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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-29

Mr.. J. M. Jarboe, of the Garrett
National Bank, returned to his home
in Oakland yesterday evening from
Washington, where he had spent
week.
The Luther League of the Synod of
West Virginia will hold it's annual
convention in Charleston, from June
rs to 81. A delegation of young peo-
pie is expected from the churches in
this area. Rev. A. j. Traver, Phila-
delphia, president of the Luther
League of America, is included among
the speakers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McComas, who
spent several months in Baltimore,
where the former was patient in
Johns Hopkins Hospital, returned to
Oakland on Friday night of last week.
They were accompanied home by Mrs.
Henry McComas, who had been in Bal
timore with them for some time. Mr..
McComas is slightly improved in
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster o. Speicher
and daughter Betty Lou, will drive to
Westminster on Saturday where they
will attend the annual alumni dinner
on Saturday evening and the COM
mencement exercises of Western
Maryland College on Monday. Mr..
Speicher's sister, Miss Kathryn Spei-
cher, will be graduated from the col
lege, the youngest of a class of 1O3.
Mae Orm, little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. D. Whipkey, was brought to
her home in Oakland Saturday even
ing from Memorial hospital, Cumber-
land, after having been patient
there. about two weeks. She was ad-
mitted to the institution suffering
from injuries received as the result
of being struck by an automobile at
Oakland's Flying Field. She has al
most entirely recovered from her in
juries.
The engagement of Miss Leah
burst, of Keyser, w. Va, and Mr.
John Hafer, of Frostburg, was an
nounced at bridge party given by
Mrs. George Sincell on June 8. Those
attending from Oakland included Mrs
Milton Sincell, Mrs. Edward Offutt,
Mrs. Donald Sincell, Mrs. Margaret
McComas, Mrs. James fowler, and
Mrs. Carlton McComas. Miss burst
| is we'll known in this section, being
the granddaughter of Mrs. Leah F.
Sincell.
Rev. C. A. Shilke, Oakland, and Mr.
Elmer Shaffer, Red House, will make
the annual visit to the Tressler Or
phans' Home on Wednesday, June a,
where they will attend the annual
Board of Directors meeting and be
present at the annual visitors day
of the home when thousands of people
come to see the pageant put on by the
children of the home. Most people
will remember the Home by the Boys
Band which makes an occasional visit
to Oakland and vicinity.
DR.. Henry W. McComas, as chair
man, and Mr.. Stuart F. Hamill, as
secretary, of the Public Relations
Committee for Garrett county of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com.
pany, have issued invitations for 6
meeting and dinner at Table Rock Inr
Tuesday, June 8, at six o'clock. The
meeting will be similar to those be-
ing held in other parts of the State
where relations between the railway
company and the business men of the
various communities are discussed anG
mutual cooperation and understand
ing is thus achieved.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-29
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

NOIES VI lin EnEO1
Mrs. F. E., Rathbun left Oakland
last Saturday for Cincinnati, Ohio,
where she is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Ebert Bonner.
There will be a Children's Day
service at Lake Ford M. E. church on
June 8, at 10 a. m. Everybody is in
vited to attend.
Mr.. D. S. Custer and Justice of the
Peace Jasper Guard, of Friendsville,
were business visitors to Oakland on
Monday evening.
Miss Beatrice Hall, Mr.. Kent Linger
:. and Charles Hall, Fairmont, w. Va,
were the guests of Miss Virginia
~Casteel over the weekend.
This is the season Of the year
housekeeping time-when those of the
household of the male persuasion are
not lacking excuses for not going
home at the lunch hour.
Mr.. Charles Weibel, manager of the
Jenvey printing works at Cumber-
land, accompanied by his son and
party of friends motored to Oakland
Saturday afternoon for brief visit.
Rev. C. A. Shilke will preach the
the Baccalaureate sermon for the
senior class of Friendsville High
school in the Methodist Episcopal
church, Friendsville, on Sunday even
ing, June Is.
Messrs. Elmer Seig, Leonard Sim
ger and Lew Hanst, all of Pittsburgh,
motored to Oakland Tuesday after
noon and spent the night here with
friends, returning to Pittsburgh yes
terday morning.
DIR. A. L. Gray, missionary from
India, will be the speaker in the M.
E. church in Oakland this evening at
7:45 o'clock. All are invited and all
urged to attend and hear DIR. Gray
speak on "India."
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Walls, of
Kingwood, W. Va, who spent the win
ter months at their home in Orlando,
Florida, will arrive here tomorrow
from the South where they will be
guests of relatives for brief period.
Mr.. John W. Mccullough, Friends
vile, was here yesterday, having
come to Oakland as a spectator at
the field meet held at the fair grounds
adjoining Oakland. He was accom-
panied by his granddaughter, Miss
Statler, also of Friendsville.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Garrett county advertise in to-
days Republican that bids will be
received on Thursday, July 8, for the
construction of steel bridge with
reinforced concrete floor over Cherry
Greek, near Swan Meadow school.
Rev. w. L. Disc, of Aurora, filled
the pulpit of st. Marks Lutheran
? church at Oakland Sunday morning
when Rev. C. A. Shilke, pastor,
preached the Baccalaureate sermon to
the 10 graduates of Aurora High
school in the High School auditorium.
Preaching services will begin in St.
Matthew's Episcopal church on Sun
day and will continue throughout the
summer and perhaps longer, Rev.
Charles A. Trail, Frederick, will
take charge of the church, and will
hold his first service Sunday morning
at IL o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nicholson one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Stahl and
family were visitors at the home of
Harry Moon on Sunday.
Mrs. Clarence Fulk, Mt. Lake Park,
was the guest of Mrs. Charles Fulk on
Friday of last week.
Mr.. Dorsey Ashby, ST., and Mr..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-29

Charles Fulk were at Crellin on Sum
day where they visited Stanley Ash
by who was painfully hurt in the
mines on Saturday.
Some much needed cleaning should
be done at the Underwood cemetery.
Some have been working and have
cleaned up their lots while others have
not.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
BY MAX BEDACHT.

THE Supreme Court of the State of Cali
forna has recently again refused to act in
the case of Warren K. Billings and Tom
Mooney who are serving sentences in Cali
fornia penitentiaries, inflicted upon them as
result of most dastardly frame up. The
Governor of California to whom Billings and
Mooney had appealed for pardon used the
rejection by the Supreme Court of California
OF review of the case to refuse on his part
the requested pardon.
Both the Supreme Court of the State of Cali
fornia, and the Governor of the State of Cali
fornia speak vaguely about the records in the
case and about the validity of these records.
They do this in the hope that the working
masses of the United States no longer remem-
Der the revolving details of this frame up.
They do this because they themselves are part
OF that frame up and are still determined to
go thru with it to the end
Let US refresh the memory of the American
workers concerning the facts in the case of
Billings and Mooney:
There is some similarity in the situation
of 1916 and today. Then, as now the powers
that be, the ruling capitalists, were preparing
Tor war. Then, as now, the official propaganda
of the government and its agencies the cap
italist press, was urging the building of war
hips. the formation of new regiments and
the preparation of the most extensive arma-
ments. The only difference is that today this
work. is carried on under the guise of pacifisn;
IN 1916 it was carried on under the slogan of
preparedness.
In the Summer of 1916, under the nstga-
ton of the government and under the direct
leadership of the local chambers of commerce,
mass parades were held throughout the coun.
try urging ornaments upon the Government
The mass participation in these parades was
effected by the shutting down of the factories
on the day of the parade. Definite instruc-
lions were given by the bosses to the workers
to participate in the parade or get fired
One of those parades was organized in San
Francisco for Saturday, July o. Before the
parade had gotten under way, bomb ex-
ploded at the corner of Stewart and Market
streets, the gathering place for section of
the parade. The bomb killed some 10 people
Immediately afterwards, that is, within
day, Warren X. Billings, Tom Mooney, Reena
Mooney, Israel Weinberg, and Ed. Nolan were
arrested and charged with the crime. Accord
ing to the rules of capitalist law and order,
the investigation of the crime fell upon the
shoulders of the district attorney of the city
and county Of San Francisco. This district
attorney had at his disposal the police depart
ment of San Francisco. But the police depart
ment completely abdicated in this case. The
case was taken over by the detective depart
ment of the United Railway, the street car
corporation of San Francisco. One Martin
Swanson, hireing Of the United Railway be-
came the moving spirit. He with the district
attorney Charles M Fickert, became the main
figures in the farcial drama that was enacted
as result of the bombing explosion.
The district attorney Fickert also a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18

or more years of service thrown on
the scrap-pile and expect to be the
next.
They talk about what dupes they
were back in 1892 and 1919, when
together. When alone they are con-
tinually muttering curses at the
company. Most of them have quit
praying to Jesus and counting on
the boss's favor. Their illusions
are falling like the leaves in the
autumn. These conditions precipi-
tate rebellious and indignant at
mosphere which will eliminate in
a great struggle in the near future.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League is organizing shop commit
tees in the works. That will lead
the STRUGGLE of the steel workers
against their miserable conditions
and eventually overthrow the
bosses rule forever.
"A STEEL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18

hireling of the United Railway. Against the
leaiing spirits of that corporation there were
pending a number of criminal charges. These
charges had grown out of the disclosures of
graft and corruption which had ended the
career of the notorious Abe Ruef, political
boss, and SchmitZ, the so-called labor mayor
OF San Francisco. These charges were an
noying to the leading gentlemen of the San
Francisco street-car corporation. So they put
up one of their lawyers, Charles NJ Fickert
as candidate for district attorney Thew
spent money lavishly to have him elected
They succeeded. The first official act of the
newly elected district attorney Mr.. Fickert was
to walk into the courts of San Francisco and
move the dismissal of the cases against the
grafters. The motion was Immediately granted
Flckert and Swanson, the paid hirelings of
the United Railways, never had even a shred
of evidence that justified the arrest of any
of those accused; but they arrested them
nevertheless and prepared the case against
them; the preparations consisted in the manu-
facture of evidence against the accused.
The Jury in the Mooney Case
The case was tried in the Superior Court
OF San Francisco, before Judge Griffin. To
understand thoroughly the seeming naivete of
the jury, which swallowed the most outrageous
larry tales of the witnesses without question,
1t is necessary to picture the jury system in
San Francisco The list of prospective jurors
was made up by the district attorney and the
sheriff. Names are added or taken off this
list at the discretion of the district attorney,
In every courtroom there generally assem-
bic as spectators a class of men and women
who try to satisfy their low intellect and
perverted cravings by listening to the crue-
some stories of murder cases or to the delicate
details of divorce cases. This element is large
ly recruited out of retired petty bourgeoisie.
Former corner grocers or saloon keepers make
up the bulk.
In San Francisco, and for that matter thru
out California, practice developed to recruit
the jurors out of this element. They were
mostly retired business men with meapre
income. 1t occurred to them that they could
combine the agreeable with the useful. They
could listen to the stories they were craving
for and at the same time get paid for it by
serving on juries. AS result the district
attorney office gradually built up list of
candidates for the jurors wholly recruited out
of this element. They were all interested in
keeping their "jobs." Since they depended on
the district attorney in the matter of keeping
their jobs they were always most obliging to
the district attorney. Anything the district
attorney wanted them to believe they were will
ing and ready to believe for consideration of
$500 per day. This was the notorio, profes-
sional jury system in California
Out of this element the jurors in the case
against Warren K. Billings, as well as in the
case against Tom Mooney, were recruited.
The Evidence in the Case
The district attorneys office that is Fickert
and Swanson, maintained that Warren K Bill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
Philadelphia, Pa.

Editor Daily Worker:
The shop where I work is one
of the foremost of shoe factories
of its kind. The management was
always one of the most reactionary.
Even when the shoe trade was at
the peak of good business, and the
workers were most needed and
scarce to get, the discipline here
was kept up to the highest notch.
The work was so rationalized that
the workers hardly had time to
breathe.
Now they keep watchmen on every
few workers so that workers should
not talk to each other and are
very minute subject to the good
mood of this Waterman, who is
mostly ignorant and brutal like a
mad dog.
Last summer it seemed as if the
ice was starting to melt when one
of the biggest shops, Laird and
Schober went on strike. Many of
US hoped that at last our sleepy
city, Philadelphia, was awakening,
but this struggle ending as it done,
for our bosses posses and control
the political power that is now pres
sing down the workers than any
time before. They choke US by the
throat and the shoe workers of
Philadelphia are now subject to the
most Shaving conditions.
How long, shoe workers of Phil
adelphia, will you wait for the
crumb of your bosses who are en-
joying all the luxuries of life from
your sweat and blood and so cynic-
ally laughing at you?
Look at the shoe workers of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18

ings, Tom Mooney and Reena Mooney were
driven by Israel Weinberg in the latter's jitney
to the place of the explosion and deposited
there, on the sidewalk, concealed in a SUITE
case, the bomb. After having deposited the
bomb, they were supposed to have retreated
with their jitney just as they had come The
explosion occurred six minutes after o'clock.
The suitcase was supposed to have been depo-
sited just about o'clock.
Evidence which did not fit into this theory
was falsified by Fickert. Testimony that
pointed in other directions was suppressed or
dsregarded.
According to unbiased witnesses, the bomb
was thrown from above, from the roof of n
nearby building. This testimony was contrary
to Flckert's frame up. 1t was therefore mis-
regarded. But Fickert was not satisfied with
this With crow-bars and pick-axes he ex-
tended the damage done by the bomb on the
sidewalk and on the building walls in order
to strengthen his theory. The fact that Fickert
had ordered this wrecking was established by
sworn testimony in the trials. The Supreme
Court OF California knows it; the Governor
OF California knows it. Yet with serene dis
regard of this fact, the Supreme Court and
the Governor humble Something about the
validity of the testimony.
One of the major witnesses, a prostitute by
the name of Estela Smith, testified against
and identified Mooney. When it was proved
by sworn testimony that EstelIa Smith was
not at the place where she had sworn to have
seen Mooney, she declared that her astral body
was there and saw Mooney.
The Supreme Court of California knows this
outrageous testimony; so does Governor Young;
but with serene disregard of the facts thu
keep on mumbling about the validity Of ~
testimony
TO be coneluded).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
HOMESTEAD steel.
WORKERS REVOLT
Editor Daily Worker

Editor Daily WORKER
Carnegie Steel Co. at the Home
stead Works during the past sew
eral years have spent many millions
in rationalizing the mills, and their
improvement program is not quite
finished yet. To cite a specific ex-
ample of what this means to the
workers: The 110-inch plate mill
was remodeled six months ago. 1t
was being remodeled before to be
the fastest and most efficient mill
IN the world, employing 365 men.
Now, since being remodeled, it pro-
duces as much with 1876 men, with
no wage increase.
All other plate mills are to be
rationalized like this one soon. The
outstanding feature of this ration
alization is the installing of rotary
shears manned by one operator do
ing the work of 13 men, and the
mechanical pick-off piling system,
three doing the work of seven. This
improvement in steel mills practice
was brought about not only be me-
chanization, but by the "Bedaux"
production system, which means, in
plain language, "slave-driving."
Many men are forced to do the work
of two to three men.
The speed-up, unemployment, part
time, is pauperizing and wrecking
their health. To add insult to in
jury, are the rotten, cheap, dirty
tricks of the superintendent and
pushers, such as suspending a
worker for ten days for a trivial
violation of rules, calling men fire.
quently ION the carpet" up at the
superintendent office. The super
iutendent expects the worker to take
his hat off while entering and to
be silent and meek while he gets
"bawled out" then to SLOUGH out
without being permitted to say any
thing.
The bosses have cultivated an air
lat when they look at one of the
aands they make him feel like two
ents. The workers resent all this
nd are being radicalized, and all
agree that something must be done
about the way they are being
'vamped on. Even the old die -hards
With Is to 35 years of service are
apidly losing their cherished illu-
IONS Of pension. They have seen
cir fellow-workers with score
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
N. J. THUGS BREAK
WORKERS MEET
Women Speakers Are
Kidnapped by "Vets"
New York City.
To the Daily WORKER


To the Daily Worker:--
A news item in the New York
Times of July 8 gloats over the fact
that a mob of Veterans of Foreign
War "heroes" manhandled two
women at an open-air meeting in
New Brunswick, N. ]. The capital
list Times admits that four applica-
tions were made for a permit to
Chief of Police Michael Connor and
refused. "a further evidence of the
right of "free specify
The item says: "Miss Bloomenthal
placed a chair. That was the cue
for the veterans. The chair went
whirling over the heads of the
crowd, a flying wedge swept Miss
Bloomenthal and Mrs. Collins
through the mass of their support
ers and into a sedan. The sedan
rushed them to police headquar-
ters."
The recorder decided there was no
charge to hold them on.
While the Times and its parasites
of Park and Fifth AYES. may gloat
over the bruises of two courageous
women, manhandled and abused by
mob of spineless thugs, the work
ers will see the outrage in its true
light and will double their efforts
to hasten the end of degenerate
system that gloats over brutality
and barefaced cowardice.
A fitting eulogy to this type of
veteran" could be rendered by
"Rasputin," and applauded by the
ghosts of the czars "Black Hun
dreds," but in the hearts of all de-
cent ex-servicemen the cowardly ac-
tons of this Shiny crew of "pay-
triots" arouses nothing more than
shame and disgust and the deter
mination to carry on the fight to
expose in all its nakedness to the
working masses of the country the
lying hypocrisy of the so-called
American institutions of "free
speech" and lawful assemblage"--
and also to show them that V. F. w.
stands for "Vagabond Fascist Wan
TONS" whose motto is "Always ready
to break a strike or beat up
woman"
A WORKER VETERAN.
Editorial Note:-The V. F. w. is
used by the bosses against the
working class. No honest worker,
who was a victim of the last war
for profits, belongs in this organ
ization. Workers who are ex-ser-
vicemen should organize into the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
where they will be able to use their
organized strength not to help the
bosses slug workers, break strikes,
ETC., but to help the workers in their
struggle against the parasite bosses
and the entire rotten system of cap
italism. Feverish preparations are
now being made by the imperialist
robbers of the world for another war
fest. The workers must not forget
the horrible lessons of the last i'm
perialist war. Fight against imper-
ialist war and the system that pro-
duces it! Workers! Defend the
Soviet Union, where the workers
and poor farmers rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-18
FEAR CANADIAN
WORKERS WRATH
Cops Club Workers At
Election Meet
Montreal, Canada.

montreal, canada.
To the Daily Worker:-
If anyone doubt that the capital
ist class in Canada is in mortal ter
ror of Communism and the Commu-
mist movement, he would only need
to have been in Place Viger Park
on the Champ de Mars in Montreal
on the afternoon of Saturday, July
5, 1880.
In this so-called metropolis of a
land of political freedom he would
have witnessed a display of savage
brutality, of hysterical rage, such as
would not have entered the minds
Of Atilla and his Huns.
He would have seen people or
dered, with rough and obscene Ian
guage, to get up from the seats of
a public park and keep moving"
He would have seen, on the Champ
de Mars, five motorcycles, driven by
policemen (who had obviously been
fortified" with good shot of rum)
charge at full speed into a group of
about thirty people who were listen
ing to a speech of the Communist
candidate for Maisonnouve, who was
speaking from the spot where, a
short time previously, the conserva-
tive candidates had spoken.
He would have seen a banner, held
aloft by two young girls (all honor
10 them) on which was inscribed a
demand for the release of one of
their comrades, torn from their
hands and ripped to pieces as bull
would rip the red flag of the plea
dor.
He would have seen a man chased
by two policemen and receive saw
age blow that laid his head open,
merely because he was the organizer
Of the Needle Trades Industrial
Union.
He would have seen a young man
ordered to halt at the point of a
pistol; seized by two policemen
twice his size and dragged off to
the lookup.
He would have seen a group of
girls, under 20 years of age, chased
along the whole front of the court
house building by a squad of police,
who pushed them about,prodded them
with their clubs, all the while call
ing them by every foul name their
filthy minds could invent.
He would have seen in all this
savagery manifestation of that
which possesses the minds of the
capitalist class of Canada-fear.
Fear of the revolt of millions of
hungry men in every country of the
world. Fear that the oppressed, ex-
plotted and starving workers will be
by the Communists into
an army of revolution. Fear that
the pitiless spotlight of publicity
into which the Communist Parties
of all the countries have dragged the
political trickery, the wage-cutting
plans, the selling-out Of the work
ers and the preparations for another
bloodfest of mass murder.
The old wolf, capitalism, is at bay.
on his last legs, he stands
in the midst of the putrid mess he
has made of things. Snarling and
swapping his slavering jaws, he
takes his vengeance upon those
nearest him-the Communists. But
not for long.
otis the final conflict;
Let each stand in his place"
Organize TO fight! Fight to win.
Workers of the wOrld--unite!
J. MACAULAY.