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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05
LOCAL BRtvITIES

! LOCAL BRtWTIES
-Manslaughter" at Gem Friday and
Saturday. this week. Adv
Born. wednesday June 4, TO Mr..
and Mrs. Morris b. Clark. daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Anthony spent
the weekend in Pocatello visiting
al the home OF relatives.
The Lester r. Musser family have
moved into the Dillingham; residence
property in the Munyon addition.
The members OF the Elks lodge oil
Twin Falls enjoyed a dancing party
at the Gem roof garden here Thurs
day evening OF last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gourley and
family were dinner guests Sunday at
the home OF Miss Alberta and George
s,mons east OF Twin Falls.
Mrs. T. Dan Conner returned Fri
day from a pleasant two weeks yaca-
ton trip in Washington and Oregon
points.
"Manslaughter" a special picture
OF Paramount will be shown at Gem
theatre, Friday and Saturday June
and Z Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spencer re-
Gently returned TO their home here
from American Falls wnere they have
been since last fall.
Earl Murray is able TO be up and
around following an illness or sew
eral days duration that has Kept
him from his place of business.
DR.. ]. D. Gillian. DR.. NJ. j. Goode'
and w. P. Shinn. accompanied II. h.
Schildman on an auto trip Memorial
day to Roseworth, returning by way
of Salmon river dam.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. W. Boring, Jr. LETT
Yesterday morning for Salem. H.
where they will visit Mr.. Behring'S
father, now 81 years of age. who Is
gravely i'll. Mrs. Boring will also
visit at her former nome Elizabeth
Ill.
Texas Bob, the hypnotist, with
troupe of IL people will play at the
Gem theatre Monday. June 3. This
is a high class and entertaining show
Comes from the State theatre at
Oakland, Calf. and from here 10
Twin Falls. One day only. Adv
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover c. Dean and
family left by auto Sunday morning
for Carney, Okla. their former home,
where they will spend the next two
months visiting. During Mr.. Deans
absence, his auto electric repair shop
will be in charge OF August Bremers-
Harry Barry one time publisher OF
the Bull Herald. and more recently
instructor and coach in the Bull high
school was a Filler visitor Wednesday
of last week Mr.. Barry will attend
the University of Washington at Sea
tile this fall where he will pursue
journalistic studies.
Invitations have been issued by
the local Eastern Star and Masonic
orders for a dancing party to be given
at the Gem roof garden here Turs-
=. ..ssh. - ,hf. ,.-aau The Eastern
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Mrs. T. Dan Conner returned Fri
day from a pleasant two weeks vaca-
ton trip in Washington and Oregon
points.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Harry Barry one time publisher OF
the Bull Herald. and more recently
instructor and coach in the Bull high
school was a Filler visitor Wednesday
of last week. Mr.. Barry will attend
the University OF Washington at Sea
tile this fall where he will pursue
journalistic studies.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Boring. Jr. left
yesterday morning for Salem. H.
where they will visit Mr.. Boring's
father, now 81 years of age. who Is
gravely i'll. Mrs. Boring will also
visit at her former nome Elizabeth.
Iii.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

"Manslaughter" a special picture
of Paramount will be shown at Gem
theatre, Friday and Saturday. June
and Ao'
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

DR.. ]. d. Gillian. DR.. NJ. j. Goode
and w. P. Shinn. accompanied H. h
Schildman on an auto trip Memoria
day to Roseworth, returning by wa!
of Salmon river dam.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Texas Bob. the hypnotist. with a
troupe of IL people will play at the
Gem theatre Monday. June 8. This
is a high class and entertaining show
comes from the State theatre at
Oakland, Calf. and from here to
Twin Falls. One day only. Adv.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. William Spencer re
Gently returned to their home her
from American Falls where they hay
been since last fall.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Earl Murray is able to be up an'
around following an illness OF sew
eral days duration that has KEEP
him from his place of business.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-05

Mr.. and Mrs. Grover c. Dean and
family left by auto Sunday morning
for Carney. Okla. their former home
where they will spend the next two
months visiting. During Mr.. Dean 5
absence, his auto electric repair shop
will be in charge OF August Bremers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
BattLeships and the Balkans

We were right the other day when we referred
to the unstable Balkans"
There are all the making of first class war in
the scrap between Italy and JugoSlavia over the
Albanian uprising and Britain sends battle.
ships to protect British interests" What these
interests are is not stated, but always they are
continuation of the historical policy
of British Imperialism consolidation of the
warning forces against Britains most dangerous
enemy which in this case is Soviet Russia.
The war pot boils in Europe more noisily than
ever The tension increases in geometrical proper
ton as imperialist rivalries and avarices in
Morocco, Egypt and the Balkans force their way
to the surface and strain the resources of the
diplomats.
Austen Chamberlain, the imperialist spokesman,
has Just made tour of the European capitals on
an anti-Soviet Russia crusade He was supposed
to have persuaded the great powers to sink their
differences until some measure of sterilization
could be had in shaking Europe, but he is like a
man who tries to put out fire with kerosene.
The explosive ingredients of which Europe is
composed today, make it more and more difficult to
bring a semblance of peace altho the spectre of
Communism drives each national ambition into
the arms of its hated rival for a while.
t British battleships and the Balkans are a good
fuse for the gigantic bomb that is Europe. "a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
Specialists in Bunk

Practically every up-to-date capitalist concern
in the United States has one more specialists
whose duty it is to devise ways and means of con
vincng the employees of those concerns that their
interests are identical with those of their masters
Sometimes this task is performed by the labor
takers much effectively than it could be done
by paid hireling outside Of the ranks OF organ
lied labor The object is the same: an attempt to
substitute class collaboration for the class struggle
A certain William II. Leiserson, arbiter for the
associated clothing industries recently delivered
lecture under the auspices of the Chicago branch Of
that den of stoolpigeons the Young Mems Christian
Association, on "The Way to Industrial Peace" He
gave his scheme the grandiose title of citizenship
in Industry" and declared that it was even an i'm
proyement on Henry Ford's "good wilr' theory of
labor relations.
The speaker declared the '1abor is no longer a
commodity and that the bad old days when the
employers bought his labor power for as low as he
could paw for it, were no more The late Samuel
Gompers peddled the same kind of hope. He held
that because provision Of the Clayton Act declared
that labor was not commodity, it simply was
not. This is pernicious nonsense.
The proletariat under capitalism still sell their
labor power, their only property, the market.
This ability to produce surplus values for the boss
is subject to the law, Of supply and demand like
any other commodity, except insofar as the
economic organizations of the workers modify this
law. This status of labor will exist as long as
capitalism exists Only when that system is over
thrown and the workers become the ruling class
will the commodity status Of labor power be
changed ~s ~
This Pollyanna bunk put out by claquers Of the
capitalist class will not fool the well informed class
conscious worker. He knows quite well that only
when labor is well organized on the industrial
field in industrial unions, which give his class the
maximum of industrial power, and on the political
field under the banner Of a revolutionary party,
the Workers (Communist) Party, are the workers
on the high road leading to freedom from the
chains Of wage slavery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
Unemployment Intensifies the Struggle

of his wages to tide him over to the
next prosperity" period. But the de-
cline of capitalism carries with it the
fact that it cannot at the same time
maintain its ruling class and insure
the sustenance Of the workers. Any
real scheme of unemployment insir.
ance, under capitalist management
then, is impossible. because if It pro
vides sufficiently for the workers, IL
will eliminate the capitalist.
Commons plan, therefore. is chi.
merical, as any plan must be that
assumes capitalism capable Of giving
the workers any adequate sustenance.
His plan is also absurd in that the
burden he places on the shoulders OF
the capitalists is but minute fraction
Of the real cost of unemployment to
the workers. ~.
BY engaging in the struggle for 10
lief of the unemployed, whether from
the state or from the employers them
selves, Communists can direct the
struggle of the masses against the
power of their class enemy. It is the
aim of Communists to blend the inn
mediate needs of the workers with
the ultimate goal of Communism
w. X. tSEA<
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

To the DAILY WORKER: Among
the latest reforms" promulgated by
the capitalist class is that Of Professor
John H. Commons of the University
of Wisconsin, in which is embodied
a disguised scheme to entrench and
thus perpetuate class exploitation
under the present system of wage
slavery. The proposed law, Of the
well-known wisconsin idea" type,
proposes to have employers pay the
unemployed worker part Of his wage
loss during plant shutdown and lay
off unemployment-perio 1t is SINH
lar to other reform" measures now
in effect, such as the better-known
industrial accidents compensation
laws.
The writer opposes such innovations
in America have always contended
that unemployment is most essen
tial phase in the social revolution. AS
bait to unthinking bosses, unemploy.
ment entices them to intensity the
misery and want of the proletariat
by expropriating the gains made in
good times--to slash wages, increase
hours and speed, and discipline" his
wage slaves. BY this practice the
capitalists are voting themselves into
extinction. The movement for the
ultimate victory of the revolutionary
proletariat is dependent upon the
natural class struggle development
This struggle is intensified by unem
ployment; after ALL revolution brews
in the empty stomach Of the down
trodden. In periods of no work the
proletariat has an opportunity to
think; the revolutionary theology o.
Communism penetrates his mind in in
delible terms. The leadership of Com
munism rises as the inevitable col
lapse draws near.
Make Capitalism BearabIe.
In the sequence of events this eco
nomic condition, while immediatel.
profitable to the capitalists, ulti
mately, as Marx has so ably put 1t
digs capitalism's grave" Certain at
tempts are made to check this natura
tendency. The increased attraction o.
Communism during unemployment 4
well recognized by the bourgeois, ant
RED raids" are instituted in grand
publicity fashion to terrorize the pro
letariat and to Brighten him from the
Communist standard. Since these
Red raids are admittedly futile, the
capitalist class now proposes, thru
J Professor Commons. . device that \
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

causes the class struggle to loom for
ward as the workers stubhornly resist
the encroachments on their establish
ed status. It is the instability Of the
modern capitalist society that accen
tuates the class struggle: the continu
Gus fuctuation in the workers stand
ards, owing to the economic instabil-
ity of capitalism.
True, the volume of revolutionary
sentiment is increased by unemploy-
ment. but the revolutionary working
class cannot profit from unemploy
ment accompanied by extreme misery
and starvation. Both Of these condi-
tions are inherent factors in capital
ism, and they increase as it declines.
There is no reason, then, why Com.
munists should advocate submission
to extreme misery. Quite the con-
trary. Such conditions would only de-
lay the final downfall of capitalism,
and besides, would furnish every
agent Of the capitalist class with a
powerful theological. weapon to COM
bat Communism, by. pointing out that
we only regard the unemployed as
revolutionary "cannon.fodder."
incompatible with Capitalism.
The plan of Professor Commons is
typical liberal measure. 1t provides
that capitalists should bear the cost
of unemployment, by insuring the
workers so that when unemployment
comes, the worker will receive part
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
By Isidore StoIer

bership employed; to be Commult-
list, or even an active trade unionis&
means the sack, starvation, democrat.
ization.
TT is under such odds that the G. p.
OF Germany is fighting on. Small
wonder then that we expect to lose
votes and parliamentary seats. But
we are not parliamentary fetishists
The S. D. fight among themselves over
every seat; to them it means bread
and butter, perhaps even champagne
and villa. To us the number of votes
is a barometer of our strength, and a
seat in parliament chance to make
our voice heard from the parliament.
airy forum. If We receive only two
million votes in the December cleo
tions, the best proof will have been
furnished that the German G. P. isrs
mass party, which cannot be crushed
Considering the white terror it will
be wonder if we do get that many
votes.
IN IlAC AlCdA WAAAC Tic 0CA AAAcA oOSAeSAs
democratic party is fast developing
into an open counter-revoIutionary or,
ganization whose highest aim it is to
delay the Inevitable (they know they
cannot prevent it), to shield the bour-
geoisie against the revolution, and to
poison the masses with hatred and
fear Of the class struggle and OF the
revolution. With the help OF that half
fascist organization "Schwarz-Rot
Cold" the s.. D. work hand in hand
with the bourgeois parties ito protect
the republic" and to crush the fighting
spirit of the proletariat.
launched against Soviet Russia
fin this they work hand in hand with
Kerensky who is in Berlin); in the
Amsterdam International. 1t is the
German reformists who form the NEST
bitter opposition to establishing the
unity of the International trade union
movement; they even dare to SANDER
the British delegates at the Russian
T. U. congress, and call them liars and
traitors because they are honest
enough to call red red, and yellow
yellow.
IN the German trade unions under
1 their control they have institutedA
real terror a la John Lewis Cor has
Lewis learned from them?) against
Communists and against every pro-
gressive; they are even brazen
enough to praise and congratulate the
Hungarian social democrats for expei.
ling the opposition from the trade I'M
ions, because it dares open its mouth
against the bloody Horthy regime;
their chief of police in Berlin, Richter.
has even dared to arrest Egyptian ma
tionalists here for protesting against
British bloody imperialism. And so
on, and so on. The crimes Of the 8. d.
against the working class are too
numerous to be exhausted In an arti-
Gle.
DUT it is their turn next. This they.
- know and fear more than the
pope fears the devil. That explains
their treachery. Who said we Com.
munists don't believe in day OF
Judgment?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

1t is surprising that the capitalist press should
kill news unfavorable to the capitalists, distort
the news to favor its clients and carry per-
sistent propaganda against the working class
movement?
Is it surprising that the capitalist press should
malign slander and lie about Soviet Russia, the
only workers government in the world, the only
government that is laying the foundation for a
social order that will consign the reptile press to
the limbo of the past?
1t is not surprising. The capitalist press sup
ports the system of which it is part. 1t supports
its supporters The DAILY WORKER is as partial
to the working class as the capitalist press is to
big business and the exploiting classes in gen
eral. The DAILY WORKER is not subsidized by
advertising. Only few sympathizers at best will
advertise in a revolutionary paper. The main sup
port of our Daily must come from the workers,
the class for which it lights. We call on the work
ers to subsidize their own paper. s3s3
Let your slogan be- "Insure the DAILY WORK
Err foy.N25r'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
The Class Struggle in Germany

spoken BY the cannon" (vorwarts,
October 1918.)
Or: "vleIhundert Tote In elmer
Reih-Proletraier.
"Kari, Rosa, Radek und kumpanei
--Es list keiner dabei, es list keiner
dabie, ProIetarier." (Vorwarts, Jan.
IA, 1919)D*
The next day, Jan. 10, Rosa Luxer1-
burg and Karl Liebknecht were muir
dered.
THE Communists had to be silenced
| for another reason-the most inn
portant reason: The Dawes plan was
being foisted ON the German probe
tariat; the whole bourgeoisie and the
social democracy hailed the rising
dollar-sun" ESQ the Vorwarts calls the
Dawes plan), as new era of peace
and prosperity. The S-hour day was
abandoned, wages reduced, rebellious
workers victimized; lockouts became
the order of the day, strikes had to be
crushed by all means-or else the
colonization of Germany would fail
and the attempt to enslave the Ger
man workers might be frustrated; the
revolution would then take on flesh
once more.
nEICHSTAG was therefore dissolv
IN ed. with what hopes? In the
hope that in the interim the c. p.
would be crushed and a vital Dawes
reichstag elected. How was the c. p.
to be crushed? was it to be forbidden
and outlawed as before the May cleo
tons? No. The bourgeoisie has also
learned a lesson or two from the prac-
tice Of the class struggle. They saw
that in spite of the illegally Of the
party in the previous elections, 4,000,-
600 workers had voted for us. We
had regained a strong position in the
shops and factories.
THE shops and factories are the
/ blood.vesseIs Of the revolution.
II we are strong there-we are un-
conquerabIe. The hourseolsie know
this we'll. New methods Of persecu-
ton were therefore adopted. The
party remains legal" but here are
some features Of this legality: (a)
the 5000 political prisoners In Ger
many are almost without exception
leading funetionaries of the c. p;
(b) Another 8 or 10000 active Com.
munists are compelled to live away
from home so that their party work
is crippled; (e) thru Systematic
confscation Of our posters. leaflets,
and pamphlets and thru the arrest
Of whole meetings (IIteraIIy:
WHOLE MEETlNGs) by the S. D.
chiefs OF police (RIehter and Sever
ing) the unoruanized and "non.par-
tisan" masses are kept away from
US and cannot be reached by our
propaganda; (d) there are hundreds
Of local groups Of the c. P. with not
single party member employed, all
Of them. have been thrown out Of
work because they are commun-
lists.
IN some places whole districts re-
] port only 80 per cent of their mem.
sHundreds of dead in a row-Prole-
tarians, Karl. Rosa, Radek and COM
pany are not among them, not among
them Proletarians.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

sixth anniversary of treachery, white
terror, enslavement." And this
thought weighs heavily on his consci
BUSINESS and creates a sort Of self-re-
preston which is dangerous and diff
cult to overcome.
DUT revolutions are not made or
ID crushed by Freudian analyses.
History and it's compelling economic
laws are on our side. The machine
capitalism is out of gear; sixth Of
the earth's surface has been cut out
of the spheres of influence" Of world
Imperialism; capitalism cannot feed
or shelter it's slaves; the slaves; col
onial and wage, are rebelling; the
class struggle is become reality even
to the complacent, self-satisfied,
stupid and characterless petty-bour
geoisie, which always believed that
everything that is alright and for the
best"
IN October 1923 lit nearly happened"
1 The German bourgeoisie was more
than nervous; it was historical; it
didn't know what to do, or what the
next day would bring. The French
general staff was preparing to repay
the kindness Bismarck had shown to
Theirs in cruising the Paris Commune,
by helping General Seekt crush the
German Commune if it dared raise it's
head; the whole capitalist world was
nervous with expectation. But "Oc-
tober" did not come. We need not
go into an analyses Of the why's and
wherefores; fatal errors in leadership
lack of initiative, resoluteness, daring
cunning; perhaps lack Of prepared
ness--ideoIogicaI as we'll as military.
THE lesson was bitter but great.
The German party began to take
theological stock, of itself, changed it's
leadership, and began to think and
act in terms of November In
May of this year it modified nearly
four million voters at the polls. The
mass character of the German party
was definitely established Almost
daily, 62 Communists representing
the revolutionary proletariat of Ger
many could tell the representatives
of the German bourgeoisie and their
lackeys, the social-democrats: I'VE
came here to bury the republic not to
praise it." This the bourgeoisie and
especially the social-democrats could
not stomach. Bourgeois parliaments
were not made to be forums of the
revolutionary working masses.
The contradiction is too great, too
crying. How can the 100 odd So
cial-democrats bear daily reminder
that they are demagogues, traitors to
the working class, lackeys to the bour.
geoisie! Imagine if you can, dear
comrade, that you are socialdemo-
cratic member Of the reichstag; inn
agine further that a Communist
member mounts the platform and
reads from a document the following
words:
a.. We are doing what we have al
ways emphasized: We shall not de-
sert our vaterIand In the hour Of
need" Declaration of the S. d. reich
stag faction on August 4, 1914.
Or "Those who talk peace must
shut upI The final word shall be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23
The Backbone of the Nation"

The utter servility of the middle class is dis
closed by food of letters to the Chicago Tribune
protesting criticisms of Samuel insult chairman
of the board of the Chicago Rapid Transit COM
pany made recently by contributor to the SVoice
Of the People" department of The Tribune.
Chicago has the worst transportation of any
city of its size in the world.
Chcagoans pay seven cents fare for surface car
service that forces them to spend ten per cent of
their waking hours on Insults cars. s tFsa
Yet mild complaint voiced by timid but over
burdened middle-cass soul brings an army of de-
tenders who all sign their names to their letters
so that the great insult may recognize them and
appreciate their sterling worth.
This is the class that the capitalist press always
refers to as the Backbone of the nation" This
may be its anatomical function in the national or
ganism, but if this is true the national backbone
has the same stiffness as piece of boiled spagh-
ETH y
The insult incident is an Indication that big
capital in America is in no immediate danger from
a n6iddleclass revolt with Chicago as its center.