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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-06-04

A bin OF sale or deed Of Cit to The
city Of the new CITY clock was nre.
sented Attached fo, the deed and
formfnc mart of if is a complete list
of subscribers to the clock fund.
somefbiua like 600 of them II was
also accommodated nv the guaranty
Of fhe clock company, and a Daid-un
insurance Motley for $1,000 ON the
cIocl, for four wears. The matter was
ordered recorded on the city records.
and tn Mqvor uodokins was ASSIGNED
the tasl, Of DRAWING nm a suitable vote
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-06-04
Bluchill Falls.

Ashmand Clough has purchased a
new car.
Winn ODER Of Somerville, Mass, is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Turner.
June 2 C.
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L. e. TREADWELL,
agent for
International Harvester Co.
Tel. 2O2-5 80 Oak ST., Ellsworth

Just received car load of Farm Ma
chinery, to meet the wants of the farm
ers of this county. Making a specially of
Oil Engines, the new Ball Bearing Prim-
rose Cream Separator, the easiest turn
ing and best running you ever saw and
the Dodd & Struthers Copper Gable
Lightning rod. These Lightning rods
are stamped with the Underwriters Lab
.ratories series No. 524.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-06-04
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY, JUNE 4-5.
Matinees at 2.

VIOLA DANA in a story of the footlights,
"ROUGED LIPS" An excellent comedy
drama. Miss Dana is great and is given
perfect support by Tom Moore and his dog
It's a picture that everyone will chuckle
over We recommend it as a sure cure for
blues. Review and ROUND 2 of Fighting
Blood" series.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-06-04

IN MEMORIAM
In memory of our darling son and
brother Eugene C. ClosSon, who left us
Just one year ago, June 3, 1928.
Gone but not forgotten by those who
loved him best.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Closson.
Kenneth l.. Closson.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-06-04
DIED.

Everett. Mass, May 30,
Miss Clara Josephine Frazier, native
of Ellsworth.
Bucksport, May %,
Charles b. Richards, aged ~ years.
Watsonville, Cal, May IS,
Mrs Arvilla Swan Smith, formerly
of Waltham, aged 81 years, months,
"a days.
TAYLOR--At Bucksport, May, %, wal
ter Taylor, aged II years. months,
WiGHTEAt Bucksport, June /, Chas.
A. Wight, aged IS years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
Is HoWed Birminqham Inuestments Into Golden DoIars
REAL ESTATE-SALE K BUSINESS FROP. FOR SALE sS
INVESTMENTS

INVESTMENTS Keep your eyes on the sec tion bounded by 18th and 22nd Sts., 9th and 8th Ayes, where ''big" things are really going to take place.
 $25,OOO - Close-in alley corner, 110x150; revenue $2,088 per year.
 $45,0OO = Close-in alley corner, 75x20O; location is such that it can soon be improved to great advan- tage. Present revenue $1,800 per year.,
 S45,000-6th Ave-, N., off of 21st St., 50x190; small revenue, but a good buy. $50, ,000-25&19O, 5th Ave, N., between 18th and 20th Sts.; small revenue. This plot has a great future. Let us tell you why. $75,ooO-5th Ave-, N, be- tween goth and 22nd Sts. We would be glad to talk to you about this. F. B. Johnson
 Main 5280
 JEMISON & co. P.S.-Ave. E 1OOx14O cor ner only $6,750.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-19
REAL ESTATE-SALE K BUSINESS PROP. FOR SALE ss
INVESTMENTS Southside

INVESTMENTS
 Southside The most.conspicuous cor ner on the Southside, LOOK 40, on s. 21st St. It can be said conservatively that more people pass this cor ner than any point south of The Age-Herald build ing. There is a fortune in this. Price, $60,000. $35,OO0-Brick building, .50x140; key lot off 20th St. on Ave. D; good rental. S15,000-Ave. B, between goth and 21st Sts, where the buying is the fiercest. S15, ,OOO-AVe. F corner, 100x190; located at the in- tersection of two impor- tant thoroughfares. A splendid buy. See or call T. P. Watkins early Mon- day.
 w. B. LEEDY R. E. & I. co
 Realtors
 112.N. Fist St. Main 3265. Members Multiple Listing
 System
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
HiILQuit Labelled
Red No Longer by
Headline Writers
BY SHERMAN BOWMAN
lSnecinl 10 The Daily Morkrrl

DETROIT, March 10.-All confu-
sion as to "Who Are the Reds has
disappeared, said Robert Minor,
speaking to large audience at the
Labor Forum under the auspices of
the Workers Educational Association.
eve can all remember when, a
few years ago." he went on, "the
word Red was applied to any one
Of an assortment that ranged from
the polite, philosophic readers of the
works of Bakunin all the way around
the circle again to Morris Hillquit,
But today when a capitalist rewspa-
per head writer, over story dealing
with street fighting in Berlin, for
example, refers to Reds he means
Communists. s'he Reds today are
the Communists everywhere.
Control Of the United States gov
eminent by the oil interests began
30 years ago, according to evidence
Minor gave, when agents of oil in
terests began nominating presidents
and buying their way to power thru
increasingly extensive contributions
to the campaign chests of the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Cleveland Communists
Announce S erie s of
on L enin

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-The English
East Side) Branch Of the Workers
Party, announced that it has prepared
a course of six lectures on "the his
tory of the Russian Communist Par
ty and the role of Lenin in the Com
munist Movement" to be delivered
by Comrade John Brahtin at Swedish
Hall, 1857 Addison Rd. near Wade
Park avenue side entrance.
The lectures will be held on End
and 4th Thursday Of each month on
the following dates:
March 13-The Populist Movement
in Russia.
March 27-Formation of the Rus
sian Social-Democratic Party.
April 10-The Convention of 1903
The beginning of Menshevism and
Bolshevism.
April 24-The Revolution of 1905
and its consequences.
May 8-The World War and the
ascendency of the Bolsheviks.
May 22-Nikolai Lenin--The Man
and his work
Comrade Brahtin has made a study
of the Russian Communist Movement
and his lectures will be treat to all
those who will attend. Lectures start
at p. m. Admission free.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Zinoviev's Speech to Leningrad Communists

rades, are still very small-we need
not deceive ourselves, but they are
dear to us for the very reason that
they are the very first ones.
The feeling that we have gained
our first economic success is Selling
the broad masses of the conscien-
tious non-partisan workers. A whole
some atmosphere of production is to
be felt, which was not the case beA
fore, but which was necessary If all
our talk on the development of the
Party was not based upon sand. Bad
or good-wages have been raised,
the productivity of work has increas-
ed, and discipline in production has
improved.
stated that the failure to put the
resolutions of 1921 into actual prac-
tice had been mainly caused by OBJ
jective obstacles. But there were
subjective reasons too, dependent on
US and our organization. These sub
jective reasons are to be classified
in two groups. one of these is the
mechanical nature of our organiza-
ton. It was very difficult for us to
get underway, TO run on new lines
from war Communism to the new
epoch.
The other group Of causes is ex-
planned by our inadequate cultural
level-this is one of the fundamental
causes confronting us at every step
of the way There exists a certain
minimum of political schooling, of
political learning capacity, of political
and general culture, without which
many of the best resolutions are con-
demned to hang fire.
BOlshevism and Workers Democracy
have already stated, at the func-
tionaries' meeting, that Bolshevism
has not always held its present atti-
tude in the question of the workers
democracy. There was time when
Bolshevism, in view of the objective
conditions obtaining in our country,
expressed itself in opposition to a
broad degree of adherence to the
principle of election within the Party
There was such period up to the
revolution of 1905.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11

It was in a great measure along
these lines that our split with the
Mensheviki ran. The Menshevih fol.
lowed the denagogic line Of "democ-
racy" and election" even under cir
custances rendering adherence to
these principles impossible.
l should like to remind you Of an
article written by Comrade Lenin,
entitled: 1--WE Do Not Get Fat on
the Song of the Nightingale
The reason why l refer to this
article is as follows 1t dealt with
an occurrence in January, 1905, in
the midst of the struggle between
the Menshevild and the Bolsheviki
The Mensheviki accused the Bolshe-
Wiki, and especially Comrade Lenin,
of being opposed to democracy with
in the Party, of not wanting to allow
the workers to hold leading positions
in the Party, of being Jacobins, con-
spirators, exaggerated centralists,
etc. At that time a pamphlet APP
peared on "The Tasks Of the Party"
written by a Menshevist, workman,
who signed himself as workman"
Menshevist Viewpoint.
Paul Axelrod, one of the oldest
leaders Of the Menshevism, wrote the
preface to this pamphlet, thus i'm.
parting a tremendous significance to
it. The Menshevist worker maintain
ed in this brochure that the Men
sheviki promise much with regard to
democracy, but do nothing to realize
it-they also permit the intelligenzia
to reign in the Party.
Comrade Lenin replied with the ar,
ticle entitled: Eve Do Not Get Fat
on the Song Of the Nightingale" in
which he observed: "You see that
even your workman Menshevist says
that we will not be robbed of with
out the principles of election at
mere phrases, and that if you are in
favor of democracy, you must really
go over to an electoral system, to
systematic regulation Of accounts,
etc. But it is impossible to carry
present"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11

Congress have not been fully car.
ried out, in some cases not carried
out at all, are perfectly right.
We put this question in the year
1921, and passed fairly good reso-
luton on the question Of inner Party
democracy. The reasons why this
resolution has not been carried out
are substantially objective in nature.
Let us cast our memory back to
that time. What were the working
people Of Petrograd interested in at
that time?
The situation was extraordinarily
difficult. The workers were chiefly
and above all interested in their
morsel Of bread. You will doubtless
be able to recollect the atmosphere
obtaining at that time in a number
Of other proletarian centers.
When passing over to the NEP, we
formulated our fresh tasks at the
same time. But at that time we
could not perform them, for the
working class was divided and de-
classed, and the subject which occu-
pied every workman all and every
day, and which hung like a leaden
weight about his neck, was the ques-
ton of the potato ration.
We are now putting the question
under much more favorable circum-
stances. The fundamental difference
in conditions lies in the fact that
the declassing process in the working
class has ceased.
The proletariat, which melted,
split, and became declassed during
the first years of the revolution, Is
now beginning to gather together
again to a compact mass. This is
the cardinal circumstance changing
the situation.
Benefited by Political Experience.
The same workmen who have been
pulling in different directions all
these years, are now coming into
our works and factories, and bring
ing with them the political exper-
fence garnered and increased during
these years. They have shared with
us the first successes won on the eco
nomic field. These successes, COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Nay 30 Convention
A s k ed by Oregon
Farmer-LGbOr Party

PORTLAND, Ore, March 10.-The
Farmer-Labor party of Oregon was
formally launched at meeting at
ass Alder street here and declares
that it will work in conjunction with
the national farmer-labor movements
that demand May 80 convention.
Organizers will cover the state
and expect to organize powerful
1924 campaign. Otto Newman was
chosen state chairman; Franklin l..
Rusmisel, secretary-treasurer; A. l..
Knarnopp, vice-chairman and state
organizer.
The state executive committee was
elected as follows: Otto Newman,
Franklin L. Rusmisel, A. L. Kar-
nopp, and p. L. Turner. Temporary
headquarters have been opened at
ass Alder street.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
COMMUNISM is
SPREADING IN
ERIN, SAYS Lad
Splendid Propaganda
Done in Prison Camps

That Communist propaganda is
spreading thru Ireland in spite of all
obstacles is revealed in a letter from
a young Irish Communist who has
just passed his fifteenth birthday, to
his uncle here in Chicago.
There were approximately fifteen
thousand radicals and republicans in
Irish Free State prisons until the re-
cent releases took place. There are
still about 5000 locked up.
The Communist Party which was
obliged to liquidate since this letter
was written was severely hit by the
arrests, many of the most militant
members being incarcerated.
The letter follows:
$50 North Strand Road,
Dublin, Ireland.
Dear Uncle Most Of the Com
munist prisoners have been released.
During their Imprisonment they did
fine propaganda work among their fell
low prisoners and internees, by deliv-
ering lectures and distributing litera-
ture, so that there is not the least
doubt that the gospel of communism
and working class freedom will be
carried by hundreds of exprisoners to
the remotest corner of Ireland.
The Communist Party has lost
many of its members, and owing to
lack Of funds it has been forced to
suspend its paper, The Workers Re-
public. Larkin has conducted a great
fight against the Labor Party but he
did not as yet (nor is it expected
that he will define once and for all
his attitude toward Communism, or
the different political parties of Ire
land. There is not a word spoken
about the food shin or the money col
lected for it at ALL
The Hunger Strike-as | am 'sdfe
you know from the papers-proved a
great failure due to the low morale
of the people. Larkin proclaimed a
general strike sas a protest against a
continued detention of the hunger
strikers, but due to the fact that he
did not have control over the machin-
cry Of the trades unions which are in
the hands Of the reformists and So
cial Democrats the strike did not
come off.
will send you few back numbers
of the Workers Republic in weeks
time. II you have not already done so,
buy and read THE IRISH PEOPLE,
an excellent magazine published in
Chicago to which Liam O'Flaherty
contributes.
PATRICK BREsLIN.
How many of your shop-mates read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one Of
them 10 subscribe today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Ice Cream Bosses
Surrender to All
Unions Demands

NEW YORK, March 10.-The lock-
out in the confectionery workers
trade here has been settled after a
three weeks struggle, the employers
surrendering completely to the un-
ions demands. Actually, only the
ice cream cone makers we're involv-
ed tho they received the unstinted
support Of the Amalgamated Food
Workers. The settlement establishes
the union shop, replaces the unlimit-
ed working week with the 48-hour
week, and provides for wage in.
crease from $35 to $40 weekly. The
agreement can be terminated by
either party and is not valid for any
fixed period. It's Importance lies in
the failure Of the employers cam
paign for the open shop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Frisco Workers
VIII Celebrate
Paris Commune

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10-The
Paris Commune will be celebrated
Saturday night at 225 Valencia
street with music. dancing and an
address by Marvin Sanford of the
Young Workers League. Friday the
14th a mass meeting will be held for
the starving German workers at Cali
fornia Hall, Polk and Turk streets.
independence for the Philippines
will be demanded at mass meeting
at California Isall. Jack Carney,
editor of Labor Unity, will preside
and the speakers will be: Abdon
LloreIlte, Philippine Commercial at
tache: Gabriel @. Arellano, editor of
the Philippine Independent News Of
Salinas, former secretary Of the Fiji
pino Laborers Union Of Hawaii and
James H. Dolsen, district organizer
Of the Workers Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Australian Unions
MOUe to Il eUise
Court FIXED Wage

MELBOURNE, Australia, March
10.-Action is to be taken in the near
future by the big unions turnout
Australia to secure a revision Of
the basic wage by the federal arbi-
tration court.
Union officials point out that dis
satisfaction regarding the existing
basic wage dates back to 1907 when
it was determined. II is contended
that the amount was fixed too low
at that time. Due regard, IL is con-
sidered, was not paid TO casual work
and the probability Of stoppages ow-
ing TO weather conditions.
II is also argued that the basic
wage fixed by the court provides for
bare existence only, and does not
constitute a reasonable living wage.
Should the appeal Of the unions be
successful, it will mean revision Of
practically every arbitration court
Judgment, affecting almost every
worker on the Australian continent.
The Land fer the Usorsl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
DROP IN WAGES,
JOBS DECREASE,
BUREAU REPORT
Average Pay of u. S.
Factory Slave $25.63
By LELAND OLDs

Federated Press Industrial Edit0r)
A drop of 4ao in average weekly
earnings within a single month
coupled with the continued spread of
unemployment are features in the
January report Of the u. S. depart
ment Of labor covering employment
in 7S49 manufacturing establish
ments. The report shows that the
average weekly pay Of an American
factory worker in January amounted
to only S25.63, an amount insufficient
to provide a normal family with the
bare necessities of life.
The decline in the average pay en-
velope brings it to a level only 5159s
above that of January, 1923. Dur
ing the same period the cost Of living,
according to the conservative Ma
tional Industrial Conference board,
advanced approximately 4.1Te. So
the purchasing power Of wages has
increased only l 60 in the course
of II months which have been de-
scribed as unexampled prosperity.
Annual reports Of corporations show
ing profits running from So up to
more than $40 a share Of common
stock show who takes the cream Of
prosperity.
Wages Below Living Cost Level.
Wages of millions Of workers in
January were below the level re-
quired to meet the years increase
in living costs. Some wages gained
on prices but others remained at
standstill or even decreased. More
than 400 of the wage earners cover
ed by the report could purchase no
more in January, 1924, than they
could in January, 1923, while nearly
300 could purchase less. The I'M
equal gains in the case of workers in
16 important industries are shown in
the following table which shows aver
age weekly earnings for January Of
each year:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Strengthening and meat


The report shows that manufacture
ing establishments have reduced their
forces by $50 since June, 1923.
Notable decreases during ths last
month are shows as follows; Meat
packing $3.50, confectionery 1870,
baking 2.19e, cotton manufacture
2.49o, dyeing and finishing textiles
10.39o, foundries and machine shops
5qs; saw mills $3.50, furniture fac
tories 3.19o, brick yards $3.50, glass
works $3.50, car building and repair
ing $3.50, and rubber footwear go.
While increases Of Importance be-
tween December and January occur
red as follows: Mems clothing SAC,
women's clothing 1910, iron and
steel $3.50, automobile 4.7ee, and
agricultural implements 1880.
Unemployment Increasing.
Many of these changes in working
force were in part seasonal. But
comparison with January, 1923, fig
ures shows the extent to which the
upward movement Of a year ago in
many industries has been reversed.
Thus the textile industry shows
material reduction over a year ago
in nearly every branch with 51zSs
fewer workers in cotton, $3.50 fewer
in hosiery and knit goods, 4.2eo
fewer in silk, 40 fewer in wool, 1870
fewer in dyeing and finishing textiles,
2.1ao fewer in mems clothing, $40
fewer in the manufacture of shirts
and collars and 5.4qs fewer In
women's clothing.
Foundries and machine shops are
employing 1880 fewer workers than
year ago while other industries
show the following reductions in
force since January, 1928: stove
makers 1850, leather, boots and
, shoes S.1q6, glass works 4.2ee, rail-
road car building 14es, automobile
tires 1880, and shipbuilding 1920.
A few industries snow expansion
in working force, particularly the
automobile industry with 26.3ec more
employees than in January, 1923, and
the manufacture Of electrical mach
merry and appliances with 1880
more workers than a year ago. Other
gains of Importance are 4.5es in
brick, 9.7eS in newspaper printing,
6.9e6 in book and job printing, 41eo
in saw mills and 4.2ec in the iron
and steel industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Russ-Roumanian Confab.

VIENNA, March l0.-The confer
ence between Russia and Roumania is
announced 10 begin here shortly.
The discussions, which are expected
to result in diplomatic recognition on
the part Of the two governments, will
deal with both economic and political
problems including the dispute over
Bessarabia, which fell TO Roumania
as a part Of the spoils Of war. NJ.
Krestinsky, Russian minister in Ber-
lin, has been appointed by Moscow
as its chief spokesman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
5000 KLANSMEN
H E A R WOBBLIES
SING SOLIDARITY
Harbor City Flooded by
Nightie Gang
Especial to The Daily Worker,

SAN PEDRO, Calf, March TO-
San Pedro was flooded by white
gowned klansmen in nocturnal pa
rade of the hooded order against the
Industrial Workers of the World who
shut down the harbor last year and
are talking of another strike this
spring.
1t is estimated that more than
5000 members of the Koo Koos
took part. in the procession that mo-
bilized on Harbor Boulevard in their
nighties and began. encircling the
town in a snake-like formation, with
flaming cross and American flag in
the fore.
Searchlights.
Searchlights swept Liberty Hill
where the marine workers usually
meet and the klansmen whispered to
each other the ferocious things they
were ready to do. But, after march
ing round and round the town they
finally arrived at the wobbly hall at
Twelfth and Centre streets, where
they did nothing.
They did nothing but march
AROUND Jne NAN Wnlle Jne WOFkeTS
sang Ralph Chaplin's Solidarity"
from the inside. So the klansmen
marched and listened, and--whether
they remembered what happened to
their sister organization, the Legion,
at Centralia when an illegal raid was
made on a union headquarters or not
they went away as they Rad come,
with thousands of persons who had
gathered in the expectation of some
thing happening going away with
nothing to entertain them but the
spectacle Of a pantomime.
Hundreds of Autos.
The demonstrating Kluxers Had
come to San Pedro from all parts Of
Southern California in hundreds of
automobiles-their CHASTITY robes
cleaning as they whizzed thru the
darkness.
The Khan has gained greatly in
this part of California since the big
strike for political prisoners last year
when this port of Los Angeles was
tied up for five weeks, causing a
loss of several million dollars
Police partly made up for the fail
ure of the Khan to act. They in
vaded the headquarters themselves in
the absence of the Khan and arrested
Is.