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THE FEDERATED PRESS RELIABLE NEWS INSANE ARROGANCE OF U. S. STEEL TRUST (By The Federated Prpu) Chicago. — With the 94 percent pro strike vote of the seamen of the Great Lakes recorded at headquarters here, the third sector of the U. S. Steel cor poration's anti-labor front goes into ac tion. Having forced 600,000 coal miners and over 400,000 railway men to defend the life of their organizations the steel trust now challenges the 12, 000 union seamen in the freight ser vice on the Great Lakes. The strike vote of the Great Lakes district, International Seamen's Union of America, authorizes the executive board of the three component craft unions to call out the men in protest against the 12-hour day, 84-hour week and against a triple slash in wages The sailors' union, the Marine Fireman, Oilers and Water Tenders' union, and the Marine Cooks and Stewards' union are battling as a unit against the Gary open shop drive. The executive board will meet in Detroit to perfect plans. PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL AC TION IN NEW ENGLAND Boston. — A Massachusetts branch of the Conference for Progressive Po litical Action lias been organized here by a gathering of 130 labor men and representatives of farmer organizations of progressive tendencies. The meet ing was called upon the initiative the Central Labor union or Brockton, Officers of the organization asserted that the conference was modeled along the lines of the Farmer-Labor party, but that it will not enter, its own ticket in the election. For the present it will indorse such candidates of the old par ties as it thinks friendly to labor. John Fitzpatrick, Cambridge, for mer chairman Massachusetts Committee of 48, heads a committee which will draw up a state platform. RAIL COMPANIES OBSTRUCT MAILS Washington. — Representatives of the railway mail clerks have called the attention of the postoffice department to the efforts being made by railroad officials to hamper the transportation of the mails in order to arouse public opinion against the striking shopmen. The Labor News The "Labor News" published in Al toona, Pa., is the largest LABOR PA PER published in the state, and gives you the labor news from home. LABOR NEWS PUB. C. ALTOONA, PA. Erie Labor Press 17 West 16th Street, Erie, Pa. A weekly newspaper devoted exclusively to the interests of the working class. Member of the Federated Press News Service Official organ Central Labor Union and Socialist rarty in Erie County. Penn'a. Live, snappy, breezy. Sample Copy free on request. One \ear, $I.3U. Trial Subscription—10 weeks, 25c. The Eret Stack-Raising Colony OF ERET, STATE LINE, MISS. 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No other paper goes tso thoroughly into this subject as does THE EQUIT1ST, > Says the secretary of The Llano Publica tions: We like your paper very much; we axe heartily in sympathy with its policy, and we wish there were more like it." Published weekly; $1.00 a year; $1.50 outside the United States THE EQUITIST Watts, Los Angeles Co. Calif. A HUMANE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT (By The Federated Pre»«) Mexico City. — In the spring of last year in Mexico City three people dis cussed the practicability of a govern ment kitchen from which to send out breakfasts to underfed children in the public schools. They were José Vas conselos, then president of the Nation al university; Roberta Medilin, then in the technical school department, and Elena Torrez, head of the recent wo man's delegation from Mexico to the Pan-American woman's conference at Baltimore. A petition was sent to university and municipal teachers, asking each to con tribute one or two percent of his sal ary to the work. An initial sum was raised, a small room obtained and with Miss Torrez as manager, 50 breakfasts were sent out May 9, 1921, to a school in one of the poor districts of the city. Three weeks later nine schools were being served with breakfasts for 608 children. < i -, . > The work grew rapidly, beginning with the primary schools, and extend ing tb the kindergartens and even to the factories. Until December of last year it was financed by one and two percents from the teachers' salaries. In January, 1922, Vasconselos, becom ing minister of education, appropriat ed half a million pesos ($225,000) f or t h e wor k f or t h e com ing year, j ^ large room with an adjoining of j fice now houses the wcrk At 2 q ,_ c]ock eyery morning the cook appears By five o'clock the first truckloads of breakfasts are leaving the yard. There are two large crusted rolls and a pint of hot milk with a little coffee in it for each child; 8700 of these break fasts are now sent out each day to 79 schools. The working force at head quarters, under the direction of Miss Torrez, numbers 22. There are 153 primary schools in the city. Children in each one of them will be fed before the year is out. As to the kindergartens, the seven schools being served now are the only ones in need, due to the fact that most of the schools of this type are in the bet ter-fed sections of the city. Beginning with the seven kindergar tens receiving breakfasts and extending as fast as possible to the primary schools, the meal of a pint of milk and two rolls will be augmented by a dish of oatmeal for each child. The work is not confined to - the schools. At the present time 800 sup pers, identical to the school breakfasts are sent out to factory girls in the city. FREE SWITZERLAND DEFICIENT IN ECONOMICS (By The Federated Press) Berne, Switzerland. — The workers, of Switzerland, organized in the Swiss Federation of Labor, demand of the government that export duties and pro tective tariffs be abolished and that the normal trade relations that prevail ed between Switzerland and other countries before the war, be re-estab lished. This they declared at their re cent special convention, called because of the onward sweep of unemployment and the rising cost of living. They further demand the fixing of maximum prices by the government, a revision of taxation and the taking over of grain as a government monop oly. The trade unions demand that the government proceed with public works and that the government turn over to the trade unions the adminis tration of the unemployment benefits. HOOVER'S MENTAL SLANT (By The Fèdèrated Press) *" Washington. — How the department of commerce under the leadership of Herbert Hoover, promotes industrial reaction is illustrated by a press bulle tin on rubber production in Indo-China, issued by the department, and based upon a report from Consul Leland L. Smith, stationed at Saigon. Discussing the advantages of Indo China over Java in this industry, the department says: "The labor situation is greatly superior to that found in any other rubber growing district, due to the co-operation of the local govern ment with the producers. Labor is not allowed to organize. Java must import labor from Sumatra at a cost of about 300 florins, while labor is brought from other Indo-China provinces at a cost of $35 Saigon for three years. The breaking of a contract by a native is cause for penal punishment by the government. "The producer has the additional advantage over his Java compatriot in the matter of labor con ditions and wages, both being less fa corable for the workmen than those ob taining in Java." Inspiration comes from working ev ery day,— Chaules Baudelaire. THE INTEGRALISM (By The Federated Pre««) New York. — Charles Garland, who several years ago inherited $1,000,000 from the estate of his father, James A. Garland, has announced that he will give $800,000 to the recently-organiz ed American Fund for Public Service. The money will be used, together with other gifts said to be pending, to car ry out the announced purpose of the fund's incorporators: "* * * to meet the needs of agencies which are so new or experimental that they do not command general public support. It is analogous to the vari ous community trusts now in success ful operation in a number of the larger cities. The governing boards of these and other funds so far established are conservative, and disinclined to assist new movements." The only public statement so far given out with reference to the Gar land donation was made by Walter Nelles, New York attorney, upon his return, with Roger N. Baldwin, direct or, American Civil Liberties union, from a conference with Garland at the latter's home in North Carver, Mass. The statement says: "I am authorized by Charles Garland of North Carver, Mass., to make the following statement from him: "I am trying to use the inherited wealth toward social uses for the fol lowing reasons: " 'I believe that every person in an integral part of society and that the in terests of one individual cannot be di vorced from the interests of the other members of society without all having to pay the price for it in the end. From this it follows that I must strive to use whatever resources I have to the ad vantage of all. " 'With this object, I intend to turn over to the American Fund for Pub lic Service the sum of about $800, 000.' " EFFECTIVENESS OF STRIKE (By The Federated Press) Chicago. — Priority orders due to breakdown of rail transportation were ssued by the interstate commerce com mission at the very moment that rail executives were filling the newspapers with statements denying that the strike of 400,000 shopmen and their allies was seriously interfering with opera tions. The orders of the commission restore war connditions under which all freight must be forwarded by shortest routes, regardless of ownership of the cars. This applies to all railroads and became effective in July 26. A second order, effective the same day, applies to all roads east of the Mississippi. Shipments of food, fuel, live-stock, perishable goods, coal, coke and fuel oil will have preference over all other traffic. The coal famine is recognized as acute in connection with a famine of coal cars by an order as signing cars for fuel according to five classes of necessity. The first is spe cial emergencies; the second, fuel for transportation, public utilities and insti tutions and hospitals; the third, coal for the northwest so that region may be supplied before lake transportation is tied up by the winter; fourth, house hold coal; fifth, all other shipments. While these extraordinary measures were being studied the western lines with headquarters in Chicago announc ed "transportation conditions normal everywhere." The Burlington boast ed that all traffic "is being moved promptly." The Pennsylvania report ed "the most favorable situation" at any time since the strike. LAW-VIOLATING (By The Federated Press) Detroit. — Two strikebreakers brot here from Chicago by the Michigan Central railroad were fined $200 or sentenced to three months in the De troit house of correction by Judge Phiny W. Marsh in municipal court fol lowing their arrest for creating a dis turbance with revolvers July 24. Po lice answering a riot call at 2 a.m. pursued Anthony Rubarkowsky and Louis Czorny across fields to the sleep ing cars in which the railroad execu tives house the strikebreaker/. The two men were found lying armed and fully dressed in their berths. No one was injured in the shooting which pre ceded the arrests. The two men said they fired into the air when they saw a group believed to be striking shop men approaching them. HAVE YOU A FRIEND WHO IS IN TERESTED IN REAL CO-OPERA TION? SEE THAT HE BECOMES A READER OF THE LLANO COLON IST AT ONCE. ORDER A BUNDLE. OF HUMANITY STRIKEBREAKERS DOES CROOKEDNESS COMMEND A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE? (By The Federated Pre»s) Dedham, Mass. — In announcing the candidacy, of Harold P. Williams for district attorney of Norfolk-Ply mouth counties, his friends point out bis part in the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti as an argument for his becom ing chief attorney. As assistant to the present district attorney, F. G. Katz mann, Williams took a prominent part in gathering evidence against the Ital ian radicals. It appears in the confes sion of one of the state's star witnesses, Louis Pelzeç, that Williams was the one who coached him before Pelzer perjur ed himself on the witness stand. There is a higher law than the rul ings of the Supreme Court, but who is going to enforce it? Laws without power do not amount to much. Your higher law will remain a dead letter, so to speak, unless you acquire the power and energy and the courage to enforce it. Let us vote for that high er law, the millions of us, and see what will happen.—St. Louis Labor. FOOLING THE PEOPLE (By The Federated Press) London. — British military experts are enjoying a double chuckle at the expense of the pacifists. When the Washington arms conference decreed reduction in battleships, the naval sharps laughed because that decision saved them the trouble of educating the British public to agree to the scrap ping of these costly but obsolete wea pons. The real joke consisting in '"gassing the pacifist on appropriations for edu cation. The army estimates contain ed 169,000 pounds ($743,600) for "cost of educational, etc., establish ments." The chuckle arises from the "etc.," for of the total sum 39,000 pounds was alloted to the chemical warfare committee and 130,000 pounds to the chemical warfare experimental station at Porton. Two years ago the government spent only 53,870 pounds on poison gas. INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM IN GERMANY (By The Federated Press) Leipsig, Germany. — Industrial un ionism will soon take the place of craft unionism in the German Federa tion of Free Trade Unions of Germany, an organization of almost 8,000,000 members. The affirmation of the prin ciple of industrial unionism is the out standing feature of the triennial con gress of German workers' delegates in Leipsig. I The meeting was held at a time when there is a general offensive among em ployers against the eight-hour day; when militaristic demonstrations of ev ery description are showing how bold the monarchists have already become. And when the cost of living has risen to new heights owing to a tumble cf the German mark. It was the first congress not presided over by that late towering figure, Carl Legien. Most dramatic of all, during its closing hours there came the tragic news of the mur der of Walter Rathenau. On the question of industrial union ism the congress ordered the executive to draft within the shortest time prac ticable a plan for the organic develop ment of industrial unions. The reso lution making this provision declared that modern " industrial conditions have made absolutely necessary a fundamen tal revision of trades unionism, and it specifies that the component trades in large interrelated industries, such as mining, the metal industry, building, the graphic arts (printing, etc.), trans portation, textiles, public works, farm ing, forestry, the leather industry, and the production of the necessaries of life, should be linked together in industrial units. SOCIAL GUIDANCE FOR (By The Federated Press) London. — At the first international conference of settlements in London, B. Seebohm Rowntree of York appeal ed to the movement to form settlè ment classes for employers, who in strikes and lockouts had shown they needed some social guidance. TENDER SENTIMENT OF FRISCO t REAL ESTATE SHARK (By The Federated Press) San Francisco. — In an interview given here, D. D. Campin, a real estate man of San Francisco, informed a newspaper reporter that "the mines should be kept open at all costs, and three-fourths of the strikers should be killed as an example." He did not specify that the killing be done prompt ly at sunrise. A SONG FOR RAILROADERS (By The Federated Press) Washington. — Wade Shurtleff, se cretary, Ohio State Federation, Broth erhood of Railray and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes, is circulating Ohio with copies of a song to the air of Maryland, my Maryland, appealing to all railroad workers to stand on strike together. - One of the five verses reads : Arise and burst the tyrants' chain, Oh, railway men on every line. Let no craft send a call in vain; All railmen now your ear incline. Come meet our brothers on the plain, "We fight for right," 'tis this refrain That baffles minions back again, Oh, railway men on every line. This song is said to have made a hit among the maintenance men and the railway clerks especially, and to have added power to the movement to bring these two brotherhoods out on strike with the shopmen. TEXTILE STRIKES (By The Federated Press) Mexico City. — A general strike of the central labor body cf Pueblo, on behalf of the textile workers of the Atlixco district, declared July 8, ter minated with complete success for the workers after four days. Twenty thou sand workers were involved. The strike ends in official recognition of the tex tile unions by the employers, the re employment of workers who had been discharged, and the payment of wages for the period of the strike. IMPUDENCE OF ARBITRATORS (By The Federated Press) Lynn, Mass. — Officers of the Un ited Shoe Workers of America main tain that the mayor's beard of arbi tration has no right to frame any agree ment between the union and the man facturers. They made it known that they would consider an agreement as binding only if it be worked out inde pendently by the two parties concerned. Conferences looking toward the settle ment of difficulties in the shoe indus try locally have been in progress for several weeks. A POLITICAL VICTIM IN NEED FOUND A FRIEND INDEED (By The Federated Press) Detroit. — E. S. Rice, political pris oner paroled from the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, where he was sentenced in 1917 as an I. W. W., is at work in Detroit, where a first friend was obtained for him after five years behind the bars. GERMAN WORKER GUILDS BUILD WORKERS' HOMES (By The Federated Press) New York. — The German building guilds, in the last three years, have put up thousands of dwellings and helped materially to cut down the shortage of 1,000,000 dwellings estimated to have existed in Germany at the close of the war, says an article in the official re view published by the Amsterdam bu reau of the International Federation of Labor. The article, written by Margar et Pfirrmann, an officer of the German Social Building guild, tells how, in 19 21, the guilds did a business of more than 350,000,000 marks on a capital of about 25,000,000 marks, besides giving steady employment to 20,000 mechanics and clerks. The guilds, she shows, forced private contractors to reduce their bids on both private and public buildings. Altho the contracts obtained by the guilds last year were at fair prices, they ne vertheless were about 40,000,000 marks under the bids submitted by their private competitors. The previous year the difference between the bids submit ted by the contractors and the guilds was much greater, as the contractors had not then regarded the guilds as ser ious competitors, and kept their prices at the profiteering level prescribed by the building ring. EMPLOYERS DOOMED*TO CHAR ACTER PERVERSION (By The Federated Press) Eureka, Calif. — C. A. Ward, secre tary, lumber workers' union of the I. W. W., arrested here on a criminal syndicalism charge, has been denied a jury trial; and, because he is a minor, was haled before a juvenile court, where he was sentenced to the Preston reform school, lone, until he is 21 — probably the first boy ever sent there as a political prisoner. Preston has the reputation of being a hard school, where the boys are "broken" strenuous ly, and from which most of them come professional criminals. WIN IN MEXICO OUTRAGED WORKERS SEEK REFUGE IN SOVIET RUSSIA (By The Federated Press) New York. — The third cargo of pioneers has sailed from New York on. the liner Rotterdam, on the first leg of the iourney to Siberia, where its mem' bers will engage in the workers' pro ject in the Kuznetzky basin and the Urals to develop industry and natural resources on a basis of service and use without profit. The party numbers 135, of which 84 are workers, and the others mem bers of their families. Thirty-one of the men are miners from Pennsylvan ia, Illinois and West Virginia, while the remainder are farmers, machinsts, elec tricians, lumbermen, engineers, etc. Some came from Seattle and some from far-off Alaska. CONSCIENTIOUS TEACHERS MUST OPPOSE WAR (By The Federated Press) Milwaukee. — Responsibility of the teacher in working for peace by in stilling a desire for it in the hearts of children and in impressing them with the horrors of militarism, was stressed by Mrs. M. H. Fuldheim, representing the Woman's Society for Peace and Freedom, in an address before normal school students at the No More War de monstration. Mrs. Fuldheim was for merly a teacher in the Milwaukee schools. "If we are to teach our children that it is a sin to kill, we cannot, at the same time, justify or support war," she said. AUSTRALIAN LABOR LEADER AGAINST FUTURE WAR Brisbane, Queensland.—"There will be no more war as far as I am concern ed," said K. Charlton, the new leader cf the Australian Labor party, speak ing here. Charlton has been appoint ed leader in place of Frank Tudor, who died recently at Melbourne. COAL OPERATORS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR STRIKE (By The Federated Press) New York. — The refusal of the coal operators to talk with the miners is the sole cause of the tieup in the mining industry, said Samuel Gompers president, A. F. of L., addressing a meeting of the International Ladies Garment Workers' union. "I realize as well as anyone else the necessity for coal in our homes and in industry the coming winter," he said, "but I say that it is better that we shall suffer want rather than that the mine workers shall be forced into sla very." PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTA TION TO REPLACE PRIMARY (By The Federated Press) Washington. — Proportional repre sentation is offered by the National Popular Government league to the Re publican party as a substitute for the direct primary system which is due to be abolished, in a statement issued by Judson King, executive secretary. It would assure them, as well as all other political parties, the representation to which they are entitled, while doing away with the cumbersome processes which the old guard leaders, headed by President Harding and Secretary of War Weeks, consider dangerous, he pointe'd out. COAL OPERATORS WILL TOE THE MARK (By The Federated Press) Washington. Whatever their per sonal inclination or their present re action to the invitation extended to the mine operators to attend a conference at Cleveland Aug. 7 for the purpose of negotiating a new wage agreement, a sufficient number of operators will be represented to assure the restoration of peace in the mining industry. EXPLOITING SHOE MANUFAC TURER SUES SHOE WORKERS FOR ALLEGED DAMAGES (By The Federated Press) Lynn,^ Mass. — The Allied Shoe Workers union is being sued by Jos eph I. Melanson, shoe manufacturer, for losses incurred on account of the strike. The 500 employes in his es tablishment are asking for more wages and declared a strike on him when he discharged a shoe workers for alleged poor work. The union, Melanson claims, is acting contrary to arBitia tion agreements and therefore Is re sponsible for all losses sustained by the factory. Be a booster for Co-operation.