Daily Worker
February 6, 1925
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NEW YORK , EDITION isn Ss ita W Waelagtn ee Price 3 Cents Mine at Nakomis Shut\Vfi|(W Down After 11 Days Work crTe ie AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHEATY. editor of the official organ of , (Special to The Daily Worker) the International Ladies’ Garment A short ago the employes in the DAILY WORKER office sent Bee rape _ 6 ad. opt angear it., PP rea hundred miner were thrown anarchist, . 23 out of wor ay when the Indiana an nots Coal company ON WORKERS phe the etwas ak SE ” te Mm Nubisek cakases a auaber, i A few |ourre - ON| of Chicago, closed the big No. 12 mine at Witt, near here. thie Geiweea' that be > on sacrifice for | Laie days ago we carried an appeal to | . After: boing closed for several years, the mine was opened re wet pant causes. This fellow’s name ‘ ‘all whe can do so to send money ie December 30, last, pitching the quiet little community again into is ¥ ‘and a more confirmed Hare Routine’ Only at for coal and to send shoes and | ‘The join board set up| the excitement of its former ‘activity. But there were only 11 Wage Cut Protested; lie “Yt is hard to find. ‘In a FI stockings to the children of the | by Harry J ident of the Car-| days of work and then came the closing order. . recen en Me ‘of his paper, while com- orida k Resort ‘miners of Sessor. We print a let- | penters’ Di , to negotiate Many miners were despondently facing the double difficulty Boss Calls Cops menting on the accomplishments of ter we received today from the | the question in wages | of living in a strange town and being out of work. They had the getieral executive board, he men- nian, Fla., Feb. Feb, 4.—National labor | president of the United Mine Work- | with the Jo who are} moved their families to Witt from other mining ¢amps when the| -When a group of employes of the “Chicago | opening of the mine was hailed as a new era-of prosperity. | Yellow Cab Manufacturing company called at the office Tuesday to request ‘of | rm information regarding the new scale pCale owner ‘ of wages ahich was inaugurated in fhe cman ro| | NO FEAR; COMMUNISTS - ||MO} KLAN TIES . . | tioned the presentation of a marble |jeaders, here for the firet meeting of | ers of Sessor, IM.: bust of Gompers to the noted faker, at |the executive council, Americdn Fed-| “To the DAILY WORKER: Re- . the El Paso convention, Yanovsky |eration of Labor, since the death of| ceived packages yesterday contain- | bosses’ c said: “ , . . it had fittingly €X-/their chief, Samuel Gompers, said| ‘ing clothing which were sent by the instead of pressed the high-regard and love it/today that no matters of “extraor-| employes in the office of the DAILY | sections | i £| H : ee. oan th h ithout their k led or had for him for many years past. In | ginary importance” would be brought) WORKER and | extend my greatest | receiving.” g WONT FRTER THE 6. 0 p | | sian gloat mat oat with teres aad addition the international has, by vir-|4, and that only routine bs | thanks and appreciation to them. | At ‘last Pr tue of this act, gained for itself the | would be transacted. There are many miners here desti strict t ess mc gre bee tm the William Green, Gonipers’ successor,| tute and without hope of conditions Sinaloa labor movement.” This is|>Tesided over the first session, which getting better soon. They will sure- the way the yellow socialists and an-|”** held behind ¢losed doors, as will} 'y be glad to get the articles con- archists purchase the “recognition” of be all other sessions during the week}. tained in those packages. the bureaucrats, that and by expell-|°" ™ore the labor chieftains are here. “West best wishes for all possible | will J , ; } meecting of | aus threats of violence at the hands of the Jensen ma- company’s officers, house detectives comm or | | CAUCUS AT SPRINGFIELD] | GAYS HEAD ()F coco: emcee ows, crtesuee o YS in uniform and in plain clothes. e to accept the (Special to The Daily Worker) y : Among the police officers Was a motor tthe carpenters} SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 4—A eycle policeman. er scale than the! “row” was precipitated among the | The Yellow Cab Manufacturing com- " success for the DAILY WORKER -of the pany manufactures cabs for the (ng radicals, Duncan Doesn't Show Up. ; Nieey Wille. ’ 7 republican rhembers of the Iilinois Yellow Cab Taxtcbmpany and for is ) Rd hts samaes DUBE: ire eer ee | “ROSS WHITE ocal 80. legislature today when a senate Chicago Motor Coach company. It em- TTORNEY GENERAL STONE pili yy when Te tat te “United Mine Werkere, A ar a. by caucus admitted Senator Herbert State That Kluxers Are ployes about one thousand men in its “4 proves his fitness for a seat on his resignation ps ts be acted upon. | “Sesesor, ill.” $0. demani ” " ahintors Giberson of Alton, elected as a demo- : shops at 580 Dickens Avenue. the supreme court bench by his ac- A public-meeting will be Friday insist on $14 er, thus bringing | crat, to its ranks. Not Welcome This company is meee for ~ nts held * : _ A : — tem, havi t t tool- ee tet eectay ‘manners of |Right when Green and others speak.) Jugserand Optimistic {°° i up to the level) Giberson’s election two years ago since fn. ent Amadttauesd del aan the council of national defense. These it is thought some intimation of the Lik All Di lo of the other “ the building | came on a democratic ticket, but Following publication in The DAILY | nice spies over the entire factory. “took advantage of their po- policies of the ‘new ‘administration e ip mats | trades, was | .ac | the republican landslide in his dis- | WORKER of the alleged ku kiux klan| When the employes of the enamel | sition on the council by robbing the | ¥#!! be given at that time. (Special to The Daily Work The mei have an oppor-/ trict at the last election left him @ | jetter which was sent to employes of | department Jearned on last Tuesday, | government. One of them was a for| . Bricklayer-Piasterer Issue Up. a y rker) tunity to. | proposed agree-| ‘lone hand. He deserted the demo ithe Premier Taxi company, urging | that they were no longer going to be to accept it,} cratic cause early this year and has | them te join, officer s of the tr mow that besides | had no political status until today. “lower than that] Administration republicans favored com-| paid on the old basis, of 46 cents per pany, entered vigorous denial to the| hour with a premium of 23 cents an manager and editors of The DAILY | hour paid at the pleasure of the man- secretary One of the important question to be| PARIS, Feb. 4—“The Franco-Ameri-| ment and { A doub if pos an adept . > ey gr agtea as considered by the labor chieftains, ac- can debt problem can be arranged | they might ing with easy money. Perhaps he did cording to high officials, is the dispute | more easily than is generally believ- voting. ” d, form of the f “other members| admitting him to the party. net treat Daugherty right and drew |>etween the international unions of ed,” said Jules’ Jusseran erly | i ¢ party WORKER thet the company or any|2gement, they decided to find out preg eer roy y bricklayers and plasterers as to which| French ambassador to the United of the bul " they will be Senator James J. Barbour of | of its officers had any connection with| under what conditions they were eee union should do stucco work. States, who arrived here today. voting or follow ir provisions | Evanston left the caucus in a great | the hooded order. going to be paid in the future. They ERGER and Calvin Coolidge are Cw ” in the sca ment ever folst-| rage shouting that at the present} The wnpopiilarity of the ku klux| marched in a body to the assistant ® of the organized | rate “the party soon would be ad- |klan among the organized workerg of | Superintendent. He was decidedly sur- | mitting Communists to its ranks.’ ChicagO was again demonstrated! prised when he saw the men and iIn- lasic ‘points are set After leaving the caucus, Senator |when employes of the Premier/ quired angrily what they were here - ' Barbor declined to say whether or Taxi company held a protest meeting | for. Work 1 putting up a united tront in tying | 1) § SENATE GOES ON RECORD-FOR | vortace ro o Late daring te inet insti) ANQTHER DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE | ..a° ee gt! that, this isolation will compel | —_—_—_—_—— } at-4 r il be no limita- op he would sit again In a caucus j|afta@r the lettor was made public. The Only Wanted Information GOSS wobbly pioneers to throw in WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-—The senate went on record again today in| tions i it of work a man ‘vepweriogs senators. , 7o of the “company took steps} ne spokesman for the workers in- ’ on | favor of another disarmament conference by accepting the conference report | shall pe ring his work day. | was elected a republican, am’ | to clear thyumselws of suspicion by formed the boss that they came to ask for information about the new wage system in the shop, whether it . all be no restric- still a republican, but | object to sit- immediately having posters displayed naval appropriation bill. on the naval approp f machinery, tools or | *i"@ nm a rump caucus,” he declared. jin alf their garages with the foliow- Both the senate and the house joined in requesting President Coolidge | tion of cunt representatives world consid rthe ing statement was to be piece work or so much per ppg amentey | | Ani cree rag shinier be no restric:| American Physicians “Te all Prymfor Taxi employes: Be| nour. ‘They were told that the fore ora sits Brad ‘any raw or manu- oe ae “ hereby officially stated: Absolute-| mam should tell them, but the foreman ieee: | ) a iis, except prison Give Sun at Sen y no Premier Taxi company’s officers| had already told ‘the men that he ectors are members of the or- | qi wot know anything about the new known LT the ku va system. ted| While the boss was calling up an- be. Tue } otfier poss, the “spekeimin fer “tha J ae : : . ys Mtr» oT ox . , ae ; “— r , | | . 7 $4 . ; » i ie) ’ | tt 3. { | 7 ae | "7 “MRR Radium Treatment) at » : : : me - i ‘ 4 $ *, as : fies Matt” Fie ag ae ’ ‘. 3 - 2 / , a . ; as = i 4 Mb ed. a as ._ : . ae > ¥ - e, yeah 4 ? . oe » : " J 2? ot is i o oe te Pe A 4 7 . 7 F - “a nies : ? " ’ ; “7 > * Sy J the ee p - 7 : ‘ , b 4 Dr at ; mF Ne *, ” ’ . , a a , , a on, ’ a » * . ‘eit ,’ e ~ . ~~ > , e - 7 . «yor r = : 7”? : ie - ’ 4 . © . . © ~*~, “« as. C ‘ je q : Pe 4’ 4/5 b, ae . : : ‘ 4 ; ' bern: propaganda recen lated with-/ ak J as ied dn cht di bas Pe : ON 4 nk TODAY ' No Strikes (?) South China leader of the national | out Our. knowledge ty Sire is. con- mbes: ba cits dehanieiraiar bec es y eg . rrr Petilia Article, Nod 2 of the agreement |revolutionary movement, today fre! trarf to these statements, is not in possibility of workers’ with families ys wheat the yj rf x wt ~ reads: Witmesseth: That both par-| fused the suggestion that he leave the| accord. with the truth. living on the wages-they were getting Tae ont ‘with « witheri broadside at. the , , . A Fa ; NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 4— A tles hereby» agree that there shall hospital where he is critically ill, to “Walter L. Hays, not to speak of accepting a reduction. pitas radicals before gl Ong gina Serene strike of 3000 embroidery workers | ve no strikes,A@ekouts or stoppage of |give old style Chinésé doctors a| “Vice-president and General Mana-| ‘The boss became tariade und slioat Sata tion, which LaFollette wanted to de Fight to Oust AP. le scheduled for Thursday, accord | work aud that they will by all law-|chance to cure him. ger Eremier Taxi company.” ed: “I'll be damned if I am going to i mat ae den of tes charaun made OF iP ing to an announcement yestereny ee means compel their members to/ jo said he would remain and ac The. Premier Taxi company is only | jet you talk like that here.” He trem- Se: 6 LaFollette aeainat the Communists siona LCase of the internanqnas Ladies’ Gar- |comply with the arbitration agree- cept radium treatments from Amer- | 026 ofthe few taxi companies in| pide with anger and stood glaring at 34 ike was that they were boring from with- mete 1h" 5 he ment Workers’ Union. The embroid- | ment anf working rules as jointly ican physicians. the city of Chicago whose employes|the men. -Evidently the idea of a : tae” ~ By CARL SKOGLY ae ery workers are members of Local !agreed upon: and adopted and that are allowe@ to joia'a union. It is be-| group of workers walking into his of. at in, the “progressi® e peeagr amor _ (Special to They Daity Worker) 66 of the organization. where a member or members affiliated ; lieved in some Quarters that the “klan| fice was repugnant’ to: him j st em which they had no right to do. 0. P MINNEAPOLIS, Minni,* \Feb, 4— The workers are asking for a 44 | with either~of the two parties to this And We I] Bet He letter” -was sent out by one of the Ordered Th ‘ia or = oy ony one he eae, S&F. eke Hennepin county ‘committee of) pour week, time and a half for over- | agreement refuse to do so, they shall ‘6 7 rival. companies that refuses to em- ce rediay oy , aes * secniretior aoe mere Yes course, Vienna being ruled by the so- iy Bhortly after daylight today, when penters are stromg enough to force! that wish to actively oppose child (Continued on Page 3) cialists, perfect democracy prevails OLLAR the bosses to at:least put their scale labor and will al ‘ there. No’ dietatorship for them! IS 23 MILLION 0 , § rescuers had left him, Collins called on a level with: that of the highest prema 2° ga a the progress of the child labor , ° The employers*own their own shops; ~ | t. = aah dB ome wee in the building ‘trades. pan Aa in the various states. Workers Correspondents Wanted in N . Y, and the workers slave for them just AMSTERDAM, Holland, Feb. 4.— e ’ Local leaders of the Trade Union The Special Child Labor Edition as under the Hapsburgs. A few weeks | The draft of the war budget for 1928 | ¥°4* to crawl out. Before help could) paycational League are urging the : ago the coperatively owned bakery, ct dane to over twenty three mils |@?tive a slide of loose rock ciesed the! members of the Carpenters’ Union to pa b poor ge. ee eee sd ° ee the New York edition of the DAILY WORKER what it should van by the socialists, was purchased |*tion dollars. The war strength of passageway between the man and his} ote gown the eompromise and patel cea wean te oe ae eke tos. rh a — coors worker |n every shop, in every factory, in every by a capitalist concern. Now that the | the Dutch army Is twenty recruiting rescuers and he was a prisoner again.| out that they can easily force the leek Ueaidtiaiioah thee neeaingeted ienan a sy te as se wa WORKER correspondent. league of nations refuses to spoon| ciasses,“it Is declared here, with Work -started immediately to re- bosses to grant’ their demands. Bele ir a a recat Aig le er ~e Beh 4 “ eat — of the Russian Communist Party, increased feed its little ward any longer, the | 90,000 men in each class. The Hol- |™OVe the barrier, but it is slow and) j¢ is said that Jensen is endeavor- in all probability would (note ite “wartert? ee oe oe ee Penney varie pallens: = workers must be ready for another| land government is preparing de- tedious. Only one man can work at ing to get a snap vote on the agree- correspondents” until the workers generally became cons- . more of a protection than the inade- ies brand of capitalist democracy, the| fense plans, announcing the policy the digging, and he passes the shale! ment before the members have a ; ° 28 a" | e e clous of the fact that the Pravda is THEIR paper. The same method pur- + eae by hand to others stationed along the quate child labor laws existing to- sued here, will bring similar results for the DAILY WORKER in New Ves kind that pays big dividends to the! of maintaining an army that can, y & chance to discuss,it. This is his day in such states as Ohio and Iili- York City Wie capitalists. “preserve nuetrality.” oper. main hope of slipping it over. : nols. The Special Child Labor Edi- Every branch of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League, tion will show that ali the workers Rescue Mother and Babe. tj 7 . bo Pi congi : and every group of the Trade Union Educational League, should of course eT : Fa : . must carry on a unite gnt under elect an official! workers’ correspondent at once. But in addition to that : Om 7 COMMUNIST DEPUTY DORIOT DEMANDS Bo ol dc trend Reet Movies for Workers the leadership of the Young Work- every worker, no matter whether man or mowan, no matter whether yee RE C EV ‘ 0 OC ’ ers’ League and Workers Party if party member or not, is asked to fee! that the DAILY WORKER is the * 74 F N H TROOP S ee ACUATE M R co eae os aeons tack aoe Pittsburgh, Pes’ N, 8. Carnegic| *'°”, Want *© do anything to abolish WORKERS’ paper, and to send in news of the working class struggle. : ty spread tttri the house, other firemen | Music Hall, Feb. 1. child labor in Ameriga—and that It is mot necessary to be a fine writer or to have had journalistic PARIS, Feb. 4.—Communist Deput ' Doric “in the chamber today declared definite provisions for the ma!nten- experiences, merely to give FACTS. Send them to J. O. Bentali, New York the Spanish retreat was endangéring Prenab troops and maimed weayoanry rescued Mrs. Donald Protsman and/| South Bend,:lInd—White Eegle! ance of the children and the regula- Editor of the DAILY WORKER, 208 East 12th Street, and he will put her few days old baby from rooms Theater, 1125 W.(Division 8t., Feb. 11.| tion of hours for youth labor must them in ehape for publication. euation of French Morocco. on'tfie’ Second floor of the building. St. Paul, Minn-~#44 Rice St., Feb.| be demanded. A claas in workers’ journalism will be started in connection with Doriot attacked the French militaryadministration in Morocco. Doriot @héy Were alone in the house. 20. Single copies at 6e and bundle Workers’ Schoo! as va aa the school is moved te the new siapiganeiobe described a photograph he had seen yanptek > a sergeant-major with the vy Milwaukee, Wis*—-Pabst Theater,| orders at 3c a copy cat bo’ ébtalned at 108 Bast 14th Street, some time thie month. Those who volunteer as of two killed Moroccans beside. him. . buy. get t an “Ad” Mareh 7. by writing to The Y Worker, Workers correspondents will be given first opportunity to enroll in this “That is French civilization,” he exitasinds, . Py AILY ORKER, | Sen Francisca{ March 21, | 3113 Washington Blvd, Chicage. clase. , 4 ee) ee =" sgenind Ay” . . ; | i i. EE ——
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*. ee. oti = 4 4 ee, Sted ¥ i ‘ ee * ¢ eS se ~ + | Ph = : i s ) “ ~ aa 4 . ee Me Sia pdt inate ee fad Mage gy OP ASD ——— a : a . ~~, a" ser t« ’ ‘ ‘ ee ex a e 7 r 7 ? Fr 2 - . ert q 4 ; ‘ + ¢ gra ,* . * $ 7 * . » , ° ad f aren ag z . on alte! bial ; i 3 b : | Entite bar _ SENATORS TALK LOUDLY ABOUT KELLOGG’S PACT Charge U.S. Drawn into Europe for : 2% Pct. (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Senatorial dissatisfaction with the Paris agree- ment, whereby the United States be- came an official partiier in the Dawes plan in exchange for 2% per cent of the money derived from Germany un- der the Dawes platy, and senatorial fears over what the United States may have been “let in for” broke forth anew on the floor of the senate today. ‘ It came in the form.of an impas- sioned speech by Senator Hiram Johnson, republican, California, con- demning the agreement negotiated by secretary of state designate Kellogg, and challenging the authorities to have so acted without constfting the senate. Ralses important Question. Johnson warned the senate that the Paris agreement brought before it “two very grave and important ques- tions.” io These were, he said, “First, the possibilities of what happened at| Paris, and second, the question pre- sented by the secretary of state that the executive depagtment of the gov- ernment has the power to determine without the consent of congress what shall be done with a debt to the na- tion.” Johnson pointed’ out that the Eu- ropean press, immediately after the signing of the Paris pact on January 14, “published felicitations and ar- ticles galore that America had altered her foreign policy and was once more in Europe.” “Not only abroad,” he added, “but among our own publicists interested in international aspects, it w4s said that America had come to realize her responsibilities and fimally had taken part in the collection of reparations from Germany under the Dawes plan.” They'll Pray for Dawes’ Pian. Johnson called attention to the state department to explain America’s position in the Paris pact and said Americans should “pray to god” that the Dawes’ plan “works out in its en- tirety and wholly successfully,” for if so there may be no danger to this country, “but if it works out ill, if it proves unsuccessful, the signers of this collection document will have to do the collecting. Then will come the time when you will curse the day America became a pam this col- lection document for Bur debts.” No Klan Ties, Says Head of the Premier Taxicab Company (Continued from page 1) fore very unpopular among the work- ers. As the klan is notoriously anti- labor, there is a belief im trade union circles that the hooded order may have been used by the scab taxi com- pany to injure a rival, The following letter was received by The DAILY WORKHER from the ex- ecutive officers of the Premier Tax: company in denial of the statements contained in the published letter: The DAILY WORKER, Chicago, Illinois. Gentlemen: Referring to the article in your daily paper of Monday, February 2, headed “Premier Cab company organizes for Ku Klux Klan,” we deny positively that this is the case. We further deny every allegation made in that article from beginning to end. This company has had no hand whatsoever nor has any of its offi- cials, in the sending out of litera- ture or letters, asking Premier em- ployes to become members of the ku kiux klan. This propaganda has been sent cut by our enemies in a: eifort to demoralize this company. nd 375 ees di wag ee ee = tt 5 EES BREIL MT TAT . . ane PS bens a ee a PAA by Be “e-em —_* ~ ee a ee ee Mee Fe Sty . lglg rey -_- ~/ Tr =. -- "aw * =, © = = we we er whlUmr ee A-O - eeer® ar e - = . le = _—— = — -- «F ——w - . oe . itt
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AM G " rafters authority on the assumption o‘ |ing th the possibility of liqui v a SAY RE CIES oing to Priso cutl part of the state © tarmerdabo “or Lia D IN : oe n ve a ge and ae “ry out first cons Re ht aepeiee with. Ai : we . T ION A L | STS f yan . Col. Charles R. F Gis the state executiv ¢|wage workers of a\farmers. and e Red International E e com of Minnesota i U ers of th nal Affiliati yn i of the v : orbes, former head were unseated lar called a in aregu proar e World on Committee i pie ; Thongaen 0 is’ bureau and John W their seats to which they be giver |and be it furthe ntion of these groups A ft Subsides Onl going on in Seatile 1 epEee Se Sows scope Be. Incustell Weer c | Memaiine 4c hicago and St. Louis mil. by the state convention. weer elected| Resolved, th ei } Two Rec Y| dustrial Worker,” e between a capitalist busi ent upon the strugegl F u ntractor, who w Signed: I. G. Se sh , that a special com et esses asked ’’ against which siness concern — fash t re tity. of ‘conapiracy -to ar found " eee L. A. RB nes. be elected of this pe Peron TOKYO. Feb. aa which will give it int an injunction and dam and the “In- Cc out | vernment by a fed efraud the| Conde 1 §. Youngdahl. structed to call a confer ee iD | Hood : 4—Black eyes orkers. o the hands of capita ages have been omm sal ‘horse’ Friday today we eral jury last mn Middle Class C {gates of allt GuaaTOnos Of Hole. y noses were m and pitalist enemies of unist Candid rere each A resolution onference. |la armers’ organizat! todas’ . uch in evide of the : idates cialist ; two years’ impri sentenced to |cond 4 was also introd . bor unions to me ons and y’s session of th nce in EVOLUTIONAR eo +6 =e in Sev en worth sonment in Leaven- emning the uce¢ |of March set on the 19th day |foll e Japanese Y worker W ar worth, sania ,. Tals .a0e a ak gee tage cS for the purpose of taking|b owing the freeforall tent that | Stee ns abuse ie uae cies Petit! ae nt conception.” ary to pre-| i e “Industria Bam Fil JOB | worse for pera He looked mach ‘a Set peg a sum equal malar and Free literature is di » Be —_ for some 7 oe et P HAVE A HEART! DAKAAR vex © — sage Class Collal ti a broken nose. ns black eyes a and is paying to the Mary — pit ta pt by the or pms weeher" ee in ao BR hes Mins Car The abiinircoseb isi Africa, Feb 4 ° ra the w reate es. Cont ' e Americ upid ignor P NIST samitre archar “ f Raises Its Head ; otliann dheshing 3 i partes $l peernen Sasa ants waa neat bene Ucaaiites 7 meee tex Geame INTO ACTION scuamuni dean aes ae bers iT @ P in. | and sw ng a little 1 e| slaves is an ney out of it . outhpiece of R ee Come to The here this af whea they 1 . ore that h nformation | tak insurance sch 8 ReVohation ussian count Ju o The ; g afternoon. * anded : retentious Bankin spokesman e would h axes fifty ce cheme which Oo , of slande er- NIORS’ DA The unoffici . | driven o ave the} pay b nts a month out VA nce In 60 Year workers’ and r against the FEB woe F oficial fying ) dent, the wok on sca prom Ph og ae ates + ompen oat. a oe to sat ee ek a 3, wes ted Anse, J. Bu-| in the ane ch lies, of coamaes ACT Now orkers’ Lyceum and 61 minutes. wenty-four hours of the New J other official ellow Cab M e plant of th . 81C as struck b ay when | phil ggle, of hair-b AT . } ersey S s'U anufacturi e| Two freight ya Penn osophies agai rained | *#eese4 AT ONCE! R of Labor ar y State Feder nder their ring compa years ago th ght train whil sylvania | of th nst the di AAR BAD EAD TH a e behind ation efficient s pany. | nounced e compan nea e crossing th e proletari ctatorship tattle E DAILY labor” bank a new so-cal worker's m py system ev that it woul 7. r the Vandali e tracks | re at and contin Assess eeee WORKE , known alled ovements ery | ployes sh uld make it B cane station. presentation of uous miis- pwwvevey R Co-operative N as the La watched. It are clo shareholder Ss om user was in th al of the Red I wv National bor | h . It is reported tha sely | to them s and offered stock | "€T¢ e hardwar of Labor Uni nternation- AAA aD ark, with a ca Bank of N ouse detecti t the chi . They found stock for 30 year e business | ists ions and the © 14 pital sto ew- | wh ve beat u ef|a voluntary “ that it was the c 8. He had ommun- : which labor o ck of $500,000 o was fired Pp an emplo ary “gift” but not rossing wher crossed YoU ’ rganizati UY, |eom a few yea ye | you don’t compulsory. most e he was ki Save the P : § to buy at $200 per ons are asked pany is wealthy tg ago. The | here.” buy a share, you don’t y- it at every day for more th lled al- Avai aper; Change Its Poli ; share. wy to be immune from Facgn thugs | to th was the way the foreman nas ce — ond docs jaan te such ideas, which ra WILL | of th e ose wh alked ous t , are . ‘ion Red Revel Masquerade Ball ceguntly. 7 They can ac age gy wre sherdholdars hay: not want to become of the a marenes Che pooner BE ne ; e Ashland Aven » 37 South | on th y. A workers was rece t with | facturing c n the Yellow Cab Man AND THEY HA ' tional Affili ng class, the Red Int sts ni orner of Monroe and — ee a“ em Sor coltie to the wend fired ompany. u- ; VENT penn ar liation Committee a THERE! ‘ Febru adison Stse., utes before qui st room iad o struggle. We not y of ary 28. The Yellow quitting tim FD 10se branch urge th Cab c im Keep Up Fi THA + anches which a at is . several ompany al ght for Wat withholdin re mistake Wh Are You G garages arou so has| SPRINGFIE ” f gs funds and aly ere? ny. Sunda oing to the O are distinguish nd town which | vot LD, Ill, Feb IT IS A f , rom the “Industri assistance y Nigh pen Forum ed the ote of 100 t . 4—By a ij lustrial Wo “ ght? Nye under which ae ae its rules A ae house suspended A ED PLOT : gta st! and oe Ps cer JO INT : er brilliant work. |& joint noon and ad OSTON y support, d oo h schem int resoluti opted WN, Feb. 4.— ever, t , demandin ag Lesh Get ovlbw die Maat e of this |/resentative ae ences by Rep- i in two public ioe tetas of jicy ear on rn ge BAZAAR eginnin : cago re urran, of , angered t s were : : eed as follows: , . Ww questin Chi- oda 1 N llows: une g with next Saturday's paper to permit the ee a ‘geaas vce y by a bomb ex- aoe ag of Rowan. his in of course! mf * [icago to continue regen of Chi-| man oy, cleaning the roo calling for @ age caceecet emeest ond ee 10,000 cubic feet of w @ diversion of! etre who had died In a W m* of a jin the I. W — . any other split tainment | Eaten. from Lake Michi ater per secon et lodging house arrenton | Sovie . W. 2. No atta Ev Mei pet. ichigan d/ sh , , found t Russi cks on ening! hey | tion of sewage pene Nar construc- aes cortege and ‘ash wet Tisiceiionaiiine: vod bavi other workers’ : 0 w ™ 5, 0 in | proposal now goes to oo plants. The} roar es It exploded ans os No more pacif Goal or inductees, February 14: ox- = pee. ihe aelampaven many windows bs ance, but class ate and non-resist- Saturday Afternoon The ABOR | coreg eae ghborhood. n — nen ae . No cen- | Junior Day” : or W W. W. wri | embe Feb : se ‘ a idea ‘alba Bay Saige Ill. se ees T V. writing upon se poaghe B. ) Saturday Night _ the American ort sketches on outsta on dollars representing Three H E RE A L Grand Costume ian | Skidm radical and labor m nding characte “+ tena ean nc fe shrgan Pare Snnee TORY OF HE a ore, Wietling, Sorg ovement. rs in nus appropriation w inois soldiers + RRI N | mB wh . - n, Debs, Mitchell, Gom a, Silvis, Powderly, Par propriated for the Frans ee 2 eee DAILY WORK | CAFETERIA ttle and John Reed perg, St. John, Bill H ’ sons, Most, De pensations under stment of com- Williamson RKER is sendi | = RESHMENTS aie al are some of th aywood, Joe Hi introdu the terms of view com~aty to ing a corres | sige bor movement that will e interesting ll, Frank ced inthe ho a bill iews, sketchet get the real story pondent to bee | be treated personaliti tative E use by Re eb). investigati tory of Herrin—i | ' in this series es in the || for ae W.. Turner, Chicago — — the background oe of the oe Seve: | | t applicatio me e nam | ory of th at work i aa rs | men, would be ene | snenevien round a be “Bloody \ Badbmedke reared that has A an | LYCEUM, 86th St | uly 1 shortly i hn, li e coal di “ : reet and 3 =. | ; y in pas cmerni , IMlinois. The | al distric UJ rd Avenu é sequent issues. stories will appe : | FEBRUARY 1 . pear | Internation 1-12-13 14 batt " a al Workers’ Ald . | ant ontributions to 208 E. 12th St Labor Defense C : 2th Street, New York City. —_ Eee _—-—. : ; _-., -*. J — _. Ae ee DS - ¢ i :
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> FEBRUARY 28 Machinery Moving for Masquerade Ball The Red Revel is coming! The big social event of the season in radical circles in the Windy City, will be held on the evening of Feb. 28, in the Wes’ End Womens’ Club Hall, 37 South Ashiand Blivd., corner of Monroe. It will begin at 8 p. m. and it wif be at least one o'clock in the morn ing after before P. Pan the ancien‘ fiddler will play the last waltz. The committee of arrangementr met last Tuesday evening at the Workers Party locan office, to set the machinery in motion for making the forthcoming Red Revel the biggest yet. Each branch of the Worker Party in Chicago is represented o7 this committee, and each branch is supposed to send a delegate. Novel Advertising. At last Tuesday night’s meeting the committee decided to issue several copies of a little paper to be called The Red Revel. This little paper will have editorial funny columns, adver- tisements, sporting columns, news ar- ticles and everything that can be seen in the DAILY WORKER except Pig gly Wiggly. It will be worth the pric: of admission to the masquerade ball Tt is for advertising purposes and th committee expects every comrade to do his or her duty in distributing “Red Revels.” Several valuable prizes will b: awarded to the best groups and sing les in the masquerade. The first priz is $50.00 cash for the best group and there is a second prize of $25.00 There are so many other prizes that it seems likely that everybody who participates in the contest will get something. The language federations are enter. ing enthusiastically into the spirit o’ the thing. National costumes will be worn and a convention of humming birds in the forests of Patagonia will not be more colorful than this inter- national gathering of workers, men, women, boys and girls from all parts of the earth. They Talk Like Clams. Tt is rumored that the Juniors have something up their sleeve in the form of a novelty for the Red Revel Mas- querade. They are very reticent and the committee has not yet been able to get the drop on the big idea. Judg- ing by past accomplishments of the Juniors there is no doubt but they will provide a surprise. It might interest our readers to know that a group from a certain branch have an idea that they are going to win the prize for the best group. It will have a class struggle angle. Here it is, rather crudely. Sam Gompers flanked by Andy Carnegie and Bill Rockefeller, led by the Hon- orable Nick Satan, king of the under- world. Burlesque on Abramovich. There are many other splendid ideas, and it is not secret that our Ukrainian comrades have a scheme ‘Small peasantry. (Continued fr from, last issue) Leninism or Trotskyism. We have already spoken of the leg: ends about the party and about Lenin which Comtade Trotsky and his fol- lowers have disseminated. We have unveiled and refuted these legends. Now, however, the question arises: for what purpose did Comrade Trotsky want all these legends as to the prep- arations for October, as to Lenin and Lenin’s party? Why were the recent literary attacks of Comrade Trotsky on the party necess#is? What is the seuse, the purpose, ihe aim of these attacks, at present when the party dves not wish to diccuss, when the party is overburdened with a large amount of urgent tasks, at present when the party needs united work for the restoration” of its-internal econ- omy and not a #@W quarrel about old questions? Why does Comrade Trot. sky want to drag the party back to new discussions? Comrade Trotsky declares that al) this is necessary for the “study” of October. But is it not possible. t study the history of October without once more attacking the party and it: leader, Lenin? But what kind of : “history” of October is this which ‘be gins and ends with the dethronemen of the chief leaders of the Octobe revolution, with the dethronement o the party which organized and car ried out this revolution? “S No, this is no case of the study of October. This is not the way to study October. This is not the way the his. tory of October is written. There ir obviously another “intention.” And according to all evidence, this “inten. tion” is, that Comrade Trotsky is, with his literary attacks making another (one more!) attempt to prepare the conditions for replacing Leninism by Trotskyism. Comrade Trotsky feels i! “absolutely” necessary to divest the party and its cadres, which carried out the revolution, of their glory so as to pass from the dethronement.of the party to the dethronement of Léhin- ism. The dethronement of Leninism is, however, necessary in order to rep resent Trotskyism as the “only” “pro- letarian” (no joke!) ideology. All this of course (yes, of course!) under the flag of Leninism so that the process of being dragged over may be “as painless as possible.” This is the essence of Comrade Trotsky’s most recent literary attacks. For this Comrade Trotcky’s literary attacks strain the question of Trot- skyism to breaking point. What then is Trotskyism? Trotskism has three distinguishing features which place it in irreconcil- able opposition to Leninism. What are these characteristic features? Firstly. Trotskyism is the theory of the “permanent (uninterrupted) revolution.” But what is Trotsky- ism’s conception of the “permanent revolution”? It is the revoltition with- out consideration of the small peas- antry as a revolutionary force. Com. rade Trotsky’s permanent ‘revolution is, as Lenin says, the “neglect” of the peasant movement, a “game for the seizure of power.” Where @oes the danger of this lie? In that such a revolution, if one took the trouble to realize it, would end with a complete breakdown, as it would deprive ‘the Russian proletariat of its ally, the This explains the in which Abramovich comes in, and a| {ght which Leninsm has been carry German group will have a little bur- lesque on Luther, Hans. All the other language groups, Jugo Slavs, Italians (Mussolini will be there—in effigy), Letts; Lithuanians. Greeks, Scandinavians, Armenians, Turks, Hungarians, Finns, Esthon- fans, Roumanians, Poles, Negroes. Spaniards; Mexicans, Irish, English, Scotch, Welsh, Canadians and Ameri- cans will be represented. Watch for further particulars about the Red Revel in the DAILY WORK- ER. A good idea is to get your tick- ets in time. They can be had at the local office of the Workers Party, 166 West Washington street, or at the office of the DAILY WORK- ER. P. 8S. Besides Communists, radicals of all shades of opinion will be at the Red Revel Masquerade Ball. HELP WANTED! Between the Age of 3V4 and 85 For further particulars look for anouncement by Red Revel press agent in the DAILY WORKER. i i ee eee F888 999 T8888 88Yy Do You Want to Know— what the Russian Trade Unions are doing—and how?” Be eure to read in the February jesne of the WORKERS MONTHLY: “The Sixth Trade Union Congress of the U.S.S.R.” By Chas. E. Johnson. eee een eo & & , , / , ‘ / ~ ~ & “ees 8S SSS 8 8 * Oe Oo Oe oe oe Oe Oe 4 4 So OO Oe not Martin but | \Leninsm always has still does defent the idea of the dic Room 307, | ing on against Trotskyism since th year 1905. How does Comrade Trotsky esti- mate Leninism from the point of view of this fight? He regards it as ¢ theory which contains in itself “anti revolutionary” features. (Trotsky “1905”, Russian edition, page 285.) On what is this angry remark against Leninism based? On the fact that defended and tatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry. Trotsky does not confine himself to this angry remark. He goe: | further when he states: “The whole construction of Lenin- ism is at present built up on lies an¢ contains the poisonous germ of its own disintegration” (See Comrade Trotsky’s letter to Tscheidse of Feb 25, 1913). As you see we are confronted b; two opposed lines. Secondly. Trotskyism is a distrus' of the doings ofthe Bolshevist party, of its unity, of its hostility to the op- portunist elements. Trotskyism is, ir the sphere of organization, the theory of an association of revolutionaries and opportunists, of their groups and grouplets in the bosom of one united party. The history of Comrade Trot- sky’s “August block” is surely known to you, in which Martoy’s adherents and Otsowists (those in favor of the withdrawal of the duma delegates) liquidators and Trotskians, having ‘formed a “real” party, work comfort- ably together. It is known that the aim.of this strangely patched party | was the destruction of the Bolshevist party. What then were at that time ‘our “differences of opinion”? In that Leninism saw the guarantee of the de- 'velopment of the proletarian party in the destruction of the “August block,” whereas Trotskyism saw in this block the foundation for the creatian of a “real” party. Again, as lines. Third. Trotskyism is a mistrust of the leaders of Bolshevism, an attempt you see, two opposed to diseredit and dethrone them. I know no current in the party which ~~ 'Leninism So Mi hl PAMPHLET ON OR TROTSKYISM OW IN PREPARATION This installment is part of a pam- phiet“Leninism or Trotzkyism” now in preparation. It includes articles by three outstanding figures in the Russian Communist Party: G. Zinoviev, |. Stalin and C. Kamen- ev, to form a most timely and im- portant contribution to a discussion of world interest. The pamphiet will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 cents and will be ready at the con- i clusion of this serial publication. could be compared with Trotskyism in its discrediting of the leaders of Len- inism or of the central institutions of the party. What for instance is Com- rade Trotsky’s “amiable” remark about Lenin worth, when he describes him as a “professional exploiter of ev- ery backwardness in the Russian workers’ movement?” (See the already ‘quoted letter to Tscheid- se.) This is however by no means the most “amiable” remark of all the ‘amiable” remarks of Comrade Trot- sky. How was it possible that Comrade frotsky who bore such an unpleasant yurden on his back, yet found him- self during the October movement in the ranks of the Bolsheviki? This happened because Comrade Trotsky at that time relieved himself (literally relieved) of his burden and hid it in a cupboard. Without this “operation,” serious co-operation with Comrade Trotsky would have been impossible. The theory of the “August block,” i é., the theory of unity with the men- sheviki had been destroyed and cast away by the revolution, for how could there be any question of unity when there was an armed fight betweeu the Bolsheviki and the mensheviki? Com- rade Trotsky had no alternative than to recognize the fact of the usefulness of this theory. The same unpleasant affair “hap- pened” with the permanent revolu- tion, for none of the _ Bolgheviki thought of seizing power immediately on the day after the February revo- lution; Comrade Trotsky should have known that the Bolsheviki, to quote Lenin’s words, would not allow him “to play with the seizure of power.” Trotsky had no alternative but to ac- knowledge the policy of the Bolshe- viki in the question of the struggle for influence in the Soviets, the strug- gle for the conquest of the peasantry. As for the third characteristic of Trot- skyism (the mistrust of the Bolshevik leaders) it of course had to retire in- to the background in view of the ob- vious breakdown of the first two char- acteristics. Could Comrade Trotsky in such a situation do anything but hide his burden in a cupboard and go to the Bolsheviki, he who, withou: even the him, came to the Bolsheviki as a poli- tical bankrupt, robbed of his army? Of course, he could do nothing else! What lesson is to be learned from this? There is only one lesson: The long co-operation of the Leninists with Comrade Trotsky was only possible thru his completely renouncing his old burden, thru his completely iden- tifying himself with Leninism. Com- rade Trotsky writes on the lessons of October but he forgets that in addi- tion to all the other lessons there is one more lesson of October which I have just told you, and that this is of primary importance for Trotskyism. It would do Trotskyism no harm to pay attention to this lesson of October. But this lesson, as we have seen, has not agreed well with Trotskyism. The point of the matter is that the old burden of Trotskyism, which was hidden away in a cupboard in the days of the October movement, has now been dragged to light in hope of disposing of it, all the more so as the market here has widened. Undoubt- edly, we have in the recent literary attacks of Comrade Trotsky an at- tempt to return to Trotskyism, “overcome” “Leninism” forward and apply all the special pe- culiarities of Trotskyism. The new Trotskyism is not a simple continuation of the old Trotskyism, it has become somewhat ragged and | threadbare, it is in its spirit incom- parably milder and in its form more moderate than the old Trotskyism, but without doubt, it retains fundamental- 'y all the peculiarities of the old Trot- skyism. The new Trotskyism does | 10t make up its mind to fight openly against Leninism, it prefers to work | under the general flag of Leninism the interpretation, the improvement of Leninism. This for the reason that it is weak. We cannot regard it as an accident that the rise of the new Trotskyism coincided with the mo- ment of Lenin’s death. Under Len- in he would not have dared to take this step. What Are the Characteristic Features of the New Trotskyism? 1. The question of the permanent revolution. The new Trotskyism does not consider it necessary openly to defend the permanent revolution. It “simply” affirms that the October re- volution has fully confirmed the idea of the permanent revolution. From sion: The correct and features of Leninism are those which existed simce the war, in the period of the October revolution, and on existed before the war, before the Oc- tober revolution. Hence the theory of the Trotskians as to the division of Leninism into two parts: The pre war Leninism, the “old,” “worthless” Leninjs with its idea of a dictator- ship of the proletariat and the pea santry;;and the new post-war Lenin- +! Beane é pretence of a serious group behind | and to re , and protects itself under the slogan ot | this it draws the following conclu-| acceptable | the other hand the incorrect and un- | acceptable features are those which | jism ism of October, ’ a ‘ they intend to adapt to the deiifnds of Trotskyism. Trotskyism is theory of the m as a first, more ep which should nt steps in the division of or less “acceptabd facilitate the subse fight against afele But Leninism is no eclectical theory which is cemented together out of various elements and which permits of being divided, Leninism is an in- divisible theory, which arose in the year 1903, has experienced three re- volutions and now marches forward as the war bann letariat. “Bolsh m,” says Lenin, “has existed as a current in political life and as a political party, since the year 1903. Only the history of Bol- shevism in the whole period of its ex- istence can satisfactorily explain how it could, under the most difficult con- ditions, work d preserve the iron discipline is necessary for the victory of .,Proletariat” (see Lenin “Infantile ess.) Bolshe- vism and Leninigm are essentially one. They are names for one and the same object. Therefore the theory of the division of Lenintsm in two parts is a theory or tne de- struction of Leninism, a theory of a replacement of Leninism by Trotsky- ism. We need not waste words In prov- ing that the party cannot reconcile itself to these s ge theories. 2. The question of the nature of mined the BolsheVist Party with the 1id of the theory (and practice) of unity with the ménghevik:. But this theory has so utterly become a scan- dal, that one does not care to De even reminded of it. Modern Trotskyism has invented a new, less scandalous and almost “democratic” theory of the opposition of the old cadres to the youth of the party, in order to undermine the party. Trotskyism recognizes no unified and indivisible history of our party. Trotskyism divides the history of our party into two unequal parts, the part before, and the part after October. the world’s pro-" the party. The old Trotsky:sm under- | Detroit, Mich., h., branches of the Workers Party gave a new spurt Wednesday to the DAILY WORK- ER’S insurance drive by sending in $124.00, all in one mail. This puts Detroit over the $1,000 line with a total sale of policies to date amount- ‘ing to $1,104.00. Those branches reporting Wed- nesday were the Finnish branch, $84.00; the English branch, $25.00; and the Greek branch, $15.00. This brings the Finnish total to $128.00; English, $435.00, and Greek, $33.00. Among the other branches in De- troitewho have not forgotten the fight to keep the, DAILY WORKER going, are the following with their remittances: Armenian, $14.00; Bul- garian, $57.00; Dutch Fleming, $14.00; German, $70.00; Hungarian, $33.00; Italian, $4.00; Jewish, $18.00; Lithuanian, $22.00; Roumanian, $37.00; Russian 1, $17.00; Russian 2, $102.00; Russian 3, 50.00; South Slavic, $50.00; Ukrainian, $20.00. The part of the history of our party before October is in reality no ae tory, but a “preliminary history,” unimportant or at least only slightly important period of preparation for our party. That part of the history of the party after October Is the really genuine history of our party. There “old,” “prehistoric,” unimport- ant cadres of our party, here the new, real, “historical” party. It ts hardly necessary to point out that this ori- ginal scheme of the party history Is a scheme for the undermining of the unity between the old and the new cadres of our party, a scheme for the dstruction of the active Bolshevist Party. We need not waste any words in proving that the party cannot recon- cile itself to this strange theory. (To be continued.) NOT GRADUATE OF HARVARD BUT MILITANT WORKING CLASS FIGHTER When asked te tell the DAILY WORKER something about himself so that the workers of the 28th ward might know more about their candidate, Nicholas Dozenberg, candidate in that ward endorsed by the Workers Party, said, “I am not a graduate of Harvard University, but, having been a worker all my life, I guess IT know what the workers want.” Comrade Dozenberg was born in Riga, Latvia, November 15, 1882. He came to Boston, Mass,, where he lived up to 1921, joining the socialist party in 1906. He was city organizer of that party for three years. a number of offices:in the Machinists’ Union, which he,joined in 1908. He has held He —#was arrested for activities in the re- > | 28th WARD:GANDIDATE | iy SYR 8. : ‘ 6S - a4 » > ~ NICHOLAS DOZENBERG Communist Aldermanic Candidate. Minneapolis Workers Will See Two Big Russ Screen Dramas MINNEAPOLIS, .Minn., Feb. 4.— On Friday, Feb. 13, at 8:00 p. m., the ‘Beauty and the Bolshevik” and “Rus. sia in Overalls,” Russia’s most sensa tional photoplays, will be shown in the Labor Lyceum, Sixth and Irving Aves. | On Saturday, Feb. 14, at 8:00 p. m ithe “Beauty andthe Bolshevik” and ‘Russia in Overalls,” will be shown at the Finnish Hall, 1317 Western ‘Ave. N. | Every worker in.Minneapolis shoul¢ set this evening aside and attend and ‘see the dashing Red Army officer who had fallen love with a beautiful daugh- iter of a rich land owner. This wil) ‘be the only opportunity that Minne- 'apolis workers will have to see an¢ 'gain an insight the doings in Rus i sia. George Av Minneapolis hornton, Sec’y. r Defense Council. . + = . Minneapolis T..U. E. L. Meeting. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 4.—On Monday, Feb. 9, 8:00 p. m. a very im- portant meeting will be held of the 'T. U. BE. L. at 617, 4th Ave. So., Room No. 2, and evéry member of the party who is a member of a trade union should attend this meeting without fail. In order to mile the local situation in the most effective way, every mem- volutionary labor movement in 1919 and released when he proved that he had been a Citizen of the United States since 1911. Dozenberg was in 1924 and *tepresented his fellow workers at the convention of the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road system workers. For three years he represented Local 391 of the Inter- national Association of Machinests on the Central Labor Union of Boston. Dozenberg: is at present a member of Local 478 of the I. A. of M., having represented that local at the Farmer- labor convention on July 3, 1923, at the amalgamation conference in Chi- cago, at the council for the protection of foreign-born workers. He is very active in his local union and serves on several committees. We do not believe the workers of the 28th Ward will worry very much about the fact that Dozenberg does not hold a fancy degree from an east- ern university. They will judge him by his record in the labor movement and feel certain that when they vote for him and the platform on which he is running, they vote for their own man, a man who is ready and eager at all times to fight their battles. ber should take it as his duty to be present and help to formulate and put into action the policy of the Workers (Communist) Party. Leslie R. Hurt, Sec’y. T. U. E. L. Jap Ambassador is Delayed. TOKIO, Feb. 4. Departure of Tauneo Matsudaira, recently appoint- ed Japanese ambassador to the United States, was postponed today on ac count of the Tokio Kisen Kaisha trans- Pacific liner Korea Marg, on which the ambassador was scheduled to sail for San Francisco, striking a pier in Yoko- hama habor. The pier was badly damaged. Y. W. L. Chicago, Attention! The first meeting of the branch li- terature agents will be held on Sat- urday, Feb. 7, at.5 p..m\ sharp, at the local office, 166 W. Washington St. The B. E. C.’s will be held responsible for the presence of their literature representatives. John Hecker, City Literature Agent. May Wheat Drops. May wheat, which reached $2.05% Wednesday, hit the toboggan today and went down to $1.93%, which was a loss of 5%c from the close of the market on Monday, and 12%c under the top price for the season. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South Ashland Avenue Corner of Monroe and Madison Sts., February 28. Delayed Results of Membership Meetings | 72 UTICA, N. ¥-—On the party discussion, voted five for majority and one for the minoritfi—James J. Bouzan, secretary. HD : YI eT ; chairman of a railroad machine shop” er 3 ‘ a oe. ey ONE LONE COM. He has bought his policy! , conscious point of view. conscious yet. thing | am going to do.” my energies to work. support will they give you until we and get them organized? stranger and alien. tion and mine bosses. to, what kind the officers are. are not clase-conscious. organized.” . JNIST DOES MORE FOR DAILY THAN. 501 BRANCHES! STRANGER to the American Communist movement, an alien, driven from one mining job to another either because of boss-persecution or poor health—yet M. Fumich of ‘Mahanoy City, Pa. has the strength and the wisdom to raise $5.00 for the DAILY WORKER insurance fund. Single-handed, without any organization to spur him on, he has done what members of 501 Workers’ Party branches have failed to do. And he knows just why he bought ft, too... “If the workers get our DAILY, then the rest would be easy,” he writes the DAILY WORKER. “It’s the best paper printed in the English language. Any one that reads it knows that, looking at it from a class- “At the present time, going from one community to another, one could propagate and carry on the fight, even if the workers aren’t class- The field is wide. A good many of us have been study- ing how to get subscribers to the DAILY WORKER. This is the next First, tho, he did his part to make certain that there would be a DAILY WORKER to get subscribers for! he touldn’t get his policy sooner... “Why didn’t | send this $5.00 sooner?” he writes, “Because | had no money and | had to look for some place where | could exist. Now that | have changed communities, it will take ‘some time before | can put And he even regretted that “Believe me, comrades, it’s a hard task when you get among strange people and they know it’s right—what you talk about,—but how much educate them to Communist ideals, “| have found from practical experience that one has to go slow before one gets influence over the masses in a community where there is no Workers Party to carry on propaganda. “At first, when | came here to Pennsylvania from Canada, | was a So that’s my drawback. place because of danger to my health. And it’s all the fighting against a gang of J. L. Lewis’ supporters, coal corpora¢ | had to leave the last been only myself to do “The last place that | lived in, Moon Run, Pa., soft coal mines, that’s everything that | find—prominent crooks of the organization, and all the rest of the bureaucrats. You will find out in any camp you go “And the members are always complaining, just complaining. They .if they were. they would take action and get ~~ TONIGHT MILWAUKEE WORKERS PARTY AND SOGIALIST. DEBATE MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 4.— Comrade G. S. Shklar, city secretary of the Workers Party, will debate Leo Wolfson,’ Mitwaukee leader of the socialist party, tomorrow e¢ve- ning on the subject: “Results of the last Presidential Elections.” This debate will-.be held at the Labor Lyceum, ‘corner 8th and Garfield Ave., under the auspices of the Frei- heit branch of the Workmen’s Circle No. 166. The role of all political parties in the last presidential elec- tions is a subject of unusual educa- tional value and this debate should be attended by every worker in Mil- waukee. Don’t miss it and bring along a worker. Party Branch’in N. Y.’ Isto Have Big Dance A big» Workers Party affair will take place: in New York City, Saturday evening, Mar, 21,.the Spring Festiva! and. Dance of the Harlem English branch, at. the Harlem Casino, Lenox Ave. and 116th street. The undértaking is a big one, the risk is great, the expenses are high. but it is expgeted that the affair wil) turn out a success in every way, judg- ing from’ the support” given, to the Harlem branch in all previous affairs No expensé is being spared in making the affair enjoyable. The hall splendid one, the music will be of the finest, so that the dance given by the Harlem English branch will be ¢ memorable one in the annals of thie branch which is one of the largest Workers Party branches in the coun- try. Get Money for Bridge. By a vote of 110 to 30 the . lower house of the Lllinois legislature today passed a bill introduced by Repre- sentative Carl Mueller of Chicago, providing for a $3,000,000 bond issue for the construction of a bridge over the Chicago river connecting Lincoln and South parks. FOR RENT Sleeping room; private family; modern home. One or two men preferred. One block from Cicero car. 4906 Parker Ave. Phone Albany 4499. Chicago Russians in Workers Party Aid Communist Novy Mir At the last meeting of the Russian branch, Workers Party of Chicago, it was decided to greet the reorganiza- tion of the Novy Mir; Russian Com- munist daily, and promised the paper moral and material support. The branch becided to send at once $184 to aid the paper. The group of Novy Mir correspondents were ordered to meet and reorganize the work for the Chicago section in: the paper. Five delegates were elected to the district conference of the Russian section, Workers Party. No branch meeting will be held tonight, Thursday, Feb. 5, on account of the movie “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” being shown. The next meeting of the’ branch will be held Thursday, Feb. 12, at 8 p. m., at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division street. a pakieanpegeuitina tigen Longest Non-Stop Flight. DAKAR, French West Africa, Feb. 4—The longest non-stop aeroplane flight ever attempted was nearing its completion when Aarchard and Le maitre agnt a radio message that they were within fifty miles of this city. their goal. They started from HDtamps field, France, yesterday morning. The distance is 2,600 miles. Relieve Coughs, Colds, Headache, Rheumatism and All Aches and Pains All druggists— 3S0 and 65¢ jars and tubes. Children’s Musterole (milder form) %e. Better than a Mustard Plaster E, W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 Specialties: E. W. Rieck Boston Baked Beans and Brown Bread Fine Soups and Fresh Made Coffee Commiceary and Bakery: 1612 Fulton £t. Phone West 2549 theory of crises. 1113 W. Washington Blvd. 4 ‘ a . 4 : 7: - + 4 4 4 s . S : 4 4 4 4 4 a a 4 4 j ’ ‘ umes of “Capital.” 4 4 4 : 4 4 4 . : 7 4 . 4 4 7 4 4 4 s 4 . 4 4 _werrFefefefwrreTeT”TfjTjgjTj»ssT'''sT',,'s%T'X=%T'X%'%T'X*T'\XsTTskT,T'TTT-TTsTfTjT"'v-w7t*" For the Busy Worker and the beginner in the study of Marxism “The People’s Marx” by | Julian Borchardt. This is an abridged, popular edition of Marx’s three vol- Composed of choice and important extractions presented in a sequence that will assist the beginner in the study of Marxism. It is supplemented by an b Same of Borchardt’s on Marx’s Be sure to add this splendid little book to your library. PRICE (Paper Cover) 75 CENTS. THE DAILY WORKER Literature Department Chicago, Illinois . vTvvVvVTVv—"0r0—°"7"r"Tr,rrrrrrrrrrrrr-e---r-rrrrrrrreryreyryryrwrwvrvrrY.,Y od WwwwewveveTeeeeceeeee eo. | TS
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oe Mir ussian zo, it ‘aniza- Com- paper The » $184 Novy ‘ed to or the Five ‘istrict ection, eeting Feb. 5, Beauty . branch , at 8 02 W. ois >» wvvdGevVvVvr70707777 77 "7"7"70707070707T0T—"T—0"—""C"FrVVVVVervvrererrrrrrrrr” = Adopt Plan for Unity} and Struggle By M. SHARAF. (Special to The Dally Worker) LYNN, Mass.—A mass meeting of shoe workers was held here under the auspices of the Trade Union Edu- cational League. Joseph Manley, east-' ern district organizer of the league, was the principle speaker. The sub ject was, “Shall the Lynn shoe work- ers join the Boot and Shoe Union?” As soon as the Lynn press was in-| formed that a meeting of that nature would take place, they started attack-: ing us in the form of front page head- lines, cartoofs, and with leading edi- torials, telling the shoe workers that the I. W. W. had come to Lynn to destroy the city. Bosses’ Press Discovers Revolution. This kind of bunk is not new in Lynn. The secretary of the Progres- sive Shoe and Leather committee of Lynn, however, sent in a_ written statement to the press, telling the Lynn shoe workers the-real purpose of the meeting. The newspapers, not being able to scare the workers by linking us up with the I. W. W. started a new cam- paign against the “reds,” charging that Moscow was financing this group in order to overthrow the capitalist system. New Master—New Mind. They exhumed a man by the name of Jewett, who at the time of the formation of the Amalgamated, spoke before the shoe workers and found no name too violent to use against the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union. The Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union hasn’t changed one iota; yet this very samé man comes forward and urges the shoe workers to indentify them- selves with the only “legitimate and universally (boss) recognized” shoe workers’ “union.” Another letter from the secretary of the local, which initiated the re- ferendum for the Boot and Shoe, asks “How can they explain their position in using their influence in inducing the Amalgamated locals in Brooklyn, N. Y., to secede and affiliate with the Shoe Workers’ Protective Union?” Traitors Hard Up For Excuses. He further says, “Let the Lynn rep- resentatives of this league explain his purpose in attacking the general offi- cials of the Amalgamated and the or- ganization thru the columns of a Chi- cago paper (meaning the DAILY WORKER), charging it to be a manu- facturers” union, which had sold out the Lynn shoe workers.” In reply, the representative of the T. U. EB. L. admits that the league has influence in the New York local un- fons, but that the league was and is now opposed to the action taken by those local unions in seceding from the Amalgamated — joining the “Protective.” Former Officials to Blame. These locals seceded after their committee came back from Lynn, where they witnessed the mess the former general officials of the Amal- gamated led them into. RS | BACK, EEL $25 A WAGE “ INDUSTRIAL WORKE 1,500,000 / By’ “LELAND OL OLDS” (Federated Press industrial Editor) WEEK FOR IN U. S., VAYS JOBLESS “The ‘December wage report of the U.S. department of labor makes it Possible to clése labor’s books for 1924. “It reveals the country once again as @ $25 a weék nation, paying its 8,240,000 factory workers an average of | $1,300 annually for on the manufacturing industry. The total wages paid by manufacturers approximated $10,728,000,000. When all the records of the. year have been compiled it will be found that the manufacturers sold this work for about two and a halt times what they paid in wages. The number employed, total wages and average wages from month to 2 No. Niiplcbes:: Payroll Av.Wage Per Month ‘January sorsscsssesserssoeeveenes 8,660,000 © $ 944,000,000 $ 109 FODTUBTY cnvcsseoressseseesenreee 8,760,000 © 930,000,000 106 MATCD ceescssesscsesisesscerseese 8,780,000 1,603,000,000 114 ADT iscirerccrcsecosecervecseseeceese 8,585,000 979,000,000 114 TRY) seciiascccsorccotrerssovontercee’ 8,520,000 930,000,000 118 TOME © recccccsssssversecesserseeeceeee’ 7,900,000 834,000,000 106 July sessesseneececsannesersnencan sng 7,780,000 800,000,000 103 AUZUBE crvcrsecrccrersesereenenee 7,800,000 830,000,000 106 September cssecesmescsceseveee 7,965,000 825,000,000 104 OCCODER cccrceeregrersersssseeeere 8,100,000 . 923,000,000 114 NOVOMDET cncoccrcccsseeveresse, 8,090,000 810,000,000 100 DOCOMDECT ..creviccressoeeeseee 8,250,000 920,000,000 111 SVOAT riccocsercsrgeostecessee 8,240,838 $10,728,000,000 $1,300 The figures show that a full million workers on the payrolls in March had been laid off by July and that the total wages going to the support of these workers and their familfes ‘had fallen off over $200,000,000. — How the general level of factory employment has declined is apparent on comparison with a total of 9,220, 000 on the payrolls In July, 1928, and 10,810,000 in June, 1920. The greatest gains in employment and earnings at the end of the year developed in the textilé and the iron and steel industries. Textile employ- ment increased 8.7 per cent and wag- es 8.9 per cent, while in the iron and steel industry the increases were 3.4 per cent and 7.9 per cent. In spite of the gain industry was still operating with only 81 per cent of a normal full force and the work- ers employed were averaging 92 per cent of full time making the rate of production more than 25 per cent short of normal capacity. Normal production in this country is now hardly more than theoretical. The purchasing power of the workers has been kept down to such an extent that a new normal with a million and a half idle and a third of the remain- der on part time may have to be es- tablished. ' apar City Hall, Hearing 18 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. 54 Ladies’ - yg Workers, 1214 WN, Ashiand Av 100 — Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren St. 12 Lesher Workers, #10 W. Harrleon Str 233 Mouldere, 119 8. Th p St. Painters District Council, Adams &t. 1446 W. 371 Painters, Dutt’s Hall, Chicago Hts. 2 Piano and Organ Workers, 180 W. Washington 669 Plumbers, onres and Peoria Sts. 281 Pampers (Railway), Monroe and eoria 515 Railway Carmeu, 1259 Cornell &t. 724 Railway Carmen, 75th and Drexel Avenue. Railway Carmen, 1900 W. 17th St. 278 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washing- ton. 504 ay 4 Clerks, 8138 Commercial ve 14872 o- 810 W. Harrison 38 Signaimen, 6236 Princeton Ave, 12 a Tile Roofers, 1224 Milwau- 110 stage. 1p “ates Masonic Temple, — Dee tae 180 W. Washington 742 Teamen , 9206 Houston Ave 3 frameset COE Aatlane 110 Upholsterers, 180 W. Washingten 17616 yroranense Emp., 166 W. Washing- (Note—Uniless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) nue. Hangers, rwyTvVrVTYrTYrYTwTereryreefefef,,-"7TYr,rfewF.* "ANTHRAGITE’ By Joseph Manley, in the February issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY is a splendid picture of the coal flelds and the problems of the miners in it. You will get it among many other features of great interest—besides eleven other coming issues, if you send in $2.00 for a yearly sub. Obey that impulse! pin rinirii hb bb bh Aha AAAbAAAAAASA - _. -., ee ee ee ee De De DD ee ed _. ee ee i i i i i i i i i i i ed } j oy _— —_ = We quote T. J. O'Flaherty: mony. diversion. The lighted end of a cigarette. at the other end of it. ington. ting monotonous. ... $2.00 a Year Single Copy 25 Cents Send remittance to T\) 1113 W. Washington Bivd Graft Is Getting Monotonous! Then we have another tale of graft, with a Boc- cacian touch, in the revelations of the fascinating Mrs. Scott, wife of a Michigan congressman. Army officers and gambling figured in her testi- A burned hole in her kimono was what caused her husbidtnd to let the public in on a little burnt hole was caused by the Graft, illegal transporta- tion of liquor, drunken prohibition officers—this is the tale unfolded by witnesses to life in Wash- Graft is the order of the day. The keen shafts of satire and wit that have made the authors’ column “As We See It” in the DAILY WORKER receive nation-wide attention, his article “The Fine Art of Grafting” in the February issue of The Workers Monthly. And it is only one of many features you will receive if you subscribe to THE WORKERS MONTHLY THE WORKERS MONTHLY An army officer was It is get- are much in evidence in $1.25 Six Months Chicago, Ulinois
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ee ie eee er er oe | G ?. ny raw tigen A eagee ~annists and their program are the pivot around TMe DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY -WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1138 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: $3.50....6 months ¥ .00...8 months By mail (in Chicago only d $4.50... 6 months $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year 58.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL | WILLIAM F. DUNNE{ Editors MORITZ J. LOEB........++ssnere Business Manager Chicago, Hltnels Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ici d things hereinbe tocn shaheb tak aden ike to all and singu 2, That the aad detendant, Wiliam Local Union No. 2140, or ? : such other, further and } om {lief in the premises as what be agrée “his lable to equity. | terill, Hutcheson’s tool, v | Duffy, general secretary of. tne! Union, Trade Union Educational League ie making such headway that fakerdom justly sees the end of its rotten regime. * 1 . A « - Tl : ¢> poe / ) a - y Nae / q e a 5 £. BB Hi i the said any . - » +? other way molesting or 3. That these plaintiffs 1 — ‘e ‘ ee SBMS ty “And these plaintiffs will tree 9 | United Brotherhood of © Attached to this document were je |othérs, one a notary public s attesting to the fact that Sant” doe represented himself to be, to wit « s0 forth, and a letter erhood, advising the reco} cre tary of Local No. 2140 that Reynolde was expelled. Lapang This innovation in preventing trade union militants from attending their union’ meeting may become popular, The next step will be to have all those members who have cast their ballots in the recent elections for. op. ponents of “Czar” Hutcheson expelled by injunction. It. will save the fakers the trouble of looking up the constitu. tion. But of course they don’t do _|that now. The desperate straits to which the reactionaries are driven in their ef- forts to exclude all progressives from the union is here amply demonstrated. That they should be compelled to re. sort to the courts in this fashion is positive proof that the majority of the membership are against them. This kind of conduct will-only quicken and sharpen the growing discontent of the rank and file against Hutcheson and hasten the day when the. present fos silized bureaucracy will give way to progressive leadership. ax’ That Hutcheson is panic stricken is proved by the fact that several locals are in open rebellion against him yet he fears to take disciplinary: meas ures. The fight in the Carpenters’ under the diréction of the Solution For F Eiietevaent To the DAILY WORKER: This letter was refused publication in our local “labor” press!” E. J. Stack, actingepresident of the Oregon Federation Of Habor; recently declared before the Spokane Central Laber Council that:.umemployment is one of the gravest problems confront- ing civilization. As a solution to this grave problem, he ended the application of the ne 5 label Eg/neiple. The Union,Label The union label _principle is no doubt a desirable one for the workers; but as a solution for unemployment in the here and now, it is of remote utility. When the Root, Russell, Duncan delegation representing this American “democracy” visited Russia in 1917 they offered to the Russian workers, then engaged in a hand-to-hand strug- gle with both capitalism and czardom, the union label weapon as a means of emancipation; pointing to their “suc- cesses” in the U. SA. Would Give Us?Day Dreams” The American bourgeois cultivate a notion among theif'slaves that the percentage of unemployed in “God's country” is less thamin Great Britain. This not so. ' The Russell Sage: report recently published admitsethat from 10 to 20 per cent of the whole labor force o/ this country are far weeks and month: | by preventing at a time unempleyed—the . number | varying from one-te six millions. | Here in the Nerthwest there are He | from sixty to sevepty thousand out of em ployment. > ‘er The “4...L.” Dbyuijetin admits that there is a vast army of “potentia! la- hor” or homéguands hibernating in the small tow ns, wadting for sqinething to turn up.’ In Spokane, Seattle and Portland, thousands of loggers and mechanics are bucking the Blackboards on the skidroads—eager_ fo work for their board. Unorganized, they are at the mercy of the masters of bread—and believe that nothing can be done, hence they accept a job at any price. Unemployment Insurance Let us inculcate in their minds that capitalist, industry and government must support workers, both employed and unemployed; if they are able to collect it. This Gah be done by agitat- ing and ‘tr aug or full main- tenance by natidéfal unemployment insurance from on profits. Make it an issif@ in the trade union movement. It @¥ay not be a revo- lufionary issue Dut it is essentially a class demand. . The British bog have achieved state unemplo insurance; there- integration of the trade unions them, competition of the LA Views: of Our Readers ; unemployed, as the latter, unlike their |. American brothers in distress, refuse to take a underpaid job, as long as they can get the same amount of money from the state, and refuse to’ scab on their unemployed fellow- workers. A. J. Clarke, Spokane, Wash. Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 37 South. Ashland Avenue | nese..povid Corner of Monroe and Madison Sts.,' February 28. Pore sye sere q we ney To 4ue RAL, like toceey .a& ward Haan y heurance Agents. ORKER: —I would in behalf of the red slaves” of the big life jin fompanies, who secure jobs oe punder. the belief that if ustle for a while they will che yok se up, Pa good paying busi- almo: urse, that they Yn this way the ~eollecting done for These 2OURE men are ‘fusually fairly a so Ammunition for the Workers’ ‘Arsenal — By MANUEL GOMEZ. and Wage-earning Classes, Capitalist industry means ever-increasing wage slavery. The tenden- Distribution of Working Population tnto Employer, Salaried cy is for the working class to include a greater and greater proportion of the whole population, while the fortunate few who seap the profits of industry become ever fewer, and at the same Aime more fortunate. tendency, pointed out by Karl Marx nearly three-quarters of a century ago, can be observed in every capitalist country in the world, not excluding the This United States. Here are some figures which speak for themacives. In the years 1910 to 1920—in spite of, the fact.that American industry expanded tremendously and the wage-carners and salaried employes in- Total Number of Employers and Self-Employed’ .°« 1910 (all industries) .......... evs epaek 0 HSe FSG ods paieeiene, 3 98,175,711 Extraction of Minerals ......... pia tives oWenes ~S 17,884 04642 14,287 Manufacturing Industries ........:.. Madde cea 562,199; > 814,974 Transportation .......... ienes d sais « cide s eae 81.488 >a 59,572 Building Trades ........+. Gd cccdecocdics weer int O0,188:, 174,422 FPREO cccccecssccnescedtosenuse's ctewepe cheese. 1,786,902. 5, .1,530,340 Professional Service ......0ss. Chae 0M o dee v6 758,336. $12,444 Domestic and Personal Service ..««eaes dese \; - 426,688 oe. 512,081 Agriculture, etc. ......0.-.6 b eq grewe epee cd's 8,251,31 9,457,591 Salaried (supervisory and professional) .,,.dncsecsaccooun : 101,233 14,345 Wage Earners (manual and clerical) ..:.:.....- 26,080,689 22,406,714 Extraction of Minerals .........c.cedeeccssccs 1,018,967 916,597 Manufacturing Industries ...........; Powecees 8,775,543 6,401,436 Transportation ........u0e.ees sceese sebeceeese 2,962,614 2,664,674 Building Trades .........seees OGiceboasiese 2,397,391 2,475,329 Stationary Engineers .....c..eccseecciscesces 242,096 231,041 Stationary Firemen ry BStocccbiseet Wi: 143,875 111,248 Trade occcdcccsddceowset Bi isi sewidet Vecctuet 1,937,600 «© 4,663,117. Professional Service ....V....... Ja c@eecoebes 148,267 (81,666 Domestic and Persénal Service’ ..:....0s..%.. 2,902,956 3,185,907 Clerical Workers .........«.+-. se we éminaenee 2,950,769 1,631,926. Agriculture ....Jb..0..% jee Slane pUbinccccccovees 2,600,612 3,143, 778.5, creased from 24,889,192 to 29,621,297—the number of bosses. and yesividuals self-employed decreased, from 13,175,711 ta, 11,974, 369. | eg From the above tabulation it appears “that the total number of wage earners constituted and the employer and 627 0 ceht of the “gainfully engaged” persons in 1920 ‘employed group constituted 28.8 per cent, However, if the self-employed should be removed from the category of employers, the | number of the latter would be seen te be mush emalier. | a - ai 22 @ -e ‘on: Many Subjects well educated and have a great. deal of pride and conceit. They do, met consider themselves working “ mé¢ They belong to some imaginary middie class. Perhaps.the reason they claim to belong to the middle class is be cause they are about half way be- tween poverty and starvation...» . In the 61 weeks that we have, been insured eleven different agents. have collected and on 16 occasions. the assistant superintendent has gollected when he had no agent. In addition, to his 16 calls he has had to go, with each new agent to break him in, which makes the total of 27 trips for the superintendent. One man stuck out for 14 weeks, thus depriving several others of some good rich experience. Another stayed six weeks, wore his shoe soles thru and had no money to get them repaired, from Tuesday un- til Saturday. I asked a third agent, “Why do the insurance companies change agents to often? Is it the inefficient help or small salary?” He said, “Small sal- ary.” He gets $14 a week, but if he sold more policies he would get 10 on the dollar. He also said the agents must be married men, as they make better slaves. When agents come to our house (which is very often) I usually offer them a chair to rest themselves. Then after a while | asked them: “Are you a working man or do you belong to the middle class?” After some ‘discits- sion, I close the conversation by hand- ng them our DAILY WORKER or ‘| Workers Monthly, or other good fead- ing material we have on hand. Th this way I think the housewife can spread propaganda and advertise the DAILY WORKER. I hope other housewives will follow my example ‘to help-édu- cate the workers @ ‘he Class struggle. Mi LEE GREEN. ' — . Who Wit! Visit’ ae Comnséaet® To the DAILY WORKER:* Would ‘lthink it advisable to publish this letter in the DAILY WORKER concerning the confienment of Comrade Andrew Graham at the Swedish Hospital, Fos- ter and North Califorina. Except for the moral aid of only two or three comrades his belief in a recovery would be nil. Any comrades who wish to bring a parcdl along may bring fresh ,fruit such as apples, orangés, grapefruit, pears, etc. Comrade Gra ham has been in a cast for 12 weeks with a permanent recovery in doubt. There is no doubt the accumulative moral assistance of more comrades tc is bedside would be invaluable aid Comfradely, H. M. Subscribe for “Your for the DAILY WOR