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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-11-08
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Ell dedo en- la llaga. Por ahi duele Sc
nor Director Esto es 10 que ha de-
mostrado este eiectorado intehgente
de San Juan. No en- vano Sc ha pa
sado el electorado consciente de la Ca
pital tres amos consecutivos comen-
tando y argumentando, con pruebas,
que Ia administrator plblica de esta
Comunidad era un perfecto desastre
bajo la direction del sefior Diez de
Andino. Sc puso prueba. por un ca
pricho de los engreidos del poder, la
capacidad, la seriedad hasta la in
tegridad del electorado sano de esta
ciudad, de ese electorate q. 10 da todo
sin esperanza de percibir benefcio al
guno siro el q. Sc deriva de los bue-
nos servicios p1bhcos; Sc quiso todo
ESQ ahi teneis el resultado. El elec
torado, al cumplir con su deber, no ha
hecho otra cosa que castigar los die
tadores de cartulina que, durante cua-
tro amos, pacientemente hemos venido
soportando.
La derrota que hoy todos lamenta-
mos no es una derrota la Aianza
en- 81; es una derrota a un candidate
impuesto y una repulsa absolute la
PETIT Dictadura IRIARTE-PE-
DROSA
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
American Workers
to Have Their Own
"Who's Who" Soon
(Ry Federated Press. /.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4. - The first
American Labor Who's Who, contain
ing 5000 names, will be ready for pub
lication in few months. 1t will give
brief accounts of 1900 labor unionists,
400 labor political chieftains. $50 la
Dor educators, 100 labor bankers, 100
co-operators and 100 labor research
ers, writer's, editors, speakers and
economists. About 300 foreign labor
men will also be listed. The material
has been gathered by the Rand School
labor research department thru ques-
tionnaires submitted to the individ-
uals, who are to appear in the forth
coming volume.
The British Labor movement made
the first experiment in labor direc-
tory. In January, 1924, it published
the Labor Who's Who, including 900
individuals in the labor and co-opera-
tive movement.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Says Democratic
Plank Will Bring
War with Russia
(5y the Federated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. Am an arti-
Gle in the current National Republic
an, Herman w. Craven declares that
the democratic platform pledge to "ful-
fill President Wilson's arbitral award
respecting Armenia" would, il car
ried out, involve war with Russia and
Turkey.
Wilson announced, on Jan. 2, 1921,
his decision as arbitrator of the boun-
daries Of the Armenian state created
by the Sevres treaty. But in August,
1920, Soviet troops had crossed Ar
menia to assist the Turk Nationalists
under Kemal Pasha in overturning
the Armenian regime set up by the
allied imperialists. When the Turks
drove the Greeks out of Asia Minor
the fate of an independent Armenian
state was settled. Russian Armenia
is a part of the Union of Socialist Re
publics today, while Turkish Arme-
MIA is almost depopulated. The dem
ocratic platform pledge is mockery
of historic fact, worthy of Hughes
himself.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
FOUR CAPITALIST
POWERS JOIN IN
THREAT TO CHINA
u. S. Navy Commanders
Given Power to Act

PEKING, China, Sept 4. = The
United States, Great Britain. France
and Japan today joined in a -four
power" note to the Chinese govern
mcnt advising the. Peking regime will
be held responsible for all foreign
losses in the civil war that appears
imminent.
Reports of actual fighting have been
rife but no confirmation has been re-
ceived.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Meager
consular advices reaching the state
department today indicate a grave sit
uation in China as the result of re-
volutionary activities in the vicinity
of Shanghai.
Consul-General Cunningham at
Shanghai reported that 10000 Kiang-
su troops had assembled near 500
Chow and that there had been some
fighting, according to reports from
Peking
Commanders of United States war
ships in Asiatic waters have authority
to take any action that they deem nee
essary to protect American property.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Claim Small HELPLESS.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Sept. 4.-Un-
less the committee of Williamson
County commissioners which was re-
ported to be planning to ask Governor
Small to remove Sheriff Galligan Of
that county from Office, presents evil
dence that the sheriff has permitted
prisoners to escape, the governor will
have no power to act, according to
opinion at the state capital.
Under the Illinois law, It was stat.
ed. Governor Small is empowered to
remove a sheriff only on one ground
loss OF prisoners. No cases Of escape
of prisoners from the Williamson
county sheriff were recalled here.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Boston Section Of
International Aid
For Workers Report

BOSTON, Mass, September 4.-The
financial report of the Boston Section
of the International. Workers Aid,
which has been engaged in relief
work for the starving workers and
children in Germany, shows an in
come of $4O,47S.S2 and expenditures
amounting to $4,057.99. This report
dates from the beginning of the or
ganization. August 13. 1921, to Decem-
ber 81, 1928. The receipts have come
from contributions, entertainments
and Russian Film showings. During
this period the Boston section remit
ted to the National ONCE of I. w. A,
formerly F. s. RI, $36,420.S3.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Strike Averted by
Movie Men Signing
Up New Agreement

ST. LOUIS. Sept. 3.-The signing
of an agreement with the union by
the employers averts projected gem
eral strike of motion picture operators
and stage hands here. The old scale
was from so to $50 a week and the
new agreement provides for 10 per
cent increase. Contracts have been
signed with all theatres here, accord
ing to the union.
Negotiations with the musicians are
still pending. This craft receives from
S35 to $40 a week and demands an
increase of % per cent. The musi-
clans here are solidly unionized and
a strike is not anticipated at this
writing.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
LABOR FIGHTING
ARMAMENTS PLAN
IN AUSTRALIA
Oppose Building of New
10000 Ton Cruisers
BY W. FRANCIS AHERN.

Federated Press staff correspondent.)
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. A.
Labor members in the federal parlia-
ment bitterly opposed the scheme of
the Australian government to build
new modern cruisers of 10000 tons
each. They declared that this in.
crease in naval armament was con,
trary to the spirit of the Washington
naval treaty, and repetition of the
old pre-war preparation that led to the
last worldwide conflict.
Invasion Idea Plffle.
They ridiculed the idea of invasion
of Australia which was put forward by
navalists and militarists, and drew at
tention to the fact that those loudest
in their demand for increased naval
construction we're, by strange coinci.
dence, the folk who stood to benefit
from the war-mongering business.
For that reason any expert" advice
they gave should be heavily dis
counted.
They pointed out, too, that prior to
the last war the warmongers were
busy preparing for war, and got what
they were preparing for. 1t was then
stated that there would be no more
war, yet as soon as peace was signed
the same gang of warmongers were
shouting for preparation for another
war.
Where's War to End War?
They informed the prime minister
that at a recent conference Of the
league of nations he stated that If the
building of armaments continued the
world would be thrown into chaos.
Yet today he was leading the gang of
warmongers, yelling for increased
ornaments, presumably to help plunge
the world into chaos again.
Labor took the attitude that those
who prepared for war got war, and
that on the general question of de-
tense if the country was made worth
fighting for there would be no peed
to worry about defending it. In other
words, let Big Business make Aus
tralia "a land fit for heroes" and the
workers would see to it that no hostile
alien was allowed standing room on
its shores.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
A CORRECTION.

On August 23rd the DAILY WORK
Err published a story by Karl Reeve
on the conditions in the mines in
O'Fallon, Ill. Among the numerous
accounts of the conditions that pre-
vail in the mines in that district our
correspondent was informed that the
Miners Cooperative Stores have been
suspended.
A correction has been made in this
story by one of the miners Of O'Fal-
Ion, who claims that all of the Min
ers' Stores have not been suspend
ed. Some of them are still manag-
ing to continue in pretty fair condi-
ton"
This miner also takes exception TO
the part in Reeves story which de-
picted the rundown condition Of the
local union thru lack of funds to car
ry on. Altho the unions funds are
all out due to the miners being con-
tinually out of work, the $500 that
they borrowed from the Sick Associa-
tion for Relief of Distressed Brothers
has not been used up. This applies
also to the sub-district.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

today. This means q drop of
14.3 per cent in the number on
factory payrolls since last July
and brings employment to a
level 22 per cent below the cen
sus year 1919.
Purchasing Power Declines.
The decline in the purchasing pow
er Of the factory population is even
more serious. In July it was 1913 per
cent below July, 1928. That means
that the buying capacity of families
dependent on factory wages has been
reduced by one-ffth.
Employment decreased 4 per cent
between June and July, but the de-
partment does not hold the depression
which has been developing since 1928
entirely responsible for this decline.
Regular seasonal changes including
inventory and vacation periods are in
part to blame. But the decrease was
general affecting As of the So indus
tries covered by the report. Com
pared with July, 1928, employment de-
clined in 48 of the So industries, in
cluding lay-offs of more than 20 per
cent in each of IL industries.
Percent Drop in Wages.
The average weekly pay Of work
ers who still had job in July
amounted to s24.42 showing a decline
of per cent compared with June and
SO per cent compared with the previ-
Gus year. The average weekly pay
envelopes in the major groups of In
dustries this July and year ago ap-
pear as follows:
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

ments, and serve to stir up the work
ers to active organization against an
other holocaust like the last one
However, the vast majority Of work
ers will, as Lenin prophesied, again
fight for their own bourgeoisie; those
of California included. But the seeds
of proletarian military organization
are being sown and are falling on fer
tile soil SO it may be hoped that the
Comintern will serve as a brake for
the maddened bourgeoisie before ii
reaps another gigantic harvest of de-
struction and death.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Your Union Meeting
EIRsT FRIpAY. sEPT. 5, 1e24.

Name of Local and Place
Nos of Meeting.
2s7 Bakers and Cont, s42o w. Roose-
soOkbinders. 175 W. Washington
20 Broom Makers, $40 W. Harrison ST.
Building Trades Council, 1870 W..
carpentsrs' Dis. Council, sos S.
Carpenters, 1z5 W. Washington.
20 Carpenters, 27o5 w. 35th St.
22on Carpenters, 1889 S. Halsted St.
Electricians, ,2eot W. Monroe st.
214 Electricians, 4141 w. Lake st.
77e Electricians, r. r., 1924 S. Halsted
ST.
5s4 Firemen and Ensinemen, 54ss S.
Halsted st.
"a Glass Workers, Emily and Marsh
225 Hod Carriers, Monroe and Peoria
Ladies' Garment Workers, Joint
Board, sas ". Van Buren, st.
.ss Maehinists, 1is s. Ashland 5Ivd. 5Ivd.
273 Painters, 2345 So. kedzie Ave.
es7 Painters, School and Sheffield Ave.
s63 Painters, $40 Indiana Ave.
Pattern Makers, 119 S. Throop St.
1882 Painters, 314o Indiana Ave.
6t2 Plumbers, e25t S. Chicago Ave.
346 Railway Carmen, Village Hall, kol-
s7e Railway Carmen, Village Hall, KoI-
xie, ~.
99S Railway Carmen, 5445 s. Ashland
Ave.
329 Railway Clerks, 20 w. Randolph St.
679 Railway Clerks, 9 S. Clinton st.
1856 Railway Clerks, IT. Dearborn Hotel.
Z Railroad Trainmen, 1886 {. 64th St.
1f9 Railroad Trainmen, 3349 North
Ave.
1913 Railroad Trainmen, s12o CONNER
ciaI Ave.
s67 Sheet Metal Workers, Ashland and
Van Buren,.
South Chicago Trades and Labor
Assembly, 9139 Commercial Ave.
Stage Hands, 412 Capitol Bldg.
II Stove Mounters, 36oe Wolfram Ave.
3 Teachers (Women), Women's City
Club Rooms, $3.50 p. m.
Telearaphers (com.) 312 S. Clark
ST.
4s4 Mattresses, 10 W. Adams ST.,
p. m.
Women's Union Label League 22o
S. Ashland Blvd.
(Note--Unless otherwise stated all
meetings are at D. m)
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

in all the other towns and cities Of
southern California. Hard times
have debated the real estate boom
ers and other hot air artists, leaving
a wake Of busted buyers, and unem
ployed workers in their midst. The
roads back east are full Of disgusted
tenderfeet who came out to make
their fortunes, but went broke in
stead. All who can get away are
leaving while the leaving's good.
The petty bourgeoisie and the bour-
geois-minded workers are sore and
disgruntled. The long record of the
one white spot on the dark financial
map has been broken, and California
has gone into eclipse with the rest
of these black United States.
Communists Progressing.
On the other hand, the Communists
here are in good spirit and making
remarkable progress. The language
locals, the English branch and the
Young Workers are all growing and
doing fine work. Hard times are bet.
ter than good times for the spread
of the Communist gospel. The unem.
ployed are in more receptive mood
to listen to the truths of Marxism
and Leninism. A full dinner pail
makes capitalist votes, but an empty
one on the contrary makes Commun.
ist ones. From that reasoning, Fos-
ter and Gitlow ought to poll big vote
in the Golden State, if they get on the
ticket.
Wages have gone down with the in
crease of unemployed workers. To
get on the payroll at any price is the
effort of all save few true union
men. But the unions are weakening
with the lack of jobs. Many are drop
ping out, and more are failing to pay
their dues. The labor leaders, how
ever, don't notice the hard times, not
so long as enough dues come in to pay
their lordly salaries. They are fran
ing up the vote here for the petty
capitalist politicians in the local
field; and for the big capitalist poll
tcians in the national era. Amongst
the union men LaFollette doesn't
seem to inspire much enthusiasm;
nor do Coolidge or Davis. They take
the pessimistic attitude toward poll
tics of the down and out bourgeois
business man: Whats the user"
Workers Awakened by Daily.
However, quite number of copies
of the DAILY WORKER find their
way into the hands Of union men, and
the Communistic attitude toward pol
itics is getting known and under
stood. "The world for the workers
thru Soviets" is slogan that has pen.
etrated the ranks of the workers, and
with the increase of hard times it will
become popular.
While the mild climate of Califor.
mia may soften the asperities of hard
times a bit, yet it doesn't cloak the
grim facts of the class struggle; nor
does it dampen the ardor of the work
ing Communists. The naval maneu.
vers this fall will call the vests at
tention to the feverish preparation for
war going on in the bourgeois govern
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
81 u
MAN OF SCIENCE
TELLS A few IN
TALK ON |. W. ".
S a Y B a d Conditions
Bring Discomfort
BY SYDNEY WARREN.

Federated Press Staff Correspondent)
WINNIPEG, Manitoba. Sept. A.
The practice of leaving stranded i'm
migrants, employed as harvesters, on
the prairies to shift for themselves
was scored by Sir William Ashley, Of
the University of Birmingham, a not
ed scientist, now visiting Canada. He
declared that it was such treatment
that gave rise to the l. W. w.
Why Men Organize.
"This practice of turning away men
and forgetting about them, once they
have served the farmers purpose, is
a shocking state of affairs. The In
dustrial Workers of the World are or
ganized to oppose this sort of thing
and they are growing into a force
which will have to be reckoned with"
he warned
IF 1 had to employ harvesters, /
would be greatly disturbed by the an
nual newspaper stories reporting suf-
fering and want on the part of men
who have been working on the farms.
when people get the spirit of true
democracy in their bones they should
develop a sense of pride which will
not tolerate certain conditions in their
community, but when l walk thru
typical Canadian manufacturing plant
ask myself to what extent do the
workmen share in your advantages?
What privileges are you prepared to
extend to these same men?"
Electric Power.
Referring to the great amount Of
electric power in Canada, Sir William
Ashley said that it was of no use to
the vast majority Of people, since it
was privately owned for profit and not
public service.
"In her hydro-electric plants, Cana
da wields mighty power" declared the
British economist. What use is she
going to make of it, in terms Of hu-
man lives?"
"See to it that this God-given ad-
vantage Of mighty power is utilized to
the fullest and best advantage so
that all benefit from the gift.'
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
campaIan rrIekery eeeIns.

PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 4.-That the
Indian vote in Maricopa county will
be very light in the coming election
is indicated by registration officials.
OF the 1000 or 5000 Indians in the
county eligible to vote under the re-
cent act Of congress, most will auto
matically be barred from voting due
to the fact that state and counties are
not permitted to create new voting
precincts within Indian reservations.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Take a Vote in Your Shop

LOW this presidential
l
How still backward that they
the leadership of Coolidge and Davis?
many your by specious
LaFolIete and adopt this middIecIass saviour?
And,a your shop
William
for PRESIDENT
Take your II n DAILY WORKER
with all the other shop votes and give
picture thinking about the election
candidates.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
.ELDORADO MINERS
SAY JOBLESSNESS
WORST IN YEARS
Thousands Walk Streets
Without Hope of Work
BY KARL REEVE.
(staff Writer, Daily Worker.)

ELDORADC, ILL.,, Sept. A. "I've
been mining 81 years, and I'm worse
off now than when I started" was the
first remark made to me by an unem-
ployed miner in Eldorado. He gave
his name as John Taylor, State St.,
and said that over three thousand min
ers in this one little town are out of
work.
Could Get Picture Of 10000.
Arne Swabeck, Arley Staples and
myself invaded the town with camera,
typewriters and baggage. We found
over one hundred miners loafing
around the street corner. They had
given UP looking for work. We asked
them to pose for a picture, and they
wanted to know what paper we repre-.
sented. When 1 replied, "The DAILY
WORKER" Taylor said, "Oh, that's
all right. If it wasn't a good labor
paper l wouldn't do It," AS we
snapped the picture one of the miners
called out: "If you gave us couple
of hours notice we could get 10000
unemployed miners here to pose for a
picture. There's plenty of u.s."
The No 8 and No. IL mines Of the
O,Gara Coal Company, employing 400
and $50 men, respectively, are com
pletely shut down. The O'Gara Coal
Company is generally understood to
belong to the New York Central Rail
road. 1t was brought into court some
years ago for violation of the Sher.
man antitrust laws.
Mines Closed Here, Too.
The mine Of the Peabody Coal Com
pany, one mile from here, in ordinary
times employing 400 men, is also
closed up. The Wasson mine, employ
ing 500 men, works at most four days
week. The Grayson mine, two miles
from town, employing 450 men, has
been closed up eight months.
Daddy" A. R. Mills, 7S years old
told a little about his last 40 years
spent digging coal. Daddy" worked
ii the mines steadily up until three
years ago, when he retired. 81 have
never seen any unemployment period
such as we have at the present time,
said Mills. "Well have to do some
thing pretty soon or the union will &c
to smash"
He mentioned the $4,000 spent by
the old age pension committee, squan
dered while investigating" the ole
age pension. "And still no provision
has been made for the care of the vet
erans Of the union" Mills added.
X. X. K. Denounced.
Mills, who lives at 1917 North State
St.. denounced the Ku Klux Klan
'What they are doing to the miners
organization in the Southwestern
States proves that their real purpose
is to disrupt the unions and divide the
workers."
81 started mining coal in Victoria
Ohio County, Kentucky, and went thru
my first strike there. We struck for
raise of 25 cents a ton and got It
There was just as much solidarity
among the miners then as there is
now. But there were no official ma
chimes which the miners had to fight
as well as the BOSSES"
Harvey Clark, secretary Of Local
Union 1877, Eldorado, and Ed Pen
nington, secretary Of the Trades and
Labor Assembly, met on the street
corner by the DAILY WORKER re
porter asked that bundles of the
DAILY WORKER be sent them which
contained the write-up Of Eldoradc
and the surrounding towns. They
agreed to take the matter Of buying
them up with their organization. This
offer was not solicited.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
45 Cents Is Reward
To Workers Rescue
Of Cave-in Victims

DUBUUE, Ia, Sept. A. George
Thompson, laborer, had check for
45 cents today to show for having res
cued two workmen from death when
they were buried in a sewer excava.
tion after a cave-in. ''It took me an
hour to dig them out" Thompson
said, "and when l finished the con-
tractor gave me as cents, union
scale" Thompson had been laid off
four minutes before the cave-in oc-
Cured.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
Model PRISONER Skins OF.

Search was proceeding today for
Lyman Hall, 81, '1ifer" who escaped
from the Joliet Penitentiary after 27
years as the "model prisoner" during
which time he spurned many opport-
unities to get away.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
One Horse Town is
Going on Rocks as
Mill Goes Parttime
BY r. W. LEIGHTON.

KENNEBUNK, Maine, Sept. A.
The Sanford Worsted Mills of this
CITY, employing ordinarily about 400
women. have been operating three
days week for the last Is months.
In the yarn department. girls average
80 cents an hour; weavers, So. Many
families are suffering want, even sum-
mer work at the beaches nearby,
where city people from all parts Of
the country spend their money, not
being sufficient to make up the family
budget.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
6o,ooo Bucks Gone to He'll.

To date Cook County has spent
$4,000 in its efforts to send Nathan
Leopold and Richard Loeb to the
gallow's for the Staying of Robert
Franks.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
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BOOM BUBBLE BURSTS WIDE OPEN
IN SUNNY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;
COMMUNIST INFLUENCE INCREASES
BY ROBIN DUNBAR
Especial to The Daily WorKer7

ANGELES Calf, 4,-The
California fell
plentiful
Signal Hill and
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

Wage rate increases were reported
by IL establishments and decreases
by 124 establishments. The increases
affected 1928 employees while the de-
creases affected 25,4SS. According to
the department these changes indi-
cate no general trend except in the
case of 30 sawmills which cut the
wage rates of 5000 employees and of
IA iron and steel plants which de-
creased the wage rates Of 5000 en-
ployes.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05
SILENT CAL FORGETS TO MUZZLE
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR REPORTS;
SHOW JOB CONDITIONS ARE BAD
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

Unemployment in the critical summer of 1921
shows just what the has from favore
ministraton of big Biz It's wonder that Cautious Cal didn't
uzze his department of labor before issued the July employ
ment report which shows that 100000 factory workers
who had Jobs in july 1923 the street looking for work
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

You can get sample copies Of the
DAILY WORKER any time at the
DAILY WORKER office.
The daily worker., 1924-09-05

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