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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
MOrrisOn's Brand of Progressivism

The annual convention of the International
Typographical Union now being held at
Charleston, South Carolina, completely dom
mated by the so-called progressive forces I'M
der the leadership of the machine built up
by Frank Morrison, secretary of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, and Charles P.
Howard, president of the international union
is one of the most viciously reactionary in the
history of that organization.
Taking a more reactionary stand than
most of the previous conventions of the
Typographical Union and one that is in COM
plete harmony with the interests of the pub
fishers, the convention voted down by a
staggering majority the proposals of the
New York City Dix Six delegation for the
forty-hour week. 1t also defeated proposal
to permit local unions to strike without the
consent of the Executive Council of the In
ternational Union, thereby continuing the re-
dictionary policy of placing the interests of
the membership at the mercy of the Morri-
son-Howard friends of the newspaper pub
fishers A form of compulsory arbitration
was also established, inasmuch as the local
unions dare not strike before all efforts to
arbitrate disputes have been exhausted.
The refusal to endorse the forty-hou week
1t is a reversal of the former policy that the
one effective way to solve the problem of
increased production throwing thousands of
men out of work is to shorten hours. That
is the only way to solve the problem and the
refusal of the Morrison-Howard machine to
reaffirm the former decisions of the union
is slap in the face of the whole membership
of the union.
Now that the "progs" are in complete con-
troll they have proved to be equally as re-
dictionary, if not more so, that the Infamous
Wahneta machine that paralyzed the activity
of the union for so many years. They are
completely exposed as enemies of the
workers. The next step in the Typographical
Union is the creation of new political party
that will expose and defeat the new re-
dictionary machine. The fight against the
publishers cannot be effectively waged with
out at the same time fighting their agents
now in control Of the printers union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
A Cathedral Designer Is for Smith

One Ralph Adams Cram, whose claim to
fame is that he is the designer of the Cathe-
dral of st. John the Divine, announces that
he will support the Tammanyite servant of
the House of Morgan, Al Smith, for presi-
dent of the United States, as a protest
against Ignorance and superstition now
rampant" The particular brand of supersti-
ton that Cram abhors is the protestant at
tack on the Roman Catholic religion of
Smith. 1t is evidently possible for Cram to
accept the superstition of the catholicism of
Smith, which like professionalism has its roots
in ignorance.
Politicians and others who try to befog
the minds of the masses with quarrels over
religion instead of facing the political issues
of this campaign would be in sorry plight
indeed if it were not for rampant ignorance.
Certainly Mr.. Cram would have to find an
other occupation than that of cathedral de-
signer were j ant for that fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
The Reply to Gangsterism

Pat Toohey, secretary of the new National
Miners Union, speaking at the funeral of
George Moran, militant miner of Bentley
vile, Pa murdered by gunman in the ser
vice of John L. Lewis and the operators,
sounded the right note when he emphasized
the necessity of the miners building up the
new union into powerful organization and
continuing the fight in which Moran and so
many others have lost their lives.
Such must be the reply of militants toward
every gangster attack upon the labor move
ment. Backed by the operators, the police,
the private armies of thugs and gunner that
infest the mine regions, the professional
murderers feel they can ply their trade with
impunity. And so they can as far as the
capitalist police and courts are concerned.
But there is one force that can annihilate
them. That is the embattled bleeding and
betrayed miners, organized into determined
fighting union. The one effective answer to
gangsterism is the mass fury of the workers
that will scourge from the mine regions every
one of the Lewis gunner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
The Swaraji Hold Out Olive Branch to the
Supporters of Imperialism and Finance

resolution. The petty bourgeois ma
tionalist revolutionaries will grum-
BILE, but will hardle be able to change
the course of politics under bour-
geois leadership.
British Sympathetic.
How the demands will be received
by the British is also still difficult
to say precisely. The sympathetic
tone adopted by the correspondent
of the "Times" in transmitting the
support of the document is, how
ever, indicative. He makes such
commentaries:
'The tone of the document is
admirable. The possibility of a
political existence outside the en-
pire is not considered, but it pos
tulates the disappearance of the
Indian empire in British en-
pire"
Considering that the messages of
the ''Times" correspondent are often
officially inspired and always re-
fleet the views of the British circles
in India, these commentaries can be
taken as the straw showing which
way the wind blows.
The comments of the Calcutta
Statesman (organ of British COM
merce) also indicate that the docu-
ment may be expected to receive a
favorable consideration as a basis
for negotiation. The paper writes:
at is a great advance to have the
Indian demand stated with preci-
sion it hitherto lacked, and in reas-
enable language"
Give Up Simon Boycott.
The boycott of the Simon commits
sion, as far as the nationalist bour-
geoisie is concerned, has practically
broken down. Several provincial
legislatures have passed the govern
ment motion appointing committees
of elected members to cooperate
with the Simon commission. In
Bengal, the stronghold of the Swa-
raj Party, the government won with
majority of 72 to so. 1t is almost
foregone conclusion that in it's
autumn session the central legisla-
ture will also agree to set up its
committee to cooperate with the
royal commission which will return
to India in October Then will begin
the negotiations to strike the bar
gain, the imperialists conceding as
little as possible, the nationalist
bourgeoisie accepting as much as
obtainable peacefully.
The appearance of boycott may
still be kept up to save political
faces and to create a smoke screen
for the cooperation behind the scene.
But it is certain the nationalist
bourgeoisie is not going to encour-
age mass demonstration as took
place during the first visit of the
Simon commission at the beginning
of the year. Already then, towards
, the end, the bourgeois nationalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

stitution demands: 1. abolition of
the ministry for India in the Brit
ish government; 2. sovereign par
lament composed of the king Brit
ish), a senate 600 members in
directly elected through the pro-
vincial legislatures) and house of
representatives $500 members elect
ed directly by universal adult suff-
rage); and 8. a council of ministers
Nationality of the ministers not
mentioned) responsible for every
branch of administration. to the par
Lament.
The British governor general will
remain as the head of the govern
ment. "Emoluments, allowances and
pensions" for the British officials
of the public services are guar
anteed.
Olive Branch.
The most remarkable and interes-
ting point in the document is the fol-
lowing:
eve cannot see why men who
have put great sums of money in
to India should be at all nervous
:. If there are any special in
terests of European commerce
which require special treatment
in the future, is is only fair that
the Europeans should formulate
proposals. We do not doubt that
they will receive proper consider
alton from those anxious for a
peaceful solution of the political
problem"
This is an olive branch to those
who, fearing that political self
government might encroach too
much upon the privileges of imper-
ialist trade and finance, would OPP
pose the compromise constitution
This passage also contains the hint
that in course of negotiation the In
dian bourgeoisie would agree to i'm
perial preference, thus admitting
British monopoly over the foreign
trade of India. A few days before
the draft constitution was published
the Associated Chamber of Com
MERGE of India British and Euro
pean traders) issued its memoran-
dunn for the Simon commission in
which it is energetically demanded
that any new reform of the Indian
government must provide so that nc
discrimination against foreign COM
mercial interests shall be possible
The nationalist bourgeoisie, "anxi-
Gus for a peaceful solution of the
political problem" comedies this de-
mand.
The draft constitution is not sur
prise. AS matter of fact, much
more is demanded therein than will
eventually be accepted. 1t is not
yet known how the nationalist move
ment as a whole has received the
document. But it is sure to be &C
cepted officially by the national con-
gress, notwithstanding last years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
Fascist AuQtOTS Will
Begin Propaganda Flight

Williams, who with Peter Bon
ELI, navigator and radio operator,
came here yesterday to supervise
final tests, declined to discuss re-
ports that he has displaced Count
Cesare Sabelli as flight commander.
Mechanics at the Pratt and Whitney
hangar where the planes Hornet
motor was overhauled Wednesday,
say Williams Is in charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Sept. Ia
(UP).-The big blue and yellow
Bellanca sesqui-plane Roma will fly
from Brainard field to Old Orchard
Beach, Me-, today with it's complete
crew. 1t will take off on the long
road to Rome as soon as the wealth
err will permit, Roger @. Williams,
pilot. told the United PreSS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

ottbDO LAANAAAo VI AcA1
Survey Co M
mission by John
Mullen, of this
city. He did not
tell one-half of
it. Mullen de-
clared that when
those robbed of
their money by
the sharks re-
turn to seek re-
lief they ARE
sometimes beat
en- and thrown
down the stairs.
Tl -s&.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15
Told You So

HOW unemployed workers are
Al swindled by employment agen-
cies was told at hearing of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

CALVIN COOLIDGE has promised
' that he will do his best to get a
four-year lease on the White House
for Herbert Hoover. It appears,
however, that Gals contribution will
be silence. At a conference between
Hoover, Mellon and Kellogg, the
anti-war pact was dismissed as
campaign material lest the demo-
Gratis might be incensed for not been
given their due share of credit for
it and thus melted to jump on it
when the question of ratification
comes up in the senate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

KELLOGG is said to be nervous,
or more nervous than usual, over
the fate of his pact. AS a matter
of fact, the darned thing is already
dead. About the only purpose it
served was to revive the plots and
conspiracies rampant in the chan
celleries of Europe and give the
United States some prestige as
peace-maker, in order to cover up
its imperialistic adventures. There
are rumors that the British are
about to ditch the naval and mill
tary treaty with France and because
of the bellicose attitude of the
peace-loving BRAND towards Ger
many, the socialist cabinet in Berlin,
which was in hot soup already with
the working class on account of its
cruiser program, is liable to get
thrown out on its ear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

said that ten or more men are sent
to places where there is only one
job, that sometimes several men are
sent to places where there are no
jobs and that the collision between
employment managers and agencies
is known to have existed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

THE Kellogg anti-war pact, which
fooled the liberals, who are quite
willing to be fooled, is simply an
American imperialist maneuver, de-
signed to fool the masses and Wall
Streets rivals. Thanks to the ex-
posture of this fake peace move by
the Communist Parties of the world
and by the Soviet government, the
masses have been wised up to the
trick. There is little danger of fool
ing the capitalist governments.
Thieves never trust each other.
Capitalist governments are aggrega-
tons of glorified thieves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

RECENTLY an employment shark
~ was found dead in his office on
Sixth Ave. His death still remains
mystery, but the general opinion
around the "slave market" was that
he came to his death by the hand of
some worker whom he had swindled
out of his money, by sending him to
a job that did not exist and refused
to make restitution. There is no
more vicious form of robbery than
this. Of course the government
will do nothing about it, but it should
he stressed in connection with the
unemployment problem at mass
meetings and through written prop
uganda. 1t is burning issue among
the unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

THIS is well-known fact. EN-
ployment agents grow fat on the
fees stolen from men and women
seeking work, but the law enforce
ment apparatus which is so effec-
lively used to break strikes, by
means of injunctions and police
clubs, is strangely ineffective when
it comes to protecting the workers
against the swindling operations of
unemployment sharks and other
buzzards who fatten on the misery
of the workers, even though there
are laws on the statute books gov
erning the operation of such agen-
cies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

THIS only goes to prove that the
l capitalist powers are incapable
of keeping the peace even among
themselves. War is inherent in the
capitalist system. The struggle for
markets, spheres of influence, stra-
tegic positions on the map-those
struggles are the forerunners Of
war. 1t is just as silly to expect
that any one of the imperialist pow
ers would disarm and place itself at
the mercy of the rest as it would
be to expect that AL Capone, of
Cicero, Illinois, would disband his
army while Klondyke O'Donnel re-
manned heeled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-15

MUSSOLINI has been snorting
iI around the Mediterranean lit
toral since the news of the secret
Franco British pact leaked out. The
fascist chief was seeing red and he
fumed with rage over the treachery
of England in jilting him for BRAND.
But Wall Street stepped in. Now
the British cabinet is almost unani-
mously sick and all that is left of
the Kellogg peace pact is ready for
the undertaken.
The Washington times., 1928-11-14
HOOVER HOME IS
W|LLEBRANDT
STOP
By LAWRENCE SULLIVAN
international News Service

PALO ALTO. Cal, Nov. 14.-Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Assistant
I Attorney General and storm center
of the Presidential campaign, hur-
ried on to Los Angeles today on de-
nartmental business after a brief
stop at the home of Herbert Hoover
here to pay her respects to the
President-elect.
Arriving unannounced, Mrs. Willie
brandt, whose home is in California,
took the Hoover household by sur
prise. She stopped only a few min.
utes and was fairly out of the house
before her presence was discovered
by news reporters.
A Secret Service operative dis
closed her call when he entered press
headquarters inquiring for the pet
dog of the Hoover home.
Mrs. Willebrandt wants to see
him." he announced as he hurriedly
surveyed the room Mrs. Willie.
brandt was accompanied by two
women friends. whose names could
not be learned. She flatly declined
to discuss politics, but said she had
discussed nothing relating to public
business with Hoover. She was in
the house less than Is minutes.
Armed with deep-sea fishing
tackle, purchased in San Francisco,
his first venture from his San Juan
Hill home since his election, Hoover
turned today to the final phase of
preparations for his good will tour
of Latin America.
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All of them told Of the night of
horror after the Vestris sank. Some
were so nerve-shaken by their ex-
periences that they could not talk.
Wrapped in blankets and some of
them without shoes, the 44 passen"
gers and SO members of the crew
that were rescued by the American
Shipper were in a state of near col
lapse when they set foot on shore.
About 40 of them were treated
aboard ship for immersion and in
juries.
Racers Wife Saved
"I shudder when I recall what
happened" said Mrs. Earl de Wore,
of Los Angeles, the wife of an auto
mobile racer who was rescued after
she had been tossed about in two
different lifeboats for hours.
Her husband is among the miss
ing.
One after another told how, sud
denly, the life boats were lowered,
women and children put in the first
two. How they had scrambled into
the other life boats. How those
who could not get into a boat
leaped into the raging sea. How
The Washington times., 1928-11-14
PepcO Works on Plan
To Simplify Wiring

The present complicated arrange
ments as regards special meters and
wiring systems for electric refrig.
orators and electrical appliances are
about to be simplified by the Poto-
mac Electric Power Company,
The company, through II. A.
Brooks. commercial manager, is
preparing for submission to the
Public Utilities Commission a con.
soiidated plan for distributing elec-
fr1c current through single meter
ana single wiring system.
Under the proposed new plan,
one deposit OF about $50 would be
made and all current would be billed
az enc account.
the plan does not contemplate a
reduction in rates but merely an
adjustment with a view to sinplifi.
cation.
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they saw Capt. William Carey stand
by his ship to the very end. How
they saw him go down to a watery
grave. How disaster came upon
the two boats that held the women
and children, precipitating them to
their death in the sea.
What stories they told!
OF woman carrying a baby as
she held to piece of wreckage.
How the baby was tossed high by
q wave and catapaulted into the
sea, How men and women, swim.
ming around in the water, pleaded
with those in overloaded boats to
take them in, and of the despairing
cries as those who could not get in
went down.
Criticise Officers
There were stories of the bravery
of the crew; of criticism of the Off
GERS. Why didn't they lower the
boats sooner? That was one of the
main complaints.
Why was an SOS signal sent
out Sunday and then cancelled only
to be sent out cracking through
the ether again? That was another.
Perhaps the most thrilling story
of all was that related by Paul A.
Dana, 35, of New York city. a rep
resentative of the Radio Corpora
tion of America, one of the last to
leave the ship. He jumped over
board and seized piece of wreck
age. He saw woman, Mrs. Clara
Ball, a stewardess, of New York
city, floating on the waves and
went to her rescue. Together they
clung to the piece of wreckage.
Hung On All Night
"She and l hung on all night" ="
Dana said. alone in the darkness
we prayed. / know ! did. Hour
after hour went by. At times we
did not think we could hold on any
longer. Dawn came and there was
no sign of a ship. I turned to Mrs
Ball. She held out her hand, tears
glistening in her eyes.
'Good.hy.' she said. We shook
hands. We thought it was all over
with us. But one holds deadly to
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LneboatsLeaked, Had
To Be Bailed Out
by International
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN
International News Service

NEW YORK Nov 14-Dramatc details of the disaster that
befel the iated liner Vestris 240 miles off the Virginia
Capes related by 127 survivors of the shwreck who
arrived in New York today aboard the American merchant
liner Shipper which rescued them from eboats and
pieces wreckage they bobbng about in the
taino
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Apartment vacancies in e 81
neixhbOrhOOds with moderate rentals
can always he rented through the Clas-
aified Rental CoIumns' or by calling
Miss Gray at Main $3.50.
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WOMEN And BABES
8; :: Z 3 L|FEb0AIS
Il hGnnXnp -
Creu Blamed for SLolU Work
By DAVID P. sENTNER

NEW YORK. Nov 14Of the life boats that put oft iron
the stricken Laport and liner Ves containing
children capsized is estimated that every chile
aboard the shp--rnore than score, all tod-penshed
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Old Order Brings Them to Doom


and children frst"-that cost so many lives
among the women and children on the liner.
And It was the irony of fate that the order
which usually is the salvation of women and
children should have brought them doom in
the foundering of the Vestris.
The survivors on the Berlin brought a
grewsome picture of the tragedy which fol-
lowed the launching of the open boats. The
passengers, while on shipboard and in the
face of danger, remained calm. But panic
followed the disaster to the lifeboats In the
water.
AS the rolling seas swamped and sank-two of the
boats and the other turned keel up, screams
of agonized fear came from the water-filled with
wreckage and the struggling forms of women and
children
Aruentini0n Censures Operations
Carlos Quiros, chancellor of the Argentine en-
bassy, Washington, was strong In censure OF the
life-saving operations the sinking Vestris.
81 was astonished" said Quiros, cat the lack of
discipline among the of the Vestris at the
launching of the lifeboats. The work very slow
and sloppy
crew started mailing and patching it 1t sank within
from SO to SO feet of the ship
All Life Boats We're Overloaded
In ample
81 started to get in a boat (which think No. B.
got one foot in it overloaded, so stepped
back and leaped into the sea-"
Ouros was later picked up by Lifeboat No. 49, after
swimming in the for some time There were Is others
IN Boat No 13 he said. While he about In the
wrecka filled sea, Quros said he many peope
swimming near him. !,
n and other also criticized the so"ness OF
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ance. $l66, ,0O0, ZOO.
New York Clearing House ex-
change. S1,57O, ,0OO. 900.
Treasury balance, $142 1896, ,O12.5S.
Customs receipts. SIS, ,265 1888.
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THE OFFICIAL WEATHER r

U. ,. WeAIWFf UuVFuU
Fair tonight and slightly warmer;
lowest temperature about ~ de-
grees; Thursday cloudy and warmer;
south winds. Yesterdays tempera-
ture-Highest, 66; lowest, AZ.
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! While the launching Of the boats was
in progress the Vestris turned over IN
the water and panic-stricken passen-
gers climbed from the water upon the
keel, clinging there until the hulk sank.
These grim facts were brought to
port today by the five passengers and
Is seamen who were snatched from
death by the North German Lloyd liner
Berlin. One hundred and five persons
etill are missing.
old Order Brings Them to Doom