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authority and prove that things have
gone from better to worse.
For example: My neighbor, Mr.. w.
30 years ago bought 70 acres of land,
improved it, paid for it and kept a
family of ten. They all worked hard
to make little place for themselves.
In 1918 when the war broke out he
was comfortably fixed. Today finds
him and his wife (who were thrifty
and hard working), workworn and
struggling under the burden of taxes
and mortgages which they can never
hope to meet while they live.
A Farmers Wish.
Talking to a farmer the other day
brought this: He told me his hope
was that some dayshe would by dint
of hard labor reach the stage where
he and his family could afford to per-
NIT themselves theluxury of consum-
ing all the milk and cream they need
and fresh eggs once in while. These
products the farmer produces but
does not consume Sas he is forced to
sell LHeH 10 LHSSI tdACct iubCACoI Aodho1
and mortgages.
Everyone familiar with farming
knows what an so acre apple orchard
should produce in year. Yet, Mr..
s., who with his family improved an
so acre tract, which is now producing
splendid crops yearly, and which was
unemcumbered prior to 1918 today
struggles under the weight Of $4,000
debt.
One might continue to point out
similar cases indefinitely as the cases
cited are no exceptions to the rule.
All Farms Mortoaged.
In the states Of Washington and
Oregan and thruout the entire west,
the, farmers are mortgaged for every
dollar their land is worth.
The farmer works long hours and
he works hard. His whole family
works with him. He takes no holt
days and even works on Sundays.
Yet, II is no exaggeration that a man
who began farming 30 years ago on
so or 80 acres can sell today and the
value represented in his property
which he actually receives would
amount to less tlfan twenty-five cents
a day in wages Cor 30 years. All OF
these golden blessings the farmer en-.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
BETTER PAY is
81 OCAN OF N. Y.
SCHOOL TEACHERS
Elementary Grades Get
IA Lowest Salaries

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.->Teachers OF
kindergarten up to 6B grade in New
York public schools are conducting a
campaign for a single salary sched-
ule for elementary grades teachers
which would bring this group into the
better paid ranks. Minimum Of $1,000
and maximum of $4,000 is the range
OF their proposed schedule. These
teachers now make about $2S a week
less than many stenographers, and
that after six years preparation.
After II years work they may now
get SIS week. Their time is much
more taken up by personal details re-
quired by parents of the smaller chill
dren and they are not able to supple-
ment their earnings as teachers by
outside work as many New York
teachers are now doing because of low
wages. The elementary grade teach
ers deal with all of the children in the
public schools while upper grade
teachers have only those who continue
their schooling longer.
Because of their greater numbers
the elementary school teachers are
usually given the smallest wage in
creases, when any are given. Mary
R. Noonan, president of their group,
has fled a brief for the single salary
schedule with the board of education.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
SECURITY PACT
AGAINST RUSSIA
PROMPTED BY US,
Houghton Suggested
Plan to Stresemann

wILLIAMSTQwN, Mass, Aug. Il.
America, through Alanson B. Hough-
ton, recently ambassador at Berlin,
and now at London was the spiritual
author" of the proposed Security
pact by which England and Americs
hope to attack Soviet Russia in a.
lance with Germany, it was stated
here by Prof. B. E. Schmitt of the
University of Chicago.
Schmitt told the institute Of politics
meeting here, that he was we'll in
formed while in Europe that Hough-
ton Suggested" the idea to foreign
minister Stresemann at Berlin.
"If one asks in we'll informed cir
cles," said Schmitt, zone is told that
the present ambassador in London is
spiritual author Of the negotiations
now proceeding between Great Brit
ain, France, and Germany
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
SCOPES DEFENSE
SAYS Bible And
Darwin CONFLICT
File Bill Against Anti
Evolution Law

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, Aug. IA
petition filed with federal injunction
by John r. Neal, senior counsel in the
defense of John T. Scopes. declares
that the theory of evolution is in di-
rect conflict with the story of crea-
tion as told in the bible, it was an
nounced here.
The bill charges that the Tennessee
authorization law is in conflict with
the constitution of the United States,
as it deprives the plaintiff of liberty
to teach the truth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
Y. WI. STUDY
CLASS OPENS IN
CHICAGO MONDAY
Elementary Economics Is
First Subject Taught

Local Chicago, Young Workers.
League, is earnestly undertaking the
task of Communist education within
its ranks.
At the last meeting of the City Cen
trail Committee, the recommendation
of the City Educational Director that
"a two-session class for new members
of the league be started, was accepted.
Attendance in this class is compul-
sorry to all applicants for admission
into the Y. w. L. before they may be
considered bona fide members of the
league.
The class will open Monday, Aug.
10th, at 8 p. m. at 261S Hirsch Blvd,
and will close with its final session on
Aug. 18th. The class will be renewed
as often as new members appear in
the league. The first session will
deal with elementary MARKHAM econ
omics and will be conducted by Rebec-
ca Sacharow, City Educational Direc-
tor. The second session will deal with
the character of the Young Workers
League and will be conducted by John
Harvey, City Industrial Organizer.
Then the students will be required to
write short article on the nature of
the Young Workers League. The best
article received will be published in
the Young Worker.
Students to Conduct Discussion.
The method to be used in this class
will be the question method. A list
of questions on the two subjects dealt
with will be prepared and used in the
class. Each question will then be put
to the comrades and wherever possible
they will supply the answers, the in
structor supplementing them and an
swering those questions which the
comrades are unable to answer. For
instance, at the first session such
questions as: What are wagesY and
How is profit NADER" will be put to
the students. This question method
was used in the League here some
time ago and the comrades liked it
very much. 1t is often difficult for a
newcomer into the revolutionary
movement to learn much from one
long lecture, but if a limited number
of concrete questions are asked and
answered in two hour session, much
will be gained.
All comrades who have Joined the
League since January, 1925 to the
present date, will attend the two SEES
sions opening August 10th. The sub
sequent classes, however, will be COM
prised only of members who Join at
the time. The secretary Of each branch
will therefore notify those of its mem
bers who joined the League since
January, 1925, to be present at the
class Monday. Each secretary should
see to it that there is one hundred
percent attendance at this class from
his or her branch.
Another Glass In Fall.
This class in itself is OF course not
sufficient to give our members a
comprehensive understanding of Mar
ISM. Plans are being made to open
an extensive class for beginners in
The early fall. This two-session class
for applicants will simply serve as an
Introduction to this beginners class.
A class for advanced comrades will
also be organized this winter. In
this way we will raise the theoretical
level of our membership to a point
where it will serve each one of us as
an effective weapon in our fight to
emancipate the working class from
the yoke of capitalist exploitation.
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Chelsea Mayor a sootlegger.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 7.-Seventy.
seven liquor indictments were handed
down by the grand jury this afternoon
against officials and residents OF
Chelsea. Mayor Lawrence Quigley,
widely known figure in Massachusetts
police circles, 81 members of the Chel-
sea police department and alleged
liquor dealers and smugglers in Chel-
sea were among those indicted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
UPHOLSTERERS
STRIKE TO AID
FIRED WORKER
Unfair Discharge of One
Brings Labor Together
BY JOHN GABRIEL soLTIs.
Worker correspondent.l

MINNEAPOLIS, . Minn.,. Aug. z. -
Forty upholsterersswalked out of the
Brooks Parlor Furniture Company
Ills East Hennipin in protest against
the discharge of their fellow worker
Box. He was fired because the boss
maintained that he was not an eff
cient slave, although the workers in
the shop regarded Box as a first-class
mechanic.
The strike is remarkable in that
there is no organization among the
men.
The workers in this shop are suf-
fering from several grievances. In
the first place they are rebelling
against the intense speed-up system
known as time work. Under this sys
tenn their wages are being constantly
reduced, and production continuously
increased, so that the more they pro
duce, the lower their schedule be,
comes.
When, recently, the Brooks Parlor
Furniture Company entered the Chi
cago market with several suites OF
furniture, their prices were so low
that Karpen Bros. of Chicago re
marked that the goods must have been
stolen to be sold so cheaply. The
conditions of the workers in the
Brooks shop, explain the prices.
The strikers are making the follow.
ing demands:
(a) Reinstatement Of Box. (b) Abo
lition of speed-up system. (c) A fixed
rate of wages.
A shop committee has been organ
lied to negotiate with the boss on the
basis of these demands. Mass pick
citing of the shop is in force. Meet
ings of the strikers will be held daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
SOVIET UNION SIGNS
CONTRACT WITH TWO
JAPANESE SHIP FIRMS

MOSCOW (Ry Mail.)-owing to
the scarcity of Soviet commercial
vessels in the Pacific a contract has
been concluded with two Japanese
shipping companies concerning their
activity With "Dobroflot" (the Vol
unteer FIeet) and the Ussury Rail-
way in maintaining eoastwise trade
with kamchatka and with foreign
countries as we'll.
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Foreiqn EXCHANGE .

NEW York, Aug. Great Britain,
pound, 4.S5as, 4.s55s. France. franc,
1891, 469%. Belgium, franc, 4.5S1h
asa. Italy, Ira, 3.65A. 3.65h. SSwed.
en-, krone, 1855, 26.S9 Norway, krone
1910, 1912. Denmark. krone, 22.7S,
$3.50. Germany, mark, no quote.
Shanghai. tael, 1900, no quote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
HARTMAN TRUST !
BEGINS WORK ON
SOVIET LEASE
Manganese Concession
Already Occupied

MOSCOW,-(By MaiD-The pre@r
dent of the board of directors Of
@Chemo" (the Chiaturi Manganese Elk
porting Society has informed a repre-
sentative of the press that in connec-
tion with the signing Of concession
agreement with Hartman prepare
lions are going on for turning over to
the concessionnaire Of property be-
longing to the government in Chiaturi
and in Poti.
All property will be turned over in
the course of two months. 1t is pos
sible that the stock of ore will be sold
or given to the concessionnaire Of
property belonging to the government
in Chiaturi and in Poti.
All property will be turned over in
the course of two months. 1t is pos
sible that the stock of ore in store
will be sold or given to the concession
naires on sale or return.
Organize Technical staff.
When the property is turned over
and the "Chemo" liquidated, the con-
Ecessionnaire will organize his Office
and technical staff in Tifiis, Poti and
Chiaturi, where the head Office is to
be opened.
The arrival of Engineer Rascovich,
Harriman's representative, is shortly
expected in Tifiis. Rascovich is one
of the most prominent experts Of the
worlds manganese industry. He has
been in Africa and other parts of the
world, where large manganese mines
are worked. He also visited CHA
turf last year at the beginning of the
concession negotiations. 1t is sup
posed that Rascovich will direct the
whole enterprise.
Together with Engineer Rascovich
there arrives at Tifiis, Mr.. Shellings,
former director of the Ionic Bank in
Constantinople, who will take charge
of directing the financial part Of the
concession.
Kameneff Makes Statement.
Touching upon the big Chiatursk
manganese concession, Kameneff, act
ing president of the Council of Peoples
Commissaries and chairman of the
Council of Labor and Defense concur
rently, remarked that if the govern
ment Of the Union gave this conces-
sion in the face of the fact that the
Union having the monopoly of man.
ganese output could practically con-
troll the entire European production of
steel, it only means that the Soviet
government sincerely wishes to at
.ract foreign capital, Of course being
at the same time mindful of really
guaranteed advantages .accruing to
the country from any given deal.
Foreign capital, which wishes in
good faith to cooperate with the
Union, can thus be assured that the
Soviet, government is willing to enter
upon any mutually advantageous bust
ness transactions.
To Transform Railroad.
Economically, the most important
point about the contract is the obli-
cation undertaken by the concession
naires to- transform the local narrow
guage railway Skatcherry- Chiatury-
Poti into a normal guage line, to me
chanize the production of manganese
and loading appliances and to build a
ferro-manganese mill.
The running of the concession is
bound to supply work to many a
thousand Georgian workers, this work
to be done with strict observance of
the Soviet labor laws.
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JAPAN ADMITS SEVENTY
SOVIET COMMISSIONERS
TO PROMOTE TRADING

TOKYO, Japarq Aug. 1.-THE Jap
anese government has notified the
Soviet Union that seventy CONNER
claI commissioners will be admitted
to Japan from the Union, in COM
pliance with request Of the Soviet
government.
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Orlando to Quit.

ROME, Aug. deputy Orlando,
who has been an opponent Of the fas-
cist regime and who suffered a re-
verse in the recent parliamentary
election will resign his seat and in
tends to retire from politics, it was
said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-09
JARDINE'S BEDTIME STORIES TO
FARMERSsIS DIAGNOSED BY FARMER
NPLEA FOR CLASS ORGANIZATION
BY FRANCES M. DIcKEY.
Farmer correspondent.)

LANGLADE COUNTY Wis, Aug. 7surey wand
the standards of neghboring
Having thirty years say
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sWEDEN: Unemployment. - Thru
out May, 1925, unemployment in
Sweden was steadily declining, with
the metal and machine industry ac-
counting for the majority of unem-
ployed.
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BRITISH HOLD UP
/. CHINESE CABLES;
HERE THEY ARE
Kuomintang Grateful to
Daily Worker
Continued from page u

atty, cruelty, and bloodthirstiness OF
the Shanghai British police to murder
openly, with revolvers and rifles, the
Chinese students, and laborers, who
did not carry even a single stick when
lecturing in Marking Road, in the last
few days.
We are fully sympathetic with the
dead, and still more sympathetic with
the defenseless fellow citizens, and
at the same time, can not help to con
slider that the personal liberty Of the
Chinese is infringed and our own lives
are endangered in such a lawless, un-
just, and bloodstained period.
So, we, the Chinese Seamen, are
compelled to adopt a nonresistant
measure by striking until the British
and Japanese are convinced that they
have wronged us, and surrender
themselves to law and justice and ac-
cept the demands made by the Cen
eral Union of Labor, Commerce, and
Education.
THE BEOODTHtRSTY CAREER OF
sEAMEN, Shanghai, June 8, 1925.
It is not surprising that the British
would look coldly on this:
THE BLooDsTAlNED CAREER OF
CHINA THE MOST SAVAGE AND
CRUEL SLAUGHTER EVER
RECORDED IN THE HIS
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Battle: Tolstoy, Eugene Walters
and the modern Avery HopWood
Never forget the day Resur.
rection' opened in New York,
That morning the partners re-
ceived cablegram from Lon
don saying the rehearsaIs there
looked bad and asked how
things were going on Broadway
The reply was one word, bad.
Both the London and the New
York companies opened the same
night and the next day cable
gram from across the water said,
play tremendous artistic success.
Resurrection played a full year
in both London and New York.
81 wish 'em luck with Lovely
Lady. WagenhaIs and Kemper
are just a couple of boys, but
but they certainly know their
way around the theater.''
And who are your asked
Cyril, the reporter, of the Old
Timer.
In exactly forty-one synchro-
nezed movements, the Old Timer
removed beard, teeth, paisley
waistcoat extra pair of trousers
and one shoe and stood revealed
as Ike w. Hope.
Why do you wear all that
impedimenta, Mr.. Hopper
Just the whim of a boy
scout" said Mr.. Hope, and I
can do card tricks. too"
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never to undertake any venture
without capital to see 1t through,
and starting with i travelling
stock company, they di1 the best
they could to keep moving.
remember those first shows
received beautiful newspaper no.
tees, but business was bad and
they did not play long enough in
any one place to reap the benefit
of the enconiunns. Line conceived
the idea of doubling back on their
route. This resulted in a season
ending With bit of profit. Since
then he has been the business
head of the firm and Mr.. Kemper
the artistic head. They never in.
terfere in each others domain.
Then came the real start.
They went to Binghamton, ". Y,
with a stock company. When al
most broke and to save paying
heavy royalties for plays they put
on some classical bills. This
made a nest egg of 81 400, with
which they went to New York
with Louis James, then a recog-
nized star in Shakespearean roles.
They had so much success with
MI. JdIu0S THAT the next season
they took over Frederick Warde
and Kathryn Kidder. BY this
time they had an $4,000 bank
roll.
Later Blanche Walsh, Nine.
Modjeska, and Annie Russell came
into their management. The part.
ners produced The Kreutzer
Sonata Resurrection Paid in
Full Seven Days and The Bat
These and the building of the
Astor Theater, in New York, they
tell me, they look upon as their
proudest achievements.
Guess this Lovely Lady must
be a good show. I see they an.
nounce Bruce McRae, fine
actor in the cast. And Carlotta
Monterey, Lily Cahill, Miriam
Hopkins and William Hanley,
too. Guess those others are a
bit young for me. And Jesse
Lynch Williams is the author.
And there is story here, too,
because in looking back over
Wagenhals and Kemper triumphs
you'll find known authors and
known stars sticking out every
Where-look at these authors,
Mary Roberts Rinehart, Henri
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KUTIES
DECIDEDLY
CLEVER

"Kuddling Kuties," this weeks
attraction at the Mutual theater,
headed by Max Fields, is a per-
Torrance far above the average
for those who like burlesque.
Max Fields, I'd begin with. is q
comedian above the ordinary.
Original and clever, it is seldom
that he falls back on the time
worn gags too familiar in most
burlesque productions.
The feminine leads are beauti-
full and shapely. Billy Rhodes
proved an unqualified hit and
Fritzie Clexx, in Cecilia
Number, made as good a scene
as a scene need be. Anrd Fink,
with an eccentric quirk is an
able commedienne
The costumes were colorful
and the chorus did well. One
young lady steps out ri its ranks.
to sing Madeira, and proves
worth two encores. She deserves
something better than anonymity
Harry Clexx aids Fields On the
funny end Of the business in
an able manner.
The dancing of Miss Clexx
and Miss Rhodes. perhaps risque.
for the most part is exceptional.
II. TT. r..
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srrhey Knew What They Wanted"
was critically scanned by the IN
official censors.
Mr.. McNally's play, which
started all the furore, was hastily
withdrawn during the excitement.
and out of it all came the, unani-
nous New York opinion that the
play Jury system, sponsored by
the Actors Equity Association,
was rank failure.
Then came Congrove's Love
for Love- and Maxwell Ander-
sons Outside Looking In"
rfbald, profane, and shockingly
frank, and New York lifted not
the vestige Of an eyebrow.
One. imagines the producers of
"A Good Bad Woman" solioquiz-
ing, What better time to send
our drama along the highway and
byways and let the yokels see
what caused New York once to
shudder."
And so, "A Good Bad Woman
comes to Polls on Sunday night,
with whispered warnings that
Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle, Deets
Picketts, and others whose mis-
sion is to reform will be hover.
ing close by to catch the reac-
tions
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Il know something Of the lis.
tory 81 Wagenhals and ikemper.
Yep, Ill never forget the day
that Dan F'rohmans told Line he
was a handsome dog in dress
suit but that isn't the proper
costume for shifting scenery. 1t
made Line wild and | guess he
quit acting then and there.
Wouldn't be surprised but that
remark turned him toward man
agerial meanderings.
Both Ohio boys, where the
Presidents used to come from,
and although they had never
met any Presidents or even each
other in transforming tours until
one bright morning in dfngy
railroad station at Reading, Pa.
they came -face to face, broke
and stranded. While sitting, ON
the trunks, fearing. + guess,
they'd lose EN- if they didn't
watch closely, they struck up an
acquaintance. Just a couple of
kids reciting their troubles along
the kerosene circuits.
"They agreed there was no
money in working for others.
Their empty pockets bore out the
truth of the statement. They
decided then to go into business
for themselves, They shooi~Ean
for an agreement and to this day
they have never had a scrap of
paper or scrap of any kind he
tween them. They've divided mil
lions Since that first meeting.
Line Wagenhals came from a
little town near. Columbus, Ohio,
and Mr.. Kemper is from Gin
cinnati. Their first rule was
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Goings-On

BEIASCO-David Belasco pre-
scnts E. III. Sothern in Accused. "
NATIONAI1-T. C. Nugent In a
new play, 'Gunpowder.
POLI'S-Bruce McRae in new
play, Lovely Lady"
KEITH'S-Nora Bayes; other
acts.
EARLE-Ritz Serenaders; other
acts and films.
STRAND-B BALTIC, Nome dog
here; others acts and films.
GAYETY-"Chuckles of 1926"
MUTUAL - 'Kuddling Kuties. :
COLUMBIA - 'The Ten Com
mardments.
METROPOLIT An Lewis
Stone, Alma Rubens in Fine
Clothes.
IsIALTO - THE Iron Horse;
second week.
FALACE-Thcmas Meighan IA
The Man Who Found Himself.
TIVOLT--Laura La Plante in
'Thc Teaser."
AMBASsADOR--"Thf street Of
Forgotten Men.
Speed Mad.
SAVOY Kiss in the Dark. :
AVENUE GRAND-"The Lady
Who Lied.
APOLLO-"The Street Of For
gotten Men.
YORK-"The Crackerjack.
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