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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Many Rumors in the Anthracite

icy Of mere cessation of work by the
miners while the maintenance men
are left on the job, which is now
only sporadic and somewhat feeble, is
bound to develop as the strike drags
on. There will be scandals over the
enormous sums made by the operat-
ors out of their huge piles of culm
which are being disposed of at fancy
prices without any attempt by the
Lewis machine to stop this source Of
profit for the operators. There will
be increasing demands for strike re-
lief Without left wing leadership
and the miners terrorized and afraid
to incur the anger Of both Lewis and
the local authorities, the machine can
and will crush any opposition.
The anthracite miners are well dis
ciplined, as has been said. But II is
not a class discipline. It works today
in favor of the coal operators-not for
the strikNTY. t nos -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Kip RhineIander Knew
Before Marriage That
Wife Had Negro Blood

NEW YORK CITY, Nov. ia new
angle developed in the Leonard Kip
Rhinelander case when Attorney Lee
Parsons Davis, attorney for the de-
Tense, showed that Kip knew that
Alice was of the Negro race before
he married her. Philip Rhinelander,
the millionaire father, is seeking an
nulment of the marriage because the
wife is descendent of the Negro
race.
Davis charged that Philip Rhine
lander and his millions and not the
husband are behind this move and
he has used every contemplate meth.
cd for degrading the girl and her
family to secure the annulment. Davis
threatened to bring the old mans
nasty letters written to the girl into
court. He quoted young Rhinelander
saying to Alice when stories began
appearing about the girls Negro orr
gin, Never mind, Alice, I'm the one
who should care and don't"
Sanitarium doctors have been brot
as witnesses by the millionaire faith
er to show that his son is all but
short of an imbecile and was ire
sponsible when he contracted the
marriage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Soft Coal Strike, Too
CONTINUED from page Il

CONTINUED from page j.
demanding the removal Of the host Of
armed guards.
At the hall where Papcun was
speaking the state police searched
the assembly, but Papcun was gone.
At the big meeting last night where
Tom Ray and Papcun spoke, the
sheriff and state police issued a pro-
clamation prohibiting picketing and
marching.
Papcun in his speech called on the
striking miners to defy the .proclama-
ton and the injunctions. This met
with the hearty approval Of the strik-
ers.
The Royal mine was picketed to-
day. Various pickets were held up
with guns, strikers were shot at and
gas bombs thrown among the pickets.
The companies are getting desper-
ate. Tom Ray and Papcun are lead
ing the picket lines. Big mass meet
ings are to be held all over the coke
region on Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14

months treatment.
As comrade 6aIehunas died with
out any relatives In this country
the District Eight Committee, Llth-
uanian Section, Workers (commun-
ist) Party and the American Lithu-
anlan Workers Literature associa-
ton are arranging his funeral
which will take place Saturday af-
ternoon, Nov. IA.
Funeral Saturday Afternoon.
All Workers (communist) Party
members are requested to partici-
pate in the funeral of comrade Bal
chunas, which will leave the Par.
lanicla chapel, 1888 SO. Halsted ST.,
at 2 o'clock sharp, Saturday after
noon for the Lithuanian National
Cemetery, Justice Park, Ill.,, where
he will be buried.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
|. ". v. VOTES
TO retain ITS
new BUILDING
Forms Union Branch in
Germany, Report

The 18th general convention Of the
!. w. w. yesterday voted against the
proposal to sell the building recently
purchased and also turned down the
proposal to dispose Of ths printing
plant, which had been, according to
Manager kohn, running at an expense
that did not justify it's being retained,
he recommending that printing be
done elsewhere.
Kohn showed that the different
print shop managers had varied in
their efficiency. Under the manage
ment of Anz, who adheres at present
in theology and organization to the
emergency program, the costs of
printing one dollars worth of matter
was $1.04, under George Williams
$1.34, and while Kohn had reduced
the expenditure to "a cents, his fail
ing health impelled him to offer his
resignation. He asked that another
be placed in his position.
Fellow Worker Joseph O'Neil of the
Agricultural Workers Industrial I'm
ion retired from the convention and
George Elsasser was seated as alter.
nate.
1t was reported to the convention
that the Marine Transport Workers
Industrial Union, No. $40, has esta-
blished branch at Bremerhaven,
Germany
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Continued from page u

ers from their paralyzing influence.
In this connection Of the miners
union oficialdom with the parties of
American capitalism is to be found.
the principal reason for the sudden
onslaught upon the left wing and its
activities in the strike as personified
in the persons of Alex Reid and Pat
Toohey--both members Of the United
Mine Workers of America.
An additional reason is the fear
that in the anthracite, the most pow
erful stronghold Of the Lewis ma
chine, the internal program Of the left
wing. expressing as 1t does the basic
needs Of the miners, would ALLEVIATE
thousands OF the coal diggers who,
for lack Of better leadership, now fol-
low Lewis blindly.
Holding Down the Lid.
Dissatisfaction with the Lewis pol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Kaufman Machine Is Desperate

The left wing has introduced re.
solutions for labor party, the re.
cognition of Soviet Russia, amalga.
nation of the needle trades unions.
shop committees, the sending of a
delegation Of needle trades workers
to Soviet Russia, class conscious edu.
cational program, world trade union
unity endorsement of The DAILY
WORKER and Freiheit, recognition
OF the First of May as holiday.
demands for fighting policy against
class collaboration and for militant
trade demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
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(Contlnued from page IL
In South Norwalk, where it declares
it won two dollar increases for men,
bers. But here the membership is in
revolt against the machine for a re-
dictionary agreement, which tied the
union to a five-year agreement for a
forty-eight hour week and no shop
chairmen.
Ignores New York.
Nothing is said in the report Of ac'
tivities of the New York joint board,
where $500 workers have just been
added to the union in the militant
strike of the Greek furriers; but
much is told of their part in the La
Toilette progressive" movement,
which betrayed the movement for
labor party.
The report has nothing to say re-
garding the betrayal, despite the fact
that the union is on record as favor
ing labor party. This is not sur
prising, since Kaufman's machine at
the A. F. OF l.. convention just held
voted with Green and his cohorts to
damn the labor party movement and
keep labor tied to the kite Of capital
list politics.
The report proudly endorses the in.
junction secured by the Boston local
union against the firm of Isadore Mill
man, which aroused the opposition Of
every progressive worker in the
union. Similar reactionary policies
are endorsed.
Left Wing Policy.
The left wingers will fight the adop.
ton Of the report and expose the
class collaboration policies which are
running the gRiQR. -- /.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
EVEREST F. BALCHUNAS
I893-I925

A FTER spending three years in
"A travelling from one section to
another in an attempt TO effect
cure of consumption, comrade EV-
crest 2. Balchunas died at the
Cook county hospital.
comrade BaIchunas was very &C
tive among the Lithuanian workers
in Lithuana and when he arrived
in this country In 1918, to escape
the military laws of the czar, he
joined the Lithuanian socialist
federation.
In Left-Wina Fight.
During the Ieftwing split, Bal.
chunas fought the reactionaries In
the federation and aided comrade
steIIson and others to organize the
Lithuanian Communist Federation.
He attended every convention that
the Communist Party held and
escaped the department Of justice
at the Brldgman convention.
He was also active In the organ
izatlon Of the American Lithuanian
Workers. Literature Association,
which Is today controlled by the
Lithuanian Communists.
Following the 5ridgman eonven-
ton he contracted cold which de-
veIoped into slight form Of con-
sumption. His doctor advised him
70 leave the machine shop that he
was working In and also to leave
the city.
Goes West for Cure.
Baichunas left Chicago and went
to California, then Arizona, New
Mexico and then to Denver, Colo
RADIO, In his attempt to effect
cure. Unable TO find work and hav-
ing used up what little savings he
had, he returned 10 Chicago. Fall
Ing TO find work In Chicago and UNI
able to pay a doctor for oonsuIta-
lions he entered the Cook county
hospital, whore he died after eight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Working Women in
Demands on N. Y.
City Government
(Continued from page ID.

Continued from page u.
Even in these firetrap tenements, by
the commissions report, families with
young and old boarders crowd as
many as IA into the small space of
three and four rooms.
Such conditions undermine the fam
lily life Of the workers, when a worker
has to rent an apartment he is asked
to pay one and two months rent in ad-
vance, which he cannot do. The old
apartments which rent for four and
five dollars room, are made over
into costly apartments, and the work
ers who cannot pay more than five
dollars per room must share apart
ments and undergo special hardships.
In view of these outstanding facts
the United Council of Working Glass
women proposes:
In order to relieve the great masses
of workers families with their
young the United Council OF Working
Class Women, consisting mostly OF
housewives and affiliated with neigh
borhood housewife councils in every
borough and other housewives organ
izations, proposes the following;
That the city build houses or rent
them to the workers at prices within
their means not above cost.
The united council or working class
women appeals to all the working
class women in the house. shop, and
factory TO support the demands of the
United Council Of Working Class wo
men, only thru, unity of all the work
ers, men and women, will the work
sEs better theig GpRditiops
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14

out at present for an average rent of
S12.50 a room,
The witnesses described how their
homes were overrun by mice, rats and
vermin and that the landlords were
making no attempt to clean up these
conditions.
Letter carriers testified that due to
the low wage that they receive, their
wives and young children are forced
to accept employment. in industries or
in buildings doing chore-woman work
in order to be able to pay the rent.
Some of the letter carriers have to
work in movie and music halls as
ushers at night in order to make
ends meet.
Rents Increase, Wages Decrease.
Other workers that appeared point
ed out that their wages were lower
than they were making in 1920, but
they are forced to pay higher rents
than when they paid in 1920, and that
lnadlords are still boosting the rents.
In the Negro section of Harlem,
landlords refuse to keep light burn
ing in the dark Railways. Many of
these Railways are pitch dark with
winding stairs and the Negro workers
living in these houses often injure
themselves by falling down stairs.
EVietions Increase.
The clerk of the seventh district
municipal court testified that there
has been an increase of over $500
dispossess proceedings in the past
year over the number in the same
period last year. In 1924, in Har-
lem, which is a working class dis
trict and where this court is located
there were 29,49O dispossess cases
SO far this year, with the months OF
November and December lacking,
there have been 31,50O cases where
workers belongings have been moved
onto the street. The clerk pointed
out that most of these cases were the
result of non-payment of rent.
Other tenants before the commits.
sion brot out that the landlords had
sealed UP dumb walters in many plac.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14

IS forcing those living on the top
loors to carry pals of garbage and
waste down many flights of stairs.
Unsanitary Conditions.
Others told Of faulty plumbing, un-
sanitary apartments where the light
of day never penetrates for which
they must pay exhorbitant rents.
Renting agencies brot in showed
that there were many apartments va
cant, but that the landlords demand
ed that they collect such high rents
that it was impossible to find tenants
to move into the apartments.
Politicians Refuse Cooperation.
Tenants complained that when they
called at the tenement house de-
partment, fire department and health
to have them remedy con
ditions in many of the houses, these
commissions refused to cooperate
with them in any way whatsoever.
The testimony brot out that many
landlords were charging 28S per cent
fore for their rooms now than they
did in 1920 and that these landlords
had made few repairs in the apart
ments during that period.
Threaten Rent Riots.
Threats of rent riots were made if
the present rent law, which is far
from adequate and is merely a ges.
ture towards protecting the tenant,
was repealed. Most of the witnesses
urged the commission to extend the
law and if possible to make the law
more, stringent in its protection OF
the tenants.
Little can be- expected from the
commission appointed by the city hall
crowd as these politicians work hand
in glove with the landlords who main
tain filthy apartments. Many dollars
are placed in the clammy palms Of
health, fire, and other inspectors thru
the year by renting agencies and
landlords so that they would emulate
the three monkeys: Hear no evil
see no evil, speak no evil, of the land
lords and their servants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
AGREEMENT ON
ITALIAN DEBT
SAVES TYRANT
Morgan Stands Back of
MuSSOlini
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-Musso-
llni's debt commission has reached an
agreement with the agents Of Wall
Street, known as the United States
debt commission. This means that
the obligations to the United States
Of the third largest debtor nation has
been settled on terms that will enable
Italy to establish its credit with the
House of Morgan so that It can alb
sorh some Of the enormous surplus OF
gold that has accumulated in the
United States and is piling ever
higher, until desperate measures are
necessary In order to dispose Of it.
1t furthermore means that Musso-
lini and his bandit government is to
be subsidized by American imperial
ism, and the fascist leader and his
predatory bands of cutthroats will
become the official agents Of American
bank capital
Coolidge Sits In.
Announcement that an agreement
had been reached was made shortly
after noon, following a conference be-
tween Coolidge and members of the
American debt commission, which was
followed, in turn, by a Joint session
of the two full commissions. Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon an
nounced the agreement.
The actual terms will be announced
late this afternoon after the experts
of the two countries have worked out
the figures involved in the huge mass
of documents submitted.
1t is definitely known tho, that they
are the most liberal terms granted to
any debtor nation under the pretext
that the Italian internal situation is
far worse than that of any other gov
eminent in Europe.
Saves Faseismo.
The Italian currency would have
fallen to nothing on the exchanges of
the world had it not been for salts
factory agreement having been reach
ed. The terror of Mussolini and the
frame-up against the yellow social
lists and free masons on the charge
of conspiring to assassinate Mussolini
combined with the fall of the Ira
would have wrecked the government
of the tyrant.
Only the conclusion of the agree
ment saved the situation. This
desperate position of the fascist gov
eminent gives the lie to the claims
that Mussolini has re-estabhshed the
economic system of Italy on firm
basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
INDEPENDENT UNION
FRACTION IN new YORK
WILL MEET SATURDAY
CspeeIaI to nae Daily workerl

Especial to The Daily Wor<erl
NEW YORK, Nov. 12-AIl party
members who are members Of the
Independent unions must attend the
regular independent Union Fraction
meeting at the headquarters, 1903 E.
18th St., New York City, Saturday,
Nov. IA, at p. m.
The party policy Of the Independ-
ent unions as decided by the Ma
tionaI Industrial Department will be
considered and plans made for car
rylna il out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
NEW YORK WORKER TENANTS EXPOSE
LANDLORDS WHO CHARGE HIGH RENTS
FOR DISEASE-LADEN APARTMENTS

1.-THE commission housing and regional planning
all
they they
forced
Use
cellars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Unmasked Bandits Busy.

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 1.-Two I'M
masked bandits today entered the
fifth floor store of B. M. Kaufman, dia-
mond merchant, and escaped with
$40, 900 in gems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
seuIntor Dies.

MILFORD, Conn, Nov. 12-Charles
A. Barteln, one Of the nations lead
ing scuptors, died at his home here
during the night of heart failure. He
was AZ years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-14
Soviet Report Shows
the Workers Republic Is
Brightest Spot on Earth
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Number Eleven of the of reports headed
social Political Facts the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics" arrives from Moscow No worry about
the unemployed problem here talk of crushing debts
specuaons about fake peace pacts these troubles
for the capitalist world Communists the Soviet Union,
in the antSoviet nations deal with these problems as
aspects Of the developing world revolutionary SITUATION BUT
ing with the future growing brighter with Plans and
Perspectves" for the days Immediately ahead
These facts, persstenty presenting themselves in i'm
creasngy brilliant coors to the oppressed Of the world
ultimately convince the victims Of capitalism that their
only lies along the road that the workers and
ants of Russia have already trod
New blast furnaces are being built and repaired
in the Southern Uras that will turn out steel now obtained
in London
The Massy File Factory being extended and during
the last few months turned out 10000 dozen files which
amounts to 145 per cent OF the program.
Two big facts there basic industry shows continual
Improvement while factory Outstrps by half what de-
manded Of it.
Rich accommodations of new radium deposits have been
discovered in two places along the White Sea coast
This is merely of the many incidents showing the
growing met with in the search for fields for
the exploitation of the Soviet Unions untold wealth in
turaI resources
campaign up
pood
stored which to o7 of the The loading
of grain proceeding without Interruption"
Sufficient reply the Chicago Trbunes fake reports
from Riga, LatVia, of new famine.
Good from the valley of the voIga 1.-THE Mississippi
River of the Union) hit by 1921
famine Here it is:
compared
the
In connection with this
And Chicago only talks about the "Iakes-to-the-guIf
waterway. 'HI
That the funds with which build for New Day in
the Soviet Union increasing shown by this
The general total for the state all local
ing 1926 about mard
40 cent on the total figures Of the s2s budget
D9h:sn t th r. vs .. On m French
its quality cheapness.T
This SHOWS that Russian COAL which is being mined in
greater quantities resulting in overproducton home
is successfully competing with German and British coal in
France.
"The sale of Soviet
fvefod The
the factories Of the Soviet
to constantinope!"
Thus the oil riches of the Soviet Union find an eyer-in
ceasng market While the that Soviet Russia is ex-
porting farm machinery to the Near shows that the
problem of undermining agriculture being rapidly
solved.
And just to tell the world that rule is here to stay
tveyear program for tea growing in Soviet Republic
OF Georgia announced that will make the Soviet
Union entirely Independent of the of producing
world.
All progress in building the Soviet Unon
An advance for the world social revolution!
Working Women in -
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-write-distribut The DAILY
WORKER.
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Divorce Complaints

+. J. Va. Ruth wedeklns. cruelty.
Margaret vs. Gust SoriluK. cruelty,
Thomas VS.. Mildred Bowdcn. dcser-
ton.
chas. VS.. Elizabeth Brown. dsser-
ton.
Jessie n. vs.. Fred n. Atwood. non.
support.
John II va vsndia Runswick. In
compatibility.
Agnes Va. Chester Woods. dessrtlon.
Georgia 6. W. william j. McGougan.
nonEupport-
Theresa W. weston Ball. cruelty.
Frank II. ~. Gladys Pratt. incom.
patlbiilty.
Mary W. Hiram Pelton. nonsupport.
Jennie vs.. Arthur II. Garrett. non
support.
Bertha VI. Kari E. f. johnson.
cruelty.
william b. vs.. Ethel Maude Stacey.
r. D. vs. Mauds spsulding. incom-
patibllity.
Florence vs.. Thomas II. LsMas,er.
cruelty.
Bert r. VS.. Mildred Austin. deser-
ton.
Anna D. vs.. william c. Banker. de-
sertiOn.
" G. vs.. cindia Short. cruelty.
Elsie Va. VIM. Stewart. nonsupport
Elsie vs.. Roy Lambeth. cruelty.
Dudley u. Va. Mildred II. Wroth, de-
ReTtlou.
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