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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01
Let the Friends
Of Compensation
Be on the Watch
Safety of Law Rests With Mem
bers Appointed by the
Governor

Columbus, O.-Friends of the Ohio
Workmen's Compensation Law will be
justly active in the November cleo
ton, for during the term of the next
Governor three members must be ap-
nointed on the Industrial Commits
sion which administers the law. Ap-
pointment of a commission not in en-
tire sympathy with the law, and fa-
miliar with it's provisions, there lies
the danger. Another is the fact that
there is in this fund more than $780,
100000 and temptation to use part of
it for other purposes than that of
paying out benefits, and making the
fund solvent would endanger prompt
payment of claims and the secure
stand of the fund.
The compensation law is hobby OF
Governor Vic Donahey, and during his
term of office the industrial commits
sion has made record for prompt
settlement of all just claims. Mem
bers have been appointed who know
the law, and are in the fullest sym
pathy with every provision. Today
thousands of widows and children de
pend upon their semi-monthly checks.
Without these many mothers could
not keep their little families togeth-
er. Without this money children
would probably be sent to charitable
institutions in many cases.
There is absolutely no danger as
long as those in power carry out the
provisions of the law, but should
representative of the big interests be
elected, and it was decided to change
the law or be lax in its enforcement,
Ohio would mighty soon lose its place
as the pioneer in caring for its injur-
ed workmen. 1t will be remembered
eral million dollars of the fund for
new State House annex, but Governor
Vic put his foot down on the scheme
and the fund remains intact. He held
that the morey was paid in by en-
ployers for the benefit of their in
jured employees, and could not be
used for any other purpose. There
was an awful howl for a time, but
just the same the fund was not dis
turbed. Suppose a Governor was
elected who wanted additional state
buildings so bad that he would take
the money from this fund?
There is no greater problem facing
the voters of Ohio, and one that ef.
fects almost every man, woman ard
child, as much as holding the work
mems compensation fund sacred, und
living up to the law in both letter and
spirit. Ohio voters know what VIC
Donahey has done and will continue
to do. And for that reason the ques-
tion of the politics of a man is not
going to be greater than the iSSle in
volved. Ohio cannot afford to take
chance with the workmen's compensa-
tion law or its fund of $50,000,0C0.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01
Just AS We Thought

Hereafter we are going to drive
our automobile at clip not less than
ninety miles an hour If any police
man make bold to challenge us we
shall take from our pocket clipping
and show it to him. He shall read
that clipping and turn pale. Perhaps
he shall take off his cap and bow to
US. That cop shall have learned
lesson. He'll never stop another mot
orist going ninety miles an hour.
What shall the clipping say?
The clipping shall say that there
is DR.. Eric Gardner who lives at
Weybridge, England. (Almost any
clear day he can be seen on the roads
around Weybridge, easing his car
along.) In a recent inquest DR.. Gard
ner vowed that forty-five miles an
hour was the most dangerous speed
at which a motorist might travel. He
testified that he. had been keeping tab
on motor car accidents for years. And
he discovered that when there is a
crash at ninety miles an hour the
driver generally escapes with a few
bruises?
But woe unto the man who drives
his automobile into a culvert when
that car is crawling along at mere
ferty-five an hour. For, then, usually
the driver is thrown in such a man
ner that he lands on his head, suffer-
ing serious injuries or death. 1t
seems that when a car is travelling
ninety miles an hour and hits a stone
fence, the driver is simply thrown
with such force that his body "skips"
as it hits the ground, and rolls more
or less, letting the fellow off easy.
Now, if we can just tell that to the
police
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01
Textile Industry Needs Brains,
Poverty Wages Is No Solution

brains are what is needed" said Mr..
Barron. Look at the Amoskeag
mills. Are they in need of capital,
with more than $25,000,000 of gov
ernment bonds in the treasury?
"There are mills that have jumped
to the front, changed their machinery
and output and found markets and
profits.
Nov, l have a suspicion, and /
would like to have you dispute it, that
New England has been accumulating
more money, more education, more
philosophy, more of easier living con-
ditions and less of business brains and
hustle than two generations ago
when the enterprising men of New
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

Boston, Mass.-Brains, not
low wages and poverty, is what
the textile industry needs, said
C. w. Barron, financial author
ity, writing in the Boston News
Bureau.
Business men insist that low
wages, long hours and more capital
are the only remedies that can save
them from bankruptcy"
"You must agree with me that
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01
A SEASONS WORK IN A DAY

From Hutchinson, Kansas, comes
word that young farmer named r.
win Brownlee, cut, threshed ard plow-
ed a hundred acres in day. You
would think the man might be little
tired after turning out a seasons
work in a few hours, wouldn't you,
but not so. Not in this age of marv-
elous machinery. Brownlee arose
early in the morning and started cut
ting his wheat with fifty-horsepow-
er tractor and combine cutting a
twenty-foot swath Hooked on be-
hind were plows. AS the wheat was
cut and threshed the ground behind
was ployed. A few years ago this
feat of Brownlee, with one man help
ing, would have been a feat of the
imagination. Now it has become an
everyday story in the harvest fields.
A seasons work in day is no long
er uncommon.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

England were harnessing their water
powers and pushing trade.
"Do you think that the mill trus-
tees, the mill directors and the mill
managers and the selling agents have
adequately gripped the situation?
81 do not believe in your remedy
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

contraction, lower wages and poverty.
II believe that full employment can
be had within our own country with
full consumption, and / am not a
great believer in foreign markets.
The United States is becoming law,
and indeed planet, unto ITSELF"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01
Giant Electric Engine
Pulls Mile-LOng Train

New York-A mile-long freight
train of 108 freight cars was hauled
from Harmon to High Bridge at a
speed of more than 35 miles an hour
by new giant electric engine on the
New York Central Railroad. The
train was hauled back and forth be-
tween the two points for IL hours.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

One of the reasons why so many
women in music and sports are so
temperamental is probably because
sweet dispositions never attract a
crowd at the box office.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

In far-away Siam, where the religion Of
Buddha reigns supreme, the white elephant is
considered sacred. Kings and beggars alike wor-
ship this beast, an animal created to be servant
ofm They bow down before it-they protect
it from the flies and gnats from which they
themselves sufer-they drudge their lives out to
support it in idleness.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

It Is far cry from the bamboo shack IN inc
Land of the White Elephant'' to the modem
home in the and Of the Free" but similar
practice prevails y, + b both For thousash q
idle. They toll ceaselessly themselves and rhen
allow their servants (t6e dollars they have
earned) TO loaf instead of making them work.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-10-01

1t is simple thing for you put your dollars TO
work and thus enjoy the benefits which come TO an
may assure yourself a regular income every three
months and your dollars will be saA. Invest Ia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
MINNEAPOLIS PAINTERS
DONATE SIS TO MINERS;
PLAN EDUCATION WORK
BY a Worker Correspondent.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. s.
Painters Union No. 1856 at their
last meeting donated $500 to the
striking anthracite miners and
passed motion expressing their
1olidarlty with the miners in all
their struggles. This makes 5000
that this union has given the min
ers since the strike started.
A class in shop economies will
be started by the Painters Union
No. 1856 shortly, fifteen members
having registered for this course
and more coming in.
Meetings on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month are educa-
tional and speakers are secured to
address the union on the vital prob
lens of the labor movement. On
next Tuesday evening Miss Dorothy
Gary, instructor In sociology at the
University of Minnesota, will ad.
dress the meeting and outline the
work for the class on shop eeonom-
les.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Lot of the Stump
Farmer Difficult
on Pacific West
81 a WORKER Commencement.

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 8. - The
farms" in this section Of the state
Of Washington for the greater part
are tiny tracts of stumpland. They
are sold to workers on monthly install
ments by subsidiaries of the lumber
trust. The armyI of workers thus en-
meshed helpsihthe trust beat down
wages and forces a lower standard of
living on all workers. Under existing
conditions notHone stump rancher in
ten is able to make a living without
working for wages in the logging
camps or miils.I
The employers reduce wages in
proportion toswhat the farmer wage
worker, by exploiting his family, is
able to produce from the land. These
farmers as a rule are docile and sub
serYient to the employers and sub
nit without protest to any condition
and accept any wage offer, for keep
ing their jobs means keeping their
homes.
Their homes are mere shacks and
their barns but sheds. Their live
stock consists of a COW or two and
a few chickens (which cost more to
feed than the eggs bring in the mar
ket, for little or no grain is grown
and nearly all feed including hay is
imported.
Their main crop is the various kind
of berries but the market is con.
trolled by the cannery trust which is
equivalent to having their principal
product confiscated.
So they struggle on piling up profits
for the lumber trust. When flesh and
blood can no longer endure the strain
they sacrifice their possessions and
disappear in apconstantly ebbing and
flowing human tide.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

are told plainly that the ultimate
sovereign is not one nor the other,
but the government of the United
States. 7aS ~ 'la Ea
While attacking the attitude of the
official "arbiter'' in the Tacna-Arica
affair, we do not wish for a moment
to be placed in the position of sup
porting Chile against Peru Our aim
is rather to create solid Latin-Amer,
lean front against the menace of
American Imperialism, which has, be-
come the outstanding feature OF the
Tacna-Arica situation.
In his decidedly weak appeal to
Coolidge, Senior Edwards loses his
perspective so badly as to assert; IF
General Pershing persists In not hast
ening the pleblscite. he is playing the
game of the Peruvians and becoming
involuntarily the best collaboration Of
Peruvian obstrucn6n.Y This is as alb
surd as the earlier charge of the
Peruvian government that the United
States was favoring Chile by deciding
for the holding Of plebiscuite in the
first place. What should now be suf-
ficiently obvious is that the govern
ment of Wall Street is playing no
game but its own. Any apparent
"favors" to Peru as against Chile or
Chile against Peru are quite illusory
and only serve to obscure the essen
tial fact Of the continued mainten-
ance OF North American authority in
Tacna and africa. Editorials in the
leading South American papers show
that they understand this.
A PPEALING TO Coolidge against
"A Peru, and conveying the sugges-
ton that Peru is the real sinner and
Pershing just an involuntary accom-
plice. the statement OF Senior Edwards
is Of the sort that only blindness or
irresponsibility regarding the real pur-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
NJ A N Y BUILDING
TRADES WORKERS
ARE UNEMPLOYED
Union Officials Betray
Rank and File
BY MARTENS.
Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. Gar
penters are usually considered as get
ting high wages but there are about
10000 union carpenters here and out
of this number 1900 are continually
hunting for work, any kind of work
just to make living. Those who are
fortunate enuf to have a job only
work one-fourth of the time. Many
union carpenters are washing dishes
and wish that it would snow heavily
so that they can get job cleaning
the streets in order to make enuf
money to eat.
On cold zero days it is impossible
to work thru the day. To leave the
job to go home means someone is
always ready to take the work. Yes,
even ready to climb and slide and
break their neclxs.
6etray Rank and File.
When the time came to settle for
the 1925 agreement most OF the rank
and file supported the five-day week
as real move towards solving the
Unemployment problem. Inc omclalS
of the unions came out and declared
it was not the right policy, because
the contractors wouldn't like it,"
The rank and file were then forced to
accept the same terms as they had
last year.
No Time for Organization.
The officials have no time to organ
lie for strike. But they have enuf
time and money to engage in the real
estate business and to buy a bank
building. The business agents spend
most of their time comforting with the
district secretary, Kelly, as to the
price of stocks instead of putting
forth demands for the benefit of the
membership. In this same bank build
ing hundreds of carpenters are found
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

I semi-cOlonial status for the territory
n question
The governments of Chile and Peru
have themselves to blame for the
situation. BY listening to the over
lures of the U. S. secretary of state
and placing the disposition of Tacna
and africa at the mercy of American
Imperialism they committed treason
to their respective peoples, and to al
of Latin America. These governments
are in no sense the legitimate repres
entatives of the Chilean and Peruvian
people. President Leguia of Peru is
an irresponsible dictator, holding
power from year to year by means OF
bribery, terror and assassination. He
has committed innumerable crimes
against the Peruvian masses and long
ago sold out his country to the forces
Of American imperialism. The gov
eminent of Chile holds power only as
result of fraud and violence at the
polls, the candidates of the wage
workers bloc ("bloc de los asalari-
ados") having been cheated out of
election only few weeks ago. This
government, still dripping blood from
the mass butcheries of nitrate work
ers at Tarapaca, Antofagasta, etc. etc
where Chileans were imprisoned, de.
ported, murdered. in the interest OF
the foreign nitrate companies this
government appeals for patriotic
support against the sister republic Of
PERU
THE great Latin-American peoples
l. of Chile and Peru will understand
the hypocrisy and the treaehery Of
the governments that have been fol-
years infiaming them against each
other in the name of patriotism. They
will see thru and thru the criminality
of this vicious farce which has culmin
ated in the handing over of Tacna and
africa to American imperialism
We call upon the workers, peasants
lntellectuals-upon the entire peoples
Of Chile as well as of Peru, TO end
the unnatural feud over Tacna-Arica
which Is only kept up thru the arti.
fetal stimulation Of interested par
ties The masses of Chile and Peru
have no interests that should divide
them! They must stand together
against common menace OF American
imperialism
II the governments OF Chile and
Peru have still some self-respect left
they will withdraw the Tacna-Arica
question from arbitration" by Amer
lean Imperialism. If they do not act
at once the peoples OF their respective
countries must force them to act.
The All-America Anti Imperialist
League has full confidence in the
Chilean and Peruvian masses. II has
confidence in the other Latin Amer.
lean peoples as well and feels sure
that they will continue to bring
pressure upon the Chilean and Peru.
Wan governments to settle their diff.
ferences and aid In the building up OF
a solid anti-imperialist front against
the domination Of Wall Street.
THE All-America Anti-Imperialist
League knows, moreover, that in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
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NAOiANA4uCu HUN puSE IL
such way as to arouse suspicion and
alarm thruout South America.
The plebiscite is still long way
off. Questions have arisen on every
hand as to what the purposes of the
United States government really are
for it is plain that Pershing has been
merely carrying out instructions from
higher up. The general has pursued
consistently dilatory tactics.
There has been postponement after
postponement in the program of the
plebiscitary commission. And now
General Pershing is returning to the
United States ito have his teeth
fixed" and his place is taken by an
other general-General William Las
sitter, erstwhile military governor Of
the Canal Zone, the man who few
months ago directed the strikebreak-
ing occupation of the city of Panama
by u. s. troops. 1t is apparent that
there is to be still more buster and
delay.
ON Nov. 26, Senior Augustin Ed
awards, Chilean representative on
the commission, sent General Perish
ing the following note:
Il shall not resume my attendance
at the meetings Of the plebiscitary
commission until they shall include
in their agenda the registration and
election regulations and the dates for
the opening of the registration and
for the holding of the plebiscite 3. !.
"The arbitral award provides that
the primary duty of the commission
shah be to formulate the regulations
the date thereof, and nearly four
months have elapsed since the plebis-
citary commission began to function,
a term which corresponds to that
fixed by the arbitrator president
Coolidge) for the appointment OF its
members.
THE plebiscitary commission re-
lceived on Aug. ~, nearly four months
lago, the draft Of the registration and
election regulations presented by the
the Chilean member. In the first days
of October, nearly two months ago.
II received the draft presented by the
Peruvian member The member rep
resenting the arbitrator has, there
fore, had ample time to examine the
election regulations that will guaran-
tee the rights OF both"
DERSHING did not deign to answer
i the statement of facts in Senior
Edwards letter He maintained
"hard-boiled" attitude, in accordance
with the best military traditions Of
how a general ought to act. The
Chilean allowed himself to be bluffed
into resuming his seat on the COM
mission, meantime appealing to Presi-
dent Coolidge or course, Coolidge up
held his own appointee. Reports are
now current of an appeal to the league
i nations. North American newspa-
Gers are indignant. The principle Of
, the Monroe Doctrine is involved, they
say. In other words, Chile and Peru.
at issue over the question OF sover-
eighty In the Tacna-Arica district,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

that the only possible solutions of the
antagonism Between chile and Peru
were in war or Intervention by the
United Stateson
FINALLY, I'M 1923, Secretary of
1 State Hughes dispatched notes to
the two governments inviting them to
send Representatives to Washington
ito the end that such representatives
might settle existing difficulties or ar
range for arbitration" Instead of
refusing this effer and taking their
case to a Latin4American body for ar
filtration, the ambitious rival govern
ments walked right into the lions
den. The president of the United
States was made sole arbiter. He de-
clared that there could be no appeal
from his decisions.
Coolidge decided upon the holding
Of a, plebiscite and forthwith appointed
General Pershing to go to Tacna-
AFRICA to head the plebiscitary COM
mission. Peru's protest was over
ruled as CURLY as Chile's protest is
overruled now. American imperialism
vas bent upon the plebiscite-or
'ather, not so much upon the plebiscite
s upon the plebiscitary commission.
somehow or other the "stars and
tripes" had to be raised on the Paci-
ic coast of South America. For
months now U. S. militarists have
zen the virtual rulers of Tacna and
Arica. They have busted themselves
establishing order" and Overcoming
'bstacles." The plebiscite is not even
the agenda.
THIS, is the status of the Tacna-
africa situation to date. Who can
ct understand the grim significance
Z the events that have taken place?
no cannot see that American inn
rialism is playing it's own game"
not that of esther Chile or Peru?
It is certainly no accident that the
two South American provinces over
whose destiny the U. S. government
has become so deeply concerned,
border directly upon the famous
Chilean nitrate fields. These fields
yield $173,O000O0 worth of nitrate Of
soda yearly, which is 95 per cent Of
the worlds total mined supply. The
recent declarations Of u. S. Secretary
Of Commerce Hoover. in which nj
trates were mentioned along with
rubber sisal, mercury, coffee, etc, as
foreign "monopolized" commodity
calling for special action by the U. S.
government, show this is no insight
ficant factor in the situation.
But the interest of American i'm
perialism Is not limited to nitrates.
Tacna-Arica constitutes a precedent
for u S. intervention which all Of
South America will yet learn to regret
II American Imperialism succeeds IN
establishing strong foothold on the
Pacific coast Of South America, II
Will be an opening wedge for further
and systematic expansion. Virtually
since the beginning of the world war,
American imperialism has made the
Caribbean IAN american lake" It
has definitely subjected all Of Central
America as well. It Is an Imperialism