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The daily worker., 1926-07-01
THE THIRD PRIZE WINNER.
BUDA MOTOR co.
FURNISHES BAD
DRINKING WATER
Workers On Hot Metal
Gag, But Must Drink
BY a Worker Correspondent

HARVEY, ILL.,, June 29.-The Buda
Motor Company in Harvey, Illinois,
employs a large number of workers,
but the bosses deny the workers even
such an ordinary comfort as drinking
water.
In the smith shop of the Buda plant
the workers toll under high tempera-
ture by the furnaces, anvils and steam
hammers, and in the molding room,
where the air is polluted by the dust
Of the molds and cores, the heat from
the molten steel dries the throat and
makes every pore of the body sweat.
And They Never Complaint
Under such conditions it is only
natural for a person to drink much
water. But the water they have in
those places is so rotten, smelling of
oil and grease, that you want to vomit
every time you take a swallow of it.
And the funny part of it is that no
body ever says anything about it.
Some workers were asked as to the
reason of that criminal neglect, and
they said they used to have decent
drinking water last year, but for the
last 10 months it is unhealthy, yet
nobody pays any attention to that fact.
An Open Shop.
The Buda plant is an open shop and
there is no labor organization of any
kind in it. The work is piece rate.
The bosses are careless of the work
ers' health and comfort.
All the workers know that, IL the
company wants to, it can give them a
supply of pure, fresh drinking water
for the price of a few dollars, but it is
not done because the fat dividends
might be diminished wee bit.
The DAILY WORKER will expose
all the rotten conditions IL the work
ers from different departments will
write about them, because 1t is the
only daily in the English language
which will fight for their interests un-
der any and all circumstances.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
He'll in New Jersey
Starts Proof That
Hell Really Exists

PAssAIC, N. j., June 29.-(FP)-
Police ire here has been aroused by
the pictorial presentation Of textile
strike conditions in the brochure,
Hell in New Jersey" issued by the
General Relief Committee Of the
strikers. While Anthony Gallo was
selling copies of the brochure for the
benefit of the relief, he was struck by
Officer "a of the Passaic police, the
United Front Committee charges, and
his stock of copies was confscated.
Councilman Joseph Dvorschak of
Wellington, in voting against an in
crease of police in that town, express
ed his belief that the bringing of spe-
cial police into the strike zone was
responsible for the reign of terror
here.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
PASSAIC POLICE
BRUTALLY CLUB
PICKET CAPTAIN
Use Rubber Hose on
Strike Worker

PASSAIC, N. j., June 29.-Jack
Rubenstein, picket captain and strike
leader, was arrested for the tenth time
and was "given his medicine" in the
Garfield police station cell.
Jack was walking alone on Jewell
street when he was passed by an Of
ficer in the patrol wagon.
What are you walking that way
for? What are you doing here any
way?" the officer shouted Jack did
not reply.
Arrest Picket Captain.
When he came up to the patrol
wagon which had stopped, officer
Number Two continued to abuse him
and finally told him to get into the
wagon.
"Am / arrested?" asked Jack.
''Yes, you are" said the officer, and
Jack was hustled off to a cell in the
station. On the way he received
much "fatherly advice" a local alias
for threatening, about getting out of
Garfield if he knew what was good
for him.
Club Striker.
In his cell, Rubenstein was attacked
by officer Number Two and Whitley
Adamchesky," who has been a party
to nearly all the beatings handed out
in Garfield, and who brutally beat
Jack with a rubber hose so that he
was sent to a hospital at the time OF
his last arrest.
"As soon as l saw them come in
I lay down on my bench, for l could
see in their eyes what was coming
he said after his release on bail. %
knew If / even tried to defend my
self there were fifty more waiting to
jump in on me, and if l was standing
up they would only knock me down
cuddled up on the bench and pro.
tected my face, but they got me
plenty"
A doctors certificate, signed by Dr.
D. H. Tellman, shows. that he has "a
large area of echymosis (bruises), a
swelling and tenderness over right
posterior chest, abrasion and contu,
sion of the right thigh, and confusion
Of the right eye" He was charged
with being disorderly.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
THE FIRST PRIZE WINNER.
When the Slack Time Begins

and you did not even go to a public
school"
How about college professors ?"
Mary asked. Can they go to Europe
twice a year and have three different
expensive cars and live in rich apart
'ments in the finest hotels?"
Mr.. Smith became furious and
shouted:
"Yod are talking just like those
Bolsheviksl You'd better find your
self another job"
But Mary smiled. She knew he could
not discharge her because this shop
was we'll organized union shop. All
the other workers of the shop were
quiet, but their faces expressed ap.
proval of Mary's remarks and they
cheered her silently for her courage
Several weeks have passed since
that evening and the boss has not an.
noyed his workers with any more
speeches. In order to cut expenses,
he discharged one of his bookkeepers
S"AAN OAAC ohAppAhS DIS lU6Y COIL
slider themselves too good to join
union. Mr.. Smith had a splendid
chance to show how thrifty he is him.
self. The other clerks will have to
work a little longer and speed ur
more.
AS has been his custom for the last
few years, Mr.. Smith will soon be sail.
ing with his wife for Europe. OF
course, he is used to it, and spring is
lovely in France.
Mary, like the rest of the workers
of the shop is already worrying as tc
how she is going to get along fo1
many weeks without work during the
slack time.
"It is funny" says Mary. "Mr
Smith is so used to his trips tc
Europe, yet we workers can't get used
TO starving. Every year when slack
time begins we begin to worry. Per
haps he is right when he says that the
| workers are 'Bolsheviks.'
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
BY eoLpIE cHIRKA

NWorker IorreSpondentl
MY friend Mary works in garment
ANA shop. Her boss, like all other
bosses, urges the workers to produce
more because he is losing money. He
always breaches to the workers of his
shop to be thrifty. Mary's boss, Mr..
Smith, considers himself an intellec-
tual and good speaker.
Not long ago he announced that
after work he wanted to address the
workers and, of course, the workers
were all curious as to what news he
had to tell them. SO they waited after
five o'clock and Mr.. Smith began his
speech by saying:
Listen, if you workers are not go
ing to do any better, If you are not
going to produce more, l will have
to go out of business because l can
not meet competition.
"You know what that will mean to
you. You will then have to look for
other jobs and they are not so easy
to find now. AS for me, l can go into
any other business. can go into the
real estate business which is much
more profitable.
Mary knew that since she began
working in that shop eight years ago,
Mr.. Smith had increased his business
immensely. Yet at the beginning of
every season he had told the work
ers the same story about losing
money. SO she could not resist asking
him:
How is it, Mr.. Smith, that every
year you lose money and yet you have
made enough to go into the real estate
business? What about us workers
Do we even make enough to live?"
The boss became very angry.
What" he said, you do not make
enough to live? Do you know that you
earn just as much as public school
teacher, while public school teachers
have to go to college for many years
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
Topeka LABOR
MOVEMENT NOT
IN GOOD ORDER
Too Much Association
with Labor's Enemies
BY HUGO OEHLER
(Worker Correspondent

TOPEKA Kan, June 27-Last year
the Topeka trade unions could be
proud of their Labor Temple, a nice
building conveniently located on Kan
sas avenue near the railroads, with
ample space for the workers at rea-
|sonable prices. The trade union move
ment paid $50 month for their build
ing.
But since the first of the year, when
new officers were elected, things have
changed and the laboring movement is
changing with it, less active and more
friendly to the enemies of labor. The
trade unions are now meeting in a
few rooms at $50 month in the same
building where the chamber of com
merce meets.
Something Wrong.
In this same building the knights
of the ku klux khan meets. The trades
unions, the ku klux khan and the
chamber of commerce-the combina-
tion is enough to convince any level
headed worker that there is something
wrong with the labor movement.
The secretary of the Trade and La.
Dor Assembly is DIR. c. " Hope, presi-
dent of the machinist local and prac-
ticing dentist, one who has been a
socialist and, like the rest of his COM
rades, has long ago forgotten the
struggle of the workers. In his rest
room connected to his dentist Office
he has a picture of Sammy Gompers,
the largest have seen.
No Time for Organizing.
DR.. Hope is also one of the state
examiners of the dental profession and
last week found time to run down to
Wichita to examine some applicants
and, as we came in his Office, he had
time to examine some of the appli-
cants' papers, but he has very, very
little time for the trade unions or the
unorganized workers of Topeka.
Unorganized laundry workers in
Topeka are working IL hours a day,
contrary to the state laws. However,
this does not seem to bother most OF
the leaders OF the Topeka labor move
ment. The membership Is falling off
and new blood, young blood is not
coming in.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
THE SECOND PRIZE WINNER
TOBACCO BARONS
SEEK ARMY OF
NEGRO WORKERS
To Flood Connecticut
with Cheap Labor
nx a Worker correspondent.

WINDSOR, Conn, June 29. - The
American Tobacco company which
has large tobacco plantations in the
Connecticut valley has sent number
Of its agents thru the south to recruit
Negro workers for their plantations
in this state.
Low Pay, Long Hours.
Shipment after shipment are sent
in. The American Tobacco company
is known for the low pay that it pays
it's workers. The workers are forced
to work out in the blazing sun ten and
twelve hours a day.
No provisions are made for washing
ones self. The men working on the
plantations are housed in barracks.
No Sanitary Provisions.
At one end of the barracks is usu-
ally an open cesspool. At the other
end As the kitchen. There is no such
thing as sanitary fixtures in these bar
racks. Formerly the tobacco com
pany would hire only Polish and Lith-
uanian workers. AS soon as these
workers began to demand more, the
company started to import Mexicans
and SPaniards. These two groups are
now demanding more.
Seek Negro Workers.
The company is seeking to import
Negro workers. The work in the to-
bacco fields is hard. The pay low.
The average wage is about $4 or IS
a day. The work is seasonal. 1t lasts
but two or three months.
The plantation owners in the Con-
necticut valley promise transportation
to and from the job. When the work
ers get here they find conditions so
bad that they leave. The company
then deducts the transportation to the
job from the pay due the worker.
The company is making its efforts
to recruit large groups of Negro
workers in Tennessee and Georgia.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
Peoria Regular Low
Wage Town; Children
Slave; Unions Sleep
(By MAX COHEN,
worker Correspondent)

PEORIA, H., June 29.-An increase
in the number of boys and girls ap-
plying for work during school "vaca-
ton" Is noted here. Last year there
were 1T working permits issued,
while 202 have been granted so far.
1t is revealed that most of these
applications are for factory work. The
employers are glad to take in these
prospective wage slaves because the
bosses can get them to work for al
most nothing and in most cases get
out as much work as from the adult
worker.
Peoria is we'll known to the working
class as cheap (wage) town. OF
course it costs as much to live here as
in any town in the 100000 class. There
are many instances of weekly wages
as low as $14 to SIS for workers with
families to support. With vacation
at hand the bosses let the highly
paid" worker go and put in school chill
dren who will work for less.
The fact that so many more children
must work in order to help provide
for the family substantlates the report
that Peoria wage workers are very
much underpaid.
The local trades and labor assembly
has taken no action in good many
years toward organizing the unorgan-
ized. Meanwhile the labor situation,
with low wages and the replacement
OF adults by child workers the order of
the day, is getting more aggravated.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.

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The daily worker., 1926-07-01
Another Impartial"
Arbiter on the Job

SALEMN, Mass, June 20. The
Salem hodcarriers, affiliated with the
North Shore Building Trades Alliance,
have put their claim for a wage in
crease of 10 cents an hour to arbitra.
tion. The union is to choose its rep
resentative, the employers theirs, and
the two chosen are to select the third.
The men get 80 cents an hour and
have returned TO work at the old rate
pending settlement. They struck May
1st 'a
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
This Weeks Winners

The first prize this week, the
book "Lenin on Organization" goes
to GoIdie chibka, author Of the
story "When the Slack Time Be-
gins"
The second prize, the book 80.
eial Forces in American History"
by A. M. SImons, goes to the author
of the story Tobacco 5arons Seek
Army of Negro Workers.
The third prize, "My Flight from
Siberia" by Leon Trotsky, goes to
the author of "Buda Motor Co.
Furnishes Bad Drinking Water"
Watch for the announcement of
next weeks prizes.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
They Do Everything
That Way in Jersey

ORANGE, N. j., June 29.-(FP)--
Patrolmen here are being used to
paint traffic guide lines on the streets.
A protest against this has been sent TO
the director OF public safety by John
Milan, secretary Of Local 242 of the
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang.
ers' Union. Milan declares patrolmen
should be confined 70 police duties
While painters here are looking for
work.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01
[ LAWRENCE, MASS.
ORGANIZES FREE
SPEECH FIGHT
Hold Open Air Meeting
on July 4

LAWRENCE, Mass, June 29.-The
Lawrence United Front Committee Of
Textile Workers in a letter to the
American Civil Liberties Union call
on that organization to cooperate
with the Lawrence textile workers
organization in staging a free speech
| fight. -arF
Free Speech Meeting.
A free speech meeting has been ar
ranged in Lawrence for July 4. This
meeting will take place at o'clock
on the corner of Common and Broad
way. ssp
The letter to the American Civil Ii.
berties Union follows
Tramplel Workers Right.
American Civil Liberties Union,
900 Fifth Ave,
New York City.
Gentlemen:
Public authorities are again
trampling on THE civil liberties of
! the people of Lawrence. The united
front committee of Lawrence is an
organization of various textile work.
ers' clubs and committees of work
ers from mills banded together for
the purpose of organizing the workers
whose conditions are miserable.
"They are subject to an unprece-
dented speed up system. Wages are
extremely low. Women and children
are forced to labor long hours for a
miserable pittance, while the greed of
the mill owners is so great that a
large number of workers have no
lunch hour; but are obliged to snatch
a bite while tending the machine.
Authorities With Bosses.
''The public authorities and local
press are working hand in hand with
the mill owners. They are determin-
ed to stifle the united front commit
tee because the workers are sympa-
thetic and are eager for our message.
Two months ago City Marshall
O'Brien and Director Of Public Safety
Peter Carr prohibited us from speak
ing at the mill gates. Now they re-
fused us permits to hold open air
meetings in the public streets.
1--WE, of the united front committee
feel that we must defend the right Of
a union to talk to the workers and
have the use of the streets. Especial
ly when we see numerous organiza-
tions like the Salvation Army, pan
handlers, takers, and patent medicine
vendors using the public streets regu-
larly without nlolestation.
Refuse Meeting Permits.
"City Marshal O'Brien refused to
give any reason for withholding the
permit. We are sending you copy
of the city ordinance re open air meet
ings. The law is on our side, and
We intend to call the police to order
and to test in court if necessary
whether the will of the mill owners
is supreme law in Lawrence, Mass.
Seek Cooperation.
I'VE naturally turn to you for ad
vice, cooperation and aid. This ar
bitrary action of the police is a blow
at the elementary rights of the work
ers to organize themselves and to
educate other workers to join them
We are confident that we can defeat
this police tyranny with your unstint
ed aid.
''We expect to hear from you be-
fore we make any definite plans for
the conduct of free speech fight
We shall then advise further.
"Fraternally yours,
United Front Committee of Law
renee Textile Workers"
The daily worker., 1926-07-01

That worker next door to you
may not have anything to do to-
night. Hand him this copy Of the
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01

Will share apartment. Modern.
SIS. 10 Forest {. Apt. c. 6.
Detroit, Mich.
The daily worker., 1926-07-01

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The Washington times., 1926-08-24
KlcnZO. Dental
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, 1926-02-17

ii was inserted when the general height
of the wall reached this point and in
advance Of the actual completion Of this
section of the old fort.
According to historian Miller the
first fertilization on the site of Ell Moro
was begun in 1889, The construction Of
the fort was slow and the historian,
Draw, reports that, The negro slaves
brought in fifty years before for use
on public work had nearly all died of
old age"
"El MORO was repaired and recon
structed in 1776, 1t is now in an ex-
cellent STATE of preservation and is be-
ing maintained 50. "-POrtO Rico Pro.
greSS, Feb. 18TH.
, 1926-02-17
OLD PLAQUES FOUND IN WALLS
AT Ell MORO.

That two plaques have recently been
discovered at 81 Moro fixing the dates
of the completion Of two separate has
tions in 1906 and 1907 was disclosed at
a meeting of the Civic Club last week
when the program was on Porto Rican
history. First work at Ell MORO was
commenced in 1889.
Mrs. Horace NJ. Towner, chairman
for the afternoon, told of the two plaques
recently discovered by Col. G. II, Estes,
Of the 65th Infantry.
These tablets were found embedded
in the south wall of Ell Moro, one of
the east of the main entrance and one
to tie west.
The inscription on the former reads:
In the region of Philip III, most
happy King of the SPANS and while
Sancho Ochoa de Castro Lord of the
house and land Of the Counts of Saliva
terra was Governor and Captain Cen
eral Of this Island, the construction of
this bulwark of Ochoa was finished up
to this stone. Year Of 1907.
In a letter Col. Estes gave the fol-
lowing facts regarding these tablets:
There is a similar tablet with slightly
different wording and the date 1906, to
the West Of this entrance.
These tablets have remained un-
noticed for some time apparently as
they were covered with vegetation and
mould until brought to attention in the
process of cleaning the walls of the old
fort recently.
The tablets are unique in that they
are not. metal but appear to be some
form of baked clay. The letters, which
are raised. were apparentlv develonpd
by hand while the material was plastic.
They have now the general appearance
of bronze tablets and were thought to be
such until a close examination disclosed
their actual composition.
AS the tablet is some six feet below
the top of the wall it would indicate that
, 1926-02-17
Prohibition Never Tried

United States District Attorney Emory
K. Buckner. of New York City, does net
believe that the national enforcement of
prohibition has ever been tried. In New
York it cannot be enforced without a
State law, he declares.
In his first prohibition enforcement adj
dress to ome only, given to several hun
bred members and guests Of the W0mans
Forum, Mr.Buckner said that well inten-
toned people, strongly in favor Of prOhi-
bitiOn, do not insist upon the government
paying the real price Of enforcement"
and that with the existing governmental
machinery it would take a smarter
man than he to enforce prohibition more
than 10 per cent.
Il paGlocked the EIks Club" contin-
Ued Mr.. Buckner, land was attacked by
Wayne B.. Wheeler, counsel for the An
gil Salon League, on the same day. |
have no apologies to make. Arresting
walters and the terrible fellow with the
hip flask is the bunk. IL is only trying
to make a record, calling the roll and
charging an exit fee as they walk out.
So long as New York State will not be-
come a partner of the United States in
prohibition enforcement, the Narjoral
Government is under a serious pr)hlUi-
tion in order to save US from the present
intolerabIe and disastrous situation.
| say, let the United States Govern
ment live up to its obligation or else
withdraw it,"
Would the repeal Of the Volstead act
and the Interpretation Of what consti-
tutes intoxicating liquor be a help in en-
fOrcement?" Mr.. Buckner was asked.
4 have not reached that point yet"
was his reply. Ibid
, 1926-02-17
Mr.. Richardson sings in five Ian
guages. In St. Thomas the people
went wild when he sung in Danish.

attacks on Audry and Clyde Peteet in
Tiajuana.
Tiajuana.-Gov. Rodriguez of lower
California has ordered all women inter
national and susnicio& characters be de-
ported from Tiajuan$ All saloons will
be placed under $40, 600 cash bond which
it was ar nounced to adhere to regulations.
1t was also made known that a number
of suspicious characters may be banished
to Tres Maris Islands in Gulf of CaIifor-
MIA.
Pittsburgh, Penn. After II days bat
tie with fire and poison gas bodies of IA
men who lost their lives in mine disaster
of Feb. Bird. were brought to surface.
, 1926-02-17
JAPS- CALL SUN SPOTS AN OMEN
OF FAMINE.

Toxic, Jan. 23.-The presence of
''spots" on the sun is declared to have
caused a decided slump in the sale Of
artificial fertilizer in Japan.
A boom trade had been expected
earlier in the year, but thus far dealers
, 1926-02-17
u. S. NAVAL RADIO STATION
CRAFTSMANSHIP, ST. CROIX,
18TH FEBRUARY 1926.
Courtesy of the Associated Pre8S.)

Cannes. -Helen wills and Susanna
Lenglenn both won their way Sunday in
to semitinals and unless defeated today in
their matches will meet Tuesday to de-
eide the championship.
Plkesville, Ky.-Five persons were
drowned at Coaldale near here carly Sun
day when cloudburst flooded valley in
which town was located.
T%iajuana. Information charging first
degree murde" was presented in Mexican
federal court yesterday against Z men
held as result of shameless homicide of
Thomas Peteet family following alleged
, 1926-02-17
LOCAL

The U. s. S.. Grebe arrived here at
noon yesterday from St, Thomas with
the following misrepresentation Comd.
Judge G. w. Williams, Judge 1hiele,
Mitchell, Bandmaster A. A. Adams, Rev.
S. E c. Lord, Comdr. T. w. Reed,
Lieut.. and Mrs. A. B. Clsrke, infant
and nurse, Judge and Mrs. C. H. Gibson,
Miss M. CIun, Bishop and Mrs. Weiss,
Miss Mellowes, Mr.. James Nolan, Miss
Elizabeth Armstrong, Mrs. J. d. Wilson,
Mrs. Maud C. Hare, Mr., w. H. Richard
son, Mr.. f. E.. Jones, Miss Skpoch,
Ernest Garvey and fourteen enlisted
men USING.
The police we're destroying stocks of
cOnfiscated booze yesterday, some good
old rum and other Inferior stuff. The
smell pervaded the atmosphere in the
neighbOrhoOd for hours and until even
ing the sea had a rummy OdOr. We
hear that some barkeasts were seen fill
ing bottles with sea water for the sake
Of the percentage of liquor in it, but
we don't believe this. However, as we
know, there is a percentage of gold in
seaWater, now likewise booze.
Remember the musical recital by Mrs.
Hare and Mr.. Richardson thissevening;
a rare treat for all who appreciate good
music.
The schooner Resolution sailed from
here for st. Thomas yesterday afternoon
carrying mails and passengers.