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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14
BY BILL DUNE.

The terrible suffering of the coal
miners and their families in the
strike areas is being utilized by the
official labor leadership to boost the
political fortunes of their allies in
the two capitalist parties just as
the misery caused by mass unem-
ployment is being used, especially in
New York, to aid the presidential
candidacy of Governor Smith.
Everything But determination.
The coal strike is in it's eleventh
month. Every imaginable method
except that of mass murder has been
used by the coal barons and the state
and federal government to drive the
miners back to work on the coal
barons' terms lin Colorado mass
murder was used). The agents of
the coal companies have stopped
short of determination of great num-
bers of striking miners apparently
only because miners are still needed
to dig coal.
Discovering the Strike.
Senators Johnson of California
and Wheeler of Montana, representa-
tives La Guardia of New York and
Casey of Pennsylvania have Just dis
covered that open war Is being car
ried on against 100000 members of
the working class in the coal fields
striking miners, their wives and
children.
1t seems to be established that a
senatorial investigation Of conditions
in the coal fields will take place.
Senator's and congressman are hav-
ing their pictures taken in the strike
areas and are giving out interviews
in which they profess establishment
and horror. The coal barons are get
ting lot of denunciation from GER
tain senator's and congressman but
the state and federal injunctions
against the strikers still stand, the
coal and iron police are still raiding
the mining camps and the state con-
SboOuldly CDI-It1iuSS " DSdL anu jail
men, women and children.
The Purpose of the Investigation.
On the misery OF the miners and
their families, with the aid of the
Greens, Wolls and Lewises, is being
erected tremendous edifice of hypo.
orisy ard betrayal. labor Official
dom is laying the propaganda basis
for attempting once more to deliver
the miners and the rest of the work
ing class to the political parties of
their enemies.
We are not opposed to senatorial
and congressional Investigations in
such situations. They serve to focus
attention on the struggles of the
workers if properly used by the labor
movement. But we are opposed to
these Investigations as substitutes
for militant action and their use by
labor officialdom and its bosses in
the capitalist parties to confuse the
issues and create the impression that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14

political struggle against these attacks in first
the order of business of the labor movement.
Those labor officials who oppose the organization of labor
party and who attempt to lead the the support of
smoke candidates Of the Wall Street parties
greater danger to the working class than Coolidge whose
political grave is already dug.
The main task Of party in the light of the developing
economic political expose the labor agents of
perasm before the defeat their program Of betrayal
and organize for struggle against them and their masters the
millions of they seek sell Wall its gov
eminent.
The Communist Party is the only organization willing and
capable of undertaking and carrying through this task
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14

the capitalist parties and their agents
will do anything to aid the working
class maintain and strengthen it's or
CARNATIONS.
Investigations viii Not Win Strike.
The coal strike will not be won
and the United Mine Workers saved
from destruction by senatorial inves-
LEGATIONS. These Investigations are
used by labor officialdom and the
capitalists to paralyze and hamper
the only way that great struggle
such as this can be won-mass viola
lions of the injunctions, crganiza-
ton of the non-union fields, the
spreading of the strike to all coal
mining districts, intensive organiza-
tion of strike relief.
A Previous Investigation.
There was a senatorial investiga-
ton of the conditions in the West Vir-
ginia coal fields following the smash
ing of the union in that state in 1921
%. The investigation upheld the
contentious of the miners as to the
use Of an army of gunner and the
abrogation of all constitutional right
by the coal companies and their coun-
ty and state governments.
But the United Mine Workers was
smashed and many of its members
sent to Jail in spite of the investiga-
ton. The Lewis machine did not
utilize the facts uncovered by the in
vestigation to push organization in
West Virginia but under cover of the
investigation deserted the miners and
allowed the yellow dog" contract
and the open shop to become supreme
in the coal fields of that state.
Real Danger.
That this danger confronts the
miners in Pennsylvania and Ohio in
spite of the sympathetic expressions
of senator's and congressman who
have an eye on the coming elections
and are not unwilling, now that Cool
idge is discredited, to take a few
cracks at him, is shown by the out
COME Oh CIle TWO COIueTeiCeS HelU III
Pittsburgh by labor officialdom.
Both of these conferences produced
only an intensification of the mon
partisan" political campaign of the
A. F. of L. 1t is common knowledge
among the Pennsylvania and Ohio
miners that the United Mine Work
err Organizers" and then. fellow
parasites working for the A. F. of l..
executive council are, with few ex-
ceptions, doing nothing but playing
politics with the democrat and repub-
lican party bosses.
+ An Enlightening Item.
The Washington correspondent of a
Pittsburgh paper is able to say under
date of February Q:
5 'Even the United Mine Workers,
who are more friendly to former
Governor Pinchot than to Reed,
have Indicated through responsible
Spokesman in the last "a hours
that they are not hostile at Reeds
candidacy and regard him as SYM
pathetic rather than otherwise"
The brazen betrayal of the interests
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14

commune TO surfer.
But labor officialdom will be busy
organizing to put over enemies of the
working class disguised as friends
of labor" on the tickets of the capital
list parties.
Intensity Struggle.
It is while the coal barons are some
what embarrassed by the present I'M
favorable publicity, that the strike
should be spread, mass picketing or
ganized and intensified and mass vio-
lations of the federal state injunc-
tons carried out on the biggest pos
sihle scale.
Show the coal barons and the in
vestigating senators that the union
is still powerful, that the spirit Of
the membership is unbroken, that
there is no faith in the professions
Of the capitalist party officeholders
and officeseekers who are trying to
use the misery of the miners to
feather their own nests. This is the
only way to make such an investiga-
ton useful for the working class.
Fight Must Go On.
We believe that the 100000 men,
women and children in the coal fields,
who have fought for eleven months
for their union, will not allow the
united front of labor officialdom and
democrat and republican senator's, all
drawing the same salaries and all
serving the same masters, to halt the
struggle and pin their hopes upon
aid from individuals whose interests
lie with the coal barons and not with
the coal miners.
The Program The Enemy.
Spread the strike to all districts
organize the non-union fields-mob-
ilize the whole labor movement be-
hind the miners-suppor the Penn
sylvania-Ohio Relief Committee -
mass violations of injunctions-mass
picketing-defeat the Lewis machine
which is wrecking the union dis
tribute "The Coal Digger, the ex-
preston of the militant member
ship.
Organize and support labor party
send to congress and the state legis-
latures workers who are loyal to
their class and will fight for their
class against the capitalists and their
agents.
The strike can be won only by such
a program as this and a thousand
senatorial Investigations will not
change this fact.
Those who oppose this program are
enemies of the miners, no matter
what friendly phrases they use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14
Lay
Off Thousands
By LELAND oLDs. (Fed. Press).

Railroad employment returns for
November 1927 suggest that the rail-
road unions face situation almost as
critical as that in the years 1922.
The interstate commerce commission
reports the laying off of 54,481 rail-
road workers between October and
November, reducing the total 5000
below November 1921. Between July
and November the railroads reduced
forces by 94,274. The commissions
report shows a reduction of nearly
100000 compared with the previous
November.
Employment Drops.
AS in October the report shows de-
creased employment compared with
1926 in every department, except the
usual small increase in the number of
executives and officials. The num-
Der of shopmen was down 40,377 COM
pared with the previous November
while the other departments showed
reductions as follows: train and
engine service 23,168; maintenance of
way 14,780; transportation, other
than train and engine service, 11,014
and clerical department 1902.
Railroad workers in November
earned an average of $138.60 for the
month, compared with $138.20 IN
November 1925 and $131.40 in the
same month 1923. The monthly
average for workers paid on an hourly
basis was $132.10 in November 1927,
$132.30 in 1926 and $127 in November
1923.
No Raise Since 1928.
In the western district the wages
of workers have not advanced at all
since 1923 while in the other districts
the gain has amounted to less than
half a cent.
The November report raises the
question whether the railroads will
again take advantage of the steady
increase in the number of unemployed
railroad workers to cut wages as they
did in 1921 and 1922.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14
The Reds Fight for Canton

o say what thunder is it shakes the earth,
What lightning the vid sky.
AS if the elements giving birth
To great epic thing that would not die?
say, what portent stands against the dawn
Like sickle and hammer appraised to greet the sum.
Reckoning the crimson daylight
To Judge the bloody deeds that night has done3
Only the blows of slaves who WELD the hammer
Only the CLINT of steel that conquering comes
Only the heavy tread, the wrathful clamor
The flying banners and the beating drums!
Only the workers marching to repay
The cruelties inflicted yesterday!
HENRY GEORGE WEISS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-14
By Fred Ellis

and the miners and their families will
continue to suffer.
But labor officialdom will be busy
organizing to put over enemies of the
working class disguised as friends
of labor" on the tickets of the capital
list parties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

We will engrave a
new plate and print
50 cards i'm shaded Old
English or modified
Roman type.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

CONTINUED from Eighteenth Page,

Che girl reserve department: An Inter-
national Tea Party" by the industrial
department, songs by the Elizabeth
Somers Glee Club and a French play
let by the general education department
are only q part of the program. which
will include the announcement of the
election returns in novel manner and
q big surprise for finale.
Guests of the occasion will be re-
ceived in Barker Hall by the presiden;
of the board. Mrs. Thomas Edwin
Brown. and greeting to new members
will be given by Mrs. Fred E. Wright.
chairman OF the committee on member.
ship.
Mrs. William Cline Borden will enter
tain at luncheon tomorrow in her home
on Tracy place the members of the
board of lady managers of George
Washington University Hospital. who
are making elaborate plans for their
annual benefit for the hospital. which
will take place Tuesday evening. Feb
ruarv 81. at the Mayflower.
Each year these ladies present a fas-
cinatinSly picturesque anniversary party
a. the time of WaShingtons birthday,
which for rumoer of years has been
staged at the university. This year.
however. the party. which will be called
"A garden party on the Potomac in
honor of Gen and Mrs Washington, -
will be given at the Mayflower. and a
colorful scene of great historic interest
will be a feature of the evenings pro-
gram. This scene is now being arranged
by large committee of board members
with Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor and
MIS- waiter X. Tuckerman as co-chair-
men.
Mrs. John B. Larner is chairman Of
boxes: Mrs. Joshua Evans. jr. chairman
OF patroneSSes. and Mrs William Cline
Borden and Mrs. Charles E. Munroe are
co-chairman Of tickets for this inter-
esting historic occasion.
The Southern Society of Washington
will give its second ball of the season
at the New willard Hotel Wednesday
evening. DR.. Edwin Minis. distinguished
author and lecturer. and professor of
English at Vanderbilt University. Nash
vile. will speak at $3.50 O'Clock on The
South and the Nation" Surgeon Gen.
Hugh S. Cumming. president of the So
ciety, Will preside. Dancing will fol-
low Immediately after DR.. Minis adj
dress.
There will be a 500 progressive card
party for the benefit of the Episcopal
Home for the Aged Wednesday. Febru-
airy 8. at the Northeast Masonic Tenn
pie. Mrs. r. H. Doyle chairman.
The January meeting of the WASH
ington Alumni Association of Phi Mu
Sorority was held Thursday evening in
the home of Miss Mary Frances Ward,
who was assisted as hostess by Miss
Marian Barker. president of the asso-
citation. A brief business discussion was,
followed by cards and refreshments.
Mrs. Voorhees, Mcmillan. who is
spending some time in Washington. was
guest Of honor. She is one of the
charter members of Beta Alpha Chap
ter at George Washington University.
Others who attended the meeting were
Miss Evelyn Jones. Miss Virginia
Fisher. Miss Lucy Burlingame, Miss
Shirley Henderson. Miss Virginia
Pryor. Miss Frances Wolf. Miss Mar
garet Black. Miss Louelle Dawson. Miss
r. ]. Echenlaub. Miss Mary Griffith.
Mrs. Pay Bell Pyle and Miss Phoebe
Flruas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
B00TLEGGERS HARD MT
By UNION LABOR LEADER
Official Of Pittsburgh District
Wants Rum Runners and Mar
cotic Peddlers Driven Out,

BY the Associated Press
petition requesting the Prohibition
Bureau to drive bootleggers and narcotic
peddlers from the non-union coal min
ing camps of the Pittsburgh district was
filed with the bureau today by Phillip
Murray. vice president of the United
Mine Workers of America.
The petition said conditions were bad
In the entire district. but called special
attention to 1.-THE notorious violations"
of the law in the camps of the Pitts
burgh Coal Co. one of those which en-
ployed non-union workers when the
union miners ceased work months ago
a. expiration of their wage agreement.
The communication charged that other
companies followed 1.-The lead of the
Pittsburgh Coal Co. either in encourage
ing. promoting or permitting a reign
of bootleg lawlesSness to develop IN the
camps and among their imported en-
ployeS."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
AIDS CHAIN DRUGGIST.
Trade Board Forbids New York
Group to Keep Prices Up.

An order issued by the Federal Trade
Commission TO the New York Pharma-
ceutical Conference prohibits the MAIN
tenance of retail resale prices" through
coercion, intimidation. boycott and
threats OF boycott.
The commission charged that the or
Plantation, through its affiliated associ-
atoms aggregating q membership Of
from 1882 TO 1900 retail druggists of
New York City and Westchester County.
favored maintenance OF a system of
minimum retail prices and opposed the
practice Of manufacturers granting spe-
cial terms and discounts TO chain drug
and department stores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
WILL WAR ON NARCOTICS.
determination of Menace Aim Of
World Conference.

To arouse widespread recognition of
the traffic in drugs as a menace. the
World Conference on Narcotic Educa-
ton has issued a call for international
observance of narcotic week" from
February % to %.
The purpose of the undertaking. the
call says. is TO disseminate information
about narcotic drugs. promote the erec-
ton of Government and State hospitals
for drug addicts and develop uniformity
of State and Federal laws for the con-
troll of narcotics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
Bow, IA, Kills Sister.

HARRISBURG. Pa, January % Lp)
During pillow fight in their home
here yesterday, Chester Fallon. IA. got
his fathers pistol and pointed it at
his sister. Anna May. Is. Ito scare her. =
The pistol was discharged and Anna
Nav fell dead.
The boy was taken to the House of
Detention pending an inquest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
THREE KILLED IN BLAST.
Wrecking Crews Torch Sets OF
Tank Car Near Texarkana, Ark.
TrxApYANA Arr Jaruarv % fxa

Three members Of a train-wrecking
crew were burned to death and several
others were seriously injured yesterday
afternoon In the explosion Of gasoline
filled tank car at Ogden, Ark. II miles
north Of here.
Scott Sharp. a car repairer. died q
few minutes after the blast. Amos
Snow. colored, and T. A. Sellers, Tex
arkana, died several hours later. The
gasoline was set OF from an acetylene
vreckage of 10 derailed tank cars Of the
Kansas City Southern.
Recovery of Ross o. Norwood. fore
man Of the vrecking crew, was doubt
full
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

lOe Snap Fasteners
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II on q card.
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Overall style. OF rub
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Slightly imperfect.
81 Sanitary Belts
Soc each
Assorted sizes of flesh
colored fancy elastic.
Kotsx Sanitary Napkins
3 boxes, CSC
Twelve In q carton.
The regular size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

White Spool Cotton
27c dozen
---Weilington's Three
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&c Msreerixed Cotton
3 spools, 1Oc
---i00-yard spools. In as
sorted colors.
81 Vogue Hair Nets
CSC dozen
Cap and fringe styles.
In single and double
mesh. and all coi0rs but
white and gray,
Csc Seam Binding
l8c piece
- yards 10 q piece. and
4 fine quality silk bind
Ing. In black, white and
Coi0fs
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23
Playing Cards in
Cases at SOC

A pack Of gilt-edged Playing Cards.
in a colored case. with clasp fastener
is what you get for tins small price.
Very attractive for bridge party
prizes.
Manufactured Floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-23

And Many Others
ksnns Street isi00T.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
Modern Science Lets
Liqht on "MirocIes"

The ancient Egyptian priests i'm
pressed the faithful by the perform
ance of what seemed to be miracles,
and their explanation has been recent
ly made the subject of a lecture by
William Reavell, president of the In
stitute of Mechanical Engineers of
Great Britain.
The doors of the temple were made
to open at the bidding Of the priests.
As a matter of fact the heat from
the burning incense on the altar
warmed the air in its base, thus ex-
panding the air and causing 1t to
force water from a jug into bucket,
which was also a counterweight The
weight Of the water falling into the
bucket was what opened the doors.
A similar arrangement making use
of the heat of the sun was the expla-
nation of the collossi of Thebes, which
greeted the rising sun by whistling,-
Chicago Journal.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
Wrong Idea About Bat

The old smile, blind as bat" was
probably suggested by the fact that a
bat is dazed and unable to see well
when it suddenly enters brilliantly
lighted room. As a matter of fact,
the bat has very keen sight, although
il seldom ventures abroad except at
night The phrase in question, how
ever, may have originally referred TO
the popular belief that the bat is to-
tally blind and finds the way about
by instinct. The bat Is mammal
and the female nurses the young al
her breast until they are able to eat
Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
No Clara

He's dignified individual not given
to amusing stories, and he swears by
the sacred fires of his family temple
that this actually occurred. He ranged
in alongside the cashiers desk in a St.
Charles avenue restaurant and asked
for his favOrite brand of cigar. The
young woman lifted out the box, but
1t contained dark cigars, while he pre-
fers the lighter grade. Have you a
Clara?' he asked the girl. And the
dear young thing dimpled as she re-
piled: mo, we haven't. My names
Cora and the other girls name is
Anna We haven't no Clara here
New Orleans Times-P icayune.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
East Indian Brokers
Work Dov and Night

East Indians OF every caste and
tribe are gamblers by instinct, but
the greatest of them all is the Mar
wari, who must hold the worlds rec
ord for nonstop gambling, writes an
Indian merchant In Londin Tit-Bits.
In the Bombay market the Marwari
has established a virtual monopoly
that Of jobber, prepared both to buy
and sell, at Theoretically slight diff
ference in price, contracts for the
future delivery Of cotton.
he cannot resist, however, the lure
Of continuous operations "Out OF
hours" so he resorts to an unofficial
market, Kutcha Khandl, which is open
practically day and night, its activi-
ties being suspended only to allow OPP
orators to snatch a little sleep, or to
adjourn TO the official cotton exchange.
These abuses, and others which pre-
vailed in the market, impelled the cot
islatiOn, and one result was that Kut-
cha Khandi was made illegal. But,
despite police raids on this business
might club" and the spectacle of
group of super-milllonaires being
hailed before a magistrate, the Mar
war; remained unabashed.
Gambling is the breath of life to
the Marwari, and money but coun-
ter. His clothes are a long frOck
coat of white cotton, elegantly waist
ed, shirt, the starched neckband of
which serves as a collar, diamond
studs, a dhotl in place of trousers,
and silk turban of mauve, pink, yell
low or some other bright hue. His
office. equipment usually comprises a
telephone, a pocketbook and an infal-
lible memory.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06

FARMERS BANKINC.AND TRUST CO.
OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND
Capital, $55,2OO SURPLUS $55,200
Undivided Profits, 1000
Resources, $1,40O,0O0
Transacts General Banking and Trust Business
A0z paid savings Credited on accounts
1/O January and July l. Compounded thereafter.
ACTS Executor Administrator Guardian, and Trustees
application.
WILLS naming this Company Executor Trustee will be
written and safely kept, free of charge.
LOANS approved endorsements collateral real
estate.
Hilton Presden and Secretary
M. Bouic LIST Vice Pres James
and Counsel F. Bache Albert, Asst. Treas.
Vice j. Asst
Thomas
E. W. Perry
John W. Walker Alton C. Bell
William W. Darby Eugene Jones
Albert NJ Bouic Darby
Robert G. Hilton L. Billiard
We invite you to account with
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
Then He Understood

He is an ex-soldier. When he re-
ceiyed his discharge he swore he was
through washing dishes, making beds,
securing pans, sweeping, waiting on
table, dusting-and so on.
Then he enlisted in marriage.
Whereupon he began washing dishes.
making beds, securing pans, sweeping,
waiting on table, dusting-and so on.
He puzzled. Inwardly he revOlted.
Finally, one Sunday morning, he I'M
derstood.
His wife-a shrewd wOman-was
happily, very happily, singing
You're in the Army Now"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-07-06
Philosophy of SiIerius

Silerius, the Roman. says in his me.
moirs that wives not only discover
many things I'm husbands to make
them wretched, bur that they invent
many other charges. and sincerely be.
lieve them One 81 his wives. he
writes was the most truthful woman
he ever knew but that she frequently
charged him with oirenses of which
he was not guilty Slerius admits ne
was guilty of the "f1enSeS charged in
his mind; mis- wifi, knew he was viii.
Ing To he. and sincerely believed he
VASE. W. Huwe'S Monthly.