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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25
Women and
Financial Matters
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean Of Men, University Of
Illinois.

+ HAD a request not long ago from
4 tie secretary Of some philanthropy
cally inclined organization asking me
to act on a committee for the educa-
ton Of women in financial matters. !
felt as much complimented as did the
INDECENT colored man who was asked
to change ten dollar bill, but ! asked
myself why women more than men
should need special education In such
matters. and further why should be
run In to broadcast such education.
have heard it said that doctors
lawyers, teachers, and professional
men generally are the first to snap at
get-rich-quick schemes, and know the
least about safe and conservative In
vestments. Are women any worse
than we are? 1t may be. Possibly
they are more ambitious, more credu=
l0us. more anxious to get on rapidly.
less experienced 10 business matters.
quote the following from recent
publication without being responsible
for its dependability:
s'The better business bureaus estl-
mate that through the purchase of
worthless securities the women Of this
country will lose over $70O. 00O, 900 dur
ing 1923. This enormous sum is but a
small portion Of the total that will be
lost by women during the same period
In real estate. unsound business ven.
lures, etc. Insurance companies re
port that 90 per cent Of estates over
5000 left to women are dissipatel
within seven years Of receipt"
There must be a. reason for this I'M
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25
War Vet Comes Back

of having brother in the army and
apparently had wandered over the
country looking for him. The brother
is Maj. A. R. Emory, formerly sta
toned at the Preside, now at Fort
Hunt, Alexandria, Va. He has been
apprised by military authorities of
Emery's condition.
When Emery fled the Madison hos
pital the government stopped paying
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

+ ~
Shanghai Happiness has come IN
to the life Of Americas oldest pos
SCISSOR of the Congressional Medal Of
Honor Robert Kline, one-tfme resi-.
dent of New York. but for the last half
century resident of China.
Two years ago Kline was stricken
blind He lived in darkness in the
little home be maintained on Kiang
wan road.
But he had his memories and he
was extravagantly proud of his tro-
phies-the Congressional medal won
when, as member of the crew of the
old q. S. S. Raleigh. he risked his own
life by entering a gas-filled hold and
rescued several comrades from what
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

him compensation. In five years this
has accumulated to several thousand
dollars, and an effort is being made to
have this restored.
AT the request of Emery's Blooming
ton friends, Stillwell now seeks to
have him removed either to the Madi-
son tInd.) hospital or to Palo Alto from
Napa, where he is receiving temporary
treatment.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

seemed certain death. and the Dewey
medal won for gallpntry at Manila
bay.
Last July he was guided by a
friend to the Bund. where the Ameri
can marines were parading. On his
faded blue coat cleaned the medals.
Presently an admiral, commander
in chief OF the American Adriatie
feet, arrived with his aids and was
about to mount the stand when he
espied Kline. Up went the admiral's
right arm In quick salute.
Onlookers told Kline and tears
trickled from his sightless eyes. He
would have given anything. be said. to
have seen the tribute.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

Apparently recovered from the ill.,
ness that struck him after he had won
the British Amateur championship in
1926, Jess Sweetser plans a comeback
campaign this year that he hopes will
lead him to another national amateur
golf title. He has mapped out a pro-
gram that will bring him into three
tournaments this summer with the ma
tional amateur as his chief objective.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

The japanese beetle, which is SO
destructive to crops, was shipped into
this country in consignment Of iris
roots sent to a florist.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25
DIPPING INTO
SCIENCE
Asbestos

ASDeSt09
Asbestos is a mineral. It Is
found in many parts Of the
world, though we get the great.
est quantities from Quebec in
Canada. Its fire-resisting quail.
ties were known to the ancients .
who made from it shrouds for
bodies to be burned on the fu
neral pyre. 1t is also useful for
Its long wearing qualities.
(@by Western Newspaper Union.l
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

Il was with Clemens on the river
said Capt. ]. P. McElroy, one of the
few surviving cubs who populate
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-05-25

Freddie Rgg Seattle Wash being examined by DR.
Although
decidedly
mentally above the fouyeaold
Tobacco increases the flow of saliva In this the tobacco did exactly
aiding the digestion the chids food
has chemicals in The
this especially beneficial and relieved the fermentation Of food
bene6ng
of baby thriving It"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
100 WORKERS IN
CANTON KILLINGS
Fear Spread of Soviets
in Villages

SHANGHAI, Feb. 22.-More than
1,70O workers and peasants were exc
cuted by Kuomintang troops which
captured number of villages east of
Canton on February 20, according to
dispatches received here from Can
ton yoday. Numerous villages and
towns in the district are in complete
control of workers and peasants who
have set up Soviet governments.
Six hundred members of the girls
Communist corps in the same district
have been captured. They have not
been executed, but are being held by
the Kuomintang troops.
Troops maintained by the landed
gentry have captured, tortured and
then murdered Peng-pai, well known
Communist organizer, in Fukien pro-
vince, the reports state. Peng-pai's
body was cut into ten pieces and dis
tributed by the landed gentry for ex-
hibition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
OFFICIALS DAILY
WITH UNIONISM
Traction Workers Want
Action

Traction workers on the INTERIOR
ough Rapid Transit Company have
been greatly aroused over the threat
that new reprisals would be taken
against them if they persisted in car
rying on their union activities.
Previous to the Wednesday night
mass meeting called by the Amalga-
mated Association, at which over 600
workers enthusiastically applauded
attacks on the company union, let
ter was sent out over the signature
of Frank Hedley, president of the I.
R. T., threatening with dismissal any
worker who attended.
The "Daily's" Warning.
A number of workers have since
been called "on the carpet" for going
to the meeting. A notion had spread
over the lines of the railroad that or
ganization would now be permitted by
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
A. c, ". CALLS new
FAXED STOPPAGE
Canvas Makers Ordered
To Stop Today Noon

Ali canvas makers, members of Lo-
cal of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union, have been ordered by
the officials of the Joint Board to
stop from work today at IL o'clock.
This stoppage was suddenly decided
upon by the Amalgamated officials
without giving any reason to the
membership. They merely informed
the workers to come to a meeting at
1890 where they will be told about
the order.
Reliable information is available to
definitely show that this strike is of
the same character as the ones called
by the Amalgamated in the children's
clothing trade, and in the sailor suit
workers trade. These stoppages, as
we'll as this one, were called not for
the improvement in the workers
union standards, but to force manu-
facturers to join the employers asso-
citation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
'KENOsHA HOSIERY
WORKERS STRIKE
Refuse to Work Extra
Loom; Locked Out

7 KENOSHA, Wis, Feb. 22.-The
striking knitters of the Allen-A
Hosiery Company, locked out last
week, when the employers suddenly
decided to run their mills on an open
shop basis, expressed their deter
mination to conduct a fight against
the bosses till the mill owners award
would recognize their union, the
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers.
The lockout came after the work
ers' refusal to operate more machines
per man that formerly, at the same
rate, as had been ordered by the en-
ployer.
Louis Francis Budenz, editor of
the Labor Age" who was sent by
the union to take charge of the strike
said that the union has a large
enough treasury to support the strik-
Continued ON Page Tro)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
LOvESTONE, MANN
DEBATE ON FRIDAY

Is there prosperity in the United
States? Are the American workers
becoming Capitalists ?"
These will be some of the ques-
tions to be considered tomorrow night
when Jay Lovestone, executive sec
retary of the Workers (Communist)
Party, author of "The Government
Strikebreaker" and "192S-the Pres
idential Elections and the Workers"
meets George Hiram Mann, attorney
and formerly active in the National
Security League in debate at Irv-
ing Plaza. 18th St. and Irving Place
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
SHOE WORKERS
MEET TONIGHT

Shoe and slipper workers will or
ganize to fight against wage cuts and
demand relief from unemployment
and the miserable conditions which
exist in shoe factories at mass
meeting tonight at s o'clock at Man
haitian Lyceum, Ga E. 4th st. The
fight against piece work, in support
of the 44-hour week, a minimum wage
scale for every operation, and control
of every shop in the trade will be
opened.
Break Union.
"Since the last World War, when
the United States was the producing
factory for the boots and shoes of the
worlds armies, and the machiniza-
ton of industry and the moving of
many large factories to the south
caused over-production and thousands
of workers were and are still being
thrown out of jobs" said Sidney
Yones, member of the executive
board, ShoeAand Slipper Union, 81,
last night. "The bosses association
took advantage of these conditions
and in 1919 they destroyed the Unit
ed Shoe Workers Union and organ
lied their own company union, The
American Union.
"When the left wing element was
forced to join the American Union
and started to get control of it, the
bosses saw the danger of their losing
control in the union. In 1926 the en-
ployers provoked the workers to a
strike, and having control of some of
the officialdom of the union, they
forced the workers to go back to work
without any organization.
SAT that time the Shoe Workers
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
JOBLEss Meet;
EXPOSE MISSIONS
PLAN BIG RALLY
Workers Elect Commit
tee for Action

Further impetus was given the or
ganization of the thousands of un-
employed workers in New York City
with the election of committee from
the 500 or more jobless workers who
iammed the hall at go st. Marks
Place yesterday afternoon at meet
ing held under the auspices of the
New York Council of the Unemployed.
Most of the workers present at the
meeting have been forced to stand in
breadlines of the missions on the
Bowery. About rs of the jobless
workers present were war veterans
and an equal number union members.
Nearly so were under 25 years of age.
The meeting was addressed by ii.
Bloom, of the branch of the Council
formed Tuesday at the International
Seamen's Club; John Di Santo, secre-
tary of the New York Council of the
Unemployed, and two unemployed
veterans of the World War. The
workers assembled were loud in their
approval of the demands of the I'm
employed Council as presented by Di
Santo. Applause was unusually pro-
longed when the speakers stressed
the necessity for an American labor
party and for solidarity of white
workers with Negro workers, many of
whom were present. The names of
President Coolidge and Gov. AL. Smith
were repeatedly jeered. The commit
tee, elected from the ranks of the as
sembled workers by the workers
themselves, is composed of Earl
Petrasek, a war veteran; John Wrig-
ley, representing the Negro unem-
Continued on Page Fiue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
UNEMPL PLOYMENTIS
USED BY BOSSES
Hundreds Apply for
One Job

STAUNTON, ILL.,, Feb. 22.-Clear
examples of the way industrialists
use the unemployment crisis to beat
down the workers living standards
and induce man to take job at
any price are found in two instances
in this town, where 700 men are job
less.
The employment office of the Shell
Oil Co. caused a report to circulate
that 200 men were wanted to work
in its yards. Several hundred stormed
the company gates. When the com
pany announced that all the vacan-
cies were filled and the crowd cleared
away it was found that II men had
been hired.
Examined For Speed Up.
All who applied were given strict
examinations, both as to physical con-
dition and experience. Only men be-
tween 81 and 35 years old were hired
A similar episode took place at the
Western Cartridge Co. When sew
eral hundred men applied for work
there is was found that only one job
was to be filled.
Worker Gives Up.
JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. o.
Frank Conlon, AZ year old worker
unemployed for many months, took
Continued on Page Ts0o)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
tenth YEAR OF
RED ARMY TODAY
Worlds Workers Cele,
brate Anniversary

On February %, 1918, just lei
years ago today, the Soviet Union or
ganized the Red Army in answer tC
the threats against the first workers
and peasants government by the
counter-revolutiona groups backed
by British. French and American i'm.
perialists.
AS the imperialist countries in
creased their attack upon the Soviet
Union, this first army of the work
ers and peasants grew until by 1926
it had 100000 workers in its ranks
Successful Defense.
Differing from all the imperialist
armies which were attacking its
frontiers, the Red Army was strong
er than it's enemies, because its
soldiers knew what they were fight
ing for, and were fighting for then
own interests. Lenin explained the
strength which enabled this young
workers army to ward off the COM
bined attacks of the world imperial
lists during the years of civil war
saying:
"a clever Prussian monarch once
said: IF our soldiers knew what they
were fighting for we could never
have carried on the war; We car
conquer because our soldiers know
what they are fighting for"
After the final destruction of the
counter-revolutionary armies, came
Continued on Page Tloo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
CAPPELINI and
Mine OPERATORS
ARE AIDING STATE
Bonita Shot in Self-De-
fense After Attack

WILKESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 22.-
Officials of District One, United
Mine Workers of America, all sup
porters of the Cappelini machine,
have agreed to assist the prosecu-
tion convict Frank Bonita, one of the
leaders of the opposition to the con-
tractor evil and the Cappelini mach
inc in Pittston who is charged with
killing Frank Agati, Cappelini's per-
sonal bodyguard, during a fight in
the union headquarters.
Bonita claims he shot in self-de-
fense after he was attacked by Agati
whom miners and others state was
responsible for the deaths of some
IL persons in the last few years.
To Railroad Bonita.
In the conference with Assistant
Attorney Goldberg the basis was laid
for sending Bonita,s Steve MENDOZA
and Adam Moleski, arrested with
Bonita, to thz{r deaths. Those in the
conference were district board MEM
bers, organizers and representative
of the international union. Their
names are Anthony Figlock, John
Remetz, August Lippi and Frank
Shiffka.
Baseless Rumors.
This conference is taken to mean
that there is no foundation in the
rumors that the Cappelini machine,
which is held responsible by rank and
file miners for the murder of Thomas
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and the labor takers to invoke national COM
pulsory arbitration law against the trade unions
an extension of the detestable Watson-Parker
law to every organization in every industry.
It is because of the fact that our Party alone,
thru it's central organ, The DAILY WORKER,
voices the demands of the rank and file of labor,
because we, alone, defend the elementary inter
ests of the working class to organize and fight
against the drives of the employers, that we
draw the concentrated fire of the employers, the
capitalist government and the agents of the en-
poyers-the labor bureaucracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Miners Relief Scouts to
Aid Coal Diggers Strike

Many new miners relief scouts
were recruited at two section miners
relief conferences called by the
Children's Committee for Miners
Relief yesterday. The Brooklyn con-
ference was held at 1878 AID st. and
the downtown conference at Is E.
Sd ST. The many delegates from
various children's organizations who
were present pledged their full sup
port to the miners cause. Both
meetings were opened by miners who
described to the delegates the suffer
ing of the children in the mining dis
tricts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
BURNS, SINCLAIR
PLAN TO APPEAL
Will Seek to Evade Mild
Jail Terms

WASHINGTON, Feb. %. - SEN
fenced to prison terms for contempt
of court for jury-shadowing in the
Fall Sinclair oil conspiracy case,
Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, Will
liam ]. Burns, private detective, and
Henry Mason Day, one of the Sin
clair executives, hope to escape pun
ishment through appeals. They have
already been freed on appeal bonds,
together with w. Sherman Burns,
the detectives son, who was fined
81 900 in the same case. Sinclair was
given six months, Day four months
and w. ]. Burns Is days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

Because The DAILY WORKER rips the mask
of hypocrisy from the faces of the American
Bar Association committee and its supporters
at the head of the American Federation of La
Dor, because it exposes the plots Of the war
mongers against the labor movement, because it
is always on the alert to expose all new forms
of betrayal of the labor movement it has been
singled out for destruction.
With each of the previous struggles to main
tain our DAILY WORKER our supporters have
grown stronger and more numerous, and we
must mobilize all our forces in defense of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

1t is no accident that the forces of reaction
in this country, at the identical moment that new
conspiracies against the labor movement are on
foot should intensity their efforts to silence the
voice of the only English daily labor paper in
the world The DAILY WORKER.
The very existence of our daily Communist
paper is challenge to the ruling class of this
country and their agents who have placed them
selves at the head of the labor movement in or
der to betray it into the hands of the employers.
The renewal of the attack on our paper comedies
with the drive of the American Bar Association
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

"1-I son of the toiling people, citizen of the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics take upon myself the
of soldier in the Workers and Peasants Red Army.
"2-n behalf of the working class of the Soviet Union
and of the entire world pledge myself to carry this
title with honor to study conscentously the military
and guard the welfare of the people against abuse
and destruction.
81 pledge myself to accept the revolutionary dis
cipne and to carry out without contradiction all orders
Of the commanders who the Of workers and
peasants has appointed.
al pledge myself to all activities and to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

DAILY so that the enemy can not succeed in
sitting the voice of our Party
Let every Party member every militant, every
sincere trade unionist rally to the financial sup
port of our paper in order that we may be able
to expose the sinister plots against us.
The danger is great. But l am confident that
the militant section of the labor movement will
not let the DAILY die before this onslaught Of
the enemy.
Act today to save The DAILY WORKER and
to make it more effective
-BERTRAM D. WOLFE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
,PLEDGE OF A RED ARMY SOLDIER
Takes Oath to Defend Interests OF 1olng People OF WOrld

hold back my comrades from all activities unworthy OF
citizen of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and
to concentrate all myacon and thoughts the great
goal of the liberation of all workers.
81 pledge myself at the first call of the Workers
and Peasants Government to spring to the protection
of the Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics against all
dangers or attacks from enemies and in the fight for
the u S. S. r. and the of socialism and the fra
termination of all people, to spare neither my strength
nor my life.
eff violate this solemn oath may public contempt
be my lot and may the hard hand of the revolutionary
law punish as l deserve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Exposure Kills Baby

A baby girl about one week old
was found dead from exposure yes
terday on a porch at 132-43 155th
ST., Jamaica South, by one of the
women living in the neighborhood.
The baby was wrapped in an old
blanket and a large blue sweater
both of which showed signs of long
use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

Of the week. A total of $1,500 will
be turned in before the end of the
drive in section 2.
Every member present pledged to
donate full days pay and all un-
employed members pledged them
selves to use every effort to raise
contributions among those friends
who are now working.
Arousing tremendous enthusiasm,
Continued on Page TsVo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

night. William W. Weinstone, MEM
ber of the c. E. c., and District
organizer of District 2, called upon
all Communists to rally as single
unit to the defense of The DAILY
WORKER, their fighting English
daily organ, now threatened with de-
struction by it's class enemies.
The membership responded with
1921 as it's immediate contribution
to the defense and pledged itself to
collect additional $160 before the end
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

chain cleaning stores, ended with an
announcement by the union officials
that they will probably order the own
ers of the small cleaning stores to
stop pressing work.
The retail store owners, who COM
prise the great majority of the strik-
ers, and are organized into an A. F.
of l.. union despite their being busi-
ness men, have been keeping their
shops open for work such as pressing,
and sewing on buttons, but have re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Workers Party Women
Will Plan Programs

Miners relief work and the pro-
gram for International Women's
Day March a will be planned at a
general membership meeting of all
women members of the Workers
(Communist) Party Saturday, at 1.30
p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23
Sections 3, 4 to Hear
CEC Talk on Plenum
at a Meeting Tonight

Special meetings of Sections 8
and a, Workers (Communist)
Party will be held tonight to hear
reports of the recent plenary
meeting of the Central Committee
of the Party.
Ben Gitlow will report at the
meeting of Section 3 which opens
at 7 p. m. at 101 w. 9th st. Alex
Bittleman will report to the meet
ing of Section at lab E.. 103d st.
at 5 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-23

fused to take in any cleaning and dye
ing work. This step was taken, ac-
cording to the leaders of the walkout,
because the settlement they expected
to consummate in a few days failed
to materialize.
One of the officials in charge Of
the picketing, Jack Effroth, head of
the drivers union, Isl to appear this
morning in the Essex Market Court,
Continued on Page Fiue)