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Fruits Of the setrayaI.

When the general strike was called
off. the printers found themselves fac.
ed with concerted offensive of the
employers to break their union; they
were given their jobs only by signing
individual contracts. With complete
unanimity and solidarity the workers
refused to return, and for five more
days they kept the capitalist press
completely silenced except for the few
little miserable sheets that the black
legs could produce.
TT would have seemed that even the
4 poorest leaders, with such solid
body of workers behind them, could
have at least gotten the men back to
work without serious losses But so
great was the panic created among the
union officials by the policy of sur
render Of the general council, that the
printing unions on May II, signed an
agreement With the employers, which
most shamefully conceded some OF the
most important gains made by the
printers in years of struggle.
This agreement conceded seniority
rights in the shops to blacklegs who
worked during the strike; abandoned
the right of the workers to meet dur
ing working hours; abandoned all I'M
ion control of ALLEGATION of work; and
agreed not to participate in any gen.
eral or sympathetic strike in the flu
ture.
The role of the government in this
offensive against the printers, is
clearly exposed in the order issued at
Fl. M. Stationery Office, the printing
establishment of the government.
This order says;
ANY unionist who returns to
work must recognize that for the
future this is not a Society house,
and he or she may be working
alongside nonunionists."
OF course the printers have not been
~ passive under this assault and the
betrayal of their leaders. Fierce and
'protracted struggles have taken place,
pdl btSulolAy III lAAC hCWoP0PNA Pi6hbo3
and especially in Glasgow. But due
to the failure of leadership, these
struggles have been isolated and split
up, and tho they have mitigated the
depth of the defeat and preserved the
unions, they could not overcome the
betrayal.
The printers have been additionally
conservative in all countries, and no
where more so than in England. But
in this general strike they have shown
wonderful fighting abilities, great dis
cipline and loyalty, and have obtained
experience that will doubtless awaken
and develop a RESPONSIVENESS
hitherto unknown among them. This
will be of measureless value in the
next great struggle that will inevitab-
ly come. And in the meantime the
printers of the world, and all other
workers. should study the deeds and
achievements of the British printers
in the great general. strike.
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In all the world no social democracy
S so closely bound up with its own"
government as is the, Hungarian. In
duly executed contract containing
many paragraphs and much iuridical
inesse it sold out the Hungarian pro-
letariat to the Bethlen government.
"BethIen Pact"
When this notorious "Bethlen pact"
Of the social democrats became known
it gave the impetus to the eonsolida-
ton of the illegal Communist move
ment. to the splitting away of the
left wing of the social democracy, and
to the founding of the socialist labor
party Of Hungary.
These two points, on the one hand
the Communist movement getting its
foothOld, and on the other the founda-
ton of left social democratic labor
party, furnish the foundation of this
new trial. The So workers who will
now stand before the bar of Justice"
really fall into two groups.
The first is the ommunists-Rakosi
and his comrades, who, with tenacious
detail work and heroic disregard for
death, worked away at the building
up of the illegal Communist Party.
The other group is a left social dem
ocratic one-Vagi and his comrades.
who severed connections with social
democracy on the publication of the
"Bethlen pact" in order to found a
new left socialist party on the basis
Of the straight Marxist class strug-
gle."
The Rakosi Group.
The Rakosi group appears at the
bar as the standard bearer of the Com
munist International, as the perpe-
tuater of the great revolutionary ira
ditions of the first Hungarian Soviet
Republic, as the subterranean advance
guard of the new Hungarian reyolu-
ton.
The Vagi group was dragged before
the counter-revolutionary court as a
group of honest workers practically
without exception they are good trade
unionists) that applied for entrance TO
The second international at Marseilles,
and has not yet found the road TO
Communism but that could no longer
stomach the traitorous, counter-revo-
lutionary policy of official Hungarian
social democracy.
The indictment of the counter,revo.
lutionary tribunal seeks to intertwine
these two groups with one another.
The charges maintain that the social
list labor party Is only the legal cloak
FOR the Illegal Communist Party. As
proof Of this, the fact that certain
Communists worked in the organiza.
ton of the left socialist party. Just
as they do In the trade unions and IN
The organization ut the Official social
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31
BY EARL r. BRowDER.

TN many things the great British
strike presented the international
labor movement with new phenomena
to study Not the least important is
the role of the printers and the CAPT
talist press. On this question the
British strike is rich in experience.
A brief survey of the outstanding
facts will furnish a basis for some of
the lessons that must be learned.
Lying Capitalist Press SIIenced.
For the first time in history the en-
tire press of a great capitalist nation
was completely silenced. This is, even
alone, an occurrence of great moment
bound to produce great changes in the
minds of the workers. In a highly
industrial country the press, next to
the basic factors of transport, coal,
and metal, plays mighty role, espec-
tally during social struggles.
At one blow the bourgeoisie OF Brit
ain found this weapon struck from
their hands by the inclusion of the
printers in the first call for the gen.
eral strike. This decision of the T..
u. c. general council was doubtless
forced by pressure from below, by the
general hatred of the workers against
this lying press. and by the action Of
the printers even before the strike
was officially called initiating action
that closed down several London dali
les, including the Daily Mail.
Printers Begin Great Battle.
fact, the printers were the first
ter the miners, to engage in the
t struggle. Baldwin used their ac-
IN in closing down the Daily Mail
as one of his reasons for closing the
negotiations on Sunday night, May 2,
when the first attempts of Thomas &
Co. to surrender the strike were not
successful.
This, and other preliminary Skin
mishes which reflected the militant
spirit prevailing thruout the labor
movement, were reported in another
capitalist paper, as follows:
Members of the National Soci-
ETY. of Operative Printers and Assis-
tants at Carmelite House took ex-
ception to the leading article which
had been prepared for publication in
the Daily Mail of today, under the
heading For King and Country"
and they demanded that alterations
should be made by the editor, who
refused to comply. They were sup
ported by the machine managers,
the stereotypers, and the packers"
"The National Society of Operat-
i've Printers and Assistants and the
unions supporting them ceased work,
and consequently there will be no
issue of the Daily Mail from Car
melite House this morning" (The
Morning Post, May 81.
THE principal editions of the Eve
ming News and of the Evening
Standard also failed to appear on May
3, and the late editions of the Star
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The Printers and the General Strike

A S the scope of this article is to
L deal with the role Of the printers
in the strike, the very interesting
questions of the editorial policies of
the British Gazette and the British
Worker must be referred to another
time. 1t was not the fault of the
printers if the British Worker was a
milk-and-water sheet that did its best
to dampen the ardour of the strik-
ers; the printers supported the strike
beyond all expectations. Nowhere is
there any record of union printers 60
ing back to work until the strike was
called off by the leaders.
How Strikebreakers Were Recruited
The story of how strikebreakers
were modified in sufficient numbers
to print the British Gazette has been
told in the columns of the Morning
Post, in whose plant it was printed
1t is an instructive and amusing tale.
Let the blacklegs tell it in their own
words, in the following excerpt Morn
ing Post, May IA, and May 10:
Such sight was never seen be-
fore. Underwriters, art and music
critics, reporters, sub-editors, finan-
cial experts, - every able-bodied
man, Of whatever rank or station,
was recruited for the occasion, and
all responded to the call with a
frolic welcome"
'The machines were late in start
ing. There was an accident in the
foundry. A mould was broken; it
took nearly two hours to clear away
the spIashed metal so that the auto
plate would work again
"a night of toll and inefable
WEAKNESS for all engaged. ...
''In one case the steel dogs which
should have lain fiat were left up
when the cylinder began to turn.
If it had gone full circle, however
slowly, the sharp teeth of the dogs
would have torn the machinery to
pieces. BY the breadth of a hair
short of disaster it stopped :.
1T was a nightmare night. Ev-
erything seemed to be going wrong.
The paper, threaded between and
under and over scores of rollers
with slow painful effort, would run
little and then strain and burst
with a crack like a falling tree;
endless delays, endless stoppages,
endless watching, endless noise,
whistlings, shoutings-a blessed in
terval of beer and sandwiches-and
at it again, hurricane, a tornado of
blasting, yelling machinery :"
IVES, it seems that even for a "frol-
l. ic," these bourgeois lackeys did
not enjoy a night of the nightmare"
of a workers task. And they were
so hopelessly incompetent as workers
that the only factor which finally got
the British Gazette out at all was the
body of superintendent and foremen
gathered from all the other daily pa
per plants in LonGon-a motely array
of traitors who had long since sold
themselves body and soul to the bour-
oeOiSip
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were stopped, due to the attacks
against the trade unions that were to
appear in them. In the case of the.
News, the offending article was a re-
production of the Daily Nails leader
entitled For King and Country"
which had caused the first strike.
The Standard was stopped because
the editor refused to remove an ar
ticle entitled, Recruiting Scenes in
Whitehall" The Star was stopped on
account of publishing the govern
ment's call for volunteers to break the
impending general strike. (See Morn
ing Post, May 4, the last regular edi-
ton until the strike was ended.
The British Gazette and the British
Worker.
ONE of the stupid acts that disclos-
" ed the defeatist attitude of the
T. U. c. general council was its de-
cision to include the Labor Press in
the general stoppage. It has never
been disclosed by what sophistical
reasoning they justified this act. The
government, however, gathered enuf
middle-class strikebreakers (as would
have been foreseen if serious plans
had been made for the strike by the
general counciD sufficient to produce
its emergency journal, the British
Gazette, which appeared on May s..
The general council found itself in
the ridiculous position of voluntarily
stopping its own voice thru which it
must speak to the millions of work
ers, while the government, which was
not hampered by sentimental scrup-
les, produced its scab sheet.
TT is impossible to judge definitely
L whether even then the general
council was prepared to change its
attitude and publish a journal for the
workers, but pressure was coming
from the mass of the trade unionists.
So finally on May 6, the British
Worker appeared.
A very instructive revelation Of how
the ordinary members of the unions
were pushing luSiI l6du6lo On w al u
was unconsciously made by Hamilton
Fyfe, the reformist editor of the Daily
Herald, in his incredibly stupid
pamphlet on the strike. He relates
with indignation and curses how a
young worker got him out Of bed at
the unholy and undignified hour Of
seven in the morning, after having
spent two hours looking for him and
awakening many of his friends, to tell
him about the appearance of the Brit
ish Gazette and to demand that the
general council should issue a labor
paper to counterfeit its provocative
and poisonous propaganda
The extreme heat with which Fyfe
abuses this Jealous worker, arouses
something more than a suspicion that
no paper was intended by the gem
eral council even then, but was forced
by such pressure from the member
ship; surely he would not have writ
ten his anger into big book only be
cause he lost few hours of his beau
~ SIapnf -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31
Echoes of the British General Strike

An ounce of action is worth a ton of declarations.
activity of the British Communists during the general
convinced the Lney divisional labor party that they
well by words that their
general constructive and not desruc
tive the reactionaries represent it.
agenda for the annual meeting the above section of
recommendation from the executive
committee the utilization of the Communist Party be refused
Laney party adhere the Liverpool decision barring
the Communists
the time the agenda made and the meeting
was held place and when the
brs the Communists conducted them
selves they withdrew the anCOmmun recommendation and
were unanimously sustained by the conference
In elections that followed Communist made vice
chairman others elected to the executive
The reacOnares the British labor have already
failed in their attempt isolate the Communists
American prototypes will be equally unsuccessful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31
Can Spend Only $18
from $18 Wage, Says
Melancholia Grocer

INDIANA, Pa, July 29.-FP)-A
travelling salesman asked an Indiana
merchant why business was so bad;
why goods did not sell. The mer-
chants answer appears in II Patricia,
local Italian paper, as follows:
well, I'll let you figure II out. The
Bethlehem Mines corporation pays its
miners 40 cents an hour. The av-
arage working day for the miners is
seven and a half hours. A day OF
seven and a half hours, at 40 cents an
hour. means $500 in wages. A week
Of six days gives the miner s1S a
week. How much can miner buy
with such wages, besides meeting his
light bills, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31
Wind and WindbagS

Senator Borah not the first to get into trouble because
Of healthy pair lungs He delivered speech for the antsaloon
league Georgia recently Now the Pennsylvania democrats
appealing him the and stump for William B. Will
and democrat But Wilson is also for the world court and
league Borah unless he plays the
role of 'rhind let lOose?"
Another individual who got into trouble because OF his honest
anpahy sush funds the editor of the Locomotive
Engineers Journal He editorial support Wilson, not know
ing that the gentleman operator of scab mines But then
Warren Stone late head of the Engineers UniOn
of mines So perhaps that not such serious matter
reformers most about issues
beef sauerraut Of the workers. but
ideals like the furnishing Of fig leaves to the natives Of Central
Africa OF christianity to the Chinese
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Maritime Labor Herald
Suspends Publication

GLACE BAY, Nova scotia-(FP)-
July 29.-The Maritime Labor Her.
aid, focus for many years of the mill
tant miners of Nova Scotia, is forced
to suspend publication until better
times. In a statement published in
its farewell issue the Herald says:
This paper during its entire life
was surrounded by those who sought
to destroy It. We would advise these
foes not to be too jubilant over the
fate that has overtaken the Maritime
Labor Herald.
TITS not dead, but suspended until
such time as the workers Of this prov.
ince have learned the lesson OF the
need Of live incorporating work.
ing class paper and are willing TO pay
the price TO keep IL going" Nt
sssa@-sssa-aaaaaaaaa@aa
SEND IN A SlIBl
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EXTRA
COOLIDGE DENOUNCES
THE PRESIDENT!

(From the New York TImes.)
g. Coolidge dictated the fol-
lowing statement:
1.-THE President has made no state
ment and authorized no interview con
corning our foreign debts or trade
agreements"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31

Did Frank McErlane have drink in the detective bureau
question causing considerable discussion
when he reached the jail 1t be admit
hurry He should have patronized his
neighborhood drug
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31
WITH THE STAFF
Being Things From Here and
There Which Have Inspired
Us to Folly or Frenzy
Christus a He-Man
Wherein the Son Of God Visits
Hollywood, Refuses to Sup
press His Emotions and
Meets q White MUJe)


"Jesus Christ was not nInoomr
poop and would not interpret him
as SUCH" declares William Favers-
ham, veteran actor, fired by the Hol-
Iywood movie directors because he
was 'too ViriIe" In his portrayal OF
the role of "christus" In Americas
Passion Play"
"The Passion Play managers ask
ed for a meek man, a gentle, retlrA
Ing man Of sorrows, but Jesus was
physically a giant as we'll as mental.
ly. He braVed the hardships Of out
door life and liked the deserts."
The actor stroked his Jaw reflec-
lively and coaitated upon the Mexl-
can heglra of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson. Then he erupted once
more:
"Above all Christ was disnlfied
man. At one place In the drama
was to ride donkey. The directors
couldn't find a donkey, so they OBJ
tanned a white mule. Yes, sir,
white mule. That mule was so mean
he kicked when mounted him and
it took two men to hold him while
got on. A bucking mule, fighting
two men, while I, In the role Of the
Savior, tried to ride him like a cow
boy. Picture such a spectacIeI"
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Deep Dig at Charlie.

"Since the retirement of Charles
E. Hughes as Secretary of State,
Mr.. Coolidge has a more direct
and intimate part in foreign af-
fairs anonymous officials
unofficial statement from Mr.. Coo
lidge's summer home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31

Are the capitalist propaganda sheets
You will this question in the columns inspired
euoges Of Premier onCare Of France Poncare the best be
of the international fnancer their literary hacks sing his
praises
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MUssLoMANIA

A foreigner toOS admh'jtg the
Arch of Titus in Rome one day,
lohen man started to pass under
it. A ship could haze passed tOtth-
out difficulty, bat this man stoop-
ed I01C.
." who's that idiOt?" the for
eigner said to q native.
"Undoubtedty, signor," the ma
the ans,Oered, "thGt is MWssoIini."
From Chicago NesOs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-31

A Caustic Critic Said We Should
Put This in Nov You Tell One"
-LikeII We Will, LikelI!
THE CLUBHOUSE FABLES"
AND with THE STAFF" ARE
TWO COLUMNS TO BE PROUD
OF. - LAWRENCE FENNER
EVANSTON, ILL.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-10-21
THE STORY

CHAPTER with her baby sis
ter, Patience, Lydia returns from
play to the untidy home of her I'M
poverished father, Amos Dudley, at
Lake City. Her fathers friend, and
her own devoted admirerL John Lee
Vine, after discussing affairs with
Dudley, makes up his mind to go
into politics.
CHAPTER IL.-Lydis, Patience
and a companion, Kent Moulton,
playing by the lake, are accosted
by an old squaw from the nearby
reservation. Lydia gives her food.
Margery, small daughter of Dave
Marshall, the towns banker, joins
them. In their play Margery falls
into the water. She is pulled out,
unhurt but frightened, and taken
home by Lydia and Kent. Her ia
ther calls on Amos to complain,
blaming Lydia for the mishap.
CHAPTER III.-Lydia explains
the accident and asserts that be-
cause Margery is considered stuck
up" she is not a popular playmate.
Marshall arranges for Lydia to
teach Margery to swim and other
wise become "on of the crowd"
Levine tells Amos his plan to taxi
timber from the Indian reservation
settlement.
CHAPTER ". Patience sue
oumbs to an attack of diphtheria,
leaving Lydia feeling that her trust
in God is lost and her small world
has collapsed. She finds comfort in
the loving kindness of John Lee
vine. Lydia learns that a note of
backed by Levine and held
by Marshall, Is due and cannot be
met. The child pleads with Mar
shall, and for her SAX he agrees to
renew the note.
CHAPTER V.-Grieving for the
loss of little Patience, Lydis's health
fails. Levine, understanding the
gives her a pup, which
the lonely child takes TO her heart.
the age of fifteen, Lydia
enters high school, where she at
once realizes that her homemade
frOck and general appearance OF
set her apart from her bet
companions.
CHAPTER VI.-LeYine 10 elected
A sixteen-year-oid Indian
boy, Charlie Jackson, tells Lydia OF
n done his people,
by Marshall and Levine.
Lydia defends her friend vigorous
y. Meeting Levine in Lydia's house,
Jackson threatens and en-
to attack him.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1926-10-21

sembled in Tanners Hall witness
led the drawing and without ex-
ception it met with the approval
Of everyone. Miss Agnes Nc
Hugh, blindfolded, drew twelve
numbers from a churn containing
all of the numbers sold. For each
number drawn the churn was
turned and the numbers were
handed to the judges, A. G. Coul-
|ston of Bainville, and Lars Salve-
void of Froid, and were then
placed on a wheel made for the
purpose. When all of the twelve
numbers had been placed the
wheel was revolved at high speed
and the marker finally settled on
the winning number, sos. The
other eleven to get ON the the
wheel were: 822 NJ. Palitz; IL E..
C. Waldow, Culbertson; 800 James
Macy, C~ulbertson; 524 P. Hell
met, Bainville; 625 l. L. Brooks.
C%ulbertson; 458 S. Cobben, Froid;
613 AL Herstrom, Poplar; 896
Geo. Compton, Gulbertson; sos
Shuman, Wolf Point; 938l
R. J.. Lally, Great Falls; 81 Chas.
Lanark.
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You don't mean 10 say
gou'De inDited people here
at seDen-thirty?'

If you will not get US a tree. | will
buy one.
You may buy it," H. Hedge in
formed her. but it Will not enter the
house
Il canno brlns my tree into
the house?"
NO"
Why. we have always had d tree
right in this very room! You can't
have Christmas without one
You can have the 25th of Decem
Der without it. at any rate" an.
swerrd the efficiency man THAT is
What we win have-the 25th of De
cember"
"Why--even the poor have trees
Sure. were entitled to one
added Billy with fine irony
mo tree
Just a little one" pleaded Alice.
No"
why even the have a
tree
y they? I'm glad you mentioned
it, said Hedge. making a mrmoran
dun. the sinister character of which
the Grookes understood.
This is the very last straw cried
Constance.
We'll. 1t shows which way the
blows returned the efficiency
nan brutally
lie wantsd ena me argument.
and he slcce iaF~n Brookes,