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the socialist party and the so-called
progressives, who have attached them
selves to the political chariot of La
Toilette, the reactionary representa-
tive Of small business, independent
capitalists, little bankers and the mid
die classes.
"The Farmer-Labor Party, owing to
the betrayal of the workers interests
by the G.. P. P. A., did not bring to-
gether the great masses of workers
and exploited farmers. Therefore,
the Workers Party decided to enter
the election campaign under its own
standard and nominate as it's standard
bearers two comrades known to the
workers of America as fighters on the
industrial battlefield, two men who
have stood in the front of the class
struggle in America for many years
and who bear the scars of the battle. I"
what does. LaFollette propose to
the people of this country" asked
Ruthenberg, after he briefly related
the history of the attempts to organ
ize a class Farmer-Labor Party. He
told of July 8" and June II" and the
various conferences in between. La
Toilette" he continued, proposes to
go on another trust-busting rampage,
to make another effort to destroy mo-
nopolies; vain effort, trying to turn
back the hands of industrial evolution
on the dial of time. He would destroy
the big trusts instead of turning them
over to the workers who now operate
them but do not own them. He holds
out the illusion to the dying middle
class he represents that they can Sc
cure relief from the grinding process
to which they are now subjected, be-
cause of their position between two
powerful classes, big capital and the
proletariat.
'LaFolletteism, the hope that some
thing can be accomplished by a re
form of the system, has affected large
masses of workers and even sections
Of the Farmer-Labor Party, but
against LaFolletteism and reformistic
illusions the Workers Party of Ameri
ca raises the banner of Communism
of the dictatorship of the proletariat
the capture of power from the CAPT
talists and the establishment of the
Soviet Republic. And those whom
the Communists will ask you and the
masses to support in the coming cleo
ton struggle are William 2. Foster
for president and Benjamin Gitlow for
vice president"
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BLOC'S"
CONGRESS- FIGHT
BEING PLANNED
Farmer Politicians Meet
In St. Paul Now
Especial to the Daily worksr.)

ST. PAUL, July 11.-What the next
farm bloc in congress will fight for
will be largely decided here today.
A national conference of farm or
CARNATIONS met here this morning to
start campaign for agricultural leg
islation such as was embodied in the
McNary-H augen measure, defeated by
the last congress.
The two-day conference hopes to
evolve:
l. A nationwide agricultural or
ganization.
2. A program of legislation.
8. Means of supporting candidates
for congressional posts who are ia
vorable to the program, and defeat
ing those unfavorable.
George G. Jewett, former general
manager of the American Wheat
Growers association, is chairman OF
the conference. The temporary or
ganization committees will submit re-
ports to the general conference prob
ably tomorrow, and it will then be de-
cided whether to go ahead with the
program or meet again later on.
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Prison Goods Lose
Their Happy Home
In Cincinnati Store
(speeIaI to the Daily Worker,

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 11.-Kate
Richards O'Hare dropped into Cincin-
natl yesterday and started something
in regard to the sale of prison-made
goods. A hurried survey of the stores
showed the shelves to be jammed with
convict-made goods-shirts, brooms,
house dresses, apron, hosiery, under
wear, etc. One large department
store had advertised a sale Of 10000
Happy Home" dresses. Mrs. O'Hare
pointed out to the management the
folly Of flooding Cincinnati with the
product of the Iowa reformatory while
Cincinnati garment workers were idle.
The management shipped the stuff
back to the Chicago concern which
markets the product.
Mary d. Brite Of this city believes
that a strong local group will soon be
organized to educate Cincinnati in re-
gard to prison goods. Various organ
izations have asked Mrs. O'Hare to
make an extended drive to rid Cincin-
natl Of prison-made goods. 1t is ex.
pected that she will do this shortly.
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with fifty dollars. Business on a
cash basis" is their motto and Krum-
bein used the fifty as an incentive
and challenge. Pledges. Pledges.
How they did come. The Northwest
English Branch went up until it
reached $500. Then Northside Eng
lish Branch got as far as$1O0.00. Bob
Minor made a good run, but he was
left behind early in the race. Bob
pledged the Southside Branch for
$4,000, but when other branch repre-
sentatives began calling out in the
vicinity of 500, Bob withdrew from
the race after going up to thirty, but
continued to give his hearty support
to the collection. Even the taking up
of the collection, usually painful op-
GRAFTON, was joyous incident.
Comrade Benjamin Gitlow, of New
York, and graduate of Sing Sing, Dan
nemora and Auburn penitentiaries,
delivered a powerful and eloquent
speech. Comrade Gitlow has splen-
did fighting record in the American
revolutionary movement and saw the
inside Of prisons for his activities.
He tore the veil of democratic hypoc-
risy off the face Of capitalist govern
ment and pictured the two dominant
capitalist parties as two strike break
ing agencies, with LaFollette the fake
progressive now competing for the
red batting title lost by default when
Mitchell Palmer and Harry Daugherty
threw in the sponge and admitted
their failure to put the Communist
movement Of the United States out
of business.
LaFoIette Red Batter.
"What failed Palmer and Daugh.
erty, Archibald Stevenson and Sena-
tor Lusk of the notorious Lusk Com.
mittee, to accomplish will not be &C
complished by senator LaFollette,
declared Gitlow. Those red baiters
are now lying on the dung heap OF
political history. The only party in
the United States that challenges
capitalism is the Workers Party OF
the United States. Even Hughes has
failed to mention the red menace
once in the past two months. 1t re
mains for LaFollette to take on him.
self the duties once borne by the
Daugherties and Palmers, the Lusks
and the Stevensons.
''In every country in the world
forces are in motion that will bring
about the downfall of capitalism and
wherever the gage of battle is thrown
down to the robber capitalist class
there, in the front leading the fight
will be found the Communists in
spired by the Communist Information
al and pledged to organize Work
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rectly in spite of the mistakes of the
leaders.
opportunlstie Deviations.
For us workers and farmers gov
eminent" is a way of expressing die
tatorship of the proletariat" in the
manner in which it will be most easily
grasped and understood by the mass
es. Above all, workers and farm
ers' government is an actuality, where
the possibility of fighting strength is
in the foreground. Speaking in a Len
inistic spirit, this policy is the prob
lem of the supremacy Of the prole-
tariat. Nevertheless, an attempt was
made, to dry up this living fountain
of Leninism by opportunism.
How To Apply 1t.
If certain comrades, disguised by
opportunistic interpretations feel an
aversion to the United Front policy
as whole, we answer: Win over the
majority of the various groups of
the proletariat, and you will then be
set free by the use of the United
Front policy. Until that time we must
take its application into our own
hands-only in this way can we fight
right wing groups. The chief point
at issue is how the parties apply this
policy concretely to their particular
countries.
Reviewing the situation in the diff
ferent countries, zinoviev goes on:
From the political side, it is neither
the French nor the German parties,
but rather the English party, that is
the most important section of the
Comintern. This party is small, IL
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Bordigas.
The speaker mentions the tremen-
duuus Following ii the Youth Inter
national, the deeds of the German
Communist Youth in the Ruhr dis
trict The chief tasks of the Fifth
Congress consist of wiping out right
wing errors, correcting or fighting the
ultra-radicals, and creating of a uni
fed Communist party. In the name
of the Communist Party of Russia,
the speaker can state that the Com
munist Party of Russia is standing be-
hind the Executive Committee as a
unified and harmonious whole. The
congress must speak the last word in
the discussion of the Communist Par
ty of Russia and show the opposition
that further disruptionist tactics are
inadmissable. Great applause).
Discipline and Unity.
Lenin no longer lives, anu for this
reason international discipline is a
thousand times more necessary than
it was before. The executive commit
tee will apply International discipline
in an even more energetic manner,
and severely punish breaches Of disci-
pline on the part of the left and the
right wing. The Comintern needs
united leadership. The Communist
Party of Russia gives it's greatest
strength to the Comintern, in order
that there may be built a unified
world Communist Party which will
lead the proletariat into battle. There
is stormy applause and cheering, last
ing for many minutes. The delegates,
rising, sing the International.
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STOCK MARKET
GILT-EDGES AS
DAVIS IS Named
Morgan Mans Victory
Gives Confidence
fspecIaI to the Daily Worker.l

Especial to the Daily Worker.)
NEW YORK, July 11.-Nomi-
nation of John w. Davis is hav-
ing a giIt-edged effect on
securities in the stock market.
The general advance begun
two days ago continued yester-
day until some new high levels
for the year were made in the
late trading.
The naming of consulting financial
expert on the democratic ticket adds
to the confidence which came when
Coolidge was renominated on the re-
publican ticket
Rail Equipment Stocks Rise.
Railroad equipment stocks took the
lead in the late morning. Baldwin
Locomotive sold up to lie. IA for
gain of two points Political changes
have a decided bearing on such secur-
tiles and the Street believes that
either Davis or Coolidge will continue
the present tolerant policy towards
the farming out of railroad repair
work to these equipment companies
practise concerning which the shop
mems unions have complained bitterly
to the Railroad Labor Board.
Interest Rates Fall.
A significant feature Of the market
was the falling of interest rates. The
fall is in line with the action of the
U. S. treasury department yesterday
in issuing ~ per cent securities and
stopping sales of Az per cent treasury
certificates. Money can now be OBJ
tanned at a lower figure. With the
easing of demand for capital for in
dustrial enterprises money has to ac-
cept lower interest rates to find mar
ket.
This fall in demand for finance
capital is due to the slump in the in
dustries which have been absorbing
money. The nomination of Davis and
Coolidge, while they have a favorable
effect on certain industrial securities,
have little effect as yet on the eco
nomic facts which change interest
rates.
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Bio Demonstration.

A great demonstration followed
Comrade Ruthenberg's speech, the au-
dience rising to it's feet and cheering
for their candidates, Communism, the
Communist International and the
Workers Party.
1--WE are only small party" de-
clared Comrade John ]. BALKAN, dis
trict organizer Of the Boston district,
only $4,000, but we are disciplined
army Since 1919 Communism has
disturbed the peace Of mind Of the
American capitalists and of their lieu
tenants, the labor takers in the trade
unions, together with all those who
oppose the emancipation Of the work
ers from capitalism. The Workers
Party has carried on many campaigns
and won many victories in its fights
for the amalgamation Of the craft
unions into industrial unions, for labor
party and other big issues, but now
for the first time it comes forth under
its own name and without any dis
guise, challenging the capitalist class
on the political field in struggle that
can only end in one way-the final vic
tory for the workers, led by their most
militant vanguard, the Communist
Party"
Marley Speaks.
The next speaker to come to the
front was Joseph Manley, member of
the National Executive Committee of
the Farmer-Labor Party, which was
organized at st. Paul on June II.
Comrade Manley began by reading a
statement, published in yesterdays is
sue of the DAILY WORKER, issued
by the Farmer-Labor Party, announc-
ing the withdrawal of its candidates
Duncan Mcdonald and William Bouck,
owing to the treachery of the Confer
ence for Progressive Political Action,
and pledging its hearty support to the
Workers Party and its candidates in
the coming campaign.
"LaFollette opposed the war;" be.
gan Marley, after announcing the
stand of the Farmer-Labor Party
'That cannot be denied. But he op-
posed it for reasons quite different to
those that sent thousands of real rad
icals to prison. LaFollette did not GO
to prison. After making his protest
in congress, he shut up like clam
while the government was filling the
jails with war DIRECTORS and militant
rebels. LaFollette opposed the wal
because it was a Wall Street show
and his class, the middle class could
not see where they could get in on
the gravy. The fact that he has in
his state big German voting popula
ton influenced his position. He never
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FOSTER RUTHENBERG
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

William Ruthenberg member
ship Party immediate the Party following
July House
Ave. at p.
pm.
BosroN-sstuday, July 49, Dudley St House. 1 Dudley
ST., Roxbury, at 1880 p m.
NEW HAVEN, conn.-Tuesday, July %.
YORK cITY-wednssday July 20 stuyvesant 42
Second Ave. at m.
observation-disclosures July a. Breh shoom Hail. sos Pine
ST., at 8 p. m.
INSTRUMENTATION July rs.
cLEvELAND--saurday July 20.
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JOIN THE DAILY WORKER STAFF

zine section on how to get and write
news for the DAILY WORKER.
In order TO promote interest In
this series Of articles and the gath
erlng Of news for the DAILY WORK.
Err we will give a prize each week
for the best news story sent In by
a volunteer reporter which ls
printed In the DAILY WORKER.
The prize each week will be a
book.
There are no limits or restrlc-
lions on this contest. You write
your story and send II In and Il Il
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Sinclair Oil is
Smeared All Over
Secretary Hughes
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+. CONTINUED from page u
Phillips sharply denied that American
consent had ever been given to tho
Djambi monopoly concession, and
showed that in September, 1920, act
ing under Secretary Colby. Phillips
had denounced the concession as an
infringement of "the principle of
equal opportunity which it is hoped
may be a solution of the future oil
problem thruout the world"
Demands Help for Sinclair.
One week later Phillips wrote: 'Tt
may not be out Of place to bring to
your attention the fact that ON Sept.
Is, 1920, the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
corporation of New York, one. of the
largest American oil companies, made
formal application to the minister Of
the colonies for participation in the
development Of the so-called Djambi
fields and received reply in the mega
tive; and that, on Sept. 10, called at
the foreign Office and expressed very
strongly the disappointment that
would arise in America when it was
learned that American capital was to
be excluded.
81 have just received telegram in
dicating that the above mentioned oil
company is still interested in the sub
ject. and that its representative is
now en- route to The Hague to resume
negotiations. Unless you see any OBJ
jections, shall advise the representa-
tive to communicate with the minis
ter of the colonies as soon as he
reaches The Hague"
While Harry Was Brlbing Fall.
At that time Harry Sinclair was get
ting ready to grab Teapot Dome, and
Fall and the other conspirators we're
busy with the transfer of the naval
oil lands from the navy to the interior
department in preparation for the
cleanup.
On May 30, 1921, Phillips sent to the
Dutch foreign minister long protest
from Secretary Hughes at the "ex-
clusion" OF American capital from the
Djambi oil concession. The Dutch
stood their ground, denying that they
had given American capital any less
advantages than the United States
had given the Dutch companies oper-
ating in American oil fields.
Dutch Protested.
Two years later, in May, 1928, the
Dutch minister in Washington pro-
tested to Hughes against a statement
made in report on the worlds oil
production by the federal trade COM
mission, that American petroleum
interests have been practically exclud-
ed" from the Dutch East Indies. The
federal trade commission corrected it's
statement afterward.
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i've bic from one Hanalna.

MONTREAL, Quebec, July 1.-THE
sensations attending the case of Wal
ter Muir, hanged today for the murder
OF Henry Laviollette, was responsible
for the death OF 17-year-old Bertha
Rose Lacroix, niece of Laviollette.
The hangman was drunk and bungled
his job so that the New York boy was
not cut down for Is minutes.
Bertha Rose died of a sudden heart
attack while members of her family
were reading a newspaper containing
an account of the hanging.
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Yakutsk Boosts Education.

CHITA, July H. The Yakutsk
eastern Siberia) Soviet is doing
hard work at fighting illiteracy in the
Yakutsk Republic and generally rails.
ing a cultural level of the population
A special Council for Yakutsk Educa,
ton has been recently established at
Yakutsk, the capital of this Republic
one OF whose tasks is to develop the
publication Of literature in the Yak,
utsk language.
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Is the best Of the week you will get
the book. The first book offered
will be "Flrst Time In History" by
Anna Louise Strong.
There will be two standards used
In Judging the stories: first, news
Interest--whlch means the impor-
lance and general interest Of tn,
story--and second, the way the
story Is written.
Read the articles which begin In
this weeks magazine section on how
to Get and write news and then be-
Gin sending In your stories.
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Nearo LECTURER In Eric.

ERIE, Pa, July 11.-Dean William
Pickens of New York city will deliver
an address at the Erie county court
house, Erie, Pa, Thursday evening,
July II, at 8:15 o'clock, under the
auspices Of Erie branch of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance.
ment Of Colored People. The general
public is cordially invited to come out
and hear this speaker expound on the
difficulties OF the American Negro.
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DEADERs Of the DAILY WORK
lNER have given hearty response
to the call to send In news. A good
part OF every issue Of the paper Is
made up Of news which has been
sent In by workers from all parts Of
the country.
To extend this real working class
news agency and help build better
working class paper the DAILY
WORKER today begins the pubIioa-
tIon Of series Of articles by Karl
Reeve to run In the Saturday maya
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Youth Hung for DOG Flaht.

VALLEY FIELD, QUE, July IL
An American youth who shot French
Canadian in a tavern brawl over the
merits OF a hound dog, was hanged
here today, despite efforts OF his
friends, attorneys and government to
save HIS life.
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Sam Improving at coney Island.

NEW YORK, July 11.-Samuel Com
pers, antique president of the A. F..
of L. "is considerably improved" it
was said at the Coney Island hotel,
where he is recuperating today. The
labor leader is attended by physician
and nurse constantly.
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Miners Won't Thank Him.

CHICAGO, July 11.--President r. II.
Ashton of the American Railway As
ISOLATION saved the railroads Of the
country 100000 tons OF coal last year.
Today he has hts roward--a one-pounii
lump Of coal. set in a mahogany baas, !.
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POINCARE DEPUTY ATTACKS ANDRE
MARTY'lN CHAMBER; UPROAR FOLLOWS

PARIS, 11The
afternoon
munst leader, of "betrayine
adjourned the deputies
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! includes only 5000 members, but it's
influence is much greater. In Eng
land, the tradition of a party of the
masses is lacking. Our task is, of
course, not an easy one. The work
men still follow Macdonald devouted-
ly, just as, during the early days, our
workmen followed Kerensky. For this
reason, our comrades are afraid to
criticize him harshly. Nevertheless, it
is the task of the Communist Party
of England to swim against the cur
rent and to fight Macdonald in spite
of his passing popularity.
Socialist Mischief Makers.
The French Party must at the pres
ent time, apply the policy Of thd Unit
ed Front judiciously, even tho the
French Socialists are busying them
selves with the mischief-makers Of
the bourgeoisie. The task of the
Communist Party is this: to bring the
upper strata of the Communists into
alliance with the lower strata of the
masses. The general policy of the
German Communist Party, on the
whole, agrees at the present time with
the general policy of the Comintern.
Comrades who do not approve the
hurried deposition of the old central
committee, are wrong. The situation
was extremely critical, and we were
facing a rupture. The Executive Com
mittee was fighting an ultra-radical
wing of the German Central commit
tee. At present, there is no longer a
German problem in the Comintern,
for the mass-parties are standing sol
idly behind the Central Committee, in
the most important matters of the
policy.
Polish Note Criticised.
The Communist Party of Czecho-
Slovakia must abolish its tendencies
to revise, must fall into a quicker tenn
DO, must bring about a greater alive
ness within its own ranks, must bring
to bear more activity and less Social
democracy.
The leaders OF the Polish party Of
fer much food for comment. Where
was the party during the Krakow up
rising? The Polish party used mad
missable tactics in the German and
Russian party questions. The Polish
party was formerly valued as one OF
the best Marxist and Bolshevist par
ties. This proves, what 1t is that con-
Germs the masses. But the masses
are better than their leaders. The old
decision Of the socialist party OF Italy,
to leave the door open, must be con-
firmed Sharp protest must be raised
against the undisciplined conduct OF
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U. S. Flyers Reach Europe TODAY,

CoNsTANTINoPLE, July 1.-THE
United States airmen arrived here
from Aleppo yesterday after a nine
hour fight. They are resting at the
American embassy and tomorrow will
hop over to the Balkans, making q
landing at Bucharest.