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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Br HARVEY O,CONNOR.


WASHINGTON, Aug, l (FP). -
Southern textile wage levels are sink
ing beneath the "pauper" standards of
England, according to an amazing ad-
mission just made by the British Fine
Cotton Spinners' and Doublers' Asso-
citation Yarns from southern mills
are actually being sold in England,
underwriting British mills, whose la
Dor conditions have hitherto been held
up as a horrible example of what
would happen to American workers if
they were not sheltered behind high
tariff wall.
Beat British.
Southern textile goods are also be-
ing sold on the world markets, dis
placing the Lancashire products,
throwing thousands Of English tex
tile workers out of jobs. Thus has
the menace of the south's low wages
and wretched labor conditions not only
brought depression and widespread
unemployment to New England but
has reached across the sea to displace
foreign labor which American workers
have been assured time and again by
republican politicians would lower
American wages were it not for high
textile tariffs.
Envies L. S. Slavery.
The big English textile firm not
only owns mills Inc England and
France but cotton plantations in the
United States. This corporation COM
plains to its stockholders that it could
make more money if it were not for
the shorter workday in England and
relatively high wages and social SER
vice it has to render its English work
ers. These handicaps, it is explained,
make it hard to compete with the
Southern mills of the United States,
which on account of long hours and
low wages are able not only to take
q part of our trade in neutral mark
cts, but even to export yarn into our
home market"
An offensive against the British
textile union and social legislation ex-
actly analogous to the New England
employers drive on the Textile Work
ers' Union and on Massachusetts, As
hour law for women may be expected
as the result of southern labor policy.
Mills in Alabama pay about half the
New England scale while in the Caro-
linas wages are about two-thirds the
northern level With the 10-hour day
prevalent and protective legislation
non-existent, the cotton mills of Dixie
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roads. They spending their wages,
will in turn employ more men, and
they in turn on indefinitely" Now,
if the capitalists were sensible people
they would never law men off but
would keep them constantly at work
at high wages and instead of per-
hitting bankers to teach thrift and
encourage saying, the government
would employ spell binders to lecture
to the workers on the virtue of
thriftlessness. But in all probability
greedy employers will continue to en-
ploy labor only when it pays and
bankers will continue to take the
workers. savings for few cents on
the dollar instead of urging the work
er to spend it, thus giving employ
ment to more garment workers, shoe
makers, and brewery workers. John
is like voice crying in the wilder
ness.
THE Coast Investor and Industrial
Review has an article on "Why
Russia Fails and U. S. Succeeds"
We are told that socialism is being
forced on the people in Russia by
the rifle and the hangman's moose,
that a premium is placed on litter
acy and that the government is one
of the lowest order of people by the
lowest order of people for the low
est order of people, that in America
capitalism is socialism and that here
the only handicap is to be born into
wealth. The rag that published this
drivel halls from San Francisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Books Received. To Be Reviewed Later

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN CENTURY BY E. Roy Calvert
Putnam & Sons.
GREAT ABSTRUSE AUTHORS, WHO THEY ARE. Ey
Frank Noah The Publishing House. Boston $3.50
GEORGE R. STUART LIFE AND WORK. Pinson Cokbury
Nashville,
THE WORKS OF EUGENE ONEILL. Boni Lverght
CIRCUS PARADE. By Jim Tully Albert andC Charles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Current EUents By r J o'FI7HEET7

FEW of our readers need to be told
L that this official organ of finan-
cial swindlers is lying like a drunken
Kiwanian, but it gives US good eX-
cuse to write a paragraph about the
Soviet Union. When the irate cap
italist scribbler says that the Soviet
Union puts a premium on illiteracy
he is lying stupidity. The U. S. S. R.
is one big schoolroom. During the
Czarist regime only the children of
the aristocracy and the well-to-do
classes were in a position to secure
an education. Now the children Of
the workers and peasants have that
privilege. Socialism is being built up
gradually and there is less violence
used in this mighty task than there
is in the United States in the effort
to enforce prohibition.
THE contemptuous sheer at the
workers and peasants classes that
rule one-sixth of the earth's surface
is Just what should be expected from
a representative of a class that is
doomed to pass out of history, pro-
PEELED by the tip of the proletarian
boot. We cannot blame the capital
lists for being sore. 1t is not a plea
SAINT thing for them to contemplate
the loss of their graft and power.
They are entitled to as much SYM
pathy as the confidence man who
swindles a man out of his money
when the swindled takes it out of his
hide.
pUSSIA is not failing. Her pro-
N ductive plant is gaining rapidly
in power. Her oil production is
away beyond the pre-war figure. The
standard of living of the workers
and peasants is on the upgrade. Il
literacy will soon be only dream
Of the past. Russia is succeeding
for ninety-five per cent of the popu-
lation as the United States is for
the exploiting minority. That is the
difference. 1t all depends from what
angle you look at the question. From
the capitalist point of view the organ
of the California parasites is right
From our view point it is wrong.
WHILE covering California we re-
+" specially call your attention to
the sweet exhibition of candor given
by Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother Of
the famous female Elmer Gantry, in
the controversy now taking place be-
tween those two religious frauds. The
twin servants Of the lord are now
quarrelling over the spoils and they
are using the kind of language that
would sound better in barroom than
| in a church. They are talking cold
turkey. "When we started in bust
ness" said Mrs. Kennedy, at was
understood Aimee was to do all the
preaching and l was to do the work
and would share profits on a $3.50
basis" Now, when the business
amounts to over a million dollars
Aimee becomes afflicted with a poor
memory and Jesus is reported to be
about to demand ain audit of his
business. Still, the Los Angeles
sucker is hardy specimen and he
will keep coming.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03

4AlAN biACA1 Jaw NCSN2 ACNtSA '~-A $4,000
England's.
British Move Mills.
One step taken by the overseas in
dustry to meet southern competition
while maintaining profits is to build
mills in the south. Work is proceed
ing now on a big Alabama mill to be
operated by a British company which
will import yarn at lower production
costs than it's own mills at home can
attain.
The only comfort for workers in
New and Old England is the expecta-
ton that the vast reservoir of unused
southern labor may reach exhaustion
within 10 years or so. This possibil-
ity is foreseen by a speaker at re-
cent convention of the American Cot
ton Manufacturers Association, Il
southern mill federation. IF the south
keeps or expanding at its present
phenomenal pace, the labor reserve
will be exhausted in less than gen
Grafton, he warned, and the south will
be faced with the same labor prob
lens as New England. Not only tex
tiles, butt general manufacturing are
being encouraged by the exploitation
of cheap labor and hydrC-electric pow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
New England Suffers.

In any event the manufacture Of
coarse textiles seems doomed in New
England. Mill owners there, particu-
larly in the New Bedford-Fall River
section, are devoting more effort to
the manufacture of cotton-and-rayon
and cotton-and-silk cloths. With the
aid of expert designers, these mills
are turning out "style" fabrics which
have gained wide popularity among
American consumers. More complex
machinery and more highly skilled
workers are required in these lines
than in the south now possesses. New
England is confident that it can main
tain superiority in this class of tex
tiles, if manufacturers can be kicked
into concentration on better market
ing methods.
If New England with the Great
Lakes and grain regions, can influ-
ence congress to approve of the st.
Lawrence waterway and power de-
velopment, another big advantage of
the south in cheap power will be neu-
tralized. The New England Council
believes the finer textiles, aided by
cheap power and better distribution,
can be kept inaits mills against south
ern competition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
" b O O K S "
HILARIOUS AND SAGE OBSERVATIONS FOR MIDSUMMER
READING.

HILARIOUS AND SAGE OBSERVATIONS FOR MIDSUMMER
READING.
NEW MASSES August, 1927. Price 25c
One article in this issue particularly noteworthy it
model for handling literary and dettantss who
everything under err the sun The article by Joseph Freeman Bulgarian
b ng we have seen for long time Those who have been amused
BY will instantly recognise the subject s
satire That article alone justifes the August
~ But there number articles, particularly
article was sent to The Nation by request a @
When they refused publish it, 1t far too
frank and realistic for the liberals The d struggle depicted by the
prefer to ignore.
Upton Sinclair has article relating his experiences
tine B0of @ which is amusing not only because depicts
Upton at best 55d Describing n ngn the police station he says
brought in another and remembered the
Only ". Upton could be guilty of this sublime symbolism prolific
@ pea % n words (which had never heard before
What would like to know from the editors
S ss put '"'f'0" fro" Karl Marx the same page with Up
avge-a of them are good
1f M the cover pag BY Chopper showing Cal in his cowboy
c. E. s. Woods book Heavenly Discourse"
There are other conibutionsac and poembv Albert Rbvs
Williams others quite interesting
History Thought James Fuchs is oendabe except that
as historian instead of plain liar and fraud whose sod
historical works utterly unreliable unscentc anti Narxist and there
But the contributions of up
II M wICKs
COST OF LIVING IN NEW YORK CITY 1926 Published bv the
National Industrial Conference Board $500.
THERE is Wing
United States for Labor
Bureau of Great Britain manned by personnel capable of conducting
original research interpreted from working
will be able
@ It that t asS m e sns e OF to % @
considerable portion Of our facta data upon the research organizations
example, is the National Industrial
The question of living relation wages,
Family Budgets of American 92 Living
Among Wage Eaners Anthracite Pennsylvania u922)"
Cost of Living n City,
The investigation purpos to determine
lard of living New York City, occupa
considers fair weekly and
annual OUTLAWS for housing fuel light
are then budgeted
Tor O single living families; single indus
rial workers living home living
rom family groups and (8) families OF one two and three children
budgets drawn up as the minimum umens for
Zach category studied are as follows:
Industrial Workers Office Workers
Family of wife
children .:..:...;. s1,ssO17 211sn 4o75
Single man, living apart from family
Single Woman, living part of ''
family 66525 ....... 80.
Single woman, living from
family
study of the details of these fascinated
satisfied Why office clothing
fled with the assigned the computing budgets
industrial women workers living from
that
workers. compared with the
poverty strongly influenced the decision of Miss
Ser and her assistants of the Conference
who conducted this investigation.
Moreover this amount required to
her maintain ga fair American sample
items picked at the the
reader to judge for himself the adequacy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
One Million Workers Are
Organized on Railroads Of
Union of Soviet Republics

Note.-Since the Bolshevik Revolution in Novem-
ber 1927, the workers the railroads of the Union
of Soviet Republics have built up powerful trade
union with 100000 members The in
which these workers organized should be of
vital interest, not only to railroad workers, but to
all labor the world over. Alexis Amassow, General
Secretary of the Union, answered that question in
a detailed reply given to j. Louis Engdahl, editor
of The DAILY WORKER during the latter's
cent visit to the Soviet Union Amassow will
other questions concerning the railroad work
ers' union. Today's reply follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
Southern Mill Wage
Under British
British Move Mills.

2 find their labor costs lower even thar
! FnCI9nd'S
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shelter
industrial workers living
compared with the minimum
gehe on the poverty n strongly influenced
seer and her assistants of the Conference
who conducted this investigation.
Moreover this study to set forth the required
him
picked
himself
industrial worker supporting family Borough
Manhattan is allotted $66
S34OO monthly for 87; workers living as
part of family allowed $96 contribution to-
ward the family rent and $3.50 weekly for food
workers allowed two of silk stockings of
and 262 with which heeled
p 3d. fellow has to be frugal about his
workers being budgeted for 80 weekly
We therefore
entirely inadequate And withl
available
budgets of the
workersboh in New York and other parts of country
We have that the absolute minimum pno
family composed
years of age possibly ubsst Latest fgures the u
wage OF industrial workers in New York City or country
the average $279) would
about the high standard of living that supposed ed by the
American working ''' -
IA
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
SOUNEY TALKS 0N
 FIRE PREVENTION
Tells Nurses at Hospital to Use ,>. Utmost Care

'Incidents occurring in the lives of New Britain firemen. which leave impressions on their minds they never can get rid of, which often finish in the New Britain General hospital, many times are caused by carelessness. according to Deputy Fire Chief Michael T. Souney.
 Chief Souney. who also is chief of the fire prevention bureau, spoke at the meeting of the hospital Rotary club today at noon. He took. as his subject that of fire prevention and cautioned the nurses to be careful particularly in homes in which they work, or in institutions, not to per init the accumulation of newspapers, magazines or old rags.
 He told experiences Of excited women who call on the telephone to give an alarm and then forget to tell where the fire is. Tt never pays to get excited" he said, explaining to the nurses the operation of hand eXtinguishers in the corridors.
 He told how New Britain man lost his life trying to save his wife, because of the careless handling of an oil stove in the house. When it comes to fire prevention, never mind anyone else's feelings advised the fire official. If you see a careless act, allowing rubbish or old news papers to accumulate by one of your fellow nurses, never mind her feel ings, tell her to clean it out at once or you will report her. You may be the means of saving her or some one elses life'
 Spontaneous combustion is noth- ing more or less than an accumu- lation of rubbish, paper or waste" he continued.
 In conclusion he said he wanted every nurse. interne and hospital en- ploye to know the location of the nearest fire alarm box and how to operate it.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11

as that surely would meet strong opposition not only from Japan but from Great Britain.
 -.. Premier Quoted
 Premier Wakatsuki said at the opening of the present session of the diet at Tokio:
 Japan Is ready to cooperate with other powers to maintain and promote world peace. National de- fense cannot be neglected. As the present strength of the Japanese navy and army is based on the needs of our national defense, we must maintain the present strength"
 Since the Washington conference, Japan has spent s355.000,0oo for naval construction on three sep arate building programs. It is now likely a demand will be sanctioned in the present session of the diet for an appropriation for a replace ment program costing s32o,oOo,000. The new program would replace bDSOltlb SlllpS, puI lHiS Couiu Ut modified in accordance with any agreement reached at Geneva.
 Thus, Japan would not constitute any real obstacle to the president '> proposal, and Japanese believe that real obstacles, if any. might be found with some other sigma tories of the Washington treaties, It is still fresh to Japan's memory that France at the Washington conference categorically refused to consider any proposal for putting the strength of her auxiliary craft at the ratio agreed upon in the Washington treaty for capital ships. It is recalled that such a strong advocate of disarmament agreement is Lord Cecil declared in London last fall that a very considerable number of additional cruisers was required to protect the empires communications.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
Roof Collapses But
 Three WOrkmen Escape

Boston, Feb. II (UP)-A dozen workmen narrowly escaped injury or death here today when a section of the roof of two-story concrete building at Boylston and Jersey streets collapsed.
 The crash was heard for blocks, attracting hundreds of persons to the scene. Two employees of Rich Bros, contractors, were working in that part of the structure at the time of the accident, but these men, George Harrington and Joseph Sampson, escaped.
 Ten other men, at work nearby, also escaped injury.
 Police and firemen searched the debris but found no indication that any one had been caught beneath the fallen roof.
 An investigation was begun to de- termine the cause of the accident.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
England Also Worried by
 Immoral Plays Growth

London, Feb. Il UP)-"1m- moral" plays are increasing in Eng land.
 The lord chamberlain, who is the absolute censor of English stage productions, has revealed that more than twice as many plays were re- jected in 1926 as in 1925 because they were immoral or otherwise un- desira ble.
 During 1926, 76S plays were sent to the lord chamberlain for his pe- rusal and he rejected 34, a percent age of A. In 1925, TAO plays were submitted and 16 were rejected, q percentage of 2.1. The number re- jected in 1925 was half again great CT than the number rejected in 1924, when of SIS plays submitted, nine, or q percentage of IA, were reject ed. Nine-tenths of the plays rejected, the report revealed, were so dealt with onthe grounds of immortality
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
St. Joseph's Parish Men
 Have Smoker and Social

The mems meeting of St. Joseph's parish society held last evening at the parish hall was largely attended.
 An interesting program was car ried out in which John Coates of Portland, well known in amateur theatricals, gave an exhibition of lightning addition of figures, jug gling and dancing. Mr. Coates plans to go on the vaudeville stage in the near future.
 Charles Farmer, local dancer, gave an exhibition of the black bot tom and charleston. John Tobin recited Casey At the Bat" and many other poems. The principal talk of the evening was given by Rev. John ! Keane and others who gave speeches wefv Charles Brick son, Boy Scout executive the presi- dent, William J. O'Brien. William J. Sullivan and James kenney. ~ho outlined the need for more activities during the coming year.
 Weir's orchestra entertained with SelGCllOlS d1lQ d SluOhGI IOllOWtu luS program.
 It was planned to hold a pinochle, setback and 45 party on Tuesday evening, March 1, for men only. and the following committees were ap- pointed: General, James r. Kenney. chairman; William J. O'Brien, Will liam Bass, James Sullivan, John OLeary, Edward Murray, Henry Kane. Thomas Heslin, John Meskill, Thomas Griffin, George Weir. John Lyons, John Di Nonno, Charles Lent Edward Hannon, John Riley. Ed ward Moore and Clarence Kenney; prizes, John Lyons, George Weir, Charles Lent. William O'Brien and Thomas Heslin; refreshments, Will liam Bass. Edward Hannon, James Griffin John Meskill and Edward Murray; tickets, Rev. J. J. Keane and James Sullivan; advertising James henney and Clarence Ken ney.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
Fined S10 for Towing
 Auto Not Registered

Pleading guilty to the charge of operating an automobile without a certificate of registration, on De- cember 27, 1926. at Main and Arch streets, Melvin Rogers, aged 22, of 12S Broad street. Plainville, was fined $10 and costs by Judge w, c. Hungerford in police court this morning. Rogers said the car was not registered and he thought it was permissible 10 have it lowed away by a registered car. State Policeman Lloyd G. Eukers made the arrest.
 James Meaker, aged 3S, of 3S Wilson street, pleaded not guilty to the charge of assaulting his wife and on request of Attorney Thomas J. Cabelus, a continuance until next Friday morning was taken. Mrs, Meaker showed Judge Hungerford swollen eye, resulting, it is charged, from a punch adminis- tered by her husband.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-11
Frats Do Not Breed True
 Scholarship. Says Mason

Chicago, Feb. II (UP)-The mod ern college fraternities breed stu dents who are facile in the class room and who "get by" but that is not a substitute for real scholar ship. President Max Mason of the University of Chicago told the inter fraternity Chicago association.
 The alumni of the fraJernities are preventing college students from ever exceeding pedestrian pace in the realm of knowledge he said.
 If a fellow should buy [ book in q course which he is not taking and should go back 10 his fraternity room, read it and think about 1t, he would be judged queer fellow, And lie probably would be-" President Mason said.