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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
FIaht Industrial Diseases

NEW YORK.--Not the slightest
protection against occupational dis
eases is afforded the worker in Rhode
Island and New Hampshire, says the
Workers Health bureau, announcing a
campaign for blanket occupational
disease law to guarantee compensa-
ton to the numerous victims of indus
trial chemicals and other perils that
infict total OF disease and death
equal to the obvious accidents pro
vided for to some extent under pres.
ent laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Sports Bring Big Gains to Bosses.
(Ry The Federated Pressl

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. /. =
Last year was prosperous one fol-
the sporting goods manufacturers. but
their employees had starvation wage
Few OF these workers are organized;
the best are miserably paid.
The census Of manufacturers shows
that ITO establishments paid only
$1O,440,207 in the year 1923, as wages
to an average OF 9,6S3 persons-less
than $1,000 year average. Salaries
amounted to s2,S60,414 for 1927 sal
aried officers and employees. The
gross profits amounted to s1O,ooO.OoO
The excess profits for the year
were enough to pay a total wage Of
$l,700 to each wage worker. instead
Of the $1,000 which was paid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
FARMING THE FARMERS
BETTER BUSINESS THAN
WORKING ON THE LAND

WASHINGTON, Doc. Farm
Inc the farmers thru the banks still
pays better than working the land.
Statistics issued by the department
OF agriculture show that capital In
vested IN agriculture In the form Of
mortgages and other Indebtedness
was paying an average rate Of over
6.7 per cent In 1922, the return
on actual farming was only ia per
cent.
Even this meaore showing
says the report, was made only by
valulnu the labor Of farm operators
and their families at no more than
the current rate for common labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

capitalist schools. On armistice day
the teacher told us to come to school
for sure because we were to have a
parade. I, as member Of the Junior
Section of the Young Workers League
decided not to go to school that day.
The next day when came to school
the teacher asked me why hadn't
come the day before. She made me
stay after school. The boys who
stayed away she hit in the face.
Later heard from friend of mine
that the children had to march a
long distance. while the teachers fol-
lowed them in autos.
A Member Of the Junior Section
Of the Young Workers League,
Hamtramck, Mich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Road Relies on Rail Board

NEW YORK.-Julius Kruttschnitt,
chairman Southern Pacific railroad,
rests his hopes on the rail labor board
in the wage dispute involving about
$500 engineers. The railroad mag
nate in a statement attacks the work
ers for talking strike, attacks the
heads of the unions for refusing to
attend hearings of the board and hits
at the Barley Dill. which would end
the boards opportunities to serve the
railroad owners. The statement is
issued from his New York office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

Dur UduS AuC, VI 1NtW lOIh.
Eliminating Hand System.
The Canadian issue arises out Of
the unions demand that pay for opera
tors of automatic telegraphic ma
chimes equal that Of Morse manual
telegraphers, in the service of the
Canadian Pacific Telegraph and the
Canadian National Telegraph systems.
The automatic machine operators get
basic rate Of soc an hour, notwith-
standing their productivity is far
greater than the Morse operators who
get zoe an hour. At present, approx
mately half the total business of the
companies is done by machines, but
the tendency is toward the elimina-
ton Of the hand system.
The automatic Observation-Disclosures,
Morkrum and Teletype-have type
writer-like keyboards and require the
skill OF an expert touch typist and
the ability to edit and censor messag-
es correctly and rapidly. Wear and
tear on the operators nervous system
Is much worse than from the Morse
instruments. Yet pay is zoe an hour
less. due to the poorer bargaining
power OF this class of workers at the
time Of installation.
Automatic Is Speedler.
Accurate measurement OF the in
creased productivity Of the machine
system and the cost saving to the
companies has been made by the un-
ion. Thru the machine system the
average cost OF each message would
be about 42.5 per cent less, even at the
equal wage scale asked by the union.
This cost reduction comes "a by the
Increased speed OF the operator; (2)
by the more intensive use OF each wire
permitted under the machine system.
The average speed of the automatic
instrument is so messages an hour,
compared to 35 from the Morse instru-
ments. And each wire. under the ma
chine system, carries the traffic on
from two to four times as many in
struments as by the Morse method.
This saving in wire overhead more
than cancels the cost OF the machines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Uncle Sam squeezes HoIIermakers

WASHINGTON.-- Boilermakers en-
ployed in private shops in the Dis
trict Of Columbia get a minimum wage
of S5c an hour under union agree.
ment and men of the same trade in
the region including Washington, Bal.
timore, Wilmington and Philadelphia
average about SAC an hour. Yet the
wage board for the navy department
seeking to fix the wage for boiler.
makers in the Washington navy yard
demands that its existing rate of soc
an hour be continued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
DETROIT OFFERS
RUSSIAN FILMS
FOR FIVE DATES

DETROIT, Mich. Dec. 1.-The most
intensive campaign Of motion picture
entertainment and education ever I'M
dertaken in any one city at any
one time will take place in Detroit
during the month of December. No
less than ten motion picture dates
for FIVE different pictures pro-
duced by the International Workers
Aid, will be run in various parts of
the "flivver kings" city. The pro
ceeds will benefit the workers relief
funds.
Include Comedy and Drama.
The first program, extending from
Dec. to ~, inclusive, includes two
pictures, 1.-THE Beauty and the Boil
shevik" and Russia in Overalls." The
first is a comedy drama of love in
the Red Army, and throws interesting
tight on the many fundamental So
cial changes that are taking place in
the Soviet Republic. The National
Board of Review recommends it as
valuable as a record of present day
conditions in Russia :. <. the picture
ought to be interesting to the general
public" Russia in Overalls" shows
actual industrial condit -ons in the
workers republic, especially the help
rendered by American labor thru Kuz-
baz, R. A. !. c., and the International
Workers Aid. A worker who has just
returned from Kuzbas will appear in
connection with this film.
This program will be shown on the
following SCHEDULED:
Medbury Theatre. Detroit, Dec. 8
and 8.
Canift Theater. Hamtramck, Dec. 10
aud IL.
Royale Theater, Detroit, Dec. IL.
Another house is also to be engaged
in the Jewish section and after these
four dates are made successfully it is
expected to book in chain of fifteen
other neighborhood houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02


the rest of the world"
Says Russian Trade Helps MaehlnIsts
Il am an officer OF the machinists'
union" said Swales, "and l know that
full resumption Of trade relations with
Russia would open UP a huge market
for our industry and give employment
to thousands of our members who
have been involuntarily idle for
months and in some instances, years.
There would be revival Of trade for
other industries also. for Russia is in
need Of other material besides railroad
tracks and engines"
Swales asserted that Russia was in
very good financial condition, having,
stabilized the ruble and keeping ex-
penses within the budget, and said no
one who has traded with Russia had
lost by it.
British Business Lost No Money.
"More than year ago." Swales stat
ed, "Sir Allan Smith, chairman of the
British engineering industry and one
Of the shrewdest business men in the
country declared that members Of his
industry we're trading with Russia
without any guarantee, and they had
not lost a penny. Since then Vickers
and other large firms have taken or
ders on the same terms.
British workers." he said, "are in
deed sorry that the $1O0.OOO,O00 loan
to Russia did not go thru. At least
two-thirds of that sum would have been
expended in England. Think of the
work that would have provided. I
should not be surprised if the conserv-
alive government carried thru the
loan, for there is demand for it on
the part of the business men"
Unemployment Bankrupting Unions.
The 1853 unions affiliated to the
Trade Union Congress paid out $780,
100000 in unemployment benefits dur
ing the last three years, and success
sive wage cuts have taken $4,000. 000,-
600 out of the pay of British workers
between 1921 and 1928, while the un-
ions have declined from their highest
figure of 6,5O5,4S2 in 1920, to 4,32S.2S5
members at present. But this is near
ly twice the union membership before
the war
The British delegates would make
no comment ON the action of the A. F.
Of L. metal trades department, which.
unlike the British workers, oppose
trade with Soviet Russia, and to slim
ulate the industry advocated that more
and bigger warships be built up by
United States government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Like Different World.
Lots Of sympathy But No jobs.

ToRoNTO.-"What the unemploy
ed want is not doles. not tag days,
they want work or full maintenance, !"
declared Albert Arnold of the Toronto
Trades and Labor council unemploy-
ment committee in speech in the
Labor Temple. He said that after a
three week canvass Of factories and
business men, nothing had been OBJ
tanned but sympathy. Not a dozen
jobs were found.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Chandler Auto Plant
In Cleveland Makes
Big Payroll Slash

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 1. = The
Chandler automobile factory Of this
city, enjoying even better business
than most auto manufacturing firms
is working only two and three days a
week while some departments have
been cut to the bone and others
closed completely, according to re-
ports just received.
This situation is a reflection of that
prevailing thruout the auto industry
and follows the news Of sharp cuts in
the forces Of the Ford and Dodge
plants in Detroit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
AroentInIan Waits for April.

TOKYO, Dec. Mai. Zanni, Ar
gentine round-the-world flyer. who
was forced by bad weather to halt his
flight here, expects to take up the
duties Of military attache TO the Ar
gentine legation here as soon as his
appointment is received. He plans
To resume his flight in April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
DR.. Ward SEES
HUMAN MACHINE
WORK in RUSSIA
Big Contrast Nth West
European Conditions
tspseIaI to The DaIIy WORKED


CALCUTTA, India, Dec. H.
I'm Russia, for good or i'll, they
know where they propose to 60
and in the main how they are
going to try to get there. There
is at work a tremendously
powerful human machine, the
like of which has seldom been
assembled in human history.
Roughly speaking, it is the
sense of concentrated power
which is my chief impression
now. The other capitals OF
Europe are trying to have roses
without having provided bread,
and so most Of the people have
neither"
Lectures In India.
The contrasts in the capitals of the
social-democratic and fascist capitals
of Western Europe, between extreme
poverty and riches, and the rottenness
Of the system prevailing in these coun.
tries as compared with the situation
in Russia, form the basis Of a series
Iof lectures which DR.. Harry Ward
who has just finished tour Of Russia
is delivering in the outstanding stu
dent centers of India.
"The thing that hits you hard wher
you come out of Russia, as we did, in.
to Warsaw and Vienna, where luxury
and 'smartness' are so evident on the
streets and in the stores, is the con.
trast between situation where the
energies of life are concentrated on
the pursuit of essentials and one in
which energy is largely devoted to
inanities
Like Different World.
"You do indeed have a sense of be-
ing in different world. You have
been where life is stripped for the
struggle with realities and then you
are where much of it is frittered away
in the getting of gewgaws.
Watch China and the contest be-
tween Russian diplomacy and ours
over that country. There lies the
material for the devastating world
conflict"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

5oSTON.-Asking a woman strike.
breaker of the Morris B. Anderson
clothing company why she did not
work in union shop is the offense
supreme court judge Crosby lays to
the door Of Samuel Fraulchman Of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
union. Violation Of an injunction Is
charged and Crosby says he will i'm.
pose sentense in few days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

NEW YoRK.-Morgan & Co.'S Of
fering Of s1OO,OOO,0OO in French bonds
went quickly. The books we're closed
In As minutes. Americans getting in.
to Europe with their money in this
loan will get about 1853 per cent in.
terest. The bonds are per cent bonds
but they were sold at "a, which brings
the actual interest on investment to
the higher figure. Conservative COM
ment in that portion OF Wall Street
not In on the deal say the high in
terest rate indicated that the invest
ment is not gilt edged. Doubts on the
future Of French credit are given as
reason. The previously issued Ger
man bonds seemed equally insecure
II not more so. Their issue price was
90.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

Los ANGELES, Cal, December l.
With the final arguments Of counsel
for both the defense and the govern
ment scheduled to end today, the Ed
ward l.. Doheny naval oil reserve
lease cancellations case was to be in
federal Judge Paul J. McCormick's
hands tonight for decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Fear Communists.

The French government says it
sees the danger in the situation but is
not prepared to use strong measures.
Premier Herriot has appointed a COM
mission of some twenty prominent
men to go to Tunis to study the sit
uation and report to the government.
1t is expected that as soon as the re-
port reaches the authorities Paris
will draft new constitution for Tunis
giving the natives larger share in
the administration of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
John Bull Wants His Dough.

LONDON, Dec. 1.-The foreign of
flee expects the question Of inter
allied debts to come up at the forth,
coming meeting of finance ministers
in Paris and Premier BaldwIn's cab
met is anxious to discuss the ques-
ton with France, without making any
concessions.
Cancellation will not be considered
II was announced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Boy Emperor Not Happy.

PICKING, Dec. lit can be said
without fear of contradiction that the
hoy emperor" of China, Hsuan Tung,
is no longer the happiest man in this
city. 1t is said that the youthful des-
cendant of the once powerful Man
chus puts his hand on his throat every
morning when he wakes up to see if
his head is still on his shoulders.
Hsuan Is Suspicious.
No threats have been made against
Hsuan's life, but he is just suspicious
and lots of people don't blame him.
This is a bad era for kings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02

stratiOn against the city and
state government demanding
Work or Wages!'
Jobless Getting Desperate.
The unemployed in Boston are des-
perate. Walter 2. Kowalski, living in
the North End, leaped from the third
floor Of the house in which he lived in
an attempt at suicide, driven mad by
worry over unemployment. AT the
same hospital to which Kowalski was
taken, John Juliano, another unem-
ployed worker with a young wife and
three children starving in Charles
town, was given some smelling salts
after be had collapsed from hunger in
his home.
Dwyer led a crowd Of jobless men
from the city employment Office, to the
council chamber where, packed in the
galleries, they sent Dwyer onto the
floor of the council to demand relief
Councilman Has Guilty Conscience.
Colarless and in his working
clothes, Dwyer stepped up to the wit
ness stand. A heavy piece Of wood
protruded from behind his coat lapel
and a councilman, probably with a
guilty conscience, nervously demand
ed, whats that under your coat; a
blackjack"
Dwyer pulled out bale hook. "Tm
a freight handler, a real worker work
ing with my hands rustling freight"
he said, explaining his appearance
with some pride.
How the Unemployed Knew Him
my appearance here is not only
spontaneous, but my speech is ex-
temporaneous. was a candidate of
the Workers Party during the cam
paign. am Communist. When
spoke on the streets for the Workers
Party during the election these men
came to know me. / received 5000
votes here in Boston.
To-day was passing into the wash
room here when those men, collected
downstairs outside the employment
Office, saw me. They called on me to
lead them. So we marched up to the
gas house, mean the state house.
Talk is cheap. We were handed the
bunk. But we're going to the head
quarters of the Workers Party and
we're going to organize"
When a councilman said that he did
not represent the unemployed, Dwyer
appealed to the men: us that so,
men? Do l speak for your" There
were shouts Of "Yesl yes!" Dwyer
continued and told at some length
what could be done for the voorhees,.
Asked to Build Jail.
The council, however, decided that
there was nothing it could do. Mayor
Curley, non-plussed, said that the men
might wait three weeks, until the con-
struction of a new police station was
begun. It is presumed he meant that
they could build it first and inhabit it
afterward.
Dwyer has announced his intention
of organizing all the unemployed in
Boston and parading thru the city
streets. Whenever the councilmen
tried to be witty, Dryer gave them
sharp rejoinders and, pointing to the
ragged men on the benches, declared
that their presence was a warning of
worse things if their condition was ig-
nored or laughed at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
No eanana oII In Communism

To The DAILY WORKER:--I run a
candy store right near a Junior High
School. Communism is very little
known here and among these chill
dren was never heard Of The other
day several Of them were in the store
and showed them the DAILY
WORKER article on Education
Week" At first one little girl yelled
out: Banana Oil, but when began
reading the article to them they lis
tened. When | finished reading they
said that sounds good and one little
girl said There is no Banana Oil
In that" Another little girl said
Coolidge was a Tea Pot Domer and
no good. Others joined the discus.
sion and now they ask for The DAI-
LY WORKER when they come into
the store.
l.. H.. San Antonio, Texas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
Government OF
FRANCE FACING
MUCH TROUBLE
African Colonies in a
RebeIIious Mood

PARIS, France, Dec. 1.-The French
government is facing serious problems
in the north African colonies, espe
cially Tunis, and at meeting at the
Quay d'Orsay Premier herrlor decid
ed to send commission to look into
the complaints Of the various sections
Of the population.
Choice Of Two Evils.
Altho administration officials say the
Inhabitants of Tunis have much less
ground to complaint against the
French administration than have the
Egyptians against the British, the
French admit that serious anti
French movement has been develop
ing since last summer The inhabi-
tants are being urged by the Commu.
nists to overthrow the French pro-
tectorate.
Premier Herriot's determination to
use diplomacy before using the mailed
fist, was explained by the Communists
/ as merely an artitice of imperialism,
and was one of the most useful weap-
OILS Of the robber empires.
Indications are that the Bolshevist
propaganda is the most dangerous in
Tunis where there is large industrial
population.
French authorities tell the usual
yarns of Moscow spending millions of
rubles in trying to provoke an upris-
ing in Tunis where the French are
less strong than in Morocco, whose
people are more advanced intellectual
ly Communistic troubles have already
taken place in several Tunisian towns
and in several instances the troops
have fired on the crowds.
Reds Take over Fleet.
The arrival at Bizerta of the BoIshe-
visit naval mission to take over the
Wrangel fleet is said to have alarmed
Admiral ExeImans, the French com
mander of the naval forces in Tunis. to
such an extent that he asked the secre
tary of the navy to relieve him of his
duties, fearing that the presence of
many agitators in the Bolshevist mis-
sion would cause serious trouble.
Agents of the Turkish nationalists,
the French authorities say, are work
ing in connection with the Commu-
nists because the Bolshevist propa-
ganda in the east, is conducted with
the view of freeing subject races
from the yoke of capitalist countries
and with view to undermining the
strength of the capitalist powers pos
sessing colonies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
HAITIAN SENATOR
EXPOSES UNITED
STATES TYRANNY
American Imperialism
Bleeds People

NEW YORK, December Pierre
Hudicourt a Haitian senator and
member Of the American institute of
international law, denounces United
States tyranny in a statement issued
thru the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
Hudicourt charges that under the
q. S. marines occupation the gourde,
once equivalent to an American dol
lar. has deprecated to 20 cents and
Haitian laborers and their families
must support themselves on $500 a
month, on an average.
People Have No Voice.
Heavy taxes are crushing the Hal
tians, he says. National funds are go
ing into pockets of U. S. oficehold-
ers. Haitian people have no voice in
their government or in their taxation,
but are ruled by an American dicta,
tor. Louis Borno, present president,
is puppet in the hands Of the Am
erican occupation.
upon the much advertised roads
built by the American occupation OF
Haiti" says Hudicourt, there have
been spent $S,OOO.OOO. The heavy
rains Of last season virtually oblit-
Grated these carelessly constructed
affairs, and there are at present some
40 to so automobiles abandoned on
them"
Education Atrocity Exposed.
The farce Of pseudo-scientifc meth
DDS by the American occupation is
illustrated by the agricultural school
at Port au Prince where an American
director gets $4,000 a year and i'm.
ported American professors who can
not speak French, the language of
Haiti, get $500 to $500 a month for
talking to their students thru inter
prefers.
The American occupation has been
attacked as unethical because Of its
tyranny and murderous methods.
Hudicourt exposes it as inefficient.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-02
A. B. SwaIes for Unity With
Russ Unions Despite Sam

MEXICO CITY
Congress Of Great Britain still holding spite Of his companonshp
with Sam Gompes for labor union with
British and
view given by Swales who
Gales
Even T. cramp his colleague
than most of the British unonis agreed with whole nation