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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Will Hays, exc. O. p.
Boss Busy Keeping the
Movie Stars Out of Sin

LOS ANGELES. May 19.--T m
Herrick, motion picture cowboy, was
murdered some time ago. Sarah Her
rick the slain mans widow, Henry
Isabel, Anita Davis, Joe Hunt and
Iria Burns were arrested and indicted
for murder. The trial is being pre-
sided over by Judge Carlos Hardy.
This jurist played a prominent part
as a defense witness during the court
hearings of another Hollywood char
acter,-Mrs. Aimee Semple McPher-
son.
Serious crimes, and milder forms
of moral turpitude, are common hap
penings, almost daily--in the movie
colony and vicinity. Being the papa
of the moving picture industry, Will
Hays, the former republican party
boss, has his hands full trying to en-
force meek, christian morality among
his sinful Hollywood Children. He
was here recently on such a mission.
The main trouble in movieland is
too much money for booze, dope, and
good tines, for few--and not
half enough for food, clothing and
shelter for the many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
British" Defeated
In Effort to Land
10000 Troops Here

CAMP ADAMS, Newport, r. l.,
May 19.-"The hattie Of New Eng
land" is virtually ended and the
American defending forces won the
"war" when they pocketed $4,000
troops landed by the British armada
and annihilated them with heavy ar
tillery fire, it was unofficially an
nounced today
Ten enemy. transports with 10000
men on board were theoretically sunk
during the engagement.
The nine forts along the coast We're
reduced fifty per cent by battleship
fire. Losses were heavy on both
sides.
Today the war game was practically
over The principal expeditionary
force of $4,000 men that had been
landed on the beaches east Of Nara
gansett Bay over a front of twenty
miles had been "boxed" by the five
divisions of defensive troops and from
military standpoint the position of
the enemy was hopeless"
The enemy's main body and pro-
tecting vessels passed No Mans Land
Whistling Buoy, Martha's Vineyard
last night and turned into Buzard' S
Bay. They moved up Buzzard's Bay
at midnight and assumed their land
ing formation.
Meanwhile the enemy was making
feints at other points along the shore
toward the west with the hope of de-
ceiving the "blue" commander.
Point Judith was put under fire and
Q land attempted there, but this move
ment was repealed. Early today five
transports anchored several miles
west of the Vineyard sound light.
British" battleships poured heavy
fire into Point Judith.
Forts on shore and the Yankee
scouting fleet engaged the enemy and
sank ten enemy transports.
Another feint at landing was
made in the vicinity of the mouth of
the Connecticut River. This attack,
too, was easily repealed.
Then the British" made their main
landing east Of Narragansett Bay.
The first and second waves that land
ed consisted Of infantry, tanks and
mountain artillery. The enemy" ex-
tended their line across a stretch OF
from eighteen to twenty miles long,
all the way from Littleton, through
hdamsville and over to South Dart
mouth. When this move became APP
parent to the "blue" command, five
divisions of troops held in reserve
were moved to the scene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Drive SyldiCaIiSTl
Laws Off Statutes,
Says Labor Defense

CHICAGO, May 19.--"Since the L.
S. supreme court has declared the
California and Kansas criminal syndi-
calism laws constitutional it will sim
ply intensity the drive to wipe such
statutes off the books" says the In
ternational Labor Defense in COM
menting on the Anita Whitney case
which the court disposed of in Wash
ington May 16.
Under the ruling Anita Whitney,
long a pioneer suffragette and welfare
worker in California, is subject to i'm
prisonment from to IA years because
she participated in a convention Of a
Communist political organization that
died almost as soon as it was born.
The principle evidence of revolution
airy crime that impressed the trial
jury was a red piano over which a
detective had draped over an Ameri-
can flag in his endeavor to manufac-
ture case.
The International Labor Defense
states;
Defense Statement.
"The decision Of the United States
Supreme Court on the Anita Whitney
and William Burns convictions under
the California Criminal Syndicalism'
law is one of the most reactionary
opinions handed down by this body in
the last decade. The Supreme Court
has given legal sanction to one of the
xrioiatao tNiaoac Of mil al CT ri q
legislation in the country. Under this
California law, many of the best la
Dor fighters have been rushed into
prison with the barest pretence of a
trial, usually presided over by violent
ly anti-red judges.
Is A Precedent.
"The decision of the Supreme Court
will be a precedent for the continual
ton of the other criminal syndical-
ism and criminal anarchy laws in
other states that have been used for
similar purposes. 1t means the re-
vival and legislation of a whole set of
Allen and Sedition Laws which ex-
listed about $50 years ago and which
were repudiated by virtually the en-
tire American people.
Class Prejudice.
The obvious class prejudice which
went into the opinion of the Supreme
Court proves conclusively again the
need of organizing strong, united
national working class movement for
the elimination of these capitalist
class laws and the clipping of the
claws which have already taken their
bitter toll of labor men and women.
A big movement must be begun i'm
mediately, especially in California
where the law has been used most
viciously and widely, for the release
of all the criminal syndicalism' pris-
oners, the removal of the law from the
statute books, and the re-establish-
ment of the right of all labor organi-
cations to function freely and openly
and without molestation from the
legal tools of the manufacturers,
bankers and business men Of reaction
airy California.
Every labor organization through
outA,of the country must Immediately
express its protest at this latest anti
labor act of the Supreme Court"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Rift in Calls
Church Over the
Pastors Faux Pas

WASHINGTON, May ia seri-
Gus split in President Coolidge's
church, the first congregational, was
reported threatening today as a re-
suit of the $4,000 libel suit brought
against the pastor, the Rev. Jason
Noble Pierce, by Howard T. Cole,
government engineer.
Cole sued the pastor because of a
letter DR.. Pierce wrote the shipping
board demanding Cole be fired be-
cause of his alleged relations with a
women member of the first congrega-
tional. Pierce charged that the en-
gineer had taken advantage" of his
parishioner and then refused to marry
her.
Prominent members of the church
were represented today as being
highly indignant over the publicity
the church has received.
Members of the board of deacons,
among whom is Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur, were reported aroused over
the impression that has gone forth
that the church maintain an "espion-
age system" over members. This
impression was thrown out by one
paragraph from Dr. Pierce's letter
to the shipping board which stated
that deacons of the church had fol-
lowed Cole and assisted in obtaining
evidence against the engineer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
PatriOteerS Expose
Senator BOrah, Rabbi
Wise as Fiery Reds

AKRON, Ohio, May l9.-0ur
patriotic wits are at work again.
The latest expose Of the sinister
and subversive activities, old fiery
reds like Sherwood Eddy of the
Y.M.C.A., Senator Borah, Rabbi
Stephen s. Wise comes not from
Matt Vol of the National Civic
Federation, Captain Darte Of the
Military Order of the World War,
or even Fred Marvin Of the Key
Men, however, but from the Scab-
bard and Blade, "a national honor
airy military society, with subordin-
ate organizations at several uni
versities.
Among the terrible radicals
who are aiding the Communists Gin
reducing our country to a helpless
state" are Miss Carrie Chapman
Gait, iona Gale, Francis B. Sayre,
Bishop Benjamin Brewster of
Maine, in addition to those men
toned above.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Six Thousand Vote
To Strike Together
On Pere Marquette

DETROIT, May ia strike vote
among six thousand employees of the
Pere Marquette railroad was over
whelmingly in favor of walking out,
say officials of the unions involved.
The railroad recently granted a
wage increase Of tx per cent. to
members of the Order of Railway
Conductors and the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen.
The organizations involved over a
long period of time have exhausted
every possible effort to reach an adj
justment through negotiations with
the company and by mediation with
the assistance of the United States
Board of Mediation. When mediation
failed, the mediators urged both par
ties to agree to arbitration, which
the railway company refused to do.
Employees of each branch of the
services named were polled, whether
members of the union or not, and
the percentages in each branch vot-
ing to strike were as follows.
Labor leaders at Chicago declared
the strike grew out of the refusal of
the Pere Marquette officials to nego-
tiate disputes. The men, it is under
stood, declare the Interpretation put
by the management on regulations
governing working conditions is at
variance with the Interpretation in
effect on other roads throughout the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Chinese Ball TO
Raise Funds For
School Of Own

New York's Chinatown will be the
scene Of a new experience next month
when the first school for Chinese
workers ever established in America
will be opened by the Chinese Work
ers Alliance with funds raised at
concert and ball tonight at Webster
Hall.
More than 5000 Chinese restaurant
and laundry workers live in New York
City and vicinity but eighty percent
Of them are unable to speak English,
according to r. c. Fay Director Of
the Alliance. Separated from the
American labor movement by their in
ability TO communicate with the or
gained workers, the Chinese are ter
ribly exploited working from ten to
fourteen hours for wage Of S25 to
$50. Laundry workers receive some
what higher pay but their hours are
long and no holidays are given.
The Chinese Workers Alliance is
the only organization which is striv-
ing to raise the standard Of living of
these workers. At present, the Baptist
Church is conducting the only public
English classes which are open to the
Chinese Workers Of Chinatown. The
Chinese Workers Alliance School win
be a real workers school teaching
trade unionism and English.
Tickets for the concert and ball "a
Night in New China" are on sale at
Jimmie Higgins, the Workers School
and the Civic Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Marriage Forces u. S.
Citizenship on Mexican
Presidents Daughter

TUCKSoN, Ariz., May 19.-The
daughter of the President of Mexico
was an American citizen today fol-
lowing the marriage of Senorita Err
nestina Gales to Thomas A Robin
son of New York.
Robinson and his bride were honey
incoming today, driving along the
border in an official automobile Of
the Mexican Government. They were
married yesterday in simple service
at Nogales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
blouse of David" Chief
Charged With Blessing
Grab Bag" Marriages

ST JOSEPH, Mich, May 49,
There is a serious danger that 1.-THE
House of David" a religious cult, will
be dissolved. George +. Nichols. of
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pffice tried to
prove that more than score Of
couples were married at one .ime in
Berrien county in ''hard-:n-;he. hat
lottery" ceremonies.
king" Benjamin Purnell, leader
of the cult, is accused of engineering
these group marriages to cover up
his guilt preliminary to court actions
and Investigations against him on
charges of criminally assaulting
young girls in his alleged juvenile
harem.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Arrest 3 Workers For
Distributing Leaflets
Outside of Cafeteria

Three members Of the Delcatessen
Countermen's Union Local 302, have
been arrested outside the 3. and h.
Cafeteria, $50 West 3Sth st, on the
complaint of the bosses. They had
been distributing leaflets informing
the public that the cafeteria, that had
just opened, was not employing union
workers.
Several days before the opening,
representatives of the union had APP
preached the cafeteria owners and
suggested that they hire union work
ers. This they had refused, the distri-
buting of the leaflets being the result.
The arrested workers, A. Finkel-
stein, Fl. Grusky and l. Dreasen, were
held in $25 bail each by Magistrate
Jesse Silverman for trial next Fri
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
81 Gary Labor Organizations for
SaccO and Yanzetti
Scranton Carpenters
Pat for Higher Pay

SCRANTON, Pa, May 19.-Strik-
ing carpenters here are standing pat
for the $40 scale and revision of
working conditions. Out since April
1, they have rejected compromise
offers from bosses.
Electricians, attempting to negoti-
ate new agreement with their en-
ployers, are deadlocked and may call
a strike to enforce their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Can Revoke Permits,
Says Mexican Court
CURLING Oil Kings

MEXICO CITY, May 19.-The Mex
lean Governments right to revoke
drilling permits granted to petroleum
companies prior to the enactment Of
the regulatory petroleum laws was
legally established today through
decision handed down by the Supreme
Court yesterday.
The case in question was that Of
the Mexican Gulf Oil Company in
which the Mellon family of Pitts
burg, Pa. is said to be heavily inter-
ested. This company had appealed to
the Supreme Court to test the au-
thority of the government to revoke
drilling licenses issued before the
petroleum laws were enacted and all
the judges voted to uphold the gov
ernment's authority.
1t was held by the Supreme Court
that it is against the public interest
to permit exploitation Of oil resources
in manner (which is in violation of
the present decision"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Authors Meet.

ROME, May 19.--The International
Conference Of Societies Of authors
opened here today. The American
delegate Emerson announced that
his society is willing to accede to the
Berne Copyright Treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Workers Unite to Free
SaccO, VanZetti
(Contiaued from Page One)

Continued from Page OHe)
speakers presented the facts in the
Sacco-Vanzetti and similar cases.
The local Sacco-Vanzetti Emerg-
ency Committee announces that dem
onstration marks the opening of the
local campaign and will be followed
by many more meetings and other
activities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Huerta Struggles Arms

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 49,
Enrique Breceda, alias w. B. HAM
ilton, a federal warrant for whose
arrest was issued at Tucson, Ariz.,
late yesterday on charges of conspir-
acy against the United States and ex-
porting arms and ammunition into
Mexico in violation Of a presidential
decree, was in custody Of federal Of
ficers here today.
Breceda, aligned with the De La
Huerta faction seeking the overthrow
Of the present government of Mexico,
it is charged, was arrested by gov
eminent operatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Erie Holds Conference

ERIE, May 19.-Over so delegates
representing various workers trade
union and fraternal organizations met
here in response to a call issued by
the local branch of the International
Labor Defense, to form local Sacco-
Vanzetti Emergency Committee.
Plans were made for an intensive
campaign Of agitation, including a big
outdoor demonstration and parade
which will be held on the 2Sth of May.
BUFFALO, n. Y, May 19.-Twenty
Buffalo lawyers headed by former
Judge George B. Burd, have sent a
petition to Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of
Massachusetts requesting the appoint
ment of an impartial committee to
review the evidence in the Sacco and
Vanzetti case. Among other promi-
nent signers are Dean Carlos c. Alden
of the Buffalo Law School, personal
counsel to Charles E. Hughes when
the latter was Governor; Adelbert
Moot, member of the State Board of
Regents; former Mayor George S.
Buck, State Assemblyman Charles /.
Martina and Howard w. Dickey; and
Michael j. Montesano, former Deputy
Attorney General of New York State.
Hartford Has Meet
HARTFORD, Conn, May ia
conference Of IS organizations to
fight for the release of Sacco and
Vanzetti was held here. The 81 dele
gates present represented 1,600 work
ers of Hartford.
Ask for Justice
ROSLYN, Wash, May 19-The
Jugo-Slav Dramatic Club has adopted
a resolution requesting the Governor
of Massachusetts to intervene and
give justice to Sacco and Vanzetti.
NEW KENSINGTON, Pa, May 10.
The Ukrainian Citizens Club has
passed a resolution asking that Gov
ernor Fuller save the lives of Sacco
and Vanzetti. Copies of the resolu-
ton are being sent to William Green,
President of the A. F. of l.. and to
the labor. press.
HUDSON, Mass, May 19.-Justice
for Sacco and Vanzetti is demanded in
a resolution adopted by the Lithua-
Man Anti-Fascist Council here. A
copy of the resolution is being sent
to Governor Fuller, Boston, Mass.
PLAINS, Pa, May 19.-United
Mine Workers. Local 1883, has
adopted a resolution calling upon the
State Federation of Labor to ask the
Governor of Massachusetts to give ex-
ecutive clemency to Sacco and Van
zetti.
BOilermakers Protest Vanzetti Doom
CHICAGO, May 10; (FP).-Boiler-
makers Lodge 626, Chicago, is pro-
testing to Governor Fuller of Massa-
chusetts against the impending exc
cution of Sacco and Vanzetti. The
boilermakers request unconditional re-
lease of the two frameup victims.
81 Gary Labor Organizations for
Sacco and Yanzetti
GARY, Ind, May 10, (FP). Free
dom for Sacco and Vanzetti was de-
manded by 81 labor organizations at
conference in Gary May 8, repre-
senting 1000 workers. Resolutions
were sent to Gov. Fuller Of Massa-
chusetts.
The conference also denounced the
lynching Of Negro in Little Rock,
the capital Of Arkansas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Yet Another Candidate
For Job of Dry Chief

WASHINGTON, May 19.-Dr. J..
M. Doran, chief chemist of the Pro-
hibition bureau, has just announced
that he too would also like to be con-
sidered for the job of dry chief.
Secretary of the treasury Mellon
described the situation relating to the
appointment as complicated"
Wayne 3. Wheeler, high priest of
the Anti-Saloon League is still fight
ing to put Roy A. Haynes on the job,
but he is being seriously opposed by
the treasury department.
decided to demand that the Japanese
and British governments withdraw
their troops from China, to make a
categoric protest against the dispatch
of fresh troops, to demand the abro-
cation Of unequal agreements, the re-
turn Of the concessions TO the Chi
nese without compensation, the inn
mediate and unconditional recognition
of the National government, recogni-
ton Of the Peking government to be
withdrawn. Furthermore a resolution
was taken to send Immediately a tele-
gram Of greetings to the National
army and to all trade unions in China
and also to telegraph labor organi-
cations in England, India, Manchuria
and other countries appealing for
joint action.
Finally, the conference decided to
send trade union delegation to the
USSR as correct understanding
of the actual state Of affairs in the
USSR is essential FOR the interna-
tional unity of the working class.
The conference worked under po-
lice surveillance all the time and in
the end was closed down by the po-
lice. Probably due to this fact the
resolutions were not sufficiently
clear, having been given insufficient
consideration.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-20
Hartford Has Meet

HARTFORD, Conn, May ia
conference of 16 organizations to
fight for the release of Sacco and
Vanzetti was held here. The 81 dele
gates present represented 1,6O0 work
ers of Hartford.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-05-12
Tender Notes. Burned
bv Mrs. Wdshinofon

After George Washington's death
his widow burned every letter that
she had received from him, with
the exception Of three or four that
escaped apparently by accident.
No one has ever elucidated the
motive behind this letter burning
episode. Martha Washington knew
at the time, indeed, the whole
world knew, that George Washing
ton was a star Of the first magni-
tude in the field Of history and that
every scrap of his writing would
be treasured and printed. Did she
feel that his letters to her were so
sacred In their intimacy that pos
terity had no right to read them?
But there are other tenable ny
potheses. She was antidemocratic
and antipublic to an extreme de-
gree. Considering her as surround
ed by such limitations Of perspec-
tive, one may readily conceive that
her motive may have been simply
one Of aristocratic seclusion.
In destroying his letters she ef-
fectually effaced herself, for she
lived only in his reflected light. But
that may have been what she want
ed. The highest form of pride is a
disdainful humility.-The Nation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-05-12
First Big Excursion to
See Land O'Lakes Plant
Southern Minnesota Farmers and
Families Will Make Inspection
Trip to Minneapolis May "a

Three special train loads of
Southern Minnesota farmers, with
their families, will go to the Twin
Cities Tuesday, May "a, over the
Great Western Railroad for an all
day inspection of the Land OIakes
Creameries headquarters and
plant at 1101 Kennedy Street, N.
E., Minneapolis.
This, the first large excursion
of its kind to see the Land OIakes
plant, is being sponsored by coun-
ty agents and leading dairymen in
the sections covered by these trains.
The three trains will start from
Mankato, Rochester and Dodge
Center, and will pick up parties at
all stations on three branches and
the main line, going in to the Twin
Cities. It is expected that from
1000 to 1900 farmers, many of
them accompanied by members of
their families, will make the trip.
One of the large delegations will
be that from Goodhue county,
which will be accompanied by Sem
attor A. j. Rockne of Zumbrota,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee.
Arrival at the Land O'Lakes
plant is scheduled for IL A. M.
Here will be made a study of the
cooperative marketing of butter,
sweet cream and milk powder.
Dinner will be served at the
plant by the Land OLakes Cream
cries. Brief addresses will be
delivered, following the dinner, by
Dean w. C. Coffey, Frank Peck of
the Extension Department, and
Prof. T. L. Hacker of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota College of Agri-
culture, the father of Minnesota's
cooperative creamery system.
The excursionists will return to
their homes Tuesday nights
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-05-12
BATTLE LAKE PLAYS
AT BERTHA

The baseball game in this Sec
ton of the state next Sunday, May
18th at 2:30 will be played be
tween the Battle Lake team and
the Bertha aggregation. Over two
thousand fans saw the game at
Bertha two weeks ago, between the
home club and the 1926 state
champions, Armour's of South st.
Paul.
Battle Lake has about the same
team this year that they have had
the past two seasons, and they are
all real ball players. They lost but
seven games during the past two
years, and two of these were to
Bertha.
Bertha will have its famous col
ored battery, Donaldson and Fore
man. The fans who saw these two
boys work against the Armours
are loud in their praise of Bertha S
battery. Besides the two hard
hitters, Manager Fisher of Bertha
has seven other hard sluggers, and
it should make an interesting
game for the spectators.