The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1924, Page 4

“~"RailWay “CoOmmMizsion, on the gas ar- Page Four COUNTY FARMER- LABOR PARTY IS BORN IN DETROIT Wayne Co. Organizes for Class Action DETROIT, June 1—A conference consisting of 78 delegates from 39} 5),9¢ workers’ organizations was held in Bricklayers Hall, 2345 Cass Ave., De- trot, and established the Wayne Ceunty Farmer-Labor party. | The conference was called to order | | by William Reynolds, secretary of the Provisional Committee, who gave a| brief review of the steps taken in De- troit during the past five years to create the organizational apparatus for independent political action. Al- fred Anson, delegate from Local 82, Machinists, was elected chairman, | with Reynolds as secretary. | 8a Delegates were present from four carpenters’ locals, machinists, laun- dry workers, painters, molders, bakers | and barbers; three Workmen’s Circle | organizations; fifteen branches of the Workers Party; six working women’s organizations, alliance of Ukranian working organizations, Detroit Work- men’s Co-operative, Polish Socialist alliance, and Workers’ Educational as- sociation. In adopting the report of the com- mittee on organfzation, the confer- ence declared, “That this body re- solve itself into the Wayne County Farmer-Labor Progressive Party,” that all working class organizations, economic, political, fraternal, and benefit, shall be urged to affiliate with the party; that the Wayne County F. L. P. shall affiliate with the national organization to be formed in St. Paul June 17, and that a delegate shall be sent to the St. Paul convention. The | incoming executive committee was instructed to establish communica-| tions with all workers and farmers or- | ganizations in Michigan, and particu- larly trade unions, central bodies, and the State Federation of Labor, for the purpose of launching a State Farmer- Labor Party. The platform declared for a Class Farmer-Labor Party, repudiated the Policy of class collaboration, and out- lined specific steps to be taken in fur- therance of the purposes of the party. Denounce Syndicalism Act. Resolutions were adopted dealing with recognition of Soviet Russia, pro- testing against the Michigan Criminal Syndicalism Act, and demanding that Prosecutions now in process under this act be stopped fortwith; protest- ing against restrictions on immigra- tion and discrimination of the foreign born; on the controversy between the Street Car Employes and the Street bitration award, and on the housing situation In Detroit. William Reynolds, President of car- penters’ union No. 2140, was elected delegate to the St. Paul convention. James Sharrock, President Carpen- ters’ Union No. 1805, who was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Farmer-Labor Party in Detroit in 1920, and who was chairman of that party, addressed the assembly. Broth- er Sharrock was one of the organizers of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain, and has all his life been ® militant fighter in the organized la- bor movement, both industrially and Politically. An executive committee of nine was, elected, consisting of H. Richter, E Owens, William Reynolds, C. Lamb- kin, R. M. Kroon, Alfred Anson, Anna Krakaitis, A. C. Plumley, and S. Her- man, with Anson and Reynolds as per- &¢ Party Activities Of Local Chicago MONDAY, JUNE 2. North Side English Branch, Hall, 2409 N. Halsted Street. Douglas Park English, 3322 Douglas Italian, 19th Ward, 1103 S. Loomis Street. ‘Comrade G. Giganti will speak on. “Industrial Work and the DAILY WORKER.” TUESDAY, JUNE 3. Ukrainian Branch No. 1, 1582 W. Chi- ‘ago Avenue. Comrade Harry Gannes will. take up the matter of furthering | dustrial and trade union work and iso the DAILY WORKER sub cam- paign 2642 Northwest Street. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. Lettish Branch, holding a special meeting at 4359 W. Thomas Street, to discuss thoroly Party problems and Party | activity. Comrade Swabeck, district or- | Imperial | Jewish, LeMoyne | will discuss the matters for the| anization. Mid-City nglish Branch, Emmet Memorial Hall, Taylor and Ogden Street. Comrade Valeria Meltz will take wp the | matter of advancing the DAILY WORK- ER campaign. Douglas Park Jewish, at Liberty House, 3420 W. Roosevelt Road. Com- rade Gomez of the City Executive Com- mittee will discuss the Industrial and Trade Union activity in the Party. italian Terra Cotta, 2707 N. Marshfield, downstairs. Comrade Girsh of the T. U. EB. L. will speak on industrial work of the Party. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, South Side yg od Branch, Community House, 3201 W. ‘abash Avenue. South Slav No. 4, at 1126 W. 18th Street. Comrade Jack McCarthy will speak on “DAILY WORKER Campaign and Industrial Work.” Italian 31st Ward, 511 N. Sangamon Street. Comrade Ernst Httlinger - will § — on “Industrial and Trade Union Vork. Rakaian Branch, 1902 W. Division Street. Comrade Walter Carmon, secre- tary of the T. U. E. L. will take up the Trade Union and Industrial work. * FRIDAY, JUNE 6, Branch, No. 1, 4138 Archer Lith. Avenue. Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Avenue. | Comrade G. Giganti will speak on “In- dustrial Activity and the DAILY WORK- ER Campaign.” Polish Branch, No, 20, 1902 W. Division | Street. The third annual picnic of the Workers party, Local Chicago, will be held Friday, July 4, at Stickney Park Groye. A very elaborate program has been arranged, consisting of speakers, of whom Comrades James P. Cannon, assistant executive secretary of the Workers party, will be the main speaker; dancing, music, games, re- freshments, etc. To get there, take any car to, end of the 22nd St. line. Then take a Lyons- Berwyn car to Stickney Park Grove. Admission is 35 cents and 50 cents at the gate. GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CZECHO-SLOVAK MEMBERS OF THE WORKERS PARTY A controversy has arisen between the board of directors of the Spra- vedinost, the organ of the Czecho- Slovakian federatien of the Workers Party, and the Czecho-Slovak feder- ation bureau of the party. This af- fects the unity of the Czecho-Slo- vakian federation and must be tled quickly. To clarify the issues between the board of directors of Spravedinost and the federation bureau, and to arrive at a proper and swift solution, a special meet- ing of all Czecho-Slovak mem- bers of the federation has been called for Wednesday, June 4, 8 Pp. m., at Spravedinost hall, 1825 Ss. Loomis St. Every Czecho-Slovakian comrade must make a determined manent chairman and secretary. Any communications for the Wayne County Farmer-Labor Progressive Party should be addressed to William Reynolds, secretary, 2646 St. Aubin, Detroit, Mich. Exports and Imports Adjusted. LENINGRAD, June 1.—The North- ‘western economic conference has rat- ified an export and import plan, ac- cording to which the total value of goods to be imported in that region during 1924 will amount to three mil- lion roubles, and the value of the ex- ports to 33 million roubles. Oklahoma Cyclone Kills Twelve. WETUMKA, Okla., June 1—Twelve known dead, more than fifty injured, several missing and property damage estimated at $100,000 was the toll of eyclones which scourged southeastern Oklahoma last night. effort to get to this meeting in or- to help unify the federation. Comrades C. E. Ruthenberg, exeo- utive secretary of the Workers par- ty of America; Alexander Bittleman and Martin Abern will be present at + this membership meeting to repre- sent the central executive commit- tee of the Workers party on this question. Czecho-Slovakian com- 1 Be awake to what is going on in your federation. COME TO THE MEETING ON JUN WORKERS PA LOCAL CHITAGO. Martin Abern, City Secretary. Russia Exports More Oil. MOSCOW, June 1.—The exports of Russian oil are expected to reach six million poods (about 100,000 tons) in the current 1924 year. Two million poods have been exported so far. THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, IND USTRY, POLITICS LETTER FROM LOUISIANA. From a comrade on the Liano, La., Rice Ranch, a co-operative colony in Louisiana, comes the following let- Po the Diitor of the DAILY WORK- ER. Dear Comrade—I have just read in the DAILY WORKER the enthusiastic report of Comrade Wittington about our colony. Every word he writes is » true. I am very anxious for members | ef the party to come down here and see for themselves. ‘When I was a member of the old party in the Eighteenth Ward, I heard ~ you speak on the necessity of doing odd jobs for the cause. That is what I am doing at Rice Ranch, 75 miles south of the Mother Colony. I have |great deal. work we do that matters. I have been with the colony since September, 1922, and like it immense- ly, but there is a great deal of work to be done, for co-operation is a thing that must be learned gradually. We are surrounded by capitalist influ. ences, and we are in need of a great many things. Still, we have done a We are printing the Van- guard and three other labor papers, and we have had a Workers’ College since last October. Kate O'Hare has been with us for over @ year now, and Scott Nearing is WnasfE toads x |native and foreign, to meet this new | bor party. bg —_—_—_ Milwaukee Workers Protest Against the Anti-Alien Gag Law MILWAUKEE, June 1.—The work- ers of Milwaukee, at a mass meeting held here under the auspices of the Council for the protection of the For- eign Born, denounced the anti-alien| immigration law just passed by ton- gress and called on the workers, both attack by increasing their activities in the trade unions, organizing the unor- |ganized and joining in the great mass movement for a national phe ase ‘La- The meeting was one of he largest held in Milwaukee for a number of years under the auspices,of any rad- ical organization. The chairman was Earl Sorensen of the Elevator Con- struction Workers’ union. The speakers were Max Bedacht, L. Kulesar, J. Novak and T. J. O’Flaher- ty. The workers were told that the only effective way to deal with the re-| strictions imposed on the workers by the capitalist government was to or- ganize politically and industrially for the overthrow of the capitalist system and the establishment of a workers’ soviet republic. PHILA. FORMS FARMER-LABOR PARTY OF CITY Paul, June 17 By ABRAM JAKIRA. (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 1.—A} Farmer-Labor Party was formed here last night by a conference of about | 76 delegates, representing 21 labor un- ions, eight fraternal organizations; and two political organizations. Only One Vote Against. The conference endorsed the June 17 convention with but one dissent- ing vote after a heated debate. It elected delegate McClurg to represent the party at St. Paul. Adolph Gersch and McClurg were elected chairman and secretary, re- spectively, and an executive commit- tee of seven was also elected. To Join State Farmer-Labor Party. Joseph Kunz, secretary of the Mary- land People’s Party, spoke in favor of the St. Paul convention. Charles Kunz, chairman of the Pennsylvania State Farmer-Labor Party, spoke for the July 4 conference. His appeal found no support after several dele- gates spoke against him. The conference instructed the exe- cutive committee to open negotia- tions for affiliation with the Pennsyl- vania state body. Another enlarged conference will be valled shortly by the executive committee. ‘Missouri Calls State Farm-Labor Convention June 8 ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 1—The call for the convention of June 8, to be held in Hagedorn’s Hall, 2412 N. Four- teenth street, at 9 a. m., for the forma- tion of a state Farmer-Labor Party jand for the election of delegates to der to state his point of view and |the national convention in St. Paul, June 17, has been sent out to all labor unions, central bodies, workers’ polit- ical parties, workers’ co-operatives, farmers’ and fraternal organizations in Missouri. The provisional arrangements com- mittee has sent out the call, under the endorsement of the Farmer-Labor Party, Kansas City; Farmer-Labor Party, Third ward, St. Louis; Jour- neymen Tailors Local No. 11, St. Louis; Workmen’s Circle, Br. 470, St. Louis, and Jackson Educational So- ciety, St. Louis. The headquarters of the committee is at room 10, Frater- nal Bldg. “On to St. Louis for St. Paul and a mass Farmer-Labor Party” is the cry now in Missouri for the June 8 con- vention. Striking Cigarmakers Find Few Defenders In Steel Trust Town (Special to The Daily Worker) BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 1.—The Steel Trust’s municipal government has begun a campaign of terror against the striking women and girls of the Cigarmakers’ Union, who have been out for eight weeks now. The picket line has been strongly main- tained in spite of a 1 force of de- tectives and police who attempt to in- timidate the striking workers, The officers have started arresting the active pickets, realizing at last that the strike is serious, The union is finding considerable difficulty in securing a lawyer to defend the pick- ets, as the Bethlehem Steel Trust con- trols practically every attorney in the planning to pay us a visit. I have invited Comrade Foster and other sympathizers to come here for a rest of two or three months. Yours for the cause, ‘the title of gardener, but titles are of _ Outage ie bar AY ver" ANGUST C, F, SCHMIDT, Head. HE DAILY WORKER GITY CENTRAL MEETING PLANS TO DISCUSS UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM The next meeting of the city cen- tral committee. will be, held Tues- day, June 3, 8 p. m., at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. ~The question of unemployment has been made a special order of busi for this meeting, when there will be a full discussion of the proposal rec- ommended by the city executive committee. This is a _ problem | which affects vitally every worker, and it is essential for the party to outline its program on this as well as other working class matters. Every branch shall make certain that their representative is in at- tendance. In addition, there will be numerous others matters of impor- tance to consider. Meetings start promptly at 8 p. m. Be there on time! |Pepper International Injunction Scheme Passes Committee) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 1.— Imperialism by international injunc-| tion is likely to win out as the for-| eign policy of the United States by) the favorable vote of the Senate For-| eign Relations committee, which to-| day reported the Pepper World Court bill to the Senate by a vote of 10 to} 6. The committee answered Cal Cool- idge’s fervent plea for the Harding- Hughes plan by voting it down 10 to) Elect Delegate to St.|° Complete divorcement of the court} from the League of Nations as a pre- requisite to American participation, and elimination of the compulsory | arbitration provision of the court, are |the outstanding features of the Pep- per bill. By this device the United States need appeal to the court only | when it feels that it is to its advan- tage to do so. Starvation Wages For Gents of God Is A High + Moral Crime, Says Hays GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 1— Will Hays went without breakfast in order to tell the Presbyterians, as- sembled here, that they were com- mitting a “moral and economic crime” in underpaying their pastors, Will Hays, who as gzar of the movies, receives more in a month than the average ininister does in a ytar)-was very wroth at the underpaying of the shepherds of the prodestinmnne’ shepherds. Hays will head a ‘lay committee, to raise $15,000,000 to help pension off old an ddecrepid pulpit pounders, Un- der. the new plan here the ministers will be pensioned when they reach the age of 65. Telephone Gang Steals Enough to Keep Out of Jail NEW YORK, June S| New York Telephone company con- cealed $3,000,000 revenue and ed a depreciation charge of over $2,000,000 in order to justify its 10 per cent in- crease in rates, according to ida- vits filed in federal court by the city of New York which is contesting the increase. That the company doés not show revenue from long distance calls which it credits to the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Co., its parent trust, is a further charge. Further rate increases of from 30 per cent to 40 per cent are contemplated by the company, according to a brief filed by the attorney general’s office. $50 Monthly Fails to Attract Good Hospital Orderlies TRENTON, Hor J., June 1.—Wage increases above the present a month and board are demanded for New Jersey state hospital and insti- tutional attendants by Burdette G. Lewis, commissioner of institutions and agencies, in a letter to the ci service commission, Trenton, He ol jects to the kind of workers he gets for the low wage, and says he can- not even keep the undesirables on the job at such low rates of pay. Would Abolish Farm Foreclosures. SEATTLE.—Foreclosures on farms and homes by moneylenders should be forbidden by law, declares Joel Shomaker, Farm bor candidate for governor of the state of Washing- ton, “The man who forces the from his land or the homebuilder froti his home because he cannot pay his debts should lose his bp Anan be denied the rights and pri 8 of citizenship,” Shomaker says. . Rusela Buys Cellueose, LENINGRAD, June 1.—The Lenin- grad Paper Trust has received credits from Austria, Germany and Norway for the purchase of cellulose, city. Schwab's army of private dicks is already licking its chops over the victims. The strikers are fighting for an eight-hour day and against wage slashes. credits will be obtained shortly Finland, Every new subscriber incre the nao te a ema 5S oo til r NEARING SAYS SOVIETIN U.S, IS INEVITABLE Bertrand Russell Agrees Old System Dying (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 1—A Soviet jform of government in the United States will follow the wars and col- lapse of capitalist society which is coming, according to Scott Nearing, who debated the question’ in New York with Bertrand Russell, British Socialist and scientist. Russell agreed that the capitalist system is rapidly disentegrating, but thought it-would be followed—at least in ‘Western Europe—by a return to semi-barbar- ism in which the countryside dominat- ed the towns and industrial life. Recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States was advocated by Samuel ‘Untermyer, who. presided, and by Nearing and Russell. Soviets Not Invented. Tho it might not come: for ten or twenty years, Nearing said that revo- lution was inevitable as a result of wars, economic depression and inten- sified class struggle. He said the Soviet form of government’ was not invented but created by economic forces as a transitional form between jcapitalism and complete communism. |He showed how feudalism and previ- ous political forms were created by economic conditions and argued that economic and social chaos, now tak- ing place necessitated the Soviet form. He defined the Soviet system as representation along economic lines in contrast to geographical representa- tion under the present system. Near- ing agreed with Russell in wishing that the change from capitalism would come without struggle and. dictator- ship, but on the basis of history and Present facts he thought the change would come thru. dictatonshios CRIPPLED WAR VETS GETTING DOUBLECROSS Arizona Bureau is Now Under Fire ss By DAISY LEE. taff Correspon: “SBHOENIE, Avie Sune 1couee) of inefficiency, indifference to duty and lack of sympathy for the disabled men on the part of Major Louis T. Grant, 12th district, U. S. veterans bureau, and his associates, were made by witnesses testifying before a com- mittee investigating the bureau in Arizona. Many instances were cited where great suffering has been occasioned thru red tape of the department. James Jordan, a veteran invalided home from France, has to try to sup- port himself and family on $40 per month despite incurable epilepsy and inability to work. Altho Jordan made a trip to San Francisco to obtain a just rating, he was refused aid.by the bureau. Since his discharge from the army he has incurred debts of $2,900 and he has been virtually an object of charity. G. R. Whitcomb presented affidavits he had been trying for the past ‘two years to collect $1400 due him for time and money spent in the hospi- tal before the government allowed his compensation. He said he had been tendered $13 in settlement. Strong objections were also made to the manner in whfch the bureau ad- ministers vocational training. Charg- es were made that men were put in vocations to which they were not adapted and applications for transfer into other lines were ignored. Sweeping Wage Cut - in Sawmills With Co. Union’s Aid By Defense News Service. SEATTLE, Wash., June 1—Sweep- ing wage reductions were put into ef- fect in many western Washington sawmills on May 19, approximately 10,000 workers being affected. Mills in Everett, Port Angeles, Bellingham and Anacortes reduced the wage of common labor to $3.40 a day, and skilled workers suffered a 10 per cent reduction, Officials of the Loyal Legion Log- gers and Lumbermen, which pro- fesses to represent both employers and workmen, admitted that the min- imum of $3.40 had been agreed at its executive board’s last meet Whether this drastic wage cut will lead to widespread strikes is proble- matical, But when a reduction of 60 cents @ day was announced a month ago in Raymond, 700 workers on Will- apa harbor marched out of the six Raymond mills. One mill agreed to pay the old scale and its employes went back to work, but the strike con- tinues unbroken in the other five plants, _ Suzanne Fading From Fight. LONDON, June 1—With reports from Nice that Suzanne jen, world’s tennis champion, is seriously ill, tennis experts agree that Miss Helen Wills, American champion, will run away with the Olympic champion- ie te i] — Raltimoce Building Laborers ‘Winning Strike For Wages By ABRAM JAKIRA. (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., June 1—About five hundred men of the Internation- al Hod Carriers, Building and Com- mon Laborers’ Union, Local No. 756, have been out on strike since May 4, The workers, mainly Italians and ne- groes, were compelled to strike after the contractors refused to“sign an agreement calling for a wage scale of 65 and 70 cents an hour and an eight-hour working day. According to the old agreement, the laborers were supposed to receive 45 and 50 cents an hour, The contrac- tors, however, were “generous” enough to pay 65 instead of 45 cents an hour as the agreement called for, The reason for this generosity of the contractors was plain. ‘They meant that by doing this they would break the union and then dictate to the workers any conditions they would see fit. They failed, however, to achieve their purpose. The spirit of the,strikers is excel- lent, despite the fact that they have against them both the police and the kept press. Up to the present mo- ment, four contractors have accepted the terms of the union and signed up @ new agreement. The strikers are confident that the other contractors will have to follow and accept the terms of the unjon. RUSSIA USING CO-OPS TO AID POOR PEASANTS Sale of Chéap Plows Defeats Loan Sharks By ANISE. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) MOSCOW, June 1.—In the villages the kulak, or rich péasant, has been increasing in wealth, lending food and horse and plow to poorer peasants and exacting terms which enslave the lat- ter for months to come. In one case where the government declared these contracts in violation of law, the poor- er peasants themselves petitioned to have them restored, “as otherwise we would starve.” Conditions like these can only be met by cheap goods to the peasant, plows and use of horses, and other supplies sent out thru the co-opera- tive channels. But these are difficult to secure in the prevailing lack of capital. They are what make credits passionately desired. In the uncer- tainty of help from abroad, this ques- tion of a trade crisis is a matter of central thought at the conference of the Russian Communist party now in session in Moscow. Difficulties Growing Less. While the problem is taken serious- ly by the Russian administration, its importance from the point of external Politics need not be estimated very high. Each year the difficulties have grown less and the emergencies have become more and more questions of good organization and less of force. If it should come to a test of strength between kulaks and govern- ment, there is absolutely no question but that the kulaks would be com- pletely overpowered. Russia dt pres- ent is not interested in such tests by force, but in success on the economic field and beating out the individualist kulaks by co-operation and education. This is a more delicate process which takes planning and a long term of years. Work Begins on Russian Rail and Timber Concession (Rosta News Agency.) LENINGRAD, June 1—Work on the Mga-Rybinsk timber and railway concession has begun. The work this year will extend over an area of 13,000 acres, and it is estimated that a total of 100,000 cubic feet of timber will be obtained. Logs, props, sleepers, etc., will be prepared for export. Firewood will be supplied to the home market. During the current year six frame sawmills will be established. At the Seltz station an impregnation work- shop is also to be built. Special settlements for the workers are to be constructed. In current April, work was to start on railway construction, on @ branch line be- tween the Budogosch station on the Murmansk line and Pest on the Mga . railway, a distance of 182 miles, Can't See the Joke. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 1.— Presbyterians in convention here passed a resolution favoring construc: tive control of the movies and de- nouncing the caricaturing of Protest- ant ministers in films, They also went on record advocating one day's rest in seven for all workers in commer- cial employment. LONDON, June 1. — The second international conference of the Work- ers’ Education Association will be eld at Ruskin college, Oxford, Aug, 16-17, under the auspices of the In- ternational Federation of Trade kvg § Mossyesune ¢ dune 2, 1924 OHIO WORKERS AND FARMERS IN Fi-L. P, RALLY Expect Big IV Meeting in Columbus, June 7th By J. A. HAMILTON. (Special to The Daily Worker) LIMA, Ohio, June 1.—A large and enthusiastic convention at Columbus, June 7 and 8, to organize an Ohio Farmer-Labor party, is indicated by the responses received by Scott Wil- kins, provisional secretary, from such organizations as the Guernsey Coun- ty Central Labor Union (Cambridge), Carpenters’ District Board of Dayton, and other organizations in Canton, Zanesville, Cleveland, Girard, Colum- bus and other cities. Lima Gets Busy. May 23, on call of the central body of Lima, a conference was held here at which was formed the Allen county Farmer-Labor party, which elected seven delegates to Columbus and two to St. Paul (Max Lerner and Scott Wilkins). A nominating committee was also selected to report to a con- ference to convene after the Colum- bus convention on candidates for Al- len county offices in the coming elec- tion. On May 20 # branch of the Feder- ated Farmer-Labor party was organ- ized in Cincinnati, following a meet- ing addressed by Max Lerner. A dele- gate was elected to the Columbus con- filiation campaign among the workers’ organizations of Cincinnati. Painters and Machinists Elect. The Cleveland painters and the ma- chinists of Cincinnati have elected delegates to St. Paul, the delegate from the latter being A. J. Feldhaus. Similar action has been taken by the Columbiana County Protective league, composed mainly of farmers. Enthu- siasts in different sections, including Lima, Cincinnati, Columbiana, are Planning auto trips to St. Paul, which thus seems to be the center of attrac- tion for the awakening farmers and workers of Ohio as of the other states. Reports from Cleveland indicate that the action of the Cleveland fed- eration machine in steam rolling to death*the conference recently held on Political action by labor has met with severe criticism as the various dele- gates have reported to their local unions. Reactionaries Arouse Criticiem. Max Hayes, in the Cleveland Citi- zen, reports that at the federation meeting of May 21 the sentiment was strong for a reconvening of the con- ference, either by the federation, or if not by it, by such local unions as are favorable, of which there seems to be quite a number, Resistance to Wage Cuts, Chief Issue at Textile Convention (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 1.—How to fight the continued wage reductions in the textile industry will be the chief ques- tion debated at the sixth general con- vention, Amalgamated: Textile Work- ers of America, opening in New York, May 30. The convention will nomin- ate officers for the coming year to be elected by referendum vote. “Resistance in Fall River and New Bedford to the steady encroachments of the manufacturers in increasing the number of looms and amount of ma- chinery for the workers to tend at i 4 wages” is a problem of the zation, according to general secretary Russell Palmer. Carpet workers will report on the situation in their industry where wage cuts have also occurred. Uncle Sam, Money Lender. MEXICO CITY.—Everywhere one hears the question: Why won't the United States lend Mexico any money? The United States has lent huge sums to Peru, Chile, Brazil, Ar- gentina and Honduras. The answer is that the United States is waiting and provoking an unbearable eco- nomic crisis, and when it is good and ready it will step in and exact usur- ers’ terms from the Mexican govern- ment. : ' Russian Commerce Appointees, MOSCOW, June 1.—The Council of People’s Commissaries has appointed Mr. Lejava to be people's commissary of internal commerce and Messrs. Syr- omolotov, Lobaszev, Veicers and Dmi- trev to be members of the collegium of the new commissariat of internal commerce, subject to the approval by the presidium of the general executive committee. How many of SrKEn nr ae read THE DAILY W! nape Get one of them to subscribe PITTSBURGH, PA. ; RASNI Rendering er Service Sey ——FAXIN Patronize the 100 per cent Union eee, thease tetiaaitaiaia vention and plans were laid for an af-" 4 A, =|