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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
HAMP TON ROADS
SHIPPING full
OF SCAB COAL
Is Ships in Two Days
Help Break Strike
BY GORDON cAscADEN
Especial to The Daily Worker)

NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 80. - Large
increases in gross and net earnings of
the Norfolk and Western Railway
featured the July railroad reports is
sued today"
So declares news item published
on the financial pages of New York,
Philadelphia and other newspapers.
Transportation of "scab" coal to
break the British miners strike from
West Virginia and Virginia mines to
this city and Newport News, twin
ports of Hampton Roads, is respon-
sible.
This financial news item continues:
s'Thls road, one Of the three chief
scft .coslers running to Hampton
Roads, reported gross receipts Of
S1o,e3o,854, compared with $685.
eo9 In July, 1925, and net operating
income Of $4,26o,o61, against $2,622,-
1914 in the like month year ago.
The surplus after fixed charges in
creased from S2,17s,sos to $685.
o3o for July this year." -
An ASSOCidleu IE66S ulSpdtCu lIOU
Roanoke, which boasts that the head
offices of the N. and w. are in that
city, gives this further explanation:
Norfolk and Western Railway
earnings reached a new high mark
in July, when the road made a net
income Of S3,995,o92, representing
an increase Of over Ss5o,ooo over
earnings during June, according to
the monthly financial statement
made public by the company today.
The June net Income was Ss,o41 ,53s.
1.-THE proportion of transportation
expenses to operating revenues in
July was the lowest the company
has ever estabIIshed-22.s per cent"
Nor are coupon clippers of railroad
bonds whose pockets are bullying with
profits received as a result of the de-
finite plan of British capitalists,
through their government and other
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
APPLE GROWERS
REDUCE WAGES
IN WASHINGTON
BY HEINZ SCHROEDER
Worker Correspondent)

YAKIMA. Wash, Aug. SO-Efforts
are being made. by the apple growers
to furnish a large supply of labor in
the Yakima Valley, so that wages can
be forced down when the picking
starts.
Kept In Town
Migratory workers arriving in this
town on freight trains cannot leave
on freight trains. Railroad bulls"
ride a short distance out of town. stop
the train and chase every one caught
riding back into town.
Packer School
The last few years school has
been started to teach the packing of
apples. This will create a larger sup
ply OF packers. AS many as 400 have
been taught in 1925.
Low Wages
Wages are sc a box, and 35c an hour
for picking. Board must be paid ont
Of this. This is 3 TO cents less than
the prevailing wages around here for
common labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
ksss.s,x Se~%
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY

TIME big news of the day is not the
i arrival of Krishnamurti, the death
~ Valentino or even the emotional
failure of Pola Negri. The Mexican
si.uation is important and so rs the
cahr in China. The British miners
ike has more international signlt-
canoe but it is almost four months
old. tho still going strong. Aimee
NePherson's amours with a radio op-
orator and her telepathic communica-
ton with heaven is ancient history.
All those happenings have stirred
deep layers of population for various
reasons. But for the American labor
movement the big news is Frank
Farrington's deal with the Peabody
Coal Company. You read the story
in yesterdays Daily Worker. If not,
why not?
ONE of the most interesting con
" ceivable sensations is that expert
enced by a prophet whose prediction
happens to bear fruit. So many OF
them are barren that the delivery OF
a prophecy is entitled to a headline.
Two years ago the Daily Worker told
the story of Farrington's relations
with the Peabody Coal Company, The
miners listened and majority OF
them voted against him but he count
ed the votes and threw out enough
hostile ones to insure his election
Now, he is caught with the goods and
even the most trusting union coal dig
gers can no longer have any conn
dence in him.
TT will be interesting to read wha'
L John H. Walker, president of the
Illinois Federation of Labor will have
10 say about FaIrington's Peabody
deal. And Oscar Ameriger, socialis
and editor of Farrington's Illinois
Miner. And John Fitzpatrick. who
with harrington, Walker, olander
land other labor bureaucrats have sup
lported Frank L. Smith, for the United
Estates senate even after Smith wa
Exposed as the beneficiary Of the In
lsull millions.
rNHOSE gentlemen have attacke'
the Communists and brande'
them as splitters. etc. We are az
Continued on page %
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Dor organizer for the New England
district. asked for the floor His
speech, altho cloaked in the most po-
lite terms, was clearly an effort to in
timidate the delegates against going
ahead. Carefully lodging the issues
which labor will have to face in the
coming campaign. he warned the dele
gates of the dire consequences ito
all concerned If they proceeded with
the meeting.
He made 1t clear that the American
Federation OF Labor was unequivoc.
ably opposed TO the formation of an
independent political party of labor
and declared that the meeting was
not sanctioned by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
II see men and women here prom
inent in the Massachusetts, labor
movement, in the Boston Central La
Dor Union, in the Massachusetts State
branch and some who attended the
recent state convention OF the Amerl.
can Federation of Labor" he remark
cd.
He pleaded with the delegates to re-
sort to official channels with their
proposals for Independent political &C.
ton. Mcbride. the chairman, ur-
banely thanked the speaker for his
remarks and the latter was then In
wted to remain. lie CURLY refused
this invitation, and departed leaving
Harry =. jennings, the business agent
Continued on Page ~
RutlD THE DAtrlV ivytrH A e,a
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ROGRESSIVES AMONG TURNER'S
IU4 nAE-4' {, ~ sss &c s.Ef;- 1TsysS yx
s' e. "'"AIIo N nEEIHG TUESDAY

having succeeded In breaking up the last meeting
by the aid of Chicago detectives, which ba ala
oinina'ons OF ofhcers to take place Milstein, the
is calling another meeting for Tuesday night WIZ.
sentiout the nominations will be permitted
according to the same letter however No ,u.,.A
against him or her will be allowed to enter tha 49,
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calls for help
rest of the 81 lis friends among the
labor movems lldom OF the Chicago
rank
The spirlf File Spirited.
ings OF thu Rn at the recent meet
that the ran1 iion. however, proves
to strip ant md file are determined
administrafIt rity from the present
those W ho and put into Office
cies: do a. d for progressive poll
and end ali with all gangsterism
of agreemer ar chamber settlement
membership over the heads OF the
The progrl
low the spls YES IN chicago VIII fol
New York q ID example set by the
a.. iers, eliminate the last
iued on page p
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+ tS1WlCKy lNOSOtl diiN
elites of harrington assumed
the pose of defenders Of the ia
terests of the coal diggSrs'
Farrington's Wage Cut Plea
vice-president FishwiI * in I
public statement dad not sa'
that the district board disagreed
with Farrington's plea foF a re-
duction in wages. WhaT Fish-
wick declared was that a re-
duction in wages will notN soAS ],
the prob effaa.-ttlls7Sat EEis9 S7s1 5S ~
the mining industry lie
statement in full reads:
Fishwick's FIshy statemer
"a statement has been madte Dy
49,, a. por;e that the nAiners
ought to take a reduction in wages
| would like to say in that refpec'
that the district board Of the lllfnois
miners does not believe that a rdduc
ton in wages will solve the prob
lem that now exists in the mining
industry and we will stand by and
adhere to the policies as set forth by
International President John L.
Lewis when he said that the miners
in this country will take no backward
step. We are of the opinion that
overdevelopment of the mining in
dustry is our greatest trouble and un-
| It'll there is some restriction of de-
Ivelopment by federal regulations the
INNING industry can never be a prof
litable one for either the miners or
the operators"
Organize the unornanized.
Old and active members of The
Illinois Miners Union declare that
the solution of the mining industry
rests in the hands of the miners
themselves in conjunction with the
rest of the labor movement.
The organization of the inorganic
ed and the naturalization of the
mining industry under workers con
troll is the solution, they claim. Th'
Leadership of the Farringtons ant
1.-THE Lewises has brought ruin ant
decentralization to once powerful
union.
I, Lewis boast that under his lead
rship the miners will take no back
ward step is put down as a typica
piece of effrontery on his part. Mem
lers of the union point to the fac
chat former union mines are nov
operating nonunion without any Ell
uion to bring them into the unto
. fort being made by the inter
national union to bring them int
1.-THE uion fold. The Jacksonvill
agreement has been openly repud
ated by several groups of operator
Continued on page p
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opposition against all of whom Mil
stein framed charges before the strike
so that he could the better settle it
with the bosses and in a way against
the desires of the rank and file. Now
that the strike has been betrayed.
these charges are still allowed to
stand in order to prevent any pro-
gressives from running for union
office.
Panlcky Call For Bulls.
The meeting Friday night was
broken up with the able assistance of
the police when Milstein saw the
strength of the revolt of the member
ship against him. His letter calling
the Tuesday meeting attempts to show
that this natural rebellion of the rank
land file is part of the bosses game
to destroy the union. This, of course.
is only false argument intended to
reduce the confidence of the men,
bers in the progressive group.
All Seabs Allowed.
Milstein is making no attempt to
keep out of the meetings the scabs
who have been given cards after the
Termination of the strike, but wishes
to forbid the presence Of the members
who have dared TO challenge his one
man rule and those who have exposed
the Vaccination of the Jewish Daily
Forward
The letter calling the meeting states
that prominent leaders" of the labor
movement will address the meeting.
The left wing in the furrlers' believes
this to mean that Milstein is desper-
ately trying every means at his dis
lposal to keep the power in the hands
LOT the reactionary clique and naturally
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE
LABOR DAY PICNIC AT BERWYN

The sixth annual Labor Day Trade Union Educational
scheduled for Sunday stcknsy
Among the speakers will be Rebees organizer for Psss
tile strikers relief.
a this nary and GOOD be fur
nshed by union orchestra from $3.50 viii be to tho advsn
Of the public however earlier park will be
early morning, shady oroys There
refreshments and plenty tables and
the day fine come anyway In.
picnic.
stekney Grove a2n p then
eer~ynLyon Harlem AYES and blocks
south.
Everybody Is nvted children admitted o een,s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
District Board Called to Act

r r;+or nreeiden+ of the Illinois Miners Union faced
- az vban the district board
oin o'+ Of the discovery that he had signed
1a With the peabody Coal Company at salary
of $4,000 year. LIT, a. exoo+;,o
@ + 40 dictate 70 him where he could accept
oodro ey o ~ 4ha hoard members But what got them
enPoy'heut rg4; s,goestion that the miners accept
reduction in wages of $3.50 day. Fearing that tI nos
miners would plaster them with some OF the FarngM sumo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01

The DAILY WORKER Raises
the Standard for a Workers
and Farmers Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
GREAT Events
STIR british
LABOR unions
Labor Party Heads in
New TreGchery
Especial to The Daily worksr)


LONDON, Aug. 3o-ereat events
are stirring British labor. While the
rank and file of miners are standing
firmly In their nineteenth week Of
strike, despite their suffering, and
the union executive is meNtlng TO
draft new proposals which may Of
fer concessions on the matter Of
wages while resisting any attack on
the work day, the right wing leaders
Of the Labor Party, the Macdonald
Thomas group, are seeking a new
betrayal In a tentative peace PLAN"
New Treaehery.
The plan offered by the yellow
leaders of the Labor Party is prac-
iically what he mine owner ~
mand; 1t bases the wage scale upon
! the paying capacity" of the differ
ent districts. and defines the work
day by the week instead of by the
day, seeking thus to avoid the merely
technical form of the longer work
day, and advocates that in some OF
the districts the longer workday be
accepted.
This is exactly what the mine OWL
ers and the tory government, against
which the Labor Party is supposed TO
be in opposition, want In addition,
the Macdonald group are
making propaganda for the mine
owners demand that the militant
leaders of the miners, Herbert Smith
and A. J. Cook, be eliminated from
negotiations in order that the new
scheme Of betrayal be put across.
Continue strIkebreakIng.
Meantime, parliament is meeting
today and the tory majority will I'M
doubtedly back the strikebreaking
of the Baldwin cabinet to
continue the Emergency Protective
Act" which authorizes a form OF mar.
tial law, in further Efforts to break
the miners strike by starvation and
armed force. Baldwin will not be
present, and only enough members OF
the tory party will be called in to
assure majority, as Baldwin and
the members are enjoying their va
cations, Baldwin being at a French
watering place.
From the rank and file comes a
demand that the savage attempts 20
crush the union be answered by the
withdrawal of safety men. kept at
work TO keep the mines in repair
pending a settlement. This demand
for war to the knife comes up on the
eve of the meeting today Of the min
ers' executive. in the form OF reso-
lutions from both the Lancashire and
Cheshire districts Of the Miners
Federation, demanding a national
conference TO be called to consider
the action.
Cook Says Men Solid.
In issuing statement for the Fed.
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
Great British Left Wins
Conference i'm Militant
Call on the Labor Party
lspeoIal cable to The OalIy worker

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BOT
oworkers
In closing the o
ment rains thest
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the French
proud o Nth
Tom
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01
"ds haSetts Launches Moue for
5Or Party Socialist Party and
Reactionaries Spike Labor Ticket

L conva, !. usetts Labor Campaign
oriaI Hail held at the Wells Mem
%. elected Pton, on Sunday, Aug.
er TO nuah nmittee with full pow
party IN az Fard plans for a labor
taken hv i tate. This action was
gates ren-.l animous vote OF dele
ont Tho A}ang labor unions thru
The pro<
az IN .haX 70 place a state tick
on nv 49, rs year was frustrat-
Soc,aIist ned opposition OF the
emissaries safes anu 'ne Oii0iAi
t,op 30 A.. the American Fedora
Witch partisan machine
stronooa. - themselves as the
ward iohor.s les TO any effort to-
40, TN .spendent polotical ac-
m,n,s.. essives and the Com
gor ,ho .s courageously turnout
year. Vi i'''oi 'ioAs' 'ni9
After fe , .,-
by John Nd p',' - -,
the Call Conf W. cue e',.' se.'e' NJ
Bride, former ''eo, o!. ~ ,S - a. ~
Typographical "y ,si VI '"e a aIoo.oa
showaS - ,le credentials report
80, 80 = ,or unions and 2 politi-
,hara 'loo presented In addition
49,, "ere number Of the leading
- 49, "uu won IN IN the Massachusetts,
vidva, ne ut present in an indi-
In the proceed ou' "
IMMEDIATE Inss, s.. a.. o,.n,r, n,
r.r,s,. 0onv tion, Frank II. Nc
Ains can Federation of Ia,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-01

sthe Chicago Furriers
an than to allow the
sent business agent,
ccOrding to a letter
Who has any charges
g. This is simly an
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Comedians in Demand.

THERE was a time, and 1t wasn't
long ago, when a comedian was
featured actor in pie-throwing farce
of two reels. and nothing more. But
the comedian has become ambitious.
Today he reigns supreme. Comedy is
king. even in feature-length pictures.
A cotemporary example of the rise
of the comedian, and the rapidity
with which the feature picture is
stealing the mainstays from the two
reelers. is First Nationals produc-
ton, Miss Nobody" in which ap-
pear three favorite comedians, Arthur
Stone, Clyde Cook and Louise Fa-
Zenda.
stone was recently d star of two
reelers. and Cook, q graduate from
vaudeville. who first stepped into the
movies via the tWo-reel route. Miss
Fazenda is an earlier graduate from
the short film class, but she spent
many years as pupil in slapstick
humor.
Another, Charlie Murray, stepped
into the big things via the feature
picture, not more than two years ago,
after supplying the theaters with half
hour entertainments for many years,
and still another, Jack Duffy of Toon-
erville trolley fame, is working with
Colleen Moore in ELLA Cinders."
There are scores Of others daily be-
ing taken out of the two-reel ranks.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Consorted With Celebrities.

BLANCHE SWEET has the distinc-
ton of having played on the
speaking stage with Maurice Barry
more, the father of John, Ethel and
Lionel.
Miss Sweet, like all stage celebri-
ties, as a matter of course, began her
stage career when she was an infant
in arms, and by the time she had
reached the mature age of was quite
an accomplished young miss. When
the elder Barrymore was casting
about for a child actress for g. role in
his production Blanche was chosen.
Even though l was tiny tot, the
association with the great Barrymore
made a lifelong impression upon
me-" she says. "He was a lovable
man, and I shall always think of him
as the greatest actor that ever lived
Miss Sweet also played in support
Of Holbrook Blinn, Chauncey Olcott
and other well known stars when
she was a youngster.
Her last stage appearance was at
the age Of 13, when she starred in
the road company of Theodore Cra-
mer's THE Turning Point"
Immediately after closing in that
she joined motion pictures and has
been with them ever since.
Evening star., 1926-04-18
Secret Pass a Mystery.

THE secret pass leading from the
notorious Jackson Hole country
in the heart of the Wyoming bad
lands, where William Fox produced
the story of the opening of the Indian
lands "3 Bad Men," has an interest
ing history.
In the early days of the great West,
before the white empire builders in
vaded. Jackson's Hole was held in
peculiar suspicion by the Shoshone
indians, who roamed that section Of
the country. The few remaining In
dian survivors of those perilous times.
who no doubt possess the secret that
the white man has failed to discover,
proudly relate how many Skirmishes
with enemy tribes were won by the
cunning manipulation of this inforna-
ton.
1t is said, ofttimes a small band OF
wandering Shoshones--pursued by q
larger band Of enemy Indians, entered
Jackson's Hole, aud. seemingly were
swallowed up by the earth. only to
emerge from concealment, attack the
invaders from the rear and eXtermi-
nate the band.
At present there are three known
entrances and outlets to the hole. with
the fourth secret passage still mys-
terry. Director Ford, it is said, en-.
deavored to discover the location OF
the age-old mystery, but even the lure
and glamour Of the modern motion
picture failed to move the stole sur
vivors to unravel the enigma of Jack
cons Hole
Evening star., 1926-04-18
In the Spotlight.

"" Robert Lorraine will be In TIE
troupe and other stars are in process
of accumulation. The play will be
done early in June. 1t has not been
seen in New York for 80 years.
"A Friend Indeed" three-act play
by Clayton Hamilton and Bernard
April 26 by Mary Forrest. II Is de
scribed as a play Of newspaper life.
Russell Janney Will produce next
season a musical version Of Justin
Huntly McCarthy's The O'Flynn.'
a play which fourished about p
years ago.
Winifred Sackville Stoner and Dr..
Francis Snow, editor OF Current His
tory. have written play called open
Sesame" which will be produced In
the late Summer or early Autumn.
and in which some music is woven.
though it is specifically stated that 1t
is not jazz.
Jean Ford, daughter of Hugh Ford.
stage director and producer, will be
the leading lady of a stock company
In Columbus, Ohio, this Summer.
The Provincetown Playhouse faced
an unexpected hiatus after the closing
Of East Lynne" Owing to the death
after a brief illness, of Misha Leon,
the intended production of Gluck
"Orpheus" has been postponed. MI.
Leon was to have sung the title role.
Nicola, the master of magic. who
headlines one of the vaudeville bills
for the current week. has had one of
the most varied careers in the pursuit
of his chosen line of specialization.
which has led him to every corner OF
the globe. Egyptian sorcery, Argen-
tine burlesque, the penetration of
human body with six dozen silver
spikes, the naturalization of the
human body before the startled eyes
of the audience and the less preten-
tious feats of legerdemain are said to
be only a beginning in the lonS list
of this prestidigitator's weird accom-
plishments.
One of the most pretentious produc-
tions on the National Theater Play
ers' schedule will be Little Old New
York" which deals with the New
York of Washington Irving. Cornelius
Vanderbilt. John Jacob Astor AMI
other historic notables. II will be cos
TUNED in that period.
Frank Craven has an undeniable
flair for writing homelike and amus
ing plays of domestic adventure.
There is nothing in his work that re
sembles the early scripts written for
Charles Ray. In addition to 'The
First Year." another of his successes,
New Brooms." will be offered later
in the season by the National Players.
Billy Phelps of the National Players
caused a small sized furore on +
street last Monday when he appeared
in gray trousers with a 25-inch cuff.
Before the Summer is over, he pre-
diets. they will be common here.
Evening star., 1926-04-18

"DAY OR NIGHT, a fantastic
II comedy by Lazio Lakatos, is
announced for Spring production by
Henry Baron.
Ed Wynne will continue under the
management Of A. L. Erlanger next
season in a new revue. The produc-
ton will probably open the new Err
langer Theater to be built on Forty.
fourth street. New York.
The play in which Fannie Brice is
to star for David Belasco is to be
called Fanny" and is the work of
Willard Mack and David Belasco. 1t
will have its premiere at Atlantic City
May "a.
Peggy Wood will concentrate for the
Spring on dramatic criticism and then
return to Candida" for four weeks
in the Middle West.
The firm of Druce & STREET. has
dissolved partnership, and William
Street will continue alone in the fu-
turc. His first venture, Somerset
MaughanS Caroline" in which Mar
garet Anglin is starred, opened last
Monday night in Albany.
Albert Lewis, IN ASSOCIATION WlIn
Sam II. Harris, has acquired the
rights to a play called 1.-The Spider,
by Fulton Oursler and Lowell Bren-
tano, a member of the firm of Bren-
tanos. 1t is a mystery comedy.
Louis F. Werba has signed a con
tract with Montagu Glass and Jules
Eckert Goodman for their first musi-
cal comedy. Joe Smith and Charles
Dale of the Avon Comedy Four will
have the principal roles.
Otis Skinner will play Falstaff in
the Players Club revival of Henry