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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
WYANO'S union
MINERS FIGHT
0QRnRME MIMEc
UODUhIVL MINED
Youghiogheny Opens
Up Under 1917 Scale
BY A. SMITH,
(Worker CORRESPONDENCE

WYANO, Pa, May 1.-THE Osborne
mines of the Youghiogheny and Ohio
Coal Company have started "opera-
TONS" These mines have been shut
for almost two years while other
mines in the same district have been
working day and night.
The only mines in the Irwin field
that won the recognition Of the union
in the 1917 strike were Osborne mines
No. 1 and 2. The miners local follow
ing it's recognition at these mines then
launched an intense organization drive
and succeeded in organizing the Irwin
field in 1922.
Militant Union Local.
This local has been militant in every
respect. Many times the company was
forced to pay for work in these mines
that it refused to pay for in other
mines that were supposed to be work
ing under the Jacksonville agreement.
On April %, the company posted a
notice stating that it was unable to
pay the Jacksonville scale. The COM
pany notice claimed that the company
in the period from Feb, 1924 to July,
1924, suffered a heavy financial loss
when they attempted to operate under
the Jacksonville agreement. The
Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company
fails to mention the enormous profits
it made in 1922-233, immediately after
the national strike.
Company Profits.
A driver who worked in Mine No. 2
after the strike declares that he
hauled 224 wagons from ten coaldig-
gers in five days. Out of the 224 wag-
ons only "a were slate. The other 200
were excellent coal.
Figures show that in five days the
company made a clear profit of S15.68
on ten coal diggers. If the Yong
hiogheny and Ohio Coal Company
made SIS on ten men in five days what
did it make on the 400 coaldiggers?
The company thot that after the long
shut down the miners would be eager
to return to work and would submit
to work under the 1917 scale. Instead
of the 100 men that the company call
ed for only Is went back to work. Out
of the thirteen, nine were klansmen
and four were foreign-born. The
former president and treasurer of the
local were among those that went back
to work under scab conditions.
A picket line was thrown around the
mines. Most of the pickets were for
eign-born. Outside of the union or
ganizers there was not a single Amer
lean worker on the line. It is against
these foreign-born miners that the
fnger-print and deportation laws are
aimed.
Call Out All MlnesI
This company has five mines outside
OF Wyano in district which are work
ing under the Jacksonville agreement.
Unless the union officials pull out
these mines and thus shut down all
the mines owned by the Youghiogheny
& Ohio Coal Company, the miners
here will be in a hopeless fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
Creditors Protective
Bureau Fines Girls for
Being a Minute Late
81 a Worker correspondent.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, May II. =
This month each girl who has been
late more than once, will receive SOC.
less in her pay envelope, according to
a ruling made by the Creditors Pro-
tective Bureau, for their employees.
Every girl working for the Creditors
Protective Bureau must give her boss
five minutes extra, each day. The Of
fee hours are supposed to be from
a. m. to $50 p. m. with time off for
lunch. On Saturday the girls work
from s to 2, but must go without eat
ing. But in reality, the girls are
obliged to get to the Office and be at
their desks at five minutes to eight.
Efficiency demands that no time is
wasted in cleaning the keys of the
typewriter, wiping off the desk and a
few other little necessary movements.
BY being at their desk at five minutes
to eight, the girls are ready to promp-
fly place their ten fingers on the keys
and start pounding of their letters as
soon as the hands of the clock point
to eight.
Should girl commit the awful
crime of coming in at o'clock, or
even at three minutes to eight, a
record Of the hardness is made. II she
dares break the rule again during that
same month, soc. is withheld from her
months salary.
A girl may have been tied up in a
street car accident. She may have
missed her train. The boss is not con-
cerned with these unavoidable mis-
haps. He is only concerned with find-
ing every girl at her desk at the speci-
fed time. He wants an extra Ave
minutes of work from her each day,
under the pretense that It takes too
much Of HIS time to fuss" with the
machine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
STRAW BOSS is
OPEN SESAME TO
GREATER PROFIT
Open Shopper Shows
Need to Coddle Foremen
BY CARL HAESsLER,
Federated Press.

Profit-sharing is the bunk If you
want to bamboozle your factory hands
into sweating Loyalty for the corpora
ton but kind word and an occa-
sional free feed to the straw bosses
makes all the difference in the indus
trial world.
You can take this dripping fresh
from the pen of Noel Sargent, Sec
rotary, employment relations commit
tee Of the open shop National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, who signs
communication on foreman training
that is lying on the desks of anti-labor
executives in the Chicago industrial
district.
Foreman Is Key Man.
The foreman, Sargent emphasizes, is
the man thru whom the profit hunger
of the corporation must be "tactfully
interpreted to the workers" He is
the key man in a manufacturing or
ganization in constant and direct con-
tact with the workers and so he must
have the proper attitude towards his
job, his company and his workers.
How to work the foreman in order
to make him work the workers for the
benefit of the company treasury is a
neat little art of its own, Sargent in
dicates. THE question arises" he
leads off, "as to what manner Of in
struction and training shall be given"
He discards lectures by outside pro-
fessional trainers (such as the Sher-
man Service, Inc, an industrial spy
outfit and falls back on the good old
expedient of feeding the inner fore
man psychologically by fattery and
extraordinarily by good dinner
Hold Discussion Meetings.
Every week all the foremen and
some of the higher officials gather for
40 minutes on company time to dis
cuss their problems" In reality it
merely provides a forum where the
foremen can hear themselves talk,
with the result, to quote Sargent, that
"the atmosphere has grown to be
such as to impress the foreman with
the Importance of his work and the
thought that he is actually a part Of
, the management" You see it is the
thought, not the fact, that is vital
That's the psychological part.
The gastronotnic attack hits on the
group when once a month, at the ex-
pense of the company, it meets at din
ner shortly after working hours where
later addresses are given.'
To Make Better sIave-Drivers.
All this helps the foremen put over
the company methods of dealing with
"absenteeism, relations with employees,
group insurance, mutual aid associa-
tions, labor turnover, waste, wage in
centive" Cbonus, speed-ups) ETC., Sar-
gent tells the open shop manufacture
ers. 1t gives them, he also holds,
greater confidence in their relations
with Others" which being interpreted
means that it makes better slave.
drivers out of them.
His essay on foreman training, is
drawn, he says, from the experience OF
plant employing from 900 to 1000
workers where, the system has been IN
operation for many years and has pro
duced results that are mot only en-.
couraging, but most commendable and
reassuring."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
BY N. ANDREYcHIK.

"a former Chicago Worker Core
spondent of the Novy Mlr.)
In America one hears that the Amer
lean communes in the Soviet Union
are declining cad Of progressing.
In order that the workers in America
might Judge for themselves the prog
ress of the Commune, we want to give
an account of one of the communes-
the Red Ray Commune.
This commune settled in the gov
eminent Of Odessa. In October, 1924,
this commune changed its farm, be-
cause the Soviet farm in the govern
ment of Odessa was not very good.
The commune was not able to make
much progress on the new farm in
1924 as winter came soon after they
had chosen the new farm. Still the
commune had some success.
Grain Gathered.
During 1926 the following amount Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
WHAT CHICAGO NEEDS MOST
BY HUGO CARRIER, Worker CORRESPONDENT

BY HUGO CARRIER, Worker Correspondent.
Reprinted Living
Among the things Chicago
with bigger headlines
in Chicago.
The capitalist long
about little theft some accident supply this appetite
excitement
Now there would be "hodups"
accidents monkey trials Tennessee
could solve this problem.
Then Chicago halls serious
matter People, creatures finding
and having an Unsuitable ambition about
dance the Charleston
Moreover Chicago needs
ors stores supply important ALL
MORE CHEWING GUM MANUFACTURERS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-13
Fascist Parliament
Wars on Birth Control

ROME, May IL. The fascist-
controlled chamber of deputies has APP
pointed a national commission of
maternity and infancy TO aid the
fascist dictator Mussolini in his war
on birth control
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MANY DELEGATES TO PARTICIPATE
IN WASHINGTON CONFERENCE OF
FOREIGN-BORN COUNCILS MAY IS
Especial to The Daily Worker,

PITTSBURGH 1.-THE Pittsburgh Council for the Protection
the Councils
Fognon country
ference Washington Sunday.
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Want Wage Increase.

CLEVELAND - (FP) Union gar
ment workers are asking a 1879 in.
crease in wages.
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New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
LEAGUE hopeful OF
ApPEAS!NG SPANISH
viii Elect Nation to Semi
Permanent Seat De-
spite Absence

Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 4 Up
The League of Nations leaders plan
to elect Spain to a semi-permanent
seat in the league council at the
forthcoming assembly. despite
SPANS probable absence from the
assembly. They hope this will in
duce the Madrid government to
abandon any idea of resigning from
the league.
1t is also learned that the Turk
ish ministers in London and Berne
have arrived here to observe politi-
cal developments. especially the eff
feet of the entrance of Germany in
to the league, which now seems a
certainty.
The Importance of Gcrmany's en-
try had been temporarily overshad-
owed by the agitation over the
Spanish league crisis, but the states
men were beginning to emphasize
today that, with Germany once an
active league member, no European
power could afford to be absent.
The presence of the Turkish diplo-
mats here is interpreted by some as
foreshadowing carly application by
the Angora government for league
membership.
The League of Nations council to-
day adopted the report of the COM
mission on reorganization of the
council, providing for the creation
Ill
seats and designating Germany as 4
permanent seatholder as soon as she
is elected TO league membership.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
DRIVES "A HOURS
TO Dying BROTHER
But Carl Ericsson, Jr., Reaches
This City Too Late
SPEEDS FROM DETROIT
Remains at Wheel of Automobile
Continuously With Few Pauscs
For Rest and Arrives at Destina-
ton Virtually Exhausted.

Racing day and night through "a
hours of a steady grind from De-
troit to the New Britain General
hospital, where his brother, Hedge
Edward Ericsson, was dying from
meningitis, Carl Ericsson, Jr., lost a
race with death yesterday when he
arrived eight hours too late to be
with his brother at the end.
Carl received a telegram at
o'clock Thursday evening that his
brother was in a critical condition
and to come to this city with every
possible speed. He started a few
minutes later from Detroit, driving
all night and the next day. His only
rest was few minutes stop now and
then on the trip Yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock when his reserve
strength was gradually giving out,
his brother died, but he kept travel
ling with every possible speed and
without delay as there was no way
of letting him know of the sad news
until he arrived in this city.
He arrived here last night at $50
o'clock, rushed to the hospital, and
was then informed he had lost his
race. His noble efforts went for
naught.
A change Of plans has been made
in the funeral. Instead OF Saturday
afternoon as was announced yester-
day, the funeral will be held Sunday
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
Ericsson home in Westwood park,
Plainville. Intcrment will be in West
End cemetery.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
At LEAST 50 LIVES
LOST IN HURRICANE
Added Casualties Reported
in Terrific Storm in
Japan

Tokyo, Sept. 4 R1Reports to
jvernacular newspapers in Tokyo say
that approximately thirty-fve per-
sons were killed in typhoon in
central eastern Japan today. The
storm was one of the most severe in
recent years.
At Toyoshahi. near the city of
Nagoya. a schoolhouse collapsed,
burying about 100 persons of whom
twelve may be dead and a score in
iured. Three houses were reported
damaged there.
tory collapsed and eight persons
were reported killed. Earlier advice
told of five being killed and possibly
fifty injured when the terrific wind
storm blew a train off the tracks at
the same place, but later reports re-
vealed that only few persons suf-
fered minor injuries.
Two lighters at Kawasaki collaps-
ed and Is members of the crew are
missing. Forty military airplanes at
the Akenogahara airdrome were
badly damaged and forty telephone
lines connecting Tokyo and Osaka
were interrupted. Numerous villages
paid toll in death and injury or
.typhoon. Railways and light plants
suffered heavily although the dam.
age in Tokyo was negligible.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
SPANISH PEOPLE TO
EXPRESS PREFERENCE
Premier Agrees to Plebis-
cite-AIso to Co"opera-
tive Government

Madrid, Sept. E9 - General
Primo De Rivero, the premier, has
consented to the holding of a
plebiscite September II, IL and 13.
in order that the people of the
country may express their feelings
toward the present regime.
A new party - the patriotic
union which requested a plebis-
cite also has asked that the ma
tional assembly be summoned to
cooperate in governing the country
and to this the premier also has
acceded.
A despatch to the London Daily
Mail from Hendaye, near the
Franco-Spanish frontier, yesterday
said considerable significance was
being attached at Hendaye to a
banquet that was given Thursday
night at San Sebastian by the
Spanish foreign minister, Senior
Yanguas, in honor of the Italian
ambassador.
Senior Yanguas was quoted as
having said in a speech that de-
cisions taken by the cabinet coun-
Gil Thursday were of the utmost
gravity and would cause sensa-
ton greater than that when the
dictatorship in Spain was set up
by General Primo De Rivero.
Historic events are being pre-
pared" the foreign minister de-
clared, "and soon they will be
made known to the general pub
lie"
The statement of Senior Yanguas
evidently refers to today's an
nouncement by General Primo De
Rivera regarding the plebiscite.
Recently there were rumors of
disturbed conditions in Spain, but
General Primo De Rivera in a per-
sonal message to the Associated
Press denied that there was any
trouble in the country, where he
said calm prevailed.
There also was rumor a short
time ago that a break had &C.
CURED between King Alfonso and
the premier. There was no con-
firmation of this.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
Driver Of Death CAR
IS HELD RESPONSIBLE
William Pekar, 10, Blamed
for Tragedy Which
Killed Five

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 4. Up
William S. Pckar, 10, is held Grim
inally responsible for the accident at
Nichols on the night of August "a.
resulting in the death of five per-
sons in a finding made today by
Coroner John J. Phelan, copies of
which have been sent to the office
of the states attorney and to Grand
Juror William Cooper OF Trumbull.
AS result of the finding Pekar
IS under guard by state police at
Bridgeport hospital where he is be-
ing treated for his injuries.
In his finding Coroner Phelan
stresses the fact that Pekar was
driving at reckless and dangerous
speed. but also gives it as his opin-
ion that it is the duty of the au-
thorities of Nichols to place a re-
Hector or other seaftely device at
the corner wheer the accident oc-
Cured for the safety of travellers.
The coroner gives it as his opinion
that the collision was cased by lack
of ordinary care on the part of OPP
orator Pekar and that the excessive
speed shown was reckless, danger
Gus and careless and doubtless pre-
vented Pekar from exercising such
proper control of MS car at the
curve specified as TO safeguard the
lives of himself and the other oc-
cupants of the machine.
There were seven in the car at
the time of the accident and only
two survived, William Pekar and
Stanley Alechonowics. The victims
of the accident were Antonio Ric-
clio, 10; John Norko, jr, IS; Carl
Monturo, is; Leonard Mainerre, 16
and George Bailey, IS.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
first AUTOMOBILES
NOT unlike PRESENT
Survey of Early Vintage
Cars Shows Nothing
New Under SUM-

Detroit, Sept. 4 LP, - There's
nothing new under the sum-" is
especially ape as applied to styles in
motor cars, visit to the Ford His
torical Collection at Dearborn
shows.
A fad, presumably of more or less
modernity, is the sport model road
ster with the convertible rumble
extra seat in the rear, just large
enough for one couple. But a road
ster, vintage of 1908, also had a seat
perched on the rear, for the same
purpose, although it wasn't possible
to conceal this seat.
The trimmings were resplendently
brassed, and a horn, rivaling the
latest moo COW" creation with its
rubber air ejector as motive power,
was part of standard equipment.
Returning to the rumble seat: A
1905 model went this type one bet
ter. One of the cars in the collec-
ton is fully equipped touring
model. On first glance, it appears
to be only a stolidly built car,
seemingly we'll constructed; but re-
lease a nut here, a screw there-and
the back seat comes off, leaving a
seductive roadster for two which
resembles a cross between a cater
pillar truck, tractor. and 4 tandem
of a little earlier period.
Those We're the days Of the side
Winders; and the buying public
skeptical of the ability of a clincher
tire to hold its place unaided, de-
manded extra Tugs placed at inter-
walls between the spokes, on the in
nor side of the wheel.
A prophecy of the sweeping lines
of present day plus ultra models is
found in the 1906 touring car. Here,
the hood and cowl are nearly rs Ions
as all the rest of thecar. The fend-
crs sweep in slow curve to below
the doors, where they are replaced
by small "step-ups." The headlights
are ponderous. Only the top, which
extends at sharp angles when low
cred, and the high square seat backs
dissonnate the harmony of the
whole.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
BREAD AND WATER DIET
TO ENFORCE DRY LAWS
Nebraska Sheriff Says Prisoners Thus
Punished Hesitate to Vio-
late Again

Tekamah, Neb. Sept. 4 Pl-Diets
Of bread and water have materially
decreased liquor law violations in
Burt county Sheriff W. D. Smith
declared today.
His comment was made in con-
nection with the supreme court man
date ordering Roy Carson and
Thomas Nelson to begin serving
their sixty day Jail sentences, the
frs and last twenty days of which
are to be served on the bread and
water diet. Five and ten day bread
and water" sentences are frequently
imposed on liquor law violators by
county Judge Chat, but the sem
fences of Carson and Nelson to the
diet" are the longest recorded in
the country.
Both men already had served a
week on bread and water before
their appeal to the supreme court
which was made because of the
menu. They pleaded guilty to
having liquor in their possession at
a country dance.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
PADDOCK TURNS DOWN
PROFESSIONAL OFFER
Wants to Take Part in Next Olym-
pics-Enormous Purse Does
Not Appeal Just Now.

Los Angeles, Sept. P>-Charles
Paddock, holder of many worlds
records in the sprints, has announ-
ced refusal of a contract to turn
professional offerd by C, C. Pyle
sports promoter, and which would
have netted from $4,000 to $4,000
for three races.
The. contract as offered Paddock
provided for three races against a
nationally known mld-western sprint
star, the two to split a purse of
100000 on the basis of 70 percent
to the man emerging from the SER
les with the highest average and 80
percent to the other. 81 do not care
to turn professional at this time"
said Paddock. Il think l am good
for several years yet and the next
Olympic games are not SO far
away"
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
THREE CORNERED WAR
Rival Chinese Armies Now Are Bat
Ting for Possession Of the Central
Provinces.

Picking, Sept. (Ps-Armies Of ri
val Chinese forces engaged in a bat
tie in the YangtSe Valley, $50 miles
south of Picking, yesterday. with
control Of the central provinces of
China as the ultimate prize.
The fighting, until yesterday a bat
tie between the north and the south
armies. today took on the aspects of
a three-cornered contest when Mar
shall Sun Chang Fang moved into
the fray. Previously Suns armies
were standing by ready to fend off
any encroachments towards five rich
eastern provinces which he controls,
including Kiangsu, in which the
wealthy port of Shanghai is located.
AT noon Friday Marshal Wu's
armies continued to hold Su Chang,
while a heavy bombardment contin-
ued from the southern forces with
batteries trained from Pagoda Hill,
a commanding position one mile
from WI Chang. The American
church and hospital at WI Chang
were in the line of fire and repeat
edly struck, but no casualties were
reported by foreigners.
The city of Swallow was menaced
by an invasion from Fukien troops,
assumed to be under orders from
Marshal In. The southern troops,
said to be under communist in
huence, by reason Of direction from
Russian officers, We're said to be
near panic at Swallow and ships were
standing by should they move to
evacuate.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-04
mrs G. ". SMEDLEY DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Wife of Ncwspaperman Succumbs
at Hospital Where She Was
Patient for Four Months.

After an illness of more than
four months duration, during
which she had been a patient at
the New Britain General hospital
since April 10, Mrs. Katherine c.
Smedley, "a years old. wife of
Charles W. Smedley of "a Prospect
street, passed away early this
morning.
Born in this city October %,
1891, Mrs. Smedley attended the
local schools. She was graduated
from st. Mary's school and in
1910 from New Britain High
school. She also attended the State
Normal school and for a time
taught at St. Patrick's school in
Hartford.
Mrs. smedley was well known
throughout the city and her death
though coming after a long Illness,
was unexpected. She was born in
st. Mary's parish and was a men,
Der of that parish until her mar
riage when she took up her resi-
dence in st. Joseph's parish.
Surviving her are her husband,
city editor of the New Britain Rec
ord: a daughter, Joan; her mother,
Mrs. Abbie B. Dawsons a sister,
Miss Abbie x. Dawson, and two
brothers, James A. Dawson and
Edward X. Dawson, all of this
city.
Funeral services win be held at
the late home Monday morning at
$50 o'clock and at 10 o'clock at
st. Joseph's church. Interment will
be in st. Mary's cemetery.