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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11

Q LOVELY but surely the class con-
- flict in England is growing
sharper. The Tories are becoming
more aggressive against the Labor
Party Cabinet. The condition within
the Labor Party itself is the best in
dex to the sharpening Of the strug-
gle that is impending. The mass
Of the membership is being driven
further to the left by the repeated
fiirtations and illegitimate marriages
Of some of the Party leaders with the
reactionary capitalist Tory Interests.
Some leaders are being driven further
to the right; others are going head
long to the left. The fight Of the
latter is naturally precipitated by the
fact that their colleagues in the
Cabinet are throwing overheard,
plank by plank, the program Of the
Labor Party, limited and reformist
as IL is.
A crisis is coming to a head. Two
events Of recent date show which
way the wind is blowing. The other
day forty-three members Of the
Labor Party representation in Parlia-
ment voted against the measure Of
the Cabinet TO guarantee an addi-
tional 100000 Pounds for the COM
pletion Of irrigation works to in
crease the production Of cotton in the
Sudan. These opponents Of the
united front of Conservatives, Liber-
ais, and pro-government Laborites
were Clydeside members represent
ing the workers engaged in the big
industries Of their districts. This
Sudanese scheme was vigorously OPP
posed by the Labor Party before
election and these members there
fore denounced the Secretary Of
Trade who now advocated IL a. "ths
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
The Sharpening Conflict in England

new apologist for capitalism"
Before Macdonald took office he de-
nounced the imperialist plan to build
a powerful naval base at Singapore
as "a wild and wanton escapade" and
Colossal folly. Now the First Sea
Lord of the Admiralty, Beatty, and
other sea chiefs are threatening to
resign unless Macdonald permits the
building of this Gibraltar of the Far
East. The Premier must now choose.
He must either accept the dictation
Of the imperialists or call upon the
masses of the Labor Party to stand
behind him in a battle with the reac-
tionaries. The capitalists feel that
the question Of navalism is of too
vital Importance To their class inter-
ests and they will not allow the
Labor Party to play with it. Mac
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
British Unrest Grows.

Labor unrest is increasing in Eng
land. Hundreds of thousands Of
workers are demanding increases in
wages. Macdonald is swearing at
them under his teeth. Brailsford, edi-
tor of the New Leader, Independent
Labor Party organ, says the trade
unions are most inconsiderate. They
should wait until a Tory or liberal
government should come in and
should not embarras the Labor Party
Well, If Labor government is good
only to enhance the prestige Of Mac
Donald the workers don't see much in
a labor government for them. They
want government that will be con-
cerned with their interests only and
not with building battleships to fight
France and guns to shoot Hindus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Business in Government

The story now being unfolded before the
workers and farmers of the unity between the
big capitalists and all the governmental de-
partmentS and administrators is more gripping
and stirring than the best of our best sellers.
Within the last year the Treasury Depart
ment of Mr.. Mellon of Aluminium Trust, Steel
Trust and banking fame, has refunded to tax
payers the meagre sum of almost $125, 000,-
900. These millions were supposed to have
been collected illegally or enormously"
This is just plain balderdash The whole
transaction is as crooked as a corkscrew and
as corrupt as the manner in which Mr.. Mellon
has been handling the internal revenue de-
partment in so far as prohibition enforcement
is concerned. No worker or farmer will or
can believe that taxes were enormously or
illegally" collected from such humble citizens
as John Hays Hammond, the millionaire min
ing engineer, Edward L. Doheny, the notorious
oil thief, and such captains of industry and
finance as Charles R. Crane, Cornelius Wander
bllt, Oliver and Joseph W. Hartman, and
Payne Whitney These men have had years
of experience in aiding and abetting fraud
against the masses and can teach the poor
government clerks the great national game of
corruption In tax evasion. These men are past
masters in the game of skinning their own
government and the workers and no one will
allow the wool to be pulled over his eyes and
believe that such powerful capitalists were
thus victimized.
This huge tax refund is simply another link
IN the already long and powerful chain of evil
dence showing that the United States govern
ment is owned outright by the capitalist class
and that its primary function is to protect the
rich and hound the poor. Mr.. Mellon can talk
himself blue in the face and Mr. Coolidge can
punctuate his over-advertised silence with
frantic declarations about his purity and
integrity, but harsh, cold facts confront the
workers and farmers. There are more chances
OF the workingmen and farmers believing that
the moon is made of green cheese than that
such giant corporations as the Singer Manu-
featuring Company, the General Electric Com
pany, the Merchants Loan and Trust Company.
the estate OF Marshall Field, Coca Cola Com
pany, New York Life Insurance Company. and
the American Steel Foundries Company made
mistakes or were fooled in their last tax paw
ments. 1t is mighty corporations of this class
that received eighty per cent of the refunds.
Truly, this tax refund scandal is a monu-
ment to the menace of business in government
capitalist democracy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
Soviet Frees Women

In the early days of the Russian revolution
the lying scandal sheets of the capitalist press,
that revel in unloading filthy stories on the
people of this country, flooded their columns
with lies about the manner in which women
were treated in the new Workers Republic.
Our readers have not yet forgotten the fake
stories of the naturalization of women.
But the Chicago Tribune, the leading sinner
IN peddling the naturalization yarn, is now
obliged to publish conspicuously, because it is
good news, a story sent by the Associated
Press from Moscow to the effect that the
women OF Turkestan, the Kirghiz Republic and
the Bashkir and Kalmuck regions of Russia,
who have suffered for centuries under terrible
Inequalities, are now granted full equality by
the Soviet Government at Moscow.
This is but another example of the splendid
spirit that animates the Communists who to-
day rule the greatest republic in world his
tory. Unlike its capitalist contemporaries. the
Soviet Government has lived up to its promises
and fulfilled the hopes that its coming to
power raised in the hearts Of lovers of freedom
all the We Id over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11
The Disaster in Utah

The coal mining industry affords the most
narrowing proof of the destructive character
Of capitalism. Coal mining, like all other in
dustries today, is run on the principle that
dollars come first and lives come last.
Unless the unexpected happens It's miners
working eleven thousand feet below the sur
face shall have lost their lives digging coal and
dividends for their BOSSES AS the charred
bodies of the Utah miners are taken out OF
the CHASTITY pits, the families and friends OF
the entombed coal-diggers arv giving way to
despair and giving up all hope for the rescue
of their beloved.
The miners are continually exposed to gas
and dust explosions, to the falling OF slate and
coal, drowning and electrocution, mine damp
and fire. Coal mining is an especially hazard
Gus industry and extra steps must be taken all
the time to prevent the loss of life and limb
amongst the miners But to take these safety
measures would entail an expense of dollars.
1t might mean reduction of profits Conse-
quently the coal capitalists, like all other
capitalists, do their best not to spend any
money for the protection Of the lives of the
workers Last year more than two thousand
miners were killed while at work for their
bosses.
The horrible conditions arising out of capt.
talist control in the mining industry is char
acteristic of the criminal state of affairs in
every other capitalist-controlled industry to-
day. In the year following the war no less
than $4,000 workers were killed and three
million wounded in the peaceful industries"
of America. This horrible toll is a gruesome
monument to the efficiency of the proft-hungry
employing class running our industries Ten
per cent of all railroad men were either killed
or injured while at work in 1922. Close to
thirty thousand metal miners were injured or
killed at work in the same year. In New York
State one out Of every three thousand workers
is killed or crippled in industry.
The Utah mine disaster, the means and cries
arising out of the hell holes at the Castle Gate
mine, the broken hearts and the shattered lives
of the families of the murdered workers in the
coal pits are the sordid picture of life as the
workers live it under the tyranny of their
capitalist exploiters
Not until the working class takes matters In
its own hands and assumes full political power
and reorganizes the management and control
of our productive system along social lines so
as to eliminate the private profits of the indi-
vidual capitalists, will this huge toll of life
taken every year from the working masses be
saved. Not until the mines are owned and
controlled by the coal diggers, the railway
workers who haul the coal, and workers and
farmers who use the coal, will we be spared of
the calamities and disasters, the wholesale
murder of workingmen as have occurred in
this Utah mine disaster, at Spanger, Pennsyl-
vsnia, Pekin, Illinois, and many other places
where the workers sweat blood to enrich their
capitalist masters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11

Published BY THE DAILY WoRSA
FIX thru special arrangement with
3. w. Huebsch, Inc, Of New York
City. Copyrighted, 1928, by B. w.
Huebsch q Co.
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What DO You Think
of Our First Story?

many installments of this gripping
story. Another appears today.
What do you think of the story,
its setting, its character. as far AZ
we have gone? We want our read.
era to let us know. Write down
your views and send them in to
the DAILY WORKER. 1910 N.
Halsted ST., Chicago, Ill. We
publish az many Of these letters AZ
we can find space for. Don't de-
lay. Write today.
didate for admission to the Party.
Yet, when his relations from
neighboring village came to see
Fidein, his father, a stout peasant
with shrewd eyes and a brown
beard, or his sisters, taciturn and
gloomy, blue-eyed like their broth
er, and there began long, whispered
talks somewhere in a corner of the
barracks. Fidein grew gloomy
and morose, kept himself to him
self, and would no longer talk
with the Political Leader. +. And
Spitsyn waited and knew in adj
vance; the moment would come,
and the lad would break out, all
red, with shining eyes, gesticu-
lating uniformly and theoretically
with his right hand, and would
start talking of the improper col.
lection Of the corn-toll, of brides
taken by the local committee, of
the misdeeds of the militia and
of the district food commissar,
of the whole miserable muddle Of
village life.
And Spitsyn would listen with
out interrupting, and would then
begin to explain, and would talk
for long time about the difficult
ties Of revolution in Russia, of
how the peasants were themselves
to blame for not knowing how to
deal with abuses, of how many
had joined in for their own ends
and were consciously putting diff
culties in the way.
And suddenly a group Of atten-
tive Red Army men would collect
about them, would listen, smoking
their cigarettes, and would ask
questions. And the Political
Leader would find what to say to
each one of them: it was not for
nothing that he was himself from
the country.
In questionnaires, opposite the
question as to social origin, Spit
syn was accustomed to write him
self down as "village inhabitant."
He was a village tailor, and did
not know whether to call himself
a peasant or a workman. Tall,
narrow-chested, round-shouldered
and bald, his face was pale and
freckled, his step even and light,
and his little eyes looked always
openly and straight before them.
The Red Army men liked his
talks, only his voice was very
squeaky, and they were alwayR
shouting to him, Louder, louder"
but Spitsyn could not talk very
loudly, for if he tried to he i'm.
mediately lost the thread of his
argument, and began to use for
eign words which the Red Army
men did not understand, and to
which he himself gave cloudy and
approximate meanings. And now,
in the ranks, in these quiet, dread
minutes of waiting for battle,
first one and then another scome
up to him, smoked, talked, and
asked him to explain more def
nitely:
against whom are we marching?
And why?"
And, conscious of the perplexity
in those peasant souls, perplexity
from the fact that they had
to march against their own folk
against peasants !. Russians
brothers Spitsyn with
careful, clear, sharp words. spoke
of rebels and reminded the mon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-11

The worst is yet to come. Read
ing the last paragraph from the
clipping sent us from the Boston
Herald we notice that Mr.. Eaton was
born in Chicago, and was connected
for a time with the Chicago Tribune.
That explains everything.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
Build Inpregnable Vault

The Bank of France has construct
ed safety deposit vault which they
believe to be absolutely impregnable
to raids from land or air. 1t is sur
rounded by a deep moat and has
bomb-proof roof Heavy steel Orders,
and concrete several feet in thickness,
form the top. which is impervious to
explosives chat might be dropped from
aircraft. over the moat. containing
10 feet of water, a sliding floor from
an adjacent building provides access
to the single entrance of the vault.
When the bridge is withdrawn, a steel
door closes flush with the walls,
guarding the opening to the deposit
boxes as. the porteuilis protects the
gateways to old castles. An obserY-
ers chair. suspended above the moat
from an overhead track, provides a
seat for a lookout to watch for at
tacks from robbers or bombers. The
plan was devised by an American
architect, and has proved so success
full that it is to be used in the con
struction of other vaults.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
Ministerial Family

For almost 100 years the family
of Rev. Frederick Seely Porter, pas
tor of the Trinity Baptist church of
Oklahoma City, has not been without
a minister Of the Baptist denomlna.
ton. On both his mothers and his
fathers side were pioneer ministers
who went into Canada from the United
States in l7T7 and there laid the foun-
dation Of a family of preachers and
Bible teachers. Mr.. Porter reached
his present charge from New Bruins
wick. Canada, last February. For
mcrly he was secretary Of the British
and Foreign Bible society In New
foundland and the Maritime provinces.
After eight years spent In preparing
himself for the ministry he received
a commission as captain in the Cana.
dian overseas forces and spent 30
months as chaplain at the front. He
was promoted to major soon after he
crossed.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
They Married Yong
in DAYS of ChiUdlry

Modern opinion, which is happily In
favor of falling In love and OF adult
marriage, is often shocked By the air
of business which peryaded match
, rlaking in the days Of chisalry, and by
tie many cases of grown men married
To little girls not yet out of .their
teens.
t'or reasons Of property, or to settle
family feuds. or simply to assure their
own future, babies in cradles were
sometimes betrothed and even mar
ried all that the church required was
that children should be free when they
came Of age lat fourteen and twelve
years old to repudlate the contract IL
fhey.so desired
Nothing seems to separate modern
England from the good old days so
plainly as the case of little Grace de
Saleby, four years old, who for the
sake of her broad acres was married
to a great noble, and on his death two
years later to another, and yet again,
when she was eleven, to third, who
paid 800 marks down for her. There
Is an odd mixture of hum0r and
pathos in the story of some of these
marriages. John SRlgmarden, three
years old, was carried to church In the
arms of a priest, who coaxed him to
repeat the words of matrlmony, but
half way through the service the child
declared that he would learn no more
TINT day, and the priest answered,
you must speak q little more, and
then go play YOU"
James Ballard, ten years old, was
married to Jane his wife "at x of the
clocke in the night without the con-
sent of any of his friends, bic one Cir
Roger4Blakey. then curate of Colne
and the morowe after, the
same James DECLARED vnto his Vnckle
that the said Jane (beyinge bigge
damsell and manageable at the same
tyme) had intised him with two APP
pies, to go with her to Colne and TO
parry her"
Elizabeth Bridge, nee Rambotham,
says that after her marriage to John
Bridge, when he was eleven and she
thirteen, he never used her "lovingile.
insonOche that the first night they
were married the, said John would Fate
no meate MT supper. and when hit was
bed TYNE the said John did wepe to go
home with his father he beynge at
that tyne Mt her brothers house. y
From Medieval People, by Eileen
poWtr.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25

count of executor for allowance and
Tax.
Daniel IT. Mason, late of Madison, de-
ceased VIII and petition for pro-
bate and for appointment of Carlton
Wescott, the executor named therein
without bond.
ErInnd {. Biekford, minor of Fair
field Eugene a. Coven guardian.
ance and his registration
Jane r. Bartlett, late of Harmony,
deceased. First and final account for
allowance and petition for assessmen
of Inheritance Tax.
Neva IT,, Musa A.. Crenta NJ, and
ArnO III. Ramsey, all of Pittsfield. min
ors. Petition by Stella b. Ramsey,
guardian and mother of above named
minors for appointment of Benjamin
vacancy caused by the death of Fred
J. Collins as trustee for the benefit of
said minors under mortgage deed
given by said Stella b. Ramsey to said
Collins of 3-5 undivided of the Flora
l.. Collins farm, so-called, in Pittsfield
in said Somerset County.
william u. Jones, late of Ripley. de-
ceased First and final account of
executor for allowance.
Judge of said Court. at Skowhegan
thist23rd day OF December in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred
Wv PHILo STEWARD.
Register
A true copy.
ATTEST: ,,.,...,.
3w52 Register
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
Stevenson No "Dandy"

at is well known that Robert Louis
had strange tastes in dress, but ac-
cording 80 Mrs. II. L., it were better
said that he had no taste at all; his
dress was an accident. or, more cor
reetly, II series Of accidents. As he
was consumptiye the doctors had told
him-I fail to see why-that it was
advisable to let his hair grow long
TO the remainder Of his appearance
he never gave a thought. one day
he was to be seen walking down Pie
cadlly in a strange colored mackin-
tosh, and Il very small straw hat with
a pink ribbon, and at his heels little
crowd of jeering urchins, whose sur
prise was indeed great when num-
Der of well-dressed men, having caught
sight Of m from the window, rushed
down the steps of the Sayille club
and welcomed him with astonishing
effuslon.--From MY Years Of Indiscre-
ton" by Cyril Scott
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25

lehem" will be given. This will in
deed be an appropriate Christmas SER
vice. An offering will be received.
The Sunday school will meet at the
noon hour for the closing lesson of
the year.
Mr. Homsted and Charles Cleveland
provided us with Christmas trees and
abundance of greens which was used
by the committee. Mrs. Turner and
Mrs. Fred Nye. Thanks of apprecia
ton are offered to all who in any way
assisted in giving US d pleasant
Christmas.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
His First Esperience

A young couple, recently married,
had been riding with some friends. On
reaching home the bride hurried the
new husband up to the apartment
with order 10 start the coffee boiling,
while she made "A few necessary pur-
chases at "A neighborlng store. Her
CONSERVATION ut the absent-minded
and well-meaning husband was be-
You'd bounds when on hurrying into
the kitchen she found the coffee boil
Ing in the new electric percolator on
top Of the new gas stove. well sur
rounded by a high fame.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
Girls Methods Changed

Girls have changed their ways and
their attitude toward their parents In
the course of few centuries, II we
are To accept two instances cited by
{. *. Shorter in The London Sphere.
~ have the assurance of lady on
whose word | can rely absolutely that
the modern girl Of the following story
was drawn, not from the imagination
Of a Punch artist, but from life" he
writes. This young lady, who should
say WAS on the best (modern) terms
with her parents, said one morning
casually to her mother, Mother, am
going to he married at eleven O'Clock
on Thursday morning in st. Andrews
church, If you and father would like
To come Tho considerable invitation
Was, | believe, accepted by both pa
rents gratefully and gracefully"
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
rAE CO AS II on HE H ToMN or BINGHAM

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a.
oun of
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by land Of the United shank and Findings fomps1y souhey
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9w51 Collector of Bingham
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25

STATE OF MAINE

OF
ndss smthhd. County
Some set, he
town he
will be
at in
Tax Il
ntereg s,,U
Name Of Owner Description Oh Properly Charges
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Cottae lots on eastsho o
DR. /.
Gotta n o o
- Wood OF formerly r Ion
Woodl on "a Pond
Cottagea M 10 OF casts hor of North Pond 1873
Rosenthal
DR.
Ianda dinRso vests hoeo of East Pond known
~ Camp Norrldgewock, LANDAU
Decemb
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aw51 Collector of Taxes the smthaed
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

To the Stockholders of the Skowhegan
Trust Company:
Notice is hereby given that the an.
nual meeting OF the stockholders Of
the Skowhegan Trust Company. will
be held at the Directors Rooms in
the Trust Company Building in Show
hogan, Maine, on Wednesday. January
IA, 1925, at 2 o'clock In the afternoon
for the following purposes
/. To elect officers.
2. To transact any other business
that may lawfully come before said
meeting.
Skowhegan. Me-. Dec. IS, 1874
4w51 II. Il. ATWOOD. Clerk
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
Typewriters in Orchestra

In order to get the proper effect Of
the various sounds when shrapnel
breaks and scatters and otherwise war
Is being carried on, French soldier
who has composed IA. new symphony
entitled "At the Front" has called for
the use of 90 typewriters in the or
chestra alongside the musical instru-
ments.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-25
EUen Youngsters Know

The mother took her six-year-old boy
to the movie and when they were
seated a man appeared on the screen
picture and took letter from his.
pocket, read 1t and scOwled.
81 guess its his income tax, moth
err" the youngster said.