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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
Wheeler, JefersOnian Democrat

Yes it is Wheeler who will run with LaFOllette,
In the personally conducted crusade to turn the
rascals out Aside from the fact that this repeats
the performance of the old parties in ignoring the
demand for labor" man of the Berry or Lewis
type, there is the further interesting fact that
Wheeler, running with LaFollette announces that
he will campaign for Walsh of Montana, who sup
ports Davis
Wheeler announces he ''remains true to Jeffer-
sonian democracy" LaFollette is a "Lincoln repub
lican." Both remain in their respective parties,
but join in a personal independent presidential
campaign. Their supporters scatter their votes
thru the old parties, and "Jeffersonian democracy
and Lincolnian republcanism" is acclaimed by
everyone, including Davis and Coolidge
1t is all part of the Back to 1776" program
of course, so we should not be surprised at what
ever happens. Mixing re with IA is a task that
might bring confusion to steadier brains than
these It's like mixing drinks in these post-vol
stead days.
But to carry the scheme out to its logical con
cusion the nominees should announce their cab
met along these lines: Attorney general William
Jennings Bryan, in order to get the prohibition
vote secretary of state Ellis Searles, in order to
get the antibolshevik vote and also give the cab
met "labor" color-Searles works for Lewis; see
rotary. of the interior, Exalted Grand Wizard
Evans to get the Klux vote secretary of the treas
ury, clerk from Morgans office, in order not to
incur the enmity of "sound" fnanciers; and
for secretary of labor, inasmuch he is appar-
emily on his death-bed and can't last long anyway,
Samuel Gompers. The bolsheviks are not, of
course, to be placated: on this there is a united
front from Morgan to Debs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

the conductor. 1t is an express train,
no stops at little jerk water stations,
no stops to take on passengers at flag
stations. We only stop for one flag
and that is the RED FLAG.
The seating capacity of our train is
limited, no room for bosses, bootleg
gers or boodlers. No room for plutes,
parasites or bathrooms. We want no
saviours, squires of spitoon philoso-
piers. Nobody allowed on board but
class conscious workers. We have no
room for any one else. We cannot
stop to let them off at their little sta
ton called COMPROMISE. We are
going to keep on travelling until we
get to WORKING CLASS CONTROL.
That is our destination and with men
like Foster and Gitlow in charge OF
the train, and with passengers who
will not want the train to be stopped
at every little SHADY DELL, we will
get there.
There are no parlor cars on our
train. We would not know what to
do with them, as we will have no par
lor socialists" on board. Bring your
own grub with you, as you Will not
get square meal until you get out Of
CAPITALISM, and it is long way to
go. 1t is your campaign train and
you will have to pay the bills, no free
passes for any one.
But say, comrade, it is going to be
some trip. You had better come along.
You will be sorry the rest of your life
if you don't. You will enjoy every
minute Of it BECAUSE IT is CARRY
ING YOU AWAY FROM CAPITAL
ISM. Don't makeNa mistake and get
on the wrong train; IL you do you are
liable to get ditched in a swamp. You
will dnow our train because 1t is the
only one Of its kind. 1t is the only
RED SPECIAL and the engine is
named COMMUNISM, Look, Bill Eos
ter is oiling her up now and Ben Git
low is looking at his watch. You will
have to hurry. Don't you hear that
call, "ALL ABOARD FOR WORK
ING CLASS CoNTRoL."-Joseph M.
Caldwell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21

to Watson is running over with fads and vagar-
les" was chosen running mate for Davis in order
to fool the farmers. That is perfectly sound policy
in the game of capitalist politics
If remember correctly the republican
sachems were planning exactly the same man
ouver. Their plans miscarried 1t was the orig
inal aim of the Old Guard of the republican party
to have Borah run for vice-president In this case
Coolidge to get the cold cash from Wall Street
and Borah was to be the bait, so-called radical
bait for the agricultural voters to swallow. The
loyal lackey of biggest business, Senator Watson
was one of the prime movers in this vancouver at
Cleveland
Mr.. Watsons attack will produce no moral out
breaks amongst the workers. 1t will simply serve
to implant more firmly in the minds of the work
ing masses the farms and in the mills that all
capitalist political parties, regardless of the mask
they hide under, regardless of the tricks they re-
sort to IN camoufaging their real, ugly selves are
only misleaders operating in the interests of the
exploiters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
Continued from Last Issue)
The Great Revolutionary Problems.

But enough of general Impressions valuable though these
may be to indicate the patent fact that the Russian revou
ton and that has been accepted by
Now let get down specific facts showing
just how the revolutionary workers solving problems
which must be solved the order of society live
to develop into Communism In the brief time my disposal
shall not you with elaborate statistics but least
will be necessary.
my book "The Russian Revolution written after my
return from Russia in 1921 stated that there three
great problems that the revolution its beginning in 1917
had had to face u governmental p military b indus,
trial By that time the first two of these had been actually
solved The workers had not only succeeded definitely in
oyrthrowing the old regime and establishing the dictator
ship of the proeara but they had also succeeded in defend
ing their rule in the face of the hostile capitalist rule Wran
GEL the last of the invaders had been
crushed late in 1920 and the Konstadt early in
1921 The big problem left the third one that of reha
btating the ruined industrial and agricultural systems
that the people could be given the higher standard of living
which they must have the revolution survive
Everything depended upon the solution of this central
problem of revvng the economic life The general problem
manifested itself multitude of specific problems, all of
which had be solved at least in part before industry and
agriculture could be revived. few of the mpor-
ant of these subsidiary problems the breaking of the
nomic and political blockade which stranging Russia
the establishment of stable currency in place of the debased
ruble which making all real accounting systems mpos
sbe the development of state budget and the balancing of
it. the utilization of the dangerous experiment of the New
Economic Policy for revolutionary ends the stOppage of the
socaed decassng of the proetarat through the hungry
factory workers scattering out upon the land the abolition of
sabotage by the supporters of the capitalist regime the estab
lshment new effective system prolearian indus
trial discipline in place Of the old savedrivng methods that
the had suffered from time mmemorial.
All these problems, and many that might be
toned went make up the general industrial and agrcul
tural problems which complex and difficult in 1921
staggr the imagination The economic experts of the
world with complete unanmity pronounced them totally in
soluble But their solution absolutely imperative if the
revolution to live AS things stand three years later
hardly of these problems has been actually solved
plete But real progress has been made with all of them
Not has proved nsoube Even though this progress
solution has given birth grave problems
the general result has been good and shows that the
is The economic system of the country getting under
way again. the standard of living of the tong is be-
ing steadily raised and the permanency of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21

To the DAILY WORKER Protec-
ton of land swindle among the legal
profession of Florida is regarded as
public policy and as the paramount
principle of legal ethics.
The favorite scheme there is to sell
land under false and fraudulent state
ments of profits previously made by
raising special crops on such land,
statements made under positive as
sertion of their truths to prospective
victims in writing, and consequently
believed by the prospects to be true.
After a victim is caught by that trick
and later discovers the falsity of the
statements upon which he relied, he
naturally insists on having the fraud
ulent transaction set aside.
But some Florida lawyer without
authority from the defrauded victim
and even without his knowledge,
starts in the victims name against
the defrauder, suit for damages
and has it dismissed. If then the vic
tim starts his action to get the fraud
ulent deal set aside, the swindler
pleads the former suit as a bar, pre-
tending that the matter has already
been decided in his favor in for
mer suit.
The defrauded victim naturally re-
plies that he never authorized such a
former suit or in any way whatever
gave his consent to it. But Florida
courts, without even requiring the
swindler to produce the record of the
former suit, Gas required by law
have the decisions ready in advance
in favor of the swindler and contrary
to law, sustain his plea.
The object OF that policy, prevent
ing a redetison OF the fraudulent
deal, is evidently to induce and COM
pei the defrauded victim to sell out
to somebody else and thus attract
more victims. There is great deal
Of money in that policy, IL prices Of
$25 or more per acre can thus be
obtained by the land swindle interests
for land hardly worth dime per acre.
The amount Of plumber that can thus
be reaped by millions OF acres is OBJ
vious. II certainly is one OF the most
gigantic swindle organizations in ex-
istence-H. Weeke.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
RUSSIA IN 1924 By WILLIAM z


voution being glance very briefly
what has with each of the problems mentioned
Breaking the Blockade
OF all the factors that combined break down Russia
ndustrialy and agricuuraly, disastrous
the economic blockade by which the capitalist world tried
srange the revolution to death 1t in its effects
than the world war; the civil war; the wholesale sabotage
any other single factor 1t death the economic life
of the country Before the Russia did average export
business of 1000 rubles per year of this 9O%
sisted of agricultural and timber products OF the
total products 45 thrown upon the market half
of this going abroad But the world followed by the
eVOow and the blockade completely destroyed this foreign
trade Agriculture ruined for want of a market The
same happened to industry Not only the Importation
of vital manufactured goods and machinery necessary the
life of industry completely stopped but the other hand
the peasant market vanished WELL The relations between
city and country broken Industrial production fell
most to Zero and the peasants raised barely enough food
sus to live upon So far did the collapse agriculture go
that in 1921 the spectacle of Russia the greatest grain
growing country in the world actually importing food
For this the blockade, not the great drouh primarily
to blame because under ordinary circumstances with
NAL production Of Russia could have handled the famine
situation entirely with its surplus.
From the beginning the Russian economists considered
the breaking of the blockade and the opening the world
market to Russian trade of the most vital consequence
member long talk had in 1921 this subject with Com
rade Martens formerly Soviet Envoy the United States
He said that the fate of the revolution probably depended
upon the breaking of the blockade And when him again
this year, he had changed his opinion measured the
economic recovery of Russia pretty much by extent to
which it had succeeded in winning its way back again into
the world market The past four years marked by
the determined efforts break through death cor
don wrapped about them by the international capitalist
class And these efforts have been BY playing
nation against the other that is by getting separate sections
of world capitalism to scab upon each other the Communists
have broke up the united front of the expoer have
forced their through the blockade and into the world
market Today whole of countries have compelled
compelled is the right word) to grant Russia either COM
pee partial recognition Among these England
many Poland CzechoSlovaka Sweden Japan Norway Rou-
MANIA and many others The Cleft elections in France
hova that 4Ho4u
main points of resistance against Russia will have to sit
down at the conference table and do business the hated
Boshevik And wonder of wonders the progressive wave
now developing in the United States may probably force
uraconservave Government recognize Russia
ALSO
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
A Cement Plant.

To The DAILY WORKER: Like
many workers of today, woke up one
morning at 6 o'clock and thinking
about on what Labor Market" should
| go today, with my labor power, to
sell it to the capitalist for a wage.
Finally | decided to go to the large
Portland. Cement plant at Burlington,
Ind, nearby Indiana Harbor, Ind.
when you approach the plant il
seems as tho you came on an Alas
kan prairie. Its only difference is
that the sun is warm here. 1t is all
white around II similar to the winter
frost. When came close to the gate,
| found already many fellow workers
there waiting for a job most Of them
Negro and Mexican workers. And
several young girls and middle-aged
women, also most of them colored.
When you look around this, people,
a man begins to change his feeling
with this kind Of situation. Some OF
them have torn clothes; some cou-
pie of holes in the shoes; some with
out soles on the shoes; some without
heels and some even without shoe
laces.
They look sadly at each other. and
don't know exactly what might come
next. The air is full Of tiny dust fall
ing for miles around the plant Many
complaints were made recently
against the company from the so.
' g'%NSN~ts--.-~--.,'-A~- - -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21

called Twin City administration (E.
Chicago and Indiana Harbor, Ind.)
against the nuisance of the plant
But, as this plant is a part Of the
United States Steel corporation, 1t
should be fought by workers and far
mers in the Workers Party.
l approach a colored worker and
ask him If he had work within the
plant. His answer was: Yes, l work
in for a couple of days, but ]
can't stand the dust. 1t kills you. II
seems like a thick fog in the morn
ing, and you have to inhale It thru
the day. And If you work any longer
in, you're liable to go to the lancet
Because your lungs are filed with tn,
cement.-chas. T. Jureich.
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(To Be Continued Tomorrow

is fast upon their heels. Not only
that, but it is becoming clearer to
them from day to day that capitalism
is threatening to dispossess them of
their homes which they have spent
their lives for.
This education, brought about by
natural compulsion, has resulted in a
situation that the working farmer is
beginning to lose sight of his old ide-
ology, the sacredness of private own
ership. He is today realizing that
ownership is only given him to the ex-
tent that he is permitted to pay taxes
on the land and interest on debts.
Evidence to this effect is abundant,
as here ir Savo township. They have
organized club Of farmers and work
ers, where the social question is dis
cussed. The conclusions that they
reach in their meetings of the causes
of social evils. is much unlike the old,
where they only penetrated this CAPT.
talist system to the middle man, to
whom all faults were> laid.
Now they all seem to know that
there are the two classes in society:
the exploiter and the exploited; the
rulers and the slaves whose interests
are Numerically opposed, and that
only as a class they can break the
chains Of capitalism, the ruler, and ac-
complish their emancipation.
VINCENT IGNATIUS.
Frederick, South Dakota.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
Danish the Phsntoml

To the DAILY WORKER: In tn
republican party convention Repre-
sentative Cooper of Wisconsin, nom
inator' of LaFollette for president an
leader Of the LaFollette group in tn
last house of representatives, on bein
attacked for being socialistic, retorte
that the republican party in the pas
decade or so had adopted rs Of the 3
red" proposals made by the LaFo
lette group In that time. Well, rs {
LaFollette's 81 basic beliefs have a
ready been adopted Gas most
Roosevelt's have been), and VIII,
have they done for the workers?
Tho Representative Cooper does n,
realize it, his statement is confe
sion Of the inability of LaFolletteis
to solve the problems and satisfy Il
needs of the workers of this countr
Why should the workers Of the Unit
States further continue the phanto
Of LaFolletteism? Must they we
until hundreds of LaFollette's prin
pies have been incorporated hlto
law before they realize the futility
such a hope? BEN DAVIDSON.
P. S.-Of course our liberals. W
believe in honesty and fairness a
broad mindedness, will say, But
have been unfair. You ought to W
until the other five points OF LaF
lette's 81 have been accepted befc
you pass judgment" Yes, that's
trouble with us Communists--we're
unfair. ore sided aud fanatic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
Farmers and Workers Club

To the DAILY WORKER: The
threatening bankruptcy and serfdem
are playing havoc with the old ideol-
ogy OF the working agriculturists.
They are beginning to see the falla-
cies of the existing dog-eat-dog sys-
tenn. No matter what form OF agri-
culture they are engaged in, produc-
ing many times the amount that they
consume OF all kinds Of farm products,
still that elemental Of all evils, want.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21
All Aboard

To the DAILY WoRKER:-"All
Aboard" We are off on our first ma
tional campaign AND WE KNOW
WHERE WE ARE GOING. No more
hesitation, no more palavering, no
more dickering. It is our own train
and our own crew. Bill Foster is at
the engine throttle and Ben Gitlow is
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Worker Drowned?

MONTICELLO, Ind, July 20. :
search was made in the Tippecar
River, five miles from here today
the body Of William Tilson, 40,
gansport man employed as car
spector for the Pennsylvania railro
who is believed to have drowned
deep hole while wading into the
yer TO fish.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-07
Expression Actually
limitation to Death

The origin Of some common expires.
sions is always interesting, and wheth-
er the following Is authentic or not
Is an open question. When in ancient
days the weaving Industry of Hall
fax, England. was cottage craft-a
farmers family working on clumsy
handlooms-the pieces" used to be
spread out on the hillside, and were
therefore peculiarly liable to theft.
Particular crimes led to particular
remedies. and a custom. which had
the authority of local law, grew up.
that anyone convicted Of stealing
cloth to the then value of 18 pence
halfpenny was liable to immediate exc
cution, drastic law which naturally
safeguarded the cloth Industry.
Punishment was carried out, not by
hanging. but by sort Of guillotine.
This was the Halifax gibbet law, the
name Of which Is preserved by a still
standing street In the town, while the
actual knife Of the gibbet may be seen
In the old manor rolls Office at Wake
field. Halifax thus acquired . repu-
tation among thieves and vagabonds
as the last town in England desir-
able to visit. And to tell anyone to
go to Halifax is equivalent to bidding
him 10 go gi"-Chicags xoaxnal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-07
Make Stack Silage When
No Silo Is Available

Andrew Boss, vice director of the
Minnesota experiment station, says
that farmers without silos can pre-
serve green and immature corn by the
stack method of making silage.
G. L. McNelly, a Minnesota county
agent, has made stack silage for four
seasons on his farm at Mcintosh,
Mimi, and recommends it in prefer
ence TO bundle fodder corn. He makes
the stack about 20 feet in diameter
and 20 feet high, keeping the center
lower than the outside until the top is
reached when it should be filled full.
The bundles must be distributed even
ly over the surface with the butts
laid to the outside.
During the winter the top Of the
stack is kept covered with a foot or
two of wild hay which can be thrown
back as the silage is taken off. In
order to prevent extreme freezing this
covering should be replaced after the
days feed has been thrown down.
Corn preserved in this way will rot
In for about eight inches on the out
side of the stack, but as the butts Of
the stalks only are affected the loss 10
not serious. According to Messrs.
Boss and McNelly the silage cures
somewhat differently from the COM
mon corn silage in that it seems to
develop less acid. There is a sweet
molaSsas odor and flavor which rool-a
1t palatable for all kinds Of live stock.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-07
Majors Man Kne.u Horo
to Deal With Scorpion

The major acquired body servant
named CARVING while we were soak.
Ing up malaria in the hills back of
Santiago. One day the major was
stung by.sa large scorpion-stung
through his leather logging at that.
Major Latimer was probably one Of
the worlds greatest technicians In the
art of profanity. He tore loose with
his entire vocabulary when the virus
OF the scorpion made itself felt. Then
ne concluded he was going to die, as
many other scorpion stingees had.
CARVING dug around till he found
another scorpion. He broke the crit
ter In two, tore off the majors Logging,
rolled up his pants and drawers and
applied the raw end of half the brok-
en- scorpion to the spot on the ma
)or's leg where the sting had entered.
writes Leo p. Cook in Adventure Mag
azine. The pain ceased Immediately
and the major felt no further discom-
fort. Thereafter we knew how to
treat scorpion sting. This may be
old stuff.
Another little trick Of CARVING was
to catch scorpion, hold 1t by the
mead from beneath with thumb and
nnger, and with his other hand tear
out the muscle that actuated the scor-
pion's sting. You know the scorpion
must flip his tail up over his head to
strike. After CARVING had performed
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-07
Worlds Smallest Book
in Library of Congress.

Some Of the interesting curiosities
at the Library of Congress In Wash.
ington are: the smallest book In the
world. the longest printed work In
the world and the largest book In
America The smallest book Is copy
Of the Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
The longest work is the Tu Shu Chi
nese encyclopedia, while the largest
book in America Is James Audubon's
"Birds of America"
The midget Rubaiyat Is only three
eighths Of an inch wide and one-eighth
of an inch thick. Letters In the book,
even on the title page, are so small
that they can be read only with the
aid Of a powerful magnifying glahs
It's 4S pages of Japan paper are
daintily stitched and bound in green
paper. The printing Of the mann
moth Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia
has been called the greatest typo.
graphical feat In the world" Three
years were required to print its $3.50
volumes. with their 100000 pages. The
table of contents alone-is forty vol
umes. A copy of this voluminous work
printed at Shanghai was given to the
United States by the emperor of China
IN 1908. Audubon's Birds Of Amer.
lea" the giant American book, Is forty
inches long, twenty-six and one-hali
inches wide and two and one-fourtt
inches thick. So large are its pages
that on one of them turkey is pro
duced in life-size. The set comprises
four volumes. They are bound in
red horsehide and were presented to
the library by Audubon himself In
lS27.-Detroit News.