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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
F GOD, HOUSING,
DISCUSSED WITH
WORKING Girl S
Shop Cafeterias Keep
Wages Down
Especial to Tho Darly worxer)

NEW YORK, Dec. /. ~ Employers
who feed their girl workers in com
pany cafeterias and lunchrooms al
cost are substituting these workers and
help keep down wages, Benjamin r.
Andrews, professor OF household eco
Monies at Teachers College, Columbia
University, told the Association for
the Proper Housing OF Girls annual
conference. Parents substitute girl
workers who live at home in New
York City an average Of So a week,
he figured from his examination OF
100 girlsf budgets, some Of the girl
workers living in clubs, some at home
and others rooming and boarding out
Office Workers Mostly
The girls concerned in the confer
ence are chiefly office workers. An
drews recommend increasing the
school age to IS years, claiming that
further education for girls would help
standardize their wages. He said en-
ployers should pay full support wages
to the girls as to adult workers and
not depend on the subsidies Of fami-
lies or from low-cost housing. An
drews' comparatively small survey
found wages averaged from S21 to $50
a week; that girls at home paid an
average OF 1880 for room and board.
in clubs $14.5O, and those on their
own pay $3.50. New York women
factory workers average only $3.50
per week in wages.
DR.. Mary s. Rose, nutrition pro
lessor at Teachers College, told the
working girls they should spend less
for deserts and more for milk to have
the most healthful diet At least a
pint Of milk a day she recommended,
a fifth Of food expense should be for
fresh vegetables, fifth for fruit,
fifth or less for meats and a fifth or
less for cereals, sugars and fats. She
illustrated her dietsiics wI9h six white
mice from the Same family fed on diff
ferent foods.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
new SnAKE-UP
OF POLICEMEN
TO CURB CRIME
Buck Is Transferred to
District Captains

Passing the buck" seems TO be
one Of the favorite games in the Chi
cago police department.
After a conference between Chief
of Police Morgan A. Collins and
Mayor Dover, an order was issued dis
tributing 81 OF the detective bureau
squads to various police districts. to
which they Will hereafter report in
stead OF, as formerly, to Deputy Chief
OF Detectives John Siege. The inten-
ton, 1t is saids Is to make the district
captains responsible In the future for
crime in thein districts.
1t is charged shat many crimes have
not been reported by district captains
to headquartersg but even those which
have been 500 reported have been nu-
merous enough to cause uneasiness in
the chiefs Office.
The shake-up, has brought out some
feeling in the police department that
1t is top-heayy. Too many bosses
and too few workers. There are So
captains and only 80 districts, the
detective bureau, and the traffic d.
vision to need them. In spite Of this
surplus, Immediately after the cleo.
ton, five more captains were appoint
ed. No place has yet been found for
them. AS there was no appropriation
to cover their salaries, this was got
ten around by giving them an in
crease in pay Of $500 over that which
they had received as patrolmen.
This latest of the many so-called
"shake-ups" in the department comes
after grand jury had indicted "a
politicians and policemen for being
implicated in the booze traffic.
To man from Mars, it might ap-
pear that there have been too many
"shake-downs" and too few genuine
"shake-ups" In the city department of
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
Blind Workers Strike
at Chicago Lighthouse

There are in Chicago at least thirty.
five blind men and women who see the
light of unionism-which should be
Illuminating to some who claim to
have perfect vision.
At the Chicago Lighthouse, an insti-
tuition for the blind, thirty-ffve have
gone on strike. They are rug weavers
and electrical appliance workers, de-
manding the resignation OF Miss Edith
L. Swift, the executive director, who
is a daughter of a former mayor of
Chicago. At the same time. the strik-
ers ask that the resignation Of Super
intendent 0. w. Freeman be not ao-
cepted. John Fitzpatrick, Of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor, has started
an investigation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
California Labor
Gets Behind Passaic

LOS ANGELES. Cal, Dec. /. - A
large Passaic strike relief conference
held here on Monday viii undertake
the showing of the moving picture Of
the strike the first week IN January
Ella Reeve Bloor. relief organizer. is
receiving the cooperation Of unions.
fraternal bodies and the American
Civil Liberties Union.
The San Francisco Labor Council
and the labor body in Oakland have
both elected committees TO show the
picture.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
VIII Debate Primary
Law at Chicago Forum

Shall the Direct Primary be Aban
doned?" will be the question of a de-
bate at the Chicago Forum Sunday
afternoon, Dec. 5. Robert A. Taft, son
of Chief Justice Taft and speaker OF
the Ohio Legislature will speak in the
affirmative, and Professor Charles E
Merriam Of the University of Chicago
in the negative. Mr.. Taft was a leader
in referendum in Ohio this fall for
the repeal of TIE direct primary law.
The meeting will be held at the
Erlanger Theater. Sunday afternoon
at 3:15. 200
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
Herrin Killer Carried
Enough Ammunition to
Supply Army Regiment

DANYILLE. AIll, Dec. l. - A sale
in the Office. Of the late s. Glenn
Young, ku klux khan leader of Will
hanson county, who died in a gun
battle a year ago, revealed enough
ammunition to equip a regiment.
A box in the Office contained 1900
rounds Of S0-3O rifle cartridges, sever.
al hundred steel jacketed As calibre
revolver cartridges. four boxes OF
shells for aut@Isatic pistols, an assert
ment Of 80 and sS calibre cartridges
and a number Of machine gun cart.
ridges. sss
1t is recalled that in the last
months of his warfare in Williamson
county Young possessed a machine
gun mounted in his car.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03

Work 10 Hours a Day.
The women in the laundries Of Gary
work 10 hours day. Their average
wage is 50 to $40 week,
Perhaps the work is easy and en-.
ioyable, that so little is paid for it.
Work Is Hard.
I'VE work harder than the men in
the steel mills" say the women laun-
dry workers. And work in Gary steel
mills is no joke at all.
The strain of work in the laundry
is so great that only a few women
can stand It for a considerable time,
The labor turnover in the laundries Is
very great indeed.
Boss Gets $6o-Workers, $he5.
At busy season a "finisher" would
turn out as many as 900 shirts day.
The boss would take in $50 for the
work The woman doing It would
get only $1.65.
No matter how hard you work, the
boss is never satisfied.
"can't Afford to Pay More"
Ask him for raise, for a few more
cents an hour, and hear him come
back at you with this:
Il can't afford to pay you more.
There are plenty of women willing to
do this work for SIS or Sc a week."
The boss, it appears, is very gener-
GUS paving his helm nc much &c he
does.
The laundry business is a flourish
ing business. Poor fellows who man
aged by hook or crook to get a start
in it are rapidly growing rich. The
sweat and blood of the laundry work
ees produce the wealth of the exploit
ers.
The Steel Trust is in no small meas
ure responsible for the prosperous con.
dition OF the laundry owners and the
pitiful condition of the laundresses.
Many wife of the steel slaves is com
PEELED to work as a laundress. The
wage Of the husband is not sufficient
to cover the needs of the family.
Many Are'Negroes.
The greatest number of laundry
workers are Negro women. While in
the mills the men of this race are
forced thru discrimination into the
most hazardous and lowest-paid occu-
pations, so the women of the race are
forced even into greater slavedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
t. U. E. L. VIII Hold
Educational Meeting
Here, Thursday, Dec. 2

The Amalgamated Trade Union
Educational League will hold an edu-
cational meeting Thursday, Dec. 2,
p. M, sharp, at 1909 Roosevelt road,
Freiheit Hall
Jack w. tombstone, assistant ma
tional secretary of the T. U. z. L.,
will speak on subject interesting to
all militant trade unionists, why
Trade Union Minorities Participate in
Union Elections"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
VIGIL Radio Program

Chicago Federation or Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. It is
.broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
TONIGHT.
500 p. m.--chloaao Federation OF la.
Dor Hour.
6iso--The Brevooft Concert Trio
Little Joe Warusr; Hazel Nyman, ae
oordonj John Ude, baritone; Anna
Bcehmi Lucky WILDER; Great Lakes En-
tertainers. be-
eioo--Alamo Cafe Orchestra.
11ioo-Alamo Entertainers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03


needed campaign for amalgamation of
the existing unions and for organizing
the leather workers on a national
scale.
Purpose Of Meeting.
The chairman opened the conference
by reading the call and making an ap-
propriate address stating the purposes
of the meeting and the program to be
adopted. He spoke OF the expulsion
policy in the S. w. P. u. and in the
B. & s. w. P. u, showed how each
city completes with the other, the
bosses promising steady work in one
center II the workers will submit to
lower prices existing in some other
shoe center, thus making the lowest
scale the standard for all. He out
lined the organizational means to
make the conference permanent by
electing an executive committee with
headquarters in New York City and a
large national committee.
He said the immediate task is to
initiate a campaign to organize the
unorganized shoe and leather workers,
(2) to carry on fight for amalgama-
ton Of all existing shoe workers I'M
ions, (3) to enter the fight to stop
wage reduction and for wage in
creases, ca to carry on a campaign
against state boards of arbitration and
agreements made thru them.
Issue Manifesto.
The conference also outlined the
points for a manifesto to the shoe and
leather workers to be issued by the
incoming executive committee, dealing
with wage reductions, hours of labor
and general conditions in the industry
and the need for militant leadership
and an adequate program, and for
amalgamation and unity in the trades.
etc.
After discussion and reports upon
the local situations each resolution
was unanimously adopted and the del
egates were enthusiastic in their sup
port of the program outlined at the
conference. In each case the execu-
tive committee was instructed to issue
the adopted resolutions in a bulletin
giving an account of the conference.
Plan Of Action,
The organization committee brought
in the following report, which, after
considerable discussion, was unani-
mously adopted: seee
Permanent organization to be ef-
fected and called National Progress
sive Shoe and Leather Committee"
2. National committee to be COM
posed of two members from the fol-
lowing centers: Haverhill, Brockton
district, Lynn, New York district, Chel-
sea. Rochester, Cincinnati, st. Louis,
Manchester, N. t.; Auburn, Me-; Sa-
lem, Mass; Philadelphia and Mil
waukee.
3. District shoe and leather confer
ences to be set up in New York dis
trict, Boston district, Philadelphia dis
trist, Rochester district and st. Louis
district.
4. An executive committee Of FIVE to
be elected by the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
WOMEN LAUNDRY WORKERS EXPLOITED
BY BOSSES IN STEEL TRUST TOWN
CRy a Worker Correspondent

GARY Ind Dec 1Praise be
Pous Jews offer this
the time the
those days the modern MOI In
The modern god
having this
uon after the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
Tackle c6mpany Unions on
Rock Island.

Shop employs of the Illinois Cen.
trail and the Rock Island roads in
Chicago are eagerly accepting hand.
bills passed out at the gates entitled,
Destroy the Company Unions" The
Intl. Railroad Amalgamation commit
tee, Room s, zoe e. SO st. Chicago,
has distributed over 10000 to Illinois
Central WORKERS.
~-----T-~--
WRITE AS YOU FIGHT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
Oakland |. L. D. Indoor
Picnic Great Success
az a WORKED Commencement.

OAKLAND, Calf, Dec. /. - The
indoor picnic given by the Oakland
branch of international Labor Defense
on Sunday, Nov. 81 proved a very sue
cessful affair in spite Of the steady
downpour of rain that continued thru
out the afternoon and evening.
The afternoon was given over to
games and contests of various sorts
chief among which was "barnyard
golf, made possible by the use of rub
Der horse shoes.
Many Of the women had brought
lunch boxes which were auctioned off
and realized a substantial amount.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
LEFT WING CONFERENCE OF BOOT
AND SHOE WORKERS PLANS NATION
WIDE CAMPAIGN OF ORGANIZATION
tspseIaI 70 The oaNy workerl

BOSTON andpr progressive
unonsts
Hall last week. attended by forty representatives
made militant this dIsorganzed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03
WORKERS OUT OF
JOBS WHEN Mill
MOVES TO SOUTH
IUnorganized Conditions
Draw Factories
ny a Worker correspondent.

WARE, Mass, Dec. About 1900
cotton mill workers will be thrown
upon the town of Ware when the Otis
Company, manufacturers Of awnings.
denims, cotton suitings, cotton under
wear and other cotton products closed
down their plant here. The mills, es-
tablished in 1889, constituting the
towns oldest and most important in
dustry, will be moved to the south,
where reduction Of manufacturing
costs to meet the southern competition
was given as the main reason for the
action taken by the directors.
Self Out Holdings.
Recently the company sold the Ware
Gas Company, which it had operated.
Under the plan now submitted to the
stockholders by Treasurer Harry G..
Nichols, the mills and other property
here, including a number OF tene-
ments, would be sold, as well as the
company's mills at Greenville, N. H.
Part of the manufacturing would be
removed to two modern plants owned
by the company at Palmer, Mass, but
the majority would be taken south.
Industry Recognizing.
A great reorganization process is
going on in New England's textile
Industry. The Hayward Wooden Mills
of Douglas, Mass, has recently
scrapped most of it's old machinery
and built new modern plant equipped
with the latest of textile machinery.
THE Wauckentauc Mills. of Urbridge,
Mass have just installed new looms
in its plant Last month the Jenkes-
Nanville Co., Of Rhode Island, who
have always called in the state militia
and constapulary on the slightest man
Hesitation of discomfort among its en-
ployes, has closed its Nourse Mill at
Noonsocket, r. l., and moved its ma
chinery to units already in operation
an the SOUTH.
Are Consolidating.
The Nashua Manufacturing Co. has
sust purchased the plant Of the Tre-
mont and Suffolk Mills of Lowell,
Mass, in order to concentrate for
cheaper production. The Pepperell
manufacturing Co., which put up a
stubborn fight against its striking en-
: ployes, organized in the American Fed
Grafton of Textile Operatives, who re-
sisted wage cut in the recent wage
slashing campaign, has merged with
the Massachusetts Cotton Mills. All
these recent developments have but
one meaning for the workers in the
textile industry-gr greater and more in
tensive organization of the morgan
tied textile workers in the south and
also in the northern states. With the
drop in the price of raw cotton, some
of the mills are doing little more
work, but the manufacturers are not
content with cheaper cotton as an in
ducement for operating. More wage
outs are coming soon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-03

The American Worker Correspond
ent Is the worker. correspondents own
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this week. Every worker should send
In his subscription today. SO cents a
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Why not a small bundle of Tho
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Use your brains and your pen to aid
Ehe workers in the class struggle.
Evening star., 1926-10-05
OPPOSES 5-DAY WEEK.
Employers Spokesman says National
Policy would BE Hazardous"

NEW YORK. October 5 P).--Oppo-
sition to the 5-day week for indus.
try proposed by William Green. pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor. was voiced by James A.
Emery of Washington, general coun-
sci Of the National Industrial Coun.
ell, which represents $4,000 employers
in all parts of the country.
Addressing about 100 executives OF
the council at their semi-ann ,al con.
ference, Mr.. Emery said THAI appli
cation Of 6-day week for industry,
on National scale, would severely
handicap industry all over the coun
try and would vastly increase cost.
OF production and cost to the con-
sumer. He said he favored letting
industry adopt the shorter week wher-
ever it could. but was opposed to any
legislation compelling it's adoption.
Referring to Henry's Ford's 6-day
week plans, Mr.. Emery said that
Ford possibly could do this ito make
q virtue Of necessity" since he may
seek to cut down production, but
that if the shorter week were adopted
in agriculture, building and transpor
tation, it would bring hazardous re
suits
b. Loring Young Of Boston. legis.
lative advisor to the Associated In
dustries of Massachusetts, urged q
preventative medical campaign tC
help cut down the increasing cost OF
Human problems" in industry.
Evening star., 1926-10-05
BETTER WORKMANSHIP RAISES
OUTPUT AND WAGES. AT. L. VIEW
Education to Improve Craftsmanship Will
Be Indorsed-Want Science Taught
Freely In Schools.

"Union-made merchandise should
carry a guarantee of quality in pro-
portion to price," says the report of
a committee adopted by the labor
trades department. THE last year
has been the most successful one in
the history of the trade union edu-
cational program. Continued adher-
ence to the policy Of high-grade
workmanship will insure greater sue
cess for the future"
The executive council of the fed
Grafton also devoted much time to
consideration of educational matters
in it's report. released to the press
today.
There are at present 243 local COM
nittees cooperating with the educa-
tional committee of the federation.
headed by Matthew Woll, president
of the International Photo Engravers'
Union Of North America" this report
relates. Primary detectives recon-
mended are labor representatives on
school and library boards. adequate
appropriations for school equipment
and teachers salaries. and promo
ton of technical educational enter
priseS.
THE need for better school-attend-
Evening star., 1926-10-05
FIvE-DAY WEEK DISCUSSED.

prevent corruption Of the ballot, new
laws should be enacted"
Evening star., 1926-10-05

Asuncion, Paraguay, has a new
radio club.
Evening star., 1926-10-05

ment of labor and education in the
past and the necessity for. their union
for the future of our industrial civil
zation. Our aim is not to teach a
man what to think. but rather to de-
velop in him a capacity to see himself
in relationship to all those institutions
and habits which determine the ma
ture of his life, and to quicken the de.
sire to pursue truth in the spirit OF
the true scientist.
Study classes. organized through
the Workers Education Bureau, were
attended regularly by more than
IS. 900 adult wage earners in the last
year. the council estimated. Summer
schools and labor institutes were
added to the Winter classes.
Citizens military training camps
were investigated by the executive
council and given approval.
I'VE found" the report says, that
the military part of the training oc-
cupied the smallest part of the day
in the camp at Plattsburgh, n. Y.
Most of the waking hours were spent
in athletic sports. This kind of train
ing is building up the mind and body
of American youth. 1t stimulates
Evening star., 1926-10-05

ance laws and better enforcement of
existing laws is evident from these
figures: Between 1895 and 1924 the
number Of children attending public
elementary schools increased from
100000 to 21,00 200, and the mum.
ber attending secondary schools of
all kinds increased from $4,000 to
100000. But even now many Of our
children are not getting the minimum
education needed to fit them for life.
According to the 1920 census million
and a half children over and under
Ia years Of age-nearly one in ten
were not attending school, and of
children IA and Is years Of age. one
in every five was recorded as not at
tending school"
Restrictions against the teaching OF
science in schools are vigorously op-
posed by the educational committee.
State federations of labor are urged to
oppose legislation of such a character,
because such laws are in conflict
with real freedom, for if the mind is
shackled the individual cannot be
free
In addition to the educational COM
mittee's program the Workers Edu-
cation Bureau has been active in pro-
noting interest of unions in school
work
Evening star., 1926-10-05
RY JAMES NJ. LYNCH.

Special Dispatch to The star
DETROIT. Mich, October b.-Edu-
cation for workers as a means or I'M
proving the quality OF union crafts
manship will receive the Endorsement
Of the American Federation of Labor
in convention here this week. This
development will mark a departure
from the usual trade union philoso-
ply, which in the past has incorpo-
rated the assumption that educational
efforts of the labor movement should
be directed along propaganda lines.
1.-The American instinct of work
manship has played a large part In
the creation of our supremacy as an
industrial nation said j. w. Hays,
retary-treasurer of the Internation-
al Typographical Union and president
Of the union label trades department
of the Federation of Labor. while
there is still room. for improvement
in our national standard of living,
experience has shown that wages rise
as production capacity increases Pro
grams of trade education now being
conducted by several international
unions will accomplish much toward
promoting an effective spirit of CO.
operation between employer and en-
Move "
Evening star., 1926-10-05
Mellon Says Adoption, If Decided On
Must Be Gradual.

The proposal of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for a 5-day, 40-hour
working week must be put into effect
gradually If it is to be accepted by
American business, in the opinion OF
Secretary Mellon.
While he has not given serious
thought to labor's suggestion. the Sec
retary said, in response to inquiries
that the immediate adoption of the
proposal might seriously curtain pro-
duction, though perhaps eventually
this could be overcome.
In the case of Henry Ford's shops
he said, the five-day week had not
caused any decrease in production
but that similar results could not be
expected in all other industries
Evening star., 1926-10-05
GERMAN PAPER IN PARIS.
Publication Resumes as Berlin Gov.
ernment Enters League.

PARIS, October R).-Germany' s
entrance into the League Of Nations
has been the signal for the revival of
German newspaper in Paris.
known before the war as the
Pariser Zeitung. it has merely pre-
fixed "Neue" to it's pre.war name and
has resumed publication after an In
terval of IL years
Evening star., 1926-10-05
Better Workmanship Goal

Systematic sabotage Of the kind
called by the British Ca canny" has
never been practiced in America with
the approval of any recognized trade
union, but unions have in some cases
failed to appreciate the obligation
to set a high standard Of craftsman
ship. They are beginning to under
stand much hostility toward labor or
ganization can be overcome by in
sistence upon better workmanship.
Evening star., 1926-10-05
SPECIAL NOTICES.

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patriotic spirit and teaches good
citizenship.
The citizens military training
camp has no compulsory features.
The boys themselves elect to par
ticipate. In the judgment of the
executive council, it would be advan-
tageous for all boys in the country to
attend these camps"