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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
NEGRO IPORTERS'
UNION TELLS OF
YEARS ACTIONS
Message of Unionism
Carried to Many
BY ESTHER LOWELL,
Federated Press,

NEW YORK, Sept Tits first ami
versary is being celebrated by the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
The union has in it's first year Of ex-
istence won over half the 10000 maids
and porters employed by the Pullman
Co., challenged successfully the en-
ploye representation plan, or company
union.
What Has Been Done.
General Organizer A. Philip Ran
dolph sums up the years achieve
ments of the brotherhood:
/. Forced the company to call a
wage conference in February under
company union and grant porters and
maids per cent wage increases, rails
ing pay from s675O to $3.50 per
month.
2. Forced company to revise time
sheet.
3. Forced local officials to be more
attentive to porters and maids.
Message Of Unionism.
4. Carried message of labor union
ism to over million and half black
and white workers from Aug. 25, 1925,
to Aug. Is, 1926, Over 500 meetings
held, with 100 to $500 or more at
each. Thousands of Negro workers
who had never heard about organized
labor before addressed. Over $4,000
heard the general organizer speak on
the cause OF black labor at the open.
ing of the Sesqui-Centennial in Phila-
delphia,
5. Central labor bodies told Of por-
ters' case and that of Negro workers
generally.
s. Secured entrance to many Negro
churches and endorsement of various
Negro organizations, clubs, etc.
Put Out Literature.
7. Distributed over three and half
million pieces Of literature.
s. Brought the porters' plight to the
attention Of university and college
groups and to conventions Of many or
CARNATIONS
8. Over $4,000 miles covered by OF.
ganizers.
TO- Brought persons of importance
to speak to porters' meetings for ed.
ucation of the workers. Many trade
union officials and officers of railway
brotherhoods have been among the
speakers.
Women's AuxlIlarles.
IL. Established women's auxiliaries
In New York, Chicago, Washington
Boston, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Oak
land, Los Angeles, Denver, Omaha
Salt Lake City,
A great mass meeting, at which all
friends of the porters were invited to
attend, was held in New York on the
anniversary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Cleveland l. L. D. to
Have Banquet to Hear
Report of Convention

CLEVELAND, Sept. Local CleVe-
land of the International Labor De-
tense is arranging novel AFFAIR at
which a report of the convention just
held in Chicago on Sept. 9Th and 9Th
will be made by Carl Hacker, local or
ganizer.
It will be semi-banquet to which
all members are requested to come
and bring along those non-members
whom they feel might become mem
bers by hearing report on the past
years activities of the l. L. d. and
also the plans for the coming year.
It will be held at the Moose Auditor
ium, 1000 Walnut Ave. on Sunday eve
ming, Sept. 10Th, beginning at 1880 p.
m. The members and their friends
who attend will be seated at tables
which will be set up thru the entire
hall in banquet style. A small admis-
sion charge Of Csc will be made in or
der to cover the cost of the hall and
also the expenses of the delegate to
the convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
MAY STRIKE
BIRMINGHAM
STREET CARS
Bosses r e j e c Outside
Arbitration Plan
tspeoIaI 70 The oaIly workerl


BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. Z. - A
strike is brewing on the streetcar lines
here, after rejection by the com
pany Of the wage demands of the
union for top wages" OF 571a cents an
hour, otherwise known as the Mem
phis award" The company refuses
to pay more than 81 cents. The pres
emit top wage" is 30 cents.
The company also rejects arbitra-
ton, J, S. Pevear, operating vice-pres-
Ident of the electric company, saying;
No Outsider Wanted.
''No one impartial to both sides can
be found to make the third member
Of the arbitration board, and the COM
pany will not place its safety in the
hands of an outsider who Knows moth
ing of its financial status"
Pevear insists that the company is
too poor" to pay more without, as
usual, IAN increase in fares" So he
comes forward in defense of the pub
lic." He adds that conditions are
different in Memphis"
Difference Favors Birmingham.
The union agrees that Memphis con-
dltions are different but points out
that the difference lies in the fact that
the Birmingham company is better off,
transporting more people per car mile
than in Memphis. Therefore it ought
to be able to pay at least as much as
Memphis, which is all the union asks.
The offer of the company to give 81
cents as top rate was turned down
unanimously by both motormen and
conductors. the vote being $50 to
nothing. 7
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where the union is we'll established
After reciting conditions, wages and
hours vastly better than any prevail
ing for similar work in Chicago, he
asked them why they could not do as
we'll here as was dode IN New York.
He pointed out also how the organized
frame makers in Chicago FIVE years
ago were able to demand and get the
forty-four hour week, whereas now
they have to work 4S1a hours.
Start With Treasury.
Executive board memoer Leshitslky
Of Local AZ, the mems local In Chicago
Of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery
Workers Union informed the new
members that the treasury of the old
frame makers local here is intact and
will be turned over to the new local
as soon as it is ready for action. He
urged women as we'll as men to join,
as they need and will receive from the
union the same protection.
In addition to these two speakers,
Louis Klein, the organizer Of Local AZ
and Anna David, the organizer and
secretary OF the Millinery Workers
local In Chicago also spoke, Brother
Klein assured the frame makers of
all possible aid from Local Az
Solidarity Needed.
Secretary David explained her pres
ence at the meeting, pointing to the
fact that altho in another trade, she
was in the same industry, and that
as the bosses had a solid organization
in the industry, the workers should
have one also. Furthermore, worker
has always something in common with
another worker, there are two main
classes, workers and employers. She
outlined the three main tasks of the
workers at this meeting. The first is
to all join the union. The second is
to become, every one Of them, organ
izers for the union, by bringing into
it their fellow workers on the job, The
third is to keep the organization intact
once it is started.
Hat frame makers of all sorts, both
wire frame makers and buckram
frame makers, and the blockers who
work on hats are to come into the new
local now being organized. Another
meeting will be held Tuesday, Sept
Z, in the hall of the sixth floor, 166
West Washington st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Concentrate Credits
for Soviet Farmers

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R. (By MaiD -
The economic conference Of Soviet
Russia, after examining the question
Of the distribution of the funds in
tended for the relief Of poor peasants,
as means of supporting them in
their economic struggles, has decided
to adopt the principal of concentration
of these credits in those regions where
agriculture has been least reconstruct
ed las compared with the pre-war
levelD, and of applying these funds
with the best possible effect. Con-
cretely, these funds are to be dis
bursed in productive credits to CO.
operative as well as homeopathic
farmers.
The credit funds are made up Of
special budget assignments, contribu-
lions from the profits of the Russian
Agricultural Bank (Rosselbank) and
other sources. The amounts loaned to
individual farmers are not to be in
excess of 200 roubles, and in excep-
tional cases 300 roubles. For coll
lective farms the amounts of the
loans are to be fixed by local agricul-
tural boards in consultation with local
agricultural credit societies.
At the same time the economic con-
ference established the conditions of
the loans and the terms of repayment,
the rate of interest and the RESPONSE
bility for the loans.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
PRICE OF wheat
TO Be LOWER IN
/. 1927 FORECAST
Department Prepares
Farmers for Shock

WASHINGTON Sept. z. - The
world market situation for wheat next
year will not be materially different
from the present, with the result that
American wheat will remain on a
world market basis, the department
Of agriculture announced today.
The is little indication Of any mate
rial expansion in acreage outside the
United States and the carry over next
July is not likely to be large. Barring
unusually high yields, such as oc-
Cured in 1915 and 1928, over a large
part of the wheat area of the world,
foreign competition will probably be
about on par with the present year,
the departments survey indicated.
Increase Exports.
If American farmers carry out their
intentions to increase winter wheat
14.4 per cent, as indicated by reports
up to Aug. 1, and abandonment and
yields are average, a winter wheat
crop around 573,000,000 bushels will
be produced, about per cent less than
harvested this year. With this aver
age yield next year and an increase
in acreage as large as that indicated
there would be a surplus for export
and additions to carry over Of about
100000 bushels. In 1924 exports
amounted to 255,O0O,OOO bushels, while
last year, when there was a relatively
short crop, exports totaled only g.
100000 bushels. ~
Lower Prices.
Farmers should not be misled by
the relatively high prices received for
the 1925 crop, when prices were on a
domestic basis" the department
warned today. Under normal condi-
tons they should expect, in 1927,
prices more in line with world prices.
THE effect of the present years
larger supply upon prices is already
evident in the relationship between
prices in the markets in the United
States and Liverpool"
The departments experts further
said farmers in sections which nor
mally have large corn acreage should
also keep in mind, in making a shift
to wheat acreage, that the present IN
! favorable situation for corn is not
likely to be repeated next year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Big Six Wants Higher
Scale; Lynch Opposes a
Strike, Offers Nothing

NEW YORK, Sept. big six Typo
graphical Union of New York has re-
jected the compromise offer by pub
fishers on the workers wage demands.
The union seeks Sc a week more pay,
six and one-halfshour days except for
the lobster trick"-midnight shift-of
six hours.
Negotiations have been going on for
three months. The agreement expired
June 80. International President
James M. Lynch, who has handled ne
gotiations for the last two weeks, says
that the union will not strike, but he
does not indicate what the next step
will be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Wages FAN and Mothers Die.


Wages Fall and Mothers Die.
"As with infant mortality also"
says the report, poverty is found to
be an important factor in maternal
death rates, these increasing as the
husbands earnings fall, probably be-
cause Of lack Of proper facilities and
adequate care for the poor mother.
"Color and nationality are also i'm
portant factors in maternal mortality.
In the birth-registration area for 1921
the Negro maternal death rate was 67
per cent higher than the white rate
On the other hand, the rate for for
eign-born white mothers was slightly
lower than for native white moth
ers The rate was lowest for
mothers born In Russia, and next to
lowest for mothers born In Italy. At
the other extreme were the rates for
mothers born in ireland, Great Brit.
ain, Canada. Hungary and Germany"
Why Not Government Ald7
The substance OF tho bureaus rec.
is that all mothers be
provided with skilled assistance be
4. : i. n. 80 ~.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Fifty-Four Per Cent
of Preparations Paid
in Goods by Germany

BERLIN, Sept. 7.-According TO the
report OF Seymour Parker Gilbert,
agent general OF PREPARATIONS, nearly 81
per cent Of the second years pay
ments OF Germany on Preparations has
been paid in deliveries OF commodi.
ties.
The total payments amounted to
about s290.S60,0 900. and the delivery In
kind (of goodO covered about 1885,
$4,000 More than one-third Of these
deliveries were Of coal, coke aud lig.
mite. Other products were OF dye.
stuffs, drug products. enemieal fertile.
ers. coal hy.products. agricultural
products timber, spgsrt stas -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
lSOUTH A HEAVEN
: FOR OYERS;
Low WAGES RULE
Macon Boasts of $500
Wage for 60 Hours
tspeoIaI to rhe paIIy WORKED

MACON, Ca, Sept Macon is one
of the cities of the New South
not that 1t is young, but what the
boosters term forward looking" in
the industrialization that is making
the agrarian South of old hum with
factories, mills and large industry
with labor working at the lowest pos
sible level Of wages.
SO to $1s Wage For so Hours.
The city council has voted 30 to
to exempt new industries from taxa
tltion for five years. In addition at
Stractive publicity is put out extolling
y the benefits to be derived from the
low wages paid to labor. There are
1900 wage earners in Macon, and
they get from Is cents to 80 cents an
hour, with the working week being
sixty hours, or from Sc to SIS week.
Lincoln Mcconnell, manager of the
Macon chamber of commerce says that
the South is the paradise Of factory
exploitation. He states that while
only As per cent of the total capital
employed in the cotton goods industry,
exclusive OF small goods and laces, is in
the South, the South produces 81 per
cent of the total value of the country's
output and shows lis per cent eff
cheney against the 81 per cent of the
North.
Low Average Wage In South.
The average annual wage in North
Carolina is S671; in South Carolina,
$685.; in Alabama, s597; and in
Georgia $780, The percentage of Ia
Dor cost in the finished product runs
II per cent in North Carolina; 1876 per
cent in South Carolina; IA per cent in
Alabama, and 1873 per cent in Georgia.
Small Labor Turnover.
An instance of how southern capi-
talists count on small labor turn
over in spite of the miserably low
wages, is shown in the citation made
by Mcconnell of Macon man who
opened a furniture factory four years
ago. He pays his men workers 80
cents an hour During the four years
he has employed force Of 80 men,
and his labor turnover in the four
years has been only six men.
Within the last year. there have
been opened eight new industrial con-
Germs, cement plant, box factory
and brick plant have been started
with outside capital entirely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Philadelphia Furriers
Fight For Forty-Hour
Week; N. Y. Gives Help

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7.-Phila-
delphia fur workers are following the
New York workers lead by refusing
to work Saturdays. The New York
agreement has been accepted by the
Philadelphia market, including the 40
hour week provision.
The workers will seek back pay for
Saturdays worked since June 10, when
.he New York agreement was signed.
The International Fur Workers and
New York Joint Board Furriers are
supporting the Philadelphia workers
stand and will help IL a strike has to
be called to enforce the pact.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
c h i C a g o Politicians
Home Greeted by Bomb

The home of Morris Eller, republl-
can politician, boss Of the goth ward
and trustee Of the Chicago sanitary
district, was wrecked by bomb early
Friday morning. Altho no one was
injured, the home was partially
wrecked. The bomb had been placed
near the side door and threw the
Eller family out7of bed. No reason
has been found for the attempt, altho
II Is supposed that lEller's connection
with the at timeE violent politics OF
Cook county offers fairly adequate
clew.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
SOVIET UNIONS
COMMISSION AT
Great Ram SHOW
Bre e d ers' Association
Gives Them Banquet
Especial to The Daily worker)

especial TO me DaIiy Worker)
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 7. - A
sheep buying commission represent
ing the agricultural commissariat of
the Soviet Union, and the Amtorg
Trading corporation were principal
guests here Of the eleventh annual
ram show and sale of the National
Woolgrowers' Association.
Government and Amtorg
The members of the commission
are Michael S. Pereferkovitsh, mana
ger Of the bureau of animal industry
in the commissariat of agriculture,
y. v. Slodkevitchc, animal husband
man of the same department, Stephen
S.Odinzow of the agricultural depart
ment of the Amtorg.
The commission stated that the
need of buying sheep for the Union
Of Socialist Soviet Republics does not
come, as many suppose, from the
scarcity of the animals there, but is
due to the desire of the government
to improve the breed. The wool Of
Russian sheep is rather coarse, and
for this reason extensive purchase of
Rambouillet rams are to be under
taken, as the wool of this type is fine
and silky.
Commission Feted
The Salt Lake chamber of com
merce gave a dinner on August 81 to
the U.S.S.R. commission; the Ram
bouillet Association was the host on
August 30, the opening day of the ram
show, of this commission and several
other distinguished foreign buyers.
The sale itself is the largest ever
held. F. R. Marshall, secretary of the
Woolgrowers' Association says, There
are more genuine top sheep here than
we have ever seen at ram sale be-
fore"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
Strike Of Peasants.

PARIS (By MaiD Eight hundred
peasants organized into dairy syndi-
cate in the town of Mass, who supply
milk to the cheese factories, have
gone. on strike in view Of the cutting
of prices. The peasants of the ada
cent agricultural commune have de-
clared their solidarity with the strik-
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
WORKING CLASS MOTHERS DIE AS
WAGES DECLINE; CHASTITY TOLL
SHOWN BY GOVERNMENTS REPORT

WASHINGTON, 7(FP-Naternal United
the mortality mothers issued
Woodbury.
available information
finds that these deaths mothers childbirth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09

That worker next door to you
may not have anything to do to.
night, Hand him this copy of the
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09

A subscription to The DAILY
WORKER for one month to the
members Of yotOr union is good
UGy. TRY it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09
HAT FRAME MAKERS TAKE STRIDE
TOWARDS NEW LOCAL In CHICAGO

Substantial reorganization
in Chicago
torum The enthusiastic
emit who already 10 on
Board the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-09

fore and during childbirth" This i'm.
plies freedom from the pressure Of
poverty. Negro mothers, and the
mothers in white families living at the
poverty line, cannot AFFORD skilled
help.
"say II with your pen In the worker
correspondent page Of The DAILY
WORKER"
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We will send sample copies Of The
DAILY WORKER to your friends
send us name and address.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06
Wart-Hog Stops Ship
When 1t Escapes On
Wav To DC.

The wart-hog can not be a
family pet. He must be con-
tagious.
One of these bumpy creatures
escaped it's leash on the boat
bringing it to Washington, DR..
William M. Mann, director of
the Smithsonian Chrysler live
game collecting expedition has
cabled to the Smithsonian In
stitution here.
He was not petted, as he
plunged \ into the stokehold.
Fireman, probably visualizing
numerous warts on their pro-
boscis, fled in panic. "Ship
stopped in Red Sea-" says DR..
Mann; but now the wart-hog
has been confined to the brig,
and the boat proceeds on its
"direct run Port Said to Bos-
ton"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06
ARLINGTON co +.
NEWS BRIEFS

ARLINGTON COUNTY. Va, Oct
6.-The town of Potomac, meeting
at the town hall last night. with
Mayor William Kleysteuber presid-
ing. elected the following officers
of the Potomac fire department: j..
Il. Gordon. chief; A " Brown,
first assistant chief; William II.
Vansyckle. second assistant chief:
Walter u. Varney first warden;
Robert L. Zimmerman second war
den, and Samuel B. DeVaughn, cap
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06
POSTAL RECEIPTS
GAIN 4.oo PER CENT

Rejecting the general prosperity
of the country. postal receipts in
so selected cities totaled .$29, 976,-
470.58 in September. as compared
with $28, 551 ,485.75 in. September a
year ago. an increase of $1,427,-
9S4 o. or 4.99 per cent, the Post
office Department announced today.
New Haven. Conn. led all cities
in percentage of increase, amount
ing to 29.98 per cent, with Atlanta,
Ga. second, with an increase of
22.7 per cent, while Washington,
d. c.. was third with an increase
of 1871 per cent.
The lost is found only by persistent
search. We recommend that both the
loser and finders of articles search the
classified ads Of The Times and Herald.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06

The Ministerial Union OF Airing
ton county will hold a special meet
ing today at o'clock at the Claren-
don Baptist church. according to
an announcement made last night
by the Rev George H. Fielding.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06

The weekly meeting and luncheon
of the Arlington County Monarch
Club will be held tomorrow at noon
in thn Clarendon Methodist Church,
with President Perry L. Mitchell
presiding.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-06
JOTT|NGS FROM
ALEXANDRIA

ALEXANDRIA. Va, Oct. g.
Clarence Jones, u, of 1106 King
ST., suffered a fractured jaw yes
terday afternoon when a motorcycle
on which he was riding tandem
with George Smith. 1916 King St..
became unmanageable and struck
the curb at Cameron and West
Street. The boy was taken to the
Alexandria Hospital. Smith was
arrested and later released.
In police court today acting Judge
A. B. Nicol fined Edward Fields
$25 and costs for col.iding with an
automobile driven by Edward
Amiger, colored, at Henry and
Prince Streets last night. Ada
Duckett, charged with violating the
prohibition law, was fined 5000
on her plea Of guilty. Four DRINKS
who pleaded guilty were fined $14
each.
Three hundred Virginia realtors
are expected to attend the meeting
of the Virginia State Real Estate
Association which will begin a
three-day session here tomorrow.
The realtors will be entertained By
the Kiwanis Club at lunch tomor-
row at 1890 and the convention
will be called to order at o'clock.
They will be welcomed by City
Manager Paul Morton. The reat-
tors golf championship will be
played on the Belle Haven Country
Club links Saturday afternoon.
Local No. 1858, Painters, Decora-
tors and Paperhangers- will cele-
brate it's twenty third anniversary
with banquet at the George
Mason Hotel tonight.
The monthly meeting Of the Old
Dominion Boat Club will be held
this evening at 8 o'clock in the
club house The plans for the win
ter program will be made at the
meeting.
After being delayed nearly a
month the city tax bills were mailed
out yesterday. The bills are based
on the new assessment and new
rate of 1925 per 500 instead of
So. so per 500 of assessed valuation.
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tain. Other officers win be elected
by the department.
William NJ. Douglas was appointed
by the council as special officer
in charge of the prisoners working
on the road.