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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
PHONE STRIKE
IS CALLED IN
SO. ILLINOIS
Company Refused to
Arbitrate

HARRISBURG, H., Jan. 5. - The
strike of telephone operators for the
Southern Illinois Telephone company
was carried out as planned, according
to reports received from the territory
served by the company here early this
afternoon.
Thirty operators operating long dist
ance phones service and individual
phones here, together with operators
of Galata, Carrier Mills, Raleigh and
Stonefort, walked away from their
switchboards promptly at noon.
The strike had been scheduled for
last Thursday at midnight, but Mayor
Guy Patterson, and business men in
duced both sides to enter into a FIVE.
day period of arbitration. According
TO Mayor Patterson today, General
Manager G. l.. Mays refused to arbi-
trate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
GALES TO HAVE OWN
WAY IN MEXICO; WILL <
ASSIST CAPITALISTS

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5-The MexI-
can congress, before II closed its
sessions, enacted all of the legis-
latlon that President Gales had
asked for making him virtual die.
tator OF Mexico. He has been given
such tremendous dictatorial powers
that he may regulate and enforce
the laws In any manner he may see
fit. He will have charge OF the ma
tion's income and will appropriate
as much Of the budget as he wishes.
He is given supreme command Of
the army. Heswas aso given power
to revise the Mexican civil and
criminal codes and control the Iu.
dietary. He is also given the power
to administer the petroleum laws In
any manner that may suit his pur.
pose. These measures were pro-
posed and highly desired by Gales,
who has the backing OF Luis Nor
ones, the Mexican "Sam Gompers."
Gales In his new role as admins.
traitor OF the republic will be able
to give American capitalism all the
assistance Il needs 10 better ex.
plot the Mexican workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
BOARD REMEMBERS ITS
POLITICAL CHIEFTAINS;
FORGETS NEEDY WORKERS

The Chicago city council finance
committee held an al-night session
at which it voted to give various
heads of departments increases in
salaries and then voted down pro-
posals to give firemen, scrub wo-
men and other municipal workers
slight increases in pay. Before the
session closed, however, the board
"nulified" its former action, when
It was pointed out how raw the
deal looked and decided to "recon-
slider" the budget question before
reporting to the council. Strings
are now being pulled to prepare the
aldermen for the increase for the
political chieftains and to turn their
backs. on the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
Current EUents
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY

CARDINAL Mundelein pulled good
" one when he addressed the holy
name society here few days ago.
The society was organized for the
purpose of abolishing blasphemy and
cursing. Mundelein said: Il have
lived for more than fifty years in the
larger cities of this country and
like others of my contemporaries,
have noted with satisfaction the
change in speech that has taken
place." Evidently the cardinal never
had the experience of spending a
night in the detective bureau and
hearing the holy name policemen
test their obscenity on the prisoners.
TIME cardinal also complimented
4 President Coolidge for receiving
body of holy name men at the
Capitol a year ago. The canny New
Highlander, probably cares as little
for the pope as his witch hunting
progenitors did. but catholic votes are
just as good as protestant votes and
perhaps little more docile.
TT is rumored the prince of Wales is
about to wed one of the few remain
ing princesses in captivity. She is
Swedish. 1t seems that the Swedes
are rather good natured people and
don't mind having royal family hang
ing around, provided they don't throw
their cigarette ashes on the carpet or
park their second hand chewing gum
on the family armchair. A modern
princess is liable to grab anything
for a husband that looks like
a man but more careful girls would
just as soon hitch on to a virulent
germ as to the prince if credence can
be given to reports of his South Am
erican exploits.
OUR capitalist papers tell us that
liking Georges subjects are rather
worried over the failure of the prince
to take unto himself wife and beget
an heir to the throne. Perhaps the
prince does not believe in waste mo-
ton, or in supplying something that
may not have market after it is pro-
duced. read several British work
ing class papers each week and l ga
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than in the pork departments. Women
receive $3.50 straight wages and a
few make as high as $40 per week
on piece work in good season by
working themselves to death.
Out of these miserable wages, for
even in the best seasons you are
only guaranteed 40 hours per week.
II you work in a department where
you have laundry, you must buy
three or four changes Of working
clothes-the company says $50 TO
he sure you get them back from the
laundry in time to make a change.
In the hog cutting department
Negroes predominant composing 300
CT the working force The other is
workers are mostly foreign-born. In
This department they average 1890
hogs in s hours work. In the last
three weeks we averaged 700 per
Continued on page 81
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and the bosses meet around a table in
the company Office to discuss the
grievances of the workers" and to out
line the plans of the bosses.
Board Is Bosses Tool.
What is this conference board? The
conference board created by the
bosses and maintained by the bosses
is blind-a rag-placed over the
eyes Of the workers to keep them
from recognizing the identity of inter-
est that exists between all the work
ers in the packing plant-wthether he
be black, yellow, brown or white.
You don't need a union in this plant.
why if you've got grievances, you go
to the conference board. If you had a
union here you'd have to pay dues.
Now, you don't have to and you get
the same benefits" This, in sub
stance, is the argument Of the bosses
for the conference board and many Of
the poor packing house workers be-
lieye it to be true.
Has the conference board at any
time aided the workers in the plant?
This has to be answered with a power
full NO! The conference board was
created for but one purpose-and that
was to aid the bosses to better ex-
plot the workers IN the industry. The
conference board was created not to
present the grievances of the workers
but to enforce and put into opera
Continued on page 81
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to distribute The, DAILY WORKER.
Must startiWork Early.
Most of the workers in the yards"
enter the gates between $3.50 and $3.50
o'clock in the incoming. They start
TO work at 7. But as they must go to
the filthy locker rooms and dress for
the floor and then sharpen their
knives and cleavers they must get into
the yards" on hour or two before
starting" time. All OF the sharpen
ing Of the tools and preparation for
work must be done on their own time.
AS the workers entered the gates
and were handed The DAILY WORK
Err they wanted to know "what II was
all about" When told that The
DAILY WORKER, their paper was
carrying on a special drive in the
packing houses OF the nation, showing
up the speed.up systems and other
conditions in the meat packing plants,
they would all say That's the stuff.
We need more SUCH papers that amt
afraid Of these big guys that own the
works here"
Most OF the workers entering the
yards were Negroes and they were all
CONTINUED on page %
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CHINESE WORKERS NEED RELIEF
FROM WORKERS OF OTHER LANDS


nationwide calling friends
support suffering Chinese
mo nhuman
China hired
international mperiaias told DAILY WORKER
at every that
stanta
Give the Send contribution
Chicago,
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GANGSTERS BEAT
UP BOX MAKERS
UNION OFFICIAL
Resented Withdrawal of
Graft Booty

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 49, George f.
Powers, organizer for the Paper Box
Makers Union of Greater New York.
was beaten up here by four gangsters
nesting in Norfolk and Delaney SITS.
These same gangsters, Moe Gross
man, Joey" "Silvy" and Young
Frenchy" only got thru collecting the
last S2,100 of total amount Of $500,
having been paid Dec. End. 1925. a
blackmail booty of the most PREACHER
Gus kind.
Not satisfied with this. they went
step further. They went to work
for the Maderight Paper Box Co., 46
Wooster ST., firm owned by a Mr..
Meister and three other partners,
where a strike of paper box workers
is in progress, and inundated the
pickets on the picket line, telling
them that they would "allow" girls on
the picket line but no men.
Last Tuesday night. Dec. 22nd. the
organizer of the Paper Box Makers
Union, while in front of the struck
shop, was approached by Moe" and
"Silvy" and told by the former that
they" won't ALLOW" any men on
that picket line and that If he would
show up again they would chase" him
and the girls from the picket line.
When the organizer told them that he
was an official of the Paper Box
Makers Union and would come to do
his duty, then "srivy" told him. that
means a fight
Attack Organizer.
This threat was carried out In less
than one week. Monday night, at
about $50, while Powers was talking
to the girl pickets, the four gangsters
came out OF Meisters place and be.
gan 70 beat him until he went down,
then kicked him. up he came and
down he went, under the weight and
pain Of more blows rained from all
sides by the four gangsters.
This gangster attack expresses their
resentment of a policy inaugurated
by the new administration OF using
the money OF the union in the inter.
ests Of the $500 workers who make
up It's membership, instead OF turning
the treasury over TO an unprincipled
crew Of doublecrossing, grating
guerillas,' who, leech-like. have been
for years sucking the vitality from the
Paper Box Makers Union of Greater
New York and who still infest many
labor organizations in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07

North Dakota agricultural coll
lege.
From 1910 to 1920, willard said,
100000 acres of farm land were
abandoned in 20 western states. He
said this condition was brot about
because Of the discrepancy in the
price the farmers receive for their
products and the price they have to
pay for manufactured products. The
point under discussion was the de-
mand of the western railroads for
| higher freight rates. willard argued
that higher rail rates would still fur
Their increase this difference in prices
and cause still greater devastation
among the farmers of the country.
Proposes No Solution.
willard confined his objections to
the question Of freight rates and did
not touch upon the role of the banks
the millers, the grain trust in gener-
al, the various extortionate swindlca
practiced by the middle men, all Of
which contribute to reduce the farm
er to pauperism.
1t is appropriate that this question
should come up at this time when
thousands of families of farmers ar
flocking into middle western cite
and haunting the slave markets &c
chance to be shipped to warrior
parts Of the nation as common labc
ers on construction gangs.
Iowa Crisis Grows.
Iowa farmers, unable to dispose OF
their crops for enough money to meet
the loans the banks have advanced
them on the crops, are being driven
from their farms and the smaller
banks, unable to dispose of the grain
crops at the prices they loaned the
farmers are going out of business
and their assets taken by the larger
banks. There are dozens of bank
failures every week, which eloquent
ly portray the horrible conditions
existing in this once prosperous agri-
cultural state. The crisis is also felt
by the small merchants of the towns
and if the present exodus from the
farms continues. Iowa will soon be
dotted with deserted villages that
formerly supplied agricultural Sec
lions with commodities.
Coolidge Considered Fraud.
The farm crisis is too young yet
to develop definite political move
ments, but the entire middle west
looks with hatred and contempt upon
Coolidge and his fraudulent farm re-
lief proposals and if the president Of
the United States were running for
reelection today. he would not carry
one state in this vast region.
At the same time the farmers look
with suspicion upon the frantic eff
forts of congressman who propose
various panaceas for farm relief, as
they do not forget that few weeks
ago these same Statesmen" were on
the Coolidge bandwagon.
All government agencies, such as
the interstate commerce commission,
are considered enemies of the farm
ers and servants of the big bankers
Continued on page 81.
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ADAM i 100000 ACRES In 20 STATES
ARMOUR'S CONFERENCE BOARD
PUTS ACROSS BOSSES SPEED-UP
SYSTEMS IN CHICAGO YARDS

The history the packing militant
struggle the exploitation of the
driving tactics Of
from
the workers organizations and
them back their grow greater
greater dissatisfaction
this which
ference boards their employees
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mo SPLITS! NO DUAL UNIONS!"
APPEAL OF PROGRESSIVE Miners
COMMITTEE TOU. M. ". MEMBERS
BY ALEX REID
Secretary Progressive Miners Committee.

In many places thuout the mining districts of America the
destructive vipe-dua unonsmis again showing its head. In
illinois, Pennsylvania and in particular in the Northwest and
Nova Scotia the policy Of splits producing the results
have attended the split movements of the pascompete
moraization
Turnout the districts
pers have got in their deadst cks with the result
United Mine Workers of America has practically annated
and in Alberta about half dozen labor fighting
each other for supremacy with the inevitable result of complete
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FARMERS FORCED TO MIGRATE
FROM Land AS CRISIS GROWS
THRUOUT The WHOLE middle WEST
Especial to The Daily Worker,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-. JAM 5-The condition of the farmers
middewest becoming rapidly according brief
submitted before committee of the interstate commerce
commission which conducting hearings regarding the agr
cultural crisis
by families forced into bankruptcy by the
foreclosure mortgages growth of farm tenany the flock
ing the cities of the children of farmers and the terrible i'm
thousands of farmers portrayed
in Willard economist of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
KANSAS CITY PACKING HOUSE
WORKERS GET LOW WAGES; MUST
TAKE OUT COMPANY INSURANCE
eY a Worker correspondent.

in packing
employed.
and few
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Danish Textile Lockout settled.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Jan. A.
The textile f,ckout was settled with
the members being granted the right
TO organize and to retain their. higher
wages, but to surrender some of their
privileges.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14

Biggers, Oct. 9.-Tom Taylor of May
nard. manager of the Dixie store at
Reyno, died suddenly at the store yes
terday while writing letter to his
wife. The body was discovered by a
passerby who summoned a physician.
Mr.. Taylor had been operating the
store at Reyno for several months and
was writing letter to Mrs. Taylor,
who is in Maynard, when seized with
a heart attack. Ben Hannaford, who
passed the store, discovered his body
and called doctor but death had
occurred several minutes before.
The funeral was held Sunday at
Myrtle. Mo- Rev c. NJ. Myrick, prin-
cipal of Maynard Academy, conducted
services.
The deceased is survived by the
widow, three daughters and one son,
all of whom were present for the funer-
al excepting the son, who is in Texas.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
ENGLISH BLUFF

Still cloudy and gloomy. Just the
| thing to encourage the blues.
If the weather doesn't fair up and
step up a few notches we fear the
boys faces will get so long that they
will have to pay extra for a shave.
/ Well we guess we will have some
true conversions this time to the fact
that we are going too strong on cotton
T. j. Murphy returned home one
day last week from trip to Batesville
where he had been taking i'm the Fair
A secret service man dropped into
the community in the fatwOOds near
Wirth, passed himself for a fruit tree
agent and mixed with the boys, went
with them to parties, bought their
white mule and drank with them. He
seemed to be jolly good fellow but
the first thing they knew about twenty
of them were arrested for violating
the prohibition law and had trip to
Batesville. We understand the major
itr Of them were released on bond.
viii Choate made business trip to
George Mariott's Friday of last week
John McFann had business at Ed
Baldridge's Saturday.
George James was on his way to
Myrtle Saturday and as he passed Mrs
Clare Cases home he discovered
mad dog in the yard with a fit The
family was in the house with the doors
shut Mr. James drew his gun and
shot the dog twice then finishing him
up by pounding his head with rocks.
Dave Risner has hauled six bales of
cotton to Thayer. He had it ginned
and stored away for a higher price.
John McFann, John King and Ed
Baldridge made business trip to po-
cahontas Tuesday.
win Choate has contracted with the
people at the Hand school house for
a singing school and will begin teach
ing next Monday night
Joe Murphy and family visited his
brother, I. f. Murphy, Sunday.
Mrs. Alelvina Jeffries has returned
home from few days visit with her
nephew, W. b. Rose, at wirth.
Arthur Ehrhardt has been suffering
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
Joneshoro Runs Wild

Showing tornado in action, the
Jonesboro High School football team
THE Golden Hurricane" performed
ON the local gridiron Friday. Gallop-
ing through the Poca Iii team like a
prairie fire through sagebrush, the
Hurricane amassed total Of 10l
points fifteen touchdowns and eleven
extra points.
The Poca teams performance was
highly edifying, in that it was an al
most perfect exhibition of how not to
play football. On offense they were
crushed and downed before their plays
reached the line OF scrimmage and on
defense they revived the old game OF
"Tag" and showed the girls something
new in "necling."
But for the logged defense of How.
ard Lester in the line and the tackling
of Mcdowell Lewis, tiny end there is
no guessing what the score might have
been. If each Pocahontas boy had put
as much fight and technique into his
efforts as these two boys, there would
be a much different story to tell. Les
ter, unperturbed by the fact that his
team mates had apparently lost inter-
est in the proceedings, played his usual
solid game, stopping all plays directed
at his section of the line and some
times breaking through to mess up a
play. Lewis, undoubtedly the small
est player ever to take part in game
on Pocas grid, who went in late in
the game, made some tackles that set
the sidelines a-tallSing and threw sur
prise into the Hurricane backfeld,
which by this time was becoming ac-
customed to light caresses around the
neck or loving pats on their padded
hips when coming in contact with
Poca's defense.
Rees, Jonesboro back, was the in
dividual star of the Hurricane, making
eight of their touchdowns. Grossman
exhibited something flashy in his brok-
en- field dashes and made three touch
downs of his own. Burnett, 1876 pound
Jonesboro fullback, also made three.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
The Editors Eye

The result of the recent election
is most gratifying to the friends of
the public schools and that should in
clude every man, woman and child in
the state.
Amendment No 10 which win enable
any district in the state to vote at the
May election any amount of school
taxes up to Is mills was carried by an
overwhelming majority. 1t was one Of
the most popular measures presented
TO the people. The large vote cast in
favor of adoption is an evidence of the
favorable attitude of the people to-
ward any measure designed to improve
the condition of our public schools.
The people voted intelligently and dis
criminatingly on all Of these measures.
Some Of them carried by n much larg-
er majority than Others showing that
in the end the people may be depend
ed on to vote right.
The adoption OF No. 10, however,
win not in itself make better schools.
The tax voted by the various districts
must be intelligently administered.
About the only objection offered to the
amendment was that the money would
be dissipated. This would be true UNI
less care is exercised in the selection
Of directors and in the adoption Of the
school program. Money can be wasted
on schools as well as on anything else.
And tho more money there may he
provided the greater the responsible
ity that rests upon those who admin
lister it. The handicap that has exist
ed has been removed and it is now up
to the people to see that a proper ac-
counting is made of the money that
will be provided by the people for the
maintenance of our schools. We verify
believe that new day has dawned for
the public schools of Arkansas.
> There are still several things to be
accomplished. The next important
step in the forward movement is the
adoption of the County Unit System.
This system exists in most states and
is found to work successfully. The
gradual consolidation of weak districts
in many of the counties is forerun-
ner Of the condition that must eventu-
ally prevail Supervision is already an
established fact and cannot be success
fully attacked hereafter. Now that
we have been provided with adequate
funds for buildings, equipment and
teachers, the next step is to abolish
the weak districts and administer the
schools through a central board. This
win reduce the overhead, will stand
ardize the county schools and will
make them more effective.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
Notice

| am in the hospitar again with the
same trouble. All those having an
account with me win please come in
and make settlement with the girl in
the Office. She will look your account
up, and give you a receipt for what
you pay. Respectfully,
H. l.. Throgmorton.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
Statement of Ownership

OF PocahOntas Star Herald publish
ed weekly at Pocahontas, Ark, for Oct
1, 1926
State of Arkansas
County of Randolph
Before me, circuit clerk i'm and for
the State and county aforesaid, per-
sonally appeared w. l.. Blankenship,
who, having been duly sworn accord
ing to law, deposes and says that he
is the editor of the Pocahontas Star
Herald and that the following is, to
the best of his knowledge and belief.
true statement of the ownership, man
agement, etc, of the afOregoing publ
cation for the date shown in the above
caption, required by the Act Of August
y, 1912, embodied in section 443, Pos
tai Laws and Regulations, printed on
the reverse of this form, to-wit:
|. That the names and addresses OF
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
ana business manager are:
Publisher, i. f. Blankenship & Sons :
editor, w. l.. Blankenship; managing
editor and business manager H. f.
Blankcnship, all Of Pocahontas, Ark.
:. That the owners are: l.. f., w. L..
and H. =. Blankenship, Pocahontas,
Ark.
3. That the known bondholdersr
mortgages, and other security holders
owning or holding l per cent or more
OF total amount Of binds, mortgages, or
other securities are: None
w. l.. Blankenship.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this Doth day of Sept 1926.
(Seal) Ben f. Mays, Circuit Clerk.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-10-14
OBITUARY
First Engineer To Cross
Black River Here Is Dead

Uncle Billy Matthews, aged about
20 years, died at Jonesboro last Thurs
day night as result Of gall trouble.
He was taken from here few days
before and placed in n hospital at
Jonesboro for treatment.
Burial was made in his old home
state, Pennsylvania. He is survived
by the widow.
Mr.. Matthews was for many years
an engineer ON the Frisco Railroad and
is known locally as the engineer who
drove the first locomotive across the
Frisco bridge over Black river at Poca
hontas.