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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Anna PGULOUG's
Poetic Legs Delight
Chicago This Week

Anna Pavlowa and her full
company, Russian dancers, Audi
torium theatre, nightly at 8:15. The
weeks musical program is as follows:
Friday-Chicago Symphony or
chestra, regular concert, Orchestra
Hall, 2.15. Orchestra concert, au-
spices of the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers, Ashland Boulevard Audi
torium, 8.15.
Saturday. Chicago Symphony or
chestra, repetition of Friday concert.
- Sunday Chicago Theatre. SYM
phony orchestra, popular concert
Chicago Theatre, HAS. Art In
stitute Ensemble, orchestra concert
Art Institute, 500 and AIS. Al
$3.50, Bronislaw Huberman, violinist
recital at Studebaker Theatre. Will
helm Bachaus, pianist, recital at thu
Playhouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Rv Holm PEpPER

THE workers and farmers have
4 before them two political dates
representing two political movements
May 80 and July 4.
And there is a fight around these
two dates. A bitter fight which is
unintelligible as fight on such a
simple technical question as that Of
date. But this question which is
seemingly only technical proves to
be the most important question Of
the Farmer-Labor movement. The
question Of May 80 OF July 4 is a
most vital political question and
which can decide for a long time
the whole future of an Independent
class party of workers and exploited
farmers.
What is the difference between
May so and July A?
May so is the date of a conven-
ton of all forces of the Farmer
Labor movement which are willing
TO form a class Farmer-Labor Party.
July is the date of convention
which is backed by forces which
have not decided whether they will
endorse the progressive candidate of
one Of the old political parties or
put up a Third Party ticket.
May 80 is a date which was Sc
lected Intentionally because it is be-
fore the dates Of the conventions OF
the old capitalist parties. July
is date selected Intentionally be-
cause it comes after the conventions
Of the old capitalist parties.
The convention Of May 80 aims to
form party Of workers and ex-
plotted farmers, class party of the
exploited and suppressed lsboring
masses. The convention OF July
wants to form a Third Party which
shall embrace various non-capitalist
classes, such as lower middle class,
well-to-do farmers, industrial work
ers and exploited farmers.
Even the convention of May 80
will not be pure class gathering.
True, the bulk of the masses which
will back it will be industrial work.
ers and exploited American "peas-
ants" but it will have sprinkling
of lower middle class and well.to-do
farmer elements. Yet taken all in
all the May 80 convention will be
under the unquestioned domination
of the proletarian elements of the
working and farming class. The
July convention will have a heavy
representation of industrial workers,
tho mainly of the labor aristo-
cracy; but it will aave an equally
heavy representation Of lower middle
class and well-to-do farmer elements
and will be under the domination of
the most reactionary labor leaders
and so-called progressive politicians
Of the republican and democratic
parties.
The May 80 convention gave full
representation to the local trade
unions and will embrace also the
revolutionary wing of the labor
movement, the Communists. The
July 4 convention gave representa-
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07

Gompers policy of rewarding the
friends and Furnishing the enemies
of labor and refused to commit itself
to Independent political action. 1t
continued this policy at the st. Louis
convention.
In my article reporting the st.
Louis convention / emphasized the
fact that the C. P. P. A. was not
committed to nominating candidates
on a new party ticket at the Cleve-
land convention called for July 4th
and quoted Morris Hillquit to that
fact. In an article appearing in the
New York Leader the new Socialist
weekly, of February 23rd, the editor
Of that publication tries to twist the
statements which appeared in the
Communist press into statements
that / had charged that Hillquit had
urged that the July 4th convention
should not nominate on an indepen-
dent party ticket.
No statement Of this character has
appeared in the Communist press.
What / said and what Hillquit said
was that the c. P. P. A., by the reso-
luton adopted at st. Louis, was not
committed either way.
In order to make showing Of de-
Tending itself against this statement,
the New York Leader says:
morris Hillquit, Socialist Party
representative on the National
Committee Of the Conference for
Progressive Political Action, nailed
a peculiarly offensive lie that has
been circulated by Communist pub
LEGATIONS about a speech he made
at the recent st. Louis conference,
when he gave The New Leader the
correct text Of a speech he de-
livered there urging the holding Of
national convention July 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07

ton only to the international unions,
which means a monopoly for the
labor bureaucrats, denied completely
representation to the local trade
unions, and its only attitude towards
the Communists is: "Begone Satan"
Summed up, the essence of the diff
ference between May 80 and July 4
is the difference between a class
Farmer-Labor Party and Third
Party. The struggle for May 80 is
the struggle for the class party. The
acceptance Of the date of July a is
the betrayal of the idea Of class
party of workers and exploited farm
ers and the acceptance of party
in which the workers and exploited
farmers would be organized together
with the lower middle class and we'll
TODD farmers. Mr.. William Maho-
ney, president of the Working Peo-
Pies Non-Partisan Political League
in Minnesota, advocating the post
ponement of the May 80 Convention,
stated in his paper, the Minnesota
Union Advocate: "There is nothing
sacred about May go" But there is
something sacred about May 80, Mr..
Mahoneyl May 80 is the date and
the symbol of the class party! The
abandonment Of May 80 for July A
means the betrayal of the class party
idea and the acceptance Of the Third
Party idea.
There is something sacred about
May 80! William Mahoney himself
advocated the date May 80 against
Shipstead, Pike and other lower mid
die class and well-to-do farmer poll
ticians because, as he stated, the
only guarantee against a fusion Of
the Farmer-Labor movement with
one of the old capitalist parties is
convention which is ahead of the
conventions of the capitalist parties.
The postponement of the May 80
convention till after the conventions
Of both old capitalist parties is the
greatest danger for the class move
ment because it means the invasion
Of the convention and the whole
movement by the lower middle class
and well-to-do farmer elements,
which will break away from the cap
italist parties after they have be-
come disillusioned with the capital
list party conventions. The sharpen
ing of the class struggle since the
world war was causing these ele-
ments to break away from the old
capitalist parties; and the enormous
Teapot Dome scandal gave the last
impetus to this development. There
is certainty now that we will have
Third Party in the near future.
The withdrawal of his candidacy by
La Toilette in the Republican pri-
maries shows clearly that such
hesitating and wavering "leader"
like LaFollette is today forced by
the ever-growing discomfort and de-
mand of the masses to become the
leader of the Third Party movement.
LaFollette's withdrawal of his can
didacy in the Republican Party and
his joining the Third Party is not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07

the Presidential campaign alto
gether, they will have an oppor-
tunity to convince the majority of
the delegates of the wisdom Of such
course.
eff any of us believe that either
of the old parties will present a
platform and candidates which or
gained labor and progressives can
adopt, as their own, they will have
a similar opportunity.
II, and those for whom / speak,
will vote for the resolution because
we feel certain that when repre-
sentative gathering of organized
workers, working farmers and
other progressive elements meets
on July and surveys the political
situation, they will see no alter
native but to name independent
candidates for President and Vice
President, and to lay the founda-
tions for party OF workers and
farmers"
What is the difference between
what / said in the DAILY WORKER
that Hillquit stated in his speech al
st. Louis and what Hillquit himself
says he stated in st. Louis?
The only difference Is that Hill
quit, in his Leader version Of his
speech, makes four paragraphs out
of what he said in three sentences
on the floor Of the st. Louis conven.
ti6n. Paragraph one clearly states
that the convention is not committed
to any definite policy. Paragraph two
and three state that the Convention
at Cleveland may endorse an old Par
ty candidate if the majority SO de.
cides, and Paragraph four states Hill
quits hope that the convention will
nominate on an independent ticket.
While there is no difference IN the
meaning Of the statement made by
Hillquit in the Leader and the quota
ton in the DAILY WORKER, Hill
quit tries in his Leader statement
which was NOT his speech at st
Louis, to cover up the bald state
ment Of the fact as he made it on th'
floor of the st. Louis convention BY
adding numerous words which nigh
confuse the uncritical reader.
One may we'll ask: Why is it thai
the Leader endeavored to make cas-
against the Communists Of havini
incorrectly reported Hillquit and ther
printed a statement which confirms
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
What Is the SACRED" in May 3Oth

the cause but the sign Of the mass
movement for the Third Party. La
Toilette does not drive the masses,
but is driven by the masses.
The postponement of the May 80
convention till after the old capital
ist party conventions, means the de-
livering of the May convention to
these lower middle class and we'll
to.do farmer masses and their po-
litical leaders, to the LaFollettes, the
Magnus Johnsons, and the Wheelers.
The breaking away of the millions
of workers, farmers and lower mid
dle-class elements from the old cap
italist parties is the most revolu-
tionary fact in our present political
situation. The breaking down of the
two-party system and the formation
of Third Party will mark the be-
ginning of political revolution in
the United States. We must do
everything to drive all these non
capitalist elements to split from
the republican and democratic par
ties, which means their splitting
away from the political leadership
of the capitalist class. But at the
same time we must realize that these
big non-capitalist masses do not be-
long all to the same class. We must
ralize that the workers and exploited
farmers interests are different from
those Of the lower middle class and
well-to.do farmers. Our duty is
therefore to build the political class
party of workers and exploited
farmers organizationally and ideO-
logically Independent Of the Party Of
the lower middle class and well-to-
do farmers, the Third Party. The
creation of Third Party is a revo-
lutionary fact; but it is counter
revolutionary act to help such a
Third Party to swallow the class
Farmer-Labor Party. The replacing
Of May 80 by July is therefore
a counter-revolutionary act. It's
tragic betrayal of the class party
idea. It means the elimination of
the workers and exploited farmers
from the present political situation
as an independent factor, and it
means the organizational disruption
Of the Farmer-Labor movement, at
least for the near future.
Our duty is to fight to the last
ditch against the betrayal of such
great possibilities as history has
never before presented to the work
ers and farmers of the United
States. The abandonment of May
80 for July 4 serves the interests of
the labor aristocracy and the politi-
clans of the lower middle class and
well.to-do farmers, and betrays the
interests of the proletarian workers
and exploited farmers. Mr.. Maho-
ney, pleading for postponement, asks
what is the sacred about May 80.
Our answer is: May 80 is today the
banner of the class struggle; and
deserving May 80 for July 4 means
deserving the flag of class struggle,
and the going over into the camp
of the enemy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Actors Equity May
Strike As Managers
Threaten Open Shop

NEW YORK, March 6.-The Ac-
tors Equity Association may call a
strike ON June 1st if a section of
the Theatre Managers Association
persist in their determination to es-
tahlish the open shop.
David Belasco is a leader in the
move among the producers to break
with Equity. On the other hand it
is rumored that the Shuberts, Will
liam A. Brady and others have sign
ed up.
The Actors Equity Association is
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor and in the event Of a
strike could call on stage handlers
and all other theatre employees with
A. r. Of l.. membership to strike.
Sign up today for German
Relief Day work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07

Publications representing the Com
munist organizations stated that
Hillquit urged that the convention,
when held, should not organize a
new independent party of labor and
nominate independent candidates,
and a manifesto issued several days
later by that body embodies the
lie"
The only quotation of what Hill
quit said at st. Louis is contained in
the DAILY WORKER Of February
18th and reads as follows:
morris Hillquit followed with a
speech in which he said: This call
does not commit us to any course
of action. You may say at the
Cleveland conference: We will not
have anything to do with the old
party candidates; or you may say:
Endorse the candidates Of one of
the old parties. -"
Following its charge that the Com
munist press falsely reported Hill
quits speech, the New York Leader
publishes what purports to be Hill
quits speech at st. Louis. Accord
ing to the New York Leader, Hillquit
said:
"On the face of it, the resolution
does not commit us to a definite
policy, but leaves the entire issue
to a convention representative of a
great convention representative Of
a great body Of organized labor,
progressive farmers and other pro-
gressive elements. The sentiment
which will express itself at that
convention will determine our
course Of action.
"If there are any among us-who
believe that the proper policy for
this conference is to keep out Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
SENATE MAY URGE
FREE PHILIPPINES;.
W EEK S OPPOSES
Our Rule Is Altruisrn,
Says War Secretary
tBy The Federated Presal

WASHINGTON, March 6.-Inde-
pendence for the Philippines within
three or five years is likely to be
recommended by the senate commit
tee on territories and insular possess
sions, as the outcome of hearings
begun with the testimony of Secre-
tary Of War Weeks, stubborn oppo-
nent Of liberation Of the Filipinos.
what they want is more Amer
lean capital, not independence" the
MISUNDERSTANDING declared, when
challenged by Minority Leader Ro-
binson and Senators Reed of Penn
sylvania, King of Utah, Harris of
Georgia, andy implication-by
Hiram Johnson, chairman Of the COM
mittee.
Ruling Islands Costly.
Reed, a hard-boiled business advo-
cate and ex-soldier, said that he had
been in the islands and knew that
the people, despite all that had been
done for them by the United States,
were hostile to further American
control. Inasmuch as the military
occupation costs $12,0O0,O00 a year
and disturbs the whole policy of ma
tional defense, he thought the time
had come to get out. Weeks had
stated that the profit from invest
ments should not be the reason for
staying there.
Hiram johnson asked Weeks
whether, in view Of his denial of a
profit motive, he opposed indie
pendence on the ground solely of alt
ruism. Weeks replied that that was
it-pure altruism for the people of
the islands. A smile went round the
room, where were gathered a score
of the brainiest men in the Filipino
nation.
"25 Years MOre"-Weeks.
Weeks said American occupation
should not terminate for another 25
years; he thought it great mistake,
an immature Judgment, that congress
ever pledged independence to the
islands. But date should be set,
and meanwhile bonds would be sold
for further development, these bonds
to be held probably in America.
King asked whether it would not
be better for the Filpinos if they
progressed more slowly saved up
their capital, and refused to exploit
themselves for absentee bondholders
and landowners. Weeks could not
see that, at all. They were still unfit
to govern themselves "acceptably'' to
foreign investors; they needed
another generation of tutelage. Not
a member of the committee sided
with the bond broker secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Gompers' Sheet Fails.

NEW YORK, March 6.-The New
York Labor Press, weekly "dedi-
Gated to the principles of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor" suspends
with its fifth issue, dated March 1.
Its editors, Philip Hockstein and Ed
ward Levinson, announce that the
suspension is temporary and that
publication will be resumed when
number of unions have acted favor
ably on plan for increasing its cir
culation. a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07

INDIANAPOLIS, March e.-The
act Of destroying liquor is evidence of
the intent to sell, Judge Collins ruled
today in sentencing Prank williamson,
negro, to sixty days on the State
Farm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Worlds Largest POUeT
Plant N az Ri s e on
Lake MichigGn's Shore

The Indiana side of Lake Michi-
gan is being considered as a site
for the worlds largest electric
power plant, a $1,000,000 project.
The State Line Land company,
subsidiary of the Commonwealth Edi-
son company, contemplates the pros
ject if the war department will per-
nit the filling of 72 acres on the
Indiana side of the lake front near
the IndianO- Illinois line. Applica-
ton for the permit has been filed.
The plant will generate power for
super-electric line from Lansing,
ILL.,, to Gary and Hammond, Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Plan 1000 Labor Temple.

SEATTLE, Wash, March 6.-Lo-
cal streetcar men are planning the
erection of a 100000 temple.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
Hillquit Didn't and He Did
BY c. E. RUTHENBERG
Executive Secretary, Workers Party.

obliged
wv things which
defend itself is in peculiar position
indeed
the situation in which the Socialist Party finds itself relation
move a ms famelabor
Socialist committed itself the Conference for Progress
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
SHINES in .Slorakia.

PRAGUE, March 6.-Reports are
current of important new ventures in
ko-Slovakia, contemplated by
the German capitalist, SHINES. Stin-
nes' recent attempts to gain control
of the immense glass and porcelain
industries in this country and to Sc
cure a share in ownership of the
rich coal mines, were thwarted. The
German industrialist is now stated to
be negotiating for the purchase of a
large hotel in Marienbad, which he
proposes to employ as a printing
plant for the publication Of a daily
newspaper. The contemplated jour
nal would serve as the organ Of Ger
man nationalism in Checko-Slovakia.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-30
VISITS SISTER IN
CHICAGO.

Miss Elizabeth Cummings in COM
pany with her cousin Mrs. d. E. Ow-
ems of Abderdeen, Washington depart
ed for a trip to Chicago, where she
expects to spend the remainder of
the summer season visiting at the
home of her sister, Rossella- On the
way to Chicago Miss Cummings is to
be visitor at the c. Fl. Suffer home
of Minneapolis for few days and in
the autumn while enroute home a
stop over will be arranged at Sioux
City, Iowa for the purpose of visit
ing relatives. Mrs. d. E. Owens who
was a visitor at the Cummings home
for the past week was able to jour
ney only as far as Miles City with
Miss Elizabeth, at which place she
changed trains for her home in Alb
derdeen.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-30
HOLD YOUR BREATH

-punch-laughs- thrills-that' s
the Al Christie feature, Hold Your
Breath" 1t has all the breeziness of
those uproaringously funny Christie
two-reelers in addition to a whale of
story of a girl reporter.
AND it has one of the greatest
comedy casts ever assembled Irrep-
ressible Dorothy Devore, who has
starred in numerous Christie come
dies and played leads in features;
Walter HERS, jovial plump comedian;
Tully Marshall, one of the greatest
character actors on the screen; jim
mic Adams, Priscilla Bonner, Jimmie
Harrison and Lincoln Plumer COM
prise less than half the cast, but these
names are enough to give you an idea
of the high-class quality of the pro-
duction.
Hold Your Breath will make you
do just that. It's six reels of good
time.
Sunday and Monday Aug. and a
is the date, and the place is the Ro-
man Theatre. Don't miss it.
Cordially,
ROMAN THEATRE
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-30
BOY SCOUTS TAKE
ANNUAL OUTING

Reduced rates extended to all boys
by Roy Hickox, proprietor of the
Beartooth Camp, and particularly to
Boy Scouts make it possible for the
boy members of Troop No. l. to en-
JOY an outing at Camp Beartooth at
artooth Lake. Owners of cars do.
mated their services by taking d. w
olumbus, scout leader, and the nine
boys as far as Richel Lodge, where an
outfit, awaited them, and the remand
err of the trip made on horseback
The following boys made the journey
Dan Beretta, Claude Bachelor, Verr
Schwin, George Maat; Bill Brooks
August Kallio, Walter Aho, Oscar
Zupp. and Frank Makela.
After week Of recreation and out.
door enjoyment the party will return
again Saturday.
The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-07-30
REVISE PROGRAM
FOR CONVENTION

Following we publish the revised
programe for the quarterly conven-
ton Of the County Federation Of
Womans' Clubs, which will be held al
the Methodist Church here next Satur-
day, August End.
Morning Session, $3.50 A. M.
Mrs. c. C. Crossin presiding.
Assembly Singing--Leader, Mrs
VIM. f. Meyer.
Invocation-Rev. F. C. Fulford.
Address of Welcome-Mrs. Charles
Fl. Draper, President Of Red Lodge
Woman's Club.
Response-Mrs. E. c. Russell, Presi-
dent Of Luther Woman's Club.
Piano Solo--Joseph Adams.
Reports of Officers.
Reports of Delegates to Biennial
convention: Mrs. A. L. Vadhein, Mrs
S. M. Souders.
Reading "Penrods Letter., Miss
Kathryn Fleming.
Afternoon Session, 1:l5 p. M.
Mrs. C. C. Crossen presiding.
Assembly Singing-Leader, Mrs
VIM. F. Meyer.
Address-Judge Edmund Nichols.
(A) Cadman--'T hear a Thrush at
Eve"
(B) Kjeruls-"Last Night"
Reports of Delegates to Mothers
Camp.
Violin Solo--Guoloun Celico.
Election of Delegates to State Con
vention.
Reports of Committees.
Accompanist-Joseph Adams.
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Gov. Dixon Is Candidate
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t1ontiHueu lruHi page
control Of newspapers, legislatures,
courts, and public officials. Its final
enactment will turn into the general
fund of the state approximately $780,
900 and similar amount to the pub
lie school fund, and to this extent will
lift the extra burden heretofore car
ried by other forms of property in
Montana.
1t should be a cause for satisfac-
ton to the people of Montana to know
that by the enforcement of rigid econ
omy in the conduct of the states in
stitutions, we have been able to close
the last fiscal year, on July first, with
a credit balance Of about 1927 900 be-
tween receipts and expenditures for
the General Fund of the State.
This has been done despite the fact
that the total gross property assess
ment of the state has shrunk approx
imately two hundred milliong dollars
n valuation from 1920--the year | was
elected Governor--to 1923, the actual
cash valuation for 1920 having been
81 sos, 024, 900, and the valuation for
1923 having been only $1,465, 10000.
The Tax Commission informs me that
the total valuation for 1924 will show
further decrease of approximately