The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 22, 1925, Page 5

ee EXPERTS EXPOSE FATAL DANGERS OF ‘LOONEY’ GAS Standard Oil Product Is Menace to Workers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, May 20.—In a long and authoritative article in which organiz- ed labor’s scientific experts collaborat- ed the current issue of the American Medical Journal, organ of the Ameri- can Medical Association, details the dangers of tetraethyl lead treated gasoline to workers and the general public and exposes the inadequacy of the report of the bureau of mines that gave a bill of health to the prod- uct of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation that financed the report. The American Medical Journal's re- port comes out almost simultaneously with the conference on the. mooted fluid being held in Washington at the call of the U. 8. bureau of health and it is the joint product of Mrs. Grace H. Burnham, director of the workers’ health bureau; Alice Hamilton, M. D., of Harvard Medical School and-con- sulting expert for the workers’ health bureau and Paul Reznikoff, M. D. Eleven Already Killed. The dangers of the new motor fuel are divided into four divisions in the article, Scientific evidence in each case is given. 1. Danger to workers manufactur- ing tetraethyl lead: 11 died and one went insane in Dupont, Standard Oil and General Motors laboratories; 2. Danger to the workers handling ethyl fluid: in the production plants and the dictributing and filling sta- tions; 3. Danger in the handling of ethyl gasoline—gasoline mixed with ethyl fluid; 4. Danger to garage workers and to the general public from breathing the lead dust fumes from the exhaust of automobiles using the new motor power. e To Hold Conference. The last danger reaches the great masses of the people and may lead to slow lead poisoning of vast num- bers of persons. Tho U. S. health bureau's conference, in which the American Federation of Labor and the workers’ health bureau participate, was called after the agitation that followed the warning of Dr. Hender- son, of Yale university, consulting ex- pert of the workers’ health bureau, “ezninet~the nation-wide peril-of tetra- ethyl lead gasoline and his exposure of the U. S. bureau of mines report. Storm Halts Interurban Traffic. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 20.— All forthbound interurban traffic between Springfield and Peoria came to a halt at 10 a. m. today while linemen were hurriedly dispatched to adjust difti- culties said by traction officials to have resulted from a storm which struck north central Illinois this morning. A PRACTICAL STYLE. 5118. Satin, flannel, kaska or linen could be used for the skirt. The blouse is attractive in crepe, crepe de chine or batiste. I tmay be finished with short or long sleeves. ‘The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. To make this style as illustrated for a 16 year size will require 2% ards of 40 inch material for the skirt, and 2 yards of 32 inch material for the blouse. If made with long sleeves the blouse will require | stitches, 2% yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12 c in silver or stamps. O--@-@ N BUYERS— re bars iggy the DAIL’ bel: we pattern de} ‘ment are als! a New York firm of pattern man ers are forwarded the DAILY WORKER every as ree OUR DAILY PATTERNS (Continued from page 1) Ireland, and beyond {it will be inter- ested to read two messages that reached our committee quite recently The first is from: The Rectory, Glen Columeille, C6. Donegal, under date of April 4. It reads: Robert Stewart, W. I. R. Dear Sir:—I have been asked by your representative who has charge of this locality to say a word about the condition of the people of this place. They are very poorly off, and, I think, some in want. Their first re- quirement now is seed for their po- tato crop. Some have the ground turned’ up, but no seed to put in. The season is running out now, and if relief in that way is to be given it should be done at once. Yours Faithfully, T.’H. Meara (Rector) No Seed; No Crops. That is a very mild and careful statement, but if “no seed is put in” what will be the outcome for the time that lies ahead of these “very poorly oft” people? -Surely a worse time next year, Are people “in want” with “no seed to put in” famine stricken or not? The fine shades of meaning con- veyed in the words want, distress, or famine, may interest straw splitting dilletanti, but the plain person will agree that whatever name it is called by, relief speedy and sufficient is the one thing necessary to alleviate it. Letter No. 2 is a trifle more explicit, and comes without solicitation from an official source and states: Ardara Co., Donegal, April 30. I hereby certify that distress is acute in this district. Tam in a position to state positively that in many cases starvation is not very remote, Signed: CHARLES H. FALVEY, Medical Officer. “Starvation is not very remote,” sounds rather ominous and discredits completely those responsible for the policy. of, concealment. No Exaggerations. The facts of the situation have never been exaggerated in any way by the Workers International Relief. Our investigators in Donegal and Mayo say with the most complete con- viction based on personal examina- tion that the Medical Officer C. H. Falvey is right. We have committees working at the distribution of food, seed and clothing in an area in Donegal which includes Teelin, Kilcar, Killybegs, on to Dun- gloe, and in Mayo all the way from Ballina’ to Portacloy, Caaratigue, etc. There is not a single place in which we have ‘been able to do as much as is necessary. We have been compel- led to ‘deal small and share all” and have only faced the situation so far, as food and seed is concerned, and even that inadequately. The ques- tions of rent, mortgage debt, etc. are quite beyond our province, but these are a:present fact which intensifies the misery of these poor people, and ought. to be the subject of vigorous and sustained agitation, so that a com- Plete moratorium might be secured. _ Poetic Tommyrot. The future could ther be faced with @ reasonable measure of hope, as it is, we. must keep the people alive, we must provide them with seed. It is stupid and criminal to sentimental- A SUIT FOR THE SMALL BOY, 5096. . This jaunty sailor model may be made of linen, pongee, Fep or flan nel,. Braid trimming or stitching will be a stitable finish. The pattern is cut in 3 sizes; 2, 4 and 6 years. A 4 year size requires 8%. yards of 36 inch material, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. . oe FASHION BOOK NOTICE! Send 120 in silver or stamps ing and Suiminar the edie various simple Wa Valuable hints to the home Sresarnas Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1119 Ww. Washington Bivd., Chicago, “ PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for thelr money, | will save 60 per cent on all their dental work, DR. RASNICK DENTIST: Starving Irish Told to Gaze on Sky THE DAILW*!WORKER Page Five ize over the beautiful” surroundings amidst which the people of the West are starving. Sunset and evening star, winding path and heathery hills, the bright blue sea, are good food maybe for poets’ dreams, may even fill a poet's belly, but when in a re- port of Lady Mayo’s, or some other lady’s relief in the Dublin Evening Herald of the 22nd of April I find: “Though other conditions fail them the people of the West have this com- pensation, They can feast their eyes on incomparable beauties and breathe wonderful fresh air! Tho insufficient- ly clothed It was marvelous to see their rosy cheeks and clear eyes.” I confess it was not poetry that rose to my lips when I read that. What kind of mental inebriaté was responsible for penning these lines I do not know. “Rosy cheeks and clear eyes” amid semi-starvation and real nakedness, are probably the indi- cation of tuberculosis, surely nothing to raphsodize over in that. The Work- ers International Relief says let us have an end of this slobbering slush. Want is Want. To starve on a hillside is no more pleasant than to starve in a cellar. What is important is, that the Free State government, while it it not re- sponsible for “the incomparable beauty” must certainly be held to ac- count for the condition of acute want amounting to famine in certain areas in Ireland, They can and will be forced to make provision if the peo- ple of Ireland once appreciate the naked truth. Meantime the Workers Internation- al Relig will continue the work of ig funds, and will distribute these without regard to politics or religion. Relief from the workers to their fel- low workers in distress, betokening the unity of the working class independ- ent of the charity of the oppressor, native or foreign. Our Readers’ Views To the DAILY WORKER: “There are only a few of us active here. We have the DAILY WORKER and Workers Monthly gn two newsstands and we are distributing the DAILY WORKER among the Negroes and canvassing for subs. So far we have not been very successful. I am trying: my best to get subs at the factory where I work. Up to the Present I have given every man in the department where I*work copies of the DAILY WORKER and talked to them about subscribing, but it seems those fellows have no time to read. Where I ‘work they have the best system for keeping the workers’ minds enslaved. They have a psycho- logical way of handling the slaves. Mr. czar, the boss, who is on a trip around the world every once in a while sends in a notice and bulletins are posted on the board telling how he is enjoying himself and he tells them to keep happy. Of course they feel flattered and call their master a good man. It makes my blood boil to see those slaves so humble—but I am not tru with them yet. About six weeks ago I asked for a raise in pay. The super told me that I wasn’t a very good talker, but I am a good mechanic. I keep on ask- ing every week and I always got a different excuse for not getting it. A WORKER, Decatur, Ill. | Your Union Meetin Third Thursday, May 21, 1925, Name A Segoe! I and Place ° d Printing Tri Council, 69 Van Buren St., 6:30 p. m. Clothing Workers, | 409 No. ant 227 2040 W. North Ave. 93 1939 Milwaukee BH ermanvilie, I. 8 4 Bivd. 341 434 Mich 594 , Ogden and Kedzie. 2103 758. W. ‘North Ave. 180 481 8. Dearborn St., 134 1807 Ogd 795 7475 Di 115 ry City Hall, Hearing G rment Workers, 328 W. en St. irment Workers, 1214 N ment Workers, 328 W. rs, 810 W. Harrison Throop St. Pi District Council, 1446 W. jams St. 371 Pi piace, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago eight: £ e Organ Wkrs., 180 W. Washington. 281 analiwayt, Monroe and 724 Rai y 75th and Drexel 604 Railway Clerks, 8138 Commer. otherwise stated iu 8p m,) Ha or a iniess meetings are at SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Praueh, Cranks Uatseuenes, Verein Meets every & Sra ‘Thursday, ir Park Hall, Wiel 2040 W. North Av sub—make another Com. “|miners, The Negroes even offered to NEGROES WON'T SCAB; STICK TO KANSAS U.M.W. A, Evicted Rather Than Leave Mine Union C. ims K These Builders Sent Subs on May 19 BELLAIRE, O.—R. Turkaly (3) ASTORIA, ORE.—K, K. Hakola; Emma Mattila; Pacific Development Society. FRANKFORT HEIGHTS, ILL.—Wm. Schroeder (6). NTW YORK, N. Y.—M. Schneider (3); Mathia Holzbauer (2); Kat- terfleld (3). CHICAGO, ILL.—Benjamin Maller (3); H. P. Clausen (2). REVER, MASS.—Chas. Schwartz; Dora Dalevich. CLEVELAND, O.—H. Benjamin (2). ST. PAUL, MINN.—W. H. Wangerin, BOISE, IDAHO,—Theo. Pierce. SOUTH BEND, IND.—Amos E. Kirk. PITTSBURGH, PA.—J, Delack. CANTON, O.—J. Cassidy, By J. E. SNYDER, (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Kansas, May 20.— Down in the Pittsburgh, Kansas, dis- trict, where they fjght industrial court laws, defy officia! 8, and reactionary labor leaders alike, the negro miners have demonstrated their solidarity for untonism. i A year ago last April the 14 Sher- idan mine was shpt;down and an at- tempt to force the 1917 scale on the Negroes, working.there, was pegun. They would not budge, so the “law” was called in and, eviction notices were served, but; the, case was taken to the courts and,so,it happened that four different notiges were served, but the Negroes would, not move from the company houses..,; Negroes Refusesthe Baited Hook. Each time a notice’ came the deputy dropped the hint, that if they would go back, as the °cémpany proposed, and thus desert the'union, they could stay in the housés; otherwise they would have to move; Unable to get thei moved without causing too much excitement in the {mining camps, the Sheridan Company claimed to have sold out to the Doub- leday Company and that the houses were sold to a real estate man by the name of J. Luther Taylor who, after many threats, came with the “law” and set the Negroes and their families out in the yards of eighteen of the houses, Tick Mate Challenges PHILADELPHIA—UKRANIAN BRANCH and BROWNS- VILLE ENGLISH—NEW YORK TILL the call for action continues with only a few more weeks left in the Second Annual Sub Campaign. Live Bullders continue the good work. Comrade Pidlisny of the Ukranian branch of Philadelphia secured a sub and immediately challenged every member of the Ukranian branch of that city to do the same. That’s a small job for a Communist branch that has three weeks to do it In. Philadelphia Ukranian branch, your job is a sub from every member before June 15. Will you do it? In New York, Comrade Louis Niebrief secured a full year’s sub and threw the challenge to Comrade Mitnick of the Brownsville English branch to go out and get another—and gives him until June 15 to do this. Up and at ’em Comrade Mitnick! THREE MORE WEEKS TO GO COMRADES—ON THE JOB NOW TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER. DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN HIGH PROFITS AND UNEMPLOYED, SHOWN By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) Wealth is pouring: into Wall Street so fast that there are not enough good securities being issued to satisfy the demand. Says the New York Times, “the flow of wealth into the bond market for the first 4 months of the year indicated that 1925 would set a new record.” The problem of the financiers seems to be to satisfy the demand of the wealthy for more and A Scab Company. The Doubleday Company is the one that has been trying to open up its mines, nonunion, and against which move Alexander Howat and Mat Walt- ers led parades of.miners and stopped the proceedings, the mine remaining idle to this date the Howat men on guard. Mat Walters is ‘the newly elected president of this district and so far shows some intention to resist the wage scale ctt. Hé has called a pio- nic for the entire district to meet near Crowberg next StAday and there get more unity for a big drive to organize more securities, the district. Many unorganized dis- : tricts have assertéd that they are No wonder! There is the regular flow of about $700,000,000 a year to staying out becatise’ Howat was given the American investing elass from its $10,000,000,000 foreign investments. such a raw deal, Hit this, Howat is} This is in addition to the domestic in- +— urging on.thom, isthe wrong attitude |.terest_ and _ dividends _which go on to take, and to get, in and fight for growing in spite of unsettled business the right to be heard and recognized, } 804 diminished employment. Cannot Break Negroes From Union. ybetyy In regard to the. Negro families that were evicted, they have found refuge with their brothers of the union in Crowberg, Franklin, Pittsburg, Girard and other towns, y are standing just as solid as before and manage to keep in touch with each other. They say that the company can never force them to break with the union nor the scale and that it is their judgement that the mine will stay closed down until the owners gee fit to sign up. This stand of the, Negroes has done much to bring respeet for the race in these parts, All over the district there has been loyalty on the part of the Negroes and they have been loyal to Howat in his battles, also. A Plain Case of Open Shop. The company claimed that they wanted to move the houses, but gave themselves away by calling up the U. M. W. of A. office and stating that they would rent the houses to white The foreign deal was made possibie by the fact that Botany had accumu- lated larger surplus profits than were necessary for its enterprises in this country. It consisted of a loan of $2,000,000 to Kammgarnspinnerie, Stoehr & Co, and the Elberfelder Tex- tile Works, two of the most important textile concerns in Europe. The loan gives Botany a long-term option to ac- quire a 50 per cent interest in a hold- ing company to control these two. con- cerns which in turn control over 30 plants located in Germany, Latvia, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy and Holland. Here is a good example of how excess profits which American work- ers produce for their masters go abroad to back the competition of low-paid European labor. There is a direct connection between high profits and unemployment in the United States. That the Dawes family has its share appears from the annual report of Pure Oil Co., which is captained by Hell an’ Maria’s brother. For the year ended March 31, 1925, Pure Oil turned in an operating profit of $20,000,000 in round figures. After paying interest and making heavy deductions for de- pletion and depreciation about $10,- 000,000 remained for the stockholders, or somewhat over 11 per cent on the common stock. 2 o: = Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., with $10,000,000 profits on the com- mon stock which is carried on the books at $1,250,000, provides the out- standing profit story of the week. This means $42 per $5 share, a profit of about 840 per cent. A. & P. has been paying cash dividends of $4 (80 per cent), the rest going into reserve to enlarge the business. It has just rais- ed the dividend to $5 or. 100 per cent. A. & P. operates about 12,000 stores with the number increasing by 3,000 a year. This steady advance means the conquest of the retail grocery field by an anti-union corporation. The old individual grocer who was willing to employ union clerks is being driv- en from the field or absorbed. The business of this great distributing cor- poration for the year amounted to $352,093,342. - This is roughly 40 per- cent, as large as the business done by the giant U. S. Steel corporation. “ee Botany Consolidated Mills, the Ame- rican textile concern which has been advancing capital to German mills, re- ports a 1924 profit of $1,731,298. This represents $17 a share on 100,000 shares of Class A stock or a return of 34 per cent. < buy the houses, but they would not sell them to Negroes. They were lo- cated in such a way, that they inter- fered with nothing and so there was no excuse whatever? except to try and force them to go babke to work, Who says that the Negro does not make a good union man? Given half a chance he sticks and fights without compromise, Ready Arrest son\er Ibanez. PARIS, May 20,—Siegfried Lascos Ibanez, second son of the famous Spanish novelist, we arrested last Sunday, believed al # reprisal against his father’s attack? ‘on King Alfonso, it was learned tode TEN YEARS.OF LABOR MUSIC! ‘A Concert in Honor of JACOB SCHAFER Director of the Freiheit Singing Society and the Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra COMPOSER OF WORKING CLASS MUSIC First Appearance of the Freiheit Children’s Chorus Sunday, May 24, 2:30 P. M LYDIA edition. Story book size 9x12 inc Tickets for'dale by Fretheit Singing Society, 3837 Roosevelt Road; Dafl¥ Worker 0: 1118 W. Washington Blvd,; Local Chiedgo W, P. Office, 19 8. Lincoln St. $1.25 cloth bound. sober sl ies ey a tao arent apt a Cr eee SSS SESE And many smaller drawings from the original German te at the a durable leather-like cover in color. Studebaker Theater, 418 S. Michigan Blvd. 14 axe Chicago 75 CENTS “a with durable cover. DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. UNITY OF TRADE UNIONS DEMAND OF SWEDISH PE. Postal ‘Moskers Pledge Support to Soviets (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. 8. S. R., May 20.— The delegation of the Swedish Postal Employes’ trade unions returned yes- terday to Stockholm after having made a detailed study of the situation | of th colleagues in Lenningrad and Moscow, Before their departure from Russia | there.was held a joint farewell session of the Central Committee of the | Postal Employes’ trade union of the | Soviet Union of representatives of the factory councils and of the Swed- }ish dele ion. The representative of the latter, Mattelin, declared that the delegation, after having made itself acquainted with all the positive and negative sides of life in the Soviet Union, had arrived at the conviction that the achievements of the Russian | proletariat and the restoration of the | national economy were very consider- able, The five members of the Swed- ish delegation were returning to Sweden as friends of the Russian rev- olution. The Swedish delegation presented to their Russian brother trade union- ists a written address which, among other things, gave expression to the desire for the. consolidation of the achievements of the Russian revolu- tion and for the realization of the closest co-operation between the work- ers of the Soviet Union and those of other countries, as only by this means will the international working class be able to fight successfully against or- ganized world capital, A joint resolution, which was unani. mously adopted, states: “The Russian and the Swedish Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Trade Unions welcome the results of the London Trade Union confer- ence as the most important step which has yet been taken towards international trade union unity, and declare the decision of the Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone employes in one united international to be a necessity. The desire of the Russian trade unions to be ac- cepted in the niternational should therefore be supported.” Railroads Granted Every Wish. WASHINGTON, May 20.—The New York Central railroad and its sub- sidiaries, the Michigan Central and the Cleveland, Cincinhati, Chicago & St. Louis, were authorized by the inter- state commerce commission today to assume liability for $10,530,000 of equipment trust certificates to be is- sued by the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. Spanish Fishermen Drown, VIGO, Spain, May 20—Four men were drowned today when a Spanish fishing boat foundered off the Portu- Suese coast, E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren /( 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark | 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Bpecialtie: W. Rieck Boston B; ea d Grown Gread bass: Fine Sou d Fresh Made Coffee ry and Bakery: Commice: | 1612 Fulton £t. Phore West 2549 Soon! 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