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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
STEEL WORKERS
KNOW FOSTER|S
MAN TO ORANIZE
Not Interested in La
Toilette Gang
(Federated Press Industrial Edltor

Federated Press Industrial Edltor)
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, July 49,
Youngstown will be thoroly organized
on military basis for LaFollette-for-
president, according to the hopeful
Harry Dechend editor Of the Labor
Record and one time Republican can
didate for the state legislature. Local
Supporters Of the Wisconsin senator
have fought bitterly against the Trade
Union Educational League and all
really progressive action in the union
and political movement here.
The LaFollette party will not select
candidates for state, congressional or
county Offices and the Mahoning coun-
ty "progressives" explain that its not
party but simply a movement to
elect progressive" man as pre-.
sident.
Henry Hamm, former secretary of
the central labor council, attended the
Cleveland LaFollette conference as
delegate from the Movie operators
union.
Fought Steel Workers
Hamm lead the local conservatives
in their fight against the Trade Union
Educational League and other pro
gressive labor movements launched
by the militant steel workers.
Steel Workers For Foster
The steel workers are little con-
cerned about the LaFollette party and
its local sponsors. Reactionary labor
leaders carry little influence among
the unorganized steel workers who
view with suspicion assertions of
progressiveness coming from alleged
labor leaders who but a short time
ago engaged in a vitrolic attack upon
VIM. 2. Foster and his amalgamation
plan for the steel workers.
The steel workers have failed to
respond to the attempt made by the
reactionaries to organize them and it
is well known that VIM. q. Foster
is the ONLY American labor leader
that can successfully organize the
steel workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
DAWES EXPERT
PLANS WAR ON
RAIL WORKERS
VIII Cut German Force
40 Percent, He Says
BY LOUIS p. LocHNER

Federated Press STAFF correspondent)
BERLIN, July 13.-The fear that
the provision in the Dawes report, by
which the German railways are to be
operated by an international private
stock company until Germany is able
to buy back the bonds, would mean a
step backward for the workers is
we'll founded. Sir William Acworth,
British railway expert, who is in Ber-
lin to negotiate the transfer admits
that 40 to so per cent Of the persons
in the employ of the federal railways
may be dismissed. He says 1.-THE rail-
ways must be reorganized and op-
Grated on strictly business principles. :"
This means longer hours, lower
pay, and the abrogation of many Of
the provisions Of a social nature (pen-
sions, sick and death benefits, vaca-
tions, etc., that have made the Ger
man railway administration a model.
German capitalists welcome this
feature Of the Dawes report. 1t has
long been a thorn in their flesh to
see the German federal railways lead
the way in a more human treatment
of the employees and workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Business Men Go
Broke In Closed
Coal Mine Field

VINCENNES, Ind, July 11.-With
only one, coal mine in operation in the
field surrounding Vincennes, business
houses are beginning to crack. A
clothing store has failed. Several
stores laid off clerks. Two banks
have each laid off three clerical as
sistants. The theater frequently fails
to take in enough to meet labor and
expenses. The rolling mill has shut
down.
In Bicknell with 1000 population,
seven mines are closed. Two grocery
stores and furniture store are bank
rupt.
Meanwhile the Indiana Chamber of
Commerce begs the government to re-
duce freights from West Virginia in
order that non-union coal may be
brought in to break the miners un-
ion in the organized Indiana field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Senator Walsh Hit
AS Anti-Labor by
Montana Federation
(By The Federated Press,

BUTTE, Mont, July 13.-U. S. Sen.
Thomas j. Walsh, who has been pre-
siding over the democratic national
convention in New York, was de-
nounced for his anti-labor record by
the annual convention of the Montana
State Federation Of Labor in session
at Butte. He was raked particularly
for his support of the wartime espion-
age act and Of the federal injunctions
against the United Mine Workers.
The convention voted to hold con-
ventions every two years hereafter in
stead Of annually. Organization of
the Butte copper miners was the prin-
cipal business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Cokemakers End
4-Month Strike in
New South Wales
Especial to The Daily worker)

SYDNEY, N. S. W., July 13.-After
having been on strike for four months,
cokemakers in New South Wales re-
sumed work on the understanding
that special tribunal would inquire
into their claim for a reduction of
working hours to Al per week.
Waterfront workers thruout Aus.
tralia have had wages reduced 1c
per hour-from 50 to CSC, following a
decline in the cost of living for the
last quarter. Wage adjustments in
Australia are made by the federal
arbitration court every quarter &C.
cording to the cost of living.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Miners Moving to
Get Jobs Bankrupts
Petty Businessmen
tey The Federated Pr.,,l

CLINTON, Ind. July 13.-over 1000
coal miners in the Clinton field must
look for other jobs because mining in
this part OF Indiana seems more or
less permanently depressed. Clinton
business men thought the situation SO
serious that they asked the state con.
servation director to help establish
other industries to absorb the men
laid off by shutting down the mines
which are operating about 20 per cent
OF normal. Merchants are facing
bankruptcy thru the decline in pur-
chasing power Of miners families who
are their principal customers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Phoenix Firemen
Win Shorter Work
Day by Elections

PHOENIX. Ariz., July 13.-The city
flremen of Phoenix won victory in
the city election when the ordinance
providing for a two-platoon system
carried by S54 majority. The new sys-
tenn becomes effective Sept. 1. While
adding nine men to the force, it re-
duces the work day from 81 to u
hours.
The double-platoon system lost in
the election in 1923, when the cam
paign was made on the plea for short
er hours. 1t was carried at the re-
cent election by stressing the lower
insurance rates to be obtained by in
creasing the force and dividing it into
two shifts Of II hours each.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

A 4s0S. Here is a very attractive
straight line dress, with additional
lwidth supplied by "godets" or inserts
Fat the front seams of wide panel.
fThe back is also in panel effect.
,Kasha is here combined with figured
lsilk. One could have serge or alpaca
F. with a trimming OF braid.
The pattern is cut in seven sizes:
3s, 40, AZ, A, 46 and As inches bust
..NNasure. The width of the dress at
|Ithe foot is rs yards. A 3S-inch size
Twill require 4 yards Of 40inch mate
'Atial. For vest, inserts and sleeve fac
tlngs OF contrasting material " yard
lfs required.
i Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt of ~ cents in silver or stamps.
sepd 10 cents In silver or stamps for
4 sr UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND SUM.
FER. 1924. BOOK OF FASHIONS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

fact that farmers are hiring
fewer workers than a year ago,
in addition large numbers have
migrated to Illinois during the
year and an additional number
have arrived at working age.
172 for Each 100 Jobs.
The free employment service report
for the month reflects this situation
with 172 joblseekers for each 100 jobs.
This compares with 154 for each 100
jobs in May, 100 in June, 1923; 103 in
June, 1922; 240 in June, 1921, and "a
seekers for each 100 jobs in June,
1920. The Cicero Office reported 296
applicants for each 100 jobs, the Dan
vile Office 252 and Chicago nearly
200.
Part-time operations were reported
on an increasing scale. The proper
ton of workers on part-time increased
from "a per cent in May to 35 per cent
in June. This caused a reduction in
average weekly earnings to $27.40,
which is SO cents lower than the av-
erage for June last year.
Empty Dinner Pals.
Reduction in per capita earnings,
coupled with the heavy layotfs, re-
duced the purchasing power of fami-
lies dependent on factory wages in the
state by about $3,36O,0OO a week as
compared with a year ago. This
meant a loss Of over $14,500, 900 in the
month, or at an annual rate of some
thing like s175,OOO,O00. 1t means not
only hardship for the families affect
ed, but also a material reduction in
the demand for products of agricul-
ture and industry.
Out of 55 industries included in the
survey AZ reported declines in the
number of workers between May and
June. The most important layoffs in
the month occurred in the metal, ma
chinery and conveyance group, in
which 3S3 employers dropped 10000
employees, or So. per cent of their
working forces. Important reductions
in this group were 20 per cent in agri-
cultural implements, IL per cent in
iron and steel and per cent in rail-
road car building.
Auto Industry Low.
Other industries reporting serious
layoffs included automobiles and ac-
cessories, tools and machinery, furni-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

pleasant for even the most proletarian
worker.
No Paoklnutown.
There were no districts comparable
with Packingtown Of Chicago, with
the dirty parts of Pittsburgh and its
suburbs. with the East Side Of New
York nor with the Whitechapel dis.
trrict of London and similar part Of
Manchester and Liverpool. In fact,
while the Germany Of those days had
its faults it was to be advanced in
many respects as to be model to-
ward which municipal and other re-
formers in England and America
worked.
Berlin has it's slums now, not
quite in the New York sense, but in
the sense of great blocks of people
being in continual want and dispair,
freezing in winter. lacking sufficient
food ironically. And Berlin represents
in large scale what may be found
in smaller cities.
OulSlueS increase.
Not long go, l was walking near
the Reichstag building and saw a mum.
Der of people looking at bundle of
something on the steps of the canal
which flows by there. l asked a man
what it was about and he said a
widow with two children living in the
vicinity had not been able to get work
or food for week, and had drowned
herself and now she had just been
found. A little later / was on Pots
damer strasse near the bridge. and
witnessed similar scene. Suicides
due to despair and hunger have multi
piled proportionately in these years
that have followed the Carthaginian
peace of the conquerors in 1919.
1t happens that l am occupied at
present as a visiting professor of
American Economics and politics at
the university, and / see a good deal
OF the students. The old care-free.
happy life that characterized German
students before the war is no more.
Students Suffer and Slave.
The Students dress poorly and get
little to eat, and one cannot helm
noticing this. Most of them work in
shops, Offices or wherever there is .
chance and attend late afternoon Lee.
lures only; nothing else is possibla
Ior most of them. 1t does not often
happen that one gets an inside view
Oh their problems; but a while ago 7
was having talk with a young man
ana began to give him, with the hest
Oh intentions, good advise about his
cough-to dress well in woolens etc
he smiled patiently and thanked me
On a later occasion 1 got him TO
tell me how he lived, and he told me
then that he and a sister who had
tuberculosis lived in two little rooms
The sister was % and weighed so
pounds then-she has died since. He
never had meat oftener than once a
month, tho he got a little milk and
some margarine for his sister oc.
casionally. l remarked: "Well. 1 hone
your rooms are comfortably warm. so
your sister does not suffer from coldi"
The young man told me that not once
In all this winter had they been able
to have their rooms heated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Mex Textile Mills Close.

MEXICO CITY, July 13.-Because it
is difficult to compete with America,
three large textile mills in Puebla
have shut down. The textile workers
of that state have appointed COM
mission, which, with government ex-
perts is to find means of reopening
the factories. The workers in Puebla
are suffering.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Italian Workers
Homeless as Fire
Sweeps Quake Town
Especial to the Daily worker.)

MESSINA, Italy, July 13.-Scores Of
injured, $50 frame dwellings destroyed
and 1900 persons rendered homeless
as 'Messina was swept by fire. One
hundred and twenty houses were
blown UP with dynamite as firemen
from surrounding cities fought to
check the flames.
The housing situation. already crit
zeal since the earthquake, now is
acute and the populace is being
housed in tents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
50, 1000 ILLINOIS WORKERS LOSE
JOBS SINCE LAST YEAR; TIDE
OF UNEMPLOYMENT is RISING
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial EDITOR

Employment in Illinois factories dropping rapidly
ing to the June issued by the department
During the last three months manufacturing establishments
laid off than per of their employees Employment
been reduced IL below 1928 meaning
factory workers who had job year job today
The total out of work in the state is far larger than this
$4,000 would indicate the review The army unemployed
sweed by closing Of mines ssened building activity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

45O6. One could have this in jersey
weaves, in flannel or serge. It is also
a good model for linen, seersucker and
Bingham.
The pattern is cut in three sizes: 2,
4 and years. A 4-year size requires
2A yards of 36-inch material.
Pattern mailed to any address on
receipt Of ~ cents in silver or stamps.
Send IL cents in silver or stamps for
our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND SUM-
MER, 1924, BOOK OF FASHIONS.
Address: The Daily Worker, 11f3
w. Washington Blvd, Chicago, III.
NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERs-The
patterns being sold thru the DAILY
WORKER pattern department are fur
nished by New York Arm OF pattern
manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by
the DAILY WORKER every day as re-
ceived, and they are mailed by the man
ufacturer direct TO the customer. The
DAILY WORKER does not keep n stock
OF patterns on hand. Delivery OF pat
terms ordinarily viii take at least 10 days
from the date OF mailing the order. Do
not become impatient II your pattern IL
not received by return mail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Woman Elected In Yuostan.

MEXICO CITY, July 1s.-Elvira
Carrillo Peurto (sister OF Governor
Felipe Garlic OF Yucatan, who was
killed in the last rebellion) is the first
woman to be elected to the chamber
OF deputies of Yucatan. The reaction
is trying to keep her from taking her
seat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
DUTCH vesseI Arrlues.

MOSCOW, July 13--The first foreign
steamer under the Dutch flag arrived
at Taganrog (Azov seal, to take a
cargo Of Soviet grain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
GERMAN WORKERS SUFFER WHILE
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, CAPITALISTS,
TOURISTS AND REPORTERS REVEL
BY CHARLES {. STANGELAND
Especial to The Daily Worker)

BERLIN Germany July 1.-THE bourgeois and plutocratc
travellers the worst side of Germany the starving
masses under the thin crust of society consequently
back reports their countries particularly United
States, that there suffering in Germany
the children here do not need much foreign Aho
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

Send In THAT subscription Today.
Evening star., 1924-12-19
Give Her a Petticoat or Slip
Costume Slips, SI.98

Of English sateen. Plain
or striped fancy pleated ruff
fle or 20-inch hip hem. Sizes
to so. Black and colors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-22
Science

Maj. Ronald Ross, in India, tired,
overworked and discouraged at see
ing promotions going to his brother
officers who spent their time Tin
society" was about to give up his
study Of the mosquito. On the verge
Of quitting, he decided to examine
one last mosquito through his
microscope. This one revealed fot
the first time to the human eye the
malarial parasite in it's body.
If Major Ross had stopped his re-
searches, thousands of persons now
enjoying health would be dead and
whole areas now fit to live in would
be pestholes. Ships would still be
going around the Horn instead of
through the Panama Canal, because
the canal could not have been built
and maintained in a malarial coun-
try.
1t was Ross who discovered that
malaria is causel by the bite Of GER
tain kinds of mosquitoes. The mos
quito is a bleod-sucking insect Its
salivary glands become infected with
germs from a person sick with the
disease and it passes on the germs
to we'll persons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-22
THE BONUS AND TAXES

RI HE soldiers adjusted compensation insurance law called
bonus for short has been passed No payments will be
made until March
Meantime Uncle Sam find five and quarter mil
lion young and examine their records Of these
are eligible to pension.
He doesn't them write him poster him with
questions while he works out the plans.
Probably about 100000 elgbs have died since they
discharged.
bill based upon its effect
taxes tax bill is pending. present form it
practically eliminates all the Mellon plan and substitutes diff
ferent rates.
Mellon plan was boosted reduced
The substitute plan the ground that doesn
collect enough taxes That is reduces taxes than the
Mellon plan did.
Fundamentally the difference between the two tax plans
is that the Mellon plan reduces the very large
than smaller The alternative plan
reduces rates smaller incomes than it does large
At that the point of divergence very high. 1t is
annual of $4,000 Mellon reduced incomes
above that point than the progressive Republican and
Democratic bill does and less than the plan incomes
below $4,000
hands are agreed that p per cent of already
levied this year need be collected but if the President
veoes the substitute for the Mellon plan separate law
be passed the % per of 1924 will be collected
Advocates of the insurance compensation plan take treasury
figures that the of the law does
higher
Its opponents say does Neither exactly
The fact that the present law would raise certain
amount OF reducing the collection horizontally all
parties would raise % per cent less than that substitute
ing the Mellon would less the pro-
gressive Republican Democratic would still less.
Now whatever plan in effect Uncle Sam will have
tain amount of If he pays the soldiers cOmpensa
ton and doesn trim his other expenses he will have deficit
and will If he didn't pay the bonus and
ddn trim other expenses he would have deficit and would
have
Tax depend what Uncle Sam spends rather than
upon what he spends it for
Two things stand out:
First The bonus in and of itself need raise taxes and
Second The Mellon tax rates would not reduce
much the rates Congress is proposing Mellon would
greatly reduced the of those whose income
$4,000 per year.
In the future will be high low depending how
much the government spends If it spends bonus and
doesn other expenses will be increased
If man buys radio and cuts out movies he breaks about
If he keeps his radio and also his his
living upUnes he substitutes cleo for butter has
Johnnie's shoes half soed instead of buying pair
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-22
CONGRESS NO JOKE

a YEAR the fashion speak lightly of Con-
~ gress We others did it. We proposed saving
expense of heating the Capitol by utilizing the oratory
made other pert remarks. We take all that back
Congress the representative body of the country. 1t is
the fundamental thing in government 1t should not could
not be abolished If Congress could be made
body worthy of respect then there hope for
ment IN which the people rule wish be- To
it joke to invite the only alternative
But there has been great change. The growth of the
progressive breaking down party lines, old preu
dices, and seneres has dgned Congress In the session
now closing find Congress the whole inelgenty
ing pass laws the interest of the people, killing attempts
to put through deals and going further show the
people just how the administrative officers have betrayed them
Congress today greater nObler the executive 1t
worthy of the American people.
Let make the mistake again of treating Congress
joke As institution let give the dignity deserves.
Let establish the greatest honor that can
to sit in the lawmakng body of his country.
Then shall have all public Congress and
safely Congress responsibility for the whole Govern
ment by making Cabinet officers report to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-22
Birds Eye ViezO
BY Hal COCHRAN

How big yet how small is the
world, after all, when you view it
from up in the air. The vision you
gain when you look from a plane
makes a diff renee in things that are
there.
The shrub'ry and trees that the
flying man sees viii blend till they
look at their best; carpet of green
that's a picture serene and the es-
sence of comfort and rest.
Great acres are spreading, wher-
ever you're heading, like checker
boards ready for play. It's the view
to the eye when you look from the
sky cause it's distance that makes
it that way.
The people, by chance, that you
see are like ants as they hurry and
scurry along. So small do they
seem that it's all like a dream and
you feel that your vision is wrong.
How big yet how small is the
world, after all, for sane judgment
will bid US confess that were all
not so much; every mans just a
touch of the world as a playhouse,
1 guess.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, IncJ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-22


.GONDON, May 22.-Just so
soon as the British premier,
IL Parliament AND war depart
ment sanction it, work will be start
ed on the greatest engineering en-
terprise since American genius con-
nected the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans at Panama-the construction
of a thirty-six-mile tunnel under the
sea, to connect England with the
continent of Europe.
It will be the greatest tunnel in
the world. 1t has been the dream of
engineers, railway men and inan-
ciers for nearly a hundred years and
the dream has always been blocked
by British fears of military in
vasion.
Sir William Bull, veteran mem
Der of Parliament. a distinguished
lawyer and chairman of the parlia-
mentary commission on the channel
tunnel, is urging upon Premier Mac
Donald that the present government
smooth the way for the tunnel
project.
1T looks" said he. 'as if nature
had specially prepared things to
make it easy for man to build the
tunnel and to build it at the points
where the distance between England
and France is the least. That point
is between Dover on our side of the
English Channel and Sangatte, near
Calais, on the French side. The tun-
mel would be thirty six miles in