The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1926, Page 2

( Page Two MID-WESTERN FARMERS MEET IN DES MOINES Plan Attack on Cal and Cabinet (Special to The Dally Worker) DES MOINES, lowa, July 20.—A Joint conference was scheduled here today between the Mid-West corn conference committee of 22. and the corn belt committee of 28 to lay down a.farm relief program for congress, which it is declared shall be fought fer untiringly until the desired end is accomplished—agriculture elevated to the economic plane of Industry. The corn belt committee of 28, com- posed of leaders of the 24 major farm organizations of the United States, claiming a total membership of nearly 1,000,000 growers of various products, met yesterday behind closed doors. Attack Administration, There was apparent a disposition, particularly among the “dirt” farmer members of the committee yesterday to show no quarter to the administra- tion. Particular criticism was direct- ed against Secretary Jardine. Secretary Mellon’s letter, issued during the fight on the McNary-Hau- gen bill, taking the stand that the home market would have to seek the European level was condemned by many members of the corn belt com- mittee yesterday as the most “trea- sonable assault yet made upon agri- culture.” It was pointed out that it would impose a condition emounting to peonage upon the American farmer, and if considered seriously, “should surely force an opening up of the tar- iff schedules.” Appoint Committee. The committee appointed yesterday to draft thte resolutions in behalf of the corn belt committee was com- posed of William Hirth, Columbia, Mo.; H. G. Keeny, Omaha, president of the Nebraska Farmers’ Union; James E. Manahan, St. Paul, manager of the Equity Co-operative Exchange; Charles E. Hearst, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau and A. W. Ricker, Minneapolis, secretary of the National Producers Alliance. ey Brookhart Weakens. DES MOINES, Iowa, July 20.— Republicans of Iowa gathering here today in preparation for the state convention tomorrow “ found (themselves confronted with the un- usual spectacle of the insurgent lead- ers of the party offering counsel of charitable dealing with the adminis- tration at Washington. Colonel Smith W. Brookhart, whose victory in the primary over Senator A. B. Cummins has been regarded in Iowa more as a rebuke of the Iowa farmer to Secretary Jardine and the president than a personal vindication, is “stepping softly,” it was declared by observers today. Letter of Vanzetti. Addressed to the Mexican workers thru one of their number in that coun- try, we give below the letter written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti on May 12, which shows the spirit of Vanzetti and his comrade Nicola Sacco, doom- ed to die in Massachusetts as victims of a frame-up against them because they were labor organizers and for- efgn-born workers: A Spanish version of the letter appears jn an adjoining column of this issue: ‘Dear Comrades:—Today the su- preme court of the state of Mass- achusetts denied our application for a new trial. This news will reach and surprise you like a flash of lightening from a clear sky. You know this country far too well not to understand what the denial means, “Let us have no illusions? Only the workers of the world, and all of you, our comrades, are able to save us from the electric chair and give us Uberty. “Courage, comrades, antl let not our fate sadden you. We know how to be men even until death. Our motto yet is and will be: Give us liberty or give us death, “With fraternal greetings to all the workers of Mexico, and to our com- rades of that country, | am yours fraternally, Bartolomeo VANZETTI.” P. O. Box 93, Hanover St. Station, Boston, Mass. County Hospital Patient Seeks to End Life; Fears Blindness Fearing blindness, Mrs. Gertrude Anderson, 30, a patient at the county hospital, plunged four stories in a vain attempt to end her life. She landed in a flower bed, recently spaded. The soft earth broke her fall, She sprained her ankle. LaFollette Memorial Legion Is Organized (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 20.— The LaFollette Memorial Legion of Chi- cago, organized to “memorialize the life of Robert Marion LaFollette,” was granted a charter here. Incorpora- tors were named as C, J. McCowan, George Meade, T. P.-Bonfield, Rose Gordon and Z, J, Clusman, all of Chi- cago. Terrific New England Storm. BOSTON, July 20. — Emerging from one of the worst storms in re- cent years, New England began a checkup today of the havoc wrought by lighting and a 100-mile-an-hour wind that killed seven persons and took a property toll of approximately $1,000,000, Lighting bolts claimed four lives. Two persons were drowned, and one was crushed to death by a falling tree. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Needle Trades Section of T.U.E.L. to Meet in Conference, Sept. 10 (Continued from page 1) how to concentrate our efforts for the conquest of the centers outside of New York and of the national union machinery. In this connection the struggle for amalgamation will play a great role and must be undertaken with renewed vigor. The Strike. The cloakmakers’ strike raises be- fore the left wing some of the most complicated problems of the industry, chief among these the problem of the establishment of union control over the jobbers. The successful prosecu- tien of this strike is now the chief problem, and every ounce of energy and ability must be concentrated upon this decisive struggle. The netional conference will have to serve as a ral- lying center to mobilize support, moral, financial, organizational, for the fighting cloakmakers, The conference has to take into consideration basic and important changes in the industry, consolidation of the employers organizationally and financially, new production methods and machinery, changes in tendency and composition of the various union bureaucracies, experience in strike methods and strategy, new aspects of ‘the united front policy in the light of our experience. Ail this must receive revaluation and crystallization at this conference, Must Organize Ourselves, The Needle Trades Section, T, U. E, L., which has acquired tremendous moral influence amongst the needle trades workers, has, however, not yet succeeded in organizing all of its ad- herents, due to the impression among many workers that the league is only lor Workers Party members. We must make clear that the Trade Union Edu- cational League i# an organization based upon a progressive platform and all workers who agree with its simple program, irrespective of party affilla- tion or sympathies, are welcome into ite ranks. For a Party of Labor, The role of the capitalist govern- ment, local, state and national, and the collaboration of the bureaucracy ) With the capitalist parties to defeat A tl inte om following agenda, subject .o amend- ment by the conference, is submitted The conference will be held in New York City on Friday, Saturday and the left wing in internal union and economic struggles, raises before us not only the question of tactics and methods to minimize these dangers, but the political problem of developing political working class ideology and its organizational crystallization into a labor party instead of the unions re- maining a kite to the capitalist polit- ical machines. On the basis of the foregoing, the for consideration and discussion by all the groups: 1 Jobber-Contractor Problem, 2. Amalgamation as an Immediate 3. Struggle for a Forty-hour Week. 4, Strike Strategy in the Present Period. 5. Organization of the Unorgan- ized. 6. Class Collaboration, and Industrial, 7. Wage Reductions, New Ma- chinery and Methods of Exploitation. 8. Right Wing Opposition. 9. Shop Delegate System. 10, Centralization Tendencies Among the Employers. 11. Labor Banking and Insurance. 12. Broadening the T. U. E. L. 13. Labor Party. 14, Finances, The Needle Worker, Labor Press and Propaganda. Political Sunday, September 10, 11 and 12, 1926, All members are expected to con- tribute 50 cents, receipted by a stemp, to defray the expenses of the confer- ence. Representation, Representation will be on the basis of one delegate for each group of 10 and one additional delegate for each additional ten members or major frac- tion thereof, provided that no group shall have more than 10 delegates, Credentials should be sent to the secre- tary of the national committee and the delegates report to the league headquarters, All resolutions or ar- ticles pertaining to the subjects on the agenda will be printed in the Needle Worker and the left wing press, and should be forwarded to the secretary, National Committee Needle Trades Section, T. U, E. L. Joseph Zack, Secretary, 108 E, 14th 8t., New York City, THE DAILY WORKER SAVE SAGEO AND VANZETT Garta de Vanzetti. Dirigida a los trabajadores Mexica- nos y a todos los trabajadores del mundo, cuyo contenido esta bien claro. Su salvacion, dice el bien, depende de la accion unanime de los trabajadores. Hay que obrar, pues ,antes que sea demasiado tarde; de los trabajadores depende la salvacion de esas dos vic- timas del capitalismo yanki; Sacco y Vanzetti van a morir. Mayo 12 de 1926. Mi querido camarada: Hoy todo el tribunal de la suprema corte del estado de Massachusetts nego nuestra apelacion para un nuevo jurado, Estas noticias te llegargn y sorprenderan come un rayo en un cielo raso, Tu conoces a este pais de- masiado bien para no comprender lo que la negacion significa. “No hay que formarse ilusiones” Solamente los trabajadores del mundo y todos ustedes, camaradas nuestros, pueden salvarnos de la silla electrica y darnos libertad. Animo, camarada, y que nuestra suerte no te entristezca, Sabremos ser hombres hasta la muerte. Nuestro lema todavia es y sera: “Dadnog la libertad o dadnos la muerte.” Con recuerdos fraternales a todos los trabajadores de Mexico, y a nues- tros camaradas de este pais, soy tuyo fraternalmente, Bartolomeo VANZETTI. Direccion: P, O. Box 93, Hanover Street Station, Boston, Mass., BH. U. A. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. — (Continued from page 1) with putting roving thots into the nimble heads of Maegsrs, Druggan and Lake and later on turning the jail into a soft drink parlor, those evil spirits finally decided to blow up the jail. Uneasy lies the head on which sits a crown desired by somebody else. Yet there are people who would ag cept Hoffman's job when it is vacant! In fact Hoffman may be crazy enough to seek it again. NOTHER puzzling phenomenon is why anybody should be willing to essay the task of organizing a cabinet in France, Yet scores of applicants are rapping at the president’s door whenever a cabinet bursts up. This happens now almost weekly. A French politician who did not star in at least half a dozen cabinets is considered a nonentity. Herriot pulled off a good stunt when he stepped down from his chair and in a few paragraphs made the sweat starid like dew drops on Caillaux’s bald head and made old Briand chew his mustache. Incidental- ly the deputies were influenced by Herriot’s oratory and arguments. Something that never happens in the American congress. HINKING more seriously of the contents of the two paragraphs above, it is more pleasant to be sheriff even in Chicago or juggling with French cabinets than slave in a fac- tory or dig coal in a mine, or in fact do thousands of other disagreeable things that must be done if sheriffs and premiers are to live in luxury. a Billion Dollars in Profits to America’s Automobile Profiteers (Continued from page 1) making a grand total of $4,210,175,000, not counting oil, fuel and other operat- ing expenses, The 1925 profits of some of the larger concerns wero: Profits from Automobiles. 1925 $17,126,000 sssene 28,868,000 79,890,000 2,019,000 106,485,000 21,379,000 2,919,000 9,468,000 16,256,000 12,191,000 2,438,000 5,422,000 16,620,000 5,276,000 11,423,000 2,331,000 8,142,000 Chrysler Corp. Dodge Bros. Ford Motor Co, Franklin Mfg. C General Motors Corp... Hudson Motor Car Co. Hupp Motor Car Corp. Mack Trucks Nash Motors Co. Packard Motor Paige Detroit Moto Reo Motor Car Co. Studebaker Corp. White Motor Co. Willys-Overland Co, Yellow Truck & Coac'! Briggs Mfg. Co. Electric Storage Battery 8,626,000 Fisher Body Corp. « 18,244,000 Stewart-W. Speedometer 7,544,000 8,088,000 416,624,102 21,005,898 17,309,870 Timken Roller Bearing. Standard Ol| compani Goodyear Tire Co. U, S. Rubber Co. Clear Profit, These are profits remaining for di- vision among common stockholders aftre payment of interest and all other charges and taxes. There are 14 manufacturers of parts and acces- sories not included in the table whose 1925 profits averaged about $1,500,000 apiece. Independent oil companies made profits of at least $100,000,000, The three giants, Standard Oil, Gen- eral Motors and Ford, accounted for about $600,000,000 of the profits. The auto industry, says D. R. Young in the American Bankers’ Association Journal, furnishes employment to 3,466,000 persons, including 361,000 in car and truck factories, 350,000 mak- ing parts and accessories, 120,000 in tire factories, 196,000 vehicle dealers and salesmen, 140,000 supply and ac- cessory dealers, 115,000 garage em- ployes, 480,000 repair shop employes, 475,000 chauffeurs, 800,000 truck driv- ers and 241,000 employed indirectly. | IR. T. STRIKERS’ DEMANDS BEFORE Strikers Ask Unions of N. Y. to Aid NEW YORK, July 20. — The strike against the Interborough Rapid Transit company and its company un- fon took a new turn today when the Consolidated Railroad Union, the real union build up by the strikers, an nounced its intention of the strikers, with their wives and children march- ing in a body to the city hall to de- mand that Mayor Walker intervene in the strike and protect the public from the many accidents occurring in trains run by scabs. Fight Company Union, The demonstration will take the form of a parade, with the 2,000 marchers bearing banners descriptive of a part, at least, of what they think of the company union, In addition, the strikers have ad- dressed an appeal to the organized workers of Greater New York which reads as follows; To Organized Labor of Greater New York. The strike of the employes of the Interborough Rapid Transit company is the concern of every member of or- ganized labor in Greater New York. For years the conditions existing up- on the trains of the elevated and sub- way lines of this greedy corporation have been a foul blot upon the labor movement of this city. Many sincere workers in the cause of organized la- bor had despaired of the traction workers ever again becoming a part of the great labor movement because of the fact that all of us were tied to the company union which existed only for the purpose of preventing us from receiving decent wages and condi- tions. Too Patient. We have been patient and long- suf- fering. We have been working un- bearably long hours—56 hours per week in some departments, 84 hours per week in other departments—T7 days per week for all employes, Some of our men have not had a single day off in five years, While the cost of rents, food and every other necessity of life has ad- vanced in price our wages remained stationary because we could not throw off the weight of the company union and fight for our rights, Reveit Against Company Union. At last conditions, became so un- bearable that we re forced to go out. Within a few difys!we split away from the company wpion which is the tool of Hedley and) the corporation, and went on strike. |As you know, all the resources of the powerful com- pany were hurled against us, Even the press wag induced to public false statements regarding our ranks break- ing. We are fighting for increased wages, for a shorter week-day, for one day off in seven with pay, for time and one half for overtime. In the face of all odds we are re- maining out and are fighting to extend the strike so that all workers on the traction system may receive some por- tion of wages that are recognized as essential to a decent standard of liv- ing. Need Financial Ald. ‘We had no previous organization ex- cept the company union, therefore we were without resources with which to fight. But we know that the long established labor unions in New York want to see this a good union town. You want to see the workers in all industries organized, especially the workers-on the traction systems of Greater New York. ‘We need your aid in this fight. Fore- most of all we want your moral sup- port, We want you to refuse to ride the I, R. T. lines while we are out. We also need financial support to en- able us to put up an effective fight against this powerfful corporation. Can Win If Helped. If all organized labor, or even a good part of it in this city gets behind the strike we can make it so effective that in a short time \we can force Hedley and his gang to grant us the very reasonable demands ‘we have asked for and which even our enemies concede we are entitled to. Adopt resolutions and send contri- butions to CONSOLIDATED RAILROAD WORKERS UNION, 155th St, and 8th Ave., New York City. Frane and Lira Drop In New York, NEW YORK, July 20,—Reflecting the heavy selling of franca and lire in the European markets today, the French and Italian currencies declined to new low levels at the opening of the American exchange. French francs sustained a new de- cline of 11 points and were quoted at 2,03% for demand and 2.04 (cents to the franc) for cables. The Italian lira slumped 14 points to a new low at 3.19 cents for demand, while the Belgian franc declined 8% points to 2.18%. Explosion Kills Volunteer, CAMP DEVENS, Ma July 20, — Captain Lewis R, Edmonds, 38, of Somerville and Hu}, Mass,, died this afternoon from Injurfes received in a premature bomb ,explosion during maneuvers of the 101st engineers, Massachusetts national guard, here to- day. FY, Workers and Farmers NEW YORK MAYOR! to Develop Struggle as Factories Invade Texas |n. p. senator Predicts By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ——— “TAACTORIES lead farms in Texas,” is the interesting news that comes from the “Lone Star State.” It is just another signpost indi- cating that “The South” is being industrialized, which means that capitalism is breeding those forces that accelerate the class struggle and its own abolition, os J. Perry Burrus, president of the Texas State Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, is proud of the showing. Last year the value of Texas agri- cultural products was put at $1,000- 000,000, The total value of manufac- turers amounted to almost as much. This year the value of agricultural products dropped a little, while the output of manufacturers has in- creased. Petroleum products make an especially good showing. It is predicted that the excess of manu- facturers over agriculture this year will reach the $200,000,000 mark, 2 ae Thus the largest state in the union thrives in profit-taking under cap- italism much more than it ever promised under the old slave-hold- ing regime that ante-dated the civil war. It took more time than in some of the agricultural northern states but the process of industrialization goes on in “The Solid South” as well as in “The North.” The smokestacks of industry have become numerous within the bord- ers of Texas only within the last 20 years. At the beginning of this period, in 1905, the value of the manufactured products of Texas totalled only $150,528,389, the cap- ital invested in manufacturing being a paltry $115,664,871, and the num- ber of factories, 3,158, Most of the manufacturers origin- ally. grew out of the handling of farm products. Texas surpasses all other states in its cotton seed oil and cake products. During the period 1900-1905 the value of its flour and grist mill products dou- bled. Then there come slaughtering and meat packing; lumber and tim- ber’ products; cars and general shop construction and repairs by steam railway companies; printing and publishing, foundry and machine shop products and lesser industries. It was upon these beginnings 20 years ago that Texas increased its manufactured products nearly seven times, ‘During the period from 1890 to 1908 the value of mineral pro- ducts increased eight times. It was not until the civil war that Texas could boast of any consider- able railway mileage. In 1860 there were only 307 miles of railways in the state, By 1908 this had gone up to 13,066. ‘Texas is populated by the “native- born.” Of the population in 1900 we find that 94.1 per cent was native- Rich Tourist’s Taunt at Paris Poor Starts a Riot on Montmartre (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, July 20.—Two battles in Paris streets between Americans who scoffed at the falling franc and, flaunt- ed their own wealth in the faces of Paris poor, who feel the bread being taken off their table by the precipi- tous fall of the franc and the equally precipitous rise of food, brought the Police to the rescue of the tourists. On the Montmartre, a “rubber-neck wagon” of tourists was greeted by scornful remarks about the foreigners, when an American shouted boasts of how many francs he could get for a dollar, Tha gendarmes rescued the tourists after the crowd had mauled them, and arrested six Frenchmen for the drubbing they had given the tourists, Pennsylvania Foreign- Born Council to Fight for John Tapolsanyi BROWNSVILLE, Pa,, July 20.—The Western Pennsylvania Council for th Protection of Foreign-Born Connell- sville coke region branch has héld its fourth successful conference, Among the important matters before this conference was the case of John Tapolsanyi for cancellation of his cer- tificate of naturalization at the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania at the city of Pittsburgh. The delegates at the conference representing thous- ands of wor! In this vicinity, una- nimously decided to support Brother John Tapolsanyi morally and financial- ly. A series of protest mass meetings are to be organized in this section. Railroad Employment, _ WASHINGTON, — (FP) — Employ- ment on American railroads is run- ning considerably ahead of a year ago, according to the wage report of the interstate commerce commission cov- ering railroad operation in April, The report shows 1,783,411 railroad em- ployes in that month, a gain of 37,768 Or 2.2%, over April 192%, \ : born, 79.6 per cent was native white and 20.4 per cent (or 620,722) native Negro, Many of the native-born in- habitants came from other southern states like Tennessee, Alibama, Mississippi, Georgia and Arkansas, moving westward in an effort to bet- ter their conditions. The largest number of foreign-born were to be found among the Mexicans. There has always been.a healthy spirit of discontent among the farm- ers of Texas. They have had and still have their Renters’ Unions, their Tenants’ Leagues and other or- . ganizations to fight for their econ- omic and political interests, These names imply that there are large numbers of landless farmers in Texas. And there are. There are 88,537 farms in Texas of between 50 and 100 acres. But there are also 11,220 farms of 1,000 acres and more. There are also 10,183 farms of between 500 and 1,000 acres, This means that among the tenants, crop farmers and farm workers there are considerable ele- ments ready to be organized into the struggle against the rich farm- ers, the bankers, the railroads, the food speculators and the landlords. These elements will find new lead- ership in the industrial protetariat that is growing ever more numerous in the cities, The barometer indi- cating the increase in the state’s manufactured products therefore measures the growing ability of the exploited workers and farmers to fight for their own interests. eee Texas is overwhelmingly demo- cratic at the present time. Never- theless it is a political hotbed. The socialist party always got a good vote in the state in the days before the war. In 1924 the vote was: Davis, democratic, 484,605; Coolidge, republican, 130,028, and LaFollette, progressive, 42,881. In 1920 there were presidential candidates of the democratic, the republican, the “American,” socialist and “Black and Tan” republican parties, indicating the conflicting political trends in the state. Or wie The increased industrialization of the state will undoubtedly be domi- nated, as it is even now to a large extent, by outside capital—the oil industry by the oil trust; the pack- ing industry by the food trust; the mineral industry by the various coupon-clipping absentee mine own- ers; the railroads by distant holders of transportation stocks. Thus Texas develops a growing class of workers struggling to produce prof- its for parasites who may live in New York, Boston or Europe. This must inevitably create an identity of interest, irrespective of race and nationality, between the city and land workers in the New Texas, who will not be satisfied with a LaFollette “progressive” party, or some other makeshift “third” party, but who will struggle to build for independent political action of their own under the lead of the Labor Party. The factories are invading Texas. Above the factories go up the standards of the workers and the farmers struggling to win libera- tion from capitalist exploitation. The southern landholding aristoc- racy lost their chattel slaves, The Texas capitalists, in common with those of the rest of the lagd, will lose their wage slaves. FARM BLOC IS OUT FOR POWER, SAYS NORBECK Break in Party Lines (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, July 20. — The American farmer, “coming into his own” as @ politician, will use the November elections to give the “farm bloc’ ’a new balance of power in con- gress, Senator Peter G, Norbeck, re- publican of South Dakota, an agricul- ture leader, predicted today on the eve of leaving for the west to open his campaign for re-election, “The battle of the men behind the plows for economic relief,” Norbeck said, “will plunge across party lines and center upon issues and the candi- dates who support them.” The move- ment fn the west, he added, will grow “until the farmers will have sufficient voting strength to decide the presiden- tial elections of the future.” Balance of Power, “Agriculture now holds the balance of power between the two great polit- ical parties,” said Norbeck. “There has been but one example of its strength. In 1916 agriculture elected a democratic president by giving him the republican states of the northwest. Even then agriculture was unorgan- ized. “Now the farmers are coming into their own. They are gradually being organized into a political unit, They know more about men and issues and are voting their convictions down the line, Possibly in the next presidential campaign and certainly by the succed- ing one, agriculture will be well or- ganized and it will be the deciding factor in presidential elections, The man who can win the presi- dency in the future must have the support of agriculture, no matter upon what ticket he runs, Expect Increase in Strength, “In the meantime, the farmers will concentrate on electing a congress favorable to its interests. In the next year, I believe, a great increase of strength will be shown in the farm bloc, sufficient to make it a balance of Power in congress.” b Norbeck pointed out that fn the last session of. congress, altho the farmers were unable to get their pet measure enacted, they were able to defeat all substitutes. “The fellows up for reelection this fall were particularly careful how they voted,” he added. Shatter Party Lines, “Party lines have been gradually breaking down in the northwest for the last fifteen years. Our people look at the men and the issues instead of the party labels,” Negligence Caused Deaths of Workers Near Navy Arsenal DOVER, N. J.—(FP)—Appalling dis- regard by government officials for the lives and safety of working people in a crowded section of this state is re- vailed in a survey of the conditions which led to the blowing up of the huge navy arsenal at Lake Denmark. The arsenal covered 500 acres and comprised 500 buildings. Instead of isolating this vast collection of poten- tial death in some unpopulated area on the southern coast of this state, the navy arsenal was established in the thickly populated north, and near- by at Picatinny is a great army arse- nal. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! 1 ANVOUOUOUANNNNUEUUUUAOOGNNAEONGAOOROOOSOUET GOOG OUCH GEO AEEO OOO HS ANNE HAAN PICNIC to be given by the Scandinavian Workers’ Educational Society to be held at NORELL’S GROVE, Bridgeport, Conn. ON SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1926 ADMISSION 25 CENTS, Shirtmakers’ Picnic The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has been conducting a vigorous campaign in Philadelphia for several months upon the non-union shirt shops. Several organizers were assigned for this work and thru their efforts several hundred shirtmakers, cutters, pressers, and operators have joined and organized a Shirtmakers’ Local 163, A. C. W. of A., which is functioning at the present time. This newly organized Local is giving a picnic Satur- day, July 24, at Maple Grove Park and extends its greetings and invitation to all who work in the shirt industry and in other trades, Come to the picnic and help to build a strong Local of the shirtmakers for the future! Don’t forget the day of enjoyment out in the opgn air. There will be games, prizes, good music, dancing, and refreshments on the grounds, One of the main attractions of the picnic will be a base-ball game between the New York shirt cutters and the Phila- delphia shirt cutters. There will be several hundred Amalga- mated members from Baltimore and New York as so come and get acquainted. visitors, With fraternal greetings, we remain SHIRTMAKERS' LOCAL 153, A. C. W. of A, i] rae