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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
wheat GAMBLERS
STOLE MILLIONS,
SAY SENATORS
Coolidge Probe Cannot
Repair the Damage

WASHINGTON, May IA Outlaw
ing Of all trading in grain futures was
the demand today of the congressional
farm bloc as the department Of agri-
culture continued its Investigation OF
the recent sensational raid" Of the
Chicago wheat market.
Farm bloc members heartily en-
dorsed this move, but insisted that
the administration formulate legis-
lation" prohibiting all grain gambling.
They urged that this action be taken
in the next session Of congress.
Western senators declared the last
clean up" had created an ''unendur-
able situation" Profits on future
trading in grains, they charged,
amounted to a robbery Of the con-
Stunning public.
ITO gamble in the price Of food is
worse than robbery" said Senator
Norris.
Thousands of people starve, be-
cause Of the high price Of food, while
a handful of men acquire their i'll
gotten gains. Congress has tried to
prevent this gambling, government
officials have condemned it and the
people protest against it. It is time
for the administration to act.
"This gambling is done by million
aire middlemen. Every dollar they
make comes either from the consum-
er or the farmer and usually from
both. I am ready to act with the de-
partment Of agriculture at any time in
enacting a law to prohibit all gambl-
ing in foodstuffs."
Norris said he thought the govern
ment might be able to punish grain
gamblers under the present law, but
added, 1.-THE damage is already DONE"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
St. Louis Teamsters
Face Strike on Wage
Cut and Longer Day

ST. LoUIS.-FP)-st. Louis will
witness a strike of 1900 union trans
fer transfers June II II the employ
ers persist in their attempt to cut
wages. The union asks for $40 a
week and the s-hour day. The men
now work 9h hours and receive s34..
40 a week. The employers counter
with 101s-hour day and $50 a week.
This craft is nearly 100 per cent
unionized. It's last strike was in 1920
and was marked by much strike
breaker-violence and police brutality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
British Admiral Hints Future War

Banks Association.
He said he had just come back from
journey abroad, which had taken
some months, and he was of the opin-
ion that we are in worse position
today than we were six months ago,
and that was bad enuf If we look
at the staple trades of the country
we cannot help having a feeling of
anxiety and apprehension as to the
future"
Sir Robert referred to the state of
the shipbuilding, coal, heavy steel,
wooden and cotton trades, and said 1t
was his deliberate belief that every
section of society had to combine to
find some solution Of the problem,
otherwise there was no hope for the
country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
NATIONS DISCUSS
MURDER TOOLS IN
NEXT SLAUGHTER
Hungarian and BuIgar
ENJOYS Make Trouble
tspsoIaI e The paIIy wOrksrl


GENEVA, May 1.-The comedy
facetiously called the farms parley"
is still drawing full houses here, with
the probability that it will run for
several weeks more
The government representatives
present discussed whether armored
trains should be permitted in the next
war. Nations not possessing facili-
ties for manufacturing such instru-
ments of death, protested violently
against their use on the ground that
1t was not sportsmanlike for soldiers
to hide behind travelling fortresses
and belch deadly IRE on their COM
paratively unprotected foes.
Hitting Under Belt.
The iron, coal and steel nations
laughed this argument to scorn, say
ing that the Marquis Of Queensbury
rules did not prevail in war. Nations
that were not able to put in decent
supply Of fighting togs should stay
home and fight with, their wives.
The conference decided that armor-
ed trains should not come within the
scope of the proposed supervision of
the traffic in lethal weapons. This
puts the armored train in the same
category with warship, fire crackers,
submarines, red fire (the kind used
by politicians around election time)
airplanes, toy balloons, airships and
kites. It's going to be a nice little
warl
Would slit Throat.
Hungary objected to the use of
fame throwers in the next war but
the delegates got sore over this con-
tinued petty interruption from small
nations that should know how to keep
their mouths shut. What kind of
war do you want?" asked one of the
British representatives, of Horthy's
envoy. The Hungarian replied that he
had no objection to, the use of fame
throwers on principle. He would slit
a windpipe with as little reluctance
as many in the assembly but he did
not want Hungary to be put in an adj
vantageous position, He reminded
the delegates that the Trianon treaty
forbade Hungary to use flame throw
ers. It was reflection on the dig
nifty of his country he declared ang-
rily.
An Assassin. Appears.
A representative OF the zankov re-
gime of Bulgaria was heard to mutter:
What do they want fame throwers
for when dRgReTa AMI poison can be
secured and used on the quiet with
out making any disturbing noise?"
When the Bulgarian fascist was
recognized the other delegates speed
lily left the hall and returned with their
armor sos
Outside Of those little incidents
everything is running smoothly and
the casualties are extremely low The
conference will be about as fruitful
as the opium talk fest. Just about.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Two Workers Killed
and Many Injured in
Erie Railroad Smash

ERIE, Pa, May 1.-two men were
killed and a score injured shortly af-
ter noon today when a speeding Sec
ton train on the Erie railroad jumped
the tracks between Concord and
Union City.
The dead: Arthur Birton, aged II,
of Union City.
H. Terry, of Union City.
OF the injured it is believed that
four will die. Nine of the most seri-
ously injured have been taken to the
Corey hospital. There were about 100
men on the train, all Of whom were
badly shaken up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Forest Fire RACES
Thru Big Part of
Northern Ontario
Especial to The Daily worker.)

FORT WILLIAM, Ont, Can, May
1.-THE entire Thunder Bay district
Of northern Ontario today was at the
mercy Of flames sweeping from four
different fronts thru the virgin for
ests, tinder-dry from weeks Of
drought.
One aged farmer, trapped by the
onrushing flames, is known to have
persisted. M
Scores of settlers have been driven
from their homes, and numerous
towns, in the path of the conflagra-
tions are threatened.
The fire has been raging for more
than "a hours.
An estimate of the damage at this
time, forest rangers said, was i'm
possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
CONTINUED from p..ge u

II is even surprising that more such
catastrophes do not occur considering
that more than 10000 Bulgarian peo-
pie have paid with their lives for the
bloody Zankov dictatorship that has
ruled since June, 1928.
Speaking of the wailings Of the
press since the catastrophe, one OF
the emigres said, These bearers Of
culture OF the bourgeoisie did not
weep but triumphed when, in June,
1923, over a thousand peasants were
slaughtered and when In September,
the same year, over 10000 workers,
peasants and intellectuals were done
20 death in the most brutal manner.
II was in the same cathedral that
thsre was then celebrated the victory
OF law and order"
The two hundred dead, a. the re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Foreign EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, May 14.-Great Bri-
tain pound sterling, demand 4.S5h;
cable 4.S5%. France, franc, demand
b.2lA; cable 5.21%. Belgium franc,
demand 5.O5h; cable sos. TALLY, Ira,
demand 4.1Oh; cable 4.10h. Sweden.
krone, demand 26.72; cable 26.75.
Norway, krone, demand 1887; cable
1888. Denmark, krone. demand 1885;
cable 1887. Germany. mark, unquoted.
Shanghai. tael. demand 74.621s; cable
7b.l2M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
German Monarchist
President Greeted
by Pope and ENJOYS

BERLIN, May 14.-President Hin
denburg today received the congratu-
lations OF the diplomatic corps. Aaren
Delano Robbins, American charge
d'affaires, was seated in the semi
circle with other ENJOYS at the re-
ception at the presidents palace when
Papal Nuncio Pacelli in a brief speech
congratulated the new president.
Pacelli voiced the greetings OF the
diplomatic corps to the new military
president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
PIasterers Win Strike.

MoNESsEN, Pa, May 1.-THE
plasterers strike In the upper Monon-
gahela valley has come to an end.
The contractors agreed to give them
S1.O0 a day increase in pay. Their
demands was for $500 per day In
crease. This will give the plasterers
slS day for the next - months.
They have been on strike since the
FIRST Of May,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Naive Farmers Want
Coolidge to Finance
export Corporation

DIES MONIES, Ia, May 1.-THE
500 delegates who attended the west
ern agrarian conference here we're
on their way to their respective homes
today after selecting a permanent
committee of rs to carry out the
program adopted by the conference
late yesterday.
Creation of a billion dollar export
corporation, financed by the federal
government, controlled by farmers
selected by the various farm organ
izations that took part in the confer
ence here, was the feature of the
program.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
CARPENTERS OUT
TO PUT tack ON
JENSEN'S Chair
Progressives Declare
Election Policy

Union carpenters in Chicago are
agog over the coming elections for
district council officers. Harry Jen-
sen and his reactionary gang are max
ing the rounds, slapping backs and
shaking hands, hoping to win the
votes of the sentimental by this pol
icy. 1t might work well with morons
but carpenters have hard heads. The
fact that they drive nails for living
may have some effect on the quality Of
their cranial encasement
The progressive carpenters are out
for Harry Jensen's scalp, not because
he is or is not Harry Jensen, but be-
cause of his reactionary policy which
has proven inimical to the interests
Of the members of the carpenters
union here in Chicago. This is what
the rank and file of the carpenters
say.
The progressives are organizing
their forces for the election campaign.
Unlike the reactionaries, they have a
program as can be seen from the
Carpenters, Attention.
Brother Carpenters:
Election time is coming around
again for district council officers and
it is very important to every real
union man that those whom we elect
to office declare themselves, so we
know what they stand for.
In our opinion no man running
without a program should be consider
ed by the voters in this election and
we submit the following program as
a basis for the nominations and for
the unifcation of all progressive fore
es against the present administration:
l. No renewal OF the present agree
ment, nor a similar one.
2. No agreements to be entered in
to that compels carpenters to work
with non-union men In other trades.
5. All agreements to be ratified by
the rank and file.
4. A uniform wage and working
agreement with all other building
trades. All to expire at the same
time.
s. To work for the organization of
all mills. Only union material to be
used on union Jobs.
6. A fve-day, forty-four week
Z. We pledge ourselves to string
emit economy Of administration ex-
penses, elimination of unnecessary at
torney's fees.
G. Right Of minority opinion to
freedom Of expression within the
union
Q. We win vigorously oppose Tile
gal suspensions and explosions or the
use of police against union men.
In addition to the above program,
we endorse:
l. The amalgamation of the build
ing trades upon a departmental basis,
along the lines laid down by the 1913
convention Of the building trades de
partment. This will abolish the ruin
Gus jurisdictional disputes, as well as
centralize the activity and unity the
forces Of all building trades workers.
2. A labor party of, for and by the
workers
The Progressive Caucus.
Meets every Sunday morning at 10
o'clock.-progressiye carpenters invit.
ed.-Room 6, third floor, Douglas Park
auditorium, corner Kedzie and Ogden
AYES.
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showed British imports were a110,-
100000 against British exports of
6 60,S70,0 900. This is a markedly I'M
favorable balance of trade, and as a
large part Of the imports are Ameri-
can cotton and wheat, American
claims upon England are shown to
be steadily mounting. Last year the
same month showed aS6,165,000 i'm
ports and e62,S66,OO0 exports. Thus
the unfavorable trade balance has
grown 100 per cent in the last year,
and there is no sign Of it being
checked.
U. s., FIlvvers Winning.
English manufacturers are just now
alarmed at the trade war Of Ameri-
can automobile companies who have
simply grabbed the domestic British
market from under their very noses.
American-made autos are arriving in
Great Britain at the rate Of one thou
sand a day. While some of this COM
mercial invasion may be stopped by
Of 3S per cent on such imports, there
are so many American autos coming
in now as to cause it to be a subject
Of discussion in the imperial cabinet.
There is a glut of American autos
at Southampton, Liverpool, London
and Plymouth. Cars are being stored
in all available sheds and there are
acres spread over suburban fields
awaiting storage. At least supply
is in sight to last two or three years.
The Usual Piffle.
The usual declarations OF amity and
concord which are made when imperi-
alist rivalry developes, is being om-
mitted by various spokesman. II.
Wickham Steed, former editor of the
London Times, speaking at luncheon
yesterday, declared the need of a
better understanding" between Eng
land and America.
However Steed upbraided British d.
plomacy for not seeking alliance with
France against Americas detection"
from the league Of nations and he
closed by saying:
UNLESS the people OF the United
States were convinced Britain was
guided in her foreign policy by ideals
Of peace, a new world war would
come, more terrible than the last,
from the horrors OF which no part OF
Europe would be exempt.
.
British Experts Gloomy View.
LONDON, May IA gloomy view
of Britain's trade outlook was ex-
nraeaad Inv Sir Robert Horna M n ra.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
Ford Subcontractors
Speedup So Fiercely
Men Can't Stand Pace

RACINE. Wis.-(FP)-Henry Ford
is contracting out large quantities of
tool and die work at prices that sweat
skilled tool and die makers. The
Webster Electric Co. have been I'M
able to keep Racine man for over a
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-16
British Experts Gloomy View.

LONDON, May IA gloomy view
Of Britain's trade outlook was ex-
pressed by Sir Robert Horne at re-
cent dinner OF the British Overseas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
Mercenary u. S. Airmen
in Morocco Are Planning
Return to This Country
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the American nercenares who Joined the aviators
the French side in Morocco to hun death ana desr9o
ton from the upon the heads of the ebeious Riffs
planning to return home. The so-caIled Snerinah
squadron in which they were enrolled as IS Deg
may return to Paris and New York
Let the wrath American labor fall upon these murder
of the men, and children of North Africa who
killed from air when they know that the Riff defenders
had planes return the attack or send in pursuit
towards upon their return to the United States Let
thousands of er demonstrate against them upon the
waterfront wherev they may set foot upon these shores
again. On huge pacards and banners held aoft the
heads Of the demonstrators that all the world may
let the story of their many crimes be told in words that live
and flame.
peted for the time being at least Their work of buchery
They the highest praise from the French hangnen lead
ing the war against the ooccans tor their TWO months OF
shedding blood They dropped 4o tons of bombs upon the
enemy not soldiers able to fight back but upon old
men, women and children They tell of their success in their
words thru the admission that the entire civilian popu
aton had deserted the villages and fled to the mountains
They argue that wasn't bad for these peoples be driven
from their homes because they nomads anyway and
accustomed to roam the deserts and the hills.
Let American workers make it so uncomfortable for
these killers the United States that they will compelled
to leave the land and seek shelter elsewhere
wander the face of the earth as thew forced the Ran peo
Piles to scatter for their lives.
Let American labor declare its solidarity with the OPP
pressed colonial peoples of North Africa by showing that
crimes committed against the peoples of Morocco equally
attacks upon the working and farming of the United
States
In apology for their many murderous Deeds Amer
lean airmen declare that the French waging in
Morocco the most humane in history This contention
bares completely the depravty of the killer caught with
blood still warm upon his hands, The French mperalsts
have shown how they wage colonial by the fiendsh
massacre OF thousands in Syria especially in Damascus The
war in Morocco different except that French hire
ling soldiers have found their than equals the brave
lighters led by Abd-e-Krm The Syrians learning.
Solidarity Of American workers with oppressed coIonias
whether of France Great Britain especially United
States develops the unity of toll the world around the unity
that spells the doom of capitalist imperialism everywhere
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
LADIES' GARMENT
u MON OFFICIAL
AT PURCELL MEET
Joint Board Head Will
Speak on Unity

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-Louis Hy-
man, general manager New York joint
board of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers of the city of New
York will speak at the Purcell meet
ings which have been arranged in this
city. Two meetings will be held at
which Purcell will be the principal
speaker. The huge demand for tickets
has forced the trade union commit
tee to hire two tremendous halls for
the evening of Tuesday, Nov. II, the
New Star Casino and the Central
Opera House.
World Trade Union Unity
The theme of the meetings will be
the topic which is stirring the masses
OF the workers thruout the world to-
day-the topic of world trade union
unity. It will be remembered that
Purcell was one Of the principal fac
tors in promoting the cordial relations
between the English and the Russian
trade unions. He was a member of
the delegation which recently visited
Russia and issued the report which
has been so widely read turnout the
labor movement turnout the world
When the report Of the delegation tc
Russia was submitted at the Scarbor
ough conference 1t was approved un
animously and the following resolu
ton was adopted by reclamation
''rhis congress records appreciation
of the general councils efforts t
promote international unity, and urge
the incoming general council to d.
everything in their power towards Sc
curing worldwide unity Of the trad
union movement thru an all-inclusiv'
international federation of trade I'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
WOBBLIES PUT
SK|DS UNDER
UNIvERSAL|SM
Adopt Sliding Scale of
Finances

The 18th general convention Of the
|. w. w. is demonstrating that on
some fields at least It is not afraid
to lay hands on sacred mistakes and
traditional folly by putting the word
finis on the theory that any member
could step right in to any official
position, secretary or editor, and fune-
ton right.
At Wednesdays session the dele
gates voted to make it definite that
officials, elected each year, can be
allowed to hold Office for three years
so as to learn how to run the Of
flee before they leave it. Some few
kind words for Bill Haywood we're
ELECTED by the debate on the matter,
who "held office for years and did
good work"
Sliding Scale Adopted
! Another rather progressive step
which did violence to tradition is the
adoption, subject to referendum, or
course, of a sliding scale Of initia-
lions and dues, limitations to be from
one dollar to ten and the dues from
fifty cents to a dollar, according to
the sum fixed by the various indus
trial unions internally.
Dollar dues was the sum adopted
by nearly all industrial union conven-
ton held in preparation for this gen.
eral convention.
The report on finances Of the gen
eral organization given Tuesday re-
vealed mild scandal concerning the
taking by P. j. Welinder, interim gen.
eral secretary-treasurer and member
of the general executive board prior
to his resignation not long ago, Of
mileage amounting some $50 on the
ground that it was his fare back to
Seattle where he came from. 1t APP
pears that instead of using 1t for
that purpose, he used it to take a
trip to Sweden, presumably disiiking
the climate Of the Pacific northwest.
The convention also recommended,
without making it mandatory, that all
the industrial unions with headquart-
ers in various cities should move into
the building housing the general head
quarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-13
TALK OF SUBSTITUTES PUTTING md
ANTHRACITE OUT OF MARKET is
SHOWN ANTI STRIKE PROPAGANDA

mentors are returning to anthracite.
or the thousands and thousands of
new homes built each year the greater
number are equipped to use the fuel
that has been found to be the most
economical and satisfactory after
test of more than one hundred years"
No strike-No Substitute Peril.
Now in November, 1925, the substi-
tutes question is again brot to the
front by the coal owners-that substi-
tutes are making inroads on anthra-
cite-and Gripping the industry. When
a strike is on we have one kind Of
statement to the workers about sub
stitutes, and when there is no strike,
we see the contrary kind of state
ment.
The mine workers Of the hard coal
region will not be fooled with this
cry of substitutes taking away their
employment. They know that oil or
bituminous cannot take the place Of
anthracite. No one believes that it
can, and the owners themselves have
furnished that proof in the leaflets
that | have referred to and quoted
from.
The government has this to say,
"The peak of oil production was
reached in 1923 and If kept up at
(, that rate, the total oil supply would
be exhausted in thirteen years. It
is the part Of economy to use coal
and people will continue to do so un-'
til they find real substitute"
In reference to bituminous as a sub
stitute there is no consumer of coal
but knows the relative merits of an
thracite and bituminous for domestic
purposes. Bituminous is not equal to,
but is long way behind anthracite in
quality for domestic use, and no user
of hard coal will ever junk their base
burner for soft coal stoves.
This substitutes propaganda is but
one of the many weapons used to
cloud the issue in the anthracite by
one of the best organized cliques of or
ganized capital in America, whose un-
! limited resources are being used to
crush the workers-not only in the an
thracite but all over America as well.
RealIyMeans-Go Back to Work.
With this cry OF substitutes, is going
the demand for resumption of opera
ton of the coal mines, pending a set
Element of the dispute, and a demand
for arbitration, which will discuss in
my next article.
Every effort is being made to scare
the hard coal miners back to work, and
this propaganda about substitutes is
calculated to cause a resumption Of op-
GRAFTON of the mines. The operators
know that if the miners go back to
work pending a settlement. arbitration
will have been accomplished and the
miners strike lost.