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VELIE SALES INCREASE.

With the ending OF the first quar-
ter of the present year. an announce
ment was made today by the Velie
Motors Corporation. Moline, H., that
actual sales showed an increase of
more than II per cent over the
months of January, February and
March OF 1923. The sales for March
jumped 25 per cent over the sales for
February of this year.
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I'm = Rusineas Lihrarx. zRs-F1s

in Business Library. ZRS-F16.
Greenwood, Thomas. Public Libra
Hes, 1891. ZP-GS6 8p.
Jones, K. K, ed. The Hospital Lii
brary. ZP-J713.
Leesburg, Va Thomas Balch Lii
brary. Addresses Delivered at the
Presentation Exercises. ZPS63-L51.
Macleod, R ID. County Rural Libra
ries. ZP-M223.
Meeting of Librarians of Public
Libraries, December %, 1922. Up
3M4
Nudge, I. G. New Guide to Reference
Books. Ref. ZWA-M88.
New York. Public Library. History
of the New York Public Library.
ZPS51N-E425h.
Pittsburgh. Carnegie Library. Books
by Catholic authors in the Carne-
gle Library OF Pittsburgh. Ref.
ZT-P6sSb.
Sears NJ. E. List Of subject headings
for small libraries. ZRKE-Se
Wilson, Martha, comp. Library
books for high schools. 1918. CSC
W69i
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NEW DoRT SALES MANAGER.

J. D. bort president of the bort
Motor Company. has announced the
appointment of E. @. Poison as sales
manager. succeeding John ID. Mans
field. who has resigned to take a
highly responsible position as a fac
tory executive with the MAXWELL
Chrysler organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
CAREFUL DRIVING URGED.

Now Is the time to watch yourself
when driving over hills that may be
used by dealers for demonstration pur-
poses. The dealer is entitled to some
place TO show his goods In action. but
it calls for a little precantion on the
part OF those VINO are already sold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
BOOKS RECEIVED.

SALVOS: An Informal Book About
Books and Plays. BY Frank
Waldo New York: Boni & Liver
light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Recent accessions at the Public Lii
brary and lists Of recommended read
ing will appear in this column each
Sunday
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Under this appropriately pathetic
title Mr.. Kinney projects the tragic
destiny of the young Japanese woman
back in her native land after a child
hood and early youth spent in the
freedom of American life. There is
no escape from tragedy in this sit
uation. The age-old tradition of
Japan-the essential inferiority of
woman, her rghtful servitude to man
makes no exception in favor of this
daring and impious rebel. Instead
the force OF ten thousand years of
acceptance moves imp1acably for
ward, a juggernaut of utter destruc-
ton. The story is wholly of the
present, though of present COM
pietely involved with ages of orien-
tai belief and practice. Under the
oxternals Of modern life in Japan it
gives, in a perfect simplicity. the flu
tile struggles of these fragile but
terfiies" to seize upon some fragment
even of the freedom and happiness
that they had seen the women of the
western world take as an unchal
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Literary Criticism.

| Albert, Edward. History of English
Literature -Al13h.
/ Boas, r. p, and Hahn, B. M Social
Back grounds of English Litera-
| ture. ZY-B638s
| Chevrillon. Andre. Three studies in
! English Literature. ZY-C42SE.
| Eleanore, Sister M. The Literary Es-
! say in English. ZY-El23.
| Gerhard, William. Anton Chekov.
4 ZY54A-C41e
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Libraries and Library Service.

American Library Directory, 1929
Ref ZPS3-Am37.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Training for Library Service. Up
1C21
Elliott, j. z. Business Library CLASH
fication with Index. Ref. ZRH-
El55.
Fairfax, Va Pamphlets and Clippings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13

Pupils of the London elementary
schools have the use of d travelling
library of 1000. 900 books
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16

Old Ivan and his other mates at
the bench and the ironing table tell
us that in their shop as in the other
Russian clothing shops employment
is steady and continuous. Even
those who have worked in America
and in England for better wages
than they are now receiving appre-
ciate the regular and steady employ
ment.
Ivan and his friends work in the
Optimo Technichiskaya factory IN
Moscow, one Of the model plants Of
the All-Russian Clothing syndicate.
This plant as we'll as the syndicate
itself is directed by a former Bal
timore tailor, B. Bograchov one of
the fred directors" who are learn
ing to run Russian industries bet
ter than any capitalist expert Of
the old order.
The clothing industry with its or
ganizing talent trained in American
shops and its capital raised in part
w American workers through the
Russian American Industrial corpc-
ration, has during the last year made
an enviable record of progress. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
IVAN THE COAT PRESSER
BY ROBERT w. DUNN
(For The Federated Pressl

MOSCOW.-Ivan Pavlovitch is an
old timer among Russian clothing
workers. Ivan worked in Russian
garment shops in the days of car
dom, in fact he has been handling
a pressing iron since 1890 when he
was apprenticed on a 14-hour day,
some times 16 hours, in one of the
Presnia district of Moscow. (Ivan
is the man with the beard facing
the camera.)
Old Ivan was asked by The Fed
Grated Press correspondent what he
thought oE present conditions as
compared with the old days before
the revolution, the trade union and
the shop committee. The old coat
presser answered quickly: "a thou
sand times better now, thousand
times" He pointed around to the
wall and windows of his room and
told of the days when he worked
in a dark hole of a shop instead Of
in this well lighted, airy building.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
LENSKY HERE To
PLEAD CAUSE OF
POLISH WORKERS
Shows Polish Mark at
100000 to Dollar

Poland has the most reactionary
government in Europe today. AS the
vassal of France she has outdone al
her neighbors in prosecutions Of
workers and radicals Poland feel;
that she is absolutely dependent on
France, therefore the reaction. of the
Polish politicians. The Polish politi-
clans do not consider themselves the
representations of the Polish people
but the servant of French Capitalism.
Four years of the rule of the serv-
ants Of French imperialism has pushed
down the value of the Polish mark
from 10 for a dollar to 100000
for dollar.
Relief for Terror Victims.
Those are the outstanding facts of
the Polish situation as seen by ].
Lensky, who is now in this country
representing the workers of Poland
and trying to organize a campaign
for the relief of the victims of Po-
lish reaction.
From the beginning the Polish
republic has been militaristic. Under
the protection of France, who was
willing to furnish her arms, she spent
as per cent of her income for mill
tarism. Is it any wonder her indus
tries could not develop?
1.-THE government was forced to
give subsidies to industry. The capt.
talists used the money thus received
to speculate, thus decreasing the
value of the mark.
Because of the dependency of
industry on the government and the
attitude of the government toward
the workers, all struggles become po-
litical struggles. The capitalists and
manufacturers as individuals are not
to blame, it all goes back to the serv-
ants of French Imperialism, the gov
eminent. When the workers strike
and receive raise the value of the
mark decreases and they are worse
off than before.
"The workers are taking larger
part in the struggle for political
power by electing Communists to of
fee in their labor unions. They are
appealing to the REDS more and
more for guidance.
| TOT lnSIdnCe, NJ Jne OOnBTeSS OF
the Trade Unions of the Textile work
ers, all Offices were filled by Com
munists.
"The Communist Party as poll
teal organization is outlawed. For
membership in the Communist Party
people are sent to prison for eight
and ten years. The prisons are full
Of political opponents Of the present
government Of Poland.
"The only program the govern
ment has for the workers is to set one
nationality against another. The So
called minority nationalities are per-
secuted in many ways.
Gland belonging to Ukrainians and
Ruthenians is given TO ex-soldiers. In
this way the government avoids in
fringing on the rights Of the big land
owners and creates hatred among
workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
LA Toilette ASKS
CONGRESS F R E E
T H E PHILIPPINES
Workers and Farmers
of u. S. Back Demand

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Senator
LaFollette has introduced a bill in
Congress to give complete independ
ence to the Philippine Islands.
Freedom for the Filipino people
would be welcome by every worker
and farmer in this country. The
broad masses Of workers and farm
ers have no interest in being part
ners to the exploitation and oppres
sion of the eleven million Filipinos.
The workingmen Of this country are
not oyeranxious to get into anothes
war to save the imperial possessions
and spheres Of influence of our cap
italists.
But we are ready to bet dollars
against doughnuts that in the well
ter Of legislative panaeeas and quack
remedies-all together more than
three thousand in number-nOw be-
fore Congress--there isn't a chance.
in three thousand that the proposal
will ever come out Of the COMMITTEES
room, let alone get to the floor Of
Congress for action. OF course, we
are not foolhardy enough To expect
Coolidge to allow the bill to pass
when his Secretary of War Weeks
is himself tied up with big financial
interests having huge investments
there.
There is only one way in which
the Filipino people can ever win
freedom from their American inn
perialistic exploiters. The working
men and farmers of the philippines
must get together with their Amer
lean brothers and drive cut their
common oppressors. The trade I'M
ions and the political organizations
Of the workers and farmers should
lose no time in getting together in
an immediate big campaign to free
the Philippines from Wall Street
domination.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16

best garment factories in Russia are
included in the All-Russian Clothing
syndicate, a state trading organza-
ton comprising the unified and trus-
titled factories of seven Russian cit
les.
This syndicate in which over 550c
American workers have invested and
from which they have already re-
ceived a dividend, comprises "a fac
tories and $4,000 workers. The sales
during the Is months from July /,
1922, to Oct. /, 1923, amounted to
$14,350,O00. The sales during the
first nine months of 1923 averaged
$1,15O,000 per month. The profits
of the syndicate amounted to more
than 10 per cent on the invested
capital. A part of this profit has
been paid to the American stock
holders.
The machines in VANS factory
including the gas iron that he swings
We're sent to Russia through the
Russian-American Industrial Corpo-
ration, which was organized in 1922
by the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
Jacob Task Urges
Friends at Party
to Boost the Daily
tsDeeiaI 70 ..rhs Daily worksr'')

BOSTON.-Jacob Task, one Of the
active comrades in the Workers
Party branch did his bit in the Daily
Worker campaign. Comrade Task
is also a member Of Branch No. 18,
Of the Independent Workmen's Cir
Gle.
Dec. 10th, his friends gave a
surprise birthday party in his honor,
II was his 80th birthday. Comrade
Task in his experience in the labor
movement has learned that the press
is an important instrument in the
everyday struggles Of the workers.
He urged those present to buy
shares and subs for the only real
working class daily. Many Of those
present subscribed to the Daily
Worker. Good boy, jacob That's
the spirit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
CzARISTS IN FRISCO
FIND SOVIET POLICE
BAR PATH TO FAME
BY CARL BRANNIN

STAFF Correspondent of the Federated Pres
SAN FRANCISCO.-Gen. Apollo
Levantouyev, former brigade COM
mander in the czar's army, has
established headquarters in this city
and is training forces for active
service.
Instead, however, of harboring
designs AGAINST The Bolshsvik gov
eminent, the generals military am
bition is confined to cleaning up"
on the terrain Of the Emporium de-
partment store.
He is commander-in-chief of the
mop and broom squad, which is
composed of several members of his
old brigade. 1t is reported that
these ex-privates are quite punctil-
lious IN the observance of military
etiquette and always give the Chief
his proper salute.
count" Baronov has a plan
which beats hopping floors. He
leaped into the local limelight with
the statement on the front page of
the San Francisco Chronicle, arch
reactionary daily, that he had or
ganized an army in this country of
80, 900 soldiers and 1000 officers to
spring at Siberia on short notice for
the purpose of restoring the line of
Gar Nicholas to the Russian throne,
wherever that is.
"The count" claims that he has
found friendly ears in diplomatic
and business circles in the United
States and that he would have
jumped long before this had it not
been for the strong patrol Of soviet
troops on the Siberian border. He
says that he is surely going to
plunge within six months time.
Other d ily papers made no mem
ton of this new monarchist hope.
Perhaps he has already secured
enough publicity to establish con-
nections with Rotary clubs and such
like for lectures on the advantages
Of royalist rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16


gagged in conspiracy and agree
ment among themselves and with
others to annoy, embarrass and
destroy the business of the said
Equity Cooperative exchange, its
stockholders and the st. Paul
Grain exchange and its members,
with the purpose and intent TO
secure and maintain for said
chamber and its members a mon
opoly of the grain trade at Min
neapolis, MIMI, and within a
hundred miles thereof"
The Equity has 1880 members,
m Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana
and Wisconsin, about 800 Of It's
stock being owned by grain farm
ers. The commission finds that
among the unfair methods used by
the Minneapolis chamber against it
were (a) publication Of false state
ments concerning the financial
standing and business methods of
the cooperative exchanges; (b) in
stituting vexatious or unfounded
against the cooperative ex-
changes to injure their credit or
(c) compelling members
of the chamber to refuse to deal
with members or customers of the
cooperative exchanges because OF
the patronage dividend plan of the
cooperatives; (d) preventing tele-
graph companies from furnishing
price quotations on grain to the CO.
operatives. False and misleading
statements concerning the financial
affairs of the Equity were pub
lished in the Fargo Forum, Fargo
Courier News, the Cooperative Man
ager and Farmer, and the Ne
tional Grain Grower and Equity
News, at the instance of the Min
neapolis chambee. The Coopera-
tive Manager and Farmer, con-
trolled by the Secretary of the Min
neapolis chamber, was the worst
offender in this campaign of ma
licious lying concerning the coop.
eratives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
NORRIS BLAST.
BARES BANKS
FARMER WAR
Chambers Of Commerce Boy
COttsd by CO-Ops
BY LAURENCE TODD

(Staf Correspondent of the Federated Press)
WASHINGTON. - Triumph Of
truth over propaganda concerning
the robbery Of grain farmers in. the
northwest was proclaimed in the
Senate by Senator Norris, chair
man, committee on agriculture. He
declared that the report and order
issued "after fair investigation and
open trial' by the federal trade
commission against the Minneapo-
lis chamber bears out everything
the farmers of North Dakota and
Minnesota have been saying for
ten years past concerning this mo-
nopoly.
This report and order, Norris
said, ought to be printed by the
Senate as public document, since
there would be great demand foe
it from the farmers. Senator Smoot,
for the administration, objected and
SO blocked its printing Norris
promised to read it into the Con-
gressional Record, later, if neees-
sary, in order that enough copies
might be had.
Following Administration Favors.
Coming just afteF Athe attempt
of the Coolidge campaign managers
to kidnap the North Dakota dele
cation to the Republican conven-
ton, through favors to Senators
Ladd and Frazier, this official proof
of the justice of the farmers strug-
gle on the one hand and of the
administrators essential anti-farm-
er and pro-monopoly policy on the
other, had a clarifying effect on
the political situation. 1t gave new
courage to the group who had sat
up nearly all night with Ladd and
Frazier, protesting against the in
dorsement of Coolidge, which had
been voted by the North Dakota
Republican state committee, and
demanding that they get actively
into the fight to instruct the North
Dakota delegation for LaFollette.
The federal trade commission
has found: by means Of boy
colt the chamber and the
members thereof conspired and
agreed among themselves and
with others to induce its members
to refuse to buy from, sell to or
otherwise deal with, the Equity
Cooperative exchange. its stock
holders or the members of the
St. Paul Grain exchange. The
said respondents have for more
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16

could do very much as they pleased.
There will be no wage reductions.
The Amalgamated employment Of
flee is the clearing house for jobs
for members of the union. Work
is apportioned according to seniority
rights. No tailor can work in any
shop under the jurisdiction of the
Amalgamzted without a union card.
Workers Discuss Problems.
Shop meetings are held daily
where the workers discuss their
problems. These meetings are adj
dressed by experienced organizers
and students of economics who know
that the present crisis in the indus
try is quite natural under capitalism
and is inevitable under this system.
The Amalgamated has fine IL
brary for the use Of the members
at 400 s. Halsted st. Here the union
members can learn history and eco
Monies and every branch Of know
ledge that is necessary to under
stand their position in life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16

surance gainst suits for loss of life
and injuries to workers"
Note also that this disaster to the
employees will not affect the business
of the corporation. An idle plant in
Kansas City will begin to grind and
will thus enable the company to con-
tinue normal operations. Needless to
say the $50 employees who survived
the explosion will suffer from unem-
ployment until the Pekin plant has
been repaired.
One further point in the financial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
Work Daily for "The DaiIyl"
Grant shopmen'. Petition

WASHINGTON.--The petition Of
certain striking shopmen Of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway for review Of deci-
sions Of lower courts denying thom a
jury trial in contempt cases growing
cut Of the 1922 shipments strike, was
granted today by the Supreme Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
Bosses Seek Reductions.

magnitude of profits. In other words
each common stakeholder is going to
get five shares for every share he
now holds.
Forty wage earners were just 40
machines to this great corporation.
Like the rest of the plant the COM
pany had insured them In fact in
surance of plant and men relieved the
company of real interest in precau-
tions against such atrocities of in
dustry. To quote the Wall Street
Journal: plant was fully covered by
fire insurance, it is stated at the New
York office, and the company is amply
nrotected nv emnlovers' liability in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
"TO Catastrophe"

BERLIN.-The German En-
ployers' Association has issued
the following interesting advice
to its members, since Germany
has gone over from the fiuctuat-
ing paper mark 20 a gold mark
basis: Wages, when placed on
a gold basis, must be brought
down below the peacetime level.
To make wages dependent
upon the cost Of living index
would inevitably lead to aatas-
trophe."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
Anatole France III

PARIS - Anatole France was
brought from his country home near
Tours, seriously i'll following an at
tack of the grip. He was taken to a
hospital where his condition was said
to be critical. Anatole France will
be 80 years old in April.
For more than fifty years Anatole
France has been famous as an au-
thor and critic. AS young man he
achieved fame in the Dreyfus affair.
Some time ago he joined the Com
munist Party of France.
For Recognition of Soviet Russia!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
MANY JOBLESS
IN CHIC AGO IN
NEEDLE TRADES
Amalgamated Plans to
Meet ''Quiet Crisis"

There is a "quiet crisis" in the
clothing industry in Chicago. The
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of
America is doing its utmost to re-
lieve the situation, bit under the
present system of Industrial anar-
chy, where production is carried on
with an eye to profits and not with
a view to satisfying the needs of
the people, no real relief can be
rendered.
But in the meantime temporary
measures must De undertaken, to
enable the workers TO exist during
the slack periods such as the one
which now prevails in the clothing
industry.
Workers Need Relief.
The Chicago office of the Anal
gamated is besieged with demands
for relief. Recently the union APP
propriated $4,000 for the relief Of
unemployed members. That sum was
gone in three weeks. Approximately
800 clothing workers received help,
Many members were under the
impression that under the terms OF
the unemployment insurance agree
men entered into between the union
and the clothing manufacturers, IN
employment benefits would be paid
Jan. 2. DIR. Leo Wollman, who is
in charge of this department for
the Amalgamated, assures the mem
bers that payments will begin in
about two months.
Bosses Seek Reductions.
The manufacturers are also COM
ing around looking for relief" in
the form Of reductions in prices. But
they now have a union to deal with
not like the old days when they dealt
individually with the tailors and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
Fear Actors Strike.

NEW YORK.--A strike Of actors Is
threatened IL the Producing Managers
Association does not settle with the
Actors Equity. Managers are seeking
legal advice on the contract proposed
by the Equity and some legal sharks
say the form Of closed shop out
lined by the Actors Union would be
illegal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16
BY LELAND OLDs

Federated Press Industrial Editor
Go tell them in Pekin, H., that for
the five years ending Dec. 81, 1928,
the profits Of Corn Products Refining
Co. have averaged 1915 a share for
the owners of the common stock. And
add that the total profits from oper-
alton during this period will reach
$9O,000,00.
For, on Jan. 8, 1924, in the Pekin
plant of this branch of Standard Oil,
the lives of 40 wage earners were
sacrificed to the demand Of the oil
dynasty for greater profits. In the
of petty economy and the
open shop ordinary recognition were
abolished. The explosion of Jan. 3
was the direct result.
Now, when the bodies of the VIC
tins are scarcely buried, President
Bedford and the directors will con-
tinue counting their undiminished
profits and discussing the coming 25
per cent stock dividend. The par
value of the common stock will also
be reduced to $25 to conceal the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-16

Standard Oil concern is going to ship
corn to Germany and carry on It's
production for foreign markets with
German labor This will mean less
work and eventually longer hours and
lower wages in Pekin, H., and in
other parts of America.
All of which indicates that under
the present system a wage Garner is
just an easily replaced insurable COM
modify to be purchased wherever the
great corporations can find the cheap
est supply.