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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
A. C. ". MEMBERS
PROTEST AGAINST
PIECE WORK PACT
Resent New Concession
In Montreal
BY VICTOR FRANK
(Worker correspondentl

MONTREAL, Aug. 81. - The last
meetings Of Montreal Locals of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers I'm
ion proved to the general officers Of
the union what the workers think of
the new concession to the Montreal
clothing manufacturers.
The official press Of the Amalgama-
ted Union for the last few weeks talks
about the victory" of the Amalgama-
ted general strike in Montreal and
now they declare that the members
must agree to piece-work, because this
is the only way to bring the manufac-
turers back to Montreal from the lit
tie country places where they ran
away from union control.
Much Bitterness.
1t is hard to believe the bitterness
that prevails now amongst the Mon
treal Amalgamated members. They
all agree that pieee-work will bring
more decentralization into the Montreal
clothing market than there was before
the general strike. The general office
is threatening to withdraw the charter
and financial support if the members
will not ENDORSE their policy.
The sentiment against the new
piece-work policy is such that press
ers' local decided to tax their mem.
bers FIVE dollars each to form a fund
to fight piece-work. The same senti-
ment prevails amongst the operators
and cutters.
Which VIII They Dor
The Montreal Amalgamated mem
bers are awaiting further actions of
their general officers. The problem is:
VIII the general Office Of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers take into
consideration the strong sentiment of
their Montreal members condemning
piece-work or will they go over the
heads Of their members and bring in
the system against which the workers
are protesting.
1t is foolish to believe that the
Montreal clothing Workers will be
able to compete thru the piece-work
system with French girls u:,organized
and in the small country towns of
Quebec province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02

house." the first Philadelphia bank.
Here too is Franklin's old printing
press noiselessly turning out the first
copy of the Philadelphia Public
Ledger" March 25, 1885 -.
Price One Cent" 1t is interesting
to see that for its eight columns Of
news there are eight columns Of ad-
vertising, proving that "Old Ben" was
a worthy ancestor of his successor,
"The Saturday Evening Post" and
knew how to turn a penny for profit.
That the exposition is primarily
concerned with furnishing a medium
for advertising American business In
terests goes without saying. Our old
friends of the bill board and street
car cards greet us at every turn.
Wrigley's, Waterman's, the B. and o.
railroad vie with the Wall Paper As
ISOLATION and Standard OIL for your
eye and your money.
Japanese Typewriter.
Even the Chinese and the Japanese
have caught the fever. Next to a
Chinese typewriter which can write
up and down or sideways, one sees
portraits of American children skill.
fully embroidered in colored silks for
the small sum OF 5000 and the Japan
ese Export Corporation displays life
size figures Of Japanese men in native
costume, topped off with American
felt hats.
But the crowds are bored, they can
see all this any day in any one Of our
100 per cent American cities, with a
few skyscrapers, traffic cop, an am
bulance and a fire engine all thrown in
for the same price.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
Latest Prize Winners
Among Our Worker
Correspondents

The prize winners this week are
az follows;
First Prize: Il goes to the writer
at Flint, MIoh., who tells US about
the General Motors corporation, the
Morgan combination IN tho auto In
dustry. The prize lie a years sub
serlptlon to tho COMMUNIST IN
TERNATIoNAL, official organ of
the Communist international.
Second Prize: This prize, q copy
Of Left Wing unlonIsm" by David
J. Saposs, goes to another auto
mobile worker, correspondent who
writes about the Durant Motor Co.,
Elizabeth, N. ].
Third Prize: New York gets this
prize, a copy Of BARS and Shadows"
by Ralph Chaplin as the result Of a
story sent In about organization
work In the needle trades In the
metropolis. a-
Send in your story. II may win
one Of the price next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
Workers Party Nucleus
Makes Durant Motor Co.
Forego Plan to Cut Pay
BY a Worker Correspondent.

ELIZABETH, N. j., - There is a
plant here known as The Durant
Motor Co., making Durant and Star
cars. The conditions were as bad as
in any other open shop in the country.
Last February there was a shop
nucleus Of the Workers Party organ
lied. The nucleus proceeded to work
and started to issue bulletin known
as the Durant-Hays Hunt Radiator.
The bulletin was very we'll received
by the workers and was well read by
them. 1t described the bad condi-
tions in the shop and urged the work
ers to organize.
Last June the company made an at
tempt to cut the wages of the up
holsterers and trimmers. A strike fol-
lowed which lasted for a few hours
and the men won the wage cut back.
While the men were out and were
standing on the sidewalk near the
plant, Mr.. Hilfers. OF the New Jersey
Federation Of Labor came asking what
the trouble was. The men told him
all and said that they were willing to
join union. AS they were all up
holsterers they succeeded in forming a
local of that union. Meanwhile work.
ers OF other departments heard about
II and also started to organize, but az
there was no union they could not be
admitted, so they formed an A. +. OF
L. local known as auto Body Work
ers' Union"
Both local unions are functioning
we'll and have already their respective
charters. Last Friday both locals held
a Joint open meeting which was wen
attended. Workers are showing a very
good spirit, as since they started to
organize, their conditions are improv-
Ing.
The Machinists Union is also coming
into this drive and those three organ.
izatlons will most likely succeed in
organizing the plant and establishing
basis for organization IN the auto IN.
dustry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02

Jazz" This landmark greets you at
every turn Of the artificial lagoon"
as your imported gondola glides over
the bloated carcass of dead cat or
pulls up alongside the roller-coasters
Of Treasure Island"
Russian Room Brighter.
There are other interesting con.
trasts, which stand out in spite of the
slipshod, half-flnished state Of the ex-
position. In the art exhibit for in.
stance, after wandering thru dozens Of
rooms filled with dull portraits and
still duller landscapes, you suddenly
come upon burst Of color and mo-
ton in the Russian room. One can
vass in this room has caught the
spirit of the whole huge show.
Across its face marches the typical
American proletariat army derby
hats, pick axes, shovels, market bas-
kets bursting with "Uneeda Biscuits, -
all neatly labeled, and in the back
ground, the menacing smokestacks of
our Industrial towns not forgetting
the ever present reminder OF the next
world war, T. N. T.
Two rooms away the walls are COW
cred with the most exquisite Persian
rugs. Attached to one of them is a
card which states that it was woven
"by slave" for the entrance Of
mosque and bears the inscrip-
ton: only in the service of the
Lord, do I find Life"
Advertising Started Early.
On quiet street they have succeed
ed in reproducing part of beautiful
old Philadelphia J.. Here is Wash
ington's house and Franklins, and the
Gerard house with the old Counting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
SO OF
IL. C. v. TRIES
U Mo N DRIVE
Left Wing Executive to
Organize Girls
BY WILLIAM LUPU,
worker corrsspondentl

NEW YORK, Aug. %. - (By MaiD
After many years of unmaterialized
efforts by former administrations to
organize the dressmakers, the left
wingers have launched a vigorous
drive against the dressmaking scab
holes Of this city.
The task, however, is now more
perplexing than ever before.
OF the varied problems, two are
most menacing First, how the apa-
thetic ladies' tailors may be enthused,
to help organize their competitors, the
girls; second, how to stave off des-
tructive criticism, which springs from
The bitter opposition-the right wing.
Unity Prime Requisite
Local 3S, comprising several crafts
ladies' tailors, alteration tailors, thea
trical tailors, and custom dressmakers
has, ever since it's inception, for al
most two decades, grappled with the
vexing problem of unorganized dress
makers.
From Bad To Worse.
The problem has, Of late, become
more serious than in past years, the
trend of fashion tending to create
soft work." the kind of ladies' ap-
parel that girls produce at wages forty
percent lower than men receive.
Fashionable Fifth Avenue shops, in
variably, catering to their patrons
fancy, whose vogue WITNESSES have
lately been Parisified, display soft line
modes, for which fabulous prices are
paid to the highly reputed fashion
shops, in comparison to the meager
wages of the dressmakers.
Lack Of Spirit.
Year after year, the ladies' tailors
were wont to bear competition until
they have settled down, indifferently,
working wherever and whenever
they chance to find job.
Some of them, being misled TO aban.
don the hope Of ever succeeding in or
ganizing the girls, have adopted a pes
simistic attitude, even when the under
paid girls are willing to help in union
izing the dressmakers.
Left Wing on Duty.
The executive board, however, has
faithfully resolved to forge ahead, bar
riers Notwithstanding, until Local 3S
will have organized the dressmakers
and raised the standard Of conditions
for all OF its members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
Collector For Passaic
Discovers Shopkeepers
Oppose; Workers Help
BY M. PERLlN
(Worker correspondent)

During the house to house collec'
ton in Chicago on August % | had
some experiences that may interest
other collectors. In bakery at Divi-
sion and California a worker sweeping
the floor searched his pockets and
gave his only ten pennies, saying, IL
wish could give ten dollars" The
customers gave something, but the
nicely dressed young man at the cash
register said, 81 wouldn't give cent
for the strikers because they are no
good. They want higher wages and
shorter hours, and that isn't good"
Dlsllkes Strikes.
In lunch room nearby a short fat
fellow with beady eyes and an oily
cigar said, "I'm the boss OF this store
and I don't want. you to bother my
customers"
went ahead without paying any at
tention to him, and he threatened to
have me thrown out. threatened TO
organize strike OF his customers, and
the effect was very good. He gave mo
q quarter apologized, and invited me
to proceed with the collection.
Floored Him With Marx
At another place the boss wanted
to debate. "see here" he said; "The
strikers are fools. They stay out Of
work half a year, and even If they
gain little raise in wages, they have
already lost more"
But argued with him on the basis
OF MARKHAM economics that the work
ers have nothing to lose but their
chains. When they work for low
wages they only prepare for them
selves a time OF unemployment; when
they strike they may raise their
wages. II he wasn't convinced, some
others may have been.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02

A subscription to The DAILY
WORKER for one month to the men,
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Try 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
SIS Years a Convict.

wAUPUN, Wis, Aug. 81. "old
Bill" Maxwell, 81, one OF the oldest
convicts in the United States, was
given cake topped with candles to-
day, the 55th anniversary Of his ar
rival at the state penitentiary here.
He was convicted OF murder. He
never has attended chapel, moving
picture show or baseball game at
the prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-02
D. MaGNgg GAGEgfg9NgeNgg -
SESOUI-C ENTENNIAL CELEBRATES
SALESMANSHIP; CRUDE AND DIRTY
(Hy a Worker oOrrespondent.J

PHILADELPHIA 81 SesquiCentennial
fifty in which perfect the idea of
ht The exposition is blatant today
the mooony flat roofs with
The significant
full warning those constitutions
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BY Upton SimCIoir
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Garment Strikers Ask
A. C. w. For Strike Aid

ROCHESTER,, N. ", Aug. s1.-An
appeal from the 10000 striking cloak
makers of New York, who have been
out for nine weeks. has been received
by the Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers' executive committee, President
Sidney Hillman announces. The ex-
ecutive will appeal to It's membership
70 aid their fellow garment workers.
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
Times New Radio
Service

Beginning next Monday The
Washington Times Is going to
revise It's presentation Of Radio
News and Comment with a sole
view to the listeners interests.
Ii win be conducted by
Gardner Mack, the first dra.
laatic editor in the country To
give any special prominence
to moving picture news and
features ut time when the
cinima was bidding for fame
against the legitimate stage.
The Washington Times Radio
Department will treat the lIn.
seen stage from the viewpoint
OF the unseen audience. Every
thing Of interest to the listner-in
will be embodied I'm this de-
partmenf which begins next
Monday. y
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
ST. PETERS PLAYERS
TO PRESENT FARCE

Al Pair Of Skies, farce IN three
acts, win be presented by the ST.
day nights III the parish hall,
Second and G Streets southeast
wishing the production with William
al Walsh as director IN the cast
are Mr.. Walsh, Blanche Lothrop.
Mildred Repetti Margaret O'Conz
nor. Margaret E:ckIoff, Thomas
0'DonneIl, Louis Frick, Howard
smith, Chris San Felippo. Joseph
Norton. Alovsfns Davis and Alfred
MQEsafra gliy.
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
Don't Fuss With
Mustard PIasters!
MusteroIe Works Without the
BlisterEasier, Quicker

Don't mix mess Of mustard. flour
and water when you can relieve pain
soreness or stiffness with little clean.
white Musterole.
Musterole is made Of pure oil Of
mustard and other helpful ingredients,
IN the form Of wkite ointment Il
takes the place of mustard plasters,
and viii not blister
MusteroIe usually gives prompt relief
from sore throat. bronchitis, tonsillitls.
Group. stiff neck. asthma. neuralgia.
headache, congegtion, pleurisy, rhcu-
matfsm, lurr bago. pains and aches OF
the back or joints, sprains. sore mus
cles bruises chiIblains. frosted feet,
colds Of the chest cit may prevent
Dnenmonia1.
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Better Than I Mustard Plaster
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIALS
From Out of Town Stations

FFOM Vub OA AOWH cSdIUa
6:0O-Twilight Musicale, Webb.
6:00-Organ recital, WOO.
7:30-Sunday Evening Club, KYW.
8:00-Paulist Choristers, WLWL'
8:0O-Julia Cluassens, Paul Alt
house, and Little Symphony, WIZ
and WY.
1000 49, Opera, I'll Trovatore,
WHIP.
Time Schedule For Distant Stations
Hours in parenthesis indicate
intermittent broadcasting
ats, 81 WGBS, S-9
~rCA 90 WGBU, 9:30-12
CJCA, 9:3O.10:3O WGHP 70
CKY. Sill WON, 3:S0-11
CYL, 9-1e WGR, 7:45.101k
The Washington times., 1926-02-13

and Representative Ashton g. Schal-
lenberger OF Nebraska. Democrat.
s 3. M. Mutiny of the Bounty, :
by Sir James Elder, commissioners
for Australia.
8.25 b. M. New York Phi1har-
monte Society, Wilhelm Furtwaeng-
Ter conductor; broadcast with Sta
lions VIZ and WCY, from Carnegie
Hall in New York. Program: ~
Overture to die Meistersfnger
(Wagner); l2l Suite for cello and
orchestra lIst timel fNalentinl. CD
Symphony No. in e minor
(Brahmsl.
1880 b. m. Meyer Davis LIE
Paradis band broadcast from the
Cafe LIE Paradis. -
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
CALLlNGER CLASS
PLANS HOLIDAY FETE

Al dance and card party Is to
be given on Washington's Birthday
by the graduating class Of Gallinger
Hospital The affair is headed by
Miss Frances l.. LOTUS, who is as.
sisted by Miss Lillian Hamilton.
president of the class.
Others on the committees are
Mrs. w. E. Patterson, wife Of the
superintendent: Miss Catherine
Moran, superintendent Of nurses.
Miss Deffie Mantz, Miss Betty
Simms, Miss Helen Mosher and Miss
Effie Hartley.
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
j. S. WILL BUILD SIX
GUNBOATS IN SHAN ClIAI

Six river gunboatt for service Ia
China win Be constructed ct shang
hal according to the Navy Depart
ment Two of the boats win be
$50 feet long and $50 tons displace-
ment, two $50 feet long. of 40 tons
and other two 100 feet long, OF
575. tons
The engines Of the two smallest
boats Will be built af Shanghai
VIII be constructed at the New
York navy yard and shipped to
Shanghai for installation
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
Best Bets From
Out Of Town
ON AIR TONIGHT

500 intercollegiate GIee Club
contest, WNAC
800 Uncle Jimmy TIlomps IN
OId-tilne Barn Dance. WSM.
S:15~Basketball, Welt Point Us.
University Of PennsvIvania, MIP.
S:S0--St. Louis Symphony Orchss
ira, KSD.
9:00-Ford and Glenn, Wis.
800 st. Valentine feature. Grand
mothers Beauty Contest. NEW.
1900 Novelty program. WTAM
1900 Vincent Lopez Orchestra
WEAF.
Time Schedule For Distant Stations
The Washington times., 1926-02-13
|ROInping Around
the
Radio Dial
BY List4ner-m

ABE Lincoln, rugged, honest
humble, kind. gentle, ana great Was
enlogized and honored last night by
one Of the hest OF radio programs
| yet arranged during the National
Republics tribute to the Emanci,
pator, broadcast through WCAP
The radio filled the great need OF
Infringing Lincoln's policies and
/ works forcibly before his country
neople in the hours when they were
| hest able to receive ana dgesls
| them .4.,,
The speeches in his honor, extoii-
/ ing his virtues and emphasizing ms
ACCOMPLISHMENTS carried some q
,he tenderness and love that TINS
great man had for the country TOR
which he died.
THE music furnished BY the
United states Army Music Scho0i
hand was excellent.
81 inco1n.. the cantata by r..
Deane Shure. directed by Dir. Ed
ward Barnes, director Of music IN
the washington high schools and
author of the text of the cantata,
was remarkably well handled by
the washington Choral Club.
Another celebration Of note was
nut on the air through WgAP last
night in sincere and beautiful
manner-the celebration of the six
tenth anniversary of the District
OF Columbia Boy Scouts Of America.
Sir Esme Howard. ambassador
from Great Britain. principal speak
err on this program, made a stirring
address. in which he declared that
the BOYS OF the world were the
hope of the world.
The New York Philharmonic
Society will provide nearly LWo
hours OF music for the radio INST
eners who tune. in on WRC to-
night. The concert will be broad.
cast directly from Carnegie Hall
through VIZ, WGY and the local
The weekly talks on The Work
at Congress- will be made tonight
by Representatives Schuyler Mer-t
rift R1. of Connecticut. and ASH
| ton @. SchaIlenberger ID q
Nebraska. Dance music viii pc
broadcast by the Meyer Davis Ls
Paradis Band.
WRHFys Regular Features
II a. m. Current events.
11:3O a. m.-Police reports.
WMAL'S Program
n,.-s.Current Musical Hits,
through the courtesy of the q. ].
DeMoll Piano and Furniture Com.
pany
1880 D. NJ Making Model Homes
in Washington. Major Raymond
a. Wheeler. Assistant Engineer
Commissioner OF the District OF
Columbia. and chairman of the gen.
eraI committee in charge OF model
homes demonstration.
7.45 D. m--.sMaking the Punish
nent Fit the Crime. . Address by
Daniel Thew Wright. former justice
OF the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, representing the
Bar Association of the District OF
Columbia.
fesy Of the o. j. DeMoli Piano and
Furniture Company.
WRC'S Complete BIN
11:15 q. Huntington time sig
mails.
IL lnoonl Organ recital by w.
Spencer Tupman broadcast from the
studios of the Homer Z. Kit Piano
Company.
/ 5. m.-Daniel Breeskin's Raleigh
Hotel orchestra broadcast from the
Raleigh Hotel.
d. n.-Harvard Observatory talk
under the auspices Of the Smithson-
ian institution.
7:l5 b. m Bible talk by Capt. e.
w. Scott, chief chaplain Of the
Navy.
Evening star., 1926-06-13
Mule-Drawn Fire Apparatus Parades
Proudly in Bethesda and Chevy Chase

would have though of calling on the
towns combined hand cart, hook
and ladder and hose reel if there
had been a fire. They have too much
respect for their fires out that way
it seems, and too little confidence in
their f1re-ighting equipment.
AS matter of fact, it was this very
estrangement between the citizens of
Bethesda and Chevy Chase and the
town fire department that led to the
parade yesterday. Some of the lead
ing citizens who knew of the combi-
nation reel and Squirter thought it
would be a good plan to let the re-
mainder of the community see what
sort of fire department they have
out there.
Behind it all was a hunch on the
part Of those responsible for the spec
tacular dash that maybe the citizens
would respond more readily in the
drive now being made to establish in
Bethesda and Chevy Chase a real
honest to goodness fire department,
with up-to date apparatus.
The mule drawn hand cart eXhib-
tied yesterday was trailed by goat,
which kept it's eyes glued hungrily
on the big tin helmets surmounting
the ebony head of the colored lad at
the reins. And citizens say that goat
graphically portrayed the status of
themselves in fire protection matters.
On the sides of the apparatus"
was a sign bearing the following sig
nificant inscription:
Millions in Property Hazarded by
Fire
This is Our Only Protection
Evening star., 1926-06-13

stopped by q. county policeman for
a traffic violation. He came fortified
with cigars and candy and asked to
be allowed to install a library includ-
ing the Life of Abraham Lincoln"
The request was granted. Westbrook
was taken to Jail by deputy United
States marshal who once held the
position Of Cook County jailer under
Hoffman.
The sheriffs of both Du Page and
De Kalb Counties maintained that
their well known prisoners will re-
ceive no special favors.
While the sheriff and Westbrook
both have resigned themselves to
serving their sentences their friends
are circulating petitions asking Presi-
dent Coolidge to take action to pardon
them
Evening star., 1926-06-13
MARYLAND R. O. 7.
GIVEN HIGH RATING
Placed on distinguished List" for
the Fifth Year in
Succession.

COLLEGE PARK, Md, June 12.--
University of Maryland's Reserve Off
GERS Training Corps unit again has
been placed on the distinguished
list" the War Department today in
formed President Albert f. Woods.
This is the fifth consecutive year that
the Old Liners have been so honored.
Nineteen institutions in the Sd
Corps Army Area having military
units are submitted to inspection an
nually before Regular Army officers,
and the leaders are placed on the
distinguished list" The inspection
was made about a month ago.
At the time of the inspection the
Army officer in charge declared that
the Maryland Cadet Band was the
hest he had heard this year in his
tour of the various iaStitutions in the
section.
Capt w. P. Scobs. is acting head
of the department OF military science
and tactics at Maryland