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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04

Twenty years ago there were ap-
pearing in "McClure's Magazine
then a free paper with real editor
"a number Of extraordinary short
stories. There was a series dealing
with Wall Street, and ] remember
the "white bond-worm" who spent his
time in the great underground vaults;
also series called Butterflies" deal
ing with the pitiful chorus girls and
artist models, and their efforts, not
often successful, to fight off the pre-
datory males who control the purse
strings in the art business. These
stories were real literature, full of
pity and insight and penetrating So
cial criticism. With my usual Gus
tom Of butting in on things, | tried
hard to find some publisher to bring
them out in book-form. l failed; and
I suppose that George Kibhe Turner
was starved out-anyhow, he went
into the Lorimer kennel, and at the
height of the reaction wrote silly
and stupid anti-radical yarn, cred
FRIDAY also some snort SCofleS-l
described one of them in ''The Brass
Check: "a short story, which turns
out not to be short story at all, but
a piece of preaching upon the follow
ing grave and weighty theme; that
the trouble with America is that
everybody is spending too much
money; that the railroad brotherhoods
are proposing to turn robbers and
take away the property of their mas
tiers; and that workingnan who is
so foolish as to buy a piano for his
daughter will discover that he has
ruined himself to no purpose, because
working mems daughters ought not
to have pianos-they are too tired to
play them when they get through
with their work."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
Continued from Last IsSNe.)
XIII
The Great Dog Lorimer

NOW let us survey what I have called
AZ the great central power-plant of
fascism in America, the Curtis pub
plications, presided over by Colonel
George Horace Lorimer, Another
military title, you perceive-lt was
the governor of Kentucky who recog-
nized the services Of this great liter
airy fascist, and appointed him honor
airy colonel. Lorimer's training for
the task of militarizing American Gull
ture was gained as secretary to Old
Armour, the Chicago pork-butcher-
one of whose intinatcs remarked to
me, outside of inside knowledge,
you're lucky that Old P. D. was not
alive, or you'd never have lived to
publish The Jungle" Colonel Lor-
inner put the wisdom of the stockyards
into one of the most cynical books
ever written in America, "The Letters
of a Self Made Merchant to His Son."
1t is supposed to be funny, and it is,
unless you happen to belong to one
of four classes Of beings-first, hog,
second, a stockyards worker, third,
consumer of meat, and fourth, a hui
man being with heart or conscience.
Young Ogden Armour didn't have
me killed. he tried for three days and
nights to persuade his lawyers to let
him have me arrested for criminal
libel, and failing in that, he got Lor-
inner to have one of his hacks write
a defense of the stockyards industry,
which solemnly denied everyone Of
the jokes which Lorimer had written
about Ogden's father. And this is
only one illustration Of the service
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
To The DAILY WORKER:

To The DAILY WORKER:
On the evening Of October Goth Mr..
Warton, International President OF
the Machinists Union, visited Local
No. 284 Of Oakland. He was ac-
companied by two of his lieutenants,
Misters Thorp and Fryite. These
learned gentlemen gave lengthy re-
port of the American Federation of
Labor convention held recently in the
glorious city of Los Angeles, famous
for its climate and stool pigeons.
This report was principally an attack
upon the Communists whom they &C
cuse of trying to disrupt the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. There was
no mention made of any attempt to
organize the rubbe~ stool, or auto
mobile industries, or any move along
the lines Of organizing the morgan
lied.
The International President gave a
glowing report and stated that this
convention should go down the annals
Of history as a wonderful affair, as
there were addresses by the Hon
90 Hiram Johnson, Secretary of La
Dor Davis, and capitalist Army gen.
eral who knows all about slaughter
ing workers.
The President and his two aids then
strongly attacked the Communists and
stated that every Communist and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
Making a Chinese Wage Scale

the tools and equipment which the
worker uses. In a sense he rents
these to the worker. The foreman
also gets cents from every worker
every day that the worker works, The
wage of common laborers on build
ing jobs is about half that of the
wood-workers. But there is a great
surplus of unskilled labor so the I'M
skilled man pays the foreman from
5 cents to 10 cents per day for his
job.
Sometimes there are further COM
plications in the Chinese wage-scale.
These are the ones introduced by the
wood-workers at their last guild con-
vention. Incidentally, these wood
workers include carpenters, joiners,
cabinet-makers and others in the same
general industrial line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
BY SCOTT NEARING.

PEKING (FP), Nov. 3.-Wood-
workers in Picking recently made
new wage-scale that stands for year
from the time it was promulgated.
This scale was passed by the Guild,
to which contractors, jobbers, skilled
mechanics and journeymen may all
belong. There is feast. After the
feast comes a general mass meeting,
and at this meeting the new wage
scale is considered and adopted. In
theory, all members of the Guild take
part in making the scale. Practically
the contractors and jobbers have a
great deal to say. Still the workers
Forty-two Cents a Day.
"collaborate."
The wage decided upon for the
coming year was 80 cents per day
(about AZ cents in United States
money!. This, by the way, is an in
crease of 20 per cent over the wage
rate of last year. 1t represents the
largest increase that the WOODWORK
ers hereabouts have ever had.
The 80 cents is divided as follows:
For food % cents; for work so cents;
for extras 16 cents. The food item
may be paid by the employer in money
or in kind. If he chooses to pay it in
money, that is an end Of the matter.
The worker then finds his own food
But in China many workers are still
fed by the employers. In such cases
the agreement provides: (a) That if
no vegetables are given with the food,
the employer must add cents per
day to the wage. (b) That on the
End and 10th days of each month the
employer shall provide white bread
with the food. If he fails to do so,
he must increase the wage for those
days by 10 cents.
Sun-up to Shutdown.
Generally the workers work from
sun to sun. But the employer is
bound, out of this time, to allow 8
periods: smoke-time, noontime and
tea-time. If he fails to allow smoke
time and tea-time he must pay 5
cents extra per day. If he fails to
allow noontime he must pay 10 cents
extra. The so cents per day for
work" is paid whenever the worker
puts in a full day. 1t is his time
wage. There remains the Is cents.
The foreman on the job provides
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
GOOD LITTLE MICHAEL.

THIS is a touching story from
Bucharest: Little Michael the six
year old king is worried lest his
grandfather Ferdy should lose his
way among the clouds, so little Mike
put a lamp in the palace window 50
that grandpa might knew where he
was at. Ferdy is lucky that he is up
in the clouds FOR there are troublous
times ahead in Roumania, but bless
the trustful young lads soul, old
Ferdy never knew where he was at
except when grandma Marie was
around.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
The Black Hound Bays

young folk build altar to the beautiful and true,
the great dog Lorrinor shall lift leg thereto.
The lords of the nation go hunting with their dogs;
the heart of tigers and the heart of hogs
the path of the quarry the yapping mongres
the keenes of the pack is the great dog Lorrimor
"Woo-hoo- hoo-hoo! lords, spare not the spur!
Give the white doe Freedom that flesh angs her
ha' hate for all wild hearts!' bays the dog Lorrimor
The men of the law makes up the shifting pack;
The writer's of tales go forth upon the track
The vendors of the Jealous in the fore,
And loudest of the chase is the great dog Lorrmor.
GIVE me the young, lest the lips of youth baspheme!
Give me the rebel and the dreamer of the dream
Give me your foe, that you his entrails steam"
Oh lavish his tongue for the feet of all his lords!
And hoarse is his throat if foot their boards
Sharp his teeth and savage is his heart,
When he lifts his voice to drown the Of Art.
master be kind, for l. l too rich!
ha buried many bones, tho my aging hide do itch.
ha' buried many where the snowy lilies
ha' made that garden mine, bays the dog Lorrimor
He crouches their feet and is glad of his collar
And the brand his rump of the consecrated dollar
For the humble at the gate he is loud in his wrath;
shall be heard when the strong the Path
Give me the minstrel, the faun and wanderer;
Give me high Beauty-she shall know for your cur!
Woo-hoo-hoo -hoo" bays the dog Lorrmor.
If the young build altar to their vision Of the New
Be the great dog Lorrmor shall lift leg thereto.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04
Letters From Our Readers

Communist sympathizer would be ex-
PEELED from the American Federation
of Labor. This provoked a discussion
on the floor, and several propounded
the same question to the local presi-
dent and the sentiment of the local
union is in favor of the Communists
This created such a turmoil that the
local president closed the meeting.
There was considerable unofficial
discussion afterward, and the local
membership is dissatisfied with the
International President and his atti-
tude. 49, Correspondence Bureau,
DAILY WORKER Builders Club,
Oakland, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-04

the Saturday Evening Post" has per-
formed for predatory wealth, during
the fifteen hundred weeks that have
been watching it, They are so big and
so powerful that the truth matters
to them no more than a flaa-bite. l
showed in "The Brass Check" how
they deliberately distorted the facts
and then refused correction; and their
answer to ''The Brass Check" was
to add another million to their weekly
circulation.
From the point of view of the lit
crary business man, these Curtis pub
locations are perfection. They read
your manuscripts promptly, and pay
the very highest price upon accept
ance. So they are the goal of every
young writer's ambition, and the
most corrupting force in American
letters. Their stuff is as standard
ized as soda crackers; originality is
taboo, new ideas are treason, social
sympathy is a crime, and the one
virtue of man is to produce larger
and larger quantities of material
things. They have raised up school
Of writers, panoplied in prejudice,
lynching squad to deal with every
sign Of protest against the ideals of
plutocracy.
Take Emerson Hough Major
Hough, believe it is proper to call
him. Once he was an amiable teller
of outdoor tales and frontier histor-
les, and in "John Rawn" he even
showed traces of social understand
ing. But the war turned him into an
Iroquois Indian. He joined the Intelli-
gence Service, and when the White
Terror began he joined Colonel Lor-
inner. / don't think I have ever read
in an American magazine any writ
! ings more vicious than the articles he
contributed to the Saturday Evening
Post" glorying in the raids upon the
"reds"; "The Roundup" I remember
was the title of one, but no ranchman
ever hated his cattle, nor caused them
needless suffering. When police de-
tectivcs stamped their heels into the
faces of Russian Jewish working girls,
Major Hough literally screamed wiz
glee. He died two or three years later.
and no doubt the celestial authorities
are providing him an unlimited supply
of Russian Jewish working. girls e
be stamped upon.
Or my old friend Isaac Marcosson.
/ Yea may read in Ike's books, "Adyen-
lures in interviewing" how, as pub
licity agent for Doubleday-Page, he
made the fame of "The Jungle"-~you
viii almost think he wrote it. But
don't get the idea that there was
anything "pink" about Ike; no, he is
a publicity man according to the Lor-
liner standard, he promotes whatever
his boss has to sell. OF late years,
having Lorimer as boss, Ike has pro-
NOTED the wholesale murder of these
same poor devils whom in the
jungle" days he professionally pit
led. He has become kind Of travell-
ing sales agent for reaction; he has
done Soviet Russia, Central Europe
and the Orient, and just recently
Mexico; and always he comes home
with series Of articles for his boss
proving the standardized doctrine
that the masters of world capitalism
are benevolent supermen engaged in
comforting the blessings of civiliza-
ton upon the inferior races, but hav-
| ing their efforts imperiled by evil
minded intriguers called "reds."
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THIS nice speech is something like
what an officer of the Colorado
National Guard INDUCED in when he
held a conversation with a strike
leader. In the most Chesterfeldian
manner he conceded the strike leaders
superiority as student of Black
stone, but when it came to picketing
or no picketing he hauled out his gun
and gave everybody to understand
that fine phrases do not dig coal. The
gun is mightier than the word.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
Earlier Closing
of Line Sought

AT the regular semi-monthly
meeting of the American Conscrva-
tion club attended by % members,
held at the offices of the club at
so State street last evening, scv-
eral important matters were dis
cussed, including the passing of a
resolution to be sent to Senator
Johnson and Congressman Swing,
which favors the closing of the
United States Mexico line at Cal
exico at 6 p. m. instead of the pres
ent closing hour, which is 9 p. IN.
Another matter taken up by the
members of the club was pushing
the circulation of petition
throughout the Southwest in an eff
fort to get one million signatures
t. a document urging the passage Of
the Swing johnson bill. This docu-
ment is to be sent directly to Wash
ington, and is hoped will have some
influence with the lawmakers who
are at present engaged in an effort
tc get some action on this question.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
Dance at
Brawley Hall

Tomorrow night masquerade
dance will be given at the Red
Wing dance pavilion in Brawley,
under the auspices of the Americap
Legion and Legion Auxiliary of
that city.
Cash prizes will be given for the
best costumes. The best costume
will be awarded $40; the mem
best So; women's best. So; mems
best character costume SO; women i
best character costume So; and the
homeliest costume 81. Suits are now
on display at Varney's store in
Brawley, and may be rented for the
occasion.
Only those completely masked
will be allowed on the floor unit
after the grand march, which vii
take place at IL clock. Jerry
Jenkins and his Tuxedo Merrymak
ers will furnish music for the af
fair, which will begin at p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
BOARD DENIES
ANNEXATION OF
SCHOOL DISTRICT

A hearing on petition seeking
to have portion of the Mulberry
school district annexed TO the Cali
patria school district was held be-
fore the Board of Supervisors of
Imperial county in the court house
yesterday afternoon. The board
denied the petition.
The petition, signed by 16 resi-
dents of the portion of Mulberry
School district in question, cited
various reasons why the change
should be made. The main reason
was the inadequacy of the transpor-
tation afforded the pupils and the
fact that it made the children 90 a
much further distance than neces-
sary to attend an institution of
learning.
The petition had been sent to II.
c. COc, county superintendent of
schools, and after plans were drawn
up for the proposed change IN
boundary lines the matter was plac-
ed before the board of supervisors
for hearing.
More than % residents of the
Calipatria and Mulberry school dis
tricts attended the hearing. George
Il. Buffers acted as spokesman for
those against the proposed change
while NJ. V. Cohee talked for those
in favor of it.
The matter was thoroughly aired
by the board before the decision
against the proposed change was
rendered.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Noland enter,
ed a petition before the board yes
terday seeking permission to oper-
ate public dance hall at Heber.
A hearing in the case has been set
for March I.
L. A. Harrigan, county horticul'
tural commissioner, appeared before
the board and gave a report of the
workings of his office. He also
outlined tentative schedule for
fighting gophers next year, provid-
ed fund was set aside for that
purpose. His suggestion in this re-
spect was to rid the valley Of
gophers by means of poison in
stead of through paying bounty
for gopher tails.
Several other minor matters were
taken up by the board before it ad-
iourned for the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
! dead Mans Double
IIde entities Body

A man, believed to be cousin of
Carl E. Fox who was killed by
chit and rum motorist ON the Ca
lexico highway near Heber Sunday
night, viewed the body of the dead
man at the coroner's office last
night. He said that his name is
Fox and that he came from Elroy,
Wisconsin, the home of the dead
man. He told the coroner that he
believed the man was his cousin but
that he had never seen him before.
Fox's visit was brought about in
a peculiar manner. A man had Wis
tied the office short time previous
He asked if he might see the body
of the dead man and was granted
the request.
eyes, that's Fox alright he
said.
Asked for any information he
might give regarding the dead man,
he replied that he had friend that
might aid the authorities. He went
out saying he would be back.
About 20 minutes later he return
ed in an excited mood and with him
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
BUTLER STATES
COOLIDGE NOT
TO RUN AGAIN
BY United Press Leased Wire

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of CO.
lumbia University, in an address
before the Riverside Republican
Club last night predicted that
President Coolidge would not be a
candidate for President in 1925.
cone of the presidents s strong
est characteristics, Butler said,
:" is common sense, and common
sense dictates this course.
He disavowed any inside infor-
nation, but said that he and ga
working Republican, who is both a
personal friend and political sup
porter of the PRESIDENT was tax,
ing it for granted that Coolidge
would not risk having the third
term issue raised.
"The Republican party he said
"is going to have q hard enough
time in 1928 without inviting GER
tain defeat,' by injecting the third
term issue into the campaign.
The next successful candidate fol
the presidency must take a stand
against prohibition, DR.. Butler add
cd. "The eighteenth amendment
has no place in the constitution,
lie said.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
Marital Ship Has
Troublesome Trip

That the marital ship of Mr.. and
Mrs. T. T. White embarked on a
rough voyage soon after it set sail
i'll Yuma, AriZ., on October %, 1925,
is evidenced in complaint for di-
vorce filed by the husband yester-
day at the county clerk s office. A
pistol, threat, a stick and a slap
all played important parts in the
alleged misconduct of the wife but
it was not until after she had black
ened an eye of the plaintiff with
her fist that the ship was scuttled.
In his complaint the husband al
leges that the first outbreak of
temper on the part of the defend
ant came when she displayed q pis-
tol and threatened to shoot the
plaintiff. A time of peace follow
ed but then the wife is alleged to
have become enraged again and this
time she slapped the plaintiff S
face, then struck him with q stick
in such a manner that some of his
teeth were Jared loose.
But the ship sailed on. Then one
day the wife is alleged to have
struck the plaintiff in the eye. This
caused eoloration of the skin in
the immediate vicinity of the optic
which hovered about for several
days and on December 81, last, the
Whites took to separate skiffs in
their sailing on the sea of matri-
mony.
Now the husband seeks to have
the marital ties unbound and the
complaint was entered yesterday
through his attorney, j. Z. Simpson.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
Bar Association
To Meet Here

On Friday of this week the Bar
Association will meet at the court
house to continue the discussion of
the proposed change in criminal
procedure which is now being con
sidered by the state legislature.
At a meeting held last Friday,
which included luncheon at the
Barbara Worth, NJ. d. Witter, as
semblyman from this district, ad-
dressed the lawyers, with a view of
finding their opinion of the propos-
ed change. The discussion was con-
tinued until the next meeting, by
which time more detailed and
comprehensive idea of the lawyers
opinion of the change will be an
nounced.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
Magnolia to Have
Library Branch

Adding to it's list of branches
throughout the county, the Imperial
County Free Library will open a
branch in the Magnolia district
within the next month, according
to Miss Evalyn Boman, county Ii
trarian. Strong interest in the pro-
posed branch is being expressed by
residents of that district.
At recent meeting of the Mag
nolia Mulberry Farm. Center, Miss
Boman gave an illustrated lecture
OH the work of the county librarie
throughout the state of California,
which was received with much in
terest.
The Mulberry district is one of
those having comparatively new
county library branches. Splendid
circulation is attesting to the popu-
larity of the branch in that section.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-02-08
be brought the man whom he sup

be brought the man whom he sup
posed to be dead. There was q strik-
ing resemblance between the victim
and his companion, even to heavily
furrowed eyebrows.
The companion then said that his
name was Fox and that he believed
the dead man to be a cousin whom
he had never seen. He said that
he would open communications with
his relatives in Elroy at once in an
effort to see what could be done.
In the meantime the sheriff's Of
flee has located sister of the dead
man in Pristol, Wis.,, informing her
of the tragedy. Whether or not the
body will be taken to Elroy for bu-
rial had not been determined at
noon today.