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upon those people of Liberia. 1t was
just a warning because our repre-
sentatives had been there.
"They are afraid that the strength
ening of the Liberian republic will
have an influence thruout Africa in
proving that Negroes can govern
themselves. Therefore those powers
that are exploiting the people there
in colonies want to keep the Liberian
people as weak as possible. The Lii
berian government is in debt to
France and England, and in this way
pressure is brought to bear upon the
rulers of the Negro state"
Garvey Verified by Gable.
This statement of Mr.. Garvey's is
strongly borne out by dispatch re-
Gently received from Monrovia, Ii
IBERIA, and published in the Negro
press. Signed Buffers Limited" the
cablegram reads in part:
president told me that he is keep
ing his mind on the obligation Of Ii
berla to the Great Powers, and as
such to the maintenance Of the in
dependence of the republic"
l called Mr.. Garvey's attention to
the dispatch, and he confirmed my
construction of its meaning. "And you
should know that the United States
minister was in the diplomatic group
that was operating in that way" he
said.
And so this movement goes on-a
strange paradox. Under the fog of
religious mysticism-a most terrific
denunciation of the clergy A med
ley of steamship stock selling mixed
with a Negro nationalism that brings
anxiety to colonial ministers in Euro
pean capitals, government cable
grams and conferences in Washing
ton and indictments in New York used
by government agents in an effort to
disrupt this Negro convention.
\ There is another phase-the most
dangerous phase that could possibly
be found in Negro movement-an
effort to conciliate the Ku Klux Khan,
which might conceivably result in
Transforming this whole movement in
to an organization of Janissaries for
the capitalist class. This phase is so
important that | must deal with it in
a separate article.
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pose of embarrassing this convention.
Here in this locality it seems a trick
Of the republican politicians of Har-
lem, who want to discredit me and
win back their power in this district"
l am very sorry to say that Garvey
supported the local democratic ticket
in the past two elections, which he
admits. But" said, Il am sur
prised that you seem to classify it
as a local matter. Is it no wider than
that?"
Garvey, obviously tired and grown
perfunctory with much convention
work, turned quick, sharp eyes upon
me. NO" he said slowly, sit is not
only a local matter. If we had been
in any other district it would have
been put thru in the same manner by
the republican politicians in that dis
trict 1t is no mere Harlem affair.
/ have been framed up before.
Independence Is Dangerous.
you know, our plan is interna-
tional. 1t touches the British and
French governments in their African
colonies. For instance, our effort to
strengthen the Negro nation of Lii
IBERIA is considered dangerous to the
colonial interests of the Great Pow
ers. You see, the French and British
are operating in and exploiting near
by territory. They consider a move
ment to strengthen any independent
Negro state dangerous to their inter
ests.
when any aspiration of African
people to self-goyernment is discov-
cred by the Great Powers, things be-
gin to look bad for their colonial rule.
Then they try to counteract such
movements to independence.
Scared Them With Warships.
when our representatives went to
Liberia last December, the imperial
powers tried every device to prevent
their getting a hearing. Shortly after
they left, a strange thing happened.
A French and an English warship
came into the harbor-'just on a
friendly visit they said. In the har-
Dor they began firing their big guns
in the air. They said they we're just
'saluting' the Liberian republic.
well, you can imagine what was
the effect of hearing those big guns
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Article BY Trotzky in August Pictorial

IN the new issue of Soviet Russia
Pictorial Comrade Trotzky's article
From the Old Family to the New"
gives additional insight into the far
sightedness Of Russia's Communist
leadership.
This time It is not war, or politics,
OF any OF his many interests, but the
future family under Communism that
gets his attention.
THE preparation of the material
conditions for new manners and tho
now family cannot be separated from
tho work OF socialist construction In
general" he says And the future
family and our approach to Il thru
our cultural work makes splendid
reading for all those interested in
working class problems to como In
the very near future.
Beside this most interesting article,
others by Peter Maslovski OF Essen,
Germany, on THE Great Struggles
Of the Ruhr Miners" and by Andreas
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LaFollette's Record Shows He's For Big Business

big capitalist interests is as to the
amount to be paid to the private own.
ers Of capital, to the private owners
Of the means Of production and ex-
change socially used.
LaFollette and the most reaction
airy capitalists are agreed that capital
should be privately owned. Both
agree that this ownership entities
the owners to an income which, of
course, is produced by those who
work, by those who invest labor
power in production, by the working
class. Their difference is only over
what constitutes a "just, legitimate"
amount that the capitalist owners
should take from the products Of the
workers.
Proud Of Big Profits for Wisconsin
Capitalists.
On more than one OCCASION has
Senator LaFollette taken great pride
in the fact that under his program the
owners of public utilities, the big
business interests, have been reaping
a harvest of handsome profits
Paying tribute to his own achieve
ments in railroad regulation while he
was governor of Wisconsin, La Fol
lette declared in 1906:
THE rates charged on traffic in
Wisconsin on the whole yield a gross
income to the railroads greatly above
the amounts required for all operating
expenses, for the maintenance of
property and for a fair interest on
profit on the cost of the roads,"
Then in his 1912 campaign bible,
entitled Progressive Wisconsin," we
find that LaFollette, then, as now, as
piring for the presidency as a pro-
gressive, was boasting over the bene-
fetal effects his program has had on
the biggest employing class interests
in Wisconsin. We quote
There has not been a railroad
company, important or minor, in the
state that has not had an increase of
profits, both gross and net, and this
increase has been greater than that
which the mere natural growth of
the state would account for. The
confidential reports of the railroads
to the Wisconsin state authorities
show, as utterly convincing testimony
of the effect of Wisconsin regulation,
that two of the biggest railroads in
the country experienced a decrease of
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Remains of FL.
Party of u. S. In
Denver Headquarters

DENVER, Aug. 1.-THE Farmer
Labor Party of the United States,
founded in 1920, is conducting ma.
tional headquarters at 715 e. & c.
Bldg, Denver. Bert Martin is national
secretary, succeeding Jay G. Brown,
resigned, who was in charge of the
old Chicago headquarters.
you helped us to campaign four
years ago, when, with an unknown
man at the head of our ticket, we were
able to secure 100000 votes for our
presidential candidate" declares an
appeal to former sympathizers issued
by Martin. (Official returns gave Par
ley P. Christensen 265,411 votes in
1920.
The party, under the Craftsmanship
Of w. M. Piggott, is supporting the
LaFollette-W Wheeler ticket The ma
tional executive committee as printed
on the letterhead includes John Fitz-
patrick, president Chicago Federation
of Labor.
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what Moses said, added: "He is our
safety valve. Where else is a com
handing figure, who, while scrupu-
lous about law and order, yet points
the hopeful way to political revolu-
tion?"
And the noted Washington observer,
William Hard, who has had chance to
see LaFollette in action for many
years thus characterized the Wiscon-
sin Senator as he was departing for
Europe last year:
"LaFollette, it is noted, has intro
duced no bills for vast governmental
corporations for the buying and sell
ing of farm products He has
seen many such bills introduced by
radical senators and by progressive
senators and even Gas in the case of
Senator Gooding) by conservative
senators. He himself has given his
name to none of them"
Capitalists on 5obs Program.
For more than three decades LaFol7
lette has been massing his batteries
against the combined power of the
private monopoly system over the po-
litical and economic life of the Ameri-
can people" During all these years
the Wisconsin senator has looked
upon John Sherman, author of the
Sherman Antitrust Act, as his god.
Even in his July 4th letter accepting
the presidential nomination by the
Progressive Conference, LaFollete
spoke of Sherman as 1.-THE clearest-
visioned republican statesman Of his
time" and called the Sherman Law,
enacted by a republican congress in
1890, "the most effective weapon that
the ingenuity of man could devise
against the power of monopoly"
At the last national convention of
the republican party held in Cleveland
on June 10th, Congressman Henry
Allen Cooper, leader of the Wiscon-
sin delegation, pointed out that those
who have been branding the LaFol-
lete program radical had better keep
in mind the fact that Of the thirty
one planks offered by his state since
1908 no less than twenty-six have
been enacted into law. Eleven of the
thirteen planks proposed by LaFol-
lette in 1908 are now law. Fifteen Of
the eighteen proposals submitted by
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capitalist interests, LaFollette said a
few weeks later in his Weekly of De-
cember 2, 1911:
"The Wisconsin Plan is not to har-
ass but to foster legitimate business.
Legitimate business suffers quite as
much as does the public from the de-
predations of the financial pirates who
have so boldly domineered the seas of
industry in this country for a dozen
years and more. Wisconsin has out
lawed the Captain Kids of business;
but she has laid the hands of protec-
ton and encouragement upon the hon
est investor"
In special statement issued by
Senator LaFollette on January 10,
1924, relative to his railroad bill to
amend the interstate commerce laws,
we find the following Illuminating
evidence of the Wisconsin Senator's
strong belief in the continuation Of
the present system of the private
ownership of capital whereby the
working class is exploited:
''In accordance with the recommen-
dation of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in its report December 1,
1928, have provided that after rate
base has been established it shall be
kept up to date by adding the amount
of additional net investments pru-
IDENTIFY made in the property
"The amendments which / offer are
based upon the principle that the pri-
vate owners of the railroads are en-
titled to be reimbursed for the actual
cost of the services they performed
and to be paid fair return upon the
money which they have prudently in
vested in property now devoted to
public service. Just compensations for
services, reimbursement of expenses
and a fair interest on capital en-
ployed, should be paid those who de-
vote work on property to public serv-
ice, but no more"
Stands for Private Ownership.
Here we have it. LaFollette in
sists that society should pay tribute
to the owners of the railroads for
their mere ownership which he calls
"devoting work on property to public
service" This is precisely what the
most ardent defender of the railway
and other big business interests want.
The only point of difference between
LaFollette and the champions of the
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LaFollette in 1912 have since been
written into the federal statutes.
Among these may be mentioned the
enlargement of the powers of the In
terstate Commerce Commission, the
physical valuation of railroads, direct
election Of senators and regulation Of
telephones and telegraph.
And Senator LaFollette makes sure
to tell the world in his "Autobiog-
raphy" that his progressive move
ment "is essentially safe and sane
one for the public and for all legiti-
mate business"
In accepting the presidential nomi-
nation at Cleveland LaFollette further
declared: 81 am candidate upon the
basis of my public record, as a mem
Der Of the House of Representatives,
as Governor of Wisconsin, and as a
member Of the United States Senate.
shall stand upon that record exactly
as it is written, and shall give my
support only to such progressive prin-
ciples and policies as are in harmony
with it."
On this basis only we will take
apart the warp and wool of the fab
ric of LaFollettes record.
For Business Interests.
Ever since LaFollette has won his
place in the political sun of this coun-
try, the very head and front of his ac-
tivities summed themselves up in an
insistence on the evils of uncontrolled
big business sitting free competition,
on the alarming results of the hob
goblin of monopoly.
But what LaFollette is really trying
to do is to foster business, honest,
legitimate business" of course. All
the Wisconsin Senator wants today or
has ever before wanted, is to make
business safe and stable by removing
it's "evils." Preparing for his 1912
campaign to win the republican presi-
dental nomination Battling Bob" de.
clared in "LaFollette's Weekly" of
October 2S, 1911:
Industrial corporations should by
Affirmative legislative enactment be
given definite rules of conduct by
which business shall be made safe and
stable, while at the same time the in
terests Of the public shall be fully
safeguarded. We seek constructive
legislation, not destructive litigation"
Clarifying his position toward the
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earnings in the country at large dur
ing the year July 80, 1911, and that
these same two roads produced sub
stantial increase of the net earnings
of those parts Of their systems lying
within Wisconsin.
what has been the effect of this
regulation on the business of the
public utilities? Officials of these con-
Germs made the same prophecies that
the railway men did, asserting that
business would be ruined. Many of
them are now transacting unprec-
edented volumes Of business, all of
them are enjoying Increased earn
ings. The securities of those com
panies have increased in substantial
value and investments in them, par
ticularly by small investors and by
the smaller banks, has gone to the
point where it betrays healthy con-
fldence."
In an interview especially given to
the Saturday Evening Post of July 8,
1911, further light on what the La
Toilette program means to business
interests is shed by the following
question and answer:
@. "And what happened Industrial
ly after you had effected your legis-
lative reforms in Wisconsin,"
A. (LaFollette)-"From 1905 to
1910 the total operating revenue re-
ceived from all sources by the rail
roads in Wisconsin increased fifteen
millions, while the reductions on
freight rates on interstate business
amounted to nearly one million dol
lars. During the same period the
total deposits in the commercial and
savings banks of Wisconsin increased
fifty-one per cent. Yes, Wisconsin is
prosperous railroads are prosperous;
the public utilities of the state which
are regulated, are prosperous"
This is the wisconsin Idea" ap-
piled. This is the program that Mr..
LaFollette holds out to the workers
and farmers today as the source of
their hope, as the road to their free
dom from the railroad capitalists, the
shipping magnates, the capitalist
owners Of public utilities-the ex-
plotting class. This is Wisconsin, the
Model Commonwealth" that LaFol-
lette would have the workers and dis
possessed farmers extend thruout the
country.
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Min on the Situation Of workers in
Fascist Italy" make keen reading for
one interested in international affairs.
OF equal interest is the article "Czars
Hongmen on Trial" by Max Bedacht.
AS usual, the issue is heapod with
facts Of all the latest important de-
volopments in Soviet Russia. Many
phases OF internal problems and for
eign relations are treated, making i'm.
portant reading for the intelligent
worker.
Added to these features are the
large number of interesting photo
graphs Of men and events in Russia
and the world over rounding out one
Of the years best issues of Soviet
Russia Pictorial.
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New Typo Scale.

MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 12-The latest
newspaper contract made by Mime
apolis Typographical Union (No. 42)
provides ISL for a 42.hour week for
journeymen on the day shift and S54
nights, effective Nov. 1, 1924. The Z
hour shift is established by the con-
tract. The agreement was made by
the Minneapolis Daily Star. which I'M
der the name Minnesota Star was at
one time Farmer.Labor daily. and it
expires April 30, 1926. the uniform
expiration date of all newspaper typo
contracts in the city.
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Minor Writes About Big Negro Conference
been brought against him.
Why He Was Punched.

been brought against him.
Why He Was Punched.
For two years and a half Garvey's
income tax report lay in a pigeonhole
in an Office in Washington. 1t prob
ably lay in the file among the "G's"--
next to that of Gary and Guggenheim.
1t wasn't big Garvey considered
that he only owed the income tax col
lector $104.
But the 1924 convention of the
Universal Negro Improvement Asso-
citation was coming on. Delegates
were streaming in from all over the
world-black and brown delegates,
Negro delegates, men who, according
to the capitalists caste system, have
no right to be delegates to anything
at all, but only to be servants for SUI
perior white Englishmen in South
Africa, Frenchmen in North Africa,
American white gentlemen in Geor-
gia and in Panama. In fact, there are
black delegates from something like
twenty different colonial points on
the world map Of capitalist trouble.
Universal Representation.
Africans who don't want to remain
British subjects are here. Africans
who dream of independence in
French Senegal are sitting near me
in this hall. Bermudans, Haitians,
Jamaicans, st. Thomas islanders, Por-
to Ricans, black man from Austria
liza, from Natal, Nigeria, the German
Camerun, Egypt and many points in
South America. =
They are discussing plan for the
formation Of worldwide Negro po-
litical union, for the purpose of undo
ing the rule of imperialist POWERS
over colonial peoples. They are talk
ing in strong language.
In another part Of New York-over
in the white" city, where Negroes
can't go except as scrubwomen or ele-
vator runners-the grand jury is
meeting. 1t is federal grand jury,
working under an appointee Of the
federal government at Washington,
the distinguished prosecutor, District
Attorney Mattuck. Under the guild
ance of Mr.. Mattuck whose hand is
guided from Washington, the grand
jury writes an indictment of Mr.. Mar
Gus Garvey. To do so it is Obliged
to find bit of material.
The files of the "G's" in the in
come tax Office in Washington for
1921 are dug into. The name Gary"
is passed over. The name "Guggen-
helm" is left untouched. The name
"Garvey" is reached, the two-year-
and-a-half-old income tax report is
fetched out, and Garvey is indicted.
The agents OF the government rush
to the convention hall where the con-
vention is in session. The federal
agents. enter. They don't arrest Gar
vey-they merely whisper to as many
of the assembled Negroes as possible
that "Garvey is indicted and is going
to be arrested"
Carney Is Cool.
Some one came up and told Carney
as he sat in the chairman's seat.
Garvey nodded, without changing ex-
preston, and continued the session.
The next day / asked Mr.. Carney
to tell me his version of the indict-
ment.
Charges Frame-Up.
1T is frame-up." he said. That's
all. OF course 1t is done for the pur-
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To Organize In KensIngton.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. H.
At the request of number Of
worker residents of Kensington sec
ton of this city, meeting for the
purpose OF organizing branch Of the
Workers Party in the section Is called
for Thursday, August IA, s. D. m, at
the Kensington Labor Lyceum, Sec
ond and Cambria streets. The meet
ing is called by the Philadelphia local
of the party.
All class conscious workers resid-
ing in Kensington are invited to at
tend and join the newly formed
branch.
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his organization" and that che him
self openly threatened to get the
district attorney" ETC., get a differ.
ent reaction from that intended by
DR.. Dubois. l am obliged to look be-
yond the details. at the apparent fact
that a government which hates and
despises the Negro masses, a govern
ment which hates the working class,
and which has never been unforgiv-
ing to grating schemes, that such a
government does not find a friend in
Garvey.
And above it all towers the fact
that the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association, the largest organ
ization of Negroes in the world, is
made up almost entirely of the work.
ing class.
Carney Did Organize Negroes.
/ am waiting for some Negro lead
er who has organized more Negroes
than Marcus Carney has organized,
to criticize Garvey-and l frankly
confess that if such leader has been
given a longer term in Leavenworth
than Garvey received, will listen to
him more attentively.
The lickspittles of capitalism in
Washington do not love Marcus Gar.
vey. This alone ought to make any
one of the working class think twice
before condemning the man. His
enemies say the government con-
dennis Garvey for using questionable
financial methods for the purpose of
fleeing the masses of uneducated
Negro workers. But 1 don't think the
Teapot Domers at Washington have
any objection to the fleeing Of the
Negro masses.
think their solicitude is based
upon something else.
Fear Negro Workers.
The fact that Garvey is organizing
many thousands of Negroes of the
class that is destined to take over the
earth, and makes a militant demand
for sweeping international liberia
ton of colonial peoples, seems to me
to be a more likely reason why
Messrs. Coolidge, Daugherty and,
yes, Mr.. Hughes of the state depart
ment, have interested themselves in
Garvey.
l heard Garvey speak last night.
He is one of the most powerful per-
sonalities that / have ever seen on
the platform. He is Of the rare type
that history finds rising in every un-
settled period to express new cur
rents among the masses of men. For
veal or woe, Carney is OF the stuff
that leaders Cor very powerful mis-
leaders) are made Of. Not the kind
of leaders who rise in times Of quiet
and fit their environment as a fashion
model fits the gowns OF the day, but
the kind Of leaders that rise in times
of storm and stress, who do not At
their environment, who look and feel
and act out of place in the order of
the day-who are called uncouth, who
are jeered as insists, and yet who
may form the heads of the battering
rams which smash down the walls OF
their environment.
cannot vouch for the integrity OF
Marcus Garvey. But l know that the
worst set OF scoundrels that know
on earth hate Garvey.
l asked Mr. Garvey to give the
DAILY WORKER his version of the
second indictment which has Just