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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-09-13
Ell DLRECTORIO VOL
VERA A REUNIRSE A
FINES DE MES
LA CONVOCATORIA Sc
LANZARA INMEDIATAMENTE
NO Sc. PERDONARAN SACRIFICES PARA ARE
CLAIR LAS DIVERGENCIAS LOCALES

blea no Sc demorara nj un momento
tan pronto Sc haya celebrado esq
reunion del Directorio.
Con este, segln Sc nos ha dicho,
Sc pretende evitar que surjan nue.
vas dificultades que vengan in
tervenir con la buena marcha de la
Alianza imponer nuevas posposi-
clones.
A PR1Nc1p1os DE ocrUBRE
Las asambleas por separado ten
dram lugar principles de ncviem-
bre, y en- esa reunion del Directo-
rio Sc acordara tambi6n el sitio en-
que deban celebrarse. Lo que es
evidente es que tendran lugar Ell
distintas poblaciones, usando Ell
mismo metodo de las asambleas de
Mayagiiez y San German.
Y tan pronto como ambas asam--
bleas acuerden ir a la fusion, o por
10 menos a la discussion conjunta,
vendra la Asamblea General, de re-
publicanos y unionistas que tendra
lugar fines de noviembre.
LAS D1vEReENcTAs LOCALES
Actualmente Sc encuentra en- la
isla una comisi6n especial del Di-
rectorio arreglando las diferer, las
locales entire unionistas Y repubIi-
canos aliancistas.
Los informes que tenemos son
de que esta comisi6n ha recibido
instrucciones estrictas de obtener
un entendido entire los disgustados
q toda costa, sin omitir sacrificios
nj esfuerzos, va que reconocen los
Jefes que la Asamblea no puede pcs
ponerse mas ala de noviembre 81 es
que Sc quiere obtener 6xito con la
comisi6n legislative que vaya a
Washington a trabajar por ell Co
bernador elective.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-09-13
UNA INTENSA
CAMPANA

No obstante, aun resta mueho por
hacer. De ahi Ell que nuestros HON
bres p1bncos, Ell Gobernador, y
otros altos funcionarios ejecutivos
hayan iniciado en- los Estados Uni
dos una intensa campafia pro Puer-
to Rico que tiene por fin primordial
dar conocer en- ell Norte nuestro
progreso, nuestra buena disposition
" ell ampio campo que hay aqui
para la industria americana, en- fin,
todo cuanto debe saber ell pueblo
americana de una isla que durante
la guerra mundial supo actuar la
altura de su historic y su prestigio /.
EN- LA PRENsA
Y los resultados de esa cam
pafia empiezan a sentirse. Los gran
des rotativos de la nacion ameri-
cana, peri6dicos que tran millones
de ejemplares, empiezan a ocupalse
de nosotros.
Durante estos ultimos dias, hemos
venido reproduciendo articulos qae
aparecen en- los grandes periodicos
de los Estados Unidos. autorizados
por firmas de conocida solvencia y
otros de redaccion, cuyo valor a.
nadie Sc escapa.
Millones de lectores, empiezan a
ccnocer Puerto Rico, Lo que ESQ
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-09-13
coNvocAToRIA IMMEDIATE

CONVOCATOHAA 1NMED1AIA
FL Directorio Sc reunira, no para
6ejar las cuestiones sobre Ell tapete,
sino por ell contrario para resolver
de una vez esta situaci6n, y entrar
6e lleno en- los preparativos para
la Asamblea. Al efecto, Sc trazara
Ell programa que deberan sostener
los jefes, a I'm de ir preparando la
cpini6n. Ademks Sc fjara La fechs
y el sitio en- que tendra lugar la
asamblea. ..
Z tenemos informes en- ei sentido
de que Ia convocatoria para la asatn-
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-09-13
LA sALUD PUBLICA EN- LA
CAPITAL

En- la capital, Ell estado de la sa-
lud pdblica es grave. Sc han regis
trado aquf mas casos de tuberculo-
SIS y Uncinariasis que en- la Isla
entera. En- Tifoidea, ocupa San
Juan Ell segundo puesto, cogiendo
tambien ell primero en- Difteria. En-
malaria no Sc queda muy atras.
LA TIFoIDEA AUMENTA
Las victimas de Ia terrible fiebre
Tifoidea van ZEN aumento. Barros
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1925-09-13

@ANNHANtAAE1tH HltN7
(FdO.) r. HI. TODD,
Alcalde.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Take Coolidge Slogan,
Keep Government Out
of Business" Seriously

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15-Led by
Homer Ferguson OF the Newport News
Shipbuilding company and by leaders
in the National Association of Manu-
facturers and other big business as
sociations, a meeting of business men
opposed to any and all business activ-
titles on the part of the government
has just held two days of talk in the
capital. Committees were appointed
to carry on the work
The substance of the demands
made by numerous speakers was that
the federal government should rid it.
self of waterpower plants and sites
and all other industrial assets. includ-
ing its merchant fleet; that no goods
should be produced for sale in pris-
ons; that cities should own no pub
lie utilities; that public operation
should cease.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Wheat Gambler Makes
100000 in Six Days

Following the spectacular unload
ing of over 100000 bushels of wheat
at the high price and then buying it
back at 10 to 20 cents lower per bu-
shell. Jesse Livermore was able to
make S1,OOO,OOO in a six-day gamble.
Professional trading in wheat, it is
declared, has seldom been so enorm-
Gus as it was during the past month.
Market prices on wheat were kept
booming for over a month by the
board of trade gamblers. Many small
investors bought at top notch prices.
Then followed the spectacular unload
ing of over 100000 bushels throw
ing the small fellows into a panic and
then when the price was forced down,
Livermore stepped in and cleaned up
1t was claimed by the gamblers at
first that crop damage in the Argen-
tine and heavy buying of wheat in
America caused the rise in prices to
S1.77 per bushel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
CHINESE WHITE
GUARD LEADER
ASSASSINATED
Feng's Troops Rule in
Tientsin Area
Especial to The Daily worker)

SHANGHAI, China, Dec. 15.-The
steamer President Pierce of the Dol
lar line was entering the harbor last
night when the noted white guard
Chinese commander who led the war
on Canton recently, Hong Shao-lin,
sailing under an assumed name from
Hongkong, was shot by Chinese
worker supposed to be his servant.
The worker then committed suicide.
The general is not expected to live.
Reports from the north show that
Chang Tso-lin's remnants of an army
are still fighting desultorily near Muk-
den. Chang has seized and killed all
OF the relatives of Kuo Smuggling,
leader of the mutiny against him.
Dispatches say that Gneral Feng
Yu-hsiang has sent word to Japan
that the movement against Chang is
not anti-Japanese and that Japan's
present holdings will not be touched.
Fengs troops still face those of Ii
Ching-ling, governor of Chilli, and
the latter is sure of defeat if battle
ensues.
American troops, acting as railway
guards are said to be keeping the rail
line open from Picking to Tientsin for
mails and foreign passengers. Feng's
troops fill all trains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
FURRIERS WANT
HIGHER WAGES,
SHORTER HOURS
New York Agreement
Expires January 81

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The 4O-hour
week with no overtime permitted,
elimination of all piece work, and
wage increases of $40 a week and
more are leading articles in the full
text of demands the fur workers
union is making on New York manu-
facturers in place of the existing
agreement that expires January 81.
The first answer of the manufactur-
ers' association was to refuse any
changes in the old agreement and if
this position is held to, strike i'm
ponds. The New York Joint Board
recently showed its strength in a vic
tory over the Greek manufacturers,
bringing large portion of the still
unorganized section of the market I'M
der union control, and a confident
spirit is in the air. Comparison of
wages demanded with those now paid,
shows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Need Organizers to
Unionize the Ford
Slaves in Detroit
BY A Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Niche Dec. b. 1t is
with pleasure thatnI read the articles
written by the Worker Correspond
ents in The DAILY WORKER and the
articles championing the cause of the
striking miners. | was miner my
self and know what they have to con-
tend with.
At present / am employed at the
Ford Motor works here. Workers
are treated like animals OF all the
places I've worked in, Ford's is the
worst There is no union to which
the workers can appeal for protection
from actual abuse. The only thing we
can do is to curse them under our
breath and this we do aplenty.
We are driven to our utmost and
still we live in constant fear of los
ing our jobs. A new man breaking
in is threatened. bhll-dozed and abus-
ed something terrible. It is not UNI
common for workers to give up and
go home sick from exhaustion or to
see dozens going tot the hospital daily
for treatment of cuts and wounds, the
result Of mad driving of human beings
by the greedy capitalists for more
wealth. sh
Yes, the eight-hodf day is in force
at Ford's but every bit of strength
is squeezed out of the men during
these eight hours. AT the end of the
day am limp as a rag.
II is too bad there are no organic
ers here to organize the Ford work
ers. | am sure there are great many
who would be eagerdto join union If
good campaign were started.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
SOCIALISTS SHOW
TRAITOR FACE TO
SILK STRIKERS
Only Communists Stand
by Them in Struggle
BY ALBERT WEIs5oR0
worker Correspondent

WEST NEW YORK, n. j., Dec. IS.
The Hillcrest silk strike has had
the very good effect of opening the
eyes of the workers to the forces that
are created to crush them. Federal
government, local police, state courts,
press, church and other bosses insti-
tutions have become exposed to the
silk workers for what they really are.
But many workers. still had certain
illusions about the socialist party
which at the beginning Of the strike
they ardently cherished and only to-
wards the end were compelled to
give up. rrf
When the workers needed some
money for the strike, they went to
the socialist party but that working
class party" gave them no help to
raise money-but advice. These
skunks calling themselves social
lists" told the workers to drop their
leaders who had faithfully been lead
ing their strike Tor over six weeks,
now on the eighth week, who had been
physically threatened by the police
and who had gone to Jail for the strik-
ers, in the middle Of the strike. The
traitors did not care that if the work
ers lost their organizers at this time
the strike would be lost. We're they
not aware that the reason why police,
courts, press and church and boss
had made such bitter attack against
the organizers was because they knew
once the organizer went the strike
would be lost? Sure these traitors
knew that. The socialist party be-
came exposed again to the workers,
that it is the agency of the bosses to
betray and confuse the workers in
critical periods of class warfare.
But this time the socialist party did
not succeed in its role of betrayer of
the working class. The workers them
selves knew how. to answer them.
They said to the socialist party that
the question of differentiation they
joined was, not affair of that
party but the worl J own affair, that
the socialist part forkers had been
invited to work the united front
committee but hi refused and now
when the worker ere sorely press
ed and needed hei, nd unity then the
socialist party re- ssf-s'eonditions."
The workers heye learned that only
the Workers (Communist) Party
fights unreservedly without "condi
tions" in the first ranks of the work
ers for their demands against the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
PREMIER TAXI !.
DRIVERS Toll.
LONG WORKDAY
Organized But Union Is
Not on the Job ne
BY A Worker Correspondent

The drivers in the Premier Taxi Co.,
the only 100 per cent unionized taxi
company in Chicago. have working
conditions that are worse than those
in nonunion companies.
Wages are s2S per week providing
a total of $50 is collected or booked.
Under $50 in bookings the pay is on
the commission basis of 35 per cent,
and 35 per cent on all over $50 in
bookings Tips amount from IS to
$12 per week extra. If bookings are
under $50 for one week and if re-
poated again the next week the
driver is fired
Ten and one-half hours is the length
of the working day, the average is
much more. Single shift drivers put
in Ia to 16 hours and often more.
Double shift drivers work 101s to IL
hours Extra night drivers who are
also double shift men must wait 2 to
hours for car which is not in
Guided in the working time. These
hours are, sometimes, hardly long
enuf when the business" is poor and
$50 has to be booked by the end. of
The week.
Every driver and garage employee in
the Premier Taxi company belongs to
the union and that's all. That the
union is fighting weapon is not
conscious fact among the members.
No meetings are held, al ieast an
nouncements are not given outds The
company is able to exist only because
it lis a. union company. Make the
company nonunion, 1t will collapse in
competition with the Yellow Cab
company
Establish regular union meetings
and a slogan Of "All Taxi Cab Drivers
Must Be Union Members" should be
be the present program of action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Bombay Textile Labor
Wins Strike Against
Cut, But British Lose

NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-With suspen-
sion by the British government of
India Of the 31a per cent excise duty
on cotton goods, the 10000 cotton
mill strikers of Bombay, India. win
their three months strike against liz
per cent wage cuts. Word of the vic
tory, cabled to New York, was re.
ceiyed by the Friends of Freedom for
India. The Indian cotton mill owners
blamed the excise duty which taxed
every yard of goods produced in India,
for the wage cuts they announced.
The victory of the Bombay strikers
indicates that industrialization of In
dia will go rapidly forward, says S. N.
Chose, secretary of the Friends of
Freedom for India. The tax had been
imposed for the purpose Of discourage
ing Indian industry and it's repeal-a
concession to the sentiment modified
by the strike-gives Indian textiles
that much more leeway in competing
in the world market.
1t may mean the entrance OF new
British capital into Indian industry
In any case the situation for Lanca.
shire, England, cotton mill workers,
is not promising of anything but more
unemployment. Cheap production Of
cotton goods in India, China and Japan
have already seriously affected the
Lancashire workers, who are we'll or
ganized and have had comparatively
good working conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17

lied for having fought the hardest in
the strike. At this stage the city
fathers interviewed to save the COM
pany and as a consequence injunc-
tions, police, thugs-all the elements
of a capitalist democracy were let
loose.
Election Day is Far OF Yet.
Mr.. James Moriarty, formerly presi-
dent of the Boston Central Labor
Union, who sits in the city council
and appeals in every election for the
labor vote, has also overlooked this
strike.
Luckily the union taxi drivers of
other companies have a sense of soil
darity and have assessed themselves
SO and 81 per week for the strikers.
But this is not enough. We pay $40
and 81 to married and single men re-
spectively. We are appealing for help
but money comes in slowly. Organ
lied labor must help u.s." Mr. Harry
Williams, treasurer of the strike COM
mittee, told the correspondent.
This is a strike that deserves the
support of every class-conscious work
er. The strikers will run a smoke
talk the end of this month at the
Grand Opera House to raise money
for the benefit fund and they hope
to get the support of organized labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
The lineup Against Workers.

colin Nichols; what further explana-
tion for the companys success in OBJ
tanning a very drastic injunction
against the strikers. 1t also explains
why men with criminal records, some
Of whom are out ON parole, are given
chauffeur badges and are pressed in
to strikebreaking service.
However, the picture would not be
complete without the A. F. of L. Off
cials playing their usual role of be-
trayals. And the medal, in this case,
goes to John Kearney, secretary Of
the Cooks and Waters Union, also
president of the Boston Central La
Dor Union. Aco
Agreement Agrees With Bosses.
Kearney was drawing wages from
the strikers obviously getting more
than one salary from the labor move
ment) for serving on settlement
committee during the early stage of
the strike. He fooled the men into
accepting an agreement which meant
suicide for the newly born union
With this agreement giving them
every privilege, the company officials
began firing the most militant of the
strikers as soon as they returned to
work, apparently victorious, and the
men, in the face of such betrayals,
had to quit again to protect their fell
low workers who we're being victim
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Student Conference
Wrecked by Jim Crow
Spirit of Southerners

PRINCETON, N. j., Dec. 15-The
newly formed student federation,
which was created at the National
Collegiate World Court conference,
was wrecked .when the delegation of
southern students bolted the conven-
ton following the election Of Miss
Mabel Holloway, a colored girl to
the executive committee of the fed
Grafton.
The southern delegation objected to
the presence of Negro students in the
hall and when Miss Holloway was
elected they bolted.
One of the proposals endorsed by
the conference by an overwhelming
vote was the world court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
MILK DEALERS
CLUB GOES OUT
OF BUSINESS
Association Is Charged
with Bombings

The Good Fellowship Club, an or
ganization of Chicago milk dealers,
which the states attorney charges
has had a monopoly on the delivery
of milk dealers, has decided to dis
band.
A dealer who was not a member OF
this association could not sell milk
to any customers of members Of the
association All dealers we're given a
certain territory to cover and one
dealer could not encroach on the
rights of the other dealer. The Good
Fellowship Club, it was pointed out,
reprimanded any offender by tossing
bomb into the dairy plant of the
dealer and in that manner force a
member of the association into line
and non-member dealer out Of bust
ness or into the association.
Retail Stores PenaIized.
1t was further pointed out that the
small retail stores were restricted TO
sell milk at certain hours and could
only sell the milk at certain prices.
Failure on the part Of small store
keeper to follow out the rules laid
down was met by heavy penalty.
A number of the officials and bust
ness agents of the club are indicted
and are charged with the bombings
of a number of dairies. They will be
placed on trial the early part OF
January.
Other Employers Indicted.
Not only are the milk dealer asso-
citation heads under indictment, but
also the heads of the hardware bust
ness mems association, the Master
BARRIERS Association and a number
Of real estate owners associations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Worker Burns to Death;
Widow Receives Nothing
BY A Worker c0rrespondent

HARTFORD. Conn, Dec. 15.--
Clothes soaked with oil from his job
at the Stanley works in New Britain
made PaoIo Tiralongo, bad fire
risk His clothes caught fire in the
comfort room at the shop and he was
burned TO death. Then his widow,
Teresa Tiralongo appealed to the
compensation board and got nothing;
again she appealed TO the superior
court of Connecticut and again got
nothing. Judge Marvin argued that
the accident was notredue to a risk
OF the employment itself" The com
pany attorney thinks that his clothes
were ignited by cigarette, but there
is no positive evidences
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Fraudulent Practices
In Collecting Taxes
Embodied in Charge
(speolaI 70 rhe oanv Workerl

WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.-An at.
tack on alleged irregularity in the adj
ministration of the income tax law
against the Robert Dollar Steamship
company was revealed today in testi-
mony taken by the Couzens senatorial
committee in its secret investigation
of the internal revenue bureau.
The testimony showed that the COM
mittee's investigators charged ir-
Irregularities had saved the company
payment of 100000 in taxes and
given It a refund OF 81, 900 in 1918.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
Workers Write About the Workers Life
THREE VALUABLE PRIZES OFFERED
FOR BEST CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS PAGE

Three valuable will be offered for the Worker
Correspondents this will published
the Friday Dec 18TH Worker Correspondents The DAILY
WORKER The first prize is the much valued book by Noa Bulk
harn Historical Materiasm; the whittier
land by Leon roky and the third prize the the
by r. Logan, which will appear
Hurry and write your story Nonparty
we'll party members included in this Any
worker Worker Correspondent contributions
Editor DAILY WORKER s Washington Chicago, ILL.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-17
MINERS Home
DYNAMITED IN
STRIKE FIELD
Bosses Scheme to Pin
Job on Strikers
BY GEORGE PAPcUN.
worker Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. ia
house of union coal miner was dy-
namited at $3.50 in the evening at
Westland. The house is owned by the
coal company and was occupied by
John ellis Scotch miner, one of the
strikers on strike at the Midland mine,
who had lived in that district for 22
years and for the past six years had
resided in the house which was
wrecked
Bosses Agents Cook Up Story.
The miners in the Midland mine
have been on strike for the past two
months. The company that owns the
mine is the Pittsburgh Coal Co., who
has tried to operate the mine on the
1917 scale. A score of detectives and
deputies were brought on. the scene,
and each and every one of them is
making discoveries and getting clues
which always seem to point to union
miners. The company is cleverly
playing up the outrage against the
union miner and is trying to get the
miners to go to work. All the miners
are Of the opinion that it was nothing
but frame-up by the coal company
to scare the fellows into starting to
come back to work.
The company has issued a state
ment for propaganda purposes to fool
the miners and the local papers are
playing it up big. The statement says,
I'm view of the disturbance in Lib
rary and Westland, three facts stand
forth as significant Of the miner of the
company. The number of miners at
work this morning is greater than
yesterday. The total number of min
ers working in the mines of the Pitts
burgh Coal company in the Pitts
burgh district, is greater today than
at any time since the company re-
sumed operations under the 1917 scale
and the amount of coal brought from
the mines and loaded in railroad cars
was the largest since the mines have
been reopened. The company regrets
greatly the trouble at Library and the
the dynamiting of house at Midland
Z mine last night, but is pleased to know
that the occupants Of the house,
union mine worker and his family
were uninjured This man, tho he had
declined to work on resumption Of op-
erations, had been permitted to con-
tinue to occupy his home. The com
pany volunteered to shelter the fam
lily, including the children, last night"
Don't Fool Miners.
The miners are not so easily fooled,
that the company has become so good
that it is going to take care Of the
union miner and his family, after the
blow-up- They know it is only a
scheme to get the miners back to
work.
The miners are sticking solid. The
coal company is trying to import
strfkebreakers and to certain extent
is succeeding. Pat Pagan and his
bunch are issuing statements, which
is about all they are doing. The min
ers are more determined than ever to
fight and are willing to go out on tho
picket line, only the union officials
will not permit them. The union Off
Gals tell the miners to sit quiet and
do nothing.
There is a sentiment among the min
ers that are out on strike and among
those that are working, for action,
that is for general strike.
The coal companies are also trying
TO play up race-hatred among the
workers and among the black and
white.