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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-30
Far East Workers
Meet AS Students
In Communist School
(Rosta News.)

MOSCOW, June 29.-With refer
ence to the third anniversary of the
University Of the Toilers
OF the East, recently celebrated at
Moscow, many articles have appeared
IN the Soviet press dealing with this
institution. 1t is being pointed out
that the university is an important
center, carrying on not only political
and cultural work, but also very In
teresting work of mutually acquainting
and uniting the various oriental peo'
pies in the sphere Of art.
Thus the students Of the Q. U. I. II
have been lately arranging some very
interesting national entertainments
In their club. Chinese. Korean, ny
gursk. Tartar and Bashkir, kirgni'
and other national arts (songs, dane
ing. small plays, and so FORTH. I'M
students being very busy with tnei
lectures and lessons, 1t is difficult 10
them 10 arrange such entertainment
outside the walls Of the university
However, several national "soirees
were lately arranged by them at var
GUS mills and works, in other unive
sities. in red army barracks, etc.
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LOCAL RUSSIAN
SCHOOLS WILL
meet TOGETHER
Federation Convenes on
July Bird
By M. A. skRoMNY.

Since the Russian revolution took
place, the Russian immigrants in the
United States have felt 1t keenly. Be
fore the revolution the saloons, gamb-
ling houses and churches were crowd
ed with Russians, who were seeking
to find relief from the hard work and
drudgery to which the immigrant in
general and the Russian immigrant in
particular, are subjected. Mostly il
literate, and without the knowledge of
the English language, they were do
ing the hardest and dirtiest work for
the cheapest pay.
Technical Aid Helps.
The revolution brot in a new ray of
hope into their life. They began to
attend meetings and lectures; they
have learned of new world, where
the worker and peasant are the rul-
ers. And they have become anxious
to find out more about it. But how
can one find out what's going on in
the world when one is "dark"-illiter-
ate? And the dark" people of the
formerly darkest" Russia began to
study. Schools began to spring up in
every city where Russians live. The
leading spirit in this drive was the
Society for Technical Aid to Soviet
Russia.
Besides the schools for adults,
many children's schools were organ
lied in order to get the children out
Of the influence of the church. Be-
fore the revolution there were no chill
dren's schools but the church schools,
and one was forced to send his chill
dren to the church school if he wanted
them to learn the Russian language.
The organization of the independent
schools did away with this situation.
Federation Here.
These schools in the Chicago dis
trict have organized during the last
year Federation of Russian Schools.
In the conference where this feder-
alton was organized, one church
school also participated, but later
dropped out, as they could not agree
with the bylaws and rules Of the fed
GRAFTON. The method of teaching and
the grammar used are the same as
in the schools of Soviet Russia. Be
sides the Russian language folk
songs and dancing is being taught
and in some schools also dramatic
art Most of the schools have good
choruses and mandolin or Balalaika
orchestras.
The second conference of this fed
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BIG BOYS DROP
DOUGH IN SACK
FOR ELEPHANT
Contribute Now For
Political Grab-bag

DAVENPORT, Iowa, June 2o.-The
name of ]. w. Bettendorf, Of the Bet
tendorf Company. Bettendorf, Iowa, is
listed, among others, as having con-
tributed to fund raised for the pur-
pose Of boosting the subscription list
and circulation Of 1.-THE National Re-
publican" according to a statement
made by R. H. Fuller for the National
Republican Publishing Company,
which has come into the hands of a
Congressional investigating committee
at Washington.
"The National Republican" is the
sheet of which 100000 copies are said
to have been distributed in Iowa just
before the primary, in the interest of
Burton e. Sweet, Senator Brookhart's
opponent. 1t delivered a bitter TRADE
against Senator Brookhart, using such
choice epithets as
"This booster of Leninel
"This destructive forcel
"This defender of Moscow
This advancer of bayonet-backed
cooperative ideas!
"This believer in boIshevist eco
nomic philosophy!
"This demagoguel
"This yawper against business enter
prise!"
Harry f. Sinclair, "of Teapot Dome
reknown," kicked in with S1O96, and
the Republican National Committee
came across right handsomely with
$4,000, and again $1,000. In a period of
nine months between 400 and 500 con-
tributions were received, amounting
to $7O,17S.
Senator Norris Of Nebraska asked to
have the entire statement inserted in
the Congressional Record and to have
the papers referred to the Committee
on Post Offices and Post Roads, for
consideration regarding the possible
unlawful reduction in postal rates
secured by the publication on the basis
of artificial circulation secured. thrr
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LABOR BANKS
AT CAPT
OFF,
10y The fsd,d


KATONAH, N. Y, June 20
operative banks. If the railroad
railroads stocks and bonds, tn
become co-operatives.
These are two of the slater
of Cedric Long at the labor insti
by Brookwood Workers collee
the Cooperative League, was
trying to down what he called
misconceptions of the co-opera-
tive movement before recount
ing the achievements of genuine
co-operatives.
Banking that is genuinely CO.
operative in structure is woefully
restricted in this country by the fed
eral and state laws" he explained.
Labor banks have for the most part
such cooperative features as the law
permits" He said the "only one real
cooperative commercial bank in the
country that is permitted to do a gen
eral banking business" is the Farm
ers' Cooperative Agricultural Banking
Assn, of Conway, Ark. There are a
few real cooperative savings banks"
He mentioned the Commonwealth
Mutual Savings Bank of Milwaukee
and the Mutual Savings Bank of SUI
perior, Wis. There are also between
200 and 300 credit unions, real CO.
operatives, handling millions of dol
lars.
Labor Banks Help Little.
Substituting small investors from
the ranks OF labor for the present in
vestors from the ranks of the wealthy
makes no fundamental change in the
capitalist system, Long maintained in
defining co-operatives. But co-opera-
ton, he said, cuts the heart out of the
capitalist form OF business by elm
inatins the investor as a controlling
factor "The share of stock gets no
profits and conveys no extraordinary
power to the stockholder. BY strip
ping the investor of his arbitrary
power we eliminate at one stroke rent,
interest and profit"
Over 10000 farmers have Joined in
cooperative marketing, doing a bust
ness in excess of S2,00O,OOO, according
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party"
Short Items From
Soviet Russia
Russia to Change Tariff.


MOSCOW. June ga regulation
is under consideration allowing the
import into Soviet Russia free OF duty
Of foreign products to be further man
ufactured in the union and then re-
exported from the country. This sys-
tenn of a conditionally dutiless import
contributes, in the opinion OF the
Supreme Economic Council, to de-
velopment Of the export trade.
AS is known, this system is largely
applied in Western Europe and has
proved most beneficial. The main con-
dition naturally is that all such ar
ticles. conditionally imported free OF
duty, must be duly re-exported, AFTER
passing thru the necessary stages Oh
manufacturing and that neither the
products imported nor the manufac-
tured articles are to be sold on the
home markets. Tho corresponding
draft decree has now been submitted
TO the Union Council of Peoples Com
missaries for approval.
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concerns nave lndulged IN an orgy
of company unions, welfare systems
and stock-selling campaigns that
have enslaved their employees.
Their grip can be broken only by
a national organization drive that
will require many men and much
money, as we'll as plan of COM
paign and organization that hts
conditions as they have been made
TODAY by the enormous growth OF
the industry itself.
Real organizers will be needed
not the kind that are at present
drawing SIT per day for lolling IN
armchairs in hotel Hobbies.
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to work in Ae was paw
S1.65 day.
Raises Come Slowly.
In order to get a classif1cation Oh
the uostal employees in 1907, a long
fight was necessary. Every wage IN
crease was gotten in the face Oh con-
gressional indifference and delays,
The last raise, given in 1920, resulted
from long agitation on the part OIL
the postal workers for an increase
which would bring their pay up TO-
ward the level of the war time nlsn
cost of living. At that time the pay
~ the clerks was raised from $looV
10 $500 a year for the highest palu
men. +ho
last ten years living costs nave risen
10 per cent while the wages Oh lne
nostal workers have increased only o.
ner cent, leaving net loss IN 10y
huving power of the wages Oh 'n'
wor.. rs Of 20 per cent.
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was made on the condition that
. way is found by congress to
Increase or adjust rates for the
transportation Of the mails.
David w. Johnson, of the Chicago
Postofice Clerks Union, pointed out
that postal receipts for the fiscal year
ending June 30, were nearly 10 per
cent higher-9.S9 per cent than last
year. During the last ten years, he
said, postal receipts have increased
100 per cent or more.
Veto Snatched $500.
Postal clerks now receive salaries
ranging from $14OO to $500 a year.
The bill vetoed by President Coolidge
would have given them all a flat
increase of $500 year. They have
received no salary increase since 1920.
In Chicago there are about 5000
clerks and 1000 mail carriers who
were bitterly disappointed by the de.
feat Of their long fight for a raise by
the veto Of Coolidge They are espe-
cially bitter and disappointed because
of the almost unanimous support their
plea for a raise received from every.
body, Johnson said.
Hits Million People.
There are about $4,000 mail clerks
alone who were effected by the re-
fusal Of Coolidge to sign the wage in
crease bill. Johnson estimated that
more than a million persons, the
families and dependents of the postal
employees, were affected by the veto.
The postal workers, since they can
not strike under the laws as they
now stand, intend to continue their
agitation for the increase. Already
they have aroused hundreds of labor
and civic organizations to their sup
port in demanding that one of the
first things congress does when it re-
convenes is pass their wage increase
bill. Thousands of letters have been
sent to the Washington law makers
demanding quick action for the post
Office employees, Johnson said.
Campaign Effective.
Many postal workers consider that
Longworth's statement shows that
their campaign to get the wage raise
bill past Congress is already bearing
fruit. That is why the postal clerks
smile cynically when told of the Re-
publican floor leaders generous in
tentions.
Johnson who has been in the postal
service 25 years, told how every raise
for the postal employees has been OBJ
famed only after long fight on the
part of the workers. When he went
the service
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kNTI-FASCIST FEELING
STRONG IN n. Y. MEET
FOR CONCERNING CRIME

NEW YORK, June 2s.-Feeiln9
ran hIah In the tremendous meeting
held by italian antI-F aseist societies
H. carneaIe Hall last night. over
4ooo people attended the great de.
monstatIon against the ase.s'
murder Of oIaooma Matleottl' 90.
oIaIIst deputy, and sent cables OF
svr,pathy 10 the murdered deputy's
widow and to the italian Socialists
One Fascist who attempted 70 a's-
turb the meeting was forclb'y
apassed out" over the heads OF the
audiences.
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CHAMPION NO-STRIKE
UNION PERMITS ITS
MEMBERS TO PAY DUES

LONDON, June 2e.-The worlds
non.strike championship Is claimed
by the National Union OF Boot ana
shoe Operatives Of England
This union has record OF twenty
nine years without strickland u
challenges any other labor union N
any country to show an equal or Def
ter performance.
T. r. Richards, President OF tne
Union, also claims that Il Is the only
organization In tbs world that mann
taIns, with It's employers, suaran-
tee fund against strikes.
OF course the union doesn't nave
a very good wage scale or WORKING
conditions. But what Is that com
pared with holding down worries
record as the friends o. the n'oe
Wind bosses who permit the workers
to organize? The union 'ape' ~" ~
cession which this union peoo'e'
brings In a nice revenue WIN "n'I'
to pay the pie card artists VINO "o''
the union Jobs.
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Great Naphtha
Gusher Secures
Russia's Victory
ESPECIAL to The Daily werksH

fspeeiaI 10 The Daily Wcrkeo
BAKU, June 2s--The new ns app ooo
Usher in surachan gives over 1OO'OUo
1,,ds Of naphtha every "a hours. IN
p po'ls, o - with this the general party
membership meeting Of the suracnan a
district sent the following TELEGRAM
70 the thirteenth congress OF tne rus
sian Communist party. .,r
no I'VE send our greetings ana CON N,
gratulations with the new w vic c0o Dr AZ
the economic front The 100000 puos
- nanbtha every "a hours by the
e 9, gusher is a present 70 tne
o ~ This is the best security
for our future victories on al tIon' -,
Long live the thirteenth GOMEZ ,'n,s,
long live the Russian ConS''''''S
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tho osec;als of the union do something
~ organize the employees of the West
arm Electric company They demanu
that the initiation fee be reduced
during the organization drive tna' -
now supposed to be progressing az
the Western Electric.
1--WE recommend that the militant
members support the resolution
passed by the metal trades depart.
ment of the American Federation Oh
Labor at the Portland convention nav.
inc for its object the organization OF
tho electrical workers" declares the
INFLAMMATION bulletin. I'VE recon-
mend that all local unions pass the
following resolution, that the local
unions in regular meeting elect com
mittee of five to aid in this drive. DC
! II resolved that this committee FORM
ioint committees to have their inter-
national unions in the metal traces
denartment organize national COM
mittee TO carry on a national organi-
zation campaign as set forth In the
!. omen letter of the president. be y
! further resolved to have all local
s metal trades councils take similar &C
e tion and Immediately begin to organ
g iza the small isolated shops and com
panies." n.,,.,,
In commenting on the sad inability
IS or rather lack of desire of the corrup
e officials of the Electrical workers
e union to organize the workers mt
1t the unions. William F. Dunno wrote
al DUNE Tells Of Union.
The international Brotherhood Oh
ut Electrical Workers, affiliated with
rs the American Federation OF LABOR,
ne haze jurisdiction over the electrical
workers. 1t is a craft union and mas
:, organized workers on the basis OF
| what they do rather than because OF
their Mace in industry. 1t is today
| but little more than a building
| trades organization, the bulk OF III
| membership is in that industr!
| which has absolutely no connection
with the generation and transmls
s sion of light. heat and power no
n with other public utilities ike teie
"A phone and telegraph companies
with the rise to power OF IN
-. building tradesmen decay set IN an
II as has been pointed out preyiousi
in the union today has little II any col
=. troll over the industry itself.
The electrical industry cannot
:. organized by accentuating the :
4. vision between those engaged IN q
4. ferent occupations as the brothe
-. hood now does. These division
- are carried to ridiculous extrem
-. such as telephone locals, street c
- system locals, light and power
~ Gals. maintenance and repairmen
d,s Gals, etc.
y. Need Departmental Union.
~ A departmentalized industr
'' union is what is needed and that
~. what the plan submitted by :
,e Metal Trades Amalgamation co
'In mittee provides for. Defects can
0' uvound in the plan but they are no
ing compared with the hopeless
nation presented at present by
reaon Organization theoretically able
= v organize the entire industry
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Observation-Disclosures
PICNIC IN PITTSBURGH
TO Be HELD JULY 4IH

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June pa
oreat picnic Of the Russian and
lithuanian branches Of the Work
ers party will be held July = at
EIwyn Park. The fun Will begin AZ
10 4. m. and last as long as anyone
stays.
A program Of good music Is prom
ised and there will be refreshments.
Admission to men is so cents ana
20 women IS cents. Take the WASH.
Inoton and chartered cars at Wooo
street and get off at Elwyn station
Come on, come ALL
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TRUST
FIGHTS INDIAN
RATE REGULATORS
May Continue Fight IN
u. S. Supreme Court

,ensoiaI 70 the DAILY WoRKEn
1NnrANAPoLIs, Ind June 2s.-
Tho American Telephone and Ter
egraph Company is backing y sup
sidiarv. Indiana Bell Telephone ~
many in its fight against the ~
S 60 commission which is atteinpl-
~. ~ nrevent the telephone company
s-or, uniting higher rates into enece
Ir1v / The telephone company
OIans 70 60 right ahead with its rate
49, so that the additional VI
100000 revenue it wants Wiii 0O
in. :. rrenared to
sgbt right in the Supreme Court y
. isns United states, if the Public SerV-
49, commission appeals from tne
3 moening Injunction granted the IN,
e s,ana Te,ephone Company by federai
!, court here. ..,o,bors
e company to charge whatever I3'es !
i" chooses until the commission Lag,
e rates that are not "connscatoIs,
" r %s practically prohibits the gov
T. o,.n mont body from interfering IN i
Snsinass altho it is supposed TO Dc
i'll "nnhlic utility and subject to regul
re .i pT' IN the interests Of that sleepin
ee dog. "the public" .,o.s.
es The telephone company Is reieas.
he from its 100000 bond by the co ,
order and can recover from fle no y
ed American National Bank the $4VV'u
i'm impounded by the court to cover e.I. +.
Of , order costs. The Judg
viii do anything for big fellow IN, tne
of W. Mn. inst eat right out Of his han
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central committee Controls coIIeses.

MOSCOW, June 29.-In view Of the
liouidation of the peoples commits
sariat Of nationalities, it has been de-
cided that the following institutions
of learning and science shall pass un-
der the control of the presidium OF
thecentral executive committee OF
the Union Of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lies. ~ The Institute Of Oriental
knowledge at Moscow and the lnsti
tute of Eastern Languages at Lenin-
grad; (2) the All-Russian scientinc
Association of Oriental Knowledge
fs) the Central Eastern and Western
publishing ofices, to be amalgamated
into one central editorial office OF the
peoples Of the U. S. s. R.; (D the
Communist University Of the Toilers
Of the East
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Continued from page ~
period it has been expanding due to
the development of automatic tele-
phones, radio and long distance trans
mission Of electrical current"
The militants in the Electrical work
ers' union demand the amalgamation
of all craft unions connected with the
electrical industry. Thew demand that
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n.,u uom.s for Workers.

cHARKoFF, June 29.-New homes
for the workers in the Don Basin are
being built. 1t is intended to build
at the present time 100 four-room
RATS for families. and 81 homes for
10 workers each for single workers.
over 5000, 900 rubles viii be spent on
the buildings.
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ELECTRIC WORK Frs NEED UNION

actually able to organize nothing ,
bnt building tradesmen-if we ex,
cent the railway electrical worA ere
t tHpt were forced upon it by the
railway labor board. dis-
The task of organization IS s elr-
so,,it one with but little interier-
ence from the union, in many .i seo-
tians none at all, the public utirty
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Anothsr Drought.

KIEv. June 2s.-There is drought
IN the Kiev province, which has lasted
for over three weeks already. over
az per cent of the crop Is lost. Al
most all the fruit and vegetable crop
Is lost The situation is growing
worse every day
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aIndustrIaIIst" Ambassador

BERLIN, Germany, June 2s.--Ex-
chancellor Cuno of Hamburg may be
the next ambassador from this coun-
try to the United States, relieving En-
WOW Wiedfeldt, who has resigned.
German nationalists are roofing for
Cuno. because he is an industrial mag
nate and would work tremendously
with washington's capitalist govern
ment.
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PARIS, June pa strike OF bakers
Is ON in Paris now. but has not yet
completely tied up the industry.
There are about 1000 bakers en-
ployed in the city.
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TO mr The strongest Of these are
thd California fruit growers and WIS
coJh and Minnesota dairymen. There
arJnO farmers cooperative insur-
and, eompanies covering properly
valid st $1,000, 100000 with premi-
nm, ., hslf the commercial rate.
"Tbgs is at least one co-operat ,,'.
life h.nrance company, the New Era Fra
ASH. Of Grand Rapids, with 57'OOu
members"
Firms Militant co-operators'
e7be hest known and purest typ'
of eo.operatives are the dlstrlpulis'
ord service co-operatives: stores res
tab,snts bakeries, dairies, coal an
icI companies, of which there az
aIort $500 in the United states,
There are also strong co-operal's
,yLolesales. especially those run
.tps Finns. othe most militant co-ope
ators in the country
ro.operative housing is new puI !
,rorosse RAPIDLY, Long expects. Inc
aro such organizations in MiiWauh
:, New York City. In most big Gu
real estate sharks are exploiting !
word cooperation. MT r.
n % ro.onerative newspapers, The =
oLatad press, and cooperative trs
ihg schools are other expressions
the movement. .udress
Reasons for the backwardness
tkba movement in this country =
,Eared with Europe were given py =
III follows: our individuahsm,
+ licting racial and cultural s.an n,n
, md the competition Of big pusin
, long concluded with the war
hat "the chain stores doom lne
onerative stores to almost cel
sailurep and urged cooperative !
ing and banking as more prOi"'
fields"
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CHICAGO POSTAL CLERKS STILL
FIGHTING FOR WAGE RAISE WHICH
CABS VETO SNATCH FROM THEM

Chicago postal employees smiled when informed yesterday
the of Nicholas Longwor Republican congress
sona leader that their long wanted and long delayed wage
would probably be congress
in December Longworhs half promise postal employees
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re Wages Cut.

WIN, o., June 2e.--
res will be cut so cents
the next two months.
ldustry is slow but gain.
,of increased orders from
manufacturers.
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60
b-OP
Ter CLASS

banks are not real CO.
ioods got hold of all the
would not by that act
hitch startled the hearers
ling conducted at Katonan
5ig, who is an othciai o.