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MILL union HITS
PRISON TORTURES
Textile Committee Re-
plies to Foes SANDERS

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug.
ALBERT Weisbord, leader Of the
Textile Mil Committees and just
released from a charge of "tres-
passing" in a Fall River court,
was. enthusiastically cheered by
strikars at two bic mass meetings
here, where he told New Bedford's
strikers Of the growing strike in
the neighboring city.
The Textile Mil Committees
are calling a mass meeting espe-
cially for the members of the
United Textile Workers Union of
the A. F. of L. Thursday. These
workers will be openly appealed
to there to Join the T. NJ. C. Ten
thousand leaflets will be distrib-
uted by the union for this purpose.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. T.
Announcement was made by Ell
Keller of the New Bedford Textile
Workers Union that criminal anc
civil court action against all police
officials and patrolmen who are
charged with assaulting striker.
will be taken in cooperation will
the American Civil Liberties Union
The NBTWU is gathering evidence
of the beating in prison of Alphonse
Lamirios, A. c. Pinto and other
strikers. The evidence viii include
broken policemen's club in the
unions possession which was broken
over the head of one of the strikers
on the picket line.
Keller, general organizer for the
union also issued a statement de-
nouncing the latest trick of the
enemies of the strike, namely that
of a SANDER campaign against the
Textile Mill, Committee leaders. The
statement says:
During the last week a wide
spread campaign to >discredit the
New Bedford Textile Workers
Union was conducted by the bosses
who are using the police, prison of.
ficials and the A. F. of L. union
officials as agents. The rumors
that these people spread among the
arrested workers included that the
organizers of the NBTWU are re.
ceiving SIS a week as wages foi
leading the strike. We brand such
charges as falsehoods without any
truth whatsoever. The organizers
of the NBTWU do receive wages
the amount being just enough to en-.
able the organizers to subsist dur.
ing the strike.
Another rumor that was spread
last week while the strike leaders
Continued on Page Three
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ENGDAAL FLAYS
IMPERIALIsTS
Adopt Bells Theses
for Commission

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Aug. r.
The twenty-third session of the
World Congress Of the Communist
International opened yesterday
morning under the chairmanship of
Murphy, of Great Britain. The
anti-war discussion continued
The following delegates all spoke
Dimitrov,S Of Bulgaria; Engdahl, of
the United States; Fiala. of AUSTRIA
Cheng -kuang, of China; Spector, of
Canada; Peluffo, of Latin America,
and Yaroslavsky, of the Soviet
Union.
Engdshl declared that American
imperialism is not only responsible
for its own crimes in China, but
also shares. responsibility for the
Japanese.<and British crimes. The
Workers Party is conducting an en-
ergetic struggle to expose American
Imperialism and mobilize counter
forces. The Party also energet-
ically supports the toilers of Latin
America against American imper-
ialism.
The Kellogg peace pact is no. an
instrument for peace but for prep
aration of imperialist war against
the Soviet Union.
Spector declared that the Cana
dian Party does not sufficiently
mobilize the masses against the war
danger. The war danger exists also
in Canada and demands the closest
attention from the Party. The anti
war work must be systematized and
strengthened among all sections of
the workers.
Peluffo declared that no strong
organizational forms exist in Latin
America. The most important task
before the Party therefore is to or
ganize the existing revolutionary
forces against war and for the de-
fense of the Soviet Union. The
struggle must be conducted against
American imperialism, the social
democrats and. .,the bourgeois spacif-
lists. w W "
Yarosfavsky described the anti
militaTfst work of the Bolshevist
Party before the revolution. The
Bolshevists concentrated chiefly on
Continued on Page Three
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A.F. OF |. LEAVES
MISLEADERS FREE
IN VOTE SELL-OUT
Fakers Split Between
Capitalist Parties

Especial to The DAILY WORKER)
,9ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 7.-Offi-
cials of each separate local or inter
national union of the American
Federation of Labor throughout the
country will be left free to hog-tie
the workers politically within the
coral of any of the old party
machines, according to the final an
nouncment issued here by the Fede-
ration Executive Council which to-
day completed its sessions.
Neither Smith nor Hoover are
endorsed officially.
The council report said that
"neither the republican nor the
democratic platform contain all the
proposals submitted by labor. The
republican contains much less of la
bors proposals than does the demo-
cratic platform. The injunction
plank in both of the platforms is un-
satisfactory"
Sell to Highest Bidder.
The statement by the council
which was taken to be most signifi-
cant declares that the officers and
members of the American Fedora
tion of Labor "may exercise their
political judgement in way which
will be to the individual and collec
tive interests of all working men
and women" Couched in the GUS
tomary phraseology of camouflage,
this is taken to mean that any labor
official may sell to the highest
bidder.
The official statement of the
council issued after the meeting
read:
After giving consideration to all
the facts relative to the candidates,
the executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor should con-
tinue to adhere to its non-partisan
political policy during the ensuing
campaign. All information regard
ing platforms, candidates and their
records will be compted by the non
partisan political Gommittee and
Continued ~ Page Five
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CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Aug. T.
Another frame-up is being perpe-
trated against an active, militant
mine worker.
Steve Jakub, an active worker for
the Save-the- Union Committee, ac-
live now fcc the formation of new
miners union, and secretary of the
Slovak Workers Society of Cam
bridge, Ohio, is in Jail on charge
of "having dynamite. in his posses
sion for the purpose of blowing up
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RADIO TRUST
SAYS 1T ISN'T

WASHINGTON, Aug. THE
Radio Corporation of America, now
under the control of the power trust
yesterday filed a brief with the
Federal Trade Commission in reply
to the nominal complaint filed with
the Commission of unfair trade
practices and monopoly.
The Radio trust defended as legal,
such practices as cross-licencing of
radio patents under which seven
corporations pooled their patents
and thus .restrained competition.
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NEW BEDFORD ARRESTS
AL Jailed Since Textile Strike Began

BOSTON, Aug. described by
the bosses and by reactionary labor
officials as a peaceful" strike in
which the police and the city au-
thorities are gentlemen" the pub
lication yesterday by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense of list of ar
rests for picketing, shows on the
contrary, that the New Bedford tex
tile strikers are facing most vici-
Gus police and court terror. In
spite of this, the ranks of the $4,000
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2 SeQnen Are
Badly Burned
IN Ship Blast

LINDEN, N. j., Aug. Two
seamen were seriously burned and
many others narrowly escaped in
jury today in an explosion which
wrecked the tanker Pacific, of the
U. S. Fuel Corporation.
Captain Anthony Merski, 28, and
George Terrable, 26, both of Lodi,
N. j., were enveloped in flames and
severely burned before they could be
rescued.
The blast was believed to have
been caused when the feed pipe of
gasoline engine on the vessel be-
came clogged, causing the engine to
backfire.
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ALL OF FASCIST
CREW OF 81 DEAD
Submarine Sunk Dur
ingMilitafy yManeuvers

ROME, Aug. z (UP).-The 81
men who went to the bottom of the
sea in the submarine FLA when it
was sunk in a collision, have been
found dead, it was officially an
nounced tonight.
The submarine was raised to the
surface tonight and as rescue crews
jumped into the craft, hopeful to
find AZ lerst a ms jority Of the I'M
prisoned men still alive, they were
greeted with the full extent of the
tragedy-All of the crew dead.
Radio telephone communication
with the sunken ship, which was
maintained until shortly after noon
today, had indicated that all@or
at least most-of the men aboard
were alive. Then, when the COM
munication was broken off, it was
feared something had happened
down in the submerged vessel.
The FLA had sunk at an angle of
70 degrees. Work of raising. was
started, but because of the angle of
its slope it was feared that its
storage batteries had upset and that
part of the crew had been asphyx-
lated by fumes of sulphuric acid.
Experts believed, after the an
nouncement, that the ships compile
ment of two officials and 20 men
must have succumbed to the acid
fumes.
While on maneuvers with the re-
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AIM TO perfect
DEATH MACHINES
Silent Planes Object
of Imperialists

LONDON. Aug. Silent, al
most invisible airplanes capable of
wiping out unsuspecting popula-
tions with sudden showers of gas
and bombs are being experimental
upon by United States, British.
French and German governments.
Experts predict the early devel-
opment of the new type of machine,
which would alter the whole char
acter of warfare.
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Earthquake Destroys
Five Mexican Towns

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7 (UP).-
Five towns in the state of Oaxaca
were partly destroyed by an earth
quake Saturday, according to des-
patches received here tonight.
Fifty were reported at Pinotepa
but only two persons were known to
be seriously injured.
Dispatches from Oaxaca said the
towns were "semi-destroyed."
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FRAME UP OHIO WORKER
CHARGED With Possessing Dynamite"

high tension line" He is held
without bond, but the International
Labor Defense has intervened and is
endeavoring to obtain the release of
Jakub.
Held for Disturbance"
Jakub was arrested originally on
charge of disturbance in connec-
ton with demonstration at the
King Mine in Cambridge sometime
ago, but there has been no indict-
Continued on Page Three
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strikers not only holds rock-solid but
is being augmented by additional
thousands walking out Of Fall River
plants in struggle against the
wage cut.
Since May 10, 441 strikers have
been arrested or otherwise brought
to trial before the mill bosses
courts. The New England district
office of the I. l.. d. records:
Number of arrests, AL; number
Continued on Page Three
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DROWN IN PLANE

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 7 (UP).-
Ensign C. H. Schmich and aviation
pilot S. T. Mcintyre, of the aircraft
souadrons battle fleet, were drowned
when their plane overturned in the
harbor here today.
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EXPOSE SMITH
AS ENEMY OF
POOR FARMERS
Foster and Gitlow to
Tour Rural Districts

When Al Smith, presidential can
didate of the Democratic Party, re-
Jeeted the equalization fee feature
of the McNary- -Haugen farm relief
bill, he gave additional proof that he
is owned and controlled by the finan-
cial barons of Wall Street, who will
not surrender their acquired right
to fleece the farmers to the limit,
according to statement issued to-
day by the National Election Cam
paign Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party, with headquar-
ters at 43 East 125th st.
"The best minds in the Democra-
tic Party been brooding for weeks
over some formula that would win
the votes of the exploited farmer
for AL Smith and at the same time
satisfy Wall Street that Al's cleo
tion would not impair its power to
skin the farmers which it now en-
joys under the benevolent regime of
Calvin Coolidge.
No Relief for Poor Farmers.
while the McNary- -Haugen bill
offered no solution of the problem
that confronts the exploited farmer,
being an attempt to bring relief to
the big farmers only, Coolidge op-
posed the measure because the big
financial interests of the East want
the agricultural industry completely
in their control.
1T is significant that All Smith
the democrat and Calvin Coolidge
the republican oppose every proposal
that might help in any way to give
the farmers relief from the oppres-
sive dictatorship of the finance
capitalists. Both parties are now
dominated by the same interests,
and the workers and poor farmers
who still believe that the democratic
party is an anti-Wall st. party
should take to heart the lesson of
the latest testimony of loyalty to
Big Business given by the candidate
OF Iammany Hall.
Jockeying for Votes.
Both capitalist parties are jock
eying for the agricultural vote.
Their game is to kid the farmers
along until election day. After the
first week in November, the presi-
Dental veto will fall on any measure
that passes thru the congressional
gauntlet, whether the White House
is occupied by Tammany Al or by
Hoover.
"The poor farmers should expect
nothing from the republican and
democratic parties but heavier mort
cages and more intense robbery by
the elevator trusts and the railroads.
When AL Smith called on Governor
Lowden, republican, of Illinois, to
help him find solution of the farm
ing problem, he proved that he was
not concerned about the problems
of the poor farmers, but with those
of the millionaire gentlemen far
mers. Governor Lowden is summer
ing at his palatial summer home in
Thousand Islands, while millions of
tenant farmers are out under the
burning sun, shaving from dawn
until dusk, trying to make enough
to keep body and soul together.
ORGANIZED
"The National Platform of the
Workers (Communist) Party pre-
sents the poor farmers and agri-
cultural workers with the only solu-
ton of their present plight. 1t urges
them to organize for the struggle
against their enemies and the poll
tical agents of those enemies-the
democratic, and socialist
parties. 1t points out that at least
40 per cent of the whole agricul-
Continued on Poge Three
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50 UNIONS CONVENE.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Aug. 7
(FP) Fifty two local Unions were
represented at the bricklayers' an
nual convention here.
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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
TO ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
FOR THE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR A LABOR PARTY
FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS
GOVERNMENT
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T(MORROW'S SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Christ the Messiah
.By Rev. Edward Taber

were no great prophets. The
priests, when they were not
avaricious, were often hating
and tinid. There were excep-
tons, Of course. But the re-
ligion of the temple was a dead
and formal thing. The high
priest himself was corrupt. Sweet
religion had been made rhap-
sody of words.
The teaching of Christ con-
corning Himself was more SEN
sational than any other aspect
of His message. Well might
the Pharisees marvel that He
taught as one having authority,
and not as the scribes. The
Jews reverenced Moses as they
did no other of the Old Testa-
ment prophets. When the Mas
ter taught that he spoke with
greater authority than the great
lawgiver himself, the people were
astonished.
The power of Christ, repeat
edly demonstrated, bore witness
to the truth Of His claim. He
went about doing good. He
preached with rare eloquence
and charm. He healed the sick
and brought new conception of
God.
Christ addressed blunt ques-
ton to Simon Peter: Whom do
men say that | am 2" Peter re-
sponded that many believed Him
to be reincarnation of one of
the great prophets Christ then
asked the apostle; "But whom
say We that ] am" Peter re-
sponded with, "Thou art the
Christ" Jesus then tells Of the
fact that He would be killed by
His enemies.
The teachings Of Christ brought
a new message tn the world;
message of new and higher
code of morality of the essen
tial simplicity Of religion, and,
above all, of the revelation.
through Himself, of God as
loving and benevolent Father.
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The message Of Christ was
revolutionary.
The teachings of the Savior
brought to the people OF his
day an entirely new philosophy
of life.
The economic code off the
Savior differed radically from
the accepted, tenets. To Jesus
men were no. privileged to &C.
cumulate wealth regardless OF
the rights Of others. The Mas
ter was an apostle of the rights
of man rather than the rights
of the institution. The wealthy
man owed something to society.
The teachings of Christ were
revolutionary in matters OF pol
tics. Render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesars was a
new doctrine to the Roman
hating Jews. That permanent
benefit to the race could not
accrue simply from emancipa-
ton from Roman bondage was a
teaching little short of treason
to the Jewish zealots.
Christ viewed theology from an
altogether unprecedented view
point. If the Master could have
been said to have any theology,
it was certainly a simple one.
The complicated and fine spun
doctrines of the Pharisees and
the Sadducees did not interest
Him. He never INDUCED in the
involved theological discussion
in which his enemies tried to
lead Him. To the Master re-
ligion was essentially a simple
thing: a matter Of child-like
faith; "but one thing is needful. /"
The attitude Of the Savior
toward the established church of
His day naturally aroused con-
sternation. Jesus regarded the
Jewish priesthood as essentially
corrupt. Never in the history OF
the world has organized religion
been at a lower ebb than during
the ministry of the Savior. There
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FULL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY
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e1Rrli9ious 0Qerus anaSsz AAnnounre ~
HOLY WEEK At
| CATHEDRAL

The Rt. Rev James e. Freeman,
DID,. Bishop of Washington. will
be the special preacher at the
peoples evensong at p. m. tomor-
row in Bethlehem Chapel of Wash
ington Cathedral. This service will
be broadcast by radio over WRC.
At the IL a. M. service In the
same chapel when there will be a
procession of palms. holy COM
munion and sermon, the preacher
will be the Very Rev. G.. c. F..
Bratenahl, dean OF washington.
The passion service on Good Fri
day from IL to p. m. in Bethle-
hem Chapel will be conducted by
the Rt. Rev. James e. Freeman,
DID,. Bishop Of. Washington. The
other services on Good Friday will
be holy communion at 1880 a. m.
and morning prayer and htany at
10 q. m.
During Holy Week there will be
daily celebration Of holy communion
In Bethlehem Chapel at 1880 q. m.
and evensong at 4:30 p. m.
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RELICS
TO Be SHOWN

"A special exhibit of the Roose-
welt nementoes representing sew
eral years effort in collecting by
DIR. Harry H. Ranck, pastor OF
Grace Reformed Church, Fifteenth
and o SITS. n. W, will be ex-
hibited as a complete collection
for the first time starting Palm
Sunday, at the church. Theodore
Roosevelt during his Presidency
was a regular attendant at Grace
Church.
DIR. Ranck. by employing spe-
cial methods to decipher the name
of the artist, has just discovered
that the painter of the half-size
portrait of Roosevelt suspended in
the Sunday school room was j.
Redding Kelly. The artist made
the portrait from life after the
return of Roosevelt from the Span.
ish-American war In 1898.
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Dean Will Discuss
Church and State Union

1.-THE Imminent Union of Church
and State" will be the subject
tomorrow night of DIR. B. q.
Wilkinson, dean Of theology at
Washington Missionary College, at
the Arcadia Auditorium. Fourteenth
Street near Park Road.
The musical program will be in
charge of J. w. Osborn. III. b.
Hannum will be at the piano.
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b. c. HYMN TO BE SUNG

The choir of st. Johns Episcopal
Church, Lafayette Square, will sing
tomorrow evening, THE Savior of
the World" by Sidney Nicholson.
organist of Westminster Abbey. Lon
don.
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Lutherans Arrange
Holy Week Service

Special Holy Week services Will De
held next week at the Luther Place
Memorial Church. at Thomas Circle,
Tomorrow morning, at il o'clock.
the pastor, the Rev. DR.. g. M. Diff
fenderfer. viii preach on The Maj
estv of Jesus" In the evening f. E.
Reinartz, Of the Mt. Airy Theological
Seminary. will speak.
Services will be held Monday,
Tuesday, "Wednesday and Thursday
evenings. On Friday three hours
devotion will be observed, from noon
to 3. The services will be conducted
by the pastor. Subjects for sermons
during the three-hour devotion will
ne Agony" Betrayal and Arrest, !"
Before the Sanhedfin." Denial"
'schoosing Barabbas" and Cruelty
ion"
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PAL NJ SERVICE
To DRAW BIC
CROWDS

Distinctive among churches Of
Washington where Holy Week ser
vices are held is that Of the Fran
ciscan Monastery in Brookland,
where the ceremonies are carried out
rs in the basilica Of the Holy Sep
ulchre in Jerusalem. This is made
possible by exact reproductions OF
the Holy Places in this church.
Tomorrow, there will be the SOL
emn blessing and distribution OF
palms, followed by procession,
commemorative the Savior's entry
into Jerusalem when the people cat
down palm branches and streW
them in the way of the Master, cry
ing out: Hosanna to the Son of
David Z
Franciscans to Sing
During the mass the Passion Of
Christ will be sung BY three Fran
ciscans. On Wednesday, Thursday
end Friday at p. mi, the Divine
Office (Tenebrae) win be sung in
public.
On Holy Thursday, April 5, there
will be a solemn procession with
the Blessed Sacrament, which will
be placed in the chapel of the Holy
Sepulchre, richly decorated as
repository. There will be continu-
Gus alteration until the services OF
Good Friday begin.
Good Friday night. with its
Burial OF Christ service and
panegyric by a franciscan mission
airy. never fails to attract the
people of washington. Baltimore
and neighboring cities. The special
Resurrection service on Holy Satur-
day night is noted for its spirit of
Joy and gladness. portraying in an
unusual manner the mystery Of the
Resurrection OF Christ. But the
full spirit OF the Church rejoicing
At the Resurrection OF its Divine
Founder Isl reserved for the
solemnfty Of Easter Sunday.
COIOnnade Around It
The Memorial Church OF the
Holy Land" is inclosed by grace
fully arched colonnade of colored
marble and stone, which with its
quaint red tile roofing gives a
pleasing atmosphere TO the ensem-
BILE The coionnade or portico ex-
tends from either side of the ornate
gateway. Within the close are
beautiful gardens of roses ex-
panses of lawn. evergreens. statues
and charming replica OF lntFu
century Italian chapel called st.
Mary of the Angels. the birthplace
Of the Franciscan Order. The
portieo pOrtrays enthusiastically the
prayer 81 the Rosary
In passing through the main en-
trance of the portico. the first
object to strike the eye is the
gigantic statue Of st. christopher
carrying the Christ-Child on his
shoulders. Directly in front Of
the church Is the delightful bronze
statue Of ST. Francis by Rosignolo.
The saint is entreatfng a small
lad to liberate a basket of doves
rather than take them to the mar
ket
The massive yet graceful outline
OF the church proper often is
source of wonder. It's architecture
is unusual. It is built in the
form Of 3 five-fold cross, the eni-
biern Of the Crusaders and the
Holy Land. One large dome sur
mounts the edifice. Directly under
lit IL the main altar built on the
style of the papal altar of st,
Peters at Rome The numerous
rich affairs and shrines, especially
the Crucifixion. the Holy Sepul-
chre and the catacombs never
fail to stir the emotions.