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reduced their forces. Inc present
level is slightly below July, 1924, and
1916 per cent below the peak Of 1923.
Hits Low Level.
This is the lowest level of employ
ment since early in 1922 when the
postwar depression was on. 1t means
that $4,000 workers employed in Illi-
nois factories two years ago are look
ing for jobs elsewhere today.
The situation is reflected in the 1853
persons who applied for every 100
jobs available, altho this is a slight
improvement over July, 1924, when
there were I'll applicants for every
100 places open.
Reports from iron and steel firms
show up the optimistic reports on
steel buying circulated by the trade
journals. Employment fell off 80 per
cent in the month, reducing the level
to 10 per cent below March. At that
there were still about IL per cent more
employed in the industry than in July,
1924.
Car and locomotive shops laid off
10 per cent of their employees in the
month, reduction of more than 20
per cent since May. Agricultural i'm
plement makers laid off per cent.
On the other hand the usual seasonal
boom added 1916 per cent in the mems
0armanf fradaa and "a mar cent in
women's clothing factories.
Decline in Steel Industry.
The decline in the steel and railway
equipment industries is due largely to
the slump in railroad buying. In the
first six months OF 1925 the railroads
ordered 333 new locomotives, compar-
ed with 701 in 1924 and 1,739 in the
first six months of 1928. Similarly
railroad orders for new cars fell from
67292 in the first half of 1928 and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
us. Government Says
Shanghai Strike Is
Affecting u. S. Trade

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The Unit
ed States government department Of
commerce laconically confirms the i'm
portance Of the Shanghai general
strike and liberation movement by the
following brief summary Of business
transacted:
Inactivity continues to be the pre-
dominant factor of the Shanghai mar
kets, special lines being extremely
quiet. The shipping strike is still in
effect and much of the cargo destined
for China is being carried to Kobe
and Manila. Automotive sales during
the past month were one-fourth nor
NAL but sales of iron and steel have
not been affected"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15

5191. Figured silk or crepe, ging-
ham, tub silk or flannel may be used
for this attractive design. The jabot
may be omitted.
The pattern is cut in 3 sizes: 16,
is and 20 years. An Is year size will
require 2A yards of 54-inch material.
II the jabot is omitted u yard less
material is required. Width of dress
at the foot is inches.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
EIGHTY KLUXERS
JAILED IN RIOT,
five ARE SHOT
Khan Meeting Cause of
BIoOdShed in Mass.

BIRMINGHAM, Mass, August II.
Five men were shot, one Of whom Is
dying, in a ku klux khan riot at their
meeting here. Police arrested eighty
klansmen, and found two rifles,
shotgun, and two belts Of ammunl-
tion on the arrested kluxers.
Five Men Shot.
Alonzo Foley, %, of Saxonville, with
a bullet lodged in his brain, was the
dying man.
Folly and four companions were
standing in the road near the khan
meeting place, Shots we're fired and
the FIVE dropped. Foleys companions
and their injuries:
William Bradley, 25, bullet wound
in thigh; Thomasco Sliney, 23. gum
shot wound in right cheek; Frank Nc
CURE, 30, gunshot wounds in cheek
and back; Edmund Purcell, 81, top OF
left ear shot away.
The khan meeting, held on the
Libby farm, in South Sudbury, was
one of the largest ever held in this
vicinity and drew large crowd Of
curious spectators.
kIansmen Attack.
The highways in all directions were
clogged with automobiles. Attacks by
the klansmen on the ants followed
the breaking up of the meeting.
One large party of klansmen broke
thru an attacking crowd and made
their way to the Libby house. A crowd
OF ants surrounded the house and aid
was asked of the state constabulary.
Meanwhile, dozen smaller disor-
ders were taking place and the shoot
ing of the five young men from am
bush was going on.
District Attorney Arthur X. Reading
of Middlesex county today ordered a
searching probe of the disorders and
the shooting.
More than 200 men of all, ages
were assembled about the khan field
when without warning volIey issued
from near henhouse on a road in the
rear of the Libby farm. AS the five
young men fell to earth a panic en-
sued.
Automobiles began to hurry away
in all directions. There were many
collisions in the confusion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15

Sept. 13-National Labor Defense
Day, Chicago conference, Ashland
Auditorium, small hall, at II o'clock
noon. s p. M: Defense mass meeting
at Temple Hail. Van ufen and Marsh
field Ave. t
Dec. 24-Saturday, p. M, Labor
Defense dance, Temple Hall, Van
Buren, mad Marshfieid Ave-
Dec. 1913 (inclusive) -Defense Ba.
zaar at Northwest Hall, North and
Western Ave.
Friendly organizations are asked to
support the affairs as above and not
to arrange other affairs for those
dates. Rally to the International La.
Dor Defense!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
10000 HOMES
LOST YEARLY
IN ANGEL CITY
Real Estate Sharks Are
Famine Stricken"
By FRAPIEsA.

LOS ANGELES, August 13.-For the
year ended July 81, 1925, covering the
period Of slump, approximately 10000
homes have been forfeited in Los
Angeles by owners appropriation Of
home owners still continues at the
same momentum as during the past
several months.
The homes were lost by the mort
gaging process. In the majority Of
cases they were purchased on the In
stallment plan, small portion of total
price being paid down and the bal
ance paid. Just like rent" month by
month.
Because of the condition indicated
a house and lot may be lost by sever
al different purchases in year and
there are so many cases of this kind
that it is logical to estimate that the
actual number Of houses and lots for
feited during the year was 10000, al
though 10000 buyers suffered.
Traffic In Homes.
This shows the frenzied nature of
the gambling in homes. The eager
ness of people to own their own
homes makes them easy prey for
those who profit by the hazard. Such
is the percentage in favor Of the pro-
fessional gamblers behind the game
that chances of home seekers to win
are far less than those of players of
the old Louisiana lottery were.
AS usual, the victims are workers,
for the greater part. Burdened with
ever-increasing rents. mechanics and
laborers are lured by the "own your
own home" idea. They follow the
ignis fatuus until sickness, unemploy-
ment or other misfortune comes. Then
they find themselves in the swamp Of
bankruptcy from which there is no
salvation. The real estate agents
swoop down upon them and take their
all. With savings gone houses taken
from them, the home seekers are more
destitute than if they had never tried
to own homes.
Widespread Destltution.
The net result of the operations OF
the own your own home" beasts Of
prey in Los Angeles during the past
year may be placed at 100000 desti-
tute men. women and children. That
is minimum. But these 100000 will
not be found here. No, indeed. Thou
sands of them have gone back to the
eastern states, the middle west and
elsewhere. They left Los Angeles as
plague spot while they had enough
cash to pay their fares.
In April, May and June this year
trains alone carried as many as 5000
persons a day bound east away from
Los Angeles. The exodus still con-
tinues.
Home buyers are now very scarce
hereabouts. When they come within
the scent of the real estate agents
and these learn how much ready cash
they have to commence to buy homes
remarks such as That guy has s400!"
are made in such awesome tones BY
the "subdividers" as to leave no doubt
as TO how scarce money is and how
rare are prospective victims who pos
sess it.
Home seekers have been plucked
until there is nothing left to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
Congressmen Big
Boozers Mrs. Scott
Tells Divorce Court

ALPENA, Mich, Aug. t3-Bills for
beer and wine used in the household
of representative Frank d. Scott.
from 1917 up until prohibition. we're
introduced by his wife in their divorce
suit today when Mrs. Scott took the
stand TO tell OF threats made by Scott
to drag my skirts thru the mud so
that no one would want to look At
me-"
$751; ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15

fitting reward for their treachery to
the working class.
But this is too much even for equi-
librist labor editors. So he squawks
There is "unfairness" abroad. It's
against the rules of the game, etc, etc.
Once again the rank and file of labor
has a good lesson illustrated for its
benefit.
Potential Communists.
To the capitalist class all workers
are potential Communists. Therefore,
all labor organizations must be de-
stroyed, even If no single Communist
is within them. Labor must answer
these tactics of capitalism with the
invincible tactic of the united front
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
RUSSIA
TO DAY

The first publication in England of this most complete
report British Trade Union Delegation to Soviet Russia
caused great in the world trade union movement
From all parts of the world high praise for this his
torica document those workers in and of the
union unity.
BY all of labor, capitalists and their henchmen,
the bitterest criticism leveled.
This report made by the Official Delegation of British
Labor (ncluding charts and maps) impartial study OF
every phase Of life the first worlds workers govern
ment Politics. Finance Army Religion Education, Trade
Unions, Wages-hese and other subjects analysed by
the Delegation who have travelled unhndered and free
o' firsfS = $500 ~ ai9s
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FASHION nook Norrcrl

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dressmaker.
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RENEGADE LABOR EDITOR PROTESTS
WHEN BOSSES STRIKE AT UNIONS
TAKERS, COLLABORATION ONE WAY

MINNEAPOLIS of the local labor
methods Alliance in insisting
candidates
"FaIr
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UNEMPLOYMENT STEADILY MOUNTS,
WORKERS SPEEDED UP TO KEEP
INDUSTRY FROM COLLAPSING
BY LELAND oLps
Federated Press Industrial Edltor)

The displacement machinery
employment In manufacturing
1918 20 above
this production
1919 and less than above
1924.
department month
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GARY. IND, ATTENTION!

The DAILY WORKER, Work.
ers Monthly, Rabotnicza Tri-
buna and Novy Mir are for sale
at the Workers. Cooperative
Restaurant, 1893 Broadway.
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FOR A LITTLE MISS.

5l97. This attractive model shows
the now so popular kick" plat at the
confer OF the front. The fulness of
the back is confined by belt.
The pattern is cut in sizes: 4, g.,
s and 10 years. A 6-year size re-
quires 2 yards of 36-inch material.
For collar, cuffs an dbelt of contrast
ing material u yard 81 or SO inches
wide is required.
NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS-The
patterns being sold thru the DAILY
WORKER pattern department are fur
nished by a New York Arm OF pattern
manufacturers. orders are forwarded by
the DAILY WORKER every day as re-
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1t is a complete, impartial and digni-
fed document of one of the worlds
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15

edge Of the class struggle, and make
the following piece Of sophistry pass
as his latest pearl Of wisdom
I'm a wild effort to paint the strict.
ly trade union central labor union as
red" organization and so attempt
to discredit organized labor with fair
employers, cause industrial unrest and
bitter feeling between labor and en-
ployer the citizens alliance casts
truth to the winds. :"
This is quite a discovery on the part
of the editor in question. He reduces
the problem of indsutrial unrest to
the very simple proportions of wheth-
er the statements of 0. P. Briggs, a
local head Of an Industrial espionage
system, are true or false in respect
to the Central Labor Union.
Now Class collaborationist.
Nothing could be more simple than
this. There was time however,
when the contortionist editor of the
local labor paper, recognized that the
class struggle was a war between the
master class and the working class;
that creations like o. P. Briggs were
the paid tools of capitalism who know
no restraints and recognize no bounds,
in their dark, nefarious designs upon
the working class. Today he pleads
for and expects fairness" from the
Briggs camp.
An Attack on Labor.
But what is of great Importance in
this connection, to the rank and file
of Minneapolis labor, is the fact that
the fight on the left wing, waged by
the renegade and the reactionaries
and applauded by o. p Briggs, as an
excellent disruptive tactic calculated
to help the bosses, was merely step
toward the complete destruction of
the labor movement, as was pointed
out by the left wing.
Paul j. Smith, who followed the line
of disruption closely, together with
his allies, strongly insisted that once
the local waters of the c. L. u would
be purged Of it's red flakes, the bosses
would rush to embrace the unions,
that there would be cordial entente
between the lion and the lamb. They
spoke as if they had guarantees from
the citizens alliance, into which all
of the bosses are organized
But everything is not gold that gilt,
ters.
Now, we find, according to the 10.
cal labor sheet, that thessame bosses
who supported the labor takers in
their persecution of the left wing, are
engaged in downright SANDER upon
the composition of the C. L. u; that
they persist in branding that body
"Communistic" when it is not. And
it is perfectly true that it is not.
Capitalists Kick Takers.
Making war on all labor unions and
movements, the capitalists secured
the services of the labor takers, to
first GUST the Communists. That hav
ing been accomplished, as they think
now they turn upon their allies, the
labor takers, to smash them, as q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15
Capitalists Kick Takers.

Making war on all labor unions and
the capitalists secured
the services of the labor takers, to
first GUST the Communists. That hav-
ing been accomplished, as they think,
now they turn upon their allies, the
labor takers, to smash them, as a
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+ VIM. F. DUNNE
Editor OF the Daily Worker says:

The British Trade Union Delegation
to Soviet Russia in unanimous report
told the story of the Russian Revolution in language that
trade Nnionists understand.
IL great story told in mdtteroact language, the story
of millions of workers and peasants marching towdrds Commu
all Obstacles ii is history hot NTH the breath Of the
struggle IN the style Of contention report
Revolutionary Russian and stubborn, sIowtnoring Brton
call to the American yorker from the pages Of the British dega
tion's report.
ass RUSSIA u75
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Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-17
COMETHING TO THINK
- ABOUT ByF. A. WALKER

There is no depth to which love
and sacrifice will not descend; no
height to which they will not scale
to accomplish their object.
We may turn in lofty disdain from
the little old woman with dimmed
eyes, gnarled fingers and a limp in
her walk, but if we could look into
her heart and see it's every recess the
symbol of love and sacrifice, we might
realize that we have snubbed an angel.
Every first of January we open a
new book with high resolves.
On the first page there are profuse
promises of love and sacrifice, then
follow few blushing leaves contain
ing hasty scrawls; with the rest of
the volume a blank
We forget our VOWS ere January
is done, just as we forget to pay
homage to the little old woman with
the dimmed eyes and gnarled fingers,
who never fails from the beginning of
the year to the end to remember love
and sacrifice, when she may be count
ed upon faithfully to do until the end
Of her days.
90 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-17
LAUGHING GEESE

Eyes" said member of the Laugh
ing Goose family to Billie Brownie,
who had gone far North to call on the
Laughing Geese, II am known as a
Laughing Goose.
But while that is one of our family
names we have another name, too.
"Our other name is that of Ameri-
can White-Fronted Goose"
''How did you get your name of
Laughing Goose?" asked Billie
Brownie.
WELL" said the Laughing Goose,
"our song, or talk, or noise or what
ever you wish to call 1t sounds like
harsh laughter. That Is how we were
given the name.
II have white forehead, you will
notice, and that is why we have the
family name of White-Fronted Geese.
eve all have these white foreheads.
My head and body is grayish in color
with touches of black and white. My
feet are bright yellow and my beak is
rose-pink. 1 have a lovely coIored
beak.
my eyes are brown.
swell, we're called American be-
cause we belong to the American con-
tinent But we do not come to the
United States until the weather gets
colder.
"We come far up here where it is
Icy cold even in the summer. up in
these arctic regions, as we love the
cold.
1--WE make great deal of noise,
which is another reason for our name
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-17
u)HO SAID
"Methods are the
master of masters"

THE man who uttered these words
4 owed his success in life to his
methodical way of doing things.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-P Peri
gord-better known as Talleyrand-
was man of methods and a man who
so thoroughly studied the problems
that presented themselves before him
for solution that he became one of the
leading statesmen in the France of his
day. He was born in Paris, February
10, 1854, and died there May II, 1888.
In the year 1892 Talleyrand was
sent to London on a diplomatic mis-
sion. While there his enemies at home
brought charges against him of being
involved in royalist intrigues and he
was prescribed. In 1794-he had re-
manned in England because of the pro-
scription awaiting him in France
England passed the famous alien act
and Talleyrand was forced to seek
asylum in America. After two years
spent in the new republic, Talleyrand
returned to France.
On his return to his native land he
was appointed minister of foreign af-
fairs, but being suspected of being in
communication with the agents of
Louis XVIII he was forced to resign
In 1899.
Talleyrand was one of the first to
recognize in Napoleon Bonaparte one
of the great leaders of the time, and
from this time forward for some years
he devoted himself untiringly to the
service of the Little Corporal"
In 1907, following the peace of Til
sit, a coolness arose between Talley-
rand and the emperor and in the fol-
lowing year Talleyrand secretly Joined
a royalist committee. The year 1914
saw him active in procuring the abdI-
cation of Napoleon and working to
place Louis XVIII again on the throne
After holding numerous positions I'M
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-17
IS 1T BYRD7

byrd differs not at all from Bird
~ in the matter of derivation and
the matter is usually settled by say
ing that the name is from the COM
monty accepted meaning of bird. and
was probably first used as a surname
as nickname. The original bearers
Of the name, in other words, doubt
less possessed some birdlike qualities
that made the name seem appropriate.
But there really seems to be more
to 1t than this. In early times, byrd or
bird meant only young bird, while
fowl was the word used for birds in
general. In the Bible fowl is used
in this way, as "the fowls Of the air."
Later for time bird was used TO in
dictate the young of other living things
and sometimes meant children
In this country the name Byrd has
especial significance because it was
borne by the founder of Richmond. Va.
This was William Byrd who was born
in western Virginia in 1874. His fa-
Their was William Byrd, the coIonist,
who had come to Virginia few
months before the birth of his son and
namesake.
William BYRD, second, was man of
great benevolence and showed the
greatest kindness to the colonists who
settled on his land. AT one time he
received 300 destitute French Hugue-
nots on his place and made it possible
for them to establish themselves in
their new home. William Byrd was
man of literary taste and had IL
brary of $500 volumes, which was the
largest library at the time in the col
onies. William Byrd's wife was a
daughter of Col. Dan Parke, an aide
de camp Of Marlborough at Blenheim.
Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-07-17

"It's Too Bad" Said Billie Brownie
of Laughing Geese, as sometimes you
will mistake our noise for laughter or
our laughter for noise.
I'VE like marshy nests, and our
ladies make the loveliest of soft beds
for the nests from their very own
down.
'They don't believe in buying things
like that. They like what they have
In their own selves. Then they know
it's of the best.
Many eggs are laid at a time and
they are all tan-white in color. Some
times as many as nine eggs are laid
In one nest.
"The nest Is always made of soft
grass. too-marshy. long grass is the
best.
Sometimes in the winter we will go
for that is so pleasant. But when
spring is on the way we go far to the
north.
1--WE love the Mississippi river and
we simply adore the Pacific ocean.
"But we never had much desire to
go to see the Atlantic ocean.
"Why change ocean sides when one
is quite satisfied? You know the geese
aren't foolish.
They're pretty sensible.
"But. oh dear, Billie Brownie, we
have to be so careful these days.
eve used to be hunted so much that
we found we had to be very careful.
"One has to be on ones guard
when people are about. And so we
arranged that some Of us would al
ways be on guard to sound an alarm
if danger was near.
when some of us are eating. others
are watching to see that danger does
not overtake us.
'sYes, we have to watch like that.
'Then others eat while we watch,
and we watch while others eat
'That is the way we have to do.
$50, Billie Brownie, If it weren't for
our care, and our helping each other,
don't believe we'd have the spirit to
laugh.
we keep pretty safe this way, and
SO we still can laugh. But it's no laugh
ing matter to be shot at.
mo laughing matter at all.
"Even as talk to you, and while
some of the others are having a meal,
there are members Of the family on
guard. You see I'm busy talking and
80 I'm not on guard. But some Of the
family are"
''It's too bad,' said Billie Brownie.
TITS really too bad. But I'm glaG you
always have members of your family
on guard. That's wise.
Surely you're sensible geese. Sure
ly no one could call you foolish geese"
Hunk, hunk, hunk. laughed the
goose, ''you speak truly"