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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
The Pot Calls the Kettle Black in Washington

department the of congressional and
criticism changed its policy the Ncaraguan situation
change interesting showing the fuity of the solemn
being played in Washington which be entitled
"Crczng Coolidge Administration" "The Pot Calling
the Kettle Black"
policy consists abandoning the tactic of denial
arbitrary military has been authorized in
asserting that what has been done alb
soutely all right and had to- be done
A Washington dispatch, dated JAN A. says:
Stfenng the American policy in Nicaragua fore
the of President Coolidge
Secretary State Kellogg that protection of the proposed
thru Nicaragua Of the important factors
prompting continued american Intervention in that country
president also pointed out that THE SAME TREATY
WHICH GAVE THE UNITED STATES A CANAL ROUTE
GIVES THIS COUNTRY A 99YEAR RENEWABLE LEASE
FOR NAVAL BASE the Gulf Of Fonseca Of the finest
Bdrbors in Central American oGters.
which ratified the purchase of canal route flor
$4,000 O0O) harbor WAS MADE BY THE WILL
son ADMINISTRATIONS.
deceased leader whose shade is still of its big
empering its criticism of the Coolidge admnsra
rion
time when the hypocrisy of the opposition and the
undgused arrogance the administration party manifest for
the put sharply before the whole world by
handing withdrawal of gunboats and marines from
Nicaragua branding both and republican parties
Wall Street its unaerabe opposition to the whole
imperialist policy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
Publishers Anxious
to Get in on Profit
by Advertising Space

America will never again witness
business depression because Of a
shortage Of anything" said Col.
Robert r. Mccormick, addressing the
Tribune's convention Of its advertis-
ing department at the Drake Hotel.
The colonel was not, however, re
ferring TO the probable absence of
any want among the workers, but was
expressing the hope that capitalist
newspapers would get their share OF
profits thru expenditures for adver-
Using.
The gala days of the advertising
fraternity were back when the gov
eminent was leyying an excess profit
tax OF 25 per cent. Then the solicitor
for an advertising agency could call
on client and prove to him mathe-
matically that he could buy advertis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
Robert P. BrindeU Is Dead

d OBERT P. BRINDELL, New York
~ labor leader" is dead. He leaves
fortune estimated at close to $1,000
600, private house in New York City,
a country estate at Schroon Lake, an
Office building, and some other real
estate. Mr. Brindell amassed this for
tune by selling Strike insurance" re-
ceiving as high as $4,000 at time as
fee from building contractors.
During the Lockwood committees
investigations into the New York
housing situation, scores of employers
testified to paying Brihdell at his St.
Marks Place offices inidNew York City.
He kept them waiting in an anteroom
it is reported, and took the payments
one by one. ~
AS head of the New York Building
Trades Council he was reputed to be
the highest paid labor executive in the
United States.
The fact that this corrupt scoundrel
was accepted by the highest circles of
the labor bureaucracye is an acknow-
Judgement of the fact that within the
ranks of the American Federation of
Labor, there is definite group which
in one way or another has sold itself
to the employing class. The price of
this betrayal may not always be the
same. 1t may assume various forms.
Its fee may run all the way from
$1,000 in cold cash or a soft political
berth to various smaller favors grant
ed in devious ways hidden from the
public. But payments they remain,
nevertheless, payments for services
rendered, payments for strike insur-
ance," whether 1t be insurance thru
the acceptance of a governors COM
mission, a Watson-P Parker bill, a me.
diation board, or secret agreement
Is there any wonder that Brindell
moved in the most influential circles
of the A. r. OF L., that he hobnobbed
with Vol, Lewis, Mcmahon and their
llk? Are they not all kclosely bound
together s,,r by the black bonds Of Brin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07

ing for rs cents ON the dollar, since
the dollar he spent would reduce net
profit just so much, when otherwise
rs cents of the dollar would go to the
government. 1t was considered in per-
fectly good form, periodically speak
ing, thus to zip the government out
of its two bits.
With revision of the tax schedule.
advertising has been harder TO get.
1t is again on cash and carry basis.
Hence the eolonel's anxiety to divert
a goodly share of the profits Of BUSH
ness into the newspaper till.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07

But this orgy of corruption has sud-
denly been called to a halt. Its adj
vance has been boldly challenged.
The left wing has demanded that the
trade unions shall become what they
were intended to be, the fighting or
gans of the workers. The left wing
has demanded that the trade unions
take up the struggle against the en-
ployers, for the demands of the work
ers, that the unorganized workers be
organized. The left wing, led by the
Communists, has put its policy into
action and has waged three success
full strikes, in which marked gains
have been won for the workers-the
restoration of the wage cut and the
right to organize in Passaic and the
40-hour week in New York. The en-
ployers are frantic, not less so than
the so-called Tabor leaders" who see
their temporary paradise melting
away and soft berths disappearing.
A united front is formed, this time
against the element in the union,
which threatens the profits of the
bosses and the security of the Brin-
dells, the Wolls, the Lewises, the Nc
Mahons, the Sigmans and Becker
mans. War is declared-to the finish.
But this black united front will not
succeed. The workers are deter
mined that Brindellism in whatever
form it appears shall be wiped out of
the American labor movement. They
have determined that 1t shall indeed
be war to finish-against corrup-
ton, against class collaboration,
against the united front of the bosses
and the Brindells. In the ranks of
labor there is arising a united front
of the rank and file for honest trade
unionism in the interests of the work
ers. And the rank and file will keep
up the fight until it secures control
Of the trade unions and Brindellism is
safely buried alongside Of its noto-
rious representative. 8#E
GET A sue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07

IONE philosopher who plastered a
~ scientific label on his meanderings
proved to his own satisfaction that
chance is only the subterfuge of the
mentally lazy. If you throw ball in
a certain direction in exactly the same
way any time the ball will hit exactly
the same spot. So said the philos-
opher. The truth of this observation is
so obvious that it would take a hardy
wight to take issue with it. And yet
while thinking of the strange case of
Mr.. Frank L. Smith, one is inclined to
drop few doubts in his vicinity to
watch what happens to them.
Frank L. Smith was elected to the
United States senate by as typical an
aggregation of voters as could be
located in America. Being inhabitants
of Illinois they could not be otherwise,
since Illinois is the bridge between
alien New York and the great open
spaces where those who could not
tolerate New York moved to. Further
more most Illinoisians are members
of the methodist church, except those
who live in the industrial centers. The
latter are likely to be catholics. Heavi-
ly populated sections produce people
who people in organizational central
ization. The Illinois methodists favor
the VOlstead law. The catholics do
not. Frank l.. Smith, who was elected
by the dry methodists, owes his polit-
ical existence to a town made famous
by the discoverer of a cure for chronic
inebriation. Smith does not believe
in dry laws but he inscribes the pic
ture of camel on his political ban
ner. And he gets elected
What has this man Smith done that
such punishment as election from
the senate should be visited on him?
Here is where chance comes in il it
belongs anywhere.
Smiths campaign kitty was fed to
the extent of approximately 100000
by few public utility barons, chief
among them being Samuel insult as
public spirited and civic-hearted a
citizen as ever purchased politician.
This is not the first time that Sam did
a little thing like this, but this is the
first time that Sans beneficiary was
caught. AS for Sam, well, his stocks
go up on the market, his wife returns
to the stage and the people lift the
left eyebrow little and say nothing.
But poor Smith! Why, his weak chin
takes on another wrinkle and his
tongue develops callouses curoing
human hypocrisy.
Smith was caught getting supported
by a wicked public utility man. But
1t is not the wickedness of the utility
man that is cursed by the indignant
minority of citizens. 1t is the money
of the utility man that is abused.
Why? Simply because the money
helped Smith into the senate and the
group of political gangsters that
Smith is associated with have aims
and objects that are not conducive
to the we'll being OF other political
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
VETERAN SAYS CROOKED
BASEBALL BEGAN WITH /
FIRST GAME IN 1876

CLEVELAND, Jan. 5.--"If Judge
Lands really wants to clean up
baseball, let him send for me. III
give him the details Of how Louis
Vile threw batch Of games In
the National League, the first year
the circuit was formed, 1876"
This was the information offered
here today by George Strict, 70,
federal court baIiff, and star Of the
big league baseball SO years ago.
"Jim DevIin, pitcher, George
Hall, fielder; craber, catcher, and
Nichols, third baseman, got together
and threw number Of games so
that Louisville lost tho pennant,"
Strict declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
New British Engine
May Electrify Roads

LONDON.-A new engine, the in
vention Of Capt. William Burtnall,
utilizing a voltage of only 200 to $50
and thus doing away with the dam
ger from live rails, may revolutions
lie transportation in England and lead
to the electrification of the entire
railroad system In this county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-07
Farmers win Admit Women.

PEORIA, Ill.--For the first time III
history, the Illinois Agricultural AS
ISOLATION will admit women to ita
program at It's eleventh annual con-
vention in this city Jan. 1923. This
women's part will consist of home
and community conference.
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II. Come down and learn now in the
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The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
Joe Jackson Bound For
 Clearwater
Is Taking in Crew of Men and
 Considerable Equipment

Joe Jackson arrived in Wrangell this week bound for the Clearwater where he will develop his ground below the Harrington leases. He brought with him a party of five men to work the property.
 The party is composed of D. A. Dillman, J. E. Cluett. Jack Beau man and Warren Hicks. Jaekson's party will work in conjunction with the Barringtons until the 12 miles of trail is completed to the mouth of the North Fork.
 Jackson has five claims which give him 125O feet of the creek.
 The miners are taking in a Ford truck which will serve not only for transportation of equipment but will furnish power for a small saw mill A double-drum hoist and 2 centrifugal pump with a capacity for lifting 500 gallons of water per minute to a height of sixteen feet. also form part of the present equip ment for Jackson's claims. A Ford son tractor has been shipped from below and will follow on one of the next boats
 The method of working the ground has not been definitely de- cfded. Much depends upon the depth of bedrock and the character of the soil. Several hundred feet of cable is being shipped to the mouth of the Clearwater for a "highline" system. When boul- ders are encountered they will be hoisted off the ground with a sling by the "highline." The same means will be employed to transport the dirt to the dump for sluicing.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
BarringtOnS to
 Open Ground
 On Clearwater
Fifty-eight Acres to Be Drilled
 This Season

On her last trip up the Princess Alice unloaded several head of horses and an Empire drill together with other mining equipment which will be shipped to the mouth of the Clearwater River a tributary that taps the Stkine some forty niles below Telegraph Creek in British Columbia. where the Burlington brothers have a placer mining lease and will drill 5S acres this season.
 The Clearwater is not new in the history of Cassiar mining. It was not great distance above It's mouth that Buck choquette, pio- neer miner and trader, first dis before Alaska was purchased from Russia. The history of the Clear water goes back to 1896-97 when Jim Jackson, a veteran miner who still haunts the bars of the creek. worked with primitive methods and found pay Since that time about s3o,o00 has been recovered by work with rockers and grizzlies It seems that no one ever got to bed rock, the gold being found above sub-strata of clay about eight feet below the surface.
 Last fall Hill Harrington and D. Bruhn spent a few days prospect ing around the old workings A few days later two other miners. Holbrook and Solanger, pulled in from one of the other creeks The men pooled their efforts for one day and recovered three ounces and four pennyweight of gold (about S50) by digging a few feet below the clay substrata The dirt was handled twice and washed through a grizzly" with water carried in kerosene can. Black sand ran half a pound to the pan and eight assays gave an average value of S864 to the ton, the highest assay being $500.
 A crew of twelve or fifteen men will start work on a trail from the mouth of the Clearwater to the junction of the North Fork where the ground is located, as soon as the equipment can be unloaded.
 The Barringtons expect to have the drill on the ground and work ing by June 10th. If the drill shows pay the creek will be forced into a new channel and the ground thus recovered will be worked, pos sibly by steamshovel, though that will be determined by the depth Of the bedrock and the size of boul- ders.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
NEWS DISPATCHES FROM ALL OVER
 THE WORLD
COAST GUARD VESSELS
 COOPERATE IN SEARCH
 FOR FRENCH AVIAT0Rs
WASHINGTON. D. e. May l1.-

WASHINGTON. D. G.. May H. Acting promptly upon a request from the French embassy, Presi- dent Coolidge ordered Coast Guard vessels to start searching for Cap tains Nungesser and Coli, the French transatlantic fliers who fl is hoped are still afloat in the At lantic Ocean awaiting rescue.
 All day anxious millions awaited word from the lost fliers, both in America and France but no mes sage broke the long silence. Moth CTS and families of the unfortunate men refused to admit that the ayia tosr were in danger. but it is appar- ent that with every passing hour. hope for the lives Of the two daring men grow simmer.
 United States authorities threw themselves whoIeheartedly into the search for the Frenehmen and de- clared that the greatest cooperation  possible would be afforded. Prep arations were made to establish . dragnet of vessels to comb every mile of the seas, even the English Channel, in a desperate effort to save the men. Lieutenant Leigh Wade and other aviation experts accorded the Frenchmen little chance for their lives although il was admitted they might have land ed at some infrequented shore.
 United States Ambassador to France Herriek, taking eognizance of the feeling of hostility in France eabled the United States asking taht the American aviators plan ming transatlantic flights, be ask ed to hold off until definite word of the French aviators is received
 Adverse weather reports caused the postponement of the New York to Paris nonstop flight which wag to have been started Tuesday by Lloyd Bertaud and Clearence Cham berlain, American fliers.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
MRS. SNYDER AND GRAY
 ARE BOTH FOUND GUILTY

NEW YORK, May H. Mrs. Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray were found guilty of murdering Mrs. Snyder's husband, Albert Shy der, and both will be sentenced to the electric chair.
 A supposed blood clot on the brain will be used as basis of ap- peal from the death sentence for Mrs. Snyder, Edgar F. Hazelton principal attorney for her, an- nounced yesterday. Mrs. Snyder collapsed in her cell for the second time during the day and physicians diagnosed her case as epileptic seizures. Alienists from Sing Sinp prison will determine whether or not there is any basis for the blood lot assertion after Mrs. Snyder has been subjected to a rigorous physical examination. Judd Gray passed the day calmly, eating hear tily. Later reports that Msr. Suy- der was suffering from collapse and hysteria were proved unfounded by physicians. The pair will be sen. fenced to the electric chair Mon day.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
KETCHIKAN PROGRAM ENJOYED LAST NIGHT
 BY LOCAL RADIO FANS

Local radio fans had the pleasure of hearing a short program from Ketchikan last evening over Sta tion KGBU. Except for occasiona wireless interference the wholt broadcast was received perfectly On previous occasions the Ketehi. kan station faded in and out con stantly in a most annoying manner, which was also accompanied by disagreeable humming or buzzing noise. What might be described as a "motor hum" was present last evening also but by careful detun- ing this was practically eliminated.
 Reports on the afternoon broad casts from the Ketehikan Chroni- cle were not so favorable. however. It seems strange that so important a matter as news should be broadcast to us at time of day when no ont can listen in to receive it. If this news were put on the air later in the evening, so that those of us who have to work for a living could get it. the Ketchikan Chronicle would be rendering real service to of the Territory.
 hundreds of families in this part
 But the radio program over KGBU last night was good and we look forward to receiving more of that kind. Ketchikan is on the air with musical programs twice 2 week. They broadcast frolic pu on by a group of entertainers call ed the "Sourdoughs" on every Sun day evening commencing at sac and put on varied musical pro gram every Wednesday at S:30 D. m.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
MISSOURI JACK H0sFELD
 HEADED FOR LITTLE MUDDY

Party of Five to Spend Summer
 Prospecting Near Palmer Greek
 4 party of five will set oug from Telegraph Greek with pack and saddle horses assoon as feed is plen- tiful along the Dease Trail. They are Jack Hosfeld and Mrs. Hosfeld Art Burgess and Mrs. Burgess or Seattle and Ray Cooper of Tacoma Mr Hosfeld Is an olddmer in the North, having experience in sibe ria as well as in the two great eamps-DaWson and Nome H. spent the last two seasons in the Palmer Creek country and found indications so favorable that he was drawn back for another sum mer.
 Art Burgess and Ray Cooper arr business men from the Sound cities who will. for the time, at least abandon business cares to undergo some of the hardships and expert. enee some of the thrills of prospect. ing.
 The party will be well equipped for a seasons expedition into tho hinterland of northern British Co lumbia Five well groomed saddle horses were unloaded from the steamer Princess Alice Tuesday fo the Hosfeld party and arrange ments have been made with Frank Callbreath for a train of packhorses to freight their equipment across the Aretie-Pacific divide to the Muddy.
 Both Mrs. Hosfeld and Mrs. Bur gess are enthusiastic about the ad venture. They will earn the dis. tinction of being the first of their sex to cross the Arctic watershe. in this section of the country.
 When the party arrives in Tele- graph Creek they will endeavor to hire four men to work on the claims this summer.
 Hosfeld has two eighty acre leases on Hall Creek, just below the Harrington property. He will build dam with an automati. gate to boom off the dirt which vii afterWard be shoyeled into sluice boxes. Preliminary tests proved that the dirt averaged about ons dollar per cubic yard in gold.
 The party will return to the States in the fall.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
COMMANDER HODGSON
 ENROUTE TO TELEGRAPH

After a winter in the old coun- try, Commander Hodgson returned last week to Wrangell on his way to Telegraph Creek to resume his duties as missionary of the Church of England
 Commander Hodgson states that he had the pleasure of spending one evening with the Rev. Frederick Thorman who will be remembered by many Wrangell people as the former missionary at Telegraph. Mr. and Mrs. Thorman are now liY- ing in Northampton, England, where he is the curate. The family has now increased to six by the birth of a son in England. The old est boy. who was a child in arms when he arrived in Wrangell the first time, is now at the age when he contemplates following his fath- CTS footsteps in the work of the missions. He informed the Com. mander that he hopes some day to assume the work of his father al Telegraph Creek, in which event, three generations of Thormans will have served the church at that place.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
Navigation on Stikine Opens
 This Week
Forty Passengers Up First Tip Development Work Will
 Be Brisk This Season

Late telegraphic adyiees from Telegraph Creek report the river open but extreme low water indi- cates backward weather in the backward reaches. Mr Boyd of the Hudson.s Bay Company wired that there had been frosts at night and the river was raising slowly.
 The streets of Wrangell have been a promenade for mining men of late - several of them have brought their wives-all waiting for the opening of navigation on the stikine.
 No stampede is this, but a gen eral influx of miners who know ex- actly where they are going and what they are going to do when they get there Development work vii be brisk in the Cassiar this season and the advance guard will take about all the available space on the Harrington boats, Hazel B Nos 2. 3. and 1. The three boats will leave on the same day.
 The usual abundance of spring time freight awaits the opening of the river. Only those fortunate ones who have experienced a winter in the Cassiar can properly appreciate the thrill which comes annually with the sight of one of the green and-white river boats. Shortly af- ter New Years you begin to skimp on certain things Maybe it's pota- toes-or you fayorite brand of cof- fee. You thought you had enough to go through the winter, but some long haired gent from the sticks drops in on you occasionally and by the time the snow goes off your "cachep is empty as last years bird nest. You go to the stores, size up the all but empty shelves, grumble a little and walk out with your hands in your peck cts.
 After that you spend good part of your time sitting on a woodpile listening for the exhaust of the Hazel B. Whoops, my dear, spring has CAME
The Wrangell sentinel., 1927-05-12
BOB MARTIN HEADED
FOR LITTLE EAGLE

Bob Martin, well known mining man arrived from Ketchikan last week and is now awaiting the de- parture of the river boats. Martin expects to push on from Telegraph Creek immediately, without wait ing for the Dease Trail to become passable for pack horses or the new stage. In order to properly estimate the conditions under which he will be compelled to op- crate, Martin wishes to reach Little Eagle before the snow is entirely gone. Usually there is no travel on the Dease Trail until sometime ir June as there is no feed for horses, but with pack-dogs the journey can be accomplished without difficulty.
 Mrs. Martin arrived in Wrangell few days ago from New York She will remain in Telegraph until the stage begins to operate. then she will accompany MT Martin to Little Eagle and spend the summer on the creek.