davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1925-06-19

Modoc Athletic Club base ballers
Evening star., 1925-06-19

Peerless Midgets ran up a 13-to.
score on the Michigan nine.
Evening star., 1925-06-19

Chestnut Farms tOssers Of the Com
mercial League hit their winning
stride again yesterday and handed a
9-to-1 lacing to Williams-Webb. Allen
Mitchell Co. advanced in the league
standing by trouncing Lansburgh &
Bro, 9 to 4.
Evening star., 1925-06-19

Southern Railway annexed q game
with Express in the Washington
Terminal Y. M. c. A. League by a
count of 13 to 6.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
SOVIET UNION
DOUBLES NUMBER
OF ITS SCHOOLS
Take Steps to Cut Down
Hliteracy

MOSCOW, U. s. S. R., Dec. 20
During the scholastic year l924-25 the
number Of children in the schools Of
the Ukraine republic increased by al
most 100000 as compared with the
year 1924 During the coming
scholastic year 1925-26 it is proposed
to open 5000 new schools for 100000
children.
Up to Sept. 1925, 5000 stations for
liquidating illiteracy were at work as
against $500 during the preceding
year. During the year 1925-26 the
number of these stations will be brot
up to $4,000.
According to the plan Of the peo-
pies commissariat OF education It Is
intended to liauidate illiteracy during
the year 1925-26 among the adults to
the extent of so per cent and Juveniles
to the extent of 1928 per cent.
The number of schools where the
teaching is conducted in the Ukrain-
ian language has now reached 1872 per-
cent of all schools and IS per cent Of
the village reading rooms have been
Urkainized
The budget of the Urkrainian edu-
cational commissariat has increased
from 1O,1O0,O0O rubles in 1929 to
1S,900,OOO rubles in 1924-25 at the cen
ter and from 100000 to 35,OOO,OOO
rubles with regard to the local bud
gets.
For the year 1885 the educational
commissariat is making budget grant
of 3O,OOO,OOO rubles at the center and
$4,000, 900 rubles on local budgets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
MAKING AN ARMY
OF UNEMPLOYED
BY MACHINERY
Sell Stock to Those Left
on Job
BY was. WHITE.
(Worker Correspondent

GIIaARD, Ohio, Dec. 29-The Byers
Iron companytAAhas just installed a
Christmas gift for the men who are
employed on the big plate mill. 1t is
in the form of a patent charging and
drawing machfne, which charges and
draws the 2000sp piles out Of the heat
ing furnaces where they are heated
for the rolls. iasi
All this WORK was formerly done by
men who madeo a fair living out of
this work The men can now go out
and look for a new master, and that
precious thing 4 job, for IA of them
are removed 8r5m the gang by the
new machine on each turn.
The mill is Just now working two
turns and % men will have to seek a
Job in some other plant, and when the
mill works three turns they will be
saving the wages of AZ men. Small
wonder hat the stock which was sold
a short time ago on the market for
SIS per share, for the common stock.
is now selling for $3S per share, and
that they have been able to pay divi-
dend of IS per share for the past nine
months.
Yet in the coming conference they
will plead poverty and that they are
not able to pay the puddlers and the
men who work for them living wage.
During all the time that the stock has
been going up and they have been
earning SIS on $1S worth of stock the
price per tom for pudding iron has
been going down and down.
They are trying to sell stock to the
men in. the hope they will not go out
on strike IL sthe company refuses to
sign the scale this coming year and
declares for the open shop in their
plants. A bad condition in the mills
is that the fnishers are all working
open shop. andiahave no connection
with the menswho are in the union,
and they are sthus in this way assist
ing the company in its fight for the
open shop. .-1l
Even the organized workers do not
ask any questions on where the coal
comes from that they must burn
whether it comes from union mines
or open shops. Taking it all in all it
is a case of organized scabbery all
around. } one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Workers Write AbOutI7thG Workers. Life
BYASTEEL WORKER
81 = worker correspondent.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, 29.-The the
you hate to leave bed
goes clock!
What your strained body does need rest7 You are
None of tha "us
blow
you profits for him didn't he? Yeh
sleep Well, the bed not for That
UP MAKE IT FAST. You'll breakfast
don't hurry breakfast-coffee, that will help.
eff wouldn't hold for ringing another fellows
could help fellow Time Nix,
awaits fellow eIses
time special fired the
time, that's ALL
"What should be What ask Sure, stupid don't
you Merely MANY JOBS United
say
Coolidge.
"oee docked stop
minutes late and half Ha the
coffee Look out you're scaldins your nsdesI
"That minute Where's bucket? hear Il.
Here I've GOT TO MAKE IT!
"Wel the bosses whistle going blow min
now-which the herald o another toIlng day"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
PROGRAM OUTLINED AT
FOR CORRESPONDENTS
CLASS ON WEDNESDAY

The Chicago class in Workers
Correspondence meets tonight this
week owing to New Years eve
falling on Thursday, which Is our
regular class night. Students will
bring their outlines for Anniversary
edition article to be discussed in
class. In addition there is to be
discussion on: Difficulties and
problems encountered In writing;
how to begin writing an article;
how to collect information and
facts and the reading and ortlelz-
Ing Of manuscripts. There will also
be a report on the "Livlng News
paper" Students are urged to make
a special effort to attend this class.
It meets as usual In the editorial
room Of The DAILY WORKER,
1t1s Washington Blvd, at 8 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Profits Not Education
Is Goal of Colleges,
Declares Professor

Professor w. ]. Newlin of Amherst
charges that American colleges have
become huge football trusts at the ex-
pense of scholarship standard. His
charges are being warmly discussed
by educators attending the convention
of the American association of college
professors, now in session here.
Professor Newlin declared educa-
ton is bankrupt, while football is
turning over a business of millions
a year. Football" ne said bitterly,
builds stadiums--and when did math-
ematics ever build a residence hall.
Scholarship is not paying PROPOSE
ton. 1t has to be subsidized Football
makes money"
The public's acceptance of an econ
omic yardstick as the true guage of
success has made them apathetic to-
ward education, he declared, and
caused them to classify educators as
intellectual wet nurses, along with
house maids and buffers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Barbusse Nails Lie
of Roumanian Boyars

BUCHAREST, Roumania-U. r. Al
-(By MaiD-Henri Barbusse spent a
few days in Roumania to inform him
self about the shameful actions Of the
Roumanian terrorists in the Kishina
trial. HIS stay was used by the whole
bourgeois press of Europe to print an
alleged statement. of Barbusse that cit
cannot be denied that the spirit of re-
volt penetrated into Bessarabia from
thelishore OF the Dniestr q. e. from
Soviet Russia.D"
Barbusse requested US by telegram
to publish the following correction:
. ~The news spread by some tele-
graph agencies according to which
have declared to Bucharest press rep
resentatives that It cannot be denied
that the spirit of revolt penetrates
into Bessarabia from the other shore
of the Dniestr is a senseless and ma
Hcious Invention. / have never made
such a statement My Investigations
have in reality had quite different re-
suits. The news mentioned above has
been apparently inventend abroad by
interested circles. because these is
not single Roumanian newspaper
from which it could have been TAX
en-"
While Barbusse was in Bucharest
he was assaulted by a gang of fascist
in the pay Of, the Roumanian sigur-
antsi for declaring that the Bessarab-
ian peasants who were accused in the
Tatarbounar process did not receive a
fair trial. The police that attended
Barbusse's lecture in one of the work
ers' halls refused to protect him from
the mob. The workers themselves
protected Barbusse. Later when Bar
busse was on his way to the hotel
Athenea Palace, he was attacked and
severely beaten by the fascist gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
''Lenin" Laboratory
Conducts Experiments
on Short Wave Radio

LENINGRAD, U. s. S. R., Dec. %
The "Lenin" Laboratory at Nizhni-
Novgorod is conducting radio trans
mission experiments on short waves.
Information showing that Russian
messages can be very we'll heard has
been received from places even so dis
tant from the Union of Socialist So
Wet Russia as South America and
Australia.
Recent Russian accomplishment in
the field Of short wave transmission
include the invention of a special
method of attracting directed antenna
and new kind Of antenna with great
capacity.
Work on short wave transmission
has a great future in the Soviet Union,
in view of the low cost of equipping
transmission. and the low power Of
transmitters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
WORKER Correspondent |
AIDS DAILY WORKER |
REACH new REkQERS |

DEAR coMRADE EDlToR-A
comrade just came into the Of
flee and told me the following: He
Is member Of shop nucleus Of
seven comrades working in. shop
employing several hundred workers.
AT the first meeting Of their newly
organized unit, in addition to all
the other officers, the comrades
elected a worker correspondents
who took his position quite serious
Iy and Immediately set to the job of
sending correspondence to The
DAILY WORKER about the condi-
tions Of the workers in the shop.
When the paper appeared with those
articles good sized bundle of
them was taken to the shop. The
workers were all eager to get
copy and read of their own condi-
tions written by a fellow worker.
The worker correspondent was
spurred on to write more about the
struggles of the workers. And he
did. The result was that after the
workers had read the next issue of
The DAILY WORKER six Of them
subscribed for the paper with many
promising to subscribe in the very
near future.
am writing this just to illustrate
what the reorganization is aeeomp-
fishing and that perhaps those fine
results may help other worker
correspondents and newly organix-
ed units in achieving similar re-
suits. comradeIy yours, Harry
Fox, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS |
COMPETE AGAIN TO WIN |
PRIZES FOR STORIES |

start now sending in your stories
for the next competition OF worker
correspondents. Prizes will be an
nounced, with the winning stories,
In the full page Of worker CORE
spondence to appear in Thursdays
lssus of. The DAILY WORKER next
week. The prizes are as follows:
FiRsTs- PRIZE. 1.-THE Goose.
stsp,y by Upton Sinclair.
q SECOND PRIzE:-"Romanoc Of
Now Rvssla," by MssdsIsne Marx.
n THIRD PRIzE:---orlpInai Of
DAILY WORKER oarteoa, framed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
RAIL FINANCIER
Played FOR HIS
MISMANAGEMENT
Bankers Get Rake-Of
on St. Paul Road
BY CARL HAEssLER,
editor, Federated Press)

Former president, now receiver,
Harry Byram OF the ChicagoA Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad, srrohsbly
curses the day that his road laid a
single mile. of track in Wisconsin for
it is. the Wisconsin trackage and the
Wisconsin incorporation of the now
bankrupt system that gave Attorney
general Herman Eltern OF the Badger
state his chance to flay the perspir-
ing rail financier,
Dress. Down President.
The leisurely dressing down inflict-
ed on receiver Byram took place IN
the crystal room Of the Great North
ern hotel before two members of the
interstate commerce commission In
yestigating the st. Paul road from
which eastern fnanciers hope TO
make over 100000 by "reorganiz-
ation."g The crystal room once daz-
zled the previous generation with rs
old rose hangings, crystal chandeliers
and innumerable wall and pillar mir
rors. The mirrors are chiefly useful
now for a witness like Byra1a to
watch his lawyers face without look
ing directly at him.
when you assumed the presidency
in 1917 You did not intend to drive
the road into bankruptcy" Ekern
slowly asked Byram who said, no,
and jerked his chin toward the cell
ing. Ekern then drew from him that
the market value of st. Paul stock
in 1916 was $3.50, 100000 while in 1895
after eight years of Byram admins
tration it was only 100000 q
shrinkage of seven-eighths.
Kuhn, Loeb AGO. RakeofY.
The inquiry was giving point to ru-
mors that the road was deliberately
driven into bankruptcy to give the
financial house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
the fat rakeoff that goes with large
scale wrecking of companies. In fact
there was an uncomfortable minute
or two when the witness had TO ad-
NIT that not only had he been presi-
dent while the road was tumbling.
and not only had an obliging court
made him one of the receivers, but
that inraddition, he had bought 1000
shares Of preferred stock of the road
at aanominal sum after he had become
receiver This investment has already
almost doubled.
70 Talk About Acquisitions.
Eksrn dug mercilessly into the ac-
quisition by the st. PeHi CT Sic cAi-
cago. Terre Haute & Southeastern, an
Indiana coal road, which turned out
to be a barefaced unloading scheme
by Standard OIL bakers on Byram's
road with the president attempting to
paint it as big boost for. his sys-
tenn. In 1921, when the st. Paul was
unable to borrow a cent from any
banker, Ekern brot out, the road was
still able to add over $22, ZOO, 900 to
its indebtedness by assuming the OBJ
legations OF the coal road tho It got
an equity of less than $4,000 in ac-
tual value.
The investigation has adjourned TO
resume at later date.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31

may be readily understood by the COM
Missions fixing of the rate for the
poor girls under 16 years of age at
50 per week. Thus, If a girl who is IA
years of age is employed, she must
work two years, until she is '16 years
old, at the same rate of SO week.
despite the fact that she does the
same work as other workers.
Organization of the women workers
and the youth in the industries of
Massachusetts, is the crying need Of
the hour. Young workers, join the
fighting organization of the young
workers-the Young Workers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Workers
Win Wage Increase;
Lose Right to Strike

New agreements for a universal g.
hour day and 81 an hour for the high
est paid group viii run to June IA,
1926, as signed by Local 71S, Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers with the Automobile Associated
Trades of Illinois. Strikes are out
lawed and any failure to agree will be
arbitrated. The dollar wage, for COM
bination battery and ignition men, is
&c. hourly increase. Ignition men
will get soc. and battery men zoe.
each 1870 raise. Work from Satur-
day midnight to Sunday night will not
be obligatory, and time and half
will be paid for all work over hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31

commissions Office room .472, State
House. The new rates. II approved,
will go into effect march, = 1925.
TIE present decree which has been
in effect since Jan. i, 1920, provides
a minimum rate of.ssf2'5W for women
and girls after a year and i6half en-
ployment, and special minimum
rate of $500 for beginners. sThis is the
terrible exploitation the women and
girls in the candy ff1dustfSbare sub
jected to. There is no Organized move
ment in this industry. ~ cd 81
The new recommendations require
a learning period of one year and give
an increase. of measley so cents to
experienced employees, The, candy in
dustry is an industry which has been
so highly developed that the employees
are mere machine feedeErs, and it does
not even require a few months to be-
come an experienced rsScog in the
Wheel" but this requirement of
years work at $500 a week is so much
more of the labor. Of the candy slaves
converted into profits for, the, bosses.
This is the penalty for being unor-
ganized. s,oif 81,
Stationery Workers.
Another example Of the brutal ex-
ploitation of women and girl workers
is the stationery goods and envelope
occupation. A minimum rate of $13.75
for women and girls over IS years of
age with IL months experience be-
comes effective January /. The decree
has catch in it, providing special
rates below the minimum for minors
and inexperienced workers as follows:
For those under Is years of age
with IL months experience in partic-
ular shop, not less than $12 week;
for minors over Is years of age, not
less than $11 week, and for minors
under 16 years of age not less than So
a week.
This wage decree does not cover the
manufacture of paper. itself, but ap-
plies to various products into which
the paper is converted. Like the cam
dy industry this is ashighly developed
industry in which automatic ma
chinery vomits out the various paper
products, yet the minimum wage COM
mission, which is dominated by the
bosses who can easily convince and
win over the so-called, labor members
of the commission, requires q whole
years slavery Of -the women and girls
at wages below the minimum rates.
The cowardly advantage this class
harmony" commission takes of minors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
TELLS STORY OF
new YORK CITY
DOWN And OUTER
Recruiting Sergeants
Haunt Missions
nx A worker correspOnasnt

NEW YORK CITY, Dec. 2S.-ls
there a city institution in New York
city that helps the down and out
ersY Yes. The municipal lodging
house located at 25th street and East
River.
This will tell exactly how found
this house. AS soon as came in |
was met by stout guard who directed
me to an office window.
There they asked me my life's his
tory. Where and whom l worked for
in the last few years, etc. then went
into the dining room and had my sup
per of stew, bread and coffee with
out sugar.. ga 1EE
After eating had to go downstairs
and hand all my clothes to be disin-
fected. After taking a shower bath,
we all were taken up on the elevator.
Before we were allowed to sleep
doctor examined as all to see if any
one had a disease. An army recruit
ing sergeant was On duty in the doc
tors Office. All those the doctor
thought could pass the army physical
test he sent over to speak to the SER
geant. didn't care to speak to the
sergeant.
we all were woke up at daybreak
and had a breakfast of oatmeal and
coffee without milk or sugar. Altho
I was hungry the meal had no taste
so l did not eat much.
Before going out one has to check
out at the office. l. ,Ae ONCE does not
give you slip you can't get out Of the
building, as guard is at the door in
uniform. ,..<s..
AS, / could not get q job and was
homeless i was forced to come back
to this house for five, days, as the
weather was very cold at night. The
third day was there they kept me in
side In the morning and made me work
for three hours cleaning and hopping
up floors, taking off sheets from beds,
etc OF course l did not get pay for
this. e- sfat
l was told they allow New York
state residents five days a month to
stay at this Institution and out Of town
people one day a month.
I feel sorry for anyone who is down
and out in this system of society. Dur
* the month l was down and out
or (last winter, / found out when a
man is down he is. also out. All the
missions and Salvation Army did for
me was to preach religion, but that
did not get me meal or a bed to
sleep in.
The municipal lodging house and
the missions will be crowded more
than ever this year as unemployment
is increasing. The prisons are also
getting filed up because of unemploy-
ment, poverty naturally following.
Workers will have to soon build more
prisons and fill them themselves.
AS worker | know that conditions
for the class are getting worse and
worse. 1t is only in Communist Rus
STA where the workers conditions are
the best. Long live Soviet Russiai l
know the time will come when we in
this country will have. a workers gov
eminent like in Russia. When? AS
soon as all the workers know what
Communism is and know that their
real enemy is this capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Bachelor Poll Tax
Proposed in Turkey

CoNSTANTINoPLE, Dec. 2s.--The
finance ministry proposes to put a
poll tax on bachelor Turks between
80 and as at rates half as much as
against married men.
State monopolies of the sale and
import OF oil and sugar are also pro
posed as new sources of revensc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
Unemployed Worker
Begs Police to Send
Him to Jail Workhouse

ST. LOUIS Dec. 29-"Please arrest
me, officer. want to 90 to the work
house. That will be better than going
hungry unable to get job" Thus
Joseph zarcic addressed policeman
who attempted to remove him from
the front ora fashionable downtown
st. Louis business house.
zarcic admitted he purposely took
a position blocking the entrance to
the store as a means of getting him
self arrested. In city court he prompt
ly pleaded guilty 40 charge OF va
grancy and reneyfd his request for
a workhouse terms where / can get
shelter and something to eat"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31

LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R., Dec. 90
Several hundred volumes on the his
tory of the parliamentary movement
in France have been received by the
Leningrad public library from Senator
De Monzie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
MASSACHUSETTS WAGE BOARD
AIDS THE BOSSES TO EXPLOIT
CHILDREN AND WOMEN WORKERS
By 4. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD. Worker

BY n. SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD, Worker Correspondent
2sAfter
$1,000
the candy industry Massachusetts,
and for public Tuesday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31

he toiIJ like itsuGice your union
brother a subn to The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31
F|REMEN'S union
is CONFIDENT OF
WAGE INCREASE

Wage boosts cfor Chicago firemen.
whipped. out of tax lodging corpora
tons by the alert efforts of the Fire
mems Association. of Chicago local
No. 2, International Association of
Fire Fighters). appear nearer as the
finance committee OF the city coun-
Gil gathers.
To Boost Valuations.
Batteries of keen lawyers bristling
with legal points and threats tried to
overawe the board of review into
denying the firemen's plea. The plea
was a request that the capital stock
Of IS named corporations be assessed
at dts fair market value, as provided
by law. Armour & Co., whose stock
is valued in Moody's Analysis of In
vestments, the standard financial au-
thority, at $SS,O54.342, was taxed at
value of 100000 or 1-160 of its
market value. The 1896, $40 mar
ket value OF the stock of the Crane
Co., makers Of goldplated layatories,
was taxed at a,svalue OF nothing at
all. Nance
Threaten 10 Leave State.
The lawyers threatened to tie the
case up in litigation for years into
he highest coands. They limited at
moving their corporations out of the
state. One or two however, said they
would not try 90 dodge taxes IL all
corporations were treated alike.
The fremen learned their tax game
from the teachers union which won
a similar case before the Illinois board
OF equalization rs years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-31

In sohich Trotsky erpIodes the sham pre-
lenses of so-cdlled bourgeois "democrdcy,H
and captains the character of the dictator
ship Of the aoorking class. Kautsly and the
later socidl-democratic school come in for
soarm criticism at the hands Of the most
brilliant soriter in the International Com
manist Increment. 80 cents--Cloth, 500
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