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FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
To the Renrhlican- Voters of Garrett

Wv w ~ L ~ ~ ~et1As
To the Republican Voters of Garrett
County:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination for the Of
flee of County Treasurer of Garrett
County, subject to your approval as
expressed at the primary election. I
stand upon my past record as my
platform, and promise if nominated
and elected to strive harder to give
more efficient service to the Office.
l earnestly solicit the support of all
Republican voters.
Very respectfully yours,
52-te* ALBERT L. LEE.
To the Republican Voters of Garrett
County, Md.
hereby announce my candidacy for
the Republican nomination for the of
flee of County Treasurer of Garrett
county, subject to your approval as
expressed at the primary election. If
nominated and elected, l will give my
time and attention to the duties Of the
office. My platform is let the other
taxpayers have chance. l earnestly
solicit the support and influence of all
Republican voters at the primary cleo
ton. Very respectfully yours,
w. M. FRAZEE.
oakland, March %, 1926
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about legislation that will put these
bureaus on business basis none
would be more pleased than the en-
ployes themselves.
CHARLES H. SHAFFER.
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Miss Ella Helbig spent part of last
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great meeting Square Garden in
New York last week. the $4,000 workers
manded the forhour 5day week for all meeting
called by the striking Furriers Union and
shades of New York labor leadership from right wing
the left leadership of the urrers All agreed only shorter
work day will solve the problem of unemployment confronting
workers in many industries today and that will
workers.
The shorter work week trade union demand de-
mand and its realization the only possible resisting
devastating of the continuous introduction aborsavng
devices Either the working week be shortened
workers otherwise displaced industry be employed
the army of unemployed will beat down wages
degree that the decline in the standard of living of the
will keep pace with the Introduction aborsaving
dustry.
The New York meeting the sentiment expressed
proof that the workers and the labor leaders of that city
not embracing the illusion that the only workers
out of industry to increase production by introducing
efficiency methods and other forms of class cooperation
the "B Pan the WasonIarker BILL swindes
1t is recognition of the fundamental that an in
crease in production under capitalism be
shortening the hours Of labor unemployment will
creased production without decreased working
in lowering labOrs resistance and general sinking living
standards.
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Help the British Miners!

Always poorly poorly clothed the British and
their families facing the powerful federation of coal backed
by the Federation of British Industries and the British government
in this strike experiencing new hardships
the capitalist press forced to admit they suffer
without complaint that miners children tell
good meals home hoping with youthful pride
necessity which stalks in every miners cottage
The miners their families engaged most i'm
pooy paid and dangerous Britain
taking the blows of the British employers and their
directed only the miners but the
and the working class.
Left fight agreement between the Baldwin
and the reform leaders the party
Trades Union Congress which will be history
of the classic examples Of echery without the
on that the labor unions had exhausted their fighting ability the
coal miners struggling for all of British
They the shock of the labor
struggle should receive every penny support that the
trade unions of the United States put their on.
defeat for the British miners will renewal
of the living standard the British working but will
miancy the capitalists everywhere continual
attempts to cripple and crush the trade unions.
Who is foolish believe that the coal
States already bu engaged wpng the Jacksonville
scale opening nonunOn properties organizing
smash the United Mine Workers when expires
learn and apply methods used by the British
the American miners the low level prevailing
coal industry?
defeat for the British miners will give greatest aid and
to the shop drive the coal industry
defeat could help but have depressing
labor and the miners particular
The situation in the British American
respects the In both the
government backing trying reorganze the industry
the the mnerby reduction driving
sands of miners of the industry American
lead the whole labor by financial
their British brothers with the certainty time
striking powerful blow the offensive against
now taking place in all capitalist countries America included
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by H. M. WICKS.

this year, to resign on November
%, 1922.
&, The Revival Of Newberryism.
XTHEN the Newberry senators-who
w have since added to their laurels
by supporting all the vicious legisla-
ton demanded by the administration
at Washington which exists openly
and brazenly for the purpose of serv-
ing the interests of Wall Street
against all the rest of the population
got into the campaign this year,
they unleashed an orgy of venality
that makes Newberry look like an
amateur.
Senator William B. Mckinley, de-
feated in the republican primaries in
Illinois, is charged with spending at
least one million dollars to keep his
slush fund going. Then last weeks
primary election in Pennsylvania
transcends anything known to history
for shameful vote-buying. 1t is
known that the candidate OF the Mel
lon-Coolidge forces spent enuf money
to hire ten workers for each voting
booth in the whole state. The amount
spent is estimated at from two to
five million dollars.
So fragrant was the Pennsylvania
vote-buying that a resolution was in
troduced in the senate to investigate
the whole question of campaign funds
for all purposes.
Administration senators tried des-
perately to block the selection of
committee to investigate the matter,
but they we're not astute enuf to Gre
ate defenses before the vote was
taken. Then the returns from Penn
sylvania that related the defeat Of
Senator Pepper-in spite of the open
support of Andrew w. Mellon, secre.
tary of the treasury and John J.
Davis, secretary of labor, as Well as
the campaigning of Senator David A.
Reed of Pennsylvania who, at Phila-
delphia, openly and almost tearfully,
pleaded for votes in the name of Coo
lidge-so bewildered the old guard
that they could not meet the con-
certed drive of the insurgent repub-
licans and democrats.
Is It Republican Disease?
Democrats seem to assume that
Newberryism is a disease confined ex-
clusively to the republicans. Not only
democrat senators, like Pat Harrison
of Tennessee, grow indignant over
Newberryism, but the democratic pa
pers harp on the same string. The
New York World, one of the staunch-
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by their historic demonstration of soil
darity.
The strike has ended in a be-
trayal. The masses. under left-wing
leadership, were able to force the
right-wing leaders to permit the strike
to take place, but they were unable
to prevent these opportunists from be-
traying it in its course and at the
conference table. Consequently the
strike was robbed of much of its mill
fancy, and its eventual betrayal
stripped the workers of the brilliant
victory they had won. Macdonald
and his right-wing associates were
prepared to accept the most fatal
compromise in order to get rid of the
hated and dreaded general strike,
which was fast bringing Great Britain
into a revolutionary situation. Like
John l.. Lewis in the coal strike of
six years ago, they refused to fight
the government" when it was exactly
the government they had to fight II
the strike were to achieve victory.
The strike will have profound conse-
quences. Glass antagonisms in Eng.
land will be sharpened. The stage
will begin to be set for an even greater
struggle than the one Just concluded.
The most intelligent elements among
the workers will not fail to learn the
lessons Of this battle, chief of which is
the necessity to rid the working class
of the 1eaderkhin ~ fha Clvnaa
Thomases and their similars. While
these are occupying key positions in
the labor movement, an effective fight
against the capitalists is impossible
The struggle for contfo4 between
the right wing and the left wing
will be intensified. The whole inter-
national labor movement, not except.
ing even that In the United States,
will feel the effects of the struggle.
The eventual result will he an intensi-
fed left development everywhere.
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in SOl Pr.sS o PE Event. SamfLN
by Dgy in olo

A MEXICAN corrupt politics has
coined a new word, word that
we will hear much of in the congress
sional election campaigns now just be-
ginning. That word is "Newberry-
ism"
1t derives its name from political
events that transpired in the state of
Michigan and in the senate chambers
at Washington, D. c., between 1917
and 1922.
In 1917 a person unknown in poll
tics, but who was extremely wealthy,
was candidate for United States sena-
tor against another very wealthy per
son who is known for his vicious
hatred Of labor as well as for popu-
lating the highways of the nation with
fiivvers. The contest occurred in the
state of Michigan. The candidates
were Henry Ford and Truman H..
Newberry.
Newberry succeeded in obtaining a
majority on the count of the ballots
thru the lavish expenditure of some
100000 (his managers admitted
$195,00O). Everything that could be
corrupted in the state of Michigan
was corrupted by the Newberry
forces with the result that he bought
his seat in the senate. A few days
after his election suit was filed charg-
ing corruption. The first week in
January, 1919, Ford filed notice of
contest with the United States senate.
In spite of the contest and the suit
Newberry was sworn in as a mem
Der of that august body on May 10,
1919. He remained there without
anyone interfering with him until
the next December when a resolution
to investigate the Michigan election
graft was filed. Meanwhile a federal
grand jury, influenced by pressure
from Ford and his friends, indicted
Newberry for violation of the corrupt
practices act. On May 20, 1920, New
berry and his associates were con-
victed and Newberry was sentenced
to the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth. Appeal was taken to the SUI
preme court, and those corporation
lackeys on this supreme bench saved
the hide of the loyal supporter of the
Harding-Daugherty administration by
reversing the decision.
The Big "Whitewash."
THIS decision was what the republi-
= can machine was waiting for. It
Immediately launched a drive to white
wash NewbeTry. No one could ques-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-27
Challenge Pennsylvania Sedition L0w

The action of the officials of Pennsylvania labor even though
lamentaby beated in launching drive against the Fynn
sedon ae meets with the hearty approval every
wants labor be free organize fight mighty power
steel and iron in the industrial bells of that
The Pittsburgh meeting which Maurer president
of the Pennsylvania State Federation representatives
other trade unions and the Civil Liberties Union
repeal Of the eon law that has exclusively against
labor and holds the threat Of imprisonment every union
organizer and spokesman for minority political opinion
be the starting point for statewide campaign that will amarize
all elements with the sinister of this measure which was
put thru the result Of wartime hysteria
Maurer hit the nail the when urging PENNSYLVANIA
labor to unite against the law he said that can
Jailed its provisions today other elements of The labor
will next be attacked. ef 8sa.
Every labor organization in the PENNSYLVANIA should
devote special attention arousng the community which func
tons in favor Of the repeal Of that other states where
SIMILAR laws upon the take similar action
"N'A'A'
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The Left Wing and the British Labor Movement

depended to unite the forces of labor
against the employing Aclass in the
great struggles that were bound to
come. 10 re
One of the outstanding features of
the vast movement, 1919-14, was the
powerful part played by the left wing.
The revolutionary militapts. were the
heart and brain of the entire struggle.
From 1914 to 1921.
The next general phase of the strug-
gle in Great Britain lasted from the
outbreak of the war until the spring
of 1921. During the war the unions
made substantial gains in member
ship. They were fed up with promises
by the employers that after the war
there would be a new Britain, in which
poverty and injustice would be no
more. But no sooner was the war
ended, and when the unions were Grip
pied by big army Of unemployment,
than the employers, under the pressure
Of a decadent capitalist system, forgot
their fair promises to the unions and
made war all along the line against the
workers. Wage cuts we're the order
of the day in every industry.
The struggle climaxed in a general
attack by the mine operators and the
government against the living stand
ards and organization of the miners
early in 1921. All England was shaken
by the struggle. The workers looked
to the Triple Allianceuas their great
weapon to defend them, from the EN-
ployers' offensive. The left wing was
ideologically and orgapjzationally I'M
prepared for the struggle. During the
war, in the shop steward movement, it
had made a militant and successful
fight. But the later movement be-
came infected with ultra-leftist con-
ceptions. such as dual unionism, non
participation in the Labor Party, ETC.,
which Lenin later SO successfully
polemized against The British Com
munist Party, heart Of the left wing
movement, was torn with factionalism.
The left wing had lost contact with
the masses and also the skill in lead
ership which Il had so brilliantly dis
played in the movements OF 1904.
With the left wing torn by dissen-
sions and weakened by ultra-leftism.
the masses OF workers, who wanted to
fight, had no militant leadership. The
situation was In the hands OF the
right wing. the McDonalds, Hodges,
Hendersons, Clynes, etc The inev.
table happened. They betrayed the
miners on the unforgettable Black
Friday. They refused to allow the
Triple Alliance to strike In support OF
the miners. The result was a great
debacle, the severest defeat ever suf-
fered by British labor. The direct
cause of II was the treachery OF the
right wing; the indirect cause. the
state OF decentralization and sectarian-
SIN prevailing among the left wing.
IN all such struggles the right wing
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ton the fact that the enormous
amount of money was spent as
charged.
A withdrawing committee" con-
sisting of Senators James E. Watson,
Seldom B. Spencer, Walter E. Edge,
republicans, and Atlee Pomerene and
Henry F. Ashurst, democrats, was Sc
lected, The republicans devoted their
talents to suppressing all information
that would expose the guilt of New
berry. So indefensible was the crime
of Newberry that he dared not even
submit the statements of his accounts
to the committee, so it was convent
emily arranged that all the files of let
ters and checks be '1ost or stolen"
The Harding Daugherty "Ohio
gang" at that time dripping with oil
and political Doodle from, head to foot,
seated Newberry in the senate on an
amendment offered by Senator Frank
B. Willis Of Ohio, Cup for reelection
this year, admitting the guilt of New
berry and in Substance, as recently
expressed by Senator James A. Reed,
declaring that "Newberry having OBJ
tanned his election by processes de-
structive Of this republic, therefore,
be it resolved that he be given a seat
in the senate for six years"
5orah Was Indignant.
This first example of "Newberry-
ism" stimulated the insurgents in the
senate to great outbursts of vitupera-
ton. They made the galleries trem-
BILE with their maledictions against
bribery and corruption. They as
serted that it was the lowest level to
which any legislative body could ever
sink. William E. Borah of Idaho de-
livered one of his most noted orations
on the occasion. Jim Reed was so as
founded at the audacity. Of the Willis
amendment and the "yhitewash" of
Newberry that he said his tongue was
paralyzed. eae
Even after tanning, thru the seat
ing of Newberry the Harding admin
istration was unable to tolerate him,
especially after the 1892 senatorial
elections retired to private life eight
of those who supported Newberry.
So the gentleman from Michigan,
who bought his seat, was consider
ate enuf of Mr.. Harding and Mr..
Daugherty and the stalwarts, Watson,
Lenroot, Mckinley, Pepper, Short
ridge, Stanfeld, Smooth Wordsworth,
Ernst, Gooding, HarreldV eddie, Cam
eron, Cummins, Curtisl Willis and
Weller GALL up for re-eldetion in 1926
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for reelection this year need not
bother about raising slush funds. In
stead of bribing those likely to vote
against them the democrat senators
and their henchmen use the time-hon-
ored method-long in vogue in the
South-of refusing to permit the vast
majority OF the population to vote.
They only grant the franchise to those
whom they know)rwiII vote for them
Negroes and suppressed workers In
general are prohibited from even hav-
ing the opportunity to accept a bribe.
Instead of money they use ropes and
guns in that stronghold of superlative
democracy-which is even more effec-
tive as they are always reelected,
while occasionally not all the wealth
and thuggery or the millionaires can
save their favorites, as was evidenced
in the lamentable cases Of Mckinley
and Pepper. The World and Times
are diScretely silent on this condition
Of affairs.
AS Gar as the victor over Mckinley
MT Frank L. Smiths concerned,
he has already assured the admins
trattOn gang that he will back them to
the limit, while Mr.. Mellon hastens
to announce that he will support Mr..
Boss" Ware who stole enuf votes
by stufing ballot boxes in Phila-
delphia to overcome those bought
for Mr.. Pepper. Mellon probably ad-
mires the technique of Ware and will
use it to good advantage if the No.
vember elections are satisfactory.
Organize Labor Party.
CERTAINLY neither OF the two old
- parties offer anything for the
workers. On most important issues
they vote together. 1t was a coalition
of republicans and democrats in the
service of Wall Street that put over
the world court infamy, cancelled the
Italian debt to aid Mussolini and
place the burden of payments of the
difference upon the American farmers
and workers, scorned the impoverish-
ed farmers pleas for aid and that
continually assaults the workers when
we try to improve our condition.
The only effective measure for the
working class at present is to create
for this campaign united labor tick
cts to challenge both old parties and
pave the way for the eventual build
ing Of class party of labor that will
merit the support of all oppressed ele-
ments of this country in the struggle
against the mighty despotism OF Wall
Street.
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! tionizing process going on among
them, are turning their attention to
Soviet Russia. There they see the
new social order rapidly growing and
expanding, while in England indus
trial paralysis and slave conditions for
the workers are creeping over the
land. vsgsgs-.
Inevitably this rising wave of mill
tant working class resistance had to
come into conflict with the employers.
The first clash took place ten months
ago. AS usual the bone of contention
was the standard of living of the
miners. The employers, bearing in
mind the debacle of Black Friday,
pushed their case to the limit. But
this time the Hodges and Thomases
could not save them as they did in
1921. The whole labor movement raj
lied so strong behind the miners that
the employers had to give in. The gov
eminent granted a nine months sub
sidy to the coal industry, and the
workers of England won major vic
tory thru their splendid solidarity I'M
der the leadership of the. left wing.
This was Red Friday.
On May 1 1924 came the showdown.
The government subsidy for the indus
try had expired. The employers were
demanding their pound Of flesh lin
slave standards for the miners. The
miners struck to man, and the or,
ganized trade union movement, profit.
ing by the disastrous lesson Of Black
Friday, supported them by the gen.
eral strike, which, next to the Russian
revolution. was the greatest demon
stration of workingclass solidarity
ever made. It was forerunner Of
the time when the organized masses
in Great Britain, animated by an even
better understanding and solidarity
and possessed of a still stronger or
ganization. will strike death blow at
British capitalism.
The launching Of the general strike
was a great demonstration OF the
growing power Of the left wing in Eng
land. II could only be accomplished
in the face of the opposition, none the
less effective because II was disguised,
of the Hendersons, Clynes, Thomases,
Hodges. OF al These men have no
more love for the general strike now
than they had in 1921, when they be-
trayed the coal miners by demoraliz.
ing the Triple Alliance. They fear
the growing revolutionary spirit OF
the British workers. Their support"
OF the strike was only lip service.
Never has the international labor
movement witnessed more contempt.
ble spectacle than the tears OF
Thomas. the sickly apologies OF
Clynes. and the platltudes of MELON.
aid, as these gentlemen tried to evade
responsibility for the general strike
and to convince capitalist England
that the workers did not mean any.
thing really harmful 10 the employers