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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-25

ment had been reached by the build
ing trades unions, that if the plum
bers' demands were met, all of the
building trades would strike for a
similar increase. The plumbers had
been on strike since May s.
Since the lockout the contractors
have made several attempts to break
the solidarity of the unions by Offer
ing separate settlements to various
unions All of these offers were spurn-
ed by the. strikers. Last Thursday,
after prolonged conferences, the plas-,
terers refused to negotiate with the
contractors until the entire situation
was cleared up. The building trades
workers have refused to return to
work pending arbitration" The plas-
terers are demanding wage increase
from S11.00 to s14.O0 per day.
Force Independents TO Join.
In declaring the lockout, the con-
tractors association officials admitted
that the fight may develop into an
effort on our part to declare an open
shop" But the bankers. including
the Midcity State bank, which con-
structs houses, and the Steel City
Construction company, the Deutsch
Construction company, and the other
larger bankers and contractors, have
used the strike and lockout as a club
to force the Independent, smaller con-
tractors to join the association. I'VE
are cleaning our own house, too" one
banker said, at meeting Of the
association.
On the first day Of the strike, 16
independent contractors were forced
into the association. In addition, press
ure was brought to bear on the mate
rial dealers, who joined with the associ-
alton, and refused to deliver material
to independent contractors. The real
estate board, the chamber of com
merce, the commercial club, and other
business organizations, all of which
are controlled by the steel corpora
tions, Joined with the bankers and
contractors in the open shop" drive
on the building workers.
The contractors association made
desperate efforts to induce the plumb
ers to return to work and form
committee to settle the wage contro-
versy. Stevens, the business agent,
explained, however, that the plumbers
have no committee with power to
make settlement Stevens declared
that any action would have to be
taken by the union at Monday nights
meeting, when all Of the plumbers
would be given chance to rule what
sort of settlement should be made.
Four meetings were held with the
plumbers during the strike and lock.
out, and at three Of these a "concilia.
tor" sent by Secretary of Labor Davis,
attended, and tried to induce the
strikers to return to work on their
old wage scale, pending settlement.
Davis Lauds Employers.
Davis, in his speech at the Moose
Home, glorined the fact that
American business has set up such a
gigantic system of exploitation, and
gloated over the big profits now being
made by the employers.
"a magnificent MILL" was the term
he used for the Gary slave pens
where thousands of steel workers toll
at wages of As cents an hour. "That
mill represents real patriotism"
Davis said. 1t represents real Ameri-
canism, and we need that kind of
Americanism."
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Progressive Miners '8I
Special Convention
to Fight harrington
CONTINUED from Page II

NOca1AAuC0 AOLu dkC ~
tional election as provided by the con-
stitution, as John L. Lewis has re-
fused to abide by the constitution and
have the election returns sent out to
each local union. Thousands Of miners
believe Lewis was defeated and is
holding ONCE illegally and taking this
method Of concealing his defeat and
charges must be made, his removal
from ONCE demanded for violation of
the international constitution, Art 0,
Sec. So.
No Wage Cut.
The operators are attempting to in
fluence the miners to accept a wage
cut to be able to compete with the
non union mines. The non union
mines are working 40 per cent of the
time, on an average not much better
than the union mines. A reduction
Of wages in the union field would re-
suit in like reduction in the nom
union field and both fields would be
relatively worse off. Wage cuts must
be fought against and a campaign OF
education thruout the district must
be started against wage cuts thru
the miners papers and in all other
available ways.
An increase in wages Is necessary
20 meet the increased cost OF living
nd. this end the campaign must be
started. =
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Gary Workers Firm Despite DaUis
Continued from PAGE y

Continued from page y
to force the open shop" on Gary and
bring non-union building workers into
Gary.
"As a union man do you consider
the open shop good American prin-
ciple and a good American institu-
tion?" the DAILY WORKER reporter
asked.
Acts AS strikebreaker.
"Well, that's a controversial mat
ter" Davis replied Il wouldn't care
to go into that. For eight years be-
fore came into the cabinet the de-
partment Of labor has had a policy of
Cancellation. We are conciliators. If
declared myself for the closed shop
the employers wouldn't have me, and
if l declared myself against it the
unions wouldn't like 1t, so don't ex-
press myself on that subject"
Afraid to Defend Workers.
what can 1 say about the lockout,
what could I say" Davis continued
What would you say?"
After being told by the DAILY
WORKER reporter that good union
man should be for one hundred per
cent organization, and therefore
against the open shop" Davis re-
piled: well, that's all very we'll for
you to express yourself, but you
haven't got a government Job tagged
onto you. If I was free Of a govern
ment job would commit myself
too"
After making this admission that
requirements for a cabinet member
are cowardice and hypocrisy, Davis
continued his handshaking, backslap-
ping and baby patting of the local
Moose"
Davis was the honored guest Of the
United States Steel corporation, which
has taken the lead in attacking the
union building workers of Gary. He
went thru the steel mills with cham
Der Of commerce members acting as
the reception committee.
Steel Trust Ordered Lockout.
The men whom Davis praised, after
attacking the foreign-born workers,
and the Communists, were Gary en-
ployers who are assaulting the trade
unions. Davis made not single men,
ton of the lockout in his public
speeches. The steel trust is directly
constructing 103 houses to house
workers in the new tube works, and
has in addition let building contracts
to the Germatta Construction COM
pany, the John Larguro company, and
several other leading contractors.
The next move in the lockout
will be Monday night, when
committee Of three, Tom Meal
lister, Bert Drake and G. Elkins, re-
port to the Plumbers Union on the
conferences that have been held with
representatives of the contractors,
Bert Stevens, business agent of the
Plumbers Union, told the DAILY
WORKER.
No Agreement Reached.
Altho building trades council Of
ficials told the DAILY WORKER that
the union heads are willing to settle
Independently with the contractors, it
is known that the plasterers have al
ready refused to return to work until
the contractors meet the plumbers
demands.
The building trades workers were
locked out six days ago, when the
Gary General Building Contractors
Association announced that an agree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-25
TRAITORS BESET
WEST VIRGINIA
COAL MINERS
Shinnston Local Officials
Turn Fink
(Continued from page u


effect that they desire to surrender
their charter and supplies and re-
quest G. f. Davis, financial agent to
take charge of same"
Operators Agents Controlled Local.
But Davis goes on to relate cir
cumstances which show that some
thing lay behind the riimor that ]. E.
Weeks and G. M. Vincent former
president and secretary of Local 4009
had turned in the charter. Further
more, these fnks have proceeded to
organize and incorporate a company
union at shinnston in a dastardly at
tempt to break the q. M. w. Of A.
from the outside. 5]
Davis says: ~. d. Weeks, the for
mer member OF the U. M. w. of A.,
who, it is claimed. wrote this letter
to the Fairmont once, is brother to
the general manager Of the Bethle
hem Coal company, and members of
the U. M. w. of A. in northern West
Virginia have intelligence enough to
realize that, taking all the facts into
consideration, this action is very
much on the order OF brotherly af-
fair"
Mass Meetings But No Relief.
To Offset the Encouragement caus-
ed by the above finks who had gotten
hold of Local 40O9, the union officials
called a mass meeting of the Shinn-
ston miners on lot across from the
Bethlehem mines and reported 1000
miners and their families attended.
In addition, they reported 500 at Glass;
vile and 600 at Harrington meet
ings. However, murmurs are heard
among the strikers at the failure of
the union to give any strike relief
and criticism Of the high salaries be-
ing paid the international officers
while women and children of the
miners are starving.
The miners are, none the less, de-
termined to stick blythe union and
maintain as militant, q fight as the
white-livered Officially will permit
them to make. The men scoff at the
treachery Of Weeks and Vincent and
say that they will have nothing to do
with the company union incorporated
by them with the aid of the U. NJ, w.
Of A. Attorney John B. Wyatt, under
the name of the Mountaineer Coal
Miners Association, supposed to
make an agreement" with the Bethle-
hem company.
The traitor attorney, Wyatt, who
was lawyer for Local 4O09, says that
the signers of theecharter for this
scab company union, including Weeks,
Vincent, Roy Wilson. L. E. Seckman,
E. J. Curry, w. H. Drummond, o. L.
Whiteman and R. D. Burnett, all of
Shinnston, were all officers of Local
4OOS. The membership have got the
number of these traitors to the union
and promise to give them a severe
letting alone.
Determined to Fight on All Fronts.
While the struggle of the miners is
bitter, and they have to fight this
inner treachery and the spineless and
mercenary takers like Bittner and
Lewis who care only for their own
high salaries and are ready to betray
the struggle at any point, as well as
continuing their picketing in the fight
against the operators. yet the miners
are loyal union men and will stick
thru thick and thin, thru hunger and
privation, because they know that
only by struggle can they win, while
surrender now will lead to further and
even more bitter hardships.
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Union Takers Aid "Open Shop"

part. of the union officials. is being
relied upon by the company to infiu-
ence the Akron workers. The com
pany feels that It has the open shop
fight practically won.
However, the Akron carmen point
to the fact that the officials Of the
local and even President Mahon can
not force arbitration upon them on
the question of the unionization Of
the bus men by including them in the
agreement, because the union consti-
tuition plainly states that bus men are
eligible for membership. II Mahon and
O'Neil insist on the open shop they
will be violating the union constitution
it is pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-25
Last Meeting Of Alexander charmoN
To Be Held Tonight.

The last meeting OF Comrade Alex
ander Chramov will be held in Chi
cago tonight at 1880 West 14th street.
All his meetings In Chicago have
drawn big crowds. After this meet
ing he goes back 10 New York where
he will participate in the Novy Mir.
All who understands Russian are IN.
vited TO this meeting. Admission is
Ia free.
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THREE FASCISTS
ARE KILLED IN
STREET FIGHTS
tspeeIaI . rhe paIIx worker,


ROME, Italy, May 24.-Fighting be-
tween fascist troops and anti-fascist
workers continues in several towns
in Italy. At Rovigot one fascist was
killed and another seriously wounded
in street fighting. At Adria two were
killed and one injured.
A mob Of fascists wrecked the print
ing plant Of the anti-fascist newspaper,
Popolo Veneto at Padue, and smashed
several shops belonging to snti-fas-
cists. They set fire to the Concord
thsater, and destroyed several head
quarters and private homes of their
opponents.
Fighting also occurred at Brescia.
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Sinclair cannot AppeaI Gaze.

MOSCOW, May 24.-The supreme
court has rejected the appeal OF the
Sinclair company against the decision
OF the Moscow district court annuling
the saghallen concession.
ILL.,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

office force nothing was too good for
them, and went into town to person
ally, myself, spread a little sweetness
and light. Geo. was kinda sur
priSed and sore when | come into the
office to steal his stuff like that. but
seeing there was no hotter roll for him
To play, why he beamed from the back
ground while I delivered my glad It'd
ings about the turkey, plum pudding,
etc, TO the bookkeeper. This dove of
peace looked over the top of his cheat
ers in his pale way and listened kind
~ until | got through, and then he
spoke up.
Why that is awful nice OF you. Mrs.
Jules, he says, but | got a crowd of
roughnecks coming in for little game
of stud on Christmas and Il turkey
from the delicatessen and | couldn't
hardly disappoint the boys,
The deceitful thing, and him look
ing all these months as if he would
faint at the mere mention of parchesi,
He even spoke in a kinda plying tore
To think ! didn't know any better then
to have one of them old-fas hiOned
Christmas. So l put him in his place
wherever that was. and went over to
ask that Miss Spelling, Georges ste
nographer.
or course, | realized where we was
natural enemies on account OF our
positions With Geo, but I thought
oh well. this is the season To for
give bygones, and if she has many
time asked coldly who wants 10
speak to him. please? before she
would let me have my own husband
on the phone. and acted generally as
If she knew more about him then
did. why l decided TO forgive her all
a Ci- To NN-ha
full wife, cook and companion he really
had at home. SO | says Oh Miss
Spelling, don't want you should have
dreary Christmas In your room,
want you to come out to us for dinner,
we are going to have Il ,bic turkey and
a nice old-fashioned, honey time,
don't feel shy about saying yes
we really would love to have you.
Miss Spelling smoothed down her
hips and tried to stick her pencil in
her hair. remembered she couldn't
make it on account of the boyish bob.
and looking the mirror of her compact
straight in the face, Strengthened said
face while she replied. Say, that's
real sweet of you, Mrs Jules, she says,
but me and the boy friend have "a date
Christmas to go to the pictures and a
turkey dinner after, out to q dandy
roadhouSe he knows, he's got Il grand
new car and couldn't disappoint him,
thanks just the same.
y !; !:
TALK about the gratitude OF the
working classes, why person
can't be bountiful if there Amt nobody
to bount on, How young girl like
that could prefer roadhouse, Christ
mas, in preference TO a refined home,
and a cheerfully given free meal with
respectable patrons, was more than
could see. And when I finally came
down in despair to the office boy only
to find that his mother had won a 20.
pound turkey in q rattle the VERY da u,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

before. | turned around and went
home in disgust. fully realizing where
there wasn't no more gratitude or APP
probation left in the world.
No sooner had ] come inside the
house then the phone rung, and IL
was the butcher and he says he was
sorry to disappoint me, but somebody
else had got my bird by mistake, and
they was all out and SO was |. Well.
my Merry Christmas was all gone by
then anyways, so / though Oh well.
I guess we might as Well 20 over to
Mother Jules 10 dinner, after all,
Christmas only comes once a year.
guess we can stand the family for d
few hours annually, especially If they
succeeded in getting a turkey. So ]
wrote and told Geo. s mother we would
be there. But until just few minutes
before We Was ready TO start for her
house, l forgot all about getting her
any present except the handkerchiefs
from the Five and Dime. which !
luckily hadn't mailed
So naturally l had at the last mo
ment 10 scurry around the house and
find something To take her, but all !
could dig up Was y doz. old tea
spoons. They looked kinda antique
so | made up a story about their hav.
ing been in the family A long long
time, which was undoubtedly the case.
wrapped them in End hand tissue
paper which was all could find. tied
the package up with a piece Of ribbon
out OF my clean underwear, and when
l got through, the package didn't look
SO bad, considering it was one OF them
presents where the sentiment counts
mo- then the actual cash value.
/ put the pkg. in my lnuff. and
N frS IIlll nd
she at once commenced senioring me
about my wraps, about Juniors cold
and etc. as per usual. Then she
hauled out a package tied up in tissue
paper that somebody had apparently
slept in, and tied with the ribbon off
OF present of a different size YOU
could tell by the crushed places. Here,
my dear child, she says, is Il little
tritie l picked up for YOU. it's Just a
little token, it isn't much.
Well, l took and opened it. and she
was right. 1t wasn't much. 1t was the
same salad bowl with the handpainted
| poiSon-ivy on II that | had give her
the year before. And as I says oh nv
dear, how lovely, how sweet of YOU
just what | wanted, | was all the time
nearly fainting to think how near
had come to giving her them antique
spoons, which was, of course. her own,
now | came to think of IT. So ! mere
" says do hope my little gift arrived
all right? And she says why no. it
amt. And ] says, we'll it will, it's just
been delayed, which was the truth, on
account It would arrive as soon as l
bought 1t, next day.
All of which. thinking back on the
nervous strain of them sweet home
Christmases, has got me this year TO
deciding l would ignore the day en-
urely and eat in the automat. And
I'd go through with the idea, too, IL
1t wasn't for Junor--and George
md myself,
Copyright, 1922
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

planning such a. unique Christmas
that ii seems like nothing short of
criminal to not tell about II in case
some of youSe may be up a stump
yourself for idears as TO how to make
this coming yuletidc different than
others and at the same time not loose
none of the hilarity so appropriate to
the season.
Mr.. Littey got his notion one night
while reading his daily dozen chapters
in the dictionary 1t happened on
this night that he came to the word
merry and found 1t meant something
stronger than the way a person feels
when they open up beribboned tissue
paper package and find that Aunt
Gale has sent them a necktie which
they wouldn't wear to their own bath
room.
"A person that is really merry"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20

They're what You get out of a
college education these days" / tells
her, outside of a little foot ball and
couple Of pennants to slap up in
your room"
You're not speaking about john"
snaps the misses. They're talking
about putting him in Phi Beta Kama y
What's that?" l inquiries
That's a kind of club" explains
Kate, that they put only the best
students in
''Oh. yeh?" ] recalls. Il got a couple
of EN- down the factory, in the ship
ping department, getting SIS week"
That don't prove nothing" com
ments Kate. excepting that you amt
got enough brains to recognize talent
Joe Tracy's boy is down at the fac
tory, too, isn't hep
He is" 1 returns II put him on
when they threw him out of college
last Spring. He gets q hundred a
week now for running the shipping
department He maybe don't know
any Greek, but he knows how to
handle Greeks"
Il don't care anything about him."
blazes the wife. Hes a ruffian, and
the time at college. John is a nice
decent boy, with q clean mind, and
he and his friends will just love the
amusements / get mp for them, cha.
rades and crossword puzzles and NAH
jong."
Il dare you to write him your pro
gram" says /. IF he comes after h
gets your letter and brings his friends
III get you a mink coat
II don't have to write" comes bacl
Kate. Il know my family and theii
likes and dislikes."
Outside of me- says I, what are
their diSlikes?'
They dislike drinking" returns the
frau, land all those rough things
| some of them younger generations is
doing. I'll bet John doesn't step out
OF his room at night-he loves his
studies So
Along about that time the phone
rings and Kate goes to answer When
she comes down again she's pale and
worried.
What's the trouble?" l asks.
There must be some mistake" she
mumbles.
What is it?" I banks.
They raided a roadhouse near New
Haven says the wife, land they ar
rested some students. One of them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-20
in the Home, Garage Economy and Modern Charades
Idea, Applied to Glad Season,
Produces Concentrated Christmas

sion Of satisfaction. Tn" banquet
which lasted AZ minutes. is Regarded
as making the record for the prcsen'
season. There was a universal feeling
among the guests that another enor-
nous step had been taken toward III"
high efficiency which is the character
istic OF our age. Many Of the guests
indeed, expressed their intention o.
going straight ha"k TO work for the
rest Of the evening"
or even worse than this what is
going to happen I" the annual Christ
mas dinner, once the chief event Of the
family year? Il viii be recorded
perhaps in such terms:
The smiling family were gathered
round the hospilab." hoard. The table
was plenteously laid with d soup plat"
in front. of each hcaming chil1. II
bucket Of hot water before the radiant
mother, and at the head Of the board
the Christmas dinner Of the happy
home, warmly covered by q thimblc
and resting on a poker chip.
The eXpectant whispers Of the little
ones were hushed as the father ris-
ing from his chair lifted the thinbic
and disclosed Il small pill Of CUnceu-
trated nourishmeut on the chip hetot'
him. Christmas turkey. cranheTT.
sauce, plum pudding. miuce pic
was all there, all damned INTO tie
Iii tie pill and only waiting 10 expand.
Then the father. with deep r"He!-
eHce and a drvout eve alternating b..
tween the pill and heaven. lifted hi
voice in q benedictiou.
A. this moment there was al
akouized cry from the mother.
oh. Henry, quick. Baby has
snatched the pin.
II was TOO true. Dear little Gus
tlvus Adolphus, the golden haired
baby boy, had grabbed the whole
Christmas dinner of Of the poker chip
and bolted il. Three hundred and fiftE
pounds Of concentrated nourishmeuj
PASSED down The esophagus Of the III
thinking child
clap him on the back" cried III.
distracted mother.
Give him water
Not at ALL" said the father C4In.E.
You only show that You do not full
understand the Wonu ag-ful merits o.
this new invention. Little AdoIphu-
will suffer no harm ii all but he
won't need 10 cat At all for ! : years
tCOpT-IEhT. 1925