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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
Ford's REGARD

By vote of 227-142 the House Of Represen-
tatives has decided to hand over the great
Muscle Shoals power resource aggregatlng
100000 horsepower.
In violation of the Federal water power act
limiting such leases to fifty years the House
decided to give away for one hundred years
to Mr. Ford for the paltry sum of a maximum
of ten million dollars nitrate plants, steam
plants, and quarries valued at scores OF mil
lions of dollars. The scrap value of the avail
able equipment alone is worth more than what
Ford is to pay for the greatest power resource
of the country.
The whole episode is illustrative of the in
herently corrupt character of capitalist demo-
cratic government in the United States. For
two years Mr.. Ford and other private inter-
ests tried to grab up this great source OF
wealth. For time it appeared as if Mr.. Ford
stood no chance against the competing bidders.
This was particularly true when the fivver
king was harboring and advertising his own
presidential ambitions. But no sooner did
Ford renounce his presidential aspirations and
publicly declare himself for Coolidge than his
Muscle Shoals prospects became rosy. When
the Detroit multimillionaire changed the name
of his clubs from ''Ford for President" to
Ford for President Coolidge" the Muscle
Shoals issue was settled. The reactionary ad-
ministration forthwith decided to be generous
to Mr.. Ford.
The reward to Mr.. Ford by the Coolidge
clique is another case of the typical Teapot
politics with which our whole governmental
system reeks. If anybody still nurses any illu-
sions as to Mr.. Fords idealism stupid, abnor
NAL, or otherwise, this deal for Muscle Shoals
made with the oil-besmeared Old Guard should
dispel these notions forever. Mr.. Ford has
shown himself to be as good politician as an
exploiter of the workers and an enemy of or
gained labor. The price paid by the working
masses for this establishment and enlighten-
ment as to Ford's political integrity and in
competence is our surrender of the greatest
water power resources in the country. This
is an expensive price indeed, but we will have
to go on paying such prices until the workers
and farmers take over the government and the
industries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
Il official mouthpiece of the decay
ing "Grand Old Party has of late
been Tuning at the mouth against
the Teapot investigation. In a
screaming front page outburst the
all too-righteous mouthed Mr.. AL
bert H. Laidlaw, one of the most ex-
pensive capitalist propagandists on
the market, charges the senate pub
lie lands committee Win overthrow
ing the Constitution and becoming a
Cheka.
Exposure Of American Ochrana.
Mr.. Laidlaw has more brass than
even we thought he had. His whole
article is just one whine after an
other against what he calls the at
tempts to outrage and rape such lily
white innocents as Fall, Daugherty,
Sinclair, DENLY, Doheny, and Cool
idge. The spokesman for the Re-
publican Party invokes the aid Of
that Holy Ghost of American DEM
ocracy-the division Of governmental
powers among the legislative, judi
cial and executive departments. This
subterfuge is one Of the most effec-
tive devices employed by the capital
lists to hide the strikebreaking, class
character of the government. Mr..
Laidlaw bowls To the heavens that
this sacred prop Of our employing
class dictatorship is being under
mined by the Teapot exposure. The
Public Lands Committee is assuming
the roles of the courts and the exec
utivel Government by Cheks has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
OCHRANA OR CHEKA?

supplanted government by Constitu-
tion, rants Mr.. Laidlaw.
No one will be fooled by Mr.. Laid
law and his like. The real issue is
not one between so-called constitu-
tionalism and the cheka, but the fact
that our capitalist Ochrana. our die
tatorial capitalist clique dominating
the country, is being exposed in it's
naked ugliness and given somewhat
Of scare by the reaction of the
working and farming masses to the
revelations Of the Teapot investiga-
ton.
His Pitiful Whine.
So determined is the reactionary
coterie Of exploiters to save it's Och
rama, it's secret and open brutal con-
troll Of the government machinery,
the means of production and ex-
change and the natural resources Of
the country, that it is even openly
threatening 10 use force and violence
in order to stife the Teapot disclos-
ures. Thus Numbered Mr.. Laidlaw
in behalf Of his sinister moneyed
forces on guard for the capitalist
class:
SHOULD the state legislatures fol-
low the example set by the United
States senate in the case Of the Tea
pot committee, and should the ex-
ample be followed also by the lesser
legislative bodies Of the country,
such as municipal boards Of alder
men and county boards Of commits
sioners or supervisors, there should
be a popular uprising against inqui-
sitions In the United States, and the
chaos Of Russia or Of France during
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the reign OF terror would be ike a
pleasant excursion to the country in
comparison"
Class Conflicts Sharpening.
So Mr.. Laidlaw and his ilk are
terror-stricken and panicky. The
workers and farmers of America,
like their brethren in all countries
ruled by the capitalist class, are
rapidly approaching the .ime of de-
cisive struggle between their own
organized political power and the
organized agencies of capitalist OPP
preston from the government down.
We are heading straight to the per-
iod when the struggle for mastery
will be between the Cheka-the CEN
tralized political power Of the ex-
plotted masses--and the 0chrana-
the death-dealing agency of the en-
ploying class that has for years
been torturing our best fighters, the
bravest champions of the oppressed
workers and farmers.
The proletarian dictatorship with
It's cheka to crush the criminal plum
derers of the country's wealth like
Fall and Daugherty or the Ochrana
with its jails filed with striking
workers and the capitalist exploiters
riding rough shod over the masses
these are the only ultimate alterna-
tives before the working and farm
ing classes Of the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
GonlperS Plays His Part

The March issue of Mr.. Gompers private
house organ the American Federationst, is an
unusually unlnteresting number. But there is
one article in this issue that is even more in
structive than interesting. This is the story by
Mr. Gompers of Mr.. Gompers' trip to Panama.
We refer to the impression Mr.. Gompers
tried to give his readers of the blessings Haiti
has received at the hands of the American
troops Of occupation.
Everybody knows that the conduct of the
American marines in Haiti is one of the black
est crimes perpetrated by any of the imperial
list capitalist governments. American employ
ing class military forces raped the Haitian
Republic and forcibly dissolved its parliament.
Even the Harvester Trust Senator Mccormick
OF Illinois, who had previously indorsed the
hlgh-handed outrageous conduct of the forces
OF occupation in Haiti, has changed his mind
and now advocates Americas discarding its
present policies.
But with Mr.. Gompers it is different The
president of the American Federation of Labor
quotes the so-called President Borno of the
Haitian Republic to show that all the demands
that have arisen in Haiti and the United States
for the withdrawal of the marines had no real
basis in the conditions and were unwarranted.
Mr.. Gompers has Borno say: ''It is only the
outs that are dissatisfied. One, two, or three
men might some day send out statement con-
trary to what is the opinion of the great ma
Jorlty OF the Haitian people. Naturally people
in the United States may think there is some
basis for the charges made. But there is not"
Gompers shows his hand here as a partner
to the infamous policy pursued by our indus
trial and financial magnates in crushing the
Haitian people. This disgraceful conduct on
the part of Mr.. Gompers is an outrage against
the whole American working class. At best
Mr.. Gompers speaks only for small section
of our workers, the uppermost layer of the
highly skilled aristocratic workers who have
been led into becoming part and parcel of the
imperialist system at the expense of the great
mass of workingmen massed in the big basic
industries of the country. Gompers, as the
loyal lackey of the organ of dollar democracy
at home, the strikebreaking government of the
United States, is also an organic part of the
capitalist machinery of oppression abroad,
vital part of the whole imperialist system
crushing the weaker peoples of the industrially
less developed countries.
This is the part played by Mr.. Gompers in
the struggles of the workers and farmers
against their exploiters and oppressors The
capitalist clique that is holding in subsection
the working masses Of the United States, the
Philippines, Haiti, San Domingo, the Virgin
Islands, and Mexico surely owes great debt
of gratitude to Mr.. Gompers for his role in the
class conflict raging between the employing
and working classes.
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16 More syndicaIism Gases.

SACRAMENTO, March 11.-Of
the % |. w. w. members arrested in
a raid on a conference of the organi-
cation here, 16 have been held on a
criminal syndicalism charge. They
will presumably be tried before
Judge Busick, author of the anti
l. w. W. injunction, and the Judge
who sent Tom Connors TO Jail for
five years for circularizing the state
in favor Of repeal of the syndical-
ism law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

Published by THE DAILY WORK.
EK thru special arrangement with
=. w. Huebsch, Inc, Of New York
City: Copyrighted, 1928, by B. W.
Huebseh & Co.
(WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE)
The Russian Communist Party
branch is governing this frontier
city and fighting the counter
revolution. Earlier installments
tell of the fuel shortage that pre-
vents seed grain from being
fetched on the railroad. The Party
meeting decides to send the Red
Army far away for fuel, at the
risk of leaving the city open for
bandits and conference.-the
1t also decides to conscript the
local bourgeoisie for wood cutting
in nearby park. Varied types
of party members are flashed on
the screen: Klimin, the efficient
president of the branch, who still
finds time to have a sweetheart;
Robeiko, the consumptive, whose
devotion is killing him; Gornuikh,
the brilliant youth of 10 on the
Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury
loving place-hunter and Stalmak-
how, practical workingman revo-
lutionist. Gornuikh, disguised as
peasant, overhears talk in the
market place about plot of
counter-revolutionists to seize the
town while the Red Army is away
getting wood. The Communist
company is summoned but, perhaps,
too late. Robeiko is dragged out
of his house and shot, Klimin's
sweetheart is butchered and Klimin
and Stalmakhov are overpovered
and hurled into a dungeon. The
counter-revolutionaries are in pos
session of the town, with the Red
Army away. Klimin and Stalmak-
how are butchered before the Com
munist company led by Gornuikh
can arrive. The Red Army ap-
pears at last with great reinforce
ments and the big battle begins
with Karaulov, a rough Cossack
revolutionist, in command Of the
Red forces.-(NOW GO ON WITH
THE Story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

and Karaulov swore at him briefly
but forcibly.
Danilov had been offended and
had gone to the first company to
find his friend Spitsyn, whom he
respected for his brains, tho he
laughed at him now and again. He
wanted to share his resentment
with him. He walked up behind
the lines, sometimes distinguish
ing near the ratings the small
dark figure Of an enemy and shoot
ing at it with his revolver. Friend
ly and cheerfully he greeted the
Red Army men, and coming up to
the flank of the first company, he
had already seen Spitsyn's bent
back, and was just going to call
him, when, suddenly, looking to-
wards the nearest houses of the
outskirts, he saw a black spot
coming nearer. He looked at it
sharply and keenly and stood still.
A few bullets whistled over his
head. But he went on staring and
suddenly roared out:
Comrades, some woman or
other is running. Be careful how
you shoot"
Already they all saw her. Her
hair was loose in the wind, and
now and again she fell, screamed
piercingly, and ran on again. In
pursuit of her, from the enemy's
lines, poured shot after shot. And
suddenly Fidein shouted out in his
ringing young voice, and his words
were carried far along the line:
Lads, it's our schoolmistress,
it's Comrade Gratcheva!"
Others supported him:
"Yes. Yes. It's she, herselfw
Danilov ran forward with his
revolver.
"Now then, Comrades, to the
rescue of our schoolmistress Come
on to meet her! Forward"
"Lie down, Comrade Gratcheva!
Lie down in the snow!" Fidein
shouted to her. Lisa did not UNI
derstand at first what these people
were shouting at her. But then
she saw the line running towards
her, nearer and nearer, ard at last
fear no longer prevented her from
recognizing the familiar faces.
There they all were, dear ones,
her own, more than her own! The
lads she had taught the multiple
cation table to in the school, now
armed with terrible rifles, they
seemed to Lisa a powerful aveng-
ing force, a force of triumphant
justice. She fell on the snow.
"How did you come here?" she
heard sharp voice, and lifting
her head she saw a stern sky over
head only family turning blue, a
dim red sun, grey mass of houses
on the hill close by, and she heard
the irregular sounds of the fusil-
lade, threaded by the monotonous
tapping of the machine gun. I'm
mediately before her, on a back
ground of dark earth and white
snow, she saw a grey, literally
bloodless face, matted eyebrows,
wrinkled cheeks and thin beard,
and recognized the Brigade Com
mander, Karaulov. She was not
afraid of him as she had been for
merly, but, weeping, began to tell
him what she had lived thru dur
ing the night.
Karaulov, not interrupting, heard
the details of Robeiko's death,
heard in silence the tale of Sim
kova's corpse, which was still "
ing there -. under the grey rail-
ing and Karaulov's face was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
What Do You Think
of Our First Story?

Tho DAILY WORKER wants to
know what its readers Think of the
frat serial novel il offera TO ia
readers. We have published
many installments of this gripping
story. Another appears today.
What do you think Of the story,
its setting, its character, as far as
we have gone? We want our read.
era to let US know. Write down
your views and send them in to
the DAILY WORKER, 1910 N.
Halsted ST., Chicago, Ill. We
publish as many of these letters as
we can find space for. Don't de.
lay. Write today.
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CHAPTER xII-Continued.


THEY moved forward slowly and
L lost many killed and wounded,
and when in the blue morning mist,
ON the hillock by the ratings and
little houses, Spitsyn saw the dis
tant lines of the enemy, the edge
of the sky was already bright scar
let and the sun was on the point
of gliding up from behind the
rolling faraway horizon. Spitsyn
was now not thinking of anything.
Fastening his cartridge belt so that
he could quickly and easily get at
his cartridges, he aimed smartly,
fired, and the rifle Numbered at his
ear, and jerked in his strong hands
as if it were alive. Then, stopping,
he ran breathlessly to the next
hillock, fell on his knees. took aim
once more, and again the rifle
Numbered at his ear. Fidein had
been slightly wounded in the left
shoulder, but the bone had not been
touched and he remained in the
ranks. Spitsyn bandaged him
silently, and then they ran on again,
one beside the other, and poured in
the direction of the little houses
and ratings of the outskirts, white
puffs of smoke, and invisible ter
rible bullets.
In times of peace, Danilov
never thought of war and battles,
but lived for his own pleasure,
spoke at meetings, rode to the
Politdep to have a row with Mar
tuinov, and did not mind drinking
and flirting with a pretty girl. But
war came along and seized DAN
ilov, only not like Seletsky as a
director of fighting operations but
as soldier in the ranks. Always
in battle he marched in the first
line, and from far away the Red
Army men saw the shining leather
jacket and the scarlet riding
breaches of the Commissar.
And now he had already asked
Karaulov and Seletsly several
times: "Give me a company and
I'll go for them with the bay
onet.' The Battalion Commander,
not understanding him, shrugged
his shoulders and turned away,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

The 100 per cent American students at
James Patterns Northwestern University show
that they are not too proud to fight. A large
mob of them pelted few peaceful students
with stale eggs few evenings ago. This in
dcates Of course that when the next war
breaks out they will all rush to Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

How many Of your shop-mstes read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one Of
them to subscribe today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12

the reign Of terror would be like a
pleasant excursion to the country in
comparison"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
By Jury LIBEDINsKY

Published by THE DAILY WORK
ER thru special arrangement with
3. W. Huebsch, Inc, Of New York
City. Copyrighted, 1928, by B. w.
Huebsch 4 Co.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25

New York. Apr. 24.-The Amer
lean press is an important instru.
ment in the development Of mutua
understanding between the Ameri-
can and British peoples and 1t has
fulfilled this mission with fairness
friendliness and thoroughness
Prime Minister Macdonald of Great
Britain. tonight told the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
through Sir Esme Howard. the Brit
ish ambassador. who addressed the
annual dinner.
The head Of the British state. In
a message to the association incor-
porated in Sir Esme's address, de-
clared he liked to feel that, in sa-
luting the American press, has was
saluting q powerful colleague in the
work of maintaining and strengthen
ing q real understanding between
the two peoples.
Asserting that official relations be-
tween the two nations, never better
than they were now, needed the
sanction of popular understanding
to be fruitful and enduring. Mr..
Macdonald declared the develop
ment of this understanding was the
province of the press.
Mr.. Macdonald expressed appre-
citation of the pains which many
leading American newspapers took
to secure adequate reports OF events
Continued on Page 3-CoI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25

Portland, Me. April 24-The Even
ing Express today makes the follow
ing announcement with reference to
F. Eugene Farnsworth, who has been
active as an organizer for the ku
Klux Khan in Maine, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts,, as well as Iowa
end other states in that section, the
past two years:
"Resignati ton of F.. E. Farnsworth
as king kleagle of the ku KluX Khan
of Maine is to be presented and will
be accepted at meeting of the Khan
at the Forest avenue headquarters
tonight, according to advices given
the Express by a prominent official
of the Khan,
Acceptance of Mr.. Farnsworth's
resignation automatically divorces
him from all connection with the
Maine Khan or it's work.
THE action comes as a culmina-
ton to several weeks Of investiga-
ton within the Khan, conducted by
secret operatives from national Khan
headquarters. says this papers in
formant.
ut also is understood that a new
King kleagle already has been ap-
pointed to supervise the Maine Khan
and is expected to arrive here with
in the near future"
F. E. Farnsworth, when asked for
a statement on the report today that
he is severing his connection with
the Ku Klux Khan as king kleagle
of the Maine klansmen, had none to
make.
"Mr. Farnsworth has no statement
to make at this time" Mrs. Farms
worth said at their hotel apartment,
after informing him Of the purpose
of the reouest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25
Busy Session
For Presbyterians
At Portland Meet

Portland, Me-, Apr. 24.-Election
of commissioners to the general as
sembly and reports of standing COM
mittees and provisional moderators
were features of the forenoon ses-
sion of the Presbytery of Newbury-
port, today. Rev. William McNair
kittredge of Barre, VT, was chosen
clerical commissioner. and Wesley
Adams, Of Derry, N. H., lay COM
missioner.
A call to the parish at South Rye
gate, VT, was extended to Rev.
James f. Policy, d. D., transferred
from the Boston Presbytery. which
he accepted. He will be installed
May q.
Mrs. d. MacEachern of Haverhill,
Mass, the general secretary, presid-
ed at the annual meeting of the
Woman's Missionary Society, in the
absence of the president. Mrs. r. Fl.
Laird of West Barnet, VT, who was
reported i'll.
The women's missionary society
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs. +. Fl. Laird, West Barnet,
Vt: vice presidents, Mrs. A. D.
Patterson. Mrs. James Craig, Mrs.
w Kittredge, Mrs n. Nelson; gen.
eral secretary. Mrs. d. MacEachern,
Haverhill. Mass; treasurer, Mrs. w.
r. Bell. Bradford, Mass; secretary
of literature and mission study, Mrs.
f. l.. Keist. Barre, Vt; secretary of
Young Peoples Work. Mrs. Z. Grant.
Manchester, n. H.; secretary of
stewardship and associate members,
Mrs. Patterson. Newburyport: audi
tor. William Mcintosh, Haverhil.
An invitation was accepted from
the Presbyterian church of Man.
chester, y. H. to hold the 1925 ses-
sion Of the Presbytery in that city.
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Four of Balloons
Still in Race
Heading Northeast

Kansas City, Mo-, April "a (By A.
, PD-Four of the seven balloons
which took the air late Wednesday at
Kelly Field, San Antonio. Tex, in the
national balloon elimination race,
were still up early tonight tracing
their way through uncharted and, in
some cases, stormy paths toward the
uncertain goal OF the contest.
AS darkness came on the second
day of the race, four remaining con-
testants, approximately 1000 miles
from the starting point. were drifting
rapidly northeastward with prospects
of bad night ahead.
Should the pilots ride out rain
storms, predicted for tonight in their
path In the central west they should
show up tomorrow in the Great Lakes
region. II they are still in the air
when day breaks they are almost
certain to smash the American dis
lance record.
Another hazard. according to wea-
Their officials. is that the gas bags may
be becalmed during the night and
forced down by drifting into an area
of low pressure which - moving east
ward from over Nebraska.
Those still in the air early tonight
are: Captain II. L. Honeywell, pilot
Club entry. "Honeywell' Therbert
Won Thaden. plotting Detroit: en-
tered by the Detroit Aviation Socie-
ty: Ward T. Van Orman, plotting the
Goodyear Number 81: Major Nor
man w. Peek. plotting L. S. Army
ballon number I.
Two Of the balloons were forced
down today in Oklahoma. The pi-
lots and their aides landed without
injury.
Numerous points in Kansas re-
ported having sighted the balloons
late toda& and early tonight three
of the Ks had passed over the
Missouri river near st. Joseph. Mo.
Captain Honeywell. plotting the
Kansas City entry, drifted over
Waverly, Kans.. shortly before t
o'clock. according to message he
dropped to The Associated Press. A
twisting wind and snow storm at L.
600 feet forced him to descend to
about 1000 feet. the note said.
One Of the balloons flying at an
altitude OF about 500 feet passed over
Kansas City at 40 o'clock.
A balloon drifting low passed
over Platte City, Mo-. northwest OF
Kansas City, shortly after P. NJ
Tho aeronauts shouted to persons on
the ground to get their bearings ano
then threw out ballast. ana shot up
disappearing to the northeast.