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attend the lectures and to- pursue
d certain amount Of reading each
week onsthe various subjects in the
curriculum.
Following the completion Of the
coursG. as, proper indication that
the fun amount Of reading has been
done, together with the record of
the student during the various
qlIizzes which will be given, a Ger.
fificate will be issued certifying that
The successful student has properly
completes the course. !
a.. III. Lawson has been appointed
chairman Of the Real Estate Boards
forum Acommittee and this commit
tee win conduct q series of lectures
for the members OF the board,
These lectures will be arranged
and given by competent speakers.
who will be selected FOR their abil-
ity to iInpart to the real estate
men technical information in re-
spset TO the realty business and the
assets OF the National Capital.
The Washington times., 1926-08-07

Night life in q big American
city is featured I'm 1.-THE Taxi
Dancer" novel starting III The
Washington Times on August 3.
The Washington times., 1926-08-07

Tile opening chapters OF Tho
Taxi Dancer start August Q In
The Times.
The Washington times., 1926-08-07

We have ST. Clement Shores less than six weeks. In
that time sold nearly 400 lots We have built
miles Of streets provided daily supply Of 10000 to
$4,000 gallons of cold sparkling aresan water from depth OF
800 State and County cooperation in the
improvements Plans have been made for
the erection steamboat wharf which will land passengers and
freight from Washington and rapidly possible plans
being developed for piping running water for the erection Of
dance pavilion and for other improvements
The Washington times., 1926-08-07
lsillg Amazingly Each Day
Values IllcreaSirl

ideal
predeveopment levels with
improvem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
SEIDEL AND HIS NEW UNION
Who Is This Man and Why Has He Organized New "Union
in the Shoe Industry?

BY Dist. Council 2, Shoe Workers Pro-
teetIVe Union.
The Children's Shoe Workers I'm
ion, for quite some time in existence
as an independent union, recently
realized the necessity of afiliating
with national organization and join
ed the Shoe Workers Protective I'm
ion. Its decision to join the Shoe
Workers Protective Union was made
at a meeting held in September IA,
1925. At this meeting the member
ship, by an overwhelming vote, ap-
proved the step that would bring this
formerly weak, independent, isolated
union into line with the most power
full and best organized union in the
shoe industry.
Approved AmaIsamstion.
Mr.. Seidel, the then organizer of
the independent union of workers on
children's shoes, was present at the
social meeting where the decision
was made to join the Protective Shoe
Workers Union. After the vote was
taken he expressed himself as being
heartily In favor of the move, and in
declaration before the membership
asserted that he would do all in his
power to aid the progress of the or
ganiEation. He concluded his remarks
by assuring those present that he was
leaving the city and would no longer
take an active part in the affairs Of
the shoe workers. Some of the men,
ocrs Of the union doubted his mo-
tives as well as his word.
Those members who questioned the
honesty of this man. Seidel, proved to
be correct.
The few followers that he had were
astonished a short time ago when
there appeared in the press a notice
calling the children's shoe workers to
an organization meeting and signed
by Seidel as organizer of an entirely
new union.
Failed to Attract.
Thus far he has failed to organize
any appreciable number of workers
In the childrens shoe branch of the
industry. 1t is not likely that he can
organize these workers. He was head
OF the organization for eleven years
and during that time the only person
who benefited from the organization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
New York Federation
Backs Smith Attempt
to Block Water Lease

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. IL. - The
State Federation Of Labor has adopt
ed a resolution calling on organized
labor of New York to support Gov.
Smith in his stand on the water power
problem. The resolution declares that
Smith is acting to protect the peoples
property rights.
Smith is seeking TO prevent the
water commission awarding a nifty
year lease to either the frontier cor
poration or American Super-Power
corporation for water power develop
ment, when the commission member
ship expires Jan. /. Smith requests
that the lease awarding be allowed to
go over until Jan. 1. when a new
board will be appointed. More time
to investigate possibilities of water
power is wanted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
Machine VIII Fold
Handkerchiefs; Help
Can Now Fold Hands

PASSAIC, N. j., Dec. 12.-Commer~
cial handkerchief folding can now be
done by machine with one operator
doing more work than four workers
can under old methods. Two Passaici
men have invented a folding machine
which works for handkerchiefs, tow
els, napkins, pillow cases and similar
articles. They have organized a ma
chine manufacturing firm to supply
the many handkerchief factories OF
this district. Passaic Is one of the
main handkerchief manufacturing
centers of the United States, turning
out $4,000 to 100000 dozens daily.
The new machine will fold 100 dozen
Of these an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
LUMBER WORKER
MURDER LAID To
DOOR OF BOSSES
Organizer Was Victim of
Hired Gunner

MORGANTOWN, W. Va, Dec. a.
(FP)-After a year Of mystery it
seems that the supposed accidental
death of Lawson McMillion, lumber
jack and radical organizer in West
Virginia lies suspiciously near the
door OF the Spring Creek Lumber Co.
and the lumber trust.
Attacked by Boss Gunmen.
About 21z years ago he was attack
ed by lumber trust gunner in Rich
mond, w. Va, wounded with an ak
and left to die. But he recovered and
then the courts got after him on a
treason charge at Marlinton but failed
to convict. Some months later he was
again in q hospital as result of a
murderous attack by a corporation
gang. The American Civil Liberties
Union demanded an investigation of
Gov. Gore and while this was pending
McMillion was reported accidentally
shot dead while hunting. That was in
October 1925.
A friend of McMillion, I. G. Miller
OF Morgantown, suspected foul play
but was unable to investigate on ac-
count Of ill-health until the fall of
1926. Then he discovered at the lum-
Der camp where McMillion had work
ed that a man named Christian ad-
mitted shooting the labor organizer
but claimed that he was walking be-
hind McMillion with his gun cooked
and twig discharged it. Examination
of the body however revealed that the
shot had entered near the top of the
shoulder and ranged down. There had
been no regular inquest or doctor to
report the caAe and the company had
its employees act as a coronor's jury.
These and many other things lead
ing up to and following McMillion's
DEATH. says miller. "cghvinoed me
that he was killed Intentionally by a
hireling Of the lumber trust or the
Spring Greek Lumber Co. The case
demands investigation by the Civil
Liberties Union and the I. W. W."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
LONGWORTH BOOM
F O R PRESIDENT
WORRYING CAL
Tariff Interests Favor
Him, Is Belief

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-Speaker
Mick" Longworth's presidential boom
for 1928 has been started in the cap
ital and is causing republican poll
Iticians to wonder whether the White
House will take steps to kill it off,
Back Of Longworth is his enterpris-
ing wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
supported by many politicians of the
reactionary element, who have per-
sonal reasons for wishing to get Coo
lidge out of the way. Senator Moses
of New Hampshire, Senator David
Reed of Pennsylvania, Senator Wads-
worth of New York, recently defeated
for reelection, and Senator Jim Wat
son of Indiana have been named as
being friendly to the Longworth
hopes.
See Boss Influence.
This presidential boom Of the Gin
cinnati congressman, protege of the
late Boss Cox, is identified in Wash
ington with the activities Of Mrs. Me-
dill Mccormick, daughter of the late
Mark Hanna and widow of the late
Illinois senator. Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick and Alice Longworth have been
the foremost women politicians in the
capital in the past decade.
Coolidge to Strike.
Coolidge is expected to remain a
candidate until the last possible min
ute in 1928, since he hopes to find the
democrats so divided by religious
quarrels at that time that he can
break the third-term jinx. He knows
he can force the republicans to re-
nominate him, if he uses the full
power of the patronage machine and
the Negro delegates from the south,
and il no sensational scandal involv-
ing his own Office breaks in the spring
of election year. But If he finds him
self unable to run he is expected to
try to hand the nomination to Hoover
Favored by Proteetionlsts.
New York politicians believe that
Morgan & Co. want Coolidge to run
in 1928, while the high-protectionist
manufacturers look upon Longworth
as better material. Lowden OF Illi-
nois, whose farm relief ideas have
been denounced recently by Senator
Borah, is considered too radical" for
the eastern capitalists. Borah, Incl
dentally, is limited at. by the Long.
worth forces as their possible secre.
tary OF state. They hope that the
tactful use OF his name may keep the
progressives from attacking Mick"
meanwhile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
COAL SITUATION NEXT SPRING
DIFFICULT FOR MINE UNION
BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

Tact OF overexpansion was broadcast
by the government, the number of
coal miners In the country increased
6S 900, the per cent increases in i'm
portant states being Ohio 70, Illinois
and Indiana, 14%o, Pennsylvania 1879,
West Virginia 1495. At the same time
the productivity particularly in the
non-union fields, increased by the In
PRODUCTION OF cutting and loading ma
chinery.
The result has been ideal for ad-
ministering the unemployment cure to
union miners. Between 1923 and 1924
the operators added 5000 miners in
the Kentucky fields and cut average
working time more than 300.
The miners union, when 1t accepted
Secretary Hoovers dictum that $50 900
miners must be squeezed out Of the
industry, perhaps failed to realize that
the surplus would be cut from union
ranks. This accounts for the S-fold &C
ceptance OF the Jacksonville agree
ment, by miners, operators and the
Coolidge administration. 1t was &C.
cepted by the last two parties in bad
faith. This was covertly limited by
Black Diamond in April 1924. 1t said:
"The perpetuation of the 1924 wage
scale in the central competitive field
will ultimately have the same effect
on union mines as strike would have
had in the event that there had been
no such agreement as that reached at
Jacksonville. The effect, had the
miners union, and operators failed to
agree on the old scale, would have
been a forced suspension at union
mines and at the same time to permit
the non-union mines to operate"
The union policy could have been
effective If the displaced union miners
had filtered strategically thruout the
big non-union fields. Such tactics
might have assured that a strike call
next spring would bring out enough
miners in the non-union fields to
cripple industry. AS matters stand
the proportion of union tonnage to
the country's total output has declined
from 1870 to about 309o. In the event
of a 1000 union strike, unsupported
by miners in the non-union fields, non
union mines could undoubtedly take
care of the country's coal require
ments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14

was Seidel who managed to job a sal
airy out of these poor exploited work
ers, who, because of the unorganized
condition Of the trade, are subjected
to horribly long hours, pathetically
low wages and the most unsanitary
conditions of labor. His incompetent
cy as labor organizer has been suf-
ficiently demonstrated during the
time he lived off these workers and
did nothing for them.
Nowl at time when they have fin
ally, by their vote, come into the
Shoe Workers Protective Union,
which functions as an effective labor
union and improves the conditions of
the workers in the shoe industry, this
labor fakir tries to split the forces
by issuing a call for another union.
One Of Two Things.
Such actions can have only two
meanings. Either this man Seidel
wants to again create a soft job for
himself by inducing workers to pay
dues so that he can live without work
ing, or he is the agent of the en-
ployers who want to keep labor divid-
ed so that the workers may be ex-
plotted without let or hindrance from
organized labor.
Shoe Workers, do not allow your
selves to be misled by this parasite,
who is only looking out for a lob and
personal gain. His actions will not
better conditions in the trade, but
viii make bad condition worse. Do
not allow this labor fakir TO split your
ranks. Repudiate such an impostor!
You must have national organiza-
ton in order to build a powerful uni.
fled labor union that can resist the
onslaughts OF the greedy employers.
Join your co-workers of the trade
who are now organized in the Shoe
Workers Protective Union.
Join Real Union.
Join the organization which will
fight for your interests, instead of
joining an organization dominated by
an incompetent and labor fakir.
The Children's shoe Workers are
now aftlIated with the Shoe Workers
Protective Union. Join Local No. es.
Keep the fakir, Seidel, out OF the
childrens shoe trade and the whole
labor movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14

opened many months ago, last spring.
This means coming out daily for
hours, peeling vegetables for soups
and apples Tor sauce, cutting bread,
washing dishes, running back and
forth to serve the hundreds of hungry
little children as they come In after
school for their dinner. 1t means, for
those women who are ON the buying
committee, securing the city daily to
get donations of food and low prices
for what they must buy. It means,
often, walking thru storm and cold on
days when car cannot'be had for the
kitchens, carrying heavy bundles from
one end of the city to the other.
Always Ready.
The accomplishments OF the women
In relief work are all the more re-
markable when one reflects that most
of these women who belong to tho
councils are strikers, and, In fact
among the most devoted of the strlkr
ers, and the best fighters of the union.
Not only do they work for their couD-
ell, but as we'll they go on the picket
line, they visit scabs, they attend
union mass meetings and block COM
mittees, they respond to every cali
the union makes upon them. And II
must not be forgotten that they are
still women; that is, housewives and
mothers, and they must find time dur
ing the week to wash clothes, clean
the house, cook meals, take care OF
husbands and children, and all the
thousand other things that the woman
is supposed to do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14

OUNCE September 1929, union miners
y have been meeting the concen-
trated attack OF American capitalism
with pre-war tactics and propaganda.
The miners technic was developed in
the period when the union could nibble
away at an unorganized minority of
the country's total production, using
we'll organized base in the central
competitive field From the day when
the railroad shopmen made peace with
New York finance on the basis Of CO.
operation in the scientific exploita-
ton Of labor, the coal operators have
been supported by the propertied
oligarchy which is fast rounding out
it's control of American industrial life.
The financial objective has been the
weakening il not the destruction Of
the United Mine Workers Of America.
The fact that the rank and file
miners have no clear comprehension
Of the nature of the stuggle has aided
the open shoppers and weakened the
union. The view that labor seeks moth
ing more than honorable cooperation
with the boss ends practically in CO.
operation on the bosses terms.
The real nature of the conflict was
revealed early in 1928 when E. L.
Greever, general counsel of the non
union West Virginia Operators Asso-
citation, toured American industrial
centers calling upon local manufac-
turer associations to buy only non
union coal. He was seconded by ex-
Gov. Cornwell who had previously
modified the state of West Virginia
on behalf of the operators.
As a result Of such pleas resolutions
were adopted by the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers and the Nation
al Metal Trades Assn. These leaders
in the open shop fight, while avoiding
the technical charge of conspiracy,
practically declared a boycott on Union
coal.
The tremendous overexpansion of
the industry between 1915 and 1928
made this effective lockout of union
miners possible. In that period the
number of bituminous coal mines in
the country INCREASED from 1868 to
S,722 altho the mines open in 1916
were sufficient for all requirements.
Even in the years 192O-29, when the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
Red Sport Club of
New York Invites You

The Red Sport Club Of New York
is making a membership drive and
asks young workers and students to
join. II was organized on Jan. 1, and
now has departments Of basketball,
football, soccer ball, running. wrest-
ling, indoor baseball and also employs
Q teacher IN boxing
The club meets every Saturday
evening at 9 D. m. at 70 Graham ave-
nue.. Williamsburg Drop In and take
look at the husky bunch. Robert
nrAsiA-. .ha general manager. VIII
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14

the rest given in for defense Of pris-
oners.
Lodi Busy.
The Lodi women held masquerade
ball Thanksgiving Eve, the proceeds
of which, about $50, they will prob
ably give also for defense. The latest
social affair is the on held Sunday
night, Dec. 5, at the Workers Home
in Passaic. In this the councils of
Clifton and Botany section in Passaic,
participated. Gertrude Welsh, Of the
Mattresses Union, New York, ad-
dressed the meeting.
The largest sum turned over for de-
Tense came from the Halloween party
which all the councils held jointly on
Oct. 81. Over 1870 was made here.
Half of this sum it was decided to
keep for the councils, and half has
been donated for the defense fund.
The sum of $3.50, collected at a meet
ing of the executive committee of the
councils, was given to buy cigarettes
for the boys in jail.
Help Families.
In addition to raising money, the
women of the Clifton and Garfield
councils have regularly visited the
families of the prisoners, who all live
in those two cities. They take them
messages of what the union and other
organizations are doing for their dear
ones who have been so long behind
prison bars, innocent tho they are of
any crime.
The women OF the councils have
kept the>two children's kitchens going
regularly every day since they were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
RAIL MANAGERS
MEET TO FACE
UNION PROBLEM
Brotherhoods Demand
Regional Boards
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12-Managers
OF the chief railway systems in the
country are meeting in New York to
discuss with a committee Of execu-
tives of the transportation brother
hoods-the locomotive engineers, loco
motive flremen, conductors and train
men-the question as to what kind Of
adjustment boards shall be set up be-
tween management and unions under
the new rail labor mediation law.
Support Eaen other.
At the head of the brotherhoods'
group Of spokesman is D. B. Robert
son, president Of the locomotive fire.
men and chairman of the joint COM
mittee of 81 labor organizations in the
railroad industry. This joint commit
tee is holding special meeting on
the eve Of the conference Of the man
ayers with the brotherhoods, to dis
cuss the position which all the organi-
cations will take. At meetings in
Washington in August and In Cleve-
land in November the committee and
its special committee Of five members
chosen to deal with this matter de-
cided that all would support each
other in the negotiations.
Under the Watson-Parker law the
management and the workers must"
create adjustment boards to deal with
grievances arising between the COM
panies and the men. But these boards
may be either national, regional or
confined in authority to one system
each. When the unions proposed
some time ago that regional boards
be created the reply of the manage
ment to all the organizations was that
the management would prefer" sys-
tenn boards. At the same time there
became apparent a definite campaign
by the managers to split off the four
brotherhoods on the trains from the
rest OF the unions. When a sugges-
ton was made that the train dispatch
ers, telegraphers and switchmen
should be included jim the train crews
group the managers objected.
Regional Board in S. w.
One regional board at least seems
to be assured. The shipment in the
southeastern area, who are strongly
organized, have secured the assent of
the management of two Of the three
strongest roads to the formation of a
regional board. But in other dfrec-
tons the situation is more difficult.
Company unions, the result of the
shopmen's loss of the great strike of
1922, dispute jurisdiction with the gen.
uine unions. 1t is on these roads that
the running trades" are needed to
help the men in the shops and on the
properties to get the benefits prom
Used in the new law The shopmen
say they saved the day for the broth
erhoods when the latter were in dan
ger some years ago. Robertson is said
to agree that this debt is one which
his group cannot ignore, and that the
only possible attitude to be taken
when the brotherhoods meet the man
ayers is to say that what is granted
to the strong must be granted in equal
measure to the weaker labor unions in
the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
Union Loses Contest
to Use School Halls

ALBANY. N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE
American Civil Liberties Union lost
its case against the New York City
school board, under a ruling Of the
cov9 missioner Of education.
Fhe commissioner holds that the
soard was within it's discretionary
powers in refusing to the union twice
the use Of Stuyvesant High School
in which to hold meetings in favor of
"old-fashioned free speech"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
WORKING WOMENS COUNCILS
GIVE INVALUABLE AID TO THE
PASSAIC, N. j., TEXTILE STRIKERS

PASSAIC
councils
held different
chiefly
party Garfield
resulted evening
jail
September the Of throwing bombs Shortly
Passac another which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
FIVE WORKERS KILLED AND EIGHT
WOUNDED IN EXPLOSION OF POWDER
AT PLANT OF ELL DU POINT COMPANY

mystery since the company refused
to make any statement or allow re.
porters TO inspect the scene OF dam.
age. All Inquiries were referred TO
the company's publicity agent In the
Wilmington, Del, ONCE, During the
var this plant was one OF the largest
in the country and employed about
$4,000 workers. II waseused largely
.or sporting powder Ok late
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
Especial TO The Daily wOrk,r)

cARNEY's POINT, N. j., Dec. H.
Five workers at the e. /. du Pont dc
Nemours gunpowdor plant were killed
when more than a ton of the powder
exploded. Eight workers were Sc.
riously hurt. The men were unload.
ing unfinished gunpowder into a shed
where II was 10 be dried.
Eax ths. explasion occurred Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
District 8, Workers
Party in Registration

NEW YORK, Dec. i2-The Workers
Party, District s, is again taking a
complete registration Of its member
ship. Registration cards have been
sent to all units and all comrades are
asked to cooperate effectively to have
the registration made complete.
Registration cards should be return
ed to the district Office by Jan. /.
Meanwhile any members failing to ap-
pear at the nucleus meeting before
this time should BIO visited ut his
home and registration thus complet-
cd. Our comrades are asked particu'
larly to make this an occasion FOR
bringing every single member into &C.
tive functioning In the party units.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-14
Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities

Policies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
Injunctions
Labor and Imperialism