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The daily worker., 1926-06-17
IL. c. ". HOLDS
UNEMPL LOYMENT
REGISTRATION
Union to Pay Benefits to
Its Unemployed

The first unemployment registration
since the establishment of the unem-
ployment fund on February l, 1925, is
now taking place in the headquarters
of the Chicago Joint Board of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers.
The union unemployment fund at pres
ent has between $4,000 and $4,000 in
its treasury.
1t is expected that it will take sew
eral days for full unemployment reg
istration to be made of the members
of the International Ladies' Garment
Workers. The unemployment fund
was created by having the workers
contribute three-fourths of per cent
of their wages and the bosses 21s per
cent. The proponents of the fund in
arranging for these assessments be-
lieved that a fund of $4,000 would be
raised
Workers Seek Changes.
The objections Of the workers to
the present arrangement Of the un-
employment fund is steadily increas-
ing. The workers declare that the $40
week benefit which the fund pro-
vides for a period of IL weeks in every
year is inadequate and that the amount
Of the benefit should be increased.
The workers also raise objections
to their paying three-fourths of 1 per
cent into the fund out of their earn
ings. They insist that in order to
make a real substantial unemployment
fund to increase the assessment to 5
per cent and that the bosses should
bear the cost of the fund, and not the
union member
Union to Make Changes.
1t is expected that in the next con-
tract which the union will negotiate
that it will make many changes in the
present unemployment fund.
Between 500 and 800 workers are ex-
pected to register in the two-day regis
tration.
Because Of the small sum that has
been gathered together, the union will
only give half of the benefits to the
workers at first. After the unemployed
will have been given half the benefits
they are entitled to the union will
then distribute the balance of the
funds between those asking for ben
efits and will make arrangements to
leave a substantial sum in the fund.
This fund at present only applies to
the 1,SOO workers in the cloak making
trade.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17

the blast and having the life crushed
out of them against the first OBJ
struction, or of legs, arms or other
bones broken; others caught in a
basement under a flood Of liquid,
sprayed in their flight by streams
of acid and other scalding fluids.
For the rest of their lives many OF
these injured" will be helpless de-
pendents.
The agony of those few hours on
Monday morning, at Gary, that will
live down thru the years, is worthy
Of a masters pen to describe. For
the story should scar itself deep
into the minds of all steel workers,
into the mind of the whole working
class, just as the acid sears its way
into the tender flesh.
The steel industry has its by
products of benzol, toluene and
napthalene; of dead, crippled and
diseased workers, of widows and or
phans. Just so should this disaster
have it's by-products. 1t should stir
the workers, especially in the steel
industry, to definite action. 1t should
arouse them to their own needs, to
their own weaknesses, and to the
shortcomings of their own class.
Steel labor is helpless in the grip
of Judge Elbert H. Gary's United
States Steel Corporation and
Charles M. Schwab's Bethlehem
Steel Company. 1t is helpless be-
cause it is not organized. Because
it is helpless, Gary and Schwab
need lose no sleep when disasters
slaughter their slaves. They know
that there are many others waiting
the beck and call of the unemploy-
ment agents at the gates. They
need not worry.
But they will worry II mass pro-
test becomes a living. fighting by
product of this wholesale massacre
of the workers.
The great sacrifice of workers
lives on last Monday morning must
not have been in vain. II must
raise the demand for the "0rgani-
cation of the Unorganized" steel
workers. It must result in shop
committees OF the workers. who
are acquainted with the conditions In
the plant, and who will see that bad
conditions on the job are remedied.
1t must result in the demand for
the Labor Party that will pave the
way for workers rule.
The city of Gary. like all other
steel centers, is In the hands of the
worst capitalist political reaction.
There is no better time than now 10
begin in earnest to take this power
from the steel capitalists.
These should be by-products of
the Gary disaster that will help all
labor forge ahead towards the day
when capitalism viii be deposed
forever, when the protection Of hu-
man life will displace the safeguard
ing of profits.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
Jensen's Claim to
Reelection False,
Say Progressives

While the returns from the cleo
tions Of officers of the Chicago Car.
penters' District Council are not yet
complete. very few Of the small out
lying locals among the 3S in the dis
trict being yet to hear from, the pro
gressives laugh at, the claims of Harry
Jensen, the present president, that he
has been reelected.
The lead of some 100 for the pro-
gressives in the locals reported is toe
much to overcome by Jensen in the
few small locals yet to send in re-
turns, too much by several hundred
even If he won all the votes there is
left, and the progressdves are not dis
posed to accept a counting out by
Jensen. Jensen's claim to reelection
is being spread by the capitalist
press.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
CHICAGO COOKS
KNOW NOTHING
OF INJUNCTION
Supplies Cut OFF at Lone
Scab Eat Shop

If there is an injunction against
picketing by the Chicago Cooks and
Pastry Cooks association Local S65,
as claimed in Tuesdays capitalist pa
pers, the union knows nothing of it,
declared union officials yesterday.
The union has been picketing nine
places, mostly Greek restaurants who
are members of the Greek Restaurant
Owners association since week ago
Monday, and has won seven of them,
according to the union, to sign up for
the union shop. The main place hold
ing out is an obstinate open shop
owner of a restaurant at 14th Place
and Morgan street.
This scabby joint is owned by an
officer of the Greek Restaurant Own
ers' association and is pretty well
paralyzed. Solidarity of the other
union workers Of Chicago has cut off
supplies of ice, pastry, and so on
and the place is losing dts former
trade of from $3.50 to $40O day.
Only three scabs are holding the
place.
Reports published that Judge Hugo
M. Pam has issued an Injunction
against the pickets, were first OBJ
tanned from the capitalist press, says
the union, which has its Office at 166
West Washington street.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
Examine 343 Veriremen
in Picking Jurors
for Martin Durkin

A panel OF four prospective Jurors,
which IL accepted, will complete the
Jury for the trial of Martin Durkin,
on trial for the murder OF the red
batting federal agent Edward Shan
ahan, was rendered the defense by
the state.
The last Of the four accepted tenta-
lively by the state was the three
hundred and forty-third venireman ex-
amined.
1t was expected that some, il not
all, Of the panel will be challenged
by the defense.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17

He was not on the old railway labor
board, but he knows something about
labor from hiring it to work in his
factories. He gained his first fortune
as owner Of the Winslow Skate Manu-
featuring company of Worcester. He
is interested in the u. S. Envelope
company and connected with the Me-
chanics National Bank of New York
City. He belongs to all the exclusive
millionaires' clubs of the east, in
Guiding the Army and Navy Club Of
Washington. He is Ga years old.
Proved He Was All Right-To
Coolidge
Hywell Davies of California, the
fourth man named, is little known,
but he has proven his worth to the
capitalist government of Coolidge dur
ing the past year as conciliator of
labor disputes.
These men, with one yet TO be
name, will be the board Of mediation
to settle disputes between rail lines
and their employees when they fail to
agree.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
BRITISH mine
STRIKE SHUTS
COTTON MILLS
"WiI Fill Poorhouses
But Not Surrender"
tspeoIaI 70 rhe paIIy work,r,

LONDON, June 15.-Four hundred
and twenty cotton mills of Lancashire,
employing 100000 workers, closed
down today owing to coal shortage and
general trade depression These mills
are engaged In spinning American cot
ton. Seventy-five per cent Of the mills
spinning Egyptian cotton will close
down this week, many not to reopen
even If the coal strike ends.
Government Bats Hook for Scabs.
In an effort to induce the starving
miners to break away from union dis
cipline and go back to work, the gov
ernment, after consulting the mine
owners, announces its intention to sus-
pend the seven-hour law, by this
means insuring those miners who can
] be got to act as strikebreakers little
extra pay over what they would earn
under the seven-hour law.
The million miners, who are stand
ing like a rock despite great privation
the report being that even the great
relief fund from the Soviet Union la
Dor unions is spent already on the re-
lief of the most needy-are appealing
thru their union officials for financial
aid from the other British unions and
have asked the transport unions to
order their members to not handle
coal shipments.
Union Reasserts Demands.
Expecting the Baldwin government
to go to the parliament with some sort
of proposal aimed at breaking the
strike, the miners union again an
nounces it's terms:
l. Immediate reorganization Of the
industry to remove waste and inef-
fciency revealed in repeated investi-
cations.
2. Maintenance of the material
basis of the wage agreement.
8. Maintenance Of wages at no less
than those before the lockout.
4. Maintenance Of hours and other
conditions as before the lockout.
"Will Fill EngIand's Poorhouses."
If these are not fulfilled, says the
miners union statement, we will fill
all the poorhouses in the United King
dom before we resume work.
The Daily Mail says that the Trades
Union Congress has ordered all union
workers who were employed thru the
general strike to donate per cent o.
! their wages to the miners.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
British Government
Denies Issue of Visa
to Winnetka Paci6st

Mrs. Lola Lloyd OF winnetka, H..
left Chicago on her way TO Paris to
renew her fight for a British visa on
her passport 50 that she may attend
the international League Tor Peace
in Dublin beginning July IL.
Mrs. Lloyd, one OF hte founders OF
the league, declares the British visa
has been denied her because she failed
to endorse the English women's con-
tention that defensive wars should be
permitted.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
There Are By-products
of Gary Steel Disaster
That Can Benefit Labor
By J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.
"PY-PRoDUcTs" in the steel in

DY-PRODUCTS" in the steel in
- dustry are many.
Along the shores of Lake Michi-
gan, at Gary, Indiana, stands the
by-products plant of the great I'LL
nois Steel company.
From its acid watts and its hot tar
stills pour the by-products that help
make the steel profiteers richer and
richer. Here come the by-products
of the coke ovens, benzol toluene
and naphthalene, all extremely
valuable, and because of their value
more wealth in the pockets Of the
steel trust stockholders.
The by-products plant is danger
Gus place in which to work. The
parasite stockholders do not come
there. Only the workers who toll
at miserable wages under petty
bosses, enter its portals. There they
inhale the poisonous fumes that
send them to early graves. They
slave in the midst of ever-present
dangers. The explosive gases col
lect under conditions favorable to
the inevitable blast that kills and
mains. Such blasts occur frequent
ly among the far-flung steel trust
plants, in Alabama, in Pennsylvania,
in Illinois and in Indiana.
All labor now knows that there
was another such blast in the by
products plant of the Illinois Steel
company, at Gary, Ind, on early
Monday morning, shortly after the
day shift nad again gone on the
treadmiIl for another week of dan
gerous and gruelling toll. 1t is claim
ed that there had been fatal col
lection of benzo1 In a huge am
monia condenser. Then the explo-
sion and more by-products OF the
steel industry.
Not only benzol as a by-product,
but many workers dead, some killed
Instantly, others in great agony dy-
ing in the company" hospital as by
products. The exact number will
never be known. Some leave wild
ows and children behind. who will
be compelled to shift for them
selves. Others, unidentified dead"
leave perhaps small trunk or only
a grip in some boarding house,
Their relatives will never hear more
of them.
Other by-products. The injured,
scores of them, burned, charred,
crippled, disabled for life, wrecks
of industry. Death for many Of
these would be a welcome escape.
But they will cling to a living death.
The memory of the inferno thru
which they passed is all that is left
to them; of workers buried alive
under masses OF burning coal and
white hot coke; others caught in
clouds of suffocating steam; of 9TH
ers being hurled great distances by
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
REICHSTAG HEAD
ASSAILS LETTER
OF HINDENbURG
Claims Presidents Act
Unconstitutional
Especial to The Daily Worker

Especial to The Daily Worker)
BERLIN, June 15.-When President
Hindenberg wrote a letter to Federal
Minister Won Loebell placing himself
on record against the appropriation of
the German princes he overstepped
his rights and violated the constitu-
ton, according to Paul Loebe, presi-
dent Of the Reichstag.
To Inform Followers.
Loebe charges that Hindenberg's
letter, which Loebell made public, was
sent for the purpose Of letting his
followers know where he stood on
the question that as agitating Ger
many and will come up for referen-
dunn ON June 20, next Sunday.
The president of the German repub-
Nc, according to the constitution,
must remain nonpartisan on poditi-
cal questions at issue.
Sets Dangerous Precedent
Loebe defends the appropriation of
the German nobility on the ground
of precedents already established in
France, Czecho-Slovalria, Portugal and
even by Bismarck in Germany. He
dendes, however. that the expropria-
ton Of the mobiles will be a forerun-
ner to the appropriation Of other
classes.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
MELLON ATTACKS
HAUGEN FARMER
RELIEF MEASURE
Speaks for Coolidge Op-
position
(speeIaI 70 Lac oaIIy Workerl

WASHINGTON, June 15.-Secre-
tary OF the Treasury Andrew Mellon
in a declaration today denounced the
Haugen farm relief bill now before
the senate. In this statement, Mellon
can be taken as the spokesman for
the Coolidge machine in its opposition
to farm relief measures now before
the two houses.
MELONS attack was based on the
economic unsoundness" of the pro-
posed legislation. Actually he is
plainly rationalizing the Coolidge op-
position to subsidy for the farmers.
He claims the Haugen bin will raise
the cost of farm products to the con-
sumner.
Industry Also.
"If subsidy OF this kind is given
to agricultural commodities" said
Mellon, "the government could not log
ically refuse to give the same treat
ment to the boot and shoe, coal and
other industries which are finding
some difficulty in disposing of their
products"
What About Railroads.
Farm representatives are recalling
that the government has already
made subsidies of millions Of dollars
TO both the railroad and shipping in
dustries.
The farm bloc may have alieniated
the semi-support 1t was receiving from
Vice-President Dawes by submitting
an amendment calling for an addition
al subsidy Of s75,oOO,OOO to be applied
to the cotton growers Of the South.
This is a concession to win democratic
votes for the farm relief measures.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
REPRESENTATIVES OF "PUBLIC"
NOW REPRESENT GOVERNMENT ON
NEW WATSON-PARKER LAW BOARD

WASHINGTON D. c. 15If
Railroad Labor Board hoped
new board of mediation created by the
sone judging from the
by President Coolidge.
In fact they robbed
them Of Increases of the
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
chicago settlement AIds MILWAUKEE,

MILWAUKEE, (FP)-- June is
Contractors fighting the 12h cent
raise to $1.S7h an hour demanded by
Milwaukee union plasterers are dis
appointed by the Chicago settlement
This gives plasterers s1.e2h day
and provides plenty OF work for MIL
waukee strikers that need little
cash to hold out in the struggle.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
Lone Robber Steals
$4,000 In JeweIry

CLEVELAND, o., June 15.-Jewel-
ry valued at $4,000 was stolen from
the home of Mrs. H. A. Parsons,
daughter of the late Mark Hanna.
The loot, taken by a lone prowler
seen by Mrs. Parsons, consisted of a
S25O00 necklace, seven diamond rings
and other articles valued at another
$4,000.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17


of the Polish workers. The cable
gram reads:
Warsaw, Poland.
'In Polish labor's name we protest
against criminal persecution of the in
nocent workers Sacco and Vanzetti,
sentenced to death by capitalist courts.
We demand their immediate freedom.
Communist Fraction Of Polish par
lament.
Adolf Warski-Warszawski, deputy,
chairman"
This message of protest is one Of
the many that have been coming to
America from all the countries of
Europe and Latin-America in behalf
Of the two innocent Italian workers.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
Steel Workers
to Hold Protest
Against Horror

worked in the by-products plant for
wage of $41S per day of eight
hours.
At another place only the check
which indicated which unit of the
giant industry the victim was en-
ployed was mute evidence that he had
ever been a human being. When work
ers enter the steel mills they cease to
be anything but so much labor-power
designated by numbers. The dead
mans number was "26023."
In all the undertaking establish.
ments of Gary the representative was
able to locate twelve who had died
as a result Of the explosion.
Enters Yards.
In spite of attempts Of the company
police to keep out newspaper men,
The DAILY WORKER representative
succeeded in entering the yards and
got a view Of the by-products plant on
the lake front which was mass of
ruins where fireman were working
amidst dense smoke in an effort to
clear away the debris and remove
those buried in the explosion.
Company police ordered us out of
the yards and threatened arrest for
trespassing in case of refusal to go.
Had they known which paper we
represented they probably would have
taken more drastic action)
Visits Homes Of Victims.
In the evening the homes of a dozen
or more of the victims were visited.
Without exception there was evidence
of the most appalling poverty; bare
rooms, crowded with inhabitants,
huddled together wide-eyed with fear,
many of them unable even to talk Of
the disaster.
At one home Of a worker who is
in a dying condition at the hospital
his wife. a middle-aged woman with
a small child in her arms related her
visit to her husband and incoherent-
ly described the amputation Of a shat
tered leg and told us that his head
was swollen twice its size and burn
ed white"-he was a Negro named
James Floyd. His wage was also
S4.1S per day. The highest wage of
any of the victims was that of Ozer
Parker, who escaped with slight burns
and broken leg, which was S4.ss per
day.
Attempt Public Funeral
Some of the more aggressive work
ers in the steel hell endeavored to
secure the consent of the relatives of
the victims for a public funeral in an
effort to get the thousands of steel
workers out Of the mill in masses for
a demonstration against the incessant
slaughter Of workers, but the com
pany tools had succeeded in inducing
them to hold private funerals.
However, arrangements are being
made for a great mass meeting Satur
day night in Turn Hall, ii and Wash
ington streets at which prominent la
Dor speakers will address the workers
and take steps to see that families oil
the dead and wounded are aided.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17

Put a copy of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you 40 to your union 7 Getting.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17

WASHINGTON, June 49, The
United States on June 30 will hang up
a half-century favorable trade balance
of approximately $4,000, 900, 900.
The daily worker., 1926-06-17

We need more news from the shops
and factories. Send II lnI
The daily worker., 1926-06-17
POLISH WORKERS DEMAND LIBERTY
FOR SACCO AND VANzETTI

solidarity miles away
which threatens Bartolomeo yz lust
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
HONOR GIVEN
REPORTER

Probably the most signal honor
ever bestowed upon a newspaper
man was given today to T. Howard
Brooks, of the Evening Star, when
members of the detectivee bureau
presented him with a large silver
loving cup in recognition Of his
As years of service on the Star.
The presentation was made In
most novel manner. Detectives
Edward J. Kelly and E. L. Phillips
se.zed Brooks, carried him into the
squad room where prisoners were
being taken for lineup.
Brooks fought valiantly but finally
was persuaded to stand on a plat.
form overlooking the waiting de-
tectives. The charge was then read.
It said: "This man Is charged with
lettering around the District Build
ing, especially the Detective Bu-
reau, not only one day or one year,
but for As years"
Pat O'Brien, the Oldest head
quarters detective on the force, was
named as the arresting officer.
After the reading Of the charge the
presentation of the cup was made
by Inspector Henry G. Pratt, chief
of detectives.
The honored man was so over
come with emotion that he could
say nothing. AS soon as detectives
released him from their grip he
ran from the squad room to the
press room, from which place he
refused to emerge.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
HGTS
FETE NEAR

Columbia Heights business men
will turn on the fun in their annual
carnival at o'clock tonight, with
a colorful parade along Fourteentl
Street. the coronation of queen
and a great open-air masque ball.
Moving south in Fourteenth
Street northwest, which VIII be
brilliantly Illuminated and decora.
ted for the occasion, the carnival
procession will march iron Shep-
herd Street to Florida Avenue.
Mounted police will head the
parade. to be directly followed by
district Commissioners ]. Franklin
Bell and Proctor l.. Dougherty,
guests of the evening. The District
Commissioners and the carnival
committee will take station in the
reviewing stand at Kenyon Street,
and there review the procession.
Immediately after the parade
Miss Dorothy Brandt, Miss Co.
lumbia Heights. 1926" will ne
crowned queen of the carnival. Miss
Louise Sobotka, 1925 queen, will
relinquish her diadem with elabor-
ate ceremony.
Then adults in costume will as
semble before St. Stephens Church,
where those in the most comic.
artistic and original costumes will
be awarded prizes. The remainder
of the evening will be given over to
merrymaking. Noise making de-
vices and confetti will be literally
distributed.
All traffic, excepting street cars,
will be barred from Fourteenth
Street during the carnival. While
Capt. Fred NJ. Cornwell of tie
Tenth precinct, has assigned SO
policemen to patrol the carnival
area and the route Of the parade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21

talks. which. will, be open to the
public in the ballroom of the City
Club. will be broadcast over at
least nine super-power stations, in
Guiding WRC, Washington; VIZ
New York City; WGY schenectady,
and WBZ. Springfield, Mass.
William Green, president OF the
American Federation of Labor: Mrs.
Anna l.. Hendley, honorary presl'
dent of the Susan B. Anthony
League, and John J. Deviny, repre-.
setting the native-born citizens OF
the city. The fourth speaker VII!
be announced later.
The City Club COMMITTEE in charge
of the event is led by Gen. Anton
Stephan. president of the club.
Working with him are Harry
Stringer, Rudolph Jose. Perry Nc
Coy, Harry Carroll, Morris Rosen-
berg and H. j Odenthal
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-10-21
OSTEOPATHIC BODY
OPENS MEETING HERE

With approximately 100 delegates
in attendance the Middle At
lantic States Osteopathic Associa-
ton opened its annual meeting at
the Washington Hotel this morning
at 9 o'clock.
The general meeting at II O'Clock
will be featured by an illustrated
address on the Antiquity of Dis
ease" delivered by DR.. Riley D.
Moore, of Washington.
NJ. L. Richardson, Of Norfolk. Va,
is director of public education for
the association.