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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
ELECTION SURVEY
SHOWS minority
RULES AMERICA
Disfranchisement Of the
Negroes Clearly Shown

Only 52.S per cent of the populace
eligible to vote went to the polls on
November 4 according to statement
issued following survey made by the
national association of manufacturers
This is an increase of but 81 per
cent over the 1920 figures when 49.1
per cent of the electorate went to the
polls.
The minority basis of the parlia-
mentary structure of American gov
eminent is clearly indicated in the fig
ures which accompany the report OF
the survey. The figures of the asso-
citation also reveal in startling form
the systematic disfranchisement of the
Negroes in the southern states.
Nineteen of the As states cast a
smaller vote than in 1920 and the
"solid south" upheld it's reputation as
the home of feudal reaction by per-
centages ranging from 8 in South
Carolina, 1O.1 in Georgia, 10.S in Miss
issippi, 1875 in Louisiana, rs in Flor
ida to 37.2 in North Carolina
In Kansas and Indiana approximately
50 per cent of the total eligible vote
was cast due to the fight between the
khan and anti-klan forces.
The enfranchisement of women has
had little apparent effect on the per
eentage of voters altho it has increas-
ed the number who go to the polls.
The tabulation of the percentages
for the nation is as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
JAP ANESE LEADER
WIRES KARAKHAN
.UR Gin C TREATY
Felicitates Soviet Am
bassador to China
BY RosTA

PICKING, Nov. 30.-The following
message has been received by the
Soviet Ambassador, Mr.. L. M. Karak-
han, from Mr.. Sentaro Honda, the
noted Japanese thinker and leader
of public opinion in Japan, replying
to telegram sent by Mr.. Karakhan
in answer to a message first sent by
Mr.. Sentaro Honda end Of Septem-
ber:-
Il was praying for solution of the
Russo-Japanese question at Daisekiji,
our head temple at the foot Of Mount
Pull, when the arrival Of Your Eek
cellencys telegram was announced.
Then / hurried home and read it
with joy: / admire your spirit and
rejoice that my sincerity is apprecia-
ted. present my humble respects to
Your Excellency with cordial wishes
for continued health and welfare.
at was indeed by inspiration that
cabled Your Excellency. / have al
ready made sincere representations
to our government. If Your Excel
lency will solve the long pending
Russo-Japanese question, it will be o
godsend, it will impart great vitality
to both nations, lead to their spiritual
revival and stabilize public feeling.
Therefore / earnestly entreat Your
Excellency to make every effort to
bring this high mission to success
full conclusion. Sentaro Honda
Tokyo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01

national convention held in April
1917, to the organization of the Com
munist Labor Party and the Commun
Party in September, 1919.
The lecturer made plain and inter.
esting the following occurrences dur.
ing this period: The April, 1917,
national convention of the socialist
party; the anti-war resolution; the
effort of the leftists in the socialist
party to carry out this resolution into
life; anti-conscription agitation; in
Cleveland, Ohio; in the Language
declarations; in the Y. P. S. L.; Debs
in 1918. The Bolshevik revolution in
1917; its effect upon the Slavic feder
atoms and upon the English speaking
elements in the left wing of the so.
cialist party; referendum of the social
list party to join Third international
overwhelmingly carried; left wing
international delegates and national
executive committee of socialist party
elected; referendum declared illegal
j by reactionary party oficialdom; ex-
pulsion OF 10000 federation members
by the national executive committee
Of the socialist party, expulsion of the
state organizations of Michigan and
Ohio for their left tendencies.
National left wing conference in
New York, June. 1919; split in the
left wing executive, the Slavic feder-
ations demanding the calling of a
convention to organize a Communist
party irrespective of the coming
August socialist party convention, and
the English branches OF the left wing
holding that it would be better tactics
to attend the socialist party August
convention and there propagate for
the left wing; the election OF the left
wing from the socialist party August
convention by the Chicago police upon
call OF Germer and other reactionary
S. p. officials; the meeting OF these
left wing delegates in hall below the
s. p. convention to organize the Com.
munist Labor Party; the organization
| OF the Communist Party during these
same days in a hall on Blue Island
avenue, Chicago; the attempt to unite
the G. L. p and @. p. conventions,
resulting in failure. the theological
difference between the two parties
AMI memberships, the leaders in the
two parties and the leadership of tho
remnant left of the socialist party.
Students wishing to register can
still do so for the next lecture which
will be given Tuesday, Dec. 2.
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clares that since nothing else can
come out Of the economic and pol
litical situation in the United States
than sharper struggles between the
workers and exploited farmers and
the capitalist government, the logical
deduction from this is that the move
ment for independent political action
by the workers and exploited farm
ers thru Farmer-Labor Party will
be even stronger than in the past and
that we must maintain our contact
with these masses thru continuing our
campaign under the slogan for a
class Farmer-Labor Party" because
we can thus best fulfill our task of
developing the political consciousness
of the workers and exploited farmers,
leading them into political struggles
and thus creating the basis for class
action by these two groups against
the capitalist government. The min.
GRITTY Of the G. e. G. declares that
it is only thru such participation in
the actual, developing political move
ment of the workers and poorer farm
ers that we can build the Workers
Party and make of it the mass Com
munist Party of the United States.
The LaFoIette Bugaboo.
What answer does the c. E. c. ma
iority make to this reasoning. Why
they declare, LaFollette has swal
lowed the whole Farmer-Labor Party
movement. No doubt, temporarily, he
has swallowed a goodly part Of it.
But is the LaFollette illusion stronger
than the economic forces which com
pei the workers and exploited farm
ers to fight their respective class bat
ties? The economic forces which
throw these groups into struggles
have been powerful enuf to compel
them to leave the republican and
democratic parties. They will be
powerful enuf to break the weaker
hold upon these workers and ex
plotted farmers which LaFollette has
Temporarily gained over them.
The reading Of the G. E. G. major
| ity thesis gives one the impression
that the LaFollette illusion has taken
hold of the minds of the majority
There is a, fatalistic bowling Of the
knee before LaFolletteism. For the
C. E. C. majority it seems definitely
established fact that the workers and
exploited farmers who are for indie
pendent political action have settled
in the LaFollette camp and are going
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
BY c. E. RuTHENRERc.

THE most striking feature of the
/ thesis of the majority members
of the Central Executive Committee
on the political situation and the
tasks Of our party is the illogical con.
clusion which is drawn from the facts
submitted. This conflict between the
analysis of the economic and political
developments in the United States and
the policy which it is proposed that
our party shall follow is so glazing
that it strikes one in the face even
in most casual reading of the the
sis.
What are the facts which have
guided our party policy during the
past two or three years?
World War Brot on Crisis.
Our position has been: The world
war has resulted in the crisis of CAPT
talism. The economic burdens grow
ing out of the war and the destruction
OF the means Of production in Euro
pean countries have decreased the
productive power of capitalism and
brot sharpening of the class strug-
gle. The United States is not i'm
mune from these conditions, as has
been shown by the swiftly recurring
period of depression in this country.
AS a consequence we have had &
period of intenser class struggle in
the United States since the end OF
the war. In these struggles the use
of the state power against the work
ers and exploited farmers has de-
veloped their political consciousness
and resulted in the movement for in.
dependent ltical action by these ex.
plotted classes
Every attentive student Of our pol
icy in our party will agree that this
was the line Of our argument during
the two and half years Of our united
front Farmer-Labor Party policy. The
whole basis of our policy was that
the intenser class struggles Of the
period of the crisis of capitalism
would develop the political conscious
ness of the workers and exploited
farmers and create q movement for
independent political action by these
classes. We said, this is our best
point of contact with these masses
BY raising the slogan which ex-
presses the need which is dawn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago


Monday, Dec. I.
Douglas Park English Branch, 1922
Douglas Blvd. Business meeting.
North Side English, 2409 n. Halsted St
VIM. F. Dunno speaking on Report Of
18th Ward Italian, 1903 S. LOOMS st.
Tuesday, Dec. 2.
Roumanian Branch. 2250 Clybourn Ave.
Czecho-Slovak Town of Lake, Work.
ers' Home, 51st and Whipple st.
T. U. z. L. meeting. Local General
Group, Northwest Hall, corner North
and Western AYES. Report on Ell Paso A.
F. OF L. convention by William f. Dunno.
Wednesday, Dec. 8.
Italian Cicero, Circolo Giovanile Hall.
18th st. between 51st and 50th Ct
Welt Road.
Italian Terra Gotta, PATS Clybourn Ave.
Englewood English, 5414 S. Halsted st.
The next meeting Of the City Gen.
trail Committee, Workers Party, Local
Chicago will take place, as hitherto,
on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 8 p. M, at
Workers Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave.
Many important resolutions, indus
trial and other matters will be up for
attention. Every delegate must at
tend. Be on tIme-s p. m. sharpl
Thursday, Dec. 4.
South Slavic No. l. 1906 s. Racine ST.
Finnish Branch. 2409 n. Halsted ST.
18th Ward Italian, 2439 S. Oakley Blvd.
3lst Ward Italian, 511 N. Sangamon ST.
South Side English. 1901 S. Wabash.
Russian No. /, 1902 w. Division ST.
Scandinavian Karl Marx, 1888 Hirsch
Blvd.
Lithuanian No. Al. 41ss Archer Ave.
Friday, Dec. 5.
Industrial organizers meeting, Room
307, 166 w Washington ST., p. m.
Polish North Side. 1902 W. Division st.
Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave.
Saturday, Dec. 6.
Metal Trades T. U. e. L. Group, 1880
p. m, 722 Blue Island Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01

after another these Russian docu-
ments would come to light thru "cle-
yer detective work." and have not on
ly helped line the pockets of the po-
lice force, but have also given the
newspapers an opportunity to con-
denim Soviet propaganda.
Shown Gigantic Frame-up.
With the forging of the last link in
the "chain of evidence" concerning
Russia, the whole thing is discovered
to be a gigantic frame-up.
The officials have attempted to
muzzle the press and prevent discus
sion of the zinoviev forgeries, by stat
ing that by means Of complete silence
they hope to obtain a confession.
At the same time that the forgeries
have been exposed, discoveries were
made of S1O,OOO,OOO slush fund for
buying the elections for the monarch
list and nationalist parties.
Locomotive Boss Takes Lead.
Documentary evidence has been
published proving that Herr Won Bor-
sig, president of the Borsig Locomo-
tive Works, one of Germanys biggest
industries, was the person chiefly con-
cerned in the raising of the slush fund.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
Remember These Dates.

THE entire New York organiza'
| ton is expected to cooperate
in the following affairs. All affiliat-
ed and sympathetic organizations
arc requested not to arrange con-
fIicting dates. :.
Jan. II, Sunday afternoon and
evening, DAILY WORKER Jubilee,
New Star Casino.
Feb. 1, Sunday afternoon, Lenin
Memorial, Madison Square Garden.
Feb. lila, Defense Bazaar, The
Lyceum, 65th street.
March IS, Sunday afternoon and
evening, Press Pageant and Paris
Commune Celebration, Madison
Square Garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
Hughes Likes This Revolution.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3d. Ambas-
sador Collier, home on leave from
Chile, reports that the militarist revo
luton and dictatorship in Chile is now
in process Of revising the constitution
to fit the fact Of revolution. Recogni
ton by the United States has not
sosn withdrawn, but direct diplomatic
dealings are in state OF suspense
awaiting the constitutional changes.
READ THE DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
FIRST MEETING OF THE
PED ATHLETIC CLUB TO
Be HELD IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, N. ", Nov. 3o.-Ail
New York comrades Interested In
the workers sport movement please
reserve Saturday afternoon, Dec. 8,
for the first meeting Of the New
York Red Athletic Club which will
be held at zoo East 18th street at
7 p. m. This Is the first attempt
Of the party TO 90 into this field Of
activities. All those Interested In
sports are urged TO attend thls
meeting and Inform their friends.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
Lenin Meeting in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA Young Workers Workers
and friendly organizations take notcei
Philadelphia City Workers Party
Saturday,
"a, p. the Lulu Temple
Please meetings affairs that date.
Philadelphia City Central Committee
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
STILL TIME TO REGISTER FOR
CLASS In HISTORY OF THE
AMERICAN COMMUNIST PARTY

Alfred Wagnknecht substituted p. on
Communist party history Technical
Tuesday night COmade
The lecture Comrade Wagennecht
activity in workers political party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
GERMAN FASCIST APE BRITISH
TORIES IN FORGING COMMUNIST
DOCUMENTS FOR THE ELEC TIONS
lspeeIaI 70 Lac DaIIy Worksrl

BERLIN, sOAs a police amount
forced admit that
heads forging planting series Of Russian
series forged znoviev letters.
police
proportion One
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01

New York Workers School.
Register Now--208 {. 18th St.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-01
Coal Production Grows.

MOSCOW, Nov. 3d. Russian coal
production in the Donetz basin
reached 100000 tons in the year
ending October, 1924. This is $50 per
cent OF last year and AZ per cent Of
pre-war. This years program was ex-
ceeded by per cent, and the stocks
on hand for export are 100000 tons.
Export OF coal the past year was 157
per cent Of the year preceding.
Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge
Room. Ashland Auditorium.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
Carmel Cognoscenti
Bar Modern Devices

An artistic Eiysium where streets
and sewers and other evidences of
modern civilization do not exist, the
kindly acres where, according to Cato,
no usury stands to retard creative in
spiration, freedom from society's fet-
tiers.
Such is the incentive Of the new
artists retreat that well-known mem
bers of the Carmel Cognoscenti have
established at Notley's Landing, an
abandoned town Is miles from the
scene of Carmel itself.
For Carmel, declare these anti.con-
ventionalists, is fast becoming too
modern to be the ideal playground for
brain children. New sewers, an in
corporated city government, all the
conventionalities of stylish summer
colony, do not blend tremendously with
ideal artistic conception, they declare.
The movement for an artistic ex-
odus Is well under way, 1t would
seem. with Evan Royal Mosher, paint
er; John Howard Flanner, composer,
and Herbert Heron, waterproof. al
ready living at Notley's Landing, and
with William Overstreet, Carmel edi-
Tor, announcing his plans Of following
suit
with the advent of numerous sum-
mer visitors Carmel, the artists state,
mas taken on too many aspects of a
real city, whereas 1t was once replete
with freedom. and artistic communism.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
Roman Generals Liked
Spring Mineral Voter

Inc Romans, who knew much about
external and internal cleanliness that
was forgotten after the downfall of
their power, attached the greatest I'M
portance to the drinking of mineral
water. AT Aix-les-Thermes, for in
stance, in the Pyrenees, the waters
were used By the Roman conauerors.
and st. Louis had pond built there
for the use of Crusaders who returned
from the Holy Land stricken with lep-
rcsy. This pond Is still In existence.
1t was in the Nineteenth century.
however, that Aix-les-Thermes was
adapted to modern needs and became
popular resort Its waters contain
sodium sulphide and are very benefi-
eial for rheumatism and govt
In this country the term thermal
is not In wide use. one seldom hearing
the term thermal resort applied TO
places where persons 90 to take a
cure" In Europe, on the other hand
the word is In common use, and Their
NAL resort is recognized as a place
whose waters possess certain healing
and health-giving properties, and
which has also been developed to take,
proper care Of those who repair for a
cure or to enjoy a period Of rest and
recreation.-Detroi News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
MONKEY KISSED ITS MOTHER
Writer Tells Of Human-like Scene Of
Similar Affection In Burma
Forest.

In Burma we had monkey tribe
that were called locally human; gray
black-faced tree jewellers, says w. A.
Fraser In the Saturday Evening Post.
The males, as they looked down at one,
the black face surrounded by white
whiskers, always wore puzzled. plain
tive look.
They were lengthy of limb, long Of
tail and light-bodied, built expressly for
their mode Of travel, which consisted
in racing to the top Of tree and shoot
ing out In flying leap downward to
the limb of anether-the tail, as If it
did, the trick automatically. twisting
about the limb with grip quite strong
enough to suspend the monkeys body.
In these flying leaps and in the race
up the tree, the monkey babe always
lay fat, slung under the mother, its
paws grasping the mothers fur.
Once. standing quietly on jungle
path. / saw a female of this tribe sit
ting on a limb with her back toward
me. Behind her on the limb baby
monkey about quarter grown was
skyiarking. pinching his mother and
trying to tie knot in her tail. Sud
denly | saw him stand up, put his front
paws under the mothers chin, pull her
head over backward and kiss her. The
mother. her heart full of affection,
fancy, was delighted. for her head went
over willingly and she rubbed the
baby's cheek with her own.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
WISDOM FROM ANCIENT SAGE
Egyptian Knew Whereof He Spoke, ana
His Words Are Worth Keeping
In Remembrance Today.

Long centuries before Tut-Ankh.
Amen ruled as Pharaoh in the land OF
the Nile, a certain Ptah Hotep served
his king, Itoso, in the capacity Of vizier
Very little is known about this ancient
Observation-Disclosures beyond the fac,
that, like all fond parents since the
world began. he exercised his paterna'
prerogative by giving unsought advic.
to his son.
DR.. James Walsh Of Fordham uni.
versity has called attention TO the
Vizier's letters to his boy, written ap-
parently about $500 years ago, and
preserved in what Is claimed by some
to be the oldest book in the world.
The burden Of one epistle seems to
have been not unlike the oft-quote6
advice of Shakespeare's Polonius Of q
much later day-"Beware of entrance
to quarrel" Other words of Hotep
were: "Don't argue with your superi.
ors; II does not do any good. Don't
argue with your equals; make a plain
statement and let it go at that. Don't
argue with your interiors; let them
talk and they will make fools Of them
selves"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
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Bride AdUised on Hosc
to Be Boss Of Husband

Don't wear curl papers the first two
years -after that it will not matter
Keep set OF. Walter Scott in your
apartment to occupy you in the hours
when you are not ON speaking terms
with your husband Some brides have
been able to finish Dickens and 'Ths
Decline and Fall of the Roman EN-
pire" as well.
Teach him to cook before you are
rlarried; he will be unsuspicious then
and they learn easier before than after
marriage.
Don't believe him when he says he
VIII take up dancing next winter
Make him sign contract to this effec,
before the ceremony.
Don't start him in on sweetbreads
and creamed mushrooms; this viii
make the contrast too marked wheT
you begin to feed him on potato chips
and cold ham. A hungry man will Ell
anything II you give him time; and he
VIII be less likely to talk about tbs
way mother used to cook If you train
MIN in the first elk months.
Always be taken Ill when you
mother-in-law comes to visit you; aftel
she has done all the work for a da,
or two she will be glad to go back Il
her own home again. In the mean
time you can have a good rest in bed
Any bride who follows these direc
lions accurately can have as man,
husbands as she wants.-New Yorl
Sun and Globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
British Officer Found
Townships Too Big

FOR nearly year the British prison
ers taken after Burgoyne's surrender
were held in Massachusetts, and then
came from congress the order to march
them to barracks in Virginia. The
officers Travelled with considerable lib
erty. Thomas Anburey, British lieu
tenant, complained of the size of the
townships in Connecticut In his rem
inlscences, first published In 1889, and
recently published. "About the center
OF these townships stands the meet
ing house, or church, with q few sur
rounding houses; sometimes the church
stands singly. 1t is no little NORTH
cation, when fatigued after long
days journey, on inquiring how far 1t
is to such town to be informed you
are there at present; but on inquiring
for the church or any particular tav-
ern you are informed It Is seven or
eight miles farther"
Anburey observed that most of the
Connecticut houses were only half fin
ished, the other half having only the
rough timbers that supported the
building. Upon inquiry learned that
when man builds house he leaves
1t in this state until his son marries
when he fits 1t up for his family, and
the father and son live under one
roof. New York Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-03-07
GAS USED TO FOIL THIEVES
Really Ingenious Continuance That
Will Not Be Appreciated by
the "cracksmen."

Some of our property losses have
resulted from the inroads Of cracks
men who succeeded in getting into o
number of our vaults and safes.
Recently an inventive fellow with
a knowledge of deadly gases decided
to capitalize his understanding of pol
son gases, so he perfected fragile
glass container that is now being en-
ployed to protect all kinds of deposit
tories from thieves. Any movement
of the door to which the gas container
is attached, or any unusual jar, such
as would result from an explosion,
breaks the container and releases the
fluid, which kills the burglars instant
ly. ANY effort to remove the vial by
drilling it from the door likewise re
leases the gas.
1t would be grand thing, from the
standpoint of safeguarding property.
II some of these gas containers could
be attached to many other kinds OF
private possessions; but such a sug'
~gestion would likely be inconsistent
with my present effort to set down
ways to conserve life.-Floyd W. Par
sons In the Saturday Evening Post