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Mrs. +. M. Hill is in Seattle visit
ing her daughter and expects to be
gone until after the holidays.
Mrs. Chester Taylor left this week
for Wenatchee, where she will be
with her mother until after Christmas.
Grange hall is being treated to
a new coat of paint, both inside
and out.
Mrs. w. H. Wehb, who has been
in Portland all week, is expected
home Sunday.
F. ]. Bonn was business visitor
in Yakima the first of the week, driv-
ing over Monday and returning Tues
day.
Preaching services next Sunday
evening at 1880 p. m. at the Com
naunity Presbyterian church. Special
music.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Smith drove
up to Gle Elum Thursday ffor a
few days visit with old friends.
They expect to return Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Koppen left
for a tour Of the Coast during which
they expected to visit Seattle, Bell
ingham, Chehalis, and Olympia.
L. L. Perry, local manager for the
P. P. G L. company for the past year
has been moved to Pasco and will
work out of that office. E. l.. Holt
succeeds Mr.. Perry as manager at
Mrs. Goldie Werner and little son
and Miss Ada Kellogg who have
been over from Seattle for several
weeks, left Wednesday morning for
home. They were accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Cole who plan on
spending the winter in Seattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Barge returned
Tuesday from Yakima, where they
had been since before Thanksgiving.
The condition of Mrs. Barge's throat
was such that the doctors did not
think they should operate for the re-
moval of her tonsils for another ten
days.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Brooks of
the Jn-B-Tween. neighborhood an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Flossie, to Albert b..
Luddington, the marriage to take
place at the Brooks home Thurs
day, December Oath.
Mrs Harry Dem Arrest and little
daughter Lucille of Whitlash,
Montana, left for home on Friday
mornings train after weeks Wis
it at the W. j. Kincaid home.
Mrs. Demarest is sister of Mrs.
Kincaid.
W. H. Keal and M. E. Houk
drove over to Yakima Wednesday
to attend the Odd Fellows banquet
given there that evening at the
Commercial hotel.
Mrs. G. L. Sutherland expects te
leave the hospital in Yakima or
Saturday and will go to Pasco fol
a weeks visit with her daughter
Mrs. George Voshell, before re-
turning home.
Mrs. w. w. Barrett was pas
senger on the down river stage
Wednesday on her way to Lewis
ton, Idaho, From there she ex
poets to 90 to Portland and finally
to Sacramento, California, where
she will spend Christmas with hel
daughter, Mrs. John l.. Chalmers
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Mrs. +. M. Hill is in Seattle visit
ing her daughter and expects to be
gone until after the holidays.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

FOR SALE or TRADE Sixty
five acres at White Bluffs. About
40 acres improved. For particu-
lars inquire of Milton M. Richards
or James o. Gull of Yakima, or Of
Herb Huff at the ranch. 3tp
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

A liberal reward will be paid
for the return of my two heavy
2O-foot ladders with oak rounds.
as | W ish to use them. j. H. Gage
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Mrs. Chester Taylor left this week
for Wenatchee, where she will be
with her mother until after Christmas.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11
LIST OF DONORS

The Benton County T. B. League
sponsored movement to raise
enough money to maintain he'd for
one year in the Children's Orthopedic
Hospital of Seattle The amount has
been raised. The following individu-
ais and. organizations have made this
undertaking possible:
Kennewick Camp 1857 M, w. of
America, Woman's Club, Mrs. E. c.
Tweet, St. Pauls Sunday School,
4.oyal Neighbors of America, Mrs.
Ruth Smith, all of Kennewick.
Woman's Club of White Bluffs.
Kiona- Benton Community Club, XII
ona-Benton Auxiliary Com. Club,
Benton City Woman's Club, Kiona-
Benton l. O. o. F., Yeoman Home
stead, Prosser Lodge 154 1. O. o. F.,
Buena Vista Grange, Valley Heights
Sunday School, Captain Green Post
No. 20 American Legion, Methodist
Sunday School, Prosser w. R. C.,
Baptist Sunday School, T. & T. Club
w. C. T. IT,, Benton County Minute
Women, Christian dunday School,
Whitstran Woman's Club, Thanks
giving Fund, Presbyterian Sunday
School, Woman's Club of North
Prosser, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacoux all OF
Prosser... Prosser Woman's Club
Benton County T. B. League.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Grange hall is being treated tc
a new coat of paint, both inside
and out.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

There will be meeting of the
Ladies Aid at the Presbyterian
church Thursday, December 18th.
Mrs. j. A. johnson, Sec'y.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Little Joe Kelly developed a
case of scarlet fever this week and
as result the Shaun Kelly home
has been quarantined.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Eleanor Allen is now practicing
with the high school orchestra. She
is playing a clarinet.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Heber Morford left last Saturday
for Olympia, near where he expects
to be employed until next April.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Mr.. and Mrs. R. D. Barge returned
Tuesday from Yakima, where they
had been since before Thanksgiving.
The condition of Mrs. Barge's throat
was such that the doctors did not
think they should operate for the re-
moval of her tonsils for another ten
days
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-12-11

Mrs. W. w. Barrett was pas
sepger on the down river stage
Wednesday on her way to Lewis
ton, Idaho, From there she ex-
poets to go to Portland and finally
to Sacramento, California, where
she will spend Christmas with her
daughter, Mrs. John L. Chalmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
The Tax Fight Against Mellon

On converting congress there again arises the
struggle question Against the proposition the
Coolidge administration known PLAN there crystal
g alignment of petty bourgeois democrats from the southern
states and bourgeois republicans from the middle and far
1t this identical combination that defeated
the original Mellon plan This recurring the adminra
program the fact that the republican and demo
parties both within their ranks elements incapable
Of being reconciIed to their main policy.
Tho pettybourgo party the southern democrats
rallied the Bryan standard for three decades and the
middle west republicans who much closer to the political line
LaFoete than Coolidge form bloc both houses
congress openly challenges the designs big capital when
ever their economic interests threatened.
Obviously in the interest of big capital the Coo
dge Mellon proposal abolish the federal inheritance tax and
time insist upon ess pronounced reduction" of the
normal small incomes that aims to leave intact
fortunes when their die and at the time place
heavier burden upon the smaller fry Against this is
of the etbourgos combination for perpetuaon Of
the federal inheritance and the raising OF the exemption the
tte fellows" $4,000 single $1,000 for married
desperate has Secretary of the Treasury Mellon become
again program that he already
yielded the limit In effort patch the struggle within
his party he called into conference Representative Green
Melons program demanded reduction of surtaxes big
from per per Green informed him that
reduction would defeat the whole program and proposed
reduction 80 cent As tentative proposition tax of 20
accepted
compromise the question will settle the struggle
taking place in both old parties both of them
period transition The democratic party since 1910 has been
capital
Morgan the south and middle it petty bourgeois The
republican party formerly the party of industrial capital rapidly
being converted into the political expression of nanccapta
Since its spectacular triumph MOrgan League of Nations pro-
1920 it has passed into the control of Morgan almost
precise nancecapa
industry The great industrial under the aeg of bank
the economic foundation upon which the republican
party formerly stood But political party in period of ans
tion able reconcile all elements its policy. The
backward" elements persist for period of time determined by
objective economic conditions
The democratic party, tho the chasm between
middle and southern sections deepgoing opposition
party with little responsibility will probably present united oppo
iton In such the combination against the Coolidge
Mellon program will again doom it to defeat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

chine
They did not tell us why we were
arrested. The charges? What were
they? We didn't know what we were
held for. There is sedition
act here in this state. To send a
person away for overthrowing a gov
eminent he hasn't yet overthrown
must have a 1000 agreement from
all the political bosses Of the state.
The little friction that exists between
the city officials and Pinchot was pos
sibly the "bogsy" that prevented this
charge and so the federal authorities
were "sicked" on us.
After being grilled by the Immigra-
ton men and the department of JUS
tice we were led back to the cell.
This place was not only buggy" but
also lousy"
Federal Dicks on Job.
Asked if / believed in force and vio-
lence / told them it's always the
other side that uses that animal"
when We set out to achieve our pur-
pose.
"WEDNESDAY morning Mr.. Isaac
w Shorr Of the Civil Liberties Union
arrived. He was told that the case
was in the hands Of the federal au-
thorities and therefore the only man
to see was the United States district
attorney. After Mr.. Shorr left to see
the United States district attorney
we were hauled out before the mag
istrate. The magistrate must have
been informed that the revolution"
existed only in his imagination, stuck
true to his word when he said, IF the
federal authorities will not take care
of them 1 will decide later what is to
be done with them"
Are You a Vag?
What could we be railroaded on?
All! Ha!
"vagrancy."
"Have you got a homer" 1 was
asked.
EYES," I answered
what have you to prove it?"
"You can call up the landlady," l
answered.
Where do you work?"
I'm on strike now"
where did you work before the
striker"
"Bliss Mine, Nanticoke."
what are you living on?"
Il saved a few dollars before the
strike"
what have you to prove it?"
Numbered the magistrate.
HERE l produced a little red bank
IL book (oh, how he likes that col
orr in which 1 had $4,000 at one time
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
a SeH-Acting Body of Armed Men"

HanfOd MacNder the appOntee of President Coolidge the
of assistant secretary of is the living personifcaon of
the American legion in politics.
He past of this of the American
cs having in banker his father
banker Having officer the Mexican expedionary force
and the world he that apohesis of American capitalist
efficiency businessman and mitarst
The American assuming Wall Street takes
mortgages country another monopoistc capital
handful of the characteristics described by
Engels
The distinguishing establishment public
which i identical population
is a
Engels writing of capitalist society in the preimperialst
period but the developments which he foeod have
disputeable form
The department is government and only
read the capitalist press understand that preparation
aggression suppression of the working
the chief with which the minds
capitalism occupied.
MacNider fits into this scheme of things beautifully He
by organization whose privileged
the American forces the world merely
their appee for further opportunity exercise unquesoned
authority The legion all with
those who by this Ameanism synonym
with labor batting all kinds has learned the
class struggle in the United States.
Said Engels
public the
growth
in population o adjacent states
day haby civilians important department posts
The appointment of MacNider which
will correctly they preliminary
the enactment of such bloody in the United States
reading of in Panama.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
August Valentine


/ but dwindled down to $4,000 since the
strike. For this money l worked. like
a mule. In the last seven months
of work / produced some 4.c0c tons
of coal. Many family was kept,
or will be kept warm by this coal.
This is a nice contribution for the
upkcep Of society. l wonder how
many families and Riddles were kept
warm by the hot speeches made by
the petriots who are tryiug to save
the country from these horrible
'reds"?
Not being able to railroad me on
that charge, they gave me twenty
minutes to get out of town. Alex
Zarek was released Internationally
the following day.
Toohey was less fortunate than /.
Having mother to support in Pitts
burgh, he was stuck away in the Jug
for six months. The $4,000 in Reds
pocket did not save him from like
sentence.
/ heard so much about the deporta-
ton, that l got the deportation-phoe-
bia. The first thing l did when / got
into Wilkes-Barre was to beat it to
barbershop and start proceedings
at once to deport all the lice that
landed on unwelcome territory. Had
they been born there it would be
different matter. For this deporta-
ton" I had to pay $1.75 to the barber.
Must Aid Prisoners.
TN conclusion want to appeal to
all the miners and workers in gen.
eral to help the two fighting com
rades. The boys were stuck into the
jug" for challenging the profits of
the coal barons, and the soft seats
of the labor bureaucracy.
Both could today enjoy the liberties
that Cappellini and other traitors en-
Joy, but Toohey and Reid will never
go back on the miners, as Cappellini
did.
Cappellini used radical miners to
get into power and then turned right
against them as demonstrated in the
indianapolis convention in January,
1924, when he said, Il have dined
and I've wined with them, but / wish
to christ I'd have poisoned them
How well l remember those words.
Toohey and Reid are of caliber
that will stick to the men thru thick
and thin, and therefore deserve your
support They feel more comfortable
in Jail with a clear conscience
than Cappellini on the outside.
Workers Of America! Fight to free
the Imprisoned fighters. Show this
system that the real jury, the working
class, is waking up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

A T the end of the first month of the
Afstrike the situation in the Anthra-
cite has not changed one iota.
The mines are closed. The men
are idle. The newspapers carry heir
usual line of propaganda. The paid
advertisements appear regularly. The
mayors have their squabbles with
the head of the Anthracite Operators
association over the check-off. The
other demands of the miners are com
pletely forgotten. Lewis appears now
and then with weak statement and
although he does not believe" in
arbitration he appeared in conference
with the Scranton chamber of com
MERGE to try and make settlement"
The same committee met Inglis, the
head of the operators association the
next day.
TNHE Lewis-Cappellini machine is
L satisfied. The miners do not know
what is transpiring. Ask an average
miner what is going on and he can
not tell you.
The Communists are in the fight
to make it real strike. Mass meet
ings were called to defend the inte-
rests of the strikers and to put forth
the program of the Progressive Min
ers Committee and explain the aims
of the Communists Meeting after
meeting has been stopped, or held
without permit, permits being refused
for many meetings, halls closed and
crowd dispersed at several meetings.
Treaehery of cappelIini.
After our Scranton meeting which
was broken up and which resulted in
Reid, secretary of the Progressive
Miners Committee, and myself going
to Jail and Zarek and Toohey also
being Jailed later as a result Of this
meeting, followed by the conviction
Of Reid and Toohey on trump-up
charge of vagrancy, the Cappellini
gang wrote the following letter to the
authorities of Scranton.
Sept. %, 1925.
MichiaI J. MeHush, Superintendent
of Police,
Scranton, Pa.
Dear Sir. Your action in breaking
up the meeting at Washington Hall,
Scranton, Penna., Saturday, Sept
26, of representatives of the Soviet
movement Of Russia whose purpose
is to destroy the orderly method OF
conducting the affairs Of the United
Mine Workers Of America, incite
violence and the destruction Of our
great labor movement was taken up
at a meeting of the District Exec
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
Free Speech i'm the Anthracite

authorities were highly Commended"
for the action taken in PRESERVING
peace" and tranquility" in the great
city of Scranton.
The Scranton Arrests.
Just what was our crime? Bring
inu forth the demands of the miners
of no arbitration, no compromise,
the ten per cent increase in wages,
the flve-day week, six-hour day
and a labor party. was enough to
brand us "disrupters" of the union
and who might overthrow the govern
ment any minute, if we are not be-
hind the bars.
So at this meeting appeared dozen
or so plainclothes police. After the
meeting was broken up we were taken
to the West End police station. After
searching us and satisfying them
selves that we had no cannons or
red regiments in our hip pockets
they were assured that "our" country
was saved from another revolution"
TN Jail our belts were taken away
4 from use No newspapers were al
lowed u.s. In came the people of
Scranton to see "the horrible Bolshe-
viks." Thank god they were behind
the bars, or we would be living in a
Soviet America!
We were not lonesome in the ver-
min-infested cells.
Sunday dwindled into Monday and
about ten in the morning Reid, zarek
and l were transferred to the city jail
Of Scranton.
Officials Visit Jail.
Here the officials of the United
Mine Workers appeared. These great
Americans, whose motto is. never to
kick a man when he is down" surely
did not live up to their motto. will
ing lackeys" is the least that could
be said about them.
After telling us that we will be de-
ported or get twenty years on hard
rock pile, they reminded me Of little
incident l went thru long, long ago.
| was a little kid at the time l hap
pened to run across a funny paper.
Not being able to read myself, dad
read the cartoon-story to me. 1t was
a cartoon of a machine invented by
a man in which two boys were put
thru a machine and came out old
men. Daddy, Daddy, that is bad
about that man putting little boys
in the machine, isn't it?" Eyes," said
dad, "some people are bad"
WHEN l was told go years of the
w hard rock pile" ! come to the
conclusion that | have reached the
stage that l was to go thru the ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
BY EARL R. 5RowoER

NEPTEMBER production continued
~ the upward movement noted in
August, after a slow but steady de-
cline from February to July. Attic
August 1925 was more than 1870 above
1924, and registered a positive in
crease over July, yet the index figure
of the U. S. bureau of census, weight
ed to equalize seasonal changes, con-
tinued to register a slight downward
movement. The continued upgrade of
production for September will pro-
badly show that this has been over
come. Certainly there is a large gain
over the same month of one year ago.
steel Production
Production of steel ingots for Sep
TENDER was S,492.9O4 tons, an increase
over August of 6S,S7O tons, and over
September of last year of 665,279 tons.
The average daily production in Sept
ember was 134,342 tons, as compared
with 131 ,694 tons in August, and with
10S,755 in September 1924
TINFILLED steel orders of the U. S.
- Steel corporation on Sept. Both
totalled 3,717, 297 tons, an increase over
August of 2O4,49 tons. This was the
first gain in untitled orders since
February. Operations were 1870 of
capacity. First week in October, this
had. increased to 500, according to
Iron Age of Oct. Sth. October book
ings are expected to show another in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

for seasonal causes. Lumber produc-
ton continued to increase in Sep
tember
Petroleum.
Production of crude oil declined
somewhat, altho continuing above last
year. The daily average production
for the week of Sept. 10, was 2,131,-
500 barrels; for Sept. rs, 2,107, 400 bar
rels, and for Oct. 3, 2,O96,250 barrels.
This compares with the week of Oct.
4, 1924, with daily average of 2,O10,-
$50 barrels.
Retail Trade.
Retail trade is steadily expand
ing" The sales of mail order hous-
es and chain stores continue the same
Fate Of increase reported last month.
Total sales for nine months to Sept.
80, show an increase of 10 per cent
over last year for the mail order
houses. Chain stores show an in
crease of IA per cent for the same
period.
Foreign Trade.
Information of foreign trade is al
ways one month late, so that only
now we have the figures for August.
AS expected, they show continued in
crease over July. Following is sum-
mary of latest figures:
August
1925 1924
Imports 1915, 200, 900 1854, 100000
Exports :. SS3,OOO,OOO S3O,OOO,OOO
Eight. Months Ending Aug.
1925 1924
Imports So, 764, 768,O00 S2,3S2, 727, 900
Exports -. 3,OS4,478,0OO 1857 ,OS4, 900
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17
BY JOSEPH BRANDY.

IIIHEN the cheering and clamor for
w Albert A. Purcell reached gigan-
tic proportions at the. Carnegie Hall
meeting arranged last Sunday by the
socialist party, Shiplacoff, as sort
Of vice-chairman, shouted angrily to
the gallery. where the workers were
sitting, 1--WE are not interested in
what you are saying. We want to
hear what Purcell has to say" Thus
to pour cold water on the enthusiast
tic reception rendered to Purcell was
only one of the many acts of kind
ness.
But, of course, the socialist party
was not interested In having the
meeting hear what Purcell had TO
say, so they pushed him thoughtfully
to the end of the list OF speakers at
a wearisome afternoon meeting, and
he got the floor at $3.50 D. M, after
number of people had left.
A ND besides, instead Of drawing
"A large masses OF workers to the
meeting, they charged fancy prices,
and for non-members OF the socialist
party the prices were especially adj
vanced thru the manipulation Of
bonus" tickets; as a consequence
large sections of the house were un-
occupied.
None of the four American social.
lists" on the platform spoke about
Trade Unionism, Pick Line, Injunc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-17

roads Tor August continued to in
crease over the same month of last
year, and also increased over July.
They were the largest since war
times, says the Commercial and
Financial Chronicle.
GROSS earnings were $554,559,31S,
~ an increase of over AZ million
dollars. Net earnings were S166,55S,
666, an increase of almost 80 million
dollars over August last year.
1t will be noted that again the
met" earnings show the greatest
gain, even as in previous months.
While gross earnings increased by 90
per cent, net earnings gained by 23.7
per cent. Only partly is this explain
ed by increased traffic; to a great ex-
tent it is the result Of smaller wages
and longer hours of labor.
For the nine months ending Sep
TENDER 30, building in the United
States totalled five billion dollars. ac-
cording to review of the Indiana
Limestone Quarrymen's Association.
"This exceeds any 12month period in
history" says the report. Moreover,
the barometer points to continued
broadscale activity during the final
quarter of this year. A building total
Of more than $65O,OOO,OOO for the
whole nation was attained in Sep
TENDER. There is every reason to be-
lieve that building will continue at
practically the same high level for
at least another year."
September building was 31k per
cent greater than last year, altho
slightly less than the previous month