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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
The Farmer--As He Is

organizing a new party, from being
anything but regular, dyed-in-the-wool
capitalists, and his teaching was at
the beginning: Don't try to scare
the farmers by organizing new parties,
1t can't be done. Steal their party
and make it do what we farmers want
to be done" Time and time again
their organizers reiterated that prin-
ciple.
Again here was an aggressive, new
ly built, up-to-date party, teaching
farmers that they could gain their
ends and still not disturb these divi-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, pyramid
ed upon their backs and ever becom-
ing heavier.
And the Non-Partisan league wasted
tons Of ink and carloads Of paper de-
Tending their loyalty and urging 9TH
ers to buy Liberty bonds and so forth,
and again and again defended their
loyalty to this present capitalist re-
gfme
1t must not be understood, however,
that It was mossy-foot organization.
They DID start out with a state So
cfalist program They did get as far
as erecting a state mill and elevator.
They did force state hail insurance.
They did establish a state bank, and
several minor functions. They did
stay with the republican party. They
did endorse Coolidge by their state.
campaign committee of the republi-
can party which they controlled four
to one, or state central committee
/, properly speaking. They have this
year degenerated into endorsing the
whole state republican ticket, altho
half of them are /. v. A.'s-old guard
republicans. And this same republi-
can administration which they elected
two years ago is now sabotaging their
mills and elevators at every turn.
The governor whom they elected
says there is no cause for any dis
agreement between the farmers and
the business interests. Everything is
now harmonious, and any intelligent
person knows what that means. The
same administration has also curtailed
the functions of their state bank until
it is now merely a farm-loan bank
Altho the purpose when established
was to make it a general bank and
establish branches in every county.
Such is capitalism in the United
States.
You tell me, dear reader, If the pro-
Queer can beat its game of surplus
pyramiding upon the farmers backs?
And the fundamental teaching of the
Non-Partisan League was that
farmer could still be under that load
and win. That was its fatal defect,
and that's why it's where it is to-day,
an asset to capitalist politicians, like
Governor Sorlie.
Another article by William Bouck
will appear in next weeks New
Magazine,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
A DOZEN IN BRIEF

Breaking Chains-A Russian made
movie masterpiece to be shown at
the Douglas Park Auditorium Fri
day, December 3.
The Black Pirate-Fairbanks, the
gymnastic pirate.
Eagle Of the sea-Piracy not 10
gymnastic.
Don Juan = Barrymore bares his
passion. It's bearable. With the
Vitaphone (McVicker's).
The Strong Mana fairly. good
comic.
The Better 'oie-Syd Chaplin makes
warfare a laughing matter. With
the second Vitaphone performance
(Woods, Dec. y.
Variety-One of the best ever made.
London-Should have stayed there.
Subway Sadie-The kids clever (Tf-
void
Men of Steel-Molasses
Slums Of BerIin-Slumgullion.
Passaie strike-A striking picture.
Don't miss It.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
BY MARGARET JOHNSON
Ashland, Wis.

Jaw, c'mon and sing before go to
bed, won't you, mother?' Rosie Red
asked.
mo. Rosie. I'll tell you a story in
stead" her mother answered.
Ibid you notice our homely cat
doesn't look so nice because she hasn't
time to wash her face? The beautiful
cat makes the other cat get all the
food for her--all the rats and mice
and everything.
''The homely cat is so humble, she
just works and works for the lazy cat
and the lazy cat is so fat--and the
homely cat Is thin and hungry all the
time.
NOW. that's tho same way with the
capitalists and the workers. Tho
workers don't know enough yet--but
when they learn and organize-there
will be different story TO tell"
Now Rosie. you'd better get TO bed.
Johnny is sleeping already and prob
ably dreaming about bosses and other
pirates"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
A NEW THEATER IN Nav YORK

- NEW ltNEN TN NV WIN
Like the DOG Bites Man" story,
the Inauguration of new theater In
New York is not news. But a new
theater has been inaugurated In New
York-in America. And it is news.
1t is not commercial theater. 1t
is not an Fart" theater. 1t is not a
little" theater. II is something more
vital than any Of these. 1t is q
workers theater. The first true
workers theater on this side Of the
Atlantic. 1t Is called lat presently
The Workers Drama League.
America, thank god, has no Gordon
Craig to tell 1t its need for a national
theater. America had no Roman Roll
land to tell it its need for peoples"
theater. But America has workers.
And these workers found the need of
a theater to link their struggle in
shop and field and mine.
| say this is true workers thea
ter, because theaters or rather dra-
matte societies in the past and even in
the present were and are doing
shows" for workers. Shows which
generally depict the virtues of the
poor and lowly workingman. The pro-
letarian artist has gotten rid OF the
paper-cap working man. The prole-
tartan theater must get rid OF the sen
timental weaver. The workingman in
the arts. like in the economic field
must become conscious power.
predict the day when there will be
not one, but hundred workers
theaters in America. The theater
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
THE THEATER

must become the vital power that It
is in Russia. For the theater is the
greatest power in which to express the
emotions of the workers.
What has the worker to gain from
the present commercial or art theater?
In one he sees a false presentation of
life: the poor mechanic finally
reaches success and marries the
boss daughter.
The other theater is too cerebral,
highbrow, as he calls It. And he calls
1t 30 justly. What has the worker to
do with one suffering from an exagger-
ated weltschmertz7 The other thea
tiers that are left to him are the
vaudeville and burlesque shows which
act like an opiate upon him.
Yes! 1 say the workers OF America
have need of workers theater. The
workers OF America need hundreds OF
workers theaters. But this is only a
start. A small but very significant
start in the forming the country over
Of American proletcult theaters.
May this theater. The Workers
Drama League, be supported by those
for whom 1t was conceived.
MAX Geltman.
Note; The first production OF the
Workers Drama League will be 1.-THE
Biggest Boob in the World" A play
by a young German Communist, Karl
Wlttfogell. The play has been trans
lated into English by Upton Sinclair.
II will be shown on the evenings of
Dec. 4, 8 and 10 at the Church Of All
Nations, Second Ave. N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
A PEEK EACH WEEK
AT MOTION PICTURES
HTHE TEMPTREss"

Greta Carlo, Antonio Moreno and
first rate director have made a sue
cess Of this picture despite Blasco
Ibanez. The sins of the story (and it's
a story of sins) are many. So many
In fact, that the whole business is
hardly worth recounting. If you have
read any Blasco Ibanez drivel, you
are acquainted with the theme:
story of "unrestrained passion" a
beautiful woman who plays hell with
the lives of more than one man, whose
nature "gOd given or by the deviP'
(that stuff still goes!) is such that
she drives men to passion of some
hundreds degrees Fahrenheit. In adj
dition to the high temperature of the
story, the plot moves fast tho In
devious ways. That's what that is.
Greta Carlo is something else
again. This beautiful woman is also
an actress. Tho only in her second
American picture she seems sure of
gold-lined future. Antonio Moreno
is fully as deserving. He gives
characterization, which like that Of
Greta CARLOS, helps to get conviction
despite the unconvincing hokum of
the plot.
Lionel Barrymore is also in the cast
AS are one or two other movie not
ables. The supporting cast is one that
lifts the whole production far above
the average The direction is a first
rate job. The picture as a whole has
both brains and bank-account and all
the resources of motion pictures.
Given an honest story to tell, we
would have had something very much
more worthy.
Motion picture art has made no pro-
gress with the making of this film
But motion picture profits are sure
to be swollen. "The Temptress'' with
its many worthwhile features, plus
the highly-headed hokum should prove
a first-rate box Office attraction. 1t
has color, movement, adventure and
passion-glorifed with a mention or
two of God himself and some beauti-
full photography. All the great ad-
vances of the motion picture are In
cluded in "The Temptress."
The picture Showing at the Roose-
velt) is well worth seeing. It Is not
one of the truly good pictures. But
in comparison with the great major
ity of the super-heated holy halleluja
we are usually asked to swallow, and
uneonyincing as is "The Temptress,"
you will find it entertainment worth
the modest price of admission.
W.. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
ARTICLE II
BY WILLIAM 5oUck

Now let us take glance at the
farmers efforts to organize.
First he was herded into an organ
lzation by officers Of the agricultural
department in Washington. This af-
terward grew, and was called the
Grange. Its cooperative efforts avail
ed for several years. Then under the
exploiting policy of this country these
farmers fell victims to their own ig-
norance, viz, that producer could
live and prosper under a system which
pyramided all his vast surplus which
his poor marketing conditions gave to
the other fellow upon his shoulders,
as dividends and rent and interest
which he had to pay the other fellow
for taking it away from him.
Then came other organizations, all
with the same holy belief in the sane
tity of American exploiting methods,
and they with the Grange have passed
into that state which means no re-
turn.
Then in the early SOS Of the last
century an organization, more vfrile
and more aggressive, came about on
the western plains called the Farmers
Alliance, which afterward merged in
to the POpulist party. It had q pro-
gram and an aggressive policy. II
succeeded In eIecting numerous sena-
tors and congressman, carried several
states and governed them for several
years. But instead Of going on clearly
to workers government it became
befogged with success and quick
achievement and Fused" with the
aristocratic democratic party In 1896
and lost what independent policy it
had. 1t too became a memory.
Not, however, until it had left as a
legacy in several western states the
principle Of direct legislation, which
is the direct outgrowth of populist
teachings, and has In one way and
another got into the constitutions of
many of our states.
Passed away! Yes, it did not see
the condition, or its cause clearly and
made no great effort to fundamentally
change the basic law Of our country
from a capitalist character to a Co
operative commonwealth OF which it
talked a great deal.
Yet the Peoples Party was a real
effort Of American farmers to take con-
troll of government for the producers.
Then about 1914-15, the North Da-
kota farmers led by A. C. Townley,
Lemke and others came back with a
new and aggressive force in the repub-
Iican party-for let it be known the
Non-Partisan League was not an indie
pendent economic organization. It
was an effort to capture the repub-
lican party by one faction-and did for
the time succeed in doing so with the
North Dakota republican party.
Mr.. Townley's whole program was
to keep away from being radical, from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
HEY-WHATS
THIS?

HEY-WHATS
THIS?
BY Johnny Afiard,
San Diego, Cal.
He W erks and
works to be AT
heck,
He simply loves his
boss.
He's solid above his
neck,
To Labor he's a
loss.
He 5 n ! { c n eG on
others,
He's got a big CAB,
lie hates his broth
ers,
He's n dirty 49,. 2
T hat IS good,
Johnny - welcome
TO the TIN Y
WORKER. Come
again and oftenl
HEY TINY REDSi
We arn't telling
exactly what II Is.
But we have some
thing scrumptious
for next week. oh,
Boy-you sure viii
like ~. It's the
berriesl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
WHO'S NEXT?

Johnny Red is
still waiting for a
batch OF good stuff
from any group OF
young PIONEERS.
II they send in
enough at one time
we win print a
S Il r. & IA L EDI-
TON OF THE
TINY WORKER
FOR THEM. Are
you ready7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-27
A FUNNYBIRD
No. IT

A FUNNYBIRD
BY Rose Kaminsky
Cleveland, o.
/ hate the bird
Who hates the Red
He has a head
That's almost dead.
He sure has
Rose! Here's an
other FUNNYBIRD
that's sent in by
ALEC BOYD
Tuscan. Arizona.
DON'T MISS 1T!
A FUNNYBIRD is
Peggy links.
She never reads
and never thinksl
New Britain herald., 1926-01-29
BLOC SYSTEM OF
 GOVT. CONDEMNED
E!ihu Root Brands It as Very
 Corrupt

New York. Jan. c9.-The bloc .ysfem Of goyrrnm"nt, Elihu Roo, spcaking yesterday at a meeting CT he National Civic Federation. said it. was imperative for the welfare of the United States that it return to the good olI Fashioned" forms Of party orraulrtion. II" asserted hat the rloc system has proved a failure in ,lery country where It had been tried, e41Slug Iiscontent and disruption.
 "The bloc y2>rm was enforced during the mos' corrupt and dis -racsul p,Iiod in Engiand's his tory" said Mir. Root, Tt has made inc govorumcn' of Trance virtually IeIpl.ss h"caus" no salesman there -au ris, 70 speak on public policy 4nI lo ,ur, 'h, h'oc system will pot pull hle char from unier him be lore h. ~t. dJ'n. In Italy The blocs SD li,rW'.d 'no theory of go}- - rrnm"u that Nua,olrnL with his stern auI rigtJ dictatorship. was heartily wotrumsI. assure you Ina. bloc rnlr win re}cr obtain for us ,ucorc"m,ut ol tno will Of the ma ori'y."
 AIyorut,ng 'uc return in his country 70 a strict party form Of -o,ornm'n., Mr. Eoot sail. "Wc e2,c run into r.r,oi ot go,eru- m,H', 'rb.n mn}iIuals s.'m 70 ally .h"msrl'"s 70 a party Tor no other purpg-r. 'hau 10 g,t elected. They f-al no ohliralon to e'onI hy th" principles ol h. party in whose nam" thy are elected or Q back up their as-ocia .s in shat party"
New Britain herald., 1926-01-29
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Colombia Learns
Lesson from Mexico

BoGOTA, Aug. 8. -FP)-Amer-
lean and other foreign Of corporations
doing business in Colombia must sign
a declaration that they will not seek
or accept diplomatic Intervention
when engaged in any dispute which
may be taken to the Colombian courts,
according to decree Just issued by
the government.
This is a duplicate Of the Mexican
regulation, barring appeals by Amer
lean oil companies to the Washington
government, which Washington has
repeatedly declared to be void. The
state department, IN the case of Mex
leo, holds that It can intervene to pro
tect the rights Of American oil COM
pantes abroad, regardless of any
waiver signed by officials OF the COM
pany. Nevertheless, both In Mexico
and Colombia the effect of the issu-
ance of the decree is TO make foreign
investors more reluctant to call on
their home governments to protect
their properties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Big Business Hits
State Interference

WASHINGTON. Aug. 6. - OPP
Taking the position that organized
business must stand together, thruout
the world, against the interference of
political governments with trade, the
American committee TO the Interna-
tional chamber Of commerce announ-
ces a strong program which It will
propose at the meeting of the Inter
national chamber at Stockholm next
June.
1t strikes against the type of legis-
lation which is designed to place the
taxation burden primarily ON foreign
consumers, and says such intrusion
of government in price-hxing or res
friction Of production of raw materials
is unfair to the dependent consuming
world"
This is interpreted as meaning that
American business will stand no more
nonsense from the British, who have
cornered raw rubber. and the Brazil
ians who sometimes corner coffee.
The committee, headed by julius
Barnes, makes its usual attack on gov
eminent ventures IN production and
trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Automobile Workers
Organization Drive
Opens in Detroit
sy ! Worker corre.pondsn,

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 6. - Local
127 Of the United Auto, Aircraft and
Vehicle Workers is now carrying on
an intense organization drive. Cir.
culars appealing to Detroit auto work
ers to join the union are being handed
out before the gates Of various auto
factories here.
Open-air meetings are being held at
which union organizers point out the
conditions under which the workers
are forced to toll and that the only
way in which they can be remedied is
thru a strong organization of all work
ers in that industry.
At the first outdoor meeting which
was held in front of the Packard plant
Union Organizer Art Rohan was well
received. At every meeting workers
are being taken into the union.
The circulars urging the workers
to join the union point out that at the
present time each worker must turn
out three automobiles in the time that
he turned out one in 1914.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Cluett and Son
Shows Generosity"
to Their Workers
BY a Worker Correspondent.

TROY, N. Y, Aug. 6. - A picnic
at the MidICity Park and then a lay
OFF are the two presents handed their
workers by the Cluett and Son collar
manufacturers here.
A committee of entertainment was
selected to arrange a picnic at the
Mid-City Park, which is located be-
tween Troy and Albany and is owned
by the traction company. Workers in
a number of departments petitioned
the committee to divide the money
that was to be spent on the affair.
among the workers and add It to the
bonus that is sometimes paid by the
company.
This the committee refused to do.
They answered that they were instruct
ed to arrange the Mid-City Park pic
mic and that they would not consider
calling It off and dividing the money
among the workers. About the same
time that this picnic was being ar
ranged a notice of three weeks sus-
pension was posted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE.


and
Watkins, eighty
living the road
learning
handp
9th rsnen
sono9
by
veUfth Rutho
"holy father VINO n
sbroher
Eu the
anxious to aetb
build a shackne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07

Open your eyesI Look around!
There are the stories Of the workers
struggles around you begging to be
WRITTEN up. Do I'll Send II inl Write
as yssI fightl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Cannery Workers Must
Live in Filthy Camps
BY a Worker corrsspondsnt

MODESTO. Cal, Aug. 6.1The can
ming season is in full swing here.
Migratory workers with their families
are crowding the camps. Some Of
them have their "fiVvers." Most of
them are hiking or making freights. .
The large Gaining plants are paying
but 35 or 40 cents an hour. The
weekly wages of an adult worker is
between $13 and SIC.
A young girl working in one of the
big canneries putting labels on boxes
told me:
"A young Lad and myself worked
from 10 o'clock in the morning until
in the evening. We made over
$500 boxes. For this we received but
1925"
Entire families are at work here
picking fruit or working in the can
ming factories. The camps are
crowded. They are dirty. Children
are forced to sleep on bare ground.
In the evening after a hard days
work the workers gather on Main
street and listen to Salvation Army
bunk. The young workers crowd the
poolrooms. At 10 o'clock dancing
starts in the poolrooms. Young girls
hire themselves out to the fellows at
rate of 10 cents dance.
Dissatisfaction is great in these
camps. Every day workers can be
seen condemning the conditions they
are forced to toll under. They are
not organized. They have no leader
ship and because of this they are
forced to submit to the dictates of the
bosses. Much work must be done in
these towns to get the workers to
unite for a fight against the class that
exploits them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
CHURCHILL IN
MOVE TO CRUSH
civil SERVANTS
Would Not Permit Any
Outside AHiliation

LONDON, August 6. Winston
Churchill, chancellor OF the exchequer,
indicated that the government was
launching a drive with view to out
law the trade unions when he an
nounced in the house Of commons that
the cabinet had come to the conc1u-
sion that it was contrary to the pub
lie interests that associations OF civil
servants should be affiliated with out
side industrial and political organiza-
tions and that the government intend
ed to put thru legislation making such
afillation illegal.
To Cut OF Civil Servants.
This means that civil service en-
p1oyes now af1liated to the Trades
Union Congress would be obliged to
sever their connections with that body
under pain of punishment thru legal
processes.
The government will permit organ
iZations OF civil service employees for
their own protection, Churchill de-
clared, but they must have no oonnec-
ton with outside bodies. Observers
consider Churchf1l's statement signif-
cant in view of his repeated asser-
lions during the general strike that
the unions should be given taste Of
the bayunet.