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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
UNEMPLOYMENT IN SKILLED TRADES IN
A. F. L. UNIONS GROWING THRUOUT u. S.
Continued from Paqe onel

Continued from Page One)
119 E. 18th st. Invitations to this
conference have been extended to
trade unions, fraternal organizations,
committees representing unemployed
workers and other working class or
CARNATIONS.
The Workers international Relief,
l Union Square, is assisting the coun-
Gil in relief work.
Unemployed for more than a year,
Irving Weinstein, wounded war vet
eran, today finds his family in such
Strengthened circumstances that evic-
ton and starvation are only matter
Of a few days. Weinstein, his wife
and new born baby inhabit dingy
two room tenement flat at 70 Riving-
ton st.
AS a result of war wounds, Vein
berg constantly suffers from hemor-
rhages and dizzy spells. The U. S.
Veterans Bureau demanded that he
enter q government hospital when he
sought relief but Weinstein cannot do
this on account of his wife and child.
Weinstein and his wife have some
times lived for day on peanuts.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Figures
revealed here after careful survey
show that unemployment nationally
is. much worse than most recent es-
Inmates had indicated.
In Baltimore 1926 per cent Of the
members of all unions affiliated with
the American Federation Of Labor
are reported out Of jobs. Unemploy-
ment in the American Federation OF
Labor membership in New York is
given as 212 per cent. In Cleveland
il is given as 1913 per cent, in Detroit
1913 and in Philadelphia 30.6 per cent
Unskilled Hit Harder.
Unemployment is far worse among
the seni-skilled and unskilled work.
ers, most of whom the A. F. Of l.
has made no attempt to organize.
Unemployment is now much greater
than the average for the three months
beginning with October, the survey
shows.
The recent cold spell added greatly
again to the suffering, many work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
CALL ANTHRACITE
PROGRESSIVES TO
INCREASE FIGHT
Must Involve Entire
Membership
BY GEORGE PAPCUN

The fight at this time in the an
thracite miners union has taken on
an new emphasis under the leadership
of the Save the Union conference
which was held here on Feb. 10. At
the same time the miners and es-
pecially the opposition leaders in the
anthracite, particularly in District L,
will have to correct a few errors
which are being made by them or the
pressure of the membership will
either correct these errors or push
some of the opposition leaders to one
side.
Steer Clear Course.
1t is only the Save the Union COM
mittee that has been elected by the
conference that is able to see the
vacillating positions and the narrow
perspectives of these oppositional
leaders. We can take the case of
Local Union 1903 in District /, when
the fight actually started over the
contractor system. The leaders led
by Campbell in that particular local
union kept the fight more or less to
the local when it should have been
spread through all the collieries of
the Pennsylvania Coal Co., and to
all local unions who have Jurisdiction
over the Pennsylvania Coal Co. and
even on district and tri-district
scale.
Then came the murder of Tom Lii
lis which surely should have started
district fight, but nothing was
done outside of protest meeting in
Pittston, and nothing on district
scale was started. Then came the
question of Bonita who defended him
self and also another one of the lead.
ers, Big Sam Grecio, who was way
laid and nearly murdered, and yet the
oppositional leaders are combining
their fight to their one local union.
Must Change This.
This mistake must be overcome if
the murderous regime Of Lewis, Cap
pellini, and Kennedy is to be over
tAIOWn III Tie LIAG
union to be cleaned out of these COR
ruptionists who are now in control of
the union. The excuse of Brennan
and Campbell that they do not want
to make this issue red issue or do
not want this to be branded by the
state, Cappelini, and the coal opera
tors as red, is no excuse at all. This
dea that they should not involve the
rest of the union in the struggle is
a big mistake and the idea that the
state police, county authorities and
the city police are friendly with the
opposition is also another error which
must be overcome. The only reason
that the police at this time are some
what friendly is because the mass
sentiment is in favor Of the OPPOSE
ton and they have not had chance
to actually go on the offense against
the opposition.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Income Taxes Expected
To Fall S2OO,OOO,OOO

WASHINGTON, Feb. PA last
minute check by treasury statisticians
today indicated that the government
will collect about $475 100000 in in
come taxes March Is, where $780,
100000 had been anticipated last Oc-
tober.
If the March estimate is substan-
tally correct and if corporation taxes
fall off 10 per cent as expected by
Secretary Mellon, the total revenue
from this source for the year will be
somewhat over S2,0000O0000, dror
of more than $1OO,000,OOO from 1896
1927.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28

in the theatres of trade unions and
workers clubs, have become very
popular in the Soviet Union.
} A colorful Russian Gypsy Troupe
will sing folk songs Of old and new
Russia, and "show up" the interest
ing contrast. The outstanding musi-
clans of the Freiheit Gessangs Frerein
and the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra
will be accompanied by a real Rus
sian balalaika orchestra.
The proceeds of the first Blue
Blouse presentation will go to The
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28

them up in black and white. The
Follies' girls will give their version
of proletarianized jazz, American,
Negro and Russian workers jazz.
Satirical skits, proletarian min
strel show and the "Red Revue" will
be presented by Workers Theatre
group under the direction of Pauline
Rodgers, who recently brought the
idea of the Blue Blouse troupe from
the Soviet Union.
The Blue Blouses, or troupes of
young workers who travel about, pre-
senting spontaneous political sketches
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
BLUE BLOUSES' WILL PERFORM HERE
u S. Variety VIII Sat1ze Eve,ytaing Will Play for Daily

Communist leaders and the rank
and file, socialists, wobblies, labor
officials, capitalists and politicians
will all be exposed without mercy by
the caustic satire of the newly formed
American Bolshevik Blue Blouse
ape which will perform at the
New Star Casino, Friday evening"
March 16.
The DAILY WORKER Follies will
be on also. Hugo Gellert, radical
artist, will force confessions from
Robert Minor, editor of the daily"
and Fred Ellis, cartoonist, and show
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Injunction Judge Now
Revealed as Owner of
$4,000 in Mine Stock

INDIANA, Pa, Feb. 81. = The
senate subcommittee investigating
he coal strike yesterday question
ed Judge j. N. Langham of In
diana County, and found out that
the judge had 100000 worth of
took in Indiana County mines.
Lanham recently issued two in
functions restraining the striking
miners from gathering near a
church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
WILL INVESTIGATE READING.

BOSTON, Feb. 27.-An order call
ing for a legislative investigation of
Attorney General Arthur K. Read
ing who was in Office during the
prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti,
was adopted this afternoon by the
rules committee of the house of rep
resentatives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
GERMAN ENVOY DEAD.

BERLIN, Feb. 27.-Prince Charles
MacLichnowsky, who was German
ambassador to England at the out
break of the world war in 1914, died
today at his Silesian estate at
Kuchelna, near Leobschuetz. He was
SO years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Miners Challenge Senators;
Committee GiUes Demands

the constitution of the United States
and are not binding.
&c. That your committee recon-
mend as a solution of the alleged
over-manning of the coal industry
the establishment of the five-day
week and the six-hour day, instead OF
the elimination Of two or three hun
bred thousand miners from the in
dustry as proposed by Secretary Of
Labor Davis and John L. Lewis, In
ternational president of the United
Mine Workers of America. The pro-
posal to eXpel hundreds of thousand
of workers from the industry and
send them wandering in search OF
employment thruout the country, is
a monstrous and inhuman proposal
and should not be countenanced by
your committee.
~ That your committee recon-
mend that the coal mines of the coun-
try be nationalized and operated for
the benefit OF the masses of coal min
ers and the public, under democratic
management with union representa-
ton.
"The Save the Union Committee
is decidedly of the opinion that the
interests of the coal miners and the
working class in general cannot be
served either by the republican or
democratic parties since both parties
are defenders of the capitalist sys-
TEN, and receive their campaign con-
tributions from capitalist sources
giaring proof of this charge can be
found in the records of the honorable
Mr.. William Ware Of Pennsylvania
and the equally honorable Frank l..
Smith of Illinois.
Call For Labor Party.
THE Save the Union Committee
is OF the opinion that only thru a
Labor Party will the coal miners and
the American workers as a whole be
able to fight for their rights thru
political channels and ultimately be-
come free men and women in a re-
public where the producer and not the
parasite is the honored citizen.
"Your truly,
SAVE THE UNION COMMITTEE
OF THE UNITED MINE WORK
ERS OF AMERICA"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Miners Relief Snreads
Special to The Daily WORKER

(Spectdt TO The Daily Worker)
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 27-Interes'
in miners relief is increasing rapidly
throughout the middle west. accord
ing to Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, ma.
tional relief organizer for the stril1.
ing coal miners.
Many large conferences have bec7
arranged On Tuesday, Gary arr
Hammond, Indiana, and Rockford
ILL.,, will be represented at confer
ence at Lake County, Indiana. A
house to house collection will be mad
in Gary next Sunday, she said.
Mother Bloor will visit Milwaukee
Thursday and return to Detroit Sat.
urday to attend large mass meetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Fire Destroys Jobs.
While Millions Suffer.

PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb. q. -
Thousands of Americas unemployed
attended the annual Washington
birthday ball at the Royal Poinciana
Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. But they
were not from the ranks of the coun-
try's 100000 unemployed workers.
On the contrary these luxuriously
dressed men and women who disport-
ed themselves in the great ballroom,
transformed to represent ancient
Babylon, belonged to the small class
of wealthy idlers who enjoy their
unemployment at the expense of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28
Reactionary Lauds Lewis.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb. 27-That
the Lewis machine in the United
Mine Workers Union is one of the
strongest bulwarks against militant
trade unionism in the United States
and deserves the support of the coal
corporations, was the substance of
tho statement made here today by
Senator Frank R. Gooding of Idaho,
chairman of the senate sub-comnlit-
tee investigating the coal strike
Gooding was governor Of Idaho dur
ing the conspiracv against Meyer
Haywood and Pettibone of the West
ern Federation of Miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-28

ers being without homes or other
shelter and many families being with
out fuel or sufficient clothing.
The present figures are published
by the American Federationist, Off
cial organ of the A. F. of L. Unem-
ployment percentages for the A. F.
of L. membership by cities are given
as follows:
Atlanta. 81 per cent; Baltimore,
A2.5; Birmingham, 1876; Boston, 1876;
Buffalo, 267; Chicago, 7.8; Cincin-
natl, 1876; Cleveland, 1913; Denver,
21.3; Detroit, 1913; Jersey City, 21.6;
Los Angeles, 22.7; Milwaukee, 9.8;
Minneapolise 11.6; New York, 24.2;
Omaha, $50; Philadelphia, BOG;
Pittsburgh, 17.6; San Antonio, 90;
San Francisco, 14.3; st. Louis, 1875;
Seattle, 11.3; Washington, D. c.,
1870.
Total unemployment in the United
States is in excess of 100000, a
larger number than the total men,
bership Of the federation.
Fire Destroys Jobs.
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 27.--.Over
a hundred workers were thrown out
of work after fire which destroyed
the plants and warehouse of the
Bowker Chemical Co. here last night.
AS a last resort many structures in
the path Of the blaze were dynamited.
Three city blocks occupied by the
company were burned down.
Evening star., 1928-10-28

sion: Pvts. Alvin E. johnson and Henry
S. Snyder.
Sergt Morris Allen Miller, Battery
C., 260th Coast Artillery, has been hon.
orably discharged to enable him to ac-
cept promotion by commission.
There will be an examination of
candidates for promotion to the rank
of second lieutenant of Coast Artillery.
it was announced at brigade head
quarters, on November Is next, and
it will be open to any enlisted men
of the local guard who have completed
the required service on the date set for
examination.
The examination will be conducted
by the following board: Mai. Frank
c. Scof1eld, Coast Artillery Corps, U. s.
A., Artillery instructor, who has been
directed TO prepare the examination
questions; Mai. Walter w. Burns. COM
manding the Militia Artillery, and
Capt. Stewart M. Grayson. Medical De-
partment Detachment, 260th Coast
Artillery.
Pvt. Richard NJ Whiteside has been
transferred from the reserve to the ac-
tive list Of the Quartermaster Corps De-
tachment while Pvt. (First Glass; Fred
erick G. Kendrick, has been ordered
transferred from the active to the re-
serve list of the same organization on
account OF business interference.
Evening star., 1928-10-28
District National Guard

/ the District of Columbia committees OF
both the House. and the Senate.
Usually by the time such legislation
passes through all these organizations,
with the consequent delays incident to
its consideration by each, the session
| OF Congress, and sometimes the Con-
| greSS, has adjourned without it even
| getting to the floor OF either house.
| 1t Is pointed out by Guard officers
that thus far 1t has been impossible
to coordinate the thought and action
Of these various agencies so that all
would agree on a similar recommenda-
ton at the same time. This has been
largely due to the changing personnel
of the various committees and COM
missions, but at the same time has
mitigated against the local militia With
! the coming Of new faces on these vari-
Gus committees and commissions, the
whole history has to be gone over again,
and education started anew, with the
result that after 20 years the local
Guard is without an armory worthy of
the name of such.
| With little hope of getting a slice
of the money being used for provision
of Government buildings here for the
Federal departments and agencies, the
officials have decided to concentrate
their efforts on getting provided for
their use a building already erected,
and which likely will be vacated as the
Government building program progress
es to the point that the agencies can
be moved into them. This building is
the Pension Office Building in Judiciary
Square. 1t is now occupied by the
General Accounting Office, a new build
ing for which is being erected in the
| Avenue triangle
This structure has been closely ex-
amined by the Guard officials and IS
said to be ideally suited for an armory
particularly because of the fact that the
entire first floor can be used as drill
hall, and 1t is large enough for the
maneuvering of regiment of troops
1t is said also to have the support of
the Grand Army of the Republic, which
is of the opinion, it was poin&ed out,
that its use for the training of citizen
soldiers for the defense of their country
in a period of national emergency would
be in keeping with its former use in
handling the great pension business of
the soldiers who formed part of that
great army when the severance of the
Nation was in danger.
The National Commission of Fine
Arts Is on record as in favor of the
measure to give this building to the
Evening star., 1928-10-28

Detachment, 29th Division, topped the
list of organizations of the local mi
litia in the matter of attendance dur
ing the past week, according to figures
compiled and announced at brigade
headquarters. It is the only organiZa-
ton in the excellent classification with
rating of 1926 per cent. Not one or
ganiZation reached the superior claSsi-
fication during the week, as this re-
quired percentage of 90 per cent or
better
Incidentally. the report for the week
just closed indicates a general falling
of in the attendance of the various
organizations, 10 of the units being re-
ported unsatisfactory or worse, while
only 9 organizations are given as salts
factory or better.
The other organizations in the rela-
tive order, in. their relative classifica-
tions, with attendance percentages, fol-
low:
Very satlsfactory-Headq and
Service Company, 121st Engineers,
1856; Quartermaster Corps Detach-
ment, 75 Headquarters Detachment
260th Coast Artillery, rs: Band, 121st
Engineers, 74.28; Medical Department
Detachment, 260th Coact Artillery, 20.
Satisfactory-CompAny F, 121st En-
gineers. 6515; Battery c, 26Oth Coast
Artillery, 6079; Company A, 372d In
fantry, 6O.57.
Unsatisfactory-Battery A, 260th
Coast Artillery, 5882: Company B,
121st Engineers, $3.50; Company C.,
121St Engineers, 5441; 29th Military
Police Company, 5345; Company D,
121St Engineers, 5139; Company A,
121st Engineers, 50.74.
Very unsatisfactory-Battery B. 260th
Coast Artillery, 1905; Company E,
121st Engineers, 1915; Headquarters
Detachment, Special Troops, 4444:
Medical Department Detachment, 121st
Engineers, 25.
The following reductions in Company
G, 121st Engineers, have been ordered:
Corps. Gilbert L. Boegan and Wendell
P. Rettstatt to be privates.
Private Steve M. Brown, Company
E, l21st Engineers, has been promoted
to the rank of corporal in the same or
ganiZation.
The following have been ordered
honorably discharged from the militia
on account of their removal from the
District: Pvt. Melvin T. Parent, Medi-
cal Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery; Pvt. Joseph B. SimmS,
Medical Department Detachment, 260th
Coast Artillery, and Sergt Frank H.
Whitehouse, 10Th Military Police Com
pany.
The following have been transferred
from the active to the reserve list of the
Headquarters Detachment, 29th Divi-
Evening star., 1928-10-28

The National Guard Association of
the United States, which soon Is to
convene In annual convention to con-
slider problems affecting the welfare Of
the militia of the country, Is to receive
strong appeal to put its full strength,
militia and political. behind the Ma
tiOnal Guard of the District of Column
bia in its effort to provide an arnory
adequate and suitable to its needs.
While this Nationwide organization
has repeatedly passed resolutions urging
that a model building be erected in the
District Of Columbia for the use of the
militia here and for the purpose Of set
ting an example to the States and n
mark for them to shoot at in making
provisions for their respective Guard
organizations, 1t Is hoped that this year
1t will do more and really give some
material aid toward bringing to
finality move which has been partici-
pated in by the local Guard for
period Of 20 years and has yet been
unsuccessful.
So far as getting ahead in the mat
ter of armory facilities the efforts of
the Guard have been absolutely nil On
the other hand, the conditions are get
ting worse; yet the War Department
expects the local officials to maintain
very nlgn STATE OF eLnclency because
it Is a semi Federal Guard. For years
1t has occupied various rented build
ings, only moving when it was forced
to, until now 1t is in several of the old
buildings formerly used as Government
hotels on the Union Station Plaza.
Various bills have been introduced in
Congress making provision, in one form
or another, for suitable facilities for
the District of Columbia troops, but
they have always failed of passage,
although the local officials have given
a strong view of the sad state of
affairs under which the local troops
are expected to take their training.
Some reason for this may be found in
the fact that before any bill is acted
upon it must run the gamut of eight
different divisions of the Federal and
District of Columbia governments and
the result Is that all of them are diff
cult to get in the same frame of mind
at one time.
Bills for the provision of an armory
have to be approved by the following:
Public Buildings Commission, National
Commission of Fine Arts, Commissioners
of the District of Columbia, the Bureau
of the Budget, the public buildings
committee of the Senate, the public
buildings committee of the House and
Evening star., 1928-10-28

National Guard, as are the District of
Columbia Commissioners. Even the
Bureau of the Budget, which would very
likely diSapprove any move to have
funds provided for the erection of a
separate building for the District troops,
because not in keeping with the Presi-
dents economy program, has said that
the allowance of the Pension Building
for this purpose would be in accord with
the Presidents financial program.
Troop training also Is expensive un-
der the present methods, for while the
Government pays a days pay for each
drill, the officers and men cannot OBJ
tain the full benefit of the training
during the armory drill year because
there are no facilities. About the only
thing they can have is theoretical con-
struction in the clasSrooms, as there Is
no space for practical training, from
which the best results are obtained with
the average type of man found in the
militia ranks.
The lack of armory facilities is ham
pering the national defense prepara-
tions of the country, for there are a
number of organizations, which have
been allotted to the District of CO.
lumbja for organization. which cannot
be brought into being because of lack
of armory facilities and for absence of
suitable place in which to store the
thousands of dollars of Federal property
and equipment which would be loaned
to these organizations by the War De-
partment.
Among these organizations, it was
announced, are the Medical Depart
ment Detachment, 29th Division Special
Troops, consisting of 2 officers and
Is men; 104th Motor Cycle Company,
2 officers and SO men; 104th Ordnance
Maintenance Company, 2 officers and
48 men: 1l2th Ambulance Company, 2
officers and As men; 112th Hospital
Company, officers and 10 men; 29th
Division OuarteImaster Train, 16 Off
GERS and 231 men, and 1920 Engineer
Battalion, auxiliary troops, IL officers
and 270 men.
A whole regiment of Coast Artillery
has been allotted to the local militia,
but only battalion has been organized.
AS a matter of fact, Artillery troops
allotted to the District of Columbia and
even organized in accordance with law
were denied Federal recognition as Ma
tional Guard by the War Department
because suitable armory facilities were
not available Thus, the officials say,
the District of Columbia has not been
permitted to contribute its proportionate
share of national defense, while at the
same time the Federal Government has
encouraged the individual States to
organize National Guard and maintain
it at high state of efficiency.
For the first time. the Headquarters
Evening star., 1928-10-28
GERMANY'S NATIONAL
HEALTH HELD BETTER
Undernourishment Unknown, Pro-
fessor Declares, in Citing
Recovery From War.

LEIPZIG P.-The growing genera
ton in Germany is physically we'll
equipped for the struggle for life and
affords remarkable contrast to the
terrible years of food scarcity during
the war and the years of imitation.
There Is no undernourishment now In
the whole Reich, said Prof. Walter Won
Brunn of Rostock University in the
course of notable address on the Inn
provement of national physique in Ger
many, delivered at the Public Health
Congress held here recently.
Prof. Brunn declared that in the last
five years the average height of German
children had increased by a whole inch,
with corresponding increase in weight.
Anemia, scrofula, tuberculosis and ra-
chitis had been reduced by SO per cent.