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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
STRIKE AGAINST
!. SPEED-UP PLANS
OF COTTON MILL
Tie Up Berkshire Firm
at Adams, Mass.
BY a Worker Correspondent.

ADAMS, Mass, June 27.-Half of
the working class population OF
Adams, Massachusetts,, is on strike
since Monday when 1900 workers of
the Berkshire Cotton company struck
against the speed-up attempted by the
company when it tried to make the
speeder tenders work three frames in
stead of two.
A week before forty workers had
struck when the demand was made on
them. The management told them
they we're fired. Monday the Polish
Weavers' Union declared the strike
general and pulled out practically the
entire force. SO few were left that
the mill has announced 1t is closing
down.
Only on the first day Of the strike
did the company try to keep up oper-
ations, and then only In the forenoon
All this time the Polish Weavers
Union kept pickets at the gates. With
in an hour the company announced it
would suspend operations. All the
workers came to the mill as usual,
but very few went inside.
The American Federation of Tex
tile Operatives has sent in ]. r. Simp-
son Of Fall River to take charge Of the
strike. The workers declare that oper-
ating three frames for the same
amount of wages is in effect wage
cut and neither good work nor decent
wages is possible with the three
frame speed-up system. The company
makes umbrella cloth, rayon and fine
cotton goods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
WORKINGWOMEN'S
Meet PLEDGES
AID TO PASSAIC
From Permanent Relief
Work Committee

PASSAIC, N. j., June 27.-WhoIe-
heartedly pledging their organizations
to the work of supporting the chill
dren's kitchens, the delegates from
women organizations In the states of
New Jersey and New York, present
at the Feed the Children" conference
at Kanter's Auditorium, unanimously
voted for a permanent delegated con-
ference as the best means Of assuring
continued support for the kitchens.
The Feed the Children" conference
was called to order by Leona Smith,
who read the conference call to the
assembled delegates.
Mary Heaton Worse, of Council No.
8, New York, United Council of Work
ingclass Housewives, was elected
chairman; Leona Smith, vice-chair-
man, and Bertha Kuppersmith, of the
general relief committee, secretary.
The conference was addressed by
Alfred Wagenknecht, relief chairman;
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Mrs. Kate
/ Gitlow of the United Council of Work
ingclass Housewives, on relief for the
strikers and their families. All three
were vigorously applauded by the del
egates and the strikers present.
Among those taking part in the con-
ference were; Helen Yeskevitch, of
the Lithuanian Working Women's Al
lance of America; Mrs. Raskin, of
| Council No Docca{o. Me- Goh..r,,.t.
of Council No. 6, Williamsburg; Mrs.
Bloom, Council No. 2, Newark; Ka-
roly Murray, Of st. Anthony of Padua
Hungarian Society, Passaic; Mrs. Fish
man, of Council No. S, Coney Island;
Mrs. Berg, Of the Community Welfare
Club Of Passaic, N. j.; Anna Bresnac,
Frances Janicks and Francis Ribardo
Of the United Front Committee; Mrs.
Cohen, of Brownsville Council No. Z;
Mrs. Black, of the Mothers Club of
Henry street; Mrs. Epstein, Council
No. 8, Bronx; Mrs. Gordon, of Coun-
Gil No. 4, Williamsburg; Mrs. Rose
man, Council No. 1, New York City;
Mrs. Paukstys, Lithuanian Working
mems Alliance; Sarah Sherman, of
Trenton, N. j.; Leona Smith, Mary
Heaton Verse and Mrs. Kate Gitlow.
The conference went on record ito
support any move for the protection
of women in industry, particularly the
textile. 1t declares itself in favor of
such legislation as will protect women
against night work, against working
when pregnant, against long hours,
low wages and unsanitary conditions"
Leona Smith was unanimously elect
ed secretary of the permanent confer
ence, which is to hold regular meet
ings for the furtherance of plans in
support of the kitchens. One delegate
was elected to the permanent confer
ence from every organization repre-
sented at Saturdays Feed the Chill
dren" conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
PASSAIC POLICE
ASSAULT WOMEN
AND CHILDREN
Arrest Mother with 3
Children

PASSAIC, N. j.. June 27.-The end
Of the twenty-first week Of the big
textile strike was featured by an at.
tack by Garfield Cossacks on a crowd
Of 200 women and children who had
gathered in Wood street, Garfield.
This is in the center Of the strike dis
trict and not far from the Forst-
mann & Hoffman mill
The police charged into the crowd.
swinging their clubs onto the heads
of women and little children. They
wound up their orgy by locking up
Mrs. Anna Marut, who had her baby
in her arms and two little girls cling
ing frantically to her skirts. The 20.
lice cossacks locked up all four, but
were later forced to release them
upon a physicians order.
After being placed in a cell, Mrs.
Marut complained of feeling i'll and
City Physician Ernest Casini was
called to examine her. DR.. Casini
found the woman's heart action ir-
regular and her pulse low as re-
suit of the atrocious treatment to
which she was subjected by the Gar.
field cossacks. He advised that she
be taken to her home. she was then
released.
The strike is still 1909 strike.
The striking textile workers are pre-
pared to battle to victory. They must
have support of all the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL
AID RECEIVES AID FROM /
MUNICIPALITY OF BERLIN

In recognition Of the effective and
splendid relief activity carried on
by the Workers international Re-
lief on behalf of the hunger-strleken
men, women and children Of the
working class, the municipality Of
Berlin, adopted q resolution provid-
ing for a 5000 gold mark annual
subsidy for the Workers. lnterna-
tional Relief organization.
To the workers Of America il will
be interesting to learn that the In
ternatlonaI Workers. Aid, with its
national headquarters at 1858 w.
Madison street, Chicago, ILL.,, and
known as the Workers Red Cross Of
America, is affiliated with the Work.
ers' international Relief and func.
tons as its American section.
Fred G. Biedenkapp, national sec
rotary of the American section, stat
ed that in most of the European
countries thousands upon thousands
of dollars are@being raised thru their
respective national relief commit
tees for the striking British miners.
In Soviet Russia alone the trade
unions and the working class in gen.
eral have raised close to $500, 900.
He further states that the first
$4,000 from America was sent to
England ten days ago, and the Sec
ond $1,000 is being sent today. He
expects that the American workers
will raise at least $4,000 for their
British brothers and their depend
ents.
The international Workers Aid
urges immediate action and asks
that all donations be forwarded at
once to either local or national Of
fees of international Workers Aid
at 1858 w. Madison street, Chicago,
III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29

its orders from the steel company. 1t
kept that news out of its columns.
The workers cannot expect the
Gary Post-Tribune or any of the
other papers that take their orders
from the steel company to print their
side of the story.
Write to The DAILY WORKER.
The workers have a paper that will
print their side of the story. That
paper is The DAILY WORKER
Every Gary worker can write his
story to The DAILY WORKER. His
story will not be thrown into the
waste basket. 1t will be used to show
the workers side of the story in the
mills of the steel trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
Jardine on Carpet
for Teaching How
to Beat Own Rules

WASHINGTON, June q. Secre-
tary of Agriculture Jardine was re-
quested today by the senate to tell Of
his reported connection with the fac
ulty of Chicago school teaching sci
entihc grain price forecasting.
According TO resolution offered by
Senator Caraway, democrat. OF Arkan-
sas, and adopted by the senate. Jar
dine was advertised by the school as
a member of the faculty The school.
saraway charged. teaches methods
beating the rules and regulation
ich Jardine himself sets for the
duct OF grain exchanges"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
Latin Labor Appeals to Green
in Protest of Peruvian Coruee
Ito be continued.)

WASHINGTON, 81 -FP)-A
Grafton
received p. A. l..
This originates
Under workingmen
without or
Argentine united
to assist protesting the Peruvian government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29

ne IGDOIJcI 1OA Luo 1dlg
Tribune was at the meeting. He saw
the crowd. He felt the sentiment Of
the workers.
Demand Congressional Probe.
At this meeting the workers voiced
their sentiments against the fake in
vestigation into the explosion in one
of the plants of the steel trust. The
workers unanimously adopted reso-
luton demanding congressional
probe of the blast.
The Gary PostTribune reporter lis
tened to the speeches. He took notes
of what was said and done. After the
meeting he came to the speakers
platform and took the names Of the
speakers.
On the Monday after the meeting
many Gary workers bought the Post
Tribune to see what it had to say
about the mass meeting and the de-
mand for a congressional investiga-
ton. There was not a single line
about the meeting or the decision of
the workers.
Does Steel Trust Bidding.
The steel trust wanted that news
suppressed. 1t did not want it pub
lished. The Gary Post-Tribune took
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
BANK FAILURE
DIVIDES LABOR
FROM PARASITES
Worker Depositors Get
Their Own Committee

YORKvILLE, Ohio, June 27-Mayor
Oliver, Jewish mayor of Yorkville, sup
ported by the XII klux khan and the
Steel company, ,applauded a ku klux
speaker who stated, 'If stole $780,
900, and you arrested me, l wouldn't
give you a cent 81 it." This took place
at a meeting of the depositors Of the
defunct Union Savings Bank, at York
Vile, Ohio, on Saturday, June 10,
which was called by committee to
take steps to protect the depositors.
An Ipside Job.
On May IA, the vice-president and
secretary of the Union Savings Bank,
w. E. Jones and Thomas Jones, res
pectively, were discovered to have
made away with anywhere from $780,
900 to half a million dollars Of the
bank funds. The bank is now in the
hands of the state bank examiner,
who has not yet been able to make a
full examination of the books.
The depositors in this bank are the
workers in the mines and mills Of
Yorkville and vicinity, the union
locals, and the fraternal organizations,
any money in sick benefits. The
miners in this section of the country
are working only one or two days a
week; consequently their position is
desperate.
Mayor Gets Worst of II.
Mr.. Oliver tried to break up the
meeting at the beginning. He had the
city policeman with him, and tried to
arrest worker, one of the members
Of the committee that called the meet
ing. When he ordered the cop to take
the worker to the lookup, the meeting
went into an uproar, and the mayor
was very soon silenced The meeting
then proceeded in orderly fashion.
There had existed a committee of
the different nationalities of the work
ers. A part of this, committee consisted
of men who are not only depositors but
but also stockholders in the bank, in
Guiding Oliver and Walter Jokovich,
bOaAu mSHlDcI VI ouo-DlSbAiCl 4NO. U
Of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. Jokovich was once a member of
the Communist Party, but was ex-
PEELED from it in 1928 Today he is
one Of the most reactionary members
OF the miners organization.
Jokovich triedIto pose as a martyr
in the bank crash by stating that he
was liable to loset$2,000. He also told
of the numerous steps he took to get
in touch with the bank examiner and
other officials in order to protect the
depositors, which information, how
ever, he had never disclosed to the
group OF South Slavic depositors,
whom he was supposed to represent,
but was compelled to reveal at this
mass meeting Of depositors, which
was called by new committee.
A clear division between the work
ing class depositors and the depositor-
stockholders took place at the meet
ing, and the miners and mill workers
viii be on their guard. and the COM
mittee will be compelled to do every.
thing possible to protect them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
WRITE AS you FIGHT

Will share apartment. Modern.
SIS. 10 Forest {. Apt. c. 6.
Detroit, MICH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
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- 1000 WORKER CORRESPONDENTS JANUARY - 1877 -
SIX DOLLARS A
week The WAGE
OF SALES GIRLS
Unorganized Exploited
Without Mercy
BIZ ROMA, Worker correspondent

BY ROMA Worker correspondent
MOUNDSvILLE, w. Va, June 81
Florida may have its real estate boom,
California may boast Of its climate,
Boston Of its baked beans, but there
is one thing in which few states can
rival West Virginia, and that is the
intensity of the exploitation of the
young workers.
The G. G. Murphy Co. of this city.
conducting Csc. store, prides itself
on placing one of the cheapest values
on human labor anywhere.
Six Dollars A Week.
About 13 or Is girls are employed
as sales ladies'. They slave from 8
a. m. until $50 D. m. and on Satur-
days until after nine o'clock at night,
at a salary Of. six dollars per week.
Saturday, being unusually busy,
extra help is secured to take care of
the trade. These girls receive only
one dollar for working from 8 a. m.
until after p. m. If, however, they
work from noon until nine O'Clock
they receive S5c. This leaves them
only 15c. for working Saturday morn
ingsI
The girls sales for the day must
reach a certain amount. Any girl
whose sales do not equal that figure
is reprimanded severely. No means
of sitting or resting is provided for
the girls as the bosses do not want
them to loaf"
Company Prosperous.
During the rush seasons, when bust
ness is unusually good, some Of the
girls sell a considerable percentage
over their rate, but receive nothing
for II, not even a word of appreciation.
This company shows every sign Of
prosperity and has been able to great
ly enlarge its store within the last
year or two. It's profits are derived
by underpaying girls of school age,
who are unorganized-placing their la
Dor value on par with almost no.
thing. This is only typical of most
labor conditions in West Virginia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
WHAT Has GONE BEFORE.

WHAT HAS
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
Harvester aandIts Get 10 Years.

Thomas Shupe and James Gentle,
international Harvest company ban.
dts, today were ose, snced to ten
years TO life for robbery in March.
The pair was found guilty of the
$4,000 $robbery byfa jury several days
ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
McKeesport |. l.. D.
Holds Picnic July 4
Especial to The Daily worker)

McKEEsPoRT, Pa, June 27.--Mc-
Keesport International Labor Defense
will hold a picnic July at Peter
Paletic's Farm on Long Run Road. a
short distance from Olympia Park.
Robert Minor, editor of the Workers
Monthly, will speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-29
THE GARY POST TRIBUNE CATERS
TO WISHES OF THE STEEL TRUST
BIZ a Worker CORRESPONDENT.

how the GaryPostTrbune caters
handled the meeting
packed with workers who
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
RESCUE OF MAN
AT SEA HAILED
AS MIRACULOUS
Falls OUerboard Unnoticed,
Ship Sails orr, Then Re-
turns to Save Him.

New York.-The story of how a
man overheard was recovered from
the midnight waters of the South At
lantic ocean, although he was not re-
ported missing until his vessel had
steamed past him for nearly an hour,
was contained in a concise entry in
the log book of the Norton-LfIly com
pany's freighter Ripley Castle, which
arrived here recently.
His name was Tony Madison, thir-
ty-five years old, an American citizen,
and he was on the ships papers as a
coal trimmer. Before he was rescued
he was bitten twice by a small fish,
probably a bonita, and badly fright
ened by attacks Of large sea birds.
The officers of the weather-beaten T.
O00-ton cargo vessel were inclined to
regard the whole thing as miraculous.
Lays Rescue to Prayer.
TT was true miracle, and the di-
rect work of Providence said the
chief officer. "WhiIe I was steaming
back toward the man 1 prayed, and
he prayed In the water. 1t was no
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
$15O,OOO Plot Spiked
I'm LeaUenrvorth Prison

Leavenworth, Kan.-EffOrts of a
prisoner to avoid payment of long
distance telephone toll led to the dis
covery of conspiracy by convicts in
the federal penfteHtiary here to swim
die the government out of upward of
$15O,OOO, Warden W. I. Biddle an
nounced on completion of an investi-
cation into the plot.
One of the prisoners, Jesse l. Greer,
committed from Colorado for rObbings
tolls by charging the call to the war
den and later altering the bill from
the telephone company to make it APP
pear that the call was a call to a St.
Louis business firm. The warden dis
covered the alteration. Greer had
been able to forge the names of pris-
on officials on fake invoices, and OBJ
tained a check made out to a fictitious
business firm in Denver.
George F. Ames, a prisoner who
was parOled early in the month"; re-
ceived the check at a Denver hotel
and presented it to a Colorado bank.
The check, drawn for $79O91, would
have been honored, prison officials
say, if the fraud had not been dis
covered.
Greer admitted his part in the plot
and officials found 125 additional fake
invoices in his possession.
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
The Water Bearer

the two thousand, Cal? 1 don't know
where else to go and I don't want to
go shouting this thing about all over
the shop"
1--WE got just eleven hundred dollars
in the bank here" said Caleb slowly.
IF take up CoX's proposition I'll not
need more than two hundred of that
check. | have house back East
can sell. The deal might take a week
or so. They take their time there to
pass deeds. But. :"
Baxter groaned, his head in his
hands.
TITS got to be two thousand, I'm
afraid. You see if she goes away she'd
be sore at me. I'd have to make her
sore and she'd want the whole thing
And I won't have you selling your
house. 1t wouldn't do any good. She'll
change her mind inside of two weeks
1t isn't so id imminent. She won't
have to quit her job for bit. At q
pinch FIT make the mater come
through. For the honor of the family /"
He laughed sarcastfcally.
"If she can chip off hunk of the
principal for herself once in a while,
she can do 1t for me-once. The
money was meant for me eventually
And, if fits put right up to her, she'll
handle the girl, too, rather than hinder
her own matrimonial prospects, as a
scandal would. Now let's take run
down to the duck club I'm secretary
and I've got to give the shack the
overlook before the season opens"
Within the hour, tramping through
the marshes to the shooting shack, he
seemed to have forgotten his dilemma
completely but one sentence, an epit-
ONE Of Baxter's character, chung to
Caleb ooh, l can stall along" He
remembered too, the hint of sullen
stubbornness that had shadowed the
girls pouting lips.
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
CHAPTER "
Crystal Springs

Hinckley, head engineer OF the
Crystal Springs company, met the car
at the outer gate of the property He
was a short, stout, but active man,
with gold-rimmed spectacles over
shrewd blue eyes about which spread
network of fine lines that spoke for
humor and long habit Of puckering un-
der Sun-glare. He reminded Caleb
somehow of an apple, firm and glow
ing and sound.
They rolled swiftly ON through a
strange region and beautiful one.
Sometimes they skirted a hillside
where chapparal, manzanita and kin
dred shrubs grew in a shoulder-high
tangle that seemed too thick for any
thing less agile than squirrel to ex-
plore. Beneath them f1ourfshed great
ferns Through them Caleb caught
glimpses Of lakes lying far below, bits
of blue far deeper than the sky they
mirrored and intensified
They turned abruptly to their right
where the road ran beside a purling
stream and boughs knitted overhead.
The descent was gradual and the car
slid along nofselessly.
Here's the brick dam, a bit primi-
tive but godsend to Golden in the old
days." said Hinckley.
1t was a beautiful sheet Of water
above the dam, set in the silence of a
wooded canyon but they did not spend
much time with it. Hinckley pointed
directly across the water to a V-shaped
gap in the opposing slopes.
There's the big dam," he said. 81
want you to notice the laterals, the
earth dams that divide the lake into
three See anything funny about 'em?''
Caleb gazed earnestly. On each side
of these dams was set a gatehouse.
Their tops were roads with the sides
fenced. And these roads were SER
pentine.
"Any reason for not building them
straight from shoe to shore| he asked
Hinckley emitted a satisfied sigh.
"Ahl They were built straight. The
quake shifted 'en, twisted 'em,
wrenched 'em, bent 'em-but it didn't
break em. They're sound as ever"
Caleb looked his appreciation and
bewilderment. Hinckley wrinkled his
eyes.
"Clay cores, my boy Clay cores.
Elastic. Like so much rubber. They
bend but never break"
did you anticipate an earthquake?' ~
asked Caleb.
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
Robs Police Station
of Drugs on Displa,

New YOrk.-Morphine and cocaine
valued at $1,000 were stolen from an
exhibition case in the office Of Capt.
Henry Scherb, chief of the police mar
cotic squad at police headquarters.
The thief left no clew and no an
nouncement of the robbery was made
either by Captain Scherb or Police
Commissioner Mclaughlin, whose Of
flee is only a few PAGES away. AL
though the case contained jeweled and
gold lamps, pipes and other parapher-
MALTA for the smoking of opium, none
of these articles, valued at many thou
sands of dollars, was touched.
1t is believed that the thief was a
drug addict There were two cases in
the room. One of them contained gen
uine narcotics and the solid gold
and iewel-studded pipes and lamps.
The other contained fake narcotics
and replicas of the paraphernalia.
The case of fakes was not disturbed.
Arizona state miner., 1926-09-04
CRYSTAL SPRINGS

Synopsis.-Idly fishing Her
manos creek, in California, Caleb
Warner, civil engineer, and a
New Englander, is witness of the
end of a coyote pulled down by
two wolfhounds, urged on by a
girl rider. Admiring the hounds,
he introduces himself, and learns
her name Is Clinton. With west
ern hospitality she invites him to
the ranch to meet her father.
At the Clinton home Warner
learns his new friends name is
Betty. He is welcomed by her
father, Southern Civil war veter-
an and owner of Hermanos VAL
ley. Warner tells them some
thing of his ambitions and his
feeling that he is destined to be
q "Water-Bearer." In the town
of Golden Warner shares an
apartment with his old Columbia
college chum, Ted Baxter, care
free and somewhat dissipated
youth, only child of his widowed
mother. who controls the family
fortune. At a club luncheon Bax-
ter introduces Caleb to Wilbur
Cox, leading business man and
president of the water company
which supplies the needs of
Golden. He gives Cox an inkling
of his ambitions, and Cox, i'm
pressed, invites him to dinner
that night. During dinner Cox
asks Caleb to call at his office
next day. He does no and Cox
arranges a meeting between Ca
leb and Hincl1ley, the water COM
pany's chief engineer.