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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
BY ELSA BLOCH.

XAIITH the appointment of Edgar
wv Allen Bancroft to the post of
ambassador to Japan, the national I'M
official strikebreaking agency, of
which Calvin Coolidge is honorary
president, establishes another interna-
tional connection.
To understand why Edgar Allen
Bancroft becomes an Ambassador, i"
read his analysis Of the Chicago strike
of 1894 written --twenty-nine years
ago Step by step, thru a maze Of le-
galisms, technicalities, capitalist
sophistries, Bancroft builds up the
case for the General Managers as
sociation and for the United States
government "Socialistic sophistries,"
says Mr. Bancroft, must be cor
rected. Labor unions should be COM
PEELED to incorporate, making their
funds liable to attachment and their
affairs subject to control by the courts.
THE Importance of obedience to law,
no matter how defective, must be
stressed"
And how is that to be accomplished?
BY the simple expedient Of class col
laboration-the safest road to indus
trial peace based on individualism.
Neither the employers nor the en-
ployees have yet learned the deeper
relations in which their interests are
the same. The unions should be de
veloped for the uplifting of the mem
bers, not as class, but as men. Let
them follow the example of the armed
powers of Europe and enter into and
preserve relations Of constant and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

One measuring $50 feet in length, 80
feet in width, and 30 feet in depth;
the other 700 feet in length, go feet
in width, and 80 feet in depth.
The third is a floating dock 1858 feet
long, "a feet wide, rs feet deep. The
lifting capacity is 5000 tons.
To facilitate the export of bay.
berry oil, the port has an oil store
house capable of storing a total of
1900 tons of oil. The construction of
four conveyors for the loading Of piece
cargo each with capacity of 80 tons
an hour is being completed.
During the winter season three ice
breakers are employed, "Dobrynya
Nikitich," KAYAK Poyarkov," and
"Slavyansk." There is a sufficient
number of tugs. There are in the
port about % kilometers of branch
railway line.
For the purpose Of ship repairing
and loading, the port is equipped with
nine floating cranes Of lifting capacity
from 30 to $50 tons, and one bridge
crane.
The port has engineering and repair.
ing yards for ships; there are also
the repairing yards of the Dobrofiot
The port has one slipway and a yard
for the construction and repair of
wooden vessels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
GOmpers' Blessings

Mr.. Samuel GOmpers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, has just bestowed another
blessing on the political head of Senator LaFol.
llette.
In essence the p@ans of praise now sung by
Gompers in behalf of LaFollette, are to the tune
of those sung by the head of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in behalf of Woodrow Wilson, Cox
and other democratic lights. We are again asked
to vote for a man who has been "good to labor"
We are again called upon to pay our friends for
their supposed acts of nonhostility.
The "Grand Old Man" seems to wake up to a
startling fact in his laudation of the Wisconsin
senator At last Mr. Gompers seems to believe that
the old parties whose good men" he has been sell
ing to the workers for many years, are warped and
hopelessly corrupt Such recognition is, of course,
as belated as ineffective. At best recent events
have only served to make more clear the real char
acter of the democratic and republican parties.
They have not created the malignant situation.
The present condition of the capitalist parties is
not an overnight growth but is the natural out
come of years of development
1t is this tendency to serve outright the en-
plOying class interests and to reek with corruption,
graft, and the basest of sordid political filth that
Gompers has blinked for too many years. In in
dorsing LaFollette, Mr.. Gompers does nothing to
eradicate this cancer the American body polite.
Mr.. Gompers is now simply asking the workers to
vote for one who, in his opinion, is "the most
honest of all the honest men" the workers, largely
under his bidding, have been indorsing for many,
many years
AS usual, Mr. Gompers' blessings are curse
upon the labor movement. In holding up LaFOl-
lette the savior of the workers, Mr.. Gompers is
adapting his tactics to the changed conditions Mr..
Gompers is using the momentarily most effective
weapon for thwarting the efforts of the workers
and poor farmers to organize themselves into an
Independent political party pledged to waging the
fight against the exploiters along class lines
Forty years of LaFolletteism and about as many
years of Gompersism have brought the workers the
injunction deluge, the mounting unemployment,
the rising cost of living and enemy more power
full and ruthless than before. To the working
men and dispossessed farmers the blessings show
cred upon the head of LaFollette by Mr.. Gompers
are a scOurge in disguise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

I ENINGRAD port, owing to it's stu
- alton at the mouth of the Neva,
and at the junction of important rail
way lines and water and canal routes
may be regarded as one of the best
of the worlds ports.
During the last two years the re.
equipment of the port has proceeded
continuously, and the ruin caused by
the world and civil wars and the
blockade has been made good, and ii
is now in no way inferior to it's pre-.
war condition The summer naviga.
ton period starts about the end OF
April, continuing to about the end of
November, after which the winter sea.
son commences. During the latter the
largest ice breakers in the world are
employed, such as the "Lenin,
"Sviatogor," Frank" and many 9th.
ers. There are two channels for the
entry of ships into the harbor-(1) an
artificial sea canal 1913 miles long and
$50 feet wide, with a depth of 1928
feet for vessels of considerable
draught: (2) for vessels of small
draught with depth of II feet. The
port has the following quays for the
loading and unloading of vessels: the
customs quay for import goods
$500 feet long, the depth of water at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
Meet Mr.. Bancroft, "Our" New Ambassador to Japan

close communication and of friendly
conference"
What have the twenty-nine years OF
friendly conference" that have
passed since these papers were writ.
ten, brot to the armed powers of Eu.
rope?
And what has the close relationship
between the officials of the American
labor movement and the leaders of in.
dustry in the United States brot to
tho American workers?
But why this parlor diplomacy in
industrial battles?
Because-Mr. Bancroft tells YOU
labor reforms are essentially moral;
and no man is fit to lead a labor union
who distrusts the power of moral
forces"
Have you been deluded into think.
ing that militant action by the work
ers is the only solution of the indus.
trial problem? Listen to Mr.. Ban.
croft:
Labor militancy results from con-
fusion of moral distinctions, the con.
founding of legal rights with moral
duties. Strikes have been incident
to the defects of organization, the in
experience and ignorance of members,
and the tions-intellectual or
moral-of their leaders,"
"The Chicago strike of 1894 was an
immoral method of settling a purely
moral controversy"
When in the spring of 1894 the
moral appetite of the riveters, team
sters and laundresses in the shops of
the Pullman company became vorac-
ious, these workers grew intellectually
confused, and struck. The American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
Two Soviet Ports-Leningrad VIadivostok

quayside being 20 feet; a wooden
stockade 5000 feet long and depth of
water nearly "a feet; the Gutuev
basin quay about 5000 feet long and
depth of water at quayside % feet.
The grain and timber harbor has ten
quays for the loading OF timber and
grain, allowing for the simultaneous
berthing of 40 steamers with a
draught from ten to % feet. There
is also coal harbor with an area of
100000 square feet, and depth of 10h
to % feet, for the unloading of import
coal. Equipment includes eight pow
erful electric cranes. For oil cargoes
and large timber logs there is a sea
quay with a total length of 1900 feet,
and depth at the quayside of Is feet.
The total length of the Leningrad
quays is $1,000 feet.
The port possesses two elevators,
one with a receiving capacity of $50
trucks, and a discharging capacity of
200 trucks per "a hours. The other,
with capacity Of a little over 5000
tons, is being reconstructed. The to-
tai capacity of this elevator is $4,000
tons.
The port is equipped with ware
houses accommodating about 1905
tons, and open storage with an area
sufficient for about 10000 tons of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

railway union, newly created organiza-
ton of railway men, voted to support
the Pullman employees in their strike
by boycotting the hauling of Pullman
cars on their lines.
In this, according to Mr.. Bancroft,
the railway employees were embroil-
ing themselves in "a conflict in which
they had no interest and properly
they have no part" since "the Pull
man company's industries have no
connection with the railroads of the
United States"
That the Pullman employees had
early in March of the same year voted
to join. the American railway union,
thus showing their similarity of in
terest with the railway workers, and
that the Managers association, with
which the railway men had to deal,
had control of twenty-four roads cen
terring or terminating in Chicago, and
bound to the Pullman company by
long-term contracts, are facts which
Edgar Allen Bancroft either does not
know, or does not care to deal with
when he is proving the lack of com
mon cause between the Pullman
strikers and the striking railway
workers. That the railway men made
no demands for themselves in this
strike is to Mr.. Bancroft the unpar-
donable crime.
1t will be easy for Mr.. Bancroft, as
ambassador to Japan, to withstand
the shocks of American diplomacy
which brot the health" of his prede-
cessor to a state of collapse.
For the Japanese exclusion act, Mr..
Bancroft, was an essentially moral
act, framed by Congress for the intel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

lectual protection of the Americs 4
working class. Ambassador Hal
hara's note of protest, Mr.. Bancroft,
was based on fallacy of reasoning,
resulting from confusion of moral
distinctions, the confounding of legal
rights with moral duties. The subse.
quent self-destruction of a hundred
despairing Japanese workers was an
immoral method of settling a purely
moral controversy.
And the grouping of five American
battleships on the eastern coast Of
Asia, today, carries behind it much
the same motive as did the massing OF
United States troops in Chicago in
1894, and anyone who denounces such
action can be classed with those strik
ers who declared that the Officers of
the government were helping capital
to enslave labor" and whose criticism
was the result, as Mr. Bancroft says,
of misguided feeling"
When, in the not distant future
American warships are ready to meet
Japanese warships and fight out
questions of trade and the control OF
world resources, and a plausible ex-
cuse for the exploding of the first gun
is needed, Edgar Allen Bancroft will
not be slow to see the objectionable
injury to American sovereignty inn
piled in such an act as the tearing
down of an American flag by a Japa
|nese coolie. To Mr.. Bancroft, the
most heinous crime of the Chicago
strikers crime in itself justifying
the injunction and the troops, occur.
red when a group of hungry strikers
stopped Pullman train in which
rested the body of corpse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

cargo. This port also has steam and
electric floating and shore cranes with
lifting capacity from to $50 tons.
1t has 3O-40 tugs for plotting ships and
for other port duties.
The fire brigade service of the port
is in good working order.
VIadlvostok.
THIS is the largest U. S. S. R. port
in the Pacific and is a very con.
venient outlet for Eastern Siberia,
Northern Manchuria, and Northeast
Mongolia. In view of its well-organ.
lied ice-breaking service, it may be
considered as open for navigation the
whole year round.
In 1919 the total cargo turnover of
the port amounted to over 100000
tons.
For berthing and unloading vessels
there is a stone mole about $500 feet
long, for 13 ships with depth Of
water alongside of 20 to 30 feet. The
pontoon stages are about $500 feet
long, and can accommodate IL ships.
There are warehouses with an area
of 140,716 square metres, and open
storage with an area of 158,379 square
metres: a total of nearly $40 tons of
goods can be stored.
The port has three docks-two dry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
Here's A New Excuse.

NEW ORLEANS. La, Sept. IT,
Real estate operators here say there
is greater number of houses offered
for rent than ever before and that
there have been rent increases, but
these have been merely rise from a
sub-normal level. Many tenants
whose leases will expire Sept 80, have
not made new leases with their pres.
ent landlords.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
Nationwide Survey Shows No Rent Drop

petition Of newer apartments, with adj
ditional conveniences. The demand,
despite business depression, ruled
steady, it was said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Real es.
tate conditions in Washington are
still very bad" despite the fact that
rents have dropped considerably since
the war, members of the District of
Columbia rent commission declared
today.
A year ago, rooms in small apart
ments rented for $40 a month, while
they can now be obtained for about
1873, but the supply of cheaper apart
ments still falls short of the demand.
Rents are fixed in Washington by
the federal commission created by
congress during the war emergency.
The United States Supreme Court has
inferred, for no good reason, that this
emergency is now past, with the re-
suit that legal steps are being taken
to dissolve the commission.
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(Contlnued from page y
ers is due to lover production" Of that
type of apartment.
A recent survey showed that so per
cent of tenants in Detroit pay be-
tween $50 and SIS per month. There
is marked shortage in dwellings OF
this type here, in apartments, two
family flats and single homes and
therefore no decline in rent or hope
of early relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

b. O. Forbes finds consolation in the conditions
prevailing in Germany. The eight-hour day has
gone by the board and the workers are beginning
to realize that they must work hard to carry their
burdens. But Mr.. Forbes did not say whose bur-
dens the workers were carrying They are carry
ing their own and the burdens of the capitalists
while the latter are having as good time as if
there were no separations to pay
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

The eight-hour day is gone'by the board in Ger
many This was accomplished with the aid of the
socialdemocrats. One of the conditions of the
Dawes plan was the scrapping of the eight-hour
day The Communists fought against it, but the
sociaEdemocrats with the aid of the capitalists
starved the workers into temporary submission.
The eight-hour day has not gone by the board in
Soviet Russia tho.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

b. c. Forbes, Hearst financial expert and one of
the most reactonary scribblers in the country, OBJ
serves in the Chicago Herald Examiner of Sept
is, that American workers are giving a good ac
count Of themselves and satisfactory service to the
capitalists But the same cannot be said of
european workers. There the workers grumble and
look on work as a necessary evil. 1t is not com
pliment TO the American workers that their mas.
ters are satisfied with them. The American work
rrs more willing slaves than their br0tbers in
Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

DIES MONIES, Sept. 17.-Des Moines
renters Of first class apartments and
good houses will pay as much for liv.
ing quarters during the year 1924-25,
as they did in 1s2S-24 Those who
can be satisfied with inferior living
quarters can rent for approximately
ten per cent less than they paid last
year. That was the declaration today
of the best posted realtors in Des
Moines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

Is it coincidence that the League of Nations
shoud resume its propaganda for recognizing the
independence of Georgia about the same time that
counter-revolution against the Soviet government
was attempted in that country? According to all
signs the so-called labor government of Great
britain had hand in stirring up the trouble
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

Now that the "around- the-world flyers" are back,
should resume its propaganda for recognizing the
appropriation for building the greatest feet of
airships in the world. The "heroes" who flew
around the world will be used in this work Capital
ism knows how to advertise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Sept. 17.-Build-
ing activities, home buying and auto
mobiles are combining to force lower
rents in the smaller cities of the cen.
trail west. in the opinion of leading
real estate men here. They summed
up the situation as follows:
Construction of new residence
property has reached a point where
there are comfortable living quarters
for practically every family and land
lords are competing keenly for de-
sirable tenants"
Widespread buying of homes on
terms like rent has reduced the de-
mand for rental property.
centrlst Rents.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. IT,
Since the high peak reached in 1919,
rents in Birmingham generally have
remained practically stationary, fiuc.
tuating slightly up or down.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 17.-oc-
Itober leases for apartment houses and
residences will show decrease of
from five to ten percent in rent, real
estate agencies were agreed here to.
day. Numerous vacancies in apart.
ment houses is causing some land.
lords to offer one months free rent as
an inducement to prospective ten.
nants.
Frisco On Upgrade.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.-Rents
lin San Francisco were today declared
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
Same Here.

CLEVELAND, Sept. 17.--Slight re.
auctions in rents were reported by q
number OF agencies handling apart
ment house property in Cleveland, but
in most cases the price OF rental prop
erty ruled practically stationary, rent
al agencies reported. The reductions
In most cases. were caused by com,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

MOBILE, Ala. Sept. 1.-THE rent
situation in this city will be about nor.
NAL on moving day, November 1,
While there will be a few raises IN
rentals. there is no general tendency,
to boost the rates. realty men ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
No Hope For Decrease.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. 17.-Rents
in this industrial center are steady at
present following the general increase
of last May when most tenants
changed residences here.
Realtors here saw no hope for rent
decreases in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

by c. H. Garvey, representing the
Apartment House Owners Association,
to be on the upgrade because Of the
influx of eastern people into the city.
Modern first district two-room fur.
nished apartments were said by Gar.
vey to range from $55 a month to SIS
a figure in excess of the rents demand
ed last summer.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17.-While
there have been slight recessions in
residential rentals in Los Angeles
within the last eight months, these
have been almost entirely confined to
apartments and flats, a survey here to.
day showed. There is no seasonal
leasing date here and consequently
no fiuctuation is expected next month.
but any change will be upward. il was
predicted.
In single family houses the shortage
OF years has not been overcome, con.
sequently rental charges in this cate
CORY have been negligible.
South No Better.
vICKSBURG, Miss, Sept. 17.-De
spite new building here the tendency
is against a decrease in rents. Rental
agencies declare that lately there has
been an increased demand for houses
and practically all desirable proper.
ties are now rented.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. 1.-THE
rent problem in Little Rock is very en-.
couraging to residential renters.
House rent has decreased from 10 to
is per cent in the past year. The de.
crease was caused by building activi-
ties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

PHILADELPHIA, Sept II. = Rents
in Philadelphia continue on the up
grade because of the serious housing
shortage which has prevailed since
the war. The situation has become so
acute a municipal building program
has been proposed 1t has been es.
timated the city needs 10000 dwell.
ings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
No Change In Denver.

DENVER, Sept Little change
in rental prices for homes and bust
ness locations was apparent today in
Denver, and the Rocky Mountain re
gion. Despite continued home build.
ing operations on large scale, apart
ment and house rents remained at
the level of a year ago with no in!
dication of an early decrease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

The straw ballots may not show that the Com
munist candidates are on top But they show that
the workers are headed towards Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 17.-Al
tho the early fall season is usually a
period OF increasing rents in Harris
burg, no such increase has taken place
this year, according to the real es
state exchange. Their summary OF
the situation here is that rents are
remaining stationary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

Get member for the Workers Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18

Frisco On Upgrade.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.-Rents
lin San Francisco were today declared
The broad ax., 1924-11-08
Clouds Vary Greatly
IN Their COMPOSITION

Air Is viscid, like molasses, but Of
course not SO sticky Not only is 1t
viscid, but its viscosity varies greatly
with temperature and pressure. On the
ground clouds diffuse rapidly, higher
up they are ropy and still higher they
are granular, like sand grains on a
beach. There are cloud levels and
clear spaces In the air where clouds
are rare or never go. These levels
were determined before the earth
took its shape. They are fixed by the
dynamic laws Of the globe, says the
Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
The lowest clouds lie at less than
5000 feet above the ground, and they
would float there if this world were
all gaseous. like the planet Jupiter is.
On stormy days they do, In fact, come
as near to the land as they can, and
hug the ground SO closely that they
make the day dark. These clouds
are heavy rolling pillows.
The broad ax., 1924-11-08

line without exception in tailormadeB
and morning frocks. but has intro
duced an occasional flare In formal
gowns M0Iyneux il entirely unable to
resist the charm of the bOyish mode,
and has adopted the straight line to
the exclusion Of all Others Worth
mixes his palette and offers d little
of each
The Directors Outline.
Cheruit Premet and BechofT exploit
the directoire outline. Chez Jenny
the line Is straight and youthful. with
here and there a slight circular move
ment or fuliness-just enough TO lend
variety to this very interesting coIlec-
ton. All Of which Is sufficient to In
dictate that there Is no unanimity OF
opinion in Paris ON the subject Of the
silhouette. however much the creators
may agree on the incidental details OF
the mode
We are aided In forecasting the TN.
ture of these silhouettes by the inter-
national polo matches at Westbury,
which. because or the attendance OF