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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
FISHING scHooNERs WILL
HAVE MOTORS AND RADIO

GALVESTON. Tex, Sept. 22.-
When the Gulf Fisheries three.
masted schooner Areas sails out Of
the channel to the gulf here within
the next thirty days the old era
Of the fishing schooner will have
passed, and for the first time q
fishing boat will enter the Gulf
OF Mexico equipped with radio APP
paratus and power other than her
sails.
The entire, fleet Of the Fisheries
Company here is being equipped
with radio sets and gasoline power
engines, the first company to make
such improvements along the entire
gulf.
II will he asSdifferent world for
the crews in the future. with the
strains Of jazz from distant cities
and the throb of motors supplant-
ing the song Of the sails"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22

next room. Then l felt water
running down my back and
Miranda was rioting around the
kitchen, where q dozen little
VOLCANOES Of smoke were shoot
ing up through the layer If
sand. 'Whah dem acrobatic
sperrits o. pneumony, whah dem
acrobatic sperrits O. pneumony?'
she was sobbing, insists done
gone out'n her haid.'
"A fireman was leaning
against the door jamb, absently
scratching the side of his nose
with an ak, and talking with
Bill. You fellows did pretty
well,' he said, Sands the only
thing for gasoline
"'Sure did the work this time.
Your truck come up the ave-
nue?'
"'Yeah.'
Notice the score when you
went by?'
'Four-two, favor o Cleveland,
fifth innin'.'" r.
Defendant: III contend that
mitigating circumstances have
been established, your honor,
and ask that the case be dis
missed"
II can't do that. How long
have you been married."
1.-TWO weeks yesterday at
eighteen minutes past twelve,
your honor"
married two weeks! Sus-
pended sentence on all charges,
Mr. Clerk. But remember, that
stands as a conviction, young
man."
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
Robbery / !. Taught Him
To List Bills; So
He Traps Girl

( NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-After
Elmer Cornelius was robbed once
in a roomlng house of 500 he
thereafter took pains to note the
serial numbers Of any money he
carried. y
When he was robbed a second
time Of $21 he gave the land
lady q list Of the numbers and
moved.
One Of the bills came to light
when Mrs. Mercedes Serrano,
twenty-five, paid her room rent.
Mrs. Serrano was held in $500
for examination in west side
court.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
WOMAN WITH $11.3f1
WANDERING ON STREETS

NORTH ANDoVER, Mass, Sept.
e.. Mrs Matte Wocdhouse has ar.
rived at the home Of a sister hare In
charge Of q police inspector Of
Youngstown. Ohio. where she was
found on a street, carrying a hand.
bag containing 81, sll In bills.
According to the poles she could
not explain wnerc she had obtained
the money and had the d9lusion that
an aviator son OF hers was still
lighting the world war. William
Dore. her brother. In lazy, plans court
proceedings for appointment az her
guardian. * s.A
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22

Continental Congress. He will re-
turn 70 Washington immediately
after the ceremonies.
President Coolidge will speak here
on October 4 at the dedication Of
the First Division Memorial, and
two days later. October 6, will ad-
dress the annual convention of the
American Red Cross.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
CLUB TO CELEBRATE
MISSOURI NIGHT,

missouri Night will be cele.
brated tonight at the meeting Of
the Mcdonald. Washing ton. Blackburn
Club to be held - z315 Massachu-
sets avenue northwest.
A musical program has been
arranged nj
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
DEADLY cILA MONSTER
BITES SNAKE CHARMER

Los ANGELES, Sept. 22.-Bitten
by a gila monster, Mrs. Hazel
Hodge, snake charmer, is recover.
ing In Los Angeles hospital. She
IL said to be the first person on
record to survive gila monsters
bite. :
Mrs. Hodge was rushed to a hos.
pital few minutes after she was
attacked. and this is believed to
have saved her life.
She said the gila was house
pet. kept In a cage. She was bit.
ten while feeding the reptile.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
Citizens 70 Meet

The North cApitol ana lexington
Citizens Association will inset to.
morrow night at the Emery School
building at s o'clock, Committee
reports and entertainment are in.
cluded on the program. Miss
Florence Yocum will sing accom-
panied by Miss Miriae King.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-22
GIRL LEFT TO DIE AFTER
ASSAULT; 3 YOUTHS HELD

MT. CARMEL, Pa, Sept. ga
Anna McHale, Byrnesville. while
walking along a lonely path at
night was attacked by three young
men. She lay unconscious on the
mountain all night.
A passerby found her. Walter
Hadesty, David Ford and Harold
Long, Ashland youths, were
cha rEed with criminal assault ana
Jailed at Bloomsbury. 1t isNthought
the girl will die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Hughes Secret Diplomacy

dispatch from Washington to the DAILY
WORKER charges that the new prime minister
of France Herriot, has been forced to abandon
his announced intention of moving for the imme-
date recognition of Soviet Russia, by means of a
secret agreement arrived at between Poincare
and Secretary of State Hughes.
Secret diplomacy, finding it's source in Wall
Street and Washington, is more than ever ruling
the capitalist world. In our fake democracy
which is really but poor cover for the most
brazen capitalist dictatorship in the world, a
small group of lackeys of big business prevents
the re-establishment of relations with Russia, not
only for the United States, but also for France
thru pressure of the latter's debts.
Meanwhile the theoretical sovereigns of Amer
lea, the poor boobs who think they rule by voting
for Coolidgetor McAdoo, are being thrown out Of
work because industry is in a crisis, while Russia
wants to place great orders with our industries
The farmers find Russian grain flooding the mar
kets, while Russia asks for chance to arrange
conferences to regulate this matter. The capital
list masters of America, in their hatred of the
workers and farmers government of Russia, ig
more every interest of the workers and farmers Of
America. With their secret diplomacy and in
trigue they rush the world onward toward another
war, and plunge the toiling masses of this coun
try into greater misery.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28

latter is consciously striving for an or
ment is not, is sufficient to throw the
two movements into opposition all
along the line. LaFollette's attempted
destruction Of the st. Paul convention
was only one skirmish in the war that
is developing everywhere.
The LaFollette movement envisages
more than merely the nomination Of
the Wisconsin Messiah and an ardent
Disciple for President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States. 1t also con-
templates the placing of state tickets
in all the states where the movement
is able to muster sufficient strength.
1t is over these state tickets that the
greatest clash on the organization
question will occur between the La
Toilette movement and the Farmer-La-
Dor Party movement, entirely aside
from the question of program, etc. La
Toilette and his lieutenants have as
their objective the soaring up of the
greatest possible number of votes for
their program of petty bourgeois re-
form. They want quick results. They
calculate that the best way to &C
complish them in the several states
is by endorsing candidates on the old
party tickets or by setting up indie
pendents, as their opportunistic po-
Icy may dictate. On the other hand,
the Farmer-Labor, parties in the var
ious states'are bound to set up tickets
of their own. This is true whether
they are radical or conservative in
their makeup. Thus, even in states
where the conservative farmer-labor
parties may endorse LaFollette, they
will find themselves in open rivalry
with his state movements. The only
places where such rivalry will not
develop in an organizational sense is
where, the Farmer-Labor party is
strong enough to deliver more votes
to LaFollette and his state ticket than
he could possibly get thru an indie
pendent movement. In such few cases,
as for example in Minnesota, he will
probably accept and support the whole
Farmer-Labor Party ticket. But else
where his movement will enter into
open competition with the Farmer-La-
Dor Party movement and knife its cam
didates on behalf of his own non
descript independents and old party
progressives. The fact that weak
Farmer-Labor parties, which thus find
themselves attacked by LaFollette,
may be conservative in character and
endorse LaFollette nationally will
not save them. The shapeless LaFol-
lette movement tends distinctly to
liquidate the budding Farmer-Labor
Party movement. OF course LaFol-
lette will fight the radical new Ma
tional Farmer-Labor Party every
where, nationally and locally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
BY VIM. z. FOSTER.

The June 18th Convention in St.
l Paul, which founded the new Ma
tional Farmer-Labor Party, suffered
attacks, from many directions. The
capitalist press assailed it as no
other gathering has been assailed for
many years. The labor reactionaries
Of the Conference for Progressive Po-
litical Action also took crack at it
thru their official journal, Labor.
Then old Gompers, following his usual
method Of trying to destroy everything
progressive, poured out torrent of
SANDER against it. But the worst at
tack of all came from LaFoliette, the
eudo-progressive. His attack was
most INSCRIPTIONS and had more of a
detrimental effect upon the conven-
ton than any other.
The world has been told that the
reason for LaFollette's attack was his
determination not to be linked up with
the Communists. But this is merely
surface excuse. Tho real explana-
ton lies deeper. 1t is true that LaFol-
lette wants nothing to do with the
Communists. He is not a revolutions
list, but staunch sustainer of CAPT
talism. He does not want to abolish
private ownership of the basic indus
tries, but to perpetuate it. He merely
wants to reform capitalism by remov-
ing a few of what he calls abuses by
the privileged class. Thus he naturally
comes into head-on collision with the
Communist program, which demands
the abolition of capitalism root and
branch, and inevitably he finds him
self constantly in open conflict with
the Communists. But in order to fight
the Communists in st. Paul, he had
no need to attempt to destroy the con-
vention itself. All he had to do was to
flood the convention with delegates.
He could have poured hundreds if not
thousands Of them into the convention
and made his group master Of the
situation. Then he could have either
refused seats to the Workers Party
delegates or, if the Communists had
been admitted, made it impossible for
them to accomplish anything. But he
did not adopt this obviously logical
course. He tried to blow UP the con-
vention altogether.
LaFollette's assault upon the con-
vention was made not primarily to de-
tach himself from the Communists,
but to destroy the movement center
ing in the st. Paul gathering. He did
not dare to flood the convention with
delegates, for this could not have &C
complished his full purpose. 1t is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28

The LaFOllette movement is q meme
ace to the Farmer-Labor Party move
ment. The worst feature of the situa-
ton is that the leaders of the Farmer
Labor party movement, those of the
progressive" brand, do not realize
this fact. They are perfectly willing,
apparently, to give up all thought Of
organizing a party and to jump on
the LaFollette band wagon. In the
coming months when LaFollette be-
gins to set up his Independent and old
party candidates in the various states,
we may look for many of these prog
|ressives who now claim to be such
ardent advocates Of the Farmer-Labor
Party, to cut their organizations to
pieces at the behest of LaFollette.
Already, by their refusal to partici-
pate in the st. Paul convention,
they have shown how lightly they
hold the organization of the Farmer.
Labor Party and how willing they
are to cast the whole project over
board when their Moses tells them to
do so.
In this situation the new National
Farmer-Labor Party, formed at the
June 18th convention, occupies very
strategic position. 1t is the sole
serious representative and crystalliza-
tion of the Farmer-Labor Party idea.
The old Fitzpatrick Farmer-Labor
Party has blown up and Disappeared;
the socialistic American Labor Party
never did amount to anything; and
the conservative Farmer-Labor Party
movements in the various states are
showing strong tendency to liquidate
themselves in the shapeless and
hostile LaFollette movement. One OF
the greatest tasks. of the new party
will be to carry forward the labor par
ty idea, in these days when it is SO
attacked from all sides. This it will
accomplish by rallying around itself
all those conscious elements among
the workers and farmers who realize
that the building of a genuine political
party of industrial workers and ex-
plotted farmers in incomparably more
important than trailing along in the
train of any politician, especially that
of the ambitious bourgeois, La
Toilette. Turnout the country unques-
tionably there are large masses of
toilers who understand the necessity
for definite organization, as against
the glittering promises of opportun-
istic politicians. These will assemble
in the National Farmer-Labor Party,
which is destined to play significant
role in the coming campaign. Every
believer in the Farmer-Labor Party
idea will rally to the support of the
new party, which is the sole defender
of that idea against the nquidating
tendency of the LaFollette movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
fiSlc0rPlUAyrCAIlDQtlIteVlvfli
.,32a6Ss&s5|za!l1a'

bling every worker of part of his
wages, he sdon has so much money.
Many times people say: Don't the
boss work for his money!" Our an
swer is: would he have so much
money if he alone would work." No.
Our parents work too, but they have
not got even one one-hundredth of
what the rich men have. This proves
that the rich man gets his money by
robbing the workers.
Most Of the workers think the
wages they get are enough for them,
but If they were in the Junior Group
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
LaFollette VS.. the Farmer-Labor Party

quite probable that by such course
he could have cleared the convention
ganization while the LaFollette move
Of the Workers Party official delega-
ton. In all likelihood he could also
have secured the adoption of milk
and-water program to his own liking.
But there was something else at the
convention that he could not possibly
have got rid of, and to which he is
violently opposed. This was the idea
Of forming national party of indus
trial workers and exploited farmers.
During the past few years this idea
has made tremendous Roadway among
the poor farmers and the workers in
the industries. But it is project
anathema to LaFollette, with his timid
policy Of middle class reform. No mat
ter how heavily he had watered the
st. Paul convention with delegates,
he could not have drowned out this
idea, which runs so counter to his
plans. The st. Paul convention, in
any event, was bound to give express
sion to the Farmer-Labor party move
ment upon national scale and to lay
the basis for an organization. Hence,
for LaFollette, there was nothing else
to do but to destroy it and to steer as
much Of the movement as possible to
the Cleveland conference on July 4th,
where the sentiment for Farmer,
Labor Party will be quietly and ex-
peditiously assassinated by LaFollette
and his bureaucratic trade union aids.
LaFollettes big blow against the st.
Paul convention was really directed
against the Farmer-Labor Party move
ment as such, and he carried it out
with as little scruple as was shown
by any of the big capitalistic interests
which turned their guns upon the con-
vention.
The LaFollette and Farmer-Labor
Party movements are rival move.
ments, even where the latter takes on
the most conservative forms. This is
because they have different detectives
The Farmer-Labor Party movement
however, weakly and timidly it may
manifest itself, and even tho it may
include considerable sections of the
petty bourgeoisie, is nevertheless es'
sentially break with the old capital
/ st parties and an effort to set up a
new political organization. The La
Toilette movement, on the other hand
is not such a break. 1t still clings TO
the old parties, maintaining thous-
and connections with them. IT lacks
the courage and initiative to make q
real break and to start battle for a
separate organization of its own
Leaving aside the matter of the natur
ally greater radicalism and keener
class consciousness of the Farmer-La
Dor party movement, the fact that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Taking the Initiative

Duncan Mcdonald candidate for president of
the United States on the Farmer-Labor party
ticket, will fire the first gun in the campaign when
he speaks in Chicago the night of July 2. 1t is
of more than ordinary significance that Melon
aid and the Farmer-Labor party takes the initia-
tive; it symbolizes the entire political lineup.
All the other parties and candidates have
something fundamental in common-they all
stand for the capitalist system. They are care
fully maneuvering for position to receive as much
support as possible from the different strata Of
the bourgeoisie. From Coolidge to LaFollette,
they must step cautiously in order not to ALLEVIATE
any support. Mcdonald, on the contrary, has a
straight out and clear-cut issue-he is the candi-
date of the working class, industrial and agricul-
tural. He need not pussyfoot one moment.
So the Farmer-Labor party takes the initiative
in the electoral struggle. Challenging the COM
bined forces of capitalism, Duncan Mcdonald will
begin the mobilization of the workers of the ma
ton, beginning July 2 in Chicago, and continu-
ing turnout the land without interruption until
the balloting is over in November.
And then the battle will have just been well
begun For the Farher-Labor party is not mere
electoral machine to work for votes this year. 1t
is the beginning of the class organization that
will fight every day, every week, and every year,
in congress, in legislatures, and in elections, as
well as outside these institutions Of the capitalist
class, in the unions, in demonstrations, in the
building up of great working class press, in
mobiizing the workers and farmers and organ
ling every phase Of their political and industrial
power in preparation for taking over control Of
society.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Helping the Farmers

Both the Republican and Democratic parties
agree that the farmers must be given assistance.
Both are burning with love for the tiller of the
soil each has a remedy for his ills; and those rem
edies are strangely similar. The farmer is to be
saved by means of the tariff
The democrats know how to do it-revise the
tariff downward on those things that the farmer
must buy.
The republicans also have the solution-revise
the tariff upward those things the farmers sell.
Tinker with the tariff, exhort the farmers to Co
operate more and change their crops, give them
more bankers to put more mortgages on their
farms-these are acceptable measures to both old
parties to assist the farmers. But do not touch
the private ownership of railroads, which takes a
big slice out of the farmers produce; do not in
terfere with the mortgages which drains the farm
ers' blood to Wall Street and coins it into vast
incomes; do not touch the giant grain trusts that
monopolize the home market and gamble in the
world market. Whatever happens, the sacred pri-
vate property of big business must be preserved,
even if every farmer in the land loses his own
little private property.
If the farmers want help, they must get it them
selves in alliance with the working class in the
cities, in a class party pledged to overthrow the
whole robber system of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Reaction Us. Timidity

Workers in Minnesota are in the unfortunate
position of having to choose, in the senatorial
election of that state, between Tom Schall black
reactionary nominated by the Republicans, and
the timid tho loud-voiced Magnus johnson, sup
posed to represent the FarmerLabor party, but
more conservative than LaFollette himself
Party discipline without which the-building
of strong organization is impossible, demands
that Magnus johnson receive full support as
against the reactionary Schall. The latter is one
of the Old Guard of the corrupt and reactionary
Republican organization. He is openly and
avowedly the enemy of every measure calculated
to assist and to organize the workers and farm
ers. He is a tool in the hands of the gang that
manipulates congress and the administration in
the interests of Wall Street.
But let us be under no illusions about Magnus
johnson. While all possible votes must be mus
tered against the old party candidate, and the
FarmerLabor party must be united and strong
in the election, we must recognize and we must
state openly, that Magnus johnson is a timid
pussyfooter. He is bound to disappoint the work
ers and farmers who put him into Office Not be-
cause he will fail to obtain any relief for them
the best fighter in the world would refuse to guar
antee results from the word battles in capitalist
senate-but because he will not even put up a
fight for the things that are necessary.
johnson avoided the June IL convention, organ
lied to put the Farmer-Labor party into the field
on national scale That was an intolerable
weakness. Johnson fraternizes socially with the
enemies of the farmers. He roars like lion in
campaigning thru Minnesota, but COOS like dove
in Washington, where the roars might mean some
thing johnson will fail the workers and farmers.
He must be supported only because he is on the
ticket of the Farmer-Labor party that must be
built up into a strong and fighting organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-28
Getting Harmony at Cleveland

Great minds are making the arrangements for
the Cleveland Conference for Progressive Political
Action. They are determined to have harmony.
The program announced for the gathering shows
it. For example:
Prayers will be offered by Bishop Mcconnell
of the Methodist church, Archbishop Shrembs of
the Catholic church, and Rabbi Silva What
chance is there here for charges of discrimination?
Everybody can feel that his spiritual interests
are taken care Of except perhaps the disciples of
Bishop Brown.
The political speakers invited to address the
meeting show a similar wide range: Frazier of
the Republican party, Shipstead of Farmer Labor,
Heating the Democrat and Rawleigh of the La
Follettefor-Pres club. True, the Socialists
have been showed aside, because no longer needed
and then they will have to like it anyway, since
they have Internationally surrendered to the
@. z. ?. A. So harmony is guaranteed in this
respect also.
The only danger to the harmony of the Cleve
land conference, in fact, is the danger that some
real worker or farmer may slip into the meet
ing. That would be bad, for he might speak up
and demand a real Farmer-Labor party be formed
which would really cut its ties with the capitalist
parties and make fight for the interests of the
workers and farmers. That has been guarded
against by eliminating all local union delegates
and seating only officials and bureaucrats. But
it would be disastrous if there should be any slip
up on this. We suggest that the credential com
mittee examine every delegate, and exclude all
those in advance who will not pledge themselves
to speak and vote against the Farmer Labor
party. That would really represent the attitude
of the G. p P. A.