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February 4, 1924 COAL DIGGERS IN NEW STRUGGLE IN NOVA SCOTIA Fr fling 20 Per Cent Cut by Steel Company By JOHN A. McRURY (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia.|—The miners of Nova Scotia are again battling for their livelihood against the British Empire Steel Corpora- tion, After many weeks of nego- tiations between the provisional dis- trict executive, U..M. W. A., and the corporation, the conference ond- ed abruptly within ten hours of the expiration of the contract. As the miners were leaving the pits on January 15, they were at- tracted by large notices displaying the new wage scale, which would go into effect’ the {following day. This was a at blow to the miners; as no news had been given to the press regarding the wage controversy, Twenty Per Cent Cut. The new wage scale contained a 20 per cent reduction in Cape Bre- ton, from December to April, and for the remainder of the year the 1923 rate of wages would be paid. Coal is increased to $4 a ton, Col- lieries on the mainland are not af- fected by the wage cut, altho the price of coal is increased. By ¢ ly|' reducing the wages in one section of the district, it was thought that a wedge could be driven into the ranks of the miners and a_ split caused. But the training the Nova Scotia miners of since the days of 1909 prevented this. All mines in the district were ordered to “suspend operations” pending a satisfactory settlement. Bosses Offer $2.60 a Day. The demands of the union were for the resumption of the 1921 rates, or a 20 per cent increase over the expiring wage schedule. This would increase the pay of the datal men from $3.25 to ¥3.80 a day, and contract men in ratio. The rate offered by the company to af- fect only the Cape Breton coal fields, until May 1, when the 1928 rate would be paid, was $2.60 a day, the rate paid in 1916. The cor- poration guarantees five days and four days’ work a week to the col- Heries, thus the miners would be earning $13 and $10.30. The union stated that it considered this a star- vation wage and it would be better to see the men stay home and starve, than starve while working. “Go to Work,” Says Premier. Andrew Steele, U. M. W. A. rep- resentative in the Nevtolag later dis- patched a telegram to the premier of thé ef who replied” sug gesting that the men go back to the pits for fifteen days, jasc ‘ a pettlement. This was adcepte by. the corporation, but rejected’ by the union, With 5,000 tons of coal on its sidings, the corporation gave orders that no more coal would be sold. In any effort to secure coal for heat- ing the most daring of the miners dig coal from the surface mines on the outskirts of the town, while others resort to oil. Orders for food supplies are being issued to the most needy cases by the local union, Negotiations have been resumed. VEGETARIAN HOME RESTAURANT 2nd Floor, at 2714 W. Division St. Is the center for the North-West | Side intelligent eaters. Strict] home cooking and baking fres! | daily. J. Koqnaneve. Proprietor: | Phone Spaulding 4670 ASHER B, PORTNOY & CO. | Painters and Decorators PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES ye TE New ee Old Work “DR. ISREAL FELDSHER Surgeon Physician and 3803 ROOSEVELT RD. Crawford 2655 Hours: Morning, until 10 a. m. Fabulous Steel Profits Nail G BME DAILY WOKKER ary’s Lie About Cost of Shorter Workday Which Credulous Cal Swallowed By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) : Gary lie when he told President Ovolidge that aboli- tion of the 12-hour day increased production costs by 10%? Record profits and an extra dividend just announced by the steel corporation for the last quarter of 1923 appear to show that Gary was using the president of the United States as a vehicle for dishonest propaganda of big business against the shorter working day. The total profits for $49,958,980 taken by U. S. Steel in the last three months of the year are the largest of the year. They set a record for any three months in the peace- time history of the trust. And they were earned during a pe- riod when the shorter working day was in full swing. How about that, Mr. Gary? Profit Rises, Haurs Fall. Profits of $18,600,197 for October were the largest of the year, and exceeded those of July when steel workers were producing approximately the same amount of steel on the 12-hour day by nearly $3,000,000. Even the financial col- umn lackeys of the metropolitan press are finding it difficult to har- monize this fact with Gary’s state- ment about the 10% increase in cost due to the shorter working day. They will find it somewhat hard- er to apologize for Gary when they glance at the following figures taken from the U. S. department of com- merce monthly revue showing that taking the steel industry as a whole no inctease in .wage bills was nec- essary to maintain production on the shorter work day basis. No.of Tons produe’n 1923— employes steel ingots June ........521,991 3,748,890 July .. 524,321 3,515,966 August ......528,321 8 677,771 September . .521,075 3,316,166 October .....521,244 8,547,966 November ...506,351 8,144,000 According to these government re- ports 524,321 steel workers working under the 12-hour day regime at an @verage weekly wage of approxi- mately $30 produced 3,515,966 tons of steel ingots in July. During Oc- tober after the 12-hour day had been abolished 521,244 steel work- ers produced 3,547,966 tons working for approximately the same weekly wage. The total weekly payroll in October was not more than 1 1-2 per cent higher than in July when the longer day prevailed. Such figures merely reinforce the evidence of huge profits to prove that steel workers are not getting their share of the value which they are creating. $179,650,000 in Year, The total profits of the steel cor- poration for 1923 amounted to $179,650,000. After paying all in- come and corporation taxes, setting aside depreciation and sinking fund reserves and paying bond interest there remained $108,493,271 for stockholders, or more than twice the regular dividend requirements. After paying dividends on preferred stock $16.42 of the profits remained over for each share of common stock. Take.a look at that last figure. The profits accruing to the absentee owner of 100 shares of U, S. Steel common stock exceed a whole year’s ‘wages paid by the corporation to the average worker sweating in the mills. How about the few like Gary whose ‘holdings run into the tens of thousands of shares? Extra Dividend Doubled Such record breaking profits en- couraged Gary and the directors to double the extra dividend paid out of the abundant profits of the third quarter. This put an extra $2,541,- 512 in cash into the pockets of the stockholders and. brought the extra cash disbursements for the year to $3,812,268. Altogether stockholders have received $54,447,068 in cash as their share of 1923 profits and tetal disbursements to absentee owners, including bendholders, have amounted to $74,151,713. But Gary’s misstatement has a more sinister significance than would appear. Big business is determined to block the spread of the idea that the great preductivity of modern industry should result in a steady shortening of the work day. If the increasing overhead of private cap- ital is to escape bankruptcy, absentee owners must draw all the benefits of increased productivity. The ten- dency in Europe is all toward longer hours. It will spread to the United States. Already our business men are hailing it with satisfaction. This is the background of Gary’s attempt to make the country believe that the shorter work day really in- ereased costs. Farmers! Capper ..Voted..in Defense of Teapot Graft (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. — Senators who voted to strike out of the Walsh resolution calling for cancellation of the naval oil leases the clause in the preamble which directly charges illegality, voted in effect to give the Doheny and Sinclair interests an advantage in the courts, as against the government, in the contest for possession of these oil reserves, The. senators who thus lined up behind the Lenroot amendment were Ball, Brandegee, Bursum, Cameron, Capper, Couzens, Cummins, Curtis, Dale, Edge, Elkins, Ernst, Fernald, Gooding, Greene, Hale, Harreld, How- ell, Jones (Washington), Keyes, Len- root, Lodge, McKinley, McLean, Mc- Nary, Moses, Oddie, Pepper, Pi ‘ipps, Reed (Pennsylvania), Shortridge, Smoot, §; er, Stanfield, Sterling, Wad , Warren and Watson. Of the 12 who did not vote, those supposed to be paired in favor of Lenroot’s) amendment, were Bruce, Colt, Fess, McCormick, Weller and Willis. Bruce is the Maryland “B. and | Charge Gompers with Sabotaging Child Laborers By J. W. LEIGH (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW ORLEANS.—Miss _ Alice Odenheimer in an address before a representative gathering of women said Samuel Gompers showed he had not the welfare of humanity at heart when he deliberately gave the child labor amendment, entrusted to his care to an indifferent senator who deliberately Digeooied it, which statement wag loudly applauded. The occasion was the annual meet- ing of the local consumers league at which it ‘was stated that manufac- turers in the north and east were preparing to descend on the south where even the pretext of protection for children of tender age and women was a mockery as compared with manufacturing sections in other parts of the United States. Isaac Heller, prominent in Jewish circles was another speaker who said it was necessary that another amend- ment to replace the one nullified by the supreme court be passed to pro- tect children and women, and ad’ all to speak to their congressmen and senators in the only they 0” Democrat who voted for Cum-j could understand—votes, mins, and Howell and Couzens are Republicans formerly listed as pro- gressives. Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- 1 to 3 and 7 to 9 p.m. scription at once. Dependable Office Furniture at Reasonable Prices We have at all times a large stock of used Office Furniture and equipment, refinished in our shop, at a saving of 40% to 507%. Central Office Furniture Co. 1255-57 So. Wabash Avenue Phone Victory 9028 r 80x42 Mahogany Flat Top Desk............$27.00 Z| lowed. Start Open Shop Association in Big Southern City (Stat combed HEICH Press) NEW ORLEANS.—The Mechanics’ Cooperative Association is the de- ive name of a new open shop out- fit here which has filed its charter ted. with the secretary of state and is crafte- inviting carpenters and other men to join. The organization pro- poses to classify workmen into grades according to “skill and ability, Pay scales to vary according to le. The charter provides for the estab- lishment of a training school for ap- prentices and mechanics desiring to increase their skill. In addition to this sick benefits will be arranged, but no life insurance. The lent of the organization is Benj. Jackson, ‘who says that the association is not a labor union, far from it, but a close alliance between contractors and workers for “mutual benefits.” One of the features which appeals to the contractors is a declaration inst the strike as a means of set- ing disputes. Nor is arbitration al- ¢ boss sets the price, and you take it or starve. Bi Hits arcane, Law. SACRAM , Calif—The last faveneee of the criminal syndical- ism law was weakened wi iT ) BE. Me- Grée Yond Bam Osrmae’ of eriminal days," and all the stock profes- bBo gh A were brought in, but the jury ten four e Page Thre« VIVID PICTURE OF RUSSIAN PRESS BY MISS STRONG Workers’ Papers Throb with Interest ture of Russian newspapers that throbbed with vital human interest, at the annual banquet of the Fed- erated Presa at King’s restaurant. It was her first appearance in Chicago after years spent in the land of the Soviets and those who were fortunate enough to hear her wish ve that thousands had been pres- ent Miss Strong reads Russian and did not depend on translators. The papers of Moscow and other cities she visited are as different from the bloated monstrosities of Amer- jean newspaperdom as day is from night. Instead of a glorification of the virtues and follies of the private life of the wealthy such as fill the cotumns of the American press there ard full and dramatic accounts of the deeds which advance the inter- | ests of the workers. No Plute Social Chatter. Let a scientific explorer find new oi), fields, mica or iron, mines and te, ponerse give glowing and infor- mative accounts. Profiteers are dis- missed. with sarcastic paragraphs and the papers carry no social chat- ter of the doings of their wives such as encourages American people to profiteer so that they can emulate such a life. The only time the profiteer gets more space is when evidence is found against him. Much of this evidence appears in the newspapers for the first time. Workers are enc d to write to the paper and t6 tell what they wish, let the chips fall where they will. “Workers’ Life” Department. The “Workers’ Life” department | of the Communist papers is composed of letters from factory workers. Here facts are presented about effi- ciency or inefficiency in the facto- ries, for above all other public ques- tions the workers are interested in successful production. Startling rev- elations are often made on graft, leading to. prosecutions. Let favor- itisin be shown in the distribution of products, such as shoes, or let milk intended for the tubercular be| given to the healthy and the readers | of the “Workers’ Life” department are likely to hear of it. | Albert Coyle, editor of the Loco- motive Engineers’ Journal, followed Miss Strong with a speech on the need for extension of the workers’| press in America and a presentation of the financial problems labor pub- lishers face. e ‘ All Factions Represented. Carl Haessler, managing editor of South Dakota Dirt Farmers Fight For Political Power As Crashing Banks Show Ruinof Present System (Special Correspondence to the DAILY WORKER.) SIOUX FALLS, 8. D.—South Dakota continues to be the most interesting spot on the map of the northwest. it is the financial storm center. banks have blown up. Just now During the last ten days thirty For a year the dinky country shave shops have been Anna Louise Strong painted a pic-| Quietly dropping like autumn leaves, but the big show began in Mitchell two months ago, when the First National Bank, the oldest institution in the town, closed its doors. Tied to this ik was the First Trust Com- pany, organized under the state law, to take up the musty paper that had been accumu- lated thru years of bad loans by the First National. Fresh deposits were desired for the First National, and the only way these could be got was by the organization of the subsidiary company. One of the devices of the First Trust to coax new deposits,.was to send out ple of small means, inviting their deposits, A credit of one dollar was written in the pass book, providing the recipient of the book became a depositor of the bank. This pass book \eredit “come-on” system worked with a great many, with the result that a large number of People are now patiently awaiting the promised re-opening of the bank, National Bank was a favorite of the officers of the State Rural Credits Board. One of the members of the Rural Credits Board, Albert Zosky, was a director of the bank. How by the State on bonds sold to furnish loans on land to farmers, are tied up in the failure, nobody but the in- siders know. The Rural Credits Board ed a closed corporation, divulg- ing nothing it can conveniently kee: from the public. é . Panic Grips Sioux Falls. The acute stage of the panie which has been approaching for months, broke in Sioux Falls, with the failure of the Sioux Falls National Bank on dollars, and with it went a number of its satellite banks in the smaller towns. This failure was followed two days later by the failure of the Sioux Falls Trust & Savings Bank, with deposits of between four and five million dollars, and with this in- stitution also went a number of its country correspondents. In the in- terim, other smaller banks in the banks, “went South.” These huge failures startled the big boys at Washington, and last week wé “Were informed that Coolidge— quick to come to the aid of the banks the Federated Press, expressed his | but slow to recognize the farmer pleasure at speaking to such a} distress as the cause of the trouble— representative labor gathering as in-|had instructed the War’ Finance cluded conservative A. F. of L. edi-| tors, a communist advertising man- ager, an I. W. W. poet, an anarch- ist statistician, and others, This va- ried clientele of the Federated Press, which aroused the hostility of the A. F. of L, administration that wished to restrict labor news service to one faction of the labor move- ment, was the strength of the serv- ice. he declared. Robert Morse Lovett called the Federated Press a great agency for free speech and fact-giving. * * * CHICAGO.—Reaffirmation of its traditional policy of fair and cor- dial service to every group and wing in the labor movement was voted by the Federated Press, assembled in fourth annual meeting in Chicago, Feb. 1, By unanimous vote the labor edi- tors declared that the association, now comprising 76 member papers, will continue to welcome all genuine _| without discrimination. labor papers into its membership and will continue to gather and dis- tribute news of interest to them all The meeting followed established custom re-electing to the ex tive board all three of the directors whose terms expired this year. Those re-elected were E. B. Ault, editor, Seattle Union Record; Wm. Z. Fos- ter, editor, Labor Herald, Chicago; R. D, Cramer, editor, Labor Review, Minneapolis. At the meeting of the new executive board following the annual meeting the old officers of the board were unanimously re-elec- The 1924 minimum budget as ap- proved by the board was adopted by the annual meeting with minor changes, It ides for an esti- mated 's income from sales and donations of $43,411.68, and for ex- penditures to an equal amount. Progressive People Nominate OMAHA.—The Progressive Peo- le’s Party, which was left in the lurch by Henry Ford, is bravely carrying on at its convention here and has named a presidential ticket. The men who will to sweep the country without Ford’s millions are Robert 8. Pointe of Dearborn, Mich., | for president and Roy M. Harrop, for | vice president, E. M, Price will probably take hl the er pet manship from Harrop. e Soldiers’ bonus is abolition of the electoral college are leading planks in the platform. Lovestone Meetings, then| Jay Lovestone will address two meeting 3 in Detroit on Sunday, Feb. 10, At 3p. m. he will speak at the House of the Masses on the sub- ject: “Who Owns Congress”; at 8 R m. he = ar the Marr ing under the auspices of the South We Corporation to come to the rescue of the banks of North and South Da- kota and Minnesota, with a thirty million slice of War Finance Corpo- ration funds. Eugene Meyer is now on the ground with the alleged pur- pose of plugging the financial storm sewer with public money, one third of which is to go to this State, and the balance to North Dakota and Minnesota. Coolidge Didn’t Save Them. This promise of the administration to come to the rescue could not been taken seriously, however, for on Monday the Western National Bank of Mitchell, with deposits of nearly a million dollars and five branch banks, closed its doors. This bank is headed by W. S. Hill, who was formerly president of the South Da- kota Farm Bureau Federation. He was a prospective “dirt” farmer choice for member of the Federal Reserve Board and later for an ap- pointment to the Shipping Board, On the same day the International State Bank of Sioux Falls, with deposits of $1,300,000 turned the key in its doors. This makes the third big ilure in Sioux Falls within ten ys. The combined deposit obliga- tions of the three failed Sioux Falls banks amounts to over eight million dollars, which makes the Coolidge do- nation of ten million dollars for South Dakota look like a drop in the bucket to the distressed bankers who are not yet closed, but are shivering on the brink. Banks Failed Monday. The daily press of this section is running ia “closed shop” on news of bank failures generally, but from cur- rent information available at this writing, eleven banks closed their doors in this State on Monday. It was Black Monday for South Da- kota’s financiers. Nobody can tell how many more banks will tumble within the next few days or weeks, Depositors are quietly withdrawing their funds from all the banks now open, so that a continuation of the bank explosions may be expected. Nobody, not even the bankers them- selves, appear to believe that the dumping of thirty or even fifty mil- lion dollars into the banks of the northwest to take up the bad paper of the banks, would™mow do any good, It is too late. Millions of dollars of state, county and road funds are swamped in the crash. Unless the panic ends ab- ruptly, it is probable the legislature may have to be called in extra ses- sion to provide funds to pay the run- ning expenses of the public institu- tions and the various political divi- sions of the state. The governor has power to issue “emergency” warrants to meet unlooked for contingencies, and he may avail himself of that ywwer—doubtful tho it may co Bap te the cireumstances—to avoid a legislative session, which, if held, several hundred pass books to peo- | The First | much Rural Credits funds, borrowed | the 10th of Januaty. This bank had | deposits of two and a half million | State, having no relations with these | might develop investigation of public finances which would result in a po- litical cyclone. The governor, who is a candidate for United States Sena- tor, may not care to invite the cy- clone. Advanced Political Spirit. _ Not only is South Dakota a finan- cial storm center, but it has a stormy political future. In this respect it is the end of the 1924 campaign, In contrast with North Dakota, whose Nonpartisan League elements have not yet discovered that the League is dead, and who are still enmeshed jin the sticky fly paper of the repub- lican organization, the South Dakota Nonpartisan League began its career as an independent political party and |Went thru the campaign of 1918 la- beled as a “‘farmer-labor” element, It had a distinctive national view- Point in 1920, as contrasted with other League states. It sent a dele- {gation of forty people to Chicago that year to participate in the delib- erations of the gathering where the Farmer-Labor Party was organized. The infiuence of this delegation turned the tide in-favor of the Fitz Patrick group as against the Com- mittee of Forty-eight during that convention. In the first deliberations |of this convention the advanced viewpoint of the South Dakotans was well shown. When asked what they |thought about platform, the South Dakota delegation unanimously sub- mitted one plank: “Proportional, Occupational Representation.” This knoeked the Chicago trade unionists off their pins. They could not take the rough fodder of the South Da- kota farmers, The Leaguers, how- ever, stuck to their plank, inserted it in their platform that year and have kept it there. They have advocated it persistently in their publications and on the stump. It is a part of their faith. “Land for the Users.” The quick transformation of this group of fifty thousand farmers and workers into a Farmer-Labor Party at their convention last December, and the unanimous adoption of the leading planks of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, “land for the users,” and a “five-year moratorium for working farmers on their farm mortgage debts” shows the flexibility of this greup, its alertness to chang: ing conditions and its grasp of the cold fact that the time is close at hand when class lines in politics will be strictly obseryed. This places the South Dakota radicals in the lead of the political thought and action of the northwestern states. It is safe to predict that within the next year the struggle in this state will be be- tween the radjcals and reaction- aries, wiping out old party align- ments. It is certain that 1926 will witness this if it does not come this year. Couzens Dines with Denby, Then Comes Out in His Defense (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. — After-dinner government scores again. Item in society column, Washington Star, Jan, 30: “The Secretary of ‘the Navy and Mrs. Denby enter- tained at dinner last evening, when their guests included the Minister of China, Dr. Alfred Sze, ... Sen- ator and Mrs. James Couzens, .. . Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns,” ete. Item in the Senate, Jan. 80: “Sen- ator Couzens—I did not attempt to determine the exact acts of the Sec- retary of the Navy. I desired to point out that there was some jus- tification for proceeding along the line on which the Secretary proceed- ed, but whether to the extent to which he proceeded I have not gone into the testimony sufficiently to determine. What I desired to point out was that, while this campaign of recrimination is going on, Con- gress itself might take some notice of the manner in which it passed the act.” Couzens is comparatively liberal, but is many times a millionaire, He accepted Denby’s hospitality in the midst of the airing by the Senate, which is sitting virtually as a court, of the oi] scandal in which Denby is among the men accused of law- breaking. Stearns, his fellow-guest, is ihe: Boasenal backer of President Coolidge, who has been trying to protect Denby and Roosevelt. After dining with these men, Couzens for the first time gets into the debate, and says that Denby may merely have misunderstood the law, and Congress is to blame for not having been more definite in saying what it meant. ‘ And that same day, on the first three roll calls in the Senate's trial of the ease, Juror Couzens voted twice with the administration, to weaken the terms of the sentence assed on the acts of Fall and by and Roosevelt. Two Dunne Meetings in Detroit. William F. Dunne will speak at two meetings in Detroit on Saturday and Sunday, Feb, 16 and 17, The Saturday night meeting will be a Press Banquet. Sunday afternoon comrade Dunne will speak at the Workers Party Forum on “La- bor and the Ku Klux Klan.” likely to outrank Minnesota before | COST OF LIVING AT DIZZY HEIGHT, SURVEY SHOWS Workers Need $1,450 for Barest Existence By ND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) _ The upward course of the cost of living has not been checked, ac- cording to the December survey of the U. S. bureau of labor statistics. Only the lowest subsistence can be purchased by the average wage earner’s family with the present so- called high wages. Health and com- fort are beyond the reach of all but & minority even among the better paid mechanics. Hundreds of thou- sands of unskilled workers cannot fhope to provide even bare neces- sities for a family. The cost of a wage earner’s fam- ily budget is today 4 per cent above the level of September, 1922, and 73 (per cent above the average of 1913, the bureau’s figures show. In many industrial centers the cost of living has increased more rapidly than the average for the country as a whole. Compared with the low point of 1922, wage earners are paying 5 per cent more to meet living expenses in Boston and De troit, 6 1-2 per cent more in Phila- delphia and Scranton, 6 per cent more in Buffalo, 6 1-2 per cent more in Chicago, and 7 per cent more in Cleveland. Such increases are more than enough to cancel apparent in- creases in wages secured by many groups of workers. Land/prds’ Greed Grows. Increases in rents have been an important factor in the slow but steady encroachment of living costs upon the wage earner’s pure power, As already pointed out by the Federated Press the government figures are based on average rents paid thruout the country rather than on changes in the ‘cost of such housing as the American worker can afford. These figures show average rents up to 67 per cent since 19138, But other figures also originating in the bureau of labor statistics show that working class rents have in- creased at least 100 per cent dur- ing the ten-year period. Correction of the increase for the entire budget on the basis of this rent figure would show the cost of living today to be approximate- ly 78 per cent above the pre-war level. Need $1,450 To Even Exist With living costs at this level the minimum family budget of the New York factory cotjmission will demand at least $1,450 a year. And experts declare that thig budget is low., in..its._.previsien fat--£o makes no _ pretense at providing comforts. But to provide this low minimum a worker must be as- sured of 52 weeks steady work at $27.90, or just the average wage of all New York factory employes in December. To provide the minimum comforts of the U, S. department of labor health and decency stan- dard it would be necessary for the annual pay envelope to contain $2,- 290. And that means steady earn- ings of $43 a week thruout the year. Puzzle—Find the industries that pay workers enough so that, in this rich land, their families can enjoy the ordinary comforts of life, not to mention decency and health. And the result—employment of mothers, infant mortality, child labor, the development of a class of physically unfit, Offer Johnston Seat on Platform with Ruthenberg (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. LOUIS—C. E, Ruthenberg, executive secretary, Workers Party, will address.a public mass meeting here Feb. 10, at 8 p. m., Eagles’ hall, Jeffcrson and Lafayette streets. His subject will be “Independent Political Action vs. Rewarding the and Punishing the Enemies of Labor.” The meeting will be on the eve o! the opening of the National Confer ence for Progressive Political Action, which will convene here. William H. Johnston, president, Internationol As- sociation of Machinists, and cheir- man, N. C. P. P. A., has invited Ruthen- to share the platform berg. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Lenin Portraits Show your loyalty, love and respect for the greatest leader of the revolutionary workers and adorn the walls of your room, clubs and meeting halls, with a portrait of Nikolai Lenin. The price is within anyone's reach: Single copy, 8x11 inches 25 cents. Single copy, 14x17 inches 65 cents. Radical discount for quantity orders. Agents wanted. Literature Dept, Workers Party of America 1009 N. 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