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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14

say, and most give only a dime. In
sleeping cars the percentage tipping
is little higher but the maximum
amount given is usually a quarter.
When a man and wife and children
travel together, the man is likely to
give the porter only quarter for the
whole family, even tho several berths
are occupied. When berths are not all
full, the porter is the loser. He is
never sure of this much needed extra
income from tips.
Tipping the Boss.
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters wants to see the porters and
maids paid sufficiently by the Pullman
Co. so that they will not have to de-
pend upon tips for their living. The
tip is really tipping the company, the
porters say, for not paying its work
ers decent wages. The company does
not recognize tips as a part of earn
ings in apportioning pensions to old
employees. The average pension given
is only SIS month.
Porters nave to pay for their own
food enroute, paying half the high
dining car prices charged to passen-
gers, which is still an expensive rate
for such poorly paid workers. Only
third of the porters, according to
the Wall Street Journal figures, get
free uniforms because of 10 years OF
more service. The majority of por.
tiers have this additional expense each
year. AS for owning their own homes
and autos, the brotherhood officials
laugh at the idea and wonder where
/ the Wall Street Journal found it's fig.
ures. Porters in small towns may
possibly own little shacks they call
homes, but the bulk Of the porters are
urban jewellers and certainly do not
own either residences or autos.
Don't Own Company.
The financial paper makes a point
of the porters' ownership of Pullman
Co. stock. Each porter is permitted
to buy only one share and less than a
tenth have taken the offer. The Pull
man Porters' Benefit Assn, given
with the company union, was denied
the right Of investing 100000 Of its
S250,000 funds taken from the porters
in stock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14

sideration. and only insofar as Il
may have some bearing on the de-
velopment Of the natural resources OF
the Philippines by American capital.
Rubber, In a Nut She'll.
Rubber lands In the Philippines
100000 acres.
Cost Of eultivating 2Is acres In
''PPiHGe ssstsss'sssss.sss..st (O.OO
Cost Of eultivatino 2Ia acres In
~N'"e'" f'ssasts-ssfis % i.uO
Cost Of eultlvatina 2Is acres In
S"Fa S33.OO
(showine the Philippines as the
cheapest place for rubber growine.)
Present U. S. capital In Philip
pines $3.50, 100000.
Capital v. S. bankers propose TO
invest In Philippines Islands rubber
s5oo,ooo,ooo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14

There is no need for despair be-
cause of a few takers, but there is
great need that the rank and file learn
that every official who talks to them
about collaboration with the boss is a
potential traitor. The selling out by
harrington is not an act that was done
in an unguarded moment, but the d.
rect result of years spent in the belief
that the coal owner and the coal dig
ger have something in common.
Before this show is all over Far.
rington, If his boss will allow him,
may have something to say about this
100 per cent capitalist tool, John L.
Lewis, and the readers of The DAILY
WORKER may have one more "reve-
lation" of the selling out Of the miners
by Lewis.
1t was Lewis who proposed to the
coal operators that 200, 900 coal miners
be driven out Of the INDUSTRY to starve
as far as either he or they cared, and
his act in turning up a confederate,
who was becoming too dangerous to
him, will hardly at this late date
stamp him as the disinterested guard
ian of the coal miners of North
America.
In 1922 Lewis, like the traitor he is
ran the knife in the back of the min
ers of Nova Scotia when a splendid
victory was almost in their grasp
The miners of Nova Scotia had come
out on strike against the use of the
armed forces OF the country beinr
used to smash the then steel workers
strike. Every last man in and abou
the coal mines came out The com
I pany property could go to hell as fal
as the miners were concerned, ant
both the government and the opera
tors were in the frame of mind I,
settle.
Only once in all the history OF the
labor movement in Canada did the
encouragement interfere in a Labor
dispute, and 1t was in this miners
strike in 1922. He came to Nova
Scotia and met the officers OF the
miners union and agreed that the
armed forces be all taken out OF tn,
strike field and that the miners star
to go back into the mines when the
troops leave the district.
II was exactly at this point that the
minister OF militia and lawyer FOL
the British Empire Steel Corporation
got John L. Lewis to step into tn,
struggle on behalf OF the master class
and depose the district officers ant
order all local unions back to worl
on pain OF having their charters taker
away and their solidly organized unioI
smashed TO fragments. His is a his
tory OF black-hearted treason to IN,
coal miners OF North America.
Wherever men battled for bread thi
traitor tricked them and betrayed
them. In West Virginia, where tn,
miners put up a battle that thrilled
the world, John l.. Lewis was swear
ing out aftidavits that he was not II
that state at all. In Somerset COX
fields, where 10000 coal miners cam,
out on strike, Lewis, at the dictates
OF his coal operator boss. refused Oh,
strikers membership in the union ant
left them In tho lurch when he signet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
Potters Union Continues Scale.

EAST LIVERPOOL, o.-(FP)-The
National Brotherhood OF Operative
Potters has signed a 2-year contract
with employers providing a continue.
ton of the present scale. Increase
demands Of to 159o were turned
down on the plea that economic con
ditions in the pottery industry are
bad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
Kharakhan Reports Home.

LONDON, Sept. -. - Tchitcherin,
Russian foreign minister, has ordered
NJ. Kharakhan, Soviet minister to
China, to return to Moscow for con.
situations, due to the serious situa.
ton that exists between China and
Russia, according to Central News
MOSCOW dispatch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
Tie Up Norway Pulp Industry.

WASHINGTON - OPP "A cable
gram from oslo to the department OF
commerce announces that 1900 work.
ers in the Norwegian paper industry
are on strike against Il wage cut of
27qe in plecework ratea ard. loo In
n------a-- -. 1855. A--- - '-+A-s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
ANSWER WALL STREET FICTION
ABOUT PULLMAN PORTERS' WAGES;
COMPANY PROFITS FROM TIPS
BY ESTHER LOWELL.

NEW YORK(FPPuman porters the Brotherhood
Sleeping Car POers occasion their
Pullman
Street Journal big the
increased 1853
the but where
living monthly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
HARRINGTON AND JOHN L. LEWIS

The following article. was specially
written for The DAILY WORKER by
J. B. McLachlan, former president Of
the Nova Scotia miners who was
forced out of office by John L. Lewis
and his place filed by men who con-
sented to carry out Lewis wishes
While McLachlan was in Jail as a
result Of the miners strike Lewis was
associating with the Canadian gov
eminent officials and doing everything
in his power to assist McLachlan's
enemies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
PUBLIC OPINION IN PHILIPPINES
HOLDS THOMPSON ECONOMIC SPY
BY ALL.AMERIcA ANTLlMPgRlALIsr LEAGUE.


MANILA p. LObservers wh
CSmi Thompson will have
companed Thompson think
the presidents investigator will
complete practically unanimous view Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
Leaders Court-MartIaIed.

ATHENS, Sept. 10. - Precautions
have been taken to prevent repeti-
ton of the mutiny among the republi-
can guards and the Athens garrison
has been heavily reinforced, the gov
eminent announced today, after the
brief but bitter fightingi following a
mutiny Of republican guards against
their disbandment.
court-MartlaI Leaders.
Leaders of the mutiny are being
court-martialed today. a
The government statesuthat despite
warnings, the commandments of two
battalions of republican guards
marched their troops into Athens,
making conflict inevitable. The ar.
rest OF M. YezilSis, former mayor OF
Athens, has been ordered
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-14
CREEK REVOLT
IS CRUSHED BY
ATHENS TROOPS
(speeIaI g The oaIIy WOrkerl


ATHENS, Sept. 12.-Fifty persons
were killed and many wounded when
thousands Of shots were exchanged
between members of the Athens gar
rison and the republican guard. The
latter had been ordered disbanded by
the new dictator, Condylis, and
marched on the city in protest. Civil
ians Joined with them in the battle
against the loyal troops and the strug-
gle ragged for several hours, with war
planes flying overhead and dropping
bombs on the city.
Number 1000.
The rebels numbered about 1000,
Superior forces finally overwhelmed
them and their officers were arrested.
The city is now under martial law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
Most N. H. Cabbages
Raised At Home

Durham, n. H., August 12.-(Pl--
The time has come, as the walrus re-
marked, to talk Of cabbases. New
Hampshire people and the tourists
who visit the state like the succulent
vegetable we'll enough to consume 49,
600 barrels of cabbage in a year.
New Hampshire farmers raise $4,000
barrels or 81 IL per cent of this to-.
tai. The rest comes mainly from
produce commission merchants in
Boston.
The agricultural experiment sta
ton at the University of New Hamp-
shire, which has determined these
facts in a statewide economic sur
vey. puts a question mark after the
problem Of growing at home enough
cabbages to supply the entire de-
mand. 1t points out that this could
be done easily by the addition of only
40 acres to the Granite State farmers
cabbage patches but warns that any
general expansion in the crop would
neccssitate shipping ~ outside mar
kets at somewhat lower price than
that now received.
Data on the cost of production is
too meagre at present to warrant
definite advice, but the investigators
say cabbages At we'll into general
dairy farm organization.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13

mitted that he dubbed the Waterman
to death while his companions were
robbing the Office of the carbarn.
The full bench of the supreme court
dismissed exceptions taken by the de-
Tense counsel after the trial. Cow
ernor Fuller then was approached with
pleas for executive clemency based on
the alleged mental condition Of Dever-
eaux. The governor refused to inter-
vene or to present the petition. signed
by 10000 persons, to the executive
council. The mothers of the three
condemned men waited on the gov.
ernor at his summer home at Rye
Beach, n. H., without result, and on
Monday the defense had recourse to
the courts by habeas corpus proceed
inss.
The death sentence was to have been
carried out during the present week,
and would have been the second
triple electrocution in the history of
Massachusetts.
The Governors council tonight
confirmed the action of Governor
Fuller in granting respite OF three
months to the three condemned men.
Lieutenant. Governor Frank B. Allen
proposed to the council in special
meeting that the decision of the gov
ernor be approved and the vote was
unanimous.
Two state troopers in uniform. at
once set out for Charlestown to con-
vey to Warden William Hendry Of
the State prison, official notification
Of the reprieve.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
REUNIONS

Aug. 15-North Fairfield reunion.
Aug. 17-Cornville High school.
Aug. 17-27th annual reunion Of Hag-
gett family at Edgecomb town hall.
Aug. 17-Norton family Of Franklin
County, Odd Fellows hall, Farming
Aug. 1s-McLaughlin family at Car
mel.
Aug. 1s-Pierce family, Cushnoc
Grange hall, Riverside.
Aug. 19-Worthing family at Com
munity house, Palermo. Picnic
lunch.
Aug. 1s-ooth annual reunion Of Gill
man family at Methodist church,
Aug. 2O--First Maine Heavy Artillery
Regimental Assn, at Hampden.
Aug. 21-Searles family, Wilton.
Aug. 21-Bridgton Academy. 1895 to
1903.
Aug. 21-Hampden Academy Alumni
Association.
Aug. 21-Newell family at Lisbon.
Aug. 24.-Litchfield Academy.
Aug. 25-54th annual reunion Of 18th
Maine Regimental Association at G.
A. r. hall, Waterville.
Aug. 25-Burbank family, West Farm
ington, Village Improvement socie-
Aug. 29-Hoolse family at Lee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
Condemned Man
Resigned When Told
All Hope Is Gone

Baltimore, Md, Aug. 12-(P)-Rich-
ard Reese Whittemore tonight was
prepared to die, the last slender
thread of hope on which his life
rested having been snapped by Unit
ed States supreme Court Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes denial of a
writ of error at his Beverly Farms,
Mass, summer home, today.
The bandit leader. who fatally
wounded Robert II. Hoffman, a
guard. in an escape from a Maryland
penitentiary on February 20. 1925.
took the final adverse decision calm.
~, as he had taken the long series
of failures which attended the eff
forts of his attorneys to set aside
the death sentence, imposed by
Criminal Court Judge Eugene
"All right; that's all l expected"
he said
Whittemore was convicted of first
degree murder on May 81. after hav-
ing escaped conviction by jury
disa ~reement in Buffalo, y. Y, where
he was tried for murder in connect
ton with the killing of a bank mes
senser during $4,000 holdup.
Mrs. Margaret Whittemore, the
condemned mans wife, who had re-
fused to relinquish hope throughout
the series of adverse court decisions.
was in state of collapse when word
reached her that the last possible
move had failed. She. with Rawlings
V. Whittemore, the slayer's father,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rollings V.
Whittemore, Jr., the bandits broth
er and sister in law, was to visit her
husband in the death cell for the last
time this evening. The time of the
visit was not divulged but 1t was in
dictated it was scheduled well before
the hour of execution, set for a few
minutes after midnight, eastern
standard time.
Whittemore asked that his last
meal be an Italian dinner and the
meal was prepared in a downtown
restaurant selected by Whittemore
Whittemore arose at $50 this
morning after having slept five
hours, breakfasted and settled down
to read an adventure story. Rev. w.
A. Briggs, Protestant chaplain of the
penitentiary, visited him in the fore
noon and a short time later Father
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
BANKERS EDUCATIONAL
g FOUNDATION TRUSTEES

John H. Puelicher, former presi-
dent of the American Bankers Asso.i
citation, has been named chairman
Of the board Of trustees OF the
American Bankers Association Educ,
cational Foundation for which $780,
900 has been pledged by the bankers
to provide for scholarships and re-
search in economics in colleges
throughout the country. The other
trustees are Leonard P. Ayers, Vice
President Cleveland Trust Com.
pany: Stephen l. Miller. Educational
Director American Institute Of Bank.
ing; Lewis E. Pierson, Chairman IT.
wing Bank. Columbia Trust Company.
New York: George E. Roberts, Vice.
President National City Bank, New
York: Francis H. Sisson, Vice-Presi'
dent Guaranty Trust Company. New
York; Evans Woollen, President
Fletcher Savings & Trust Company,
indianapolis; w. Espey Albig, Dep
uty Manager American Bankers AS
ISOLATION, Secretary. a E5;-.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
Mrs. Mclean Speaks
Continued from Page One)

many of our charities had grown
was at stake. She said, "They talk
much of maintaining the standard OF
our fathers. l agree that their eX-
ample is worthy of emulation. But
these fathers adopted a Constitution
containing a provision that 1t should
be the duty of the Legislature to en-
courage and suitably endow' as cir
cumstances would permit our acad-
emies, colleges and seminarles Oh
learning" ,,
She pointed out that with this Bill
as the sole issue Mr.. Thayer had pol
led approximately 40 percent OF the
total primary vote; that the Bill nau
been condemned by a committee OIL
principals and teachers of our edu-
cational institutions. Certainly these
men representing our colleges and
orr very best educational instltu-
tions have the interest of educatlon
and of the State at heart" said Mrs.
Mclean.
Continuing she said THE farmers
have ALWAYS been found loyal to the
state and it's interests. They nave
always supported every worthy I'M
dertaking. The Committee on Edu-
cation and Resolutions of their great
renresentati tive order, the Grange,
made a report clearly indicating the
onnosition of that Committee to the
Bill. 1t has been said that inns iSs ue
ia one which would disappear VI.
election day. If the vote Is YES ~
will augment a hundred fold the
hardship which will be placed on our
small towns and farming communi-
ties from which has come the nowe q
of our manhood and womanhood il
IL IL known that it can only dlsaP-
near On the theory that those VINO
have been so strenuously urging ~
or similar legislation have oeeI an ~,
sincere and mere politicians: -
going to credit them Win oe anst;n,a
cere. If sincere they VIII 49, thev
TO oppose the practice WnIen ~.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13

credit needs: az introduced an elias
tic currency and eliminated money
panics: (s) eliminated extreme sea-
sonal fluctuations in rates Of inter.
est; az brought business safely
through the war and postwar
crises: (5) saved millions Of dollars
to business through its efacient sys'
tenn for check collection; (6) made
the gold reserve more effective as q
basis for credit extension In times OF
extraordinary demand: ~ aided IN
the financing Of foreign and domes-
tic trade by developing discount
market for acceptances; (S) pro.
vided q means for handling huge
financial operations Of the govern
ment without interference with BUSH
ness; (9) aided in the re-establish'
ment Of the gold standard abroad;
(1o) given US an experienced bank.
ing organization which will assist
US in meeting the future edgencies
Of business at home and abroad with
courage and confidence. - 10y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-13
MAINE STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSION
NOTICE TO BRIDGE CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received at the Of
fee of the Maine State Highway, Com
mission Augusta, Maine. until ten
August "a. 1926. for the construction
of the following bridge structures,
Good Will Farm Bridge over Martin
Stream in the town of Fairfield, SOM
erset County. Maine. Estimate $50 Gu;
W winter Street Bridge over Cobbos-
see Stream in the city of GardIner,
Kennebec County, Maine. Estimate
1897 Gu yds. concrete:
Cox Bridge over Little River pc
scosgin County. and Bowdoin Saga
dahoc County, Maine: Estimate 10
Gu. yds. concrete: 165 Gu. yds. stone
ma sonry-relaying.
Foss Bridge over Dead River IN tne
town of Leeds. Androscoggin County,
Maine. steel superstructure. Estimate
$4,000 lbs. metal
Mattawamkeag River In the planta-
ton of Moro, Aroostook county
Maine Estimate 267 Gu; yds; co de1,srs
ISIS Oo) will be made for the, plans
ana specifica tions for each bridge, the
sameto be returnable when plans and
specifications are returned In good
condition to Inc SOIIlllllSSloh'
Each proposal must be made upon
the blank form provided by the Com
mission and must be accompanied by
a certified check or proposal BOND IN
favor of the treasurer of the State OF
Maine. in the amount of ten per cent
T0Ce) of the proposal as guarantee
Mat the bidder will contract for the
worl, if it is awarded to him.
Each proposal shall be in sep
arate envelope. sealed and plainly
marked Proposal for the construction
of 6rloSe over co..
in the town of state
of Maine ~,
ouired to furnish surety company
bond in the amount of fifty per cent
150Gs) of the contract price. Proposal
forms plans and specifications may be
secured upon application to the Com
mission.
The right is reserved to reject any
CHARLES H. INNEs,
CHARLES MURRAY,
f. T. CLIFFORD,
State Highway Compassion.
PAUL D. SARGENT,
Chief Engineer.
Augusta, Maine, August /, 1926;
aug13-tS
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GENERAL MOTORS
Continued from PAGE one)

common dividends were s9S,2S5,674,
or roughly l IL times the regular
dividend requirements on the aug
mented stock issue.
THE outlook at the present time
is satisfactory" was the only COM
ment made after todays meeting by
President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., of the
corporation.
The unusual prosperity Of the Cen
eral Motors Corporation, whose earn
ings in the first six months exceed
ed those of the United States Steel
Corporation. widely regarded as the
premier industrial concern \of the
country, has been reflected in the
marked appreciation of the quoted
value of its common stock on the
New York stock exchange. In the
drastic general reaction last March,
the stock sold down as low as S113.-
% a share.
Wall Street at that time was flood
ed with reports that the automobile
industry had reached the "saturat ton
point" that sales were falling off and
that extensive price cutting was in
evitable. A backward spring, which
temporarily retarded the sale of cars.
seemed to lend color to this theory
for time, but General Motors exc
cutives, convinced that fundamental
business conditions we're sound, went
ahead with the expansion program,
with the result that car sales broke
all records. In the first quarter, net
income of s3S,133.942, was double that
shown in the first quarter Of 1925,
being equivalent to $3.50 a share on
the common
General Motors stock started to
climb. The advance from l40 to 700
was without any break of conse-
quence. Then appeared the famous
Cochran interview in which the j.
P. Morgan partner was quoted as
predicting a further advance of 100
points in the stock. This started wild
public speculation in the issue which
carried 1t up to a record high for all
time at 225 ga early this week. Three
days of bear selling and heavy profit
taking in anticipation of the good
news carried the stock down to 1875
today, but it snapped back to 2O3 IL
at the close
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COMING EVENTS

Aug 13-23-Salvation Army camp
meeting at Old Orchard.
Aug. l4-22-Empire Grove campmeet-
ing and Institute Methodist Episco-
pal church, East Poland.
Aug. 14-2S-Annual cruise Of Portland
Bay. Long Island.
Aug. 14--Kennebec County Camps and
Auxiliaries to be guests OF General
George B. Mcclellan Camp, s. Of v.
at field day, South Windsor.
Aug. 15-New England Assn, OLD Or
chard.
Aug. 15--old Home day. Durham Con-
gregational church.
Aug. 16-1s-New England Grange Lee.
turers' Conference. Orono.
Aug. 16-20-Annuai State conference
Of school superintendents at Castine.
Aug. 16-21-,School OF Methods at
Ocean Park.
Aug 1S-Bangor Historical society's
Corinth.
Aug. 20-SO-7sth annual campmeeting
and Young Peoples Institute. East
Livermore.
Aug, 24-26-Maine Pathological field
meetings as follows: Aug pa at
Highmoor Farm; Aug. % at Henry
Wentworth's orchard at Skowhegan:
Aug. IS at Lyman K. Lees orchard
at DoYer-Foxcroft.
Aug. 24-26-Annual field meetings OF
Maine Bee Keepers Assn. at Ban
gor and Caribou.
Aug. 24-25-Mechanic Falls Commune
ty Carnival.
Aug. 2s-Summer meeting Of Maine
Jersey Breeders Association at
farm of DR.. Owen Smith Sebago
Lake.
Aug. 3O-Hearing at Eustis before
Franklin county commissioners on
proposed highway through Eustis
to the Canadian border.
Aug. 3o-Sept. 3-Inter-denominat
Religious Institute at First Baptist
church. Rock1and.
Sept. Annual meeting Of Maine
Press Association at Houlton.
Sept. 6-Labor day.
Sept. 6-AIaine State Detective Asso-
citation holds annual meeting at
Lewiston.
Sept. Estate election.
Sept 15-11-State w. c. T. [. con-
vention. Presoue Isle.
Sept. 21-24-Fall convention of Maine
Federation of Womens Clubs at
Kennebunkport.
Oct. 4-6-Fall conclave Of 3sth Rotary
District at Poland Spring.