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Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
LITTLE HOPE

am told that stingless mosquito
Which operates only at night
Has been reared in the hope that he
some day will cope
With the kind of mosquitoes that
bite;
This mite will be bred by the millions,
And fare forth to accomplish the
Of the fierce little pests with unbidden
guests
When we sit on the porch in the
gloom.
should love to be present some eve
ming
When this army manoeuvered about,
Darling round here and there through
the soft summer air e II
While they drove all their brother
skeets out.
I should love to go out in the morn
ing
would even get up in the dawn
To see my old foes in i1animate rows
That covered the garden and lawn.
But if I were a stingless mosquito
No matter how lusty and young,
I would not give a rap to engage in a
scrap
With another mosquito that stung.
Though my army might number a
billion
I should have to be drafted before
would leave my home shack with
pack on my back
To take part in that kind of a war.
They may breed stihgless skeets with
out, number ~
Which viii raid with a laundering
din,
But when matched with the hordes
armed with murderous swords
I cannot believe they will win;
[ have little knowledge of science
Yet with confidence do | predict
That this vast unarmed host will not
make good its boast
But will get m ost disgracefully
licked.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
ABE MARTIN

This is tn second day O. tn trial
O. Truman Kite, who wuz arrested
in his home while bOttlin' a tubfuI
o. gin. Seven o. tn eight women
jurors watered at tn mouth, but
none cried.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

KANSAS CITY, Jan. l /! P)--Taking
9f dispositions from Kansas citizens
FOR use in the trial of William Ed
ward Hickman, confessed kidnapper
and slayer of Marian Parker Los
Angeles school girl, was completed
heretonight. Il
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

Tin Soldier
just after America entered the war
all sorts OF amateur flyers were enlist
ing. One OF these, who had been 6
member, OF some local military Or.
ganization, presented himself to g
grizzled old general officer noted TO,
his very brusQue manner
The lad, in a brand new uniform
beautiful and useless, snapped into
something that looked like British
salute once removed, and stammered
Lieutenant Smith, Air Service, re-
porting for duty
The general took. one look anc
grunted; "Ninety-eight per cent Air
and two per cent Service"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

DANGEROUS TALK.
Sir Ian Hamilton says that Holly
wood cannot film the Had. That
means that Hollywood will immedl-
ately attempt it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
VERY LIKELY

VERY LIKELY
Maybe those comets are only side
real Lindberghs.
Copyright, 1928, Bell Syndicate, Inco
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

A. j. Benedict was in the city
yesterday from Tombstone. He
says Tombstone will make fight
to retain the county seat.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

Mrs. Clifford has returned to her
home in Nacozari after a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Weimer. y
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

Lloyd Yeager, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. Yeager, is ill with pneu-
monia.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

John Hohstadt has eturne d
from California, where he visited
his parents whom he had not seen
for number of years.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

George B. Knowles of the P. D.
auditing force, went to Bisbee yes
terday
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

A daughter was born Wednes-
day to Mr.. and Mrs. George B.
Mason
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

S. F. Mcguire will leave today
over the proposed route of the Ell
Paso-Douglas highway, and report.
conditions en- route.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

DR.. F. E. Shine, chief surgeon of
the Copper Queen company, was
in the city yesterday, motoring
down from Bisbee.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
Couldn't Fool Him


Holidays" said Mrs Jason Linde-
man, the social worker, "are not mere
ly vacation days. Each has its pat
riotic reminder and lesson, and, foI
the young folks especially, repictures
some of the events that have LED
to the making of the nation.
"It is for this reason that we have
launched the crusade to compel fac
tories in certain cities to observe al
the legal holidays. 1t helps in making
good citizens Too, many OF tEeSc
sweatshop waits. toiling year in anc
year out, seven days week, never
heard OF Washington, or Lincoln, OF
Armistice Day. How could they?
''I asked a little colored lad to state
what holiday he had in July.
'Neber had none, he declared.
Think hard, L insisted. OF course
you had one. &.M
"'No'm' he insisted, 'Ah don't hat
to. Amt nobody i'll nah family died
TO- a long time =
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

FORTUNATE
The jury marker has been a little
inactive lately
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

Peace Fund
A negro nanny upon entering the
offices OF bank, demanded very per-
sistently that she be allowed an inter
view with the, president OF the institu-
tion She pleaded so earnestly the
Importance of her mission, that the
president finally gave the office boy
orders to admit her into his office.
"Well, Nanny, what can I do for
you?"
"Mr. President, All has five hun
dred dollahs All wants to deposit ir
youall's bank, but All wants you tc
stipulate that it is to be in dis heah
bank widout salt and Battlement.' .
without Salt and Battlement?'
I'm afraid you are using the wrong
term nanny, for we have no such
condition in our rules"
"Ah's maxim els condition boss. All
means just what All says. All wants
nah money deposited in dis we're
bank widout Salt and Battlement
All doesn't want to get beat out of It, .
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19
Plucked From the Plains

Hattie HlppopotamuS: I'm going to
cut out eating Sc many loaves OF
bread, so as to preserve my boyish
silhouette; I'm determined not to be-
come a barrel like Mommer.
First Girl Scout: When way shall
we walk?
second Girl Scout; There's more
free rides down this road, think.
The reporter wrote: Bridget Muir
ply, the lawful wife OF the prisoner,
was the next witness. In printing
the report, ~ was omitted by mis-
take, Mrs. Murphy assaulted the
editor.
Eddie: I am paid Tor what know,
not what Il do. l-1
Fannie Don't you get any salary
at all? ~ A
s'Who won the race to the fence.
you or the bull?''
/ 1T was a toss up" 'i
Teacher! When is it very cold,
sometimes turn on the faucet and
no water flows, why is that?
Johnny: Because you haven't paid
your water bill.
Teacher: What was the Tower OF
Babel?
Prep. Wasn't that where Solomon
kept his 500 wives?
"Died OF a operation, did 'e?"
SAY, and e could ave died with
out it, so they tell me-"
Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-01-19

"Died OF a operation, did e?"
SAY, and e could ave died with
out it, so they tell me-"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Coolidge Is Caught in the Crash

The campaign which put Calvin Coolidge in the White House
as the running mate of Gaaiel Harding was PAID Tor
money proceeds of the theft of Teapot Dome
This is the which stands out from the mass OF evidence
given witnesses before senatorial nVesgaon
committee equally reluctant to accept it.
Under the Coolidge administration its head elected by the
proceeds of praca adventure 100000 women and chill
dren in the coal fields prosecuted herecs under the
inquisition.
Under the Coolidge administration The DAILY WORKER
and members of it's staff indicted and arrested for the pub
LEGATION of poem which compares American government to
prostitute appears the light of recent exposures that we
now owe an apology to such victims of capitalism
thing has been made clear 1t is that the union Oh imam
cia and industrial capital and American government is complete
some remnants of the that American government repre-
SCENTS M the people, Today epudiate the theft OF Teapot
Dome and the debauchery of the eecora in 1884 ne was
repuatng the murder of Colorado miners and their wives
and Murder and theft the real methods OF caa
the franchise 1t is good however Tor RocKeer 10
appear millions of workers who the real rulers are
AS for Coolidge quite clear why he does not choose
to run The ghosts of Harding Jake Hamon and jess om
Teapot Dome in the way Coodge the so
survivor of Teapot has been told to step down. eas
shreds of respectaby ana TINS
little puppet vcepresency purchased from the pro-
ceeds of gigantic robbery must go into the discard
These developments evidence of deep CRISIS IN
ruling class crisis which corresponds to the industrial
depression the increasing instability of mperaist relationships
and the growing unemployment Of this shall have more
to say At point out only that the crisis must
used the establishment of the masses and to break
away great sections of the working class from the political parties
of their enemies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
By BILL DUNE.

Injunctions and "yellow dog" con-
tracts-these are two main methods
by which lords of finance and indus
try are fighting the labor movement.
The use of injunctions to cripple
and smash strikes is not new but the
increase in their numbers and the
sweeping nature of their provisions,
broadened now to include protection
and legalization of the yellow dog
contract, is a new feature of the pres
ent offensive against the working
class.
This feature of the capitalist often
sive is directed straight at the mill
ions of unorganized workers in basic
industry. The intention of the CAPT
talists is clear:
Taken in connection with the joint
advocacy of an anti-strike law by Of
ficials of the American Federation of
Labor and the legalization of arbitra-
ton agreements and the American
Bar Association, it is obvious that the
yellow dog" contract for which an
injunction can be issued TO prohibit or
ganization of the workers affected
means at the best limiting the base
of the unions to their present mem
bership of less than three million
Actually it means the continued seal
ing down of the most militant sec
tons of the labor movement by the
actual destruction of unions like the
United Mine Workers as in West Vir-
ginia, and by such attacks as are now
in progress in Pennsylvania and Ohio
Use yellow Dog" Contracts.
By the injunction granted the coal
barons in West Virginia the United
Mine Workers are ordered to refrain
from organizing miners who have
been forced to sign "yellow dog" con-
tracts. These slave contracts are not
only recognized as legal agreements
voluntarily entered into by workers
but attempts to organize these work
ers are interpreted by the courts as
interference with the production OF
an article Of interstate commerce
and therefore illegal under the anti
rust laws. Ut is not with this latte,
point that we deal with now, however
By itself this ruling establishes the
precedent for outlawing all importan,
strikes.)
The ruling upholding the. legality Of
the "yellow dog" contract is based up.
on the English common law and 9
number of decisions made by British
courts to bulwark the doctrines Of the
Manchester school and give lega
standing to the horrible practice
which accompanied the herding of tn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Legislation and the yellow Dog" Contract The
Shipstead Bill and AntiLabor Injunctions

English working class into the fac
tories during the rise of English capt.
talism.
Capitalist Freedom
With cruel irony the courts explain
that these decisions in the present
period are for the purpose of protect
ing the right of workers to dispose of
their labor under whatever conditions
they choose and to whom they choose.
(The MARKHAM term tabor power" is
of course unknown to the learned jur-
ists.) Workers who are forced to sign
yellow dog" contracts will be glad
to know that these slave instruments
are in reality expressions of the com
plete freedom they enjoy under capt.
talism.
Anatole France characterized this
by saying that rich and poor alike
enjoy the inalienable right to sleep
under bridges.
There is now before the senate COM
mfttee a bill introduced by Senator
Shipstead of Minnesota which is de-
signed to limit the use Of injunctions
to confine their use to cases involv-
| ing property and property rights. We
intend to discuss here the futile eff
forts of labor union officialdom to
liquidate the class struggle by such
legislation as the Clayton antitrust
law which declared that labor was
not commodity but which in no way
prevented the use of antitrust legis-
lation for throttling strikes and or
ganization campaigns.
Legislation Unsuccessful.
Neither has legislation directed
against the yellow dog" contract
been successful in abolishing this
slave practice.
Official labor leadership never
based its policy upon mass resistance
to injunctions and open violation of
court decisions unfolding "yellow
dog contracts. Always the official
leadership, as it is doing now, has
discouraged mass struggles and
pinned its faith upon capitalist courts
and Legislators.
An examination of the history of
the struggle against the "yellow dog
contract proves to the hilt the Com
munist contention that only defeat for
the labor movement can result from
respect for the legality of anti-labor
legislation and court rulings and a
policy Of fighting these measures
only in legislatures, congress and the
courts.
There have been many laws enacted
to prohibit the forcing of workers to
sign individual contracts of employ
ment and also much legislation de-
signed to prevent the discharge Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

workers for membership in union.
New York passed such law in
1887; Ohio in 1892; Missouri in 1898;
Minnesota in 1895; Pennsylvania and
Kansas in 1897; Wisconsin and Him
ois in 1899; Nevada in 1908; Califor-
MIA in 1906; Oklahoma in 1907.
Passed by Congress.
Congress itself in 1898 passed a
measure prohibiting the use Of the
individual contract and the discharge
of workers for union membership by
railway companies and other freight
and passenger carrying concerns do
ing an interstate business. (Erdman
Act.)
State and federal courts were mer-
CHESS in their treatment of this legis-
lation arising out of the popular
struggle against the trusts. The Il
linois law was declared unconstitu-
tional by the state supreme court in
1900, the Wisconsin law in 1902 and
the New York law in 1906.
Other state laws of this character
were ruled unconstitutional by the
United States supreme court.
Congress was denied the power to
pass anti-yellow dog contract legisla-
ton, the supreme court declaring the
Erdman Act unconstitutional because
| it interfered with the right of the
railroad companies to secure anti
union contracts from it's employees or
to fire them for membership in a la
Dor organization.
Declared Unconstitutional.
In two decisions dealing with the
right of state legislatures to pass this
] kind of legislation the supreme court
| likewise declared these measures I'M
constitu ional.
In 1915 the supreme court in de-
claring the Kansas law invalid de-
] clared it to be: In short an inter-
ference with the normal exercise of
personal liberty and property rights
in the primary object of the statute,
and not an incident to the advance
ment of the general welfare"
The second U. S. supreme court de-
cision declaring unconstitutional an
other attempt to make "yellow dog
contracts illegal was handed down in
the Hitchman Coal and Coke Com
pany case involving directly the right
of the United Mine Workers to or
ganize the workers in the employ of
this concern. The supreme court held
in 1917 that workers employed by this
company who had been forced to sign
individual contracts could not become
members of the union without the
consent of the company, that the "yel-
low dog" contracts were legal and
binding and could be enforced by the
courts against third party-in this
case, as in all cases, the union.
Does Not Learn.
The official labor leadership has
Learned nothing from this sad record
nor does it want to learn. To ac-
QUAINT the union membership and the
working class as whole with the
hopelessness of such legislation Sc
cured by support of capitalist politi-
cal parties and compromises with
their candidates and for the enforce
ment Of which workers are advised tc
depend upon the good will of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
By Fred Ellis

agents of their class enemies, is to
lay the basis for open mass struggles
against the injunction and the "yel-
low dog" contract. This is the last
thing past and present labor official
dom wants to do.
Testifying before the senate inter-
state commerce committee in refer
ence to the Shipstead bill, President
Green of the A. F. of L. and other
union heads stated that their chief
objection to the use of the injunction
was that it destroyed confidence in
the courts" This is their main argu-
ment: Workers victimized by injunc-
tons and "yellow dog" contracts are
losing faith in the impartiality of the
capitalist courts. AS staunch uphold
ers of the capitalist order, based on
the robbery and oppression of the
working class, Green, Vol, Lewis,
ETC., are interested mainly in pre-
venting the development of class con-
seriousness among workers with it's
inevitable swing from reform within
capitalism to revolution against it.
Continue to Antagonize.
These labor agents of imperialism
have what from their standpoint is a
just grievance. In spite of their adj
vice the capitalists and their courts
and lawmakers continue to antagonize
great masses Of workers whom labor
3fficialdom feels could be placated al
small cost if the capitalists would on
ly trust them to maintain unions
which abhor all thought of anything
more revolutionary than wages and
working conditions. Faith in the i'm
partially of courts and elected bodies
is one of the cornerstones of the
Anglo-Saxon system of government.
But as Marx pointed out the unions
are centers of resistance to capitalist
aggression and since the struggle Of
the working class for their living
standards has far wider implications,
Especially in this period of imperial
ism, with Communist parties active
in the labor movement, the unions
cannot be kept within strangling cir
Gle of the official policy.
This is the basic reason for the wide
tdoption Of the yellow dog" contract
and the use of union-smashing injunc-
ions by the capitalists. AS an excep-
tionally frank lawyer stated in refer
ance to the anti-strike arbitration leg
station proposed jointly by the Bar
Association and A. F. of l.. official
dom "the control Of their own mem
bers" is great problem for the A.
F. of l.. leaders.
Fool the Workers.
But contradiction intrudes. After
all, "labor leaders" have to make
some pretense, from time to time, of
| fighting for the interests of workers
they are supposed to represent. In
variably, as they have in the present
period, they seek the most innocuous
and least effective method. 1t is GER
tain that a decade or two ago the
courts were more liberal, in the sense
in which the term is generally used,
towards the working class and its or
CARNATIONS than they are today. Yet
it was in that period that the prece-
dents were established, as we have
seen, for declaring anti-yellow dog
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Il Takes a Labor" Judas to Do 1t.

situation that most
bid of the antabor for the moment mustered suff
cent npudence openly this growing of millions
thrown of industry The Wall Street press merely
trying such ppabe fraud as the nvest
CATION being conducted by the New York department OF labor at
request AL Smith sincere attempt to meet the crisis
The open sneers were left this investigation to Judas
within the Joseph P Ryan, president OF the
Central Labor Council of New York City, became the
spokesman of the capitalist reaction when he betted the
unemployed cheap TRADE before the state department
of labor Friday Observing the unemployed workers pcKeung
the department of labor Investigation and demanding une
poyed relief Ryan attacked them before the decar
ing absolutely opposed to he movement of the
employed and that he had every confidence that AL Smith Will
do the right thing
The important point is not that this head Tammany
ridden Central Trades and Labor Council who poses repub
can, plays the political of AL Smith, the democratic
asprant for the presidential nomination.
The important point Ryan, the labor leader under
this concave of reaconaries to lay the psychological
prospective repression of the unemployed work
New York No else could do it. In all the array of
specially invited charity organization frauds Salvation Army and
NJ c. A. panhandes and others who the misery
suffering of the unemployed workers and their families
professionals whose very upon the petense
giving aid to the worhy poor-there who could
gracefully sink the level of the fake abor leader Ryan,
Roth RYAN and John Sullivan president of the State Federation
of Labor who praised AL Smith the farcca hearing
smugy listened another Tammanyte Edward MacMahon
superintendent of the Municipal Lodging House. admitted that
last month 7220 sheltered in the establishments
control that could sleep the Municipal
Lodging than five nights month and that
who tried to obtain sleep the sixth night sent to JAIL
representative of labor been permitted to be
the hearing instead of political sychohants of the employing
MacMahOn would nave Deen
whole question of the cruel and indecent conditions existing
the Municipal Lodging House opened up.
The traorous the official heads of the city
state bodies imposes upon the unemployed workers and
the working generally the necessity of building up
supporting powerful unemployed councils order that
unemployment may have directing center that will at all times
put that will give relief to the millions
the obvious duty of labor leaders representing the
interests the membership take organizaona steps within
give employment to workers by shortening
hours of labor with no reductions IN pay.
Such program formulated by the Workers Com
unst Party demanding the opening of public
wages creation special fund for public kitchens
administered by unemployed committees and labor unions
ING of public buildings lodgings shelter
poyed prohibition landlords evng unemployed tenants feed
ing children of the unemployed at the public schools
the recognition of and trade Union that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

number Of industries to meet the demand for goods
in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
These demands spite of the AL Smiths and their servants
Ryans and Sulvans will become the demands
unemployed they of the advanced section
the labor movement The unemployed workers of today will be
the labor and will aid in the
cleaning that representatives of the rank and file
the places of these agents employers who assa the unemployed
at the hearings before the labor department.
New Britain herald., 1928-07-21
BURRITTS PLAY EAST HARTFORD
Locals Seek Revenge on Visitors
 for Last Sundays Defeat

Seeking revenge for | bad beat. ing administered to them last Eun- , day in East Hartford. the Burritas will clash with tho East Hartford team at 3 o'clock tomorrow after noon at Willow Brook park. The Burritts were considerably weaken- ened last week because of the ab- sence of nearly the entire infield of regulars.
 These men will be back tomorrow and will be girded for battle. With the regulars in form, tho Burritts are confident of winning the game. There will be plenty of fireworks when both sides get hitting because both teams are known as murder ing crews when they swing into ac- ton.
 Since the opening of the Farm ington Valley league, the Burritts have been hitting tough "breaks'' that kept them from reaching that form which has kept them near the leaders in other circuits. Should the team lose to East Hartford tomor- row afternoon, it will be lone occu- pant of the cellar, an unaccustomed place for the players on the team.
 Both crews will have their stronG- est lineups in action and both will be anxious to win. The large follow ing of the Buiritts is confident that the locals will come through with . win