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The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
Union Organization Spells
 Difference Between Wages
 of Men and Women Toilers

By International Labor News Service. workers, who are largely unorganized, are penalized for their failure to form powerful trade unions, by being forced to work for lower wages than do men, who are strongly organized.
 This fact is emphasized by a study of womens wages i'll Massachusetts made by the State Department of Labor and Industries According to returns made to the department, Womens wages average about 60 per cent of those of men. The depart ment is securing monthly payroll data for men and women employees from a selected group of manufacturing es- tablishments in the state.
 The report for March from 386 es- tablishments employing 5S,192 men and 22,197 women gives the average weekly earnings of men as $2SO6, and the average weekly earnings of wom- en, $16.12. Average earnings of Wonl- en in specific occupations include boot and shoe cut stocks and findings, $14; bread and bakery products, $12~26; dyeing and finishing textiles, 1899; manufacture of rubber goods, S13.S3; and woolen and Worsted gods, S18,44.
 The figures secured from the month 1y returns give a somewhat more tav- orab1e picture of the relation of WOm- ems wages to those of men than the annual statistics of manufactures which includes all women employed i'll manu- featuring industries in the state. Ac cording to the annual statistics Wom- ems wages average approximately one half the wages of men. This is prac- tica11y the same proportion shown i'll other industrial states.
 Both sets of figures, however, the monthly returns and the annual re- turns, indicate much higher wages for women than the Investigations made by the Minimum Wage Commission show are actually received. This is the case where the figures cover the same establishments in the same occu- pations and are taken during the same year.
 There are several reasons for the wide variations in these figures. The figures published in the statistics of
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
MERE BABIES LABOR
 IN COTTON FIELDS

Washington, July 12.-Under the [ Texas law no child IS too young to work in cotton fields, according to statements in a pamphlet issued by the United States children's bureau.
 "While it is generally true that chil- dren working on farm work under the supervision of their parents at tasks which need not involve danger or un- due hardship and which may have a distinct educational value, 1t is inn portant that consideration be given to the extent to which rural child labor does involve long hours, physical strain and serious interference with educa- tion," the pamphlet states.
 It is shown that cotton picking III Texas involves considerable exposure to cold and dampness, as well as to heat, inasmuch as 1t lasts from late August or early September into Mo- vember or December, a period during which thermometers climb to 99 de- grees and fall to 20 degrees above zero.
 Unlike most farm work the labor done by children in these cotton areas, extends over an uninterrupted period of weeks and months. Day after day is spent in the fields, the children working long hours under considerable pressure. Inexperienced pickers who have not acquired the knack Of grasp ing the cotton so that the fingers take hold between the sharp, drp carpels of the burr without touching them, are likely to have very sore fingers at the end of the day.
 Some of the cotton plants grow shoulder high, with cotton bolls nearly all the way to the ground. Little children can pick without stopping, but older children and adults have to stoop or move along on their knees. The worker puts the cotton into a big sack which he drags along by a shoulder strap. Full bags are carried to the wagon, weighed and enptied.
 Little children often carry flour sacks or other small bags instead of the fu11-sized cotton sacks"
 It is shown that babies three years old work in the cotton fields. The bu- reau representatives say:
 Working 12 hours, six-year-o1d 1 girl, who had begun field work at the age of four, picked 80 pounds day, and four-year-old twins i'll the same family working beside their another in the field put into her bag on an aver age 12 or Is pounds a day.
 Cotton pickers are paid on an aver age of g per 100 pounds.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12

manufactures are based mainly on questionnaires filled out by employers and sent to the department. The fig ures used by the Minimum Wage Commission are secured by actual in vestigation, and represent direct transcript made by the commission 5 agents from the payroll record of the establishments included in the study. Another reason for difference in the figures is the basis on which they are taken. The statistics ot manufactures are based on one week s pay roll The studies made by the Minimum Wage Commission usually cover a period of three or four months
 The figures given in the statistics ot manufactures represent a combination of rates for ftll-time employment, i'll the case of time rate workers and potential earnings for full-time en- ployment, in the case of plece-rate workers. The Commission figures show actual rates for those on time rates and actual earnings for all women workers employed in the establishment.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
BY THE WAY

Now we have great groups i'll each of thousands of vacations, including trades, professions, business, arts, sciences, and in fact, all phases of life in the home, the field, the factory stores, school, church and through all other interests. The members of each of these groups have not only a special interest in their own activities, but each has a special knowledge of some very important matter that the na- tional government should consider. By coordinating the efforts of these groups we can achieve higher results in science and industry"
 The farm bloc was cited by Mr. Hartness as a natural group which, when co-ordinated with other groups, will exercise a vast influence on the social order.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
DEFENDS BLOC
 SYSTEM; TEAM
 WORK ESSENTIAL

Cleveland, Ohio, July 12.-A grow ing spirit of hostility among the vari- ous economic interests of our country Is due to the bigness of our problem and the smallness. of our brains,' said ex-Governor James Hartness of Yer gineering Council in an address to the local engineering society.
 The speaker said that "our whole industrial structure may tumble down" unless a national plan of team work Is devised and carried out by we11-defned b1ocs, or groups, in asso- ciation with the federal government.
 Common effort among the great divisions of interests in this nation must be brought about" he said, fin order that we may have economic and vocational as well as political and geographical unity"
 Team work, asserted Mr. Hartness, will eliminate the enrmous industrial waste disclosed by the Hoover com- mittee of the American Engineering Council. Industry, he said, is still con- trolled more by instinct than by the brain, and 1t is not humi1iating to admit this fact.
 The vast scope of achievement in research, invention and production by the process of team work is greater than any one brain can comprehend,
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
No Revolutionary
 Party In America

New York, July 12.-An Associated Press cable from Berlin states that at an executive session of the communist internationa1e William Dunn of Mon tana said there is, no revolutionary mass party in America. This will not be fact until the Gompers organiza- ton is captured and the 12,000,O00 ne- groes in America are stirred up," he said.
 The multiplicity of nationa1ities and the high development of American capitalists also obstruct the formation of an American revolutionary party, accordingt to Dunn.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
MAY CALL EGG STRIKE

Chicago, July PA strike of egg eaters to break a food gamblers pool in this city is a possibility. Ware houses are stocked with 1,500,O0O cases of eggs. December options have been pushed up to 34 cents a dozen, and the gamblers will attempt to raise these figures to 40 cents, it is stated.
The Connecticut labor news., 1924-07-12
CARPENTERS RAISE WAGES

Rock Island, H., July 12.-Carpent- CTS in this city, Davenport and Moline have secured a two-year agreement and wage increase of 12H cents an hour. The new rate is $1121z.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Exquisitely Beautiful
Bedroom Suite

Your choice of beautiful decorate fkrd $
eve maple or Freich walnut suites. with full
large dresser and Uow-end bed. See this
suife by all means.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
THE CIVILIAN ARMY
BY LIEUT.. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN.
Reserves Guard.

=, S0th Division for training and in
| struction purposes only. The fbl-
| lowing second lieutenants have beer
ordered attached to the Headquarters
Company, S0th Division, for training
and instruction purposes only: Cor
| nelius {. Chaplin and William E. Left
wich.
The following reserve officers have
been ordered attached to the follow.
ing organizations of the SOth Division
| for training and instruction pur.
poses only:
S0th Signal Company-First Lieuts
Joseph w. Manning and Ralph B
Stewart and Second Lieuts Nathan
b. Camp, Shirley +. Downing. Hymar
NJ Goldstein and Richard r. Hal
penny of the Signal Corps Reserve.
Soth Military Police Company-Capts
Charles f. Hummel. infantry reserve
and Thomas ID. Walsh and Secono
Lieut.. John T.. Barnett, Military 20.
lice Reserve Corps.
305th Ordnance Company (mainte-
nance,-First Lieuts. Alfred L. Ryan
and Stanley d. Willis and Second
Lieuts Frank. w. Loeff1er and Earl
NJ Valentine.
Service Company No. sos. Q. Nj. c.
second Lieut. James NJ. Giganti.
Soth Division Trains %. NJ. C)-
Maj. David G. Spencer and Capts. Ar
thur. p. Fenton, John A. Hatfield
John r kerrick. jr.. and Watson r.
Miller. and Second Lieuts. Richard J.
ClyneS. Robert &. HobSon and Enoch
5. Parnell, all quartermaster reserve
officers.
Hdqts. 15ath Infantry Brigade-Sec-
und Lieut.. Lewis Il. Kirk, Infantry
Hdq~ Co. l59th Infantry Brigade
-Seconr H.ut. RolIie NJ Schuder OF
tn lnfal ~ officers Reserve Corps
Soth u r--on Air Service-Capt
Eugene SiG;es and First Lieut.. Sam
uel NJ. Moore, and Second Lieuts
| George Il. Cassidy and Walter ID. See
bert.
Maj. Frank B. Ober. Field Artillery
Reserve, has been ordered attach ed
to the headquarters OF the 155tf
Field Artillery Brigade
Evening star., 1924-09-21

preparation made by Congress for
these camps. Camps operated at
maximum capacity. The total num-
ber who received instruction num-
bered about 1854.
All those undergoing training
worked long and. hard and thrived on
it. No more enthusiasm has been
shown in any series of camps since
the war. The military Information
which they acquired is of inestima
BILE value to the Nation: the physical
benefits to the manhood who respond
ed are all that the 'warmest support
ers of training camps prophesied.
The Regular Army instructors who
managed and conducted the camps
and training are due the highest
praise for their Jealous and pains
taking work. Students at the camps
expressed in most laudatory phrases
the services rendered by these in
Evening star., 1924-09-21

which have been held throughout the
country during the past Summer in
dicate that results have been highly
satisfactory. From every source
comes Information that is gratifying
to the exponents of national defense.
National Guard organizations have
been pleased with the instruction
that have been received. Many faults
of previous encampments were corr
rected! Schedules had been revised
so as to more profitably utilize the
two weeks in camp for training
which they could not receive in ar
mories. =
Reserve officers were assembled in
various camps and received instruc-
tion by Improved methods. Ingpya-
tions were tried at some camps in the
method of training these officers At
val iouS places where there were citi-
zens military training camps, CO.
Evening star., 1924-09-21

structors. In this gratifying ac-
acknowledgement will the officers find the
greatest satisfaction of knowing that
theirs was a work well done.
Assisting in the training. too, were
the Regular Army regiments. They
furnished the enlisted personnel
which was variously employed in the
work. Many non-commissioned off,
GERS were utilized as instructors and
these, likewise, were the recipients of
much praise.
Inspectors of the camps noted the
need for some changes in the system
of instruction and the methods OF
imparting it, Some improvements
are no doubt necessary, and by the
time that the next camps roll around
the suggestions will have been duly
weighed and the conduct of the train
ing will be modified to provide for
still more thoroughness.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
SHOE PITCHERS CONTEST,
Title in Mems Professional Glass
at Stake,

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, September
20.-The championship Of the Ma
tional horseshoe pitching tourna-
ment was to be decided here today in
the mems professional class. Putt
Mossman, Eldora, Iowa; Hansford
Jackson of Kellerton, Iowa, and his
father, Frank Jackson, were the lead
ing contestants.
Hansford Jackson. who has won 20
games and lost l, was to meet his
father and Mossman. The elder
Jackson has won 20 and lost 2, while
Mossman has an unbroken string of
% games with no defeats
Evening star., 1924-09-21

temporaneous with the training pc
riod of the reserve officers, the plan
Of employing these officers to COM
mand organizations of the c. M. Z. c..
was successfully used. 1t appears as
a most satisfactory method of i'm
parting experience and instruction in
command and will probably be adopt
ed in the future wherever such be
possible.
Reserve Officers Training Corps
camps were attended by enthusiastic
young men. eager to receive instruc-
ton and most responsive to the pro-
gram of training. Instructors with
these units are liberal in the praise
of these students and foresee an ex-
ceptionally fine cadre of younger re-
Serve officers. In the citizens mill
tary training camps the number of
applicants exceeded the strength that
could be accommodated by the an
Evening star., 1924-09-21

Reports from all training camps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
GALS FRIENDS
RAISING Big
SLUSH FUND
Big Business Ready to
Buy Election

Tho Calvin Coolidge, the
strike-breaker president of the
United States, is not noted for
his fluencey of speech he does a
lot of political thinking. His
silence in this campaign is liz
orally golden, according to re-
ports of big slush funds gathered
by bankers and manufacturers
to keep the silent automaton in
the White House for the next
four years.
Cal is not talking in this cam
paign but a ten million dollar
slush fund can do. a lot of
speech making.
The American capitalists feel that
they are crossing a stream and don't
want to change mounts The old and
reliable elephant looks better to them
than either the descrepit donkey who
is not able to raise the price of oats,
or the hydraheaded freak of nature
which the LaFollette conglomeration
rides on.
Bankers, manufacturers and big
capitalists in general have decided to
raise a fund that will make Harding,
Jake Hamon and Jess Smith raise hell
with envy in their summer home on
the Styx. Ten million dollars would
look big even in the days Immediately
after the war And the sum may be
between twelve and fifteen millions.
Big Plutes Involved.
The biggest leaders in the financial
and industrial world will be called
before the Borah slush fund investi-
eating committee to tell the why,
what and wherefore of the millions
they are raising to substitute for
Silent Calls lack of vocal activity.
Among those present at the notable
society event will be:
Samuel M. Vauclain, president of
the Baldwin Locomotive works, the
Continued on Page 2.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
HARRINGTON IS
ACCUSTOMED TO
DISAvOW ACTS
RetrGcted His Charges
Against 7. L. Lewis
BY T. j. O'FLAHERTY.
ARTICLE SeVen,l

When Frank harrington was
confronted with the proof of
having accepted money from
Colonel Frank L. Smith, demo-
cratic candidate for governor of
Illinois, he at first denied the
charge but finally admitted hav-
ing received one thousand dol
lars. But like the republican
party campaign fund, it is not
likely that all Farrington's re-
ceipts from the sale of the min
ers' votes get into the record.
He does not do that kind of
bookkeeping.
Harrington is not the kind of
man to be bothered over the
necessity of making a change of
front. He swallowed his words
on the Howat case and again in
his controversy with John l..
Lewis over the Lester mine.
There are two interesting docum.
ents on record showing the unreliable
ity of Farrington's word and proving
conclusively that he will eat crow
when driven into corner. This bull
ly who expels honest men from the
union, who hounds the radicals and
joins with the bosses in blacklistine
them; who hires pimps and thugs to
beat up rank and file delegates
crawls on his belly before those who
have it in their power to punish him
Ate His Own Words
He did this in his controversy with
T. L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers in 1910. T. L. Lewis
was no better or no worse than his
namesake who rules the international
union today. He is now a non-union
CONTINUED on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

activity OF the party and urged the
necessity of greater discipline of the
Italian press and cooperation of the
Italian federation with the central
committee of the party.
In complimenting the federation on
its achievements in one year. he said
that at the last June, 1923. convention
when the federation only boasted
three or four hundred members he
was skeptical about the possibility of
their maintaining daily newspaper.
To maintain a powerful daily like I'll
Lavoratore," to increase their mem
bership in such great proportions,
representing the workers in import
ant Industries like the anthracite coal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
On a Labor Takers Trail
A RED WEEK WIRE FROM NEW YORK

NEW squirt for RED WEEK.
IN THOUSAND UNITS Of iera
national office this morning.
ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS that to
each contributed fifty
which each Of them will distribute
during Week. to 2.
ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS pieces
City aloneIeaf-
pamphlets stckers
additional City get message
election
ciys partIcy every
distribution duplicated
party it's
in this task Decide, Do-or ACTIVITY
great parto Of every Communist
EVERY MEMBER MOBILIZE WEEK.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
RUTHENDERG SPEAKS
AT MANY MEETINGS IN
OHIO AND PENNSYLV ANIA

c. E. Ruthenberg, executive sec
rotary Of the Workers Party will
make a series of campaign speech
es In Pennsylvania and Ohio. Com
rade Ruthenberg is the Workers
Party candidate for congress In
Ohio. The following is a list OF his
meetings and their location:
Chartered, Pa.-ltalian Hall, 9th
street and Lookout avenue, We'd
nesday, Oct. %, 8 p. m.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-carneeie Music
Hall, Federal and Ohio sts., N. s.
Thursday, Oct 20, p. m.
Cleveland, ohlo.-Frlday, Oct. "a.
Cleveland, ohIo.-Saturday, Oct.
rs.
Cleveland, Ohio. - Jaites Hall,
6oo6 st. Clair avenue, Sunday, Oct.
20.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
Good Gathering in Cleveland.
BY J. A. HAMlLTON.e
Special to the DAILY WORKER

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 19-The
Foster meeting in the Engineers Audi
forum here was the most successful
held by the Workers Party in this city
in many months. The reputation of
Foster. coupled with the extensive
advertising brought out hundreds of
workers to hear the message Of Com
munism.
The LaFollette sentiment is strong
in Cleveland, not only among the
workers, but as might be expected
among the business and professional
classes as we'll A straw vote taken
in the down town clubs showed La
Toilette to have very high percent
age compared with Coolidge. Hence
the capitalistic press, in reporting
Fosters speech, were greatly Impress
ed with his exposure of LaFollette,
and quoted him as. saying that la
Toilette is no more the friend of the
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
CANTON REDS"
HOLD TOP" NIT
IN civil WAR

CANTON, Oct. 19.-Despite efforts
of the merchants and their allies to
retrieve the losses received in the
heavy fighting which lasted for two
days in the streets of Canton, their
efforts have been unavailing.
The defeat of the fascist has in
creased the morale Of the workers con-
siderably and they are ambitious to
go on the warpath against the enemy.
1t is now freely admitted by even
some enemies of Sun Vat Sen that
he has tolerated extreme provocation
from the merchants backed by the
British government.
Fear Of Russia and to a certain de-
gree Japan is the only hindrance to
the landing Of British and American
troops here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
GOOD MEETINGS
FOR DUNE in
SOUTH ILLINOIS
Candidate for Governor
in Mine Fields
tspeeIaI . The paIIy workerl

WEST FRANKFORT, Illinois,
Oct. 1.-TWO successful Work
ers Party campaign meetings
for William F. Dunno, its candi-
date for governor, have been
held here. and is Christopher.
Dunno spoke here from the
bandstand in the public square
to a crowd of over 800 people
who applauded vigorously his
explanation of the revolution
airy program Of the Workers
Party. A collection of $40 was
taken.
Won't Hear Democrat.
After Dunno had finished speaking,
some democrat candidates tried to
take advantage of the crowd gathered
to hear the Workers Party speaker,
but in five minutes it had dwindled
to less than fifty persons.
The party members here have dis
tributed 1000 DAILY WORKERS and
covered the city with the campaign
literature under the direction of Com
rade e. B. Hewlett, Workers Party
candidate for congressman.
Speaks at Christopher.
In Christopher DUNES meeting
was held in the opera house. The
audience applauded when he remind
ed the Ku Klux Khan that Morgan,
Jewish financier, was the real owner
of the American government and re-
sponsible for Americas entrance into
the war.
1.-THE Workers Party" said Dunno,
recognizes no national and racial
lines and l cite>,this fact simply to
show the incorrectness into which
these 100 per cent patriots are led
when they attack those who expose
the evils of American capitalism"
The Christopher audience donated
$40 to the Workers Party campaign.
Other Dunno speaking dates are:
Monday, Oct. 20, Belleville, Veiles'
Hall.
Tuesday, Oct. 21, collinsville, City
Hall.
Wednesday. Oct. %, Springfield.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
Paterson Strikers
To Hear Communist
Speakers Tonight

PATERSON, N. j., Oct. 19.-The
Workers Party will hold alrge mass
meeting for its candidates in this
election. The meeting in Paterson
will be held at Helvetia Hall. 1876 Van
Houten street, at s p. M, and the
main speakers Of the evening will be
Rudolph volgraff, candidate of the
Workers Party for U. S. senator from
New Jersey, and Harry M. Winitsky,
candidate for congress on the Work
ers Party ticket in New York City.
In addition there win be other prom
inent speakers and the committee in
charge expects very successful
meeting of Paterson workers anxious
TO hear the message OF Communism
from the candidates of the Workers
Party in this election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
U. S. SECRET SERVICE SLEUTH
,UNRAvELLED BY DAYLIGHT HIS
CONSPIRACIES planned IN DARK
BY MANUEL GOMEZ

How Jake Spoans, his brother his bother-in-IaW and
couple of rank outsiders got together night after night Gary
nd five ago plot death and destruction and then
again the morning detectives work some sas
factory solution Of the sesame mysterious battling and de-
cdedy anarchstc plots story that would make those who
paid the salaries of the spOIans family their hair in rather
ridiculous rage
"The Knights of the Red STAR the famboyant
given by Spoanskys their organzationa
which could only have been conceived by whose
familiarity literature of the revolutionary working
confined novels of the type of
Among Nhiists" "The Terrible Con-
spiracy."
might thought that Jake Spoansky would be
"The Knights the would