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Organize Workers in Dress Shops

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making industry in Chicago is now
thoroly unionized. The present cam
paign is to unionize the dress making
shops.
Thousands In Industry.
There are hundreds of small non
union shops in Chicago in which
most of the 5000 dress makers work.
There are, however, few outstanding
large open shops, chief of which are:
M. Mitchell, at Adams and Market;
Francin Frock Co., at Wells and
Adams; Arthur Weiss, at Franklin and
Adams; Riback's, at Market and Jack.
son; and Lipson Bros, at 225 Adams
street.
Lipson Bros. is perhaps the worst OF
the lot. 1t is there that the institu-
ton known as the immigration floor
is used. The shop is on three floors,
one Of which Is the immigration
floor reserved for learners, kickers,
and a few old, reliable company men,
There is a very high turnover here.
Besides this arrangement by floors,
the workers are divided into depart
ments: men, white female and colored
female. The employer decides which
garments should be priced we'll and
which should be priced badly. The
men get the money making garments,
the white women are favored next and
the colored get whatever is hardest
and cheapest paid. In the same way
the Immigration floor" is dlscrimina-
ted against.
II is possible for men to make from
$50 to $40 a week, for white women
to make from S25 to 1872 Cmostly tho
lower figure) and for colored women
to make from s12 to SIS with very
few getting as much as 1907. The I'm
migrants get as low as sS per week.
The power is on at Lipson'S from 7:so'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
Plan First Communist
Speech in Lincoln Co.,
Wisconsin, This Week

]. Louis Engdahl, editor of The
DAILY WORKER, will speak at two
meetings this weekend in Wisconsin,
Friday night in Arcadia Hall, at Mer-
rill, and Saturday night at the Town
Of Schley Hall, at Bloomville. Both
of these places are in Lincoln county
At Merrill, Engdahl will talk on the
question, "Will the United States Gov
eminent Solve the Farmer-Labor
Question:" while at Bloomville he will
discuss, why Farmers and Workers
Are Natural Allies" The population
Of the county is made up of stump
farmers, paper mill workers and lum-
berjacks, large numbers Of whom are
expected to turn out TO these meet
ings, which are being held by the
local organizations of the Workers
Party. This is the first time that a
Communist meeting has been held in
the county.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

a. m. right thru to p. M, and all are
encouraged to work without stopping.
The company serves hot coffee; the
workers say they are paid so little
they cannot afford to buy pie to eat
with the coffee.
Union Scale Best.
The union scale calls for a minimum
of 80 cents per hour and 44-hour
week. This makes 1t possible to earn
from $42 to $44 for ordinary skilled
work. Union cutters get from $45 to
sos per week, non-union cutters get
usually about s34 or 500, very few as
much as $45.
The union demands the right to set
tie the pricing OF garment by con.
ference thru the union price commit
tee, and will not let the employer de.
eide by himself. The situation where
q worker raises a kick because of the
low wage paid for any particular gar
ment and is answered by the boss that
hereafter a better garment will be Of
fered, some other worker getting the
badly priced one, is impossible in a
union shop. There no grades, or dis.
elimination is allowed.
The union also prevents arbitrary
discharge of workers. II the worker
is not producing rapidly enough to
suit the boss, he has to come directly
to the union and is not allowed to
personally reprimand the worker.
Union Stops Child Slavery.
There ia always some child labor IN
non-union shops. The union puts a
stop TO that. tuberculosis is a scourge
in the ladies' garment industry; and
especially under non-union conditions
with longer exposure TO coloring mat
ters. longer herding together OF work.
ers IN close rooms, etc.
In fact. tho advantage OF unionism
are 80 sppsrent that Organiser David
y.
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the priests as a purely lay matter.
The bishops, on being made aware Of
this, signifed that the registration
might proceed, and the boycott be
stopped, churches opened and the
priests returned to their services.
"All the government has asked"
said Lupian, sis that the Catholic
clergy observe the law. If, as this
seems to indicate, they are going to
do so, the trouble is over. The gov
eminent has won. 1t does not mat
ter what excuses the bishops give as
to their reasons for proceeding with
the registration and other require
ments."
Commenting on the possibility of a
huge reactionary party under church
being organized, Senior
Lupian pointed out that the clergy is
forbidden to take part in politics. In
case it tries to subtly influence or
lead reactionary party, Lupian be-
lieves the whole plan will fail.
"Our people and our government
are liberal" said the consul, "and all
our history shows it. If a secret re-
dictionary movement is started, the
common people will know it intuitive-
ly on account of the experiences they
have had, and will recognize reaction,
whatever its disguise"
The consul stated that it did not
seem reasonable to believe that any
would be made by private
armies to enter Mexico thru the Unit
ed States, as has been rumored.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
Hungarian Mass Party.

MOSCOW, Russia.-An article of
John Pepper in the Pravda declares:
"The great process in Budapest
was nothing more than a process for
the legality Of the Communist Party.
This circumstance gives the process
a great significance not only for the
Hungarian proletariat but also for all
the rs sections of the Comintern
which are today forced to exist in
illegality.
"The Hungarian government had
two aims: First of all it wishes to
make the agitation and propaganda of
the Hungarian Communist Party com
pletely impossible, and secondly it
wished to destroy the legal existence
of the left wing socialist workers par
ty. The process, however, turned out
in all respects exactly the opposite to
the intentions of the government. The
result Of the process is that today
the Communist idea is the central
theme of discussion for the whole
proletariat of Hungary. The socialist
workers party, which has previously
suffered the most brutal prosecutions
on the part Of the gendarmery, has
been even recognized by the judg-
ment of the court to be a legal party.
This process opens up a new phase in
the history of the Hungarian working
class movement. The process showed
Individually that the Communist Party
OF Hungary is no longer a sect but a
revolutionary party which is bound up
with the broad masses of the prole-
tariat to the death. The counter-revo-
lutionary tribunal was transformed by
Rakosi and his comrades into a revo-
lutionary tribune. For weeks during
the process the court stood in con-
slant and direct connection with the
masses. 1t is no longer a secret that
the workers organized a secret system
OF reporting so that the working class
received all news concerning the pro-
cess on the same day. The process has
clearly shown that the Communist
Party Of Hungary no longer consists
of group of emigrants but that it has
forced its groups deep into the masses
OF the working class"
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Pope Fails to Force
Gales Change Policy
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CONTINUED from page u
declared their intention to continue
the boycott.
Hits Catholics Hardest.
The boycott has only been effective
in communities where the church DOM
mates the population. But the irony
of the situation is that where the
boycott is most successful is in the
very place where it hits the catholic
merchane5 heaviest. Catholic bust
ness men have been bringing pressure
to bear on the church to modify the
boycott.
Labor Takes a Hand.
The Mexican Federation of Labor
has now taken a hand in the boycott
game and union printers have been
INSTRUCTED not to do any printing for
catholic concerns, that are supporting
the clerical side of the struggle.
The result of Ambassador Shelf
fields report to the state department
and to Coolidge is anxiously awaited
by the clergy. Sheffield is bitterly
anti-Mexican and it is no secret that
he would be able to induce Washing
ton to withdraw the arms embargo.
Border Is Alright.
The most rigid enforcement Of the
new immigration law at the American
border which has made the border
virtually air-tight since the arrest
of General Enrique Estrada and his
alleged mercenary band near San Di-
ego last week, has dealt the tourist
traffic from the United States a severe
blow.
Another Vatican Denial.
ROME, Aug. 24.-The Vatican today
issued a denial of reports that it has
entered into negotiations with Presi-
dent GALES OF Mexico for the settle
ment Of the religious controversy in
Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
KnIahts Now ApoIoaetIc.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. "a
The Knights Of Columbus which howl
ed for Intervention in Mexico a few
weeks ago now declared it's position
was grossly exaggerated, according to
a statement issued a few days ago by
James A. Flaherty supreme grand
knight Of the organization.
This is a right-about face due to
the failure Of the X. Of c. to prevail
on the administration to take the de-
sired action. Political observers con-
slider the rebuff to the powerful cath
Ollie body the most serious reverse il
has received since it's inception.
Sheffield Arrives.
Ambassador Sheffield arrived here
today to make his report to the state
department on the differences be.
tween the two governments over the
anti-alien land and oil laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
MEXICO'S consul
WILL SPEAK AT
MASS MEETING
Will Present Position of
Gales Government
especial to The Daily wOrksr)


Presenting the point of view of the
Gales government regarding the
Catholic rebellion that has challenged
Mexico, Luis Lupan G., Mexican con-
sui in Chicago, will address Hands
off-Mexieo mass meeting at North
Side Turner Hall, 800 N. Clark ST.,
Friday, Aug. 27, at p. m, under the
auspices of the AlI-America Anti-Im-
perialist League.
Boycott a Failure.
Senior Lupian declares that the boy
colt on luxuries, initiated by wealthy
Mexican leaders of the so-called
League for Religious Defense, is a
complete failure. The Mexican labor
movement has apparently dealt a
final blow to the boycott by a coun-
ter-move threatening a rent strike of
all workers who are tenants of land
lords involved in the Catholic rebel
lion. The rebellion has already failed
Of Its object and it cannot continue
much longer unless it receives stimu-
lus from the outside.
Other speakers at the meeting will
be Carl Haessler, director of the Fed
Grated Press; Murray e. King, man.
aging editor of the American Appeal;
William F. Dunno, editor of The
DAILY WORKER, and Manuel Co
mez, secretary Of the All-America
Anti Imperialist League Omitted
States section).
Note Not Yet Public.
IN the announcements being sent to
adj labor publications, the anti-impe-
rtalist organization calls attention to
the fact that the latest U. S. govern
ment note to Mexico, presented to
Foreign Minister Saenz by Ambassa-
dor Sheffield before the latter's re-
turn to this country a few days ago,
has not yet been made public.
limitations from the state depart
ment are that the note makes fur
Their demands upon Mexico regarding
U. S. ownership rights under the re-
Gently promulgated oil and land laws.
Such demands would open up the en-
tire controversy that was apparently
concluded last spring.
Threatening Note.
President Coolidge" points out the
leagues announcement, "has declar-
ed that the United States will not in
tervene on behalf of the Catholic
church in Mexico" Nevertheless, he
has sent a threatening note to the
Mexican government precisely at a
time when the Catholic rebellion is
being crushed by the united opposi-
zion of all the neutrality-suspicious.
forces of the neighboring republic.
This offensive against the Mexican
government, however it may be dis
guised, must not be allowed to go
any further American workers can
add their voice to the protest already
heard among the Mexican people, by
being present at the Hands-Of-M Mexico
mass meeting on Friday night"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
MOSCOW PRESS
H ALL S RAK0SI
TRIAL DEFENSE
Isvestia and the Pravda
Analyse Case
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Writers, the Authors Union and the
Union of Peasant Authors of the So
Wet Union have dispatched the follow
ing telegram to the high court in Buda-
pest; "The undersigned organizations
protest energetically in the name of
5000 authors in the Soviet Union
against the process which is being car
ried on against the Hungarian authors
Weinberger and Hajdu, whose only
crime is that they did not conceal
their political convictions" The
authors organizations of the Soviet
Union called upon the authors organ
izations of other countries to join in
this protest action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
Rudolph Valentino Was
Creature of Bourgeois
America AS 1t Is Today
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

man folk. This problem for the
working class youth became greater
and obliterated any working class
problem that might engage their at
tention.
Stevens wrote before Valentines
death, Men envy him with green
hearts. Perhaps they tried to see
themselves as Valentinos-and their
imagination buckled. Man is a mas
querading creature who loves to
wear a fez or a badge, or a uni
form :"
So one finds the men of the middle
class, who belong to the Elks or
some similar fraternal organization,
strutting about in public with sheik
trousers and the Valentino sideburn,
trying in vain to escape from their
humdrum social surroundings. But
they are all Rabbits still.
There will be other sheiks of the
screen. Valentines place will be
filed as long as there is a demand
for that sort of stuff.
The Valentino films doubtless
would create but little impression in
the Soviet Union. Monsieur Beau
caire," where noble is supposed to
degrade himself by masquerading as
a barber, would be hooted out of the
Workers Republic, where all mobiles
have been eliminated and nothing
considered nobler than being
worker.
Labor realizing its own interests
in time in the United States will de-
mand something better from the
screen, leaving the hogwash of "sex
and blood" to a decaying bour-
geoisie. There will be a greater de-
mand for the films coming out of the
Union of Soviet Republics that
Douglas Fairbanks praised so highly
during his recent visit there.
Now, with Valentino the sheik of
the screen, the American movie CEN
sors bar "Potemkin," the Soviet film
that was recently given private
showing and privately lauded for its
excellence in New York City. 1t was
never allowed a public showing. No
protest came from the American
working class. It never knew, except
that section of it that reads the
Communist press.
The early trials of Valentino hunt
ing jobs in New York City almost
parallel similar experiences of Bar
tolomeo Vanzetti, another Italian.
They both went hungry on the
streets of the great city.
Valentino, however, won his way
into the good graces of the class
that rules, that lionized him and
now slobbers over his memory.
Vanzetti took the hard road. He
fought for his class against the class
that rules, that sought as a result to
crush him. While Valentino was in
the limelight, Vanzetti was hidden
away in his prison cell, forced to
await the workings of the death
sentence melted out to him. There
he sits still.
Valentino, the hero of the social
order that is passing, won his tenn
porary applause. He disappears with
the yesterdays. He has typifled the
days in which we now live in these
United States.
Vanzetti, with Nicola Sacco, con-
demned with him, as heralds of the
new social order, will live even in
death as the standard bearers of la
boris struggle. They will not be for
gotten down thru the years. They
are of the tomorrows.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
McKENNA KILLS
CANARD ABOUT
MINERS return
Deliberate FaISehoOd to
Halt Relief


The American newspapers and 5rls-
bane may indulge themselves In wild
stories Nbout breaks In the ranks of
the English miners, but Paul Nc
kenna, Of the British Miners Fedora
ton delegation to America does not
believe one word Of II.
In an exclusive interview with The
DAILY WORKER yesterday, he told
why. you know what sort Of people
we have to fight" he said "They
hesitate at no lie intended to injure
us. Look at Baldwin, how he pub
lished that there were no starving
women and children in the mine fields.
That was intended to cripple our relief
campaign in America, and it failed.
Now this is undoubtedly another
story of the same sort. 1t is meant to
discourage the American unionists we
are asking to contribute to the feeding
Of the British striking miners. 1t will
fail too"
McKenna illustrated Baldwin's du-
plicity further by comparing two diff
ferent statements he had made, dur.
ing the progress of this strike. The
first was plain announcement of
neutrality, and in the course of 1t
Baldwin said he would not fight to
lower standards of living for the
miners. Coming from one of the big
stockholders in Baldwin's Ltd, an
iron, steel and coal company, this is
sufficiently worth doubling. When
later, Baldwin announced that before
certain negotiations could be carried
out, the miners would have to under
take to accept a reduction in wages
the contradiction is obvious. And as
is well known, Baldwin has damned
through Commons his eight hour act,
which really provides for about nine
and half hours work for the miners,
only they will not get paid for the
hour and half used in going from the
pit mouth to the working place.
McKenna quoted from the reports of
the Samuels commission and the San
key commission to show that the ex-
perts agree there should be no in
crease in hours of work. The chief
objection from the economists point
Of view is that the extra amount of
coal produced would actually put out
Of employment at least 10000 work
ers. 1t would make the working day
for miners longer tbanzaay on the con-
tinent.
81 am confident that in spite of all
the deliberate lies the enemies Of the
miners put out, American labor will
continue its support" said McKenna.
"The money collected will go thru
Frank Morrison of the A. F. of L. to
England, where it will be allocated to
the districts. Each little village and
hamlet has big soup boiler, and the
workers and their families, everybody
taking part in the fight will come up
to get their daily rations of soup. The
spirit and morale of the British miners
is splendid, and l am sure their ranks
are unbroken. Only starvation will
force them back, and it is even then
doubtful whether they will go, as the
conditions are such that they would
starve on the job If they did go to
work without victory"
Contradictory Reports.
The American press has been carry
ing news stories under London date
lines stating that number of miners,
variously estimated at from eight
hundred to thirteen thousand have
broken away from the union and re-
turned to work on the operators
terms.
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7th
ANNIVERSARY
Special Issue
SATURDAY, AUG. 2S

Celebrating the seven years
growth of the American Com
munist movement since the
birth of the Workers Com
munist) Party
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ENRONT page head line, full inside
4 pages of type interspersed with
pictures, and then a full page of pic
lures for good measure.
Thus the daily press records the
passing of Rudolph Valentino as
Millions of Women Weep" for THE
Greatest Lover of the Screen" as the
headlines tell the story.
There is no doubt that not another
death of an individual in the United
States at this time would have re-
ceived as much attention. Cal Coo
lidge, Jack Dempsey, or Babe Ruth
couldn't have done as well. Charles
w. Elliot, president emeritus of
Harvard University, passed away al
most at the same time that Valen-
tino died, but his going was almost
unnoticed. This in spite of the fact
that Elliot had been one of the most
widely quoted spokesman of capital
ism, and thru his writings and
speeches had managed to keep con-
tinually in the public eye. But it
was only the cultured" bourgeoisie
that "Five-Foot" Elliot really reach
ed with his appeal. Elliot measured
bourgeois culture by the number of
inches one covered in reading his
fve-foot shelf of selected books.
But few workers even remember
that Elliot declared, "a scab is the
highest type of American citizen"
Valentino made a well-nigh all
inclusive appeal. When Valentino
died no one turned to ask, "Who is
Valentino?" Everybody knew him, or
had heard of him, especially the mil
lions of the working class, upon both
sexes of which the screen sheik
exerted an extremely soporific in
fluence insofar as their own class
interests were concerned.
Douglas Fairbanks may have gain
ed some pleasure out of portraying
the rebellious spirit of robin
Hood" Charley Chaplin is known
to have contributed to radical
causes. No one ever heard that
Valentino ever wavered by even the
width of a sleek, jet black hair from
the line that would win the greatest
applause from the largest number.
The pictures in which he appeared
always stressed the "sex and blood"
appeal that is supposed to approach
the universal. In Monsieur Beau
caire," "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" 1.-THE Sainted Devil"
1.-THE Eagle" "The Sheik," "The
Young Rajah," "The Son of the
Sheik" and all the rest, Valentino
portrays the role that, according to
Ashton Stevens, the Hearst dramatic
critic, made spinsters forget their
years and old women remember
their youth" And again, 81 have
seen women stand in the rain, wet
to their noses, to crash Valentino
film"
Thus the shop girl or the factory
girl, touched by the flesh and
blood" of Valentino film, forgets
for the moment her drudgery and
agony on the job, much as the weary
worker seeks surcease from toll in
drink. 1t thus becomes the best
propaganda for the employers inter-
ests.
Valentino, the original sheik, set
the pace for whole strata of the
youth of the American population.
He was seriously mimicked by large
numbers of the young men of the
working class, who tried to ape as
best they could the impression that
Valentino had made upon their wo-
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Eaees charae OF KIIIInu rwo.

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 24.--Joseph
Rotonda, "a, formerly OF Camden, N.
j., was arrested here today on murder
charges growing out OF the deaths Of
Mrs. Catherine Audio, AZ, and her
seven-year-old son, John. in Camden a
year ago. The mother and child were
hacked to death with an axe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26

CANTON, o., Aug. PA 100000
damage suit will be filed this after
noon by Mrs. Florence Mellett, widow
Of Don II. Mellett, slain Canton pub
Usher, in Cleveland federal court
against three OF the alleged con-
spirators In her husbands death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-26
MEXICAN CONSUL IN CHICAGO
SURE GALES DIDN'T YIELD;
REACTIONARY PARTY TO FAIL

consul Chicago
DAILY WORKER yesterday stated the
Gales
any significance that the
reports Chicago
representatives called
cordially government
regarded