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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
Textile Mill Committees Fight Wage Cut

adopted by the Textile Mill Com
mittees, which will bring about bet
ter organization, and concentrate
the energies and struggles of all
the workers in the textile industry.
against the common enemy.
Those who are members of any
existing union and apply for men,
bership in the Textile Mill Commit
tees viii be admitted and exempt
from paying dues, providing they
show paid up dues card in the or
ganization of which they are a
member. We tell the members of
the existing unions to remain with
in their organization and work en-
ergetically for the organization of
one union in the textile industry, as
a guarantee for more effective
struggle, for better organization,
for the consolidation of all the
forces of capital.
A. F. 7. C. MisIeadership.
The Textile Mill Committees have
drawn certain lessons for the work
ers in connection with what has hap
pened in Fall River just a short
time ago, and has aided the New
Bedford workers in determining
their stand on the wage cut which
they have received. In Fall River,
the leadership of the A. F. T. C.
has stolen the strike vote, and told
the workers that there were IL
votes shy to carry the two-thirds
strike vote. In New Bedford the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
The Tasks Of the Communists in the Trade Unions

ouncils wherever they exist, forming
v '94!oeIqluV eql VI sH!14s
such committees where they do not
exist, and Transforming factory coun-
ellis into the primary organizations
of the industrial unions.
5. Having all the most important
questions of the trade union move
ment brought Immediately before the
workers for discussion in the fac
tories.
g. Special efforts must be made to
preserve the class character of fac
tory councils and to counterfeit the
efforts of employers and social dem
ocrats to transform factory councils
into instruments of class collabora-
ton.
7. Organizing the fight against
bureaucratic centralism, and for
broad trade union democracy, i. e.
for the extension of the rights of
local trade union organizations, cleo
ton Of trade union management
bodies on the basis of proportional
representation, annual election Of
management bodies and officials, etc.
8. Placing the revolu ionary trade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

Textile Operatives. The vast ma
jority are still unorganized. The A.
organize these workers and from
all indications these $4,000 workers
will again be ignored by these
unions in the course of this strike.
With this situation prevailing, it
was imperative for the Textile Com
mittees to enter the situation. The
Textile Mill Committees compose a
national organization with units or
ganized in the most important tex
tile centers of this country. 1t was
formed in a New England confer
ence on March 18th in Boston, where
it adopted program of action
which serves as guide and direc-
tive in the struggles of the New
England textile workers.
One Of the main planks in the
program of the Textile Mill Com
mittees is the organization of the
unorganized The role of the Tex
tile Mill Committees in the present
strike in New Bedford will be to
organize these unorganized workers,
to eliminate the dangers which face
the workers in the course of the
strike, if they were to remain I'M
organized. 1t is the policy of the
Textile Mill Committees to organ
ize the workers not on the old craft
lines, but to organize into a mill
committee all workers who toll in
one particular mill. This is high
er form of organization which was
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ITO Be Continued).

Popularize Workers Sports.
Because If our methods we have,
been able to popularize workers
sports among many soccer players
and fans. We expect to, due to these
methods, see many teams join the
ranks Of the Metropolitan Workers
very soon. In fact, it is agreed by
all that the Metropolitan Workers
Soccer League in the coming season
will be second to none among the
amateur leagues in New York City.
The successful growth of the
Metropolitan Workers Soccer
League should bring encouragement
to the workers. soccer teams all
over the country. The Metropolitan
Workers Soccer League will gladly
furnish information to whoever re-
quests it. j. F. Senyal, 945 Fox St.,
New York City, is secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

ocracy in the countries to which they
are emigrating.
IL. Strengthening the organization
of unemployed; struggle against the
expulsion of unemployed from trade
unions, and for keeping up connec-
ton between unemployed expelled
from trade unions and their organ
ization.
43. Drawing women and young
workers into trade unions and their
promotion to active trade union work.
IA. AS rule working from every
day concrete demands to general
questions, and not vice versa.
Is. Once and for all breaking tha
habit now prevailing in all countries
of devoting inadequate attention to
the work of fractions in revolutionary
and reformist trade unions, and also
to trade union departments in Party
committees. Concentrating the atten.
ton Of all parties on the practical
application of the decisions of the
Second Organizational Conference Of
the Executive Committee Communist
International.
ITO Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

leadership of the A. F. 7. G. made
a move to delay the count of the
strike vote, but it was the nlilitaney
of these $500 workers who were in
the back of the hall at the time and
shouted on the top of their voice
"Strike! StrikeI Striker that for
ced the hand of the leadership Of
the American Federation of Tex
tile Operatives.
On the morning when the strike
vote was to be taken the Textile
Mill Committees issued leaflet to
the workers. The Textile Mill COM
mittees called upon the workers to
vote strike and wage a militant
struggle for 20 per cent increase
in wages, elimination of the speed
up, the 8-hour day and the 5-day
week.
1t was this spirit Of fight and of
relentless struggle against the at
tempt of the manufacturers that
brought about the militancy and de-
termination on. the part of the work.
ers. 1t was this work of the Textile
Mill Committees which has made
this organization vital factor in
the present struggle in New Bedford
and will stimulate the organization
of the unorganized workers not only
in New England but also turnout
the entire textile industry in the
limited States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

teams, and already the members Of
the executive committee we're dis
cussing the advisability. of forming
third division. This was done.
Today, the Metropolitan Workers
has 81 teams in its ranks. These
teams are members Of some 20 or
carnations. In these 80 teams there
are over $50 soccer players. Today
there is no more room for the ac-
ceptance Of more teams, not even in
the third division. This is due to the
speedy growth of this organization.
These teams who have been recent
~ accepted have joined with the
understanding that they play friend
ly games this season and scheduled
games in the following season.
Many will ask the question why
this unprecendent success of the
Matropoljtap Workers Thia can be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
BY j. T. sENYAL.

"The Metropolitan Workers" as it
is called in short by many of the
soccer players and fans who are con-
nected or acquainted with the
league, has shown that there is a
real basis for workers sports. In
the six months of the existence of
this organization it has grown from
group of seven teams to an or
ganization now comprising some
thirty-two teams.
About two months before the Soc
Ger season several soccer players
got together and discussed the pos
sibilities of forming workers Soc
Ger league. With the opening of the
season, the league had about nine
teams in two divisions. Before very
long, these nine teams sY,lled to- u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
By EVELYN SMITH.

For the first time in sixteen
years, the textile workers of New
Bedford have shown their full
strength.
On Monday, April 10Th, $4,000
workers left the mills and declared
their intentions not to return until
such time as the mill owners re-
store the wage cut. This attempt
on the part of the mill owners to
force a wage reduction of 10 per
cent of the meager earnings of these
textile workers was met with a 100
per cent resistance on the part of
the workers.
Strike Spread Seen.
This. struggle of the New Bed
ford workers is setting the pace for
the development of similar strike
movements turnout the textile in
dustry. Already we see similar
movements pending in Fall River,
Manchester and in Waltham. We
know that a wage reduction for the
textile workers of New England will
result in the manufacturers of other
cotton and wooden centers following
suit. On the other hand, resistance
in New England will be the best
challenge to the other mill owners
and the probabilities for similar
wage reductions would be lessened.
Of the 100000 workers in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

the anti-labor power companies what
labor papers could be bought, through
advertising contracts or otherwise, to
prevent the workers from supporting
the campaign for naturalization Of
electric power plants.
The investigation has revealed that
the power trust bought the services
of bourgeois newspapers, college
professors, diplomatists and poll
ticians, in their energetic campaign
against government control of the
power companies. Richard Washburn
Child, former ambassador to Italy
received $500 from the power trust
for writing two small books against
government operation Of the great
power plant at Boulder Canyon.
Child's work on these pamphlets
however, seems to have been unsat-
isfactory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

textile industry in the United
F. 7. O. has made no attempt to
States, approximately 10000 are or
ganized. These 10000 workers are
organized into sixteen different
unions, which divides the forces of
the workers in their encounters with
the mill owners.
The major problem facing the
textile industry is that of organiza-
ton of the unorganized. The unions
in the textile industry have prac-
tically ignored this question. 1t is
inevitable that such condition will
lead towards the lowering of the
living standards of the textile work
ers, towards the worsening of their
conditions and to the disintegration
of the textile unions.
The problem of the organization
of the unorganized workers is a
problem which cannot be solved
thru lip service. 1t is a burning
need of the workers, it is prob
lem which can only be solved thru
the concentrated effort on the part
of the organized labor movement in
the textile industry. The time has
now come for deeds, not words.
Work of Mill Committees.
1t is from this angle that l wish
to deal with the present situation in
New Bedford. There are over 10000
workers at present on strike. Of
these less than 5000 are organized
into the American Federation of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03

,ha international Labor Office at
eneva, was engaged by the power
gust to conduct campaign against
government ownership on control OF
power facilities and to subsidize the
labor press in America for support
Of the non-union power companies.
The investigation by the Federal
TRADE Commission revealed that
Greenwood received $1,000 from the
Joint Committee of National Utility
Associations (the power lobby last
year. For this he wrote book cal
ladin," clarifying private ownership
Of power companies and made an in
vestigation Of the attitude of labor
papers toward public ownership.
In other words, Greenwood, the
former representative of the Labor
Office. undertook to determine for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
British Empire
Stole A Whole
Nation IN Egypt
By SCOTT NEARING (Fed. Press)

By SCOTT NEARING (Fed. Press)
Great Britain has her hands full
these days with Egyptian nationalists
and Arabian tribesmen. Egyptian ma
tionalists are particularly firm in in
.sisting upon the right of the
Egyptians to govern themselves.
British statesmen insist upon their
RESPONSIBILITIES" this case arts
ing from declaration which Great
Britain made Feb. %, 1922 to the
effect that British rights in Egypt
would be protected. This position
Great Britain holds sin view of the
vital Importance of the British em-
pire and of British interests In
Egypt"
To Protect Empire.
What are these British interests in
Egypt? 1. Security of communica-
ton for the British empire within
Egypt. 2. Defense by the British in
Egypt against all foreign aggression
or interference. 8. Protection OF
foreign interests in Egypt. a. The
Sudan in which British capital is at
tempting to develop immense cotton
plantations.
British landlords, mine-owners,
manufacturers, traders, bankers, gen
erals, admirals and ministers direct
affairs in London. They also direct
them in Cairo. In London it is
Britain for the British. In Cairo it is
Egypt for the British.
Steals Entire Nation !.
In case Of petty larceny involv-
ing watch and chain, everyone
shouts "Stop Thief" When the
stolen goods include whole nation
and the thief is the worlds greatest
imperial robber every human with a
sense of fair play should be yelling
himself hoarse.
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above the interests Of the league,
and, Of course, as is to be expected,
their decisions on many disputed
points We're made accordingly. There
were also many soccer teams which
continually felt the abuse Of the rul-
ing clique because Of their foreign
born origin.
In the Metropolitan Workers it
costs team between 81 and 81
game. Instead Of making the home
team pay all the expenses as is done
by other leagues, the Metropolitan
divides these expenses equally.
Schedules are made up and sent to
the teams each week. The teams re-
ceive copy of the leagues standing
along with the schedule. This helps
to stimulate considerable interest
in the leagues activity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-03
POWER TRUST LOBBY
BOUGHT LABOR PRESS

WASHINGTON, May Am Of power
lobby the the private power nonopos
that Ernest Greenwood the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
TRUCK LICENSE
CLASH IMPENDS
State Drivers Protest City
Permit Law.

Plans for test case to secure a
State Supreme Court decision on
legality of forcing out-of- town truck
operators to pay Indianapolis city
truck license will be made at a meet
ing of truck operators and repre-
sentatives of indianapolis firms
April 3.
Protest over arrest Of several out
of-town truck drivers recently was
made at a meeting of the Motor
Truck Association of Indiana Thurs
day at the Chamber or Commerce.
Tom Snyder, secretary, declared
truck operators already pay the city
through the State gasoline tax, and
that they pay a State truck license
and personal property tax. A city
truck license, he said, is double taxa
ton.
Representatives of the stockyards
and other firms dependent on
articles hauled here in independent
trucks will attend the meeting
April 3.
Snyder said Thursday enforce
ment of the ordinance would re-
suit in truck operators going on
strike and refusing to bring live
stock, milk and other articles to In
dianapolis, seriously Gripping local
industries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
RIDDLE WOMAN,
OF CARNATION
MYSTERY, DIES
End Comes for Patient After
Life Fight Lasting
81 Hours.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, March 23.-The
"Carnation woman" lay dead to-
day on the same marble slab in the
city morgue where for thirty-one
hours rescue squads applied arti-
fetal respiration to save her.
She was identified today as Mrs,
May Josephine True.
A sister, Mrs. Rosie Zelda of AL
tamount, Md, made the identif1ca-
ton.
She said Mrs. True'S husabnd died
in West Virginia mine accident
twelve years ago and that the wild
ow subsequently fell in love with
John Hollins, a Baltimore man.
This man, she said, transferred his
affections to another, after giving
Mrs. True the white carnation which
she clutched in her hand when
found.
The woman, found presumably
dead" from Chloroform on a train
from New York Tuesday morning,
was brought back to life but never
to consciousness by pulmotor and
blood TRANSMISSION. Her will to die
prevailed, however, at p. m.
Thursday, and the coroner prepared
to bury her with the crushed white
carnation she held in her hand
when discovered.
Mrs. True's father, Francis Robe,
was in a hilly section of West
Virginia, snowbound and beyond
telephone reach.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
DRINK water To
help WASH OUT
KIDNEY POISON
If Your Back Hurts or Blad-
der Bothers You, Begin
Taking Salts

When your kidneys hurt and your
back feels sore don't get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot Of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which helps to remove the body's
urinous waste and stimulates them
to their normal activity. The func-
ton of the kidneys is to filter the
blood. In "a hours they strain from
it 500 grains of acid and waste, so
we can readily understand the vital
Importance of keeping the kidneys
active.
Drink lots of good water 49, you
can't drink too much; also get from
any pharmacist about four ounces Of
Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in n
glass of water before breakfast each
morning for a few days and your
kidneys may then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid
of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for
years to help clean and stimulate
clogged kidneys; also to neutralize
the acids in the system so they are
no longer a source of irritation, thus
often relieving bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot
injure; makes a delightful efferves-
cent lithia-water drink, which every
enc should take now and then to
help keep their kidneys clean and
active. Try this; also keep up the
water drinking and no doubt you will
wonder what became of your kidney
trouble and Observation-Disclosures
ment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23

mercial manager of the Indianapo-
lis Power and Light Company, at
the annual dinner-dance given for
employees of the merchandising de-
partment by the company at the
Columbia Club Thursday night.
Other speakers include: Emmett
G. Ralston, vice president and chief
engineer of the company; Wallace
o. Lee, public relations director;
P. M. Deckef, western sales man
ager of the Apex Manufacturing
Company, which also joined in Civ
ing the dinner, and several others.
Cabaret entertainment was fea-
tured and the program broadcast
over WFBM, the company's radio
station.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
ALICE JOYCE is HOME
Cinema Star Back From Long Stay
in Britain.

N E w Y 0 r K =,
March %. - Alice
Joyce, one of the
darlings of chem
aland, has returned
to New York on the
S. S. Aquitania
with James B. Re-
gan Jr., her huS-
band. Alice went
abroad for a few
weeks, but accepted
an offer to do q
British picture and
remained several
months, scoring q
big hit with fans
of the tight little
isle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
MYERS ASSAILS G. 0. P.
Democratic Candidate DenounceS
State Corruption.
By Times Special

~ tHtS NptCtut
LA GRANGE, Ind, March %. -
Taking as his text" Governor
Jacksons recent utterance, THE
Republican party in Indiana comes
to the voters this year with less to
apologize for than before; we will
have an unequalled record to take
to the voters" Walter Myers, candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for United States Senator, scored
corruption here Thursday night.
Addressing a Democratic dinner
meeting, Myers recounted the in
dictment Of public officials under the
last four years of Republican rule
and declared, THE record is I'M
equalled indeed; unequalled in in
fanny, unequalled in crime. disgrace
and shame"
Albert Stump, rival candidate for
the senatorial nomination, also
scored Republican leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
MARCH %, 1928
GOVERNOR ASSAILED BY
ATTORNEY AT LEBANON

Club Speaker Declares Citizens
Should Tell Jackson to Resign.
By Times Special
LEBANON, Ind, March 23-In-
diana citizens should point out to
Governor Ed Jackson that it is his
duty to resign, Roy Adney, Lebanon
lawyer, declared in an address be-
fore the local Kiwanis Club.
IF Governor Ed Jackson's moral
sense is so blunted he can not real
ize that his usefulness to the State
as a public officer has ended and if
he has no sense of the eternal fit
ness of things, it then becomes the
duty of all good citizens of the
State of Indiana to point out to him
that he must resign" Adney as
serted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23

Bowman Elder, Mayor L. Ert Slack,
John w. Hoffman, Charles E. Cox,
Charles R. Remster and John E.
Hollett.
Committee chairmen are: Pro-
gram, WOODBURY. Mason; arrange
ments, Charles A. Greenhouse Jr.;
finances, James A. Houck; scenery,
Harold Bachelor; tickets, DR.. F. M.
Fitch; costumes, Bowman Elder;
chorus, Homer L. Cook, and pub
licity, Marshall Williams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
CHURCH FARLEY ENDS
United Brethren Conference Adj
dressed by Superintendent.

The presence of God is the true
test of the success of a church, the
Rev. j. B. Parsons, superintendent
Of White River Conference, United
Brethren Church, told the closing
session Of the conference at the
Brookside U. B. Church Thursday
night.
The night session opened with de-
votional services led by the Rev. r.
S. Parr, pastor of the First U. B.
Church. Special music was pro-
vided by the Brockside U. B. choir,
directed by H. H. Wicks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
U. F. w. Formed

MARTINSVILLE, Ind, March %.
Buck Steel post, No. 1852, Veteran
of Foreign Wars, has been organ
lied here. officers are: Commander
Iron H. Eisenhower, Adjutant
Charles Collier and Quartermaster
J. o. Bratton. The posts name is
a tribute to Lester BUCK Steel,
world war veteran, killed a few
weeks ago in an airplane accident
al Macon. Ga.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
Latin Contests Saturday
By Times Specidi

By Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March %.
District events in the Statewide
high school Latin contest, being held
under auspices Of Indiana Univer'
sity here, will be held Saturday in
each CT the States thirteen congress
sional districts. The final contest
will be held here April 20.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO
GIVE MINSTREL SHOW
Production Will Be Staged at Murat
April &c.

April 26.
A minstrel Show and gridiron will
be given by the Indiana Democratic
Club at the Murat Theater Thurs
day night, April &c, according to an
nouncement of Fred Barrett, club
president.
Arnold Spencer will direct the
production, "A Democratic Night. "
assisted by Meredith Nicholson, Ell
mer Steffen, Charles Rauh and Mrs.
Helen Warrum Chappell.
Sponsors include Thomas Taggart,
Evans Woollen, Michael A. Ryan,
Judge Thomas F. Garvin, Eph In
man, Fred Hoke, Michael Foley,
Dick Miller, Henry Warrum, Earl R.
Cox, DR.. Carleton B. McCulloch,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
ScaIded Child Dies

DLUFFTON, Ind, March 3d. -
Donald E. Foreman, 20 months old,
is dead of scalds suffered when he
fell into a tub of water at the home
Of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Foreman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-23
STOLEN CAR BURNED
Ruins of Lost Auto Found Near
Railroad.

An automobile, the property OF
Barney Rappold, $40 E. Vermont ST.,
was found in ruins, having been set
on fire at Emerson Ave. and G. I. &
w. railroad tracks Thursday night.
Police said the car was stolen from
its parking space, Market and Ala
bama SITS.