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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
SCAB PENNSY
CHIEF SWINGS
AT CHURCHES
Atterbury Defends His
Company Union Pill
tny rhe Eederatsd pra.aA

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Strike-break.
ing Atterbury, Vice President Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, is on the war.
path again, this time against the Fed.
eral Council Of Churches which re.
Gently published mildly adverse re.
port of Atterbury's company union
farce among the shopmen on his road
Atterbury writes long propaganda
statement to the Council demanding
that 1t be sent out to correct what he
calls unfair conclusions arrived at by
the Investigators report.
The report had pointed out that EN-.
ployees under the company union sys.
tenn say their grievances are not sat
isfactorily met. Atterbury blandly re-
plies: ITO predicate any conclusions
on grievances as factor does not ap-
pear to be sound"
"2nd: The report seems to stress
what it regards as lack of enthusi-
asm for the plan or indifference to-
ward it," Atterbury continues. "This
also we feel is an unsound criterion. "
"3rd: 1t is stated that the en-
ployees do not regard the plan as af-
fording them any real economic
power for the purpose of dealing col
lectively with the company" After
bury admits, and then fires his biggest
gun: This undoubtedly refers to the
strike weapon and this consideration
also goes to the fundamental concep-
ton underlying our plan as opposed
to the popular and mistaken notion
that strike rather than peace is a
natural and inevitable state of indus
trial relations"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
NEGRO WIDOWS
V|CT|MIzED BY
U. S. WAGE CUT
c apital Scrubwomen
Brutality Treated

WASHINGTON, Aug. Widows
with dependent children, and women
so far on in years that they cannot
get more bearable jobs, make up the
army of char-women who are now
holding protest conferences against
the reduction in pay which has been
announced by the civil service CLASH
fication board. At least two-thirds OF
them are colored-a fact which makes
them the less able to defend them.
selves.
Col. Sheriff., Of the army engineer
corps, superintendent of public build.
ings and grounds, is the master of
those char-women who are employed
in the buildings occupied by the state,
war, navy, interior and certain other
executive departments. He got con.
troll few years ago by grace Of Sen.
Smoot, who discovered that the mill
tary autocrat could cut down the cost
Of scrubbing the doorways.
In ancient Rome an official known
40 a hOA toIOi Woo CuplOyCu W ldSll
the rowers in the galleys when they
fell exhausted at their oars. Sheriff.
is earning the title. He does not per-
NIT these women, for instance, to go
up and down in the Office elevators
with their pals and mops-no matter
how early or late the hour. They
must climb the stone stairs.
Colored men, backed by the colored
press, are demanding that this brutal
treatment of scrubwomen cease. They
are denouncing Smoot and Sheriff.
and turning on Coolidge, who keeps
Sheriff. on the job. SherrilIs glitter.
ing uniform is conspicuous at all i'm.
portant white house social affairs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
BOYCOTT FINNISH
LOAN, CLASS WAR
PRISONERS URGE
1000 PoIiticaIs Still
jailed In Finland

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
HELSINGFORs, Finland, Aug. g.
While huge Finnish loan is being
floated in the United States, the re-
dictionary government of Finland is
bounding its political prisoners at
home.
Following the butchery and extermi-
nation Of 10000 radical Finnish work
ers in concentration camps and pris-
ons by the counter-revolutionar gov
ernment that was installed after the
1917 revolution by Germany and then
the allies, the remaining Communists
and other radicals have been steadily
prosecuted. over 1000 of them are
in prison despite false propaganda
about amnesty intended for foreign
consumption.
At the Tammisaari institution Of
penal servitude drunken and per-
verified jailers infict punishment at
their own whim. Attempts at suicide
by the politicians, crazed attempts at
murder and other unusual phenomena
reveal the desperation of the men who
are imprisoned for no overt act but
for their opinions or for belonging to
the Communist party which has been
outlawed by the government.
These politicals appeal to the civ
ilized world, particularly America, to
institute an economic boycott of Fin
land. II the Finnish loan, fioated in
the United States by Lee, Higginson
& Co., should fail to find purchasers
and if trading with the reactionary
Finnish government should be cur
tailed, better treatment is expected to
result for the political prisoners.
(The American Labor Yearbook,
published by the Rand School, de-
clares Finland is still in the grip of
a strong reactionary government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
Illinois Postal
Clerks Continue
Fight for Raise
(special to the Daily worker

JOLIET, Ill-Protests against Presi.
d-nt Coolidge's veto of their wage in.
crease preceded a resolution by the
Illinois Postoffice Clerks to continue
the agitation to bring the compensa-
ton Of postal workers somewhere up
to living wage. 1t was the fourth
annual convention of the Illinois State
Federation Of Postoffice Clerks, held
[ joliet in July.
Speeding up of clerks in the Chicago
eestofiice was complained of and Post
-Asier Lueder, recently defeated for
:he mayoralty of Chicago, was charged
18th listening only to the higherups
and not to the rank and file of work
ers.
The Chicago clerks have organized
the Chicago Postofice Clerks Union
Loan Assn. in the federal building to
provide credit to their members and
promote thrift. 1t is on the cooper
alive basis. Funds for lending are
taken from the sale of shares and de-
posits in the loan association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
Jugo-Slav Miners
Find Kuzbas Work
Progressing Well
BY w. A. WARREN
Especial to The Daily Worker


KEMEROVO (By MaiD The Jugo-
Slav miners group has arrived and
are now at work. Comrade Babich
has also arrived and is in charge of
the fairly well equipped tailor shop.
Electric motors have been installed at
the mines where they are running two
coalcutting machines by electric
power. Motors have been installed
in the kitchen, the shoe shop and the
laundry and others are to be installed
at the dairy and the carpenters shop.
Coal is being shipped by water
transport to Tomsk and Novo Niko-
laevsk. The river barges have a
draught of between and 6 feet of
water, are strongly built and decked
over. They are strong enough for a
sea voyage. One tug boat takes two
barges, each with about 500 tons of
coal.
The Colony dairy has now 100 cows
and q start has been made in estab-
fishing a modern dairy. Last month
the Colony sold 100000 gold roubles
worth of coke and got the returns for
it. From Is to IS cars Of coke are
being shipped every day to the Urals.
A large garden has been planted but
Sammer is slow coming this year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
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ring to eat and we kids have to
work.
"They never work, and look
what they have, and we are al
ways working, and look what we
have. The place where you live
and 1 live is cold and dirty and
the walls have been cracked for
the last fifty years. All we ever
have to wear is ragged clothes
that we get from charity, and if
we get a cotton suit once in a
couple of years we only wear it
like when we 60 to the circus with
the rest of the settlement chill
dren, and we think we're swell
cause most of the kids have to
wear dirty rags.
"And what have we got to cal?
Look at the ice cream and cake
and fruit that maid is passing
around to those kids. Say, do you
know my little sister is sick and
the visiting nurse says she must
have fruit, and all we have to give
her is dry rye bread and salt her.
ring. got her a dried up orange
yesterday. / had to hook it from
the peddler and the cop chased me
and 1 nearly got caught, but sis
was so happy to get it that 1 am
glad / did it.
"It makes me mad to see those
rich kids in there stuffing them
selves with fruit and cake and ice
cream. 1 hope they eat so much
it makes them sick. But what's
the good of hoping that. If they
get sick they have good doctors,
not just visiting nurses who don't
know very much.
81 tell you, Mike, used to
think that everything was as it
had to be and that it couldn't be
helped, but since / have been go
ing to those Junior Group meet
ings / have learned different and
i think the workers are crazy If
they don't get together and do
something so that they will get
what belongs to them"
What do you think2 Do you
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
ME AND jim.
BY SUNNY JR.

We are watching jake Jones'
party. Me and Jim were not in
yited. You see Jakie's Pa is boss
of big newspaper. He has lots
and lots of money and Jim is only
one of his many little newsboys.
You see, of course then, that Jim
wasn't fit to be invited to Jakie's
party. | wasn't either cause / only
delivered the Jones' groceries. Jim
got a box for us to stand on and
put it up against the side of the
house and when we got up we
could look in at all the rich kids
having party.
Gee, it was swell All those kids
was dressed up in silks and vel
vets and everything in the room
was beautiful. All kinds of heavy
silk stuff hung on the walls and
thick carpets and everything. And
you should have seen the eats
Yum! hadn't had money enough
to buy supper and Jim hadn't
even had dinner and when we
saw all those swell things we got
an awful empty feeling in our
middle.
Just then Jim swore an awful
swear word and then he began to
talk kind of excited.
"Look at that kid enjoying him.
self. Look at the rest of those
rich kids enjoying themselves.
Everyone Of their fathers has
plenty Of time for golf and every
thing else and does nothing all
day but enjoy himself. The only
worry they ever have is to see
where they could spend all the
money they have. And where do
they get the money? My pa and
your pa and lot of other poor
workers work hard for them all
day and sometimes long into the
night, Even our mothers work
and still we haven't enough to
even buy rye bread and salt her
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
ITALIAN MOTHER
WINS RETURN TO
her FAMILY HERE
immigration Men Would
Have Kept Her Out
Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)

Especial TO the DAILY WoRKER)
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Marie Libe-
ratori, whose home is in Milwaukee,
was speeding westward today to her
four children, having been held at
Ellis Island for a month.
Mrs. Liberatori, WHO is fifty years
old, came back to America in June
after two year visit to Italy, her ma
tive land, only to be told that she was
excess quota" and likely to become
a public charge" She left the United
States in 1922 under the provision of
the old immigration law, which
granted aliens the privilege Of return
ing to their native lands for a period
of six months.
But that she was likely to become
a public charge seemed a little un.
fair to Mrs. Liberatori. She had first
come to America in 1908, with her
husband and young son, Francesca.
After his father deserted his mother
and sisters, francesca supported the
family.
Came the war of 1917, and Fran.
cesco, then Is years old, felt the call
Of duty. He enlisted in the United
States army, was put through hasty
military training and was in France
within a few months. Three days in
France and he was in the front line
trenches. Three hours in the front
line trenches and he was dead.
The terse dispatch from the war
department drove Mrs. Liberatori to
distraction, brought on a nervous
breakdown and she was soon in the
Wisconsin state asylum, an insane
woman. Six months treatment re-
stored her sanity, and upon her re-
lease she went back to Italy, for a
rest.
The department of labor refused to
readmit her until bond was furnished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
n. Y. RENTERS WON'T
BUDGE FOR LANDLORD
Who DOUBLED RENTS

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-Tenants
protesting increased rentals at a
west Sixty-slxth street apartment
house today barrieaded themselves
in and refused to admit the owner
or his agents. The property has
been rented on seml-phllanthropie
basis, but was sold recently and the
new owners raised rents, in nearly
every case double and in some more.
All tenants have refused to pay
the increases and most Of the men
are staying home to guard their
firesides. About 1000 persons, maxi
ing up 400 families, occupy the prop
erty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
A,menIan co.aperatIves PROSPER.

rho new Armenian Central Cooper
.a~o Society, tho "Aicap," reports to
{ An American Cooperative Com
mission the rapid growth of so coop
eratiye societies with combined
membership of 10000. These cooper
a,ives exist in 20 towns or villages as
's1i as throughout the country dis
tricts. Besides the cooperative distri-
button of food and clothing at cost,
the American farmers have organized
seven central dairy co-operatives and
three market garden societies to sup.
ply food to cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
GERMAN BANK
CLERKS WALK
The STREETS
Halve Forces as Mark
is Stabilized
BY LOUIS p. LocHNER

Federated Press Staff correspondent.)
BERLIN, Germany, Aug. S.AHalf of
the German bank clerks and employees
who 'held jobs during the defation
period are now walking the streets o.
else holding on to temporary make
shift jobs in the hope of later return,
ing to the banking business in which
they have been trained.
While Germany was flooded with
paper billions and trillions, whole
armies of bank clerks were needed
just to count the money. The handl-
ing of foreign exchange and Of the
many securities that were bought on
speculation required staff almost
three times as large as pre-war days.
Young men and women deciding upon
a career naturally thought that clerk
ing in bank offered good chances for
advancement.
With the sterilization of the mark,
the banking business has gone down
to low ebb. The "deflation" of hui
man material in a number of the
largest financial institutions of Ger.
many has been:
Bank Employees during Employees
Imitation Now
Deutsch Bank ................30, 900 $4,000
Darmstaedter Bank ....26,000 10000
COmmerZ und Priyatbank 5000 16. 900
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
ANOTHER LABOR
PARTY VICTORY
IN AUSTRALIA
Workers Now Lead in
Victoria Parliament
BY w. FRANCIS AHERN.
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 3d.
The state elections in Victoria mark
another stride in the reconquest OF
Australia by the labor party and also
indicate a union Of city and land pro.
ducers.
Five of the six states in the com
monwealth of Australia now have
given Labor the largest representa-
ton in their legislatures. Victoria,
the most conservative state in Aus
tralia, failed to give the Labor party
the clean majority it has in Queens
land, Western Australia, South Aus.
tralia and Tasmania but 1t gives a
Labor lead of IL representative over
the Conservatives, the second party.
Prior to the June elections the state
of parties in Victoria was: Conserva-
tives 20, Country Conservatives ESQ.
called Farmers party 13, Labor %,
Independent 1. Now it is Labor 20,
Conservatives II, Country Conserva-
tives 10, Liberals 5, Independent /.
Electoral System Unfair.
The electoral system had been fixed
to keep Labor out of Office. In the
city districts, mostly held by Labor,
the boundaries were so drawn that up
to $4,000 voters were included in a
single electorate. But in the country,
where the Conservatives predominant,
the districts held as low as 5000 vot-
ers.
AS the city districts numbered Is
and the country so, it will be seen
that under ordinary circumstances
there would always be preponder-
ance of Conservatives over Labor
members. A big swing of dirt farm
ers to Labor helped Labor capture
many small country seats.
Not In Government Yet
Labor is not yet able to form a
government in Victoria on its own
account, tho it might be able to with
the liberals. But on top of the re-
cent Labor victories in the other Aus
tralian states it is an indication that
there is big swing to Labor thruout
the continent.
There is one other Australian state,
New South Wales, in which state
election is to be held, and it seems
certain that this state will also return
a Labor government. 1t is also conf
IDENTIFY expected that Labor will sweep
the federal elections in Australia in
1925.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
FARMERS FAILURE TO
Bite BANKERS BAIT
DELAYS GRAIN MERGER

The Chicago Grain Marketing
Company, which was scheduled to
take over five old line grain and
elevator concerns and begin doing
business at once failed to material
ize. It was stated at the offices of
the company that there had been
an unexpected but merely temper
airy delay in complete capitalization
Of the $2e,ooo,ooo merger.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
Not So yellow in St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. S.-The machin
lists union is negotiating with the
Yellow Cab Co. to unionize it's st
Louis garage mechanics. That would
make this concern strictly union in
st. Louis. The drivers recently
won strike lasting nearly two years
for the union shop and better wages.
The same concern operates motor.
iously anti-union in other large cities.
The company spent 100000 fighting
the local strike.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
LABOR DEFENSE
COUNCIL ELECTS
{. c. WENTWORTH
Robert Buck, Resigning,
Lauds Councils Record

Unanimous appreciation is expressed
at the election of e. G. wentworth, of
Chicago, as the new chairman of the
Labor Defense Council, succeeding
Robert M. Buck, who resigned, having
to leave town. For many years, Mr..
Wentworth has been known as an
ardent champion of free speech and
civil rights. While not affiliated to
any working class organization, he
has given his support to the workers
in numerous struggles. He is the au-
thor Of several books, the latest Of
which is the recently published novel,
THE Education of Ernest Wilmerd-
ing"
Mr.. Bucks letter of resignation is
as follows: "As national chairman
of the council 1t has been my aim to
exercise direct scrutiny of all opera
tions in order to be in a position at
any moment to vouch for the conduct
Of the cause the council represents.
Since I expect in the near future to
move from Chicago, it will be impos-
sible for me to continue to function in
this manner. For that reason hand
you my resignation.
Praises Councils Record.
ain leaving the craftsmanship,
wish to express my satisfaction
with the conduct of the defense in
the Michigan cases and the manner
in which funds have been solic-
tied, collected and expended. trust
the excellent support the defense
has had, will continue in this very
important battle in the cause Of
freedom of speech and political
opinion. In this cause ! shall main
tain an unfIaggIng interest and ae-
tivity and If there is service ! am
able to render the council, | trust
you will not fall to notify me
promptly"
AS soon as it became known that Mr..
Buck could no longer serve, members
of the National Committee Of the La
Dor Defense Council expressed their
unqualified endorsement of Mr.. Went
worth for the place. John A. Lapp
Of the National Catholic Welfare Con.
ference, wrote in to say: Il am very
happy that you secured Mr.. Went
worth to fill the vacancy caused by
the departure of Mr.. Buck from the
city. l approve his appointment very
heartily"
Roger Baldwin of the American
Civil Liberties Union writes: II am
mighty glad that you have landed
Mr. Wentworth, who is a fine man for
the job"
Ruthenberg's Appeal.
The Labor Defense Council was or
ganized to defend William q. Foster
c. E. Ruthenberg, and the 20 other
Communists indicted in Michigan
following the raid on the Communist
Party Convention in the summer OF
1922. The Council is now actively
engaged in preparing for the appeal in
the case of Ruthenberg.
Contact with the actions of Burns
Daugherty, stool-pigeons in the Michi-
gan cases, brought the attention of the
Labor Defense Council to the whole
question of Professional Spies in the
ranks of labor, and it has now under
taken to prepare a comprehensive
pamphlet-an encyclopedia of labor
spies-which will tell something of
the individuals who are engaged in
this vile trade. 1t is expected that
the pamphlet will be published some
time in the Fall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
Labor Day In Calgary.

CALGARY, Can, Aug. 3.-Labor
day will be celebrated on the usual
large scale by the Calgary Trades
and Labor Council which has taken
st. Georges island for an athletic
program and dance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04
New California Labor Daily.

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 3. - The
Union Labor Record, founded as a
weekly labor paper in Oakland in
1918, plans to come out as The Daily
Record in August. 1t will be issued
six days week with pro-labor po-
Icy by the Union Labor Publishing
Co., 2S6 18th street. Oakland, Cal
Stanton w. Lore will continue as
editor and manager
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04

think Jim is right? 1 think every.
thing he said is the truth, and
am going to join his Junior
Group. You just bet I am, and
pretty soon when all the workers
get wise we will put all the rich
guys to work and have a Workers
government all over the world.
For information about the
Junior Groups, write to Y. w. L.,
lib w. Washington Blvd, Chi
cago.
Words And What They Mean.
Toil--work very hard.
Textile-cloth woven.
Roar-noise.
Ragged-torn.
Chill-cold.
Hasten-go fast.
Master-one who owns property
and makes others work for him. A
ruler. An owner.
roperty-factory or house. Any.
thing that is made may be someone's
Goods.
Weary-tired.
Gloom-dark.
RivERvIEW--RAIN OR SHINE
AUGUST foth-SUNpAY
PRESS PICNIC DAY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-04

RiVERvIEW--RAIN OR SHINE
AUGUST f0th-SUNDAY
PRESS PICNIC DAY
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WIocILYs TRICKS

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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-10-22

NADIA, porque ESQ es mi augusta. m:
dolor; porque ESQ, 81 yo sintiese de
modo distinto, podria ser mi vengan-
"a mi orgullo 10 otro.... Lo otro
es mi patria'
Es cierto mi querido amigo que ell
noble patricio antes de eutregar su
alma al Gran Arquitecto del universe
prso en- practica sus palabrqs, concu-
rriendo estrechar en- fratefnal al.1a.
20 su rlldo adversario de siempre, III
doctor Barbosa, en- una noche sublime
en- la Logia S. Juan Bautista. va us
ted dice que ha continuado prcdicar-
do las ideas santas del noble puerto
rriqueiio Gpor que no pone EN- pricti-
ca todos sus hechos gloriosos olVi-
da las luchas de sus mobiles adverse
rios; tambien como el Maestro les
invita- olvidar las cuesticneS perSo.
males del pasado, en- estrecho a,tra
lzo cantan un himno por la fraterni-
dad, por la concordia y por la union
uG LOQdS Ids COuC1CIlC1dS pu0A
fnas, para que todos unidos deran1e
mos de nuestros gobernantes los defe
cbos sacrosantos de regir nuetros pre-
Ipios destinos?
Querido amigo usted sabe cue to-
da la vida no he sido mas qle una
s6la cosa he anhelado para mi pa
tria como tinico ideal polSieo verla
algun dia hbre Y feliz entire los ma
res del Caribe, con un gobierro de-
pueblo para ell pueblo, establecidc
honorablemente por los hijos de es
ia bendita adorada TERRA.
listed tambien en- alguna OCCASION, )
81 no recuerdo NAL fue en- la Ultima
vez que nos vimos, dijo que los indie
pendentistas no cabian dentro de L
"Alianza''. mo cree don Juan Que
81 nuestros directories politicos en- Ia
: actuales circunstancias porque atra