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The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12
MINOR MUSINGS

\ well-balaneed man never is light
headed.
The average citizen will never ad
nit Re is.
A flivyer makes a fine present for
a tin wedding.
A pugilist In trying to get ahead
often gets head"
Many man is captain of his soul
merely because his wife is good top
sergeant.
The LATEST man knows that Luck
is against him and that Opportunity
never knocked at his door.
Not as many women are shooting
their husbands this year as last. but
don't think it's because they cant.
If you were happy all the time and
always showed It, serlous-mlnded per
sons would merely think you silly.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Auroras occur most frequently in
March and September.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Kindly Old Lady-My good man
pray what has caused your sad
plight?
Former Collegiate have been
daunted by the dangling dogs of
destiny, scorned by the scuryy
skunks of circumstance, foiled by
the frosty finger of fate!
night .lnatj?p aowan trO sin
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Five aliens were admitted to citi
zenship at Fairbanks last week.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

New shipment of Health-Ore on
sale at Wheeler's Drug Store.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12
CARD OF1THANKs

CARD OF THANKS
We wish TO express our heartfelt
appreciation for the many acts of
j kindness and sympathy during the
i illness and death Of our beloved
mother. Mrs William TAYLOR. Words
are inadequate to express our graft
lude
Mrs. Conrad Nelson
Mrs. David Lewis
William Taylor
Laurence Taylor
...'''''
THE JOKER
:.
Speaking of those battle hymns.
Here Comes the Bride"
Getting the baby TO sleep is hard
est when she is about eighteen.
Pat. I'm man of few words.
Mike: Shake; IN married. too
Perhaps somebody does love a fat
man, but nobody loves a fathead.
Pat-How much is them plumss
Grocer-Ten cents peck.
Pat-Nhat do yez think l am. a
bird?
Retailer, to new delivery man
BY the way Hughes. are you mar
ried?
Hughes-No sir. Those scratches
you see on my face were caused by
| a bicycle accident.
I hear. 81. that while We were in
the city you took up this here golf.
How You like it,
Well, tol' able: its a leetle harder
than hoein' corn and leetle easier
than diggin' potatoes.
Millionaire-(to some of his pro.
| teges) i owe all my success to only
one thing. Pluck. Just pluck
Sagaeious Questioner- How do
you find the right people to pluck?
so the absent-minded professor
opened up his bed and jumped out
the window"
Which reminds US of the absent
minded man who buried a quart o
milk and set out an empty whiskey
bottle for the milkman.
Lady said the tramp, would
you lend me a cake of soap?"
Do You mean to tell me you want
some soap?"
''Yes'm. Me partners got the
hiccups an I want to scare him.
Teacher-William how many
bones have you in your body?
William-Nine hundred.
Teaeher-That's a great manz
more than I have.
William-But teacher, I had sar-
dimes for lunch.
Grim Lady-Are you the MAJ
who has been selling my uhsband
liquor?
Bootlegger - Why ah- er-
that is
Grim Lady-What want te
know is, can you make him a better
price if he buys it by the case2
Allow me to present my wife to
you.
No thanks; l have one.
Stern Old Lady-Why don't you
work if you are hungry?
Tramp tried that, ma am, bu
1t only made me hungrier.
Irate Customer bought a car
from you several weeks ago and you
said if anything went wrong you,f
supply the broken parts.
Dealer-Yes.
Irate Customer-Well, I'd like t.
get a nose, a shoulder blade and a
big toe
Kindly Old Lady-My good man
pray what has caused your sad
plight?
Former Collegiate have been
aaunted by the dangling dogs of
destlny, scorned by the scuryy
skuhks Of circumstance, foiled bv
the frosty finger of fate!
'nlght1 .lnatj?p aowan trO sin
-----%s-
Round Trip Fares Wrangen to
Seattle. good for return until March
%, S62.50. Mccormack Dock Co.
New shipment of Health-Ore on
sale at Wheeler's Drug Store
Auroras occur most frequently in
March and September.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

A chimpanzee in Berlin was foun,
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

We wish TO express our heartfelt
appreciation for the many acts of
kindness and sympathy durine the
illness and death Of our beloved
mother. Mrs. William Taylor. Words
are inadequate to express our graft
tude
Mrs Conrad Nelson
Mrs. David Lewis
William Taylor
Laurence Taylor
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12
QUIEIQUIPS

X - X y - "a y
Truth is mlshty, but great
deal Of 1t is suppressed
Il you would Eeep your friends
don't put them 10 n severe test.
The worst fault OF some PEG
pie Is telling other people theirs.
Many an alleged blessing In
disguise would be a blessing but
for the disguise.
A man may be able TO laugh
at Joke on himself, but he Is
never able to mean It.
When a small boy refuses a
second piece Of pie It's a sign
there Is something wrong with
hlm-or with the pie.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Getting the baby to sleep is hard
est when she is about eighteen.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12
What Caused Delay

to be turning in false fire alarms.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Pat-How much is them plums
Groeer-Ten cents a peck.
Pat-Nhat do yez think am.
bird?
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Pat. I'm man of few words.
Mike: Shake; I'm married. too.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

l hear. 81. that while ye were in
the city YOU took up this here golf.
Howe you like it,
Well. tol'able: its a leetle harder
than hoein' corn and a leetle easier
than diggin' potatoes.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Perhaps somebody does love a fat
man, but nobody loves a fathead.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12
THE JOKER

Speaking of those battle hymns
Here Comes the Bride"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Retailer, to new delivery man
BY the way Hughes. are you mar
ried?
Hughes=No sir. Those scratches
YOU see on my face were caused by
a bicycle accident.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Irate Customer bought a ca,
from you several weeks ago and YOU
said if anything went wrong you'f
supply the broken parts.
Dealer-Yes.
lrate Gustomer-Well, I'd like to
get a nose, a shoulder blade and
big toe
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Millionaire-(to some of his pro
teges) i owe all my success to only
one thing. Pluck Just pluck.
Sagaeious Questioner- How do
you find the right people to pluck?
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Allow me to present my wife to
you.
No thanks; l have one.
Stern Old Lady-Why don't you
work if you are hungry?
Tramp tried that, ma am, Blu
it only made me hungrier.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1928-01-12

Grim Lady-Are you the maj
who has been selling my uhsband
liquor?
Bootlegger - Why ah- err
that is
Grim Lady-What I want te
know is, can you make him a better
price if he buys it by the case?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Wicks Calls Seamen
to Support Militant
Colombia Strikers

H. M. Wicks, acting editor of the
Daily Worker, last night addressed
an audience of seamen and long
shoremen on "The Colombian Strike
Against American Imperialism" at
the International Seamen's Club, %
South st.
In his speech, Wicks declared
that the strike of the Colombian
workers was a strike against the
American imperialists and capital
lists, on whose concessions the en-
slaved Colombian workers had been
employed. He attacked the role of
the American imperialists, who had
through their puppet, President
Mendes, passed the vicious anti
Communist laws in the country, and
brought out bayonets and guns
against the striking workers. He
ended with the declaration that
American workers would stand by
their Colombian comrades in their
struggle against American imper-
ialist aggression.
Two other speakers, Albert Nor
eau, director of the Latin American
department Of the All-America
Anti-Imperialist League, and George
Mink, secretary of the International
Seamen's Club. also explained the
situation in Colombia to the seamen
gathered at the club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PRISONERS
ARE ACTIVE IN JAIL

caquon Workhouse, attempted to
ftrce the prisoners to state what
prisoners were listening to them
and what they had been telling their
listeners.
When Barnard was tired cf his
unsuccessful efforts to make the
class war prisoners talk" Captain
Julian A. Schoen, assistant super
intendent of the jail, continued the
Interrogation.
eve work for the cause of the
workers wherever we are," was the
only statement that Barnard and
Schoen were able to force from the
class war prisoners.
Since the day of their arrival in
the Occaquon Jail the workers have
been active in discussing problems
with their fellow prisoners.
While protesting as political pris-
oners that they should be thrown
into the common jail under the foul
est conditions and among unfortu-
mates, many of whom are alleged to
Continued on Page FiUe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. o.
Success cf the twenty workers ar
rested for denouncing the arrest Of
John Porter, textile strike militant
and former soldier now jailed at Ft.
Leavenworth, has resulted in an
nouncement by the authorities of the
discovery of another Red plot" 1t
is feared that the discovery may
be used as a pretext for holding
many Of the prisoners whose SEN
tences have not expired IN the work
house.
Reports 5f % watchers that the
worker victims of the capitalist
courts of Washington were discus
sing Communism with their fellow
prisoners caused the authorities to
call Clarence Miller, organizer of the
Young Workers League in District
3; Benjamin Thomas, Philadelphia
militant, and William Lawrence, of
the National Textile Workers Union
for an investigation in his office.
For an hour or more, Superin-
tendent M. M. Barnard, of the ~Oc-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Aid Colombia
Strike, 7 UEL
Urges Workers

Following the cable sent Friday
to the Colombia workers congratu-
lating them on their determined
strike against the United Fruit
Company in the banana plantations
of Magdalena, the Trade Union Ed
ucational League issued a ringing
call to American workers, urging
them to support the fruit strikers
and prevent armed Intervention by
American imperialism. The call
follows:
SUPPORT THE COLOMBIAN
WORKERS! PREVENT ARMED
INTERVENTION BY AMERICAN
IMPERIALISM!
Thousands of our fellow workers
in the Magdaleua banana region of
Colombia, South America, are fight
ing against terrific odds for the
most elementary human rights.
The plantation workers have been
on strike for three weeks. Immedi-
ately the United Fruit Company be-
gan to lend the subservient Colom-
bian government to its purposes.
Martial law was declared through
cut the affected territory, centering
about the banana port Of Santa
Marta. Soldiers were sent and are
still being sent against the strik-
ers. Every agency is being brought
into play to force .he workers back
into the old slavery.
"But this is not all. Behind the
United Fruit Company, one of the
strongest pillars of the Wall Street
money power, stands the United
States government. The attitude of
the United States government is in
dicated by the statement made to a
New York Times reporter by U. S.
Minister jefferson Caffery, to the
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
PHILA. AGENTS
PLAN CAMP AICN
Daily Worker Drive on
Large Scale

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Der. o.
At h1eeting.a Of Aas1y $oss9r
agents and unit functionaries a this
city yesterday, A. Ravitcll, business
manager Of the Daily Worker, was
present from New York to take up
with the membership of this district
the fifth anniversary campaign of
the Daily. District Daily Worker
agent, A. Sokoloff, also reported.
Most of the Daily Worker agents
for the units, sections, sub-districts
end district, members of the Daily
Worker Campaign Committees, as
we'll as the Party functionaries, par
ticipated in the meeting, which was
well-attended and showed good
spirit.
Ravitch made general report on
the situation of the paper, on cir
culation and on the sustaining fund.
Sokoloff spoke on the local situa
ton of the Daily, bringing out that
its circulation was much behind
what il should be. The meeting de-
cided to start a campaign immedi-
atoly to double the circulation. A
special committee of members of
the foreign-language workers clubs
and of the Daily agents was elected
for this purpose and to conduct the
fifth anniversary campaign. 1t will
Continued on Page Fiue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
BEDACHT TRACES
SOCIALIST DECAY
Is Now Liberal Party
of Opposition"

"The Socialist Party Today" was
the subject of a lecture by Max Be.
dacht, director of the Agitprop De.
partment of the Workers (Commu.
nist) Party, at the Workers School
Forum, at the Workers Center, 26-
% Union Square, last night.
Bedacht traced the history of the
socialist party, showing the causes
of its degeneration, and the .objec-
tive and inner-party conditions that
will result in further decay of the
once proletarian party into liberal,
petty-bourgeois party of "opposi-
tion" to the two big capitalist par
ties.
The socialist party in the United
States, he stated, will go even fur
ther to the right than those of
European countries, for there the
workers have at least had a social
ist education, whereas in this coun-
try the backwardness of the work
ers has been so great that it has
uOb QIlNtH tilC oOSldiloo PdiIy "
cover it's betrayals with socialist
terminology.
This is evidenced by their open
rejection of the class struggle
plank formerly in their platform.
Organizationally, said Bedacht, this
is shown by the attraction to the
party of millionaires, preachers,
professors, and similar types.
In the recent presidential election
campaign their loss of proletarian
support was shown by the drop in
the vote given them by the work
ers, which was not made up-de-
spite their frantic appeal for votes
to non-proletarian elements. This
drives them ever nearer to the
ty-bourgeoisie as a means of re-
coupling their losses.
The admirable treatment of the
development of the socialist move
ment during the present century
made ti'a present position of the
party, the basic causes for this
develops thoroughly clear to
those pi it. Questions and dis
Ipssion followed the lecture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
WORKING women
meet THURSDAY
Will Make. Plans for
Militant Action

The New York Working Women's
Federation delegate conference ar
ranged for Thursday evening, Dec.
10. at the Labor Temple, 18th St.
and Second Ave, will state the facts
regarding the number of morgan
lied women in outstanding trades
in New York, including information
on the miserable economic condition
of married women workers, who are
employed in great numbers in this
state.
In the city of Binghamton, N. Y.
alone, for example, the largest num-
Der of married women workers are
employed of any city of its size in
the country. The State Department
of Labor reports are in no way con-
cerned with the intense speeding up,
long hours, starvation pay and the
tinhuman conditions generally under
which these and thousands of other
women are exploited.
Women workers are urged to at
tend the N. Y. Working Women's
Federation delegate conference to
participate in discussing ways and
means for conducting an intensive
campaign to organize unorganized
working women to fight against
these conditions. Working women in
unorganized shops who cannot elect
a delegate should come themselves.
Militant working women in the
organized trades of New York
garment workers, furriers, millinery
workers and all needle trades work
ers, are urged to act on the call for
the conference at once and arrange
to send delegates to this most i'm
portant conference on organizing
the unorganized women workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
COLD SNAP
HITS MINERS
Many Are Starving in
Britain

LONDON, Dec. tUP).-The
first touch of real winter today
blanket-like snow and wind from
the north-brought new problem
before the 100000 men, women
and children in the closed mining
areas.
The 100000 miners and their
families have been without sufficient
funds for various lengths of time,
some Of the mines having been
closed as long as six years.
Even Neville Chamberlain, min
lister of health, described the situa-
tion as without parallel in the
memory of living persons"
So serious is the situation that
it necessitated the calling of con-
ference of lord mayors and mayors
from all parts of England recently,
at which the health minister said
some of the mines had been closed
for as long as four and five and six
years and that thousands Of miners
were wholly without employment
since 1925. AS many more, he said,
have had only temporary employ
ment in the last two years.
The unemployed dole of 10 to 1s
shillings weekly is only sufficient
for livelihood on the strictest econ
omy and the miners have often been
forced to sell their household fur
nishings to sustain life. Few have
meat more than once week and
most of them subsist on bread and
porridge.
Only cooking utensils and beds
remain in some of the houses, and
the children are growing up in SUBJ
normal conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
FIGHT here ON
IMPERIALISTS
United Fruit Company
Being Picketed

Answering the need for solidar
ity of the American working class
with the striking plantation work
ers of Colombia, and understanding
that the United Fruit Company ex.
ploits not only the Latin American
workers but also workers here in
the United States, a movement be-
gan over the week end to picket all
ships and enterprises of the United
Fruit company in New York, and a
cable was dispatched to Montevideo.
Uruguay, to the committee that is
organizing the Latin American
Trade Union Federation, informing
that committee as follows:
american Seamen's Club and
the Trade Union Educational
League are picketing the United
Fruit Company's boats, demanding
strike solidarity with the Colombian
plantation workers. Long live inter.
national solidarity! (Signed) Mar
inc Workers League, George Mink
national secretary"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
HUGE GERMAN
STRIKE LOOMS
375,000 May Walk Out;
All Pacts Now Off

BREMEN, Germany, Dec. 9.-An
all inclusive general strike in the
textile industry here grows hourly
more probable as all contracts with
the textile owners associations
have been announced cancelled by
the unions, although the factories
are still operating.
The great mass of membership in
the textile workers organizations
are adamant in their determination
to maintain their demand for a
wage increase of from IA to 18 per
cent, and spurn every effort of
those who increase pressure that
they accept the award of the gov
ernmental arbitration boards for a
five per cent rise in wages.
Although not daring openly to ad-
vocate to the union memberships
that they accept the measly govern
ment award, the reformist trade
union leaders are increasingly active
in putting a damper on the mass de-
mand that fight be put up for the
full demands on the employers.
Realization that the approaching
Christmas season has whetted the
appetites of the bosses for the
luscious profits to be derived from
the increased orders, the textile op-
eratives in increasingly greater
numbers, demand immediate action
before it is too late.
Communist leaders of the rank
and file already have mass support
in their demand that the strike be
called and be made general. Their
warnings that the blow must be
struck before it is too late are being
taken up by the workers and the
militant phrases of the reformist
leaders reflects this pressure from
below.
If a general strike is called more
than 375,000 textile workers will be
affected directly and many thou
sands more, indirectly.
Negotiations between the union
leaders and employers federations
are still going on in this city.
While the textile industry has
gone thru a comparative rehabilita-
tion in Germany, with profits run
ming high, the standards of the
workers have been Systematically
depressed by the employers, who
plead impoverishment.
Revolutionary workers in the tex
tile unions have conducted bitter
fight against the compulsory "ar-
bitration" interference of the gov
ernment in labor disputes. More
than in any other industry are the
arbitration decisions of the govern
ment boards discredited among the
textile workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
Jobless, Poor
IN First
N. Y. SnouJaH

The filst snowfall of the season
for New York City visited the city
Saturday, bringing with it a low
temperature that hovered around
the freezing point throughout the
day. The highest temperature re-
corded was 81 degrees above zero at
IL midday, and the lowest, 27 above
at p. m.
Although not much snow fell dur
ing the day, the intense cold left
behind it a record of suffering in
the poor sections Of the city. Wo-
men, scantily dressed, with thin
shawls over their heads and shoul-
ders, hurried through the streets in
the lower East Side and in the con-
gested districts of Harlem gather
ing old wood for kindling, in carts
improvised from baby carriages.
Block after block of tenements in
these sections are heated only by
wood and no smoke could be seen
coming out of the chimneys.
AS always, the huge army of un-
employed, growing constantly since
the temporary employment of sum-
mer was taken away from many,
was terribly hit by the first severe
cold of the year. Along the Bowery,
and cluttered in doorways along
Sixth Ave. where crooked employ
ment agencies operate their graft
businesses sanctioned by the city au-
thorities, unemployed workers could
be seen huddled together, shivering
in the gusts of wind that swept the
snow into the air along the streets.
And because the snowfall was COM
paratively small, these jobless work
ers could get no employment clear
ing the uptown thorofares of the
wealthy,
Even yesterday, after the snow
had stopped, the intense cold re-
manned, not hindering the traffic
but sending the children of the poor
into exposed lots along the river
front, searching for kindling wood
to keep their shabby congested
tenement rooms warm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-10
AWAIT RALLY OF
SILK WORKERS
Foster, Weinstone and
Weisbord to Speak
Especial to the Daily Worker

Especial to the Daily Worker
PATERSON, N. J., Dec. 9.-Tre-
mendous interest has been aroused
among the silk workers and even in
the general labor movement here by
the mass meeting scheduled for to-
morrow, Tuesday night, where the
three Communist leaders, William
2. Foster, William w. Weinstone
and Albert Weisbord, are to speak.
Members of the arrangements COM
mittee expect that Entire Nous
Lyceum, Main ST., with a seating
capacity of 1000 will be crowded
at the opening hour, 8 o'clock.
"How to conduct strike" will
be the topic Foster will speak on,
while Weinstone, district organizer
of the Communist Party, will talk
on Glow to Organize the morgan
ized." Albert Weisbord, national
secretary treasurer of the National
Textile Workers Union, will tell the
Paterson workers of the "Policies
and Aims of the N. T. w. u"
A contributary reason for the in
tense interest taken in this meet
ing by the workers, is the fact that
the Associated Silk Workers Union,
will hold another mass meeting the
same night. At this meeting, the
two socialist party clowns, August
Claessens and Henry Jeager, are
scheduled to make an attack on the
left wing for their break with the
strikebreaking leaders Of the Asso-
ciated.
The left wing was forced out of
the Associated by the expulsion and
strike betrayal tactics of the Of
ficialdom. Practically the entire
membership of the Broad Silk De-
partment of the union joined the
National Textile Workers Union.
The Paterson local of the N. T. W.,
since it's establishment recently is
preparing to carry into life COM
plete program for the organization
of Paterson's silk workers.
At a recent meeting of its or
ganization, the Women's Council,
Paterson branch, passed the follow
ing resolution, which announces it's
Continued on Page Three