The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 10, 1925, Page 5

FIND SOCIALIST. MIXED IN GRAFT IN BRIDGE DEAL Minneapolis County Of- ficial Probed (Special to The Dally Worker) MINNEAPOLIS,~Minn., July 8.— Minneapolis labor and political circles have been considerably stirred by the charges against Lynn Thompson, the socialist county commissioner, ‘pre- ferred against him by co-members of the board. { These charges are to the effect that Lynn Thompson has been guilty of improper administration of the affairs |] of his office. Bridge Graft Specifically, the charge are that Thompson ordered construction of Bridge No. 107 in Eden Prairie Town- ship greatly exceeding estimates and with orders to the foreman to pro- ceed with the work contrary to in- structions as to plans and specifica- tions from the county surveyer. The bridge in question crosses Mil- ler’s Creek, and was built of concrete and masonry at a cost of $1,200.00 Or- | dering of the inquiry came at the| roads and bridges committee session yesterday after the reading of the communication from the county sur- very’s office. Spent County Funds The deputy county surveyor visited the bridge June 13th, and nding the work proceeding unsatisfactorily, or- dered the foreman to make several changes. The foremah refused to follow the Surveyor’s recommenda- | tion, declaring that he was working under direct instructions from Mr. Lynn Thompson, The Bridge, when inspected recent- ly, was found unsafe, the report list- ing several specific details. It is also charged that Lynn Thomp- son has authorized the expenditure of county funds, as chairman of the roads and bridges committee, without due authority for same. It is pointed ont that on January the first, the fund in question amounted to a half million dollars. Today it is down to eighty thousand dollars, with six months to g0. Several projects are cited which Lynn Thompson has authorized the work on, in violation of the state law. Bats Desert Shy The significant phase of this whole turmoil, is the fact that both Geo. H. Mallon and Arthur Ferrin, both so- called labor members of the board, have deserted Lynn Thompson in this strife, and left him in the lurch. John Walquist, foreman of -the grand jury, promises an investigation of the whole matter. “Defense Day” Is Fizzle, Army Chief Admits; Favors Draft WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—Maj. Gen. John Hines, chief, of staff ad- mitted that the turn out for the war Office’s military day was only two! thirds of last year’s turn out. “Sev- eral governors did not feel that they could require the participation of the national guard,” Hines said. He declared that Congress will be asked to make it permissible to draft civilians for the next mobilization day. | Zankov government make it any less BULGAR WHITE TERROR CRUSHES MINERS’ UNION; PROGRESSIVES OF U. M. W. OF A. By ALEX REID, Sec, Progressive Miners’ Committee of the U, M, W. of A. The Progressive Miners’ Committee calls to the attention of the min- ers and workers of America the horri the same to be sent to the Bulgarian bloody reign of terror by the Zankov crush all militancy amongst the work- ers, Miners’ Union Crushed. Closing our eyes to» the blow, doesn’t lessen its impact, neither does silently standing by observing the an- nihilation of our dlagsi conscious com- rades in Bulgaria by the bloody exe- cutioners and bourgeois ithugs of the hideous or likely to minimize the per- cussion upon the workers of this coun- try. The relationship betweén the mur derous Zankov government and the republican government is:one ot com- plete understanding, -‘as* its silence concerning the murders’ will indicate, the policy of wholesale’ assassination of the militant workers*is part of an imperial policy which America acqui- esces in, and indirecfly’* subscribes to, Therefore, it is for the workers of America to demonstrate theif irdig- nation and to vigorously protest against this brutal form of murderous repression. The Bulgarian government is now killing off workers and peasants ac- cording to lists ‘compiled long prey- ious to the cathedral explosion, on the pretext that it is fighting against ter- rorist reaction, * * ° The Mine Workers’ Union has been dissolved by the Zankov government. The leaders have been arrested, and perhaps are now dead, the attempt made by the union to publish its own trade union paper ended in: the con- fiscation of the first number; and the arrest of the editor, meeting with lit- tle, if any, opposition: Send in your letterssof protest to the Bulgarian Embassy, Washington, D. C., and copies of same to the DAILY WORKER. In defending your Bulgarian comrades isan are ‘esac ing yourselves, Strikebreaker Cal : Looking for a New Chance at the’'Game SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July, 8—Al- tho President Coolidge hag, ag.yet re- ceived no specific report from Wash- ington on the threatening situation in the hard coal fields, it was said yesterday by an official spokesman for the the president that ,Secretary of Commerce Hoover and» Secretary of Labor Davis are keeping-in: close touch with developments bearing on the coming. wage conference, ;- Should the situation hecome acute the president will ask bis.two. depart- ment chiefs for full information to guide him in taking any action which garia, and requests that the workers draw up resolutions in their local unions, The workers of Bulgaria have been and are being mowed down in the No. Place of Mesting. “ field. 4 pots ud AS ee ae Mentioning \that the present con- he Rentals at 8 ‘ialstga Biva.| tract of the United. Mine Workers ex- ait Carpenters 1440 rar pires Aug. 31,.the release stated that 484 Carpenters, South Chicago, 11087 average hourly earnings of workers 504 Carpenters, Ogden and Kedzie. in. anthracite mines increased from 115 Engineers, 9223 Houston Ave. c 9 eke eegencens, 2224, Houston, Ave. yey | June, 1014, th oath lad 1084, ‘all of 499 Firemen and Baginemen, Spring-| 192 per cent, “while hourly wages in field and North Aves. turin - 648 Journeymen Barbers, 180. West 25 basic manufactu ng industries dur. Washington St., 8:45 P. M. ing the same period increased only 340 Hod Carriers, Harrison and Green ° irly ec fork: | 18 Ladien’ Garment Workers, 328 W.| 129 per cent, hourly earnings of work Van Buren St. ers on Class L railroads 141 per cent, 3 Marble Polishers, 810 W. Harrison rs if i 17320 Nurses, 771 Gilpin. Ave. those of worke’ n illuminating gas Painters’ District Council, 1446 W.| plants 111 per cent, and in electric Adams St. 371 Painters, Dutt's Hall, Chicago! #@ht and poWer establishments 121 Heights. per cent.’ 26 Paper Were, 69 E. Van Buren St! wages, whfeh the sufvey id’ sup- 17301 Park Employes, 810 hog Bardion. posed to cover, are not differentiated Ce 9 rn Ae ing aba °K"! from earnings in the report, tho any 1269 Railway beast aga be prea miner can tell the difference in the WO TGuke a nee thickness of his pocket book. The | 87? Railway Trainmen, 64th & Univer-| wage scale may be apparently high | 1380 Misimen, Pio W. Washington st.| but actual earnings, because of a host | 742 Teamsters, 9206 Houston Ave. of conditions, are no greater, or may | ARMY J COAL OPERATORS AGAINST MINERS Joint Stateiient Sent To} Bunk Public (Special to The Duily Worker) NEW YORK, July 8.—(FP)—Cun- ningly timed to coincide with the tri- | district convention of the anthracite ASKS BIG PROTEST ble condition of the workers in Bul-| Embassy, Washington, D. C, butchers in the hope that they will miners which" framed the demands of these 155,000 or more coal diggers, the National "Maustrial Conference Board, Inc., released its analysis of its | survey of wages ‘in the anthracite | Your Union Meeting Second Thursday, July 9, 1925, Name of Local ana Wood Turners’ Union. Hall, 3420 W. Roosevelt Rd. (Note—Uniess otherwose all meetings are at & p. CNote—Unless. otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT SOCIETIES Libert: . erty) even be less, The men who struck in| District 1 last winter complained bit- terly that changed methods of work had reduced their actual earnings much below what the scale would have brought under former conditions. Army and Bosses Unite Against » Miners. The board’ admits that “average daily earnings, or earnings per ‘start’ of contract Miners do not show as large an incybase” and attributes this to the shorter day. It also admitted that “incred#é~in ‘real’ earnings of anthracite workers, that is of wages in terms of purchasing power, owing to the genera! jncrease in the cost of living, is somewhat less than the in- crease in mone: The release.did not explain how it reached its conclusions nor offer data of the survey, from, which they are drawn. The affiliated organisations backing the statement are associated indus- tries of various states, associations of _| manufacturer Jnajor indus- tries, ordnan ments: of army and navy, army) air service and mili- tary intelligence service, ‘étc., etc.— Big Business, anthracite consumers, massing strength against not only the organized miners. but against the de- mands of all workers thru subtle prop- aganda. Frauen-Kranken-Unterstuetzungs Verein Fortschritt Meets every ist & 3rd Thursday, Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Avenue, Secretary. Cincinnati Carpenters, Notice! CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 8.—Bro. J. G. Darlington, carpenter, 3571 Vine street, fell about eight feet and broke his arm while employed by the Pru- dential Builders on the Colerain Road, job. Carpenters of Cincy call and see Bro. Darlington (Red.) He is waiting for your visit, at least let him know that all are interested in his improve- ment. Member of L. U. 785, Coying- ton, Ky.—S. A. Weeks. Anti-Klan Would Meet: WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.—Ap- plication for permission for.a peaceful anti-klan gathering here on August 15 was made by George Lawson, “anti- klan candidate for governor” of New Jersey. Thte klan is to parade here on the previous week. EIGHT MILLION WORKING WOMEN might be necessary to protect the in- terests of the operators from the pos- sibility of another strike, |German Business Would Escape Tax BERLIN, Germany, Jilly — Ger- man business firms have protested against high taxes and demanded a reduction in. the tax. The German workers are bearing meet of the bur- den of taxation. OUR DAILY PATTERNS A SPRVICHABLE KITCHEN “SET” A PRETTY BLOUSE, TOIL LONG HOURS FOR PITTANCE By LELAND OLDs, (Federated Press Industrial Ed! WASHINGTON, July 8—Hight and a half mil “Women in the United States earn their own living, says a handbook just issued by the women’s bureau of the U. S. department of labor, and of these, 2,000,000 are married. Of these married wage-earners, 1,000,000 are native white, and 650,000 are Negro. Native white women predominate in all the occupational groups except farming, where the Negro women are the largest factor, and domestic serv- ice, in which both Negro and foreign-born white women are more numerous | than the native white. South Caro- + lina has the largest proportion of its Bri cklayers Silent women at work—more than 33 per cent, while West Virginia has the on Negotiations of least—about 11 per cent. Low Average Wage. Average wages for working women in South Carolina and Alabama are only $9.50 and $8.80 per week, respec- tively, and in these states the propor- tion who worked no more than 48 hours per week was only 5.8 per cent and 12.5 per cent, respectively, The report does not discuss the question of unions. as to whether they would negotiate settlement of their dispute with the struction in this country, Plasterers’ Dispute NEW YORK, July 8,—Bricklayers’ representatives failed to give their expected reply to building contractors Plasterers which: threatens the tieup of $500,000,000 in the building con- BUILD DERS AT DISTRICT TWELVE INTENDS TO BUILD Thirty-Three Subs to Make Thirty-Three Communists Thirty-three subscriptions (remittance attached!) were sent in by Comrade Norman Tallentyre, district organizer for Washington. Twenty-five of these were a donation of a district executive committee that realizes the importance of the DAILY WORKER as a basis on which to build for future Communist growth, It is interesting to see how well the comrades of the district exe- cutive committee are using the DAILY WORKER as a means to do this with, In the letter sent to the DAILY WORKER Comrade Tallentyre ex- plains! “Almost all the subscriptions on this list have been donated— 25 of them by the district executive committee of District No. 12 and the rest of them by party members who wished to propa- gandize prospective recruits for the party. “The important ones are those whose names were given me at the state convention of the western progressive farmers, when | spoke there a few weeks ago, after a vicious attack being made. upon our organization by John C. Kennedy. | succeeded in demolishing his arguments and almost all the delegates present expressed their desire to receive sample copies of Communist literature—therefore, on my recommendation, the D. E. C. has donated the 25 subscriptions.” This combination of active comrades donating for subs to build the Communist movement, and the D. E. C. leading the action with its first block of twenty-five subs, are good signs that we can soon see further growth of the Communist movement in Washington, CLIP THIS—TAKE IT TO YOURC.C. C. The action of the D. E. C. and local comrades of Seattle, Wash., Is one that can well be adopted in every district and city in the country. In every city without exception, workers can be reached, interested and eventually induced to step into the ranks of the advance guard of the working class—the Communist movement. And this can best be done thru the DAILY WORKER—the collective teacher, leader and organizer, Donate a fund—make a collection—hold an affair—and apply the proceeds to subscriptions to be sent to workers in your city. District twelve did it, Buffalo, N. Y., did it—YOU CAN DO IT! Bavarian Workers to Russia. Government Rules in Favor of Oil | Trust Against Self | WASHINGTON, July 8.—Refusal of federal Judge Kennedy at Cheyenne, Wyo., to grant the government a fur- ther hearing in its oil lease annul- ment suit again Harry F. Sinclair, will not prevent the case from being carried to the United States supreme court, it was stated here today. The government's petition for ap-| peal will be filed within the next two} or three weeks, according to the un- | derstanding here. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob- erts, who are conducting the litiga- tion for the government, will go on | to Los Angeles to appear in court there in connection with a similar suit against E. L. Doheny before | Te- turning to Washington. tual Russian workers and peasants. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LENINISM By I. STALIN, . Secretary of the Russian Communist | Party. The Communist Manifesto Marx-Engels Cloth, 60 Cents Paper, 10 Cents The A. B. C. of : Communism Bucharin-Preobrazhensky Many Young Workers. The actual number of women in domestic service, while larger than for any other group of occupations, is less than in 1910, and 75 per cent of them are over 24 years old. One- third of the domestic workers are Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren 66 w. Washoe E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Paper, 50 Cents ‘The Peoples Marx Julian Burchardt Paper, 75 Cents munism, MOSCOW—It is reported from Ber- lin that the Bavarian factory workers’ committees have decided to send a | special delegation to the Union of So- cialist Soviet Russia to study the ac- economic conditions of life of QUAKES AFFECT WORKERS’ FATE IN CALIFORNIA Victory May, Be Won from Disaster LOS ANGELES, July 8.—Santa Barbara offers fair prospects for workers. Skilled builders will be re- quired to re-erect the city. Those who seeks employment have two op- portunities, firstly, to organize the working class, secondly, to care for physical needs, While idle they can use time for organizing and this will insure them some defense while work- ing later. Santa Barbara Mandarins. Like other southern California cities, Santa Barbara is ruled by an aristocracy of landlords very much as Ireland: San Diego owes allegiance to John D. Spreckles, Los Angeles bows to 20 lords who rule thru the Better America. Federation. Santa Barbara stands at attention when William G. McAdoo and William R. Hearst lift their fingers. McAdoo and Hearst differ from the lords of San Diego and Los Angeles. They want wage slavery but pay maximum wag- es, whereas the others pay minimum. Their policy is to keep workers con- tented until engulfed by the high cost of living. Building Slump in Sight. Following the recent earthquakes, there will be a slump in building in Los Angeles. That will make this city very undesirable for workers. It will tend to force men to go to Santa Barbara where there will be more em- ployment. But that city will soon be overcrowded. Eastern workers will do well to steer shy of California. Op- portunity in Santa Barbara will be quickly seized by men now in the state. 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