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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

that even this franchise will serve to
rally the forces in the country against
the existing governing clique and
against the monarchy itself. Among
the 10 to IL million new electors who,
under the newly passed law, will par
ticipate in elections, there is a con-
siderable number of Stockholders,
poor peasants and workers, and these
will undoubtedly promote and expe-
dite the process of the creation Of a
workers and peasants party which
had already commenced some years
ago. We must here call attention to
a very important question in the de-
velopment of this movement: up to
now there exists no capitalist and pet
ty bourgeois parties in Japan.
TIME radical intellectuals, who con-
4 stitute the most active political
factor in the country, are beginning to
penetrate more and more into the
trade union movement and into the
Stockholders leagues in order to gain
theological influence there. The idea
of workers or workers and peas
ants party, which was first promul-
gated some years ago by the Com
munists, has now been taken up by
these elements and there exists the
danger that they will play too great a
role in the organizing of the workers
party. The trade unions and also the
small holders leagues, however, are
in favor of collective membership in
the coming workers and peasants
party, which will prevent the petty
bourgeois intellectuals from penetrat-
ing in more or less considerable mum.
bers into the party. 1t is, of course,
the task of the Communists to enter
this party for the purpose of combat
ting the petty bourgeois theology of
intellectuals Of the type of Kagava
and others, who wish to convert this
party into parliamentary party of de-
mocracy.
During the past year the working
masses have organized themselves in
trade union which numerically surpass
the trade unions which were destroyed
as a result of the earthquake. Thus,
to quote an example, in the past year
there has been created for the first
time a union of shipbuilding workers
(Kaikun RenmeD with $4,000 mem
bers. as well as union of tramway
workers, etc. In this labor movement,
which is fully organized, a consider
able revolutionary minority has made
its appearance, which in cities like
Toxic and Kioto and in the centers of
the metal industry constitute the over
whelming majority In all the more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
By William F. Dunno

are puzzled by what seem to be con.
tradictions between the theory and
practice Of American democracy, we
commend the following sentence by
Lenin
The more developed democracy
is, the nearer at hand is the danger
of a poarom or civil war in con-
nection with any profound political
divergence which threatens the ex-
istence Of the boureeoisie.
THE reason for this is plain Uni
versal suffrage being the index of
the maturity of the working class, and
universal suffrage being the hall mark
of capitalist democracy, disturbance
of the public order" under such a
system, when based on deep-seated
social grievances cannot but involve
wide masses of the population
To the striking anthracite miners
Who see one coal company alone mar
shall ITO armed deputy sheriffs
against them, we say that it is not
only peaceful strike" they are en-
gagged in, but in the eyes of the coal
capitalists and their bloodsucking kin
bred, widespread disturbance Of
the public order"
The anthracite miners are commit
ting the crime of crimes against
American capitalist democracy-they
are in an action which disturbs "the
servile class of its servile condition,
and of attempts to strike up nom
servile attitude"
The Communists who told them
these and other things have when
thrown in jail-"the protection Of mi
norities" again, but before long the
miners will have to begin to think
seriously of these and other matters
and translate thot into action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

ger Of the party losing any of its real
Communist elements. Disgruntled,
apathetic members of the party, who
have regarded the party as a social
institution, or as an adventure, win
drop out. The party will weld its for
ces together and begin to do real
Communist work.
At the present time some Of the
branches meet each week, every two
weeks and some even once a month.
The class struggle goes on day by
day, and our comrades meet at the
end of the Seventh, fourteenth or even
thirtieth day to reflect on IL!
Again, comrades are given tasks to
perform tasks essential for the
whole party organization and only
at the end of seven, fourteen or thirty
days, can one ascertain whether they
have performed their duty. When the
party is reorganized, discipline and
control will become possible for the
first time. Coordinated action of the
party membership in the real strug.
gle will become possible.
What has the party to gain from
reorganization? The party has every
thing to gain = for the first time It
will be able to become a Communist
Party not only in name, but In sub
stance and action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

"LNVERYTHING is peaceful in the
~ anthracite" says the capitalist
press.
Four or five workers, suspected of
membership in the Communist Party,
who tried to point out to the miners
that their interests are being betrayed
by the Lewis machine in that soft and
hard coal miners are not called out
together, have been arrested and two
of them sentenced to six months in
Jail. But thruout the anthracite dis
trict there is a great passivity-the
miners are awaiting with pathetic pa
thence the outcome of the strike. No
violence of any kind has been charged
against the strikers.
IDUT-
u At one colliery alone 40 special
policemen have been sworn in. The
coal capitalists and the state are get
ting ready
For what?
To protect lives and property" of
course.
But whose lives? And whose prop
erty?
Not the miners, we may be sure.
THE American working class is far
l. from being class conscious, but the
most ignorant worker would laugh in
ones face if one told him that these
specially organized and accredited
thugs modified by the coal owners
and their hand-picked local govern
ments were brot into the anthracite
district to protect the lives and novels
of the miners.
The most backward American work
er knows better than this.
But the great majority Of the work
ers are not prepared to continue the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

iDlAills.n
Since the time Of Karl Marx, we
have been telling the workers that
the working class is robbed at the
point of production. What should have
been more natural than that the Com
munists who wish to end this robbery
Of the. working class, should organize
at the point Of production? Instead,
owing to the ideas basic to the social
list movement outside OF Russia where
the shop. nucleus system obtained
from the very beginning, the parties
were built in such form as to enable
the workers to capture" the state
by means OF parliamentary elections.
The Communist movement arising out
OF the real struggles OF the workers
in the period OF Imperialism, has made
1t clear that the elimination OF the
class struggle will not be thru turn
ing the tables against the oppressors.
Hence, in order to do this work, the
Communists must be organized at the
point of production, in order, from the
ro'rt Of production TO lead the work
ers into the struggle for p3wer. vi
The immediate tasks of the party
and the development OF the sl,upgl,.
for power-demand that the reorgan-
ization of the party take place as
quickly as possible. There ~ Nc dan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
BY ISRAEL AMTER

The American worker is not so diff
ferent in psychology from the Europe
an worker. Whatever difference does
exist is due to the development of the
capitalist system in its concentrated
form in the United States and to the
capitalists and the government EN-
ploying their own peculiar measures
in order to keep the workers doped.
"Americanization" is having a stupi-
flying effect on the psychology. The
American worker - even the foreign
born, who has been somewhat accli-
matised does not regard himself
as a worker He is ashamed of being
a worker, and does everything in his
power to conceal the fact He dresses
as the bourgeoisie deos, he polishes
his manners in continuity with the
bourgeoisie. Americanization has as
its motive to make the worker forget
that he belongs to a class, and to
instill in his mind the false idea that
he is a citizen OF the United States
with rights and opportunities equal to
any mans.
Not to rise in the world" - which
means not to escape from the condi-
ton Of a worker ~ is a demonstra-
ton that the man Il stupid. And a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

task. How could the party with men,
bership of about 10000 conceive Of
organizing 100000 unorganized
workers in this coutry? This was a
stupendous task, and remains one.
But it was inconceivable particularly
because, altho the party members are
working in the shops where the other
24,000,000 are employed, nonethless,
they were not working in an oraaniz-
ed manner in carrying on the general
work of the party among the masses
in the shops, factories and mines, and
particularly in achieving the task of
organizing the unorganized.
II was an idle task that the party
set itself until such time as the party
itself was organized in such form and
at the proper place to carry out the
work. The shop nuclei Oxford the
only possibility of accomplishing this
task.
For some years we have spoken
OF organizing shop committees, and
thru these committees, aiding in re-
volutionizing the labor unions. But
how could we organize shop commit
tees effectively II we, the Communists,
were not organized in the shop, in
order to systematically perform this
work. The, shop nucleus made up OF
the party members affords this pos
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

separable from the state, and that
the present democracy is a democracy
for one class-the ruling class and its
hangers-on. These misleaders of the
masses are the most ardent defenders
of American democracy and believers
in the franchise as weapon for the
elimination of all inequalities.
They have either never read En-
gels, they do not understand him or
they do not want to understand him.
Universal suffrage, said Eneels, is
an index Of the maturity Of the
working class; it cannot, and it will
not, give anything more, in the pres
ent state.
DUT it was Lenin who punctured
II the iridescent bubble of capitalist
democracy so beloved by the social
patriots. Where is there a better de-
scription of the processes by which
armed assaults make myth of the
boosted democratic freedom for min
GRITTY opinion in the United States
than in the following passage in
Kautsky, the Renegade and the Pro
letarian Revolution.
The fundamental laws of modern
states, take their internal admins
tration, take the right Of meeting
and the freedom of the press and
the so-calIed equality Of all citizens
before the law and you will see at
every step evidence of the hypo-
cricy of bourgeois democracy, with
which every honest and intel
ligent worker is familiar. There is
not single state, however demo-
cratic, which does not contain loop
holes or limiting clauses in its con-
stitution which guarantee the bour-
geoise the legal possibility of dis
patching troops against the work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

or less big towns of the country there
is tendency on the part of the trade
unions towards Capitalization and
amalgamation.
A T the same time the Stockholders
"A and the poor peasants are organ
izing themselves more and more. The
peasants league for the whole of
Japan already has organizatory con-
nections with the trade unions. The
organizing of the radical intellectuals
is following after the model of the
Fabian societies, of circles and
leagues, which aim at democratizing
the country
There exists no doubt that the re-
vival in the labor movement will pro-
duce new revolutionaries and that the
young Communist Party will succeed
in penetrating into the depths of the
working class and to leading in the
struggle against absolutism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04
r. r. Strikers Stick
as Maryland Line Is
Blocked with Freight

= BALTIMORE, Nov. Reports re-
ceived at strike headquarters of the
Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, in Balti-
more, for the Western Maryland rail
way dispute, show that traffic at main
points on the road is badly crippled.
The strike began Oct Is. On Oct.
10 the Hagerstown division reported
300 cars moved in five days, com
pared with an average normal daily
traffic of 500 cars. At Cherry Run an
average of one train a day has been
handled during the strike, compared
with a normal average of 900 cars a
day.
Cumberland is the second largest
city in Maryland. The struck road
has moved only one freight train out
Of Cumberland since the fight began.
The yards at Shomoc, which is the
junction point of the Western Mary
land with the Norfolk & Western,
was reported damned with cars which
the Western Maryland was unable to
move. At Hillen the normal SO to rs
cars daily traffic has been reduced to
total of 20 in days.
The company issued denials of this
success. 1t claimed all yards were
functioning perfectly.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-04

The DAILY WORKER sub
scription list is a Communist
honor roll. Is your name on it?
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
Pets Not Popular
With Housecleaner

- gharsc thym 20 por cent more
FOR cleaning houses whore they keep
lot OF dogs and cets In the house.
sa5S John Bradley house cleaner hy
the guod ola method of soap aHi
muscle II have found that who're
they keep dogs around on the car.
pets and chairs, and sometimes on
she beds. tho house viii bc twice na
dirty us where there are only chill.
dren In fact, when business gets
good again I am eolnE To pass up
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
Portland's Leap
Year Grand Fizzle

PORTLAND lau. Leap year
u-u5d OUT 90 d. srand nG'e ac.
5srIins 70 John N Easter deputy
sunty clerk 90 Nlu'tRomsh county
De says rHe Et-l7 were not on tFc
Ha this yesr and quoted hts books
10 rrov, It. In lasl he ISSUED 25SS
marriage licenses. while this wear
d. hooks showed only eut licenses
issued ~bts Irss." De lH
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
|. c. c. Will Hear
Coast Rate Pleas

WASHINGTON, Jan The In.
tersfatc commgrye commission Inns
announced It win hOld a meeting m
Chicago. February iG. In its tpysa,r
cation % freight rates Bon Western.
MaHHtaiu and Pacific territories
The hearing is go bg limited 20 testt,
moDy respecting divisions Of Joint
rates ON traffic between the Pacific
coast ana Chicago. Peoria and Mia
-isztrpI river points.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
They Don't Carry
Much Baggage Now

Tourists travel lighter than they
once dId. and the baggage man
G9rzH't have the heavy job that was
hts in the past. There are a mum.
her Of reasons for this. according TO
Al CourtmBnd. baggage man At the
olympic hotel
MEN learned during tho warshat
they did not need 80 much baggage,
Wucn they had to pack Il on their
lacks. and al men travel liEht, he
declares. As Tor tho women. they
dress lighter than they once did,
Besides. they have learned that "a
10; Of trunks means a lot Of bother,
and suitc3scs and bags are more in
vogue with thsm"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
Report of Note on
French Debt Denied

WASHINGTON, Dee. % Reports
that q note has been received by
tho -.ate department today from
Ambassador rerriek al Paris which
had been handed 20 him hy Premier
Hefrtot. relative to funding the
French debt, were characterized hy
tho department this afternoon az
erroneous
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
HOUSEW
HALF
PRICE

Conveniently arranged tables for easy and
quick selection
White Enameled Ware
Dish Pans Sauce Pans
Coffee Pots Pals p
All slightly imperfect
Long-handled. strong Firs Shovcls.
Sets of Princess Molds.
Pitcairn Narnish Stains several colors; pInts
and quarts)
Brass Bird Cages with removable sanitary
trays.
Kitchen Knives.
Hotakold Vacuum Bottles.
Aluminium Water Pitchers.
Aluminium Syrup Jugs.
Aluminium Electric Percolators
Willow Clothes Baskets.
Wash Boards with zinc rubbing surfaces.
Steel Dish Pans u7.quart sizel.
Wall Clothes Racks.
Basement Store
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01

. "a " mus
from GA5 to Ssi5,
when Ernest H.
Worth prominent
seattle ,llal
and teacher 20
grlhcr with sew.
rul OF his pupils,
will give musical
numbers duri ng
Tho entire period
The artists appear
ing are Mrs Er.
aest H. Worth.
0pruH0. Ern est
II. Worth, tenor.
Miss Wilma Cow
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
SHERMAN CLAY
Give PROGRAM
Unusual Musical Over KF0k
Friday Evening

Sherman CLAY & Co. present an
unusual radio program over KTOA
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01

the houses that make too much Of
tho pets"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-01
NeW Victor and
Brunswick
RECORDS

2752 Rose Msrie--For Trot o-,o,, r,.-,,..
75c Copenhagen-For Trot orchsstr.
1868 Lonely Little Melody
For Trot Ray n,er
75c Somebody loves Me HI, Orchestra
For Trot
1862? At the End OF a Wind JACK chapman ana
ing Lane-WdHs Coon sanders.
75o Lazy Watcrs-Wdits Night Hawk orch.
Something Nepl--WuriitScr organ Recording
by Jesse CrdiCtord. Chicd0os Popular
Moric Orgdnist
1880 Rose Marie
T5c Dreamer of Dreams
1881 Somewhere Voice Is Calling
7jc Sererade (SohubertD
-Mczxanine Floor
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Soldiers Three, on Last Line Of Reconstruction

that he draws both Democratic and
Republican votes to his ballot box.
At the end of long years of active
lives, these three present to their fell
low members in Congress extraordi-
nary examples of physique and of
vitality, as youthful in their thought
as many half their age. and as active
in their bodies as only old soldiers
ever seem to be. Two physicaI marks
they hold in common-height and
bearing of greater dignity than the
majority and scars from old wounds
upon their gray heads.
Each of them, sitting in his Office
in the Capitol Building or in the
House or Senate Office Building, has
told to the interviewer a little of his
first days of service at the battle
front. In particular, fortune and a
persistent questioner led each to tell
of the battle in which he received
the little blue mark which he has
carried with him six decades. For
old soldiers like best to recall twi-
lights around the campfire, the biv-
ouac of the Winters night, the gem
erals visit to their tent or the white
dawn of peace.
Gen. Sherwood, who leaves the
House on March 8, neyermore to re-
Evening star., 1925-03-01

S. veterans of the Civil War. Now
there are only two.
Describing the retreat to Knox
Vile, which took place in the
Autumn of 1863, as part of the east
Tennessee campaign. which has been
called the valley Forge of the Civil
War" Gen. Sherwood said:
81 have occasion to remember that
retreat with a sadness that fingers
yet in memory, for it was during that
retreat that a heavy shell exploded
within 2 feet of me and killed my
left ear for life. Fifty-two of my
men were taken prisoners that day
as good men as ever carried arms in
any army And that is another rea-
son for remembering it,
'On the 18th of November Gen.
Longstreet, with 10000 veteran SOL
diers, approached one wing of our
army across the Holston River near
Loudon, 20 miles below Knoxville.
Although Gen. Burnside, in command
of our army, had been notified of the
great force approaching, with which
Longstreet contemplated the annihi-
lation of our forces, he gave no order
for retreat. Not until Gen. Long
street had laid his pontoon bridge
Evening star., 1925-03-01

On March 4, 1925, John Quincy
Adams of Quincy, Mass, was in
Quoted into the highest office in the
land, and an account of that cere-
| mony. if compared with the events
scheduled to occur on the fourth
day of next month, will reveal In
striking fashion the changes in Gus
toms and the physical progress that
has been made in the past century.
In the first place, Mr.. Coolidge will
| journey to and from the Capitol in
| a 12-cylinder automobile, along a
| well paved avenue; Adams traversed
the same route in a two-horse car
riage, over what would now be
termed country road"
Our next President and Vice Presi-
| dent will pass between lines of
| spectators, thousands of whom will
have been brought to Washington
by special trains for the inaugural
event. In 1926 there were no rail-
| roads and practically no out-of-town
visitors in the National Capital for
| the Inauguration.
| Arriving at the House of Congress,
President Coolidge will proceed to the
east portico of the Capitol, and there.
| in plain view of thousands of citizens,
| he will be given the oath of office.
| The Chief Executive of a century ago
went direct to the hall of the House
of Representatives, where, in the
| presence of an audience whose num-
bers were limited to the capacity OF
the room he was sworn in.
Having received the oath of office
Mr.. Coolidge will deliver his inau-
| gural address, which millions of peo-
pie throughout the land will hear by
radio. In Adams case the inaugural
address preceded the administration
of the oath, and was heard only by
| those fortunate enough to obtain ad-
mittance to the House of Representa-
| tives.
Every incident of interest in con-
nection with the coming inaugura-
tion will be shot" by the motion
picture cameramen and shown all
Evening star., 1925-03-01

For while the enemy line halted
wavering in it's tracks. Then rebel
battery after battery swept into line
and opened with grape and canister
and she'll, which crippled the battery
1 was supporting, killed and manned
five gunners, dismantled three Parrot
guns and killed six artillery horses.
During that shellfire a shell came too
near me, knocking me to the ground
and killing my left ear for life.
picked myself UP in time to hear with
the other ear the order to retreat
further and to cover the retreat with
my regiment.
1T has been said, was so reported
at the time, that my regiment made
the retreat in fine style. 'Skirmfsh,
privation, hunger and cold A few
days later I was to take part in one
of the bloodiest battles of the war,
for, after Franklin, the battlefield in
front of Fort Sanders was the most
gruesome and CHASTITY l ever wit
messed during the four years war
Since that wretched day l have hated
war"
In that last statement of Gen.
Sherwood, the true humanitarian is
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