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STATE SENATOR SINCLAIR
 GIVEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS

CHEHALIS, Wn., Jan. 30.-State Senator Sinclair was today sentenced to IS months in the penitentiary for altering the records in his Ilwaco bank now defunct.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. .29.-Albert B. Fall is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the Senate Committee was told today by his counsel.
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Pass Walsh Resolution

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The House passed the Walsh resolution as it passed the Senate.
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SENATOR REED CANDIDATE
 ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27.-Senator Reed announced today his candidacy for president on the democratic ticket.
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FOR SALE-At a sacrifice, six rooms and bath; see Doughertv. If
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
Forward-- But Backward

An historical event of paramount Importance
has just transpired in the Senate. When the
half dozen insurgent republican senators under
the leadership of LaFollette went over to the
Democrats and voted for their candidate Smith,
Of South Carolina, as chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Committee, another page in the
breaking up of present party lines was written.
The action of LaFoette will tend to precipi-
tate the growing tendency towards an organiza-
tional rift in the republican party.
Tho from the point of view of disrupting the
reactionary republican machine this vote is a
step forward, yet from the angle of the funda-
mental political, class conflicts the acceptance
Of the democrat, Smith, by the progressive"
LaFollette is two steps backward.
The insurgents threw away two splendid
opportunities in voting for Smith and not act
ing turnout the proceedings as distinct indie
pendent group, separate and apart from the
democrats and republicans First of ALL in vot-
ing for Smith the progressves actually assum-
ed responsibility for him before the very mass
of voters In whose eyes they did not want to
appear as responsible for Cummins, the reac-
tionary republican. Senator Smith is regular"
democrat of the rankest sort. LaFollette very
well knows that the film between the democrats
and republicans has long ago disappeared and
that the two will undoubtedly get together
against the insurgents in a pinch. The pre-
servation of the Esch-Cummins Act guarantee
ing bonus of hundreds of millions of dollars
to the railway corporations is matter of first
rate import to the capitalists and they will not
permit any tampering with it. On the eve of
a national election, the democrats will not be
fools to endanger campaign funds by antago-
nizing the railway interests or to throw away
one of their best campaign issues by taking off
the statute books law publicly proclaimed by
them as Objectionable at a time when their
political opponents, the republicans, are in
control of the government. Thus the election of
Smith, as chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Committee, does not enhance the chances of
repeating the Esch-C ummins Act and does not
save the progressives from responsibility for
its continuance.
Secondly, by voting for Smith, the LaFollette
forces threw away the chance that comes once
in a political lifetime to minority insurgent
group to establish itself as an independent
vigorous force for action. Had the .LaFolIette
forces continued to vote Independently they
would have forced the democrats and republic
ans to unite on Cummins, or some other reac-
tionary and thus would have exposed the two
parties before the masses as really one gang
serving the interests of the powerful bankers
and manufacturers Such independent action
would have gone a long way towards making
the progressives a real force in American polit-
ical life. Thus, by voting against the reaction
Il -
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years on the land allowed him; sooner
or later he either gives up the strug-
gle or is forced to negotiate a
mortgage on which he pays interest
for the rest Of his life. If he is a
settler brought to the land of promise
by the rosy prospectus of the railway
land agent, he purchases his land at
an exorbltant figure and pays the
ruinous freight rates that prevail in
all newly settled districts. One crop
failure gives him a handicap that he
rarely overcomes. Living in isola-
ton, without any of the conveniences
Of the city-dweller, living a life in
which the simplest pleasure is rarity,
he is forced to exploit his own wife
and family to manage a bare exist
ence.
have driven; during the dry sea-
son, 260 miles in one day without see
ing blade of grass or drop of wa
ter fit to drink In this great desert
1t was nothing else-were the
shacks of the ranchers, bare, frame
buildings, racked by the wind into
strange shapes. The farmers and their
families seemed to have had every
drop of moisture in their bodies
evaporated by the dry and heated at
mosphere. In the winter snow and
cold make life a constant and still
more bitter struggle.
These people have been victimised
by the merchants, millers, railroads
and bankers until the world appears
to them to be composed solely of
grasping hands and hard eyes. Dur
ing the Non-Partisan League activity
in the war days, in many districts the
active leaders of the farmers were
hunted and bounded like wild animals
by the small-town chambers of COM
merce, commercial clubs, rotary clubs
and other middle-class organizations.
The .viciousness of the campaign
showed concluusively that this ele-
ment had interpretated the farmers
movement correctly-as a revolt OF
the hitherto docile and exploited rural
toilers.
When the bottom dropped out OF
the wheat market two years ago
thousands Of farmers gave up the at
tempt to wrest a living from The
land; thousands left their crops stand
ing in the fields, htched up a team
loaded few household goods and lef
the country, leaving the rest Of theil
, belongings to whoever cared to TAXI
them.
= Others decided to stay and figh
foreclosure by the banks and anon,
: this group has developed sense o
! solidarity that is an entirely ney
! feature in agricultural life; tn
American farmer has been the back
bone Of American individualism an
the abandonment Of this as a guild
Of conduct Is Of deep significance.
In more than one county in Nor
tana there is now quiet but wei
organized and effective campaign o
I sabotage against the holders Of farI
Y and chastel mortgages. Quite ofte
r when farmer knows that the ager
of the bank is about to foreclose o
> his livestock he drives the horses an
cattle into the hills where It may TAX
weeks for the mortcagor 10 roun
, them up and at cost that cats up a
! profit In the Transaction.
Another proceeding that / hear
described at a great gathering q
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farmers near Plentywood, Montana
and described with a great deal of
approving laughter-was to refuse to
bid on neighbors' goods at a forced
sale. To those who know the love of
the farmer a shrewd bargain this
means that the world is coming to an
end.
| heard of a crowd of farmers who
deliberately refused to bid more than
IS head at a mortgage sale of heavy
work horses ard latter cut their bids
down to $3.50 per head when they
found that their bids would purchase
the stock. From most of these forced
sales the banker does not get enough
to pay the sheriff's fees.
When it is machinery that is to be
sold, kindly neighbors take the good
machinery to their own homes and
bring for the purpose of the sale
old and outworn machinery that could
not be sold even for junk. Upon this
the bank is allowed to foreclose. In
many districts, with the sympathy of
sheriffs elected by the farmers, the
banks have never been able TO sc~--o
papers at all and the farmer is still
in possession of his land
The result of this widening of the
breach between the exp4o4tea farmer
and the parasitic professional and
business elements of the small towns
has created a situation without par
allel in American history. 1t is in these
hard-hit rural districts that is being
laid the ground work of nationwide
political upheaval of the formerly
mild and inoffensive tiller of the soil.
He is no longer the butt of cheap
vaudevillians-at least not to the
country banker and merchant in
whom he personifies the Wall Street
octopus To those who have lived
on him for years he seems to be a
new individual-one whose new
militancy puzzles them and Of whom
they are more than a little afraid.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
To the Many Greetings!

Many greetings have come to The Daily
Worker They have come frosa all parts of the
United States, from ali parts Of the world. They
have come from the isolated comrades, IN the
lone places, carrying on the struggle against
capitalism. They have come frSrA the COmmun-
list Parties in many lands. They have come from
the Communist international itself. All greet
ings of encouragement. All expressing great
hope for the future Of the English-language
Communist press.
To all of these The Daily Worker sends back
its Communist greetings. The Daily Worker
and its staff sends greetings TO all Communists
everywhere. 1t win strive to the utmost of its
strength to carry out its true Communist mis-
sion by struggling for the whole working class.
In this historic struggle it will march on to
victory with the whole worldwide Communist
press, with the Communist movement every
where.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

saUSA mo vxDaSIyS
however the left wing of the labor movement
will seek no aid from the capitalist press.
The Communists know that the same gum
men--and their employers whom the capital
list press berates when it sees an opportunity
of discredting the labor movement, are used
without conjunction when the bosses and the
corrupt offlcialdom of the unions unite in a holy
war against the Communists and the left-Wlng
of the labor movement-of which they are the
most active section.
The only reason that the capitalist press, at
the instance of its owners who live by the
violent suppression of the workers, attacks the
gangaters of the labor movement, is the purely
opportunist tactics used by employers organl-
zations. Rotten as the administrations OF many
Chicago unions are, there is still some measure
of resistance to the enroachments Of the en-
ployers To break this resistance by casting
suspicion upon all forms Of union activity is
the motive behind the denunciations of violence
in the labor movement on the part of the capt.
talist press.
Outside Of this diversity Of interests there IS
close cooperation between the capitalists, the
capitalist press and the devotees of thuggery
IN the labor movement.
No more Illuminating instance of this often
sive and defensive alliance Of labor crooks and
grafters and the employers and politicians has
been seen lately than the gathering at the
funeral Of Thomas Kearney former president
of the Building Trades Council This crowd OF
parasites to which the capitalist press gave
much space is proof aplenty that to rid the
labor movement Of crooks and gangsters is the
last thing in the world the employers want tC
do.
The labor movement will purge itself OF this
blight When it does it will be the Communists
and the left-wing bloc who will be responsible
for the needed change. They will, however, d.
the JOB in their own time and in their own way
without any assistance from the capitalist press
the capitalist police or any other agency OF tn
capitalist system.
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album of picture post cards. Build
ings, parks, statues, and empty
streets make up most of the picture.
Photography is universally good, the
camera man shows himself genius
in picking artistic settings and sur
rounding them with the proper atmo-
spheric frame. But the titles! To
be effective they must be read as they
were written-with a strong German
accent.
Not a trace of social understanding
is displayed in the entire picture. The
only glimmer Of life is found in the
unique Wendish setting of the Spree
wald and in the "Meistertrunk" cele-
bration at Rothenburg on the Tauber
both distinctly medieval survivals.
The only industrial touch is a short
picture showing the making of Dres-
den china.
A part of the audience had a
chance to show its political leanings
by applauding every reference in the
titles to the former rulers, and its
opportunities were very numerous.
The statues of Frederick the Great
and of Bismarck got the biggest
hand, while the Hohenzollern stables
got a better reception than the
Reichstag.
The picture should be named Ger
many Yesterday" and the musical
motif should be changed to Isle
kommt NIGHT mehr, NIGHT mehr".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
Macdonald Is Safe

American capitalists are worrying over the
rise to power of the British Labor Party. Many
of them fear-actually fear-that on the very
day J. Ramsay Macdonald becomes premier of
Great Britain and The Irish Free State he will
order all capitalists deported to st. Helena.
The wise heads among the American pluto
cracy do not fear any immediate revolution in
Britain. They know the present leaders of
British labor. They know that labor gov
eminent existed in Sweden, Germany, parts of
Australia and New Zealand and nothing very
detrimental to the capitalists occurred Some
how or other under the rule of such labor lead
ers the capitalists manage to get by. With
Communists it is different.
But even the wise heads are not entirely
satisfied with developments in England 1t is
true they do not fear Ramsay as leader but
they are not so sure Of some of his followers.
The rebels from the Clyde who are rather close
Ito the Communists for instance They sup
port Macdonald just now but they meet by
themselves and plan a course of action within
the Labor Party parliamentary group which
may not be to the liking of Macdonald or the
British capitalists.
Lord Beaverbrook, a prominent figure in
British politics and the owner of number of
influential newspapers thinks there is no reason
for getting excited. Macdonald is a gentle
man, declared the Lord, and then went on to
tell the following squib by Carlyle which may
explain to the Lords anointed why Ramsay is
in such ungodly company
A man was astonished to see some one he
knew following a rotous mob, and when the
latter was asked how on earth he came to bt
running after such people, he replied, What
else can do? I'm their leader"
The capitalists need not worry about ]. Ram
say Macdonald and his lieutenants But som
day NIacDonald's present followers will Civ
them cause to worry, when they have leader
that lead and do not merely keep at the hea
of the procession.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
The Gangsters and the Press

Elections are either being held or are just
over in Chicago unions and the seasonal activi-
ty of the gunrien and sluggers is at its height.
There is a fine show il Indignation in the
local capitalist press and the usual moral rela-
tive to the criminal character of the trade union
movement is being drawn.
No group of the American worldngclass is
more opposed to the activities of the criminal
element that has fastened itself on the labor
movement than the Workers Party of America
we consider that the degenerates who serve the
most reactionary and corrupt section of the
trade union movement as gunner and sluggers
constitute cancerous exerescence of which the
-, hot foai
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14


short shrift of the Kluxers. V
Leland Olds, Federated Press In
dustrial Editor, predicts an 1870
reduction in the amount spent for
building activity during the year
1924. This is spite Of the fact that
there is a shortage of homes and
surplus of workers. Capitalists are
never so happy as when they have a
plentiful supply of workers competing
for jobs on the labor market.
=
Magnus johnson may not be able
to outmilk his political opponents but
he certainly can outroar them.
Though Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace beat him in a milking con-
test, Magnus came off first in hiss
ing contest with battalion Of bank
ers in Pennsylvania.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

AIRY repuDncaIl, OunIuIns, Insurgents UOoK
enc step forward. But by voting for the reac-
tionary democrat, Smith, they took two steps
backward.
This weak conduct and wavering policy are
characteristic of the vascillating, unclear, pro-
granless center group in all class struggles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

That capital is fleeing from France in dread
of the falling currency was the warning hurled
at the French government by Socialist in the
chamber of deputies. Another deputy declared
that the occupation Of the Ruhr is costing
France S98,O0000O annually. M. Herrott
urged resumption of relations with Russia as
a necessary step toward restoring Europe to
what the late president Of the U. S. would call
normally"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
'Man from Brodneys"-Chiefly
Bromide.

Bromide story, bromide direction,
and bromide star. Add a touch of
pro-imperialist poison and you have
Vitagraph's new thriller, "The Man
from Brodneys". J. Warren Kerrigan
is the impossibly handsome dress
suited matinee idol of hero who
ought to be passed by this time. Did
the book call for him? Well, the
book has been gathering dust for a
long, long time.
A young American diplomat 1.-THE
handsome Kerrigan) loses his job for
waAoping a Crown Prince with a
cane. So he is sent to an Indian
island to keep the natives from hand
ing out force and violence" to a
couple Of rapscallion heirs who covet
the ruby and sapphire loaded isle
The will provides they must live on
the island six months and get mar
ried within that time. But the man
is already married. Still one wife
more or less Is small consideration
as against all the wealth of Japat--
so there is native uprising. OF
course the natives are wrong. They
always are, in the movies. The ma
tives are subdued by the brave mar
from Brodney's and an American
torpedo boat. The loyal regular wife
stops a bullet, her husband decides
an extra wife is too high price tc
pay even for Japat, so the natives
under safe and sane leadership, Offer
to divide up the rubies and every
body is happy. They even furnish 8
princess who renounces her thron,
for the brave Mr.. Chase.
Some lively action in the moi
scenes Otherwise bunk and blah
And impsrislist propaganda.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
How the Farmers Fight
By. w. F. DUNE.

The meek and lowly
In North South struggle
In process between town and country that resembles
he peasant revos OF the later euda
OF the kings and barons today the portion
a machinery agents the chae bankers
AT best the lot Of the farmer in the West preous on home
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
MENTIONING THE MOVIES
By PROTECTOR.

Germany Today" Misnamed.
Two hours of beautiful but lifeless
SCENES are strung together under the
title Germany Today, by w. J.
Adams at one-night stand at
Orchestra Hail. The film gives the
impression ii sliohtlv animated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

In the race between the soldiers bonus and
tax reduction bills the latter is likely to be first
Of the winning post The soldiers have done the
fighting anyhow. They have shown a good
deal Of patience and can be depended on TO re-
frain from getting rough until the next war
breaks.
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The display of capitalist brute force in
China in the Philippines, or in South America
is only another form of the display Of military
brutality in strikebreakng in the coal fields Of
Pennsylvania, the railway strike in Missouri,
and the textile strike in Rhode Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

Charles Evans Hughes denounces
the Soviet Government for alleged i'm
reference in American affairs. But
Henry Morgenthau, New York bank
er, requested M. Venizelos, president
of the Greek assembly to hold a
plebiscite on the form of government
Greece wants in March instead of
April. AlthoN he favored later date
Venizelos agreed. He that pays the
piper should call the tune. The
American bankers will not loan any
money to save the Greek refugees
who are dying like flies until stable
government is established there.
profits first is the slogan of capt.
talism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

The official slogan for the Coolidge campaign
will be Keep Coolidge Many good thing
happens by accident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14
AS WE SEE IT
By +. J. O'FLAHERTY

Ireland is growing greener. Not
even the Free State can stop the
grass from growing there. Accord
ing to capitalist report, the climate
is so moist that the corn will not ma
ture, and because of the small
amount of wheat grown, 80 per cent
Of the bread used is made of foreign
grain. Ninety-three per cent of the
Irish agricultural exports are meat
and dairy products for the English
market. The bullock is taking the
place of the agricultural worker in
Stree" Ireland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

The anti-Ku Klux Khan societies of
Louisiana have amalgamated and are
preparing for war on the Kluxers.
Among the organizations that have
Joined together are the Wildcats,
Chevaliers, Communications and
American Caucasian League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

A young Boston lad who at the
age of eleven astonished the hard
boiled professors at Harvard Univer-
sity with lecture on the fourth
dimension is now trying to live on
$4,000 a week punching an adding
machine in New York City. If the
boy had IN his early boyhood dis
covered a new hootch recipe or bet
ter method of fleeing the workers the
capitalist class would no doubt have
something better for him than punch
ing an automatic machine. Brains do
not always bring high material re-
ward, neither does a willingness to
serve society. Our readers may re-
member reading in the bible that
Jesus at the age of twelve COMPOUNDED
the doctors of his day and yet they
hanged him on cross for his pains.
The Ku Klux Khan was launched
in Australia by the Orange Lodges.
No Catholics or Jews will be admit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-14

The strike breaking president of
the United States has good friend
in Robert Haberman, yellow Socialist
of Mexico, now in Washington. II
shall tell the masses of Mexico that
President Coolidge is the friend of
the worker and of the peasant" is
"Comrade" Haberman's way of signi-
flying his united front with Coolidge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-25
ALEXANDER
HAS GRE AT
MOUND MARK

+ ET'S glance at the record OF
IL Grover Alexander, OF the Cubs.
Alexander came up TO the big tent
in 1911. He's been in 10 major
league campaigns. quite a stretch.
as pitchers 10. Last year Alex won
% games. But tho performance was
nothing new 10 the veteran. Win.
ming more than 20 bouts a season
has been his speciality.
Alexander. in his 10 big league
campaigns. has passed the 20.mark
in games won eight times. Another
time he came In with 10 triumphs
In one OF these years-lsis--he en-.
tered the service. working in but
three tilts. In the other three sea.
sons he won IS battles twice and 10
once.
Let's so further For three con
secuiive seasons iai5-f6.i7- Alex.
ander won moro than 30 games each
campaign. lie had 81 wins IN 1915,
81 in 1916 and 40 In 1917. Al told.
he grabbed % tilta IN n three.year
sweep. Where arc huriers nown-
ways dIshing up n menu Of that
particular brand? They aren't.
And furthcr--Ale1andcr. IN all the
years he's been playing in big time.
has never finished campaign be.
low the 500 mark. Few pitchers
can point to such n record along n
trail as lengthy ms that Of Alexan-
der.