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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-05-14
MAIL CHARGES TOO HIGH

Washington, D. C.-In certain
cases the Post Office department
charges publishers more than 10 times
the cost of service, a representative
of the American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association told the joint COM
mittee of congress that is considering
postal rates.
The publishers claim transportation
by truck on a 60-mile haul costs $40,
and that the post office charges 1888.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-05-14

Edith May Adams OF Darlington, N.
j., the first American School girl to
be entered as candidate for the
American Youth Award. The Ameri-
can Youth and Teacher Award was
established by the Board of Directors
Of the Sesqut utCentennial International
Exposition in Philadelphia as tribute
to the youth and teachers Of the ma
ton. Miss Adams Is candidate for
the Golden Eaglette, the highest gift
In the hands OF the Girl Scouts. She
was cited recently for exceptional
bravery for remaining inside blaz-
Ing building helping physicians to
give first aid treatment to injured fire.
men.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-05-14
WARD SUED
Stockholders Claim Bakery King Has
Double Crossed Them

New York-William B. Ward and
several associates have been sued for
$8,547,93 by the stockholders COM
mittee of the General Baking Corpor-
alton. 1t is alleged that at the re-
quest of Ward, and without submis-
sion to the board of directors, checks
in this amount were signed by the
president and treasurer of the corpor-
alton.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-05-14
Aged Unlii,o1'nist
Will Now Enjoy
Private Life
Joe Bishop Was First President
of Amalgamated
Association

Columbus, O.-"Joe" Bishop, first
president of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers, has retired to private life. He
is 81 years old. He says he will
"take a long rest, i .. .-.... .- ..-.
For several years he has been con-
nected with the adjutant generals
department in the state house. Prior
to that he served for two decades as
the labor member of the Ohio state
board of arbitration.
More than half a century ago he
was president of the Sons of Vulcan,
or Iron Puddler's union, in Pitts
burgh. He took a leading part in
uniting the iron and steel workers in
to the present Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
and served as its first president. He
is we'll known to old-time trade union
lists.
Pittsburgh, Pa.-Organized iron,
steel and tin workers appreciate the
efforts of "Joe" Bishop to better their
conditions of life. At the age of 81,
he has retired to private life, and the
Amalgamated Journal says:
"The first president of the Anal
gamated Association is venerated by
its membership. All wish him many
added years of life that he may re-
count the wonderful achievements of
the organization of which he is the
father"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-05-14

Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
FILIPINO PRESS
DRAWS COOLIDGE
LACKEY'S Fire
Philippine Newspapers
Expose Thompson Plans

MANILA, P. l., Aug. 15.-Col Carmi
A. Thompson, President Coolidges in
vestigator in the Philippines, in a
statement to the press hotly de-
nounced and reviled the native press
here which carried a story that
Thompson was leaving for China.
The Philippine Herald published u
front page story stating that Thomp
son was planning a secret investiga-
ton for Coolidge in China.
Excerpts of the. article to which
Thompson objected follows:
When asked if the work he. will
have to do in Picking will be conf
dental Col. Thompson answered in
the affirmative. 1t was intimated in
authoritative circles, however, that the
coloners investigation may have some
thing to do with the participation of
the United States in the extraterritor-
ial and customs conference"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Rx WIN. scHNElpERMAN.

THE American workers know very
L little about the actual facts of how
the youth of this country is being pre-
pared to "do their bit" in future wars
in systematic effort of the war de-
partment to bring military training
into every school and college in the
United States.
There are over 225 educational in
situations in this country where milit-
airy instruction is given, thru estab-
lished units of the reserve officers
training corps. Last year congress ap-
propriated four million dollars for the
purpose of training over $4,000 stu
dents in military drill. For this pur-
pose the war department assigned
eight hundred officers and over one
thousand enlisted army men to carry
on training in these schools. In ten
years the number of schools with mil
itary instruction has doubled; of the
R. 0. T. c. institutions, numbering
over 225, half of them were of college
or university rank, where the students
are of age, In the high schools where
there is an r. o. T. C. unit, youngsters
as low as fourteen years of age drill
with rifles and learn the technique of
guard duty and patrolling, which
comes in especially handy during
strike The objective of the war de-
partment is to establish military units
in 1900 secondary schools turnout the
country. General Pershing has gone
even further, with the hope that every
public school in America shall intro
duce drill for the students.
c.-M. T. C. Aimed at Young Workers.
Thus far we have dealt with the
students. But the bosses are not sat
isied with this. They want the work
ing youth which will bear the brunt of
struggle in case of war to 'be pre-
pared" For this purpose was estab-
lished the citizens military training
camps, to which the young workers as
well as students are lured during the
hot summer months with tempting
promises. Two million dollars was
voted by congress last year to estab-
fish % summer camps. In five years
the number attending these camps
rose from 10000 to nearly forty thous-
and, and the war department has the
final objective in the not distant future
of 100000.
By means of the national defense
act adopted by congress in 1920, the
war department has created sinister
machinery to build up vast military
force that could defend the imperialist
interests of the United States in col
onial countries. Colleges are offered
land grant subsidies to give military
training. Students are given cash sub
sides to take military courses for a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
DEMAND PROPER
CONGRESSIONAL
REPRESENTATION
Protest Delay of Reap
portionment

WASHINGTON, Aug. IS. - (FP) -
Congress is going TO hear frequent
protests. in the coming session,
against delay Of reapportionment of
representation in the house on the
basis Of the 1920 census, as required
by the federal constitution. The house
seats are still allotted to the several
states on the basis OF the census OF
1910. thereby cheating the big cities
of their fair share of power in the
house.
The basis~of representation IN the
lower brcrch ~ congress IL now one
member for each 211,877 inhabitants.
If this were applied to the ~ largest
cities. on the 1920 census showing,
they would have II representatives in
stead OF the IS they now elect Those
~ cities are New York. Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Detroit. Cleveland, ST. Louis,
Boston, Baltimore. Los Angeles, Pitts.
burgh. San Francisco. and Buffalo. In
1910 their population was 1877 1872,
but IN 1920 Il had grown TO l6.3G9301
New York City elects % congress-
men when Il should elect 20. Chicago
should have IA instead Of 10. Phlla.
delphia should have Q instead OF Z.
Detroit should have instead OF 2.
Cleveland and Boston should each
have 4 instead Of 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
OSMENA OPPOSES
FLIP IN O LAND
LAW REVISION
Unites with Quezon to
Resist Change

MANILA, P. l., Aug. 1--we do
not feel it necessary that it is neces-
sary to amend or change the existing
land laws to bring about the develop
ment of these islands," declared Sen
ator Sergio Osmena. 81 personally
have opposed and will continue to
oppose any change that would mean
a backward step for my people"
This stand of Osmena against the
proposal that the Philippine legisla-
ture grant American and Filipino cor
poration larger land holdings for rub
Der plantations dashes the hopes that
at this time Osmena and Senator Man
uel Quezon will engage in a political
duel for leadership in Philippine poll
tics Such battle between these two
leaders would work towards the ad-
vantage of the American rubber in
terests and their tool, Col Carmi A.
Thompson, who is now in the Philip
pines.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Charwomen Getting
Miserable Pittance
from Uncle Samuel

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Wages Of
charwomen in federal buildings now
range from $500 to 1920 a year, accord
ing to tabulation of the custodial
wage schedule, published by the Fed
eral Employe, organ of the National
Federation of Federal EaA9loyes.
Wages of other classifcations in the
custodial service include: Laborer,
$1,14O to s1,26O; coal passer, $1,14O to
$1,000; marble polisher, $1,14O TO
$1,5O0; Waterman and elevator con-
ductor, $1,26O to $1,SS0; skilled la
borer, $1,32O to S1,5OO; fireman with
out plant, oiler with power plant and
oiler without power plant, $1,320 to
$1,000; helpers of carpenter, plumber
and steamfitter, $500 to $1,000; fire
man with plant, $500 to S1,62O; jani-
tor, $3.50 to $1,sO0; clerk. S1.74O to
$1,S6O; carpenter, steamftter, plumber,
electiacian, painter, machinist, iron
worker, S1,6S0 to S1,S6O; foreman of
carpenters and plumbers. $1,S60 to
$1,000: chief engineman without plant,
$1,000 TO $4,000; chief engineman with
plant, $4,000 to $4,000; assistant en-
gineman without plant, $1,14O to
$500; assistant engineman with
plant, $4,000 to $4,000; craftsman,
s2,4OO to $4,000 assistant custodian,
$4,000 to $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
"Goose-Step" MiIitarism in Schools

definite number OF years. Employers
are cajoled into Offering vacation with
pay to any deluded young worker who
is willing to join the C. M. T. G. In
the schools the strictest provisions are
made about military training. A stu
dent who fails to register for same can
never graduate, or may be suspended
or expelled. Students who protest
against military training have been
prosecuted to the fullest extent in
many cases to the point of expulsion.
Only recently a letter came to light
from the war department to the col
onel in charge of an R. o. T. G. unit
asking harsh measures to be taken
against any student fighting military
training in the schools.
PopuIarizing Capitalist MllItarIsm.
There are two methods of appeal to
the youth, outside of the material
benefits, which the militarists use.
One is the claim that it is training for
citizenship" 1t is better psychology to
call it that than to say it is training
for war. That explains Gen. Pershing's
remark to "popularize 1t by all avail
able methods" The second is "physi-
cal training" Several prominent physi-
cal culture experts have pointed out the
falsehood of this claim by tabulating
the actual hours used in physical train
ing in the military work; in years OF
R. o. It. c. work, there is a total of
only hours out of several hundred,
devoted to physical training. The rest
is either technical military training,
or lectures of anti-labor propaganda.
The class-conscious young worker
who knows the above facts will get
some idea of the menace to the Amer
lean youth when war clouds lower on
the horizon We must enlist the sup
port of trade unions and of all youth
organizations in an energetic cam
paign to combat this octopus of cap
italist militarism in America, and rally
the workers of this country to their
class banner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
BY HARRY CANNES
Iti.ImperIaIIst press Service.

fNfN''NfS~ 'S'ASA FTASSo w NiSNs
THO passed some time ago, Gov
4 ernor General Leonard Wood re-
fuses either to veto or sign the bill
for a nationwide referendum in the
Philippines on the question of indie
pendence, This is the second time
this bill has been put thru the Filipino
legislature unanimously by the repre-
sentatives of the Philippine masses.
The first time Wood peremptorily
threw the law into the waste paper
basket at time when it was too late
for the legislature to pass it over his
veto. The second time the Filipino
passed the bill so that
plenty of time would be permitted to
Wood to repeat his reactionary step
and still allow leeway for a re-passage
of the act over the generals veto.
Undoubtedly Wood is merely usurp-
ing his authority to the utmost in
pigeon-holing the written wish of the
Filipino people to express themselves
on the independence issue. He hopes
thereby not to veto the bill until it is
again too late for the Filipinos to pass
it in spite of him. Wood no doubt pins
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Wood Refuses to Permit FilipinOs
'::tO Register independence Vote

his hope on some backward step by
congress restricting the rights of the
Filipino legislature.
For the past few years it has been
the practice of the Filipino legislature
at the opening of its sessions to pass
a resolution declaring for immediate,
absolute and complete independence.
This was incumbent upon them, as
every political party in the Philippines
puts forward as one Of its main planks
independence from the United States.
The resolution for independence is al
ways unanimously passed. For the
last two sessions a bill has been intro
duced to give the people an oppor
tunity to express themselves on the
independence issue.
twas the fear on the part of Wood
that this referendum, if submitted to
the masses, would result in an over
whelming demand for freedom from
the United States that actuated him
in his veto.
In spite of the insistent request from
all the Filipino leaders that he take
some action on this bill, Wood keeps
himself shut up in Malacaning palace
and takes no action on the measure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
LETTER OF GREETINGS FROM GREEK CLASS
WAR PRISONERS SHOWN IN PICTURE ABOVE

We want TO assure them with all the
mistaken strength that our faith in
the right of our class gives us that
We shall continue our fight unbending
before the brutal force of our tyrants.
We stand erect and unmoved like
mighty rocks against the tempest.
We keep our courage and hope I'M
diminished. The oppression, en-
HANGED by unbearable taxation and
martial law thruout the land, has
created among the workers feeling
of such general dissatisfaction that It
seems TO indicate the ripening Of
revolutionary situation in Greece.
With the comrades exiled In the
other islands, AMAZE and Folegandros,
we hardly can communicate. on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
CARY CARMEN
AWAIT Return
OF RAIL HEAD
Company Refuses to Dis
cuss Negotiations

GARY, Ind, Aug. 15.-Negotiation
between Local SIT of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway EN-
ployes and the Gary Street Railways
Company will be resumed as soon as
c. w. Chase, president of the railway
concern, returns from his vacation.
All of the officials of the Gary Street
Railway Company were reluctant to
talk about their negotiations with the
union over a new agreement. They
refused to make any statement as to
the attitude of the corporation in the
negotiations with the union.
B. H. Weber, superintendent of
transportation, informed The DAILY
WORKER reporter that the union men
are still at work under the old con-
tract and beseeched the reporter not
to publish anything that might dis
turb the friendly relations between the
company and the men,"
Weber referred The DAILY
WORKER reporter to c. w. Clifford,
general superintendent of the Gary
Street Railways Company.
Refuses to Talk.
Cant say anything" Clifford de-
clared when asked as to the company
attitude in the negotiations. See Mr..
Frank Gardner, our publicity man in
the Peoples Light, Gas and Coke Com
pany He will give you all the infor-
nation. You being Chicago paper
a. I
Mr.. Gardner works for the Midland
Utility Company, the holder of the
Gary Street Railways Company.
Conditions.
Operators on the small one-man
cars, known as dinkies, receive 76
cents an hour. The operators on the
double-truck one-man cars also receive
rs cents an hour. The company offers
these operators 2 cents more an hour
The union seeks a 1O-cent increase
! for all conductors, motormen and bus
drivers.
Conductors and motormen on the
double-truck two-men cars receive II
cents an hour The drivers on the
Shore Motor Lines. a subsidiary of
the Gary Street Railways Company,
receive rs cents an hour. The cars
are operated on an S-hour day basis.
All except the extra men receive time
and a half for overtime.
Disagreeable Split Shifts.
The S-hour period Is split two ways
for the regular men and three ways
for extra men. This split shift sys-
TEN makes life disagreeable for the
workers and they complain very bit
terly.
There is four-hour wait in between
the split shift for regular workers
The men are thus forced to hang
around the barns, as it takes too much
time to go home and then return to
work. Hardly any time is left for the
men to spend at home with their wives
and families.
1--WE have no time to even read a
newspaper at home" declared num-
Der of the conductors and mOtormen.
The extra men have it much more
disagreeable. They are subject to call
at any hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Freiheit to Issue
a Chicago Edition

A Chicago edition of the Jewish
Daily Freiheit, Workers Party organ
in New York, will commence publ.
cation Oct. 8, 1t is announced. follow.
ing pledges to raise $4,000 fund
recently made by group of Chi
cago trade unionists, members of the
Workmen's Circle and various Jewish
fraternai and cultural societies. Off
GERS of the Chicago International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union are
omong those active in promoting the
new edition.
At a banquet held TO discuss the
new project S4OG was raised for a
starter. The Chicago Freiheit has
already opened it's Offices at 5000 w.
Roosevelt Road, Chicago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
League of Nations
Wants Sea Strikes
Punished AS Crime

WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.-Andrew
Furuseth, president Of the Interna-
tional Seamen's Union of America, is
back at Washington headquarters after
stay of three months in Europe. He
spent much of that period in Geneva,
blocking proposed provision in the
the draft convention for a maritime
industrial law which would make II a
crime for seaman to leave his vessel
in safe harbor before completion OF
the voyage. This scheme is denial
Of the right TO strike, supposedly safe
guarded in American law by the La.
Toilette seamen's act OF 1915.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
To Publish Works by
Marx and Engels in
Recent TRANSACTIONS

International Publishers announce
for September publication "The
Eighteenth OF Brumalre of Louis Bon
aparte," by Karl Marx a caustic char
acterization of Napoleon the Little"
and his coup d. etat of 1851. Origi-
nally published in the United States
in 1852, Marks essay now appears in
new and striking translation from
the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
The book is enriched by chronology
cal table of events in French revolu-
tionary history from 1889 to 1871. A
glossary OF terms, names and dates
used in the book is available addi-
ton. if
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17

THE Greek Communist paper, EN-
Il pros" of Chicago has received the
following letter from the group Of i'm
prisoned Communists shown, with
names given, aboye:.
'*s
AMoRGAs, Greece, July lion
this first occasion that we have had
chance to communicate with the out
side world, we write to "Empros."
First Of ALL thru this organ of the
working class, we want to thank all
our beloved comrades who, sympathiz'
ing with our cause. aid us and help to
keep us alive thru international Labor
Defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Ex-senator Lewis
Fears Wrath of the
European Nations

America has no nation for a
friend" declared ex-senator ]. Hamll-
ton Lewis before the optomlsts' Club
here. "over this nation hangs a heavy
cloud Of hate from Europe. We must
dissolve this black menace or 1t Will
deluge us financially, commercially
and lash us into a military conflict.
"As a remedy, would suggest that
all debts principal and interest due
as war debts be postponed for ten
years. allowing the ar IT due to ac-
eupulab
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17

Island of AMAZE there are about 80
exiles and on Folegandros 25. among
whom is Comrade Pouispoulos, editor
Of our suspended daily paper, "Rizos-
pastis." The secretary of the Com
munist Party OF Greece, Comrade Max
limos and Comrade Nikolinakos. a
member of the central executive com
mittee, are in prison in the Island
Aegina. About $50 10 200 other work
ers and members Of the party are i'm.
prisoned in state prisons.
We ask you TO raise your voice
against the white terror IN Greece.
which has gone so far Ms TO throw
into jail even international Workers
Aid officials and has far surpassed the
notorious czardom In It's brutalities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Gov. Small To Hold
Special Elections to
Fill Judicial Seats

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 15.-Gov.
Len Small will call three special cleo
lions for Nov. to fill vacancies in
the 10th, 18th and 18th judicial circuits
Calls for the convention at which
candidates will be chosen must be in
the hands of the secretary Of state
by next Wednesday to conform to the
election laws which provide for the
filing of the convention calls seventy
five days before the election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Mother killed With Axe.

NEW YORK, Aug. Is - Mrs. Rose
Di Palo, 80 years old, was found slain
in bed at her home in Brooklyn today.
The body was terribly mutilated. The
crime was discovered by her daughter,
Della, nine years old. Police believe
the woman was murdered with an axe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Harvest ENGINE ExpIodes.

FREEPoRT. ILL.,. Aug. 15.-Explo-
sion of a steam engine operating a
threshing outfit on the farm of Oliver
Fluegel. near here. today resulted in
probable fatal injuries to Fluegel's
son. Dallas, 3, and serious injury TO
his brother, Harold. 4. Boys were
at play a short distance from the en-
CINE. None Of the threshing crew was
hurt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Ellsworth a Millionaire.

NEW YORK. Aug. 15.--Lincoln Ellis.
worth. American flyer, who accom-
panied Raold Amundsen OF the Norge
polar fight, is millionaire today
The win OF his father. James w. Ellis.
worth. left f1,207.S1s TO the son.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Hold chIeaao eunmen.

James Fur" Summons. who was
arrested some week ago. and later
released, in connection with the muir.
der Of Assistant states Attorney win.
lam II. Mcswiggin. and his two booze
running companions was taken into
custody late yesterday charged with
violation Of the prohibition law. He is
out on bond
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
? Die in eavarlan wreek.

LANDSHUT, Bavaria Aug IS. -
Twelve persons were killed. seven
seriously injured and twenty slightly
injured, when a train was deraled to.
day al the Landshut station.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
SPEED up
WORKER CORRESPONDENTS CLASSES
ARE UNDER WAY IN LOS ANGELES

ANGELES correspond
visitors regularly every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17
Form Classes In Connecticut.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, Aug. Is. -
Worker correspondents classes in all
larger cities in Connecticut are being
planned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-17

Thursday at the WORKERS lCommunlstJ
Party headquarters.
All departments for a complete
weekly publication have been organ
lied 1t is planned to publish such
a publication in mimeographed form
every Thursday.