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investors. The remainder represents
the capitalization of profits in excess
Of legitimate dividends. In other words
Swift's profits for 1924 would be over
$40 per 800 of real Investment.
Profits from Child Labor.
National Biscuit Co. made net profits
Of $12,S81,5S0 equal to $21,76 per $500
invested in common stock.
Ward Baking Corp. made net profits
of S4,369,739. The 312,714 shares of
preferred stock represent the entire
real investment so that the report
of $2.9S per share for each of the 500,
900 shares of Glass B common stock
means nearly S1,50O,OOO of sheer vel
vet over and above the legitimate 7oL
dividends on preferred.
81 Per Cent Spearnlnt.
William Wrigley, spearmint king,
made net profits of $s,5S9,S1S equal
to about $57 on each 500 of stock
The years cash dividends were at the
rate Of nearly $36 on each 500 of IN
vestment proving that chewing is
profitable habit but not altogether to
the chewer.
Why the A. C. w. REIMBURSEMENT?
Manufacturers of wearing apparel
were not behind the rest IN profits.
Hart Shaffner & Marx made $2,041,
SS3 equal to $13.46 on each 500 share.
National Cloak & Suit made approx
mately $12 share, bringing the total
earned on each 800 in the last years
to over $3S. And Endicott Johnson,
company union shoe manufacturers,
made an operating profit of $500,
513 equal to $16.OS per 500 invested.
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of and the country's monthly payroll
reduced by nearly quarter Of bill
lion dollars.
Skins II Per Cent off Water
U. S. steel made a 1924 net profit
Of 152,SS7, 100 equal to SHOT on each
500 share of common stock. That
common stock was originally all
water, it's present value being due
entirely to the huge accumulation of
undivided profits. U. S. Steel CONT
nues its extra dividends.
Inland Steel made a net profit Of
S5.517 ,299 equal to $16.2S on each $500
Of common stock. Only in 1917 has
this company made a better record
and in that year it exploited the war
emergency to the tune Of S42.15 on
each $500 Of common stock.
lmperiaIism's Super Profits.
United Fruit, exploiter of the slaves
of Central America, made a net profit
Of $17,294,70S equal to $17.29 on each
800 Of common stock. But in view
of the 10OoL stock dividend in 1921
this means a return of $34.5S on each
500 invested. Regular dividends are
paid at the rate of $1O,O0O,OOO or 2OoL
on the par value before the stock
dividend.
The 1923 profits were so huge that
1924 dividends were paid in advance
and now that they have been paid
over again the stockholders have the
equivalent of s1O.OOO,OOO cash bonus.
Swift & Co. made net profits of $14,
125,9S7 equal to $9.41 an each $500
share Of common stock. But as the
federal trade commission discovered,
the s225,000, 900 capitalization repres-
ents less than $9O,OO0,OOO put in by
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THE DRAMA or The
CLASS STRUGGLE AS
SEEN IN CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 4.-Ed-
ward Piequest, 27 yesr-old war vet
teran, who has been out Of work
for months, committed suicide by
shooting himself thru the heart.
His last words Don't worry,
have tried for a long time to be
somebody, but ! guess ! failed"
John Glazer, aged SO, a black
smith, III and out Of work said to
his wife and four children, "This
may be my last night" A few
minutes later they heard a shot In
his room. He was found on the
bed; a bullet thru his brain.
Mrs. Highbrow, wife Of a leading
Cleveland banker, is the winner In
a beauty contest at Palm Beach for
having the tinlest poodle dog on the
beach.
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tary that they refused to let the chill
dren go there. They asserted that the
building was more than so years old,
that it was insanitary and that six
classrooms were in portable buildings
which could not be adequately heated
The school superintendent of the
district William A. Boylan, was fore
ed to grant the mothers requests and
the children will be kept in Public
School No. 3S, tho, the officials an
nounced, temporarily"
This temporarily" does not at all
satisfy the mothera.and they appoint
ed a committee OF six to see that
their demands are carried out not to
have their children go to No. 5.
The children were to have been
transferred to p. s. "a, but this build
Ing was not ready and will not be for
another month. Meantime they were
to have been sent to No. 5, but the
mothers wouldn't have it, so the off,
cials are to think II over and then
report to the mothers. They prom
ise to let the children stay at No.
80 meantime, and will then send them
TO the new school
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80, Chicago; Machinists No. 81 in
Minneapolis and a number Of other
organizations in New York, Chicago
and various other cities Sunday, Feb.
1, Chicago Federation Of Labor re-
affirmed its former stand (of 1929
against criminal syndicalism laws and
the Michigan attack.
At its recent state convention the
Musicians Association of Michigan,
also passed a resolution against the
criminal syndicalism law and the con-
viction of Ruthenberg, and the trial
Of Minor and the other 20 indicted.
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everybody In the organization from
the general superintendent down.
We trust you will give our an
swer as much prominence as was
given the above mentioned article.
Very sincerely,
Premier Taxi Company,
PETER A. MoRTENSoN,
President.
w. L. HAYS,
Vlce-presldent and General Mar.
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U.S.PAYS SCRUBWOMEN $41O A YEAR

WASHINGTON Feb 4chrawomen employed
paid $40 All they
and toilets ralngs Most Of their morning
after the evening" Now
reported favofaby raise ~ $3.50
Coolidge this will
hsneeforth This boost allowed facilitate
ductlons tho retirement fund.- tt9e
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MANY UNIONS RALLY TO AID
OF MICHIGAN COMMUNIST VICTIMS
AND LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL

Following
voiced their indignation
criminal ndicam Michigan
Without
the labor
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Red Revel Masquerade Ball, 81 South
Ashland Avenue
Corner Of Monroe and Madison sts.,
February 20.
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Turks Proteat to Leaaue.

GENEVA, Feb. 4.---The Turkish gov
eminent sent to the league OF nations
today protest against British inter-
ference in the Mosul mixed league
commission.
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ELDORADO, ILL.,, Feb. 4.-The fu-
neral of Phillip Farmer, who was shot
to death in the Lyman hotel at Herrin
Sunday, was held here this afternoon.
Burial was to be at the masonic
near Raleigh, Illinois.
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MOTHERS IN STRIKE AGAINST
FIRETRAP SCHOOL IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK Feb 4one hundred
refused to let them endanger their
matter to the school authorities the
officials forced to give the children
children No
avenue and @ street which their
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ENORMOUS PROFITS REAPED LAST
YEAR BY CAPITALISTS, WHILE A
MILLION WORKERS WERE JOBLESS

1924 10 Industrial
profits
forced to join the
thousands Of railroad and miners
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Miners StarUe As Bakers Boost Bread

VNcENNEe county rasna the price
bread cents loaf to 10 cents while
and their families forced
union and other charity
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It's your paper-BuiId on it!
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Our Kids Are Having ONE BIG JOB
Carrying Their Communist Message
To the Children of
THE WORKING CLASS
SUPPORT THEIR MOVEMENT
Come to the
JUNIORS DANCE
SAT-, FEB. Ia, 1925
Workers Lyceum
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means OF stating openly what is the
trouble with Lore"
The trouble with Lore is that he is
no Communist. This is not a. manifes-
tation of today or yesterday. Lore has
shown consistent opposition to the
ideas of the Communist International,
in his support of Serrati, Levi, his
criticism of the Comintern and of
Zinoviev-in his utterances on ques-
tons arising in the United States, in
his conception Of what Communist
Party should be and do. This the
Communist International knew and
knows. This the majority of the c.
E. G. knows or should know-unless
it believes that Lore is a Communist.
What has the majority of the G. e.
C.--who are the c. {. c.-done in car
rying out the decisions of the Presid-
ium of the Communist International,
namely in carrying on an theological
campaign" against Lore and his fol-
lowers, who are remnants of the Two
a-half-International" in our party?
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naturally do nothing to nip these
hopes in the bud"
These statements need no comment
they come from the Communist"
Lore!
What did Comrade Zinoviev say in
the Presidium of the Communist In
ternational when the American ques-
ton was before the Presidium?
Now as regards Lore. From
what have read he proves that he Is
by no means a Communist. l really
do not know whether he belongs IN
the central executive committee. In
the resolution we have said that very
politely. Perhaps we will be compel
led to tell Ito him less politely. The
fact that Lore was against the sup
port of LaFollette is of no moment.
We know the manners of the social
democrats who hide behind some bar
ricades, who's they are against the
work among the farmers-because
they are orthodox Marxians. The
American Party will find ways and
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THE PECULIAR LOGIC OF THE MAJORITY

of promise to it's followers to create
a party in 1925, is to be contrary to
facts.
The only real basic demand that
existed in 1922-23-24 for F. L. Pa
class F. L. p, has not vanished, as
the majority contends. On the con-
trary, it has been strengthened. To
deny that what ever pressure existed
from below, still exists for a F. l..
p, is to say that our two years or so,
of agitation thru the T. U. E. L., ETC.,
for F. L. p, has not only failed to
increase that pressure, but has in
some mysterious way wiped it out en-
tirely.
Who Guides the c. &. c. Majority
Policy?
The majority does not admit it,
still its attitude shows plainly; that
it is not the needs or the demands of
the rank and file that it gauges the
situation by, but rather, by the mood
of few labor takers. Here we see:
First, that the material conditions
are favorable to the continuation of
the farmer-labor slogan. Secondly,
that the only basic demand most
worthy of heeding-that of the partly
disillusioned portion of the rank and
file is still here.
The only difference that has caused
such a sudden and complete change
of heart in the majority, is the fact
that Mahoney, Fitzpatrick, Cramer,
and a few others of their stripe do
not happen to be in the proper mood
now, that they are not for a united
front with the Communists. This ap-
pears to be the only reason for the
majority's attitude toward F. L. P.
c. E. C. Majority Worships United
Front From Top.
What comrade, who lays claim to
the most elementary knowledge of
the Communist movement will not
readily admit that, the Fitzpatricks,
Mahoneys, ETC., are not to be relied
upon? Who does not know that this
element works with us only, as long
as we do not challenge their leader
ship and do not in any way show our
Communist face? Still, it is upon
them that the majority bases its con-
illusions, and not upon the prevalent
and potential economic and political
conditions, or the temper of the rank
and file.
The majority reminds one Of a
child who sat on a hot stove, as a
result, much of the skin and flesh
of certain part of its anatomy was
badly burned. The child Immediate
ly concluded that the stove was no
good and should be disposed Of 1t
never occurred to the child that, tho,
the stove was not a suitable thing to
sit upon, it was still useful, if en-
ployed for those purposes for which
it was made.
The majority became badly con-
taminated with the illusion that at
one sweep an all-inclusive F. L. p.
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which it seeks to stigmatize in It's
thesis. However, why does not the
majority tell the party who the lead
ers of this tendency are? Why does
it treat it so abstractedly? This is
using diplomacy" in fighting menace
to the party. With such methods, the
party will never be able to defeat
the Two-and-a-Half and social demo
cratic theology which is all too pre-
valent in our ranks. The majority
cannot convince the party member
ship that it realizes the extent and
the menace Of Two-and-a-Half Inter
nationalism within the party with
such methods.
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Loyalty support the Communist Inter
national and would combat Two-and-
arHalf Internationalism just as 1t is
now utilizing it's organization power
to fight the minority. The press COM
mittee elected by the convention to
control the Volkszeitung consists Of
comrades who are themselves unre-
liable from the standpoint Of their
Communist theology.
The attitude of the majority toward
Two-and-a-Half Internationalism is
again shown by the manner in which
it is combating the opportunist tend
encies in our trade union work which
it is compelled to admit exists and
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of Our Party's Immediate Tasks

could have been formed in the Unit
ed States at this time. Now that
the majority had its crude awaken
ing, that it. found that an all-inclusive
party could not be formed at this
time, 1t proceeds to disown the idea
of united front upon the political
field. In a word, when it found that
hot stove could not be sat upon, it
proceeds to rid itself of the stove. But
the stove is still good, it will still
respond to proper handling The
struggle is still on! The former Ia
Dor united front is still useful if prop
erly applied.
To assume as the G. e. G. majority
did, that an all-inclusive movement
can be had at this early stage Of revo-
lutionary development, in the coun-
try, is to misunderstood the first ele-
mentarY factors Of the American
movement. BY it's actions the ma
jority has shown that it thought an
"all-inclusive" party could be formed
in 1924. What are the facts? Did
not the majority understand that the
organized labor movement was, and
is in the control of agents of capital
ism conscious or unconscious) Did
the majority not understand that the
G. P. P. A. together with LaFollette,
even If they were willing to form a
F. L. p, (Which they were mott would
have not consented to any sort of a
coalition with the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party! particularly If 1t involved
our inviolable Communist right to
criticize. We could not have accept
ed a united front without that con-
dition.
Did not the majority understand
that the only thing that could have
been done under the circumstances,
was to concentrate upon the forma-
ton Of party, class party, only
Of such elements that are close
enough to us as not to fear US? No!
They did not understand all Of this.
They started out to form an all-in-
elusive farmer-labor party. In their
short sightedness they discount.
ed the hold upon the wide masses
by the labor leaders, and LaFollette.
Is it not known to the majority that
in England where the labor party is
based upon the trade union moveve-
ment, which in turn accepts officially
the existence of the class struggle,
even there, the Communist Party is
still knocking at the door Of the labor
party for admittance.
To assume that an all-inclusive la
Dor party could have been formed in
the United States in 1924, simply
means that the majority blindfolded
assumed first, that our own party
was ideologfcally so fortified, as to
be beyond contamination no matter
how opportunistically our C. e. C.
majority Unanswered us. In the sec
ond place, it utterly failed to under
stand its field of operation. 1t I'M
derestimated the control of the labor
leaders and fake progressives over
the great bulk of the organized work
ers and poorer farmers. In a word,
the two most elementary and indis-
pensible needs of generalship, name
ly, to know the strength and morale
of ones own forces as well as that
Of the enemy, were either not consi-
dered at all by the majority (who
were for an all-inclusive party or
nothing at ALL, or else their judg-
ment is anything but judgment.
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MMemoriam-Lenin

On the 21st of January the workers
the world over will hold memorial
meetings for Nicolai Lenin, the
leader and fighter for the liberation
Of the laboring masses. In connection
with these memorial meetings, on
Thursday, Jan. is, moving picture,
ain Memoriam-Lenln," will be shown
in the Gartner's Independent Theatre.
3725 Roosevelt Road. Two other pic
lures will also be shown: "PoIIkush-
ka," and Soldier Ivan's Miracle"
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Mr.. Charles F. Neubert, Who
Was the Victim of His Own
Daughters Romantic Dream.

81 didn't think it would cause all this
trouble" Leona said after the first furry
OF excitement was over But it was such
fun to read Dads letters and answer
them! And you should have seen how red
Dad got and how he pulled his Tie when
| would tell him of the nice things | pre-
tended Miss Emily had said about him!
"The first letter was hard to write, but
after that it came easy. It's too bad it
was spoiled at the end, for sure did want
Miss Emily for a mother"
What Miss Harrison said when she
discovered the guests assembling for a
wedding she knew nothing about only she
and the guests know, and they won't tell.
But the next day she was ready to talk.
81 would never have believed Leona
capable of such trick" she said "She
always seemed such frank and innocent
child that it is almost impossible to be-
lieve her capable of connecting such Il
plot, | knew from her conversations that
she had romantic notions, but never,
never, expected her capable of anything
like this.
81 suppose the most charitable thing
is to look upon it as joke; but | hope
it will be a lesson to her."
But, while Neubert, too, is willing to
let it 90 as a joke on him, thought of the
unpaid tax bill is a constant and irksOme
reminder that he has been made the
goat" of his little daughters romantic
imagination. True, he will not have to
buy her any more dolls for Christmas, be-
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business woman he send the money to her
and she would pay the bill. As he was
confident "Mss Emily" would soon be his
wife Neubert thought there would be
nothing improper in asking that slight
favor So, the following morning, he gave
Leona $40 to give Miss Harrison to make
first payment on the bill, which was
for $50.
Subsequently he gave the child $43 to
pay the balance. The taxes are still I'M
paid, but Leona has a collection of dolls
that is the envy of all the little girls in
Cub Hill, and her little brother, Irwin, has
train of cars that is marvel of me-
chanical genius. They were given her,
Leona told her father at the time, by
"Miss Emily" and he was delighted at
what he thought manifestation of moth
erly love toward his children by the
woman he planned to marry.
So matters progressed" until the
middle of September. Neubert then began
toa- L., ..,..t.... ,v-..t- 4,
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The Home of "Miss Emily" Where the Wedding
Guests Assembled and the First Thing the
Bride" Knew of the Marriage" Was When
They Began to Congratulate Her.

to get impatient and wrote to Miss
Harrison asking if she would not
make him and his .motherless children
happy by naming date for the we'd a.
ding. He got a reply naming Sum M
day evening, September 27, and Miss
Harrison" said she would call for him
in her auto
Neubert was addressed, waiting for
his bride. when James f. Tippett, a Balti-
more lawyer who had been asked to act
as best man, rushed into the house.
whats all this bunk about mar
riage?'' he demanded.
Bunk? What do you mean?" Neu-
bert returned.
Just what / say" Tippett replied. "If
there is to be any marriage you're the
only one that knows about it,"
Tippett had been one of the first of
the. guests Leona had invited to arrive
at Miss IlaTison's house, and it was not
until he started to offer congratulations
that Miss Harrison learned of the "wed-
ding"
LeOna, who had designated herself
flower girl for the ceremony that was not
to take place, was patting a ribbon into
place when Tippett exploded her scheme.
When her father called for an ex-
PLANTATION Leona confessed the fraud.
81 did want Miss Emily for mother,
and | thought that as Dad was so bashful
this way would be all right" she said.
"But I'll never try that again.
"And now | guess there won't be any
wedding" she added wistfully. 81 thought
they would go right ahead when they saw
the guests and the preacher and that
had arranged everything"
"Well," said Neubert at looks As if
the joke was on me-"
He Immediately sent an apology to
Miss Harrison, and the following day a
probation officer impounded the letters.
Great BrltlIn Rlghts Reserrrd.
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cause she has enough now to last her
until long after the age when most girls
outgrow dolls, but they and the boxes and
boxes of candies she has RECALLED herself
with are a poor substitute, he SAYS. for
paid up tax bill
''ln future" he remarked, when |
have any letters to send l will entrust
them to Uncle Sam.
''Leona is good girl; she's been Won
derful in her care of her little brother
and in looking after the house, but this
has shown her up in a new light, and
there is no use throwing temptation in
her way.
81 would have given her a good, old
fashioned spanking, but l know she was
acting for what she thought my best in
terests and, although her methods were
unusual, | must blame myself for letting
the correspondence go so far without
speaking to Miss Harrison. l regret ex-
ceedingly that she should have been
caused any embarrassment"
1t is now remembered that among the
books "MisS Emily" read to the child was
"Pollyanna later she saw it in the
movies. 1t is from the play and book that
it is thought she got the idea of being a
sort of "Pollyanna' herself.
''POllyanna," it will be recalled, was a
child who thought it her duty to point
out to people who believed themselves
out of luck, how much they had to be
really thankful for. She was "glad
child' and went about spreading Sweet
ness and Light among everyone. If, for
instance, you had one broken leg, Polly
anna" would sit by your bedside by the
hour telling you how lucky you were not
to have two broken legs. And if you
couldn't move with the rheumatism, she
would tell you how much better off you
were than poor old Mrs. Jones who was
laid away under her tombstone last week
and had no chance of ever moving again.
Pollyanna's Aunt Polly often "sighed
YEARLY" the book says, as she listened to
POllyanna, and frequently said to her.
You are the most extraordinary child"
Many readers have thought so, too and
no doubt many of those who had to lie
on their backs and listen to Pollyanna's
philosophy sighed just as YEARLY, al
though the book does not say so. But be-
yOnd carrying dainties and flowers to the
bedridden, Pollyanna was content to work
with words and not invade the field of
action to make her protegees feel happier.
Little LeOna undoubtedly mulled over
this flaw in Pollyanna's methods in her
own mind. More practical than the little
GLAD girl" of the book, she realized that
she couldn't make Daddy glad Just bv
telling him there were ladies who would
like to marry him. SO little Leona cheer
fully produced the letters and other evil
dence from one real person, Just as Polly
anna would have done if she had only
thought of it, for the very essence of
Pollyanna's peculiar philosophy was that
you really oughtn't to stop at anything to
make a sad person glad or glad person
gladder.