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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
An Annex to the U. S.

How British interests feel about
this invasion of Canada by American
capital was reflected in New York
Times editorial of June 6, 1923. Said
the Times: "This American inva-
sion of Canada has excited certain
alarm on the part of some British in
terests. They are disquieted by the
way in which English investments in
Canada are being outstripped by
America. The statement was recent
ly made to the Canadian chamber Of
commerce in London that if American
capital continues its present rate OF
flow into Canada it will, before long
control rs per cent of the natural re
sources and industries of the domin
ion. With this form Of financial con
quest, 1t is feared that there will &c
forward an unwelcome Americaniza
ton of Canada"
Be Economically and socially" said
the U. S. department of commerce Q
year ago, Canada may be considered
as northern extension of the United
States and our trade with Canada IL
in many respects more like domestic
trade than our foreign trade with
other COZ ries." rfGs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Head of Farm-Labor
Union Says 1t Fears
Democratic Deals

TExARKANA, Tex. Dec. SO.-FP)
The national convention Of the
Farm-Labor Union Of America, pre-
ceded by similar action by the Texas
state convention, has withdrawn from
the farm-labor political conference of
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. AT
the same time many Of the delegates
without involving the organization re-
sponded to the call of f. r. Meitzen.
former editorisof the Farm-Labor
Union News, todaunch the labor party
Of Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas are
expected to follow suit before the
spring campaigns.
The Farm-Labor Union president.
w. w. Fitzwater, declares that the
withdrawal from political action was
aimed chiefly at the deals in the dem.
ocratic party and was not to be con.
strued as refusal of the organized
working farmers to cooperate with
the city workers economically.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
FARMERS DEMAND
M AILING RIGHTS
/. FOR NEWSP APERS
Mass Meeting Denounces
Interference

RED DEER, Alberta, Canada-At a
mass meeting of over 240 farmers
here the following resolution was
adopted protesting against the re-
fusal Of secon-class mailing rights to
the Ukrainian working women's and
farmers papers and demanding that
the second class rights be granted
these papers and that such occur
rences do not repeat themselves in
the future. sh
WHEREAS, the postmaster gen
eral has refused second class privil.
eyes in mailing from the Working
Woman, a Ukrainian women's paper,
and the Farmers Life, a Ukrainian
farmers paper, published by the
Workers and Farmers Publishing AS
ISOLATION, Ltd, and this has been done
without any reason.
AND WHEREAS, such action is
nothing but an open attempt to crush
the freedom Of expression and priv
ileges from the thousands of readers
and supporters Of these papers. And
while being discrimination against
the Ukrainian farmers and workers, it
constitutes a basis for attack against
all farmers and labor and against
their freedom of expression. This ac-
ton also is step to a complete sub
jugation of the national minorities in
discussing the affairs of the farmers
and questions facing them as citizens
and settlers of Canada.
BE 1T THEREFORE, RESOLVED.
that this mass meeting of the farm
ers Of Red Deer district hereby raise
most vigorous protest against such
action Of the authorities and demand
that mailing privileges be granted to
above named papers without any dis.
elimination, and that actions like this
on the part of authorities should not
occur again the future.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that copies of this resolution be sent
to the postmaster general, the minis
ter of justice and the prime minister
of Canada
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
The Fright to Beg"
Now Established as
a Civic Principle

Thru the effective intercession with
Mayor Dever of President John Fitz-
patrick, Chicago Federation of Labor,
the Fraternal Order of Blind Men is
about to regain the right to have
blind persons beg on Chicago streets
unmolested by the police.
This is victory against the I'M
provement Association for Blind Peo-
pie, an organization that offers jobs
to few blind people at S11 a week.
On the representation that it was
taking care Of the blind and training
them it induced the mayor to have
the police arrest all blind beggars and
peddlers. Supt. 0. w. Fremer of the
association maintains that S11 week
Is enuf for blind people.
IF were blind / certainly would
not work for 81 a week." Mayor
Dever told Fitzpatrick's delegation OF
blind men and promised that he would
look up the law and instruct the chief
Of police to act accordingly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Scientist Talks of
Harvesting Aurora
Borealis for Power

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 3d.
Americas great cities will be heated
by energy fron the aurora borealis
and huge ships will ply between
southern points and the north pole
region carrying machinery to develop
the resourcesp of the frozen north
within the next so years, John c.
Phillip, Philadelphia electrical engi-
neer, predicted here.
Science knows there is a vast ra-
do activity In the rays of aurora
borealis and the real secret Of that
mysterious phenomenon is expected
to be knowniwithin a few years,
Philip declared. "There is every pos
sibility that the aurora borealis will
prove one of the most titanic sources
Of energy in the reach Of man."
The engineer declared the polar
country was rich in platinum and
other minerals and said the United
States should never relinquish its
right to the north pole area, estab-
lished by explorations of Peary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Tobacco Trust Is
o. k, Says Coolidge

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O-President
Coolidge, it was stated has made a
brief examination of the tobacco
report submitted to him by the fed
eral trade commission in compliance
with a senate resolution, and has
found no evidence of any Illegal trade
practices or wrong doing on the part
of the two companies involved, the
American Tobacco company and the
Imperial Tobacco company, British
concern. The report, which is quite
voluminous. has been transmitted to
Attorney General Sargent for exam
nation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
BANKERS HOLD
CONFERENCE AS
CRISIS CROWS
To Draw Legislative
ID Program

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 30.-The
conference of bankers, businessmen,
agricultural interests, the entire Iowa
delegation in the senate and house
has started to grind out legislative
program to meet the crisis staring
them in the face in the agricultural
districts. This conference which has
been called by the bankers following
a series Of bankruptcies and the
falling of the price of corn to 80 cents
per bushel and the farmers leaving
their farmers, despite the fact that
the yield this year was greater than
at any other period. ,g
Many Of the senator's and congress
men in Washington, who represent
the banking interests, are watching
the outcome of the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
TEXTILE BARONS
SLASH WAGES TO
Pile UP PROFITS
Huge Dividends Paid to
Investors

BOSTON, Dec. SO-While the
wages of the workers in the textile in
dustry Of New England are continu-
ally being cut below are some Of the
profits that have been made by a
number of the textile mills:
The Butler mill paid dividends as
follows: 1919, per cent and per
cept special; 1920, per cent and Is
per cent extra; 1924, 8 per cent per
annum. 1t paid stock dividende in
1910 of 20 per cent; paid dividends
per cent per annum from 1915 to 1919
inclusive; per cent from 1920 to Feb.
Is, 1924; thereafter, regular dividends
of per cent per annum, paid quar-
terly.
The New Bedford Cotton mills cor
poration common stock increased by
200 per cent stock dividend in 1922;
that is, from $350OO0 to s1,O5O,0O0.
Other dividends not reported.
The outset mill paid dividends in
1914 and 1915, per cent; 1916, III
per cent; 1917 to 1924, inclusive, s
per cent per annum. Extra dividends
we're paid as follows: 1878, 20 per
cent; 1919, go per cent; 1920, 20 per
cent; 1922, so per cent; 1923, 60 per
cent stock dividend, which increased
the capital stock from $4,000 to
100000
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
INDIANA FARMER
WORTH LESS THAN
FIVE YEARS AGO.
Value of Buildings and
Land Fall

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec 30--In-
diana farm lands and buildings have
shrunk in value approximately $1,000
600 in the last five years, according
to the 1925 farm census taken by the
department of commerce at Washing
ton.
Valuation Decreases.
Farm lands and buildings at the
present time have a total valuation Of
81, $4,000, 1853, as compared with
$2,653, 64S, 1913 in 1920, a decrease Of
S956,739,110. The acreage itself was
valued at $3,2O2,566,S36 in 1920, as
compared with $1,269, 24O,9s7 at the
present time. This represents a drop
in valuation of $9SS,S25,s4s. Buildings
on farms are worth S23,413,761 less
than they were five years ago.
The average value Of every acre Of
farm land in the state at present is
$500. In 1920 every acre Of farm
land was worth s125.s8.
Fewer Farms.
There are 9,341 fewer farms In In
diana at the present time than in 1920.
As result Of the shrinkage there arr
1,145,552 more idle acres in the state
than there were five years ago. In
1920 there were 21,O6S,S32 acres Of
farm land. The total at present is
1s,917,7s0. In 1920 there were $685.
1875 farms, and at present there are
195,7s5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
farm CRISIS
HAS COOLIDGE
MIHHF VATnNnVFN
kULE WUkkIEU
Meetings Arranged to
Hold Farm Support
Especial to The Daily wOrker)

WASHINGTON, o. c., Dec. 3d.
The effort to retain the farmers for
support Of the Coolidge admlnistra-
tlon Is taking the form Of series of
meetings arranged by Secretary Of
Agriculture Jardlne for the month Of
January. -
Jardine will hold conferences with
representatives of different groups
thruout the month. On January 81,
he will speak to an agricultural meet
ing at Champaign, Ill. But this is only
one of whole series Of meeting be-
ginning today at Des Moines, Iowa, in
the center of the district most effect
ed by the recent wave Of bankruptcies.
Political Threat.
The so-caIled farm bloc" is try
ing to have the government actually
handle the crop yields by terming 1t
\ surplus that should be exported or
otherwise disposed Of by the all wise
government, which either must sell II
on the world market at enough to
avoid loss, or charge any loss back by
an excise tax on that part of the
product consumed In the domestic
market.
The pressure upon the administra-
ton is taking the form of threat to
withdraw support from the Coolidge
administration.
Signs of Worry.
That the Coolidge administration is
disturbed by the threat, is shown by
the suggestion of Coolidge to esta-
blish a division in the agricultural
department to help cooperative mark
citing. This seems certain to be pas
sed by congress. The surplus com
mission" may be combined with this
anticipated division.
Another symptom of fear by the
administration is shown in Coolidge's
instructions yesterday to Secretary
Jardine and Secretary Hoover, to give
government aid if possible to one of
the large cooperative societies of
California. Which one of these we'll
known monopolies known as cooper
atives is affected, was not revealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02

Iployuenl, however, mas ulOppeu ~
per cent largely due to labor saving
machinery and speeding up
The foundries covered are engaged
in casting parts for engines and ma
chinery. The average employee in
1925 received sos cents an hour and
$3131 a week. The 1923 averages
were 55.S cents and 1924 This was
a gain of per cent in hourly earn
ings and per cent in weekly earn
ings, despite the shorter week.
The average fulltime week fell from
52.4 hours in 1928 to 51.5 hours in
1925. This reduction, the depart
ment explains, is due less to a short
ening of the hours per day than to
the recent practice of eliminating Sat
urday work altogether. The largest
reduction in hours affected machine
molders whose average week fell
from 51.9 to SOL hours.
The average wages of the foundry
crafts are shown for 1928 and 1925 as
follows:
Average Per hour Per wk.
Fdry. wages 1923 1925 1923 1926
Cts. Cts.
Clippers and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
German Papers Want
Currency Initiation
to Kill Credit Shortage

BERLIN, Dec. 30.-Infiation of the
German currency is urged by num-
Der of leading German papers as a
means of competing with the French,
who have an inflated currency, and
as a means of killing the credit short
age which exists. vNa
The organized group behind this
move wart to introduce the plan Of
initiation with a dictator in power to
carry it out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Would Build Memorial
to Mine Union Leader

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Dec. 3d.
The East st. Louis Central Labor
Union has received an invitation from
union miners of Herrin, H., and vicin-
ity, to participate in a movement to
erect memorial to Ora Thomas, idol
of the union coal diggers, who was
killed in a gun battle with S. Glenn
Young. Local sentiment is being
sounded by missionaries to East st.
Louis unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
"You Don't Get Rich
By Working" Wisely
Says Realty Scheme

AS the real estate bond market be-
gins to rumble with large crashes Of
investment houses the wage Garner d
being lured into the game by large
promises Of getting something Tor
nothing.
The firm Of H. o. Stone & compan
which claims to have Originated n
1885," is circuralizing workers with
what it calls "A new plan to create
wealth without working" stating that
NO one ever acquired riches by work
ing with his hands. Our new plan en-
ables a man to create an estate of ire
mendous size with little effort"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
BRITISH PRESS CALLS
HERBERT HOOVER BIG
hot AIR MERCHANT

LONDON, Dec. so.-Amerlean dis
cusslons Of a possible trade war be-
tween the United States and Eng
land as the result Of British rubber
restrictions are attracting wide at
tentlon and causing bitter criticism
here.
The Daily Sketch refers to Secre-
tary Of Commerce Hoover as shot.
air merchant"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Dutch Fail to Form
Cabinet; Demand New
Parliament Elections

THE HAGUE, Dec. SO.-The latest
attempt to form new Dutch cabinet
has failed. Dr. Devisser, leader of the
anti-vatican historical christian party,
reported his failure to the queen. De-
mands for a dissolution of parliament
are growing more insistent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02

Hand molders and patternmakers
top the foundry occupations with 1925
wages averaging about so cents an
hour and $40 week This represents
a bigger 2-year gain for molders than
for patternmakers. Since 1928 hand
molders have advanced their hourly
earnings liz per cent and their
weekly wage more than per cent
The corresponding gains for pattern
makers have been 61s per cent and
5 per cent.
Hand molders receive the highest
wages in Massachusetts where they
average 9715 cents an hour and S46.70
a week. At the other extreme molders
in Texas get 6315 cents an hour and
S318S a week.
Patternmakens receive the highest
wages in Washington with an aver
age of 1872 cents an hour and $47.52
a week. Other states in which rates
average over 80 cents an hour are
California, Colorado and Oregon. In
three states patternmakers receive
less than $35 a week. These are
Maine, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
The largest single group in the
foundries today are the laborers. OF
the 10000 foundry employees in the
1925 report over 1000 belong in this
iow-paid class. But their 2-year gains
of 1914 per cent in hourly earnings
and 10 per cent in weekly wages are
relatively larger than the skilled oc-
cupations. Their conditions vary
widely from state to state. Fulltime
hours range from 46 in Oregon to So
in Minnesota, their hourly earnings
from 25.S cents in Georgia to 55.4
cents in Washington and their week
ly pay from $14.37 in Georgia to $2S.6
in Illinois.
The International Molders' Union
Of North America reported 1880
members to the A. f. of l.. in 1925
compared with $4,000 in 1915. The
Patternmakers' League of North
America reported 1000 in 1925 and
$500 in 1915.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
FOREIGN Exchange.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-Great Brit.
ain pound sterling demand 4.S4.N;
cable Assn. France, franc 3.7S; cable
3.7SiS. Belgium, franc 453; cable
4.53is. Italy, Ira 4.O3%; cable 4.O4,
Sweden, krone 1858; cable 26.S5. Nor
way, krone, 20.25 cable 2O.27. Den.
mark, Krone, Pass; cable 24.7O. Shan.
ghai, taels $500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
LABOR LEFT THE BIGGEST PROFIT
SINCE 1919 IN THE STOCKING OF
THE BOSSES THIS CHRISTMAS
By Leland oLos, Federated Press.

entire capital
Lhgh big subsidiary
Morgan
depletion
20 SS3O1
public
reported
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
Chicago Fire Fighters
Seek Wage Increase

Chicago fire-fighters In their appeal
for higher wages point out that the
$4,000 per year that fourth year
fireman earns is anywhere from 5000
TO $500 below the wages paid in other
cities-larger and smaller than Chi
cago.
They point out that they must work
81 hours per week and that their
hourly rate OF wages amounts 70
about 81 cents per hour. The fire
marshal gets $4,000 year: the as.
sistant marshal s6,5O0 battalion
chiefs $4,000: captains $4,000; lieu.
tenants $4,000; while the fourth year
fire fighter $4,000 the third year fire
fighter s2,140, the second year fire
fighter 5000 aud first year s1,s4O.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
SKILLED FOUNDRY WORKERS WAGES
RISE AND HOURS FALL; MACHINES
THROW MANY OUT OF EMPLOYMENT


1928 1925
establishments with
paid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
CANADIAN TRADE COMMISSIONER
STIRS IMPERILIST RIVALRIES
BY PLEDGE TO PAN-AMERIC ANISM

Acknowledgement that
financial
the hemisphere marked the address Hudd
the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02

He ioiH like it! Gire your union
brother a SUB to The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02

Watch the Saturday Magasine
Section for neto features every
'oeek. This is q good issue TO give
10 your felIow yorker. \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02


the Morgan combine which is trying
profit after all deductions for depletit
to SS,3O1,97
The exoribtant nature of this prof
fact that it is reported as S2.72 on ca
issued by trustees against the stock
in the process of separating the COM
pany from the Lehigh Valley railroad.
These certificates, however, represent
So, 465, 900 of stock, making the real
profit approximately 35 per cent.
The 1928 profit of Lehigh Valley
coal amounted to $432 per certificate
or more than So per cent on the stock.
In the seven years 1917 to 1929 this
coal company paid the railroad annual
dividends averaging $685., 104 or 81
per cent a year. The seven-year to-
tai was more than 21a times the ORR
ginal investment.
Gosh, How the Money Rolls InI
Declaration of so per cent stock
dividend by the American Can Co.
calls attention to the huge profits
this combination of more than 100
separate companies is making out Of
the growing demand for canned goods.
| The stock is being split up, each
stakeholder getting new shares for
each original share. This juggling
enables the directors to pay cash divi-
dends at the rate Of IL per cent a
year with the public seeing only a
modest 50 a share.
In 1925, American Can will make
close to $50 on each 500 invested
in common stock This follows $2050
on each 500 in 1924, s19.6S in 1923
and $3.50 in 1922. The 4-year total
amounts to more than $S8 on each
800 of investment.
Hudson Motor Cars 1925 profit of
$23,000,0OO are justs one more illus
tration of the wealth that speed-up
automobile workers are pouring into
the Golfers of the investor class. This
profit is equivalent to the combined
profits of the three preceding years.
It is reckoned at 1850 share, but
according to the Wall Street Journal,
it amounts to approximately 100 per
cent on the entire invested capital of
the concern. Says the journal: Every
dollar which stockholders left with
the management at the beginning of
the year has since grown to nearly
80, for the company earned about 100
per cent on its invested capital in the
IL months"
Biggest Profits Since 1919.
A profit study based on the reports
of 1856 industrial companies, So pub
lie utilities and 81 railroads shows
1925 as the most profitable year for
the investor class since 1919 It in
f, cludes q automobile companies which
will make 23.S per cent on their en-
! tire invested capital against 12.4 per
cent in 1924. 1t shows IA non-ferrous
metal companies making ga per cent
compared with IL per cnt in 1924,
10 oil companies making 11.6 per
cent compared with rs per cent, a
group of steel companies making 5.S
per cent compared with So per cent
and rs miscellaneous companies with
11.2 per cent profits compared with
SO per cent in 1924. The public util-
tiles approximate rs per cent in each
year while the railroads have increas-
ed their return from per cent to
SO per cent.
Such profits have made possible
the more than $1O0,OOO,0OO in extra
dividends which are adding holiday
cheer to the homes of the wealthy own
ers of industry. But we hear of few
instances where this prosperity finds
its way into the workers Christmas
stocking.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02

aroused jealous comment in England
which still thinks of Canada as part
OF the British empire.
Pledged to Pan-Amerlcanism
Canada" said Hudd, lis an integ-
raj part of economic America. Can
ada is the eldest daughter in treat
commonwealth of nations but her i'm
mediate destiny lies on the North
American continent. Canadas invest
ments in Central and South America
are considerable, and her trade with
the United States and these countries
rs steadily growing. The commercial
economic and strategic problems COM
mon to us all furnish indestructible
grounds for enduring and permanent
, cooperation. In behalf of the Can
adam delegation here l pledge our al
legianee to Pan-Americanism in its
broadcast spirit"
Hudd voiced Canadas conviction
that there is no problem too difficult
for the countries of Latin-America
and North America TO solve provided
they stand together as a United
States of the American continent"
~ Invasion Of Two Billion.
This pledge from commercial Can
ada follows moves by the Canadian
government to separate its foreign
policy from that Of England. Behind
the scenes lies the invasion Of Canada
by over 2,000,0O0,00O American dol
lars. These billions, poured in be-
tween 1915 and 1925, gave u. S.
finance claim on Canada exceeding
by half billion dollars the claim OF
England.
The most recent figures contrast
ing Canadian investments owned In
the United States with those owned
in England shows;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
HONOR ROLL
OF WORKERS
AIDING PRESS

Shop Nucleus No. I, Detroit, Mich. $751; 90
Mountain View, calif..................... 1926
Joseph FaIick, Chicago ...-................ ZOO
South Slavic b.. w. p. Los An
geles, Calf. CTS
Finnish Dr., w. p, Cleveland, o.. 1850
Workers Party, San Francisco, Cal. $500
Finnish Dr.. Detroit. Mich............... 27.oo
NEW YORK DONATIONS AND
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Observation-Disclosures The DAILY
WORKER.