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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
COMP ANY union
OF PULLMAN IN
FAKE ELECTION
Ballot Steal Elects Stool
Pigeons

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-General dis
satisfaction with the elections OF the
Pullman Porters' BENEFIT Association
or the company union is being re-
ported here from every section. Elec.
ton contests are being instituted in
some western districts for the first
time in the history of any district Of
the benefit association, according to
the information received.
Fake Elections,
The complete company control Of
ballot boxes is claimed for the mis-
carriage Of the porters will in most
instances. In some districts where
well-knOwn representatives have been
elected over and over again they did
not receive single vote in the pri-
mary balloting, in spite of having led
the ticket for years in previous cleo
tiuns. Company instructors and petty
officials were declared to be their sue
cessful rivals, and the men were left
little choice between one stoolpigeon
and another in the final election.
Mr.. Ashley l.. Totten, assistant gen.
eral organizer of the brotherhood,
whose temporary headquarters are in
Kansas City, reports that he has re-
ceived numerous letters from several
districts that the elections were I'M
fair. Despite the determination of the
members to elect delegates from each
district who have the interests of the
porters at heart and who are neither
Pullman officials or stools, it is found
that the names of the men voted for
did not appear on the final ballot.
Company Union Helps-The Company.
The Pullman Porters' Benefit Asso-
citation is supported by the porters,
who pay assessments Of SIG to s45
per year for its support. Hitherto
the Pullman Company paid it's porters
a half months salary during illness,
but this consideration was removed
after the benefit association was
formed, in consequence of which the
Pullman Company saves several thou
sands of dollars year at the expense
of the porters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
TRADE UNIONS
MAKE DEMANDS
ON MOvIELAND
Seek Organization O
Film Industry
BY ESTHER LOWELL,
Federated Press,

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labor is marching on openshop Holly
wood and New York movie studios
Stage hands, motion picture machine
operators, carpenters, scenic artists
and electrical workers are all demand
ing recognition of their unions by the
big movie producers.
Demands of the International AL
lance Of Theatrical Stage Employees
and Motion Picture Operators; United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers; Scenic Artists Association of In
ternational Brotherhood OF Painters,
Paperhangers and Decorators, and In
ternational Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers have been presented to War
ner Bros, Famous Players, Producers
and Distributors Corporation of Amer
lea, Universal, Metro-Goldwyn, First
National and Fox Films.
An open-shop Industry.
Threat of a national sympathetic
walkout involving 1880 workers in
the trades mentioned is made IL the
producers do not sign with the unions
by December l. William Caravan,
president International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees and Mo-
ton Picture Operators and spokesman
for the unions, charges that the. pro-
ducers broke a verbal agreement
which they had made last April.
Fred w. Beetson, secretary of the
Association OF Motion Picture Pro
ducers to regulate their affairs, on the
movie studios are operated on the
American plan" and are "open shop"
Beetson was comforting with VIII
Hays, called "czar" Of the movie In
dustry because he was chosen by pro-
Queer sto regulate their affairs, IN the
welfare program to be put into the
studios November /.
Equity Holds Aloof.
The effect Of the unions demands
for recognition, closed shop, readiust-
ment of wage scales, eight-hour day,
pay for six legal holidays and extra
pay for Sunday work is tremendous
challenge to VIGOROUSLY open-shop Los
Angeles.
Actors Equity Association, which is
attempting to organize the extra play
ers in the movie studios, is not in
cluded in the group of unions pre-
senting demands. Equity does not
nave an agreement permitting sympa-
thetic action by actors with other
stage employees. Organization Of the
$500 mechanical workers in Holly
wood studios will undoubtedly stimu-
late unionization of the exploited part
time players.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
Federation Radio
Artist Hears Own
Program on Ether

That a radio entertainer can inn
prove his or her rendition of a mus
ical number thru hearing exactly what
finally goes on the air and watching
the indicator Of the transmitter, thus
regulating the instrument or voice, In
stead of requiring the central operator
to out-guess the artist, has been
proven.
Miss vella Cook. VIGIL Chicago
Federation Of Labor, staff contralto,
who is an experienced radio singer,
placed the headphones, tightly clamp
ed over her ears, so that all she could
hear of her voice would be the actual
projection In the air, exactly what
you hear on your receiving set at
home.
This experiment was very unusual.
She watched the instrument on the
transmitter which indicates exactly
the degree Of meditation affected, and
regulated her voice within the limits
specified to obtain the best results
without danger OF over-working the
apparatus. In fact, the whole opera
ton of the radio transmitter was
turned over to the artist. Miss Cook,
at the conclusion of her song, took
the ear-phones of and declared the
experience a very wonderful one, stat.
ing that II all broadcast stations
would adopt the same method, the
radio audiences would receive the
programs much more successfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
Hoboes VIII Convene
in Omaha, November 9

OMAHA, Oct. 25.-The 21st annual
convention, international Brotherhood
Welfare Association, will open in
Omaha November 9 in the Labor Tenn
pie. The organized hoboes invited all
labor unions and other organizations
Interested in. the problems of the. IN
organized worker to send fraternal
delegates.
Unemployment, old-age pensions,
worker education, international peace
and industrial justice are among the
subjects scheduled for discussion by
Secretary Tom Curry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
After the FurrierS' Strike

, honored and respected Of the workers.
or course, among these scabs there
were quite a few partisans Of the For
ward.
ONE former vice-president of the In
~ ternational, not to say former local
officer, and the whole former organiza-
ton committee during Kaufman's ad-
ministration, were all scabs and scab
agents, and here the Joint Board acted
in manner that should be a credit
to all honest workers, most OF all to
the left wing movement, of which it
is a part.
Workers that were enticed away
from the strike, upon their payment
Of fine, are being reinstated in the
organization, altho it is true strict
watch upon their behavior is kept by
the workers in the shops where they
are employed. But the professional
soabs, gunner and gangsters, who
were all members of Kaufmans or
SANITATION committee, were given per-
mits to work in the trade.
THE Joint Board at this time again
l. went on record that these individ-
uals would never be reinstated in the
union. 1t is needless to say that this
met with the full approval of the work
ers, and naturally with the disapproval
of the Forward and a few vice-presi-
dents of our international, who were
very emphatic, demanding reinstate-
ment in the union for these elements.
The Joint Board even received a letter
from the subcommittee OF the interna-
tional, signed by President Shachtman,
to that effect.
The Rehabilitation Of the unions
wartime forces took place with will
and a gusto unequalled in any union.
The general picket committee, or the
G. P. c.. as it is commonly known, i'm
mediately went to work in their re-
spective shops, and those that had no
shops were found places.
A LII went back to workbench or
n machine-for they were the adj
vance guard Of the workers, and not,
as in previous strikes, hired thugs who
worked for the union and got paid
from the bosses and the union alike.
Proof OF the work of the G. P. c.
can be had by the cruelty Of the police
and unheard-of sentences imposed
upon those that were caught in the
clutches of capitalist justice.
TT is natural that during this time
4 complaints of workers piled up, but
here again is shown the will and deter
mination Of left wing leaders, who
went to work with will and sue
ceeded in adjusting those complaints
that have arisen in a satisfactory man
ner to the workers. 1t is with such
work and management in the interest
of the workers that has gained the
and support Of the fur
workers to the policies and leadership
of the left wing militants in the Fur
riers' Union.
With work such as of this nature
on behalf of the workers, and with
material for leadership such as the
left wing movement has brought out
in the Furriers' Union, it is to be
hoped that the goal of all progressives
that of amalgamation Of the needle
trades union-is not far distant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27

NEW YORK-(FP)-Step by step
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers Is moving forward toward recog-
milton by the Pullman Co., which now
refuses to deal with It's workers ex-
cept through its controlled company
union. The brotherhood Is appealing
to the rail mediation, board, sot up by
the watson-Parke act, for aid In OBJ.
tanning a conference, with the Pullman
Co. plF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
Carpenters Continue
Using Hammers, But
Hit no Nails on Head

SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 25.-Carpen.
ters use hammers. This was proven
by the fact that four scabs in the car
penters' strike here are N the hos
pital, one of them not expected to scab
any more on this earth. They say
they were attacked by six men with
hammers who knew how to hit the
nail on the head.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27
N. Y. Firemen Demand
the Eight-Hour Day

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Endorse-
ment OF the demand OF New York
City fire fighters for the S-hour day,
or three-platoon system. was voted by
the International Association OF Fire
Fighters in It's biennial convention
just closed. The convention urged
the people of New York to give their
unqualified support to the campaign
the flremen are about TO undertake to
secure this Improvement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27

NEW ORLEANS - OPP - Union
plasterers demanded an increase Of
Csc an hour in New Orleans, making
the new scale S150. A strike is ex-
pected, as the contractors have re-
jected the demand.
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Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities

News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-27

Policies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
-Injunctions
Labor and Imperialism
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
WILLETTE HELD
WITHOUT BAIL IN
PORTLAND Staying

South Portland. Me, May 17.-(P)-
Charged with the murder of Alfred S.
Cook, gasoline filling station attend
ant here, IS months ago. Herbert f.
Willette, %. was held without bail for
the superior court grand jury upon
arraignment in municipal court today.
He waived a hearing.
William II. Gratz, implicated by
Willette in an alleged confession early
today, was arraigned on the charge of
being an accessory before the fact of
the killing. He was granted a contin-
uance until May u pending further
investigation.
Willette was alleged to have accused
Gratz of first stepping into the sta
tion and demanding money from Cook.
They clinched as Cook refused the de-
mand, and Willette is credited with
having said that as they struggled he
placed Gratz' revolver against Cook
side and fired.
The police declared Gratz had served
two prison terms for robbery in Mass
achusetts and Connecticut.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
FOUND kNEELINC IN
CHURCH, ADMITS HE
KILLED N. H. farmer

Portsmouth, N. H., May 17-(P-
Confession to killing Louis Jacob
WITT, farmer, was made to a sher-
If today by Joseph D. Owens. known
as Frank Owens. He was being
brought here following hts arrest at
Derry under murder. charge.
Owens denied. however, placing the
farmers body ON the pile of charrei
cornstalks where 1t was found, last
Thursday evening near Jacobowitz'
home in Atkinson.
High Sheriff Ceylon Spinney said
that Owens declared he had killed
the farmer in self defense. The pris-
oner's account was that Jacobowitz,
who had been threatening him, threw
him into pile of burning cornstalks
after a quarrel. Owens said he jump
ed up. grabbed a shovel and struck
Jacobowitz on the head. The latter
fell upon the burning stacks and
Owens ran into the woods where he
slept every night. All he had to eat
until his capture was loaf of bread
he had purchased in Windham juno
ton.
Owens will be arraigned in police
court at Plaistow tomorrow. His
counsel said he would waive a hear
ing for his client and that he would
present petition asking that Owens
be committed to the state insane
asylum for observation.
Owens was found today in a pew
of a Catholic church in Derry. and
to a priest admitted his identity and
the killing of Jacobawitz.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Thousands Attend
Funeral of John
King at Bridgeport

Bridgeport, Conn.,, May 17.-(P)-
The funeral of John l.. King, long
Republican leader here and nation
ally known in politics and finance.
was held today from the Church of
the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of which
he was a communicate.
Long before celebration of a high
mass of requiem began. the edifice
was filled and thousands of persons
stood outside quietly until the BODY
was borne from it's place before the
high altar to the waiting hearse.
AT the home of Mr.. King in VALDEZ
mere, where prayers were said IN
the presence of members of the fam
lily and close relatives there was a
large crowd outside, made up not
only of persons who had had last
opportunity to look upon the face of
the dead leader, but delegations
who had served as an escort for the
body, from the house to the church.
The solemn high mass of requiem
was celebrated by the Very Rev.
Mgr. p. J. Mckinney of st. Charles
church of this city. with Rev. Father
John Mckinney of New Haven. dea-
con; Rev. Leo Finn of Danbury. sub
deacon. and Rev. Vincent Finn of
Derby. master of ceremonies. More
than so priests of the diocese were
seated close by the altar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
COMMITTEE TURNS
DOWN PROPOSED
kHTI-LYNCNING BILL

Washington, May 17-(P)-By the
vote OF to 8 the senate judiciary
committee refused today to report the
Mckinley anti-lynching bill. meas
ure similar, to the Dyer bill which
was passed by the house several
years ago, but died in the senate un-
der the fire of filibuster by Senators
from southern states.
The motion for favorable report
was made by Senator Ernst, Republic
can, Kentucky, and was supported by
two other committeeman, Senator
Cummins Republican. Iowa, chairman
of the committee and Ashurst, Dem
ocrat, Arizona.
The bill, offered by Senator McKin-
ley. Republican, Illinois, remains be-
fore the committee and its propon-
ents said they would make another
effort to have it reported. Opponents
predicted, however. that they would
be able send the measure to the
senate with an adverse report.
Under the terms of the measure,
any county in which a lynching took
place would be required to forfeit
$4,000 to the estate Of the victim
and any state or county officer who
permitted a mob to lynch a prisoner
for whom he was responsible would
be subject to penalty of not more
than five years in prison or fine of
not more than $4,000 or both.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
On Eve of Great
International Disarmament
Meet At Geneva-Refusal of
Bordering Nations to Dis
arm May Influence Central
Republic-American Delega-
ton to Sit in on Deliberations

Geneva, May 17-(P)-will Ger
many demand the right to a greater
army if her neighbors refuse to dis
arm?
That is the question put at Geneva
on the eve of the great international
effort to reduce world ornaments.
For tomorrow, with representa-
tive American delegation collaborat-
ing, will be held the opening session
of the preparatory commission on dis
armament which is expected to inves-
t1Sate the entire complex problem of
ornaments, land, sea and air, and If
possible prepare an exact agenda for
the later international conference.
Hugh S. Gibson, minister to Swift
zerland, is chairman of the American
delegation while Count Won Berns-
doff, former ambassador at Washing
ton, will speak for Germany.
1t is reported Count Won .Bernsdoff
will ask that Germany be FREQ from
the restrictive military obligations of
the treaty of Versailles and that Ger
many be permitted such armament
strength as her position warrants.
provided the neighboring states, and
especially France, decline to cut down
their ornaments so as to be reason
ably proportionate to those Of Ger
many.
The preliminary conference tomor-
row, which will be attended by off,
cial delegates from 20 countries, is
primarily weakened by the detection
of Russia, which has assigned as the
reason for refusing to cooperate the
fact that Switzerland declined ade-
quately to apologize for the assassin
alton of NJ Vorovsky and in the sub
sequent acquittal of the assassin,
Conradi. This absence is certain to
temper the enthusiasm of Russia's
neiShbors to disarm, and particularly
Poland, where Marshal Pilsudski is
pictured as ambitious to maintain
strong and effective fighting strength.
Another element which has engen-
dered peSsimism over the outcome of
the elaboration is the recent German
treaty in which the allied powers read
Germany's intentions as future
member of the league of nations
council to observe strict neutrality in
regard to any outside conflict with
Russia.
While generally admitting the
treaty does not violate the league CO.
venant and that it harmonizes with
Germany's long expressed warning
that she cannot permit German soil
to be the theatre of military move
nlents against a friendly Russia, the
allied spokesman regard the Russo
German pact as psychologically bad
sequence to the Locarno agreement,
which are aimed at rational reconcil-
iation of Europe, because it tends to
prejudice Germany's action in ad-
vance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
ksyYRieNr- NNsssWoee' 8 UNesRweeN Nv

Washington, May 17.-P)-Presi-
dent Coolidge was the target today
for the darts of Senator Harrison.
Democrat, Mississippi, who declared
in the senate that he had failed to
stand by loyal senate supporters.
1.-The spokesman for the White
House, otherwise known as Presi-
dent Calvin Coolidge, announced
some time ago that the President
would take no part in Republican
primaries" the Mississippi senator
began.
He refused to be drawn in the
Illinois primary and stood by and
saw Senator Mckinley. who had
stood by him through storm and
strife, go down in defeat. The
newspapers said he opposed Sena-
tor Watson in Indiana but he came
through anyway with a handsome
majority"
Harrison declared the President
had not endorsed Senators Stanfield
of Oregon, Shortridge of California,
Cummings of Iowa, and other good
and loyal supporters" but had en-
dorsed Senator Pepper of Pennsyl-
vania.
Secretary Mellon, who is the
other White House spokesman If
there are two, in a speech in Penn
sylvania declared Senator Pepper
had the endorsement of the Coolidge
administration"
NO wonder you senators who
have ever opposed the President are
trembling in your boots. Senator
Dale dared to oppose Coolidge when
he voted for the soldiers bonus and
now he has a real fight in Vermont
where he is opposed by a former
governor. who is law partner of
Attorney General Sargent and an
nounces he stands for the Coolidge
policies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Boston Financiers
Must Pay N. E. Oil Cor.
Receiver S3,327,74O

Boston. May 17.-(P)-Six financiers,
members of the noteholders' commit
tee of the New England Oil Corpora
ton, today were ordered by Judge An
derson in federal count to pay $780,
740 to Irwin NJ. Garfield. receiver. The
final decree closed lengthy investiga-
ton by the courts of the acts of the
committee which reorganized the cor
poration.
The amount, the court found. repre-
scented monies necessary to give all
creditors and parties in interest the
equivalent of their rights. Judge An
derson in his decree said the estate
suffered total damage of not less
than S6.000,0G0 "by reason of the NAL
administration and fraudulent acts of
the noteholders' committee" The de-
cree. he said, was concerned onlyswith
the amount necessary to restore rights
to all parties.
The six committee members named
were Allan Forbes, Daniel G. Wing,
Frank Finsthwait, Francis r. Hart.
Alfred L. Aiken and Thomas Fl. West,
Jr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-18
Vermont Booster
Train on Way to
Chicago, Way Points

Burlington, VT, May 17.-(H)-Hun-
dreds of Burlingtonians gathered at
the Union Station this afternoon to
witness the departure of the maple
Sugar Special" In its 12-day trip to
Boston, New York. Washington and
the middle west. The train was made
I'D here and only part of the $50
passengers were aboard, the remain
der. including Governor and Mrs.
Franklin S. Billings, to be taken
aboard at various stations en- route.
The train consisted of one engine,
three exhibition cars and six pullmans.
all new coaches. During the after
noon the care were inspected by many
Burlington people but none Of them
saw the maple sugar cargo. which is
to be taken aboard later, although the
other Vermont exhibits were on view.
Mayor C. H. Beecher and Mrs. Beecher
are two of the trains passengers. The
b Seventh Field Artillery Band from
Fort Ethan Allen gave a concert at
the station before the train started.