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, 1928-01-03
ST. CROlN STATION.

ST. CROIX STATION.
New York, Dec. 30th. The raw sugar
market was unchanged at 4.58 tor CuJan.
Raw sugar futures were / to 2 points
above the previous close. January closed
2.75, March 2.83, May 2.89 July Z.98,
Sept. 3.O6, December 3 Il. Ie refined
sugar market was steady and unchanged
at 5 70 to $50
Lima. Peru, Dec. 30th, The French
avlators Coste ana lie BriX arrived at
Las Palmas aviation field from La Paz
Bolivia at 5 40 O'Clock yesterday.
Rome, Dee. Both Storms. with cycionic
winds and high seas which have buffetted
Ftaoce ana ENGLAND swept over Italy
yesterday ana great waves swept in from
The seas and flooded the streets of Ne
pies. A cyclone u Of the worst since
, 1928-01-03
DIRECT MAIL FOR THE STATES
BY S. s. Nova Scotia" closes in this
town at 500 o. n. Friday, January 9Th.
u

Just after our issue Of December 31st
was out that day the news reached US
from Frederiksted of the sudden death
there that morning of Miss Muriel w.
Henderson, daughter of the late Mir. and
Mrs. Alexander Henderson. She was
buried on the afternoon Of January l.
The funeral was among the largest here,
being attended by people from both
towns and the country districts. Miss
Henderson's death has created a great
loss to FrederiksJed, socially and in com
mercial respects, she having conducted
the Henderson, dry goods business for
the past two years, and by her charming
personality gained a large number of
friends and patrons all of whom by their
presence indicated their regard at the
0~bseQuies.
This paper extends sympathy and con-
dolence to all bereaved.
, 1928-01-03
{

About l 2. m. on Sunday a murder
was committed in Water Gut 1t appears
that Peter King ghe murdered man and
Joseph Bratith had some argument over
a girl, when Brafi,h drew his knife and
siashed KING so badly about the neck
and other parts OF his body that ne died
, 1928-01-03
Orrftt1lna.

no our kind friends and patrons all over
the island we extend our hearty good
wishes for Il HAPPY AND PROSPER
GUS NEW YEAR.
We embrace this opportunity to ex-
press our appreciative thanks for the CO.
operation and support given US in our
~endeavours to procure and exhibit, at all
times, the best pictures procurable in
this field.
We trust that you will continue to find
pleasure in coming often to the House of
Good Pictures during 1928.
THE MANAGEMENT.
THE CHRISTIANSTED THEATRE,
operating also at Frederiksted and Beth
lehem.
, 1928-01-03

Mr.. Fritz Hennemann, aged 68, master
blacksmith Of this town, after a llnger-
ing illness, died at his sons residence in
Frederiksted, Saturday morning at 8
O'Clock. The funeral took place from
st, Johns Church to the public cemetery
on Sunday afternoon. A large number
Of people attended. Rev. FIR. Pigott per-
formed the burial ceremony. Our sym
pathy is extended to the bereaved rela-
tlves here and abroad.
, 1928-01-03

Passengers by S. s. 'Catherine" Tee,
31st and Jan. lst. From San Juan,P r.,
= Cesar Espanol, Helen Dorothy Bird,
Anthony Bastian, Josephine B~astian,
Peter La Bega, Fausto Parcy, Frederick
A. Phaire, RapaeI Moves, Catalina
Euadeioupe, Narciso Sueiro and Astud
Kelsick. From St. Thomas Emaline
ThjstIetone, Kay Olsen, Fritz LaWaetz,
Pierre Tnrbe, Leander Henderson, Mil
dred Henderson. Oneal Henderson Lloyd
Henderson. Rudolph Henderson, Allan
Henderson and Eduarl0 Moron. For
San Juan.-HeIen Bird. For ST. Them
as Joseph Brauden. Mary James, EthIyn
Muller, John Seatey, Martha Buckley,
John Benjamin. Maud Reimer, John
Nicholas, Emilia James, Nanassa Saun-
ders, Lilly Beabrun, Edith Williams,
Alexander Williams, Victor Daniel, Pierre
Torba, Agatha Danjeisen, Ernest Braith-
waithe, William Dyer, Mildred Hender-
son, Rudolph Henderson, Allan Heuder-
son, U'Neil Henderson, Lloyd Henderson,
Z. d, Bellows. Bosira thomas, Richard
Conton, holardo Vanterpool and g..
Meyers.
, 1928-01-03

The Scapulary", q fine picture was
screamed last night before a very large
audience in the Ch~ristiansted Theatre.
All the seats were taken at 8.15 O'Clock.
Extra chair had to be provided for the
big crowd.
, 1928-01-03

soon after reaching the hospital. After
perpetrating tits dastardJy act Bratfith
ran way from'tho scene. but finally gave
himself up at, KIngsbili Police Station
yesterday, and was brought 70 town Ia
ter in the day under Police guard.
Our streets were lively yesterday with
music in the morning and several troops
of masQueraders in the afternoon. Many
persons from Frederiksted and the coun-
Try took advantage Of the omnibus ser.
vice recently introduced in the isIaOd,
and swelled the crowd on The streets.
In the evening there were dances at the
dance halls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
SO Years Ago "Iron Chancellor" Made Assault
on Young German Labor Movement

mi-absolute state, of the reaction
airy bureaucracy, "Junkertum," and
bourgeoisie upon the frail and in
cohate proletarian party.
Bismarck's Mistake.
Bismarck's assumption that by
this system of brutal violence he
would be able to break the back of
the proletarian cause, was based
upon fallacy. He calculated on
Generalization setting in in the
ranks of the class conscious work
ers once his knout and his cuiras-
sier-boot were put into operation.
This calculation started from the
experience which the reactionary
Prussia and Germany of that time
had made with bourgeois liberalism
after 1848. At that time violence
and oppression had sufficed to
bring the bourgeoisie and the petty
bourgeoisie to it's knees.
But the same Prescriptions did
not apply in the case of the prole-
tariat. Quite on the contrary. The
young working class had developed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
By WERNER HIRSCH.

FIFTY years have passed since
1 Bismarck made his assault On the
young German labor movement. On
October 21st, 1878, the chancellor of
blood and iron finally put through
his will in a Reichstag put together
under the terrorism following the
attempt sof Hodel and Nobiling, and
achieved that emergency law
against the socialists without which
ne imagined it would be impossible
to continue ruling.
The Socialist Law" meant the
prohibition Of all socialist news
papers, the ruin of all socialist
printing works and other enter
prises, the dissolution of the Party
organizations, the destruction of
the trade unions and their organs,
arrest for the agitators and func-
tionaries of the infant movement,
and finally the proclamation of a
"small state of siege" in numerous
districts and in connection with it
the expulsion of many hundreds of
social democratic pioneers, many of
whom were at barely "a hours no.
tice torn from the circle of their
friends and relatives and from their
calling and exposed to direct pen
ury. The Socialist Law" meant
the entire impact of the apparatus
of authority in a semi-feudal and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

from presenting the petition.
More Money for War Preparations.
Especially at this time is the gov
eminent interested in stopping the
Communist, the Young Communist
movement from presenting their
views. 1t is because that at the
present time more money is being
appropriated for ornaments, for pre-
pairing the army and the navy for
the coming war, whether it be with
England or what country, in order
that they may make more profits
for themselves, who are looking for
markets. 1t is for those who made
profits in the last world war, for
whom hundreds of thousands of
young Americans were killed and
crippled and as was described by
the late President Wilson when he
said that the last war was COM
mercial war. The coming war will
also be a commercial war-unless it
is war against the Soviet Union,
where the workers established their
own government, where the workers
are not working II and IA hours a
day as they do in this country, but
where they established, last year,
an 8-hour day, and at the present
time are introducing the 7-hour day,
without the need of a strike; where
every worker has one months vaca-
ton with pay; where every young
worker between IA and Is years of
age works only four hours a day, a
part of which he spends under, an
instructor; where young workers be-
tween 16 and IS years of age do not
work, as in the textile industry here,
9, 10 and II hours day, but they
work only six hours day
MR.. GIVEN (Interposing): Your
honor, I think he has had his say
He is not talking about the charge
made against him here at all.
THE COURT: Confine yourself
to the information here.
MILLER: I am trying to give you
the information why I was present
with them.
! Ito Be Continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
What Or Who Is the Center Of the
Universe?

The capitalist press, in reporting the pro-
ceedings of the meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences, revealed yesterday
that the center of the Universe had been dis
covered by astronomical observations extending
over number of years and that Miss Henrietta
Swope, daughter of the president of the General
Electric Company had been associated with him
professor Shapley of Harvard Observatory in
the observations of the past year."
At first blush it might seem little con-
fusing that the center of the Universe is SO
inextricably mixed up with the daughter of
the president of the General Electric Com
pany. But we hasten to explain that the
progeny of the head of the Electric Trust, or
even his poodle or his drink mixer, cannot
but be of greater Importance to the poor pro-
fessors who live from his purse, than a mere
scientific discovery. Truth is that the poor
scientific men, in locating the center of the
Universe, have stirred up an embarrassing
contradiction. 1t is that the findings of their
instruments fix the center of the universe,
astronomcally speaking, at a definite point
far out among the stars--47 900 light-years
from the Sun--whle the innermost most
sacred feelings of the scientific men--eco-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

ing our views. And the treatment
accorded US
MR.. GIVEN (interposing): Tell
the court how many times you pa
raded around the building?
MILLER: I will explain that.
MR.. GIVEN: That is what the
court wants to hear.
Program of Young Communists.
MILLER: I was here to present a
petition to Secretary Davis, demand
ing in the name of the organizations
affiliated that John Porter be re-
leased. The organization that I rep
resent is the Young Workers (Com-
munist) League. 1t is an organiza-
ton of young workers fighting for
the betterment of the young work
ers, whether they are working in the
textile industry, or whether they are
working in the coal mines, or
whether they are fooled into the
army and wearing uniforms for the
present. If they are a part of the
working class, if they come from the
ranks of the workers, we will fight
in their interest, and will defend
them in every way possible.
Government Suppressing Workers.
When we came here to Washing
ton we came with the intention of
presenting a petition, in a quiet and
peaceful manner, to a secretary ap-
pointed by the president of the
United States, who is elected, or sup
posed to be elected at least, by the
people of this country. l maintain
that the fact that we were not per-
nlitted to present our case, and have
been exposed to this treatment, is
because this official is nothing but
a tool of Wall Street, whom he rep
resents. say that is the reason
why we were arrested and stopped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
Bismarck's Law Against the Socialists

towns and rural districts to the di-
rect social ostracism and to the
pressure brought to bear upon them
by the bourgeoisie and other
classes. Thus the first effect of
the law was to loose all such forces
within the Party as secreted within
them the poison of petty-bourgeois
smugness and decay. Suddenly up
rooted, they knew but one desire,
and that was to be rid of the So
cialist Law or of its effects.
But it was just this first disas-
trous effect of the Socialist Law,
subJecting the Party for more than
year to chaos of "Philistine"
tendencies, defaitism and "squeam-
ishness" las Engels calls it, that
finally aroused in the proletarian
masses of the Party that strength
which only the working class was
able to produce in Germany, the
strength of the class conscious will
to fight, relying entirely upon it.
self. In the dialectic process of this
reciprocal effect of the development,
upon the one hand, of all bad petty
bourgeois tendencies by reason of
the emergency law, and, upon the
other, of the subsequent mobiliza-
ton of the proletarian resistance to
this very development, the Socialist
Law became lever to raise the
young and immature social demo-
cratic party to the height of truly
revolutionary mentality in the sense
Of scientific socialism.
ITO Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
Demonstrators jailed for Demanding Porter
Release, Define Views On Capitalism

MILLER: l want to bring evil
dence in my case because
THE COURT (interposing): Con-
fine youself to the information.
Prison Conditions.
MILLER: I am giving informa-
ton that this was all a precon-
ceived plan to railroad us, and to
keep us from presenting our cause
to the workers in this country, and
also from presenting our statement
to Secretary Davis. Now, in the
jail we were put. four of us in a
cell, with cockroaches, with one
bed, and the most of us sleeping on
the floor
MR.. GIVEN (interposing): Your
honor, I suggest that that is not
the proper charge here.
THE COURT: That is not the
charge you are being tried on here.
Confine yourself to the case here.
MILLER: Al right. If you OBJ
ject to my presenting the facts
MR.. GIVEN (irterposing): No;
We do not object to your giving any
facts here that have a bearing on
this case. But what you are now
saying does not have anything to
do with the charge against you
here. You have a remedy else
where for anything of that kind.
MILLER: Well, this was the
way was kept in order to be pres
ent here this morning.
MR.. GIVEN: You are here to tell
us what you did on the sidewalks
on the West Executive Ave.
MILLER: l want to show you
why we are here, and that is that
it was all a preconceived plan; that
this was all planned out to perse-
cute US and keep as from present
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
Militants Tried in WASHINGTON

THIS is the third instGllment
Of the stenographic record of the
trial IN Washington, d. C. of go
1oorkers for participating in the
demonstration for the release of
John Porter and against imperial
ist War.
The Clerk of the Court: The next
may may come around. Hold up
your right hand and be sworn.
CLARENCE MILLER: 1 affirm.
Whereupon Clarence Miller, another
witness presenting himself in his
own behalf, after having been duly
affirmed, testified and stated as
follows:
Direct Statement.
If / do not speak as loud as the
other speakers, or as the other
brethren who have testified here.
it is because since Saturday at five
o'clock l have only had roll and
a cup of coffee. l have been in a
cell
MR.. GIVEN (interposing): Your
honor, l suggest that the witness be
required to confine himself to the
issue here.
MILLER: l want to explain it.
MR.. GIVEN: You are in the
wrong place if you wish to make
any complaint about your treatment
while in the jail.
THE COURT: You will confine
yourself to the charge brought
against you here.
MILLER: l thought this had to
dc with why we were arrested, and
with the way we were treated after
we were arrested. l want to show
that in order to show you
THE COURT (interposing): AS
to the way you were treated, that
does not come up before this tri-
bunal. There is another tribunal
that such matters come before,
This is court to try the charge
brought against you.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

under quite different conditions
from those attending the growth of
the other parties in Germany It's
sentiments and thoughts were ac-
tuated by a single social factor, the
pressure of capitalism. Thus the
will to fight and the class conscious
ness of this particular class had de-
veloped just as naturally as had the
SNUG complacency of the other
classes. In this misunderstanding
of the historic conditions accom-
panying the fight against the la
Dor movement, lay Bismarck's chief
mistake.
Party Awakens.
At first, it is true, it appeared as
though he was right in his assump-
ton. The decree of the emergency
law Immediately destroyed many
thousands of existences upon the
surface of the Party by the destruc-
tion of all Party enterprises. Driven
in many cases from their habita-
tions, these leading members of the
Party were exposed in the small
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
So This Is 'Libertarianism"

H. L. Mencken, the little Nietzsche of the
American middle class, in an article entitled
whats Wrong with the Nation?" writes in
the columns of that once over-sweet journal
Of liberalism:
The main thing wrong with it (The Ma
fion), believe is that in its laudable progress
from liberalism to Iibertarianism it occasionally
hangs back and moos sadly, like a COW torn from
its calf"
Not bad from the point of view of the more
Drazen defender of imperialism. From
liberalism to lbertaranism" at least ex-
presses the transition now going on in a sub
stantial section Of the petty business and
professional classes. What can poor pro-
fessional t'intellectual' do when bio finance
capital more powerful and raucous than ever
before can set up it's own straw man, Al
Smith as the national leader of liberalism"
and then knock him over with one hand
Waat ran they do when antitrust laws are
shown up as plain "hooey" that no one will
howl for any more. when the proprietor of
tie little cigar-store on the corner has gone
To work for the Omitted" when the grocery
man who used to read the 1.-THE Nation" is
NOW counting pickles in the chain-store and
becomes skeptica of the hopeful dope of
Mr. Willard?
What con they do? AS the Baltimore
buuQ-statlt aFs thew turn sadly away from
h&qalism and ,oNard the Aynicism that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
Greek Shin Sends Out
S 0 S; Rudder Broken
(By United Press.)

A tug boat has been sent from
Fayal, Azores, to the aid of the
Greek ship Alexandria, which has
sent out an SOS. No word has
been received from the tug.
The Alexandria was north of
Fayal when it sent out the sos
saying it's rudder was broken. The
ship left Montreal Nov. 8 for Italian
ports.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22
Profiteering and "Wageteering"

John E. Edgerton, president Of the nation
al association of manufacturers, in replying
to President Green's charge before the New
Orleans convention of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor that the members of the
Edgerton organization were a menace to
American institutions during the war"
CHARGES workers with 'wageteering." The
Implication of Edgerton is that the Amer
icar Federation of Labor officialdom, dur
ing the war. encouraged struggles for in
creased wages.
In this discussion between two groups Of
imperialist supporters we are quite certain
that Green has the better of the argument.
The war record of the reactionary official
dom exposes Gompersism in its most men
acing form as far as the working class is
concerned It was the official policy of the
executive council of the Federation to dis
courage strikes and increases in wages on
the plea that workers should refrain from
seeking wage increases and improved con-
ditions in spite of the great demand for
labor.
In fact Gompers, as minister without
portfolio of the war cabinet of Woodrow
Wilson, kept horde of organizers" busy
rowing the country and telling the workers
in the war industries to work long hours
and for low wages "to make the world safe
for democracy" The workers were told
that they were heroes, fighting in ''the Sec
ond line trenches" the basic industries with
out which the war could not be prosecuted
to a successful conclusion, and that after
the war was over they could get anything
they wanted.
Nov, uy,no on I1ToV
Gompers and his cohorts worked overtime to
sabotage the efforts of the workers to real
ize some of the democracy they had been
promised In the first great struggle after
the war. the steel strike, Gompers and Co..
while pretending to favor the strike did
everything in their power to aid the COM
bined forces of the steel trust, the govern
ment and the private armies of company po-
lice and gunner to crush it.
The members of the national association
of manufacturers, who owned many of the
war industries, reaped the most bountiful
harvest ever garnered by them up to that
time Profiteering was the order Of the day
and he who dared suggest that such patrio-
tic gentlemen were utilizing the war to en-
rich themselves found himself facing fed
eral court for violation of the espionage act.
Mr.. Edgerton, like many of the ruling
class, sometimes fails to recognize his best
friends, otherwise he would appreciate the
services of the American Federation of La
Dor bureaucracy during and since the world
war.
The national association of manufacture
ers can rely upon their fellow servants of
Imperialism at the head of the A. F. of L.
in the next war to do precisely as they did
in the last war-endeavor to deliver the
workers bound and gagged to the war mo-
loch.
Green and Co. will never, by the widest
stretch of the imagination, favor what Ed
gerton calls "wageteering," because that
would interfere with the profteering of the
war-mongers, whom they serve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

nomicay speaking them that the
center of the Universe is close to the hearth
of the biggest official of the General Electric
Company on whose bounty they live. The
compromise report couples the center Of the
UnI5erse as matter of equal interest with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

the favorite progeny of the industrial king
While capitalism rules, scientists must be
slaves and speak as slaves
May we expect the center of the Universe
hereafter to be known to astronomy as Hen
rietta?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-22

LETHBRIDE, Can, (By MaiD.
Two miners, George Lothian and
John Labdex, were asphyxiated in
the mine of the International Coal
and Coke Co.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-10-17

and the desire to make place for
himself in the world which this young
man has shown is unusual and worthy
of the highest commentator, and the
Mascot joins his manysfriends in this
community in extending to him their
congratulations.
After short visit at the home Of
his parents and with his sisters,
Mrs. Earl Roberts and Mrs. Floyd
Roberts, here, he returned to Chicago
on Monday of this week. Mr.. and
Mrs. Johnson and their infant son
live at 7051 Bennett avenue.