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The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Schools to Recruit for
Training CamD OuOta

Beginning April 4, a series of
assemblies will be held in the high
schools of the city for the purpose
OF recruiting the Districts quota of
900 in the citizens training camps
this summer.
Superintendent of Schools Ballou
will choose. speakers to address stu
dents of Western High School on
April 4, Central High on April s,
Business and Mckinley highs the
following day and Eastern High
School on April Z.
A committee composed of Col.
Andrew Moses, Maj. r. P. Lemlv.
and Capt. Charles Demonet Is in
charge.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Director Is to Address
Education Association

stanwood Cobb. director of Chevy
Chase Country Day School, will be
one OF the leading speakers at the
meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, April
1880 Of the Progressive Education
Association, an organization made
up or a group Of educators who
study advanced educational posi-.
bilities.
Mr.. Cobb was one of the organ.
lzers of the association and its first
president. A number of other prom.
inent Eastern educators are to speak
at the conference.
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
Farmer, AZ, Stabbed
To Death by His Uncle

CHICAGO, March 25.-George
Weber. %. wealthy Paw Paw.
Mich, truck farmer, was stabbed
to death today with a butcher
knife in a drunken quarrel with
John Weber. an uncle, according to
police
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
u. Of C. Library Gets
Earliest Arithmetic

BERKELEY. Cal. March 25.-
The first book on arithmetic on
the North American continent, I
text by Pedro de Paz. Mexican col.
iector Of tithes. published in 1888,
has been bought for the University
OF California library. IT was learned
today.
The S00-year.old book was found
IN Mexico City by Prof. Florian
Cajori. instructor IN history Of
The Washington times., 1927-03-25
IJOTTINGS FROM
ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA. March 25.--Accord.
Ing to City Manager Paul Morton
the budget will be ready for an.
prevail by the city council after
the meeting Monday when final
touches will be added. The entire
time OF the city managers office
ana practically all the informal ses.
sions OF the council have been
spent on the budget.
When the case of John Walker,
coiored, charged with hitting vii.
nam Broders, also coIored, with a
shoVet was called in police court
today. Broders came forward with
ms head bandaged and asked to
Withdraw the warrant, paying three
ooliars. he said he thought it
William Madden, IA, colored. who
In police court yesterday ertered
a plea of guilty to attempting to
assault Bertha Allison at the en-.
trance to her home night before
last, has been removed to a place
OF safe keeping by Captain Camp.
bell OF the police force.
Frederick L. Flynn. representing
Louis Boerslg in the trial for the
Staying Of two little Ridgeway
girls. said last night that ne did
not Intend to withdraw from the
case because Of the threatening
letters which he has received.
Members of the Belle Haven
Country Club will vote tonight on
the proposal to issue $4,000 worth
OF bonds and pay off the present
Indebtedness and use the remainder
for improvements of the clubhouse
and golf links and the building of
the swimming pool.
Lieut.. w. ]. Wilkerson and
Sergt. Edgar Simms yesterday ar
rested a colored man named Kid
Williams on the request of the
Henrico County authorities. vii.
liams is charged with having shot
| Haywood Smith January 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
WOMEN
WITH AN ORGANIZED WILL, THE WORKING WOMEN CAN
FORCE The BOSSES TO ACCEPT UNION CONDITIONS

ended. We must not throw away oul
weapons, because we have to battle
many other Pechters and Messengers
in our daily life. We women must
conquer all exploiters, because we fee
them the most
Fight for Label.
At the annual conference of the
United Workinglcass Housewives, held
en- the twenty-fifth of June, a resolu-
ton was passed for carrying on agi-
tation for the union label in Greater
New York. In other words it means
that union conditions must be accept
ed by all bakeries, where scabs are
now employed,
There are many such bakeries. It
is the duty of the baker women to
carry on this struggle in the same
spirit as it has been so fer carried on.
Because of this, we appeal to you,
baker women to Join the Baker Wo-
mems Council of the Bronx. Every
baker woman must help carry on the
work.
Friday, the eighth of July a meet
ing was held by the baker women's
council. How many baker women
made it duty to look up more women
and interest them in the work so that
they too would join the ranks of our
council and further the work, so that
our baker council should stand out
bravely in the labor movement, like
many other councils that exist today!
Women Must Rally.
In the name of the Baker Union,
Local 500, we print a thanks to all
women councils for their active part
in the past bakery strike and we hope
that they will continue their agitation
for the union label The boss, Gott-
fried says, that he does not need the
union label,' therefore, we women
must see to it that he settles with
the union.
Formerly his was a union-shop,
therefore we must demand that our
grocers do not keep Gottfried's scab
bread in their stores. We hope, that
our work will be rewarded with sue
cess as at Pechter's and Messengers.
At first Pechter and Messenger were
conceited and would not give in, but
thanks to the public, WHO demanded
union labeled bread, they were forced
to settle with the union. We, women
must organize. in order to force the
baker bosses to come across with the
demands of the workers.
ELLA ZELNICK.
A baker woman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Results of the Plenary Session of the Executive
Committee of the Communist International

with the scoundrels who betrayed the
General Strike, ETC., and therefore
you too are traitors to the working
class!
The arguments brought forward
here by the Opposition differ solely
from their former arguments in be-
ing more definite" more decided"
and more violent in their attacks on
the leaders of our Party and on the
Comintern. And yet it is obvious
that the problem is not solved by
designating both the Left" and Right
leaders of the General Council as
opportunists, reformists, scabs, SER
wants of imperialism, etc These are
sacred and entirely elementary
truths. The question is, whether it
would have been right to dissolve the
Anglo Russian Committee in the
midst of an extremely difficult inter
national situation. We are of the
opinion that the situation obliged us
to make a number of concessions.
This did not by any means signify
that our trade unions abandoned
their right to criticize. The inter
view with Comrade Tomsky shortly
after the Berlin Conference showed
this plainly enough.
These were the considerations land
not illusory considerations expecting
active help which led to our approval
of the tactics pursued by the All
Russian Central Trade Union Coun-
Gil This does not exclude the pos
sihility that the leaders of the Cen
eral Council may be induced by our
criticism to dissolve the Anglo-Rus-
sian Committee themselves. This is
not impossible. Our criticism is per-
fectly necessary. And the English
workers will be fully able to realize
that our action forces the traitorous
leaders to unmask their own treach-
cry, whether they name themselves
Right or Left.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Speech by Nikolai Bukharin.
Continued From Last Issue)

And yet, in spite of the open chal-
lenge made to Comrade Trotzky, he
has uttered no word on all these
matters, and we are still in the dark
as to what he thinks about defeat
ism" and about all his former errors.
According to Comrade Trotzky's con-
ceptions, Bolshevism was ere
equipped" as early as the spring of
1917, and, having become "Trotzky-
fed" it drew all it's weapons from
Trotzky's arsenal. Perhaps Comrade
Trotzky advances similar pretensions
with regard to the war questions
Here a definite answer is required.
But this definite answer has not been
given US.
More than this. We have been
given no answer whatever, either de-
finite of indefinite. And this in spite
of the unusual energy shown by the
comrades of the Opposition, who
have let off innumerable quantities
of essays, speeches, declarations, eX-
plantations, "unheld" speeches, ETC.,
etc for the benefit of the Plenum
They have placed on this occasion on
record documents to the extent of
about 500 pages. But in all this vol
luminous written matter no room has
been found for the most important
questions of all, no room for reply
to the most fundamental problems,
no room for spark of courage to
acknowledge opportunist errors.
In place of this we find Comrade
Trotzky touching upon one question
only: the question of the Anglo
Russian Committee To Trotzky this
appears to be the sole question
worthy of attention, and his reply to
it is all he accomplishes in connec-
ton with the war preparations! And
these are the comrades who pretend
to political farsightedness! / too
must, however, devote few words to
this question. Everyone of us is able
to understand that among the enorm-
Gus arsenal of defensive weapons at
the disposal of the international la
Dor movement, the Anglo-Russian
Committee is only one among many.
There are other weapons too; there
is the Comintern, there is the Red
International of Labor Unions, there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

are about go Communist Parties,
there is the G.. p S. u, there is the
dictatorship of the proletariat, the
Soviet Union, there is the Chinese re-
volution, etc, etc. All these weapons
must be modified against the dan
ger of war
But our comrades of the opposition
ignore all these factors with the sole
exception of the Anglo-Russian Com
mittee, and have concentrated on this
one question the whole Of their elo-
quence, their temperament, their Gin
dignation," their ISLANDERS, and the
rest of virtues, with the object of
persuading our foreign comrades
that the c. P. S. U. has been acting
the part of traitor to the proletar-
lat. 1t must also be observed that
the tone adopted by the Opposition,
and by Comrade Trotzky, at this
meeting, has been extremely strange.
Every word, and every second printed
line. contains accusations of ''treach
cry" of "unfaithfulness, of "crime,"
ETC., hurled against the c. c.. of our
Party and against the Comintern.
This has aroused, and is bound to
arouse, the greatest indignation
among our comrades from abroad.
And if certain amount of sympathy
was felt at first, among especially
softhearted comrades. for the COM
rades of the Opposition who have
been pushed aside" and "humili
ated," this sympathy was speedily
destroyed, and Tritzky aroused gen.
eral Indignation against himself.
This you may see from the resolu-
tions passed on the attitude taken by
the Opposition. The comrades of the
Opposition advanced an urgent de-
mand that the Anglo Russian Conn
mittee should be dissolved. We re-
piled that we must not delude our
selves that the British section of the
Anglo-Russian Committee would
help much during or before the war,
but that in the given historical sit
uation, under the given circum-
stances, it is better to avoid a rup-
ture, since such a rupture would have
made an extremely unfavorable i'm
preston in view of the various other
"ruptures" which we have to record.
The Opposition repeated what they
said long ago, merely using stronger
expressions: You are cooperating
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

The strike of the two big firms,
Pechter and Messenger has ended; but
that does not mean that we baker
women must sit down in our homes,
return to our daily house work and
become obedient slaves. say no!
This must not be, because the battle
that we have carried on with Pechter
and Messenger for the last two months
have taught US baker women a great
deal. Many of US have suffered under
the hands Of paid gangster and have
also learned how to battle against the
bosses, how to go in the picket lines
and how to carry on the battle sue
cessfully.
Fiercer Fighters Than Men.
I want to illustrate fact which
The boss, Pechter, himself told. He
said, that when his workers had
gone out on strike; he was sure that
with our husbands he would soon be
through; but he forgot about the
baker women With the women he
cannot get through quickly. They are
great fighters, and to conquer such
fighters you need iron strength, Pech-
ter says that the women crippled his
trade.
Before, Pechter thought that the
women would only spoil his trade on
the East Side. On the West Side he
thought that we could not do any
thing to him. He forgot that here he
had to do with women. who do not
stop at any obstacle. The baker wo-
men of the Bronx got so far into the
West Side that they appeared every
where. When Pechtcr's drivers came
there with gangsters they were sur
prised to see the baker women picket
ing.
Gangsters Can't Cow Women.
But gangsters did not help him. AS
soon as they dispersed one group, a
new group appeared, a third and a
fourth one. Pechter then saw that
this play was for the devil, and be-
cause of this he was forced to accept
the union agreement, (even though
everybody knows that the settlement
is not satisfactory and stop the
strike. Pechter was forced to bow,
because the women appeared every
where to stop his scab work
From this battle, which the women
carried on against the baker bosses,
Pechter and Messenger, it can be seen
that the workingclass housewife
plays a big role in the labor move
ment. Our baker women should re-
member that our battle has not yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
BY ESTHER LOWELL.
Federated Press)

COOperatives Force Unionization.
Unions where none were before
have been formed because the Uni
ted Workers Cooperative insists on
union service in its new apartment
house near Bronx Park, New York.
Business from 339 cooperating work
er families-800 people-was attrac-
tive enough to big milk dealer and
to large steam laundry to win their
recognition of unions among their
workers at the demand of the CO.
operative
In the eight stores is is to operate,
the cooperative will have union retail
clerks, Its restaurant will be
thoroughly unionized. The teachers
in its school, just starting a summer
session, will be members of their or
ganization. Every working member
Of the colony must belong to the
union of his trade or try to organize
his shop if there is none Women at
home join the United Councils of
Workingclass Housewives to aid labor
organization work.
Of course the cooperative can't
force unionization of all concerns
serving it. The telephone company
and the subway system are not
recognizing unions yet.
Fresh Air For Children.
Flowers boxes hold their blooms in
the wide windows Of the first unit of
apartments, now all occupied. Grass
parkings edge the red brick buildings
on the street side and the inner court
yard shows signs of bright garden
coming. Later statue will be cree
ted in the center, with fountains sur
rounding it.
Babies and children of the CO.
operators enjoy the abundance of clear
sunshine out-of-doors or in. Almost
every room of the 962 in the two
buildings forming the first unit gets
sun sometime of the day and all
apartments have cross-ventilation.
The rooms are larger than in profit
making apartments.
Already the second unit of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01

COLONY FORCES UNTONIZATION
OF ALL EMPLOYEES IN FIRMS SERVING THEM

colony IS being built by 100 per cent
union labor 1t will house 359 famil-
ies-nearly 1000 persons. 1t has
more and Broom apartments and
fewer 4-room ones. Renting in the
third block has won 40 families in the
first month, The second of course is
full. ~~
Colony Governs Self.
The colony runs itself, subject only
to the board of % directors of the
United Workers Coop, it's parent.
The house committee is sub-divided
for reception and information, santa
ton, grievances, education, sport,
management, and for Section K-fur-
nished rooms. A cultural committee
keeps colonists living up to the rules
they make. The colonists assemble
in their auditorium for business or
pleasure-a lecture or music.
A steamshovel is working on the
2OOx75 foot plot of the youngsters
playground, which will ne adequately
equipped. A gymnasium has been
furnished in the light and airy base
ment of the first building. The stores
are being finished mode1nly to sell
groceries, delicatessen, fish, meats,
hardware, fruits and vegetables, and
drugs and to handle hand laundry.
Arrangements are being made with
Cedric Long Of the Cooperative
League for cooperative wholesale
buying with other league organiza-
tons. +
Rates Reasonable.
The carrying charge is between
S13 and $14 per room a month. The
initial investment is $3.50 per room.
Each adult colonist must belong to the
United Workers Coop. Consumers
Finance Corp, subsidiary, has floa-
ted quarter million dollar 6 per cent
gold bond issue in place of a second
mortgage to finance further building.
Workers throughout the country have
bought. The first mortgage, guaran-
teed by the stabilized returns of the
first building, is held by Guaranty
Trust Co.
Charles Nemeroff is manager of
the apartments; Peter Rothenberg of
the stores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
HANDS OFF The DAILY WORKER!

ism, and day by day struggles with
the toiling workers in their factories.
The DAILY WORKER fights the
Holy Trinity Of the boss, the Judge
and the reactionary Labor leader.
And isn't it the same DAILY WORK
Err which is tirelessly battling for
the freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti
and all class war prisoners And
the same Worker which thunders to
the Imperialists: Hands Off China!
Hands Off Russia!
This is the reason that the workers
everywhere, with a powerful spirited
determination, will now also say to
the enemy of Labor: Hands Off The
DAILY WORKER! For the organ Of
Labor cannot die, but must live to
continue the fight for the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
The Percentage Decline.
By Joseph Z. BOOTH


CHICAGO, July 31.-At the regu-
lar meeting of our Street Nucleus Is,
Workers (Communist) Party of Chi
cago, on July II, after thorough
discussion on how to meet the serious
situation facing The DAILY WORK
Err, a recommendation was offered
which we find several days later en-
bodied in the Guard The DAILY
WORKER Fund. This fund the C.
E. C. has launched in the form of
one dollar certificates which we hope
and trust all comrades and militant
workers will purchase in support of
their fighting Daily.
1t hurts the bosses when our Daily
shows the workers how to liberate
themselves from the yoke of Capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
Current EUents

Continued from Page One)
joint diatribe against the Workers
Republic, Immediately following a
TRADE against each other.
EROM now on the United States and
England will build battleships
against one another. England's his
toric policy has been one of enmity
against her nearest commercial rival,
which now is the United States. This
is written in no jingoistic spirit but
in recognition of facts. The British
Empire is on the decline; American
imperialism is on the upgrade. Wall
Street is now doing in South America
what Thredneedle Street was doing
{ in Africa and the Orient half a CEN
fury ago. The United States is not
obliged to seek & war with big
capitalist power because it holds the
winning hand. If permitted to con-
tinue it's depredations at the expense
of the workers and colonial peoples
it finds profitable to exploit, our
eagle will coo like a dove, but if in
terfered with Uncle Sam will frown
and snarl as he used to back in 1917
and 1918 when he heard about the
rape of another Belgian or French
convent by the hordes of the Kaiser.
MOT unconnected with the Geneva
~ naval conference ID the battle
royal now being waged in the news
papers, in the foreign offices and in
the oil markets of the world between
the gigantic petroleum octopuses of
England and the United States.
There appears to be division of
opinion between the Standard Oil of
New York and it's big brother of New
Jersey. The former is doing land
office business in Soviet oil while the
New Jersey trust declares the stuff
is untouchable. This is the bunk.
And it may appear inexplicable to
many that such a devout foe of the
Soviet Union as Charles Evans
Hughes should be the legal genius
who advised Standard Oil of New
York that trading in "stolen" Russian
oil. was much more ethical than steal
ing it from our own naval oil reserves
as Doheny and Sinclair did. An hon
est dollar knows no father.
IT'S oil monopoly is a powerful poll
4 teal weapon in the hands of the
Government of the Soviet Union. The
profit mongers are as thirsty for it
as dope fiend for a shot in the arm.
They may rave about Bolshevism I'M
til dry in the mouth, but they crave
for the naphtha over which the red
flag flies. The British oil interests,
that failed to secure monopoly on
exportable Russian oil are now rails
ing their hands in holy horror over
the action of the virtuous Standard
Oil of New York in contracting to
buy 100000 tons year of the stuff
for its eastern markets. But John
D. will continue to give dimes to
promising youths and his son John
d. Jr. will teach Sunday school even
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
F 4 r Nj e r s
FARM BUSINESS IS GOING TO THE BOW-WOWS
By LELAND oLDs Federated Pressl.

ing estimated value of food and fuel
produced and consumed on the farm.
Two-thirds to Parasites.
The report makes another fact
clear. The farmers paid landlords in
rent and money lenders in interest a
total of 100000, nearly two.
thirds of what the farmers received
in cash for the labor and capital they
put into the operation of the farms.
The country's gross agricultural in
come for the year ended June 80,
1927, was $12,080, 100000, compared
with $12,67O,O00,000 the preceding
year. Cash income from sales for
1926-27 is estimated at $9,549, 100000
while the value of food and fuel con-
sumed on the farms is figured at ST.
531 100000. The cost of operation
was $6,671 100000 leaving net in
come including food and fuel pro-
duced and consumed on the farm of
S., 400, 100000.