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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Chinese RESENT
WARLIKE front
OF Foreigners
People of Shanghai for
KuOmintGng

SHANGHAI, Jan. rs. With the
Cantonese armies nearing the city
and the foreign concessions armlng
to the teeth, large bodies of workers
In Shanghai are expected to 90 on
strike shortly In support Of the kuo'
mintang and against the northern
war lords who, thru Marshal Sun
chuan Fang, hold Shanghai.
The populace Of Shanghai makes
no secret Of its overwhelming sym.
pathy for the nationalist cause a1d
is showing resentment towards the
unprovoked military steps being tax
en- for the defense of the foreign
concessions as well as the presence
of numerous foreign warships in the
harbor.
Hankow Quiet.
Reports from Hankow, the occups
ton of the British concession in which
place brot about the panic among
foreigners here, indicates that every
thing is quiet. The nationalist gov
eminent is holding the British con.
cession until negotiations with the
British are completed. They are de-
handing satisfaction for the death of
a number of Chinese at the hands Of
British troops.
Needless Panic.
1t is remarkable that in all the
storm and turmoil created by the for
eigners themselves by the hasty and
needless evacuation of Yantze towns,
that not a single death, injury, or
even serious inconvenience to foreign
ers is reported from any source.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Fort-Whiteman Tells
Negroes Here Aims of
Negro Labor Congress

An interesting and educational
meeting of the American Negro Labor
Congress was held when Lovett Fort
Whiteman and James Ford spoke on
the race as an industrial factor in the
United States. Fort-Whiteman told the
large audience at the meeting that
the Negro is far more important in
austrialIy than racially. Ninety-eight
Der cent of the race are workers, he
pointed out. The aim of the American
Negro Labor Congress is to build up
unions and organize the unorganized,
regardless of color, he told them,
Ford outlined the history of organic
ed labor in this country, pointing out
the good points and defects in each
movement since the Knights of Labor.
The A. F. of L. takes in only skilled
workers and in many cases bars Ne
groes, he said, declaring the Negro
workers must organize to combat this.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Farmers Told How to
Reduce Damage from
European Corn Borer

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Jan. IT, With
the European corn borer now a real
Iry in Illinois, there are eight ways
farmers of the state can reduce fu-
ture losses from the pest, H. w. Mum
ford, dean OF the college of agricul-
cure, University Of Illinois announces.
The program contains recommends
tons as follows:
l. Adopt soil management prices to
produce maximum yields of corn on
large, healthy stalks.
2. Select and grow earlier matur-
ing varities of corn, with heavier
stalks, that can be planted late.
3. Adopt good rotation Of crops,
using as a basis the ten rotations
suggested by the agricultural college.
e. Utilize as much of the corn crop
as possible thru the silo and as fine
ny shredded material.
8. Increase the acreage of legumes.
g. Practice clean blowing.
7. Become familiar with quaran-
tine regulations.
s. Watch fields for the presence Of
this insect and send suspected speci-
mems to the state entomologist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
COUNCIL BEGINS
FIGHT ON Alien
Bill. IN HOUSE
Holiday Introduces His
"Voly 1tary" Measure

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.- A telegram
of protest against the new voluntary
registration of aliens" bill introduced
in the house Jan. 8, by Rep. Holiday
of Illinois, was sent by the National
Council for Protection Of Foreign
Born Workers to Rep. Albert Johnson,
chairman of the house immigration
committee.
Hit Prussian Espionage.
The telegram reads: ANY form of
registration of aliens is opening
wedge for compulsory registration
and a Prussian espionage system in
America. In behalf Of thousands of
trade union workers in this country
we voice our opposition to new re-
gistration bill introduced by Rep. Hol-
aday on Monday, and ask you do all
possible to prevent its passage.
National Council for Protection Of
Foreign Born Workers,
"(Signed) Nina Samorodin, secre-
tary."
This same telegram was sent also
to Rep. Adolph ]. SABBATH, also of Hi
nois, because he has continuously OPP
posed the various compulsory natur-
aHzation, registration and deportation
bills which have been introduced from
time to time since 1922.
Rally Opposition.
"Our organization was formed to
combat Just such legislation and we
are planning to call on all those who
have previously taken a stand against
such bills as the Aswell and Sosnow-
sky registration bills, to help now in
the fight against this newest anti
alien measure" said Miss Samorodin
| in commenting on the Holiday bill.
Evidently this has been introduced
/ in accordance with the statement OF
Secretary of Labor Davis in his an
nual report that he was willing to
/ try out a scheme OF voluntary regis
tration Of aliens since there was such
fear of the proposed compulsory re-
gistration.
Must Forget Il Now.
"This concession was made only be-
cause of the strong public sentiment
aroused against the proposal to force
system of police surveillance on our
alien population. We intend to help
rouse the same resentment against
this voluntary registration proposal,
for we feel certain that when it has
tailed to accomplish its purposes
It surely will-there will come com
pulsory registration; first for aliens
and then for everyone in the country.
The scheme must be fought now be-
fore II goes any further"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
FURNITURE TRUST
MEMBERS FACING
FEDERAL CHARGE

Seventy-nine furniture companies,
charged with Illegal combination, are
on trial in Chicago before federal
Judge George A. Carpenter Special
Assistant Attorney General Roger
Shale announced in the opening ses-
sions that he has evidence to show
that the companies gouged furniture
buyers by price-fiying, causing furni-
ture prices to rise $50 per cent in re-
cent years.
The suit is a continuation Of the
one started some months ago when
100 other firms pleaded guilty and
were fined a total of 100000 for their
operations.
The defense of the furniture manu-
facturers is that they had formed only
an association" for the purpose of
cutting down production costs.
The government has in its posses
sion a circular letter sent to members
of the trust, just after it was formed,
which said, "If we can show you
where you can price just one article
higher than you otherwise would, then
the dues are not an expense but an
investment"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
SHIPPING BOARD
PAvES WAY FOR
TREASURY HAUL
Merchant Marine Sub
sidy Necessary, 1t Says

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Subsidiz-
ing OF the United States merchant ma
rine is inevitable and necessary if the
marine is to be maintained, declares
the report of the shipping board to
the senate. The report is significant
in that it advocates government own
ership and control instead of private
ownership. Ship owners have conduct
ed an extensive campaign to have the
United States surrender its ships to
private companies at an extremely
low price, coupled with a subsidy.
Stress Defense Angle.
The board urges a subsidy not only
to maintain the commercial part Of
the marine, but also to provide "ade-
quate defense reserve. 1t makes no
difference what form Of ownership
prevails, private or public, subsidy is
necessary, it said, favoring public
ownership "for the present"
"If the government is to develop
our merchant marine to the extent
contemplated in the merchant marine
act, and continue its operation, appro-
priations both for operation expenses
and for requirements and improve
ments are necessary" it says. Under
either plan (public or private) govern
ment support is Indispensable
Direct Payments.
The board urges direct subsidy pay
ments, both for freight and passenger
vessels, based on speed aand on the
number of days at sea while carrying
cargo to and from the United States.
Man contracts, providing for liberal"
payment from the government for car
rying mail should be entered into, the
board says.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Miners FIGHTING
NON-UNION COAL
before The |. C. C,
Appeal to I.C.C. Against
Discrimination

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-The inter-
state commerce commission has been
urged by the United Mine Workers of
America ito see the mine workers
side of the freight question" and 10
give protection to "his interests, in
vestments, home and family"
Hoist Freight Rates.
This plea was made in brief filed
in connection with the lake cargo coal
case now under investigation by the
commission.
Speaking specifically for the Illinois
fields the brief said that the loss in
production in that state and the in
crease in production in West Virginia
and Kentucky has been due solely to
changes in freight rates, favorable to
those states and prejudicial to Illi-
nois.
Coal Disseminated Against.
1--WE now have the spectacle OF see
ing great trainloads of coal being
transported from southern preferred
fields thru the Illinois coal belt, the
greatest bltuminous coal field In the
world, destined for the northwest, +"
the brief said.
"You have the spectacle Of seeing
coal shipped from the preferred south
ern fields hundreds of miles farther
to the great northwest, with Illinois
coal, closer by far, excluded from a
market IT has enjoyed for years"
Crowd Out Illinois Product.
The brief also said that not only
have these rates permitted other
Goals to exclude Illinois from its
market in the northwest, but II has
permitted and encouraged other fields
to ship their coal to Chicago market
In direct competition with Illinois
coal, with the result that Illinois coal
is largely excluded from the Chicago
market.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
c. or Traps
SCHOOL TYRANNY
OF WIN. MCANDREW
Brought Here to Break
Up Teachers Unions

School Superintendent William NC
Andrew was the object of a broadside
in the Chicago Federation OF Labor
meeting on Sunday during which AL
derman Oscar Nelson, vice-president
Of the federation, charged the boss
es OF Chicago brot him here to crush
organization among the teachers and
to run the schools for the tax dodgers.
Condemn Platoon System.
A resolution was g. passed which
branded the platoon system and the
junior high school system that Nc
Andrew initiated as a plan to save
money for big tax payers by building
fewer school structures. 1t also con-
demned the intelligence tests for chill
dren as a fraud.
The reappointment of Mrs. VIM. S.
Hefferman and DR.. Otto Schmidt to
The school board was opposed because
of their support Of the McAndrew
policies.
Call Him Gar.
Another resolution took exception
to McAndrew's czar-like conduct of
the schools. Lillian .Hrstein of the
Chicago Teachers Federation declar-
ed that McAndrews refuses to talk
to the teachers or accept any recon-
mendations from them. She said that
unless a labor member is added to
the school board, the public and the
labor movement will have no source
of information concerning the conduct
of school affairs.
"The main issue is whether the
parents or the business institutions,
notably the Rockefeller Foundation,
will have the last word about the
education of Chicago's children" Mel
son said. Business interests seek
to control the educational system for
two reasons. First, to dodge taxes by
cutting down the building program
and second to mould the minds of
the children to make willing indus
trial slaves of them"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Millinery Workers
Hold Mass Meeting
Here Tuesday Night

Millinery workers, operators, cut
ters, blockers, trimmers and hat frame
makers are invited to attend a mass
meeting Tuesday, Jan. 1S, at $3.50
o'clock Women's Trade Union League,
81 S. Ashland Blvd.
Speakers are Miss Agnes Nestor,
president Women's Trade Union
League Of Chicago, J. Roberts, officer,
international Millinery Union, and
Anna E. David, secretary and organ.
izer Women Millinery Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.

CONTINUED from page u
people a chance to spend their money
well if not too wisely never know
when a disappointed detective SER
geant will come along with his axe
and begin, to peck at the furniture.
NOW things seem to brighten con-
IN siderably. A mayoralty election is
around the corner and the various
aspirants are catering to various ele-
ments of the population. One aspirant
caters to those who take the business
of saving other peoples souls serious
ly. They would enforce the law osten-
tatiously, which would mean that it
would cost more to violate the law
under such an administration. Another
aspirant catering to the voters who
don't give a hang how many souls go
to hell as long as they have good
time while they are living, promises
to be blind in both eyes when certain
laws are being trodden on.
DOWN on the south side Of this city
IL there ruled with an iron hand for
many years a colored boss by the
name of Wright. This man was a cog
in the we-Barrett-Galpin G. o. P.
machine. In return for delivering the
votes the machine placed about 200
of his friends on the public payroll.
But Wright was offered better pro-
position from another faction of the
G. o. p, so he refused to support the
Grove candidate for mayor. Grove,
being a man of action, bounced Wright
and now another colored boss is lord
of the south side or the so-called black
belt. Rumor has it that no sooner
was Wright canned than his success
sor ostentatiously opened his gam
bling joints and made merry, assuring
all and sundry that the lean days
were over and that Bobby Grove,
the hanging prosecutor" of Cook
County, intends to make it possible
for honest gamblers to make living
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Women School Teachers
at Cambridge Organize
sv a Worker correspondent.

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 16. - Cam
bridge women school teachers expect
to become affiliated with the A. F. of
J.. soon. Many attempts have been
made previously to organize the
teachers, and many meetings have
been held, but always they have
failed, until now. Finally committee
representing these women school
teachers has made application for a
charter.
This was made the first step in the
campaign of unionization. Miss Ber-
nice Rogers is chairman Of the COM
mittee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
ANTI-EvOL UTION
LAW IS UPHELD
BY Tenn. court
Fundamentalists Score
Victory; Will Appeal


NASHVILLE, Teiin., Jan. 16..Ten-
nessee's famous anti-evolution law
was held constitutional by the state
supreme court. But the conviction of
John Thomas Scopes, Dayton school
teacher, was ordered reversed because
Scopes was fined 500 instead of
$50.
Trial Retnanded.
The high court remanded the case
to the circuit court for retrial on
the ground that Judge John Raulston
violated the Tennessee constitution in
filming Scopes more. than $50.
Justice Green, who read the deci-
sion, recommended that the case be
nolle pressed because Scopes had left
the state. Justices Cook, Chambliess
and Green assented, while Justice Nc
Kinney in a dissenting opinion de-
clared the act was invalid.
overruIed Defense Points.
The majority opinion overruled all
assignments of error made by Clar-
ence barrow, Dudley Field Malone
and other lawyers for Scopes and held
that the legislature had the right to
determine what should be taught in
state unsupported schools.
"Flsht Should Go On"
1.-THE fight ought to go on" John
Scopes said, at the University of Chi
cago, where he is now studying, at
is not a case in which science is lined
up against religion 1t is rather an
issue in which the American people
are asked to withhold certain facts
from their children because of the
belief of a certain few that those
facts conflict with religion"
Civil Liberties Ready
Officials of the Civil Liberties I'm
ion, who were reported present at the
recent conference, were reported to
have anticipated the Tennessee trib-
unal's action and laid all plans for an
immediate appeal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Draft Foe Remains DIsbarrod.

SAN FRANCISCO OPP DAME.
o'Connell, San Francisco attorney dis
barred for anti-draft activities during
the war, has lost the latest Of MS
many attempts at reinstatement, the
district court of appeals having re
fused his application. O'Connell servs
ed seven years at McNeills Island 70
opposing the draft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Reaction Rules in
Wisconsin Senate

MADISON, Wis., Jan. 16--Control
Of the Wisconsin legislature split be-
tween conservatives and progressives,
the former having captured the organ
ization OF the senate and the latter of
the assembly. John w. Eber, Milwau.
kee lawyer, was named speaker of the
house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Interstate Business
Asks Federal Help to
Reform State Taxation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Co-opera-
ton Of the treasury in assisting state
governments to remodel their tax
laws and establish budget systems
eventually may lead to a general re-
vision and Standardization Of taxa
tion methods thruout the United
States, it has become known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
NewsprInt from Straw.

ROME, Jan. 16.--The appearance OF
the newspaper Popola di Roma print
ed entirely on newsprint paper made
from straw thru chlorine gas process
was hailed as an achievement OF sig
nifcance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Plan New England Daily Worker Conference
in February to Add to Papers Power There

BOSTON, Jan. 1s-Extenve
New England
New International Hail. Delegates
unions and fraterna organizations expected.
WORKER should
the call received organization three
elected The
DAILY WORKER England
BANQUET FEBRUARY 10.
The conference will which
will
nodatons
Agency, SO causeway St, Boston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
GALES STOPS
Drilling OF 4
new OIL Wells
U. S. Companies Make
Court Fight

kSpeCiat 10 Inc lazy WoiNNiy
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16.-The Gales
government has taken the first active
step towards the enforcement of the
oil and land laws over which the
United States threatens break in re-
lations. The Husteca Oil company a
Doheny concern, have been denied
four permits to drill new wells on the
ground that they failed to comply with
the law by not registering claims for
concessions prior to Jan. 1st, in re-
turn for their fee simple titles.
A sure Case Aim.
Existing oil wells are not yet affect
ed. the Gales plan appearing to be to
build slow and sure case before
taking steps that will give the oil
companies chance to provoke a
break between that country and the
U. S. to whom they are appealing for
help.
On the side Of the oil companies, it
is s2id they arc preparing to seek
injuncj,ons in the lower courts appeal
ing from the enforcement of the law.
Ii is possible that an injunction will
be sought restraining the government
from preventing the drilling Of new
wells.
Firm As Ever.
Anticipating TINS. the Gales govern
ment no doubt prefers a court fight
TO be waged on this issue rather than
on the question of wells already estab-
lished. Il is held in official quarters,
that while Gales and his cabinet are
proceeding cautiously, they are as firm
as ever in their determination to en-
force the laws.
The belligerent attitude Of the
United States and the present catho-
lie reyolts, inspired by the church and
L. S. interests, are shaping the
cautious policy OF Gales But it is
evident that he rests secure in the
confidence of the overwhelming major
jty of the people and that every step
he takes towards the enforcement of
the 1917 constitution will be supported
by widespread popular movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
AntI-EvoIutIonlsts,

RALEIGH, N. G., Jan. 1e--Encour-
aged by the Tennessee supreme
courts decision unfolding the anti
evolution act, Rep. d. Scott Poole, OF
Hoke County, declared that he would
introduce an "anti-eyolutlon bill'' in
the North Carolina Legislature next
week. Poole is author OF the 1925
anti-evolution bill, which failed to
pass.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10
CANADA FINDS
STRIKE REMEDY.
Contrast Shown wit h
System Used in U. S.

Blu United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Prohibition
of strikes and lockouts by legislation
is futile, while discussion and con-
Citation, arranged for both sides CT
governmental intervention, accord
ing to a report on 'Postponi1lg
Strikes" issued today by the Rus
sell Sage Foundation.
The report covers 400 pages and is
based on a study, made by Ben M.
Selekman, of the efforts to prevent
strikes in Canada during the last
eighteen years by means of the In
dustrial Disputes Investigation Act.
The report shows that in 536 dis
putes handled under the Canadian
act 400 strikes (91 per cent? were
ended or averted; during the same
eighteen years, however, there were
425 strikes in which the act was
completely ignored, and 40 per cent
of the working days lost through all
strikes, were lost through disputes
in coal mines.
Contrasting the situation in the
United States with that in Canada,
the report says: "Just as the policy
of Cancellation pursued by the Ca
madam government has won the CO.
operation of labor so the policy OF
coercion sometimes pursued by gov
eminent bodies in the United States
has intensified the opposition of
labor to similar laws"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-10
u, S. BUSINESS
CHIEFS TO Meet
AT WEST BADEN
National Chamber of Com
merCe will Convene
Saturday.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
WEST BADEN, Ind. Oct. 10
REPRESENTATIVE business men from
all parts of the country will attend
the meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States
here Oct. Is to 18, for the purpose
of outlining the policies organized
business will advocate during the
coming year for solution of current
economic problems. Such outstand-
ing questions as flood control, agri-
culture, taxation and merchant ma
rine will be discussed and definite
plan of action formulated.
Invitations have been extended to
more than fifteen hundreds national
councillors, each representing a
trade association or Chamber of
Commerce in the membership of the
national chamber; and to approx
mately two hundred officers, direc-
tors and committee members of the
chamber. The promised attendance
shows a nation wide interest in the
meeting.
Dinner on Saturday
As shown in the preliminary pro-
gram made public today, the meet
ing will open Saturday morning,
with meetings of special committees
dealing with particular phases OF
business activity. In the evening
there will be a dinner for the Off
GERS, directors and committee men,
hers. followed by meeting of the
Board Of Directors.
The first general, meeting will be
held Monday morning, when Lewis
E. Pierson, New York banker and
president of the national chamber,
will outline the 1929 program OF
activities of the chamber. This will
be followed by a discussion of the
following topics: Mississippi flood
control, tax reduction, getting out
the vote at elections, the Federal
reserve system, census of distribu-
ton and postal rates.
Chairman to Speak
At the afternoon session, Judge
Edwin B. Parker, chairman of the
board of directors of the national
chamber, will discuss the question Of
"Self Regulation in Business" Other
topics on the afternoon program
will be: Legislation, relations of Or
carnations with the public, and
channels of information from Or
CaoizatiOn members To the national
chamber.
The first item of business on
Tuesday will be a meeting of the
board of directors. Following the
board meeting, the national coun-
cillors will hear reports from the
various committees. In the after
noon, there will be discussion. OF
business mems contribution to world
sterilization through the national
and international Chamber of Com
merce. Final reports will be sub