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on Saturday.
The Baptist bav district conven-
ton met at the Third Baptist church
April 26-27. The dav sessions as
we'll as evening were successful in
every wav. A special programme
was rendered Friday evening. At
the close of the convention Rev IA
Wilson presented Rev Pryor with
Stetson hat to wear at the generaf
conference. He left for Chicago on :
Monday, and it is needless to say
he leaves in happy frame OF mind
and his little family at home are as
happy as he. The rally closed on
April %, and now the last payment
is made upon the organ. which Rev
Dobbins installed, not quite three
wears ago.
| On May % the U.C. sorority the
Delta Sigma Theta will for the first
time hold its meeting in San Fran
cisco, at the Third Baptist church.
Speakers will be Garland Anderson
author of Appearances" now be-
ing staged at the Capitol theatre.
and Prof. Lehman, member OF the
d U.C. faculty. Program begins S:S'
sharp. Miss Tabitha Anderson Is
Chairman. Admission free
A large and appreciative audience
was present at A, M, E, Zion church ;
on Friday evening April 81 to wit
ness the most elaborate midget we'd
y ding in many years The children
caraied their parts we'll acted with
as much seriousness sif they krnw
what it was all about, the doll and
sunbonnet drill was very pleasing
sight The Misses Magruder. who
. appeared as soloist were WORTHY OF
special mention and the praise be-
slowed en- them
Golden Gate Lodge. Odd Fellows
at their last regular meeting elected
Fred R, johnson as their delegate tc
the Grand Lodge convention to b'
co held in Fresno,
= On Thrsdav evening, April 26tt
MRS. Morgan director OF IS street A
M. E church choir with its mem
hers assembled at Bethel church t
nresent a musical and literary pro
oramme 1t was indeed oommen
dable as we'll as an enjoyable one
All who attended were loud in tffe'
praise The silver loving cup tina
was won by them in the Oaklan
contest was on. exhibition
California Park, San Rafael, II
nienics and outings Ferry V
Richmond every IS miputes.:v v
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
MUST FIGHT FOR
new Mine union
Militant Workers Must
Aid
BY FRED BRILL.

I mean YOU, reader of the Daily
Worker. What are you doing for
the new Miners Union?
I have just been through the min
ing field of Illinois-where organ
izers are in the field, doing their
damnedest to get delegates elected
to the Sept. 9th Convention.
Thse organizers have been in the
field for some time, damned glad if
they get enough money for bite to
eat and to get to the meetings in
the different towns. They are still
plugging away, getting results.
They're doing their share.
What are you doing for the new
Miners Union, militant worker in
the various industries d this coun-
try?
The new Miners Union will bene-
fit all workers-it will not only
fight for the miners interest. A
strong Miners Union means a bet
ter defense of workers everywhere,
a strong ally of fighting workers
throughout the country.
You needle trades workers, build
ing new union; textile workers,
building a new union. You will need
support. You auto workers fighting
Smiths campaign manager, Raskob,
of the General Motors need support
from the fighting miners. Workers
in all industries, about to engage in
struggles, will need support from
several hundred thousand courag-
eous, militant miners.
Now it is the miners who above
all need support. They have passed
through a long strike in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio. In other sections
they work part time. They have
little money to get by on.
Green has launched an attack on
the new Miners Union. He has
called for house cleaning of the
reds" of those progressives in the
labor movement who support the
new Miners Union.
Now is the time to speak up! De-
fend the new Miners Union from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

the blacks shall not ride in the white
sections Of street cars, and that the
whites shall not ride in the black
sections? This is the equivocal pre-
tension of fairness about all Jim
Crowism, and makes the unthinking
to overlook the fact that any segre-
cation necessarily means that the
subject race gets the worst end Of
the street car, and everything else.
But it is to the credit Of our
party that if the theory taught in
this piece of wonderful propaganda
were ever to prevail over it. about
half the happy marriages in it would
be smashed. And ] offer this not as
an idle observation, but as proof
Of the fact that this play is capital
list propaganda, dealing in senti-
ments and needs of capitalists, that
do not naturally occur to the work
ing class, that the capitalist class
hopes the workers will learn by ex-
ample from the capitalist class, and
which the most class-conscious sec
ton of the working class healthily
rejects. ". 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
I'm Minnesota
Will Not Aid Coal Miners

a tag day permit, told them not to
grant such permit because the Com
munists will use the money for pro-
paganda purposes instead of send
ing it to the miners. | was forced
to go before the commissioners and
the city council and expose the rot
ten gang of would-be labor leaders
and hypocritical socialists" The
permit was granted and we collected
couple hundred dollars which mo-
ney was Immediately forwarded to
the National Miners Relief at Pitts
burgh.
Of courss it is only matter of
a short time when the rank and
file of the trade union movement
will find out who are their true
friends, and instead of the labor fax
ers ousting Communists from the
trade union movement, the trade
union movement will be ousting the
labor takers and their allies, the
Socialists"
S. BLOOMBERG.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Prime Rck0s Camp SQua0r Rich California Worker Correspondent Rep
HANdOuTS

The master minds of British
craftsmanship can find no better
use for million and a quarter job
less than to leave them squatting
about their wretched novels waiting
for the unemployment dole. Re-
Gently, however, Premier Baldwin
gave birth to a new solution. He
said:
"The state of permanent UNI
employment in Great Britain may
now be considered an Empire
emergency. His Majesty's
government in Great Britain will
continue the policy of loans en-
aiding any British workman to
emigrate to the dominions. pro-
viding that he has been assured
a job there"
Whereupon the dominions imme-
diately replied: Nothing doing!"
In the words Of Prime Minister
Bruce Of Australia: g. the flow
must be conditioned upon our
nower of absorption"
But Baldwin has a real solution
of the unemployment problem which
he isn't speaking much about. He
expects ultimately to fit them all
out with new uniforms and send
them to the attack of the U. S. s.
r. as soon as he can obtain the CO.
operation of a few more capitalist
nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

Now that the gates haze been
thro1on tOide open there is a gen.
eraI rush of the hoi polloi to sign
the Kellogg ''peace pact" Those
Vho haze renowned 1Oar as an in
strument of national policy today
nre sho5On above. Top ro10 left to
right, Al Copone and Lou Gehrig.
Bottom row, Mrs. WiIlebrdndt and
Buster Kedton.
RESERVATIONS:
AL Capone: UNLESS its a defen-
size a0ar, the first principle of de-
tense being attack"
Lou Gehrig: UNLESS it is neces-
sdry."
Mrs. Willebrandt: UNLESS its an
aid to humanity"
Buster Keaton. "Unless its con-
uenient."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
IS YEARS old, He
PARTY
Ohio Worker Is a Labor
Veteran

ain my eighty-sixth year l feel
as young in spirit as a man of
twenty, I am now ready as well as
I ever was to fight for the over
throw of the capitalist system and
for the workers rule. Tell the COM
rades in New York that I don't in
tend to die so soon, and am ready
to take active part in the present
election campaign of the Party and
all the Party activities, for I recog-
nize that the Workers (Communist)
Party is the only political force in
the country at the present date, that
will eventually lead the working
class to a final victory" These are
the words of w. H. Argus, rs
Benedict Ave, Norvalk, Ohio.
w. H. Argus is Sc years old. l
met him in Norvalk, Ohio, on the
Daily Worker tour. 1t would en-
courage everyone to spend some
time with this old-young labor
movement veteran.
Argus has been in the socialist
! party since 1905. Always a good
fearless fighter, in 1913-19 when
the socialist party adopted the pol
icy of cowardness and betrayal, Ag-
gus left the S. P. just as every re-
volutionary fighter did. During the
war he made speeches in his small
100 per cent Yankee town of Nor
walk, O., declaring his opposition to
the war. In 1919 the American
Legion and all the jingoes in Nor
walk put the Boy Scouts to smash
his windows and to stone him. He
was compelled to leave town anC
went to Cleveland.
At the end of 1921 Argus re.
turned to his home, which was ar
old broken shack. He was friendles,
and deserted by his relatives. One
thing remained to him-the revolu.
tionary movement.
Argus property now consists Of
a small wooden shack. In the front
of the small wooden "house" there
is a plumbing shop where he is still
at work. In the back there Is g
wooden bed and a very rich library
He turned over many books to com
rades and to the Public Library
This is his life's savings.
"Well, comrade," he said, 81 tel
, you have more than | need be.
: cause l can use for myself very
| little. Anything / have more thar
, can use belongs to the movement
| and so he paid for a yearly sub t.
the Daily Worker and also sent &
; contribution to the Election Cam
paign Fund. "The job we are faced
. with most is how to fight the influ
! ence of the church in the provin
cial towns, for the church is direct
ly part of the capitalist class anC
. its rule"
When | left Argus babe me good
bye, saying that the comrades are t.
keep up the fight because they hav,
a very big task to perform. I tolc
him that | will acquaint the com
Irades with the old-young Pioneer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Clever Propaganda IN money
Lenders" at the Ambassador

FIRST it must be understood that
a money Lenders" at the Ambas-
sador is good play, from tech
meal standpoint, close, we'll knit,
crisply working up to its climax, and
that it is we'll and deftly acted, by
well trained cast that specializes
in making what might be merely
types" into something rather hu-
man appearing, for the time. 1t is
an English play, written by Roy
Herniman, and is said to have had
success in London.
The story is that of daughter,
Lillian Luttrell katherine Stand
ing), of an aristocratic ex-army Of
ficer who turns loan shark, in secret,
and preying even on his equally arts
tocratic relatives, amasses small
fortune. He operates through a
Jew, Samuel Lebi (Herbert Clark
a young and ingenious business man.
He dies and wills a million dollars to
his daughter if she marries Lebi,
and to either of them willing to
marry, if the other refuses. The
play turns around the difficulties of
these two, each in love with some
one else.
The relatives Of the girl, aristo-
Gratis. not business men, are shown
to be as futile, grasping, cowardly.
petty and compromising as any of
the pawnbrokers of fiction. The rel
atives of Solomon Levi are Knocked
in the usual way, but gently, and
praised as good business men--not
as good as the neat young loan
shark. of course.
Lillian is. willing to go through
with the bargain, but the two fin
ally split on the question Of reli-
gion, the man in the case cleverly
accentuating his orthodox Judaism.
and insisting that any children they
may have shall be brought up in
that faith. The honor of the Church
of England is finally the stiffening
which causes Lillian to refuse Solo
mon Levi, and forfeit the million. .
consummation which he has been
working toward all the time.
It is an ending to which the audi
ence's prejudice is skilfully fished
for by a continual development all
through the play of the theory that
the chosen people are mot our peo-
ple," Just as good, of course, admir-
able, and all that, but "their men
are not for our daughters" or the
other wav around.
Now this. I think, is the best
piece of capitalist. as distinct from
religious, or professional class, or
genteel propaganda for racial segre-
CATION that have ever seen. Every
trick is used. The old trick of the
young English boureeoisie. of con
centrating the hated qualities OF
capitalism in some Shylock, not
without dignity, or the trick would
be seen through, and thus DETECTING
class hatred into the channel of race
prejudice, is used here. The antag-
onism of capitalist for aristocrat, a
side issue of course compared with
other fights, is here, in properly
subdued form. Religion, which
makes for eternal separation OF
Jews from Christians, is exalted, as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Buffalo Prepares
For Big Worker
Observation-Disclosures

Louis Sisselman, who for the past
three months has been on a tour of
the Middle West for the Daily
Worker, is now touring District 4,
New York. While in Buffalo
special Daily Worker meeting was
held, at which a committee was
elected to prepare special Buffalo
Booth at the Press Bazaar on Oc-
tober to 7. Ten new subscribers
were obtained a district Daily
Worker agent was elected and the
committee that was elected prom
Used to start an intensive drive to
increase the circulation of the Daily
Worker in upstate New York.
On September A Sisselmar will
be in Rochester, on the 7th in SYRIA
ouse, the 9Th in Utica, the 9th in
Schenectady and Troy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05
Gems ofLeayning
Johnny RaskOb, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee:

Johnny Raskob, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee:
"Tammany Hall is an organiza-
ton which exerts its power solely
on Manhattan Island. 1t has never
sought to influence Governor Smith
in his actions as Governor of New
York"
Tammany has no more influence
over al than feline has over its
left front paw.
Senator Curtis, ice-Presidential
Nominee:
Herbert Hoover is well worthy
Of the party's choice, credit to it
and to the nation, both in the eyes
of our people and of the world"
Hoover is the same individual
Curtis said would wreck the party
q few weeks back.
NJ. C.. Ii.
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thing to sacrifice for. Even Zion
ism, in the form of Solomon's beard
ed rabbi uncle, Jacob Dacosta
George Farren) is approved of, be-
cause it adds another barrier. "The
Jew bars us, so we must bar the
Jew"-the argument used by Cali
fornia against Japan.
And the final trick of it all, the
insistence that races must not in
termingle in marriage, though one
is of course as good as the other:
how is this essentially different
from the Jim Grow laws of Southern
states, which prescribe equally that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

ranch. 1t may be had for the car
rying a block or two-and the wives
are glad to get it for that little
labor, For fire, there must be wood.
Shelter is the easiest problem to
solve. There are a few fairly de-
cent family tents. Other families
sleep huddled in the beds Of their
trucks. A few have made rough
shelters Of brush such as one sees
in pictures describing the life and
habits of primitive peoples.
But the hardships of their lives
do not seem to appall these people.
They are of more resistant fiber
than the average American. An
empty stomach until they find work
they can stand that-draw their
belts little tighter--and hope for
tomorrow. Are they cold at night
under their thin, dirty blankets, in
their brush and canvas shelters?
But they are used to sleeping cold !
The sun will shine tomorrow.
CORA WILSON.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

DULUTH, MINI. (By MaiD At
the recent state convention of the
Minnesota State Federation of
Labor which was held at Winona,
Comrade William Watkins who was
a delegate Of the Switchmen's Union
of st. Paul was not seated for the
reason that he is a Communist. The
next day, in the Duluth Herald, a
sheet, the following edi-
torial, headed, Labor and the Com
munist" appeared:
"The Minnesota State Federation
of Labor, in convention at Winona,
resolutely clings to its position of
sturdy resistance to Communism
and the Communists.
"In that, of course, it is right.
Communism is no less the enemy of
craft unionism than it is of capital
ism.
Communism is out to destroy
both, and it feels that it has to
destroy trade unionism first be-
cause, by improving as it has the
lot of labor in this land, unionism
is making itself formidable OBJ
stacle to the cause of Communism
Indeed, the Communist who
fights organized labor, and the
union man who fights Communism
are both showing very much more
intelligence than the conservative
citizen who fights unionism, not see
ing that it is mighty bulwark
against destructive radicalism.
"Organized labor would be admit
ting a Trojan horse if it let Com
munists into its deliberations, and
it shows no disposition to be fool
ish. If capital were as intelligent
as that, it would support unionism
instead of fighting it, as it some
times does"
The editor is right when he says
that the present trade unions, ant
we might as we'll include the $50.
cialist" party, are mighty bulwarl
against the establishment of co.
operative commonwealth, but he il
altogether off the track when he
says that the present trade union:
are improving the lot of labor
There was a time when the trade
union movement did to some ex
tent help improve the conditions o.
the workers, but today under a cor
rupt leadership the trade unior
movement has become the tool o.
the bosses. 1t meekly consents tt
lengthen the hours of labor, lowe
the wages of the workers, and in
tensify exploitation. 1t is the pre-
sent trade union leadership that tn
Communists are out to destroy, ant
not the trade union movement.
mentioned the socialist" party a
playing the part of the betrayer.
Let me prove that to you. A
secretary of the international Labo
Defense of Duluth, l invited tn
socialist" party local to take par
in a tag day for miners relief.
also asked them to take part in tn
/ Sacco- Vanzetti memorial meetin
which was held August %, and wa
attended by several hundred work
ers. The Socialists" refused to CO
operate with us in the tag day no
did they take part in the memf tia
The trade union leaders of this city
working hand in hand with the "sc
cialists," not only refused to hel
us raise money for the strikers, bu
went out of their way to call up tn
police commissioners and the cit
council to whom l had applied TO
. 4--- --
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attack by the takers in your local
union! Speak up in your fraternal
organization Collect funds for the
National Convention!
Do your duty as militant work
err!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-05

Mrs. Lucia WEIGH, lord mayor of
Southampton, had heard that the
graft in Nea0 York City aOas the
richest IN the 10orld and came all
the aVay over from England to ask
the four-i11-bdnd expert, Jim
Walker, to tell her personally Just
hoao he did 1t. Our mayor, aOhO is
shoton above Nth the self satisfied
snpi1-k on his face, said 1t all lay in
bdUirg an organization back of you
ike Tantmony HoU lOhich can, pick
up enough graft from the paint on
fire boTes alone to pay the ouer-
head and all the rest is VelUet. This
IS the same a0hipper-snapper cho
recently stated that the subway
crash IN 1chich 16 1Oere killed, avas
q success because 1t proved that go,t
can't knock do10n a concrete post
Dith train lOreck. He's the kind
-Qf a feliol0 1Oho would expect gou
to enjoy hitting yourself on the
head with a hammer so long as you
didn't break the handle.
One of the values of color movies
will be TO photograph S. P. conven-
tons.
Evening star., 1928-10-01
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ENGINEERS GRIT
PREVENTS WRECK
Train Brought to Stop as Un-
consciousness CreepS Upon
Man in Cab.
By the Associated Press.


ATLANTA, Ga, october IA story
of the heroism of an engineer who. by
sheer grit, triumphed over intense
physical distress long enough to insure
the safety of his passengers arriving
yesterday aboard the Crescent Limited
was told here today.
It was while plotting the Southern
Railways fast train yesterday morning
between Monroe, Va, anu Salisbury, N.
c., his regular run, that Engineer Joe
M. Stedman suffered an acute attack
of indigestion as he sat at the throttle
q few miles out of Dangille, Va.
He felt insensibility rapidly closing
over him from the pains in his stomach.
Then he thought of the trainload of
passengers and by a superhuman eff
fort of will, managed to apply the
brakes. The train rolled to q steady
stop just as he collapsed on the floor
of his cab.
The summoning of medical aid and
organization of an emergency train crew
resulted in a delay of about 40 minutes.
Finally. with fireman at the throttle
and a baggagemaSter acting as fireman,
the Crescent was brought into Sails
bury.
Passengers made up purse of STAT
for Engineer Stedman who was reported
by officials of the road today to be well
on the way to recovery. He was expect
ed to resume his regular post in few
days. Stedman'S homo is at Cary, N. G.
Evening star., 1928-10-01
Ey the Associated Press.


TOXIC. October To-day witnessed
the incorporation of that essentially
Anglo American institution, trial by
Jury. in the legal system of the Japa-
nese Empire. Heretofore Japan has
drawn almost entirely on China and
continental Europe for its juristic pat
terms
The purpose of the innovation was
eXplalned to be the characterization OF
criminal procedure and the increase OF
popular confidence in the courts by
opening the way for greater public par
ticipation in criminal trials.
The new jury law is limited In scope
and the Inauguration of the new SIS
tenn followed long period OF Stuay.
The Jury system law was passed by
the Diet nearly six years ago and pro-
mulgated in April, 1928. In the inter-
vening period many japanese judges
have visited America and England to
witness the use of jury trial, sat on the
bench with American ard British judges
and studied the methods OF presenting
evidence to jurieS and judges instruc-
tions to Jurors.
The principal criminal courts of the
country have undergone considerable
physical remodeling, to make room Tor
the seating of juries and provide dor
mitories for jurors held from public
contact during a long trial. These ac-
commodationS embody the latest I'M
provementS and comforts.
Trial by jury will be used only in
criminal cases, and is limited to cases
punishable by death or by lmprlson-
ment exceeding three years. 1t will be
granted only on application of the ac-
cused, who must ask for jury trial.
These crimes cannot be tried before
jury:
. Crimes against the emperor of i'm
perial house: crimes committed by
members of the imperial family; crimes
connected with civil war or war against
a foreign country or prejudicial to in
ternational relations; infractions of the
military or naval criminal law; infrac-
tions of the law for protection of mill
tary secrets; crimes against the elec-
ton law.
For the present at least there will
be no woman jurors in Japan, Jurors
must be males at least 80 years old