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Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-09
FOX FARM FOR SALE

The Aurora Silver Fox farm, locat. ed in Katchemak bay, Seldovia post office, is for sale, according to a let. ter received by the Gateway yester- day from the owner Axel A. John- son. An advertisement to this ef- feet will be found in this issue.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-09
BRIDGE CLUE NOTICE

The Seward bridge club will meet at the home of Mrs. Tboday tomor- row (Friday) afternoon at 1.3o o'clock.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-06-09

No more clumsey looking half-soles for women's shoes. The new process makes them new. seward Leather Works.
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-02-10

from Wells Chevrolet Lewis Boyd drivers seat of the
cab He feet inches and has ample clearance 81 Helen Wills
and Suzanne Lengen international pictured the
Chandler Metropolitan Sedan which they recently the
East The picture received here Yesterday by R K Mcintosh
Chandler distributor in Spokane co. Mrs w. A. Maxwell N24O4
Columbus with of the Dodge Luxe Sedans recently
delivered to her by Rege Bros The sedan finished
Blue with mohar upholstery featuring the 10 steering gear
ratio % This delightful Pontiac sedan handled locally by Bell
niger Burrows, Inc
The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-02-10

Cd Studebaker B G
Six Sedan sold this week
to Miss Gertrude l.. Hunt
ington. Sl72 Occur
d'Alene St. (2) Chevro-
let Sport c a b r i o | e t.
From left to right the
young women are: Marie
Mink, Dorothy Newton,
Arene Jackson. Ellen Til
lisch, all employees of the
Wells Chevrolet Com
pany. 81 Miss Eunice
Conard and Miss Ethel
Soderquist in Greater
Buick 5-passenger sport.
The photo was taken in
Occur d'Alene Park. "a
Lee Morris of the Maylon
Players and his wife be-
side the new Chevrolet
coach purchased recently
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
More Politics From Now
On in Booze Sleuthing;
DOran Commissioner

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Practi-
cally the entire responsibility for fed
eral prohibition enforcement will be
shifted from an assistant secretary Of
the treasury to DR.. James NJ. Doran,
the new commissioner, it was learned
today.
Under Seymour Lowman, Of New
York, newly appointed assistant sec
rotary, it is understood that Secre-
tary Mellon virtually will revert to
the method of enforcement employed
before Andrews took charge. Under
that policy the assistant secretary had
little to do with actual enforcement
and when problems of major policy,
too big for the commissioner arose.
they went directly to the secretary.
1t is also understood that the po-
litical influence of senators and repre-
sentatives again will become the prin-
cipal factor in the selection Of inn
portant dry personnel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
THE INDUSTRY.

There are three types Of employers
in the women's garment industry in
New York, the 'inside manufacture
ers, the jobbers, and the sub-manu-
facturers, or contractors.
The inside manufacturers" main
tain regular inside shops which pro-
duce and market a finished product
just as any factory does.
The jobbers do not maintain any
shops at all, but purchase material
and give out their work to a number
Of sub-manufacturers.
The sub-manufacturers usually
have no contact whatever with the
retail trade. They maintain small
shops with few machines, but in
reality act in the capacity Of petty
foremen for the jobbers, rather than
as independent employers.
The jobber-eontractor system was
recognized as the cause of much of
the chaos in the garment industry by
the Governors Commission, which
made two year study of the indus
try. In its final report, issued on
May 20, 1926, the Commission points
out the responsibility of the sub
manufacturers, who force workers to
make concessions in wages, hours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26

and working conditions in order to
meet the fierce competition into
which they are thrown by the jobber.
The highly seasonal character of the
industry with resultant unemploy-
ment, has been increased by the sys-
tenn. The Commission found that
workers were employed only 26.8
weeks in the year in the shops Of the
sub-manufacturers, with average
weekly earnings for the year Of $26.40.
The Commission declared that the
jobber controls working conditions,
and controls employment, and that
element Of control imposes upon him
the responsibility that he shall so con-
duct his business that proper working
standards may be upheld instead of
undermined, and that employment
rnay be stabilized instead of democrat
lied"
The Commission reported that the
evils Of the industry were increasing
under the jobber-contractor system,
and recommended as a remedy, "limi-
tation Of contractors" a measure
greatly desired by the Union. "Limi-
tation of contractors" would allow a
jobber to employ only as many sub
manufacturers as he actually needed
to finish his work, thus eliminating
many of the evils of the system. 1t
would force upon the jobber some re-
sponsibility for the conditions of the
shops in which his work was done,
since he would not be able to stimu-
late competitive low bidding among
the contractors. 1t would discourage
the setting up of the many little shops
of slender resources, which now COM
pete feverishly for the jobber's bust
ness for few weeks in the year, fail
ing and starting up again, squeezing
everything possible out of the work
ers, and adding greatly to the demon
alization of the industry.
Although the Commission declared
that the industry could not be put on
firm footing until some such means
of regulating the jobbers was put into
effect, it acknowledged that it was
powerless to enforce its recommended
lions, and the jobbers did refuse to
accept the Commissions findings
when its report was presented.
Employers Associations
The employers in the Cloakmazers'
industry are organized in Associa-
tions; the "inside manufacturers" in
the Industrial Council; the jobbers in
the Merchants Ladies Garment AS
ISOLATION; and the ub-manufacturers
in the American Cloak and Suit Man
ufacturers' Association.
The employers in the dress indus
try are organized in the same way;
the jobbers in the Wholesale Dress
Manufacturers Association, and the
sub-manufacturer in the Association
of Dress Manufacturers, Inc. The Gin
side manufacturers" have no employ
ers' Association.
ITO be continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
First Five Weeks Of WOMAN'S ROTARY.
RuthGnbsrg Drive In ON JOB TO KILL.
N. Y. Is Successful N. Y. 4S HOUR LAW

The Ruthenberg drive for new
members of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party is meeting with great sue
cess in the New York district. AL
ready, with only five weeks Of the
drive over, 300 members have been
obtained for the party.
The Bronx section, in proportion
to its size, has made the best show
ing by contributing at least so new
members. Section 2, the largest in
this city, has contributed about the
same number
While this is very good begin
ming all the party fmetionaries must
put some more ginger into the drive
and make reality Of the slogan:
Every Member Get a New Member"
While we have cases where comrades
have taken in as many as ten new
members, as for example the case Of
Comrade Alfred Loseff Of Coney Is
land, there are still the great bulk Of
the comrades who have not yet Sc
cured their new member.
The District Executive Committee
will intensity the Ruthenberg cam
paign and urges all the comrades that
in their mass activities, in the unions,
in the shops, to bear in mind that
their task is not only to carry on pro-
paganda and in general broaden the
influence Of the party, but also to
concentrate on the most promising
sympathizers and win them over to
the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Chicago Cops Herd
Metal Rubbing SCab
Even at Meal Time

CHICAGO, May 20 (FP).-In the
epidemic of union shops that went
bad after the election of Mayor Will
liam Hale Thompson. the case Of the
Chicago Flexible Shaft Co.. is as raw
as that of the White (Regan) Print
ing House. Thompson's police force
has acted just as badly, appearing in
large numbers at the plant, 6veraw-
ing pickets bent on legitimate activ-
ity and, apparently, accepting favors
from the company.
Broke Agreement.
The Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. has
been union in the polishing and grind
ing departments for the past IL years.
1t manufactures the Cooper and Stew
art sheep shears and clippers, the
Sunbeam electric iron and the Sun
beam electric toaster. Alone of the
81 Chicago shops under agreement
with Local 6, Metal Polishers' Inter-
national Union, the Flexible Shaft
concern refused to sign the standard
contract embodying a 10c hourly raise
May /. All the other shops are now
paying $1.10 an hour. The union
called a strike on the lone obiector.
The struck plant employs 80 highly
skilled polishers and grinders. some
Of whom have been employed there
the past is years. All the men walked
out inexperienced strikebreakers
have been taken on in their place to
keep up bluff of production. The
union is paying $25 week strike
benefit.
Scabs and Herders Eat Together.
The scabs are herded in the plant.
sharing meals there with Mayor
Thompson's policemen and the priv
ate gunner Of the notorious National
Metal Trades Association, which is in
charge of the attempted open-shop
experiment. 1t contemptuously spuln-
ed the efforts of President John Fitz-
patrick Of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor to bring about a settlement.
It sees to it that uniformed city po-
lice are on duty in 3 shifts of s hours
each inside and outside the plant. Po-
lice flivver squads roar around the
ncighborhood.
Australian customers Of the firm
are being informed Of its change Of
labor policy. AS Australia is strongly
unionized it is quite likely that it will
look elsewhere for the bulk Of its
sheep shearing equipment. Canadian
and Pacific northwest regions are also
learning the facts. Apart from union
CONSIDERATIONS there is the matter Of
the quality Of work turned out by the
dlass Of workmen willing to stand
Under police guns and clubs while he
grinds and polshes the Flexible Shaft
Co.'S output.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
ARTICLE ".
BY CHARLES YALE HARRISON.

The statements made by the Of
ficials of the "'Big -Four" that the
cost Of maintaining industrial insur-
anee in force is higher than that of
maintaining ordinary" insurance is
deliberate missstatement of fact
and is made with the idea Of mis-
leading the agent.
Last year the total industrial ter
limitations We're 81 49,, 557,229 and all
original commissions on this business
were charged back to the agents sal
airy except for the S100,404,74S paid
as matured endowments and death
claims.
In effect this means that the Big
-Four" pay their agents for only 10
per cent Of the total business pro-
duced.
Charge More Millions.
On Iapses alone the industrial field
workers were fined over SO million
dollars last year. This is a very high
price to pay for the privilege of work
ing for the very select group Of gem
tlemen who saddle the industrial heap
In addition to this lapse fine, an
additional charge of over a million
dollars was made because 799.3S0 pol
ieyholders decided to cash surrender
their policies after ten years of prem
ium payment.
The ordinary companies doing bust
ness in the state Of New York last
year lapsed ordinary policies to the
tune of S1,458,221,S77. Not cent
Of the original commissions was
charged back as fines to workers who
procured this insurance. The same
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Wants Girls to Work "a
Hours a Week
BY ART SHIELDS
Federated Pressl

The zonta Club enters the field
against 48-hour laws. 1t is an or
ganization of professional ladies, and
very select "One woman from each
profession" says Mrs. Nina Broder-
lex Price, first vice president; "some-
thing like the Rotary Club, but more
carefully selected.
It's name comes from an old Indian
word meaning Light" But till now
its light has been hidden, First news
Of the Zontas came in long front
page story in Women's Wear, daily
newspaper in the interest Of depart
ment store owners and women's gar
ment employers. E6nta was announc-
ing that it was cooperating with the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton in fighting 48-hour laws.
Never heard of Them" said the
New York Consumers League, which
is on the other side Of the 4S-hour
fence. Better try the National As
ISOLATION of Manufacturers"
Woman's Party Knows
1t was good bunch. The manu-
facturers turned US over to the Ma
tional Woman's Party, and the party
furnished the phone number of Mrs.
Price.
yes" said Mrs. Price, "the New
York 4s-hour law is very unfair. It's
ali right for the labor unions to make
restrictions for their own members,
but they have no right to force such
laws on the rest Of the workers. They
are only q minority of the workers.
Zonta, like the National Womans
Party, says 1t is championing work
ing women in fighting shorter hour
laws. II the bosses cannot hire wo-
men at shorter hours, they will get
men, argues Mrs. Price.
Welfare TO the Rescue
"And why" wonders Mrs. Price,
don't the folks who want these
changes go direct to the department
store managers, instead of to the leg
islRtures. The stores have welfare
departments and they help their en-
ployes all they can"
Zonta is two or three years old and
a national movement. There are 60
clubs, with 5000 members about the
country, and so members in New
York City. All very carefully sell
ected, Mrs. Price points out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Alone. Tries Flight Record

DETROIT, May 25.--An attempt to
break the record of 81 hours continu-
Gus flying set recently by Bert Acosta
and Clarence Chamberlin will be made
here early next month by Duke Lock
wood, it was announced today.
Lockwood, one Of the country's best
known stunt filters, will carry no sub
stitute pilot or navigator. The only
break in the monotony Of his long
sleepless grind will be refueling from
another plane in mid-air.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Industrial Kings,
Political Leaders
Bless B'Iyn Paper

With the official blessing of the
republican national committee, Ralph
Jonas, president of the Brooklyn
Chamber of Commerce, and the lead
ing financial and industrial interests
Of the borough, the Brooklyn Stand
ard Union started anew yesterday
under new management.
The roster of those associated with
the new publishers runs the gaunt of
Brooklyn upper class life, with the
president of bond selling firm, the
vice president of machinery cor
poration, bankers, lawyers, judges
and public officials included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Tunnel MOtOrmen Will
Fight for Wage Raise

NEWARK, n. j., May 25. (FPl-
MOtormen on the Hudson & Man.
haitian tube system, connecting New
York and Newark, N. j. are seeking
higher wages. The men now receive
only $500 for 8 hours as compared
with $500 on the two New York sub
way lines. Formal wage demands
are expected after the arrival of a
national officer of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, their union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
See Locarno Collapse

BERLIN, May 25.-The collapse of
the Locarno policy and the growing
isolation of Germany is seen in the
Anglo-Russian break by the Nation
alist press Of Germany, headed by Der
Tag which stresses the fact that
Anglo-French solidarity has been
cemented by the visit of the French
president to London.
Rote Fahne, the Communist organ,
charged England with the first step
in an anti-Soviet war and urges the
world proletarians to rally to the red
flag. This newspaper predicts strong
resistance by British labor to the Brit
ish governments action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Anti-Imperialist League
Scores StimsOn Peace
Continued from Page One)

N Continued from Page One)
the following day to leave his tenn
porary capitol at Puerta Cabezas.
From that time on, the U. S. military
forces invaded one section Of the
country after another. The Nicaragu-
ans continued to struggle bravely for
months, but have at last had to yield
to the superior force Of Wall Street
and Washington.
yes, this is peace, and all Latin
America will remember it!
"Now more than ever the cry for
Latin-Ameriean unity against Wall
Street becomes a rallying force from
the Rio Grande to Cape Hornl One
bitter experience after another has
demonstrated that the smaller coun-
tries of the Western Hemisphere are
destined to fall under the yoke of
U. S. Imperialism, unless they unite
to defend their common interests.
That they are actually uniting is the
great augury for freedom in the west
ern world. 1t is no small matter for
Mexico to have recognized the Sacasa
government officially, in the face of
the U. S. attitude. 1t is an unmis-
taxable signal Of the gathering strug-
gle, that virtually every important
newspaper in Latin-America de-
nouneed the U. S. aggression and pro-
claimed its sympathy for Nicaragua.
peace? Yes, but a peace that can
mean only war.
"The All-America Anti-Imperialist
League calls upon all The peoples of
Latin-America to unite their forces.
The creation of the Federation of
Latin-American States becomes a
matter of life and deash for every one
of them.
Down with .lnerieen Imperialism!
Let rs make OF iJdrow Wilson's
phrase, "self-detel .lination for all
nations" a fighting slogan to throw
into the teeth of those who like
Woodrow Wilson himself) have used
it as any empty phrase to conceal
imperialist aggression.
"The United States government is
trampling on the rights Of weaker
peoples, not only in Latin-America
but in the Philippine Islands, in China,
and wherever the Wall Street profit
empire blazes its path.
eve feel common bond with all
Of these peoples, as we'll as with the
working masses of the United States
itself, whose class interests are di-
rectly opposed to those of Wall Street.
eve call upon the workers and
farmers of the United States to stand
by us! We call upon every one in
America who sympathizes with the
cause Of human liberty, to support us.
"Under imperialism there is no
peace!
LET us join hands for the peace of
Independent republics living side by
side, the peace Of mutual respect, the
peace Of liberty!
"The United States Section Of the
All-America Anti-Imperialist League
will begin an immediate campaign
for the termination Of U. S. inter-
vention in Nicaragua. Funds for this
campaign should be sent to the office
Of the League, Room AS, LOG N. La
Sale St., Chicago, III. Meantime res
olutions Of protest against the
Peace Of Nicaragua should be passed
by trade unions, and other labor and
progressive organizations, and copies
forwarded TO Washington.
~ IT. n:t xtsx.i..- Ig.... ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Granite Cutters Are
Voting for President

BOSTON, Mass, May 25.-Mem-
bers Of the Granite Cutters Interna-
tiona are voting for officers. Sam
Squibb, incumbent, is running against
Alfred Henry of Barre, VT The vote
Twill be canvassed June 5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Ford Tax Prosecution Retires

WASHINGTON, May ga. w.
Gregg, solicitor of the Treasury, who
is prosecuting the governments $780,
100000 tax case against the minority
Ford stockholders, is resigning from
the government service and will en-
ter private business as soon as the
suit is disposed Of, it was learned at
the treasury to-day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Newark |. L. ID. to
Meet on Thursday

NEWARK. May 25.-The Interna-
tional Labor Defense will hold a mass
meeting Thursday evening in the
Hungarian Workers Home, 81 Six
teenth Ave. George Powers Of the
Bronze and Iron Workers Union will
speak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
The Left Wing in the Garment Unions
BIZ MARGARET LARKIN

the Industrial background of sqole OF the onnent
coers for aggressive democratic sketced todus
ent OF the New York Joint Boards official storm of recent
eVents M the International Ladies' Garment Workers
complicated industry With many types of employers and
crying need for reimbursement 0eed By the governors
cen" commission" Mss Larn outlines the commissions findings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Page One)
only to those who take pride in the
fact that they live in an atmosphere
of faith. Governments are glorified
chambers of commerce.
As Communists we must recognize
hfacts, draw certain conclusions
from them and then shape our poll
cies to draw the maximum political
advantages from them. The conflict
ing interests of the imperialist pow
ers is one fact. Another fact is the
existence of the Soviet Union, the
nucleus of the coming world fedora
ton of Soviet governments and event.
ually of the World Republic of Labor.
Between the capitalist powers and
this power there cannot be any peace.
This fact should be engraved in the
mind of every worker.
A French king once made history by
the declaration: "After me the de-
luge." In other words he did not
give a damn what happened to the
world after he had his last bath of
asses milk. He was an honest king
as kings go. But he was not dip
lomatic king. And had he. to run for
reelection he never would expressed
himself in this fashion. Now, our
Wall Street capitalists do not like the
Soviet Government. But they know
that there is some business to be
done there and ruble is a ruble.
So, while the ruling classes of Great
Britain are more worried about the
loss of trade, our business interests
in China than about a temporary
loss of trade our business interests
have no such fears. They want to sell
their goods. Perhaps their daughters
want to get presented to the king
of England. That costs money. And
if they get the dough thru trading
with the hated Bolshevik Government
Of Russia, what of it? Money is
money and the flunkeys at Bucldng-
ham Palace ask no questions of a
pound note.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Fascists Follow British Tories

PARIS, May %, (INS).-The Sow
let Union is renewing efforts to set
tie the debt question with France fol-
lowing the break with England, it
was learned today.
Italy may follow the lead of Great
Britain in breaking off relations ow-
ing to the conflict between fascism
and Communism.
The Foreign Office today declined
to comment on the British decision to
break with Russia, stating that it
would have no influence on Franco
Russian relations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
Canada Discusses Police

OTTAWA, Ont, Nay 25.-The gov
eminent will discuss at its cabinet
meeting today the potential relation
between the Dominion and the Soviet
Union with whom Great Britain has
severed diplomatic connections.
Trade between Canada and the Sow
let Union has been increasing rapidly
and the Soviet government maintains
large trade commission office in
Montreal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-26
u. S. To Gain Trade

WASHINGTON, May 25.-Great
Britain's break with the Soviet Union
is regarded by Washington officialdom
as one of the most important inter-
national developments since the war.
The United States probably will
benefit indirectly from the Anglo
Soviet break, for if Moscow carries out
its threat to boycott British goods IL
means that Russia must turn to Amer
lea and Germany for the manufac-
tured goods she needs so badly. No
other markets are available, generally
speaking.
B0rah Silent
Senator VIM. +. Borah, chairman Of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and champion Of American
recognition Of Russia, refused TO com
ment.