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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
A. F. L. Not Interested.

American Federation of Labor Of
icials have been slow to help in the
organization of the rubber workers.
Most of the A. F. of l.. members are
craft workers and there are no crafts
in the rubber industry. The only type
of trade union organization that has
2 chance to succeed in the rubber fac
tories is an industrial union. A. F.
of L. officials are not industrial
unionists and are taking no steps to
organize this type of union. Inde-
pendent efforts at unionization have
lacked financial backing and have
failed for want of trained leadership.
Akron bosses have handled the
union situation without gloves:
1. They have put together in the
same departments workers speaking
different languages and who there's
fore have difficulty in understanding
one another.
2. They have organized very ex-
tensive spy system in their plants.
3. They have dismissed workers
ruthlessly whenever they were en-
gaging in organizing activity.
During the most recent effort at
organization of the rubber workers.
in 1927, after union membership
was built up, it was discovered that
the man who had been elected secre-
tary of the union was a government
agent. He had worked regularly at
the tire building trade for years, at
the same time keeping his sleuth con-
nection. On previous occasion, ten
employees of detective agencies were
discovered holding various key posi-
tons in Akron trade unions.
Rubber town is typical United
States get-rich-quick town. Forty
years ago it was village Today it
is one of the most important indus
trial centers of the United States. The
rubber industry has paid immense
profits. The rubber trust, from its
center at Akron, has reached around
the world for raw materials; semi
finished fabrics; markets. The work
ers meanly housed, intensely exploit
ed, denied even the opportunity to
build trade unions, go stolidly through
their round of daily toll, dimly con-
scious that something is wrong and
wondering when their turn will come
and what it will be.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
Strikers Need Medical Help

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May Ma
tion-wide sympathy for the brave
struggle of the striking miners
against one of the most powerful com
binations of capital in the Uniteo
States finds constant expression in
offers of personal service which
reach the National Miners Relief
Committee from every part of the
country.
The latest offer is that made by
Dorothy W. Demming, of New York
City, who is completing her third
year in the College of Physicians and
Surgeons.
Miss Demming, in letter to the
National Miners Relief Committee
volunteers her services as physician
during her vacation period which ex-
tends from June to September Mss
Domming's offer was made in re.
spouse to the appeal of the commit
tee for money with which to supply
medical aid and equipment to the
striking miners who are finding them
selves helpless against disease be-
cause of crowded, unsanitary housing
conditions in the barracks and the
difficulty of persuading physicians to
attend minor ailments.
Following Miss Demming's offer
which is under consideration by the
committee, Miss Helen Potts, fell
low medical student of Miss Dem
ming, also volunteered to engage in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09

attending individuals, and assisting
IN public health service under the SUI
pervision of the National Miners Re-
lief Committee.
Every type of medical attention is
difficult for striking miners to OBJ
tain. Every type of medical case
from bad colds and scraped knuckles
to confinement cases and pneumonia
go unattended. The vitality of thou
sands Of children, Slapped by almost
a year of undernourishment and in
sufficient clothing, is being lowered
to a point which makes them ready
victims of any disease.
Unsanitary and hastily dug wells
scooped from the frozen ground will
prove a prolific source Of typhoid
fever many physicians believe. Unless
sanitation is observed, thousands
of miners in the vicinity of Pitts
burgh may find themselves facing
plaques rivalling those of the Dark
Ages.
Vaccine, anti-toxins, disinfectants
and simple sanitary appliances are
immediate needs. Thousands of chill
dren's lives may find themselves in
real danger unless sanitation precau-
tons in all barrack camps are taken
Immediately.
All contributions to the medical
fund of the National Miners Relief
Committee should be sent at once to
Gil Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-09
BY SCOTT NEARING.

More automobile tires are produced
in Akron, Ohio, than in any other city
in the world. In fact the rubber fac
tories of Akron use 65 per cent of tn
worlds total output of rubber-463,-
666,466 pounds in 1927. Most of this
rubber goes to the three big plants:
Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone
which produce the great majority of
the 100000 tires that Akron ships
out each year.
The automobile industry was a
stroke of unbelievable luck of Akron
Only 1852 people lived in the city
in 1880; 27,601 in 1890, and 42,728
in 1900. The population jumped to
69,067 in 1910 and to 20S,435 in 1920.
The war years were the period of
Akron's greatest prosperity Popula-
ton increased 200 per cent in a de-
cade; land values scared; buildings
shot up in every direction. The Ohio
town of 1880 had become a roaring
center of American prosperity by
1920.
For 1927 the Akron Chamber of
Commerce made this boast:
Population ..............22 0, 900
Factory workers .62,018
Value of manuf. prod. .$6O3, $40, 900
Total factory payroll. &. d. .$105, 100000
School enrolment $50
No. of permits to build. ..... .5,748
Value of bldgs. erected. . $40, 967, 461
End industrial city in Ohio
10th industrial city in the U. s.
The rubber center of the world.
Home of Rubber Trust.
The tire industry proved to be a
millionaire maker" during the early
years. Demand rose fast. The prod
uct was sold before the raw material
reached the tire factories The "big
three" rubber companies grew up to
gether. The Firestone business was
started in 1900 and Incorporated ir
1910. By 1922 it was selling goods
valued at $64 million year and pay
ing dividends of $1,293,182. -Four
years later, in 1926, sales were $141
million and dividends $4,039,474
Goodyear has an even better record.
Organized in 1898; reorganized in
1927, the company made sales of
1927 million in 1923 and paid div
dends of $2,729,000. For 1926, sales
were $3.50, million and dividends 49,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-05-01

cent of what they were in 1917, then pro-
hibition enforced would clearly be a dis
tinct boon to society as a whole. And
after all we can ignore Mr.. du Points
claim of the majority who wish to manu-
facture, sell and transport beverage
liquors, for they are the commercial class
who seek to profit by violating the law
and Who common sense tells us, are in a
mere fractional minority of the nearly 10
millions of people of the United States.
DRUNKNESS CASES DECREASING
But Mr.. du Pont says that in these re-
cording cities the number Of arrests for
drunkenness is now as large as it was in
pre-war times. If one were to make the
comparison between 1914 and 1926, let us
60 to the wet New York World Almanac,
page 506, and we will find even there
that according to the official figures
furnished by the Police Commissioner in
1914 there were % ,122 arrests for intoXca-
tion while in 1920 there were only 1904.
Evidently those who wish to manufac-
ture, sell and transport beverage liquors"
and therefore ARE revolving against the
tyranny of their fellows had not yet
gotten into action in 1920, but little by
little they established their lines of COM
munication and discovered year by year,
a little better each time how to evade the
law, defy the Constitution and break down
the morale of the Officials with whom
they came in contact. But it is quite sig
nificant that the peak of this increase
was reached in 1923, since which time it
has decreased to 1880 or just a little
more than one-half the number of ar
rests in 1914.
Yes, and there is another thing to keep
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USING CRUSADER
METHOD

Thousands of members of the w.
C. T. u. gathered from all parts of
the country will conduct a prayer
service before the convention halls
of the Republicans and Democrats
at Kansas City and Houston.
In other words, the w. C. T. u.
will apply the same tactics to
national politics that the crusaders
applied to the saloons in Ohio more
than half-century ago when bands
of deYout women knelt in the streets
before the saloons and prayed for
the eradication of the legalized
liquor traffic.
The services conducted by the w.
g. T. u. will open ten days before
the time set for the conventions, and
will be held in churches near the
convention halls. However, at least
one outdoor meeting may be held
before the doors of each convention.
The women will ask divine aid in the
choice of presidential candidates by
the national parties who will be in
full sympathy with the national dry
policy. Nationally known speakers
will urge the cause of law enforce
ment at these prayer meetings.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1928-05-01
CHILD-WELFARE
MEASURE

Prohibition enforcement as
child welfare measure was proposed
to the thirty-second annual national
Congress of Parents and Teachers
assembled in Chicago, May l. The
proposal was embodied in resolu-
tons submitted by the national
legislative committee. More than
1850 delegates, representing more
than 100000 parents and teachers.
were attending the convention.
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in mind, that in the twelve years from
1914 to 1926 the population of New York
increased almost 100000, three-fourths of
million people, or about Il per cent, but
the number of arrests for drunkenness in
1926 was only a little more than one-half
of the number of arrests for the same
cause in 1914.
Moreover, the additional fact must be
borne in mind that while under the state
law of New York the manufacture, sale
and transportation of alcoholic liquor is
not forbidden, drunkenness is still a
crime and that the degree of drunkenness
calling for arrest is much less today than
it was ten years ago, yet in spite of these
circumstances the decrease is very re-
n1arkable.
AN UNFORTUNATE SELECTION
Mr.. du Pont is rather unfortunate in
his selection Of England or in fact any
other European country, as a basis of
comparison as indicated in the tables of
Mr.. Johnsons article above referred to.
American cities with their newly met and
widely diverse nationalities, subjected in a
peculiar sense and to an unusual degree
to the political influence of their new and
adopted country, nevertheless are leaving
their European sister cities behind in
their advance toward sobriety. This is so
be given to this phase of Mr. du Points
contention.
Mr.. du Pont is mildly enthusiastic over
the fact that England has taught us a
lesson by reducing the consumption of
alcohol to one-half of what it was before
the world war" have before me the
April, 1923, number of the Alliance Neaos.
which is the official organ of the United
Kingdom Alliance an English temperance
publication, containing an elaborate dis
play of detailed statistics with tables and
charts enabling one to get at almost any
phase of the English drinking situation.
We pass on a few facts which may throw
some light on this alleged decrease. The
fact Of the matter is that the high peak
year of consumption of beer wine and
spirits in the United Kingdom was reached
in 1874 and rs. From that period wine
has shown more or less consistent, very
gradual decrease from approximately SIS
gallons per capita per year to less than 80
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Continued from Page 81

the regulations incident to the enforce
ment of the constitutional amendment be-
cause the Supreme Court says that Con-
greSs and the legislative bodies are the
judge Of the necessities for such regula-
lions and that all that Congress has thus
far done is not violation of their powers
under the Constitution. Mr. du Pont ought
to write a brief and submit it to the men,
bers of the Supreme Court to show them
how wrong they are. For business advice
we should be inclined to consult Mr.. du
Point, but on questions of eonstitutionality
of acts of Congress we shall still go TO the
Supreme Court.
REVOLUTION BUGABOO
We are solemnly warned that 'the
United States is in the throes of revolu-
ton" The cause for this upheaval seems
to be that the fundamentals of govern
ment have been diSregarded in the adj
mittedly desirable abolition of the saloon
and the attempt TO stamp out drunken
ness. We are informed that the people
generally are not $50 very much concerned
with the question of drink" but because
the Declaration of Independence has been
dragged in the dust. What a sweet morSel
this is:
I'VE hold these truths to be self-evi-
dent, that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Gre
ator with certain inalienable rights,
that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness"
Yes, this is q sweet morsel unknown in
thousands of homes before the Eighteenth
Amendment was adopted. Yes, the lives
of the mother and the children were at
the mercy of the drink-crazed father.
Liberty-Something to be dreamed about
but never realized, and happiness was to
be found only beyond the Jordan.
WHOSE RIGHTS ARE IN JEOPARDY?
Whose rights are to be considered now?
Let us face this question frankly. The
right of the brewer and the distiller to
manufacture the liquor? The right of the
saloonkeeper to sell it? The right of the
drinker to buy it? Or the right of society
as whole or the drinkers family in par
ticular, to be protected from the manu-
faeture, the sale and the drinking? Mr..
du Pont thinks only of one group. We
have previously cited the decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States to
show that the right to manufacture, to
sell and even to buy is not one of these
inalienable RIGHTS which our forefatherS
said were endOWments of their Creator.
Why do sane business men talk such fool
ishness? Why can't they think straight
about prohibition as we'll as about bust
ness?
We will pass over Mr.. du Points mad
vertence regarding the reason for the
Declaration of independence. The tyran-
ny of the majority. What majority? The
old and threadbare fallacy that a major
ity of our people are forbidden against
their express wish to manufacture, sell
and transport beverage liquors? This is
the first time we knew that the $4,000 sa-
loonkeepers and their bartenderS put out
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FRANKNESS OF MIR. DU POINT
CONSIDERED

The frankness of Mr.. du Pont must be
commended in his admission that during
the first year under national prohibition
the number of arrests for drunkenness
fell to only a. per cent of the 1914 num-
ber If Mr. du Pont, however, had made
a comparison of the number of arrests in
the last year preceding the beginning of
the wartime prohibition restrictions in
1918, the per cent would have been much
below Al per cent, usually fixed at about
Is per cent. Mr.. du Pont naively says,
Gradually as various sources Of
liquor supply have increased in the
United States, arrests for drunkenness
have also increased, until the total in
recording cities is now equal to that in
pre-War times"
Mr. du Pont probably says more than he
intended to say, for what he really says
is that the more liquor there is available
the more DRINKS there will be, and he adj
nlits that drunkenness is an evil, for the
title of his article is concerned with ga
Remedy for the Drink Evil" Now, If
prohibition could reduce the number Of
arrests for drunkenness in 1920 to IS per
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28
WILL GIVE IRISH CONCERT

A concert Of Irish tunes by a na- tive son of Erin, the Rev. George Mcguire. famous tenor soloist of the Sistine choir. will be presented to the music lovers of this city at S:15 o'clock Tuesday night in '. M. T. A. & B. hall. The presence of Father Mcguire inS America is to raise funds tor the maintenance of musical culture among the young of Ireland. by the establishment of a school of vocal science in the new Free State. 4 collection for this purpose will be taken up during the evening, the admission to the concert being free.
 Father Mcguire has been acclaim ed as being second only to John Me- Cormack among Irish songsters and he rivals Mccormack, his boyhood chum in his rendition of Irish folk songs. Tie purpose Of Father Ma guire in his tour is expressed in this sentiment of his: To bring back a well nigh lost art. and to give to the youth of his beloved Ireland an op- portunity to develop their God-given talent. The Boston Post has term ed him "Ireland's greatestpdramatic tenor" The New York Evening Post has said Father Maguire's singing with the Sistine soloists made a won- derful impression, bringing the whole audience to their feet"
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28

terday when the third parachute in triple jump shot to earth be- hind her, hopelessly tangled in itself.
 Jimmy Wood, the husband who had loosed the balloon that took her e,ooo feet aloft. was the first to sense her fate.
 My God, she's eone.' he whis- pered and buried his face in his hands. Stuffed screams from women spectators told him he was right as the body Of his .S year old wife plunged through tree and a small building near the park. A motoriet had taken the body to hospital be- fore an ambulance arrived.
 Louise Gardner's real name was Mrs. Nora Wood, and her home Boston, Mass. She began aerial per- formances l6 years ago, and for sev- eral years had toured the country with her husband. also a profession al dare devil" performing at fairs, carnivals and amusement parks. They were employed by a balloon company.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28
ARSON RING AGAIN UNDER SUSPICION
Paterson, N. ], Attempt to De-
 stroy Silk Mill

Paterson. x. J., May oS GP-Po- lice today were Investigating the possibility that a daring attempt to destroy g. four-story concrete silk mill, occupied by six manufacturing companies, was the work of an arson ring.>
 Detectives found a fuse leading to ine-saturated lengths ot wick, which led all over the building. The main wick was connected with a sealed container holding a detonat- ing cap and 20 sticks of dynamite. At the end of each smaller wick was a pool of gasoline. Police estimat- cd that 200 gallons of gasoline has been placed so as 10 be ignited.
 Louis Taback, who with his brother Nathan, owns the building. recalled that a sprinkler system had defeated an attempt a month or so ago to fire the plant. The building, and contents he figured were worth about S1,"50,000.
 Police were led to the arson theory by the previous fire in the Taback building and by fire a month ago in which two firemen were killed when the Linn depart ment store was destroyed.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28
Best.Dressed Girl
 Spends SLIGO on Clothes

'Chicago. May 2s.-R)-How Miss Holly Shively garbs herself to be- come Northwestern University's best dressed girl'' is chiefly an item for women readers. Its masculine ap- peal rests in the cost column which totals SLIGO a year.
 'I could go through school and dress for half that amount" she ex- plained. but I would not be the best dressed girl"
 Miss Shively's yearly budget calls for IA dresses totalling $2S0; two fur coats. one evening wrap and two cloth coats, $500: and eight hats, 24 pairs of hose, underwear. shoes and gloves to account for the rest.
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28
STILL HUNT FOR
 BANDIT. .SLAYERS Posses SCour Five States for
 Lamar Killers

Scott City. Kas, May os L'' - A casualty list showing three dead. one missing and two wounded today kept scores of possemen on the alert in the hope some trace would be found of the four desperadocs who disap- peared in the canyons and thickets of this rugged country after robbing a bank at Lamar, Col, last Wednes- day.
 Centered in Hcaly
 After four days devoted to follow ing vague leads. posses yesterday hurried to a cabin near Healy, kas., when the robbers were reported barricaded there. Like many other rumors that caused the volunteer searcners to hasten to isolated places in western Colorado and western Kansas, the cabin yielded a party of hunters.
 The tension under which the tired possemen worked was indicated Sat urday night when l.. L. Robinson of Hill City, Kan, and Carl T. Peterson, former sheriff of that city, were shot and seriously wounded by possemen. Robinson and Peterson were on pa trol duty near Norton and drew the fire of a posse sent to that area on the report of a farmer boy that bandits held me up.''
 While search of the cactus strewn hills; chalk caves and thickets of the badlands of western Kansas and eastern Colorado had not been en- tirely abandoned today, many of the volunteers returned to their homes. Scores had had little sleep since Thursday night.
 Funeral services were held yes terday at Lamar for \. N. Parrish. president Of the First National bank theie. and his son, John T. Parrish, cashier. slaj in when the returned the fire Of the robbers. Among the hundreds who attended the cere- mony was Gov. w. H Adams of Colorado.
 Little Hope
 There was little hope that the life of E. \. kessinger, kidnapped cash fer of the Lamar bank. had been spared He was used as a. shield when the robbers escaped in a run ming gun fight with Colorado off cers the day of the robbery.
 Authorities are also occupied with a report that ten witnesses of the robbery have identified a photograph of an Okla homa convict as one of the four men.
 A check of the loot obtained by a bond house at Pueblo. Colo. showed the robbers obtained about s1o,00o in cash and approximately St6,0oV worth of municipal and corporation bondS
New Britain herald., 1928-05-28
CAPONE IS GOING /
 INTO BUSINESS
Will Be in Cleaning and Dying
 Establishment

Chicago May 2S R --- What po- lice have been trying for months to do---stop racketeering and terror- ism in the cleaning and dyeing business-today had become the chore of Al Chapone, the "big shot" of the gangsters.
 Capone. who has been blamed for much and found guilty Of nothing. has become a principal partner in the Sanitary Cleaning Shops, Inc, which has large plant now near ing completion. His sponsor is Mor- ris Becker. a cleaner and dyer for 41 years.
 Becker. in a statement given out by the Employers association, said the alliance with Capone gives him the best protection in the world" from racketeers and others who. he charges. have threatened his business by bombs, violence and in- limitation.
 Becker believes the entry of Ca- pone into the business will put some long-delayed fear into the hearts of those who have been making the cleaning and dyeing business an unhealthy one for those who refuse to fall in line with those seeking to control it.
 Walter c. Walker attorney for the Employers association, said papers of incorporation have been taken out bearing the names of AL phonse Capone, John Gusik and Maurice Cowen. Capone's invest ment was fixed by Walker as $25,- 900. Aligned with Capone and Gusik in the new enterprise is Philip D. Andrea, of the family known to police for several years IS fuedists.