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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
HOSIERY UNION
OPENS drive TO
ORGANIZE TRADE
5000 Join Organization
in Past Year

PHILADELPHIA--(FP)-The pres
emit time is favorable for the organi-
cation. of the textile industry, said A.
]. Music. Brookwood Labor college,
to the 18th annual convention Of the
American Federation of Full Fash
toned Hosiery Workers, affiliated with
the United Textile Workers.
Organization was the biggest thing
before the 60 delegates from 20 cities
A study will be made of old age pen
sions. A scholarship for a 2-year
course has been re-established at
Brookwood.
Durham, N, c., is fast becoming a
union center for the south since the
Hosiery Workers carried on two hard
strikes The federation will keep a
district manager in New York and
New Jersey. Three thousand workers
joined the organization in the last
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
Comment.

THE editorial above is fair sample
\ Of the deadly dope that is being
dished out to the American labor
movement. The paragraphs which we
have emphasized contain the fatal fall
lacies which, when subscribed to. by
large sections of the working class,
make them easy victims of the bosses,
and their organizations mere efficiency
organs of the industrial capitalists.
That the well-being of the workers
is dependent upon the general pros
perity Of capitalist industry is true
only if one comedies the capitalists
the right to own the natural resources
and the machinery of production for
ever. This was the belief of the feudal
lords before the capitalist system
came into being and as long as the
workers conceded the right of the
feudal baron to the land they re-
manned serfs. Isl
THERE are no problems which the
= workers and the bosses have in
common. The workers want the
highest possible wages, the shortest
hours and control OF their jobs-in a
word, high standard of living and
security. FL
The bosses want to pay the lowest
wages for the longest hours and re-
duce the living standard to the sub
sistence level. That this is true is
proved by the fact that this is done
in all countries where, for one reason
or another. the workers have lost the
power of resistance.
Negotiations OF organized workers
with organized employers in order to
set the basis for trade union agree
ments are one thing but conferences
ITO solve the problems Of industry"
based on the theory that the workers
and capitalists have a common stake
In industry, are another. t1a
OUCH conferences inevitably tend to
~ weaken the will of the workers to
struggle for their demands and this
in fact is the sole purpose the EN-.
ployers have in mind when they pro-
pose such. conferences. They are
cheaper than the rougher methods OF
strlke-breaking. 1ot sta
That workers sometimes get an in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

crease in wages and better conditions
by following such a policy does moi
at all refute our statements. They
may be small but strategically sec
ton of the working class which the
bosses want to placate Gas is gen.
orally the case) or the first conces,
sions are given in order to weaken the
loyalty of the workers to their union
as fighting organization, as quite
often happens.
Company unionism, either openly
by name or covertly in fact, finds a
fertile field In unions where the officials
advocate the policy followed by Secre.
tary Hughes of the Transfers Union
and which is praised so highly by the
editor of the Minneapolis Labor Re.
view-very likely after Secretary
Hughes had demonstrated in company
with the editor his contempt for the
Volstead act.
TN no city, has the attempt to apply
= the theory of "worker-employer CO.
operation" had more disastrous effects
on the labor movement than in Min
neapolis. In preparation for this move
the Communists and the left wing
were attacked and many expelled. A
virtual dictatorship was set up with
an emissary Of the executive council
.of the American Federation of Labor
as the local Mussolini, all semblance
OF radicalism was banished and the
Minneapolis labor movement died on
its feet.
TT is still dead and it is now stated
= by honest conservatives that only
the reinstatement OF the once despised
reds" and the resumption of activity
by them can revive the moribund trade
unions. The same condition obtains
in st. Paul where the same policy was
followed.
The Minneapolis Labor Review is
not serving the labor movement, but
the bosses, when 1t publishes such
deadening and deceptive editorials as
the one quoted.
It might be remarked in passing that
the Labor Review was a militant paper
one upon time when the Twin Cities
had militant and effective trade
union movement. w. r. D.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
New York Board of
Education Plans to
Set Teachers Hours

NEW YORK, Sept. 16. = (FP) =
Hours of labor, ranging from five and
a half to eight day will be definitely
set by the Board of Education Of New
York if the new bylaws now under
consideration are adopted. The system
sets the lower or five and half stand
ard for ordinary class room teachers,
with a possible additional 40 minutes
at the option of the principal. Teach
srs of industrial subjects in vocational
schools have seven and half hours
and teachers Of agriculture, who are
few in number, have maximum of
eight hours, tho only five and half
would usually be required.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
West Brownsville
Coal Miners Aid
British Strikers

WEST BROWNSVILLE, Pa. Sept.
16.-Local 1890 of the United Mine
Workers Of America passed motion
at It's meeting assessing each member
81 of each pay for strike relief. Pat
Pagan, boss of the machine here, Bit
terly fought proposal that some of
this money be sent to the striking
miners Of Great Britain.
There are number Of miners on
strike, in the district and Pagan
claimed the money should be used for
them. So. far little money that was
meant for these miners has found its
way to them. The union finally voted
to send 40 per cent 70 the British
miners and go per cent to the strik-
ing miners in District s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
GAS
SUFFERER SUES
STANDARD OIL
Crippled Worker Seeks
to Collect 100000

NEW YORK. Sept. 16. - (FP) -
Standard OIL company of New Jersey
has suit for 100000 on its hands
because former worker at Bayonne
claims he is the sufferer from his
employment with tetra-ethyl lead
Henry Calls says that he is afflicted
with Serious disease of a nature
not clearly established by medical
science" as result of his exposure
to tetra-ethyl lead-treated gasoline in.
September 1924.
The worker says he has had to re-
main in bed since that time. Standard
Oil company gave no warning Of dan
ger, provided no masks or gloves and
did not have sufficient ventilation in
the workplace.
Eleven workers in all are known
to have died during various firms ex-
periments with terta-ethyl lead gaso.
line. The scandalous list OF dead and
injured workers employed in the MAX
ing of the supposedly "knock-proof"
fuel finally brot a national conference
under the United States surgeon-gen-
eral and the ultimate PRONUNCIATION
of rules governing the manufacturing
process. Tetra-ethyl lead-treated
gasoline is now being made and sold
generally. A Swiss scientist insists
that widespread use of the fuel will
mean the depositing of great quantl-
ties Of lead dust on public highways
and the possible poisoning of not only
hundreds of thousands Of workers but
OF the general population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
WITH THE LABOR PRESS


declarations labor district
labor unionsadvocate partially
policies poorly WE'LL the
file of trade union This the
detailed
accurate
publication comment
necessarily that
with It, publish this inform of the trend of
thought when such editorial
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
Demanded Five Cents
Raise; u. S. Mediation
Got Them 5 Cents

The dispute between the Chicago
and Alton railroad and IT'S telegraph
ers, station men and towermen has
been settled by the Coolidge appoint
ed railroad mediation board.
The men asked for five cents an
hour increase and various changes in
the working rules. The board has en-
gineered settlement for only a cent
and half increase, with some slight
adjustment OF the rules.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

independent political action is gaining
an ever growing host Of converts
among the workers and that the reac-
tionaries dared not make a frontal at
tack against the proposal to organize
a labor party, but pretended that
they favor the principal and are de-
TERED only by consideration of timeli-
ness.
Urge United Labor Ticket.
When the conference was opened
and the secretary had concluded read
ing the call, the president of the coun-
ell looked around helplessly for some
one who would indicate what was to
be done next. The chairman Of the
legislative committee which recon-
mended the calling of the conference
was actually at loss. ALI looked ex-
pectantly in the direction of Brother
Campbell. Brother Campbell did not
disappoint them. After making COM
prehensive review of the developments
dependent political action, he then
placed before the conference written
motion proposing that "this confer
ence shall proceed to name candidates
on an independent ticket for the COM
ing election and that only members of
the trade unions who renounce all con
nections with the parties of the en-
ployers-the republican and demo
cratic parties-shall be regarded as
eligible for nomination on such ticket"
The reactionarfes, incapable of any
positive proposals, Wed with each
other in an effort to convince the rank
and file that they had to be good sol
diers and follow the policy of the
American Federation of Labor OF re-
warding friends and furnishing enc
miles,"
Progressives on Warpath.
All these arguments" were effect
lively answered by surprising num-
Der Of delegates who took the floor to
say that despite any action that the
council might take "the workers will
not much longer tolerate leadership
that forces them to vote for their enc
mics. A labor party is the need
of the workers and no one can stop
them from acquiring It." 81 am tired
OF attending your meetings and sell
dom come" said this delegate from
one of the largest carpenters locals in
the city, "but my local has endorsed
the holders resolution and am here
to fight for II in the hope that we may
rejuvenate the labor movement by a
militant policy Of action on the politi-
cal field" sc
To Form Labor Party.
Many OF the delegates who took the
floor to speak in favor OF labor party,
explained that they would not vote for
Campbelps motion because 1t is too
late TO launch a campaign for this
election, but that they would insist on
the formation Of such a party for the
future, whether the American Fedora.
ton OF Labor approves OF II or not
After the motion to launch a ticket
had been defeated the reactlonaries
then passed n motion TO continue the
policy which their own resolution de-
clared ineffective.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
Work for Labor Party

DETROIT - (FP) - The Workers
Party is entering the fall elections in
Michigan to encourage the formation
Of mass labor party, William Rey-
nolds, Detroit union carpenter. the
party's candidate for governor, said at
mass meeting. orH
The Detroit Federation OF Labor,
like many central labor bodies in the
state, officially supported Gov. Alex
]. Groesbeck, republican, for fourth
term. He was badly beaten by Fred
w. Green Sept. IA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 1s. -
(FP-The City Court discharged three
ladies' garment union pickets arrested
for advising non-unionists TO Join the
organization. The pickets' release
follows the recent decision OF the
Connecticut Supreme Court OF Err
rors that peaceful picketing" during
strikes must be tolerated. The ladies'
garment union is driving on a mum.
Der OF small shops here that are at
tempting to produce for New York
manufacturers whose Mq9hattan
plants are tied up by the big strike.
We Will send sample copies Of The
DAILY WORKER TO your friends
send us namc and address,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

BOSTON - OPP - Two raIncoat
manufacturers have accepted the init.
Ladies Garment Worker terms for
settlement OF the strikes in their
shops. In the American Weatherproof
Raincoat co. over $50 workers have
won a minimum wage scale OF s44 a
week or0men. $50 for women and q
42-hour week. The Cosmopolitan
Mfg. Co. OF Cambridge has also set.
,tled on these terms. About 600 other
workers are out -----,..-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
OPEN LINCOLN
Mine ON 1917
SCALE BASIS
Ruling Affects 200 Coal
diggers
BY GEORGE PAPcUN,
(Worker Correspondent

LANSING, Ohio, Sept. 16. - The
Lincoln mine of the Lorain Coal and
Dock Co. located on the National High.
way near here has reopened on the
1917 scale after having been shut
down for the past six months. The
announcement was made by G. G.
Weiss, company official.
The Lincoln mine employees 200 men
when it is running full blast. After
starving the men out for a period of
six months, now the coal company
wants to put the finishing touches to
the job by forcing the men to return
to work under the 1917 conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
80, 900 March in
Labor Parade at
Princeton, Ind.

PRINCETON, Ind, Sept. 1e.-In-
diana miners, 1000 strong, marched
in the monster Labor Day parade at
Princeton, with railroad and other
workers swelling the line to nearly
two and a half miles in length. About
10000 were estimated in attendance
at the great mass meeting finishing
the parade and 10000 heard the speak
Ing with the aid Of large loud speak.
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

DETROIT-FP)-The Detroit re-
lief conference for the Passaic textile
strikers, which includes the Detroit
Federation of Labor, is sending hun
dreds Of dollars to the strike zone.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
BUFFALO LABOR REACTIONARIES
FEAR LABOR PARTY FORMATION
BY HERBERT BENJAMIN.

On April % the legislative committee Of Buffalo
which exclusively reactonary
following
which dissenting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18
Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities

News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

Policies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
Strikes-Injunctions
Labor and Imperialism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

MONTREAL - (FP) = Pres. VIM.
Green, American Federation OF Labor,
was authorized to call a conference OF
Representatives Of Electrical Workers
and Railway Signalmen's unions to
settle jurisdictional disputes between
them, by the executive council at its
meeting in Montreal. The executive
prepared its annual reports and made
arrangements for the Detroit conven-
ton, which opens Oct 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-18

NEW oRbEANs-(FP)--The an
nuai session OF the Mississippi State
Federation ypf Labor opened at Jack
sen Sept !
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New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
0R7EGA WEEPS DURING
 CLOSING OF OFFICES
Mexican Attorney General Affected by Drastic
 Orders

Mexico City, July 31 Pt-Attor- ney General Ortega was deeply moved and openly wept during the closing of the offices of the arch- sbishopric at the cathedral here Senator Ortega personally attended and supervised the closing of the Episcopate, which was done under his orders.
 Simultaneously throughout the republic government agents were closing or preparing to close all Catholic offices and structures ex- cept actual places of worship, giving the government control over all storehouses of church valuables.
 Archbishop Mora Del Rio was not present personally when the arch bishopric offices were sealed. Bishop Maxine Ruiz y Florez, the arch bishops secretary, was In charge when Senor Ortega and his staff ar- rived. Monsignor Ruiz formally pro- tested. SenoI Oriega. however all though showing great emotion pro- ceeded firmly in executing his own order. Afterwards the attorney gen. eral asked Monsignor Ruiz if he had anything further to say.
 T could say many things,% re- piled the prelate, "but 1t would be useless. Under the circumstances, what could be accomplished by any words of ours?"
New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
(Continued on Page Three)
Sl6,O0O SHORTAGE FOUND
 IN FALL RIVER ACCOUNTS
Mayor of City Admits Deflacations But Declines to Name
 EmbeZZler.

Fall River, Mass, July 31 P- Mayor Edmund D. Talbot last night confirmed a report that Q shortage existed in the city funds and placed the total at $16,O00. Early this year the mayor employed the firm oi George NJ. Wright of Providence to make a special study of the city's books.
 The first discrepancy, the mayor said, appeared in 1918 when the ac- counts were S3, short. Gradually since that time the amount increas- ed, the audit showed, until on April 1, 1925, the total reached S16,S36.25 Since then restoration had been made to bring the total dedication down to s16,O0O.
 The mayor declined to make pub lie the name of the employe suspect ed, although it was said unofficially that he is now dead. Consid blc excitement was created in the city today when the mayor and city so- licitor were in conference with Di- rector Theodore N. Waddell of the state division of accounts and his chief examiner. It was said that while the audit was not complete it was considered unlikely that any further shortage would be disclosed The accountants were expected to make a detailed report of their lNwork to date to the board of alder men on Monday evening.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
FORD PLANT DEVELOPSALR
 HIVKER THAT WEIGHS BUT
 $50 POUNDS; DOES S MILES
HIS ENEMY WITH WHIP AND FIRE St. Paul Man, Believed De- mented, Also Slices Off
 Bits of Skin

St. Paul. Minn., July 31 R)-Tor- tured by fire. fiayed and whipped by a man believed to be demented, Ed ward Horrigan, 29, a city fireman, is in a serious condition at a hos pital today. Horrigan was rescued by police who found him bound to a chair and handcuffed in a rooming house.
 Walter H. Fletcher, 37, was ar rested as the leader in the attack and Roy Kleinsmith. IS, was held for investigation.
 Fletcher said he had been wrong ed by Horrigan and for some time had been seeking revenge. Last night he sent Kleinsmith for Horrigan and the fireman went with the youth to Fletcher's room.
 There Horrigan was overpowered and bound to a chair. As Klein smith stood by with a rife Fletcher beat Horrigan; then he cut thin strips of skin from his body, and followed with a blacksnake whip. Burning matches were applied to the skin of the victim.
 The fireman fainted but was re- vived by cold water poured on him by Fletcher. After five hours Fletcher decided to call on a pho Itographer to take a picture. The photographer notified police.
New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
LOW PERCENTAGE FOR
 ADULTS IN THIS CITY
Only 39,720 of Residents Have Attained Age
 of 21 Years

The percentage of persons living in the city of New Britain who have attained their majority is compar- atively low. figures compiled in 42 cities with populations ranging be- tween 10000 and 100000 show.
 Long Beach, Cal, leads the coun- try with s73.S. while Hamtrack, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. has the lowest-509. New Britain. trail ing along in the low percentages, has 56.S of it's citizens of voting age. The average percentage in cities of between 10000 and 100000 popula- ton is 62.9. and that of 1S9 cities of between 5o,OOO and 100000, is .63.7. v
 High percentage in western cities is attributed to the steady migra- ton of youths from the eastern states.
 Detailed figures for 1926 of cities of population ranging between 10O,- 900 and 10000 follow:
New Britain herald., 1926-07-31
Takes Over Property

The Mexican government, in talk ing charge of the property in Cath olic churches, claims, as it has claimed for many years, that the jewels and treasures and all prop ty within church buildings, as well as the real estate and the buildings themselves are and have been the property of the federal government for more than half q century.
 This claim is made by virtue of the reform laws and the constitu- tion of the reform war period, which forbade the church to own property in Mexico and declared all church property confiscated and reverted to government ownership. The present constitution of 1917 repeats the declaration that all church property belongs to the federal government.
 The Catholic authorities never have admitted, nor do they admit at present, the fedesnl governments claim to title to church property. AL though at various times during the past six years much Catholic church property has been diverted by the government, no efforts had been made until today for some years literally to enforce the constitution on this point.
 The governments contention is that it loans to worshippers church buildings, grounds, Jewels and other properties, the title to which for 60 years has been constitutionally vested in the government.
 Neither the government nor church headquarters here possess anything approaching exact knowledge of the value of Catholic properties through out the republic. In consequence of the ten years revolution and the five years reconstruction period there has been no complete census of church belongings taken. One req son why the government demands an inventory from every Catholic priest when they leave their churches to- day is said to be the hope that it will obtain satisfactory estimate of the value of church property in Mexico.
 It is unofficially estimated that the jewels in Mexican Catholic churches alone are worth several
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