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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29

The figures showing wages in gold
marks look very much like average
wages in the United State until it is
remembered that a gold mark is worth
approximately one quarter Of dollar
In other words the weekly wages of
German skilled workers last March
were $3.50 and of unskilled S5.46.
These averages cover mines, construc.
ton, wood, metal, textile, factory, gov
eminent enterprises and printing.
Close to Pauper Level.
The table shows that the wages OF
skilled workers have been pulled
down close to the pauper level Of un.
skilled workers and that both are
much below the prewar level Of pur-
chasing power.
Miller illustrates the resulting drop
In the proportion of wages to total
cost of production by an estimate
which places labor's share OF the cost
of manufacturing a Diesel engine at
9 per cent in 1928 as compared with
20 per cent in 1914.
The significance of this in terms of
the competition which American work
ers will face is revealed by Miller's
description Of the argument against
wage incheases in Germany. Indus
try, he says, argues that the wage
element in costs must continue to be
kept below world levels If German
participation in foreign markets is to
be maintained"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
STRAW VOTE AT
FACTORY SHOWS
WORKERS THINK
Foster Runs Ahead of
Coolidge and Davis
BY G. s. SHKLAR.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.,, Oct. 20.
A presidential straw vote taken
by the DAILY WORKER at the
international Harvester COM
pany here gave the following
result: LaFoIIette, 167; Foster,
"a; Coolidge, S; Davis, 1.
The result of the straw vote
is very significant. 1t indicates
that the working masses are
leaving in mass the leadership
of the old capitalist parties.
Also Hold Big Meeting.
While it is of great historical sig.
nificance that the workers are finally
breaking away from the influence of
the old parties, nevertheless, the rev.
dictionary movement should not over.
look the danger of this dissatisfaction
being utilized by the middle class pol.
iticians. 1t is very fortunate indeed
that the Workers Party is in the field
pointing the danger to the misguided
workers.
In connection with the taking Of the
straw vote, meeting Of over 400 peo-
pie was addressed by the secretary Of
the party and his address was we'll
received by the workers.
Many workers were interested in
the position Of the party and while
fully in sympathy with the movement,
could not understand why the party
opposed LaFollette.
Discussion Is Interesting.
How do you know that LaFollette
will betray the workers? Why do you
compare the LaFollette movement and
explain it in the light Of experiences
of the. social-democratic party Of Ger.
many and of the labor government OF
England?" we were asked by the
workers and very interesting discus.
sion followed.
Workers Party in Milwaukee is sys.
tematically conducting factory meet
ings and will continue to do so every
day until the end of election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
A STORY OF A MINER.
BY EVA sToLAR, Age "a

Paul Zelio was happy. Intensely so.
Why shouldn't he be? Wasn't he go
ing to the U. S. A? How wonder
full this Pennsylvania must be. His
brother, John was there for a long
time. What letters John wrote home!
Why, in Pennsylvania, you could af
ford such luxuries as candy and
shows. How good John was to lend
them money to go there!
Paul was young man Of thirty al
the time he left his native Poland
His wife and son were going too. He
was a strong healthy man. His son
had hopes Of being as strong as his
father was. Paul Zelio was the hero
of his young son, Joe.
At last the day arrived. Paul, his
wife, and Joe went abroad the
steamer that was to take them to the
harbor OF Philadelphia. On the steam
or Joe made friends with several
children who were also in such great
luck
When they got of the steamer al
philadelphia, passed the immigration
inspector and went thru the doors to
\ liberty, each gave a sigh OF relief
They had been frightened. What II
they had been sent back. But thank
the good Lord they were thru with
the hardships OF the long journey.
When John and Paul met each
other again they were so happy that
they couldn't express the words Of
greeting. John was glad to see his
young brother so happy and we'll He
couldn't imagine that this pretty
young woman he was talking to wal
\ The little Anna OF the old days. And
Aroel Why he didn't dream OF seeing
Aslch a big boy of ten.
GREETINGS over, they all went Il
Johns home. What a wonderful place
This was almost as good as the home
OF the wealthy of Poland. Electric
lights, carpets, what more could one
want? Just push q button, and there
Is q light. What marvels there were
in this America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
DISRUPTION OF
0. B. U. DEFEATED
in NOVA SCOTIA
Russell as Aid to Ben
Legere Is Failure
BY JOHN A. McRURY.
Especial TO the Daily Worker)


STELLARToN, Nova Scotia
Oct. 2s.-The disrupting tactics
of the One Big Union have
failed completely in Nova
Scotia.
Ben Legere, of Lawrence.
Mass, was the first disruptionist
to be sent into the province. At
ter many vain attempts to gain
a foothold in the minerS ranks
he declared himself baffled and
sent to Winnipeg for assistance.
Has His Own Strategy.
Reinforcements arrived in the form
of Bob Russell. He, in his usual plat.
form strategy, devoted all his time to
harping on the discontinue of the
miners. Were it not for the indiffer
ence displayed by the provisional of
ficers of the United Mine Workers OF
America, Russell would not have re.
manned in the province one hour.
One Of Russell's favorite platform
stunts is to procure at irregular in
tervals, from various recesses upon
his person, pamphlets, cards, letters.
ETC., and in Haunting manner wave
them before the assemblage. During
these maneuvers he tells the audience
that the papers are evidence of trait.
orous acts of local labor leaders
However, no one has been so forum.
ate as to ascertain the validity Of the
papers.
Recently Russell succeeded in call
ing vote Of the miners in an outly.
ing section on the Mainland. These
men are at so great a distance
from the miners at Glaze Bay that
they are unable to keep ND with
events that tr'anspire in other parts
of the district. This was sufficient TO
give Russell his toe,hold. The vote
was held month ago. There are over
$500 men in that particular section.
and only 500 voted. Out Of that 500
the o. B. U. received a majority OF
only 267.
Miners Realize Mistake. .
The vote had hardly been counted
when the miners realized that they
had made mistake. However. that
short interval gave Russell ample
time to connect with his lawyer and
an INJUNCTION was placed on the funds
Of the Stellarton local. The amount
tied up is in the vicinity of $1,000
The case will be tried in Halifax in
the course Of few weeks.
Russell may not be successful in
stealing the miners funds and placing
them in far away vaults in Winnipeg
But if he does his mission here will
be accomplished.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
AIso slsr WrestIIna BOUT.

John Meyers, ex-champion middle
weight wrestler, and Joe Parilla. also
described as ex-champion, divided
honors with John w. Davis, soon To
be third ex-champion, at a demo,
cratic mass meeting at Polish Union
Hall, Chicago. In billing Davis and
the wrestlers the democratic man
ayers babe everybody welcome and
promised good entertainment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29

trusts to provide the German indus
trial magnates with working capital
While over 100000 British and
American workers unemployed, &C
ceptance of the Dawes plan has re-
suited in great increases in industrial
activity in Germany where wages are
below world levels. The unemployed
in that country are being rapidly alb
sorbed. The severe competition this
will mean for the American worker
with a consequent beating down of
wages is indicated by reports on Ger
man wages from foreign representa-
tives Of the U. S. department Of com.
merce These show that the low
wages which enabled Germany to un-
derbid competitors in prewar years
are even lower today. According to
R. c. Miller, assistant chief of the de
partment's western European bureau,
Practically all foreign markets of
any Importance have felt the effect Of
the influx of cheap German goods dur
ing the postwar years"
The wages which enable German
producers to undersell competitors are
revealed by Miller's figures which
show wages in gold marks Il mark,
25c) and percentage figures for the
average standard Of living Of the Ger
man worker compared with that Of
1913:
Average Weekly Earnings Of
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fish aristocracy-that it is he who is
responsible for the name of the Rus
sian metropolis "Leningrad" appear
ing correctly on the programs Of the
symphony.
Use Cars Pet Name.
With the statement of Koussevit-
zky that he would be the last man in
the world to honor Lenin and Trotzky
lit was they, he explains, who were
directly responsible for the loss of
the thousands Of American dollars in
his possession--the correct name of
the former capital of Russia, Lenin-
grad will be stricken from the pro
grams and the incorrect name-St.
Petersburg-wiII be used hereafter.
The matter has caused no little ex-
element even in this city of anachron-
isms. Ever since the matter first be
gan to be talked about Boston has
been a city of lifted eyebrows.
Here is what Courtenay Guild, di-
rector of the Harvard Musical associa-
ton, has to say about the audacity of
group of musicians who have dared
to recognize the facts of history:
GAS the name of Lenine Gould prob
ably pronounces it Lee-nyne) is abb
horrent to Americans who value the
blessings, of civilization, and as our
government has refused to recognize
the usurping oligarchy that is called
the Soviet government of Russia, it
comes as a shock to conservative
Bostonians to find the city that was
known as st. Petersburg until ten
years ago referred to as "Leningrad'
on the program of the Boston Sym
phony concerts.
Appeared Four Times.
mot once only but four times does
the obnoxious Leningrad appear on
the first program of the season.
There can hardly be doubt that
the people of America would rather
honor the memory of the man. who
founded and built st. Petersburg than
that Of the man who nearly destroyed
it and caused the death of millions OF
his fellow countrymen."
There's no doubt at all about it.
Peter the Great? Even the conserva-
tive authors of the Encyclopedia Brit
annica admit that they hold no brief
for even ordinary decency on the part
Of Peter the Great Here is what
they have to say:
"His (Peter's) rage was cyclonic:
his hatred rarely stopped short of ex
termination. His banquets were or.
gies, his pastimes commissions. There
are deeds of his which make human
ity shudder, and no man equally great
has ever descended to such depths Of
cruelty and treachery.'
Breathe More Freely.
No, there's no doubt about it. Fol
who are the patrons" of music herei
Courtenay Guild, the gentleman who
expressed such violent opinions on
the subject of Lenin, is the owner OF
newspaper called the Boston Com.
mercial Bulletin.
And only this week there comes
from New York the news that Gilbert
H. Gary, president of the steel trust
for which thousands of men still work
twelve hours day and seven days a
week, has bought a box at the New
York Opera-the price is said to be
somewhere around 100000. But then
Gary is an admirer of Dawes-and
Gary probably hopes to make the
workers of the whole world dance to
the tune of Dawes well-known Sym
phony in A." Hence the interest OF
Gary, and men like Gary. in things
musical.
In any case, Bostonians are breath
ing more freely since the stand of it's
| NpafrOnc of r,a,tofoD honr x,.oIc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
Secretary Wanted

Woman stenographer, competent to
prepare manuscript for publication.
Must have extensive knowledge Of
labor movement. Position open in
December. Age between 35 and so.
Single.
j. r. SWARTS,
34s E. Ohio st. Chicago, III.
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Taking II over.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S.--America's
new dirigible, the Los Angeles, will
undergo her official inspection prepar-
atory to being taken over by the
United States next Friday at Lake
hurst.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
LOW WAGE "NADE IN GERMANY"
WILL HIT U. S. WORKERS HARD
ASDAWES PLAN GETS UNDER WAY
BY LELAND oLDs.
tFederated Press industrial Edltor.)

capital will hundreds of lOwpad
% work nderseling n
$11OOOOOOO
plan
private
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glG0Me yBeELde Labor hd~yy5Ausuyzuv
BOSTON GOLDFISH ARISTOCRACY
TRElMBLES AT THE APPEARANCE OF
"LENINGRAD" IN SYMPHONY PROGRAM
Especial to the DAILY Worksr)

BOSTON, October 28t-"Gone-al gone!"
the wall Serge Koussevzky
orchestra telling Of the
dollars the hands Bohevih
suspicion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-29
Miners Realize Mistake.

Next Sunday Night and Every sun.
day Night the Open Forum.
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He was supplied with a miner'a
cap that had a lamp on It. He was in
overalls. But Paul was happy. He
was going to make fsome money fol
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Suspicious Of Officials.

But the miners of District / are be-
coming very suspicious of their Off.
Gals and more trouble is expected un.
less Lewis and Capellini go straight,
and the coal diggers can think of no
more impossible contingency.
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Average Weekly Earnings of
German Workars

, Wages in gold marks per cent Of 1918
Evening star., 1924-01-04
BEWARE THE
COUGH OR COLD
THAT HANGS ON

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Evening star., 1924-01-04

vania Hospital for Mental and Ncrv-
Gus Diseases, was awaited today by
those interested In the case.
Mr.. coyne was refused admittance
to the hospital yesterday to see Thaw
and orders were issued that no one
was to be permitted to see the pa
tfent without permission from his
mother, Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw. or
her attorney. former Judge James
Gay Gordon. This permission, 1t was
stated. was not likely to be given.
for both Mrs. Thaw and Mr.. Gordon
announced that any move to obtain
Thaw's freedom would be strenuously
opposed.
Mr.. Coyne asserted that he had been
Thaw's attorney for eight years and
that he had been, authorized to press
for his release from the asylum. He
Is expected to file petition in about
two weeks with Judge ]. Willis Mar
tin. who committed Thaw to the hos
pital. for a hearing before u jury. DR..
Ellwood r. Kirby. Thaw's personal
physician, said his patient was per
fectly sane and normal" and that his
appearance before a jury would be
the best test of his mental condition.
The doctor said he had examined
Thaw week ago.
Evening star., 1924-01-04
SEARCH FOR BODIES
OF 9 STORM VICTIMS
Members of Speedboat Party and
Would-Be Rescuers Believed
Drowned.
TRAGEDY OFF FIRE ISLAND
Terrific Gale Ragged Yesterday.
Seas Pound Boats.
BY. the Associated Press.

BY. the Associated Press
BABYLON. n. Y, January 4.--As the
Atlantic off, Fire Island continued to
subside today from the storm which
ragged all of yesterday, coast guards
men cruised about looking for the
bodies Of nine men, who are believed
to have gone down last night. Five
OF the nine were of a rescue party
and the other four were shipwrecked
men the rescuers had braved the storm
to save.
The rescuers went out last night to
search for the Electra, a speedboat,
which had left ROekawaS Wednesday
in command of c. c. Eccleston Of Bay
Shore. Eccleston had John .Virginier
and a man named Williams as COM
pantons. The Electra struck on a
shoal OF the Fire Island bar. about a
mile on shore, on Wednesday night,
as the storm came up.
Stalled Engine Hnlts Boat.
The trio tried to get off the shoal
before the waves pounded the boat to
pieces. but the seas incapacitated the
ignition system and stalled the en-
gine.
They kept afioat all of Wedne sday
night by bailing the boat, but yester-
day fell exhausted. In the meantime
Mrs. Eccleston's feaEs for her hus-
bands safety caused the searching
party of nine men, headed by Arnold
Mayne of Babylon. to launch the Sid,
a powerboat, and challenge the storm.
They found Eccleston and his COM
panfons unconscious in the Electra
with the seas breaking over them
They got the trio aboard the Sid and
then started to the rescue of q fish
ing smack they had sighted in dis
tress a mile away. BY dangerous and
dexterous work, four men were taken
off the smack
Big Wave Sweeps Deck.
The Sid started back to Babylon,
but within few minutes ran into
some upaccountable trouble and was
stalled moment. A big wave came
over the deck and swept nine men
overheard. The five survivors threw
life preservets toward them, but they
fell short and, all the unfortunate es
disappeared in the trough of the
mountainous seas.
or the n ne who were tossed over
board off the Sid two were from the
fishing smack, two from the Electra
and Ave from the rescue party. Those
known to have been on board were
Mayne, Arthur Nolan, Ike Cleaves
James Weltman. Nirginier and Will
liams.
Coast guardsmen braved the high
running seas all night searching for
the bodies. but they saw only life pre-
servers. gloves and jackets floating in
the water.
Evening star., 1924-01-04
DIxMUDE WRECKAGE
FOUND BY BALLOON
Located OF Sicily, Says Report
Dispatch Tells Of Finding Two
Victims Bodies.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MARSEIIILES, January "A wire
less message has been intercepted
reporting that searchers. by means
of a captive balloon sent from Tou-
lon, have located the position OF the
French dirigible Dixmude. which met
destruction, with presumably all
hands on board, the latter part of
december. The wreck, according TO
this message, lies In about twenty
Of half u mile radius, whose center
is three miles south of Cape San
Marcox, Sicily.
a Bizerta dispatch reports the find
Evening star., 1924-01-04
MANAGER FOR McADO0.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Robert
NJ. Wooley, former Interstate Com
merce Commissioner, has been ap-
pointed eastern manager of the cam
paign of William G.. McAdoo for the
democratic presidential nomination,
1T was announced. Mr. Wooley. at
one time was director of the mint
He directed the publicity in the first
and second campaigns of former
PRESIDENT Wilson and that Of the
liberty loan drives
Evening star., 1924-01-04
Declares AIcOhoIs
Unfit for Hair Tonic
Brought Into us,

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, January 4.-Arthur
Rose, one of trio arrested on
suspicion of Conspiring 10. roby
payroll messengers, testified as
an alibi that the automobile In
which he and his companions
were apprehended was used to
run" alcohol into the United
States.
The stuff we run is generally
used for hair .tonic'' Re said, "but
when it Is not good enough for.
that IT is sent to- the United
States"
Evening star., 1924-01-04
ITALY SHOWS DEFICIT.

ROME. January According 20
the final figures of the 1929 budget
Issued by the audit office, the revenue
amounted to 1S,s03. 100000 lire and
expenditures, 21.s32. 100000. the de-
ficit being 3.029, 100000. The main
sources of revenue exceeded the esti-
mates.
Evening star., 1924-01-04
U. S. CRUISER AT. GENOA.

GENOA. Italy. January 4.-The
United States cruiser Pittsburgh ar
was visited by the civil and military
authorities, as we'll as by the person
mel of the American consulate.
The American colony has planned
numerous social functions ashore for
the officers and men. The vessel will
leave Monday for Leghorn.
Evening star., 1924-01-04
NEXT MOVE TO FREE
THAW KEPT SECRET
slayer's Lawyer Denied Admit.
tance to Asylum on Orders
Of His Mother.
LIBERTY WILL BE OPPOSED
Coyne Declares He Will Insist on
Hearing Before Jury.

By he<Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, January A. The
next move of Bartholomew B., Coyne,
New York lawyer, in his plan to
have Harry X. Thaw. slayer Of Stan
ford White, adjudged legally sane and
obtain his release from the Pennsyl-
Evening star., 1924-01-04
BANKER SAYS CUSTOMS
SEIZURE is ADJUSTED
q. s. Agents Declare Jewels, Re-
turned at 100000, Were
Worth $350,oOO.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 4.-Simon w.
Strauss. investment banker, who was
reported to have made return of
100000 to customs on jewelry
brought into the country in Novem-
ber, has authorized a statement de-
Evening star., 1924-01-04

standing about the purchase of the
1ewels and that the matter had been
adjusted.
government agents were said TO
have seized some of the levels xub;cb
Evening star., 1924-01-04

were reported of value of $3.50. 900.
Mr.. Strauss, in bis statement, said
that when the matter was brought to
his attention it was promptly ad-
jUsed.
Evening star., 1924-01-04
LANGLEY

the Union and Confederate forces
took place.
1t was also fighting ground in
the second battle, which took
place thirteen months later. in
| August, 1862, and came to be
called the second battle of Ma
nassas or The second battle OF
Bull Run. The bloodiest GROUND
of the second battle was about
a mile west of the crossroads
at the Henry farm, near another
crossroads called Groyeton,- and
sometimes called the Dogan farm:
MANY ciyil-war landmarks and
monuments built in memory of
fallen comrades are to be found
in the territory fought over in
the first and second battles OF
Bull Run.
Evening star., 1924-01-04

The pike. after crossing the
bridge, passes west, with land
rising gradually to a ridge on
each side of it. This was fight
ing ground. Two or three old
houses, the names of whose own
ers stand out in civil-war an
nails, can be seen. A mile from
the bridge is a cross-road, where
the Washington-W Warrenton road
crosses one leading from Ma
nassas to Sudley Spring. This
road junction is one of the land
marks in American history. In
the southeast angle of these
roads and on a wide "1evel' be-
yond the crest of the slope is
the Henry house. This land was
the Henry farm, and the land on
which the main collision between
Evening star., 1924-01-04

It Is about twenty-five miles
from Washington by road to the
eastern edge of the battlefield of
the first Bull Run, or first battle
of Manassas" That is the distance
to the old redstone bridge which
spans the historic creek or run"
called Bull Run, which rises in the
Bull Run mountains. which are
an eastern outpost of the Blue
Ridge. Along this stream above
and below the bridge began the
fighting on Sunday morning, July
81, 1861, which developed into
that battle which the northern
troops generally called the bat
tie of Bull Run and the southern
troops the battle of Manassas,
because that is the principal
town in the region.
Evening star., 1924-01-04

Ing OF two bodies off the coast be-
iieved to be victims of the Dixmude
disaster.