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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
LABOR'S REGIME
TAKES HELM AS
STORM BREAKS
transportation Tied Up
on Eve of Vote

LONDON.-Great ByFain's new
ship Of state was scheduled to en-
bark at IL o'clock last night for an
unknown address.
It's tortuous course, thru troubled
seas, is strewn with submerged rocks
while overhead RACES the storm
which, after brewing for fortnight,
broke with full force today.
Had the departing Tories DELHI
erately set about to devise plan
which would be most embarrassing to
the new Labor government, they
could not have done better than
what a large section Of that gov
ernn1ents own adherents accom-
plished thru the strike weapon, al
tho that Of course, was not the pur-
pose Of the walkout at midnight.
Ramsay Macdonald and his pros
pective colleagues Of The new gov
eminent, after failing in every paa-
sible argument to persuade officials
of the Associated Society of Engi-
neers and Fiiemen to accept com
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Ellis Island Rule
Blamed for Death
of Young Woman

NEW YORK.-A boy born on Ellis
Island, whose immigrant mother,
Ruth Grain, died there, has been
given into custody Of his aunt, Mrs.
Minnie Hester, of Moline, Ill.
Mrs. Hester, sister of the dead
woman, blames the death of her
sister on Ellis Island authorities. The
girl had been detained since before
Christmas.
Before an order for her deporta-
ton could be carried out son was
born. A special board ruled that
the child was of Swedish nationality,
altho born on American soil. There
was no quota hindrances and the boy
was admitted on the promise of his
aunt to educate him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Balloting Shows Complete Unity
Within Russian Communist Part,
(By Radio to the Daily Worker,

n
MOScOW-At conference of the Communist Party Of
hereju of all
COMMITTEES adopted by
a o 125
The resolutions of the minority the for economic
condemned showing menhevi Tenderness 1t showed
seeu very little the delegates.
within absolutely forbidden
the following complete
the elections held the of the session of the AIRuisn
the highest pled for Lenin, Ksmenef ZiH Stain
ind Bueha
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
$4,000 STRIKE
IN ENCLAND'S
RAIL SERVICE
EngInGmen and FiTUmOn Fight
Wage Reductions


LOND o N.-Railwaymen,
members of the Society of En-
ginemen and Firemen, to the
number of $4,000 are on strike.
They were joined by 1900
members of the National Union
of Railwaymen, whose national
secretary, j. H. Thomas, is
slated for a post in the new
Labor Party ministry.
The Society of Enginemen
and Firemen have issued the
following statement:
1T is a battle against the capi-
talists, who from 1918 to 1922
amassed surplus of f9,0O0,OO0.
Eve have no intention of starv-
ing the public and will not inter-
fere with any legitimate emergency
measures to insure a supply of
foodstuffs. We do not mind what
the government does so long as it
does not run the railways during
the strike and by such an act be-
come a blackleg government. Our
strike will prevent, for a period at
least, the use of the great system.
Private trading thinks more of it.
self than of it's servants
Fight Wage Reductions.
The strike is the result of wage.
reductions for enginemen of $3.50 tc
$500 and $500 to $500 per week
fonA iiremax,u -Suhiah ,.bacsma4 effactivf
after midnight Monday. All efforts
of the leaders Of the British Labor
Party to settle the strike failed tc
avert the walkout and the sympa.
thetic strike of a section of the
National Union of Railwaymen was
contrary to assurances given the gov
eminent by j. H. Thomas.
j. Bromley, secretary of the Society
of Enginemen and Firemen states
that the strike is a complete success
That his view is correct is evidenced
by the fact that train service in Great
Britain is practically at standstill
Strike in Full Swing.
An early morning countrywide sur
vey showed the strike in full swing.
Engineers and firemen who are mem
bers of the Associated Society which
ordered the walk-out after strenuous
efforts on the part of England's most
prominent labor leaders failed, did
not show up for work.
Some of those on strike lounged
about the shops in their Sunday
clothes and jibed at those who re-
manned loyal to the orders of j. H.
Thomas and ran the few trains that
got away.
There was no reports of sabotage
Efforts of the strikers to interfere
were confined to verbal persuasion.
Hyde Park on War Basis.
London's great network of subways
was not affected by the present
strike. Street cars and buses here and
in the provinces continued to run,
carrying many thousands Of subur-
banites who ordinarily depend upon
local train service. In the great
strike of 1919, these transportation
facilities were completely disrupted
This strike is confined entirely to
engineers and firemen and their help
ers.
Last night trains were leaving
London terminals on schedule, but
their crews ran them to certain pre-
arranged points and then abandoned
them.
Hyde Park was on a 'war basis, y
with fleets of motor lorries mobiliz-
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
COAL MINERS
.CONvEN TON
OPENS TODAY
indianapolis Scene Of Great
Workers Gathering
(By Our staR COrrespondent)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-D,

NDlAlNkAI OLlO, 1Ilus"Ocl-
egates representing approx
mately half a million coal min
ers from every mining section
of the United States and Can
ada are here, for the opening
day Of the 18th successive con-
stitutional and 9th biennial
convention of the United Mine
Workers of America.
The main work of the con-
vention will be the drawing up
of a new wage scale and work
ing conditions demand for the
next contract with the oper-
ators. The present bituminous agree
ment expires March 81, except where
there is an overlapping condition as
in Kentucky.
Much Unemployment.
A meeting of coal operators and
miners in the central competitive
field (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
western Pennsylvania is already
scheduled to meet at Jacksonville,
Fla, on Feb. II "for the purpose of
negotiating new wage agreement
to become effective on April /, 1927
according to a call sent out for the
meeting by the chairman of a joint
committee from the organizations in
volved.
Never before hag the bitumi1ous
miners been faced with a more seri.
Gus condition than that which exists
In the industry now. The unemploy-
ment is ecedented-nearly one
third of the mines are closed and one
half-time operations prevail in most
of the working fields.
The Howat Case.
Altho the administration forces
predict harmany, a number of in
ternal problems will come before the
delegates. Alexander Howat expects
to be reinstated to his former union
status by this convention, and the
grievance of the Nova Scotia (Can-
ada) miners will also be introduced.
The trouble there centers around
the revocation of the district charter
by the national administration during
a steel strike in July. The miners
who were employed by the British
Empire Steel Corp, the steel trust,
struck in violation of their agree
ment in protest against the employ
ment Of soldiers against the steel
strikers.
A provisional government was set
up by the international organization
after it had deposed the elected Of
ficials. James MacLachlan, ousted
secretary of the district, is now in
Dorchester penitentiary (Canada) be-
cause of his activities during the
sympathetic strike. Other internal
questions Of less importance as, the
coke region strike, naturalization,
progressive miners, etc, also appear
in resolution form.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

Workersl Farmersl Demand:
The Labor Party
Amalgamation
Organization of Unorganized
The Land for the Users
Tho Industries for the Workers
Protection of the Foreign-Born
Recognition of Soviet Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

All this fuss over Russia by our
state department is due to one thing
the fact that labor rules in Russia
thru its own form Of government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
chip Burns May Visit Chicago to
Hush Robbery Scandal, Says Police

William Burns planning hasty
Chicago
wholesale bberies and assaults Chicago police
The sensational disclosures Of clup activity by the Burns dicks
the Windy
Wheeler Of Montana searching
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
No Economic Reason Why French
Franc Should Not FolIow Marx

WASHINGTON

ON.French may for
e opinion OF big business administration
speaking IN confidence friend
as any them economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22
Ohio Miners for 6.Hour pay.

Observation-Disclosures. from
the Ohio district, u. NJ. w. A., have
arrived here under unanimous in
structions from their district conven-
tion to present to the miners nation
al convention demands for a six
hour day and the unionization of the
big nonunion fields in West Virginia
and Kentucky "as a matter Of self
protection"
The Ohio convention, which closed
in Columbus Jan. is, placed itself on
record for a substantial wage in
crease to meet advancing living
costs. The scale demanded fixes a
$3.50 advance in pay for tonnage,
yardage, and dead work, with time
and half for overtime and double
time for Sundays and holidays.
Under the existing contract, over
time and Sunday work is paid solely
on a straight-time basis. The day
wage scale demanded gives equal
rates Of pay for both inside and out
side mine laborers. Miners com
pensation under the new scale would
be $1.171s per ton and S1.25 per
hodr, as against "a cents and 90 4
cents respectively under the old co :
tract. The convention further asked
that the national executives Of the
United Mine Workers negotiate the
new agreement on a two-year basis,
to become effective April |. 1924.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-22

Work Daily for "The DaiIyr
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
Not Matter of Principle

Honesty lie the best policy, but he
who acts on that principle Is not an
honest man.-Bishop Whately.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
GrieUes TO Death When
His Wife Disappears

Atlantic City, N. J.-After grieying
for weeks over the mysterious disap.
pearance of his wife, from whom he
never before had been separated in
their fifty years Of happy married life
Peter K. Palmer of 405 Trinity ave.
nue., this city, died In the home that
had become desolate to him.
Palmer, who was seventy-two years
old. refused to be comforted by friends
He would not eat and sat virtually
every night watching the front door OF
his home for the return of his life
companion. He was found dead in his
chair facing the door recently
Mrs. Mary Palmer, seventy, the wife,
disappeared on May s. She told her
husband she was going to Philadel-
phia to attend the funeral of a brother,
but she may never have arrived in that
city, as a thorough search by police
failed to reveal any trace of her there
The Atlantic City police combed
every section of this city at the re-
quest Of nelghbors Of the Palmers, who
we're touched by the aged mans grief
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
WORTHWHILE WORK

If attendance at meetings ant
work ON committees for the welfare
of this community meant the direct
landing of orders and contracts fol
our own private businesses, few of us
would miss any of the meetings OF
fail to do our part in the committee
work. This is human nature. We
can help Grangeville by taking an
active interest in its civic affairs.
Every constructive act we perform or
help perfrm for our city helps us a
hundredfold, because we pool our re-
Sources of time and effort with those
of our fellow citizens which makes
for growth and prosperity. BY coop
Grating, we can make ten orders
grow where only one grew before.
No more striking example of this
can be found than in the fact that
there are few successful men in the
business world today who do not
take part in community service work.
The few who do not are the oddities,
the exceptions, who Somehow get a.
long in isolation; but they do not be-
long on the list of "go-getters'' of
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
OLD .. S. CLOTHES WORN
BY SOUTH SEA ROYALTY
Apparel Given to King and Queen by
American Worn on State
Occasions.

Port Angeles, Wash.-A South Sea
in some ancient garments an Ameri-
can navigator gave them % years ago.
AS the clothes are worn only on state
occasions they are certain to last an
other quarter century.
In 1901, Capt. and Mrs. Harry
Thompson were married and set sail
for a trading trip to the Palmerstone
Islands in the South Pacific ocean,
1900 miles from Sydney, N. S. w.
Following a period of serious drought
the 19 islets of the group faced food
shortage at the time when Captain
Thompson hove to. The schooner was
met by sampan bearing the king
and queen, both begging pitifully for
food and gifts of clothing. The royal
stomachs were promptly filed, then
the task of draping the weather-beat-
en- shoulders of the honor guests.
Long anxious to gain the confidence
Of these rulers, Captain Thompson
took the black, single-breasted coat,
the wedding habit of the mariner,
while Mrs. Thompson parted with her
gray crepe gown bedecked with sill
very spangles and passed them on to
the royalty.
For 20 years the Thompsons en-
joyed prosperous trading with the is
lands and almost from the day they
befriended the king the islands began
to recover from the dry spells of sew
eral years.
Now there is a gigantic business
with many countries for the Palmer
stones produce every tropical fruit,
pearls. coffee, tea. spices and coral.
Recently the Thompsons, now re-
tired from sea-faring, again visited |
their South Sea friends. The king
donned the old coat, now frayed and
with but few buttons remaining; the
queen wore the old-fashioned spangled
skirt, and thus arrayed entertained
their company.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

we do not unfortunately many par
ents can mott furnish by properly
channelizing these childish wishes in
to useful outlets and fields of endea
vor. The result is an overflow OF
jazz, flapperism, sheikism; then the
long train of moralists follow by de-
nouncing parents in general.
We are too apt to judge the human
race by the exceptions. The rule is,
we believe, that parents are loyal,
loving, honest, Christian people, who
are doing everything possible to
"bend the twigs so they will grow.
straight" Long live the parents.
What this country needs is more of
them.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
SENATOR SAYS, SPEND
MONEY ON HIGHWAYS

I'VE have provided ourselves with
the motor vehicle rolling stock at q
cost of many billions of dollars, and
we must now provide the tracks upon
which to operate it." said Thomas
Sterling, United States senator from
South Dakota and chairman Of the
senate committee on post offices and
post roads, in making plea for the
continuation of federal aid In a recent
address.
After outlining the need for a fed
eral appropriation of $100,0O0,000 a
year for ten years and like appropri-
alton from the states If the system of
10000 miles of federal aid highways
Is to be completed within ten years,
Senator Sterling stated that he could
not say just what congress would do.
when 1t is known that the whole
sale value of automobiles and trucks
manufactured last year amounted to
over $2,500,000,000 and that the whole
sale value of tires manufactured
amounted to $76o.0OO,O00 and that we
spent over $1,0O0,0O0,000 for automo-
bile parts and accessories, exclusive of
tires" said Senator Sterling, 1T does
not sound unreasonable to propose that
we should spend at least $1OO,OO0,0OO
year from the federal treasury and
an equal amount by the states In order
to complete our federal highway sys-
tenn within a reasonable length of
time. 4
I'VE must not forget that the good
roads built under this system. serve
even higher use than that of the
tourist or of the visitor or those on
pleasure bent. We must think of the
commercial and economic advantages
of system of good roads, of what
they mean to the farmer, who, on such
roads and by means of the motortruck,
finds 1t easy and great saving of time
and expense to transport, not only his
grain, but his hogs and sheep or cattle |
to market. Another consideration Is |
the enhanced value of his land due to
the good road at his door or nearby. |
One of our great economic and COM
mercial problems is that of bringing
the market and the producer closer to-
gether."
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

We ought to look over our autos
often to see that everything is safe
then while you are at it give the driv-
er the once-over.
Tn only thing we regret about Pro-
hibitin is, we don't seem to get any
more of those poems like ''The Face
On The Ba:-Room Floor"
Shame on you, China We said bal
lots, not bullets.
There's many a street that needs
cleaning up besides Wall streer.
Consider the drum; the most emp
ty thing often makes the most noise.
We want none of this moonshine :;
let the rest of the world go bqyl
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
IDAHO COUNTY FAIR
Continued from Page One,
Laneasters Good

The Lancaster Players a comma.
OF fifteen good performers entarto ahy
ed a packed house each night in AN ~
big tent. A different play was nut sue
scented each night, with a comn pae'
change in program of the yandar;n
acts given between acts. F ran,'int
Dix, Miss Dolly Daye and Dick ~ .
land all of this company were foras
ties with the crowd at the grou rom,
each day. Vuiiu
At the close of the three dav cola
bration Wednesday a more satisfioa
crowd could not have been found os
it was the most successful fair tbs,
has ever been held in GrangaviIo
The local business men who. tbrn
their efforts achieved success in tbiS
enterprise, are deserving of much
praise.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
THEM AWFUL PARENTS"

Parents have been given all too
much blame for the rise and fall
of flapperism, sheikism, jazz, and tho
host of modern alleged social ills
Much as we may deplore what is go
ing on, or not going ON, in the home
of today, we cannot accede to the
view that the parents are altogether
responsible in the majority of cases.
Many parents do need literal spank
ing" for failing to exercise the old
God-fearing disciplines and for per-
hitting their children to engage in
indiscretions and absurdities that
shock the old order of things; but to
cast sacred parentism into a hodge.
podge of censure is going a bit too
far. In the main, parents are. still
safe for democracy and safe for their
Those who are not may
be dealt with summarily. All right
thinking parents (and we here re-
assert our faith in them) want their
to be upright, honest, moral,
spiritual, vigorous, healthy, manly
and womanly successful The natur-
al urge is there, and that is the saw
ing grace. Were it not so, society
would be in pitable state. If the
parents can not save society it must
20 partly unsaved.
When a boy or girl goes wrong, or
S about to go wrong, it is so easy to
over up our complex modernism by
blaming it all on the parents What
he child craves-excitement, action,
recdOm, self-expression, adventure
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

The biggest problem the farmers
have this fall is to keep from separat.
ing their wheat from their votes.
Darwin was right in enc sense. II
we were up in tree with a monkey
we would descend from 1t in a hur-
ry.
The man who wrote .Tenting On
The Old Camp Ground" must have
had a vision of some of our 1924 au-
tomobile tourists.
Candidates are plucky fellows,
but We havn't yet heard of any so
bold as TO offer woman any CAM
paign cigarettes.
France and Germany try to settle
difficulties. News item. At last an ir.
resistible force has met an immovable
object.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
Then Mrs. Ogle Found Relief
BY Taking Tanlac

81 always have and always will
claim that Tanlac saved my life," re-
Gently declared Mrs. May Ogle, 1896
oath. Ave-, West, Seattle, Wash.
Il don't believe anybody could suf-
fer with stomach trouble worse than
i did for 10 years. 1t kept me sick
in bed for weeks at time. My suf-
fering became more severe in spite of
all 1 could do until nearly all hopes
of getting well left me.
Certainly harder task could not
be found for Tanlac. But Tanlac
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

their respective communities. 1t is
worth great deal just to be ON such
list. Grangeville needs you, but
YOU NEED IT MOREi
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
SUFFERED TEN YEARS
WITH STOMACH TROIJRIF


won out and 1 am in tbo ~.
nov now ! nave known in 10 wears health
eat nearly everything, have . | now
Gus appetite, and have gained I raven.
ana strength until I look wi WEIGHT
Ike a different person. Ton ana fel
what l thought Impossible " tn did
medicine to do" e Tor any
Tanlac is for sale bv all oo,
g ELSIE, accept no substitute. Ove uur 3
Tanlac Vegetable Pills
for constipation
facturers of TANLAC. Ae manu-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

Paved roads have made possible the
development Of rural express routes
In many parts Of the United States
where motor trucks make regular
scheduled trips, picking up the other
wise profitless small quantity produce
which the farmer places on his road
side platform.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18

fields swift rise, look to the
cigarette itself, its tobaccos, it's
blending in short, its taste.
This one thing alone-its
better taste - explains why
over 1000 men a day are
changing from other ciga.
rettes to Chesterfield.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-09-18
Leadership is not luck

ITO convert critics into en-.
i thusiasts, whether for a
new school of music or for a
cigarette, requires something
more than luck. There's
sound reason for every big
swing in popular taste.
So, to account for Chester.
The Washington times., 1924-05-23
A|VNOYS WOMAN
IN THEA.TER;
FINED 500
N. ]. Dakis Denounced by
Judge Mcmahon. Who Scores
lnsuIters Of Fair Sex

After hearing the testimony in
the case Of Nicholas j.. Dakis, q
waiter in q restaurant, charged with
assaulting a woman in a Ninth
street motion picture ,theater, Judge
Mcmahon today described the situa-
ton in ! Washington as- abominable,
and said that it was distressing
that decent woman could not go
into respectable place Of amuse-
ment without being annoyed by
some despicable character. Dakis
was fined. 500, with an alternative
OF fOrtysfive days in jaiI.1 .S 40
The complaining witness said that
after being in; the theater for some
time, Dakis came in and sat be-
side her. s ~
When. she first noticed his 40.
tions, she said, she thought he was
trying to steal her pocketbook, but
that idea was soon dispelled. As
she uttered an exclamation, Dalxis
ran from the theater and concealed
himself in a fruit-stand down the
street. -
The witness said that she was
told where the man was hiding by
q small boy, and that she sat on
the trap door under which he was
concealed until the arrival Of the
police. 49,. 81
Dalxis: was. taken to4the First pre-
cinct, where charges were. placed
against him.