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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
A Bankers Lament

John f. Sinclair, the Minnesota banker, APP
peared as the pitiful apologist for Senator LaFo-
lette last Sunday before the gathering of Farm
er-Labor forces at ST. Paul.
Sinclair had nothing to say in favor of LaFol-
lette's stab-in-the-back attack on the June IL
convention. This banker merely tried to excuse
LaFolettes action.
IaFollette had been forced into issuing his
statement under pressure from the Gompers'
regime in the American Federation of Labor,
and the Stone-Johnson dictatorship over the
conference for progressive political action.
That was the apology that Banker Sinclair Of
fered LaFollette had been forced to sign on
the dotted line said Sinclair, an indication
that the statement, containing its anti-Com-
munst ISLANDERS, had been prepared for the Wis
consin senator. LaFollette wanted the cam
paign funds that the railroad brotherhood or
CARNATIONS could raise for him.
This lament of Banker Sinclair shows, bet
ter than anything else possibly could, how far
removed from the workers and farmers Senator
LaFollette really is.
Among LaFollette's staunchest supporters is
to be found Warren E. Stone the $4,000 per
year grand chief" of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers. Stone is head of what is
more fraternal, mutual benefit organization
than a labor union. He is more of banker
than a labor official the engineers bank hav-
ing extended its far-reachng ramifcations into
the very heart of Wall Street itself.
And the farmers know what bankers are, even
down to the custodians Of the cracker-box in
situations to be found in the small prairie, or
backwoods towns. Bankers, landlords, grain
gamblers, food profteers are all one to the plum
dered farmer
No wonder that the farmer turns instinctively
away from Banker Stone and his Cleveland July
4th Conference for Progressive Political Action.
No wonder that the workers and farmers in con-
ference last Sunday at st. Paul refused to listen
to Banker Sinclair. No wonder that they re-
fuse to be moved by the puppet of these bankers,
Senator Robert Marion LaFollette, who has the
audacity, while still a member of Wall Streets
republican party, to attack the class farmer
labor forces of the nation.
Let the bankers lament, and their puppet shed
tears along with them. The workers and farm
ers are going to st. Paul on June IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
Ills Z IlIl IA i I II { III

line by Whitman. 1--WE are nature
long have we been absent, but now
we return"
The first OF these is the most medic
ere. It is an imitation Of the suites
Of Mcdowell, with modernist dis
sonance here and there. The second
is a rather troubled and uneasy bit
Of music, ending with slow section
that would make good counterfeit
for parts OF "Lohengrin." The Whit
man piece is not at all Whitmanesque,
except for the last movement, en-
titled War Dance" in which some
of the husky animalism Of the poet is
suggested.
The judges were: Deems Taylor.
critic; Ernest Schelling, pianist, and
Adolf Weidig, violinist and theorist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

Not since 1904 has there been so cut and
dried an affair in national politics as the Repub-
lican convention, to be opened in Cleveland
next week The "nonpartisan' ruling forces of
the New York financial district have dictated
the platform and decreed the candidacy Of Cool
idge. The permanent chairman of the conven-
ton will be the notorious lame duck Monden
All will be bliss at the quadrennial marionette
show of the party of graft, oil and pelf, the
G. 0. P.
But beneath the surface peace there is a di-
lemma facing the powers that will be running
the farce. This dilemma arises out of the eco
nomic conditions at hand The convention
must produce a platform which will serve to
stave off the dire consequences threatening to
befall the Republican party in the hard-hit agri-
cultural regions of the northwest. This year
such task will be very difficult in view of the
desperate state of affairs in which these masses
find themselves and because of the great disil-
lusionment experienced by them in the recent
oil scandal revelations. AT the same time the
clique controlling the convention will not dare
to put even in their platform anything which
might in the least ALLEVIATE the support of the
big financial interests of the eastern states that
will have to invest more money than ever in this
presidential campaign.
The senators from the western section of the
country will be especially vigorous in demand
ing many so-called radical promises in the plat
form in order to save their own political neeks
in the November turmoil A prominent Repub-
lican viewed this unpleasant task as one of pre-
venting he'll from overlooking east and west
from its present center" Dissatisfaction with
the reactionary Republican administration is on
the increase in the agricultural states. The vic
tories so highly bought and paid for by the bill
honaires in the Coolidge successes in the pri-
maries are in no way measure of the feeling
OF the masses outside the Republican party and
beyond the immediate influence of the.machine
The Republican convention is a settled affair
in SO far as the masses are concerned. The only
point of some interest left is the empty gesture
that LaFollette will make to brighten Daugherty
Lodge, Coolidge and Smoot. But beneath the
surface the fundamental problem confronting
the reactionary capitalist class will still remain
unsettled. The real and only place where NOR
tai blows can be struck at the exploters is today,
more than ever, outside the packed halls of the
conventions of the Democratic and Republican
parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
Memories of Russia Wins.
Nv ALFRED v. FRANKENsTEIN,

Charles Martin Loefiier, the Boston
composer, won the thousand dollar
prize for the best composition sub
mitted in the contest Of the North
Shore music festival at Evanston
last Thursday night. Loefiier's work
was a tone poem called Memories Of
Childhood-Life in a Russian Village"
The description of the work on the
program was as follows: "The COM
poser's memory OF life in a Russian
village-old Russia, with its folk
songs and dances, the chants Of the
orthodox church. the fairy tales, the
pageantry Of death; above all, the
composers memory Of great friend,
an elderly peasant, a poet"
The work opens slowly, with the
Ginning Of bells. II works up to a
fast and rhythmic section of typical
Russian dance tunes, and closes mys-
teriously, in a shadowy. mystical
fashion, curiously suggestive OF parts
OF Williams London symphony. II is
good music, but scarcely original
There is too much Musorgski and
Rimsky-Korsakov in IL for that.
The composition second in the
judges estimation was Tragic"
overture, by Edwards Collins Of Chi
cago. IL is not a noble. Shakesperian
sort OF tragedy that Collins paints;
rather IL is a frenzied despair II
reminds one somewhat of the pc
cuIiar and horrible black, and white
sketches that Wallace Smith drew for
'Fantasius Maliare." This was the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
Unemployment Is Growine

Workers will do well to prepare for new drives
against wages and working conditions. For
employment is slackening down with threaten
ing speed; unemployment is growing daily; the
industrial reserve army is being continuously
swelled. These are conditions that strike at
the working class in its most vital interests.
They encourage the bosses to crush organiza-
tons Of labor and intensity exploitation.
Relief from the scourge of unemployment can
only be achieved by the struggle of the work
ers, political and Industrial One of the chief
problems that the Farmer-Labor party move
ment must tackle is just this. Immediate meas
ures designed to keep up wages, protect work.
ing conditions, and prevent suffering of the un-
employed, must be worked out and made the
slogans of the entire labor movement
But all such measures are merely OF an emer-
gency nature. Unemployment is inherent in
the capitalist system II can only be done away
with when the working class organizes itself,
seizes all power in society, and begins to recon-
stitute industry and government on Commun-
list basis.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
French Workers Awaken

If one still thinks of the French working class
as under the influence of nationasm, as frenziedly
patriotic, it is good to read Claire Sheridan's
account of prediction meetings in Paris.
IN. Tardieu (reactionary) tried to justify the
occupation of the Ruhr His audience did not
seem TO think it could be justified. NJ. Tardieu
laid the responsibility of French militarism on
Germany for having started the war. His audience
expostulated. NJ. Tardieu exclaimed
But you agree that the blame of the war rests
on Germany
"Shouts of Non, nonv
M. Tardieu angrily replied
Then perhaps you think France shares the
blame
'Shouts of 'Oui QUIZ"
Miss Sheridan further tells of one of Tardieu's
meetings adjourning in an uproar because he
against the Russian Soviet Republic She says
There is no doubt the workers Of the world re
gard the workers republic with fraternal affection
and that any acts of intimidation or aggression
against the republic by reactionary governing
classes arouse all the classconsciousness of the
other workers."
All of which throws more light upon the reports
that the recently elected deputies of the Bloc des
Gauches are embarrassed by the unreasonable
demands of their followers" The politicians of
the pettybourgeois "left' rode into office on the
aroused hopes of masses who are already being
disillusioned. The next election will doubtless
show the same enormous increase for the Com
munist party in France that the last one showed
in Germany. Which is a thermometer that registers
the readiness of the working class for revolution
airy action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

TACOMA, Wash, June AFTER
two years trial the Tacoma street car
company will continue the 81 week
unlimited ride system on all its lines
Patrons buy weekly pass for 81,
which entities them to ride as much
and as often as they like without
further expense. The company in
augurated the system when the high
cash fares had cut down revenue to
the danger line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

AL smith is making strenuous efforts to get the
nomination Of the Democratic Party for president
on program of 2.75 Whether it is AL, or Nc
Adoo, or any other tool of capitalism, the can
didate named in New York will get the support
of Sam Gompers. Fortunately the workers and
farmers are so tired Of the old hegame that
they will not be looking Gompersward; they have
their eyes fastened on ST. Paul
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

most original work of the five played.
and the only reason it did not get
the prize was its excessive length.
The composers of the other works
prefer to remain incognito. Their
offerings were a suite Of sketches
From the North Country" a fantasy,
"The Road to He'll is Played with
Good Intentions" and suite after a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
Mahoney Raises QUESTIONS

It is with these ideas in mind that
we approach the already mentioned
editorial by William Mahoney in the
Union Advocate of May 18th
There is no attack upon the Com
munists in that editorial. OF course
not. Mahoney knows them too well,
and their services to the farmer-labor
movement. to attack them. What he
does, however, is to raise the very in
teresting question of the relationship
between the Communists and the farm
er-labor movement. He says:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
By Alexander BitteIman

Ifarmer-labor movement, It would be
an easy matter for its enemies not
only to handle the convention Of June
II, but to cripple the whole move.
ment and retard it's further develop,
ment for years to come.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
Painters Technical school.

CHARLESTON. w. va.--Instruc-
tion Of apprentices in the fine points
OF the trade is being given by Pain
ters' Union 970 in a technical school
It has established in Charleston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

William Mahoney may not know it,
He may not have intended it as such.
But his editorial in the Union Advo-
ate of May goth, (The Communists and
the Farmer-Labor Party) is clearly a
concession to the enemy. 1t is a con-
cession to the opponents of June 18th.
1t makes the impression of an attempt
to please and pacify Gompers, the
G. P. P. A., La Toilette, and all the
enemies Of the Farmer-Labor move
ment in the United States.
Before we proceed any further let
us re-state one of the fundamentals Of
this movement which is headed in the
direction of class party Of workers
and exploited farmers. 1t is objec-
lively movement of the oppressed
masses seeking political expression
but as yet it is actively participated
in only by the advanced and maturer
sections of the workers and poor farm
ers.
A Rank and File Movement
Furthermore, it is a movement Of
the rank and file against the official
and recognized" leadership. The re-
dictionaries of the c. P. P. A., just as
we'll as the reactionaries of the Comp
ers crew, both are bitterly opposing
this rank and file farmer-labor move
ment.
William Mahoney knows that In
his own efforts to build and promote
the movement he has encountered
plenty of opposition from the so-called
official leadership. If this is true, then
there is only one conclusion to be
drawn regarding the present nature of
the farmer-labor movement, namely,
that it is a movement of the left wing.
Yes, the left wing in the American
labor movement is at present the only
force that is working consciously and
persistently towards the promotion of
the farmer-labor movement. This, too.
Mahoney knows And if he knows
this, it should not be difficult for him
to realize that he who weakens in any
way, shape, or form, the left wing, is
thereby weakening the farmer-labor
movement.
Communists Integral Part of
Left Wing
Now, who is the left wing? A broad
definition of it would include all those
workers and poor farmers who stand
for more modern, more progressive,
and more militant forms of organiza-
ton and methods of struggle against
capitalist exploitation in the United
States. But whatever the exact def
milton of the left wing, there is one
fact about it which no one will dispute,
and that is, that the Communists are
an organic and inseparable part of it
One may like it or not, but there is no
denying the fact that he who attacks
the Communists or attempts to sepa-
rate them from the left wing is there
by attacking and weakening the en-
tire left wing.
William Mahoney may not know it,
but it is true just the same. From
which it follows that at the present
stage in the development of the class
struggle in America, any attack upon
the Communists is an attack upon the
farmer-labor movement. La Toilette
knows it, and Gompers, and the c. P.
P. A. That's why they attacked the
Communists when they decided to de-
liver a blow at the June 18th Conven-
ton and at the farmer-labor movement
generally.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

What the workers in the western Electric
need is an organization. Let the workers remem-
Der, industrially as well as politically that "in
unity there is strength"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

The Poor Fish Says: Now that SEN
ator LaFoIIette has come out with his
own (uncopyrighted) expose Of the
Communists, he has made himself ell
glble for membership In the same bed
as is occupied by Sam compers and
William J. Burns. Since Burns lost
his right to association with Gompers
thru loss Of his o. Of J. job Sam felt
rather lonely In his political bed and
embraced the opportunity afforded by
the LaFoIIettc Incident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05

Calvin Coolidge comes out unreserS
eddy for the World Court which is al
alias for the League Of Nations. Tho
American bankers want the League
but owing to the American traditioQ
against "entangling alliances" in EV
rope. and the divergent interests q
the capitalists themselves, neithe4
Wilson nor harding were successful
in putting this country officially intQ
the Capitalist International Now thai
Coolidge is picked as the G. o. p. presy
idential candidate and according to al
indications doomed to defeat, he boldly
declares for an entangling alliance
thus winning the esteem Of the financed
capitalists who own him, and losinx
nothing in the way Of popularity.
Evening star., 1924-10-01
Marriage Licenses,

following: " ~
:. Wellington y. Pitts of Brentwood. Md and
sue H. Nash Of this city.
meIvin o. Holland Of Harrisburg Pa. and
osusta LISA j. Dtller of Christiana, Pa.
uneodore Brown and Pearl Harkum
nIioid u. Malkie and Agnes NJ Breen
r Julian u. Bird and Annie II. Gamble.
,1 r,ank l.; Butler and Naomi Plowdeu.
1Iysses tyler and MadeIia Brock.
!oseph H. Churchill and Beatrice O. Dehon,
D',h .oI ~. Petersburg, Fla.
rry II. arlington and Emma K Grim h.
thspnen r. Burke of New York City and
,a.heflne II. Moran of this city
In.n Inuhur =. Harman and Kathryn d. Eiker.
=, MiIie h. Dorsey and Louise Gleason, both
McNeal Adams and Gertrude Hawkins.
Maurice a. Thorne and Marjorie r. Preble
EllIs w. smith and Lucy NJ Mankin
Iienry Johnson and Helen Blair
James Davis of Alexandria Va and Bea-
trice Hall OF this city.
lanes ii. Smoot and Beatrice Ward
Elmo e. Nelson and Della L. Cook
IVY henderson and Helen Walker
LOUIS DE Atley and Dorothy Motley
raymond Kendrick and Mabel G. Thiele
Toward T. Sheehan and Madeleine NJ Seger
u 'pnn =. Biils or Shelton. Neb., and Amelia
r. Brown of this city
Ihomas d. Bacon and Mabel L. Turner
lanes W. Johnson and Louise Warren
'ohn 4. Wilson and Sally Tucker.
Evening star., 1924-10-01
| GOV. FLYNN NAMED
FOR R. !. SENATE RACE
Democrats Select Candidates at
Convention Marked by At
tack on Republicans.
By the Associated Press.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., October L.
Rhode Island Democrats at their
State convention yesterday nominated
Gov. William S. Flynn for United
States Senator, Lieut.. Gov Felix A.
Toupin for governor, and Senator
Robert E. Quinn of West Warwick
Democratic floor leader in the Senate
for lieutenant governor.
Mr.. Flynn won the nomination for
Senator from field of four con-
tenders on the second ballot. He had
120 votes and Mayor Joseph II. Gain
er of Providence, his strongest rival
81.
For Congress, Alfred II. Jones OF
jamestown was nominated from the
first congressional district; Charles
NJ. Hall, from the second district, and
Representative Jeremiah L. O'Connoll
from the third district. Miss Susan
Sharpe Adams, defeated for secretary
of State by a small margin two years
ago. was again named for that office
The convention was marked by a
bitter attack on the Republican party
in both the State and the Nation by
Senator Quinn.
In it's platform the convention as
sailed the record of the Republican
party, denounced the Ku KluX klan
by name, criticized the Republican
senator's who left the State after the
planting of gas bomb in the Senate
chamber last June, pledged an honest
enforcement of National and State
prohibition laws and advocated the
modification of the Nolstead act to al
low light wines and beer.
Evening star., 1924-10-01

What's tn world comm to-?
Mrs. Lafe Bud has received a
letter from a storekeeper de-
manding t know why she hadn'
charged anything durin' tn
month o August.
SO fer tn woman in politics
hain't accomplished nothin', 'cept
lots o candidates seem t shave
oftener.
Time kin be relied on t settle
ever thing, SO we guess that's tn
reason so many folks ask fer it..
We can't be a good an ex-
emplary citizen an git any
publicity.
Copyright, John f. Ollie Coz
Evening star., 1924-10-01
WARN OF HIGH WATER.
James River East of Lynchburg.
Va. Continues Rise.
Fly the Associated Press

Fly the Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va. October Am
additional flood warning to all points
along the James River east of LYNCH
burg and respectfully to places east of
Columbia" was issued this morning
by the local weather bureau. The
bureau said the river would continue
to rise until late tonight or tomor-
row.
The crest of the freshets in the
streams in the mountain districts was
reached last night and early today
but this served only to increase the
tension in the foothills. Virtually
every one of these mountain streams
empty into one or another of the
larger rivers that flow through the
lower lands nearer tidewater, with
the result that in this district the
high mark is not reached until several
hours after the water begins to re-
Cede in the hills
At Richmond several streets in the
Industrial district already were un-
der water and the local weather bu-
reau predicted a continued rise until
late tonight. Officials said the maxi
mum of between 20 and 25 feet would
carry the murky overflow into an
area five or six blocks from the
rivers banks.
12.3 feet, its highest mark since the
destructive freShet of II years ago.
but was thought to be stationary
just before noon. The water was
near houses on Union street and resi-
dents were making frantic efforts to
get their household goods to higher
ground. Operation of water power
plants at textile mills along the river
was proving difficult,
BrldgeWater on the Shenandoah
River, was without fresh water
today as d result of the pipe line
which supplied the town being
washed away by the freshet in the
north branch of the river. The
Shenandoah began to recede early
today after rising to more than 10
feet above its normal stage.
Highways throughout the State are
thought to have Jared badly from
the rains and freshet, and officials of
the state Highway Department were
trying this morning to learn the
exact damage to bridges and roads
First information from the Kappa
hammock and Potomac Valleys, Chair
man Henry G.. Shirley said showed
that several small bridges had been
washed away and some roads inun-
dated. Roads in the Suffolk dis
tricts also. he declared. We're put out
of commission by the turbulent Not
taway River, but the biggest dam
age was expected to be reported
from the section along the James
and Rivanna rivers.
HARRISONBURG, Va, October l.
Recession last night of the flood waters
in the Shenandoah River and other
Evening star., 1924-10-01
H|GH-WATER LOSS
IN COUNTY SLIGHT
BIadensburg and Other
Towns Recovering-Vir-
qinia Streams Swollen.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispa rch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE. Md, October l.
Bladensb sburg, East Hyattsville. North
Brentwood. the Metzerott road sec
tion west of Berwyn East Berwyn.
Lakeland and other communities in
Prince Georges County were recover
ing today from floods caused by
heavy rains.
Traffic on the Washington Balti-
more boulevard at Bladensburg,
which was blocked yesterday and
last night by water, was expected to
resume today. At its highest the
water on the boulevard was perhaps
feet and covering the road about d
quarter mile. Willie West, a junk
dealer, residing in the Spa woods
near the bridge over the Eastern
Branch separating Hyattsville from
BladenSburg, was reported marooned
last night on the roof of his house.
In East Hyattsvilie many cellars
were reported flooded. as was the
case in North Brentwood, the Metzzer-
oft road area, East Berwyn and Lake
land. Around Berwyn considera Die
damage to crops was reported.