The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 24, 1926, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER rg i, sll ala a arto a ari Hdl | age Five Slush Fund Winner Goes Abroad fy ~ 1230,000 WORKERS LOST A JOB | | geen |= DURING MAY; EMPLOYMENT LESS ¥ THAN MAY 1923, MORE THAN 1925 CHURCHILL FIBS By LELAND OLDs, ated Press, | <)>" [oy Employment in American factories in May continued the slow downward * Little Sum of Seven Bil- eeunieier-“dammaenaatt| “ A NEW NOVEL ct ton Sinclair i i course which began in March, ‘according to the U. 8. department of labor. Between April and May employers laid off 1.2% of their workers and re- lion Involved WASHINGTON, July 22.—With the hostile arguments being carried on between two giant imperialisms, Great Britain and the United States, over the war debt owed by the for- duced the amount distributed each week in wages by 1.6%, Factory employment has fallen 2%% from the high point in February. This means loss of. jobs to at least 230,000 workers, The number of factory workers is still slightly above 1925 but is 10% under May 1923. Sharp drops in activity in May hit many of the largest industries in- cluding automobiles down 3.8% in employment and 4.9% in total wages, cotton goods 2.6 per cent in employ- i (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oil operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, is unsuccessful in signing a lease with property holders at Beach City, Cal., because of intrigues of other operators and quarrels among the holders. While he is at Beach City, Bunny, his thirteen-year-old son, meets Paul Watkins, slightly older. Paul has run away from home, His father is a poor rancher in the San Elido Valley who i: “Holy Roller.” Paul t ke his | th d id mer to the latter, getting hotter, ne Mant and TS nee sent tn Wakes: Gon Bunny. asia aioe easeing the at huenees r Be his bea wie ts belngine Pip United States treasury came to the aa Steal LE Gab Gant in earninenient well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail rescue of its chief, Andrew Mellon, Bregh 2.5 pe empray: hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shartly they arrive at the Winston Church- and 3 per cent in wages, boots and Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing and took a swipe at hequer for |820es 1.5 per cent in employment and out of the ground and Dad wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins | il, atanoellor of the vexoheauer £00) 4 ber cent in waged, firnitive 4 per p . | M A RY WIZ Ruth, aod: Bunny. beesina eighde, Attar the tote oh ci rane ere one ae | England. houge | Cnt in employment and 5.1 per cent Paul has been home to see her. She said he disapproved of Dad selling the y Churchill has stated in the hous in Wages and silk goods down 8 per ranch and that he told Bunny in Beach City there was oil on it. Bunny then of commons that of the $7,000,000,000. beth y 4 ldymon€ RAED pay cent Th remembers having seen Paul pass him on the road. spent by Dngland inthe United States wo ae employ: D 5 Ae ee dortax 2 pevled of damevican. tater eee Psp mB yatta CHAPTER V vention—"Britain borrow: 000,- § lon mp, 7 000,000 and provided dn addition $2) compared “with May, 1025, there Bok, World Court Angel, THE REVELATION 000,000,000 from our own independent nave been very Heavy layotts in the] May Go on Carpet ’ : : bes Sr textile, leather and tobacco industries. Bunny was going to school. Aunt Emma and Grandmother Paid With Borrowed Money. ics ip ai and. steel and chemical| The main interest in the investiga- and Berties had got their way by incessant nagging, and he was The U. 8. treasury says: “FLOM | sroung srowsnz terial yains. » Cotton |! into the use of a slush fund in . no longer to be a “little oil gnome,” and devote his time to learn- land’s total reported expenditures : i y the recent Illinois primaries will be Vare, Pi 7 tate politician, who had more than aji2s to make money; he was going to be a boy like other boys, pag ese from April 6, 1917, to Nov, | ™is report 3-ner cent fewer workers | centered around the financial ‘activi- Gongreseman ‘Vare uae pein pi yf eb = a : nator }204. have a good time, and wear athletic sweaters and shout at 1, 1920, there should be deducted the! nd 7.1 per cent less in weekly wages, |ties of Edward Bok, the chief “angel” } million dollars spent on him to get him the G. 0, P. nom Nn for senator 6 thal games, and be part of a great machine. Mr. Eaton had $1,853,000,000 expenditures for which | shoé factorios 6.2 per cent fewer work- rey aera costs advocates, from Pennsylvania, goes abroad with his daughter to take things easy. been spurred to a last suicidal effort and had patched up the weak Great Britain was simply the purchas-|ers and 13.3 per cent less in wages, ad eu fs a eri ace ap spots in the mental equipment of his charge, and Bunny had ing agent for the other allies and for|cigar and cigavet: factories. 10.2 per y P ti 4 passed some examinations, and was a duly enrolled pupil in the which Great Britain was paid by the|cent fewer workers and 11.7 per cent |Courters in behalf of Senator McKin- wi ss a Ch ich School . other allies from money loaned to|less in wages. Foundries of machine |ley. It was believed that a victory H each City High School. them by the United States. This|tools report gains of 7.7 per cent and a rere eee wou take This school occupied two blocks on the outskirts of town, amount was not provided from Eng-|11 per cent in the two items, manu-|the sand out o! @ anti-court move- Bs alae Lannanieatel ineeaskeoe and consisted of several buildings arranged on three sides ofa * land’s ‘own independent resources.’|facturers of machine tools gains of|ment in other states, bate Aa de N.Y. ‘~w» 20 20| square; elaborate and ornate buildings, a great pride to the city, This leaves $5,366,000,000. 22 per cent and 24.9 per cent, fertilizer Bok, the Wingless Angel, Final list of subs received up to midnight Lempl Ols, sacs elene belo Ne Nase Ba as,well as a strain upon its purse. The school was free, and to “ mt, $1,632,000,000 | factories gains of 15.6 per cent and| Bok, the alleged pacifist, recentl of July 6, 3. S. Weiner, Ne’ ‘gh, gy | ‘Of “this emount,: $1,682,000, : : Se ee meee Y | BOSTON, MASS. A: Hoffman, Allentown, Pa. 290 785/it €ame the sons and daughters of that part of the population represents exchafige and cotton pur-|17.1 per cent, agricultural implements | ostablished a Woodrow Wilson chair 100 278|PHILADELPHIA, PA.— ‘ j chases. The greater part of this ex-| gains of 9.9 per cent and 14.5 per cent | 9¢ Princeton University. 4, arabe “135 135} Mary Beard .... 40 460] Which did not have to go to work before the age of eighteen or penditure was for the maintenance jand electrical apparatus manufactur-| 4 nation-wide investigation of slush| J. Kebane - bees Shag eine a PH 7 ter hea cme ale moat arly srebyO-00. people; and’ of sterling exchange not necessary |ers gains of 9.5 per cent and 7.1 per |runds used for world court propa- tae “salto (00 ©» 740| +~‘North Side Lithuanian Republi- the boys and girls thus constituting an economic stratum, pro- for purchases in America, but, which | cent. ‘ ganda is expected to develop out of} Elsie Pultur 4,075 can Alliance of Philadelphia 109 id ceeded to arrange themselves in sub-strata upon the same prin- _. enebled England to make purchases| The table shows the situation in 20| the I1linois investigation, ciple. Their “secret societies” were forbidden by the teachers, | in other countries at an undepreciat- patted ee poo ae oo | Dut flourished none the less; the basis of admission being wealth | ed exchange rate. $2,643,000,000 was|shows the percentag +) 8 J. Cooper, Buffalo, and the pleasant things which wealth buys—well-nourished | for food and tobacco. in May, 1924, to the average employ- Sh M 1 WwW. k ’ ROCHESTER, N 5 | £ on S : ment. in 198%, . The second. column. eet eta orkers Sol Memeiesiana., go | bodies, and fashionable clothing, and easy manners, and a play~ | Now, Who's a Llar? shows the per cent of May. operation land Carpenters’ Dispute! Joseph Ruich : 80 1,100} Emil Honeager aw -in-880 1,078 {ful attitude towards life. weiss | “A part of this item probably is in-|to operation ona full-time capacity he ile, aba 20 20|V. Kemenovich, Dalsytown, Pa: 120 600 The young people were collected into small herds, and rushed tt t cluded in the account out of iin basis: ettiement 1s elay: Margaret. Steuben) Mo 40 /EAST PITTSBURGH, P ge75 | tbout from room to room, where culture was handed out to them England was reimbursed by the other Per cent Per Paul Steuben » Kasper , F) id | allies and a part was resold by Eng-| May, 1926, of 1923. cent of WASHINGTON, July 22, — After a LONG ISLAND ¢iTY, N. Ys 20 70 Schiedier 20/10 Lied a measured doses. It was co beet shoo ha education-fac- | land to. its own civil population. To|Factory-operation ployment capacity |discussion with some 60 delegates} 6’ "Janson gE tory, and the parents had paid for the best possible equipment, but fh | the extent of this resale, England| 4 ytomobile 87% |from distant locals in attendance, the NEW YORK cir nee by some process impossible to explain, it was gradually being } avoided the necessity of floating loans / 4 uto tires 76 jexecutive board of the Sheet Metal) i; Abramowitz ~. 30 80| A. Garfinkel’. taken away from the teachers, and turned over to the pupils. in its own country; $507,877,000 Was | Raking. 91. |Workers’ International Association] B. Anapol = 4 2 WB Beaeyl rl Every year the young people seemed to be less interested in work, H for smasrent and peice idea Boot’ & shoe. oe ee been be cageciagte cdl ratify S Rerrengees Beery = 3 E. Resear wae 20 sis|and more absorbed in what were called “outside activities”—the | reial obligations maturing m tag 5 $s peace pact W e Ca! OTS OD) B. Axelrod vnunciad. $0 80 | Marshal! Martin, Parnassus, Pa. 45 45] 9 . a buena Feat Sato ee tee aaivee cota goods le. (esses sean pir reer ol oo 2a Stephen Myekor Akron Ohio n: ap bs athletic field, the tennis and basket-ball courts, the big swimming ‘ 7 1000, ectrical ... s . 00 120M. Esterkin, Cincinnati, Ohio. 30 330] POO] and the dancing floor. The boys and girls were making for | The total principal advances to Eng-|rarjes, & mach. shops.. 87 74 An official statement of the Sheet 100 = 100 | CLEVELAND, OHIO— themselves a separate world, having its own standards, its land after the armistice were $581,-| Hosiery & knit goods. 981) 71 |Metal Workers says: “The board has vd = pend ae be secret ‘Itfe. They wore pins arid bad, d had i — | 000,000.” Iron & steel. ca 84 |referred the question of an agreement a aml We guasenie oa ance J y wore pins ai adges, and had pass-words and Pe Tat EO Se Bin chee Lumber ... 6 -84 |with the carpenters back to General 20 225|_S. Menich . 45° 148 grips with esoteric significance; they had elaborated codes, hay- Reverend Slayer Is on __| Me#t packing TS oct = 76 |resident Hines with the suggestion} [ous Braun sel sie oane, 10 whine be Bs with the wearing ot flowers, or the color af your r neck Men's clothing . that the committee again meet with} 4: Bullackus 00 = 100|_ Andy Louda joo 100 | Le, or the ‘on on your hat, or the angle at which you affixed a “Last Crusade,”’ He Says} Paper & pulp a committee representing the carpen-| Irma Capko aoe Se eaaniee ‘Woledo“Ohion=106. 4,499 {POStage stamp to an envelope. Petroleum .. ters, and miore clearly define in an] Ruth Derien” 45|M. Popovich, Warren, Ohio .... 45 360 It was a herd life, based in part upon money-prestige, like FORT WORTH, Tex., July 22.—The | Printing, job . agreement certain classes of work nd flan SSI nacdasttciaaies the life of the adults, and in part thieti . ).| Printing, newspaper....111° “99 t! the 30 Ohlo . 00 100 ; » & in pi upon athletic prowess. It con- Rey. J. Frank Norris, slayer of B. EB. ay ponds A Yggcaic $8 that have been in dispute between 360 [Ceacee Sores Pe ps m, Ohio .... 20 50/sisted in rushing about from one mass-event to another mags. i lumberman, “has ” t organizations, for a number of 185 , Mi ; ‘i hice rp hws tae SG ecalgacl| Tabane erotuces 34 82 es, ‘ganiz, is, 200 Leo Mellen 10 event. . You pitted the powers of your team against those of some J. J. Mickle, declared here today. | Woolen goods . m7 76 |" ewhile an agreement satisfactory 20| Wm. Reynold 00 209 | Other team, and the ability of your mob to shout louder than the “His latest feud for the benefit of] Industry as a whole In May, 1926,|1, both organtzations 1s pending, the 48 Lena Rosenberg a ee other mob; you got together and rehearsed these shoutings, while the law observers and tax payers will}averaged about 93 per cént of full| many questions that have been in 4 Eugene Bechtold, Grand Rapids, “(the teams rehearsed the battles over which you were to shout. } be his last,” said Mickle. Vimo, with 86 ‘per cent Of 8 ful por [dispute for several years and remain Seay. Furriers’ 88 | Mien “oo "'5e9 | /t was all practice for the later and.more real glories of college i The statement, it was explained, ‘ies force, Mw merece 2 gh od the |U2Settled, and our members will be| Bertha G: 20 |CHIGAGO, ILL. and university, where the financially and athletically more power- was made ‘to save the. pastor time | ‘ime spe satertiog to. the department | B8tructed to claim all work covered| R. oS Prnee “100 199 {ful students would be taken up by the great fraternities, and and work enswering the sympathetic coo tating on &@ parttime basis, |PY UF jurisdiction claim, ned shel viet Prosi 70] DB. Cook “20. 20 would perform their social and athletic functions with skill and telegrams and letters = have de- Average Wage $26.72 Weekly. Feber te gg Feel poppers idl ie ® Nola. Bag $s 495 /8Tace made perfect. fi illing.” id fac- if 20 ; Pe luged bow - eee rar ‘igs sae "The average weakly, wake pa ae This pronouncement means that| Stat, Gostineky |: oc auaien as oe Bunny, as we know, possessed the requirements of a frater- j Dr. Norris, on ae te itd Shity pd a wid average for May, |Yaflous local unions of the Sheet 8. Halpern 30]; cate cae ee nity career; he had Anglo-Saxon features, and plenty of big eeirnd ke ona? » ise Bat ris As show consid. | Metal Workers, in Chicago, Cleveland,| (4° Hartmann’ 53| Walter Schuth 7 64g | SWeaters, and he drove to school in a car that year’s model. He the’ Grisigs ‘of tits eets, erable variation from a year ago,|St- Louis, Kansas City, Newark and Ray, Herbet e148 beg ected by “4a8_1,143| V8 taken up by an exclusive society, and was soon in demand for sa epee Kiabaae Gains In average wages include job|@lsewhere, demanded that the gem-| 1° Hirshman 460 3,250 | Whatever was going on. He was enormously interested in every- Marquette Appro ‘ger. printing 6,4 per cent, hosiery and knit co ew hela a eopasiond Helen Hore. 50 ies thing; he had never imagined there were so many young people \ NEW YORK, July Spo athe’ goods a pet Cant Speen iges pl ma- sonics ta’ te Mandi teasers Bertha Iara 6 00780 in the world before, and he wanted to know them all. He raced the Pere Marquette road com, chine shops 3.3 per cent and news- . 0 with halk mesting heve Cia? “Gonroved eiiting “Ek dae, GSE, hoe |IN RO Gwo citied were thesé cletie| 4: Kagan 45 270K. J. Malmstrom, Molin 20 280 about them from one thing to another, and watched with at their m g , paper p: ie Rebecca Kaplan "360 39 |Max Cohen, Peoria, III. 280 1,460/Open eyes and listened with open ears to everything that came the report of the sub-committee favor-| workers have lost 7.2 per cent, work-|alike, but each local insisted on pro-| Jack icascian “15 18| Steve Urlich, St. Louis, M 4 45/ from either th hy thi il i ing the new terms for the inclusion]erg in carpet mills 5.9 per cent and | tection as to its own problems, So the | Leo Kling 10,760 | WAUKEGAN, IL elt e teachers or the pupils. But all the time there was of the Pere Marquette road into the/those in cotton mill, 4.6 per cent in|treaty goes back for further revision. w Kreinin 20 hae conn on aan | Something which set him apart from the rest—something sober Nickel Plate merger. average weekly earnings, And as President Hutchison of the| Jac! 45 Bingham, Evanston, iii. 100 '109|4Nd old fashioned and “queer.” It came, no doubt, from his peeeeieresrerceeesereserteseecerstsesss, |2'Penters is now on his way to Eng-| 4; Lapidu 19 * Gaiten’tridae, Rochester, 20 175| knowing so much about the oil business; Bertie was right in her OE ae : ' dead as a fraternal delegate to the K u 75 ST EAU. MIN is cruel remark that he had oil stains under his finger-nails. He R z i Pittsburgh Local stl ae eee Max Levine "825 | Charles Gmein 43; Would never share the idea of other darlings of luxury, that itt urg iC retui ex wapesbanee Merete | Lipman 00 100) rons (pai ; $30) Money grows on trees”; he knew that it comes by hard and I ional Labor Di af - pel gocab "20 ‘29 /SUPERIOR, ‘Wis " senerns pee. Also, Bunny had to meet the situation at , : Mautner 475 in Tarklainen . 190} home, which he understood quite clearly; his fath: , nternational Labor Detense . Car elt Edward" Weirlkke 5 , q arly; his father wasn’t at all r Dawes Has Highest Sardie iMedniok ras aa Milo Ma 39 | sure — high school was the best place for a boy, and was . ara Meltzer 20 watching and listening all the time, to see what t of id * Evanston Personal 38s |, ,/owa 20 8 » to see what sort of ideas 4 ko I Cc | ic P. Eval ti 15 : Ls Gene: > ahs 40|Bunny was getting. So the boy was always comparing the ‘ roperty Evaluation a DENVER, Colo ‘*| school’s kind of education with Dad’s kind, and which was really } i 4@8| William’ Deitrich 1,740 | right? i Vice-President Charles G. Dawes | 5. Boresher, 575 SATURD AY, JU. LY 24th belts Naver te fag ise Gon ine oe | Sara Sainee: 3 Before starting out in his new career Bunny received what ; worth of personal property in his 4 acigney Smith 20 Lina Hae td as a “serious talk”; and that was curious and » T. Planis! uzzling. First, Dad was going to give him a car, and th Ti PARK, Millvale Evanston mansion according to the 45 | Mont. Pp . g g nar, ere must at SCHUETZEN . board of assessors’ figures that. have en PORTLAND, OREGON “|be rules about it. He must give his word never to exceed the ; NP eA been made Balla, pene property od} ds Ganopele £0 agg | SPeed limit, whether in the city or outside; and that was certainly , ‘ | 1 FOSTER ben on pa ls pracy is © dead 90 | agkeere 45 45/4 Curious case of the double standard of morals! But Dad met ? . us " hier ‘Saw 130 8. "Bert Paes Ee tage sl ean oe ago ey about speeds; more- : cS 4 chm 130] 2 rie 20. 2 r, he important business for his excuse, but Bunny was ” Ida Sch T. W. Lind » WILL SPEAK,: U. S. to Spend Large raat IIc. F, Fielding, Port Orford, LR ra vast for school early, and the rest of the time he would be 0 5 20 egon too| driving for pleasure, He might take out others in hi b Sum on Army Housing BERKELEY, CAti . fg is car, but sj Dancing——-Games——-Other Attractions v 5 < Theodore Soderiand suum 160 |e must never let anyone drive the car but himself; Dad had no . Thom| ’ DOVER, N. J, ‘July 22.—The board 0) a. Kerr, Eure! 2o| Money to run a free garage for a high school fraternity, and it DIRECTIONS—Take Millvale Car No. 3 on Ninth and Penn Ave. | of investigation appointed by the navy aio H ai would be convenient for Bunny to be able to say, once for all, Go to end of line. Trucks will take you to the park, By auto—follow [| Uepartment to conduct an inquiry into} Dora singer a %0|that his father had laid down the law in that matter, ~ the cause and the extent of the dam-| Arthur Smith’. 20 (To be continued.) the Eergreen Road to the park, ‘ fi Jack Stachel .. age caused by the explosion in the} 1*Qi Sta oS} Frank Spector | navy arsenal here has opened its hear-| w. Sykyta . 10 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Sores) 4 Theodore Tuckel 10 | "Masha G , : At thve hearings attempts are ne-| Ama sher — 3 to GRAND ANNUAL PICNIC ing made to fix the amount of damage + Undju 18 370) Joseph Polans! JENSEN & BERGSTROM Mipecues ys teertin Seeo ot Bert annamer 2 fe) F at SACHSENHEIM GARDENS, 7001 Denison Ave, Ines are pouring tons of water! Aranka Wald i onto the ruins of the naval arsenal] lsabel Waidner” by JULY 25, 1926, Beginning at 10 A. M. TAILORS in.an attempt to keep the fire trom | Ym. Weinstone 110 190 | Charlee aviee, San Speeches beginning at 3:30 p.m, by RALPH CHAPLIN, workers’ poet ; spreading to the army arsenal store- 50 r4 John Auert, Ukiah, Cai and author of “Bars and Shadows", and BISHOP WM. M. BROWN, SUITS AND OVERCOATS, MADE TO ORDER house No. 18, in which are stored over 00-145 | JNO. Jarnovich, Tahona, Okia the heretic bishop and author of “Communism and Christianism,” it F 2,500,000 pounds of black powder and 20 40 | Mrs. ~4 Moes, Yoakum, Tex. Games——S ports——Contests——Tug-o-War ‘ le Re. Reniodel 120 229 |Louls Touby, Miami, Fla’ We Clean, Press, pate, and 1 Ladies and Gents Garments a large number of 16-inch shells. 45 (J: E. 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