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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1925-06-17
THE KEY
To Better Business
HOME TRADE

Do know that property is controlled by retail
stores than other kind of business in this There
money invested in retail than all the banks
Their sales exceed that of the steel industry
More paid by retail merchants any other
class.
More people employed in retail than in any
other trade. You the plus sign anything you like
regard to the retail business Therefore, consider
the and Of improving the greatest activity
Charles Town today This be done by Being Booster
For Charles Town, and by Buying From Charlie, Mer
chant They paying the heaviest and making
Charles Town the Business Center of the County.
Back them with your purchases here at home.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

lied and broken up and wages and working conditions
being made the playthngs of the railroad executives
is not accident that the public of Lees
plan in the capitalist press accompanied by strong
pressions of approval from railroad executives 1t their
pan devised in their interests and striking at the heart of
the railroad unions, whose they fear and hate For
the very the railroad presidents greet the proposal
oyuIy the railroad workers fight against it, and
demand that their officials repudiate it.
Neither is it accident that it is VIM. c. Lee who has
been chosen by the railroad presidents launch their Plan
Lee the who broke the strike of 1922 by the organ
lied of union scabs But recently Lee was
nounced by the capitalist press having become the pres
dent of great corporation that manufactures railroad
equipment In his policies in his IDEAS and in his material
interests Lee belongs the class of oad capitalists and
the railroad workers.
| EE'S proposal is put forward in the Of unity of all
l. railroad workers unions But what kind of unity does
he propose? LEE PROPOSES UNITY WITH AND UNDER
THE LEADERSHIP OF THE RAILROAD CORPORATION
PRESIDENTS!
The Shiny hypocricy of using the term unity to des-
crbe Lees plan be fully realized only when his long
of disruption, organized scabbng and cultivation OF
craft jealousy and division is Remembered On the list OF
p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
"BiIP' Lee, Capitalist Labor Leader" Proposes
To Turn Railroad Unions Into company" Unions
Against Companies Unity of Leaders Capitalists the Great Is
Statement Of the Trade Union Educational League.

The proposal of w. the Railway
that all rail unions
railway adjoining this issue Of
the DAILY WORKER has resulted following
from the national committee
It
MM c. LEE chief of the Tranmens Union, has ANNOUNCE
w ed that he is inviting conference in Cleveland
on June 18th.
The composition of this gathering is announced to be
the chiefs Of the TO standard railroad unions together with
the executives of 200 railroads of the "Cass T. group
Its purpose announced be the welding together of
capital and labor tightly that there be strikes
on the railroads.
THE Trade Union Educational League denounces this
move on the part of the notorious Lee, deliberate
and public attempt to transform the fighting organizations
OF the railroad workers into company unions.
This is but another one, among host Of schemes to
take away from the railroad workers their precious
possessonthe right to strkewthout which they left
poweress in dealing with the greedy railroad executives.
1t is another institution, following the lines of the in
famous Civic Federation the socaIed 81. O. plan" spon-
sored by Wm H. Johnston and the outspoken policy
collaboration enunciaed by Compers Portland and FL
Paso, and continued by Green his successor Under the
poisonous influence of these policies am institutions the
trade unions especially the railroads. being democrat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
LANDLORDS keep
UP HIGH RENTS
DESPITE EMPTIES
Survey Shows Gouging
of Tenants

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 15.-
Although there is a surplus OF vacant
houses now existing in Philadelphia
the Philadelphia Housing Association
reports that there is little hope Of
more houses at low rental so that
Philadelphia workers, including the
doubly crowded Negroes, must remain
congested.
Out OF 4S6 houses vacant and for
rent only 20 rent for less than $50
a month; 2s6 rent for from $50 to
$50. And OF these lowerrent houses
almost half. the association declares,
were found to be in poor or bad state
of repair, many with grave nuisance
conditions within the dwelling.
Most of the vacant houses had been
left by tenants because landlords re.
fused to make repairs or neglected the
property's upkeep. The survey GOV.
cred eS,11S residences in is industrial
areas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
DEFENSE Day
KILLED TO Keep
WORKERS ON Job
Cal Guards Profits of
Big Business

WASHINGTON, May is. When
war department officials thot up the
scheme Of turning Armistice Day into
a regular annual military mobilization
or national defense demonstration
the did not let President Coolidge
know of it until they had given II
to the public. Now Coolidge says,
thru his mythical spokesman, that
he does not approve because such
days are costly to business. They
force factories to shut down, stores
to close professional men 10 neglect
their regular duties They cost a lot
Of money directly as we'll as thru loss
of production and service.
President Coolidge believes it
means one less working day for bus
mess, with the inevitable loss of that
much profit by every capitalist. Just
after his message has been delivered
by Ambassador Houghton to the gov
erning politicians Of Europe. that Am
erican loans cannot be made for furth-
err war preparations over there, lest
they start fighting and destroy the
security for the many billions already
loaned to them, this mobilization day
scheme comes as a most unhappy in
spiration.
OF course the White House will re-
main open to persuasion by practical
men. II Dwight Morrow, Of Morgan
and Co., and Secy. Mellon should
jointly advise him that an annual mob
ilization day is good insurance of the
institutions Of private monopoly. he
would listen. II they should hold that
II is worth its cost, to big business,
in its indirect intimidation of the
workers and in its stimulation OF the
power OF the special privilege caste,
he might be converted. All OF his
instinct for economy did not prevent
him from sending the great fleet to
Hawaii and Australia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

hailed this as their first outstanding
victory in the present industrial war
In union circles, however, there was
no concern on the surface at least
Strike leaders explained that the
Shinnston local represented only a
very small part of the miners on
strike, and that their withdrawal could
not be taken as a criterion of senti-
ment among the rank of the strikers
Lack of Spirit in Leaders.
A letter from Shinnston to a Fair
mont miner tells the tragic story Of
why the Shinnston miners are sur
rendering. In essence it is that they
are beaten by the lack of fighting
spirit of the u. M. w. leadership,
which actually Furnishes any militant
miner who attempts effective picket
ing. Bittner has paralyzed the strike
by his order to cooperate with the
sheriffs and obey every law and every
order" of the operator-controlled state
police. The Shinnston miner says:
"The international officer addressed
the crowd of miners and told them,
Go out every morning on the picket
line and talk to the men: tell them
they are taking bread away from
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
GERMAN TEXTILE
BOSSES ATTACK
8-HOUR DAY RULE
Start of Reaction Under
Hindenburg

BERLIN, May 15.-Chemnitz textile
manufacturers have introduced a So
hour working week.
This action is considered in trade
circles here to bear out the views Of
German industrialists who believe
that the dominance of the labor I'M
ions may be curtailed under the Hin
denburg regime.
Curbing Of the unions power, they
assert, would presage the institution
Of longer working week and the
imposition of increased discipline, re-
sulting in the reduction of prices and
a consequent increase in export trade.
Chemnitz manufacturers are doing
a big American business in gloves and
hosiery. Otherwise. American textile
orders are practically nil. There are
but few American buyers in Germany
at present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Steel WORKERS
fight TO FREE
RED SOLDIERS
Ex-SerUice Men Form
Protest Organization
Especial to The Daily Worker.)


YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, May 49,
Ex-servicemen amongst the steel
workers are being told about the i'm
prisonment of soldiers Crouch and
TrumbuIl of the Hawaiian commun-
list League and with few exceptions
the former servicemen are indignant
over the unfalrness Of the court mar
tial and the long terms of imprison-
ment melted out to these buck privates
for giving expression to their political
beliefs.
A temporary committee with Jos. A.
Winters, Box $50, Youngstown, o., as
chairman, has been appointed to car
ry on the local fight in behalf of
Crouch and Trumbull and the commit
tee would like to get in touch with
other ex-servicemen and extend their
campaign.
Resolutions should be presented in
all veteran organizations, labor
unions, fraternal organizations in
which ex-servicemen are members,
calling for a congressional investiga.
ton of the court martial that convict.
ed the soldier members of the Hawai-
ian Communist League and that
Crouch and Trumbull be Immediately
released and restored to full citizen.
ship of which the dishonorable dis.
charge deprives them.
The committee would like to get in.
to communication with former mem,
bers of the Siberian and North Rus
sian expeditionary forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
mo STRIKES!' IS
'SCABDY' BILL
LEES MOTTO
TrGinmen's Head to
Call Conference

William G. Lee, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
known among raiIroaders as "scabby
Bill' has announced his intention TO
issue a call for what is characterized *
as the biggest get-together conference
between workers and employers in
the railroad industry ever held in
the United States.
Invitations will be sent out, Lee
announces, to twenty rail labor or
CARNATIONS and to the executives Of
every big railroad in the United
States, for meeting which is seized
uled to take place in Cleveland on
June 20. Whether the invitations will
be sent out or not is problematical
matter.
The following rail unions are in
vited:
Order of Railway Conductors.
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi-
neers.
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen.
Switchmens Union of North
America.
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen Of
North America
International Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers, Iron Ship Builders and
Helpers of America.
Sheet Metal Workers international
Alliance.
International Association OF Ma
chinists.
international Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers.
International Brotherhood Of Black
smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers.
Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen
of America.
United Brotherhood Of Maintenance
of Way Employees.
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Ex-
press and Station Employees.
Brotherhood of Stationery Fire
men and Oilers.
Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
The Big Boss.
Lee has appointed himself chairman
of the proposed meeting in Cleveland.
He named Bruce V. Crandall of Chi
cago, an executive of the Western
Railway Club, as secretary of the
movement. That Lees action has been
taken on the instruction Of railroad
executives is easily inferred from the
enthusiastic way in which Lees an
nouncement has been received by rail-
road officials
The leaders Of the railroad brother
hoods are as reactionary and conserv-
alive as can be found in the United
States, but "Scabby Bill" Lee is too
filthy even for them. ~ y
Lee and Warren Stone Of the
motive engineers have conduct
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
FINNISH GOVERNMENT
ORDERS LIQUIDATION
OF LABOR PARTIE

Especial to The Daily Worker)I
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May Il
The Finnish government has
dered the liquidation Of 800 braneI
Of the labor parties, and has
nounced that charges will
brought against 1000 officials
members, dispatches reaching r
state.
The instruction for the assault
the labor parties are contained
a letter by the minister Of the
terror TO the governors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
PICKETING BEGUN At
LAST AT COLLIERIES
OF BESCO The BRUTAL
Especial to The raIIy worker)

Especial TO The rsIIy Worker)
GLAcE BAY, Nova Scotia, May
f5.-Piekettina Of the eollieries Of
the British Empire Steel corporation
was commenced here by represent
atives Of the United Mine Workers
Of America, In an endeavor, II was
stated, to ascertain the number Of
bona fide officials engaged In the
work Of maintaining the mines
which have been idle since March
6 owing to a wage dispute involving
$4,000 miners. Company officials, Il
was added, would not be lnterfered
with, but othens would be invited TO
refrain from protective work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
REPUBLICAN PROMISES
TO WORKERS FORGOTTEN
IN I'LL. LEGISLATURE

SPRINGFIELD, H., May 15.-
Failure after much maneuvering to
pass the women's s-hour bill-ln the
Illinois lower house is regarded as
the death Of such legislation this
session. Like the defeated injunc-
ton limitation measure II was a
republican platform pledge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

COOLIDGE THREATENS TO BREAK
STRIKE Of Anthracite Miners
TO AID OPERATORS WAGE CUT
tspeels, 70 rhe paIIx workerl

WASHINGTON May 15-President Coolidge his cabinet
frankly concerned the possibility in the
anthracite coal fields when the agreement between
the operators and the United Mine Workers expires August 3d.
it was learned today
The possibility of strike hinges the intention
of the miners to ask for increase of from 10
the scale while the operators expected
reduction of anywhere from 10 per
also undoubtedly will include demand "check
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
STATE POLICE OF w. VA. ARREST
1873 PICKETS IN MASS TERROR AS
NON-RESISTANT STRIKE WEAKENS
Especial to The Daily Worker,

FAIRMONT 15-Operators
alike
including
Operators jublant
They
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
Referendum on Dry ouestIon.

OSLO, Norway, May 15.-The Nor
wegian government, after five years
of prohibition, has introduced a bill
providing for a referendum next year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

DEOPLE who could not solve the
= riddle why Victor Berger continues
putting out such intellectual hokum in
his daily column in the Milwaukee
Leader, may set their minds on some
worthier problem, such as crossword
puzzling, provided they read a recent
contribution on the art of eating
Unless we are misinformed, Victor
should be testifying as an expert on
this question. What appeals to us
most is the confession that "the
greattrouble in our country is-we
are eating too much" It is said that
"a good confession is good for the
soul" Let us hope Berger goes on a
long, long fast
IF Berger takes the advice of Ger
tain wise teachers whose pupils
nave benefited from fasting to such
an extent that "at the end of a few
days their minds had become so clari-
fed that facts they could not grasp
before were easily understood" Per-
haps there is hope for Berger. If he
stops gorging himself for a few
months he may be able to understand
the difference between government
owned and controlled by the revolu-
tionary workers like that of Soviet
Russia and a government owned and
controlled by the capitalists such as
the United States government.
TOKING aside, it seems to us that
= more people die in the United
States from lack of food than because
of surfeiture. The rich may die Of
overeating. That is note,our worry.
The poor, are undernourished, be-
cause they have not the money to buy
good food. The food faddists would
have us believe that the whole social
problem could be solved by eating
garlic and onions or nuts and toma-
toes. But fatigue and worry about
loss of unemployment and other evils
Of the capitalist system do more to
poison the human system than large
6ODc u SCI olCdh,
and sauerkraut or Boston baked beans
and fat pork.
OOUTH AFRICA must have an evil
~ looking collection of snakes when
such an experienced veteran snake
charmer as the Prince of Wales was
Mortified at the sight of a snake park
filled with the squirming reptiles. The
prince braved the snakes of Long
Island, New York. He even got away
from Chicago with whole skin even
tho 1t was full. But the spiritual pa
balum produced in South Africa must
be the real Mccoy. When Edward p
saw the snake garden he exclaimed:
"'Tis very like my idea OF hell"
ITALY is alarmed over the illness Of
i Mussolini. The fables that appear
ed recently in the capitalist press
about the dictator being completely
restored to health were false. The
fact that an old liberal twisted BENZ
tos nose. figuratively speaking, was
sufficient proof that the cutthroat was
not his old self. It is reported that
Continued on page -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
TWELVE TEXTILE STRIKE PICKETS
ARRESTED AT WILLIMANTIC; 1900
STRIKERS STAND FIRM TEN WEE

wiLLIMANTIc Conn, May 15ln spite Of the Importation Of
police said the reopenns Of the American
Wilmantlc 1900 strikers
Of the strikers arrested when they peketng the MILL
mill failed strikers back into the mills
strkebreakers could be brought
officials denying the United Textile Workers Union that
police local force duty at the MILL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17
ARBITRATION AGAIN BETRAYS
A TEXTILE WORKERS. STRIKE

PlTTSFELD May INSTRUMENTATION Of
the 10
struck the thanks
o arbltr controversy
Former u Senator David Wash, William H.
Edward Kelly mill
sernsn textile unions representative
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-17

which provides for the with
holding of union dues from the
pay envelopes of the men. The
CHECK off, strengthens the
unions hands and the operators
will fight against it.
Coolidge Anxious to Break Another
Strike.
The government will closely watch
the wage negotiations and if dead
lock ensues, undoubtedly will take &C.
tive measures to break the strike of
the miners in the hard coal regions.
The first step in the negotiations
will be taken late in June, when the
tri-district convention Of the United
Mine Workers meets in Scranton, Pa,
to frame the demands to be submitted
to the operators. The latter will then
hold their policy meeting and formu-
late the action they propose to take
when the two contending groups meet
in some neutral" point, probably At
lantic City, about July Is, to begin
the negotiation of a new wage agrf e,
ment. =
Bosses Preparing. \
In anticipation of a possible strike
of hard coal miners after August 80,
production is now nearly touching the
two million ton week mark. 1t has
been rising steadily since the week
of April Is, when it was 1857 900 tons.
During the week of May 2, produc-
ton reached 1,9S4,OOO tons, making
total of 29,752,OOO tons for the calen-
dar year to date. Production Of BIZ
luminous to date is approximately
164, 475,000 tons.
Operators in Strike Talk.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May 15.-
If anthracite miners ask more wages
in the coming negotiations for a new
agreement there is likely to be
strike, Walter G. Merritt, counsel to
anthracite operators conference and
probable chairman of the operators
wage committee in dealings with the
union, told the National Coal Mer-
chants Association.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-25
Maine Turns Back
BoWdOin Bears
In Decisive Scrap

Oroho, May. 23-The Maine base-
ball tsam came out of its jinx path
todaysand sent the Black and White
of Bowdoin to Brunswick on the
short end of six to three score.
Bowdoin started the scoring in the
second when Gay let Sibley's slow
roller go through his feet. to be fol-
lowed "a minute later by Stern's bad
throw to first of Daggett's grounder.
Sibley.. went to third on this play.
Both men scored when Southwick
singled through short. Bowdoin got
her last run of the game in the third
when Nichols, first man up, was nip
ped in the back by one of Crozier's
speed balls. stole second and went to
thirdison Fish's sacrifice and came
home on a passed ball by Gruhn.
Maine got started in the third
when. after Gruhn had flied out to
right held, Crozier singled over sec
ond xhd scored on Cassista's three
ply Wallop to left center. Names
little Third baseman scored a second
later4n Wings single over second.
Thu Pale Blue added two more in
the NTH when successive triples by
Gruhn and Crozier helped out with
singles by Wing and Hackett-
Names last two runs in the fifth
and sixth were unearned. Crozier,
Cudd3; Murphy's star hurler. did re-
markedly well in holding Bowdoin
TO fgSr hits, two of which were in
the eighth. The Brownville lad sent
nine to the bench by the strikeout
route. The weather was more suit
ed to hockey or football than it was
for Baseball
MaeGowan featured for Bowdoin
at shortstop by frequently bringing
the crowd to its feet by his remark
abIes ttops.