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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
report Huge Incomes Are
Ninety Percent Unedymed

their total income. The remaining
90 came from interest, rents, royal
ties, partnerships, etc.
The 465 individuals with incomes
ranging between 100000 and ST.
100000 each had a combined income
of 1851, 838,001. In this group divi-
bends and profits accounted for about
1920 of the total income.
In contrast with such huge incomes
the incomes under $4,000 each are
derived more than 1000 from personal
industry, that is from wages, salaries
business and partnerships. Of the
total of So, 128, 637, 497 reported by the
1,016,15 individuals reporting net in
comes between $1,000 and $4,000
about 500 came from these sources
And below these are the millions OF
workers with such small incomes, en-.
tirely dependent on wages and sal.
aries, that they do not have to report
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
STRAW HAT union
UP FOR CONTEMPT

William Golden, chairman of the
Straw Hat Blockers' Local AZ of the
Cap and Millinery Workers Union,
and other officers and members of the
union, are charged with contempt of
court for violating an anti-picketing
injunction obtained from Supreme
Court Justice Churchill by the firm
of Federal Hats, Inc, in an application
made by the latter in the supreme
court Thursday.
The employer charges the union
with picketing in spite of the injunc-
ton. But the pickets, they say, have
changed their signs to read "The
Union Workers Of Federal Hat Works,
Inc, have been locked out by their
successor, Federal Hats, Inc"
The union showed that the COM
pany had moved and changed its name
to escape union conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Rockefeller, Jr.
May Testify in
Oil Fraud Quiz


WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. IS
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the
Rockefeller Foundation are expected
to figure in the testimony which Sen.
Walsh of Montana is about to require,
in the inquiry which a subcommittee
of the senate public lands committee
will conduct, as to what became of the
Liberty Bonds that were left to the
credit of the Continental Trading Co.
after Albert Fall received $230,500
from that source.
One of the chief partners in the
pool of oil men who created the secret
fund of the Continental was Standard
Oil of Indiana, in which the younger
Rockefeller and the Rockefeller Foun-
dation were largely interested. George
E. Vincent, former president of the
University of Minnesota, is head Of
the foundation, which distributes huge
sums for medical education and re-
search in various parts of the world.
The investigators will try to learn
whether the foundation itself, thru
Standard of Indiana, contributed to
the corruption fund.
Recent calculations indicate that
only S3,0S0,090 and not S8,000,000 as
stated by Sen. Norris in offering the
resolution of inquiry, was the sum
actually collected by the Continental
Trading Co. The sum missing is
therefore $2,849,500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Wage Cuts, Myunctions,
Facing Workers IN 1923

portant mills.
Glove workers in upper New York
State are continuing their 1927 wage
scale with few notifications, meagre
notices from Cloversville indicate.
The machine operators met employers
in a mass meeting to work out
changes in the union agreement.
NeclIwear Workers Fight.
A real airing Of the United Neck
wear Makers case against runaway
shops is coming out in the trial of
10 Yale Liberal Club students ar
rested for distributing pamphlets on
the unions fight. The union is fight
ing at New Haven, Conn, where the
Yale men were jailed, and Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. to organize firms which
left New York City.
|. r. T. Decision.
Besides these smaller indications of
labor's trend in 1928 is another which
affects a more fundamental challenge
of the organized trade unions. East
ern union officials read in the revers-
ing of an old injunction obtained by
the Interboro Rapid Transit Co. more
hope for the American Federation of
Labor fight coming up this month.
The appellate court decision against
the Interboro made violence or in
tended violence the necessary grounds
for an injunction against union.
So the effort of the |. r. t. to ban
the whole A. F. of L. from aiding the
union organizing campaign ON the
subways is in weaker position
Nathan d. Perlman, associate counsel
for the A. F. of L. and Amalgamated
Assn. of Street & Electric Rwy. En-
ployes, insists that there is no evi.
dence of violence the Interboro can
give against the unionists. Union
counsel will argue that the company
union is not legitimate and cannot be
the subject of an injunction suit
against bona fide trade unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Women's Rights

ALBANY, Jan. Is. Two equal
rights for women bills have been in.
PRODUCED in the state legislature by
republican Assemblyman Hofstadter
Of New York county. One bill would
permit women to serve on juries if
they desire to and to claim exemption
because they are women if they so
desire it, The second bill would more
exactly define the domicile of mar
ried women by the same facts and
rules of law as prevail for men for
the purpose of voting, holding office
and taxation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
CHICAGO movie
MEN Get RAISE

CHICAGO, Jan. Is (FP).-A raise
of per cent this year and 5 per cent
next year with some Improvement Of
working conditions is the victory
gained through negotiations by the
movie operators in Chicago. Local
ITO of the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving
Picture Machine Operators ratified
The agreement Jan. 10 and it became
effective Jan. II. The 1928 minimum
will be S6J12 a week and the max
imum S94.S1. For 1929 the rate will
be per cent higher.
The working day is A, or hours
depending on he shift. Overtime will
be paid at regular rates until mid
night. After midnight overtime is
paid double the regular rate until 8
in the Morning. About 600 men are
benefited. Agitation for a 6-day week
instead of the presens days will con-
tnue, according to local officers, and
may become the principal issue in the
negotiations for 1880 scale.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
'Lenir's Life in Paris
Told by His Colleague;
Memorial on Saturday

Details of the life of Lenin when
he lived in Paris are told by 2.
Krshishanovsky in his "Glimpses
of the Life of nyitch" A Lenin
memorial meeting viii be held at
Madison Square Garden next Sat
urday evening.
Krshishanovsky writes as fol-
lows:
'Lenin lived in Paris, as always,
with Krupskaya and her mother,
who was always their inseparable
companion. Two small rooms and
kitchen which served as a dining
room.
"And when l asked V. l. Lenin
what their material situation was,
he replied: We'll, we have the mini
mum existence of Paris workers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
By LELAND OLDs

The sharp line between those who
work for living and those who own
one is clearly defined in the report
of the U. S. commissioner of inter-
nal revenue covering incomes in 1926
The report shows wages and salaries
as an insignificant part of the in
comes of the rich. The bulk of the
huge sum taken by the 10000 in
dividuals with personal incomes ex-
ceeding $4,000 a year each was de-
rived from the exorbitant profits Of
industry.
The 228 individuals with incomes of
more than $1,000,000 each in 1926, of
which only about 39o came from their
wages and salaries. On the other
hand 800 of their income came from
dividends and 519o from profits on
the sale of capital assets. These 2
items together accounted for $3.50 of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
A Long Time to Wait

That the finest apartment houses in
New York will be occupied by the
workers within 40 to so years was
the consolation given by Harold
Reigelman, counsel of the Commission
for the Revision of the Tenement
House Law, in speaking at lunch
con of the Brooklyn Real Estate
Board in the Leverich Towers Hotel,
Brooklyn. The joker in this deck of
cards, however, is that by the time
the workers occupy these houses, in
Reigelman's opinion, the houses will
be abandoned as uninhabitable by the
present occupants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Bill Would Prevent
r. RS Grabbing Land

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. ia bill
TO repeal any laws enabling the grab
bing by railroads of paper" streets
(undeveloped city property adjoining
railroads) was introduced in the As
sembly here today. A similar bill,
introduced at the last session of the
State Senate by Republican Senator
Maekay, turned out to be measure
which enabled the railroads and in
dustrial corporations in the northern
part of the state to gain title to Spa
per streets" The new bill is sponsored
by Assemblyman harrison, a demo-
crat from Hudson county.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, New
jersey Central Railroad and several
real estate companies subsidized by
railroads have Just filed papers clear
ing their titles to such properly,
claimed by Jersey City to rightfully
belong to the municipality.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
BOSSES SIGN UP
WITH LOCAL. II

''In spite OF the attempted reorgan-
ization Of our local by Sigman our
International president, majority Of
the independent manufacturers have
renewed their agreements with the
union" This was stated by Morris
Taft, manager of the fuckers, Pleat-
ers' and Hemstitchers' Union, Local
u, at their office Friday
Taft is the trade unionist who re-
Gently appeared before Supreme
Court Justice Grain and openly told
him in court that he intended to vio-
late an anti-picketing injunction the
Judge had issued to prevent Taft from
calling strikes.
Meeting Tuesday.
On the coming Tuesday at four
o'clock in the afternoon a member
ship meeting will be held at the Irv-
ing Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irving
Place. The leaders of the local will
report the names of those firms that
have signed up, also declaring on
strike every employer who has not
renewed his agreement.
This one hour stoppage is also
called to show the right wing group
in the union and the bosses that the
loyalty of the workers to their union
is mistaken, it was further stated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
By ESTHER LOWELL, (Fed. Press)

By ESTHER LOWELL, (Fed. Press.
How will the year 1923 go for or
ganized labor, eastern unions ponder
as the signs develop in these early
days of the year. Building trades
workers of New York feel safer now
that the electrical workers Of Local
3 have concluded their new agreement
and kept the $12 scale for hours.
For awhile the employers threat
ened big fight for the union. Open
shop operation was boosted by the
Electrical Board of Trade. Dealing
with the II former officials ousted
from Local for graft was also adj
vocated by the Board. Bu5 interna-
tional president H. H. Breach re-
fused to deal with the mixed board
and signed up the Independent Electri-
cal Contractors ASSN. No. 1. Other
union employers came tumbling after
into independent settlements with Lo-
cal 8. The local has more members
than ever as the year opens.
New England Wage Cuts
But while building tradesmen and
printing workers of New York are
holding their own and making slight
gains, textile workers throughout New
England feel less secure than ever
The first big break has come in Fall
River, Mass, where the American
Printing Co. suddenly announced 10
per cent slashes. in wages for its
1900 workers. Stevens mill had pre-
viously cut fer it's 300 employees, but
the bigger mills. action is expected
to draw others into line.
Some protest may come from the
American Federation of Textile
Operatives, an independent union with
headquarters in Fall River, but this
organization has never led general
strike in the city's mills. The Ameri-
can Printing Co. produces 300,0O0,00O
yards of cotton goods a. year, which
makes it one of the towns most i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
5-Year Term Is Given
in Fascist Frame-un

Mario Giletti, 81, convicted Dec. 7
of assault in fascist frame-up, has
been sentenced to term of one year
and six months to five years by Judge
Albert Cohn in the Bronx County
Court.
Judge Cohn denied that the court
stenographer made an error in read
ing that constituted grounds for set
ting aside the verdict.
an America we are not interested
in the political differences in foreign
countries" the judge said after pass
ing sentence.
Giletti was convicted of shooting
two fascists Jan. %, 1927. During the
trial it was shown that fascist agents
in the United States were responsible
for the arrest and conviction of the
youth, who first made and later re-
pudiated confession.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Radium Workers Sue

NEWARK, N. j., Jan. 15.-With
one leg shrunk three inches and suf-
fering serious injuries to her joints
as result of radium poisoning con-
tracted while employed by the U. S.
Radium Corporation, Edna Hussman
of Hillside, in Chancery Court here
testified yesterday in her damage
suit against the company. Mrs. Huss-
man and four other employees Of the
company ask damages totalling ST.
100000. At night, Mrs. Hussman tes-
titled, her body and her hair are
luminous.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Suspicious of Jardine
Scheme to Centralize
Farmers Cooperatives

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan. Is. -
Declaring that agriculture on pro
fitable basis is impossible because the
$4,000 farmers cooperative market
ing organizations are blocking one
another, William M. Jardine, secre-
tary Of agriculture recommended that
thew be consolidated and centralized
"The smaller units are in many in
stances competing against each other
he said, "and consolidation and cen
tralization will give the farmers bar
gaining power"
The farmers however, disillusioned
by unfulfilled promises for relief. feai
that consolidation under government
control would give too much oppor-
tunity for graft.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
BELATED PROBE
OF EDISON Co.
Longacre Deal Under
Charge of Crime

Public criticism has begun an in
We 8 igation Of she numerous dsa
through which the New York Ediso
Company acquired the $100,000,0se
Longaere Electric Light & Power
Company franchise, it was LEANED
today.
Witnesses prominent in Wall
Street banking, legal and public util-
ity circles have been summoned to
the New York County prosecutors
office to testify to phases of the
comphca ed and somewhat mysteri-
Gus transactions.
Tho immediate cause of the action
of the district attorneys office is
the assertion of the New York Edison
Company that $325,O00 of notes
made out in the name of the Edison
/ Company were never issued by the
corporation or with its lawful APP
proval.
Permanent Monopoly.
The so-called Longacre franchise
is a perpetual right to conduct a
power and electric light business in
the city of New York. 1t cannot be
voided by the legislature nor can an
other of like value ever be issued.
Recognizing its immense value the
late Attorney N. Brady, chairman
of the board of the New York Edison
Company, and others in control of
the Consolidated Gas Company,
started drive to secure the Long
acre franchise more than ten years
age.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Examine Primary Bills

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. Is Opp.
Primary election legislation, now
under consideration by the Illinois
Legislature will be scrutinized by Ia
Dor this week. The executive board
of the State Federation of Labor and
the joint legislative board, which in
cludes representatives of the railroad
brotherhoods as well, will examine the
bills. The present special session was
called to replace the invalid primary
law byxone that will pass the courts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
FIND OUT Tines
UNDERCOvER MAN

Espionage activities in which large
corporations cooperate with the New
York Times, "frame-ups" against
railroad workers, strike breaking
maneuvers and the indifference of
union officials were among the rev.
Citations disclosed yesterday by
sources close to the New York Times,
the most powerful organ of big bust
ness in America.
When Local 807 of the Transfers
Union went out on strike on Sept.
1 of last year, five truck drivers en-
ployed by the New York Times struck
with other union men of the city.
Practically every employer of the city
promptly settled with the striking
drivers granting the S. increase per
week demanded.
Employs Strikebreakers.
The New York Times, it is reliably
reported, immediately decided to re-
fuse further dealings with the union
and promptly replaced its five strik-
ing drivers with five strikebreakers
secured from local agency.
Among these, according to reliable
information, was one G. E. Dobbs,
who is still employed by the New
York Times as an operator of one of
its Packard delivery trucks.
Anticipating the strike, the New
York Times had sent on Oct. 81, to
local detective agency for an under
cover" man. Dobbs in the guise of a
regular strikebreaker was sent to-
gether with four other men.
In addition to acting in the capa-
city of espionage agent for the Times,
Dobbs has been employed by the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad on similar
work out of Baltimore, also by the
Pennsylvania Railroad on the Long
Island division.
A monthly receipt ticket, now in
the possession of The DAILY WORK
Err, reveals Dobbs as Member 525 of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men of America The practice of this
stool pigeon, it has been disclosed, is
TO ride on the various railroads and
by displaying his membership card
in the union secure from the conduc-
tor free passage.
Has Framed Many Workers.
Dobbs has been engaged for num-
Der of years in this framing" inno-
cent conductors and reporting them
to the railroad officials. The punish
ment in most cases is a month or two
suspension but in some instances it
has led to dismissal of the conductor.
For instances, one in which the con-
ductor received a month and the other
in which he received a two month
suspension, are on record.
During the period that Dobbs has
been carrying on his under cover ac-
tivities for the New York Times, he
has maintained his membership in the
Trainmen's Union and has passed his
ticket to other workers who have been
known to use it for free transporta-
ton. Thereafter it has been his prac-
tice to learn the time and date of their
passage and thus to report the con-
ductor to the railroads.
G. E. Dobbs lives at Fallsburg, N
Y, where news of his espionage ac-
tivities are becoming known to his
former friends and acquaintance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
West New York Cop
Held for Brutal Murder

Emil Won der Linden, of the West
New York police force, was arrested
yesterday at his home, charged with
the murder of Robert Albericci, who
died yesterday from a fractured
skull.
Won der Linden is charged with
striking Albericci with a blackjack
after quarrel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Long Island Railroad
Fires BOilermakers to
Hire Again as Helpers

Deep indignation was felt yester-
day when about ten boiler makers
who were discharged by the Long
Island Railroad in Richmond Hill
took jobs as helpers at pay reduc-
tons that average 10 to Is cents an
hour.
About fifty per cent Of the crew
of eighty boiler makers were dis
charged yesterday under the senior
ity rules. When they learned of their
dismissals they agreed with railroad
officials that they would work as
helpers for Sc cents an hour. The
wages of boiler makers average 70
cents an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Fall River Wage Cut

FALL RIVER, Mass Jan. r.
The American Printing Co. has post
ed notices that operations would be
resumed in the cotton goods division
next Monday with a 10 per cent re-
duction in wages effective in both the
cotton goods and printing divisions.
Four thousand six hundred workers
are effected.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
For the Nicaraguans

Six new light cruisers are being
built by the navy, each equipped with
entirely new turbine generating APP
paratus, combining features of light
weight and compact design. Each
cruiser will have four sets of the new
apparatus, each set being rated $50
kiiowatts. These are the first ship
projects of the American navy since
the 1921 Arms Limitation Conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Round Box Makers
Vote to Join Union

The round paper box makers, who
have been organized as the Progress
sive Round Paper Box Makers, have
voted to affiliate with the Paper Box
Makers Union, Local 1852, of the
American Federation of Labor.
A series of meetings are being held
at Astoria Hall to enable all round
paper box makers to join. A meeting
will be held tonight Immediately after
work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Four Workers Injured
in Subway Explosion

Four workmen were injured yes
terday in an explosion in a new sub
way excavation at Second avenue and
Fifty-third street. Two ambulances
were rushed to the scene of the ac-
cident.
Inquiry will be made into charges
that the explosion was caused by
defective equipment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Furrier Fined SIS

Isidore Weisman, of the Joint Board
of the Furriers' Union, was arrested
at noon yesterday when distributing
leaflets at Sixth Ave- and 26th st. He
was, fined SIS in the Jefferson Market
Court by Magistrate Dodge. The In
ternational Labor Defense paid the
fine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
MILITARIsT LOSES JOB.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.- Hanford
McNider, former American Legion
head who later was awarded by the
Coolidge administration for his fine
fascist service as assistant secretary
of war, has resigned that post which
is now taken by another Iowan,
Charles d. Robbins.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
Wages Are Threatened

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15.-Union-
lied hosiery mills here which recent
ly announced plans to operate on an
open shop basis and reduce wages
from 10 to 20 per cent are only wait
ing for some one of their number to
begin, according to the manager of
one of the mills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16

WASHINGTON, Jan. Is (FP). -
General headquarters of the Cigar
makers International Union will be
moved on Jan. q from Chicago to
Washington, where it villa be located
on the sixth floor of the new Car
penters' Building. e.rr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16
GOVERNORS WIFE GETS QUIET

Ropes barring traffic on Twelfth
Street between Sixth and Seventh
Avenues, where st. Vincent's Hospital
is located were removed when police
authorities learned that the condition
of Mrs. Alfred Smith, the governors
wife, patient in st. Vincent's, had
improved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16

POL4CIEeS AND PROGRAMS
STRIKES - INJUNCTIOES
THE TRADE UNION PRESS
LABOR AND IMPERIALISM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-16

NE ws AND COM NJ &c Mt
Anon EDUC CATION
LABOR AND GOVERNMENT
TRADE UNION POLITICS