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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
NEW YORK MARKETS.

NEW YORK, August 81 R.--
Flour easy; Spring patents, e.9Oa7'4O,
soft Winter straights, 5.90a6.30: hard
Winter straights. 6.75a7.15. Rye. bare
" steady: No. western, I.10b fob
New York and 1.99ss elf. export
Barley, easy; mating, % elf. New
York. Wheat futures opened barely
steady; domestic December. 1.39h.
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INCOME DROPS.

NEW YORK, August 81 A).-Net in.
come of United Paper Board Co. for the
year ended Lay % dropped to $88,185,
equal after preferred dividends to q
.ents a share on the common, from
k2e2,528. or $I.78 share on the COM
mon, in the preceding year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
PRICES ON PARIS BoURsE.

PARIS, August 81 R.-Prices were
steady on the Bourse today. Three
per cent rentes, IS francs, 20 confines;
exchange on London, 124 francs 2 cen.
times; per cent loan, II francs 10
eentimes. The dollar was quoted at rs
francs 81 centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office

Following is the list of bonds and
stocks traded in ca she New York
Curb Market today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
PLANS PLANT ADDITION.

NEW YORK. August u R.-Willys-
Overland plans an addition to its To.
ronto plant. A contract soon will be
awarded for a new building that will
increase floor space by 100000 square
feeA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31

NEWseYORK, August 81 R.-Bar
silver, SAN; Mexican dellars, Az
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02

Mcgowan and Live
right to Speak at New
PlayWrights Theatre

Kenneth Mcgowan and Horace
Liveright will speak at the New Play
wrig hts Theatre, 40 Commerce
Street, this Sunday evening, inau-
gurating a series of Sunday evening
discussion meetings. Mr.. Macgowan,
sponsor of the Noel Coward play
"The Marquise," editor of Theatre
Arts Monthly, ETC., will speak on
"Constructivism for Skyscraper
America; Mr.. Liveright >of Boni &
Liveright will discuss Censorship"
John Howard Lawson will preside,
and discussion and questions from the
floor will be in order. The meeting
beings at $3.50, and is open to the
public.
Among the labor and other organi-
zations which have taken over per-
formances of "The Centuries" at the
New Playwrights Theatre are the
United Council of Workingclass
Housewives, the striking Window
Washers. Union, Section of the
Workers Party, The Young Pioneers,
the Teachers Union and the Anti
Horthy League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
CHILDREN'S PRODUCTIONS AT
THE NEIGHBORHOOD
PLAYHOUSE

The Junior Festival Players OF the
Neighborhood Playhouse will again
give a series of holiday matinees, at
the Neighborhood Playhouse, Grand
Street, during Christmas week. They
are preparing romance fashioned
from an old Troubadour song, "Fleur
and Blanchefleur" and will repeat
"Harusaki," the compilation of game
and ceremonies which celebrate the
Japanese New Year. The date of the
matinees are Tuesday,, December 27,
Wednesday, December %, Friday De-
cember 80, and Sunday, New Years
Day. t't
Esther Peck is designing the pro-
auctions. Blanche Talmud, one of the
original Festival Players is in charge
of the dancing and pantomine
Frances Brundage, of the lyrics and
diction. Alexander Semmler has ar
ranged the music for "Fleur and
Blanche Fleur" and Lily May Hy-
land, for "Harusaki."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
STANDARD Oil MAKES RECORD HAUL; CLEANS UP
1900 PER CENT ON INVESTMENT SINCE 1912

This Christmas will be the merriest
ever for the children of multimillion-
aires who cluster around the Rookie
Teller throne. The cash dividends dis
bursed this year by the Standard Oil
group of companies will exceed all
previous records. According to pre-
liminary estimates of Pforzheimer &
Co., specialists in the securities of this
giant monopoly, last quarter pay
ments amounting to $55, 724,472 will
bring the 1927 total TO the huge sum
of $219,617, $40.
Four giants of the Standard Oil
group account for S130,357, AIS of the
1918, GIT $40 total, the report shows.
The 1927 cash dividends of these
companies are: Standard Oil of N.
J. $38, 423, $50; Standard of California
$33,059, 506; Standard of Indiana S31,
978,164 and Standard of New York
$26,895,88S.
Record Dividends.
The 1927 Standard Oil dividends
exceed by about 100000 the divi-
dends paid in 1925 which at that
time established a record. This is all
the more extraordinary in view of
the fact that 1927 was supposed to
be year Of depression in the oil, in
dustry. Much publicity was given to
the statements that overpl cduction
forced prices down to Improbable
levels. Apparently the tribute col
lected by the oily rich viii be main
tanned even in periods of severe de-
preston.
The 1927 total is more than times
as large as the Standard Oil dividends
of 1914. 1t is twice as large as the
parent Of the present group Of COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02

panies. Practically all of the sub
sequent capitalization of the Stan
dard Oil group has been accomplished
through stock dividends.
Melons in on Deal.
Cash dividends paid by Standard
Oil since 1911, the year in which the
trust was supposed to have been dis
solved under the Sherman antitrust
act, have now reached the amazing
total of $2,O40,585, 1O8. In addition
there have been stock dividends to
total of nearly $1,5OO,000,O0o. The
owners, primarily the ROckefelleSs,
Pratts. MELONS, Harnesses, etc,
have taken about $3,500,000,000 on a
Capitalization which in 1912 had a
par value of less than 100000, 900.
Their wealth has multiplied nearly II
times over at the expense of workers
and consumers.
Standard Oil is leading example
of the tendency to initiate the claims
of ownership in order to sustain
monopoly profits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Union Leaders Playing
Capitalist; Chicago
Builders to Open Bank

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (FP).-Plans for
the organization Of another labor bank
for Chicago-one to be controlled by
the Chicago Building Trades Council
are announced by Patrick F. Sulli-
van, president of the council. Incor-
poration papers for the bank are now
being prepared and Jan. 1, 1923 will
see the launching of the banking
venture, Sullivan announces.
The Building Trades Council will
be the second financial company in
Chicago controlled by trade unionists.
The other is the Amalgamated Trust
& Savings Bank operated by the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
union. .4
Because of our mortgage business
we had to have much dealing with
banks" said Sullivan, "and so we de-
cided to form our own bank"
Although the trade unionists will
control the banking house stock, sale
will not be confined solely to them, it
was said. A vice president of the in
stitution will be a member of a reg
ular downtown bank.
A bank building is not planned i'm
mediately for the business, it was
said. First steps will be to sell stock,
the sale to start soon after the first
of the year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
LoVestOne Pamphlet
Exposes Prosperity

How millions of American workers
are getting $10.34 week wages, and
other millions are making only lit
tie more, how the farmers and the
Negro workers are being robbed to
increase the wealth of American CAPT
talists, is told in Jay Lovestone's
timely pamphlet, "The Coolidge Pro-
gram, Capitalist Democracy and Pros
perity Exposed. The pamphlet, which
has just been issued as the second
number Of the new Workers Library
publications, is being sold for five
cents.
Exposing the real nature of So
called Democracy, Lovestone shows
what it really means to the fourteen
millions of workers in Americas basic
industries. According to the United
States Department of Labor's last
report" Lovestone writes, "many mil
lions Of workers are getting only
.$10.34 a week as wages. Lumber
workers are paid SLIT week on
the average of 571a hours work. At
least 100000 railroad workers are
averaging only SIT weekly. Thous-
ands upon thousands of machine-shop
laborers are averaging Sits a week.
Scores of thousands of bituminous
mine laborers are receiving $10.34 a
week Blast furnace-men get $24.34
weekly. Foundry laborers secure only
$25.25 week and large numbers of
men in the most prosperous motor
vehicle factories are making $28.73 a
week. On this basis some ten to
twenty million persons, inclusive of
women and children, are receiving a
pittance and an insignificant share of
the wealth produced by them for the
country"
"The Coolidge Program" is an ideal
answer to the prosperity propaganda
flooding the country in preparation
for the coming presidential elections
The booklet can be secured from the
Workers Library Publishers, 80 East
125th St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
The Distribution of the National
Income and the Trotskyist
Opposition
ARTICLE II.

AM lCLE IL
IN yesterdays article we saw that
the income of the working class
is increasing, that the workers rela-
tive share of the total national in
come is increasing, that the wages
per worker are increasing, and that
the share of the other classes is de-
creasing.
In this second and final article we
will examine the figures as to the
number of workers and of other
classes. These figures doubly refute
the charges of the Trotsky opposition
that the number of wage workers
and their share of the total income
is stationary or decreasing.
What do we find by examining the
actual figures? We find that the
income of the bourgeoisie decreases
not only relatively lin relation to
the entire national revenue) but also
absolutely. The number of people
classified in this group has changed
as follows:
1924-25 1925-26 1926-27
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Income Per UsefulIy Employed Worker (Per Cent as
Compared With 1924-25).

The growing income of the average
wage worker being faster than tn; a
of the average income of the other
groups of the population within the
framework of a general increase in
the revenue of the country shows an
increase in the real wages of the
workers. eve find in the same vol
ume of Control Figures" direct in
dicationS of the growing real wages
which we find unnecessary to present
here.
Taking into consideration these
figures, it really becomes incompre-
hensible why the Trotskyist Oppose
ton says that the "real wages in
1927 have at best remained on the
same level as those of the fall of
1926"
We conclude:
The Trotskyist Opposition maintain
that real wages have remained I'M
changed since 1925. We see that
they have considerably increased and
still continue to increase.
The Opposition maintains that the
share Of the working class N the
national income has decreased. We
see that it continually increases.
They claim that the share of the
other classes in the national income.
has increased. We see that it con-
tinually declines. =.
Thus we see that "the most import
ant fact to be considered in judging
the present situation" has been
found not to be a fact at all.
We may be told of course that the
figures of the State Planning CONF
mission are merely approximate fig
ures. Perhaps. However, it must be
observed: THAT the figures con-
/ corning the past are quite authentic
and we argue exclusively on that
basis. 2.-No matter to what extent
the figures of the State Planning
Commission are merely approximate
figures, undoubtedly they are more
reliable and exact than the figures
worked out by few individual Oppo-
sitionists.
+ The number of industrial, build
ing, and transport workers has
changed as follows: in 1924-25, 3,428,-
800, in 1886, 4.234, 300, in .1926-27,
4,465,900.
~ The corresponding figures for
workers of the enumerated groups
are: 485,500; 611,200; and 673,800
(wages only.
*** The same is true for the enum-
Grated groups of workers, the figures
being 100; 1876 and 1887 wages
| onlYl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
iBarbecues Help Unite
Southern Workers for
Fight Against Bosses
By ALFRED HOFFMAN,
Federated Press)

DURHAM, N. c., Dec. 1 (FP).-
Barbecues help to cement the solid
arity of southern labor A barbecue,
conducted by the Durham Social Club,
subsidiary of the Durham Central
Labor Union, brought textile workers,
full fashioned hosiery knitters, car
penters, bricklayers, plumbers, stage
employees, BARRIERS and farmers to the
feast.
William Smith, of Philadelphia,
secretary treasurer of the American
Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers, was there as speaker and
guest. Smith attacked the yellow
dog" contract that has invaded three
North Carolina mills and he called
for continued support of the drive to
unionize the full fashioned plants. He
showed how ridiculous it was for
southern full fashioned knitters to
work. at rates so to rs percent lower
than-those paid only $50 miles away.
Il : found the Durham trade union
leaders very progressive and mill
taHtyy" said Smith later. "They are
thoroughly conscious of their needs"
r The Durham Social Club is a new
link in chain of labor activities to
bring about organization in all lines
IN this sector. The barbecue will be
followed by many other affairs. Plans
are being made for newspaper adj
vertlsing, other entertainments, labor
movies, mass meetings and a Tri-C City
conference, to be held this December
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Fire 800 Mass. Workers
AS Textiles Move South

EASTHAMPTON, Mass, Dec. I
(FP).-Three hundred workers have
been dropped by the West Boylston
textile company as $4,000 spindles
were moved to the company's branch
factory in Birmingham, Alabama.
Fifteen hundred workers are left.
Longer hours and lower taxes in the.
South are given as a reason for the
transfer by George A. Cook. general
manager Of the firm.
BUILD THE DAILY WORKER,
Pass the Paper to FelIoE Worker!
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1924-25 1885 1926-27
$4,000 7,s99,OOO S,327,OOo

However, it would be mistaken to
think that the growth in the number
of employed workers is the only
reason for their increasing share in
the national income. The income per
capita of every individual of this
group of the population was Tin
chervonny roubles)**
We can see that the per capita
income of this group continuously
increases.
The growing share in the national
income of the wage workers increases
owing to the general increase in the
number of people belonging to that
group and also owing to the increase
in the averave income of every mem
Der of that group. This does not
prevent the Opposition from claiming
that the numerical growth of the
working class and the improvement
of its position is practically at a
standstill."
We will, however, call attention to
the fact that the average income of
every employed worker of this group
of the population increases consider
ably faster that that of the other
groups. This may be seen from the
following table:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Chicago Sympathizers
Send Ton of. Clothing
To Colorado Strikers

CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (FP).-Chicago
sympathizers with the Colorado coal
mine strikers have contributed nearly
a ton of clothing for relief of the
miners and their families, the Chica-
go Committee for Relief and Defense
of Striking Colorado Miners an
nounces. The clothing is being ship
ped to the strikers camps. Clothing
receiving stations have been estab-
lished here at 1119 w. Madison St.,
% S. Lincoln st. and 1888 Belmont
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Train Kills Workers
On Way to Factory

DECATUR, Ind. Dec. -Four
workers lost their lives here today
when a train struck an automobile.
All fou, were on their Wa. to work
in the General Electric -TacUory here
when the accident occurred.
Frost on the windshield Of the sedan
in which the four were riding was
believed to have prevented the driver
from seeing the train.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Rumanian Police Dig Up
'PlOt" as Bessarabian
Arbitration Approaches

BUCHAREST, Dec. 1.-Rumanian
secret police claiming to have dis
covered a Communist plot" in Bes-
sarabia for rising against the Reu-
manian administrative government,
have arrested scores of Communists.
The mixed Soviet-Rumanian COM
mission, which will attempt to arbi-
trate the Bessarabian frontier dis
pute, will meet on Saturday at
Tighina. The alleged plot is believed
to have been discovered" for the
occasion.
Bessarabia was formerly a Soviet
province, but was annexed by Ru-
mania and backed by Great Britain
after the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
742 600 772 coo 75O OoI

At the same time we have an abso-
lutte increase in the number of en-
ployed workers. The number of use
fully employed people of that group
increases from year to year which
may be seen from the following
figures
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Cheap Labor, Bait Used
BY Southern Bosses to
Lure Northern Industry

DURHAM, N. c., Dec. 1 (FP)-
Can Southern labor live more cheaply
than the labor of the North, as the
advertisements of Southern power
companies and chambers of commerce
say? Durham labor is just complet-
ing a survey of wages and living
costs to answer this claim. 1t will be
published soon.
These advertisements, intended to
lure Northern manufacturers into the
South are resented by John A. Peele,
president of the Durham Central La
Dor Union.
"I can't help but object" he said,
TO the advertisements of the power
companies and chambers of commerce
who hold up southern workers as OBJ
jects to be exploited most shamefully.
This method of holding up Southern
workers, and auctioning them off the
block, much like slaves were sold be-
fore the civil war, is Objectionable.
We object to being used as bait to
lure down low wage manufacturers"
and again in January, of representa-
tives from Greensboro, Raleigh. Dur
ham and intervening points-all lead
ing towards better organization of
building trades and other old-line
crafts and drive into the open shop
manufacturing industries.
Pass the Paper to a Fellow Workeri
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Pass the Paper to a Fellow Worker!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-02
Bnoadway Briefs

Max Reinhardt's German company,
which is now appearing at the Century
Theatre in "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" may continue at that play
house four weeks beyond the time
originally planned. The public has
taken to the German masters pro-
duction, and so the original four
weeks may be extended to eight or
more. ''Jedermann" (Everyman)
will be the next production, probably
going on in week or so.
Further recruits to the cast of Eu-
gene O'Neill's play, Strange Inter
lude," which the Theatre Guild will
soon place in rehearsal are, Lynn
Fontanne, Tom Powers, Glenn An
doris and Earl Larimore.
Hugh Miller, last seen here as
Jingle in "Pickwick," is the latest adj
ditions to "The Merchant of Venice"
Guido Nadzo, Romney Brent, Low
den Adams and Parker Totten will
also have important roles in the pro-
duction.
Gilbert Miller today concluded ar
engagements with the English actor,
Leslie FabT to appear in the title
role of "The Patriot" the drama from
the German of Alfred Neumann,
which he will produce here in jan
uary. The play deals with the reign
of the mad Gar Paul I.
The New Playwrights production
of ''The Belt" Paul Siftons satire on
modern industry and company union
ism, will close at the Provincetown
Playhouse, Sunday night.
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Continued from First Pagel
convicted of violating n rule against
use of the sde-car of the motor cycle
without special permission and were
warned by the board not to repeat
that offense.
Holds Case Urgent"
AS an aftermath of the trial. the
investigation was ordered today by
Evans, who stated that if such an
order had been issued. it was in direct
defiance of the police manual for
bidding policemen to use their weapons
except in the most urgent cases of
self-defense and when the circum-
stances justify such action.
Publication of the testimony of
Capt. Stott before the trial board sci
the investigation on foot.
Inspector Evans said the steno-
graphic record of Capt. Stott's testi-
mony would be carefully scrutinlZed
and if is ascertained he was quoted
correctly. action will be taken by the
department. Like Maj. Edwin b.
Hesse, superintendent of police. now
vacationing in Atlantic City. Inspec-
tor Evans believes that there is en-
tirelv too much indiscriminate use of
firearms by the police, which must
be stopped.
The stand taken by Capt. Stott is
that if the driving Gf iii automobile
at a policeman with immediate
jeopardy to his life and well being
is not a most urgent case of self
defense and circumstance justifying
retaliation by firing on the assailant
with the motor vehicle, it would be
impossible TO imagine such case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-04
BERLIN PROTEST PLANNED.
Mass Meeting on War Anniversary to
BE Held Tonight.

BERLIN. August P).-Protests
against the Sacco-VanZetti sentence
were scheduled for expression tonight
in the Lustgarten at a mass meeting
in commemoration of the beginning
of the World War.
Workers planning to attend the
meeting will carry banners expressing
condemnation Of Gov. Fuller's de-
cision. coupled with such slogans as
Down with war; down with i'm
perialism." Hands off China and
Hands off Russia
The Socialist Vorwaerts this after
noon printed protest against the
Sacco-Nanzetti sentence. Indignation
stirs the world" the paper says. All
mankind must raise its voice to the
uttermost strength that GOV.
Fuller may realize at the eleventh
hour that more than two innocen:
lives are at stake--faith in justice and
faith in the New World as a better
world"
The appeal concludes with the quota.
ton from Shakespeare: The quality
of mercy is not strained
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-04
EMPLOYE IS HELD
IN $1,000 SHORTAGE
Neil A. Yeager of Washing
ton Electric Co. B|ames
Gambling. in Statement.

Admitting a shortage of approx
mately $4,000 Of the funds of the
IVashington Electric Co. 92S | street
and loss Of the money gambling. &C
cording To the police. Neil Anderson
Yeager. 20 years old. who was en-
Moved as assistant manager ano
salesman for Tho firm. was arrested
shortly before noon today by Detec-
tivcs II. X. Wilson and Is.
Kue;,ling. He was booked at police
headquarters on charge OF EN- =
beZzlement and locked up at 30. !
police station.
Yeace~ was arrested by Detective
Arthur i. SCriVener December =
1921. on four charges Of emhe%Zle-
ment, the name Of j. ID. Haynes being
recorded as complainant
Yeager had been in the employ oil
the Washington Electric Co the past
three and one-half years. Some time
ago. it is stated Charles ID. kenney'
his employer. found discrepancies IN
his accounts. he reported,
Discussing his affairs with the de-
+nctiyes the prisoner stated that yes
1erdav he surrendered to his employer
his equity Of 81, 800 in his home.
turned over his automobile to nm,
and also what money he had managed
10 obtain through the sale OF personal
effects. and this morning he was al
his former place Of employment 10
confer upon the settlement ne was
irving 10 make. accompanied ny ms
wife. when the detectives appeared
and arrested him.
II is the intention of the detectives
70 do a little checking up of the de-
PENDANTS statements in an effort %
bring TO justice some of the persons
who are alleged to have taken the
money in gambling games.
Yeacer resides with his wife and
child at $3.50 Eighth street.