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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Workers PartyA4Asks Fight
AGAINST Anti Strike Lam

Characterizing the proposed anti.
strike law now being urged by the
American Bar Association as "an at.
tack on the most fundamental rights
Of the workers" and calling upon all
labor forces, local trade unions and
especially the forces of the left wing
and the militants to organize to OPP
pose the measure, the Central Com
mittee of the Workers (Communist)
Party during its plenary session last
week issued the following statement
to the labor movement:
"The Central Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party consid-
ers it an important task of the Party.
as part of the principal task to or
ganize the masses of unorganized
workers in the basic industries and to
save and strengthen the existing
mass unions, to mobilize American
labor for active resistance to the new
attack on its most fundamental
rights, the right to organize and the
right to strike, which has just been
launched by the capitalist class thru
its agents, the American Bar Asso-
citation and the A. F. of L. bureau
crazy.
1.-THE goodwill and industrial
peace formula of the committee of
the bar association, arrived at as a
result of conferences and collabora-
ton with subcommittee of the A..
F. of L. executive council and public
~ endorsed by Green and Woll, calls
for federal legislation aiming at COM
pulsory arbitration and governmental
enforcement of arbitration awards.
The bar association, which has for
many years openly advocated com
pulsory arbitration, has Sacrificed
its undisguised demand in favor of
the present but slightly disguised for
mula to facilitate the effort of the A.
F. of L. leadership to mislead the
masses of the American workers into
accepting compulsory arbitration and
their most important
weapon of struggle at this time, the
right to strike.
The formula marks a new high
point in the open shop drive of the
ruling class and it's government and
in the betrayal of the interests of the
working class by the reactionary lead
ership of the A. F. of L.
"The legislation proposed is not
only a menace to organized labor and
its living standards but would he q
serious stumbling block to any effort
to organize the millions of the most
unorganized workers and
to resistance on their part to the
wage slashing campaign of the en-
ployers.
"The Workers (Communist) Party
must Immediately initiate a vigorous
to expose the full meaning
of this proposed legislation, and of
the role of the A. F. of L. leadership
in furthering it, with the objective of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

well being, the gold jewelry worker
neglected to give thought to rainy
day, and as a result his conditions to-
day are miserable. The highly paid
skilled gold jeweler was too indie
pendent to organize.
About ten years ago the industry
changed from hand-craft trade to
a machine stamping and assembling
industry, requiring very little skill
and easily taught. Keen competition
and the entry of the worst type Of
business man into the manufacturing
side caused lowering of standards,
workmanship and skill. "Volume"
became the god, trade abuses, fraudu-
lent bankruptcies, fake robberies re-
suited, and made the workers the vic
TINS of terrible speed-up system
From q highly paid and skilled work.
er, the greedy employers forced him
to become an unskilled stamping
machine operator. The skilled hand
had no organization to pro-
tect themselves. Wages were slashed
and sweat-shop conditions were forced
on the workers by the bosses. Every
back alley cubby-hole became
jewelry factory. Even women were
brought in as stamping machine
hands by the bosses, with still lower
working conditions.
The old skilled craftsman faded
from the scene. He isn't needed, as
all the parts of piece of jewelry can
be secured ready made by the manu-
facturer. Any child can assemble
these pieces. If the old highly paid
skilled jeweler had been wise enough
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Everybody Contributes.

Everybody contributes to the wall
paper, and it is a wide open FORUM"
he added. owe saw stories, criticisms
of the management of the factory,
suggestions for improving produc-
ton, humorous and serious sketches,
cartoons, announcements-in fact al
most everything. These wall papers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
.BRITAIN-U. S, WAR
FORECAST AGAIN
BY Adm, PLUNKETT
4 Billion Navy Widely
Scored

Further reference to a possible war
between the United States and Great
Britain was contained in speech by
-dmiral Charles P. Plunkett, COM
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yards,
before the Government Club, Inc.
Careful not to mention names due
20 the outburst of criticism which
greeted his recent statements about
war with England, the Admiral, who
retires from the navy on Wednesday,
managed to make himself understood
by stating that he saw possible diff
culties both with the people who edo
not speak our language" and with
people who do speak our language"
Admiral Plunkett urged greater
preparedness"
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. H.
An avalanche of protests are pouring
into Washington, demanding that the
huge naval building program be dras-
tically reduced or abandoned alto
gether. Following the disclosure that
more than four billions of dollars
would be involved in the Coolidge adj
ministration's preparations for war on
the seas, the volume of kilograms and
letters has increased tremendously.
81 have never known such wide
spread protest mall my experience in
Congress covering a period of 80
years." Chairman Butler of the house
naval affairs committee admitted.
The original estimate officially re-
ported by the committee called for
an expenditure of $800,000,000. How
ever, it was not until several members
withdrew from the committee in pro-
test, was the ban lifted on the sup
preston of news.
A protest resolution from the stu
dent body and faculty of Yale Uni
versity Divinity School and Union
Theological Seminary has been re-
ceived here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
URGES
u. S. MASS PARTY
FOR ALL LABOR
Workers Abroad Have
Their Own

The workers in Europe were
amazed when thew learned that the
United States still had no national
Jahor marty, Ernest Lundeen, Mime
sofa Farmer-Labor Party leader, said
here in an interview yesterday. After
visiting the Soviet Union with the
Rank and File American Trade Union
Delegation he toured eight other
European countries. He arrived on
the Berengaria Friday.
Everywhere went, even in the
little villages. they inquired in great
surprise" he continued. "Of course
all the countries I visited have labor
parties. My observations abroad
strengthened my convictions more
than ever that a united front of farm
ers and workers is the only way out
of the difficulties that American la
Dor is facing.
National Party Needed.
"Unless mass national labor party
is organized the Minnesota Farmer
Labor Party is useless" he said.
Lundeen gained prominence during
the recent world war when he took
an uncompromising stand against the
declaration of war, the espionage
law and CONSUMPTION. While serving
in congress, he introduced resolutions
calling for the immediate withdrawal
of American troops from Siberia and
the impeachment of Woodrow Wilson
for allowing warfare without the per-
mission of congress.
New War Expected.
At present, Lundeen is honorary
of the Minnesota Anti
War Council, which is following the
same line towards the coming imperi-
alist war as in the last conflict.
Lundeen is closely identified with
the movement for launching nation
al labor party this year.
The First Foreigners.
Lundeen told how the trade union
delegation visited little village near
Mimi Novogorod.
eve were the first foreigners to
go there since the war;" he said.
"The whole village turned out. They
had recently received two bulls of i'm
proved breed from the state depart
ment to improve their stock. The
peasants proudly paraded the two
animals before us, back and forth,
back and forth. They talked about
the tractor that was on it's way, the
crops, the schools"
The wall paper" or local newspa-
per, which were factory and farm
bulletin boards all in one, particularly |
Lundeen. A large sheet of
paper, about four or five feet high
and eight feet long, was hung on
the wall near the cred corner" in the |
factory.
Everybody Contributes.
Everybody contributes to the wall |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Law Cheats Widow
On Technically

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. II. = Be-
cause Mrs. Dominicka Smolska of
Jersey City was ignorant of the law
and did not bring suit for compensa-
ton for the death Of her husband,
laborer, until more than a year after
his death, the supreme court here
refused to award her penny. Her
husband died as a result of injuries
received when a pipe fell on his feet
in the plant of M. w. Kellof and
Company, Jersey City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
PUT THOUSANDS
OUT OF JOBS AS
PITS SHUT DOWN
Ontario Committee Send
Relief Funds
On a Worker CorrespondenN


WEST FRANKFORT, ILL. Feb
II. - The C. w. and f. Coal Co.
mine No. l "Old Orient" has posted
notices to "skin up" thus throwing
200 men out of work. Saline Coal
Co. also shut down last week, throw
ing 800 more men on the market for
employment. Rumors are going
around that the shutting down of sew
eral other mines will occur within a
week.
No Reason Given.
No concrete reasons We're given by
the operators as to why the mines
were shu ting down during such a
favorable season for coal. However,
it is the opinion Of the rank and file
that the conference of the operators
and miners in Chicago on Feb. 7th
had something to do with the shutting
down of these mines. Something
rather peculiar seems to hit the coal
miners. Whatever their scheme may
be, it seems pretty raw.
Terrible Blow.
This state Of affairs strikes the
miners an awful blow. Not having
recovered from his Indebtedness from
he six months strike the miner faces
the problem of unemployment. Many
Of them with their life savings tied
up in a home feel the loss of their
homes certain. Conditions in this
region are going from bad to worse.
Having one of the most up-to-da5e
means of efficient operation and high
producing capacity, the operators are
not excluded from the general eco
nomic depression that prevails ma
tionally in the coal mining industry
Wage Cut Likely.
Rumors Of wage reduction are
spreading, business men are limiting
chat the miners should take reduc-
ton, the press harps away on "intel-
ligent collaboration between the OPP
orators and miners is the only solu-
ton" (Which means a reduction). Or
CARNATIONS are being utilized for
propaganda, political bosses are oiling
their machines; as whole the opera
WIS GA4C DIGpdLllIS CIlCiI
for Il very successful campaign.
The manner in which the official
dom of the U. NJ. w. of A. is meet
ing The deplorable situation is not in
harmony with existing conditions
neither are they genuine trade union
policies of militancy. The president
Of the miners union, John L. Lewis,
with his destructive machine, is grad
ually accomplishing his objective and
the operators objective. The rank
and file are daily becoming conscious
of the fact and the sooner the miners
really become organized, the quicker
will John L. Lewis and Co., find an
exit with the elephantine boot.
Action is Urgent.
The present conditions existing in |
the coal industry call for a national |
program of action. The organization
of all miners on a national scale to
put the bosses on the defensive is the
only solution. This will never be ac-
complished with the present bureau
cratic labor takers who control the !
miners union. The miners in this sit /
uation are dOubly handicapped fight
ing the bosses and their fake leaders. |
However, the organization of all mil
itants and progressive miners in an
open campaign against the Lewis gang
will be initiated. This campaign calls
for the energetic cooperation of all |
rank and filers to put their organi-
cation OH fighting basis against the
offensive of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

are found in practically every factory
in Russia.
"In Russia, the best in the world
is none too good for the workers. l
hope for the day when labor in Amer
lea will be housed like that, instead
of the grimy houses we have in the
west and the slums you have here"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Ontario
Raise Funds for Strikers.
(By a Worker Correspondent

SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont, (By
Mail) We have here an interna-
tional committee for raising money
for the strikers relief. We have al
ready held three socials for the Colo
RADIO coal miners and now we are plan
ming to hold dance for the Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio strikers relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Broadway Briefs

At the Broadway Theatre, begin
ming today the Happiness Girls
twelve in number, appear as the head
lining act. Rose Kessner is the star
Of this advertisement. Other acts are
Billy Bradford and Marion Hamilton;
Phil Sheppard; Harry Frankel and
Dunlevey; Willard and Marlin; Mickey
Lewis and Jimmy Winthrop; Al Alb
bott.
A new film "Brass Knuckles," will
have its first showing on the Broad
way screen. Monte Blue, Betty Bron-
son and William Russell are the prin-
cipal players. 1t is a melodrama from
the pen of Harvey Gates.
The Jefferson program for the week
follows: Mon. to Wed: Jack Nor
worth & Co.; Al & Fanny Stedman,
on the vaudeville bill, and 'Let 'Er
Go Gallagher" with Junior Coghlan
on the screen. Thurs. to Sum-: "The
Private Life of Helen of Troy" with
Lewis Stone and Maria Corda, and
eight acts including Teck Murdoch
& Co.
"The Battles of Coronel and Falks-
land Islands" is at the Cameo The
atre this week.
"Kidnapper," melodrama by Sam
uel Shipman and Max MARGIN, is to
be put into rehearsal shortly by Mr..
MARGIN as the producer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13

"The Battles of Coronel and Falks-
land Islands" is at the Cameo The
atre this week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Screen Notes.

Albert Rogell will direct "Tides of
the Empire" an adaptation of Peter
B. Kyne's novel of the Northwest,
which Waldemar Young is now pre-
pairing for the screen. Joan Crawford
and James Murray will be featured in
the new picture.
"He Learned About Women"
story by Dale Van Every, will be Will
liam Haines' next starring vehicle.
The Roxy Theatre this week is
showing Reginald Denny's newest
production, 'That's My Daddy"
BRASS Knuckles" is having it's first
screening at the Broadway Theatre
beginning today. Monte Blue is the
star. Betty Bronson, William Russell,
George Stone, Paul Panzer and George
Curtis are others in the cast. Harvey
Gates wrote the story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
New Jersey
Jewelry Trade Conditions.
(By Worker Correspondence

NEWARK, N. j., (By MaiD I'm
til about ten years ago, a gold jeweler
was highly skilled hand craftsman.
His services were eagerly sought, and
ne was well paid. In the days of his
The Washington times., 1928-12-10

solution TO Saturday Puzzle
The Washington times., 1928-12-10
THE BONNEVILLE TROLL

a HALF FARE aATE The Ro0F, The sNlPgEg klExE@
usEp - s4AkE FULL sPEEp vA4E1 Ne kriE~ TstAT
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
CONFERENCE TO PLAN CAMP A|CN
 ON TOMORROW
Special Committee to Meet Hoover, Curtis Work
 for Chairman

w A s II I NGTON, June 20.- Members of the special commit tee of the Republican National Committee who confer tomorrow with Nominees Hoover and Cur tis. began arriving last night and today. They were received by Hoover.s
 Secretary of Interior Work was frequently mentioned as the new chairman of the Republican Ma tional Committee.
 Ogden Mills, Under Secretary of Treasury and one of the lead CTS for Hoover in the New York State %rces, visited Hoover today and presented Mrs. Ruth Pratt and a group of New York people. They urged particular attention to the New York State campaign and expressed hope that Hoover would make couple of appear ances there during the campaign,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
BIG WATERWAY
 PROJECT NOW
 IS COMPLETED
Work on Wrangell Mar rows Is Finished-Be
 Open at All Times

The improvement work on Wrangell Narrows, on which the Alaska Road Commission has been working since the spring of 1926, has just been completed. as announced here today. The cost of this improvement was approxi- mately a half million dollars.
 Requiring the removal of ap- proximately s10,00 cubic yards of sand and gravel, and about 12,- 900 cubic yards of rock, the im- provement is the most stupendous ever undertaken in Alaskan wat CTS. The channel has been dredged to a minimum depth of 21 feet, mean low water, with a minimum width of 240 feet at Shoals 2, 3, 5, 6,a7 and II and 200 feet at Shoals 1, 4, &, 9, 10, 12 and 13, providing channel through the Narrows at all stages of the tide.
 The work was first begun in the spring of 1926 when Shoals ? and were removed by sea going dredge belonging to the engineering department, and was continued through 1927 and part of 1928. The work last year and this was all done by contract with the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company of Seattle.
 Steamships using the Inside Passage will benefit considerably by the improvement to Wrangell Narrows as they will save many hours on each trip by not having to wait for tides, or go outside, through Sumner Straits and Chatham Straits to Stephens Pas sage. It requires from to 6 hours extra on each trip, or from 8 to 12 on a round trip when Wrangell Narrows is clos ed, and often steamers waiting for the tide to go through the Narrows were required to wait much longer than that, accord ing to the officials of the Road Commission
 The engineering department is constructing for the Lighthouse Service, three large concrete bea- cons at various points in Wran- gell Narrows. One of these will be located at Lockwood Rock, one at Vexation Point and the other &t Prolewy Rock They are to be completed during the present summer.
 As was anticipated by officials of the Commission, the Peters burg Bar has considerably filled in since the original dredging in 1926 and the redredging of this shoal is now in progress. It will in all probability be completed by the end of this month. ac- cording to officials of the Road Commission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
GEORGE REMUS
 WINS FREEDOM
State Supreme Court AL lows Former Bootleg
 His Liberty

COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 20.-- George Remus, former Cincinnati Bootleg King, who killed his wife, has won his fight for free dom in the State Supreme Court.
 By a 1 to vote the Supreme Court affirmed the decision Of the Court of Appeals ordering George Remus released from the Lima State Hospital fer the Grim inal Insane to which he was com mitted after acquittal on the murder charge on the ground Of insanity.
 The Supreme Court held that any person acquitted of murder on the ground of insanity was not deprived of his right to seek release from a hospital through "a writ of habeas corpus.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
MISS EARH ART IS GIVEN BIC WELCOME TODAY
 e

LONDON, June 20. Miss Amelia Earhart faced the world today just as Col. Charles A. Lindbergh once did, in borrowed clothes. She said she did not want to be the subject of "hero worship" I have done nothing to merit it just because I am a woman and the first to span the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to England and have been forced into the spotlight. Credit for the flights success is due to Wilmer Stultz. He controlled the plane practically throughout"
 Hundreds of spectators, mostly women, held up traffic for blocks and blocked the sidewalks to her hotel and overflowed the streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
Tolstoy Centenary to
 Be Celebrated Sept. 10

MOSCOW, June 20-The Leo Tolstoy commission, recently or ganized under the chairmanship of A. V. Lunacharsky, has decided to celebrate the centenary of Tol- stoy's birth. September 10. By that time it is expected the com mission will have completed the erection of the Yassnaya Poliana school for children and a dormi- tory for teachers which are plan ned to serve as fitting monuments to RusAa's humble sage.
 The commission is publishing 8 new edition of Tolstoy's works in ninety volumes. It is soliciting government pensions for Sergius Lvovitch, Tolstoy's son, and the famous authors dependent nieces and nephews as well as for Chertkoff, Tolstoy's secretary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
Summer SOIstice Is Tonlorroiu;More than Is Hours Sunshine

Tomorrow, the time of the summer solstice, is the long est day in the year. Locally, if clear weather prevails which the weather forecast indicates to be unlikely, Ju- neau will experience 1S.3 hours of sunshine.
 The sun will appear at 2:53 a. m. on this day when it reaches the farthest north point On it's eclipse. It sets at 9:10 D. m. The Weather Bureau gives TOY a. m. as the hour of the solstice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
Dispositions in Sea
 Otter Cases WiU Be
 Taken, Western Alaska

DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska. June 20-The Coast Guard Cutter Uu- alga has arrived here with Miss D. Phillips. Assistant United States District Attorney of San Francisco and c. R. Ellis, United States Assistant District Attorney. at Seward, who are defending the government in sea otter claims against R. H. Borland, Liebes and Company, aEG Brown and Benson
 MT. North, attorney of San Francisco, and John Began. Depu
 ty United States Marshal at Val. deg, are in the party. They will take dispositions for and against sea otter claims established many years ago. i.iy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20
COOLIDGE IS
 OUT FISHING.

SUPERIOR, Wis, June 20-- Taking advantage of an apparent break in the run of bad weather which has chilled Cedar Island Lodge since he took possession last Friday, President Coolidge was up early today for fishing expedition. The weather was still chilly but the temperature was not low as heretofore.
 Mrs. Coolidge finds the weather cold enough to warrant a good log fire. She is much improved from her indisposition which seiz- cd her a week ago and is leading almost normal life.
 No work faced the President today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-06-20

ie12 and-then moved with nls family 10 Juneau opening drug store here and has operated Il since that time.
 He has held several city and Territorial offices and was q member Of the Alaska Legislature twice, representing the Firs. Diyi- sion In the Senase in 1919 and 1921, serving before that tims in the House. He was al9o I mem Der of the City Council for two terms
 Bears Royal Arms
 The decoratiea of the Order is a beautiful specimen of gold and enamel, in the form of an eight pointed star surmounted by crowns. The center is the royal shield from which the points of the star project. Between tha star points Is the letter 70" over which is placed miniature crown. At the top of the medal Is a larger crown. On the reverse side of the central shield are the words "Ret og Sandhed," which translated is Right and Truth.