The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 3

[wer NOW HE IS DEAD AND-NOW HE ISN'T IS NEWS OF KING JAll Manner of Reports About Ferdinand eines LONDON, Noy. 29. — With Queen Marie and her party still on the high eas, reports from various centers on the continent place the condition of King Ferdinand as in no sense dan- gerous, that he is ailing badly, that he is about to die and that he is dead. These conflicting reports make im- possible .a correct estimate of the rumors, also of a conflicting nature, that are surrounding the exiled Prince Carol, now in Paris. From Paris .comes the news that Prince Carol waa called upon by an official Roumanian delegation in diplo- matic delivery and was given au im- portant message. It is thought that may have something to do with his return to Roumania, from which he has been barred since he was deposed @s crown prince, The theory is that King Ferdinand, in a serious condition, has expressed the desire to reconcile himself with Garoi and for his eldest son ta suc- ceed him to-the throne. Along with this comes the ‘story that the power- ful Bratianu brothers are opposed to this and threaten an upheaval if it somes to ‘pass. From the Berengaria, upon which Queen Marie is homeward bound, oomes the information that she has re- eeived assurances of her husband's good health. Berlin advices indicate fhat the king is dead and that his demise is being veiled for reasons of state. Vienna writers see Balkan eomplications looming out of the con- dition of the king and predict trouble pverythe selection of his successor, From Bucharest itself comes cen gored dispatches in which the official ‘word pronounces the king very much Qmproved. ‘It is confidently expected fn London that within the next sev- jeral years it will be definitely known whether the king is thriving or has been gathered in by his Hohenzollern fathers, ; God Sent Benito to World to Bring Peace, Says Catholic Prelate OSTIA, Italy, Nov. 29. — Mussolini has been sent to the world by divine Providence to bring peace and social justice on earth, said Cardinal Van- nutelli of the catholic church in a Speech made here at the dedication of the church of “Queen of Peace,” “We must pray for the success in our Italy of the assiduous work of our great son, Mussolini, who is manifest- Jy designed by divine: providence to co-operate toward re-estgblishment of social and religious peace in the world,” he said. CLOWN ACADEMY OPENED IN MOSCOW TO DEVELOP REVOLUTIONARY HUMOR MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—The Clowns’ academy has opened here to train students in proletarian humor. The courses outlined include: elocution, declamation, and patter; topical pre- sentation of literary,. politic: nd satirical subjects; humorous musi- cal effects; physical culture and comic acrobatic stunts; instruction in contemporary politics and pollti- cal “wise cracks.” Students will be trained In the art of mockery and satirization to bring home to the people the ab- surdities of bourgeoisie life and ideas. - a / VU THE DAILY WORKER GRANTS CONCESSION FOR AIRSHIP ROUTE, SPAIN TO ARGENTINE MADRID, Nov. 29.—The first trans- oceanic air company is mow an ac- tuality. The state council today gave its ap- proval to a concession for a regular line of dirigibles to operate between | Seville and Buenos Afres, with the | provision that the company establish & fegular monthly service within three years. Under the terms of the concession the company is obliged to supply air- ships with a minimum capacity of forty passengers and ten tons of ge- neral freight. Two pasgenger reserv- ations are to be made“on each trip for the Spanish government. The company announces that it will build three dirigibles to operate the 000,000 each. Concessions were also granted to the company to operate a dirigible line between Spain and the Canar teen passengers and freight. vance 30,000,000 pesetas to aid the company in its project. ENGLAND, FRANCE TO CLASH.OVER GERMAN CONTROL Into Arms Parley (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 29.—Discussion of disarmament restrictions on Germany, with England and France at near sword points on the issue, will form the main business of the meeting of the league of nations’ council at Geneva in December, The matter directly affects France’s desires to place the power of restrict- ing Germany in the hands of the league. France objects strenuously, insisting that first Germany must com- ply with the minimum provisions of the Versailles treaty. China Policy Enters. Great Britain’s Chinese policy will have a direct bearing on the negotia- tions. Among the demands to be sub- mitted to Germany by Great Britain is one designed to prevent Germany exporting arms and munitions to the military forces in China. Great Brit- ain will insist on this, it is understood, while France is inclined to view the demand as “insignificant.” Would Control! Army. Ayreat Britain will also demand that legislation be passed subordinating the commander of the reichswehr to the minister of war, who is responsi- ble to parliament. If these two de- mands are won Britain is willing to surrender all other control. tg the league. Hold Secret Sessions. The league principle of “no secrecy” is to be discarded, it is definitely un- derstood, in dealing. with the matter. Plans are now being made for a secret session between Sir Austen Chamber- lain, British fdreign secretary; tide Briand, French foreign minister, and Gustav Stresemann, German for- eign minister, re Great Britain is extremely anxious that the matter be settled quickly so that English capitalists can feel “se- cure” in German investments. $40,000 Fire. ISHPEMING, Mich., Nov,.29. — A loss exceeding $40,000 resulted from the fire which destroyed five buildings in Northland, Marquette county, offi- cials declared today following a sur- vey. $35,000,000 OF IMPORTS TO U.S, ‘ARE FROM RUSSIA Exports to Soviet Union Are More WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29. — American imports from the Soviet Union for the Soviet fiscal year end- jing Sept. 30, were about $35,000,000, | according to reports of the American- Soviet trading organigations in this News-and Comment Labor Hducation Labor and Government Trade Union Politics STRIKE THREAT BRINGS ACTION zed Labor—Trade Union Activities IWORKERS’ COMPENSATION WINS HEARING BEFORE BOSS-OWNED COMMISSION AFTER HARD FIGHT By ART SHIELDS, Federated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—(FP)—After officers of New York building trades unions had been grilled for two days’ sessions of the New York Industrial Survey Commission at.the Bar Association, and employers had been given @ friendly hearing to their complaints about union rules, the labor movement finally swung into the offensive, Harriet Silverman, director of the Workers’ service, -at an estimated cost of $1,-| The Spanish government will ad-| Britain to Inject China! | country made public here today by the Russian Information Bureau. During the previous year exports reported by |the trading organizations were about | $20,700,000, and in 1913 they were | $7,290,000. $55,000,000 Exports. Exports to the Soviet Union were close to $55,000,000, exclusive of eéx- {ports by the Harriman Georgian Man- ganese company and other concession- The figure compares with ex- of $87,088,022 reported by the companies in 1924-25 and $40,730,000 in 1918. The American {imports increased nearly 70 percent jand exports decreased about 37 per cent, as compared with 1924-25. The trade turnover of $90,000,000 compares with $108,000,000 in 1924-25. This difference is accounted for by a decrease in 25. per cent in the cotton |purchases herg and by the fact that jduring 192. American exports were increased by Soviet purchases of flour } worth $21,000,000, necessitated by the poor harvest of 1924. Cotton valued at $33,486,000 led the list of American exports to the Soviet Union, followed by agricultural ma- /|chinery $8,038,000 (including tractors worth $6,099,328), industrial machin- ery $6,819,300, materials for transport, including trucks and motor buses, $2,295,400, non-ferrous metals $2,034,- 400, typewriters to the value of $558,432 were exported. Fur Imports Heavy. import list. Manganese (not handled by the trading organizations) is esti- mated at $15,000,000 as compared with $4,000,000 the previous year, Im- ports of flax and tow jumped to $1,175,- Furs valued at $15,379,000 led the} ON GRIEVANCES Anthracite Miners Put | Issue Squarely By ART SHIELDs, (Federated Press) SCRANTON, Pa., Nov, 29. — The | strike threat by the general grievance |committee Of Hudson Coal Co. em- | Ployes, representing 22,000 workers in | 22 local unions, will not be put into |execution at Present. Umpire Neill, | who had been given a week to take up |the grievance of the Grassy Island | colliery workers about the cut in their rock prices, ¢ame to the bat in the | scheduled time and a final investiga- | tion into the case has been ordered. | This case ig three years old. The \affair is interesting as showing how |mine grievances can drag on indefi- jnitely until the companies are faced | with a little unpleasant action. | Three years ago the Grassy Island | miners used to be allowed a time pay jallowance for the labor of removing rock from the middle of the vein. | They were allowed pay for 40 hours pe five shifts, évery semi-monthly pay, {in addition to the payment per ton |for thé coal loaded. Five shifts at | $6.90 per shift, the day rate, put more |than $40 into their envelopes as an \extra, above ‘their tonnage pay, But |three years.ago Hudson Coal decided | |to cut down the rate and the mén |found themselves getting $5, $6 and $7 for the rock work, instead of the forty-odd, | It’ was a big slash and the union | took the case before the conciliation 904, a8 compared with $335,000 the P board represénting miners and opera- previous year. Other imports includ- tors, on the grounds that the company Aris- | ed. sheep ings $1,070,517, licorice root $59¢ bristles $539,396, hides and skins $467,334, mushrooms $154,763, Chitcherin May Talk With Herrick in Paris Looking to Recognition PARIS—Word comes from Moscow to the effect that M. Chitcherin, com- missar of foreign affairs of the U.S.S. |R., will, on his visit to this city in December, approach the American am- bassador to France, Herrick, with ten- {tative proposals for the recognition, by the United States, of the Soviet government, either as de facto or de |jure in power. The American embas- |sy denies all knowledge of this inten- tion. It is understood that the basis on | which Chitcherin would deal would | be a recognition by the Soviet of Rus- sia’s pre-war debt to the Uhited States, on condition that the amount is | reduced to the minimum and.a long }moratorium granted; indemnity to | Americans for losses suffered by rea- json of the revolution; advantageous jeoncessions to be granted to Ameri- cans. dall no Place for Birth Mrs. Frances Kowalkowski, 36, charged with murdering her husband Alex, last May, was released on her own recognizance today, that her ex- pected child may be born outside of Jail. semen eremeeeene nee erate reer ee had no right to change a rate during | |the term of an agreement. It went | |on to the umpire, who decided in pri | ciple in favor of the men, but failed | to fix the rate. Again back to the! jlocal union @hd the superintendent it | |climbed up thru the conciliation board | j}to the um _The custom calls for an umpire’ cision in a month, but Neill had se three months with- out action. So the grievance com-| mittee speeded things up by the strike threat. Neill came fo Scranton, and after | scolding the grievance committee for | its strike ultimatum, took up the case. Thru bis arr&hging the management agreed to have a union committee go into the miné!and measure the rock that has to be’ removed, for the pur- pose of agreeing again on a rate for this “dead work.” | The strike threat did not have the sympathy of the district union execu- | tives’ The Hudson Coal grievance committee, like al] the anthracite com- pany grievante committees, is made up of the combined local union griev- ance committees. Detroit Auto Workers to Hear of Strategy of Strike at Passaic | DETROIT, Nov. 29.—Albert Weis- bord, the leader of the great Passaic strike, will make his first visit to the city of Detroit when he addresses a mass meeting on Wednesda?, Dec. 8, at 8 p. m. at the Majestic Theater, Woodward near Willis. The automobile workers of Detroit will get some first-hand information | on strike strategy and the organiza- tion of a powerful union when Weis- bord relates the story of the Passaic strike and the tactics used to weld Health Bureau, representing many New York labor unions, proceedings as an anti-labor show and¢— a waste of the people’s money—§25,- | 000 having been appropriated for the} survey. | Miss Silverman said the commis-| sion had been appointed by the legis- lature for the purpose of holding wp important reforms in the state labor | law and the Workmen's Compensa-| tion law, demanded by the New York State Federation of Labor. She de- nounced the commission for giving first consideration to employers’ at- tacks on the labor movement, when the workers were being so shamefully | neglected by the state’s labor and) compensation laws. | Interruption Fails. Henry D. Sayre, former state indus- trial commissioner, and executive secretary of the Industrial Survey Commission, constantly interrupted) the witness end attempted to defend | the state’s compensation law, but he was partly silenced as her recital of the gaps in the law proceeded. Sayre is connected with an insurance firm that represents employers in compen- sation cases. Miss Silverman’s statement dwelt | on the lack of a blanket occupational | disease law in the state—a reform| that Connecticut, California, Wiscon-| sin, the federal government, Porto! Rico and Hawaii have already enact-| ed. Only a few occupational diseas-| es are compensated in the Empire State. Workers crippled or blinded by certain widely used poisons, dusts and gases are given no protection. Her statement cited the following, among scores of basic occupational diseases ignored by the present law: Deadly Poisons. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, «pro-| nounced by Professor C. EH. A. Win- slow of Yale as the first of all in- dustrial poisons is not covered, ex- {cept in cases of outright death where the accident provisions may be in- voked. But there is no compensation for chronic poisoning leading to para- lysis, blindness and other forms of total disability Jarage workers are most Mable to carbon monoxide, but} jemployes in factories where gas is used as a fuel are widely affected | also. | Silicosis, a widely prevalent and disastrous occupationaldisease, is not compensated. Silicosis is an injury to the lung tissue from quartz (silica) dust and affects polishers and buffers, pottery and glass workers, stone cut-| ters and men and women in many other industries cited by the witness. | Benzoi Poisoning, affecting workers in 57 industries, is not included in the | Imitate Militancy of Debs, Not “Kindness,” | Seattle Workers Told SEATTLE, Nov. 29. Workers of | all political beliefs attended the EBu- gene V. Debs memorial meeting here | Nov. 21, arranged by the Internation- al Labor Defense. aa | Aaron Fislerman, member of the} Workers (Communist) Party, was the “keynote” speaker. “I should like to| see Debs imitated not in ‘goodness| and kindness,’ but in his militancy,” he said. “Only by militancy can we) progress. The mythical cloak of kind-j| ness in which the true character of Debs has been shrouded since his death is pernicious propaganda of the | capitalistic press. We revere Debs because he was a militant revolution- | ist. Progress is not attained by kind-/ ness but by struggle and right.” the 16,000. unorganized workers into the union which has already won ono victory for the workers in Passaic, On Thufsday evening, Dec. 9, Weis- bord will be given a welcome ban- quet by the Workers Party and its friends and sympathizers. Admission t ie mass meeting will be 15 cents to the banquet 50 cents, r ¥ Call Joint Meeti of Millinery Workers Here on November 30 — Millinery workers, operators, trim- Jean Stovel, secretary of the I. L, D. local, presided at the meeting. Help Farmer First With Muscle Shoals, Coolidge Is Urged WASHINGTON, Nov. 29—The chief objective of operation at Muscle Shoals should be to produce cheap fertilizer in the interests of farm re- lief, O. EB. Bradfute, former president of the American Farm Federation, told President Coolidge today. Power production should be con-| attacked the provisions of the present law owing to faulty wording of the statute. Only a Beginning. These three well-known causes are only a beginning. The witness named numerous other chemical poisons af- fecting the workers in scores of in dustries. In the laundries and bake- shops, in garages and print shops, in tanneries and machine shops, among Policies and Programs The Trade Union Press Strikes—tInjunctions Labor and Imperialism el ‘LEWIS’ TOOL IN DISTRICT ONE | QUSTS UNIONIST | Will Not Resugnise New Checkweighman By a Worker Correspondent. | PITTSTON, Pa., Nov. 29. — At @ recent meeting of No. 6 colliery miners of Pittste they unanimously elected fur workers, painters, hatters, stone | Alex Campbell, exanember of the im cutters, textile worsen se epioners ternational executive board of District wood manufacturing, leather and ru No, 1, che ghman, to take ber goods, in the food and tobacco in- dustries, in light and power plants, in | clothing and ‘millinery, in paper goods, chemicals, ojl.and the manufacture of paints, in all representative, New York industries, workers are now de- prived of compensation for some oc- cupational : diseases. As Miss Silverman talked on the small audience grouped about the big committee table, forgot the plaints of the former boss plumb: that the unions “ran” his business, and they saw, in- stead, pictures of air hammer men with atrophied wrists; poisoned paint- ers, bricklayers with lungs ruined by silicosis; dye house workers half dead from anemia. Assails Commission. Dr. Sayre attempted to have Miss yerman Wruled out of order when she protested against the appoint- ment of the commission as a waste ot-tunds, and. against the present in- vestigation as a method for attacking the unions; but the witness cut him short by reminding him that she had just been compelled to listen for two | hours to an employers’ attack on the| labor mo¥ement, and that it was time | now for a little plain speaking on| the side of labor. She protested fur- ther in the name of the bureau's affi- liated unions against the red tape that delays compensation payments where such are allowed; against the low $20 maximum for injured work- ers. She demanded the establishment of an exclusive state insurance fund to take the place of the private pro- fiteering insurance enterprises that teed on workers’ compensation tod: She demanded that the profits of the large employing interests in the state and the compensation insurance com- panies be investigated to the end that the public might have the facts on the ability of the industries to safe- guard health and life. We will send sarsple coples of The DAILY WORKER to your friends— Send us name and address, PAINT COMPANY ADMITS DANGER OF OWN PRODUCT SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 29— When P, R, Calpin, Scranton painter, wrote the Glidden Co, of Ohio that he had been poisoned by a wood stain pro duced by that concern, 2 company of- ficial admitted in his answer that the firm had had similar poison cases among its employes. Calpin is suing the Glidden Co, for $60,000 damages, claiming permanent impairment of his health The painter charges that the quart of oak stain contained toxic and poi- sonous chemicals, which taused him to suffer eruptions of the flesh, swell- ing of certain glands, pain in the eyes and other distressing symptoms. Cal- pin says he breathed the funies of the | paint and got some stain on his skin. Great itching resulted and he could not sleep for a long time, Gets Answer. Calpin wrote the Glidden Co, of his troubles and received an answer from Dwight P. Joyce, manager of special- ties department. Joyce's letter says in part: hs “We have found from our expe- rience in our own factories that there are a few people who occasionally are | affected in this same manner by the solvents, These solvents have a ten com- |‘ preceeding witness, a mers, cutters, blockers and hat frame makers are invited to a joint mass meeting Tuesday evening, Nov. 30, at 6:80 at Jefferson Hall, 19 West Adams Ftreet, Chicago, The speakers are Miss Agnes Nes- tor, president Women’s Trade Union League, Chicago; Mr, Anton Johann- sen of the Chicago Federation of La- bor; Mrs, Mathilda Kalousek, Czecho- Slovakian speaker, Radio Mix-up. . Radio broadcasting was thrown in- to further chaos today when circuit court Judge Francis 8. Wilson of Chi- cago, modified’ ‘an injunction to per- mit station WGH8 to operate on s wave length “pproximating that of id —_ pending the enteome of « civi) sl . of; Bhicago grected Queen Marie, It sidered secondary, Bradfute contend-|dency to dry up the natural fats in ed. He urged that congress take im-| skin, causing the eruptions you speak mediate action along this course when |of. The stain ingredients themselves, it convenes. The quickest way to farm relie Bradfute told the president, is to lower production and transportation costs, Fertilizer.is one of the biggest items in the farmer's production oo he said, and if its cost wera lowered, farm overhead costs would come down proportionately, SYDNEY —(FP)— Under a new or der by the industrial court, employes in Australian bakery establishments ght; nigh{ work is prohibited en- are to Work a 44-hour week in day- tirely and wages range from $80.60 to $83.10 per week, The weekly hours are reduced where double or trip! shifts are worked, — te {if not removed from the hands after f,| ase, also have a tendency to irritate.” The painter resented the implication | that he had not used proper precau- }tion in handling the paint and filed | suit for damages, requesting trial by | Jury. biden Hite at Irish Republhcans. DUBLIN—Due to the recent activi tles of the Republicans, displayed | mainly tm raids on police barracks, the |Irlsh Free State has practically de |clared war on them by Issuing a pro- clamation in which it {s stated that 4@ state of national emergency exists. The latest raid wag on the barracks Crumlin, # town three miles from oa office December of two years Campbell has long been known as an enemy, of ppellini and Lewis, and has been v active amongst the miners of Pittston recently in behalf of the Brophy organization. Notify Union. The local union has been notified by llini that he “refuses Campbell ion to act as checkweighman No. 6 colliery and that the election was illegal.” The men of Pittston™have“the sole say as to who shall serve them as checkweighman, and Cappellini hag nothing to say, according to union laws. It is generally understod that Cappellini is working hand im hand with the Pennsylvania Coal Co. to keep Alex Campbell off the tipple as the company hates him and so does Cap- ‘pellini. Alex ass he will be on hand December 1 to take over the job at the tipple, regardless of Cappellimt 1, 1926, for a period Headgear Workers to Get Bigger Unemployed Benefits from Union | NEW YORK, Nov. 29.—Two changes |in the unemployment fund of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers’ | Union have been decided upon by the jcommittee in charge. The changes | will be recommended to the member- jship as constitutional changes. One | Provides that unemployment benefits | be increased from $10 to $18 for men ‘and from $7 to $9 for women. The other is that lost time of laid-off or part-time workers shall be counted | when it amounts to 22 hours or more during the respective week. The old provision was the time did not count for such workers until after 22 hours. Workers employed on half time—half weeks—during the slack season bene- fit by the latter change, Chairman J. M. Budish of the un- employment committee reported on the fund activities to the union’s joint il. The entire period of the fund's existence was covered by Bu- dish, including the financial report of the certified public accountant. Pay- }ments by manufacturers to the fund started Sept. 12, 1924. A reserve was allowed to accumulate in the first 10 onths of the fund. First payment of nefits began July 1, 1925, The re- serve was then $86,601.90. The total income of the fund in the 22 months of existence amounted to $169,366.98 —% per cent of payrolls from employ- ers, plus interest on the reserve, Total benefits paid out during the year July 1, 1925, to June 80, 1926, came to $65,383. Total administra- tion expenses were $7,158.55 for the whole 22 months. The admintstra- tive expenses, slightly over 4 per ecnt of the total income, are remarkably small, the He ar Worker, official union organ, points out. The net bal- ance of the fund in the bank July 1, | 1926, was $96,825.43. | |Bax, English Socialist Leader, Dies, Age 72 LONDON, Nov. 29.—Prnest Belfort Bax, leader of the socialist movement in England, is dead here. He was 72 years old. Bax was a co-worker of George Bernard Shaw. OVERCOATS Good, slightly used overcoats (also suits) at $10.00 FOGEL’S - 943 W, MADISON ee IN PHILADELPHIA There are only two places to eat— HOME AND AT Hartung’s Restaurant 610 Spring Garden St. Home Cooking Open trom 6. a. m. to 7 p.m. LOS ANGELES, CAL,