The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-30
TALLENTIRE DONS
FIGHTING toes
TO BATTLE MARS
Noted Orator Starts on
Anti-War Tour

II am starting out again on the
same kind of campaign that brought
me a threat Of Jail in Alberta, Canada,
in 1914" declared Norman Tallentire,
noted revolutionary orator, as he pre-
pared to start on an anti-war speaking
tour that will take him from st. Louis,
Mo-, to Seattle, Wash.
Comrade Tallentire is known from
coast to coast as an agitator who
agitates. AS a platform orator he
ranks high with the best in the radical
movement and his work as an organ
izer is excelled by few.
The tenth anniversary Of the World
War finds the capitalists unable to
get their rotten system in working
order and they are again marshalling
their fleets and increasing their
armies, preparing for another orgy of
blood letting. The Communist Inter-
national has inaugurated a special
anti-war campaign, starting July 9th
and winding up on August 4th. Com
rade Tallentire is one of the Workers
Party speakers engaged in telling the
American workers the truth about the
late war and why they are going to
have another unless they get rid Of
the capitalist system.
my first fight after 1 crossed into
the United States in 1914" said Tai
lentire to the DAILY WORKER, was
over the inhuman hanging of Frank
Little. On my arrival in Salt Lake
City, co-operated with Jim O'Hare
and Grover H. Perry, both of the L.
W. W., the latter a grandson of the
admiral who blasted Western capital
list civilization into the Mikado's en-
pire from the threatening guns of the
United States warships. His grandson
would blast capitalist civilization off
the face of the earth.
81 joined the Mooney agitation in
1916 and spoke to hundreds of labor
unions while working at my trade.
From August, 1918, to August, 1919, 1
toured the country for Mooney under
the auspices of the International
Workers Defense League and spoke
at monster demonstration in Denver
on July %, 1918, when 1000 workers
met to demand justice for Mooney.
But for the treachery OF the labor
takers and their sabotage Of the great
mass movement for his release, Tom
Mooney would not be today behind
the bars Of San Quentin"
Comrade Tallentire was one of the
leaders in the great general building
strike that shook San Francisco and
the Bay districts during July and
August, 1921.
In 1922, while attending a conven-
ton of the Communist Party at
Bridgeman, Mich, he was arrested
and is now under bonds awaiting trial.
Comrade Tallentire's lecture will be
"Ten Years After the World War"
After ten years Morgan is trying to
mortgage Europe, and the political
henchmen Of the capitalists are run
ming around in circles while the work
ers are gradually gaining strength,
and under the leadership of the Com
munist International getting ready to
strike death blow at war by abolish.
ing the capitalist system which is the
sole cause Of modern wars.
Comrade Tallentire's list of dates
follows:
st. Louis-July Both.
Kansas City-July 31st.
Omaha-August LIST.
Denver-August 3rd.
Salt Lake City-August 9Th.
Los Angeles-August 7th.
San Francisco and Bay District
August 9th, 10th and 18th.
Portland-August 18th.
Tacoma-August 14th.
Seattle-August 18th.
Vancouver-August 18th.
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