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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-11-18

A White Canvas
Covered
Prairie Schooner
An od-time white canvas-covered prairie schooner
drove I'D in front of a general merchandise store.
The man and woman climbed down the wheel
and went into the store to make some purchases.
The team of mules which hitched to the wagon
became frightened and dashed mady down the road.
shout went up from the spectators-The
rushed from the store the dusty road and tried in
vain to grasp the trailing lines.
Then in desperation he clutched at the revolving
wheel of the great wagon.
Around and around went the Wheel his hold was
finally broken
With one last desperate effort he jumped and caught
the back of the wagon
He climbed through it and out on the tongue
He siezed the mules by the bits and brought them
to STOP
man running breathlessly up said: my God,
man. why did you take such chance?"
He answered.
my children were inside the wagon"
Every mans wife and children are inside the wagon
that rumbles down the roadway of life Who will have
hold of the reins when you gone-wl your wife and
children inside the wagon be perfectly safe?
Life Insurance makes assurance douby
MARTIN & FISHER,
Pocahontas, Ark.
Kindly give cost on Missouri State Lifes
Low Cost Policies
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Pocahontas star herald., 1926-11-18

A sheet steel bungalow has been
designed which affords both exterior
aud interior protection against fire.
With photo-electric cell and cleo
trical eye" small glass instrument
Is able to measure and weigh the stars.
Pocahontas star herald., 1926-11-18
Don't fail to see
THE NEW COATS

THE NEW LEADER STORE
At special reduced prices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
The ImperiaIist Vultures Threaten China

The revolutionary
foreign imperialism in China and unity the nation under lead
s representative of the elements that desire give the
opportunity economically intellectually
overcoming every obstacle placed in the of their forward
TwOfths of that mighty country their possession
The reactonary chuns in state of panic and the
foreign imperialsts
The British cabinet holds extraordinary meeting
the situation
The United States PUSHES warshps to Hankow Sas
Swn COOidge special China reports that the United
States must maintain "toehold" in that country
Japan considering the S1OOOOOOO the Chinese gov
which longer exists.
CbangTsoLin the bandit of Manchura interview
American newspaper declares that he capitalist
against the red menace let by the Cantonese Chang
his onions This usually good collection stuff a bankers
meeting.
they organize behind them
and particularly the working The unions spring up mush
i'm the wake Of the wage
nauds follow organization.
Here is threat foreign Imperialism. longer
question Of group Of chuns succeeding another group
Canton organization organization evil
the robber mperas Hence the panic developments
China
Perhaps mperiaist powers will very easy to
intervene large scale against the Chinese revolutionary
lss But they desperate desperate
desperate methods.
The United may past
angling for the Chinese market let things go that But
China is the Philippines and the brohery greeting Of the
Cantonese General Chang Ka Sh the exploited Fpno call
ing their attention American Imperialism is conducive to
nourng kindly thoughts Canton and Chinese unifcaton in
the hearts Of our ruling classes
"hna for the Chinese be the watchword of American
bor The American working class make it clear Washington
the guns of American bacshps be permitted help
blast the Chinese armies of freedom into eternity
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

Editors Note This is the
fourth of the series of articles on
the discussions and resolution Of
the November meeting Of the cen
trail committee, of the Workers
(Communist) Party, which laid
out the program for the party for
the period just ahead.l
TN the article on the achievements
4 of the Workers (CommunisO Party
the progress made in crystallizing
the movement for independent politi-
cal action thru the formation of la
Dor party were cited among the gains
of the party during the last year. The
campaign for the formation of a labor
party remains a major point in the
program for the party work in the
immediate future
The central committee resolution
frankly admits the fact that, altho the
use of the governmental power against
the workers has become more open
and aggressive, in the last election
campaign no effective resistance to
this attack developed among the work
ers. 1t is the work of our party to
take the leadership in developing this
resistance. The basis of this cam
paign must be the concrete actions
of the government in support of the
capitalists and against the workers.
There have been a long series of at
tacks against the workers, in which
the legislative, executive and judicial
arms of the government have partici-
pated.
The revision of the income tax law
by the last congress was made in a
form to lift the burden of taxation
from the big capitalists, leaving the
burdens on the worker as before.
The proposal of President Coolidge
to return to the capitalists the surplus
in the treasury estimated at from
$500 100000 to $5OO,OOO,OOO is another
example of how the capitalists use the
government in their interests.
The funding of the war debts made
gift of billions of dollars to the cap
italist countries of Europe at the ex-
pense of the workers and farmers of
this country, strengthening the cap
italist system in these countries and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

cal action grows The history of the
years 1923-1924 shows an intensified
lion Of the movement for the forma-
lion Of labor party in the year be-
fore and of the presidential election.
In the northwestern farming states
in which state farmer-labor parties
were in the field in the last election,
movement for the capitalization Of
the farmer-labor movement on ma
tional scale is already taking form.
Our party must now begin work
upon it's program to develop broad
movement for the formation of labor
parties in the great industrial states,
which will ally themselves with the
farmer-labor movement for a national
campaign in the interest Of the work
ers and farmers in the 1928 president
ial election.
The LaFollette progressive move
ment, which was able to sweep into
it's wake the growing movement for
class party of workers in alliance
with the farmers in 1924 has disinte-
grated The experience of 1924 will
make it more difficult to wreck the
movement for labor party thru the
same means. While efforts will again
develop along this line, there is no
dominating personality with the pres
tige of LaFollette to create illusions
in the minds of the workers.
The last national convention Of the
party outlined the program for the
building of the labor party in propos-
ing the formation of trade union COM
mittees for the formation of labor
party wherever support for such a
movement can be secured. We must
take the initiative in creating labor
party committees in the local unions,
in the central labor bodies where fav-
orable action can be secured, or city
committees made up of trade union
lists who support the labor party out
side of the central labor body where
these organizations do not support the
movement, and trade union commit
tees for labor party on a state scale,
as in Massachusetts.
The formation OF hundreds of such
committees thruout the country will
prepare the ground for the realization
of the slogan "a Labor Party in the
1928 Elections" which was raised by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Persecution and DemoralizatiOn-the Policy
of John L. LewiS

Alex Howat again has been ruled
president District IA pittsburgh Kansa) by Interna
President John l. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of
America
given arbitrary ruling HOwat work
ing in a coal longer length time required
qualify candidate according the constitution of the union
good standing and receiving nominations from unions
representing 80 per the membership of the district has been
vctmed again by president his union from Pitts
the those local unions which supported
IIowat have been disfranchised.
years persecution has gone
abaed ahO to this day single official charge has been made
against him. Howat Dorchy and the of the officials of District
IA who fought and defeated the infamous Kansas industrial court
jail their fight expelled from the
positions (Howat Dorchy
Jail when this done and have been denied all rights
in the union that time except that digging coal in the thirty
inch Kansas seams-and paying dues and assessments
labor movement single similar
persecution of militant union by the officials of their
union.
L. the of most
outrageous may
supe union ofcialdom deal with that Alex
owa not be able to head either district national ticket
against the Lewis machine
supreme upheld
which HOwat and DOrchey Jail Under the
Howat the militant fighter that he
is he is entitled receive
whom he fought long and well and for whom he is
still fighting.
of nstructng the district
place the ballot only defiance
the constitution of the U NJ w A. but is nothing less than
endorsement of the supreme decision.
the coming election
his of Alex Howat the Kansas miners for
there other and plenty them
policy of the Lewis machine has lost than 100000
members years
the coal do they please with the miners in the
uniOn fields
Every miner has of heart will
work the Union" ticket
Brophy machine which regards
personal property prosecuted Systematically all
who demand fighting policy and which has lost the
dence of the coal miners of this countyOrganzd and
ganzed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
BIG BUSINESS CALLS ON GOVERNMENT
FOR MORE MONEY FOR TRAINING CAMPS

The Military Training Camps Asso-
citation, according to an announcement
from their Office in the Tower building
Of this city, is prepared to ask con
gress for appropriations to cover the
cost of training 10000 men, as against
$4,000 last summer In order to plan
for this increased attendance a meet
ing is called for Dec. 4, at the Univer-
sity Club, when representatives of the
secretary of war and the adjutant gen
eral will be present.
1t is perhaps not generally under
stood that the Military Training
Camps Association is a non-govern-
ment, civilian organization. The gov
eminent itself provides the funds for
running the fifty citizens military
training camps.
The association is the "runner-up"
for these camps. 1t supplies the prop
uganda material, posters, publicity,
impressing 1t upon the youth that a
free summer vacation can be had at
Uncle Sans expense.
And who supplies the association
with its funds for this propaganda?
Not the government. A reference to
the list of sponsors of the association
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

that decision and invited the C. p. to
that most important meeting, because
they recognized that all the good work
ing class elements must be harnessed
into the struggle.
THE chairman called the meeting to.
L gether and commented upon the
fact that it was the largest meeting
ever held by the Trades Council. Un-
ions which formerly were always alb
sent had sent their full quota of dele.
gates. At former meetings, three
fourths of the time was wasted in
useless discussion. At this meeting
discussion was conspicuous by its alb
sence. A motion was made by a Com.
munist that the Trades and Labor
Council become a council of action
composed OF the executive committee
representative of every trade union
cooperative society, town and parish
council. The motion was carried
with great enthusiasm.
The first business was to organize
meetings for the whole locality during
the week. Three meetings per day
were arranged with local men as
speakers. This was the first lesson OF
the general strike. Big guns or crack
erjack orators are essential but In
time Of crisis a plentiful supply OF 10
cal speakers 10 imperative.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

erative delegates. bakers delegates
and distributive workers and local
councillors, for the purpose of arrang-
ing for feeding If distress reared it's
head.
Transport Committee, composed OF
delegates from the N. U. R. National
Union Of Railwaymen) and Transport
Unions, for the purpose of keeping
blackleg transport off the highways
and in order to issue permits to We
hicles on T. U. business or carrying
food supplies.
Publicity Committee, composed OF
all comrades able to talk at public
meetings, able to write pithy articles
for local bulletins, able to chalk pave
ments, ETC., etc. for various meetings.
THERE were also appointed two del
l. egates to attend Lanarkshire Joint
Council of Action meeting; also a run
ner "a comrade with motorcycle)
to maintain close contact with head
quarters. A special appeal was then
made for all comrades with motor
cars, motorcycles and bicycles, to
place themselves at the disposal of the
Council for Action during the crisis.
When all the preliminary arrange
ments had been made, the c. o. A. ad.
journed till Monday II a. m.
CONTINUED tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
BY
T. J. o'FLAHERTY

idential electric steed shed tears of
pity.
THE French poet may warble some
l. ditties about the French campaign
in Syria and start Christian sensa-
ton along the Coolidge spine with an
idealization of the butchering of Arab
ians with the remembrance OF the raid
on the heather Saracens, cataloguing
those who refuse to accept French
rule with those who did not take the
holy sepulchre seriously in the days OF
the crusaders. And If Cal takes his
Ladies Home Journal articles in the
right spirit there should be nothing
left for him to do except cancel the
debt. That is, provided the House OF
Morgan agrees.
a." A RMY-NAVY Tie Brings Recruit
"A Stampede Here" SO runs a head
line in a Chicago capitalist paper. AS
We remarked yesterday the army-navy
football game was not sporting con
test. It was recruiting advertise
mont The unusually natty uniforms
that the cadets and middies wore re-
presented money well spent. The
deluded ones who join the army and
navy will learn too late that capital
ism cannot afford to serve out gaudy
uniforms TO all its butchers.
JUDGING by the photographs OF
- Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow
of the slain New Jersey rector. the
lady should be acquitted Of the murder
OF her husband. In the early days OF
the trial she looked quite deadly and
dangerous. Then her money began TO
work. (She IS wealthy SO the
cameras experienced u change OF heart
and instead OF the kind Of woman
one would not like to meet under
lonely era bapple tree we find the
kind of a girl that would make even
hungry wolf shed tears OF remorss
that he ever even entertained the
desire TO bite her ears or. Justios
always triumphs where money -four.
ishea.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Asks for Appointed
Judges; Fewer Laws

Another attack on the right of the
people to elect judges came in an adj
dress at the La Sale Hotel when
Charles S. Whitman, president Of the
American Bar Association and former
governor Of New York, told the mem
bers of the Illinois Bar Association
that in his opinion the appointment OF
judges, as is the case in the federal
courts, would be preferable to their
election, as is now done in the sew.
eral states. He held up the Supreme
Court OF the United states MS a glow.
ing example Of an appointed bench.
with 5,024 laws put on the statute
books In a year." hS said the old
adage that 'lgnoran0a Of the law OK.
cuses no one. has become grotesQuely
ridiculous."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

reveals the names of men connected
with every large industrial and fnan-
cial institution in the country-Stand-
aid Oil. U. S. Steel, Sears-Roebuck,
and on down the list.
II is perfectly evident that big bust.
ness has an interest in promoting the
citizens military training camps, and
The more money from corporation
funds which 1t spends in propaganda.
the more it must call on for the gov
eminent to shell out in the mainten-
apce of the camps. 1t is an interlock-
ing directorate Of business and gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
CURRENT EVENTS
(Continued from paKe 1.l

Continued from page H.
and Tribune are at odds with Grove
because Of his alliance with William
Hale Thompson, who was bounded out
Of the mayors office by those papers
a few years ago.
WTHILE Grove was making war on
w trade unionism in Chicago, as a
tool OF the Committee to Enforce the
Lands Award, the Tribune and News
could ignore his connection with the
late Dean O'Bannion and the gang
sters Of Cicero and South Chicago.
But Grove has served their purpose
and now they are looking for more
serviceable tool. This is the way the
capitalists usually treat the boys who
do their dirty work. Still Mr.. Grove
no doubt will be able to see the world
after he is retired from Office. which
is more than can be said for the aver
age worker who is retired from a Job
E,OREIGN warships rushing to China
= American marines In Nicaragua
Washington threatening to break off
relations with Mexico, Italy and
France growing at each other over a
frontier, court brawl in Roumania
over the throne and many other dis
turbances inclines us to the belief that
the last war was not the one that will
ead war. We are inclined to attach
more Importance to the concluded
plenum or the Communist Interna-
tional as a peace agency than all the
capitalist conferences ever held. The
war TO end war must overthrow the
capitalist system.
E,RBNCH statesmen, having failed
\ TO induce Andrew Mellon to can.
eel their debt sufficiently, have resort
ed to strenuous measures. They have
decided 20 make poet ambassador to
the United States. Most poets produce
more rhyme than reason but diplo-
mats produce less. Poincare may hope
that the new French ambassador may
serenade the Coolidge sleeping porch
with sentimental ballads that may be
potent enough TO mako even the pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

The following account Of the Brit
ish General Strike that began on
May First last was written by a
British worker who actively par
ticipated in the struggle in one Of
the Industrial eenters Of the Isles.
The record of the great battle here
given, with local details and angles
lacking in previous larger accounts,
affords many lessons for workers
who have yet to go thru this stage
of the class struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
By C. E. Ruthenberg

General Secretary
Workers Community Party.

living problems Of city and to for
G!ulate a program in relation to city
government which will make the work
ars willing to fight for city govern
ment representing their class inter
.ests.
The workers will not however, be
drawn into a city election campaign
in support of a labor ticket on the
basis of distractions. We can only
draw them into the struggle on a
clearly formulated program in their
interests as against the program OF
the capitalist parties, or the "non-par.
tisan good men,"
Our party organizations must study
the life of the cities in which they exist.
They should utilize every question
which arises, housing, transportation,
health regulations, recreation centers,
of police power against strikers, etc,
to expose the rule of the capitalists
and their profiteering at the expense
of the workers and formulate pro-
grams of workers demands on these
questions. The issues which arise in
the cities touch the workers closely
and these issues furnish important ma
terial for developing the movement for
an independent political struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
A Workers Experience During
General Strike in Great Britain

ed. The significance Of the invitation
of the Communist Party cannot be
overlooked. A decision of the Labor
Party executive committee, at meet
ings held two or three years before,
had definitely laid it, down that no
Communist could be member of the
Labor Party or affiliated body. With
the seriousness Of the general strike
so obvious, the workers forgot about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02

clearing the way for new loans and
investments by the international bank
ing houses of Wall Street from which
they are drawing big profits
The passage of the Watson-Parker
bill practically robbed the railroad
workers of the right to strike and re-
presents the first legislative action to
wrest the strike weapon from the
hands of the workers Pending bills
in congress propose extension of this
law to the mining industry.
The injunction has been given new
teeth by the courts in the garment
workers strike in New York and thru
the injunction against the subway
workers, which makes 1t illegal to or
ganize a workers union against the
company union.
The supreme court decision in the
Dorchy case makes certain kinds of
strikes illegal thus making the first
step to outlaw the right to strike by
action of the courts.
In the Passaic strike as we'll as the
New York garment workers strike
the police power was used to arrest
hundreds of workers at one swoop in
the effort to help the employers break
these strikes.
While President Coolidge proposes
to return hundreds of millions of
dollars to the big capitalists as rebate
in taxes, thus swelling their enormous
profits, the farmers have fought in
vain for government aid in meeting
the unbearable conditions in many
sections of the agricultural produc-
ton.
These facts furnish the material for
our agitation for the formation of a
labor party which will fight in the
interests of the workers and farmers
against the capitalist government. 1t
is the work of our party to drive
home the lessons of these actions and
to break workers away from the
parties Of their class enemies-the
republican and democratic parties.
The Coming Presidential Election.
THE past political developments in
L this country show that with the
approach of the presidential election
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Strike Organization.

TINE next business was the decision
L that the Council Of Action cut itself
up into committees. The following
committees were appointed:
Picket Committee, composed of the
most influential local trade unionists
for the purpose of maintaining the 100
per cent strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Forward In the Campaign for q
Labor Party.

ENERGETIC action by the party in
IL support of the program for the la
Dor party campaign, first, thru the for
nation of the network of trade union
committees for the formation Of a la
Dor party, second, thru raising the
slogan of a united labor ticket IN the
city elections, will bring big for
ward movement in the campaign for
the formation of a labor party. 1t will
create solid foundation for the actual
formation of a labor party and pre-
pare the ground for the actual realiza-
ton of the slogan: "a Labor Party in
the 1928 Election"
The party must put all its strength
behind this campaign and move for
ward to achievement Of it's goal, the
first big step in the revolutionizing
of the American workers, thru build
ing broad mass party to fight the
political battles of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-02
Cheap Tenement Takes
Toll of Workers Life

NEW YORK. Nov. 80. - Samuel
weiner, 35, and his sons. Hyman, 10.
and lsadore, z, we're burned to death
in a fire which swept Cherry street
tenement early today.
Mrs. Mary Gelfand, 40, sprained her
wrist when she jumped from a win
dow. and Michael Donate, Al, was
burned severely.
The fire was accompanied by q
mysterious explosion. and officials be-
gan an investigation Of It's origin.
Weiner died saving his wife and
three OF his children. They. with rs
other tenants, escaped on ladders and
over the roofs. MN
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