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Wednesday, July 23, 1924 X GOOD OLD DAYS © WHEN KIDS WENT TO WORK AT NINE Dept. Store Man Thinks That Was the Life ‘ Tears for the old days when chil- dren went to work at nine and ten years of age are shed by Clarice Hick- man who used t6 do the hiring and firing for The Fair, a Chicago de- partmgnt store. “A few years ago,” Clarice tells the 47,000 sympathetic members of the Mlinois chamber of commerce, “there were no labor laws to curtail the am- bitions of youth in its infancy and the product of those days was a group of commerce builders. ‘ “The large department and retail stores were developed and the cash and errand boys and girls who were on the payroll at the age of yine or ten have progressed to presidents, general. managers and super-exscu- tives and planted a field of golden op- portunities for the youth of the gener- ations succeeding them to harvest; the youth that has a tendency now to dissipate its hours in the movies and the dance halls.” Clarice leaves the impression that every nine year old ‘cash girl in the golden days of yore is now a super- executive. If any girls failed to rise it was probably because of death from overwork or because they were run down by the midnight express on the way to their job. “All Wool” Lies the Life of the Clothing Trade It pays to advertise all right, but don’t advertise lies to your prospective customers, says Homer J. B. Buckley of the Chicago Assn. of Commerce. Among falsehoods that continue to appear in department store and other retail advertising Buckley mentions “mixed fabric as all wool; an imitation as pure camel’s hair; fibre as silk; tubular hose as fashioned or full- ioned; splits as genuine cowhide; mat- tress filler of tailor clippings and floor sweepings as new cotton; pillows filled with used feathers as new goose feathers; gum furniture, stained brown as walnut finish, walnut or genuine walnut; manufactured imita- tion pearls and diamonds as genuine pearls and genuine diamonds.” Send in that Subscription Today. MINERS MAINTAIN STRIKE LINES IN DISTRICT 18, INTERNATIONAL NEGLECTS (Special to The ALBERTA, THO THEM Daily Worker) EDMONTON, Alta., July 22.—During the past three weeks Operators’ Association: the men out of the mine when pany rate of $7.50 per day on machine mined coal. The con- tract in the Drumheller field for this form of work is 92 cents per ton for room work. The men were loading ten to fifteen tons per day for $7.50. The operator re- fused to sign the agreement for con- tract work. Scramble For Jobs. The first morning that the men started to work, ninety-five men ap- plied for the twenty odd jobs that were open. When the operator saw that there was a scramble for the jobs, a limit was set on the men, and any miner who ce#@f not load ten tons per day was considered inefficient, That meant, that with one hundred men ready to take his job, he invari- ably went out and worked to hold it. If some happened to work under fav- orable conditions, and loaded their ten tons before the 8-hour period was com- pleted, the boss would make them load until the time period was up. Some of the men loaded twelve tons in entries, which meant that they were entitled to $13.68 at $1.14 per ton; instead they received the day’s pay of $7.50. Scabs Have Poor Deal. The coal branch west of Edmonton, Mile 5 (Mercoal) has nine men work- ing on the slope and about twenty men outside. This camp has’ not been organized. Some of the men are be- ing paid as low as four dollars per day. The contract in the slope is .33 per lineal yard; eight foot collar be- tween notches; eight foot high, and fifteen foot spread; eight inches of clay in center of seam, and four to six inches of bone which has to fe ex- tracted and loaded separately, This contract applies to the back slope. This is a poor agreement, and it is practically impossible to make wages. The agreement signed by the local union at Foothills has proven unsatis- factory, and trouble that* ‘has’ “been brewing for some time came to a head when the management proposed a new agreement, claiming that the price on the old agreement was too high. The men refused to work under the pro- ‘ OUR DAILY PATTERNS A PRETTY BATHING SUIT 3802, White alpaca with bands of ick sateen is here shown. This ‘le is also attractive for satin, crepe, sey and taffeta. The Pattern ds cut in 4 Sizes: Small 36, Medium 38-40, Large 42-44, tra Large 46-48 inches bust meas- ». A Medium size requires 3% yards 36-inch material. attern mailed to any address on eipt of 12c in silver or stamps. jend 12¢ in silver or stamps for our “TO-DATE SPRING & IMMER ‘4 BOOK OF FASHIONS. 1AC’S BOOK STORE | 27 JOHN R STREET DETROIT “11 line of Sociological and Labor \ Literature. A DRESS WITH NEW FEATURES FOR THE GROWING GIRL. 4496. Plaid gingham with linen in @ contrasting color would be attrac- tive for this style. 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Washington Bivd., Chioago, -IIl. ozs 22 PA’ an PUES Piss fat iene pens “ie ee pak: the situation within the district has not altered to any extent in the struggle of the miners of District 18 and the Western Coal At the Craig mine in the Drumheller Valley, an agreement was signed by the district officers and the local operator. agreement has met with disfavor, and the rank and file pulled This the terms of the agreement be- came known. The agreement that was signed was on the com- (Ratha. aetna hai etm ance posed scale and walked out. They were out for a few days, when nego- tiations were reopened and terms ar-| rived at. An attempt is being made to discriminate against one of the militant members who was instru- THE DAILY WORKER [FARMERS DROP HEARST’S SCAB SEATTLE PAPER Blacklist by Washington Federation Expected (Special to the Dally Worker.) SEATTLE, July: 22.—Workers and farmers of Washington are rallying to the support of the striking and locked out unionists from the composing room of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer. In the Yakima valley, a fruit farming region, “P.-I.” solicitors find that for levery order they take there are ten | stops." Recent action by the central labor mental in having the men stand firm /councils of Everett and Bremerton in against a reduction. Protest to International. Luscar reports that the fire bosses are still loading coal for shipment. At putting the scab Hearst paper on the unfair list is expected to be followed thruout the state. Strikers believe that the big publisher will soon be Cadomim, the development work hav- | beaten into line and compelled to take ing been completed, most of the 80 men working have been let out. Mountain Park reports little activity. Intense bitterness prevails there as the result of the failure of the Inter- national to supply adequate relief to the striking miners and their families. The resolution of the Midlandvale local calling for a special convention, of the district has been endorsed by tén or more.locals. Luscar and Leth- bridge locals have circularized the districts for the same purpose. The Shannon mine at Carbon has returned to york. The agreement signed stipulates that the men are to return to work for four months at the old scale of wages, which is about 40 per cent lower than the union scale, and remain at work until the period is up. Then, if the Company refuses to pay the union scale, as at the other mines in this district, then the men will be pulled out. Miners Need Help. The Lethbridge Trades and Labor Council passed the following resolu- tion at a public mass meeting held un-| der its auspices. The meeting was called for the purpose of discussing ways and means of raising funds for the striking miners. “That this mass meeting instruct the secretary to draft a letter to the president and executive of the U. M. W. of A, protesting against the lack of financial support necessary for the conducting of the strike in district 18; and that the local Trades and Labor Council be re- quested to circularize aJl industrial or- ganizations in the district to forward similar communications to the exeo utive of the U. M. W. of A. headquar- ters in the states. The work of organizing relief to the striking miners is proceeding in a satis- factory me or. The concert that was held in Calgary under the auspices of the Calgary Trades and Labor Council netted $70. In Edmonton, the picnic held under the auspices of the Ukrain- ian Labor Temple Association cleared $60. The tag day held in Edmonton on the 12th of the month will clear about $200 for the strike fund. The Brotherhood of, Railway Carmen in Edmonton have donated over $100 in collections. taken up at noon «hour meetings at the shops. The local union of the Steam and Operating Engineers have entered the honor roll by donat- ing a day's pay to the strike fund. It is apparent that the miners of Nova Scotia, district 26, have not for- gotten the helping hand held out to them last year by the miners of dis- trict 10, and are coming to the sup- port of the striking miners of district 18 in a magnificient manner in spite of the heavy debt that they are still under due to the struggle that took place in 1923, Many of the local unions are sending funds to carry on the fight until victory is won by the members of district 18, Coolidge’s Friends Won’t Release Child Slaves from Factory jal ‘to the DAILY WORKER) BOSTON, July 22—The “Sentinels of the Republic,” with Louis A. Coo- lidge as president, are opposed to the child labor amendment. Mr. Coolidg is chairman of the welfare committe: of the vicious National Civic Federa- tion and who directs many companies which manufacture shoe making ma- chinery and shoe parts, belongs to many patriotic societies here, has been a journalist and politician and was assistant secretary of the treas- ury at one ti He is president of the Coolidge Family Association also, Assistant attorney general Lincoln said: “The adoption of the amendment by this state would be a calamity. It 1s too socialistic.” ; The New England textile and shoe manufacturers to say nothing of cran- berry raisers would not like to have their cheap child slaves taken away from them and may be expected to put up a bitter fight against the codfish back his printers, stereotypers and mailers under regular union condi- tions. A resolution branding Hearst's northwest publication as the foe of organized labor is looked for at the Washington Federation of Labor con- vention now in session at Olympia. The resolution, which is backed by the Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia Typographical unions, hits directly at the circulation and advertising of the Post-Intelligencer. Such opposition as may come from labor leaders who crave friendly publicity in the columns of the “P.-I.” is not likely to prevent the passage of the resolution. Police Break Up Workers Party Meet Saturday Police broke up a Workers Party street meeting at the corner of, Mil- waukee and Division Sts. Saturday night. Karl Reeve, reporter for the DAILY WORKER, was speaking in English, and I. Radwanski of the Po- lish branch of the Workers Party was addressing the crowd in Polish. As the Polish speaker was talking six plain clothes thugs surrounded the platform and ordered the speaker to conclude. Reeve announced to the crowd that in spite of the fact that the constitu- tion grants the right of free speech the police had ordered the meeting to disband, thus proving assertions that the capitalists had control of the gov- ernment and used the police as their servants to browbeat and keep the workers in subjection. This is the second street meeting which has been held on this corner for several years. The Polish workers of the neighborhood gathered in great numbers and Saturday night’s meet- ing was large and interesting. The Polish branch of the Workers Party announces that an even larger at- tendance is, expected next Saturday night, when a free speech protest meeting will be held on the same cor- ner, with the same speakers. © Textile Pickets Appeal Cases from _ Lower Equity Court (Special to the Daily Worker.) ROCK ISLAND, Ill, July 22.—At- torney B. A. Stewart, representing Jack Torch, Mike Laedeke, May Nich4 ols and Bertha Caldwell, was prepar- ing today to file a motion’ for an ap- peal in the appellate court from 60- day sentences against Torch and Lae- state's ratification of the amendment, \ deke and 30-day sentences against the girls, imposed Saturday by Judge W. T. Church on contempt charges. The four were found guilty of taking part in the strike of the Daniel Boone Woolen Mills company, and were charged with attempting to restrain workers at the plant. Brazil Revolt Dying? WASHINGTON, July 22.—The Bra- zilian revolution is slowly being crushed by “starvation,” according to a communique issued by the Brazilian embassy. A blockade, thrown around the rebel lines by government forces which has cut all rebels’ supplies, in- cluding foodstuffs and ammunition. PUBLIC UTILITY MAGNATES ARE CATCHING SUCKERS WHOLESALE BY “CUSTOMER OWNERSHIP” PLAN (Federated Press utility magnates? high valuations, high rates and ered capital in the industry. The perpetuation of high street car fares and electric light and gas rates more than eats up the meager dividends given to worker “owners.” “Ownership of public utilities by their customers,” says P. W. Whiting of the Cities Service Co., one of the big Wall Street combines, operation. valuations and fairer rates.” It hardly need be pointed out that the public higher rates by “fairer.” Financier Hurrahs For It. President L. K. Thorne of Boffbright & Co., public utility financiers, says: “Customer ownership is proving the ultimate solution of the problem of public ownership. The great majority of the electric power and light com- panies as of gas companies as well have instituted sales campaigns to sell their preferred stocks to the people whom they serve. These campaigns have been almost without exception successful. It is estimated that dur- ing 1923, $300,000,000 of securities will | have been sold in this manner as com- pared with $175,000,000 sold in 1922 and $80,000,000 in 1921.” 1,500,000 Petty Stockholders. In the American Bankers’ Assn. | journal B. C. Cobb estimates that cus- |tomer ownership had added to public | utility companies over 1,500,000 stock- holders who have invested more than |$500,000,000 up to January 1,, 1924. \“Customer ownership financing,” he \says, “is more and more proving. a boon to these industries by enabling them to finance extensions and im- provements which would otherwise be impossible under existing profit re- | strictions.” In other words persons of small income who have beer™accus- tomed to only 3 per cent of their sav- |ings will provide money at 7 per cent whereas the rich will invest only in jsecurities which promise a much | higher rate of return. | Cobb cites intangible benefits to the public utility interests from this cus- |tomter ownership program, noting es- pecially that “the seeds of discontent are finding it increasingly difficult to take root on account of the policy panies.” Big Fellows Get Gravy. Facts about customer ownership are worthy of note. The 1,500,000 cus- tomer owners do not own 3 per cent of the total claimed capitalization of utilities, which is over $18,000,000,000. In the second place costumer owners get preferrpd stock of subsidiary com- panies while the common stock which represents owner control is held by the big holding companies or trusts. In the third place while the customer owner is getting his meager 7 per cent these big absentee holding companies are managing to pile up profits at an- nual rates ranging as high as $31 on jeach $100 invested. What the customed owner gets in fifjdends is more than counterbal- anced by what he loses thru exorbi- tant cost of service. He has been led blindly to support the high rates which |he must pay and also to help the big |interests in gouging those consumers whose low wages precludes the pur- chase of stock. Real Public Ownership. How much better is the real divi- dend of Mrs. Housewife of London, Ont., home of publicly owned super- power. She uses an average of 74 kilo- wat hours, probably cooking, wash: ing, sweeping and. ironing by elec- tricity and pays a monthly bill of $1.34. Prior to public ownership ‘she would have paid $6.91 for this service. The difference of $5.57 a month of $66.84 a year is her dividend. And it goes to all consumers, not to a privileged group. There are no absentee owners of great wealth getting a lion’s share. Send in that Subscription Today. UNCLE WIGGILY'S TRICKS “is the| most desirable thing in public utility | It assures goodwill, fairer) utility men he was addressing mean) adopted by the public utility com- By LELAND OLDS Industrial Editor) Are you one of the suckers caught by the hundreds of thousands in the customer-ownership game which aims at get-| ting the public to submit to being bled for the benefit of public | Phe rapid spread of this fake public ownership scheme is a menace to the ‘worker because it disarms opposition to the low wages which support wat- SERS ARNE RC: SAREE SERRE Fourth Wednesday, July 23, 1924 Name of Local and Place of Meeting. District Council, 119 No. Blacksmiths’ 8. Throop $ Bolier Makers, Monroe and Racine Carpenters, 12 Garfield Bivd. Carpenters, Western and Lexing- ton. Carpenters, 5443 S. Ashland Ave. Carpenters, 505 S. State St. CARPENTERS, 1638 N. HALSTED $1., H. FEHLING, Rec. Sec'y., 2283 Grace fit. Irving 7897 Carpenters, 6414 8. Halsted St. Carpenters, 1581 Maple Ave., Evan- ston, ill. Coopers, 8901 Escanaba Ave. Hod Carriers, 1352 W. Division St. Hod Carriers, 810 W. Harrison St. Jewelry Workers, 19 W. Adams St. Ladies’ Garment’ Workers, 328 W. Van Buren 8t. Marine Cooks, 387 N. Clark St. Machinists, 113 N. Ashland Blvd. Machinists, 735 N. Cicero Ave. Maintenance of Way, 426 W. 63d St. Evanston, Ill. Painters, Sherman and Main Sts., Evanston, Ili. ere, 910 W. Monroe 8+. y Carmen Dist. Council, 5448 shiand Ave. ay ‘Carmen, 8444 Wentworth ‘ay Carmen, 8445 Ashland Ave. ay Trainmen, 426 W. 63d St., Pp. m. “77 W. Adams St. 714 W. biarrison 84. ; 5324 8. ted St. 175 W. Wa gton St. 8 (Meat), 220 8. Ashland vd. Teamsters (Bone), 6950 8. Halsted Tuckpointers, 810 W. Harrison St. Tunnel and Subway Workers, 914 W. Harrison St. (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings ate at 8 p. m.) 21 242 1784 +22 07 Cow Kills Farmer's Child. ALBION, Mich.—Dragged over a rough country road on. the end of @ rope and trampled under the hoof of a frightened cow, Murray Rouley, 8, is dead today. He died a few min- utes after being untangled from the rope. He had been sent after the cows and had tied one end of the lead rope about his waist. Politicians Shift. WASHINGTON, July 22.—Senator David I. Walsh, democrat of Massa- chusetts, today resigned as chairman of the democratic senatortal campaign committee. Senator A. A. Jones, democrat of New Mexico, immediately was elect- ed, to succeed Walsh. THE BOY ARTIST In Soviet Russia there is a boy artist named Peter Miranof. He is only fourteen years old now. His father was a forester in Siberia; so Peter and his family lived in the woods. Peter’s fath- er was killed when the “white guard” came near his home and tried to stop the workers and peasants from running their own business. The “whites” wanted to tell the workers what to do so that the “whites” could get rich and the peasants and workers would be poor all the time. Peter and his mother lived in their little hut after the father died and Peter helped his mother make a living by gathering sticks in the woods to take to the town for other people to buy for their stoves. Peter liked to draw. He drew with a stick in the dirt. When he got a scrap of paper and a crayon or pencil, he was very happy and would draw pictures all over the paper. One day many men came to the woods and mountains near Pet er’s home. One of the men saw Page Five EXPOSED LABOR SPY HOLDS JOB IN CENTRAL BODY Beattie Has Not Left Pittsburgh Unions (Special to the Dally Worker.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., July. 22.—Red tape unwinds slowly from scoundrels, \if the case of Robert William Beattie, |exposed labor spy, is any evidence. | Your Union Meeting | |agency and who has been working for The man who has been shown to be on the payroll of a bosses’ detective |the steel trust and other big capital- jists for twelve years, is still holding \his position as secretary of the Cen- | tral Labor union, altho charges have |been preferred against him. In the Bank, Too? He is supposed to have offered his |resignation from the Labor bank, but {no definite word of whether he actu- ally has severed his connections is available. Nor is it sure whether he is out of his comfortable berth as vice president of the Firemen and Oilers’ union, tho Tim Healy wf? after his scalp officially when the charges were made known recently. Beattie’s case was to have come up jat the last Central Labor union meet- ing, but the prosecution asked for an extension of time. Beattie Boosted Lewis. Beattie and Bill Kelly of the car- penters’ union were in charge of John \L. Lewis’ campaign against Gompers at the Denver convention of the A, F. of L. in 1921. Lewis is called by many the “steel trust president” of the United Mine Workers of America. |He is still looked upon by the reac- jtionaries as one of the possible suc- cessors of Sammy, if the latter should |vanish from the scene very soon. Beattie was on the steel strike com- mittee in 1919, and there, as always, bucked against any daring or aggres- sive move. He has always been the jarch-reactionary of the labor move- ment in this vicinity. South Slavic Women’s Picnic. KANSAS CITY, Kans., July 22.— The South Slavic womén’s educational club, “Light,” will hold its annual pic- nic on Sunday, July 27, at Quindare City park. Everybody is cordially in- vited and there is no admission charge. Directions to Quindare park: Take the Quindare car to the end of the car line, then go seven blocks west by Leavenworth Rd. to 34th St. Turn two blocks north. 5 { his drawings pinned up on the walls of the hut where Peter and his mother lived. The man was an engineer, not the kind who runs a train, but the kind who can tell how to build a mine. This man’s name is Troutman. He liked Peter’s drawings so well that he took the boy to Moscow. The Russian painter Malieva looked at Peter’s drawings. He said that the boy needed only a little lesson to help him handle his brush and crayons. Then the man named Trout- man, the mining engineer, showed Peter’s work to some of the Soviet officials. They were very pleased with the boy and his drawings. Now they have sent him on a trip all over Russia to draw pictures of the country. They will hang these drawings in the big state picture gallery. If Peter Miranof’s work pleases many more people, the boy may be able to get a little money and go to Paris to study some of the other fine art works of the world. \ Ca a) This is a true story. If you like it, children, write to the Chil- lren’s Column and tell us, “A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN Uncle Wiggily, dreaming a Fox was after him, 7 Jumped!