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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
CORPSE OF Los
S. P. GIVES OFF
STRONG AROMA
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Only 23Present GtDebs'
Coast Arrival
BY L. p. RINDAL
(Worker Correspondent


Los ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 2.-The
socialist party held a regional red
card convention" las they called ~
in the Labor Temple Of this city. A
resolution demanding the recognition
Of Soviet Russia was sent back to the
committee on resolutions, but mo-
ton in favor of recognition passed.
I'VE do not want to go against the
wishes of Debs," said one self-styled
leader, flashing hostile look thru his
glasses. This individual was also
responsible for a motion demanding
the release of all traitors in the So
Wet republics. The motion passed 81
to 6.
These So souls we're the voting
strength of this mass" convention of
which more than half were new men,
bers. Thru the effort of Attorney E.
w. Henderson, an 1. w. w. defender,
a resolution against the criminal syn
dicalism law was passed A few
socialists" objected to the language
used.
rTdlSe OtTtkCpFcdkcT OatleS-
In the Mexican situation Coolidge
and Kellogg were condemned and
Gales praised. The delegates" (many
curiosity seekers, scraped together on
the spot were also in favor of the
new S. P. paper, the American Ap-
peal" However, only few dollars
were collected for it's support A sum
of 100000 is nedeed, they said.
Hard Up for Members.
The only credential necessary was
a membership card, or an application
for membership.
On the handbills Eugene V. Debs
was compared with Lincoln, Huss and
Jesus.
Not a Labor Convention.
The fact that the convention was
called to order early in the morning
when the slaves are working or look
ing for job seems to indicate that
this gathering was 'nep-men" affair,
not real labor convention The word
'high-brow" was also used in this con-
nection by Attorney E. w. Hender-
son mentioned above. An air of the
middle class surrounded the "conven-
ton"
q. Hero Worship.
At about 9:45 Debs came-And the
kissing game began in earnest. Gene
seemed to be real expert at it, too.
Men, women and children of all ages
had to be kissed Lovely women that
had not been kissed for so years had
the time of their life. Everything nice
indeed. But the class struggle can't
be built on hero Worship
The Resurrection.
When the meeting was opened, 25
bewildered souls were present. The
chairman, Debs, had hard time to
other, feel at home. The s. P. must
have been dead and buried for long
period
And now the martyr and savior is
here for the resurrection. Therefore
the reference to Jesus on the advertis-
ing for this convention, suppose. In
Minneapolis, however, the situation
was worse. The S. P. convention in
that city, according to Debs, started
with three people. One couldn't help
/ but feel sorry for the old fighter.
Most of the forenoon was taken up
by .Debs' usual speech making. A
few others spoke long enuf to say
that Debs was the greatest man in
the socialist convention in the civil
lied world. But such praise does
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
CLEVELAND LABOR
HEARS HANDS OFF
CHINA SPEAKERS
Public Square Scene Of
Big Meeting

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug 2-Fif-
teen hundred workers gathered at the
Public Square here in spite of rain.
at the demonstration called by the
Workers Party and Young Workers
League under the slogans Hands Off
China" and stand by Soviet Russia"
The Kuomintang branch of Cleve-
land Joined in the meeting with two
speakers, David Lee, and Warren G.
Poyd, who described the miseries of
the Chinese workers and peasants I'M
der the system of foreign Industrial,
financial and political domination now
in vogue. Sgl@
For Self Government
The speakers pointed out that the
Chinese are fighting for the rights Of
self-government and also for freedom
from capitalistic domination, and out
lined the program of DR.. Sun Vat Sen,
the founder of the Kuomintang party,
which is following his teachings in
opposing Imperialism, and militarism
and advocating international unity OF
the workers.
Alfred Wagenknecht district organ
izer of the Workers Party, ]. A. Ha-
milton, local organizer, and Carl Weis-
berg, organizer of the Young Workers
League, also spoke upon various
phases of the worldwide class strug-
gle of the workers against capitalist
Imperialism.
Dunno, Editor of "Daily Worker"
Speaks
Bill Dunno, delivered the main
speech in which he pointed out the
reasons behind the imperialistic de-
signs upon China and against Soviet
Russia is not only the greed of the
financial interests but also the neces-
sity they are urder of finding wider
and wider markets for the sale of
goods and opportunities for the profit
able investment of funds, and that the
workers real interest is with the work
ers of China and Soviet Russia and
not with the American financiers plot
ting against these countries. @1
The success of the meetings the
Workers Party has been holding on
the square is shown by the efforts of
the police to embarass the meetings.
The rule against the sale of merchan-
die in the public parks has suddenly
been so strictly interpreted as to ban
the sale OF the DAILY WORKER, and
at the July 25 meeting, the officers
forbade the sale of the daily even on
the nearby street corners, on the
grounds that the paper had been men
toned in the speeches from the stump
This is only another instance how
ever of the arbitrary policy pursued
by the police department under the
administration of public safety direc-
tor Barry and ought to be lesson TO
the Cleveland workers as to what
Barry would do in case of strike
situation of any magnitude.
Sunday Picnic Successful
On Sunday the local and district
picnic at Willoughbeach Park was
surprising success in view of the very
bad weather. Mother" Bloor had one
of her best days, with rs subs. and
Dunno madeea well-received speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04

But the man with glasses (men-
toned at the beginning) was the most
hostile of them all. He blamed all
the trouble now going on in the
clothing industry on the Workers
Party and Moscow. He turned things
upside down and called the Commun-
lists "scabs."
Abramovitch was praised as the one
who told all the truth. This yellow
fish found plenty of opposition, how
ever and no. motion was passed on
the subject.
In the afternoon a motion to open
the doors to the gallery carried.
even members of the w. P. Said
"yellow-fish" objected to the Commun-
lists, and the officials forgot" to carry
out the will of the membership.
Hopeless Effort by S. p.
In spite of the socialist boast that
Posters, window cards, letters, auto
mobile signs, and small cards by the
hundreds and the thousands are being
distributed, besides 10000 copies. of
The Labor World and an equal num-
Der of the Daily Forward the
huge outpouring" of radicals" and
hundreds of enthusiastic socialists"
did not turn out to be great social
list revival"-unless the curiosity
seekers at the Hollywood Bowl can
be called "a pilgrimage and a new
crusade" for socialism. The people do
not care for the S. P. By fighting
against the cause of labor the S. p
has disappeared and the real champ
ions in the class struggle, the Com
munists, have gained in strength.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
AGENCY SHARKS AND EMPLOYERS
FILCH FAT FEES FROM WORKERS
BY WORKER CORRESPONDENT.

NEW 2Talk about the market New Orleans
1860!
front
buyer Of their idle labor their
That's where the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
Get $4,000 Worth Of Diamond.

While hundreds of men and women
working IN the capitol building in the
loop, passed thru the Railways in their
way to luncheon at noon, two armed
bandits appeared in the office of the
S. l.. Simmons & Company, slugged
one man and inundated several
others and then escaped with $4,000
worth OF diamonds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04

worker, put him to work for week
or so and have him back looking for
another job and Smelling out another
fee inside of no time. Great scheme
isn't it?
No Jobs In Sight.
The peculiar thing is that the state
financed employment Office on Pear
street, run by the American Legion
is daily crowded by able bodied men
and women, and some not so able
bodied as result of the late lamented
fight for democracy.
All day these men and women hang
around this Office, and seldom is there
job in sight. No fees you see. And
we are now living in a period of re-
publican Coolidge prosperity What
a damned lie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
DISABLED WAR VETERANS TOLD BY
9lU. S. THEY MUST LIVE ON $1,000
..- MONTHLY, HOLMES GOES ON TOUR
d % -
BY EMIL e. HOLMES

MINNEAPOLIS Mimi
shall ask cooperation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04

l5zo SlaVe at not nndlng JoD is so
frightfully pathetic. It means he
doesn't eat.
Employers In Plot.
His real troubles begin, however.
when he does find an offer of job
TO suit him. The fee the employment
sharks charge for putting slave to
work is exorbitant and no fee in adj
vance--no job All the pleas of
starved-out worker to be put to work
and have the fee deducted from the
first weeks pay fall on deaf ears.
The job won't last week. you see.
These human vuItures don't grow fat
on putting worker into permanent
job The scheme they work in con-
junction with certain group of en-
ployers is to get' the fee out of a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04

order bundle to distribute there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-04
Sunday Picnic Successful

On Sunday the local and district
picnic at Willoughbeach Park was
surprising success in view Of the very
bad weather. Mother" Bloor had one
of her best days, with rs subs. and
Dunno madeaa well-received speech.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
MINNEAPOLIS 7. U. Ell.
MEMBERS MUST Be
AT MEETING TONIGHT

The Trade Union Educational
League will hold very important
meeting Monday, Jan. at o'clock
p. m. in the Workers Party head
quarters 617 4th Ave. So.
The industrial program to be fol-
lowed in Minneapolis will be fromu-
lated. Every member of a trade
union who is supporting the left
wing should attend this meeting.
Set this date aside for this meeting
and be sure and attend.
An international Liebknecht day
celebration will be held in Humbolt
Hall Corner Western Ave. No. and
HUMIDITY Sunday, Jan. II starting 2
p. m. and continuing until mid
night. On the program will be
speaking, singing and dancing.
This meeting is being held under
the auspices Of the Young Workers
League Of America, Minneapolis
branch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Pittsburgh |. w. A.
Beats Theatre Boycott

PITTSBURGH, Jan. Ain the place
Of the previously announced show for
January II, the next workers movie
in Pittsburgh, Pa, will be given Satur-
day, Feb. Z, at North Side Carnegie
Music Hall, Federal and Ohio streets.
This is the result of months of activity
on the part of the Committee for
International Aid in the steel city,
during which time theater after the
alter was refused them, and even the
Moose Temple, where four previous
shows had been run without trouble,
stalled for weeks while referring the
application to board" which never
met. Finally the committee went out
into the working class district and
secured this fine hall, where none
but the very best films have ever been
shown. A record-breaking success
is looked for in answer to this boy
colt by the "big business" theater
owners.
The program will include the latest
Soviet Russian feature, 1.-THE Beauty
and the Bolshevik," together with the
educational Russia in Overalls." The
latter will prove of special interest to
the steel workers of the district in
that it shows their fellow steel work.
ers of Soviet Russia on the job
Tickets at local headquarters, Room
5, sos James st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
UNIONS PROTEST
GOVERNORS RANK
DISCRIMINATION
Pardons the Rich Killers,
Holds |. w. w.
az rae Eederatsd Press,

SEATTLE,-Led by the Tacoma
Transfers and Chauffeurs' Union,
Washington labor bodies are vigor.
ously protesting at the pardon granted
without stated reasons to a soldier
murderer who killed and robbed
union taxi driver in 1920. The par.
don was one OF Gov. Harris last off.
cial acts. He also pardoned a man
who had served only 16 months fol-
killing a woman.
Labor feeling is especially strong
because of Harris surrender to the
wealthy friends of the two slayers.
The retiring governor has steadily re-
fused to interest himself in the eight
|. w. WIS who have been in the peni-
Tertiary since 1919 on second degree
murder charges. They were convict
ed Of killing members of an Ameri-
can Legion mob that was battering
down the doors of their labor hall in
Centralia. Seven jurors have since
declared that the imprisoned workers
should be freed
The Seattle Union Record points
out editorially that the Centralia men
could have been pardoned by Hart
with little risk Of protest and with
much more justice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
CONNELlSV|LLE. :.
COAL DICCERS
WIN PAY RAISE
Non Union Operators
Forced to Cave In
tBy The Federated Press,

PITTSBURGH, Jan. A. - The de-
termination with which union miners
have fought the wage cutting move
ment has at last produced tangible
results. Eight of the larges indepen-
dent operators in the Connellsville
coke section Of Pennsylvania have
found 1t impossible to maintain the
low 1917 wage scale and after confe-
renee with their employers are resto-
ring the scale in effect Sept. 1, 1920.
Upward Tendency.
This break in the ranks of the non
union operators is expected to improve
the position of the union miners in the
Pittsburgh region and may produce an
upward tendency in wages in the nom
union fields of West Virginia.
The independent Connellsville ope-
rators reduced wages in May and June
to the level of Nov. 1917, the reduc-
tions in tonnage rates and in most day
rates amounting to form 80 per cent
to 80 per cent. The previous scale,
known as the Frick scale was put into
effect in August 1922 to balance the
union settlement and prevent the non
union strikes in that region from re-
sulting in rush to join the union.
Below Union Rate.
The present increase means change
from S5.O5 to $7.55 day for drivers
and pit helpers and an increase from
1929 to 1924 per 1919 bushels of 76 lbs
in the mining rate. This means that
the restored rate is equal to 85c a net
ton or just below the union rate in the
Pittsburgh district. According to Black
Diamond this difference is more than
equalized by the softness of the coal
and the thickness of the vein.
The companies making the change
are the Orient Coal & Coke Co., Hecla
Coal & Coke Co., Republic Iron & Steel,
Buckeye Coal, Tower Hill Coal,
Thompson-Connellsville Coal & Coke,
Eastern Coke and the Olive & Snyder
Steel Co., The Frick Coke Co., u. S.
Steel subsidiary in that region did not
reduce wages when the other made
that move but practically shut down
operations.
Advance Necessary.
This restoration of non-union wages
to the highest level suggests that
general advance by non-union oper-
ators may be necessary to prevent
non-union miners from joining the
union in large numbers. AS
pointed out by The Federated
Press on June % and again on
November l, 1924, there is feeling in
the industry that non-union operators
can not permanently maintain low
wage scale unless they can force
similar reductions in the union fields.
So far they have failed to accomplish
this against the solid opposition of
union miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Movies for Workers

The Pittsburgh, Pa. committee went
out into the working class district
and engaged the splendid North
Side Carnegie Music Hall for a show.
ing of "Polikushka" on January II,
for the benefit of the international
Workers Aid fund for the relief Of
European political prisoners.
"Polikushka," a gripping film of
old Russian enslavement, made by the
Moscow Art Theatre on so high a
plane that every critic that has re-
viewed the film has given it highest
praise, and the national board of re.
view calls it one of the best forty
films in' America. The picture SYM
bolizes the suffering of ensalved labor
thruout the centuries and is relieved
in sombre coloring only by the Rus.
sian slapstick comedy Soldier Ivan's
Miracle" Ivan is scamp who is
sent to the army and enlists some
questionable allies to get out of it, but
he does it thru a highly questionable
miracle" that restores him to the
arms of his fat sweetheart, Dunja. the
dishwasher.
Same Program in Chicago and Los
Angeles
The same program will be run by
the /. w. A. Committee at Philhar-
monte Hall, Los Angeles, Cal. on Jan.
10, Fred Biedenkapp. who has booked
more working class movie dates than
any other man in this country, is help
ing in the arrangements. In Chicago
lhS. Society for Technical Aid to
Soviet Russia is running this pro-
gram at Gartners independence
Theater, Independence Blvd. and
Roosevelt Road. Jan. Is, continuous
$3.50 to IL p. m. In Dowell, III. Poll
kushka" will be shown at the Rex
Theatre, Jan. IL. together with a new
labor film called Prisoners for Pro-
gress."
Russia and Germany" at 6inshamp-
ton
Russia and Germany, a Tale Of
Two Republics" will be shown Jan
uary 8, at Binghampton, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05

These increases were secured and
maintained largely because the en-
ploying class was not yet ready to
precipitate fight with the strongly
organized unions. Today the strong
metal trades labor amalgamation is
pressing for an all around increase
and it is generally admitted that these
workers are underpaid.
But with the temporary regulariz-
ing of the European situation by the
Dawes reparations plan and the num-
Der of unemployed workers not dimin-
ishing, there are signs that union de-
mands and standards will meet sitter
opposition. There were $4,000 unem-
ployed metal trades workers in Sep
TENDER among those pressing for
wage increases and $4,000 emigrated
last year in search of a job. Alto
gether the number uneml Logged in the
insured trades Sept. %. 1924, was L.
24O,045 or 1913 per cent of the total
Unemployed Army.
Included in this grand total of un-
employed were 103,076 coal miners,
122,367 in the metal trades and iron
foundries, 1880 shipbuilders. 1902
cotton mill workers, 20,053 woolen-
mill workers, 21,90S tailors, 1920
shoe workers, 70,412 building trades
workers, 66,711 in the iron andssteeI
industry and $500 in distributive
trades.
British industry like American in
dustry came out of the war over-ex-
banded. To maintain prosperity on
capitalist basis it must regain its
old dominance in foreign markets.
That old dominance was achieved, ac-
cording to Frank Vanderlip, former
president National City bank, thru
such low wages as constituted a red
ink overdraft on the physique of the
British nation. The vital question is
whether British labor will tolerate a
similar overdraft today
When you buy, get an "Ad."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
City's White Collar
Clerks to Get Axe;
But Not Higher-ups

Several hundred city employees will
be discharged, it was announced yes
terday by Alderman Ross Woodruff,
chairman of the finance committee.
The excuse given for firing the city
employees is that the budget for the
coming year will require restricted
payroll. The public works department
will be most affected, but other de-
partments will feel the AK, it is an
nounced.
Woodruff declares that the pay raise
given the police and firemen last year
increased the budget. The well paid
politicians will get as high salaries
as usual.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Notice Of Meetings Of Postal Employ.
Unions.

OniO1Ss
Chicago Post Office Clerks Local
Union No. 1, National Federation of
Post Office Clicks. Regular meetings
held in the second Sunday of each
month at Oriental Hall, 18th floor,
Capitol Building, corner Lake and
State Sts., Sol Cohen, president; Will
liam H. Willer, financial secretary:
William F. Settler, recording secre.
tary.
Chicago Post Office Clerks Associa-
ton, Branch No. 6, United Association
OF Post Office Clerks. Regular meet
ings held on the third Thursday even
ing of each month in the Rose Room
OF the Great Northern Hotel, West
jackson Boulevard and South Dear
born st. Frank Sweeney, president;
f. z. Henderson, secretary.
Garden City Branch No. IL, National
Association of Letter Carriers. Regu-
lar meetings held on the second Satur.
day evening of each month at Frater.
nifty Hall, 10 West Adams st. Charles
d. Duffy, president; George L. Nc
Donald, secretary.
Chicago Postal Workers Associa.
ton, Branch No. 2, for messengers.
watchmen, armed guards, laborers and
elevated conductors. Regular meet
ings held on the second Sunday of
each month at the South Side Com.
munity House, 1901 s. Wabash Ave.
Edward J. d. Flynn, president; Joseph
n Oliver, financial secretary; H. A.
Donaldson, recording secretary.
National Federation of Post Office
Chauffeurs and Mechanics, local No.
2. Regular meetings held on the first
Friday evening of each month, at
Briggs House, Wells and Randolph
Sts., John Begley. president; w. ].
Gallian, secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
BRITISH BOSSES
PLAN ATTACK ON
LABOR UNIONS
Preparing Ground For
Big Offensive
BY LELAND oLps.
,derated Press Industrial EdltOr.)

" S0CIdAoO TESS0 lHOuotIiai EotIOTsJ
Reduction of British labor costs to
capture foreign markets in the face
of cheap foreign competition is about
to produce a struggle which may
make or break the independent labor
movement as power in that coun-
try. The employing class, faced with
a continued upward tendency of wag-
es, insists that trade union conditions
including present wage levels have be-
come a serious handicap since the
continent has gone over to longer
hours and lower wages.
Wages Went Up.
Wage changes in Great Britain in
the nine months ended September 80,
1924, were predominantly upward. In
creases affected 2,664,0O0 workers,
bringing a rise of over $500 900 a
week in the countrys total payrolls.
Decreases during the same period af-
fected only $4,000 workers, cutting
approximately s35O,OOO from the
weekly wage bill
During the same period in 1923
there were net reductions totaling ap-
proximately s2,35O,OOO in the weekly
wages of 100000 workers and net in.
creases of somewhat more than ST..
100000 in the weekly wages of l..
10000 workers.
The general character of the in.
creases granted during 1924 is shown
in the table issued by the British
ministry of labor which records the
increases and decreases by indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Phone Operators
Winning Strike in
Six Illinois Towns

HARRISBURG, ILL.,, Jan. 4.-The
strike of the telephone operators of
the Murphysboro Telephone company
continued today, following the refusal
of the company to grant the demand
of the men that the chief operator
must belong to the union. Other diff
ferences have been settled and the
wage scale for 1925 has been decided
upon.
Telephone service in Harrisburg,
Eldorado, Galatia, Raleigh, Carrier
Mills and Stone Fort is entirely sus-
pended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
Many Thousands
Of Ex-Soldiers
Are Denied Bonus
tspeeIaI 70 The Daily Workerl

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Jan. A.
Fifteen thousands application for adj
justed compensation by ex-soldiers
have been denied. and over 100000
have been returned unpaid because OF
technicalities, by the U. S. Veterans
Bureau, which has had history Of
constant exposures Of graft and cor
ruption. Numerous investigations OF
the bureau have shown that thousands
Of ex.service men have been denied
compensation rightfully belonging TO
them undre the laws governing the
bureau
The bureau is now receiving 10000
applications for compensation every
day.