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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
MOVIE THEATRE
MUSICIANS MAY
STRIKE SEPT. |
Union Demands 46Week
Contract for Men

No agreement has been reached be-
tween the representatives of the Must
clans Union and movie theater man.
ayers who met to discuss the music
ians' new contract. The musicians
are demanding As week contract
The managers are holding out for the
old system of indefinite term employ
ment
Managers in the moving picture
houses (this excludes the two-a-day
picture houses) have been in the
habit of employing number of must
clans one week and reducing the
number to about half the next week.
This has kept a standing line of un.
employed musicians.
There is no reason why a picture
house should not estimate the number
of men necessary at the beginning of
the year and to guarantee each must.
clan 46 weeks in year." James Pet
rilla told the DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
MANY AND NOVEL EXPERIENCES
AWAIT WORKERS PARTY MEMBERS
SEEKING PETITION SIGNATURES

The big job of Workers Party members right the
wasting of voters for signatures petitions to put the party
ddates the ballot for the Fall elections
This work to Communists. An account of
experiences therefore, getting may be aid others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
Vote Communist This Time!
War on curbstone sheIks.

War on Curbstone SheIks.
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. Aug. 2s.-The
morals Of Rock Island are being
safeguarded with the beginning Of
drive to keep "curbstone sheiks" OF
the streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
FOSTER MEETING
IN OMAHA BRINGS
GREAT INTEREST
Will Open Up in Home
of Brookhart

OMAHA, Nebr, Aug. 2s.-Much in
terest is developing here in the Foster
meeting which will be held next Sun
day evening at the Eagle Hall, 18th
and Cass SITS.
Local trade unionists are becoming
so disguised with the antics of their
faker leadership that they are losing
all interest in their organizations. The
Labor Temple has become as quiet as
an undertaking parlor, since the
reds" were cast from it into the
darkness.
William 2. Foster, Communist can
didate, will present to these workers
the Communist plan for reorganization
Of the unions upon an industrial basis
the only way out for the craft
unionists from the difficulties which
confront them as the result of the con-
tinuance of their outworn form of
craft organization.
Foster to Mess Up Bob.
Foster will also have a message of
interest for the LaFolleete supporters
who are rapidly drifting away from
the Wisconsin Messiah as the result of
the high-handed tactics used by his
crowd in jamming the LaFollette-Bry-
an swindle down the throats of his
worshipers.
Foster will speak at Sioux City and
Des Moines Qowa) before coming to
Omaha, at Sioux City on the goth and
Des Moines on the 30th. Fosters
meetings are arousing unusual inter-
est among the workers and farmers
In Brookhart's domain.
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questions for? Sign, damn you! You
are worker, aren't your"
we approached a door. From with
in we heard a photograph. We knock
ed. The photograph was stopped and
a man opened the door. Apologizing
for hands that were colored from hard
labor, and not from being soiled, he
grabbed the pencil in his big first and
signed for all he was worth.
"There!" he said, as If striking a
wallop at something he hated. I'm
thru with the old parties. I've voted
democrat and I've voted republican
and now I'm thru. From now on I'll
do little voting for myself Jack
tombstone, candidate for congress in
the ninth district, is my man. Tell
him he'll get my vote"
We piled him up with literature,
shook hands with him and told him
we hoped to hear from him.
We met a union man who signed be-
cause tombstone is a union men. Up
on learning that this union man would
vote for LaFoIlette, l asked him
whether LaFollette was a union man.
He didn't know. So said knew
that all our candidates were and /
asked him to read our literature,
which he promised to do after he
signed the petition.
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AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

, dorses Morgan via Davis. In support
ing Walsh, for senator on the Demo
cratic ticket, Wheeler is supporting
Morgan via Davis. In supporting La
Toilette for president, Wheeler is
fighting Davis and therefore, fighting
Morgan. What is 1t, anyhow? A
phantasy or an election campaign?
EIGHTEEN persons including Col.
- Forbes, are indicted for conspir-
acy to defraud the government in the
Veterans Bureau. They are now
awaiting trial What cesspool of cor
ruption this capitalist government Of
the United States is? take away the
incentive to accumulate wealth, and
civilization would fall" say the apollo
gists for the capitalist system. But 1t
appears that capitalism is coming
down thru the action of economic
forces, assisted by capitalism's agents
who are so anxious to accumulate
wealth and make good" that they rob
the institutions they are sworn to pro-
tect. No more shameful piece of bur-
glary was ever committed than the
robbery of the Veterans Bureau. And
this was done by good 100 per cent
patriotic Americans.
| c. WALTON, former governor of
~ Oklahoma, and Democratic nomi-
nee for senator from Oklahoma, prom
ises to treat the Ku Klux Khan rough
when he gets into the millionaires
club in Washington. Walton was elect
ed governor of Oklahoma with the
support of the workers, but when he
got in, he soon turned his coat. He
even joined the Khan, but thieves have
a habit of falling out SO he was ex-
PEELED from the hooded order. Mr.. Wal
ton will fight for nothing but his own
interests. He is one of the most no
torious takers in the United States
He is supporting John w. Davis, the
Morgan attorney for president.
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experiences, therefore, in getting
who are on the job for the
party.
Get the Signature.
The big thing to put over is to get
signatures. The next job is to leave
some literature. That is all that can
be covered by the comrades on this
job. Undertaking to engage in a dis
cussion or debate will do more harm
than good to the immediate task in
hand.
Bear in mind that you cannot break
down in one minute the wall of preju-
dice built up for years by wrong edu-
cation and capitalist propaganda. You
have no time to hammer away at this
wall while getting signatures. And
the door that has opened to you will
quickly shut in your face unless you
observe few rules.
Housewife Answers Knock.
You knock at the door and usually
woman greets you. Are there any
voters in your family?" is a good
question to approach her with.
She answers in the affirmative and
you proceed to enter.
You address those present. ''Will
you give us your signature to help
put our candidate on the ballot in this
district? A number of citizens in this
district want to vote for him, but be-
fore they can do so, his name must
appear on the ballot. We cannot get
his name on the ballot without sigma
lures from the citizens in this district
Signing this petition places you
under no obligation to vote for this
man. You, no doubt, understand this.
Being voter, you have been called
upon to do this before"
This will secure the confidence Of
the person addressed and the sigma
ture without minutes hesitation.
Then assuring yourself as to the per-
sons qualifications as a citizen, you
give him pencil and he signs.
Hand Out Party Literature.
When you leave exchange a few
pleasant remarks while handing out
party literature. But let the other
fellow express opinions. Get an idea
Of what the man is thinking about,
but don't push your views. The most
you can do and should do is to raise
question in his mind about the
things he is so sure about and let
your literature do the convincing.
Instead of setting out with the In
tention to teach, go out to learn. And
you will learn what you are UP
against to get your story to the work
ers. Their minds have been doped
with capitalist propaganda. They
have been fed on the philosophy of
hate and prejudice against your idea
by the calling of names. Mention of
those very names shuts them up
tight in fear of contamination,
Recognize "DAILY WORKER"
Here are a few interesting expert
ences; One man approached on the
curb in front of his house, shouted to
his friend: Don't you see the girls
are carrying copies of the DAILY
WORKER What are you asking
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago
sTREEr MEETINGS IN cHIcAoo.
Saturday, August 80.

Saturday, August 80.
North Ave, and Mohawk, auspices
German w. p. and Hungarian Y. w. L.,
speakers, d. E. Early and c. Miller.
Division and Washtenaw, auspices N.
w. Jewish branch and Y. w. L., speak,
ers, M. Gomez S. Hammersmark and
Jewish comrade.
114th and Michigan. auspices Pullman
section w. p, speakers, Louis Engdahl
and H. Cannes.
Halsted and Sebor SITS, auspices Greek
branch w. p, speakers f. Buckley and
sOth St., and state, auspices South
Side w. p, speakers, O'Flaherty and
Gordon Owens.
Dickson and Division, auspices Polish
branch, speakers, Jos. Manley and Polish
comrade.
DATES OF THE CHICAGO AFFAIRS
OF THE WORKERS PARTY.
Party units and friendly organizations
do not set conflicting dates.
Monday, Sept. 1T. U. e. l.. Picnic, AL
tenhein Grove.
Sunday, Sept. international Youth
sunday, oct. 12-Foster- Gitlow Campaign
Meeting, Ashland Auditorium (after-
saturday. Oct. 1s-John Reed Memorial
Saturday, Oct. 2s-Freiheit Ball. Ashland
Friday, Nov. 7-seventh Anniversary
Russian Revolution, Ashland Audi
Saturday, Nov. is Young Workers
Nov. 81. so~Daily Worker and Labor
Defense Council Bazaar.
"wednesday, Jan. 81 Lenin Memorial
Meeting, Ashland Auditorium.
Saturday, Feb. 2s-Red Revel.
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Subscribe for "Your Daily
the DAILY WORKER.
Women JobIess Too.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-More
women in Connecticut are looking for
work now than at any time since
January, according to a report made
to the women's bureau Of the U. S
department of labor by Miss Char
lotte NJ. Holloway, an industrial in
spector in the field. This unemploy
ment is due to the closing of mills and
factories. Work in the tobacco fields
will absorb much Of this labor for a
few weeks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
Join the Workers Party!
Banker EmbezzIes pouah.

MADISON, Wis, August 29.-Henry
E. Rohlf, former president of the Hay.
ward (Wis.) National Bank. was un.
der sentence Of eight years in Leaven.
worth prison today, following plea OF
guilty in federal court yesterday on
an embezzlement charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
New York Women /. Meet.

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 20 An
important meeting Of the women's
committee will be held on Thursday
evening, Sept, 4. at 2oS e, 18th Street
at s o'clock. All delegates must be
present, Branches that have no dele
gates, will elect two women delegates
at once.
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Vote Communist This Time
ATTENTION.

All Literature and DAILY
WORKER Agents should be pres.
ent at the DAILY WORKER office,
ttt3 w. Washington St., Saturday
Aug. 80, 3 p. m. Branches not rep
resented will be notified Of the fall
ure Of agent to attend.
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Indorse Bob; Can Defense Day

SOUTH BEND. Ind. Aug. 2s.-The
LaFollette-Wheeler ticket was en-
dorsed and Mobilization Day con-
demned in stormy session of the
Building Trades Council OF Indiana in
its 18th annual meeting here.
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Vote Communist This Time!
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TODAY

All rebels should attend the con-
vention Of the junior groups of the
Young Workers League which 10
being held today at 2644 LeMoyns
St., at 1880 p. m.
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that one Of the most dangerous dis
eases this country is suffering from
is laziness. Business men devote more
time to golf than to business and the
workers loaf on the job. This sap
head holds that il the workers
worked longer hours and with great
err intensity that everybody would be
better off. At the present time there
are 100000 workers unemployed in
the United States.
IF those who are employed produced
more wealth than they are turning
out at the present time, it would sim
ply increase the army of labor so
much faster. So long as wealth Is
produced for profit and not for the
use of the producers, so long will in
telligent workers refuse to speed up
and produce more. In Russia where
every increase in the mass of ,produc-
ton adds to the standard Of living
of the producer there is no necessity
for urging the workers to produce
more. They know that greater pro-
duction brings them more of the
good things of life.
VKTE are told it requires brains to
wv make money. Perhaps it may
be said that Harry K. Thaw is the ex-
ception that proves the rule. But
there are others, almost as crazy as
Thaw, tho it would take an alienist to
give the exact location of the parti-
cular gland which is responsible for
the mental deviation. Mrs. Edith
Rockefeller Mccormick, believes that
she was at one time the devoted wife
of Tut-ank- Hamen anil later on, one
of the concubines of Henry VIII of
glorious and neurotic memory.
NOV comes the Vanderbilt family.
IN Two years ago Mrs. Ogden Mills,
one of the vanderbilts, married Sir
Paul Dukes, member of the "Oom"
colony and British stool pigeon in
Russia. The latest member of the
Vanderbilt family to fall under the in
fiuence Of this strange cult is Mrs.
Barbara C. Rutherford Hatch. She
married a disciple of Dom, the Om-
nipotent," known in real life as Pierre
A. Bernard. The business-like cultist
was once a barber and no doubt, will
trim the bride of of some of her mil
lions before he turns her over to the
next faker. But brainsl They belong
to the barber.
LERE is political puzzle. Sena-
| / tor T. j. Walsh, Democrat, of
Montana, is up for reelection as SEN
ator from Montana, on the Democratic
ticket. He has the support of Burton
X. Wheeler, Democrat, who is running
for the vice-presidency of the United
States on the LaFollette ticket. Walsh
is supporting John w. Davis, the at
torney for the House of Morgan.
Davis says that Morgan. the Standard
OIL Company, the Equitable Trust and
other big corporations and financial
institutions that he is working for,
are alright. LaFollette says that Nor
gan is one Of the reasons why he is
running for president. He declares
Morgan is a nuisance. LaFollette en-
dorses Wheeler; Wheeler endorses
LaFollette and T. J. Walsh, who en-
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Join the Workers PartyI
Poles In Debt Agreement.

Poles IN Debt Agreement.
WARSAW, August 2s.-The Polish
minister Of finance today instructed
the minister at Washington to con-
clude a debt agreement with the
United States.
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Recoanlze nDAILY WORKER

Here are a few interesting expert
ences; One man approached on the
curb in front Of his house, shouted to
his friend: Don't you see the girls
are carrying copies of the DAILY
WORKER What are you asking
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cial capitalize snatch enormous
quantities of values directly out of
agriculture, in their development are
creating the following conditions:
First. The land suitable for agri-
culture is going over and most of it
is already in ownership of non-culti-
vators.
Second. Previous free farmers
owners are transformed into tenants
or in nominal owners who are de-
pendent from their mortgage holders
and are temporary on the bridge
leading to tenancy or to the class
of workers.
Third. The system Of tenancy, as
established at present in the United
States. differs from systems Of ten-
ancy in other capitalistic countries
with centralized land ownership by
the fact that the class of land owners
is here invisible, being in a physical
unity with ruling financial capital.
Fourth. This unity is in itself the
possible highest Capitalization of
land ownership. In regard to tenants
this creates such economic depend
CAtLy 1IOAl AALAu OWLCAO WtAACn 4lO-
where existed in capitalistic rela-
tions. In regard to special agrarian
interests this allows to utilize means
about which the separate classes of
land owners in other countries could
only to dream, because opposition to
measures for increase of land rent,
which land holders in other countries
met in groups of manufacturers,
trades and even bankers, is here ex-
Guided by the very unity of land
holding with financial capital. In
regard to foreign relations, imperial
istic forces in politics of the United
States are increased and made more
parasitic, more reactionary and,
therefore, more inclined to oppres-
sive measures as at home, so abroad.
Fifth. The financial capitol of the
United States in changing the rela-
tions in agriculture is changed itself
and by its increased means and power
for oppression and exploitation will
rapidly create conditions where the
large oppressed and exploited masses
will be pressed as never to find ways
and means and to use them for
change Of the order itself, which is
founded on oppression and exploita-
ton.
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Economic Depression and Unemployment

labor agents which used to line West
Madison street are closed because
no one is hiring workers"
Sew Jobs Can Be Supplied"
The November and December re-
ports of the Industrial Commission
of Wisconsin show that since Aug
ust, month to month the number Of
employed workers fell, and in De-
cember reached a point per cent
below the peak of 1928.
The Federated Press reports from
San Francisco: Unemployment is
rife in California, and the employ
ment agencies are reaping harvest"
The Gompers agency, the Interna-
tional News Service reports: each
day 5000 men and 500 women apply
for work at the Los Angeles City
Employment Bureau. Do they get
the jobs? What do they do when
they don't get the jobs? Organizer
George E. Bevan doesn't say except
that: Few can be supplied" The
Federated Press reports from New
Orleans on February 2: Conditions
in this city from the standpoint of
the workers are depiorable. Despite
official reports, unemployment is on
the increase"
The very important report Of the
New York State Department Of La
Dor issued in the middle Of Feb
ruary establishes the fact that un-
employment is steadily growing in
New York City too: Employment
went down about 1 per cent in New
York factories in January. The
three successive decreases in No
vember, December and January have
now brought the level Of employment
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very much weakened because the
workers drop out en- masse. The
bosses are making wage cuts every
where and more and more generally.
Most of the categories of workmen
accept the wage cuts without any re-
sistance (for instance, the complete
ly demoralized railroad workers..
Some categories put up some fight
(the clothing workers.. Other sec
tions of workers again, are willing
to continue the present wage rates
in spite of the increasing cost of
living UNITED Mine Workers). How
the depression is wearing down the
power of resistance of the workers is
shown best by the January report
of the Department Of Labor: "Con-
siderable numbers of wage increases
have been reported each month of
1928, increasing rapidly each month
from January to May, when 1879
were reported, and then decreasing
to lat in October. During these
months decreases in rates were re-
ported from / to 8 establishments
only, each month, but in November
the decreases totalled in e',ven in
dustries." The number of strikes is
ever decreasing as the depression
and unemployment is growing. The
report of the New York State De-
partment Of Labor says that there
were los strikes in New York state
in 1928. Sixty of the strikes were
during the four-month per;6d from
March to June, each month there
after showing a smaller number of
strikes, with December Making
what was practically a record in in
dustrial peace in this state.p
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The Train from Jena.

In the train from Jena to Weimar,
Germany, worl1ingman was reading
the special election edition of the
Communist newspaper. A candidate
for the Landtag of one Of the cap
italist parties who was sitting beside
the working man was highly indig-
nant when he saw the paper and
asked the workingman whether he
knew what distance there is between
a respectable person and criminal.
The workingman calmly took a tape
measure out Of his pocket, measured
the space between himself and the
candidate for the Landtag and an
swered CTS centimeters."
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THE AWAKENED BEAR
A BOlshevik BaIIad.-By JOHN s. CLARKE.

There folks whose constitutions Revolutions
~ Who at such uPheavals never could cOnnve';
They hear the
- But they "hope it doesn't while they're alive.
they u admit the putEsfacton Of regime of reaction
But if dare to mention your firm intention
To root it up by fOrce-why that's sin!
When is sentimental heart soft and gentle
From the wit of his decision you on his condition
And his mission is what God alone can tell
An unpalatabie crisis isn't piquaned with spices,
= And you've got to stick mental
Inc warfare OF the classes isn't honey or molasses,
And you'll need sharper than a kiss.
Can you to recollection an evenu insurrection
That Privilege has labelled CRIME?
From strike for better that glory ages
Call it CHASTITY call blOOdy-but assiduously study
The foundations of justified revolt
Then Reign of Terror Of
fe may then with sober judgment fix the fault.
Prthee who disregarded rejected or retarded
With selfish and tyrannical design
Each and every declaration by the Spokesman of nation
The peaceful "Third Estate" of eighty -nine
When the royal butchers clustered mustered
~ When Brunswieks sanguinary thirst beset him,
When ne that he would slaughter
Had the folk to stand with folded him?
When heard thunder you genuinely wonder
That people born should burn with zeal7
Do think they'd hesitate shrink from sringng traitor
Or to tear the filthy CUTS from Bastle7
Ii you cannot feel eated over king decaptated-
One who tried to act the
Them for Gods sake take exit from the
For it isn't just exactly affair."
For the wolves again bowling and Sowing
And the iaekaIs they prOwlng the plains,
For the peasant soldier weaver from the Voga to the Nea
Have risen to their feet with broken chains.
While the trans ascheming they instead dreaming
Hihed Emanipaion's wagon to star:
And the seal of their reliance and the their defiance
Was the buIet-rdded of Gar
And you'll find the counter pOters with horde of foreign rO
In the land that hasn't time its Wounds to lick! IS
You will find them just the manhood minus
AT foul and filthy to turn the trick.
But the folk who the double the folk
Had but single rOube | would bet it,
That the INVITING blood
And l hope it won't be long before they get it.