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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Rough Sea Again
Balks Ederle Girl
In Channel Swim

Boulogne. France, Sept. 2.--(AP)-A
high westerly gale and a rough sea to-
day made necessary the postponement
until Friday morning of any POSSIBLE
ity that Miss Gertrude Ederle of New
York will attempt to swim the English
Channel this year.
Miss Ederle, Ishal Helmy. the Egkp-
tian, and Miss Tanner, the English
girl swimmer. entered the water in
tending to stay in for three hours. but
they were forced to turn back after 20
minutes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Decree Made by Justice Nor
rill-Sale to Be in Two Lots
NO Bid Less Than $4,000
for Plant or $4,000 for Mer-
charlottesville to be Con-
Quoted by Receivers
Especial to Kennebec JournaD


Bath, Sept. Bath Iron Works,
Ltd, years the mainstay of Bath me-
chanics, will be knocked down at auc-
ton to the highest bidder Sept. "a at
noon. The sale will be at the court
house and will be conducted by the re-
ceivers. The first offer will be for the
plant and the second for merchandise
and supplies. No bid less than 100000
will be accepted for the plant or $685.
600 for the merchandise. Deposits Of
$4,000 and $4,000 required.
Deposits from unsuccessful bidders
will be returned after the sale and the
deposit of successful bidder applied to
the purchase price.
The decree was made known today
by Associate Justice John A. Morrill,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Veterans of Foreign
Wars Parade in Tulsa

Tulsa. Okla, Sept 2-tAP)-While
army pursuit planes flew in forma-
ton overhead, more than $500 MEM
bers of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Ladies Auxiliary, Military Or
der of Coolies and civic organiza-
tons paraded through the business
district here today while all traf-
fic came to a standstill for two
hours. The parade was reviewed by
Gen. John Fl. Dunn, of Boston, ma
tional commander of the veterans,
Miss Ellie King. president of the
Ladies Auxiliary, and other national
officers.
The raid made on the veterans
headquarters by prohibition officers
Monday night furnished material for
fun, many empty bottles being dis
played by the paraders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Reach Accord on
Main Points Pact
Eur0nean Security

Geneva. Sept. 2-(AP)-A complete
accord on all the main points of a
security pact was reached in the
course of conversations today be-
tween M. BRAND, French foreign
minister, Austen Chamberlain. the
British secretary for foreign affairs,
and M. Vandervelde, Belgian foreign
minister, who are here for the meet
ing of the council of the league OF
nations.
This announcement was made to-
day and NJ. NaBdervelde declared
today there was nothing left but the
regulation of details so far as Par
is, Brussels and London were con-
cerned.
The statesmen are awaiting the
report of the committee of jurists
now sitting at London before final
ly drawing up the basic principles
Of their attitude toward Germany.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Two Officers and
Three Men on PN-9
Missing i'm Pacific

San Francisco, Sept. 2.-(AP)-The
wall of silence around the missing
navy seaplane 'PN-9 No. l late today
had endured unbroken for "A hours.
Navy craft of all types-flying, float
ing. submersible-had been organized
to weave across the hundred square
mile stretch of ocean where Commaf1-
der John Rodgers and his four COM
panions are believed hidden. But re-
ports from ships and airplanes only
told of empty observations OF an ap.
parently deserted ocean.
Arrangements for participation OF
private craft in tee tearch also were
made by naval officials.
The crew of plane one comprised:
Commander John Rodgers, Havre dc
Grace, Md.
Lieutenant Byron ]. Connell, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
Skies n. Pope, Jackson, Pa.
William II. Bowlin, Richmond. Ina.
Otis G. Stantz. Terre Haute, Ind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Searchers' Last
Report at 4.25 p. NJ.

San Francisco, Sept. 2-(AP)-No
advices as to the progress of the
search for the missing seaplanes.
PN-9 number has been received by
the navy radio office here since
APPS p. M. today. At that hour
Capt. Stanford E. Moses, fight pro-
iect commander. said his reports
from Maui Island, Hawaii showed
the search was proceeding syste-
matically over a wide area.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Arrest City Official
For Driving His Car
While Intoxicated

Fitchburg, Mass, Sept. Pap
City Councillor Frank Z. Allen. was
arrested tonight charged with OPP
Grating an automobile while intoxi-
Gated, and with drunkenness. after
His automobile was in collision with
one driven by Ernest Russell of
Leominster. Aliens companion. Ell
phege Leger of Fitchburg. received
a severe conclusion and head lacer-
ations and was taken to a hospital
Russell and his wife were slightly in
jured. Aliens bail was set at 5000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Seamen's Strike
Spreads to Channel

London, Sept. 2-(AP)-The strike
of seamen, which early in the evening
seemed about to collapse spread late
tonight to the crews of the cross
channel boats sailing from South
ampton. All the boats which ply over
the four routes from Southampton
are tied up at the docks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Postpone Flight
Of Third Plane

San Francisco, Sept. 2-(AP)-
Capt. Stanford E. Moses, commander
in charge of the Hawaiian fight, an
nounced today that because of the
weather conditions the projected
fight OF the Phi plane. which was
to have taken off at 2 o'clock to-
morrow for Honolulu, has been post
OOnf0
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Fire Threatens
Big Bath Building
Especial to Kennebec Journa

(SpeCIaI 10 henHeUtc JUuTHdII
Bath, Sept. "A two alarm fire
today threatened to destroy the big
building on Front street, owned by
Frank Pepper and known as the
Park bowling alleys, there being al
leys said to be among the best In
Maine on two floors. In the base
ment were stored patterns owned by
the Watson, Frye Co., and it was
here the fire started. 1t raced
through the south partition and the
firemen had a tough battle. Build
ing insured.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Patrol Plane Forced Down

Honolulu, Sept. 2-(AP)-The pa
troll plane 14-T-3 searching for the
missing naval seaplane. PM number
/ was forced down in Alalakeiki
Channel Island of Maui. No one
was injured. The plane Is being tow
ed into port.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
General Forecast

Pressure continues low over the
Gulf of st. Lawrence. Pressure IS
relatively high over Quebec, off the
south Atlantic coast. During the
last "a hours thundershowers have
occurred in the upper lake regions.
1t has become warmer in the IN
terror of the south Atlantic states.
Elsewhere temperature changes have
been unimportant.
The outlook is for local showers on
Thursday in northern New England
and northern New York, elsewhere
the weather will be mostly fair
Thursday and Friday.
1t will be somewhat warmer
Thursday in the interior Of the mid
die Atlantic states.
Winds north of Sandy Hook
Moderate northeast shifting to south
and weather partly overcast Thurs
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

Secretary Work invited the public's
suggestions and criticisms of the in
terror departments activities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

Disapproval of a proposed oil rate
revision in the mid-continent field was
recommended to the interstate COM
merce committee
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
THE WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY

Northern New England - Parity
cloudy, probably showers Thursday
slightly warmer in interior; Friday
fair.
Southern New England - Partly
cloudy and slightly warmer Thurs
day; Friday fair.
Eastern New York-Partly cloudy
and slightly warmer Thursday,
showers in eastern portion; Friday
fair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

ggFour lots-$620 to $3.50
each tterms) reserved one
week for Augusta Office in
spite Of local LAKELAND
buyers enger to pay a pre-
Ihese lots are within one
mile OF the Main st. Of
LAKELAND.
Phone Mr.. Stafford, 1890
FLORIDA REAL
ESTATE co.
ISL Water St., Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

National Grange review showed
state, country and local taxes rising
in contrast to federal levies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03

, Secretary Wilbur said he would
postpone the Phi flight to Hawaii to-
morrow unless the PN-9 No. was
found.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
The Day in Washington

The department of agriculture an
nounced that $4,000 farms had radios,
compared with 365, 900 last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-03
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer
Thursday: Friday fair; fresh south
west winds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
The Los Angeles Election

The Communist candidate for the board of edu-
cation in Los Angeles polled $4,000 votes in the
recent election. This is real achievement for the
Los Angeles comrades and for the whole party.
If there is one outstanding and sinking cess
pool of reaction in all America it is this city of
Jap haters, real estate sharks, retired brewers,
moving picture actors fatpursed Iowa landlords
and the Los Angeles Times 1t is in this city that
the cult of 100 per cent Amercanism fourishes like
the green bay tree and the Better American Fed
Grafton has more than once, so it claims, stamped
out anything resembling intelligence in the public
schools
In San Pedro, suburb Of Los Angeles and one
of the great naval bases of American Imperialism
raids ON the l. w. w. and wholesale police ter
ror have been commonplace. Every so often the
sailors and marines are turned loose on the revo-
lutionary workers while the press of California
capitalism applauds
In such center $4,000 votes for Communist
candidate and program means good deal. 1t
means that the Workers (Communist) Party is
active, that it has contact with large numbers of
the workers, that it's militancy has aroused them
and that there is in this reactionary stronghold
real protest against the expoiters which will form
the foundation of a powerful working class
ment.
IL is not necessary Ihat we eXaggerate the results
of our party's work in Los Angeles or allow our
selves to think the battle is more than beginning
In such city at this time beginning is enough
and the Los Angeles comrades have shown that
in spite of the obstacles they have made good
start.
The next task is to bring into the party the best
elements with which contact has been made and
to broaden the movement into fighting center for
the whole working class of Los Angeles and
vicinity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
Playing a MensheUik

One of the most brutally effective blows ever
received by the stoolpigeons of capitalism, who,
in and out of Georgia, have carried war against
the workers and peasants of that country in be-
half of the plunderbund, was that section Of the
report of the British trade union delegation to
Soviet Russia which dealt with the Georgian situa
ton. So fatal was the effect of this document on
the pretensions of the menshevik panhandlers that
veritable shower of abuse has since then steadily
emanated from the sub-cellars Of Europes cap
itals where these menshevik vermin hang out
In a letter to the London Daily Herald Noe
Jordana prime minister of the menshevik govern
ment of Georgia during 1921, attacks Purcell, chair
man of the recent British trade union delegation
to Russia and charges him with allowing the Soviet
government to put blinkers on his eyes, Purcell
comes back with a scorching retort that burns the
hide off this scalawag.
Purcell says: "Mr. Jordania's abusive remarks
about the delegation are to be expected, because
their report has killed for ever far the British
trade union movement is concerned, the lying and
fantastic reports about Soviet rule in Georgia.
which he and his friends have been issuing ever
since the Georgian people gave them the order
of the boot"
PurcelTs interview to the Daily Herald in reply
to Jordana's attack can be read in another column
of this issue. 1t stings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
The Dawes Plan Begins to "Work"

The much touted Dawes plan is beginning to
work The untitled orders of the United States
Steel corporation fell off 421,0O0 tons during
March, the head of the Bethlehem Steel corpora
ton warns its employees that they will have to pre-
pare to compete with foreign low cost labor"
There are close to 100000 unemployed walking
the streets of England while British manufacturers
are placing orders for shipbuilding and other com
modities on vast scale with German firms whose
workers are driven to the extreme of exploitation
with long hours and starvation wages.
The same story comes from France and Czecho
Slovakia. And now the Swedish iron and steel in
dustry reports falling off of orders as a result
of increased German competition. The Dawes plan
is beginning to work" And to prove that it can
only work by the enslavement of the German
workers and the concurrent unemployment of
workers of the other capitalist nations.
Every capitalist solution" of the contradictions
of capitalist imperialism's economy only changes
and intensifes the dsintegraton of capitalist pro
duction. Such solutions" only alter the super
fetal aspect changing the scene on the drama. One
industry or one nation avoids bankruptcy only at
the expense of the bankruptcy of another. Their
relation changes. The drama of disintegration
goes on.
And it is to be noted that-concealed among the
plan-the German finance minister, in a gloomy
forecast of German economic life, states that Ger
many faces deficit in the coming years budget
and predicts that the reparations payments can
not be met next year.
While capitalist solutions" only drive the sys-
tenn of wage slavery further toward its historic
overthrowal by its victims, the economy of Soviet
Russia is improving with great rapidity. The con
ditions and living standards of the workers are
now improved above the pre-war standard and still
going up. That is one reason that international
reaction is anxious to wage war on the Communist
movement to stife the westward sweep of Boil
shevism, if need be, in blood
The Dawes plan is beginning to 'work"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08

McGurk Institute for scientific re-
search and finds that its theoretical
purpose OF free research into the foun-
dations of medical knowledge is fire.
quently thwarted by the social climb
ing and business aspirations OF It's
heads.
There are pure scientists, 1t is true,
but theyNare continually handicapped
and fretted by the Go Getters. Yet
real progress comes from what these
pure scientists get done in spite of the
difficulties thrown in their way. J
THE story is told with fine satiric
= power but II is more than satire.
There Is warm human appeal TO
young Arrowsmith and his chum wife
who laughs with him at the Men OF
Measured Merriment," the smooth
bunko chaps at the top OF the profess
sional ladders.--Art Shields
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08

News dispatches from Pekn advise us that the
forces of international capitalism are again get
teng ready to initiate another civil in China.
General Chang TsoIin, the Manchurian war
lord and former foe of WI Pei Flu, the defeated
tuchun of Chilli province appears to be the lead
ing militarist on the capitalist payroll. When
Chang tried conclusions with WI last year, he was
supported by Japan and France, at least morally,
if not in a more material way. But the result of
the civil war was not entirely pleasing to either
Japan and France any more than it was to England
and the United States, who supported WI Pei Flu.
The fly in the capitalist ointment was General
Feng who is called the christian general" Con-
trary to expectations Feng lined up with Soviet
Russia and is the military leader around whom
the forces seeking Chinese unity are rallyng. Feng
has now taken the place of WI as Changes foe.
Judging by political straws blowing thru news
dispatches, Feng has the support of the Koumin-
tang Party, the nationalist revolutionary party of
China of which the late DR.. Sun Vat Sen was
leader.
The forces of world capitalism are looking with
a iaundced eye on the activities of Soviet diplom-
acy in China. Only recently Mongolia formed a
Soviet republic and big chunks of China are liable
to break away at any moment and become affiliated
with the Soviet Union. The profit mongers of
America, England, Japan and France, whatever
their private quarrels may be, have deadly fear
of the increase of Soviet power in China. Hence
it would not surprise anybody to learn inside of
short period, that the capitalist powers will at
tempt coup de etat in China and establish pup
pet government in Pekn which will make the vast
mineral resources Of that country available for the
international plunderers.
Already there rumors that the embargo
against the export of to China will be raised
A capitalist war against the hundreds of millions
of Chinese workers and peasants will be easier
started than finished Behind the exploited Chinese
stands the mighty power Of Red Russia, and the
Communist idea that is by itself more powerful
than armies and naves
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
Plan to Have the
"Union Scale" Slide
with Bosses Profits

An interesting wrinkle in class col
liberation is reported in recent issue
Of the Film Daily, the leading trade
journal of the motion picture industry.
Very seldom, do trade union affairs
get mention, or especially favorable
mention, in it's columns. Yet here is
a union, a brand new union, that is
spoken of in very friendly terms.
1t is to be an industrial union at
that. taking in operators, musicians,
door men, janitors, ushers and what
not. But its scale is to be very elastic
and is to depend upon the amount of
profit that the boss makes. If he
makes killing, wages will go up, il
there is slump, they are to slide.
1t is explained that this will auto
matically grade the workers according
to ability, the less able gravitating to-
ward the cheaper houses and eventual
ly out of the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
(APRIL 18th, 1929

writings, from representing the "ac-
tual conditions of power" in very
telling way as the native soil Of con-
stitutions Lassalle believes in revo-
luton, but does not want to bring it
about, but to "humanize and civilize
It," Lassalle organizes the working
class by the formation of the General
German Labor Association on May %,
1863, but emphatically declines the
thought of dictatorship of the pro-
letariat. In his speech 1.-THE Work
er's Reader" (1S6S) he protests
against
the enormity Of having called upon
the working classes to aim at class
supremacy over the other classes"
THE liberation of the working class
4 can only be effected by the work
ing class itself. Lassalle repeatedly
violates even this essential Marxist
doctrine Of the later First Internation-
al. Besides his passionate appeal to
the working class, hope for help from
above, for the help of the possessing
classes, finally even for the help of a
social monarchy" is constantly crop
ping up. This places Lassalle as a
utopian socialist, back into pre-Marx-
ist socialism.
"The letters must be struck off your
feet; but only in peace, thru the mi
tiative of the intelligenzia and with
the sympathetic help of the possess
ing class" exclaims Lassalle in his
Speech on the Labor Question" (1S63)
to the German proletariat.
How did Lassalle imagine the real
ization of socialism? Universal suf-
frage is to him the great instrument
of peace which will make the state
accessible to the wishes of the prole-
tariat, without any necessity for the
undesirable wild proletarian revolu-
ton" The workers form productive
associations, and the democratic state
possibly even the reactionary Prus-
sian state will make the start!-con-
tributes the capital. In this way, pri-
vate capital will gradually be ousted
by competition in a perfectly peaceful
manner, and there will be no need for
brutal appropriation Of the bour-
geoisie. On the contrary:
1.-THE worker will never forget that
all property which has once been &C
quired is inviolable and lawful" ola
Dor Programme" 1922
THIS being Lassalle's fundamental
1 attitude, it is easy to understand
his so-called tactical evolution" Las
sale wanted action, he wanted most
of all to see universal suffrage estab-
lished as the political foundation. The
General German Labor Association
developed too slowly for him. Bis
mark was already coquetting with
the idea of universal suffrage. At this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-08
FERDINAND LASSALLE'S CENTENARY

juncture Lassalle INTERVIEWED personal
Fly in order to stimulate Bismarck, the
junker, to quicker action in this direc-
ton, in order to make historyi Las.
sale had series of private political
discussions with Bismarck in the win
ter of 1S63-64. And in the agitation
of the last year of his life-Lassalle
died on August. 81, 1S66-Ae made
more and more definite references to
this help from above, in other words,
from the extreme right.
"All extreme parties have natural
affinity for one another" he said In
his speech at the trial for high treason
in 1864. Lassalle for instance adj
dressed telegraphio complaint to
Bismarck with regard to the limita-
ton of the right of assembly ON the
part Of a progressive mayor, as he
had also, as early as 1858, approached
the Cartridge prince" with personal
petition--all actions which to revo-
lutionary like Marx would have
seemed absolutely impossible. Marx
indeed jeered, with bitter justifca-
ton, at the practical politician" Las
sale, who wanted to play the part
of the Marquis of Posa of the prole-
tariat with the Philip II Of the Uck-
ermark." (Letter to Kugelmann 1850
THAT which Lassalle with his own
4 hand wrote in 1885 in his great
letter to Marx and Engels about his
Sickingen drama, came to pass in a
terrible way on Lassalle himself:
For in the final analysis, Sickin-
gems diplomatic amalgamation OF his
instruction with his non-revolution-
airy action, and the failure of the for
mer, arose just from the fact that he
was unable in his heart to make a
final break with the past, with which
he himself was still connected and
which he represented"
Lassalle's political legacy had fur
Their disastrous effects on German So
cial democracy. 1t euphemized that
attitude towards the bourgeois state
which was finally, but in more cynic-
al way, expressed by revisionism, and,
since 1914, has been sanctioned be-
fore the whole world as the supreme
political practical policy of the social
list party of Germany within the peace
full precincts of the coalition policy.
Lassalle's nationalism and Bernstein's
reformism form the theoretical points
of support of opportunism against
Marxism. 1t is thus no mere coinci-
dence that in the present-day socialist
party Of Germany a new Lassalleism
has been spreading for some time and
that from that side the slogan Is
heard: Back to Observation-Disclosures
the class conscious proletariat OF the
Third International cries: Forward
to Marx and Leninl