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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
LEvELAND LABOR
MEETS TO FIGHT
ANTI-ALIEN ACTS
Conference Called for
Protest on Jan. Is

CLEVELAND, o., Jan. "a confer
ence of representatives of all labor
and progressive organizations has
been called by the Cleveland Council
for the Protection of Foreign-Born
Workers to protest and lay plans to
fight against the proposed anti-alien
legislation by congress. The confer
ence will be- held Thursday night,
Jan. 10, at 7:B0 o'clock in the Insur-
ance Center building, 1888 East 18th
street.
A meeting of editors of foreign Ian
guage papers was held on Jan. and a
huge publicity campaign has been
launched ASA result among the for
eign born. Protest meetings are to
be arranged in the various neiS-hor-
hoods and a monster mass meeting
will be held soon at Grey's armory.
A fund of $1,000 is to be raised by
the committee to further the work.
The council is endorsed by the
Cleveland Federation of Labor, and
larry Mclaughlin, president of the
federation, is a member of the adj
sorry committee of the council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Proper Case of Alien
Exclusion; Send MIR.
Corn Borer Back Home

CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Jan. Q. The
European corn borer has invaded Hi
nois.
The first specimen was found on
Kankakee county farm near the In
diana line and advices to P. A. Glenn,
chief inspector of the state agricultu-
raj department from Washington,
where it was sent for absolute identi-
fication, confirmed the presence OF the
pest.
w. H. Flint and Dr. T. H. Prison OF
the state natural history survey have
been conducting an extensive search
in Kankakee county for further evil
dences of the corn borer without sue
cess, it was declared.
Authorities declare the pest will do
little damage for several years, in
which time it is hoped the invasion
may be stopped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Co-Ops Collecting
for Mine Victims

NEW YORK, Jan. s.-(FP)-More
than $1,000 has been subscribed by
various cooperative societies for relief
of widows and orphans of the Michi-
gan iron miners lost in late disasters.
The mine accidents have cost some
Of the Michigan cooperatives staunch
members. The entombing of go miners
near Ishpeming cost the Consumers
Cooperative Association OF that town
many members, the cooperative board
ing house its part time manager and
two boarders.
The cooperative boarding house at
North Lake lost its part time manager
in the Barnes-Hecker disaster. Relief
is coming from cooperative societies.
made up chiefly of workers in Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, New
York, Illinois, a miners coop in Dillon,
vale, Ohio, etc. Donations may be
sent direct to Jalmar Nukala, relief
chairman, care Of Ishpeming Cooper
alive Store, Ispheming, Mich, states
the Cooperative League New York
headquarters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
BY a Worker Correspondent.


SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8. - The
laundries have been able to speed up
the workers by playing one against
the other with the hopes of steady
work and by keeping them continually
under the threat of being fired if they
protested against the slave-driving
conditions. The following is a fair
example of how the workers are
handled.
Get Half Overtime.
When the workers put in three
hours overtime they are paid for only
half of the time. If there are any
protests threats are hurled against
the head-worker by the superintend-
ent. The superintendent is not salts
fled with paying the workers under
the union scale, but tries by all ways
and means to rob the workers of what
is due them.
Slave Drivers Paid Well.
In one of the laundries the head
washer gets $50 per week, not because
he does more work than any other
head washer, but because he is bet
ter slave driver and cusses the work
ers right and left. Knowing that the
union is a strong weapon in the hands
of the worker, he tries as much as
possible to bring in non-union men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Says Labor Must
Fight Bills Aimed
at Foreign-Born


That the bills for registering and
fingerprinting aliens are likely to be
rushed thru congress in its closing
hours next March is feared by Secy.
Max Orlowski of the Chicago coun-
Gil for protection of the foreign-born.
Orlowski, who is on the district exc
cutive board of the machinists' union
says:
Chicago labor must voice its pro-
test against the bills in such man.
ner that the sponsors will not dare
bring them out of committee. Their
silence now is rather sign of dan
ger to labor than of security"
The Aswell, Johnson and Holiday
bills are particularly vicious, he says,
placing the happiness of every alien
at the within of government officials.
These bills have been condemned by
the Detroit and Atlantic City conven-
tons Of the American Federation of
Labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11

Some twenty-odd women sit around
a red hot stove in the corner of dim
ly lighted hall 1t is a meeting Of the
Workingwomen's Council in Walling-
ton, New Jersey They have more
members, fifty altogether. Where
are the others? Well, one has young
children to mind, another cranky hus-
band, another is tired. 1t is hard for
women to come out to meetings.
A God-forsaken hole, Wellington.
Streets of mud, scattered frame
houses, half a dozen stores, popu-
lation of Polish workers. Only once
Wellington got on the map. That
was when in Passaic and Garfield,
those towns seething with the strug-
gle of the textile slaves, strikers
meeting halls were closed, Walling-
ton offered a place for mass meetings.
Generally Wellington is outside of
things, on the outskirts, a back-water
of life and of the strike.
A Meeting in Action.
The women are jolly tonight. They
are planning Christmas ball (that
is, Russian Christmas) which will be
light here in their own town and
where all the workers can come. All
want to talk at once. The chairman,
an active young woman with bobbed
hair, less backward than the others,
raps on the table. "Slouchaete, ko-
biety," she says in Polish. "Kapusta
y hot-dogs we will have. We must
get committee to serve them. Katie
you!" The woman designated grins
sheepishly, twists her fingers. ME?
No, l no smart enough. Some one
elsel" They try another. This one
has five young children at home. and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Polish Women of Textile Town Learn
How to Run Council and Aid Strike
(sy a Worker Correspondent

they think she can be there to serve
hot dogs. At last they get the COM
mittees for the hot dogs and all else
necessary.
Next to the chairman sits the Sec
rotary, a beautiful young woman OF
nineteen, holding a sleeping baby.
She herself has the face of a wide
eyed, rosy child. A fine girl, withal.
She is not a striker, but a striker
wife, and she understands the strike
from A to z. She is also the secre-
tary of the union block committee
in her district (she being the only one
who can write English). IF only
didn't have such young baby" she
tells you wistfully, with a childish
pout, "Td be the first one on the
picket line every day, you bet"
They Know What Strikers Are.
They are nearly all textile strikers,
these women. The strike has logged
them out of their sleep, their back
wardness; brought them together.
They wear the round wooden caps,
the shabby, shoddy coats you see
everywhere here. Broad Polish fac
es, simple, open faces, marked with
toll and struggle. Some of them are
still a little puzzled at the meeting.
All this talk about "order of bust
ness" and committees for this and
that-they haven't quite got on to
that yet. They were organized in Sep
TENDER. At first they said, Lets
win the strike first. Then afterward
we will think about Women's Coun-
ellis" But now they have seen that
the Women's Councils have helped a
great deal to win the strike, and so
they support them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
From the Locomotive Engineers Jour
nal for January, 1927.

From the Locomotive Engineers Jour
nal for January, 1927.
THE presidents message to congress
Il expressed tender solicitude and
touching sympathy for the bankrupt
and near-bankrupt farmers of the
west. But the ungrateful farmers do
not seem inclined to be satisfied with
political platitudes. Their war paint
is on. And they are bound to get
something more than cheap promises
from the administration before they
go back contentedly to slop the hogs.
President Sam Thompson of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
the most conservative of the big farm
organizations, declares that farm
property has shrunk $4,000, 100000
in value during the past six years,
while industrial and city property has
increased in value. Moreover, farm
indebtedness is now three times as
great as in 1920; while the farm pop
ulation, comprising nearly third of
the country, gets only one-fourteenth
of the national income.
Organized business has already
seized the opportunity to take advan-
tage of the farmers discomfort by
sending its speakers to the various
farm organization conventions to tell
them how necessary it is for big bust
ness and the farmers to stand to-
gether against the encroachments of
organized labor. Representatives of
organized labor at these farmers
meetings are conspicuously absent, de-
spite the fact that the workers and
farmers represent the two basic pro-
ducing groups of the nation and that
high pay for the one means a good
market for the produce of the other.
Is it not high time that intelligent
labor leaders join in mapping out a
method of reaching the farmers of
America with a message Of friendship
and good will and proffers of sincere
cooperation in meeting their common
problems? 1t has recently been sug-
gested that labor cooperative banks
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Tacoma Hears Griffin
Speak in Lieu of Flynn

TACOMA, Wash-Ehzabeth Gurley
Flynn was billed to speak here on the
Passaic strike on Dec. 30. She was
sick, and unable to appear. but thanks
to c.. R. Grifin, the meeting was a
anyway.
Griffin will be remembered as one
of the I. w. w. leaders who were sent
to Leavenworth in 1917 after the trial
under Judge Lands in Chicago. He
has been doing active work for the
/. L. D. in the northwestern states
lately.
He made fine speech, dealing first
with the Passaic strike. Then he
spoke on the l. L. D., discussing Sacco,
Vanzetti, Mooney, Billings, the Gen.
tralians, and other victims of the
frame-ups of the capitalist class in
their war on the workers. He
stressed the need of class conscious
ness, organization, and the united
front of all the workers.
Those who we're disappointed by not
hearing more news of Passaic, because
of Miss Flynn's illness, will be able
to hear it from Albert Weisbord,
leader for many months of the Passaic
strike. He will speak at 500 p. m,
Tuesday, Jan. II, at Eagles Hall, E st,
nsar 18th, in Tacoma.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
BIG DEFLATION IN FARM PROPERTY
GIVE FARMERS ECONOMIC GRIEVANCE

different regions. In Massachusetts,
the average value of farm real estate
per acre increased from 500 to s109
between 1920 and 1926. In Iowa on
the other hand there was decrease
in the same period from S255 to S155.
In Georgia there was a decline in the
same period from $57 to $50 per acre;
in South Carolina from STA to $45; in
Montana from $42 to $25, and in Cali
fornia from S24O to $780,"
The depreciation of the farmers
capital in Iowa, Montana and South
Carolina amounts to approximately
40 per cent. In Georgia the shrinkage
amounts to AZ per cent of the value
N 1920. Comparing the real value Of
the farmers land today with the pre-
war value the report says:
The figure for the country as a
whole means that in single year
more than 100000 farmers lost their
farms because they went broke. If
We include the forced sales on &C
count of delinquent taxes averaging
Al per 1000 farms, the number OF
farmers losing their farms on account
of bankruptcy mounts to 10000. Such
forced sales in the Dakotas and Mon
tana ran from per cent to Z per
cent of all farms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
ey Leland oLps. Federated Press

BY LELAND oLDs, Federated Press.
While record-breaking profits have
been boosting the property of indus
trial capitalists to unheard of heights
while the wealth of these multi-mil-
lionaires has been swollen by an orgy
of stock dividends, deflation has brot
the value Of the American farmers
capital down 30 per cent to level
whose real worth is 10 to 20 per cent
below pre-war. This is the signifi-
canoe of the U. S. department of agri-
cultures report that farm real estate
values on March l, 1926, averaged 30
per cent lower than on March l, 1925,
and that they are still shrinking.
The slump in farm values, accord
ing to the report, has hit the grain
and livestock states of the middle
west hardest. There have also been
severe declines in several mountain
states and in certain cotton states.
Here is solid economic foundation for
the spread of radicalism among farm
ers of these sections.
at is estimated" says the report,
"that the average value of farm real
estate per acre in the United States
on March /, 1926, was s76.47 compar-
ed with $107.S9 on March 1, 1920. Fig
ures for some of the key states reflect
the shifts that have taken place in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Sheboygan Comrades
Do Well; Pledge More

Editor, DAILY WORKER: This is
small city, about $4,000. Most of
the population is German, with few
other nationalities. Among them are
about 200 Croatians. There are a
couple Of fraternal societies, one ed
ucational and dramatic club, and a
Jugo-Slav fraction of the Workers
Party with IL members. And it is
worth noticing that these few COM
rades are in full control of every
society and organization and are work
ing to the best of their ability for the
working class.
We have obtained subscriptions to
Radnik and The DAILY WORKER.
We have distributed literature to the
amount Of $50. Now we have raised
$40 for 1.-THE Keep The DAILY
WORKER Fund" This is a very
small sum OF money for such a big
work that our party has undertaken,
but when we consider the kind OF
people we are dealing with and the
small group we have to do the work,
we believe that the comrades in She
boygan are doing well. There is prom
Use Of better work In the future.
Fraternally yours,
N. Muxewiok,
Sheboygan, Wis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
WOOING THE FARMERS

might find it greatly to their advan-
tage to aid the farmers cooperative
marketing organizations in financing
the sale OF their crops. This and a
hundred other ways of mutually help
full assistance could be worked out If
the leaders of the organized farmers
and organized workers could sit down
around the table together. And since
labor was the first to prove the value
of organization, might it not take the
initiative by offering to arrange such
a meeting?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
49, DGxaW GGwG6ggRaeNgg -
LAUNDRY WORKERS IN FRISCO WORK
UNDER SLAVE-DRIVING CONDITIONS;
UNION FIGHTING BOSS EXPLOITATION
and pays them under the scale.
Health Conditions Bad.

and pays them under the scale.
Health Conditions Bad.
The washing machines and wiring
ers are not connected to drains and
the water streams all over the place.
Most of the workers suffer rheuma-
tism and all kinds of disease because
of these unsanitary conditions, while
the bosses pile their profits sky high.
Girls Treated No Better.
The girls in the laundries are treat
ed no better. Mangle girls get $3.50
per week. The girls don't last long on
the job because in the speed up sys-
tenn two mangles do the work former
ly done by three. The tricks played
on the girls are varied. They are
hired Monday and laid off Thursday
even though the week calls for a full
week employment. The markers, the
most dangerous work in the laundry,
get only $3.50 for sorting all kinds
of. diseased dirty clothes. Forty-eight
hours is a weeks work according to
the union regulations, but these girls
work often from 10 to IL hours a day
during the rush periods.
The workers in the laundries are
now putting up strong campaign
against these violations of union con-
ditions and the unsanitary conditions
in the shops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
CARY RESTAURANT
WORK. RS MAKING
GAINS FOR union
Outcome of Drive Rests
with Workers
ey a Worker correspondent.

GARY, Ind, Jan. 9.-With few adj
ditional restaurants signing the union
agreement, the campaign to organize
the restaurant workers is continued
by Local 241 of the Hotel and Restau-
rant Workers of Gary,
Solomon's restaurant, located on
9Th Ave. between Broadway and
Washington, was picketed. The pick
citing revealed a widespread feeling Of
sympathy for the efforts of the union
among the residents of Gary.
Teacher Pledges Aid.
A public school teacher approached
the pickets and said, 81 will not pa
tronize this place any more, since
the union is refused recognition.
am a school teacher and | will tell
other teachers not to eat in this place.
/ am a member of the teachers union
myself"
Workers With Them.
Workers passing by expressed
themselves briefly but strongly:
"Stick to your shift, boys!" "We are
with you, boys!" That's right, step
on them, fellows!" "You ought have
done it long ago!" .
Some of those who came out of
scab places told the pickets: II did
not notice this place is picketed. /
will not eat here any more"
The boss was trying to put up a
inn nm m fhn uyfT
and grinning at the pickets. But his
face grew more serious as the time
wore on.
Service Depends on Workers.
With the sympathy of the workers
and residents of Gary back of the
union the success of the organization
campaign rests with the restaurant
workers themselves.
What we need is more getting to-
gether, more meetings of the work
ers; more solidarity; more of a
friendly approach to those of the
workers who have not yet made ap-
plication to join the union.
Join!
Every WOTkeT kuOWS where Inc
Labor Temple is located. There is
no need to wait until some one ap-
proaches you to join the union. Look
for the union yourself.
Ask for Brother Parlee or Brother
Foley, the international representa-
tive and the business representative
of the union: they will advise you.
Let's go and build strong!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
To Help Farmers Buy Seed.

Observation-Disclosures that any
permanent relief from legislation now
before congress will be too late to
affect the farmers during the 1927
crop year, Senator Norbeck, and Rep
resentative johnson have introduced
a bill to set aside $6,OOO,OOO to be used
in purchasing grain and flaxseed. The
use of the fund would be limited to
areas suffering from drought The bill
has the endorsement of Secretary Of
Agriculture Jardine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
Switchman Discusses
Papers for Workers
(By a switchman correspondent.)

(By a Switchman Correspondent.)
The December issue of "The Boss
es' Voice" which is fooling the work
ers thru its name, Labor" comments
very strongly upon the fact that The
DAILY WORKER is short of funds
II The DAILY WORKER was forced
upon the workers in the same man
ner that Labor" is forced upon the
railroad workers who are members of
the so-called standard organizations,
1t would not be asking for donations.
There are thousands of railroad
workers who receive this paper, not
because they subscribed for it, but
because their local lodges are COM
PEELED by the officers of the Grand
Lodges to remit the annual subscrip-
ton price for each member.
Labor does not beg, it takes by
force.
The copy OF Labor which l have
was given to me by a Brotherhood
member who had not unfolded 1t yet.
When he handed 1t to me, he re-
marked: "Here take this scabby
sheet, l know that you like to look
1t over for reasons Of your own.
will not have 1t in my home to pois-
on the minds of my children. listen
ed to its doctrines too long"
Railroad men have stood still for
thirty years. There are hundreds of
railroad workers in Chicago that can
see no difference between Labor and
the Chicago Tribune, they both
champion the same cause.
While ! am not a Communist, |
cannot see how a worker can be rep
resented by democrat or republican.
None Of their candidates are workers,
nor do they associate with workers.
It is my opinion that representatives
usually represent their associates.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11

The next issue of Prolet-Tribune,
the Russian living newspaper issued
by the Chicago Noyy Mir worker cor
respondents will be out next Satur-
day, Jan. Is, at p. m, at the Work
ers' House. 1902 w. Division St.
ALI who understand the Russian
language are invited to attend.
Prolet-Tribune is issued regularly
every month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11
RussIan council 70 Meet.

There will be meeting Of the Rus
sian Council for the Protection Of
the Foreign Born on Sunday, the 16.
at 1902 w. Division street
ALI Russian organizations are urged
to send delegates to this meeting and
become acquainted with the work
which it intends to do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11

Contents:
Towards Leninism
BY Bertram ID. Wolfe
Position and Opposition in the
y. p. S. U. BY Max Bedacht
~
The Problems of the Enlarged
Executive of the Comintern
BY John Pepper
The Struggle in the Needle
Trades BY VIM. y. Foster
The Soviet Economy on the
Ninth Anniversary
~
Ultra-Left Menshevism
BY Heinz Neumann
~
More About the First American
Revolution BY Jay Lovestone
~
CiviIization--An Historical
Category BY Emanuel Kanter
The Youth and the Labor
Movement BY l.. Plott
With Marx and EngeIs--
A Review
~
Reviews.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11

Send in a Sub to The DAILY
WORKER today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-11

Why don't you write Il up7 II may
be interesting to other workers.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-17
CHANGE THE SYSTEM

Crossings along the New Haven hcrcahouts seem to be protected from a. m, until 12 at midnight. It appears that crossing tenders never remain on the job few min utes after midnight, even when a train is due. Twice within the last few weeks crossing accidents have occurred, one at Plainville and one at Forcstville. On both occasions the crossing tender had gone home at midnight; 'on both. occasions q train was due within q few minutes.
 Of course, people should know enough not 10 attempt to cross q railroad track while train is ap- proaching,' or not to collide with one as it is passing by. On the other hand, the railroad management should know enough not to have gatemen leave their posts just few minutes before a train is due.
 A little encouragement of the hours of duty could easily avoid such a nonsensical system.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-17

has developed into the most ob-
 iectionable impeachment to traf-
 fife that highway engineers have
 10 deal with and traffic conges-
 ton is growing continually
 worse as the remedy is admin
 istered in it's present form
 Then he added that the use of the traffic lights has grown because municipalities were trying 10 avoid enlarging the police forces to meet the needs of traffic regulation and urged steps be taken to remedy the situation"
 All of which comes under the category of "truer words were never spoken" The history Of the stopg signals in New Britain closely paraI- lels their development elsewhere. Confronted with the necessity of em- ploying moro traffic policemen, the authorities baked at the cost; then turned to the automobile traffic sig nals In an effort to save labor. In the place Of enough traffic policemen we have machinery that saves their hire but wastes the time of thou sands of citizens.