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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
ACCIDENTS
In Building Trade Serious
Problem

Washington, ID. c. U. L. N. S.
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis
has called special attention to the re-
cent report of the u. S. commissioner
of labor statistics, which shows that
increasing accidents in the construc
tlon industry, as compared with a
decrease in the manufacturing indus
tries reveal a problem of no small
significance. In the state of New
York alone, the increase from a total
number of l0,230 accidents in the
year ending June 30, 1923, to 21,891
IN 1923, gives an alarming indication
OF the need for reformation in the
care of, on working conditions faced
by, employees in the construction in
dustry. An upward trend is also no.
ticeable from reports received from
Ohio and Pennsylvania. 1t is prob
ably equally apparent in other dis
tricts.
1t may be argued by some that the
figures which show an increase in the
number of accidents do not show an
increase in the accident rates, and
that that increase is due solely to an
increase in the business, which re-
quires larger number of workers;
but so far as is known, no state has
yet been able to secure the colume of
employment in the construction in
dustry.
1t is interesting, however, to note
the National Safety Councils reports
for period of four years, which show
that 59,707, 1886 man-hours worked
yielded an accident frequency rate of
65.07 as against frequency rate of
1881 in 1924, andsa severity rate of
7.13 in 1927 against a severity rate of
AGO in 1924.
The hazard manifested by the in
crease in accidents in the construc-
ton industry is strongly reflected in
the premium rates charged for work
mems compensation insurance The
compensation in the cases in that
state averaged 1871 per case, which
is $72 per case more than the aver
age for all industries combined,
meaning, as ex-Commissioner Hamil-
ton, of New York, says, "that the
accidents in building work cost about
one and half million dollars more
than an equivalent number of acci-
dents at the average rate"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

President Hoover on March issued
call for an extra session of con-
gress to meet April 15 to consider
further agricultural relief" and leg
islation for "limited changes of the
tariff" which. he said, can not "in jus
tice to our farmers, our labor and our
manufacturers be postponed"
Contributions to the lord mayors
fund for relief of unemployed miners
families in England total $3,695,0
to which the government will contrib
ute a similar amount, it was an
nounced in London, March 8.
Spanish students in several uni
versity towns on March 9 went on
strike in protest against General
Primo de Rivera's action in closing
the artillery school at Segovia and
against his punishment of certain stu
dents.
President Hoover on March II an
nounced there would be no leasing of
government oil lands except by order
of congress, making the following
statement: "There will be no leases
or disposal of government oil lands,
no matter what category they may lie
in; of government holdings or gov
ernment control, except those which
may be made mandatory by congress.
In other words, there will be complete
conservation of government oil in
| this administration"
Air transport companies of the
| United States flew total of 10,472,-
024 miles and carried 52,934 passen-
gers in 1923, in addition to constantly
increasing loads of freight and mail,
according to the annual report of the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce.
The statement of the years activities
! showed an increased over 1927 of 100
per cent in mileage and 420 per cent
in passenger traffic
Union newspaper printers who have
been on strike in Albany, n. Y, since
! November %, made an agreement
with the publishers on March II and
returned to work
Factory employment in New York
state increased more than usual from
January to February, according to
4 JY1,,ctc;o1 Co,,o,,,;cc;opor I.,o,ooc Dor
kins. This was due partly to the
effect of an early Easter on clothing,
textile and leather goods factories
and partly to Improvement in the
metal industries.
An order requiring locomotives, ex-
cept those burning oil, to be equipped
with mechanically operated safety
firedoors was issued by the interstate
commerce commission on March 49,
Colonel Robert w. Stewart was
overwhelmingly defeated March 7 by
the forces of John d. Rockefeller, ,Jr.,
in the fight over the Craftsmanship of
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
at the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the company, held at Whit
ing, Ind.
The third wage increase in four
months for Arizona copper miners
was announced at Bisbee, Ariz., on
March 9. Notices of 5 per cent
wage increase, retroactive to March
|, were posted at the mines of all
the copper companies operating in the
Bisbee district.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22

Q.-What is the National Con-
sumers' League?
A.-The organization describes it
self as IAN educational movement
founded in May, 1899, to awaken con-
sumers' interest in thier responsible
ity for conditions under which goods
are made and distributed"
Q.-What is the mine safety
board?
A group of five men in the
United States department of COM
merce who formulate the mine safety
rules and regulations of the bureau
of mines.
Q.-Has the government issued in
formation on minimum wage legisla-
ton throughout the world?
> A.-Yes. The information is con-
tanned in Bulletin No. 476 of the
United States bureau of labor statis-
tics, entitled Minimum Wage Legis-
lation in Various Countries"
Q.-What is the general objective
of the international Labor Organiza-
ton?
A.-The general objective is uni
formity of social legislation, thus
cost of production and en-
abling progressive countries to ad-
vance without fear Of being placed at
a disadvantage in competition with
more conservative nations.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
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agement and assistance.

agement and assistance.
Whereas, That during his life he
has encouraged and contributed to
the humanitarian purposes of our in
ternational union in its hospital, edu-
cation and religious undertakings,
which is positive evidence of his in
terest in his fellow men"
The union offered its sympathy to
the family. Many other labor unions
adopted resolutions of respect in hon
or of Mr.. Taggart.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
LOYAL UNION MEN
DON'T GO HATLESS

The United Mine Workers at
Minersville, Pa, in convention assem-
bled, urged all workmen to wear hats.
This, as a reliable writer in The
Trades Union News of Philadelphia
points out, is because the fad of go
ing bareheaded has thrown thousands
of employees in the hat factories out
of work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22

Q.-What is the general objective
of the International Labor Organiza
ton?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
POSTAL UNIONIST DIES

Boston.-John d. Murphy, third
vice president of the National Feder-
alton of Post Office Clerks, died here.
He served as vice president of his
national union since 1919.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22

Q.-Has the government issued in
formation on minimum wage legisla-
ton throughout the world?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
Labor rQueriies

Questions aud Answers on La.
bor: What 1t Has Done; Where
1t Stands on Problems of the
Day; Its Aim and Program:
Who's Who in the Ranks of
the Organized Toilers, ETC., etc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-22
ROSTER OF ORGANIZATIONS
HAMILTON LABOR UNIONS


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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
CAN DAILY SURVIVE?
Funds Vital IT Our Press is to LiUe

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
NEEDLE WORKERS
ELECT OFFICERS
Hold Huge Dress Rally
Next Wednesday

With the elections in the New York
organization of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union over, and
with the officers of the Joint Board
and separate locals elected, the en-
tire attention of the union and men,
bership is being concentrated on the
task of perfecting the machinery for
the imminent general strike in the
dress manufacturing industry, the
first big struggle of the new union.
Meantime the elections themselves
and the turnout to the polls can be
recorded as a decisive victory in
themselves. Over 1000 members of
the union came to cast ballots for
the election of officers. Joint Board
officers, from manager to all busi-
ness agents, the Joint Board delega-
tions from all locals, the local func-
tionaries and executive boards were
chosen in the all-day elections on
Thursday.
All eyes are now turned toward
the huge mass meeting next We'd
nesday evening, Immediately after
work, in Manhattan Opera House,
34th st. and Eighth Ave. At this
meeting the dressmakers ale to
have their final say on the question
of the big struggle ahead. Final
vote will be taken at this meeting.
The dressmakers will here give
voice to their determination to go
out and give battle to the employ
ers and their socialist agents of the
company union for chance to re-
store union conditions in former
union shops and gain them for the
many never-organized shops in this
industry.
That this is the only method
through which endurable working
standards can be obtained, is the
firm conviction of the thousands of
needle trades workers, with those
that are not dressmakers already
volunteering their organizational
Continued on Page TaUo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
12O SAILORS
FACING DEATH
Four Ships Send SOS.
Then Grow Silent

The fate of four vessels, in dis
tress far at sea, remained uncertain
last night as land radio stations
here tried in vain to pick up further
information in regard to their plight.
The vessels include:
The Italian freighter Capo Vado.
in distress some 1000 miles east of
the Bermuda Islands, with crew
of about 25 men.
The British freighter Silver Maple,
T80 miles east of Boston, with a
crew of DO men.
The Norwegian steamship Fern
lane, which was helpless in gale
500 miles southeast of Bermuda
after losing its rudder, with crew
Of less than 80 men.
The American freighter Dixiano,
aground on the southern coast of
Cuba, with a crew of about 25 men,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
MINEOLA FRAME
UP VICTIMS co
ON TRIAL TODAY
Seven Workers Face
Same Ku Klux
Court
Need for Legal Funds
|. L. D. Holds Protest
Rally Tonight
Need for Legal Funds

Seven leading members of the
furriers' union, victims of brutal
prison sentences Of two and a half
to five years by a Ku Klux Klan
judge in Mineola, and granted a
new trial by the Albany Court of
Appeals, are this morning to face
the same judge and the same
prosecutor in the same court, where
the labor haters will try to repeat
their performance, made at the orig
inal framed up trial.
Marked for arrest, framed and
sentenced by the Long Island court
with the aid of a stool pigeon
coached by the socialist and A. F.
of L. officialdom of a reactionary
dual union, the frame-up was at
first aimed to include eleven. In
sufficient manufactured evidence
was provided and two were found
mot guilty" Nine received these
brutal sentences. Two, Leo Frank
lin and M. Maxim are now in Sing
Sing, having been denied a new
trial by the higher court.
The victimized workers were
charged with having put out of bust
ness a scab fur shop in Rockville
Center during the big furriers' gen.
eral strike that ended VIGOROUSLY
being the first union to win the 4O
hour five day week. For this auda-
cious deed, the furriers were singled
out by the geactionary courts and
the bureaucratic A. F. of L. off
cialdom.
An intense campaign is now being
carried on by the International La
Dor Defense, for the raising of suf-
ficient funds to secure for the
framed up workers all the legal as
sistance they may require in the
fight for freedom.
That the Mineola open shor
gangs intend to frame the workers
again is attested to by the custom
ary decision of district attorneys tc
drop cases where the Court of Ap-
peals grants a new trial. Not SC
here however. 1t is learned that
the right wing stool pigeon, Bassof
is to be brought especially from
Sing Sing to give additional framed
testimony.
In addition to carrying on the
drive for funds, the International
Labor Defense, is rallying the work
ers in protest movement to fight
against this frame-up. Tonight in
Irving Plaza Hall, 18th st. and Irv-
ing Place, a mass meeting of pro-
test is to be held for New York
workers.
President Louis Hyman and Sec
retary Ben Gold, of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union,
will be speakers there. Moissaye
Olgin, Communist leader and writ
er, will also be there, as will A.
Wagenknecht, of the International
Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28

gong to drive the heather gods of
profit from the nursery, so it says.
How?
1t is all meticulously set forth in
little sample leaflet, distributed
free to pastors of churches, for the
celebration of National Child La
Dor Day.
Where We Die. Too.
IN as many churches as have
child slavers forward-looking enough
TO see that this is for their own
good' services opened yesterday.
optionally with "My country tis of
thee, Land where my fathers died."
or with "The King of Love My
Shepard 1s."-Eatract from the
Continued on Page Tloo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
LIBERAL GESTURE AT CHILD LABOR YESTERDAY
Fake C Labor Sunday BY Capitalists Fool Workers Into Acqesoce

Court of the United States. that
notorious guardian of American
liberties declared any laws for
bidding child labor unconstitutional
-(National Platform of the Work
ers (Communist) Party of America. J
Against this situation, too pain
fully obvious to be denied, we are
told, crusade is taking place.
told, crusade started yesterday. 1t
is the National Child Labor Commit
tee on the march. They are doing
the job. All you Reds can stop
shouting your nerve-wracking de-
mands for abolition of the system
that fattens thru the constant liv-
ing sacrifice of little children. The
National Child Labor Committee is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28

children between the ages of 10 and
IL. There are no statistics on the
work of children under the age of
10-that is the sole reason why there
is no report about the scores of
thousands of the smallest children
of the working class shaving to the
glory of our dollar civilization.
"There are almost four million
young workers and at least one mill
ion boys and girls in industry alone.
Steel and iron, coal and textile fac
tories are the chief backgrounds"
of our working-class youth. Tech
nicot progress means progress OF
youth and child labor. 1t is one OF
the biggest achievements of Ameri-
can democracy that the Supreme
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
BY vERN SMITH

Yesterday was set aside by the
National Child Labor Committee as
"Child Labor Day."
Yes, there is child labor in
America. Lots Of it.
Exploitation of children and
young workers is one of the pillars
Of American capitalist society. Chill
dren's blood and young boys and
girls sweat are growing source of
profit for big business. According
to the 1920 census, which greatly
underestimates the number of child
laborers, there were over one million
working children between the ages
OF 10 and Is. To increase the
shame there were $4,000 .oilinp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
Whip of Hunger
Drives Miners in
Wales Into Army

CARDIFF, (By Mail). - Over
1000 young miners, unemployed
and starving, have offered them
selves as army recruits in the past
years, the army authorities in Wales
claim. They have been driven by
starvation, they state, in most cases.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
WILHELM IN NEW PLOTS.

DOORN, Jan. 27.-Wilhelm Hon.
zollern, still claiming to be emperor
of Germany, celebrated his seven
tieth birthday here today, surround
ed by 48 or SO members of royalty
and ex-royalty and amidst the plot
ters of all the reactionary forces in
Europe, who hope for restoration
of the monarchy in Germany, but
are not all agreed on the Hohen-
ollerns as their best champions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
THE DAILY WORKER is IN
THE GREATEST DANGER!



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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28

ABRUZZI, Italy, (By Mail).-
Earthquake shocks have been felt
by inhabitants of Abruzzi and the
port of Aquila. Inhabitants were
panic-stricken.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
DEMAND BRITISH
FREE TOMBSTONE
Chicago Labor in Mass
Protest Meets
Chicago Workers Picket British
Consulate.

CHICAGO, Jan. 25-The arrest of
Jack Johnstone in India by the Brit
ish police resulted in an immediate
protest demonstration in Chicago,
where for many years Johnstone had
been an active militant trade union
list and one of the most prominent
left wing figures in the Chicago
Federation Of Labor.
Despite sub-zero weather, several
hundred workers responded to the
call of group of organizations,
headed by the Chicago branch of
Continued on Page Taoo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
NEW SOVIET OlL.PIpE LINE

BAKU, U. S. S. R. (By MaiD.--
The head Of the Grozneft Oil Trust,
Ganshin, reports that the first kero-
sene pumped through the new Groz-
ny-Tuapse oil pipelines has reached
Tuapse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
RAKOCzY WINS
HUNGER STRIKE
Life Still in Danger;
Kept in Icy Cell
(Wireless BIZ "Tnprecorr") J

~ - N'SOO ~ 4HpfBCUTF J
BERLIN, Jan. 27.-The lives of
Rakoczy and his comrades i'm
prisoned in Budapest, Hungary. by
the brutal Horthy government be-
cause they are accused of partici-
pating in the workers Soviet govern
ment are still in danger, tho their
hunger strike has been ended due
to the solemn promise of the Hun
garian ministry of justice to with
draw disciplinary action against
them. The hunger strike lasted for
days, and was started because Hun
garian prison officials decreed a
regime of solitary confinement in
underground cells, and condemned
its worker victims to a regime of
slow starvation intended to kill them
in the course of year or so.
In spite of the promise to revoke
the discipline" Rakoczy and COM
rades are still kept in dark, ice-cold
cells without any warm underwear.
Those participating in Che hunger
strike are very much exhausted.
Rakoczy has lost weight badly.
The campaign of the workers all
over the world to set free this leader
of workers and all sent with him to
Horthy's torture cells must continue
unabated or he will be done to death
yet.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Jan. 27.
House to house searches reminis-
cent of tsarist police raids in old
Russia are being carried out daily
now by the police of dictator Horthy
under the law banning revolutionary
literature from the country. Domi-
ciliary visits are made every eight
days to suspected houses and the
police treat the inmates of raided
houses with the utmost brutality,
often grossly insulting the women
of the unfortunate families.
The term revolutionary literature
is broadly interpreted by the Horthy
police to include any book whose
contents or illustrations may awaken
the suspicious of the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-28
WORKERS RESPOND
Contributions Ayyiving at the DAILY

Responding Immediately the appeal
Committee of the Workers Communist)
Worker the following readers have contrbuted
Jan Chapel, SIS.
Robert Heenug, SIS.
Harry Lift $2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-02
BLAST IN BERLIN
MYST|F|ESPOL|CE
Reichstag Building Damaged
by Bomb Explosion in
Cellar.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. September "A mysterious
bomb explosion in the cellar Of the
Reichstag Building during Saturday
night shattered several windows In the
building and twisted the ornamental
iron trappingS. Parts OF a clock-work
fuse were found by police Oh the floor.
No one was injured.
How the bomb got into the cellar OF
the building Is problem that yester-
day engaged the entire Berlin Police
Department and several high govern
ment officials. No one has access to
the building except Reich officials. Po-
lice were working on the theory that
the same sources which recently di-
rected bombings i'll the provinces OF
Hanover and Schleswig- Holstein were
responsible for the outrage.
The caretaker on duty at the time
seid he was IN the vicinity Of one OF
the cellars, while his assistant was max
ing the usual rounds Of inspection, and
was startled to hear a muftied noise.
Investigating. he found several windows
on the ground floor of the right wing of
the building shattered and the iron
ornamental trappings broken and
twisted. He summoned the police and
fire departments immediately. Inspec-
ton revealed the parts OF the fuse lying
about the floor
Since May there have been seven
bomb explosions on government prem
iSes in SchleSwig- Holstein and Olden-
burg, where agricultural discomfort has
been rife. Last Friday a clock-work
bomb was placed on the doorstep of
Vice President Victor Grimpe of the
province of Schleswig, but faulty fuse
prevented explosion.
High rewards have been offered for
evidence leading to the arrest of the
guilty.