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Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-25

Dear 1ir:
have been afflicted with constisC
patton for the past Is years, and
during that time 1 have been in
four different hospitals and sub
mitted to five different operations
that were the result OF constipa-
tion. was getting SO bnd that
every meal I ate sourcd on my
stomach. Two months ago was
advised to eat your Kellogg's
Krumbled Bran. / tried it. as I
was trying everything could hear
of. From that day on have never
taken a physic. My stomach does
not sour any more and my bowels
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-25

Mr.. 1aancing Is case is typical Of
thousands Of others. He found per-
mai.ent relief from constipation in
Kellogg's Bran because it is ALL
bran. Nothing but ALL bran can be
100 percent effective. Read what he
says:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

is the national home Of the Associa-
ton of Stock Exchange Firms.
An analysis of the Mellon scheme
shows exactly why the Big Bust
ness interests lost no time in taking
up the cudgels for it.
The chief feature of the Mellon
tax scheme is a reduction of the
present surtax from 30 per cent
to rs per cent. This means a reduc-
ton of about 100000, 900 to the big
capitalists. The normal tax is to
be fixed at 8 per cent. instead of 4
per cent. on the first $4,000 net in
come. The present 8 per cent. tax
on the next group ranging up to
$4,000 would be reduced by Mel
lon to 6 per cent. Surtaxes are to
begin at $4,000 instead Of at $4,000
as at present. Taking the subject
out of the realm of percentages and
into the realm of dollars and cents,
one finds that the Mellon plan would
mean that person with a $5,000,-
600 income would save annually
about a million and a half dollars:
those receiving an annual income of
one million dollars would save over
quarter of million every year;
those having an annual income of
quarter Of a million dollars would
save about $4,000; people passing
taxes on an income of 100000
would save annually more than ten
thousand dollars; those whose in
come is $4,000 a year would save
almost $4,000; those having an in
come of $4,000 would save more
than thousand dollars a year; those
having no dependents and an income
of $4,000 year will save sos; the
people in the $4,000 group without
dependents. will save SIS; and the
people having no dependents and
who are in the $4,000 group will
save only SIS a year.
Thus four hundred heads of fam
lies each having an income of So, 500
total one million dollars-save
nothing under the Mellon scheme,
while one millionaire saves more
than quarter of million dollars.
Two hundred and forty-six taxpay-
ers with incomes ranging from $780,
900 up whose annual tax bill
amounts to about ninety million dol
lars save about $45 million dollars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

a year on the Mellon basis. This
is an average saving of about $780,
600 annually for the biggest finan-
ciers and bosses.
Democratic and Insurgent Measures
No sooner had the Mellon plan
been whispered to the press than the
Democratic solons put their roliti-
cal heads together to offer some
thing different The Democratic
spokesman, Representative John N.
Garner of Texas, then came forward
with the following proposal: All
single persons having incomes of
$4,000 or less and all married per-
sons or heads of families having in
comes of $4,000 or less are exempt.
All taxes on incomes up to $4,000
are cut in half. The surtax begins
at $4,000. While the Mellon plan
would reduce the surtax on incomes
above $4,000 to the maximum of
25 per cent. the Democrats would
reduce these rates to A per cent.
as their maximum.
The plan proposed By Representa-
tive Frear Of Wisconsin is the tax
alton program of the insurgents.
This plan would cut the present tax
of 4 per cent. on incomes of $4,000
to 2 per cent, and reduce from 8
per cent. on incomes over $4,000 to
A per cent. The present surtax of
so per cent. is. to be continued. Frear
also proposes to restore the excess
profits tax, to tax state and munic
ipal securities, increase the inher-
itance taxes, and tax undistributed
profits and gifts.
Class Line Seen
The above summary of the pro-
posed tax reduction plans show
how the tax question reflects the
dominant class divisions of Con-
gress. MELONS scheme plays right
into the hands of the biggest capt.
talists and disregards to large ex-
tent the mass of small income tax
payers. The Democratic plan caters
to the less big capitalists, makes
harmless scratch or two on the
$4,000 wealthiest men, and makes
an empty gesture to the mass of
taxpayers-the gesture becoming
emptier the lower down the line
of income one travels. The Rep
ublican Mellon plan stresses the i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

narrow class interests of the prole-
tariat, but party of proIetarian
revolution, of socialist upheaval, of
the hegemony of the proletariat,
such person must, after having es-
tablished workers party, direct its
attention also to the conquest Of
the peasantry.
"In this respect the American Com
munists first felt out the new path.
The American Communists have
helped to found the Federated Far
mer-Labor Party preserving to be
sure their communist, proletarian
party as an independent. organiza-
tion). Not everywhere and not al
ways will precisely this form prove
the most suitable. But in any case
the experiment initiated in this re-
spect in America deserves serious
study by an assiduous attention from
the whole international communist
movement.
"The failure to appreciate proper
ly the role of the peasantry is the
fundamental original sin of interna-
tional Menshevism. The essence Of
Bolshevism consists just in this, that
it has clothed in flesh and blood the
idea of the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat, that it has begun to trans
form into actually the hegemonv of
the proletariat in the revolution; and
precisely for that reason it seeks an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

ally in the person of the INDECENT
peasantry lin America, small far
mers which with correct tactics on
our part will aid the proletariat to
fulfill its historical mission"
Zinoviev says that the Workers
Party Of America was the first which
felt out the new path leading to the
alliance with the farmers. Zinoviev
says that the rejection of the ALI
ance of communists with farmers
is the original sin of international
Menshevism. The alliance with the
farmers is not opportunism, but on
the contrary is the real revolutionary
Leninism. The position against al
lance with the farmer means that
we conceive our role to be as a steady
opposition within the capitalist order,
and it means that we do not consider
seriously our role in overthrowing
the capitalist order. The rejection
of the alliance with the farmer
means (unconsciously and unwil-
lingly) the maintenance of the dog
matte revolutionary phrase, but the
practical abandonment Of revolu-
tionary realism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19
BY JAY LOVESTONE

portance Of the interests of the upper
most strata of the capitalist class:
the Democratic scheme favors the
next layer of the employing class:
and the Frear plan defends the in
terests of the lowest section of
the city and rural owning class.
Conclusion
The problem of taxation is of
utmost importance to the working
and farming masses Of the country.
In 1922 the farmers paid S1,749.-
100000 In taxes. This sum was
more than 80 per cent Of what they
received for their eleven crops
corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck
wheat, flaxseed, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, hay and cotton. The far
mers actually gave away almost 25
per cent. of the value of the total
yield of their farm crop. In short,
last year the farmers were compelled
to. give away the monetary equi-
valent of their entire wheat, oats,
and tobacco crops, and of one-half
OF their potato crops in order to
meet the tax and interest demands.
Obviously the workers and poor
farmers have a tremendous interest
IN the character and plan of taxa
ton that is in vogue. 1t should be
our policy to force the growing bur
den of taxation on the owning class.
Instead of so per cent. surtax we
should strive to have q hundred per
cent. surtax. An excess profits tax
of 100 per cent. is also desirable.
Likewise 100 per cent. inheritance
tax should be favored by us. The
taxation program of The Coinmu-
nists today should be the minimum
possible to be paid by the workers
and the maximum possible to be
paid by the capitalist. The work.
ingmen and exploited farmers should
be exempt from all taxation. The
capitalists and wealthy land mag
mates should be compelled to bear
the entire burden of taxation.
The taxation tangle is most close
~ interviewer with the whole prob
lem of the growing government bu-
reaucracy that is weighing capital
ism down. Practically cne-seventh
of the country's national income is
devoured by the maintenance Of gov
eminent. In the last hundred years
America has seen its civilian gov
eminent payroll increase about 5000
per cent. Every family in the coun-
try pays $400 a year to help run
this gigantic machine.
The growing class conflicts of
compel the ruling class
to increase and strengthen
the government bureaucracy, the
of which it keeps the
working masses in subsection. But
this vital political necessity is a
staggering economic burden. 1t
should be the task of the Commu-
nists to throw as much as possible
of this burdensome load of the cost
of maintaining the capitalists Off
cial strikebreaking machinery on the
shoulders of the employing class. 1t
is the task of the Communists to re-
lieve the workers and farmers as
much as possible of the oppressive
the capitalist class now
compels them to make for the main
tenance of the very machine that
serves to perpetuate their exploita-
ton.
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pean countries, but it is not right
and timely for the United States.
The Communist International has
a different opinion. We wish to quote
here Zinoviev's article which was
written for our ''Daily Worker" and
in which the chairman Of the Com
munist International approves fully
the pioneer work of the Workers
Party Of America on the agricultural
field: at is quite natural that the
Communists have concen-
trated their activities above all in
the working class, in its trade unions.
From here only was it possible to
begin the work of revolutionary en-
of the American prole-
tariat, and the rallying of it under
the standard of communism. Those
successes which the American COM
munists have had hitherto in the
American labor movement 1.-THE unit
ing of the left wing) in no way can
be called little. But it is yet more
that the American Com
are able alone among the
first to raise and bring forward the
question of work among the small
farmers. This fact best Of all testi-
fies to the great vitality Of American
Communism.
whoever desires to aid the Com
munist Party to become, not a guild
organization, defending only the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19
THE FARMERS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

CONTINUED from page
for a moment, whether the revolu-
ton be near or far off. In America
we are not at the threshold of pro-
letarian revolution. But we stand at
the threshold of one of the deepest
social and political crises Of our
country. In this crisis our greatest
tasks are to develop a communist
mass party of industrial workers and
to win the confidence of the masses
of working farmers. In other words,
during the present crisis and thru
the present crisis we must forthwith
lay dawn the foundation for the pro-
letarian revolution which sooner or
later will come and must come.
In the correct estimation of work
among the farmers, the Workers
Party has played the role Of pioneer
in the whole Communist International.
We can be proud that our young
and in many respects imperfect party
was the hrst in the whole Communist
international which grasped the
great lessons of the Russian revolu-
ton and the deepest sense Of Marx
ian -Leninism Expressed in the writ
ings Of Lenin, Zinoviev, Radek and
Bucharin).
Many comrades say that the alli-
ance with the farmers is well enough
for Russia and that it is perhaps cor
rect as a policy for certain Euro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

ASiu bNlutS COHSLeSS Vuudy Is
taxation.
Taxation is a question which vi
tally affects every farmer, every
worker. and the family of every far
mer and worker.
The total gross debt of the Ma
tional, State, Municipal, and County
governments increased sol Der cent.
In the last decade. In this period
the national debt increased nearly
700 per cent.-tO be precise, 672
per cent.
Exclusive of the tariff law which
is an annual tax of about snree and
half billion dollars on the country.
our yearly tax bill is in the neigh
borhood of $7,75O, 900 600. The
steady rise in the government bu-
reaucracy entails the expenditure of
billions of dollars every year.
The react'nnaries launched their
attack en- Itch taxation affecting
them in the Sixty-Seventh Congress-
Then 50-000-60,000 Of our wealth.
lest taxpayers were relieved of SILL
100000 through the lowering of the
surtax rates and the repeal of the
excess profits tax.
Before the new Congress opened
the bankers and manufacturers or
ganized powerful campaign to cut
their own tax bin still further
Through their control of the Ma
tlonal Government in this case it
was the Treasury of the United
States they put forward the we'll
advertised plan sent out in the name
of Andrew w. Mellon Secretary of
the Treasury.
The Mellon Plan
Though it was not before De-
cember Goth that the Mellon tax re-
duction plan was made public its
general principle of soak the poor
and save the rich" was known weeks
in advance. Never before not even
in the worst fever days of jingoism
and preparedness was The country
subjected to so we'll organized
countrywide advertising campaign
as the one launched by the Cham
Der of Commerce, the Union League
clubs and the numerous other en-
ployers' associations indorsing the
Mellon millionaire tax evasion
scheme We reproduce the follow
ing typical piece Of capitalist pro-
uganda in behalf of the scheme:
"The George L. Dyer Co.,
AZ Broadway, New York.
December IS, 1928.
Publisher, Herald, Louisburg,
Kansas.
'Dear Sirs:
>"Our clients, including some of
the largest manufacturers from all
parts of this country, have asked us
to write every newspaper, regard
less of party, to endorse the Mellon
tax reduction plan as the best and
most constructive idea now before
Congress. They strongly suggest
that this can only be made effective
by continuous front page publicity.
GAN business will be greatly help
ed and the resulting prosperity will
be shared by all.
'Yours truly,
"THE GEORGE L. DYER co.
"(Signed) w. /. DOTS,
"Vice-P President"
This letter is from the heart of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

Watch for ga Week." the STIR
ring story Of the Russian Revolution
by Jury Lbedinsky, will appear soon
in the Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

y ERHAPS the most pressing prob
lem before Congress today is
taxation.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
VOTE OF
WHEAT STATES
La Toilette Tips Hand Thru
Recess Resolution
BY ROBERT J. BENDER

III huBEhl u. BENDEh
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. juno s.--seuntor la
Toilette. whose activity in the forth.
coming presidential campaign may
determine who is TO be tho next
president, will concentrate his indie
penden, campaign primarily on IS
wheat states.
He has tipped his hand this much
thru the text of his resolution in.
troduced in the senate yesterday
and designed to bring congress
back into session 10 pass farm re-
lief legislation July Z.
In SO doing, according to his sup.
porters here. La Toilette will have
been given credit for attempting
the move II he fails, and the repub.
leans and democrats will share the
blame. II he succeeds, he will be
given the credit for having accom-.
pllshed the relief.
In the resolution II will be noted
ne concentrates on the farmers dis.
tress In Is wheatgrowing states
where. he shows from agriculture de.
partment records, 100000 farmers
---or 20 per cent OF all farmers in
these states--elther have lost thelr
farms thru failures since 1920, lost
their property without legal pro
ceedings or are existing merely on
the suffrance of creditors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03


whole. there 10 enough left 10 loso
good many Of our states Ia and have
difficulty IN again finding them.
Roughly. Alaska Is divided into
three sections. The names are more
or less local. but generally Alaska IL
spoken OF IA Southeastern Alaska.
southwestern Alaska and the In.
terror Southeastern Alaska. which
Ia tho portion with which this story
VIII deal. aud the section Of the great.
eat Interest 20 most people. since Il
u tho part generally visited BY tour.
ista.
So far as It's appearances and
structure so. Il may be said 20 DO
a continuation OF the Same formh.
ton which begins on Puget sound
and extends on up the coast OF Brit.
lHh Columbia The Characteristic Is
very rugged coast line. many.
many Lslsnds and a great growth Of
timber II IL true. however. that tho
farther north ono goes. Tho moro
beautiful the formation becomes. 70
that the Puget sound country bears
the Same relation 20. nay. the ooun.
try about Juneau. that the foothills
bear 20 tho olympic range. II Ia
the Eame thing. on a larger. more
sublime scale.
a trip by boat thru Southeastern
Alaska offers combination which
= hard 10 find az all elsewhere. and
which I claim - not 10 be oxccllcd
anywhere. This Ia tho combination
OF salt water and mountains running
riEht down 10 tho waters edge. The
only thing which personally know
Of 10 compare with IL II What IL
called tho Inland sea OF Japan,
which. while Il u beautiful IN It's
way. remains a source OF admiration
only until ono has seen the Wild.
rugged simplicity OF Southeastern
Alaska.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
DICK FARIS is
STATE CHIEF
Wins Disabled Veterans
Commandership

Richard Paris. deputy county au.
diior. has been elected state com.
uander OF the Disabled Veterans OF
tho World War. meeting In eonyen.
ton IN spokane. He succeeds Rob.
srt X. Yandelll. Of Spokane. The
election was unanimous. according
10 Allan stevens. leader Of the
local chapter.
The state adJutant's office has
been moved 10 Seattle. with J. T..
Mullen. formerly city adju,An,. as
state adjutaui
The convention. among other
things. passed unanimously a rcso.
luton demanding that IN the next
emergency. capital DO drafted tho
same as man power.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
VARIED OFFERINGS
ON RADIO PROGRAM
FOR TUESDAY BILL

Copyright. 1894, by United Pross)
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$40 to 10 y. m, c. $. Entire
evening program, Paul Specht's
orchestra, Phillip Steele. bari.
tone: Leslie Smith, pianist, Pied.
mont trio, etc.
CFCA. Toronto, 400 meters,
1880 p. m. Q. s. Musical pro.
gram by the Optlmist club OF
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
FIGHTING FIRE IN
FOREST
Rainier Timber Blazing in
East Lewis County

Fire was being fought Tuesday In
tho Rainier national forest. in east.
crn Lewis county. according 20 word
reaching the Washington Forest Fire
association In Seattle. The blase
broke out sunday Afternoon In dry
slsshlnEs near tho Taylor Logging
company
Every available man was pressod
into service Monday TO check the
flames, ana the blaze was not expect.
90 60 set beyond control.
Another blazc was being fought be.
tween Des Moines and sunnydale.
The fire was confined mostly 20 un.
derhrush. and was not believed se.
rious.
Two fires were also reported In
Graya Harhor county. ono Of which
was OF alarming proportions. This
Was near Elma. In the holdings Of
the National Lumber 4 BOX Co.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
Forest Fires Are
Menacing Oregon

PORTLAND. June g.-Forest fires
in the state continued 20 b. a men.
ace today a. hot weather and dry
winds added 90 difficulties OF firo
fighters
Fires wero mostly IN the coast
rangr % The Oregon mountains. 10.
GLIDING private holdings In Tilla.
nook Columbia and Clatsop coun.
ties. Small fires were reported in
tho national forests In Lane county,
on the Cascade slope.
In the Nchalsm country 1000 acres
% valuable timber was ahlara and
out % control. A greater ARIA was
being burned over In Ciaisop county.
altho Il represented largely slashingz
and loggvd-over land.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03
Means Indicted on
New Charge; Freed

NEW YORK, June 3.-Gaston B.
Means. sensational witness in the
senate Daugherty investigation, was
arraigned yesterday on an indict-
ment returned in March charging
him and others with obtaining $685.
600 from officials of the defunct
Glass Gasket Co.. Illegally.
Means and his secretary. Elmer
w. Jarnecke. indicted with him,
pleaded not guilty and were released
when they furnished $4,000 bail.
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ban IINDEN PENTk

III hsiENbAssN fssNA6
ABOARD THE ARK. whldby II.
land. juno g.-Thc firut lap 81 our
4 goo.miio journey from Seattle TO
skagway has been successfully com
pleied
Monday night wo arrived. with
our assorted cargo. ON Whldby Is
land. where We made camp for tho
night. After wo left the dock AZ
Lake Union. Monday noon. We had
clear sailing down thru tho locks,
but when Nc hit tho Sound We ran
into stuff breeze. Tho breeze
caused 30. the dog. and seregro.
the goat. 20 cease their attempts 10
escape from the boat. and they
both decided 10 travel lying down.
In spite % the breeze. VIC Travelled
along az a nice clip. and IN mid
afternoon arrived az Richmond
Beach. where VIC stopped for short
time. Then We got unftr way
again and made direct for WILDLY
island.
Baby lean l. going 20 make m
excellent sailor. she slept most %
the time during tho trip from Seat
tic 10 WILDLY. only awakening for
something 10 cat.
This morning wc wero NJ earl2,
awaiting tho proper Tide. 80 as 10
make shfc run thru Deception
pass. by night time VIC vii be In
AnAeortcr. where We will have 10
stop for perhaps a day 60 FIX sails.
make n spray break over the bow
OF the boat and make other minor
preparations for tho open nea We
viii encounter within few days.
Readers OF The star who viii fol
low this story arr perhaps familiar
with Alaska and tho conditions exist.
ing there. yet at the same time. even
In Seattle. there II much about
Alaska which ia misunders,ood or
unknown. and apparently conflicting
stories which appear from time 20
time tend rather 10 decrease general
knowledge OF Aiasiss than 10 In.
crease ".
Alaska " a huge country. Not
counting the portions that arc really
as barren and forhidding rs the
popular imagination pictures the
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-06-03

nomination for United States sena-
tor proved a nip and tuck affair to.
day as returns continued to come in
from precincts balloting in the state
primary election.
or 1,133 precincts reporting. out
OF 2.il2 I'm the state. Brookhart
polled lo5,s7s votes. while Sweet re.
ceived i00.02t.
The democratic contest for Unit.
cd States senator was proving close.
Charles II. Keyes of Des Moines
was leading Daniel Steek in 37e
precincts reporting, the vote being
1890 for Keyes and 4.)9e for steck.