davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

Judging from the zeal with which
the comrades are attacking the Job,
Connecticut will go on the ballot. It
must be remembered that this is no
small task for the small membership
in Connecticut. Districts with six
times the membership have had to Sc
cure one-fourth of the number of sig.
natures. But, despite this handicap.
Connecticut is going over the TOP.
Open Air Campaign. 4
An open air campaign is being ar
ranged, to include Bridgeport, Hart
ford, Waterbury, Stamford, Ansonia.
New Haven, New Britain, South Nor
walk, Nangatuck, Torrington, and
Meriden.
The noon hour shop meetings which,
are being conducted in New Haven.
are reaching the workers with our
election program, and campaign liter
allure. Since August %, there were
held five noon hour meetings: two
evening; two on the Central Green
Bandstand; and one indoor meeting
Total attendance 2,575; 124 DAILY.
WORKER copies sold; 100 copies ID
Lavoratore distributed, as we'll as 5000
copies of the election program. Z
Differ From S. P.
In marked contrast to the Socialist
Party, the Workers Party is carryinga
on clean-cut, working class CAM
paign. The S. P. official bulletin UNI
der date of Sept y; Defense of the
Fatherland Day. quotes a Connecti1
cut S. P. member thus: "Our partvl
members are joining the LaFollettei
clubs and neglecting the socialist par
ty meetings" The Workers Partvl
faces in this nutmeg state a solidl
amalgamation of the Socialist Party.
and the LaFollette forces. Getting the
W. P. ticket on the voting machinel
will be mighty weapon against this
movement of the small manufacturers
business men and indepedent bank
ers, as well as against the old party
tickets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

Wheeler told the DAILY WORKER,
Il am for the formation Of a third
party on the lines of the Labor Party
of Great Britain" Wheeler accented
the world Liberal, shrinking with hor-
ror from any thing which might earn
him the name Of radical.
An Ancient Trick.
Wheeler, in raising the radical
cry in the Montana senatorial and
presidential campaign, is using the
old trick Of raising a smoke screen to
confuse the issues, and to hide his
own political trickery and chickering's
with the politicians connected. with big
business. Wheeler has placed him.
self in the position of fighting the
party in Montana whose members
aided him into office yet he tries to
create the impression that the Farm
er-Labor Party of Montana is a party
dominated by Coolidge and by stool
pigeons in the pay of the Anaconda
Copper company.
But in reality Wheeler in making a
political deal with Thomas Walsh, has
himself entered into an alliance with
the representatives of the very bust
ness interests which he pretended to
fight with so much noise in Washing
ton-the oil interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
PLACE |
ON BALLOT FOR I
CONNECTICUT
Workers Party Pushing
Hard in Campaign 4
BY WILLIAM SIMONS,
District Organizer.


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. q
The Workers Party district
executive committee is deter-l
mined to strain every nerve to-
get our state and national tick
cts on the voting machine. We
have until Oct. 7 to collect 1865
signatures, but in order to asn
sure this amount it will be necA
essary to gather a far greater
number. The slogan is "FiVss
Thousand by Sept. 30" on
Thursday, Sept. II. Bridgeport
had 325; New Haven, on Mon-
day, the 18th, $40, and Hartford4
200-a total of 1911.
The best showing so far has
been made by the Bridgeport
comrades, especially J. Gombos
and Jennie Feldman. CONDOS
had so and promised 200 in alls
In New Haven 365 of the sigma
lures were obtained by Comradea
II. S. Bloomfield, who had beeni
called in from Worcester for this
specific purpose. J
Members to Meet.
On Monday, the 18th, a special
membership meeting was called ina
New Haven, where 80 comrades pledg1
ed all their energies toward getting
signatures. The total obtained is groWsi
ing from day to day. d
Quotas have been assigned to the
major cities as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
Action Is Betrayal.

Wheeler's betrayal of the Farmer
Labor Party of Montana is added
proof that the LaFollette group is
merely a loose organization of indi-
vidual vote-getters, who will ally
themselves with any sort of business
big or small-and any sort of poll
ticians, corrupt or otherwise, as long
as they can pull out the vote for them
selves in the election. Without prin-
ciples or constructive platform that
will interest the workers, theis
strength lies in maneverings with mil
lionaires and betrayals of. workers or
CARNATIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

successive wage reductions and
by layoffs which have left many
of them on the street looking
for a job.
Three Million A Day.
The total amount which the rail
road workers contributed to the rate
reductions for which railroads are
claiming credit is estimated in rail-
road circles at $S,2s6 900 day. That
means about $1,000, 100000 a year.
Wage cuts account for approximately
S1,576,000 day in this saving. APP
proxtmately $1,7O0,O00 day has been
cut from the cost of transportation by
reductions in force affecting 365,00O
workers.
Some Profit!
Meanwhile the profits of the rail-
roads for the first Z months reached
total of s465, 616. sol. On a property
valuation determined not by the inter-
state commerce commission but by
the railroads themselves this points to
return of more than per cent for
the entire year. On fair valuation
basis it means return in excess of
6 per cent. The latter part of the
year is expected to prove even more
profitable.
OF Al leading railroads whose prob
able income for 1924 has been COM
puted on the basis of returns for seveh
months, 23 show increases over 1923,
q show profits for stockholders which
will exceed per cent and IL show
profits of more than 10 per cent. The
predicted returns to stockholders in
1924 compared with 1923 in the case
of 20 leading carriers are as follows;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
Wage Cut Coming.

MANCHESTER. N. H.. Sept. pa
textile wage cut is impending for the
$4,000 workers in the Amoskeag mills
at Manchester. Cuts have gone into
effect in several Rhode Island mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

The railroads whose common stock
holders can look forward to returns
of more than 6 per cent for 1924 op-
crate together over 12S,O0O miles of
main track, or more than half the to-
tai mileage of the country. The rail
roads for which more than 10 per cent
is forecast operate a combined mile
age of more than $4,000 or approx
mately one-quarter of the countrys
transportation system.
The Next Meal.
Families of unemployed railroad
workers may wonder where the next
good meal is coming from but rail-
road owners have reason to be salts
fed with the profits of a depression
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
PENNSYL
COAL DIGGERS'
JOBS FAILING
Lewis' Treachery Felt
in FGyette County
BY ART SHIELDS.

- ~~'~N~N fiSoS OAah OolECSPOnuCuh-l
UNlONTOWN, Pa, Sept. p.
The great coking fields of
Fayette county-so intimate a
part in the Pittsburgh steel in
dustry-are smitten by the
same depression that has laid its
hand on steel. Most of the
$4,000 miners Of the county are
idle and the others are working
on part time.
In the vicinity of Uniontown,
the leading city in the southern
end Of the coke district, the
shutdown is S5 per cent COM
plete. All the Frick mines here
are idle and the little Frick COM
pany towns, Of monotonous
red frame building, each exactly
like its neighbor, are filed with
unemployed men and anxious
women.
Desert Homes.
Many of the Frick miners have de-
serted the homes they lived in for 30
years and moved on. The miners are
becoming migratory workers in this
greatest depression that has hit their
industry.
The unemployment is made worse
by operators opening up new coal pits
and still further initiating the industry.
The Fayette or Connellsville field, is
an old one and the best coal is further
from the surface than it used to be.
So the steel corporations are going
into the virgin coal lands of beauti-
full Green county on the edge of Ohio
and the trainloads of coal from there
are throwing still more men from the
old fields out of work.
Haul Non-Union Coal.
was sitting in West Brownsville
on the front porch of the A. F. of L.
organizer for the coke regions, hear
ing his recital Of unemployment con-
ditions when a doubleheader train
came rumbling over the tracks few
feet away, hauling 70 cars of Green
county nonunion coal for the Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Co.
The Connellsville district is open
shop. 1t has been openshop since
Henry Frick crushed the knights of
Labor and the early efforts of the
United Mine Workers 80 years ago.
Only in the great 1922 strike did the
men become organized again for a
time. Then they CALAMITY Joined the
national struggle, cutting off this great
source of fuel on which the operators
had counted, and thereby saving the
national strike.
Betrayed by Lewis.
They continued this strike for
months after the general settlement,
in which they were not included by
the international officials of the union.
Since there is no union agreement
in the coke region no uniform wage
scale exists The 1917 scale prevails
in the big Rainey system; the Mones.
sen Coal and Coke recently cut its
men another SS 1-S per cent, aproxi-
mating the 1917 rates; the Hillman
mines are close to the same scale and
the Frick mines, tho paying a wage
not far below that in union mines for
day men have the reputation of max
ing it up on the tonnage miners by
extra heavy tons" There are no
acknowledgment on the non-union tip
pies to guarantee accurate measure.
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23

ARE YOU OBTAINING YOUR BUN.
DIE OF THE DAILY WORKER and
CAMPAIGN LEAFLETS to distribute
when you are out getting signatures
10 petitions?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
WHEELER ADMITS DEAL WITH WALSH
CONTINUED from Page u

Continued from Page ~
of the Montana oil senator means his
of the Farmer-Labor
Party candidate, J. w. Anderson
bitches Anderson.
Workers and farmers in Montana
point out that it was Anderson, plain
dirt farmer, who prominently led in
the fight that originally sent Wheeler
to the United States senate. They
charge that Wheeler is now betraying
the Montana workers and farmers, and
their Farmer-Labor Party, in the role
that he now plays on the LaFollette
ticket
Wheeler is on his way back to Mon
tana and he has outlined a policy for
himself in an effort to justify his po-
sition. This is the old, WORKOUT trick
of charging militants with being "the
agents and the stool pigeons of the
employing interests"
This is the charge that Sam Comp
ers loves to level at the radicals in
the labor unions when they espouse
progressive principles.
1t is the charge that socialist reac-
tionaries, like Hillquit and Berger
made against the revolutionists in
their own organization when they de-
manded afiliation with the Commun-
list International.
1t is the charge that LaFollette him
self, in trying to disrupt the Farmer
Labor movement for a ella party,
has made on various occa, ons, not
ably in his attack on the st. Paul,
June II, National Farmer-l abor Con-
ference.
Stool Pigeon Fake.
From what | am informed a lot of
stool pigeons and radicals are. in con-
troll Of the Montana Farmer-Labor
Party, and are trying to break up the
progressive forces and swing the cleo
ton to Coolidge and the republican
candidates." Senator Wheeler braz-
emily told the DAILY WORKER.
do you think that Mr.. Anderson,
who helped in your election, and who
is now the Farmer-Labor candidate
for United States senator against Mr..
Walsh, is stool pigeon?" Wheeler
was asked.
Senator Wheeler was in corner
He had to confess that he, "did not
refer to Anderson as one of the stool
pigeons and radicals" who are dis
rupting the progressive forces of Mon
tana. He could only comment favor
ably on Anderson.
When asked how it was that he
could desert and ignore the Farmer
Labor ticket, by favoring Walsh, the
conservative, anti-labor lawyer, and
at the same time praise Anderson,
who is the Farmer-Labor standard
bearer against Walsh, Senator Wheel
er, evaded the question by declaring
he would comment no further until he
had visited Montana and could look
into the situation for himself. This
was very evidently an evasion.
1.-THE Farmer-Labor people of Mon
tana are playing into the hands of the
Anaconda Mining Company" was the
parting shot.
No r. L. p. for Him.
This declaration of LaFollette's run
ming mate is further evidence that the
LaFollette camp has no interest in
forming a working class party after
the presidential elections. Wheeler,
who told the DAILY WORKER, 81
admire Senator Walsh very much be-
cause of his Tea Pot Dome exposures,
and would like to see him get re-
elected to the senate" is thus trading
with the corrupt old parties and knit
ing the Farmer-Labor party move
ment.
When asked if he. were in favor of
the formation Of any sort of third
party after the elections, Senator
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
DEFENSE DAY IN SAN PEDRO
BIG FIZZLE; LABOR NOT THERE
BY J. STEVENSON.

PEDRO 22From class viewpoint Defense
Day. in workers viewpoint
decided victory
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
REDUCTION IN RAIL RATES is
PAID FOR OUT OF THE SLICES
In WAGES OF RAILROAD LABOR
BY LELAND oLDS.
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Who paying the price reductions railroad which
saving the country nearly 100000 day? Not the big rail
capitalists whose profits holding right
spite the depression No. the bill is being large
by employees their families who been hit by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
Use Old Pretext.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. ga raid
staged by detectives on the California
Branch General Defense committee,
1. w. W., in San Francisco, brought
arrests. All were dismissed except Ed
Delaney, secretary, who aItho having
regular salaried job as secretary,
was sentenced to 80 days for vagran-
cy Delaney appealed and is out on
bond.
Subscribe for "Your Daily"
the DAILY WORKER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
POLICE BRAND YOUNG
GIRL HARD BOILED

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20
Women may be dubbed the weaker
sex, but that does not always hold
true. The San Francisco police and
State prison authorities right now
have two parallel cases which prove
that though dainty, pulchri-tudinous
and seemingly weakly feminine as
they may be, beautiful women some
times can be more '.hard boiled"
than some outstanding male crimi-
nails
After 10 days fruitless interro-
CATION, San Francisco police have
just released Eva Taylor, an 49,
year-old girl of the delicately beau-
tiful, clinging-vine type. In doing
so they have unanimously voted her
en- unsolvable combination Of guile
less youth and "nine-minute egg.
Believed Linked to Desperate Gang.
Miss Taylor, the police believe
is the associate and friend if not
the compatriot Of one Of the mos
desperate gangs Of bank and jewell
ry bandits on the Pacific Coast.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
PILE UP EVIDENCE
AGAINST BENEFITS

CHATTANOOGA, July 29.-Eyl-
dence is daily accommodating tend
ing to prove that the skeleton found
under the floor of building in a
prominent residential section Of
this city last week is the remains
Of Miss Augusta Hoffman, modiste,
who disappeared while boarding at
the house in 1915, and in connec-
ton with which William r. Ben
nett and wife, Of Rome, Ga, are
under detention Of local police.
Bennett, district freight agent Of
the Georgia city, bears an excellent
reputation, but his wife was in the
limelight several years ago by rea-
son of her Indictment by federal
grand jury on the charge of count
erfeiting.
What police consider suspicious
circumstances are the failure of
the BENEFITS to include the name
Of Miss Hoffman in the list Of sur
vivors when her sister, Mrs. NancS
Bennett, died a year after her dis
Continued On Page Fiye)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP ONIISSHIP
SOON TO BE DECIDED
Title Twosomes Arranged For
Next Thursday Afternoon at
Links of Golf Club

The main event OF the season az
the Americas Golf club is the play
to decide the Club Champion which
contest begins next Thursday, July
81, and ends about August 18th.
All players are requested to
qualify by Monday Aug. 4th, by
playing eighteen holes, medal score,
with the players assigned them The
pairing off has been done accord
ing to handicaps.
After everyone has completed his
eighteen holes, medal play, to deter
mine his position in one of the
flights, match play will then prevail,
three or four days being given to
complete each match.
Each flight win consist of sixteen
players, there viii be six prizes given
to each flight and a prize for the
low score in the qualifying round.
All playing to be in twosomes.
Below is the pairing for qualify
ing:
Chas. Lanier- MeCleskey, Caye-A.
Rylander, Jr., McDonald-Walter
Rylander, Wheeler-Carr Glover, Sr,
Lumpkin-Elam Thiers-Westbrook
Jno. Sheffield-Ansley, Andrews
Moreland, Lewis Ellis-J. Hill, Ew-
ing-Warren, ge-Easterlin, Jones'
Ferguson, Pinkston-Erwin, Loving
Luther Harrell, Frank Lanier-
Frank Harold, Luther Hawkins
Gyles, Burke-Frank Sheffield, W.
w. Dykes-Ton Harold, Or. Grubbs-
II. o. Jones, Carr Glover, Jr.,-sam
Coney, Chas Wheatley-Jno. Council,
.G. C. Webb-W. G. Turpin, DR..
Primrose-Stewart Prather
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
Huge Cash Fortune Is Forwarded By Air Ma
MORE MILLIONS ARE GIVEN FOR EDUCATION
Are You
Inter eS1ed
In Poultry

Beginning today and continu-
ing for six consecutive days there
win appear six separate au-
thentic articles of particular in
terest to those engaged in poul-
try. Whether you have only
few. chicks, or large number,
these articles will be helpful.
Todays article is on Combat
ing Poultry Disease; Methods Of
Prevention"
Wednesday - "Diseasas of
Poultry; Their Symptoms and
Treatment"
Thursday" Lice and Red
Mites; how to Exferminate
Them"
friday Practical Poultry
Calendar What to Do and
When to Do It."
Saturday" How to Market
Poultry Products for Greatest
Profit"
Monday IL proper Fall and
Winter Poultry Management
VIII Increase Profits"
(These articles are furnished
our readers by the American
Poultry Bure9u.-Editor.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
NEGRO KILLER CAUGHT
BY NEGRO; CONFESSES

CAIRO Illinois, July ga
signed confession purported to con-
tain admissions that he fired the
shot which resulted in the death Of
Daisy Wilson, 18 years old, Of
Villa Ridge ILL.,, was made By Hess
Connors, a negro, to states At
torney Loren Boyd, it was announce
ed by police tonssAt.
Fearing violence at the hands Of
a mob, authorities Immediately
took Connors from the Pulaski
county jail here to Mound City,
where he was turned over to
deputies who took him to an IN
named destination for safe keep
ing.
An unusual feature Of the case
was that Connors was arrested
by a negro deputy He was identi
fled by two negroes and his con-
fession was made to a negro
deputy 1.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
LESLIE BOYS HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Howard Cox Sustains Concus-
sion of Brain, While Compan-
ions Are Also Injured
By ROBERT HINES

LESLIE, July 29.-An automo-
bile wreck which occurred Sunday
night almost killed Howard Cox Of
Leslie. The car was a Ford touring
driven by Hugo Bradley. Those in
the car were Hugo Bradley, How
ard Cox and Grady Parker, all Les
lie boys. The accident occurred on
the paved Leslie-DeSoto read.
Gradley was driving at fast speed
toward DeSoto when the accident
occurred. Someone in Il car had
previously driven into mule and
buggy owned by f A. Wilson, ST !,
which was being driven by a negro,
and the fright caused the mule to
break loose, and the mule was head
ed toward Leslie, running at full
speed.
Bradley stated that he was trying
to prevent a collision with the mule
and quickly snatched the steering
wheel which directed the vehicle
into the ditch and the force of the
car threw its rear eross-wise the
road, causing it turn completely
over. III Mfg
The top was broken in and the
windshield was only a mass of fire
broken glass which cut Cox severely
on the head, in his side besides sew
erlng an artery on his hand. Brad
leey esustained slight injuries on
his neck and knee, while Parker,
was only shaken up good
Cox has conclusion Of the brain
and is in a serious condition His
injury may prove fatal, but it is
the hope of the people that it will
not.
The wrecked car belonged to
Sam Lett of Americus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
KNIFE THRUST DEEP
INTO APPROPRIATION

ATLANTA, July 29.-The sub
committee of the house committee
on appropriations, is practiclne
rigid economy in it's recommends
ttions, and deep cuts have been
made in appropriations proposed
for all state institutions.
The subcommittee recommends
favorably 81 Of the special appro-
priations asked, and adversely re-
ports the remainder. Those adj
versed totalled 80, there being So
measures in all referred to the
committee.
The 81 papers favored call for
appropriations Of less than $3.50,
GOO, and the AZ turned down passed
the $4,000, 900 mark.
A special appropriation of $780,
600 would be given the common
schools of state by the sub-commit-
tee instead Of the usual half Of all
the states revenue oyere $500,
600. 1t is the accepted belief that
granting such an appropriation
would leave a balance of half a
million dollars in the treasury, after
the payment of all 1928 approprla
tions. Special grants recommended
by the subcommittee in its report
late Monday would consume prac-
tically the whole of this.
Of the appropriations granted by
the subcommittee some of the
most drastic reduced were the
State Sanitarium at Milledgeville,
cut from 1929, 500 to 1865, 160.61 +;
funds to match federal funds under
the Shepard-Town act, cut from
S24,530.55 to $4,000, and the
Georgia. School for Mental Defac-
tives, cut from $4,000 to $1,911..
81. Other requested appropriations
were cut in similar manner.
The University of Georgia, out Of
a total asked under all bills cor
sidered of $4,000, is grasted $40,-
600 Georgia Tech, which askekd,
all told $83,944.23 received 81
9944.23. The State College of Agci
culture, asking $125,0OO gets moth.
ing, while the Georgia state Col
lege for Women at Milledgeville ask
ing $185,O0O also gets nothing. The
state Normal school, at Athens in
all for 100000 is given $25, 700
Twenty-one appropriations arc
recommended by the committee in
its report while AZ others or exactly
double that number. are either re-
duced or reported unfavorably.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-07-29
.CONF ESSI0NS MADE
BY FRANKS SLAYERS
ARE READ IN COURT
Leopold Described as Socially
Dangerous By Noted Boston
AIienist at Trial
KILLER is 'PARONIAC'
Belongs to Peculiar Type THAT
Has Produced So Many
= Criminals HeaIy Says
By Associated Press

CHICAGO, July 29.-Nath-
an Leopold, Jr., and Richard
Loeb, who pleaded guilty to the
kidnapping and murder Of Robert
FrQnks, today heard read in
open court their first denials and
then their confessions Of crime.
Leopold is socially dangerous.
and suffering from ri osis,
according to the reportNof Dr..
William FIealy, noted Boston
alienist, who prepared presenta-
ton Of his condition for considera-
ton of the court.
Leopold is thoroughly unbaI-
anced on meptal life and is really
mentally diseased, being Of the
paranoiac or monomaniac type,
(which has produced 50 many
criminals" Dir. Healy further re-
ports.