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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
New York State Board
Blames Employers for
Industrial Fatalities

ALBANY, N. Y. Nov. 22--Increas.
ing industrial fatalities in New York
state cause industrial commissioner
James A. Hamilton, TO caution en-
ployers and workers to exercise more
care on the job. The latest indus
trial death figures show, however, that
employers are more usually at fault
than workers. There we're 166 death
claims filed in workmen' compensa-
ton offices in October.
One of the women workers killed
was an actress whose stage man
ager made her dive into a shallow
tank. Another was a ladies' garment
worker who fell down an elevator
shaft. Four building trades workers
employed by one construction firm
were killed when scaffolding upon
which they were working collapsed,
pitching them eight stories. One Of
three deaths from poisonous sub.
stances was that of a tracer in shoe
factory. His hand and arm infected
by a solution used in tracing and pol
ishing shoes brot death. As usual
construction workers are most mum.
erous among those killed at work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
CREDIT BOOM
r. HEADED FOR
Banker Warns Panic Is
on the Way
BY LELAND oLps.

Stop, look, and listenl Whether
planning to invest in a little Florida
land, in a share of industrial stock or
just trying to prepare for days when
jobs will be scarce, watch your step.
There is little doubt that good
business will prevail during the early
months of 1926 but genuine reason
for doubt about business after that.
So says vicepresident L. p. Ayres Of
the Cleveland Trust Co. in its mid
month bulletin. Ayres is a very good
business observer.
He says cautiously: Sometime In
the future building must slow down.
When that happens real estate booms
will calm down also. If the automo-
bile manufacturers really built next
year all the cars they are now plan
ming to build that industry will sure
ly oversupply its market. Some time
the possibility of expanding retail
sales Of all sorts of goods by selling
on easy partial payments will reach
and pass the limits of its usefulness.
The time will come when even the
Florida boom will be checked"
Ayres thinks these developments
may overlap and intermingle toward
the latter part of 1926. He points out
as elements of weakness in the pre-
sent situation ~ the fact that mill
lions of people of slight financial
means have mortgaged their future
incomes for present satisfactions, 90
the fact that the newer finance com
panies have been organized by sales
men and promoters who can be ex-
pected to get by only so long as com
petition is easy and credit cheap, and
OBJ the fact that the operations of
these companies have been made pos
sible by bank credits on terms which
will be made more rigorous whenever
interest rates advance.
Ayres believes that the real break
in the stock market will be postponed
until after January by the desire of
people to keep their stock market
profits out Of this years tax returns.
When they rush to realize the paper
profits of the boom by selling their
securities the results are likely be
spectacular.
Signs that Ayres' forebodings are
not far ahead of events multiply. First
the Boston federal reserve bank raises
its interest rate. A sharp break in the
stock market follows. Cleveland fed
eral reserve raises its rate. There is
a probability that New York will fol-
low in three weeks. The first cut in
automobile production is announced
by the WHY'S Overland Co. Watch
your stepl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
White Russian Workers
Strike Against Polish
Ochrana Prosecutions

WARSAW. Nov. a. In the last
few days the Polish Ochrana has car
ried out mass arrests In White Rus.
STA, particularly in the district of
Noyogrudok. The intention is to Ii.
quidate the insurrectionary groups.
The official figures give the mum.
Der of prisoners as $50. The fate OF
the arrested is as yet unknown. De.
spite the raging terror Of the De-
fensive the White Russian Commun
ist Party is continuing its activity
Leaflets Of the Central Committee
of the Polish Communist Party and
the West White Russian Communist
Party are being distributed in Novo.
grudok calling for a general strike
against the oppression of the White
Russian minorities and the persecu.
ton OF the workers teachers and
students. In the ,Donetz district a
strike OF wood workers has broken
out and neither the military nor the
police are able to force the workers
back to work. fagi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Navy Department to
Have Chinese Coolies
Build Six Gunboats

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-whether
the Diesel engines for the six United
States gunboats which are to be built
in China for use IN patroling the Yang
TIE river shall be built by Chinese
coolies in China Or by American trade
unionists in the. Brooklyn navy yard
is now an issue between Secretary Of
the Navy WilbuS and the metal trades
department OF the American Fedora
ton of Labor. Two conferences, at
tended by delegation Of union
spokesman from the Brooklyn yard
and by Secretary Berries Of the metal
trades department, has been held
with Wilbur. Another has been prom
ised. e.
These gunboats are to be of such a
design as TO make their passage
across the Pacific impossible. But the
navy yard workers, seeking regular
employment. argue that the engines
can and should be made in the United
States and shipped TO China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Dark Halls Not Needed
to Show Russ Movies

MOSCOW, Nov. 22--In certain Mos.
COW cinemas, films are being shown in
lighted halls. The light does not d.
minish the clearness of the picture
and almost completely abolishes flick.
ering.
Experiments In this direction have
been conducted In America and Ger.
many and proved rather costly Pre-.
sensations in the Union of Socialist
Soviet Russia are much cheaper as a
result Of the Independent discovery
Of Russian engineer, Porokhov-
shtohikov.
Such an arrangement in cinemas Is
obviously Of great importance not
only because Of eliminating injury TO
the eyes but also because It does not
"o~r..e any specially adapted prem
ises. This new method can be applict
even in the open air and therefor,
greatly facilitates work in the vii.
lagos.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
BAKERS UNIONAq
WAGES FIGHT ON
BAKERY MERGERS
Attack Understanding
Bread Trust
BY CARL HAEsSLER,
Federated Press)

Bread eater, bread baker and bread
raw material producer (the wheat and
rye farmer) will each lose, probably
heavily If the mammoth national bread
trust continues to develop under its
present profteering ownership.
"The Bakery & Confectionery
Workers International Union, has
fought the bread trust from the first"
says Editor Charles F. Holman Of
The Bakers, journal, the unions Off
cial organ, "The Ward Baking corpora
ton is 100. per cent unfair to union
labor and the Ward interests are the
controlling force in the merger now
under way of the three leading, ma
tional bakery corporations. Ward is
open shop and the new trust will be
open shop. We have fair and annie
able relations with many employing
bakers but this can in no sense be
said of the Ward shops. Wages,
hours and the other conditions so wi
tai to workers in food industries all
suffer under Ward domination" The
union had to report another loss in
membership to the American Fedora
ton of Labor in 1926, paying percapita
on 81 1900 members, instead of $4,000
in 1924 and $4,000 at its peak MEM
bership in 1921
Tho the bread trust recently cut
the price of bread to quiet the nation
wide cutlery against bread monopoly,
no one believes that this is other than
temporary since the promoters are
cut-throat profiteers. This is shown
by the value of $3.50 share placed
upon the General Baking company
stock by the General Baking corpor-
alton, the name of the proposed cor
poration that will make the bread
trust a unit in form as we'll as in fact.
This 1880 value is the exchange for
shares that cost So each in 1915. Such
profit wizards do not keep the price
Of bread down when there is the
least excuse to raise it. "
The farmers are already suffering
from the bread trust operations.
Their grain co-operatives are feeling
the effect of the monopolized market
for wheat and rye. The history of
every trust has been that it squeezes
the producer of raw material at one
end, the consumer at the other and its
own workers in between. This is the
case with the meat trust the sugar
trust and the tobacco trust. The
bread trust is following suit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Maine Governor Wants
Prison Industries to
Produce More Profits

AUGUSTA, Me-, Nov. 22.--Prisons
should be primarily profit making in
dustrial enterprises seems to be the
opinion of Governor Brewster Of
Maine. This ku klux khan backed
official has succeeded in getting the
resignation Of Warden Lester D. Eat.
on and now expects to rsorganize
prison industries on a more profitable
basis. Names prisoners have been
employed in broom making, compet-
ing with blind workers; in harness,
wagon, carriage and sleigh making,
competing with free skilled labor.
Brewster says that there is no
market for goods produced at pres
ent in Names prison at Thomaston.
He claims that the prisoners can be
worked nine months a year on the
roads and that the rest of their time
should be spent in manufacturing
goods which could be exchanged for
other products. Maine prisoners are
paid a small amount at which prison
workshop overseers complained that
they could not get enough work out
Of the men because of the semi.self-
government scheme allowed. In 1928
the state prison commission voted to
introduce a system of graded COM
pensation, with so cents daily maxi
mum and minimum amount due at
release SIS. The prisoners work 81
hours week.
Production of brooms for the year
ending June 30, 1926, was 1925 doz-
en- in Maine prison. In 1920 the pro-
Ats of this division of work were
$2S521; of the harness department,
S20,333; carriage and sleigh, s11,697.
Governor Brewster has not indicated
what industries he win suggest for
the prison to succeed the present ones
which he considers insufficiently pro-
fitable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
RUSSIAN TRADE
WITH ITALIANS
CROWS LARGER
Russian Exports Reach
1873, 900, Lire

MOSCOW, Nov. 22--During the half.
year preceding the conclusion of the
commercial treaty between Italy and
the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union
purchased 100000 lire worth of goods
in Italy and sold 5S,O00,0O0 lire worth
The major part of the latter sum con-
sisted grain sales.
After the signing Of the trade
agreement, the ratio Of exports to i'm
ports changed radically. From April
/, 1924, to May /, 1925, the Soviet
Union trade delegation to Italy made
purchases of Italisn goods aggregating
$1,000, 900 lire in, value, while the
Soviet Unions exports to Italy for the
same period amounted to 13S,OO0,OOO
lire. In general, the increase Of the
total trade turnover between the two
countries was accompanied by a more
favorable relation between Italy's ex-
ports to and imports from the Soviet
Union lin 1918 Italy's imports from
Russia totalled 100000 lire, while
her exports to Russia amounted to
100000 lire).
Trade on Increase.
The growing tendency OF Italy's ex-
ports to the Soviet Union has been
particularly marked during 1925. Thus
in January Italy exported 100000 lire
worth Of merchandise to the Soviet
Union; in February, 100000 lire; in
Mrach, 12,OOO,OOO lire; and in April,
100000 lire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
FRENCH ATTEMPT TO
KINDLE HOLY WAR
IN SYRIAN MANDATE

BEIRUT, Syria, Nov. 22.-Freneh
Imperialism not satisfied with the
massacre Of thousands Of natives in
the MusseIman section of Damascus
has now instleated a religious war
in Syria. The French are handing
out arms to the christians In the
territory that was inundated to
France by the league Of nations
and are sending military officers to
different settlements spreading fairy
tales Of brutaIItiss committed by
the Druses.
The French in many villages have
spread the story that In an attack
on number Of villages, the Syrian
trlbesmen have killed off all the.
Christian men and raped their wo-
men, in an attempt to arouse many
of those who are not in favor OF
the present French rule to unite
with the imperialists on the basis
Of religious war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Dutch Police Try to
Smash Revolutionary
Movement In Indies

AMSTERDAM, Nov. pa Dutch
police department arrested on the Isle
of Sumatra seven well-known Com
munists. This arrest caused great
indignation in the country and the po-
pulation attempted to free the prison.
ers. The "Serekat Rayat," the revo-
lutionary movement of the natives,
has in the province of Padenkshes
1900 registered members. The coun-
ter revolutionary party, "Sarekat Is
lam" is very unpopular among the
people.
The Dutch member of parliament,
De Wiser (Communist) addressed a
question to the colonial minister on
the repressive measures against Com.
munists planned for the Dutch-Indies.
De Wiser demanded information on
the prohibition of meetings at port Sc
maranga on the Isle of Java and on
the arrest of the editor of the Malay
ian newspaper Api (Fire) and the in
ternment Of the propagandist Alimin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
PRESIDENT OF
CLERKS UNION
HERE TUESDAY
Meeting to Further Or
.. ganization

H. ]. Conway, international presi-
dent of the Retail Clerks association,
and John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, will
speak at the mass meeting to be held
Tuesday night under the auspices of
Local $50, Drug Clerks Union, to dis
cuss the subject of organization.
: Organize the unorganized drug
clerks! This will be the slogan of
the gathering.
The meeting will begin at s D, M,
at the regular drug clerks union hall,
presided over by the union officers,
P. S. Corey, president, and F. NJ
Schooner, secretary. All clerks inte-
rested in unionization are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
"Christian" Lithuania
Tortures Political
Prisoners in Kovno

KOVNO, Lithuania, Nov. 22.-Sev-
eral guardians Of the local prison
headed by an agent Of the secret POI
lice, Bronzas, broke into cells, where
political prisoners were secluded. and.
threatening them with revolvers.
dragged out of the cell the prisoner.
Kalenda, threw him down on the
floor, after having broken his fingers
during the fight. Twenty-Five prison
ers, who protested against this VOL
ence, were locked up. On the next
day the same guardians took out of
the lookup prisoners Lewis Preskin.
A. Lifshitz, Loukashevitch and Strub-
bris, undressed them and beat them
with "nagaikas" giving each one 35
to As blows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Cotton Trade With U. s

Cotton Trade With U. s.
Cotton spindles gained from 1874.
121 to 5,333.5sO in the same four-year
period and looms from 59,325 to 1884,
052. Linen production nearly quad.
rupled and wool more than doubled
but the cotton gain is more significant
because cotton is the basic textile
industry in Russia. The textile syndi-
cate imported 100000 bales of cotton
from America in the last year at a
price of about $43,000,0OO, 100000
bales being raised in Russian fields.
The coming year the domestic var
vest is expected to reach the 100000
to 100000 bale mark but American
purchases may gain at the same time
because of the continued growth of the
industry. Russia last year bought
much finished cotton goods stuff in
Italy, Czecho-Slovakiu, Poland and
France but the rehabilitation of the
home manufacturing Will make this
unnecessary expect in certain special
lied lines.
Purchase of American machinery by
a machinery mission soon to visit Am
erica will depend for it's volume on
the credit arrangements that may be
made. sv7f
The All-Russian Textile Syndicate
is one of the Russian industrial
trusts" with the management Of
which the Russian unions play a
large part. If manufactures SO per cent
of the total textiles made in the ma
ton. Its products are distributed
through 107 wholesale and retail
stores. The syndicates profits last
year were about S41,SS6.3S4 measured
in American money. rsr.r
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24

Russia's industrial comeback during
the past year has been remarkable.
Gumberg spent the summer in Russia.
Wages Raise only in Russia.
With the increased production and
profits has come a considerable adj
vance in wages and Improvement in
housing, said Mr.. Gumberg, though
his office--a purchasing and not a
producing agency-is not directly con-
cerned with that phase of the problem.
1t might be added that in no other
nation have the textile workers re-
gistered such gains.
American cotton and wooden work
ers were reduced 10 per cent in the
last year in the face of rising living
costs and the British wooden workers
have just held their wage level even
by long strike.
Marvellous Progress.
The climb Of the textile industry
from the low mark Of civil war days
in shown by the following table giving
the working force employed at cotton
manufacturing and the yearly produc.
ton of finished goods figures for four
fiscal years:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Utica Textile Union
Still Hesitating on
Strike Against Cuts

UTICA, N. Y. Nov. 22-Twelve
hundred workers from the Utica
Steam & Mohawk Valley Cotton Mills
have temporarily called of a strike
that had been scheduled to compel a
return to the old wage scale. Action
is deferred till Mayor Frederick Gil
more makes good or fails on an arbi-
tration offer.
The workers struck earlier in the
year under the leadership of the
United Textile Workers, returning on
a cut while an investigation of costs
was made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Opera Costumers
Strike to Enforce
Union Conditions

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-Costumers
for New York's Metropolitan Grand
Opera company are striking against
the management's sudden reversion to
nonunion conditions after FIVE years
dealing with the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union. Pickets
from the union march before the opera
house made famous by its diamond
horseshoe" where New Yorks 400"
display themselves be-jewelled in
opera season. The Metropolitan
locked out the union before the expira-
ton of its agreement, came to a tenn.
porary settlement and again broke
faith, precipitating the strike. Some
of the skilled costume makers have
been employed by the opera company,
whose principal hacker is Otto Kahn,
banker, for Is years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Employ 10000 Workers.


According to KivgiIIo the Prodasili-
cate controls in the Soviet Union
about $50 glass factories and 25 china
ware and porcelain factories employ
ing more than $4,000 workers, Ow-
ing to the general economic revival
Of Soviet Russia these factories, altho
working to their full capacity are not
sufficient to satisfy the growing de.
mand for their products. The Pro-
dasilicate has therefore undertaken
to build Is new glass works and
chinaware factories in addition to in
Producing new model machinery in.
the existing works. Two window
glass factories of the Furko system
are nearing completion and will start
operation in the near future. The
delegation headed by Kivgillo arriv-
ed here after an extensive. tour of
Europe where orders for machinery
and equipment running into millions
of rubles have been placed. 'AiiIarge
order for window glass was placed by
the Prodasiicate in Czecho-Sloyakia.
American Purchases.
In this country the Prodasilicate
has already purchased, thru the
agency of the Amtorg Trading corpor-
alton, % bottle machines of the Lynch
type and other equipment beside the
Owens flow machine patent right and
two machines Of the type AY and Az
with equipment. During their present
stay in this country the representa-
tives of the Prodasilicate will make
study of the newest technical meth
DDS and equipment used in the Amer
lean glass industry and they will con-
duct negotiations for the construc-
ton of some of the new factories in
Russia.
Well Received In Europe.
During their sojourn in Europe the
representatives of the Prodasilicate
have received proposals from Europ-
can manufacturers offering terms for
the construction of these factories,
Offers have also been received from a
number of American firms and it is
the view of Kivgillo and his associ-
ates that these preliminary offers
warrant the belief that the American
terms would prove more acceptable
than those of the European manu-
facturers.
While in Europe Kivgillo enter
tanned certain propositions for con-
.cessions in the building up of the
Soviet class industries. However,
the negotiations have not been con-
cluded awaiting the results Of Xiv
gillo's mission in this country.
Headquarters in New York.
The delegation has made its head.
quarters in the offices of the Amtorg
Trading corporation, 165 Broadway,
which acts as the American agent of
the Prodasilicate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Admits Murders.

LOS ANGELES, Nov Gas. G.
Stone, so year old stepfatber of Jack
Hoxie. motion picture star, has con.
iessed the brutal murder Of the two
Martin girls, May 10, and Nina, s.
whose tragic disappearance End deth
nystifed southern California Tor more
than a year, the district attorneys Of
ob announced
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Russia Exports Oil
and Flows to Turkey

MOSCOW, Nov. 20. - During the
last FIVE months the expectation OF
Soviet petroleum TO Constantinople
has increased ive-fold. This has led
to a V16 per cent reduction in oil
prices The first consignment of 40
plows, manufactured in the factories
Of the agricultural machine trust, has
been sent TO eonstantinople.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Snub LaF olIetteites
in Next Congress Is
Republican Program

WASHINGTON-(FP) = Members
Of the Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota and New York delegations
who supported LaFollette in the 1924
presidential campaign are to be ex-
cluded from Republican representa-
ton on all important committees of
the new house, according to the new
floor leader, Tilson of Connecticut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
RUSSIAN ENGINEERS ARRIVE IN
NEW YORK TO MAKE1PURCHASES
FOR SOVIET GLASS INDUSTRIES

NEW YORK 22Foowing signing by
which the Amorg Trading corporation has for the Auan
Syndicate Scate
machines for the whole territory
engineers
equipment The commission headed
the Aluan Syndicate of scae
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
SOVIET RUSSIA THE ONLY LAND
WHERE TEXTILE WORKERS WAGE
GOES UP INSTEAD OF DOWN. ARD

Nov. 22(FP)Niore workers spndles
ARussian Textile
agency, a Broadway
substantas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
Russia Exports Coal
to France from Donetz

MOSCOW, Nov. 22.--Donetz coal is
rapidly conquering a place on the
French market by its quality and
cheapness. In addition to the steam.
ers Kios and Vakhta four ships, An.
tomato, Pupney, Syremas and Godu.
lis have been chartered in Marseillas
for October for bringing to France
more than one million pools Of DON
etz coal.
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