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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Real Estate Sharks
Offer Apartm ents
to Keep Wages Down

MIAMI, Fla.-FP)-To keep wages
and clerical salaries from rising above
the pre-boom scale, the Miami realty
board, composed of the principal local
land Spectators has prevented a
precedent by arranging to give school
teachers rooms below the standard
level of rents. If the board of educa-
ton had raised teacher wages to
meet the increased cost of board and
room, other city employees and private
ly employed workers would have cited
the teachers as an example to follow.
So the real estate men. put a newly
built apartment at the disposal of the
school board at a rent that covers all
carrying charges including interest
and depreciation. AS a result the
realtors lose nothing except the profit
on the rent payments of 40 teachers.
They gain the difference between high
rents and low wages on the rest of
the working community.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01

This means that for producing a
ton of coal the anthracite miner earns
a smaller amount of food, clothing,
etc. than at the beginning of the
century and that in the period 1912 to
1920 he earned very much less. In
1919 and 1920 he received only two
thirds as much in exchange for his
work as prior to the 1903 award.
Anthracite mine workers have been
saved from very serious curtailment
Of their living standards only by a
considerable increase in days worked
in the year. In the last 10 years Of
the 18th century they averaged less
than 200 days a year. Lately the
average has huctuated around 27O
days.
The average miners earnings are
not high in spite of the operator pro-
paganda to the contrary. The most
skilled and responsible miners are
averaging only $685. a day working
about 800 of full working year. The
average of day workers inside the
mine is 1856 and Of outside men $4.95
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
American Capitalists
Kow-Tow to Mussolini
BY SYLVAN A. PoLLAcK.
Especial to The Daily worker)

NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 29.-Am-
erican officials and judges which in
.cluded Henry P. Fletcher, United
States ambassador. to Italy; Justice
Salvatore A. Gothic, Supreme Court
Judge Francis X. Manacuso, Judge
Louis A. Valente and many more,
gave the fascist salute when his name
was mentioned at a luncheon given by
the New York Italian Chamber OF
Commerce in the Hotel Plaza, attend
ed by Count Volpi and the other mem
bers of the Italian debt. commission.
Each time Mussolini's name was
mentioned the assemblage stood with
arms appraised, palms toward the
speakers table, and an ovation follow
ed. Recently, in an edict, Mussolini
ordered this salute to be rendered
him as a mark of obedience.
When Count Volpi and his party
arrived in New York City recently.
they were met at the pier by indig-
nant Italian workers who assembled
to show their displasure with the
bloody fascist rule which now governs
Italy. To escape the wrath of the
Italian workers, the local police de-
partment gave the Italian commission
heavy guard and helped them to
dodge the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
SOVIET WORKERS
HAVE Time NOW
TO Read BOOKS
And TheyoiAre Doing 1t
in Factories

Observation-Disclosures in tho
Soviet Union are finding time to read.
Despite the immense difficulties they
have been compelled to overcome
during the last five years they have
turned their attention more and more
to books.
During 1920, the books published in
the Soviet republic numbered $3.50.
For the first half Of 1926 the number
is 2O,771. These figures are vouched
for by the Society for Cultural Rela-
tions which states that the average
number of pages in books was 20 in
1922 and 1O7 in 1924. During 1924 the
average edition per book was 1852.
Most of the books published at the
present time in, the Soviet Republic
appear in paper covers AL are print
ed in the state or the cooperative
printing plants. They sell at very
low prices (from &c up for the
smaller books and pamphlets), within
reach Of the average pocketbook.
New books cover every phase of
science, art, literature. Most of them
deal with problems confronting the
republic. There are immense num-
bers of books on social science.
Book stores have been opened
throughout the republic. No factory
is without its reading room and IL
brary. In large factories these Red
Corners are numbered by the score. l
visited one factory in which there
were more than so. These reading
rooms are kepD;warm and we'll light
ed, and during the noon hour, and be-
fore and after work they are crowd
ed with readersl
Workers in the Soviet Union have
time to read. The 8-hour day and the
6-day week are squite generally en-.
forced. In one industrial city that ]
visited where the stores stay open on
Sunday to accommodate peasants
they are closed tight on Wednesday
When Wednesday, came it was rain,
ing and showing. l had to tramp
around all day and needed a pair OF
rubbers. But there was not a store
in the town that could sell them till
Thursday. l was uncomfortable, but
the hundreds Of store-workers were
getting their free day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Need for Policy of
Class Struggle Seen
in the Shoe Industry

Pressure of unemployment on the
boot and shoe workers of Massachu-
sets is apparently driving them to-
ward a form of class-cooperating un-
ionism which is very satisfactory to
employers, to judge by New York
Times article based on an interview
with the secretary of the New England
Shoe and Leather Assn. These en-
ployers see the threat of strikes
practically eliminated by arbitration.
The boot and shoe industry, with
1870 fewer employees than in October,
1924, and 37To fewer than in 1922
features the October employment re-
port of the Massachusetts department
of labor. The report also shows that
more than half or the boot and shoe
workers who still have jobs are in
establishments working part-time.
Other Massachusetts industries are
depressed but none so badly as boots
and shoes. Cotton mills report en-
ployment 169o below 1922 but a gain
of 415qo over last October. Wooden
mills are s1z % Below 1922 and 1919
below last year. Hosiery and knit
goods factories have $50 fewer work
ers than in 1922 but 11sqo more than
a year ago. All those are affected by
the movement onHndustry away from
New England cakfy to localities
where labor can bAhired more cheaply
or worked longerEhours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
RUSSIAN CROWDS
SHOW TRAINING
IN SELF RULE
Nearing Describes the
Frunze Memorial

MoscoW-(FP)-I have just seen
remarkable performance.
Frunze the red army chief is dead.
A memorial service is being held.
The Big Theater is packed. The
Red Square is full Of people, standing
out in the storm to hear the loud
speakers from the theater
All the leading lights are on the
platform, speaking. KaIenin led off,.
When he got up there were few
scattering handclaps, Immediately
silenced by the crowd
Twice after that there we're few
handclaps and both times the crowd
restored order Immediately.
Then they let loose an orchestra
one Of the finest ! ever heard. And
the orchestra spoke for the crowd. It
was real performance and when it
was over the crowd felt as we'll salts
fled as though 1t had applauded.
The Russian crowd practices self
discipline more effectively than any
other ! have ever seen, except in
England.
And the English crowd is far more
boisterous and rowdy than the
Russian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
PROTECTION OF
LABOR Is REAL
UNDER SOvIETS
Employer Has to Toe the
Line of Union

MOSCOW (FP)-Each worker in
the Soviet Union is protected by a
wage agreement or collective agree
ment, as it is called. This agreement
is negotiated between a representative
of the union and a representative of
the employer for, whom the worker
proposes to work. AS almost all work
ers belong to unions, this system of
collective Bargaining covers the field
of employers apdt employees.
Frequently che employer is the
state or state trust. The representa-
tive of the workers bargains with the
state as it bargains with any other
employer. sNGc.
American workers might be in.
terested in a collective agreement
drawn up this week between an en-
ployer and a representative of the
workers. The employer was compelled
to travel to the capital of the district
Every much as an employer in Penn
sylvania would travel to Harrisburg.
There the employer met representa-
tives of what would be, in the United
States, the State Federation Of Labor.
First they settled the classification.
Taking the wage of farm worker as
basis, they established categories
for carpenters, masons, blacksmiths,
drivers, and the other workers. Once
this contract is signed, the carpenter
or mason to be employed will be paid
at the wage fixed in the contract.
Next, the employer in this case
agreed to pay IL, per cent of the
total payroll into a, cultural fund" to
be used by the union in organizing
classes and clubs among the workers.
Since the schools in this district are
overcrowded, the employer agreed to
provide adequate educational facilities
for the children of all of his workers.
In addition the employer agreed to
pay part of the, wages of the local
union secretary and to provide him
with free transportation whenever he
wished to visit the workers on their
jobs. sdi msa
The Soviet .Uni0ni is ruled by the
government and the trade unions. The
government safeguards the political
interests of the workers. The unions
safeguard their economic interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
LABOR COLLEGE
STUDENTS HEAR
OF SOVIET union
Brookwood Celebrates
Soviet Anniversary

NEW YORK, Nov. 29-The students
Of Brookwood Labor College held an
annual celebration Of the anniversary
of the Russian revolution at which
Dr. Harry F. Ward and Bert Wolfe,
both of whom were in Russia in 1924,
were invited to address the student
body.
DR.. Ward said Russia was going
thru state socialism and planned econ
omy definitely away from capitalism
and towards Communism.
Wolfe Analyses Russian History.
Comrade Wolfe's subject was 1.-THE
Political Lessons Of the Russian Revo-
luton" Among the LESSONS that he
took up were: % The refutation of
mechanical Marxism" which believed
that a proletarian revolution had to
come first in the industrially most adj
vanced country and last in the indus
trially least advanced. (2) The les
son Of the effect that the revolutions
Of 1905 and 1917 had revised the slo-
gan Workers of the world, unite"
into the slogan Workers and OPP
pressed peoples of the world, unite"
CD An analysis of the mistaken doc
trine that the Russian revolution
could succeed and Russia move to-
wards socialism only If revolutions
were Immediately successful in other
European countries and state aid fur
nished to the Russian revolution by
the German or some other revolution
airy government.
He showed that the eight years Of
existence of the Russian Soviet
Union and the definite progress it had
made and was making towards social
ism were a palpable refutation of this
doctrine. The latter part Of his talk
he devoted to a discussion of the new
plans of attack against Soviet Russia,
Analysing the significance of the debt
funding pact, and the Locarno treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
New York Building
Trades Make Demands
While Chance Exists

NEW YORK = (FP) = Building
trades-men in New York, organized in
so trades and numbering more than
10000 are taking step forward in
their demands for agreements to go
into effect Jan. l, 1926. Bricklayers
and stone masons ask 81 day more,
or SIS in place of $12; slate roofers,
plasterers, stone settlers and marble
carvers demand two dollar advance
to $14 a day. Many crafts ask a
dollar and half raise to s12 day. The
carpenters ask 5-day work week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Labor Editor Favors
Delegation to Visit
the Soviet Unions

CLEVELAND - OPP Vigorous
support is given in Cleveland trade
union circles to the proposal that Am
erican labor send a delegation TO Rus
sia Albert F. Coyle. editor Locomo-
tive Engineers journal announces his
support of plan which would in
clude tour Of the principal European
countries, including Russia. The re-
cent address of Pres. A. A. Purcell of
the International Federation of Trade
Unions, under the auspices of the
Cleveland Federation of Labor. has
stimulated interest in Europe in labor
ranks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
U. S. FIGURES
SHOW MINERS
Get Low WAGE
Explode Operators An
thracite Bunk

Wage rates in the anthracite in
dustry for over quarter of century
have failed to keep pace with the cost
Of living. The present scale for con-
tract miners is an increase Of 194.8%
over 1900 while the cost Of living has
advanced approximately 1900 in the
same period.
In the intervening years the dis
crepancy between miners pay and the
cost of living has been much worse
as shown in the following federal
figures which give for each scale
period the wage level, the average cost
of living, and the average purchasing
power in percentages of 1900:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
500, 900, 900 Movie
Trust Soon to Be
Sancti6ed by Govt.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-(FP)-
Argument in the Lasky-Famous Play
ers moving picture trust case, before
the federal trade commission, was be-
gun. Counsel for the commission seek
to have the combine instructed to
discontinue block booking, and to
separate their producing and distrib-
uting business from their theatre or
exhibition business.
The movie theatres owned by the
trust now are valued at over 100000
900, and these theatres are used to
skim the cream" off the early show
ings Of all pictures handled by the
combine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
|. R. A. PROTESTS
BRUT ALITIES O F
ROUMANIAN JAILS


MOSCOW, Nov. 2s.-The Interna-
tional Red Aid has sent the following
message in telegram to the General
Council OF the Trade Union Congress
IN London and to the French mem
bers of parliament and cablegram
to the members of the American con-
gress exposing he terror now pre-
vailing in Roumania and in other
countries;
Protest Against 5estiailties.
ITO the victims of the Polish, Hun
garian and Bulgarian justice are added
new victims from the Roumanian
white terror. After the fortunes ap-
Piled to the peasants in the Tatar-
bounar process, the Roumanian gov
eminent discovered new methods OF
Silent execution of it's prisoners.
on the 5Oth day of his hunger-strike,
which he had undertaken as a protest
against the horrible conditions in the
prison of Doftan, Max Goldstein died
and shortly after his death, Dubinski
died. The Roumanian prisons Will
soon produce new victims, amongst
them Comrade Bojor, who has since
died. The international Red Aid re-
quests you to raise your voices in
protest against the unheard Of ter
rorism of the Roumanian bourgeoisie.
We request you to do your best to
organize an unprejudiced delegation
to examine the Roumanian prison
regime.
"Silent" Executions.
"The International Red Aid adopted
a resolution in a special sitting called
after receiving news of the death of
Goldstein and Dubinski, according to
which the Roumanian bourgeoisie
which has theoretically abolished the
death sentence in order to make a
democratic show to the outside world,
yet finds means to do away with its
class enemies, by provoking hunger
strikes and permitting the prisoners
to die. The hunger-strike is the only
means Of protest at the disposal of the
prisoners against the cruelties carried
out in the Roumanian prisons. In this
way Comrade Goldstein died. Dubinski
was no longer able to endure the
tortures and committed suicide. Bojor
and other prisoners are approaching
a horrible end in the Roupianian
prisons"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Quebec Provincial
Labor Party Bars
Out the Communists

QUEBEC-FP)-The Quebec pro-
vincial convention of the Canadian
Labor party, which was organized un-
der the aegis Of the Dominion Trades
and Labor congress, has passed res
olution forbidding Communists in the
party and ordering the expulsion Of
members with Communistic tenden-
cies. The convention also called for
a working week of five S-hour days
and offered to help anti-Fascist move
ments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Illinois Power Trust
Wants More Privileges

Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 29.-The I'LL
nois Power and Light corporation filed
application with the Illinois Commerce
Commission for a certificate of neces
sity and convenience to transact an
electric business in Mahomet, Cham
paign county.
The Chicago Suburban Power and
Light Company has asked certificate
to construct and operate an extension
of its transmission line in Batavia
Township, Kane county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Women Teachers of
Syracuse Demand No
More Discrimination

SYRACUSE, N. Y.-(FP)- Women
high school teachers Of Syracuse will
file suit for equal pay with men teach
ers, in accordance with the provision
OF the state law. Since September
they have been getting $4,000 a year,
$3.50 less than the men teachers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Even the Non-Union
Miners Get a Raise
by Going on Strike

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(FP)
One hundred sixty bitumious min
ers at the Pikeview mine near Colo
RADIO Springs are enjoying wage boosts
as a result of 12-hour strike. Day
men now get $5.75 instead of $525.
They had demanded S5.S7 Machine
miners get 57c instead of sic ton.
They wanted CSC.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
FASHION BOOK Morrcrl

Send l2c in silver or atnmps FOR OUT
vp.te-dste fali and Winter is2s.2e.
and containing 500 designs Of ladies'.
misses, and chiidren's patterns. a con.
else and comprehensive article on dress.
Illuminating 30 OF the various simple
stitehes), all valuable hints 70 the home
erssHmakex,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Japanese Ship Disabled.

BOSTON, Nov. 29.=-With one pro.
pellor gone, the Japanese steamship
Shokiku Maru,, reported by wireless
that she was disabled so miles east
of Cape Ann. I The coast guard cut
ter Ossipee, AeTr6hte from Boston to
Portland, Me-, went to her aid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Rubber Monopoly in
Fight on Unions at
All Akron Factories

AKRON O.--(FP) Goodrich
FirestonesGoodyear rubber monopoly
is waging war of determination
against Akron union labor Printing
concerns, building contractors and
other employers having relations
with the rubber kings are forced to
agree to employ only nonunion help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
Only Labor Unity Can
Keep Benefit of the
Machine for Workers

COLUMBUS o.EFP) Miners Of
ficials in Ohio are negotiating wage
rates for men operating new loading
machines. The machine takes the
place of gang of men with shovels.
Unions in Illinois have won a mum
Der of fights, on attempted wage cut
ting through machinery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
NOTICE TO PATTERN BuYERs-rhe

NOTICE TO PATTERN BUyERs-Ths
patterns being solo thru the DAILY
WORKER pattern department are fur
nishsd by a New York Arm OF pattern
manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by
the DAILY WORKER every day as re-
ceived. and they are mailed by the man
ufacturer direct to the customer. The
DAILY WORKER does not Keep q stock
Of patterns on hand. Delivery OF pat
terms ordinarily will take at least 10 days
from the date OF mailing the order. DO
not become impatient II your pattern 10
delayed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
zEIGEER MINERS
FIGHT THIEv|NC
COAL OPERATORS
Bosses Frame Militant
Union Leaders
CONTINUED from page u

Continued from page ~
at one point for more than fraction
Of a second, and an accurate registry
Of the cars weight thus made i'm
possible, was held to account for
little while,
Extra profits which the company had
been making by cheating the miners
on the weight OF their loadings were
being cut off because OF the action Of
Henry Corbishly and his associates
in the union who had supplied the
assistant checkweighman. The oper-
ators then resorted to the simple ex-
pedient of excluding the assistant
from the mine, leaving the solitary
weighman in the old quandary Of
being unable to give his own union
brothers a just accounting. 1t was
then that the miners quit the mine
spontaneously in their wildcat" strike
which was immediate cause Of the
outbreak that occurred later in the
union hall and led up to the present
trial.
With the cooperation of the reac-
tionary sub-district officials the mine
management has temporarily won it's
fight. Today there is no longer an
assistant checkweighman on the job
in the Bell and Zoller mine. The cars
are run over the scales in one constant
stream and the weigh boss calls out
the number of tons per car load as
he desires, with little or no regard
for actual weight. The union check
weighman can keep no track Of the
real weights and the knowledge of
what has happened in the past to
honest and militant acknowledgment
deters the new one from any enrgetic
protest.
steal $3.50 Of Load.
The miners are bitter and resent
full. An average of $3.50 on each car
load is stolen from them by the COM
pany thru this means of weighing.
The eighty-two and seven-tenths
cents per ton that the miner is sup
posed to get by contract is the purest
formality. In actual fact, he averages
some sixty odd cents to the ton.
Twenty fighting miners are to stand
trial in Benton beginning next Mon
day, framed up on the flimsiest kind
of evidence. Their real crime is their
fearless stand for the rank and file
miner and against anyone that was
injuring the progressive spirit Of the
union, whether it was the Frank Far
rington machine, the ku klux khan or
the coal operators. Their fight for
honest checkweighing was only a
part OF their battle for the improve
ment of the miserable lives of the
miners. The Zeigler frame-up is part
Of the miners uphill fight against the
unsanitary novels and shanties, and
the shacks that are company-owned,
airless, end on end and side by side.
Fight Frame-Up!
The constant unemployment of thou
sands of sympathetic miners in the
whole district is to a great extent
hampering the development of an or
ganized fight against the frame-up.
Lack of funds to carry on the trial
is a prospect that the defendants are
facing. Both the International Labor
Defense and the Franklin County De-
tense Committee, however, are max
ing energetic efforts to save these mi
litant fighters from undeserved prison
terms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-01
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Take this copy Of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
tomorrow
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