The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-20

Inere was the inevitable attack
on the British capitalist press, altho
1t was not called Capitalist" the
explanation of the increasing cost
OF living and an exposure of alliance
between the mine owners and the
Baldwin tory government to reduce
wages and lengthen the work-day.
Toward his conclusion McKenna
pointed out that "the British miner
has the highest output per man of
any miner in Europe" showing that
the British miner does more work
during the seven-hour day than the
continental miners perform during
the eight-hour day.
1t was only in the last paragraph
that McKenna got in any mention of
the 100000 children on the verge
Of starvation in the British coal
fields. The appeal for funds came
too abruptly upon this information,
bringing the address to a sudden
and ineffective close. McKenna even
forgot to add that his listeners
should send their contributions to
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor, A.
F. of L. Building, Washington, D. c.,
just as in the opening the announcer
had spoken of "the recent coal strike
in Great Britain"
But it was beginning. It would
be well if McKenna would broadcast
1O-minute speeches every night dur
ing his stay in the city, from the
Chicago Federation of Labor station
1t could not be used to better pur-
pose right now.
Then McKenna would have time
to devote an evening to the contrast
between the luxuries enjoyed by the
family of the Marquis of Butte, who
gets more than half million dollars
in royalties annually out of the coal
pits, and the necessities denied to
the families of the coal diggers who
do the actual work.
McKenna might extend a little in
explanation of the fact that 100000
pounds sterling ($4,000,000) had
been received from the trade union
lists of other countries in relief. Nc
Kenna didn't state that more than
half of this came from the workers
of the Union Of Soviet Republics.
The current publicity service of the
International Federation of Trade
Unions (Amsterdam), in reporting
on the July meeting of the Interna-
tional Miners Committee held at
Paris, stated that:
Richardson, the treasurer of the
British Miners Federation, gave an
account of the financial position (of
the British miners strike). Up to
July IL they had received $3,425,ooo,
Of which $2,1oo,ooo had come from
Russia"
The officials of the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor might at least per-
NIT McKenna to say in Chicago,
what the International Federation
of Trade Unions confesses to the
world.
When McKenna had finished he
declared, I'VE haven't anything like
this in Great Britain. The enemy
used the radio with telling effect
against us during the strike. We
didn't have chance to reply to
their propaganda attacking u.s."
Now that he has a broadcasting
station at his disposal in Chicago, let
McKenna make the most of it. I'm
mediately McKenna was thru with
his address, the phone rang and
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
Chicago Federation of Labor, was
calling from his home on 9th st.
on the south side Of the city.
"It was fine," said Fitzpatrick,
Everything came over very dis
tinctly." Then Edward N. Nockels,
secretary OF the federation, called
from his home in Glencoe, north of
Chicago, with the same information.
They should both join in an invita-
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