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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
c. O.P. IN HOUSE
SEEKING
PEACE
Administration Forces to Of
fer Harmony Test to
Progressives
By KENNETH CLARK

Tie paths were cleared today
for speedy enactment by the
House Of the new 1885, 900, 900 tax
reduction bill.
Under an agreement of Admin
istration leaders, the House will
dispose Of the revenue measure
before tackling any important
business. Even organizations of
committees will be held up until
the tax bill is passed, according
to the plans. s..st
AS a result, Republican chiefs
declared today that the House,
would finish the bill within two
weeks after the session opens.
It is believed this will give the
Senate ample time to conclude
with the measure before March
Is, when tax returns are due.
Test for Insurgents"
Aside from the desire to have the
tax changes written into the law
as speedily as possible, House
leaders have another purpose in
mind in routing the revenue legis.
Iation ahead of all else. 1t is their
intention that the vote on this
measure shall be the test Of Re.
publicanism in the House. They
plan IL the so-called House in
surgents vote for the bill sub.
stantially as reported by the Ways
and Means Committee, to welcome
the La Toilette group back into
Republican councils with open arms.
The insurgents then would be
given regular committee assign
Inents and would be treated gen.
orally as Republicans in good stand.
ing.
Another test. In the minds OF AID.
ministration supporters. would be
the vote the Spealsership Of the
House. II the insurgents go along
and vote for Congressman Long
worth Rep.) of Ohio, that also
would cause them to be created
once more as Republicans in good
graces.
Will Resent Coercion
Such is the program Of Admins.
tration Leaders,. The Insurgents
themselves, however, did not vel
come the news joyfuliy. Those Of
the La Toilette group who are here
said today they would o uotxbe
''coerced" on the tax bill or the
vote for the speakArship. They
said their votes on these questions
would be determined when the oc.
casion arose.
It is known. however, that many
Of the Progressive faith intend to
lombard the bill with amendments.
They particularly desire to lift the
surtax rates and increase exemp-
tions for the little fellow" A few
even may counter with a separate
tax bill.
With Republicans and Democrats
on the committee voting identically
on the main items in the measure,
the bills early passage by the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
SCORED
BY HEALTH
OFFICER
pr. Fowler Raps Failure to
Uphold Rules IN Sale
of Oysters Here
MOLLY STEWART

Failure of the court to uphold
sections of the health regulations
Furnishing oyster dealers who ex-
pose their products to contamina-
ton, was denounced today by Doc
tor. William C.. Fowler, Public
Health Officer.
Doctor Fowler said that the regu.
lations provided for sanitary condi.
TONS. containers and/utensils in the
sale of sea food and oysters.
He said that although he had
sent cases to Police Court in which
the defendant was charged with
failure to provide against contamifl-
alton, his inspectors have been I'M
able to obtain conviction. He said
he would continue making arrests
until some Legislation can be OBJ
tanned which will prevent the pos.
sibility Of a spread Of disease
through sea food.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
IAN THROWS BOMB INTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND ESCAPES
LARGER LIMITED AREA
EoR. PARKING is ASKED

Enlargement Of the contested
sections in which parking is limited,
has been requ4 sted of Traffic Di.
rector NJ. o. Eldrfdge, by citizens
living on the edge Of the business
area.
Eldridge said that he had re-
ceived more than dozen Letters
complaining OF the congestion
around such homes. The citizeus
ask that the area be made block
or two larger.
Eldridge said he did not favor
this move, as 1t would eventually
push parkers beyond reach Of their
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
CRUISER MAY BE GOING
TO GET GEN. PERStiINC

PANAMA, Nov. 25.-Neither con
firmation nor denial OF reports that
the cruiser Denver was going to
africa, Chile, in order to bring Gen.
eral John J. Pershing back to tho
United States for the Christmas
which early today steamed out Of
this port.
The vessel was simply going to
sea, according TO its OFFICERS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
FREIGHT TO FL ORlDA
JUMPS 100 PER CENT

NEW YORK, Nov. g. Freight
traffic into Florida has increased
100 per cent in the last four months
over the same period last year, ac-
cording to a report just issued By
the Atlantic States Shippers adj
visory board.
Railroads serving Florida are now
spending approximately SIC, OOO, 900
to increase transportation facilities
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
Drive Against Opium

LONDON, Nov. 25.--Scotland Yard
has undertaken new drive against
opium smoking. Elaborate opium
dens have been opened in fashion.
able residential districts. A fee OF
SIS u charged for each pipe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
! 1Trs'i1SIc'iss. M 1EeL plsoTn

desire Of all Members Of Congress
to reduce taxes so strong, that few
believe the measure will be- altered
in any substantial manner
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25

House was generally conceded to
day. There win be efforts 10 change
some features but the AdTninistra-
TONS strength is so solid. and the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
WHO
Are TOday,s Fifty y

In today's Classified Adver.
tising Section are the names
Of fifty different subscribers
81 The Herald and Times
which have been selected &c
random from our circulation
files.
Each selected person whose
name appears today win ~
given 4 free ticket to See
COrinne Griffith IN sCLAASSI-
IED"appearing az 3 local
tIleater.
III you find your name TO-
day-jlst clip out the al and
present II. &C the Classified
Ad Counter First Floor -
Hearst Building.
Turn NOW to the Classified
Section and look Tor your
name.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
DEATH Notices

HUTCHINSON Tuesday. November a.
1925, at the residence of her
daughter. Mrs. p. Lee Phillips 1908
Twentieth street northwest, ELIZA
BETH GRAY HUTCHINS. widow OF
Benedict Hutchins and daughter Of
the late George w. Gray, of George
town, ID. &.
Funeral Friday, 2 y. M, from
above residence. Relatives and
friends invited
WENINGER-On Tuesday, November
"a, 1925. at her residence, 500 Al
Ilson street northwest, MARY e.
WENINGER. wife of Joseph weninger
Funeral services ~ the chapel of
Joseph Gawlers Sons. 1880 Pennsyl-
November 81. 1895. at 1880 o. IA
Friends invited. No flowers,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25
st Is i st.. s
The Anthracite Strike
This Is one Of q series Of advertisements in uluch
L the Of anthracite strike are discussed j


In advocating continuous operation, pend;cg
the making Of new agreements, and arbitr.
to settle differences which can not be disposed
Of negotiation anthracite operators are
standing for the policy that is the rule Of or.
gained labor whole, and of organized
society.
1t is the exception for workers to reject
arbitration and to insist that strike "automat,
ically" begins when agreement expires.
The American Federation of Labor is on
record as the unqualified advocate of arbitra,
ton which has its object the heading off
of strikes and securing continuous production.
Thirty-two unions, BARRIERS, teamsters,
printers, stereotypers and many others, afili,
ated with the American Federation of Labor,
have contracts embodyng the continuous
Observation-Disclosures principle
s% InSistence upon the contrary policy of strikes
as first instead Of last resort has brought
about three anthracite strikes in less than
four years.
The establishment of the habit Of peaceful
settlement of disputes in the anthracite indus
fry is demanded by every consideration Of the
lwelfare of the public, the workers and Of the
industry itself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-25

TOO Late to Classify
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
(continued from last Issuel
WI. Factory Newspapers, Worker
Correspondents, and the commun-
! LIST Party Press.

THE worker correspondent may be
l. counted among the best gauges
of whether a Communist newspaper
is in real organizatory contact with
the masses or not.
1T is a complete misapprehension
to suppose that precisely the llterates,
and almost exclusively the literates
lin the professional sense Of the
world are capable of successful work
upon newspaper. The reverse is
the case; the newspaper does not
awaken to real life or capacity for
continued life until 500 or 5000 non
literates add their contributions to the
work of FIVE leading and permanently
active literates." (Lenin: How our
newspapers are to be made into real
organs Of the labor movement?")
But it would be an equally grave
error to limit the worker correspond
ents to members of the party. In this
respect there is a lack of clearness
among the sections of the c. l. Thus
for instance, the resolution passed by
the conference of the worker CORE
spondents of the Rotten Fahne con-
tains no word about inducing nom
party worker correspondents to con-
tribute to the Rotten Fahne.
1t is understandable that during the
preliminary phase of development of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
The BOISheVizatiOn Of Our Party Press

the young worker correspondence
movement the worker. correspondents
are active members Of the Communist
Party for. the most part. But the
worker correspondent movement
would, from the very commencement
sever itself from its chief. sphere Of
utility were 1t not to aim at inducing
precisely the unorganized workers to
take part in the movement. The nom
partisan worker should and must be
given the opportunity Of expressing
his wishes in the Communist press,
and even of bringing any complaints
which he may have against the Com
munist Party. The worker CORE
spondents already contributing to our
press should regard 1t as one Of their
most important tasks not only to
write themselves, but to urge non
partisan fellow workers, and acquaint-
ances sympathizing with the Com
munist Party, to become correspond
ents.
THE Communist daily press has an
important and indispensable task
before it in the organization and dis
cussion Of the factory newspapers.
The factory newspapers are among
the most hopeful signs of proletarian
activity and initiative. They repre-
sent one of those new forms of revo-
lutionary agitation to which the Com
munist Parties must accord the great
est attention and support at precisely
the present juncture. 1t may be safe
ly maintained that hitherto the fac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
Movie Magnates Ask
Better Service from u. S.

Charging that the interests abroad
of the American movie magnates are
not adequately protected" against
discriminatory import legislation, SEN
ator Smoot proposes that a special
motion picture bureau be added to the
U. S. department of commerce. Thus
if any attempt is made to cover some
Kinglet's harem costs by a tax on
canned melodrama the navy might
be more quickly modified to insure
the freedom of the films. And the con-
sular business agents will be more
effectively directed in pushing the sale
of reel-life Tong wars into the
theaters of China.
The proposal had an immediate
echo in other countries, reports the
Film Trade Journal. and now Ger
man producers are demanding protec-
ton because they see in the American
proposal move aginst German films"
Both American and German film
capitalists, like all others of their
class, have no illusions as to what
their government is for. But how they
squawk when the Russian working
class learn the same lesson-and ap-
ply It!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
BUILD ILLINOIS
ROADS LIKE The
ROMANS ONCE DID
That Is to Say, with
Slave Labor
BY TOM TIPPETT

HILLSBORO, H., June T. Truck
drivers on the hardroad construction
between Irving and Hillsboro, ILL.,,
have forced 20 per cent increase in
wages. The raise cost a few of the
truck men their jobs and was the re.
suit of one day strike. The trucks
are owned and kept up by the drivers
who are paid on a piece-work basis
for hauling gravel and cement from
railroad cars to the roadbed. The
price paid before the strike, was soc
for the first mile and zoe for each adj
ditional mile per two ton load.
The job has been contracted by the
state Of Illinois to Smith Bros. Con
tracing Co. of Dallas, Tex. There are
state inspectors to see that the proper
amount of cement is put into the road
but the contract does not stipulate la
Dor conditions. Building hard roads
is mean work. The cement dust ne
cessitates goggles and the men al
work in the cars wear a tin contrap
ton over their mouths like a gas mask
to protect their lungs. Nearly all the
men have to race against huge ma
chimes. Two workers have been car
ried off the job, over-heated from
shoveling for the mixer that mixes
concrete by gas power.
Much of the preliminary work or
the roadbed is done with teams. Mer
who own their teams are hired at SOC
an hour for two horses and a man
out of which feed must be bought fol
the animals. The common laborel
wage is 35c an hour which is also the
rate paid to men who unload cement
as well as the concrete handlers who
lay the roadbed. Ten hours is sup
posed to be the length of the work
day, but many of the shifts work Il
and IA hours. And there are some thai
work 16-hour shifts. All but the con
crete men work a 7-day week.
There is much dissatisfaction amons
the laborers but most of them have
been unemployed for months and those
who accept the work need it so badly
that agitation is done with caution
The old Roman roads could hardly
have been laid under worse labor con
ditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
Huge Army of Labor
Drawn Into the Auto
Industry in Michigan

WASHINGTON,-(FP) = Because
Michigan is the center of motor vehi-
Gle production, significance in present
day industrial revolution is attached
to report by the department of com
merce on Michigan manufacturers In
1928 as contrasted with those of 1921.
Manufacturing establishments whose
output during the year was valued at
$4,000 or more employed 500, 492 wage
earners, on the average, in 1923, or an
increase of 65.4 percent over the num-
Der employed in 1921. Total wage
payments in 1923 wore s76S, 659, 900, or
SO per cent more than in 1921.
In motor vehicle production, the
S4,573 wage earners employed in 1921
increased to 1926 in 1923, or 76.5
per cent. The value of their produc-
ton rose from $S12,379, 900 in 1921 to
1851 100000 in 1928 rise of 81
per cent. In both the number of en-
ployes and the value of product, the
motor vehicle industry is the most I'M
portant in the state.
These figures indicate an almost I'M
parallelled growth for a single indus
try in time of peace, and a vast re-
arrangement of the lives of bread
winners drawn from other occupations
to find jobs in the automobile factor
les.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09

tory nucleus newspapers have been
carried on without any great measure
OF support from their big brother, the
daily press. An organizatory report
issued by the German section OF the
G. I. speaks as follows OF the factory
nuclei newspapers:
Here the spell has been broken.
The example given by the numerous
factory newspapers which has appear
ed has broken down all resistance. AS
soon as the fears of the factory coun-
ellis have been overcome, we shall
succeed in the course of time in pro-
viding every large undertaking in
Germany with its own newspaper"
THERE is however nothing to be
4 found in the whole report as to
whether and how the Communist
press is aiding the factory nuclei
newspapers. The supply of material
and technical assistance is not sufl-
cient. An uninterrupted organizatory
contact must be maintained between
the editorial STATS of the Communist
daily press and the worker editors Of
the factory newspapers of the CORE
spending town or district. The mutu-
al exchange of experiences, the mutu-
al discussion of the best methods of
agitation and their effect upon the
working class, will open out to both
new and direct paths to the heart of
the great masses.
And this is the essential and decis-
i've factor in the slogan of "Bolsheviz-
alton of the press" Closer contact
with the masses of the readers!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
Labor Member of the
Canadian Parliament
Nicks Imperial Pride

OTTAWA. Can.-(FP)- A charge
Of disloyalty thrown across the Can.
adian house of commons at ]. 8.
Wordsworth, labor member, by the
minister OF national defence, was
promptly retracted when the labor
member stood by his guns.
1--WE have our own song, Britannia
Rules the Waves" wordsworth had
said, "and am not at all sure that 1t
is much preferable to Germany over
all. They both exhibit the same spirit,
the same desire to dominate"
Challenged by the defense minister.
who was formerly in the law service
Of the British Empire Steel corpora
ton, Woodwork repeated his state
ment. Thus challenged the steel trust
henchman speedily retired, saying that
the second Woodwork declaration
was slightly different.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
Brandeis Refuses to
Use Power on Supreme
Court to Aid Labor

WASHINGTON, OPP California;
minimum wage law for women, as
well as that of Arizona which has
been brought before the federal SUI
preme court on an appeal, is in dan
ger. The court has permitted w. H.
Pillsbury, a San Francisco lawyer, on
behalf of the Industrial Welfare Com
mission Of California, to take part in
defending the Arizona statute because
the law in the two neighboring states
has the same foundation That foun-
dation is undetermined by the deci-
sion of last year, multiplying the law
in the District of Columbia.
Pillsbury, in his brief, takes the
line pursued years ago in like cases
by Brandeis, now a member of the
court. He points TO the discussion,
deliberation, legislation and admins
tration in many parts of the world,
in eight provinces of Canada, and in
the United States. to prove that the
people--supposed to be sovereign
want this kind of law and have in
sisted upon it. He appeals from legal
and constitutional hair-splitting to
common honesty and humanity to-
ward working women
Justice Brandeis will take no part
in the decision of the issue because
he was counsel in defense of the Ore
gon minimum wage law which was
upheld years ago. Four Of the remain
ing justices - Switzerland, Mercy
nolds, Butler and Vandevanter, help
ed to kill the District Of Columbia
law. Stone is a new member. Taft,
Holmes and Sanford upheld the dis.
trict legislation to safeguard a mini.
mum wage for women in industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
Communist Resolution
on Child Labor Adopted
by Croatian Society

TACOMA, Wash, June THE Gro
attain Benefit Society "Istra" at it's
last regular meeting had a discussion
on child labor in which the vicious
capitalistic exploitation Of the youth
of the working class was emphatical-
ly attacked. After the discussion the
Workers (Communist) Party resolu-
ton on child labor demanding the i'm
mediate ratification by the state legis-
latures of the child labor amendment
was unanimously adopted.
The resolution demands full educa-
ton for children Of workers and poor
farmers and government support of
those children whose parents cannot
provide for their support during their
period Of education.
The Resolution.
1t says in part:
RESOLVED, That the trade unions
repeal from their constitutions all
discriminatory clauses against equal
rights in the unions of young work
ers; also that the admission fees and
dues be made lower for young work
ers to enable them to become mem
bers Of the unions which will there
by become strengthened in their
struggles against the bosses; and be
it
FURTHER RESOLVED, To call
upon all other working class organiza-
tions to unite with us in a common
political struggle against child labor
exploitation and for full government
maintenance of the school children
Of workers and poor farmers.
Tony Teneeeh, Chairman,
Joe Tencech, Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-09
COMMUNAL LAND
HOLDINGS CROW
WITH SOVIET AID.
Technical Advance
Slow But Sure

MOSCOW-(FP)-One Of the many
measures of the Soviet government to
aid agriculture is to strengthen the
communal or collective farms. AL
though after the revolution these So
Wet estates were comparatively -four
ishing, their number dwindled to about
1000 with the famine and the advent
of the new economic policy With
the improved economic situation the
number Of these farms is increasing
again rapidly. There are now about
10000 with 100000 members.
The present policy Of the govern
ment is to draw the whole peasant
population into the state agricultural
program by embracing them in agri-
cultural cooperation. These collective
farms are an important form Of soviet
agricultural cooperation.
A conference of representatives of
the collective farms from all over the
Soviet Union in Moscow formulated
plans for adapting the Communes to
the great technical improvements that
must be made. Machinery must be
introduced on larger scale and the
cultural level of the members raised.
With the coming of the new econ
omic policy the communes, though adj
mirable attempts at the ideal form of
communism, tended to become isolat-
ed from the surrounding economic
system. The conference recognized
that these communes must run on a
business-like basis corresponding with
the new conditions of open market,
currency and exchange and must be
self-supporting.
One of the problems is land distrib-
ution. Sometimes the lands Of these
farms are scattered, making efficient
communal farming very difficult. The
state agricultural organs are to rem
edy this. These communes still play
dominant role in soviet agriculture,
so far as they embrace the most ad-
vanced elements of the peasantry.
They remain the outposts of Commun-
ism in the countryside. More and
more poor peasants, unable to till
their land for lack of horses or imple-
ments, are iocking to them.