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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
HEALED
BETWEEN NATL
AMATEUR BODIES

NEW YORK, Dec. % N9-The first
definite step toward healing the breach
that developed last year in the Amer
lean Olympic association was taken
today when the National Amateur Ath..
letic federation, a. its annual conven-
tion, voted upanimously to rejoin the
Olympic body.
The federation was one Of four na-
tional groups that Withdrew from the
Olympic association in November, 1926,
at Washington after a bitter fight with
the Amateur Athletic union and the
latter'S allies over control of Olympic
policies and organization
Today's action paves the way for
harmony in the 1928 Olympic cam
paign, since it forecasts similar steps
by the other three organizations that
withdrew from the Olympic group
One CT these, the National Collegiate
Athletic, association, will vote tomorrow
on the question of rejoining the Olyn1-
pic association. The other two, Y M.
c. A. and western conference, are ex-
pected to follow suit later
The terms on which the federation
agreed to return to the Olympic as
Sociation were not disclosed today by
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
DOUGLAS DAILY DIsPATcH THURsDAY MORNING DECEMBER 90 9z

its officers, but at Olympic headquar-
ters it was said they would accept
membership on the same basis as be-
fore they Withdrew. This was inter-
preted to mean that no compromise
had been reached on views but hat
the federation and other boiling Or
ganizations had agreed TO bury the
hatchct" in view Of the approaching
Olympic games. BY returning TO the
fold, the N. A, A. +. and N. G. A. A.
will have representation on the vari-
GUS Olympic committees.
The N. A. A. f. also decided today to
launch a more intensive campaign of
ta'ntio develonment, stimulating this
by holding championship events IN
various sports. A national swimming
meet will be held in Chicago.
Henry G. Breckinridge Of New York,
was reelected president of the fed
Grafton. The other officers for 1928
are: Vice President, Brigadier General
E. Pierce; executive secretary,
Major John L. Griffith, Chicago;
treasurer, Herbert L. Pratt, New York.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
LAST TRIBUTE
TO- JONES PAID
BY new MEXICO

EAST LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, Dec. %
09-New Mexico today paid last and
impressive tribute to one of it's out
standing citizens and statesmen-the
late United States Senator Andrieus
A. Jones.
The nation joined with the state in
the tribute through the presence OF a
delegation of % senators and congress-
men, who accompanied the body OF
the late senator here today for the
funeral. Joining with them were pres
ent and former state officials and men
holding high places in civil life VINO
had gathered from the far corners OF
the state.
Long before the hour for the funeral
service ST. Paul's Episcopal church, OF
which the late senator had been a
lifelong member, was crowded, while
hundreds crowded the church yard, un-
able to gain admittance. Silent crowds
stood on the sidewalks leading to the
church. Bishop Frederick B. HoWden,
a lifelong friend of the late senator,
officiated.
The funeral cortege moved to the
Masonic cemetery, where final rites
were conducted by Grand Master c..
M. MacTavish of the New Mexico
grand lodge. Members of the Las
Vegas lodge participated.
Hundreds of friends Of the senator
passed his bier today as the body lay
in state Business was suspended.
Governor r. G. Dillon ordered the state
house closed during the service, and in
company with other state officials
came here from Santa Fe.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

luton recommending to the state
legislature creation of Juvenile
court, with a matron or other officer
to take charge OF delinquent boys
and girls on probation, to hasten
their trials and to wa.cn conditions
that cause delinquentcy with view
to removing and correcting them
The resolution, formed by the law
committee of the association, was
signed by Mary M. Duffy.
Officers Of the association after
the adjournment, however, declined
to say Just when the resolution would
be presented to the legislature One
of them stated that it had been
passed too hurriedly.
G. r. Rose, Of Tucson, was eiecteo
director of the National Education
association, to complete the unex-
pired term of John, A. Sexson, form
erly of BiSbee, who resigned.
H. E. Hendrix, CT Mesa, was
elected director OF the National asso-
citation for the 1928-l9z9 term,
DR.. R. E. Won Kleinsnlid, president
of the University of Southern Gail
fornia, addressed the assembled deie-
gates this morning on Progress and
Poor Pedagogy" His talk was a
general discussion Of teaching meth
DDS, with emphasis on a-curricular
versus extra-curricular activities IN
the schools.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29
DECORATE WILSON'S TOME

WASHINGTON, Dec. %, H9-Sev-
eral wreaths we're placed on the
tomb of woodrow Wilson in Beth
lehem chapel of Washington cath
edral here today, in commemora-
tion of the war time presidnt's list
birthday.
They included offerings from the
the Kansas City and Minneapolis
Democratic clubs and the Wood
row Wilson club of Kentucky.
-O--
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-29

ST. LOUIS, Dec. % tP-vito
Giannola was called to the front door
of his home today and shot ana
killed by two unidentified men in
what police believe was renewal
of gang warfare here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05

these recurring displays of the non
thinking or the uniformed or the
anti-social mind in the present gen
GRAFTON let us lay the foundation to
make a more ereditable showing in
the training of the next"
Membership Increases.
Delegates representing locals from
every quarter of the country are at
work on the problems of education
and of Strengthening the unions po-
sition. It's less than 1000 members,
though an increase of 10 per cent
since 1926, are but minute fraction
of the more than 100000 teachers in
the United States. Many of the most
progressive teachers are enrolled in
the federation, making it the van
guard of the profession.
Secretary Treasurer Florence Cur
It's Hanson reports new locals and
considerable gains in membership in
the old locals. The union is affilia-
ted with the American Federation of
Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
w ashington Residents
Hit at Power Trust

WASHINGTON, July (FP).--This
-city's voteless citizens have voted by
an overwhelming majority against the
power trusts ambition to grab the
Great Falls of the Potomac, near
Washington, for private exploitation.
Acting through the Federation of
Citizens Associations, the nearest ap-
,proach in the District of Columbia to
a city council, they not only asked the
federal power commission to keep the
Byllesby utilities interests out of the
Great Falls but demanded that the
Potomac Electric Power Co., another
power trust subsidiary, cut down its
exorbitant rates. Although steam
plants manufacture electricity for u
cent kilowatt hour, the Potomac firm
is charging ca cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Wage Disputes Cause.

Wage disputes were the most inn
portant cause Of strikes in 1926, being
chiefly responsible for ATT. Union
recognition was an issue in LOG
strikes. Other important issues were
discharge of employees, employment of
non-union men and open VS.. closed
shop operation.
The building trades staged the most
strikes in 1926, being responsible for
272. There were 1914 strikes in the
clothing industry, 80 in the textile in
dustry, 78 in coal mining and rs in
the metal trades. There were only 8
strikes in the entire transportation in
dustry including both electric and
steam railroads.
The departments figures suggest
that the bulk of union activity is in
the region north of the Ohio and east
Of the Mississippi rivers. Here oc-
Cured 500 Of the 1885 strikes and
loekouts compared with SO south Of
the Ohio and east of the Mississippi,
80 west of the Mississippi and which
were interstate in character. More
than half of all the strikes took place
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva-
MIA and Massachusetts,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Organizations and individuals Rally to
Help The DAILY WORKER Carnival

expert who will burn out magnificent
designs on souvenirs at the affair.
Carpenters viii be furnished by
Carpenters Local 209O, which prom
Uses to give us enough men t. do all
the construction work. The carpen-
ters living in the Cooperative have
also promised their aid.
Comrade Norman SLIDER is giving
us free engineering service and We
are thus assured that the ground
will be completely transformed on
magnificent scale.
Tickets for the Midsummer Carni-
val and Fair will be so cents each
and rs cents for a combination ticket
good for two days. On Saturday the
feature viii be a Moonlight Flower
Dance. On Sunday there win be an
open air Chauve Souris and vaudeville
with many noted stars. Tickets viii
be on sale at 1O8 East 18th St., jim
ME Higgins Book Shop and SO First
st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05

The office of The DAILY WORKER
is having a hard time to handle the
rush of offers of assistance for the
Midsummer Carnival and Fair, to be
held on July 1924 at Pleasant Bay
Park. In addition to the offers previ-
ously published in these columns we
have just received reports on the fol-
lowing:
The Cooperative Unit will furnish
a cake, candy and ice cream booth.
Factory District 2, I'D will supply
an Art Booth.
Subsection LIB will give miscel-
laneous booth.
Section 7, Branch and will sup
ply a shooting gallery and a number
of prize games. Branch will give
punching board, while the Coney
Island comrades will furnish Nail
Driving Contest.
Subsection 3-B promises car
toonist who will sketch the visitors
to the Carnival and also a topographic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Curtis Sheet Spreads
Prosperity Bunk; but
Farmers Know Better

WASHINGTON (FP). - The few
progressive farm congressman and or
ganization chiefs remaining in Wash
ipgton this summer snort angrily at
claims made by a Curtis farm paper
that the farmer is getting more and
spending more"
The magazine, which claims L.
100000 circulation among country
gentlemen" quoted the higher level
of grain prices on the Chicago market
as proof that the farmer is better off
now. "Yes, but those are the prices
the gamblers are getting" they point
ed out "The wheat farmers sold their
crops last fall at distress prices"
With last years crops mostly in the
possession of SPECTATORS, wheat
prices have advanced 10 cents bushel
in the last two months. Cotton, sold
by growers at 9 cents a pound last
fall, is now asoted ak-1z-eents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
BY ART SHIELDS.

Organized labor has set ont to pre-
pare its own health and safety stan
dards for the dangerous trades. Fol
lowing the National Labor Health
Conference at Cleveland, committees
have already been organized in the
building, shop trades and mines, the
Workers Health Bureau here an
nounces. Safety committees for the
other trades will be organized soon.
The National Trade Union Safety
Standards Committees, as they are
called, will demand drastic safety
codes. Thirty-five thousand workers
are now killed every year on Amer
lean jobs, and 100000 others in
jured The lives of millions more are
shortened.
Study Industrial Mishaps.
The trade union safety campaign
will be directed first to a thorough
study of industrial accidents and dis
eases, and next to enforcement of
safety requirements by federal and
state laws and trade union agree
ments. The labor committees are ex-
pected to go much further in behalf
of the workers than the Engineering
Standards Committee, which is fed
Grafton of employers organizations,
engineering societies, insurance COM
panies and government officials. This
body is entrusted by the U. S. bureau
of standards with the task of pre-
pairing safety codes. To date it has
prepared 10, which only states have
put into law.
Aim to Prevent Deaths.
The miners section also discussed
set of tentative regulations pre-
pared bv the bureau. which the dele
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Organized Labor-Trade Union Activities
TRADE UNION COMMITTEES WILL DRAFT NATIONAL
SAFETY CODES TO PREVENT LABOR ACCIDENTS

90 5 approved and which now re-
main to be amplified in detail into
comprehensiveset Of measures to pre-
vent the present Slaughter in our coal
mines $500 deaths a year--four
times that of Great Britain. The min
ers' delegates were Vincent Kemeno-
yich, Miners Local 2399; Andrew
Durisek, Mike Marushock, secretary,
Miners Local OTIS; Thomas Baker,
Miners Local 3497. Harriet Silver
man, educational secretary of the
Workers Health Bureau, was elected
secretary of the Miners National
Trade Union Safety Standards Com
nlittee.
Delegates to the National Labor
Health Conference are submitting the
conferences recommendation to their
unions. Since the recommendations
were favorably received by unanimous
vote, prompt ratification is expected.
Urge Federal Control.
The conference urged federal safety
control for the mining industry and
for the control of industrial poisons,
with standard federal requirements
for safe, properly guarded machinery
in all industries, and federal com
pensation administration for railway
workers. For trade union action the
drafting of national health and safety
standards, with the cooperation of
trade union committees and the Work
ers' Health Bureau is recommended;
safety clauses to be included in trade
union agreements: the 40-hour week !;
trade union inspection committees on
every job and equal representation for
organized labor in all labor depart
ments. Effective state laws are like
wise demanded.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
FEWER STRIKES IN UNITED STATES In 1927 THAN
in 1926, LABOR DEPARTMENT INQUIRY REVEALS
BY LELAND OLDs (Fed. Press).

The industrial truce between labor
and capital in the United States con
tinued through 1926, as indicated in
u. S. department of labor review of
strikes and lockouts in that year The
department reports fewer strikes and
fewer workers involved than in any
year since the record began in 1916.
The record shows 1925 strikes or
lockouts in 1926 compared with 1901
in 1925. For the last years strikes
and lockouts have averaged 1850 a
year.
Fewer Strikes.
The department has reports cover
ing the number of workers involved in
1888 of the strikes occurring in 1926
The total for the year was 1882,
compared with 42S,416 workers in
1912 strikes in 1925. The disputes in
which the workers involved were re-
ported and the number of workers
year by year since 1916 were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Policies and Programs
The Trade Union Press
Strikes-Injunctions
Labor and Imperialism
5000 New York Painters
Charge Graft in Council
8 and Ask Suspension

At big mass meeting of painters
held June 25th, 18th Avenue and
10th St, resolution was passed
unanimously demanding from our
General Executive Board the rein
statement of Thomas Wright, legally
elected secretary, the suspension of
the District Council for a period of
IS months and the reorganization of
an entirely new District Council.
Members who were present at this
mass meeting also signed individual
cards demanding from the G. f. B.
immediate action on the above pro-
posals.
The mass meeting was called by
five of the biggest local unions of
New York City, namely, 261, 400,
848, 9O5 and 1011. Representatives
from each local union brought out
facts of robbery, graft, corruption,
favoritism, sell-outs on the jobs to
the bosses and the betrayal of the
five day week by the majority of the
council controlled by the holy go
cialists' Sauzner and Silverman.
Bills of expenses in hundreds and
thousands of dollars were submitted
to the council for any little thing and
work voted by the Silverman machine
to be paid out.
Out of the pile of facts which were
brought out at the meeting l will
! inst mention q few
The council ordered to arrest the
thieves. At the next meeting the
Silverman majority in the council
passed motion that the council pays
the expenses for their defense; Of
course to hire one of the best law
yers in the city to defend them.
The same council which prosecutes
them for their robbery of $4,000
should also defend them.
A check was found of $1,000 dol.
lars with which our officials gamblet
on Wall Street. The check had to be
paid out to Wall Street firm.
Brother Thomas Wright, the sus
pended secretary, who was legally
elected by a majority OF 4,0OO mem
bers, expressed his doubts of the will
ingness of our G. E. B. to clean ou1
the corruption and thieves.
He stated: "This fight is no loca
issue. Our G. E. B. is mixed up il
this crime; they are d party to thu
robbery"
j The G.. E. B. was invited to tn
meeting but they didn't show up. Nh
Kelly, representative of the G. E. B
in New York City, did not show u
either.
The New York painters are deter
mined to clear all the betrayers ant
thieves out of the union.
The rank and file is awakening!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Candee RubberW orkers
On Strike Against Cut

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, July a. -
Over so workers of the L. Candee
Rubber Footwear Co. are on strike
against reduction in wages amount
ing to % cents on 100 pairs of rubber
shoes. The L. Candee Co. is one of
the richest subsidiaries of the u. S.
Rubber Co. which employs in New
Haven about $500 workers in all de-
partments. The arctics department
is affected by the strike and is prac-
tically crippled. 1t employs mostly
skilled, experienced workers who can
not be easily replaced.
The wages and hours of the Can
dee workers are incomparably worse
than those in Boston or other New
England rubber shops. The mill
room workers average about rs dol
lars week, frame workers SIG to
SIT, calendar dept. SIG, cutting $40,
arctic dept. $50 to S25, fitting 50 to
SIS. Gum shoe workers average $40
to S12 a week.
The workers are on piece work
basis, and work from so hours a week
up. They never know when they will
leave the factory. Work starts at 7
in the morning, and very often they
don't leave until 7 or at night. The
treatment by superintendent and
foremen is miserable. The workers
lose hours of their own time waiting
to be supplied with materials.
The management has refused to
deal with the representative Of the
workers elected by the strikers. In
circular letter mailed to all the
strikers, the business manager, Rob-
inson states that he will deal only
with the shop council which is the
name for the company union in the
factory. The workers have no faith
in the shop council, as it is the bosses
union. This the workers see from
the fact that the representative of
the council is scabbing. They are Bit
ter against the continuous policy of
cutting their wages. Many who have
worked for 20 years or over in the
ldcloIy earn do ioW DIS pGV Weehi
on which they must support large
families. When some workers COM
planned that their wages were toe
low, and their children were going
hungry and without shoes Mr. Rob-
inson shouted that 500 week is more
than enough. The company, however
is not satisfied with 20 dollars week
and while it made Is million dollars
last year, instituted wage reductions
amounting to between two and three
dollars a week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
SOCIAL EDUCATION FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS FIRST
NECESSITY OF UNION, SAYS PRESIDENT

CHICAGO, (FP) July 4.-Social
education for school teachers is an
important function of the American
Federation of Teachers, Pres. Mary
C. Barker told the 18th convention of
this union of classroom educators at
its opening session in Chicago June
%.
"Not the least in need of stimula-
ton in the field of social intelligence
have been the teachers themselves,
and the American teacher, whether
in the federation or out of it, has felt
the quickening power of the new en-
phasis which the American Fedora
ton of Teachers has given to these
IDEAS" said Miss Barker in review
ing the years work.
"The effect Of this growing social
interest of the teacher means that
new power is entering the school
room," she continued. "A new per-
sonality will meet the boys and girls
as they gather there"
Fault Appears.
A sinister omen in American educa-
ton, she suggested to the delegates,
is the fact that most of the attacks
on freedom of teaching and freedom
of speech come from people who have
had IL to 16 or more years of school
ing themselves.
"Surely we teachers and the curri-
culum have been at fault" she
frankly admitted. "As we deplore
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
News and Comment
Labor Education
Labor and Government
Trade Union Politics
Employment Shark Gets
Worker Job at Empty
Lot; Won't Return Fee
(By A Worker Correspondent

(By A Worker Correspondent
The employment agencies are still
at their old tricks. Their latest stunt
was to send a worker cut as a cook,
to vacant lot
The employment sharks are full of
tricks. They do anything to get the
workers money.
There is an employment office who
called an Italian cook into the office
to take job as order cook. The
fee was ten dollars. The cook gave
five dollars and promised to give the
other five after working q week The
shark said, "All right" and so be is
sued the working card to the cook.
They cent the cook down on Green
witch street. When he arrived all he
could find was vacant lot.
Looking For A Job.
He walked block each way from
the vacant lot, thinking that the shark
might have made mistake on the
location, one block one way or the
other The number still remained the
vacant lot. The cook asked police
man where the place was. The police
man said, "What is this place sup
posed to be anyway" The cook said,
ga cafeteria. l was sent down from
an employment office to take an or
der cook job" The policeman looked
around and discovered that the num-
Der really was the vacant lot. So the
policeman told the cook to go back to
the employment office and get his
money back. When he returned the
shark said, "Well, how's the job ?"
The cook answered, "There's no cafe
terra at that number and no such
place in that neighborhood" The
shark said, "Oh, the job is there all
right, go back down there and go to
work and shut up about it."
How To Get Right.
Hotel and restaurant workers who
are seeking employment in the hotel
and restaurants of New York and
vicinity, should come over to the Of
flee of the Hotel and Restaurant
Workers Union, 1873 W. 51st street,
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
U.S.S.R. Grain Exports
Rise; Wheat Exports
460o Of Worlds Total

MOSCOW, July A.. - Grain ex-
port from the U. S. S. r. during
the first 7 months of the current
campaign July, 1926 to January,
1927 breaks the record since all
the postwar years.
During this period 2,150,000 tons
(more than 131,000,000 poods)
were exported.
Last year the export for same
period amounted to 100000 tons,
and in 1923-24 to 100000 tons.
This rise in export was chiefly due
to increased export of food pro-
ducts, particularly wheat.
simultaneously, the relative inn
portance of Soviet grain on the
world market also increased. U.
S. s. R. wheat exports constituted
this year 9 per cent as against 6
per cent of last year Of the total
world export of wheat to Europe.
The export of rye, likewise, in
creased from 20 per cent of the
total world export last year to 46
per cent this year. U. S. S. r. ex-
ports of barley increased to "a per
cent 4of the total world exports
duriwg the past 7 months.
The U.S.S.R. exports grain this
year to II different countries, thus
the number Of creditor countries
and firms has considerably in
creased.
AS a result of the stability Of
the conditions Of the internal mar
ket, and the successful process of
the grain preparations, the grain
export this year of the majority
of agricultural products is very
profitable.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-05
Five Railroad Workers
Are Killed Down South

ASHEVILLE, N. c., July Alive
railroad workers were killed here yes
terday when freight train jumped
the tracks near Golkey, Rutherford
County.