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Tuesday, March 11, 1924 GOMPERS URGES THUMB-PRINTING OF FOREIGN BORN Begs Labor Support for Johnson Bill (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 10.—Ia a let- ter addressed to the Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City, one of the most conservative labor bodies inthe United States, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation, of Labor, requested the indorsement of the. reactionary John- son Immigration Bill. Speaking in the most contemptu- ous terms of the Jewish, Italian and workers who had come here from Southeastern Europe, Gompers, him- self an immigrant, totally ignored the debt of gratitude which the American labor movement owes these workers, who bravely dared to challenge the power of Judge Gary and the steel trust in the great steel strike, who constitute the backbone of the needle trade unions and who have always been the first to feel the onslaught of the employing class. Admitting that the provisions of the Johnson bill do not meet fully the demands of the A. F. of L, for the restriction of immigration, he believes, however, that it is a step in the right direction. “We must support every limitation,” he says in rallying the hundred percteners to the slogan of “America for Ameri- cans.” Delegates In Revolt. The assembled delegates would not swallow this “bunk,” however Dele- gate after delegate rose to condemn the bill. Lefkowitz of the Teachers’ union characterized it as the most reactionary and anti-labor measure ever proposed by a legislative body. He declared that the follow-up and finger-printing of the foreign-born, as provided for in the bill, was wor- thy of the blackest days of Czarist Russia. Delegate Gaa of the Paint- ers’ union showed that the threat of deportation would be used as an effective weapon against the toreign- born worker to dissuade him from activity in the trade unions or in strikes, The matter was finally referred to the legislative committee to be acted on on Thursday, March 20. Defeat “i se ¢ 8 Miners Hit Bills. (Special to The Daily Worker) COELLO, Ill., March 10.—Vigorous protest against the “immigration” bills is made by Local Union No. 232 of the United Mine Workers of America, The local declares: “The exception laws directed against the foreign-born are in- ‘tended to’stifie those efforts of the foreign-born to raise their stand- ‘ard of living in common struggles with the native workers. With the foreign-born workers regis- . tered, finger-printed and photo- graphed, and under threat of de- . portation, should they actively par- ticipate in strikes it will be easy for the employers to hold them in check and prevent the building of more pows organizations of labor.” Chicago Rooming Houses Very. Bad, Investigators Find The shabby, overcrowded condi- tions in the Chicago rooming house districts were described Miss Marie Merrill, of the Public Welfare Department of Chicago, at the an- nual dinner of the Sarah Hackett Stevenson Home at the Union League ; pared Club. Of 300 rooms examined by the de- rtment’s investigators, said Miss errill, none were ra‘ as “good.” The highest rated were “fair,” which means that they lacked the important elements of comfort. Shabbiness was i eeThe of the housing f: inadequacy e ing fa~ jes downt are revealed by the that there are 300,000 workers working in the industrial sections of Chicago and only 3,090 downtown sapien is tt In one month twice ag many per- sens ap) for rooms as could be asommodated. Rooming house land- Jords often shut their There is no aed prevent such actions. . CHICAGO YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE MEETING TODAY ae Street at 8:30 p. m. to|ing and mo. Class in “A BC of Commun- || weber’s Week ism” meets at 1902 West Division || plains some ‘THE DAILY WORKER Daily Worker’s Investigation Shows Chicago’s Housing Problem Is More Acute Now Than Ever (The housing problem in Chicago in all its phases—ex- horbitant rents, overcrowding, ill repair of homes and conse- quent misery and disease—is more acute than it has ever been before. s There are less moderately priced homes available than Rooming sections, chiefly ever before in Chicago’s history. ancient mansions, are a huge pile of decay, filth and disease. Rents have been raised to an alarming and unwarranted de- gree by unscrupulous land- lords who do not hesitate to take advantage of the tenants’ misery. Every class in the city has been hard hit, except the very wealthy. White collar clerks, women office workers, Negroes, laborers, and fam- ilies of all occupations in moderate circumstances are forced to pay ex- treme prices for shoddy, uncomfort- able and unsanitary rooms, Many cannot secure accommodations at any price, except with difficulty, These are the facts revealed by The DAILY WORKER’S investigation of the homes of the “City Beautiful.” Plague Spots Menace Thousands, “Chicago has many unsanitary, un- comfortable homes which are veri- table plague spots to the life of the community,” the United Charities, which handles hundreds of housing problems each month, tells us. “Few people who live in easy cir- cumstances have any conception of the terrific hardships, the hopeless misery, with which thousands of hu. man beings are forced to put up in this so-called modern and_progres- sive Chicago of ours, because of the lack of modern, clean, sanitary homes. “The menace of these poorly con- structed old buildings is augmented in some instances by the attitude of scrouging landlords toward their ten- ants.” The reports flock in that there is an acute shortage of houses in Chi- cago. “Chicago is now confronted with a most serious housing prob- lem,” we read in an Association of Commerce circular, “and everywhere evils will arise if we do not act to prevent them.” Why, in view of the recent build- ing booms, should there be a short- age of houses this year? ‘The rec- ords of the city of department of health show that the year 1923 es- tablished a record for building con. struction in the history of Chicago Last year there were 15,494 build- ings erected at a cost of $329,604,312, as compared with 9,938 buildings erected at a cost of $83,261,710, in 1914. And yet Edwin C. Jones, fi- nancial sccretary of the United Char- ities of Chicago, tells me that this week, on the West Si’e, a woman, six months’ pregnant, “was found starving in a bare hayloft with her four children. Unfortunately there was not even hay in the Ivtt to fyur- nish the stricken family with warmth They are now being supported by charity. Building Below Normal. The Illinois Society of Architects partially explains this seeming con- tradiction of the tremendous profits in building with the terrible suffer- ings of the people who are huddled into Chicago’s overcrowded and poorly maintained dwellings. “Much has been heard about a building boom in Chicago,” the society finds, “but a comparison cf the figures of the number of builiing permits issued in Chicago, the sr d frontage covered, and- the estimated cost of buildings ccns.ructed for the axt fifteen years, indicates that the construction work for 1922 in Chicago is only about normai when the changed purchasing power cf the dollar of 1922 is com- to the purchasing power of the dollar in 1924 and previous years, It is obvious then, that there is still a deficit to be made up in addition to the new buildings necessary for normal increased requirements.” When asked to soko the reason for the acute housing shortage, in relation to the biggest building year in Chicago’s history, it was said at the offices of the Association of Commerce that “a large percentage of the has been of the expensive apartment house type. Builders have not, in yn meee ae years, put their money 0 housing Cocommedations for the moderate salaried man. Consequently there is a housing shortage among the work- ing people and clerks.” It is con- servatively estimated by the bond. oe companies that at the end of 1922 in Chicago there was a shortage of 29,692 apartments and dwellings below the normal number needed to house the population in 1923, The cat is leb out of the bag by of Feb. 9, which ex- the true causes of overwhelming housing he idnes “It will be observed that FIRST ORDER FOR 200 COPIES OF “THE TEAPOT SPEGIAL” HAS ARRIVED The first order for “The Teapot Special” has arrived. It is for 200 copies and it comes from Kansas City, Kansas. The order comes from. a group of workers who want to let their neighbors know the truth about “The Teapot”, This is the order that is expected to let loose a whole flood of demands from all sections of the country for this historic issue. We are prepared for them. Send them in. Use the blank on Page Two. The rate is two cents per copy; $1 for 50; $2 per 100. Send all orders to THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. ‘ the obstructive forces that have op- erated against home building have been of a distinctly commercial or mercenary character,” writes the weekly. “The social or sodological consideration hag not entered to the slightest extent. There is a short- age of the homes that the people ac- tually require, because there hasn’t been enormous promt in supplying such homes.” Speculators Gouging Tenants. Tn an open letter to United States Senator Couzens, the Hon. Alexan- der H. Revell of Chicago, recently made the following statement: “You cite the abundance of capital for con- structive purposes. Chicago bankers assure me that the reason for the abundance was the abnormal rental situation. There was a vital short- age of housing accommodations. The result was that the landlord charged what he wanted. New buildings were financed by mortgage bond houses on an 80 to 100 per cent of valuation basis with impunity. It was felt that before rents could drop, from 20 to 40 per cent of the value of the struc- ture would be repaid. The rate ex- acted for such financing by the mort. gage bond companies under these conditions ran from 12 to 13 per cent and even higher. You can find sworn testimony as to this in the records of the Dailey Legislative investiga- tion into Chicago building conditions. In every instance the rent payer bore the burden of this item of overhead.” System Increases Death Rate. The prime reason for the large housing sHortage,° our “investigation discloses, is that there is more profit for real estate speculators in build- ing large, beautiful apartments de- signed for the wealthy. The large landlords as well the builders, have their own interests at heart. It is good business to enter the field which nets the most money, and that field for the builder and landlord, is the rearing of imposing looking, expensive apartments, on which bonds bearing a fat interest can be floated—bonds which are paid for out of the savings of small investors. The real estate man never has cared about the appalling results of his dollar chasing activities. He does not heed the fact that “the death rate increases with the density of population,” a fact established almost a@ quarter of a century ago by an extensive survey of the City Homes Association. Ags long as homes are built in the interest of private real estate profiteers instead of to take care of the actual needs of the peo- ple, Chicago will have the spectacle of the exclusive section of the city, with its commodious, towering apart- ments to be had only at fancy prices, while the great majority pay their extreme, unreasonable rents, huddled uncomfortably close together in the overcrowded sections of the city, Irish Free State Troops Mutiny as Unemployment Grows DUBLIN, Ireland, March 10.—The Trish'Free State government is appre- hensive as a result of a mutiny that broke out in the Templemore Barracks, County Sa appt fo An or- der was issued regarding disorganiza- tion involving the dropping of sol- diers from the ranks. lagmeei. ts ledoea, Soe tharelng of ployment in 4 Sa aeeande of demobolized soldiers on ‘the market would add to the tense- ‘ness of the situation. Echoes of the Templemore mutin; ‘soon reached the rest of Ireland, causing much uneasiness, This is the first serious revolt. that faced the Free State government since it suc- ceeded in crusing the Republicans, Boston Will Raise $10,000 in 3 Months For German Relief BOSTON, Mass., March 10.—The of the Page Three SAMUEL INSULL LEADS DRIVE FOR MASONIC TEMPLE Masonic Corporation Is Shaking Down Workers Dissatisfaction is growing among the working class members of the Masonic order at the high handed way in which Samuel Insull, presi- dent of the Commonwealth Edison company and director in numerous public utility corporations, has prac- tically taken charge of the drive for @ new monument to Masonry in the loop. One member of the Masons who has been asked to contribute one hundred dollars told The DAILY WORKER that it is a new campaign of the Edison head to get. some cheap advertising. The fact that four engineers asso- ciated with Insull as well as Insull himbelf are on the committee which has entire charge of the campaign to raise five million dollars has led many of the Masons to charge that Insull has a two.fold purpose in his activities to further the prestige of the Edison company, and to sell the securities which Insull controls, A letter sent out to members of the Utilities Craftsmen’s Club, Num- ber 1, reveals that Mr. John F. Gil- christ, also closely associated with Insull, is chairman of the Campaign Executive Committee. Members of the club claim that Insull, in collect- ing the yh thru his company in- stead of the lodge, is violating the rules of the lodge. It is being pointed out that Sen- ator Dailey, who was chairman of the legislative committee which in- vestigated the building trades, called Insull “the uncrowned king of the loop,” who because "he named the candidates for both the republican and democratic offices not only in Chicago, bgt thruout Illinois, and that his influence extends to many | d places in the middle west. Other members of the committee are Bernard Sunny, an official of the Western Electric company. All of these companies which seems to have felt it their duty to collect these millions for the Masons are representatives of corporations which are unorganized, and which have bit- terly opposed the successful organi- zation of the electrical workers and other unions. Another just cause for dissatis- faction at this new grasping gesture of the large en:ployers is the fact that they have not even allowed the members to contribute what they desire. They are asked to give a definite sum and are told how they must pay it. The unorganized work. ers, it is being said by those who are hard hit by the contribution, receive such & standard of-pay that the could not give enough unless prod. ed to it by their bosses. The letter sent to members of Utilities Craftsmen’s Club No. 1, which is signed by R. T. Schuettge, says in part: “Brother Craftsman: You know that the Masons of Chi- cago are about to start a campaign to raise $5,000,000 to erect a monu- ment to Masonry in the loop, Mr. John F, Gilchrist it chairman of the campaign executive committee. The Utilities Craftsman’s Club wants to be a part of this wonderful under- taking,‘and have been permitted to organize its own team. My lieuten- ants will be the members of the pub- licity committee. One of them will call on you this week. “Wouldn’t it please Brother Gil- christ to hand him a big bunch of subscriptions next Friday? Let’s back him up. He made it possible for us to earn extra money. Mason- ry has helped you and me, and now we have a chance to turn about and help it. Subscriptions are taken for $100, payable in five installments,” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Soviet Ambassador in Rome Hoists Red, Flag Over Embassy ( to The Daily Worker) ROME, March 10,—Italian workers befaees see today Ag Liga ve sep munism prow waving in the breeze from the balcony of the Soviet em here. To add to the interest of the red symbol is the fact that it flew over the former home of the ezar’s agents in the Eternal City. Shortly after an exchange of rati- fications took place between Italy and Russia, the Italian government handed over the building to the Bol- shevik envoys. Their first task was to raise the Red Flag. The incident attracted much attention and was applauded iv Piserge! workers despite the black sti dictatorship. Scab Education Is Proud Boast of Northwestern ‘The Federated Press) WINNETKA, Hil, Mar. 10.-—North- western University has robbed the labor movement of at least one good union the “A WEEK” Views of Dora J. Dow. to describe breaking Words are this story of the heart struggle of the Communists of the impotent first years! Things dimly veiled are here set forth in stark, awful realism! What a portrait gallery! The heroic Robeiko, working, speaking, under the shadow of death. | Gornuikh, the brain of the party, finally, “The steersman of a heavily loaded barge in a winding shallow stream.” Simkova—alas! Her end. Repin, the dastard traitor; Mar- tuinov, the desolate; timid Lisa:— “There they all were, dear ones, her own. The lads she had taught the multiplication table to in the school, now armed with terrible rifles, they seemed to Lisa a power. ful avenging force, a force of tri- umphant justice. The ghastly, ij mical Easter bells, of the dead religion—ringing over the little town. The twenty-eight comrades, dead, covered with red flags! $300,000 Raised by World’s Workers for German Relief By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) BERLIN, Mar. 10.—Over $300,000 has been raised by the labor folk of the world thru the International Workers’ Relief since Oct. 1 to les- sen distress in Germany, according to General Secretary Willy Muenzen- berg. Until the end of May it will be necessary to raise money at the rate of 100-150,000 gold marks ($25- 37,000) monthly, to keep up the vari- ous feeding kitchens, According to a cable from the American branch, the workers of America will assume $100,000 of this sum, 22,000 Meals a Day. Some 22,000 German workers or Tembers of their families are re- ceiving at least one square meal per lay as a result of this international help from more fortunate workers in other parts of the world. There are committees in practically every civilized country of the world. Hol- land has perhaps the most perfect organization, the United States the strongest financially. In Australia all labor organizations have officially indorsed the relief and are members of it. In Spain it is the League for Human Rights which has taken the initiative and to which the labor or- ganizations have attached themselves, The Belgians, besides raising money, volunteered to take 100 German chil. dren into their homes but the Bel- gian government, taking its cue from the French government, refused them passports, The French government had several months previously re- fused to let 1000 German children go there. One of the best centers for the work is Russia, where the workers, gratefully remembering how the International Workers’ Relief came to their aid in 1921.and 1922, are now eagerly collecting for their German brothers and sisters. Children’s Home. Besides having established a chain of feeding kitchens in Berlin and other centers (Frankfort, Mangheim, Dresden, etc.), the International Workers’ Relief maintains a_chil- dren’s recreation home on the Baltic, a number of children’s day homes in Berlin, and sewing rooms where poor housewives can mend their clothing under experienced guidance and with the aid of sewing machines. Soon a free medical advice station is to be installed, $1,539 Yearly Paid Furniture Workers in Grand Rapids “(By The Federated Press) GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 10. —The average wage paid employes of the Grand Rapids furniture indus- try during 1923 amounted to $1,539, according to figures made public by the employers. This is the highest level yet reached in the indus’ and ASHLEIGH TELLS OF SOLIDARITY IN DOGKERS' STRIKE Left Wing Committees on the Job <Special to The Daily Worker) BY CHARLES ASHLEIGH. LONDON, Feb, 21.—(By Mail) — Today the docks are tied up complete- ly. With the withdrawal of the men in the Stevedores’ Union, the strike is complete. No work is being done in any of the ports. The meat profiteers have raised the price of meat, out of all proportion to the scarcity, which, as a matter of fact, has not yet made itself felt. The longshoremen’s union has Proposed to the government that they will allow certain necessary stores to pass, if the government, on its side, will guaran- tee to prevent profiteering, Sevral minor incidents have arisen out of the mass picketing. Three or four picketers have been fined in the courts for assaults on drivers of trucks who endeavor to enter the dock gates in order to load stores which are carried to the trucks by clerks, foreman and other employes who are with but very scanty success—try- ing, in some measure, to replace the dockers, _ Scab Goods Banned. Drivers of trucks are also members of the Transport and General Work- ers’ Union. The union has issued in- structions to them that they are not to handle any goods from the docks. This order has been rigidly obeyed, and, as a result, about 5,000 men have been directly affected, and about 10,- 000 more, indirectly. The union has issued a warning to all employers of teamsters in the London area that “should they attempt to continue to victimize members of the union for carrying out the union’s instructions, the whole of the drivers, regardless of their work, will be called out.” It must be understood that these team- sters are making no demands of their own, of the bosses, but are merely demonstrating their solidarity for their fellow members who are on strike on the docks, Labor Officially Supports Strike. The General Council of the Trade Union Congress, the highest official trade union body in Britain, has of- ficially endorsed the strike, pledging the full support of British unionism. Other strikes, which have broken out in London since the dockers’ strike commenced, are a strike of meat porters, in the Smithfield Meat Market, and about one thousand om-- nibus drivers—also members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. These strikers are for special objects, independent of the dock strike, but, arising at this juncture, and being of a spontaneous nature, they are of great importance. For one thing, they signalize a general re- sumption of militancy among the transport workers of all grades. At the same time, it is rumored that the road transport workers of Britain are shortly going to hold a national conference on wages and conditions; and many branches of the railroad workers’ unions are sending in demands to their executives for a conference to draw up demands for improved rates of pay. Left Wing Activities. The Communist Party of Great Bri- tain and the British Bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions are by no means inactive amid all this strife. The members of the party are assisting the strikers by every means in their power. The party units have proffered theireservices to the strike committees in all parts of the country. A leaflet has been issued, calling upon workers in all branches of the transport industry to stand solidly by the striking longshoremen. Special reference is made to seamen. The activities of the Red International of Labor Unions in this line are now in- creasing, with the publication of a special seaman’s paper, “The Interna- ‘tional Seafarer,” in London. Under the auspices of the Red International of Labor Unions, a Provisional Trans- epresents an increase of 1 per cent over the wages paid in 1916 which amounted to $760. The num- ber of wage earners on the payrolls also reached record proportions in 1923 when the daily average was 10,842. In 1920, which was the high mark previous to 1923 the industry paid an average wage of $1,495 to 10,507 workers, The depression of 1921 re. duced working forces to 7,916, involv- ing a layoff of pt cheng 25 per cent, Average earnings during 1921, however, decreased by only 4 per cent to $1,487, according to the re- port. Toller’s Rebel Play Coming to the Theatre Guild (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 10.—Masse Mensch—freely translated, The Herd Spirit—a_ revolutionary play by the German dramatist, Ernest Toller, will be presented at the Garrick theater by the Theater Guild here in April. Toller was closely involved in the Spartacist uprisings of 1919 and is now rounding out a sentence in a Munich prison, ie wrote this much-disputed play in one night, spending many subsequent months in retouc! it. His most impressive work has been accomplished durin; his prison confinement. On » occasions, the performance of Masse Mensch in Germany was accompanied by disorders in the theaters. Louis Unterme x has translated Toller’s work, and Lee Simonson has designed the settings. Join the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club, rt Workers’ Solidarity Committee as been formed, consisting of left- wing representatives of all branches of the transport industry. These com- mittees are both national and local. Comrade George Hardy, secretary of the Marine Transport Workers’ Sec- tion of the International Propaganda Committee of Revolutionary Trans- port Workers of the Red Interna- tional Labor Unions, is secretary of the Solidarity Committee. The leaf- let, which is being distributed in large quantities in all ports, after stating the objects of the strike, goes on to say: R. I. L. U. Solidarity Cry. “Are we to let the dockers fight alone? No! We cannot work while our brothers are on strike ashore. When the lines are made fast, seamen are fihished, unless they are prepared to blackleg their fellow workers. “Dockers and seamen should form joint committees locally and nationally and make united de- mands. We work for the same boswes; the fight is a common fight. To achieve victory, all marine workers in docks must be inactive ashore and afloat. Not a rail, road een tee mt am a hem BUSY TONIGHT? the office of THE DAILY WORKER Phone: Lincoln 7680 and say you'll be up tonight to help THE DAILY WORKER opr workers are needed at | i ' | ! ' t 1640 N. Halsted St. Oe es ao eee eo en eS a Se Pere emcee cen cemcmmcemmiaicemian or sea transport worker must be found aiding the shipowners. “Form your Transport Workers’ Solidarity Committees in every port. Urge your national officials to make demands for ALL trans- port workers, A united front of all transport workers will render in- effective the threats of the ship- owners to reduce seamen’s wages, will raise wages of the road trans- port. workers and will recover some of the logses of the railwaymen, “Success in solidarity—defeat in division! “No Promise! “One National Settlement! National Victory! The workers in the various ports are reading this manifesto with in- terest, and many are admitting the logic of its contents. A closer soli- darity among all branches of the great transport industry should be the result of this timely and vigorous agitation. ‘Anglo-Russian Meet to Open in London on April First (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 10.—The Anglo- Russian conference to frame = an agreement between the two coun- tries will meet in St. Jame’s Palace, London, on April 1. According to reports Ramsay MacDonald will pre- side at the first session. M. Litvindff will be the Russian delegate, accord- ing to reports. The Soviet delegation is planning to demand a credit of approximately $750,000 to facilitate trade relations. © Trade between England and Russia is increasing and it is believed the government: of Britain will suggest to the banks that financial credits be arranged satisfactorily. Grain trade is reopening and big shipments are arriving in British ports, while the Shell Oil Company has secured some big cargoes of crude oil from Russia. Purim Bazaar Will Show Exhibits of Russian Orphans What the children’s institutions in Soviet Russia are doing will be dem- compromise! No com- A onstrated at the Purim Bazaar for the Jewish Children’s Homes of Russia which will be held in Ashland Auditorium, Ashland and Van Buren streets, March 20, 21, 22 and 23. The exhibits that will be shown will give the first direct views of those institutions ever seen in America, Visitors to the bazaar will have the opportunity to see how bravely the Jewish working masses of Russia fought stsrvation and dis. ease and with what idealism they built up institutions for the rehabfli- tation of the victims of the pogroms and counter-revolution. This exhibition will be disp\yed only at the bazaar. Do not lose the opportunity to see it. Start New Campaign to Free Mooney, Billings: from California Prison (By The Federated Prew) WASHINGTON, March 10.—A new campaign for the release of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings from San Quentin penitentiary has. been launched by a committee headed by Miss Elizabeth Gilman, of Baltimore. These industrial prisoners, almust forgotten by the mass of the Amer- ican “people, are the most conspic- uous victims of frame-up among the victims of the labor struggle now “doing time.” California governors —Johnson, Stephens and Richardson —have refused to grant pardons, and the courts have held that, altho there is abundant evidence that the men were convicted by the use of false testimony, there is no way tg grant them new trials. This Baltimore committee will seek to assist the efforts of the or- ganized labor movement to free both prisoners. Radio Fans Vote Wet. Radio fans voted “wet” by a ma- jority of almost three to one in the first arion poll ever taken on the prohibition question, according to re- turns today at WIAZ, Edgewater radio station. Elks in Week's Celebration. SPRINGFIELD, DL, March 10,— Local Elks began a week’s celebration to celebrate completion of their new $765,000 home here. Banquets, dances and other entertainments take up the program. The building will be formally dedicated next month. His Idea of Workers’ Daily To THE DAILY WORKER:—I must say that the DAILY WORKER more than expresses my ideal of what a worker’s paper should be. I hope in near future, to be able to get some “subs” for it. You cannot imagine under what handicaps we are compelled to work here. All the militants are in jail or under bail.—C. Dermond, Broderick, Cal.