
member of the district attorneys Of
flee got himself riddled by ma
chine gun in the hands of bootlegger
enemies of the bootleggers he was
with.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Americans and Chinese
Laud Sun Yat-sen

Continued from Page One)
in the overthrow Of the Manchus, but
its objects were thwarted by the am
billions Of Yuan-Shi-Kai and the weak
ness Of the Chinese proletariat.
Refusing to accept the reactionary
government of Yuan which had been
negotiating loans with foreign pow
ers, DR.. Sun set up another govern
ment in Canton. In 1920 he was cleo
ted president Of the Nationalist gov
eminent at Canton. His attempts to
unity China were frustrated by the
treachery Of his military commander,
Chen Chiun-M Ming.
National Convention.
In 1924 he called the first National
Convention of the Kuomintang and
reorganized the party which is lead
ing the struggle for China's liberia
ton.
Or. Sun died on March II, 1925, too
soon to witness the successes of the
Nationalist armies, but left in his
twill" an inspiring message to them
to continue the work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
No Witness to Carry
Out Chicago Police
Frame-Up of Mexican

CHICAGO-When the ca Use of
Agustin Morales, the Mexican who is
held for the murder Of Policeman
lyman J. StahI, at Melrose Park,
Dec. 18th. was called in Judge Miller's
court Thursday, no witness for the
srate appeared. The case was post
poned at the request of the state and
against the protest of Morales at
torney. Mary Belle Spencer. It is
the opinion of those who are support
ing Morales that the case will never
come to trial.
An investigator for the Chicago
Crime Commission was on hand and
learned from Mrs. Spencer the details
Of the abuse, beatings, and robberies
which were practiced by the police
force on the Mexican colony at Mel
rose Park, after the shooting last De-
cember. He says the commission will
make a thorough investigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
BY ALFRED KNUTSON
Secretary. United Farmers
Educational League.

We pointed out in an editorial in
the January number Of The United
Farmer that the working farmers Of
this country should refuse to get ex-
cited over the McNary- Haugen bill be-
cause it will not afford them relief in
any basic sense.
It is recalled now that the farmers
were to be helped through the law
creating the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Federal Farm Loan
System. through tariff laws and laws
regulating the packers and host of
other farm relief" laws. Where are
these laws today? Are the bankrupt
farmers of the west getting any help
from them? Not so you can notice it.
The McNary-Haguen bill passed
the senate by a vote Of AZ to 50. There
are powerful political forces back of
il, not forces which care about the
welfare Of the farmers, but the kind
of forces which are interested in lin
ing up the farm vote for 1928. That's
what counts. Politicians must have
votes in order to get in"
The bill provides for a Federal
Farm Board of twelve members. APP
pointed by the president of the United
States, and the secretary of agricul-
ture is to decide what organizations
are representative Of agriculture. des-
ignate the farm organizations eligible
to participate in conventions and des-
ignate the number of represe~ tives
and the number of votes es arm
organization in any district shall be
entitled to. Not much chance for any
kind of democracy" here.
The McNary-Haugen bill is a foot
hall used by the politicians to get
the support OF the farmers. Coolidge,
the representative of eastern finance
capital is against the bill while Frank
0. Lowden, multi-millionaire and an
aspirant for the presidency and rep
resentative of the western farm CAPT
talists, is for it. Dawes, the vice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Better Made Curtains
For Railroad Cars In
Wisconsin Demanded

WASHINGTON, March 10 (FP).-
Complaint that curtains IN railroad
cabs used in northern climates do not
afford proper shelter for engine crews
as contemplated by the federal boiler
inspection law, has been filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
by the Wisconsin Railroad Commits
sion.
Wisconsin first undertook TO regu-
late this matter itself, but the federal
supreme court held that the !. G. G.
had sole jurisdiction. Accordingly
Wisconsin asks the I. c. c. to do its
duty by protecting the locomotive en-
gineers and firemen from Indictment
weather, and enable said employees to
operate said locomotives and tenders
without unnecessary peril TO life and
limb as provided by Section 2 Of the
Boilers Inspection Act, amended"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Scripps Foundation
Finds Farmer Youth
Consumed by Cities

WASHINGTON. March Is (FP).-
Not enough children are born in
American towns to maintain their
population. says a report which P. X.
Whelpto1 hos made, after much study,
to the f. W. Scripps Foundation for
Research in Population Problems.
Whelpton finds that industrial
civilization consumes a great annual
harvest of children drawn from the
farms, because townspeople do not
breed enough children to keep the
towns alive. Yet 65 per cent of the
American population is classed by
the 1920 census as industrial, COM
pared with only 81 per cent industrial
in 1920. And while for every 500
worth of farm products raised in 1909
there were produced only 81 worth
Of manufactures, in 1919 manufac-
lures were 1921 worth to each 500
Of farm products.
The birth rate on American farms,
he reports, is one-third higher than
in towns, where health and sanitary
precautions are better.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Ex-Soldier Shows Up
Swivel Chair Patriot
Who Opposed LabOrite

DENVER, March IS (FP). - Be-
cause Captain Ralph E. Hanson,
Q.M.C. Reserve, frothed belligerently
through his clenched teeth against
criticism of military training in col
leges the Colorado Labor Advocate,
in which the offending article was
written, replied:
Captain Hanson, ONO. Reserve
is a patriot. For the information Of
those who have never been in the
army and do not know the branches
of the service, it may be stated that
a man gets a commission as captain
in the ONO. Reserve so that he can
be a patriot, be prepared to have a
soft job if war should come and NOT
GET SHOT
"The ONO. quarternastcr corps,
stays safely behind the lines in war
and sends food up to the unpatriotic
soldiers who serve in machine-gun
companies of combat divisions as did
the person who wrote the editorial
that the 'safety-first captain so bit
terly critieizes,
"War is pretty soft for ONO. re-
serve eaptainsl"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

Readinr Labor Advocate was in
dane -
Workers Hear and Join
Abr .ine q radio experiment
ter put up a small station in Reading.
Would he let the union go on the air
once week? Certainly, the same as
any one else. And the new campaign
began.
welfare does not take the place
Of wages: join the union," says the
voice on the air. 1t listens so well
that fifteen to twenty workers phone
in their appreciation to Station
WRAW at the close of the hour.
The union keeps up interest with
many different speakers, telling the
labor message in many different
ways. The night Golden was there
he told the story of the life and work
at Brookwood Labor College. And
Ida Weissman, young Passaic striker,
told the story Of the dramatic and
inspiring battle of the 10000 Jersey
workers.
Things are ripening in Berkshire
mills for big union move. And all
because labor had the Imagination
to go on the air when it failed or
the street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
IMPURE MILK is
STILL FLOODING
new YORK CITY
Old Time Grafters on
Job, Says Harris

Impure milk continues to flood the
city despite the few Intellectual at
tempts that have been made to bar
it.
Bootleg Milk.
That impure bootleg milk and
cream is being struggled into New
York by members Of the gang in
volved in the graft scandals for
which Thomas J. Clougher, secretary
to former Health Commissioner
Frank ]. Monaghan, is now serving
a sentence in Sing Sing, was revealed
by Health Commissioner Harris yes
terday.
Endangers Lives.
The lives of thousands of New
York workers are endangered by
bootleg shipments of milk and cream
made by the Valley Company Of New
Jersey, DR.. Harris said.
"The same old gang of milk and
cream bottleggers is up to its same
old tricks" he declared. Until the
State of New Jersey as a whole es-
tablishes the same fellowship with us
which has been manifested by the
Hackensack authorities, both New
York City and New Jersey will suf-
fer from the smuggling of bootleg
milk and cream and its attendant
danger to life and health"
Permit Revoked.
The International Milk Company
of Irvington, n. j., and the Beakes
Dairy Company of Hackensack are
under investigation. The former,
which did business here under the
name Of the Valley Dairy Company,
had its permit revoked several
months ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
REPUBLICAN BOSS
LEADS The FIGHT
FOR tO-CENT FARE
Livingston Protects Big
Realtors

Declaring that the republican leader
Of Kings county, Jacob A. Livingston,
was trying to foist a ten-cent fare
on the people Of New York, William
J. Beers, president of the Eighteenth
Assembly District Republican Club.
startled a meeting Of the Kings Coun-
ty Republican Committee held at the
Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, Tuesday
evening
The Kings county leader is "con-
spring with Assemblyman Edward f..
Fay Of the Seventeenth Assembly Dis
trict to put a ten-cent fare bill through
the legislature" Mr.. Beers declared.
The bill referred to by Mr.. Beers is
the Brown-Fay bill which would
raise fares to protect real estate mag
mates from taxation for subway con-
struction and maintenance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Two More Students
Are Suicides

CHESTERTON. IND, March a.
Mcintyre, 10, university Of Chicago
student, today was the latest victim
Of the suicide epidemic now sweeping
American colleges, according to au-
thorities.
Harsha's body a bullet through
the head, the right hand still clutch.
ing a pistol. was found on a lonely
sand dune near here.
In Harsha's pocket was a news.
paper clipping describing student
suicides during the past several
months.
Asks Mother 10 Order Casket
LYNN, MASS, March ia Lynn
youth has been added to the increas-
ing number Of student suicides.
Telling his mother to order his
casket, in what she believed TO be q
joke, William Feinman, %, honor
graduate Of Lynn English High
school, went TO his room 'and fired O
bullet into his brain.
lie frequently talked Of death ant
the Chinese custom Of ordering 9
coffin two days before an act such
as his. Articles on the suicides
among students were found in his
room.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14

~~NhSA - ~ HANbAeAAAA ~ AtNAANs
Accordingly, Morrison has handed
out copies Of statements made by Sir
Hugh Denison, Australian commits
sioaer in New York. reciting who the
visitors are, and where they are go
ing.
Look For Arguments
What they hope to determine is
thus limited at by Miss Matthews,
che Of the two women observers with
the party, in an interview at Seattle:
THE London Daily Mail in 1925 sent
eight engineers to America 70 dis
cover the secret Of high wages. Stan
Icy Bruce, our prime minister, INA
tionalist) favored sending an Aus
tralian delegation on tho same mis-
sion, and the government authorized
a."
The Daily Mail Mission, which
toured the industrial centers Of the
eastern United States last year, went
home and reported its admiration for
the industrial policy Of the biggest
corporations in this couu-
try. It gave the impression that
wages had been raised in America by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
FARMERS SECTION
KNUTS0N SHOWS MCNARY -HAUGEN
BILL NO RELIEF TO The FARMERS

president, who never has been accused
of fighting for the farmers interests,
opposed Coolidge and helped to hold
the farm relief" senators together.
In order to get relief the farmers
must fight their own battles. In every
locality throughout the country there
must be developed active groups of
farmers who will conscientiously and
energetically press for the solution Of
the farm problems.
Our work or organization must be
political as we'll as economic, and in
order to get somewhere with our fight,
we must form an alliance with the
workers in the industries and work
for the realization of farmers and
workers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Lame Duck In Debt.

WASHINGTON, March 11.-Mem-
bers of Washington's exclusive social
set who were guests little more
than one year ago at the brilliant
wedding of Miss Barbara Stanfield
and Henry Teasdale Dunn, were pro-
foundry shocked today by the insti-
tuition of suit against the brides
father, United States Senator Robert
n. Stanfield oe Oregon, for the cost
Of the brid rousseau, amounting
to S1,121.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Negro Worker Saves
Mans Life But Fire
Company Hogs Credit
fRv A Worker Correspondent.

CINCINNATI. O. (By Mail). -
Franticallv digging and shoveling TO
save his fellow worker who sank in
a 12-foot cave-ln, Neal McCracken. a
Negro worker, succeeded in liberating
his man by working from top down,
getting him clear and out, with life
still going.
At this moment the fire depart
ment arrived and TRANSPORTED the in
iured man to the hospital. Next morn
ing the case came to our notice thru
the paper The fire department got
all the credit, playing the hero and
cheating our worker life-saver out Of
his just credit, not even mentioning
his name.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Many Ruthenberg Memorial
Meetings in Last Two Days

Thousands of workers all over the
United States gathered at meetings
during the weekend to pay a final
tribute to the memory of Comrade
C. f. Ruthenberg. leader of the Com
munist movement of this country.
At these meetings, which in all
cases drew tremendous crowds.
scores of new members We're secured
for the Workers (Communist))
Party. Many workers were heard to
say: "Now that Ruthenberg is dead,
redoubled effort is needed from
many to fill up the gap in the ranks.
My place is in the ranks of the party
that Ruthenberg helped to form"
In Many Cities.
On Saturday meetings were held in
Pittsburg, Pa, at the Labor Ly-
ceum, and in New Haven, Conn,
while yesterday the following cities
held memorial gatherings; Milwau-
kee, Wis. st. Louis. Mo-, Buffalo, n,
Y, Passaic, N. j., Los Angeles, Cal.
Stamford, Conn, st. Paul, Mimi,
Minneapolis, NJ inn, Bridgeport
Conn.,, and Hartford, Conn.
Tonight workers will gather in
Duluth, MINI, Utica, N. Y, and sew
eral other cities.
More This Week.
The following meetings will be
held this week:
Upper New York State.
Utica, N. Y, March 14th
Schenectady, N. Y, March 18th.
Albany, N. Y, March 10th, Sons
of Italy Hall, 120 Madison Ave. y
Troy, n. Y, March 18th.
Binghamton, n. Y, March 18th.
jamestown, N. Y, March 10th.
Ithaca, n. Y, March 10th.
Niagara Falls, n. Y, March goth
Memorial at Luzerne, Pa.
I LUZERNE, PA mass memorial
meeting will be held in commemora-
ton of the death of Comrade c. E
Ruthenberg, Tuesday, March Is, 7 p
M, in New Italian Hall, 2O6 Oliver
Street, Luzerne, Pa. I
Newark Meeting.
Newark, Friday, March IS. A
MarkOff. Montgomery Hall.
Superior Meeting.
Tuesday, March Is, Superior, Wise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
CHARGES 1000
RICH new YORK
men DODGE TAX
Senate Report Declares
Corporations Defraud

WASHINGTON, March 13.-Thous-
ands of corporations in New York
City, each controlled by one man, are
lodging federal taxes aggregating
hundreds Of millions of dollars, ac-
cording to a report submitted to mem
bers of the Congressional Taxation
Committee, it was learned today.
Fraud On Government.
An investigators for the commit
tee found that there are about 1000
corporations in New York City, each
practically controlled by one man or
one family He estimated that half
of these concerns were formed for
the purpose Of lodging federal taxes.
Notice was served by members of
the committee that they will open a
drive upon the treasury department
at the next session Of congress to
force enforcement of Section 220 Of
the Internal Revenue Law.
Don't Enforce.
That section directs the Internal
Revenue Bureau to levy a tax upon
a corporations undivided surplus,
when it is believed that the surplus
is being held in the treasury and not
divided among stockholders for the
purpose Of saving the stockholders
from paying a tax upon their divi-
dend
Failure of the treasury depart
ment 10 enforce that section has cost
the government hundreds Of millions
Of dollars in taxes" charges Rep. Col
lier CD Of Mississippi.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
NO CENSOR BILLS
AT THIS SESSION
N. Y. LEGISLATURE
Boston Now After New
Sinclair Lewis Book

ALBANY, N, Y, March 13,--Bills
providing for state censorship of the
stage and Of books and magazines
viii not he passed at the present
session of the legislature, Senator
John knight, republican leader of the
upper house. indicated today.
"l GO not believe any stage censor
ship bill fill be enacted by the pre-
sent Legislature, Knight said.
The so-called clean books bill has
been defeated at the last four ses-
sions Of the legislature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
..Peaehese sill in Spotlirht.

NEW YORK, March 13.-Frances
Heenan (Peaches) Browning today is
threading to bring about another law
suit, this to be aimed at the Society
Of Independent Artists because they
are exhibiting among other pictures
one entitled african Gander" at
their annual exhibit at the Hotel
Waldorf Astoria.
The picture objected to depicts a
young woman in the nude in a re-
Ginning POSITION with goose at her
site, while in a bowl on a nearby
table are several peaches.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
ti-Smuggling Treaty
With France in Effect

WASHINGTON, March 10. - The
Anti-Smuggling treaty between
France and the United States became
effective yesterday. The treaty was
negotiated by Secretary Of State
Hughes in 1924. but never became OPP
erative because Of a delay in ratifica-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Second Death From Blast.

CARNEY'S POINT, y. j., March
13.-Gilbert Whitesell, Al years old
died today in the Dupont Dye Works
Hospital at Deepwater. the second vic
tim Of the blast Of 1000 pounds Of
smokeless powder at the Dupont pow
der plant here yesterday.
His cousin, Howard Whitesell, 80
years old, died yesterday q short time
after the fatal explosion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
Kuckner pefers ReItrement.

United States Attorney Emory r.
Buckner, prosecutor in the Daugher-
ty-Miller conspiracy case, yesterday
announced that his retirement from
office, scheduled for this week, will
be deferred until his successor has
been chosen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
AT THE NEW SSTANDS
new RIGHT WING COMMISSION COMING TO
AMERICA TO DISCOVER THE AMERICAN PLAN
By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, (FP)Secreay
Of Labor has decided take faith
industrial mission guess why
American high Although there
es Australia against the choice Of labor members Of
By Bruce the Tory premier the A. F. L. is without official
that this is mission hostile to regular trade union policy hostile
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-14
MANY MEETINGS
. FOR RUTHENBERC
Continued from Page One)
Young Workers Hold Memorial

Yesterday Branch No. Of the
Young Workers League of Cleveland,
will hold a mass meeting for the
purpose of honoring the memory of
E. Ruthenberg, noted working-class
leader and Communist whose death
took place on March 2 in Chicago
The meeting took place at the Fret
heit Hall, 1914 f. 10th st.