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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02

support the war. It is fortunate for
the public that President Wilson has
renewed that fight which has be-
come largely submerged thru the
efforts of wealth to escape just tax
alton" This last is the heart Of
LaFollette's program, not alone for
the conduct Of the war but Of indus
try and business.
LaFollette has always been noted
for fiamboyant language and ex-
travagant claims. At home in Wis
consin in 1918, he wrote an article
under the caption of Democracy at
Home" in which he appeals to the
voters on the basis of past political
struggles, and says: I'VE won on
every issue. The government Of
Wisconsin was reconstructed and
given back to the people"
To those of US who know Wiscon-
sin this is plain unadulterated bunk.
Even in Socialist" Milwaukee, the
writer Jared i'll trying to unionize the
slaves who work for the various
Wisconsin bridge companies on the
Walter Drew-steel trust-open shop
plan for these many long years.
Labor unionis comparatively
speaking had little strength in La
Follette's own baliwick, even in the
past before recent persecution and
today most Of the trusts are "oper-
ating freely" in Wisconsin.
LaFollette's present program, re-
Gently issued, is filed with the same
old empty criticism Of the trusts
and their interference with the free
opinion of Americas democratic
institutions" His whole program is
an Intellectual wall. For, instance,
he recites in detail many grievances
of the farmers and suggests not a
single constructive measure for
these some exploited farmers.
In his latest letter he certainly
lines up with strange company. He
may in the past have been able to
survive in the popular eye as a
progressive while still remaining a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
MASS MEETINGS
SPEED STRIKE OF
FOOD WORKERS
Injunctions Can't Stop
Organization Drive

The report Of the strike committee
in charge OF the strike of the Greek
restaurant workers, connected with
the Amalgamated Food Workers I'm
ion of Chicago, was unanimously ac-
cepted at the general membership
meeting of the Food Workers We'd
nesday night. The strike committee
was empowered tb go ahead with its
strenuous and so far successful cam
paign to get every Greek restaurant
in the city organized.
The mass meeting, held last night
at 722 Blue Island avenue, was packed
with Greek restaurant workers as
well as many who wanted to learn
about the true conditions Of the
strike. Esther Lowell, of the editorial
staff of the DAILY WORKER, was
one of the speakers. Miss Lowell told
Of the help the DAILY WORKER had
given in the Pullman and Garment
Workers strikes. She declared that
the issuance of ITO injunctions against
the strikers and other restaurants was
just one step in the battle of
the organized workers against the
civil and national government as
it is now administered. She said the
courts Of the land have been turned
into clubs which the bosses use to
beat down the workers.
Organization Drive Successful.
Albert E. Stewart, secretary of the
Food Workers, declared, "This is the
only strike / know of where injunc-
tions have been issued before the men
have not yet come out on strike. At
least $50 OF the injunctions, our law
yers tell us, would be dismissed at
once by even a Judge prejudiced
against the bosses. re could make
the restaurant owners association ap-
pear ridiculous in court. At present
we are concentrating on the organiza-
ton drive. The issuance Of the in
functions, coupled with the sale Of
the special Food Workers strike edi-
ton of the DAILY WORKER" by
DAILY WORKER agents, has put the
Greek restaurant bosses on the de-
fensive. There is now no way they
can stop the complete organization Of
the Greek restaurant workers into our
union"
Stewart told his audience that the
national organization OF Food Work
ers in New York has promised to aid
the Chicago strikers, both financially
and morally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Muscle Shoals Won't
Go to Flivver King
This Senate Session
10y The Federated Prsss)

WASHINGTON, June 1.-Persuad-
ed that no disposal of Muscle Shoals
can be made at this session, the SEN
ate committee on agriculture has vot-
ed, IL to 4, to report favorably the
Norris plan for government opera
ton of the huge hydro-electric power
at that place. Reyes. Republican. and
Smith, Harrison and Helm, Demo
Gratis, opposed the Norris bill, while
Ralston and Caraway voted present"
Some of the Republicans who sup
ported the government ownership
measure as means of beating the
Ford bid for Muscle Shoals are not
public-ownership advocates, but Nor
ris counts on public sentiment, rapid
ly changing toward enthusiasm for
publicly owned super-power, to hold
them in line next year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02

were operating full time and full cap
acity during April. This means that
60 per cent of Massachusetts, industry
was operating at less than capacity.
The department says: Normal oper-
ating schedules were the exception
and in only 10 of the SO industries did
the number of establishments operat-
ing normally exceed the number
operating below normal Curtail-
ments were especially marked in the
boot and shoe, in all the textile in
dustries, in confectionery, foundry
products, leather, machine tools and
the manufacture Of textile machin-
cry"
Workers Hungry And In Debt
If the burden could be equally dis
tributed over the entire working class
of the state each family accustomed
to receiving the average wage would
have to cut its monthly budget by SIS.
The 800 a month average was far
from adequate. But the burden will
not be equally distributed. Some fam
lilies, tens of thousand of them, have
lost the support of their chief bread
winner. They are going hungry on
what other members can pick up and
running in debt at that. other tens
of thousands are getting only a third
or half of the usual low wage. You
will find such families in the textile
centers, the boot and shoe towns and
to an increasing extent around the
metal establishments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Tenants Need Not
Pay Rent Increases
While Holding Apt.

NEW YORK, June IA tenant
who remains in an apartment after
the expiration Of lease and refuses
to pay an unreasonable increase in
rent, does not have to pay the in
crease under the emergency rent laws
according to the decision given in the
Court Of Appeals.
The test case was raised by Mrs.
Madeline Stern, against the Equitable
Trust Company, executor for the de-
ceased tenant Joseph Rosenthal. Ro-
senthaf refused to vacate Mrs. Stern's
apartment and also to pay the in
creased rent for the eight months that
he remained.
In the decision the court stated that
the primary, but not only purpose
of the Emergency Rent Laws was to
prevent wholesale evictions of tenants
willing to pay reasonable rent, but not
exorbitant rates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
MELLON HELD
UP BOOTLEGGERS
FOR COP. DEFICIT
Means Exposes Secretary
as Big Thief

WASHINGTON, June 1.-Gaston B.
Means, in his farewell appearance"
before the senate Daugherty investi-
eating committee, today said Jess
Smith gave him documents Showing
that Secretary Mellon had gone into
an arrangement with Red Sheldon, a
New York bootlegger, to give Sheldon
liquor permits, for which he was to
pay a part Of the Republican national
committee deficit"
Means said he heard that Fred
Upham, treasurer of the Republican
national committee, and Senator Bur-
sum, New Mexico, were parties to the
deal"
Mellon told Captain Scaife, justice
department investigator, Means said,
that Bursum was responsible for the
arrangement with Sheldon, but Bur-
sum later said he had merely sent
Sheldon to Mellon with the offer, ac-
cording TO Means.
Means, who is going to New York
to stand trial for conspiracy to de-
fraud the government in liquor deals,
reviewed his whole career with the
department of justice, told new tales
of petty official corruption, intrigue
and graft and laid the blame for fail
ure Of prohibition enforcement on the
big interests"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Business Sharks
Avoiding Publicity
Thru New Court

A dual court system, fostered By
the Illinois chamber of commerce, is
spreading rapidly thru Illinois bust
ness circles. It is called commercial
arbitration and consists in taking
business disputes out of the hands OF
the legally constituted courts and set
Ting them by private justice thru an
arbitrator. He has power to issue
subpoenas and file his finding in a
court with the legal effect of a court
judgment.
1.-THE plan eliminates publicity" the
chamber points out, which some
times is not only undesirable, but is
very destructive. 1t is also cheaper
and more businesslike and permits
business to be operated unaffected by
the dispute"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
BY JOSEPH MANLEY, Secretary
Federated Farmer-Labor Party.

BY JOSEPH MANLEY, Secretary
Federated Farmer-Labor Party.
The threatening" letter by Sena-
tor LaFollette, in which he threat
ems" private monopoly and bitterly
denounces the Communists, is no
surprise to those Of us whose mem
ory reaches back to the days of
1912 and of 1917.
LaFollette owes much of his
present popularity not alone to his
record previous to, but more espe-
cially during the world war when
with his sham pacifism he made
capital out Of the real anti-war senti-
ment that existed. And he is still
living on his undeserved laurels.
When the present crisis, much
more serious than the one that
formerly faced the Republican party
in 1912, endangers internal CO.
hesion, LaFollette, in view of his
latest statement, is liable to repeat
his role of 1912 and stay on the
inside Of the old reactionary ma
chine thereby saving it again from
destruction. He has for years posed
as a progressive Republican fight
ing against the old guard and many
have felt that his careful and "pro-
gressive" criticism has helped to
keep many workers and farmers
chained to the old Republican Jug
gernaut, whose adherents would 9TH
erwise long ago have given up
the hopeless fight and cast in
their lot with the growing num-
Der of real progressives and mill
tants who even before the Tea
pot Dome Republican exposure
said that the Republican party was
hopeless. In this latest statement
by LaFollette his old uncertainty
and vacillation again come to the
surface by his refusal to positively
state that he will be even run as an
independent presidential candidate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
New Jersey Counties
Prepare for State
Farm-Labor Assembly

NEWARK, N. j., June 1.-The
workers in the state Of New Jersey
have decided to follow the example of
the workers OF other states and are
now preparing for state convention
for the formation OF state Farmer
Labor party.
The second conference Of the Fed
Grated Farmer-Labor party will be
held on June End, at the Labor Ly-
ceum at 7O4 S. 14th Street, Newark,
N. J.
Hudson county viii hold its con-
ference on June 9Th at Stuyvasant
Casino, 154 Palisade Avenue, Union
Hill, N. J.
The Elizabeth county conference
will be held at the Polish National
Hall, 113 First Street, Elizabeth, N.
J. No date has as yet been set for
the conference in Passaic county.
After these county conferences have
been held the state convention OF
New Jersey will be held on June 14th,
at .. m, at the Labor Lyceum. 704
s. 14th Street, Newark, N. ].
Credentials have already been sent
to all trade unions, fraternal organ
izations, co-operatives and local poll
tical groups thruout the entire state
Of New Jersey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Sammy Licks Boots
of Capitalist Parties
Before Conventions
10y The Federated Press,

WASHINGTON, June Flavor.
able consideration by the Democratic
and Republican national conventions
of the candidates. of labor men of
outstanding type" is asked by Presi-
dent Gompers, on behalf of the exc
cutive council Of the A. F. of L., in a
statement made public here.
The only labor candidates thus far
seriously mentioned for the old party
tickets are George L. Berry for the
Democratic vice-presidential job and
John L. Lewis for the Republican
vice-presidential place. Lewis has not
made any move in his own behalf, so
far as known, but Berry has gathered
hundreds Of endorsements thruout
the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02

the Socialist government Of Germany
was willing to take it's place beside
the labor-baiting anti-Bolshevik gov
ernments Of western capitalist ma
tions.
Since French recognition of Soviet
Russia has doomed up as a prob
ability of the near future, there has
been marked difference in the tone
Of Russian-G German negotiations.
Within a few months the United
States may find itself alone in it's des-
tructive attitude, facing a solid front
of important countries friendly to
Soviet Russia. American capitalists
are holding out for payment by the
Russian workers of debts contracted
by the car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02

year ago. At this rate the loss In
purchasing power of Massachu-
sets workers over a year will
amount to nearly $120,000,000.
A continued change for the worse
was shown in the April report. AS
compared with March the number Of
workers on factory payrolls fell 4.S
per cent and average weekly earnings
1.6 per cent. This brings the average
wage down to $23.42 week, only 10
cents above the average Of April 1928.
And 16 per cent fewer workers are
receiving this meager wage. This
means that without allowing for
growth of population there are APP
proximately 114,00O workers idle in
this state who had jobs a year ago.
The cotton mill population is sub
sisting on 80 per cent less in wages
than a year ago. There are rs per
cent fewer workers employed and
weekly wages are per cent below
last April. The boot and shoe indus
try reports the same condition with a
quarter OF the workers idle and aver
age wages down per cent.
Manufacturers of rubber goods, in
Guiding footwear, tires, ETC., employ
ed rs per cent fewer workers and
paid per cent lower wages than in
April 1928. Their total wages have
fallen 20 per cent. The electrical
industry employed 20 per cent fewer
workers and paid 26 per cent less in
wages. Foundries and machine shops
had IAN per cent fewer workers with
total payrolls reduced IL per cent.
The wooden industry reported ~ per
cent fewer employees and Is per cent
less in wage disbursements. Only
the printing trades and the paper in
dustry report above the average.
Both report fewer employees but in
creased per capita earnings.
Only $50 out of the $50 establish
ments reporting to the department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
NEGROES SEE
xxx. SHADOW
ON REP UBLICANS
Don's Brag About Your
Granddads, They Say
az The Eederated Zoo

NEW YORK, June 1.-Relation Of
the Negro voters to the Republican
party and Ku Klux Khan control Of
both old parties in different states are
among the questions which viii arise
at the fifteenth annual conference, Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, Philadelphia.
June % to July /. Representative
Theodore e. Burton, Republican key
noter at Cleveland, will speak for the
party OF Daugherty-Denby- and
Senator David l. Walsh of Massachu-
sets for the Democrats. Oswald
Garrison Willard, Florence Kelley.
Moorfeld Storey and John Haynes
Holmes are some Of the liberal speak
ers.
The association is sending out a list
Of donts for white campaign orators
addressing colored voters, drawn up
by the editor OF the Wichita Protest:
Don't put too much stress on the
remarkable progress we have made
within the past 60 years. we know all
about it. We are also further aware
that, with all our progress, we have
not yet arrived at the place where we
are accorded a mans chance in Amer
lean life.
Don't tell us that you know We ara
all Republicans and are going to vote
the straight Republican ticket. There
is a chance for you to be mistaken.
You might mention how you stand on
the question OF human rights, not how
your grandfather stood"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
LIBERTIES UNION TELLS STONE
TOSTOP FEDERAL LABOR SPYING
(By Federated Press)

NEW YORK. June 1Folowng
on the bureau investigation
Liberties union letter
cooperate in recognizing
the Liberties
Intimidation
wide
connected with these movements charges against the
memorandum accompanying
calls attention
cation Of for the
the Of political
adding
department
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
GERMAN RAID ON RUSS INSPIRED
INDUSTRIALISTS; RELATIONS WARMER

Germany expression
dealings with Russia following the
elections that the energetic raid the German
quarters mission Of
capitalism
toward the soets is
Communism
Germany.
which reaction,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Jobs or Husbandsf

YUMA, Ariz.-Married women will
not be employed in the Yuma high
school. A committee OF women called
on the board, voicing the opposition
of residents OF the city and valley to
discrimination against married WON
en- and asking that its recent order be
rescinded. The board refused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
plphtherIs Grows.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June dip.
iberia is on the increase in the state.
according to the weekly report made
by the state department OF public
health, issued by DR.. l. d. Rawlings,
state director of health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
Workers Work Fewer Days.

LONDON, Eng, June From jan
uary to March 81, 1924, over 2,000.-
600 working days were lost, as COM
pared with 100000 for the same Pc
riod of the year 1928.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-02
HARD TIMES FOR WORKERS IN
CAL COOLIDGE'S HOME STATE
ASLABOR STATISTICIAN SHOWS

Wage Massachusetts against loss in of
$1OOOOOOO the industrial depression in that
According figures for April by the Massachusetts, labor
have fallen fully 10 cent below
Evening star., 1924-07-21

Control Of OmcialdOm.
"The spirit of the common law is
opposed to those insidious encroach-
ment upon liberty which take the
form of an uncontrolled administra.
tive authority-the modern guise OF
an ancient tyranny not the more
welcome to intelligent free men be-
Evening star., 1924-07-21
LONDON DEALER SEEKS
FAMOUS BLUE DIAMOND
Jewel From Crown Of Late Gear
Will Be Bid Up to 81 100000
for American.

LONDON. July 21-A famous Hat
ton Garden dealer left London at the
beginning of the week for Mentone,
where he is to endeavor to purchase
the famous Blue diamond which
blazed among the crown jewels of
the Car OF Russia
The news has just leaked out that
he Is carrying out a secret mission
on behalf Of an American collector of
gems and 1t is rumored that he has
been authorized to secure the gem at
any figure up to $1,500.00o.
strange fact about this latest
romance of the Blue diamond Is that
the diamond dealer accepted the com
mission from his American client
after four other Hatton Garden mer-
chants had refused to have anything
to do with the matter.
So uncanny a reputation has this
wonderful gem got that it was with
difficulty that a representative of a
London newspaper could get some Of
the well known figures in the market
even to talk about it.
Hatton Garden is the most cosmo-
politan part of the metropolis and
many who were carrying on business
in Russia before the war. These men
recall the story which was told about
the gem which is once again in the
limelight and maintain that it may
have played its part in bringing about
the great CONFUSION which followed
the defeat Of Russia in the battlefield.
diamond. is never long out of the
public eye. For over thousand
years it has been changing hands
again and again. and. like HALEY s
comet. it is believed that 1t never re-
appeares without presaging disaster
Evening star., 1924-07-21
TELLS OF DUAL NATURE
IN WOMEN OF AMERICA
German Professor Says They Must
Be Won First to Win
Favor of Nation.

BERLIN, July 21.-American wom-
en- have two natures, according TO
Prof. Friedrich Schoenemann OF
Muenster University. formerly Har- :
ward instructor, who published a
book on propaganda in the United
States. Regarding the women, the
professor says: "On one hand Ameri-
can women are most conservative,
and on the other they are daringly
progressive"
Prof Schoenemann thinks that
American women are even more
concerned the British women about
public affairs and are not nearly so
aware of something new as women
Of other nations He says Ameri-
can women have clear and more IN
ventive minds, and are inexorable
and unscrupulous.
He believes they are on the whole
open minded and quick to seize an
idea; practical and logical in every
thing that pertains to winning con-
verts to an idea, therefore, powerful
as propagandists.
So the professor believes that any
one who wishes to influence foreign
or domestic policies in America
must first win the women.
Evening star., 1924-07-21
u. S.-BRITISH CONTACT IDEAL.
SAYS HUGHES TO LONDON BAR
Kinship Traced to Development of Common Lao
and TranspIanting in America-Predicfs
attacks on Constitution viii Fail.

cause ii NAV bear the label of
democracy. There is still the need
TO recognize the ancient right-and
IL Is the most precious right of
democracy--the right to be governed
by law and not by officials--the right
to reasonable. definite and proclaimed
standards which the citizen can in
voko against both malevolence and
caprice.
'It was realized at the beginning
gained with peculiar advantages to
exempt them from the baleful in
hucncc OF faction We have given,
as was well said by Mr.. Evarts, "A
new cxaltation to the power OF the
judiciary We have lifted up the
principle OF the common law, we have
exalted IL to the point that judicial
reason in the forum OF forensic dis
cussion shall he the final arbiter of
tho rights OF the people against their
and between the states and the
nation--that all shall obey.
Believes Attacks Will Fall.
"Thls delicate and difficult duty has
been well discharged. and notwith-
standing repeated efforts to under
mine this Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court OF the United States as the
hnal authority In the Interpretation
and application OF the Constitution
II retains its hold upon the confidence
OF the people. believe that the at
tarks upon IL once more renewed
VIII again fail.
But if we have maintained the
tradition no happily received Of an
Independent judiciary II is only be-
cause wo have also conserved the
tradition OF an independent bar. not
servilc to authority, but always keen
for tho defense OF individual rights
against abuses OF power, intent upon
giving every man his day in court
and ever watchful OF judicial arbiters
lest they lose their footing in the
slippery paths OF the law.
Evening star., 1924-07-21
FERTILIZER EFFICIENCY
DOUBLED, is C0NTENDED
German Claims to Have Developed
New Method of Treating
Manure
ny the Associated Press.

MEMMINGEN, Germany. July I'll
Capt. krantz, retired German cav
airy officer. claims to have invented
process for treating manure by
which its effectiveness as fertilizer
is doubled. He has demonstrated
scientifically that the nitrogen con-
tanned in manure Is used only up to
70 per cent of its entire contents.
while 75 per cent is lost His proc
ess at it's present stage of develop
ment makes possible the utilization
of 30 per cent.
1t is estimated that the amount of
manure produced annually in Ger
many aggregates $50. 600. 900 tons, and
this manure contains 100000 TO 700-
900 tons of nitrogen, only o5 per cent
of which becomes availa BILE under
existing treatment. German farm
ers are much interested in the krantz
process. because they see in ii
possibility of making Germany in
dependent of foreign artificial ferti-
]iztrS.
krantZ' mthod is a combina ton of
first loosening up the manure and
afterWard compressing it.