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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-05-16

French governments army bill
passed, despite Socialist opposition.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-05-16
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WILLIAM Rt1S
FRED WILDE
II.ARENTE FERRIS

aud vii remain throughout the week
Of The show 10 assist in putting this
affair over aud making it the success
Il Is desired 70 be by clean wholesome
amusement Bring along the whole
family.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-05-16
FIRST BIG OUT
DOOR ATTRACTION
OF THE YEAR

+ The dlst Sp0ug Festival ct lac
/ season due IN Champaign during ghe
week II May 30 II Stst, The Budding
Trades CeunSil hiss arranged With ne
Famous MAJ kC,ss Shows Attractions.
Tie show with the worth while rcpu.
tallou.
/ keiss Shows. are we'll kueWn IN
Champaign tbis being the fourth time
That they have been in this vicinity.
i Ims seasons shows and rides atc al
ne~. Nothing thai Vas carried b, tbis
outfit last season viii Dc exhibited.
The Relss shows travel iu their oNn
pecial train Of - cars and unwand
OF zoo people connected with 1t tins
year
They have IL biz shows and dN up.
t0zdate riding devices and a military
band, THIS considered n I've the lafg.
est exposition show travelling. and
one that Is conducted on clean ami
upright principles free trom Immoral
SHOWS.
\ show that can he visited by tho
better class as well As the ladies aud
chliuren, lhe feature attractions
carried hA this gteat SHOW. Sweets
Cfcle g. Real Wild West. and faT
East Exhibition. Thus show carries 70
head et the widest buckiug brouchos.
direct from the plains of Montana,
There ate Indians, Cow Reys, ana Cow
Girls galore ami IN conjunction thep
ate the usual side shows up in the
clouds, Box of Fun, minstrel Show.
ten ia one show. Motor Dome. and
many other mechanical shows. and
ruling devices and OF which the Cater.
pillar ride Is the latets Ia sensation
ride to be produced,
This uding device Is a scream and
no doubt will be well palroniRed here,
NJ. J. noNahue, special agent of the'
Maj Reiss shows arrived here and
will take charge of the doiugs fer
the Building Trades Council, assisted
by the building Trades Festival Exc
cutiVe Committee.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-05-16

While the Catholics were holding
forth in Chicago the Methodists were
holding a great conclaye IN spring
field. Mass. More than 500 delegates
are in attendance at the Methodist
general conference which Is the oiii-
cial law making body of the church.
II is a massive unwieldly body, yet II
is a thoroughly democratic body,
and represents the antithesis OF the
Catholic form of government wflch
is vested in the Holy father at
Rome.
The Methodist general conference, Is
like the American Congress. It's
delegates are elected by all men and
women of the church who are over Il.
Approximately 400 ministers and an
e6lal number of laymen, both men
and women. ale in attendance. mus
is eoualitv maintained between the
jayitv and the clergy in making the
laws Of the church. They have power
IN amend the constitution; to ami
bilate traditions. and TO revise me
whole church discipline al any session
of that body which meets every ioui
wears. 1t is a pure democracy. ..
But any democracy finds 1t dillicui'
to establish laws, institute reforms
and otherwise work in harmony. A
democraey is productive Of factions
hat war between themselves iol
mower. This is one Of the evils Of
/ democratic government IN chuteh VI
state. Our whole governmental sSs'
tenn in America is unwieldly ana MAJ
a difficult time to move elthef Ioi
ward or backward. Il must move move
with the tide and trust to providence
or succumb to fate.
The Methodists have approElmlalie.il
10000. 900 votaries. The C2thoile.
annroyimately 20000,000. The Metho
| dist creed is largely endorsed now w,
ever. bv all protestant branches o en.ci l-c
in total number nearly 3O'oOO'ooo peo
/ plp.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-05-16

MANY Protestants look viii. aiaLnl ,.l
upon the ercroachment Of the Cathotsle te
church in America. They tear ,i, me ne
take up his residence here. lney
fear @ that he will attempt TO gain con. si
troI of the state and to reunite me
Governments Of church and state ana
6Toeeed to compel all people to be
/ come Catholics.
The fear is based largely upon an
intangible something winch noJ '.t. efeh
/ Protestants can define, for the anu
/ lie church so far has not encfoa9Gi.lss
upon the national congress III iliaA'iie
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

Mrs. Marshall Field, one OF the
wives of one of the owners of the
great Chicago department store. is
creating sensation in Paris. This
means that the lady is disporting her.
self to the satisfaction of those Eur
opeans who like to gaze on the fe-
male form divine when properly Or
improperly, according to taste
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with costly
raiment, not necessarily generous. It
must be costly. We learn that blase
Paris is stunned" A nude harem
would not make typical Partisan
wriggle his eyebrows, so the kind OF
capers that Mrs. Field is cutting
must be left to the Imagination. We
are not concerned with the lady's
method of getting kick out OF life.
What we want to get across is that
her ability to knock Paris for string
of imported Japanese soupstones is
due to the docility and hard work
Of the thousands of men and women
who toll in the big slave pen In the
Chicago loop. The overworked girls
who help to pile up the millions that
this parasite helps to spend in riotous
living, are lucky II they can buy suf-
icient clothes TO appear respect.
able" Such is American democracy
under the capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

Initial remittance of $4,000 for relief of the lock-
ed-out German miners of the Ruhr, sent yesterday
from Chicago by the International Workers. Aid
in response to cable request for international as
sistance, shows that the American workers are
alive to the necessity of worldwide solidarity It
is indeed heartening thing to this solidarity
expressing itself in practical deeds. Financial
assistance may be small thing but it is the be
ginning of larger deeds that will finally bring even
backward American Labor into the revolutionary
currents of the world struggle
The stakes of the battle being waged in the Ruhr
are such, that even conservative-minded miners
must realize that the German struggle is their
own The coal barons of Germany, following the
hint given them by Dawes and their own natural
inclinations have launched drive to force the
miners to work hours underground, instead of z,
and 10 hours aboyeground, instead of g. If the
German miners lose their conditions, what miner
can doubt that it means another drive against the
British miners, and even against the American?
Irresistably the forces of decaying capitalism
pull the American labor movement into battle
against the whole rotten system. The coal miners
of America must help the revolutionary miners of
the Ruhr, else see their own conditions of labor
also reduced to the coolie level The whole United
Mine Workers should resound with the call for
help to the embattled Ruhr miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
What's in a Name?

Much has been said about the victory" Of the
left in the recent French elections. Herriot has
been painted as a genuine radical. BRAND has
been labeled sizzling red Painleves political
picture has been put in a crimson frame.
Everybody knows that the Radical Socialist Par
y of France is neither radical nor socialist This
outfit of capitalist politicians merely assumed the
name to fool the working masses into believing
that there was something radically social about
their policies. As matter of fact the leaders of
these parties have advanced on the ladder Of
French imperialist politics principally thru their
waging aggressive battle in behalf of the bank
ing and manufacturing interests of France.
The keynote to the policies of the so-caled new
left government has just been struck by Paul Pain
leve, who is slated to be the coming president of
the republic. In an authorized interview, printed
in one of the metropolitan papers, Painleye an
nounced his policy as follows: Gin taking over
power in France, as shall shortly do, we liberal
and democratic republicans wish to show we can
make organized society as its stands work in the
interest of ALL"
This declaration makes clear what the workers
of the world in general and the working class of
France in particular may expect from the radical"
government The new cabinet will be an agency
of the French imperialist capitalist class much
as the Poincare clique was. 1t will use different
WOFuS, SWeelef WORDS undoubtedly, more camOu-
flage to hide the mailed fist always in readiness
for being swung against the masses. The admitted
purpose of Painleve is to make capitalism work in
the interest of all. That's an impossibiIity The
present system of production and exchange works
very well for the owning class. How it has been
working for the laboring and farming masses can
be seen best from the conditions in which the work
ing and farming classes find themselves today in
the capitalist countries.
Finally, we feel certain no one will be fooled
by the expectations from the present order of So
ciety working in the interest of all classes with
renegades like BRAND at the helm The French
radical BRAND, like the American reactionary
Coolidge, was made by breaking strike. When
the French Confederation of Labor called rail
way strike in 1909 he smashed it by forcing the
railway workers into military service. Obviously
there is nothing in label The workers of France
know the poison despite the false label worn BY
the cleft" and will treat it as such.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
By ! JAY LovEsToNE.

y
THE leading financial observers con
tinue to see steady drop in bust
ness. Employment is failing in many
industries, prices are declining in
some cases, and wage cuts are increas-
ing in frequency. n
The latest view of the situation ac-
ccrding to Dunts is summed up as
follows:
"A thirty per cent decline in steel
output in about two months measures
the sharp reaction that has occurre,.
in that quarter; coal mining has fallen
on !; some textile units are running at
onlys5O per cent Of capacity, and in
most other lines curtailment has been
forced by the decrease in new orders.
Nearly all reports tell Of unusual eau
ton among buyers, Of their continued
disinclination to purchase beyond
their immediate needs, and of increas-
ing competition among sellers that
causes price concessions in both raw
materials and manufactured products.
No check to the curtailment of
steel output has yet come, the industry
now operating at about 65 per cent
rate. This marks reduction of 5
per cent during the week, and con-
trasts sharply with the average Of
around 80 per cent reached last
March,
The situation is especially critical
in the textile market where at Fall
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

River, for instance, the sales OF print
cloth last week we're only at 10 per
cent Of capacity.
Chronicle Takes Same Dark View.
The Commercial & Financial Chron.
icle sees the situation in the same
dark light. It's latest review Of the
present economic conditions is as
follows: ss na
The -four trade has been slow. AS
a rule shoe manufacturing business
has been unsatisfactory, altho in parts
Of New England there are signs Of
improvement. Iron and steel has re-
NAMED dull and prices have. declined
further. Output has also fallen of.
Other metals have also declined. AS
the case stands, the output of steel
mills is variously estimated at So to
81 per cent as against 80 at the high
point in March. Prices Of carpets
have recently declined The bad
weather this spring has also reacted
on the petroleum trade, especially on
gasoline, because Of the restriction Of
travel. The lumber trade is less ac-
tive, and the same is true Of the de-
mand for furniture. Building, tho
still on large scale, is not SO active
as recently. -. One indication OF the
dullness in the big industries Of the
country is the fact that bituminous
coal is the smallest for years past.
1t is kind of barometer.
Wage Reductions Increase.
The lack of snap in business the
country over is being seized upon by
the employers for launching wage
cutting campaign. In Fall River an
attempt is being made to slash wages
20 per cent. Carpet mills have tried
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

+ to reduce the workers pay by 20 per
cent. Some railroads have already
reduced wages At the shoe factories
in Haverhlll, Mass, wages were re-
duced 20 per cent on May 21st. At
Birmingham, Alabama, the Republic
Iron q Steel Co has cut wages 10 to
10 per cent. To date, five iron COM
panies have cut wages in this state.
Several independent coal companies,
among whom are to be found the Pratt
Consolidated and the De Hardeben,
the largest in the field, have also cut
wages ss s
Some railroads are reducing their
force Of employees as a preliminary to
cutting wages The executives OF the
principal railroads turnout the country
are now considering plan for insti-
tuting five-day week amongst the
shop crafts. The Reading Railway
has already adopted shorter week.
The Baltimore & Ohio has instituted
the shorter week amongst the twenty
thousand men in It's Montclair shop.
At this moment the textile industry
seems to be the hardest hit. In Fail
River, Mass, twosthirds Of the spindles
are idle. In New Bedford, the same
state, the cotton spindles are running
so per cent. In Lawrence and Lowell
at about the same rate.
In New Hampshire, the Nashua
Manufacturing Co. has been closed for
some time. The Amoskeag, one of
the largest textile corporations in the
world, is running on four-day sched-
ule. All in all, a very small number
Of the 100000 workers in New Eng
land cotton plants are employed full
time ~ a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
Prospects, Uncertain"

Current mill reports conditions of employ
ment in the steel industry in the current issue of
the AnsGIgGmGted Journal organ of what is left
of the steel workers union, show the rapid down
ward trend of industry. From district after dis
trct the reports are prospects worse" and "pros-
poets, uncertain" The steel industry after speed
ing up for few weeks in the spring, is sagging
in a most decided manner Production is reported
at so to so per cent of capacity.
For the workers this has quite a different mean.
ing than for the owners of industry The latter
must adjust themselves to the difference between
$25,O00000 dividends instead of $5O,O0O,DOO. This
may make difference in the number of country
homes they add to their household cares !; it may
make it necessary to put off buying that new yacht
for another month or two; it may reduce the
amount of aimony paid to the ex-wives by few
hundred thousands; it may even reduce the stand
ard of living of the luxurious Fidos who may now
have their paws manicured only once day, in
stead of twice
For the owners of industry, the ruling class, de-
preston means an adjustment in their superflui
ties But the working class is feeling the gradual
slowing down Of production in the pangs Of hunger,
in the lack Of clothes in the worry Of unpaid bills
in the inability to obtain medical attention for
loved ones, in all the misery of poverty uncertain
ty, degradation. prospects, uncertain'--for the
working class. But in the growth of revolutionary
consciousness of the workers it also reads-"pros
poets, uncertain for capitalism"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
For the Glory of Britain"

British workers are beginning to understand that
they have not yet conquered political power. The
lesson is being driven home again, through the
disclosures of the terrible conditions of labor exist
ing at the great Empire Exhibition at Wembey.
Mattresses at the Exhibition restaurants, putting
in atrociously long hours for the ''glory of the
Empire" with total earnings of about 81 per week.
including tips. Eating facilities are shown to
totally inadequate, with exhorbitant prices. Wash
ing and lavatory Accommodations for the workers
we're absent. Union labor was not recognized
Conditions of labor generally were found to be
rotten in the Exhibition, conducted by the Govern
ment supposedly in the hands of Labor.
Labor has been associated with the British Ex-
hibition since its inception, but unless proper
trade union conditions of employment are sub
stituted for the present state of affairs Labor will
have to consider very seriously its withdrawal
from any association with the Exhibition" These
were the words of Fred Bramley, secretary of the
Trades Union Congress, after the investigation
conducted in response to deep discomfort among
the workers.
"The glory of Britain" today, under the Labor
Government is thus seen to rest, as ii has always
rested, upon the pitless exploitation of the work
ers, not only in private industry but also in Gov
eminent undertakings British workers will have
to learn the lesson that the real glory of the British
workers will only come with the establishment Of
real workers government, the Soviet Govern
ment Of Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
God and Coolidge

Every time Coolidge receives defeat, every
time Congress administers the President drub-
bing the country is treated to series of prayers
and food of paeans in behalf of the Cautious
Cal" the silent employing class watchdog of the
White House.
The other day Coolidge was repudiated by his
own party leaders on the bonus question. The
presidential veto was overriden more decisively
than the Chief Executive could ever foresee in his
worst nightmares This was severe loss to the
prestige of the president as party leader and to
his chances of succeeding himself in the coming
campaign The extent of the blow struck at Cool
idge can best be seen by the fewness of the presi
Dental vetoes overriden by Congress in the his
tory of the American government. Up to McKin-
ley's administration only twentyeight vetoes were
discarded by Congress-. OF these, sixteen were
passed by Congress in the administration of Presi-
dent johnson when the legislative and executive
divisions of the government were at war with each
other. OF all the bills passed by Congress the
presidents vetoes the one in which Coolidge was
so soundly trounced was the most important
No sooner had Coolidge met defeat than the big
gest industrial magnates and financial kings join
ed in mighty chorus of praise for the Chief Exc
cutive.' From Gary down Coolidge treasured
that the most powerful of our powerful were be-
hind him to the bitter end. Typical of this out
by Guy Z. Trip, Chairman of the Board of Direc-
TORS of the Westinghouse Electric Company. Said
this capitalist solon: 'Thank God we have Calvin
Coolidge in the White House. When we amend
ed the Constitution and decreed that senators
to be chosen by popular votes we throw away the
safeguards with which our forefathers had sought
to surround us. We are reaping the results of
that ill-advised action"
This is a welcome Qualification of the issue Cool
idge speaks for the upper crust of ruling class
Though he is the supposed representative of the
people" he is interested in guarding the inter
ests of the biggest exploiters only The plea made
or the abolition of the direct election of the senate
and the thanks rendered the almighty invisible god
blast all the talk of the capitalists about the dang
rdemocracy is in because of the discomfort of the
masses. The Junkers of America finance talk the
same language that their prototypes spoke only
Yesterday in monarchst Germay. The German
'eudal Junkers talked of the Kaiser and God and
denounced democracy openly. Our American cap
italist Junkers today speak of Coolidge and God
and dishonesty sneer at the very democracy they
ask the workers and farmers to die for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28
The immigration Solution"

After resorting to the lowest grade of precinct
politics in order to beat Hiram johnson in the Cal
ifornia presidential primaries Coolidge has finally
made up his mind on the japanese exclusion act
and has signed the immigration bill.
The new law which is hefalded as a great solu-
ton of the immigration problem is, briefly speak
ing, characterized, by the following points Immi-
grants who are Asiatics are ineligible to citizen
ship and are therefore excluded as settlers. The
census instead Of the 1910 figures and are to be
reduced from 3 to 2 per cent. After 1925 there
is to be put into effect national origin" clause
which will limit the total annual immigration to
100000. and each nationality proportionate sec
ton thereof determined by the. per cent of the
total population the particular national group has
at that time. All immigrant applicants are now
to be certified by American consuls abroad
We do not share thecraft psychology, the narrow
craft outlook with which the business unionism
of Samuel Gompers is afflicted. We recognize no
need for conflict anithesis of interests between
the workingmen Of one country and those of an
other We feel and know that the emigrant work
ingmen of Italy have an enemy in their own and in
the American capitalstc class, but have friends in
the working class of the United States We are una
lcrdDy OppOSeu 10 endDllng the EXPLORERS OF the
workers and the oppressors Of the poor farmers to
play upon differences Of nationality that are irrel
eyant and immateral the settlement of the basic
points of conflict between the working class and the
employing, in, the points of conflict involving the
masses. f --- rsr .f.a fe.
Finally, we, as Communists are unqualifiedly
opposed to any measure which gives more power
to the employing class and its government to limit
the movements of any members of the working
class regardless of the nationality or residence of
the ones affected We know from our bitter ex-
periences in the every day; struggles of the work
ing class that the capitalist class and its govern
ment have already too much power over the lives
and movements of the working and farming
masses. We also know that the employing class
exploits all workers alike regardless of their ma
tionaity, and merely plays upon supposed national
differences for the sake Of dividing the workers
and thus crushing them more easily
We believe that only the international working
class has the right to determine and guide the
movements of the workers the world over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

Ohio and Special Lecturer at Bexley Hall, the
Theological Seminary of Kenyon College And,
as the Bishop adds, with a twinkle in his eye, he
is now "Episcopos in partibNs BoIsherikium ct
IntideIiurp.y
Bishop Brown makes no bones of his rejection
OF the ancient hocus pocus upon which the church
is based But he is going to force his accusers to
admit before the world that they Also in spite Of
all evidence to the contrary, are not completely
brainless he expects to make them admit some
slight doubts of the strict accuracy of the mirac-
ulous dogmas they pretend to swallow And above
all, he expects to stir the minds of a few more
hundreds of thousands who have not yet ques-
toned these mouldy superstitions The world,
without question has been made liveler place BY
the good Bishop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-28

Bishop William Montgomery Brown. of Gallon,
Ohio, is brot to trial before the dread eccesias-
teal court Of the Protestant Episcopal Church on
charge Of heresy. Bishop Browns crime was writ
ing book, called Communism and Christianism,"
circulated in hundreds of thousands of copies,
which sums up the results of a long life of thot
and activity.
That no one may be in doubt as to the import
ance Ito the church) Of this trial, it may be re-
called that the hereto is Member of the House Of
Bishops, Protestant Episcopal Church, Fifth Bis
hop of Arkansas resigned; sometime Archdeacon Of