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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Poverty and Prosperity Charity
and the Poor
BY BILL DUNE.

nURING the period Of prosperity
= now ending, the weight of the ma
terial put out by the capitalist propa-
ganda machine has been so heavy
that it has almost smothered criti-
cism of the daily effects of the CAPT.
talist system manifested in the liv-
ing conditions Of the masses. -
Now that unemployment is increas-
ing and the Labor Bureau, Inc, esti-
mates the unemployed army at A.
100000, when slackening of produc-
ton is noticeable in practically all
basic industries, there are appearing
once more the surveys Of living con-
ditions, income minimum budgets
worked out by various social well
fare" organizations.
Such survey has been made re-
Gently in Philadelphia-a typical AZ
lantic seaboard city containing prac-
tically all kinds of industry from tex
tiles to locomotive building. The sur
vey is based upon 552 families apply
ing for aid to charitable organiza-
ton.
lightweight per cent Of the heads
of the families cited were earning
less than the $38.15 per week which
the Philadelphia Bureau Of Municipal
Research fixed as the "cost of living
income consistent with decent liv-
ing minimum" for family of five.
The lowest possible budget for a
family of five in Philadelphia has
been fixed at $22.57. It is allocated
as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Oil King Gobbles Up
Small Upstate Town

TARRYTOWN, N. Y, Feb. IA. -
Further Entertainments on the town
of Pocantico Hills have been made by
the family of John D. Rockefeller,
when the oil kings family bought out
the property of two more inhabitants
of the town yesterday. Before the
Rockefellers arrived 25 years ago.
Pocantico Hills was a furnishing
town of over 1000 inhabitants, but
acquisitions by the Rockefellers have
now reduced it to hamlet with 100
residents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15

besides these tens of thousands
= who haunt the breadlines, there ase
other thousands who still manage 70
shelter themselves and families il
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
TROTzKYS ROYAL
TRAVEL STARTLEs
what Great Lord Is
,Here?" They Ask

MOSCOW, T.. S. S. R., Feb. 12-
The following details concerning Trot-
zky's arrival have been reported from
Frunze, formerly Pishpek, a town on
the Siberian railroad.
Trotzky and his family came to
Frunze from Moscow in a special
sleeping car. The public was struck
by the great quantity of Trotzky's
baggage which amounted to over sew
enty pieces, and by the lordly comfort
in which Trotzky is travelling from
Moscow to his place of deportation.
Much attention was attracted by
the fact that Trotzky brought a hunt
ing dog with him as well as numerous
hunting accessories.
"What grand lord has arrived
here?" was the general query at the
station,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Oil. WAR BREAKS
GUT IN FRANCE:

PARIS, Feb 12.--Drastic restric-
ton of the American and British par
ticipatiou in the French oil market
has been attnepted' in amendments
which have been made to the govern
ment's petroleum measure, limiting
for all /, future time the volume of
business which may be transacted by
American and British firms to the
average amount done by both during
the past five years.
The American interests who did not
begin to penetrate the French field
before 1922 and have done a narrow
margin Of business since are engaged
at the bill which they declare is dis
criminatory. They have notified the
State Department of their attitude
and it is expected that action will be
taken by the United States govern
ment in the interest of the oil con-
Germs when the French measure
comes up for the approval Of the
French Chamber, probably next week.
fvm21hr ),
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
SCORE AMERICAN
DRUG POLICY

GENEVA, Feb. PA wave of crit
icism against the United States be-
trayal of the struggle against drugs
is being voiced here in connection with
the appointment of Consul General
Pinckney Tuck as Americas "unoffi-
cial observer" without any real Off
cial powers at the forthcoming Opium
Committee of the League of Nations
conference.
The United States, who is realizing
at least. $1,000,000 annually, was
formerly the leader in the war against
the drug traffic but in 1924 suddenly
withdrew her cooperation and has
refused to take part in the work of
the League since that time. Italy, who
took the lead after the flight of the
United States, has been interested
solely in safeguarding her own inter-
ests.
The delegates declare that no real
action against the drug traffic can be
effective without the support of the
United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
FEAR RECALL AS
RUMANIAN CHIEFS
TALK WITH CAROL
F orecas st Opposition
Victory at Polls

PARIS. Feb. 1.-THE conversations
which various members of the Ma
tional Peasants Party of Rumania
have been carrying on with the for
mer Prince Carol in Paris are regard
ed as indicative Of the determination
on the part of the leaders to recall
the ex-prince should the Party be sue
cessful in the coming elections.
Whether the National Peasant lead
ers will dare to attempt the reinstate-
ment Of Carol as King of Rumania
is questioned but the belief is gaining
ground that in event of a National
Peasant victory he will be returned as
part of the Rumanian regency.
In spite Of the efforts that the
Liberal regime is making to pre-
vent the success Of the National
Peasants Party at the elections which
are due probably in April, the leaders
of the latter Party assert confidently
that the Bratianu government has not
much longer to live.
Persecution Continues.
The prosecutions by which the
Liberals" attempted to prevent the
delegates to the National Peasants
Party from arriving at the recent
Congress in Jassy, after the failure
of their threats to break up the con-
ference, are being kept in force and
petty terrorism is rampant in Ru-
mania.
1t is generally believed, however,
that the elections in the spring will
mean victory at the polls for the
National Peasants Party or large
gain of seats for them in parliament.
The National Peasants Party is
party of the rich peasants, and shop
keeper and professional elements
from the large towns. 1t also con-
tains large sections of the Transyl-
vanian middle class who are FESTIVE
under Rumanian control.
BUCHAREST, Feb. II. = Juliu
MANU-, leader Of National Peasants
Party, called DR.. Nicolas Lupu, min
lister of public instruction in the Bra
tianu government, an election thief
and parliamentary armed guards
were forced to separate the gladia-
tors. Later the fracas was used as a
preteXt to suspend number of the
National Peasant delegates for from
five to thirty sessions. The an
nouncement created fresh uproar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
French "C0mmerciaT'
Flyers Reach N. Y.

Capt. Dieudonne Costes and 1t
Joseph Lebrix, French army trans
Atlantic aviators, arrived at Mitchell
Field, Long Island, Saturday, where
they were greeted by French diplo-
matic agents and members of the
French Chamber of Commerce and
other French societies.
The arrival of Costes and Lebrix
in New York completed "good
will" flight thru Latin America and
the eastern part of the United States,
which followed their flight across the
South Atlantic from Paris to South
America. The flights were made
under the auspices of French aviation
and export interests, which were
alarmed at the possibilities that their
Latin merican trade would fall into
the hands of American business in
terests as result of the Lindbergh
flights.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
THE POINCARE PROGRAM
Thousands of French Workers Are Idle

istered. There are about $4,000 job
less, and they increase constantly.
On the End of last December, a
Somme textile mill employing 1850
workers was working only 43 hours.
A dye works employing 240 workers
was not averaging more than 40
hours. A linen mill employing 1000
workers was averaging only 3412
hours.
In the construction of agricultural
machinery, the average is only AZ
hours; in boundaries, from 40 to AZ
hours, as also in the building trades.
In the department of the Somme
alone there are 5000 partially en-
ployed.
Miners Unemployed.
Forty thousand French miners are
not working more than from four to
five days a week. The number of
unemployed has reached several hun
dreds of thousands.
At the same time more and more
violent offensive is planned every Gay
against the workers wages. At
Chalone-sur- Saone the mean wage
was about $50 francs in 1914. Today
it is n but the index of prices being
$50, it ought to be 80 francs.
In the textile industry, temporary
rise in wages has been achieved thru
a lowering in production.
The most savage exploitation oc-
ours in the chemical industry where
wages stand at from 18 to % francs
in the departments and from % to 20
francs in Paris. And this in an I'M
healthy industry where death is a
frequent occurrence.
Living Costs Higher.
These figures take on their full
value when one considers the cost Of
living and when one remembers that
the wholesale prices of foodstuffs
went from $40 francs in October to
532 in November and $50 at the end
of December; that mean has jumped
from 466 in October to 524 in De-
cenlber; that the price of sugar, cof-
fee, cocoa has risen from SCI to GIG
in the same period
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
FRENCH PRISONS
GET 152 IN DEC.
81 Workers Jailed in
Criminal Section

PARIS, Feb. 12.-Something of the
terror which the Poincare regime, ac-
lively supported by the French social
lists, carries on against all militant
French workers. is revealed in the sta
tistics of the prisoners in French jails
for political offenses in the month of
December, 1927.
In the civil jails in December there
were eighteen prisoners held in the
political department and fifty-one in
the criminal department. In the mill
tary prisons there were sixteen active
soldiers, fourteen sailors, and thirteen
reservists, making a total OF one hun
bred and twelve political prisoners
acknowledged by the authorities.
How many more are not listed it is
impossible to estimate.
The French colonies show the fol-
lowing balance of political Offend
ers" in December; twelve in jail; five
under police supervision; fifteen in
termed; one deported and seven ban
ished, bringing up the total of French
political prosecutions to one hundred
and fifty-two in the month of De-
cenber.
Among the 81 prisoners allotted to
the criminal" department are the
Sacco and Vanzetti demonstrators,
workers who tried to prevent scabs
from working, workers who protested
against the war on Morocco, and a
number of distributors of anti-mili-
tary papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
U. S. S. R. TO SEND
LEAGUE OBSERVER

MOSCOW, u. S. S. r., Feb. r.
The Soviet government viii be repre-
sented by an observer at the meeting
OF the League of Nations Committee
on Security and Arbitration, the sec
rotary general of the League has been
informed.
Boris Stein, who has been studying
the League of Nations for the Com
nlissariat of Foreign Affairs of the
Soviet Union, will be the observer
appointed. Stein was member of
the delegation which showed up the
tangle of imperialist interests snd
war plans at the last League confer
ence by proposing complete and
immediate disarmament.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Scores Wall st. Rule.

CLEVELAND, Feb. II. - mica
ragua has been reduced from q SOW
ereign state to protectorate of Wall
Street." Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana, declared here in an address yes
terday.
"The Coolidge administration has
sacrificed at least 700 lives" Wheeler
continued, "has deviated from the
policy of economy, squandered thou
sands out of the public treasury and
permitted certain Wall Street bank
ers to fasten their financial tentacles
upon the unfortunate Nicaraguan ma
ton and suck it dry"
State Dept. Propaganda.
eff the American people were not
hopeless, apathetic and duped by the
systematic propaganda of the state
department, they would protest SO
loudly that this administration would
stop this unjustifiable war and the
killing of innocent men, women and
children. When the history of this
time is written truthfully this admin
istration will be called to account for
it's unwarranted conduct, which has
been actuated solely for the benefit
Of very few Wall Street banking
firms, no matter how much they may
seek to hide behind paper canal"
He declared that Coolidge's refer
ence to the Golden Rule in connection
with our Latin American dealings
means the golden rule of Wall Street.
Even while Coolidge was delivering
his Havana address, Wheeler said,
"the newsboys were selling extras
telling about American bombing
planes scattering death and terror
over defenseless Nicaraguan villages"
American banking firms had looted
Nicaragua's public funds" Wheeler
stated, mentioning the banking houses
of ]. g. w. Seligman and Company
and Brown Brothers as instigators of
American intervention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Labor Union 1ab Mexico Deu0uuces Havana Conference Lands
CONNIE MORATE
STRIKE LEADERS,
YUCATAN LEADER
A. F. of L. Reiterates
Pet Phrases

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12.-The La
Dor Union of Tampica has held a
meeting in commemoration of the
death of V. I. Lenin and to protest
against the imperialist policies of the
United States at the Havana Confer
ence.
owe have reunited to commence
rate the anniversary of the deaths of
Lenin, Garlic Puerto and the mar
tyrs of the Rio Blance," says the
resolution passed during the meeting.
The resolution then goes on to pro-
test in the name of the workers and
peasants of Mexico against the policy
of imperialism which the United
States and its agents are attempting
to force upon the Latin-American
workers at Havana Conference.
Press Hostile.
Indignation has been called forth
by this statement of the determina-
ton of the Mexican workers to resist
the American encroachments.
Commenting editorially on the res
olution of the Tampico Labor Union,
Excelsior, one of the two leading
Mexican newspapers, refers to the
danger in which such a resolution
may place the Mexican business men.
"In the present moment we need for
eign economic aid," the Excelsior
says, and goes on to call the resolu-
ton challenge. The paper then at
tacks Lenin and Communism.
Car1illo Puerto, referred to in the
resolution, is the former governor of
Yucatan, assassinated by the reaction
aries in 1922. The martyrs of the
Rio Blanco are textile workers shot
during strike at Rio Blanco in the
state of Vera Cruz.
The same paper comments more
favorably upon the message of the
American Federation of Labor which
refers feebly to the imperialist pro-
ceedings at Havana.
After noting that the American
Federation is not an enemy of the
United States government but has
actively seconded it in many impor-
tant occasions, Excelsior praises the
lukewarm protest Of the A. F. of l..
which reiterates the old phrases con-
corning the rights of small independ-
ent nations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
CHARGE BANKERS
LOOT NICARAGUA
AS PLANES BOMB
General SANDING Eludes
United States Marines

MANAGUA, Feb. 1.-THE success
with which General SANDING and his
army of independence are eluding the
attempts of the United States marines
to trap him in the central section of
the country where he appeared re-
Gently are shown in the failure of a
squadron of marine bombing planes
to discover the Liberals after a search
which conbed the whole interior and
northern country.
The revived activity of the marines
and their planes is the result of the
alarm of the coffee plantation own.
ers who feared that the presence Of
General SANDING in the neighborhood
of Matagalpa would lead to whole
sale instruction Of the wretched plan
tation poems, long kept in subsection
by attachments of U. s. marines
'lent" by the American authorities.
These attachments had to be recalled
at the time of the big offensive
against the army of independence in
Nueva Segivia.
1t is the general belief here that
Sandino and his forces intend to make
q further stand in the more easterly
districts of the country where there
is strong Liberal sentiment and
where the American marines would
find it almost impossible to penetrate
preparations which will con-
slacken their offensive and
give the army of independence an OPP
portunity to rest and re-establish their
bases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
BY Gabriel Peri.
Continued from Thursday

(COlkluueu from IHuTSQdy)
Confronted with this new anti
Labor Holy Alliance, how does the
Poincare financial experiences affect
the workers?
By increasing taxes, by an eco
nomic crisis, by growing unemploy-
Iment, heightened offensive against
wages and the threat of an agricul-
tural crisis.
From 1924 to 1928, the budget grew
from 80 to 81 billion francs. In 1927,
Poincare demanded three billions
more than had been forecast, and 70
per cent of this impost was paid by
the workers. Twenty per cent of
these taxes went for military ex-
penses. On the Other hand, the
domestic debt which amounted to Isl
billion francs on the 31st of July,
had reached 298 billions by Sept. so,
1927. AS for the foreign debt, it went
from ITO billions 698 millions to 174,-
sos, 100000 francs. A total increase
Of 5,164,000,000 on the whole debt.
Besides, the economic stagnation
and commercial sluggishness remain
characteristics.
Production Figures.
Coal production has diminished
with every month, 100000 tons from
January to November, 1927. The pro-
duction of coal and iron has fallen by
more than rs tons in hundred from
1925 to 1927.
Production has been carried on par
ticularly with an eye to the foreign
market. The foreign market has
been the only remedy in the situation
and it is narrowing from day to day.
Examine the figures on tonnage ex-
ported and the decline is evident.
The official statistics which deal
with ten departments only show a
constant growth of unemployment
Unemployed in October numbered
8,642; November, 10,880; December,
1878; January IA, 1928, 1859; Jan
uary II, 1928, 17,272.
The actual number Of unemployed
is at least five times the number reg
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Chain Stores to Rule
Mems Clothes Trade

A statistical report issued Satur.
day by trade journal devoted to
the dry goods industry in this coun-
try shows how rapidly to what ex-
tent the PROCESS of justification and
Capitalization III American industry
is driving out of existence the small
retail merchant. The survey shows
the rapid rate at which the chain
store is replacing the more or less
personal services rendered by the in
dividual merchant of mems furnish
ings. In one year the increase Of
chain stores amounted to IL per cent
more than the preceding year. A
much larger increase is planned for
1928.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Pilsudski RACES Again

KOENIGSBERG, Feb. IL. The
outbreak of hostilities between Lithu-
ania and Poland seemed step nearer
today with the arrival of note from
Warsaw demanding to know whether
or not the Riga government intends
to fulfill it's Geneva pledges"
Premier Pilsudski is reported to
have announced that his patience is
exhausted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
French-U. S. Tariff War
Carried on by New Bill

PARIS, Feb. .2-Continuation of
the Franco-American tariff war is
seen in the new tariff bill sponsored
by the Poineare regime. Details Of
the bill are lacking but it is known
that the tariff hits such American
exports as wheat, cattle, meat, cast
iron, steel, etc.
The only concession to American
interests reported in the new meas
ure is the probable lowering of the
duties on the 100000 worth of Ford
tractors which have been tied up in
French ports by ruling establish
ing a tariff declared exorbitant by
the American interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Poles Stop Communist
Election Victory; Put
10 Nominees in Jails

WARSAW, Feb. 1.-THE Polish
government has arrested the ten
Communist candidates in the Bielos-
tok elections and has annulled the
Communist lists. The workers re-
piled to the annulment by boycott
of the polls.
The government has been using
every means to keep the workers from
electing their casdidates. Of the
$4,000 who are entitled to vote, only
$4,000 appeared at the polling places.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Fear Women's Labor
Bill Will Be Buried

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. IA bill
has been passed in the state senate
which would prohibit night work for
women. and will go to the assembly
this week. Women interested in the
bill have requested the speaker Of
the assembly to place the bill in the
hands of the judiciary committee
rather than the labor and industries
committee, which has always buried
the measure in the past.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Poles Continue Trial
Of Peasants Kept for
Years i'm Jail Cells

The trial of the 1873 white Russian
peasants is proceeding in Bielostok.
They were arrested on charges Of
Communist activity" The peasants
come from the districts of Bielostok,
Sokuli, and Byelsk.
The peasants, who wefe arrested in
1925, have been sitting for two and
one-half years in the Polish fascist
jails. The total of those arrested
numbers 40. The Polish fascists
have brought up 200 witnesses
against the accused peasants, most of
whom are police spies and govern
ment secret agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
LATvIAN TORIES UNITED

RIGA, Feb. 12.-After prolonged
dickering with nearly all the roac-
tionary groups in the Latvian parlia-
ment, the conservative cabinet re-
Gently former by Peter Juraszewski
has won a vote of confidence. The
vote represents a united front of all
the reactionary Latvian forces
against labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Arabs Attack British

LONDON, Feb. 12.--Arabs who
participated in the hostile demonstra-
lions which greeted the arrieal there
of Sir Alfred Mond, celebrated Brit
ism capitalist and former commission
er OF public works, are carrying on
local warfare against the British
.stragglers from the cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
Law StenOgraphers
Organize for Wages

BAYONNE, N. j., Feb. 12.-Law
stenographers of this city, most of
them girls, have formed the Law
Stenographers' League. Court clerks
are also included. The stenographers
seek an S-hour day, from 8 to 5, in
stead of the nine-hour day, from 9 to
G, at present in force. Mrs. Anna
Cohen is the president.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-13
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The good wiil' flight was pro-
crossing nicely. The paid press was
burning up the cables with accounts
of tumultuous receptions of Wall
Streets pet flier by crowds of cheer
ing Latin-Americans. Even the
weather behaved. And then-a
small group of Porto Ricans upset
the imperialist calculations by pre-
senting a protest to Colonel Lind
bergh declaring that the "bless-
ings" of the American regime were
not appreciated" There were
plenty Of marines and blue-jackets
on hand at the next stop, Haiti, TO
see that such thing didn't hap
pen again. The picture shows the
crowd from which the protesting
Porto Ricans stepped a moment
later to present their petition to the
flier.