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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
oh, Well!

The other day Socialist periodical arrived in
the office of the DAILY WORKER. This is not a
remarkable fact in itself, but the way in which it
came was worth a bit of comment This socialist
newspaper the front page of which were ar
ticles by that "great revolutionist" the Reverend
Norman Thomas and the cautious "rebeP' Kirk
patrick, arrived in envelope from the publicity
department" of the General Electric company,
Schenectady, New York
The practice of great corporations, such as the
General Electric company, of getting "labor" or
socialist papers to print some constructive" ar
ticles concerning the company, then buying" for
an exhorbtant sum large number of copies which
are sent out to all newspapers that might reprint
or review the puff for the corporation-the prac-
ce of doing this kind of thing is getting to be old
stuff in newspaperdom.
Today are under the obligation of comment
ing on another spectacle, shall we call it sad or
repulsive? Anyhow, we picked up a copy of the
Minneapolis Labor Review, which used to be a
labor paper under the editor who used to be a
labor editor-but which isn't any more.
In this paper we find the leading editorial is an
attack on the Workers Party The Workers Party
says Cramer, sis not menacing-it is disgusting"
On the opposite side of the page there are two
advertisements which stand out as a subsidization
Of the Minneapolis Labor Review, begging pardon
FOR the adjective slabor." The Bell Telephone COM
pany is one, and the other is none other than the
Sinclair Refining company, the same one that
smirched up Daugherty and Secretary Fall until
we were unable to recognize them for petroleum
and oil splattering down from Teapot Dome.
Now, it is hardly paying investment as far as
immediate returns go for either the Bell Telephone
trust or the Sinclair Refining company to spend
chunks of money for ads in labor papers which
are supposedly read by the workers only. If a
worker afford telephone in his house he usual
ly get it regardless of ads and again if he is so
fortunate as to have touring car even fivver,
he will get his oil at the filling station whether it
bears the Sinclair brand any other subsidiary
of the great oil trust. Advertisements of such
things are merely brides paid to the papers that
get them. They are supposed to sit up and bark.
Then the advertisements flow in regularly.
The editor of the Minneapolis Review sits up
and banks. He says the Workers Party is not
menacing but disgusting. The Minneapolis Labor
Review is BOTH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
DGwes Plan Hitting Snags

Germany is going to have another capitalist
dictatorship, if Marx, Stresemann and company
carry out their plans. 1t appears that the Dawes
plan is not going over very smoothly. The radical
workers under the influence of the Communists
are carrying bitter campaign against it. The
capitalist nations fighting the spoils that
this infamous slave plan wrings from the bleeding
bodies of the German workers
How the victorious allies can squeeze repara
tons loot out Of Germany without killing their
own markets and shutting up their own factories
is the big question that is keeping the allied states
men awake nights. They have not yet solved that
problem despite the galaxy of experts that have
been thrown into the fray the side of the dollar
army. 1t will not be solved because it is beyond
solution. The contradictions of capitalist society
cannot be reconciled.
There will be another capitalist dictatorship in
Germany-very likely. But it will not last long
Capitalism in the period of its decline is resortine
to all kinds of expedients to save itself. Like the
proverbial drowning man it grasps at straws only
TO meet the drowning mans fate.
The German workers will have their fill Of CAPT
talist relationships and all capitalist
are relationships, open yelled as suits the pur
pose But conditions viii compel them to choose
between the capitalist dictatorship which now
brushes them and the dictatorship of the workers
and they will choose the latter. Until then there
will be recurring crises in Germany and misery
and want for the toilers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
SOVIET SCHOOL
HAS SUCCESSFUL,
DRAMATIC SHOW
Despite Competition Of
White Guards

The performance Of Goal Miner
Kort'' given last Saturday at the So
Wet School went off with the usual
success. The hall was overcrowded
in spite Of the fact that the counter.
revolutionists were running their NOV
les on that night.
The actors, almost all members Of
the Technical Aid, succeeded in the
Interpretation of the bitter struggle
waged by the coal miners OF Ural
against the bosses and the white
guards. An unusual incident happen
ed when in the last act the miners
winning their battles began to sing the
International. The audience stood up
and Joined in the signing. This, bet.
ter than anything else, shows the
spirit of the Russian workers.
The next affair of the Technical Aid
Society will be the showing Of POL
ikushka," Thursday night, Jan. Is, at
Gartner's Independent Theater, S725
Roosevelt Road.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
We Simply Can't Please Them

According to news dispatches published in the
capitalist press, the Russian people celebrated
Christmas this year with much gusto and swap
ping of gifts as they used to in the days of the
car. 1t is even limited that they partook of the
cup that cheers in the form of vodka, which is
according to secondhand information, about as
polite in the stomach mouthful of dynamite
The "cr-oo-p Checka was not near so offlcious as
the American army of prohibition agents. The
Soviet government did not prohibit religious
worship. The people could burst their breastbones
in paroxysm of pious crawthumping if they saw
fit. In fact they were allowed to enjoy themselves
in their own way.
The correspondents who raved last year over the
public attacks on religion and superstition were
equally scandalized this year because there were
no antireligious demonstrations. 1t is mighty hard
to please those fellows One can never tell what
they want or how they want it. The Soviet gov
eminent being busy institution, we might suggest
to the capitalist scrbes in Moscow that they might
do well to advise the red government in advance
what kind Of copy their editors want so that the
necessary arrangements might be made to provide
them with the right material
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Unions Fear ouaek Doctors.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 29.-FoIlow-
ing a new medical fee schedule by
the California industrial accident
commission, the building trades
unions have called protest meeting.
1t is charged that minimum fees have
in some cases been cut to as low as
SOC a visit, at which rate no compe-
tent surgeon would undertake a com
pensation case. and injured workmen
would be left to the mercy of quacks.
The unions also claim the commission
is endeavoring to monopolize the
compensation business for the benefit
OF small group of organized insur-
ance doctors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
TEXTILE SLAVES
TO SW ALLOW DOSE
OF HE'LL N MARIA
Butler to Dig Claws Into
Germany

The New York Times OF Dec "a
carried the report that the Botany
Consolidated Mills, Inc, one Of the
largest textile companies in the United
States, had acquired an interest in two
prominent German textile manufac-
turing groups. the Kammgarnspin-
nerei-Stohr & Co. and A. G. Elber-
fielder Textilwerke, A. G.
The textile workers will watch these
developments with more than passing
interest 1t will be remembered that
some months ago a number Of the
northern mills bought up number Of
large textile plants in the south, which
operated under unusually low wage
scales. Almost Immediately thereafter
the northern mills announced a series
Of slashing wage cuts and the excuse
given for this raid on the workers
pay envelope was the pressure Of
competition" of the southern mills,
which were owned and operated by
the northern textile interests.
II takes but little imagination, there
fore, to see that similar tactics win be
used against the American textile
workers in the very near future, in
order to protect the "poverty-stricken"
American textile barons from their
ferocious German competitors" and
then will be imported into the textile
districts Of this country, the terrible
state of misery and want which has
been the lot of the unfortunate Ger
man workers for the last few years.
At the time of the taking over of
the southern plants by their northern
textile interests, the wide-awake and
militant elements among the textile
workers pointed out the necessity of
organizing the southern workers for
joint action against their employers.
And so it should be the task of the
American textile workers today to
Immediately establish an active con.
tact with the textile workers Of Ger
many SO that they may combat effec-
lively their mutual enemy, the Amer,
lean capitalist.
The way to form this fighting al.
lance is thru the International Propa-
ganda Committee Of the Textile Work
ers of the Red International of Labor
Unions, Moscow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Coal Drivers to
Strike Unless They
Get Wage Increase

Two thousand members OF the Chi.
cago Coal Transfers Union will meet
representatives Of the coal merchants
association this week to thrash out
their demands for 20 cents an hour
raise in wages. The coal dealers de-
clare they will stand pat on the pres
ent wages and are preparing for a
strike. Drastic action is expected by
the union unless the demands of the
teamsters are net by Jan. 1. The
teamsters now receive 70 cents an
hour. They work ten hours day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Send in that new "sub" tOdayI
The T.U. e.. Ball

Besides being entertaining event, the annual
ball of the Trade Union Educational League, which
takes place on New Years eve, is of great inn
portance to the organized educational work that is
carried on in the trade unions by the militants
under the leadership of the industrial department
of the Workers (Communist) Party.
The I. U. E. L. needs funds to carry on this
work and it is that consideration more than de-
sire to give radicals opportunity to test their
terpsichorian ability that the local committee
planned the affair which which will take place at
the West End Womens Club, 81 South Ashland
Blvd, next Wednesday evening. The recent re-
vival of militancy in the trade union movement is
manifested in the elections of the carpenters and
miners unions In several unions here in Chicago
the radicals, under the leadership of the T. U. E.
L., are putting up splendid fight against the re-
dictionaries. The educational work carried on by
the league requires funds. 1t is the duty of every
Communist and every sympathizer to attend the
ball on New Years eve and help supply the neces-
sary sinews of war.
Aside from that consideration we can promise
you an interesting evening
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
FIIIpInoa nsnounee sxndlcate.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Syndi-
Gated stories appearing in various
parts of the country picturing the
Filipinos as a semi-barbarous people
are denounced as untrue and intended
to delay the promise the United States
has made to give the Filipinos their
independence, in statement by the
Philippine press bureau.
In additional statements to be
made public the next few days, it is
announced. the interests that are
exploiting the Filipinos and obstruct-
ing independence will be revealed, it
is declared.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
More Textile WAGE Cuts.

LOWELL, Mass. Dec. 2s.-The
Massachusetts,, Appleton, fremont
and Suffolk cotton companies will
reduce wages the first of the year say
statements issued by the manage
ments. The mills are on part time
but hours are to be increased, follow
ing the cut. Nearly half of Lowell's
textile workers will be affected by the
reduction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Southside Actors
Present Drama of
Workingclass Life

On Tuesday night Statesmen and
Suckers" play by Comrade Shelley
of the South Side English Branch was
presented and acted by several menu
bers Of the branch and their friends,
"The South Side Players" A good
audience tramped thoroug the snow
to see the play, and it is expected that
as the news goes round many more
will come to the second performance
to be given later in some other south
side neighborhood.
Lewis Gordon and Esther Berman
were very good as "Mr. and Mrs. Slick"
young couple Of "go-getters" who
classify the whole world as sales
men or suckers" They gave much sat
irical amusement to relieve the trag-
edy Of this little play. Hubert Hunt,
as Jim" the sick war-veteran hue-
band of olympia" was very fine. He
spoke as simply as though he and
Olympia were really discussing
their difficulties alone; and there is
no surer way Of making an audience
forget itself.
Mile Babbin as the exploited and
victimized white girl, Margaret
Bryant" was so good that she had no
cause to feel the nervousness that
affected her at first. Her voice was
beautifully rich and she gave the part
short of "oh, what's the use?e swag-
ger that was striking. cannot praise
too highly Elizabeth Grimm, who
played Olympia" the young wife
whose whole life was battle against
poverty and disease. She showed
great poignancy and real under
standing of the role, and like Hubert
Hunt, had the ability to make us for
get for minutes at time that this
was not a real glipmse of real fam
| lily. Hands are usually great diff
ficulty for amateurs, but Elizabeth
Grifin's beautiful and expressive
hands were acting for her all the
time! Her voice was flexible and NOV
ing.
The play shows Olympia" working
for the sordid young business couple,
and giving up the job because her
husband is very ill and she herself is
exhausted. In one speech she lines
up MRS. Slick" with the expIoiters
and herself with the working class
Yes, it's class that counts you said
1t! and l belong to the working
class!" Her man dies, and Olympia
and the children are in despair. cM-
Slick" turns up like a bad penny and
offers her a sordid "way out which
she Indignantly refuses, and after try
ing to give "Margarete," who has gone
on the streets, her job at the factory.
we leave her looking with glazed and
desolate eyes at the shining revolver
which is the only way out" that she
can see. The play is based on a
little news item, the suicide, Of
young widow who really lived on the
south side, and whose story, left out
of capitalist newspaper as "unimport-
ant" was told Comrade Shelley by the
reporter.
In one scene. there was a spirited
discussion between Jack Sharp" play
ed by Norvel Allen very ably. and
Rev. Gumble" played by wesley
Lewis, that brought out the futility OF
pie in the sky when you die at !.
the necessity Of solidarity befy
all races in the class struggle, ssra
Robinson as MRS. jones' joined n
this scene.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
More WAGE Cuts.

NASHUA, N. H., Dec. pa state.
ment by Agents Walter whipple OF
the Nashua Mills and w. II. Caldwell
of the Jackson Mills that wages Of
$500 cotton mill workers will be re.
duced the next few weeks has brought
threats OF strike from the workers
The company officials said the reduc.
ton would be in line with similar
action expected in mills at Lowell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30

An amusing thing is a liberal. The editors Of
the New Republic, for example, run vicious de-
nunciation Of Communists in general and Russian
Communists in particular, asking "What have the
Russian Communists done, anyhow?' We might
refer the editors of the New Republic to some of
their good friends but "What has the New Re-
public ever done, anyhow?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30

King George and Mussolini are both stamp col
lectors At the risk of offending Adolph Ochs,
owner Of the New York Times, and Ebert H. Gary,
head Of the steel trust patrons of these two rulers,
we express the holiday wish that the two stamp
collectors may soon have a chance to share their
hobby in common--in exile.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
But Now We Need Money
And Need 1t at Once!

We must look ahead. Well only get ahead
by looking ahead. We must make the DAILY
WORKER safe for 1925. Therefore, this
campaign to INSURE THE DAILY WORKER
FOR 1925 We want to make the DAILY
WORKER so impregnabIe, so powerful that
it will weather all storms in the year to come.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30

Funny how many nasty things the capitalist
press can say about the British labor union del
egates to the congress Of the Russian unions be-
cause they give an honest favorable report on CON
ditions of labor in Russia As supporters of Ram
say they used to be the acme Of wisdom and honor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
We Did Not Want to
Be Considered OH-Color!

we we nag pig sesPonsDty upon OUT Ina. nadus
us. We had to act with GOOD RED CON-
MON SENSE. We soon saw that printing
the DAILY WORKER in somebody eIse's
print shop would mean that some day this
somebody else might say "oUT WITH YOU"
and then where would we go? Not many
capitalist print shops care to print Commun-
ist papers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Ore Year Old on
January Is, 1925.

The DAILY WORKER will soon be one year
old. Upon its first anniversary BIG SPE-
ClAL BIRTHDAY EDITION will be published.
This BIG SPECIAL should be distributed
nationwide. Order your bundle now-100
copies for $500.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Then We Saw Another
Danger Ahead.

If printer could refuse to print our DAILY
WORKER, landlord could easily refuse to
house our printing plant. That is, If we put
the big printing plant we bought into rented
building. the owner Of the building could also
did what? We took another part of the
$4,000 and bought building, the building
that our national headquarters is located in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
January IS, 1924,
The Historic Date!

1t was upon this date that the PlRST ISSUE
of the DAILY WORKER appeared. We
printed it and many issues thereafter in a
print shop that WAS NOT OUR OWN,
located in building that WAS NOT OUR
OWN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Militant Branches
Honored in the Big Special.

The MILITANT BRANCHES of the party will
have place of honor in this ANNIVERSARY
SPECIAL of the DAILY WORKER. Upon a
page to be called the MILITANT PAGE, the
names of all branches will appear that have
RENTED for INSURANCE POLICY sales be-
fore January 8. These will be known as the
MILITANT BRANCHES. It will be these
branches that will greet the beginning of the
second year of revolutionary service Of our
daily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
After All of Which
There Wasn't Much Money Left.

The sum of $4,000 is just that much. After
buying big printing plant and big build
ing, there were not many dollars left with
which to finance the DAILY WORKER. But
we went right ahead and for nearly year
we published the daily without making a
single call for help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
So We Took Part of
The $4,000 and Bought
A First Class Plant.

We bought FOUR PRESSES, SIX LIMO
TYPES, STEREOTYPlNG OUTFIT, BIND
cry MACHINERY, type, stones, stock, ink.
It's BIG layout and there's no kind of
printing we can't do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
This is what you must know
in order to know
w hat you must do

Well tell this story in BIG TYPE. We want II
to stay with you SO that you may tell it to
others.
And So They Said
'Here's SIS, OOOw
This happened just a year ago. The party
membership and sympathizers piled up the
sum Of $4,000 with which to start the
FIRST COMMUNIST DAILY in the English
language in the world.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-05-08
A. TO The Tru. BLACK Fox.

The true black fox is black all over
with the exception Of the tip Of the
tail which Is white. but will say that
these animals are very rare indeed. says
writer In the Sportslnan's Digest.
The silver. or silver gray. Is practical
~ the same color save that the back
and shoulders ere shot with more or
less gray hairs; the less light hairs
there are the more valuable the petit
Foxes that have a very small amount
Of these gray hairs are classed a.
black The cross fox Is q mixture Of
the dark FOX and the ordinary red one.
rusty-eolored patches being visible at
different points, especially On the sboul-
ders and rurnp. As In the case Of The
silver the more black on the cross
fox the greater his value.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-05-08
THE RED LOCK

island, got on the house-boat without
lettin' Texie know l was there and
found out she was safe.
"Then. without lettin' 'er know 1t
was me. / moved the house-boat and
hid II in a new place; left her locked
in-b'cause l thought II would be the
safest place she could be jist then
and hurried here Z watch the house
fully b1ieyin' they intended Z rob the
safe might.
about midnight they come. l.
killed Black Bogus and hurt Hopkins.
but he-got away. Texie must "a
broke out O. the house-boat somehow
and swum ashore. ! didn't know II.
but she was list comm into the yard
when / jumped out o. the winder after
Hopkins, and that last shot he fred
at me hit her"
II was a tremendous recital. brief
terse; not quite true; yet anything but
false; by far the longest speech he
had ever made in his life, even with
so much left out He saw questions
still In the eyes fixed upon him. A
moan came from the parlor bedroom
and every other consideration gave
way TO the sufferer.
Alone with Uncle Nick, the woods
man securely fastened the window
that had been pried open, closed the
door on the gruesome scene and went
to the kitchen. Curious faces were be-
ginning TO gather in the yard. He
turned to the old man.
'Uncle Nick. his voice showed the
strain he was under-"send them
away. Tell 'em as little as possible,
but for-her sake. keep 'em away
Jerry Brown above all. II he happens
{ wake up and take 1t into is head {
come up here. And low y'u better
git somebody Z ride In after the coro-
ner."
The old man nodded and turned TO
the door. The other caught his sleeve.
"And when it's light, / wish y'u'd
sneak up Eagle holler little and
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-05-08
Full Particulars in
Conductors Report

Maurice A. Welsh. well known "a
many Illinois Central System EN-
ployees as superintendent and train,
manager OF the Waterloo, Cedar Falls
4 Northern (electrlc) railroad In
Iowa, is more than proud OF the com.
pleteness OF the following report re
Gently rendered by one OF his con.
ductors, names and numbers being
purposely omitted:
"Mr. ......... Trainmaster.
Il am enclosing card from passenger
that was on my train No. 49,, leay
Ing ............ nj ALB p. m. octo
Der TO-
There was small head Of a nail
worked through the cushion OF seat
In car No. 49,. In smoker. Tore hole
In pants an inch long.
Il am sending this information In
case they should put In claim for
same
Conductor.
"P. $. This passenger was a man."
Illinois Central Magazine.