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The daily worker., 1926-07-10
CHINESE SEAMEA At
CANTON PULL STRIKE
AGAINST DOLLAR LINE

CANTON, China, July 8.-The
Seamen's Union has called out the
Chinese crew of the American
steamer Grace Dollar, demanding in
creased wages. The company re-
fused and is taking the ship out
with a skeleton crew OF foreign
scabs.
The daily worker., 1926-07-10
Two Workers Killed by Train.

DU QUOlN, H., July S-The bodies
Of two unidentified men. who appar-
emily had been struck by a train
were found along the Illinois Central
railroad tracks here today. Kansas
City labor agency stubs were found On
tho bodies. NJ
The daily worker., 1926-07-10
Film star Sued by Co.

LOS ANGELES. July s.--Florence
vidor, motion picture star, was sued
for $1,000 today by the Collection
Service Corporation. acting as as
signee for the Edward Small Co. of
Hollywood representatives of motion
picture players.
The daily worker., 1926-07-10
SOVIET union
CUTS 1O%o OFF
Retail PRICE
Closes Scissors" by
Four Years Work

MOSCOW, July S.-All retail prices
of manufactured goods will be re-
duced ten per cent from their May
level by August l, according to de-
cree of the Soviet economic council.
This is a further step toward equal
izing the prices of manufactured pro-
doucts and the products of the coun-
try. The immense crop this year will
contribute toward cheaper food costs
and in measure lower the costs of
all production. The ability to equal
ize the prices of city and country
products represents the CLOSING of
the scissors" which threatened to Gre
ate the same dislocation in economic
life as exists in other countries where
the prices of all commodities are dis
proportionately. high compared to the
prices of farm products.
conquers Danger.
Four years ago the Scissors"
threatened to cut off the ligaments of
economic life between city and coun-
try in Soviet Russia. There was no
purchasing capacity, no surplus in
city or country.
1t is a wholly different story today.
Efforts to increase production are
most successful and with this and the
export Of grain, the standard OF life
is wholly changed both the city and
country workers are eating as they
never ate before, enjoying more meat
and the luxury Of white bread never
dreamed Of under the czar.
Little Foreign Aid.
Russia. even according to its capi.
talist enemies, appears as an undeni.
ably peaceful, prosperous and indus.
trious country, with a potential com.
fort for It's workers in the vast wealth
rapidly being developed almost
wholly by the workers government
without the aid OF more than a little
foreign capital.
The daily worker., 1926-07-10
Jeanne Enuels Back,

LOS ANGELES. July S.--Jeanne
Engels today was back in the cast Of
RAIN" the play she made famous,
after an illness Of several days.
The daily worker., 1926-07-10
Berkeley Mass Meeting
Demands Release Of
Sacco and Vanzetti

BERKELEY, Caly., July Sat a
well-attended mass meeting in Com
rades Hall resolution was adopted
protesting against the attempt to elec.
trocute Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
vanzetti for crime they never com
mitted. The mass meeting in its res.
olution demands unconditional release
OF these two Italian workers.
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The daily worker., 1926-07-10
u, M, W, FIGHTS
FOR ITS LIFE
IN PA. MINES
State Court Outlaws All
Picketing
BY ART SHIELDS,
Federated Press Correspondent.

CIlEARNELD, Pa, July s, - The
hardships of a non-union mining com
munity are summarized in a state
ment by John Brophy, president Dis
trict No. 2, United Mine Workers, an
nouncing a movement to organize the
men employed by the big coal sub
sidiaries of the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburgh railroad interests in In
diana and Jefferson countries. Field
Offices have been opened in Indiana,
Pa, some fifty-odd miles east by north
Of Pittsburgh and organizers are get
ting busy despite injunctions, mounted
guards and ever-present company
spoilers"
Brophy's statement hits the spot
ter" as well as at the company store,
and the fraudulent weighing that robs
the miner at the tipple, the 40To and
5o9s wage cuts and all the other lead
ing features of the scab coal town
scheme. The statement follows in
part:
Terrific Wage Cut.
@In addition to the direct wage cut
Of more than 800, there are indirect
reductions that bring the total cut
down to 40 and 500. Little or no pay
for dead work has become the rule.
Complaint about short weight is gen
sra1. Without a union there is no
oheckweighman on the tipple to guar
antee that the men get paid for all
the coal they load. The high price
company store still further slashes
the miners standard Of living. Men
complain that If they purchase goods
from independent merchants-who
charge 1870 less than the company
stores-they are endangering their
Jobs.
Working conditions are worsened.
For example, more car pushing is re-
uuired of the men than formerly.
Motormen and other day men have
been speeded up. The men are work
ed to the point of exhaustion. Con-
stant complaint is made that non
union management neglects safety
rules.
Usual Spy System.
ITO mention a grievance to the
boss invites discharge.
"A large and oppressive police and
spy system is maintained. The B. r.
& P. miner is constantly under scruti-
ny, even in his personal life outside
of working hours, the company spot
ter is everywhere. And the cost of
these spies is thrown on the industry
while the management refuses to bear
the cost of the American standard of
living.
with all this, full time is not
secured, though the management had
promised that the lower wages would
bring steady employment. Some of
the B. r. & p mines are not oper-
ating at all, and the rest average but
three days a week. Non-unionism has
not brought prosperity. Instead several
Indiana merchants have gone bank
rupt and commercial travellers say
business was never worse.
The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
group is the largest coal enterprise in
central Pennsylvania, employing some
5000 men at it's peak. The company
repudiated the Jacksonville three-year
contract late in 1894. After long
periods Of lockout and starvation,
most of the mines were eventually
opened. Strikes followed, then came
injunctions and wholesale arrests. The
union still holds a few towns in this
region and seeks to recover its lost
ground, in the weak sector.
The daily worker., 1926-07-10

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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Keeping Fit With
Famous Americans

To determine what rules they
observe to insure good health,
about twenty-five well-known
Americans prominent in business,
art and politics were recently in
terviewed. Each week in the New
ark Leader beginning this week
the health rules of one of them will
be published.
In nearly every instance the in
terviewed person follows, with con-
siderable regularity, some form of
exercise and adheres to certain
rules of diet, both of which they
have learned best fit them to pro-
ceed unhampered by Ill health.
Among those whose views will
be expressed are Thomas A. Edi-
son, Hubert Work, Secretary of
the Interior, Neysa McMein, artist,
Edward S. Jordan, prominent auto
mobile manufacturer, John Philip
Sousa, Bruce Barton, advertising
man and magazine writer, James
J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, James
Oliver Curwood, popular novelist.
You will find this series of fea-
lures filled with sound information
and intimately interesting.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23

these jobbers, but they want them to
accept concrete Obligations for condi-
tlons under which cloaks are manu-
factured for them in their subsidiary
shops. The cloakmakers' demands are
moderate and very reasonable. They
demand limitation of the number of
contractors to be employed seasonally
by the jobbers that would regularize
and stabilize the trade. Cloakmaking
does not need thousands of petty,
wasteful, mushroom-growth shops to
satisfy its legitimate demands. The
good of the industry, the welfare of
the workers and the needs of the con-
sumers can be satisfied by half the
number of shops now in existence.
THE cloakmakers want a guaran-
tee of 36 weeks of employment.
The cloak industry has in the past
few years grown tremendously big
and prosperous. Toward this growth
and prosperity the cloakmakers have
contributed great share, while they
themselves remain actually pauper-
lied and are unable to make a living.
Their strike is movement to make
the masters of this industry concede
to them work standards that will
enable them to make a more secure
and decent living for themselves and
their dependents in more stabilized
and better ordered industry. In this
endeavor every right-minded citizen
and socially-spirited element in the
community will, we hope, cooperate
with them"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23

& Fink Products Company. New
York City.
This contest is open to every in
dividual connected with a dealer,
either retail or wholesale, with re-
wards ranging from the first prize
of $4,000 to twenty prizes of $50
each-thirty-seven in all. In ad-
dition, special prize of $1,000 is
offered for the best plan submitted
by a professor or student of eco-
nomics or marketing in any college
of the country.
Senator Capper's jury of award
will consider only comprehensive
plans covering a definite policy for
retailer. iobber, manufacturer.
chain store and department store,
taking into account free goods
and hidden discount" problems
The workabilitv and legality of the
plans. either under existing law or
desirable modification is the chief
criterion on. which Judges will base
:heir decisions.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Longer Hours
Ordained For
Coal Miners
The British Parliament Legal
ICES An Optional Eight
Hour Day

London, Eng. - In disorder
and tumultuous scenses un-
equalled in the ancient House of
Lords, that body jammed
through the miners eight-hour
bill by a ten-to-one vote. The
bill has passed the House of
Commons, where it met the
same opposition at the hands OF
labor members.
The law amends for five years the
present miners seven-hour law, and
makes it optional for employers and
employed to enter into eight-hour
agreements. The coal owners will at
tempt to enter into district and in
dividual mine agreements with the
strikers. By this method they hope
to divide them.
The miners are supported by the
trade union movement in their de-
mand for a national agreement. They
show that any other system means
playing one group against other
group and that if successful the min
ers and their plan for reorganization
of the industry will be defeated.
The recent Royal Coal Commission
opposed the extension of hours, and
the new law strengthens the position
of those who claim the government
has abandoned its professed neutral
ity and is lined up with the coal own
erS.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Radio Control
By Sec. Hoover
Is Not Legal
The Attorney General Rules He
Cannot Enforce His Ar.
bitrary Edicts

Washington, D. C.-The die
tatorship of the air by the De-
partment of Commerce was
without foundation in law.
The denials of the use of wave
lengths Or of the establishment of
new broadcasting stations to elements
not liked by the industrial and politi-
cal masters of America has not been
legal. The use of broadcasting can
not be denied legally any longer to
the organizations of the workers.
These facts are brought out by an
opinion rendered by Attorney General
Sargent, in which he asserts that the
Secretary of Commerce is utterly
without power to enforce or deny the
use of particular wave lengths or fix
the power of individual broadcasting
stations.
Under the regime of Secretary
Hoover, radio control developed many
abuses of power One Of the most
fragrant cases was that of speak
er who was denied the use of the air
a second time by certain broadcast
ing station on the ground that he in
tended to criticize President Cool
idge.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor
was preparing to wage battle for
the right of the workers to the use
of the air when this decision came.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Business Harmony

This has been a good season
for business mems outings, pic
MICS, field days and other sum-
mer sports. And they have
served a good purpose. Busi-
ness harmony is an absolute
necessity to a community. 1t
brings a closer cooperation to
business organizations. Civic
organizations are worthless if
they are allowed to become hot
beds of petty jealousies, bicker-
ings and cut-throat methods be-
tween the members. A great
many business organizations
also fail because a few officers
are allowed to do all the work
and the remainder of the mem
bers stand aside and criticise,
fail to attend meetings and put
up an almost insurmountable
bar to closer unity. Here steps
in the social side. The picnic,
the summer outing, the field
day, when all members of the
Business Mems Association close
shop and get together to play
cannot but result in harmony
and a better understanding.
Stiffness and formality can't
last long in the baseball game
(Hnnfinuad On Para EiYAl
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
The y
Hired
Man
Digest
SsS
WITH
APOLOGIES
Here and There

Here in Newark a peculiar sit
uation, to say the least, seems to
exist. Instead of oiling up the
cogs and keeping the municipal
machine in smooth running or
der there apparently is a certain
bunch of fellows who take a de-
light in dropping in an extra
sized monkey wrench and play
ing hob with things generally.
The matter of denying the use
of the court house park and ad-
joining streets to the citizens,
who are really the true owners,
has caused considerable adverse
comment, especially as the pol
icy of other cities and towns has
been on entirely different lines.
In these places the parks are
thrown open to all, and the peo-
pie are invited to use and enjoy
them.
Here it is claimed brief use
would forever destroy the nice
green grass. There they know
nature will repair the damage in
a few hours after a shower.
Not only do dozens of NUM-
cipalities permit the people to
enjoy the parks as a playground
but they invite them to use
them as camping grounds and
sleeping places during the hot
nights when restful slumber is
impossible in the crowded and
poorly ventilated dwellings they
are forced to occupy; and whole
families joyfully and thankfully
avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity. This has happened in
the State House grounds in Co.
lumbus frequently.
Incomprehensible fallacies
sometimes develop in the brains
of those who occasionally are
briefly placed in control of the
reins of government, and the
people are forced for a short
period to suffer from their glar-
ing errors. But after a time
forbearance ceases to be vir-
tue, and the once would-be all
powerful dictator is sent crash
ing to the dust, his fantastic
dreams ended and his niche in
the hall of fame unoccupied.
The memory of the 'Hired
Man" goes back to the occasion
when meeting an old time friend
he was greeted with the state
ment, "It beats h what queer
things fellow meets when he |
hasn't got his gum"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
10000 CLOAKMAKERS STRIKE:
WANT STABILIZED INDUSTRY

New York - Convinced that
employers will not change chao-
tic conditions of this city's cloak
and suit industry, 10000 work
ers are out on the streets. They
are members of the Internation-
al Ladies' Garment Workers
union.
In support of their action, the
unionists point to a report by a
commission appointed by Cover
nor Smith. This report sus-
tains the workers contentious,
following a two-years' study.
"The strike was inevitable"
said President Sigman. "The
jobbers who control most of the
trade, and the manufacturers
who are half jobbers, made it un-
avoidable.
"The general public by this
time knows what the industry has
known for years, that the jobbers
are the real capitalists and en-
ployers in this industry. The
issue between the workers and
these jobbers is that the latter be
made to assume the responsibility
of real employers, which they
actually are.
"The cloakmakers have suffered
long enough. Their strike means that
they refuse to any longer accept
flimsy and indefinite promises from
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23

There is no limit to the length of
the plans submitted nor is there
an: limit tc the number of plans
any contestant may send in but
not more than one. award will be
made to the same person. The only
restriction is that a contestant can
not participate in both the trade
and college contests
In addition to the chairman the
jury of award includes Mrs. ].
Borden Hartman. chairman of the
National Consumers League: DR..
Melvin T. Copeland. Harvard
School of Business Administration
Nelson B Gaskill former Federal
Trade Commissioner: G Barrett
Moxley ex-President of the Ma
tional Association OF Wholesale
Druggists: A. W Shaw. publisher
of System: DR. Frank 7 Stone,
president National Assoclat,cr of
Retail Druggists: and Herbert J.
Tilv president. National Retail
Drv Goods Association.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
NOn-UniOn Miners Out;
Join With Organized

Fairmont, w. Va.-Anti-union coal
owners in northern West Virginia are
attempting to minimize the walkout
OF their employees, following a long
educational campaign by the United
Mine Workers.
The coal owners violated agree
ments and lowered wages, while con-
Quoting a campaign against the un-
ion. They are aided by guards, in
junction judges and a press that cor
rupts public opinion. Wages In this
section are down to the 1928 stand
ard.
In the Big Coal River district coal
owners announce another wage cut
Tor their free and independent"
workers, who are realizing how un-
certain are the pledges Of employers
who broke their agreement with the
union.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Labor's Wrath
Is Now Feared
By Mussolini
Nine-HOur Work Day Decree Is
Not to Be Enforced Until
a Later Date

Milan, Italy-Alarmed at the
omlnous mutterings against a
nine-hour day decree, Mussolini
has ordered that the enforce
ment of his new rule be postpon-
ed.
The protest against an additional
hour, without pay, was made by a
committee representing the General
Confederation of Labor. This is the
legitimate Italian trade union move
ment that has been outlawed by Mus
solinl. In the industrial centers of
northern Italy, and in the machinery
trades especially, the Confederation
maintains the skeleton of an organi-
zation. 1t dare not function rs a
militant trade union, and Mussolini
fears to Jail the brave souls who
cling to their impotent unions, well
knowing that better days are in store
for Italy.
These unionists, together with all
other Italian workers, are compelled
by law to join the Fascist unions,
which are recornized by the govern
ment. Only those who accept the
Fascist theory-that the state ia su-
preme over the individual-are per-
mitted to have a voice and vote in
the Fascist unions. All others must
pay dues but must remain silent.
When Mussollni issued his nine
hour order, it was the General Con-
federation of Labor that dared to pro-
test. Weak as they were, the dicta-
tor feared that the courageous stand
OF the trade union committee would
spread, so he ordered a retreat.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
g. R9QREr
MONEY

A call has been issued to the
business men of the country to CO.
operate in solving the price-cutting
problem which is said to be the
greatest problem affecting business
today It lis particularly detri-
mental to dealers in the smaller
towns and cities. az well as being
contrary to pubic interest.
Hon Arthur Capper, United
States Senator from Kansas. is
chairman Of a committee of ma.
tionally prominent persons who
have undertaken to pass upon
"price peace plans" submitted and
to determine as far as possible the
most workable solution.
Tc stimulate interest. prizes
amounting to $4,000 have been of
fered for the best plans received
prior to November lst The prize
monev is the contribution of Ed
ward Plaut president of the Lehn
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Strikebreakers Ousted

Willimantic, Conn. - Discharged
strikebreakers EMPLOYED by the Amer
lean Thread Company are being GUST
ed from company houses with the aid
of public officials. The strikebreak
ers were promised steady work, but
the plant is operating one and two
days a week.
In June, 1925, more than $500
workers struck against 10 per cent
wage reduction. fhe company is
English controlled and has a long rec
ord of excessive dividends and divided
profits in the form Of stock divi-
dends.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Strikers Deported
by Greek Dictator

Athens, Greece-General Pangalos,
Greek dictator, makes short work of
strikers. AS in Italy, under Musso-
lini, all strikes are outlawed. When
a strike is called, Pangalos simply de-
ports the strike directors to an island
in the Aegean sea. Practically alone,
they are forgotten, until the dictator
is given promise by them that
henceforth they will shun all forms of
agitation.
The dictator treats political oppo-
nents the same way.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Standard Oil Unhurt
by Court Dissolution

New York-The trustbusting order
Of the United States Supreme Court
against the Standard Oil Company
has done no harm to that industrial
machine. The order was handed down
Is years ago and the trust was un-
scrambled into 33 units. Prior to
dissolution the stock value of the par
ent company amounted to $685., ,916,-
461. The price of all stock for the
various dissolved units on July 8 last
was $4,410, ,SS9,500
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
CITY-OWNED STREET CARS
FAVORED BY UNIONISTS

San Francisco, Calif.-At the re-
quest of the Street Car Mems Union
the Labor Council has reaffirmed its
declaration for municipal ownership
and operation of San Francisco's
street cars and busses. One car line
on the city's leading business street is
owned and operated by the munici-
pality.
The unionists point out that the
lowest fare in the United States is
charged on this line; that it has wip-
ed out $2,000,000 of it's original cost
and has financed $3,000,000 of new
lines, thus adding approximately
$130,000,000 of assessed valuation to
the city tax roll"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Judges Ignore Rights;
Make Foot Ball of Constitution

Chicago, -"The injunction
judge is foe of the Constitu-
tion and the Declaration of In
dependence" said Victor Olan-
der, secretary of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor, in
discussing the fundamental
rights of workers.
"When the injunction Judge issues
a restraining order, directed against
workers, of character which he nev-
er directs against any other class of
citizens, he denies the equality of
man and repudiates the Declaration
of Independence" the trade unionist
said.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23

"When he insists, as he frequently
does, in cases where he is called up
on to support the interest of employ
ers against working people during
strikes, that there exists no right
which he may not restrict, then he
denies the doctrine of inherent and
inalienable rights, and again repudi-
ates the Declaration of independence.
"It is indeed time that the Amer
lean neople undertook to acquaint
themselves thoroughly with the insidi-
Gus onslaught that, has been made
against their basic law by the men
who are sworn to uphold it.
"The enemies of the Constitution
will be discovered in high places"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23
Building Workers Gain

Elmira, N. Y.-Building trades
craftsmen have secured wage in
crease of so cents day. Several en-
ployers are attempting to establish
the stop-watch system. The plan is
opposed even by unorganized, who
walked out at the plant of the Ken
nedy Valve Manufacturing Company.
The strike was successful.
The employers claim their purpose
is to ascertain production costs. When
the scheme is in operation, however,
they reveal their speed-up and sweat
ing purpose.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1926-07-23

There were nearly 10000 motor
busses in use in the United States at
the beginning of 1926. Common car
rier bus operations now cover 232,-
$40 miles of route, while non-com-
mon carrier bus operations reach out
over 334, ,401 miles