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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
SAYS U.S.. AIDS
REVOLT AGAINST
CHAMORRO RULE
A Different Dictator Is
Probably Preferred
Especial to The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, June %. = Gen.
Emiliano Chamorro, military dictator
of Nicaragua, has cabled the state de-
partment, under date of June 10 and
June IL, bitterly complaining of the
alleged rough work of Lawrence Den
mis-, the American charge d'affaires in
that country.
Says U. S. Invites Revolt.
He recites that on May 10 Dennis
told various prominent persons that if
it was necessary to make ten revolu-
lions in order to throw Chamorro out
of power, the effort would be justified
by the result. Chamorro says that
Dennis has invited political leaders to
meet at the American legation to dis
cuss the situation, and that as a re-
suit of this activity, and of handbills
circulated by Dennis, new revolution
is about to start.
Inasmuch as Chamorro seized power
last summer after a progressive re-
gime, supported by the small labor
movement of the republic, had been
duly elected to Office he cannot un-
derstand the refusal of Secretary KEEL
logg to recognize him.
Offers to BE Good Boy.
81 cannot understand" he cables,
lin what way the greatness of the
United States would be lessened by
my stay in power"
In a further cablegram Chamorro
charges that Dennis told him person
ally that "he was going to undertake
campaign to enlighten the Nicara-
guam people about the necessity Of
forcing me to retire from power, and
that in case / did not retire voluntarily
the United States would compel me
by force, because they were going to
accomplish their purpose whether
was willing or not"
These messages we're not made pub
lie by the department, but by an agent
whom Chamorro has stationed in
Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
BY B. 5oRIsoFF, and
JAMES GARNETT.

ON Monday morning Of last week a
- terrific explosion occurred in the
by-products plant Of the Illinois Steel
Corporation. Seven ambulances, we
are told, were pressed into service to
carry the dead to the undertaken and
the injured to the hospitals.
A Gordon of police was thrown
around the plant, a Gordon of police
around the hospital. Newspaper re-
porters from Chicago were not per-
mitted upon the scene of the disaster,
nor relatives or friends to see the in
iured or the dead. Rumors began to
spread around the city. Some of these
rumors placed the number of dead as
high as fifty. There were others ru-
mors that corpses are secretly buried
or burned in the furnaces of the steel
plant. The people were aroused, the
people wanted to know the truth. But
secrecy prevailed. No assurance of
an open public investigation came
from public authorities. The coroner
left the city. There was to be no In
quest until his return on Friday. Peo-
pie waited in agony. Friday came.
THE inquest took place in the morn
4 ing and in the afternoon the re-
suit of the coroner's investigation was
told to the people Of Gary by the
local paper.
The headlines said:
"EVANs RULES
ON CAUSE OF
CATASTROPHE
Opened Valve Allowed Gas to Es-
cape, Is Inquest Verdict"
The verdict of Coroner Evans was
quoted as follows by the local papers:
"The IL men were killed as a re-
suit Of an explosion of gas, the
cause Of which is unknown, but ap-
parentIy the result Of some person
unknown opening valve and allow
ing gas to escape, 1t becoming ig-
nlted from some undiscovered
source"
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ing gas just few days prior to or on
the morning of thesexplosion?
A. No, there was never any com
plant. There couldn't be any gas
leaking, because it is of such a foul
odor that it would have been detected
at once.
Q. Could the explosion be caused
by increased pressure of gas?
A. No.
Q. Is there rule for examining
the apparatus for safety between
shifts?
A. l don't know of any such rule.
The mills have a million rules on
safety. The mills are the safest place
in the city. More people are injured
or killed in the streets outside the
mills than in the mills. For safety
would prefer the mills to any other
place.
Q. Isn't it true that many more
men are seen in Gary with heads or
arms bandaged or with missing fin
gers than in most other towns7
A. No. You newspaper men come
here with prejudices. Who are you,
anyhow, to come here to ask all these
questions. You must be from some
Communist or socialist paper.
@. Was the apparatus examined
for safety on the morning of the ex-
plosion?
A. l did not ask about 1t.
@. About an open valve being the
cause Of explosion, do you think any
of the employees would proceed to
open a valve without getting an order
to do it?
A. No, / don't think so.
@. Do you think someone opened
the valve with the intention of suicide
and to blow up the plant?
A. No.
O. Do you know whether any
valve was found open when the pipes
we're examined after the explosion.
A. / don't know.
O. Was a man by the name of
Laf1aur working in the plant? His
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
E N D OF SESSION
NEARS WITH MANY
UNDECIDED
No Hope for Farmer
Relief Action
Especial to The Daily worksr)

WASHINGTON June 22.-Congress
prepared for adjournment today, &C
companied by threatened filibusters
and eleventh-hour ultimatums con-
corning pet bills, none Of which prob
ably will materialize.
Adjournment of this, the long ses-
sion Of the 69th congress, is set for
June 80, and the outlook today was
for this program to be carried out de-
spite the usual furry and scramble to
obtain last-minute action on favorite
measures.
Important Billie Hang.
Unless there is an unexpected shift
in the plans, congress will go home
week from Wednesday to see about
getting itself reelected, leaving a
number of important matters hanging
in midair. This list includes farm re-
lief legislation, the ratification Of the
French debt settlement, disposition OF
Muscle Shoals, and the rivers and
harbors bill.
A vote will be had some time this
week on the McNary- Haugen bill for
farm relief. which the Coolidge-Mellon
wing of the republican party has pro-
nounced economically unsound" and
which the Dawes-Watson-Western
group has portrayed as admirable
from every standpoint economic and
political.
No Farm Bill Hope.
The Coolidge-Meilon group, sup
ported by sufficient democrats. have
the votes to kill the McNary bill any
time II can be brought to a vote. That
vote. when IL comes, is expected to
sound the death knell for any agricul-
tural legislation this session, leaving
members OF congress from western
states TO go home and face their angry
constituencies.
1.-THE party is going to hear about
this on election day" said Senator Ar
thur Capper, republican, Of Kansas,
one OF the farm bloc leaders.
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projected LeAUll6 anu Ulbldl iuuuoJlACs.'
The hearing took place May rs. Presi-
dent Mcmahon of the United Textile
Workers of America was one Of the
chief witnesses demanding an inquiry
into the coincidence of starvation
wages with high tariff rates.
Lauck took eight typical grades of
cloth manufactured in Passaic, and
secured reliable data as to the cost
of material, labor and overhead, the
selling expenses and profit in each
case. These are the first authori-
tative figures to be published on these
costs since 1912.
They show that the labor cost Of
wooden and worsted cloth made in
Passaic ranges from 1919 to 30% Of
the mill selling price, averaging 200
for all cloths. That is to say, the
total labor costs range from 43c TO
S102 a yard, while the net profits OF
the mill range from IL to S3c yard
AS the cloths sell, at the mill, from
$500 to $625 a yard, a wage increase
Of 1919 would increase the selling
prices from only 51z to lac yard.
Bosses Profit.
From April, 1922, preceding the en-
actment of the Fordney-McCumber
tariff law, Lauck points out, prices on
cloth had advanced 21To by April,
1926. The strike which has now
lasted 20 weeks in Passaic is due TO
1919 cut In wages by the Botany
Worsted and other mills. which en-
Joy a 1870 protective tariff. He con-
cludes that this protection TO the
manufacturers does not help the work
ers, and is a positive detriment TO the
domestic users OF these goods.
Suppose the mills granted this wage
Increase OF 1917, says Lauck; would
they be obliged to increase the sell
ing price of cloth? He answers that
they would not. On cloth selling at
SIS yard, the labor cost is 55c while
the profit Is 35c. Taking SIC out
of the millowner's 35c would stin
leave a profit of 2S1sc to stockhold-
ers. The net average earnings Of
the Botany Mills for the years end
ing Dec. 81, 1928, were about s79o on
the invested capital, and the New Jer-
sey Spinning Co. for 16 years averag.
ed 539o and for the years 1s16-1917 its
profits were 1867 year.
Effect Of Wage Increase.
A wage increase Of 1919, Lauck de-
termines, would add only 15c TO the
labor cost of suit Of clothes sell
ing at $50. even II 1t were passed on
by the manufacturers and merchants
10 the consumer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
SENTIMENT FOR
UNION SPREADS
IN CARY MILLS
Workers See the Value
of Organization

GARY, Ind, June %. - 1--WE need
more mass meetings like that one we
had at the Turner Hall. More should
be called and we have got to think
about organization" is the sentiment
expressed by many Of the workers In
the steel mills of the Illinois Steel
company, subsidiary of the U. s.
Steel corporation.
See Need To Organize.
The explosion in the by-products
plant which was due undoubtedly to
the negligence of the company has
caused many workers in the steel
mills to realize the need Of strong
union to maintain better conditions
for them and to make impossible such
explosions in the future.
1.-THE sentiment for union organiza-
ton is growing in the plant since the
explosion" declared one worker to
The DAILY WORKER reporter. 1.-THE
workers see now what they're up
against. They see that this way their
lives are threatened daily. The com.
pany don't care. The worker has
nothing to protect him. He fears to
lose his job. He is afraid to kick
about the dangerous situations he
must work in, They see now that
they have to get together If they want
to protect themselves"
Arrest DAILY WORKER Newsies
Gary police attempted to stop the
sale Of The DAILY WORKER in front
of the steel mills by arresting two of
those selling the paper at the gates.
The two DAILY WORKER newsies
were brought to the jail for an Gin
vestigation."
After looking at The DAILY WORK
Err, the police captain ordered the
release of the two as no city ordi-
nance could be found that prohibited
the sale of The DAILY WORKER at
the plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
DETROIT RUSS WORKERS
PROTEST THUR. AGAINST
CHICAGO SCAB PAPER

The Russian workers Of Detroit
will hold a protest meeting Thurs
day, June "a, at 1880 p. M, at the
international Workers. House, sofa
Yemans Ave-, Hamtrsmck, Mich,
against the employment of scabs In
the Chicago Russian counterreVolu-
tIonary sheet, Russky Viestnlk
RassViet.
A representative Of Chicago Typo
graphical Union No. IS will be the
main speaker of the evening. Ad-
mission is free, and all Russian
speaking workers of Detroit are In
Vited.
The paper claims to be published
by "Russian trade unlons," but the
management refused to deal with
the printers union and the workers
went on strike. The publishers put
seabs In place of the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
Miners Offer Their
Blood to Save Life
of a Fellow Worker

HIBBING, Mimi, June 22.-When
Homer Sherman, young iron mine
worker, was run over by the tender
Of an ore train, severing one arm and
both legs, no bosses of the Oliver
Iron Mining company stood at his bed
side as did five fellow workers, offer
ing their blood if it would save their
buddy.
While the doctors declared trans
fusion to be useless, the FIVE miners
waited at the bedside to the last,
hoping that the doctors might change
their minds and take their blood. The
bosses of the company, which is sub
sidiary of the United States Steel cor
poration, were absent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24

the speakers.
On June "a, organized labor in
Pittsburgh win send its delegates to
a conference in that city for the pur-
pose of organizing relief for Passaic.
In Brownsville, Pa. relief confer
ence will be held on June q.
Cleveland will have its conference
June 20, and will have two girl strik-
ers, fresh from the strike area, to re-
port on the progress of the strike.
New York Conference June rs.
In New York City, delegate con-
ference to organize relief for the strik-
ers will be held June rs at p. m. in
Labor Temple, 244 East 14th street.
Invitations to this conference were
sent out two weeks ago and have met
with lively response. Many unions
have signified their interest in the
conference and large attendance is
confidently expected. Already scores
of duplicate credentials have been re-
turned to the New York Office of the
General Relief Committee, Textile
Strikers, at 1893 Broadway, room sos.
Invitations have been sent to all
labor unions, workers fraternal organ
izations and sympathetic associations
in New York City. Every effort has
been made to cover all these organi-
nations, and those not receiving invita-
lions are earnestly requested to COM
municate at once with the New York
Office of the general relief committee.
Must Do Something in Every City.
The general relief committee is max
ing a nationwide effort to organize
relief conferences in every city in the
United States. All workers, all
friends of the working class, all SYM
pathizers with the Passaic strikers
struggle against the mill bosses at
tempt to cut wages are asked to rally
to the cause and help organize these
conferences. Every city and town
should be organized on the basis OF
intensiflcation and extension Of relief
work.
In cities where there are not enough
labor unions, sympathizers should get
together and organize relief confer
ences, with the help of whatever
unions or workers fraternal organi-
cation there are in the field.
For Right to Organize.
This, the twenty-first week Of the
struggle, finds the strikers standing
as staunchly as at the start of the
strike. Police brutality, oppressive
Jail sentences, exorbitant bail bonds
lin the case of Weisbord s50,000), in
functions and other means of oppres-
sion by the boss-controlled courts, gas
bombs, newspaper Misrepresentation
all have failed to break the splendid
spirit of the textile strikers.
The textile strikers stand for the
right to organize the unorganized. We
want union! We want to live! We
want the wage cut back! We want
to escape the old starvation The
New York furriers have won their
victory. Ours cannot be long de.
layed. The new slogan is Now on TO
Passaicl Add another victory for
labor. Everybody help"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
Prominent Speakers
at Pullman Sacco-
Vanzetti Protest

A mass protest demonstration to
demand a new trial for Sacco and
Vanzetti has been arranged by the
Chicago Sacco-vanzetti conference for
Friday evening, June 25, p. m, at
Turner Hall, 200 p. Kensington Ave-,
(between 1915 streets.)
This is one of q series OF meetings
being held turnout the country, and
the committee expects a large turn.
out. The speakers will be ]. T. Wind
Of the South Chicago Trades and La.
Dor Assembly. ]. Louis Engdahl, la,
Dor editor, and Antonio Presi Of the
Anti-Fascist Alliance, who will speak
in Italian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
new LONDON
WEAVERS TO
SPREAD STRIKE
"Tie-Up the Ed Bloom
Shop!" Strikers Cry

NEW LONDON, Conn, June a.
Weavers. employed by the Ed Bloom
company who went on strike 10 weeks
ago as a protest against Is per cent
wage cut are now seeking to extend
the strike to other crafts at work in
the Bloom plant-namely the loom
fxers, Wrappers, spinners, winders and
quillers. 81
Cut Winders' Wages.
The winders are mostly young girls.
Recently their wage was cut 10 per
cent, and the Wrappers were cut 50 a
warp. The spinners are unable to
earn more than SIC week, while a
quiller's limit is $13. When the weav-
ers walkedtout their pay-rate was so
low that some of them had to work
70 or more hours to make a living
wage. '
Strike Demands.
Demands of the weaVers are:
I. Restoration of the wage previ-
Gus to the cut and cent per yard In
crease;
2. Recognition of the union;
8. Time and a half for overtime.
Efforts Of the company to resume
work in the weaving department with
strikebreakers have failed. The
strikers are getting strong financial
and moral support from other labor
unions and from other organizations
here.
corticeIIi Aids.
Various workers who had quit the
Bloom firm obtained jobs at the B.
and A. Corticelli company's mills
Recently the weavers' union learned
that Ed BlOom visited the Corticelli
offices and Conferred with the heads
there. Immediately afterward all the
former Bloom employees were '1aid
off" by the Corticellis.
Afidavits made by numerous strik-
ers at the unions request attested
that they had made an average wage
Of $23 week before the cut and an
average Of $17.1S afterward. Young
weavers Of short experience, running
only three looms, could make only SIS
maximum wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
Turkey Takes What
She Can Get from
British Interests

ANGoRA, Turkey, June 22.-Turkey
has accepted the offer OF British oil
interests which rule the puppet sultan
OF Irak to receive from the govern.
ment OF Irak $2.500.O 900 each year for
rs years in place of getting royalties
on Turkeys share In the lrak oil
fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
U. S, MARINES
ALONE SUPPORT
HAITPS RULER
People Offer Reward for
His Death

Acknowledging that he was kept n
Office only by the bayonets of United
States marines, occupying the suppos-
edly independent" republic Of Haiti,
the Haitian president, Louis Borne.
who is visiting the Eucharistic Con-
gress, frankly bid for continued occu-
patton by United States troops. in an
interview here.
Coming from a ring-kissing seance
with Cardinal Mundelein, Borno, who
was greeted on his arrival at New
York by a hostile gathering OF his
countrymen hurting uncomplimentarY
remarks at the head Of their republic,
which they claim he sold to American
imperiallst concessionaries, said:
Haiti is most calm and peaceful"
Remove Your Marines, and Goodbye
Borno.
Borne added, however, "But remove
your marines and you would restore
the terrible state of revolution that
obtained in 1915. It is not yet time
TO withdraw"
In verifcation Of the statement that
at least Haiti would be an unpleasant
place for its present president # the
United States marines were with
drawn, Congressman e. B. Rouse OF
Kentucky, who travelled to the United
States from Haiti with President
Borno declares that the cab driver
who took the party to the boat at
Port au Prince told the Congressman
conf1dentially, IF you throw the pres
ident overheard en- route we win give
you $4,000"
A Grudge Against the Sharks.
Moreover, said the congressman,
Haitians gathered at the pier to wit
ness the departure Of their somewhat
unpopular ruler, loudly cried out even
higher bids than the cabman had Of
fered if someone on the voyage would
only relegate Louis Borno to the com.
pany of sharks and porpoise.
1T is merely the impotence Of q
small group Of men who were once in
power" said Borno. They would be
in power again were it not for Ameri-
can marines"
The Haitian president. to Justify
himself, became very indignant at the
former state of affairs in Haiti, say
ing that before the marines came $50
political prisoners were held in Hal
tian jails. He was silent on the num-
Der the marines have in jail or sleep
ing in newly-made graves on the land
seized by concessfonaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
PASSAIC RELIEF CONFERENCE IN
EVERY CITY OF THE NATION is
DEMANDED BY RELIEF COMMITTEE

PASSAIC 22Passaic relief scheduled
big cities during
rally
Of their
Chicago will lead the
Ashland Auditorium which barrow
Albert Weisbord strike Stanley
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
RATIONAL LIVING
To Reappear.

II It's last issue, a year ago.
RATIONAL LIVING. the radical
health magazine, announced It's
suspension for one year, due to
the voyage OF It's editor, abroad.
The editor has had TO extend his
stay in Europe. But soon after his
return to New York. at the end Of
the summer the magazine will be
published again and will appear
regularly In the future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
NOTED ECONOMIST GIVES TEXTILE
BARONS POVERTY PLEA HARD RAP
BEFORE SENATE TARIFF COMMITTEE
BY LAURENCE TODD, Federated Press.

22That the profits Of the Passac wooden mills
increase OF lO and
stockholders supplementary state
education and labor by W. j. auck
the Sheppard
profits in the highly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
A Warning to the Workers Who Suffered
in the Gary Steel Mill Explosion

no not sign with the Steel Corporation dealing
- with compensation for Injuries you received
Do not Give insurance policies premium books.
Secure first the best Of legal advice.
We the organization Of Legal Aid Relief
mIttee by the labor frsternsl organizations
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24

Your nefghbor win appreciate
the favor give him this copy Of
the DAILY WORKER.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1926-03-13
NOTICE
OF DISTRICT COURT TERM

Notice is hereby given that a term of the District Court of the Territory of Alaska, Third division, will convene at henn, ecott, Alaska, Tuesday, March IS, 1923, at 10 o'clock A. M., and continue each day thereafter until business before it is con cluGed.
 Declarations of intention to become citizens and applications for admission to citizenship will be received by the clerk of the court during tue term. W. N. Cuddy,
 Clerk rf the District Court, Territory of Alaska, Third Division
 Dated at Valdez,
 February IS, 1926. Looking for faults, like charity, should begin at home.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1926-03-13
ALASKA GAME COMMISSION
 Juneau, Alaska

The second annual meeting of the Alaska Game Commiss- ion closed in Juneau, the 24th., after having been in session 21 days. The full membership of the Commission was present until the 17th, when Dr. Whitney of the Fourth Division returned to his home in Fairbanks, and Dr. Chase of the Third Division ret urned to his home in Cordova. During the session careful con- SlderaJlOD was given to large number of written and verbal suggestions and constructive criticisms proposing changes in the regulations affecting gamf !, fur and birds in the Territory. Suggestions were also received for changes in the Act.
 The Commission does not deem it advisable to announce at this time detail changes which it is proposing for the reason that announcement of proposed changes would be misleading without the full text of the regu- latiOns and Act at hand. There fore, no announcement of detail changes will appear until the regulations are published in rev ised form about April 1st.
 The Commission states the changes proposed are all design. ed to give the maximum poss ible utilization of the fur and game consistent with proper protection to maintain the supp ly. The aim of the Commission is to make the least possible number of changes but those which are being proposed are designed to assist in the produc- tion of better quality furs and will also facilitate obtaining game meat when it is in the best condition.
 Worry breaks up more men
The McCarthy weekly news., 1926-03-13
THE MCCARTHY WEEKLY NEWS

Entered as second class matter Septem Der 17th, 1918 at the ost Office, a Mccarthy. Alaska. under the Act D March 3. 1879.
The McCarthy weekly news., 1926-03-13

Worry breaks up more men than work breaks down.