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The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Brindell, Building
Trades Gar, on Eve
Of Leaving Prison

SING SING PRISON, New York,
Dec. Robert P. Brindell, prize Ia
Dor faker Of the New York City build
ing trades and one of the pillars of
Tammany Hall, is not finding it so
hard as political prisoners 90 to get
out Of the penitentiary. He will leave
prison the day after Christmas "on
parole" =
Brindell was known as "czar" in
the building trades. The contractors
did not mind having such crooks as
Brindell CONTROL the unions, as long
as he controlled them for the con-
tractors, but when he used his con
troll to gouge graft from contractors
for himself, they had him put away
for three years as a lesson in deport-
ment.
He is estimated to have cleaned up
a million dollar fortune while in con-
troll of the building trades unions, and
now that he has learned his lesson
of how to treat contractors, the state
has released him with the understand.
ing that hereafter he graft off the
unions and not from the contractors.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
BRICKLAYERS IN
UNIONS PROVE
BEST WORKERS
Do Better Work Than
NOn-UniOniStS
BY LELAND oLDs.
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

You get more bricks laid per
hour and your work will cost
you less if you demand a
straight union Job in Chicago.
This conclusion, which is a
body blow to the pet argument
of the open shoppers, is based
on figures on labor productivity
and costs in certain building
trades gathered and published
by the U. S. bureau of labor
statistics.
In Chicago this investigation
covered "a jobs involving the laying
Of nearly 100000 bricks in straight
away wall construction. OF these
bricks 15O,149 were laid under strict
union conditions, 13O,5OO on nonunion
jobs and 1888 under Landis award
which is treated by the bureau as mix
ed union and nonunion.
The number of bricks laid, the num-
Der of hours paid for and the rate
per hour on the job are shown Tor
each of the "a jobs in the table:
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
COAL COMP ANY
HEADS IGNORE
CONSTITUTIONS
Only Use 1t When 1t
Suits Their Needs

NEW YORK, Dec. If a private
citizen is set upon in a closed com
pany mining town and assaulted and
thrown into Jail he can claim no dam
ages from the coal company which
employs these thugs, a verdict in the
Supreme Court of New York finds.
Even though the lawlessness of the
assault were established by the con
viction of the assailants in a court
of law and the unwarranted character
of the arrest of the thugs victim
proved by the local records showing
that he had been promptly discharged
it makes no difference to the New
York Supreme Court. The coal com
pany is exonerated from blame and
payment of damages.
Absolves Coal Company
The decision in question absolves
the Vinton Colleries company, incor-
porated in New York, for responsib-
ility for the assault and arrest of Ar
thur Garfield Hays, prominent New
York attorney, who made test of the
right of free speech in the gunman
ruled town of Vintondale, Pennsyl-
vania, May 27, 1922. during the big
coal strike.
Hays went there representing the
United Mine Workers that organ
lzers were being unlawfully kept out
Of the town and union men beaten up.
Seized BY cunmen
Hays, other attorneys and news
papermen visited the town and mar
rowly escaped being ridden down by
the dozen mounted coal and iron
police there, On insisting on remain
ing in the town till justice of the
peace had been seen relative to the
laws relating to free speech Hays and
the writer, who represented the Fed
Grated Press were seized by the gun
men at the direction of Lloyd |. Ar
bogast.
Coal Baron's Judge
After two and a half years Hays
suit for $4,000 damages came before
Judge William Harmon Black of the
New York Supreme Court. The judge
would not allow records of the gun
mems conviction to be presented nor
evidence as to the barring Of visitors
from the closed town. Black ruled
also that Hays could claim no dam
age for the indignity of the arrest.
The verdict means that this illegal
ly closed town-one of many-can
continue to tester as far as the court
is concerned. The case may be ap-
pealed.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02

during 1928 at rates Of $500 and
$16.6S a share of common stock.
Publication of income tax returns
has given the public a glimpse of the
profits being made by number of
textile companies whose financial re-
ports have been studiously withheld
These are companies owned by few
wealthy families who probably are
not anxious to have the contrast be-
tween their christian professions and
their cottonmill exploitation brought
too glaringly to public notice.
The profits of 9 of these concerns
together with the income tax returns
from which they are estimated are
shown in the table:
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
WANT AND STARVATION
STALK THRU THE SOUTH
AS JOBS FAIL WORKERS

CHARLESTON, S. c.-Want and
starvation is stalking abroad in the
south. Work is not to be had.
Banks i'm many places have closed
their doors. Several bankers in
South Carolina are held by the
courts for illegal banking. one
banker, upon conviction, killed him
self. '.''
A headline in Charleston paper
reads: Family Here in Dire Need,
Man Appeals for Work. Wife III
Children Hungry. The Associated
Charities is making an earnest ap-
peal for help for young man who
is very anxious to secure work. He
Is willing to do any kind Of honest
work. This man, has a family in
desperate need. A visit to the home
revealed the fact that the family
was without food. His wife is III,
and there are two little children,
the charity worker reported. The
case is typical.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
FEEDS PRISONERS
GARBAGE; SHERIFF
POCKETS $4,000

CLEVELAND, Dec. It'd rather
be sheriff of Cuyahoga county than
president Of the Union Trust Co."
Cleveland politician remarked during
the recent campaign.
Why the sheriff's Office is such
tasty morsel in the politicians mouth
is revealed by a suit brought by tax
payer against Sheriff G. b. Stannard.
asking that worthy to pay back to
the county $4,000 That is the
amount, according to the taxpayer,
that Stannard has placed in his own
pocket by overcharging the county for
feeding prisoners
Hires ReIly-Robber
The graft works this way: The
county allows 75c day for feeding
each prisoner. The sheriff hires a
cook (known in the prisoners par
lance as a belly-robber) who ham
mers down the cost per day to few
pennies. The rest goes into the
sheriff's pocket.
The Ohio supreme court has decid-
ed that the taxpayer has a right to
force Stannard to return his profit"
of $4,000, the result of one years
activities in starving county prison
ers. The sheriff himself hurriedly
paid a visit to his confederate. the
county prosecutor, Offering to return
$1,000 to the county treasurer.
sherif's Job Joicy Plum
Those innocents who have gazed in
astonishment at the frenzied efforts
made by aspiring politicians to grab
the sheriff's job, and have wondered
at the huge amounts spent by can
didates to attain this plum, have the
key in the prison food bill. The sys-
tenn is worked not only in Cleveland,
but in nearly every city of the coun-
try and is considered legitimate graft
for the sheriff's office.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
N. Y. Herald Tribune
Is S u d d e n Convert
to Freedom of Press
(ey rhe Federated Pressl

NEW YORK.-It all depends whose
OK is gored. When hundreds Of work
ingmen were jailed during the war for
exercising their rights of free speech;
when since the war workingmen were
sent to Sing Sing for exercising their
rights of free speech and free press
the New York Tribune said Amenl It
gave assent, too, to the persecution
of papers which exercised the rights
Of free press.
But now the leading editorial Of the
Herald-Tribune Nov. 26 is The Free
dom of the Press and the feature Of
the editorial is the text Of the first
amendment to the federal constitu-
tion:
Congress shall make no law re-
specting an establishment of relig-
ion or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech or Of the press, or the
right of the people peaceably to as
semble, and to petition the govern
ment for a redress of grievances.
The Herald-Tribune is calling on the
constitution of the United States to
protect it from Attorney General
Stone who has had it indicted, charg-
ed with unlawful printing and publish
ing of income tax returns. Ogden
Reid, president New York Tribune.
inc, which owns the Herald-Tribune
said his defence win raise two con-
tentions; % that the act of congress
on which the indictments were based
did not prohibit the publication OF in
come taxes paid; (2l that that statute
is unconstitutional because it violates
the freedom of the press clause OF
the constitution
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
CLOTHING WORKERS IN
CHICAGO COLLECT FUNDS
FOR PATERSON STRIKERS

Hyman schneid of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Of America
turned in S22.5o for the benefit Of
the strikers in Paterson, New Jer-
sey. He said the clothing workers
Of Chicago showed fine feeling Of
solidarity when they willingly made
donations to assist the silk strikers.
N. Botento turned in $3.50 for
the strike fund and said that more
would be coming next week.
Workers everywhere are urged to
make contributions to the Paterson
Silk Workers strike. Send the
money in to Room 3os, 1865 W.
Washington ST.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Women suppIant Men in cioarmakin,

NEW YORK.-Women are doing
most of the work in the cigar and
cigarette plants of the United States,
the committee on regional planning of
New York and its environs, declares.
Fifty-eight percent of the cigar and
cigarette workers are women and
girls compared to 1876 per cent in
other industries-that is, proportion
ately, three times as many women and
girls as in other industries. The drift
Of the industry, the report shows, is
away from the big cities to the small
er industrial communities where men
are employed at other work-as in the
coal towns-and their wives and
daughters can be bought cheaply by
the tobacco concerns.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Ibanez is Small Potatoes

NEW YORK.-Experts from Alton
so Unmasked, v. Blasco Ibanez' new
book against the Spanish monarch,
which are being made public here do
not indicate any wide social conscious
ness in Ibanez' Righteousness. He
sets out to prove that Alfonso was
partial to the Germans during the
var, not that he is hostile to the work
ers and tillers of the soil. Radical
Spanish groups in New York point to
the criticism he has made of wage
earner's revolts. What Ibanez wants
is merely capitalist republicanism.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02

He gives his last penny for the sup
port of his German comrades who suf-
fer behind prison walls. Nothing can
deprive this old fighter of his belief
in victory and future. Let him be a
shining example of devotion and solid
arity to all workers, men and women,
and particularly to the working class
youth
Paris, Aug. 81, 1924.
My dear Comrades:-I want to say
few words to you to win your con-
fidenee, ! am, an old man of 6S years.
During the war of 1870 was is years
old and since that time live in
France because l am an Elsacian.
have seen and experienced much in
my youth and have learned and un-
derstood that all human beings are
equal and that all poor people are op-
pressed whether they speak French,
German or any other language.
Communist Sun Shines Everywhere
My confidence in the future is
great, SO years ago there was still
a terrible darkness in the world and
today the Communist sun shines
everywhere and its beams reach the
most remote countries. Everywhere
is struggle-even in far off China. In
England and France the Communist
parties are growing.
In the factory where work many
workers join the Red Relief and col
lect money for the German children.
On every pay day l take so to so
francs to the Red Relief. The Red
Relief is international. We want to
support the oppressed and inspire
them with hope.
The beginning of all things is diff
flcult But once the stone has fall
len, it falls more and more quickly.
Progress is slow in the beginning but
gets quicker and quicker later on.
In the last war the eyes of many
people have been opened. The i'm
mense slaughter has made clear to the
oppressed what Karl Marx taught.
Many poor devils cannot read, but
the horrible war was an immense
book which was understood by all
poor people and which told them that
the capitalists have deceived us all
the time. Thus we have become
brothers.
Moscow the Capital Of the World
All states have so many debts that
they cannot pay them. We will have
still much to fight and to suffer, but
whatever may come. we will be vic
torious. Moscow is the capital of the
world, Recently the fifth world con
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Overgaard to Speak
AT Detroit T. u. E. L.
Meeting Sat-, Dec. 6

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 1.-The De-
triot Trade Union Educational League
will hold its regular monthly meeting
Saturday evening, Dec. 6, at z p. m.
in the House OF the Masses.
Andrew Overgaard, who is in De.
triot to assist in the establishment OF
the Industrial policies Of the party
will address the meeting on the Les.
sons Of the El Paso A. f. OF l..
Convention"
Reports will be made on the activi.
ties OF the Metal Trades, Building
Trades, and Auto Worker sections OF
the T. U. Il. L. and further plans out.
lined for broadening these activities
This meeting should take prefer.
ence over all other activities.
Heave the Brick Back!
The daily worker., 1924-12-02

gress took place. The Communists Of
all countries have gathered there.
Russia is very powerful, it is the
heart Of the world
Thus. my dear comrades, be patti
encel Patience and good hopel We
shall not abandon youl We have taken
German children to France and the
Red Relief gives money to your fam
lilies. would have been so glad
to take German child, but l am too
poor and old What we suffer in our
struggle is for our dear children. Life
will be better for them. A life in
peace and for themselves and no more
for the capitalists, no more war, but
equality, liberty and fraternal love.
This is our aim. For this future we
suffer and die.
My comrades send you with me
their best greetings.
Your good friend,
Joseph Mehl.
For further information regarding
the work Of this organization get in
touch with the International Red Aid
N Chicago. at 10 SO. Lincoln Street.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
New York and London
Bankers Extend Credit
to German Railroads


NEW YORK, Dec. banking
houses in New York and London are
advancing credit amounting to is mil
lion dollars to the German state rail-
way company, private company or
ganized in accordance with the Dawes
plan to operate the railroads.
The money advanced is to be used
for temporary working capital in or
der that the German railroads may be
placed on money-making basis.
IThree-Quarters of the proceeds will go
to the directors-that is, to the bank
ers of the Allied countries, in whose
hands has been placed the complete
control over this field Of German in
iustry. The remainder of the pro-
ceeds goes to the German government
The financing of a private German
railway company assures greater pro-
fits and speedier payment OF repara-
tions for the Allied bourgeoisie, which
is now In a position to lengthen the
workday and lower the wages of the
workers on these railroads. Moreover,
under the terms of the Dawes plan,
the directors Of German industry have
the right to maintain the proper or
der in the country-or, in other words,
there must be no revolution of the
working class since that might impair
efficiency on the roads.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Landis aware
Scabs Make Poor Showina


From these figures it appears that
in 1928, when the investigation was
made, bricklayers on union jobs laid
1904 bricks in S9S hours for a total
wage of $1,416.97. They averaged
167 bricks per hour with wage cost
1892 per 1000.
In sharp contrast on nonunion jobs
averaged 1872 bricks per hour, laying
1035O0 in 9S9 hours for total of
$1,5263S in wages. The wage cost of
nonunion jobs averaged s11.7O per
1000 brick or nearly SO a 1000 more
than union jobs. Similarly under the
Lands committee bricklayers aver.
aged 14S per hour at an average cost
of $10.S0 per 1000.
The daily worker., 1924-12-02

Inc TWO Butter enterprises IN thlS
list are the outset Mills and the New
Bedford Cotton Mills corporation.
without running down the profits of
other Butler concerns it is apparent
that the new senator from Massachus-
etts was we'll supplied with cash with
which to back his protective tariff can
didate for president
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
scientists Inherit Church Position

ONItUNIoto TTTICTTt OTTUTNU FUoIIIUU
NEW YORK.-"Why has the moral
supremacy of the church passed to
the scientist?" asked DR.. Stuart L.
Tyson, of an audience at Grace
church. you know that it has. 1t is
because the scientist seeks truth with
out prejudice. He changes his views
on the acquisition Of knowledge. while
the Christian church defends old
things"
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
(820Me UeEIds fhaboT~ Adu1yy540su44yv
TAX REPORT REVEALS TERRIFIC
EXPLOITATION OF LABOR IN WILLIAM
MORGAN BLTLER'S TEXTILE MILLS
BY LELAND oLDs
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

prosperity dispensed the Harding
Coolidge
William Butler CARS
political godfather he benefc
accumulated profits
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
Facts For Workers
STANDARDS OF LlvlNc-UNITED STATES.
By JAY LovEsroNE.

STANDARDS LIvNc-UNITED STATES.
Minimum Annual
Author 0 Place Necessary
VIM. r.
Arbitration Seattle
October ...~..~....
Jca B. Calf
October 1917 1.4764o
WIN. r.
...Ne
July 1918 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 17soso
Philadelphia O. Municipal
philadelphia,
October 1918 ...y..-..- 1,6s67s
VIM. F fOr
Workers ~~,..~ ~s~. Washington, D. c,
August 1919 2,2s247
u Bureau Of Labor Statistics 5itumnous Mining
1919 2,24ss4
U. S Statistics (ouantiy
busdet priced by Labor Research. Chicago ~,
te4 November, 1921 2,4456
Basil
Hsh7" condition Of the standard living
in the United follows:
with mseraby
underpaid 1900,
which they in 1900.
the ofAneriean workers insufficient
other provide for the
band wife and three children much maintain
on Of health reasonable which
demands"
The daily worker., 1924-12-02
LETTER OF AN OLD FRENCH
WORKER TO THE RED RELIEF

publish following OF
national Relief wonderful document
a
fellow worker enemy" the
Evening star., 1924-04-30
new G. u. PRESIDENT
IS THOUGHT PROBABLE
Father Creeden Likely to Be Trans
ferred Following June
,a
Commencement.

Georgetown University probably
will have a new president, following
the commencement exercises early in
June, it being understood here today
that the Rev. John B. Creedon, S. j.,
the present president, will be among
priests transferred this year
Father >Creeden, who has been with
Georgetown University for about fif-
teen years lis drawing to the end of
the institution, and, according to an
unwritten law, priest does not
hold the presidency much longer than
that.
No meeting of the board of truS-
tees OF the university has been held
in connection with the matter, and
officials were chary in discussing it
today. Those who have been men
toned as possible SUCCESSORS declar-
cd they knew nothing Of the matter
whait Vcr.
T!e transfer CT Father Creeden
would come about upon orders from
the heads OF the Jesuit Order in New
York 1t is understood that Father
Cree den will remain at Georgetown
through commencement.
Rev. w Coleman Nevils. s. j., re-
gent of the school of foreign Serv-
ice. and Rev. Eomund A. Walsh. S. j..
former regent of tho school, are men
toned as possible successors TO
Father Creeden.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
WATCH MRS. Barring
TO BLOCK DEPARTURE
Officials Say Case Against Husband
Would Fail if She Does
Not Testify.
YOUNG WOMAN IS SOUGHT
Prosecutor Would Question Her
in Alleged Poisoning Attempt.

Rv the Associated Press.
WHITE PLAINS, y. Y, April 80
Mrs. Sarah Barring, who has charged
hcr husband. Clarence .. Barring, with
attempting to poison her and with
feeding her disease germs, was under
surveillance today to preclude tn ;
possibility Of her leaving the state.
thus hating the prosecution.
Mrs, Barring collapsed in District
when she tried to tell the story Of
her husbands efforts to poison her.
District Attorney Rowland said thu
charges could not be withdrawn by
Mrs. Barring. but that without her
testimony at the trial beginning May
: Barring could not be convicted.
The indictment charges attempted
murder, attempted assault and put
ting poison in food intended for hu-
man consumption.
Mcanwhila process servers were
searching for Miss Mildred Beam.
daughter Of a MarShtieId Me- sea
captain. who. with her mother, last
Monday left their home in Elizabeth.
n. j.. where the young woman was
teaching school
Miss Beam is believed to be the
young woman from whom Barring ad-
mitted he wanted to get away" by
making his wife so sick that they
would have to go To California for
her health"
District Attorney Rowland made it
plain that no suspicion attached to
Miss Beam. II merely want to ques-
tion her" he said. The fact that a
subpoena is out for her does not re-
hcct on the young Womdu'S standing.
Evening star., 1924-04-30
PREMIER SEES PEACE
FOR WORLD IN YEAR
May Day Message Of Macdonald
Expresses Hope for League
of Nations.
By the Assoc ated Press.

By the Assoc ated Press
LONDON. April So.-rrime Minister
Macdonald in hts MAY day message
10 Labor and the Socialist movement.
mad" public today. expresses tho
hope that another May day viii see
th" league Of nations transformed
into AN aIl-emhracing parliament Of
peoples" and predicts the coming of
day OF international peace
Tho ne-saE :. follows: 1T is a
greater pleasure than over this year
10 s"uu Man day greetings TO all our
onmraacs Labor and the Socialist
movement 1t homo and abroad The
da. Of International peace, which We
celebrate IN oar May dIl. is tssurediy
coming. The nations. tired of con
flict ana di&illnsioued cf their war
hatreds and war INC ntality. arc seek
i":r u ntthS flat make for friend
ship and security.
ny - 90 .,"Ie - that by an
other May dal III" lc l&uc uf nations
rnsut Of peoples. and scututc TO
think that nothing could more fit
t.nglv mark that great achievement
than that the first Law of the lea guc
should by common consent set aside
May day in every land as Il festival
daN Of world fliendship---a day sol
omu with the remembranCes Of the
utilities OF, ancient feudS and vital
with high hopes for that great human
cumpaniousIip for which mankind is
destined
Evening star., 1924-04-30
CADET BATTALI0NS
TO DRILL TOMORROW
Events Will Be Held at Central
Stadium for Silver Cup Pre-
sented by Craigie,

Inc annual battalion competitive
drill OF the Washington High School
Cadet Corps. one of the important
events of the school military organi-
"a ton will be held in the Central
High School stadium tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock. Seven battalions
composing the brigade will compete
for the silver loving cup awarded an
nually by Lieut.. Col Wallace NJ.
Craigic. United States Army. profess
sur of military science and tactics in
the high schools The major of the
winning battalion will receive gold
medal.
Schedule of Drills.
The Is: Battalion of the I'd Regl-
ment OF Tech High School, in COM
mand of Maj T.. NJ Dulin, will open
the drill The other battalions will
follow in the order named; I'd Bat
tallion, Sd Regiment, Eastern. in
command of Maj. r B. Nestler; Sd
Battalion, Sd Regiment. Western, in
command of Maj. Robert Burton; 1st
Battalion, tst Regimcnt, in command
Regiment. Eastern. in command of
Mai. j. y Prescott; I'd Battalion. LIST
Regiment. Central, in command of
Maj. David Watt, and I'd Battalion.
Cd Regiment, composed of companies
AT Tech and Business High Schools
and the Columbia Junior High School,
in command of Maj. J. j. Beckelman.
The two cadet bands. the 1st Regi
mont Of Central and the I'd Regiment