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The daily worker., 1925-09-29
BY EARL &. RRowpER

OTRANGELY enough it has remain
~ ed for a bourgeois Professor OF
Industrial Relations in the University
of Chicago, Paul H. Douglas by name,
to shatter the legend of the high
wage" of the American workingman in
these latter years. Even the trade
union officials, whose duty it is to
guard the wages of their membership,
have been complacently pointing to
big percentage figures Of wage In
creases, in order to claim achieves
ments for themselves. And in the
mind of the ordinary capitalist, or the
bourgeois intellectual, it has been al
most proverbial that the American
workingman, especially since the war,
has become sort of semi-capitalist
thru his enormous" wages. Mr..
Douglas has shattered this illusion
very effectively in a work entitled,
"The Movement of Real Wages-1S9O-
1924" which is soon to be published
under the auspices Of the Pollak Foun-
dation for Economic Research, re-
sumo of which is contained in the
Proceedings of the Academy of Pol
itical Science, Vol. XII, No. 2.
"Real wages" are the actual necessi-
ties of life, the bread, butter, meat
and clothes, for which the worker ex-
changes the money which he receives
as nominal wages. How much will
the money buy? The answer to this
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

lSzu......1OU- oar. 4 l5kS-.......lIV
In short, in the year 1928, the hour
ly wage rate had increased over 1890
by mere 10 per cent.
OTILL more interesting it is to learn
~ who got the increased hourly rate.
Did all workers uniformly find their
real wages increased to this amount?
Not at all
Printers in newspaper establish
ments, for example, are supposed to
be we'll organized into unions. What
happened to their real wages? They
had decreased from 100 in the years
1S90-99, to 81 in the year 1922. News
paper printers have gone backward 10
per cent in thirty years.
Whose wages increased the most?
Not in strongly organized craft, but
one of the weakest in the "unionized"
category, the bakers. Their real wages
rose to 1853. And the reason for this
is, undoubtedly, that in the early days
the bakers were so sweated and over
worked that the industrialization Of
the baking industry worked auto
matically to raise the bakers to the
status of the other industrial workers.
The rise in their case is therefore
merely an equalizing process. These
figures prove, not that unionism has
failed, but that the Gompers-Green
policy of collaboration" has failed.
TN only one of the industries can it
1 be shown that the increased wages
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

icy increased the latter percentage.
by legalizing private trade, this SEEM
ing digression from our path towards
collectivism, has been already over
come economically.
Credit Wholly soelalized.
Already in the second half of 1923
"a, the socialized goods turnover
amounted already to sc per cent or
two-thirds of the total turnover. This
means. that it exceeded the 1920 nor
NAL. In the coming business year
of 1925-26 we expect that the socializ-
ed turnover will be over three quar-
ters of the total turnover. And this
without any abrogation of N. E. P.
and even with a certain further in
crease OF private trade in the abso-
lutte amount Of its turnover.
II we add to the above statement
that with respect to steam transport
and bank credit all the means OF
communication and credit and money
circulation are already socialized 100
per cent, we have only to formulate
the general task before us; to mair-
tain the position conquered and to
advance every year slowly but sure
ly towards socialism, wherever the
economic situation will allow it.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

With prices Of the necessities Of life
at this high peak, how much would
the wages-those high wages" OF
which American bankers brag or COM
plain--of the American worker buy?
In 1918, the last year Of the war,
when wages were supposed to have
been so very good, the worker could
buy only SS per cent of the, amount,
on the average for the entire country,
that the worker of 1S9O-99 could buy.
Wages-real wages-had decreased IL
per cent for the country as whole.
This figure is based upon the hourly
wage rates and not upon actual earn
ings which are lower still. For six
years the purchasing power of wages,
in hourly rates, ran as follows:
191S.......8S j. 1921...115
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

For all branches of industry as
whole, therefore," concludes Douglas,
ut seems probably that the American
working man can purchase less with
standard weeks work today than
during the nineties."
How do the various sections Of the
workers fare when their separate full
time weekly earnings are translated
into real wages?
Union trades as a whole for 1922
stand at 95, or just points above
the general level for that year, and
5 points below the general level of
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

The British labor leaders who comprised the union
cation Soviet Russia have been the victims
campaign of sander their
public All the mud guns of British Imperialism
them In this scandalous work. the capitalists ably
sisted by the British and continental socialist
What the capitalists and the yellow socialists could
Purcell his associates for their straightforward sup
the government their acknowledgment
of the workers by the workers and for the work
that despite all its mistakes accomplished
dou and that the Russian increasing pospe
V under their rule while the living conditions of the workers
in the capitalist countries deterorating
On their return England the lid taken off capitalist
journalistic and the filth began Every
possible charge made against the British leaders, except
of personal vena While it openly stated that the Soviet
Influenced the delegation favoaby by methods
known that they shown only bright
of things they yet desperate enough charge
guished trade union leaders with having accepted
in return for favorable report
Such charge has been against Purcell pres
dent of the International Federation Trade Unions appears
that the authors of it the socialist Party
Such charge with poor grace from political group
Ramsay Macdonald who accepted gratuty $780,
numbers among its leaders, women them.
selves body and soul to the capitalist government
The latest and most contemplate attack will
not affect his standing with the The British
confidence in him. 's-rs
is significant that the charge Liver
pool conference the labor party has purpose
red scare sprung by the capitalist press during the Scarborough
congress eem
The daily worker., 1925-09-29
DEDICATED TO ANDREW MELLON,
SECRETARY OF THE u. S. TREASURY

Oh, is Andrew Mellon folks say feIon
For the Jays and labor unions hostility,
For the do not hanker In
And he calls me Handy Andy and that just suits
oh, keep Unee's money live milk honey
With the railroads Pm perfect Sympathy
was known to John Forsan I'm friend
And they call me Handy Andy and that suits "
the farmers In trouble fret and bubble
On my ows stubbIe and I'm can bel
Thus keep them at distance while my fends assistance
For they call me Hardy Andy and that Just suits mol
The daily worker., 1925-09-29
SOuiets Nail Lie of Drift to Capitalism

Thus, here, as in production, we
notice not only a colossal growth Of
the absolute amounts of the social
lied turnover, more than double in
the course of three years, but also a
very substantial increase of its rela-
tive part in the total goods turnover
Of the country-from one-half to three
quarters of its amount.
In order to appreciate this last
The daily worker., 1925-09-29
Are Wages High in the United States?

are mainly the result of labor union
effort; that is in mems clothing, which
saw real wages increase to 155, under
the pressure of unionism; but in this
industry also, as in the case of baking,
the result was in the nature of an
eQualizing process, for the needle
trades was one of the most disorgan.
lied and sweated during the years
1S9O-S9 and later.
But how about the purchasing
power Of the weekly wage? How much
is a weeks pay in real wages? Dou-
glas gives us the following answer
for a five-year period:
The daily worker., 1925-09-29
CONTINUED from page u
of the minutes Of this convention:

of the minutes Of this convention:
The Minutes, August 9, 1925.
The convention of so delegates rep
resenting 20 united Dukhobor COM
munities Of the Salsky district, North
Caucasian region, commune Of CHS
tiakof. Present: so delegates, four
from each commune. Chairman, F..
F. Zaitsef; vice-chairman, E. Kotel-
nikof; secretary, N. Dementief.
Discussed: Correspondence from
Canadian paper Toronto Star, of May
16, 1925, based upon personal inform
alton. Of Dukhobor Semenov who re-
turned from his journey to Soviet
Russia where he visited the Dukho-
bors of ,Salsky district.
Decided: After getting acquainted
with the contents of the above-men-
toned correspondence, decision was
passed unanimously to spread widely
thru the medium of the press that all
information given in this correspond
ence does not contain single word
of trdtha The reasons are as fol-
lows: ss6eG's
L. From the documents which were
presented by Semenov to the Dukho-
bors, it could not be seen that he is
delegated from our Canadian broth
erss especially after he himself ad-
= IL Of
ing to- Soviet Russia was to be at the
convention of the Peasants Interna-
tional where he was sent by some
Canadian organization, and that he
came to us only to get acquainted
with our life and to visit his rela-
tivess iss4
2. During the three weeks of his
stay with us he never raised the ques-
tion, of immigration of the Canadian
Dukhobors to Soviet Russia. What
concerns his interest in the life of
the peasants, he did not even try
to get acquainted with our economic
life and he never went to any place
outside of the community in which
he lived.
8. The two delegates of the Can
adian Dukhobors, who came to Russia
before Semenov did and who spoke
about the beauty and fertility of our
lands, did not exaggerate. Even Sc
menov admits that; and we have no
reasons whatsoever to be discontented
with our new settlement
4. We can only welcome Semen
ovs statement that he will never
leave Canada, as we do not need in
our Union individuals of his type.
What concerns the rest of the Cana
dian Dukhobors, they have enough in
formation about our life so as not to
believe Semenov who incidentally or
voluntarily became an agent of the
British capitalists.
5. Semenov's statement that law
lessness rules in the cities, that the
Industries have died out, and that the
commercial life of the country is in
a. poor state, have been successfully
refuted by the labor delegations of
different countries, which recently
visited the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics; the only thing that re-
mains for us is to ally ourselves with
them in the opinions they expressed
in the Russian, as well as foreign
press.
6. We do not know what part Sc
menov played in his connections with
A. e. Bolten, representative OF the di-
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

question tells what is the real wage.
Douglas set himself to answer this,
and to reduce the answer down TO a
simple set Of figures Cindex figures)
which anyone can understand.
TAKING the ten-year period. 1890
4 1899, as base, the index figure
for the cost of living for that period
being 100, the cost of living is shown
to have risen to the following figures
IN tha mast a1evan vaars.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

rectoriat OF the Farmer Union In Can
ada, but the mere fact that he is con-
nected with this organization, even If
indirectly, shows that the ideals Of
the Dukhobors whose aim is to Gre
ate a real commune are strange and
foreign to Semenov.
Z. Semenov's statement that the
Russian peasants in general and the
Dukhobors in particular are depriv-
ed of their right to vote is abso-
lutely false. We, as we'll as the rest
of the peasants, elect our own officials
and ruling bodies, and the peasants
who are not party members partici-
pate in these elections and are elect
ed to all ruling bodies, beginning with
the local village board and ending
with the Central Executive Commit
tee Of the Union Of Socialist Soviet
Republics.
8. The arrangement sof the tracts
of land allotted to us and their dis
tribution were finished already in
1921; each community. has now 1000
dessiatins of land for 200 members.
It is easy to see from the above that
each individual has five dessiatins of
land and not 715 acres (about 215 des-
siatins) as Semenov states.
No yearly lre-arrangentetits in dis
tribution of land have been or are
practiced by us.
9. If so far we have been. calling
all Semenov's statements false, his
statement about the hunger we suf-
fer seems to us simply ridiculous.
We began to immigrate to Russia in
1922; in 1923, we started to sell the
surplus of our products, which in
creases every year. Our food is not
only good, but excellent. During the
entire year we have rye and wheat
bread, meat, poultry, dairy products,
vegetables, etc, all of these of our
own production. All tel1-tales of Sc
menov that the Dukhob0rs took turn
in feeding him is a lie, because, if
it did happen sometimes that he ate
in another house, and mot in his
usual place, it was only when he went
there for visit. His statement about
the children being exhausted and
worn out because of the hunger they
suffer, is only another ugly lie.
10. Semenov misinformed again
when he said that his countrymen
were so exhausted that he could not
even recognize them; he left Rus
sia in 1911 when he was small boy
and it would be ridiculous to expect
him to recognize any of them just by
looking at his face.
IL. No one of the Dukhobors liv-
ing in Salsky district has made any
statement before Semenov about his
desire to immigrate to. Canada, as
all of them know from lletters of their
Canadian capitalists who in several
hours ferociously destroy and ruin the
peasant homesteads built up after
years of hard labor. .gesrt it,.s
One member of each OF, the 20 com
munities is to be empowered to sign
this protocol. Copies of this protocol
are to be presented to the district
department of agriculture with re-
quest to publish this decision in all
Russian and foreign papers, especial
ly in the Canadian press.
p p. Presidium of the convention.
Signature: Representatives from 20
communities of Dukhobors.
(SeaD Correct: {. Panova.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

Paris ridcues many laws" says headline Paris thinks
have True but those who make them supposed
observe them Those keep the
jecon They made by the capitalists their
the American workers establish their rule then
be the other foot and will be the capitalists un
easy.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29
Continued from page u
railway transport, 81 per cent.
Heavy. Industry go Per Cent.

Especially on the industrial field,
he specialization of the means Of pro-
duction is SO per cent, including
heavy industry where it is 80 per
cent. AS to the total amount of pro-
duction in the big and small indus
tries, an illustration is given in the
following table:
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

Wrap your lunch in copy Of
the DAILY WORKER and give
it 1.-THE DAILY WORKER, not the
lunch) to your shop-mate.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

If you want to thoroughly un.
1eistand Communism-study il.
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

Capitalist miarists quareng the question whether
they should have air whether that
remain under the direction of the navy
controversy leaves cold We know that the
the neck long the bosses and control the apans
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

While Mellon is haggng with Caaux the settlement
French debts Wall Street bankers negotiating with
finance minister for loans The bankers plenty
loan to capitalist >ut nickel to sovetrepubc
There is
The daily worker., 1925-09-29

Germany has accepted the invitation of the allies to dscnss
security II is many years ago. when rulers put
in jail for thinking that German human being.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-08-15

$1,OOO year by increased prices against the fish buyers policy of giving them $500 year. The public should not forget that the era of prosperity for our halibut fishermen began when Prince Rupert was established as a buying cen- ter The single factor that keeps the halibut prices up is Prince Rupert. You will notice that whenever the prices there drop the prices in Ketchikan and elsewhere also drop. It seems as ii the price in Alaska is not gauged by the market conditions but by Prince Rupert offerings.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-08-15
CONSERVATION

The first fight over conservation occurred long before Herbert Hoover or Henry O'MalIey, indeed Dr. Charles H. Gilbert were born. It occurred in the little Indian village of Yakutat early in the Eighteenth century. It seems that the Russian governor had come into the bay and killing all of the sea otter The poor, illiterate, unWashed Indian Chief went to the great Russian statesman and demanded that the slaughter be stopped, for, says this Chief, who could neither read nor write, "If you kill off all the otter, what will there be left for our grandchildren ?'
 However, the Indian who could neither read write lost his battle, the sea otter are now gone, and the only persons who suffer from the destruction of this valuable animal are the chil- dren of the same Indian Chief, "Who could neither read nor Write''
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-08-15
INTOLERANCE

"Father, forgive them for they know not what
 they do''
 Thus spake the Son of God on Calvarys tree So many long, long centuries ago, it seems The sons of men the lesson now should know. We hate brother man for darkened skin, For birth in lands remote and distant from
 our own, Revile and persecute his creed, and thus we
 know
 That time hath not evolved the Christly
 deed.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-08-15
PRICES

Prices in ketchikan are now 90 for humpies and 12c for chums The report is that one cannery is paying 4Oc for echoes, and that the superintendent predicts that canners will pay as high as 75c by Fall.
The Alaska fisherman., 1925-08-15

on the fish which are not iced in an American port. This means that if the fisherman takes his cargo to Prince Rupert and sells it there it will be packed there, and under the present law must pay duty of two cents pound for re- shipment to the United States Whereas fish sold in Ketchikan would be packed here and be- ing packed in an American port would not be subject to any tax. The two cent tax was placed on halibut sold by our fishermen in Prince Rupert as the direct result of Carl Strong's inf1uence the said Carl working for the interests of the ketchikan Cold Storage Company.
 It is a peculiar thing that our business men whenever they wish to secure monopoly ask the lawmakers to place heavy burdens upon competitors The way to get halibut fishermen to sell in Ketchikan is for the buyers to pay at least good price as the Prince Rupert buyer offers. If fourteen cents is offered at Prince Rupert why should not Carl Strong's company offer fourteen cents, in which event the fish would be sold at Ketchkan. But always the prices at Ketchikan and elsewhere are some thing less. The fish buyer, however, feels that the hard working men who risk their lives on the open seas should be patriotic enough to over- look the difference in price and sell to the American buyer and thus show his patriotism It seldom occurs to the American buyer that He cdll SHOW HIS pdCTlOlSIl Oy OIIeT1ng the American fisherman at least an equally good price as the Canadian buyer does. In that way the sales would be made in Ketchikan, the out fitting would be done here and the money spent here.
 The action taken at Petersburg is step taken in the right direction, but does not go far enough The Petersburg Commercial Club asks that the tax of two cents imposed be re- duced to one cent. Reading the Petersburg Her aid we note that halibut fishermen and boat had expressed their opinion in favor of the reduction of the tariff. Among the seven persons mentioned as speakers but two were bona fde fishermen. We believe that if the census of the fishermen were taken it would be infavor of no tariff THE POSITION OF THE ALASKA FISHERMAN is not that we wish to build up Prince Rupert as against America ports. We advocate no tariff because such nOl-
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-21
Statehood for
District

To the Editor of The Times:
II AM a lifelong resident Of the
District of Columbia, over
eighty-six years of age, and I am
offering a rather daring sugges'
ton.
This is the age of progress, and
I believe the day has arrived
when we should be relieved of
our cheap, insignificant designa-
ton.
Every patriotic, religious, polid-
cal, business and social organiza-
ton in the Nations Capital should
write en- masse, in a demand that
Congress should give us title TO
which we have a legal claim
namely: The STATE OF COLUM-
,BIA.
With a representative in Con-
gress and a governor and legls'
lature, all elected by the voice
of the people, We could controI
our own affairs and win a mucn
higher appreciation of the re,
sponsibility of citizenship ana
gain much more honor and re-
spect from foreign nations.
The member Of Congress haV-
ing the courage and ability TO
gain the passage of a measure
of such far-reaching magnitude
would have his name INSCRIBED
on history's pages as one OF
Americas greatest statesmen
(Mrs.9 NELLIE H. BRADLEA'