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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
BY M. ]. FLYNN

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international Labor News Service
| Boston, Mass.-The joint committee
on judiciary of the Massachusetts leg
| islature had the pleasure, February
| 10th, of witnessing and passing upon
one of the many tricky methods often
resorted to by the insurance "gougers y
who contend that they have been in
vested with a "divine right" to con-
| tinue to make profit at the expense
and suffering of the injured workers
in industry, through their control of
workmens compensation insurance.
At the 1926 session of the legis-
lature, to avoid being recorded for or
against the enactment of an exclusive
state fund bill, special commission
was created for the supposed purpose
of making an investigation of the
workings Of the present workmen's
compensation law, and also to make
such recommendation as were deemed
advisable.
Two Labor Representatives
Labor made demand that two
members of this special commission
should be members of organized labor.
The governor granted this request but
in making the selection, for some un-
known reason, appointed as one of the
commission a representative of an
outlaw textile union with only a
small membership. The other labor
representative is the secretary treas
urer of the Massachusetts State Fed
Grafton of Labor
During an existence of some three
months, and after having held some
eight or nine public hearings at which
representatives of the national and
state labor organizations appeared
with representatives of the medical
and hospital fraternity advocating the
adoption of an exclusive state fund
law, modelled after the Ohio plan, a
report was prepared and presented to
the legislature. In addition to the
public hearings which were attended
by representatives of labor including
President William Green, Vice Presi-
dent Woll, President Frey, of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor, and
Thomas J. Duffy, former chairman of
the Ohio industrial commission, the
commission also held several private
hearings at which the representatives
of the insurance companies were
heard
Copies Of the report prepared for
the legislature together with the rec
concentrations of the commission were
not available to the public or to the
parties interested, other than the in
surance companies, until the day be-
fore the hearing.
Ohio Fund 'Investigated'
The commission in it's report made
known the fact or the supposed fact
that it had had its secretary, one
George Herbert McCaffrey, Jr., now in
charge of the research department Of
the Merchants Association of New
York city, make personal investiga-
ton of the workings of the state fund
in force in Ohio. The report which
Nc Cafrey brought back to the COM
mission was in effect that the Ohio
state fund saved the employers Of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
Massachusetts Labor Men Prove
Falseness Of Attack on Working
OF Ohio State Compensation Fund

representative of group of small
chambers of commerce and one repre-
sentative of the insurance group.
Labor Proves Case
The evidence given to the judiciary
committee by President Frey and
Vice President Gatelee which discred-
tied the findings of the special COM
mission was SO conclusive that the
chairman of the committee stated that
Vice President Gatelee need go no
further as he had conclusively proven
his case
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

we'll ventilated lockers; rest room to
revive tagging energies; and first-aid
equipment to be administered by a
responsible person in case of acci-
dent or illness.
The film is the third of series of
three prepared by the women's bu-
reua, dealing with special problems of
wage-earning women. The films are
lent by the bureau, free of charge,
to individuals and organizations for
educational purposes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25
HEALTH OFFICIAL URGES
BARRIERS LICENSE LAW

Philadelphia.-Dr Wilmer Krusen,
director Of the department of public
health, favors BARRIERS license law
in this state. At a mass meeting of
journeymen BARRIERS and employers,
the health official declared that the
proposed legislation will promote san
itary conditions
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1927-02-25

Columbus, Ohio.-Trade unionists
from every section of the state ap-
peared before an Ohio legislative
committee in behalf of proposed
law that would outlaw the yellow
doc -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
By FRED HARRIS

TO link the First of May, the inter
national labor day of the worlds
proletariat, with the marine industry,
is perhaps somewhat more difficult
than with any other trade. This is a
fact in the United States.
The two outstanding unions repre-
senting marine transportation are the
International Seamans Union and the
international Longshoremens Associ-
alton of America, both of whom are
headed by an officialdom conservative
at first but later becoming reaction
airy. Due to the peculiar character of
continuous mobility of their trade, the
progressive members in the union had
verr little influence on the conserva-
tive policy of their leaders, since
these men would never be long enough
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

emerge after the armistace only to
be foully murdered by the contemp-
tible Ecoundrels of ineffable apos-
tacy, Schiedemann, Ebert and Noske,
heroes of the Social Democracy and
the Second international who went
over to the camp of the imperialists
at the first blast of the trumpets of
war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
By T. ]. o'FLAHERTY.

Continued from Page Onc)
would be received by his boss with
fishy eye.
And: "Nail everyone in your terri
tory Pin him down to a subscription.
Reach him at home, where he works
or on the street. Sell him a bond"
THE wages of sin is death according
= to those who make a living at the
sin business. The wages of patriot
ism is either death and poverty or
affluence. 1t all depends on whether
the patriot is being run or running.
The bonds that were purchased in
1919 are now safely deposited in the
banks who have performed the diff
ficult financial feat of having the
loaf they had eaten. The patriotic
purchasers retain only a memory.
The concerted attacks on the work
ers on May Day 1919 ushered in a
reign of oppression of the left wing
socialist movement in the United
States afterwards transformed into
the Communist movement) and has
continued ever since with more or
less intensity. The efforts of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

under such destructive leadership is
obvious.
AND yet, no trade is more in need
"A of it. than the sesmen. Wages,
working and living conditions are on
par with those of twenty years ago
The difference being that at that time
a strong organization was being
builded, whereas at the present time
only a shadow, a weak, vacillating
remnant of fighting union remains.
There is hope, however for change;
the spirit of revolt is growing, and
the near future may show us new,
reorganized, industrial union of mar
inc transport workers.
GO much for the local situation. In
y other countries we find that the
shipowners have been busy with their
own open shop plans and are contin-
uously encroaching upon the organi-
cation rights of the sailor. Vividly
does this writer remember labor
day parade on May 1, 1914, in Mel
bourne, Australia, in which it was his
good fortune to participate. Labor
was out in full force with huge, pic
turesque floats and flying colors. No
one wage worker, whose service was
dispensable, failed to march in line.
Policemen and other claw and order"
elements were conspicuous by their
absence. 1t was labor's own day, and
labor took it and celebrated. However
the workers of the antipodes were
careless with their possession and
didn't guard their treasury like they
should have done, and so, during the
war, this enthusiasm fell victim to
the patriotism for their country. 1t
was bad fall, and Australians work
ers are now paying price which will
teach them to organize in the future
on the basis of the class-struggle,
and instead of dabbling with lot of
sentimental ideals to build a class
conscious proletariat which will know
how to keep clear of capitalistic pit
falls.
ENGLAND, the classic land of trade
- unions, is now going through the
necessary ordeal of burying its dead.
Havelock Wilson, president of the
National Seamens Union Of Great
Britain, must go. He has committed
the most objectionable crimes, has
become the intimate friend and pro-
tege of Sir Walter Runcilman, large
shipowner and the greatest enemy Of
the British seamans union; he refused
to obey the command of the general
council of the trade union council to
participate with his union in the gem
eral strike last year, and like his pro-
totype, Thomas, even refused to at
tend the Trade Union Congress at
Bournemouth, to defend his treachery
before that body. The British seamen
must not tolerate his leadership any
longer. There is already an opposi-
ton union, led by Shinwell, former
minister of mines in the Macdonald
cabinet, which, tho weak and vacillat-
ing, has nevertheless already chal-
lenged Wilson and his traitorous
leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
The 1918 May Day Terror in Cleveland

capitalists to crush this movement
and put it out Of existence has failed
however. Despite the general apathy
prevailing among the workers and the
treachery of the trade union bureau
Gratis and their socialist allies the
revolutionary movement is virile and
hopeful. While in 1919 the Soviet
Union was being attacked on all sides
and Keeling under the blows Of world
capitalism, today it is impregnable,
conscious Of the loyalty Of its millions
of workers and peasants, the strength
Of its proletarian armed forces and
the love of the class-conscious work
ers of the world
The existence of the Soviet Union
is a perpetual challenge to the
enemies of the workingclass and
when they strike at the Communist
movement in the various countries
they have a vision of what is in store
for the robber classes when the work
ers of all lands develop their strength
to the point where they will be able
to dot the globe with Soviet Re
puhlics.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

the formation Of these unions a con-
tinuous state of friction and hostility
about jurisdiction of working rights,
each claiming that the other was in
fringing upon his territory. Furu-
seth, president of the seamen's union
would accuse the longshoremen that
they were doing work belonging to
the seamen, while T. Y. O'Connor,
former President of the I. l.. A. would
hurl back the charge that the seamen
were scabbing against the longshore-
men.
HINDER such condition of antagonism
y it was of course impossible to
achieve any kind of industrial soil
darity. When in 1919 the longshore-
mems strike was lost, resulting in a
partial breakdown of the union, Furu-
seth was happy man.
That no class solidarity could grow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
AND yet, BY reason Of the very Gao

union into state and federal courts,
so that capitalist judges, and not the
membership, control its destinies.
In practically all industries the
unions stagnate under the blight of
unprineipled scoundrels who have
swindled or terrorized their way IN
to office where they serve as labor
lieutenants Of capitalism.
Only the left wing, the militant
section of the working class, and the
revolutionists, the Communists, car
ry on a relentless struggle for the
elementary demands of labor today.
Experiences of the year have ex-
posed to ever increasing masses of
workers the real menace to the labor
movement of the reactionary Off
Gals and in many, even of the most
conservative organizations, a deteri
mined opposition is crystalIizing
against the policy of treachery and
inaction that has so vitiated the
movement in the past.
THE immediate major task Of this
L May Day is one in which the
Communists must take the lead--the
struggle against the mad policy of
American imperialism in China, in
Nicaragua and in Mexico; the utter
disregard for the lives of the millions
Of workers; the cynicism with which
official Washington INDUCES in plat
itudes of peace while INDUCING in
frantic preparations for war.
In Nicaragua American marines
and native mercenaries. armed with
instruments of destruction supplied
by the United States, are crushing
the duly constituted government
while the state department issues
historical diatribes against Bolshev-
list influence, in a puerile attempt TO
justify its own infamy. In Mexico
agents of the United States are
caught resorting to the old Ameri-
can game Of bluff and buncombe by
first permitting the Gales govern
ment to obtain possession Of war de-
partment plans for military action
in that country and then, when CAL
les, instead of becoming terrorized
into submission, exposes the military
preparations, the doddering old i'm
beetle in the state department tries
to conceal his laundering by circulat-
ing the ridiculous yarn that state
documents have been stolen and
tempered with in order to arouse an
tagonism against the sadly wronged,
benevolent and innocent United
States government.
But most infamous Of all the inn
perialist ventures is the utterly de-
based acts Of provocation on the part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

of this country against China and the
Soviet Union. American warships
on the Yangste river engage in she'll
ing Chinese towns and numbering in
cold blood uncounted Chinese men,
women and children, under the shah
by pretext that they are defend
ing" American residents who are
there in spite Of the fact that these
medclesome Americans have no basi-
ness there in the first place and in
the second place they have had am
pie opportunity to get into safety
zones and if they have not done so
it is their own fault.
The forces of this country are in
China only because Of the fact that
American capital is invested there
and because that country is capable
of absorbing fabulous amount of
investment capital that must be dis
posed of, for the simple reason that
if new places of investment are not
always open the surplus wealth pro-
duced by the workers will lie fallow,
will stagnate and wreck the whole
system of capitalist economy.
Against the sanguinary designs Of
American Imperialism the vanguard
of the working class must exert every
ounce of its energy TO awaken the
workers to realization Of what the
capitalist class has in store for them,
and must endeavor to mobilize in
determined struggle against Ameri-
can imperialism the masses of work.
ers and poor farmers of this nation.
This May Day should be utilized for
the purpose of ripping from the faces
of the lackeys of Imperialism at
Washington their hypocritical paci-
fist masks and exposing them as
monstrous criminals who are gambl-
ing with the lives of the youth and
young manhood of the nation.
We must demand that this govern
ment withdraw its gunner of imper-
ialism from Nicaragua; that Kellogg
get out of office and quit his prepos-
ferrous buffonery about forged doc
uments" that his own agents are re-
sponsible for and which were exposed
when Gales refused to be browbeaten
by being threatened with the gran
doise military preparations of the
United States government against
Mexico in the interests of the oil,
mineral and land owners; that the
government get its gunboats and sol
diers out Of China and keep them
out.
We must in no uncertain terms in
sist that the Back Bay Goldfish aris-
tocracy of Massachusetts and its
puppet judge, Thayer, who have con-
spired to send Sacco and Vanzetti to
the electric chair, be prevented from
numbering these two champions of
the exploited textile slaves Of that
state.
Here in New York a mighty pro-
test must ring forth against the I'M
holy alliance Of the A. F. Of L. au-
tocracy, the employers and the
police, the prosecutors and the courts
who have paved the way to send TO
the penitentiary the nine members of
the Furriers' union convicted on per-
jured testimony of stool pigeons for
the crime of leading a militant and
successful strike against the bosses
of that industry.
On every front, with every weapon
at hand, the workers of the United
States must struggle during the next
year to clear the ground so that we
can 20 forward to greatS victories,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

IN the meantime, half of the marine
workers in Britain are still unor-
gained. 1t will be the task of the
international Transport Workers
Union, sponsored by the Minority
Movement, to organize the men into
powerful industrial union. This
new union is already calling upon all
workers to refuse work on any boat
carrying troops, ammunition and
other war material.
IN Germany and France the organi-
cation work, under the leadership of
the Amsterdam International, is lack
ing. Seamen in these countries work
under intolerable conditions. The
wages of the German seamen were
raised during January, yet with this
new raise the wages amount to only
100 marks (S25) a month. A long
shoremen's strike which was called in
Hamburg in September, 1926, had to
be called off after two weeks, be-
cause of utter futility. The condi-
tons in France are just as bad.
THE brightest spot is Soviet Russia.
Here there has been real progress.
The wages are nominally high and
places a seaman within the same
standard as men working on shore.
Ship committees are elected to look
after the affairs on the ship, such as
to observe that the working rules are
enforced, to look after provision reg
ulations, cleanliness of the living
quarters, and to arrange for an edu-
cational program Of reading and
speaking. Union meetings are held
right on board Of the ship during
working hours. Each year, when the
sailor is in the home port. he gets one
months vacation with pay, during
which time he is treated on shore like
guest.
IT is also of great significance to OBJ
serve the building of a strong sea-
mems union in China, which country
is now undergoing such tremendous
ilStOllCdl CHdHBt. IL is noteworthy,
that during the Chinese seamen's
strike in 1923, the marine traffic was
completely tied up, so much so, that
some of the superior white races
came to the rescue and seabbed on the
Chinese seamen, thus setting our
historical precedent as to the white
mans ethical concept in his treatment
of colored races.
Marine workers in capitalistic
countries have therefore all reasons
to look forward to a time when they
also will be organized industriaIly
and when, by the virtue of their econ
omic strength, they will enjoy the
working conditions of free race, and
when their status as working men
will cause the respect of all those who
now sheer at him. The First of May
is a symbol Of workers solidarity,
when the labor forces rally together
and make their demands known.
Labor must celebrate the day of
the proletariat, the first token of
World Trade Union Unity.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

in port to bring pressure on the Off
'cialdom. Thus the only outstanding
historical event in the seamen's strug-
gle against thefshipowners which may
be linked to the International Labor
Day is the general seamen's strike of
1921, which was, by co-iucident,
called on May 1.
AND yet, by reason of the very fact,
- that the average seaman and long
shoreman is a true internationalist,
the First of May should be more APP
plicable to him as workers holiday
that among others. The reason that
such is not the case may be traced
therefore directly to the union leader
ship. 1t is an outstanding fact that
between the leaders of these two
major organizations of marine in
dustry there has existed ever since
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

emerge after the armistace only to
be foully murdered by the contemp-
tible scoundrels of ineffable apos-
tacy, Schiedemann, Ebert and Noske,
heroes of the Social Democracy and
the Second international who went
over to the camp of the imperialists
at the first blast of the trumpets of
war.
THE events of a year ago today,
L in England, are now and for
years to come must be the subject of
careful study by the working class.
In the heat Of the class struggle a
new era was forged. The lockout
of the British miners to enforce
wage-cuts and sectional agreements
that occurred on May Day brought
into action in the most dramatic
manner within four days more than
four million workers who stood face
TO face with the organized power of
the state-and face to face with the
great betrayal Of May u, on the
rart of tho Thomasses, Clynes, Mac
donalds on the extreme right and ex-
posed the miserable role of the "of-
fetal left" Purcell & Co... The en-
suing thirty weeks exposed to all the
workers the true character of the
right wing when they lined up with
the Baldwin government in the con-
spiracy 70 starve into submission the
wives and children of the miners
who, through the capitulation of the
General Council, were left to fight
alone.
A S Nav Day dawns this year in
"A the United States we face rul-
ing class entrenched in the mightiest
citadal Of imperialism the world has
ever seen. The official leaders of
labor, at the head of the same or
ganization that took the initiative in
making May First the International
Labor Day, are inextricably bound
to carry out the anti-labor policies
of the master class. Some 10000
miners are on strile in various sec
tions Of the country, valiantly strug-
Cling against the steady encroach-
ment of the non-union mines while
John L.. Lewis and his vicious mach
inc refuse to extend and make effec-
tive the strike. In the needle trades in
New York the socialist right wingers
supported by the Greenwich bur-
eaucracy have shown that there is
no depth of depravity to which they
will not sink in forming alliances
with the employers, the police and
the courts in order to maintain them
selves Mt the head Of the unions they
once dominated, so that they may
continue as leeches upon and betray-
ers Of the workers in that industry.
They are proving by their actions
that they have so little regard for
the welfare Of the labor movement
that they will endeavor to wreck it,
just as pirates scuttle ship they
are compelled to abandon before per-
hitting it to fall into the hands of
those TO whom it rightfully belongs.
The printing trades unions are In
hands Of agents of the employers
and in the oldest union Of them all,
the international Typographical I'm
ion, two sets Of politicians-both
equally reactionary, striveing to foist
themselves upon the membership in
order that they may be able to hold
their jobs as agents Of the employ
ers--hnve thrown the affairs of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02

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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-11

The Ely Rod and Gun Club ID tbs
latest organization for sport lovers
in the city. While as yet the organ
ization has not been entirely per-
fected it is expected it win begi 1
operations with considerable menu
bership. 1t will be a purely local
one and seeking local game and fish
conservation and propagation as its
main objects besides fostering trap
shooting and other sports. Tenn.
porary officers to complete the details
of the organization are DR.. J. E.
Thompson chairman and JOS. NJ-
buchar secretary.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-03-11

Tonight the Epworth League of
the Methodist church is entertaining
members and friends Of the church
at the church. DR.. C. 81. McCrae
of Cloquet will be the principal
speaker Of the evening, his topic be-
ing ''The Shamrock and the Irish
Rose" Iris Hillman and Florence
Childers will give a short reading or
two. Margaret Mitchell and Kati-
leen King a piano duet and the En-
worth League quartet will render
selections. Miss Margaret Williams
and Miss Marvel Ellison have charge
of the refreshments.