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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
St. Louis Corporation
Divides Blood Money
(By a Worker correspondentl


ST. LOUIS. Mo-, Feb. THE Lig-
gett Meyers Tobacco company, which
has its headquarters here and is CAPT
talized at many millions of dollars,
has announced that it will divide
among its shareholders the huge pro-
fits it has squeezed out of its slaves
this year. The dividends which the
capitalist press calls, mellon cutting
amounts to seventeen per cent.
There will be no, mellon cutting for
its thousands of oyerworked and I'M
derpaid slaves, nor for the hundreds
Of ragged and shiyering unemployed
who roam the streets of st. Louis in
search Of a thin bowl of soup for
their starving bodies.
The Liggett Meyers company also
paid the largest federal income tax
of any firm in the st. Louis district.
This amounted to nearby two million
dollars. It is a VIGOROUSLY scab con-
Germ.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
How Garment Boss
Bulldozes Workers
10y r. D., Worker Correspondent,

(By r. D., Worker Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. IA year
ago when the boss introduced line
Of children's pants into the shop where
we work. the boss declared that we
would have to accept a 10 per cent
reduction since he was unable to make
anything in children's pants as he had
to sell them cheaper"
The girls protested saying that II
took more time to make pair of chill
dren's pants than mems pants and
that they did not want to accept the
10 per cent reduction. In the end the
boss got the best of the girls.
Last week | overheard a converse.
ton OF this boss with one OF the bust.
nessmen who buy mems pants. The
businessmen wanted to know how the
garment shop boss had made out on
the children's pants that were being
made in his shop.
There was such a big demand for
them" declared the boss, "That a pair
OF children's pants sold for S1.25 while
q pair OF mems pants only brot in Sc
cents"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
IN 7 HE | AN 0 F
PLENTY WORKERS
RE M AIN IN DEBT
Whole Families Slave
for Masters Gain
BY a Worker Correspondent.

MT. VERNON, Wash, Feb. lac
cording to speech by local rotarian
broadcasted over the radio we have
the finest soil to be found anywhere
with the world record for oat produc-
ton, and one Of the greatest dairy in
dustries in the United States.
1t is interesting to consider how
much the poor farmers and workers
here share in this prosperity: Oats
are $50 per ton, just about the cost of
production. Sugar beets brought only
Sc per ton, a price which will not
cover the cost of the crop. The dairy
men receive an average Of $500 per
hundred and at this price they'll tell
you there's nothing in it. In a land
flowing with milk and honey land rent
is $40 and $50 per acre with the
number of renters on the increase.
All Enslaved.
Every member of the family is
"gainfully" employed. The number of
women operating farms while their
husbands work out is ever on the in
crease. Where the men do the farming
wives and daughters must go out to
work in order to make ends meet.
Wages for women are twenty and
thirty cents an hour and some of the
piece workers in the canneries make
as low as $1.50 per day. Wages for
men are, in the mills $3.50 per day,
logging camps $500 to Sc, canneries
and condensers 1920 and road and
construction work $500.
There is a chronic unemployment
situation here, one never gets enough
work or makes enough on the farm
to quite catch up with expenses, and
there is always an unpaid bill at the
stores or for rent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
BY AL KERDoD,
VILLAGE Correspondent.

ATCHAIR, omsk Region, Siberia,
(By Mail. )--At the end of October in
our Siberian village Of Atchair, in the
Omsk district, we held an agricultural
exhibition. The peasants presented
about 1000 exhibits. There were spe-
cial departments for land cultivation
and market gardening, agriculture,
cattle breeding and for agricultural
implements and machinery. This year
there were many kinds of cultures at
the exhibition. There was moe"
wheat, and others which give yield
of 100 pools per dessiatine. We ex-
hibited American wheat grasses and
other cultivated grasses. We also
showed thorobred cattle and similar
exhibits.
Altogether the exhibition was visit.
ed by 1900 peasants from the whole
district, who studied the entire exhi.
bition SO that everyone Of them might
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Gangsters Outslugged
BY Building Trades
Workers in Passaic
BIZ a worker correspondent.

PASSAIC, N. j., Feb. 1 - Heavy
handed union painters and plumbers
of Passaic turned the tables on a
bunch of gangsters who rushed into
Amalgamated Clothing Workers head
quarters to beat up Organizer Werthei-
mer and an associate. The building
tradesmen, who were meeting in an.
other hall in the same building, rush
ed into the fray and sent the gangs
tiers out on their ears, very much the
worse for wear, say observers.
The gang was organized by GER
tain Cooper, a boss truckman, who
fetches scab clothing from New York
for finishing in Passaic contract
shops. The Amalgamated is now seek
ing to organize these open shop nests.
One plant has been signed up, with rs
workers, two more are on strike.
The Passaic labor movement has
gotten behind the Amalgamated well.
After the police had rounded up q
group of pickets and Police Judge
Davidson had sentenced four with the
warning that labor agitators will not
be tolerated in Passaic" a committee
of building trades men waited on
Chief Priescal and said that would not
do at all. And group of rank and
file carpenters went on the picket line.
Priescal took the tip and pickets for
the time being are not being molested
by the police and after thug attacked
picket Judge Davidson with an ear
to the political wind, took turn about
and sentenced him to 30 days.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
PROSPERITY TALK
GROTESQUE JOKE
TO BAG WORKERS
By a worker correspondent.

DENVER, Colo, Feb. Prosperity
is Calvin Coolidges slogan for the
year of 1926. Prosperity is the song
the whole capitalist press sings and
they tell the workers and farmers ii
will be theirs for the year of 1926. !
would like to tell the workers of other
industries how the workers in the bag
factories are prospecting.
To cite few facts about the con.
ditions in the bag factory of the Great
Western Sugar Company 1 am EN-
ployed:
Men in this factory, mostly between
the ages of II and "a, some a little
older, but none over forty, receive a
wage of from S14,0O to $500 a week
For this they slave nine hours a day
during which time they are forbidden
to speak to each other.
Because they come cheaper the com.
pany employs girls wherever possible.
The wages are on piecework basis and
earnings come between $11.OO to
$500 a week with only those who
have been there for a number of years
reaching the $500 mark.
In January we were given a two
weeks lay off without pay to spend
the savings" from our bountiful earn.
ings of the previous year.
Prosperity is Calvin Coolidge's slo-
gan for the year of 1926. l ask you,
fellow workers: whose prosperity
with strikebreaker Coolidge and his
kind in control of the government?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Communist Reinstated
By Action of Workers
In Long Island Shop
BY a Worker Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA we'll func-
tioning shop nucleus in one of Long
Islands largest shoe factories forced
the bosses to re-instate Communist
worker whom they had fired for his
militant activity.
OF the 1000 workers in the shoe
factory only IA are members of the
chairman This small group, how
ever, has considerable influence over
the majority of workers in the fac
tory. The influence of this nucleus
was shown when one comrade was
discharged. They called a meeting
of all the workers on the floor where
he worked, and it was unanimously
decided that he must be taken back.
The bosses refused to listen to the
demands of the workers on this floor
Then the nucleus put the matter be-
fore another group of workers in the
lasting department with the result
that they unanimously decided that
their Communist brother must be TAX
en- back. The bosses were so COM
pletely taken back by this unanimity
of the workers, in demanding the re-
instatement of their comrade, that
they unwillingly agreed to take him
back.
This support of the workers signi-
fies a great victory for the nucleus.
It shows that the nucleus has been
entering into the daily problems Of
the shop, assuming responsibilities,
fighting for the immediate demands Of
all the workers, making itself so eff
fective, that when one of the group
is discharged the entire shop realizes
that a blow against one of the most
militant workers in their shop is a
blow against them all.
Not only are our comrades in this
shoe factory proving themselves thoro
Leninists by winning the support OF
their fellow workers, but they also
recognize the need for feminist ac.
tivity in the trade unions. They have
built up a functioning fraction in the
shoe workers union and exert a pow
erful influence over thousands of
workers in the shoe industry.
"Say II with your pen In the worker
correspondent page OF The DAILY
WORKER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
new YORK BARRIERS
UNION DONATES $40
FOR STRIKING MINERS
BY c. KoNovALoV,
Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, Feb. Local 752
of the BARRIERS Union Of New York
at It's last business meeting donated
$40 to the aid Of the striking coal
miners.
Upon President GrimwaId's report
that the executive board of the local
recommends that SIS be sent to the
miners, a rank and filler took the
floor and gave talk on the miners
situation, pointing out their strug-
gle with the coal barons and the
sufferines of their wives and chill
dren. He urged the members to
vote a larger sum and amended the
motion to read $50. A debate fol-
lowed with the result that $40 was
voted for the striking miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
Shipping Board Turns
Down Stanley Dollar

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The 3d.
100000 bid Of Stanley Dollar, owner
of a number Of Trans-Pacific steam
ship lines, for the five ships of the
AdmiralOrient line was turned down
by the shipping board as being too far
below what the board members
thought was a fair price" for the
ships.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
LAUNDRIES IN
SEATTLE FOR
The OPEN SHOP
Bosses Move VIII Be
Met by Strike
(Hy a Workers correspondent)

10y WoFkerS fCoFTeSPonoent)
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 1 Laundry
bosses here have again declared for
the open shop and the smashing of the
unions in the laundry business of this
city, by notifying the unions that their
agreement has been terminated and
that hereafter they will not deal with
the unions. Nearly two thousand work
ers are involved, most of whom are
women. 1900 inside laundry workers,
mostly girls, nearly 500 laundry driv-
ers and about 40 stationary engineers
are affected by the ukase of the laun-
dry owners association who in the
last few months have been endeavor-
ing to put into execution the open
shop, and hiring scabs to take the
places Of the UNION members.
At the same time committee con-
sisting of Mayor Edwin ]. Brown, Rev.
Mark A. Mathews, preacher of the
largest business church in this city
and VIM. Short, president of the Wash
ington State Federation of Labor, who,
in the last several months have been
endeavoring to have the laundry own
ers' association sign up a class COLA
boration agreement. The bosses re-
fused this and laid their plans for a
complete open shop.
Challenge Workers.
The bosses have hired scabs, regis
tered their names, telephone and are
ready to fire every union member at
once If necessary, at a moments
notice, altho apparently they prefer
to do it gradually from the notices
posted as follows;,
From this date this, and all other
plants similarly. affected, will operate
upon the following basis:
1. There will be no reduction of
any kind in the scale of wages now
2. There will be no change in the
working conditions except for the
better.
8. From this date we will directly
hire our own employees, and union af
filiation will not affect your employ
ment here.
A. This plant will offer no objection
to any or all of its employees contin
uing their memE shship in with on
joining a union, ht will not permit
undue influence to be brought to bear
upon any employe who does not desire
to join, nor permit any such employe
to be abused. on
We trust you will appreciate our po
sition and will understand that we
have no quarrel with organized labor
Your membership or failure to join the
union will not affect your employment
here. 1t is, and will be our desire by
our conduct in operation, to continue
to hold your confidence and build vi
more happy and prosperous operating
conditions both for our employees and
Yourselves. tsns
The laundry workers are ready to
strike and tie up the laundries of this
city, having decided several months
ago to strike, but holding same in
allegiance while the arbitration com.
mittee interceeds for industrial
peace" in the city. A fight to a finish
is predicted, the laundry workers hav.
ing demonstrated several years ago as
being good fighters and good progress
sives.
The auto freight drivers, have de.
cided to strike on February 10, the
bosses having violated the agreement
by employing non,union drivers in
violation of the existing working
agreement. All together about 1000
members will go on strike composing
the four unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

Is it worth while to write II up? OF
course It is. Write 1t up and send It
In, and then watch 1t In the paper.
Notice the corrections that have been
made by the editors. You will profit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
"H You Don't Like 1t, Get Out!'
(By a Worker Correspondent

LOS ANGELES. CAL, Feb. 1.-The Furniture company
employed hell hole for the The working
dtlons unbeaabe waees-ony $3.50 city
the living clouds, supporting
family $3.50 When hastarved
~ family small
eaesOrleaIy a" like
waiting Or job"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03
ILLINOIS EMPLOYMENT IN 1925
is 3 PER CENT UNDER 1924
AND ii PER CENT UNDER 1923
By LELANp oLps, Federated pr.ss.

reported BY factories IN Illinois and New York
the either state abreast Of 1924
This stacian Calm Illinois But the general tone OF the
optimistic ended with trend
of industries Illinois
Not did the volume Of employment in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

"The Story Of the Earth" and "History
Of Mankind" by Samuel Ball, every
Sunday, 1880 p NJ, cal w. WASHINGTON
St. Every Saturday, 5721 Cottage Grove
Ave-, 7:45 =. M. Questions and discuss
sion from the floor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

state tau to decline during December
as is usually the case, but there was
a general tendency to stabilize indus
try with the gains that have been
made since expansion began almost
6 months ago"
Employment Average Below 1924.
Since July employment in Illinois
factories has moved up AZ per cent,
providing jobs for about $4,000 addi-
tional workers. The gain from Novem-
Der to December was less than u of
per cent. But in December there
were some 16,5O0 more workers on
the payrolls than in December, 1924.
The average of employment turnout
1925 remains per cent short Of 1924
and IL per cent below 1928 This
means that Illinois factories furnish
ed between 10000 and 100000 fewer
workers with jobs in 1925 than in
1923.
Metal Industry Steady.
Calm finds the steady gains in the
metal industries encouraging with
iron and steel, tools and cutlery, ma.
chinery, and agricultural implements
all reporting gains. The agricultural
implement industry reached the high
est level since the department began
gathering statistics in 1921. Car build
ing furnished the only serious check
on metal trades optimism; it conti-
nued downhill with a drop of s per
cent in the month.
The mems clothing industry also
proves an exception to the general
optimism. In spite of a seasonal gain
of 6.3 per cent the industry is 34.5 per
cent below the 1922 average. The EN-.
ployment gain in this industry in De.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-03

"Say II with your pen in the worker
correspondent page OF The DAILY
WORKER"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-26
OUT CUNNING AGAIN

"Ripley's out cunning again." is the word passed
around Wall Street.
Crash go the stocks, some of the leaders falling
off eight to ten points.
What is the strange power of this mild man
nered Harvard professor that with his pen he can
set the New York financial district all afutter?
Six months ago he wrote a little piece called
From Main Street to Wall Street." His contention
that the widespread use of nonvoting preferred
stock for financing corporations allows the little fel.
low to put up the money and the big fellow to see
the show. He thought arrangement might be
made to safeguard the small investor.
This modest suggestion upset Wall Street. The
repercussons of the excitement we're even heard
at the White House. Professor Ripley reported
to have been invited to tea to explain what it was
all about
Now with the turmoil aroused by his last article
hardly subsidized, it is announced that he has pre-.
pared another. In this one he has another very
simple and apparently mild suggestion.
He says that most of us really have no way of
poration because of the ntricacies of modern ac-
counting methods. He says that some Of the cor
porations are apparently taking advantage of this
fact to make it impossible to understand their Hnan
cial position. Then he proposes that the Federal
trade commission, already equipped with the neces-
sary authority by Congress- should gather financial
information from the corporations and prepare in
such way that folks in the country would have
a chance of understanding it.
1t certainly isn't a revolutionary proposal It's
made by man who has always been more interested
in scholarship than in creating sensations and yet
1t throws Wall Street into state of great excite
ment and fear
What is the reason?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-26
Times Readers
Voice Vie1e,S

Editor of The Times: Miss Trudie
Ederle's performance in overcoming
the waves Of the English channel by
swimming across deserves all the
honors that have come to her on
that account.
But let us not forget the deed Of
Miss Martha Bates, who slapped the
face of an insolent preacher for say
ing that women are indecent who
bob their hair. Her deed will do
more for woman's honor and the in
dependence of American womanhood
than a successful crossing of the
channel. Yet the first is rewarded
and the latter punished.
The men. who sat through the
services where the preacher ma
ligned their wives. daughters and
sisters and allowed him TO go unre-
buked, should be compelled to wear
skirts the rest of their days.
+. NJ. f.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-26
US HOMELY WOMEN
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

What does life hold for the homely woman ?
Somebody asks that question.
very great deal, would be my answer-based on
personal experience
There are some compensations for not being a
raving beauty, notwithstanding the fact that every
girl born into the world longs to be lowered with
physical loneliness.
But looking about you it is plain to be seen that
the average woman is far from handsome And these
women often have just as much happiness as
those who pose artists models and take prizes in
baphing beauty contests For the gods are kind when
it comes to evening things up in this world Homely
have many blessings which are not vouchsafed
to the beautiful.
In the first place. it is three times as easy for a.
homely girl to keep job. Men seldom like their
offices disrupted by beauties and great many of them
have plain and jealous wives at home
homely woman overestmates her mower
She worships at the shrine SELF but concen
trates upon more important things and by and bv
loses the feeling Of her Importance which, in the
last analysis, is the essence of true happiness No
selfish person is happy
If she lands good husband she feels that she
has achieved something and not yearn for more
masculine hearts to conquer. She is glad to have
eaped the matrimonial hurdles does her very best
to bring happiness to her family.
If she inspires love, she has earned it because Of
love-nes Of character, charm of manner
depth of soul and this is the only of love to
strive for, because it does fade with grazing hair
vanish when wrinkles come
Last and best of all, the homely woman misses the
mental anguish which every beauty suffers-that of
losing her looks. She is not called upon watch her
complexion become sallow the bloom fade
from her cheek.
this: To have been beautiful and be beautiful no
more
Plainness such terrible thing after ALL and
we have lot OF company in our misery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-26
A UNIVERSAL TRAIT
What is the reason?

Those who believe that vanity is peculiarly a
feminine trait of character will learn something
from the publishers of who's Who"
That book contains the names and records Of
the distinguished and the famous. 1t has kept its
prestige by being careful Outside OF accidental off.
Gals, 1t gives space only to those who have contrib
uted in some unusual way to their times
Now 1t broadcasts a warning that crafty gentle
men trading upon the desire of men to obtain
some feeting recognition by offering to include their
names in books whose titles indicate that they also
list those who belong"
These tricksters understand that vanity Is to be
found in the hearts of and that the desire
for fame is quite deep the hope for wealth
And so they travel from city to city, collecting
money from those who have gained riches but have
done nothing more for the privilege of seeing their
mes in type and their own complimentary COM
me.!ts upon themselves.
1t is a profitable business. SO profitable that the
warning has been sent out that these who seek
payment in advance for copies of any suclf books
have no connection with the recognized authority
on contemporary greatness
Men who sheer at women who devote consider
able time and effort to attracting attention to them
selves may proftably take glance at their own sex
OF course, these victims of the confidence men
will never get into any real lists of great men, Real
fame can not be bought. They overlook the simpler
method of trying to do something worthy of atten-
ton.
But If they did that, they would not be on the
sucker lists They would be too busy and too much
interested 70 listen to the attery of the ICON" men
married man simply has to do what a single man
should --'A
While women first appeared on the stage along
ABOUT 1890 many of them seem much older.