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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

Home Brew

Howdy. folks. Today Is Fish
Day. but II won't be celebrated
by many sardines.
Science may soon be able 10 de-
velop human giants. according 10 DR..
r. c. Hoskins. famous gland special
ist.
But who wants 10 Be a human
giant7 coupos aren't large enough
rs u Is.
We don't care what Congress does
n il would only pass law compel
ling the Pullman company to make
their sheets longer.
sALUTATI0Ns
This Is the anniversary Of tho
birthday OF Robert Burns and
the correct salutafion Is '.Hoof,
mon.''
On the other 3si days OF the
year the situation OF lot Of
people b "Hooch, mani"
Another reason why Health Com
missioner II. NJ. Read doesn't want
his lnternes to examine drunk pris-
oners Is because they 20 Temporal
rily insane from listening to The
Shooting Of Dan McGraw," and Gun
ga Din"
Fish. caught unlawfuily In the wa
tiers OF Puget Ssund. are now being
boonegged in seattle. But don't buy
any. They may be synthetic
Fish that we're being sold by one
bootiegger were easily detected be.
cause they were sEnelt.
RADIO PROGRAM
Il. s. v. P.-"Answer Me"
tSolo.l
c. o. D,-"The Woman Pays"
r. o. B.-"My Sweetie Went
Away"
A. M-"CaroIina In the Morn
Ing"
b. v. D.-"spring Song
DR.. Emile Coue is back in this
country. and Will be surprised TO
learn that his famous formula. Yes.
We Have No Bananas" Is already
forgotten by the great mass Of the
people.
Old Siias Grump. the sage Of
Pumpkin Hollow. says that using the
dial telephone has SO strengthened
his forefinger that his bowling has
improved 100 per cent.
SIGN ON A FORD BUG:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25
Fifteen Slain in
Explosion of Tank

LEIPZIG. Jan. 25.--Fifteen per.
sons were killed and several NOR
tally wounded today by ;he explo-
sion of an air tank at the Leuna
works.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

10 days In Jail.
A collision between two autos.
Thursday evening. nt ". S7th st. and
Woodlawn ave. resulted in injuries
TO Edwin Dahlberg. IS. 1909 18th
ave: Wallace Il. Brett. II. and n
man and woman who refused TO give
their names Dahlberg was driving
n small roadster when II struck n
car driven by T. X. Widger. OF lone.
Both cars were wrecked in the ditch.
The woman and Widger refused 10
go to the hospital and departed. aitho
both seemed 10 be injured. Bretz
and Dnhlberg we're taken TO the hos
pital, severely hurt
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25
German Leader Is
Reported Killed

LONDON. Jan. 25.-Herr Schlicht.
noted separatist leader, was assas-
mated today at Adensu, in the
Rhineland. according % Css.tsl
News Berlin dispatch.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25
JAIL BROKER AS WOMAN FACING
DRUNKEN DRIVER DEATH PENALTY
Convicted Of Staying Her
Mother in-LaW; To Pay

ATLANTA, Ca. Jan. 25.--Mrs.
Ida Hughes today was sentenced to
be executed March IL for the muir.
der OF her mother.ln.law. Sen
tence was pronounced by Judge O..
II. Howard. after a jury in superior
court had found the young woman
guilty OF murder In the first de-
gree.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25
CAPACITY
One papa, two mamas

Paris dispatch says French boxing
federation has ordered dlscontinuance
Of the practice Of fighters exchang
ing kisses after bout. This Item
should be Of interest 70 all married
couples.
ny gWEETIE says that pco-tof
pants
Are coming into rogue again,
SO a quart on each hip unseen II
the cve
Is the bootieo0er's fashion foI
men. H.
a movie magnate declares the day
Of the mIllion.doliar film is over.
Not while the press-agents are
alivel
T0DAY'S DEFINITION
Nail-A small. slender piece Of
metal used TO aim at while ham.
mering your finger or thumb.
y Paderewsh is coming 10 Seattle
shortly. and then we can find out II
he has followed the prevailing styles
and had !. bobbed.
The police arc absolutely right in
q automobiles show a light al
n II an auto isn't lighted up.
IN you tell whether or not II
! safe to hit II?
IN to Page 10, Column 81
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25
S KACIT
CO S IS
SOARING
BY JOHN w. NELSON

III bOftN w. 4NEt<oOEN
Additional appropriations, var
iously estimated at from 100000
10 S3.000,000 will be asked by
the board Of public works and
Skagit Engineer Carl II. Uhden
from the city council before the
Skaglt power project-Gorge unit
can be completed.
Engineer linden estimates the ad.
ditional appropriations at 10 per cent
OF the estimated cost, which was sl1,-
oo0, 900.
City Engineer ]. d. Blackwell
stated positively Thursday that the
outside work on the Skagit. including
the plant and transmission lines TO
the city limits. can be completed for
the sli 200. 900.
Engineer Uhden's original estimate
for this work was SO, roo. 900.
Blackwell estimates the expendi.
lures for the balance Of the plant at
s300, 900.
ALL STATEMENTS
CONTRADICTORY
linden failed to estimate the cost
of the Skagit outside the city, but
said all work can be completed with
nm additional appropriation of 10 per
cent OF the estimates. This would
place inside construction costs at ST..
100. 900.
These statements. contradictory as
they are. are the best information that
can be obtained on the muddled con.
dition OF the Skagit project.
While Supt. J. D. Ross OF the city
light department, In an address be-
Turn 10 Page 10. Column II
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

THE photo of J. d.
4 Blackwell, city en-
gineer, and board mem
Der, belongs here.
"Pd rather not"
Blackwell told a Star
photographer Friday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

OED MAN WINTER is having a hard
~ time to retain his standing in Seattle
this January. With robins digging worms
in Seattle bacllyards pussy willows in
bloom and folks going about in shirt
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

Photos by Price A Carter
Star Staff Photo
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-01-25

Cloudy. tri.h probably rain LATE
tonight and Saturday; nodcr-
ate soufhcusicrlv trinds.
Temperatures Last "a Hours
Maximum. so. Minimum. IS.
To-day noon. o..
The daily worker., 1924-08-14
GOmpers and Wall Street

In an editorial, appearing in the American Fed
erationist for August, captioned ''The Lesson st.
Paul Taught" Mr.. Samuel Gompers made his con
fession in bankruptcy: "Granted that Wall Street
has exercised powerful and at times dominating
influence upon American national government,
there never has been any real bar to an ousting
of that government, or to popular influence upon
that government, or to a voice for anybody who
could make himself heard-and it has never been
a Wall Street government in the that the
Communists demand "a workers and farmers
government"
Surely, at this old age, Mr.. Gompers knows bet
ter than to characterize the United States govern
ment in such an amateursh fashion. The owner
ship of the militia, the army, the navy the Pinker
tons the injunction courts, congress- the press the
church, the educational system, and sundry other
means of oppression and misinformation by the
employing class is real bar to the ousting of the
present exploiters government by the workingmen.
Surely, the ownership Of the steel mills, coupled
with the feuda domination of the lives of the steel
workers is another real bar to working class free
dom. Certainly, the enactment of espionage laws,
the power to pass criminal syndicalist laws, the
ability to imprson striking workers and to Jail
working men for political reasons are also real
bars which Mr. Gompers either dares not, or re-
fuses to face, in criticising the Communists
Yes, the Communists believe in a workers and
farmers government The working men and the
farming masses constitute theoverwhelming majori-
ty of the population. These masses will rule only
when they develop sufficient class consciousness to
undermine the above mentioned real bars to their
political and economic freedom Furthermore,
these masses will attain their victory and main
tain their political power only when they organize
a workers and farmers government which will not
temporize with the attempts of the exploiters to
restore their lost privileges If ST. Paul has taught
the American workers any lesson at ALL it is this
truth more than any other
The daily worker., 1924-08-14
That Educational Work

One of the most promising developments in the
Workers Party has been the deepening of the edu-
cational work within the ranks of the membership.
Schools for intense study are growing up, slowly
it is true but surely, in New York and Chicago.
These schools are equipping the comrades who
must bear the burdens of organization and leader
ship in the rapidly growing movement technically
by teaching methods of organization, writing and
speaking intellectually by giving them thorough
grasp of the theory and practice of the Communist
International together with broadening and
deepening of their foundation of MARKHAM eco
nOmics.
This educational work does not yield the i'm
mediate and intense interest, the satisfaction of
seeing immediate results, like that accompanying
the active work in the class struggle, in strikes,
in union disputes, in electson and other political
campaigns. But if the interest is not so immediate
and intense, it is more enduring and, satisfying
if the results not tangible they go deeper and
affect the future more profoundly.
The future of the Workers Party and of the
whole revolutionary movement in America will be
determined by those especially by the younger gen
eration who are taking up this educational work
so intellectually and zeaously. Its progress is
the guarantee of the growth in power and influence
of the Communist movement within the American
working class Every wide-awake member of the
Workers Party will participate in one way an
other, in making it the success it should be.
The daily worker., 1924-08-14
The B. & o. Railroad Cashes In

Announcement is made that the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is completing its financial reorgan
ization that has involved the issuance of bonds
totalling $155, 100000, which has increased the
fixed charges for interest against the roads revenue
by something more than $2,O0O,0OO per year.
The extra $2,OOO,0O0 per year surplus value that
will thus be diverted to the holders of B. & O..
bonds represents the expectations of the manage
ment regarding the socalled cooperative plan OF
VIM II. Johnston and the railroad shop unions.
The extra profits that will accrue to the bosses
from the enslavement of the unions is considered
such sure thing that it can be estimated at the
rate of two millions per year already
1t may mean riches for the bondholders, this b.
& O. plan but it means slavery for the workers.
The "open shop" publications all over the country
are beginning to praise the b. & o. plan. They
print story after story to show how much more
effectively the johnson type of bureaucrat can ex-
plot the workers for them than they can do them
selves. The company union" is going out of favor
with the labor-hating employers-they want to
hook up with the better scheme that pays so much
more richly. They want the B. & o. plan of the
shop unions extended to cover the labor movement.
They want the extra profits, the more intense
exploitation, that goes with it. And for the very
reason that it is so agreeable to the employers it
is the most dangerous enemy of the workers. The
B. & o. plan must be wiped out This lesson has
been again emphasized by the B. & o. bond sales.
The daily worker., 1924-08-14
Get a Member and a Sub

The slogan of "Get new member for the Work
ers Party and a subscriber for the DAILY
WORKER" is the key to the most important prob
lem Of revolutionary progress in America. 1t
means to broaden the organizational foundation
of the American section Of the Communist Inter
national and to multiply its influence What can
be more important for revolutionist than such
a result?
1t has become necessary to emphasize such
slogans as these and to interpret the ifemeanlng
behind them We cannot allow ourselves to fall
into the slothfu habit of saying to ourselves: ooh
well, that is just some more advertising" Such
an attitude is merely an excuse for lazness 1t is
an evasion of the most revolutionary work that
faces us in America at the moment. We must
make the slogan battle cry, a rallying of the
whole party for great advance, call for one OF
our first effective assaults upon capitalism.
For it must never be forgotten that the first
battles of Communism are struggles for the pos
session of the minds and souls of the workers
This struggle is against petty bourgeois and paci-
fist ideas and programs 1t can only be extended
and carried to a successful conclusion if the Work
ers Party continually draws into its organized
work all the new material that is prepared by our
campaigns and our educational work Then the
circle of the fight must be extended again by en-
gaging new circles of readers for The DAILY
WORKER and our other papers, Get new mem
Der and a new sub is battle cry! Are you in the
struggle?
The daily worker., 1924-08-14

Board is a powerful weapon in the
hands of the railroad owners prevent
ing them from achieving this end. and
therefore they are fighting to abolish
that board. Their motives are not for
good citizenship, but their economic
interests.
The same tests applied to any 9th
er legislation coming before congress,
either under the present Republican,
or Democratic, or hypothetical
administration would show the same
results.
To give another instance, the gov
ernment raises It's income thru tax
alton. In levying taxes, it has to deal
with certain economic groups in this
country. There are the big capitalists
with their tremendous income. There
are the smaller capitalists with lower
income. There are the small business
men of various types with still small
er income. There are the professional
groups, the well-to-do farmers and the
poor exploited farmers, and the wage
workers.
Any piece of legislation for the pur-
pose of levying taxes can be designed
so as to bear more heavily or less
heavily upon one or the other of these
various groups.
Does Senator LaFollette contend
that it is a question Of good citizen
ship whether such taxation legislation
shall bear more heavily upon the
small business men he represents or
upon the wage workers of this coun-
try, or does he argue that it is good
citizenship for the little business men
not to want to pay the taxes and it
ought to be good citizenship for the
wage workers to want to pay the
taxes, or where does the good citi-
zenship come in?
No thinking person will be deceived
by buncombe such as is contained in
Senator LaFollette's telegram. The
basis of political struggles are eco
nomic interests. Economic classes
fight to improve their position in So
ciety thru using the governmental
power.
When one economic group tries to
hide this fundamental struggle in
such phrases as common interest in
good citizenship" it is because it is
endeavoring to advance its own eco
nomic interests, at the expense of de-
ceiving another economic group.
The daily worker., 1924-08-14
BY c. E. RuTHENHERo.

IN acknowledging the endorsement
1 of his candidacy for the presidency
by the Executive Council of the
American Federation OF Labor, 5ena.
tor LaFollette sent the following tele-
gram:
"To break the combined power of
selfish interests upon government
is the paramount issue of this cam
paign and with the support of or
ganized labor, the farmer, business
men, professional men, and all 9TH
er men and women whose sole in
terest in government is that of good
citizenship, feel confident that we
shall win"
1t is the boast of the supporters OF
Senator LaFollette that he has forty
years of service behind him. For four
decades he has participated in the
government of this country either on
a state or national scale.
We wonder how often during those
forty years in connection with the
government Senator LaFollette has
dealt with men and women whose
sole interest in government is that OF
good citizenship" If Senator LaFol
lette honestly answered that question
unless he was utterly ignorant, which
we do not believe, he would be
obliged to admit that in SO per cent
of the governmental actions with
which he has been connected there
has been some other Issue than that
of good citizenship.
All that Senator LaFollette needs
to do, in order to recognize the fact
that his appeal for government on the
basis of good citizenship is pure bun
combe, would be to examine the legis
lation which has come before the sen
ate of the United States since he has
been a member of that august body
Such an examination would show con
clusively that what the government
concerns itself with is the economic
interests of the various groups which
exist in present-day society. The laws
which are passed in the congress OF
the United States, in the great ma
iority of instances, have as their pur
pose to aid and assist a particular
economic group in securing a greater
share of the wealth of this country.
The daily worker., 1924-08-14

If, as some cynic declared, the purpose of Ian
guage is to conceal thought, then the speech of
acceptance delivered by the democratic standard
bearer, John w. Davis, is a mastery contribution
to political twaddle.
Mr. Davis more than ran true to form in his
evasion of the fundamental issues in his refusal
TO state that he is in the to the presi
dent of the United States in behalf of the employ
ing class Every of the stressed issues was
buried in mass of yerbiage. We realize that poll
tics is a form of war, and that in war camouflage
is an effective weapon, but it appears to that the
high priced lawyer has handled his case poorly in
this respect
But despite this attempt at melodrama and
spreadeagle philosophy in dealing with such issues
as the Klan, the League Of Nations and corruption
in government, Mr.. Davis speech of acceptance
should prove of service in making more clear to
the workers and farmers the fact that his loyalty
to the big financial and industrial bosses is un-
alloyed.
To the workers, Mr. Davis has little else to offer
than the fossilzed shibboeths which were branded
insufficient by Mr.. Gompers Making "labor
part Of the grand council Of the nation and de-
manding ''the free recognition of the right of all
those who work to share in all decisions that affect
their welfare" are monstrous pretensions behind
which the leading open-shoppers of the country
The daily worker., 1924-08-14

Senator LRFollette would admit
that we went to war to fight for the
economic interests OF the capitalists
of the country. He would admit that
the Shipping Board legislation, the
War Veterans Board enactments, the
Teapot Dome steal legislation, were
all designed for the purpose Of per-
mitting certain economic groups to
further their economic interests. He
would probably be ready to carry
still further this explanation of gov
ernmental legislation and agree that
tariff laws, taxation laws, banking
laws, are drafted in order to give eco
nonic advantage to some particular
group in this country.
Maybe Senator LaFollette would
say: OF course this is true, but it is
to fight against legislation of this
character that he is conducting his
present campaign.
In his telegram to the A. F. of L.,
he proposes to substitute legislation
on the basis of good citizenship in
pidSC VI lCSAoAdtAOH III ouppOII VI Tic
economic class interests of groups in
present day society.
Let us see whether that can be
done.
One of the driving motives behind
the participation of the Railroad
Brotherhood in the LaFollette cam
paign is their desire for the abolition
of the Railroad Labor Board. Sena-
tor LaFollette supports that demand
on the part of the railroad unions.
What is the basis of this demand
on the part of the railroad organiza-
tions? Do they want the Railroad
Labor Board abolished because it is a
matter of good citizenship and their
motive is the promotion of good citi-
zenship?
To ask that question is to show the
utter nonsense of proposing the unity
of certain groups on the basis of their
sole interest in government being
that of good citizenship.
The railroad organizations want
the Railroad Labor Board abolished
because it is an instrument thru
which the railroad owners prevent
them from achieving better economic
conditions for themselves. They
want more wages, they want better
hours of work, they want better work
ing conditions. The Railroad Labor
The daily worker., 1924-08-14

That is what LaFoIlette and the
LaFollette movement is, endeavoring
to do. The interests Of the business
men whom Senator LaFollette men,
tions in his telegram and those OF
organized labor are not the same and
cannot be harmonized The legisla-
tion which will come before congress
in the interests Of the small business
men whom Senator LaFollette repre-
sents will not be legislation in the
interests Of organized labor.
When Senator LaFollette appeals to
organized labor on the basis Of good
citizenship in place Of on the basis
Of their economic interests as class,
he is trying to fool them thru a eu-
phemistic phrase and get their sup
port in a struggle for political pow
or to be used for the advancement Of
another class.
When it comes to interpreting what
good citizenship means, Senator La
Toilette will interpret it to mean ev-
erything which strengthens the posi-
ton and improves the economic
standing of the small business men
of the United States.
Is organized labor for that kind Of
good citizenship?
Will it follow LaFollette on the bas-
is Of such a phrase?
If organized labor wants to prove
to itself that there can be no unity
on the basis of good citizenship, let
it develop it's own economic program
and submit this program to Senator
LaFollette for approval.
Let it demand that business, big
and little, which supported the slo-
gan Work or Fight" during the war
now adopt the policy Work or union
wages without work to the unem-
ployed." That test will quickly show
that LaFollette's brand of good citi-
zenship is to fight for the economic
interests Of the class ne represents.
The capitalists know their class in
terests and fight for them as good
citizens. The little capitalists and
small business men Of the LaFollette
movement know their class interests
and are fighting for them as good
citizens.
When the workers really become
good citizens, they viii have a class
program of their own and fight for it
in place of being hooked by the catch
phrases of LaFollette.
The daily worker., 1924-08-14

have time and again hidden their most nefarious
purposes. 1t was precisely in the name Of such
hypocritical idealism that the grand offensive
against the working class was launched by the
bosses In 1921.
And to tell the farmers that what they need Is
not patronage but certain laws and that they are
not mendicants is to heap insult upon injury in
their present acute economic distress. Just as Mr..
Davis does not propose to disturb the exploters in
the city, he proposes to aid and abet the expro-
priation of the farming in the rural areas.
In view of these outstanding features Of Mr..
Davis campaign manual, and in view of the total
sterility of the democratic platform can readily
understand the difficult position in which Mr. Com
pers placed and his being compelled to discard,
temporarily at least his time dishonored practice
of offering to barter away the votes of of the
industrially organized workers.