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The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Rail Workers Pay
Goes Down as r. r.
Co.'s Profits Go Up

Savings of millions of dollars for
railroad stockholders at the expense
of railroad employees are reflected in
interstate commerce commission sta.
tistics showing unit costs of class /
carriers in October, 1924. The figures
show that train enginemen received
only 14.Sc per 1000 gross ton miles
compared with 16.4c in October, 1923,
a reduction of nearly 10 per cent.
Similarly the amount paid railway
trainmen per 1000 ton miles fell from
1880 in October, 1923, to 17.7c in 1924
and the expenditure for locomotive re-
pairs from 2S.6c to 24.4c per 1000 ton
miles.
This last reduction, involving the
total wages paid machinists, boiler.
makers, sheet metal workers, etc.
amounted to about Is per cent. These
results are possible because increased
efficiency and technical improvement
prdouce wholesale layoffs rather than
shorter working hours for the men EN-
ployed.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Morgan Tightens
Hold on Phone and
Telegraph Systems

NEW YORK, Jan. S.-J. P. Morgan
has frightened his hold on the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph com.
pany by purchasing $125, 100000, 35-
year, five per cent sinking fund gold
bonds of the company. The Ameri.
can Telephone and Telegraph com.
pany, in addition to controlling the
Bell telephone system, the Western
Union telegraph company and the
Western Electric company, is connect
ed with numerous railroads and with
the q. s. Steel corporation and the
General Electric company thru inter.
locking directorates.
The company announces it will
maintain a fund of $1,25O,0OO dollars
year for the purchase of these bonds
In the open market "if available"
The. money from the sale of the
bonds will be used to purchase securi-
ties held by subsidiary companies, it
was announced.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
TEXTILE BOSSES
SLASH WAGES TO
STARVATION line
Reaction Strikes at Fall
River Poor

FALL RIVER, Mass, Jan. S.-Fall
River cotton manufacturers have an
nounced a 10 per cent wage reduction
for their $4,000 employees, to go into
effect Jan. IL. No promise is made
that the workers will get more work
in consequence of the reduction.
Local unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Textile Oper-
atives are voting on the question Of
accepting or rejecting the cut. The
action they take will probably set the
pace for the workers in the neighbor-
ing cotton manufacturing city of New
Bedford where the American Fedora
tion of Textile Operatives is also func-
tioning.
Bosses United Against Workers.
The announcement of the Fall
River manufacturers is in line with
action taken by leading cotton con-
Germs Of New England this fall and
early winter. Cuts averaging 10 per
cent have been forced thru in the
Amoskeag mills at Manchester, New
Hampshire; in the Everett mills in
Lawrence, in most of the Lowell mills,
in the numerous mills of the Manville-
Jenckes and B. B. & R. Knight com
panies in Rhode Island; in nearly all
the Maine mills and in many small
concerns in the several New England
states. Most of the reductions took
place following the Coolidge election.
Fall RIver-PoVerty.
Fall River workers have suffered
more from the textile depression than
those in any other textile center. The
Fall River mills produce cheap cotton
print goods, for the most part, the
kind of goods most readily produced
in southern mills. For eighteen
months most of the Fall River work
ers have been unemployed. During
1924 about two-thirds of a million
dollars of charity was spent in par
TALLY relieving the hardships Of
unemployment.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
STEEL HOUSES
make WORKERS
SKILL USELESS
British Unions Facing
Fight for Life
Especial to The Daily worker)


LONDON, Jan. S.-A way to put the
building trade unions out of business
and the building trade workers on the
permanently unemployed list, is be-
ing tried out by the Scottish firm of
Weir and company, which is erecting
steel cottages.
The building trade unions are cir
culating pamphlet showing that a
steel house, such as is attempted, can
not be maintained in habitable shape
for more than thirty-five years, while
brick and stone houses last from 100
to $50 years.
The steel houses also, are claim
ed to require more expense to main
tain than brick and stone houses, and
as they last only 35 years, the union
has quite talking point in the fact
that loans to build houses extend
nearly 60 years, and the houses would
be collapsed long before they were
paid for, according to this theory.
The steel houses are erected on a
concrete foundation into which the
framework is set. This is covered
with sheets of steel plate lined with
asbestos, and the inside walls are
made of a composition like American
wall boards, or stamped sheet steel
like that used widely in America on
ceilings. All by unskilled labor.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Waiting in Prison
Leaves It's Imprint
On Sacco-Vanzetti

Looking at the photographs of Sacco
and Vanzetti when they first were
imprisoned almost five years ago and
the pictures recently taken of them
bring story Of persecution of inno-
cent men more than any words can
depict. The former photographs bring
to us fresh, energtic, young Sacco;
aesthetic and philosophic Vanzetti.
In the latter photographs in the face
of the once buoyant Sacco we read
suffering and detection. In the face
of the soft, kindly vanzetti we read
defiance and bitterness. Thus have
these two fighters for their class, in
those few but long years of waiting
in prison, been broken and crushed
by the rulers of the opposing class,
the capitalists. N
The last act of this tragic drama
of life and death for these two work
ers was commenced, on Sept. 80, when
Judge Thayer decided against a new
trial for them. The shadow of the
electric chair rests dark and heavy on
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Workers organizations everywhere
are holding protest meetings and TAX.
ing up collections for the $4,000 fund
which the Sacco-Vanzetti defense
committee must raise to appeal the
case to the Massachusetts supreme
court and to the United States su.
preme court.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
BERLIN REPORT SAYS
TROTSKY IN CAUCASIAN
SANITARIUM, VERY I'LL

BERLIN, Jan. g.. Direct news
have just received enables me to
state that Leon Trotsky, Soviet War
Commlsar, is actually sick. It can
be stated on the authority Of the
president Of one Of the Caucasian
republics that Trotsky is suffering
from ulcer of the stomach and may
die much sooner than is expected
generally.
He is not prisoner in the Krem-
lin, as has been reported, but is ac-
tualIy in santarium in Sukhum-
Kale, on the Black Sea, about seven
kilometers from Batum.
The campaign against him is alto
gether literary"
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
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colossal masterpiece, as Chaykovski
would say, Of atmosphere.
Added to this one may eulogize the
work Of the company. 1t was as close
to a perfect performance of oprea as
can be given.
The part Of Louise seems made to
order for Mary Garden. She did it in
approved Garden style, except that
she seemed troubled with a cold
Georges Baklanoff, besides having
one Of the finest baritone voices in the
company, is perhaps the best actor
of all the male stars. He played the
father. Maria Claessens, playing the
mother, took the role of a relentless
vixen with considerable more genu
inc feeling than really exits in the
role.
Lucky II Wasn't Pink.
Ferdinand Ansseau unfortunately
had brown tie with white polka dots
wished on him as part Of his costume
for Julien. In spite OF that he looked
like man. Nothing more need be
said.
Jose Mojica, the ,young Mexican
tenor, person Of a high voice, firm
and large in volume, who acts with
considerable Spanish swagger. played
the night prowler, and the king of
fools.
Costumes and scenery were. in the
main, authentic. One backdrop
showed Montmartre surmounted by
the unfinished scaffolding OF the basi-
lica Of the sacred heart. Now Sacre
Couer has been finished since the
nineties, but the costumes Of the peo.
pie of the play were those OF 1924.
Another bnckdrop showed Paris sur.
rounded by high hills that do not ex.
list Outside OF that the settings
were typical "a
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
The Front Factory Falls

The busybodies, reformers, liberals and sob
sister fraternities in New York are disconsolate.
'Mr. Zero has been ordered out of the church.
Great gobs Of tears for the unemployed will doubt
less course the cheeks of many philistine as he
or she-will wipe away the brine to keep it from
falling into the dessert while .the lecturer at the
civic club expatiates the decadence of christian
ity. The "front factory" has closed its doors.
Another lockout.
This is how it came about: An enterprising and
forward-looling hombre with bent for religion
and record of working valiantly to get every
spare worker into the trenches during the war,
became, after the war, suddc2ly compassionate for
the "under dog" This hombre, Urban Ledoux,
preserved his religion intact thru the war, not
having gotten closer to it than the Brooklyn navy
yards When he saw the millions of unemployed
swarming the streets in 1921 he thought of what
Jesus would do presumably, and figured out
that Jesus would start a fophouse.
Having an eye for publicity, he advertised him
self for sale as a slave, tried to auction unem-
ployed workers off block, and after attracting
attention from the press as 'Mr Zero," he used
the proceeds of the milk of human kindness to
provide a sort of Gorky's Nights Lodging" thin
soup and stale bread for the homeless and obless.
Not that we object to these miserable victims of
capitalism getting something to eat and place
to stay. But is soup and stale bread something to
eat, or a flop on the hard church benches, even
tho polished by pious pants, the equivalent Of a
real bed in a real home? The Communist believes
that the iobless worker is entitled to more than
a crust and shift for the night on pine plank.
''WOrk or wages-union wages at thatw This is
the slogan of the Communists
This begging at back doors is relic of slavery.
This going hat in hand, to longfaced hypocrites,
ministers and churchmen, merchant and banker,
whining for thin soup and stale bread is not the
heritage of a class which built the world of in
dustry and now stands homeless and starving, held
back from revolt only by lack of organization
which makes each individual fear the priest and
the police more than the coroner. MOI The Com
munists say that without organization and united
action with the employed workers whose standard
is threatened, the unemployed are not playing the
part of men willing to strive for something, but
the part of social wreckage pitiful but helpless.
Anyhow, "Mr. Zero" invaded the Camp memorial
congregational church in New York City, and for
time held forth with ''front factory" where
rough barbering and tailoring was DONE to make
the unemployed presentable to prospective masters
But hope shortlived.
God is incorporated, and "the Congregational
Conference, Incorporated announces that EAIr.
Zero" must get out and stay out Superintendent
Rollins, heavens butler in this corporation, says
that if Ledoux sets foot across the threshold, he
will call the bluecoats and have "Mr. Zeron put in
the cooler for trespass
The unemployed are thrust out with "llr. Zero
has declared a lockout.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Send in that new "sub" today!
Blood on CappelIini's Hands

1t is bad enough to know of the hundreds of
deaths of coal miners resulting from preventable
accidents" thru the fault of the coal operators of
this country, a slaughter which stains every lump
of coal with the blood of the workers. But in
Pennsylvania the anthracite mine operators are
not satisfied with mere occupational murder of
its miners.
In the last As hours two leaders of the "out-
law" strike called against the operators and their
servile tools in the district office of the U. NJ w.
of A. have been shot down on the street by assss-
sins. 1t is a safe bet that Rinaldo Cappellini,
agent of the operators in the Office of district presi
dent of the union, who fought the miners at every
step, knows as well as anyone who are the murder
ers of Samuel Pace and Steve Freely.
The Pennsylvania cossacks-the "coal and iron
polce'-are a murderous lot. They have a reputa-
ton for just such assassinations. But they would
never undertake them unless the coal operators
had ordered it. And the coal operators. in turn,
would never order such provocative acts, if they
did not feel assured that their agents in the Of
flee of the union could hold down the storm that
would follow.
Cappelini has long prevented the anthracite
miners from forcing adjustment Of their grievances
against the operators. They depend upon him to
stop the foodgates of wrath at this grievance"
of the coal diggers or to divert it into channels
harmful to the strike.
The miners of the anthracite region will do well
to clench their fists for struggle, and to find way
to stop assassination of their comrades without
yielding to the provocative acts of the assassins
and the first step in any plan of protection should
be to hold Cappellini personally responsible for the
safety of every striker
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

MIA, Lithuanla-and the farlng up or
the bloody regime of Mussolini in It.
ally, together with the persecution of
the Communists in Germany, the at
tacks on the militant peasantry in
Jugo-Slavia-are awakening the soil.
darity of the American workers.
The conviction of Comrade Ruthen-
berg, secretary of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, and the announcement
that Comrade Rober Minor will next
stand before the capitalist court of
Michigan; the arrest of Comrade Las.
sen, editor Of the Elore, Hungarian
labor daily; and the arrest of Comrade
Vajtauer, editor of the Obrana, the
Czecho-Slovakian labor paper, which
took place only a short time ago; the
scores of other comrades who are
soon to be tried in Michigan and the
hundreds of revolutionary workers
who face deportation-all of these
facts are accelerating the co-opera-
tion of all revolutionists in this coun-
Etry and the sympathizers with their
revolutionary movement.
Up to the present, the following
organizations have responded to the
call:
Amalgamated Food Workers Union,
who will donate their services and
food.
Bakers Union No. 3, Brooklyn, do
mated $25.
The following branches of the Work
ers Party will have booths: English
Harlem, Finnish branches of New York
City, Williamsburg English branch
Brownsville section of the party,
Bronx section of the party, Hungarian
branches together, Russian Downtown
branch, English Downtown branch,
Greek and Armenian branches to-
gether, English Westside branch
books and art pictures, Coney Island
section of the party, Russian art booth,
containing hand-woven linen and hand
embroidery.
The Lithuanian branches also will
probably have booth.
This is admirable-and yet the
work has just begun. More and more
organizations are taking favorable
attitude, and more branches of the
Workers Party have still to act on the
matter.
No trade union, no workers organi
cation, no sympathizer dare fail to do
their part in making this joint bazaar
huge success. The fate of innum-
! erable revolutionary workers in Eu-
rope and the defense Of our American
comrades demand immediate action
Large sums of money are necessary.
Comrades to work: get articles for
the bazaar. Get contributions from
labor organizations and sympathizers.
Sign up on the Red honor roll. Get
your organization to take a booth.
ALL TOGETHER FOR THE SAKE
OF THE REVOLUIONISTS ANE
THEIR SUFFERING FAMILIES!
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
EVOLUTION or
INDUSTRY DOES
NOT PASS ACTORS
Folly of TinIxering with
Capitalism
tsy rhe Federated pressl

NEW YORK, Jan. S. Altho radio
broadcasting of first rank singers and
performers by the Victor Talking Ma
chine Co. and the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Co. arrangement
does not directly concern the Actors
Equity Association, the actors union
is very much concerned over the en-
croaching power Of radio to keep peo-
pie away from the theater.
Frank Gilmore, executive secretary
of the Equity, says "The Equity is
unfortunately limited in any action it
might take. 1t is distinctly the sense
of our council that radio is terrible
menace to the actor, but the actors
time and talents belong to the man.
ayers, and it is from them that any
real action must come"
To Fight Radio.
Equity has provided that if a radio
microphone is placed in the footlights
for the purpose of broadcasting the
performance, the manager shall then
be charged by the actor for an extra
performance" with the idea Of MAX
ing play broadcasting too expensive
for managers. "Plays emerge badly
over the radio" Gilmore asserts, "and
| am sure that such performances
keep many people from the theater.
An open meeting of the Actors
Equity is scheduled for Jan. 26, to
consider the danger of radio to actors
and arouse the theaters to concerted
action"
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

LONDON, Jan. S.-Stories in circu
lation that United States Ambassador
Kellogg was to resign from his Lon
don post have made him "all the more
determined to remain" It was said at
the American embassy today. This
was the second denial in two day.
from the embassy on the subject OF
Kellogg's retirement. Kellogg is at
tending the allied financial conference
in Paris.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

away with him.
Quite a Mixture.
The third act is taken up with o
most spectacular scene. The poets,
philosophers, grisettes and rufians OF
Montmartre, come to crown Louise
the muse of Montmartre. She is liv-
ing with Julien in cottage near the
summit of the hill. The night prowlei
is crowned King of Fools, and con.
ducts an elaborate ceremony. Louise
and Julien sing an apostrophe to
Paris and the spirit of Montmartrc.
(For Montmartre is the true Paris.
Soaked with the blood of the Com.
InuniSts of 1871, It is the home of the
artists, the thinkers, the workers, the
hoboes and the prostitutes of Paril.
Surmounted with q glittering whit
jewel Of a church, the basilica Of the
sacred heart, 1t stands up and domi-
mates the city even more than the
famous Elffel tower across the town. }
When the ceremony is over Louise's
mother arrives and tells Louise that
her rather is dying. Louise goes 10
her former home. In tho last act
Louise is kept practically a prisoner
in her parents house. Her father
tries to persuade her to leave julien.
She refuses. He becomes enraged,
opens the door and tells her to go.
Leaving the curtain down on an ar.
tistically unfinished story.
Plenty Of Atmosphere.
The plot is thus given in detail in
order to get across the idea Of the
absolutely Partisan atmosphere of the
opera. Charpentier simply took his
town and wrote II down in notes. He
orchestrates with truly Wagneriar
sense Of the possibilities of instru
ments in conjunction with the stage
The music Of the entire opera Is q
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Population Increase
S Per Cent Above Food
Production Since 1912

Each person capitalist class ex-
empted) must eat five per cent less
food than in 1912, according to the
Sears Roebuck agricultural founda-
tion's statistics. Population has gain
ed on national agricultural production
to the extent of five per cent in
twelve years.
Figures made public today show
that the population of the United
States has increased 1S per cent from
1913 to 1925, while the total crop
production has increased only 13 per
cent.
Pafrnniza nIIr aduartiears
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
Z, 900 COTTON GOODS WORKERS
GET 10 PER CENT WAGE REDUCTION

HARTFORD
remaining Rhode
action kind New Bedford mill since
cutting
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
JOINT BAZAAR OF INTERNATIONAL
WORKERS AID AND LABOR DEFENSE
COUNCIL MAKING FINE HEADWAY

CITY, SThe
Lyceum pro
revuionaes
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

The livest thing in the spring aldermanic cleo
tions in Chicago will be the bunch of Communist
candidates entered by the Workers Party. They
alone will carry on real battle against the BIZ
partisanship of the capitalist candidates.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09
BY ALFRED v. FRANKENsTEIN.

A review of anything so completely
Partisan as the opera Louise" given
by the Chicago Civic Opera company
last Wednesday, should be- written in
French. For Louise" is Paris, Paris
perfectly rendered in terms Of tone
and action. The only distinctly Par
isian quality lacking in this perform
ance and this opera was the smell.
The composer, Gustav Charpentier,
is a man known for only one work.
Mr.. Stock now and then plays his
Impressions of Italy," but aside frol
that only "Louise" has gained any
recognition. Charpentier wrote both
his book and his music.
Louise is a seamstress living with
her parents on Montmartre. She is
in love with the poet Julien. Her
parents object to their marriage. The
first act is concerned with the quar-
rels of Louise and her parents over
Julien.
Rather Fleshy Spirit.
The second act opens with one of
the most curious Of all opera scenes.
II is scene that Apdreyev might have
written. Before sunrise, at the juno.
ture of two streets below Montmartre
the rag pickers are sorting their
catch. A coal picker and a street
sweeper bemoan their fate. Enters
q night prowler in evening dress who
makes love to a little newspaper girl.
Asked who he is he replies that he is
the spirit Of Paris.
With the coming of the dawn these
creatures OF night. disappear. The
sunrise reveals the shop where Louise
works. Her fellow workers arrive.
and finally she herself. Julien is
waiting for her. She promises to run
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

Mussoini claims he has disarmed all his enemies,
but the red spectre of Communism keeps him awake
nights just the same Evidently Mussolini doesn't
believe the claims he makes
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

Ruthenberg is in prison; but that doesn't make
capitalism feel any more comfortable.
The daily worker., 1925-01-09

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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-29
NORTH PRAIRIE

Miss Dorothy Wells of Waukegan
was guest of Miss Elizabeth Bennett
over the week end.
Mr.. John Pedley of Kenosha, was
guest of Mr.. John Pearce, Sunday.
The w. F. M, S. will meet at the
home of Mrs. Boscoe of Waukegan,
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Bennett and
son Richard, of Waukegan, visited at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Ben
nett Sunday.
There will be a Halloween party,
Friday evening at the social hall. The
community is invited to~enjoy the fun
while the young people of the Epworth
league furnish the games and the
god things to eat.
Mrs. Gas and daughter of Zion,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. DeGroot
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Connell visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Willerton Sun
day.
Last Thursday evening our choir
under the direction of Mr.. Peters Of
Kenosha, and the choir of Pleasant
Prairie, gave a fine Glee concert, con-
sisiting of solos, special features and
chorus numbers. The soloists were
Misses Elizabeth Bennett, Evelyn
Gould, Helen Griffin, Mrs. Wilfred
Pearce, Mrs. Marion Mcclure and Mr..
Ray Dixon of Gurnee. Violinist, Miss
Norma Smith of Gurnee. Mrs. Fisch-
back of Kenosha, whistler, and Scotch
impersonations by Mr.. Peters.