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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
THE FIRST PRIZE
WINNER.
UNION BETTERS
CONDITION Of
RETAIL CLERKS
Bosses Fear Militant Or
ganization Drives
BY a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. IS The pur-
pose of this article is to expose the
miserable conditions of the grocery
clerks of years ago and the changes
brought about by the Retail Grocery
and Dairy Clerks Union Of Greater
New York and the miserable condi
tions in the non-union stores Of today.
To become a grocer's apprentice 10
years ago was very easy.
Joe gets up 4 o'clock in the morn
ing; pulls on his clothes; vets his
hair; slides down the three flights OF
stairs and grabs morning news
paper. He walks over to the nearest
lamp-post, and turns to the want
ads" page and reads: Grocery boy
wanted. No experience necessary, 300
Hoe Ave-, Bronx, N. Y"
Joe gets on the train at the nearest
elevated station and arrives at his
destination at about a. m.
He walks into the food store of Mr..
"H." A wheelbarrow figure on two
short legs, bent over box of rolls:
Young man, you are just the guy
want" grunts Mr.. "H." had no luck
with my boys lately. They don't seem
to stick, but fellow, whose ambition
brings him here o'clock in the morn
ing is the right dough for me. Deliver
these seventy orders. You will then
go up to my house for breakfast. You
win go up for dinner when you have
a chance and for supper towards even
ing. There is a cot for you in the
kitchen to sleep on My baby's crying
wont wake you after a days work.
You start every morning at 4:30 a.
m. am no mean person. l don't keep
a boy tied to the store, if there is no
work to perform. You will be thru
with your days work quite often at
IL p. m. OF course, you know that
ON Saturdays you have to work until
10 a. m, but for that you will get
off on Sundays between IL and 4 p. m.
This batch of orders goes first"
Joe we'll realizes that Mr.. III"
seems to be a liberal boss for on his
last job he had to do even more. And
being that Mr.. III" is liberal, Joe is
sure that at the end of the month.
he will get or dollars pocket
money.
But time goes on and many changes
take place. Today there is local of
the Retail Grocery and Dairy Clerks
Union Of Greater New York, which
wrought a great change in these al
most unbelievable conditions. The
member of the union does not look for
the job, but the employer is supplied
with help from the Office Of the union.
Since the union has become a factor
Joe now walks into Mr.. "H's" store
which is non-union, neatly-dressed, his
hair neatly combed. Mr.. "H" motions
to him to walk into the back room of
the store. He takes a sheet of paper
and asks:
your name and address"
Are you married?"
What country do you come from?"
What was your occupation in the
old country"
why did you come to this coun-
try?"
do you intend to marry?"
did you ever work in a union
store?"
Are you a union mani"
do you intend to join the union?"
"Will wou go down on strike If
called upon?"
ANY references?"
"How many and what languages do
you speak?"
do you read and write English,
Jewish and Polish?"
Can you figure?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20

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uNkarCk0T0 onAeAa Ta3.
.,HOBbIN MNP"

The above cut represents the Off
cial name of the Russian living news
paper Prolet-Tribune which is issued
in Chicago by the worker correspond
ents of the Russian Communist daily
Novy Mir.
The next, fifth issue OF this paper
will be out tomorrow, Saturday, Feb.
20, at the Workers House, 1902 w.
Division St..
Beginning at s D. m. Admission Csc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20

Hungarian settlement but found that
the hall in which the strikers we're
meeting was barred to us by a fore
man of the plant. While we could not
enter, still we could hear the pro-
ceedings. When the superintendent
asked the men why they were strik-
ing, a spokesman stood up and said,
tWe don't make enough to live on.
You only let us work twelve hours a
day and it is not enough. Let us
work as many hours as we want and
We will go back to work" The super
intendent acceded to their request
and we, on the outside, did not know
whether to laugh or cry.
To the Devil With the Priests.
Today, the Communists have an op-
portunity in Birmingham to strike,
not only against capitalism, but
against the priesthood as well. Three
hundred families have been duped by
the priests and now the priests are
being openly cursed and damned.
saw a Hungarian stand in front of
the catholic church and shake his fist.
saying, His name is Father Aurog."
lin Hungarian "Aurog" means devil.)
These workers are amongst the
most politically backward but still
the message of Communism must be
carried to them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
THE SECOND PRIZE
WINNER.
TOLEDO WORKERS
LEARN PRIESTS
ARE BETRAYERS
Hungarians Damn Black
ROBBED Parasites
10y A Worker correspondent.)

TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb 1S.-The most
despicable double cross in the his
tory of this city has just occurred.
The Toledo Malleable Iron Works
employing over 500 Hungarian work
ers has been in the hands of a re-
ceiver for thes last three months Dur
ing December the receiver informed
the workers that there was no money
to pay their wages, but that he ex-
pected to pay them in few weeks.
When December was over the work
ers having been without pay for five
weeks, threatened to quit and go to
neighboring foundry. The receiver
then solemnly promised them their
wages before the end of the week.
Still there were no wages. Hun
dreds were going into debt. Scores
were on the verge of starvation, and
yet the receiver kept on promising
nothing more.
Three hundred Hungarians in dis
gust went to work in the Toledo
Smelling Works.
Priests Get on Job.
The following Sunday the Roman
Catholic and Greek Catholic priests
stood up before their congregations
and demanded that the workers who
had left the Toledo Malleable Iron
Iron Foundry quit their new jobs and
return to their former employment.
Meanwhile the Malleable Works
could not get any workers to replace
the ones who had quit as no one de-
sired to work without wages. Mi
raculously they found money and be-
gan to pay wages. The workers who
had quit reported Monday morning
at the Malleable plant, on the advice
of their priests. They were refused
lre-employment because they had left
their jobs at the Malleable. They
then walked in a body to the smelling
works where they were also refused
their jobs because they had not re-
ported in the morning. Thus they
were without any jobs at all. 1t is
said in the Hungarian settlement that
good sum &C money was donated
by the foundry to the priests. They
are endeavoring to teach the Hungar-
ian workers that they must work
even if they are not paid their measly
wages.
Unbelievable Conditions.
The most terrible conditions exist
! in the Toledo Malleable Works. Piece
work rates are one-tenth of the 1917
scale. There are no regular hours of
work. Some come in at 4 a. M 9TH
ers at a. M, etc. If they complain
that the wages. are not sufficient the
workers are told to work few extra
hours. Men are known to have work
ed twenty hours day. while sixteen
hours is the usual time worked. When
the bosses are asked about the six
teen-hour day, they state that this
condition is due to the workers in
sisting on working long hours.
No End to the Work.
The above statement, sad to relate,
was true. The Hungarians who came
to the foundry were peasants whose
ideas were that the longer one works,
the more is produced, the more is
sold, the more one has. 1t was in
the winter of 1918 that an |. w. w.
organizer burst into my room with
the news that the foundry workers
were on strike. We rushed to the
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
THE THIRD PRIZE WINNER.
UNION MINERS OF WEST VIRGINIA
LIVE IN AFFECT POVERTY DUE TO
TREACHERY OF THE LEWIS MACHINE
THE THIRD PRIZE WINNER.
BY a Worker Correspondent.

wendell Feb 1SHere in northern Virginia
conditions which
o
whom they should
by their ife blood the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
TERRORISM TACTICS OF McANDREW
STTRS SPIRIT OF REVOLT AMONG
TEACHERS OF CHICAGO FEDERATION
BY a Teacher Correspondent.


oppressive regime which Superintendent McAndew ng
reported
superintendnts
Evening star., 1926-05-04
Olga, Zoos Priced Snow Leopard, Dies;
Thoug hit to Be Only One in United States

Of her pen in the lion house at the
Zoo. Her outwardly peaceful attitude
belied her fierce nature. w. II. Black.
burn. keeper of the Zoo, said he and
his helpers always took particular
pains not to annoy Olga, fearing she
would go on a rampage.
The snow leopard's natural habitat is
the high mountains of Asia. Olga was
purchased tor 81 900 from a dealer in
1919. She was about 6 feet in length,
and her fur was light gray with
dark brown spots. Her eyes were un.
usually large and were gray.
Olga died of pneumonia, of poison.
ing from an cbscess on her throat and
of catarrh.
Evening star., 1926-05-04

Death has taken one of the most
.,rized members of the animal fam
,ly at the Zoo. The great, sleek,
snow leopard, believed to be the only
one in captivity in the United States,
died last week of a complication of
ailments induced by old age.
A. B. Baker. acting director of the
National Geological Park. has turned
the animal over to the National Mu-
scum, and officials of the Smithso-
nian Institution said today the leop-
ard would be mounted and placed on
exhibition at the Museum. 1t will
he some time, however, before the
mounting can be completed, as the
exner.s of the Museum are engaged
now In preparations for the sesdui-
centennial celebration at Philadel-
phia.
For six years Olga. the snow leop.
ard, one of the fiercest of her species.
Evening star., 1926-05-04
UNIFORMED LIQUOR
PATROLM MEN PLANNED
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Force to Ride Motor Cycles-Sa-
looms Found Open.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA May A group
of dry agents brought to this city
hv the new administrator, Frederick
G. Baird, found local saloons running
wide open," Capt. Yates d. F'etter'
man. deputy administrator of this dis
trict, said yesterday.
The agents designated as under
cover men, arrived late Saturday, he
said, and Immediately went to work.
They were brought from Pittsburgh
and will continue to gather evidence
of violations.
Thomas j. Cavanaueh, chief aid to
Administrator Baird. announced that
uniformed enforcement patrolmen
mounted on motor cycles will be seen
throughout eastern Pennsylvania and
New Jersey soon.
THE men will be in uniform. he
said. $50 there will be no doubt as
to their official standing. They will
wear slate-colored outfits. leather put
tees and carry pistols. These patrol
men will drive motor cycles with side
cars and will be used in raids and
general patrol work
Evening star., 1926-05-04
OFFICERS ELECTED
BY WOMEN Voters
Mrs. Laura Williams Named
Vice PreSident-Half of
Leaders Retained.

Election of officers, to serve two
wears, and reports of the work ac
complished by committees of the
"NotelesS District of Columbia League
of Women Voters" was the main
business transacted at the fifth annual
meeting in the Women's University
Club last night.
The league elects only one-half OF
its officers at each annual meeting.
Accordingly. one-h half of it's officers for
the last year, including Mrs. George
Alfred Kicker, president. auto
matically remain in Office until the
next annual meeting.
Those elected last night were: Mrs.
Laura Williams, first vice president,
and Mrs. Alice Rodgers H3ger, cor
responding secretary. with Mrs. Ed
ward p. Costigan, the retiring first
vice president, and Mrs. George East
man, elected to the board of directors.
Mrs. Kicker and Mrs. Frank Hiram
Smell were elected to the Federation
of Citizens Associations.
Besides Mrs. Kicker, the officers re-
naming in office until next year are
Mrs. Gertrude Bunker, second vice
president; Mrs. Louis Gutenberg, treas
urer, and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson
Howerton and Mrs. Edward Keating,
members of the board of directors.
Mrs Kicker, in a brief address, told
the league that the question of Fed
eral suffrage in the District, in which
the members of the organization long
have been vitally interested, has re
ceived a decided impetus during the
past year.
An increase of IS in the member
ship of the organization since the last
annual meeting was reported.
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, the re-
tiring corresponding secretary. was
presented with a ring in token of the
leagues appreciation for her work.
Evening star., 1926-05-04
So Gloria
Umbrellas, ..$1.S9

Women's attractive Um-
brellaS of firm cotton
Gloria. with amber tips and
ferrules. Heavy quality,
perfect. Guaranteed for
rain or shine.
Street Floor
Evening star., 1926-05-04

OF course Apron Frocks bring a
certain sterotyped style to mind
but you'll find these so refreshingly
different that you'll Immediately de-
eide you need several.
New fabrics with fancy border de-
signs, striking checks and stripes
and plain colors with smartest color
combinations. Made of ginghams
and chambiay. You'll appreciate
their unusual trimming no g s..
Kick pleats in the skirts add to their
charm. Blue. tan, brown, green and
cOpen.
Sizes SO to "A and extras 46 to As.
Evening star., 1926-05-04
Dispute Over Speeder.

TARRYTOWN,N n. Y, May 4 CP).-
Patrolman Arnold insists that Miss
Charlotte Vanderlip, daughter of
Frank A. Vanderlip. was the girl he
overlook speeding in a roadster after
the toughest chase he ever had. lie
gave her ticket. But the girls aunt
is just as insistent that she i.as been
at Bryn Mawr College, and that she
has no car
Evening star., 1926-05-04

determine how much money is being
spent on social work in the District
was effected at the final meeting,
this season, of the Washington Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies in the Burling-
ton Hotel yesterday. These data will
be sought. it was pointed out. in or
der that the council may have a
definite goal to work toward.
Officers Reelected.
All the officers were reelected. They
are Arthur e. Moses, president; John
Ihlder, vice president; Newbold Noyes,
treasurer, and Merritt o. Chance,
assistant treasurer.
The council also adopted resolu-
ton to send its secretary. Mrs. w.
A. Roberts, to the National Con-
ference of Social Work to be held in
Cleveland. May 26 to June 2.
MIR. Ihlder, who is the director of
the civic department of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, and
the head of a special committee to
investigate the feasibility of estab.
Evening star., 1926-05-04
WINS INSURANCE SUIT.

Virginian, Once Convicted of
Arson, Collects on Fire Loss.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISONBURG, Va. May A.
Max Heller was awarded 81 1000 insur-
mace on one of the five policies he
carried on his stock of merchandise
at Elkton, this county. which was de-
stroyed by fire in April, 1922, late last
night by a Circuit Court jury here.
The insurance company refused 10
pay the insurance on the ground that
Heller was convicted of arson. He and
his nephew, Eli Heller, served two
year terms in the State penitentiary
after their conviction here on the
arson count. The fire. which wiped
out a business block at EIkton. entail
ing loss of $4,000. was reported to
have started in the Heller store.
Evening star., 1926-05-04

it was explained. means selling seals
or tickets through the mail.
Dorsey w. Hyde, president of the
Monday Evening Club. told Of the pro-
posed Hamilton Fish bill, proposing to
regulate the solicitation of funds for
charitable purposes in the District.
The bill would require organizations
to get permits from the proposed
board of public welfare before solicit
ing funds from the public for social
work.
Evening star., 1926-05-04

The British government is planning
to spend 5000, 900 in advertising and
marketing Dominion goods in the
British Isles.
Evening star., 1926-05-04
SURVEY Of SOCIAL
AGENCIES URGED
Resolution Adopted Favoring
Compilation of District
Directory.

Adoption of resolutions proposing
the compilation of data during the
Summer for directory of social
agencies in Washington, to be pre-
nared next Fall. and survey to
Evening star., 1926-05-04

fishing a community chest in Wash
ington, reported that lack of public
interest makes this inadvisable at the
present time. He advocated that an
other committee be appointed and
provided with sufficient funds to make
more detailed study of the estab-
lishment of a community chest; also
that more publicity be given the mat
ter. A majority of the council have
expressed themselves in favor of the
establishment of the community chest,
it was pointed out by Mrs. Roberts,
secretary.
Raising of Funds Explained.
Methods of raising funds in the
District for social work were described
by Walter S. Ufford, secretary Of
the Associated Charities, and were
declared TO be inadequate for raising
money for current expenses.
There are three methods, he said:
namely, through drives, letter cam
.,aigns and letter sales. The latter.
Evening star., 1926-05-17

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Evening star., 1926-05-17

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Evening star., 1926-05-17
SEWING SPECIALS

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Evening star., 1926-05-17
SANITARY SPECIALS

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Aprons. Regular size,
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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10
KILLS TWO DEER
WITH ONE SHOT.
Rene Fonck Distinguishes Self
in Georgia.

Savannah, Ga.-The most distin-
guished hunting party entertained on
the coast of Georgia this seasan was
that which included Governor Walker
Of Georgia and Capt. Rene Fonck, ia
nous French flying ace. Late in De-
cember they, with others. spent sew
eral days on Ossabaw island, owned
by DR.. H. N. Torrey Of Detroit and
Savannah. They were the guests Of
Howard Coffin Of Detroit. and the
whole hunting trip was great sue
cess.
Besides the governor and Captain
FOnck and Mr.. Coffin. the party was
made up Of Charles Nunally Of At
lanta. Governor Walkers chief Of
staff; Robert Woodruff Of Atlanta |;
Peter 8. Twitty, Georgia state game
warden. and few other guests.
Captain Fonck had never shot In
Georgia before. He was amazed at
the great quantity Of game the Is
land possessed. That the deer are
plentiful Is shown by the fact that
Captain FOnck killed two with one
SnOt. ThlS Is one or the remarkable
stories brought back by the hunting
party.
While on stand waiting for the
dogs to drive in few bucks or to
have them pass his way Of their own
accord. the. trained eye of the man
who was such terror to German
flyers during the war saw that two
deer were coming toward him. They
were some distance apart, but close
enough for him to get bead on one
and hold II until the other came in
such position that he killed both deer
with one shot.
1t is said this is feat never be-
fore accomplished on Ossabaw island.
1t made Captain FOnck the real hero
Of the trip.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10
DADDYX
EYENING
fairy TALE
%Mary Graham Bonner
THE WOOD IBIS
'Wr(ZfNNngJkG9 GACR <INN1

1T seems utterly senseless to me"
said the Wood Ibis in the big bird
house on the ZOO. ito hear of creatures
quarreling.
Now | am big bird.
Il could boss around many of the
little birds, If wished.
"But to my mind IT would be very
mean thing to do.
Especially If they were smaller
than myself.
"It would be so easy to make q
smaller bird do what / wanted to do,
but there wouldn't be anything to that.
1T would be unfair, and would be
nothing less than a blrd-bully."
you're right" said the White-Faced
Glossy Ibis.
"And you mean what you say. too.
You do what you say you do, as the
old, old saying used to go. you prac-
tice what you preach"
"Well," said the Wood Ibis, Il try
to do what / preach-Only I didn't
mean to preach exactly"
~ know" said the White-Faced
Glossy Ibis, land neither you do.
''But the old saying Of practicing
what you preach is good one.
"I've heard people scolding some
one for the very same sort of thing
they do themselves.
''I've heard them talk of some one
who was gossip or tattle-tale AZ |!
then gossip and tattle-taie themselves.
But you are different"
"Well," said the Wood Ibis. II don't
like Quarreling.
II have pleasures. l enjoy looking
for my food in the sand with my long
beak."
$50 do l." agreed the White-Faced
Glossy Ibis, whose bill was certainly
very, very long.
"Quarreling," continued the Wood
Ibis. "is so foolish because it doesn't
do any good.
1T makes everyone who is quarrel
ing feel unhappy. Everyone says hor-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10
Puts Fruit to isle ep";
Nav End Cold Storage

London.-JOhn MacLean Thompson,
professor of botany at Liverpool uni
versity, the Daily Mail says, has dis
covered a method for fruit preserva-
ton which ia expected to supersede
cold storage and make possible the
Importation to this country Of fruits
that never have been tasted here.
Professor MacLean describes his
method as sending fruit to Sleep"
1t consists Of a simple apparatus by
which even temperature and humidity
are maintained in the stOreroom.
He has been experimenting for
three years. and says he has been es-
pecially successful in preserving
American apples.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10

SparroWS are Little SreatureS.
rid things they don't mean to say,
and goodness only knows how some
Of those things may hurt"
Now Mr.. Wood Ibis looked very
handsome as he stood talking to Mr..
White-Faced Glossy Ibis
Mr.. Wood Ibis wore his best black
and white suit and all the other birds
looked at him admiringly as we'll as
fondly, for he was popular in the
bird house.
"Sparrows are little creatures with
out u great deal of sense, though
they're nice enough in their way"
continued Mr.. Wood Ibis, but they
quarrel in "a very stupid fashion.
"The whole point to me in not quar-
reling is because it only makes us all
unhappy.
mo matter who is doing the quar-
reling, it causes unhappiness all
around.
And, oh, goodness. mercy me. there
are so many other nicer, jOllier. more
friendly ways Of spending our time
Just then the keeper took some
children through the bird house, and
pointing out the Wood Ibis, he said :
There's as gentle and sensible a
bird as there Is to be found"
This made the Wood Ibis both happy
and proud.
And every other bird In the bird
house agreed with the keeper. which
made the Wood Ibis rejoice.
For he hated quarreling and loved
friendliness and good nature.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10
Ford Gets Old Plows

Biddeford. Maine.-Henry Ford IL
soon to receive at Dearborn, Mich. as
q gift from Orrin D. Edwards. livery
stable keeper here, two plows, one Of
which is 225 years old. The other
was manufactured in Portland 100
years ago. They have been in the pos
session of the Edwards family for sew
eral genera tons at farm on the Bid
deford PoDl road. known as the
s'Whalebone"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-04-10
Baby Almost Human

Marion, eight, has a dog and he is
extremely smart. She had heard her
mother say he was almost human.
One day 1 asked Marion how her
aunt's baby was.
She said, 80. so sweet. Why. she
is getting to be almost human"