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Thursday, July 10, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Five ypSBI y Indus [ jEH HARVESTER LORD HATHAWAY SEES MINNESOTA GREAT GROWTH OF NEWSPAPERS IN WORKERS AND FARMERS FAR TWINE MILLS GO SOVIET RUSSIA AS PEASANTS AND UNIONISTS FORM SWAYS PUBLIC IN TO THE LEFT OF LA FOLLETTE SOUTH, MEN LOSE WORKERS LEARN TO READ AND WRITE BIG PROPORTION Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, LaFollette partisan, and (Special to The Daily Worker) OPEN PRESS announced yesterday’s papers that the JOBS IN CHICAGO SIP ex-dentist, in present MOSCOW, Russia, July 9.—With the growth of the Zhizn OF AUSTRALIANS system of government was all right. It needed different manage- Slepeikh, the Life of the Blind, a newspaper Morgan-Lamont Control ment, that’s all. Harvester Trust Wants for blind people to Total of 699,743 in Many Scab Magazines Clarence Hathaway, secretary of the National Farmer-Labor Cheap Dixie Labor read with their own fingers and written largely by blind people, Organized Trades Party, another and younger Minnesotan, closer to the rank and which was started only at the end of April, interest is again The Crowell Publishing company, file, says Shipstead is not speak-*t The International Harvester com- aroused in the great increase of newspaper circulation thruout By W. FRANCIS AHERN. •rhlch publishes the American Maga- banking ing for the workers and farmers steel and interests of the pany, controlling ninety per cent of Russia. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) line, Colliers Weekly, the Woman’s and laughed Shipstead's of his state. state at agricultural The total circulation of all newspapers in the Soviet Union July Companion, the sales of machinery in SYDNEY, N. S. W„ 9. Re- tome Farm and Fire- Hathaway gave his views to the naive statement that the farmers now considerably than the registered lide, addition has au absolute monopoly of is more 2,520,000 copies cording to official figures issued by and Mentor, and of which DAILY as was were well off. * WORKER he pass- the binder twine market of the world. on March lof this year. The* Thomas W. Lamont is a director, has ing Ready For Radical Program. up the department of federal statists thru Chicago yesterday on his re- The Harvester Trust not only sells pre-war level 2,700,000 has 3 to 6 and the circulation gone leen placed on the ‘‘unfair list" by turn Speaking of near left wingers in of from 9,000 11,000. there were 699,743 workers in Aus- from Cleveland where he ob- binder twine made In own many already passed and there to Other miscel- irganized labor. served the LaFollette the movement who say that a clear its been is laneous national papers have de- tralia organized in 383 separate .ju- convention. factories, but has a monopoly of the great Thomas W. Lamont is director of Shipstead cut radical political program will not likelihood of the 5,000,000 creased from 29 to ions at the end of 1923, as against Back Number. sisal fibre necessary to make the 26 and circula- nany scab concerns. He is the part- ‘‘Men like Shipstead longer rep- be supported by the rank and file, goal for the end of 1924 being tion increased from 45,000 to 60,000, 702,938 workers in 387 unions at ths no twine. The Harvester Trust sells not ler in the firm of J. P. Morgan and resent the Farmer-Labor Party Hathaway cited the 5,000 rote, which reached. or one-fourth. end of 1922. of only Its own twine, but dickers with lompany, and he represents Morgan Minnesota which put them into ofi ißenthal, an avowed Communist re- Peasants Papers Boom. Subscribe by Groups. The percentage of unemployed state penitentiaries like the Minneso- is a director of the International Har- flee,” he said. “The movement has ceived from the workers on the Mesa- The peasant newspapers and na- The widespread interest and in- trade unionists In Australia at the end ta State penitentiary at Stillwater, festor company. The revelation that goto so far to the left In the last ba Range, a Steel Trust bailwick. tional (papers in other than the Rus- crease in reading has boosted the of March, .1924, averaged 7.6. Un- 2,000 polled by and sells prison-made binder twine. language employment greatest uamont, the Morgan partner and two years that the disgruntled re- Another votes was sian papers have increased newspapers of the Soviet Union and was in Queens- Three thousand acres of sisal plan- nember of the Harvester Trust, is publicans and professional men who a trade unionist who is considerably their circulation most. In April 1923 the people enjoy voicing their land and New South Wales and least tations are owned by the Harvester only papers in ilso a of large publishing once controlled it are left out of towards the left. 51 peasant were published opinions on paper as well as In their Tasmania. Assuming that the aver- director in Cardenas, Cuba, loncerns, bears sight. Today the state executive The left wing tendencies in the Trust which total and their circulation was 149,000. At meetings. age of unemployed was general out the accusations com- 1,750,000 growing sisal plants. bade on the witness stand before con- mittee is composed entirely of work- Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minne- The the tabulating ip March 1924 there The papers, particularly the peasant among unionists and non-unionists apolis were again evidenced by re- International Harvester company has peasant papers give cessional committees that the In- ers. Os these workers three are ac- were 117 and the cir- and worker papers, are bought by this would a total of 95,000 cent machinists’ elections, he said. twine mills in Chicago, Auburn, New culation 378,000, increase out of trnational Harvester influences the tual Communists and others belong was an of collective subscription chiefly. Sixty- work in Australia at the end All the officials chosen by local I. A. Orleans and St. Paul. 153 cent tress to print only matter to the left wing. Shipstead is due per in circulation over the five of the peasant papers, for in- of March, 1924. favorable of M. members antl-Johnsonltes. The Chicago twine mills of the year. D the Morgan-International for certain defeat in his next senator- are previous The national papers stance, with a total circulation of 96,- There were 274 industrial disputes Harves- trust, with a capacity of 110,000 tonß only during ter combination. ial primary because he is fighting the Unions Hard Hit. were 86 in April, 1923, and the 000 are distributed as follows: 1923 involving 76,321 workers per annum, are gradually closing Printing demands of the farmers and workers. Trade unionism has been hard hit down circulation 149,000. By April, 1924, Towns Villages —66,093 directly, and 10,228 indireot- The Allied Trades declare: machinery Radical Minnesota Program. in Minnesota by reactionary interna- and the is being moved to the total number of national papers ly. The total working days lost members of Organized Labor: By collective (oresting:— As illustration of the left wing at- tional officials and by the industrial the new New Orleans factory. The was 108 and the circulation 238,000, subscription lB,OOO 26,000 amounted to 1,145,977. On October 1, 1923, the titude of the Minnesota depression. Railroad shopmen have company officials explain that the an increase of 59 per cent. There were 1253 changes wages company, CROWELL movement, By individual of Publishing springneia, Hathaway referred to been laid off wholesale by the Mil- move is made in order to be nearer The number of workers' in 1923, affecting thio, without any official notice what- the state con- papers, subscription 9,000 27,000 990,852 workers. teer, placed strike-breakers on jobs of vention at St. Cloud, which not only waukee, Sou, Great Northern and to the sisal fibre plantations, and to published In the large Industrial cen- Single The net increase per week aggregat- Siion men in the retail copies 4,000 3,000 : composing room of companies. reduce the obst of labor. ters chiefly, per heir plant. All efforts at conciliation endorsed the St. Paul conference but other Unionists who have Thousands has remained 48 but their Free or compulsory ed $520,090, or 72c worker per lave failed: and the company will not declared for government ownership dropped their cards in discourage- of Chicago workers will be thrown circulation has increased during the week. For 1922 there were 972 chang- fbitrate the differences. distribution 2,000 12,000 og ALL industries, not merely public ment say they won’t return unless an out of work by this move, and Negroes year from 462,000 to 665,000. The Red es of wages, affecting The only way to win the fight is to The Soviet papers have begun to 628,116 work- inke inroads on the circulation of the utilities. In comparison the LaFol- amalgamation program is put into will be employed to work for one-half Army papers are now 16 Instead of ers, the net aggregate increase be- übllcations of the CROWELL show some profits from their sales COM lette platform pales Into white- effect in the railroad unions. Like- the wages they should receive. the 16 of a year ago, but the circula- ing $352,810, or ANY. We are already doing this, but near 1 during the last year. The price of pa- 64c per worker per lere are still a great many union men ness. wise miners on the iron range refnse tion has almost doubled: 48,000 in week.