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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Nationalist Struggles
Within Serbia Threaten
to Overthrow Ministry

BELGRADE, Feb ia serious
ministerial crisis is looming up, due to
the nationalist struggle between the
Croatian and Serb elements in the
conglomerate population OF this coun-
try. The conflict has beeen intensi-
fed by the dissatisfaction of the Serb
ian radicals with the speeches being
made by Stefan Raditch minister Of
education, on his tour of the principal
cities. Radtich was brot into the
cabinet to end this very quarrel which
had ranged on the one side the Serb
ian central bloc and on the other the
Croatian and Slovenian federalists
and the autonomists. The division is
growing continually deeper, a great
contrast to the success of the nation
alist minorities' policy of the Soviet
Union.
M. Korosec, Slovenian clerical dep
uty, created a sensation in parliament
by declaring that there were rumors
in common circulation Of military &C.
Foreign Minister Ninchitch, he COM
planned, remained silent in the face of
ton against Greece in the spring.
these assertions, tho at the same time
participating in the preparations for
the world disarmament conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
CHANG TSOLIN 4
IS Warned BY
SOVIET UNION
Imperiaiists Warned to
Keep Hands Off
Especial to The DAILY Worker

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., Feb. 15-Ths
PraVda editorially warns Chang Tso
Lin and the Russian white guards in
his employ, together with the imper-
iaist powers supporting him, chiefly
Japan and Great Britain, to beware of
presuming too much on the patience
Of the Soviet Union in his military
naneuVers in North China.
After affirming the willingness OF
the Soviet officials to do everything
in their power to straighten out the
matters in controversy, the editorial
concludes with the warning: That
force will be used IL necessary to pro
tect Soviet rights and to defend the
interests Of the Chinese masses
against the Manchurian despot.
AT present" the Pravda states,
Chang has not the possibility Of car
rying out his plans: the conquest Of
the whole of China, the destruction OF
the movement for national freedom,
and the unlimited subjugation OF
China under the dominance OF imper-
ialism. He is, therefore, attempting
with the encouragement OF certain for
eign powers to consolidate his infu-
ence in Manchuria. Chang Tso Lin
has made his first attack upon the
Chinese Eastern railway. This maneu-
yer aims to exclude the Soviet Union
completely from participation in the
administration OF this railroad as laid
down in existing treaties"
The article goes on to state that
Chang T has used every opportunity
to block the execution Of the agree
ment he himself had signed concern
ing the operation OF the railway.
Changes subordinates have command
eered trains and operated them en-
tirely regardless of the regular seized
ules. Locomotive engineers were
compelled under threat of immediate
execution to drive the trains com
Wandered by the military. Railway
officials were compelled under threat
Of courtmarial not to follow the IN
structions of the railway administra-
ton. A crowd of spies and disguised
policemen were set upon the Russian
director Of the railway administration
in order to make the administration of
the railway impossible" The final
act of defiance, the article states. was
the arrest of the Russian director and
the demand that two new administra-
tors, one a Chinese and the other
Russian, should be appointed in his
place. The statement winds up with
the declaration that the Soviet Union
will not tolerate the attempt Of lit
tie reactionary Chinese general to de-
stroy the growing friendship of the
three great peoples, China, Russia,
and Japan and will intervene by
force If necessary to protect fits rights
and those of the Chinese masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17

every other thing that the boss or
ders him to do.
James has not much to say. He
does not know much and, as he says,
he does not want to know anything
taking the old saying, Ignorance is
bliss" as his motto. He is very re-
ligious, which is the cause of all his
dumbness.
The other day he was lifting some
heavy castings that I had to a ma
chine and as noticed the effects of
heavy lifting, asked:
"Is it heavy, James?"
''I'll say it is! Gosh my back hurts
terrible" he said.
Take it easy, James, you'll break
your neck"
Then with a gloomy expression he
goes on to say:
81 have to work hard to keep my
job, have wife and children to sup
port" oes 90
''How much do you get now ?'a
Forty cents an hour-$19.20 per
week. My wife is a good woman. She
economies and we get along some
how"
"The company snakes millions-in
fact, over one hundred million dol
lars annually-by. robbing you and
me and the rest of those that work
for it. Don't you think we workers
ought to organize in heaven"
1t is hard to get fanatics like James
to do anything else but toll hard and
fatten the capitalists and their lack
cystic priests, preachers and rab-
bis.
Religion has made good slave out
of millions of workers, but the con-
slant agitation of the Communists
will help win them over and then
the bosses slogan of getting pie in
the sky when you die" will be chang
ed to getting all the pie before we
die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
'RABKORS' ACTIVE
ALL OVER RUSSIA,
CONFERENCE SHOWS
BY WILLIAM F. KRUsE.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., (By Mail.)
Every Issue of the daily press In
Russia contains many columns of
material supplied by the "Rabkors"
or Worker Correspondents from the
factories, shops, mines, offices,
schools, army units and rural viIlag-
es. This work is now being extend
ed In the form Of regular exchange
of correspondence between similar
worker reporters in the various
countries In the west and those of
the Soviet Union.
All over Russia, even in the most
distant parts, this network of in
formation sources, direct from the
very heart of the proetsriat, is be-
ag extended. A conference of
prkers correspondents of the
Nspapers in Central Asia has Just
a. N concluded. The conference
wed that during the last year
the number of "Rabkors" had in
creased more than three-fold, i. e.,
from 400 to 1900 and the amount
of space devoted to material sup
piled by worker correspondents had
increased also more than three fold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
U. S. REVIEWS ITS
ANCIENT TRUST
BUSTING FARCE
Writ Is Sought Against
the Food Combine
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-The de-
partment of justice has applied to the
federal district court in New York
for an injunction against the National
Food Products Corporation restraining
its officials from taking steps to ac-
quire majority stock control in a num-
Der of nationally known food products
companies. A similar suit is pend
ing against the Ward Baking Com
pany.
How ineffective such an attack up
on the inevitable process of industrial
combination is was most forcibly H.
Illustrated in the case of the dissolution
of the oil trust years ago. Shares of
the Twenty-Five concerns into which
the Standard was then divided have
since increased enormously in value.
Moreover, there is every reason to
believe the administration is acting
merely for political effect. President
Coolidge has repeatedly gone out of
his way to assure big business that
he fayors the. elimination of competi-
ton. The threatened monopolization
of the food supply of the country.
however, has aroused an increasing
protest from many sources which
have accepted justification in the
basic industries. The administrations
action is intended for political effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
DON'T LEAVE UT YOUR |
NAME AND ADDRESS WHEN |
SENDING IN YOUR ARTICLE

Due to the volume Of Worker cor
respondenee that comes to our office
every day and the necessity often TO
ask for more detailed information
and send suggestions and instrue-
tions, we make the following request
from our Worker Correspondence:
At the top Of each page Of your
manuscript, In the right hand cor
ner write In plain hand, II you do
not use typewriter, your name, ad-
dress and date. At the end Of your
manuscript add note stating
whether you wish your name to be
used and any other instructions re-
oarding the signing Of your article.
This Is very important and fall
ure to observe these rules may be
responsible for your article not get
ting into the paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Four Negroes Receive
Justice a la Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. Is =
Four Negroes, charged with the muir
der of James w. Moore, an aged
merchant, near Camden last July
10, were electrocuted at the state
penitentiary this morning. This is
the largest number ever electrocuted
in Arkansas. The ceremony lasted
only half an hour and as the authori-
ties reported: WAS without Incl
dent" The Negroes died with ironic
smiles on their faces, maintaining
their innocence to the last.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
London Talks with N. Y.
Via Atlantic Wireless

LONDON, Feb. 10 = Entirely sue,
cessful telephone conversations by
means of the wireless were held last
Sunday between the Rugby station
here and one on Long Island, New
York, according to reports just made
public. The Rugby station has been
experimenting in wireless telephony
over the Atlantic for many months.
1t is possible that a transatlantic
service may be inaugurated soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Dyehouse Workers
Get Small Wages; Must
Work in Vile Smells
BY a Worker correspondent.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia certain
bleach and dye house in the Bronx
pays its workers a miserable 81 a
day for 81 hours work Many of the
workers have families; to support
them they are forced to do outside
work, if they are lucky enuf to get it.
Small Wages.
The firm pays 3S cents an hour and
5 cents attendance bonus for skilled
workers. If worker is over half an
hour behind the required attendance
for any reason whatever-he loses
his bonus with the result that his
envelope will be $3.50 short.
The wages of women workers are
lower than those of men workers.
They range from % to 80 cents an
hour. There are about 20 girls work
ing in the place. Some of them are
married, and together with their hus-
bands, they must slave away to make
ends meet.
Menace to Health.
ment are very injurious to the health
of the workers. Most OF the time the
department is filed with dense smoke
from the boiling dyes, and vile smell
permeates the entire room
There is a toilet in each depart
ment. These conveniences are the
size of monkey cage, and badly need
plumber and someone to clean them
up.
Safety First Propaganda.
A great safety first propaganda is
continually carried on by the bosses.
The walls are plastered with illustra-
lions on how 10 avoid accidents, but
not single card is posted illustrat-
ing how a man can support himself
and his family on S25 week.
A safety first moving picture was
recently shown in the lunch room,
during the lunch hour: the workers
were forced to see II on their own
tlmel A speaker told he assembled
workers that the ''carelessness OF the
workers Is responsible for the death
OF 10000 out of the $4,000 who die
every year. OF industrial accidents.
Pay SO for Job.
Workers who get this job thru an
agency are forced 70 pay IS for the
privilege. One worker know OF can
not get a job here merely because
he can't afford to p6y the agency. He
worked at this' place before. One
worker, recently injured, has to drag
truck.loads II clothes with one hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Ohio Police Arrest s'ea
Greeks as Bolshevists
10y A Worker cOrrespondent.)


WARREN, Ohio, Feb. IS Three
Greek workers, who were soliciting
for the Greek Communist paper, EN-
pros, and distributing Workers Party
literature, were arrested, charged
with violating a city ordinance which
prohibits handing out advertising
matter on the streets. After being
held two days in Jail, they have been
released.
These arrests come right after the
organization of local manufacturers
association, formed to put down the
rising militancy among the steel
workers. The three men were really
suspected of being Bolsheviks, as
came out in their examination before
the mayor and the chief of police.
Both these officials were violent in
their denunciation of the "Reds."
They informed the three prisoners
that there were many Bolsheviks in
the city. They said the Reds" aimed
to put the Red Flag on the city hall
The chief thrust out his chest as he
declared loudly that he and his police
force intended to suppress any such
revolution. A stool pigeon belonging
to the Greek-American progressive as
ISOLATION, fascist organization back
ed by the 100 per cent Greek patriots,
had followed the three men around
and pointed them out to the officers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17

AhOA dAhudA Cdcu ulflutuuS are DIT
the rate of Fl per cent on the original
investment. ~
Bread Trust Profits.
Ward Baking Corp. appears with a
1925 profit of $4,2OS,143 after heavy
deductions for interest, depreciation
and taxes. After payment of per
cent dividends on the preferred stock
this means a return Of S10.1S a share
on the no par class A common stock
and $2.1S share of the class B COM
mon, neither of which represent any
real investment whatsoever On the
preferred stock which represents all
the money put into the business the
return is over 10 per cent.
Cushman's Sons, another important
baking outfit, FepoFts profit of ST.
275,763. After deducting for depreci-
alton, federal taxes, etc. this gives
the common stockholders S5.14 a
share. AS each share is rated at So
in the company's balance sheet this
means a profit of over 100 per cent.
cocoa-coIa Huge Profits.
Cocoa-Cola hardly rates as a food
but it is generally grouped with the
food corporations. It's 1925 profit of
$9,O20,165 gave common stockholders
a return of S1447 a share. As the
shares are valued in the company's
balance sheet at $50 this means re-
turn of more than 48 per cent on the
stockholders investment.
Cluett. Peabody & Co., with an an
nual production of 100000 dozen
collars and 100000 dozen shirts, made
a profit of $2,242,699 in 1925. This is
a return of sS.5S a share or over II
per cent of the $50 par value COM
mon stock.
Endicott-Johnston Corp, with an
average daily output of 125,000 pairs
of shoes, reports 1925 profit of So
BATES, equivalent after all deduc-
lions 10 SS.47 a share on the $50 par
common stock. Taking into account
recent stock dividends of 10 per cent
and 20 per cent the 1925 profits mean
a return of over 20 per cent.
Safety razors have proved a midas
touch to the owners of Gillette Safety
Razor Co. In 1925 shavers turned
over to this company profit toll of
$12,0S9,S57 representing a return of
1904 share on the 100000 shares
Of common stock. AS these common
shares do not represent a real invest
ment of more than $40 share this
means a return of more than 60 per
cent. Gillette is tnrning out upwards
Of 100000 razors and 50,OOO,OO0
packets of razor blades a year.
Can Trust Has Big Rake-oH.
American Can Co., the trust which
gets its rake-off oh the increasing use
Of can goods. reports a 1925 profit of
after al deductions for in
terest, depreciation, and taxes. This is
a return of $S2,74 share of 800 par
value.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Ohio Judge Charges
Police Bring in Crooks
BY Worker Correspondent.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Feb. 15-Po-
lice Judge Hefferman threw a bomb
shell into the ranks of the super law
enforcers when he charged from the
bench that the police were bringing In
petty crooks and allowing the big
crooks to escape TO Europe. Heffer-
man stated that to steal million and
go to Europe was no crime but to
steal lead pencil or getscaught shoot
ing dice was big crime in the eyes
OF the; police. Go out and get the
big crooks. was Heffernan's advice
to the police In releasing a prisoner
charged with petty larceny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Explosion in Powder
Plant Injuries Worker

EAST ALTON, H., Feb. 15-one
worker was critically injured and win
dows were shattered in Alton, FIVE
miles away, by an explosion at the
East Alton plant of the Equitable
Powder company. The blast is also
said to have caused a fire in a farm
house two miles away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
YOU'LL GET PIE IN THE SKY WHEN
YOU DIE BUT ONLY 40 CENTS AN
HOUR WHILE YOU TOLL ON EARTH
By ANDY, Worker Correspondent.

EAST PITTSBURGH Pa, Feb 15James
that toll day and out the
that workers with
the boss than he
brains
AS the whistle blows you'll find loyal
cleaning chips handling castings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
MANY DENVER
BANKS BANKRUPT
IN PAST YEAR
Six Close Doors In Past
Two Months

DENVER-(FP)-Feb. 15.-Half of
Denver's banks have closed their
doors in the last two years. In the
last two months half dozen have
quit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Austrian Delegation in Russia.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., Feb. 15.-In
order to strengthen the trade rela-
tons between Austria and the Soviet
Union, two representatives OF Aus
tria were in Moscow. Otto Deutsh,
representing one Of the large Vienna
banks, Credit Anstalt, and Richard
Rosenbacher, the director OF the Gen.
eral Merchandise Society, were in
Moscow for this purpose. They visit.
ed the State Bank, the Industrial
Bank and the Bank for Foreign Trade,
and carried on negotiations for en-
larging the trading activities OF Sow.
iet-Austrian Joint Stock Companies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17

That worker next door to you
may not have anything to do to-
night. Hand him this copy of the
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
FOOD COMBINE REPORTS SHOW
EXCESSIVE PROFITS FOR 1925
BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.

Excessive 1925 profits leading corporations
National Biscuit Co
holders
holder 1922
stock the investors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
LEWIS HENCHMEN
FEAR TO BATTLE
COAL OPERATORS
Agreements Broken, But
Clique Does Nothing
BY a Worker Correspondent

BENTLEYVILLE, Pa, Feb. 15-Go-
ing thru the various newspapers of
both the capitalist class and the
working class, l am almost ashamed
to say that I am union miner, on &C
count of the weakness in our fight
against the coal operators, l live in
sub-district 3 Of District 5, United
Mine Workers of America which is
the center of the fight between the
coal operators and the miners union.
The coal operators started their Of
fensiye on the miners here in May,
1925 by shutting down the mines and
drying the miners to starvation and
into the open shop mines that sur
round this. district. ..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Work on 1917 Scale.

After the mines had been shut
down six months notice was posted
telling the miners they could go back
to work if they were willing to work
on the 1917 scale. The notice also
stated that those who refuse to work
under these conditions must vacate
the company houses. Many of the
miners moved out of these houses as
they refused to work under the open
shop conditions. In place of the min
ers that moved out the company i'm
ported scabs from other parts of the
state to work in the mines.
At present there are two mines
working-one at Mariana, Pa, and
the other at Cokeburg., Pa. The
bosses are also preparing to open the
Ellsworth mines No. 1 and 2. The
operators are building seven foot
fence around every mine so that the
scabs will be able to work without Sin
reference" by the union miners.
These mines are owned by the Bethle-
hem Steel corporations This COM
pany signed a three year agreement
with the union, but did not keep their
agreement one year.
The Pittsburgh Coal company is an
other that has broken its agreement
and is working five mines on the open
shop 1917 wage scale basis. Every
day more and more coal is being
loaded and nothing is done by the
union officials to prevent 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17

"The power Of the working class 10
organization. Without organization Of
the masses, the proIctsrlat--ls moth.
ing. oreanized--lt Is all. Organize.
ton Is unanimity of'sotlon, unanIn,lty
Of practical activities"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Machine Mass MeetInas.

Mass meetings are held every so
often in the district to keep the
union miners from returning to work.
These meetings are held in such a
manner that they do more harm than
good. The meetings are opened with
a prayer that god should help the
miners win, then the payroll gang
cracks a few jokes about the scabs
bankrupting the treasury Of Charles
Schwab and his corporation and then
they pat each other on the back and
tell the miners that John L. Lewis is
the greatest labor leader in the world.
The meeting is closed with three half
hearted cheers for the payroll gang,
with the pay-rollers doing most of the
yelling.
No questions are permitted. A few
miners that had the nerve to ask any
questions were rushed out of the hall
so quickly that they did not know
what had happened to them. After
every meeting there would be num-
Der Of miners that would go to work
IN these open shop mines.
How long can our union function as
a real union with John L. Lewis think
ing more of the coal operators than
of the starving miners and their
wives and children? He is so worried
about being a good fellow" with the
operators that he refuses to call
general strike of the coal miners and
force the operators to enforce union
conditions. t@t.
Fight Five-year Agreement!
When John l.. Lewis signed the FIVE
year agreement with the coal operat-
ors, he signed the death certificate for
this district.
"The pen Is mlghtier than the
sword" provided you know how to use
Il. Come down and learn how in the
worker correspondents classes. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17

"The pen Is mlghtier than the
sword provided you know how to use
Il. Come down and learn how in the
worker correspondents classes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-17
Fight Five-year Agreement!

When John L. Lewis signed the five
year agreement with the coal operat
ors. he signed the death certificate for
this district.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-01-13
NEGROES !
ARE Being BUSTED
Night Riders Drive Them From
Desirable Property

Tampa, Fla, Jan. IS. Rl-Follow-
ing appeals for protection 70 the
Tampa city commission yesterday BY
negro residents and delegations from
three negro organizations, city and
county officers today coAtinued 10
search for a band OF night riders.
which the negroes said had warned
several Of their number to quit the
city.
City officials charged that tho
night riders have been acting under
the instigation OF real estate opera
tors who would force the negroes
TO sell their holdings 10 make way
for sub divisions. =,
II. G. Dolby, an aged negro, told
Mayor Perry G.. Wall, that he Vas
visited by the band which. after
burning cross before his home,
warned him 10 leave the city within
IS hours. They then left his plnce.
Dolby said, and set fire 10 a negro
neighbours home.
Police were detailed TO protect The
negro with orders TO shoot TO XIII any
one attempting to modest him or his
property.
After delegations representing the
inter-denominational minister's all.
ance. the Tampa Urban league and
the business and professional men
had visited the commission instruc-
tons were issued that the band Of
night riders was to be rounded vp
and every protection afforded the
negro residents.
Belief that real estate operators
were behind the night riders, invests
gators said, was based on the fact
that several attempts recently have
been made TO develop a subdivision
which have met with failure because
OF negro occupants Of the property.