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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26

The story, given with eXhaus-
tive details as to names, dates
and places, is the most damning
evidence against this multi-mil-
lionaire "angel'' of the republi-
can party yet brought to light, and is
a fitting climax to the exposures Of
the corruption of cabinet officers by
oil companies in the famous Teapot
Dome cases.
The fact that at the time Calvin
Coolidge as Governor of Massachu-
sets, was using troops to break the
Boston police strike, his present cam
paign manager and financial hacker.
Mr.. Butler was engaged in supervis-
ing regiment of stool-pigeons to
break up textile workers unions, to
break strikes by agitation of private
detectives, to burglarize union offices
in midnight raids, destroy and carry
off their property and work hand in
glove with the Department of Justice
to arrest and deport radicals-this is
enough to blast this pair of scoun.
drels and the party they represent
in the elections.
On August 81, the DAILY WORK
Err printed the story of the exposure
of the nefarious Sherman Service"
detective agency, whose director, S.
IF. Fannon, upon being pressed by
Henry Dennison of Boston and Rob
ert W. Dunn of New York, unburden-
ed himself Of admissions condemning
the Sherman industrial stool-pigeon
work, until even the audience of bust
ness men then present were sickened
and disguised with such infamy.
Butler ReIishes Stool Pigeons.
But the chairman Of the Republic
can National Committee, Mr.. William
Morgan Butler, has a strong stomach.
He relishes stool-pigeons who spy up
on labor unions And we'll he might.
He is one of the industrial overlords
of New England. He owns the Bos-
ton and Worcester Electric company
and odds and ends of stock in such
things as street railways. But But
ler's biggest interests are in the New
Bedford textile mills.
He is president of the Butler Mills
company, with $4,51S,52S listed as
sets; president of the Hoosac Cotton
Continued on Page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
DAWES PLAN HAS
HARD SHEDDING
IN REICHSTAC

BERLIN, Aug. 25.-The critical
stage in the work of putting the
Dawes Plan in operation is reached.
Unless the Reichstag ratifies the Lon
don agreement. all the efforts of the
conference has been in vain.
German Industrial and banking
circles are worrying. Fear that the
government will fail to put thru its
program has caused several banking
deals to be cancelled.
Herr Hergt, chief leader of the
German nationalists, attacked the
London reparations agreement when
debate was renewed in the Reichstag
today upon Chancellor Marks demand
for ratification.
Hergt declared that the London
pact left the Rhineland as an allied
pawn. He urged a united national
front in Germany.
The Communists are carrying on a
vigorous campaign against the Lon
don agreement outside as we'll as in
side the Reichstag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
WHERE is THE BOOM
PREDICTED BY THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE?

The Chicago Tribune, which has
for weeks predicted a tremendous
boom in business, prints a story con-
corning the work OF the Chicago
Christian Industrial league, Char
liable organization" which is start
ing drive for help "in preparation
for what is expected to be a winter
of extensive unemployment"
Homes where families have new
clothing, new furniture, and new
toys, in spite OF the employment
shortage, are asked to sebd their
cast-off clothing, furniture and toys
to the offices of the Christian Indus
trial league so that men and women
who might otherwise starve this
winter may survive to work another
year.
The stuff will not be given away.
The men and women who come to
the Offices OF the league are ex-
pected to work, repairing the arti-
Giles so that they will once more be
fit for use. The articles are then
sold by the Christian League-pre-
sumably at profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26

streets IN town lead TO the Bell
and Zoller mine. When he
comes out of the shaft and
starts home, all streets lead past
the company store.
Feel Open Shop Drive.
1.-THE United Mine Workers Union
has felt the shock of the open shop
drive as much as any other union
and it's officials have been as yellow
and as traitorous as any other reac-
tionary union officials. But the min
ers are fighters. They know that if
they listen to the bunk handed out
by the coal operators, and the same
identical bunk handed out by the
mine officials, their union will be
wrecked. And the rank and file min
ers are not going to allow their un-
ion to be wrecked"
Arley Staples, who has been NOM
mated for international vice presi-
dent by the ziegler, Waller, Coello,
and other local unions in Illinois. said
he looks for the December elections
to sweep into Office in District 70,
men who will resist the open shop
drive, and do a little attacking of the
bosses on their own account.
Seek Six-Hour Day.
"The Illinois coal miners are back
ing the Progressive committees de-
mand for a six-hour day, equal dis
tribution of work in all the mines,
payment by the coal operators of un-
employment benefits, and organiza-
ton of the unorganized miners" said
Staples.
1.-The Illinois miners know that the
talk of non-union coal freezing out
union coal is bunk. The Illinois min
ers know that the business men are
one hundred per cent organized in
their Chambers of Commerce, the
railroads are one hundred per cent
organized thru their interlocking d.
rectorates, and the coal operators of
the entire country, both union and
non-union mine owners are one hun
dred per cent organized into the coal
trust.
Demand Organization Drive.
Il am going to run for internation-
al vice president on the progressive
miners platform. l am going to
fight the open shop and resist reduc-
ton of wages. talk. The whole damn
coal mine industry is solidly organ
lied against the miners, and the rank
and file miners are ready to see to
it that the non-union miners are
brought into the union, and the min
ers organized one hundred per cent
against the open shop coal operators. +"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
New York On the Job

The WORKERS PARTY of New York
button Of the Labor Day DAILY
the Party launching
Every member Of the copies
to sell distribute Every
OF
erston against the old Wall
Communism by taking big bundle Of this
DAILY WORKER possible reading
We must reach these message
their language order make
This campaign number sells for SC
thru Branch Organizer Immediately Higgins
Book Store 1877 University Place. District Party
era East 18th street. New York City, Thursday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
PRINCE OF WALES IN
STUPOR AFTER NIGHT
OF WILD DANCING

ABOARD THE BERENGARlA,
Aug. rs. - The Prince OF Wales,
champion horse jumper and setter
Of styles, retired early this morn
Ing after night Of dancing on his
first evening out Of England on his
trip to the shores Of Columbia.
He Is occupying suite that had
been built for the ex.kaiser, but
that does not prevent him from
having a gIorIousIy good time.
Ramsay Mac Donald is also hav-
ING a good time suppressIng strikes
OF the workers he Is supposed to
represent. Ramsay and the prince
get along we'll together at all din
ners and lawn parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
FARMERS Under.
HEAVY BURDENS
IN BOD's STATE.
Child Labor Record Is
Equally Poor
BY JAY LOVESTONE.
Eighth ArtIcIe.)

In Wisconsin, as in every
other state where the financial
and Industrial interests are the
rulers, the farmers are grooming
under burdensome taxes, are
oppressed by ever more enor-
nous mortgages, sinking into
hopeless debt, and are being
robbed of their land by the in
vesting class.
And despite all the applause
given its much-heralded system
of social legislation by the
political honesty-hunters of the
country, LaFollette's Model
Commonwealth" Wis con sin,
does not present a bright picture
of social conditions.
Last year saw more rapid rise in
Industrial accidents in Wisconsin than
in many states far less reputed for
their reform laws. With all it's volum-
nous noise about educating the work
ers, the LaFollette state government
is, comparatively speaking, paying al
together too little attention to the ed
ucation of the children of the working
class. Nor can Wisconsin have cause
to be proud of its mortality rates.
Even its weak sanitary laws are not
lived up to by the bosses. The extent
of child labor in this state is distinct
ly unsatisfactory.
LaFoIIette Program Fails Farmers.
Just as Wisconsin ranks very low
in the wages paid its Industrial work
ers, so it does in the wages paid its
agricultural laborers.
Our analysis of the December, 1923,
issue oe Weather, Crops and Markets,
published by the department of agri-
culture, reveals that there were at
least fourteen states paying higher av-
erage monthly wages to their farm Ia
borers in 1928 than Wisconsin did.
This is the pay for rural laborers with
out board.
For the average monthly pay to
farm laborers with board, our investi-
cation shows that in 1923, in at least
thirteen states, the workers received
higher remuneration than they did in
Wisconsin.
Farmers in Hole.
And the farmers, whose special
friend LaFollette says he is, have met
with continued adversely in Wiscon-
sin.
On Aug. 5, 1924, Edward Nordman,
Wisconsin state commissioner of mar
kets, delivered an address before the
State Retailers Association, in which
he made the following significant re-
marks: Agricultural land is rapidly
passing out of the ownership of the
dirt farmer and into the hands of the
men who use it as safe place to in
vest their money. TINS practice
forces the independent farm owner
to settle on poorer land or in out-of-
the-way places"
Our analysis of the 1920 United
States census findings on agriculture
discloses how the farming masses of
Wisconsin are being driven to adver-
sity at an even faster pace than the
farmers of the country as whole.
Farm Mortgages Increase.
From 1910 to 1920 the proportion
Of farms free from mortgages in the
United States as a whole declined
from 65.6 per cent to SIS per cent.
AT the same time the Wisconsin
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
Congregation Has
Hard Time Telling
Ape from Skypilot

BUTTE, Mont, August 25.-With a
monkey tied to his pulpit, Reverend
Colin O'Farrell, pastor of the First
Baptist church, raved away above the
chatter of the animal in an attempt
to prove that whoever maintained that
man was decended from monkey is
a descendant in actuality from an ass.
The monkey got so frightened at
the maniacal manoeuvers of the gen.
tleman Of God that he shouted at the
top of his voice.
The congregation had great diff
Guilty in distinguishing the monkey
from the preacher.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
DANGERS SEEN
INNEW jersey
RACE CLASHES
"Shoot to Kill" Order
of Police Chief
Especial to The Daily worker)

TRENTON, N. j., Aug. 25.-
Fear is being expressed that the
drastic order of Police Commits
sioner George B. LaBarre to his
police force to "Shoot to KILL"
in connection with the race sit
uation here may cause a very
serious state of" affairs in a
short time.
The situation arose by the
influx of southern Negroes into
the city which has doubled the
Negro population in Trenton
since the world war. This in
crease necessitated the provid-
ing of shelter for the newcom-
ers, who were working in the
Roebling Wire Mills, John L.
Mott Iron Works, American
Steel and Wire Company, Ma
tional radiator Company,
Cooks Linoleum Company and
in the pottery and rubber indus
tries.
Blacks in Filthy Houses.
The Negroes were obliged to live
under terrible conditions, in the most
miserable shacks, without the slight
est pretense to sanitation or comfort.
This situation was made more acute
by the fact that the black and white
workers were becoming rivals for
jobs, the capitalists splitting the
ranks by dividing the workers accord
ing to race.
The first sign of trouble came with
the unusual purchase of firearms by
the migrants because of the shooting
of a Negro minister, Banks, who got
into quarrel with a white, and the
police were then given instructions to
arrest anyone carrying concealed
weapons.
The racial antagonism has been ag.
gravated also by Ku Klux Khan agi-
tation and by numerous encounters
between whites and blacks. A Negro
physical instructor in the public
schools, Howard Dangerfeld, soundly
thrashed white man who attempted
to prevent him from using a certain
diving plank in public pool which
Dangerfield had used for some time
before. Elements are now active in
an attempt to have the Negro expelled
from the school, while the Negroes
are determined upon his retention.
Unemployment Increase Dangerous.
The laying off of many workers in
the local industries has not helped
the situation since the jobless are
empty-handed and there is POSSIBLE
ity that sudden incident may be the
spark to arouse the fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
Militant Miners
Opposing Lewis,
Murray, Green
BY KARL REEVE
(Staff Writer, Daily Worker.)

ZEGLER, ILL.,, Aug 25-The Illinois miners determined
to resist the drive OF the coal operators to institute the open
shop by eectng union office who pledged accept
wage reduction who demand shortening of the
and the payment of unemployment benefits Henry corbshe
president of Zeger Local. No. 1916 told the DAILY WORKER
today.
81 know that the miners of Southern Illinois will pay
attention the socaed Lions Club convention being held
in Herrin" Corbishley said.
Conditions pretty bad for the miners Zieger
that has the coal mine end and the the
other
miner gets up morning to go to work. all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
JUDGE JEERS
At WODBL|ES,,
CASE DRAGS ON
Plan Hearings Before
Master in Chancery

The affairs of the Industrial
Workers of the World continue
to be the football of the capital
list courts.
Little progress was made
when the fight of the Rowan
Bowerman faction for an in
junction against the Fisher
Doyle element came up yester-
day, this time before Judge
David, the third judge to handle
the case.
Judge Has Surprise Party.
Previous efforts to settle the in
ternal differences of the "Wobblies"
outside of court were unable to over
come the wan-Bowerman determine
ton to obtain court order, with the re-
suit that there was another appear
ance in court, in which both sides
found themselves the butt of the
jeers of a capitalist Judge.
do you mean to tell me that you
are the Industrial Workers of the
World, and that you have come to this
court to settle difficulty arising with
in your organization" sneered Judge
David, as he was made aware Of the
nature of the case brought before
him.
Attorney T. B. O'Connell. for the
"injunctionites," pretty much on the
defensive, went into a long and legal
explanation of the alleged reasons for
starting the injunction proceedings
against the officers of the l. w. w.
Rodriguez for Guinea.
These reasons are already familiar
to the readers of the DAILY WORK
Err. The "injunctionites" claimed
they had been ousted from office by
force by the Fisher-Doyle elements,
and that they wanted the injunction to
restore them to power.
$50 you are the pacifists," sneered
Judge David, addressing the injunc-
tionite clients of Attorney ODonnell,
who admitted that this was true.
Then turning to Attorney William e.
Rodriguez, substituting for Attorney
William A. Guinea, lawyer for the
"ins," Judge David continued. And
you, Mr.. Rodriguez, you represent the
|revolutionists."
Women In Court.
Attorney Guinea was still away on
his fishing trip in Wisconsin. So his
law partner, Rodriguez. former Social
fist alderman, now in the LaFollette
camp, had to be recalled from his
vacation in order to make an appear
ance
The courtroom was filed again with
members Of the Industrial Workers of
the World.
"Who are all these people stand
ing around here" said Judge David.
in calling the court to order. Are
they all members of the Industrial
Workers of the World? Then let them
take seats"
All indications yesterday in the
courtroom were that the internal
troubles of the l. W. w. are arousing
an increasing interest. Women were
present in court who had hitch-hik-
Continued on page 81
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Strike WINNIE In Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Aug. 25. - Seventeen
cloak and suit shops have settled with
the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union and nearly two-thirds
of the original strikers are returning
to work under union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN,
EXPOSED AS EMPLOYER OF STOOL
PIGEONS IN WAR AGAINST UNIONS
written Especially for The Daily Worker.)

NEW YORK CITY Aug. 25.-That William Morgan Butler,
Chairman of the Republican National Committee boosting
Strkebreaker Calvin Coolidge for president deeply involved
the smest sort of soogeon and agent provocateur work
against labor unions and the generally charged
informant whose withheld pending further revelations
The Dolores star., 1924-08-08

LESSON TEXT-John 2:1-11
GOLDEN TEXT-"Whatsoever He
saith unto you. do it.''-John 2:5.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Jesus at a We'd
ding.
Cana.
INTERMEDIARY AND SENIOR TOP
fC-How Jesus Adds to Joy.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
Jesus Enriching Social Life.
The Dolores star., 1924-08-08
Mari Furnishes Calcium
Essential for All Hogs

That mari can be used in place Of
air-slacked lime or ground limestone In
n mineral mixture for hogs is indicated
in an experiment recently completed
at Minnesota University farm. The
mari used in the trial came from near
Backus and contained SO per cent cal
cium carbonate, the remainder of the
analysis showing mostly fine sand and
clay.
"a mineral mixture composed Of so
per cent mari and 20 per cent salt wac
fully as satisfactory for growing fat
tening pigs as a standard mixture Of
40 per cent slaked lime. 40 per cent
bonemeal, and 20 per cent salt" says
e. F. Ferrin, professor of animal hus.
bandry. For feeding month after
month to breeding stock the mari and
salt might not be as satisfactory as u
mixture containing bonemeal which
supplies phosphorus. 1t is reasonably
certain even with the limited data at
hand that mari will supply calcium
just as well or possibly better than
limestone or slaked lime. The small
amount of earthly material In the mari
is no particular disadvantage. So little
Is eaten that no harm can come from
this source"
The Dolores star., 1924-08-08
ZEN OF THE Y.D-

forget. Only, I shall see you of f; !
shall wave my handkerchief to you
] shall smile on you In the crowd
Then-you will forget"
Four years of war add only -four
years to the life of a man. according
to the record In the family Bible, II
he happen to spring from stock in
which that sacred document Is pre-
served. But four years Of war add
twenty years to the gray matter be
hind the eyes-eyes which learn to
dream and ponder strangely. and
sometimes to shine with hardness
that has no part with youth. When
Captain Grant and Sergeant Linder
stepped on the train at Grants old
city there was. however. little to sug-
gest the ageing process that commonly
went on among the soldiers In the
great war. Grant had twice stopped
an enemy bullet. but his fine figure
and sunburned health now gave nc
evidence Of those experiences. Linder
counted himself lucky to carry only an
empty sleeve.
They had fallen in with each other
in France. and the friendship planted
In the foothills of the range country
had grown, through the strange prun.
ings and Rraftings OF war, into a tree
of very solid timber. Linder might
The Dolores star., 1924-08-08

have told you of the time his captain
found him with his arm crushed under
wrecked piece of artillery, and Grant
could have recounted n story of being
dragged unconscious out of No Mans
Land, but for either to dwell upor
these matters only aroused the resent.
ment Of the other, and frequently led
to exchanges between captain and
sergeant totally Incompatible with
military discipline. They were con-
tent to pay tribute to each other, but
each to leave his own honors unher.
aided.
First thing is place to eat" Grant
remarked, when they had been dis
missed. Words to similar effect had,
indeed, been his first remark upon
every suitable opportunity for three
months. An appetite which has been
four years In the making is not to bo
satisfied overnight, and Grant, being
better fortified financially against the
stress of good meal, sought to be
always 1rst to suggest 1t. Linder &c.
cepted the situation with the cofu-
placence of man who has been four
years on army pay.
Got any notion what you will dor"
said Linder, when the meal was fin
ished.
Not the slightest. I don't even
know whether I'm rich or broke.
suppose if Jones and Murdoch are
still alive they will be looking after
those details. Doing their best, doubt
less. to embarrass me with additional
wealth. What are you going to do?"
Don't know. Maybe go back and
work for Transley."
The mention of Transley threw
Grants mind back into old channels.
He had almost forgotten Transley
He told himself he had quite forgotten
Zen Transley, but once he knew he
lied. That was when they potted him
In No Mans Land. AS he lay there,
waiting j.. he knew he had not
forgotten. And he had thought many
times of Phyllis Bruce. At first he
had written to her, but she had not
answered his letters. Evidently she
meant him to forget. Nor had she
come to the station to welcome him
home. Perhaps she did not know.
Perhaps Many things can happen
In four years.
Suddenly 1t occurred to Grant that
1t might be good idea to call on
Phyllis. He would take Linder along.
That would make it less personal. He
knew his man well enough to keep his
own counsel, and eventually they
reached the gate of the Bruce cottage,
as though by accident.
Lets turn In here. used to know
these people. Mother and daughter;
very f1ne folk"
(To BE coNTINUED.)
The Dolores star., 1924-08-08
CHAPTER XII

Grants first visit to the home Of his
and the news leaked out, as 1t Is sure
to do In such cases. The social set
confessed to heing on the point of be-
ing shocked. Two schools of criticism
developed over the five o'clock tea
tables; one held that Grant was n
gay dog who would settle down and
marry in his class when Le had had
his fling, and the other that Phyllis
Bruce was an artful hussy who was
quite ready to sell herself for the
Grant millions. And there were so
many eligible young women on the
market, although none of them were
described as artful hussies!
Grants behavior, however, placed
him under nc cloud in so far as social
opportunities were concerned; on the
contrary, he found himself being show
cred with Invitations, most of which
he managed to decline on the grounds
of pressure of business. When such
an excuse would have been too trans
parent he accepted and made the best
of II, and he found no lack of encour-
agement in the one or two lnciplent
amOrous flurries which resulted.
From such positions he always sue
ceeded in extricating himself, with
quiet smile at the vagaries of life. He
had to admit that some of the young
women whom he had met had charms
of more than passing moment; he
might easily enough find himself chas-
Ing the rainbow.
But his attention was at once to be
turned to very different matters. A
stock market, erratic for some days,
went suddenly into paroxysm. Grant
ESCAPED with as little loss as possible
for himself and his clients. and after
three sleepless nights called his stan
together. They crowded into the
board-room, curious. apprehensive. al
most frightened, and he looked over
them with an emotion that was quite
now TO his experience. Even In the
aloofness which their standards had
made 1t necessary for him to ADOPT
there had grown up in his heart.
ouIte upnoticed, tender, sweet
foliage of love for these men
and women who were part OF
his machine. Now, as he looked IN
their faces he realized how, ike Ettie
children, they leaned on him-how.
like little children, they feared MS
newer and his displeasure-how, per
hans. like little children. they had
learned to love him. toA he rsaliseo