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Evening star., 1924-06-22
Auto Seruice Found Largely
Matter of Mutual Cooperation
Motorists Help Necessary to Dealers
Efficiency, Says Washington Automo-
the Trade association Committee.

| Motor car service as rendered to the
motoring public by the automobile
dealers can be as good, and not much
better, than the car owner helps to
make it. according to a conclusion
| reached by the service copmittee of
| the Washington Automotive Trade
| Association following a careful study
Of local conditions.
Service. a report by the committee
states, is very largely a matter of
cooperation between car owner and
automobile dealer, and, it is further
pointed out. it is just as foolish for
the car owner to expect good service
without his assistance as for an auto
mobile dealer to expect to give good
service without trying.
without the motorists help" says
a Washington Automotive Trade As
ice committees report, "any dealers
ganization is Handicapped. This is
demonstrated time and time again.
customers will request that the serv-
ice station force set aside all other
work so as to be ready to begin
certain job at a certain time on GER
tain day, and when the appointed day
and hour arrives the particular car
fails to make its appearance. The
whole schedule is, therefore, upset In
owner who has failed to be on time
cannot be taken care of in a way that
would suit him.
Judgment of Dealer.
TT is not merely a matter of being
punctual in cases where definite ap-
quently it is a matter of placing more
reliance upon the judgment of the
dealer or his service station manager
Many repair jobs are but half done
because the owners are not willing to
accept the managers advice that GER
tain investments should be made in
new parts. The car owner, knowing
nothing about the work himself, i'm
agineS that he is being forced into a
lot of unnecessary work. In failing
to consider the facts he actually does
force lot of unnecessary work upon
! himself, for few months later it will
probably be necessary to have the
work done over again.
Manufacturers are always aiming
TO cut down the number of replace
mentS per car, since a low replace
ment figure is considered evidence of
a good car. Dealers are just as anx-
louS to profit by this form of adYer-
tising, but when it is policy to in
stall new part the car owner should
accept the dealers advice in the mat
ter. 1t is a requirement of the coop
Grafton process upon which the sue
cess of good service depends.
Avoid flushing Workmen.
In the cooperation process the
car owner should avoid rushing the
workmen. The dissatisfa ction which
local motorists sometimes report is
frequently traced to the fact that they
have rushed the service stations to a
point where good work was impos-
sible. The car owner should not toll
crate idling on the job. and he is JUS
| titled in objecting when he discovers
Evening star., 1924-06-22
CLUTCH NOT NEEDED.
Gears Can Be Shifted When Speed
Is Right

Few drivers know that gears can be
shifted without using the clutch. This
will doubtless seem like fancy to the
majority of those who drive. because
even with a clutch. plenty of patience
and years of practice, gear shifting is
still in its infancy. Rather noisy. at
that. The whole thing is a matter of
having the engine at the cor
rect speed for the gear change The
clutch simplifies matters and helps
prevent the possibility of wrecking
the transmission If the driver tries to
shift at the wrong time.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Speaking of Knocking.

Mechanics are said to hate to knock
each others work. It's hardly neces-
Sary as long car owners can at
tend to it so satisfactorily.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Outside of the United States there
are approximately 2.50O,o00 passenger
cars, $4,000 trucks and 100000
motor cycles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
Pashitch Ministry
in Jugo Slavia is
Doing Some Worrying

VIENNA, June 16-The reactionary
Jugo-Slav government is sitting on
sharp tacks. It's latest attack on the
workers and peasants is to declare all
members OF the Croatian farmers Re-
publican party enemies of the state.
This bars SO Republican delegates
from a seat in parliament.
What frightened the Pashitch min
istry was the recent trip to Moscow
OF Stephen Radich to attend the peas
ants international congress. The
Croatian leader failed to secure any
assistance in the capitals Of the bour-
geois nations, so he went to the CAPT
tai OF the workers republic, where the
welfare Of subject people is among
tho first considerations OF the enamel
pated Russian workers and peasants.
Democracy In Jugo-Slavfa is OF the
modern type. City councils with a
strong Communist representation are
dissolved by the government The
people can have representation sure
enough provided It favors the Pash-
itch point Of view. II not--dissolu-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
ESTHONIA is
WILLING TO HIT
SAWDUST TRAIL
Red Army Inspire $
Penitent Spirit
Especial to the Daily Worker.)


REvAL, Esthonia, June les
thonia is getting tired of being base
for imperialist operations against So
Wet Russia. The Red army can be
thanked for the change of heart. The
imperialists are willing to use her to
make trouble, but not willing to help
her when she is not fighting their
fights. That seems to be the idea
that has developed in the minds OF
her people.
The changed attitude toward Rus
STA is reflected in the fact that Es-
thonia is letting Russia use her Bal
tic ports to ship goods to the OUTSIDE
world. The whole country realizes
that the lingo attitude doesn't pay.
Jaan Tonnison, president OF the Es-
thonian parliament, in recent state
ment said: I'VE believe in free tran
sit and trade for Russia, for, so long
as Russia can freely use the Baltic
ports she will help us in our efforts
to maintain our independence. We
no longer consider ourselves barrier
which stands between Russia and the
rest Of Europe, but connecting link
between eastern and western Eu-
rope"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
Gompers' Conspiracy Fails

that hold him in their grasp. Most
powerful among these forces are the
railroad brotherhoods that dominate
1.-The Conference for Progressive Polit-
ical Action, and that may, in the last
moment, quit LaFollette and reiterat-
their allegiance to oil-soaked William
Gibbs McAdoo, as they did at Chicago,
while Gompers himself may run off
after Governor All Smith, the Demo
cratic candidate Of Tammany Hall in
New York city, or some other wet as
pirant to the White House,
The Immediate Object Attained.
But no matter where they will be on
the morrow, in the camps of AL Smith
or McAdoo the Gompers and Johns
ton forces had won over LaFollette
for their attack on the st. Paul con-
ference And what widespread use
was made Of the LaFollette attack is
now history. It was released to the
whole capitalist press, to be SINE, fol-
lowed by the Endorsements of Sam
Gompers and William H. Johnston, in
special statements.
But it was also made the basis of a
special letter sent by Mr.. Gompers to
every one Of the $4,000 local labor
unions turnout the nation, demanding
that they boycott the st. Paul confer
enoe. It was made the basis Of con-
tinued propaganda thru the various
propaganda services of the A. F. of L.
regime, maintained at a cost of tens
of thousands of dollars annually taken
out Of the per capita taxes of the rank
and Ale. The A. F. of L. Weekly
News Letter and the Gompers Inter
national News Service were jammed
with "red-baiting" articles in an ef-
fort to brighten the workers and farm
ers away from participation in the st.
Paul conference.
Every labor publication in the land
under Gompsrs' control took up the
hue and cry. They hunted in packs
against any one turning his eyes on
st. Paul" Gompers' lackeys every
where were on the lookout for any
one, in or out Of inion meetings. seek
ing to have any section of organized
labor send delegates to st. Paul.
But II Is Here.
But in spite Of this Gompers-
Johnston conspiracy, the delegates to
the new nationally known June II
conference" have been arriving here
for the past few days and are all
ready for the opening Of the conven-
ton Tuesday morning. The June II
conference has been subjected to the
greatest possible test, and it has come
out stronger for the ordeal. "Unityl"
is the watcnword in the face of new
ordeals. the Unity" that means new
victories, both against the enemies
within and those without.
The eve Of the convention tomor-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
Queens Maid Can't
Dish the Dirt About
Her; Job Boycotted
Especial to The DsIIx Worker,


LONDON, June 1.-THE Queen Of
all the Britons and most Of the Irish
has to manage to struggle along with
short crew of maids Of honor. Altho
the Queen has been making appoint
ments to fill out her household she
doesn't have full crew yet.
1t doesn't require much intelligence
to be maid of honor, all the Queen
asks is that they keep their mouths
shut when not on duty. She is partic-
ular that none of her maids tell any of
the royal family secrets. Since the
only advantage of the job seem to be
that it gives lady" chance to get
at a lot of royal dirt she can later
dish to her friends, and since the
queen forbids her helpers to gossip
there is no object in becoming a maid
of honor.
The ladies who do act as maids OF
honor are even forbidden to keep
diaries. This prohibition is made so
that the queens memory will be
protected in case she gives one of the
aristocratic fiunkeys the gate.
At present the Queen is struggling
along with only Is high-born menials.
The usual quota is about 30.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17

row finds the committee on arrange
ments actively at work smoothing out
the rough spots for the big gathering.
The committee of three, consisting
of William Fl. Green, Nebraska; Tom
Ayres, South Dakota, and Joseph
Marley, Illinois, picked by the ar
arrangements committee, really set the
machinery in motion when it brought
in recommendation for the appoint
ment of small committees immedi-
ately, for the consideration of the
various convention problems. These
small committees will be later super.
seeded by the various committees of
the convention itself The commit
tees thus set to work were the fol-
lowing:
Small Committees at Work.
Credentials Committee A. Hath
away, chairman; Tom Ayres, South
Dakota; r. J Wallace, Montana; Fred
J. Fraley, Kansas; r. II. Walker,
South Dakota.
Platform Committee Joseph Man
ley, Illinois, chairman; William H.
Green, Nebraska; Charles e. Taylor,
Montana; Tom Ayres, South Dakota;
Mrs. A. r. Colvin, Minnesota.
Organization Committee William
Mahoney, Minnesota, chairman; VIII
liam Bouck, Washington; Fred J. Fra
ley, Kansas; William 2. Foster, IlIi-
nois; Walter Thomas Mills, Califor
mia; G. A. Hathaway, Minnesota; r.
H. Walker, North Dakota.
Committee on Candidates L.
Beebe, Nebraska c. Z. Ruthenberg,
Illinois; Senator A. B. Whitmer,
North Dakota; Charles T. Taylor,
Montana; G. d. Thompson, South Da-
kota; Tom Ayres, South Dakota.
Convention Called at 10 A. NJ.
The convention will be called into
session by William Mahoney Of st.
Paul at 10 o'clock, Tuesday morning.
The call for the convention will there
upon be read by Secretary c. A. Hath
away. This will be followed by the
report of the credentials committee.
followed by the election of a perma-
nent chairman, vice chairman, sec
Rotary and assistant secretary.
The order Of business for the con-
vention will then include the election
of a platform and resolutions commit
tee of 10 members; committee on
Organization and finance of 15 mem
bers. and committee on candidates
of 15 members.
The report of the committee on
platform will probably come up on
Wednesday. The organization COM
mittee report may also be considered
on the second day of the convention
One of the last tasks of the conven-
ton, to come up on Thursday, the
final day of the convention, will be
the consideration of candidates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
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CONTINUED from page ID
Dome oil scandal, with the multitude
Of other exposures, coupled with the
wholesale bankruptcies Of farmers
and the growing unemployment in the
cities, were driving the workers to-
ward independent political action,
which nreant to the st. Paul June II
conference.
Sam Gompers Gets Busy,
The officials in charge Of the ar
rapgements of the June II gathering
here tell of the next step taken by
Sam Gompers. He called a meeting
in Washington, about eight weeks
ago, of representative members of the
Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement.
He felt that if he could strike at the
ST. Paul conference thru the Mime
sofa FarmerLaborites that he could
then successfully wreck it.
1t is declared that the Gompers
conspiracy was presented to the
Minnesota Farmer-Laborites at a
gathering held in Washington at the
headquarters Of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor This meeting was at
tended by the two Minnesota Farmer
Labor senator's, Magnus Johnson and
Hendrix Shipstead, by Congressman
Oscar Il. Kellar Of the Fourth Mime
sofa district (Ramsay county, St.
PAUL., and Congressman Knut Vie
fauld. There was also present, in adj
dition to Gompers, Basil Manley, head
Of the Peoples Legislative Service, a
LaFollette organization.
To the credit Of the Minnesota
Farmer-Laborites they refused to be-
tray the movement that had brought
them into prominence and sent them
to Washington. They refused to stab
the st. Paul conference in the back.
Gompers was unable to crush the
class party movement in the north
west. This phase Of his conspiracy
died In the Matching.
LaFoIIette the Last Hope.
Then Gompers decided to make his
last effort. Minnesota had failed him,
but there remained LaFollette, in Wis
consin. If LaFollette could only be
persuaded to attack the St. Paul gath
ering, in favor OF the Cleveland gath
ering, that would help the schemes of
Gompers, who is, in fact, opposed to
both gatherings.
1t is stated that LaFollette did not
himself write the attack on the st.
Paul conference. 1t was prepared for
him, If not in the Offices Of the Ameri-
can Federation. Of Labor, at least by
the instruments Of the Gompers-
Johnston clique. Some say it was
written by Basil Marley. And LaFol-
lette, practically an invalid recuperat-
ing from ill health, signed on the
dotted line. in obedience to the forces
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17

ness mems plan would supersede it
on June Is, when the old agreement
expired. The German bosses claim
the agreement is running their plants
without paying adequate reparations
to France and Belgium.
Foreign Minister Stresseman of
Germany has announced that the gov
eminent is publishing all its secret
documents on the years preceding the
war and that later general investi-
cation of the pre-war history will be
demanded, requesting other nations
to open their files as we'll Stresseman
says, in his attempt to prove Germany
not the sole culprit: The kaiser's
efforts for peace show thru all the
documents like a continuous silk
thread"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
POLISH TROOPS CLASH
WITH RUSSIAN REBELS
IN STOLEN PROVINCES
speeIaI to the paIIy Morker.

DANzic, June 16.-There is rev
oIution going on in the Ukralnian
and white Russian provinces an
nexed by Poland during the war ITO
make the world safe for democra-
Cyl" according to information reach
ing here from Poland. Battles are
going on between the revoiutionists
and the gendarmes in the cities Of
5eIsk, Neswiej and smaller towns.
There arc many killed and wounded.
The Warsaw government sent de-
tachments Of soldiers to aid the
gendarmes. In the city Of zabaIo-
towe the gendarmes tried to break
up protest meeting Of Ukrainians
but were met with armed resistance.
There were killed and wounded on
both sides. Military rule has been
proclaimed in all the revolutionary
provinces. The government inaugu-
rated strict military censorship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
Abortion Issue of
German Campaign is
Still Holly Debated
BIZ LOUIS ?. LocHNER


Federated Press staff comesp ondent)
BERLIN, Germany, June 16.--Abor-
ton was one Of the minor campaign
issues of the recent reichstag cleo
ton. Paragraph 21s of the German
law makes abortion punishable by five
years Imprisonment. Tho the cleo
lions are over, the discussion goes on
merrily.
The Socialists promised their voters
that one Of their first acts would be
a bill for a repeal of the law. The
Communists are likewise opposed to
the law. Workers point out that the
idle rich always find high-priced
physicians who will perform the abor-
ton, while the women from proleta-
rian families are often driven by eco
nomic distress to do away with I'M
born babies and, as they are ignorant
OF medical practice, often get them
selves into danger. They are then
brought to the city hospital, and as
soon as they have recovered, are ar
raigned in court and face years in
Jail.
One OF the leaders in the demand
for the abrogation of Paragraph 21S is
Dr. Helene Stoecker, prominent in the
women's and pacihst movements, and
also intimately acquainted with med
zeal conditions in workers families.
She was recently invited by the Rus
sian government to inspect sanitary
conditions in Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17

inc SupDOEJ Oh lno FTOtSSlhnL rToSl-
dent Doumergue.
Herriot promised these measures be-
fore election, in response to the grow
ing demand OF the French masses for
dealings with Soviet Russia, for
abatement of political oppression, for
relief from the long military training,
and for the removal of Catholic in
fiuence in French government.
Enforce Eight-Hour Work Day.
The new premier's announced pol
icy includes a demand for the strict
enforcement OF the eisht-hour day in
industry and for the speedy develop
ment Of the new system of social in
surance. Concessions to private in
dustry, championed in the financial
bill by Poincare, will be abolished and
the state monopolies which the for
mer premier killed will be restored.
Direct taxes will be established as
rapidly as possible in place of the in
direct taxes which the chamber re-
Gently adopted under the influence Of
the old government.
Opposes German Nationalist.
Herriot has made it clear that he
considers his choice of General Maui
rice Nollet wise one because Of the
new war minister's wide knowledge
of military conditions, particularly in
Germany. The new premier made
this statement:
Our cabinet Is animated by kind
ly spirit toward Germany, and we are
ready to assist the young German de-
mocracy, but we will display merci-
less severity to the German Nation
alists"
The premier believes that the Ger
man Nationalists are preparing mill
tary forces under the guise OF gym
nastic organizations, just as they did
he says. after the peace Of Tilsit in
1907 He is firm In the stand he in
sists France must take against Ger
man militarists.
The German Industrial lords and
Nationalist are expressing their IT.
ritation at the selection OF General
Nollet thru their papers, such as the
Kreuz zeitung.
Ruhr Agreement Renewed.
The industrial kings are also up in
arms over the renewal of the So
called Preparations" agreement pro-
viding for the delivery OF coal, raw
material and machinery from the
Ruhr district to France and Belgium.
The agreement will continue until
June 80, altho the German magnates
had intended that the Dawes "busi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-17
CLEVELAND CAR
STRIKE is OFF
ONE MORE week
Union and Company
Wait on Council
Especial to The Daily workerl


CLEVELAND. Ohio, June 1s-The
street railwaymen's union, which post
poned the car strike last week in de-
fiance to the Great. OdD. PQgs)
convention, again backed up and
agreed to a weeks truce with the
company at the request Of the city
council. President John ]. Stanley,
of the Cleveland Railway Co., held
out until late Saturday before agree
ing to the trace.
1t is presumed that the street rail.
ways committee OF the city council
will try to devise some scheme Of
mediation during the week and seek
to avert the strike entirely.
Company Prepares for War.
Meanwhile nothing has been done
to prevent the company from COM
pleting it's strikebreaking arrange
ments. Crews of scabs are quartered
in the car barns in readiness for the
break of relations and the company
is continuing night and day armoring
cars.
William Polk, president Of the car
mems union, refused to deal with the
company or it's president except thru
mediator. Polk waited for the coun-
ell committee to suggest a plan OF
mediation to relieve the tense situa-
ton.
Stanley obdurately refused to recog-
nize the previous arbitration board
award OF a II cents increase to the
railway men and declared that he
would establish the open shop if the
union would not submit to the rail-
way company. He said that if the
union representative did not meet
him at 10 o'clock Saturday morning he
would send out word to the stree
railway employees that the company
would no longer deal with them as an
organization but only as individuals
and that if they wanted to continue
work as individuals they could.
Threat of Open Shop.
The union regarded this as merely
threat designed to intimidate the
men into scabbing and thru their rep
resentatives answered that the union
was awaiting council action and that
Stanley's mere declaration of open
shop" would not force the strike until
the union had seen what the council
committee decided.
President Polk stated, however, that
if the company actually began opera
tons with the scab crews which the
union men have already had to endure
quartered in the barns, the union would
Immediately call out its men and the
strike would be on.
Mayor Clayton c. Townes appealed
to Stanley lin the interests Of the
public" to wait the action OF the
council railways committee Stan
ley at first gave no indication OF TAX
ing any other attitude than that OF
the public and the union be damned
Edward McMorrow, international
vice-president OF the Garments union,
is now in the city to assist and advise
Mr.. Polk and William b. Fitzgerald,
another international vice-president,
will come back from Detroit if the
strike breaks out.