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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
PhiIly Pioneers Hold
First Dist. Convention

PHILADELPHIA. - The Young
Pioneer League of Philadelphia has
passed on from city convention held
many months ago to district con-
vention to be held on the 14th, 18th
and 10th of May.
After many months of preparation
and intense activity the Pioneer
League of Philadelphia has been
able to increase its membership
almost twofold. Many promising re-
cruits are now members of the or
ganization. New groups were organ
lied in Washington, Baltimore and in
Logan. Today the Pioneers Of Phils
delphia are looking forward to their
First District Pioneer Convention as
did the New York Pioneers look for
ward to the first district convention
of the Pioneers which was ever held
in America. This convention will set
the pace for our work for the months
to come, and will be of enough histor-
ical Importance both nationally and To-
cally for every comrade in the move
ment and every sympathizer not to
miss.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Government Presents
Its Case A g ainst
Sinclair Oil Company

ST. PAUL, Mimi. May IS. - Three
federal judges in United States circuit
court ruled that all arguments must
be completed by o'clock this after
noon in the re-opening of the Tea Pot
Dome controversy by the government,
which was requested in an appeal
from lower court that Harry F. Sin.
clair's mammoth oil company be re-
strained from draining the naval oil
reserve in Wyoming.
The decision of the judges was an
nounced by Judge William S. Kenyon
of Fort Dodge, Iowa. With him on the
bench was Judge Arba Van Valken-
burgh of Kansas City and Judge Will
liam A. Cont of Duluth, Mimi.
Counsel for the government re-
viewed the entire Tea Pot Dome con-
troversy in laying foundation for the
appeal from the Wyoming court de-
cision which held that Sinclair's deal
ings with Albert B. Fall, former secre-
tary of the interior, were not fraudu-
lent. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
DENVER Y. w. L.
ISSUES BULLETIN

DENVER, Colo.-The Young Work
ers' League of Denver, in conjunction
with the Workers Party, issued its
first monthly bulletin on May Day.
Hundreds Of copies we're distributed
by members to the homes of workers
and we're eagerly accepted and read.
On Sunday evening members Of the
Y. WI. attended the meeting, held at
Grace Church by Kate Richards
O'Hare, on Prison Made Goods, and
distributed copies of the bulletin to
the people attending the lecture. The
bulletin was printed by union people
and has the union label Of the ste
nographers as we'll as having the
papermakers' label on the paper.
1t is the intention of the Y. W.
League to secure a mimeograph and
publish the bulletin monthly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Hoffman and Westbrook
Hit Court Indictments

Sheriff Peter Hoffman, Captain Wes-
ley H. westbrook, former warden of
the Cook County jail Terry Druggan
and Frank Lake, two wealthy booze
runners, have opened fight in the
federal court against indictments
charging them with conspiracy to OBJ
struct Justice.
Frank Lake and Terry Druggan
have admitted that while they were
serving a Jail sentence they paid out
$4,000 to the heads of the county
Jail for special food. special quarters
and for the privilege of being able to
leave the prison at any time to visit
cabarets and use their cells as Offices
for their business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
| ABORERS and
Street CARMEN
STRIKE IN OHIO
Unions Seek to Win
Higher Wages

CLEVELAND. - OPP Two bi g
Ohio walkouts are bidding for ma
tional attention with the Passaic tex
tile and New York fur strikes.
In Cleveland 5000 building laborers
and 10000 skilled craftsmen are out
of work through conspiracy to fur
nish no materials to union contractors.
The situation arises from the two
month strike of building laborers for
81 an hour and of painters for the
5-day week. Both crafts were near
victory with nearly 500 of the con-
tractors lined up when the bankers,
the employers association and the
building supply houses entered into a
conspiracy to close down all building
operations by refusing to deliver build
ing materials.
Gov. Donahey of Ohio has directed
the county prosecutor to investigate
the violation of state trade restraint
laws, but the local officials prefer to
Investigate the strikers. The city
manager came out 1000 for the en-
ployers when he threatened to put
strikebreakers on a city pumping sta
ton job. The laborers agreed to re-
turn to work there at 81 an hour, but
the difference between the new and
old scales will be held in escrow until
the strike as a whole is settled.
In Akron, Canton, Massillon and in
termediate points, 1000 streetcar op-
orators are on strike. Efforts by fed
eral mediators have been turned
down by the Northern Ohio Traction
Co. The streetcar men are asking a
moderate raise in wages and the union
ization of autobus drivers, who are
being used to break the strike.
The Akron struggle is vital to the
streetcar union, which regards Ohio
as it's star state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
STANDARD OIL
SEEKS CONTROL
OF AUSTRALIA
Rockefeller Aides Block
Government Operations
BY W. FRANCIS AHEaN.

BRISBANE.-(FP)-How agents of
the American oil trust tried to wreck
the oil-boring operations Of the Queens
land Labor government at Oralla in
the Roma district Of Australia is now
disclosed.
Following frequent Interruptions in
the boring operations, it was found
that the bores were being deliberately
blocked, that labor strikes were being
engineered to hold up exploration
work, that money was being wasted to
embarrass the government. The per-
son responsible was an American oil
expert engaged by the government,
and now known to have been in the
pay of the American oil trust.
Aids Standard Oil.
Documents found in the experts
office showed that he was regularly
sending geological and other informa-
tion regarding the field and the work
being done to the Standard Oil Co. in
America. Before an arrest could be
made the expert cleared out of the
country. Since his sudden departure
it has been discovered that the bores
tempered with are oil-producing.
In its efforts to defeat Australians
government-owned oil refinery COM
pany, the Vacuum Oil Co., Standard
Oil subsidiary operating in Australia,
claims that it is financed by Austria
Ian capital.
Investigate oil Company.
An investigation by the Australian
federal government reveals that it has
a capital of $15,OOO,OOO, of which S14,-
27s,650 is held in New York. Prior
to 1918 only one share was held in
Australia, by an official of the COM
pany.
One result of the government oil
reflneries is that the oil trusts operat-
ing in Australia have been forced to
cut prices $50. The government is
increasing the working capital of its
refneries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
CONGRESS- HAS
HOT DEBATE ON
FARMER RELIEF
Charges of Log-RolIing
Fly Thick and Fast

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1S.-The
Tincher and Aswell bill supporters
united in their charges of log-rolling
against the supporters Of the Haugen
bill.
At times the debate became quite
violent. During one of these periods
Representative Tincher, who has a
farm relief measure in congress, de-
clared that congress ought to take a
recess for two months Ito allow the
members to cool off as their morale
is now at a low ebb."
Seek Southern Votes.
Others made charges that the sup
porters of the Haugen bill in order to
get votes from certain sections of the
country, had purposely made the funds
allotted for the sterilization of crops
in those sections quite high. Repre-
sentative Aswell charged that the
Haugen bill supporters had decided to
give the South 100000, 900 for stab
liking cotton in an attempt to insure
100 votes from the South, but that
after studying the situation" and
finding that only rs votes would be
needed to put over the bill they de-
cided to allow the cotton producers
but $75,OOO,OOO.
A number of amendments offered by
some democratic representatives to
strike off the tariff provisions was de-
feated. The administration forces are
doing all in their power to block any
relief. They are doing all they can to
postpone action on farm relief legis-
lation until after the elections.
Smith In Conferences.
Colonel Frank L. Smith, candidate
of the open-shop republican party of
Illinois for the United States senate,
is in Washington in an attempt to con-
vince the administration that some
sop must be handed to the farmers
otherwise the republican party was
doomed to lose out in the coming fall
elections.
He pointed out that the middle
western states, which were hard hit
by the defiation, are to have elections
and that if the administration intends
to hold these states for the republican
party and stop any move of the farm
ers towards forming their own par.
ties, they must act quickly and enact
legislation before congress adjourns
its sessions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
VIII !!!!!.: !gE :. y!g!:y g.! !!!!I!! &!
CONDUCTED ~ 1850 s>PunG WORKERS LEAGUE
Young Worker: Get the Point!

in this drive, as Young Worker subs
score three times as many points as
DAILY WORKER SUBS. A yearly sub
to the Young Worker gets 30 points,
while the same amount of money, 81,
only gets 10 points. And the job of
getting subscribers to the Young
Worker is a much easier one than get
ting them for the DAILY WORKER.
We should all take advantage OF this
opportunity to send Y. w. L. mem
Der to Moscow and at the same time
boosting the subscription list of the
Young Worker Let us place the Y
W. L. members at the head of the list
of candidates to Moscow by hundreds
of new Young Worker subscriptions
and renewals.
On to Moscow The Y. w. L. Is in
the racel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
N. E. c. Statement on
Management. Committee

The N. f. C. of the Y. w. L., after
carefully discussing ways and means
of increasing the circulation of both
the Young Worker and the Young
Comrade and of improving the man
agement of all our publications, de-
cided to take complete charge Of the
business management of these publ
cations.
Specific instructions will be sent out
to the units Immediately. The N. E.
C. of the Y. w. L. calls upon the
whole membership to rally to the sup
port of the Young Worker and to carry
out all instructions of the manage
ment committee. This is absolutely
necessary to guarantee the proper
functioning of the committee.
National Executive Committee,
Young Workers (communist) League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER co.
"ASSEMBLY" AIDS BOSSES PILE
UP $26,284,672 DURING 1925
BY ROBERT DUNN, Federated Press.

councils rubber
the the United States Rubber Co
Goodyear co. their
Goodyear
FFndustrial Assemby4O representatives
the
plant
faithfully support the constitution and laws of the United
Plan
Goodyear Factory ability faithfully
duties incumbent representative
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20

Tor senator) under such plan"
The company praises the results
President P w. Litchield recalls that
when machinists' strike was called
in 1920 only 40 per cent of the Good
year machinists responded. IN few
weeks they returned to work. Again
Litchfield in 1925, reported that men
who were radicals. have become
much more reasonable to deal with
as result of the plan. sr
Coercion is used to get out the vote
in the annual elections, say, the few
trade unionists left. "You are spotted
and let go if you don't support the
PLAN" declares a worker; "the fore
men are told to do their best to make
all the men vote. They are checked
several times to see If they had vot-
ed" Concerning company coercion
on representatives" in the discharge
of their duties trade unionists report
that no overt coercion is employed
while the representative" is in Office
but "his attitude may latter be made
the secret basis for his dismissal" In
other words he is discharged later for
zeallousness for his constituents while
in office.
Labor union activity, reported by
spies, leads to dismissal on other pre-
texts. The Goodyear blacklist, oper-
ating with a secret code number, is
extended to other rubber plants in
Akron.
The elaborate congressional type of
indsutrial democracy at Goodyear ex-
hibits no real power AS one worker
puts It:
"They may pass any bill or resolu-
tion they see fit; it must go to the
factory manager for his approval. If
he vetoes 1t they may try to pass it
over his veto by a two-thirds vote.
But even then it must be first ap-
proved by the company's board of
directors whose decision is final And
in no case on record has the board
reversed the managers decision. So
you see how It works. Lots Of time
put in and YET getting nowhere along
lines of benefit to the worker
In answer to the companys asser.
ton that the vast majority of the
workers favor the plan another worker
writes:
Does Not Help Workers.
I'm my two years as a member OF
the assembly never heard a worker
say that he received any benefits from
the plan. Occasional trivial improve
ments are approved by the manage
ment but no Vital questions affecting
wage increases, shorter hours, etc
The workers feel that their represent
atives have no power for the enforce.
ment Of their demands"
A third worker who had been a
Representative" writes: "The plan Is
only blind bride, created to reduce
labor turnover and TO Offset real union.
ism. The plan 10 no damn good as to
fundamentals. II may, in one or two
instances, have prevented the a-vY-N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
BY NATALIE GOMEZ.

.NNE Of the phases Of our work that
~ has constantly been neglected
by our members Is the sub getting for
the Young Worker. In the drives
which we have had in the past some
comrades woke up to the fact that the
Young Worker existed and needed
subs to continue to exist. But to
make the sub getting job steady one,
to take it as an everyday duty, that
we have sadly failed to do.
At the present time more than ever
the Importance of this work comes to
the forefront. The DAILY WORKER
is in campaign to increase its circu-
lation and comrades all over the coun-
try are competing for the trip to Mos
COW. Young Workers League mem
bers have the best chance of anyone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Milwaukee Protests
Against Passaic Police
Brutality Sum-, May %

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May Is. - A
united front mass protest meeting
against police brutalities in Passaic
will be held Sunday night, May 23 at
8 o'clock at the Labor Temple, sos
Walnut street. ]. P. Cannon, execu-
tive secretary of International Labor
Defense; A. G. Piepenhagen, man
ager of the Milwaukee Amalgamated
Clothing Workers joint board; ]. f,
Friedrich, business agent Of the Mil
waukee local of the International AS
ISOLATION of Machinists; Ernst Inter
mann, a socialist journalist, will be
the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HOW A
SCHOOL NUCLEUS WORKS?

A play in two acts, called school
Days" will be performed and this
play will clearly show you how the
Pioneers work in the school.
The young are always ready to car
ry on the fight for the workers and
the workers children! Are you ready
to help them? If so, come to our af-
fair May 20. 1925, at one o'clock in
Webster Hall, and so help support our
feminist Youth Camp.
Come all! Forward to a strong
feminist Youth Camp! Long live the
Young Pioneers of AmericaI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Pravda Sums Up Reports
of the Communist Youth

MOSCOW, U. s. s. R., May 1s-Pray-
da, in front page article, sums up re-
ports made by the various sections Of
the Communist Youth International at
the recent plenary session of its exc
cutive committee. Resolutions taken
at this meeting include decisions to re-
organize the movement in industrial
centers on the basis of shopfactory
nuclei; to provide for greater cultural
and social activity by the young peo-
pie, and to promote the sending to the
Soviet Union Of delegations of young
workers from other parts Of Europe in
order that they may learn of what the
Soviet Union is doing for its youth.
Out of the 80 Communist Leagues
afiliated with the Communist Youth
International, II reported that they
were working under strict under
ground" conditions, existed semitic
gally, and 10 legally with some quail
fications. OF the German members.
between 500 and 600 are imprisoned
The secretary of the central commit
tee for Great Britain is serving year
In jail. The secretary Of the Swedish
league, Vretling, has been in Jail for
six months. In Roumania. Hungary.
Spain, Greece, and Finland, thousands
of Communist youth are imprisoned.
The Italian delegate reported that in
Italy eight young Communists have
been killed in the past year, 1920 have
been badly beaten, 30 sentenced TO
many months of Imprisonment, 300
Jailed for several weeks. and 5000 had
been under arrest for several days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Strike AaaInst open.shop.

GRANITE CITY, Ill.-(FP)-The
National Stamping and Enameling Co.
has attempted to introduce the open
shop and reduced wages at Granite
City and 400 of its union employees are
on strike. When agreements expired
several months ago the company re-
fused to deal with union labor and the
walkout followed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Russian Fraction w. P.
Will M e e t Tonight
at Workers House

An important meeting of the Rus
sian fraction of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party will be held Wednes-
day, May 10, at the Workers House.
1902 w. Division St.
All members are requested to bring
their membership cards.
There will be a roll call. Come in
time, at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
Employment and Per
Capita Earnings Lower
in April Than March

WASHINGTON, D. c., May EN-
ployment and payrolls dropped 20
and liz respectively in April as com
pared with March.
Per capita earnings for all indus
tries decreased l per cent in April.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
WRITE AS YOU EIGHT 1

Open your eyesl Look around!
There are the stories Of the workers.
struggles around you begging to be
written up. Do III Send II inl Write
ss you fight, --,----
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-20
PangaIos Will Continue
Dictatorship in Greece

ATHENS, May 17-General Theo-
dorus Pangalos, military dictator of
Greece, who was elected president
last month, has declared his intention
of continuing his military dictator
ship.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-29
DARIUS BANKS is 1O2 YEARS OLD
Many Residents of Sussex County
Have Passed Four Score and Ten

Seven thousand, eight hundred and
thirty-three years is the combined
ages of 103 men and women living in
the Ninth Representative district of
Sussex county in which Georgetown
is located. The ages run from 20 to
102 years, and a survey shows that
all Of those who have passed the 8Oth
milestone are active and are able to
attend to their duties and go about
unassisted. The oldest four, who also
top the list for longevity in lower Del
aware. are Mrs. Sarah S. Richardson,
81; Mrs. Margaret West, 80; Mrs.
Elenah A. Rayne, SO, and Darius
Banks, 102.
Mr.. Banks is the oldest person in
lower Delaware and is exceedingly ac-
tive for man of his age. Living on
the Georgetown-Lewes highway about
three miles from Georgetown, he of
ten walks to Georgetown to attend to
business matters, and moves about as
well as many men who have reached
their 10th year. In earlier life he was
machinist. For more than a quar-
ter of century he has been working
on an engine which, if completed be-
fore death overtakes him, will prove
revolutionizer in engine construc-
tion. In the list of 1O3 there are II
who have reached the age of 20; four,
II; nineteen, 72; three, 70; eight, IA;
four, rs; nine, rs; six, II; four, IS;
four, 10 three, 80; five, 81; four, 80;
five, SO; two, "a; one, 85; one, 81, 81,
go, SO and 102, respectively.
Those whose ages range from 80 to
81 years are: William G. Caldwell,
Mrs. Annie E. Tunnel, Thomas E.
Polk (colored), 80; Mrs. Hannah E.
Short, Marion Nichols, Mrs. Marga-
retta L. Louder, former Magistrate l.
l. Smith, former Coroner George w.
Hatfield, 81; Mrs. Mary E. Pepper, E.
P. Payne, E. A. Workman, Daniel
Roach, 80; Capt. Washington A. Wick
ers, Motion R. Pepper, ]. ]. Morath,
Arthur ]. Hart, Perry Lockwood (col-
ored), SO; Thomas Zimmerman, S. J.
Lank, 81; David A. Steward, S5; Mrs.
Catherine G. Walls, 81.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-29
COMING DEL-MAR-vA CONGRESS
F. p. Adkins, President of Assoc alton
Sets for Benefits To Be Derived

! Keen interest in and hearty ap-
proval of the Del-Mar-Va Takes In
ventory Congress to be held in Sails
bury during the coming month, is be-
ing expressed throughout the entire
Peninsula. The proposed Congress,
under the direction of the Del-Mar-Va
Eastern Shore Association, and ac-
lively sponsored by organizations re-
preventative of all lines of business
and industry, has received most fav-
orable comment editorially in all sec
tions.
Officials of the Del-Mar-Va Associa-
tion in discussing the Congress, or
Conference, point out that it will be
the most thorough means of ascer-
tanning just what conditions on the
Peninsula are in every phase of bust
ness activity.
F. P. Adkins, President of the As
sociation, talking of the Congress
said:
every business of any consequence
takes inventory at regular periods.
This is the direct method of securing
definite information as to what stock
there be on hand. With a clear and
unbiased statement showing this con-
dition the business concern can easily
determine its status. It is then pos
sible to decide whether business is up
to sound standard, and if not to set
about correcting or remedying the
conditions.
"The purpose of a Peninsula inven-
tory IS to present clean-cut, cold facts
relative to every feature of Peninsula
business in agricultural, commercial,
mercantile, and industrial lines. We
plan to obtain authentic information
from men who are entirely familiar
with every interest that goes to make
up the Del-MarVa business life. With
these facts placed before a Congress
and properly analyzed we can decide
very readily what our situation is.
"There is no question but what
Congress such as we plan will not
only obtain facts of invaluable impor-
tance to our general welfare, but that
the results of whatever action the
Congress may take will be keenly ber-
eficial and tend toward improvement
One of the outstanding features
looked forward to in connection with
the Congress is step toward the i'm
provement of marketing Peninsula re-
sources. The indications are that a
very comprehensive and complete re-
port on the marketing situation will
be presented at the Congress and that
substantial suggestions toward i'm
proving marketing conditions will be
advanced and acted on.
A date for the Congress has not
been fixed, but with the program be-
ing whipped into shape it is believed
that it will be called late in January
or early in the following month.
Smyrna times., 1926-12-29

is a direct descendant to Chief Justice
John Marshall. About two weeks apo
a story was published in the pspers
to the effect that will of John Mar
shall, Chief Justice of the United
States from 1901 to 1885 was said to
have been found in the Isle of Wight
Court House, Virginia, and that re-
ports from North Carolina showed
three direct descendants of the chief
justice living in Delaware. They are
Mrs. Mary Davenport of Claymont,
her daughter, Mrs. Mary Cohee, Of
Richardson Park,and her granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. w G. Gregg, with whom