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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30


Monthly Labor Review that has just
been issued.
Statistics Conceal Deductions.
These statistics show that contract
miners averaged only 1913 days work
in a half month period and earned
S120 an hour for the actual time they
spent in the mine or SLAB for the time
spent at the face. This is an increase
of about $3.50 a day over 1922, with
which year the comparisons are made
in the report.
There were slight increases also in
the pay of company miners and other
classes of employees. But the miners
wage given above, is reduced by the
charges for powder, fuses, caps, tools,
hospital fee and rent deducted by the
companies.
"The increase in average earnings"
says the report. sis due in part to the
September. 1928 increase of 10 per
cent in wage rates, and in part appar-
entity as is usually the case with ton
mage or piece workers. when the op-
portunity for work is less, to speed
ing up in 1924, resulting in greater
production per man per hour than in
1922, and also to the inclusion of data
for employees of 81 colleries in 1924
that we're not included in the 1922
study.
Company miners who are paid by
the hour worked five-tenths of a day
less, but 16 hours more, than contract
miners and their half monthly pay
checks averaged about $50 less than
the contract miners. SO with the con-
sideration miners, they worked about
l6 hours longer, but at the end of two
weeks received nearly 500 less.
The report shows S4,111 under
ground employees and 10,3S0 surface
employees, and of the former, HIS
were contract miners, 961 considera.
ton miners and 1875 company miners.
Report Slides over Explosive Charges
Concerning the contract miners the
report says: Based on time at the
face, % per cent earned less than 81
an hour, but based on time in the col
liery, 80 per cent earned less than 81
per hour" Based on the same form
ula, the report shows that SO per cent
earned less than So an hour. BY far
the largest number of contract miners
labOrers averaged between 80 cents
and 81 an hour. The cost of explos-
ives and other labor are paid from the
miners gross earnings, the report
says, but it makes no attempt to c..
pare those expenses in 1924 with prev
ious years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Strike Vote Wins
Arbitration Issue
Against Boston 81"

BOSTON, Mass, July 2S.-As the
result of the overwhelming strike vote
of the employees of the Boston elevat-
ed system the company officials have
yielded the point the men demanded
and agreed to arbitrate the wages
dispute according to the system pre-
vailing for IA years. Judge Nelson p.
Brown has been chosen as third ar
bitrator by James III. Valley, union
representative and Roland W. Boyden
of the Boston Elevated Co.
The distinctive feature of the old
arbitration method. retained by the
company's back-down, is that the
representatives of each side are
chosen directly by their respective
bodies. The company had demanded
a less representative system whereby
the unions spokesman would be
selected by the company from a list
Of five men nominated by the union,
and vica versa. Until the strike vote
the company stood pat and the state
government was Indifferent. After
the strike vote the company spoke
vaguely against compromise at first,
but Governor Fuller became in.
terested. admitted that the men were
technically correct on the arbitration
point. tho attempting to prejudice
public opinion against their declara.
lion for more wages.
raised from ~ cents to 95 cents an
hour; the company calling for z
cent per hour cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
SURVEY SHOWS
PART Time WORK
IN MANY PLANTS
Employment in the Coal
Mines Shows Decrease

WASHINGTON-(FP)-An analy-
sis of industrial employment during
the month of June that has just been
made by the United States employ
ment service discloses part-time oper-
atoms in many plants. The heat
wave that swept the country is said
to have been one of the contributing
causes as well as the fact that at the
end of June in many industries. a few
days to two weeks are set aside for
inventory and repairs to plant. caus.
ing a curtailment of the operating
force.
The major industries reporting part
time operations and slightly curtailed
employment during the past month
were the textile mills which showed
reduced working forces as compared
with May; shoe factories in the New
England states; and steel plants. En-
ployment in the coal mines, except in
West Virginia, showed further de.
crease in June.
AeNHe Nchoti hStiOH 10 INCREASING
and large building operations and
municipal Improvements are under
way. The feature of the month. &C.
cording to the analysis was the in.
creased demand for farm help.
Textile Mills Slow Up.
AT the same time the department
OF agriculture issues a survey of farm
population which shows that on Jan.
nary /, 1925, there were approximate.
100000 fewer hired farm laborers than
on January 1, 1924 On January /,
1924 there were 3,194,OOO farm la.
borers and on the same date in 1926
there were 3,OS5,OOO.
More to and From Farms.
These figures apply to farm labor.
ers who reside on farms at least 30
days. They do not take into account
the casual farm laborers. The move
ment OF laborers from farms TO cities
In 1924 is estimated to have been
100000, while the movement in the
opposite direction is estimated at 352,.
600
OF the gross movement from farm
to city 22.2 per cent were laborers and
OF the gross movement in the other
direction 25.2 per cent we're hired la.
horers. HE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Trade Unions of
Sweden Increase
Membership ABS

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Accord.
ing to a consular report just received
at the end of 1924 the "a unions afili.
ated with the Federation of Trade I'm
ion OF Sweden had combined mem
bership of S6O,SS7 compared with s12..
O22 at the end of the preceding year.
an increase of 47,S15 or 1871 per cent.
or the 81 unions 81 showed an in.
crease and three decrease.
The unions affiliated with the FEEDER.
alton of Trade Unions Of Finland had
combined membership Of 47.312 at
the end OF 1924. AN increase. OF 500
during the year. al
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
GIBSON PICKETS
BRING ACTION
AGAINST FINK

Union machinists striking against
wage cuts and the 9-hour day at the
Gibson Spring Co. plant are on the
trail of undercover men in the Chi
cago local who are trying to sap strike
morale.
Business Agent ]. J. Uhlman is
bringing charges against Michael
Ward before the union trial board and
will ask for expulsion and a $1,000
fine. Wards alleged stunt was in pre-
tending to be strong for the union but
saying that it was no use holding out
against the company which is a new
adherent of the open shop Natl. Metal
Trades Assn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30

INSTALL new
SKILL KILLERS
Wage Cuts Loom; Men
Bought Like Cattle
BY THOMAS,
(Worker-correspondent.)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 2s.--While
at the present time actual mill work
is almost dead In the Homestead
Steel works there Is great activity in
the repair sections. Old buildings
are being torn down and replaced
with new buildings, more modern and
twice the size Of the old ones. They
have torn down two big machine
shops and replaced them with one big
shop with all the latest modern ma
chinery which is claimed can be
worked by unskiIed laborers.
New machinery is installed in the
rolling mills which will do away with
practically all the men who are now
Strengthening rails and changing the
course of the steel from one roll to
another A new modern boiler house
has been erected which will do away
with fifty men.
Skill Useless. Job Gone, Wage
Cut Coming.
At the same time all this work is
being done, runners are being circu-
lated that the mills are not paying
their way, that wages are too high,
also that there is too much compel
ton from foreign countries.
The old, old story, but it is being
circulated in all the safety" meet
ings, and the workers should take it
as warning of something to come
which means there is going to be an
attack on wages around this section
soon.
| have something to say about the
employment office. Having occasion
to seek a new position as a laborer
visited the Homestead plant Of the
Carnegie Steel Company
There were about two hundred
seated around the benches when the
chief labor foreman walks in, orders
all men to stand up, he then walks
around looks at every man, the same
as a farmer would when he buys a
horse or COW, and finally picked on
one big husky fellow. He then tells
the others that one is all he needs
today.
Bought Like Cattle.
1t is time the workers organized to
stop all this depreciation of having
to be pizkot&nd selected as tho they
were animals Let us workers of the
steel industry again organize and be
few years ago.
There is very favorable sentiment
for union around here, burt the lead
ers of the present union do not try
to organize, they do not even put out
leaflets. If something was done to
try and organize l think the mass Of
workers would follow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Bookkeepers' Union
Officials Initiate
Pogroms by Sigman

NEW YORK.-The Bookkeepers',
Stenographers' and Accountants
Union in New York is very small.
The greatest part of it's members are
employed in union local offices, radi-
cal papers and charity institutions.
A very small percentage is employed
in business offices and only five bank
employees. The bankers and office
managers of New York hate to see
their offices organized and the officers
do not possess the nerve and ability
to fight hard enough. They held few
meetings in the lower Broadway Sec
ton, but policeman told the presi-
dent that he does not approve such
meetings and the meetings were
stopped The members kept on de-
manding of the officers some work
and they had to do something to in
crease the membership. So they de-
cided to gain the sympathy of the
bankers and businessmen by clean.l
ing the union Of Communists" real
or supposed to be Communists. AS
rule there will always be Commun-
lists found in union, when the Off.
GERS want to show their loyalty to the
capitalists.
The officers of the B. S. and A. u
picked out George Primaw, a very
active member of the union, who had
the nerve to criticize the presidents
inactivity and suggest some ways Of
organization. They brought charges
against him that he is a member of
the Workers Party and therefore a
member of the T. U. E. L. Primow is
in the union long enough, but they
never brought charges against him.
A trial committee was appointed to
try Primow. The majority of the
trial committee, under the influence
of Organizer Freina denied Primow
fair hearing.
The minority of the trial commit
tee, Chernow and Cooper, appealed
to the trial committee for a fair trial,
so that no one could accuse the Book
keepers Union in unfairness to the
members. The trial committee, /. e.,
the majority refused to listen to the
appeal.
AS the constitution of the union
provides the case was put to the men,
bership and the minority of the trial
committee appealed to the member
ship for fair trial Kites also took
the floor to demand fair trial for
Primow. The leading 'LaFollette So
cialists" defended the position of the
majority, trying to quote w. 2. Foster
and Lenin, and they certainly showed
their complete ignorance. Their ap-
peal did not do much good to them as
the vote was 16 to expell Primow
against 10. BY the way, there are
about 900 members in the union.
Such close vote did not please the
officers of the union and the socialist
lights in the union at once decided
that Cooper, Chernow and Kites are
Communists and must be expelled at
once.
Brother" Steinberger, the leading
ignoramus of the s. p. and the most
inactive member in the union, brot
the charges. The charges are vague
but the desire to get rid Of the Com
munists is visible. Let the bankers
know that the Bookkeepers' Union is
also a respectable organization and
there is no danger to let they boys
join It, The b. s. and A. u. will be
placed on the list Of the reliable"
unions very soon.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
SMALL CROWD TO
HEAR BIG FAKER
BLOW HIS HORN
By Helm v0II Worker o0rNesp0neenl

BY Helm Voll, Worker Correspondent.
LOS ANGELES, Cal. July IS. -(By
MaiD-The meeting of Carpenters
Local 426, on July II, was not well
attended. Whether this was due to
the hot weather, the mass meeting at
Music-Arts Hall, or the fact John
Horn, retiring secretary of the Central
Labor Council, and now a member of
the board of public works, was sche-
duled to speak, | am unable to say.
Horn began his talk by saying he
was now granted the opportunity he
had sought while the political cam
paign was on. Time healed many
wounds" He said he bought the
Times every Sunday and in one issue
we're figures to show the union mem
bership had decreased. Those figures
he had found were of 1928 and not
1925 The membership had constant
ly increased, he said, and there were
now fully $4,000 trade unionists in Los
Angeles.
After he left a motion was passed
to find out on what terms we could
reaffiliate with the c. L. c.
The Main Objection
The principal objection to reafiliat-
ing with the c. L. c., was, that it did
not live up to the constitution of the
A. F. of L. which says in effect that
number of delegates shall be based
upon membership, instead of not more
than 3 delegates from each local. as
is the rule in the C. L. c. This is de-
trimental to the best interests of the
carpenters who have the largest mem
bership.
Another thing called attention to.
was that the local had $4,000 invested
in the Labor Press, the rival Of the
Citizen, organ of the c. L. C. Some
kind of agreement should be made, it
was pointed out, to protect the union
against financial loss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Bakers Care for their own.

SEATTLE-(FP)--All unemployed
members and their families in Locals
Q and 227. Bakery and Confectionery
Workers, Seattle, were taken care OF
by the union at cost of S17O15.51
for the six months, December to June,
according to Secy. Paul X. Mohr. The
relief was partly from the union treas
rry and partly by voluntary surren-
der OF certain days on the job by EN-.
ployed members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
SCAB HAT FIRM
BEES JUDGE FOR
ANTI-UNION AID
Tries in Vain to Run
Away from Union

BRIDGEPORT, Conn, July 2S.--F.
Berg & Co. big open shop hatters, at
Norwalk. Conn. admit they arc whip
ped by the United Hctters' Union, I'M.
less Judge John J. Walsh OF the
court of common pleas makes per-
manent temporary injunction he
granted against picketing. Hearings
arc being held, with David Fitzgerald,
mayor Of New Haven, acting as coun-
sci for the union.
The Berg firm moved to Norwalk
last May from Orange, N. j., with the
announcement they were out for low
or costs and would never do busl-
ness again with the union The firm
had been In business in Orange for
co years and the transfer OF its plant
put large percentage of the hatters
OF Orange-on the unemployed list and
struck blow at the union.
But tho union followed the shop
and when the plant opened it's doors
in Norwalk union agents told Berg
he would have TO sign up. "You have
not chance" replied Charles Berg,
rebufflng them
But union pickets began to be so
effective that Berg's n0n.union hands
quit in patches and the company, In
its petition to the Judge bewails tho
complete ruin" that is ahead. There
will be no ruin but uninterrupted pro-
duction II tho firm signs up, says tho
union. Otherwise the fight will 90
on. Tho union had experience with
injunctions in Orange, where the
Bergs, In former efforts to go open
shop, tried these writs in vain.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30

ers Of the state force him to open up
the books. While it may be true that
publication Of some expenses may not
be wise policy, yet out Of the $1,000 600
the miners were assessed, we were
supposed to buy the Herrin strip-mine,
but there is a standing reward TO any
one who can discover any trace of the
title deeds to that property. Many are
asking, IF the mine belonged to us.
why is there no az 1unt showr from it
In the financial rcoorts Of the miners
union. as it is one Of the few mines
working in the state at the present
time? And why is no mention made
Of the mine in the last financial re-
port? Even the name is gone now
from the records.
Another 100000 Gone.
Since that time Farrington's Office
has loaned another 100000 OF the
miners money to the Lester strip
mine. and the miners are now asking
who the hell owns this strip-mine any
way?
The correspondence between John
l.. Lewis and Frank Harrington in con-
nection with the strip.mine, commenc.
Ing tomorrow, will be an eye opener
to those who have still any faith left
IN the union takers. Keep your eye
open for tomorrows issue Of the
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Politician Hits
College That Took
John DIS Millions

LAKE GENEVA, Wis, July 2S.-
Two hundred delegates to the Wiscon-
sin State Federation of Labor con
vention at Lake Geneva heard Assem-
blyman VIM. Soleman, member OF
the Painters, denounce the University
of Wisconsin for accepting donation
from the Rockefeller foundation. The
foundation subsidies education that
is to its liking
Let wealth gain a foothold and
wealth will expect something in re-
turn, Coleman said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
Canadian Labor Advocate Appears

VANCOUVER, B. @. --FP)- The
Canadian Labor Advocate is the new
name OF The Canadian Farmer-LaDoi
Advocate, the progressive labor week.
ly published in Vancouver. II succeed
ed the British Columbia Federatlonist.
Banking Sharks Operate In WInnIp peg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
GARMENT BOSSES CALL IN LABOR
HATING GROVE TO DO DIRTY WORK
AGAINST AMALGAMATED STRIKERS

L.
hired called nState Attorney Robert
establish erorizng
strikers.
fight against organized labor
that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
ANTHRACITE MINE EMPLOYMENT
CUT IL PER CENT IN ONE YEAR;
SPEEDED MEN MAKE BARE LIVING

WASHINGTON The number in the b6
oeres the October and Noyem
1914 period
1923 other
Der of workers in the anthracite n
These and other startling
ings conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30
LOST! $4,000, 900 IN CUSTODY
OF FRANK HARRINGTON! FINDER
RETURN TO ILLINOIS MINERS
BY ALEX REID
Secretary Of the Progressive Miners Committed
Arfir

everyone the
brothers the Herrn
for their lives organized all
ne could and could
to suffer deprivation for the defense position
of the Illinois the world that
the Illinois miners would permit by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30


@plus meals and tips
Practically all industries paying
union wages to women pay for regular
overtime at time and one-half rates.
Makers of children's dresses, bath
robes and housedresses in New York
City get doubletime for all overtime
as do women in union upholstery
firms. In Rochester mattresses get
approximately doubletime for all over
time. In Schenectady they get only
straight time for extra hours.
In the women's garment and hat
and cap industries no Sunday or holi-
day work is permitted. Elsewhere
the overtime rate is generally double
time.
For the same industry the rates are
much lower in the smaller cities than
in New York City. Thus bindcry
women get from $3.50 to $40 a week
in the union shops of New York City,
compared with S21 in Albany, $3.50
in Buffalo, S13 to $3.50 in Elmira and
$40 in Niagara Falls and Rochester.
Gold layers get s275O in New York
City and $21 in Albany. Platen press
feeders in book and job printing get
$29 in New York, SIC in Buffalo. S22
in Rochester and in Syracuse. Fin
ishers in knit goods mills get $3.50
in New York and s16.5O outside
The rates shown are for work paid
on an hourly basis. Combining all
cities it was found that IA per cent Of
the women worked piecework and the
remainder timework. Piecework pre-
dominates in the upstate cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-30

Getting a DAILY WORKER
sub or two will make a better
Communist of you.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-02-19
LOS ESPoSOS
MONSERRAT-FANO

Hemos tenido el grato placer
dc saludar a nuestro distinguido
amigo, Lcdo. Damian Monserrat
Jr., quien acaba de llegar de Eu-
ropa. acompanado de su bellisi-
ma esposa, doha Mercedes Fano
de Monserrat.
Los distinguidos csposos Monse-
rrat- Fano faItaban en- nuestra isla
desdc hace algunos meses, tenn
porada que pasaron en- viaje dc
recrco por el viejo continente, vi
sitando las mas bellas capitaIss
de Europa.
La Ilegada de tan buenos ami
COS, es motive de algeria para
sus numerosisimas amistades de
esta capital, donde ellos cuentan
con tantos afectos y simpatias.
Ell MUNDO tiene su mas afec-
tuoso saludo de bienvenida para
los distinguidos esposos Monse-
rrat-Fano.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-02-19
S. N. Maria Antonia | re-
dacta una Pragmatica con
OCCASION de Ia vista de las
gentiles eInbsjadOras Do.
lninicanaS
EncOmieRda a suS vasaIIOs una
Guardla de honor que rinda plei-
tesla a las iluslres damas
cARNAvAL DE SAN JUAN
DE MDCDxxv
PRAGMATIcA

MARIA ANToNIA T. Reina 10
Ia Algeria, por la gracia de Dio1
y el bien Querer de sus leales Sub
ditos, de ssta muy noble y lnuy
leal cfudad de Ran Juan, todns
log que la presente visren y en-
tendieren, sabed:
Que Nos hemos decrstado Ia pre-
ssnte PragmAt1ca que obServeran
fiel Y cumphdaments todos nuestros
yasallos. ricashembraa fjos DIAL
COS y honrados menesterales y Pc
cheros.
El jueves, dia diecinueve de es-
to mes de la Algeria, arr.bara a
este puerto una galera conduciendo
un ndmero de Gentiles Embaja
ras, que a nosotros vienen desde la
Isla maravillosa, la Isla Espafiola,
Ia preferida del Almirante. a So
licitar subsidies contribuyentes pa
ra Ell Gran Faro Memorial de Co.
lon, octava maravilla iel mundo,
que por voluntad y los dineros de
todas las naciones ha do levalltarsc
en- aquella TERRA herraana, como
grandioso homemade al Descubridor
de estas gloriosas Indias occiden-
tales.
Son tan altisimos los merecinlies,
tos de las bellas htias &c ouisque
"a que a Borinruen llegaran en-
breve, que todo esfuerzo y todo en-
tusiasmo resultara menguado para
correspondent al honor cue tai visi-
IA nos concede; asi, mi Corte de
Honor y todas las danas de San
Juan, pido y ruego que en- esta
OCCASION, y todas uridas sean por
concedernos ocasi6n propicis de
contribuir La gran obra reinvin-
dicadora que ell Gran Faro de, Nun
do encarna.
ITEM; A mis- buenos yasallos,
los cabaIleros de esta culta socie-
dad, eicorniendo Ell montar una
Guardia de Honor qua r-nda plei-
tesla y prodigue las mereetdas aten
clones q tan ilustres viajeras, SO
iendrinas de primavere que vienen
) colgar su nido baio. Ell ala de
nuestros palmerales.
8 Dado en- el Palacio del Dios Mo
mo v frnado de mi propio pufio
y ietra a los diociocho dias del
mes Gle fsbrero, afio del sehor, de
mil novecientos veinticinco,
YO, Ia REINA.