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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08

advances, winch come back heavily
upon the wage earning class, in the
cost of living, but from improve
ments in production which improves
the supply of comforts for distri-
button. Surely not the National
City Bank, nor even Samuel Com
pers, can kid the working class with
such stupid economies. The worker
knows quite well that if wages fall,
profits will rise, and if wages rise,
profits will fall, and, further, that
for the most part, improvements in
production, instead of bringing more
comforts and a higher standard Of
living, have only brought lower
wages relatively and absolutely, and
a lower standard of living for the
wage earning class. Only under
Communism can an improvement in
the means of production mean a real
advance for the good of the working
class. Whenever the workers insist
upon a raise in wages, whether they
know it or not, they are only making
an attempt to get value for the in
creased value of their efforts, or la
Dor power. If they did not get this
raise, their standard of living would
sink at once.
All the Cooperation" schemes of
Johnston for capital and labor, and
the Industrial democracy" of Com
pers and Berry, the banking schemes
of Sigman, cannot blind the workers
to the fact that the only way they
ever get anything from their en-
ployers is thru fighting. They never
got anything handed to them on a
platter, and they never will. Rec
ognizing it or not, they engage in a
class struggle with the employing
class whether it be for an increase
in wages, shorter working hours, or
for the abolition of the capitalist
system of society itself. They know
that every time they Cooperate and
collaborate" with the employers, they
find themselves getting the dirty end
of the stick. 1t is the cooperation
of the shearer and the shorn that
Brother Johnston proposes, which is
all right for Mr.. Johnston who has
joined the side of the shearers, but
this is not for the fighting trade un-
ionists or for any class conscious
worker. Theirs is to battle. The
moves Of the American Federation
Of Labor bureaucrats, for unity with
Wall Street and Big Business, or in
other words, the sale Of the mer-
chandise, the laboring class, to the
capitalists, must be combatted to the
limit or very vestige Of working class
independence and strength in the
United States will be destroyed. Not
class collaboration. but class strug-
gle, not unity with CAPITALISTS. but
struggle for the overthrow Of the
capitalist system must be the answer
of the militant rank and file in the
American Federation Of Labor and
all the workers to the pernicious
schemes Of their yellow leadership.
No worker, young or old, can foil
for this cheap gaff. SO far as the
Young workers are concerned, they
will raise the cry Of greater organ
ization Of the workers; not unity
with the bosses. but unity collabo-
ration Of all workers, young and old.
IN the unions. and on the political
field against the capitalists il the an
swer Of the young workers and the
Young Workers League to Gompers
and the National City Bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08
THE UNITY OF THE LAMB AND THE LION

price, even as OCnerS denver arch
brick, super heaters, stokers, or lubri-
eating oils" at the lowest possible
price. Of such is the service of the
Johnstons and the Gompers to the
labor movement.
Labor in this country, however,
shows growing sense of social re-
sponsibility, and in the past year has
been vigorously roofing out the
radical elements from its councils"
A growing sense of social response
bilities of labor, Ell? What is meant,
rather, is the service, of the labor
lieutenants of capitalism, Johnston,
Gompers, Berry and Co., to the capt.
talist class.
The National City Bank state
ment is clear. Capital and labor
leaders have united firmly, closely,
aye, organically, it might be said,
against the workers and those striv-
ing to better the conditions of the
workers. This is the new industrial
democracy" that the comrades-in-
arms of the Civic federation, the Ma
tional City Bank and the like, Mr..
Berry Of the Pressmen's Union, John
n. Lewis and Samuel Gompers, etc.,
so loudly proclaim.
"That all workers, including man.
ayers, get proper compensation for
what they put into industry" is one
of the principals governing indus
tries" says Major Berry.
This means without material adj
vances upon the present wages" as
the National City Bank of New York
puts it. else how could there be, as
Mr.. Berry has it, adequate compen-
sation on investments, for the en-
rloyes?" There is no need for Mr..
Woll, speaking before the City Club
of Chicago, to say at is labors' hope
that there will come into existence
an economic and industrial chamber
in which ali factors Of industry shall
be fairly represented to determine
rules and regulations, shall impose
upon themselves and confine political
government for TIA functions which
lit is best qualified and best
suited" Mr.. Vol and his comapny
have Joined the economic and indus
trial chamber of capitalism, in which
it can be surely stated, they are
fairly represented, but certainly not
the workers, whom they supposedly
represent If this is the Economic
and industrial Chamber" and the new
industrial democracy" which these
labor leaders would give US, then, in
deed, must the workers call God
help us and save us from our
friends"
Yet, this is not so humorous as il
all might appear. The fact remains
that these lackeys of Wall Street, in
the ranks, and, most unfortunately,
at the head Of the trade unions in
America, are going ahead boldly
and swiftly with their plans for
"class collaboration" or tying the la
Dor unions to the boot of capitalism.
This can only mean to the working
class lower wages, longer hours,
harder working conditions, lower
standard Of living. Surely the work.
ers can appreciate that or do they
think too, as Johnston OF The Ma
chinists, Vol, Gompers, Lewis, and
the National City Bank7 The Ma
tional City Bank has this to say
about wages: ut (labor) has a
growing appreciation Of the fact that
the real gains for the wage earning
class do not come from mere wage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08
BY MARTIN ABERN

In the January issue of the Labor
Herald, Earl r. Browder, writes of
the recent moves of the yellow lead
ership of the trade unions to get to-
gether with the bankers, Industrial
lists, and other capitalists in policy
of pulling the wool over the eyes
of the working sheep. He points out
some of the features of class unity,
such as Johnston's "co-operation"
scheme for making the unions into
efficiency bureaus for capitalist pro-
duction, and the Industrial demo-
cracy" program of Gompers and
Berry at the Portland convention of
the American Federation of Labor.
The sell-out of the worker by the
bureaucratic machine of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor seems al
most complete. The capitalists them
selves feel quite confident that thru
these lap-dogs employed by Labor
but serving capitalism, that every
thing will be lovely, and that they
need expect no real fuss or distur-
bance from Brother Johnston, or
Gompers, or Berry, or any other of
their ilk.
The January bulletin of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York, one
of the most influential banking insti-
buttons, not only in the United
States, but in the world, speaks quite
warmly and reassuringly of their
alliance with the reactionary trade
union leadership. Here is what this
influential organ of capitalist Amer
lea has to say: "The labor situation
Is. more encouraging than it has been.
The prospects are regarded favorable
for the maintenance of good rela-
tionship between the railroad COM
panies and their employees. WITH
OUT MATERIAL ADVANCE UPON
PRESENT WAGES. (The emphasis
is ours). The most serious wage dis
putes in prospect is that in the btu
mious coal industry, which is the ma
tural result of the settlement Of the
anthracite strike. Labor in this coun-
try, however, shows growing sense
Of social responsibility and in the
past year has been vigorously root
ing out the radical elements from its
councils. It has a growing apprecia-
ton for the fact that the real gains
for the wage earning class do not
come from mere wage advances
which come back severely upon the
wage earning class in the cost of liv-
ing, but is in improvements in pro-
duction which increase the supply of
comforts for distribution. Once this
truth is fully comprehended industry
will go forward with great strides"
The meaning of this passage is
quite plain. Evidently the capital
lists feel quite safe that the trade
union leaders will deliver their trade
unions bound hand and foot and
gagged, to them. Prospects are re-
garded favorable for the mainte-
nance of good relationship between
the railroad companies and their
employees, without material advance
upon present wages" This, no doubt,
is the kind Of service Mr.. Johnston,
president Of the international Assoc
citation Of Machinists, had in mind
when he spoke Of his scheme Of "co-
operation" between the railroads and
the unions.
Mr.. Johnston's scheme plainly In
tends to deliver the union men to the
railroads at the lowest possible
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08
SalUaging the Farm Bankers

In an eleventh hour desperate attempts to
stem the tide Of dissatisfaction amongst the
farmers of the Northwest, Coolidge called
relief conference. At this conference there
were gathered Gods and the Presidents
chosen noblemen of finance and industry.
An examination of the specific measures
proposed by the Coolidge agents convinces one
that this is merely an effort to save the farm
bankers who have been hit hard by the depres
sion in which the farming masses now find
themselves.
The spirit of this conference was manifested
in the Presidents declaration that to helm the
farmer, who was helpless before the mortgage
sharks and credit Shylocks, would be bad bust
ness and therefore useless. This is the funda-
mental feature of all capitalist relief plans
They are all calculated to help those who need
help least and to neglect those who need help
most.
Diversified farming, that hackneyed hoax the
repetition of which tends to make ones nerves
raw, was blazoned on high as the prime pana-
cea. But not word was said to show that this
exalted remedy cannot offer immediate relief
because it would take several years to develop
new farm enterprises. One might add that
this proposal is also an immediate relief mea-
sure only for the bankers, to whom Coolidge
proposes to lend fifty million dollars in order
to help start the new farm enterprises. Not
word was said by Coolidge and his aids
about the fact that this diversified farming
would in effect mean, for the farmers, only
transfer from their present bondage to grain
and stock gamblers, to the milk trust and com
mission merchants.
Then the Presidents much-vaunted War
Finance Corporation was put forward This
institutions record to date shows that Of 1aoct
rs per cent of the funds it has expended have
gone to powerful capitalist organizations and
not towards the relief of farmers and workers
in distress.
Finally the utter lack of sincerity charac-
terizing the whole Coolidge fit of charity is
most clearly evidenced by his offer to extend
the period of existing indebtedness of the
farmers. The President we'll knows that a
creditor can get as much money from bank
rupt farmer as he can get blood from a stone
More than Is per cent of the farm owners
and more than 100 per cent of the farm ten
ants in Is northwestern states have already
been granted such an extension of credit by
their creditors and saved from formal bank
ruptcy simply because the money lenders could
do nothing else. Economic necessity settled
this policy of leniency for these creditors
The farmers will not be fooled by the Cool
idge maneuvers The farmers strong protest
of disapproval Of this program at the con-
ference is the best sign of the fact that Cool
idge can't pull the wool over their eyes, The
farm relief program proposed by Coolidge is
only an attempt to salvage some of the bank
ers who have been drawn into the slough of
economic depression that has overwhelmed
the farmers.
If Florida wants TO become really nonular
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08

If Florida wants to become really popular
as health resort for cabinet officials it will
have to secede so that warrants can't be served
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-08

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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29
Brave Mother Bass

Snakes are destructive Of fish.
Many students Of nature have seen
the reptiles injure or kill fresh-water
fish, even the swift trout. 1t is aston
fishing therefore to learn that the
tables may be turned. In a recent
bulletin Of the American Game Pro.
tective association Is an account of
the courage of female black bass in
protecting her nest of eggs against an
attacking water snake.
A student Of fish life was watching
the mother bass. Many times fish
would come near the nest, but the
vigilant mother would drive them off
Presently water snake came SWIM
ming along the bank In the direction
Of the nest. AS quick as fash the
bass was after tine reptile. She made
her savage attack from the rear,
thrashing the water into suds.
When the ripples had quoted down
the student observed that a large part
of the snake was in the mouth of the
bass. Once more the surface of the
water became agitated; when It was
again smooth the snake was gone ard
the bass was retsrning to her nest
Youths COmpav ION.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29
Lost Mefeorife Believed
to Contain Platinum

In, the Arizona desert, midway be-
tween the Grand canyon and the Pet.
rif1ed forest, the wise men Of the Nav.
ajos tell a story that is generations
old. Like many legends cf once saw
age folks, it parallels with uncanny ac-
curacy the scientific explanation Of q
weird phenomenon Of nature.
Ages ago, the Indians say, three of
their gods, seeking eternal rest, rode
to the earth on flaming blue thunder
bolts that cleaved for them a deep and
wide-mouthed grave in which the gods
still lie.
That is the Navajo version of the
fall of what science calls the Canyon
Diabolo meteorite, a huge lump Of
celestial matter that Is believed to lie
Embedded in the solid rock, 1,4OO feet
below the desert sands, beneath the
570-foot crater that it blasted out when
it plunged from the sky.
For 40 years the Navajos have been
shaking their heads and prophesying
evil as they have seen the white mans
machinery set up at the crater's edge
and his drill bite into the tomb where
sleep their gods. For mining engi-
neers believe that the buried me-
teorite is giant treasure chest of iron.
nickel, platinum, iridium and other val
liable minerals. Its size has been esti-
mated as between 300 and 1000 feet
in diameter and it's weight as between
q few thousand tons and many mil
liOns
Recently, the steel point Of an oil
drill, boring into the rock, was shat
tered against substance harder than
itself. Was 1t the meteOrite?f The
engineers are assuming that 1t was and
have sent for additional mining ma.
chinery to sink shaft. What the
drill struck Is more than 1,4OO feet be-
low the surface.
The sinking Of the proposed shaft
will enable the engineers definitely to
ascertain If the mysterious substance
was part of the long-sought treasure.
But it's sinking is likely to prove q
difficult task.
Natural conditions, climate and the
presence in the neighborhoOd Of thou
sands of rattlesnakes and rats I'M
pede the progress Of the mining oper-
ations. But they are being carried out
wherever possible with eagerness by
both the scientific and industrial world.
Popular Science Monthly.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29
What My Neighbor Says
is of Interest to Pocomol,e City Folks.

When one has had the misfortune
TO suffer from backache, headaches,
dizziness, urinary disorders and other
kidney ills-and has found relief from
oil this sickness and suffering, that
persons advice is of untold value to
friends and neighbors. The following
case is only one of many thousands,
but it it that Of Pocomoke City resi-
dent. Who could ask for better ex-
ample?
j. Carl Ross, prop. cigar & news
stand, Ill w. Willow St, says: II
suffered with sharp cutting pains in
my back and, at times, l couldn't
stoop. My kidneys acted irregularly,
too. got no relief until l bought
Doan's Pills, at Lloyd & Blaine's Drug
Store. The complaint disappeared and
my kidneys got WE'LL"
SEVERAL YEARS LATER, Mr..
Ross said: II can always depend on
Deans to relieve me"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Pills'-the same that Mr..
Ross had. Foster Milburn Co., Mfrs,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29
SPORTS

Base ball is now occupying ths
forefront in the world Of sport. Bas
ket bali, soccer, and indoor base bal
have been laid aside land all eyes are
turped toward the diamond.
Maryland intercollegiate schedules
are generally interesting, and dope
On what the State institutions are
dong, is always interesting.
Maryland University and Washing
ton College have, for some years
Deen turning out strong teams, but
nave not always settled the matter OF
supremacy between them by actual
contests, comparative scores being
The only way to judge the stronger.
This year, there will probably be no
doubt as to which has the better ma
ierial. Maryland will have the advan-
.age in pitchers. At Washington all
the old stars have either been gradu-
ated or have left for other reasons.
not many years ago, such boxmen as
crown, Enright, Wright, Gordy,
scarborough, Hickman-all We're hard
men to beat, and the teams behind
chem were fast tielders and good hit.
sers. But as. bunch seems fast or
slow according to the strength or
weakness in the box, SO Washington
will probably look bad this year.
Maryland University has some vet
Grams and will have no trouble with
the other State diamond artists.
Hopkins has never done anything
brilliant in base ball. She generally
confines herself to Maryland, st.
Johns and Western Maryland, and
las this year cut out the last named.
She will likely be beaten by every
:lub she plays outside the State, and
will be runner-up for Maryland.
Western Maryland's athletic rela-
lions with other State colleges do not
;eem to be of the best. Hopkins, it
reported, has severed connection
nth her in all sport lines, and Wash
ngton in, at least one-foot ball.
This is due, in the case, Of Hopkins
% the use, by the Methodist school,
# players judged ineligible by the
Baltimore University; and in the ease
If Washington to what is said to have
oeen a breach Of contract.
St. Johns, Like Washington, is
short on pitchers. This old college,
or years supreme in many lines of
sport, has slipped back into medic
:rity. Within the past year, this has
been due to a reorganization Of the
entire school and the organization Of
! system which is destined to have
clean athletics regardless of the mat
;er Of winning and losing.
If this system is carried out, it can
lot fail to rebound to the credit of the
Annapolis ancient seat of learning.
Other colleges would do we'll to follow
suit.
AS doped out, the colleges will fin
Ssh as follows: Maryland, Hopkins,
Western Maryland, Washington, st.
Johns.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29

The average small manufacturer
whose volume will enable him to
build only 5000 bodies from a set of
dies in the same time in which Stude-
baker builds $4,000 has to charge
each body $40 for die cost. The diff
ference OF SIS. is in the price bat not
in the body. The customer pays it
but he gets nothing tangible for it.
It is one of the penalties of uneco-
nonical manufacture.
Thus car priced at ST 200 to ST. 400
can be sold as low as $104s when
produced economically in quantity.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29

Easton, after strenuous cam
paign, has finally cast in with the
Eastern Shore League, with an Epis-
copal clergy as president of the asso-
iation, and J. Frank (Home RUM
Baker as manager, the fortunes of
the Easton Club should not suffer
rom mismanagement.
Report has it that the business men
Of the Talbot capital have not taken
very kindly to the establishment in
the city Of organized ball, and the
fans, in general, are the financial
hackers. By the "fans" is meant
those who are willing to put their
hands down in their pockets and pay
the bills. Business men want to see
returns. The Easton merchants are
pretty nearly right when they want
to be shown. Pocomoke's experience
well, probably it will be best to
hold ones breath about that. Easton
wants to start out with good spirits,
and let them learn by experience.
Crisfeld will take another plunge
into the base pail sea. She has e.
merged, sailed, several times from
previous dips but she is accustomed
to the briny deep, and seems to
like it.
The League, then, will start out
with six clubs, which the Baltimore
papers say is o better organization
than an eight club one. This POGO
moke tried to convince the "mag-
nuts" last year, but failed; then,
nothing would do but Delaware in
vasion; everybody knows the result.
Parksley remains in the running,
and Pocomoke is hoping she may
transfer one or two games here this
season, and give this berg a Whit of
the old base ball ozone which is elixer
to many a dyed-in-wool ball fiend in
this city. Salisbury, Dover, and
Cambridge all lost money last year,
but they are willing to lose more; and
as Spring sheds it's genial rays upon
the Earth, the diamonds begin to
sparkle, the bats begin to crack, the
ball to whiz, everybody goes base bal
crazy, and they cough up the neces'
sary to take one more fling.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-03-29
Alaskan Wonder

In Alaska, far removed from the
usual haunts Of men, is one of the
most thrilling of natural wonders. 1t
Is the Valley of Ten Thousand
Smokes, so square miles in extent, and
broken by thousands of earth vents.
through which pour necessarily hot
gases from the volcanic area below
The valley was discovered as result
of the eruption in June, 1912. Of
Mount Katmai, which was then un-
known as volcanic mountain. The
volcanic dust from Katmai's eruption
travelled around the world, the scien.
lists declared.