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The Washington times., 1924-07-26

through the main lobby. 1tE recent
elevation brings Il 70 = level now
enjoyed only BY the reading ana
writing rooms and BY the lladies'
lounge.
It Is understood that 81 the near
future Mr.. Ford viii announce adj
ditiona1 improvements which VIII
provide for shops throughout the
ground floor Of his establishment.
The Washington times., 1924-07-26
BANK OFFICIAL HURT
IN MOTOR GAR CRASH

WILLIAMSPOHI. Nd, July 26.--
wilbur d. Newcomer. assistant
cashier Of the washington County
National Bank, Of this place, suf.
fered q fracture and dislOcation Of
the shoulder and COMMISSIONS of the
face, his wife was slightly injured
and their young son escaped when
another automobile crashed into
their machine on q road near
Muncy, Pa, Wednesday while they
were returning from q trip to nj.
agara Falls.
Mr.. Newcomer - IN the hospital
at Duncannon. The driver of the
other car was arrested by State
officer.
The Washington times., 1924-07-26
1,488 m Association

The National Association Of Build.
ing Owners and Managers has a
membership Of 1,488. The members
are located in every large city In
the country.
The Washington times., 1924-07-26

Come and see the new designs. Let us
explain the personal service and help we
offer you, or send twenty-five cents Stamps
or coin), for new Book Of Lewis Homes"
showing over one hundred beautiful photo
graphic views and splendid floor plans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
|. L. G. W. Organizes
Three Thousand More
". Y. Needle Workers

NEW YORK, April "A new
branch of the clothing industry in
New York will operate. under union
conditions in the future following a
two-weeks' strike carried on by the
International Ladies' Garment Work
ers' union. fuckers, pleaters, hem
stitchers and ornamental workers on
women's clothing who had been work.
ing from 45 to 60 hours a week, will
get a reduction of hours to AZ and
wage increases in 80 per cent Of the
shops.
The most important gain is union
recognition for the 5000 workers
who have received a charter as local
al, l. L. G.. w. The union began its
organizing campaign two months ago.
The work, formerly in. the dress and
waist shops, has developed during the
last three years into a special indus
try. Improved working conditions are
provided in the contract. Minimum
wages are fixed at S35 a week for
fuckers, $40 for pleaters, $50 for
hemstitchers, and $50 for novelty
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Norwegian Students
Side With Strikers
In Big Labor War
(By The Federated Press)

CHRISTIANIA, Norway, April l.
Students of the University of
Christiana expressed themselves Wig
orously when they learned that GER
tain of their comrades had enrolled
as strikeSreakers and were unloading
cargo during the lockout and strike of
10000 Norwegian workers. The stu
dents federation called a general
meeting and passed resolution con-
demning every form of strikebreak-
ing, and declaring the action of their
fellow students unworthy and a dis
grace to the professional classes as a
whole"
On the other hand the military has
been called in again and again by the
employers to aid the strikebreakers.
This has incensed the workers and
there have been skirmishes between
soldiers and workers. In Drontheim
a cruiser was sent to fire upon the
workers in case they should try to
start something.
Seventy thousand workers of Nor
way are either locked out or on strike
as a result of the great offensive
started by the bosses in January and
carried out with systematic brutality
in February. The country has only
100000 inhabitants. The number
of workers organized in trade unions
is $4,000, of whom 10000 are out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Let Germans Die,
American Defense
SOciety'S Policy

NEW YORK, April 2.-The
militant campaign Of the anti-labor
Americ Defense Society here
against financial aid for starving
German children is expected to in
crease the donations for German re-
lief from labor organizations and
individuals. In a letter Of protest
against the $4,000, 900 iappropria-
ton for the purpose passed by the
house in Washington ridicules the
American Defense Society idea that
relief is needed. 1t called the action
of the House Of Representatives "a
betrayal of the American people"
and the appropriation merely an at
tempt to win the German-American
vote in the coming election.
The relief committee of the Fed
eral Council of Churches Of Christ in
America here has issued a warning
to individual contributors that con-
gressional action will not be sufi-
Gent and that private donations are
still needed. 1t points out that
$10,000,000 will be inadequate, that
the appropriation will not be imme-
diately available, and that the bill
has not yet been voted by the Sem
ate or signed by the president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
FiUe Democrats Vote
Against NeIU Child
Labor Amendment
tBy The Federated Press)

WASHINGTON, April 2.--By vote
of IA to 6, the house judiciary, cem-
mittee has favorably reported the res
olution proposing child labor amend
ment to the federal constitution. Rep
resentative George S. Graham of
Philadelphia, republican, the chair
man of the committee, voted against
the resolution, as did five democrats.
The democratic members Of the Com
mittee are Thomas of Kentucky,
Summers Of Texas, Montague of Vir-
ginia, Wise of Georgia, Tillman of
Arkansas, Domirtck Of South Caro-
lima, Major of Missouri, Weller of
New York, and O'Sullivan of Con-
necticut. The committee has kept Sc
cret the votes of all of its members.
Grace Abbot, chief Of the children's
bureau, in pleading for the measure,
testified that more than 100000
children between 10 and 16 years Of
age, or 1 in IL Of all children Of
these ages in the United States, were
reported by the 1920 census as gain
fully employed. Thirty-fve states al
low children to go to work without a
common school education. Nineteen
states have no requirement as TO the
physical fitness of children who go to
work. In IL states children under
16 years may work from o to IL
hours per day. Fourteen states do
not protect children under 16 years
from night work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Trachtenberg Tour

Thursday, April 3, D. m, Erie, Pa, Cen.
trail Labor Hall. s. E. Cor. 18th and State.
Friday, April 4, D. M, East Pittsburgh
Pa. Workers Home, Electric and North AYES
Saturday, April 5, p. m, Pittsburgh. Pa.
Labor Lyceum, IS Miller st.
Sunday, April s. 2 p. M, Pittsburgh. Pa,
Moose Temple, Penn Ave. between 9th and
It'll stS
Monday, April 7, .. M, BentleyviIle. Pa,
Union Hall, center Of the village.
Tuesday, April 8, p. M. Canton, Ohio
Sehlobaeh Hall. AL Market Ave. N.
Wednesday. April .. Youngstown, Ohio. full
details to appear later.
Thursday, April 10, 8 .. m, Warren, Ohio
Hippodroms Hall, High St., Ord floor.
Friday, April IL. 1880 p. m, Cleveland
Ohio, Labor Temple, 25S6 Euclid Ave.
Sunday. April IS, $50 D. m, Cleveland
Royal Hall, 52f7 Woodland.
Monday, April IA, p. M. Toledo, Ohio
Labor Temple. Jefferson and Michigan.
Tuesday, April rs, D. m. Detroit, House
Of the Masses, 21o1 Gratiot Ave.
Wednesday. April Is, 8 D. m, Detroit. House
Of the Masses, 2iOI Gratiot Ave. Russian
Trade Unions).
Thursday, April II. Grand Rapids. full de.
tails to appear later.
Friday. April IS. Chicago. full details to
appear later.
Saturday. April 10. Milwaukee. full details
10 appear later.
Sunday. April 20. Gary. Ind. full detail,
TO appear later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

was such sinking mess to clean
up.
Charged to Preparations.
Germany occupied during the war
some fifteen thousand square miles
of French territory. This was the
so-called devastated area" to
which the French government
turned its attention when the peace
came. In order to push reconstruc-
ton, the government directed that
everybody who had property in that
area which suffered impairment or
destruction should draw up a bill of
damages, representing his losses,
and present it to the ministry of
reconstruction. The ministry, backed
by the parliament, met these claims
and charged them against Germany
for reparations.
One year ago, a local paper ex-
ploded a bombshell by starting to
print a series of articles revealing
frauds in reconstruction claims put
in by big business interests. The
series was Just started, and a gale
began to sweep about political Paris
when the paper quite mysteriously
ceased publication of the articles.
Meantime, NJ. Poincare had sent
his army into the Ruhr and Ger
many began her fiscal debacle. Still
no one paid heed to the charges of
scandal. Then the French franc
began to tumble. Germany was
paying little or nothing on her vast
war bill. The French government
had expended staggering sums on
reconstruction, sums which were not
being met by German payments.
A fiscal crisis resulted.
The Bubble Bursts.
Then the storm broke. The OPP
position to Poincare in the French
chamber went out and collected
data on the reconstruction frauds.
Case after case was cited of the
swindling of the public treasury by
powerful business interests domi-
ciled in the devastated regions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Big Strike on
German Waterfront;
SaiLings Cancelled

HAMBURG, April 2.-The German
water front is on strike. In Ham
burg and Bremen, the chief ports, all
harbor workers have downed tools to
preserve the 48-hour week. The
North German Lloyd Co. had invited
the American correspondents resident
in Berlin to take part in two-day
trial cruise of the gigantic new steam
er Columbus, March 10 and 20. The
invitations were recalled on account
of the strike.
Since the beginning Of the strike,
AZ ocean going steamers and freight
ers have arrived at Hamburg, besides
those in port when the strike began.
These ships are lying idle, since there
is SPECIFICALLY nobody to unload or
load them.
The technical emergency help"
an organization of strikebreakers,
modified only $50 men, of whom
346 were employed on four steamers
in Hamburg carrying perishable food
stuffs, and 1913 on five steamers ana
three barges in Altoona, right out
side Of Hamburg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Gilman Tells HOU
IriShnGn DOheny
Aided British Lion

SAN FRANCISCO, April IA
sidelight on the Washington reve-
lations which showed that a large
part of Doheny's oil holdings were
pledged to the British navy, is
shown by a person well known in
labor circles, who. in 1915 was an
Office employee Of Doheny's Pan
American Petroleum Corporation In
Los Angeles. In 1916 nearly every
executive in the Doheny Offices was
British subject.
Altho the United States was then
officially neutral in the world war,
the corporations publications work
ed toward alliance with England;
and when millions Of Americans
were voting for Wilson IN the mis-
taken belief that he would keep us
out Of war" most of Dohenys right
hand men were actively working
against Wilson for the very same
reason.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

gone thru a wall into the dining
room, he said
When the DAILY WORKER re-
porter went to the home she could see
no bullet holes in the wall. There
are holes in the window, but no evil
dence was found of the ferocious
course Of the piece of lead which
Kovler likes to talk Of. The maid
would make no statement.
Facts Show Tribune Lied.
The residents of the fiat adjoining
the Kovler heard the shots about nine
o'clock Saturday evening, but did not
concern themselves, according to the
statement of Mrs. c. H. Miller, the
neighbor. Mrs. Earle Luscomb of
7S7 Brompton Place, Immediately in
back of the Kovler apartment, also
heard the shots but saw no one. The
Miss Evans, according to the Tribune
story, is supposed to reside at 744
Brompton Place, was not known to
the inhabitants of the fiat above. The
Tribune" story said that she had
seen the "fugitives" on the street,
but must have done some fence-jump-
ing or run a circuitous route, for
there is no alley or other rusYay hE
which they could have gone to run
by the lady in such way as to con-
vince her of their completely. At
her own dwelling the shots could not
have been heard easily on account Of
the large apartment building between
that house and the Kovlers. The
name evans" was not on the mail
box at 744 Brompton Place.
Kovler assured the reporter that he
never had trouble in his shop, but the
girls who have worked there tell a
different story. They say that the
place has never been unionized, that
working conditions are none too
good, and that sanitary conditions are
disgustingly unsanitary requiring ac-
ton by the Health Department.
Parties and Yellow Dogs.
One of the striking employees of the
firm said that few days before the
strike was called, the boss gave a
party for the girls at the fore-lady's
house. At first the union members
were not asked, but at the last mo-
ment they were invited. They did
not attend, however, and were not
surprised when the bosses passed out
the infamous "yellow-dog" contract
lpapers the next morning. Three
girls who would not sign were i'm
mediately laid off.
In the last week or two Gavin &
Kovler have been busy testifying
against pickets taken under the in
| junction and succeeded in having a
sentence of ten days in Jail imposed
upon one of the active girls.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

war. When the Germans took pos
session of the place they did not
destroy the plant, as they often did
in other cases. They decided to OPP
crate it and produce war materials
for themselves. When the armistice
came they withdrew, leaving the
plant almost intact and leaving also,
nearly so per cent of the materials.
The business, estimated, was worth
at the outbreak of The war about
$50 million francs, or 20 million
dollars. The company put in claim
for 447 million francs war damage
to their plant, or about 81 million
dollars. They were paid by the gov
eminent 500 million francs, or in
the vicinity of $30,700.0O0.
200 Convictions, He Saws.
When the big business interests
in some Of the districts got wind of
the intention of the government,
records for taxes and property val
uations in many of the ruined dis
tricts disappeared.
The Communist deputies are ac-
cusing the great neral trust of
France, many of whose members
have large business holdings in the
devastated area, with trying to
block publicity thru political pres
sure. One deputy a few days ago
publicly declared that one of the
biggest metallurgical men in the
country is fighting against expos
ure. When he named this man as
Louis Loucheur, the French chamber
was transformed into pandemon-
ium.
In reply to the charges Of the dep
uties that the Ministry of Liberated
Regions has become the grave of
Scandals" the minister who headed
this government department in the
Poincare cabinet that has Just re-
signed announces that 10 less than
five hundred prosecutions have been
undertaken against the swindlers,
and two hundred convictions have
been obtained to date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
World soIidarity Of Actor.

NEW YORK, April 2.-Growing
international solidarity among the
actors of the world is the interpreta-
ton of officials of the Actors Equity
Association here in explaining to the
Federated Press assurances of sup
port cabled by the Actors Association
of England. "This action by the Bri-
fish union will effectively ill any
move by members of the Protective
Managers Association to fill the
places left vacant by their proposed
June / lockout by importing entire
foreign companies said Secretary
Frank Gilmore of the Equity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
sabot.pe StimuIAtes Relief.

NEW YORK, April 1.-The mill
tant sabotage campaign of the anti
labor American Defense society here
against financial aid for starving
German children is expected to in
crease the donations for German re-
lief from labor organizations and in
dividuals. In a letter Of protest
against the $10,00O,000 appropria-
ton for the purpose passed by the
house in Washington it ridicules the
idea that relief is needed. 1t called
the action of the house of representa-
tives "a betrayal of the American
people," and the appropriation mere
" an attempt to win the German
American vote in the coming election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
STRIKE TIES UP
JOINTS ALONG THE
GREAT WHITE WAY
FLUTES Eating Places
Hit by Class Struggle
lsDeeIaI to Ths DaIIy WORKER,

NEW YORK, April 2.-The gaiety
has gone out of nine of the flashiest
restaurants along the Great White
Way as the walters, cooks, dishwash-
ers and bus boys have gone on strike
to enforce union conditions.
The strike is called by the Anal
gramated Food Workers in answer to
the declaration of the Salvin e.
Thompson (Rector) Corporation that
conducts the string of swell refresh
ment joints that the open shop was
to rule hereafter. For six years the
firm has been signed up with the I'M
ion.
A. F. of L. Supports Strike.
Restaurants affected in New York
are the Moulin Rouge, Palais Royal,
Montmartre, Club Royal, Plantation,
Club Gallant, Phlmoral Club, 400
Club, Barn Club and Pavilion Royal.
Another big restaurant is tied up at
Valley Stream, N. Y.
Full solidarity in the struggle has
been pledged by the A. F. of L. Wal
tiers and Cooks Locals and all the
other New York branches of the
Amalgamated will help win the fight.
The Anslgamated is a powerful in
dependent union, not affiliated with
the A. F. of L.
More than 500 workers are af-
fected. Strike meetings are held
daily at 3 p. m, at the branch head
quarters and the strikers are conf
dent of winning.
Guns and Hootch.
One picket has been arrested in
front of the Club Gallant restaurant.
Four scabs drew revolvers on pickets
in front of the Palais Royal and were
themselves pinched. At the police
station guns and bottles of hootch
were found in the scabs' pockets ana
all four were held for the grand jury.
So the strike goes on: the strikers
are happy and the bosses miserable as
they see their bourgeoisie patrons
dining and winning in other resorts of
the Great White Way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
City Walks UnShGUed
To Work as BARRIERS
And Carmen Strike

SCRANTON, Pa, April 2.-Trac-
ton lines in and around Scranton
were completely tied UP after the
walkout Tuesday Of 600 employees Of
the Scranton Railway Company.
Lines running from Forest City to
Duryear, as well as the city lines,
were not running car, and over
100000 people were walking today
following the strike.
The strike tied up the Lacka-
wanna Valley, almost all the indus
trial plants located there being tied
up. The conductors and motormen
demanded II cents an hour increase,
and struck rather than accept me-
diation from federal and business in
terests who wanted to force the men
to accept less.
The Journeyinen Barbers' Union
at the same time tied up all the bar
Der shops in town, striking for
higher pay and shorter hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

PARIS, April 2.-Seventy billion
francs-more than $5,50O,000,000.
That is the estimate by members
of the chamber of deputies of the
takings of grafters who have pre-
cipitated the most colossal scandal
that the French republic has ever
known, or the French nation for
that matter, for even louis Four
teenth, the Grand, the Magnificent,
never made such raid on the treas
ury.
The Teapot Dome grafters are
pikcrs. They ought to come over
to France and take few lessons.
No wonder Poincare wasn't es-
pecially anxious to form another
ministry to take the place of the
one which resigned because of
defeat in parliament. There never
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
SOUL
BEING CLEANSED
BY D OLLARS
Tho His Daughter May
Starve

JERSEY CITY, N. J., April g.
Those pillars of society, the law and
the church, will rob little girl of
support unless the decision of Vice
Chancellor Lewis in chancery court
here can be reversed On appeal.
Lewis has sustained the will of Will
liam j. Kelly, former clerk in the
criminal court, that $1,000 of his
estate go to pay for masses in the
Catholic church for the repose Of
said Kelly's soul The priests have
already reposed his soul to the tune
of $7,450. If they get the additional
$1,000, then S20,400 masses will be
provided for. The Catholic church
allows a busy city priest to farm out
to country priests his surplus masses
for gone but not forgotten bene-
factors.
This religious man Kelly forgot
to tell his church or his friends that
he had a child. They thought he was
bachelor. Now Mrs. Margaret
Moran, of Ridgewood, n. j., who
has the custody of Kelly's 9-year-old
daughter is contesting the claim Of
the church of the estate. A clause
in the win provides for forfeiture by
beneficiaries who contest it, but the
court has ruled that this does not
affect the child as the custodian Is
in bringing action. But the Judge
wouldn't let the girl have the money.
If the church will say those masses
on credit, then it Is said the church
can sue the estate for unpaid service
if the higher court reverses the
decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
OIL THIEVES DO
NOT HONOR OLD
ROBBER CODE
Standard Steals March
On Little Ones
By LUDWELL DENNY.
(Stah CORRESPONDENT Of the Fedeyated !,

NS~" CORRESPONDENT 81 the Federated Press
NEW YORK, April 2.-Lawless oil
capitalists recognize one law--or, are
supposed to. 1t is an unwritten law.
based on the ancient and respectable
conviction that there should be honor
among thieves. Gyp the government
out If its lands, overcharge the con-
sumner, underpay the workers and use
the Burns detective agency (head-
quarters U. S., department Of justice,
Washington, d. c., to break the UNI
ions, and when business is bad sell a
load of fake stocks. All the while try
to keep the U. S. state department
fixed SO that it can throw war for
democracy whenever your Mexican
OIL profits are endangered or the Bri-
fish beat you to the grab in Persian
petroleum.
Standard Breaks Rule.
But-lay off your oily fellows.
That seems to be the rule.
There is rumpus in Wall Street
because some say that Standard Oil
has broken the rule. w. G.. Teagle,
president, Standard of New Jersey,
on the basis of U. S. geological survey
H6 0ACS ouOWlub T6QuCJlOu OF Pc
troleum stocks at the end of January,
forecast that consumption would soon
pass production. On the supposition
of prospective oil shortage prices
went up.
Now, however, the government is
sues revised figures showing that
there were 2,246,00O barrels surplus
of petroleum exclusive of producers
stocks east of the Rockies, which were
not in the original government fig
ures. No government explanation is
given except a footnote explaining
that the revised total includes 948,-
600 barrels not previously reported.
Some time ago Herbert Hoover pulled
a similar oversight in sugar figures
and prices went up also.
Withheld Reports.
The little oil fellows here are say
ing among themselves that Standard
withheld reports of its surplus stocks
to the government to justify an in
crease in prices of crude oil, and got
away with it. The honor among
thieves rule having broken down, they
now suggest Gin the interests of the
public" that regular and complete re-
ports of surplus stocks be made COM
pulsory by law. Tho the pessimistic
ones point out that there are ways in
which oil capitalists can break even
written laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Removing workers From Ofice.

WEIMAR, Germany, April 2.-The
claw and ORDER forces Of Thuringia,
which with the aid Of federal German
troops secured an electoral victory
over the Socialists and Communists
in February, are vigorously firing
working class representatives who
held political jobs under the previous
administration under the plea Of
reduction of expenses. They are
scrapping social legislation that
favored the unemployed, war victims,
and widows and orphans.