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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
Merchant Steel
Mill Workers Have.
Miserable Conditions
BY a Worker Correspondent,

GARY, Ind, June 30.-Workers in
the 1913 Merchants Steel mills here
work under the most miserable con-
ditions. After working several days
many workers are forced to lay off.
After hard days work the workers
must wash themselves in cold water.
AS their bodies are overheated they
catch colds and are forced to lay off
to cure them.
Three men were forced to lay off
on account of this condition last
week.
The workers in this plant are con-
stantly called ON to contribute to one
cause or another. If worker fails
to buy 81 ticket the boss gets angry
and fires the worker. No excuses
are accepted. 1t is a case of buy or
get out. woG
Wages in this mill are A cents an
hour on the 10-hour shift and 60 cents
an hour on the S-hour shift. In order
to take a day off or to take week
off for any purpose whatever the boss
grills the workers to find out what
he is going to do in that time. The
company seeks to- know what the
worker is going to do outside of the
mill as well as in the mill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
FUR WORKERS
CHICAGO UNION
FACES STRIKE
Progressives VIII Be in
Thick of Battle
BY a Worker Correspondent.

The following letter was sent to the
officials of the Chicago Fur Workers
Union:
The Fur Workers Union of Chicago,
Local 45, is going into a struggle with
the employers. The principal demands
of the union are the 40-hour week, 10
per cent increase in wages. equal dis
tribution OF work, full recognition of
the union and no discrimination or ar
bitrary discharge against union work
ers. The Introduction of these i'm
provements in the industry are of vital
concern to every fur worker.
Boss Attack.
The bosses are using every means
to destroy the organization. Hence in
the approaching strike the Necessity to
stand firmly united. In going into
this struggle we must be resolved to
fight as a unit until the bosses have
conceded all our demands. We must
be prepared to stand solid thru thick
and thin.
Discrimination.
The progressives in the Fur Work
ers' Union will support this strike 100
per cent. They will be found at their
posts in the very front line of the
battle from first to last. On the very
eve of the strike the administration
has shown deplorable lack of judg-
ment by discriminating against many
progressives thru refusing to put them
on the various committees connected
with the strike and in numerous other
ways.
But they will not permit this narrow
discrimination to effect their stand in
the strike. They will support the
strike in every way. Signed: J..
Sorenschein, chairman. and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
Speed-Up in Pacific
Mill a Trick to Cut
Wages and Cut Staff
(By a Pacific Mill worker.)

LAWRENCE, Mass, June 80. - In
the Pacific Mill No. 10 the weavers
are being urged to run 20 large looms,
which is double the number that they
are using at present. The greedy
bosses are promising a forty dollar
wage to the one agreeing to accept
the 20 looms, and also two helpers.
How kind the bosses are. They
are willing to pay the helpers SIT
each and the weavers $40. The three
wages combined seems to amount to
more than the pay of two weavers
now running 10 looms each.
Workers Look Out, Can't You See
the Trap?
AS soon as the twenty looms will be
accepted by everybody, the first thing
the helpers will get lost. AS for the
pay, we know that with every addi-
ton of speed up the pay envelope gets
smaller. The next thing that follows
is more weaYers thrown out of work.
The greedy bosses blame the bad
times for the great unemployment at
present in this city. 1t is their greed
for profits, their speed-ups, that cause
unemployment and misery to the
workers. The workers must not ac-
cept the bosses bluff. Let the bosses
run the 20 looms themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
STEEL WORKERS
ON The JOB TALK
OF ORGANIZATION
Realize Need of Labor
In the Mills
BY HERMAN GORDON
Worker Correspondent)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 80. At
the last meeting of the Central La
Dor Union, the president-a member
of the United Mine Workers, ruled out
Of order a communication from the
International Labor Defense for a
conference to save Sacoo and Van
zetti, on the ground that the l. L. D.
was not a bona fide labor organiza-
ton"
After this bubble to prevent labor
union aid being given to save the lives
Of frame-up workers, the body passed
on TO reports.
Delegate Cush of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers reported as follows:
"Our organization has been exist
ing for many years. Today, out of
100000 workers in the steel industry
it has a little less than 10000 and is
going down continually instead of up.
"Why? Because we need to organ
ize the unorganized. The men in the
plants are continually talking about
organization, because the hardest
work there, pudding, brings them
in for twelve-hour day the miserable
sum of 81.
"Even in the union shops the steel
workers work 10 and IL hours, so you
can imagine what conditions there
are in the unorganized plants. The
day when we were told that the time
is not ripe for organization is past.
If we will not resist, the open shop
We will be wiped out altogether and
Mr.. Schwab will be well-pleased."
The delegate appealed for help in
organization, but his plea went in one
ear and out the other.
A delegate from another local OF
the steel workers reported that man
had been fired for union activities.
But David ]. Davis, general secretary
of the union was quickly on his feet
saying that the member had dropped
the case. Such is the situation in the
steel industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02

jurors come they admire the well-kept
grounds and the shining doornobs,
taste the well-cooked meal and have
big feed themselves in the super
intendent's house and then they re-
port that everything is first class.
Fear Last Chance"
The inmates whom the management
does not like or who are physically so
feeble or mentally so deranged that
they are not able to take care of them
selves without aid or who are help
lessly bedridden are kept in a sepa-
rate building called the Last
Chance" This is the most dreaded
part of the institution. To be put into
the Last Chance" is feared more than
death. This fear keeps the inmates
from complaining regardless of how
wretchedly they are treated.
What make the Last Chance" a
place of horrors, is that halfwitted
drug-addicts, ex-saloon buns, imbeciles
and even insane inmates are employed
as attendants and orderlies because
they are cheap. They receive from SIS
to SIS month. These demented men,
who for the first time in their lives
have any authority, often torture the
helpless inmates entrusted to their
care.
Last year a crippled old man was
so brutally beaten that he died. Two
visitors, who happened to be in the
Last Chance" during the beating, re-
ported it to the grand jury. There
was an Investigation" Everything
was whitewashed. The management
of the poorhouse was not even censor
ed for the mans death. On the con-
trary it was praised. For there was
one pauper less to feed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
WOMEN'S TRADE
UNION LEAGUE
CONVENTION ON
Rap Class Nature of
Public Schools
BY JOHN MlHELlC.
worker Correspondent

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 30.-The
National Women,s Trade Union
League convention opened its sessions
at the Hotel Baltimore yesterday. The
discussions on the, problems of wo-
men and the trade unions have been
very lively and are far above the level
Of debate at A. F. of l.. conventions.
Today's session opened with Rose
Schneiderman of New York in the
chair for the morning session and
Agnes Nestor of Chicago presiding in
the afternoon. Lillian Herstein of
Chicago made the principal report to-
day on methods of trade union organ
ization.
Discussion Topics.
The following subjects we're dis
cussed:
What are the problems in organic
ing women workers?
Do the public schools teach the i'm
portance of group action?
Other problems before the conven-
ton were, women in unskilled trades,
the organization of young girls, older
and married women.
The discussion on public schools
was particularly interesting. The con-
clusion was drawn that schools teach
group action for capital and not labor.
Rose Schneiderman said all school
boards are hostile to organized labor,
especially the New York board of edu-
cation.
Class Nature of Schools.
Lillian Herstein struck the high
note in the debate by detailed argu-
ment showing the class nature of the
public school system. She gave as a
concrese example the attempt of the
Chicago Chamber of Commerce to or
ganize "a Junior Chamber of Com
merce" in the schools by exerting pres
sure on the board of education.
The convention will likely conclude
its work on Saturday according to
schedule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02

III the Country TpdyS Iueu 20 ulOuIu.
These walters are given a little better
food than the others.
tad Food.
The men--the women get little
better food-afe fed according to their
ability to wotk. The cripples, the
blind and the cid men too feeble to
work get the poorest grub. Very lit
tie or nothing at all OF the good things
bought for the poorhouse ever reaches
their tables. Vegetables and butter
are a luxury. 1.-TWO oranges and two
eggs a year is All they get. These are
given them on Christmas and Easter.
Pie, twice yetr. Sugar never reach
es their table.
caretakers Rob Poor.
High salariedlcivil service employees
take automobile loads of stuff to their
homes every dal Saturdays the stew
ard makes two loads.
Peddler Sells Food.
A peddler Visits the place three
times a week, selling to the inmates
who are fortunate enough to have
money-bread, butter, sugar and other
vegetables. There is quite an up-to-
date store in the bull-pen Of the poor
house. Formerly, this store carried
only tobacco and candy and belonged
to the blind men. It's meager profits
were used by the blind men to provide
themselves with tobacco fresh fruit,
butter, sugar and other comforts. A
few years ago it was taken away from
them. II was then furnished with
counters, Showcases and cash register.
A clerk was hired and put in charge.
Since then society pillar" is making
a few extra shekels selling food to the
at a high price.
Poorhouse Meals.
To give you an idea why the in
mates must buy their own food. For
Sunday "dinnerg-which is supposed
to be the best meal-meat is served
from which all juices have been boiled
on Saturday morning. This denourish-
ed meat is warmed up and served as
roast beef" 1t tastes like shoe
leather and sometimes 1t is so bad
that it causes dysentery. There are
too few sanitary fixtures in this poor
house. 5se
Herd Inmates Together.
Most OF the inmates are old people
who have worked hard all their lives
piling up wealth for others. There
are a few drug addicts, ex-saloon
buns, imbeciles, degenerates, and
insane. These are herded together
with those who have worked all their
lives. Numerous fights, bloodshed,
sometimes even death results from
the herding OF the decent inmates
with these elements. There are sixty
or seventy drug addicts in the insti.
tuition. Nothing is done TO cure them.
On the contrary, dope is sold quite
openly. It is said that the peddlers
pay a "rake-off" to a prominent politi.
clan for this privilege. This politician
is considered a 100 per center and is
quite high in the city and county adj
Once a year the county grand Jury
comes here 20 Investigate the poor
house. Everything is shined up for
this investigation-the date OF. which
Is known many days in advance.
There is a well.cooked meal that day
the only good meal during the year
for the inmates. When the grand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
Buffalo VIII Hold
Passaic Relief Meet
Wednesday, July Ia

BUFFALO, N. y, June 3O.-The
General Relief Committee OF Passaic
Textile Strikers is calling a conference
of all unions, workers fraternal or
CARNATIONS and sympathetic associa-
lions for Wednesday evening, July IA,
at Engineers Hall. SO w. Huron street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02

WRITE AS YOU FIGHT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02

"The pen Is mlghter than tbs
sword" provided you know how to use
It. Come down and learn how in the
worker correspondents classes
WRITE AS YOU FIGHT!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
SAN FRANCISCO POORHOUSE
INMATES ARE BADLY TREATED
BY AN INMATE

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf The
about onehd whom (pro
ded he has influential fiends anything
PEELED wooen long
employed walters who al
every the year.
waitefs
Work city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02

August 81
politics
putting HE candidate
picked Clark
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politicians supplied
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challenge politicians
On question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
N ew York to Hold
Concert at Coney Island
for Passaic Strikers

NEW YORK. June 3O.--An open air
concert will be held at the Coney
Island Stadium August 2s. The sta
dium seats $4,000.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Poison Bait Is Useful
in Killing Off Gophers

Gophers increase at the rate of 25O
per cent annually if undisturbed by
poisoning or trapping, declares A. b.
Oman of the Kansas State Agricultu-
raj college. state leader of rodent con-
troll work In spite of this immense
percentage of increase the decrease
Of gophers by trapping or other means
for which bounty is paid, is but one
gopher per acre, or about 25 per cent
Of the total number of animals, he ex-
plains.
To make the bounty plan of killing
gophers adequate to thoroughly wipe
out the animals the yearly gopher
catch should be increased five to ten
times, which would increase the
bounty tax from $4,000 to $4,000 for
a year or two in many Of the counties
of the state. The poisoning system OF
getting rid of gophers is far better
and cheaper Mr.. Oman believes, as
each poison bait, if properly applied
and used, kills twenty gophers for the
cost of one under the bounty system.
If any particular county would set
dSIuc sum cqudl " tHe CuIleAl dA-
nual gopher tax for period of two
or more years it would be possible to
eradicate the pest and eliminate the
heavy losses inflicted by gophers on
crops annually, as well as to do away
with the tax burden from the bounty
system, Mr.. Oman declares. The pay
ment of $1,000 in bounty for gopher
scalps signifies only 10000 gopher
scalps, which means that a relatively
small percentage of gophers in the
country could be got rid of under the
bounty plan.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Dangerous to Let Hogs
Sleep in Straw Stacks

The practice that some farmers fol-
low Of permitting their hogs to find
shelter in straw stacks during cold
weather is a very dangerous one for
the reason that on cold nights hogs
are inclined to burrow deep into these
stacks, or perhaps to pile up closely
together-and then when morning
comes and when they crawl out of
their nests they are frequently so
warm from perspiration that they
steam as they walk out into the colo
air. Such a condition can very easily
produce pneumonia and is therefore
Tery risky policy. The wiser course
is to provide sheds of one kind or an
other that are dry under foot and so
we'll ventilated that the animals can
rot become excessively warm.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Value Of Clover
and Alfalfa for Steers

There have been some feeding
trials with beef steers to determine
the value of clover as compared to
alfalfa. When steers were fed in
Indiana on silage, corn, and cotton
seed meal, clover hay was found to
be fully equal to alfalfa hay, ton for
ton. Doubtless these results may
have been affected more or less by the
fact that enough protein-rich concen-
trates were fed to balance the ration
even though no legumes had been
fed. This probably resulted in the
loss of the advantage of alfalfa hay
in It's richer protein content. How
ever, when fed in rations which are
low in protein, alfalfa has been found
to be worth more per ton than clover
hay of equal quality.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
ATM
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PREVENT DISEASES
OFPREGNANT EWES

In late winter and early spring nn-
less special precautions are taken, a
form of self-poisoning or autointoxi-
cation among pregnant ewes is liable
to occur and prove fatal. This dis
ease has for years puzzled all students
Of the subject, but method of pre-
vention has been devised. The symp-
toms shown by affected ewes are
these: The animal lags, lies down
great deal, loses appetite, grits its
teeth, staggers, may toss it's head
backward, is constipated and soon
goes down. 1t Is unable to rise and
soon dies.
When opened after death, the gall
bladder is usually found greatly dis
tended, and the liver is pale in color
and SO friable and easily broken that
it is termed "rotten" by the shepherd.
Often there seems to be but little
blood in the body. It may be added
that sometimes the tissues of the
body are stained yellowish color, in
dicating jaundice.
Almost invariably the train of con-
ditions and circumstances leading up
to the attack are close confinement
and lack of exercise, and prolonged,
excessive feeding of coarse, dry, bulky
constipating rOughage, especially tim
Othy hay, weathered corn stover and
straw or withered, frozen grass. The
ewes may also have been fed corn and
sometimes are fat and often sluggish.
There can be little question, l think,
that resorption of pOisons, generated
in the digestive tract, is the direct
cause Of the ailment, the liver having
been OvertaXed and made unable per-
fectly to perform its functions, one Of
which is the elimination or destruction
of the pOisOns mentioned.
No medicinal remedy has been
found, but the disease may be pre-
vented by making pregnant ewes take
active exercise daily, keeping their
bowels and kidneys active and avoid
ing the weakening effects of close
housing in a hot, dirty, badly-venti-
lated stable. To that end make the
ewes walk several miles daily to get
clover or alfalfa hay scattered over
a distant field, feed each eve two
pounds of roots daily, avoid feeding
the constipating roughages mentioned,
feed oats and bran to weak ewes and,
for all sheep, provide airy, sanitary
stables.-A S. A. of Wisconsin in Sue
cessful Farming
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Milk Powder Remedy for
Little Chick Diseases

Milk powder is the remedy for the
disease Of cOccidiosis, which for years
has taken it's annual toll of baby
chicks, according to the results of ex-
perimental work conducted at the Cal
ifornia agricultural experiment sta
ton. The results of the investigation
recommend the feeding or ration to
baby chicks which contains 40 per cent
Of dry skim milk The investigators
say: 1.-The fact that feeding chickens
mash containing 40 per cent dry skim
milk not only protected them against
coccidial infection but also stimulated
rapid growth, indicates that this would
be a valuable practice in the preven-
tfon and control of outbreaks of the
disease on poultry farms"
Two pens Of chicks fed in the ex-
pertinent were inoculated with the
germ of coccidiosis. Of those which
did not get dry milk in their mash %
per cent died. Of those which did
get dry milk only % per cent died.
1t was found that chicks fed DOW.
dered dry milk produced 25 per cent
faster growth than those which were
not so fed
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Woodchucks Spread
and Do Big Damage
Rodents Have Invaded Areas
Devoted to Crops.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
WOOdchuck control was an impOr-
tant part Of the work of the biological
survey of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture during the past
year. Originally confined chiefly TO
rough stony land, where they did rel
atively little damage, woodchucks
have invaded areas devoted to Or
chards and grain and root crops and
have established themselves along
levees, hedgerows, and other favor
able retreats. By girdling orchard
trees and feeding upon the products
of the farm, these rodents have: be-
come pest of considerable impor-
tance. In the banks of levees. their
burrows frequently make costly
breaks in time of high water and
food adjacent farms and destroy
crops. They are responsible also for
serious washouts in roads at bridge
abutments and along culverts.
Practical methods of fumigating
woodchuck burrows. with carbon BIZ
sulfide or calcium cyanide have been
worked out. In Indiana, Illinois, New
York and Maryland 320 demonstra-
tions were attended by approximately
5000 landowners. In "A counties in
Indiana 90 demonstrations were at
tended by more than 1900 farmers,
and as a result 10000 pounds of cal
cium cyanide were used in poisoning
campaigns against the pests.
In the Rocky mountain and Pacific
coast states woodchucks consume con-
siderable quantities Of forage about
mountain meadows, and locally invade
orchards, alfalfa, and other farm,
truck, and garden crops. The use Of
poisoning methods demonstrated by
the field representatives Of the biologi-
cal survey has put stop to much OF
the damage.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
BOSSY NEEDS CARE
TO PRODUCE MILK

"The care and management of the
family cow plays a greater part in.
the ability Of the COW to produce a
maximum flow of milk than is general,
ly supposed" says A. G. Kinney, ex-
tension dairy specialist for the North
Carolina State College of Agriculture
and Engineers For highest milk
able. One Of the important things
toward making her comfortable is a
clean, dry PLACE in which, to stay.
The stall should be cleaned and bed
ded each day, or new bedding put in,
if not possible to completely renew the
and the stall dry and fresh at all
times"
Mr.. Kinney recommends that the
stall be so constructed as to allow
for plenty of fresh air and sunlight.
A damp, dark stall is good breeding
place for disease germs which not
only injurea the cow but will probably
be injurious to the people who drink
the milk. A properly built stall should
be boarded up tight for four feet
above the floor so as to protect the
cows body from drafts, especially
when she is lying down. Above this
wall there should be plenty of windows
to allow for free passage of air and
light. The cost of building such
stall will be more than paid for in the
iDoroo cod niIlx nrOductiOD
During the period before freshen-
ing, the COW should be fed so that she
will be in good flesh at freshening.
Then she will come with a high milk
flow, states Mr.. Kinney. With proper
care and management she will main
tain this production through longer
period of time than under haphazard
conditions.
Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
Destroy Green Cabbage
and Caulifower Worms

The green cabbage and cauliflower
worms that do so much damage to the
leaves of these plants come from the
eggs laid by the white cabbage butter
flies. They are easily destroyed by
spraying or busting with any arsenical
poison (arsenate of lime one ounce to
two gallons of water), or pyrethrum
powder may be busted on the plants. 1t
is difficult to get the spray to
stick to the smooth glossy foliage of
any Of the cabbage family, but the
spray may be greatly improved by add
ing one-half ounce of soap to each two
gallons of the arsenical spray. Dust
ing early in the morning or after a
rain with pyrethrum powder or any
of the arsenical poisons is very salts
factory A useful homemade duster
is made by placing the dust material
in cheesecloth bag or sack or one
made from any other thin, strong ma
terial, and then by going over the
plants using a stick to beat the dust
from the bag very satisfactory job
can be done.