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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
LITHUANIANS UNITE
MEMBERS BEHIND W. P.
ELECTION CAMPAIGN

A general membership meeting
will soon be called by the LIthuanl-
an Federation to promote the
Foster-citlow presidential campaign,
according to Roy Mizara, secretary.
The "ViInls," chicago's mesl-weekIy
Communist newspaper, and "Lais-
ve," the Lithuanian Communist
daily paper, published In Brooklyn,
are being used as the shock forces
in the campaign among the Llthuani-
ans to carry the Communist mes
sage during the election campaign.
A general membership meeting was
held recently in Brooklyn at which
the principle subject was promotion
Of the new party program and the
Foster-Gitlow election campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
EMPTY ANNIVERSARY

Now, on the tenth anniversary OF
those days you can draw the balance.
You can see how dishonorably your
faith has been abused. Even the vic.
torious countries have become incom-
parably poorer than they were before
tho war. But II the bourgeoisie has
cheated you, that is only in the nature
OF things: the bourgeoise is our most
irreconcilable, our most merciless en-
envy. But you were also cheated by
those whom you had looked upon as
your leaders. The Social-democrats
who through their speeches against
tho bourgeoisie had won the trust Of
the workers, flung themselves on Au-
gust /, 1914, into the camp of the bour-
geoisie and used all their power, oil
their authority, to help the bourgeoisie
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Class War Against Inperialist War!
Manifesto Of the Communist International on Tenth Anniversary the World
nal on Tenth Anniversary of the World Wa

most intense conflict in the class
war.
The tool Of capitalism next in i'm
portance to Fascism is social-demo-
cracy In critical moments, social
democrats mobilize all their strength
in order to prevent the attack of the
proletariat against the bourgeois
state. They condemn Fascism in
long and meaningless speeches, re-
proach the bourgeoisie with cruelty,
but at the same time they swear to
the workers to keep out of the horror
of war against the bourgeosie; they
play the fool; they flatter and cajole;
they poison class consciousness: they
main the will-power Of the workers,
and they disarm the proletariat men
tally and finally surrender it to the
Fascist. This happened in Hungary.
1t happened in Italy. 1t happened in
Germany.
AS soon as the bourgeoisie feels
assured that the revolutionary out
break has again been warded off thru
the united activities of the Fascist
and the Social-Democrats, it knows
that the time has come to restore a
regime that is a little less bloody, a
little less provoking, a little more
normal-that is to say, more obscured
in the tatters of legality. At such
times there is change of scene.
But yesterday the Fascist occupied
the center of the stage,-with revol-
vers, daggers and burning torches
while the Social-Democrats directed
their cooperative efforts from secret
corridors; today, when the immediate
danger seems to be over, the bour-
geoisie hurries to lead the Fascist
off-stage, and brings forth from the
secret corridors the radicals" the
reformists, the Mensheviki, the apos-
ties of legality, democracy and peace
and places them in the foreground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

various parts of the Austro-Hungari
an kingdom have been separated
from each other thru a process of in
finite division. In the Balkan states
the situation is still worse. France
is bending under her war debts and
under the burden of her militarism
as never before. Italy is weakened,
and subject to continual commissions.
England cannot even dream of the
economic power that was hers before
the war. The chronic state of I'M
employment is eating away the body
of Europe like a perpetual sore. The
numerical strength Of the European
armies and navies is not less than it
was before August 1, 1914. And the
expenditures for armies, because Of
technical improvements, have become
greater.
Farmers Hit.
The war laid a heavy hand upon
the farmers of Europe, of America
of the whole world. The bourgeoisie
of every country held up to it's own
peasantry, as a result of the war, the
prospect Of a boom in agriculture. 1t
assured the farmer that after this
last war" the heavy burden of mill
tarism would be lifted from his
shoulders, The farmer was doubly
deceived.
If at the beginning of the war the
propertied farmers sold their pro-
ducts at high price and were able
to pay off their old debts with cheap
money, and if they appeared, in this
way, to have become rich, neverthe-
less, thru the subsequent fall in
values, the farmers profits were re-
duced to nothing. The economic de-
cline of Europe diminished the de-
mand for agricultural products and
hit not only the peasantry of Europe,
but also the American farmers, great
numbers of whom became poverty
stricken. At the same time militar-
ism becomes more exacting and
more lavish. The burden Of war
assessments is threatening to break
the farmer down completely.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Party Athletes
First Games In
N. Y. Big Success

The first athletic games Of the
Workers Sport Alliance of America
were held in conjunction with the pic
mic of the Workers Party, District No.
2, in Peasant Bay Park, Bronx, N. Y,
on Sunday, August 10. The games of
the newly organized workers sport
organization were bigger than had
been expected.
A hundred athletes took part in the
games and an enthusiastic crowd of
approximately 1000 comrades wit
messed the stunts of the working-class
athletes.
The following nationalities were
represented among the contestants:
Americans, Finnish, Swedish, Czecho-
Slovak, Jugo-Slav, Greek, Italian, Ger
man, Armenian and Jewish.
The games were as follows:
Running series-too Meters, 400 Meters
and 800 Meters.
First Prize. Pasanen, Brooklyn
Fi gsdshd Wprkers A. e. 2272 points
same seG cub F 22is points AOranamS OF the
Third Prize-L. Wax. Athletic Club
Xesa of Harlem Finnish Br. w. p,
220.2 points.
Runner up was William Lindfors Of
Athletic Club Toverit, Jamaica, L. l.,
207 points.
Throwlpg seres-t2 Ri Shot; Discus
and Javelin.
First Prize - NJ. Holpainen, Brook
lyn Finnish Workers A. c., 21235
points
second PRICE,, Lahti, Brooklyn
Third PRICK. Kilpi. B. F. w. A. c.,
194.44 points.
Fourth Prize-R. Kauppinen, B. F.
W. A. G., 1906 points:
Club Vesa, is2.l1 points PC ' '9' A'"'s'''
Jumping Series-Runnng Broad Hop,
Step and Jump and High Jump.
First Prize-M. Holpainen, 227.53
Second Prize. Pasanen. 22o.ss
Third PRICK. Kilpi. 21s52 points.
Medley Relay Goo, 200, 400 and
- 800 Metersl.
TINES faes' n min., 5s7 Sec Sc '" A. C. team
Second Prize-Athletic Club vesa.
Time, 4 min, 11.2 sec.
=, Third Prize.-.Athletic Club Toverit.
Fourth Prize-Athletic Club Kamra-
teno. Time, min, 1856 sec;
~, Fifth Prize-Y; w L. of New York.
Three Mile Run.
First PRICK. Arlund, b. F. w. A. G.
Time, IL min, Ala sec.
Second Prize-O. Hack, Vesa. Time,
Is min, 1916 sec.
Third Prize-Wm. Relander, Vesa.
Time, is min., 1875 sec.
Fourth Prize. Inkapol, Vesa. Time,
Is min,, 81 sec.
Fifth Prize-w. Hill. B. F. w. A. C.
Women's 7o-Meter Dash.
First Prize = Hilja Saxlin, Vesa.
Time, 9.6 sec.
Second Prize-Lena Soderman, Kan
sakoura A. c. S. I. N. Y. Time, 9.S sec.
Third Prize-Aino Wax, Vesa and
Minnie Boulovich, Czecho SLOW k
Workers Federated Gymnastic Assn.
Time, 10.4 sec.
Runner up-Comrade Miss Brynnov-
sky of the Czecho-Slovak w. F. G. A.
Time, 1916 sec.
Juniors ReIay-4x5o Meters.
First Prize-Harbor S. /. N. Y. Ju-
niors Y. w. L., 1921 seconds.
Second Prize-Harlem Juniors of
Y. w. L., 37.4 seconds.
The Mariners Harbor Juniors won all
prizes in the children's sack race.
All workingclass athletes who would
like to join the Workers Sport Alliance
of America should write to Emil Toik-
ka, Secretary, 63S East 13sth Street,
New York City.
Long live the Red Sport Interna-
tiOnallt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
KEEP OFF REVOLUTION

The bourgeois says to the Men
shevik: Your Fascist relatives have
not kept their proper place; it is
necessary to smooth out and modify
the results of their work; it is neces-
sary to wipe off the dripping blood
stains; it is necessary to soothe gap
ing wounds with consoling balm; it
is necessary to create new hopes or
revive old illusions in tired minds;
otherwise, dependency will turn to
doubt and doubt will be transformed
into the spirit Of revolution. 1t is for
this reason, for. this purpose, that all
the MacDonalds, Blums, Staunings,
Vanderveldes, Scheidemanns. and
Wells's have succeeded in taking over
power, or are approaching power.
Between times, militarism is auto
matically going ahead with its work.
Under MacDonald's government new
warships are being built, the making
of tanks is being pushed, the air fleet
is growing, the chemical implements
of war are multiplying. What is all
this for? For the battle of the prole-
tariat against capital?
Mllitarism Must Go.
oh, no. 1t is for the purpose of
supporting the power of English CAPT.
tai over India, over Egypt, over Ire
land and over the English proletariat
While making no concessions to the
workers, the bourgeoisie perfect their
war aeroplanes with the hands of the
Mensheviki; the French minister Her
riot, who is supported by the social
lists, is continuing the war policy and
the foreign policy of Millerand and
Poincare. AS we Communists have
claimed, responsibility for the Ruhr
occupation rests not only with the
bourgeoisie, but also with the social
democrats, and is to be scored also
against the Mensheviki. But now the
whole world perceives that the Ruhr
occupation is being carried thru only
as the result of an agreement between
Herriot on the one hand, and Mac
Donald, Blum, Vandervelde, Ebert
and Wells on the other. The Second
International has become, before our
very eyes, the International of the
Ruhr Occupation.
Conservatives, Fascist, radicals"
and Mensheviks come and go but mill
tarism stays. 1t stocks UP its reserve
powers and increases them, it perfects
1t weapons, it prepares new plans, 1t
keeps itself in check until the most
burning memories of the last war
have been wiped out of the minds of
the people, until the social-democrats
have been successful in propitiat-
ing the working masses with the idea
of the inevitability and permanency
Of the bourgeois state. Then it will
find 1t possible openly to start out on
the path of new world theft. Then the
hour for new imperialist war will
have struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago

0PEN air meetings in Chicago are
~ drawing very large crowds. As
high as 500 people have often been
present at various meetings to listen
to Workers Party, Young Workers
League and Trade Union Educational
League speakers.
With the election campaign on, open
air meetings will no doubt be more
numerous and even more successful,
since the workers are in an attitude to
receive working class messages.
The language branches and the Eng
lish branches Of the w. p, Y. w. l..
and T. q. e. L. are scheduling speak
ers regularly, as can be seen from the
above list Of meetings. The city or
ganization is furnishing speakers for
these meetings.
More branches should get into the
street meeting activity. Branches
should try to furnish additional speak
ers IL only to act as chairmen Of these
meetings. II is very important that
the street meetings committee of the
DThuCu buOulu always NC CCibdln W
have plenty Of literature on hand at
the meetings, especially the DAILY
WORKER. There have been few
unnecessary failures in this respect.
Literature sells plentifully at these
meetings both in English and other
languages.
There is also plenty Of free ntera-
ture at the local office for the street
meetings, and the branches shall see
TO It that comrades call for that.
Branches which want to schedule
open air meetings should give plenty
of notice TO the city organization and
should also arrange in plenty Of time
for the corner to be used.
During the election campaign pc
Rod the congressional district cam
paign committees will be expected to
schedule open air and indoor meetings
steadily thruout the elections cam
paign period.
For speakers and additional infor-
nation write or telephone Martin
Abern. State 1885, Room 1903, 166 West
Washington st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
THE GERMAN REVOLT

The toilers of Germany and
Austria-Hungary, as a result of the
war, became rebellious. The old
dynasties were overthrow. If the
German junkers and capitalists kept
their property and their power after
November, 1918, they can be thank
full only to Scheidemann, Ebert,
Kautsky and all the other leaders of
the social-democracy Of Germany.
These same people, these same poll
ticians, these same traitors, who for
four years. aided the Hohenzollern
clan to wipe out the German people,
were the ones who, during the late
months of 1918 prevented the work
ers from settling with their exploit
ers.
The fact that the power of capital
ism stood firm after the war, in a
Europe that was shattered to its
very foundations, is to be credited
exclusively to the Second Inter-
national. the watch-dogs at the doors
of the bourgeoisie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Poles Got Freedom
But Workers Get
1t in Wage Cuts
ESPECIAL to the Daily Worker.l

WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 17-Em-
ployers in the heavy industries in Po-
lish Upper Silesia are serving notice
of 30 per cent wage cut.
They also tried to lengthen the
working hours, but the government
has forbidden this. The bosses de-
clare that they have no objection to
the workers quitting after eight hours,
but wages will be paid accordingly.
While Germany is starving for coal,
Poland has more than she can take
care Of, but is putting such huge
prices on 1t that the Germans can buy
more cheaply from England and get
better coal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Soviet Government
Published 18,000,0 900
Text Books in 1928
Especial to The Daily Worker,

MOSCOW, Aug. 17.-Ten billion
pages of printed matter have been is
sued by the Russian government print
ing house the past five years. Start
ing in 1919 as a small Office issuing
war propaganda, 1t now specializes in
textbooks, which formed half OF its
1928 output, and OF which it issued
during that year 100000 copies.
Its slogan for next year is 'Litera,
ture for the Village" and its program
is to supply the thousands of village
reading rooms which have been estab.
lished during the past two years with
material relating to peasant needs,
and also simple literary introductions
to Russian classics and world history.
It claims now to be the largest pub
fishing house in the world, in the
number and size OF its books.
Send In that SupsorIptlon Today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Manifesto of the Communist International

Against War!
Against the Bourgeoisie!
Against the Social Traitors!
For the World Revolution!
For the Dictatorship of the Probe,
taEiat!
For Communism!
TEN YEARS have passed since the
world bourgeoisie unclaimed the
hellish power Of militarism. On
August 1, 1914, began the greatest
slaughter Of human beings that the
world has ever known. The ruling
classes and their military strategists
believed that the war would end in a
few months. But the events which
they themselves had brought about
soon got beyond their control. Their
armies, growing to unheard Of pro-
portions, entrenched themselves
against one another.
The entire labor power Of Europe
and the labor power OF countries far
beyond, the borders of Europeans
conscripted to supply the necessities
Of the war. They created to destroy
and they destroyed in order to be
able to create new instruments OF
destruction. For four years, three
months and twenty-six days this
destructive and idiotic venture con.
tinued,-the venture in which CAPT
talist society found its consummate
expression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
MIXED DRINKS"
START TROUBLE
in BOSTON, TOO
Socialists and Liberals
Nearly Come to Blows
Especial to Tho Daily wOrkerl

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 17.-only
twice during the entire session Of the
Massachusetts Conference for Pro
gressive Political Action, assembled in
state convention for the purpose Of in
dorsing LaFollette and Wheeler for
president and vice president, respec-
lively, was some life manifested.
The first semblance Of life among
the fossilized 'progressives" manifest
ed itself in a little word quarrel re-
sulting in the unseating of Conrad w.
Crooker and his group of delegates
from the Liberal party Of Massachu-
sets, successor to the Liberal Repub-
lican League, on the ground that they
represent a paper" organization. The
fight was really between two paper"
organizations, since the socialist par
ty dummies, who fought Croker, also
represent a memberless party in
this state.
Walk Out on Socialists.
Mr.. Croker, who since LaFollette
announced his candidacy, tried to play
a prominent part in organizing the
LaFollette forces in Massachusetts,
was denied hearing, and walked out
of the convention with his followers.
He issued the following statement lat
er: ut is evident that the extreme
socialist group, which apparently was
in control, does not want cooperation
from any other groups. 1 am sure
that course would not be approved by
LaFollette OF Wheeler. Our organiza-
ton will go ahead and support LaFol-
lette, just the same"
Croker also said that only recently
he talked the matter over with Con
gresham Nelson, LaFollette's man
ager, who solicited his cooperation.
Later, he said, Gilbert Roe, the re-
Eional director in New York, and
George E. Roewer, Jr.. socialist party
national committeeman and Massachu'
sets campaign manager, invited his
organization to participate in the
state convention, but at the conven-
ton the socialists double crossed him
Don't Want "Third Party"
The second disturbance which
threatened the peace Of the solemn
gathering, arose over a resolution to
provide for the permanent 'organiza-
ton Of labor party" on November.
The resolution was presented by Dan.
iel R. Donovan, president Of the
Worcester Central Labor Union, and
was made the center of attack by a
battery of more than a dozen speak
ers, among whom were socialists. H
P. Redeem, a delegate from Spring
field, declared: I'VE came here to in
dorse LaFolsatte and Wheeler, but if
it is the purpose to go beyond that,
and form a third party, we had bet
ter quit" Peace was finally obtained
when George Clark Of Taunton OBJ
tanned the passage Of an amendment
by eliminating the phrase labor par
ty" and merely calling for meeting
to consider the advisability Of effect
ing a permanent political organiza-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
PRoLETARIAN BUILDERS

FTOleldTlduS DuiL IQo engines Oh
destruction. Proletarians and farm
ers used these engines Of destruction.
Proletarians and farmers Of the vari-
GUS countries annihilated each other.
Looking back, every one Of us asks
himself: How was such madness
even conceivable? But still more i'm
portant, still more pressing, is that
other question: Is a future repetition
Of this mad affair threatening us?
I.
The catastrophe Of the war was a
long time brewing. The class-con-
scious workers saw it coming in ad.
vance and warned the toiling masses
against it. Only revolutionary battle
could have prevented the impending
war and made all war totally impos-
sible; only the revolt of the workers
against Imperialism. Such a revolt,
even had it taken the most gruesome
forms, would not have necessitated
one one-hundredth, no not one one.
thousandth, of the human sacrifice
and the destruction of property that
the war demanded.
Socialists Helped BoureeoIsIe.
But the revolt did not come. Most
OF the socialist parties not only did
not call the workers to revolutionary
battle, against the war, but actually
allied themselves with their govern
ments, declared the war of their par
ticular government to be just and
righteous, and called upon the toiling
masses to support it. Thanks only to
this support on the part Of the
socialists, the bourgeoisie found it
possible to keep the masses in check,
and conduct the war.
Only as a result Of the betrayal Of
the socialist party was the bourgeoi-
sic able to continue the war for four
years. Only thru the cooperation of
the social-patriotic leaders with the
militaristic murderers of the op-
pressed did humanity lose ten million
people and become burdened with
many millions of cripples. Only thru
the funkeyism of Scheidemann and
Ebert, of Renaudel and Longuet, Of
Henderson and VanderVelde. was it
possible for the bourgeoisie I'M
hindered to ruin and impoverish Eu-
rope, and to destroy everything that
had been built up by hundreds of
years of Toll.
BLACK AUGUST 1914.
The first of August, 1914, the first
day of the imperialist war, the day on
which the Social-democratic leaders
openly capitulated to the bourgeoisie,
will remain for all time the darkest,
most evil, most dishonorable day in
the history of mankind.
Working men and women! Farm
ersl Remember what your rulers told
you, what they promised you. from the
first days Of the war. You were told
that this war would bring the COM
mon people an ensured means Of live
lihood. You were promised that after
the war there would be no more mill
tarist burden. You were assured that
this war would be the last. Thus did
the kings. the presidents, the bour-
geois ministers, the journalists, speak
to you. And the social democrats and
the patriotic leaders of the trade
unions repeated these things after
their own fashion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18
Socialist Speaker
Beats Hasty Retreat
at Communist Query

After having spoken for about an
hour on the soap box of the socialist
party for the candidacy of LaFollette
for president, Lena Morrow Lewis
very carefully folded her tents and
skipped away, one eye on the clouds
and the other uneasily surveying a
member of the crowd who wanted to
ask question.
More specifically, ]. Durko Siegel,
a member of the Workers Party Doug.
las Park English Branch, raised hand
when "Comrade" Lewis had done with
her talk, and said that he wanted to
ask question Of the speaker. Lewis,
who has had the embarrassing expert
ence before, looked to the sky and
said:
The Strategic Retreat.
II think it's going to rain pretty
soon and won't be able to answer
any questions"
Saying which, she beat It, leaving
the field to the II workers who CON-
posed her crowd.
The Scene OF Battle.
The retreat occurred on the corner
of Holman and 18th SITS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

There is not a single unscathed
spot in Europe. Germany's economic
life has been set back ten years. Tn,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 17.-Fol-
lowing almost four years of inactivity
in Indiana, the prohibition party came
to the front here today with a full
list OF presidential electors and state
ticket minus an Encouragement.
Petitions will be passed for the sig
natures Of 500 voters, necessary to put
the ticket on the ballots. Not only
strict enforcement Of prohibition laws
but also on tobacco will be asked in
the platform.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-18

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-11-12
Leave for the South.

Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Foster left
last week for their winter home
at Little River, Florida, a short
distance from the city of Miami.
The Fosters are long season visit
ors in this section, occupying their
summer residence on Cranberry
from early spring until the end of
the fall season, usually about the
last of October. They and John
Mitchell of st. Louis and the
Ginocchios Of Chicago have found
that the fall months are really the
prime months for a North Woods
vacation. Mr.. Mitchell left last
week for st. Louis, closing his
home for the winter on Yellow
Birch.