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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
CROOKS Change
SIDES OVER The
TRACTION STEAL
Labor" Officials Drop
in Soft Place

The imayoralty campaign in chca.
90 has begun, with a re-alignment Of
the political gangs on the issue of the
traction ordinance. The Hearst news.
papers, supporting Thompson as their
next candidate for mayor, are oppos-
ing the traction ordinance. Mayor
Dever has lined up the Tribune, News
and Post and the bankers who are
trying to retain control Of the traction
lines for long term of years.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
continuing its laundering policy Of
supporting the friends of the bankers
and the enemies of the workers, fol-
lowed Mayor Dever right into the
camp of the traction magnates. Olan-
der, Walker, Fitzpatrick and the labor
burocracy were loath to break with
Dever. They postponed action on the
traction ordinance until the last min.
ute. While the Workers Communist
Party in the aldermanic campaign was
exposing the traction steal, and de.
handing control of the traction lines
by the workers who run them, the Ill.
inois and Chicago Federation of Labor
were begging Mayor Dever for more
time" to consider his traction pro-
posal.
Now, however, these labor politici.
ans have found soft place to land
and have Topped to the Hearst-Thomp.
son combination just as the Tribune
Topped to the support of Dever. The
labor officials have taken part in
the re-alignment of crooks, and have
presumably decided to support a
different set of crooks.
Mayor Dever, speaking before the
Rotary club, declared that 1.-The most
careful and conservative bankers of
Chicago say the plan is feasible" It
has been disclosed that r. r. McCor.
mick, who dictates the editorial policy
of the Chicago Tribune, acts as at
torney for the Chicago surface lines
as head of the law firm Of Mccormick
Kirkland, Patterson and Fleming. The
Chicago Evening Post is owned by the
Teapot Domer, John Shaffer, who is a
heavy stakeholder in the traction
lines. The editor of the Chicago News
is also said to be owner of a large
block of stock in the traction lines.
All these papers are supporting Dew.
er's ordinance.
Mary Mcdowell, Raymond Robbins
and other liberals" have given THEN
support to the Dever-Tribune alliance
and are working for the success of the
traction steal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
One-Half Million
Illinois Women Ask
Eight Hour Day

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March H.
There are $4,000 women working in
industry in Illinois and nearly 100000
OF them are married women. argu.
ments for the eight-hour day for wo-
men before the joint senate and house
industrial affairs committees revealed.
The joint house and senate commit
tees on industrial affairs, will hold an
other public hearing on the bill on
March IS.
b. F. tombstone. of the Belden Man.
ufacturing company OF Chicago, in OPP
posing the bill, stated that my 600
women employees do not favor an
eight hour day" II was noticeable,
however, that none OF the GOO employ.
es we're brought in to corroborate the
statement. N
Harry p. Hill. secretary Of the Ill.
inois chamber OF commerce, has ar.
Bived in Springfield toelend his sup.
port to the state police bill, aimed to
provide constabulary force to help
the employers break strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
CAL And Dawes
VAINLY DEFEND
AGENT OF TRUST
Seek Servant w hos e
Corruption Is Unknown

WASHINGTON, d. c., March IL
President Coolidge will decide at
breakfast tomorrow morning whether
or not he will again submit the name
of Charles Warren of Michigan, to
the senate as his choice for attorney
general. Warren's reputation re-
ceived a severe battering in the SEN
ate prior TO the vote to reject him
Even the republican senator from
Warren's own state, Senator Couzens
of Michigan, declared he thought War
rem unfit to be attorney general. One
senator declared he lowed it to
Michigan and to the United States to
reject Coolidge's choice"
Coolidge called Warren on the tele-
phone Immediately after the senate
mad slapped him in the face, and ar
ranged for one Of his famous break
fast parties with Warren to decide
on course Of action. Coolidge wants
to re-submit Warren's name, but the
republican senators have had enough
Of the sugar trust lawyer and are
urging Coolidge to select some cor
poration lawyer whose adherence to
big business is not quite so well
known.
The senate will probably adjourn
for the summer shortly, after consid.
ering the Isle OF Pines treaty ceding
the island to Cuba. The treaty is
twenty years old
Coolidge's hobby, the "world court"
another method of claiming the work.
ers Of Europe to the gold of American
fnanciers, has been buried in the for.
eign relations committee for three
years, and will probably not be brot
on the senate floor until the next
session. .tst
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
500 COMRADES WANTED FORBTG
PARIS COMMUNE PAGEANT MARCH IS

THE workers Of New York wonderful
$4,000 Communists and Communist Madison
Square Garden In the Of Lenlnlsm celebration Of
the Paris will and
their followers
In better action
the boursese whose assembly gathered Versailles
charge anything by
the Communists Hundreds Of participate
The pageant will require goodsezed large
number Of comrades to act In the
Workers (commun " groups who are
willing devote themselves to the should
report AT ONCE to comrad Fran party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
TEAPOT DOMERS
IN MOCK TRIAL
USE WRITEWASH

CHEYENNE. Wyo.. March Ii
Government officials themselves have
blocked the return to the government
of the Teapot Dome oil leases which
ex-Secretary of the Treasury Albert
Fall was bribed to turn over to the
Sinclair oil interests.
This was revealed by owen d. Rob
Ierts, one of the lawyers appointed by
President Coolidge to take part in the
mock trial now going on here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13

that was tinged very strongly with
left wing sentiment. The farmer-la-
Dor party as result of this was max
ing rapid progress toward the left.
Was Rank and File Body.
A year ago the Minnesota farmer
labor federation was formed, made up
purely Of rank and file elements and
gave expression to somewhat of a
class program. This .rarew conster-
nation into the ranks of the petty
bourgeoisie leadership that had con-
Continued on page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
TRACTION TRUST
CUTS SERVICE
AS PROFIT AID
Buffalo Monopoly Pays
No Heed to Protests
BY FRANKLIN p. BRUCE.
Especial 70 the Daily Workerl


BUFFALO, N. Y, March 1.-THE
people of Buffalo. N. Y, have for the
past week been in the throes of an
excited discussion over the threaten
ed abandonment by the International
Railway Co. of car service on five
trolley lines, patronized chiefly by
workers. Meetings by civic and bust
ness organizations have been held,
protesting against discontinuance Of
service. Even the chamber of com.
merce, the trusted guardian of vested
interests, ostentatiously protested"
and surprised the gullible ones by APP
pearing for once to espouse the cause
OF the people"
New York state, like many OF the
other sovereign" states, has public
service commission whose function
ostensibly is to regulate utility cor
porations and protect the people, but
In fact, was created to stabilize the
securities and legalize the piracy Of
all utilities In the state. In THIS ca-
pacity II has admirably succeeded for
the past is years.
Mayor Schwab swore by the beard
of the prophets that he would see to
II that the people got service IL he
had to declare an emergency" and
would permit jitneys to operate. Com
missioner Perkins, whose obsession is
municipal ownership as pnnacea,
iamnoonad fho raflwav officfala In N
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
STEEL ORDERS SHOW
INCREASE FROM BOTH
LAST MONTH AND 1924

NEW YORK, March 11.-Forward
orders Of the United States steal
corporation increased 247,44s tons
In the month ended February 20,
according TO the monthly statement
Of the corporation published today.
Unified tonnage February 2s was
5,2s4,77i tons, against 5,o37,32 tons
on January 81; and 4,st6,676 on De-
eember 81, 1924. One year ago the
corporation reported untitled orders
Of 4,912,eof tons. This was 371 $40
less than the orders reported at
pres =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
BIG UPEIv OllO.
.DRIvE SIARIS
IN GREAT BRITAIN
Bosses Cut Wages and
Increase Hours
BY LELAND oLps,

Federated Press Industrial Editor.)
A conflict between labor and CAPT.
tai in England involving the entire
trade union movement is thinly veil
ed in wage negotiations now in pro-
gress. The industrial crisis created
by foreign competition is giving the
employing class toehold to resist
the efforts of labor to secure decent
standards.
Bosses Propose Wage Cut.
Railway arrangements counter the
claim of the unions for an advance in
wages with proposal for a whole
Continued on page 60
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
CAPITALIST PARTY TOOLS AIDING
SHYSTERS, BOSSES, LABOR FAKERS,
RAPE FARNER-LAB0R FEDERATION
BY c. A. HATHAWAY.
Especial to The Daily Workerl

MINNEAPOLIS Saturday aconay poli.
clans within the farmerabor their destroy
federation
rank and file workers
Off eseeker
delegates convention
o n March, 90.
from labor organizations
farmers nonparsan league This resulted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
New German President.

BERLIN, Germany. March 11.-Dr.
Walter Simons, former foreign min
lister, will be sworn in as acting presi-
dent of Germany tomorrow. He will
serve only until the election OF a new
president, made necessary by the
death of the social-democratic Presi-
dent Ebert.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13

to any address designated by any
branch. These are to be distributed
to one hundred houses. the same
houses, every day for one week. At
the end of the week those houses are
to be solicited for subs by the branch
members.
The plan was adopted by the meet
ing. But that wasn't enough for the
propaganda committee. The commit
tee decided to begin with a territory
Of its own next Monday, distribute
the papers for week and go for subs
week from next Sunday. The COM
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
GERMANY PAID DEARLY
TO BURY TRAITOR TO
WORKING CLASS, EBERT

BERLIN, March IL The Prus-
sian diet was thrown into an uproar
today when deputy asserted that
the funeral Of President Ebert cost
the reich 100000 marks or S75o,ooo
which he called IAN irresponsible
waste"
SociaIist deputies shouted:
"ScoundreIl"
The resultant tumuIt forced an
adjournment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
JAPAN'S 100000
UNEMPLOYED 40 Per
CENT INTELLECTUALS

TOXIC, Japan, March 1f.-Unem-
pIoyed In Japan now total s,4oo, 900,
according to figures complied by the
union chambers Of commerce. The
report says that 30 per cent Of the
out Of work are Of intellectual or
non-manual labor class, and these
find It virtually impossible to get
even psrt-tlme work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
kurd Rebels Defeat Turks.

CoNsTANTNoPLE, March IL
The Kurdish rebels under the leader
ship of Sheilx Said attacked the town
of Diarbekar where 5000 Turkish cav
alrymen were garrisoned, and inflict-
ed heavy losses on the Turks. They
made no attempt to hold the town,
but left after demoralizing the garri-
son.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
DAILY WORKER LOCAL AGENTS
LAY PLANS FOR BIG SUB DRIVE

member least SUBJ
WORKER
being
DAILY WORKER beginning
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
SENS Forces Take Town.

CANTON, China, March ii.-sun
Vat Sens headquarters here announce
he peaceful occupation pof Swatow,
Kwantung province -.----.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13

Get az sub for the DAILY
WORKER from your shopmate
and you will make another mem
Der for your branch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
CARP ENTERS ARE
CURIOUS over
ATTORNEYS BILL
Refused to Pay 1t Unless
Iternized


ested in an expense bill for $4,000, sub
mitted by Attorney Hope Thompson
to the carpenters district council for
services rendered to the union, to
Harry Jensen and divers others.
Skeptical carpenters suspect that
this is the third time the same bill has
been submitted after being twice paid.
Perhaps they are mistaken. 1t may be
an exact duplicate of the two others.
However, the delegates to the district
council refused to recommend pay.
ment despite big fight for the $4,000,
waged by Harry Jensen, who is a very
particular friend of Hope Thompson's.
The delegates insisted on securing an
itemized bill. 1t may prove interest
ing.
For Matching Plot.
1t is rumored in carpenter circles
that part of this fee is for legal ad-
vice given by Thompson to Jensen
when he was Matching the plot to ex.
pei the militant carpenters from the
union. All this may come out in the
wash.
The Daily Worker was informed yes.
terday by an old timer in the carpen-
ers' union that Secand Viee-Presideni
Lackey. who presided at last Monday
nights meeting of Local 1s1, came to
Chicago with the object of using rough
house tactics on the local, but when
he got acquainted with their attitude,
he changed his mind and brought out
the soft soap.
An Appropriate Man.
mo man ever had more appropri-
ate name than Lackey has," declared
the carpenter. when he learned that
he could not intimidate the member
ship, he switched around and begar
to pull the Pollyanna stuff. Every.
thing was alright or would be alright.
It was alright, suppose to take the
bread and butter out of the mouths
of the active members of the local
who were railroaded by his underlings
But we will teach those lackeys of
Car Hutcheson, that the rank and
file are not as dumb or as meek as
they thought they were"
The Daily Worker was sold outside
the meeting place of Local ISL last
Monday night. and Lackey warned the
members against believing everything
they see in the papers. There is a rea
son as grape nuts" used to say. The
progressives have the reactionaries
on the run.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13

THE leopard has changed his spots
/ and the polecat no longer stinks.
Continued on Page 81
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
WOMAN AWAITS
MOOSE CHEERFULLY
BUT NIGHTS OF DREAD HAVE
LEFT STAMP ON FACE OF
MRS. IDA HUGHES.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Smiling, though
continually haunted by the vision OF
the gallows since that day last week
when the supreme court ruled against
giving her a new trial. Mrs. Ida
Hughes, weak from a breakdown OF
her nerves, bid visitors to her tower
cell a cheerful welcome when they
call
The months of mental battle which
the little woman has waged since her
trial for the murder off her mother
in-law and the sentence of death that
followed it, and the more recent blow
death by the supreme court, allied
with the dread of what the grim flu
ture may hold in store for her, has
plainly stamped its mark on the brave
little face.
THE nights; those horrible long
nights slept better last night than
| have for long time, but even then
| did not sleep sound, for it was made
restless by the thought of what may
happen The days are not so bad, for
then there are visitors who have been
so kind to me, but at night | think
Of all sorts OF horrid things" the little
woman said.
Her attorneys are preparing to APP
peal to the prison commission and
the governor to commute Mrs.
Hughes sentence to life imprison-
ment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
A FORMER PROMINENT
ATTORNEY is IN JAIL
ONE-TIME CAN DIDATE FOR
CONGRESS IN THIS DISTRICT
NOW A DERELICT.

WAYCROSS, GA. T. Hill, Cor
dele attorney, has not been released
from the Ware county jail, according
to Sheriff L. c. Warren Hill was ar
rested las, week on charge OF beat
ing his fare on a passenger train COM
ing into Waycross. He was later iden-
tihed as the man who, passed num-
Der OF worthless checks here several
years ago.
1t is understood that Hill will be
released, under the action OF the city
court, if he makes good all checks
given in this city and pays for the
railroad ticket that brought him to
Waycross
Hill tells authorities OF the court
that he will make the checks good
and he is now waiting for money from
Cordele. In the event he does not meet
this demand from the court he will
be forced to serve a straight sentence
imposed by Judge J. L. Crawley
Hill carried the Georgia banner al
the St Louis convention and stamped
ed the Georgia delegation and with II
all the southern states for William
Jennings Bryan in the COS.
He was at one time an aspirant for
congressional honors i'll the Third dis
trict.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
SOUTHERN COTTON OIL
TO MOVE TO ORLEANS
THE NEW OWNERS MAKE AN
NOUNCEMENT. WAS PUR-
CHASED FOR $S,S75,0O0.

Purchase of the entire capital stock,
100000 shares, of the Southern Cotton
Oil Company by R. S. Hecht and A.
D. Geoghegan, of New Orleans, rep
resenting a southern syndicate, which
was confirmed in federal district court
at Newark, N. J., Tuesday means
that headquarters of the concern will
be moved from New York to New
Orleans, it has been announced in a
statement by Mr.. Hecht
The stock was purchased for So,
$4,000 from the Virginia Carolina
Chemical company, which is in the
hands OF receivers, and Mr.. Hecht's
statement said that the Southern Cot
ton Oil company had also been placed
in receivers hands because of the
chemical companys having been so
disposed, but that now the cotton oil
company would be entirely divorced
from the chemical company and that
when our plans are fully carried out
it will be a $20,000,000 concern.
The Southern Cotton Oil Company,
which manufactures cotton seed oil
products, operates 80 plants through
out the southern states, including one
at Dawson Mr.. Hecht is president
of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Co.,
of New Orleans, and Mr.. Geoghegan
is president OF the Southport Mills OF
New Orleans. Most of the other in
vestors are connected with local banks.
Mr.. Geoghegan will become president
of the company.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
1000 MILES OF ROAD
BEING BUILT ANNUALLY
PRACTICALLY EVERY CITY OF
5000 POPULATION WILL
BE CONNECTED.

Improved roads are now being built
in the United States at the rate OF A.
900 miles year.
Under the federal highway act OF
1921, which is administered by the De
partment of Agriculture through its
bureau of public roads, program has
been established which will give the
country a connected system OF main
highways.
Practically every city of 5000 popu-
lation or more will be directly on the
system and will be connected with it
by improved state or county roads, as
will the greater majority OF smaller
cities.
The work is done on $3.50 basis
by the states and the federal govern
ment. The law provides very definite
Nv for continuous maintenance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
TIME TO BEGIN TO
PRACTICE ECONOMY
INCUMBENT UPON FEDERAL
AND STATE GOVERNMENTS.
MUNICIPAL TAXES SOAR.

WASHINGTON, D. Economy
is mot thing of saving at the spigot
and wasting at the bung," Senator
Cappcr, republican, OF Kansas, de-
clares in the March issue of the Ma
tons Business in urging state and To-
cal governments to take an equal share
with the federal government in light
ening the taxpayers burden.
The article states that, during the
last four wears. federal taxes have de-
creased appreciably while state and
local levies generally have shown in
creases. ;,
The people have come to realize,
it says that economy in government
is not solely a federal nor yet a state
responsibility, but a responsibility IN
cumbent on both.
Local spending and local bonded
debt have increased at such a pace
that, it is estimated, municipal taxes
in the last fifteen years have increased
between 800 and 400 per cent.
Municipal taxes are so high that today
the home owner is no better oft than
was the tenant dozen years ago
Taxes now are in many instances as
much as the amount formerly paid III
rents. ~
Nor is the payment OF taxes. the
end of the matter. High taxes mean
high prices. High prices mean-at
least in some degree curtailinent %
buying power. There IS not a single e
commodity on the market today that
could not be sold for less, and thereby
he made more generally available, II
tax tolls were not so heavy. 50 It IS IS
a1ite time to begin not only to talk
economy but to practice it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-03-03
BIG PROFITS MADE
BY COFFEE GROWERS
EXPORT CONTROL AND $1,000
600 SPENT ON ADVERTISING
IN U. S. BOOST RETURNS.

SANTOS, Brazil.-The $1000,000
which local coffee growers have spent
advertising coffee in the United States
seems to be coming back into their
bank accounts According to figures
released by the American consulate in
this city green coffee exporters shipp-
ed 749,894,376 pounds of coffee to the
United States during 1924, worth
$3.50 100 This is drop under 1923
of less than per cent, in quantity,
but an advance in value of nearly 40
per cent.
Export Control Plan Defended.
There has been much criticism in
the United States of the system OF
daily control OF shipments at the ports
of Santos and Rio de Janerio, where
the demand is maintained at a high
level throughout the year by control
over the sale of the crop. 1t should
be noted, however, local dealers set
forth, that this public control over
sales is fixed on the basis of the aver
age crop. With entries at $4,000 hags
day into Santos and 1900 bags a
day INTO R1o deJanerio, the year ar
rivals under the original plan, started
by the federal government, gave a to-
tai of 100000 bags, calculated on a
basis OF 800 working days year. This
figure is above the average crop for
the last l0-year period.
1t is undoubtedly true that large
profits are being secured on coffee
plantations at the present time. The
highest price ever recorded for cot
fee fazenda was paid short time ago
by an English company organized i'll
Brazil, which paid the equivalent Of
81, 100000 for farm of 100000 trees
AT present prices the average crop
growth on this farm is worth about
$1,S00,000. Three thousand two hun
bred people live on the farm. Wages
are low