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The Washington times., 1925-05-29
About Lefty Groves.

" UGH discussion is heard
M about Lefty Groves, the
49, costly southpaw with the
Philadelphia Athletics. Some
think him a great young pitcher
suffering from tough breaks. :"
Others think him "a big bum, -
a not overly-polite way of express
ing dissatisfied with him and
his performances. Not that it
means anything, but merely be-
cause of many questions hurled
at him, this writer dares to say
that both gents quoted are
wrong.
Lefty Groves is rookie pitcher
in his first big-league season,
that's all. He doesn't know how
% handle his great speed. When
he learns HOW TO PITCH, he
should prove successful in fast
company. Just now he DOESN'T
KNOW HOW TO PITCH.
Groves is handicapped by too
much financial publicity. The
costliest player ever coming up
from the bushes-and Baltimore is
IN the bushes, make no mistake
about that-Groves has that men,
tai hazard to overleap. every time
he enters the box. If that might
lie called a "tough break"-well,
that's what it is. However, ball
players wouldn't 30 term It.
Connie Mack's costly piece Of
furniture is doing well enough for
q rookie in his first season. Those
rtriumphs in the international
League mean little. Few major
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
TITLE MAY CHANGE TONIGHT.

a. good line on McTigde may
be obtained through Young Strib-
ling the. youthful Georgian, who
is to show his wares at the Wash
ington Auditorium on the night
Of fJune 4. Both Berlenbach and
McTigue have boxed Stribling.
McTigue was made to look bad
by Stribling. He was outpunched
and outboxed. The Georgian's
aggressiveness kept the champion
backing away, working. hard to
keep from being stopped.
Berlenbach has also faced
StrIbling. He proved an entirely
different customer. He took what
ever Striblfng Offered and never
stopped boring in, trying to cor
ner his man and shoot his deadly
left to. the jaw. That StribIing
escaped that wallop argues for his
ewn skill as boxer.
There has been but one honest
to-goodness champion of the world
in the light heavyweight class.
Georges Carpenter was that man.
Until he tackled Jack Dempsey
ne was unbeatable. against real
heaUes as well as those in his
own class.
In zone of those things that
smelled to heaven Carpenter lost
his title to Battling Ski, a black
man from the African Jungle
Mike McTigue won the title on a
decision in twenty rounds from
Ski IN Dublin. To make. it all
the more binding, the bout was
staged on st. Patrick's Day.
Tonight's contest is McTigue's
first defense of his title in a de-
eision contest. 1t will be well fol
the class and the game itself il
Berlenbach knocks him out hur-
riedly.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
Friends Are Victorious

The Central High School tennis
team met defeat at the hands OF
the Friends Select racqueters, 4 to !.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29
Australia's Champ.


HARRY COLLINS, welterweight
H champion of Australia, knocked
out Sid Godfrey recently in the
tenth round of q tWenty-round go.
Godfrey, you will recall, was
the lightweight champion a few
years ago, winning the title from
Harry Stone. He attempted a
comeback as a welter against Col
lins only to run second.
They say Collins is the greatest
crowd -pleaser they've had over
there since the days Of Les Darcy.
Solar Plexus, in the Sydney
Referee said:
.The big crowd within the
Sydney Stadium on Saturday night
was tribute to the fighting quail
tiles as differentiated from the
mere boxing powers of Harry Col
Inns and Sid Godfrey. Showing
high proficiency as boxers and
ring generals and packing fight
into every moment of the contest,
they at once gripped the crowd.
With hanging on eliminated it was
all fight, fast and furious, with
victory to the fittest and best
man. Collins went ahead after
the. early rounds and finished it
with perfect punch to- the point. "
Now, You Tell One
nEAR TAD-Ran across an old
~ friend on Forty-second street
the other morning and, shaking
hands with him, we asked: "HOw
are you feeling, DAM" His re-
ply was:
"ROTTEN; JUST LIKE ANY
GENTLEMAN OUGHT TO FEEL
UP TO 10 O'CLOCK IN THE
MORNING." H. D. c.
DO You Know Any Big Men?
A BIG laundryman from Tacoma,
"A Wash. MAURICE A. RYAN
He's big bean man from Lima,
Ohio.
He's a big stone mason from
Boulder Creek.
He's a big speak easy guy from
Bar ,Harbor, Me.
He's big contractor from
Mason City, Iowa.
He's a big bun man from
Bakersfield, Cal. F. REILLY
He's a big nickel nurser from
Buffalo, N. Y.
He's a big manufacturer of
Pain Killer from Akron, Ohio.
He's big berry man from
Logansport, Ind.
He's a big peace advocate from
Battle Greek, Mich.
He's big umpire from Balti-
more, Nd.
The Washington times., 1925-05-29

leagners take that league seri
ously.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27

Give your ,shopmate this copy
of the DAILY WORKER--but be
sure 70 see him the next day to
get his subscription.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Decatur Is a Nice
Town for MIR. Mueller
and Scab Plumbing

DICTATOR, H., March -24.-The II.
Mueller company, makers of plumbing
goods, have started series of meet
ings to scare the workers. The main
speaker was Adolph Mueller himself.
He said:
Men, | am glad to see so many
familiar faces again. (Some OF these
faces have been with Mueller for 35
years because they could never save
money enough TO go elsewhere.) Then
he went on: RI
Men, will not allow any unions
in this factory. II you begin to organ.
lie, beware, will shut the plant down,
But I know you won't give me any
trouble and so won't shut the place.
I believe he is right, as any man
who would try TO organize there would
not last long, for every other worker
there is a stool pigeon and a hand
shaker. However. few DAILY
WORKERS get passed around.
Mueller has about 1000 employees
mostly boys and girls, some boys un
der sixteen. The average pay in the
production department is 35 cents ar
hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Scab Feels Sore All
Over After Strikers
Interview on Street

UTICA, N. Y.-John Brykla was
discharged by Judge Buckley of the
municipal court from the assault
charge preferred by Harry Macaly, a
scab in the Utica Steam Cotton mill.
Macaly said that when he was going
home with two girls, four men jumped
on him. Brykla asked him where he
was working and when he told them
he was working at the mills, STAN
ley Potter, along with Brykla, threw
him down on the sidewalk and the
whole four men kicked him. Potter
is a striker as is Brykla.
When Brykla's attorney asked
where the men had kicked him. Mac
ally said: 81 don't know. / feel the
same soreness all over"
The strike in the Utica cotton mills
is still going strong.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
DETROIT DISTRICT
COUNCIL ALMOST
PEACEFUL AGAIN
Rank and File Step on
Disturbers

DETROIT, Mich, March 22- (By
NATURALIZATION Shamrock ruled for
about 20 minutes as president of the
Carpenters District Council here
Thursday, Mar. 10, and was then
placed by the horny hand of a husky
carpenter just as the hand of fate is
inexorably pushing him aside as a fac
tor in the Carpenters Union. When
Shamrock tried his old trick of refus-
ing a motion, he found that he had
gone "just little bit too far" The
meeting was presided over by Vice.
President Reynolds from that time on,
and the accumulated business of some
six weeks, during which the officials
have been on their Injunction jag, was
taken care of.
Remove Administration Tool.
1t was reported to the council that a
rat by name of Albert Pollack, who
has been spying on the Workers
Party and Local Union 1191 for Eos
sir Botterill, has been employed by
the latter as an assistant" general or.
ganizer. The constitution provides
for no such Office, but what's that
among highbinders2 The council re-
pudiated this fink, and ordered his re-
moval from the local field. A motion
was made to hold referendum within
thirty days to recall the present off,
GERS.
The delegates seem about fed up
with Sharrock's wise-guy stuff and
show very little sympathy for the pa
thetic figure he cuts nowadays. When
removed from the chair, he whined
You're expelled" at his remover, and
the crowd laughed uproariously. Ex-
pulsions by Hutcheson and his little
tyrants of the field" are a huge joke
since recent proceeding put the ex in
explosions.
Delegate Pat Coil, one of Sharrock's
supporters from Local Union 1905,
who hadn't quite sobered up from st.
Pats day, was noisy with Dutch cour-
age and Irish bull, but aside from this
the meeting was orderly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
SECTION OF The TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE
Building Trades Firms
in National c a pital
Begin Open Shop War

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. build
contractors in Washington are COM
pleting a new organization to fight
the wage increases demanded by the
building trades unions and to impose
secondary boycott, through the
banks and building loan concerns, on
all builders who refuse to obey their
dictation. Already the discharge Of
union bricklayers, plasterers, ETC.,
and their replacement by nonunion
men is we'll advanced.
There are 10000 building mechan-
les and building laborers in the local
field. A large majority are employed
on housing construction, which is con
trolled by the new organization Of
builders. If these builders refuse to
pay $11 day to plumbers and paint
ers and others who have asked for
that rate, and if they enforce discip-
line on the smaller contractors by
shutting off their bank credit, the
situation will become similar to San
Francisco for nearly four years after
the spring Of 1920.
In San Francisco, the secondary
boycott was worked through the build
ing material concerns, but 1t had also
it's banking features. Yet the build
ing trades unions were not destroyed,
and the anti-union contractors lost a
vast sum of money during the strug-
gle,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
BOSSES PROFIT
BY SPEEDING UP
TEXTILE WORKERS
Automatic Looms Make
Weavers Jobless

MANCHESTER, N. H.-Amoskeag
Manufacturing company, largest cot
ton and worsted mills in the country,
is installing the latest automatic
looms to profit from the reduction in
the staff of workers. The facts came
out in Superintendent Arthur P. Rob
erts' speech before the legislative la
Dor COMMITTEES in Concord. Roberts
argued against I. . bill relating to
fines for imperfect weaving.
Workers in textile mills are always
complaining of the methods employ
ers use in filming them for Imperfect
tions in weaving The company's in
spector too often deducts many more
yards of the material than the imper
fections justify in order to make the
pay to workers that much less.
Roberts explained that at Amos
keag with automatic looms the deduc
tions for fines have amounted to only
one-tenth Of one per cent of the
$4,000 average wages for two-month
period Under the old system of one
worker to IL looms the wages totalled
$4,000 for the two-month period and
deductions for fines amounted to
three-tenths Of one per cent, he
claimed.
Under the new weaving system Am.
oskeag saves about $1,000 in wages
every two months. Weavers now man
age "a looms apiece. Meanwhile the
excess textile workers wonder when
business will boom enough to give
them Jobs again and few Of them real
ize that the machines have perma
nently crowded them out Of their old
jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Left Wing of Local
40 A. G. w. Defeats
Reactionary Officers

PHILADELPHIA, March 25-"The
red flag flies over Local 14O, A. C.
W." With this attempt at irony,
the manager Of the Philadelphia joint
board of the Amagamated Clothing
Workers announced the victory of the
left wing administration of the local.
The fight is OF, long standing. Many
attempts had been made by the yell
lows to undermine the influence Of
the left wing and to unseat the pro-
gressiye left wing administration. The
membership refused to bulge and CON
tinued it's support of the left wing.
The struggle eliminated in a deci-
sion of the joint board (by major
ity OF one) to call new election by
secret ballot. The membership of the
local accepted the challenge since it
gave them another opportunity to
voice their unconditional confidence
and trust in their left wing admin
stration.
The election was held, and with a
huge majority the left wing chairman,
secretary and treasurer were elected.
Six out of seven members of the To-
cal executive board and six out of
seven delegates to the joint board are
left wingers.
Thus ends one Of the crudest at
tempts of the local politicians in the
Amalgamated to override the will and
desires of the membership of Local
No. 140.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Turncoat Wills Has
His Say, But Members
Remind Him of Past

At the meeting of the District Coun-
Gil of Machinists, Charley Wills, under
good and welfare" attacked the Com
munists, saying that, "Since the Com
munists made a united front with the
Anderson slate-it meant sure defeat
to that slate.
1.-THE super-radicals," he said, "are
detriment to our organization" and
he cited the left wing fights against
the labor takers schemes of class col.
Elaboration in the miners, carpenters
and clothing workers unions. Wills
evidently thinks that the "organiEa-
ton means the traitorous officials.
To this palavar. the members made
vigorous remonstrance, one speaker
saying. you, Brother Wills, were one
OF those 'super-radicals' a couple OF
years ago in order TO get along with
the Chicago Federation Of Labor. But
since the Chicago Federation changed
its policy and went back to the camp
OF Gompers you have seen the butter
ed side Of your bread and have be-
trayed your principles, the principles
you claimed previously were funda-
mental to labor organization. You did
It to hold your job in the federation
AT this sally the delegates and visi
tors applauded uproariously. Wills
tried in vain to answer, but the dele
gates would not listen. The Johnston
machine has poor apologists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
FAGAN and HIS
LITTLE PARTNER
VISIT A LOCAL
Attack the Communists
But Find Miners Cool
Rx a COAL DIGGER.

VESTABURG, Pa.-The officials Of
District 5, U. M. w. Of A., travel from
local to local spreading bunk and lies.
They visited us at Vestaburg Local
762, both President Patrick Pagan and
Secretary-Treasurer largest.
After the local business, the local
president introduced Pagan. He ex-
, pected to be welcomed and he was
sure the miners would meet him with
applause, but he and his partner were
surprised. No applause for these fax
ers, even tho there we're few mem
bers of his machine.
Otis Worries MIR. Pagan.
Pagan started with his "Umm, all,
mum" First saying that the Work
ers Party is a dual organization, I"
that Foster and his men were spread
ing propaganda all over the district
during election and some persons
were travelling from local to local
poisoning" members. Then he said
for the loyal machine members to
keep their eyes" on all who were
having correspondence with James
Otis.
He talked about Nova Scotia, say
ing that the Canadian miners took
orders from Russia from Leon Trot-
sky. We don't want any Communism
in America" he said. Then he prais-
ed himself and Lewis. He told the
rib L. hof TOCfars nd Dvrth.
enberg were once in the miners I'M
ion, and quit to fool people with their
new organization"
Fagan's Fairy Tales.
Pagan continued to tell about how
Lewis had got thousands of letters"
asking him to call off the 1922 strike,
and he tried to excuse himself for the
treachery against the Moundsville
prisoners, saying that he had talked
with the prosecutor and interviewed
the governor, who pardoned some
men, but who passed the buck to his
successor, Governor Gore, who took
Office on March 4.
Then he wound UP. dig clean coal
and cooperate with the coal compan.
les and don't listen to the Reds"
That's Fagan's program.
watch the Reds" Only Program.
Bill largest got up and said, II am
not a good speaker, because l am not
a Red" He is right. He is both
yellow and rotten speaker. All he
could say was that the Crotian mem
bers make trouble" and that the
members must watch the Reds"
This is the whole and only program
of these takers who live from the
blisters on the miners hand But the
Progressive Miners Committee, with
their program of naturalization under
union management and short work
day, this is the hope of the miners
in District as elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
CHINESE SEAMEN IN APPEAL FOR
UNITED FRONT AGAINST BRITISH
IMPERIALISM, ASK OUR SUPPORT
BY SAN CHEN CLING
(Seeretary Chinese seamen's UnIon)

KONG ChnaThere growing discomfort indignation
1921.
King commissioner foreign affairs
further by Sir Robert Houng.
the British colonial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27
Want AmaIssmatIOn in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia (FP)-
A single industrial transport union
taking in railway, streetcar. motor.
bus, trucking and teaming employees
is urged by the annual conference Of
railway labor unions held at Mel
bourne. Negotiations will be opened
with the other unions and meanwhile
amalgamation of craft unions on the
railways is to be attempted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-27


the agreement ever since its solemn
conclusion.
In order to substantiate this state
ment, the agreement is reproduced
here in full, followed by iron proofs
of the fragrant violations deliberately
committed by the shipowners in coal
ition with the British colonial gov
eminent:
Agreement.
ut is hereby agreed between the
undersigned parties that the following
are the terms of settlement Of the
matters in dispute between them.
II. The scale of wages paid at
Hongkong and in force on the 18th
day of January, 1922 shall be increas-
ed as follows; and shall apply as
from the first of January, 1922.
81. Chinese river steamers 80 per
cent increase.
"2. other Chinese steamers up to
1000 tons deadweight 80 per cent in
crease.
"S. Hongkong Canton & Macao
Steamboats, Co., Ltd. 20 per cent in
crease.
a. other British companies steam
ers taking the scale Of the Canton
Macao Steamboats, Co., Ltd. as basis
20 per cent increase.
"5. Coasting steamers 20 per cent
increase.
Sc. Java lines Is per cent increase.
az. Pacific Lines is per cent in
crease.
"s. European Lines Is per cent in
crease.
40. Australian Lines Is per cent
increase.
"2. A date will be fixed for the
general return to work.-From the
time Of leaving until such date, men
will receive half pay according to the
new scale. Men may be reinstated on
any of their own company's vessels,
or such other vessels as may be mu-
tually agreed upon. II positions are
not available for men ready to return
to work as above, it is agreed that
half pay shall continue for such period
as the men are not employed, but not
exceeding five and half (5iz) months
from the date of the general return
to work. This half pay will be adj
ministered from fund under the con-
troll Of a duly appointed commission.
8. The owners agree to assist in
inaugurating a system Of engaging
crews which will minimize as far as
possible any irregularities which may
exist in connection with the pay of
seamen.
Signed at Hongkong, this nth day
of March, 1922.
ar. Sutherland, chairman, shlpown-
ers' committee.
"A. Jan1lesen, II. 3. M. consuI-Gen
eral at Canton.
LUX King 70, Delegate, Chinese
seamen's Union"
In gross violation of clause 1, the
Blue Funnel Line of the Butterfield &
Squires Co. in April, 1923, decreased
inc WdBeS OI tue ul6u III lLb bulpb u
the former scale. The British colon.
ial government, a signatory to the
agreement in the person Of the N. B.
M. consul-general, ignored the protest
lodged by the Chinese Seamen's IN
ion. Moreover, in violation OF clause
3, STIMULATING a minimizing as far as
possible of irregularities connected
with the engaging Of crews, the colon
ial government abetted the labor con-
tractors OF the "B House Union"
thus enabling the replacement Of the
original crews Of the Blue Funnel
Line by strike-breakers from this scab
organization. Again, abusing its mill
tary authority and extending its iron
rule to the water surface the colonial
government authorized the strike
breakers in the ships to carry arms.
The colonial government does not
even refrain from openly supporting
the labor exploiters by allowing them
the extraordinary privilege OF carry.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-03
NINE MILLIONS
FOR HOMES
New Designs Adopted for
City Residences
ny GARDNER J. GWINN
Architect and nuiIdrr

The present steady growth % Sc
attic 10 most clearly shown hy the
building permits which have been j..
sued during tho past two years, In
1894 tho figures were So. 500. 800 90
and Ia 1884 81. 1850. 900 90. OF this
latter amount sg.0ss,5 sos 90 Tor one,
third OF the topsD was expended Tor
homes alone.
Ssattlo'H record AZ -ihe largest city
for is age In tho world has inspired
a feeling o. security among is citl.
gems. which has resulted In a great
demand for tho building ot psrmA.
nrnt homcB.
There has been no mushroom
growth with ia consequent Initiation
Of real estate values. but a normal
demand based on a building short
ago during the war and on an In.
crease from tho E.as, and South.
II n interesting 20 note the effect
these newcomers have had upon our
architecture The English ana colo,
NAL influence from the East aud the
spanish from the South are found In
the newer homes Our builders have
been quick 10 adop, these styles TO
our Egw environment. and have
found purchasers willing to depart
from the type prevalent few yeara
ago
The beauty and convenience or tho
homes In Seattle arc tho result Of
the careful study 81 tho builders Of
tho city. whose vast and long cxpc-
renee in planning 20 suit the people
both in exterior and Interior design.
has enabled them 90 construct homes
which give entire satisfaction. and
as n consequence. high resale
value.
As a class the builders have shown
the greatest faith In the future Of
seat,in. innsmuch aa they have In.
vested large sums In building homes
and have asked only small amounts
MS down payments.
As n result OF recent interviews
with manufacturers. shipping off.
ciais. and others who combine 10
make Seattle a prosperous city. tho
concensus Of opinion II tina, the out
look for BODYBUILDING never looked
better than at present
Prosperity In our Northwestern
metropolis brings Thousands Of pros.
pectiye home-owners from other
parts OF the country. who win be at.
tracted as in tho past by the archi.
tectural beauty OF our homes. which
Is usually superior 20 that OF tho To-
calitIes from which they came.