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Hankow Is Aroused
at British Outrage
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RUSHED TO HANKow. SUPPORT
OUR PROTEST, DEMAND THE
WITHDRAWAL OF THE BRITISH
ARMY AND NAVY, PUNISH THE
GUILTY, COMPENSATE SUFFER-
ERS, RETURN THE. CONCES-
SIONS, ABOLIS H UNEQUAL
TREATIES.
CHINESE AID SOCIETY: SEAL"
Tense Situation.
The situation at Hankow is a very
tense one. The British are undoubt-
eddy moving towards armed interven-
ton against the fight OF the Chinese
people for independence and freedom
from foreign exploitation. Orders
have been given to send naval reen-
rorcements from Hongkong. In addi-
ton, the first active military order
issued by the British government
since the world war was given today
in the ordering of the destroyer
fiotilla at Rosyth, Scotland, to bring
/ to full strength the complement of
it's nine ships "for possible service in
the Far East"
The Wanhsien massacre referred to
in the cable took place a short time
ago when British warships fired into
the city of Wanhsien and killed some
500 of the inhabitants without any
reason.
Chinese Worry Washington.
WASHINGTON-FP)-- Astonish-
ed and worried by the onward sweep
Of the revolution of the Cantonese
forces in alliance with Chinese labor
unions, the Washington government
has summoned Minister MacMnrray
home from Picking for consultation.
Secretary Kellogg has on his desk
new declaration of American policy
In China, ready for issuance If sud
den crisis makes that action expedi'
ent. 1t is the reply of the Coolidge
administration to the British state
ment, proposing to the other powers
that they yield to some Of the de-
mands OF the Chinese nationalists.
However, Kellogg hopes to be able to
hold this back until after Feb. is,
when MacMurray will arrive to ex.
plain recent developments in China.
1t is rumored that the American
note as drafted would admit the right
of China to fix her own tariff rates
and to gradually replace the foreign
courts with Chinese courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
GARFIELD, M AY OR
ASKS FORSTMANN
MILL TO SETTLE
Stresses Damage Done
to City by Strike
Mavor urnes settlement.

Mayor William A. Burke, of Garfield
has forwarded letters to the Forst-
mann and HUFFMAN company and the
View Jersey Worsted mills, making a
)lea for an early settlement of the
strike, as it affects the city Of Gar
ield.
Both mills are situated in Garfield
md are among the five mills that
have not yet settled with their strik-
ing workers, the other three being
he Passaic plant of the Forstmann
and Huffman company, the Gera
Worsted, in Passaic, and the United
Piece Dye Works in Lodi. The con-
cinued strike in those mills affects
5000 workers, for whom relief must
be provided.
Stresses city's Danger.
In his letter, Mayor Burke stresses
The immense damage sustained by
he city of Garfield as a result of the
big textile strike, and requests that
officials Of these mills consent to hold
a meeting with the duly elected rep
resentatives of the striking workers.
He points out the grave danger to in.
dustry of further prolonging the
strike.
Everyone Affected.
1--WE are coming to the close of a
year that has been the most trying
time in the history of Garfield. In.
dustrial disorder has been prevalent
during the past eleven months. This
labor trouble has left its mark on
every phase of life in our community,
Industries, merchants, home owners;
in fact, everybody has been caught
in the throes of this struggle and suf
fered its effects" the letter said.
"In behalf of our people, urge you
to assist in bringing this labor contro'
versy to an immediate conclusion
May further ask if you will meet
with a committee of your striking
employees, or to what extent you will
go to settle this long drawn out af
fair"
Join the American Worker Cores
pondent movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
SERVANTS IN SOVIET
ENJOY PRIVILEGES NOT
RECEIVED ELSEWHERE
Especial to The Daily worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
MoScoW-Russian servants, or
panlzed in the Servants Trade I'm
ion, enjoy great privileges In the
sovlets. Among these are regular
hours, social insurance, one months
vacation with full pay, one day off
each week, an allowance Of clothing
for both summer and winter, and
no calls for overtime work.
" the servant is illiterate, the
mistress must also allow time off
to attend workers. school, and no
dismissal can be imposed except
for substantial reasons, and then
the employer must maintain the
servant In food and clothing for a
period OF one month thereafter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08

ton crop. The growers, the ginners,
all should seek, yes, demand, the
cooperation of the schools depart
ment in this most important matter.
Law is common sense. Is it COM
mon sense to ask 1t to save an in
dustry from damage?"
This is an open and blatant ap-
peal to wreck child labor standards
in the state. Actual figures will
show that there has been no lessen
ing in the influx of Mexican labor
that Is exploited to the limit.
Oriental labor has also been brought
into the state, because it was be-
lieved it would be Cheap" Now
the attack is made on child labor,
again knocking into cooked hat
the argument that American pros
perity" seeks to lift the standard of
living of workers in this country.
Californian protiteers. like all
other capitalists, fight to lower the
standard of living. They want their
cotton to compete more success
fully. which means producing
greater profits in competition with
the cotton from other states. Thus
children must be robbed of their
playtime and every possible advan-
tage taken Of alien peoples coming
to these shores in the hope of bet
tering their conditions.
California is developing as cot
ton state. Figures for 1925, the
latest available, show that it sur
passed such states as Virginia, Flor
ida, Arizona and New Mexico in the
total number Of bales produced.
The total value was $13,S60,000.
Cotton is referred to as California's
new "$20,0O0,000 industry" The
value Of the California cotton crop
is nearly as great as that of Mis-
souri,.
Thus while the states of "the
solid SOUTH" with 25,00O,000 bales
of American cotton in the world
market, are calling for a curtail-
ment of cotton production, the cot
ton industry out in California is de-
handing more cotton produced by
child labor, which means cheaper
cotton, marketed at a lower cost of
production.
This is characteristic Of the Cali
fornia that has the worst state anti
syndicalistic law in the nation upon
its statute books, under which work
ers have been sent to prison by the
scores.
1t is the state of the imprison-
ment of Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings. 1t imprisoned Ford and
Suhr as champions Of hop field
workers. 1t is the state of "the
American plan" and "the cotton at
mosphere," best example of just
where the profiteers desire to sta
bilize prices for the products of the
fields, at the point where the slave
whip of the master class just stops
short of singing the American
peasant INTO open reDeluOn.
The Los Angeles Record says:
eff this is what the cotton atmos-
phere' means, we want none of it.
II, for a $2O,OO0,0OO industry, we
must pay the lives of children-bent
little backs, premature age and
stunted minds-let the industry go
hang. The price is far too great"
But the Record does not dictate
the policies of the capitalist profit
takers. Capitalism does that. And
capitalist sterilization means in
creased production at decreased
costs. Thus the lash is laid on the
backs of the 100000 farm workers,
tenant farmers and mortgaged farm
ers of these United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08

We viii send ssrnpIe aoopIes OF This
DAILY WORKER to your frlends--s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
aMay Pardons Is More.

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 6.-fwenty-five
full pardons were granted today by
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson. These,
with seven minor clemencies, bring
the total clemencies granted by Gov
ernor Ferguson in her two-year ten
ure of office to 3,040.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Ruthenberg's Talks
Sunday Evenings Are
Well Worth Hearing

The Sunday evening lectures Of the
Workers School are taking up the ge-
neral subject OF the History OF the
American c o m m un st Movement.
Next Sunday evening, c. e. Ruthen-
berg, secretary OF the Workers Com
munist) Party, will deal specifically
with the development of the Commu-
mist movement from propaganda or
ganization into mass party for the
workers.
Tho lectures, each Sunday evening,
are held at Northwest Hall, North
and Western avenues, at eight o'clock.
We viii send sarapIe acopies OF This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Cotton Atmosphere" of
California Nourishing to
Capitalist Sterilization
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

ENARM prices must be stabilized
at a point near the cost of pro-
duction, is the main plank in the
program OF the capitalist farm re-
lief experts.
The great masses of the crop
producers are expected to throw
their hats in the air and cheer at
the mere mention of this sugges-
ton. They did so, in fact, Incl
dental to the speech of the multi
millionaire, Frank o. Lowden, at
the recent Chicago gathering of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The cost of production" how
ever. in agriculture, as well as in
industry, continually fiuctuates. 1t
is something that the capitalist
profit taker is everlastingly seeking
to lower, while at the same time
increasing the selling price, leaving
a greater margin for himself. But
certainly not for the farm worker
any more than for the wage worker.
The evidently successful effort to
promote the growing and fabricat-
ing of cotton in Southern California
is an excellent example. Los An
geles, in addition to breeding movie
and soul-saving millionaires, is also
turning out a breed of cotton CAPT.
talists. Irrigation applied to the
Imperial Valley has developed an
American Sudan" Just as cotton
growing in the upper regions Of the
Nile under the direction of London
capitalists helps dictate the policies
of British Imperialism in Egypt,
just so the California capitalists
strive for what they call "the cot
ton atmosphere" in this Pacific coast
state.
Just as "the American Plan" is
polite name for the open shop war
against organized labor, in which
the city of Los Angeles is recog-
nized as occupying premier posi-
ton; in the same manner "the cot
ton atmosphere" calls for a lower
ing of the cost of production thru
a worsening of the well-nigh intol-
cradle working conditions already
imposed upon the American peas
ant.
"Jack" Miller, head of the Cali
fornia Cotton Mills Of East Oak
land, Cal, recently urged the cause
of ''the cotton atmosphere" upon
these cotton capitalists, pointing
out that in Alabama, for instance,
a cotton mill pays no taxes for five
years, and that in Massachusetts
the minimum wage law is set aside
for cotton textile workers. The
editor of the Los Angeles Record
exclaims: "This is cotton atmos-
phere!'" 1t is the atmosphere of
capitalism.
This atmosphere" was analysed
a little more in ain issue of the Cal
ifornia Cotton Journal, the editor of
which frankly urged that California
substitute common sense" for the
strict enforcement of "our laws
relating to child labor.
This journal, after raising the
wellknown slogan of labor short
age" deplored the fact that Mexi-
cans are no longer coming into the
state and that Negroes would sad
die the commonwealth with a race
problem. Then it says:
1.-THE Journal believes there are
thousands of boys and girls in Cali
fornia's public schools who are
without the range of the child labor
laws and who are not only willing,
but eager, to help harvest the cot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
Bulgarian Branch of
l. L. D. at Gary Puts
on Pleasing Program

GARY, Ind.---The Bulgarian branch
of the International Labor Defense
will give an enter ainment and dance
at Turner Hall, 14th avenue and
Washington street, Sunday evening,
Jan. 0. James p. Cannon, secretary of
the l. l.. d., will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08
STUBBORN NILL
BARON PR0LONCS
PASSuC STRIKE
Forstmann Clings to the
Company Union Straw
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contact with individual employees.
None of these plans is more christian
than the others; some work better
under certain circumstances and some
work better under others. If We are
open-minded and tolerant, we must
recognize that any of these systems
of employment relations, If properly
conducted under appropriate condi-
tions, serve well the workers and
their respective communities. No one
of them does justice to the worker or
the public if not properly conducted.
The spirit is what counts.
The outcome of the Passaic strike
has left the community with one or
more of each of these approved typeA
of industrial relations, and we hope
that each is determined to do its ut
most to further the best interests of
all concerned.
The Forstmann and HUFFMAN com
pany now employs practically all the
workers it can use for the present,
but as opportunities offer, we will
endeavor to re-employ as many Of our
former workers as we possibly can,
without discrimination. You can rest
assured that we will do this with the
utmost goodwill.
The Forstmann and Huffman COM
pany pledges itself to maintain as
good employment conditions and as
high earnings for the workers as any
other wooden or worsted mill, and in
return merely asks for fair play while
il demonstrates the beneficial results
which will flow from its endeavors.
II everybody will unite with us in this
peaceful spirit, then "the good of the
city" which, is my slogan as well as
yours, will be greatly promoted.
Yours very truly,
JULIUS FORSTMANN, Pres.
Strikers Laugh at Forstmann.
At TAB Main Ave-, where the strik-
ers' union, Local 1903, United Textile
workers, has its headquarters, the
Forstmann letter was greeted with un.
restrained amusement. The officials
of the union and the strikers about
the place all seemed to get good
laugh out of the odd mixture of christ
ian cant and unchristian denial of the
rights OF the workers, and the prating
about tolerance from the most intoler-
ant and stubborn OF the mill bosses Of
Passaic and vicinity.
Deak Scores "5razen Hypocrisy"
Gustave Deak, president of Local
1903, u. r. w. with which the Forst-
mann and HUFFMAN strikers are az
fliated, denounced the Forstmann let
ter as a piece of brazen hypocrisy;
"Mr. Forstmann's letter in reply to
Mayor Burke's bid for Industrial peace
il piece OF brazen hypocrisy, so
stupid as to be laughable. Who can
keep straight face while Mr. Forst-
mann breaches tolerance and christ
ian principles? Mr.. Forstmann who
for eleven months has been engaged
in the 'christian" endeavor of trying
10 starve his workers and their famil-
los into acceptance Of his rotten com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-08

pany union Mr.. Forstmann who has
never hesitated to turn loose the clubs
CT the subservient police upon the
heads of his workers or to terrorize
the workers and drive them back to
the mills. Mr.. Forstmann who refuses
to permit his workers the right to
select the own type of organization
but despotlcally insists that they must
accept type of union, the impotent
company union or representative as
sembly, as he euphoniously terms it
he selects for them. Mr.. Forstmann,
patron saint of the espionage system
and the blacklist, as investigation
after investigation has revealed him.
Strike viii Go On.
"Mr. Forstmann has offered us his
company union before, and his strik
ing workers have unanimously reject
ed It,"
They reject it again, and are more
than ever determined to continue
their fight until Mr.. Forstmann is for
ced to follow the example of the
Botany Worsted, Passaic Worsted,
Garfield Worsted and Dundee Textile
plants in recognizing the right of the
workers to organize in a real union
and do collective bargaining with
their employers.
Strikers Endorse Leaders.
At a mass meeting of striking Forst-
mann G. Huffman workers at Ukrain-
ian hall the strike leadership was en-
Enthusiastically endorsed, the strikers
voting unanimously not to go back to
work until the right to organize was
conceded them.
Elton Dawson, who is financial Sec
rotary Of Local 1903, q. T. W., and a
Forstmann & HUFFMAN striker, pre-
sided at the meeting Other speak
ers were Thomas De Fazio and Joseph
Magliacano, Italian organizers; Hun
garian Organizer Eli Gardes; Strike
Delegate Peletzer, and James A. Starr,
vice-president of the U. T. w.
All stressed the Importance OF keep
ing up strong picket lines in order
to convince Mr.. Forstmann that they
meant to carry on the struggle until
their right to organize and do col
lective bargaining was recognized.
Erie, Pa, Chamber of Commerce
Blocks Showing Of Passaic Strike
Picture.
ERIE, Pa.-The plan to show the
seyen-reel motion picture of the Pas
sale textile strike in this city on the
9th has thrown a scare into the local
chamber Of commerce, which, fearful
that the workers here should take in
spiration from the heroic struggle of
the Passaic strikers for the right to
organize and do collective bargaining,
has brought pressure upon the local
newspapers to refuse to accept adyer-
tisements for the showing. Not con-
tent with blocking publicity in the
press and still fearful that word would
reach the workers that the sensa-
ftional strike film was to be shown
here, the chamber Of commerce went
to the owner Of the Park Opera
House. where the picture was to be
shown, and succeeded in intimidating
the proprietor into cancelling the
date.
Local labor organizations are exert
ing every effort to have the proprietor
reconsider his action, and there is
still hope that the picture will be
shown here on the 9th In the mean
time the action of the chamber Of
commerce is being roundly denounced,
and the workers are being called upon
to fight this attempt Of big business
to block the showing OF a labor film.
Evening star., 1927-11-09
GREAT ELI BACK OJJSTED
FOR BROWN FROSH PLAY
Blues Quintuple Threat and All.America Prospect
Has College Foot Ball Career Ended Because
of Agreement Affecting Transfers. ii

Yale athletic authorities who were
prompt to verify and act upon the
information concerning Caldwell, hrst
published in the Providence. r. l., Bull.
letin yesterday. bent their efforts to.
day to discovering whether he ever
played base ball at Brown. IL so the
ban VIII be extended to that sport in
which Caldwell is a star at second
base.
job for Jones.
The stroke that banished intercsI.
legiate foot ball from his life. left tears
In the steady gray eyes of this stall
wart youth, with the stubbornly up
standing hair. Leaving the practice
field where the news of the Yale ath-
letic officials action reached him he
sought solace in solitude.
Three men today were being groom
ed by Coach Tad Jones to carry the
burden of the loss of Caldwells ''ouin.
tuple threat abilities.
Garvey or Hammersley, who prob.
ably will share the left halfback as.
signment in his place. must take over
the bulk of the ball carrying and
punting. Duncan Cox. hackfield reg1,-
lar. is to boot field goals and points
after touchdown from placement in
the stead of Caldwell's drop-kicking
toe. Johnny Hoben. quarterback, will
take over the forward passing, with
Decker working on the receiving end
with the wingmen in Hoben's place.
Evening star., 1927-11-09
TOLL ATLOOM AS BRUCE
WAITS ON sY" CLUB TABLE
Father and Mother Ridicule Suggestion That They
Are Making Sacrifice for Ousted Player Who
Also Works i'm Factory in Summer
Tr Pressey mt in a word.

| Mr.. Pressey put in a word.
"In this town we are proud OF Jim
and Harriet CALDWELL" he observed.
And there was no reason for him to
state the reason why.
Neither father nor mother ever
saw Bruce, the halfback. in those all
| America feats for Yale. And his
mother, like so many mothers, dreaded
| to have him play.
"He hadn't planned for foot ball this
Fall" she said. But it seems like at
the last he just couldn't resist"
Mother Scans Scoreboards.
] Mrs. Caldwell doesn't know any.
thing about foot ball, except that it's
dangerous"
But, somehow, on Saturday after
moons I always manage to get in to
PaWtucket or Providence, where
there's a scoreboard," she remarked.
And she smiled.
Jim Caldwell who came from Scot
land when he was 5, went into the
mills at 9, and named his son Bruce
because that Robert Bruce was a
great Scottish King" played soccer
in his younger days, and knows a
thing or two about this college foot
ball.
II Just never seemed to get A
chance to see Bruce play down at
Yale" he said. But I'd hoped TO
see his two big games this Fall.
They would have been his last. He's
senior. you know"
Mrs. Caldwell, who admitted she
was "a bit tired from standing all
day." insisted, nevertheless, upon find
ing a silver cup Bruce had won in
track in his schoolboy days. She
keeps it bright, like a mirror. like
her pride in her son.
EVERY Week He Writes to Me-"
Bruce is coming up for Thanks
giving" she said, suddenly. He's
a good boy. Every week, never fail.
he writes to me-"
That really appeared to he about
all. Bruce was the ''story'-that tale
Of sacrifice by the parents?
'Just bosh," said the Caldwells
stoutly, and together.
Jim Caldwell came padding down
the dark street through the fallen
leaves after his departing visitors.
He had forgotten something.
'1f you don't mind" he called. apol.
ogetically, will you say something
about Mis- Caulfeld? She's principal
of the Cumberland High School. And
she's done a lot for Bruce"
That's the kind of man Jim Cald-
we'll is!
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-11-09
GRID RULES CALLED
AS "CLEAR AS MUD
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November o.--There are
20 or 80 plays under present foot ball
rules which might he called either
way by firstclass officials, and each
could prove his ruling under some
paragraph in the rule book. Maj John
L. Griffith. Big Ten athletic commits.
sioner, said today in a luncheon
speech.
Some Of the rules are absurd and
the rules generally are in such shape
that it is difficult for men who have
been in the game Is years or longer
to understand the meaning of the foot
ball laws as written" Maj. Griffith
said.
For instance, if a certain man
touches the ball in. the end zone,
causing. it to 60 out of bounds, it is
a toucHback. II, however, this man
touched the ball SO that it goes out of
bounds a few inches the other way
and it crosses the side line in front
Of the goal line. it would be a touch.
down. One section of the rule states
that il linesman gets offside in the
line and then gets back onside before
the ball is snapped. no foul has been
committed, and the next section states
that if he does this he has encroach.
ed upon the neutral zone and should
be penaliZed.
"A great many persons when dis.
appointed over a foot ball game are
inclined to want to make somebody
the goat. This is not the attitude Of
the conference coaches, however.
These men realize it is unjust and un.
fair for the alumni to attack the
coach, and the coaches are not dis.
posed to criticize the officials UNFAIRLY
Some officials rule according to
equity in foot ball, and some rule ac.
cording to the law and are able to
support their rulings by some sen.
tence or paragraph in the book. 1t
Is often difficult for the officials, under
present rules, to give both teams a
fair deal"