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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
MORGAN CROWD
FIGHTS TURK
RECOGNITION
u. S. Committee Hands
Out Atrocity Stuff
Especial to The Daily worksr)

NEW YORK, Feb. 1S.-That the op-
position to the ratification of the
Lausanne treaty with Turkey is still
hopeful of preventing it's approval is
shown by the statement of David
Hunter Miller, chairman of the Anne
rican committee opposed to the Lau-
same treaty. The committees cam
paign is based on the circulation of
atrocity stories against the Turks,
similar to those published during the
world war against Germany.
Mr.. Miller feels quite strongly on
the subject. The recognition of the
Turkish regime, he complains, would
be ''un-American" Even worse, it
would be "un-christian," he contends.
The treaty, he explains, would auto
matically remove all the existing safe
guards for the 'unselfish" American
activities of religious and charitable
institutions in that country. The
reader need only recall that American
Imperialism uses these institutions as
centers for it's economic penetration
in order to realize the 'unselfishness"
of these establishments.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
The Trade Union Congresses in Beau Paris and SCARBOROUGH

gamation of all the elements dissat-
isfied with the policy of the general
council, etc.
The Scarborough congress was to
put into power these aspirants to lead
ership and then the British general
council would, of course, revoke
everything decided upon previously
and would become a worthy member
of the Amsterdam International. But
in spite of the hopes of the right
wing, the congress acted quite differ
emily. This finds its explanation first
and foremost in the fact that the eco
nomic situation in Great Britain has
become worse during this year and
that very energetic work rs carried
on in Great Britain by the national
minority movement, which ideologi-
cally adheres to the r. |. l.. U.
Left Wing Conference.
The conference Of the minority
movement, held on the eve of the
Scarborough congress and attended
by over 600 delegates, representing
about 100000 people, came to deci-
sion ON all the most important ques-
tions agitating the British Trade I'm
ion movement. This conference, ig-
noring traditions, spoke without re-
servation and called a spade a spade,
thus causing a storm of indignation in
the entire bourgeois press. This press
began to talk about Communism as a
national disaster and yet only a
couple OF years ago prominent poll
ticians had asserted that Communism
could not possibly grow on British
soil.
The Scarborough congress could not
help reckoning with decisions which
had met with much sympathy among
the British workers. The minority
conference was the inevitable prelude
to the trades union congress, as II
formulated in an unequivocal manner
the aspirations and hopes of the most
advanced section of the British trade
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
British Discover Way
to Extract Oil from
Coal and Sewerage
Especial to The Daily worker)

LONDON, Feb. IS - The discovery
of a process by which British coal
resources may be much more eco
nomically utilized has been perfect
ed here. The 81. & N" process, as
the method has been named by its
two originators, Bryan Laing and
Harold Nielsen, will produce thru the
low temperature distillation of coal a
smokeless fuel for household pur-
poses and general industrial use, and
gas at much lower figure for city
consumers. AS matter Of vital in
terst to Great Britain is that the dis
covery will make it possible by the
complete and more efficient utilization
Of coal to produce electricity with its
use as cheaply as from water power.
Oil from Sewerage.
In actual operation the process has
even proven that the sewerage of
London, for the disposal of which the
city pays huge sum yearly, can be
so treated as to extract about 20 gal
Ions of oil per dry ton. Millions of
gallons may be thus recovered by
London alone. The solid residue, con-
tanning four per cent of calcium phos-
plate, makes splendid fertilizer. By
products from the coal process are an
absolutely smokeless briquette and a
powdered fuel which can be stored
indefinitely without risk of spontane-
GUS combustion and pumped and
handled like oil.
Discovery Interests IndustriaIlsts.
The saving of from 10 to Is per cent
in the consumption of coal is so i'm
portant an item, being by far the
largest, in manufacturing costs that
British industrialists have displayed
great interest in the discovery. A
plant operating in Yorkshire to test
out the possibilities is handling 100
tons of coal daily. The gas produced
can be piped over 75-mile radius at
just one-half the costs under other
systems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Seattle Laundry Owners
Will Hire Union Labor
Only; Fear Strike Vote

SEATTLE, Wash.-(FP)-Feb. 1S.
Members Of the local laundry own
ers' association who posted notices on
Jan %, announcing the establishment
of the open-shop policy now have is
sued other notices in which they re-
scind that action and declare that
they will continue to employ their
help from members of the Laundry
Workers Union.
This backing down on the part of
the employers postpones a general tie
up of the laundry business which
would have followed their efforts to
enforce a non-union policy.
The management now states that it
will give preference in employment to
members of the Laundry Workers
Union who must apply to the plant for
jobs; that no non-member of the union
will be employed, except in case there
are no applications of members on
file ready and qualified for work, and
that no union member will be dis
charged except for cause.
The committee of mediators who
are attempting to iron out differences
between the workers and the man
agements over wage. increases and a
Saturday half holiday will continue its
work. This involves about 1000 work
ers, including inside workers, drivers
and stationary engineers. The inside
people 1,400) have voted to strike un-
less their demands are granted.
Their demands are for an SIS a week
minimum and Saturday half holiday.
The drivers who work on commission
ask a guarantee of S35 per week in
stead of S25 as at present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Austrian Prosecutor
Declares Carniciu's
Release Is Illegal

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. IS. - The
fascist justice of Austria released
some time ago Mencia Carniciu who
had been sentenced to eight years
for the murder Of the revolutionist
Todor Panitza, on the grounds that
her health did not allow her to serve
the sentence.
Now the general prosecutor of
Austria has decided, that the release
of the murderer was Illegal. In the
meantime. Mencia Carniciu returned
to Bulgaria where she is honored as
a heroine and her weak health seems
to be completely repaired. The deci-
sion of the Austrian prosecutor is
rather late!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
SPOOKOLOGY, AN
IMP0SSIBILITY,
SAYS SCIENTIST
Most Mediums Takers,
Is Professors Verdict

PALO ALTO, Calf, Feb. 1S.-After
conducting 10000 experiments, Prof
John Edgar Coover, of the psychology
department of Stanford University,
has decided that telepathy or thought
transference by mediums or others,
without special senses is an impossi-
bility. In the course of his expert
ments, Professor Coover exploded the
theory that person being stared at
would become aware of the fact and
turn to see who was looking. He be-
lieves that many mediums are sincere.
Great numbers of them, however, are
fakes, pure but not by any means
simple, he declares. In his visits to
mediums, Prof. Coover invariably con-
founded them by asking them to
tell him the card which he had
selected from a deck. Tho he tried
to transmit the thought to the medi-
UNI, in every case the latter was un-
able to name the card correctly.
Mediums must prove their power
before scientific men will believe in
them," Prof. Coover concludes. In
his opinion most mediums delude
themselves. They think spirit is
guiding them, he said, "but it is really
their own imagination"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20

borough congress took up a fighting
attitude, namely on the question OF
factory and workshop committees. It
Is a well-known fact that the reac-
tionary trade union bureaucrats fear
these committees more than anything
else, as they do not want direct or
ganization Of the lower strata. To
have to deal with organized factories
and works is a much more difficult af-
fair than to have to do with individual
delegates. That is why the right wing
Of the Amsterdam international is
against factory and workshop commit
tees, considering this a Communist
slogan. The Scarborough congress
declared itself in favor Of the organ
ization of factory and workshop com
mittees. This means an enormous
step forward on the road to the estab-
lishment Of truly revolutionary and
strongly welded-together trade union
movement. This decision caused con-
sternation among the reactionary
leaders. Factory and workshop com
mittees are the things they want least
"a eAAs AA'g hAOW tue revolutionary
nature of factory and workshop CON-
mittees and their role in times of
acute social crisis. They will, OF
course, do their utmost to counteract
the decision which was adopted and
to bring It to nought II not thruout the
country, at least in their own indus
tries.
VIII the right wing succeed in sa-
this decision? To Judge by
The mood Of rank and file trade un-
onists, the right leaders will meet
With stubborn resistance from below.
Did not the railwaymen's delegation
It the Scarborough congress compel
Thomas not to speak against factory
md workshop committees? Thomas
lad to keep silent IL he did not want
o cut himself irretrievably adrift
rom HIS own union.
Continued in next issue)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Roumanian Sigurantza
Denounced by Author

KISHENEV, Bessarabia, Feb. 49,
Lieutenant Morarescu, altho he muir
dered more than 100 innocent people
in the most bestial manner, was ac-
quilted by the court of the Rouman-
ian boyars. The well-known Rouman-
ian author, Panait Istrati, and today
one of the best-known writer's in
France, only recently visited his home
country and experienced the methods
Of the siguranza. In an article on
the Morarescu trial and on the condi-
lions in Bessarabia and Roumania he
declares:
Never have there been in history
such bloody crimes, even the red Sui
tan Adul Hamid ought to blush with
envy. And all this happens in peace
time and at the doors of Western Eu-
rope. The main ringleaders are ofic-
ers of the regular army and are Sc
lected by the government" Istrati
points out the fact that when he dared
to write about the government by ter
ror Bratianu in Bessarabia and to re-
fer to the prisons which resound from
the whole Roumanian press in the
the cries of the innocent prisoners,
service of the boyars slandered him.
The Morarescu trial, said Istrati, sur
passed all the we'll known eterrors and
crimes of the siguranza and the offic.
ers' gangs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
u. S. Financiers Extend
Hold on Latin America

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S-American
trade with Latin American countries
crossed the two billion dollar mark in
1925, breaking all previous records, it
was announced today by the depart
ment of commerce. The 1925 figures
were $2,094,195, 3O9, as compared with
$1,9S5, 341 1851 in 1924; and were div
ided into imports of $1,133, SO1, 1854, and
exports of $96O,39S,445
These statistics reveal how rapidly
American finance imperialism is ex-
tending it's influences in South Amer
lea, Central America, and Mexico.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Swedish Firm Opens Factory.

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-(Tass).-
Feb. 15.-The large Swedish firm,
"AGEA" is negotiating with the main
concession committee on the compile
ton of a large electro-technical works
in Yaroslav. The "AGEA" company
commenced the erection of these
works at the beginning of the. revolu-
ton, but stopped work in November,
1918. The works have not been ma
tionalized About 1900 workers will
be employed. The works will pro-
duce motors, transformers, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
LEWIS SLOGANS
SERVE RICH N. Y.
MANUFACTURER
CONTINUED from page ~.

pickets win the bosses agree to quit
importing siabs.
Second--lf the employers will get
rid of their hired gorillas the union
will not be compelled to use pickets.
Third-The union had no Conimun-
ist leadership during the IL weeks
strike in 1912 and the 30 weeks strike
in 1920. Then why didn't the employ
ers grant the demands of the workers
at that time!
Fourth-Tle employers talk about
claw and orler," but they do every
thing possible to increase their profits.
Fifth-The fur barons cannot deny
that they hiied squads of gorillas who
beat up scoiss of workers during the
strikes of 1872 and 1920 who were not
Communists.
Sixth-Thl employers should ex-
plain why hey are always talking
about the Communists and not about
the conditiois Of the workers.
Seventh-rhey dare not even at
tempt to SOW that the industry is
not rich enugh to grant the demands
/ of the works..
The Fur Workers Union assures
the bosses nat they will not be able
to fight the workers with the foolish
charges the are circulating. 1t de-
clares that the bosses will not get
anywhere with such tactics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
BY A. LosoVsKY,
Secretary Of the Red international
of Labor Unions.
w. The veering to the Left Con-

w. The Veering to the Left Con-
tinues. marlborough
The British Trades Union Congress
in Scarborough is another step to the
left of the entire British labor move
ment. This congress was anxiously
looked forward to, both by the friends
and enemies Of the labor movement.
The right wing of the Amsterdam In
ternational placed great hopes in this
congress. Among the Amsterdamers
there was the widespread opinion
that last years policy of the general
trades union council was purely the
result of chance. The idea was that
while the most prominent leaders
were in the Macdonald government,
their places had been taken by young
and inexperienced people who Initial
ed new policy. The congress had
only TO meet and the old traditional
order would be re-established.
These were the hopes from which
the reformists Of all countries gained
solace. They expected the access to
power at this congress of worthy sup
pOilClo VI inc SAdoo tIuOcB ouSH 40
Thomas, Clynes, etc. International
reformism was setting its hopes on a
retrograde movement. because the
right elements within the British
trade union movement had been car
rying ON feverishly organizational
work during the last few months. To
people like Thomas, who had repeat
eddy stated that he did not know to
what class he belonged and that he is
against the damnable class struggle.
the veering TO the left is something
monstrous and irrational. As the veer-
ing TO the left is a menace to their
policy Of class truce, they energeti-
cally took in hand the organization Of
aha right wing, the theological ANAL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Earl of Craven Unable
to Leave for Bermuda

MONTREAL, Feb. 1S.-The Earl of
Craven, who came here after his fight
from New York to escape arrest and
deportation for his elopment five
years ago with the beautiful Lady
Cathcart, found that his troubles have
just begun.
Montreal is ice-bound and snow
bound. The st. Lawrence river is
clogged with ice and blizzard has
disrupted rail traffic to Halifax and
other maritime ports, so the counts
plans for departing from this bally
country for Bermuda" have many OBJ
stacles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
U. S. TRIES TO
WHITEWASH THE
COAL OPERATORS
Mine Director Wants to
Hide Guilt
BY LELAND oLps.

The attempt Of safety service d.
rector Read Of the U. S. bureau of
mines to whitewash the coal owners
for their disregard of miners lives is
exposed by annual figures issued from
hts own bureau. These. figures show
that in the last decade there has been
no progress in protecting the coun-
try's coal diggers against hazards. The
industry has been more interested in
undermining the United Mine Work
ers, which is the chief force fighting
for safety measures. Read asserts:
WhItewash Operators.
"The coal mining industry deserves
great credit for what it has done in
accident prevention work" He is up
set because editors have charged the
coal mining industry with reckless dis
regard of the lives of mine workers.
He issued his whitewash to the Ma
tional Coal Association, the employer
organization. What are the facts?
The fatality rate in 1924, was 1.59
miners per million hours of exposure
in the industry. With the exception
of 1922, we must go back to 1911 to
find as high an accident death rate.
The average fatality rate for the 8
years 1924 was 1.56 per million
hours of exposure. This compares
with an average of 1.47 for the IL pre-
ceding years. The fatality rate in the
last years for which full records
have been published exceeds by more
than per cent the average of the
preceding IL years.
The years 1916-1920, in which the
miner union was at the peak of its
influence, were years in which the
fatality rate fell far below the aver
age. The average per million hours
exposure in these 5 years was 1.34.
The average of 1.56 in the years 1922
"a in which non-union mines were
forging ahead was 1.56 or more than
JIG per cent higher. If we picture
the industry as manned by miners
working steadily throughout the year
this means 80 miners killed per 10000
employed in the openshop period COM
pared with 33 per 10000 in the period
of union dominance.
Fatalities Twice as High.
The fatality rate from explosions
of coal dust and gas in the years
1922-1924 when the industry was at
tempting to break away from union
conditions averaged more than twice
as high as in the 5 years 1916-192O
when union conditions predominated.
The figures are oil per million hours
exposure in the union period and OPS
in the open shop period. BY actual
count an average of 406 miners were
killed in such disasters in 1924,
compared with 2OS per year in the
earlier period.
This striking failure of the indus
try to protect the miners life is re-
Elected in the hardness with which
coal operators are adopting rockdust-
ing in dusty or gaseous mines as well
as in their refusal to make general
use of the cooler, short-flame explo-
sives designated as permissible ex-
plosives" by the bureau of mines. Last
year less than 25 per cent of the ex-
plosives used in bituminous mines
were permissible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
CREEK WORKERS
FIGHT AGAINST
REGISTRATION
Urge Support of Foreign
Born Councils

The foreign-born workers Of Chi
cago are becoming aroused against
the attempt at industrial CONSUMPTION
and enslaYement advocated by the
Coolidge-Mellon government and be-
ing spread broadcast by the secre-
tary of labor, James J. Davis. They
realize full well that such legislation
as the proposed finger-printing Of
foreign-born workers is only a prelim-
mary to the systematic terrorization
Of all workers.
Recently the Greek Workers Edu-
cational League held meeting in
Hull House where the assemblage was
addressed on this subject by speak
ers familiar with the menace contain
ed in the registration scheme and
adopted the following resolutions, call
ing upon other forefgn-born workers
Ito take similar action and affiliate
with the councils for the protection OF
the foreign-born, which are consolidate
ing the movement against this latest
conspiracy against labor of the thoro-
ly rotten Coolidge government:
HASASoog buG IoSCIcldIy OF LABOR
James John Davis, has caused to be
introduced in the present session of
congress a bill for the registration of
the foreign-born workers, as Presi-
dent Coolidge intimated in his mes
sage to congress, and
Whereas, several senators and
congressman have introduced bills
which propose among other things to
register, photograph and fingerprint
the foreign-born workers, and
Whereas, the purpose of these
measures is the complete enslave-
ment of the foreign-born workers un-
der the yoke Of the big economic in
terests of this country, and their sep
aration from the native workers
which will cause the weakening of
the forces of labor and the dissolution
of the labor unions of this country,
and
Whereas, the proposed legislation
is a menace not only against the work
ing class but also against the entire
foreign-born population of this coun-
- NNA@N supp SoS6b us most clement
airy human rights and lowers it to
the status of common criminals.
Therefore, the Greek Workers
Educational League of Chicago, as
sembled at its regular general meet
ing Of February z, 1926,
RESOLVED, that it emphatically pro-
tests anti-foreign legislation and Joins
with the organization of the councils
for the protection Of the foreign-born.
which have been founded by the for
eign language organizations for this
exclusive purpose and,
Calls upon all the foreign language
of our city and of the
country and especially on the Greek
and organizations to protest
against this legislation and to ioin
The local councils for the protection OF
he foreign-born for the more effec-
i've defense of our endangered rights.
Copy of this resolution to be sent
% the labor press of the country and
o the Greek Press in America"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Communist Editor on
Trial Second Time;
to Reduce Sentence

BELGRADE, Feb. 10 - The Jugo-
Slayian journalist Mesha Piyade, who
issued some years ago an illegal Com
munist paper in Jugo-Slavia, was SEN
fenced to twenty years at hard labor,
This sentence frightened the bour-
geois journalists. They publicly OPP
posed it and forced its annulment. A
new trial against Piyade is now TAX
ing place and it is hoped by these
journalists that the new sentence will
be only" four to five years in pris-
on.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
No Golden Rule For Him.

Rev. DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, a prom
inent minister of the city, has tele-
graphed each member of the senate
his protest against Turkish recogni-
ton. In giving out this fact Miller
added sanctimoniously that we must
carry out our commitment of honor
to the unfortunate Armenian people.
This commitment was a scheme of
the Morgan gang to have the United
States take over the mandate for Ar
menia, in order to prevent its becom-
ing Soviet, and because of its proxi-
nifty to the great oil fields of the Near
East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Set Price on Labor.

NEW ORLEANS-(FP)-In a cir
cular issued by New Orleans associa-
alton of commerce to outside capital
it is stated that factory labor is not
organized and the price for common
labor ranges from S1.5O to SO a day."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Must Have Been Supplying.
Especial to The paiIv WORKER,

Especial to The Daily Worker)
ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. IS - Ben Glib
bons, a prisoner in the federal pen
itentiary here, has been elected presi-
dent Of radio Sunday School class
organized by the Baptist Tabernacle
Of this city. He got rehgiously doped
by listening to the Tabernacle's Sun
day programs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-20
Thon Hides His Policy.

The LEAF Of the reactionary right
wing Of thIritish trade union move
ment, Thos, dared not unfold his
colonial plsophy at this congress.
What he 4 to say in his capacity
OF colonlaleretary he was afraid to
say from platform of workers
congress. is one thing to give an
interview the capacity Of cabinet
minister, tpeak at bourgeois ban.
quets and sing the praises Of the
great Brit empire, promising to
protect theods grabbed by the Bri-
fish bourgde, and another thing to
come 70 arkers' congress and 10
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