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VOL. XXVI. No. 40
By International Labor News Service.
New York City. A permanent
alliance of American trade unions to
offset the communist cheka squads
and nuclei in various labor organiza
tions is urged by the committee for
the preservation of the trade unions.
Already 150 unions, 17 trades, ten
central bodies and more than 300,000
workers, mainly frohi unions infested
with tlie "borers" are acting lli con
cert.
New York has been the main battle
ground between the genuine unions
and the union wi*eckers, but the fight
ing is spreading to Boston, Philadel
phia and Chicago, where the Mos
cow adherents have strong outposts.
The Central Trades and Labor
Council here and the Chicago Federa
tion have taken a hand in the battle.
Prominent leaders of the American
Federation of Labor have taken
charge locally. The difficult work of
crushing the nests of communists in
the. International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union has begun. All the
local unions in the recent disastrous
cloak strike are being reoi'ganized.
Communists hold the local offices and
the two organizations are waging war
on each other. The support of the
American labor movement is rallied
by the international to help in a des
perate effort to swing back from the
brink of destruction.
Gains Were Signed Away
An appeal addressed to trade
unionists from the first anti-commun
ist conference stresses the following:
"Not content with character assas
sination and plotting within their
secret nests, the communists have
broken up public meetings while cry
ing for their own right to be hoard
in public. They have exalted deceit
into a virtue and elevated intrigue
into a principle.
"They have used strikes to ad
vance the fortunes of the communist
party rather than the claims of the
strikers to better economic condi
tions. They have signed away the
gains, made by the furrier in previous
years and boasted of a 'victory.'
They have called 40,000 cloakmakers
on strike without consulting them and
have so completely mismanaged the
strike that the sum total is ruin and
distress in the union, its members and
the women and children dependent
upon them.
"We submit that tolerance of these
crimes against the principles of trade
unionism and labor solidarity would
itself be a crime against the trade
unions. We have endured this inso
lence long enough. We have resolved
to end it."
Foster Source of Intrigue
The main attack is against the
Trade Union Educational League,
which under the skillful direction of
William Z. Foster, has successfully
The Cherry
rrf Where with our
Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometime* flippant!^,
sometimes recklessly.
Happy New Year! Everybody
says it. It comes out automatically
after the first six repetitions. Same
to you and many of 'em. Also auto
matic after first six shots.
But it's all right. One day gets
soaked' in wishes for happiness, even
if the wishes don't go very deep.
New York Trade Unionists
Urge a Permanent Alliance
Against Communist "Borers"
Nobody can be so very ugly when
everybody's talking Happy New Year,
Professors in psychology could de
liver long lectures about it, but that
is not the purpose for which we are
gathered.
Everybody wants to know what the
New Year will bring. Here follows
the only reliable forecast for 1927:
American finance will continue to
expand the borders of the new and
fast-growing American financial im
perialism.
This will cause much trouble and
a lot of profits.
There may or m^y j&blfc be tax re
ductions.
Polities, will be politics.
Some crooks will be put in jafl
More will remain at liberty.
Almost anyone who wants a drink
will get it and practically on time.
Atmee Semple McPherson and the
Rev. J. Frank Norris will get off the
front page,
Ittdge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
middle name will probably start on
a still hunt for Mahomet.
Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker will
know whether fame is
a
fickle jade
page
,y
or
a grand old woman.
'5 President Coolidge will give forth
,m several volumes of silence* mostly
played
up air
one of a press
undermined many of the needle and
allied trades in the city.
Other disguised communist groups
working the labor movement are to be
exposed. Among these are nuclei
among Negroes, the foreign born, the
Filippinos and organizations for the
release of political prisoners, for the
protection of civil rights! all used as
aliases to cloak their real intent,
which is to hamstring the American
labor movement.
All trade union agencies are urged
to act in concert to end a genuine and
well financed menace tfiat already has
crippled two important international
unions and which has made serious in
roads among a score of others.
Some of Injury Repaired
Something of the injury done the
cloakmakers by an agreement signed
by communist leaders has been
repaired by international officers who
under arbitration succeeded in getting
concessions out of the wreckage for
20,000 workers in the contractors'
shops. Despite their failures the
communists still have a large follow
ing of trusting workers in the needle
trades.
NEWSPAPER ORGANS
Of Industry Urge "Ca Can
ny" Policy
By International Labor News Service.
Montreal —Newspaper organs of
big business in Canada are now open
ly advocating "ca' canny" in produc
tion, in order to protect dividends and
interests. It would be a terrible
thing for a labor paper to advise
workers not to produce too much one
month lest over-production ensue and
wages be reduced next month.
But here is the Canadian Financial
Post, under the caption, "Protect the
Bond-holders," editorially warning
against construction of more apart
ment houses in Toronto at the present
time. Another editorial in the same
issue dealing with the report of a
commission on the abandonment of
farms in Manitoba declares that the
'solution is balanced production which
means that the time, rate and method
of expansion, as well as the selection
of land to be brought under the plow,
should be controlled."
The leading organ of Canadian bus
iness also contains articles predicting
disaster unless the production of pa
per is restricted.
PEOPLE CAN'T PAY TAXES
IN RESISTING WAGE CUTS
Garfield, N. J.—Because of the tex
tile strike here and in Passaic, local
taxpayers are in arrears to the extent
of more than $300,000, said Mayor
Burke in his annual message to the
city council.
that has lost most of its sense of
balance and news value.
The American Federation of Labor
will gain members.
Henry Ford will continue to be
Henry Ford, to the great delight of
barn dance fiddlers and the proletar
it—except that part of it which re
fuses to be fooled about his flve-day
week.
The items here enumerated include
everything that can happen, except
war in the Balkans, more or less Mus
solini on the Italian boot heel, set
tlement of the Tacna-Arica question,
the reconstruction of China, emanci
pation of the Russian people and
another spill by the Prince of Wales
New Year comes. Its coming is
less significant than most folks will
admit. Really and practically, Janu
ary first is like the first of any other
month in most important matters.
Spiritually it is of less moment than
many other days.
Lots of folks talk about turning
over "a new leaf" on New Year's
Day. That is generally a sign of
moral weakness—of needing some
sort of post to lean against before
doing what ought to have been done
long ago.
But important or not, we make a
great fuss about January 1. We blow
horns and ring bells until insanity
seems a pleasant refuge for tortured
nerves. We make a madhouse of every
habitation.
January 1 is more a symbol than
anything else. It is a sign of a new
cycle, and all life seems to run in
cycles. But other days more aptly
mark most of the important cycles
of life.
However, the calendar being what
it is, we pick on January 1 and go to
it with gusto in such measure as our
more or less wearied souls permit
We make idiots of ourselves—and the
queer thing about it is that most of
us enjoy it immensely!
Happy New Year, and, .may «yo*P
shadow never grow shorter! v
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By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—Bituminous op
erators in anticipation of the coming
conference with representatives of the
United Mine Workers at Miami,
Florida, where a new wage contract
is to be negotiated, appear to have
let themselves in for considerable
trouble at the fyands of congress.
How to avoid trouble with congress,
and at the same time evade renewing
the wage contract with the Miners'
Union is a problem which even the
"best minds" of the industry appear
unable to fathom.
The Parker b:h. in the low«.»r house,
providing for federal regulation of
the industry, has been changed to
cover the details of statistical activi
ties, and furnishing such data to a
government agency, which the opera
tors say they are voluntarily collect
ing and disseminating among them
selves now.
Assails Parker Bill
H. S. Gandy, secretary of the Na
tional Coal Association, in a speech
recently before the American Mining
Congress, assailed the Parker bill,
and outlined the things which the
operators are already doing. A short
time later Representative Parker, of
New York, brought in a new bill,
changed from the old one to cover the
objections raised by Mr. Gandy, and
making it compulsory upon the oper
ators to supply the government with
the data which he said they are now
preparing and distributing among
themselves.
Indications are that the operators
have been maneuvered into a posi
tion where they can not effectively
oppose the Parker measure, unless at
the same time they repudiate the ut
terances of Mr. Gandy.
New BiU Prepared
No single incident in recent months
has so clearly opened the way for coal
legislation by congress as the re
marks of the operators' spokesman be
for the Mining Congress. Taking the
speech as a pattern, Mr. Parker pre
pared a new bill which provides for
the following:
A basis for additional legislation
compulsory fact finding and reporting
to a government agency mediation,
conciliation and arbitration of labor
differences by the department of la
bor or a body named for this purpose
declaration of the existence of emer
gencies by the president "'and distri
bution and price fixing by the govern
ment during such emergency.
Production at High Level
Although the British strike, which
created a temporary demand for
American coaj, ended several weekjs
ago, the bituminous operators have
continued to push production at high
wages in an effort to create coal
stocks almost mountain high in the
industrial districts. This is a purely
defensive measure, and the prelimi
nary step to forcing a strike on the
miners with the expiration of the
Jacksonville agreement. They are
getting ready for a strike and hope to
provide the country with sufficient
coal to prevent a crisis into which the
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Conspirac
Mine Production is Rushed
In Effort to Pile Up Great
Bituminous Surplus Stocks
Congress Likely to Regulate Coal
Industry if Operators Force Strike
federal government will interfere un
til they have had sufficient time to
starve the Miners' Union into sub
mission.
The output of coal is now approxi
mately 4,000,000 tons a week in excess
of the rate of consumption. Great cor
porations are stocking coal, and pre
paring for a summer of idleness in
the union fields.
Operators in Dilemma
Just at the moment when this piece
of strategy on the part of the oper
ators is working well, the Parker bill
is pushed to the front, and presents
than the prospects of a strike. If a
strike develops, it is virtually certain
to push the Parker bill to the front
in both houses. The recent changes
in it put the operators in a position
where they can not effectively fight
it, unless they repudiate the utter
ances of their own spokesman.
The operators in the payment of
wages during the fall and winter that
are higher than the Jacksonville scalo
have disarmed themselves to resist a
demand by the miners for a renewal of
the present scale. Their only hope to
bring down the wage scale is to stock
the country mountain high with re
serve coal before the strike starts, and
then to starve the miners into sub
mission before the stock piles are ex
hausted.
Congress Is Feared
Whether the federal administration
will step in and demand a halt in the
assault on the union wage scales re
mains to be seen. The operators are
counting on the administration re
maining aloof from the, matter, but
they are not so certain about Con
gress doing so.
"TRUE"DEMOCRACY'
DEFINED
New York.—In the season's greet
ing to friends, Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity, gave this definition of "true
democracy":
"A free state built upon free labor,
with liberty for its watchword and
justice as its guide, is the ideal of a
true democracy—that from of de
mocracy which Lowell characterized
so suggestively if incompletely as one
in which every man has a chance and
knows that he has it.
"To the hectic, emotional radicalism
i that clamors for the exaltation of the
mediocre and the unfit, and upon
which false democracy builds, true
democracy will oppose a healthy, in
tellectual liberalism that will aim to
redress old wrongs without inflicting
new ones.
"This liberalism of true democracy
sees the end of a perfected individual
ism not in selfishness but in service,
not in isolation but in fraternity."
INJUNCTION DENIED
Aberdeen, Wash.—Judge Campbell
has refused to issue a permanent in
junction against striking barbers
These workers were charged with all
manner of crime, but the cqse collaps-
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RAIL BOARD'S POWER
WEAKENED BY COURT
Kansas City, Mo. The federal
court of appeals has challenged the
power of the interstate commerce
commission to fix railroad valuations
by setting aside the commission's
$49,000,000 valuation of the Kansas
City Southern railroad and perpetu
ally enjoins the commission from fix
ing any valuation.
Under the law the commission is
required to fix such valuations and
then make rates allowing the carriers
a reasonable return.
The commission has expended mil
lions of dollars ^n this work and the
decision will be appealed to th
United States supreme court. The
railroads insist that valuations are
too low.
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In this group you will find even reproductions of
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ture of these nigs is wonderfully silky, the pile
is deep and the variety for selection is almost
unlimited!
By International Labor News Service.
Washington, D. C.—The Union La
bor Life Insurance Company, Mat
thew Woll president, now preparing
for the opening of business, enters the
^rena at the crest of American insur
ance prosperity.
Residents of the United States
bought more life insurance during
1926 than in any year in history.
The value of new, ordinary life
policies written during the year by
principal companies was about 4 per
cent in excess of the value of policies
written during 1925. This is shown
t»y a study of data collected by the
Life Insurance Research Bureau of
Hartford, Conn. The data deal with
ales during the first 11 months of
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926 compared with the same period
1925. But the persentage of in-
DOLLAR PATRIOTS
Washington.—"Great wrongs" have
been done by the office of the alien
property custodian, said Senator King,
of Utah, in urging a senate investiga
tion of that office.
Senator King said he was confirm
ed in his view "when they hold prop
erty worth at least $20,000,000 or
$25,000,000 for $250,000 and cloaked
their conduct under the guise of pa
triotism and desiring to aid the chem
ical industry of the United States."
The alien property custodian had
charge of alien-owned property seized
by the government during the war.
Thomas W. Miller, former alien
property custodian, and Harry M.
Daugherty, former attorney general,
are facing criminal charges in a New
York federal court. The jury dis
agreed in the first trial.
LARGEST CO.OP. STORES
New York. The Co-Operative
League reports that the two largest
co-operative stores in the United
States in 1926 were the New Co
Operative Company, composed of min
ers in the neighborhood of Dillon
vale, Ohio, and the Soo Co-Operative
Mercantile Association of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich., which is a general con
sumers' co-operative.
During the first six months of last
year each store did a business of
$267,000. The Ohio Co-Op. had 448
members and the Michigan company
had 490.
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Prosperity is Reached As
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crease will show little change when
data are obtainable for the entire
12-month period.
Florida led all other states in the
purchase of life insurance in compar
ison with the preceding year. Sales
in that state in 1926 showed an in
crease of 22 per cent in comparison
with 1925. This proportion is based
on the value of policies.
In New York an increase of 3 per
cent is shown. In Pennsylvania the
increase was 1 per cent, in Ohio 5
per cent, Illinois 5 per cent, Con
necticut 4 per cent and Michigan 9
per cent.
In 12 states decreases were re
ported despite the fact that for the
country as a whole the business in
creased.
An increase in the purchase of life
insurance is regarded as an indica
tion of an advance in the financial
condition of the average family of any
community.
HILL STRIKERS
Will
Continue Fight
Rights Are Won
is the Sale Price
on Fine 9x12 ft. Ax
minster!
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Passaic, N. J.—Organized textile
workers warn friends not to be de
ceived by propaganda of textile bosses
and newspapers under their control
that the Passaic textile strike is over.
There are 6,000 workers whose em
ployers have not accepted terms
agreed to by the Passaic Worsted,
Botany Mills, Garfield Worsted and
the Dundee Textile Mills. These set
tlements affect only 50 per cent of the
workers. There are six mills on
strike.
At a mass meeting of strikers that
rivaled in size and enthusiasm the
rallies held in the early weeks of the
strike, Gustave Deak, president of the
United Textile Workers' local, de
clared the strike will go on.
"The only way to have peace in the
mills is to recognize our right to have
a union of our own choosing," was
a sentiment expressed by every
speaker.
New York. Installment buying
was approved by Otto H. Kahn,
banker, in a speech in this city. He
said this system has raised the stand
ard of living until it is superior to
any other.
T17HEN you see what
splendid quality has
been woven into these
durable rugs, and note
the attractiveness of the
new designs and color
schemes, you will real
ize that here is the
chance of a lifetime to
buy new rugs for every
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Other remarkable val
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Royal Wiltons ....
Think of being able to choose from these DeLuxe
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within the means of all.
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