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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
BY NORMAN RuRsLER.

Under the flaming sun of the
- Southland, from Texas to Vir-
ginia, thousands of frail little child
rem, black and white, toll long hours
hoeing cotton or doing other work in
the fields. Whole families are busy
at this work and the tots yet too small
to handle hoe toddle along behind
their mothers. The wages for adults
at this kind of work range from $1.25
to $500 day.
WEST Of the Mississippi, thousands
w of people live the life of the Gro
Magnon men of thousands of years
ago. Large families are crowded into
one and two-room mud huts. Espe-
cially is this true of the Border towns.
The progress American Imperialism
is making in subjugating Mexico is
quite noticeable. American slushy
moving pictures and jazz are doing
their work far more effectively than
anything the army could do. The
children, like the American children
are early forced into the business Of
creating profits for those who control
their country by controlling the means
by which the people make their liv-
ing. sfas at
last of the Mississippi conditions
IL could hardly be said to be bet.
ter. Instead of mud huts. frame huts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16

Few workers, especially those in
such basic industries as coal and
metal mining, steel and railroads, will
agree with VOLTS characterization of
American industry as miraculous"
knowing as they do by what arduous
toll of millions of workers, hands these
industries have been established. Nor
will the thousands of workers widows
and orphaned children whose hus-
bands and fathers have been killed at
their tasks see anything miraculous"
in the rise OF American industry
They are much more liable to call
it hellish. "
DUT if one is concerned about in
- dustry in the. abstract one will
care, as does Vol, much more about
saving it from the toil-hardeneds pro-
letarians and leaving it,in it's present
hands. S
This is what Woll proposes. Not
quite SO crudely but plain enough for
the hired men of the bosses. to under
stand:
has worked philosophy which is
democratic-a philosophy that re-
moves the necessity for State con-
troll or overIordship of industry -.
1t believes too that THIS. PHILoSo-
PLY WILL CAST, ASIDE FOR
EVER THE cHIMERA OF COM
MuNlsM, SOCIALISM AND THE
BURDENSoMENESS OF STATE
RE LATIoNS WITH THEIR
BLUNDERs AND RESTRICTIONS.
HERE we have it: There is to be
IL no government control of any
thing, least of all of industry
But what are you going to do with
the state, Vice-President Vol? 1t is
now organized by and for the lords of
industry and finance. 1t is THEIR
state. & 1873 3e
What if, in spite of all your fine
pretensions, the state. of Morgan,
Rockefeller and Co, insists on robbing
great masses of the workers?
TT is evident that you do not care
L about this at all. What you are
trying to do is to make a deal with
this state and the great trusts and
banks whose instrument it is and
leave the great majority of the work
ing class to shift for itself.
You and your kind are trying to be-
come part of the apparatus of Amer
lean capitalism. Rather you are try
inp m hncnn1a a. moro ifnnortant rart
of the capitalist apparatus and this
bid for the favor of the bosses you
have called the Monroe Doctrine of
Industry
1t is a good name
1t labels your scheme for what it
is so plainly that every intelligent
worker can understand that it is the
application at home of the imperialist
policy which Wall Street follows in
Latin-America-a policy of peonage
with labor aristocrats as slave drivers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
Publicity and the British General Strike

TN the July issue of The Labor Maya
zine, official organ of the Trades
Union Congress and labor party of
Great Britain, w. Mellor, assistant edi-
tor Of the Daily Herald, tells the story
of the difficulties encountered in the
production Of The British Worker, Of
fetal strike bulletin of the T. U. c..
during the period of the general stop
page.
Not only does Mellor's story reveal
the difficulty of securing unity of ac-
ton in a trade union movement di-
vided on craft lines and with such
conservative bodies as the British
unions of the skilled trades, but it
shows the lack of plan or determine
ton of the general council while in
the throes of a struggle that had for
its aim on the side of the government
the complete humiliation of the trade
unions.
Not until the British Gazette, the
government strikebreaking sheet, was
on the streets for fifteen hours, did
the general council decide to issue a
paper 1t was printed by the Victoria
House Printing company, which turns
out the Daily Herald. On the first
appearance 100000 copies were dis
posed of and when the strike was call
ed off one million copies were rolling
off the presses daily. is w
This remarkable circulation was Sc
cured despite all kinds of obstacles,
due to government interference and
also to craft jealousies. I should say
that the principal obstacle in the way
OF the British Worker was THEFT. u.
G. which edited or censored the paper
thru its representatives. tpe
Two of the most outstanding pieces
Of stupidity committed by the T. U. G.
during the strike was the calling out
of the workers on the labor press and
the employees of the co-operatives.
They justified this procedure on the
ground Of fairness" to the enemy.
When the unions connected with
the printing trades agreed to cooper
ate in getting out the British Worker,
rates OF wages were hxed with the
unions, excepting the National Union
OF Journalists, which Is not affiliated
to the It. U. G. and was not Officially
on strike. The Paper Workers Union
supplied the distribution force.
The printing and distribution of a
paper on such short notice was a
colossal task, and the succews-tttained
is another testimonial to the resource.
fulness of the working class.
While the editorial directors OF the
British Worker were isguing daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
WHAT SAYETH THE DELPHIAN
ORACLE?

Throneless, jobless, hopeless, help
less and worse than alone, King
George of Greece intends to emigrate
from his Roumanian refuge to the
United States and hunt for job, pro-
vided somebody pays his passage.
Georges only visible means of sup
port Tor alimony as the case may soon
be unless the king connects with a
PAYROLL, is wife of considerable
puichritude. Unfortunately there are
thousands of Russian duchesses will
ing to wash dishes for a pittance that
would make even the king of Portu.
gal go on strike.
So low have the king and queen OF
Greece sunk in the social scale that
even the monarch OF all the Rouman-
ians not yet murdered or in jail, will
not eat with them. George was Of.
fered $4,000 a year "honorarium"
by Florida real estate company but
before he had Tina to snap it up
Ponzi waded in and burst up the bub-
BILE.
Now there is nothing left for George
except lookout job on Blue Island
Avenue. But that only pays In hard
Enthusiastically lead. ks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
Beer Necessity; Water Not.

MUNICH, July s. - After a long
deliberation the city fathers have de-
cided it was improper to levy tax
on beer as a means of acquiring funds
for carrying out building program
to relieve the house shortage, on the
grounds that necessities of life should
not be taxed.
Then the magistrates appointed
committee whose business it was to
find ways of bringing the necessary
funds into the city Golfers: After a
long search trying to find a taxable
article, the committee returned with
a plan which was accepted.
'Henceforth water will be taxed.
The city will be richer by 100000
yearly and the housing committee will
be able to use the funds thus required
for relief of the house shortage with
out taxing necessities"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
The Children of the Southland

make their appearance. AT first sight
they appear to be cross between a
pig pen and a chicken coop. In these
huts the workers Of tomorrow are
bred and are soon out in the fields
trotting behind their mothers and
sisters who push the plows thru the
burrows of southern plantations.
From dawn to dusk, we see the lit
tie ones Shaving in the fields. Now
and then the sight is broken by a
prison camp and a slave driver, whip
in hand ready to enforce his COM
mands.
ME distinguish between prison
w camps and fields of wage labor
ers only by having autoists explain
to us which is which. The sight of
frail-faced little boys and girls who
wave to us occasionally, stopping an
instant in their work, makes us choke
with tears and the little poem from
the Young Communist International
Bulletin is forcibly brought to our
minds that:
mo fedgling feeds the father bird
No chicken feeds the hen
No kitten mouses for the cat
These glories are for men.
We are the wisest. strongest race
Long may our praise be sung.
The only animal alive
That lives upon its young"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
BY LELAND oLDs,
Federated Press Corresponds Mt.

Since 1918 more efficient use Of coal
in industry has cost tens OF thousands
Of miners their jobs, according to the
U. S. bureau of mines. But for that,
the market for bituminous coal would
have been 600OO,0OO tons year great
err than 1t is today.
Glass railroads have reduced con-
sumption of coal per 1000 gross ton
miles from 176 lbs in 1917 to 14O lbs
in 1925, a decrease OF 20 per cent.
Consumption OF coal per passenger
train car.mile has been reduced from
1914 lbs. to 1871 lbs, or II per cent.
The iron and steel industry has re.
duced the coking coal used in pro-
ducing ton Of pig iron from 3,577 lbs,
to SPAS lbs. or per cent.
Electric Power Big Factor.
The growing use of electrical power
makes the efficient use OF coal in cen.
trail power plants Of particular Inn
portance TO coal diggers. The bureau
figures show that where in 1919 about
1 ton Of coal was consumed in the In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16

WYE have the Monroe doctrine-to
w be taken straight as the slogan
under which American imperialism
carries out its penetration and con-
quest of Latin America.
We have the Monroe Doctrine of
Labor" formulated at the FL Paso con-
vention of the American Federation of
Labor-the slogan under which the Of
ficialdom and labor aristocracy Of the
A. F. of L. war on revolutionary ten
denotes in the Latin-American labor
movements and carries on the work of
Wall Street in the ranks of labor in
those nations where American finance
capital has been invested.
NOW we have the Monroe Doctrine
~ of American Industry" enunciated
by no less a parsonage than Matthew
Woll, vice-president of the A. F. of L.,
in the latest number of the official
organ of the Photo Engravers' Union,
of which he is president.
Under the last slogan, if, as we be-
lieve, VOL is voicing the official atti-
tude of the executive council of the
A. F. of L., and the heads of the inter-
national and national unions, is to be
carried out those multifarious schemes
ranging from the B. & o. plan to
labor" banking and insurance com.
panies.
Vol bases his argument on the pro
posal ratified at the Atlantic City con
vention of the A. F. of L, calling for
"a conference of organized labor, or
ganized farmers and trade associa
tons under the direction of Secretary
of Commerce Hoover. The purpose OF
the conference is to consider the elni
nation of difficulties preventing the
constructive organization of industry
Emphasis mine.)
LOR the inclusion of organized
farmers in such a conference some
argument could be made but the in
clusion of trade associations and the
presence of Herbert Hoover, the
petted darling of Wall Street in the
post of secretary of commerce in the
Coolidge cabinet, stamps this propose
for what it is-a council of war which
will elect a general staff to make wal
upon the living standards of masses
of unorganized and unskilled worker:
with the labor aristocrats receiving
some Of the loot in return for theil
services to American capitalism.
That this arrangement is already il
force without the formality of a con
ference is proved by the denunciatior
of the Passaic strike-a strike of low
paid and mostly unskilled workers-ir
conjunction with the textile barons
and the citizens committee organized
by the Passaic chamber of commerce
Woll continues: s4a s4t-Ssa
| American industry is working out
for itself great body of construc-
tive law. Not all of this Is wise
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
DIVINE DISPLEASURE

Los ANGELES, July 14.-PoIce we're
at loss to identity the man who took a
shot at John J.. Kershner late last npFt.
kershner is the author of a pamphlet,
The Disappearance OF Aimee Semple
McPherson." He has been repeatedly
warned to remove his brochure from cir
culation.--News Item.
If the truth you are seeking of
Aimee,
And doing your dead level best
To avoid speaking i'll of a lady,
You should put on a bullet-proof
vest.
For Jesus is there to reprove you,
And it won't be scriptural lark
About women and stone-casting
sinners,
But it may be a shot in the dark.
If you don't think that Jesus is
with her,
And anxiety won't let you rest;
You may visit him soon and dis
cover,
If you.don't wear bullet-proof
vest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
WITH THE STAFF
Being Things From Here and
There Which Have Inspired
Us to Folly or Frenzy /.
0BINGm SAYS BYNG.

Without much whiting the
following story could be shaped to
fit Byng and King:
The president of the corpora
ton blamed an employee for a
mistake. The latter retorted in
kind, showing up the way the
president spoiled things. The lat
ter's dignity couldn't stand it.
care you the president of this
corporations"
mo, Sir"
"Well, in that case" he thun-
dered, don't talk like a fool"
For weeks to come the tissue"
before the electors of Canada will
be whether the governor general
did right in refusing King what
he granted Meighen. AS a matter
of fact it doesn't matter much
whether he was right or wrong.
The subject is only interesting in
that it shows nine million people
are subject to the irresponsible
will of the representative of an
other nation-and still kid them
selves that they enjoy democracy.
j. S. Wallace in Canadian
'Worker."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
Sad News for Patriots

Only individuals have registered for the Citizens
Military Training Sheridan, aho the depart
mant kindly made preparations to take of O according
Chicago Tribune consequence there is great disappon
mrst circles by the failure get the expected number
other people prepare to die for Morgan's country
not much say for home town rule,
gladly record the fact that the military training camp idea
has not "sod" any great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
ELECTRIC POWER BIG FACTORIN
al REDUCING COAL TONNAGE FIGURES

dustry for every 100000 kilowatt.
hours Of current, by 1926 consumption
had fallen to about fwo-third ton, a re.
duction OF nearly "a per cent.
The electrical output OF the country
expressed in millions OF kilowatt.
hours. the total produced by fuels, and
the coal consumed by the industry are
shown year by year since 1919 in the
following:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16
BLANK For REMARKS.

A track supervisor got the fol-
to'oing note from a foreman:
Enclosed is the accident report
concerning Pat Caseys hitting his.
loot NTH spike maui. You aoill-
note that I lett blank the space.
pfortded for "romarks.n / didn't.
knon if you wonted mine or.
Cdseys.D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16

Thus while the total current pro.
duced increased g2per cent and the
amount productivity fuels increased
10 per cent the iuantity of fuel in.
creased only is pr cent. II consump-
ton Of coal in 1926 had been at the
1919 rate the iss,lstry would have
used over $4,000, 900 tons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-16

Get your friends to subscribe to tie
American Worker Correspondent. The
price Is only so cents a year.
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The Monroe Doctrine Of American Industry

OF en- New m =
OF instructive" Organ d I ADAMS toHa bert
Ap = OF
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The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
WAR heroes
PAID HOMAGE:
IN VANCOUVER
Seattle Military Reserve Off
GERS Attend Canadian
Military institute.

VANCOUVER, b. G., Mar Is. --
Forty officers Of the regular Re-
serve military and naval forces Of
the United States, headed by Rear
Admiral Chase, Commandant of the
Bremerton Nayal Yard, and Col.
William M lnglis, of Seattle, are
guests of the Irish fusiliers Of can
ada and Vancouver.
The military institute program in
Guided services in honor Of Canada's
dead with Col. Bert c. Ross, Sc
attic deputy prosecutor Chase and
lnglis as the speakers.
Col. Malcolm Douglas, Of Seattle.
Superior Court judge, laid wreath
on tomb and said this wreath is
a symbol of our reverence and tri-
butte to the gallant soldiers of Can
ada who fell in battle during the
great World War and our salute to
those yet living" -
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
ALASKA JUNE AU.
1925 RECO RD IS.
BETTER THAN EVER.
Juneau Mime Makes Actual
Local Operating Profit OF
$380,000 Last Year.

SAN FRANCISCO. March 13.--Tha
net loss, before dep'etien bur after
all overhead. irclud nd interest oe
edsbte dness. ara improvements aod
expansion costs had beer ehargs3
shown by the annual re1o~t IF tha
Alaska juneau Cold Mining Company
was $10.e35.9e.
The years output Of III nine was
Vaiued 1T $2,o3o,o57.t6.
The foregoing does not indicate z
loss in local operations The profits
over local operating COSTS last year
were approximately $13o0oo, in ad-
dition to capital expenditures for
improvements and expansion amount
ing 10 more than $25a010 That
would mean an actual operating
profit exceeding $SS0,oeo compared
with similar showing of $9lS,0o0
in 1921
The deficit means, therefore, that
the company expended Slo,S35.96 for
improvements and expansion more
than the total earnings after inter
est and outside overhead were paid
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18

U, s, BEFORE
COUNCIL OF
BIG LEAGUE
World Adherence and Reser-
vations Of u. S. 10 Be
Discussed Today.

GENEVA, March 1S-The Coun-
ell of the League of Nations, at
"A secret session last night, decided
to put Germany on the commission
which is to study revision of the
covenant clauses concerning com
position of methods for election to
the Council.
Today the Council decided to dis
cuss at session. American adhcr-
ence to the permanent Court OF JUS
tice including reservation of the L
IS. Senate.
British Foreign Secretary Cham
berlain is reported to have been
advised By the British Ambassador
at Washington, that the American
Government does not deem examina
ton of the problem by the Counci
! as offensive.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
ALASKAN DRAWN
INTO CASE or
EMbEzzLEME:NT
Jafet Lindcberg Owns Com.
pany, Manager Accused
Of Defrauding.

SEATTLE, March Is. Counsel
for II. c. Cutler, accused of en-
bezzling $3.50 from the Arctic Fish
ing q Trading Company, told the
jury the books of this company
are crooked and used to hide assets
belonging to the Scandinavian-A Amer
lean banks of Seattle and Tacoma.
This fish concern was far from be
ing small enterprise. It was man
aged by poor fisherman but was
really owned by Jafet Lindeberg."
Lindeberg is "a Nome banker and
mining man and lives in California.
He defeated extradition to this
state after the Scandinavian-Amer-
lean bank failed at Tacoma. The
grand jury indicted him in 1921 in
that case.
Cutler, formerly an Adjutant OF
the American Legion post in Seat
tie, told the jury the money he is
accused of taking was due him for
wages.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18

SANTA FE. n. M, March Is
While the Christian world is making
ready for the observance Of Easter,
in few places are the preparations
as unique and wrapped in mystery
as in the almost inaccessible noun
tain villages of New Mexico.
Here hundreds of persons. descend
ants Of the Spanish cOnquistadores
and members of the Society Of
Penitent Brothers, are planning their
annual rites The ceremonies reach
their climax with the enactment in
a crude way Of the crucifixion OF
Christ at Sunset on Good Friday.
The natural setting has been de.
scribed az closely resembling the
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18

HUDSON. Ont. March Is. - The
old melodrama of the hlondike goid
rush is once more being ena ted
with this little snow buried hamlet
as its latest setting.
The reported finding Of gold in
the Red Lake district in northern
Ontario has aroused Hudson from
its customary winter Information and
converted it into a bustling center
of activity, the gathering point for
hundreds of adventurous spirit
lured there by the hope of pluckins
fortune from the earth.
All of the characters and proper
ties Of the Far North" movie thrill
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
Sect OF Penitents Use
Torture at Easter Time

actual scenes of the Holy Land.
The society and the rites are cen
turtles old The organization had its
foundation among the monasteries OF
Spain and France before the dis
covery of America, and was trans
planted to the new world by the
first religious brothers who me
trated the southwest region of the
United States in the sixteenth cen
tury.
Because OF the inaccessibility of
the regions where the brotherhood
still has its strongholds in New
Mexico. their customs and services
have changed but little. An open
Continued on Page Three)
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
ACTION IS A SURPRISE

WASHINGTON, Mafch IS.-T He
State Department has received with
surprise indications that the League
of Nations may ask a representative
of the WASHINGTON Governm mt to
explain American reservations OF
the World Court ratification.
Secretary Kellogg said this Gov
ernment is dealing directly with As
members Of the World Court re-
garding acceptance of reservations
and several governments have in
formally approved .he reservations.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
Ontario Gold Find Brings
Scenes of KlOndike DAYS

er are to be seen in real life here
today-the dog train, the pack and
the packer, the snowshoes, the Ojib.
way Indians, the bearded prospect
ors, the dance hall. the hastily con
structed stores, the log cabins,
shacks, and tents which house the
new arrivals.
Hudson is on the northern trans
continental line of the Canadian
National Railways. some 240 miles
east of Winnipeg and II miles to
the west of Sioux Lookout. 1t is the
nearest railway point to the Red
Lake district Hudson was little
more than a name on the railway
map short time ago.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
Gets Million on
Sho,cing OF
Only $50

WASHINGTON, March 1S.-Post-
master General New has issued a
fraud order against Charles II. Tn
verzagt and the Lightning Gold
Gravels Drainage Company and
Mines Operating Company of New
York and Vancouver, b. c., for oh
tanning money under false pretenses
through the mails.
Unverzagt is declared to have ad-
mitted receiving $1,500,000 from
the public although he obtained
only $50 in gold from the Light
ming Greek property. He is fugitive
from justice.
The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1926-03-18
SPECIAL SESSION

GENEVA. Naffh Is. = Brltlsh
Foreign Secretary Chamberlain this
forenoon reported he planned con
vocation for q special conference of
World Court members to discuss
reservation Of American adherence.
Chamberlain in the special session
of the Council initiated the motion
and it was unanimously adopted
setting discussion of the American
reservations for this afternoon. 1t
is expected that if the conference
materializes. the United States will
be invited to send a representative