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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
REYNOLDS SAYS
DETROIT HOPES
until WINTER
Sees Slackening in the
Automobile Industry
BY WILLIAM REYNOLDS.
special to The Daily Worker)


DETROIT, Mich, April 25.-The au-
tomobile industry, which centers in
lower Michigan, is showing very per-
ceptible slackening up since January 1.
In former years, production has
been at peak during April, but this
year there has been a steady decrease
in employment, as is indicated by the
employment figures given out by the
Employers Association of Detroit,
which are as follows:
February 26-241,134.
March 25--24O,5S6.
April 15-236,976.
These figures do not exactly reflect
employment conditions, as many
plants are running part time (three,
four or five days per week., which two
months ago were working overtime.
Small cities in central Michigan
which produce auto bodies and acces-
series are in many cases severely
pinched by unemployment at present.
The Mines of Michigan, which supply
domestic industry, are in many cases
idle.
Tho the building industry of Detroit
shows more activity than in most
years, with spring construction well
under way, there is very decided I'M
employment in the building trades. 1t
is generally remarked by building
tradesmen that buildings go up with
less labor each year in Detroit, which
but reflects the speed-up system that
is becoming more and more the rule.
Unless unemployment becomes very
acute in the factories, it is to be ex-
pected that building, road making, ag-
riculture, navigation and other fair
weather industries will keep employ
ment at fair level until next winter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
THE Home" In Pullman
1.-THE Home" is not sacred in Pullman.
The Pullman Company has seen to that.


Ebert r. Gary head of the United Steel Corpora
ton had Gary Indiana" named after him.
George NJ. Pullman, first head Of the Pullman Palace
Car Company, thought to dedicate his and memory
all postery by having the little Industrial czardom Of
pullman, Illinois," bear his
These two company owned" towns are pretty much
the and just like every other company
Homes considered only aduncts necessary to
the job.
The Pullman Company has only considered ''the home
another for squeezing money of the pay
envelope of its workers. And the Pullman Company doesn't
care how inconsistent it is in doing it.
The strike are fighting decrease in wages.
The Pullman Company insists the wages should be reduced
Yet what is the situation in the south Pull
ILL.,, where the Pullman Company still of the
houses. There the Pullman Company trying impose
increase in rents to 60 into effect May 1st
As The DAILY WORKER reported in its Thursday issue,
three-room flats occupied by Pullman workers have been
raised So 81 and ST. per month in their rentals
This has always been the policy of the Pullman Com
pany Cut the wages and increase the price of everything
the workers need
That is the policy of the steel Gary of the
Seger Piano Company at Steger nd and of the bosses
in every company-owned town.
The Pullman Company was organized in 1867 to build
sleeping But the building of sleeping only
excuse for making money on anything it could get its
hands
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
Better Steer Shy of 2
Alluring Publicity
from Puget Sound

SEATTLE, Wash, April 25.-The
Chamber Of Commerce has appropri-
ated $lS5,~D to advertise the PACT
nc Northwest in the eastern United
States They want more people with
bill-lined pockets. but not to give the
First Avenue and Occidental Street
excess workers chance to enjoy the
surprisingly fine outdoors of Puget
Sound country. There are already
too many slaves for each job offered
in this territory; so workers, at least,
had better disregard the alluring ads
Of the local Chamber Of Commerce.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
HIT DOCKING
MINE FINES
FROM WAGES
BY THOMAS MYERScoUGH,
Secretary, Progressive Miners
Committee.

AUBURN, ILL.,, April 25.-A
bitter battle over the Docking"
of fines from the earnings of the
miners, took up the entire
morning session of the conven-
ton of Springfield, No. a, SUBJ
district miners meeting here.
Joker" Young, the Board
Member for this group of min
ers, who is supposed to be a
staunch Harrington supporter,
was pulled over the Goals" be-
cause of unfair decisions to
which he has agreed, and which
benefit the operator at the ex-
pense of the miner.
Board Member Shown Up.
Charges and counter-charges flew
fast and much documentary evidence
was presented, but this brought from
Young the threat that he would re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
The Workers Party in Action
TALLENTIRE SEES LABOR
IN THE NORTHWEST FACE
TO FACE WITH BIG BATTLE

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 25.-
According to District Organizer Nor
man TalIentire Of the Workers Par
ty, the condition of organized labor
In Minneapolis and ST. Paul is cha
otto. The movement has never fully
recovered from the open shop drive
Of two years ago. The building
trades and the metal trades were
particularly set back in that drive.
Reports In the Twin Cities Gen.
trial Labor bodies show that turnout
the state units Of organized labor
are ceasIng to function. Councils
seldom meet in some places and
quorum is unusual. Most of the
workers are unemployed or exc out
measer living with part-time
work.
Organizer TalIentire has received
data during the last month that the
condition of the Minnesota farmers
is as bad as ever. Like their fellow
workers in North and South Dakota,
many farmers are going bankrupt
and are compelled to leave their
farms. Where one sees a neat farm
house and perhaps a modest array
of stock about, it is almost certain
to be mortgaged to the point of
strangIing the farm owner or ten
ant.
The depression thruout this state
makes more evident the inability of
the two old national parties to ac-
compish any real or lasting good
for the farmers and workers. More
than ever the need for class Farm
er-Labor party is pressed home, and
in spite of all difficulties and the
burden of unemployment the work
ers and farmers of Minnesota are
rallying to the cry for new order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
NIGHT IN CELL IS
LOT OF ANOTHER
MILITANT WORKER

Continued From Page One)
place at 225 S. Market street, and is
evidence of the fact that sometimes
the inspiration the bosses furnish
thsir "sluggers" has too much kick.
Just enough liquor primes up the
"slugger" to knocking out striker but
too much knocks him out.
There is reason to believe from
what policemen have whispered in con-
fidential moments that it isn't the
quantity so much as the villanious
quality of the liquor furnished to the
scab herders that lays them low.
Bulls Were Getting Theirs.
No policemen were on the pavement
at the time. They had just gone up
stairs for confidential tete-a-tete with
the boss.
All this happened just before the
evening picketing hour which begins
about 1850 p. m. Getting the guaro
ians of property ready for their eve
ming work is a regular ceremony along
S. Market street.
Tom Tippett, of the Federated
Press, thrilled the strikers at their
noon meeting with vivid account of
gunner, state police and the unsub-
dued courage of the West Virginia
miners. Tippett, union miner him
self, has just returned from the land
of yellow dog" contracts, injunctions,
tent colonies and class war with
rifles.
Il understand that your strike has
gone on for eight weeks" said Tip
petit. That's the time when enthu-
siasm begins to fall, sometimes, but
you should really only begin to fight
now. Down in Cabin Creek, West
Virginia l visited the tent colony
where the miners and their wives
and children have been striking for
two years.
Down there the strikers have to
live in tents. A strike means that
they are put out of their hometown
. ed by the operators. Then they live
In tents, whole families, and live on
$3.50 week strike benefits for single
men, with $3.50 extra for the wife and
so cents for each kid.
"They fight on, half starved. |
asked them how they could stand
such terrible suffering, how they
could stay on strike.
Tippett went on to tell Of what the
Illinois miners had gained by organi.
cation. In his childhood in a coal
miners cabin conditions we're just as
bad as in West Virginia. But the
miners struck again and again, struck
for two years at time, struck and
lived on such fish as they could catch
from the streams and finally won the
eight hour day and wages sufficient
TO live at least as well as most other
workers.
Praises Negro Unlonists
Il see some members Of the Negro
Race" said the speaker. Il want to
tell you all that Negroes are part Of
The backbone Of the West Virginia
miners union. There are three Neg.
roes on the executive board and in
every tent colony you see Negroes
side by side with the whites. No race
division in the miners union.
Cheers greeted his reference to the
Kansas miners successful fight
against injunctions and the Industrial
court and cheers again followed his
cry that these illegal iHiunctions must
be defsd. ---~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26

debt besides, by being forced to buy
all Of their goods and merchandise
at extortlonate rates. But where
the coal companies did the thing
boldly and crudeIy, the Pullman
Company surrounded the expIoita-
tion with deceptive embellishments.
"The mechanism, altho indirect
was simple. While, for instance,
the cost Of gas to the Pullman Com
pany was only SO cents for 1000
feet, every worker living in the
town Of Pullman had to pay at the
rate Of $2.25 per 1000 feet. II he
desired to retain his job he could
not avoid payment; the company
owned the exclusive supply of gas
and was the exclusive landlord.
"The company had the worker in
a clamp from which he could not
we'll escape. The workers were
housed in ugly little pens, called
cottages, built in tight rows, each
having five rooms daad 'conven-
iences.' For each Of these cottages
$1s rent a month was charged. The
city Of Chicago, the officials of
which were but the mannikins or
hireIings Of the Industrial magnates,
generously supplied the Pullman
Company with water at four cents
per thousand gallons. For this same
water the Pullman Company charg-
ed It's employees ten cents thous-
and gallons, or about n cents a
month. BY this plan the company,
in addition, obtained its water
supply for practically nothing. Even
for having shutters on the houses
the workers were taxed so cents
per month";"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26

.'In 1880 the Pullman Company
bought 500 acres of land near Chi
cago," writes Gustavus Myers, in
his History of the Great Ameri-
can Fortunes "Upon 800 Of these
It built. its plant, and proceeded,
with much show and advertisement
of benevolence, to build what it
called a model town for the benefit
of its workers.
"Briek tenements, churches, IL
brary and athletic grounds were the
main features, with sundry misceI-
Ianeous accessories. This project
was heraIded far and wide as a not
able achievement, conspicuous ex-
ample of the growing aItruism of
business.
"But time soon revealed the inner
nature of the enterprise. The model
town proved to be a cunning device
with two barhs. II initiated to hold
the workers to their jobs in state
of quasi-serfdom, and ii gave the
company additional avenues of ex-
plotting its workers beyond the or
binary and usual limits Of wages
and profits. In reality it was one
of the forerunners of an incoming
feudalistic sway, without the advan-
tages to the wage worker that the
IoWIy possessed under medieval
feudalism. 1t was also an apparent
polished Improvement, but nothing
more, over the processes at the
coal mines in Pennsylvania, IIli-
nois, and other states, where the
miners were paid the most meager
wages, and were compelled to re-
turn those wages to the coal COM
panies and to bear an incubus Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26

sort to the courts of the organization
He said he was being slandered. This
brought the retort from Watt, the
secretary-treasurer, that Young was a
fourflusher, and that if he thought he
was being slandered by having his
tricks brought to the attention of the
men who pay him, then he would call
his bluff and challenged him to prefer
his charges.
Among the delegates are some who
are unaware of doings in the miners
union, and their position was ex-
pressed by Delegate Knudtson when
he said:
There are so many of us who know
nothing of the things being discussed
here, and I am glad that such manip.
ulations are being shown up"
The documents used by Young were
ordered made part of the record
much to the chagrin of that indi.
vidual
Attack Foreign Born Bills.
The various forms of attempts to
enslave the foreign born workers
were all subjected to attack by ]. j
Watt, secretary-treasurer The foreign
born Secretary of Labor Davis was
roundly scored by Watt, who read the
Welshman's pedigree to the delegates
assembled. The Congressional Rec
ord and clippings from many papers,
including the DAILY WORKER, were
read to show Just what Davis really
is. 1t was shown that Davis and his
illiterate father would be excluded
from this country under the provisions
of these foreign born bills.
The speech of Secretary Watt
brought forth tremendous applause
and served also to bring forth a flow
of sentiment from delegate named
Williams.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
JOBLESS ARMY GROWS In WISCONSIN
BY G. s. SHKLAR
District Organizer, Workers Party.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.,, April 25-The industrial outlook
in this locality rather gloomy The International Har
vester Company Chicago, Minneapolis St. Paul R. R. Co.
and several large machine shops laying off considerable
number of Work in building trades is very dull
The wages also very low. For instance at times you
will find advertisement for experienced machins to
work at 55c hour.
One of the department stores has recently laid off
100 girls. The unemployment here is the increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-26
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS MARCH
TO LENIN'S TOMB ON MAY DAY

has NETT
nent any on
pay
de
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
Christmas Gifts
To White House
Come in Deluge

Christmas hurly-burley has broken
loose at the White House, where d
thousand bundles, boxes, barrels,
crates, packages and "pokes" are
bean ing down gaily upon the staff in
relentlessly steady stream. Every
body in the White House household
has something coming. The Presl-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge and their son
John, soon to arrive for his first visit
since entering Amherst, are on the
list.
So also is Colonel John Coolidge,
the Presidents father, although ne
now is not expected to be White
House Christmas guest. Along in
the gift getting group are Mrs.
Coolidge's pets, the white collies, Rob
Roy and Peter Pan, the President
prime favorite, "Blackie," the cat that
stayed put"
No Turkey Yet.
So far, oddly enough, no Christmas
turkey has been promised. There still
is plenty of time for turkey or two
to come winging its way, although
nobody wonders much at no turkey
when casting an appraising eye over
the vast assortment of provendeI
gifts which range from bits of hand
made, honey stuff to splendidly box
ed fruits and nuts showing the choic-
est things from the winter harvests.
Flowers from everywhere show w
against gorgeous consignment OF
holly which Arizona admirers of the
Coolidge family have forwarded. The
White House registers lot of ex-
element because of the holly, which
is a novelty on the White House gift
list. The sight of the holly set every
body inquiring where's the mistle-
toe?" There is not sprig of mis-
tletoe in sight to date.
Simple Observance Planned.
Within the family group Christ
mas, 1924, with its wistful remem-
brances, will be observed with even
more than the customary simplicity
by the President and Mrs. Coolidge
and their son. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Stearns will be of the household dur
ing the holidays as they always are
on all purely intimate and family oc-
casions.
There will be no Christmas tree
no young peoples dance, as there
was last year when John and his
brother Calvin gave an afternoon
party" and the first lady made a
great hit by dancing with every boy
in the company.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
Hunters Should
Make Reports Now

Right now is good time for hunt
ers to send in their reports on big
game and small game hunting
The law specifies that reports
should be made within 80 days after
the close of the hunting season.
The big game season has been
closed for some time, and so far as
hunting is concerned the small game
season has also been closed since the
freezeup.
The longer a hunter neglects to
make his report, the greater chance
there is that he may forget to do it at
all or that there may De errors in
the report when it is sent-so get out
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
University Offered
Gift of $1,25O,OOO
Must Bring Total to S3,6OO,OOO Before
Grant Becomes Available.

The University of Minnesota faces
the task of raising $2,350,00O by which
a recent gift of $1,250,00O, offered by
the General Education Board, must
be supplemented to carry out a pro
gram of expansion in the Medical
School which will cost $3,600,000.
The City of Minneapolis joined with
the University in petitioning the Gen
eral Education Board, the joint pro-
posal being that the University fur
nish land adjacent to the Medical
School campus, on which the city
would build a new city hospital, now
becoming necessary because of con-
gestion in the old one
The twin cities offer an ideal urban
center for the development of medica.
education work. Acute cases are pro-
vided in large numbers by the cities
while the University Hospital, as a
state institution, receives many Of
the chronic cases from smaller COM
munities in Minnesota. The Hennepir
County Medical Society has Endorsed
the proposed expansion.
Erection of a nurses home, compile
ton of several main buildings, and en-
largement of existing University hos
pital facilities to 600 beds, exclusive
of the Minneapolis hospital, are ele-
ments contemplated in the develop.
ment.
President L.. d. Coffman and Dear
E. P. Lyon believe that the plans, if
carried out, will complete the Medical
School as far as need be considered
for fifty years.
This is the fourth considerable gift
the Minnesota Medical School has re-
ceived in the past two years and the
fifth if the $2,OOO,OOO Mayo Founda-
ton for graduate study, given some
years earlier, be included. 1t has re-
ceived a gift of more than 81 100000
from w. H. Eustis for development
of pediatric hospital, the money to
be paid in in the course of the next
three years, gifts for cancer hos
pital and for hospital devoted chief
ly to opthalmology and oto-laryngo-
logy, both of the latter being under
construction.
The funds from the General Educa.
ton Board will be assured if the Uni
versity of Minnesota obtains the re-
mainder either by direct appropria.
tions or gifts, or if gifts and appro-
priations for payment at future
time are promised.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
License Tags VIII
be Ready Jan. 1st

: Mike Holm, Secretary of State, re-
ceived the past week 400 tons of met
al neatly packed in boxes, which he
has had stored and carefully guarded
in the basement of the Capitol
This consignment comprising 510,-
600 sets of motor vehicle license plates
for 1925, was manufactured by the
Western Display company of st. Paul,
and the enormous task of distributing
the new tags to automobile. owners
in Minnesota will begin on January
1st
The color scheme for the number
plates for 1925 is as follows:
The ga" "B" and &C" tags for pas
senger cars and busses have black
letters on an aluminium background.
The T, x, Y and 2 plates used on
trucks, commercial cars and trailers
are a bright organe with black let
tiers.
The 3D." dealers plates, are of ro-
bins egg blue with black letters.
Aside from the coloring there have
been two changes in the design of the
new license plates. The hyphen form
erly used between the first two fig
ures on tags of four numerals has
been eliminated to save metal and
make the number easier to read The
"Minn." and the letter designating
the class with date below, have been
transposed. This will instantly show
the difference between an old and a
new license.
The law governing the annual pro-
cess of taking out automobile licenses
in this state remains the same in 1925
as it was for this year.
The tax is based on 2 "a per cent
of the factory list price in effect on
| November l, 1924, on all correspond
ing models similar to those still being
manufactured.
All motor vehicles must be regis
tered and the license plates applied
to the machines on or before Febru-
airy Is. Penalties for delayed re-
gistration are computed at the rate
of 25 cents day.
Those who have purchased cars
which have been reduced in price
since November 1, will have to pay
the tax on the amount of the reduc-
ton. For instance, the owner of a
machine that had price cut of $4OL
on December 1, will have to pay tax
of 2 ga per cent of this amount, or
$11.
! The 1925 rate book from which the
tax is computed, and the registration
blanks for the coming year will be
ready for distribution December 15
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-12-24
A Visit with Sanity
Claus

Old Sanity Claus dropped in on me
To share a pipe and cup O. tea,
And shake a friendly leg, and make
A happy hour for old-time's sake;
Brushing the fluffy scads of snow
Out of his whiskers to and fro,
Until his shining ruddy face
Spilled its smile on the fireplace.
His laugh rang out of his lusty throat
Crisp and clear as a bugle-note;
His pudgy eyes popped out almost
AS he wadded the jelly on his toast
And poked my ribs and slapped my
knee
AS he cracked his olden jests in glee,-
Then he sneezed and wheezed and
said "Gee Whiz
You need some dope for your rheu-
matiZ."
He chortled some and he heaved a
sigh,
And | UPS and says "Old Pap' says |
"You bin around the world and back
With a billion things, in your bulg-
ing pack,
Now which is the best of all the toys
You carry for folks, and girls and
boys?-
Of the things you give on Christmas
night
Tell me-which is YOUR Favor-ite ?"
Then he pulled his ear, and took a
Whit
From his old clay pipe, and gave a
sniff,
While his voice fell suddenly soft
and low
Like it dreamed of things of the Long
Ago;
Confidential he leaned up near
Like he had a secret for my ear,
Then he kind of laughed, and bowed
his head
And smiled in the fire, and gently
said:
."Of all the things that 1 give away
To waiting world on Christmas Day
The gift l think the sweetest ano
best
Is the warm old heart here in my
breast;
| love to fling it with all its song
On the. weary hearts Of the human
throng,-
Yep,-My heart seems best OF the
whole blamed kit
AS l feel the youngsters squeezing
it."
Larry Ho.