The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 14, 1926, Page 3

HERRICK SAILS AS AMBASSADOR TO AID FRANCE Franc Falls; Poincare Acts as Dictator (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, Aug. 12—The franc again fell at the closing of parliament which did not consider the ratification of the debt agreements with Britain and the United States. It closed at $36.50 to the dollar. The commissions to examine the agreements are going along with other politicians on a vacation, and will not meet until September. Adrien Dar- jac, chairman of the finance sub-com- mission, says frankly that the agree- ments in their present form cannot get 100 votes out of the 591 in the chamber, Poincare says that he will not call parliament together until Oc- tober 15. Thelr Own Ambassador, Coincident with the closing of par- Mament, U. S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick sailed for the United States to confer with President Coolidge. In- formation is that he will tell Coo- lidge that the agreements will be rati fied in the fall and urge more credii to France to stop new falls in the value of the franc. French newspa- pers say Herrick is “France’s ambas- sador, going to American to support French aims and to explain France's viewpoint.” Poincare Now Absolute, Only awaiting the dissolution of the chamber, Poincare is proceeding with the secret measures he has revised and under the same dictatorial pow- ers refused to Caillaux, to carry out his program of making the working class and small bourgeoisie pay the increased burdens of taxation. cae See McKellar Fires Back. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Senator Kenneth McKellar, democrat of Ten- nesee, one of the opposers to the debt settlements, declares that Clemen- coau’s letter was full of “inaccuracies, ® pathetic thing and peculiarly unfor- tunate for France. He will oppose ratification because, “It will take $2,000,000,000 of taxation off the backs of the taxpayers of France, who ought to pay it, and puts those burdens on the American peo- ple. “The reason the French ‘treasury is empty, is that the French government is unwilling or afraid to tax its people who are able to pay taxes,” . ».The American Worker Correspond- lean Worker Correspondent is only 50 cents per year. Are you a subscriber? By Uplon Sinclair Read it today on page 5. AVERAGE OF EIGHT | PAISLEY COAL C0., ROCKEFELLER DUMMY, WARS UPON W. VA. MINE WORKERS AN. D FIGHTS TAXATION By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press Correspondent, MORGANTOWN, W. Va., July 26.— (FP)—John D. Dockefeller Jr. is one of the big absentee owners of the coal lands of Scott’s Run where 4,000 min- ers are striking. The oil king’s own- ership—hidden till now—comes out in a tax reduction appeal, The Paisley interests, who are the leading operator sroup in Scott’s Run, were asking the Monongalia county equalization board to reduce the’ 'ta¥ valuations on their local holdings from $6,819,415 to $1,- 809,186, over $5,000,000, In arguing''their case the Paisley people had to’describe each piece of property. The’ biggest item was 10,4894 acres'of'coal land leased from the Consolidating Coal Co, and valued at $3,038,910, or nearly half the total. John D. Junior Hidden. Now as John D, Rockefeller Jr. is the largest stockholder in Consolida- tion he is a big royalty collector from Scott's Run when the mines are doing the dirty work of contract-breaking and wage-cutting...A search of the Coal Catalog and the standard Moody's Manual of Industrials, fails to show he Rockefeller connection, In these veference books the Paisley interests are treated as an independent group, though they are actually—to the ex- tent of the 10,4891, acres—merely operators for Rockefeller and other Consolidation stockholders, in ranch the same way as many British mine operators are production managers for the land-owning lords who collect the royalties, Consolldated Strength. In other parts of the big Fairmont fleld the Consolidation operates in its own name. It is by far the biggest concern in that part of the state. Its interests run into several other states as well, Its size and power can be seen from Moody’s manual, telling the potential production from each of its flelds annually: Fairmont field, (northern W, Va.) McDowell county 7,780,000 tons (southern W. Va.) 1,250,000 ” Letcher county, Ky 3,670,000 ” Johnson county, Ky. 650,000 ” Tazewell county, Va. 600,000 ” Alleghany county, Md, 650,000 ” Somerset county, Pa. 1,800,000 ” Total annual poten- tial production 16,400,000 tons Its actual production in 1925 was 10,794,905 tons, slightly more’ than the year before, The Consolidation own two railroads outright, besides steam- ships and a canal towage company. Its close Rockefeller affiliations with Davis Coal & Coke Co. add'‘to its strength. Thru banking connections it is still further fortified ih the coal trade. Repudiate Contracts. The United Mine Workers has never succeeded in mobilizing a fight against the Consolidation and its trib- utaries on all fronts. In 1922 it tied up the Somerset county (Pa.) and the PER CENT OF AMERICAN WORKERS ALWAYS OUT OF WORK, SAYS THE GOVERNMENT Unemployment is revealed as a regular feature of the average wage earner’s life in a U. S. department of labor report on unemployment in Co- lumbus, Ohio, 1921 to 1925, by F, BE. Croxton. He found that on the average 8.4 per cent of the workers are always out of a job and that the average num- ber fully employed was only 82.3 per cent of the total, In 1923, the year of maximum em- ployment, 6.3 per cent of the workers covered by the study were out of a job and 6, 2 per cent were working part time. Ot the other extreme is 1921 with 13.4 per cent of the workers unemployed and 10.1 per cent on part time. In the best year seven-eights of the workers had full-time employ- ment while in the worst year only about three-fourths could work full time. Basis of Survey, The survey was made each year in October which, according to the U. S. census of manufactures, is the month ot maximum employment. It covered more than 10 per cent of the employed persons 18 years of age and over in the city. These were divided 50 per cent in manufacturing and mechanical industries, 25 per cent in trade and transportation, 10 per cent in domestic and personal service, 7 per cent self- employed and the remainder in other general industrial groups. Iron and steel, railway and express, building, ‘and wholesale and retail trade em- ployed the largest groups covered, The employment status of all the workers enumerated each year is shown in the following percentages: 76.9 per cent of the unemployment, in 1923, 37.4 per cent; 1924, 54.3 per cent and 1925, 42.2 per cent, Other causes were strikes, old age and miscellane- ous. . Male heads of households, Croxton found, suffer more from fluctuation of employment than do women workers. The average employment status of all male workers over’ the 5-year period was 82.3 per cent employed full time, unemployed. For women workers the figures are 83.8 per vent full time, 11.2 In 1921 only 75,1 per cent of the male per cent were out of a job. Employment by Industry, Regarding full-time Croxton shows, the trade and trans- turing and mechanical group of indus- tries. The percentage of workers on full time in trade and transportation ranged from 88.3 pér cent in 1921 to 94.3 per cent In 1923 while in the man- the range was 1921 to 88.8 per cent in 1922, individual industry Per cent employed 921 1922 1923 19241928 Full time 16.5% 86.2% 87.5% 79.3% 82.4% Part time - 25 22 26 ©6560 4.3 One-third and less ’ two-thirds ... woe 5,8 3.2 29 29 «(4.9 3.9 One-third and less than one-half ,. ee od 10 ¢ Less than one-third dl 5 5 6 Total part time 10.1 62 121 97 Unemployed ..... 184 63 87 79 Seek Trade Main Cause, grea proporiton of idle workers in Slack work was the predominant] each year was, in 1921, iron and steel, cause of unemployment in every year except 1922 when sickness explained | py $4.1 per cent of the unemployment wed with 28.2 per d “Im 1921 lack. 26.8 per cent; 1922, railway and ex- 13.2 per cent; 1923, iron and 8 per cent; 1924 and 1925, the per cont and 12,3 steel, 8.3 per cent part time and 9.4 per cent per cent part time and‘5 per cent idle, Workers had full-titte work while 14.6 employment, portation group was more stable for the 5-year period than the manufac- ufacturing and mechanical industries iffom 72.2 per cent in The showing the POLAND PLANS TO PAY $10,000,000 DEBT 10 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK (Special to The Daily Worker) WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 12,.—The finance ministry declares that the $10,000,000 debt of Poland to the United States Federal Reserve Bank will be paid'on time. This is a loan that was granted in the first days of the republic by the United States to stabilize Poland's currency. The total foreign debt of the coun- try is now approximately $350,000,- 000, of which America holds $221,- 000,000,’ as follows: Dillon, Read & Co., $35,000,000, the first loan issued after the war, upon which the ser- vice charge has been paid regularly, Including the unusual procedure of cabling, On June 20, $2,500,000, due only on July 1, The Baldwin Locomotive Com- pany, $8,000,000, payments also be- Ing met on the exact date. The United States government, $178,000,000 for relief and supplies of army equipment, which debt Ilke- wise has been regularly cared for. The remainder of the debt Is mostly due to France. Fairmont (W. Va.) fields entirely, and parts of others, That strike was set- \tled in halfway fashion, with a con- tract in the Fairmont field while the Somerset strike dragged on for nearly a year longer. But in 1925 the Con- solidation repudiated its Fairmont contracts and went scab and a strike was called against its Fairmont mines that year. This year on July 5 a district strike against all non-union operations in the Fairmont fleld was called. It was first effective in the Scott’s Run field, where it now turns out that Consoli- dation is a royalty collector. Office in B. of R. T. Building. But Consolidation owners are not the only “outsiders” fighting the min- ers. The Paisley interests themselves have big Ohio and Pennsylvania opera- tions in union territory while they are contract-breaking and scabbing in Scott's Run. J, A. Paisley, with offices in the B. of R. T, Bldg., in Cleveland, is president of the Valley Camp Coal Co., which has eight coal subsidiaries, and well as several lake steamship and docking companies. He has at least three Ohio mines, at Fairport, Stewartsville and Lafferty and 3 Penn- sylvania mines at Parnassus, Valley Camp and Van Voorhis, and a total of 13 listed West Virginia mines, in the panhandle, Scott’s Run and in the southern part of the state. The Scott’s Run strikers are fight- ing big foes and need big help from the rest of the working class, Green Discovers His Charge of Communism Comes Home to Roost WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—An edi- torial entitled “Dishonest Propaganda” in the current issue of the American Federationist deals with the 35-page attack on the Maternity and Infancy Act, the Children’s Bureau, Mrs. Flor- ence Kelley. of the National Consum- ers’ League, and other humanitarian influences and spokesmen, placed in the Congressional Record by Senator Bayard of Delaware for Miss Mary Kil- breath of the Women Patriot. That document, says Editor Green, “is a mass of petty gossip, half-truths, misstatements and libelous allega- tions, Its purpose is to discredit the Children’s Bureau and the maternity act.” Miss Kifbreath denounced these humane institutions as Communisti¢c measures, created by the cunning of Mrs. Kelley, whom she pronounced the world’s most powerful Communist. The Federationist replies that it is absurd to claim that these are Com- munistic in any way. It maintains that “the conservation of mothers and children is essential to civilization and in accord with common sense.” Bacloud Issues in Ohio Elections with Wet and Dry Question COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 12—Myers Cooper of Cincinnati, president of the Ohio council of churches, won the re- publican nomination for governor, ana Senator Frank S. Willis won the re- publican nomination for United States senator. In the democratic senatorial raw Ex-senator Atlee Pomerene, an ac- knowledged wet, defeated Judge Florence Allen, a dry and an exponent of the world court. Pomerene’s vic- tory forecast a bitter wet-dry battle in Ohio at the November election. Governor Vic Donahey won the democratic nomination for governor, beating his nearest opponent, former secretary of agriculture, A. P. Sand- les, 6 to 1, Swedish Powder Explosion, COPENHAGEN, Aug, 12.—One fire- man was killed, many persons injur- ed, and five, large buildings levelled to the ground today when a violent explosion followed a fire in a powder tenet ee ehhh Pema THE DAILY WORKE GARY-STREET CARMEN SEEK WAGE INCREASE Union Presents Demand to Company (Special to The Paily Worker) GARY, Ind., Aug. 12.—Local 517 of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employes is now negotiating for a new lagreement with the Gery Street Railways company. In an interview with a reporter for The DAILY WORKER, George Biggs, president of the local, pointed out that the union had presented the fol- lowing demands to the company: Seek 10-Cent Increase, 1. An increase of ten cents an hour to all motormen, conductors and bus drivers. The ‘bus drivers work on the shore line motorbusses, owned by a subsidiary of the Gary Street Rail- ways company. Overtime Pay. 2, Time and a half for overtime over eight»hours. These conditions are to apply to extra men who were not heretofore getting paid for over- time, 3, That the Gary Street Railways company insure the men against death to the amount of $1,500 a year. 4. That the Gary Street Railways Company insure the workers against sickness and accident to the amount of $20 a week. Edward MacMorrow, a member of the General Executive Board of the International Association of Street Railway Employes’ union is expected to come to Gary soon to aid in the ne- gotiations, Company Offer. There are rumors that the Gary Street Railways Company is willing to concede a wage increase of 2 cents an hour to motormen on double truck one-man'cars. The double truck car is a large-sized car carrying 140 pas- sengers. “This car is operated by one man. The one man must collect fares as well as drive the car. Negotiations Too Strenuous. Negotiations are at a standstill now. Mr. Chase, president of the Gary Street Railways Company, has gone on a vacation. The negotiations with the union were too strenuous for him. SPANISH-AMERICAN R YEARS OF | Tailroad owners is reflected in a Wall |in labor's position is recorded, This is based on 20 leading railroad | that the average has been anywhere |near as high, It means a gain of more jthan 61 per cent since the beginning of Cal’s reign when the average was |$76.78.. The owners of these 20 roads have seen their property increase | $1,722,505,469 in market price, Atlantic Line Leads, Atlantic Coast line leads all roads in this advance. It rose $114 from $110 a share in 1923 to $224 in 1926: This added $77,048,269 to the price of the common stock, the market value rising from $74,344,820 to $151,393,088, Nickel Plate also shows an advance of more than $100 a share, the market price rising from $72 to $178. In- cluding an increase in the number of shares outstanding this raises the Market values Atlantic Coast Line .. Baltimore & Ohio Chesapeake & Ohio’ Chicago & Northwestern* D. L.& W.* Illinois Central* Lehigh Valley .. Louisville & Nashville New York Central* Nickel Plate* ..... Norfolk & Western* Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Reading Rock Island . Santa Fe .... St. Louis-San Francisco . Union Pacific . Southern Pacific* Southern .. Billions Gained on Market. Where roads are starred part of the gain represents increase in the number of common shares outstand- ing but even in these instances the bulk of the increase is due to the gain in market price. The Delaware Lackawanna & Western, Lehigh Val- ley, Pennsylvania and Reading stocks have a par value of $50, So 15 of the 20 stocks listed are today selling WAR VETERAN TELLS OF MANY DISILLUSIONMENTS Aga By AN OLD SOLDIER, I went, to the Philippine Islands the latter part of 1899, I was enthu- siastic. I believed that we were freeing millions of oppressed people, and would establish a free government for them, and protect them from aggres- sion of ofher nations until they could protect themselves. I was a sergeant. The company I was in was not recruited from the slums of the city—the drunkards, libertines and bums as are too often found in the seryice. We were from the states of the Mississippi Valley, Most of us were farmers or sons of farmers. + Fed Rotten Food. We were taken into the interior of Luzon Island. In that torrid coun- try we were fed food fit only for use in a cold climate. We soon were de- bilitated. Epidemics of different dis- eases followed so rapidly that we soon lost interest in just which dis- ease was’the most prevalent. A great many of our men died. Some from casualties of battle, but most from improper food, which we were given. The Meat Packers. Of course, it didn’t bother the great packers. They had the stuff on hand and the government had to buy it. They controlled the bureaucracy in the swivel chairs. Break Down Under Heat. I was detailed on @ very hard job. I was greatly pleased that I should have a chance to be of greater serv- ice to the government. I did every- thing that I thought was my duty and more if I had a chance. I took no care of my health and soon broke down physically and mentally from the effects of excessive work in trop- foal heat. I was returned to the states and taken to the government hospital for the insane. At that time we were given more consideration. We were given our money, nothing being re- tained from the enlisted men and only about $30 from the officers. I tm- proved rapidly under favorable con- ditions and in a few months left the institution. Recurrent attacks of “nerves” forced me to return. I left again, but returned for a short time. On going home I found I was unable to stand the heat enough to farm. My. friends suggested I go to the Soldiers’ Home. The doctor there returned me to the government hospital telling me my nerves were in bad condition and that I must have rest or I might lose my reason alto gether. Rob Soldier Vets, When I arrived there the admin- istration of the hospital had changed. One of these super-scabs—an efficien- ey expert— was distributing offices. Five-sixths of the pensions paid to men who were disabled by the serv: fice were taken for their expenses. I got $4 a month out of $24, In the same ward with me was a retired Meutenant. He had to pay but $30 a month out df his $150, The only service that he had seen was in gar- risons in the \linited States and Ha wali, I got food that was poor. I had to eat beside filthy insane im a ae would not have this officer eat in the same room with us common people, but had a tray served from a differ- ent kitchen and brought to his room. The army records showed that I was disabled in line of duty—thru no fault of my own. He was in the last stage of syphilis. You can draw your own conclusions from this. How much respect an en- listed man receives from the gov- ernment for faithful service. The actions of this cheap mob of petty offi- the Communist causé. New York EXcu Music, Refre Tickets $1.10, at the pier 108 East BLANKETS QUILTS Those having any of these to spare get in touch with the I, W..A., 1553 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill, Phone Haymarket 2583. SSS SSS SSS Needle Workers’ Saturday, August 14th, 1926 TO SUNSET PARK ON THE HUDSON STEAMER “CLEREMONT”, Boat starts 2 p. m. sharp from Battery Park Pier A. are needed by the INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID. WE WILL CALL POR THEM, hast alla ¥ i Page Three —————__ RAILROAD STOCKHOLDERS CLEAN UP. $2,000,000,000 IN THREE MERE STOCK PRICES By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press. What continued government favor under Pres, Coolidge has meant to Street Journal tabulation showing the increase in price of railroad stocks between Aug, 4, 1923 and July 13, 1926. According to the journal the stocks of 34 representative railroads have in- creased $2,012,099,896 in this “Coolidge bull market.” No corresponding gain The Dow, Jones & Co. railroad share average on July 13 reached $116.29. stocks. Ome market value of the common stock by $72,037,362. It is the first time since 1913 Stockholders have made great gains! on two raflroads which have secured the cO-operation of the unions in pro- moting efficiency. An increase from $46.50 to $89 a share in the market price of Baltimore & Ohio stock has meant a total increase of $78,251,881 in the market value of the owners’ holdings. Similarly an increase from $30.50 to $118.50 in Southern railway stock has added $105,500,000 to the| wealth of the owners. Figures showing for 20 roads the market values of thelr common shares Aug. 4, 1923 and July 13, 1926, and 1923 $100 461% 58 62 112% 105 1926 $224 Increase 910,229 138% 99,936,105 17% 97% 40,483,718 125 155 66,410,064 84% 108 111,169,512 30% 118% 10} 10,000 nee above par and two others at about par, These huge gains reflect big profits under the railroad rates established under the guarantee clause of the transportation act. They reflect the fact that with a government friendly to railroad capital railroad wages have been brought under control. They reflect the confidence of the investing class that under Coolidge these bless- ings will continue, “Bankrupt” Mlillonaires. A glance thru the financial publica- tions of the last few years shows that these gains have accrued chiefly to big financiers who quietly absorbed shares at bargain counter prices when propaganda about possible rail bank- ruptcy was leading small investors to unload. So, probably, Arthur Curtis James became a railroad magnate. Ford Planes Arrive in Lincoln, Nebr. LINCOLN, Nebr., Aug. 12.—All the planes engaging in the Ford reliabili- ty air tour arrived here today from Des Moines without accident. The first plane to land here was piloted by Vance Breese. The pilots will proceed to Wichiti, Kan., tomorrow on the seventh leg of their trip. WRITE AS YOU FIGHT! Open your st Loox around! There are the stories of the workers’ struggles around you begging to be writtan up. Do it! Send it inl Write as yee fight! Left Wing sion shments, Etc. $1.25. Tickets for sale at 14th St. SSS ES LIGHT MATTRESSES { jare under the total increases represented by the! “eincreased prices are: Send Five! ILLINOIS STATE PRIMARY LAWIS RULED ILLEGAL Sluggers, Ballot Thieves and Heelers Rejoice Political turmoil exists in Mlinoig today as the immediate result of the decision handed down three judges of the ¢ ting en banc, who held that the Mil- immediately ap- d it is expected by that in order to following an invali- dation by the s supreme court that body would w old judgment until after the November elections. A gener on to the decision is a belief e d by many today that it would n a throwback to the old party conventions, Sluggers Are Rejoicing. First rejoicing over the decision came from election workers, ward luggers and others who indictment here for fraud in connection ¥ the recent primary, Lawyers pointed out that inasmuch ag politicians, the was illegal itself those im licted for frauds during the election cannot be pr d successfully. Similar mov Ohio, Iowa anc re under way in other states and it ts anticipated that the decision in TK nois will undoubtedly add impetus to the hue and cry for repeal of primary laws, Spanish-Italian Pact Causes Great Britain to Feign Astonishment (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, Aug. 12.—Altho King Ab fonso of Spain recently paid a special visit to London to ask ‘the British to assent to Spain's desire for more ter ritory in Africa, British diplomats as sume great surprise at the Italiane Spanish treaty. Itijand other matters make the prospectsifor the September meeting of the league of nations most, gloomy for the league. Italy’s hunger for, more of the Afrt- can pie will cause Mussolini to sup port Spain’s demand for a permanent seat on the league council. But Po- land, too, is demanding the same thing, and more, as Poland demands that no other nations be admitted on the council but herself. 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