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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
George E. Knepper in Moscow.

George E. Knepper, of Boise, Idaho,
grand secretary of the Masonic lodge
in the state of Idaho, arrived in Mos
COW this morning on his way to the
grand lodge, which convenes next
week at st. Maries. Mr.. Knepper is
brother of S. H. Knepper, well
known farmer who lives northwest Of
Moscow, and will visit at the home of
his brother for a few days. Mr..
Knepper is well known in the Mos
COW and Lewiston districts, having
for many years been resident of
north Idaho. Earlier in life he was
owner and publisher of daily news
paper in California.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
Entertains Baptist Ladies.

The Womans Union of the Baptist
church met Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Laura Waterman
After the business and devotional
part of the meeting a very interesting
program was given. Mrs. J. Orrin
Gould gave two readings from Eu-
gene Fields, which were very much
enjoyed by all. Mrs. Ed Collins pre-
sided at the piano. Mrs. Eugene
Campbell sang. The luncheon was
daintily served at the August birth
day table, covers being laid for eight.
Mrs. Laura Waterman and Mrs. Bert
Smith were the hostesses.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08

J. H. Haynes at the home of Mrs.
Hubert on Almond street At this
meeting it was decided to hold a
bazaar some time late in October and
to give dance on Thanksgiving
night. Following the business meet
ing pleasant social. hour was spent
and simple refreshments were served
by the hostess.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
Where to Find Them.

1t is possible that a great many
people do not know just where the
local headquarters of the Salvation
Army is and therefore would not
know where to deliver anything
which they might wish to give in the
way of clothing, ETC., to aid in the
work being done locally by the or
ganlzation. Headquarters, Captain,
l.. l.. Montgomery in charge, are at
III Almon street. Telephone SS.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
w. C. T. e. Sale Saturday

The w. c. t. U. ladies are putting
up booth on the corner of 3rd and
Main, Saturday afternoon and even
ing. Will sell ice cream, cake sand
witches and coffee. This is for the
purpose of raising money for the W.
G. t. U. and the rest room. 291-292
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
EniOys Live Vacation.

Miss Katheryn Whitman, who visit
ed this summer with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ]. A. Whitman at Clarks-
ton, and also enjoyed trip to rela-
tives on Camas prairie, is home again
in Moscow
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08

Catholic Ladies Entertained.
The Catholic Ladies Altar society
vas entertained Wednesday after
loon by Mrs. H w. Hubert and Mrs.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
TOMATOES! TOMATOES.

Are you going to can tomatoes
Mound Valley crop is now ready for
orders. Phone 9341. T. A. Hanna.
2S0-215
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-08
The Electric Shop
SPECIAL SALE

~ GOlAA SALE
On flash lights, two and three way
sockets while they last Come and
get one, you will need them.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19
CHRONOLOGY OF Infamous TOM mooney frame Up

signed to the case as member OF
the special squad organized after the
explosion.
Nov. 13-James F. Brennan, the
prosecutor of Billings, says he
doubts Billings guilt and claims
there was not evidence enough to
convict.
Nov. 15-Judge Griffin says again
that he is convinced that Tom Mooney
is not guilty.
Nov. 22-District Attorney Brady
promises that he will lay the facts of
the frame-up before the Grand Jury.
Nov. 30-Captain VIM. H. Taylor
is the first witness to be examined
in the Grand Jury probe Of the
frame-up.
Dec. 15-The new exposures in
the Mooney case stir the East, The
New York World, The Tribune, The
Call and other leading papers de-
manding that Mooney and Billings
be pardoned and granted new trials
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written in history as the first attack
in the great Proletarian offensive
againts Capitalism.
THE UNFORGETTABLE COM
MUNE.
The Paris Commune, defeated but
glorious, has been monumentally
vindicated by the crowning successes
of the Russian Revolution.
Tken, too, the tradition of the
Commune still burns in the hearts of
the French Proletariat. The noble
work begun by the rebels of II and
reddened by their unstintingly given
blood and raised to the most pro-
missing heights by tn Russian Pro-
letariat, must inevitably be completed
by their children.
The collapse of world capitalism
is unavoidable. When the last of the
bourgeoisie shall have bowed to. the
superiority of the workers power;
when the international proletariat
shall have forever bid farewell to
wage slavery, then shall the COM
mune be avenged.
Long live the International Pro-
letarian Revolution!
Long live the Commune!
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Continued from last week.
1920.

January Con motion Of Assis-
tant District Attorney Fred Barry
before Judge Roche, seven indict-
ments in the Preparedness Parade
bomb cases were dismissed, three
against Tom Mooney, two against
Rena Mooney, and two against Israel
Weinberg. Attorney McNutt objected
10 the dismissal of the indictments
against Thomas ]. Mooney.
January 7-Rena Mooney, Israel
Weinberg and Ed Nolan cleared Of
all charges. Over protest Of Fickert
and his forces one indictment kept
standing against Thomas ]. Mooney
and one against Warren X. Billings
in Judge Griffin's court.
Jan. S-Judge Mathew Brady
takes office as district attorney and
pledges himself to clear up the
Mooney case.
Jan. 19-"We are with you unit
the ship Sinks" was the message
personally delivered to Tom Mooney
by q delegation Of seamen from all
parts Of the United States that visit.
ed him at San Quentin.
Jan. 21-Seamen's unions In con.
vention assembled passed resolutions
demanding new trial for Billings and
Mooney.
Feb. death ends career Of
brilliant attorney Thomas M. 0'Con-
nor. Was taken sick in court, defend.
ing Anita Whitney. He took part In
the defense Of Weinberg and Mrs
Mooney.
Feb. 12-Tom Mooney instructs
his attorney, Maxwell McNutt TO de-
mand new trial on the remaining In
dictment.
March 14-First convention oi
California Labor Party demands new
trial for Mooney and Billings.
March 23-Illinois miners meeting
in convention assembled In Peoria
Illinois, again pass resolutions Of pro
test against the frame-up.
May 24-verdicts are created Il
order by juries operating In III,
criminal courts Of San Francisco. TIL,
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system was developed under the
Fickert administration. A lawyer by
the name Of Riccardi demonstrates
to the satisfc lion of the members
Of the Grand Jury, his liability" in
that direction.
May 6-Organized labor presents
a petition to District Attorney Brady
signed by tens Of thousands of citi-
zens, asking for new trials for the
victims of the frame-up. District At
torney Brady promises to clear up
the cases and states his belief that
the convictions were a miscarriage
Of justice.
May 14-The international Work
ers' Defense League adjourned and
turned over its work in behalf of
Mooney and Billings to the Mooney
Molders' Defense Committee.
June 10-Tom Mooney, in article
in New York Call, urges defeat Of
Hiram Johnson fop president of the
United States, and called him "his
chief jailer."
June 12-John Mooney pickets the
Republican National Convention in
Chicago with the endorsement Of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor, urging
the delegates not to nominate Hiram
johnson.
June 19-Mooney case again n
vital issue before the American
Federation Of Labor convention. The
executive council was instructed to
apply to Governor Stephens to par
don both Mooney and Billings.
June 13-The Labor Party in
national convention assembled in
Chicago demands that new trials be
given TO the victims Of the frame-up
in San Francisco.
Aug. 1s-First issue Of Tom
MONEYS Monthly.
Oct. 27-vidovich, one Of the main
witnesses against Billings and Moo
ney, died as a charity patient in o
New York hospital, discovered to be
in possession Of si2s,Ooo. His re-
latives charge that he was crazy at
the time he gave testimony against
Billings and Mooney.
Nov 12-Hooney and Billings
frame-up bared to Mayor Rolph by
Officer Draper Hand, who was as
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19
MOSCOW REVOLT
COLLAPSED.
CONTINUED from page y

Continued from page y
men back to duty, promising that
those who had been misled would be
distinguished from the real plotters
and would be treated conciliatorily.
After the meeting the situation eased
as indicated above.
Lenin Explains.
"In a recent speech Lenin explain
ed the food situation, saying that
large stores of food accumulated had
been to confidently distributed, in
stead of being stored for a possible
emergency, and that when heavy
snowstorms and temporary shortage
of fuel brought down the train ar
rivals from 120 every five days to
twenty the consequent lessening OF
rations produced a protest. The usual
number Of trains are now bringing
food and the shortage is over. 1t is
obvious that foreign plotters are
endeavoring to use the rumors OF
unrest to counteract possible trade
relations with England and other
countries. No uneasiness is felt here,
as the demonstration proved that the
great masses of the workers adhere
firmly to the policy Of the Govern
ment, and the soldiers Immediately
rallied to its support"
A second radio, dated Moscow,
March 6, stated that the "final stages
of the Kronstadt adventure are mark
ed by utter disillusionfnent among the
participants of the mutiny." The
mutineers were declared to be fight
ing among themselves. The arrival
of Trotsky on the scene, and the
fact that stores Of food ran low
after the first days of pillaging were
declared to have led to situation
in which the whole affair was ex-
pected to dissolve at any moment.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19
FEATURES OF THE new YORK WAIST
AND DRESSMAKERS STRIKE.
By JACKSON.

been avoided quite easily if the
settlement would have provided a
clause that the working force of the
settled shops must not be increased
above the usual standard and by
having the shop delegate and COM
mittees see to it that no work is
done during the strike without union
permits attached to the garments
certifying that there scabbing
involved in it. This would have re-
duced the possibilities Of manipulat-
ing scab work to insignificance, and
at the same time would nave per-
mitted the settlement of such shops
as were willing to settle. 1t would
have forced the big manufacturers
to terms, which owing to the slack
ness now prevailing surely will not
be the case.
The officials themselves, are be-
having like complacent business men.
The pulling down of new shops does
not seem of great interest to them.
Presumably their entire interest Gen.
ters in the renewed collection Of dues
and initiation fees. | am positive
this is their chief reason for con-
senting to this strike. The workers
however, are safeguarding their
own interests and our union will
not be weakened as a result of this
strike. Much more could have been
accomplished with a shop-delegate
system and an office controlled by
the rank and file, but then during
strikes it is not advisable to fight
amongst ourselves; the main thing is
to lick the Bosses despite our Of
ficials. AS a whole the strike was
another showing of solidarity ana
strength of the workers in our in
dustry. AS a result the open shop
appetite of our bosses has been
spoiled very much.
The splendid participation and
fighting ability of the developed
leadership of the membership in this
strike has greatly strengthened the
confidence of the workers and their
influence will be greater hereafter.
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The Paris Commune.
(Cont!nued from page y

Continued from page u
divided into departments, Education,
Finance, Military, Labor, etc. Of all
the departments, that of Labor prov
ed most fruitful. At its head was
an Austrian Socialist, Frankel. He
gathered around him workingmen of
vision and revolutionary initiative. It
was they who supported the decree
of appropriation and prepared a
measure for the suppression of pawn
shops, saying that it was the duty
of the State to care for the destitute
and unemployed They restricted the
stoppage of wages, abolished night
work and applied hygiene to industry.
Indeed, an historic work was begun
but, alas! it could not be completed.
THE BOURGEOISIE RALLY.
On the eighth of May began the
bombardment of Paris. Two days
later the Fort of Issy was evacuated.
Every inch of ground was bitterly
contested by the Parisians. But their
generals, though courageous, were
unskilled; the military comission,
novices all, left advantageous points
without artillery, withheld reserves
and bungled troop movements. 1t
was only the matchless bravery of
the Communards that prolonged the
hour of defeat.
THE COMMUNARDS' LAST
STAND.
On the 21st of May the Versaillese
entered Paris. The tocsin was sound
ed: the whole City was in arms.
Women, true to their revolutionary
tradition, tended the wounded, eX-
horted the men to battle and them
selves mounted the barricades. Child
rem assisted at the barricades, car
rying paving stones and swinging
mattocks larger than themselves.
Boys served as cannoniers. Paris was
bristling camp. They would not let
slip their liberties uncontested.
With Paris in flames the battle
ragged until the 28th, Sunday. The
Communards succumbed, fighting to
the last on the heights of Belleville
and Menilmontant. Varlin, the young
and indefatigable leader Of the French
section of the First International,
died bravely on the barricades. For
an hour afterward he was dragged
through the streets Of Montmartre
under a rain of blows and insults
from the revengful beasts Of the re-
action. This youthful martyr brings
vividly to mind that great and fal-
len revolutionist of our day, Lieb-
knecht.
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THE SLAUGHTER OF THE
WORKERS,

Then began the wholesale slaugh-
ter. Though the battle was over,
10000 were murdered notwithstand-
ing three fourths of these took no
part in the fighting. On the least
possible suspicion and often without
justification the monsters murdered
in cold blood. The breech leaders
would not work fast enough against
the walls, against which thousands Of
men, women and children were merci.
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lessly slam. Such was bloody Sum-
day, an ineridicable stain. forever
to decry the htdeousness of CAPITALIST
oppression.
1t is with horror that one recounts
the lielnous vengeance of Bourgeois
france. twenty-five thousand men
women and children killed during the
pattle or afte9 three thousand dead
in the prisonsE more than thirteen
thousand condFmned, most of them
for life; sever ~ thousand old men
women and en- lldren thrown out Of
France or dep wed of their support.
The Court Maftials were allowed to
continue for fpur years after. Over
one hundred ahd ten thousand souls
lost to their ountry. This, as the
bourgeoisie sal in retaliation for
sixty-three hos s1hges killed by mob
in Paris. No, nit that was not their
crime; it was that these martyred
workers dared lift their voices and
their hands in the battle for free
dom.
Thus is written the history of the
Commune. A h1story4of revolutionary
proletarian brdvery drowned in the
bloody vengean|ce of black bourgeois
reaction.
COMMUNE \ CLASS REVOLT.
The undenial e class character of
this revolt sta BIS as beacon light
to the proleta lat of the world, a
proletariat whiyh now stands ready
to avenge the lmartyrdom of their
comrades by the vigorous suppress
sion of the historic counter-parts of
their despicable butchers; by the
realization Of the things for which
those brave soldiers of the revolu-
tion gave their lives.
All! yes, ths Communards made
mistakes. Adverturers and poltroons,
adolescents and immature men were
given responsive duties to perform;
the bourgeoisie with their flunkies
were allowed to march off unmolest-
ed to prepare the counter-revolution;
the bank of Paris with milliards Of
francs in it's Golfers was not taken
over; little was the discipline and
many were the tragedies caused by
i'll leadership. Still, the bourgeoisie
of the world threw fit of frenzy
at the sight of mere workingmen
legislating affairs in their own way,
declaring it to be time for the pro-
letariat to use its strong arm in OBJ
tanning and holding those liberties,
which, hitherto, had been denied
them.
However, faulty, however weak,
the Commune was workers gov
ernment. Thd soldlery ana ponce,
protectors Of the bourgeoisie were
replaced by the armed popular mas
ses. The pay of the functionaries was
no more than that Of the workers.
Foreigners elected to the Commune
were confirmed in their functions, a
testimony to their internationalism,
Either they effected reforms which
the bourgeoisie had failed to carry
out or they initiated measures di-
rectly in the interest Of the workers.
But with he counter-revolution re-
turning fiercely to the attack little
could be done. The Commune will be
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19
'GOMPERS and THE sOVIETs..
By GEO. N. FALCONER.

they crossed themselves before d
shrine in the main street of Vladi-
mir. Yet any advance in Russia can
be purchased only by a sharp breach
with the medieval past. l got q
glimpse in these villages of cleay-
age so primitive, that we of the west
can barely with an effort understand
it. The Communists are struggling
to cross the gulf between the twelfth
century and the twentieth. They stand
for rationalism, for an intelligent
system of cultivation, for education,
and for an active ideal of coopera-
tion and social service, against super
stition, waste, illiteracy, and passive
obedience. This elementary struggle
matters, it seems to me, infinitely
more in Russia than the controversial
issues which divide Mensheviks and
other intellectuals from the Com
munists. Youth is ranged against age
in the villages, and the battle is
really one between an Oriental con-
servatism and modern and western
view of life. Lenin continues the un-
finished work of Peter the Great.
SOvIETISM VERSUS DEMOCRACY
Continues Samuel, uncrowned king
of the American Proletaire:
Though Russia were nation
where wealth was in plenty for all,
if the present condition of autocracy
and slavery existed the American
decision and determination must be
the same. And after all, when the
friends of the soviet autocracy say
that the conditions in Russia are
better than they are, what they say
in truth is that the serfs are well
cared for, which they are not. 1t is
not question of how comfortable
the autocrats try to make things for
the enslaved and enchained; it is a
question of the autocracy itself, a
question of the principle that is at
the heart of it all.
While sOvietism is sovietism de-
mocracy can have no compromise
with it."
Correct. Sovietism and shopkeeper
democracy cannot live together in
friendly relations. One or the other
must go, and the one to "go" will
not be Sovietism. The Soviets belong
to the future. The Democracy Of the
Gompers, the Wilson's and the bour-
geois plunderbund is Of the past, and
is doomed. "Ring out, wild bells.
"Ring out old shapes Of foul de
sease,
eRing out the narrowing lust Of
gold; R
"Ring out the thousand wars OF
old,
"Ring in the thousand years Of
peace"
But Sammy and his profitmonger-
ing democratic, capitalistic-ridden
companions do not understand. They
are so practical, so wise in their
ignorance. They constantly remind US
of a statement Of Montaigne, "Man
is certainly stark mad; he cannot
make worm, and yet he will be
making gods by the dozen." Demo-
cratic geds at that! But these goods"
also must go; they are dying, as all
gods die. Like the tabled god Of old,
the present wage and profit system
not only swallows up those who
created and support it, but it sub
jects the vast majority Of its wor-
shippers to a life Of penury and
irksome toll. The present wage
system must be abolished, and the
workers of the world must do it.
Soviet Russia has shown the way.
Hail Soviet Russia! Viva Lenin. Viva
Bolshevismo! "All power to the work.
o~c
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The Salineville, o., booster, COM
rade Hirst keeps up his space of
subscription hustling. More power
to him and more like him is what's
needed.
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The Doers' Column.

Books for Toilers" are going
fine. Comrade Thornton is one pro-
pagandist who is on the job. He or
ders ten dollars worth of them,
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Subscription hustlers are requested
to remit at all times when sending in
sold cards. By doing so, they assist
in meeting current expenses.
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1921.

Jan. 11-Right Rev. Edward l.
Parsons, San Francisco bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal church, writes
open letters to Fremont Older, re-
questing that the Mooney case doubt
be cleared up.
Feb. John Mcdonald, principal
witness against Mooney and Bill
lings, bares his perjury in affidavit
dictated in the presence of Frank P
Walsh in New York City, and in.
wolves Fickert, Cunha, Matheson and
Goff.
Feb. 12--Policeman r. w. Smith
backs up alibi Of the defense by ad.
mitting he saw the Moneys on the
roof Of the Eilers building at the
time that the frame-up witnesses
testified that they were over one
mile away.
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"Not the destruction, but the con-
quest of the trade unions," quotes
comrade Left in an order for copies
of the International Council of Trade
and Industrial Unions. He's right,
we are builders, not destroyers.
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Renewals are the spice Of life in
the Toiler office. We're getting lots
of spice these days.
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