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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Cossack Leader Is Good
Friend of BoOtleggers

Continued from Page One)
league with the bootleggers and othe-
dispensers Of vice.
The pastors are supporting Capt.
Of detectives Ben Turner who was
associated with Prieskel in clubbing
and beating the strikers. Turner ia
now a candidate for commissioner.
When it is a question Of being cleo
ted to office, they apparently have
split and are working ON their own.
Bootleggcrs' Friend.
The charges against PreslSiel in
the form Of seven sworn affidavits
prepared by a private detective work
ing for the pastors association charge
Preskiel with leading money to
saloonkeepers to buy liquor, also that
gambling is openly being conducted
and in one Of the hotels where the
Investigator visited he was openly ac-
coustcd by women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Noisy Admiral Ruins
Plan To Get Millions
For Spy Organization

CHICAGO, (FP)--PaYtly because a
convivial admiral spilled the beans at
its Washington birthday dinner and
scared off rich but gentle donors by
his belligerency, the American Citi-
zenship Foundation is giving up its
campaign for a 100000 cash foun-
dation for its work. So its officers
announce, while stating that the work
will go on in spite of the crimp put
IN the begging campaign.
So far as Independent investigation
has revealed, the work has consisted
in good measure of maintaining an
active blacklist Of liberal, pacifist and
labor speakers like Jane Adams and
others. 1t has in a number of in
stances successfully interfered to pre-
vent the liberals from speaking. 1t
is associated more or less closely by
interlocking directorates with military
spy and industrial espionage organi-
cations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
TAGORE'S NIECE STUDIES WOMEN WORKERS; REPORTS
TRADE UNION PROGRESS IN INDIA

school for workers children, is one
she hopes to. see first hand, she told
Nellie NJ Seeds, executive director.
Manumit's support comes largely
from trade unions and might suggest
possibilities Of similar enterprise In
India.
IndustrialiZation of India is break
ing down the caste system to a great
extent, says Miss Tagore. In the fac
tories men and women Of many castles
work together disregarding the
old taboos, except in regard to mar
riage. In some instances the caste
serves as a rough equivalent to a
trade union. she relates. IL the laun-
dry caste decides to charge more for
washing clothes, those who employ
these workers find themselves faced
with a "closed shop" and must pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Unanimous For Silk.


That evening the men were called
to mass meeting and voted unani-
mously to strike. At the completion
of the vote the thousands assembled
at the East seth Street Lyceum
shouted uninterruptedly for ten min.
utes before quiet could be regained.
The sentiment for organization and
strike was so great that it exceeded
all previous bounds. For the NOM
ent it overcame all the uncertainty
and confusion of the past few weeks;
it rose above the mistakes of leader
ship and the omissions of policy. But
1t could not overcome the advantage
of that fatal month of preparation
which had been given the INTERIOR
ough.
Fight To Finish.
The position of the company was
not long in doubt: 1--WE are going To
the mat with this thing" said Rough
Stuff Quackenbush, land fight it out
even if we have to discharge every
man in our employ and hire new ones.
There are a lot of Columbia college
students who want jobs as ticket
sellers and choppers"
On his part, Fitzgerald adopted an
equally firm attitude, now that hos
tilities were finally forced upon him
ain 81 the government was thrown
into state Of intense confusion to
free the black men. Now, if l can
free a whole lot of white men by
throwing the city Of New York into
confusion, then, by God, / will do it,
when they deal with horse thieves
in Arizona, they have a very simple
method-they hang them. 1t is not
necessary to hang Mr.. Hedley, for
every time he opens his mouth he
hangs himself"
More Ruthless Than Directors.
1t is interesting to note the exact
words Of Fitzgerald, because it was
ON an entirely misleading and gar
bled account of them that the Inter-
borough in part has been able to Sc
cure the existing injunction against
the Traction Workers.
The board of directors of the Inter-
borough had drafted tentative wage
increase which was to have been pre-
sented to the men; they voted in IA
vor of arbitration and no strike. But
without consulting them and in &C.
tual violation of their command
rule or Ruin" HedIey together with
Quackenbush had precipitated the
strike.
Ito Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
BY ESTHER LOWELL,
Federated Press)

Gathering information about the
activities of women in the American
labor movement, Sushama Tagore,
niece of the Hindu poet Rabindranath
Tagore, is visitor in this city and
plans to extend her research work to
other parts of the United States.
Miss Tagore is particularly inter-
ested in educational work, especially
for workers and workers. children,
for she and her sister are devoting
themselves to elementary educational
work in India. With friends she dis
cusses the problems Of her own land,
as she carefully observes what is be-
ing done in America.
Women Active Unionists.
Says Miss Tagore:
sin India those women who are
organized in unions are in the same
unions with men workers, as in the
Workers education is still unknown,
textile mills, particularly of Bombay,
are best organized. They successfully
fought t2iaGo wage reduction in
1925. Women also work in the paddy
mills where rice is ground. Miss
Tagoro wants to tell these Indian
women workers about American
workers activities"
Educational work in the unions
particularly interested Miss Tagore.
AS yet only 1es Of the Hindu women
land $50 of the men) are schooled.
Workers education is still unknown,
since the union movement is so new.
But Miss Tagore and her sister are
striving to increase the elementary
education facilities for the millions
Of workers and small farmers Of
India. They have girls school in
Calcutta.
Interested In Education.
New methods Of education especi-
ally interest Miss Tagore. She is
visiting the different modern schools
here. Manumit, the resident country
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Local Unions Send
Protest Notes to
Bethlen, SZecheny

The following resolution was passed
by Local Painters Union 400, to be
sent to Count Bethlen, Hungarian
minister-president and Count Szech-
eny. Hungarian ambassador at Wash
ington. A motion also carried to have
a copy of this resolution sent to the
New York District Council Of Painters
for its consideration. The resolution
reads as follows:
Resolution.
I'VE, the members Of Local Union
400, of the Brotherhood of Painters,
Decorators and Paperhangers of
America, in regular meeting assem-
bled, voice our protest against the in
human treatment accorded to fifty
Hungarian workingmen and citizens
Of that country, arrested recently by
order of the Hungarian government
for their protest against the dicta-
torial regime Of the Bethlen govern
ment.
1--WE demand that these men be
protected from the brutal fortunes
and terrorism of the gendarmery and
that they be tried in an open public
court instead Of the special military
court of Admiral Horthy.
eve further demand that the work
ing class of Hungary be granted their
right as citizens Of their country, with
the right to organize for their pro-
lection and collective bargaining"
Other protest notes have been sent
to Szecheny and Bethlen by the Struc-
tmal Iron Workers Union, various
needle trade locals, the Sick and
Death Benefit Society, the l. l.. d. and
many others. A mass-demonstration
is to be held in front Of the Hun
garian embassy in Washington for
the purpose to arouse a demand for
the liberation Of the prosecuted Hun
garian workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

THE judges, proletarian Judges
4 locked into whatever extenuating
circumstances existed and committed
the sentence to life" imprisonment
which means ten years under the
laws of the Soviet Union. He was a
worker who weakened under temp
tation. A worker who was denied
all the good things of live while he
toiled under the capitalist system.
He was not CT the stuff that martyrs
are made, but he had a creditable
record in the past. He was a good
union man and pulled his pound in
the Revolution. His life was saved.
A NEW morality is being developed
"A in the Soviet Union. Like a lily
growing amidst foul weeds this new
psychological growth is affected by
the poisonous miasma from the putrid
and decadent morality of the capital
list world. In the new world the urge
to effort will not be the acquisition of
wealth but the urge to excel in one
or other fields that add richness to
life. When the fear Of want is lifted
from the human soul, the generous,
open types will come to the front and
the foxy, mean, Rockefeller type will
be relegated to the rear and ultimately
fade out CT the biological picture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Organize the Traction Workers.
ARTICLE XI.--THE 1916 STRIKE; DOUBLECROssED!

mite instructions to abuse and insult
the workers.
Thugs, gunner and spies rode the
railroad everywhere. On the Third
Avenue 81" three hundred more men
walked out when ordered to break
in" the strikebreakers. Still Fitzger-
aid refused to sanction a strike. In
stead he sent telegram after tele-
gram to Mayor Mitchell, who refused
to answer.
The Company Union.
Leaderless, confused, isolated, the
men continued to leave their work in
groups during the last days of Aug
ust. In the meantime the INTERIOR
ough was yet to play another of its
trump cards. On the 18th of Aug.
ust it circulated a notice Of the for
nation Of a company brotherhood tc
embrace all the men of the road.
This was the beginning of the COM
pany union of which considerable
has already been said. Mr.. Ivy Lee
then the private secretary of John
d. Rockefeller, Jr., had been given q
"leave Of absence" to work out the
plan. Membership in the brother
hood was to be voluntary" and by
secret ballot.
Scores were again discharged fol
refusing to join the company unioni
others were beaten up and stabbed
by the paid thugs. In all not over a
few hundreds signed either the "yel-
low-dog" contract or its step-son, the
company union application. The In
terborough announced, however, that
$500 out of 11,70O men had voted in
favor of the fake Brotherhood"
Still Negotiate.
Even under these conditions, Fitz-
gerald continued to negotiate" with
the officials of the marlborough in
the hope of averting a strike. eve
are tired Of being fooled" he ad.
mitted, but on August 31st, the day
was still spent in conference.
The early days of September con.
tinued in this fashion. The strike
breaking agency of Bergoff Bros. &
Wadell, notorious throughout the
country for its criminal activities, es-
tablished new headquarters OPP
posite the Hotel Continental, the
quarters of the Amalgamated Off
Gals; the PETERBOROUGH fired the men
who put on the September union
buttons; on September 9th the whole
committee Of local officers of the
union which had been meeting with
Hedley was fired in a body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
By ROBERT MITCHELL

From the very first moment, it be-
came evident that the marlborough
had only agreed to the settlement in
o>der to gain time for it's customary
union smashing preparations.
"Yellow-dog," individual contracts
were Immediately distributed among
the men, which the workers were
forced to sign on the pain of dismiss
sal. Scores were fired for refusing.
Perhaps hundreds were suspended.
In the meantime the work Of gather
ing strikebreakers began with fever
ish haste. The men were all for Inn
mediate action which would undoubt-
edly have saved the situation but the
ingrained psychology" of the inter-
national officers towards Cancellation,
their incapacity for direct and dras-
tic action necessary to defeat I'M
scrupulous capital, led to the loss of
the passing opportunity.
Right Cause-Wrong Tactics.
Fitzgerald permitted the days to
go by with mere statements to the
papers and charges of "bad faith"
The marlborough proceeded to build
quarters in which to feed its strike
breakers and established recruiting
stations in the principal cities, par
ticularly Binghampton and Chicago.
Then another very interesting
event took place. Mayor Mitchell
came in on the picture as ''inter-
ested" party to the dispute, secured
a promise from Fitzgerald that no
strike would be called before he was
notified, and left for an extended trip
to visit his military friends at Platts-
burgi
Men Strike Anyway.
In the meantime, the men on the
road were beginning to leave their
work in scores and hundreds, enraged
at the events which were going on
around them. Four hundred mechan-
les quit work at Van Cortland Park
when ordered to build barracks for
the coming finks and strike breakers.
81 advised against a strike" reported
Fitzgerald, because 1 gave my word
to Mayor Mitchell that we would give
him an opportunity to return from
Plattsburg before we took action"
But the men refused to wait. The
company tools were doing all in their
power to provoke strike among
isolated sections of the men. The
strikebreakers were sent in with def
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
IN. Y. Pioneers Honor
Ruthenberg; to Launch
Big Membership Drive

Every section Of the Young Pioneer
League of American, New York dis
triet, will commemorate the death Of
Charles r. Ruthenberg, Saturday,
March 2Sth. At these meetings the
Young Pioneers of New York will
pledge themselves to carry on the
work for which Comrade Ruthenberg
sacrificed his life.
The Young Pioneers OF America is
part of the working class movement
and for them Ruthenberg's last words
Build the Party" mean also "Build
the Pioneers" This Saturday, COM
memorating the death of Comrade
Ruthenberg, the hero of workers and
their children, the New York district
Of Young Pioneers Of America is Of
ficially opening the Ruthenberg En-
rollment Drive.
The problem that the Pioneers Of
New York districts have before them
row is to double their membership,
TO strengthen their organization, to
build the Pioneer movement. The
Party and the League must help them
to carry out their campaign success
fully.
Every workers child must belong
TO the Young Pioneer League of
America, the only organization of
workers children
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
BATTLEFIELDS
OF old WON'T
Get ANY Cash
Propose Pay Raise For
Governor Smith


ALBANY March "a. Political
leaders in the legislature here are
apparently less eager to preserve old
battlefields than they are to create
new ones. 1t seems that New York
state has decided that it needed some
Of the "historie spots" in connection
with the celebration this summer OF
The sesquicentennial of the Revolu-
tionary War Of 1776. Republican poll
ticians who have the say in the leg
islature nowadays refuse, however,
to 0. X. the proposal for S3S0,000
asked for by members of their own
party.
Must Beg Cash.
With the only alternative now be-
ing to pass the hat among sympathetic
friends of past American revolutions,
there is a serious prospect that the
only official contribution to the cele-
hration will be $4,000 given by Rem
selaer county and a speech by Presi-
dent Coolidge at the Bennington cele-
bration on August 18th.
Eight BaumeS Bits PasS.
Eight of the 40 bills urged by the
Baumes Crime Commission have al
ready gone in defeat. Opponents to-
day were continuing the drive against
the remaining ones, and predicting
that more than half Of the entire num-
her would never become law.
At the same time seven recommen-
dations of the commission were APP
proved by the assembly. The senate
has passed three of the "anti-crime"
bills and sent three to committee for
amendment. with the understanding
that Gov. Smith would pave the way
for their passage during the closing
hours Of the session with the aid Of
emergency messages.
Cops Measure Beaten.
Two bills strongly approved by Po-
lice Commissioner Mclaughlin of
New York were defeated. One would
have compelled former prisoners to
report to the authorities once a month
after being released. The other called
upon prison wardens to notify chiefs
If police Of the release of all Grim
mails.
Assemblyman Goodrich, of West
chester, led the attack on the bill
which would have compelled prison
ers to report to police chiefs after
their release, saying "this would Be
q duplicate Of the old yellow ticket
N Czarist Russia"
Smith Wants Raise.
The voters of New York state win
have an opportunity at this falls
election to decide whether or not they
think Gov. Alfred E. Smith is putting
in too much time for the pay which
he is getting at present.
A proposal to amend the state con-
stitution to increase the governors
salary from $4,000 to $4,000 was
favorably reported by the assembly
rules committee.
The committee also reported a pro-
posed amendment to the constitution
10 provide for an executive budget.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
CURRENT EVENTS BY T. J. orlAnrRrl

capitalism is a success. With all its
little faults we should love it still!
What matter is millions of people are
murdered in periodic wars because of
this -self-interest? Don't the few live
in luxury? And are not the great
majority stupid anyway? Why bother
with them?
OUR capitalist editors will ignore
" the Falls, Dohenys and Sinclairs
that plundered the national domain,
the Fall who scooted away from his
graft tryst with Doheny, the Fall who
accepted a gift of 100000 from one
oil baron and $4,000 herd Of cattle
from another and yet lives the life of
a feudal lord on a splendid ranch in
salubrious New Mexico, SO respected
that his indignant fellow-republicans
threaten to return him to the United
States senate as an act Of redemp-
ton. They will also steer clear of
Daugherty, Jess Smith, Colonel Mil
Ter and divers other pillars of the
Harding administration who pocketed
over 100000 out of their tinkering
with the Alien Property Custodian
ship. Those lads were not shot. Only
half-shot.
THE Soviet Union is not yet free
i from the virus of corruption.
But corruption is a legacy from the
old system which the Soviet Union is
trying to replace by Socialism. But
corruption is not indigenous to So
cialism as it is to capitalism. Under
capitalism the acquisition Of wealth
is considered the noblest and highest
pursuit. He who concerns himself
with creating something for the use
of society with nc thot of self is re-
garded by the general public as a
nut and more often than not he dies
in a shack, alone and forlorn. The
acquisitive babbitt with the mentality
of bull frog rolls around in the
Rolls-Royce and smokes cigars on the
veranda Of his own home. He is the
man who is out for himself. Getting
his" is his credo. How he gets it does
not matter unless he gets caught,
This is not the case in the Soviet
Union.
uERE is a story by way Of illustra-
II ton: Two detected individuals
dragged their half-petrified limbs
after them into the waiting room of a
Moscow prison. They were accom-
panied by soldiers with long, naked
swords. The governor Of the prison,
big tawny-haired fellow who lived
in Boston for many years and re-
turned to fight in the Revolution, in
terviewed the prisoners in kindly
manner. What were they here for?
One has committed murder and was
sentenced to serve five years with so
many concessions for good behaviour
that the time would be cut to half.
And then there was always the pos
sibility Of a pardon. But his comrade
in distress was a Communist who was
as a cashier in a Govern
ment store and could not account for
$4,000 roubles. He was sentenced to
death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

SO Nationalists in an engagement last
Tuesday. The number of British cas-
ualties was not given.
Deliver Ultimatum
WASHINGTON, March "a. - Adj
miral Williams commanding the
American fleet in Chinese waters cab
led the navy department today that
The British and United States COM
lnanders at Marking delivered an ul-
iimatum to the Nationalist leaders
demanding the protection Of all for
cigners, and private property, that
the Nationalist general in command
report on board the British warship
Emerald before II P. M. tonight and
that all foreigners be escorted to the
Bund by ten o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
Threaten Move West
Unless this ultimatum was obeyed
Admiral Williams said that Marking
would be considered a military area,
which means that the British and the
United States naval and military fore
es at Marking would wage war
against the Chinese city.
While military action is being taken
against the Nationalist by the United
States, Kellogg still maintains the fic-
ton that this country is neutral in
the Chinese civil war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
Pastor Convicted OF
Girls Delinquency

SOUTH BEND, IND, March a.
Samuel Milton Beckwith, formerly
pastor Of the River Park Christian
Church, and recently Of Niagara
Falls, N, Y, and Boston and points
in Maine. today was convicted by jury
Of contributing to the delinquency of
Evelyn Thomas, IA, and ordered fined
S125.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
.WEAF Charged With
CensOring Radio Talks

WASHINGTON, March 24.-sHZ
ton WEAF of New York ,'Tas
charged with establishing a CENSOR
ship over radio speeches in "a pro-
test filed with the federal radio COM
mission by representative Celler,
democrat Of New Y ork, today. &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25
U. S. MOVES TOWARD WAR ON CHINA

revolutionary Marking important city on the Yangtse
River which fell to the attackers without the firing shot
Early reports had that the situation peaceful and that
there danger facing the foreign residents city,
1t is believed here that the bombardment marks the begin
ming of the inteventonst policy which the British American
commanders in Chinese waters have been unOay threatening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-25

SANDY FIELD, N. Y, March "a.
Official life in this village was
in a veritable uproar today, all be-
cause Abe Conklin, village truant Of
ficer turned over his duties to his
wife yesterday when he became i'll.