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prove the unsanitary conditions in
the needle trades shops.
We now have our health commits
sions, factory Investigations, factory
laws and legislation, etc. Yet, in spite
Of these, our masters with steady un-
concern continue to disregard all SAM
tary laws and regulations whenever
they can get away with 1t, which is 80
times out Of hundred. The workers,
on the other hand in unblissful ig-
norance, make hardly any effort to
safeguard their health and vitality.
The odds are enormously against
them,
What Can Be Done.
1t appears from the report of the
New York state department of labor
that at present there are two types
of laws on the statute books of Amer.
lean states, which provide for proper
ventilation OF workrooms. Eight or
ten states provide for a minimum
cubic space per occupant in a work
room USUALLY from ESQ to 400 cubic
feet). Some 20 states require that
factories should be sufficiently" ven
tilated. The cubic feet requirement,
by no means insures good air-in a
poorly ventilated factory the air is
impure, tho the place may not be over
crowded.
1. The workers must be taught to
realize the effects of unsanitary work
ing conditions upon their health.
2. A thermometer can be placed
in every workroom, which should
register about 70 degrees, not above.
8. Periodic ventilation of the work
shops every day few hours during the
day by opening the windows top and
bottom, so that the hot impure air can
escape thru the upper opening and the
cool purer air may come thru the bot
tom. The time lost in the periodic
ventilation will help safeguard the
health of the workers and the workers
must insist on it.
- AeS6uAoA SSACAtAuC anu m6ulCdl
inspection of work shops, followed up
by sanitation legislation and enforce
ment of laws.
5. Workers committees should be
organized to watch for the ordinary,
everyday enforcement of sanitary con-
ditions in the shops. These commit
tees must be made up Of the most en-
lightened and active workers in the
place, because on their daily vigilance
and care depends the health of the
workers. They will also be faced with
the task of getting the workers to
realize the importance of the sanitary
requirements to the extent of insist
ing on them and fighting for them.
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BRITISH LABOR LEADERS TO FACE
ANGRY RANK AND FILE AT JUNE Is
SESSION OF TRADE UNION CONGRESS

LONDON-(FP)-While members
of the British Trades Union Congress
general council refuse to reveal all
the facts connected with calling off
the general strike until the labor con-
ference June 25, a spirited debate
goes on between the left and the ex-
treme right.
Ramsay Macdonald, ]. r. Clynes,
G. 7. Cramp and others approve the
action taken by the council. others
denounce it as a cowardly betrayal.
The division of opinion within the
council was revealed by Secy. A. j.
Cook Of the miners.
Fight Right Wing.
I'VE have been fighting not only
against the government and the own
ers, but against a number of labor
leaders, especially the political lead
ers, whose position has been comprom-
ised," Cook told an audience of 5000
miners.
when the story is written some
men will forever hang their heads in
shame" he continued. AS an example
OF servility on the part of the council
he told how a committee went to see
Baldwin, but the prime minister had
gone to bed, and big chap came in
and said Gentlemen, it is time to
get out"
The London Daily Herald which is
controlled by the Trades Union con-
gress censored Cooks speech for maxi
ing a bare reference TO that. The la
Dor weeklies, which for the moment
are united in opposition to the gen.
eral council, printed it in full.
Get Answer June 25.
Members of the council are in a
sad predicament. One ofithem, II. II.
Elvin, addressing a central labor body
replied to every other question, 81
cannot answer that, you will have to
wait till June 25" He denied the
charge that the strike was ended by
timid compromisers. Elvin disclosed
that negotiations which led TO the end
u. the general strike had been in the
iands OF Hicks, Swales. Tillett, Brom-
et. Pugh. Walkden and Thomas. He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS
AID HOLDS OPEN AIR
MEETINGS IN new YORK |

NEW YORK, June 22. - The In
ternationaI Workers. Aid open air
meetings to raise funds tor the
camp for the Passaic strikers chill.
dren continues to attract hundreds
Of workers nightly.
Nancy sandesky, youthful Pas
sale strike leader, spoke at two large
open air meetings at Columbus
Circle q seth St, and Broadway &.
seth St. A collection Of s52 was
taken up. ar
The following meetings are to be
held this week:
Thursday, June "a, at Prospect
Ave. and 163rd ST.
Friday June rs, at cIeremont
Parkway and Washington Ave.
Saturday, June 20, at ST. AIMS
Ave. and 1Ssth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
Textile Machinery
Improvement Don't
Improve Conditions
BY a Worker Correspondent

LAWRENCE, Mass, June 20. -
There are onlf ten workers in the
Dewey room of the Arlington mill and
these ten workers have to work like
hell for 4S hours week to make the
immense wages of $19.6S. The wages
for this room total up to S10,23336 a
year; IL the workers are all lucky
enough to work every day for the full
81 weeks, which never happens.
The combined capital and property
value of the Arlington Co. was $19,-
900 900 in the year 192S-24, and we can
stake our next wage cut that they
have increased it since then. Yet
these cheese-faring pikers, who claim
to be generous and good to us work
ers, are introducing a new machine
that will throw ten of US out on the
street.
The Dryer and the Dewey machine
used to be separate, but two weeks
ago some sucker had bright idea for
the boss, and they have now fixed a
sprayer on to the Dryer and whenever
the cloth comes out, it is Immediately
sprayed, not by the men, who have
hungry families to keep, but by the
machine, that is hungry only for work.
To save one 19,OOOth part of their
wealth the bosses will throw ten
workers and their families, into the
hell of unemployment.
They are not giving us other work
like they say in their advertisement
in the paper, they are taking our jobs
away. We workers don't object to
the machines helping us with our
work, but there should be some way
Of keeping our jobs The machines
they are inventing now always seem
to put us out of work and put money
into the bosses pockets. Why is this?
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Zion Hospital Burns.

ZION, ILL.,, June 22.-Seven hundred
persons. including twenty-five inva.
lids, today were driven to the street
when the huge four-story Zion home
here was destroyed by fire. The
rambling wooden structure. which oc-
cupies an entire block, burned for
four hours before the combined fire
departments of Zion. Waukegan. H..
and Kenosha. Wis. we're able to check
the flamef
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
PASSAC POLICE
SHOOT AT Girl
STRIKE PICKET
Jail Textile Workers for
Talking to Scabs

NSPGCIdN W TIC A0iiI hNOTkCFl
PASSAIC, N. J., June ga new
police offensive has started in Pas
sale. The police are now concentrate
ing on making battery and assault"
charges against the strike pickets on
the fiimsiest excuse. A number of the
strike pickets were dubbed and a girl
strike picket was shot at because
they had dared to talk to scabs and
try to convince them they should join
the strike.
Fifteen Arrests In One Day.
Fifteen arrests were made in Lodi,
Garfield, Wellington, Passaic and Cliff
ton in one day of pickets who dared
to approach scabs and ask them to
join the strike.
Samuel Swaba, while walking past
the Botany mill, was attacked by the
police when he spoke to a worker.
He was dragged into the mill by po-
lice thugs and badly beaten. He was
beaten again as he was taken to the
patrol wagon: Anthony Tath was ar
rested at union meeting at % Day
ton avenue as he was waiting to go to
the picket line.
Shoot at Striker.
Lucia Alfonzi was shot at twice by
County Policeman Huesler and was
later arrested by this bosses tool.
She had spoken to his mother, who is
a scab, in front Of their house. The
woman ran into the house and her
policeman son came out and shot
twice at the strikers feet.
Bomb outrages, which local papers
continue to attribute to strikers, altho
police have been unable" to locate
the perpetrators, were repudiated by
the United Front Committee in the
following statement:
RepudIate Bomblnus.
1.-THE United Front Committee OF
Textile Workers, at its last meeting,
after discussing statements appearing
in the press Of the various bomb ex-
plosions that have taken place in diff
ferent parts OF the city, definitely went
on record that it most vehemently
repudiates any suggestions that the
bombings took place under the direc-
ton of strikers.
1.-THE United Front Committee of
Textile Workers is unqualifedly op-
posed to such outrages. It knows
nothing about them, and believing
that this is but an attempt to dis
credit the strikers, is not surprised
that the police have not been able to
find the perpetrators.
Is It Bosses Frame-Up?
1.-THE story is recalled of how in the
Lawrence strike of 1912 William
Wood, the head of the American
Wooden Company, was convicted of
having instigated several bombing out.
RACES that took. place in Lawrence
during the strike. 1t is not at all I'M
likely that the bosses here may be
trying the same trick. What do the
bosses care for the lives of the work
ers, and if the bosses can instigate
the throwing of bombs that would kill
somebody and then fasten the blame
upon the unidr or some striker, why
not? 1t has been done before, as
Lawrence shows, and the desperate
situation in which the bosses find
themselves at the present time may
well result in their attempting it now"
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Factory Inspection.


heated and generally impure, due
either to the overcrowding of the
shops, closed windows, insufficient
ventilation facilities, or dust on the
floors and in the air of the work
rooms.
1t was also brot out by the commits
sion that in these shops workers suf-
fer from fatigue, headaches, bronchi-
tbs, anemia, indigestion, and general
lack of resistance to colds, etc. Among
these workers there is also a great
predisposition to tuberculosis.
Local.
In New York city, during one year,
500 bakers were examined medically;
45S, or more than SO pei. cent of them,
suffered from one or more of the
above mentioned ailments. In the
majority Of cases examined, the i'll
health Of the bakers could be directly
traced to the unsanitary conditions Of
the bakeries where they worked. In a
few cases, the report showed lack
of resistance to disease OF any kind.
Out of 613 tailors examined, 500, or
more than 80 per cent, were suffering
from some ailment directly traceable
to ill-ventilated and unsanitary facto-
ries.
1t is further reported that most Of
the patients in the state insane hospi-
tai come from the congested districts
Of Greater New York. They worked
in unsanitary, crowded, ill-smelling
workshops and lived in congested, un-
sanitary tenement houses.
The Needle Trades Shops.
Most of the workers in the needle
trades are very we'll acquainted with
these overcrowded, unsanitary work
rooms. They call them the Sweat
shops" where they spend the best
part of their lives In coming their
health into profits. The high cost of
floor space in the factory districts Of
New York city makes overcrowding
almost inevitable.
Added to this congestion, there is
almost always an unheard of disre-
gard for ventilation, the. windows be-
ing tightly closed in the winter. Dur
ing the summer months the windows
are opened, but even then we find
that overcrowding, the body heat and
odors, the dust of the machinery, the
heat generated by the electric motors,
ETC., more than counterfeit the little
fresh air which comes in thru the
open windows.
In the morning, when the factory is
first opened, the smell in the shop is
most noticed in contrast to the air
outside. One can generally hear the
workers say: "The smell in here can
knock you out" In an hour or two
the workers become insensible to the
smell and keep on breathing in the
same foul air all day long. Many
workers do not even go out of the
shops for lunch, so that neither they
nor the factories get any airing thru
out the day. It is little wonder then,
that the health and strength of the
workers is gradually undermined and
many workers become mental and
physical wrecks.
Observations.
In the good old days, before the
restriction of immigration, one could
see young. red-cheeked, healthy look
ing "greenhorns" from the "other
side" pouring into the dress shops to
earn livelihood. A few months, or
a year passed and Transformation
took place in these workers (mostly
girls). They became "Americanized,"
without pep, without color, anaemic,
sickly looking appendages to the ma
chimes. This goes on year in and
year out and very little is done to i'm
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Six Killed When
Paris-Bordeaux Train
Jumps OFF Tracks

TOURS, France, June 22.-Six per-
sons were killed and 80 injured when
the Paris-Bordeaux express jumped
the track at Vouvray. seven miles
from here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-24
A Story of Lenin

Deals with our great leader dur.
ing the Bolshevist Revolution.
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S=3 WORKER coRRE5pONDENTT By JANUARY - -
BAD AIR IN SHOPS AND MILLS
INJURING HEALTH OF WORKERS
WHO FAIL TO REALIZE DANGER
(sy c. TURNER, Worker cOrrespondent)

NEW YORK. 2The effect Of impure
workers generally
working venaed
their physical ailments
be
Factory Inspection.
Factory
1850
49,
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WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.


Arnold Ross
i oil A of oil
lease Skuts enters with Ross the
point ne attempts TO them s
He
from but afraid
fast In
in
ever Dad drilling
oehNery deicks the
paired slips AS
Bunny tells Dad about Paul the family oY Rollers"
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Here was moral problem which Bunny debated within
self was Paul Watkins because of the
So there must be streak Bunny
enormously impressed by Paul. help thinking about
him. He had paid tribute Pauls honor resolving
that he Bunny would permit himself the luxury being
anot even IN trivial things Also the meeting with Paul had
caused Bunny suddenly what an easy time he
was having in life The first morning when he opened
eyes, lying III the deep sort mattress OF the hotebed with its
heavy linen sheets smooth and white blankets
soft fleece and striped the color Of ripe
his thought was how had Paul slept that night without
and without cover? Had he lain the ground? grand
mother she sitting the ground evening
would that you deatho And down in
out breakfast had quite of grapefruit in crushed
ce and cream bacon and and wheat
cakes with Paul would going hungry because
was too proud to eat food until he had
strange perversy caused Bunny in the midst comfort
yearn toward this fierce anchorite who spuned the esh
The morning after the meeting Mrs Groarys Bunny had
sat under palm-ree in front Of the hotel hoping Paul
would come by Instead there had Mrs Groary
husband bringing Mr. Dumpery and followed by Mr. and Mrs
Bromley with their temporary friends tailors It
was deputaton from the medium lots explaining that they
ad continued their meeting until one O'Clock that morning and
had decided to rescd their community agreement go
man for HIMSELF the medium wanted Dad to take
their lease Bunny told them that Dad in the field
the geogost they might wait for him. but Bunny knew
phatc Dad was about offset wells there
taking small lease
After which Bunny seat on the bench next to Mrs
Groarty for the of finding had
vealed himself her that he had
something very wrong the previous evening" he
the kitchen door after looking porch Following his
program of telling the truth somebody had
not to tell who but very hungry
and Bunny had felt sorry about it. Mrs Groary would let him
and he hauled out his little purse.
Mrs Groarty all agow pleasure at the decacv of
feeling of the aristocracy she had
strange little fellow who pretty to look with sensitive
eu ups IKE gs and at the time had the
elderly marquis, something like that Mrs Groarty had
come to know such persons in moving pictures
money at the same time thinking what shame that
had not been made earlier in e that children
worn such lovely clothes and learned themselves
(TO be coninued)
Evening star., 1926-06-15
BEAUIY OffAlc BY EDNA KENT FORBES

A shiny nose Is due to several
things. but the one which can be most
easily treated Is the actual oily condi-
ton of the skin, which produces the
shine. The deeper reasons for this
should be treated, too--it will prob
ably be a matter of diet and bathing,
perhaps of blood purifying tonics.
One easy treatment is powdered
oatmeal. Little cardboard cartons,
often with sitter tops, can be pur-
chased from l5 cents to dollar, ac-
cording to size 1t is nothing but
oatmeal powdered very fine into a
dry meal sometimes scented ana
sometimes not. / don't believe you
can make a real powdered oatmeal
yourself. though you can make fair
imitation by running the ordinary
breakfast oatmeal several times
through a meat grinder with the
smallest blade screwed on.
But for treating q shiny nose, you
should if possible have the finely pow
dered kind. First wash the face with
hot water to relax and open the pores.
Then take a little of the oatmeal on
YOUR fingers and rub it into the skin
all over the nose and especially around
the nostrils. Wet the fingers and rub
in more oatmeal. Rinse out with not
water and then rinse with cola TO
close the pores. And then powder the
face. Do this daily for a few weeks
and l think the condition will be over
come. The oatmeal absorbs all the
extra oil in the skin. and brings 1t out
with it when the face is rinsed. 1t
also takes out q lot of dirt and other
matter that may be clogging and en-
larging the pores, and even If the nose
is not shiny, it is a marvellous black
head treatment
Evening star., 1926-06-15
Clues to Character
by j. O. ABERNETHY.
Tempers.

Beautiful and healthy expression
arises from the natural luster and
humidity of the eye In abnormal
characters these two factors of ex-
preston vary. This humidity is
caused by the secretions Of the glands
OF the eye and lids. which in healthy
people constantly SeCrete a lubricating
luld, which serves several purposes.
To begin with, it assists the eyeball in
rotating. This fluid also serves the
purposes of moistening and dissolving
the PARTICLES Of dust which in q dry
state would cause great irritation.
The lsster of the eye arises partly
from the equality or tineness Of the
nervous mechanism. Moisture of the
lips and eyes is evidence of healthy
action in both of these features. while
dry eyes and dry lips reveal unhealthy
conditions. Physicians are guided in
their diagnosis Of disease by the dry
ness and moisture of these features,
as well as by the dryness and moisture
found in other parts Of the head and
face
Naked eyeballs standing in open
sockets depict q picture of an un-
bridled temper
Eyes with lids closely drawn often
are found in rogues. liars, sneaks and
avarlcious beings, while eyes too wide
open indicate inacCuracy Of vision and
absence of capacity for accurate or
truthful description of things seen.
Copyright 1920
Evening star., 1926-06-15
Distorp of pour Same
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN
MOODY
RACIAL ORIGIN English or
Welsh.
OURCE-Descripti

1t would be quite natural to suppose
that the family name of Moody has
come down to us because some one of
the inhabitants OF medieval England
was described by those with whom he
came in contact as "John The Moody"
or Richard Moody" and that his
sons, probably inhcriting his mental
traits, were also referred to by neigh
bors in the same fashion to distinguish
them from other members of the COM
munity bearing the same given names.
This assumption is correct; but 1T
needs more explanation than this.
How, for instance, did the word get
it's present meaning, and was his
really the meaning in the period when
the family name came into being?
The literal meaning of our word
mood is q state of mind. Therefore,
strictly speaking, moody" person
would be merely a thoughtful person,
not necessarily a gloomy nor an alb
stracted one, detached from the world
in his thoughts. But 'fneudwy" in
Welsh, meant a hermit, an anchorite,
a religious person living a solitary
life. Thus the idea Of detachment
crept into the world, and later through
derision probably of the Puritans),
that OF gloom The Welsh word of
definite meaning influenced, naturally,
the English word of general meaning.
But at the time the family name was
formed the meaning of moody" prob.
ably was nothing more than thought.
full" or religious" and it was used in
the figurative more than in the literal
sense, just as we say today that q
man is "a regular hermit"
Evening star., 1926-06-15

OF course, there are some things that
it would be just as well not to know,
but there are many other things 1t is
a good thing to know.
1t was Peters curiosity that led him
to find out that there are butterf1les
who appear to be perfumed. 1t is
quite as if they carried with them the
perfume of the flowers they visit, but
this is not the case. Then there are
other butterflies that have disagree
able perfume, and others that have no
perfume at all. AS Peter says, the
only way you can tell which is which
is by smelling of them. For while
Peter had lot of fun chasing butter
flies in ors2er to find out if they were
perfumed, and, of course, he had to
tell everybody he met what he had
found out.
'Buzz-zz-z-z-z, have you just found
that out, Peter Rabbitt?" asked Busy
Bee, as she busily worked at clover
head. extracting sweets to make
honey.
Yes" said Peter, i've just found
it out. Did you know it?''
~"Buzz.z-z-z-Z-Z, Of course, I knew 1t.
I've known it ever since I've known
a clover head from a buttercup,"
buzzed Busy Bee. Did you ever hear
one make noise?"
whats that?" cried Peter.
"Buzz-z-z-z-z-z. I don't like saying
things over. It's a waste of time.s ]
asked you if you had ever heard
Evening star., 1926-06-15
EVERYDAY QUESTIONS
Ans,ccred by DIR. s. PARKES CADNAN

political parties and administrations
of their own. But the crown, en-
bodying as it does the proud ira
ditions Of a thousand years of per
sOnal relationship marked by an ever
increasing expansion Of popular SOW
ereignty, IS esteemed by BritOns as
the cohesive center Of their empire.
The peoples who inhabit that en-
pire are not impractical. None can
truthfull~ charge the British with en-
couragiig parasitical growths in gov
ernment. Too many Scotchmen are
involved in their politics to permit
such grOwths.
There are minor evils in all sys-
TENS Of rule. Monarchy IS prone to
breed snobbery, and democracy has q
squint toward vulgarity But these
evils are not remedied by abolishing
either monarchy or democracy. The
one suits the British and the other
suits us Their Improvement IS al
ways within the power OF the gov
erned.
Evening star., 1926-06-15
Lessons in English
BY W. L. GORDON.

Words often misused-Don't say II
expect to have a pleasant trip" Say
anticipate" when implying pleasure.
Often mispronounced' Linguist.
Pronounce lin-gwist, both is as in
lin" accent on first syllable.
Often misspelled Accommodate.
Two c's, two ms.
Synonyms Group, bevy, flock,
covey, brood, pack, lot, litter, herd.
Word study-'Use a word three
times and it is yours Let us in
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word each day. Todays word
Majestic; having dignity Of person or
mien; stately; royal. Nothing could
be more gracefully majestic than his
manner"