The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 18, 1924, Page 4

qs ~e FO ee ee ee ee ee en Page Four RED CONGRESS ARGUES UNITED FRONT ISSUES England and America Under Discussion (Continued from page 1.) Social-democracy and Fascism are the| Heutenants of the bourgeoisie in this | offensive. The coalition of all non-| Fascist parties against the Fascisti| would be the most banal use of the! United Front policy. The unity of the; proletariat under the leadership of the| Communist party is necessary, but) nevertheless without any coalition) with other parties. Social-democracy is not a wor par so that aj United Front with it impossible. The speaker is opposed to a bloc of| political workers parties, but believes that a United Front policy in the trade | unions and in the shop councils is) Editor's Note. — The DAILY WORKER begins today the publica- tion of the complete report by Gre- gory Zinoviev, chairman of the Com- munist International, to the Fifth World Congress just held in Moscow. Readers of the DAILY WORKER must go thru this report carefully in order to better understand the problems raised in the discussions of the World Congress that are being reported daily in these columns. Another installment of | Zinoviev's report tomorrow. Today's install- ment, follows: P * e:6 Our Forces OMRADES, at this Congress we have to outline our future path, the path which we have hitherto pur- sued. We must do this, first of all, because, for the first time we have to pursue our work in the International + stages in the history of the interna- tional revolutionary working - class Movement. Permit me, therefore, to make a short historical review of the Communist International. I shall of view. Firstly, our strength at the begin- ning of the Communist International and. the extent we have grown during these years. Secondly, the conflict of tendencies imside the Communist International and the review of these conflicts of tendencies at the four world-con- gresses hitherto held. From Propagandist Society to Party First of all, we must compare our present numerical strength with what it has been hitherto. I think it is quite clear by now that the Communist. International, in its earliest years, in a number of countries, was only a | but first of all I would like to examine {society for the propaganda of com- |munism without being aware of it | itself. At the beginning, we thought \we were yery strong, @ut as a matter of fact, in a number of countries at applicable. For the incorrect applica-| Congress without the leadership and \that time we did not have Communist tion of the United Front policy the| majority of the Fourth Congress and} the Executive Committee as well are) responsible, for they give incorrect formulations. The same is true of the workers government, the formulation of which by the Fourth Congresses must be repudiated, as the events in Saxony have proved. “Workers government” is an ill- chosen synonym for “proletarian dic- tatorship.” How are the workers to understand these phrases, if the Con- gress quarrels so much about their meaning? ' Calis Executive Instable The policy of the executive commit- tee is very eclectical, it has tended now to a right-wing deviation, now to a leftist deviation. In the face of such instability, it is explicable that many cannot follow and that breaches of discipline occur. The speaker does not wish to create any leftist faction. He opposes fusion with the Italian socialists, is against the formation of nuclei, against the creation of sympa- thetic parties. The role of leadership which the Communist Party of Russia plays is the best guarantee that the Comintern will remain revolutionary, but nevertheless the greatest dangers of a deviation toward the right are threatening the Communist Party of Russia. The world proletariat is more revolutionary than generally believed, and, in spite of temporary stagnation, it will triumph in the spirit of Marx, Lenin and the Russian revolution. (End of the session.) a AB JUNE 24TH SESSION About British Labor Party In the morning session of June 24 _ ywn (England) warns against exag-| gerated conceptions of the unpopular-| ity of the British Labor government. | It is just beginning to become popu-| lar. Ruth Fischer’s demand, that the English Communist Party must ac-| ively oppose the Labor party, is based m a loss of her bearings in the Eng- lish situation and on a partial con- fusion of the Labor party with a working-class government. The Labor party presents a proletarian mass or- ganization, and for this reason it is the uncompromising duty of thé Com- munist Party to work within the Labor party. On the further probfém of the role of leadership in the Comintern the speaker declares that the leader- ship must unquestionably remain in the | hands of the Communist Party of Rus- sia, for neither the German nor the French party has had enough revolu-| tionary experience. Mistakes By Polish Communists Krajeweki (Poland) goes on to say that the Polish party has advanced fh the agrarian and the nationalist ques-| tions. Krulikowski made a crude mis- take in the question of military ser- vice, and for this reason the Central committee repudiated him. The Party did nothing in Krakau, for it had con- centrated its strength in Warsaw, in Lodz, in Upper Schleswig, and in Dom- browa. The organization at Warsaw called off the fight for the sake of hav- ing a United Front with the Polish Bocfalist Party, which was a mistake. Many organizations were inactive dur- ing the events of, November, but the Central committée is fighting right- wing tendencies. There were vague points in the theses of the Central committee con- cerning the question of workers gov- ernment, which must be cleared up. At present there are two tendencies in the party. One group is of the 4 opinion that the stand of the Central committee on the Russian Communist influence of Comrade Lenin; secondly, | because in many respects the interna- tional situation has now almost com- pletely changed; thirdly, because we jare, in a way, holding a jubilee Con- gress. Recently ‘we have celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Communist International. Four world-congresses lie behind us, and they mark four parties, but only great propaganda | societies. Whence came this optical illusion? It: arose from the fact that the discontent of the masses, at the end of the imperialist war, was very |great, and we took this seething dis- content for an organized communist force. But it was not really so.. The example of our German brother-party will suffice to illustrate this. |binations mean a repetition of the |events in Saxony. The Central com- jmittee makes elsctorial agreements | with the social-democrats. Krulikow- | ski's mistakes are not mistakes pecu- liar to himself, but simply results of the political inactivity to the Central committee. In the German and the Russian questions the Central committee Played a game of hide-and-seek, shifted from one position to another, con- cealed the documents from the masses |of the Party. It is not true that in the jagrarian and in the nationalist ques- The poor fish says: “If all bank- ers were conscripted and, sent to trenches, then who would lend us money to carry on war, and if all rich ‘old guys’ were put on the firing line among the rest, then who-in- hell will stir us up for Sept. 127” ee Party question has been mistaken; the other group upholds it as correct. @ Polish left wing rejects the point of view of the Comintern on the agra- rian and on the nationalist problems. The theses of the opposition con- |tained a great deal that was correct. |The discipline of the opposition fol- lowed-not because of the presentation of these theses, but rather because of the creation of factionalism, because of the publication of the theses before they had been laid before the Central committee. Pe Bulgarian Agrarian Difficulties Kolarow (Bulgaria) ~is of the opin- ion that Radek tried to justify the defeat of the Bulgarian y because of its non-political difficulties. The justification is unnecessary, for the Bulgarian Party itself recognizes its mistakes. On the basis of detailed writings concerning the events of June and of September, the speaker proves that the chief mistake was neglect of the peasant problem. In agricultural | countries the Party must apply the | United Front policy from below and |from above; it must itself approach | the political parties of the peasantry, | So that a coalition government can be | Prevented. | French Elections , Lensky (France) claims that the |French elections have been incor |fectly interpreted by Radek for Radek jis reckoning with only the number of Communist votes cast, but is not con- sidering the source of these yot The correct tactics pf the Communist Party of France captured the votes of the best workmen of Paris. Passing to the Polish Party, the speaker states that nowhere during the events of October did the Polish Party stand firmly on its own feet with the excep- tion of Upper Silesia, where the left wing directed the action. It is inad- missible to Krajewski to exonerate himself from bleme as far as the city organizations are concerned. The Central committee is fully responsible for opportunistic errors and right-wing doviations. The point of view of the Polish Central Committee in the ques- tion of workers government is abso- lutely wrong for parliamentarian com- FOSTER-RUTHENBERG | MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS William Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg will address the member- ship of the Party on the Immediate tagk of the Party In the following cities: BUFFALO—Friday, July 18, E: 8 p.m. ngineers Hall, 36 W. Huron St. at BOSTON—Saturday, July 19, Dudley St. Opera House, 113 Dudley Roxbury, at 7:30 p. m. W HAVEN—July 22, 8 P. M., Labor Lycoum, 38 Howe 8t. NEW YORK CITY—Wednesday, July 23, Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave., at 8 p. m. . PITTSBURG—Friday, July 26, Labor Lyceum, 36 Miller Street, at 8 p. m. PHILADELPHIA—Thursday, J St. at 8 p.m. CLEVELAND—Saturday, July july 24, Breth Sholom Hall, 608 Pine 26. tions the opposition rejected the deci- sions of the Comintern. The theses of the opposition were put before the Gentral committee before their publi- cation. The policy of the Polish Party must be completely changed. Soclal-Democratic Capitalism Neurath (Communist, Party of Czechoslovakia) states, contrary to the opinion of Trotzky and Radek, that the period of consolidation of capitalism and social-democracy is not of long duration. The parties must be ready every day to throw themselves into battle, for big fights are at hand. Smeral’s formulation in the German question is beneath him.” . The speaker characterizes the point of view of the executive committee in the German question as completely correct, and not, as Smeral said, only 80 per cent correct. In the question of United Front policy and workers’ government he agrees with Zinoviev. Pepper on Labor Party Pepper (America) proceeds to say that the biggest task of the Comintern consists of the creation of a mass party in England, for the October de- feat in Germany and the MacDonald government ‘have. shifted the dead weight to England. The analysis of the Labor party is at the present time }an international duty. In England, America, South Africa; Australia and Canada the foundations of political mass parties were laid through the trade unions, and not trade unions through political mass parties, as in |Europe. Small political parties, like the independent Labor Party in Eng- land and the Workers party in Amer- ica, Rave succeeded in capturing the Labor parties, In America the work- ing masses must be separated trom the bourgeois parties. The Farmer- Labor party binds workers and farm- ers together, the situation is extremely chaotic, so thet a solution of the Arher ican problem is difficult. The speaker hopes that events will prove that the deetsion of the Executive committee is right. The speaker believes that Com- munists must enter inte the Labor Party, and that they can’ keep their right to criticize freely and will criti- cize freely. It is quite another ques- tion, if the Communist parties as such should remain always in the Labor Party. Because the popularity of the Labor Party is growing, the English Communist Party must stay in the Labor Party, there, finally, to go over to the opposition. The Fifth Congress must lay down the law concerning Labor Party tactics, for the Labor Party presents the specific application of the Uniter Front policy for a large part of the world and opens the way for the correct method of Bolshevizing whole continents. Ye Organize to Stop Fires. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 17.— Altho the situation was materially improved forest fires continued to blaze on the Pacific coast today in four widely separated sectors: Sierra, Tahoe, Shasta, and Santa Barbara National Fores’ A plan for organ- izing the citizens of the state in the fight to control the most serious forest fire menace in twenty y was launched by district forester Paul G. Redington at a meeting of an execu- tive committee formed to meet the emergency now existing. Conscription of men had practically ceased in the fire zones, but the men who have been “on the line” for days are being relieved. examine this history from two points | HE DAILY WORKER First. Installment of Complete R After the First Congress, during the January rising of the Spartacists, we believed that our German party was a very great force. The discontent of the masses was very great. Their hostility to the bourgeoisie, and partly also to the social democrats, was intense. We communists thought we were the vanguard of this great move- ment. If we now look back upon these events, we see them quite clearly. The |Spartacus rising was one of the most glorious struggles of the working class. But what actitally was our Party? It was still very small, it was a great propaganda society of com- |munism which was only at the begin- ‘ning of the process of winning over the masses. And it was so equally in other countries. In order, therefore, |to have a clear standard by which to }Zauge our present position, we must |mot overlook the facts which I have mentioned. In spite of all weaknesses, in spite of all the shortcomings of our )sections, we are now, in a number of |countries, no longer propaganda soci- eties, but we have grown into a Com- munist party, and in part, even into a@ communist mass-party. Struggle of Tendencies Now let us consider the question of the struggle of tendencies inside the Communist International, Several things have to be cleared up in order to correctly understand the conflict of {tendencies which, at this Fifth Con- gress, it will be difficult for us to avoid. As far as the program side of Report of Cook County (Chicago) Workers Party City Central Commit- tee meeting held on Tuesday, July 15. Nine new members for the Party wore gained during the last two weeks aud three comrades were transferred into Chicago. Of the nine new mem- bers four are in unions, Tool and Die Makers, Machinists, Photo-Engravers and Tailors. Four of the applicants were formerly members of the socialist party and one of the socialist-labor party. Workers Party, Local Chicago, held several very successful meetings in the last two weeks. The McDonald meeting, Workers Party Nominating Convention meeting and the Party membership meetings were all very successful, as wasgalso the anti-Fas- cist meeting held recently. The Party membership meeting was the best at- tended in many months. The anti-militarist meeting and cele- bration\of the International Anti-Mili- tary Week will be held on Thursday, July 31, at Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North avenue. Street Meetiigp Successful Street meetings held by the Work- ers Party in all parts of the city were very successful in attendance, litera- titre sales and general effect. Lan- guage branches are also holding street meetings in their own language, which are also proving successful, especially the meetings arranged in the Polish and Italian neighborhoods. The class in Trade Union Conduct and Tactics, conducted by Comrade Arne Swabeck, is going well, but branches are urged to send their union members to that class. The Speakers’ Class has been started, with Comrade James P. Cannon as the instructor. Tickets for Prese Picnic An branches and lenguage units of the Party have been supplied with tickets for the great Press Picnic, which is to take place in Riverview Park, August 10. As its name signi- fies, this Picnic 1s for the benefit of the Party Press, both language and the DAILY WORKER. Agents for Dally Worker Every branch of the Party, if it has not already done so, will be expected to elect an active comrade as the DAILY WORKER agent of the branch, who is also to be a member of the campaign committee of the branch in accordance with the Program of Ac- tion outlined by the Central Executive Committee. Branches in territory where carrier delivery has been estab- shed will organize squads to cover the territory from house to house to get new subscribers for THE DAILY, who are to receive the DAILIES by carrier early in the morning. The Young Workers League members and members of the Junior Groups are expected to lend their whole-hearted co-operation to this campaign. Sales of Workers Party Mterature have been very good the last halt month. Particularly at street meet- ings and Party meetings has the sale been good. Union meétings,are not yet attended to by many branches which were assigned several union meetings to cover. Labor Heralds must be pushed more strongly, espe- cially at union and street meetings. There is literature on hand at the local office which can be “distributed free to workers whom we want to get acquainted with our literature, if branches will call for same, Young Workers League Active The Young Workers League is con- dueting factory drives in many large Plante in Chicago. Just finished a successful campaign at the Bunte Candy Company. Are now tackling the National Biscuit Company. Will’ hold an anii-military meeting together | w. Jewii Party on July 31, | Me with the Worl They have arranged an industrial membership meeting to discuss the various industrial, trade union and shop nuclol problems in thelr relation pa’ me the question is concerned, I am in agreement with what is said in the instructions of the Communist Party of Germany to its delegation to the Fifth Congress. I believe this docu- ment is generally known. This docu- ment appears to me, in the main, to be acceptable to all of us, and will jhelp us to arrive “at the decisions we |have to taka here. Bedrock of the Comintern The German Communist_Party ob- |Serves six important program docu- |ments in our five years of activity, |which, so to speak, forms thg bedrock | |of the Communist International, -These jare the theses on dictatorship and | democracy, which Comrade Lenin pre-| |sented to the First Congress; Lenin’s |theses on the agrarian and national questions, adopted by the Second Con- |gress on the formation of Soviets: the | conditions under which workers’ coun- jcils may be established, and their his- | torical role. All these theses were not accepted by the Communist International with- out a struggle. But there has been |far more controversy over questions of a purely tactical nature. That Bolshevism was born of the struggle against opportunism, against the right wing, against the social dem- ocrats, and against the centrists, is generally known, and does not need proving here. The communist very largely came from the Second Inter- national. One may palpably feel the existence, of two component parts of PARTY ACTIVITIES IN CHICAGO to the working class youth of Chicago, Jack Johnstone, of the TUBL, and Barney Mass, District Organizer of Dist. 8, Young Workers League, will be the principal speakers at this meet- ing. All Party members are invited to take part in this meeting. The semi-annual convention of the Chicago Y W L will be held Sunday, July 27, at Workers Lyceum. : Our Industrial Activity From the well-attended and lively meeting of the branch industrial organizers held recently, a decided improvement can be noticed in the various industrial groups. Amalga- mated Clothing Workers group is again rapidly recovering ground since it has been cleared up on the policy of the Party. Despite the lack of leader- ship in the metal trades union, our Party has been able to make a very good showing for the Machinists’ Con- vention. There are posgibilities of re- viving some of the groups which were once functioning in the shop crafts. In the Journeymen Tailors’ elections, however, our comrades have. not made as good a showing as they could have. A special meeting, therefore, has been called gf all comrades in the Finnish branch, which constitute the majority of our Party members in that union, in an effort to remedy the situation. Since the adoption of the new Party policy, our industrial and union activ- ity must be increased to prevent sec- tarfan and dual union tendencies from cropping out. . A meeting of all Party members in the Amalgamated will be held Friday, July 18, at Workers Lyceum, to fur- ther discuss the readjustment in prices in the clothing industry and shop nuclei organization. Political Activities in Chicago Comrales Swabeck, Abern, Gomez, Kjar and Overgaard were elected by the City Central Committee as dele- gates to the Farmer-Lahor Conference eport by Zinoviev the Communist International. Legacy of the Past The first part is that section of the Comintern which was born of the Sec- ond International, former social dem- ocrats; the second is the new genera- tion of workers which has grown up during and after the war. ‘Both sec- tions have their strong and their weak sides. It is generally known that the tactics of the Communist Interna- tional, the tactics of Bolshevism and Leninism, developed themselves main- ly in the struggle against social de- mocracy, against the right wing, and against the centrists. It is clear, therefore, that Leninism could not but fight, even now, against the survivals of social democracy which naturally were and are present in the Com- munist International. It is less known, however, that Bol- shevism had to conduct great strug- gles against other digressions, fre- quently described ‘as “left” or “ultra- left.” It is self-evident that they are not “left.” There is nothing more “left” than Leninism, than revolution- ary Marxism, It is customary to describe these digressions as “left.” Bolshevism fought against these “left” digressions before the revolution; in the Com- munist International itself, its founder and leader, Lenin, carried on great struggles against these digressions on an international scale, as the Execu- tive Council has to do now. (To Be, Continued) NEW YORK MEMBERSHIP MEETING. NEW YORK, July 17.—There well be a general membership meeting of ali Workers Party members Wednesday evening, July 23rd, at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Avenue negr 9th St. This will be one of ‘the most important meetings held in New. York, Comrade W. Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg will speak on the Workers Party in the coming | presidential campaign and on a niimber 4f other vital questions confronting the party at this time. - All comrades are . specially urged to attend this meeting without fail. All branch meetings for that night must be called off. Comrades must bring their ‘membership cards with them. No one will be admitted without a card. BOSTON PARTY ACTIVITIES Dear Comrade: This open air campaign is laying the ground for the election work and is also part of the campaign to double the Party membership. The defection of the So- cialist Party has left thé field clear and the issue clean cut. For every Comrade on this list these meetings should take precedence over everything except union meetings. No one shal exo! un- der any circumstances unless he notifies the committee prior to the time of his meeting. Each comrade is to report at 60 Pemberton Square at 7:30 prompt, on the evenings assigned, except those Slated for Revere, who go direct to the mosting Place in Revere at 8 sharp. On this list comrades with an asterisk (*) before thgir name are in charge of that meeting’and are responsible for con- duct of same and must report on blank rovided for the purpose. Class meet- ings are held Monday evenings, at 60 Pemberton Square, Room 310, and all those on the speakers’ Hst should at- tend each class meeting. ie 4 if in any case you are unable to fill date as- signed you. Report nights you are ayail- able. Committee for Open Air Meet- ings: L. Schlosberg, H. J. Canter, J. Arablan, C. Schwartz, J. Lacey, Secre- to be held July 20. The action of the| tary. National Committee of the National Farmer-Labor Party in withdrawing its delegates will be brought before the conference and an effort made to have the conference indorse the Work- ers Party candidates. ~ Candidates for the State Congres- sional and Cook County tickets were nominated as mentioned before in the DAILY WORKER.* t Workers Party candidates in Illinois have been entered for all outstanding state, Cook County and for congres- sional districts wherever the Party has some strength. A campaign com- mittee has been elected, with Com- rade McCarthy selected to take charge of obtaining the necessary petitions, with each branch of the Party elect- ing a committee of five to organize their branch to circularize the peti- tions in order to get sufficient signa- tures to place our candidates on the ticket. 5 At the next Enlarged Executive Committee meeting Wednesday, Aug. 18, all federation organizers and sec- retaries will be present to make final division of branch functions during the campaign. There is a big task before us. We can establish ourselves definitely before the working class, as @ powerful political factor in the com- ing election and can make tremendous Communist propaganda if every com- rade will get on the job, and from the enthusiastic City Central and mem- bership meetings we know that our comrades are on the job and feel con- fident that they will increase their activities for the Communist cam- Forward to the Communist wine: Wi j , CHICAGO STREET MEETINGS FRIDAY—Division and Washtenaw, N. W. P. North and Rockwell, 1, Roosevelt and Cen- tral Park, Rykov, Y, W, L. SATURDAY—#0th and State, South Side English W. P. 112th and Michigan, Pullman b-C. C. C. Roosevelt AE ae : Saturday, uy 19—Membership_meet- ing, Dudley St. Opera House, 7:30 p. m. Sunday, July 20—Boston Common Hall Bloomfield and Canter. Chairman, *Stév- ens. Monday, July 21—Speakers Class at headquarters, 8 p. m. sharp. mugeday. July 22—Revere at Shirle; and Walnut Sts. Moore and Friedman. Chairman, *Louko. Davis So. End. Harrison Ave. and vis, *Marks and Kutisker. ‘hairman, Greg- ory. Z G - ‘Wednesday, Jul 28—Chambers and Springs ‘Sts. Wert End. *Canter and Levine. Chairman, Ze ns Thursday, July 24—Blue Hill Ave. and Woodrow Dorchester. Riley and Yaffe. Chairman, *Hurwitz. Friday, July 25—Heath Squar bury. | Ballam and Schlosberg. man, *Stevens. Saturday, Jul Hill Ave. and Dore and 26—Blue wrence ‘hester. — Konikow Higman. Chairman, *Kraska. Sunday, July 27—Boston Common Bandstand. ©Baliant and Conroy. ‘Chairs man, *Schwartz. Monday, July 28—Speakers’ Class at headquarters, 8 p. m. sharp. 'e Rox- Chair- START OF INTERNATIONAL ANTI- WAR WEEK , DEMONSTRATION Cartridge Workers Killed. MINERS GROWD TO HEAR WHAT UNION PLANS West Virginia Curious to Meet “Ex’’-Scoundrel (Special to the DAILY WORKER) EVERETTSVILLE, W. Va., July 17. —‘The United Mine Workers of America, while the international or- ganization has charge of District No. 17, does not intend to say anything against the State Police in West Vir- ginia,” Van A. Bittner, the interna- tional officials’ representative in charge of northern West Virginia stated to one of the largest meetings of miners and their families ever held in this territory. . Bittner Once Bribed. A tremendous crowd of 8,000 peo- ple met to hear what Van Bittner, one, of the most suspicious characters in the International’s “gallery,” had to say about the organization work in this district. Van Bittner lost his job as head of the Pittsburgh District, No. 5, in 1916, under the cloud of a $5,000 bribe which he received for his efforts to call off the Curtisville strike which succeeded in spite of him. James Oates refused to obey Van Bit- tners’s “phoney” telegrams, which the International conventions have never allowed to be made public, but which the DAILY WORKER printed on Mon- day. 4 The Maidsville Local, No. 4498, brought its members over in a truck with a huge streamer: “Idle 20 Months,’ No Reductions For Us.” Monongah and Davis locals brought _ their bands with them. Great Promises, But. ~Van Bittner said that organization work will proceed “until every pound of non-union coal is stopped in North- ern West Virginia,” and then the or- ganization would be extended to the southern part of the state. He stated that “if the non-union coal operators want to mine coal and remain in the coal mining industry they are going to sign the same Baltimore agree- ments that the 75 per cent of the other coal tonnage has signed.” The speaker challenged the cor- poration counsel of the Brady Coal Corporation, whose gunmen recently burned the union hall and evicted striking -workers, to a debate before an equal representation of miners and operators on the facts of the Brady case. There will be another big mass meeting of miners this Sunday at Reynoldsyille at 3 o’clock, Just how far Van Bittner intends to organize the district remains to be seen. Poor Mother Loses Baby’s Body When Given Undertaker (By The Federated Press) READING, Pa, July 17.—While President Coolidge’s son Calvin was being buried afd the nation was pour- ing out its sympathy to the family this is what happened in Reading: Mrs. Anna Geary’s month old boy was ill with pneumonia. Geary had deserted her. Her confinément was a charity case in the Reading hospital. When she returned with the sick baby she was told there was nothing wrgng. Another doctors sent her back saying the baby had pneumonia. The hospital nurse repeated there was nothing wrong and said that Mrs. Geary had been a charity patiént, anyhow. The mother tried another hospital and two days later the baby died. The undertaker would not handle the body without guarantee of $17 payment. The mother promised the insurance money and was told the time when the baby would be buried. She came to the undertaking estab. lishment promptly at the time stated but the little body was gone. _ “We had to send another corpse to the cemetery somewhat earlier. So we thought we might as well save a trip and your baby went along,” under- taker Auman told Mrs, Geary. 5 ; Nobody knows where the baby is buried, or if it was buried at all. 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