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manship had fumbled, failed. But the
soul had poured into the tiny figure
from something that was bigger than
craftsmanship or technique. Dabs
himself, gay, irresponsible, stared up
at her!
She had caught even the little after
breath of his swagger. He might just
have come in and paused, so real he
was. And yet he was touched with
pathos, as he was in her thoughts. 1t
was O. figure that bespoke fmperma-
nency. There was, to it, sense of
perishability, of something marked by
the finger of doom.
"Why, / did that"' Judy said to
herself, softly, wonderingly. II wasn't
trying to do anything big. ] wasn't
even thinking of i'll And yet 1t is
big! lit has LITER She was almost
terrified before what she had done.
and she put the tiny figure away in
a cabinet and went back to her toys.
But day after day she was tempted
to try again. simply, as she had tried
before And at last she yielded. And
she made little figure of Jack Darien
as he had looked when he had come
to her booth at the benefit. And this
figure, too, had life and pathos! She
caught the air of WEAKNESS, Of sad
ness. And she caught the arrogance.
That night, coming out Of her work
room, she found the apartment shin
ing with new spick and spanness.
you've been cleaning again,
haven't your" she asked. And you're
tired"' Her voice accused Honey.
why on earth didn't you let Della
do it,"
"Oh, I wanted to do it myself"
Something in Honey's tone caught
Judy's quick ear. She searched
Honeys face quietly. What was that
look that Honey was bending upon
her? Admiration and pity! Certainly
those two! What could it mean?
Continued in Tomorrow Starr
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Martha's Goodness.

Y ARTHA VESPER was good
M woman. Most folks thought
n" Martha herself did not know
Just how good she was. but
they knew. They called her
| the salt of the earth, the highest
praise that they could bestow
Martha had lived on that street, in
| that house. all her life. Her life was
known through all it's phases-child-
hood, girlhood. womanhood. And 1t
was all goodness, clear through.
1t was no wonder, therefore, that
Martha, thus praised and considered,
should begin to feel that perhaps her
goodness did set her a little apart
from other folks, good though they
were. Take Myrna Jones and Mrs.
PettigreW, now. They were good
women, but they couldn't hold can
die to Martha Vesper. She was so
good that she was almost famous.
Besides being good. Martha was
happy, which doesn't always follow
in spite of the proverb. BE good and
youIl be happy" AT II Martha had
married Asa Vesper because she loved
him so much she couldn't live with.
out him. In consequence, she had
always been contented wife. For
Asa was forehanded. He earned
money and!s what was still better,
saved money. They never lacked.
Their two sons had received good ed
ucations and been started on the way
to success on their own. Charlie was
in Oregon, Edward in y nearby city.
Both were unmarried. Both still
thought their mother the finest
woman on earth.
One afternoon, as she sat putting
q patch on a pair Of nicely Numbered
overalls that belonged to her husband,
Mrs. Birch, her neXt-door neighbor,
came bouncing in.
Sick" demanded Mrs. Birch, who
was as stout and blowsy as Martha
was slender and silver -colored.
Mercy, no. Never felt better in
my life," replied Martha.
"Then why didn't you so to the
sewing meeting at Fanny Fitch's?
81 forgot all about it." Martha
glanced at the clock. II can get there
vet Just before it closest must.
She sprang to her feet, snatched hat
and coat and flew, with a swift thanks
to Mrs. Birch for reminding her.
"Well. here's Martial" cried Julia
Breen as Martha entered Mrs. F1tch
parlor, where a group of women sat
sewing. Better late than neVer-slt
right down here. We've been hem
ming sheets for the Piper family--un-
bleached muslin, but plenty good
enough. They're all done, so you're
out OF that, Martha. But you can
take 'em home and bleach EN- out.
"Clad to- Unbleached musln
bleached makes fine, durable sheets.
/ know, for I've used them. In TACT;
I've just made a few new ones ana
I'll bleach them all together. Might
as WELL" Martha said With enthusl-
asn1. when get through bleaching
them, you'll see. They'll be whittier
than SNOW"
Martha took the sheets home in a
large parcel. Tomorrow she would
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THE STORY THUS FAR.

judy Belts is rich little poor girl, rich
in dreams which tighten a happy -go-lqcky
Darien a poor little rich boy, is guided and
guarded all the time. In childhood he meets
wlstful judy. who continues TO think OF him
artistic. success as a designer of clay toys
and ornaments. They bring. too; Tommy
Carter son of rich Westerner, who works
on a Washington newspaper. and loves Judy
as she grows to 20. Jack is Tilted by Cicely
has never accomplished anything in life and
because she is weary of her artificial eX-
Istence. Then at an exhibit OF her mothers
pictures Judy meets Jack again. sophisti.
Gated wearied but not completely spoiled
child of fortune. He becomes intensely inter
asted in her toys and in her, Cicely starts
TO study art with Judy's mother and meets
and falls in love with Tommy. who. how
ever. still woos Judy.
Continued frnn1 YesterdaN,S Starl
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The Engagement Ring.

Continued from Yesterdays starr
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Judy saw what it was the instant
it came to rest on the Uttered
desk before her. A diamond
- ring! An engagement ring! The
great diamond in it glittered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
Smash This Infamous Conspiracy Against Militant
Trade Union Men,

The Furrers Union and the leaders strike
struggle which resulted in obtaining the 40hour week which
President Green boosted the Detroit convention the
Federation of Labor the victims of despca
bic conspiracy in trade union history.
Ben Gold and 10 other officers and members
unions supporting the New York Joint Board
COLA notorious Ku Kux Kan communicated confronted
with alleged evidence of "assauthe prosecutors term for
pckengwhch it is plain anyone familiar with the
has been furnished by the Special Commee-Wo Fayne
and McGradapponed by President Green of the American
Federation of Labor
Ben Gold and his fellow defendants being
tlty to the efficiency unonism policy of the A. f. of
their refusal to smch their records union with
ment of this policy.
If anyone doubts this let him spend day the
Mneoa court and listen to the oepeated question
at defense witnesses by the prosecution HAS your
been expelled by the A. F. of L.?"
testimony of Greeve detective who arrested two of
the militant frers the effect that he spent
the Sgman-Schachman headquarters working the
the whole eleven defendants decisive making
between the Civic Federationheaded by Matthew VOL
-Schachtman right wing the Mineoa prosecution
and the A. F. of l.. committee.
We have said it before and repeat again that the Min
without precedent in the American labor
the highest union officials working hand in hand with employers
detectives and prosecuting attorneys attempt jail
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Hundreds of Dollars
Reach Defense Office;
But Thousands Needed

The response to the 100000 Fund
Roll Call campaign has been so
prompt and satisfactory that the de-
tense office was taken by surprise.
Other activities ceased as the entire
office staff was put to work to'handle
this rush Of subscribers. Bunches
Of certificates accompanied by dollar
bills are received with every mail.
At the end of the day the income
from this source alone totals hun
dreds Of dollars, but this is not
enough when thousands are needed,
so some workers have hit on the
plan Of paying for five or ten certi-
ficates at time, and as each certi-
ficate carriers with it separate
receipt, these workers are the proud
possessors of blocks of five and ten
receipts besides the sealed and stamp
ed certificates. Watch Unity" for
the names of all who subscribed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22

Civic Repertory to Give
Seven Plays in Clos
ing Week

The Civic Repertory Theatre will
close its first season at the 18th
Street Theatre on Saturday evening
April Both, with a performance of
Tchekov's "Three Sisters" After
seven months successful work. Eva
lie Gallienne and her company
opened with Benavente's Saturday
Night" Monday evening, October
25th.
On Monday, May End, the players
begin their tour at the National The
atre in Washington, d. c., Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Boston will follow.
The plays selected are: "Cradle
Song" by Sierras; Master Builder"
by Ibsen, and la LoOandiera," by
Goldoni.
The final week will include seven
plays. They are as follows: "Cradle
song" Monday night and Wednesday
matinee; master Builder" Tuesday
night; "John Gabriel Borkman,"
Thursday night; "Inheritors, /"
Wednesday night; la Locandiera, .
Friday night; Twelfth Night" Sat
urday matiness, and "Three Sisters, .
Saturday night.
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ization on the near south side and
would not tolerate any opposition
among his lieutenants. Now this
mighty man has fallen and more PHI
able bosses have taken his place, who
will do their best to keep the Negroes
in the capitalist fold for the benefit
of the employers of Chicago and the
political bosses who still have hold
on their imaginations.
The Chicago election proves that
the task of weaving away the Ne
groes from capitalist politics has
barely begun. A heavy task lies in
front of our Negro comrades and one
that should be given the hearty sup
port of the white workers who under
stand the tremendous role that will
be played in the working class move
ment of this country by the ten mil
lions of exploited and prosecuted
workers and peasants of another col
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poverty-haunted and hovel-living
wage slaves that William Hale
Thompson angled with promises he
knew he could not fulfill and it was
to catch the votes of the race-hatred-
poisoned whites in the white" wards
that Dever's campaign managers
flooded the city with the most vicious
anti-Negro propaganda that an
American community was ever insult
ed with. The pictures of the propa-
ganda shown here tell the tale.
1t is not necessary to deal here with
the conduct of the labor bureaucracy.
They were for sale as usual Politics
is gamble to them. The leaders
split, some of them supporting Dever
and another faction supporting
Thompson. Both were animated by
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the same motives; a share in the
spoils of office. Both tried to prove
to their followers that their favorite
political candidate was a friend of la
Dor. One set of labor takers won.
The other set lost. All the workers
who voted for either lost. So much
for the disgraceful part played by the
Official" labor leaders in the cleo
ton.
The leaders of the Negroes in the
"black belt" played similar role.
Those shepherds of human lives also
split, one faction supporting an indie
pendent republican candidate and the
other and stronger faction supporting
Thompson.
Negro communities thruout the
country are agitated over the results
of the election. The Thompson vic
tory is generally acclaimed, few
Negro publications to the contrary.
Yet it is safe prediction that the
living conditions of the Chicago Ne
groes will not be whit improved
during the incumbeAcy of Thompson.
The present mayor chartered a
steamer to take party of his friends
down the Mississippi for holiday to
celebrate the emancipation of Chicago
from King George. The papers did
not say whether Negro leaders were
included among the guests.
The Negro vote in Chicago re-
manned republican as usual. The only
change in the situation was the over
throw of the old republican boss of
the second ward: Edward Wright,
who split with Robert E. Grove,
state attorney, and refused to support
William Hale Thompson, Groves
candidate. Wright lined up with
Fred Lundeen, gentleman with X.
K. K tendencies, who entered DR..
John Dill Robertson against his for
mer political bedmate, Thompson.
Wright was appointed to the Illinois
state commerce commission by Len
Small and felt that he owed some
thing to his friends. He supported
Frank L. Smith at the slush fund
hearings under the direction of SEN
ator Reed and attracted considerable
notOriety when he boosted from the
stand in the hearing of Robert E.
Grove, that he was the Grove organ
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or who are now beginning to feel the
thrill of conscious strength.
Along with the organization of the
Negro workers, in order that they
may be able to fight for better con-
-ditions of life and against the race
prejudice that sears their souls as
hot iron burns the flesh, must go the
organization Of the white workers.
The low level of political conscious
ness among the workers, black and
white, in Chicago, may have been
more dramatically pictured for the
delectation of the nation, by the anti
Negro propaganda of Dever and by
the buffoonery of Thompson in the
recent election, than by the more adj
vanced tricks employed by the cap
italist confidence men in other cities,
but there is only a difference in de-
gree.
Chicago is a typical American city
and the majority of the white work
ers are blinded by the smoke-screen
of capitalist prosperity which is
shared by only comparatively a few
of the working class, while the colored
workers are still Hopping around in
the. Lincolnian puddle and permitting
themselves to be sold like cattle at a
fair to the profit and glory of their
own corrupted race leaders and the
profit of the employers.
Only when capitalism is abolished
and a socialist society substituted for
it, will tie race discrimination and all
forms Of human exploitation cease.
The program of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party in America shows the
way to freedom to both black and
white workers.
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Chicago Politics in Prose and Picture
By 7. ]. O,FLAHERrY.

THE recent campaign in Chicago,
which resulted in the election of
William Hale Thompson as mayor,
on a platform of America First" and
King George of England last, has al
ready been treated in the columns of
The DAILY WORKER, but pictures
sometimes speak louder than words
and the illustrations that accompany
this sketch will probably give clear
er picture of the political mentality
of the majority of Chicago's hundred
percent voters than the most learned
theses that ever dripped from the pen
of social psychologist.
The outstanding feature of this
contest between Tweedledee Dever
and Tweedledum Thompson was the
obscene lengths to which both went
in their efforts to use the Negro ques-
ton in the mad scramble for the priv
ilege of looting the city Of Chicago
for the next four years.
1t is no credit to Thompson that
Dever's campaign managers sinped
more heinously against the Negro than
he did, because the ignorant Negro
voters are traditional republicans,
worship the shade of Abraham Lin
coin and are led to believe that the
election Of a democrat would mean
the resurrection of jefferson Davis
and the return of the overseers of
slavery days. They have not yet real
lied that their race brothers and sis
tiers are being lynched with impunity
inside the confines of the federal jur-
isdiction of the United States, while
silent republican Cal looks on with
neutral eye. They have not come to
see the approach to similarity be-
tween the brutal lash wielder of the
southern cotton plantations to the
stockyards foreman in Chicago, whose
lash is the threat of dismissal and the
prospect of hunger on the jobless
slavemarket of modern capitalism to
the Negro worker, unless he drives
his weary body to produce as much
profits for the beef packers as the
beef packers think just and reason
able.
There are fifty thousand votes in
the famous "black belt" of Chicago.
as poor and dilapidated a residential
district as ever the human eye rested
on. 1t was for the votes of those