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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-18
EXPLODES A LITTLE

The editor of this newspaper,
always desiring to get first-hand
information when possible, and
meeting enemies face to face,
journeyed to the political meet
ing at Hinckley Saturday and
took in every word of it. Things
went along pretty smooth and
there was some enlightening dis
crssion, but toward the end-the
writer having kept mum until
then, taking no part in the selec-
ton of committeeman or any
thing else-threw a few bolts in
to the meeting which resulted in
the chief instigator of the move
ment calling the editor by a vile
name. 1t was perhaps little un-
pleasant and folks could not I'M
derstand that he could do it, but
having known him for IA years
1T did not surprise the writer one
Iota. He simply revealed his in
ner self as he is doing under the
Opinions of Others" this week.
By the way In his letter is a
threat to the American editor to
apologize for the editorial Of
March 18th, on or before April
LIST. Let us see, April 1st is
Fools Day" is it not? We GER
tainly could not apologize that
day and have no intentions of do
ing it before, as the words used
nm said editorial were well
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-18

weighed. The instigator's leader
ship has been checked. Money
does not bring happiness, but if
he can get any pleasure and sa-
tisfaction out of the financial
cleanup he made here in Askov
in less than three years now that
he has it, and without injury to
others, he certainly has our con-
sent and we shall not envy him
one bit.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-18

Most of the propositions for
disposing of the surplus farm
products raised in this country
are little better than a plan for
burning them or towing them
out to sea and sinking them. 1t
is anything to get rid of the
surplus which natures bounty
has provided. Men, with all of
their scientific achievements
seem to fail when it comes to
an equitable distribution of the
fruits of toll on this earth. -
Mile Laos County Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-18

A sure and quick way to find
out if there is sale for that
second hand article you have is
to try an American Want AID. The
cost is small.
Tell it through a Want AID.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-18

In the long run printed sta
tionery is the more economical.
American want ads do the
business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
Labor Party the
Answer to Coolidge
(contInued from naae IN

Continued from page y
the soft coal industry expire on April
next, and as conflicts may result
which may imperil public interest, and
have for many years often called for
the action of the executive in protec-
ton of the public, again recommend
the passage of such legislation as will
assist the executive in dealing with
such emergencies"
Won't Give Up Philippines.
In dealing with the Philippine
Islands, Coolidge gave no hint that
the United States was even thinking
OF relinquishing its hold upon that
possession. "The economic develop
ment of the islands is very impor-
tant," he states. "They ought not TO
be turned back to the people until
they are both politically fitted for self
government and economically indie
pendent" Coolidge praised Woods
administration in the islands. saving
that he has administered his Office
with tact and ability" He pointed
the way to American capitalists to in.
vest their money in the islands for
the development of rubber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

TO Colleges capitalist program.
Now s the time to prepare for the struqaIe In the
next election campaign the 1928 presidential cleo
ton.
The slogan Of the workers and farmers must be
"A LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELEcTIoNv
The work Of organizing such party must be be-
gun now and powerful political organizations OF the
workers and farmers build up to fight for their In
terests.
The labor party, allied with the farmers, must
formulate workers. and farmers, program against
the capitalists program. II must fight for:
I. Against mIIItarism and Imperialism and
the dangers Of a new world war.
q Against the use Of inlunetons In labor dis
putes, against all laws limiting the right to
strike
8. Against the registration Of the foreign
born.
4. For equality for the Negro.
.. For relief Of the farmers.
0. For Increase Of the Income taxes levied on
the great corporations and big capitalists In
crease Of the inheritance taxes on the fortunes
OF the capitalists.
2. For unemployment Insurance, to be paid
for by the capitalists.
g. For tho naturalization OF the great Indus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
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aid of an admiral and the secretary of
the interior, A. B. Fall, were putting
thru deal that was expected to net
100000, 900 for Doheny. Fall got his
little commission Of 100000. Do
heny is a democrat. Fall is a repub-
lican. They were both willing to loot
government property in order to pro
tect the United States from Japan.
Such is patriotism.
EIGHTEEN hundred disabled emer-
II gency army officers of the world
war have been refused retirement pay
by the war department. tho Secretary
Of the Treasury Andrew Mellon re-
ports that the government can afford
to reduce taxes $3.50, 900 next year.
This seems to be short-sighted pol
Icy on the part of our ruling classes.
Despite the effectiveness of headlines
and the myriad hokum agencies of
capitalism, the cannon-fodder may not
be so willing to go forth on the next
crusade for democracy, II they feel
that the old feedbag will be conspicu-
GUS by it's absence on their return,
particularly if they do not return
whole.
BNERAL UMBERTO MOBILE, the
~ fascist pilot of the dirigible that
sailed across the North Pole, arrived
in Chicago a few days ago with dog
and a black eye, The general ex-
planned the phenomenon of the dam
aged orb as an attempt to demonstrate
a new method of falling from high
altitude without becoming physically
obliterated in the process. Mobile, in
diving from a hammock to the floor,
parked one of his eyes on the edge Of
a chair and thus broke the fall. Those
fascists are certainly ingenious.
ONE of the most interesting and i'm
~ portant struggles ever fought out
in an international union in the United
States will wind up next week in the
United Mine Workers of America.
John L. Lewis, the pompous tool of
the coal operators, is facing the fight
Of his life to retain his position. No
body seriously questions that John
Brophy, the progressive candidate, wilt
receive a majority of the votes. But
Lewis will endeavor to count himself
in, at all costs. Lewis defeat will
be victory for the coal diggers.
TT is significant that what is left Of
4 the socialist press is not support
ing the progressive ticket in the min
ers' union. One of the feature writ
ers on the New Leader only damned
Frank Harrington with faint praise
for having accepted a S25,OOO-a-yeal
job from the Peabody Coal compan,
OF course he blamed the radicals 70.
driving Harrington to such an extreme.
American socialists are faithful re-
.semblances Of socialists everywhere.
They are socialists with the socialism
extracted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

tries and workers. control, making them instru-
ments Of service to the workers and farmers In
place OF great profits for the capitalists.
9. For the recognition Of the first workers.
and farmers eovernment--the Union Of Social
LIST Soviet Republics.
This program In the interest Of the workers and
farmers can only be carried Into effect thru work
ere and farmers government, which will use the
power Of the government In the interest OF the
workers and farmers II 10 now used In the In
terest Of the capitalists.
FORWARD TO THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE IN
THE INTEREST OF THE WORKER AND FARM
ERs
LABOR PARTY IN THE 1928 ELECTION
A WORKERS PROGRAM AGAINST THE CAPT.
TALIsT PROGRAM.
FORWARD TO THE WORKERS. AND FARM
ERs GOVERNMENT.
Central Committee
Workers (communist) Party,
c. E. Ruthenberg, General Secretary.
Copies OF this statement In Iesfiet form may
be secured thru prepaid orders from the Work
era Party Of America, lila West Washington
Blvd, Chicago, H.. at $500 per thousand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

No newspaper in the Soviet I'm
ion, for instance, would carry the
kind of an editorial that appeared
in the Chicago Tribune, under the
heading Welcome to the Farmers, I"
stating that:
"The more money the farmers
have to spend the more they can
buy from our manufacturers and
merchants. The citizens of Chicago
are anxious to improve the status
OF agriculture il only for the rea-
sons of enlightened self-interest."
That is the welcome that the fat
tended hog receives at the stock
yards. It is the greeting that the
hold-up man gives his victim, the
hope that his pockets will contain
something worthwhile so that the
hawl will be a good one. 1t is the
greeting of the PROFITEER.
Chicago, the banker; Chicago, the
board Of trade; Chicago, the stock
yards; Chicago, the farm nipple
ment manufacturer; Chicago, the
parasite coupon clipper and inter-
ested taker, is the enemy of the
farmer.
Chicago is not interested in lift
ing the standard of living of the
working farmer. 1t is merely inter-
ested in maintaining agriculture
as a source of profit, playing the
she'll game in which the farmer al
ways loses.
Prof. Macy Campbell, head Of the
rural education department, Iowa
State Teachers College, raises a
lone voice declaring, "The Ameri-
can farmer must bend all his eff
forts to stem the present drift to-
ward peasantry," by which he means
a continuous lowering of the farm
ers' standard of living. But it is
an ignorant voice crying in the will
derness.
The farmer cannot help himself.
Like the Industrial worker in the
city, he is a victim of the profit
social system that has reared the
capitalist state power that sits en-
throned in Washington in defense
of profits. The farmers who go
to the Soviet Union, will find an en-
tirely different kind of government
In Moscow, the government of the
workers and farmers, that has abol-
lished the profit system in that vast
nation, that develops the closest
possible cooperation between the
city and land workers, for the pro-
lection and welfare of both, and for
the lifting of the standard of living
Of the producing masses of the
whole country.
That is why any delegation of
American farmers visiting Europe
this coming summer should sure
ly include the Soviet Union.
Such delegation, if it isn't stone
blind, would get an excellent lesson
In the fundamental problem out of
which all the ills of the agrarian
masses grow in the capitalist land
from where they come. But only
actual dirt farmers would be really
interested in learning such a lesson.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
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100 be robbed by law Of their strongest weapon
the right to strike
ne mas nothing to say against the proposed lawn
to register photograph, hngerprint and control the
movement Of the forean-born workers, to which he
gave endorsement in his message last year, which is
pending before congress.
strengthen the capitalists, further ensIave tho
workers. are the presidents proposals.
ne Capitalist Program and the Negroes.
ne Negroes Get a few fair words In the presL
dents message. But the president uronos..
nothing to end the racial determinations aqainst the
Negroes The constitutional provisions for Neoro
equality are brazenIy Ignored particularly In the
south, but congress Is not urged to take action 20
enforce the constitution The capitalist program ia
70 continue the exploitation Of the Negroes as work.
ers and at tho same time maintain the racial dls
elimination which makes that exploltatlor .v.n
worse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
NEEDLE TRADES WORKERS
MEET At FREIHEIT HALL
TONIGHT; zAzER SPEAKS

The present situation in the nee
die trades unions will be the topic
of big rally to be held under the
auspices Of the needle trades sec
ton of the Chicago Trade Union Ed
ueationaI League at Frelheit Hall,
5000 w. Roosevelt road, tonight at
8 p. m. Henry SAFER of the Cap
and Millinery Workers. Union will
be the principal speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
81 MEXICANS
IN JAIL FOR
COPS DEATH
Police Raid Homes of
Laborers

One Mexican laborer and one po-
liceman are dead, another policeman
is wounded and 81 Mexlcans are in
jail after a shooting fray that occur
red in Melrose park where half hun
dred Mexican workers, employed by
the Northwestern railroad, live in box
cars.
Three members of the Mexican
community, including Jose Sanchez,
who was killed, we're on their way
from Melrose Park to the box cars
in company Of a woman who mean
time disappeared, when four police Of
ficers from Melrose Park attempted
to arrest them,
Two Killed.
In manner not yet determined,
firing began that resulted in the death
Of Sanchez and Policeman Lyman j.
Stahl, and the wounding in the arm
Of Policeman Chas. Kolwitz.
An emergency call sent to sur
rounding towns brot large force of
policemen and detectives to the com
munity. Most Of the workers were in
their beds asleep, The force of po-
licemen charged the building, threw
a number Of tear gas bombs to drive
the workers out of their cars and took
81 OF them to Mslrose Park jail.
Another Mexican, one who had been
with Sanchez, was later arrested at
Oak Park. A pistol and two bottles
Of moonshine were found on him. At
the undertaking parlors in Melrose
Park where the two bodies lay, it was
determined that Sanchez was shot
three times in front and the police
mans head was found to be pierced
by four bullets that entered at the
rear.
Commends Mexicans.
From Gust Sperannio who keeps
store at 1O1 21st Ave-, Melrose Park,
it was learned that Sanchez had
planned on going to Mexico within
the month to get married. Sperannio
said that he knew all the Mexicans
who were under arrest for from three
10 five years and that they were all
earnest workers and well-behaved.
Sanchez he had known for three years
end spoke highly Of him.
Expel Mexican Editor.
At the police station in Melrose
ark, Maxine E. Lira, editor of
Iexico, published in Spanish, spoke
two Mexican relatives Of two Of
hose imprisoned He spoke in Span
ish and told them that when they
were examined by police officers to
demand an interpreter that their tes-
timony might not be altered or mis-
understood.
A police officer came up to LARA
and told him to get out of the build
ing or Ell would fill him full of lead.
Lira was warned to keep out and
not to interfere on behalf OF the Next
cans.
False Stories.
Chicago morning newspapers car
ried stories saying that the policemen
were called to the scene by telephone
after women's screams were heard in
the neighborhood OF the box cars
and mems curses indicated that the
Mexicans were fighting among them
selves. The DAILY WORKER has
ascertained that this is not true.
All but four or five OF the workers
were in their beds asleep. The three
Mexicans and the woman were
trailed from Melrose Park. It has
not yet ben determined who fred first.
One thing is certain, that at least
80 Mexican workers are being held in
jail for no reason except that they
happened to be in the vicinity of the
shooting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
DARR()W COMES
TO Defense OF
ENEA SORMENTI
|. [. D. Retains Famous
Lawyer for Case

Clarence S. barrow, the famous
lawyer, has been retained by Inter
national Labor Defense as chief de-
tense counsel in the fight to stop the
deportation Of Enea sormentl, one of
the leaders Of the anti-fasclstl forces
in the United States.
This is part of the widespread ma
tional campaign which the I. L. D. has
begun to defend the right of asylum
for political refugees in the United
States. Adequate legal defense is as
sured in this case by the presence of
Clarence barrow, the leading defense
counsel in the Meyer, Haywood, Pet
tibone case, of the McNamaras, in
the Chicago Communist Labor Party
trial, and in numerous other labor
cases that have made history in the
United States.
mo efforts have been spared to Sc
cure the best legal defense in the
Sormenti case, said James P Cannon,
secretary Of the I. L. D. "A nation
wide campaign of agitation will be
conducted by us to acquaint the Amer
lean workers of the important issues
involved in the threat of deportation
made by James j. Davis, of the de-
partment of labor, especially against
anti-fascisti for whom shipment to
Italy in most cases means certain i'm
prisOnment or death,
The widest possible labor and pro-
gressive support will be modified in
this campaign by the I. L. D. The
American Federation of Labor, and
many of its constituent bodies, have
already recorded their opposition to
fascism. American labor is unresery-
eddy opposed to blackshirt rule and
it will oppose using a government de-
Dartment to do the work Of bounding
anti-fascists for Mussolini.
Leaflets printed in the English and
Italian languages in large quantities
will soon be on the press and ready
for distribution thruout the country
In addition, a small popular pamphlet
on the record Of fascism and the de-
portation cases in this country will
be published. The Labor Defender,
our official organ, will have as it's
next issue an anti-fascist number
Mass meetings will be held in every
center Of the country with prominent
labor men as speakers. We intend
1o arouse the whole labor movement
y this campaign and put an end to
the Davis policy Of deportation.
The fight for sormenti, who is
slated for Italy by the department of
labor, and for the other refugees is a
fight for the elementary civil and po-
litical rights of labor in this coun-
try. 1t is also a fight for the best
OF American traditions which have al
ways held out a warm welcome to
those fighters who were forced to flee
from despotism and terror to the
United States"
The entry Of Clarence S. barrow
into the case recalls the trial of the
young Russian, Rudowsky. who. like
Sormenti was threatened by the U.
s. government with deportation to
Russia upon the demand of the car
1st government, almost two decades
ago. A huge campaign of protest was
carried on by radicals to prevent the
turning over Of Rudowsky to the cars
hangmen, and with the aid of barrow
and Peter Sissman, who led the de-
tense counsel in the case, the plan
OF the reactionaries in both countries
was effectively smashed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

stiles OF life thru their labor on the land.
The president lists many laws which have been
passed, supposedly In their Interests but the farm
ers know that while these laws have benefited their
eNplolters, they have not helped them. The relief
which the farmer demand thru a measure such as
the MeNary-Hausen bill, Is rejected by the president
The only concrete measure the president proposes
for agriculture that the cotton rasers reduce the
land they plant by one-thlrd.
There could be more striking fact to show that
the capitalist program has nothing to offer the
farmer than that the farmers are told to produce
less wealth to solve their problem Of securing
livelihood under capitalism.
No Measures Against the Trusts.
The Industries Of this country are more and more
being concentrated 10 the hands Of great eomblna-
lions Of capitalists. The great corporations and
trusts have absolute power over the lives and we'll
being Of the workers and farmers.
These great Industrial organizations pile up
greater and greater profIts-profts which come out
Of the workers and farmers and which are made
at the expense Of their health, happiness and we'll
being.
The presidents message contains not one word
about the control Of these great corporations and
their unlimited power over tho life, liberty and hap
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
Many Appointments.

WASHINGTON, Dec. president
Coolidge transmitted to the senate a
batch OF several thousand nominations
for federal Offices, nearly all of which
were recess appointments made since
the senate adjourned last July.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

plness OF the workers and farmers Of this country
Thus Coolidge gives approval Of the capitalists pro-
gram OF making the workers and farmers the slaves
OF these great combinations Of wealth. The govern
ment Is the agency to strengthen them and aid them
In making great profits for the capitalists not the
instrument thru which these Industrial orsanIza-
lions can be made the Of service to those who
produce weaIth-the workers and farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
Job Gone, Family in
Starvation, Indianan
Is Forced to Steal

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. 6.-steve
Callmer, AZ, was arrested for stealing
two turkeys from the farm of ]. D.
Oliver, pillow manufacturer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

THE president acknowledges the crisis In aqr.
culture which has resulted In the bankruptcy OF
millions Of the farmers driven other millions from
the land, and because Of which the great nass Of
the poorer farmers cannot get even the bare neees
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09

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Organize to Fight the Capitalist

The presidents message shows once more that
the existing government Is a government for
the capitalists and against the workers and farm
era.
II is a call to the workers and farmers to organ
ze for Independent political action and to carry on
a struggle for Workers and Farmers government
to replace the capitalist government.
u shows that the workers and farmers cannot
hope to secure higher standard Of life as a result
OF the tremendous Increase In the wealth they pro-
duoe thru their labor long as the government re-
mains In control Of the capitalists and all Its pow
or 10 used against them.
Build Labor Party.
He formation Of labor party which, In alliance
with tho farmers, will fight for the political In
terests Of tho workers and farmers 10 tho answer
The Wrangell sentinel., 1926-11-18
CONSUMERS DEMAND IN
 U. S. KEEPS GROWING

WASHINGTON, D. C-The rec ord production in the United States industrials reported for 1926 was higher each month than in 1924 or 1925, says the federal reserve board. Consumers demand also keeps grow ing The exceptional activity i- at tributed to the British coal strike and cheaper cotton and wool In- dustria1 production in the United States is at a record high level it was reported yesterday by the Fed eral Reserve Board The volume of activity has been higher every month this year than in either 1924 or 1925. Moreover, the Board said that statistics showed consumers were maintaining the demand for the record production, with the pur- chasing power of industrial workers and farmers alike being continuous ly higher than last year The rise of production to new high level in September was attributed to ex- ceptional activity for this season of the year in bituminous coal mining and to ta recent marked increase in the manufacture of cotton and wool textiles.