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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-24
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS
4 RESUME OF THE WEEKS
poINcs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last Seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN EPIToME

The board of overseers of Whit
man college, located at Walla Walla
Warrington, refused to accept thu
resignation of DR.. S. B. L. Penrose
president Of the college. DR.. Pen,
rose, who has recently suffered the
loss Of his vision, rendered his resig-
nation recently. The board decided
to name, at later date, a vice-pres-
ident who will take up outside work.
DR.. Penrose to continue the man
agement of all inside affairs of the
institution.
Debrs in excess of $1,643,000 and
assets totalling s1,706 are listed in
voluntary bankruptcy filed in the
federal court at Los Angeles by Viii
liam Miller Graham for many years
prominent in the oil industry in Cal
ifornia and Oklahoma.
cooperative agreement between
the United States government and
the state Of Arizona, providing for an
engineering investigation of the ir
rigational and power possibilities on
the Colorado river in Arizona, was
made public by Governor Hunt with
the affixing Of his signature to the
document. The agreement provides :
that the field surveys and the prep
aration of maps resulting therefrom
shall be under the supervision of the c
director of the United States geologi- i
fal survey. b
Fees c. Wider, 72, who bought ii
Lookout Mountain, near Denver, and b,
developed 1t as place of dwelling
Tor mountain lovers nineteen years
ago was borne by friends on his last NJ
trip to the famous peak where he N
was buried. W
wv ~ tn
John W. Worthington, known as the ~,
Wolf Of La Sale Street." Chicago. d.
vas named defendant in a suit filed ~
It Los Angeles by Edward G. Reed vo
md Helen Pierce, demanding $4,000 =
manages as the result of a stock
transaction. Worthington has been sa
II several weeks in sanitarium, his en-
condition preventing his removal to co
Atlanta. where he faces a term to ia
which ne was sentenced in Chicago.
Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross of
Wyoming has announced that she had
emoved William H. LOOMS from the COZ
lice OF sheriff Of Park county. The ao'
ction followed several weeks of CON era
Iteration by the governor of charp- uef
OF neglect of duty, which were wo
LED against Loomis by j. E. Noel no.
ane, prosecuting attorney of Park ooo
'unty. the
W. d. Lippett, first vice president Of
the Great Western Sugar company, dis,
Denver Colo, announced that the oen
mpany viii build in Colorado the
81 plant of its kind in the world L
tho refining of sugar from dis. Lon
I'd molasses. wor
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-24

II Thirty-two are dead, thirty six 1
critical condition and at least thirty
five more are suffering from injur
les received when four cars and tn
engine of a seventeen special trair
on the Delaware, Lackawanna
Western railroad were derailed anc
piled up on one another at Rockport
Sag, two miles west of Hackettstown,
New Jersey.
Mrs. Katherine Tullidge Mortimer,
wife of Elias H. Mortimer, star wit
ness in the senatorial investigation
of former Director Charles R. For
bes' administration of the veterans
bureau and the court proceedings
growing out of the expose, was grant
ed divorce on grounds of cruel and
barbarous treatment at Philadelphia.
Thomas A. Edison, inventor and
scientist, has offered his services as
witness for the defense in the noted
scopes evolution case to be tried at
Dayton, Tenn, July 10, according to
ohm r. Neal of Chattanooga, Tenn,
eading defense counsel. John R.
zeal, local chief counsel, has accept !
d Mr.. Edison's offer, and he said he
onsiders this a strong points in ia
or of the defense.
Experiments are being made nv
sveral New York banks on tele-
raphic checks by means of an in
rument which Photographs the
leck at one town and reproduces it
another, it was learned. The in
walton, it is hoped, will result in
eat facilltation of banking business.
lecks have been successfully tele-
aphed by the Bank of Manhattan
mpany from New York to Chicago.
Inc conspiracy trial at Washing
OF Senator Wheeler of Montana,
'secutor OF the department of JUS
scandals, will start in the early
!. Senator Thomas ]. Walsh. col
que of the accused solon and his
II counsel has said. r,
The most important evidence
the state Of Illinois has to offer W
the Shepherd murder trial will in
aid before the jury this week, ac- tv
ling to plans just unfolded. But hi
end of the trial is not in sight of
any means. ed
RS. John Worthen, %, is dead and CO.
husband is critically i'll at Omaha. do do
> as result of what police said tb,
suicide pact, made because bv
were destitute and could not no
lde for their family of five. Each rig
K poison which they mixed with of
coffee. The oldest child is 10 sol
$ and the youngest 1. rea
mes W. Girard, former ambas- tau
TO Germany was cleared of the -
ge OF contempt of the supreme la ~s
OF New York, based on his ~
re to appear for examination. tho
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-24
FOREIGN

Labor members in the house of
commons have started a movement to
abolish the office of governor gen
eral of Canada in the interests of
democracy and economy. j. S. Woods
worth, Labor party leader from the
floor denounced the proposed $500
ooo appropriation for maintenance of
the governor generals office as
waste OF money. The chief Justice
OF Canada, Wordsworth said. could
oiscfarge the duties of the governor
general.
The opening of the auto races in
London, which supplied one of the
worlds greatest fashion parades
.aised the eyebrows and brought
,rown to the face of Queen Mary.
Many women appeared clad in flow
ng lace frocks, with flimsy pink
oundations, suggestive more of the
athing pool than an outdoor dress
pectacle staged for royal eyes.
dispatches from Puebla saws w. G
enklns, former United States con-
liar agent at Puebla, Mexico. whose /
idnapping by Mexican bandits in |
'z2 created serious international
tuation, has hoisted the American
az over all his ranch properties in l
ueoia state. The dispatch added S
sorders are feared and much i'll n
eng has been caused because the &
exicans consider this action d
unts e
The ministry of war has ordered -
Argentine aviator Zanni IN 70 -,
n nome Immediately from the Far II
st, thus terminating his attemnt 70 q,
around the world. Zanni met with rs
snaps with his plane and it was
ally decided that it was best 70 mr.
continue the flight altogether co
ner than to attempt to make re- W,
RS to the machine, which would To-
e long time. ws
I'VE persons were electrocuted in or,
TIA Clara, Cuba, when a hiph-te Nc
wire across the Belico river fell for
the bridge. Three men, a woman Be
little girl were killed, bow the
ar Santoya, whose father, mother her
sister were killed, was miracu @
lily saved after receiving severe ly ,
MS. Authorities investigated re the
IS that the wire was not safely poo
lored. ely spu
'ionel Koch, chief of the Danish n noa
service and former Polar explor- are
says there is still a chance Of thes
ain Amundsen's expedition re- are
ing by airplane. He states that bred
possible the machines were MOO
aged in landing some place where LII II
descended to ascertain their no. st vy
INC party is obliged to head
ed to Cape Columbia afoot rho goss
ey will take six weeks, the worst are
ances being the water whore Ne
lels break the ice and soft snow shep
being very real dangers wove
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-06-24

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
The Franc and the Bankers

The decline of the franc is another squall
descending upon the already troubled waters of in
ternational politics
The capitalist press dismisses it as an internal
squabble between the factions of Herriot and Poin-
care but the incident brings out clearly the posi-
ton of France as vassa of the International
bankers
1t is a keen weapon that the bankers hold over
the head of any French premier. French finances
are in so chaotic condition that the franc be
wiped out as medium of exchange by any untoward
political event. France only function ii
great power, in spite of her army, navy air feet
and her own retainers like Poland and Roumania
within the circle of American and British i'm
perialism. ahrr
Knowing this, the bankers have demanded as a
price of their support of the franc the exemption
of corporation profits from taxation. The loss of
this revenue will upset all plans for balancing the
budget, but the bankers, like the common loan
shark, know that their victim is helpless because
of his pressing immediate needs.
The postwar rulers of the world are the bank
ers. The dynasty now in power is that of the House
of Morgan and the Dawes plan is not for Germany
alone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Police and Pickets


We Gull from a New York paper story telling
of the appeal of one Raymond Mcmahon, secretary
of local of the United Textile Workers, which is
on strike to the Brooklyn police for protection for
the union pickets from the bosses thugs.
We have heard of persons trying to put out a
fire with kerosene, of the fish that jumped from the
frying pan into the fire, of drinking carbolic acid
to cure stomach trouble, but these all achieve
ments of genius compared to the action cited.
Why not go to Cal Coolidge and ask him to lead
the strike? There would be just as much chance
of getting his consent as there would be to get
police force to protect strikers That is not what
they are paid for. Police are part of the sup
pressve machinery of the government Of the bosses
but Brother Mcmahon, like his namesake who is
the president of his union does not want to admit
this.
Sheep get the same protection from a pack of
wolves that pickets get from police force. In
isolated cases where the police force remains
neutral it is speedily recognized.
Someone should take Brother Mcmahon gently
by the hand, lead him away to some quite corner
and explain this to him. Perhaps it will not be
necessary. The police themselves, if Brother
Mcmahon gets out on the picket line, will produce
arguments so logical that his childlike trust
in the institutions of capitalism will be badly
shaken. |
More than one naive soul has had the scales drop
from his eyes simultaneously with the impact of a
policeman's club on his cranial superstructure
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Who Fights Wage Cuts?

Commodity prices the upgrade and the
dollar now buys but 60 per cent of what it secured
in 1913. In the second quarter of last year the
dollar reached the high point of 691 cents com
pared with it's purchasing power in 1918 and since
then there has been a steady decline.
Wage increases reported are few and far be
tween with the building and operating trades in
railway transportation about the only industries
in which raises are shown. Even in these Occupa-
TONS it is pretty well established that the wage in
have been offset by surrender of of the
working conditions hitherto enjoyed.
In the coal mining industry unemployment in
the union fields has greatly reduced real wages
and altho the union scale has been maintained
nominally concessions to the coal owners in the
matter of long established working conditions in
many localities, In the building and transporta-
ton industries has operated to actually reduce the
union wages.
In textiles a campaign Of wage cuts affecting the
whole industry has been launched and the average
wage increase of and eight per cent occurring
in the latter half of last year to be wiped out
by reductions of ten per cent and in the mser-
able earnings of the workers.
The rise in living costs causing the steady fall of
the purchasing power of the dollar the scarcity
of wage increases and the actual reductions in
many instances of money wages, all indicate that
even with industry operating at a fairly rapid
pace the standard of living of the American work
is being lowered.
The official leaders of the unions are doing moth
ing effective to combat this dangerous tendency.
Right in the textile industry, where the assault on
the workers is the fiercest, the union offcialdom
is striving harder to preserve its craft lines than
it is to fight the wage cuts.
In the whole labor movement the fight against
the reductions of the living standards of the work
ers is being made by the left wing organized around
the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educa-
tOnal League.
The bankruptcy Of the bureaucrats is obvious
They could not fight the bosses even if they had
some scraps of honesty and militancy left because
they have accepted too many favors from them.
No country in the world, during period of such
employment as has prevailed for the last two and
half years, has been presented with the spectacle
of the labor movement as whole actually losing
members. Our European comrades may have a
hard time understanding this, but they do not
know fully the caiber of the American trade union
bureaucracy which directs its blasts at the Com
munists while urging the workers to love and
understand" the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Philadelphia Rejects Abramouich

The strenuous efforts of large part of the
Philadelphia police force, assisted by gangsters and
sluggers were not enough to keep audience of
1,500 people from showing its indignation when
AbramOvich made his usual attack on Soviet Rus
STA at meeting last Saturday night.
FOrty-three arrests did not prevent an outburst
of working class indignation-the fourth ex-
perienced by the yellow prostitute since his arrival
in America.
Abramovich must be about ready to conclude
that some of his capitalist paymasters have given
him the wrong dope about the American workers
whom he probably thought ready to shower him
with praise and hug him to their bosoms.
Yes even in America, whose capitalist class hold
mortgage on all the world, outside of Soviet Rus
STA, there as enough supporters of Soviet Russia,
Communists and class-conscious workers to drive
this socialist" jackal back to his filthy lair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Light on LaFolIette

Writing Of the glories of capitalism as usual,
"Scrutator' of the Chicago Tribune furnishes us
with some real information concerning Senator La
Toilette and his activities
Reporting conversation of couple of investors
small ones-he says
Gle is not boiling with enthusiasm over Wis
consin's income tax law, but boosts the state like
the rest of them. Great place for Utilities he says.
LaFolette's done mighty well for such corpora
tons, he thinksr
Just enough regulation to please the coclxroach
capitalist but real interference with the profit
system-this is the heart ~ the LaFollette pro
gram. In Europe such persons found in the
social-democratic parties. In the United States
they are known as liberals.
They have sham battles with the big capitalists
occasionally, but are always called in to save the
capitalist state when it is in real mess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
COTTON
MILLS TIED UP
FOR FIRST TIME
Strikers Refuse to Ac-
cept Wage Cut

Continued from page II
further learned that the frames in the
New England mills are smaller than
in the Utica mills under consideration.
Claim False
Urged by desire TO substantiate a
claim heard that theaemployes in the
Utica mills affected, had received
since 1916 increases {aggregating 1928
per cent, Joseph R. White represent
ing the United Textile Workers Of
America was asked If this were true.
In reply, Mr.. White smiled and said:
For an instance the loomfixers were
receiving, in Utica in 1915, in the
neighborhood of $17.24 per week; they
are now receiving $S26S. Figure it
out for yourself" This, it is under.
stood, is before the 40 per cent re-
duction. Att
Meetings Big
Every morning several hundred of
the striking textiles workers meet
in the Labor Temple and in this
manner close touch is maintained be-
tween all departments. The meetings
are always conducted in very inter-
esting manner, and there is always a
good speaker on hand to whom the
members are glad to listen. The
speakers are recruited mostly from
officials of the older organizations.
The enthusiasm among the workers is
always apparent at these meetings
and by them matters are constantly
kept moving and up-to-date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Boston Dress Workers Strike.

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 16.-Over 200
workers on dress goods are on strike
in Boston shops at the beginning OF
an organization drive. Fifteen shops
are involved in the strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Woonsocket Textile
Workers Unanimous
for United Front
Continued from page u

NCOuuuu6Q ITOmt page
ject to textile workers. all facing the
enemy together? If the Workers
(Communist) Party is so bad, why
can't Mcmahon be stronger for the
united front than the Communists
are?"
Minor declared that James P. Reid
was president of the Textile Work
ers' Union before Mcmahon had quit
wearing diapers, and had been in ev-
cry fight, even some fights in which
Mcmahon got sick whenever there
was real trouble. The united front
committees, he said, would disrupt no
union and would attack no union, but
would invite every union to partici-
pate, in fact, would invite Mr.. McMa-
hon to participate. and over McMa-
hons reluctant headIc would invite
the United Textile Workers Union
and its rank and files together with
all other unions sc3
make a Race Of IT,"
Minor read extracts from recent Ill
timatum of textile trade paper act
ing for the mill owners. which raised
the slogans. Your averseer and your
superintendent are .yoRr labor leaders
Don't be misled by sany so-caIled
labor leaders outside your own MILL"
and Double your productions: Do
one hundred per cent more work;
make a race of it." sMinor said this
is the program of the mill owners and
asked where Mcmahon gets of on a
program like that. au = ~
How is he going to meet It, with
less than 5000 organized in the Unit
ed Textile Workers-.in this districti
How can the open shop program be
met with anything less than a united
front Of the 100000 textile workers
Of New England?"
John J. BALKAN, district organizer OF
the Workers Party, made a short talk
for concrete organizational steps
Two local textile workers, e. F. Leach
and Joseph C. Larose, spoke of con.
ditions in the Woonsocket mills and
the past efforts to solve the complex
problem Of many conflicting unions
James p. Reid was chairman.
Boston Dress Workers Strike.
BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 16.-Over 200
workers on dress goods are on strike
in Boston shops at the beginning OF
an organization drive. Fifteen shops
are involved in the Aafrikas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18

Please do not print my name as ii would be used
against in the shop.
Most of the letters received by us close with the
above sentence, differing a little in wording per-
haps, but meaning the same thing-that the, cap
italists thru their agents, keep a close watch on
the workers on the job and that the workers
know it.
Superintendent, foremen, tmekeepers, swell
fare workers." etc. in addition to the regular Spies
all function eyes Of the big bosses-the coupon
clippers who pull the strings that make the pup
pets in the state and national capitoIs dance.
This one sentence with which began is the
complete dsprova of all the democratic pretenses
made by the rulers. 1t is in the mines, shops and
factories that the workers spend most Of their
hours and there capital rules with an iron hand.
This is one of the main reasons why letters from
workers published in the Communist press are
valuable IL is possible for the workers to be
fooled 10 considerable extent by the right to vote
for this or that agent of the capitalists every so
often; ii is possible for certain mild and meaning
less concessions in the form of legislation to main
lain for n while their faith in the existence of
democracy under capitalism, but when letters from
workers in one industry are read by other workers
in other lines and a whole chain of frsthand
Testimony shows that the conditions under which
workers are forced to make their living are the
same-north, south, east and west-captalist
democracy is put trial before jury of the whole
working class.
One letter written by worker in rebellion
against oppression in the industry where he works
IS worth dozens Of more less learned editorials
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18
Letters from Workers

Please do not print my name as it would be US
against in the shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18

March 5, 1919. the Com
munist International was
founded to give renewed
hope to workers the world
over.
March 5, 1925, workers
the world over celebrate
the end of the sixth year Of
world struggle, the begin
ming of the seventh year of
forward marching.
Militants in Americal
How shall we celebrate?
What greeting to the Com
intern, to the workers of
the world, shall we offer?
The DAILY WORKER!
The DAILY WORKER
held aloft, defying the enc
my.
The DAILY WORKER,
saved for its task in the
seventh year battles.
The DAILY WORKER,
insured!
On March 5 will be pub
lished the Comintern Edi-
ton. In its columns will be
printed the greetings made
by Americas workers to
the worlds workers, greet
ings made by means of
support given the DAILY
WORKER.
What further support
can each reader of the
DAILY WORKER give?
Just this much,-ONE
DOLLAR!
Thirty-two thousand dol
lar blows with the hammer
will drive the last spikes
HOME.
ONE DOLLAR! Alone,
how insignificant But with
OTHER dollars, = with
New York, Philadelphia,
Detroit, Seattle, Minne-
apolis dollars,-with Dilles
Bottom, Gary, Waukegan,
Cannonsburg, Duluth dol
ars,-with dollars from all
over the United States,-
one dollar becomes thous-
ands of dollars.
Thousands of dollars to
finish the job!
Each reader, a dollar;
each branch, its quota!
March S, celebrate with
the Comintern!
Are you with us,-to fin
~.
ish the job? viii you pick
up the hammer and hit the
spike HARD?
Are you with us,-TO
THE LAST SPIKE?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18

oSooDA, Mich, Feb. 16.-Eleven
planes of the first pursuit group ar
rived here today tosspend a week in
military maneuvers.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18

strikebreaker president and a strikebreaking
presidential is ready for drive on labor unions
as soon as industry slows down a little more. In
the meantime the department of justice practices
on the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-18

General Dawes started his boom for the presi
dency in 1923 on Lincoln's birthday We predict
that by that time the Dawes plan will be very poor
campaign material.