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Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14
GRADUATION EXERCISES OF
LAUREL COLORED SCHOOL

The graduation exercises of the
Laurel colored school was success.
Fifteen boys and girls received their
certificates. They are as follows:
Samuel Malone, Frances Ora Lee
Campbell, Annie May Smarr, Ella Pearl
Little, Susie Lee Williams, Louise Eloise
Cook, Thelma Bernice Seals, Ethel Bell
Atterbury, Ellis Lorenzo Dean, Willye
Curtis Adams, Willye Ed Jones, Warren
Leroy Ward Jr. Ruth Lee Foster, Mary
Edna Jordan, Lille Whalum.
After the exercises prizes were award
ed to those for the best work on indus
trial exhibit and department.
LIST. price eight grade Susie Will
liam; Second prize, Annie Mae Smarr.
Seventh Grade-1st. prize, Jettie
Beaver, End Belinda Wheeler, Sixth
grade, 1st. prize Jennie Edwards, End.
]. Eta Little Page Fifth Grade,
Hattie Bell Brewer; 2nd Laura Coli
ghtly.
Department - Tommie Robinson -
South-side school, first prize, Albert,
Deloach. Kingston, second prize.
School finance committee
B. N. LENOARD,
T. d. BROWN,
N. M. PERRY, Sec.
MRS S. G.. WILSON,
Chairman.
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14
Notice

In the previous issue of The Voice of
the People, three churches did not ap-
pear, because of an oversight of the
editor, however, we hope there will be
no misunderstanding and i'll feeling of
the pastors and members of the
churches.
Mr.. Jno H. Smith expects to make
this one of the biggest programs ever
put over in Laurel. He wants all the
churches to come together in harmony
and make their pastors happy. If you
cannot win make the ones ahead break
the record.
Three prizes will be given to the
churches that raise the highest amount.
First prize-A suit of clothes, End.
prize pair shoes, third prize, genuine
panama hat.
When you buy do. not forget to vote.
All moneys spent during this period
will be added to the one you want to
vote for.
Vote for one of these churches:
Union Baptist, the Rev. Williams,
pastor; Provi ?dence Baptist, the Rev.
Wheeler; Malliere M. E. Church, the
Rev. Roberts; Allen Chapel A. NJ E.
Church, the Rev O. W. Jones; st. Paul
M. E., the Rev. j. S. Williams; the Rev.
N Carter, ST. Elmo Baptist. the Rev.
j. j. Overstreet. East Jerusalem Bap-
tist; ST. John Baptist, the Rev. D.
Jones; Wesley Chapel M. E. Church, the
Rev. Emerson; Cook Chapel, the Rev.
L. X. Owens.
The ballot is good for one vote. Vote
for any church you wish by marking an
X beside name you wish to vote for.
This ballot will not be counted if more
than one name has an x.
This contest closes July Z, 1926. Come
down to the busy corner on Joe Wheeler
Avenue to John H. Smiths store and
help your pastor to get that suit of
clothes.
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14

pick up c. w. you can beat that, and
a rambler doing the Charleston" down
South 4th and Jackson, and that same
rambler who ran a muck at Eagle Park.
Watch young rambler let the Charleston
go.
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14

We are glad to know that Miss Ethel
Craft who has returned from State
Normal, Nashville, Tenn, is able to
walk after a few days of illness of her
foot.
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14
MARRIAGE

Mrs. Emma Abram and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. Abram wish to announce the COM
ing marriage of her daughter and neice,
Miss Lizzie L. to Mr.. Jessie Lyles
successful business man of this city
Wednesday, June %, 1926 at eight
o'clock, Dudley Chapel, Ellisville, Miss.
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14

Uncle BIN caught N. H. again, be-
careful ball head rambler Uncle BIN
doesn't want to expose you.
He saw the Red Brick when she made
C.. w. get in the corner Monday night
Voice of the people. (Laurel, Miss.) 19??-19??, 1926-06-14

DIR. Cuney, of Jackson, Miss, head
of the A. F. & A. M. of this state spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Wheeler 811 South 7th avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28
knocking Gag Rule in the Senate

Administration supporters the majority of democratic
have invoked rule in order shut off debate the
question of the United States entering the world court The vote
26 which clearly indicates the triumph of the ad
world There that those who
with the majority consciously defend the interests
the House of Morgan Europe The leaders of the opposition
have the sinister hand bank capital creating the fiction
public the both the supporters of the
Coolidge administration and the leaders of the democrats feared
further debate would the from which flow the
stream of gold used to beray the nation into the court
The opposition Hiram Johnson the repub-
can insurgents Reed Missouri Beas for the democrat
insurgents the interests the petty bourgeoisie that
strata that erceve the threat of increasing tax burdens to
this countr participation in the court and the small in
dusss that their sacrificed the interests of bank
order that European industries be revived that Morgan may
obtain interest his investments the shattered nations 1t
is matter of dollars and cents with them.
No should be deceived into believing that such people
Boah and Johnson opposing the world court because of their
deraon for the working class Both VIGOROUSLY enemies of
Hiram johnson than any other responsible
Tom Mooney Billings rottng the dungeons
the state of California.
The monumental reahey that driving this nation towards
the world and the league of nations primary
the working class While the small ndustraists resist the court
because threatens their profits the workers have resist
it because that they will be called shoulder
and the remOtet parts of the earth risk their lives
that Morgans ambitions world Imperialism may
realized.
Every Morgan that off debate should
remembered should be left unurned drive
public Office disgrace those who openly brazeny sold the
of the nation to the House of Morgan
Every world advocate the 80 reelection
this fall ought to be challenged by candidates representing the
the exploited workers the industrial
the impoverished of the agraran regions their vena
ton those whom they tried deliver bound and gagged the
perialism of Wall Street
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

/ clear, no one knows exactly how 9
peasant country comes to socialism
1t is not only necessary to define cor
rectly the word ~perspectives, but als'
to find the correct relation Of the
questions. In this connection Zinoviey
gives us no answer. The speaker de-
clared that a great difference existed
between the tone of the Leningrad art
icle and the tone of the resolutions OF
the Leningrad workers. (Applause!J
The speaker demanded definitely the
breaking off of the discussion after
the party congress. The party was not
in a position to allow itself such a
luxury. (Applause).
The next speaker Uglanov pointed
out that zinoviev's speech contained
no program. The party would solve
the questions raised by zinoviev with
out any difficulty. The speaker closed
with the demand that Zinoviev repair
his mistakes.
VAROSLAVSKY began his speech
L with the question how was it pos
bureau who, three days before the
PARTY congress had voted in the
plenum of the central committee for
all the basic theses and who had said
10 word about any differences of opin-
ion, could now come forward with o
co-speech. The Leningrad workins
class had a heroic history, the pres
ent moment of this history, however,
must soon be forgotten. (Applause)
Zinoviev is mostly responsible for this.
With his colossal authority as chair
man of the comintern he declared at
the Leningrad conference that in
Moscow the slogan Against Lenin-
grad" had been coined. The speaker
declared that such a slogan was not
given and that Zinoviev had no right
to make such irresponsible statement.
| LNVDOKIMOV (Leningrad) protested
II against the contention that the
Leningrad delegation did not repres.
ent the Leningrad organization. We
demand the objective treatment of the
questions of principle which HAYS
been placed before the party congress.
He then made polemic against the
Bucharin accusation that Zinoviev had
said that the N. E. P. was a retreat,
Zinoviev himself speaks definitely Of
the aggressive character of the N. E.
P. The most important is to create
clarity in the questions of principle.
The central committee had incorrect
ly attacked the Young Communist
League in Leningrad that it feared the
middle peasantry. The tasks of the
Young Communist League in the vii
lage are tremendously complicated.
New forms must be discovered. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

/ progress which the central committee
has made in the previous year 1t
mentioned only the difficulties. 1t is
certain that there is differentiation
in the village, but the central COM
mittee and the fourteenth party con-
gress have already pointed this out
In the Ukraine as early as July we
raised this question of the village
poor and treated the question of the
committees of the poorer peasantry
which have to carry out the decisions
of the party upon the defense of the
interests of the village poor and the
inclusion of the middle peasantry, cor
rectly. We have freed % per cent,
that is to say, 100000, of the viii
lage poor from taxes. In the Ukraine
100000 peasant economies cooperate
in the organization of the culture of
beet sugar. 1t is our concrete task
to sever the middle peasantry from
the village usurer. 1t is no light task
to draw ten million peasants into the
work Of Soviet reconstruction. We say
to the village poor: Organize cooper
atives, organize committees, organize
mutual assistance between the party
and the Soviet power, help yourselves
organizationally and materially With
empty slogans such as "A Horse for
Every Peasant" we cannot help the
village poor at all. This is demagogy
and only makes our task more diff
cult. Comrades Sokolnikov and Ka-
menev come forward as eager defend
ers of the interests of the village poor.
Why do these representatives of fin
ance and economy make concrete pro-
posals for the assistance of the vii
lage poor? Some people represent
themselves as having a monopoly of
hundred per cent Leninism. The speak
er is of the opinion that only the
whole party and the party congress
and not individuals can apply Lenin-
ism correctly. Zinoviev's book, "The
Philosophy of the Epoch contains
great pessimistic degressions. The
Leningrad organization is attempt
ing to terrorize us with its au-
thority. We must overcome all diff
ferences of opinion by an unequivocal
formulation. The decisions of the
party congress must provide for the
correct carrying out of the tasks be-
fore us.
A NTlPOV (Urals) said that the task
1 \ of the Theoretician is not to
spread pessimism about the possibility
OF socialist reconstruction in coun-
try, but to provide theoretical basis
for the practical building up of social
ism. The Leningrad organization has
isolated itself from the party, but it
will correct its mistakes. (Applause).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

/ Leningrad organization has rendered
great service in the creation of firm
connection between town and country.
The speaker closed with the state
ment that the Leningrad organization
would subordinate, itself to all party
decisions.
| KOMAROV (Leningrad) discussed
Ia first of all the question why the
Leningrad party bureau had fallen
into a majority and a minority. He
touched upon organizational questions
in connection with the removal of and
the nomination of responsible officials,
amongst them the removal of the sec
rotary of the government bureau, Sa-
lutzky. Despite the demand of the
central committee for the removal of
Salutzky on account of serious mis-
demeanors, the Leningrad committee
had vascillated very considerably. III
noviev himself had supported this OPP
position. The speaker at the time had
declared in a personal talk with Zinc
view that all efforts must be made
that the leadership of all organiza-
tions should lie in the hands of the
central committees and not in tho
hands Of individual persons.
Ordshonikidse stressed the fact that
the co-speech of Zinoviev meant the
setting up of a special program in OPP
positionato the program of the central
committee 1t is incorrect to repres-
ent this co-speech as simply an ex-
change ofuepinions, altho zinoviev
himself has declared that the line of
the centralacommittee to the question
of the village poor is correct. The
party accepts the line of Bucharin
where it is, in agreement with. Lenin.
One may not tolerate the baseless at
tacks upon Bucharin, because Bucha-
rim is one of the best party theoreti-
clans and we all love and support him.
The Leningrad comrades had forced
the party into a severe crisis, but it
is certain that the Leningrad COM
rades will tolerate no opposition
against the party majority, and will
subordinate themselves to the deci-
sions of the party.
CALUTZKY Ueningrad) declared
~ that he had never attempted to
discredit the central committee and
that he now recognized his earlier
mistakes. All members of the Lenin-
grad delegation would theoretically
carry out the decisions of the party.
KAGANOVITCH General secret
airy of the Communist Party in the
Ukraina) theoretically attacked the
co-speech OF Zinoviev. Zinoviev has
neither a practical program nor con-
crete proposals. The co-speech of
Zinoviev says no word about the great
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

the same time detailing ten thousand
of their number to protect them, and
their dirty property.
A strike is a battle, a war, and only
a fool would so into a battle tied up
With rules dictated by his foe. Who
are the people that have laid it down
that it IS all right for the miners TO
strike providing they leave enuf OF
their fellows on tho Job to look after
old pit pumps, pit boilers, pit limb
crs and pit horses? Not the miners
but their employers; their employers
governments, and their employers
pen anni.ics, and pulpit wind-jam-
mers. These hypocrites hold up their
hands in horror at the Workers leav-
ing a pit horse to starye in the mine,
but look on calmly nt''thousands OF
miners children going short OF food.
And IL the natural protector OF these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28
The Little GOmpers of the Needle Trades

union officials of United
been obliged their pose
is Mr. Sidney Himan president Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Of Revolutionary" poses
has been Europe than America entirely
unknown here Gompes himself pose necessary
youthful days in order to his first anhOld in the American
labor
his radical vigorous preacher class struggle
against the reaconay Gomper bureaucracy course during
Hlman became the White
war he found necessary to become great end of Soviet
Russia due the advanced psychology the big city needle
workers whom his career built In the years
Hman has found that the changing times obliged him drop
cloak of cleft wnger' and radical"
disgraceful 80 Amagamated Clothing
Workers the city Chicago
needle trades workers who have been duped by this king
charatans
Defending corruption administration which, thru
class collaboration schemes selling the clothing
land Office business Hman of forced pour
the caumnes newspapers DAILY
WORKER and the Fehet These papers actions
in their naked treacheOus real character Therefore
defend himself attack the Communist press Every kick
squrm of Hman however only further opens the eyes
workers whom he is betrayng Hman told
he above all Others workers who
present also knew that man lying Hmans
simply added to their knowledge 0 HIman
Himan's disgacefu 80 threw light upon
himself which perhaps he failed observe In
Communists Illman obliged begin general
corrupt labor bureaucracy the
Hman undertook TO defend John L. Lewis from the Communist
attacks upon that incident
shows what? 1t shows other things that the last barrier
tween him and the sink hole Of the corruption of Compression has
admittedly disappeared
helps destroy myth separate existence outside of
body organized H. somehow protects
union corruption collaboration the corruption
in which union officials find comfortable agents
employers within the unions.
The welfare the Aagamated Clothing Workers demands
that the entire membership be brought quickly possible
realize that the fate Of the union depends upon smashing this
little Gompers Of the needle oahsome Sigman
the international Ladies' can be con.
sdered more of a reaetonary than Sidney Himan.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

"The Shatura station Is one of the
first steps in the realization of cleo
IRRIGATION of the Soviet Union. This
is an achievement towards electrified
ton worthy of the name of Lenin."
Comrade Krzhizhanovsky, on behalf
of the state planning commission of
the Soviet Union expressed graft
tude to the builders of the Shatura
station. IL
81 am sure" said Comrade Krzhiz-
hanovsky, that today's great celebra-
ton is not only ours but also one for
the toilers of the whole world. We
are passing thru a great stage: the
whole world will be aware that Len
ms cause stands firmly since the
working class has proved that it is
able to build such powerful structures
as Shatura."
A letter of greetings from Trotsky,
whose health did not permit him to
speak in the open air, was read point
ing out that "the Shatura station bore
witness to the gigantic accomplish
ments which we are now beginning
to attain, since we have COPIED with
the first and greatest difficulty.
"Shatura will vitalize industry. In
dustry vitalizes agriculture. Power
and light will become the source of
ever-increasing content and increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

Soviet government may consider itself
as one of the initiators."
The Turkish minister of agriculture,
Sabri Bey, declared: To-day, yet one
more unforgetable experience has
been added to my deep impressions on
the cultural and economic progress of
the peoples of the Soviet Union,
which l have received during the
short time / have been in the Soviet
Union.
I'm Turkey we look upon the
achievements of the great October re-
volution with fascination and love, and
| am overioyed to be living witness
of one of these achievements-the
Shatura electric station.
Il would only like to emphasize one
of the peculiarities of this station,
which attaches a kind of symbolic sig
nificance to it. The station is named
after Lenin and Lenin is the undying
sun living in the hearts of all human
ity The life of Lenin, his gigantic
energy was directed to improving the
life, the economic and cultural eman-
cipation of the peasantry, and thanks
to this station, this great name Of
Lenin will in the near future carry the
dawn in the peasant huts by means of
electric light and will turn the dark
night into bright daylight"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

| 1NhE next speaker, Petrovsky (Uk
4 ralne), declared that the speakers
from Lenngrad mad proposed no 20
litical program. Petrovsky accused
linoviev that with his co-speech his
intention had been to show that Ger
tain vascillation existed in the party
The speaker then made a polemlI
against Krupskaya who had pointed
to the incorrect policy of the central
committee in an article and had de
manded the alteration of our policy
in order to destroy the Kulak.
The next speaker, Polonsky, de-
clared that at the time of the Trotsky
discussion the party had put its foot
into the petty bourgeois morass. The
central committee lifted the party out
AT present zinoviev forced the LEFT
foot of the party into the morass. The
speaker did not doubt but what today
also the central committee would be
strong enuf also not to permit this
The Leningrad delegation must not be
confused with the Leningrad organiza-
ton or with the Leningrad working
class.
n ASHEvITCH contended a collect
IL i've leadership of the party did
not exist. The speaker then made
polemic against UglanOy who had de-
clared in the Moscow spArty confer
ence that the task consisted in the
continuation of the Capitalization OF
the organization and the centralizal
ton. of the leadership The speaker
declared that this was incorrect.
Nikoyen declared that no one
wished for the removal of the central
committee. We wish for the subord'
nation of everyone to the iron will
of the majority. When Zinoviev has
the majority then he is all in favor OF
the iron discipline and the subordina'
ton, but when the majority is not on
his side, he is against the subordina-
ton interruption: Correctly
DUCHARIN had corrected his mis-
ID take, for this reason he should
not be attacked further. Qnterrup-
ton: Correct! Applause) In several
districts the middle peasant has not
vet been conquered, but ihe is already
hesitating. Stain says correctly that
the underestimation of5 the Kulaks
means the disarmament Of the party.
One should, however, not oyerestimate
the danger. There are no differences
of opinion in the peasant question
which are not soluble. The party is
continually searching for the correct
line which cannot always suddenly be
found. The speech Of Zinoviev is un-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-28

would deny you bread. One hundred
and sixty-eight thousand pairs of
rebel hands withdrawn from the prop
city OF the hard coal mines Of tho
United States can win this fight.
There are no more any Queensbury
rules governing Industrial disputes,
then thrice accursed be the working
man that lends himself to care for tho
property of the men that coin your
labor into profits.
A 100 per cent strike is always
swift and of short duration. and
nearly always successful, less than
100 per cent strike is long and pain
fully drawn out and seldom success
ful. Il 100 per cent strike brings renl
dollars TO worker that can buy real
Lcoad, less than 100 per cent strike
arinss the good opinion" of the dear
public TO the worker with which he
can buy nothing Fight for the cash
and let the credit go to hell. Stick
up hungry miners child and downed
pit pump to the dear public and watch
them bemoan the fate of the poor
pump. oh, what fools the workers
are TO protect old pit junk rather than
protect the children that they have
brot into the world.
Less than a 100 per cent c,rike
matches the few bits of bread thet the
miner has against the millions of dol
lars that the employer haa. n -eal 1OO
per cent strike makes the race for vic.
tory to be between the destruction OF
your oppressors' property and the lit
tie bits Of bread that the worker
starts out in the battle With. Let
these ten thousand pairs OF protecting
hands that are now keeping in safety
the mines of the coal operators be
turned at once into ton thousand pairs
Of rebel hands. These rebel hands can
turn defeat into victory.
). 3. MeLAcHLAN.