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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Senate VIII Probe
Standard Oil Prices

WASHINGTON, June without
an opposing vote the senate adopted
the Trammell resolution ordering the
federal trade commission to investi-
gate the arbitrary increases in gaso-
line prices imposed by Standard Oil in
the past year. Gov. Byrd of Virginia,
supporting the measure, wrote Presi-
dent Coolidge that the old companies
have'gouged the public of no less than
100000, 900 during the past IL months
in excess of a fair price for motor fuel.
Price increases in Virginia in four
months have amounted to 33 per cent.
Senator Harris of Georgia, former
chairman of the federal trade commits
ion, supported the resolution. He de-
Jared Standard Oil is more effective
its monopolistic control of the mar
,ct than before its pretended dissolu-
ion Operating now as a number Of
Independent companies, 1t is able to
cut prices in one region, to undersell
and ruin a competitor, while raising
prices in all other regions.
Senator Harreld of Oklahoma de-
tended the oil companies, claiming
that gasoline prices have increased
less since 1915 than have the prices of
400 other commodities. When Cara
way OF Arkansas asked why the oil
companies were afraid OF the proposed
inquiry, Harreld denied that he had
spoken in their behalf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
IN GRIP OF ELECTRIC
POWER MONOPOLY WITH CONTROL
MAINTAINED BY GREAT BANKERS

Owen D. Young, chairman of the
board OF directors of the General Elec-
trio Co., was a director of the Electric
Bond & Share Co. until 1925, when
public protest at the growth of the
power monopoly became heated. At
that time General Electric, which
owned all the stock of Electric Bond
& Share, simply handed over to it's
individual stockholders their respec-
tive shares of the stock of Electric
Bond & Share. 1t then announced
that the companies were wholly separ-
ated and had no common directors.
This claim is substantially untrue.
The /. B. E. w. inquiry supports the
statement that the Electric Bond &
Share Securities corporation, created
by General Electric to take over and
distribute the stock of Electric Bond
& Share to stockholders of General
Electric, issued shares which sold at
from $50 to 800. This transaction
means simply that General Electric
owns the Electric Bond G. Share Sec
urities, which owns the stock formerly
held by General Electric in the Elec-
trio Bond G. Share, and has paid a
stock dividend Of from $50 to 500.
Separation Of the two giant companies
was a fake.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
SINGER WORKER
SHOP BULLETIN
GETS WELCOME
Produces Demand for
Organizing Plant
BIZ a Worker correspOndent.

ELIZABETH, N. J., June 7.-At the
Elizabeth plant OF the Singer Manu-
featuring company the other day there
appeared the first issue of the Singer
Workers Bulletin" published by a
group of workers in Singers plant.
Several thousand were distributed
and the workers in practically all de-
partments greeted the first issue of
the plant paper very enthusiastically,
with such comments as Right idea!",
That's good stuff" and so on.
Many workers wanted to organize a
union right away.
The bosses were mad with rage,
looking everywhere for the source OF
supply, but without avail. There were
no arrests. This was the happiest day
Of my life to see such enthusiasm on
the part Of the workers right in the
Singer plant. Workers of the Singer
plant, rally to the organized labor
movement!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
ARISTOCRATS REVEL
AS WORKERS SEEK LIVELIHOOD

in rags and broken boots. The dress
makers are not busy for them"
Through their press" II continues,
we can see into the minds of the
possessing class. Let the knowledge
stimulate us TO effort. We can change
II If We stand together as we stood
during the days"
Those unforgettable days OF the
general strike, says the Herald,
changed the whole perspective of the
system in which that owning class
was the principal object. Now It is
the workers who loom huge and i'm.
pressive. The owning class has shriv.
elled up. We can make whatever
changes we desire, IL we go the right
way to work"
Enmeshed In Pluto Politics.
But here suddenly we come face to
face with a sentence which reveals
another lesson, taught by the collapse
Of the strike at the zenith of it's
power, a lesson far less hopeful. For
the Herald adds THE right way is
the voting way" British labor demon.
strated its power to alter society
through the general strike, but it's
leaders were enmeshed in the politics
OF capitalist democracy. Small won.
der the privileged upper class turned
back to its social season with a sigh
OF relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
BY LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, June Z. - OPP =
Proof that the electric power mono
poly in the United States is now COM
plete and consolidated, is furnished in
the June issue of the Journal of the
Electrical Workers and Operators, by
a study Of power company consolida-
tons and interlockfng, prepared by
the research bureau of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers.
A dozen years ago federal study
of the electric power industry in this
country showed that the General Elec.
trio group dominated the greater part
of the field.
Then came the world war, with its
rapid expansion of big business enter
prises. Since the war the General
Electric has taken the aggressive. In
the cities and towns it has had no
serious interference from any public
power except thru the vote of various
cities to produce and sell their own
electricity.
Now the I. B. E. w. research bureau
has traced down the identity of the in
terests merged in this private mono
poly. Not merely does 1t show the
control which the General Electric ex-
ercises thru its holding corporation,
the Electric Bond & Share Co., but it
links up with them the insult group
in the Middle West and the Byllesby
interests in the Northwest, which in
the past have been declared to be in
dependent of General Electric.
The Web Of Monopoly.
Thus, the Electric Bond & Share Co.
owns the American Superpower Co.,
an investment and operating corpora.
ton, which co-operates financially with
the Insult group. American Super.
power owns large blocks of stock in
insult companies, including the Mid
die West Utilities Co., which is big
holding and operating company. IN
asmuch as the insult group, centred in
Chicago, has recently reached out
even to the New England territory,
the financial interlocking with its big.
ger rival Is suspected
Byllesby interests are drawn into
the General Electric web by means of
the Electric Investors, Inc, owned by
the Electric Bond G. Share Co. and
owner OF a large part OF the stock of
the Northern States Power Co., a
Byllesby enterprise. This Northern
States concern is said TO dominate the
electric power situation in the North
west.
Beside It's grip upon the insult and
Byllesby companies, the Electric Bond
e. Share Co., dominates these major
corporate groups; American Gas &
Electric Co.. American Power & Light
Co.; Lehigh Power Securities corpora
ton; Electric Power g. Light Co.;
National Power q Light Co.; South
eastern Power & Light Co., which
controls the Alabama Power Co.,
which is trying to get Muscle Shoals;
Montana Power Co.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
FRANC CRASH
ASCR|BED TO
EVIL Spirit
BRAND May ReOrganize
Cabinet to the Right
Especial to The Daily wOrker)


PARIS, June 7. CONSERVATION
relgns In high French government
flrcles over the new crash In the
prlce Of the franc, which dropped
from $40 to s.o4 during the last
week.
Coming from a cabinet council
meeting Raoul Peret, the present
finance minister. appeared at the
point Of collapse and had only the
most empty of statements to explain
the continued fall Of the French
franc.
Evil Spirits to Blame.
''The sudden fall of the franc is
1nexplicable." he said. "I cannot un-
derstand It It must be the result OF
secret and occult forces working
against France and the franc. Moth
ing tustifies the new depreciation and
heavy foreign speculation surely is
at the bottom of the trouble"
The BRAND cabinet continues to
project the wealthy class by refusal
to levy taxes against them, while put
ting all possible burden upon the poor
by consumption taxes on necessities
Of life. The crisis is, however, due
to cause the fall or reorganization
Of the BRAND cabinet
To ReoraanIze Cabinet to the Right.
Reports are that BRAND Is TO reor-
ganize the cabinet by turning over
more of power to the right national
ist-royalist group and shutting out the
so-called left Radical and Radical So
cialists from participation, thus also
creating a new majority In, the cham
her of deputies by an alliance be-
tween the right and center moder-
ates. It was the left bloc, however,
which gave him the last two votes of
confidence and such a maneuver
means inviting war with his former
supporters.
Meanwhile, business Is In confu-
sion, the law against conducting trade
or any sort of business in any other
money but the franc is evaded at
every hand, the dollar and the pound
being the most usual money used to
substitute for the franc whose value
is nearing nothing and which is sub
iect to wild variations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
MCDONALD Will
HEAD WHITEWASH
ELECTION PROBE
Bank Head VIII Be in
Charge of Quiz

Charles A. Mcdonald, vice-president
In charge of the trust department Of
the Foreman Trust and Savings Bank,
has now been appointed by Chief JUS
tice Lynch as the special states at
torney to handle the probe into cleo
ton frauds and connections between
gangland and law enforcement Off
cials requested by States Attorney
Robert e. Grove in an attempt to
whitewash his office.
McDonald's appointment followed
Immediately on the refusal of Joseph
P. Mahoney, Brennan democrat, who
worked for the election of Grove in
the last election, to serve as special
states attorney.
Municipal Judge Trude, 1t is stated,
is to be one of the first to be called.
This move is looked on as an attempt
to get the evidence that Trude seeks
to present before Judge Mckinley in
his demand for a recount. Other wit
nesses that have declared that States
Attorney Grove and gangland terror
lied the voters in the April 10 primary
elections will also be called before the
Crowe-requested quiz. When they
later appear before Mckinley their
testimony will have already been given
and the Crowe-Barett-T Thompson fac
ton will be able to answer it in their
own way and whitewash the Grove
machine and their actions in the pri-
mary elections just as the McSwiggin
probe was whitewash Of the conduct
of the states attorneys Office against
Cook county gunner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Pre-

BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.
Thank God the general strike didn't
last long enough to wreck the London
social season. That sums up the
view of the British owning class as
expressed in the leading journals. II
reveals the lack OF social vision which
always characterizes a parasitic mi
nority in an outworn economic order
Ascot Week.
The removal OF the strike shadow,
according to leading organ OF lord
Beaverbrook. means that the season
which looked like being wrecked will
now only be concentrated. The pleas
ant routine which reaches its culmi-
mating point around about Ascot week
should be more attractive than ever"
Beaverbrook is one Of England's two
newspaper magnates.
London Season.
"The London season." says the
Rothermere press, the other important
newspaper syndicate, is going TO be
the most brilliant and dazzling and
crowded in years. Dressmakers are
busy. Grand opera, Ascot, Test Match
cricket at Lords, polo, horse shows.
lawn tennis championships at VIM
bledon, with scores OF private dances,
surprise parties and treasure hunts,
will last well into August"
Workers Seek Livelihood.
Says labor's London Daily Herald
in comment: Meanwhile half the ma
ton IL struggling 20 live decently,
millions are not getting enough to eat.
huddled together in crowded. noisome
tenements, sending their children out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Only Part of the Russian
Living Newspaper Given
Owing to Bad Weather
BY a Worker Correspondent.

In spite of the rainy weather, fair
ly big crowd attended the picnic of
the Russian, Polish and Ukrainian
Workers Clubs last Sunday at Marvel
Inn Grove.
On account Of the rain the program
was somewhat curtailed. Only about
half OF the Russian Living Newspa-
per was read when the rain came
down heavy and the issue was cut
short, The Living Newspaper in Eng
hsh was not issued at all for the
same reason.
The following Russian worker cor
respondents read their articles: Moro
SOW, Kotov, Yakovlev, Krivoy, Epel-
baum, Volodarsky Zhestkov Deviatkin
and Mirov. The last reader was unable
to finish on account of the rain.
Two hundred copies of the Novy
Mir, many copies of Trybuna Robot,
MEGA, and literature in Russian, Polish,
Ukrainian and English was sold.
The Living Newspaper in English
will be issued at some other outing.
The DAILY WORKER builders and
worker correspondents were out in
full force.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Milwaukee Lathers
and Plasterers on
Strike for Increase

MILWAUKEE,, June Union lath-
ers and union plasterers are on strike
in Milwaukee for wage increases of
12h cents an hour to bring the scale
to S1.3715 an hour. About 100 in each
craft walked out, some returning to
work when individual contractors
signed at the new rate. The rate de-
manded in Milwaukee is 1910 cents
under the current Chicago. rate for
fathers and 25 cents under for plas-
terers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Railroad Wages.

WASHINGTON, June 6. - (FP) -
Reports by Glass l railroads to the
Interstate Commerce Commission Is.
sued June 2, show 1.745,414 employees
as of March IL, and their monthly pay
s249, e2s,257. The month OF March had
q working days. 20
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Many Chicago Iron
Workers Still Strike

Altho members OF Local 60, the
branch of the ironwork.
ers in Chicago, returned to work after
one day on strike, Local /, consisting
of the structural workers, is still out.
Both locals are asking 12h-cent
raise to $3.50 an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
Denver Carpenters
Win 24-Hour Strike
~ a WOrker correspondent.

DENVER, Col, June AFTER being
out for only "a hours, 1000 carpenters
of Denver were granted the demands
they made on their bosses.
Some time ago the carpenters asked
for $11 day, an increase Of 50 day,
but the Industrial commission granted
them only $40 a day.
When the time care for signing up
new contracts for the year the bosses
refused to even sign up at $40 a day,
so the men struck. After being on
strike for "a hours, tieing up several
large buildings, the bosses decided to
give the men $40 a day. Work has
again been resumed on six large build
ings under construction, which was
held up by the strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-09
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-01
FOLK
SAD AS GREAT
CHURCH CLOSES
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)

NOGALES, July 31-No protest was
offered by the thousands OF worshipers
who last night attended the final SER
vices at the Cathedral of the Immacu
late Copcepcion at Nogales. sonora
opposite here, when Tire doors of the
great institution Were closed at mid
night in keeping with. the church clos
ing order Tears were streaming down
the cheeks of Padre Jesus Reyes as
he concluded the services with bene'
diction and left the altar for. the. yes
try room. A police guard, thrown
about the church last night was re-
moved today.
No interruption in the city's busl-
ness was noticed across the internal
tional boundary line this morning.
hut crowds continue tc FREQUENT the
cathedral doors. Reports today from
Magdalena, Hermosillo and Guaymas
were to the effect that peace ana quiet
followed the church closings III those
places.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-01

stearns, who is also guest at the
summer White House.
Cameron is not. opposed for nominal
tion, and he expressed confidence today
that he would win in November against
REPRESENTATIVE Hayden, his democratic
opponent He also predicted that the
republicans would retain control OF
the next senate and would win in all
the doubtful states which he mention
ed as Nevada, California, Kentucky,
Oklahoma, Missouri and Maryland.
During his visit, Coolidge, acting on
the recommendation of the senator,
gave a recess appointment to H. A.
Morgan Of Wilcox, Ariz as registrar
of the land office at Phoenix fhe
place was vacant but sharp fight
had been made by political groups in
the state for the appointment.
Conditions of the southwest are good,
Cameron said there being greater pros
perity than in many years. The cat
tie and sheep industries are in ex-
cellent shape, he added, while the lum-
Der business is good. Better rains
than in several years have helped, ne
continued, but the reduction Of taxes
aid to a large extent.
strong for Coolidge.
The people are contented,L the sena-
tor asserted, adding that in the south
west President Coolidge is stronger
than Harding in 1890. There is not the
farm relief situation there that there
is in the corn belt. he added, but he
expressed the view that the farmers
generally were willing to wait and see
what can be done for them.
Cameron will leave tomorrow night
for New York, Washington and Chica-
go, and then will proceed to Douglas,
Arizona, to open his campaign, He had
not, however, he said taken up the
Mexican situation with Mr.. Coolidge,
nor would he comment on it.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-01
MEXICAN CHARGE
D'AFFAIRES IN
U. S. EXPLAIN s
POLICY
Says it Is Unavoidable That
Public Opinion Abroad
Is Erroneous.
NOT CON STRUCTIVE
Powerful. Political Sway
Exercised by Church
In His Nation.
lBy Dispatch A. T. wirel

! WASHINGTON, July SIN a forma
iligious policy which has brought the
government into conflict With the
Catholic church, Dr. antonio Castro
Leal charge d'affaires of the Mexican
en- mbassy asserted here tonight that a.
time when the church exercised &
powerful political sway in Mexico il
never represented in fact construc.
tive power for the people.
"It is an unavoidable fact thai
Catholic foreign public opinion be er
roneous in regard to the so-called re-
ligious question in Mexico" he said
'since it is natural for the American
people, for Instance, to judge the
church in Mexico by the standards OF
the church in the United States, with
cut taking into consideration that his
torical and political conditions, that
race and methods of government have
been additional factors which have di-
versified the role OF the religious in
stitutions in both countries.
without possessing an exact knowl-
edge at least for our political history
Of the nineteenth century, there can
not be appreciated the causes which
gave rise to the constitution of 1882
and the reform laws of 1859, which are
the basis of the Mexican legislation
dealing with the religious matter. To
Judge the church in Mexico by what
the church has done in the United
States is as erroneous as to judge the
conservative parties in Argentine by
what the Tories have done in England.
"The church exercised a complete
dominion over the country three cen
turies without being able to launch a
movement of progress that would,
when independence was achieved, place
Mexico among the countries enjoying
modern standards OF life. After the
war of independence, at the beginning
of the nineteenth century, the church
in Mexico exercised great political
sway, but it never represented in fact
a constructive power for the people.
THE struggles for reform put an
end to continuous state of political
friction between the liberal and con-
servative parties. the latter having the
decisive support of the church Upon
the triumphs of the liberal party it
was possible to separate the church
from the state limiting the religious
institutions to the spiritual action, the
only one which belongs to them.
.'1he reform government gave to the
country a magma charta in which
there were embodied liberal princi-
pies which no other country had yet
csta blished, IN the middle of the nine
teenth century. These principles have
I,aau gradually adopted in the conSti-
tutions of several European and Latin
American countries.
CONTINUED on Page Three)
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-08-01
NO REL LIGIOUS
PROBLEM, SAYS
AARON SAENZ
(By Dispatch A. P. wirs)


TUCSON, July 31.-There is no re-
ligious problem in Mexico, according
to Aaron Saenz, Mexican secretary of
foreign relations.
In an interview given at Los Angeles
a few days ago to special correspon-
dent of Excelsior of Mexico City, the
foreign minister is quoted as express
ing surprise at the interest displayed
in the United States in "the so-called
religious problem of Mexico"
After reviewing the evidences of in
terest in the problem" Senior Saenz
says:
"All this surprises me, because in
Mexico there does not exist any re-
ligious problem.
Furthermore, people abroad are
more concerned with this matter than
are the people of my own country,
where almost everybody thinks less OF
the religious problem, which exists
only for a limited group that desires
to take advantage of this opportunity
to work out a political campaign
This group is using the church as a
means, and is trping to revive the tra-
ditional struggle in favor of the dom
ination of the church over the state.
In other words, it is utilizing the slo-
gan, Mexico for Rome" as battle
cry of religious proselytism.
"The Mexican government not only
toIerates, but it respects all religions
OF the thousands of churches that
exist in Mexico, not one has been
closed. 1t is false that the government
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