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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
LEAD POISONED
PAINTER CURES
SELF BY FAST
Same Method Good For
Other Ills

To the DAILY WORKER: What
doctors and medicine could not do
was accomplished by strong power
of will.
Benjamin Rifkin, who is a member
of Painters Union, Local IA, Chi
cago, had been suffering from lead
collie for number of years and cured
himself by fasting for five weeks.
During the course of this fast, he en-
countered and overcame many diff
culties. In the first week he found
it was necessary for him to take cold
baths several times during the day
and drink water mixed with acid
juice. The second week it was neces-
sary to use congresses as the knees
became weak. In order to prevent
the gums from bleeding he chewed
gum. The third and fourth weeks,
encouraged by the success of his ex-
pertinent, he forced himself to take
long walks each day, in the cold
January outdoors, and massaging the
body with snow as it came in thru
the open window of his room.
The crisis of the whole experiment
came during the fifth week when he
felt no pain, but the body had become
weakened to such an extent that he
tainted, was feverish and sleepless.
However, he overcame all this and
after the fifth week began eating
gradually, combining his diet to raw
fruits and vegetables.
During the time of his fast he lost
80 pounds. He has, however, re-
gained all he lost in weight and six
pounds in addition. Now he is back
to work and says, Il feel fine and if
| should ever again be troubled by
lead collie l shall try my own nature
cure.'"
1t is interesting to note that during
the five weeks of the fast, Mr.. Rifkin
had no assistance of any kind, either
from doctors, friends or family. In
fact, his wife knew nothing about it,
as he told her he was going away to
take cure offered by some hospital
in Milwaukee. Instead, he rented a
room at the Metropole Hotel, Milwau-
kee, and proceeded with determine
ton to cure himself He succeeded.
"A Reader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Potomac's Flood
Sweeps Capitol's
Squatters To Sea

WASHINGTON, D. c., May IS
Rich loafers leaned over the rails of
the two milIion-dollar concrete Key
bridge here and watched the bodies
and homes of poverty stricken squat
tiers" sweep down the Potomac river
after the Baltimore and Ohio canal
bank broke. About twenty houses of
these poor rebels against landlords
were swept away in the flood.
Where an earlier pedestrian saw an
old woman in cheap calico trying to
bail out her little house, later passers
saw the small building leap in the
air, then plunge and dive from sight
in the raging waters.
"The rich live high and dry" COM
mented Edward j. Irvine, who saw
the food sweeping away the poor
squatters, "but even the elements of
nature are against the poor until they
learn to organize and strike their
masters"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
UNION
BINDS SELF WITH
1O-YR. CONTRACT
Agrees Not To Engage
In Sympathy Strikes
BY LUDWELL DENNY.

(staff Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
NEW YORK, May 1S.-Ten years
Of peace on the American stage is
forecast by the contract signed be-
tween the Actors Equity Association,
American Federation OF Labor, and
the new Managers Protective Asso-
citation, which controls rs per cent of
the New York productions. An an
ti-union managers group with II New
York shows and a few on tour are
holding out, but it is expected that
they will be forced to sign with the
union before June /, when the old
contract expires. Besides the new
M. P. A. contract, Equity has agree
ments with the remaining or indepen-
dent managers and with practically
all road and tent shows. The union
has about 10000 members.
Tho the contract with the M. P. A..
nominally permits companies consist
ing Of 20 per cent non-Equity mem
bers, it provides that non-members
must pay into the union treasury a
sum equal to initiation dues and fees
and continue to pay amounts equal to
membership dues. Most of the Broad
way shows are already 95 per cent
Equity casts. The managers agree
to employ no expelled Equity men,
Der and no member delinquent in dues
The advantage of the contract to
Equity is that no actor hereafter will
have a good excuse to stay out of
the union, for financial or other rea-
sons.
Equity agrees not to engage in
sympathetic strikes, not to close its
membership rolls or raise initiation
fees for 25 years. 1t agrees not to
interfere with the subject matter,
text, or casting Of plays, nor to dictate
salaries except of chorus girls (now
$50 a week in New York and $35 on
tour.
A joint board of arbitration with
an umpire shall decide all disputes
under the contract, which runs for
10 years.
At a union ratification meeting
which voted 1900 to 1 for the agree
ment, President John Emerson said:
Aside from few die-hard Fidelity
leaguers land their number seems to
be decreasing daily, there won't be
five actors in the whole Of America
playing the class of engagements COW
cred by this agreement who will re-
main outside the Equity Association,
for every possible motive for staying
out has been taken away from them
and every possible motive for the
managers trying TO keep them out
has been taken away from him, as in
the future there will be allowed no
non-Equity casts into which the man
ager might put the actor who leaves
the Equity, and thus try to form a
group to oppose the Equity and its
aims"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE
MEETING.

The next meeting of the City Gem
trail Committee win be held on Tues
day, May goth. at 1888 Hirsch Blvd,
Workers Lyceum. There will be a
very lively meeting and special re-
ports on the Illinois Miners conven-
ton, the State Farmer Labor conven-
ton. and the Needle Trades conven-
ton viii be given by Comrade j. w.
and others. In addition there will be
important business to discuss. The
attendance at the City Central Com
mittee has steadily increased and the
delegates are awake to the fact that
the City central Committee is the
real political body OF Local Chicago,
Workers Party. Outsiders are also
invited to attend these meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago
BRANCH MEETINGS.

MONDAY, MAY 18th.
N. S. English Branch, 2409 N. Halsted,
Imperial Hall Open educational meeting
at which Comrade Max Schactman, edi-
on Communists in the Trade Unions"
Outsiders welcome.
Italian Cicero. 14o2 s. 5Oth Court,
Douglas Park English, 1922 Douglas
Italian 10Th Ward. 1903 S. Loomis
TUESDAY, MAY goth.
Ukrainian No. /, 1882 w. Chicago, 3rd
floor, Ukranian Club.
Russian Pullman Branch, 11453 S. Park
Avenue. Pullman.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2fst.
Mid-City English Emmett Memorial
Hall, Taylor and Ogden.
Douglas Park Jewish, 1920 w. Roose-
welt, Liberty House.
Englewood English, GAIA S. Halsted.
Checko Slovak, No. 81, 254S S. Holman
czecho slovak, women's Cicero, Ma
saryh School, 57th Avenue and 22nd
Place. Cicero.
Czecho slovak women's No. l, 1926 S.
LOOMS ST., End floor.
THURSDAY, MAY 22nd.
Italian 18th Ward, 1903 S. LOOMS.
corner niD Cicero and Superior I'VE West. ''
Italian 11th Ward w. S. No. 2, 2439 S.
Oakley Street, downstairs.
Scandinavian Karl Marx, 1888 Hirsch
Finnish Branch. 24o9 N. Halsted. Inn
perinl Hall.
on Wednesday, May 21st, Comrade
Ernest Ettlinger will speak before the
North Side English Branch of the Young
Workers League at Imperial Hall, 2409 N.
Halsted Street on the subject, 1.-THE Need
for a Labor Party"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
GARY GETS MOST
PROFITS EVER
FROM 3 HOUR DAY
Over 100000 In
First Three Months
BY LELAND oLDs.

(staff Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
Announcement that U. S. Steel cor
poration profits for the first months
Of the year exceeded those Of any
peacetime quarter in the history Of
the corporation proves that Judge e.
II. Gary is prophet grown senile-if
he ever was more than propaganda.
The complete refutation which it gives
to his gloomy predictions about the
abolition of the 12-hour shift should
cause his future utterances to be TAX
en- for the propaganda of big business.
Scarcely year ago Gary predicted
that the abolition of the 12-hour shift
would necessitate a Is per cent in
crease in the price Of steel products.
But the 12-hour shift has been abol-
ished and without raising prices the
steel corporation has made profit Of
s5O,O75,445 in three months. 1t ex-
ceeds by more than 80 per cent the
average quarterly profits Of the five
years preceding the war.
Depression Doesn't Dent Gary.
Gary's remarks after the directors
meeting give the impression Of a man
so cushioned by wealth and the huge
surplus profits of his concern that he
has grown callous to difficulties and
worries of the ordinary citizen. He
said in part:
"At the present time there is no
good reason for the depression. The
fundamental conditions Of the coun-
try were never better. There are in
equalities, injustices, as between diff
ferent lines of economic activity.
(Wage earners will agree to this, also
farmers). But this country has pros
pered and is prospecting in spite of
those things and it is only question
of time when the man Of courage and
patience will find that he never had a
reason to fear as to the final solution
of the problems which circumstances
presented. easy for the multimilliOn-
aire but how about the man to whom
loss of job means the abrupt stop
page of bare subsistence wage). Our
country is rich, the cash in circula-
ton very large and the ability to pay
is slowly tho not regularly increasing"
No Cheer for Workers.
This little message of hope from the
dictator of the steel industry is re-
commended to the families Of the hun
dreds of thousands of unemployed
workers and to the millions threaten
with wage reductions.
---HsreepeTsss isa-*h--steel Industry dur
ing the firA5pe barter was not limited to
the dominating corporation. The seven
leading companies including Bethle-
hem, Republic Iron & Steel, Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube, Gulf States, Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron and Inland Steel re-
ported combined profits of $74,S47, 1863
as compared with $5O,499,699 during
the same period year ago, an in
crease of nearly so per cent.
But there is good ground for the
suspicion that the steel industry has
been deliberately crowding large por-
ton of the years production and pro-
fits into the first quarter in order to
make possible a short, sharp depres-
sion in which to debate labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
1.-TWO Republics" To
Be Exhibited In
Newark Friday Night

NEWARK, N. j., May 1S.-The new
Soviet film, Russia and Germany"
which was shown so successfully for
the first time in New York City at the
Central Opera House, will be shown
for the first time in New York, N. j.,
on Friday evening, May 23rd at D.
m. at the Newark Labor Lyceum, 704
So. 14th st.
In Germany, scenes were taken at
great risk to the camera man because
of the Fascists at work wrecking the
young labor government at Saxony,
and the great political Communist
demonstrations where hundreds Of
thousands parade the streets, with the
leaders, Remmelle, Heckert, Clare Zet-
kin and others agitating among the
masses.
In Russia, the work of the Soviets
is now quite different, building up the
industries in the most efficient and
modern methods available. There are
complete scenes of the Moscow inter-
national agricultural exposition show
ing Russia years ago, the meagre huts
in which the peasants lived and the
modern, sanitary houses being built
by the Soviet government for the
workers.
Then the problem of takingscare of
the millions of orphans left in Russia
after the great famine, seems to be
solved by the excellent work of the
Commune Homes. There are complete
scenes showing these children at work
and at play, especially is it interesting
to see them at play in the John Reed
Home where drama written by the
children is being played.
This is the best film released by the
Friends of Soviet Russia, both in pho
tograph, in titling and dramatic in
terest. The film is being shown for the
relief of the struggling German work
ers.
Boost The DAIIX WORKER IL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Best People Get
Jolt From Police;
House Scohlaws

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 1S.-As
the second step in their drive on boot
Logging in Illinois capital city, the
booze squad of the local police force
has served ultimatums on owners Of
buildings housing bootIeggers to get
new tenants.
Owners failing to heed this warning
will be served with injunctions vacat-
ing the buildings for year.
The owners, many Of them of
Springfeld's best" families, were
surprised" when advised their prop
critics housed bootleggers. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Another Bank Busted.

SIOUX FALLS, S. d., May 49,
Another state bank has fooled the
workers and farmers who had deposits
in its keeping. The Dakota Trust
and Savings Bank of this city sus-
pended business and was placed in
the hands Of the state superintendent
of banking.
No definite reason for failure was
made public, altho it is intimated by
officials, that Withdrawals during the
last six weeks had depleted reserves.
Boost The DAILY WORKER. N
you are worker, It Is your paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19

1895. Crepe, Bingham, printed wolfe
or linen could be used for this style.
The pockets may be finished at the
edges with fancy stitchery, and the
paws, eyes and tail worked out in en-
broidery, or stitchery.
The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, A.
6. and years. A 6 year size requires
2k yards OF % inch material.
Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt OF 10c in silver or stamps,
DAILY WORKER, 1113 w. Washing
ton Blvd, Chicago, Ill.
Send 12c in silver or stamps for our
UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER
1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
shIpworkers Refuse 0 Hour Day.

HAMBURG, Germany.-The $4,000
workers engaged in the German ship
building industry who have been lock-
ed out since January because they ad-
hered to the eight-hour day guaran-
teed by the official arbitrator. have al.
most without exception, turned down
the suggestion OF the employers to
work on nine-hour basis. In Ham
burg, OF the $4,000 involved. only 500
showed UP for work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
DAWES REPORT LOOKED UPON AS
PLOT TO MAKE GERMANY ECONOMIC
VASSAL OF THE UNITED STATES
BY LOUIS LocHNER
(Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press)

BERLINDespie the May election in which the monarch
lists failed to gain expected tho the Communists surpassed
their hopes opinion in labor radical circles growing
that the Dawes reparations report attempt make
many economic and financial colony of the United States
AS radical economist puts it, American capitalism needs
longer fight with American labor importing cheap
labor in fact join in the naonastc cry America
the Americans
The Dawes report provides to take German
industry The only country that take this industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Three Meetings OF
Rail Labor Men Take
Up Vital Issues

Three railroad labor organizations
are holding their triennial conven-
tons this week. They are the Order
of Railroad Telegraphers, who are
meeting in Cleveland; Switchmen's
Union of North America, which is
meeting in Denver, and the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Firemen and
Oilers, which is meeting at Newark,
N ].
These three organizations repre-
sent hundreds of thousands of work
ers in all parts of North America.
The most important problem that
will be discussed at these conven-
tions will be the abolition of the rail-
road labor board thru the passingSof
the Howell-Barkley railway labor act,
which is now before congress.
Since the last convention Of the
telegraphers they have started bank
in st. Louis which has deposits of
more than $4,OO0,000
Oppose c. p. p. A.
Politics will play an important part
in the discussion at the convention
of the switchmen. There has devel-
oped strong opposition to further
participation in the Conference for
Progressive Political Action within
the union.
The oilers will be faced with the
problem of how to raise the pay Of
their members who are in the gov
eminent employ, which is a fair sec
ton. The government is both a slave
driver and darn poor payer OF
wages, the oilers declare.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19

a common occurrence.
A reversal to conditions under the
imperial regime was brought about
with reference to May day, labor's
international holiday, by the conserv-
alive minister of the interior, Jarres
He forbade all open-air demonstra-
tions of the workers. 1t is character
istic Of the impotence of organized
German labor that the ukase was ac-
cepted and that only the Communists
called out their men and women and
organized demonstrations neverthe-
less.
To which the Socialists as usual
replied that the real reason why an
excuse was given the minister of the
interior was that the Communists
proclaimed they wish to remove the
government by force.
Over 5000 farm hands are on strike
in eastern Prussia, the stronghold of
the German junkers. The districts
especially involved are Koenigsberg
and Fischhausen.
The strike is so complete there that
even the ordinary emergency services
such as feeding the live stock are re-
fused by the farm hands.
The police report that during one
day of the past week 20 suicides took
place in Berlin has once again called
attention to the fact that stabilize
ton of the rentenmark has not
brought a solution of economic dis
tress. Practically every suicide was
due to economic worries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
NEW YORK CITY
Party Activities

The Workers Party Labor Party
Policy" will be discussed at a gener-
al membership meeting to be held on
Tuesday evening, May Goth. at Stuy-
vesant Casino, 142 Second avenue,
near 9th street. James p, Cannon,
member of the C. E. c., of the Work
ers Party, will speak Members are
uged to attend this meeting.
Admission is by membership card
only.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
Trachtenberg Tour
Llst Of Western Dates.

The list of Trachtenberg's western
dates follows. Addresses of halls
and hours of meetings will be pub
lished later where they are not given
here:
Tuesday, May 20, Butte, Mont.
Saturday, May "a, Superior, Wis.
Sunday, May rs, st. Paul, MINI.
Monday, May 26, Minneapolis,
MINI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
YIpseI Reunion Biz Success.

The reunion OF former active mem
bers Of the Young Peoples Socialist
league, held at Workers Lyceum, 1888
Hirsch boulevard, last Saturday night,
certainly attracted big crowd.
Not only those former Yipsels who
Joined the ranks Of tired radicals"
have showed their great interest, but
also those who consistently kept up
their activity thru the channels of the
Young Workers League and Workers
party were in full attendance. A lib
eral representation from the present
Y. w. l.. worthless made of the occa.
sion real gathering Of the clans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
A DAINTY MORNING" FRocK


1859. This is attractive for bingham,
linen. chambrey, repp or crepe. Strip
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ton would be pleasing. In black sateen
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this style would be very effective.
The Pattern is cut in Sizes: Small,
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Extra Large. 46-4s inches bust meas
ure. A Medium size requires Az yards
of 36 inch material To trim with con.
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Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt OF 10c in silver or stamps,
DAILY WORKER, 1113 w. Washing.
ton Blvd, Chicago. I'll.
Send 12c in silver or stamps for our
UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER
1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19
NEW YORK CITY.
ORGANIZATIONS, ATTENTION.

District No. 2, Workers Party,
has arranged grand excursion
and moonlight dance on the Hud-
son river for Saturday, June 2sth.
The cor,modIous steamer cler-
mont, having capacity OF 5000,
has been chartered for this oeca-
sion.
Friendly organizations are urged
to keep this date In mind and not
arrange for any affairs that week.
Every new subscriber increases tn,
influence OF the DAILY WORKER.
you are a worker, Il Is your paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19

A lover OF decorations who swiped
$4,000 of trophies from Masonic tenn
pie at 912 North LaSalle street, is still
at large, police say.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-19

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Boost The DAILY WORKER. II
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-14
THE CRAMTON BILL SEEMS LIKELY
To GET THE APPROVAL OF HOUSE

Judiciary about take the subject
federal
legislation 1t generally conceded
friends prohibition chief obstacle efficient
that divided responsibility
prohibition commissioner not his boss His immediate
Internal Revenue his second the Secretary
OF the Treasury his third the President
popular be that incorporated bill
introduced Michigan. This bill establishes
the BILL The general prediction that the
bill with favorable
outstanding features of the above the creation
separate Treasury with full responsibility for law
elimination politics
fring he enforcement officials to Civil Service
to
recognized poll
bounded by politicians Of low high
political debts having appointed positions
these sympathy with the prohib
They
hearings before indicates charge
fitness.
prohibition officers
high could
be ecured they werebe t
Cmon outlined by Michigan
provisions definite prohibition
authority commissioner ubordnatcs and pomugac
Then,
the internal Revenue Bureau would all be under cabinet head
decisions
which the the dispute The
President cabinet directly
hton
which
1t hoped thai Congress viii em5odyng
contained n Camton bill
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-03-14
SCOTCH WHISKY FORMS
MOST BOOTLEG CARGOES
New York Coast Guard Deputy
Says British Ships Pre-
dominate in Rum Fleet
SHIPS ANCHOR FARTHER
Governm'nt Laboratories Analyze
All Liquor Seized by the
Coast Guard

Z w. K. Sanders, deputy surveyor in
charge OF the prohibition activities OF
the coast guard cutters of New y ork,
is quoted in a dispatch of February "a
as saying that the bulk OF bootleg liq-
nor now seized from rum runners by
the members of the United States coast
guard, is genuine whisky-mostly
Scotch. The alcoholic content of liq-
uor seized from srnugglers averages
about Is per cent.
Mr.. Sanders said that all the liquor
seized by the coast guard cutters was
sent to government laboratories for
an analysis. The analyses have to be
made before the seized liquor is used
as evidence.
Mr.. Sanders attributes the fact that
very small quantity of liquor is be-
ing landed at present from the liquor
fleet TO two things-adverse weather
conditions and the pending treaty by
which America and Great Britain agree
no liquor searches aboard ships within
enc hours steaming from the Ameri-
can shore. The liquor ships are now
anchored between 20 and Is miles
from shore. According to this dis
patch there is not one within the old
IL to IS miles range.
It is whispered that these boats have
moved farther out in anticipation of
the ratification of the liquor search
treaty mentioned above. British ships
make up the greater part of the rum
feet. There is only one Frenchman
among the II liquor ships anchored off
shore.