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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Coolidge Fights Federal
Employees Pension Bill

WASHINGTON, May 10--If the $780,
600 federal employees under civil serv-
ice who have been struggling for a
hberalized old age pension law get
any legislation this year it will be a
compromise with President Coolidge.
This was made clear when Chairman
Lehlbach Of the house committee and
Stanfield Of the senate committee on
civil service came away from a stub
born discussion of the issue at the
white house on May 5.
Coolidge and Budget Director Lord
had conceded maximum annual re-
tirement pension of $1,000 to work
ers who had drawn at least $500 for
10 years preceding retirement, and
who had served the government for
30 years. This would make the aver
age retirement pension something I'M
der $500 a year. The federal en-
ployes' bill, which Coolidge and Lord
and Mellon have fought for the past
six months, called for a maximum of
$1,000 a year. The present maximum
is S72O. The compromise is triumph
for Coolidge and defeat for the or
ganized employees.
Whether the National Federation of
Federal Employees and the three ma
tional unions Of postal employees will
decide to accept this compromise or
take complete defeat and renew the
fight after the fall election. has not
been disclosed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
FRANCE FEARS TO LOSE
CONTROL OF PHOSPHATE
DEPOSITS OF MOROCCO

PARIS, May 10. - The report Of
the African Phosphate bureau In
Morocco shows that $4,000 tons OF
phosphates out Of a total production
Of $4,000 were exported last year,
against total outputs Of 100000 tons
in 1924 and 100000 In 1923.
These exports are so great, that
American phosphates have been
practically excluded from the mark
cts Of Holland, Germany, Norway,
Denmark, czeeho-slovakia, the Bait
ie states and the Union Of South
Africa.
So far Moroccan phosphates have
not been competing with Algerian
and Tunisian phosphates, which al
ready have wide field. The output
is growing very rapidly and exports
are due to increase since the crea-
ton of the Phosphates Electric rail-
way, running to the port Of Casa
blanca.
The total government-owned pro-
duction in Morocco yields 100000
francs annually, and additional state
properties are being prepared for the
agriculture Of future years. The to-
tai budget receipts In 1925 will ex-
coed 5oo,ooo,ooo francs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
American Engineers to
Drain Malarial Plain in
Macedonia for Greece

ATHENS, May 4. -(FP) AN Amer
lean engineering company has entered
into contract with the Greek gov
eminent for draining the malarial plan
in Macedonia, comprising some 300
square miles to the the northward Of
Saloniki.
According to American Consul Fer
maid, a preliminary loan of $4,000, 900
has been negotiated by the Greeks,
and the big job, which will take four
and one-half years and will cost $685.
$4,000, is soon to be started. There
will be 5000 men, mostly Greeks, en-
ployed at digging. over $4,000 refu-
gee families will make their homes
on the land when 1t is drained.
Strengthening of the channel Of the
Vardar ,(Axios) river will be the first
STEP, Afterward dikes and levees for
flood control will be built, the rivers
Gallikos and Aliakmon will be deep
ened, the Yenidje swamp drained, and
Lakes Ardzan and Amotavo emptied
Of their malaria-charged waters. Sixty
per cent Of the people of Saloniki and
500 of the newly settled refugees suf-
fer from malaria.
The land which will be recovered
from swamp and lake bottoms and
from flood areas is very rich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Judge English Faces
Senate to Answer the
impeachment Charges

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-Respond-
ing to a formal summons Fed. Judge
George w. English, of the Eastern Dis
trict of Illinois, will appear before the
senate high court OF impeachment to
answer the houses charges OF high
crimes and misdemeanors.
Facing his accusers for the first
time since the house impeashed him,
Judge English will be arraigned at the
bar of the senate, enter formal plea
Of mot guilty" and file a statement,
replying to the charges.
The fixing of a date for the public
trial OF English will be the next de-
velopment. An attempt to postpone
the proceeding until next November,
when congress would be called into
special session, is being made by many
senators.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Sentence Cuban Woman
to 80 Days in Jail for
Having Negro Sweety

RIPLEY, Cal, May 10. - Anna De-
weese, Cuban resident Of Blythe, Cal,
was given 80 days in the county jail
at Riverside because she kept com
pany with a colored man, G. L. Young.
The arresting officer placed charge
of vagrancy against Anna Deweese,
and the trial magistrate, Judge Kruntz-
man, allowed the charge to stand in
spite of the evidence of over ten white
women, wives Of Blythe merchants,
who testified under oath that Mrs. De-
weese washed and ironed for living
Mrs. Deweese is the mother of little
girl and is a widow.
All Negroes were excluded from the
court room during the trial. Young
was not allowed to testify. The court
informed Mrs. Deweese that she did
not have to keep company with a
damn black Niger" and if the de-
PENDANT would promise in the future
to only go with white men or Mexi-
can men, she would be released and
all charges dropped. The defendant
maintained that she was not white and
had a perfect right to have a colored
sweetheart.
The local law enforcement machin.
cry at Blythe is 100 per cent K. K. K.
Young is head of the A. N. L. c.,
Blythe local. He had been keeping
company with the defendant for over a
year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
$44 Is Yearly Wage for
Many Illinois Farmers

URBANA, ILL.,, May 10.-The annual
farm business report of the farm or
ganization and management depart
ment Of the University of Illinois for
Mason, Macon, Logan, Pratt, and Nc
Lean counties shows that farmers in
these counties made an average labor
and management wage of $44 for the
past year after they had met expenses
and allowed per cent on their aver
age capital investment Of 1926 an acre
in land, buildings, livestock, etc. This
report is based on records kept by 80
farmers in these counties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12

News came from New York that the
council there expects TO send its full
quota Of FIVE delegates. Detroit, Bos-
ton, Cleveland. Buffalo and numerous
other cities are making arrangements
TO send delegates.
Extensive preparations are being
made to hold huge mass meeting at
the Play House. Washington, d. c.,
Sunday, May 10. Nationally known
speakers were invited to address the
meeting.
It Is expected that more than 100
delegates representing hundreds of
thousands Of workers will be repre-
scented at the national conference On
Washington.
The call for the Washington confer
ence was issued by the Western Penn
sylvania Council for the Protection Of
Foreign-Born with the consent Of coun-
ellis OF several other large cities. Hun
dreds Of organizations are affiliated
with the Western Pennsylvania Coun-
including the Pittsburgh Central
lor Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
John Michale Promises to
Turn His Back on City Of
Coal and Steel Forever
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

Allegheny County jail has yet been
crowned hero for finding a soft spot
in any one of those board beds. The
search of Sir Launfal for the Holy
Grail, was much more successful.
Last night / coughed all night,
I can't sleep. I've got cold. You
can catch anything around here"
He was not wearing his stockings.
These were hanging, full of holes,
on a nail. He had no underwear.
His thin white shirt was coal black.
When he slept his worn coat was his
only cover, and it slipped away as
he tossed in the night, leaving him
exposed to the damp cold.
S.
LIE dug his fist into his stomach
IL and squirmed as he explained,
I'm hungry. The food here is rot
ten. ] can't eat it." Then as if to
forget his troubles he asked, Let
me look at the 'funnies.'" let him
have the copies Of the afternoon pa
pers l had been allowed to bring in
with me. He looked over the pic
lures eagerly aided by the light
from the single electric bulb that
cleaned thru the cell door.
When he had finished 1 handed
him the copy Of Nikolai Bukharin's
Historical Materialism" that l had
been allowed to bring in. The first
jailer had carefully looked thru its
pages to find something to object
to.
TITS only a history" I had told
him, and he had passed it.
John Michale took Bukharin's
book and carefully studied it for a
long time. When he finally finished
and put the book down, l asked,
What do you make out of it?"
Il read two pages. can't remem-
Der what l read. don't like it." was
his terse explanation. Then he
curled up and went to sleep.
LIE had said that ne did not like
- the prison food. But the Jail
gong found him wide awake shortly
after five o'clock in the morning.
He would hurl himself wildly, like
a young tiger, at the cell door,
thinking it had been unlocked.
Twice, three times, he repeated the
performance. The fourth time he
found the door unlocked, He was
out on the range with bound. But
he came back crestfallen. He had
not been able to get the coveted tin
cup Of coffee. This tin cup of cot
fee is usually reserved for the
head "rangeman," who is picked out
specially to lord it over the others.
John Michale had missed his coffee,
a mixture almost as thin as water.
But another day had started. A day
nearer his hour of release. There
was some compensation in that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Alabama Convict
Labor System is
Viciously Attacked

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 10. -
James c. Knox was placed in a laun-
dry vat for refusing to dig coal at the
mines of contractors who use convict
labor in Alabama. He died as result
of this inhuman treatment and now
the investigation is bringing out the
fact that a number of such outrages
have taken place. The bodies of two
convicts recently buried are being ex-
humed by the order of the grand jury.
An attack on the convict labor system
is to be made at the next session of
the legislature. The United States
senatorial candidates, before the prim-
aries, are using the issue to grab off
votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
$4,000, 100000 is Sold
on Installnent Plan
in the United States

NEW YORK, May Csc, 500, OOO, 900
worth of business is done on the in
stallment plan in the United States
every year. Fifty-four per cent of that
j son automobile purchases. $6O,OOO,-
100000 is about the annual income of
the people of this country. The aver
age national installment debt is less
than per cent of that. The bankers.
commission investigating the situation
as to the effects of installments on
business holds that it will probably
not be a big enough factor to have
much effect either way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Virgin Islands Bill for
Government Revived

WASHINGTON, May 10. - For the
same mysterious reason that he caus-
ed the Virgin Islands civil government
bill to be shelved on April Z, Chair
man Willis of the senate committee on
territories and insular possessions has
caused it to be revived. The motion
postponing its consideration until next
December has been reconsidered.
Willis did not disclose the inspiration
Of his quick change Of front, but other
senators expressed a belief that the
first decision that a junket down to
the islands this summer was necessary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
AMERICAN FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
REACH TOTAL OF SIS, AL, 900, 900

WASHINGTON, May 1oAmerican investments
securities foreign corporations total approximately
sooooo according Of the United States department
Of
the the foreign nations and corporations
American Industries securities
Is true.
1925 American foreign toaed
100000 ss7f7oooooo s34s,
100000, that OF 1922 sS6s9oooooo.
Most Of the American Investments
ventures. More being
Canadian and Asae loans and Last
s27ooooooo comeroe
estimates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12

working conditions:
three cheers for the Negro work
ersl" Albert weisbord, organizer Of
the United Front Committee of Tex
tile Workers in Passaic, New Jersey,
sounded the call. 1000 strikers from
the United Piece Dye Works in Lodi
responded with win.
The meeting was held In Castle Park
Hall on the Garfield side of the Pas
satc river, just across from the huge
BohaRy Worsted Mills where the work
ers have been on strike for over seven
weeks. A mile and a half the Lodi
strikers had marched to hear their
leader speak.
was on the picket line in Lodi dur
ing the noon hour that day, March TO-.
It was an inspiration to see two Ne
groes marching in the front ranks. Sew
eral hundred colored workers are EN-
ployed in the dye works. They are
paid 20 cents an hour and the condi-
tons under which they work are mis-
cradle.
twenty-five cents an hour!
Boo-o-oi" we shouted as we passed
the walls Of the factory and the line
of workers smoking and resting after
their morning shift. Occasionally two
or three would join the line and the
exultation would be immense.
Later, at the meeting, Weisbord
made an impassioned plea for solidar-
ity of all nationalities and races to win
the strike. One Of the Negro brothers
sat on the platform. This is not a
strike of American workers." Weis-
bord declared, "This is not strike Of
the foreign-born. This Is a strike Of
all the workers to establish a working
class union. / said yesterday that l
should like to be the first to shake the
hand of the first Negro worker who
would join our ranks. Well, am glad
Chat have had that privilege"
This is a new phenomenon among
strike leaders. Most unions bar col
Ored workers and thereby encourage
chem to become strikebreakers. We
can be thankful that a new school of
labor leaders is arising which will
shatter this tradition of prejudice and
save the way for united labor move
xseat Of all workers, regardless of race
and nationality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
May Move German
Locomotive Works
to the Soviet Union

KHARKOV, May 10. - An offer to
transfer to the Ukraine its entire To-
connective works recently constructed
in Dusseldorf in the Ruhr has been
made by the board of directors of the
German concern. They ask 100000
marks from the Soviet Union for max
ing the move. and offer to send along
their director of works, a famous ex-
pert in locomotive building, as man
ager. German banks have agreed to
finance the deal, and the Soviet au-
thorities have accepted in principle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Mosquito Forces Early
Explorers in Central
America to Go North

The mosquito and yellow fever
drove the early explorers of America
out of Central America and made
them go north, thus our development
in the United States, according to
Joseph A. lie Prince, sanitary engi-
neer of the United States public health
service statement ISSUED thru the
Gorges Memorial Institute Even those
who landed in the section now known
as the United States, would have drift.
ed south and deserted the cold climate
If the mosquito had not driven them
back.
The American Worker Correspond
ent is out Did you subscriber
WRITE AS YOU FIGHT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Seek Pardon for Mecray.

WASHINGTON, May 10. - Another
appeal for executive clemency TO re-
lease Ex-Governor Warren McCray Of
Indiana from Atlanta prison was made
to President Coolidge today by Repre-
sentative VIII Wood, republican, of In
diana.
Wood expressed confidence, after
seeing the president, that such elem
ency would be forthcoming sometime
in the future, altho he admitted that
Coolidge had not committed himself in
this respect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Settle Juso-slav War Debt.

WASHINGTON, May 1O--The Amer
lean debt commission has settled
another minor European war debt.
An agreement was reached for the
funding of the Jugo-Slav debt Of ap-
proximately s67,0OO,0OO, representing
principal and accrued interest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
Burbank Estate to wife.

SANTA ROSA, Cal, May 10. = The
will OF Luther Burbank, world famous
plant scientist who died April II, was
probated here today before Superior
Judge X. L. Thompson. The entire
estate valued at approximately
100000 is bequeathod to Mrs. Bur
bank
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
FOREIGN BORN WORKERS COUNCILS SEND
DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT WASHINGTON ON MAY IS AND Is

reaching the Office OF the Western
indicate that the
held Play House in Washington
Saturday Sunday, will be a huge
The Pittsburgh the chairman and the
secretary Mine Workers
America Washington
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12
HOW The negro WORKER VIEWS
The STRIKE Of THE 10000
PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS
BY ROLAND A. GIBSON.

The following article The
caton which A Gibson
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12

Put a copy OF the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you 20 to your union meeting. I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-12

"CHEE, I'm sore all over" was an
~ other one of Johns admissions.
He was then facing his eighth night
on his bed OF two bare boards.
There was no mattress, no pillow, no
cover Of any kind. No ore In the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-09-24

spread the gospel of forest protection
and those messages have been heard
in every Canadian province and in
every State in the Union. In little
more than year, $50 two-minute
talks on forest fire prevention were
given from these stations and thirty
three speeches by prominent men, in
Guiding the federal and provincial
premiers, were also broadcast. AL
most every pamphlet published by the
company has some terse, prominent
reference to forests and their protec-
ton, and dodgers" issued in cooper
alton with the Canadian Forestry
Association and embodying fire warn
| ings to passengers, were attached to
the menu cards in our dining cars.
To such campaign there could be
only one response and results have
proved that the arrows which we shot
were better aimed than we knew.
| Our next step was to demonstrate
| to the Board of Railway Commission
ers, which adjudicates for the rail
ways and corresponds to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission at Wash
ington, the Dominion and Provincial
forest authorities and the lumber
mems forest organizations, our desire
to cooperate with them in the friend
Hest and most full-hearted manner
! This appeared to be somewhat of an
innovation, but the Board soon dis
covered it's advantages, and the unity
of effort has accomplished much in
bringing us all nearer our goal.
In the meantime our equipment and
man-power were being organized and
put on a mobile footing. We placed
at strategic points across the Domin-
ion (where fire hazards were great
est) 10 fire-fghting tank cars, vary
ing in capacity from 5000 to $4,000
gallons. Small pack sack hand sprays
which carry five gallons of water and
can be shouldered by fire-fghters,
were literally distributed and have
been found efficacious in controlling
right-of-way burning operations and
extinguishing burning logs, ties and
lISlSSldpA pOlCo. AL lllO pdIlOlo WOlO
furnished with grub hoes, axes, SHOW
els and pals, and in some instances
they were mounted on small track gas
cars, hand velocipedes or jiggers. In
all forested areas, emergency fire
fighting equipment is carried at the
section house and is available for i'm
mediate use.
The yard and switching locomotives
were equipped with hose pipe to the
injector which is specially designed
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-09-24

for fire-fighting purposes. Continued
experiments have greatly improved
the spark arrester device in use on
our locomotives. From end to end of
something over $4,000 miles, we have
kept our right-of-way clear of cumbus-
tible matter and debris, and yearly
we pillow 1890 miles of fireguards out
side of our right-of-way on the prairies
as a further protection against the
spreading of fire from railway opera
ton. Some mileage of fireguards has
been plowed in forested territory with
good results
In the interim we devised and
placed in effect a symbol telegraph
form and general report form which
is absolutely "fool-proof" and which
expedites the sending of information
to the nearest and right officer, on all
fires which do occur. Very few other
reports except those devised to record
the activities of men solely engaged
in fire prevention work, are required.
We have realized that causes of all
fires must be determined if recur-
rences are not to happen and so the
report of every fire receives prompt
attention, is thoroughly probed, and
the data secured is used to broaden
the scope of our forest policy.
All this has not been accomplished
without great effort and without dis
couragement. But the results have
more than justified our experiment
and amply rewarded our work. We
have not suffered our enthusiasm to
do not intend to. Our records one
of which we are justly proud and one
which we intend to maintain and to
better.
lit one time ave stood at the top of
the list as a cause of forest fires in
Canada. Today 1ue are almost at
the bottom.
That is our achievement. And this
is the one and only instance where
our ambition is to sit upon the lowest
rung of the ladder!
venture to say that we have dem
onstrated in some small measure at
least that where there exists the will
to do, much can be accomplished
This we have proved conclusively;
that given proper direction, the public
no less than body of employees, can
be brought to realization of their
duty as guardians of their forest
wealth and as the protectors of this
heritage which they hold in trust fol
the future generations of this land.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-09-24

Alarmed by the ever-increasing
amount of Australian and New Zea-
land butter being imported into Can
ada through the Pacific Coast ports,
which amounted to 100000 pounds
for the first four months of this year,
Canadian dairymen have demanded an
increase in the duty on all butter
brought in. The duty has been but
one cent pound, but listening to the
appeal of the dairymen, the govern
ment has notified importers at Van
couver that they must pay six cents
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-09-24

ACoo LAC hOyoCOAC VI Jul AoASoC PiOe
ton policy / think we have succeed
ed in that endeavor.
We established at general head
quarters of the company, forest fire
prevention department and placed at
the head of it man whose expert
ence in forestry work had covered a
wide field and who brought to his
duties this knowledge, plus tactful
personality, both very necessary when
the goodwill of an organization is
being Sought. He was given a free
hand Two assistants, one in west
ern Canada and one in Ontario were
placed under his direction. The pages
of the company magazine which cir
culates all over the system were
opened to him and articles were print
ed dealing with many phases of forest
life. He attended as many as pos
sible of the staff meetings and the
subject of forest fire prevention was
agenda. Government and technically
trained fOresters were made specially
welcome at those meetings and took
active part in them.
Later at Montreal, Winnipeg and
Toronto, forest protection meetings
were organized and these were at
tended not only by the principal re
gional officers of the company but by
Representatives of every organization
connected with forest work in the
Dominion. All of the ten radio broad.
casting stations of the Canadian Ma
tional Railways were utilized to