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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

NJ. B. Clark OF the f. B. Clark
Seed ClmpanF went 20 Pocatello
Tuesday where he was in conference
with the manager Of the st. Anthony
branch OF the concern.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

A special meeting of Filler Lodge
No. So A. F. & A. NJ. was held at
Masonic hall last evening at which
the third degree was conferred.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

Filler Chapter o. f. S. entertained
following a business session OF the
order Friday at Masonic hall. for
Miss Grace McGinnis. and John
Johnson. past patron OF the chapter,
whose marriage was solemnized yes
terday afternoon.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

supt. and Mrs. George Denman
and young daughter, Jean. left by
auto Tuesday for INLAY, New. where
they will spend the next monh at
the home OF Mrs. Dehman's sister.
INLAY is about 400 miles from here.
The Denmans expected TO reach
riko the first day.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

Mrs. Cora Woodruff OF Jackson,
O.. sister of Mrs. J. ID. Gillian accom-
panied by Mrs. Florence Dickson
a cousin. OF Columbus. Ohio. arrived
Saturday TO make a visit al the Meth
odist parsonage.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

Hoy Pang of Pocatello. nephew OF
Don Pang of the Filler Cafe has
Joined his uncle here. and is assist
ing with the work at that establish
ment
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-06-26

The piano pupils OF Mrs. NJ. NJ
Truitt will be heard in recital. Mon
day evening. June S0th, at s O'Clock
al the Methodist Church. Friends
and those interested in music are
cordially invited TO attend.-Adv. 2tC
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Raid on Russian
Trade Legation is
Costly to Germany

BERLIN, June 25.-While the con-
fiict between the German and Russian
government, arising from the raiding
OF the Russian trade mission in con-
nection with the arrest of the German
Communist Bozenhardt, is pending
and dragging along without a solu-
ton satisfactory to both sides, the
trade mission continues to hold aloof
from making any further business de-
tails with German firms. The build
ing is open but few hours each day,
solely for the purposes Of finishing up
existing business.
No sooner had the news Of the con-
fiict spread in European business cir
cles, than the Berlin mission received
offers from non-German firms to sup
ply the articles needed. Thus some
100000 kegs Of tobacco, lying in the
free harbor of Homburg, were sold to
a French firm and another load to a
Dutch firm. Smoked meats were con-
signed to the U. S. A., and quantities
Of beans, peas, msize, barley and
similar commodities to Holland, Bel
gium, Denmark and Czechoslovakia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26

which will help make efficient and in
telligent workers of the Labor Herald
fans.
Most important of all in this issue
however, is the draft of program for
the Trade Union Educational League
completed and brought up to date for
the World Congress of the Red In.
ternational of Labor Unions now in
session in Moscow. This program,
which is serving as the basis for re.
organizing the revolutionary minority
movement turnout the world, is a do
cument upon which will be built a
great movement. Every worker who
expects to participate in that move
ment, as well as all who wish to UNI
derstand 1t, will have to study this
program carefully. Future history of
the American labor movement will
give it great attention, and those who
make that history, friends or enemies
of the T. U. e. L., will study it with
attention. There is no doubt that
Gompers will read it with magnify
ing glass.
The Labor Herald for July demands
the interest and the study of every re-
evolutionary unionist in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
A LEADING MAGAZINE

When it is said that such-and such
is a leading magazine" what is
meant usually, is that it is popular
The question if it actually gives a
lead to the workers in their practical
affairs is not answered. But the
July issue Of the Labor Herald, just
off the press, proves that here we
have a leading magazine" in the
literal sense Of the word.
Problems facing the militants in the
mining industry, nationally and To-
cally, are treated in the articles by
Jack tombstone on the Illinois conven-
ton and by Tom Bell on the situation
in Canada. tombstone particularly
shows why the militants in District
IL did not win a more complete vic.
tory. Bell gives a vivid picture OF
the intricate problems in District is
and 26, and explains the policies
which must be fought thru by the
militants If they would defeat the
Lewis machine. The problems in the
ladies' garment industry are analysed
by Harrison George in such a way
that no worker need feel doubt as the
proper general line OF action.
VIM. z. Foster, just returned from
visit thru France, Germany and
Russia, tells of the Russia he found
in 1924, compared to that of 1921. II
is a colorful and enthusing picture of
x.,orlx{oo oIoee oohtova,,ox,f 4II,,atratad
with pictures Of working-clas lead
ers who have done much to make the
workers government the great success
that it is. Fosters ability to con-
centrate upon the most meaningful
and interesting points is well known,
and this article will increase his re-
putation in this respect.
A wellprganized effort to resist
wage cuts and increases Of hours
now threatening in the impending
open shopy drive of the employers
is outlined and action called for in a
statement from the National Commit
tee of the T. III. Il. L.
Political comment, caustic and
humorous, lightons the pages OF the
July issues, together with the we'll
liked cartoons by Hay Bales. Work
ers' education. la America, is giver
a biting criticism by Earl Browder
Editorials upon ~ ming problems Of
the movement, czptinuation of Zoo
books scholarly examination OF the
Japanese movement notes on de
yelopments OF the month information
ALLYN all rich drray of solid, in
structivs. and entertaining reading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Corner on Hen Fruit
Coming; Councilman
Finds Profits Plot

A corner" on eggs has just been
discovered by Joseph Ruskewicz, Sec
rotary Of the city councils high cost
OF living committee. Certain "reli-
able" brokers have informed the al
derman, and he is not advising house,
wives to boycott" the hen product
until prices are brought down.
Spectators are trying to boost the
price of eggs now to the prices of last
December, jump from 32 cents to
40. The prices have already started
upward, altho quite unwarranted by
the presence of 100000 eggs in stor-
age in the warehouses.
Talking about fresh" eggs in Chi
cago is absurd anyway. Mr. Ruske-
wicz has discovered again the old
trick of the egg exchange spectators
and shouldn't be so surprised to learn
that storage eggs are sold as fresh"
in December.
OF the 47S,a0O cases OF eggs re.
ceived here since early June, 280,221
more than half--have been stored,
and the price Of eggs has mounted
from 23 cents to ~ and is on the way
Ito % and 40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Three Views of McAdOO

"a new Jackson come to lead the nation back
to business-like government" said Mr.. Phelan in
nominating McAdoo as the Democratic candidate
yesterday.
give years devoted to the pursuit of money
and power have made VIM. G. McAdoo the symbol
of intolerably low standards in public life" said
the New York World, capitalist paper, on Monday
before the convention opened.
The conscious workers, those who are grown-up
enough to escape the apron strings of Mama, will
agree with BOTH They will add their own judg-
ment that McAdoo, alike with Smith, Davis, and
all the dark horses of the democratic convention,
represent capitalist business, are against the
workers, and cannot be in any sense the candidate
of the workers.
McAdoo, or any other candidate likely to be
named in New York, will be against the workers.
To the extent that the workers are awakened they
will be against McAdoo as they are against Cool
idge Dawes & Co. The republicans and democrats
are two departments in the House of Morgan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Discord in the Democracy

News dispatches are filled to OVERLOOKING with
gossip about the bitter struggles waging between
the factions of the Democratic party. According
to accounts the fight is taking fanatcal bitter
ness, threatening splits and all sorts of dire con-
sequences, right on the eve Of an election which
the democrats claim is theirs by default.
1t is interesting to compare the discord now
going on in the Democratic party and the attitude
of the capitalist press to it, with the discussions
that occurred few months ago in the Russian
Communist party. Every journalistic prostitute
in the country writing editorials showing how
the debates between Zinoviev and Trotsky meant
the downfall of the Soviet government and the
liquidation Of the revolution. 1t meant nothing
of the kind, of course, and the discussions ended
with unanimous decisions of the party congress.
The same capitalist press today takes the dis
graceful controversies in the Democratic party as
matter of course. Quarrels about principle
whatever, involving nothing more sacred than the
question of who will distribute the patronage they
indicate the extreme corruption and degradation
of bourgeois politics in this the age of capitalist
decay. In the Russian discussions there was the
breath of life the spirit of the working class sov
ing its problems and going forward united to new
the capitalist press wanted to
see only decay. In the Democratic party SQUAD
bles there is the quarrel for booty, the spirit of
graft and corruption of decaying class rule-but
the capitalist press wants to see only dignifed
difference of principles"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Passing of POwderly

News of the death yesterday of 7. V. Powderly,
famous the head of the once-powerful Knights
of Labor, closes chapter in the history of the
American labor movement that was colorful and
rich in experience. First appearing as a labor
official about 1875 he was appointed by the Indus
trial Brotherhood, forerunner of the Knights of
Labor, an organizer. He became head of the
latter early in it's career, and continued in that
position until 1898. He furnished remarkable
example of a conservative and even timid person
leading movement that was always radical, and
at times revolutionary in its spirit.
At a time when the Knights of Labor were pow
erful and the craft unions were quite weak (1SS5)
it was largely the influence of Powderly which
kept the Knights officially on the edge of the de-
veloping eight-hour movement and allowed the
craft unions to initiate the call for the general
strike of May 1, 1886. And while the revolutionary
spirit of the Knights had caused its members
everywhere to throw themselves into the eight-hour
campaign, so that it was really the Knights of
Labor which made it as successful as it was, yet
Powderly, in his official position as Grand Master
Workman was actively sabotaging it. On March
13, 1886, the eve of the strike, he issued Sc
cret circular to the units of the organization, ad
vising them to keep out of the eghthour move
ment. This had much to do with the rapid dsin-
tegration of that once-powerful organization.
Powderly completed the decentralization of the
knights of Labor with his political manipulations
along the classical lines of "rewarding friends"
He consistently opposed independent political ac-
ton and fought against the early attempts to
found labor party. Setting the example fol-
loved since that time by so many "labor leaders"
he finally wormed his way into the lower circles
Af Poi'+ies accumulated an indenendent livelihood
and abandoned the labor movement.
Powderly as a leader of labor had been
many, many years before his body was laid in
grave. So much so, that the news of his d.
will come to thousands today as a distinct
prise-"I thot he was dead long time ago."
one unionst, whose establishment mirrored
completeness with which Powderly had been
behind in the march of history.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Wall Street Gambler and Hog Butcher
Unloads Bankrupt Elevators On Farmere

1t is altogether to be expected that
Barney should take a humanitarian
interest in the exploiting farmers
Humanitarian" interest in the farm.
ers is in vogue. One proposal after
another is put forward; the schemes
range all the way from selling grain
to the government, to feeding it to
the live stock on the farm. Meantime,
the condition Of the farmers becomes
worse and worse. Wheat continues
to sell below the cost of production.
Out in the rural districts one sees
implanted dwellings, old plows, worn
out harness.
Armour to The Rescue
In newspaper interview, Barney
let's us know that conditions of the
farmers grieved him deeply. So deep
ly did he grieve that he rushed to
Chicago on the Twentieth Century
Limited to talk to ]. Ogden Armour
about it.
Armour was just the man to help
the farmers, of course. The farmers
have plenty of reason to remember
this packingtown millionaire who for
many weeks persisted in refusing to
bare his grain. speculations in court
during the federal investigation last
year. He is known to every pit trad
er on the Chicago Board of Trade as
a professional plunger in wheat and
corn. Incidentally he is chief stock
holder in the Armour Grain Company,
one of the biggest grain specializing
houses in the United States. Bar
ney Baruch talked to Armour, and
also to George e. Marcy, president Of
the Armour grain concern. A steno-
graphic report Of those conversations
will probably be very interesting.
Getting the Bankers o. X.
Armour and Barney met again in
New York, where they went over mat
ters with some other presumptive
friends of the farmers-that is, the
bankers-including Albert H. Wiggin
and Samuel McRoberts of the Chase
National Bank group IN. B. The Chi
cago National bank, and not the Ar
mour family, is now the controlling
factor in the Armour meat packing
business, which 1t operates under a
trusteeshIp.)
These important conferences over,
our friend Barney straightway began
to write letters to congressman about
the terrible conditions Of the farm
ers. Then he called in the represent
atives Of the press and made public
his great plan for putting an end to
the sufferings of the agricultural po-
pulation. The plan was put forward
by Barney with lofty flourish, as a
mere word Of disinterested advice
from an eminent financier, accus-
toned to having his advice taken on
faith.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
By J. RAMIREz COME.

~ " nFhIUInEE GOm
DIG Business is going to help the
- farmers. No wonder the farmers
are suspicious. They are still re
covering from the effects of the las
time Big Business so generously ex
tended its aid.
It is doubtful, however,, whether more
than few have any conception Of
the enormity Of the swindle that Bar
ney Baruch and ]. Ogden Armour
are trying to put over on them right
at this moment, with the enthusiastic
ballyhoo support Of the capitalist
press of the land.
How 1t Looks on Surface
During the last few days, the news.
papers have been full Of stories to
the effect that wealthy grain mer.
chants are apparently" ready to
turn over the marketing OF grain to
the farmers who grow it. Five big
Chicago grain firms have offered to
sell their plants to farmers, and the
American Farm Bureau Federation re.
presenting nearly million farmers,
is considering the proposition. Every
thing looks lovely on the surface.
The five big corporations who are
willing to sell are the Armour Grain
Company, Rosenbaum Grain Corpora
ton, Bartlett-Frazier Company, Ro-
senbaum Brothers, and ]. c. Shaffer
& Co.
Several months back the Armour
concern endorsed a similar plan to
turn its assets over to cooperative
group of farmers for cash. But the
plan was not put forward in the name
of the Armour Grain Company. That
public-spirited organization does not
put forward such plans in its own
name. 1t merely falls in with them
after they are proposed. The gentle
man who first suggested it in the
newspapers is not in the grain bust
ness at all. He is Mr.. Bernard Ba-
ruch-familiarl known as Barney.
And thereby hangs tale or two.
Introducing MIR. Barueh
Among the many curious accom-
paniments of Woodrow Wilson's ad-
ministration as President, none is
more remarkable than the metamor-
phosis of Bareny 'Baruch. Barney
used to be the kind of person with
whom politicians did not like to as
sociate in public. He was the wolf
of the Wall Street wolves, known far
and wide as Americas premier stock
gambler. Now he "lends tone" to any
white-haired gathering. Lifted into
sudden responsibility by the magic
touch Of the Woodrow Wilson regime,
he has become a great Statesman of
Finance-one of that handful of in
dividuals who are presumed to be
genuinely concerned for the public
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Send in that Subscription Today.
Berger Will Never Learn

Berger's Mitroaukee Leader is trying to tell its
socialist following that the gathering of farmer
labor forces at st. Paul was not a success. But
it will have difficult time in putting this false
hood over. There too many delegates pres
emit at St Paul. from Wisconsin, to allow this
Misrepresentation of a great movement to go I'M
challenged.
Berger's editorial, supporting as it did the at
tack of LaFolette on the st. Paul gathering, was
published the day before the Wisconsin socialists
repudiated LaEollette and sideswiped the Cleve-
land meeting of the conference for Progressive
Political Action. This would indicate that Berger
had misjudged his own party membership as much
as he had maligned the St. Paul gathering
These are days when politicians, both within
and without the labor movement, are learning that
events do not develop as they wish. The masses
Of the workers and farmers are having something
to say. And what they say sounds entirely differ
emit from the prophesies and the claims Of the
place.hunting politicians trying to win leadership
over them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Packers Not AItruIsts

1t is only in the last couple OF
months that the Rosenbaum Grain
Corporation, Bartlett-Frazi-If Com
pany, Rosenbaum Brokers, and J. g.
Schaffer & Company nave been drawn
into the plan for unloading on the
farmers. Together with the Armour
Grain Company, these corporations
handle more than billion dollars
worth of cash. grain transactions an
nually, but the same banking group
dominates all of them. They have
never been what might be called al
truistic toward the farmers. Their
attitude toward the distressed agricul-
tural toilers is the same as toward
any other prospective customer who
is looked upon as sucker.
AS for the Armour Grain Company
the biggest of all these corpora
tons, if the members of the American
Farm Bureau Federation were to fall
in with Barney Baruch's scheme al
acquire an interest in the Armou
Grain Company, they would be bu4
ing into a wrecked concern, heavily
in debt to the bankers. But that is
not all. Under Baruch's ingenious
plan, the present management of the
company would retain certain num-
Der of directors, and the farmers
would have certain number, until
gradually, thru the profits of the bust
ness, payment should be made in full,
or until by further subscriptions, the
farmers paid off the balance" In the
meantime, actual control Of the organ
ization would be affected by near
off "a third class of directors, wi )
would provide the balance of power
on the board, and whose business it
would be to see that the organiza-
ton was run according to the con-
tract and to settle any disputes aris-
ing between the two parties"
The Joker in the Deal.
Who would make UP this third class
of directors? Would they be bank
ers? 1t is possible that they would
consist of the Chase National Bank
combine which has already in
stituted itself so successfully into the
control of the Armour Company meat
packing business?
No criticism Of the unprecedented
fraud which packers, bankers and
Wall Street manipulators are trying
to put over on the farmers has ap-
peared in any capitalist newspaper.
Neither the Republican nor the Demo-
cratic Party has a word of condemna-
ton to utter. All point with pride to
the practical example Of the gener-
osity of our wealthy magnates who
take such interest in the woes of the
poor farmers. Charity, heavenly
charity!" exclaim the deeply moved
his preachers anu sGtorIdi wntefs-w
of commenting upon the Armour-Bar
All proposal. Only in the cynical gol
ank- of the wheat pits do we get an
Ar ling that in this attempt to uni
pay on the farmers the substantial Pill
Ar of Society involved have been gui
ners by the well established capitalist ?
ciple that charity begins at home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
CoIored People in Conference

In the conference of the National Association
for the Advancement of the Colored People, meet
ing in Philadelphia, the Negroes will be faced with
problems that require radical readjustment of
their attitude. The issues of the Ku Klux Khan
and the institution of lynching, if treated in the
same manner of old, will be no nearer to solu-
ton.
Appeals to republican and democratic politi-
clans are worse than useless. The republicans are
definitely opposed to concessions to the Negroes,
because they are angling for the anti-Negro white
vote of the SOUTH and because they naturally sup
port everything which helps to divide the workers.
The democrats are the classical party of the sub.
lection of the Negroes.
Only when the Negro race understands that it's
advancement only be simultaneously and in
cooperation with that of the working class, and
when it joins in the establishment of powerful
labor party pledged to the founding of farmers
and workers government, will it have set its feet
on the road of emancipation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
Fight the "Open Shop" Drive

timely and much needed warning is contained
in the statement issued by the national committee
Of the Trade Union Educational League calling
for united resistance to the campaign for wage
cuts and increase of working hours now beginning.
In the clothing, metal, railroad, textile, leather
and most of the other industries, the capitalists
are already using the industrial depression to
slash into the workers. standards of living Moth
ing will prevent drastic losses to the working class
except great campaign to rouse the millions to
fight.
It is idle to call upon the trade union leaders to
do anything. The vast majority of these comfor-
table gentlemen are trying to turn the unions
into insurance societies. or into cooperative" or
company unions; they angling for political
jobs, like Lewis and Berry; or they are plunging
into Wall Street finance via the labor bank route
Their last concern is to help put up battle
against the employers. They the agents Of the
employing class inside the labor movement
The Trade Union Educational League has gone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-26
A Good Example

MEXICO CITY.-Now that Mexico
has been practically pacified the
ministry Of war is beginning its de-
mobilization program. This work will
continue until the army has been re-
duced to $4,000 men, the size it was
just before the de la Huerta rebellion
broke out.