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January 31, 1924
45,000 LOSE
PENNSY JOBS
SINCE_JULY
December Saw 26,105 Laid
Off Work
More than 45,000 employes
of the Pennsylvania railroad
have been laid off since July
there were 250,312 on
the carriers’ pay rolls.
The greatest reduction in
any one month came in Decem
ber when 26,185 were laid off.
Since Dec. 15, 7,360 have been
turned out to look for a job at
a time when there are consid
erably more applicants than
jobs.
The layoffs in December
have hit shop employes par
ticularly hard meaning a reduction
of more than 25 per cent in shop
operations.
The present payroll of 205,017 ia
below that of a year ago when the
road employed 229,831 workers in all
departments. Reduction in the num
ber of employes is explained by the
management on the ground that traf
fic has steadily declined since the
middle of 1923. But there are good
grounds for-believing that the shop
layoffs have been heavier than war
ranted by reduced business, for the
road's percentage of bad order freight
cars has risen from 3.9% in July to
5.4% in November, the latest month
for which reports are available.
The Pennsylvania has also allowed
its locomtives to get so out of repair
as to endanger the lives of engine
crews and passengers. Within the
month east bound express trains
have been delayed for hours because
interstate commerce commission in
spectors condemned as unsafe loco
motives about to pull the trains over
divisions in the Indiana region. The
inspectors ordered 60 engines out of
service at Fort Wayne alone. All
of which shows the extent to which
an anti-labor management is willing
to let its equipment run down in or
der to add to the winter unemploy
ment.
Such figures indicate the insecur
ity of job which will characterize em
ployment so jong as absentee owners
are considered as having more rights
than the men who actually make rail
road operation possible. And in the
raijroad industry the Pennsylvania,
which has talked loudest about the
desirability of getting back to the old
"family” relationship between em
ployes and management, makes the
earliest and most drastic reductions
in force.
The right of a man to his job has
evidently not been tackled by Atter
bury’s company union.
Parliamentarians
in Germany Grieve
Under Fascist Rule
(By Tli# FHirited Press)
BERLIN.—The worm is turning
even in the reichstag. The abnor
mal condition of government by mili
tary edict is getting on the nerves
of the parliamentarians who so glib
ly voted away their powers by the
state-of-emergency law and who
now find that even the person of
a member of the reichstag, and of
n former cabinet minister at that,
is rot sacred to a military com
mander.
The occasion for a protest by an
important committee of the reich
stag—that having to do with fixing
the order of business of the house—
was furnished by the refusal of the
military commander in Munster to
permit. Wilhelm Sollman, Socialist
deputy and minister of the interior,
in the Stresemann cabinet, to address
a voters’ meeting soon after he had
left the cabinet. The action of the
military excited considerable com
ment at the time, but apparently
nothing more was done about it
Now the question has come up in
the committee on rules and business
of the house, and unanimously the
members agreed that Sollman had
a perfect right to speak and that
the state of emergency law gives
the military no right to prohibit
voters’ meetings.
The committee further decided
unanimously to express the opinion
to President Ebert and thru him to
the minister of defense that the de-*
cree establishing martial law gives
no right to anybody to put a gen
eral bap on political meetings.
Most Children Underfed.
DRESDEN, Germany.—ln the tex
tile region of Saxony, where there is
widespread unemployment, 90 per
cent of the children are underfed.
The condition of the boys is worse
than that of the girls. Less than 3 per
cent of the children were found to
be normal.
KARL MARX
SCANDINAVIAN BRANCH
will hold a
BUNCO PARTY
To-Night
at FOLKETS HUS,
2783 HIRSCH BOULEVARD
i: Refreahmenta Served 11
Daily Worker’s Exposes Cause
Closing jof One School Firetrap;
Dangers Lurking In Many Others
The DAILY WORKEIR’S expose of the perils of the school firetraps
that house working class children has resulted in the closing of one build
ing—St- Clement’s School at 2524 Orchard street—just closed by Mayor
Dever.
This action is calculated to allay public impatience at the whitewash
ing investigation which the board of education is conducting, with the aid
of other departments, of the com
bustible buildings in factory neigh
borhoods. The school ip closed as
"unsafe” at the very moment the
board of education is assuring the
publie that there is "no cause for
alarm.”
Only forty pupils were in the class
rooms at St. Clements parochial
school when fire inspectors visited it
and found fire hazards so great that
they ordered the classes dismissed.
Nothing has been done to close pub
lic schools which are as bad as St.
Clement’s, altho in some of them
hundreds of children attend.
As an example es what some
schools can be the DAILY WORKER
publishes today a description of two
schools. One school is in a working
class neighborhood and the other is
in the “swell” Wilson Avenue district
For the “Best People”
The Stewart school is located at
Kenmore avenue near Broadway in
thfc heart of the Wilson Avenue dis
trict. Its building is a large four
story brick, erected in 1906 just as
the Wilson Avenue district was be
coming a "choice residential sec
tion.” The building stands in the
center of a large lot, permitting light
to come in from all sides. The win
dows are large three-section affairs
which are excellent for ventilation
as well as light.
The assembly room is a large
place with a stage, opera chairs qnd
a balcony. It seats over 400. There
are bath rooms which are light and
airy. The gymnasium is well
equipped. There are rooms for
manual training, cooking, science and
other special olasses. all with equip
ment of the best. There is also a
room and equipment for a sewing
class.
The toilet facilities are of the
best and most modern sort. In the
basement there is a large, clean play
room for the pupils to use on cold
and rainy days. The basement in
this school is well lighted by win
dow's that cover nearly half the wall.
The stairways and halls are fire
proof, light and wide. The class
rooms are also large and fireproof.
The Influence of the fine equipment
and light, airy building can be seen
on the children and their teachers.
They seem to take more interest
in their studies and look brighter
and more alive than the fifcikken who
attend school in old dilapidated build
ings.
Fine Sprinkler System.
There is a sprinkler system in
the Stewart school. In every room
and all parts of the halls, there are
outlets which would turn on water
if even the smallest fire started.
There are 32 rooms with 1,726
seats and about the same number
of pupils in the school. There are
43 teachers including those who
teach special classes.
The entire building equipment and
the attitude of the teachers is an
example of what a public school
can be.
For the Workers
The Newberry school at Willow
and Orchard streets is in a work
ing class district. The original
building was erected in 1858 and an
addition made in 1895.
The light in the Newberry school
is wretched. Artificial light is nec
essary much of the day. The venti
lation is bad. The assembly room
is sometimes used as a class room
and has only the ordinary loose
chairs. The fire department has re
peatedly said that loose chairs in
assembly halls are unsafe and are
likely to lead to and cause panic
in case of fire. The gymnasium is
an ordinary class room with little
equipment. The manual training and
cooking classes are poorly equipped.
The toilet facilities are of the most
primitive sort. The boys’ toilet is
damp, poorly ventilated and lighted.
The play-room in the basement is
also used as a lunch room by some
of the children and is far from clean.
In the Newberry school the stair
ways are of easily combustible wood
and winding narrow and unsafe look
ing. The class rooms are small.
No Sprinkler System.
There is no sprinkler system, only
a few old style fire extinguishers
oould be seen. The building seems
to be settling in certain places.
There are 30 rooms with 1,007
seats and about 1,300 pupils. About
150 children attend school on the
two-shift plan. There is a slide
Washington, D. C., Home of Teapot
Scandal, Revealed As Social Sewer
(Special to the DAILY WORKER)
WASHlNGTON.—Washington's lively social set today was gasping
from the sting of the second bitter indictment hurled at it In 24 hour*
First, W. P. G. Harding, former head of the Federal Reaerve Board’,
blamed the suicide of his beautiful ——>
daughter, Margaret, to the nerve
shattering social pace and the cigar
ette smoking of Washington.
On the heels of this, F. V. Soko
lowski, retiring member of the
Polish Legation staff, flung over his
shoulder as he departed from Wash
ington this barred farewell:
"I go back to my country with a
disgust for social drinking that 1
oannot put into words.”
DONNIN6 ASYLUM
GALLED FIRETRAP
BY CORONER’S JURY
The coroner’s jury of six “prom
inent citizens” that investigated
the fire in the Dunning Asylum for
the Insane, a state institution,
where 18 persons were burned to
death recently, found that "the
chief cause of the tragedy was the
physical condition of the buildings
that burned." The buildings, the
verdict said, were frame and with
out fireproofing and the floors and
stairs were of flimsy worn wood
that burned easily.
Will it take the verdict of a
coroner’s jury to arouse the people
of Chicago to a realization of the
danger their children are facing in
public school buildings as unsafe
as the buildings that burned at
the Dunning asylum with the loss
of 18 lives?
fire escape of the type that is even
more dangerous in school buildings
than no fire escape at all.
The entire building and its equip
men and sanitary arrangements are
glaring examples of the* public
schools in a working class neighbor
hood.
riverWlad
BARRED OUT OF
CROWDED SCHOOL
Youngster Victim of
Vicious System
While the police were preparing to
dynamite the river in an attempt to
recover the body of Sidney Sherman,
6 years old, who was drowned while
playing on the ice in the Chicago riv
er, near Lawrence ave. and Argyle
St., his mother stood by and cried
hysterically. |"lf Sammy could have
been in school he would not have
drowned. We tried to send him but
there wasn’t room. He is dead. He
is dead.”
Tuesday Sammy Sherman and two
playmates went from home to play-
They wandered to the river and play
ed on the banks. Sammy, older and
bolder than the other two, ventured
out on the ice. The ice broke and
before help could be called he had dis
appeared. Efforts of police to locate
his body had failed up to a lata hour
yesterday afternoon.
Hundreds Turned Away.
Sammy’s parents had sent their son
to the Hibbard school 3244 Ainslie
St. last September, but he was re
fused admittance because there was
not enough room. Hundreds of other
young children have been turned
away from the Hibbard school be
cause of lack of room.
Sammy Sherman’s death and the
crowded condition of the Hibbard
school was blamed on the board of
education authorities by Chester C.
Dodge, principal of the Hibbard
school last night.
“The business department of the
school board thinks of nothing but
how they can save a few pennies,”
he said.
“In two years our high school at
tendance has increasgd from 700 to
1,400. The capacity of the school is
only 1,440, and yet w* have 2,100
elementary pupils besides the 1,400
high school students. There are as
many children waiting for a chance
to get into kindergarten as there are
now in classes.
Promises Broke.
“I’m tired. I’m sick. All day I
have been at the board rooms plead
ing for more space, more room.
“Last vacation time they promised
to give us portables and additions, to
be ready two months ago, at the
latest. But nothing has been done.
When we returned in September we
found things as we had left them in
June.
“RepeatedJy, I have pleaded. The
Kiwanis Club and the Parent-Teach
ers’ organization have pleaded. But
nothing has been done. There are
as many children on our waiting list
as there are in kindergarten classes.”
Daniel Burns, business manager of
the board of education said that the
statements of Dodge that he had ask
ed for portable school buildings to
add to the facilities of the Hibbard
school was not true.
Representative Upshaw, who has
been leading a fight against drinking
in Washington official circles, saw
Dr. Sokolowski off at the station,
commended him as a "high toned
gentleman,” and gave him a letter
declaring that he was convinced Soks
lowski was simply the “victim of that
custom of official and social ‘loose
ness’ on the liquor question.”
THE DAILY WORKER
COMPANY SLEW
33 MINERS.SAYS
CORONER’S JURY
Illinois Horror Laid to
Crerar-Clinch Door
(Special to The Daily Worker)
JOHNSTON CITY, III.—Th«
Crerar-Clinch Coal company is direct
ly responsible for the deaths of the
33 coal diggers slain in the terrific
gas explosion last Friday.
That is the verdict of the coroner’s
jury which has been hearing evidence
in the case Ihe verdict corroborates
the correspondent of The DAILY
WORKER wiio lold of' reports of
neglect of safety precautions by the
mining company.
Danger signs had been removed
from the places where the explosion
recurred, the jury discovered. The
explosion was caused by a “squeeze”
anda fall of coal in an old working.
Witnesses testified the company
ignored the hazards which lay in the
cld workings that so often are ac
cumulating places of the deadly gas.
With the extracting of all the readi
ly mined coal from the workings the
company officials. lost all interest in
them and occupied themselves only
in exploitation of other workings, in
stead of regarding the abandoned
entries and workings as sources of
danger against which the miners
must be protected.
Intense indignation is felt in Wil
liamson county. The expose of the
company’s criminal carelessness has
aroused more bitterness than any
thing since the attempt of the em
ploying interests to hang the miners
at (i llerrin, only a few miles away.
“Ihirty-three lives have been
snuffed out just because the company
didn’t care enough about the men’s
safety to spend the pittance neces
sary to safeguard them,” said a
union miner.
“If this is not murder I would like
to know what is.”
she spell of the tragedy still
hangs over the community for near
ly everyone was connected in one
way or another with the dead. Now
the survivors find that their dear
ones were sacrificed on the altar of
the greed and indifference of the
mine operators.
Arthur Ransome
Tells How Lenin’s
Widow Sang Dirge
In a dispatch which throbs with
the emotion he himself felt, Arthur
Ransome, famous British journalist,
tells a Now York newspaper of the
spell cast oVer the immense multitude
at Lenin’s -funeral when Comrade
Krupskaya, Lenin's widow, led the
singing oT the revolutionary funeral
dirge.
She had just finished telling in
clear, quiet tones, of the yeai3 of
Lenin’s life as a leader in workmen’s
revolutionary circles and the in
spiration of his love for all men and
women who worked.
“Her voice faded and faltered.
One felt the concentration of will
with which she controlled it. She
spoke to the end before turning from
the tribune.
“The orchestra played a revolu
tionary dirge. It ceased and there
was a moment’s silence. Then her
voice began and the whole of that
immense congregation sang the
words of the dirge. Tears ran down
people’s faces as they sang, and long
after the song was over there were
people jwaying where they stood,
blinded with tears.”
Worker Commits
Suicide in Cell;
Victim of Poverty
(By Th« Federated Preai)
OAKLAND, Calif.—For fifty years
Samuel O’Donnel of Oakland had
been honest and upright. He had
worked hard for his wife and five
children, but illness caught him and
finally the little family was down to
one meal a day, with often flffiUnat
all for the parents, while EKe sick
father looked in vain for work. He
had been buying the humble home,
and #1,200 was paid on it, with
the furniture nearly paid for as well.
But he could pay no more, and the
mortgage was threatening to fore
close so that they would lose all.
O’Donnel did a desperate thing.
He set fire to the house to get the
insurance. The oil-soaked rags were
discovered and he was arrested on
a charge of arson. Two weeks later
he confessed the whole pathetic tale.
Sympathetic officials had recommend
ed probation. But the disgrace and
shame were too much for O’Don
nel. The other night he sent for
the assistant district attorney. “I
can’t stand it much longer," he
sobbed. The next morning the guard
found him dead in his ceil.
“Natural causes,” said the coroner.
"Grief,” said officials. "Poverty,”
says the truth.
U. S . Recognizes
Greek Fascisti
Rule of Venizelos
ATHENS, Jan. 30.—Premier Veni
zelos of Greece has been taken ill
once more and forced to give up tem
porarily the pressing affairs of state
into which he had plunged. The
American charge d’affaires today re
sumed regular diplomatic contact
with the Venizelos government, fol
lowing recognition of Greece by the
United States, announced yesterday.
Brewder In Kansas City.
Earl R. Browder will speak at the
Lenin Memorial meeting in Kansas
City, at Fraternal Hall, next Sunday
evening, 8 o’clock.
Ruthenberg Tells of Councils
Formed to Fight Davis’ Peonage
and Coolidge Registration Plans
So pressing is the danger to the millions of America’s for
eign-born workers from laws now before congress and from the
ill feeling being engendered against them in American news
papers that the Workers Party is devoting much energy to the
organization of a movement for resistance.
In an interview with the DAILY WORKER, C. E. Ruthen
berg, executive secretary of the party, told of the progress
being made in the formation of
Councils for the protection of
foreign-born workers. These
councils are made up from
separate national organiza
tions in each city and have the
backing of local labor move
ments.
First Council Organized!
Organization of the first
council has just been achieved
in Boston where eight national
organizations are represented
and two Workers Party organ
izations.
"If Boston had such an organiza
tion during the time of deportations’
delirium four years ago, more effec
tive resistance could have been made
to Palmer’s excesses. The Deer
Island horrors, where one man was
driven to suicide and others insane
and hundreds were penned together
under the worst disease-breeding con
ditions, are grim reminders of the
necessity of the foreign born work
ers banding together, with the sup
port of the rest of the class conscious
workers.
Danger Is Pressing
“The danger is immediate. Many
radical workers are facing deporta
tion because they dared to think in
dependently and to organize for a
better society.
“President Coolidge has recom
mended the registration of all foreign
born workers. This means the ticket
ing of millions of men and women
like criminals. If proposals of cer
tain congressmen go thru they will
be fingerprinted and mugged as in
penitentiaries.
“Secretary of Labor Davis, backed
U. S. OWNED
SHIP HELL HOLE,
SAYS SAILOR
Horror Tales Told by
Student Who Shipped
(By Tbs Federated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO. Carrying
tales of horrors committed on the i
crew of the United States shipping
board vessel West Islip (Capt. L.
Safstron of San Francisco, com
mander), Russell Seymour, a law
student at the University of Califor
nia who shipped on the West Islip
for experience, has returned to San
Francisco and preferred charges be
fore the shipping board and the U.
S. district attorney.
Sey'mour claims the men were
beaten with belaying pins by officers,
that one sailor was stabbed with a
screw driver by an intoxicated en
gineer. that the men were served
meat infested with maggots and
when they protested were placed in
irons on the open deck to be at
tacked by swarms of flies. All this,
he states, occurred between here and
Newcastle, Australia. There the
men attempted to go on shore to
complain to the local police. They
were referred to the American con
sul, Romeyn Wormouth. Unable to
find him, they came back to the ship,
and there were prevented by officers
with guns from going ashore again.
Wormouth finally came on board,
and Seymour states he saw the con
sul receive a gift from Captain Saf
stron. Wormouth insulted the men
and refused to aid them. Safstron
then discharged the whole crew and
left them penniless in Newcastle,
where the consul declined any help
in securing food or shelter, and left
them to shift for themafijves as best
they could.
Amalgamation Talk at Cleveland.
CLEVELAND.—"Why we must
amalgamate our craft union* into
industrial unions” will be the sub
ject of an open mass meeting which
the English Collinwood branch of
the Workers Party will hold next
Sunday, at 8 p. m., at Gunn Block,
E. Is2nd St. and Aspinwall. John
Loucks will speak and the chairman
will be Anton Wehouch, who ia the
chairman of the federated shop
crafts here.
Sir Arthur Coming.
OTTAWA, Ont., Jan. 80.—It is
reported here in reliable quarters
that Sir Arthur Currie, commander
of the Canadian expeditionary forces
in the great war and at present the
principal of McGill University, Mon
treal, will be appointed Canadian
ambassador at Washington.
crfvrj NEAPINf 1 ° n Tour for the Labor
£ 1 llljAlilli VJ Defense Council, to Speak at
Rockford, , 111. Minneapolis , Minn. Pittsburgh , Pa.
Feb. 2, Saturday, 8 P. M., Feb. 5, Tuesday, 8 P. M., Fcb - 7 ’ Thursday, 8 P. M.,
I. O. aT. H.H, . Courthouse ""ftS ST* 1 '
1015 Third Avenue. Assembly Hall. Cor. Federal and Ohio Sts.
I
by the big employers, wants a “selec
tive” immigration law under which
workers can be brought here under
contract to work in certain indus
tries. Radicals and other “undesir
ables” would be barred. The others
be “selected” to break strikes during
emergencies.”
The Workers’ Party secretary has
made an exhaustive study of the
legislation now before congressional
committees which (would taka away
still more rights from the foreign
born workers but he was more in
terested in talking with the repre
sentative of the DAILY WORKER
on this occasion in outlining the plan
of organization of the council for the
protection of these workers.
Tells How Councils Are Formed
These councils, Ruthenberg ex
plained, are formed in a practicable
manner by using the national units
which already exist and combining
them for the purposes of solidarity
and action.
All the labor unions, fraternal and
singing societies of a single language
are brought together into language
councils for each language. All the
language councils are then combined
into a Council for the Protection of
the Foreign Born Workers.
A national committee, represent
ing all the local councils, will be or
ganized at a national congress, after
the movement has been extended
further.
“This is an issue! that concerns
American union men, no matter
whether they are foreign born or
not,” said Ruthenberg with emphasis.
“The foreign born/ workers are being
united for the protection of all labor.
We urge all of them to unite with the
labor union of their craft or industry
if they have not already done so and
to work for the labor party idea.”
LEGION VOWS
DEATH TO FREE
SPEECH FIGHTERS
Make Promise to Shoot
Speakers on Feb. 10
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(Special to The Daily Worker)
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Speakers
from the American Civil Liberties’
Union will be butchered by members
of the American Legion when they
test the right of free speech ip Wil
kesbarre, Feb. 10, if members of the
local post of the American Legion
carry out their hysterical threats to
shoot down anyone taking the plat
form at a free speech meeting with
out their consent.
Tha Legion men, under the orders
of national Vice-Commander Healy,
broke up the Lenin Memorial meet
ing three days ago and say the next
man who attempts to speak at a
radical meating will be pumped full
of lead. These threats were made at
a conference between the mayor and
members of tha Workers Party,
which the Legion attended.
Mayor Hart wires the Liberties’
Union that he will use the Legion
aires to break up any meeting the
union tries to stage.
White Guard Defied
The Liberties’ Union has sent an
urgent message to Governor Pinchot
demanding that he give adequate
protection on Feb. 10 and has also
served notice on Hart that the meet
ing will be held in spite of his
threats of violence.
It is considered likely that the
Legion, which has practically taken
over the police power of the city,
may go further than merely breaking
up the meeting and will coirfnit acts
of bloodshed and violence as at Cen
tralia, Washington.
The speakers who will defy the
murder threats of the Legion are
Arthur Garfield Hayes, Wall street
attorney and liberal who is a veteran
of free speech fights in Pennsylvania;
Bishop Jones of the Fellowship of
Reconciliation and Harry M. Winitz
ky. Winitzky was hurled from the
speakers’ platform at the Lenin
Memorial meeting which the Legion
broke up.
Town Excited
Wilkesbarre is all agog with the
expected excitement. Miners declare
that unless Pinchot enforces civil
liberty his goose is cooked with tha
workers who put him into power as
a protest against abuses by state
cossacka under his predecessors.
Hayes went into the closed town
of Vlntondale, Cambria county, dur
ing the 1922 strike and was arrested
by local coal and iron police, later
turning around and having his assail
ants arrested.
CROWDS HONORING
LENIN WILL FILL)
GREAT N. Y. HALL
Meetings in Many Cities
Mourn for Leader
(Special to Th. DaUr Worh«rt
NEW YORK.—Madison Square
Garden, the largest meeting place 1*
New York City, will be filled to over
flowing next Monday evening, man
agers of the Lenin Memorial say.
Nothing has so stirred the heart*
of New Yorker* this winter as the
death of the great .proletarian leader.
Every labor organization and radical
and liberal movement in the city
will be represented in the vast
audience.
The New York Times, marveling
at the sincere sorrow felt in Russia
says the explanation must lie ia
some essential difference between the
Russian and American people. If the
editor of the Times visits the Garden
next Monday evening he will see the
masses of this country assembled in
honor of their departed Russian com
rade.
C. E. Ruthenberg and William Z.
Foster, representing the movement
for which Lenin gave his Ilfs, will be
among the speakers who will tell of
the achievements of their leader and
the work that lies before his follow
ers. Moving pictures of the life of
Lenin will be shown and the Russian
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by
Modest Altschuler, will render a
musical program worthy of the oo
casion.
Tickets are being sold at all party
headquarters and by scores of volun
teer agents. Admission is 25 and 50
cents.
Meetings In Many Cities
Other Lenin meetings will be held
as follows:
Washington. D. C-, Pythian Temple,
Friday, Feb. 1, 8 p. m. Ben Gitlow,
speaker.
Philadelphia, Musical Fund Hall,
Bth and Locust street, Saturday
evening, Feb. 2.
The following speakers will address
the meeting: Ludwig Lore, Editor
Volkszeitung; W. W. Weinatone.
Eastern District Organizer of the
F. S. R. Sehachmo Epstein will speak
in Russian, and M. Olgin, Philadelphia
manager of the Freiheit, will be
chairman.
A large Russian Orchestra will
supply appropriate music.
Minneapolis, Richmond Halls, Sun
' day, Feb. 3, at 2 t>. m., with James
P. Cannon, W. S. ’Wiggins, assistant
county attorney; Norman H. Tallen
tire, speaking, and H. D. Kramer,
editor of the Minneapolis Labor Re
view, presiding.
St. Paul, LaboT Tem#ae, Sunday.
and Norman H. Tallentire, speaking.
Detroit, Arena Gardens, 5810
Woodward ave., Sunday, Feb. 8, at
2 p. m. Speakers: Dennis Batt and
C. E. Ruthenberg. The Ukranian and
Russian choir will sing the Russia*
revolutionary funeral niay.h.
Warren, Ohio, Hippodrome, Sun
day, Feb. 3,7 p. m. Speakers in
English, South Slavish, Polish and
Finnish.
Youngstown, Ohio, M. A. C. Hall,
838 West Federal street, Sunday,
Feb. 3, 8 p. m. Max Lerner will
speak in English followed by speak
ers in Jewish, Slavish and Hungarian.
Springfield, Maas., Feb. 8, 8 p. m.
Connecticut Meetings
Bridgeport, Conn., Carpenters’
Hall, Sunday, Feb. 3, at 3 p. m.
Ansonia, Conn., City Hall, Sunday.
Feb. 3, at 3 p. m.
Hartford, Conn., Sunday, Feb. 3,
at 8 p. m.
rr l ?, ew T , H aven » Conn., Hermanson
Hal], Feb. 6, at 8 p. m.
Stamford, Conn., Feb. 7, at 8 p. in.
Pardon Granted
Fellow Who Tried
to Grab B e r g dot l
(Sptrial t. The D.Uy Werker)
WASHINGTON. Germany has
yielded to unofficial American pres
sure and will free Lieutenant Gri*.
sis and his colleagues who were cap
tured in a kidnapping attack on
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the draft
avoider, it has been learned.
Some time ago Griffis sent a tsuir
ful letter to a Chicago newspaper,
asking for money to spend on his
pardon plea and pleading hi* patri
otism without a trace of modesty.
He was serving a 21 months’ sen
tence in Mosebach, Baden.
The capturing of Bergdoll ha*
been one of the objectives and #x
cuses for existence of the American
Legion. Reports that the young
Philadelphian has been enjoying
huge scoops of beer and the charms
of light opera have been like fiery
poison to the patriotic spirits in the
ex-officers’ organization.
Watch the "Daily Worker” far tka
first installment of “A Weak,” tka
graat epic of tho Russian revolution,
by tka brilliant young Russian writrr,
lury Libedinsky. It will start toon.
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