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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE Coun-
Gil of United Mothers of Williams
burg has sent a protest and delega-
ton to the board of education pointing
out that since their refusal to consent
to the transfer of their children from
public school 14S to other schools
that their children are being herded
in an assembly room where an cleo
trio light must burn all day to illumi-
nate the room. The mothers also
point out that this room is damp at
all times and that the children must
wear all their clothes and run great
risks in catching colds.
Demand Proper Attention.
The mothers in the following pro-
test show the board that certain
teachers have threatened to keep the
children from advancing in their
school careers by not giving them
the proper training and calls on the
board to remedy the existing situa-
ton:
Board of Education,
Park Ave. and 59th st.,
New York City.
Gentlemen:
"The mothers of children now at
tending public school 148 in Brooklyn
have authorized me on their behalf
to protest to you against the miser-
able and outrageous conditions now
obtaining at the public school which
threatens seriously to affect the health
of their children as well as retard
them in their school careers.
Some time ago the board of edu-
cation recognized the justice of the
complaints made by the mothers of
children who were being transferred
from public school 14S to other
schools and at the insistence of your
board these children were permitted
to attend public school 14S again.
but the conditions under which
they are attending school at public
school 14S at the present time out
RACES every standard of decency and
humanity imagin Die.
Herded in Basement.
The children are herded together
in the assembly room, which is To-
catedi the basement Of public school
l4S, where the windows are only par
TALLY above the sidewalk. necessitat-
ing artificial light all day long, which
you can readily understand is exceed
ingly detrimental to the general
health and eyesight of the youngsters.
In addition, the assembly room is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
KILL WORKER ON R.R. TRACK
Pennsylvania Line Defies Safety
by Running Trains Wrong

HAMMONTON, N. J., March IL
The persistent practice of the Penn
sylvania railroad of running south
bound trains on northbound tracks
and vice versa, in spite of complaints
from the district, resulted in the kill
ing of Elias Bretha, 34-year old track
walker, who followed the workers
rule Of walking north on a southbound
track and was struck by train on
the wrong track.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
SOVIET UNION PLANS
A LARGE INCREASE IN
PRODUCTION OF COTTON
Especial to The Daily Worker,

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., March r.
Cotton paintings in the Soviet Union
this year will amount to 1854, 400
acres, compared with 1925, 900 acres
in 1925. Plans for the cement indus
try for the fiscal year ending Sept.
call for a total output of 100000
barrels. Thirty-three factories are
now working, contrasted with so be-
fore the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Whiteman Will Speak
in Both Kansas Cities

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March II -
Lovett Fort-Whiteman, organizer OF
the American Negro Congress, will
speak at two mass meetings in Kan
sas City.
On Wednesday, March II he will
speak on the Missouri side at the
Shannon Hall, 18th and Vine streets.
under the auspices of the Kansas City
Labor Bureau.
. On Thursday, March IS, a meeting
Will be held at The Pleasant Green
baptist church (McNeals church, 4th
and Oakland streets on the Kansas
siec under the auspices of the Civic
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
SIGMAN SPEECH
TO ANARCHISTS
HITS LEFT WING
Fears Rank and File
Questions

NEW YORK, March ION Sunday
morning, March 10, Morris Sigman
president of the international Ladies
Garment Workers Union gave a lee.
! ture on the Last Three Years OF
Union Work" under the auspices of an
anarchist group at Bronx Lyceum
Third avenue and 10th street, Bronx.
The anarchist paper, The Road to
Freedom, has been coming out with ar
ticles knocking the present admins
tration of the joint board and uphold
ing President S1gmdn of the Interna-
tional. They have been branding the
present administration as Communist
and saying that the present admins
tration receives all orders pertaining
to union work from Chicago"
Sigman Holds Caucus.
The lecture was scheduled to be
held at 1890 in the morning but when
that hour arrived there was no sign
Iof Sigman on the platform. Sigman
was holding a meeting with his bench
men Feinberg and Sossloff in the hall.
When | came into the hall Feinberg
began speaking to me. He was surpris-
ed to see me at this lecture. l then
noticed Sigman wave to Feinberg and
he slipped away from me. l watched
him and saw Session, Feinberg and
Sigman go into an anteroom. Sigman
saw that most of the people present
were left wingers who were arguing
with the anarchist supporters of Sig
man. At 11:15 Sigman appeared on
the platform.
The chairman of the meeting was
Farber. He declared that the meeting
was called under the auspices of the
anarchist group and that the topic for
the lecture was to be, Last Three
Years of Work in the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union" and
that on this occasion it was mo more
than right to have Morris Sigman.
the president of the international give
this lecture.
After spending close to two hours
OH the most horrible and silliest lee
ture ever given by president of the
union, he closed with the remark that
all the left elements in the union must
be wiped out because they receive
their orders" from Chicago"
Fears Rank and File.
Questions were then declared in order
A question was sent to Sigman on a
piece of paper. He read the question
and tore up the paper saying that the
person asking the question was not
member OF the international, and he
would not answer the question.
One of the international members
was given the floor and he asked Sig
man why he was lecturing before an
anarchist group when, he, himself ex-
PEELED members of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union for
being members of the Trade Union
Educational League.
Slgman avoided an answer.
Must, See "Abe."
Sigman was unable to answer the
questions put to him by the left wing
ers without first consulting Abe Calm
of the Forward and when the chair
man of the meeting saw Sigman in this
predicament, he closed the meeting
stating that Sigman would answer all
of the questions the following Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
LEADER
DISILLUSIONED
BY JOHN D. JR.
Rockefeller Fails to Help
Strikers!

NEW YORK, March II. - Despite
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s denial that
his family controls the Western Mary
land railroad, "the roads reports show
that these (Rockefeller)l holdings are
more than two to one greater than
any other stockholder'sy' asserts w.
A.. Paddock, assistant grand chief
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
in charge of the strike of engineers
and firemen on the Maryland line
The Interstate commerce commits
sion's Nickel Plate decision shows
how concentrated minority holdings
may easily constitute control"
The strike is still going strong, re-
gardless of contrary press implica-
tions, declares Paddock. The men
who struck Oct. Is for wages and con-
ditions granted by every other class 1
railroad have every intention of re-
naming on strike until their Just de-
mands are met" The two brother
hoods are fully supporting the fight.
Service on the line has been badly
crippled. The communities affected
are wholly behind the strikers, so
much so that President Maxwell c.
Byers filed application for change of
venue in 131 suits brought against
the Western Maryland as a result of
the shopmen's strike in 1922, says
Paddock.
Local support of the strikers led
the Cumberland Ministerial Union,
among other organizations and indi-
viduals, to write the younger Rookie
Teller to use his influence as a sub
stantial stakeholder to end the strike.
In replying. to Cumberland Mayor
Thomas w. Koon, John d. Jr. stated
that "the combined holdings of our
family, together with those of the
funds to which this stock may have
been given, representa- considerably
less than rs per cent OF the stock of
the company. l am not director of
the company. Only two of the twelve
directors can be regarded as in anv
sense representative of our interests"
He says the directors run the road
and that he does not control the sit
uation.
Poor Labor Leader Surprised.
Paddock states that. RockefelIer's
attitude is "a surprise and disappoint-
ment" to men of the brotherhoods and
those of the Maryland communities
who appealed to the multi-millionaire
ito help relieve a situation from
which they are suffering keenly. 1t
may well appear to them that here is
an evasion of an obvious RESPONSE
bility," says Paddock. Granted that
the Rockefeller interests are not tech
nically controlling the fact remains
that while the management of this
road may deceive, it will never DEFY
the expression of a wish by Mr.. Rookie
feller."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
CHICAGO NOTE.

All Y. w. L. members who are
working in the building trades will
meet on Thursday at D. M. March
IL, at 10 South Lincoln street.
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COUPON CLIPPERS REAP ENORMOUS
PROFITS; WORKERS TOLL LONG
HOURS FOR STARVATION WAGE
BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

The Mahonng coal railroad
leased by the pays
of
also the income
The road about 20 miles district around
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Your neighbor will appreciate
the favor-give him this copy Of
the DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
WANTED:

One member of the Y. w. L. who Il
unemployed. Come to the national Of.
flee Of the league.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Put a copy Of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you go to your union s,eeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Foundry Makes Fat Dividends.

"The unions are the pillars Of the
workers power."-Losovsky.
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also pay the income and excess prOnt
The road operates about 70 miles of
Youngstown, Ohio.
Mahoning's lowest dividends since
1912 were so per cent a year from
1915 to 1919. In the last 10 years it
has paid altogether S12,6OO,OOO in
cash on S1,5OO,00O of common stock,
an average of 81 per cent a year. The
average for the last six years has
been over 100 per cent.
Profit in Hosiery.
Three magnates in the silk hosiery
field report combined 1925 profits Of
$4,7S2,961. The striking feature of
their reports is the exorbitant return
on investment. :
The s2,165,769 profit of the Gotham
Silk Hosiery Co. is more than so per
cent of the entire value of the land,
machinery and other equipment Aft
er deducting Z per cent dividends on
preferred stock it leaves $1,791, 269
for the common stock which was ap-
parently distributed as a bonus. On
the books this common stock is worth
about S16S,775 so that the profit ap-
pears to have been at least 1000 per
cent.
The stockholders of Phoenix Hos
iery Co. have nothing to kick about
The years profit of S1,55S,742 means
return of 1922 a share after all de-
auctions including preferred hivi-
dends. AS the par value of the COM
mon stock is IS this means a return
Of 144 per cent.
Last comes Onyx Hosiery with
1925 profit of S1,O5S,45O, which gives
the common stockholders S51S a
share. These shares are listed as no
par but the company's balance sheet
carries them at $40 a share so that
the years profit amounts to about
So per cent. Such profits reflect the
exploitation of workers whose wages
average under $40 a week.
commereiaized Amusement.
That commercialized amusement is
another source of big profits appears
in the 1926 report of the Orpheum
Circuit Corp. It's net income of ST.
174,S20 gives common stockholders
$3.O3 a share after payment of pre-
ferred dividends. AS the par value
of the stock is 81 this means a pro-
fit of 303 per cent. The 1924 profit
amounted to $3.50 a share or 43O per
cent making the 2-year total 1873 per
cent on the investment in common
stock. Cash dividends in 1925 totaled
about 179 per cent. In the last five
years common stockholders have re-
ceived cash dividends totaling $500
81 on a par value of S549,170 or ap-
proximately 4S0 per cent.
Foundry Makes Fat Dividends.
This weeks clue to why home own
ing comes high rs the 1926 report Of
the u. S. Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry
Co. This company's net profit OF ST.
501,265 means for the common stock
holders a return of s3S.s4 on each
800. The 1924 profit amounted TO
s4317 on each 500 share. The last
two years combined have given the
owners Of this building material con-
Germ approximately SO per cent on
their investment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Select Committee
to Pass Upon Bids
for Muscle Shoals
Especial to The Daily Worker,

WASHINGTON, March 17-Follow-
ing the approval by the senate of
minor amendments to- the Muscle
Shoals leasing bill proposed by the
house, Vice-President Dawes announc-
ed that the following senators had
been selected to serve on the Joint
congressional committee to secure
bids for the private leasing of the
properties: Deneen, ,(R) Illinois;
Sackett, (R) Kentucky; and Heflin,
CD Alabama. Heflin has been one
of the bitterest opponents of govern
ment control.
In the house Speaker Longworth
appointed Representative NORM. (R)
Pennsylvania; James, (R) Michigan.
and Quin, CD Mississippi. NORM is
chairman Of the military affairs com
mittee.
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AS Good as Ford,s.

The joint committee is required to
report back not later than April 26.
It's duty is to recommend the most adj
vantageous bid This must, however.
be as good as Ford's offer. The term
OF lease cannot exceed 30 years.
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BUILDING Permits

H. I. ysimons. dwelling. 5212 N. Penn
f. 4. sImons, garage. 5212 N. Pennsyl-
. clyde Jones. reroof. 1941 N. Delaware.
y Hub Hub City Construction Company. wreck,
a Fgank stonihc. addition. 912 Arnolda,
Cartmell, Burcaw- Moore, dwelling. 1880
! Cartmseii, 1BSuHrcaw-Moore garage. 11so
i. Dunn. dwelling. 1922 W. Tenth.
y Eiiias Themes. garage, 51s N. LII Sale.
Herschel Rash repair. 427 W. Forty
Second, $685..
S fRas y s19 sps Sd RSn Bell SDs q zoe
E. washington, 1915
Stephen Hader. dwelling. 2270 S. Me
Richard Gansinger, garage. 2o29 Now
n E. Reeves. replace. r15 N. Healing.
: Lawrence schriner. hot water plant. 11s
n D. Augustus, dwelling. 427 Berkeley
b. Augustus. garage. 427 Berkeley.
Cain Smiley. addition 11o7 N Sheffield.
Ralph Kahn. store. 1923 N. Illinois.
W. Behrens. dwelling. 1851 Dawson,
w. Behrens garage. 1851 Dawson. $3.50.
~, II RaymsoGnod Woods. replace. 169 E. Fifty
Gregory & Appel. repair 1857 Grace
Union Trust Company. repair. 41e Cen
Jess Hessler. repair SO S. Mount. Sp72.
nr WilIia 20 se Darnaby. replace 500 n
a. sMo Joseph furnace, 2o4o N. Hard
{ Clyde Realty Company. boilers. 4217
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Suffering from nervous shock and
painfully bruised Mrs. Frances jack
son, 81. of 331 s. Gray ST., bride
Of Wednesday morning, was recov-
ering today after fight with
burly man who forced his way into
her new home late Thursday, robbed
and beat her.
Chester Jackson, her husband,
special policeman at the Kingan &
Co. packing plant, found her
unconscious, gagged and tied. When
he returned from work.
Detectives have q button from the
intruder's 'overcoat as their only
clew, excepting vague descriptions
by Mrs. Jackson. The intruder tore
her clothes, she told police. ard took
SIS from her stocking and $75
necklace.
According to her story, she was
preparing supper when she heard a
soft knock at the front door, A
stranger six feet tall forced his way
in She hit him with an alarm
clock and kewpie doll. He over
powered her. Neighbors told Dean
they heard no commotion.
Mrs. jackson was divorced a year
ago last December.
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EXPLORATION OF
new GUINEA BY
PLANE PLANNED
Americans Hope to Reach
Parts Never Reached Be-
fore by White Man.

NANIIA,P p. T., Feb. 5.-Men and
an airplane soon win endeavor to
penetrate the interior Of Dutch New
Guinea on quest which thrice has
drawn exploration parties to destruc-
ton or defeat in that wild country
Of cannibals.
Mathew Stirling Of Berkeley, Cal,
for several years in charge Of the
division Of entomology OF the national
museum in Washington, will lead
the party. He believes that an air
plane will succeed under equatorial
conditions where it failed in the
Amundsen polar flight last year
Stirling expects to see territory and
tribes never before disclosed to
white men.
other members Of the party are
Stanley Hedberg of Chicago; Rich.
ard Peck of ST. Petersburg, Fla;
Albert Hamer Of Coulter, Pa, and
Hans Hoyte of New York. They
have passed through Manila south
ward and will tranship at Batavia
for Aroo Island, which is about zoo
miles south of the equator and just
off the Dutch New Guinea coast.
Here they will assemble their plane.
Second Largest Island
Next to Australia, New Guinea is
the largest island in the world. It
constitutes one of the few remain
ing unknown areas" Stirling said
in discussing his project.
"Great physical difficulties are en-
countered by the explorer he said.
1.-THE backbone of the island is a
huge mountain range extending
practically it's entire length Of 1900
miles and reaching an elevation of
more than 10000 feet in the west.
Lying just under the equator, the
entire surface Of the island is
clothed with dense tropical growth.
Natives of New Guinea have the
reputation Of being hostile toward
strangers and most Of them are can
nibalistic. They are without doubt
the most savage and primitive of all
peoples of whom we have knowl-
edge. Beyond the districts already
penetrated there may be tribes even
more savage.
Use Primitive Weapons
1.-THE known natives are without
clothing and their weapons are
bows, arrows, spears and clubs, Of
primitive design. The British east
ern portion of the island is fairly
well-known, but the Dutch half is
entirely unexplored in the interior"
Stirling said three expeditions had
set out to penetrate the interior. Two
OF them turned back early and
escaped disaster, but third repre-
senting the British pathological
society went into the jungle in 1910
with a party of forty persons and
returned after about two years with
only eleven men still alive. Jungle
fever accounted for most of the
lives.
Trophies of the Stirling expedi-
ton will be deposited in the Smith
sonian Institute and the United
States National Museum.
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Beer and Wine May
Be Candidates

BIZ TIN rs NDecfHf FtA
CHICAGO, Feb. ~ 5.-''Mr.
Beer and "Mr. Wine" viii run
for Congressman at large from
Illinois, if a plan proposed by
Chicago Democrats favorable
to modification Of the Volstead
law is carried out.
Two candidates with the
names of Beer" and wine"
actually are preparing to en-
ter the congressional race, A.
]. Cermak. president OF the
county board and a leading
Democratic politicians, dis
closed He declined to give the
full names of the prospective
enndidateC.
Candidates wi, h such pop
ular names are sue winners in
Illinois," Cermak said. Fur
thermore, we've investigated
these men and found them to
be capable, honest and sim
cere."
n Chicago's telephone book lists
seven men by the narae of
Beer" and four Mr.. Wines"
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of these win be at West Baden,
March 7-S, apd will be attended by
Legionnaires from all southern dis
tricts, as we'll as by many from other
portions Of the State. The second
will be held in the northern portion
of the state, probably at Culver,
where a similar conference has been
held for the last two years. The
date Of the second meeting viii be
set for some time in May.
Formation Of Ninth District
American Legion band, which will
contain more than one hundred
pieces. is under way, DR.. r, A. Coop
err, Ninth district executive commit
teeman, stated today. The band will
compete at the State convention Of
the Legion for the right to repre-
sent Indiana at the national conven.
ton at Philadelphia in 1925 and at
the Paris convention of the organiza-
ton in 1927
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State Pledges Immediate Aid
for Families of Nineteen
Victims.

BIZ United Press
PITTSBURGH. Pa. Feb. 5.-The
families Of the nineteen men killed
in the explosion at the Horning mine
Of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal
Company win receive allotments
from the State with little delay, II
was announced today as the COM
.pensation board began its session.
Thirty-one children were left
fatherless by the blast.
More than twenty henderson, the
rescue teams were overcome by
black damp and forced to leave the
mine during the night. They re-
ported the flames had gained head
way and only the sealing Of the
wall would smother the fire. The
bodies of sixteen men are still en-
tombed in mine No. Of the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Company.
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well organized and efficiently man
aged auxiliary units.
The newest Legion auxiliary unit
4 to be organized is at Charlottesville,
where a charter membership roll of
about 100 names Is being compiled.
Mrs. Thurston today announced
that citations for distinguished
service were being awarded this
week to seventeeA Indiana Auxiliary
units, by Mrs. Eliza London Shep.
herd, national president of the orr
ganization. These units are Hunt.
ingburg, Carmel, Warsaw, Fowler,
Linton, RocKport, WILDERNESS, Os.
good, Columbus, Terre Haute, Shell
byville, Newcastle, Gary, La Grange,
and three Indianapolis units: Bruce
Robinson, Hayward Barcus, and r.
%. Remington. Each Of these
posts exceeded their previous years
membership before the new year
began. A citation for distinguished
service also was awarded the Funk
houser unit of Evansville. for work
in the Princeton tornado disaster
The 1926 State Legion convention
will be held at Marion some time dur
ing the latter part of August, it was
announced today by c. A. jackson Of
Newcastle, State commander.
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HEIRS TO MEET

A meeting Of the Edward Heirs
Association, Independents. who have
retained George E. Fleming. New
York attorney to recover valuable
property in the heart of New York
will be held at p. m. Saturday in
the Cropsey auditorium of the
auditorium of the Central Library,
it is announced by Robert r. Read,
president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-02-05
WARDEN OPPOSES DEATH
Sing Sing Head Aids DaIrow's War
On Capital Punishment.

BV Unft5d Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.---A campaign
for the abolition OF capital punish
ment at this session Of the New
York Legislature has been launched
here by. the League for the Adolf
ton Of Capital Punishment.
Prominent among the leaders OF
the movement are Clarence barrow
noted criminal lawyer; Warden
Lewis e. Lawes Of Sing Sing and
Dudley Field Malone.
barrow and Malone plan to at
tack capital punishment on humani
tartan grounds while Lawes win op
pose it as a result of his observa,
tions during the years he has direct
ed the machinery Of Sing Sing
Prison.
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FALIlS FROM FREIGHT GAR

Adds Bullard, SO. 27o Leeds Ave-,
railroad brakemen. was severely. in
jured this morning when he fell
from the top Of a freight car at
Sherman DR.. and the Big -Four rail
road tracks. Police said the train
lurched, causing him to lose his
balance. He was taken to the
Methodist hospital.