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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04

and purposes and strengthened very
much your representatives in their
work.
President Walker devotes consider
able space to a discussion Of the in
junction limitation bill passed in the
closing days of the last session Of the
Illinois General Assembly, and stress
es the Importance of nominating and
electing judges by direct vote Of the
people.
Urges Extension of New Law
After directing attention to the
law passed by the last session pro-
viding for the nomination of the 49
circuit and superior judges presiding
over Chicago courts by direct primary
election, President Walker says:
81 believe that the law should be
extended to include the circuit and su-
preme court judges Of our state. /
would recommend that this conven-
ton take whatever action may be
necessary to instruct the officers of
the labor movement of Illinois to have
this done, and to bring home to the
membership of the labor movement
in Illinois, and those friendly who
may not be in the labor movement,
the need for continuously function
ing activity to keep the people in
formed of the decisions Of the judges
in our courts, their meaning with re-
lation to justice and our form Of
government, so that in the primary
and general elections we may be able
to secure the nomination and election
as judges in all of our courts all of
the time of men who are competent,
honest and fair, who believe in our
American government, and whose
sympathies are with humanity"
President Walker says that he has
had no complaints in reference, to
from convict-made goods
lin Illinois, but that
there have been many complaints
concerning such competition from
other states.
Sees Industrial Outlook Dark
AS to present industrial conditions
in Illinois and the outlook for the inn
mediate future, President Walkers
views are at wide variance with the
published optimistic reports emanat-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04

luton Of industry, perhaps beyond
our present ability to understand. He
does not want merely to make big
profits, but he makest them just the
same. He does not want to be arbiter
Of the destinies Of millions of men
and women, but he is just the same.
Sooner OF later Americans have got
to grapple inteIligently with this big
problem Of Industrial autocracy and
find the way by which democracy
may take its place. This is no con-
demnation Of what exists. That came
from definite causes.
But unless men can carry democ-
raey into industry there will shortly
cease to be any democracy that means
anything in the lives Of the great
masses Of the people. We live in an
industrial age.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04
THE KING OF FORDI

Henry Ford has bought an airplane
factory. He owns two automobile
plant. and controls indirectly two
more. He owns q railroad, coal mines,
and other things. Over these things
forests, iron mines, glass factories
he, or some regent, is absolute boss.
II Henry Ford exercised politically
the power he exercises industrially,
ne would be king, or an emperor,
some kind Of an autocrat. He might
be benevolent in his rulership, be he
might have the power to be otherwise.
There would be great protest among
free men against such a vast and un-
limited power.
Henry Ford is tremendous success
as a producer Of things in enormous
quantities. He is a factor in the evo-
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04
NEED or
FUTURE TIMBER SUPPLY
BY IntarnafinnaII ah

By international Labor News Service
NEW YORK CITY, Sept. 3.-More
than half the original forest resour-
ces Of the United States have been
used up, DR.. George B. Rigg, asso-
eiate professor of botany in the Uni
versity Of Washington, Seattle. saws
in report on forestry conditions pre-
pared for the New York Botanical
Forests of the East, Middle West
Garden.
and South are generally depleted, in
many places practically exhausted,
Prof Rigg continued, adding that five
of the Western States washington.
Oregon, California, Idaho and Mon
tana-now contain more than half of
the standing COMMERCIAL timber of
the country.
The country is looking to tine West
for its future supply of lumber"
Prof. Kigg said. 1.-THE West is in
terested in forestry because it's people
wish continuance Of their prosperity
and the United States as a whole is
Interested because it needs a lumber
supply for future years.
Estimates ON how long our timber
i'm various parts of the West will last
vary from 25 to 30 years. Probably
SO years is a good average. The pinch
is sure to come In some places; how
ever, in 20 years If the present rate
Of depletion u continued for the for
ests are not replaced.
Various methOds of meeting the
situation are constantly being sug-
gestsd, but many of these methods
are not feasible. It does not seem
desirable to curtaiI the use of lumber
to any considerable extent, and the
economic progress of the West should
be interfered with if export business
were cut off.
~Interest should center around re-
forestation, the prevention of forest
fires, and the deferring of taxes on
forest lands until the forests are
ready to cut
eff we act vigorously and intelli-
gently along these three lines, we can
put our forests on the basis of a sus-
tanned yield, SO that the future will
be provided for without serious cur
tailment of essential uses of lumber
and without interference with such
export as seems desirable"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04

ing from the Department Of Labor at
Washington. President Walker has
the following to say on the subject:
"The past year has been marked
by great unevenness in the distribu-
ton Of prosperity or the lack Of it
among the working people of this
state. Some trades which are not
greatly dependent upon the swing of
business pendulum, such as the
janitors and the milk wagon drivers,
have successfully fought off any en-
roachment upon their wage rates and
are more prosperous than ever be-
fore. The building tRadesmen have
have been through another boom
year, and, except in those areas which
were industrially depressed, building
workers have had about all the work
they could do. That, however, states
all there is to.be found on the bright
side. The coal mines Of Illinois have
been through the worst year they
have ever experienced. Unemploy-
ment in this industry has been a rude
without many exceptions.
Factory workers have had tough
year also. The Illinois Bureau of
Labor Statistics reports that between
$4,000 and $4,000 people who had
jobs in factories in 1928 did not have
those jobs in 1925. That number
doesn't state the full amount of un-
employed, for it takes no account of
the numerous negroes and Mexicans,
and the less numerous Europeans and
Asiatics, who have migrated here in
the last year. Right now, with a
year and more of depression at our
backs, there are fewer people in the
factories of this state than at any
time since the early month of 1922.
Not Optimistic About Future
"What' has the future in store
Certainly, l can not share the pub
lished expressions of optimism about
the industrial outlook when thousands
Of workers in wide range of indus
TRY and occupations are out OF en-
ployment and have been. for a year.
The Illinois Department Of Labor in
an editorial statement in its monthly
bulletin recently, warned the ehari-
table organizations to be prepared for
hard winter. The department stated
that though he promises of prosperity
by business prophets are not lacking,
the industries can not possibly expand
rapidly enough to prevent more desti-
tute families from seeking charity
this coming winter than in either
1922 or 1923, and possibly IS many
as in 1924, when charities in this
state took care of more people than
ever before in their history"
Meetings of several state Labor bod
les will be held at Champaign just
prior to the convention of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor. These will
include the Painters State Confer
ence, the State Carpenters Associa-
ton, the Sheet Metal Workers. State
Conference, and the State Building
Trades Council.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04
PRISON-MADE GARMENTS
MUST BEAR PRISON NAME

LOS ANGELES.-The state COM
mission Of labor wants California dis
trict attorneys to enforce the law
which provides that prison-made gar
ments must bear the name Of the
prison in which they were manufse-
tured.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-09-04

Cost of living still increasing; now
almost 70 per cent above 1913 figure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
LUMBER TRUST
PROTECTS ANTI
union LYNCHERS
Court Refuses Dacus'
Suit for Redress

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 26.-
To the long list of crimes committed
in the name of the law and of white
supremacy against Sol Dacus, Negro
labor leader in Louisiana, another has
just been added by the United States
federal court here. On grounds which
make no pretense of adequacy, Dacus
has been denied redress against a
group Of men who have given him
the usual treatment accorded Negro
labor organizers in the south.
The story of the Dacus case goes
back to November 21, 1919, when Da-
Gus, who was then very active in or
ganizing labor unions among the
Negro workers in Bogalusa, joined
with white labor leaders in a parade.
Someone raised the cry OF social
equality" Leading citizens" gather
ed a mob, searched out Dacus, burned
his house and ran him out Of town,
in spite Of the defense put up for him
by the white union leaders, three of
whom lost their lives.
In filing suit for damages, Dacus
named as defendant the Great South
ern Lumber company, gigantic trust
which holds in the Gulf states somt-
thing of the power that the steel trust
holds over the whole country. II is
the Great Southern Lumber company
that makes and unmakes legislatures,
that appoints governors, that controls
the lives and fortune Of the workers
in these states. Sol Dacus knew, 1t
seems, where lay the blame for mob
action against the Negro leaders.
Dacus, sueing the Great Southern
Lumber company for 100000 brought
out in court the fact that he had in
secret attended meeting Of the white
Loyalty League, an association of
business men Of the city of Bogalusa.
and had heard them discuss in detail
plans for keeping the laborers in SUBJ
lection.
The defense offeed, and the ground
on which Dacus lost his suit, was that
what Dacus had mistaken for a mob
was really a group of Officers of the
law with a warrant for his arrest"
Just what grounds participation in a
parade with white labor leaders could
give for arrest or how officers OF the
law, behaving as such, could possibly
have been mistaken for mob or why
these Officers Of the law" should have
thought 1t part of their duty to burn
down the home Of the man they were
trying to bring to court, are small mat.
ters that the federal court did not
trouble TO explain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

STEEL WORKERS
AFTER TIGHE
Demand Organization Be
Effective
BY WALLACE 7. MErCALFE

WARREN, Ohio-If every steel and
iron worker, organized and morgan
lied, would read the history of the
great steel strike written by William
q. Foster they would understand the
problems confronting the membership
in the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. This
book is entitled The Great Steel Strike
and It's Lessons and can be secured
by writing to the DAILY WORKER.
On March 81, 1918, shortly before
the general organizing campaign
amongst the steel and iron workers
started the A. A. of l. S. & T. w. had
general treasury balance of $751;
879.23 and on March 31st, 1920 short
ly after the strike ended, it had a
balance of $344,024.5S, which makes
profit of some $206, 145.35 made out
of the big strike. Perhaps nothing can
show better the feeble efforts made
by the officialdom of the A. A. of
/. s. & T. w. to win the strike.
OUlCtdlS OCSCTlcO INc OkTikC
The history Of this great strike re-
cords the fact that at no time was
the officialdom of the A. A. Of l. s.
& T. w. whole-heartedly engaged
in the struggle. The desertion of the
A. A. Of !. S. C T. w. of the strike
when in its critical stage defeated
tbo n~noul1akiou ~ fha ofaoI oud from
workers and threw them back into
their present unorganized state.
This international union was the
pivot Of the organizational structure
and when It withdrew its support the
entire structure collapsed. This is
the background of the great strike in
so far as the A. A. of /. S. & T. w.
is concerned. During the great steel
strike the A. A. of l. s. & T. w. en-
rolled 70,026 members during the
campaign which are considered con-
sentative figures yet the outstanding
fact is that today this international
union has total membership Of
around 1000. 1t has in it's general
strike fund less than 100000 yet 1t
made a profit of over S206, 1885 on
the great strike.
When the great steel strike came
to an end VIM. z. Foster as secret
ary-treasurer Of the national commit
tee left In the treasury about $780,
900, the remains of the strike fund
Up until June goth, 1923, no real work
worth mentioning Of education or or
ganization was carried on. Yet about
$4,000 was gotten rid OF. Finally,
on June Goth, 1923, with a great blare
OF trumpets, the A. F. Of L. announced
that with the remaining $4,000 the
steel workers would be organized.
The campaign was conducted under
the control of M. +. Tighe, president
of the A. A. OF I. s. & #. w. and
VIM. Harmon, executive board member
OF the Int. Assn. of Machinists.
Neither the A. II. of l.. nor the In
ternationals put any organizers in the
field. They let the full burden OF the
last campaign fall upon the fund left
to them from the great steel strike.
The organizing staff was loaded UP
with fossils. They received $4,000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
Local 1896 Endorses
Progressive Program
and Its Candidates

OLD FORGE, Pa, Mar. 26.-Unfted
Mine Workers Local 1896 has unank
mously endorsed the program and the
candidates of the progressive miners
committee in District 1.
This action is significant in view Of
the fact that the local press attacked
the progressive program as being I'm
dellibly stamped with Communism
The membership discussed the pro
gram thoroughly and agreed to sup
port the candidates running on this
program.
The election campaign for district
president. vice-president and secret
ary-treasurer is in full swing in ths
anthracite region and the member
ship is being smothered with an ava
lanche Of glib election speeches thai
glitter with promises and make tht
unwary believe that the politicians ar,
suddenly becoming angels and At,
ready to wipe out all the wrongs the.
committed during the long history o
their betrayals.
Thru all this hurricane OF speeche
not single constructive proposition
is being advanced to better the condl
tons OF the miners. The progressiv
alone have a program that holds on
hope TO the miners of District 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

per month, with $500 per day ex-
penses, or in other words $4,000 per
month for full time organizers.
After years work the last cam
paign made by M. F. Tighe and VIM.
Harmon resulted in the expenditure
of the $4,000 and made the inglori-
Gus record Of organizing 200 steel
workers scattered around in Cleve-
land, Chicago, Bethlehem and Buff
falo. DA
a New Deal Due
The part played by the official
dom OF the A. A. of 1. o. & Y. w.
during the great strike and its part
during the last fiasco stamp them as
incompetent and lacking the ability
to perform the gigantic task Of organ
izing the steel and iron industry. A
militant rank and file movement has
been coming to the front and making
pressing demands upon the official
dom, this movement led by sincere
and able progressives has made itself
a powerful factor in the union and
during the recent elections in the A.
A. of /. S. & T. w. the progressive
ticket served notice upon the reac-
tionary oficialdom that a new day is
dawning.
The union in order to survive must
leaSn from its past struggles and must
not be cajoled by it's officialdom into
repeating past errors. The progress
ives realize that the skilled worker is
rapidly becoming a thing of the past
and that the future of their union de-
ponds upon the complete organization
of all workers engaged in the steel
and iron industry and their amalga-
nation with other workers engaged
in associated Industries.
The progressives realize that the
gigantic task confronting them de-
mands courage and clear under
standing of the role played by their
officialdom during the great steel
strike and the part they took in the
1924 campaign, which resulted IN
the most stupendous blunder recorded
in the history of the American labor
movement. Think of it, steel and iron
workers. When rs organizers organ
ize 200 workers at a cost of $4,000!
What greater Indictment is needed?
Jack Acknowledgements
Candidate
John McKeown, president OF the.
progressive Liberty Lodge, Warren, o.
is the candidate Of the progressives
for the office Of vice-president of the
sheet and tin division. McKeown is
receiving the endorsement of the
progressive LODGES in whose cause he
has struggled Cor years to bring the
A. A. of /. S. a 7. w. out Of its pres
ent state of Chaos. McKeown is
fearless and able champion OF the
workers and isfconsidered by the pro-
gressives the post capable candidate
RUNNING for tbs office.
William ]. White, 23S +. Kline st.,
Girard, Ohio, mites all steel and iron
workers Interested in the progressive
movement to write TO him for further
information on ihe struggle now going
on to save the last resemblance OF
organization amongst the steel and
iron workers.
Members OF a A. OF ]. S. & T. w.
lodges should hstruct their delegates
to support tho progressive program
They should Communicate at once
with White and pledge their support.
Unorganized Workers communicate
with White ana pledge your support
TO the progreaske cause. With your
assistance the Emulation for mighty
union of iron a. steel workers can be
laid at, the coiuhg convention of the
A. A. Of I. s. 1T. w. This is your
fight. -Ensage n III
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

new way of enslaving their workerE
still further The men are forced
Into partnership with Mr.. Schwab"
by being compelled to buy company
stocks at 800 apiece, also on the in
stallment plan. The men claim that
the same stocks can be secured by
them from any broker at S47-4S. Re.
fusal to buy stocks from the company
means blacklist, transfer to a lower
and far dangerous job or complete dis
charge.
Prosperity for Whom7
AS is usually the case in towns OF
low wages and despotic rule so It is
in this steel center that the church
and bootleggers prosper. Churches
Of all the fifty-seven varieties grow
fatter and fatter on the iiecks OF the
backward masses. The work of the
r 'achers is usually being followed up
by the bootleggers who, too, prosper
at the expense Of the same hard work
ing steel slaves.
NJ inc AilAlE CDMcS lu6 d0
nouncement in the press that Mr.
Schwab, the steel king, recently re.
turned from a European trip and is
ready to invest another SIS, O0O, 900 for
modern improvements in several Of
his plants in the Eastern part of Penn
sylvania and Maryland.
A Ray Of Hope.
Amidst his condition Of siavery-1.d
barbarism the Communists, few as
they are in this Schwab controlled
city, are the only ones here who
realize the true conditions in which
the workers find themselves and are
the only ones trying to overcome un.
heard of difficulties in order to spread
among their fellow workers the mes
sage Of Communism and of revolt
against the existing system. Their
efforts are bound to bear fruit in the
not distant future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
Chicago, Notice!

On Sunday afternoon, March 20,
at Ashland Auditorium, there will
be an international unity demon
stration and benefit entertainment.
No branch Is permitted to arrange
any conflicting dates Of any kind
whatsoever. Affairs already fixed
must be changed. The complete
strength Of the party must be
mobIlIzed at this affair as a fitting
answer to the AbramovIeh attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

looms, and similar schemes or class
collaboration without any trade or in
dustrial unions to do the "collaborat-
ing"
Some Gems Of the Packers Press.
A few random excerpts from recent
issues Of tho armour Oval, Published
by and for Armour Employees" will
give some idea of the sweep of these
new Ito the packers) schemes Of en-
slavement. (The Oval is the COM
pany's "bunk-sheet.")
1.-THE difference between a pay
check and dividend check lies in the
fact that you work for the pay check"
do not sell your stock. Let divi-
dends increase your income"
with the approach Of spring and
warm weather, the Y M. c. A. plant
service committee expects to close its
activities for the winter season of
1924-1925 with an entertainment for
Armour employees and their families to
be held
A Leather Medal for This.
From company union minutes: EN-
ploye representative James -, of
the production division, requested that
the lighting switches for the icing
dock be moved from the beef loading
dock to a more convenient location.
He explained that much time was
wasted by men going back and forth
to turn the light on and off-and that
considerable power was wasted be-
cause the lights were often burning
in the day time" %
"The most certain sign Of wisdom is
q continual cheerfulness. Armour
stockholders are continually cheer
full"
A "Good Thing" All Right.
Don't forget that the employees
market is a good thing for the en-
ployes." (This is scheme for wish
ing unstable meats onto the slaves
at wholesale prices or better.)
mo man ever retired on the money
he spent; but money spent for Armour
stock brings an income after you have
retired"
"In big business like that Of the
Armour organization, OF which we are
units, earning power reaps its own re-
ward in larger pay checks and steady
promotion to the position Of greater
responsibility"
The effectiveness of such poison as
the samples quoted above is strikingly
exhibited in the fact that no insignifi-
cant number of workers who were ac-
tive and even prominent in the strike
of 1922 are now delegates and off,
GERS in the company Unions.
Decreased Labor Turnover"
In so-called prosperous times the
young workers in the packing-houses
often make a practice Of the weekly
turnover" By that, is meant going to
work on Monday or Tuesday, quitting
on Saturday, drawing pay Monday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28

BETHLEHEM, Pa, PROFIT MAKING
PARADISE, is HELL ON EARTH
FOR SLAVES OF STEEL TRUST

Bethlehem, Land" but the the
ruled the worlds largest producers Of
The Bethlehem extend distance
miles thirty
thousand
Side side with mills scattered
textile mills children mainly
while fathers the mills
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
METAL TRADES GROUP
WILL MEET SATURDAY
ON ORGANIZATION WORK

There will be a special meeting Of
the Metal Trades Group of the
Trade Union Educational League
Saturday night, March 20, at 1880
p. M, at the Greek Workers Hall,
722 Blue Island Ave. Important
oreanizationaI problems will be de-
cided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
TWO HUNDRED WEAVERS
WIN S TRIK E AGAINST
SPEEP UP S US 7 E M

CENTRAL FALLS, r. I.-strIke
Of two hundred weavers and loom
fixers of the KIotz Throwing COM
pany ends as the management aban-
dons its three-shift system without
lunch time. The two-shlft system,
with regular lunch hours, is re-
sumed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-28
COMPANY UNIONS, STOCK SELLING
AND Y. M. c. A: USED TO KEEP
MEAT PACKERS SLAVES CONTENT
Rx rom MATHEWS

Workmen)
rcugh
bunk a
apparently