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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
South Lower Than North.

@hf |NVSi tHeNt tNO'tUs
These low wages are averages fol
the country as whole, combining the
coolie wages of the south with some.
what higher wages paid in northern
textile centers. According to the
Wall Street Journal, wages in south.
ern mills average from rs per cent to
30 per cent below those paid in the
north, giving southern producers a
cost advantage of about cents a
pound on standard goods. And recent
reports indicate that within a month
mill wages in the south will have been
established on 10 per cent lower
level than has prevailed during the
past year.
The situation in this industry illus
trates the irresponsible tendency OF
private ownership to expand the pro.
ductive power Of an industry beyond
the possible requirements OF consum.
ers and then to give full employment
to those wage earners only who will
work the greatest number OF hours for
the lowest wages. Under such a sys.
tenn the workers can never get the
benefits which are supposed to come
from their increased productivity un.
der modern industrialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29

southern states where a class
of industrial serfs in the mill
towns has as yet failed to join
the movement of organized
labor against gross exploitation.
Massachusetts, with 11,792,160 spin.
dies, reported fewer spindle hours than
either North Carolina, with 5,S5S,762
spindles, or South Carolina, with
5,263,25S. Total spindle hours during
July in Massachusetts, were 1,02O,206,-
SOL, compared with 1897, 988,655 in
North Carolina and 1,146,745,626 in
South Carolina.
Wages Low.
Cotton mill wages have always been
deplorably low. In 1893 women work
ers were earning as low as IL cents an
hour, or $3.50 week, while the aver.
age for the entire industry, men and
women employees included, was only
14.S cents an hour, or 1882 a week.
The average wages of typical occupa-
tions in 1913 and 1924, as reported to
the department of labor, were:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
MINERS WAR ON XII KLUXERS

crawling under these cars, Reese from
the other side, poked the gun in
Corners face and fired. His first shot
took away half Of Corners neck and
severed the jugular. His second shot
dug a hole in Corners chest. Conner
was an unusually powerful man and
even then he struggled to extricate
himself from the freight cars. Conner
backed out from the tracks, turned
and staggered toward his home Some
women came to his aid, but he fell,
and just as his wife ran up from their
nearby home, Conner died, without a
chance to fight for his life.
Reese Is Caught.
William Davis and William Green,
special deputy sheriffs, caught Reese
at his home near DuQuoin, Perry
County. They were determined that
Reese would not get away on a self
defense plea, as it freed Reese's
father, who killed man in the same
cowardly manner two months ago.
The elder Reese was freed.
This morning l received a letter
signed K K. X. which said was soon
going to be killed." Davis told the
DAILY WORKER, ''but if they kill me
a few of them are going to die first.
These deputy sheriffs succeeded in
lodging seven men in the Murphysboro
Jail who participated in a raid on
Dowell Thursday night. These seven
Kluxers were charged with carrying
concealed weapons and disorderly con-
duct. They were attempting to retail
ate on the citizens of Dowell for find
ing Reese guilty of first degree muir
der at the coroner's inquest, and
lodging him in the Murphysboro Jail
where he now resides. Mayor Gus
Blair Immediately supplied the five
hundred dollars bail required for each
Kluxer, and allowed them to return to
their homes.
Assistant States Attorney Glenn, OF
Franklin County rushed to Murphys-
boro to appear for the rowdies, among
whom are Winter S. Wilson, Clerk of
the City Court of Benton, Everett
Stewart Of Benton, Coy King, Benton
C. B. Mcmahon, Benton, Wiley Cor.
don, West Frankfort, Gary Isaac and
Dolva Meier, Benton. They will be
tried in September. Most of the seven
are members of the American Legion
as we'll as the Ku Klux Khan.
Ku kIuxers Scared.
The seven men. thoroly cowed by
the resistance to their violence by the
citizens of Dowell, announced they
will not return to Dowell for their au
tomobile, but will send someone after
it,
When a party of seven Workers
Party members who were going thru
the town with the DAILY WORKER
reporter, arranged to eat dinner at a
boarding house here. the housekeeper
refused to serve the DAILY WORKER
reporter and the party had to go down
town to the restaurant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
Hold Service for
! Unknown Hoboes in
California Fire
Day the Federated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2S.-Under
the auspices of the international Bro
therhood Welfare Assn. (the "Hoboes'
Union") memorial services were held
in San Francisco for an unknown num-
Der of itinerant laborers who were
burnt to death when barn in which
they had been used to sleeping near
knights Landing, Yolo county, was set
on fire. Twelve bodies were recovered,
but is believed that many more were
completely destroyed. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by Arthur S.
Howe, president of the local associa-
ton, with a Catholic priest, Jewish
rabbi, and Protestant minister par
Iicipating.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29

Already thru the country in
steadily increasing area" said
Hill, wage reductions are being
recorded by our statisticians.
Last month for the first time in
two years wage cuts exceeded in num-
Der the wage increases reported. And
the recent wage increases have all
been more or less confined to two
major ndustries-building trades and
transportation. OF course, it is inn
possible to anticipate the situation
during the next few months. 1t is en-
tirely possible, if business picks up,
that this fall and winter may see a
temporary cessation in wage reduc-
tions and even some wage increases.
But these will be only temporary
movements"
Want Downward Readjustment.
/ Hill reflected the employers point
Of view when he said that European
competition can be met only by low
ering production costs and that means
in part labor costs, that the Europe
which will compete with us is a
Europe of low wages and long hours,
and that in Europe there has always
been found labor which will work long
and cheap.
cooIidge's Bunco Game.
The significance of Hills sugges-
ton that autumn may see temporary
halt in this process of debating labor
is brought out by President Warren
S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, who raises the
question whether big business can
bunco labor into supporting Coolidge
by engineering an artificial wave OF
prosperity just before the election.
Early last winter" he says, 1--WE
warned our membership that there
would be a depression all along the
line and then in the early autumn
Everything would commence to ad-
vance, business. would become good,
and an effort would be made to sweep
the Republican party in on a wave of
prosperity. Whether or not it will
materialize and whether or not the
rank and file of the working people
will be buncoed by the old slogan
that has been worked so many times
and called the full dinner pail re-
mains to be SEEN"
Engineers Warned
Stone warns the engineers not to
be carried away by any of these old
worn out bunco games that have been
played so often on the workers.
Business indicators are beginning to
show signs that some such political
maneuver is to be attempted. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
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Continued from Page L.
there was no earthly reason why the
Khan should have shot MIN. Today a
load of Klansmen stopped their car
and told me they were going to get
me, but as long as / am deputy sheriff
of Dowell am going to protect the
citizens from the rowdy Khan ele
'ment."
Even Sheriff Attacked.
The deputy sheriff has a crippled
arm caused by an attack on him by a
gang which he drove away after being
shot, fighting with only one arm.
Mabel Sudano, subscriber to the
DAILY WORKER, told how the Khan
raided her house, stuck a gun in hei
face, wrecked the furniture and skunk
away before help could arrive.
Steve Kurepa, who was sworn in as
deputy sheriff to help ward off the
Kluxers who threatened to invade the
town, and Louis Joich, who arrived
on the scene of the murder before
Conner died, re-enacted the murder for
the DAILY WORKER. Both are
DAILY WORKER subscribers. They
showed how Conner was crossing the
railroad tracks enroute to the Union
Colliery Coal company to draw his
pay.
Reese, who knew Conner was hostile
to the Khan, waited for Conner on the
tracks, behind some loaded coal cars
with shot gun. AS Conner was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
CLARK HOLDING
GOOD MEETINGS
FOR OMAHA W.P.

OMAHA, Nebr., August 2S.-Stanley
j. Clark has just finished a week of
unusually successful street meetings
here, and has left for Denver where
he expects to be even more success
full in reaching the workers, particu-
larly the unemployed, with the mes
sage. of Communism.
Clark has a winning way which
holds street crowd glued to the spot.
They come to jeer and stay to cheer"
Not Much Excitement.
Clark's stay in Omaha was unevent-
full, so far as any excitement was con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
labor rempIe in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, August 2S.-The
New Orleans Labor Temple will be
dedicated Labor day. Among the
speakers will be Archbishop John w.
Shaw and Jose Kelley, vice president
of the Mexican Federation of Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
New Miners Hail.

BRADY, w. Va. Aug. 2s.--sunday,
Aug. 81. will witness the dedication
here Of the new miners hall. built to
replace the one which was burned by
mine guards on the occasion when
they shot up the town. A large at.
tendance OF miners 10 anticipated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
SOUTHERN MILL SLAVES HAVE
MORE WORK TO DO THAN NORTH
BECAUSE THEY WORK FOR LESS
BY LELAND oLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Why did cotton mill workers get an aver
of only 81 hours employment during July while employees
South Carolina mills averaged 218
Carolina mill get so hours of work week
the spinning operative for total of $34 while
the Massachusetts competitors pay the
average $872 get only 48
activity shifting to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
LABOR TO FIGHT
FOR HE ALTH BILL
DOWNED BY N. Y.
Workers Health PeriIs
Disregarded
10y Federated Press.l

NEW YORK, August 2s.-When the
Rules Committee of the New York
state assembly killed five occupation
al disease amendments to the New
York Compensation Act, proposed by
the Workers Health Bureau and en-
dorsed by the painters. building
trades bodies and central labor coun-
Gil of New York City, it flung chal-
lsnge at the labor movement which
was taken up at the New York
Federation convention that sat in
Schenectady from August 20 for a
week.
Lives in Danger.
These five amendments would com
pei employers to pay compensation to
many thousands of victims of chemi.
cal poisoning and rock dust who now
fill so many hospital cots at their
own expense or on public charity.
The present compensation law of the
Empire state gives no protection to
industrial victims from the following
causes covered in the proposed
amendments: Poisoning from benzol
and other coal tar compounds; pois-
oning by chlorine, bromide, or iodine
derivitives of petroleum products,
such as T. N. T.; poisoning by gaso-
line, beuzine, naptha, etc; infection
or inflammation due to cutting COM
pounds, oils, dust. liquids. fumes or
gases; silicosis, or lung injury due to
breathing dangerous Silica quartz
DUST.
ITEMS Of thousands of workers" are
perishing as the result of silicosis, ac-
cording to DIR. Frederick Hoffman, a
nationally known authority on occu-
pational diseases, in a statement is
sued thru the Workers Health Blu
lreau. The condition of silicosis
means that the lung tissue has been
cut up by fine edges of rock dust.
tuberculosis is the next stage. "Buf-
fer's consumption, striking workers
at emery wheels; miners consump-
tion," that hits rock drillers, result
from the silicosis condition that pre-
walls generally among these classes
of workers. The present law gives
them no compensation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
co.operatlon Succeeds.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 2S.-Thru
their cooperative stores the farmers
of Oklahoma are securing this season
two million pounds of binding Irvine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
PREDICTS DOWNWARD TREND OF
WAGES FOR NEXT 1915 YEARS;
LULL In FALL is TEMPORARY
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Your due to follow decided downward trend
lasting for 10 Is That the prediction of j. HILL
OF the Babson statistical organization in address The
Labor Outlook for 1922 delivered before
business conference Any improvement employment conditions
and cessation of during the early winter
should blind labor the fact that its deaon will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29
A sEAsoNABLE STYLE.

1895. The lines OF this model are
becoming to slender and stout figures.
The side closing is practical As
portrayed Bingham and linen are com
bined. One could use percale in a
neat pattern, with repp or linen for
the waist and sleeve portions, also
for the facings on cuffs and pockets
and for the belt. The width OF the
skirt at the foot is 2iz yards.
The pattern is cut in z sizes: 36,
3s. 40, AZ, a., 40 and 4s inches bust
measure. A ss-inch size requires Az
yards Of one material s6 inches wide.
For waist. sleeves and cum and peck
ct facings of contrasting material. 1x
yards 80 inches wide is required.
Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt of lie in silver or stamps.
Send 12c in silver or stamps for
our UP.TO-DATE SPRING AND SUM-
MER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-29

Distribute bundle Of the DAILY
WORKERS first Special Campaign Edi.
ton, dated Saturday. August 30.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Star Camera
Man M auled
by Olmsted

DoBERT BRADLEY, a Star cam
~ era man, suffered at the hands
of Roy Olmsted and his gang Tues
day noon. Bradley says he was
hit in the jaw by Olmsted and was
a jiu-jitsu victim OF one Of the Jap
aneso In the Olmsted party when he
tried to take a picture of Mrs.
Olmsted.
Olmsted and 10 others arrested in
the raid Monday night were leav-
ing the prohibition commissioners
office opposite the Lippy building
on Third ave. after posting bail
Bradley ran after Mrs. Olmsted
and snapped n picture Of her. Ohm
stod ran after Bradley. and the
Olmsted party closed in on the
camera man.
After throwing Bradley to the
pavement, olmsted, according TO
Bradley, smashed the expensive
Graflex camera Bradley used. de-
stroying the plates containing Mrs,
Olmsted's picture.
When Bradley, dazed, picked him
self up from the pavement the
party was block down the street.
Brady says that 100 spectators
saw the fray. hut made no move to
help him.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Mrs. Olmsted Says She
Was Slapped by Whitney
Wife of Alleged Rum Runner Describes
Scenes That Followed Raid

"T WAS right in the middle of a
l. bedtime story when the agents
broke into the house"
It was Mrs. Roy Olmsted talking.
She had just been released with her
husband from the United States
immigration station. where they
were placed early Tuesday morning,
following their arrest at their home
on federal liquor charges.
81 was broadcasting over the
radio and was stopped right in the
middle of 1t, The men came in
with search warrants which declared
that they had knowledge there was
liquor in the house.
There we're only half dozen Of
us there, l let them look thru the
entire place and they found nothing.
When they couldn't find anything
expected they would leave.
"Bnl Whitney refused to go so
| called the police. He slapped me
in the face, pushed me away from
the phone and said would call
nobody"
"a man who knows me and knows
! can talk several languages got sus.
picious and started to talk TO her in
German.
Mrs. Whitney said Cut that
stuff out and bring out the booze
Tho fellow knew II wasn't mo be.
cause l often talk to him in German.
H. didn't come out and they didn't
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18

have good luck after that"
Then Whitney and the rest OF
the fellows began to call UP boot.
leggers. They would say, This is
Roy olmsted. Bring out some
liquor. We're having party
when the men would come out
they would make them come inside
and wait, and then would call more
numbers.
THE agents would probably
have had every bootlcgger in
town out there, only Mrs. Whit.
ney. who was helping her nus
band, made mistake.
I'm not worried in tho least, :"
olmsted declared. "The agents didn't
find drop of liquor in the house,
Every bit they seized they got by
calling up bootleggers' numbers. II
wasn't my liquor,
i've known Lyle was watching
me for some time. II didn't bother
me- There was nothing about my
home that l was ashamed of or was
afraid TO let him sec. OF course, +
can't be responsible for the liquor
Lyle brings in.
Were going right back TO broad
casting. Tho agents stopped us last
night, u thing they had no right TO
do, They also arrested Hubbard, the
operator, and are still holding him
In the immigration station without
charge"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Red Lantern
to Mark Dry
Agents Coup

A RED.GLOBED lantern with a
n yellow frame viii hang from
the top OF the Thompson building.
federal prohibition headquarters, TO.
night.
Some months ago agents OF Dim.
stod. according 10 Director Roy c.
Lyle. placed the lantern In the rear
scat Of a federal agents automobile,
as n Joke.
Keep that lantern here In the OF.
flee" Lyle commanded his men. 1T
won't so out OF herr until olmsted
and his gang have been placed un.
der arrest"
Tuesday. with Olmstead and i6
others under arrest on charges or
violating the federal prohibition laws,
tho lantern was busted off. filled with
oil and made ready TO hang from
the flagpolc on the top OF the build.
ing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Goodyear Co. Sued
for Three Million

BROOKLYN, N, V. NolS lS.-Suit
for s3,ooOOoO,OOO for alleged breach
OF contract has been filed against the
Goodyear Cotton & Rubber company
of Akron, Ohio. II was learned today
when attorneys for the company
moved in supreme court TO set aside
service and complaint on tho ground
the service was defective. Plaintiff
concerns nro stockton & Co, MH*ris
& Co., the Taunton Manufacturing
company and Thistle Cotton Mills.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
WOMAN is DEAD
IN CAR CRASH
Another Hurt; Two Men
Held in Seattle Jail

One woman Is dead. another in
jured and two men held in Jail. after
an auto crash near Auburn Monday
night.
The dead woman Is Mrs. JoBenno
Bastunaro. 90. OF $40 Twelfth ave.
3. Mrs. Louisa Truversa. OF 1917
goth ave. s.. Is in Aubrn hospital
with internal injuries. Adoiph JAG.
comma, restaurant man. Of Seattle.
and Andy sennimore. of Everett. who
were in the wrecked car. are under
arrest.
Police say that broken liquor bot.
ties were found in the automobile
The crash occurred on the highway
near the Motor Inn. The Jacconina
car skidded from the road, II is said,
while travelling at high speed.
Each Of the women has two minor
children. Mrs. Traverse Is the moth.
er Of Eva, II. md Josephine. IL.
The dead woman leaves Marine. Q.
and Margaret, IL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Don't You Dare Laugh at This!

trying to find tho ocean,
Who first thought UP the
joke about there being only
two kinds Of weather In Cali.
fornia perfect and unusual?
How many ships were SUM,
in the last tidal wave in San
FranclHco bay?
Describe tho seven kinds Of
animals found in Los Angeles
drinking ep~ater.
Who cirst thought Of affixlng
10 a small and obscure knoll In
Northern California tho title Of
Mount shasta?
Name tho seven slum dis,
trlcts in San Diego.
Who was the press agent who
first thought of describing Cali.
fornin earthquakes as fires?
Rewrite tho story Of Califor.
Man who, after arrival in
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Mrs. Harding Now
a Little Stronger

hides, wired back to Bakers.
field for his blankets.
WHATS just n rough outline
Il OF tho plan. with a little
working over. It ought to be
possible to convince the kid.
dies, as they arc sometimes re.
fcrrcd TO. that California Is
bounded on the north by tho
hoof.and.mouth disease. on the
west by heavy fog. on tho
south by moving picture per.
sons and on tho east by tho
poignant monns Of dislllusioncd
Middle wcstornors.
'IIlc facet California" says
Mayor Brown. making rot.
ten Latin pun,
Wen. hlc facet Puget sound
right back NJ 'cm.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Roy, His Wife
and Guests Are
Taken to Jail!
Released After Bail in Sum of Sl0,50O
Is Posted; Federal Officers Say
Alleged Liquor Ring Broken

TRY agents Monday night staged their ongpromsed raid
~ on the home of Roy 0lmsted who has been called the
king Of the booteggers As they broke in to the Omsted
residence at 1857 Rdgeway place Mrs Elsie Omsted host
at lively party rushed TO the telephone according TO
w. NJ. Whitney assistant prohibition director.
Give me MA in-78l0" she called. Then hand over the
receiver she turned TO Whitney according to his story
"1 have this house full of police in few minutes, she
cried in defiance "The police with us"
An agent at sign from Whitney, roughly took the
instrument from her and hung up
While Mrs. William Whitney, aide TO her husband stood
by and smiled Whitney announced for the benefit of Mrs
0msted and the guests that: This is my party No
will come here that don't want"
Omsted Mrs 0lmsed and IS other prisoners captured
at the 0msted home aragned Tuesday before United
States Commissioner H. S. Elliott who on November II
issued the search warrant under which Whitney made the
raid The entire party which had been held at the mm
grafton station released The Omsteds arranged for
and posted bail totang $4,000. All pleaded not guilty
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
Home Brew

Howdy. folks When a Seattle
IAN i ordered 90 take a change
q climate. all he has 60 do j. TO
ait another day
r,ssrai judge in Maryland has
40 that a maker % home brew
al b plnched. Oh Maryland My
Nlghnd,
fhs elors q Is q startling thing
E-riiHg. auuic1p;
Il ses5n'f cractiv scare vou.
Bsf e takes pour breath atrdy!
Al the worlds a stage. and lot
4 Is husbands have only thinking
prs,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
OImsted's Mt. Baker Home and Princi pals in Raid

Neighbors Of Roy OInsted in The exclusive Mount Baker
district heared sigh Of relief today wheu they learned
Roy 0lmsted his 0e and party Of guests had been
rested by federal dy agents The neghbors didn't Ike he
idea Of alleged king living IN Of the best houses
Of the district Picture shoos the beautiful home Iscs:
LEFT, Prohibition Director Roy c. Lyle right Roy Onsted
as he appeared ohcn he was police lieutenant Bottom
Assistant Prohibition Director ". IT. Whitney
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-18
nY I'M MARSHALL

NIELL, sir, you'd hardly be.
w lievo the dastardly things
they do down in Funny Califor.
Mia, would you? Mayor Brown
says that some friends OF his
tell him that down there teach.
crB tell tho children that Elliott
Bay Is fresh wnter and freezes
over every winter.
ITS no laughing matter
says the mayor.
Why, Of course ~ nota Wed
like to catch anybody laughing
NJ Il! n looks 10 us like an.
other trick Of tho council etii.
cheney committee to blacken the
clty's name. and we wouldn't be
surprised II Ralph Nichols was
mixed up In It's somewhere.
Doc wants TO send n delegate
back 10 Washington and have
the rivers and harbors congress