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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04
RUSSIAN LABOR
Cheers BRITISH
PACT FOR UNITY
TiIett, Bromley, Pur-
cell Meet Soviet Unions


MOSCOW (By MaiI.)-The
sixth All Russian Trades Union
Congress was opened here to-
day with a gala session. There
were present $50 delegates, re-
presenting 100000 workers.
Specially enthusiastic recep-
tons were given to the speech
es delivered by the British fra
ternal delegates, Messrs. Pur-
cell, Bromley, and Ben TilIett.
In his speech Comrade Tomsky
extended greetings to the British de
legation, amid rounds Of applause, and
the singing of the international" fol-
lowed.
Comrade Tomsky emphasized the
fact that there we're great differences
between the Soviet trade unions and
the Amsterdam International. Never.
theless, the interests Of the working
class demanded united front Of the
trade union movement, and the work
ers of the most important countries
were moving towards this goal.
zinovIev cheered.
In the name OF the Soviet Union,
President Kalinin greeted the assemb.
ly, laying stress upon the vastly improv-
ed material conditions Of the workers
under the Soviets, and then zinoviev
rose, to speak on behalf Of the Execu.
tive Committee of the Russian Com
munist Party.
He was received with immense en-
thusiasm. He spoke with vigor OF
the new era Of reaction which was
dawning upon the world.
Our battle-cry," he declared, must
be: Workers. shoulder to shoulder
against worldwide reactionl'"
There followed greetings from the
French trade unions, and then Pur.
cell, amid terrific applause, rose as the
first of the British speakers.
Since he had visited Russia in
1920, said Purcell, wonderful changes
and Improvements in the conditions of
the workers had taken place. Refer.
ring to the great achievements Of the
Russian workers, he declared. MAY
we live to see changes like this in
England"
British Elections.
The British elections, said Pur.
cell proved that the eyes of the Brit
| ish workers were directed towards So.
Wet Russia. After the defeat at the
polls, the British working class would
be found welded more firmly together
than before.
Unity must be achieved at an inter
national conference, without unneces-
sary formula and without any prelim-
mary conditions. The Soviet trade
unions must not be allowed to remain
outside the ranks Of the trade union
international.
Bromley followed. After describ-
ing the present state of the
trade union and political labor move.
ments in Britain, he declared: I'VE
are striving for the same end as the
Russian trade unions-namely, the
control Of the means OF production"
Finally, Ben Tillet, who spoke Of
Lenin as the greatest leader of the
working class, whose name was hon.
ored by the British workers. The
workers of the world we're watching
with the greatest attention the fight
Of the working class in Soviet Rus
STA, he declared, and finally called for
union in the fight against capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04
god TO BLAME FOR CAVE-IN,"
SAY MILFORD investigators"
but We CAN'T find HIN"

CROSBY, Mimi. Dec S-Smodering indignation all up and
down the Mesaba iron is the reaction of the iron miners
report embarrassing investigation committee
appointed by the reacona Of Minnesota Preus
the mine disaster of Feb s. when Al miners
killed by a cave-in of the Milford mine here.
The committee, of course expected to do little but
whewash considering that consisted of Bill Mcwan of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.--Upon the re.
turn OF International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union officials from the A.
+. OF l.. convention negotiations for q
new agreement TO replace the one ex-
pirlng Dec. 81 will begin with Associa-
ton OF Dress Manufacturers. Inc. and
Wholesale representing jobbers In
citation, Inc. These associations, the
Wholesale representing jobbers In
New York and the Association OF
Dress Manufacturers and contractors,
have already begun to formulate the
basis on which they will meet union
representatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04

PHILADELPHIA Young League Party
! and friendly organizations take noeeI
Philadelphia city Workers Party
hold Memorial Meeting Saturday.
a. at 8 m, the Lulu
Please arrange meetings affairs
Philadelphia City Central Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04
MONSTER MEETING TOMORROW IN
NEW YORK TO PROTEST AGAINST
WHOLESALE ARREST OF COMMUNISTS

NEW YORK 5-The arrests Of
Communists Germany will be the subject
held by the Workers Party and the International Workers
evening the Labor Temple 24S
The wholesale
taking place
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Duluth, Edward Smith of Eve
leth, Dwight E. Woodbridge of
Duluth, j. Wilbur Van Evera of
Crosby, and r. r. Bailey of Vir-
ginia, Minnesota.
These are a choice lot of good fell
lows" who were guaranteed to do the
right thing by the company. Not one
Of the committee are working miners
Not one is a member of the Metal
Mine Workers Industrial Union.
Hold Company BIameless.
This accounts for the report" of
the committee which is the most
brazen piece Of evasion that ever saw
print. Only by indirection does the
committee imply that the disaster was
chargeable to slack inspection and
rank carelessness Of the miners lives
by the mining company. This is evil
denced by the four recommendations
that there be better inspection hereaf
ter.
Altho this implies that the disaster
could have been avoided by better in.
spection and more care for safety, the
report proceeds with the blatant state.
ment that mo blame can be attached
to the mining company" This is reit
Grated time and again thruout the re-
port.
Committee BIares God.
Altho there are no unknown" or
supernatural factors in mining engi
neering, and ordinary engineering
skill should have perceived both the
danger and a way to forestall it. and
in spite Of the testimony that the com
pany engineer, Captain Evan Crellin
whose war service" was supposed &c
fit him for any job, was incompetent
the committee has the brass to insist
and re-insist that "the company was
not to blame"
Unable to blame the miners or the
company, the committee in searching
for an explanation that would account
for the disaster, found that God did it,
After asserting the rather remarkable
fact that the cave-in did not occur be-
fore it did. the committee goes on to
say that the "silent partner" Of the
company, God, was responsible.
But some power" says the report
'decreed that this arch should break
thru in the middle of the afternoon
when all of the men were peacefully
working in their places"
Having fixed the liability upon God,
who, like the federal government can.
not be sued for damages without his
consent, the committee makes all ac-
ton by the miners dependents
against God. impossible by saying
that his whereabouts are unknown to
the committee, in the following words:
"Your committee is unable to find
any person or agency upon whose ne.
glect or carelessness the responsible
ity for this accident can be placed"
In other words, God is to blame, but
we cannot find him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-04

Open Forum. Sunday Night, Lodge
Room, Ashland Auditorium.
Evening star., 1924-10-26

mobile in America for slightly more
than nothing"
How much would that be in plain
arithmatick?" require Sydney.
"140s." report Hon. Sails from
courtesy.
so glad to know that" say Sgd
ney. "Since childhood 1 have wished
to learn what number comes after
nothing"
Step inside" snuggest him. 'and
7 shall show you some more educa-
ton. You do not need to buy the
car. Lots of persons do not. Others
takes 2 or 81
So inwards We promenade while
Hon. Sails Man are kind like Y. M.
c. A. He show US a prolonged row
of sorted automobiles. standing there
looking very new-polished like COL
lege graduates.
Here" commence Hon. Sails, ARE
our Grade A Twin Sex overpowered
dustproof foolproof waterproof eoo-
nomical Society Car or Travelling
Houseboat Notice the double-screw
windshield which can be turned into
Ma Jong table by NEARLY pressing
a buttin. Look inside the Ton-O, gen
timen. There you will find a special
pocket for crossword puzzles and a
Dictionary OF Useless Words by which
to help. Notice the double-size bat
terry case under the seat"
Why should it be so enlarged?" l
ask to know.
ITO hide Ticker in,' report Hon.
Sails. ALSO notice the Volstead bump
ers at front & rear. These are latest
invention. They are so arranged that
they stop the car 9 seconts before it
kitt something. Also obtain a look at
the hand brake which are ekwipped
with a whistle that make q noise
Evening star., 1924-10-26
ongkong Great Ocean Gateway Is the Gibraltar Of the Pac
lonaires and Paupers Conspicuous Community

gave it away. Today Hongkong is
one of the richest islands of the
world, and it's harbor is lined with
magnificent buildings. 1t is the third
greatest port of the world, and 10000
or $4,000 vessels of one kind or an
other call here every year. The tom
mage that comes in and goes out is
greater than that OF any seaport Of
the United Kingdom. 1t is only a
little less than that of Antwerp, and
the commerce of New York surpasses
it by less than 100000 tons.
The wealth that annually goes
through Hongkong runs into hum
dreds of millions of dollars. The
foreign imports are about one-third
of a billion dollars a year, and of
these sS5,000.000 worth comes from
Great Britain and its colonies. The
city steadily grows. 1t has trebled
it's size since 1 passed through here
in 1900. and it is now as large as
Baltimore or Boston. 1t is growing
in manufactures, and with the new
era in China it will continue to gain
as a trade center.
My last visit to Hongkong was in
1910. Since then a railway has been
built from Kowloon, suburb on the
mainland. to the great city Of Canton;
and this road is to be a part OF the
trunk line running north to Hankow,
which is 500 miles up the Yangtse-
kiang. The concession for that rail-
way was given to Cal Brice and other
American capitalists. but 1t was sold
back to China. 1t will some day be
Evening star., 1924-10-26
Life in a Hotel Is Round of Novelties
Emporiu -Compar arson the Happy IIomeC Coming:

7 T is my lot to live a great deal in
hotels. And the hotels in which
/ live are of the sumptuous order
with marble pillars and rubber
| trees and with two girls with
| waving golden hair sitting at a desk
and running telephone exchange.
There is a grill room where they
serve lobster newburg and hot dog
| all night and a palm room where they
| play music all day and where ex-
pensive looking women eat French
pastry with anemic men.
| There is a ballroom where on near
ly every evening you can see a debu-
| tante's dance going on and wish you
were twenty years younger and a
| concert room where you hear an
Italian basso singing an aria Chi
DUAL Chianti to a Ladies' Fortnightly
Musical Club.
1t is in such a place that I always
abide. 1t is generally advertised
this kind Of hotel-as the most home
like hotel in the country. But this
is only a joke. Home is not really
! like that.
| 1 always take care to have a room
and bath. l find by experience that
a bath comes in extremely handy: If
anybody gives you bouquet of roses
you keep them in the bath for days
perfectly fresh; or you can use it to
put your overcoat in when you come
home at night; in fact, it's handy in
a dozen ways. And there's a tone
about it. 1t sounds SO nice to say
II have a room and a bath at the
Palarial." or Wont you come in
some time and see me in my room
and BATH" and things like that.
| People think hotel life dull. This
| is a great mistake. In a hotel there
| is always some form Of amusement
| something doing to while away the
| time. Thus in the mornings it is al
ways possible to spend a pleasant
moment or two leaning over the glass
case where the girl with golden hair
sells souvenirs and theater tickets
and letting her tell you that her
people came from Bradford, but that
she has a gentleman friend who, she
thinks, comes from your home town
or has visited in it AS long as you
keep on buying souvenirs and letting
her talk about her gentleman friend
this girl will go on forever. And
Evening star., 1924-10-26

do in the cities of the same size in
the United States. Everything was
quiet. The great buildings were as
dark as a pocket, and the pigeon-hol
balconies appeared to be dead eyes in
the rays of the electric lamps while
the mountains back Of the town were
shrouded in gloom. The green woods
turned to blue in the darkness, and
the lights of the houses shone like
great rows of stars under a cloud that
enveloped the Peak.
/ walked along Queens road and
stopped under the electric lights to
watch the night crowd as it passed.
1t was a cosmopolitan one. There
we're red-turbaned, black bearded
Sikh policemen guiding the traffic,
directing the chairs. jinrikishas. and
automobiles this way and that. There
were British soldiers from the garri-
son and sailors in the different uni
forms of a half dozen nations. The
navies of the world come to Hong
kong, and their marines may be seen
any night in the streets. There were
many East Indians, clad in calicos,
brown-skinned Malays from Borneo
and the Philippines, Japanese just
of their vessels and westerners from
all parts Of Europe.
Sampan women in wide black cotton
trousers and cotton chemises moved
silently along on bare feet, and some
rich Chinese merchants, in cloth
shoes. took up the greater part Of
the sidewalk with their silk gowns.
There were also Parsee girls with
white shawls over their faces and
black-skinned Kings half clad in
white cotton
BY and by it began to rain and the
water came down in sheets. 1t
drenched the sampan girls SO that
their chemises clung to their bodies.
Evening star., 1924-10-26

contrast with the poor is indeed
great. Going past such workmen as
1 have described, you enter great
shops filled with the most gorgeous
embroideries. rugs and silks. Black
wood furniture shows out through the
windows, and some of the stores sell
silverware wonderfully carved. The
rings of 22-carat gold and there are
pearls and precious stones. Articles
in jade are a speciality. and the best
bring very high prices
The silverware is remarkably cheap
considering the workmanship. /
bought q tea set, the metal Of which
literally weighed 500. silver coins to
that amount being placed in a bowl
on one of the scales while the pitcher
and sugar bowl and tea pot forming
the set were placed on the other. The
price made just 5000 in silver. the ex-
ira 500 dollars representing the
yer is less than $50 in gold, and out of
that came to profit to the dealer and
the wages of the artisan, who had spent
more than a month chasing the vessels.
The same tea set would sell for twice its
price in the United States. Table lin
ems are especially cheap here, and
centerpieces and doilies and grass
cloths are not costly. In the best
shops the prices are comparatively
stable, and not a few are marked in
plain figures.
X X * X
T TOOK tramp last night through
L the streets to see how Hongkong
looked after dark. The city is not as
wide open as New York. Chicago.
Paris or London, although I am told
that all sorts of vice goes on in the
narrow alleys that climb up the hills.
Notwithstanding, felt safer than
Evening star., 1924-10-26

when you forget to take 1t OF. This
car cleans itself, runs itself. thinks
for itself. What you need OF a chof-
fer with such car? Nothing! There
fore you save 1908 a month. 1t burns
gas so stingily that you save 21$
more"
"In a year." I manipulate, II could
save enough to buy of those"
"Exackly" retork Hon. Sails.
Have this otto any back door to
escape by?" require sydney.
"Shux not,' dib Sails. Those went
out of fashion in 1895"
HHAvE it a Engine. or have that
IL two went out of fashion," are
next question for sydney.
THE Engine are its most stylish
feature" say him TT are flexible like
around a tree Zoe without wounding
anything axept the 18th cilinder
which can be removed & exchanged
at the next garage. Because of the
Vacuum Cleaner Oiling System it do
not need lubbercating axept once
every yrs when 3 drops Of kerosene
should be placed in the crank-sha
sprocket. 1t have ventilating gears.
neurotic clutch. sympathetic maxil-
ldry Ddlloear1nSS ana hammock IN
the toolbox for carrying baby when
pleasure riding. This car have balloon
tires filled with helium gas, which
make 1t travel so. light it seldom
touch the road axept when approach
ing police. Nobody know how fast
that Engine can go because every
body afraid to let it out it's full
length. & Silence? O,!!! Such si-
lence. You cannot tell when it are
started"
That are no ADVANTAGE" report
Evening star., 1924-10-26

were helpless to say. Also too
much happen then for any more
monologue. Sydney hit something. 1t
were a street He lose one GD more
Of his wheels & could not go very
far, although he try not to notice it..
Cats & Rats" he profane. Il are
commencing to believe this car are
e. q. 1t got no durability. Only
last year / had that wheel nailed on
tightly. and look where it is now"
/ look at the street surrounding
me and see 222 elegential stores
distinctually labelled OTTOMOBILE
ROW.
Il got intellectual I. d." This
from me. Since your car are worth
less why not trade it in for a new
one?"
You have said a plateful," holla
Sydney. "Folla me while I see what
1 shall obtain"
EIRST Store we come to there
l. was a ottomobile with rubber
wheels all swole up like a bee sting.
1t were all covered with glass like
a goldfish house and inside was a
vase for flowers or pickles or what
ever necessary for fast people trav-
elling. Its engine were under a en-
larserd front porch, all covered with
such sweet paint.
Are you looking at a carr" re-
quire a Sails Man, stepping outward
with Brother Elk expression.
I'VE think We are" say me & Sgd
ney together like chorus girls
How fortune that you come here!"
say Hon. Sails Man. "Anywheres
else you might get cheated. Here
you will find the only higrade otto
Evening star., 1924-10-26

morning, and he says it is excellent
1 ask him can he recommend his sea
bass and he says he can. AS a final
and definite inquiry I ask him what
about his grilled plaice, and he says
his grilled plaice is delicious. / say
to him. in that case will he kindly
bring me some bacon and eggs.
In fact, 1 believe that all other
men who live in hotels are like this.
At every hotel 1 see them sitting at
the breakfast table with bill of fare
| in front of them, thinking deeply.
with waiter standing behind them
babbling about grilled plaice; and in
the end I always hear the waiter say
Bacon and eggs. yes. sir"
Indeed. my own opinion is that in
all the big hotels they don't really
have anything else to eat in the
place except bacon and eggs They
just write down all that stun about
grilled plaice to look well and to let
the guests think. In reality, there
| is only bacon and eggs.
MUCH the same thing happens at
A'A dinner. Here there is again a
card Of 200 items beginning with pot
age st. Germain and ending with gau-
frettes la chinoise. But somewhere
coiled up in 1t, under some name or
other, is roast beef with Yorkshire
pudding and l always take that. Some
hotels have the effrontery to call it
straight out by its own name. But
that is hardly fair. In that case the
guest is lost at once; in the whole
catalogue he sees nothing but the
words roast beef and Yorkshire pud-
n dino nd ho IL De-
| in the better hotels it is at least dis
guised at rosbif au poudin d'York,
which gives the guest a run for his
money before he tracks it down. At
other times it is more completely hid
den as tournedos a LAnglaise, or
| flet de boeuf York, but it is always
there and under one name or the
| other I have, eaten il every day for
several years.
The most intricate business in life
in hotel is found in the method OF
leaving. This is a technical matter
demanding long practice for its per
formance. AS the moment approaches
the guest should lull the walters and
porters into a false sense of security
by letting fall remarks about remain
ing for a month This puts them OF
their guard and they cease to watch
| his coming in and going out
The next step is the quiet removal
| Of luggage. This may be done by let
| ting it down on a rope from the bed
room window. but 1t is always pos
sible to get 1t out by bribing a single
porter and making him take an oath
of secrecy. Ones hat, coat and stick
| may next be moved into some cloak
roo NOR placed near the front door.
| The guest then gathers himself for a
single spring past the cashiers Office
and shouting send my bill after me
to Pittsburgh" he leaps at one bound
| into a taxi and disappears in a cloud
| of petroleum.
If this is not absolutely and exactly
| the way of leaving, at any rate no.
tice the performance being done on
this model.
Very often after doing this the
guest discovers that he has left up
stairs in his room a silk umbre ella
with a gold band round it. He never
sees it again. But this Is only di-
vine justice.
! Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-10-26

Sydney Katsu. Jr. 1T are sometimes
so difficult to get started that l wish
folks know il by the noise
Dew to the Brass Rail Alignment
Of the carburatter," say that wise
lecturer, this car can manufacture
intense smoothness while running.
Last week one % of our Grade A
runned over bridge without awak-
ing the choffer, who were sleeping
as usual. Our Hollywood Shock KILL
ers remove the largest jolts. You will
take this car away with you, gentil-
men?'
Shall we?" whasper Sydney Sc
cretively.
This Sails Man appear kind but
foolish" 1 buzz silently to my friend.
III you was me or visaverse 1 should
cernly make trade from him"
Intellectual Mr.. Sir" illicute Sgd
ney with Stock Exchange voice, "can
cars be exchanged by trading in this
parlor?"
quite frequently" he retork, look
ing slightly cage.
We'll so," holla Sydney. II possess
in my ownership one % ottomobile
which l wish get ridd of because it
are slightly too swift for a Baptist.
1t have quite a number Of Features
which your establishment have not.
1t got self-opening doors, flexible
wheel-post ottomatic backfire, genu-
Evening star., 1924-10-26
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
HONGkONG, China.
to the new China. | am at the
southeastern end of the country.
i as far from Peking as the dis
tance from New York to Denver,
as far west of Manila as from New
York to Cleveland. and as far from
the limits of western China as the
Rockies are distant from Boston.
am 10000 miles from London by way
of Suez and it is half way around
the world from this spot to the mouth
of the Hudson via the Panama Canal.
Here, on the edge of the ocean, where
every ship calls on it's way to and
from Europe, is an island so small
that you can motor around it in less
than an hour. Its name is Hongkong
and 1t belongs to John Bull. The
British have held it for nearly 80
years. and like the robber barons of
the middle ages they are taking their
toll from all that goes by. They do
not levy direct taxes, for this is a
free port; but every ship has to stop
for supplies, and it is certain to leave
Il number of pounds, shillings and
pence.
When John Bull took the island,
away back in 1912, it was so barren
that the weeds could not grow upon
it. 1t was infested by pirates, and
it's only inhabitants were 1000 poor
fishermen who lived in huts on the
shores. The Chinese laughed as they