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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28
MAY ASK FUNDS
FOR CITY DELIVERY

III the dealers persist in their
refusal TO place their case fairly
before the public. shall take II
that they have so much 10 conceal
about the present zone carriage plan
that 1t simply must be changed. II
we get nowhere at the meeting to-
day. ! shall ask the council TO ap-
propriate money TO enable me TO
20 into the open market. purchase
coal. use the city's trucks, and show
the dealers-and the public-that
fuel can be delivered on a flat
charge much below the present cart.
age rates"
President Emit of the dealers
association. stated Monday that he
would gee the mayor during the
day and offer 10 appoint three re-
tailers. asking the mayor to sug-
gest TO three wholesalers that they
sit in on committee TO be com
pleted by the three which the
mayor suggested he would appoint.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28
III THERE'S ANY KNOCKING
TO BE DONE AROUND
HERE, I'LL DO 1T

~ sornrtght versatility
Therys Archibdidas Ridge.
H< vcks the cradle triih his foo;
Fhae he 10 playing bridge.
HOUSEHOLD HINT
An electric fan can be used for
ksting the house by putting it into
nzens. when It will draw In the
= air il blew out last summer
sag.
II irives received time and
sAcf for overtime, ne hils-
bdnds pould Arrays be broke.
A experienced husband Is one
no can guess in 10 minutes what
- wife is pouting about.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

Howd,, folks, Radio week
spencd this morning. and the
,,h,r should he full Of songs.
And some Of the singers should
he full Of ether.
A scisntis, has discovered a way
!, showing movies in a lighted the.
nssr.
New. by heaven. wen learn who
ssss those peanuts.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

THEY ALSO SERVE WHO oNLN
STAND AND WAIT"
No, the least important member
Il the Home Brew staff Is Miss TIL
II Hamhocks. manager Of the cafe
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

WONDERFUL VALUES IN
REMkDE RANGES. FUR =
NAcEs. WASHING MA
CHIMES. ETC.
Used SMALL FURNACE $500
Used LARGE FURNACE e5.0o
Used PENINSULA COM
HINATtON COAL. GAS
AND WOOD RANGE.
dandy ....4..-..,i1 $500
Uscd oNE.MiNuTE ELEC.
TRIO WASHING MA
CHINE .............. $500
Used ELECTRIC IRONING
MACHINE. wonderful
value .....,......... 1900
Turn to tho Want nd Columns,
where you will find a large va
ricty of good used furniture OF.
icrcd TO you.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28
TODAYS
WANT ADS

VIII help you TO secure some
dandy remadc furniture. Here
arc some special offerings.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

ne days arc short the HigAts arc
loRg.
A call Is often in tho air:
Bs. stu the ladics. bcipg siroHO.
Appcer Eiih arRts aHd shoulders
bare.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

on. heck. let. abolish the traffic
ssuai and let the foris fight u cut
Yah the facksrdsi
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28
FUEL DEALERS ASK
ANOTHER MEETING

II had accepted the action OF the
Friday night meeting OF dealers as
final. 20 far as they were concern
I'd. and had turned my mind 20 an
other plan 10 bring them 10 time"
Mayor Brown said. However, ]
have just learned that a group Of
association officials. headed by Mr.
Emit, desires 10 meet me this after
noon 10 reopen the matter. be-
lIeye We may get together and
knock out this unfair zone sys-
tenn.
III we can't--welI, the fuel deal
ers will have to be shown that no
group is bigger than the interests
OF the people OF Seattle as a whole,
nor greater in power than the gov
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

turkey is going to abolish poly.
my according to dispatches.
luygamy is having two or more
'Hss' having one wife is monotony.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28
Will MEET
Dealers
AGAIN
Fuel Association Pres
ident avs He'll
Name Committee

A MUNICIPAL coal yard
IA was suggested Monday
by Mayor Brown as a means
of getting fuel to the people
Of Seattle equitably.
The mayors statement was
made after he had learned of
the action of the Seattle Fuel
Dealers Credit association in
denying its president, p. J.
Emit, the power he requested
to appoint six members of a
committee TO meet with three
public representatives TO be
named by the mayor. 1t was
the plan Of the mayor that
the nine should constitute a
fact-finding commission to
make recommendations in re-
gard TO the present inequit-
able zone carriage charge on
coal.
pTfEI, DEALERS ASK
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-28

" "" "EHTT
-. What a mess life was. Gloria
W. II made you care for the peo-
~ surht not TO care for. IL made
n an, ~ fsli IN love with you. you at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
OF ALL
SOVIET NATIONS
SET FOR MAY 5
Each Nation to Hold
DUN { Contention First

MoscoW.-(By Rosta.)-Ths prssI.
dIum Of the the central executive com
mIttes Of the Union Of Soviet Socialist
Republics has summoned for May 8
next the Third Congress Of sovists
Of the Union Of Soviet Socialist Re-
publIes. This congress ls to DO pre-
coded by congresses Of the various
Union Republics, In particular the
XII. Congress Of soVIets Of the Rus
sian Socialist FederatiVs Soviet Re-
public being set for May 2.
On the agenda Of the coming Union
Congress Of Soviets. as drawn up by
the presidium Of the central executive
committee, there are included: the
question Of the Turkmen and the
UEbek Republics Joining the Union Of
Soviet Socialist Republics; the report
of the government Of the Union; the
appropriate measures devised to con-
solidate the peasant economy, such as
agricultural credit, handicraft indus
try, agricultural cooperation, and so
forth: the report on the peoples COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
"A NEW Light IS BURNING
By Moritz J. Loeb

read because there was no stimuiA
ton given to reading. That vicious
circle has now been broken. The
party has begun to publish and new
wealth OF literature is being poured
forth. The working class and par
ticularly the Communists are begin.
ming to read because It is their nature
to do so and moreover because they
know that they must read or degene.
rate.
TN the early days of the party there
was the highest premium on min.
fancy and activity. Increasingly now
the need is for the development OF
studious militants who can follow the
general evolution of the party by COM
bining action with correct theoretical
and practical understanding.
Last May the DAILY WORKER
burned TO light the mind and infiame
the spirit OF the American working
class. In the year that has passed
the light has not diminished but burns
ever more brightly. This year The
Little Red Library shows its small
light which twelve months from now
with scores OF titles and thousands Of
copies will roar OF the progress and
coming victory Of the working elaaA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

IN the revolutionary movement Of
4 the United States, a new fire is
burning. Some fires are used to gen.
crate light: some to make heat; 9TH
ers to create. still other to destroy.
Fire in the revolutionary symbolism
may mean any of these and all of
them. The Little Red Library, /
tnink. is destined to serve as a revo.
lutionary IRE in the broadcast sense.
CNcE the 1919 days when the left
- wing FIRST broke away from the
shackles which bound Il TO the re.
fprmism and sterility OF the socialist
party the propaganda and agitation
OF the Communists has been conduct
cd almost solely by means Of struggle.
The spoken word replaced the writ
ten; class struggle in the field re-
placed the study class. II has been
nvc-year period in which the Com
nunists have been educating them
selves by action and fixing the atten-
zion OF the working class upon them
By deeds.
xITu ala not turn our backs upon
w the study GLASS and the library he-
ssuss We thought W. could get along
Without tAs@- We were simply 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

busy in the actual struggle, we were
too much taken up with our daily
tasks to give proper attention to read
ing and education.
1--WE years is not long time in the
life of an individual, but in the life
of party, particularly a new party
IL is a whole epoch. We did not de-
sert the study class because we
spurned 1t back In 1919, but neverthe-
less the Workers Party has grown up
in its tradition OF a party OF action
without any tradition as a party Of
study and research. We are not quite
an illiterate party, our press has saved
us from that, but we have been fairly
on the way to being a party without
a literature OF its own and a party
which has not set down in writing
for sober study the experiences and
lessons II has learned on the field OF
action. simultaneously we have been
allowing ourselves, the mass OF the
party membership, 10 become a group
10 which the book and the pamphlet
Of the class struggle is almost a
stranger. to which the printed word
~ . weapon OF the GLASS struggle has
essn lsrgsiy torEottsz-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

1926. The ruling class OF today has
sweat of the farmer congeals into
profit only in the hands =. the bank
ers, the large landowners and the
grain spectators. Any complaint
that the farmers may have against
the banker, the absentee landlord or
the grain Spectator he must lodge
with the government Of the self same
bankers, landlords and grain specula-
tors. And now, as then, the solution
of the small and poor farmers prob
lens lies forward and not backward.
It is not the re-establishment Of a
past condition that will solve the
poor farmers problem but the estab-
lishment of a new system, a new So
ciety. And the architect Of this new
society is the proletariat, the working
class. The poor and exploited farm
ers must follow the path that is being
blasted by the working class They
must follow the standard which an
alliance Of the poor peasants with the
workers has raised over the great
country of Soviet Russia, the banner
that symbolizes the alliance n a unity
of hammer and sickle.
Under this banner the class broth.
ers Of those revolutionary Fighters OF
the peasant war Of four hundred years
ago-the exploited farmers Of today
will win their battles. In a work
ers' and farmers government in which
the interests of the toiling masses are
the only deciding considerations a
monument will be erected to the mem
ory OF all those that fell in the service
of their cause. Only then will the
valiant fighters Of four centuries coms
into their own.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

ca. II gathers together the important
materials Of the life, the struggles,
the needs, the lessons, of American
workers and makes these available in
inexpensive. yet attractive and con-
venient form, so as to come within
the means OF every working man and
woman in America. The Little Red
Library serves a threefold purpose;
it provides a medium OF expression.
in permanent form, for Communist
thought, It provides for the education
Of the party membership, II provides
new and wonderful medium for agi-
tation among the masses. Problems
of the political and industrial strug-
gle. essays OF Communist theory and
practice, the old classics OF Commun.
ism. fiction, poetry and art OF the
Communist movement; all these come
within its scope. To describe the vol.
umes which have already been pub
lished and which are now in prepare
ton would require an article in itself,
much longer than this article may be.
But the titles and authors themselves
give some idea Of the isld already
covered:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

erty had to be submitted to the thief
or to other members of his caste who
committed the same crimes in their
own domain.
This appropriation of the peasantry
was not only carried on by the nobil-
ity, the knights and barons, but also
by the church. The princes" of the
church, the bishops and the abbots,
were surrounded by luxurious courts
with courtiers and courtesans. This
life cost money, and the church got
this money out of It's subordinated
peasants. Forgery Of documents or
outright theft were the methods en-
ployed by these "holy" men to satisfy
their unlimited need for money and
wealth.
The exploited, miserable and starv-
ing peasantry was dominated by the
religious theology of it's time and
look for relief to religion. But their
hopes were not pinned so much on the
hereafter. They looked for salvation
here in this world. Communist IDEAS
appeared as theories of the millennium,
promised in the bible. free society
of free and happy people.
TN this atmosphere developed the
L Reformation. Appearing in the
form of religious reform it was in
reality a revolutionary movement
directed toward hetterment of the
economic conditions of the masses.
The bible was scanned carefully for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
cachin, oorlOt, MART and semar.

missarist Of finance; the report Of the
red army; the nomination of the CEN
tral executive committee of the Union
Of Soviet Socialist Republics, namely,
the election Of the Union Coxncil and
the confirmation of the members Of
the council of nationalities. I'm ac-
cordance with the constitution Of the
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
the council of nationalities forms as
it we're second house or chamber of
the central executive committee; the
council consists Of representatives.
Eve from each-of the Soviet Union
Republics and the autonomous re-
publics.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

against which the armor Of the knight
did not afford secure protection.
Since this class could no longer
satisfy the excessive needs of an idle
and luxurious life from the proceeds
of robbing merchants on the high
ways they began robbing the peas
ants and their homes and villages.
Tithes were increased to unbelievable
proportions. Communal pastures and
fields were stolen outright. The peas
ants we're reduced to the state Of un-
derfed farm animals.
The feudal lords were the ruling
class. Any accusation against the
theft Of the peasants rights or prop
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
A Vicious Circle Has Been Broken.

TT used TO be said in way OF ex.
L cuse that the Communist movement
in America could not undertake any
consistent publishing projects because
American workers were no longer
steady readers. This was true. par
TALLY because Of the flux in the move
ment and partly also because very
few books and pamphlets were being
published. The party could not pub
lish because there we're none who
would buy; the workers could not
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
BY WAX sEpAcHT

ENoUR HUNDRED years have gone
= down in the unfathomable ocean
Of the past since the fields and hills
Of central and southern Germany
were filled with the echo Of the bat
ties Of the historic peasants war.
Feudalism was already permeated
with the disease which caused its de-
mise in the revolutionary upheavals
Of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. The long drawn death
agony Of feudalism increased the bur
dens Of the exploited class Of this
order, the serfs and peasants. In an
heroic uprising in 1925 this class at
tempted to break its letters and to
establish a society Of economic equals.
Historic development, however, did
not lie in the direction Of the aims of
the rebellious peasants. Feudalism
did not fall victim to the Just wrath
Of an Infatuated peasantry, but was
defeated more than a century later by
a new class, the bourgeoisie.
THE invention Of gun powder had
l. ended the invincibleness Of the
strong castles of the feudal barons
At the same time it also broke the
monopoly Of the>steel-armored knights
as warriors. Highway robbery, hither-
to the noble profession of large por-
ton Of the aristocracy, became more
and more dangerous. The merchant
transports were conveyed by guards
armed with shooting instruments
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

ment-Photos and biographical
sketches.
Four Short stories-Translated from
the Russian of the new revolution
airy school.
THE Little Red Library is not mere
4 ly set of books. 1t is a medium
by which the thoughts and actions Of
the revolutionary movement is to be
expressed in a permanent literature.
1t is more than that; it is mani
festation Of the change in the Work.
ers Party from a party Of action only,
to party which combines action with
sober thought and study.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

words and sentences that would prove
that the extreme exploitation of the
masses was ungodly. Economic de-
mands under the disguise of biblical
sentences. Revolutionary propaganda
speeches were delivered in the form
of religious sermons.
Especially one Of the leaders Of that
period, Thomas Muenzer, was master
in the art of clothing very material
demands in ecclesiastical language.
Thomas Muenzer was revolution
airy genius. His never wavering de-
votion to and his indefatigable activ-
tiles for the exploited masses of his
time deserve for him that the revolu-
tionary proletariat of today devote
some thought to the memory and hon
or of this man.
Thomas Muenzer was born as the
son of poor parents about 1890. His
father fell victim to the murderous
mood of a tyrannical baron. The in
telligent boy was educated as a priest
Muenzer's maturity fell into the peri
cd of Luther's quarrel with Pope
Plus X, whose pompous extravaganza
forced him to turn everything into
money, from worthless and fraudulent
relics to reserved seats in heaven.
Muenzer welcomed the reform move
ment Of Luther. Luther was driven
by revolutionary situation much fur
Their than he ever foresaw or intended
to go. The restlessness of the masses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

rificingly in those struggles four hun
bred years ago will be achieved by the
revolutionists of today. But while the
peasants of 1926 hoped to equalize by
division, the revolutionists of today
will equalize by concentration; while
the revolutionary peasant Of 1926
could only equalize poverty, the revo-
luton of today shall equalize the rich
es that a well-organized society will
be able to provide for all Of its USE
full members.
The peasantry Of today, the small
and poor farmer, is confronted with
the same problems in another form
than that faced by the peasant Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
Rebecca Grecht VIII
Speak at Yonkers, N. Y,
May Day Celebration

YONKERS, New York. Rebeo
ca Grecht will be the principal speak
Ter at me Yonkers May Day celebra,
ton to be held Sunday. May 8, Al 4
p. m, at 20 Palisade Ave-, YonkerG.
Comrades get busy distributing liter
ature, talk to your shop mates and
your friends of the meeting. Bring
them along! Let's make this celebra,
ton the best held in Yonkers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
Big Battles Four Hundred Years Ago

ers. Muenzer preached, wrote and
fought, In his sermons he covered
revolutionary atheism with theologi-
cal language The heaven that his
religion promised was a better So
ciety and the method to get into his
leaven was to fight against existing
hell and its imps, the parasitical and
exploiting ecclesiastical and secular
princes. Thomas Muenzer died the
death of a rebel Defeated in battle
he was made prisoner, was tortured
and finally beheaded in the latter part
of May, 1925.
The revolts Of the followers Of
Muenzer, the miners and the workers
in hand industry, we're the most revo-
lutionary occurrences in the great
event Of the peasants war. The revo-
Iutionary peasants could not conquer
the world because their aims were
conditions Of a period already over
come by society. Muenzer and his
revolutionary workers could not win
because their aims lay in a historical
period for which society Of the six
teenth century was not yet ripe and
because the only class that can
achieve these aims in revolutionary
struggles, the proletariat, was yet too
weak and undeveloped.
The revolutionary proletariat of to-
day has taken over the revolutionary
inheritance of Muenzer and his vail
ant hosts. The society of free and
equal humans, the aim fought for SO
hitAnrI,r Observation-Disclosures nnH nn1fnnn
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01

saw in the theological revolt Of Lu-
Their the beginning Of revolt against
the hated, exploiting and torturing
authorities. But the more real the
revolt became the more was Luther
anxious to confine his differences with
the pope, and later with the catholic
church, to the field Of theology. The
revolutionary situation and the re-
voting masses had saved Luther from
the fate of Johan Hus. Luther repaid
his debt to the revolutionary masses
by denouncing them to their enemies,
the princes.
MEUNZER went the opposite road.
4fA He turned the theological dis
pute into a revolutionary struggle
against the ruling powers. He con-
demned Luther's treachery and was
in turn denounced by Luther as satan
incarnate.
Meunzer had a surprisingly clear
revolutionary instinct. He built his
propaganda mainly upon the proleta-
riat such as it then existed. In Thur
ingia and in Saxony he found COM
paratively highly developed mining
and textile industry. 1t was among
theh miners, and the weavers and
spinners that he formed his revolu-
tionary circles. He was driven from
city to city, welcomed almost every
where by the suffering and exploited
h,tf rarcacutad and axflad nv tha ruI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
To Appear Shortly.

Short History OF the Workers
Party-Alexander Bittelman.
Concentration OF American Capital
Earl II. Browder.
Shop Committees and Factory coun.
clls-J. w. tombstone.
Negro In American industry-wil-
liam F. Dunno.
How Wall ST. subjueates the World
Manuel Gomez.
hsrtRm VI the pommsnIss Now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
A Little Revolution Is Brewing.

THE Little Red Library has been
established. II marks the begin
ming Of revolution within the ranks
Of American Communists. It marks
a turning point in the growth of the
American Communist movement, a
growth which will continue not in
action alone, but in the harmonious
combination of activity with study, Of
leadership Of working class by means
of deeds and with education OF the
working class by means OF books.
The Little Red Library did not ere
ate this new revolution. The means
do not create the need. The Little
Red Library was brought into being
because of the imperative need OF
our movement for literary expression
and study, the imperative need OF
the working class for revolutionary
education as well as revolutionary ex-
ample.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
Already Published.

No. THE American Trade Union
Movement-Foster, Cannon and
Browder.
No. 2-cIass Struggle VS.. Class Col
Iaboration-Earl r. Browder.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
Ready by May I.

No. 3-WorRer Correspondents -
William F. Dunno.
No. angels First Draft OF the
Communist Manlfesto-Translat-
ed by Max Bedacht.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-01
What Is The Little Red Llbrary7

TT Is q permanent library OF the rev.
oluticnsry working class q Ansri,
Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-10
JEWISH BANKERS IN HUN
GARY COMMIT SUICIDE

Budapest.-(J. T. A.)-1he Jewish
community of Budapest recently
nlourned the death of the Jassowicz
brothers, julius and Samuel.
julius Jassowicz, 6l years old, and
Samuel, So, both bankers in Buda-
pest, committed suicide by jumping
from the fourth floor of their bank
Offices. 1t was stated that the reason
for the double suicide was their
financial difficulties.
A note addressed by the brothers
to the kehillah. asked that they be
buried in one grave.
Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-10

Just as drop Of ink would saturate
every particle of water In glass, so
an act OF kindness, Il bit of self-denial,
an aspiration, some added wisdom.
knowledge or experience will color all
of life.
Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-12-10

Let not your ears listen to vain talk,
for they are most likely to get burned
-Talmud.