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a clpals meet with until the next meeting two hence. No reason was given for the postponement, Page Four TH E DAILY WORKER MANCHURIANS HAMMER AWAY AT WU FORCES Russ Pact with Chang Angers Imperialists (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, Oct. 8,— The Manchurian forces are con-| tinuing their fierce assaults on| the Chihlian sector. An intense drive has been launched against | the Peking army’s position at) Shankaikwan. Manchurian alr: planes are inflicting heavy losses on their enemy lines. Several | troop trains have been bombed ‘successfully. The effect of the severe de- | feat met by the Wei-Pu Fu forces at Jehol has been de- moralizing to the Chekiang army. The loss of ten thousand men may be the undoing of the Peking defense and bring about an end of hostilities much sooner than many expect. At this moment the foreign powers mare extremely disturbed over the {brilliant stroke of Soviet diplomacy in| yChina, The imperialist groups are) losing. out with the Peking as well ‘as the Chang sympathizers. The ‘Manchurian war lord has imprisoned several “whites” who were in the management of the Eastern Chinese railway. The “white” official Os- tromov and three of his colleagues ‘are now behind the bars. The ‘arrangement between Chang ‘and the Soviets as to the railway is especially important. First of all the imperialist interests have been in- terested in keeping it out of Soviet hands in order to enable them to utilize the lines as a base for hos- tilities against the Communsit govern- ment. Besides, the leading powers are financially interested in the railway. According to the Isvestia the situa- tion sums itself up as follows: “The agreement is a new victory for Soviet diplomacy, a new victory over entente diplomacy, a new failure of entente imperialism and a defeat of the im- perialist powers in China.” Firemen Brotherhood in Open Defiance of Railway Labor Board CLEVELAND, Oct. 8—Openly de- fying the railway labor board, D. B. Robertson, president of the Brother- hood of “Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, has invited managers of western railway systems to negotiate directly with the brotherhood on re- vising the wage scale, The labor board recently assumed charge of the negotiation of the new contract and haled the brotherhood men to appear in Chicago, The issue ls now in federal district court in Chicago. The Brotherhood officials have ig- nored the labor board’s summons and their latest step is a polite invitation to the corporation-controlled board to keep its hands off the railwaymen’s disputes. The firemen are asking in- creases of 24 to 36 cents a day, which have already been granted by the eastern roads. Help! Help! A campaign for increasing the cir- | fect, of middle age. The Navy As It Is. To The DAILY WORKER:—I have read your comment on secretary of the nayy Wilbur. Your last sentence, “Tt is not the vulgarity but the truth- ful picture of war that the play in question presents which is causing the concern of our employing class hooligans in and out of uniform,” sums it up correctly. It hits the nail on the head, and hits it hard. Here is what a friend on whose statement I can rely, narrated to me. This was his first experience and in- sight into the ennobling life of our hero sailors. Fla., this spring, Three destroyers were anchored and being cleaned up. On Saturday, he talked to a petty of- ficer whose English was all but per- every day after 1 p. m.* My friend got on the destroyer Sunday afternoon. A sailor just getting over a drunk volunteered to show him around. When they got down into the hold two young Americans joined them. One was perfectly refined looking; could pass for a millionaire’s son, or the president’s private secretary; the other ohe showed the imprint of a wage laborer. The guiding sailor be- came yoluminous, and warming up to them, began to tell “tales from school.” They corroborated rumors of insubordination, of drunkenness and debauchery. The bunks used as beds were very short, close to the ceiling and one could hardly turn around without bumping his head. The dining room tables looked more like butchers’ blocks, only partly cleaned in the cracks, The same half- drunken guide claimed to have charge of a washing machine called laundry, which he runs at his leisure when booze cannot be gotten. The guide was kind enough to offer refresh- ments to his three visitors from the flask in his hip pocker. The two youngsters who admitted having just come off the pile with $3 in their pocket after serving 30 days for va- grancy and having*been hired out by He was in Pensacola, | He informed my | | friend that same could be inspected the state, partook of the hospitality, and after having stepped aside for the treat, came back blowing their breath exclaiming, “Hot stuff.” My friend saw sailors coming back from shore drunk; some working while , hardly able to stand up, others sleeping off the loads that weighed them down, “No wonder,” exclaimed my friend, “they fill the restaurants and: hotels.” Their board and lodging while on ex- cursion seeing this glorious county of ours is not much better than the old steerage that brought the sturdy laborers and future capitalists into | our shores. Another blessing that keeps our youth clean and healthy is the fact that they are provided with temples where they worship the “Goddess of | Love.” There they are also supplied with fermented grape juice of a yel- low transportation tinge. The tem- ples are on a side street designated by an electric bulb outside. Entrance free, one need not even knock. They marched bravely in fours, undisturb- ed even by the poleceman wno was |paid by the city to keep order. It struck my friend who was not a south- erner, as being rather funny that the holy sabbath should be so desecrated by our civilizers of the heathen with- out the good church members and Ku Klux Klan breeds attempting to tar and feather them.—A Reader. Comrade White Explains. To the DAILY WORKER.—I wish to take the full responsibility upon my shoulders for the misstatement of Comrade Gitlow’s Warren, Ohio, speech, and in the notes in which 1] place him in a very non-communist at- titude by my not quoting him verba tim, and thus leaving the impression that he had said something which he had not. I wish to thank him for call- ing my attention to the blunder I com- mitted and I wish to say that after referring to the notes which I took at the meeting I hold myself wholly to blame for the error in not putting his words just as he uttered them during his speech in my report. I certainly deserve more severe censure than he gave me for this un- pardonable putting him in the light in which my report of his meeting leaves him, and I wish to say that his statement in the WORKER of Tues- day, September the 30th, is the posi- tion he took in his talk and not as I misreported him as saying. By refer- ring to the notes taken at the meet- ing I find that he spoke as he de- fends himself, and I wish to vouch for the correctness of his words as used in the speech Once again thank- ing him for the calling my attention to my blunder, and trusting this may place Comrade Gitlow ip a correct po- sition and place the blame upon my shoulders wheré it belongs Lest I be understood as sucha poor Communist myself that I did this wrong to Comrade Gitlow thru a lack of knowledge of the fact, that every fight in which the working class en- gage the capitalist class, whether po- litical or industrial, is a phase of the class war and as such is‘an effort by the workers to weaken and break down the resistance of the capitalist class and it thus becomes a political struggle, I take this occasion to right myself in this respect. Again thanking Comrade Gitlow for his lenient treatment of my placing him in a wrong light I offer this in the hope it will set him in a prop light before the readers of the DAILY WORKER. I remain yours for the revolution, W. J. White, Girard, Ohio. What Hillquit Said in 1917. .To the DAILY WORKER:—In read- ing of Hillquit’s refusal to debate Scott Nearing on “LaFolletteism,” I recall reading a booklet entitled “So- cialism Summed Up” by Morris Hill- quit, publfshed in 1917. On page 46 he says: “The socialists attach but slight im- portance to these ‘good government’ movements. They hold that para- mount factor in politicS is measures, not men—class interests, not person- al qualities. parties and every reform party organ- ized by ‘respectable’ citizens are alike founded on the present order of so- ciety and consciously or unconscious- ly they stand for the preservation of that order and for the domination of wealth. They are managed and financ- ed by the possessing class and politi- cal officials spring from-these classes or are dependent on them for their careers. Whether they are person- ally good or bad, honest or dishonest, capable or incapable, they are tied to the capitalist class by environment, training, instinct and interest, Ex- perience has demonstrated time and time again that ‘good government’ is powerless even to check simple crime and corruption in politics for any con- siderable time. It is ludicrously in- effectual as an instrument for the bet- terment of the lot of the toilers. “What the socialists are striving for | is not a government of good capital- ists, but a goyernment of workers for all workers.” How anyone but a hypocrite can | write that and then face about and | not practice what he preaches, is be- yond me. Either Hillquit did not mean what he wrote or he has betrayed the work- ing class by his surrender to “good government” in the guise of LaFol- lette. Fraternally yours, NATHAN ROBBOY. LaFollette Idea Antiquated. To the DAILY WORKER: Forty- five years ago I was in college. The professor in political eéonomy was a “progressive.” For the subject of an oration for a college entertainment he gave me “The Encroachments of Monopoly.” He gave me the New York address of the “Anti-Monopoly League” from which I could get data. My oration was well received, vigor- ously applauded and got favorable comment by the town papers. Its burden was: Crush monopoly, extend | competition, prevent special privilege, give all business, big and little an equal chance. In other words the progressivism of that time, 45 years ago, was exactly the same that is now News From Our Readers On Different Subjects)$ being whooped up as an advance movement. x: W. P. Alone Revolutionary. At a later date I was in the St. Louis Industrial conference that put the Populist party on its feet. Pow- derly, with his Knights of Labor was then infinitely more radical than the Brotherhoods that tried to swap the Cleveland convention for a certain nomination by the democrats. But the Bryan democracy of 1896 swallowed the Populist party without in any way or to any degree disturbing its capi talist soul. In 1901 I was in the socialist con- ference at Indianapolis that put the socialist party on its feet, and was especially impressed with the effort to have a constitution iron-bolted against any kind of compromise, or al- liance with any capitalist fellowship. Today, in 1924, the Communists have no rival in the field of revolu- tionary political action—L. D, Ratliff. Message From Furriers. To the DAILY WORKER—“‘We are the workers in the Rees & Kass Fur- riers’ shop. It is not a large shop. There are only six of us, but we pro- test against the action of the Execu- tive Board in trying to force’ us to accept the endorsement of LaFollette. “We stand for independent working class political action. We want a La- bor Party, not a middle class LaFol- lette party. “We stand behind the candidacy of Foster and Gitlow because the Work- ers’ Party is the only independent working class political party in this election. We support them because the Workers’ Party is the only organ- ized force that is determinedly work- ing to build the Labor Party, and we call on all-of our fellow workers to join us in working for the success of the Workers’ Party in this campaign. “As we are not a large shop we cannot donate much to the campaign fund, but ge the sending our first con- tribution of four dollars, and before long we will have more on our sub- scription lists."—Rees & Kass Fur- riers’ Shop, New York City. MACHINISTS LOCAL $25 TO SACCO-VANZETTI FUND 390 GIVES MEXICO CITY, Oct. 8—The large oil interests are busy trying to wheedle or threaten concessions from the Mex- ican government. O. W. Swaim for Standard Oil; Avery D. Andrews for WORKERS OF NEW (Special to The YORK! REGISTER! Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 8—Registration for voting in the coming presi- Local union No. 390 of the International Association of Machinists do- nated $25.00 toward the Sacco-Vanzetti fund at their last meeting Tuesday night. The local sent the check to Ed Nockels, secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor, to be forwarded. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van- zetti have been ordered hung by Judge Thayer, of the Massachusetts supreme court, altho they were evidently framed up by New England enemies of labor. The report of the delegates to the machinists’ convention in Detroit was accepted after a lively discussion. * CHICAGO Y. W. L. TO MEET FRIDAY ON NUCLEUS ORGANIZATION PLANS; ALL MEMBERS URGED TO BE THERE What will undoubtedly be one of the historic membership meetings in the Young Workers League will be held this Friday, October 10, at the Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Avenue, by the Chicago organization. ic The meeting has been called to explain to the entire Chicago member- ship the importance of the new plan for the reorganization of the league on the basis of shop nuclei thru the for- dential elections Tasts in New York until Saturday, October 11, and it is most important for all Workers Party members and sympathizers to register this week, so that they will be eligible to vote for Foster and Gitlow, Com- munist candidates for president and vice-president in the elections on Nov. 7. This is registration week. Comrade H. M. Winitsky, campaign manager of the Workers Party for, New York, announces that Communist sympathizers must bear in mind the election laws which make It necessary for new voters to take a literacy test before they are permitted to register for voting at the elections. All Party headquarters in New York State are reminded to assist as much as possible all persons inquiring about the literacy test and regis- tration. Royal Dutch-Shell; J. M. Waitriss for Mexican Gulf; Dean Emery of the Huasteca Petroleum (Doheny); and J. A. Brown for Transcontinental Pe- troleum Co., are active. Altho all these companies have made fabulous profits in the past, they ask for a reduction in duties on ex- ports and for practical nullification of article 27 of the Mexican constitution, which provides that the owner of the sub-soil is the government. LAO TET set Gear BACKING Silit MILLI : , IN THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE| Received by Daily Paterson silk strikers arrived in the DAILY WORKER business office yes- First Donation to - Paterson Strikers (Special to the Daily Worker) culation of the DAILY WORKER has heaped loads of work on our force. We need Help—NOW— QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to assist report at the DAILY WORK- ER office any day this week during the day or evening. We have work to spare. We want volunteers quickly-—-HELP! HELP! mation of six area branches in the city. This plan was adopted at the last meeting of the city central com- mittee of the league, and all efforts are being made to carry the plan into effect. The plan, which was drawn up by the national industrial department and the city committee in accord with the new national program of action, will be explained at the meeting this Fri- day by Max Shachtman, editor of The Young Worker, who will lead off on the discussion. All the members will take part in the discussion and ques- tions on the plan will be answered. The reorganization proposition has been greeted with enthusiasm by members of the league, for it means the first definite, large-scale step to- wards the re-orientation’ of the league from: the territorial basis to the nu- McANDREW PLAN FOR JUNIOR HIGH ’ SCHOOLS ACCEPTED BY ‘EDUCATORS’ Superintendent o! ff Schools McAndrew’s recommendation to the board of education for the installation of 14 junior high schools was passed by the board of education at its bimonthly meeting yesterday afternoon. McAndrew, who is trying to cut budget must be reduced, the project to further departmentalize the public schools, increases the budg- et $1,200,000, Mrs, Heffner made an indirect attack upon Andrew White, in charge of the bureau of requisitions under McAndrew, when she suggested in talking on McAndrew’s recommend- ation, that the four junior high schools now operating in the city are badly equipped and in need of funds, the shops not having been installed yet. Mrs. Heffner lack of equipment to be “due to the intolerable conditions prevailing in this era of requisitions.” : Mrs. Heffner declared it is impos- sible to put thru the recommendation for 14 more Junior high schools unless some change in the system of requisi- chango ‘to be put thru. The question of whether or not schools will be allowed prin- en small group of revolutionary working for the ideas of the tions is made so as to allow the|rnternational. test. A great number of the steel to | plant workers whom the Joliet players the teachers was postponed | represent will b weeks | red soccer team only of their ideas, but of their elbows knees and toe points. f the teachers’ salary by claiming the ie PU a ee Joliet to be Scene of Soccer Battle for the Peel Cup A mixed group of workers of the Workers’ Sport and Athlete Associa- tion soccer team (formerly Athletic Section Karl Liebknecht branch of the Y. W. L.),will meet a steel worker: declared the| team of Joliet, Sunday Oct. 12, The game is to be played for the Peel cup. ‘The steel workers’ team, tho com: under the posed of proletarians, guidance of the bosses, while the Workers’ Sport and’ Athletic Associa- tion team is a representative of the r jetes Sport Joliet 4s to be the scene of the con- to see the cleus basis where young Communist work is carried on at the point where the class struggle is felt by the work- ing youth. All members of the “league are strongly urged to come to the Friday meeting, since the plan to be present- ed and discussed there concerns vi- tally the future existence and growth in numbers and influence of the Young | Workers’ League. Don’t forget the place, time and date: 722 Blue Is- land avenue; Friday, October 10, at eight p. m. sharp. All league mem- bers must attend. Party members and sympathizers are invited to come. Be there! Didn't Have 15 Cents. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Oct. 8. — Claude Belzer, 18, who confessed slay- ing Robert Tompkins, a night watch- man in an effort to obtain 15 cents for a movie show, said today he would re- pudiate his confession and plead not guilty. Belzer had hoped to escape the death penalty by pleading guilty and asked leniency because of his youth. His new move was unexplain- ed. Smallpox Hits Farmers SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Oct. 8.—State health department officials were no- tified today of a number of cases of smallpox which have reached almost to the epidemic stage in eastern Bd- gar County. The disease is believed to have started among foreign coal miners on the Indiana side. All those stricken in Illinois, the reports say, are members of farmers’ families. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” (Special to The “BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct, 8—The States in "The dirigible expected WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 8.—The charges being spread by the LaFol- lette, the democratic and the other opposing groups in the election con- tset, that a huge slush fund running into two millions is being gathered by the republican party in order to buy the presidential office in the campaign are proving extremely disquieting to the Coolidge clique. A letter signed by Joseph R. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania State Manufacturers’ Association, asking that a fund ‘of at least $600,000 be raised in the Keystone state in order 4——#————_—________"—__ to help the republican party carry some of the weaker, doubtful states is the target of the immediate attack that has been launched by the Wis- consin senator. Mr. Grundy, who is chairman of the ways and means committee of the re- publican party expressly declared that the funds are “to be used elsewhere.” A demand is being launched for in- vestigation of the entire matter. Some of the prominent industrial and finane- ial magnates associated with the re- publican money drive are: E. T. Stotesbury, well-known Philadelphia banker and members of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Co.;.W. T. Mellon, a brother of the secretary of the treas- ury, and prominently associated with the biggest steel and banking groups of the Pittsburgh district; S. D. War- riner, a notorious foe of labof and president of the Anthracite Operators’ Association; Samuel. M. Vauclain, president of the anti-union Baldwin Locomotive works and William But- ler, chairman of the national commit- tee and a large stockholder in the tex- tile industry of New England. There is not much likelihood that the senate committee on campaign tunds of which Borah is chairman will get into an investigation of the mat- ter. There is less kelihoood of the charges being aired thoroly even if many men of influence in both parties FLIGHT OF SHENANDOAH IS STUNT TO WORK UP PEP FOR NAVY DAY Daily Worker) navy dirigible Shenandoah, which is making a transcontinental flight to drum up militaristic sentiment leading up to “Navy Day,” scheduled for the end of October, sailed over Birmingham yesterday. The United States has been developing the lighter than air ma- chines, which are being made in Germany, as an improvement over th airplane for certain phases of war in the air. The ZR,3, which was to hi left Frieidrichshaféen yesterday, is the latest airship bought by the United ‘eparation for the next war. \ to reach Dallas, Texas, by nightfall: yooterday. an investigation should be held. Too and in the LaFollette organization, might be drawn into the mess. Be- sides, Borah himself is engaged in a campaign for re-election, in which he is having a hard time. Quit Seven-Day Jobs. REDWOOD CITY, Cal. Oct. 8— Workers in the Portland Cement Co. plant in Redwood City are on strike against a seven-day week with only straight time for overtime, Sundays and holida; The strikers, 300 in number, include electricians, carpen- ters, machinists, pipe fitters, steel- workers, riggers and laborers. The machinists’ union authorizes the strike. The men state that constant efforts were made to cut the pay be- low the union scale and that any man who refused the seven-day week was discharged. The company has an- swered the calling of the strike by shutting down its plant “pending set- tlement, of labor difficulties.” Not the Mellon Plan, MELBQURNE, Australia, Oct. 8.— As a result of the favorablé budget of the Australian federal government, which now has a surplus of over $50,- 000,000, the general income tax exemp- tion is to be increased from $1,000 to $1,500. The margins above the ordin- ary exemptions will be exemptions of $250 for each child below the age of All persons in receipt of less than 000 per annum, or 96 per cent of the taxpayers will benefit, The tax payable by individuals who still re- main in the field of income tax will be reduced by 10 per cent. =, CAMPAIGNI jars and not a THE CAMPAIGN One hundred thousan: penn; ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE "CHICAGO : terday, a check for $5 being sent from J. Feldon, Warehouse Point, Connecticut. “I can’t afford just now to part with five dollars,” writes Fel- don, “but we have got to realize that the fight of the silk workers is the concern of every worker in the coun- try. Above all the Communists must demonstrate to the workers that we are with them and for them in their struggles against the employers. “Kindly turn the enclosed $5 over to the striking silk workers in Pater- son.” z Dirty Linen in City Hall. Mayor Dever as been charged by attorney Edgar A. Cook with obstruct- ing an investigation of the pension board, in a letter the attorney wrote to alderman Arthur Albert. Corpora- tion counsel Francis Busch is also charged with attempting to block in- vestigation of the pension board, At- torney Cook declared, “Those who are shouting the loudest for the investiga- tion really want a quiet hearing, the guilty to be handled with silk gloves.” Attorney Cook, who has been re- tained by the sub-committee to con- duct an inquiry into the funds, charges that Busch has contraticted himself several times in the last few days when talking about the pension probe. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. ¢ 1 a 3. 4 The United 8 Automatism In Education Shop Nucleus and Branch. ‘The Machinist's Conventio 6. Man and Woman... VERSE 1113 W. Washington Blvd. READ THE NEXT ISSUE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11th The Rock Bottom Foundation of the Russian Soviet Republic ‘ And Other Interesting Articles PICTURES ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER Thursday, October 9, 1924-- CHOOL BOARD OUT MILITANTS Aggressive Fighters Will Be First to Go ’ A deficit is piling up in the educa tional funds of the city of Chicago at the rate of two and a half million dollars a year. The reason is known to anyone who has lived any length of time in Chicago. Valuable property is escaping taxation. Even the mayor of the city has admitted that to be the cause, But a hoard of education composed chiefly of men and women who are the puppets of big business meet the deficit in the school funds .with the recommendation that the schools are to be crowded even more ‘than they are today and from one to two thou- sand teachers are to be thrown out of employment. “They are aiming directly at the backbone of the Teachers’ Federa- tion,” said Miss Margaret Haley, in disdussing the new financial program offered by the auditing department of the board. “Who do you think will be the teachers dropped in this economy scheme. Of course those who have taken an aggressive stand in this fight. They will weed out of the schools the best fighting spirits the Chicago schools have. “Then they will proceed to instill fear into the teachers by threat of loss of jobs. And under the lash of fear-and insecurity they will at- tempt to reduce the teacher to a spineless, cringing being. This is the type of men and women they wish to develop for the teaching of our chil- dren, Can you imagine such a teach- er being an inspiration to her pupils?” Agitate to Organize The Photographers In New York City (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—A mass meet- ing of the Photograph Workers’ Union of America has been called for Mon- day night, Oct. 13, at the Stuyvesant Casino, 140 Second Aye., to discuss plans of organizing the unorganized photograph workers and devise means of strengthening the Photographers’ Union, Local New York of the Photograph Workers has sent out a call for the meeting which says in part: “Do you know that wages have been steadily going down towards the $20 @ week mark? “Are you just going to let things slide? If so, yon are heading towards further lower wages, longer hours and intolerable working conditions; or are you willing to come together with your fellow-craftsmen, and join in a mighty efforts to gain.material ad- vancement? “These are big questions that await » your answer and upon their solution depends your future livelihood. A mass meeting of the Photographic ‘Workers’ Union of America has been ealled for Monday evening, Oct. 18, 1924, at 8 o'clock, at Stuyvesant Casi- no, 140 Second Ave., near 9th St. “Bear in mind that in union there is strength!. Come, attend this meeting and join us. “Yours fraternally, the Photographic Workers’ Union of America, Local New York.” Freiheit Society's Fall Dance. A Fall Dance has been arranged by | the Freiheit Singing Society and Man- dolin Orchestra for Saturday, Oct. 11, 1924, 8 p. m., at Roosevelt Hall, 3437 W. Roosevelt Road. The admission, including wardrobe, is only 50 cents. The Freiheit Singing Society and Man- dolin Orchestra are well known to workers and comrades in Chicago. They have sung and played at many gatherings of the party, and deserve the support of all party and league members and left wing sympathizers. All arrangements have been made to celebrate opening of the new head- quarters secured by the Freiheit Sing- ing Society and Mandolin Orchestra on Sunday evening, Oct, 12, 1924, 8 p. m., at 3887 W. Roosevelt Road. A splendid program has‘ been prepared and a good time is assured. All work- ers and party members are invited. Subscribe for “Your Daily,’ the DAILY WORKER, “ 'y Moissaye J. Olgin ILLUSTRATIONS - Chicago, Illinois NIMS TO WEED ~~ Se RSENS j