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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07

In other words the corporation openly
admits that its free-will gifts were
made in the hope and expectation of
getting due "credit" for them in an
emergency. Even Commerce and
Finance, Wall street organ, admits
that many of the welfare attempts
were made for other than pure and
holy purposes. 1t says "they were
spurious in that they were substitutes
for an adequate wage and were de-
vised principally to tie the worker to
his job, and were to a great extent
empty forms devoid of spirit"
Labor's opposition to the swindle is
often expressed.
But the American corporations, adj
mired by all travelling labor dele
gates" of European nations, is "sell-
ing" more and more Of this sort Of
feudalism to the American workers,
and all the cutlery of the trade un-
ions has not yet been able to stem
the tide. Some of the unions have
decided to try the workers all, or at
least the best Of, the benefits they
could get from the company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
General March Finds
His Uniform Disliked
In Mortgaged Europe

DENVER, Feb. european ha-
tired for the United States was des-
cribed by General Peyton c. March,
who has completed five year tour
Of the seventeen major countries Of
Europe. What they want is strong
man like Mussolni to lead them in
knocking Uncle Sans block off, Cen
-eral March said.
every nation wants its giant to
thrash the hide off the United States
he said. "All Europe hates US with
the possible exception Of Spain.
European countries have stopped hat
ing each other TO unite in a grand
hatefest on the United States"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
City Population in
Soviet Union Shows
Big Leap Forward

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. c.
Bulletins on the new census being
completed in the U. S. S. R., received
by the Soviet Union Information Bu-
reau, show remarkable increases of
the population of the cities since the
urban census of three years ago.
Moscow has passed the two million
mark, having increased its population
80 per cent in three years, Leningrad,
with the revival of industry, has
shown a gain Of so per cent. A list
of 1923 cities and towns shows gain
of 81 per cent during the three-year
period. The male population increas-
ed by 22.4 per cent and the female by
1877 per cent.
The largest cities showed the fol-
lowing gains: Moscow 2,018,2S6 as
compared with 1,511,045 three years
ago, Leningrad 1,611,103 as compared
with 1867, 1928, Kiev 491 1888 as com
pared with 432,734, Baku 433,333 as
compared with 244,S52, Odessa All, ill
as compared with 316,762, Kharkov
407,57S as compared with 31O,264,
Roston-on-Don 3O2,416 as compared
with 236,421, Tashkent 294,349 as
compared with 263,871 and Tiflis
275,915 as compared with 233,958.
The unusual gain in the case Of
Baku is partly due to the inclusion Of
new industrial suburbs within the city
limits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Propose Lash in Bill
In Minnesota Senate

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Semi-public
whippings of 20 to 40 lashes in addi-
ton to customary sentences for a
long list Of crimes ranging from
murder to drunken automobile driv-
ing is prescribed for in bill intro
duces in the state senate here today.
The crimes for which the lash
would be applied include murder,
manslau9hter, robbery, grand larce-
ny, assault, kidnapping, child de-
sertion and drunken auto driving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
British Government
Agrees to Encourage
Export of Children

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. G. -
The U. S. Department Of Labor is
sues a statement on the use Of i'm
ported contract child labor on the
farms Of Canada and Australia. The
statement says:
"By agreement between the British
and Ontario governments, commenc-
ing in the spring of 1927 boys from
Great Britain, Is to II years of age,
may have free passage to the prov
ince, be given agricultural training,
and then be placed with reliable set
tiers at wages Of about f2 per month,
board, and lodging. The boys are to
remain in these positions for thret
years.
Last year New South Wales pas
sed an act giving the minister of la
Dor and industry the care and control
Of juvenile immigrants from ID to
lS years of age, and empowering him
to designate farms for their reception
and training, to place them on such
farms, and ultimately to find them
employment. The transfer or dismiss
sal Of such Juvenile immigrants is not
permitted except after seven days no
tice in writing to the minister Of la
Dor. This law supplants the unsuc-
cessful indentured apprenticeship sys-
tenn established in 1923 under which
the children were not adequately pro-
tected. BY July 20, 1926, a total Of
,444 boys had entered unler the boy
immigrant scheme"
The leasing out Of child slaves to
the Canadian wheat farmers has re-
suited in vast amount Of abuse dur
ing the past few years, and several
cases in which boys were either MUIR
dered through overwork, or took re-
venge by setting their employers
property ablaze, caused a decrease in
permits to import children.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Lindsey Alleges
Allowed No Defense

DENVER, Colo, Feb. G. = Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, recently ousted by
the Suprem eCourt Of the state, has
appealed for a rehearing on the
grounds that he was allowed no de-
tense.
The opponent of Judge Lindsey in
recent election, to whom the Su-
preme Court now awards the decision,
was Royal r. Graham, a member Of
the Ku Klux Khan. He has committed
suicide, but his widow continued The
case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Philippine Paper in
Plea for Comedian as
Next Coolidge Agent

A request has come from the Manila
Daily Times suggesting, that the next
time Coolidge sends some one to the
Philippines, he should select Win
Rogers to make an investigation.
The paper makes the promise that
Rogers would at least enlighten the
American people as to where the
Philippines are located The state
ment continues: "The American peo-
pie seem to think that we are some
where off the coast of Cuba or near
the Canal Zone, or part of Hawaii.
A good many government officials
are under the same illusion. In fact
the Governor General once received
a letter from the White House, mailed
TO, Manila, Porto Rico"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Ware Holds Secret Talk
With Coolidge

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Feb. 6. -
Representative Ware, who bought
himself a nice senatorial election in
Pennsylvania last fall, conferred with
President Coolidge. Although Sena-
tor-elect Ware said that he visited
with the president con routine mat
ters", he may have been actually
negotiating for administration sup
port in the fight that win arise over
his senate seat, 1t was rumored.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07

U. S. Steel Corporation, the most
States.
Welfare work pays because it in
ereases productive efficiency, reduces
labor turnover, ATTRACTS a desirable
grade of labor" advertises the bust
ness and gives the corporation an in
calculable BOOST in public goodwill.
Other conclusions of Boettiger in
his employee welfare work, are that
the practice reduces strikes and labor
difficulties, 'lulls workers into a feel
ing of contentInent with conditions
which would otherwise be vigorously
protested" avoids state regulation by
furnishing an argument that it is not
needed, provides palliatives for a
low wage" benefits humanity, re
taxes on profits by artificially inflat-
ing costs. Finally it "disrupts the
discipline of unionized labor"
All For Results.
These are a few of the motives,
the reasons, the rationalizations and
the results underlying welfare. And
all these may be reduced to one--the
desire to promote the highest possible
efficiency of the industrial machine
under the profit system. Incidentally
the margin Of profit out of welfare
is not the same for all employers.
The big fellows usually get more
out of a unit of welfare than the
small industries. And the smaller
employers are usually compelled to
make the heaviest retrenchments on
falling labor market when there is
less need for welfare.
More Welfare, Less Pay.
The range of welfare activities now
current in American industry is sug-
gested by the following miscellaneous
list. The worker can check off the
ones practiced in his own plant. And
he may be able to figure out his rela-
tive wage level in universal ratio to
the number and extent of the items
served up by the corporation that en-
ploys him.
Social clubs, mutual benefit socie-
ties, prizes, pins, buttons and gold
watches for service records, dinners,
cafeterias, company theatres, church
as, boys and girl scouts, sunshine
clubs, Y. NJ. c. AS, athletic teams,
gymnasiums, clam bakes, minstrel
shows and dramatics, employee maya
zines, field days, thrift clubs, bands,
orchestras, insurance, pensios, sug
gestion prizes, picnic committees,
pony-poio games, Christmas baskets,
dances, outings, Village beautifuls,"
knitting circles, veterans clubs, volley
ball leagues, booster clubs, housing
associations, employe stock ownership
schemes, building and loan associa-
tons, company gardens and flower
beds, outings, baths, domestic science
matrons, golf clubs, profit-sharing,
coffee bars, club houses, notices on
the wall, pay envelope inserts, bull
letins bearing the poetry of Eddie
Guest, camera clubs, service talks,
flying squadrons and open air talks.
These are' but q few samples out Of
several hundred.
All these institutions serve the in
terests of the corporations. When
ever there is a strike, or the threat
Of one, the press agents of the "gen-
srous" corporation begin to trumpet
the beneficiehce Of the corporation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
SENATE GRANTS
new FAvORS TO
WAR PROFITEERS
Battleship Contracts Go
To Private Yards

WASINGTON,-(FP)-Feb. g.
Dill of Washington, democrat, lost
his fight in the senate to compel the
navy department to build in It's own
yards the new cruisers which the
"war party" have voted. Discrimin-
alton by Secretary Wilbur and his
admirals, against the government
yards and in favor Of private yards
that charge huge profits, will con-
tinue. On a point Of order, raised
by Chairman Hale Of the committee
on naval affairs, DIPS amendment
was ruled out by Vice-President
Dawes.
Since the world war, the govern
ment has constructed in private yards
10 cruisers; in government yards
none. In the same period, the private
yards have had the building of 68
destroyers; government yards built
only 8. Of other types of war YES
sci, 10 were built at private profit,
while were built at cost by the gov
eminent yards.
Navy Yards Idle.
Hale made the usual excuse that
the Secretary of the Navy would use
his best judgment, and would not dis
eliminate against the yards under his
own control. Dill replied that the
fact that the demand for the new
cruisers "is largely demand which
originates from the private ship
building interests, and that Secy.
Wilbur is allowing the navy yard to
rot in idleness while private yards
are kept busy.
Sen. King of Utah, democrat, sup
ported Dill, testifying especially to
Wilbur's neglect of the $50,000,000
navy yard at Vallejo, Calf, in Will
bur's own state. He then recited the
financial history of the converted
curisers Lexington and Saratoga,
built at private profit, whose cost
was first set at S16,500,000 each and
has lately been estimated at S40,000,-
900 each when they are made into air
plane carriers. King recalled the
Tavenner expose Of the world wide
"war trust" Of steel companies just
prior to the war, and how it was
shown that armor plate was sold by
American steel companies to the Rus
sian imperial government at several
hundred dollars ton less than the
same armor was sold to the United
States for its navy. He declared his
feeling that "the Navy department
has been too much concerned in be-
half of privately owned shipyards and
has been in too close contact with
the steel trust, or big steel interests,
of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Canadian City Largest
In Fire Fighters Union

WASHINGTON, Feb. G. (FP).--
Moncton, New Brunswick, is the lat
est city to organize local of the In
ternational Association of Fire Fight
ers. The international union is stead
lily making inroads on unorganized ter
ritory in eastern Canada, despite OPP
position from the national catholic
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
Chicago Labor Radio
Engineer Wants Union
Chief on Radio Board

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 6--L. j. Lesh,
radio engineer for the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor, has issued STATE
ment in favor Of at least one labor
official on the proposed five-man
radio commission. Lesh boost VIM.
J. Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, for the place.
He points out clearly the dangers cf
a ncn-labor control Of radio broad
casting, but does not prove that
Green on the board could reform It.
Roll In the Subs For The DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
new RADIO BILL
GIVES COOLIDGE
VAST AUTHORITY
Civil Liberties Warns
Against Censorship

President Coolidge could shut up
the radio stations and "sew up pub
lie opinion" if the administration
conference committee radio bill before
congress becomes law, American Civil
Liberties Union attorney Morris Ernst
asserts. The bill gives the president
the right to suspend all rules and
close any radio station in time Of war,
threat Of war, or "a state Of public
peril" Coolidge could follow his first
step Of Selling censorship powers by
urging press and public to support
his Mexican and Nicaraguan policies
with radio control under the bill.
No Free Speech.
All protection against free speech
gags, discrimination and monopoly
has either been cut out Of the new
radio bill or framed into jokers, Ernst
charges in a telegram to Senator
Dill, who made the original radio con-
troll bill The Civil Liberties Union
objects to the new bill, Ernst wires,
for these reasons:
New measure places no restric-
tions on trading in licenses for profit.
2 - It offers no safeguard against
monopoly through stock ownership.
st has no provisions against party
discrimination in broadeasting, as
guarantees of equal opportunity for
candidates do not cover partisans Of
candidates. 4-There is no provision
for complete public records Of broad
casting permits and reflections. 81
Power Of appeal from decisions is re-
stricted to parties in interest thus
ruling out the public. 6-The presi-
dents power to suspend rules and
close stations in times Of public emer-
gency may deprive the public Of radio
service at the hour of greatest need"
4
Bill Meets Obstacle.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-Failure Of
the Dill-White radio bill to assert alb
solute government ownership Of the
air brought radio legislation to SER
ious impasse in the senate today face
TO face with a threatened filibuster.
Senator Howell (R) of Nebraska,
led stiff fight against the measure,
claiming that unless it Invested broad
casters of every vestige Of ownership
Of the air, the powers of the commits
sion provided in the measure would
be totally destroyed. Left with undis-
puted ownership rights, he declared,
broadcasters could bring suit to force
the commission to renew their licenses
on the grounds Of priority rights.
DEMONSTRATING the. Ether?
Howell advocated retention Of the
language in the existing "make-shift"
law, which. declares the ether to be-
long wholly to the United States. He
opposed repeal of this law, which was
enacted only as a temporary measure
at the last session, and declared the
conferees on the present bill had no
right to provide for repeal of this
law "when it hadn't even been passed
when the house and senate acted on
the bill they had in conference" A
decision by the chair, however, over
ruled this objection, which was in the
form Of a point of order.
Friends of the bill, on the other
hand, declared that it was impossible
for the conferees to agree to retain
ing the absolute ownership language.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07
WELFARE WORK PAYS, SAYS GARY,
AND INVESTIGATION SHOWS IT PROFITABLE AS
A SUBSTITUTE FOR WAGES; TIES WORKER DOWN
(By ROBERT W. DUNN, Federated Press)

Why do American employers blow millions dollars annually
types of industrial welfare work?
list is the welfare work pays of Judge Ebert Gary the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07

The DAILY WORKER is now
on all news stands around New
York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-07

Roll in the Subs For The DAILY
WORKER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
Local Radio Entertainment
Wednesday, August 81, 1927

NAA-WashingtOn Navy Yard 1886
Meters).
3:45 p.m.-Weather Bureau reports.
9:55 p.m.-Arlington time signals.
1905 p.m.-Weather Bureau reports.
WRC-RadiO Corporation of America
1855 Meters).
3 p.m.-Mabel Ann Corbay, COM
poser-pianist.
$50 p.m.-Celia Negin, pianist.
3:45 pm.-"A Polar Story" by An
thony Fiala,
p.m.-Hofbrau Orchestra.
5 pm. - Waldorf Astoria dinner
music.
5:55 p.m.-Base ball scores.
6 pm.-The Mediterraneans.
6:25 pm.-Talk by John B. Kennedy.
$50 pm.-South Sea Islanders.
p.m.-Arion Male Chorus.
1880 p.m.-"Organ Masters" organ
recital.
p.m.-Correct time.
p.m.-Ipana Troubadours.
$50 pm.-Charles Cassel's Concert
Chanters-B. NJ. Helm. first tenor; j.
G. Mason, second tenor; F. Carlton
Helm, first bass; Charles M. CasSel,
second bass.
pm.-Benjamin Rather, pianist.
$50 p.m.--Jack Albin and his orches-
ira.
10 to II pm.-Park Central Orches-
ira.
Early Program Tomorrow.
AS a.m.-Tower health exercises.
7:15 a.m.-"The Roaring Lyons
100 to 7;45 a.m.--"Cheerio."
1855 a.m.-Arlington time signals.
II noon-Astor Orchestra.
l p.m.-Organ recital from the Kit
studios.
p.m.-Play-by-play account of the
Washington Philadelphia base ball
game, broadcast by Thornton Fisher
from The Evening Star studios.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
KEEPS DATA ON YALE MEN

NEW HAVE, Conn, August 81
R.-Miss Marion Phillips knows
more about Yale men than their
wives or mothers and possibly more
tran they know about themselves.
For it is to Miss Phillips that every
scrap Of information comes from the
time the boy enrolls in college until
the man dies.
Miss Phillips Office is in the base
ment of Woodbridge Hall, which also
houses the presidents and corpora
tons Offices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-31
WMAL-Washington Radio Forum
1923 MeterSl.

I0US.0 MeterSJ.
7:20 to 1880 p.m.-News flashes.
1880 to 7:45 p.m.-"Bill" Caps and
his guitar.
7:45 to p.m.-"Are You Fit to
Drive an Airplane?' presented by
Science Service
8 to p.m.-Leibert's Lido Trio.
8 to 900 p.m.-John Paul Jones,
basso.
$50 to $40 p.m.-Elizabeth Jordan,
soprano, accompanied by Clara Dern.
heimer.
$40 to 10 p.m.-Bell and Christis,
popular entertainers.
10 p.m.-Latest news flashes.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01
BUILD COTTON MARKET
 FAR FROM SOUTHLAND

CHICAGO, Feb. 1. P)-Pioneering days of the Chicago cotton market are over. Far from the blossoming fields of the southland, the local mar ket, established in 1924, is hailed as beyond the experimental stage by Samuel P. Arnot, chairman of the cotton committee of the Chicago Board of Trade.
 Using an index number placing June business at 35, Arnot declared that July business amounted to 173, August 3O7, September 507, October 1133, November 544 and December 91O. Deliveries of cotton on Chicago contracts are at Houston and Calves ton. Total deliveries for 1926 on Chicago contracts were S5,050 bales against 92,50O at New Orleans and 355, 400 at New York.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01
CLOTHES MAKE THE
 PIRATE IS B|GLAUGH

Pirates are more to be laughed at than feared.
 If you are inclined to dispute that, just drop in to the Liberty theatre and laugh yourself into accord. For there you will see the irresistibly fun nv Leon Errol and Dorothy Gish in a pirate comedy, Clothes Make the Pirate," that is glistening with de- lightful humor and satire.
 Errol, who was very funny, as fans will remember, in Sally" is doubly Iaughable in tClothes Make the Pi- rate." For this appearance Errol is the star with Dorothy Gish and has full reign for his inimitable antics. Comedy seems to be fair in the lead for popular favor this year, and in this film the producer, Sam E. Rork, has bet which gives place to none in the claim for top honors. It comes to the screen hailed by authorities as one of the big specials of the year and it fulflls expectations.
 Not only does it abound in comedy and rare satire, but the production has been given lavish, colorful dress ing. and the dramatic element is vi talized by an attack by a pirate ship on a British war sloop which develops into one of the finest naval conflicts the screen has seen. The sea battle is as exciting of it's type as the hand to-hand clash in "The Sea HaWk.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01
HANDBALL SCHEDULE

Tonight at o'clock, Balderston- Jones face Hopkins-Shellhorn and to- morrow night Wednesday, at the same hour Morton Galloway meet Bal. derston-Jones.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01
A GOOD WILL MISSION

OTTAWA, Jan. 31. R-Twelve military pursuit planes, which left selfridge field, arrived here this after noon, on a good will invasion of Can ada.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01

Picture Framing. Schallerer's Alas ka Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01

Seward Weekly Gateway 12 pages.
Seward daily gateway., 1927-02-01

ka Shop
Evening star., 1927-09-11
CANADA DISLIkES
ILLICIT RUM TRADE
Alcohol Seeps North From U. s.
to Be Redistilled for
Bootleggers.
By Cnns,ilidsted Press.

By Cnns,,lidsted Press.
MONTREAL, September 10.-Cana-
da has been smacked smartly by the
back lash of bootlegging and does not
enjoy it one bit. In fact, government
officials and hotel men alike are deep
ly resentful of the incursions made
into Canadian pocketbooks and morale
by the Illicit trade.
Thousands of gallons of grain alco-
hol and denatured alcohol are seeping
northward from the United States into
the Dominion. Once here, it is redis.
titled if it's contents demands 1t, and
turned into the synthetic gin, Scotch,
rye, rum, cordials and liquors Of COM
merce prevalent in the United States.
One still has been raided here which
never had been operated, but which, it
is estimated. cost $250.000 or more to
equip.
This synthetic liquor comes into
competition with the legitimate bev-
erages distilled, brewed or dispensed
under the regulation of the Quebec
liquor commission. To a certain ex.
tent it cuts into the profits of the
government, since the denatured al.
cohol can be bought fairly cheaply.
But the government officials do not
regard this competition as dangerous.
They can readily sell all the liquor
which the law permits. What they
object to is the moral effect the
traffic is having on the communities
Of the province.
Respect for law and order is a prin.
ciple imbibed early by the ordinary
citizen of the Dominion.
The inns and hotels which are al
lowed to sell wines, beers and ales are
notable for absolute obedience to
regulations which impose a closing
hour Of 10 pm. and an opening hour
of am. with nothing sold on Sun
day except by those hostelries having
a large number of rooms.
The government liquor stores are
strenuously regulated, with only one
quart sold to any individual in any
day and that before 6 pm. Drunken
ness is most unusual and disorder in
tavern instantly suppressed.
But now comes the bootlegger
When drinkers run out of supplies
and desire more, the bootlegger is
anxious and willing to oblige-at a
price. Bellboys and porters find
means Of supplying hotel guests, and
the country districts find certain
farms and peddlers can fill orders.