The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-07

1 America, if you haven't seen
Marshalltown, the metropolis of
Marshall County, Iowa.
They say that not so many years
ago Main Street (beg pardon-Mar
shalltown) had its own unique brand
of hospitality for itinerant workmen
more commonly known as hoboes.
When one of these. unfortunates
strayed in the direction of Marshall
town and knocked at the door Of one
Of her proud citizens, he was cordially
greeted with ticket reading good
for one meal and directed to the
marshal. II the "hoe boys" hunger
exceeded his pride, he presented his
ticket to the law, who provided the
meal and two hours job as we'll,
usually in the nature of garbage re-
moving, weed-cutting, or some equally
pleasant task. M
1T is not recorded whether this hos
l pitality became too expensive or
to what extent it drove away Mar.
shalltowns labor supply, but the citi-
zens of this community no longer
keep meal tickets by the door. Per
haps the reputation of "Marshal's
Town" became so widespread that the
unshaved hobo no longer came
around for hand-out.
Be that as it may, the Communists
have become the recipients of diff
ferent brand Of Main Street hospital
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tale, of how Communism came to be
subject of debate among the union.
lied employees of Rabbit, and how the
entire time of a Central Labor meet
ing was taken up discussing the dan
gers of discussing Communism.
IT is "far cry" (and long railroad
| hauD from New York to Marshall.
town. In New York the high officials
Of the trade unions decry against the
menace of Communism" while the
rank and file, fully $4,000 strong, fight
their way into Madison Square Gar
den to express their solidarity with
Lenin and to hear the Convicted
Red" c. E, Ruthenberg. In New
York the rank and file are stirring
from their apathy and in ever larger
numbers embracing the ideas Of Com.
munism, at least to the extent of SYM
pathy while the high officials carry
out explosions and campaigns of Sian.
der against the militants.
DUT things haven't progressed so
- rapidly in Main Street. The rank
nd nf Iol.
read their weekly Tabor paper" and
digest its contents with the same
faith as they do their gospel So
when the Workers Party organizers,
]. E. Snyder and David Coutts, ar
ranged a meeting to be held at the
Labor Temple under the auspices of
the Workers (Communist) Party, they
reckoned without the contents of the
little local labor paper. This consisted
of the usual international Labor
News Service" Synonym for bunk in
20 sletthrs) telling about the alleged
efforts of the Communists, working
under orders of Moscow, to destroy
the American Federation Of Labor,
and of the action taken by the Chi
cago Federation of Labor in refusing
to aid in the defense of c. E. Ruthen-
berg.
ENOUGH for Main Street! The
- union men of Marshalltown will
have no discussion of Communism in
their Labor Temple ESQ they said)
yet they proceeded to their Central
Labor Union meeting and discussed
it themselves, without any assistance
from the naughty Reds.
Watch this! The Communists were
defended in this debate by the presi-
dent and the secretary of the Cen
trail Labor Union. The delegates on
the floor, with one or two exceptions
expressed their fear of Communist
ideas-the fear which Main Street has
OF everything it knows nothing
about