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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11

ference, rejecting those of Governor
Blaine, are to the effect that the
citizen soldier amply proved his
fighting ability in the World War.
and the Defense Day observance is
propaganda for the war protiteers.
Thus the idea is befogged for politi-
cal purposes. The facts, carefully
ignored, are just the opposite. The
point to be gained is to acquaint the
people of each community, and the
whole nation, with new idea which
will minimize the opportunity for
wartime profiteering by providing
home training for the citizen soldier.
We all know that the citizen soldier
proved to be a true and valiant
fighter, and certainly no one doubts
that billions were made in war con-
tracts-reference to those phases of
the war period are superficial. The
thing which everyone wants to know
is, how can the citizen-soldier be
better Accommodated, and how can the
country more economically and eff
ficiently prepare for emergency !?
The sole purpose of Defense Day is
to answer those questions, and to
teach everyone how to do his or her
part intelligently.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11
HANSON WOULD Be
SERGEANT AT ARMS

Assemblyman c. E. Hanson, River
Falls, passed thru town Saturday.
He was by no means certain, he said,
that he had been defeated for the
republican nomination for state
senator. His vote was much larger,
he stated, than the papers stated.
But in case he was beaten he would
like to be sergeant at arms of the
assembly, he told Assemblyman E.
B. Minier.-New Richmond News.
The much larger" vote to which
Mr.. Hanson refers is, according to
official figures, 80, out of a total of
5,046, and Mr. Hunts total, compiled
as best the newspapers were able
from unofficial returns, was also
slightly underestimated But Charlie
must take his fling at the news
papers, in return for their courtesy in
publishing columns of his campaign
blah free of charge. It's his idea of
"fair play"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11

Mrs. Robert Gordon and daughter,
of Star Prairie, visited the former
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Will
moth, the latter part of last week.
Professor and Mrs. L. R. Schoon-
over returned to Moscow, Idaho, Sun
day after a two weeks visit here
with the formers mother, Mrs. A.
NJ. Schoonover.
Professor George Snodgrass and
family, who had been spending the
summer at the home of Mrs. Snod-
grass mother, Mrs. Nellie Toby, left
Sunday to return to Superior.
August Peterson, who had con.
Quoted a confectionery store in Still
water nearly forty years, died sud
denly last Wednesday. He was fifty
nine years old. August" as he was
known by all, was great friend and
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w. r. c.
Regular meeting of the Women's
Relief Corps Saturday, September
10.
House Warming
The ladies of the English Lutheran
church gave a housewarming party
for Rev. A. L. Rustad and his mother,
who have moved here from Ellsworth.
w. F. Nj. S.
The w. F. M. S. of the Methodist
church will meet next Thursday,
September IS, at the home of Mrs,
Nels Younggren. Mrs. Bert Taylor,
leader.
o. E. S.
Regular meeting of the Order of
Eastern Star Monday evening, Sept.
Is, at o'clock. Picnic supper at
600. All members are urged to be
present.
At The Fuller Farm
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Bap-
fist Church met last Thursday with
Rev. and Mrs. Graham at their camp
on the Albion Fuller farm. The
camp is delightfully."- situated on the
bank of the Kinnickinnic. After
the regular devotional and business
meeting came the bountiful picnic
lunch. 1t was served on trays, the
partakers sitting on sunny, shelter
ed slope. The company numbered
thirty. Everyone was enthusiastic
over the scenery, the beauty Of the
surroundings adding much to the
pleasure Of the occasion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11

The Rice Lake Chronotype, A. F.
1nder and w. d. Leary, publishers,
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
that papers existence with a special
edition last Thursday. The Chrome
type is the best edited and newsiest
weekly which comes to our exchange
table, and the fftieth anniversary
special was a journalistic master
piece of which the publishers and
their community may feel justly
proud.
g.
The Commercial Club organized in
River Falls the first of this week will
serve the community to just that ex-
tent which the community, by its
moral support, serves the new Com
mercial Club. There are a thousand
and one things which the Club can
and aims to do for River Falls.
Many of these are little things, some
are big and important. In the ag-
create the benefits will constitute
an astounding total-if the COM
munity lends it wholehearted sup
port. Some projects may appeac to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11
LOCAL. /
HAPPENINGS

James Dunn suffered light para
lytic stroke Saturday, and is con-
fined to his home.
Mrs. Waite Allen of New Rich
mond is spending a couple of weeks
at the home of Miss Julia Morse.
Mrs. Frank Chinook and daughter,
Blanche Dopkins, spent week re-
Gently with relatives in Minneapolis.
RADIO ALL SUMMER LONG.
Get radio for your vacation. Alf
Rasmussen, dealer, River Falls, Wis
adv.
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Inscription $500 Per Year

benefit certain factions more than
others, and this fact often wrecks
the budding enterprise through OPP
position or indifference of those who
can see no immediate financial gain.
Their turn is bound to come if the
Club is given sustaining support,
and when it does come, those who
were benefited first Will recriprocate
with like cooperation. Cooperation
of the community in this splendid
enterprise will make River Falls
grow and prosper.
O.
Politicians who wish to make
political capital out of the Defense
Day observance go at it in very
round about manner, but they do
create an impression NJ at all COM
plimentary to the idea. An article
by the editor of The Wisconsin
Farmer, published in that magazine
last Thursday, illustrates our point.
Mr.. Price builds up his impressions
by lauding the fighting ability of our
citizen soldiers, and rants against
the profiteering of 1919. His in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11
pal Of the "kiddies."

pal Of the "kiddies."
Leslie Reardon left for Belleville,
Wis, Friday evening where he will
teach the coming year.
Atty. w. T. Doar has been secured
to deliver the principal address at
the Defense Day program here to-
morrow.
Attend the fair dances, the biggest
dances of the season at the Fair
Ground Pavilion at Ellsworth, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday nights,
September IL, IS and 10Th, and hear
the best orchestra you ever heard,
Harry SwOlin and his Tempo Rivers.
and enjoy the best time you ever
had.-adv.
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MARRIED
Busby-Nadeau

DR.. w. A. Busby Of Prescott and
Mrs. Mary Nadeau of Red Wing,
Mimi, were married at Hastings.
Mimi, September 2, 1924.
They will reside in Prescott.
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Burglars stole about $140 in cash
and SIS worth of narcotics from the
Sam johnson drug store in Cumbor-
land on Sunday night of last week.
The following night a secondhand
Ford touring car was stolen from
Cumberland garage. The thieves left
no clue in either case.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11
BORN

Olson.-In this city Thursday,
Sept. A, 1924, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Olson, son.
Murphy.-In this city, Saturday,
Seutember 6, 1924, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Murphy, son.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-11

Hanson.-In the Viking District,
Friday, Sept. 5, 1924, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harvey Hanson, son.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17
False Solutions

The Communists, basing their economic analysis
Of capitalism on the science of Marxism have been
maintaining that every attempt at the solution of
any contradiction in the present industrial order
only tends to beget many more contradictions.
We have in mind the much -heraded Dawes plan
and its operation. No sooner had the Dawes pro
gram been formally accepted than British and
French capitalist interests started to set in motion
special machinery to counterfeit the operation OF
the new reparation scheme. American capitalists
dominating international economy today are now
preparing to do the same.
The international chamber of commerce, with
headquarters in Rome, is in practice only puppet
of the best brains of Yankee finance and industry
This makeshift organization has appointed a sub
committee to study the effects of the Dawes plan
and devise ways and means of meeting the diff
fculties and complications that are likely to arise
in the wake of the acceptance of the American
receivership of Germany. Such prominent Amer
lean employing class leaders as Owen d. Young,
chairman of the board of the General Electric
pany, A. Bedford chairman of the board of the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey, and Fred
I. Kent, vice-presdent of Morgan's Bankers Trust
company, are amongst the chosen few to lead our
ruling class out of whatever wilderness the Dawes
plan might bring them into
We are certain that every fraudulent solution
devised by these financial solons to meet the OBJ
stacles arising from the Dawes plan will only
prove a fertile source for new and serious
hurdles in the path of capitalist production and
exchange The painful phase of the whole con
Trajectory process lies in the fact that it is 50
onerous so burdensome, costly to the working
masses. At this moment thousands of German
railway workers are being dismissed in order to
enable the allied and American imperialists to
stabilize German capitalism. This sterilization is
another false solution since all the mperialists
after is to stabilize the poverty and the degrade
ton of the German and other working masses-to
perpetuate world capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17
BY ISRAEL AMTER.

kNR. HUGHES has often declared
AVA that Soviet Russia is in no posi-
ton to play part in international
commerce, so that recognition would
be of no practical meaning. A glance
over the present situation in a few
capitalist countries and comparison
of it with the situation in Soviet
Russia would not be amiss, in order
to blast this idea
The late labor government in
Great Britain boasted upon going in
to power that it alone had the means
Of abolishing unemployment and rails
ing the industrial and political con
dition of the country. Ramsay MacDon-
aid may be a brilliant orator, but he
cannot get glib with facts. Great
Britain is in the midst of a real crisis.
The Dawes reparation plan, which is
intended not only as a means Of res
toring Germany to world economy, but
also of improving the. general econ
omic situation of the capitalist world,
has brought no wave of prosperity to
Great Britain. On the contrary, the
general situation has become more
critical. AT the end of September,
only ITO Of the 4S4 blast furnaces
were in operation. The September
iron production amounted to $4,000
tons compared with an average
monthly production Of $4,000 tons
in 1913. The months exports of iron
and steel amounted to 325,462 tons
compared with 35S,46S tons in 1928
and Ala, 100 tons in pre-war times
The decline is attributed to the ex-
pansion of the Belgian and French
iron and steel industry the competi-
ton of America, which is exporting in
ever larger quantities to countries
which hitherto have been British dom
ain, and the fact that the British
colonies and Dominions are becoming
large producers of iron and steel them.
selves. Thus the decrease of 46 per
cent in iron and steel exports from
1913 to 1922 is accounted for by dim.
mutton of A per cent to the colonies
and So per cent to the Dominions.
Coal production has reached crit
ical stage in Great Britain. In nine
months, it dropped 1860, 900 tons.
Exports decreased 14,S32OOO tons,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17

meaning reduction in export values
amounting to e1,557,Oo0. On Septem-
Der q, As mines shut down.
The crisis in the British coal in
dustry is attributed in greatest part
to French competition, to the opening
of mines in Africa, India. the Far East
and Central America, and to the in
creased competition of America which
exported coal to the amount of $685.
100000. No wonder that the British
miners demanded that Macdonald re-
iect the Dawes plan-not in the inter.
est Of their fellow-workers in Ger
many-but as milestone that has
been laid about the necks of the Brit
ish miners.
The textile industry is in a hope
less state. Before the war, unemploy-
ment did not exceed 2 per cent. At
the present time, 10 per cent of the
male and per cent of the female
operatives are jobless, and half of the
workers are working short-time
amounting to 1 to 4 days a week. In
1913, the average monthly produc-
ton amounted to 596,OOO,O 900 square
yards; in August Of this year it was
only S74,OOO,OOO square yards. The
crisis is due to the growing import
ance of the French textile industry
and the increasing power of the Amer
lean industry. In 1913 there were S.
600 900 snindles in Great Rritain 90 :
100000 in the U. S. A. In 1924, Great
Britain operated 56,7OO,OOO spindles,
the U. S. A. 37,7OO,OOO. Americas
exports have increased from 81 to
SO million dollars Furthermore,
China, Japan and India have increased
the number of spindles in operation.
Coal and iron are the life of modern
industry. They are the very core of
the power of British capitalism. These
industries are slowly paralyzing in
Great Britain-a capitalist state of
the first order.
The Dawes plan, panacea for all the
misery of the world, is in operation
in Germany. At least the first steps
have already been taken Unquestion-
ably being intended to aid the capital
lists of the country in restoring "or-
der and in paying the PREPARATIONS
WHICH MUST COME FROM A SUR
PLUS OF EXPORTS-it ought to
produce excellent results. Dawes, the
honorable ice-president-elect of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17
Organize the UnOrganized

Only small percentage of the wage workers
Of this country are organized in labor unions,
whether in the American Federation of Labor, the
independents, or the 1. w. w Such a condition is
an open menace to existing unions, as well as a
condition in which the great mass Of unorganized
suffering helplessy under conditions which are
outrageous
There is a natural expectation that the largest
body of labor, the A. F. of L., should undertake the
organization of the great masses of unorganized
workers. 1t could certainly organize these work
ers if it wished. They are not in the main, an
tagonistic to unions, in many cases they clam
oring for a union that will not only organize but
fight militantly as unions should. The A. F. of L.
has the machinery and the organized resources
that other organization has to carry on a great
organization drive.
In the shops and factories where millions of
workers remain unorganized the A. F. of L. has a
beginning in the form of members working at
some organized craft surrounded by a majority of
unorganized workers of other crafts in the same
industry. They have everything in common but
unionization. They are exploited by the same cor
pOration, sworn at by the same boss, underpaid by
the same paymaster, subject to the shop rules
and produce the same commodity by mutual labor.
Yet they are separated disOrganized, powerless
In the face of this condition. which is bad enough
n boom times, period is approaching in which
millions will be thrown out of work and the unor-
nized and the unskilled will be used to beat down
wage and hour standard of even the aristocratic
He'd workers. 1t is well known that no contract
worth the paper ii is written when an I'M
Dyed army stands at the shop gates.
ese facts demand action, courageous and un-
livccal from the 44th annual convention of the
f. Of L.. now meeting at FL Paso The Trade
n Educational League has long fought for the
aniZation of the unorganized. The means and
hods Of doing this great task may be defined
rently, but that the A. f. of L. must take the
ative and begin a great drive with all its
by uniting its forces in all localities and in
ustries to sweep the wide masses into the ranks
the unions, is primary necessity.
II the 7. U. E. i. resolution, which will be sub
q. tied to the convention is ignored the primary
uty of the A. F. of L. is ignored. If it is defeated
he whole working class, organized as well as I'M
organized, is defeated. What will the A. F. of
L. do?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17
ImperiQIiSt Leadership

The warning sounded by Sir Auckland Geddes,
former British ambassador to the United States,
that America the menace to British imperial
supremacy is significant and timely. Geddes
points out very well that England was losing her
hold on her vast colonial possessions and that the
United States is more and more Strengthening its
influence on Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Geddes fears and warnings are wellfound
d. At no time before in history has the colonial
question been fraught with so much danger to
the continuity and stability of the British Empire
India has been neither pacified nor caioled into
submission. Egypt is in turmoil. The menacing
shadow of French Imperialism hangs over Meso-
pOtamia American investments increasing
at terrific pace in Canada. In the Pacific, Aus
tralia and New Zealand are trebling their trade
with the United States. The Yankee imperialists
are utilizing their conflict with the japanese cap
italists to win over British Pacific sentiment in
order to weaken or destroy the possibilities of
Great Britain lining up with the Nipponese when
the war breaks in the Far East
Swiftly and surely have the American imperial
lists been overwhelming the British in the race for
world commercial, financial and industrial sup
remacy. Americas colonial empire is yet only
a source of strength to Yankee Imperialism
Great Britains colonial empire is not only
source of strength but is steadily assuming the
role of serious danger. The opposition to Amer
lean domination in the colonies on the part of
the oppressed peoples is not yet of sufficient mag
nitude to challenge effectively the rule of the
Woods, Farringtons, Kellogs and Reilleys.
In the form in which it was given the warning
sounded by Geddes appears friendly. In fact
it is a call to action to rouse the British imper
ialists to get on their hind legs and fight back
The declaration Of Geddes only adds more
pitch-blackness to the gathering war clouds now
towering in pail over the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17

power. 1t is this margin between the
value of labor power and the value
of the products Of it's application that
is the source of surplus value.
8. The amount of surplus value is
determined by the relation of wages
Cor the value of labor power) to the
value of the commodities produced
(crystallized labor. Increase in wages
is reflected in decreased surplus value
and vice versa.
4. Wages constitute the price of the
.necessaries required to reproduce the
power of labor, therefore the price
of labor power; to speak of wages as
the power of labor, would be an at
tempt to establish an impossible
equation, because there is always a
portion Of labor received by the cap
italist without price (surplus valued.
5. Under slavery, serfdom, and
wage labor alike, portions of labor
are paid while others are unpaid. This
similarity is obscured by the social
form of the exploitation; slavery has
the appearance of consisting of all
unpaid labor; serfdom is the open
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-17
The Struggle for Morocco

The increasing political and economic disturb
ances in Spain are now approaching a sweeping
revolutionary character. This developing revolt
against the Fascist directorate of Primo de Rivera
is closely intertwined with the disasters that have
befallen the Spanish military forces fighting on
the Moroccan desert against the Riffs.
Morocco has more than once been bone of CON
tentOn amongst the imperialist national groups.
Those who recall the Moroccan incident before
the war will remember that it was accepted then
as a certain indication of an impending world
conflict. Today Spain is looking upon the territory
occupied by the Riffs as a means of recouping the
fortunes of her weakened capitalists So far the
Spanish army has been humbled in the dust be-
fore the victorious Moroccan troops of the Riff
sultan. Many suspect French aid has played its
part in the overwhelming defeat administered to
the marauders in Spanish uniform.
The fight Of the Riffs is only part of the fight
of the hundreds of millions of colonial peoples
enslaved and exploited by the capitalist imperial
list groups. The land occupied by the Riffs, who
recently have proclaimed their national independ-
ence, abounds in such natural resources as iron,
silver copper and lead 1t is these resources that
the European powers are now scheming and fight
ing for. 1t is precisely this reason that accounts
for the continued military operations by Spain
to maintain its hold this desert country.
The RIMS Will never be gwen their independence
by Spain as long as the Spanish exploiters retain
political power. The only language the Spanish
oppressors like the American, British, French and
other imperialists, understand is the language of
the machine-gun and the bayonet. The Riffs know
this to be the truth. They have been speaking
rather eloquently in this tongue to the Spanish
Fascist clique. The sooner the oppressed colonial
peoples in the Philippines, in India, in Java, in
Syria and in the Hawaii islands learn to speak as
effectively and in the same tongue the Riffs
have spoken the will they win their free
dom.