The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 5

I Ps DRE SABRES ARTSY tae ' ee aera TRe ETRE \ BUSINESS BUSIER THAN LAST YEAR, SAYS U, 8, GOVT Cites Production and Stock Prices (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. The. Department of Commerce has issued the following statement on the bus- iness conditions of the week of July: Business during the last week of Saly, as seen from check payments, was more active than a year ago, with ‘he total for July also showing an in- crease over the same month of last \}year.. Building contracts awarded / during the last week of the month were larger than in either the preced- ing week or the same week of last year, while for the month as a whole larger awards are indicated than dur- ing the same period of 1925. Carloadings during the third week of the month were larger than in el- ther the previous week or a year ago, while the output of crude petroleum during the last week continued to show increases over the previous weeks, the daily average output reg- istering an increase over a year ago for the first time this year, Coal Production Booms, The production of bituminous coal @uring the third week was larger than in either the previous week or the corresponding week of 1925, while the production of beehive coke, altho larger than a year ago, was smaller than in the preceding week. The production of lumber during the third week was smaller than during the previous week or the same week of last year. Wholesale prices continued to de- cline, the average for the last week of the month being Jower than any time since September, 1924. Loans and discounts of Federal Reserve member banks were smaller at the end of July than at any time during the month but were larger than a year ago. Interest rates on call. mo- ney averaged higher during the last week than in either the previous week of last year with time-money rates showing correspe#Ming in- creases, Stock Prices Up. Prices of stocks on the New. York Stock Exchange continued to. average higher both as compared with the preceding week and the correspond- ing week of the past year. Business failures were more numerous than in the third week and a year ago, the total for all weeks in July being smal- ler, however, than in the same period of 1925. Chicken-Stealer Out on $2,500 Bail SPRINGFIELD, IL, Aug. 9.—A writ of supersedeas orderin g release. on $2,500 bond of Fred Callahan, convict- ed of burgary and larceny in Vermil- lion county was signed by Justice F. K. Dunn of the state supreme cour: Callahan was convicted of stealing chickens and given a on® to twenty years sentence. The supreme court will review the case. 108 East ie ( aes Seay Gi \ \0 =) DAILY WORKER AND MOSCOW PRAVDA EXCHANGE WORKER CORRESPONDENCE Arrangements have been made between The DAIY WORKER and the Moscow Pravda (Truth), one of the biggest daily newspapers in the Soviet Union, for an interchange of worker correspondence. Thru this means etican workers will be able to tell the workers of the Soviet Union of the conditions in their shops and the workers of the Soviet Union will tell of the conditions that prevail in the shops and industries in which they are employed. All worker correspondence contributions to the Pravda will be handled thru the editorial office of The DAIY WORKER. All Soviet Union cor respondence to The DAILY WORKER+ e and - will be handled thru the editorial of- fice of the Pravda. IS WHAT YOU CAN WIN with a story of Select Special Circles, Workers correspondence groups are urged to select a special circle that will be responsible for carrying on the WORKER CORRESPONDENCE sent in this week to appear in the issue of Friday, Aug. 13. correspondence with the Pravda. The worker correspondents around the Pravda are selecting a special circle that will be responsible for corre- spondence with The DAILY WORKER. Desirable subjects will be discussed by these circles and suggestions trans- mitted to each other, These circles will then write on the questions that have been decided upon. No Lengthy Articles. In writing to the Prava American worker correspondents are urged not to write lengthy articles dealing in generalities, They are asked to write letters dealing with concrete every- day conditions that they have expe- rienced. No attempt should be made made to exaggerate. Every attempt should be made to write clearly, stat- ing the facts as simply as. possible, The criticism of the Pravda and the workers of the Soviet Union of American worker correspondence is that instead: of- writing on the condi- tions they are forced to live-under and worker under they attempt.to become journalists. and write lengthy articles on general themes. The Russian workers. and. farmers promise they. will not write such arti- cles. They promise to write. of ‘their actual experiences and everyday life. The American..worker. correspondents should do the same. Write on These Questions. : Kepapaeiecaabis and Revolution, by Leon Trotsky. A fearless dis- cussion of the relation of art to life—brilliantly written and bound in cloth for your library. ‘A year's subscription to the Workers Monthly—12 issues of real pleasure. i—Government Strikebreaker, by Jay Lovestone, A book showing up the government as an enemy of the workers. Cloth-bound. oe * SUBSCRIBE to the American Worker Correspondent (50 cents a year) to learn what and how to write. Lawrence Press Seeks to Hide Facts About Workers’ Misery THE DAILY WORKER SSN, NEW YORK LABOR [Something bike Real AWAITS: CONCERT IN CONEY ISLAND Unions Back Affair for Passaic Strikers (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Aug 9.—Work on the Coney Island Stadium concert, to be held August 28 for Passaic strike re- Nef is progressing nicely, “The program for this concert is to be one of the gat ever arranged for an affair of ind,” declared Lud- wig Landy, he ff the arrangement committee, “We have secured the services of David Mendoza, conductor of the Capitol ater orchestra. He will select 100 iclans from the va- rious symphonyhorchestras in New York, who will make up the orchestra which will pla; Coney Island. We have also seotixed a chorus of 200 voices and the Metropolitan ballet of 50 dancers the direction of Alexis Kosloff.#! Tickets for the concert sell for $1 and $2 for reséfyed seats. To date 10,000 ticketa Baye been circulated. The program, for the concert will be of an unuspal character. It will contain the hit of the strike and the names Ofcdntributors. “Honor rolls” are being circulated among the various labor and sympathetic organi- zations. Hach organization securing fifty signatures and the same number of dollars. will get a page on the pro- gram, on which the names of contribu- tors will be printed. Interesting Figures Show Cleveland as an Industrial City (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘CLEVELAND, Aug. 9.—An investi- gation of the occupation of people in Cleveland has revealed the fact that Members in Colorado NEW YORK, Aug. 9——An educa tional hour before regular loca] union meetings in a certain Colorado organi- zation greatly increased meeting at- tendance, the Workers’ Pducation Bu- reau news service reports. Topics ranging from a local wage question to the British general strike were chosen for discussion—one subject for each meeting. Suggested subjects would be voted on at each session and one union mem- ber chosen to study up the topic for a report on which to base discussion. The local union found that 75 per cent of its enrolled membership came to the educational hour and stayed for the union meeting as a result. TRI-STATE BUS CO, PLANS 10 OPEN NEW LINES 7 Routes io Serve 100 Illinois Cities (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Aug. 9—~Permis- sion to operate seven bus lines, to serve approximately 100 Illinols cities, was asked in a petition filed with the Illinois commerce commission by the Tri-State Bus Company of Springfield. The following routes are named in the application: Springfield, Decatur, ~ Champaign, Danville, Urbana and the state line and all intervening points, Bloomington, Carlock, Congerville, Goodfield, Deer Creek, Morton, East Peoria and Peoria. LaSalle, Ottawa, Marseilles, Morris, Sand Ridge and Joliet. Bloomington north Tonica, Oglesby, LaSalle and Peru. thru Lostant, DAILY -WORKER correspondent groups are urged to write letters to the Pravda on the following ques- tions: 1. Why are we American workers striking? Our demands. How does the government act. during -strikes? Where do strikebreakers come ‘from? 2. How does the rank and file par- ticipate in the life of the American trade unions? This correspondence is to deal with the autocracy of the labor bureaucracy. 3.. What do we American workers know about the Union of Soviet Re- publics and. where doi we get our in- formation? (Deal here with the lies of the capitalist press.) 4. How. do American workers react to happenings in the Soviet Union? : 4 5. How our factory papers‘ are’ made, technically and editorially, 6. ‘The ‘workings of our worker cor respondents’ cirtles, ‘ All correspondence for the Pravda should be sent to the Pravda Editor of The DAILY WORKER, .1113° West ‘Washington Blvd. 4 Yeggs Wreck Ol! Station. GALESBURG, Ml, Aug. 9—The miain LAWRENCE, Mass., Aug, 9.—One of the local Sunday papers in its last issue reproaches the industrial com- mission (the commission that pro- posed the introduction of the 54-hour week as a means to do away with un- employment) for issuing a “report broadcast thru the length and breadth of the nation that there are in Law- Tence over 9,000 workers absolutely out of work and as many more with one or two days’ employment at their hands.” According to this newspaper, things were made worse by spreading these facts far and wide. Why broadcast information which exposes the plight of the unorganized textile workers of |Lawrence? Why quote facts which are unpleasant to the ear and the eye of those who wish to cover up the truth about conditions of the Law- rence workers? Is it not safer for the profits of the mill owners to cover up the truth about the misery of the workers with beautiful tales of things that do not exist, with society news, with all sorts of scandal and all kinds of sports? The profits of the mill owners, as you know, are more important than the Louis to Chicago thru turing plants, 12 per cent in clerical} all intervening points on Route 4. occupations, 7’ per cent in transport, Forsyth, Maroa, Clinton, 12 per cent in stores, 16 per cent in Randolph and miscellaneous occupations. More than half of the people are in industry, which indicates the great importance of Cleveland in’ the industrial life of the country. ~ Against this we have the fact of 35 Der cent of the homes being owned by the people who occupy them. This in- cludes many workers, who invest their savings in homes, and thereby are tied down for the rest of their lives. They assume big mortgages, have to pay interest—and thus are inclined to be conservative:* The figure for Cleve- land: cénipares* with Se" per cent for Indianapolis, 29 per cent for Cincin- nati, 28 per cént for Pittsburgh, 27 per cent for Chicago, 24 per cent for St. Louis, 18 per cent for Boston, 13 per cent for New York, SIXTY BOSTON UNIONS PLEDGE PARTICIPATION Decatur, Wapella, Heyworth, Bloomington. Peoria, East Peoria, Pekin, Green Valley, Mason City, Greenview, Ath- ens and Springfield. Subway Strike Heads Blacklisted by I. R. T. NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 9. The leaders of the strike against the company union of the Interborough Rapid Transit lines are blacklisted by the company. Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan and James Walsh applied for work, but were refused, This, in spite of the claim of Quackenbush and Hedley, company officials, that the I. R. T. did not “know what a blacklist is.” Edward Lavin, one of the most able leaders of the strike, has not tried to go back to the I. R. T. McKenny Motor Co. Changes Its Name East St. 53 per cent ave employed in manufac: | Spring: Lincoln and Pontiac and Page Five v (e3 on Sinclair (Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinclair) WHAT HAS GON6 BEFORE, J. Arnold Ross, oll operator, formerly Jim Ross, teamster, Is unsucce 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. P has run away from ho His father is a poor rancher In the San Elido Valley who is a “Holy Roller.” Paul goes away to make bis living on the road and Bunny goes about learning the oi! business from his Dad who Is bringing in a well at Prospect Hill. Dad was working hard and Bunny suggests a quail hunting trip to the San Elido Valley. Dad agrees and shortly they arrive at the Watkins ranch and pitch their camp. In hunting for quail they find oil oozing out of the ground and Darl wheedles the sale of the ranch out of old Watkins and also arranges to secretly purchase adjacent lands. Paul ttle sister, Ruth, and Bunny become friends. Bunny starts to high school at Beach Ci ¥ With’ plenty of money and social standing he enters into the life of the sehool. He falis in love with another student, Rose Taintor. in the meantime rh 's cil business grows rapidly. The World War begins and Dad, along with other capitalists, benefits by selling of! to both belligerents. Bunny arranges fo Paul to come and live with Ruth on a nearby ranch. Paul had been living with a lawyer who took a liking to him and bequeathed his library to Pau! when he died, Paul “has it out” with his “holy roller’ father who scorns him as unfaithful. His brother Eli is a hopeless religious fanatic, subject to fits. Ell Is now going around the country acting a prophet and “healing” people. Bunny, anxious to get back to the ranch, suggests to Dad that the two go there and build a shack near the house that Paul and Ruth stop in. While they there they hear that a rival company Is about to drill nearby. Dad makes preparations to sink a well on the Watkins ranch. Sut he needs a road. He first goes to the county commissioner and greases his palm, then searches out the county republican boss, altho Dad’s a democrat, and agrees to pay severa thousand if he can have a road to the ranch in sixty days. e e - * i The water well men got to work, and the telephone line- men; and Dad said it was time to figure on living quarters for their crew. They would get along with a bunk-house while they, were prospecting; then, if they found oil, they’d put up nice cabins for the families of the men. Dad said to Paul that he was foolish to waste his time on beans and strawberries, which would keep him a pauper all his life; he had better turh carpen- ter and do this building job, and after that he could learn ofl- drilling. Dad would have his boss carpenter come and figure the materials for the bunk-house, and see to the foundations and the sills and after that Paul could fiinish the job with carpenters he’d pick up in the neighborhood, and Dad would pay five dollars a day, which was jist about five times what he’d get working this old ranch by himself. Paul said all right, and they sat down one evening and made out the plans of the house. It was going to be real nice, Dad said, because this was Bunny’s well, and Bunny was turning into a little social reformer, and intended to feed his men on patty de far grar. Instead of having one long room with bunks, they’d have little individual cubby-holes each with its separate window, and two bunks, one on top of the other, for the day man and the night man. There would be a couple of showers, and besides the dining room and kitchen and store room, a nice sitting room, with a victrola and some magazines and books; that was Bunny’s own idea, he was a’goin’ to have a sure enough cultured oil-crew. Dad purchased a copy of the “Eagle,” fresh off the press, and he opened it, and burst into a roar of laughter. Bunny had never seen him do that in his life before, so he looked in a hurry, and New York Left Wing Needle Workers’ Excursion Saturday, August 14th, 1926 TO SUNSET PARK ON THE HUDSON STEAMER “CLEREMONT”, Boat starts 2 p. m. sharp from Battery Park Pier A. Music, Rd tdbhents, Etc. . Tickets $1.10, at the pier $1.25. Tickets for sale at _ Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children A. book of beautiful working class stories. that, will delight your children and instill in their minds the spirit of revolt. With over twenty black and welfare of those who toil. station of the Standard Oil Co, was wrecked when yeggs blew the safe and . * escaped with $249 in cash and stock P; assaic Police Thugs + valued at $12,000. * | Mistreat Twenty-Five Strikers’ Children PASSAIC, N. J., Aug: 9.—Twenty- five children were snatched from their homes and taken to police headquar- ters on complaint of a scab residing in the heart of the striking workers’ Helen Boychick, 12 years old, was kept in jail all day because she “talked back” to the judge who was using his official position to justify the actions of the scab. ‘When her plight was made known to the union lawyers, they found that she was being detained without any complaint lodged against her, and thar no formal complaint, warrant, or sub- poena had been issued by which twen- ty-five young children could be called to court. The children, who had called “scab” after the man whom even their young minds could see to be their enemy, were merely “frighe- ened a little’ by the judge who has proved himself their enemy already many times. After their “little lesson,” the chil- dren wore turned out of police head- quarters to trudge the long way back to their homes as best they might. McCormick Publishes Handbook. Mrs. Medill McCormick has pre- pared a handbook which she is dis- tributing to republican leaders, candt- dates, committeemen and precinct workers. This handbook is for ‘the period of 1926-1928. 14th St. By HERMINA ZUR MUHLEN. Translation by Ida Dailes. Color plates and cover designs by LYDIA GIBSON 75 Cents. Duroflex Cover. $1.25 Cldth Bound. ow IN LABOR DAY PARADE (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 9, — The Central Labor Union has received assurances from sixty-one local un- ions pledging participation in the great Labor Day parade being organ- ized by the Boston central labor body. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. 9. — The McKenny Motor Co. of La Salle nott- fied the secretary of state of a change in name to the R. C. Williams, Inc., and a decrease in directors trom four to three, WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! WORLD MONOPOLY OF COPPER IS PLANNED TO BOOST PRICES AS WORKERS GET STARVATION WAGE By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. Huge profits from high prices main- tained by artificial scarcity of copper on a world basis is the subject of a combine now forming, ostensibly to co- ordinate export.sales. This copper export trading company will combine companies producing roughly 90% of the world’s copper. It is dominated by American capital, Anaconda Copper is the largest unit in the new worlditrust. With its sub- sidiaries it controls 25% of the world output. It briigs into the combine Inspiration Copper, Greene-Cananea and Chile Copper,the largest producer in South America. Others in the deal are Phelps-Dodge Corp.; Kennecott and its 4 subsidiaries Utah, Braden and Nevada coppers and Mother Lode; Cerro de Pasco; Calumet & Arizona; Calumet & Hecia; Magma; United Verde; United Verde Extension; Cop- per Range; American Metal; Amer- ican Smelting & Refining and Howe Sound Co, Union Miniere du Haute Katanga will be, the leading foreign producer included. Mansfield Mining & Smelting Co. of Germany ig also iz the list. During the war the copper kings raised the price to over 20c a pound and averaged 54% a year return on their capital stock. As a result be- tween 1909 and 1919 the capitalization of the industry was raised from $413,- 338,850 to $1,161,319,285. Huge Profits, Since 1923 various attempts have been made to get the separate copper companies to limit their production individually in order to increase prices, But such® informal attempts did not produce rédults. In 1925 world production was @¥ecord at 1,586,683 tons and production for the first half of 1926 is ahead of the same period in 1925. In spite of this the rapid in- ie ak an le ls aie crease in world demand has enabled American copper magnates to make huge profits. Anaconda made a 1925 profit of $17,540,532, a return of 11.6% on its huge $150,000,000 capitalization, Cerro De Pasco, an American com- pany producing in Peru, gave its stock- holders a return of 97.2%; Park-Utah @ return of 92%; United Verde 70%; Utah Copper 68.3%; Miamo Copper 30% and Nevada Consolidated 27%. But these super profits don’t satisfy. Recent signs indicate that production is already being controlled in, the in- terest of higher prices. June saw a decline in world production from the 142,200 tons of May and 140,700 tons of April to 129,600 tons, although a shortage of copper is developing, Says the Wall Street Journal, July 13 1926; “Men in close touch with the situation expect to see this fall the highest price for copper that has prevailed for years.” Pay Low Wages. Meanwhile the copper magnates are paying the miners who produce: the ore less than $5 a day, in many regions less than $4, for dangerous work deep in the earth. Companies now getting around 14c for their product are pay- ing a wage cost varying from 2%c to 7c @ pound, including all labor to the point of delivery, The combine for higher prices has submitted its organization to the Coo- lidge-packed federal trade commission is little doubt that an bill of health, for @he appearance of violating the Sher- man act hms been avolded, Post-war legislation allows such combination for export. But here the market has no national boundaries and lifting the world price will mean lifting the do- mestic price. Workers in the mines and smelters need not expect it to lift wages. The opposite effect 1s more likely, there on the front page was a story about one Adonijah Prescott, a rancher who lived near the slide between Paradise and Roseville; some three months ago his wagon had been overturned and his collar-bone broken, and now he was fiiling suit against the county for fifteen thousand dollars damages; more than that, he was. su- ing each and every member of the county board of supervisors, alleging neglect of their public duties in leaving the road fn an unsafe condition! On the editorial page appeared a two-column discourse on the dreadful condition of the aforesaid road; there were mineral springs nearby, and it had been proposed to develop them, but the project had been dropped, because of lack of trans- portation; and now there were possibilities of oil, but these also were in danger, because of bad roads, which kept San Elido one of the most backward counties of the state. The “Eagle” stated that a public-spirited rancher, Mr. Joe Limacher, was a petition for immediate repairs to the road along the slide, and it was to bé hoped that all citizens and tax payers would sign up. Next day along came Mr. Limacher, in a rusty Ford, and asked Dad to sign! Dad looked very thoughtful, and said it would cost him a hell of a lot of taxes. The public-spirited Mr. Limacher —who was being paid three dollars a day by Jake Coffey, argued a while with Dad, and in the end Dad said all right, he didn’t want his neighbors to think him a cheap-skate, so he’d sign along’with the rest. Four days later came the news that the supervisors had held a special meeting and voted immediate repairs to the slide road; and two days after that came the grading gang, teams of big horses with heavy plows—you’d never have guessed there were so many in the country, there must have been a score of them on that two mile stretch. They tore up the ground, and men with crow-bars rolled the boulders out of the way, and more teamg with scrapers slid the dirt this way and that, and pretty soon it began to look like a highway. And then, beginning at the Paradise end, came countless loads of crushed rock, in big motor trucks which tilted up backwards and slid out their burden. There were machines to level this material, and great steam-rollers to roll it flat—gee, it was wonderful to see what Dad’s money could do! They had ordered the lumber for the bunk-house, and got it in by small loads, and Paul was at work with half a dozen men from the neighborhood. He had engaged them himself, telephon- ing from Paradise; and if any of them felt humiliated at working under a nineteen year old boss, Dad’s twenty-two dollar check salved their feelings at twelve-thirty every Saturday. Even old Mr. Watkins, Paul’s father, was impressed by this sudden rise of his “black sheep,” and no longer said anything about hell-firé and brifmstone. It was on his ranch, you understand, that all this aetivity was taking place; the carpenters’ hammers were thumping all day, and up near the head of the arroyo the artesian well was flowing, and a gang of men and horses were leveling a road up to the drilling site. It seemed to the Watkins family as if the whole county had suddenly moved to their ranch. It meant high prices, right on the spot, for everything good to eat they could raise. You could not help being impressed by so much ac- tivity, even though you knew it was the activity of Satan! Best of all was the effect upon Ruth, who fairly shone with happiness over Paul's success. Ruth kept house for Dad and Bunny, besides what she did for Paul and herself; but it seemed to agree with her, she filled out, and her chéeks grew rosy. She had money to buy shoes and stockings and clean dresses, and Bunny noticed all of a sudden that she was quite a pretty girl. She shared Bunny’s idea that his father was a great man, and she expressed her admiration by baking pies and puddings for him, regardless of the fact that he was trying to keep hiseweight down! The four of them had supper together every evening, - after the day’s work was done, in the Bascum bungalow with the bougainvillea vine; and then they sat out under the’ vine in the moonlight and talked about what ‘they had done, and what they were going to do, and the world was certainly an interesting place’ to be alive in! r “ , (To be continued *F