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support the Agricultural Workers In
dustrial Union of the l. w. w. They
must join the A. w. l. U. if possible
before reaching the harvest and
spread it's special propaganda for
harvest workers. They must help
the delegates to organize, actively CIV
ing militant assistance and leading
the fight against the timidity and in
difference of the masses. When eligible
they themselves should become dele
gates. The initiation fee is $500 and
the dues so cents per month. Join
thru any delegate of the /. w. w. or
at the following halls: COL West
Madison St., Chicago; 515 North 10th
ST., Omaha; lis Nicollet Ave, Min
neapolis; 202 Front St., Fargo, North
Dakota.
The Red international Demands.
The bankers and business elements
in the Chambers of Commerce are the
most reactionary group in the harvest
district 1t is they and not the farm
ers ordinarily who incite and assist
the persecution of migratory workers
by authorities. BY vicious attacks
and imprisonment of I. w. w. organi-
zers they hope to wipe out all organi-
cation and rule the harvest workers
completely, making them accept any
wage they put on the black board.
Since 1t is these bankers who actual
ly own the farms thru control of
every dollar the farmers get in or pay
out, since it is the banker who sets
the wages and takes the profit, it
is upon these bankers and Chambers
of Commerce that demands should
be made.
The A. w. I. U. of the I. w. w. has,
however, neglected to set general and
standard demands for enforcement in
the harvest. Faced with difficulty
in standardizing because 1t looked ex-
clusively at the farmer and not at the
real boss-the bankers-it abandoned
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banker is the real boss-the place to
strike is at the blackboard, against
the Chamber of Commerce gang. But
when workers refuse such low wages,
offered by the free employment agen-
cies" of the Chambers of Commerce,
they are brutally attacked by govern
ment authority, city, state and federal.
In such attacks the Fascist gangs
like the American Legion and the Ku
Klux Khan aid in beating and falling
the workers on any pretext or upon
none. The r. l. L. u. will not cease
its efforts to abolish such conditions.
Only one organization has tried to
unite the harvest workers against
their exploiters. That organization is
the Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union "a. w. /. ID No. 10, of the L.
w. For ten years it has tried each
summer to organize the harvest work
ers. This summer, as before, del
egates will canvas the workers on the
freight trains en- route to the harvest,
will mingle with them everywhere,
urging organization and issuing union
cards. The Red international of La
Dor Unions unqualifiedly endorses this
struggle of the A. w. l. U. to organize
the agricultural proletariat.
Out Of Work? Make the Harvest
Among the thousands who will ride
the freight trains, gather in the jun
giles and sweat in the fields this sum-
mer, are hundreds of Communists or
Communist sympathizers, all support
ers Of the Red international of Labor
Unions. Many unemployed members
of the Workers (Communist) Party
and the Young Workers League will
make the harvest this summer
Among the larger but backward mass,
these revolutionary workers have a
duty to perform.
Tirelessly, the members Of the
Workers Party and sympathizers, sup
porters of the Red international, must
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the board, Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Co.; H. l. Hartman,
president, New England Power Co.;
David P. Rushmore, General Electric
Co.; H. M. Addinsell, member of
Harris, Forbes & Co., power con-
tractors.
On the general committee are such
men as M. H. Aylesworth, executive
manager, National Electric Light AS
ISOLATION; H. G. Bradlee, senior vice.
president, Stone &c Webster, Inc;
Geo. H. Harries, vice-president, H. M.
Byllesby & Co.; John D. Ryan, chair
man of board, Anaconda Copper Co.,
ETC. Every big hydro-electric concern
in America is represented by one or
more of it's officials. Not one munich
pality, or economic, sociological or
political science association is repre-
scented. Jas. P. Noonan, president of
the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, is the only labor
spokesman who will get chance to
say anything for America.
Ontario Hydro Not On Program
One of the sinister signs of the
deal is that Sir Adam Beck, founder
and head of the Ontario Hydro Com
mission, operating the greatest power
business in the world, is not on the
program. Ontario Hydro is the
worlds most successful demonstra-
ton in public ownership of power.
DR.. Hadley, in his address, will say
in serene indifference to the scan
dial of private management of the
New Haven Railroad-"From a prac-
tical side, the history of state rail
road management creates a strong
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"Rerry Plekers" IN Panic.

standards, yielding too much and too
easily to variation in production, with
out seeing the financial control cen
tralized behind the farmer. But the
agricultural proletariat cannot sacri-
flee its interests to the interests of
the country bankers and the petty
bourgeoisie. A union without definite
demands upon the employers as a
class is not fighting the struggle for
the workers. Instead Of concentrat-
ing all forces against the Chambers
of Commerce and their blackboards
and "going wages" it uses the speci-
Gus plea of striking on the job"
makes local demands that are not en-
forced No effort is made to enlist
the great mass of non-members for
militant mass struggle against the
point of control of agricultural wages
the bankers and business parasites
of the country towns.
But the /. w. w. must offer returns
for dues and support. Everywhere,
Communists and supporters of the
Red international must raise their
voices among the harvest workers,
demanding that the l. w. w. fight, in
the towns, around the blackboards,
against the Chamber of Commerce
gang and the banker bosses of the
district--for the following demands:
1. This year, not less than S. per
day. 2. Not more than eight hours
per day, and double time for over
time. 3 No work on Sunday. A..
transportation on passenger trains at
the expense of the state. 5. No ar
rests of unemployed workers, no per-
secution of l. w. w. delegates by
either city, state or federal authority.
No illegal violence by Legion, Cham
bers OF Commerce or Khan. 8. Adolf
ton Of the infamous wage-reducing
agencies disguised as employment
offlces"-all hiring to be done thru the
union or its delegates. z. Release Of
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|, ". ". MEMBERS
AND COMMUNISTS
CROWD PRISONS
Workers Must Unite to
Open Jail Doors

NEW YORK, June 9O-There are
121 men in the prisons Of seven states
solely for expression of opinion or
membership in a radical organiza-
ton" Efforts to repeal the laws I'M
der which they were convicted and
to release the prisoners have been
started by the American Civil Liber-
ties Union.
The unions report on state Politi-
cal Prisoners" charges that the pro-
secutions were Of political and in
dustrial character, as mot one of
these 121 men was charged with or
convicted of any crime against person
or property but were imprisoned "for
their opinion on public matters"
All Of the prisoners are members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, except in Pennsylvania and
1 in Illinois. OF these four, two are
members of the Workers Party and
two of the Union of Russian Workers.
California leads with los political
prisoners. Washington has 5; Idaho
IS; Pennsylvania 2; Oklahoma 2; Kan
sas / Illinois 1 and Arkansas. The
defendants in no case got a fair trial,
the report declares, the offence being
so bound up with their radical eco
lnomic views that conviction was al
most foregone conclusion"
The governors of the states in
volved have already been appealed to
by the Civil Liberties Union to re-
lease the prisoners, but with the ex-
ception of Governor Pinchot of Penn
sylvania, they have taken a hostile
position" Governor Pinchot, how
ever, cannot act except on the recon-
mendation of the Board of Pardons,
which has recently refused to recon-
mend pardons for the men in Penn
sylvania. Two governors are praised
in the report for their stand on State
Political prisoners. One is Governor
Alfred E. Smith, of New York, who
released James Larkin, Irish labor
leader, and others convicted under
the New York anti-anarchy act; the
other is Governor Len Small Of I'LL
nois, who released William Bross
Lloyd and g communist associates
convicted under the Illinois anti-sedi-
ton act.
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DOWN WITH
MUSSOLINI,"
CRY ITALIANS
CRATER and Murderer
Bitterly Denounced

NEW YORK, June 3O.--Demanding
the resignation OF the Italian ambas-
sador to the United States, 5000
Italians in New York mass meeting
at Carnegie hall cheered speakers
who shouted Down with Mussolini."
The meeting was held to protest the
murder of the socialist deputy, Met
teotti, by fascist agents and high Of
ficials in the Mussolini government.
Fascists in the audience were unsuc-
cessful in their attempt to break up
the meeting, and after a fight were
put out by the police.
Arturo Giovanniti, secretary Of the
Anti-Fascist Alliance of North Amer
lea, said he had positive proof that
Mussolini was accessory before and
after the fact of the deputys STAY
ing" He urged "a state of war be-
tween the workers of the United
States and the government of fas-
cismo in Italy"
The letter to President Coolidge de-
manded Ambassador Caetani's resig-
nation on the ground that he is an
avowed fascist. Crying down with
capitalism, down with fascism, down
with Mussolini," the audience ap-
proved the letter. 1t reads in part:
We submit that no member Of
such an organization is fit person
to reside in the United States, and
that a nation governed by such a
body does not deserve recognition as
sister nation to the civilized states
of the world. The spirit of Musso-
lini has poisoned all Italy. 1t gains
strength thru American recognition"
The long record of violence by the
fascist dictatorship against labor
unions was described by speakers
who charged that Mussolini has sent
men and money to this country to
gain control of the Italian-American
population and destroy the unions
here. The connection between Mus
solini and his friend, Judge Gary, was
pointed out. Scandals in the fascist
government, (which make Teapot
Dome look SICK" were described.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, for the Work
ers party, pointed out the hypocrisy
of the United States government,
which recognizes the white dictator
ship murders ruling Italy, but refuses
to recognize peaceful Russia.
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Going to the Harvest? Then Join the l. w. w.

! all class war prisoners and repeal of
criminal syndicalist" and other OPP
pressive laws.
Assert Yourselvesl
Communists and supporters of the
Red International of Labor Unions
must raise their voices for the above
demands in every group of workers
going. to or gathering in the harvest.
These are the demands of the Red
International of Labor Unions for the
improvement of conditions for the ag-
ricultural workers. But these de-
mands should become the demands of
the Agricultural Workers Industrial
Union of the /. w. W., which cannot
expect to keep the members it organ
ICES unless it offers more benefits
than the right to ride freight trains
undisturbed
Communists and Red International
lists must not only build the Agricul-
tural Workers Industrial Union of the
/. w. W., but must inspire and direct
it in the struggle. Assert yourselves
everywhere as Communists, as Red
Internationalists. Speak up! Lead the
struggled
But besides the above demands,
Communists and Red Internationalists
must combat the non-revolutionary
propaganda of the anarchist element,
must demand an end Of censorship in
the l. w. w. press against members
who are Communists and supporters
Of the Red international of Labor
Unions, must uphold the proletarian
dictatorship, the soviet government,
and continuously advocate the afillia-
ton of the l. w. w. to the Red Inter
national Of Labor Unions. All harvest
workers must fight for improved con-
ditions, for working class unity and
working class rule.
The Red international Affiliatlon
Committee, 1914 West Madison St.,
Chicago, Ill.
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presumption against encouraging gov
eminent management of electric
plants"
Herbert Hoover will say: ut is the
business Of government to provide
an open road for the exercise of the
individual initiative of it's citizens,
not to substitute it's own activities
for that initiative-to regulate and
control, not to manage or operate -
All Big Bosses
julius Barnes, head of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, will warn
against "nationalistic monopoly
while Guy E. Trip, Fred r. Low,
Carl D. Jackson, John w. Lieb and A.
H. Markwart, the remaining Ameri-
cans to discuss this issue, will plead
against public ownership on various
pretexts. Low is editor of trade
journal; Jackson is counsel for the
National Electric Light Assn; Lieb
is vice-president of the New York
Edison Co., and Markwart is vice
president of the Pacific Gas & Elec-
trio Co.
The National Popular Government
League raises the question as to how
long Merrill will have to wait before
getting job with the power people
at $4,000 or so. 1T fails to note that
owen D. Young, prominent in this
deal, is the man who asked the Demo
cratic convention to adopt "contin-
uous policy" foreign relations plank
in it's platform. He is an associate of
HELM Maria" Dawes in the attempt
of American bankers to get control
of European industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
Whisky Secretary
Will. Vacation in
Wet Old London
tey The Federated Press,

WASHINGTON, June SO.-Secretary
Mellon is going to Europe. lie will
reach London in time to see Ambas-
sador Kellogg enter the conference of
the premiers on the German repara-
tons plan, and in time to advise the
worldwide conference on hydro-elec-
trio power, which has been staged by
the opponents of public ownership of
power. But he goes abroad only for
a rest, chiefly in quiet London.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-01
j. S. ELECTRIC TRUST SHUTS
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OUT OF Big
WORLD POWER MEETS PROGRAM
BY LAURENCE TODD
Federated Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 3o.-Wordwde propaganda against
public ownership development and distribution of hydoeecc
the purpose of the World Power Conference beginning
June 80 in London to which Secretaries Work. Weeks and Wal
lace constituting the Federal Power Commission have lent
ingenious services Of O. Merrill executive secretary of the
mission.
Two hundred American engineers, managers and other
sailed for England attend the sessions
y has Merrill worked the arrangements in sympathy with the
wishes of his superos that word favorable public
ownership will be heard the formal program from any citizen
of the United States On the other hand the for
who will discuss the question of ownership and regulation every
one is enemy of public ownership.
Twelve hundred municipality electric plants in this
country will be without spokesman And this under the
of Merrill who draws his $4,000 executive officer
for the law which enacted protect the hydrocrc
sources of the nation against private greed
Power Trust En- Masse.
The astounding facts of this plot disclosed
the program and prepared speeches for the London conference
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nouncings the attempt Of the forty or
so railway labor officials to interfere
with his prerogative and privilege to
be the sole political spokesman" for
the workingmen. In his sharp re-
joinder to the political bootleggers of
the railway unions who were, in his
opinion, illegitimately trafficing with
the labor vote, Gompers emphasized
the fact that according to the old
non-partisan policy the workers are
to have no candidate of their own,
are to indorse one only after he is
nominated by one of the two big par
ties, and that then all wage-earners
must go along with the candidate
whom the majority of the labor bu-
reaucracy indorses, no matter who he
may be.
Tammany Agent Bitterly Frank.
But the group of labor takers who
have for years been the tail to the
Tammany kite and have for long
time been delivering the trade union
vote to the democratic ward heelers
of New York were even more infuri-
ated at the McAdoo propaganda by
the railway union officials. These la
Dor lieutenants of the democratic
party capitalists saw in the McAdoo
manifesto blow struck at their own
man, Al Smith.
Forthwith, President James P. Hol-
land of the New York State Fedora
ton of Labor which has Endorsed the
Tammany candidate came out with a
vicious blast which wrecked the whole
machinery Of organized labor faker-
dom that has been running here so
smoothly for the last week.
Mr.. Holland declared that "the Ill
timatum" of the railway leaders did
not speak for all the workingmen
and that it will not deprive Gov
ernor Smith of a single labor vote
in the convention" All in all, there
are maximum of fifty trade union
card holders in the delegation of 1,09S
and several hundred alternates.
The Tammany lackey then went on
to fume about the McAdoo statement:
"In issuing it, Mr.. McAdoo's friends
violate the rules of the labor move
ment exactly as they violate the rules
of politics by threatening to bolt af-
ter their candidate is defeated. They
violate the rules of the labor move
ment by indorsing in advance of ac-
ton by the American Federation of
Labor a candidate who is opposed to
the federation on one essential action
and whose position is doubtful on
another"
Mr.. Holland was referring to Nc
Adoo's friendship to the Ku Klux
Khan which was repudiated by the
Portland Convention and to the Re
public Iron and Steel company's law
yer being a bone dry while the feder-
alton is officially inclined towards linn
tied wetness.
"Berry Pickers" in Panic.
This feud between the firms of COM
petitive labor vote sellers has had a
depressing effect on the campaign for
the vice-presidency waged by strike
breaker Major Berry. The supporters
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WET GOMPERS FIGHTS FOR AL

of the latter have organized them
selves into a group known as the
Berry PicKers" with gorgeous head
quarters in the Waldorf Astoria.
The Berry Pickers" who are spend
ing much money in their attempt to
put over the man who broke the last
pressmens strike in New York City
would rather keep out Of influencing
the choice of a presidential nominee
They feel that that would be asking
too much from the democrats. Hence
they are rather disturbed at the ag-
gressive steps being taken by the Nc
Adoo gang. But they dare not chal-
lenge the railway union officials be-
cause they are afraid of losing some
of their support for Berry.
Last night the Berry managers sue
ceeded in preventing an airing of the
McAdoo-Smith controversy at a meet
ing called by them in behalf Of their
man. The sessions for Berry were
held at the Aberdeen Hotel and were
attended by nearly swo hundred la
Dor officials Hughe Frayne Of the
New York State Federation of Labor
presided. 1t last from eight till mid
night.
AT the Berry headquarters the writ
er was told that all was running
smoothly and that the outlook for his
vice-presidency was good. But one
could easily discern feeling of dis
satisfaction on the part of his right
hand men. Berry said: my candi-
dacy is predicated solely upon the
desire to be helpful to the democratic
party and whatever contribution / am
able to make to it is based upon the
fact that l believe the party to be
the progressive, liberal forward-look-
ing party of America"
When your correspondent asked
what single act on the part of the
democratic party this policy of Berry
was supported by, there was no one
who could or would attempt to reply.
From this pointed query the Berry
Pickers" turned to painting their
chances rosy and avoiding the whole
dispute.
Cleveland Replies.
The big bosses of the Cleveland
Conference for Progressive Political
Action are chatting under the present
condition. They are beginning to feel
tired of being made a football in the
rough game now being played between
the Tammany and McAdoo factions.
D. B. Robertson, President of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, has already come
back with strong protest. He has
just issued a statement in which he
said: 1.-THE Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen has no
official representative at the democrat
ic convention and no one there is au-
thorized to express the Brotherhood's
views"
Robertson further declared that not
single one of the six signers of the
McAdoo manifesto was on the nation.
al committee of the Cleveland Con.
ference, that the July 4th gathering
would be an open affair, and that La
Toilette would run regardless of what
the democratic convention would de-
eide or do.
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PRETTY SOFT FOR OIL
KINGS WITH DAUGHERTY
MAN THEIR PROSECUTOR
BY the Federated Press.

WASHINGTON, June so.--Atty.-
Gen. Stone, bringing suit in the fed
eraI court in Chicago against Stand
ard Oil Of Indiana and 49 other COM
panles, on the charge of violation of
the antitrust law by conspiracy to
keep the price of gasoline at an ar
tlficlally high level, says he will
press the litigation to a quick dec-
sion. One of the chief assistants in
these suits is A. T. Seymour, who
was one Of Harry Daugherty's chief
aids during the period when Daugh-
erty was preventing the enforce
ment of the antitrust law.
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Statement by the Red International
Affillation Committee.

The great wheat harvest is on thru
out the Mississippi valley. From
Oklahoma to the Canadian line and
beyond, the grain is ripening which
will furnish bread to America and
much of Europe. The Red Inter
national of Labor Unions is interested
in the workers who gather this great
harvest.
The migratory and jobless workers
who, from all trades and all localities
rush into the wheat belt every sum
mer are the most shamefully mis-
treated and oppressed part of the
working class. Hoping to save few
dollars to sustain them over unem-
ployment, lying advertisements trick
them into overcrowding the district,
thus, in absence of effective organiza-
ton, depreciating wages and lengthen-
ing hours.
Hired by the Slaves Of Bankers
When these workers get off the
train at any town in the harvest dis
lIlCL bHcJ oCC q us bAoNhDONAN "AeA'
some outrageously low wage marked
on it as the Going Wage" That
board and the wage marked on it are
put there by the small town reaction
aries of the Chamber of Commerce
not by the farmers. The bankers are
the real bosses, the bankers hold
mortgages on most of the farms.
Il is the bankers and their clique in
the Chambers of Commerce who set
this Going Wage"-and they will
loan money to the farmer only upon
his agreeing to pay the workers he
hires no more than the banker wants
them to get. The farmers are the
slaves Of the bankers. The workers
are hired by the farmers, the slave
OF the banker, who supervises the
farmers expenses for wages paid. The
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K u z B A S

RUSSIAN State Industry at Keme-
rovo, Siberia, operating coal mines
with a production of 10000 tons
monthly; the largest chemical plant
in Siberia, now producing coke, ben
zol, tar, ammonia, etc; a 33,000-acr
farm, with. nine tractors; electrical
stations, machine and woodworking
shops ETC. etc