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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
Illustrating Banking
Control of Industry;
Both Woven Together
BY WALLACE T. MErcALFE


WARREN. Ohio, Nov. 2S.-In a re-
port to the stockholders, President
Wick Of the Trumbull Steel company
of this city writes that the company
owns 600 acres of land Of which 80
per cent is used for manufacturing
purposes. The company has 40.5 acres
under roof, III miles of trackage with
all equipment and $500 workers en-
ployed.
For the past month or so, this steel
company, one of the finest independ-
ent steel mills in the Mahoning valley.
has been under the management OF
Jas. A. Campbell, president Of the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., be-
cause of the financial difficulties its
old management experienced.
A new loan has been fioated in Wall
Street and the subscription books for
their 10 millions six per cent 15-year
mortgage gold bonds closed on Nov.
-. According to the Wall Street re-
port S1,5OOOOO was subscribed to in
Mahoning valley
Trumbull Steel Co. has an agree
ment with the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Iron. Steel & Tin Workers. It
is one of the few companies in Ma
honing valley having such an agree
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25

me when / tried to appeal from the
decision of the boss controlled ap-
prentice committee, instead the bust
ness agent wanted to know why had
not saved enough money during the
time | had been working to be able
to spend four weeks in school without
pay.
The instructor of the school is very
much prejudiced against some Of us
because we tried to prevent the board
of education from using the free ser
vices of the apprentices during school
hours to paint several schools, while
at the time there were many painters
out of work.
Fifteen of us were forced to paint
two schools, outside work, which we
all are experienced at. The excuse the
teacher gave was that we would get
experience on the job, but the fact
is that the experience that we really
need is on inside work painting wood
work, vanishing, paperhanging, etc,
which is more advanced than paint.
ing the sides of frame building.
An Open Shop Forum.
When the school was first organized
about a year ago, all the apprentices
we're enthusiastic about it, since they
were actually learning something
about the trade. But during the last
couple of months, the school has be-
come dead and uninteresting, very
little about the trade is being taught
instead the school is used as a forum
by the Builders Association.
The school is so dead, that some
OF us we're put to work fixing the
plumbing ana the toilets in the school
building, which is old and In bad con-
dition, located on w. Fourth St., a
factory and warehouse district.
Union Should Step In.
II the apprentice schools are 70 be
really run for the benefit OF the ap-
prentices a lot Of changes must be
made. In the first place, the school
should be under the control of the
union, and not OF the bosses. The ap.
prentices should be represented on
the committee in charge OF the school.
The wage scale at the present time
is very low, when we remember that
an apprentice in forty hours turns out
as much work as a full time union
painter, altho only getting about half
the wages. This applies to apprentices
who have already served two or more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25


ton and the board of education each
have two representatives on the ap-
prentice committee as against two re-
representatives. of the union.
These six men, together with the
secretary of the Building Employers
Association and the instructor of the
school are the ones who decide all
the policies and arrangements under
which the apprentices work.
"Great opportunities"-To seab.
Having control of the school the
bosses use it to carry on their pro-
paganda. Members of the Building
Employers Association, as well as the
instructor, deliver lectures to the ap-
prentices, telling them of the wonder
full prospects before them Of the great
opportunities that a painter has of
becoming contractor and boss, etc.
This is really propaganda against
the union, giving the young fellows an
idea that the union is only temper
airy thing, while the important thing
is the chance" of becoming a boss.
Discriminate Against Progresslves.
Apprentices who happen to have
progressive or radical opinions are
disseminated against and forced to a
lot of trouble. According to the agree
ment, apprentices are supposed to at
tend the school for four hours a week.
II they happen to be late for few
minutes, they are forced to waste a half
day on their own time in order TO
go to the apprentice committee to ex-
plain the reason for being late. In
many cases they are punished by
being forced to attend school for three
or four days week also on their
own time.
On one occasion, for being late ten
minutes to school, my boss was in
structed by the apprentice committee
to dock half days wages out of my
pay. During the past week | was
ordered tc attend school for four
weeks, without pay. simply because
Of the false statement made by the
instructor OF the school.
He claimed that had been notified
to appear before the apprentice com
mittee, altho several of the apprenti.
ces who were present at the time he
claimed to have informed me, declared
that he had not told me anything
about the matter.
No Help From Union Officials.
The District Council OF the Painters
Union did not even care TO listen to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
SAN DIEGO FULL
OF UNEMPLOYED.
HUNGRY WORKERS
Crowds Pack Agencies
Looking for Work
BY CARL GIEBE.
worker Correspondentl

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 23-Chances
for honest workers to make a living
here are very poor. Hundreds of idle
men hang around employment offices
all day long, waiting for jobs. But
most of the jobs go to the offices
charging fee of from $500 to $4,000
so the worker that is broke is always
out of 'luck."
The government employment agency
is worse than a lottery. Chances are
100 to l against a fellow getting work
there. The big blackboard is usually
clean, except for some Mexican writ
ing on top for cotton pickers in Ari-
iona, or some such impossible place.
1t is pathetic sight to see the men
crowd around the rail. Now and then
the man in charge calls out for dish
washer or a pick and shovel man
fifty cents an hour-or for. a common
laborer to do couple hours cleanup
work. The men stand around all
morning in a state of nervous tension.
anxious to take anything. Many Of
them haven't slept in a bunk or bed
for weeks.
What brings workers to San Diego /?
II is the propaganda of the chamber
Of commerce. which advertises this
city as among the favored" spots,
with much farm labor needed because
of recent rains. And there is suppos-
ed to be building boom here.
But workers soon find out, after
they have spent their small bank ac-
count for railroad fare--that the
boom" is only for capitalists and
that II they don't watch out they will
be thrown into jail for "vagrancy."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
GREEN DECIDES
UNIONS CANNOT
BAR COMMUNISTS
Fears Left |. L. G. w. at
A. F. of L. Convention

NEW YORK, Nov. 23--The breach
between the Bookkeepers', Stenogra-
piers and Accountants Union and
Local No. %, of the International
Ladies' Garment Union that for
awhile took the form of a strike
against the clerical department of the
garment offices was healed at a con-
ference directed by William Green,
president, American Federation of La
Dor. a
Green advised the union to admit
again to full union privileges Anna
Berman and Irving Fraulkin, the two
office workers the bookkeepers' union
had attacked as Communists.
Green told the conference that the
bookkeepers' union could not afford
to bar workers. 1t is struggling or
ganization that annually appeals to
the federation for assistance and the
problem of organizing the office work
ers generally is difficult matter. His
advice was followed.
Sitting in at the conference were
Leonard Bright. president of the
union; Louis Hyman, manager of the
New York joint board Of the garment
workers and others concerned. The
strike followed the refusal of the 10
cal union to discharge these two cleri.
cal workers barred by the bookkeep-
ers. At the time of this trouble the
local garment body was functioning
independently of the International
union but since then it has come back
and a peace pact has been ratified.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
BIackie Ford Gets
Support of Frisco
Unions in Defense

SAN FRANCISCO FPI-The di-
trict council Of carpenters and the
walters union OF San Francisco pledge
support to Blackie Ford in his new
trial on a murder frame-up charge
arising from the 1918 hopfeld riots.
"Ford's arrest amounts to persecu-
ton" the carpenters say in their pro-
test resolution. Ford's trial is set for
Dec. 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
Militant Picketing
Again Closes Mills

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. 2S.-Ag-
gressive picketing forced the big b.
b. & h. knight Co.-cotton manufac-
turers-to cease trying TO operate the
Royal Mills at River Point where
weavers are striking against the
speed-up system that substitutes 32
looms for 16 per man.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
Willimantic Holding
Out After 38 Weeks

WILLIMANTIC, Conn, Nov. %
The strike of American Thread Co.
employees against the 10 per cent
wage cut enters its 3Sth week. More
than 1000 are affected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
trade UNION DELEGATION TO
RUSSIA PLANNED AS MOVE TO
FOLLOW UP PURCELL MESSAGE
BY ART SHIELDS.
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

E NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-Two farewell meetings to
Purcell chairman of the International Federation
Unions packed two big heaer audtorums fire depart
night before he sailed back England. They
appauded him again again he urged his message of
big international union of the workers of the world
they unanimously the sending of American
delegation Russia the preliminary step bring
ing 100000 Russian unionss into the ancusve
safety
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
CUTTERS LOCAL
PROGRESSIvES
Fight GANGS
Dubinsky Tries Old
Terrorist Rule
(Worker correspondentl

NEW YORK cITY-Many militant
fighters Of Local No 10 Of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union were badly beaten and bruised,
by the gangsters Of the reactionary
bureaucratic machine Of that local, at
a mass meeting arranged by the Pro-
sresslVe Cutters on Thursday, Nov.
10, at Webster Hall, for the purpose
Of aequainting the masses Of the cut
tiers as to the correct state Of affairs
and conditions in their local.
The demogogic and phrase monging
Manager Dubinsky, knowing Of the
meeting in advance organized his
gangster clique to break it up. but
without considering, that the progress
sive cutters were well prepared for
It.
Pogrom Tactics.
Their Teactionary tactics against
the cutters manifested itself by their
pulling out knives, cutting up many
cutters assembled and breaking chairs
over their heads. AS a result of this
Comrade Berkowitz, an energetic
fighter, in the ranks Of The work,
against the bosses and their to,
the reactionaries, was badly beat
and slashed over the head. He
to be immediately taken to the d.
tor.
This conflict is a continuation of
fight between the rank and file
the reactionary bureaucratic
chine, who is still In control of Ii
No. 10 and is fighting the lefts
his corrupt tactics Of "gangsterif
even after the peace resolution wi
was adopted between the Joint Ac
Committee and the General Execu
Board, which was supposed to
created HARMONIOUS cooperation
tween the various crafts Of the II
national.
The rioters were finally eje
from the meeting. After the tur
had somewhat abated, the chair
Comrade Horowitz, proceeded
the meeting, declaring this outt
of violence and bloodshed Of our
spoken reactionary Dubinsky viii
shake the determination Of the
gressive cutters. On the contrai
will tend to strengthen their d
mined win to clean Local No.
this despotism which prevails in
The following speakers. Bsl ~,
Svoss, Lukin, Shapiro, Brown, Bern
stein, Cooper, spoke giving their own
opinion about the splitting tactics pc
rused by the vile smelling skunk, Du-
binsky. All condemned his atrocities
committed against the cutters assem-
bled at that meeting and a resolution
adopted demanding Dubinsky resign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
DAWESPLAN WILL CUT STEEL 2b
WORKERS WAGES; ONLY LEFT
Y WING PROGRAM CAN AID THEM
BY ISRAEL AMTER.

shaving
mills organized
Mike Tighe, the steel workers
spite of the big organization
What face United States Steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25

years. Beginners are even worse off
as far as wages are concerned, re-
ceiving only from fifteen to twenty
FIVE dollars a week for the first year.
hope the Young Workers League
will begin 10 pay some attention 70
the young apprentices and begin to
organize apprentice clubs, which will
be a means Of giving the apprentices
a chance Of organizing themselves to
obtain better conditions and wages on
the job, and to receive more attention
and consideration from the unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
British Labor Party
Man Says American
Labor Is Moribund

BALTIMORE-FP)-R Davies.
British labor member Of parliament
and under-secretary Of home affairs
in the Macdonald cabinet, told the
Baltimore open forum that American
working men are still as much cap
italists In their outlook as are the
owners of the plants where they are
employed. American labor's political
condition he termed moribund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
THIS APPRENTICES STORY MUST
BE TOLD IN PAINTERS LOCALS
UNTIL OFFICIALS DO SOMETHING
By ]. p, woRkER CORRESPONDENT.

CLEVELAND Ohio, Nov. 23Bng apprentice think it
conditions which the
o Painters Union
school Cleveland which controlled by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-25
MEXICAN TEXTILE WORKERS OUT ON
STRIKE PARALYZE THE INDUSTRY

strike Of textile
country The textile industry parsIyzed
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
IRON SPAN.
FOR NAV|DAD
D'
CROSSING
SteffIer Says Bridge Over
Martinez Creek to Be
Built Soon.

An iron bridge will be built across
Martinez Creek on Navidad street,
Paul E. Steffler, commissioner II
streets. announced Tuesday in reply
TO a petition filed with City Clerk
Fred Fries Monday. The petition
bore approximately 100 names.
The petitioners claimed the city had
gone back on promise for a bridge
made two months ago.
Commissioner Steffler assured them
Tuesday. however. that bridge viii
be constructed early in January.
The residents said they would DO
satisfied with a wooden bridge. but
Mr.. Steffler announced that the con-
struction of such q bridge would Be-
n waste Of money as several old
bridges will be available at the close
of the current year.
I'm planning to remove the Market
and Fourth street bridges and place
modern ones in their places" the COM
missioner said.
One of these will Be used to span
the creek on Navidad street. ~
"City finances really wouldn't per.
NIT the erection of the bridge just
at present, anyhow" the commission
er explained.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
z HURT AS.SH|PS
CRACK UP At
KELLYF|ELD
Third Man Escapes Injury
When He Leaps From
Path of Plane.

Two airplanes were badly wrecked
and two men were injured when the
landing wheels Of a descending ship
struck the upper wing of ship
standing on the line at Kelly Field
Tuesday.
A third man who was working on
the engine of the plane on the ground
escaped by jumping.
Lieutenant W. T. Meyer, pilot, had
his nose broken and was badly cut
about the face.
Staff Sergeant David v. Anderson,
Forty-first School Squadron, passcn-
ger in the plane, was badly shaken up
and bruised.
LEAPS TO SAFETY.
Sergeant W. F. Carreiro was only
slightly bruised when he leaped away
from the approaching ship.
Lieutenant Meyer had been making
n flight in the vicinity of the flying
field and glided to n landing over the
hangers.
Several planes were standing on the
line III ITOut OIL Tie uduSdEb.
Evidently the ship settled toward
the ground faster than the pilot real.
lied.
TIE landing wheels of his plane
broke the end off the propeller Of the
ship. ploughed through the center sec.
ton of the planes upper wing and
were stripped from their fastening be.
meath the fuselage.
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.
Lieutenant Meyers plane was
thrown forward, pancaking down with
terrific force to the ground.
1t skidded about 20 feet and came
to stop.
Both Lieutenant Meyer and Serge
ant Anderson were able to extricate
themselves from the wreck and walk
to the ambulance.
They were carried to the Kelly
Field hospital. Their injuries are not
serious. it was said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
MEXICO CITY-S. A.
SLEEPER PLANNED

Through sleeping car service from
San Antonio to Mexico City, effective
October Is, has been announced bv
Tom Hood, assistant general passenesr
agent for the Southern Pacific Rail-
way here.
This sleeper will leave San An.
tonic at IL o'clock at night, and from
Eagle Pass will be operated over TIE
National Lines of Mexico. The end
Of the sleeper route at present is Sal
tillo.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06

day put into line for the presidency OF
the American Bankers Association
two years hence:
"Our cotton crop has been good
Nearly oil manufacturing plants are
running at or near capacity. Money
is comparatively easy"
Hal Lemon, Kansas City:
Although our wheat crop was cut
in half it is bringing almost as much
money as last year. Farmers have
money to withhold il from the market
when prices are considered unsatis-
factory. Cotton and corn will bring
in a lot of money.
Cattle men have made very gooS
money this year, thanks TO higher
prices. We look for good business in
the Middle West. Radicalism has died
out"
LARGE CORN CROP.
u. Russ Wood. Terrc Haute:
We have been blessed with an
enormous corn crop, the forcrunner OF
good times, for our farmers spend
money when they have IL. Our coal
situation is ridiculous. Because Of the
famous Miami agreement. union wages
are so high here our mines long have
been closed almost completely. Why.
can buy coal from Kentucky at
the same cost, delivered, as coal mined
under my own building. The strike
Is causing some mines to resume. 9th
er lines of activity are doing well.
Savings deposits are up with us as
elsewhere-due, think, to the fact
that millions of families learned the
systematic saving habit when they
bought Liberty bonds on the install
ment PLAN"
CALIFORNIA OPTIMISTIC.
e. W. Wilson, San Francisco:
California Is improving as the re-
suit of good crops of all kinds. The
latter part of 1925 is proving bet.
ter than the first part"
Eugene r. Gun, Oklahoma City:
"Our agricultural products last year
brought $420,O00.O00. We will not dc
quite as well this year, but condi-
tons are in good shape with the total
value well above the average. Bust
ness conditions in general are the best
since the war. Building has been
enormous and still is. Bank earnings
are increasing"
Copyright, 1925. BY B. c. Forbes,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
BANKERS WARN OF DANGER
OF WILD FLORIDA GAMBLING
By B. c. FORBES

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. s.-Un-
officially, the several thousand Amer.
lean Bankers association members
gathered here are discussing Florida
more than any other non-banking sub
ject. Bankers from almost every state
declare that local money and. in some
cases, local people are fastening to
Florida.
A million dollars every business
day is flowing to Florida from other
states, is the estimate made by bank
ers.
They don't like this whole Florida
movement. They fear the upshot.
And a widespread view is that this
winter will probably bring untowa I'd
happenings where the boom has ragged
most rampantly.
FAKE PROMOTERS
Many bankers declare that fake
promoters who used to dangle gilt
tering securities before unwary in
vestors are now operating in and
from Florida, using building lots in
stead of stocks as their bait.
One well known Florida banker here
is Charles A. Faircloth, president of
the National City Bank of Tampa.
Questioned. he said:
1T Is true that takers have flock
ed to Florida ard that they are fleec-
ing people all over the country. But
those who want to share in Florida's
growth and prosperity can and should
protect Themselves
Howl asked.
"By not doing business with the
takers"
How can people at q distance tell
the takers from the legitimate real
tors?"
WRITE BANKS
"By writing to the banks. The
banks know the black sheep. Also.
banks usually are willing to furnish
disinterested information about any
local property. The decent realtors
are very anxious to warn and guard
people against Inscriptions inter
lopers who now swarm different SEE
TONS"
I'm short, Wall Streets motto az.
plies to Florida property investigate
before you invest "
The following tabloid interviews
picture conditions through the oouu'
try as seen by. representative bankers.
J. H. Puelicher. Milwaukee-ex.
president of the American Bankero'
association:
CONDITIONS GOOD.
Business conditions are really good
and enlightened sentiment has swung
round in favor of the higher rates
which the Northwestern railroads as
suredly need. But Wisconsin po-
litically Is discouraged. The vast ma
jority of the people simply won't and
don't vote. A small minority elects
candidates
Sir John Arid. president Of the Can
adam Bank of Commerce, which has
hundreds of branches:
I'VE have enjoyed magnificent
crops and business. consequently, has
been very good. But this is an cleo
ton year and things will be more OF
less unsettled pending the outcome
about which uncertainely is felt"
It. r. Preston. Chattanooga. yestcr
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
GYM CLASSES OPEN
WITH NEW MEMBERS

Fall gymnasium classes of the Y.
NJ. q. A. opened Monday night with
largely Increased attendance, ac-
cording to H. T. Hitch, physical d.
rector. The mems class in particular
show an increase of over 100 per cent
and the young mems class and boys
classes also show increases.
Three of the Sunday School League
teams have completed enrolment and
have started practice. Others will Be
fully organized shortly and start work
in the gym, Mr.. Hitch said.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
HOME WEATHER FOR TOURISTS.

Chicago: Temperature, 81; cloudy;
ten-mile wind from the southwest; low
est temperature in last "a hours, IS;
highest, So.
Kansas City: Temperature. 50; rain
ing; twelve-mile wind from the north
east; lowest temperature in last "a hours,
81: highest. 81.
New York; Temperature, As; clear;
ten-mie wind from the northwest; low
est temperature in last "a hours, as;
highest. 60.
st. Louis: Temper" ture, So; cloudy:
twelve-mile wind from the south: low
est temperature in last "a hours. Sc;
highest 81.
Washington: Temperature. So: cloudy;
less than ten-mile wind from the west;
lowest temperature in last "a hours, SO;
highest. IS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
MAJOR E. N. DOWELL s. {.
ASSUMES new DUTY

Major c. NJ. Dowell, formerly sta
toned at Fort Leavcnworth, where
he was an instructor in the General
Service schools, has been transferred
to Fort Sam Houston. =
Major Dowell has arrived and al
ready taken up his duties as executive
officer of the Twenty-third Infantry
Brigade
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-06
ARMY BAND TO GIVE y
HOSPITAL PROGRAM

The Twenty-third Infantry band
will give program at the Station
hospital, Fort Sam Houston, from
3 100 to 4 100 p. m. Thursday. Several
concerts have been arranged. one
each week. in the Cavalry-Artillery
Post and Argonne Heights. Officers
quartered in these areas have been
requested to indicate the timH they
desire these concerts so the largesf
number of organizations may be
served. -