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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Youth Organizations
Meet to Di Scu s
Reform Problems

BEAR MOUNTAIN INN, N. j.,
March 14.-Representatives Of young
peoples groups Of widely divergent
traditions in conference at Bear
Mountain Inn, formulated common
program of social reform. Among
organizations represented were the
Student Volunteers Of America, Y.
M. G "A, Y. w. C. A., the Christian
Endeavor, League for Industrial
Democracy, Young Workers League
and Young Peoples Socialist League.
The program adopted opposes
militarism and racial prejudicies,
child labor and the open shop, and
favors specialization of the mines,
railroads and super-power, along
with a number of measures of So
cial insurance, birth control educa-
ton and the furtherance of labor I'M
ionism, workers cooperation and the
establishment of an independent
farmer-labor party.
Representatives possessed no au-
thority to commit their organizations
to any program. The statement of
policy was an expression of the indi-
viduals at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Muscle Shoals Steal
VIII Be Fought 6y
Senate PrOgressiUes

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Sena-
tor Norris, chairman senate commit
tee on agriculture, predicts long
tight in the upper house before the
Muscle Shoals dam and the steam
power plant built by the government
at that place shall be turned over
to Henry Ford for 100 years.
Norris, Brookhart and other pro-
gressives are opposed to giving
Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford or to
the Alabama Power Co., or to any
other private interest. Norris has
just introduced the public super
power bill sponsored by the Public
Ownership League Of America.
The naval oil lands were given
away secretly to Doheny and Sim
clair, but the house has openly voted
the giving away to Ford of a re-
source equally important. Norris
proposes to show up the betrayal of
public interest in this refusal by con-
gress to develop and operate the
Muscle Shoals power for the benefit
of the people.
Laid Succeeds Lenroot.
The senate today unanimously APP
proved appointment of Senator Laid.
North Dakota, as chairman of the
public lands committee, succeeding
Senator Irvine L. Lenroot, republi-
can, Wisconsin, who gave up the post
because of i'll health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
SHINES Newspaper
Commits Treason;
Gets AUGy With 1t

BERLIN, March 1.-The Deutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung, owned by Hugo
SHINES, brings a sensational item to
the effect that the reactionary gov
eminent of Thuringia has discovered
a big supply Of munitions which the
socialist minister Of the interior,
Hermann, is alleged to have secret
" purchased to arm the 'proletarian
hundreds" Nothing happens. The
newspaper appears now as before. Z
Several weeks previously various
working class organs had brought
the news that large supplieI of NUM-
tons had been found in Bavaria,
which were intended for the extreme
nationalists.
Immediately all these working
class papers were suppressed and the
Indictment Of treason brought
against some of them, on the
grounds that these papers were tell
ing the "enemy" where Germany's
hidden supplies Of munitions are.
1t evidently all depends for what
purpose secret stores of munitions
are heaped up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
MELONS COAL
COMP ANY Melted
ONLY S11,358,356
No Wonder Andy Fights
The Poor Man
By LELAND oLDs

" Suerateo FreSs industrial Editor)
A profit of $11,35S,356 was earn
oc by Melons Pittsburgh Coal Co.
during 1928, according to the annual
report recently made public by R. B.
Mellon, president Of the company
and brother to Coolidge's secretary
OF treasury. This means that stock
holders got return three and half
times as large as they were accus-
toned to in prewar years, while the
profit per ton was exactly five times
that considered fair before the war.
Such profits may reveal some per
sonal reasons for MELONS passionate
advocacy of the repeal Of the excess
profits tax and later his devotion to
the task of reducing the surfaces on
large incomes.
Pittsburgh Goals Loot
Pittsburgh Coal during 1928 sold
l3,915,588 tons of coal for $63, O69,-
472 out of which expenses took $751;
710,916. This left profits of SILL
36o,556 equivalent to Sc cents ton.
After payment of interest and de-
duction of exorbitant depletion
charges there remained $1,000, 1872
to be divided among the stockholders
equivalent to S10.S8 share.
The grossest kind of profteering
characterized the handling Of this
corporation by the Mellon interests
during the war. During the two
years 1917 and 1918 when the Unit
ed States was actively engaged in
the conflict the profits Of Pittsburgh
Coal averaged $40, 622,11S year af-
ter all deductions for depletion, de-
probation and interest, and after
payment of excess profits and income
taxes. This meant profits more than
i've times those earned in the prewar
years 1912 to 1914 when the com
pany was actually producing more
coal. Profit per ton during the war
years averaged ssh cents a ton as
compared with 10 cents ton during
1912, 1918 and 1914.
Pretty Good for Mellon
During the five years since the
armistice Pittsburgh Coal has report
ed profits after all deductions total
ing $27,121,6S0, or an average of
S5,024,3S6 year. This is still two
and a half times the prewar average.
And these profits have been made on
a very much smaller tonnage so that
turnout the period the profit per ton
has averaged 80 cents or five times
that in prewar years.
1t should be remarked that these
represent the war and post war pro-
fits of corporation whose head is
the leading opponent of soldiers
bonus and the leading advocate of
reducing excess profits taxes and
taxes on the swollen incomes of the
rich. Incidentally it throws an inter-
esting side light on the leading figure
in Coolidge's cabinet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Can DGugherty!
Cleveland Metal
Workers Demand

CLEVELAND, March 14.-Union
labor's resentment of conditions in
Washington is shown by the action
Of this district of the international
Association Of Machinists in de-
handing the immediate removal
from Office Of Attorney General
Daugherty.
The machinists' resolution states
that its members, who are FILLED
with repugnance and digust" for
those responsible for the present era
of corruption and misgovernment at
Washington. The petition concludes:
eve call upon the president to work
to the end that all public officials
implicated in any manner In these
scandals be prosecuted and punished
to the full extent of the law; and
that failure on the part Of the presi-
dent to perform this duty will, in our
opinion, saddle the entire response
bility for the past and present con-
duct of such officials on the president
himself"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Farrell Defense
Council Gets Goat
OF Police Chief

FARRELL, Pa, Mar. 14.-Smart-
ing under the singing lash Of pub
licity being administered by the
Farrell labor defense council, Chief
of Police Leyshock Of Farrell, and
Steel Trust officials, thru the press
here deny that the raids on the
Workers Party hall and imprison-
ment of six alleged members was in
spired by the Steel Trust police.
1t is stated by ex-Burgess Moody,
who ruled over Farrell during the
great steel strike that his police
raided meetings upon authorization
from the Steel Trust and the defense
has found conclusive evidence indi-
eating that the recent raids were au-
thorized by the same source.
Protesting against circulation of
defense literature and threatening to
arrest those responsible for its cir
culation Chief Leyshock again plays
the small town hero by the prattling
about a committee from the Work
ers Party waiting on him at his Of
flee. Leyshock complains against the
of defense literature
showing up the collision existing be-
tween the Farrell police and Steel
Trust police. The infantile logic of
the chief has furnished Mercer
County with it's own Teapot Dome
scandal and the staid rural folks
with their brothers in the mills have
much to talk about these days.
The laxity shown by the Farrell
police in enforcing the so-called pro-
law and their ruthless sup
preston Of workers meetings is
lurid contrast proving that the Steel
Trust-controlled police are more con-
cerned with what the worker reads
than what he drinks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15

have found underneath the surface
some INSCRIPTIONS agents who buy,
sell and lease property solely on the
basic Of color. One would naturally
think that it would not be necessary
to change the complexion of the ten
ants in order to increase the rents.
Tenants Penalized For Color.
mo man likes to feel that he is
being penalized because of his color,
where his money is concerned. Why
is it not possible for buildings to be
changed over from white tenants to
US without such q heavy burden of
rent being added to the shoulders Of
Race men and women? Where the
building has been a paying PROPOSE
ton on ordinary rents 1t seems un-
wise and very unfair to add to the
burdens of the people an unreason-
able increase to make people pay be-
cause they cannot help themselves
and because they do not happen to
be white"
AS Shakespeare would say, There
be white profteers and there be
black profiteers-I mean real estate
sharks" Mary Mcdowell says that
the rumor that Negroes depreciate
property values is not true. That
"Colored people are compelled to
enter white neighborhoods after
whites have begun to move out"
Negroes In Class ID Houses.
It has been found that forty-hve
per cent of Chicago's Negro popula-
ton Is living in class I'D" houses, the
very poorest type. These houses are
the very least habitable of all. They
are the oldest buildings in Chicago.
They are classified as 'Frail, fiimsy,
lettering, unkempt, literally falling
apart. No repairing has been done
for twenty years"
And yet the Chicago Tribune said
some days ago that Chicago's negroes,
Have all the utilities of modern
civilization, most of them living
we'll" That statement may be true
of the wealthy real estate sharks who
live in mansions on South Michigan
Boulevard, bought by the life-blood
of the rest of the race. It is certain
ly not true of the large majority who
are forced to live in broken down
dumps along Federal and South Dear
born Streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Your Union Meeting
Third Saturday, March Is, 1924

No. Name Of Local and Place Of Meeting.
rs Asphalt Paving, 209 +. S5th St.
Bakers, 21s w. Oak ST., 4. m.
IL Blacksmiths, 1870 w. Washington 81.
206 Blacksmlths, 18th and Drexel.
1913 Coopers, 1857 ShefReld Ave.
l4l7i Court Reporters, II N. LA6alls st., !
las Engineers, Capitol Bldg, D. m.
23l Engineers (Loc.), e23s 8. Princeton
Ave-, 7;50 p. m.
ass Engineers (Loc.), 35th and Wood Sts
464 Engineers, 81 s. Ashland Ave.
b4S Engineers (Loe.), AIS w. 63rd st.
rs Iron and Steel Wlrrs., 1921 Irving Park
HOd Carriers, sSs s. HaISt.d st.,
D. m.
Horse shoerS. 7ss W. Madison St.
l2S Machinista, 9sth and s. Chicago Ave
lS4 MachinistS, 1lS S. Ashland Blvd.
ass Main. Of Way, 23u s. Central Paal
Ave.
$40 Main. Of Way. ssd and Cottage Grow,
s2s Main. Of Way. 1917 w. Taylor st.
692 Railway Carmen, 5445 S. Ashland Ave
1885 Railway Carmen, 2O01 w. Chicago Ave
73t TeamSters, geo S. Ashland Blvd.
(Note-Unless otherwise stated all meeting,
are at D. nj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
CROSS ATLANTIC
RADIO BALKS AT
YANKEE RAGTIME
Johnny Bulls Play Our
Songs In Vain
Especial % The DAILY worker)

NEW YORK, March 14.-Britain
and America are but step brothers as
far as radio relations 60, judging
from the disappointing results ac-
companying the ambitious linking Of
nine English radio stations which
simultaneously broadcast music and
talk by Marconi to the four winds
last night.
Radio fans thruout America waited
for the most part in vain, for strains
Of American popular songs played
by the Orphean band at the Savoy
hotel in London. Richmond Temple,
American representative to the inter
national experiment, built a grand
stand around his receiving set in the
Ambassador hotel here and waited in
anticipation.
Not q Sizzle.
The instrument didn't even sizzle
for his guests. Temple was finally
compelled to send for cable of SEN
ator Marconi's opening address to
furnish consolatory entertainment for
the assemblage.
In spite Of the "silent cooperation"
Of the American stations only a few
persons in New York reported re-
ceiving the program clearly. From
other sections of the country the par
ticular piece "I love you," came over
must successfully.
WIZ, operated by the Radio Corpo-
ration Of America, reported at 10:46
p. m. that it had heard nothing of the
London concert altho operators had
listened from p. m. to $3.50 p. m.
Eastern standard time) the hours
designated
Super Radio Plan.
The British radio interests had
planned to circle the world, setting
up receiving stations in Australia,
China and other parts Of the Far
East. By the use Of telephone wires
every broadcasting station in Britain
were linked in a super system Of
twelve kilowat energy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Daugherty Attempts
To Get EDen With
Congressional Foes

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Sub-
poenaes were issued today for wit
nesses who will tell special grand
jury about alleged improper receipt
Of money by congressman, it was
learned at Attorney General Daugh-
erty's Office. The grand jury will be
convened at once. Assistant Attor-
ney General Seymour, aided by John
w. II. Grim, Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt
and other members Of Dapgherty's
staff, will have charge Of the prose-
cutions. Names OF grand jury wit
nesses are being kept secret.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Something New!

This investigation of the housing conditions among
Chicagos Negroes unlike any housing survey that has
been carried Former Investigations have been
printed in hgh-brow pamphlets and expensive books
which only the few wealthy Negroes who do not need
them able to obtain. The DAILY WORKER invest-
gator has spent much time in the Negro districts He
has talked to many Negroes of all classes and he tell
ing the Negroes themselves, thru the DAILY WORKER
Just what their conditions are, and HOW BEST TO
BETTER NEGRO HOUSING CONDITIONS We will
advertise meetings of the Negro Tenants League which
has been newly organized to the housing problems
and we will print, much possible the and let
tiers sent in by Chieagos Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
ROOM WAIVED

Young man wants steam-heated
room on North Side. Address The
Daily Worker, B-1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-15
Landlords of Both Colors Exploit
Negro Tenants in Class ID Houses,
Daily Workers Expose Will ShoW

The Negroes of Chicago do not know how many times
they have been the subject of Investigations and paper has
been put into the hands Of the Negro workers. explaining
them how far below the standard of the whites they
living. small shopkeeper Both Street and Indiana
Avenue told this story to the DAILY WORKER Investigator
yesterday.
The rich class Of Negroes like these investigations by social
workers told affords chance for the favored
tea and have nice ENJOYABLE social time with the white
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
Better Citizens.

The war department expects to
take care of 10000 students in the
summer military training camps
which will open in all army corps
areas In July. Young men be-
tween the age of II and "a are
eligible.
No service the government per-
forms is more valuable than this
because it offers the youth of the
country a chance for a month S
vacation at no expense that at the
same time will be beneficial.
The summer training camps are
an extension of the Plattsburg
idea of 1915, favorite Americaniza-
ton plan of Theodore Roosevelt
They have grown in popularity
each year until all of the requests
for admission can not be granted
The country is only as strong as
it's young men. Anything that
will make them better citizens is
deserving and worthy of support.
Exchange.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
New Industries in 1929.

during the year 1923 there were
oo9 new industry locations arranu-
.ed for with the Chicago and
North Western Ry. system in pro
vldlng direct track service as .
part IN the operation of these
business establishments. The CON
structIon of private tracks was
required by 268 of these new in
dustrles to facilitate the handling
OF their traffic In addition to
this many new commercial con
Germs have located at points on
TINS railway system who have
adapted their transportation needs
TO the current facilities, and not
requiring special action for track
or lease of railroad property.
These industries are located at
points over the several railway
Operating Divisions in the nine
states IN which The North West
ern line is located.
The variety Of commodity pro-
ductlon and the operation of these
new concerns is favored at their
new location by the use of many
OF the natural resources of the
territory, which include the iron
ore ranges, the forests of various
kinds of timber, great water
power facilities, coal fields and
the surrounding agricultural dis
tricts furnishing vast quantity
OF the foodstuffs of the nation.
There is also a growing market
and distributing area in this ter
rltory that has encouraged the To-
cation of wholesaling and jobbing
houses.
1t is anticipated that the year
1924 will show continued growth
of industry with a good percentage
Of increase in this North Western
territory, where the transporta-
ton service of the North Western
Line is provided in adequate mea-
sure with the most modern equip
ment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30

The following is a news dispatch
from the daily press:
When Oklahoma places a tax
on gasoline to build highways and
then tries to collect from aviators,
good nature reaches its limit, ac-
cording to the heads of an avia-
ton company, who plan to form a
Statewide organization to protest
the payment Of such taxes by air
men.
The legislature raised the retail
sale tax on gasoline from / cent a
gallon to 279. The aviators point
out that they derive no benefit
from the roads and do not help
wear them out
With all due respect to- the air
plane company and the aviators,
it is suggested that this is about
as short-sighted and narrow a pol
icy as business house engaged in
the building and marketing of air
planes could we'll formulate!
What guides the aviator in un-
familiar surroundings? The road!
What roads are visible at great
heights? Good roads. What roads
are visible at great heights? Mar
row unimproved roads. When an
aviator has to descend at flying
field, what does he need most?
Transportation to food and lodg-
ing, IN a motor car, over good
roads! When an aviator has to
make a forced landing, where does
he go for help, a telephone? To
the nearest farmhouse, which is
located on the nearest good road!
These are the special interests
which the good road has for the
aviator and the airplane builder.
But both have even larger inter
ests in the general benefit of good
roads. For both depend on the
prosperity Of the country for their
which increases with
every increase in transportation
and decreases with every setback
of transportation.
When the trolley car was first
invented, the steam roads fought
it, as competitor. Now they run
it, in interurban service, because
the more people travel the more
they want to travel. When the
good road and the auto truck first
began to carry freight, the rail
roads fought them, as competitors.
Now railroads run trucks for
short-haul freight and help good
roads, because the more people
travel the more they want to
travell
The airplane user and maker be-
gin as did the railroads; they
must end, as the railroads have
ended, helping the good road, be-
cause the good road will help the
airplane maker and user.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30

News Want Ads bring results
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
Hail TO the Perfect 81.

The perfect 36" has passed.
T. American girl today measures
according to reports sent out
Vassar Ohio State university
b the University of California.
doesn't seem to make any diff
slence whether she feeds on the
Pify product of New York state,
/ cereals Of Ohio or the oranges
california. She's getting vivid
taller and heavier" say the
eyslcal directors.
l"e.., that is what we sent her
college for, isn't ito get
h,th and strength and vigor?
II mat Is why we have built
anaslums in cities, and have
ported the work of the Y. w.
a ana other organizations. We
fyaroed the mincing, prancing
\, ,lOp n OF the Victorian era and
mat the American girl had
S"C to physical development.
4 IL Voe process, she has filed
H. ner neck and thickened her
' sHleS a bit what of it?
\ no cares whether the Ameri-
sprf s.f' u.s. IS a perfect SO" of a
rfas, O5 % so long as she is
'''':-MiIwaukee Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
Means mo Trespassine. %

On farm in the South is post
ed this sign:
"Trespasser's will be persekuted
to the full extent of 2 mean mon
grail dorgs which amt never been
overly soshibil with strangers and
l dubbel barlet shotgun which
amt loaded with no softly pliers.
Dam, if | amt tired from this hel
raisin on my proputy"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
Price of Farm Help.

Farmers are beginning to look
around for hired help. They are
offering from $35 to $55 per
month for single hands and from
$45 to SIS for man and wife. But
as has been the difficulty for sew
eral years, there are more jobs
than men and we will have the
same farm help problem this year
we have had for the last decade.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-04-30
o,r oF VANISHED RACE
!, ...,beriacks of North Wis
Iu 'ansin is Thing of the Past.

n.,o was, and not so many
lil"g ooo when the spring time
year, 4, ,,2 of men clad in the
50" l.,+oined, picturesque garments
"oi + n' shanty boys returning to
o. w homes in the farming cen
tosi' oftpr a winter in the pineries
'elS a % northern part of the state,
s u 81 the Milwaukee Journal;
S'y 1,,rder faces, tousled heads,
D, muscular bodies, theirs
'gDs tvpe now seldom seen any
,1.ce except in the remoter reg
.sS' Of the Canadian forest and
VIE s,o mmbering sections Of the
D,.torn states. Even there much
y the picturesqueness that at
,lod 70 the old-time lumberjack
4 e "a and 40 years ago in the Wis
r,,sio and Michigan pineries is
4 Ioncor to be found. The mod
L,ni.m of a progressive age has
.rodod even the democratic SIM
Rrcitc of the lumber camp.
4 The typical Iumberjack, like the
|Iorbov, has passed into the ro-
.nsntic history of other days. But
Enrke the cowboy poet and artist
fave failed to paint the romance
H. adventure on him.
Thousands of men from the
EARNING centers to the south
Sopnd employment in the lumber
koods during the winter months
Snd as regularly as the seasons
Nailed round the migrating hordes
made their way to the numbering
lawns of the northern sections
Mere to seek employment at lu-
lrative wages. The spring break
h saw them on their way home
sgain. a laughing, happy, carefree
Nj their winters stake tucked
shugly away in their wallets or
|BeIts, for the winning of their
Make has meant months of hard
York at wages that now would
Dem pitifuIIy small.
Il A winter in the woods was the
Inhibition Of many a husky young
ban in those days, for it meant
be freedom Of the great outdoors,
Rhere might and Drawn were
RveIing the great trees that ma
lre had consumed years in the
piIding. 1t meant the opportun-
y to match strength and skill
other adventurous lads like
Pemselyes; and it meant the OPP
prtunity to earn and save, to-
AXE a start in the world if they
buld withstand the temptations
Rd lure Of the gaming tables and
le glare Of the saloons.
The lumberjack of the pinery
fS gone. No other type of man
pod has been produced that more
nngIy qualified its participants
a lasting place in the history
their country's industries.