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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15

fight for the right of self-determina-
ton; for land to the peasants; for
the right Of existence of national
culture; against the terrific taxation
of the poor peasantry and, for free
union of all the toilers of Poland and
a workers and peasants government.
Trials Now Starting.
Today,1in the City of Wilma, occupied
by the Polish militarists, the trial of
the first g of 400 arrested members
of the White Russian Workers and
Peasants Party, "Hromada," is now
taking place. Included among the de-
PENDANTS are all of the former Sejm
deputies of the Party and it's most ac-
tive and best known members.
The trial is of the sheerest mockery
Of "justice" of Pilsudski's fascism,
but its serious purpose is the crush
ing of the legitimate national, social,
cultural and political aspirations of
the White Russian minority which has
suffered so frightfully from the OPP
preston of Polish domination. The
White Russian Workers and Peasants
Party, Hromada, was the mass move
ment that had the confidence of the
whole White Russian people.
Whole People On Trial.
Now the trial has begun, and a
whole people is on the bench of the
accused. Already a series Of similar
trials are being prepared in Eastern
Poland.
The insolence and terrorism of Po-
fish fascism has been additionally
strengthened by Anglo-American CAPT
tai, and it is thanks to the aid of
Wall Street that gives millions to
fascism in order the better to sup
press and enslave the toiling masses
and prepare the war against the So
Wet Union, that Pilsudski is still in
power. 1t is the duty Of every Amer
lean worker, of every liberal-think-
ing person to answer the call of
solidarity, to organize a campaign
of broad, political and material aid
to prevent the fascist knife from
sinking into the body of the White
Russian and Ukrainian peasants, in.
to the bodies of the toiling masses
Of all Poland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
GORDON WELCOME
HERE THURSDAY
Prominent Leaders of
Party to Speak

Prominent members of the Workers
(Communist) Party and Young Work
ers League will speak at the recep-
ton in honor of David Gordon, Com
munist poet, to be held Thursday
evening at the Workers Center, &C.
28 Union Square.
Gordon's release from the New
York Reformatory to which she was
sentenced to term of three years
for writing the poem America" is
expected today. He served only sc
days of the term, being paroled fol-
lowing a protest movement in his
behalf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND TEN CENTS
Textile Wage Before Ten Percent Cut Was BeoU Life Level

BY SCOTT NEARING, (Fed. Press)
NEW BEDFORD textile workers
~ are on strike against 10 per
cent wage cut. The bosses insist
there is no other way to meet COM
petition and pay a reasonable return
on the money invested. The work
ers retort that it is impossible Tor
a man to support family even on
the present level Of earnings.
Are the workers right? Will
earnings in the New Bedford mills
provide for family support?
Average weekly earnings in New
Bedford according to the reports of
Massachusetts department of labor
and industries were $19.79 for 1925,
$19.05 for 1926, $19.95 for 1927 and
$40 for the first 8 months of 1928.
These averages cover considerable
variation. Nevertheless they indi-
cate first, that earnings in New
Bedford have remained about the
same during the past years;
second, that they average in the
neighborhood of $40 a week, or
$1,000 a year, and it might be OBJ
served that earnings were slightly
lower the first 8 months of 1928
than for any of the three preceding
years.
What does $40 a week mean in
New Bedford? How much coal,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
ARGUE 7c FARE IN
SUPREME COURT
Lawyers Swap Gentle
Words on Steal
(Continued from page ome)

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suggestion thrown out by attorneys
of the city that riots would result
from the attempt to collect an in
creased fare, Quackenbush replied
that "such fears are self-conjured.
They exist only in the minds of Of
ficials." He even limited that the city
officials had ''long pursued a policy
of Indictment" and that to them "the
wish for public resistance to judicial
decree is father to the thought"
Sound and Fury"
Both sides continued to paraphrase
Shakespeare but neither came to
grips with the real fact, of course,
which is that the whole flight" is
but sham battle from which the
workers and straphangers have moth
ing to gain. 1t was initiated under
precisely these conditions which would
ensure a decision favorable to the
traction interests.
Widespread sentiment against the
imminent fare steal is under the di-
rection Of the Workers (Communist)
Party which is arranging protest
meetings throughout all sections of
the city of New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15

as the father went into the mills.
Children were sent to work as soon
as the law allowed. Lodgers were
kept. By various means the worker
family pushed up its income toward
the standard minimum, or forced
down its expenditures toward the
starvation level. But in any case
the textile workers of New Bed
ford have been facing a tough
struggle the past years.
NOW the bosses propose to cut
weekly earnings 10 per cent.
That means subtraction of $1.90
from the average weekly earnings
for January, February and March
1923. What remains is $l7.l0, Of
fered by the bosses in New Bedford
to the makers of fine cotton fabrics,
wage in town where the family
minimum is officially set at $42.1O
week.
It's an old story in New England.
Comfortable property income for
the owners of capital; SNUG re-
spectability in executive mansion,
in legislative halls, on the Bench;
masses of unpaid, exploited work
ers. And for the Saccos and Van
zettis who cry out in protest
against such iniquities, the electric
chair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
Transit Workers, Denied
Scale, Threaten Action

DETROIT, May 14.-Members of
the Firemen and Oilers Union, Local
81, are threatening action as the re-
suit of the Detroit city car lines fail
ure to pay the men at the Coolidge
Ave. plant the regular rate scale of
rs cents an hour. The scale is paid
in all other plants operated by the
transportation department, while
firemen working in the Coolidge plant
receive only 60 ceESs an hour. The
superintendent of transportation, Rey-
nolds, has disregarded the recon-
men1ation of the commission mem
bers to pay the Coolidge plant work
ers Is cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15

The Committee had protested against
the persecution and Imprisonment OF
thousands of workers and poor pea
SAINTS for being members of the
Hromada, the Russian Workers and
Peasants Party.
Part of Protest.
The Committees statement reads in
part as follows:
"No doubt the minister Of Poland,
Mr.. Ciechanowski, consulted Pill
sudski's government at Warsaw be-
fore making his elaborate reply in
justification of that governments ar
rest, persecution and even murder OF
workers and peasants. The Fascist
Polish government, through it's United
States Minister, tries to wipe its
bloody hands clean of it's crimes
against the toiling masses of Poland
In its desperation, it talks of con-
spiratorial organizations, Soviet in
trigue, Comintern activities, Mop1
actions, and tries to pass off it's acts
of terror and persecution by prattle
of foreign interference, and so on.
"To all thinking and progressive
minded people, such unique excuses
are not novel to explain away the
rise and development of workers or
CARNATIONS. The fascist Mussolini,
the Horthy government of Hungary,
the Siguranza of Roumania, and other
capitalist nations in europe try to ex-
plain away their actions against the
working peoples by talk of con-
spiracies and what not. However, the
facts speak for themselves and the
government of Poland is indeed hard
put for excuses.
Had $4,000 Members.
''The Hromada is a society of con-
spirators, declares Pilsudski's gov
eminent, and therefore must be de-
stroycd and its supporters imprisoned
or killed. A conspiratorial organiza-
ton! Yet it had in March, 1927, nc
less than $4,000 members organized
into 1920 branches. 1t has the sup
port of at least So per cent of the
two and half million white Russian
population of Poland. It's "conspira.
torial" aims are:
ITO fight for the liberation of the
White Russian toiling masses; tt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
100000 Miners on Strike
10000 Textile Workers on Strike

70 SAGE the Umion For Victorious Strike For the Miners
Control OF Their Unom; Against the Wage Cut; Against the
Speed-up; Against Longer Hours
thousands OF requests being made every mail for The
DAILY WORKER from the Striking Miners. Hundreds of
requests already coming in from the striking Textile
Workers.
All expired subscriptions Of strikers are still being
tho the strikers not afford their subscriptions
Every day sending papers the mine strike
area FREE OF CHARGE We have begun send The DAILY
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
Single Ore Machine
Displaces 500 Miners

DULUTH, Mimi, May 1.-THE
introduction of labor-saving machin-
cry in the iron ore mines in Northern
Minnesota has reduced the number
of metal miners in this state from
over 10000 to 10000 in less than a
year. Huge steam and electric labor
saving steam and electric shovels have
been introduced. The largest shovel
in operation weighs $3.50 tons, hand
ling from eight to nine cubic yards
of earth and ore at a time, doing the
work of 500 men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
WORKING CLASS
TICKET NEEDED
BY STEEL men
Republicans, Democrats
to Be Exposed
(Contin,led ff0m Paqe onel

Continued from Page 0ne)
Laughlin and United States Steel,
as high as $3.50 a month outside of
their regular salaries, from the city
of Pittsburgh. Needless to say they
did willingly the bidding of the steel
officials in breaking up meetings and
driving the workers off the streets
and in every way they knew trying
and using their influence to get the
workers to enter the open shop mills.
Need Labor Candidates.
at is high time that some such
move as this nomination convention
took up the very necessary work of
putting up candidates and went out
into the field and propagandized for
party of the workers and workers
candidates. The United States has
long been the outstanding wealth
producing country of the world. It
has also been the most outstanding
country in which the weakness of
its organization of workers into in
dustrial unions was marked by it's
weakness in the numerical strength
of its unionized workmen.
Must Expose Socialists.
1.-THE part the political parties of
the owners and the socialist party
play in the class struggle must be ex-
posed. 1t is up to the Nomination
Convention to thus make clear and
expose the part big business plays in
the political arena. What better way
can be used to do this than to place
candidates of the working class rev.
dictionary proletarian fighters up for
the offices to be filled and use the
occasion to promote the movemest
for Independent working class poll
teal action.
Eve must also use the occasion to
show the direct connection between
the weakness of labor on the indus
trial field and the same conditions
on the political field as well. Now
is the accepted time to begin this
VERY necessary work.
/ Organization Work Lays.
''The organization of the steel
workers is now at its lowest ebb. So
far as organization is concerned the
steel workers union is to all intent and
purpose annihilated and wiped out.
| The part the political parties of the
bosses played in this destruction must
be shown and the steel worker made
to see the necessity to begin to or
ganize on the industrial field and
at the same time he must be shown
that he can expect nothing from the
republican and democratic parties
and just as little from the socialist
party. The way is open to do this
thru this Nomination Convention.
The time is ripe and rotten ripe.
do not at this time, hope, have to
show any steel worker or for that
matter any miner or other worker
that the time has come for an about
/ face of labor. Let us once for all
drop the leadership of the Greens,
Wolls, Lewises. Let us recognize in
the republican and democratic parties
a real menace to the workers and
begin right now to build the political
power of labor!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
Folk Music Concert to
Be Given in Detroit

DETROIT, Michigan--An intefna-
tional concert of folk songs and folk
music in native costume by various
language groups will be presented
here by the Detroit Council for the
Protection Of Foreign-Born Workers,
Sunday at 8 p. M, at McCollester
Hall. Feature numbers will include
the Detroit Denishawn dancers, Ne
gro spirituals and the Lithuanian
South-Slovak Chorus of 100 voices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
TRAIN FIREMEN HURT.

BOSTON, May 14.-The fireman Of
a narrow gauge railroad train was
injured when the brakes of the train
failed to work properly, resulting in
it crashing through a terminal bump
err and plunging into the harbor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
Blacklist Cincinnati
Scab Amusement Park

CINCINNATI, May 14.-The Gin
cinnati Labor Council has declared
the Chester Amusement Park unfair
to organized labor, following the an
nouncement of the parks manage
ment that it would not employ union
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
15s POLICEMEN FINED.

One hundred fifty-three members
of the police department, including
two lieutenants and two sergeants.
have been fined from to AZ days
pay for violations of departmental
regulations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
EXPLOSION KILLS A WORKERS

KOKOMO, Ind, May 14.-Four wo.
men workers were killed, six othei
workers seriously injured and
slightly hurt as the result of the ex
plosion yesterday of flat work steam
mangle in the Fridlin Laundry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
(;LOAKMAKERS TO
HEAR or BOSTON
AT RALLIES HERE
Delegates Report Plans
For Building Union

Continued from page one)
the great numbers Of unorganized
young workers that are rapidly chang
ing the composition Of the needle
trades industry.
Gold Among Speakers.
Ben Gold, militant leader of the
New York Joint Board of the Fur
riers' Union, which is also engaged
in a life and death struggle against
the campaign of the right wing and
the bosses to destroy the organiza-
ton, addressed the conference at its
closing session. After an enthusiast
tic reception he urged the delegates
to fight against the attempts of the
socialist bureaucracy of the Sigmans
and the A. F. of L. bureaucrats to
change militant workers organiza
tions into company unions.
Sigman and Schlesinger Grapple.
BOSTON, May 14.-While the first
organizational steps are being out
lined into action by the returned pro-
gressive delegates, the Sigman and
schlesinger cliques continue to be
locked in bitter struggle for con-
troll. All efforts of William Green.
president of the A. F. of L., together
with such leaders of the socialist
party as Jacob Panken, to patch up
the differences between the two
groups has met with utter failure
according to their own admissions
The Sigman forces refuse to permit
the Observation-Disclosures clique to take
any strategic job in the International
Admit Decentralization.
Ninfo, in presenting the minority
report of the resolution committee on
the Schlesinger demand for refer
endum for the presidency, admitted
that almost complete decentralization"
is the condition Of their ranks. "The
thousands of workers who have regis
tered with the International are fall
ing away from it, is another sig
nificant admission made by Ninfo, a
leader of Schlesinger forces.
That the split among the reaction
aries is extremely serious is evidenced
by the fact that after three days of
''peace-making' by William Green, ct
al, the Schlesinger gang announced
that they will refuse denomination
for some of the vice-presidencies now
in their control.
The decision of the convention" to
call a general stoppage in New York
and Toronto has been exposed as a
blind" by the wrangling of the re-
dictionaries. 1t was plainly seen to be
another maneuver to compel the work.
ers to pay dues to their fake unions.
This belief was confirmed when they
railroaded thru a resolution to tax the
membership of the International a
sum totaling about 100000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
SPECIAL AGENTS NOW IN FIELD ON NEW "DAI

Pittsburgh and District g. oho NJ Powers St Paul. Minneapolis
Duluth Rochester Superior and Ceveand Sar and Minnie
Lurie Grand Rapids South Bend and Chicago Leon Caow
Albany, Utica Schenectady Syracuse Rochester, the Mohawk
Valley and Buffao Shaer Boston and vicinity Roy Stephens
Massachusetts, Sprnged Worcester lowell Lawrence etcl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15

George Keller Jersey Paterson, Passac Jer
sey City, Newar Starr Connecticut and Arnold Zeg
ee New Jersey renton Perth Amboy Bayonne) and parts of
New York State
departure of IL special agents. several of whom
National Training School students definitely inaugurates
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15

Twelve special DAILY WORKER subscription agents
yesterday for various parts the country
campaign that expected to add subscriptions The
DAILY WORKER.
The IL workers who already the field districts
they will Anna Herbs Anthracite Ssseman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
DAILY WORKER" SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE

broad drive for subscriptions The DAILY
WORKER Each of the agents will make special efforts to reach
unorganzed workers in the industrial sections of the country
particularly members of the Workers Commu
ns Party urged give these agents all possible support
in order that the subscription campaign may be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-15
POLISH TERRORISM IS
RAPED BY COMMITTEE

The evasve reply of j. Cehanowsk minister of Poland the United
States the of the Committee Polish brot
sharp rebuk yesterday from the committee thru Robert W.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
NOTED
IN "a YEARS
At STRAYER'5
Business College Grows
From Small School With
Faculty of Two or Three

Twenty-four years ago in 1904.
P. J. Hartman and T. w Donoho
conceived the idea that a weIl.or.
gained, weIl-managed college
featuring business subjee To, Oper-
ated in the nations Capital would
find an opportunity 10 be of SER
vice not only to the residents of
Washington, but also to the ma
ton.
Mr., Hartman has been the ac-
tive managing director OF Strayer
College from its beginning. I'm
der his guidance the institution
has grown from a small school,
using two or three teachers, to .
large college that now employs
for its day and evening sessions
"a teachers in addition to the adj
ministrative ami office staff.
In the aerly life OF the college
its curriculum was limited to ele.
mentary and fundamental bust.
ness subjects, such as shorthand.
typewriting. bookkeeping, ariths
metic, English ana pennanship.
But as the college has grown an0
kept pace with modern business IL
has added more complete and
more advanced courses, such az.
accountancy, secretarial training,
business organization and admin
istration, commercial law, per.
sonal and business efficiency
TWO QUARTERS NEEDED
Twice during its history the
college outgrew the building 4
occupied, and was moved to new
and larger quarters. In 1927.
the college enrolled 6O2 students
for day session. courses, and B2s
students in the evening session,
and 200 students returned to
continue more advanced courses
than they had previously pur.
sued.
The patronage Of the college
Is now national in its scope.
Last year 80 States Of the
United States and 10 foreign
countries were represented In
the student body. One hundred
and fifty Of the students who al.
lSAuSQ 0ITaySE last year maW
previously attended other COLI
leges and universities for courses.
varying from one to four years.
This group Of students repre-.
sented Al institutions Of higher
learning throughout the United
States.
SUCCESS EXPLAINED
When Mr.. Hartman was asked,
TO what do you attribute the.
remarkable success Of Strayer
College?" he replied:
Hard work and infinite care
on the part OF the management,
and good teachers. and plenty Of
them" He continued:
Eyes, ] am sure our success
has been due to the fact that We
have carefully selected q faculty
that possesses the important
qualifications of thorough schOL
arship. practical experience, ana
genuine interest In students and
in commercial education.
The Washington times., 1928-01-13
NEW HOME FOR
WEBSTER SCHOOL!

One OF the most unusual ana
distinctive schools in the Nations
Capital came into being In 1920.
when Marjorie F.Webster founded
the school Of expression ana
physical culture which bears her
name.
Beginning humbly, the school
made such rapid strides. due to
the modern ideas It advocated.
and the genius Of it's foundress.
that 1895 saw the institution oc.
cupying its present location IN
the buildings at 1401-O7-O9 Massa.
chusetts Ave. N. w.
Each year likewise has seen 3
steady growth in the numerical
strength Of the student body.
until today the day school and
boarding department are IL
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