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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-21
Christmas Program
at Kiwanis Meeting

A Christmas program was given
Tuesday at the regular meeting Of
the kiwanis club. Rev. G. w. Stew
art of Mandan was the principal
speaker, addressing the club men,
bers on the history and significance
OF the day.
The musical program was given
by Miss Catherine Andrist, cello,
Adolph Engelhardt violin, and Mrs,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-21
GOOD REMEDY FOR BAD
COUGH

"A hard persistent wearing cough
kept me awake for several nights
and when my druggist recommend
ed Foley's Honey and Tar Com.
pound, l was eager to try It. In
less than two days, my cough was
entirely gone," says this satisfied
user from Nebraska. No opiatcs,
no chloroform, 4 really valuable
remedy for coughs, colds, throat
and bronchial 'irritations. Accept
no substitute for Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound. Get the genuine.
Sold Everywhere.-Adv.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-21

h. y. Morris, piano. f. II. Waldo
was chairman Of the day.
A feature of the meeting was the
ChrMtmas tree. Each member OF
the club brought a gift which he
exchanged. with a fellow member.
The club had the following guests
Tuesday: Judge ]. A. Coffey of
Jamestown; Filing Helmer OF Tay-
lor; Mrs. Morris, Miss Andrist and
Mr.. Engelhardt of Bismarck; Rev.
Stewart Of Mandan.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-12-21
BIDS FOR COAL

Sealed bids will be received
by the Bismarck Hospital for
clean crushed coal, Y to II.
inch, screenings and slack
quote separate prices on each.
Bids will be opened January
il, 1928, by Board of Trustees.
The Board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
Bismarck Hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Right Wing Fur
Officials In
With Bosses
Bosses Can't Make Workers
Register, Say PrOgressives

All previous attempts to smash the
New York Joint Board of the Furri-
ers' Union having met with defeat,
the SPECIAL Reorganization Committee
of the American Federation of La
Dor which was appointed to take full
charge of driving the prOgressives
from the union, has openly Joined
hands with the employers it was re-
vealed yesterday in letter sent out
by the Associated Fur Manufacture
ers. Inc.
The president of this association,
Samuel N. Samuels, advised his men,
bers that the board of directors had
decided to ignore the leaders of the
Joint Board of the Furriers' Union
and recognize only the International
Fur Workers Union in matters that
concern the union.
Natural Partners.
This announcement of a collabora-
ton policy between the reactionary
right wing forces and the bosses did
not come as surprise to members
of the Joint Board. They knew the
manufacturers association was carry
ing on negotiations with the rights,
and they have prepared for some such
development as this made public by
Mr.. Samuels.
S. Liebowitz, assistant manager of
the Joint Board points out however
that this decision was made not by
the members of the manufacturers
association but by the board of direc-
tors which acted without consulting
its constituents.
Didn't Ask Members.
Liebowitz also recalls the fact that
it was just year ago this month,
during the fur strike, that the manu-
facturers' association held secret ne
gotiations with these same officials
of the International Fur Workers
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Aid For PassaiC
JObless Asked
By Unions
Employment Relief Urged AT
Joint Conference

PASSAIC, April Steps to re.
lieve the grave situation caused by
the continued unemployment of thou.
sands of textile workers in this city
and vicinity were urged at the con.
ference held tonight at the textile
union headquarters under the direc.
ton of a Joint committee of the
Trades and Labor Council of PassaiC
and the District Council Of the Tex
tile Workers.
Due as directly to the present slump
in the wooden industry, most of the
time during the day and the night
Sits have been abolished altogether,
according to Gustave Deak, president
of the district council. He reported
that last week the Botany Worsted
mills, one of the largest plants in the
city, layed off 400 workers, and it is
now likely that they may even shut
down altogether.
Urges Action
Declaring that "the gravity of the
situation calls for immediate action"
the conference called for immediate
assistance. 1t recommended that the
city start construction and repair
work at once.
At the conclusion OF the meeting,
after it was decided to call larger
conference for some night next week,
with representatives of all organiza-
tions interested in this problem, Deak,
on behalf OF the District Council, is
sued the following statement:
Start Real Relief
Last nights meeting was the first
step in the movement initiated by the
Passaic Central Labor Union and the
United Textile Workers of America
to start real relief for the thousands
Of unemployed workers in this city.
"The meeting was called in a hurry.
In addition it was found necessary to
change the place of meeting at the
last minute. However, the interest
shown by those present emphasized
the Importance of the problem. Our
organization is, Of course, the most
concerned.
While the unemployment situation
here affects many other workers, It
is the textile workers who are suffer-
ing most because of the present slump
in industry. Thousands Of textile
workers are unemployed, although
their strike was settled several
Continued on Page Ttco)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Frame-up Against The
DAILY WORKER Editors
Put Off to Thursday

The case against the editors and
business manager of The Daily
Worker, who were summoned to APP
pear in the Third District City
Magistrates Court, Second Ave.
and Second ST., yesterday morning
to answer to a charge of violating
section 1141 of the penal code
against the publication of 'lewd,
lecherous, lascivious, and disgust
ing matter" has been postponed
until next Thursday.
A poem entitled America" by
David Gordan, which appeared in
the magazine section of The Daily
Worker of March II, is responsible
for the charge. Two members of
the Bomb Squad who served the
summons declared that the action
was inspired by complaints coming
from "a well-knOwn patriotic So
ciety."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
American Delegate To
Geneva QuarreIs With
France Over Aviation

GENEVA, April 1.-The League
of Nations preparatory disarma-
ment conference today turned it's
attention TO aviation, having adopted
the first reading of formula for a
convention on land disarmament.
Hugh Gibson, American delegate,
announced that the United States
would oppose any attempt to link
civil and military aviation in a dis
armament scheme. He said the
United States favored only the linz
itation of military air supplies. avi-
atOrs and reserves.
Military and civil aviation are
closely connected said NJ. BoncOur,
the French delegate" The situation
of the country having no civil avia-
ton must be taken into considera-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

\ The Jewish workers, alert, sensi-
tive, educated to the understanding
of their class interests, began to
chafe Under the weight of self-satis-
fled lee9hes. Conditions where the
union officials were placing all their
hopes in arbitration machinery head
ed by representatives of the bourge-
oisie, where the workers were shown
one kind Of a union agreement,
whereas, secretly, the employers
were granted much more freedom to
exploit them (so-called supplement
tary agreements), where fights of the
masses against the employers were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
SLIGHT INCREASE
in TEACHERS PAY
by 0. KID BILL
Governor to Sign Dick
Rice Bill Today

Gov. Smith is today expected to
sign the Dick-Rice bill which APP
propriates S16,5O0,OOO for the public
schools of the state. AS originally
drafted, the bill called for S1S,000,-
900, but 100000 of that sum was
Topped off in order to avoid the nee
essity of ordering a tax on gasoline,
serious opposition to which came
from auto owners throughout the
state.
$1O,OoO,OOO of the appropriation
will be devoted to school buildings
and the salary increases of teachers
in this city. Despite the fact that
it will be of comparatively slight aid
to the thousands of New York
teachers, it will nevertheless be well
coined as a concession" on the part
of state politicians in the legislature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

chestnuts out of the fire. They
have been bringing pressure to
bear upon the administration to
take an independent attitude
toward China.
Realizing that American officials
and newspaper correspondents have
been tricked by the British foreign
office into yelping for a war to pro-
tect Hongkong and India, the admin
istration has ordered its Chinese Of
ficials to stop the propaganda which
has been flooding the Nationalist
press.
Moore Bounced7
Those in close touch with the stu
alton regard as significant the alb
sence of any dispatch from Fredericl:
Moore in this mornings New York
Times. Moore, who is rabidly anti
Cantonese, has been sending wild pro-
war propaganda - he Times and the
absence of his s atrocity story
coming on the = Coolidge's ac-
ton is regarded rer'ci. sisnifi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
$500 PLUMBERS
AND HELPERS ARE
STRIKING H E R {

Exceeding all expectations 5000
plumbers and plumbers helpers, men,
bers Of Plumbers Union Local and
the American Association of Plumb
ers Helpers respectively, came out
on strike yesterday morning COM
pletely tieing up that part of the
building trades in the borough Of
Brooklyn.
Enthuastic strie meeting were
held yesterday. At a crowded meet
ing of the plumbers held yesterday
afternoon at Lenruth Hall 157 Wav-
erly Ave-, Brooklyn, the assembled
workers listened to speechs by the
officials of the union. Last night the
plumbers helpers held a jammed
meeting at the Church of All Nations,
8 Second Ave-, where they were ad-
dressed by c. f. Miller, president and
James F. Walsh, organizer.
The demands of the plumbers are:
$l4 day and a forty hour week
while the helpers are fighting for
50 day, forty hour week and recog-
milton Of their union.
Bosses Help Each Other.
One thousand plumbers in Queens,
members Of Local AIS, journeymen
Plumbers and Filters Union, will be
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
CELEBRATE FREIHE|T'S 9Th YEAR AT
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN TONIGHT
Rr M0IssAYE L nLGIN

THIS vicinity gather celebrate
Freiheit
which appeared April 1922 The fact that labor
marking birthday meeting the hall New York
City speaks the nfuence of the
Fhet of the nflu-
entia papers II this
Jewish workers mainly concentrated the needle trades The Jewish work
OF
gradually realization that saddled
the
the rank file
of the working This
betrayal defended and led by the socialist Jewish Daily
all
wohd risOcacy" of
exploited undpaid
other wider and wider
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

looked upon with disfavor and the
boss was considered the best aid of
the union officials in maintaining the
union organization-such conditions
could not fail to arouse the workers.
A general revolt followed.
Revolt Let BY The Freiheit.
The revolt was led by the Freiheit.
This is it's chief contribution to the
labor movement, but it is not the only
one.
The Freiheit points the way for the
labor press of this country in very
many respects.
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

The West Virginia district was
once strongly unionized, and the min
ers there are thoroly sick Of non
union low wages, and bad conditions
especially Of the cheating done by
company weighmen, not controlled by
any union acknowledgment.
Progressives Fought For Union.
While little attempt has been made
to unionize this important territory
by the regular organizers of the Uni
ted Mine Workers, the progressive
and militant elements in the miners
union have repeatedly called atten-
ton to it as the key position, and
have never ceased to carry on such
activity there as they could.
Much of the publicity of the Save
The Union bloc in the last miners
international election was directed
towards the organizing of the nom
union fields, and West Virginia most
of all.
Baker Attacks.
PITTSBURG, April 1.-The first
shot in the campaign to destroy the
miners union in the bituminous coal
fields of western Pennsylvania was
fired today by Horace F. Baker, pre-
sident of the Pittsburg Terminal Coal
Company, largest union operator in
Continued on Page T10o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
u. S. and Britain
Split Over China
Report Coolidge Orders AdmiraIs Not to Follow
England Into War-NOW- ITO Save India
Especial To The DAILY WORKER.1

WASHINGTON April 1.-Great Brain's efforts to drag
the United States into to protect British
China appear at present to be doomed to failure
President Coolidge it learned today instructed
American officials in China that cit much their duty to
resist involving the United States in with Chinese peo-
pie it to safeguard the lives and the property American
citizens"
Tricked BY British.
Hoping to find in united China lucrative field for in
vestmen capitalists intention of punq British
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
CurY9ntEUentS
BY T. ]. o'FLAHERTY.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Jr., the
" ee-million-dollar failure who
started at the top in the newspaper
business and soon found himself at
The bottom, is on Hearst's payroll in
the capacity of editorial writer for
the piffle-magnates tabloid at a juicy
salary. In the Daily Mirror of
March 30, Vanderbilt got excited over
the "yellow periI', yellow Hesrst's
favorite theme. The ex-millionaire
pictures "hordes" of "cruel Orientals"
sweeping down on the rest of the
world and Transforming peaceful val
leys into lakes of gore.
THERE is no originality in Wander
bits dream. The Kaiser claimed
to be one of its patentees. Teddy
Roosevelt often ground his teeth with
satisfaction over the carcass. Wander
bilt was bit of liberal while run
ming his own tabloids. But you don't
have to scratch a liberal very deeply
until you find a reactionary. What
is worrying the imperialists and their
literary hirelings today is not yell
low peril but red peril.
WE do not like to speak i'll of the
" sick but we cannot resist observ-
ing that Henry Ford has found new
ally in the person Of General Eric
Ludendorf's most recent spouse. The
fair frau prophesied that the next
world catastrophe will come in 1882,
because in that year the Jews will
Continued on Page TlOo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
ENGLAND Moves Toward War.


LONDON, April /. - Great Bril-
cain is rapidly moving towards open
war on the Chinese Nationalist gov
eminent. Whether she will succeed
in dragging the United States and
Japan into an openly hostile attitu lie
looks doubtful.
The governments draft note tn
China, which was approved by the
cabinet this afternoon, is understood
to contain demands for 'the punish
ment of those responsible for the
Marking outrages", indemnity for
the victims" and apologies to the
government whose consulates were
looted and attacked"
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Sigman Refuted
By Liberal
Committee
His Charges @CrOundless"
Says Secretary

In announcing yesterday the form
alton of the COMMITTEE of One Hun
dred for the Defense of the Imprison-
ed Needle Trades Workers, which
has opened headquarters at % East
18th street, New York, the secretary
Of the committee, Ann Washington
Grafton, characterized as "grOundIess"
the charges made on Thursday by
Morris Sigman, president of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, when he accused members of
the executive committee of the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union Of joining
a plot to raise funds for Communist
propaganda purposes by associating
themselves with this Defense Com
mittee.
In two long letters addressed to
the American Civil Liberties Union,
and made public by him on Thursday,
Sigman violently protp3 I'd against
members of the Civil Liberties Union
joining with other liberals in an eff
fort to raise funds for the relief and
release of the imprisoned cloakmak-
ers and furriers.
Committee Hadn't Even Met.
At the time of Sigman's attack, the
committee had as yet made no public
announcement of its formation; or of
its purposes. Sigman did not know
its personnel, nor even its official
name.
First Meeting Monday.
In her announcement yesterday,
Miss Grafton states that the commit
tee has not yet met and has taken
no official action Of any kind. 1t will
hold its first meeting next Monday.
when Frank P. Walsh, chief counsel
for the defense of the imprisoned fur
riers and cloakmakers, and Joseph R.
Brodsky, counsel for the furriers will
speak.
Workers Must Be Freed.
1T is the committees belief, saws
Miss Grafton, on behalf of the Com
mittee of One Hundred, chat the
heavy sentences of these men must
not be allowed to stand. Every eff
fort must be made to free these men
from prison cells, and to relieve their
families. Defense and relief must
also be provided for other active
union workers, whose strike activities
have placed them with the shadow
of prison bars"
Liberal Committee.
The committee of One Hundred in
cludes leading writer's, artists, play
wrights, attorneys, editors, ministers
and men and women prominent in hu-
manitarian movements. Among them
are Forrest Bailey, En- 10 Bashe, Su-
san Brandeis, Bishop William M.
Browne, Howard Brubaker, Arthur
Calhoun, DR.. Allen Carpenter, Harry
w. l.. Dana, Anna N. Davis, Floyd
Dell, John Dos Passos, w. E. B. Du
Bots, Francis L. Paragon, Sara Bard
Field, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Lewis
5. Gannett, Arthur Garfield Hays,
John Haynes Holmes, Paxten Hibben,
Henry I. Hunt, James Weldon John
son, Freda Kirchwey, John Howard
Lawson, Upton Sinclair, Harry Ward, |
Rev. Charles c. Weber, DR.. Robert
Whitaker, Rev. Eliot White, Justine
Wise, G. e. S. Wood, Charles w.
Wood, and w. E. Woodward.
Sigman Fights Defense.
The following extracts from Sig
mans letters to the American Civil
Liberties Union show to what lengths
ne will go in his efforts to prevent
the relief Of those workers who are
In jail for their strike activities.
We beg of you to appreciate the
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Mellon Leads Drive
To Cut Miners Paw
Kansas Contract Not Signed; Ohio Operators
Ask Conference; First Frame-up Occurs

INDIANAPOLIS, April 1-Outstanding developments the
first day of the lockout of the the competitive
coal field The reported decision of numbers the
West Virginia miners to quit work and try
chance organize themselves the anuniOn drive Pittsburgh
in which the already nOn-uniOn Pittsburgh Coal Co., largely
owned by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon takes the lead with
the formerly union Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., of which Ho
Baker is president swinging behind it, locking
its union mners the decision of Lee Hail. president of District
No Ohio to meet with the Ohio Operators Association
conference in Columbus April and the failure put thru the
between the union the Southwestern
operators
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
Russian Workers Give
|. $4,000 To Sufferers
Of Marking Smelling

MOSCOW, April 1.-The Red
Trade Unions have sent $4,000 to
China for the relief Of those who
suffered in the bombardment of
Marking by British and American
warships.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
WEST VIRGINIA NONUNION MINERS TALK STRIKE
The Daily Worker Greets The
Freiheit on Its 9Th Birthday
The DATLY WORKER. the of

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Fihet
in the
Is a n
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
West virginia. WIN Strike.

FAIRMONT, w. Va April Suspension of work in the
northern West Virginia coal fields by supposedly union
miners marked important development in the wakout
bituminous mine workers of the nation today.
The international representative of the United Mine
for the northern West Virginia field issued statement shortly
before in which he declared that so meetings being
held throughout District which 100000 persons miners
their families enthusiastically pedgng their support the
stand of the United Mine Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02
.CUBANS PROTEST
AS MACHADO GETS
GRIP ON HIS JOB

HAVANA, April Widespread
opposition has arisen throughout
Cuba as the result of report that
a government commission has de-
cided to report against constitutional
reforms and prorsue a law tending
to continue the present administra-
ton in power without elections.
Students holding a protest meeting
were attacked by the police, who
charged they were disorderly. The
students made a protest to President
Machado against the police attack,
but the president informed them he
would not tolerate any violence
against any law of the nation"
Washington Expected II.
WASHINGTON, April 1 (FP).-
State department officials showed
neither surprise nor curiosity when
they learned that President Machado
of Cuba, whose supporters have
killed or abducted hundreds of trade
union officials in the past year, has
caused his congress to postpone for
four years the presidential election
due in 1928. They professed to have
no reports from Ambassador Crow
der as to the reason for this violation
of the constitution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

This issue consists of two sections.
Be sure to get them both.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-02

The following extracts from Sig
mans letters to the American Civil
Liberties Union show to what lengths
ne will go in his efforts to prevent
the relief Of those workers who are
In Jail for their strike activities.
I'VE beg of you to appreciate the
Continued on Pare Three)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

The lexington w. G. T. u. had a
box luncheon and held a short busl-
ness meeting Tuesday at the home of
Mrs. John Miller. English Village, Md.
The hostesses, Mrs. Miller and Mrs.
George Speidel, served coffee and cake.
The North Star Union will meet
with Mrs. NJ. L. Gustafson, 4304
Eighteenth street, Tuesday, at ? pm.
Assistant hostesses will be Mrs o. II.
Hillman. Mrs. N. NJ. MinniX. Mrs. w.
:. MinniX, Mrs. L. II. Holden, Mrs.
T.. K. Rochester and Mrs. c. w.
Sisson.
The Cleveland Park Union held it's
monthly meeting May %. Mrs. Joseph
b. Ger was hostess for the occa-
sion d received the members at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. w. T.
Webb, Sill Forty-second street.
Mrs. J. NJ. Nicl1les conducted the
devotional exercises and monthly re-
ports were read. The new director
of white ribbon recruits" Mrs.
Charles a. Finney. reported Is new
members received during the month.
Mrs. l.. V. Judson, director of flower
missions. reported good work done by
her committee. including a visit to the
United States Veterans Hospital,
NHcI6 dIIdHSeIISllS h0Ic HldoO ASA
distribution of flowers on flower mis-
sion day. June 3. All Cleveland Park
friends who wish to show their appre-
citation of the eX-service men in this
way are asked to bring flowers to the
Cleveland Park congregational Church
Thursday morning, June 3.
The first Thursday of each month
every member of the union Is asked
TO contribute her share of flowers,
cookies or other suitable dainties,
which will be distributed among the
patients of some home or hospital,
where such attention will be appre-
GATED
Some interesting papers were read
and Mrs y. NJ. Pollock, district presi-
dent. gave a short talk. She expressed
thr hope that all the unions of the
District might become light line
members, by contributing to the
World Temperance Union.
The flag which was presented to this
union for the largest per cent of new
members was on display and greatly
admired.
After the meeting the hostess and
her daughter served refreshments.