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EXPOSE GRAIN CO-OP AS TRUST PROFIT SCHEME Tried to Unload on the Skeptical Farmers By CARL HAESSLER, (Federated Press.) i The inside is beginning to leak out about the $26,000,000 Grain Mafket- ing’Co., “the farmers’ own company,” hailed in the capitalist press a year ago as an outstanding example of co- operative endeavor. While the finan- celal writers t d their gréasy caps In air the farmers who were expected to come across with the co-operating stuck to their plowing and talked about the big wind when the com- pay’s stock salesmen approached them. The Grain Marketing Co., according to its principal promoter, was an un- loading scheme, hastily got up when it seemed that the McNary Haugen bill had a chance of passing thru the congress. The bill did not pass and the unloaders are not unwilling to take back their property, particu- larly as they found no place where the unloading was good. Matter of Profits. This is the conclusion that seems to lie under the surface of the un- usually frank statement of Manny Rosenbaum, the high jinx of the pro- posed co-operative, who put the grain elevators of Rosenbaum Bros. and of the Rosenbaum Grain Corp. into the pot. Armour tossed in his grain cor- poration and so did the Kansas City firm of Davis-Noland-Merrill Co. Says Rosenbaum, a Chicago grain specula- tor: “Last year we were looking at the MeNary-Haugen bill. If it passed it meant the federal government would be in the grain business. We had properties and didn’t wish to see their value destroyed. So a co-operative or- ganization was formed by farmers and by us for all farmers. Now if the government goes into the grain busi- ness the government will have to compete with a strong well establish- ed co-operative organization, any pro- fits which go to the farmers.” To Take Property Back. What this really means is that the * promoters would have got a big price tor their shaky business with the far- mers holding the bag when the gov- ernment plan got under way. The farmers didn’t bite, the bill didn’t pass and things look pretty rosy again for Armour, Rosenbaum, and other friends of the farmer. The $4,000,000 expected to be drawn out of the farmers thru stock sales to make good on the elevator options by August 1, is nowhere in sight. It usual all around with the American looks very much like business as Farm Federation's grandiose co-opera- tive scheme unmasked as an emer- gency unloading device that is to be scrapped since the emergency feared by the grain gamblers did not mate- rialize. Lawmakers of Cal. Kill Labor Bills, Muddle Other Laws ! SACRAMENTO, Cal., June 22.—The California legislature adjourned after passing bills fixing two different sal- aries for the same office and amend- ing a law which was repealed 20 years ago. Also a bill doing away with the civil service commission and plac- ing its powers in the hands of one man, after being amended so as mere- ly to raise the salary of the president of the commission, was given to the governor in its unamended form, was signed by him, and is now a law. The speaker of the assembly and the president of the senate inadvert- ently signed the bill with others and there is no way of abrogating it ex- cept by referendum. That the mis- take was purposely made is indicated by the fact that Gov, Richardson ve- toed or pocketed 518 laws passed. by the legislature (including practically all labor measures), but took care to sign this one. ‘ TO RENT. F ’ jing rooms, 811 E. 4ist St. wily dec., V2 block to park; surf, “L” and bus line; phone, elec,, laun- dry, $6. P Philadelphia,- Notice! Weber Printing Co.” 350 N. FIFTH STREBT, Philadelphia, Pa. PITTSBURGH, PA. To those who work hard for their money, | will save 50 per cent on all their dental work. DR. RASNICK : DENTIS, - 645 Smithfield Street. ed } bscribe for the DAILY WORKER : [declared its identity. Failing in this } (Federated Press in IMinois. tons of coal. half of this demand is supplied by mines controlled by the consumers. “The railroads,” says Stewart, “are the greatest consumers of bituminous coal; the iron and steel industry is probably the next greatest, and yet the extent to which these two princi- pal consumers replenish their stocks from mines uncontrolled or uninflu- enced by them is very small. Of the coal produced in the shipping mines of Illinois in 1924, 22,402,214 tons or 31.9 per cent went to railroad com: panies direct from the mine, and: ify! we take the mines that operated the greatest number of days we find their output going exclusively to railroads.” He shows the per cent sold to rail- roads by the 27 mines in Illinois oper- ating 200 days and over as follows: Days operating Employes To R.R, 280 and over 420 100.0 260 and under 270 48 100.0 51 100.0 480 37.2 559. 64.8 250 and under 260 =. 143 98.6 150 52.1 240 and under 250. 163 49.2 i 182 55.2 399 92.4 230 and under 240 52 46.6 306 41.9 488 78.4 792 58.2 220 and under 230 = 578 95.0 406 46.5 210 and under 220 = 217 87.9 496 76.2 594 38.1 418 78.9 816 97.1 106 64.5 200 and under 210 = 184 47.5 62.2 62.2 86.5 95.1 96.6 Total .. oon 73.8 Thus the 98 miners who had a chance to work as much as 200 days in 1924 were dependent for about three. quarters of their market on the railroads. “As consumers’ mines increase, either in number or capacity,” says Stewart, “the outlet for truly com- mercial coal is restricted.” The increase in the number of con- sumers’ mines is to a growing extent connected with “the development’ of public utilities. The greater use of gas and electricity in industrial plants and-homes means that the consump- tion of coal will be largely centralized in giant gas and electric plants. These plants are today co-ordinated by a few big public utility trusts which are buying and operating their own tendency shown by Stewart therefore, that the stabiliza- tion of the industry may come thru its consolidation under the public utility combines, to the practical ex- clusion of all but a few operators for the open market. to the local newspapers is as follows: very dark. boats challenged it thinking it to be an opium runner, The customs boat ignored the command and attempted to proceed on its way. Customs Boat in Wrong. The crew of the gunboat convinced of its suspicions opened fire imme- diately with the result that the cus- toms boat was well riddled with bul- lets and one of the party on board, a Britisher, was wounded. This was the incident which occa- sioned the alarm on the part of the local consular body. There are several aspects of the case which it would be in order to mention here. In the first place, it is obvious even to the novice in the question of military or naval law that ‘the customs boat was in the wrong. Since the Whangpoo river is at least nominally, Chinese territory, the Chin- ese gunboat had full jurisdiction over this area; hence, the customs boat should have arrested its course and important measure the customs boat was, naturally, fired on with the re- sulting injury to one of the passen- gers. Eighteen Foreign Warship: Another interesting fact is that there are no less than eighteen battle ships, British, American, Japanese, Italian French strewe dup and down the river, the presence of which makes apprehension for the “safety of foreign lives and property” absurd, x rs British Dirty Work. British imperialism in one of its latent: forms, the Shanghai municipal council, employs Indian sikhs to do the the settlement. Time and 5 n.acts of brutal beat- brought the industry to its present crisis. EXAMPLE OF “CHINESE ATROCITY” SHOWS BRITISH BROKE LAWS SHANGHAI, China, (By Mail.)—The consular body of Shanghai has again ‘felt the necessity for the sending of an urgent telegram to the diplo- matic body of Peking informing it that “lives and property of foreigners” in Shanghai have again been endangered. The cause of this action according TH | RAILROADS OWN OR CONTROL BIG ’ COAL MINES; HALF PRODUCTION ' TOTAL MINED BY DIRECT USERS By LELAND OLDS Industrial Editor) The problem of the consumer-owned coal mine is stressed, by commis- sioner of labor statistics Ethelbert Stewart in an article on the coal situation He shows that failure to take this development into account leads to the false impression that there is a regular yearly market for 500,000,000 The consequent increase in the number of coal mines has He asserts that considerably over Your Union Meeting FOURTH TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1926. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, 1569 N. Robey St. Boot Shoe Workers, 1939 Mil- Ave. 8, 912 W. Monroe St. 4’ Clay Workers, Paving 2) 378 and Sheffield. 272 Hall, “Chicago 461 's Hall, High- 1786 #, Springfield and 26th. ery, 59 W. Van Buren Street. 15 Conductors (Sleeping Car), Capitol Bldg, 10 a.m, $81 Electricians, 605 3. State St. 1989 Electricians, 741 S. Western Ave, 30; (Loe.), 5088 Wentworth 402 , 180 W. Washington St. 645 Eng (Loc.), 2433 W. Roose- velt Road. 2647 W. 35th St. ot 18 N. Clark St. mployes, 64 W. Randolph “Union, 3046 W. 26th St. iremen and Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. Hatters (Trimmers), 166 W, Wash- ington 225, E. 18th St., Chi- 8, Hod Carri cago H le 814 W. Harrison St. 62nd and La Vergne Hod Carri Hod Carrier: Ave. Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. ren. Engi Loe. Princeton Ave. 175 W. Washington et. Cutters, 9206 Houston Ave. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 N. ins, 175 W. Washington St, m. Funk's Hall, Oak Park, 20 W. Randolph St. N. E. cor, California and 6414 S. Halsted St. N. W. cor. State and 55th. ; 220 W. OAK ST. Trumbull and Ogden Ave. Monroe and Peoria 1807 Ogden Ave. Plumbers, 180 W. Washington St. 2 Plumbers, 4111 W. M: Railway Carmen, Odd Blue Island, tll. 7 {to report to the | Union in Hongkong. A E DAILY WORKER CHINESE SEAMEN READY TO FIGHT BRUTAL CAPTAIN Steward: Beaten Brutal- ly; His Comrades Strike CANTON (By Mail)—An outrageous act took place in the S. S. “Honam” in Canton May 21 when the chief of- ficer, Carpenter, rough-handled a Chinese steward, Tsen Wong. It ap- pears that a dinner was given by the chief engineer in the ship that night, lasting till 2.4..m., in the midst of which the chief officer, Carpenter, re- turned and retired to his room. Then he took his supper and particularly his drinks. The,steward as usual be- gan the process; of putting him to bed, unshoeing..him, and undressing him. Whether, dissatisfied with the process that night, or with his pas- time that evening, or over-drunk, he began to practice his pugilistic feats upon the Chinese seaman and kick- ing him. This, aroused the indigna- tion of the whole crew, and if chief officer Carpenter. had not fled in time, he would have.gotten his due. Being unable to report,the matter to the Chinese Seamey’s. Union in Canton late in the night, the insulted seaman returned with the. ship to Hongkong, with the intention to report, it.to the union there. ~:~ Dismissed Steward, Contrary to all expectation, Cap- tain Thompson sumarily dismissed the steward on the way and upon arrival in Hongkong ordered him to leave the ship immediately, paying no heed to his request that he be carried back to Canton, his native place. He was even threatened with imprisonment, and the only course left for him was Chinese Seamen's Upon receipt of the report and after subsequent inyegtigation, the union sent its represe: ive to the captain of the ship and¢the manager of the Hongkong, Can’ and Macao Steam- boat company, to inquire why the men should workiafter twelve o'clock, why the chief ofiger Carpeter could beat a seaman, and how could the lat- ter be dismissed Without 24 hours’ no- tice. All:the questions were ignored, and the only retort was: “Can the steward produce injury marks?” Oh! you honorable capitalist, let me beat you and kick you, And if there be no 1170 Railway Carmen, ve. 1267 Railway Carmen, 5324 S. Halsted jt. 382 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington |° Street. 739 Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi+ “cago Heights. 906 Railway Clerks, 5438 S. Halsted St. 2219 Railway Clerks, 809 W. Washing: Railroad’ Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi- son. Street. Teamaters’ Dis. Council, 220 S. vd. (Auto), 220 $. Ashiand Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. . Waiters, 234 W. Randolph St. (Note—Cnieus otherwise stated al meetings. are at 8 2 375 Davis Fails WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22, — Secretary of Labor James J. Davis has, withdrawn as “arbitrator” of the dispute between the plasterers and bricklayers’ international unions, which has caused the plasterers to call.a strike. A customs launch was proceeding up the river, which was incidentally One of the Chinese gun-¢———————__—__ ing and mauling of the Chinese coolies are perpetrat These columns have contained facts of the inhuman treatment accorded the Chinese laboring class by the for- eigner be he a Britisher, Japan American, but there exists also an- other situation. 4 exploited land, is paid a trifle more than a coolie and a club is placed in his hand. “Keep the slaves down at any cost and champion the cause ‘the foreigner” his orders and as @ result we ha’ imitive sayv- agery with the blameless Chinese coolie as the victim. There hasn't been a day that in passing alo: the street I haven't been witness to several atrocious pun- ishments inflicted on Chinese by these sikh policemen, I have seen a coolie at the head of a group of human horses who were straining and sweating in the vain at- tempt at pulling what would be a motor truck load of wooden boards over Chapoo Road bridge, beaten into insensibility by a sikh. Paid for Violence. Another time I have seen a wheel- barrow coolie who had his ear half twisted off and his bare foot broken by the hand and heel of the sikh who is as I have said sometime ago, the very embodiment of British imperial- ism in one of its more concrete forms, The sikh, a member of an exploited race himself, is taken from his native land, and is paid a little more than 4 coolle to beat that coolie. . Get a sub—make another Com: ‘munist! evident marks, wiff’¥ou consider that I have not beatei du or kicked you? Ready*to Fight. The S. S. “Horidh” has retit#tied to Canton, and the-YWidle érew is pre- pared to fight..aleonterencé “oF ‘all seamen will be heMthis aftertidén in Canton, ‘where “théasures “wilt” be taken.* "The whole "body of Chinese seamen'ts ‘showin Sympathy to ‘their fellow ‘Workers of fhe S. S. “Honam.” Fellow seamen’ d?°the world! You are likewise opprédsed and exploited by the capitalists” Our enemy is one. Let us, seamen ofvChina and of all countries, join even eloser in our strug- gle for freedom—freedom from ex- ploitation by capitalist factories and banks, freedom from oppression by capitalist police and jails. Brother seamep,of the world! We know no distinction of nationality or race. We know .only the distinction between the capitalist class and the working class. All workers, white, black, yellow, red and brown, are brothers and comrades, All capital- ists are our enemies, Brother workers of the world! Let us unite and form a world family of workers! Injury to one is injury to all! Three cheers for our unity! Cut Service on “Milwaukee.” WASHINGTON, June 22.—The Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road, now in the hands of receivers, was authorized by the interstate com- merce commission today to abandon a part of a branch we extending from Wausaukee to Girard Junction, Wis. Continuance of this branch, the commission said, Would be a burden on the revenues of. the railroad, Reserve Officers Out. In a letter to the Milwaukee chap- ter of the federal reserve officers’ association, Maj. Gén. Hale instruct- ed his officers to carry out no plans for defense day. °° Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will.make a better Communist of you, FINAL ACT OF ILL. SENATE KILLS COPS’, FIREMEN'S, PAY RAISE SPRINGFIELD, IIl., June 22.—One of the final acts of Iilinois legis- lature, which has ended its sessions, to kill the bill whieh would id the pay of firemen $3,000.00 a year. The ate tabled the bill, The assembly appropriatde $280,- 000,000 and passed 302 bills, Off the Press About yi Special Anti- June 25—| Jeaperialist Number ONLY ONE MORE WEEK LEFT! The Zero Hour Approaches Only those subs will be counted in the totals in the Second An- nual Sub Campaign which have arrived in the office of the DAILY WORKER no later than Tuesday, June 30. The final results will be tabulated and the winners announced in the Saturday issue of July 4. That means that only one more week is left. And that mzans that all sube secured during and as a result of RED WEEK and all other subs as well must be sent in as soon as possible. You still have THIS WEEK LEFT to make a final drive to push your local up in the standing of the Communist building locals who have helped to make the Second Annual Sub Campaign a success. The whole movement will get the chance to see how much each local has con- tributed to this most important work. Just where will your local be? RUSH IN YOUR SUBS—THE ZERO HOUR APPROACHES. e . . ° In the Second Annual Sub Campaign These subs were sent in on Saturday, June 20: CHICAGO, ILL.—Hans Johnson, Arthur Maki, D. E, Earley, Bjorn- son, A. Ravin, John Hendrikson. GARY, IND.—Frank Buckley. FRANKFORT HEIGHTS, ILL.—Wm. Schroeder, McKEESPORT, PA,—South Slavie Branch (4). DETROIT, MICH.—N., Stoyanoff (3). PITTSBURGH, PA.—Lena Rosenberg (4). BOSTON, MASS.—Elsie Pulter (3). NEW YORK, N. Y.—H. F. Mins (5); Lillian Michels (2); Tannenbaum; Szepesi; Katterfeld (4). SEATTLE, WASH.—J. Lawrie, HANNA, WYO.—Fred Williams. FOREST CITY, PA.—J, R.-Navalinskiene. JOLIET, ILL.—Marjan Swiont; M. P. Morrie. NEWARK, N. J.—M, Ikalainen. ASTORIA, ORE.—Pacific Development Society. . . * e Tomorrow— ‘THE STANDING OF ALL LOCALS WILL BE PUBLISHED AND WILL INCLUDE ALL SUBS SENT IN UP TO AND INCLUDING SATURDAY, JUNE 20, AS WE SEEIT. - (Continued from page 1.) said. Even the reactionafyj Chicago Tribune admitted that the ’ Wecision curtails “free” speech; ‘but nolds that any speech that would favor the over- throw of capitalism is unhealthy, and every economic systém is ‘Justified in taking’ méasitres to safeguard itself. This is a*straightforward statement of the capitalist position. o.¢'* AN American socialist defends the capitalist supreme court against a Communist. In Bulgaria the social- ists defend the butcher --Zankov against the peasants and workefs)and even against the attacks of~ such moderate socialists as Wedgewbod of Great Britain. And James’ Ramsay MacDonald, fearing that the repoftt of Wedgewood and Malone would em- barrass the Bulgarian fascist regime, wrote a letter to a Zankov > paper, repudiating the Wedgewood report, and advising Zankov that the dele- gation which drew it up did not rep- resent the British labor party. Thus it can be seen that socialists are the same all the world over. see ONSIDERABLE entertainment can be had for little or nothing, by listening to the preachers who fish for souls along Madison street. One fel- low was trying to explain what Jesus said to Nicodemus, with great diffi- cutly. That is, the preacher was in trouble. While he was reading from his bible an automobile was backfir- ing in a most un-christly way, and I could see the lips of the holy man/| twisting on an old fashioned oath, However, he managed to keep a hold on his patience until the gasoline Wagon stopper barking. em “AJICODEMUS,” he said, pretty good guy, had money and all that. was all right. But Jesis said to him: ‘You must be born all over again.’"” Why he picked on Nic was a mystery that the preacher did not explain. Nic also seemed to be sore, so he sald to Jesus: “How can I be born again? I am old and it seems impossible for me to go back into my mother's a erepteneestatemaeinemenineapetienien—entieny, Lillian By T. J. O'Flaherty womb, seeing that I am several inches taller than she is and weigh much more.” r Nic thought he had Jesus cor nered, this is where he got left. And so did the audience. The preach- er took a long bre: id said, “Now I will skip three verses,” and proceed- ed to show that Jesus was very much like a shyster lawyer with a bad case. He proceeded to abuse Nicodemus, told him that he was full of figs and all that kind of thing. The audience was getting restless; a hot dog ped- dler began to shout his wares, and Jesus, frankfurters, oaths from mem- bers of the audience and quotations from the bible got inextricably mixed. Some remained to see the mulligan thru to the end. What the Owl told him—an cupine and the Cuckoo—whi in was a lots of He thought he By HERMINIA Translated that pinched the Rich Lady And the Little Sparrow who Sentencing of Communists Postponed brothers; , NEW YORK, June 22.— J. Brand and Sol Friedman, two members of the Young Workers’ League who were arrested for distributing the May Day leaflets, appeared in the spe e8- sions court in Brooklyn yesterday for sentence, but the judge postponed sentence for one week. Both are out on bail in the meantime. friend. Which is in large, clear type. size” of 9x12 inches, $1.25 (CLO daly lenide f the WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Blvd, 76 CENTS (OUROFLEX COXER) Page Five’ TECHNICAL AID TO SEND COTTON GROWERS TO USSR Also Organize Moscow Wet Wash Laundry NEW YORK, June 22.—A group of American cotton growers made an in- quiry in the Central Bureau Society Technical Aid of the United States to | the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub- lies whether their experience in grow- ing cotton could be of any value to Soviet Russia and, if so, whether they could apply it on Russian land, The answer to this inquiry was that such groups are greatly desirable and that their group will be given a tract of fertile land in Mugan (the Republic of Azerbeidjan), but at the beginning only a group of not more than one hundred families will be admitted. The cotton growers of the United States and Canada may apply for informa- tion to the Society for Technica) Ald, 799 Broadway, room 402, ‘The Central Bureau has organized for Moscow a wet wash laundry ¢o- operative, which has already over twelve members, fo rthe purpose of going to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. This co-operative will be settled around Moscow and will serve Moscow with an American laundry, This laundry needs more members. Anyone who has laundry expertence may apply to the followmg adress: Mr. Wiesser, 86 Strenton St., New Haven, Conn., or Central Bureag S. T. A. 8. R., 798 Broadway, room 402, New York. Judge to Rule on Constitutionality of Evolution Law WINCHESTER, Tenn., June 28— The question of whether or not the Tennessee anti-evolution law is un- constitutional can and will be decid- ed in the circuit court at Dayton, pro- vided the attorneys in the case of John T. Scopes, who will go on trial there July 10, for violation of this law,, ask for a decision on that legal point. This was the declaration made here by Judge John Tate Raulston, who will preside over the Scopes trial. The judge said, “If the court should rule that the law is unconstitutional, the case then would be finished ingo- far as the circuit court is concerned, and the next step would be for the attorneys to appeal to the supreme court.” lu. S. Has Largest Trade Delegation, BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 22, — King Albert opened the third biennial congress of the internntional chamber of commerce here. Twenty-eight countries are represented. Of the 679 delegates, 246 are from the United States and 87 are from Great Britain Brakeman Killed in Train Crash. Elmer W. Routan, brakeman, 30 years old, was killed in a triple wreck on the Chicago & North Western rail- road, which occurred on the Mayfair cutoff, the fast passenger and freight line of the Chicago & North Western. THERE WAS A WISE OLD OWL— And little Paul who ran away from the poor-house went to the Owl to answer his question. d the Speckled Hen, the Por- at all these said, you will find Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children ZUR MUHLEN, by Ida Dalles, And in it you will learn about the beautiful Rose Bush "s nose; wanted to do so much for his And the Little Grey Dog, who died to save his little boy LYDIA GIBSON has made four beautiful full page draw- ings in two colors, and cover designs for the book— . It is also of real “story book ITH BOUND) The Daily Worker Publishing Co. a Chicago, III,

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