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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
COOLIDGE VETO
Anglers CHICAGO
/. POSTAL WORKERS
Expect Many Votes for
Farmer-Labor Party

Coolidge's veto of the bill for higher
postal wages reused keen protest at
meeting Of the Chicago Post Office
Clerks union. Conversation of union
members after the session indicated
that many votes will be cast for a
Farmer-Labor party that will give at
tention to their interests.
Mrs Mary " Halas, president of
the National Women's Auxiliary of the
National Federation of Post Office
Clerks, scored the presidents ruth
less action.
1T is necessary for families to go
without necessities" said Mrs. Halas,
telling of the poverty of the govern
ment employees. Children have to be
taken from school and are often de-
prived of medical attention"
Sol Cogen, president of the Chicago
local, also attacked the injustice of
the veto.
Warm resolutions were passed by
the assembled workers protesting
against the veto. Copies will be sent
to the American Federation of Post
Office Clerks to be brot before con-
gress for the purpose of forcing the
measure thru, over veto, at the next
session of congress.
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same issue, when she brought
over 100000 a year into the
treasury of the board of educa-
ton by insisting upon fair tax
collection.
Teachers Can Hear About II.
The board Of education is at last ex
planning to the city teachers what il
proposes to do with the schools in
putting the junior high system into
operation here. After months of in
quiry as to what the boards purposes
were, the teachers are being given an
opportunity to hear what has been de-
cded. Altho they may ask questions
for further information, no change in
the boards plans can now be effected
Dr. Lyman spoke at the Herzl
school, Douglas Park Blvd. and Lawn
dale Ave-, yesterday, and will speak
at ten more schools in different parts
Of khe city. The series of lectures
will be printed and distributed to the
teachers, the board says, to form a
basis for the selection of the studies
in the new schools" The teachers in
the federation are not taken in by this
phrase, however, and expect the board
and Superintendent McAndrew to be
just as dictatorial in the establish,
ment of curricula as they have been
in adopting the junior high system
itself
Glass Distinctions Strengthened.
The teachers have been skeptical
of the junior high plan chiefly because
of the boards secretiveness in put
ting it over. Now the repeated an
swer that the boards speaker gives
is that the mistakes of other cities
which have taken up the junior high
plan will not be repeated.
The chief objections offered by or
ganized labor and also by teachers
councils to the junior high plan are
that it tends to make class distinctions
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me not to repeat it to any of the men,
that the efficiency department and the
cost reduction department are still on
the job. Every June we have a cost
reduction period, and every Septem-
Der we have a readjustment periods
Stock said.
Stock then proceeded to reveal
some Of the secrets of how the West
ern Electric management keeps the
employees in absolute submission by
keeping its efficiency experts" busy
firing men, reducing wages and speed
ing up the help. THE cost reduction
period is still going on" Stock said.
"altho the employees don't know 1t, and
you mustn't let 1t out. Those two men
over there are efficiency men working
in this department (the detailed in
spection Department..
Speeds Women, Saves $4,000.
"The section / am In charge OF was
considered as perfect as any depart
ment in the Western Electric plant.
Production was considered about as
high as It could be pushed, and cost of
production was considered proportions
ately low. But was put in charge of
this section Ave weeks ago.
I'm Just five weeks have saved the
company sixty thousand dollars in this
department"
asked Stock how he manged to
complete such work of genius, try
ing to look as admiring and as an
gelic as possible. We we're sitting at
desk which overlooked the room
at which 125 girls and women we're
inspecting Jacks" AS we talked
these women, with monotonous, me-
chanical swishing noise, which
hummed thru the room, we're swiftly
picking up the tiny Jacks" turning
taem over for inspection and deposit.
ing them in pans at their right. Stock
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in the day and night, knocking about
in the hotel Railways, laundering into
the wrong rooms on unsteady legs,
their breaths heavy with whisky. One
of the first-class hotels was the scene
Of row early Tuesday, when six men
in drunken stupor tried to break
into room they mistook for their
own.
But Mark Hanna" Butler is sitting
tight. Never before have the secrets
of an inner ring been kept more water
tight nor the dictatorship of an inner
ring been more complete.
The discrediting of Senator Lodge
who is so thoroly excluded from ev-
erything that people are exchanging
the gag: Us Lodge in town." We'll
he just barely is-hes in the suburbs,
is taken to mean that Business is
getting rid of the political middle
man." and is running its own affairs
without paying toll to the peculiari-
ties of small political careerists. In
this light it does not look as tho But
Ter and Slemp will take on Kenyon
or any radical with even more in
dividual peculiarities, as vice-presi-
Dental candidate.
Another current Interpretation OF
the side-tracking of Lodge is that
means a historic conflict between the
executive and the legislative branches
of government which will bring the
lend of the great senator period" and
the concentration of power in the
hands of the executive.
Certainly, as far as the Republican
party is concerned, we have seen the
end of the great-convention period.
Many Seats Empty.
Thousands of empty seats in the
convention hall remain unoccupied
but no one is admitted without q
ticket. The streets are roped off and
the unfavored public kept at dis
lance across the street from the en-
trance. A group Of unemployed men
several hundreds in number, in rather
desperate-looking condition, leans or
these ropes all day long, occasionally
uttering sarcastic remarks and jeers
in a half-suppressed tone when the
well-dressed celebrities pass. There
is much surprised comment and com
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MACHINISTS OF
. DISTRICT IS FOR
ST. PAUL MEET
Resolution End orse S
June IL Convention
BY ANDREW ovERGAARD.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

MILWAUKEE,, June 1.-THE dele
gates to District No. 73 convention
today endorsed the June 18th conven-
ton by adopting a resolution intro
duced by Delegate Theodore Reise,
from Local 3S of Mitchell, S. Dakota.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mously after the committee brought
in favorable report and the dele
gate from S. Dakota had pointed out
the need of labor organizing its own
party and showed how the north
western states has taught the rank
and file of the railroad workers a
lesson. They have found out that the
old parties will serve as strike-break-
ing instruments when in power.
The convention was addressed by
William Harmon, member of the Gen
eral Executive Board, who stressed
the need of again organizing the men
on the railroads and urged the dele
gates to see to it that each local send
delegates to the machinists' conven-
ton in Detroit on September 18th.
Considerable time was taken up with
discussion of seniority rights, which
seemed to be like a Chinese puzzle
and caused a lot of confusion.
The convention, recognizing the
need of better organization for all
unions in the Railway Employees De-
partment, voted for special tax of
10c per member in order to help take
care of organizing the weaker crafts.
The machinists on this road are prac-
tically 100 per cent organized and thus
recognized in practice the slogan, IAN
injury to one is an injury to all" The
convention will probably last all
week.
The resolution on the Labor Party
stated: BE is resolved that we, the
delegates of District No. 70, hereby
pledge our allegiance to the Farmer
Labor party and send greetings to the
convention to be held in st. Paul,
June 18th, assuring 1t of our support"
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TEACHERS ATTACK TAX DODGERS

Capitalist VS.. working class) between
children more marked, forces children
into trades at too early an age, and
serves as an easy route for industrial
lords to recruit cheap and trained
labor.
Workers. Schools Chosen.
The fact that the board of educa-
ton has chosen the schools in which
it will first start junior highs in the
poorer districts, where the population
is largely working class, only empha-
sizes the charges against the plan,
according to the Teachers federation.
One Of the schools chosen is the For
estville, in the heart Of the South
Side Negro section, and another is in
the Polish neighborhood. Not one of
the schools chosen for the junior
highs is in the better class" districts
where children of Weather parents
attend. In other cities where the jul
nior high system is in force the cur
ricula has been very largely voca-
tional and industrial.
To Expose Local Graft.
The tax fight plans of the Teachers
federation are not completed yet.
The organization is collecting funds
to wage the war to a successful con-
clusion. The federation has sufficient
evidence, however, to make it's de-
mands effective as soon as it can
properly present the facts.
Practice of city officials who use
their Office to secure their own en-
richment probably will be exposed.
For instance, if one of the higher tax
officials is also director of an insur-
ance company, one of the teachers
said, he can say to some supposedly
big taxpayer: Insure with me and
we'll fix things up all right for you in
the Office" and the taxpayer is let off
with ridiculous assessment. Mil
lions Of dollars of taxes are never
paid, according to the teacher, and so
the board Of education can always
plead short funds when the teachers
ask for raise or for new buildings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
PRESIDENT OF
FRANCE FORCED
FROM OFFICE
Hands In Resignation
to Cabinet

PARIS, June 11.-AIexander
MiIIerand, who became presi-
dent of the Republic of France
September 1920, handed his re-
signation to a meeting of cabi-
net ministers today-beaten by
votes of deputies of the left who
won over MiIlerand's supporters
in the recent national elections.
Millerand's passing marks the
climax of one of the stormiest
periods in modern French polit-
ical history.
His downfall was due to opposition
to his own efforts to make the presi-
dency the active leadership Of the
country. Millerand formed the bloc
national, which kept M. Poincare in
power. The radicals defeated the
bloc national at the polls and de-
manded Millerand's head.
Millerand will publish "an explana-
tory message to the nation" this aft
ernoon.
Resignation of the president fol-
lowed the action of the senate and
chamber yesterday.
The chamber was in an uproar
when Renaud Jean, Communist dep
uty, outlining the Communist attitude
toward Millerand, said:
"Of all the renegades and traitors,
the one you are going to execute
(meaning the action to force Miller
and to resign is the most miserable"
He added that the Communists
would associate themselves with the
execution" because Millerand fought
against Soviet Russia by aiding Po-
land.
Deputies of the right slammed their
desk covers and tried to drown out
jeans words. Finally he was forced
to halt, and Deputy Fabry tried to re-
ply, his words being drowned out by
Communists singing THE Interna-
tional"
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one point they think they are
supposed to have an opinion on
who shall be nominated for
vice-president?
But Lowden's sulking may have
more to it than the motive of re-
venge. 1t may be that the powers be-
hind the convention have refused TO
ensure Lowden the nomination, and
that Lowden refuses to be somebody
else's stalking horse.
AS for knowledge of what is going
on behind the doors of William M.
Butler and c. Bascomb Slemp in the
Hotel Cleveland, the delegates are as
ignorant as they would be if back in
their home towns.
This may be one reason why hun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12

fact, they are all laughing at me,
for being such an easy mark. But
! had to do something to get the
news for the DAILY WORKER.
Bob Minor tells me that II is pos
sibIe Coolidge might not stand for
me as he has already a big fish
scandal on his hands. He said
something about Alaska salmon
and Hoover giving this country's
fish away, but ] thought It was
just one of 5ob's fish stories and
didn't pay any attention to 1t.
Several delegates who knew
was In the race were importuning
me for drink when Andy Mellon
suddenly arose and walked toward
the platform. The whole conven-
ton Immediately arose as If by
magic and simultaneously cIapped
and made a move toward the secre-
tary Of the treasury. Some people
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
BY THE POOR FISH.

Especial 70 The Daily Workerl
CONVENTION HALL, Cleveland,
~ June Ill arrived rather late
and as all the seats were taken In
the section assigned to reporters,
! did not know how to get on the
inside until somebody suggested
that ! declare myself a candidate
for vlce-president. Since then
have been the object Of much at
tention, particularly from the fe-
male portion Of the convention,
which is rather numerous If not
otherwise easy to look at.
Not having done anybody in par.
ticuIar any harm, It is assumed
there will be no opposition to my
candidacy from the delegates. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
We Investigate the
Western Electric

The DAILY WORKER Investigator Into the
trio determine working Of the
acty the conditions this nonunlon shop
The DAILY WORKER job
inspection department
the plant talk diff
various detail Inspection
reporter
which will find 1t enlehtenns Western
consideration only
at he owcs possible cost.
The DAILY WORKER reporter In this Issue the
results Of his Investigations tells
superior had to ssy employees
He will tell articles the difference the
labor
they He will complicated
selling his labor the Western
promotion efficiency speedp
methods by Western Electric 10 managed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
WESTERN ELECTRIC EXPOSED

were reversed / could do a better job
myself. Stock came to a stop and did
not seem to know what else to say, sc
asked him how it happened that
was hired if he had already laid of
so men.
Breaking in a Speeder.
1--WE are trying something abso
lutely new with you," Stock answered
II don't know whether or not I'm sup
posed to tell you, but this has never
been tried before in the inspection
department You are to hang around
with me in this department for two
weeks. will show you over the
plant. and you can go around and talk
to the different bosses.
I'm two weeks ! can teach you lot
about the processes of the inspection
department, and then you can go up
stairs to the coil inspection depart
ment. The coil inspection is the most
important in the department, and you
will have about hundred girls under
you.
The "Wage Incentive"
None OF these girls work piece
work now" Stock declared Every
thing in the inspection department is
on day-work basis. But it will have
to come to the piece work system. II
not exactly the piece work system
then at least, II will have to be on the
piece work system. The WAGE IN
CENTIvE is one Of the strongest
forces governing society. II will gel
to point where the only way to fur
ther increase production is to give
bonuses for greater production"
Four Girls to One Man.
Four girls and women work in the
Western Electric plant to every one
man. In the next article | will tel
about the wages received by these
girls, their hours, and will give some
Of the remarks made by the bosses
about the girls under them.
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nau explained to me that this work
was mainly visual" | noticed that
many of the women wore glasses with
thick lenses.
Tells How He Did II.
When | was made head Of this sec
ton five weeks ago there were 1875
people here. Now there are 75,"
Stock said emphatically. THAT
saved the company thirty thousand
dollars"
II have instituted quicker methods
of work for the employees" he an
swered, and then launched into a lee
ture on psychology. you have prob
ably studied some economies and psy-
chology in college, and you know how
these things work. | would advise
You to make your main job the inno-
walton of new methods. Don't be
afraid to make the girls work a new
way. Even II they are old employees
and have worked at the same job for
ten years they have probably fallen
into a rut. You must get the girls
under you out of the rut. Keep them
working faster by eliminating motions
and giving them shorter methods OF
work"
speeder Is mice Boy"
Stock was the type that a fiapper
would probably term a mice boy"
He wore a bow tie, had a firm hand
clasp, and wore a perpetual set smile.
His blond hair was slicked back In a
pompadour over the top OF his head.
/ was probably the first man who
had been turned over TO Stock to be
imbued with the Western Electric 10y
atty bunk. He was obviously little
nervous as he talked. Stock oyerdid
II little, becoming too frank. He
was too much Of human being and
too little OF the stern executive. He
did not take advantage OF his supe-
rior position to put me In my place"
had the feeling that II our positions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-12
FIohtInu Barbarian Customs.

BUCHARA, June 1.-THE C. Z. c.
Of Buchara, is fighting the old bar.
barian customs that still exist In
some localities. Il was decided to
add a new paragraph to the criminal
laws furnishing with ten years in jail
Jews In the small towns and villages
OF enforced marriage To pay "kalym"
TO parents of bride, and to marry
women under age, are also prohibited.
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Washing s-ton and New York yesterday
in the private chapel of the Sacred
Heart, at Da.hlgren, Md, the Rev.
Father Harrington officiating, in the
presence of only the members OF the
two families. Simplicity marked the
ARRANGEMENTS for the wedding owing
to mourning IN the bridegroom s
family. The chapel in which the
ceremony was pc erformed was erected
by the late Mrs M. v. DAhlgren OF
this city, maternal grandmother.
The bride made her debut last win :
ter in New York, and is a member Oh
tie Junior League. She 10 exceeding
ly pretty and attractive, and has been
greatly admired. She is the grand
niece of Mr.. William Porter.
Mr.. Josiah Pierce is the seventh
eldest son OF that name, and comes
on both sides OF most prominent fam
lilies. He is the eldest son OF the late
Josiah Pierce and Ulric4 Dahlgren
Pierce, of 1875 Massachusetts avenue.
He is a graduate Of Princeton, 1914.
a member of the Metropolitan and
Racquet clubs, Order of the Cinoin-
natl, Aztec Society of '48 and Prince
ton Club of New York. On his mother S
side he is the great grandson of Sam
uel f. Vinton, for twenty silk years
a member OF Congress and one OF
Ohio's distinguished sons He is a
grandson of the late John A. Dahl :
gren, rear admiral, l.. S. N, of civil
war fame. and Madeleine Nhnton
tCcntinued on Ninth Page.)
Evening star., 1924-03-27

The Secretary of Labor. Mr.: James
T Davis, returned to Washington
this morning from South lDak ota-
where he has been for several days.
Mrs. Rosenbaugh, mother of Mrs.
Davis. who has been with her for a
month. has returned to her home In
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Mrs. Francis Berger Moran has is
sued invitations for dinner Saturday
evening at the Chevy Chase Club in
Taft.
Evening star., 1924-03-27

janied to Washington by her daugh-
ter Natalie.
Col. Henry du Pont will entertain at
dinner this evening in honor of Consul
and Mrs. Robert Frazer, who are visit
ing him.
The last of the series of Junior
league dances will be given tomorrow
evening at Rauscher's Receiving the
guests will be Mrs. A. Chambers Oil
phant, Miss Alys Downing Miss Nan
ME Chase and Miss May |. GOWN.
Mrs. Walter Wyatt was hostess ar
bridge tea yesterday afternoon
entertaining in her home in Takoma
!, Park in honor of Miss Lorette Boy
ette. The other guests were Mrs. l..
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Society
President and Mrs. Coolidge to Dine With
Secretary and Mrs. Wallace and
Hear Amherst Boys in Concert.

tives of official. resident and diplo-
matte society, who through his envoy
congratulated his majesty.
The daughter Of the minister, Miss
Lutfia fousry, stood near him while
the guests were arriving and might
he said to make her debut in Wash
ington society. She was youthful and
charming In a gown of soft cham
pagne color crepe made in simple
draped fashion and worn with a hat
in the same shade. Members of the
legation staff assisted generally dur
ing the afternoon.
Alternately at the tea table, where
tall basket filled with spring fiow
the afternoon. Mrs. HAMPTON Gary,
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, Mrs. j. But
Ter Wright and others.
White roses mingled with palms
and ferns We're arranged at the base
OF the pillars in the stately cham be T
and there was music throughout the
reception hours.
The Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Hughes and other members of the
cabinet and their wives were early
visitors, as We're the French ambas-
sador and Nine. Jusseraud, the am
ba ssa dor Of Chile and Sonora de
Matthew. the am HaSSador Of Belgium
and Baroness de Marchienne, the
charge d'affa:res Of Brazil and Mime.
i de SuSa Lt,do Oracle, the am nassador
, Italian ambassador. the Cuban am
bassador and Sonora de Torriente,
many ministers of the corps, who,
, like the ambassadors, had with them
members Of their stats.
Society folk in general were de-
lighted to find not only the minister
and his daughter. but each member
Of the Egyptian staff speaking Eng
lish fiuently. yet able TO address a
guest in French or other foreign
-k,n
Nine. Tsamados. wife of the charge
d'affaires of Greece, is giving an in
formal dance at the legation today
in honor of the debutanteS of the
Tea Shop, conducted for the benefit of
the Relief for the Fatherless Children
Of Greece.
The retiring navl attache OF the
Chilean embassy and Sonora de Del
Solar will sail for their home in Chile
April =.
The newly appointed attache, Capt.
MunoZ. has arrived in Washington to
succeed Commander Solar. and will
be joined here later by Sonora de
Munoz. who is visiting in Connecticut
The assistant secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Eliot Wadsworth
will return Monday from Pinehurst,
N c., where they are for a fortnight.
Mrs. Francis Berger Moran has is
sued invitations for dinner Saturday
evening at the Chevy Chase Club in
honor OF the Chief Justice and Mrs.
Taft.
Representative and Mrs. J. Mayhew
Wainwright will receive at the Army
dance to be given at the Willard
Hotel this evening. Mrs. William J.
Snow and Mrs. Lorenzo D. Gasser will
also assist. Among those who will
entertain at dinner preceding the
dance are Gen. and Mrs. John L.
Hines. Gen. and MIS-. William J. Snow
and Col. and Mrs. Bridges.
The second of the series of Army
dances will be given this evening at
the Willard Hotel In the receiving
Evening star., 1924-03-27

The minister of Egypt. $. Yousry
PaSha, who presented his credentials
in January, gave a reception yester-
day afternoon at the New Willard
Hotel in celebration of the birthday
anniversary of King F>uad of Egypt
which called together in brilliant as
scmbly several hundred representa-
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Senator and Mrs. Lawrence c.
Phipps have returned to Washington
from Hot Springs, where they have
been for several weeks
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Mr.. and Mrs. John III. Hewson were
hosts at dinner last evening in their
winter home in st. Augustine, Fla.