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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
The Strikebreaking
stPennsy"

One of the bitterest, if not the most uncom-
promising anti-labor corporations in this coun-
try is the Pennsylvania Railroad
During the shopmen's strike of 1922 and
since, the Pennsylvania Railroad set the pace
in smashing the organizations of its workers.
So tactless and arrogant have the officials of the
Pennsylvania system been in their attack on
the labor unions that now and then govern
ment official was compelled to dsapprove of the
offensive open shop methods.
Now, the Interstate Commerce Commission
has come forward with a report which shows
that the Pennsylvania Railroad has been able to
break up the railway workers organizations
only at the expense of Gripping its service. The
war of the Pennsylvania on the union men has
brought in its wake serious danger to the
people travelling con this railway system The
Pennsylvania Railroad which is the leader of
the anti-union crusade also ranks first in faulty
engines. The Interstate Commerce Commission
has just found that the Pennsylvania Railroad
has had the largest percentage of defective
locomotives of the nine railroad systems selected
by the Commission as representative of the rail-
ways of the United States
Of the Pennsylvania locomotives examined for
1923 fiscal year, 76 20 were found defective or
closely approaching violation of the law and
actually committing the most fragrant disregard
of all safety statutes.
Within the last six months of the calendar
year 1929 all of the nine railroads except the
Pennsylvania showed decided Improvement
The Pennsylvania alone which has been most
violent in its campaign against organized labor,
showed no signs of improvement.
The conditions on the Pennsylvania system
are menace to the safety of thousands of
people travelling on its roads. The dangerous
state of affairs arises directly from the war
being waged on the workers by the labor-hating
officers of this corporation. The government
D..
its system and in tolerating the continuation of
this man-killing inefficency is aiding and abet-
ting the strikebreaking activities of the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
Russia Leads the Way

With Germany on the eve of becoming
satrapy Of the international financiers and
France face to face with bankruptcy because
of the collapse of the franc and burdensome
taxation, Soviet Russias great advance in recon-
struction is the outstanding feature of the
European politicO-economic situation today
M. Krassin, the Soviet Commissar for Foreign
Trade, has just announced that the Soviet Re
public, in the fiscal year 1929, exported
goods to total value of more than 210 billion
gold rubles-an increase of more than 5000
over the preceding year. According to Krassin
the estimate of Russian export for the coming
year already exceeds 500 billion gold rubles.
The Soviet government is now winding up ar
rangements with French, Austrian and Dutch
firms for credit on consignments of grain lying
in Russian ports. Up to the end of 1928 close
to million tons of grain have been forwarded
to Russian ports and 100000 tons had been
delivered abroad. This shows the great pro-
gress that the Russian railway system and
shipping are making. The trade balance is
now on the right side, imports having been
reduced, those of food having practically ceased.
The recent recognition of Russia by England,
Italy and Norway are of paramount political
Importance. The British government has laid
special emphasis on its ambassador to Russia
devoting his major attentions to securing agree
ments for English interests to counterbalance
the close French control of nearly 1919 of the
iron and coal deposits of Central Europe by
French capitalists
The political side of these prospects for
gigantic British development of the coal and
iron wealth of Russia spells an attempt of Eng
land to cooperate with the Soviet government
in order to Counterfeit French policy in Central
Europe.
To the workers and farmers of the world the
great advance made by Soviet Russia, to date
with practically very little outside help, is
victory of first rate Importance The Soviet
governments tenacity and strength have forced
the foreign capitalists to terms. Germany is
making a strong demand for Russian rye and
barley; Italy and France are competing for
Russian wheat. While the currencies of prac-
tically every government in Europe are tum-
bling, Russia's financial condition is becoming
more and more stable and sound.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

to ask, how far is the thing going? Whom is
it going to smirch?"
On this basis, it is easy to understand why
Jesse Livermore, the noted New York operator,
has said that the confidence of business and
the country were being undermined by Con-
gressional Investigations and therefore called
for the election of ''none but successful bust
ness men to Congress-" This is the same
Liyermore, who was employed by Harry F.
Sinclair to market stock of the Mammoth Oil
Company, which leased the Teapot Dome area.
The above statements by men of such great
prominence in the financial circles are of in
estimable significance. They show very clear
ly that big business is planning to launch an
offensive to put an end to the present investi-
cation. The first step in this direction is the
soft-pedaling of the investigation by Chair
man Lenroot of the subcommittee in holding
executive sessions during the absence of Sena-
tor Walsh.
The Teapot investigation must not be inter
fered with The workers and farmers should
make every effort to force the Senate to probe
to the depths of the oil well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
The Fate of the Workers

We have shown how the workingmen of
New York have been forced to live in abomin-
able houses and dangerous congestion.
The loss of thirteen lives in a fire which
swept a fiVe-story tenement house on the East
side only brings into painful relief the findings
of our investigation.
The bodies of seven children, two women
and four men, removed from the burning tene-
ment house are a CHASTITY warning to all the
workers Of New York and other Cities dangers
that beset them in the present acute housing
crisis.
The landlords and their government agents
know that there are thousands of working
men living in fire traps. The government is
we'll aware of the fact that if it were to ex-
cute its own laws, it would condemn hundreds
of tenements now occupied by working men
who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant
rents demanded by their proft-hungry land
lords.
In the days of feudal oppression, the rul-
ing class, now and then, burned their subjects
at the stake. Capitalism is much more in
genious and complicated. The capitalist class
does not resort to this crude method of muir
dering the helpless men, women and children
of the laboring masses. What the ruling class
of today does is somewhat more peaceful in
appearance yet characterized by the same
headlines in effect
The fatal blaze in New York. that destroyed
the lives of thirteen people is to be attributed
solely to the horrible system of housing that
now prevails in the metropolis The blood
guilt for this heinous crime is to be placed
solely on the heads of the landlord class of
New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
Business and Politics

Because OF the shocking disclosures OF abb
normal graft and corruption in Washington
many people have limited their consideration
of the Teapot scandal to the political field.
An important and seldom considered angle
of the historic investigation, now besmirching
the White House with oil is the busness-side
of the matter.
What effect does the revelation about sordid-
ness in politics have on business? How do the
big interests react to the examination? These
questions are pertinent because if any pressure
is to be brought to bear on Congress to drop
the whole investigation, it will be big business
that will do the pressing.
The black smoke Of the oil conlagration is
befogging many a hope of Wall Street. Big
business is plainly worried where and when
will the investigation STOP The reaction of
the market to date spells only trouble Said
the authoritative Commercial and Financial
Chronicle: ut would be useless to blink the
fact that the oil scandals at Washington have
had more or less disturbing effect on all the
markets, whether for securities or for COM
modities. To merchants, stock markets and
its decline Of late on enormous transactions,
has been the subject of painful interest as re-
fleeing the disturbance of business sentiment
growing out Of the fact that the more the Tea
pot Dome oil scandal is prcbed at Washing
ten, the worse IL looks, until men are beginning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
Dollar Diplomacy

While the Interior Navy and Justice De-
partments are being drained of Teapot oil,
it might be well to pay little attention to
the State Department.
1t is an open secret in political circles that
the Department of State also reeks with oil
corruption-the Standard Oil brand. The
State Department is now in the midst of a
controversy with the Government of Peru be-
cause of the attempt of a Standard Oil bank
ing firm, the Guaranty Trust Co., to mosopo-
lie the field of Peruvian investments
The president of Peru has just protested to
Washington against the methods pursued by
the Guaranty Trust Co. in Peru. 1t is charged
that the New York bank has notified all fin
ancial institutions that it alone has the option
on Peruvian financing. This group of Wall
Street bankers proceeded to warn all others
off the field"
On the basis Of the record of the State De-
partment the policy that our government will
pursue is foregone conclusion. There is no
doubt that Secretary of State Hughes will run
to the support of the Guaranty Trust Co. in
the name of national honor and the country s
security-in reality the bankers securities.
Needless to say our ambassador at Lima, the
lame-duck reactionary ex-senator Poindexter,
will do his best to defend "our interests" in
the South American republic.
The mailed fist of dollar diplomacy will be
swung in the face of the people of Peru who
are dependent on American capital for the
development of their natural resources. A
smoke screen of the thinnest juridical abstrac-
lions will be raised to show that American
property rights are being violated in the Latin
republic.
Soft as these words may appear on the sur
face, they are in reality stern warnings to the
English capitalists to keep out. They are a
challenge to the safety of the Latin American
republics in general and the national life of
Peru in particular. The services rendered by
Secretary Hughes to these bankers is con-
stantly recurring menace to the safety of the
American workers as well as their southern
brothers
Dollar diplomacy is only another form of
dollar democracy as enjoyed by the workers
when they strike for the right to organize and
against unbearable conditions of employment.
The British dock strike is holding up seven
cargoes Of bananas at Liverpool. Yes?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
The Dockers' Strike

Instead oil greeting the strike of the dock
workers as evidence OF a revival OF mlltancy
among the workers of Great Britain, the Mac
Donald government announces in the House OF
Commons that the government will not tall TO
take such steps as are required to secure the
necessary transportation and has already set
up the nucleus of an organization.
In plain English, the Macdonald govern
ment IS preparing to break the strike
1t might be noted here that the theory OF
strike-action is that the cessation of work
creates such a shortage of the commodities
produced or transported by the particular in
dustry involved that the concessions demanded
by the workers become of less Importance
than the inconvenience their idleness causes.
1t follows then that in arranging for the
transport of foodstuffs the Macdonald govern
ment is actually taking the side of the private
employers, who, rather than pay the two
shillings per day increase demanded by the
lockers, will witness nationwide suffering
Two shillings per day in England mean the
difference between comparative comfort and
poverty. That the employers could we'll afford
the increase is unquestioned, but in no pro-
nouncement of the Macdonald government is
there found any threat of action against the
employers.
The Macdonald government, the opposition
and the capitalist press, are a unit against the
lockers.
Perhaps the lockers believed that with So
cialists elected on the British Labor Party
ticket holding the government positions strike
would be won easily; that if the government
interfered it would be to aid the striking work
ers. Perhaps they wanted to settle this dis
puted question.
The answer has been given. 1t is that the
Macdonald government is not even labor
government let alone a revolutionary one.
It is a government of the people" and just
as the interests of the capitalists are para
mount in economic life so are their interests of
first concern to any government that does not
intend to abolish the foundation of their privi-
leges-private ownership of the means of pro-
duction and distribution.
If proof were wanting that the leadership
of the British Labor Party has no wish to dis
turb the status quo it has been furnished by its
action in the lockers strike.
Instead of ordering the employers to grant
the two-shilling increase as an alternative to
the naturalization of their properties and en-
terprises, the Macdonald government does ex-
actly what its predecessors have done-mobil-
ICES the attaches of the government to do the
work of the strikers and force them back to
their jobs in the name of the good of the
British Empire
It is we'll that this early in its career the re-
formists of the second international, who rule
in England, have shown their close kinship to
the Kerenskys, Noskes and Pisudskis the
world over.
Pariamentarism as an end in itself leads to
the same point in all countries-betrayal of
the workers and support Of the workers en-
emes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

To a foreigner who Austria the verge of
chaos only eighteen months ago. the attitude of the
bank employees and of the working class, who are
constantly striking, appears to be grossly selfish
while the Government is struggling to meet the
obligations of the State and the interest the
international loan due in April.
Vienna correspondence of the N. Y. Times.
We submit the above as evidence of the i'm
partial character of the news carried by the
capitalist press. No comment or editorializing
is allowed in the news columns, is the claim
of its apologists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21
Pollyanna at the Helm

President Coolidge, if one can judge by his
most recent official statement, is an incurable
optimist.
The governmental machinery, he says, has
not been injured by the oil scandal.
The ship of state, says he, sails serenely on.
New Hampshre's favorite and favored son is
at the helm, Jonah has been jettisoned, and
all is well.
The agonized walls from amidships that split
the air lead one to believe that the mates are
not as enthusiastic as the skipper. In the fore
castle mutinous curses are voiced by the ordi-
nary seamen who complain of the smell of oil
in their quarters. The ship itself reeks with
the odor of disinfectants that, tho literally
used, may still not prevent quarantine officers
refusing it permission to dock on November Z.
Tho jagged rocks shaped like teapots beset
the course of the careenng vessel, the pirate
fleet of which it is part continues to seize
much rich loot.
Business is good. Be of good cheer" says
Captain Pollyanna Coolidge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Sixteen million dollars in fines have been
collected from bootleggers by the courts &C
cording to government report There are
no statistics available as to the amounts col
lected by prohibition enforcement officers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

The Hearst papers are disappointed by the
developments in the Teapot Dome scandal.
No sex angle has been found as yet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Brother DENLY has gone to swell the ranks
Of the unemployed and the "Help Wanted"
sign on the White House has brought scores
of applicants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Clare Sheridan says the British aristocracy
is looking for savior of the Mussolini type.
They probably do not recall that Clare does
not approve Of Mussolini.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Our conviction that the oil leases were en-
tirely legal has been somewhat shaken by the
insistence of prominent prospective witnesses
upon immunity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

These be parlous times for American institu-
tons and we are moved to inquire the where
abouts of their staunchest defender-one Will
liam J. Burns-who was wont to issue from
time to time Embarrassing statements dealing
with the communist plans for seizing the
White House.
Perhaps he has discovered that the White
House is now so we'll oiled that the Commun-
lists could not hang on to it. Even his chief,
the doughty Daugherty, seems to be having
trouble maintaining his hold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

The tie-up of shipping in England must be
working awful hardships on the drove of lee
turers who are headed this way
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

If we were Attorney-General Daugherty we
would begin to believe that the boss wanted
us to CT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

The writer noticed deadly pallor
overspread the countenances Of the
delegates to the McAdoo conference
when the photographers set off their
flashlights in the Crystal Room Of
the Great Northern Hotel. He could
not understand the reason. He has
an mixing of it now. They feared
an explosion. Scratch a capitalist
politician nowadays and you will
touch an oil can.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Get unity thru the Labor P.r,yi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

A young girl, foreigner VIII
assimilated some of the Americanisnl
that is floating around every large
city, is on trial for her life in Chi
cago court room. AS the task Of
selecting jury proceeds she reads
a German bible. The poor unfor-
tunate is a Christian. Perhaps she
hopes the jurors are. So much the
worse for her unless they have for
gotten the Puritan brand of that
creed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

The British dock strike is holding up seven
cargoes Of bananas at Liverpool. Yes?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

The girl could not live on the
wages paid in the mail order house.
She got job in a restaurant. Long
hours, seven in the evening to seven
in the morning. No, the League for
the Suppression of Vice took no in
terest. Neither did the Ku Klux
Khan. She was just victim of le-
gitimate capitalism. She had to
make a living. She refused to starve.
Ignorant, unframed, without friends,
there was only one way. She had
body that appealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-21

Christian ministers continued to
rave about just God, defended the
virgin birth theory, while committees
of pestiferous busybodies raided pool
rooms, bootleg parlors and houses of
illfame. But the real houses of
shame, the shops where girls were
forced to work for wage so low
that they were forced TO CHOOSE
shame or death were not raided, the
ostrich heads of the Christian craw-
thumpers were buried deep in the
sand of hypocrisy-for price.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-06-06
This Old Lope Letter
Was "fhe Real Thing

The mans mother had given tht
mans wife a love letter which She
found hidden away In a mass Of ole
papers. II had been written to the
man when he was boy and the writer
was his sweetheart, fifteen years old
The mans mother laughed when she
handed 1t to the mans wife. and the
mans wife laughed when she handed
1t to the man.
But the man did not laugh.
"Aha." said the wife In her merry
way. "see how the past rises up
against you"
The man took the letter end slowly
unfolded 1t and softly read Il aloud:
Dearest boy" he read. I'm afraid
you are mad at me because / walked
with Johnnie Nicholson yesterday to
school. but 1t wasn't my fault at all.
You know I love you, dearest boy, a
thousand million times more than !
could love Johnnie, and when you look
cross at me It breaks my heart. Amt
you going to take me to the school
picnic Saturday-'cause If you don't
can't 60. cried when wrote this
that's why it's spotted. Don't make
me cry any more, dearest boy"
The man looked at the letter for
some time. BIS gaze softened and he
sighed
THAT was the real thing" he MUIR
INJURED, and he carefully folded the let
ter and turned away.
And then the mans wife was sorry
she had given the letter to the man.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-06-06
Method Is Devised to
Seal Copper and Glass

Most metals will not adhere perma-
nently to glass after they have been
sealed to 1t while In a semi-molten con-
dition, and If they are in the form of
rods or blocks. Metal and glass ex-
pand when heated and contract when
cooled at different rates, SO that after
sealing and cooling, inevitable separa-
ton occurs. The one notable excep-
ton has been platinum, which. expands
at very nearly the same rate as glass
and has, therefore, been highly priced
In the making Of vacuum bulbs where
electric current must be led into the
bulb and the vacuum kept perfect and
Tree from leaks. But platinum Is much
more costly than gold and so the cleo
trical engineers have found a way by
which copper may be sealed SO closely
to glass that vacuum may be main
tained. If the metal Is fattened ont
into a very thin sheet with a knife
like edge the thing can be done. This
Is because the stresses which the Joint
may have to endure are In proportion
to the thickness Of either the copper
or the glass. A thin sharp sheet of
glass may similarly be sealed into a
block Of copper. So again has neces-
sity become the mother Of invention.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-06-06
Census Statistics' Little Joke

Miss Mary V. Dempsey, junior statis-
dcian of the United States census Of
1920, who has recently completed her
task, believes that census reports as
made by enumerators over the land are
more comical In some essentials than
the latest joke book. Miss Dempsey
had $50 clerks under her classifying
the reports and found her diversion in
documents that classified pigs feet
singers" under "musicians"; and listed
among other occupations those Of "as-
sembler Of gravity; philosopher at
home; Instructor In a school for
brides" (Niagara Falls); Constructor
in a vestibule school" and '1aborer In
a hair NINE"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-06-06
Rasgedy Ann's Funeral

When Raggedy Ann, the pet burro
OF Battery F Of the Twelfth field ar
tillery, recently died at Fort Houston,
Tex. the men gave their mascot a
burial with full military honors. The
pet burro died in battle against the
pack mules of the battery. The body
OF Raggedy Ann was lowered into a
grave on Pershing field as field guns
fired a salute and the bugler played
taps. At the grave a headpiece was
erected wherein were engraved testi-
monials Of the love and affection
which the members of Battery r felt
for their pet. A wreath Of alfalfa was
placed beneath 1t.