The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1924, Page 2

FREE STATE MAY FREE ALL IRISH REPUBLICANS Frontier Dispute Brings Acute Crisis (Special to The Daily Worker) DUBLIN, Ireland, May 8—The eight hundred Republican political prisoners still in Free State jails may be released shortly, according to re- ports emanating from government quarters. The Farmers Party had a bill ready for introduction, demand- ing the release of all political prison- ers, but withdrew it on learning that @ general jail delivery was planned by the government. It is not known whether Eamon DeValera and Austin Stack will be released with the oth- ers, tho nobody here sees any reason why a moderate with a genius for compromise like DeValera should be kept in confinement. The prestige of the Free State gov- ernment has been considerably strengthened among the nationalistic elements by the sanction of a Free State diplomatic representative in Washington by the British govern- ment. This takes the wind out of the sails of the bourgeois Republic- ans whose criticism of the treaty was, not because it did not tend to allevi- ate the conditons under which the workers labor, but for the reason that Ireland was not given a greater de- gree of independence. Those Irish Republicans who are serious about a republic must now turn to the labor movement for a realization of their aims. The intransigeancy of Premier James Craig of Ulster on the boun- dary dispute may have the effect of bringing that emasculated province into the Free State, is the opinion in some quarters here. The treaty pro- vides for a commission to delimit the boundaries of Ulster in the event of Ulster taking advantage of its right to vote itself out of the Free State and remain part of the United King- dom. Ulster decided to drop out of the Free State, but it is held that it has not complied with the other pro- visions to appoint a member to the boundary commission of three. The reactionaries of Belfast, who own the linen mills, distilleries and shipyards are not in favor of their slaves joining in with the rest of Ire- land, so they fan the flames of relig- fous bigotry and keep the workers di- vided. The Loyalists of Ulster have been the pampered pets of the British Tory arty. Now that the latter are on the destine; it is thought that the Mac ‘Donald government may side in with the Free State and secure the allegi- ance of the big Irish vote in Eng- land, Scotland and Wales, but the Orangemen have an army of 45,000 men, while the Free State has only 20,000 soldiers. Britain usually is on the side of the heaviest artillery in cases like this. Labor has made gains in Belfast re- cently. Unemployment is prevalent thruout the country, and the employ- ers are carrying on a vicious wage cutting campaign. The powerful Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union, with over 100,000 members, is prepared to contest every inch of the way with the employers. Not alone does this union fight for higher wages and better working conditions, but it organizes the workers political- ly and tells them that only when the wages system is abolished and the workers’ republic established can la- bor begin to find a real and lasting so- Yution of the pressing questions now confronting it, the most important of which is the means wherewith to live. A How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. PULLMAN CONSPIACY AGAINST YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE PICKET SHATTERED BY JURY VERDICT A jury of twelve drawn from Pullman and South Chicago shattered the steel car company’s conspiracy against Sam Green, of the Young Workers League and a DAILY WORKER agent, by an emphatic verdict of not guilty in the Municipal Court at 8875 Exchange avenue. Green was arrested on the dawn of May Day as he was aid- ing the strike of car builders at the Pullman gates and asked for a jury trial at once, Jury Fools Prosecutors, Judge Edgar Jones denied him a continuance this morning and the case was rushed to trial before jurors hur- iredly drawn. Prosecutor O'Malley smiled when he saw that there was only one union man in the box and that another juror belonged to the Industrial Relations’ Committee or company union of the Armour Pack- ing company but the prosecutor didn’t know how much sympathy has arisen in unexpected places for the gallant fight against the big scab concern. Detectives Mertz and O'Keefe, who slugged and arrested Sam Green just after the latter had finished selling his bundle of DAILY WORKERS, swore on the stand that Green had been telling strike-breakers not to scab. A second offense was charged against the Y. W. L. man. He was charged with “snickering” at the de- tectives. Mertz admitted that he had replied to Green’s demand to know why he was being arrested with the assertion, “We'll see if we can’t dig up some charge against you.” DAILY WORKER the Issue. Prosecutor O’Malley, a Pullman tool, ignored the legal aspects of the case and frothed about “foreigners,” “disrupters,” “radicals,” and so forth. He tried to picture Green’s efforts to assist the Pullman employes fight against the wage cut as an attempt to disturb the happy family relations that he asserted existed in Pullman. O'Malley laid special emphasis on the DAILY WORKER, whose influence he fears and insisted that no one had a right to sell it to Pullman employes. Attorney David Benthal, for the de- fense, showed how absurb and irre- levant O’Malley’s stuff was. The is- sue was simply whether Green's peaceful work in behalf of the strik- ers was within the law. The jury stayed out 40 minutes, One of the jurors argued for the com- pany standpoint but the majority overbore him and the verdict settled the issue. Peaceful persuasion and the sale of the DAILY WORKER is within the law. Spynow-Lescher Cases Put Off. Cases of Nick Spynow and Nick Leseher were put off until May 16. Officer Minton who fired two shots at Spynow when he arrested him selling the DAILY WORKER two weeks ago, begged Spynow not to demand a jury trial. Minton did not conceal the fact that he fears he will lose his job. Lescher, arrested night before last, and taken to the downtown detective bureau, was gotten out on $400 bail thru the activities of Alderman Govier of his home ward. Lescher, a strike picket, was arrested as he was sitting out of the rain in an auto owned by a strike sympathizer. The auto was parked on 119th street across from the Pullman plant. Plan To Force Bible On School Children As Part Of Mental Diet ST. PAUL, May 8.—An appeal to make Bible reading a part of the daily program in public schools thruout the United States was made today to the National Congress om Mothers’ and Parent Teachers’ Associations. Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, Woostér, Mass., led the round table discussion on spiritual training. SILENCE ON TEAPOT AND THIRD PARTY ISSUES MARKS GOMPERS’ POLITICAL DECLARATION FOR 1924 (Continued From Page One) months,” and asserting the need for a “revival of honesty, integ- rity and high-mindedness in public office,” it outlines a legis- lative program which begins with a permanent policy of re- striction of immigration and takes up, in order, child labor, soldier bonus, the right to or- ganize, abuse of labor injunc- tions, the Barkley railroad labor bill, repeal of the Sherman anti- trust law, curbing of powers of the Supreme Court, aid for agri- culture, taxation, light wines and beer, and international har- States can come to absolute exclusion, shall we be able to main- improve American standards living and of citizenship. * * * * cannot remain the dwélling races and many nation- the same time perpet- ideals and institutions for which America stands. Neither can develop a racial unity and a thoroughly American psychology if it is compelled to accept into its midst @ constant stream of dilution, a con- stant stream of thought and purpose coming from all corners of the world, bearing down upon us with its babel of languages, customs, thoughts, ideal- ism and lack of idealism, and with all its diversity of temperament, standards and modes of life.” Of the railroad situation the only statement of consequence is that the Barkley bill “is intended to supplant coercion and restriction with cooper- ation and encouragement in the de- velopment of better relations and con- sequent better railroad service for the whole country.” Against Anti-Trust Law. Repeal of the Sherman act isked, because anti-trust laws are used only to injure trade unions. Control of the judicial autocrats is proposed through the adoption of a constitutional mend- ment, approved by the convention of 1922, giving congress power of a two- thirds vote to override the veto of the Supreme Court on any law held unconstitutional. The only possible hint that the com- mitte may desert the democrats for the LaFollette ticket this year is con- tained in the final state: : “By these demands, platforms, parties and candidates, for whatever afice they may seek, will be medsuted by Ameri- can Labor.” — (Continued From Page 1.) circulating many rumors about “Seven Hights” so-cailed because he drives nothing but seven-eight rivets, and “John Pullman,” so-called be- cause he is such a willing slave of the Pullman Company. These men, some of the strikers inform the DAILY WORKER, have been con- gregating around the gates, bunching the strikers and pickets up, and try- ing to get them to listen to the boss- es when they ask the men to return to work. There are a few others that the men are watching carefully. Will Pay Transportation David Bentall, attorney for the strikers, scored another victory against the Pullman Company, when assistant superintendent Munson, of the employing department of the Pull- man Company after being threatened with a suit, finally agreed to pay the men their money. Bentall is to pro- duce these men Monday morning and Munson has agreed to produce their money. Strikers who went yesterday to the Paymaster. department to collect several days back pay that was due them, found the door shut against them. “You don’t work here,” said the doorkeeper, “Get to hell out.” The men are considering taking thé case to the strike lawyer. Join Union, Say Speaker Ida McCarthy, Barney Mass and Karl Reeve spoke to the strikers yesterday in addition to John Holm- gren. Hach speaker urged the strik- ers to make the organization in the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen com- plete. Most of those who had not previously joined handed in their applications. Stops 2 More R. R. Contracts Word was received last night from men inside the shops of the Pullman plant that the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad, in addition to the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago and Alton have suspended their contracts with the Pullman plant until the present strike is over. The yards and shops are cluttered with the work meant for these three railroads, THE DAILY WORKER EXPELLED UNION MEMBER WINNING WAUKEGAN STRIKE Injunction Denied Big Eisenberg Company (Special to The Daily Worker) WAUKEGAN, IL, May 8.—Injunc- tion plans of the Hisenberg Manufac- turing Company at Waukegan were ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers. Nathan Bosen, one of the, union members expelled for his connection with the Trade Union Educational League, has been conducting an effec- tive strike against this big dressmak- ing concern, which has been trying to get its scab work done in Wauke- gan when the big Chicago walkout foiled its plans there. Bosen was en- trusted with the responsible Waukegan post by Vice President Perlstein. The Hisenberg firm begged hard for the injunction, telling Judge Edwards that they would be ruined by the strike unless picketing was stopped. The legal firm of Dean & Field, se- lected by Bosen, met their arguments, and the motion for an injunction was quashed. It is expected that the Eisenberg firm will be forced to settle now. They have only two scabs working in place of the 35 garment workers there before the strike, SIGMAN STEAM ROLLER UNSEATS ROSE WORTIS (Continued From Page 1.) publication, it was learned by dele- gates to the union’s convention in ses- sion in Boston. The book, which covers the 25 years of the organiza- tion’s life, has been written by Louis Levine, former professor of economics University of Montana. The volume will be used entensively in the work- ers’ education classes conducted by the union. Il Veltro, the new bi-weekly publi- cation of Italian Chamber of Labor (New York) and the Anti-Fascist al- lance, has been voted a weekly $100 contribution by the I. L. G. W. exe- cutive board, it was also announced. In explaining the failure of The but none of the little work that has been accomplished by scabs has pass- ed railroad inspection. PENNSY LAYING OFF WORKERS IN PITTSBURGH DIST. ‘Special to The Daily Work ProesBURGH, ‘Pa. lay oR Work in the Pittsburgh district is slowly, but surely, slowing up and the rail- roads in this district are commencing to feel the effects of it, especially the Pennsylvania system. On the East- ern Division, Pennsylvania Lines west, alone they have laid off their 250 men in train service, and that many more are on the extra list, mak- ing part time. While the other divisions are even harder hit than this one, and they are making one man do the work of two on many jobs. On one job alone they only have two men, where in 1921, four or five men did this same work. Texas Labor Badly Hit By Defeat Of hopmen’s Strike By CARL BRANNIN (For the Federated Press.) PORT ARTHUR, Texas, May 8.— 408s of 18.000 members as a result of the shopmen’s strike of 1922 was the outstanding report at the convention of the Texas State Federation of La- bor, just closed at Port Arthur. With the exception of a few scattered locals, the shop crafts organization is dis- rupted, according to Robert McKinley, secretary-treasurer of the federation. On account of retrenchment due to decreased revenues, the convention decided to have an executive secre- tary, who will perform the duties for- merly carried on by the president and secretary-treasurer. George Slater, president of the federation, was elect- ed to this position. Resolutions were adopted favoring repeal of the “open port” law, which has been used to send troops into strike areas; for printing of free text- books by the state, and for establish- ment of a state industrial accident in- surance fund, The Texas Allied Printing Trades Council, at its recent convention at Port Arthur, passed a resolution for a constitutional amendment that all taxes be levied on land values only. This convention also opposed sending an uninstructed delegation to the na- tional Democratic convention at New York. Women Win Equal Pay ALBANY, N. Y., May 9.—Women teachers in the public schools of New York state will receive equal pay with men teachers as a@ result of a bill signed by Gov. Smith, which becomes effective September 1. New York Leader, successor to The Call, to which the union contributed $27,000, the board assigns “lack of a big reserve fund” and “lack of re- sponse from the rege -speaking trade unionists,” ag the cl causes. Besides its three weekly publica- tions—Gerechtig keit, Justice and Gi- ustizia—the board reports that it has given assistance to The Messenger, a Negro monthly, and Labor Age, a monthly. Various books are being published by the union in connection with its workers’ education classes. Among these are: Social and Political His- tory of the United States by Carman; Outlines on Trade Union Policies by David Saposs; Economics and Labor by Sylvia Kopald, Social Institutions by Arthur Calhoun. For Real Labor Party. “We want an out-and-out Labor party, not a bourgeois third party,” Secretary Abraham Baroff, says in ex- plaining the position of the organiza- tion. “No,” was his reply when asked by The Federated Press whether he favored a so-called independent third party led by Robert M. LaFollette. He opposes McAdoo as a would-be labor candidate on the Democratit ticket. “We propose to fight for a straight Labor party open to all workers’ or- ganizations” said Baroff in reference to the Cleveland convention July 4 of the conference for progressive politi- cal action. The I. L. G. W. meeting is asked by the executive board re- port to give ...endly consiucration to the invitation to participate in the July 4 convention. “The success scored by the workers and farmers in the northwest and the election of a group of congressmen and senators who are looked upon as a nucleus for the formation of a strong labor-farmer group in congress, has stimulated interest in inaependent political action in this country,” the report says. No McAdoo Flag On : Engineers’ Sta f f, Declares Stone CLEVELAND, Ma: of rumors are afloat and all kinds of statements are being given out by the different press syndicates to the effect that the organization has indorsed this, that, and the other candidate for BELLEVILLE TRADES COUNCIL ENDORSES| S CALL FOR FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION IN PEORIA; VOTED TO SEND DELEGATE balked here when Judge Edwards re- fused to grant a writ against the In- 8.—“All kinds (Special to The Daily Worker) BELLEVILLE, Ill, May 8.—The Belleville Trades Council has endors- ed the call for a State Farmer Labor Party convention sent out by the Provisional Committee of which Duncan MacDonald, former Secretary- Treasurer of the Illinois Miners Union is secretary. The convention will be held in Peoria, on May 19 and its object is to elect delegates to the COURT HEARS WRIT (Continued From Page 1.) civil contempt, not criminal con- tempt.” And Judge Charles M. Foell remained firm that he would not sub- mit to the bosses’ dictation thru their lawyer and give penal sentences where they were not warranted, Three of the dress manufacturers, Kovler, Reinhardt, and Nat Ribback, all of whom have their business in the building at 307 S. Market Street, were present at the afternoon court session. Ribback attempted to come to the aid of prosecutor Hyde, by of- fering him suggestions from time to time. Bosses’ Witnesses Weak. Officer Patrick Moran played chief assistant to Att’y. Hyde and coached up the prosecution’s witnesses. He didn’t do a thoro job because their testimony varied widely. In the Tail- ure of the regular witnesses to iden- tify Carrie Peck, Moran called on his unfailing henchman, Michael Collins, to help him out. And then Foell wouldn't believe the “honorable” po- liceman from the states attorney's office. Attorney’ Peter Sissman for the striking ladies’ garment workers, made plainclothes Sergeant Kelly look so foolish by showing up the contra- dictions in his testimony that prose- euting attorney Hyde had to console Kelly in the corridor at recess. Jonas S. Isenberg, who has a dress manufacturing business at the same address the Francine Frock has, beamed with self-importance as he testified. His chief statement was in regard to Anton Kropashko, who was formerly employed by him. Isenberg said that Kropashko on one occasion was seen to raise his hand and cry, “We'll get you” to one of the scabs. On this testimony, Judge Foell gave Kropashko a sentence twice as severe as he gave the other men involved, altho the evidence was exceedingly flimsy and Kropashko denied the charge completely. Foell Takes a Hand., Foell in cross-examining the officers who testified, questioned the accuracy of their memory for certain dates and faces when they admitted to seeing so many people on the streets, almost since the first day of the strike. Judge Foell does hold the injunction as law and therefore, to be enforced by the court without question. But unlike his fellow benchman, Judge “Dennie” Sul- livan, Foell does not hold picketing a criminal offense. He hasn’t been so easily bought out by the bosses led by lawyer Dudley Taylor of the Em- ployers’ Association and Attorney Hyde. The bosses don’t feel nearly so cocky as they did earlier in the strike. The long fight against the union has cut their bank accounts considerably. The cases they are bringing into court now are extremely weak and even the presiding Judge has to grant that the greatest charge against the pickets is “technical violation” in spite of all attorney Hyde’s efforts to convince him of the contrary. Hyde argued for severe enough sentences to scare other strikers off the picket line, but Foell maintained that that was beyond the purpose of the injunction and that the cases must be tried on the evidence only. More Cases Today. About twenty-four more cases are due to come up before Judge Focll this morning. The strikers involved in these cases have been waiting with wearying patience as their cases have been put off from day to day. Judge Foell must think that part of their punishment should consist of their constant attendance in his court. He may want to help the detectives sta- tioned about to get something out of the girls by mingling with them so- cially, But the striking garment work- ers have learned long before this that attaches of the courts and police are generally not to be trusted as far as they, the workers, are concerned, the presidency,” declares Grand Chief Warren 8. Stone, Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers. “In fact it has been broadcasted on several occasions that the B. of L. B. as an organization has indorsed Mr. McAdoo, the Democratic candidate for the presidency. This statement is absolutely untrue. “The B. of L. B. consistently refused to indorse anyone, and our reply has been to all such inquiries that we would await action of the two party conventions and see whom they nom- inate and what platforms they adopt, before even indicating any preference. We also want to await the action of the conference for progressive poll- tical action, which meets in the B. of | 7, L, B. Auditorium on July 4.” wari inhuman Weavers Strike Against Speed-Up System In Maine The Fe RKER. them to subscribe today. ll Waterville, id Pi VILLE Me. May. )—More than 400 weavers at the Wyandotte Worsted Mills, walked out in an effort to block the speeding-up system which the company is introducing. worker {8 expected to operate four of the new automatic loom: How many of your shop-mates read H iLY wo eget one of ‘ have One National Farmer Labor Party conven- tion which will be held in St. Paul on June 17. The Belleville Trades Council elect- ed a delegate to the Peoria conven- tion but refuesd to act on the St. Paul, Cleveland or Ernest-Rodriguez conventions. Sentiment for a mass Farmer Labor party is growing tre- mendously thruout Illinois, particular- ly in the mining sections. SENATOR NORRIS ISSUED AGAINST|ANNOUNCES BOLT GARMENT STRIKE|FROM 6, 0° PARTY Could Not Stomach Calvin Coolidge LINCOLN, Neb. May 8.—Senator George W. Morris practically cut loose from the Republican party to- day when he announced in a letter released here that he would not at- tempt to get friends to vote a straight ticket and wished to “abolish party responsibility and in its stead estab- lish personal responsibility.” Morris’ letter climaxed the two day fight in the Republican State Con- vention last week that closed with a hedged endorsement of Morris on the same platform on which President Calvin Coolidge was praised. The letter, written to C. A. Soren- sen, his primary campaign manager here, announced Morris’ intention to cut loose from the regular ranks and refuse to campaign the state in favor of a straight ticket. MELLON'S FRIEND THROWS HIM TO INVESTIGATORS Watson Deserts Sinking Administration (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 8.—Sen. Jim Watson of Indiana, who some weeks ago sought to have the Senate abolish his own committee which had been selected to investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue—because Sen. Cou- zens proposed the employment of Francis J, Heney to look into the whisky frauds and other corruptions in the prohibition unit of that bureau —suddenly announced, that he would no longer oppose the employing of a lawyer. He repeated his earlier at- tack on the oil investigation and the disclosures of the corruption of Daugherty’s control of the depart- ment of justice, but he backed out of the position he had taken that Secretary Mellon must not be invest- igated. Watson’s retreat and flight came on the morning after the day—fatal to the Coolidge crowd—when the Senate adopted the Simmons’ rates of income taxes after defeating the Mellon rates, and the Democrats and pro- gressives in the House, on six roll- calls, had smashed the railroad lobby’s hopes of preventing consideration of the Barkley railroad labor bill. The administration was “on the rocks;” Watson jumped and swam for shore. But Watson charged in the senate that most of the investigation had been devoted to politics—to trying to get something to embarrass Coolidge. He shouted that the people today held the Senate in lower esteem than at any time in the past, while “that of the presidency has gone up higher than eyer before.” “Did the senator say ‘blown up?’ asked Ashurst, and the crowd in the galleries laughed. Tenants Petitioning Court For Protection Instead Of Striking Two requests were made in Rent- ers’ Court to Judge Samuel Trude by J. Ritchie Patterson and Mrs. Mary Holland representing the Chicago Tenants’ Protective league. The first request was that ouster Proceedings preferred by landlords against the tenants should take their regular place on the court docket and not be treated as “emergency” cases, The other request was that full bene- fit of the “six months’ stay” law be given the tenant victims. This law gives the judge absolute power for up to six months to determine tenants’ tenure after the expiration of the lease. Judge Trude has over 1000 eviction cases to be cleared in his court with- in the next few weeks. Just what his stand on the petition of the ‘Tenants’ Protective Leaue will be is uncertain Friday, May 9, 1924. AMMY SMEARED WITH SGARLET BY MORRIS HILLQUIT But Russell Puts Him In Rotarian Class By LUDWELL DENNY (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) NEW YORK, May 8.—You may not think that Samuel Gompers is a revo- lutionist. Gompers does not think so. But he is a revolutionist, tho he does not know it, according to Morris Hill- quit in his New York qevate with Bertrand Russell, British scientist and Socialist, The debate was supposed to be on the question: Is the British La- bor Government Revolutionary? with Hillquit for the affirmative, But the ar- gument was over, “What is a Revolu- tionist?” Russell applied the test of im- mediate action and method, Hillquit was interested in ultimate aims. “Trade unionists and socialists are both essentially revolutionary. Even our own American Federatiun of La- bor is inherently revolutionary much as its leadership would deny it. The trade union fight leads ultimately to the abolition of the whole profit sys- tem.” Sam Once Talked Red. This was Hillquit’s argument. He spoke of Gomper’s testimony under cross-examination by himself before resident Wiison’s commission on in- dustrial relations, in which Gompers said unionists would not stop until they got the full products of their la- bor. If wanting more is the test, replied Russell, then not only the A. F. of L. but the Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce are revolutionary. “The aim of the British Labor gov- ernment is thoroughly revolutionary and its method potentially so,” Hill- quit contented. Use of force, he said, was not the test, but the B, L. P. would, if necessary, use force to pro- tect it lawful rights—stressing lawful. Russell Points to British Fakers. Both in its makeup and action the B. L, P. is non-revolutionary, argued Russell. He listed the five Lords in the cabinet and spoke of Halding as an imperialist. He showed that Thomas had prevented revolutionary action by the workers on Black Friday. Recognition of Russia, the one big achievement was taken in the interest of British capitalism and trade and not out of sympathy with the Russian regime, Russell maintainef®. The get eral foreign policy of the B, L. P. so far is only a continuation of the pre- ceding government’s, conditioned by business interests. The British col- onies have received no more freedom, ‘The standard of living of British workers has not been improved. A split in the B. L. P. after which the majority group would take the place of the present Liberal party, was predicted by Russell. Solons Changed Minds To Save “Cal’s” Face Says Angry Patriot WASHINGTON, May 8.—Charging that President Coolidge used the immigration bill as “a political foot- ball,” representative Sabath, Illinois Democrat, today announced his de- termination to fight adoption of the conference report on the bill in the house tomorrow. Sabath declared “politics was play- ed all thru the conference on the bill. He refused to sign the conference report. He will demand in the house the reason for the sudden change of front of house conferees, some of whom announced on that they had no intention of nting the postponement of Japanese exclu- sion asked by President Coolidge and on Wednesday agreed to the postpone- ment after talking with the President.- Heard About Town. “I see where that God Damn wop went and committed suicide,” remark- ed a burly citizen, who was purchasing some groceries in a neighborhod store. “That fellow that killed his wife,” he explained to the Jewish lady who waited on him. “You're going to kill your wife,” she gasped failing to understand the American language. ri “Hell no” he replied quite civilly, “I haven't got any. But the whole trouble today is that confounded pro- hibition. No booze. How can the peo- ple be good without Mquor? Another thing is they don’t hang enough peo- ple around here. California, Ha! ‘Thats the state. They have the best laws in the world there.” “Were you ever in California?” in- quired the store lady. “Was I,” he grunted, “I sure was. I was a cop out there. I was the law and I tell you they hanged more people there than any other state in the union.” “Perhaps that is why they have the © foot and mouth disease there” re- marked an ascetic looking man who came and ordered a string of frank- furters and a piece of cheese. The California hangman was dumb- founded into silence. WASHINGTON TO SEND 25 DELEGATES TO ST. PAUL CONVENTION, JUNE 17th ‘TTLE.—Washington expects lon of Far al secretary Getner-Labor party. i forces June 17th, accordi to send 25 delegates to the St. Paul to John C, Kannedy, The state is entitled to 33 votes. | a 4 (