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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Amalgamated Food
Workers Organize
Shops in New York

NEW YORK, May S.-According to
the statement of the New York COM
missioner of markets, there are in
Greater New York $4,000 restaurants
and other public eating places, 5000
bakeries, 1000 fruit and vegetable
stores, 10000 retail butchers, 10000
grocery stores and $500 delicatessen
stores. Many thousands of morgan
lied food workers are toiling and slav-
ing under miserable conditions and
starvation wages in these stores,
shops and restaurants. They should
all be organized; they must be organ
lied if better conditions are to prevail
for these workers.
So far only a very small percentage
of these workers have been organized.
The food industry is the poorest or
ganized of all industries. New York
City and surrounding territory alone
offers such a vast field for organiza-
ton that it almost staggers the i'm
agination
The Amalgamated Food Workers is
now conducting an organization drive
and is meeting with success in many
of these shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Bread Trust Has Grip
on Production, Wheat
Price Low, Bread Up

MONTREAL-(FP)-The American
bread trust, which has an authorized
capitalization of S6OO,OOO,O 900, has ac-
CURED control of leading bakeries in
Montreal and other Canadian cities.
For all Canada the average wholesale
price of breadstuffs in February were
100 per cent more than the average
for 1913. Bread, tobacco and bever-
ages are the only articles, in the
group of commodities classified as
consumers goods" by the Dominion
bureau of statistics, which show whole
sale price advances of 100 per cent or
more above 1913 prices. For the
whole group, comprising SO commodi-
ties, the average increase over 1918
prices is 55 per cent.
The relatively high price OF bread
in Canada is not justified by wheat
prices. In February the average re-
tail price Of plain bread in so cities of
Canada was exactly the same as in
February 1919. But while wheat prices
in February, 1926, touched 50 bushel
and then swiftly dropped to S1.55,
wheat prices in February, 1919, were
$22415, the average price for 1919 be-
ing 1921.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Britons May ''Never
Be Slaves But They
Make Negroes Slaves

SYDNEY tAusralia) On many
sheep and cattle ranches in Western
and Northern Australia, the ranch
owners get big percentage of their
work done by Australian Negroes and
do not pay them any wages. The "a.
lions served to the slaves are gener.
ally sodden bread, diluted tea and
baked kangaroo meat or mutton three
times daily There is no variation.
In many cases the Negroes are not
given clothing except cheap trousers
for the men and slnglet and loin cloth
for the women. In addition to ra-
tions the blacks are given at certain
intervals a few plugs Of cheap tobac-
co in lieu of cash payment. The
landowners claim they work the ma
tives solely to prevent them from be-
coming indolent. tsf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Wage Contracts Expire.


Wage movements are occupying
many Chicago unions as contracts ex.
pire or near the expiration day. The
street carmen's 2-year arbitration
award ends June and they are de.
handing restoration OF the 1922 wage
peak of soc an hour,
In the building trades the union tile
and marble settlers want s1.621h an
hour in place of Ire current $3.50
stonecutters have a ibid in for s1.O7h
an hour, sc raise. Derrick men pro.
pose $1.10, 10c raise. Iron workers
ratified the s1.S7h fgure agreed on
by the iron league.
The ice cream wagon drivers, after
a days stopping Of work, obtained a
4-year agreement giving them $40 a
week for the colder months and $50
for the warmer months, with a &c a
gallon commission on ice cream de-
livered. The old wage was S21 a
week in winter and $40 in summer
with &c gallon commission. The
7-day week remains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE DEFEATS
BILL TO PROTECT WORKERS. HEALTH

NEW YORK. May 1O.-The Miller
Trueman silicosis amendment to the
workmen's compensation law drawn
up by the employers, and passed by
both houses of the legislature against
the protest of labor and scientific ex-
perts, has been killed by the govern
or's veto. The employers bill, would
have placed the power within the
hands of an employer to discharge
any worker suffering from silicosis in
any degree, and denying him compen-
sation If he renters any trade ex-
posing him to silica dust. Organized
labor has beaten the employers bill,
but the employers have succeeded in
sidetracking labor's occupational dis
ease amendments.
These are the amendments which
labor lost:
1. Compensation for silicosis, for all
workers exposed to silica Quartz
dust including quarry workers, stone
cutters, rock drillers, miners, sand
blasters, potters, emery grinders, pol
ishers and buffers.
2. Compensation for poisoning by
benzol and other coal tar products,
for workers among. the following in
dustries: dyes, drugs, perfumes, ex-
plosives, shoe polish, soap, photogra-
ply, electro-plating, tanning, printing
and lithographing.
8. Compensation for poisoning by
tetrachlor-ethane and similar materi-
ais used in the dye and other indus
tries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
THEY JUST CAN'T STOP In DETROIT!
Look Over This Record.

the
the union hall his the the Detroit
local just insists growing:
They different occasions during the
last six months special editions housand last week
they sold distributed May first issue
distributed
to-door during the week of May to 10.
that's they fully
DAILY build local.
Now they will DAILY WORKER MONTH
May is to June 49, there will special sub competition
between branches Not all branches for
against
against
the
Here the feel going the
fill the balance of the Campaign
agent guiding splendid
activity enthusiastic "The getting and long subs
going especially
DAILY WORKER
point a long
very encouraging
work"
the kind going help build
IN THE SECOND ANNUAL SUB CAMPAIGN
subs arriving Friday May 8:
DETROIT, MCHs-A. e. 10y.
OMAHA, NE8.-David coutts (3.
ANGELES Gals GIoberman 10y.
CHICAGO, ILL-Hans Johnson, M. Kratochil
NEW YORK, N. Y-Katterfed (5) (2
Maurice Maxim, Fanny Horovz.
DETROIT, MlcH.-N stoyaneH, (2).
SCHENECTADY, NJ. Y.-R.J. Verhagen, (2).
PORTLAND, oRE.-Harry scolnioE, (2).
SAN FRANCISCO, cAL-James H. DoIsen.
PHILADELPHIA PA-Lena Rosenberg (3).
N. D-John w. Trepp.
MT. VERNON, WAsH.-Arehie J. Young
N. Y-chas Krai J.. Sonnen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
.SEAMEN:EHEATED
BY GOVERNMENT
SHIPPING LINE
Canadian Boats Beat
Men Out Of Wages
By SYDNEY WARREN

VANCOUVER, B. c., May 1O.-The
Canadian governments merchant mar
inc loses about a million and a half
dollars annually due to the fact that
the government built its feet to make
the war good thing" for Canadian
shipbuilding profteers. Now the Of
ficials Of the government steamship
line are trying to cut down this deficit
by reducing the wages of seamen. Last
year $44S,O00 was cut from the deficit,
the major part through elimination
Of overtime aboard the vessels, cut
ting down crews TO where it was haz.
ardous and by cheapening the quality
of food for the crews Another source
of revenue has been the fining of Can
adian seamen.
The secretary of the Federated Sea-
farers' Union Of Canada, w. Donald
son, is trying to have the labor mem.
bers in the Canadian house Of com
mons revise the shipping act. Sea.
men at the present time are fined two
days wages often for the slightest
effenses. .c
A seaman injured aboard a Canad-
ian government vessel is at the mercy
of the captain He may or may not
receive proper medical attention. The
government instead Of charging ex-
penses to the Sick Mariners fund
robs the individual seaman by making
him pay all doctor bills incurred for
injuries received while on the ships
articles.
Aboard the S. S. Canadian Inventor
Capt. Roberts, one of the vessels fire.
men fell and split his lip. The vessel
was at port in the orient and a doc
tor was summoned who attended TO
the injury and instructed the chief
steward how to attend to it after the
vessel put to sea. On arrival at Van
couver the seaman had So deducted
from his wages for the single visit
by the doctor insthe oriental port. It
was simply taken from his wages and
he was powerless tovdo anything more
than protest and get his name on the
blacklist for having the temerity to do
so. During the recent smallpox scare
the Canadian government ships
charged every seaman $3.50 for being
vaccinated.
The union took the matter up with
the port authorities and the vaccina.
ton charge was refunded.
The S. S. Canadian Exporter was
wrecked in 1922. During the suit Of
the insurance company against the
government it wasareveaIed that the
vessel left Vancouver with green
crew, recruited to break the strike of
the union seamen for living wages
and habitable sea conditions. Cant.
Bradley testified that not one member
of the crew, apart from the officers.
had discharge papers. He had refused
to sign them but the shore officials of
the Canadian government merchant
marine overruled him despite his pro
test. soa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
BIRTH CONTROL
UNDER FIRE AT
WOMEN'S COUNCIL
Soviet Russia Is Still the
Bogey Man

WASHINGTON, May 10--Discussion
on birth control and divorce took up
most of today's session Of the conven-
ton of the International Council OF
Women. Both were Historically de-
nounced as the greatest .menaces fac
ing the world The solution offered
by these backward moving foreign
women Of the boprgeoisie was stuIti-
flying the minds Of children with more
religious propaganda.
Mile. Josephine Szebeko, president
of the Polish delegation and mem
Der of the Polish senate said the
sooner birth control and divorce we're
wiped out the. better she would like
it, Mrs. George Morgan Of Great
Britain advocated birth control among
inferior classes and large families in
intellectual circles"
Patriotic Women Rule.
Yesterdays session was thrown
into a furry when women of the Wo-
mems Peace Union appeared with pa
cifst pamphlets and literature. The
distribution of these was Immediately
suppressed. So extreme was the fury
of the international council women
that bonfire was ordered to destroy
the literature.
The pamphlets destroyed advocated
immediate total disarmament of all
nations, the outlawing Of war by pro-
hibiting appropriation of money for
purchase of arms and payment of
armed forces, described war as legal
lied murder and urged complete non
resistance.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait in ad-
dressing a mass meeting in the Pan
American Union denounced the dis
courtesy shown the foreign delegates
by the women of patriotic organiza-
tons. Their minds, she said in speak
ing Of the patriotic women, are still
suffering from war hysteria and they
live in fear of Europe and especially
Of Soviet Russia. They actually be-
lieve that all peace societies in this
country are financed from Moscow,
she said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12

4. Compensation for skin irritations
caused by work materials.
5. Poisoning by naptha, benzine and
gasoline, affecting painters, rubber
workers, dry cleaners, dyers, chauf-
feurs, garage workers, workers en-
ployed by refneries in cleaning out
watts and tank cars.
Labor has little to expect from the
representatives in the legislature. The
sum total of the two years fight to
put thru these important amendments
is a back-handed victory-the defeat
of the employers substitute bill.
Only four states and the federal gov
eminent have a law providing COM
pensation for any occupational dis
ease. These states are California,
Connecticut, Massachusetts and Wis
consin. Illinois, Minnesota, New Jer-
sey New York, North Dakota, Ohio,
Hawaii, Porto Rico, have laws provid-
ing compensation only for a limited
number of occupational diseases.
This leaves workers in 81 states with.
out compensation when their health
is destroyed by poisons, dusts and
fumes.
Yet securing compensation for oc-
cupational diseases is only one Skin
mish in the great struggle going on
all over the country for industrial
health. 1t is not a matter of one leg
islature or one state, but an organ
lied drive which must be made by the
trade unions against health exploita-
ton by the employers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
North African Wheat
Acreage Above 1924

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 10.LA
preliminary estimate of the Algerian
wheat acreage received by the United
States department of agriculture from
the international institute of agricul-
ture at Rome, together with estimates
of French Morocco and Tunis, brings
the total of the three North African
countries reported to date up to Z
$4,000 acres against 100000 acres
for the same countries last year, an
increase of $4,000 acres.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
NEGRO WORKERS
READY TO JOIN
! LABOR'S FRONT
Vancouver Negro Toilers
Unite with Unions
Especial to The Daily wOrker.J


VANCOUVER, B. C.-May 1O-To re-
sist the encroachments of the bosses
which have grown with the abundance
Of cheap immigrant labor, a delega-
ton of Vancouver Negro workers are
ready to join their white comrades to
make labor's front solid.
The Vancouver Trades and Labor
Council has been conducting an or
ganization campaign for the past six
weeks among all trades in the city.
A new local of automobile mechanics
has been formed and garages in the
city are displaying the union shop
card. The Bakers union has been
strengthened and the organization is
striving to have union labels placed
on the bread sold thruout the city.
Since the government opened par
Tors for selling beer by the glass the
Trades Council organized the bever-
age workers 100 per cent A local
union of the Garment Workers has
been formed to take the place Of the
old local which fell during trade de-
preston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Bulgarians in
u. S. Denounce
Zankov Terror
Continued from page u

tone Genoff, Evan Kolen, S. D.
Pereff, Demo Stefonoff and Allen
Stefono, declared that the American
workers should make protest against
the free use of machine guns against
their former countrymen.
Shoot Down Workers.
Conditions are bad" said John
Kriss, another Bulgarian who has
made his home in Tulsa, who received
many letters from his relatives. LET
tiers l have received show the terrible
conditions which prevail under the
Zankov terror. My brother-in-law
wrote me how workers are placed in
box cars and then shot down with
machine guns. It is terrible to think
that the world will stand by and per-
nit the things that are done to help
less, Bulgarians"
The Bulgarians here point to the
fact that the Zankoff regime was not
elected by the workers, having gained
power by the use of the gun and
bayonet, and murder of agrarian party
teaders. The fascists are enabled to
keep power only by these murderous
tactics, the Bulgarians here declare.
Not Supported by Workers.
There is no freedom of speech, no
freedom of the press and no freedom
of action" Kovacheff said when inter-
viewed. "There are newspapers, but
there are no opposition newspapers
because the government won't allow
them"
Kovacheff, who has been receiving
mail from his relatives, declared that
the method of disposing of opposition
by the Bulgarian fascists is simple.
The Zankov fascist troops, many of
whom are refugees who fought against
the workers of Russia under Wrangel,
surround their opponents house, burn
it, and murder or imprison the occu-
pant.
One Bulgarian here said he had
written his father asking him to
describe conditions there, and the
father replied that he did not dare do
so, for fear Of being murdered by the
fascists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Hlt Van swerInaen Meraer

WASHINGTON, May 10.-Minority
stockholders Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad threw a bomb today in
the Van Sweringen merger plans
when they asked the interstate com
merce commission to require o. p
and M. ]. Van Sweringen, Otto Miller
j. ]. Bernet, ]. R. Mutt, C. L. Bradley
and w. A. Colston, to show cause why
orders of the commission permitting
them to serve as members of the
board of directors of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, and Hooking Valley rail
roads should not be annulled.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Unemployment in
France Mounts AS
Workers Flock In

PARIS, France, May 10-France re-
ports slight increase in unemploy-
ment based on figures compiled up to
April 1, with public labor agencies
finding it impossible to find jobs for
the workers.
Ten thousand workers are pouring
into the country from Italy, Spain and
Portugal every month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
lumber CONDITIONS Worse.

VANCOUVER, B. C.-May 10-Condi-
tons in the lumber industry Of Brit
ish Columbia have steadily grown
worse since 1921 in filth and exploita-
ton. At Horne Lake, Vancouver
Island, where tents serve as bunk
houses, water rose within six inches
of the bottom of the beds. 1t was un-
necessary to get out of bed to per-
form the morning additions: all one
had to do was to stick face and arms
over the edge of the bed, and wash
in the lake water on the floor. The
camp toilet at this place flooded into
the lake from which water for cook
ing and drinking is obtained. When
a sanitary inspector finally ordered
the camp closed down, the company
moved camp on Sunday and refused
to pay the men for moving it, but
charged them board while doing the
moving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Jobless on Rhine
Now Totals 10000
Mostly Metal Workers

BERLIN, Germany, May 1O.-At the
end of last month there were 10000
unemployed workers in the Rhineland
who were entitled to the beggarly I'M
unemployment doles. One-ffth of this
number belonged to the iron and
metal trades, which normally employ
about 80 per cent of the total labor
in the Rhineland province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
JOHN REED JUNIOR
GROUP PLANS BIG
NIGHT ON MAY e

Tell II to the kids! No, It amt
about circus, but the surprise af-
fair that is being arranged by the
John Reed Junior Group. They pro-
mise an interesting evening on
Sat-, May %, at the Workers. Home,
1902 w. Division ST. They won't
tell what they are going to pull
off, but they assure that it will be
a real surprise, dance, and a good
time in general. So don't forget,
tell it to the kidsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Amtoro Co. Moves.

NEW YORK, May 1O-Amtorg Trad
ing Corporation, buying and selling
agent for the Russian government, is
moved to temporary quarters at 81
West 9th St.. New York and when
the Fur Merchants Cold Storage ware.
house on West goth street is complet-
ed will take a floor there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Textile Mills Close.

FALL RIVER, Mass. May 10.-In
spite Of textile mill owners asser-
tions that wage cuts might enable
them to give textile mill employees
more work, the Fall River mills are
cutting production still further, altho
they are operating at so per cent to
20 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
Vargas Still Secretary

WASHINGTON. May 1O-(FP) =
Canuto Vargas, labor attache of the
Mexican embassy in Washington, re-
mains secretary of the PanAmerican
Federation of Labor, pending selection
of a successor in the later position.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12
A PRACTICAL HOUSE OR
MORNING DRESS

51OS. This model is also good for
a maids or nurses uniform. 1t may
be made of rep, cambria, linen, ging-
ham or chambrey, or in jersey or fan
mel The sleeves may be in wrist
length, or short and finished with a
shaped cuff.
The Pattern is cut in Sizes: SO,
80, 40. AZ. A, 46 and 4S inches bust
measure. A 3S inch size requires 3%
yards OF S6 inch material with q yard
OF contrasting material If made as IL
Illustrated. II made OF one material
AZ yards are required The width OF
the dress at the lower edge is 1ss
yard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-12

5115. Striped linen, Bingham or
flannel will be very attractive for this
design.
The pattern is cut n4 sizes: 6,
s, 10 and IL years. An year size
requires yards of SO inch material.
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NorIcE no PATTERN BuYERs--rhs

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patterns being sold thru the DAILY
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Evening star., 1925-08-07
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
MEXICAN CAPITAL
Instrument Here Records
Shock-Rainstorm browns
Three in Mexico.

By Cable q The star and Chicago Daily News.
MEXICO CITY, August AT l
am. today a dlstinct earthquake was
felt In the City of Mexico, lasting up
ward OF minute
According 10 messages received from
Qua da la ia ra. the hea West storm In the
history Of the city took place late
Yesterday. causing four deaths and
much material DANA ge. The water In
some of the streets was nearly two
feet deep. In the center OF the city
bootbiack was washed away bv the
current and drowned despite a gallant
effort to save him made by a com
pa nion.
A telegram reaching here reported
that up TO last night three bodies had
been brought to the police hes sdauar'
ters. while others were expected. One
store used as warehouse for sugar
was damaged to the extent of $25. 900
while many of the buildings were com
pletely destroyed.
Copyright, 1928. bs Chicago Daily News CO.
Registered I'm Chicago.
CHICAGO, August GP).-A rather
severe earthquake of an indicated dis
tance of ! $40 miles in q southerly III
rection from Chicago was recorded ~
l:54 a IN. on the United States Wealth
er Bureau seismogra ph at the Uni
Versity OF Chicago. The record show
ed a sharp movement at l.5s. four
minutes after the first tremor. The
quake ended a. am.
Evening star., 1925-08-07
$4,000 TO MARCH In NINE-HOUR
. KHAN PARADE, OFFICIALS SAY

blue. white and gold. with bayonets
fixed and loaded guns. began pacing
their patrols At entrances to the
United States Treasury. Thirty men
have been provided from the Marine
Barracks under special direction OF
Acting Secretary Of War Dwight w.
Davis. and will ma intain 24-hour
watch until Monday noon.
The marines at the Trea sury are
under the comma nd of Lieut. p. A.
Lesser
AT the Bureau of, Enera wing and
Printing, by special order OF Acting
Secretary of the Navy II. W. Robin
son, guard Of 80 soldiers from Wash
ineton headquarters will take up an
armed vieil. which will last until
Tuesday noon. The soldiers at the
bureau are under the comma nd of
Capt. ]. ]. Wood; Lieut.. F. !. Bond,
Lieut.. r. NJ. McRae and Lieut.. F. L.
Greer
Similar preca utions have been taken
by the Treasury to guard the Govern
ment's stoTehouses Of gold and cur
rency in other big demonstrations in
Washington. the most recent of which
were the Shrine convention and the
Holy Name parade.
PARKING REGULATIONS.