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Evening star., 1924-04-01
Letter
from a new settler at Ford City
Ford City, Alabama.
March 27. 1924.

Ford City, Alabama.
March d, 1924
Gentlemen =
arrived here last Saturday and
have been so busy seeing the sights
of Muscle Shoals and Ford City that
this has been my first opportunity to
write you.
Sunday and Monday was spent in.
seeing the Nitrate Plants, the Wilson
Dam, Ford City and Sheffield. ] not
only found everything just as you
represented it, but even better than
you pictured it. The Wilson Dam
must be seen to be appreciated. 1t
is certainly a wonderful piece of
engineering work. Ford City, how
ever, was the greatest surprise. It
is more beautiful than any develop
ment | know of in the east and your
company is certainly doing wonders.
Sidewalks and boulevards are being
laid, power house and water works
are completed the water mains have
been laid and are in operation and by
tomorrow night the power line will
be completed for the south half OF
the city. Eleven homes are under
construction and it may please you
to know that | have the contract
for two OF them. Twas fortunate
enough to meet Mr. Murray, who
came down last week from Washing
ton and who is now living at Ford
City. On Monday he gave me the
contract for four thousand dollar
home Tuesday the materials were
ordered and tomorrow morning the
house it to be started. Pretty quick
work-isn't it? The other home is
an eleven thousand dollar, two-story
bungalow type house for Mrs +.
Wickersham of Washington l re-
ceived the contract on it this morning
from Mr.. Ovitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray are living in
one of the furnished tents and ] am
staying at the home of Mr. Sherman
A number of the tents have been
completed and furnished with every
thing except dishes and cooking
utensils and are just as comfortable
apartment in your city.
There is a shortage here of masons
and plasterers,t SO | am writing some
of my friends in those lines today and
urging them to come at once. They
will probably be in to see you this
week
Thanking you for the patience and
consideration you gave me and for
the great opportunity you placed me
in, am
Sincerely yours,
7. E. EGGLESTON.
Evening star., 1924-04-01
Muscle
Shoals

Here is the most inviting opportunity for
those engaged in industrial pursuits to es-
tablish themselves at FORD CITY-and
participate in the great development there
where a real city is rising in the grandeur
of substantial buildng-to serve as the cen
ter Of activities at Muscle Shoals-where
the government has already spent $13O, O,000,-
O00-and appropriated many millions more
for completion.
Invest in home site at FORD CITY
and reap the harvest, not only of increased
valuation which is certain to follow-but
also share in the demand there for crafts
men of every trade.
FORD CITY has the location and natural
advantages which make it the desirable
center of the Muscle Shoals section. 1t has
picturesque scenery for the home-and
wonderful deep waterway frontage for man.
ufacturing notwithstanding an outlet
by water and rail for the products of this
giant power generator-and which destines
it to be the busiest place in the United
States when Muscle Shoals is in full swing
Lots and subdivisions in FORD
CITY are being sold now at their
original prices-but an advance
is imperative in the near future
In the meantime YOU can buy to
homo o- cite for
Evening star., 1924-04-01

of San Juan, Tex. stated that in octo-
Der, 1913, he went on pleasure trip
from Kansas City, was induced to
buy and later found that he had
piece of land l never saw.
T.. A. Wilmer of Adel, Iowa, wrote
that he had been informed by a Rio
Grande valley agent that he could get
cheap labor and good crops" there,
but had TOT obtained either. Adolph
Dicke of Sylvan Grove. Kan, VINO said
he had paid IS, $50 for Rio Grande val
ley land, told this story in his letter:
I'VE landed in Ebenezer. Tex. and
went to McAllen, and were shown
irrigation pumps, which we later
found out were falsely represented as
belonging to our company. We were
not allowed to mix with the residents
then. Later we had to pay for irri
eating the lands and had to leave
them at a loss. We were told the
drinking water was nearly pure, but
as represented to me. [ have given
it fair trial, and l want to get back
my money.
Big Crop Promised.
Under date of May Z, 1918, George
c. and Jennie \. Brownen told of
leaving Watertown, s. D., for Magic
Valley" in the Rio Grande valley on
an excursion, in which they We're
shown a good time"
Autos met us and whirled us
through the towns. and went from
one show place to another" they
wrote. I'VE were shown an alfalfa
field. which they said could he cut
eleven times Il year. The irrigation
and markets have been a failure. We
were told that frosts were seldom and
light and that there were no snakes,
insects, flies, feas or ants and that
the water was the healthieSt in the
United States. We signed up on the
return trip. Now We must sell our
corn and hogs to the Mexicans"
At the request of Mr.. Page. sub
poenas We're issued by the committee
today for William II. Hallet Of Ne
Yada- Mo, formerly special as
sistant to the. United States district
attorney at Kansas City, and for O.
L. wilkins of Kansas City. Mo, for
mer land operator in the Rio Grande
valley.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
DEBS CONCURS IN The
HILLQUIT SCHEME TO
WRECK SOCIALIST PARTY
BY ROBERT MINOR.

(Staff Writer, DAILY WoRkER.)
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July T. A
telegram from Debs to the National
Socialist convention here virtually
acquiesces in HIIquit's plan, saying
he will willingly accept this con-
ventlon's action advising no Social
list nominations being made and ask
ing that no division be made.
Immediately after reading Of
Debs' telegram, Panken introduced
a substitute motion INTENDED to limit
right Of Socialist National Executive
Committee In agreeing to vIce-presi-
dental nomination. "lf we accept
the majority report he said, I'VE
may find ourselves in the position Of
having to swallow viee-preslden-
tial candidate who Is at the same
time on the democratic ticket"
Closing, he warned, "Remember
that some members OF the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Conference
for Progressive Political Action
have already expressed themselves
In favor Of a vIce-prcsldentlal can
dldatc who now has his name be-
fore the democratic party conven-
tlon for that office"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS
WILL MOBILIZE PARTY
ENTHUSIASM TO ACTION

The first of the series of mem
bership meetings which are to be
held in the most important centers
of the country to famiIiarze Work
ers' Party members with the pro-
gram of work laid out by the Gen.
trial Executive Committee will be
held in Chicago tonight, Tuesday,
July 8, at p. M, in Imperial Hall,
24o9 N. Halsted ST. William z.
Foster Chairman of the Workers
Party, and c. &. Ruthenberq, Exc
cutive Secretary, will be the speak
ers tomorrow and at the other men,
bership meetings of this series.
Friday, July 11-MinneapoIis, Mimi,
Richmond Halls, 225 So. Fifth
St., Hall No. 2, 1880 p. m.
Thursday, July 17-Detroit, Mich,
at 8 P. M, House of the Masses,
21o1 Gratiot Ave.
Friday, Julnas--BuffaIo, NJ. Y.
Saturday, July 1e-Boston, Mass.
Tuesday, July 22-New Haven,
Conn.
Wednesday, July 2s-New York
City.
Thursday, July 24-PhiIadeIphia,
Penna.
Friday, July 25-Pittsburgh, Penna.
Saturday, July 26-cIeveIand, Ohio.
1t is important that every MEM
Der of the party get to one of these
membership meetings so that he
will be prepared to aid in the build
ing up of the party thruout the
country and in increasing the party
influence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
La TOILETTE ORDERS
ANTI-KLkN RESOLUTION
KILLED IN CONVENTION
Especial to The Daily Worker

CLEVELAND. Ohio, July 7.-Sen-
ator La Toilette having in mind the
trouble created by the Ku Klux Khan
resolution at the democratic conven-
ton, had no intention OF allowing the
question to come up at his conven-
ton. So he had It smothered in COM
mittee. Here II is as proposed:
Whereas, the American Federation
Of Labor at the Portland convention
condemned the Ku Klux Khan as a
menace to organized labor and urged
all workers to keep out of II, and
Whereas, the Ku Klux Khan Is arous-
ing race and religious hatreds and
violating the rights OF freedom OF ex-
preston which is fundamental in our
constitution. and this organization al
so violates the principles in regard to
the rights Of immigrants and foreign
born enunciated in the Declaration OF
Independence, which were so unani-
mously approved when read before
this convention, Therefore, be II
Resolved, that this convention OF the
Conference for Progressive Political
Action denounces the Ku Klux Khan
as un-American and a menace to the
liberties OF the American people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
JACOB DOLLA,
Steel STRIKE
VICTIM, FREED
Labor Pressure Forces
PinchOt to Act
BY ISRAEL BLANKENsTEIN.

Especial 10 the DAILY WOhKEH)
PITTSBURGH, Pa, July T.
Jacob DoIIa, frame-up victim of
the Lebanon Steel company
whose spy John AIdridge en-
gineered a dynamite plot" while
a member of the Lebanon lodge
of the AmaIgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Union, has been ordered released
from his II year sentence after
a long campaign begun by the
Labor Herald in January, 1928,
and supported by the whole
Communist press.
Dolla took an active part in
the 1919 steel strike and, know
ing several foreign languages,
he succeeded in lining up the
strikers in a solid body. This
was his real offense, a crime
against the steel trusts profits.
But a Pinkerton detective by the
name Of kldridge, then member OF
the Amalgamated Association Of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, fixed up q job
on Dolla by placing two bombs near a
boarding house where some scabs
roomed. Only one exploded, and that
did no damage, but Dolla was at once
arrested, placed in isolation and tor
tured until trial, then sold out by at
torneys who took his money, but gave
him no defense.
Gets Word to Labor Herald.
It was after he got into prison that
the steel trust tools lost enough direct
control over his actions to enable him
to get word of his terrible treatment
to William q. Foster Of the Labor
Herald and James Maurer of the
State Federation of Labor.
Then, for the first time, Dolla's case
got publicity-in the Labor Herald
The Worker, then a weekly, and other
Workers party publications took up
the fight, and ever since have carried
on hard campaign to get Dolla par
doned. Repeated efforts, in which
Clinton S. Golden of Philadelphia ac-
lively assisted, altho the officials of
the Lebanon lodge of the union de-
serted Dolla, were made TO get him a
pardon. But each time the attorneys
Of the Lebanon Steel company
brought in some fake story, and the
guileless appointees of Governor Pin
chot on the pardon board always swal-
lowed the company's fairy tales.
Conventions Demand Release.
Finally the Labor Herald campaign
reached the point where the further
Continued on Page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
HARVESTER CO.
SHOWN AS Child
OF Up. MORGAN
Interlocked With Every
Big US. Trust
SECOND ARTICLE.

The International Harvester
Company is part of the inner
most clique which dominates
the industries of the United
States, and holds in the hollow
of its hand the lives of millions
of wage workers in America.
The Harvester Trust, controlled
to a great extent by J. P. Nor
gan and company, and formed
in the office of J. P. Morgan by
that gentleman in 1902, is d.
rectIy connected With every
other large trust in America.
The International Harvester
company admittedly aided in
its formation by Gilbert H. Gary,
chairman of the board of direc-
tors of the United States Steel
corporation. T h e Harvester
Trust is linked with the Pullman
Company, with the railroads,
with the General Electric COM
pany, with the Steel Trust, the
Beef Trust, and is controlled by
Morgan and his clique of
bankers.
Under One Master.
Testimony before the committee on
rules, House of Representatives, in
1912, brought out the fact that at be-
came evident to the manufacturers of
agricultural implements and machi-
merry, after the formation of the Unif,
ed States Steel corporation. that the
raw material would be absolutely in
the control of one gigantic corpora
ton, and the independent implement
manufacturers endeavored to form
some kind of an agreement in order
to be in a position to meet the United
States Steel corporation in it's own
field"
Proof was offered that "The ten
Continued on page 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
OPENING OF THE
Fifth CONGRESS
STIRRING Scene
bill" Dunno Elected to
the PrGeSidium
tspeelaI to rhe Daily Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
MOSCOW, June II (By Mail
The Fifth World Congress was
opened here at seven o'clock in
the evening in the BoIshevik
theater under the direction of
the Moscow soviet.
Over the praesidium-tabIe
there is a picture of Lenin,
wreathed with flowers; mes
sages of greeting in all Ian
guages cover the walls. The
room is packed; the crowd is
listening for a raised voice.
For the first time there appear
workers organizations without
party affiliation, peasants from
the provinces to convey spoken
greetings to those who take
active part in the Congress.
Thunderous greetings welcome
the Youth Pioneers; shouts of
praise meet the Lenin pioneers.
The delegations bring the
Congress symbolic gifts as re-
membranes of Lenin.
After Kolarow's speech of welcome
Zinoviev is chosen chairman; the
presidium is made UP of Stain, Blu
charm, Trotsky, Soviet Union: Braun
Gebhardt, Germany; Trint, SELLER
France; Bordiga, Italy; Smeral, Muna
from Czecho-Slovakia; Katayama, ia
pan; Roy, India; Dunno, America;
Clara Zetkin.
After stormy greetings Zinoviev de-
clares that the Comintern should be
proud to revive the memory of the
work of Marx and Lenin. The fifth
congress will bring the knowledge
that Lenin's spirit lives on in his work
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08

has been eating the nearC out OF
the donkey for many years.
This convention opened under the
brightest auspices-thanks to the mis-
doings of the present republican adj
ministration-tha marked the con-
vening of any democratic convention
in the history Of American poll
tics. Today finds it wreck Of it's
former self, not united against the re-
publican enemy but divided into war
ring factions, which only united into
two main factions, with mutual hatred
supplying the cement.
Poor Old Donkey.
If Wall Street had the intention Of
getting rid of the democratic party
by splitting it up and providing a
place of refuge for its most reaction
airy wing in the republican party, the
class conscious party of Big Bust
ness, it appears now that it has &C
complished its purpose. The McAdoo
and Anti-McAdoo factions are ire
concilable. Even in the event Of a
compromise before the election is
over, it will be only a compromise on
the surface. The fires of hate burn
too fiercely underneath to permit any
cooperation at the poAs.
An event of historical significance
is taking place in this old garden
famous the world over for its spec
tacles. This is a spectacle for the
political gods. The wise heads of
the democratic party-those whose
individual interests would be hurt by
allowing the jackass to die-are in
terror over the prospect. Hurried
conferences are called. Papers that
formerly boosted AL Smith now urge
him to withdraw. AL withdraws, but
he only fights more effectively. No,
he doesn't withdraw. There is a
long "if" attached to the conditions.
He will quit if McAdoo quits. Nc
Adoo will not quit. He only grasps
his bible more firmly and delivers an
other speech about righteousness.
His followers have another religious
orgasm. The battle lines are drawn
tighter.
Dark horses drop out but owing to
McAdoo's intransigeant stand and
Smiths plausible compromise they
come whinneying to AIS hitching
post. The crowds in the galleries
cheer every accession to Smiths
strength. The southern delegates
curse the galleries in a pious sort of
way. But it's the kind of piety
CONTINUED on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
Claim Fink's Presence
Nullifies a Perfectly
Good Oil Indictment

WASHINGTON, July 7.-E. L. Do
heny and E. L. Doheny, Jr., today filed
motions in the district supreme Court
to quash the indictments recently re-
turned against them by the special
oil grand Jury charging conspiracy
and bribery.
They contend the indictments were
invalid because of the presence of a
department of justice official in the
grand jury room during the taking Of
testimony
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
Army AGAINST Strikers.

HAVANA, Cuba. July THE gov
eminent of Cuba announces that II has
appointed two military inspectors to
provide guarantees TO the United Rail.
roads Of Havana so they can start reg
ular passenger service in spite OF the
strike. The workers answered with a
threat Of a general strike that would
tie up the whole island. Martial law
may be declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
LONG DRAWN OUT DEADLOCK IN
new YORK INTERPRETED AS
DONKEY'S DYING WRIGGLES
special to The Daily workerl

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, July THE In
dgesb political fodder that has laid like brick in the stomach
of the democratic donkey for decades today threatens to relieve
animal of all further discomfort by the simple expedent OF
killing the brute
The holy of the Catholic leader, Smith, will not mix
crude oil of champion McAdoo the sacred
fires of Romans burn brightly in the presence of the
Fiery Cross of the Ku Klux Klan
taking place in today is looked upon
by trained political observers the dying wgge of the demo-
cratic party.
For generations this Heterogeneous organization held together
the basis of Office The rise of the Ku Ku Khan and the
corresponding increase the political strength of the old and
worldly Catholic church brought head struggle that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
you SAID 1T, BOB, JR.l

Robert NJ. LaFoIlette, Jr., his "a
theirs organization assistant, was
asked TO define the new political
movement from the eyes Of It's en-
emles Of the left.
"lt is a melange Of middle class
intelllaentsia, petit bouroeolsle and
trade union bureaucracy struggling
to find a formula for class coIlabo-
ration" he said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
LABOR FAKER
FOUND TO Be
VICIOUS spy
Pittsburgh Discovers
BeGttie's BGckers

PITTSBURGH, Pa, July T.
Robert William Beattie, vice.
president of the Firemen's and
oilers union, editor of that
unions Journal, secretary of the
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union,
and president of the Pittsburgh
Labor Bank, member of the 1919
Steel Strike Committee and of
the executive committee for or
ganizing steel workers, and
campaign manager for John L.
Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, in his
race against Sam Gompers at
the Denver convention of the
A. F. of l., has been exposed as
a labor spy.
For more than twelve years
Beattie has been employed by
the Railway Audit and Inspec-
ton Company and by the Cen
trail Industrial Service, two
manufacturers and employers
detective agencies. For the same
period Beattie has been rep
resentative" of organized labor, rising
to higher positions each year, and
always being one Of the bitterest op-
ponents of all progressive measures
in the labor movement. He has been
one of the toughest reactionaries, ma
turally enough, that the Pittsburgh
unions have had to fight during his
long service"
Cronin Discovery Helped.
The expose of Beattie's spying ca
reer inside the union movement came
about after the discovery of the spy,
James G. Cronin, had increased the
diligence of investigators in the Pitts
burgh district, who were attempting
to clean out the bosses spies in the
labor movement.
When certain employment agency
in this city was found to be operating
bootleg booze joint in connection
with its agency, it was found by in
vestigators that Beattie reported to
the organization of which this agency
was subsidiary. A report of Beat
ties work was sent sto Dr. Royal
Meeker, commissioner of labor and in
dustry for Pennsylvania, to E. C. Davi-
son, general ecretary-treasurer of the
international Association of Machin-
lists, and to others, who assisted fur
Their investigations.
Eight Years In Navy.
Briefly, this report and subsequent
Investigations of Beatties activities
showed that Robert William Beattie,
formerly of Milford, Mass, entered
the service of the Railway Audit and
Inspection company as an operative
on January q, 1912, after eight years
service in the United States Navy as
water tender. Beattie was sent to
Pittsburgh as a fireman and Joined the
union there while working for the
Duquesne Light Co. He reported so
well that after four years he was pro-
NOTED to cover" the whole Pitts
burgh district
Delegate to Portland.
When it was discovered that the
Central Industrial Service Bureau,
run by w. w. Groves, formerly of the
Railway Audit and Inspection com
pany, was selling the report of the
Metal Trades convention of the A. F.
of l.. held at Portland. Oregon, Octo-
Der, 1928, to Pittsburgh manufacture
ers before the unions involved had
had chance to act on the decisions
of the convention, investigators found
that Beattie was an employee Of this
private police" service and had been
since 1920. Beattie was delegate
to the Metal Trades convention.
A check was made on the evidence
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
ENLARGED COMMITTEE OF COMMUNIST
INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSES PROGRAM
FOR CONSIDERATION AT 5th CONGRESS

This article of complete
Pedum Of the opening
MOSCOW June 15 (By Mail-Today's session of the
arged Communist International discussed
program presented the Fifth Congress for consideration
Comrade Bukhan the reporter His and the discus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
Harvester Trust Exposed By
Engineer in Daily Worker

TIE DAILY WORKER prints
Of articles exposing
DAILY WORKER will print daily
interests which dominate the Harvester
farmers the time
methods the Of thousands Of Industrial slaves.
Philip Smith, agricultural
ege and member OF the American association
day going thru the Harvester He talked
assistant
Mr. Smith became Interested the
and he has contributed
antiunlon slavedvng speedup union
We will show how the Harvester aiding
by ignoring
the time shutting their
The international Harvester
their Mines
the workers everywhere the lot Of shop
THESE ARTICLES.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08

az The real proletarian revolu-
ton, viewed in all its stages, the mo-
tive power of which is the proletariat,
and which is thus the classic pro-
letarian revolution; then:
b. The combination of this pro-
letarian revolution with peasant ris-
ings as Marx has expressed it. Marx
Continued on page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08
DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CRACKING
Worlds Communist Forces Meet
PARTY INDEPENDENCE is ISSUE AS
SOCIALIST MINORITY DISSENTS
FROM SUPPORT OF LA TOILETTE
BY ROBERT MINOR.

CLEVELAND July 7.-Wiiam H. Henry of indianapolis
intimate friend of Debs with W. r. Illinois today led
terrific attack the plan submitted
ratification to the socialist pays national convention
Snow and Henry deserted by Onea went over
to Hquit in the committee relations with the Conference
Progressive Political Action against
thirteen Their minority report denounce the aoete
on declaring had failed to launch Independent party
labor independent third party rather
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08

sion in brief is as follows:
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE TRANSITION PERIOD.
Reporter: Comrade Bukharin.
/. Fundamental Processes and
Secondary Processes.
Under this heading intend to con-
vey the following: the whole process
of building up new order:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-08

WorkersI FarmersI Demand:
The Labor Party
AmaIaamation
Organization Of UnoraanIzed
The Land for the Users
The Industries for the Workers
Protection of the Foreign-Bcrn
Recognition of Soviet Russia