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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-25
MlLADY BEAUTIFUL
BY LOIS LEEDS.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-25
Rcm0fIeling a Large Nose.

Dear Miss Leeds: Can anything be
done to improve a nose with large
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
Firetrap Tenements
Take Many Lives

Continued from Page One)
that moment. These wards of the
Real Estate Owners Association
grease the palms of the tenement
house department inspectors, and
they are able to 60 without making
repairs.
Rents are much the same in Little
Italy as in the Ghetto, with the ex-
ception that in some cases they are
higher. On Mulberry ST., some boot
leggers are forced to pay as much as
500 month for four rooms.
Penalty For Greeks.
In the Greek district, centering
around Monroe street, rents are five
and ten dollars higher than anywhere
else on the lower east side, outside Of
the Syrian district on Washington st.
Greeks and Syrians, being unable to
easily acquire a knowledge of English,
are forced to live in one quarter, with
their kind. For this privilege, the
landlords exact fee, just as they
do in Harlem, and in Little Hungary.
The horrors of the east side furnish
a ready indictment Of the owning and
ruling classes in this city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
RIGHT WING IN WORKMEN'S CIRCLE
BAR LETS FROM ALL COMMITTEES
Effort to Have Democratic National Executive
Committee Killed by ReactiOnary Gang

Two main progressive demands in
the Workmen's Circle were denied by
the right wing at Sundays meeting
at Webster Hall.
The progressive delegates conferred
their main attention on the recogni-
ton of all political tendencies in the
labor movement and representation
of the progressives on committees.
Due to the policy of the National
Executive Committee of suppressing
and eXpelling branches, the Work
mems Circle today finds itself in a
very critical situation with declin-
ing membership. Comrade Endin
moved that representatives Of all po-
litical tendencies be represented on
the credentials committee, The chair
man ruled this motion out Of order.
Comrade Salzman appealed to the de-
cision of the chair.
Insist on Democracy.
In his appeal Salzman stated that
for the last five years the left wing
demanded representation on commit
tees of the Workmen's Circle, but was
ruthlessly suppressed by the National
Executive Committee. He pointed
out that if the organization is to grow
and progress, the National Executive
Committee must come back to the
principles upon which the Workmen's
Circle was built, allowing free expires
sion and giving recognition to all po-
litical tendencies in the labor move
ment.
When the appeal Of Salzman to
the chair was put to vote, the pro.
gressive delegates were counted out
by appointees Of the administration,
and from the great number of the
progressives only so votes were coun-
ted against and 392 for.
These tactics not only proved to the
progressive delegates that the pres
ent administration, in order to main
tain power will use all means, but
even surprised some right wing dele
gates of the method used at the con-
ference.
Impose Gag Rule.
The motion of Comrade Sultanto
to have an half an hour discussion
on the plans Of activity and the COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
MINUTES SHOW
FORD DIRECTORS
VERY PIG-LIKE
Squabbled Continually
While HOgging Profit

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-An in.
innate picture of the pickering and
guarreling that accompanied the
Ford Motor COmpany's climb to au-
tOmOtive prominence was written
today into the records of the govern
ment's suit TO collect $40, 000.0 900 in
back taxes from Ford's former part
ners. Even profits OF 700 per cent
in ten years did not bring peace to
a divided directorate.
Quarreling Greed.
Culled from the secret minutes of
the Ford directors meetings for the
period 1903-1912, the inside story of
the Ford epic reduces to this-that
although every years operations
made a shareholders copper equal in
purchasing power to the farmers
dollar, directors meetings never
ceased to be cross between a Hang
Chow peace conference and Senate
session on the banking bill.
The minutes went into the Court
of Tax Appeals record over repeated
objections of defense counsel.
Avoiding Solid Tires.
One of the most interesting things
for the future student Of transporta-
ton or get-rich-quick problems is
the fact that the stubborn determi-
nation of Treasurer Alex. Y. NAL
eombson was largely responsible for
the use of pneumatic tires on the Ford
car. He held doggedly to the view,
too, that any car worthy of the name
should be equipped with pneumatic
tires. On this question the tension
of the situation was relieved by the
racuous laughter of the board ell
ihasse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
KNIT GOODS UNION
CALLS STRIKE IN
BROOKLYN MILL
Girl Pickets Jailed as
First Police Act

Knit Goods Workers, Local SO Of
the United Textile Workers. have
struck against the Duehen Knitting
Mills, 2402 Atlantic Avenue, Brook
Ign. Grievances are: discrimination
and victimization of union members.
On Monday morning two union men
were fired. All the men in the mill,
who are 100 per cent organized in
the union, walked out. A shop meet
ing was held in the Brownsville Labor
-Lyceun and the workers unanimously
decided to strike. The organizer of
Local 55 YVES present and the strike
was officially declared against the
Duchen Knitting Mills.
The demands are: l. Recognition OF
the union: g reinstatement Of the
discharged union men; 8. no discrim-
nation; 4. the forty-four hour week.
Girls Get $S-S12 Week.
The conditions in the mill are in
tolerable. The workers are bitter with
resentment against the treatment they
receive. The majority Of them arc
young girls who are shamefuliy ex-
plotted. The average wage of these
girls is IS to $12 per week, and $50
for experienced operators and I'm
ishers. The girls are rapidly joining
the ranks Of the strikers. The mill
is crippled.
A picket line was organized, but
before the pickets even arrived at the
mill a host of policemen swooped
DOWN upon chem. Tho police captain
especially seemed determined not 20
ALLOW ny picketiaS whatsoever.
Three young strikers VINO bore
strike signs were roughly handled
and pulled into the mill hy police
man. lie kept them there several
hours, took them to the police station
where they were bullied and threat
cned.
Trial on Wednesday.
They Nere finally arrested ana
taken to the Jersey Avenue Court.
The hearing was set for Wednesday
at Q a. m. The three young strikers
were paroled. The attorney Of the
United Textile Workers will defend
the arrested strikers.
The nuchen Knitting Mill has been
verv busy and working overtime for
months. The strikers are determined
70 fight and will stick it out until
their demands are won.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
BY SCOTT NEARING.

Current income" says the Nation
al Bureau Of Economic Research,
twas 90 billion dollars for the whole
United States in 1926" That meant
"for every person gainfully occupied
an income of slightly over $4,000"
Making allowance for price increases,
I'VE find that the average person
working for a money income received
about one-fourth more for his SER
vices in 1926 than he obtained in 1917
and about "A per cent more than in
1909"
'The Average Person.
Who is this average person
Surely not the Passaie textile
worker. His purchasing power in
1896 was less than in 1909.
How about the Illinois corn grow
err. IN 1917 his land was selling
FOR Sl5o an acre. Today the same
land goes at $50 to SOS. And in
1926, as one farmer put it, "I give
away quarter with every bushei Of
corn 7 sell"
Like the corn grower in Illinois, the
Oklahoma cotton raiser produced this
year at a great deficit So did the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
Boss Exposes Sigman's
Charge of Communist
Plot" on Insurance

Morris Sigman, president of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, is advised to set to work build
ing up his union in a statement is
sued yesterday by Samuel Klein, gen.
erel manager Of the Industrial Coun-
Gil of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufac-
turers, Inc, who has been conducting
a verbal controversy with Sigman on
the question Of unemployment insur-
ance.
OF course Klein cannot know that
his advice is utterly futile, inasmuch
as Sigman is interested not in build
ing but in destroying his union, and
has now reached point where it is
for all time impossible for him, or his
associates, to build a union of cloak
and dressmakers.
In the course of his statement,
Klein says that President Sigman has
been blaming "Communistic propa-
ganda" for "the failure of equitable
enforcement of the operations of this
fund Unemployment in the cloak
and suit division" Klein ought to
know by this time that anything con-
nected with the l. l.. G.. w. U. which
happens contrary to Sigman's wishes
is "Communistic propaganda" but he
seems not to understand this.
Instead, he points out the fact that
"Mr. Sigman and his right wing col
leagues, after the General Executive
Board of the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union had assumed
the functions of the Joint Board" -
where surely no communistic prop
uganda entered into the deliberations
omitted any reference to unemploy-
ment insurance in the agreement with
the dress jobbers which was published
last week. He infers that something
other than "Communistic propaganda
is affecting the insurance fund.
No matter what the actual reasons
may be for the difficulties in the OPP
GRAFTON of the unemployment fund, it
is interesting to find someone outside
the union realizing the absurdity of
Sigman's blanket explanation of
"Communistic propaganda" for every
thing that goes wrong.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
Sigman's Agent Ousted;
Workers Solid Behind
Their Own Joint Board

The employees of the Crotona Dress
Co. are much embittered against the
action of Sigman agent. He prom
Used better terms to the bosses if they
would compel their workers to reg
lister with the international after the
workers had refused to deal with any
Of the Sigman delegates.
On Feb. 14th. a business agent Of
the international, accompanied by the
association clerk, came to the Crotona
Dress shop and approached the pres
sers with a request to come to one of
the Internationa's meetings. The
pressers said, however:
1--WE don't know you, and do not
care to know you. We have elected
the Joint Board. and we'll stick. to
them"
Workers Stand Pat.
He got the same answer from the
operators and cutters, and finally
asked the finishers to come to the
shop meeting, thinking that he might
have better luck with them. But the
girls answered in a chorus: eve be-
long to the Joint Board and don't
want to have anything to do with
you"
One girl remarked; "Why bother
us so much. You go and call your
meeting and then you'll find out
whether wei be there or not" The
agent left them, but promised to come
again.
A few days later Sigman's lieuten-
ant returned, not to the workers, but
to the bosses. He asked them to COM
rel the workers to register with the
International, or to call lockout,
and promised that Sigman would send
other workers.
The bosses insisted that they had
no quarrels with their present en-
ployes and did not care to cause
trouble by discharging them, for fear
Of losing the season.
The agent then tried to warn them
by stating that if the left wingers
should ever win, that much harder
terms might be expected from them
than from the international.
The bosses, knowing the workers
in the shop stand solidly behind the
Joint Board and against the disrupters
from the International, refused to &C.
cept the agents advice or TO have
anything to do with him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23

position of the National Executive
Committee to be elected, was ruled
out Of order and the chairman imme-
diately proceeded to read the names
OF the nominees.
Comrade Lifshitz raised an obiec-
ton against B. Woolf who personifies
the present leadership. In connection
with that he wanted to make a state
ment. But no statement that will show
up the past activities and policies Of
the National Executive Committee
was allowed. Comrade Lifshitz then
appealed to the chair. Lieutenants
came Immediately to the assistance
Of the chairman and Litfshitz was
prevented from speaking.
The destructive policies of the adj
ministration were wildly demonstra-
ted when Max Levin, the chairman
Of the committee for peace in the
Workmen's Circle, objected to Chanin
who is responsible for the split in
the Workmen's Circle schools. He
pointed out that a man like Chanin
who is identified with the Jewish Yer
band of the socialist party can not
do constructive work and therefore
can not be put on the executive com
mittee.
In answer to Levin, Chanin ex-
pressed himself in agreement with the
splitting tactics Of the National Exc
cutive Committee. He stated that he
is satisfied that he succeeded in split
ting the schools and even if the non
partisan Workemn's Circle schools
would want to affiliate with the Of
fetal Workmen's Circle schools, he
VIII continue to fight them bitterly.
No Demonstration for Herlich.
The chairman invited Herlich, the
representative of the Polish Bund, who
was hidden in a corner on the gallery.
The progressive elements were
aroused by the action Of the chair
man. Sensing the indignation of the
majority Of the delegates the chair
man did not introduce Herlich to the
conference. During the conference
some Of the right wing delegates at
tackled the progressive delegates, but
the threat of the machine did not
affect the militancy of the left wing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23

grower of grapes and prunes in Cali
fornia and the apple rancher of
Oregon.
But there are 1000 families on
Park Avenue between 44th Street and
92nd Street which spent in 1926
$3.50, 900, 0o0--an average Of $4,000
per family, There are no figures to
show what these same families spent
in 1909 or 1917, but, in any case, they
helped to make up that $4,000 income
Of the average person" in 1928.
The Old Bunk.
Statisticians like Wesley Mitchell
and w. l. King should be ashamed 10
trot out this old Statistical aver
age" fake. If you average" an in
come of $40 per week and one Of
$500 per week, you get s55, but how
silly to claim that the average per-
son" gets $50 per week. One man
gets ten; the other hundred. Meth
er pays the grocer bills Of the other
Lower Than in 1909.
Among great masses of American
workers, the purchasing power of an
hour of labor is less than it was in
1909.
The same is true of hundreds of
thousands Of farmers. On the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
PORTERS' FUTURE
INVOLVED NOW IN
BOARD DECISION
Randolph Confident
Union Will Win

Trade union or company union for
the Pullman porters?
This is the issue involved in the
decision of the railway board of med
itation on the plea of the Brother
hood Of Sleeping Car Porters for
recognition as the official represen-
tative of the colored workers. de-
clared A. Philip Randolph, general or
ganizer, in an interview today.
''The eyes of the labor movement
are upon our fight and upon the
boards decision.
"We have every reason TO believe
that powerful interests other than
the Pullman Co. are watching the
outcome of the porters' case" Ran
dolph explained, 1T involves the SER
ious question of whether or not
company union, organized and con-
trolled by a company, can be recog-
nized as the true and lawful spokes-
man Of its employees, or whether the
principle Of self-organization Of en-
ployes viii be recognized and main
tanned.
The brotherhood has "a comfort
able majority Of the 10000 men and
women in the Pullman service enroll
ed as members" Randolph asserts,
and they have signified their pre-
ference for the trade union over the
company union. "The brotherhood
has in its possession affidavits and
other documents to prove that the So
called 'employe representation plan
is fraud put over on the men
against their will and knowledge"
Brotherhood officials are confident
that the Pullman Company's case
cannot stand up under an honest and
unbiased investigation.
Read The Daily Worker Every Day
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
$4,000 Year for THE Average Person"

hand, the incomes Of the well-to-do--
rents, interests, dividends and profits
have increased enormously. Hence
the average"
Tie Fat Incomes.
The total income of the U. s. A..
has increased greatly in the past
twenty years. A fringe Of the work
ers has gained some advantage from
this increase.
Owners of land and capital have
benefited hugely. Their fat incomes
averaged" with those of the masses
Of workers and working farmers,
makes it possible for the Bureau Of
Economic Research to sell average"
prosperity to the rest Of the country.
A Labor Press.
Incidentally, it might be mentioned
that the Bureau of Economic Re-
search secures its income from the
interest and dividend" class.
What better argument could be adj
vanced in favor Of Bureau Of Labor
Research and vigorous labor press,
competent to collect and distribute
economic information that will keep
the mass of workers correctly in
formed as to the volume of national
income and as to who gets it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
Selling Fancy Corsets
Nets Her 100000 Year
| Her Girls Get SIS Week

Mrs. Blanche r. Green earns"
siOD. 900 a year No. she does not
work in a factory. She is not a
dressmakcr. c!oaknaker or fur
rier.
Mrs. Green sells fancy corsets
FOR fancy ladies. Apparently corr
sets are still in vogue. At least 70
the extent Of placing one hundred
thousand smackers in Mrs. Green's
Purse every twelve months. She is
The sales manager and vice presi-
dent of Berger Brothers Company,
who employ hundreds of workers
in its factory, most Of whom are
paid less than $1,000 a year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
Wage Sex Play War
Around Virgin Man

The sex play war between police
and producers today was scheduled
for climax or anti-climax.
Whether "The Virgin Man." one of
the trio of plays cited by police as
too naughty to live. would continue,
depended on the result of internal
strife between the co-producers of
the production.
William Francis Dugan, author and
manager of "The Virgin Man." sud
denly decided TO close the play. His
:o-producers objected.
Horace Liveright, publisher and
producer, today continued his plans
to put 1.-THE Captive" back on the
stage whence it was removed follow
ng caustic criticism from official
sources. Sex" the third play raided
by police, continued TO play TO
crowded houses on the strength Of
temporary injunction proceedings.
BUY THE DAILY WORKER
u AT THE NEW STANDS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
COAL Mine WAGE
CONF FERENCE AT
MIAMI BREAKS UP
PrOgressives Call on All
To Prepare for Strike

MIAMI, Fla. Feb. 22.---The bitumi-
nous wage conference collapsed today.
The miners union negotiations COM
naittee and the coal operators repre-
eentatiyes jointly cOncurred in the dis
agreement report Of the sub-eommit-
tee on wage scales which has been
consulting in secret over the two plans
proposed.
The miners union committee, head
ed by International President John l..
Lewis, had made during the course of
the negotiations sweeping concessions,
even TO the point where a thinly dis
guised arbitration committee was Of
fered, in spite of the bitter opposition
to compulsory arbitration which coal
miners have always shown.
Demanded Wage Cut.
The only point at which the union
committee did not yield, was in the
matter of formal reduction of wages.
1t was instructed by the Indianapolis
convention last month not to sign any
contract involving q wage cut.
Altho the COMMITTEE of experts"
which Lewis proposed to "apply the
agreement" would probably cut wages
in effect by increasing the amount of
unpaid work the miner would have to
perform, the operators held cut for q
reduction, open and apparent, to the
level of competition" with the nom
union wages of Kentucky, West Vir-
ginia and Alabama.
Convention FOrbids Cut.
This concession Lewis hesitated to
grant, and the negotiations ended. 1t
is reported that Lewis plans to make
contracts with any individual COM
panies that will sign on the basis Of
the Jacksonville scale, and then try
for another joint conference, just be-
fore the ending Of the present con-
tract, March 81.
Expect to Fight.
Progressive miners who fought the
Lewis regime during the miners union
election campaign, and whose candi-
date for international president, John
Brophy, was Counted out" by the
Lewis machine after he had actually
won the election, are convinced that
the brunt of the strike will fall upon
them, if strike comes on April 1.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-23
CURRENT EVENTS

Continued from Page One)
thinks Poe should be. Poe has a
niche in the gallery of literature be-
cause he was Poe. because he ex-
pressed himself. What Of it ii he
was unhappy, a spepdthrift and adj
dicted to spells Of melancholy. Poe
wrote himself into literature and
thus rendered service TO the human
race, tho rendering service was the
last thing Poe thought about, or any
body else, for that matter. Yet here
comes young lad fired with holy
ardor and instead Of blessing the
stars for keeping Poe financially on
the bum, inisei able and semi-erazy,
regrets that he did not have a regu-
lar salary because 1--WE have no doubt
that had Poe live.l un1sr happier cir
cumstances and rnder a different 80
cial system his works would not have
been 50 morbid" OF course Poe
might have gotten more salami out
Of life were he ryt the kind Of a
fellow he was, but had he lived an
ordinary life his name would not be
mentioned even a6 a Y. NJ. G. a con-
ference.
Fifty years ago the statue Of lib
orty was accepted from France What
Uncle Sam wants now f,em France
is not statuafy but money. The lady
who holds aloft the flaming torch in
New York harbor may have meant
what she conveyed fifty years ago
but she is certainly false alarm to-
day. Fifty years is quite long time
to keep good.