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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
MORGAN CHOOSES
W. VA. MINES TO
USE IN MERCER
Open Shop Coal Field
Ruled by Bankers

Complete absence OF unionism ap-
pears to have been determining
factor in selecting southern West
Virginia for the first billion dollar
soft coal merger. Altho the crea-
ton of this trust has been carefully
kept from the public a news leak
gave the trade journal Black Diamond
important outlines of the plan to
unite all the Independent mines in
the region.
This consolidation will be like the
elder J. p. Morgan's anthracite one
of a generation ago. Its capitalization
is said to include 100000, 900 in 10
year bonds, 3OO,OOOOOO in 3O-year
bonds and $500, 900 in stock. The
figures are approximate. A quarter
of the stock will go to the fnanciers
who are behind the merger.
Black Diamond quotes one Of the
operators concerned as follows: "If
the merger can get all the operations
in southern West Virginia it will go
on IuIIlleI. IL wants Ule DSSI SOaA
in America and believes 1t can be
found in southern West Virginia
where the best mining conditions pre-
vail The men behind the deal not
only look at the production, but at
the labor situation. Southern West
Virginia has risen to every crisis in
the coal history Of America, and that
is what has attracted the financiers.
They are banking on West Virginia
miners as well as operators and be-
lieve that it is a safe investment"
In other words they are banking
on the belief that where there is nc
labor organization there will be nc
strikes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Injunction Against
/. w. w. Thrown Out;
Violated at Start

Legal notice of what has long been
a practical fact was taken Jan. 10
when the Chicago chancery authori-
ties threw out the Injunction against
the /. w. w. obtained by disgruntled
faction in the summer Of 1924. A few
days after Denis Sullivan, the in
junction czar, had issued the writ, the
paddock was smashed off the head
quarters door and union business went
on as usual.
Now, year and half later, the law
takes cognizance of reality. The in
juntion factions ran out Of money and
failed to win the support it had banked
on from the membership after a gene
raj convention expelled the ring
leaders. The writ was finally thrown
out because those originally applying
for it failed to appear in court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

These are the prominent institu-
tons of the money trust which con-
trolls railroads, steel mills, oil, COP
per, coal, meat packing, and the coun-
try's other basic industries. But some
of the smaller banks rank with them
when IL comes to profits. The Fedora.
ton National is down for a 1857
profit and SO dividends. The Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers Trust
shows only LIZ profit and no divi-
dends. Empire Trust, in which the
locomotive engineers are heavily in
terested, made $3.50 profit and paid
1879 dividends.
But Morgan's First National, cap
tanned by his lieutenant George f.
Baker, remains the model Of what
bank should, be to its owners. Start
ing in 1858 with 100000 in capital
stock it has paid cash dividends total
ing s1S9,510,00O and has in addition
accumulated, undivided profits to a
total Of $50 .S16956. It's resources now
total half million dollars. It's stock
is held at S2,990 a share and with
few exceptions it is in the hands of
the inner Morgan circle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
EXPERTS BOOK
APPLAUDS RUSS
ART CUSTODIAN
Soviet Uses More Care
Than Monks Did

BERLIN-(FP)-Seldom has the
question of art in the Soviet Union
received more thorough treatment
than in a book published in Britain
written by sir Martin Conway, one of
the foremost art critics of England.
Conway states in the introduction
that he is neither pro-soviet nor anti
soviet. He did not go to Russia to
study politics but to see art, and his
expectations were more than justi-
fed. He writes:
"The public museums of Russia, the
Hermitage in Petersburg and the
museums in Moscow are Of old-stand-
ing fame. ! knew what to expect. But
the wealth of the czars, in palaces and
in every kind of treasure within them
far surpassed all my expectations,
and now, as l look back, there sparkle
and shine in my memory incredible
quantities of jewels, masses of plate,
measured rather by tons than by
numbers, countless quantities of por
celain filing gallery after gallery,
and leaving yet 10000 pieces for
which exhibition rooms cannot be
found. also recall great vases, and
tables and even walls of lapis lazuli
and malachite, statues and busts, an
tique and modern, upwards of 10000
pictures, vast collections of drawings
and engravings, endless suites of
furniture, walls covered with tapes
tries and carpeted floors by the acre,
ikons by the thousand, sheeted with
embossed covers of silver gilt and
enamel, and every object that
the genius of man has brought into
existence and his decorative instincts
have embellished."
chaos of an unparalleled revolution"
Conway marvels that such a mass
Of treasure should have escaped ''the
1t was far otherwise in France in
$780," he notes. There, treasures of
church and state alike went into the
melting pot. Hardly any Of the works
of French goldsmiths of the is cen
fury escaped. Ruin overlook the great
abbeys, and many of the noblest
examples of medieval architecture
were leveled to the ground.
"In Russia nothing of the kind has
happened. The monasteries, indeed,
have been suppressed and their pro-
perty confiscated, but so far from
being injured, their paintings, their
vestments, their jewels and embroid-
cries have been carefully gathered to-
gether and many of them saved from
the progressive decay which they
we're suffering. They are better cared
| for by the soviet government than
they were by the monks"
These are but samples of the COM
ment contained in this remarkable
study, which appears under the title
Art Treasures in Soviet Russia. The
author pays little or no attention to
economics and sociology, but on the
field of art he shows that the soviet
authorities have preserved the treas
ures of the state and the church to an
almost unbelievable extent.
American editors who may be con-
templating articles on the destructive
ness of working-class rule in the So
Wet Union should glance through
this book.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Ask $381,233,726
to Make Up Budget
Deficits for 1925

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - Defcien-
cy appropriations agregating $381,2S3,-
726 to make up deficits in allowances
by congress for various governmental
purposes in 1925 were authorized by
a bill favorably reported from the
house appropriations committee.
Four items in the bill take UP about
$3.50, 900, 900 Of this amount. They
are Refund Of taxes, S149,25O,O 900;
postal pay increases, $97, 265, s21; fed
eral good roads aid to states, S26,675,-
900; soldiers bonus and hospitaliza-
ton, $7s,OOO,OOO.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
fascist URGE
VOL ENCE 0 N
LABOR GOVT.
Press Open Attacks On
Militant Unions
nx w. FRANcls AHERN.

SYDNEY-(FP) -Regardin the for
nation Of branches Of the Fascist in
Australia, the Australian Labor Party
has secured letter said to be written
by A. Kirby Hewlett, organizing sec
rotary of the British Fascist to Cap
tain J. o. Hatcher, organizing secre-
tary of the Australian Fascist, indi-
eating the connection between the
Fascist and the anti-Labor govern
ments Of both countries
The letter, on the official letterhead
of the British Fascist, reads:
"Your very interesting letter to
hand regarding the progress Of Fascis.
mo in Australia. It is pleasing to learn
that your federal government has been
assisting in initial organizational
work. The supreme council notes that
the movement has been launched in
six states of the commonwealth.
AT the present time Australia ap-
pears to be urgently in need Of re-
sourceful fascist groups in all centres
with a resourceful inner council in
command. Weak and vacillating gov.
ernments make Fascismo a political
and social necessity. Such were re-
sponsible for its coming into being in
Italy and also in England.
Had the Macdonald government re-
NAMED in Office here we would have
been required to forcibly drive il
from Office. Our present chancellor OF
the exchequer, Mr.. Austen Chamber
lain, said: Were Labor returned with
working majority it would be neces-
sary in the interests of the nation to
suspend constitutional government
and forcibly prevent it from assuming
office
IF necessary, steps should be taken
to precipitate open hostilities with the
militant unions. Open rioting would
give us an opportunity to smash the
unions and cripple Labor politically.
In this we have the definite assurances
that the present federal government
would cooperate and will secretly in
struct its officers to work in conjunc-
ton with our forces"
The exposure of the letter in the
Australian Labor press caused a great
sensation. The Fascist issued not
ices threatening to wreck the Labor
Daily newspaper Office and the Labor
broadcasting station at Sydney. The
Labor Daily newspaper office was
damage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Bay City Musicians
Donate $50 to Miners


BAY CITY, Mich, Feb. 3 - The
Michigan Musicians Association in its
ninth annual convention held at this
city donated $50 TO aid the miners
strike and passed resolution asking
all Michigan locals of musicians to
make immediate donations to help the
miners in their fight
They also reiterated Their denun.
citation Of the Michigan Criminal Syn
dicalist Law and again urged the Lee
gislature to repeal II.
The next convention Of the Michigan
Musicians Association will be held at
Jackson the second Thursday in March
1927.
Two progressives, Allen Loehr OF
Saginaw and VIM. Mollenhauer OF De.
troit were elected on the state execu-
tive committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
union
INCREASES ITS
SCHOOL BUDGET
BY WILLIAM r. kRUsE.
Especial Moscow Correspondent Of
The Daily Worker.)

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., Feb. 3-The
amount spent on public education in
the r. s. F. S. R. during the current
school year is more than double that
spent last year. In the year 1924,
100000 rubles were spent, this year
this sum has been raised to 114,000,-
600 rubles. Whereas last year the To-
cal budgets provided 6S.3 per cent and
the state expenditures 31.7 per cent;
this year the states share has been
raised to almost 40 per cent. Almost
third of the general budget of the
r. S. F. S. r. is devoted to popular
education.
All children OF school age in Lenin-
grad are this year provided with ade-
quate school facilities. The increase
over 1913 amounts to AZ per cent.
But not only juvenile education is
given increased attention. The con-
nection between city and village is
being cemented thru extensive village
courses for peasants, farm laborers
and demobilized soldiers. The Rus
sian Communist Party maintains a
special school in Moscow for training
teachers and party leaders for work
in the villages.
Connections with the many non-Rus-
sian peoples are also constantly i'm
proved thru the commissariat for edu-
cation. Theological and archaeological
studies in the Caucasus and in the
far North build up the race pride of
these peoples in the interest OF gen.
eral Soviet progress whereas the old
czarist efforts to suppress such
knowledge resulted in constant dis
satisfaction and revolt Funds have
boon granted for the establishment
OF an institute for scientific research
in Turkmenistan. The Oriental Re.
search Institute Of Moscow has just
celebrated its fifth anniversary. II
Is engaged in research in economies,
geography and sociology of the East.
New alphabets, based upon the Latin,
are being worked out for use both in
Soviet Armenia and Abkhazia. The
Armenian Kurds have hitherto used a
highly intricate and Arabian script.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
SPEED RAILROAD
WORKERS TO CUT
PROFIT MELONS
Fewer Workers Doing
More Than Year Ago

BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.
Speeding up of railroad employees in
the interest Of bigger profits for in
vestors continues, according to inter
state commerce commission figures.
These show that the railroads with
fewer employees are carrying more
freight and operating more passen-
ger car-miles than in either 1924 or
1928.
There were 5,57S fewer workers on
railroad payrolls in October 1925 than
in October 1924, although traffic was
larger in October 1926 by nearly
1000, 100000 net ton-miles and by over
100000 passenger car miles.
More striking reductions have
taken place since 1923. Excluding gen
eral and division officers there we're
1,92O,O54 railroad employees in October
1928 compared with 1,S00,453 in Oct.
1925, This reduction of approximate
ly 10000 in the number of employees
meant saving of over $13,O00,O00 in
the months wages in spite of the fact
that in 1925 the railroads handled
nearly 2,0OO,0OO,OOO more net ton
miles Of freight and 100000 more
passenger car-miles.
The reduction in number employed
between October 1928 and 1925 as it
hit typical groups Of employees ap-
pears in the figures:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Fire Sweeps South Bend.

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Feb. 8 - One
firemand was killed, three were in
jured and property valued at s3,250,-
900 was destroyed here today in fire
which started in the Brandon Cloth
ing store, spread to several others in
the downtown business district and
was brot under control only after It
had been fought six hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

The shop crafts have suffered most
in these layoffs with approximately
$4,000 fewer Jobs than in October
1923. The train and engine service
employees follow with about $4,000
fewer employed in 1925 than in 1923.
Since 1923 the shopmen's October pay
roll has dropped from $76,O26,274 to
$65,2S4,S59 or more than 141o In spite
of the general so wage increases Sc
cured by the transportation brother
hoods the total paid them in wages
has increased only about 10.
Comparison with October 1920,
shows the number of employees redu-
ced by more than 100000 and total
wages for the month by more than
$S0,000,000. This means that since
October 1920, the railroads have lop-
ped 2496 off the amount paid in wages.
In the same period the average wage
per employee dropped about 11G6, from
S156 to S139 for the month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
Government Biologists
Explore Arctic Alaska
For Rich Oil Deposits

WASHINGTON, Feb. "a new eff
fort is to be made to locate oil in the
vast ice-locked area of Arctic Alaska,
1t was announced by the department
of the interior.
Two government biologists will
leave Washington shortly to spend
eight months in the Arctic region in
an effort to find out whether there are
oil deposits in the frozen north. They
must start travelling in winter in or
der to be there to take advantage of
the short open season during the
summer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05
ONE
MILLION MILL
WORKERS HERE
In Some Lines Undersell
Even India
ny LAURENCE TODD,
Federated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Feb. B. One mil
lion workers in the textile industry in
the United States find themselves
sinking lower and lower in the eco
nomic scale, while their rate of pro-
duction and the profit taken by their
employers go rapidly upward.
In certain lines they now can I'M
dersell the products of mills in India
and Japan. The machinery used in
this country is better than that used
abroad, and the average wage for
American cotton mill operatives is
only about SIS a week. Great num-
bers Of children are employed at 81
to $40 week.
shoddy Industry.
Wooden mills in the United States
that produce goods which have as
much as rs per cent virgin wool are
not more than ten in number. The So
called wooden industry is a shoddy in
dustry, in which good wool is not over
35 per cent of the material, altho the
manufacturers have enjoyed a tariff
on wool of 81 cents pound.
Wages in these mills are slightly
better than in cotton mills, due to
the heroic defense put up by the
workers in repeated strikes against
wage reductions in recent years.
The American Wooden Co., whose
capital has been increased-from ac-
cumulated profits-from 1000, 900 to
500, 900, 000-is now trying to make
its workers produce dividends on this
larger capitalization.
5000 Per Cent Profit.
An independent mill at Uxbridge,
Mass, which had long been run on
basis of capitalization in harmony
with the actual investment, declared
stock dividend, in 1918, of 1928 per
cent, and then cut wages In an at
tempt to produce dividends on this
flood Of watered stock.
Silk workers are rapidly increas-
ing in numbers. Unskilled workers
in the many mills in western Penn.
sylvania get 81 week on the aver
age, as silk throwers. At the other
end Of the economic scale are the
well-organized knitters of full-fashion.
ed silk hosiery, who get $50 a week
The product of these skilled knit.
ters is sold in the English market
after paying British tariff duty OF SO
per cent, in successful competition
with British-made goods. The mum.
Der Of workers in the silk industry
getting $50 a week is very small in
comparison with the number getting
$11 a week. The tendency is toward
more machinery and less skilled labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

1.-THE power Of the working class ls
organization, Without organization OF
the masses, the proletsrIat---ls moth.
Ing. organized-it 10 all. oraanIxa.
tIon 10 unsnimity Of action. unanlnIty
OF practical sotlvltlesyp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

Put a copy of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you go to your union meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

A sub a day ioiU help to drive
capital GtCGy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-05

The LenIn Drive means quick
aetion--send your sub todayI
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-10-28

says that a new man in congress
cannot do much but look on for
the first year or two. He has been
our state representative for a
good many years and should know
whereof he speaks.
Nor do we want to elect man
to go and sit and watch for a
year or two until he might catch
on to the way things are done, or
well, there are no two ways
about it. Vote for Mr.. Moulton.
He got a lot for us already and
he knows how and will do it again.
1t is no sign that he is not sat
isfactory because of his failing to
get enough votes in the primary.
When the city of Kennewick first
voted on whether to buy fire en-
CINE, there was not half enough
votes to carry the measure. An
ether election was instantly called
and the voters were toll dto turn
out if they wanted the engine.
They did. They wanted the engine
all the time but were careless, say
ing eve should worry, it will car
ry anyway" -.
C. H. MoTTINGER.
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Mrs. May Trimble land Jennie
Gardner of Tacoma who are on the
way home from two months
visit in Ohio and Chicago spent
the week at F. L. Trimble's. On
! Tuesday Mrs. Trimble and Mrs. j.
p. Miller entertained at luncheon
at the Miller home.
The first meeting Of the High
lands Womens club is postponed
until Friday, Nov. 5 on account
| of the busy season. A large at
tendance is hoped for at that time.
E. o. King, Mr.. and Mrs. E..
A. Barg and Ella Kroutwurm were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Nadig
Sunday evening on the occasion
of Miss Krautwurm's birthday.
Mrs. McDougal of Seattle visit
ed last week at the home of her
nephew Hugh Hanratty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Babin and
daughter of Yakima were Sunday
guests at A. st Laurent's.
M. G. Clark and family were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
A. Rouse in Richland, Sunday.
/ E. o. King who recently traded
his ranch for Spokane property
left Monday for Seattle to join his
family. His daughter Gladys went
to Seattle last Friday.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-10-28
. LETTERS OF THE PEOPLE

Editor of Courier-Reporter:

Editor of Courier-Reporter:
i wish to say few words in
behalf of Mr.. Moulton for repre-
sentative.
am not a republican but when
it comes to choosing some one to
represent the interests of Benton
county, politics should not count
any more than it does when you
need service Of a doctor, dentist
or a cobbler to mend your shoes.
You naturally seek the one who
will render you the most efficient
service, regardless of politics. I'm
choosing any of the above we con-
slider first reputation and exper-
fence. We would hesitate to en-
ploy doctor if we knew it would
be his first case. If we had an
aching tooth to have extracted, it
would have to ache pretty badly
if we allowed some one to try to
pull it. who never had done such a
thing. The same if we need the
services of a lawyer to represent
US before the court. We would not
like to take man who had never
had case before court and who
had no experience with the ways
of court proceedings. When it
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-10-28

comes to voting for some one to
represent our interests in our leg
islature we do not as a rule use
the same good judgment that we
do in choosing a man to mend our
shoes. Many people have the err
roneous idea that any fellow who
makes a good. talk and has a strik-
ing appearance would, if elected,
make a, good representative. The
Sunflower state elected a man
once because he would pull off his
shoes, during his speech making,
and show the audience that he
wore no sox. History does not say
that he made better senator for
that. Ei ...
believe that what we do ex-
pect of whom we elect is results.
We should not back a theory as
that brings us most always dis
appointment. a.fz e.. .ae..
In choosing between the two cam
didates as agreat many will, it
seems to me there can be only
one wise and safe choice. Mr..
Moulton has experience and has
brot us very tangible and satisfac-
tory results. Senator Wesley Jones
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C. III. MOTTlNGER.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1926-10-28
LITTLE STORIES OF THE WEEK

w. F. Byrd was down from Yak
ina over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Larkin spent
part of the week in Portland.
John Shafer was in Spokane
Tuesday on business.
Mrs. J. Hume visited friends in
Walla Walla Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Webber were
guests of r. l.. Hudson Sunday.
Mr.. Mckinley of Fall Bridge
spent the week end in Kennewick.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. A. fletcher
were down from Yakima yester-
day.
The Rinkydinks are meeting
this afternoon with Mrs. H. E.
Oliver.
Mrs. C. D. Hopper will enter
tain with bridge luncheon to-
morrow.
]. j. Rudkin and M. M. Moulton
made business trip to Yakima
Monday.
The Catholic ladies will hold a
bazaar and cooked food sale, No
vember 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Struve were
visitors with the Hudson family
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Moulton
and baby daughter were in Walla
Walla yesterday.
The Congregational Aid will
meet in the church parlors Thurs
day, November 4th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Hooker were
visitors with Mr.. and Mrs. Cum
ningham last week.
Mrs. Harold Symonds and child
rem of Pasco visited her father.
F. j. Perry, yesterday.