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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Australians Are
Exploited Less
Than u. S. Workers

SYDNEY, N. S. VA COMPARE
son of the statistics of manufactur-
ing in Australia, Canada and United
States shows that the average wage
paid to employees in factories in Aus
tralia is roughly about $500 a year
less than in the United States and
Canada. This, however, is counter
balanced by the higher cost of liv-
ing in the latter two countries.
When allowance is made for the
higher rate of wages and superior
plants of Australian manufacturing
is satisfactory. For every $4,000 ex-
pended in salaries and wages in fac
tories, $9,545 is produced in Aus
tralia, S9,325 in the United States,
and $11,235 in Canada, while $3,410
is added to every 5000 worth of
raw materials in Australia, COM
pared with $3.50 in the United
States and s4,18O in Canada.
The return from capital is remark
ably close in the three countries, the
percentages of added value to capital
invested in Australia, Canada, and
the United States being Sc per cent,
SO per cent and Sc per cent respec-
lively. The percentage of factory
employees to total population is z per
cent in Australia, 8 per cent in Can
ada, and 10 per cent in the United
States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Australian Court
Fixes w age s in
Garment Trad e s

MELBOURNE, Australia. The
minimum basic wage for clothing
trades workers has been fixed by
the federal arbitration court at
$20.76 a week for men and $11.40
for women. A bonus for skill is
fixed above the basic rate, but no.
body is allowed to be employed in
the trade, no matter how unskilled,
below the minimum basis rates.
Some idea of the wages paid to
skilled workers-that is basic rite,
plus bonus-can be gathered from
the following: Factory cutters get
$27.4S; coat hands, trimmers, fit
tiers machinists, pressers, $25.08.
These rates are paid irrespective of
sex.
Women coat and skirt machinists
get $3.50, while vest and trouser
machinists get $12.55. Other rates
are in proportion. Dyeing, cleaning
and repair workers get S26.76; ma
chine dry cleaners, $2316; hot block
ers, 1922. All rates are adjusta-
BILE every three months to the rise
or fall in the cost of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
DAVIS PUSHES HIS
BILL TO ENSLAVE
FOREIGN WORKERS
Alien Registration Act
Ready for Congress

WASHINGTON. - Secretary of
Labor Davis has prepared, for intro
ductlon in congress and for report
by the house committee on 1mmtgra-
tion, his notorious "alien registra-
ton" bill.
This measure would require every
immigrant, 16 years of age or older.
wnen ne arrives at port Of entry
70 the United States, to make a sworn
statement that he intends to become
an American citizen, learn the Eng
lish language, become acquainted
with our governmental scheme and
institutions, and obey the laws. He
must also make affidavit that he win
follow up all the steps to becoming
citizen, or accept the penalty of de-
portation within six months after his
three-year period is up. The bill
seeks to be retroactive upon all aliens
living in this country six months after
its passage.
The social action department., Natl.
Catholic Welfare council, after a
study of Davis bill, remarks that
apparently this astonishing bill had
its origin in the same anti-alien hys-
JeIld anu ledF winch was responsible
for the infamous Palmer raids in
1919 and 1920. OF the 10000
persons arrested, less than 500 were
found to be legally subject to de-
portation. OF those deported, all but
an insignificant number were found
guilty of nothing worse than men,
bership in an organization which pro-
fessed the creed of violent revolu-
ton. The illegality, the injustices
and stupidities Of the Palmer raids
have recently been set forth in
book by Louis f. Post. The will
for the registration Of aliens would
make a repetition of that Outrage
simple and easy. The bill should
be opposed by all genuine lovers of
liverty and all lovers of genuine
Americanism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
HOdn Not BLMfed
by LegiOn's Rage
at His Dry Eyes

MILWAUKEE.-Talk Of impeach-
ing Mayor Hoan for refusing to shed
crocodile tears for Woodrow Wilson
was characterized as pure bluff in
municipal circles today.
That Mayor Hoan's action has the
support of most Of his fellow citi-
zens is the concensus of opinion. The
town is sick of the hypocritical
mourning that certain so-called lead
ers are INDUCING in for man whose
libertarian words were continually
denied by his reactionary deeds.
Opposition to the mayors resolute
stand is chiefly confined to the local
Kiwanis and rotary movements, to
the Ku Klux Khan and the American
Legion. Mrs. Earl Norcross, Of the
American war mothers, attempted to
put a resolution thru her organiza-
ton censoring the mayor but vote
was put off. She charged that Hoan
let the soldiers go away in 1917 with
out an official farewell and that he
gave them no welcome when they re-
turned two years later.
Hoan, who has received at least
one threatening letter signed *. n.
K" seems to consider the whole reso-
lutionary program Of the opposition
a tempest in teapot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
KHAN FIGHTS
The PAPER TRUST
IN BANGOR, NE.
Deports Members OF
/. w. w.

BANGOR, Me. - The Ku Klux
Khan deported five organizers of
Lumbers Workers Industrial Union
from Greeneville Junction, a center
for pulp wood operations, last NIGHT.
and now it has its work to do over
again for the union is back in the
town in greater numbers.
The Koo Koo Intervention on the
side of the paper trust came unher-
aided: ninety members of the order
marching into the union headuuar-
ters and ordering the delegates to
quit the town. The loggers refused.
and the Khan, after consultation,
forcibly escorted them to the rail-
road station and put them on a train
bound for Bangor, after paying their
fares.
Next day Greeneville Junction had
more than a hundred union loggers
and sympathizers and the town is
awaiting the next move of the Khan
which says that no member of the
labor organization dare stay.
Klansmen deny that they are en-
ployed by the paper trust and declare
that they are seeking to purge the
community of radicals and catholics.
They declare that many members of
the union, which is affiliated with the
Industrial Workers of the World, are
French Canadian Catholics. In re-
ply, Bob Pease, member of the gem
eral organization committee of the
union says that his delegates are not
concerned with the religion of the
loggers and that the union will con-
tinue to organize men without re-
gard to race or creed.
The lumber workers union began
organizing last July and has met with
considerable success because of The
sunlight-to-dark conditions of labor
in the pulp wood forests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Cost of Living in
Canada Puts X. O.
on Higher" Wage

OTTAWA.--Altho wages in six
skilled trades in Canada are n per
cent higher now than in the pre-war
year, according to bulletin of the
Dominion department of labor, in
creased living costs cancel the wage
gain. The six trades included are
building, metal, printing, electric
railway, steam railways and coal min
ing. The statement of the depart
ment also sets forth that there have
been similar or greater increases in
the wages Of common factory labor,
miscellaneous factory trades and lum-
bering.
For the six trades mentioned the
report covers the last % years. TAX
ing the average wages in 1918 as
100. it shows a value of 67.S as the
average in 1901 and of 1884 in 1923.
Wages in the building trades in 1928,
on similar scale, are given as 1854 {;
in the metal trades TIA; in the print
ing trades 1889; in electric railway
trades 1862; steam railways 1871;
coal mining 1878; common factory
labor 1917; miscellaneous factory
trades 1861; numbering 1904.
The last issue of the Dominion La
Dor Gazette gives three different
measures of the increase in the cost
of living since 1918. According TO
these figures the cost of living IN
Canada in 1923 varied from 1870
10 1920 of its cost in 1928. So on
this basis wages have only little
more than held their own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
CGLLOus Doctors
Let Poor Die in
Fris co Hospital

by The Federated Presg)
SAN FRANCISCO.--Charges Of ill
treatment of the INDECENT sick con-
tinue to pile up against the County
hospital. They include allowing a
boy, delirious after an operation, to
lie unconscious on the floor for four
hours, with his consequent death
from exposure; the turning away or
number of patients when it is
claimed there was room in the hos
pital; neglect, lack of food, and con-
slant upbraiding by the attendants.
"The physician in charge constantly
screamed at patients for being in the
hospital" said one tubercular pa
tient. "If we are to die, why can't
we die in peace?"
A widow, the mother of three chill
dren, says she was denied treatment
for broken leg; another San Fran
cisco mother, a paralytic, was turned
away from the hospital; woman
long resident in San Francisco, was
turned way on a technicality and
shipped out Of the city in baggage
car.
The board of supervisors is inves-
tigating the charge and has sum-
moned before it the city health Off
Ger, DR.. VIM. Hassler, and Mrs.
Clara B. Tyler, chief of the social
service branch, who has the power
of saying who shall and who shall
not enter the hospital.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11

vocated by Secretary Of Labor Davis
how much ought these men to save =?
Need $500, Says Babson.
A recent report by Babson's statis-
teal organization which set out to
determine how much a man ought to
save might have answered the ques-
ton if it had attempted to sound the
depths Of pauperism which underlie
the deceptive average American
wage. According to this report aver
age savings should vary from $500
out Of an income of $4,000 down to
SIS out of an income Of $500. AS
the report does not go below this
Level it is probable that in the lower
scales the savings indicator began to
show negative results-either in
creasing debts or the sacrifice of
necessaries of life.
Such figures turn glazing spot
light on the report Of the New York
Federal Reserve Bank which de-
scribes the present period as the peak
of prosperity for wage earners. For
these quarter Of a million unskilled
employees of the railroads are repre-
sentative of the great masses on
which modern industry rests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11

fed as extra gang and work train
laborers averaged SIS. The straight
time earnings of these men averaged
35A cents an hour which makes it
about $3.50 for the full working year
if they are among the lucky ones who
are not laid off as winter approaches.
Lay-offs In Swing.
The winter lay-offs were in full
swing by November, the report
shows. The number of full time Jobs
available for section and track labor
had fallen off 1870 in a single month
dropping from 282,973 in October to
249,655 in November. From the peak
of the season in August when the
railroads offered 309,159 jobs to this
class of labor the jobs available had
declined by 59,504 or approximately
259s.
In other words railroad manage
ment not only feels no obligation to
pay these adult workers living wage
while it employs them but also feels
that its responsibility to pay any
wage at all terminates when the
seasonal demand for such labor pas
ses. The possible $3.50 year which
such labor might earn shrinks in the
face of this uncertainty.
In terms of the Saving wage" adj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
WefGLd Charges
Mellon Plan Will
Break More Banks


WASHINGTON. - Representative
Knud Wefald, Of Minnesota. sole
Farmer-Labor Party member of the
House, has protested to Secretary
Mellon against the campaign con-
Quoted in the farming towns of his.
state by the treasury for the sale of
treasury savings certificates. We
fald told Mellon that if he kept on.
he would break the rest of the small
banks in the northwest.
1t appeared that one bank reported
100000 drawn out by depositors and
invested in these treasury certificates.
which pay nearly per cent, just be-
fore the bank was forced to quit.
Another bank was crippled by the
withdrawal of $4,000 of deposits for
the same purpose. The depositors
had a perfect right to entrust their
money to the government at higher
rate Of interest than the bank gave
them, but the banks could not stand
the shock, and the community suf-
fered from the bank failures.
Wefald believes that Mellon has
deliberately boosted the rate of in
terest paid by the government, know
ing that this would lay a further
burden on small banks and on the
farmers who must borrow or go to
the wall.
Mellon announces that sale Of these
certificates has been stopped in II
agricultural states.
Senator Shipstead's speech of Feb.
l, assailing the certificate sale, is said
to have "leaked" thru press re-
porter, to MELONS Office before it
was delivered, and to have FASTENED
MELONS retreat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Promise Immediate
Investigation" of the
Standard Oil Trust

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The fed
eral trade commission promises an
investigation of high gasoline prices
which President Coolidge ordered.
Houston Thompson, chairman OF
the commission, notified Mr.. Coolidge
that "the commission will make ar
immediate investigation of the con
ditions described by Governor Nc
Masters"
McMasters, governor Of South Da-
kota, told the president in telegram
that the Standard Oil company and
it's allies had raised the price of ga
1870 per cent at refneries. McMasters
demanded federal action to protect
the gas users Of South Dakota
against profiteering, which he said
had been stamped out so far as 1t
originated within the state.
II the commission finds McMaster'a
charges are true complaint will be
filed against the offending oil COM
panies and they will be summoned
before the commission.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Use of 1890 Census
for / m m igrGtiOn
Quotas DiscrinlinGteS
lBr Tn. Federated Pr..D

WASHINGTON.-How the use OF
the 1890 census as the basis for
calculating the immigration quota
for various countries, under the pro-
posed new immigration law, dis
eliminates against the Baltic and
Balkan and Mediterranean countries,
is shown by chart furnished by the
immigration Bureau to the House
committee on immigration.
The two per cent quota, establish
ed in the bill, would give Finland,
for example, the right to send 1918
immigrants annually if the 1920 cen
sus were used, or 2,S14 under the
1910 census, or 1,465 under the CEN
sus Of 1900. But under the 1890
census only S45 Firms will be adj
mitted.
A comparison of the admissible
quota under the 1920 and the 1890
census, for the various countries,
follows:
Austria, IL ,610 and 1,190; Belgium,
1,456 and 709; Bulgaria, All and
200; Oheko- Slovakia, 7,450 and
fa2O73: Denmark, 3,944 and 1882;
Esthonia, 1884 and 302; France,
3,277 and 4,078; Germany. 33,S05 and
5O.329; Great Britain, North Ireland
and Irish Free State 43,729 and g.
65s; Greece, 3,725 and 235; Hungary,
s.147 and 6ss; Italy, 32,415 and 4,0s9;
Latvia, 1,7S1 and 317; Lithuania,
2eO1 and SOP; Poland, 23,002 and
9,072; Roumania, 2,257 and 831; Rus
STA, 25,261 and 1892; Sweden, l2,749
and 9,761; Yugoslavia, $500 and 9S5.
It will be observed that the final
figures, which are the ones proposed
in the pending bill, are in all cases
much less than those for 1920 which
are first set down--except in the case
Of Germany, Britain and France
Two per cent quotas, on the basis OF
the 1920 census, would total, from
all countries, 249,s67 immigrants; on
the 1890 basis the total would be
only 169,0S3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
London Laughs at
Chicago TribIIne'S
Soviet Strife Yarns

LONDON.-The Soviet Govern
ment has replied to Ramsay Mac
Donald's note offering de jure recog-
milton and immediate steps are being
taken by both governments to ap-
point commissions to look into every
phase Of their past and present re-
lations.
Stories published in the Chicago
Tribune relating to internal strl1r
and incipient civil war in Russia are
laughed at here. The yarns origi-
nate in quarters unfriendly to Rus
STA and the Tribune is petulently Civ
ing them extra space since their cor
respondent was barred from Russia
for his papers lies. The Chicago
Tribune is considered here to be one
of the most unreliable papers in
America.
Holland is expected to follow Eng
land in recognizing the Soviet Re-
public. Considerable pressure is be-
ing brought to bear on Foreign Min
ister Van Karnebeek by commercial
interests who fear Britain's start may
leave the Dutch with little chance
of success in securing Russian trade.
A former Dutch consul in Bern
and one of the Dutch delegates to
the Bern conference is preparing to
leave for Moscow as soon as diplo-
matte relations are established.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
jim, CrOlC Schools
Against X ans as
LalU, Rules Court

Topeka, Kan.--Race segregation
in high schools Of this state is illegal,
according to an opinion handed down
by the Kansas supreme court. The
court granted a writ of mandamus
against the Coffeyville board of edu-
cation to admit Victoria Thurman, a
16-year-old negro, to the Roosevelt
junior high school.
Discrimination on account of
race or color is forbidden by statute
in all high schools Of the state, ex-
cept the high schools Of single city
kansas City," the supreme court
holds. Neither the board Of educa-
ton nor the superintendent has the
authority to separate pupils Of the
negro race from those Of the white
race on account Of color or race"
State statutes permit city boards
Of education TO segregate negro chill
drcn in the elementary grades.
TT - e. Al. lf..~.f
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
SO SHIPMENTS OF
SUPPLIES SENT TO.
RUSSIA BY F. S. R..
Splendid Relief Work
Shown by Report

Thirty-three shiploads of supplies
were sent to relief agencies ana
famine sufferers in Soviet Russia
during the two years the Friends
of Soviet Russia were devoting them
selves exclusively to that cause, SAYS
statement issued by that organi-
cation.
The two year period closed with
the fiscal year, July 81, 1923, shows
$l,l82,00O was raised at a cost Of
$4,000 for office expenses, or z per
cent eof the total, and $4,000 for
literature advertising and speakers.
In the first fiscal year a total of
$1z5,OOO was sent in IL shipments.
In the second year total Of SAG 900.
a direct transmission Of $4,000 in
cash was made and about $4,000
was spent in Russia in a number
OF ways. such as conducting a pack
age service, sending relief investiea-
tors into the famine region who re-
turned and reported, etc. This
makes total of 100000.
Of this total we spent $199 900
as cost of gathering the funds, ad-
vertising, literature, speakers, ETC.,
and $4,000 which is about I per
cent? for office administration ex-
penses.
This accounts for a gross total
of $1,182,000 A tabuIated form of
this report would be as follows:
Summary for two fiscal years of
FSR activities:
SO shiploads, totalling 393,544 lbs
Clothing ................ $685.
Food, medicine, tractors, ma
chinery, etc. commence. $4,000
For Soviet Russia .... 10000
Direct transmission Of cash. $4,000
Cost of gathering thru lit
erature, advertising, speak
ers .................... 10000
Office expenses q per cent Of
actual cash gathered, ex-
elusive of clothing). 49,. $4,000
lOtdl .......... .....$1 ,lSZ, QUO
This fact statement is effective
REPUTATION Of the ISLANDERS of the
Jewish Daily Forward, which has
been endeavoring to knife relief for
Russian sufferers from the first.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11

the world over will use to destroy
the present system Of society.
Early in the evening it became
evident that the huge Madison Square
Garden could not hold all the work.
ers who were anxious to join in the
mass demonstration, and the COM
mittee in charge engaged the Central
Opera House, where an overflow
meeting was held with many still UNI
able TO gain admission.
The demonstration has proven be-
yond doubt that the influence Of the
Workers Party has increased tremen-
dously, and that there are thousands
Of workers in this city still outside
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
"SiIIinsky Club"
Is Organized in
Kansas City, Mo.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Local No.
Ga, Of the Journeymen Tailors' I'm
ion Of America, has organized a
MAX SillinslSv for Secretary Club"
to work for the election Of Max Sill
linsky as ecretarv-treasure Of the
Tailors' Union. The club has called
on MI locals Of the Tailors' Union to
work for the election Of Sillinskv
They say that his record for eff
cheney and progressivencss Is the best
possible endorsement he could have.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11

our ranks, who must be brought into
our Party. It has also shown that
there exists in the Workers Party a
spirit Of cooperation and sacrifice,
as shown by the willingness Of our
comrades to perform any assigned
task, that will make for a great
strong communist Party that will
lead the workers TO victory.
We are certain that the comrades
who, having bought their tickets in
advance, were unable to gain admis-
sion will take II in the proper spirit,
and consider the price Of the ticket as
a contribution to further the work Of
the man they came TO pay tribute 70.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11

BRISBANE, Queensland. = After
nearly nine years continuous Labor
rule in Queensland, wages are higher
and the working hours are less than
In any other state in Australia. The
cost of living is lowest in Queens
land. Further than this, the balance
of trade is in favor Of Queensland,
and is more favorable TO Queensland
than any other part Of the common
wealth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Protect the Foreign Bornl
The Workers Party Grows

YORK Memorial Meeting, held under the
demonstration that
workers Of held.
their tribute to their
lives
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
With the Labor Editors

lNoTEUnder this head the DAILY WORKER win publish from
editorials Of
publication Of such articles and editorials does necessarily that
DAILY WORKER
expression literary
and information contained therein well
DAILY WORKER policy)
following The wyoming Labor Journal James
Buckley, editor)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Australian Labor for Peace.

MELBOURNE, Australia. - The
Australian Labor party intends to
give the people Of Australia an OPP
portunity Of deciding where they
stand In the matter Of wars in the
future. Labor will enter the next
federal election on this issue: us
Australia necessarily at war when
war is declared by Great Britain?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-11
Section Hands Get 500 PerMonthAs
DaUis Classes About ''SaUing Wage
and other BunkshooterS Shoot

II SIS $500 income how much ought he
There's
for presented month interstate commission
wage report and you'll have the railroads for
During November the 210071 section hands
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"He who believes in another world
is not capable Of concentrating all
his passion on the transformation of
this one"
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editorial is from The wyoming Labor Journal, James
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This fact statement is effective
REPUTATION of the ISLANDERS of the
Jewish Daily Forward, which has
been endeavoring to knife relief for
Russian sufferers from the first.