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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01
COOLIDGE HANDS
OUT PATRONAGE
!. TO LABOR'S FOES
It's Fine Collection of
Gifted Thieves

w AOI114N04 OANf 1e%As cNs 4@AA RCWNA
to the corporationsl
That's the Coolidge slogan and pro.
gram, unfolded in an amazingly logical
series Of appointments to high Office
and the presidents latest attacks upon
the morale Of the organized civil serv
ice. What he is doing today is con-
sistent with what he tried to do year
ago. but the voters and congress itself
forgot his purpose in the excitemen.
of the campaign to elect him for an
other term.
Stone, former Morgan lawyer, 10
moved from attorney general to the
supreme court bench.
Warren, sugar trust lawyer and
manipulation, with finer touch than
Harry Daugherty, is named as at
torney general.
Thomas M. Woodlock, former editor
Aof the Wall Street Journal is named
for the interstate commerce commits.
sion, where Wall STREET pity for the
poor railroad companies may become
more fully effective than even now is
the case.
Big Capital Favored.
William F. Humphrey, the most re
dictionary politician in the state o.
Washington, is dug up from his, pc
litical tomb of some years soddins
to throw the majority in the fedora
trade commission safely to the side
of non-interference. Humphrey waI
one of the boldest and bitterest foes
of the federal trade commission wheI
1t was exposing the lawlessness of the
Chicago meat packers monopoly. Lal
terly he has represented shipping
corporations in their dealings with thu
government
Coolidge has beaten the posta
workers demand for living wage
and has followed this with a warning
to all department and bureau chief
that they must cut down the numbe
of their workers. None but a foo
will fail to guess that reductions viii
affect the work Of the bureaus tina
inquire into what monopoly capitalism
is doing to the workers. Civil servant
will keep their mouths shut and holl
onto their jobs.
. A Real Christian.
Last winter Coolidge nominate
; George Christian. fopmer secretary I
President Harding. to the fedora
trade vacancy. Chairman Husto
Thompson testified that Christia,
when secretary had tried to talk wit
him about a pending case, APPARENT
as friend of the accused corporation
The senate forced Coolidge to dro
Christian, as the committee on intel
state commerce recognized him as
man chosen to wreck the work Of ths
body.
The same committee will conside
the nomination Of Humphrey for fet
eral trade and Woodlock for the
c. O., and there is a fair chance ths
it viii recommend against them boil
However, Coolidge can give them r.
cess appointments, trusting to the Il
coming senate to be more reaction
airy.
Means Lower Railroad Wages.
Woodlock is needed to boost II
= railroad valuations; Warren is neede
for official opinions approving IL
the good work; Stone is needed G
the supreme court, where the railros
valuation steal will finally come Il
judgment. II the railroad valuation
fixed at twenty or twenty-five billion
instead of at twelve billions, railros
workers will draw lower wages an
stockholders and bankers will get ia
| ter, in the coming years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-01

ticn, all obeyed the strike CALL Not
one unionist scabbed. In some cases
the ports were completely closed and
steamers ceased calling during the
strike.
Solidarity Beat Bosses.
Coastal shipping was not affected,
as these vessels always employ union
labor. The fight was against the over
seas shipping companies who set up
an agency for engaging non-union la
Dor to break the federation. Ships
were held at every port.
When it was seen that the union
could not be beaten, the prime min
lister, Bruce, called conference Of
the union and the shipowners. After
two days haggling the shipowners
admitted defeat and signed as re-
quested.
Capitalist Press Raves.
The capitalist press shrieked its
head of about direct action, and bit
terly commented on the fact that
direct actionists were strong enough
to break the power Of the shipowners
Meanwhile the strikebreakers have
been rooted of the waterfront and the
agency has been abolished.
The scabs are very angry at being
turned adrift by the shipowners. They
complain that the shipowners solemn
ly undertook to stand by them thru
thick and thin and have now thrown
them aside.
Evening star., 1925-04-12

Washington visitors in St. Petersburg
Fla, not being eligible for membership in
the various State societies, organized their
own club and took leading part in the
clty's festival of States. The photograph
shows the District float in the parade
Evening star., 1925-04-12

Robert E Lee (recinng). only grandson of Gen Robert
E. Lee The little girl is Mary Walter Lee his sister
Children of Dr. George Boiling Lee of New York, formerly
of Ravensworth Va Robert E. December 25 1924
Photo b Stg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
RICH NEGROES
BETRAY WORKERS
OF THEIR RACE
Fisk University Trustees
Oppose Students

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 3.-Of.
ficials of the National Urban League
the Negro organization which is used
by large employers to hire Negro
laborers at lower wages than are paid
white workers, has lined up against
the students of Fisk University.
L. Hollingsworth Wood one of the
leading officials of the league who
has betrayed the workers of his, own
race, in a, speech here told the stud
ents that President Fayette Mckenzie
was right in calling in the police to
beat up the students after they re-
fused to obey McKenzie's rule. The
students charged Mckenzie with sell
ling out the interests of the students
to the white business interests of the
South.
Wood, who is vice president OF the
board of trustees of Fisk University,
declared that the trustees will oppose
the students and support Mckenzie.
All but a few of the students have
gone home, refusing to stay at the
university under Mckenzie on the
ground that he catered to white bust
ness associations and neglected the
students and the workers OF his own
race. Those who remain say they will
depart as soon as they secure the ne
cessary funds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
BANKERS WATCH
STRIKEBREA KER
CAL SWORN IN
Upheld
by Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, D. c., March g.
zeal" Coolidge, the strikbreaker pre-
sident, will start tomorrow his term
as the elected executive Of the Unit
ed States with an official family Of
labor haters and strikebreakers. Cool
idae has frightened the lines against
the working class.
Coolidge made ready for his inau-
guration by hearing the supreme
court uphold his pardon of a notori-
Gus bootlegger, Philip Grossman, who
was sentenced to a year in jail and a
fine of $1,000, for violating an in
junction restraining him from selling
liquor.
Untouched by Workers Plight.
Cal doesn't mind seeing Sacco and
Vanzetti die on the gallows for the
crime" of fighting for a better wage
for the workers of Massachusetts,, but
his kind heart melts at seeing boot
logger in trouble.
Grossman did not have to serve a
day in jail. Coolidge committing the
sentence to the payment of fine and
then issuing fun pardon.
The big change in the Coolidge
cabinet is the elimination OF Secre-
tary of State Charles E. Hughes, who
was forced to resign because of his
policy against Soviet Russia.
The big business men who control
Coolidge insisted that some sort OF
'rade treaty be made with Soviet
Russia, and with official recognition
of the Soviet government by America
in the offing, Hughes was forced to
go.
Hughes made himself ineligible
when he issued statements SANDER
ing the Soviet government and declar-
ing that recognition would not be made
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
COMMUNISTS MAY RUN
CLARA zETKIN FOR
PRESIDENT OF GERMANY
Especial to The Daily worksr)

Especial TO The Daily Worker)
BERLIN, March 3.--Germany will
choose a successor to President
Ebert on March 2e, the reIehstag
decided today. The presidential
elections were scheduled f6r May,
but the Weimar constitution pro-
vides that the reiehstag enact Iegis-
lation to choose new president, in
the event Of the lncumhent's death.
The Communists, It Is rumored,
win break all world traditions, by
running 4 woman, Clara zetkin, for
president Of the nation. Despite her
advanced age she is in good health
and is known the world around as
one Of the most capable Communists
in the international movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
TEXTILE KINGS
:, CULTURE
ALGTHEIR OWN
Talk of EnSIaUement of
World to U. S. Gold
BY ROBERT MINOR.

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER.)
NEW YORK, March SEVEN the
gilded mOnarehs Of the textile indus
try cannot live by bread alone"
The kings Of finance must have
their Culture" their theology, their
faith, their belief in themselves, their
justification Of the thing they are do
ing in transforming the whole life of
the whole New England section into
a social system more nearly resembI-
ing the chattel slavery of the south
ern states before the Civil War.
Seek to Enslave World.
Wall Street is singing its idealistic
Song of Songs" about the wage cuts
and speeding up processes now being
introduced in the cotton and wooden
mills.
| mentioned in yesterdays DAILY
WORKER certain lyrically written
article which appeared at the end of
the year in the leading textile manu-
facturers' organ, Commerce and
Finance.
The article, l said, is being handed
about and talked about and its para
graphs quoted by heart among the
textile oligarchy.
This article, written by Edwin Da-
kin, speaks badly of the enslave-
ment of the world by the capitalists
of the United States. He uses the
word Slavery" He uses the word
"serfs' to describe the European toll
ing MASSES in their relation to Ameri-
can capital and compares Wall Street
hegemony over the world as a new
Roman empire. And withal it is a
wild pean of victory and rejoicing.
Likens U. S. to Rome.
"once upon time" he writes,
there was patien that ensIaved the
world. That nation was Rome. II
conquered the world thru war.
!. "AIl Of the known East, and ali the
discovered West, poured its golden
tribute yearly into the Roman capt.
Continued on Page ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
OIL
MAKES Big BUY
FROM SOVIETS
Discovers Hughes Is "A
Liar"
Especial to The Daily worker)

(Special TO Inc Daily Worker)
LONDON, March S.-The assertion
byNSeeretary Of State Hughes, made
when recognition of Soviet Russia
was being urged, that "soviet Russia
Is an economic vacuum" will hardly
be credited by anyone hereafter-ex-
cept the reactionary bureauerats Of
the American Federation Of Labor.
This, in view of the contract signed
here yesterday between the Anglo
American Oil company-which is the
European end of the Standard Oil
company-and the Soviet government
BY this contract the Anglo-Amer-
lean company purchases 10000 tons
of kerosene and 10000 of gasoline and
secures an option on 100000 tons with
delivery in 1926-1927 The oil will
come from the Baku and Crosby
fields, both of which are now worked
by the Soviets.
other Nations In Line
This deal marks the entry of Amer
IVA AhtO INC Oh uBBAc lOI 0uSSidu VII,
which has been going on since April
5, 1928, when the Shell Oil company
made first purchase from the So
viets of 100000 tons. Shortly after
German company bought $4,000 tons
Of gasoline and 10000 of lubricating
oil and the French government bought
$4,000 tons of fuel for the navy, while
French industry bought 10000 tons
of gasoline and 10000 tons of lubric-
ating.
Next in line was the Italian govern
ment and industry, buying 10000
tons of fuel and $4,000 tons of gas
oline. Ten months ago the British
Mexican Eagle company, through
Lord Inverforth, signed an agreement
for the delivery of 200, 900 tons Of fuel
and the British Fuel and Oil comp
any bought $4,000 tons of lubricating
oil.
Production Grows Daily
The entry Of America into the field
now completes the ring of big oil
using nations, all competing for Rus
sian oil, which it is stated is being
produced in increasing quantities
daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
POSTAL CLERKS
UNION THANKS
DAILY WORKER
Appreciates Support for
Pay Raise

The DAILY WORKER has received
a letter from the Chicago Post office
Clerks Union No. 1, expressing the
unions appreciation of the support
given the campaign for a better wage
for the postal employees OF the United
States government.
The letter declares:
March 8, 1925.
Editor,
DAILY WORKER,
Chicago, Illinois.
Dear Sir:
The hearts OF $4,000 postal en-
ployes and their families have been
made to rejoice thru the consumma-
tion Of justice long delayed. We
wish to express our sincere graft
tude to you and the general public
for their magnificent support and
your ardent devotion to our cause
during the long and strenuous wage
campaign for a. decent standard OF
living. 80
Yours truly,
Chicago Pest Office Clerks Union,
Local No. I'm. It. P. o. @.
Legislative Committee. - Peter
II. seeeoord, Earl w. Wiley, David
w, Johnson. t-j
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
MAY co. BEGINS
BIG WAGE SLASH
IN Los ANGELES
Cut Affects 1000 Men
and Women Workers
BY WILLIAM MINTE
Especial 70 The Daily Workerl

Los ANGELES, Calf, March g.
The department store Of the May
company has inaugurated a general
cut in wages. 1t reduced the weekly
earnings of all its men employees to a
uniform scale OF SEQ per week and
those OF its women employees to SIG
a week AND NOAHAY FOR OVER
TINE. This fiat reduction affects all
of the 1000 employees of the company
and amounts to many of them of cut
between $40 and sf2 week.
This department store, located at
Broadway and Sth2 St., and known as
the Hamburger department store was
taken over by the May company Just
recently. The equalization of all the
pay envelopes wass one of the very
first improvement" made by its
present owners. Instead of leveling
up the wages Of it's underpaid workers
to meet the increased cost of living,
the manager, Schlesinger, thought it
more profitable to level them down to
the starvation minimum of S23 and
SIG week.
Rouses Organization Sentiment
The result was great agitation and
a willingness to organize and to fight.
The workers were waiting anxiously
for the meeting which was called to
organize and protect themselves.
Anticipating trouble the manager
got busy and discharged every one
suspected of being in sympathy with
the union-discharged and blacklisted
them. He also inaugurated a camp
align of faIsehood and misrepresenta-
ton to persuade the credelous be-S
levers that the company is taking
proper care of the matter and that
everything will be adjusted to the best
interests of all concerned. BY this
tactics he succeeded to block temper
arly all plans for the meeting.
Store Expects to Prosper
This department store is being pa
tronized by 1.-THE workers and the
poorer sectionaof the population who
are spending their money to get its
bargains" The greedy company ex.
poets to prosper by cutting the
amount of fond. shelter and clothing
of its underpaid workers.
The patronizers of this company
will have to do their duty. Mutual aid
and united action are the only means
to achieve real and lasting results.
They will teach the company a very
instructive lesson in unmistakable
terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
JENSEN FAILS
TO AWE LOCAL.
CARPENTERS
Elect New Committee TO
Probe ExpuIsiOns

After listening to Harry Jensen.
president Of the rpenters' district
council, rave for over an hour AGAINST
tne Communists ard particularly
against the five "expelledv members
OF the union, Chicago Local 1871,
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join.
ers' decided to gag the flow Of hokuno
from the mental vacuum of Jensen.
oy deciding to take steps LOOKING To-
wards settlement of the problem
me local is practically one hundred
per cent behind the rive militants and
Jensen was forced to agree to the
proposal to elect five members IN in
Vestigate the matter of the expulsion
1t was another one Of those meat.
ings which have become the fashion
since the local officials under the di-
rection Of Jensen and Gear" Hutcbe.
son expelled five members illegally
from the organization for daring IN
sign their names to resolution con-
demning the Lands award scab con-
tract that Jensen entered into with
the contractors.
Usual Procedure,
On last Monday evening tha car.
penters gathered as usual. The con.
ductor took up the password as usuat
ana the chairman asked the five file.
gaily expelled members to Ieave 90
usual And as usual they politely do.
ciined to comply with the order Tho
chairman then announced +h.A A.
would be no meeting. Thereunon
jim" Jensen, the financial secretarv
ana the chairman took their heels
me carpenters stayed in the hall
shortly afterwards Harry Sensen ar
rived, strutted up like a. game cool
TO the platform and fumbled in his
pocket for documents" NOTICING
mat most Of the lights were ont he
went behind the scenes and tried r.
throw more illumination on the scens
out instead plunged the hall in com
plete darkness. Fearing that he waa
gong g stage a burglary, the mean.
Ders shouted for lfsht and with some
assistance, light was produced.
Read a Telegram.
Then Jensen read what he decIare5
was telegram from Lakeland. Fla
where the Carpenter" Hutcheson is
basking in the sun curing these bit.
ing cold days. The Telegram was r.
the effect that unless Local 1871 saw
the error Of its ways, it would lose
Continued on page A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05

hurled his ISLANDERS against Soviet
Russia, all such workers who may be
suspected Of having sympathies with
this first working class republic.
Half the Meeting Was Outside.
The Daily Forward agent, Weiss
lurg, took charge Of the entrance and
pointed out all those who could not
De admitted; the cops were on hand
to chase them away until their num-
bers, constantly swelling, reached
about three hundred demonstrating
in front of the hall and telling the
Forward gang. what they thought Of
their hero, Abramoyich.
= While some Of the more aggressive
ones were distributing literature CIV
ing further information about this in
ternational scab the cops and dicks,
still under the direction OF the For
ward agent, attacked the demonstra-
tors. Several were beaten with clubs
over their heads. One was struck to
the ground with two heavy cops on
top OF him, the demonstrators shout.
ed, rs this your democracy" The
street became jammed when finally
the patrol wagon hauled the six to
the police station.
True to their usual sensational
style Of melting against the Commun-
list workers. the capitalist papers APP
peared in the early morning hours
with such = headlines and stories as
would furnish plausible abb for
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
Y. WI. CALLING
CONFERENCE FOR
MINING YOUTH
Meeting Is Set for Pitts
burgh, March 8

A conference of all young miners in
the western Pennsylvania and West
Virginia territory will be held in Pitts
burgh Sunday, March s, 1925 at the
Labor Lyceum 35 Miller st. at P. NJ.
The Young Workers League, which
is calling this conference extends an
invitation to all young miners in these
territories to attend this conference
in order to discuss the conditions of
the young workers in the mines and
to lead the fight among the young
workers in order to better these con-
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
Farmers Children
Undernourished AS
Well AS City Kids

NEW YORK, March 3.-Country-
bred children are as under-nourished
as city-bred children, it was revealed
in report, given to the closing ses-
sion of the convention of the cooper
alive extension division of the United
States department of agriculture.
MANY farmers sell practically all
the milk produced on their farms"
said the report. Their children get
tinb none. Farmers must very often
pay more attention to the modern
scientific methods of feeding their
blooded stock than they pay to the
diet of their own children"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
WORKING WOMEN OF NEW YORK TO
CELEBRATE WORLD WOMEN'S DAY
AT BIG MEETING FRIDAY, MARCH 6

NEW YORK. March ga Labor
street Third Friday NJ will
New celebration
Juliet Stuart Poyntz osn
and Anna Thompson of the Young Workers League
The Communist international Sunday
national Womens working world
celebrate Of their
working class the capitalist
which nsaVes little children
The workers America celebrating international Day
the leadership Of the Workers cOmun meetings
been Philadelphia and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
FLAT CAR SETS FIRE
TO RAILROAD DEPOT;
TWO WORKERS ESCAPE

DANVILLE, H., March "a flat
car In an eaet-bOund freight train
on the Wabash railway let tho
tracks at sharp curve In front Of
the passenger station at Attlea, Ind,
today and plunged into the station.
Stoves set tn station On fire and it
with five cars of coal burned.
Edward RutIedee, telegraph ope-
rator and Roy zentmire, who were
in the station at the time escaped
with slight injuries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
VICTIMS OF SOCIALIST STOOL
PIGEONS HELD FOR FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION AT PITTSBURGH

PITTSBURGH melting
militant
including
yellow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
Well Bet This Bill
Is Unconstitutional

WASHINGTON. d. c., March 3D.
Thousands of employees of the Bethle-
hem Steel company would be given
back pay awards made by the war
labor board, under terms OF a bill
passed by the senate this afternoon.
The claims, totalling s1,90O,OOO grew
out of war time employment and
would be paid thru the United States
court of claims. ri
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
BRUTALITY OF CAPITALIST LAW
SHOWN IN THIRD DEGREE METHODS
USED TO GET FAKE CONFESSION
Especial to The Daily worker)

confession Arthur
a
by hrddegre soldier
a influential
o Niobrara. Nebraska,
The highlights by Garv
exsolde believed
Continued g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
COAL OPERATORS KEEPING WAR
PLANS ON MINERS UNION SECRET

PITTSBURGH, s-No lntmaion given
producers
meeting
Cleveland
adjusting jacksonville H.
Canon, president OF the association.
monthly will
meeting chairman
committee said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
NEGRO BURNED ALIVE
BY CRAZY MOB ON
EVIDENCE or CHILD

ROCKY FORD, Ca, March s.--An
unidentified Negro worker was burn
ed at the stake here by a frenzied
mob, because a 14-year-old white
Girl charged that the Negro attacked
her. The Negro was carried into a
field, and soaked with gasoline.
Brush was then piled about him and
he was burned after being cruelty
tortured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
Mose ouakes in italy.

ROME, March EARTHQUAKES were
registered today in central Italy, but
there was no damage of consequence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
SUN VAT SEN, I'LL IN PEKING,
d HEARS OF VICTORY OVER GEN. MING

PENc March 3sun Vat national revolutionary leader Of South
China Of the reported victory
Ming the city Of
expected fall before Dr.
Sun troops forcing EN- o s~stow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
Ten Die In Earth sIId.s

VIGO, Spain, March 3.-Ten men
were seriously injured when earth
slides derailed the Madrid express
here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05

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